Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1958 — Page 1

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Michigan City Is Digging Out Os Heavy Snows Cold, High Winds Hamper Efforts To Remove Big Drifts MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (UP)— Sub-zero temperatures and high winds hampered efforts to hurl back mountainous snows which have kept this city of 35,000 in virtual isolation since Sunday. About 70 pieces of snow removal equipment, some of it from as far as Chicago, bucked 12-foot drifts Monday to clear main streets and free trapped vehicles. But most of the residential area remained snow-bound, and hun-, dreds of rural families in the area were stranded. “’ Schools ahd v industries were closed Monday and today, and police routed all but emergency traffic around the city. Most La Porte County roads still were blocked today, as was the nearby’ community of La Porte. A freak snowstorm during the weekend left up to 55 inches of snow on the ground. Only a few light snow flurries occurred Monday and Monday night, but wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour swept new drifts across freshly - plowed streets. Mayor Francis Fedder declared a state of emergency in the city Sunday. He said that barring 1 fresh snow, it will take until Wednesday afternoon to restore a semblance of normal traffic. Twenty-one Boy Scouts and their six adult leaders were rescued from the towering drifts Monday by a helicopter dispatched from sth Army headquarters in Chicago. The boys became snowbound Saturday at a camp near Michigan City and ran out of food Monday morning. An Indiana state prison guard and 104 trusties were snowbound in a prison farm southwest of Michigan City. The trusties rar. out of food Monday night and authorities sent out a snowplow followed by a truck loaded with food in an effort to reach the farm The storm has claimed one life that of a man who was found asphyxiated in his car stalled in a snowdrift. Authorities said they were “lucky” that no serious fires have broken out in the city or surrounding area. Assessors To Meet Thursday, Feb. 27 The meeting of township assessors and their deputies with the county assessor and George F. Gable, field representative of the state tax commission, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27, not this Thursday, as announced yesterday. ’ . At the meeting a week from Thursday, assessors will _be furnished with their supplies for the 1958 assessment period, INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair south, variable cloudiness with occasional snow flurries and windy north, occasionally heavy snow near Lake Michigan tonight and Wednesday. Continued cold but with a continued slow moderation in temperatures. Low tonight zero to 8 above. High = Wednesday 14 to 22. Sunset today 8:25 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:33 a.tn. Outlook for tion in temperatures. Generally Thursday: Continued moderafair with some snow flurries north. Low Wednesday night 5 < to 15 above. High Thursday 18 to 28.

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Assessment Values Are Fixed In Area Farm Assessment Minimums Fixed - Farm assessment minimums have been established for this area following five district meetings of county assessors and state tax officials for the 1958 assessment period Walter Koos, county assessor .aid today. Koos pointed out that the meetings nave raised some assessment minimums on farm animals, but that since the amount of corn and other grain stored on the farm will be much less because high moisture content forced the use of the corn before the assessment period, the total farm assessment may be lower. Assessment values for 1958, as .•stablished by the state board of tax commissioners meeting with the assessors, are as follows: work hoYses. $75 up; race horses with records, SSOO up; stallions and mates, $250 »up; drivers and saddlers; $l5O up; ponies #IOO up. Registered cows and bulls, $l5O up; good cows and bulls, SIOO up; common cows and bulls, SBO up; stock cattle, per 100 tbs., 70% market price; fat cattle, per 100 lbs., 70% market price; milk cows, registered, $175 up; milk cows, good, $125; milk cows, common, SIOO up. 7 • Registered sheep, S3O up; common sheep, sls up; wool per pound, 70% market price; goats milk),slo up. , Registered brood sows, and pigs 5100 up; registered brood sows, 580 up; registered male hogs, SBO up; common brood sows with pigs, SBO up; common brood sows, 550 up; gilts, S4O up; stock hogs, per 100 pounds, 70% market price; fat hogs, per 100 pounds, 70% market price; male hogs, common, S4O up. Chickens, light, per dozen $5; chickens, heavy, per dozen, $6; ducks, per dozen, $6; geese, each 51; turkeys, each, $4; guineas, per dozen, $3; silver and black foxes, per pair, 70% market; rabbits, per dozen, $5; mink, each 510; chinchillas, per pair, S3O. Wheat, rye, oats, corn and soybeans, to be sold as grain, 70% of the market value. Certified seed corn, $5 per bushel; clover, alfalfa and timothy seed, 70% market value. Clover hay, timothy hay, alfalfa hay, soybean hay, and mixed hay, 70% of selling price. Maple syrup, per gallon, sorghum molasses, per gallpn, and potatoes and apples, per bushel, 70% selling price. Other miscellaneous assessments include ice, 50 cu. ft. per ton, $5; bee stands, each $2; billboard 10x25 ft., illuminated, SSO; billboard, 10 by 25, not illuminated, S3O; billboard, 10 by 25, embellished, $100; diamonds, per carat, $200; law books, per vol., 50 cents; lumber, per 100 bd. ft., 70% cost; baby chicks, one week, $.03; three weeks, $.07; six weeks $.15; eight weeks, $.25; 10 weeks, $.30; 12 weeks, $.35; small turkeys, $.35; » eggs in incubator, $.02. The depreciation schedule for store and office equipment machinery and equipment, will be used except on farm tractors and farm implements, which shall be assessed at average finance value figures as published in the current issue of the national tractor and farm implement blue book. If no average value is given, the following percents of base price will be used: 1958, 70%; 1957, 60%; 1956, 50%; 1955, 45%; 1954, 40%; 1953, 35%; 1952, 30%; older machinery at 30% unless observation of property can justify less.

New Hardships From Cold In Much Os U. S. Crippled Northeast, Dixie Are Hit By More Cold Winds By UNITED PRESS Sub-zero winds howled into the snow crippled Northeast today and punched deep into Dixie, piling new hardships on the winterweary eastern two-thirds of the nation. Tragedy marched hand-in-hand with the bitterest weather of February’s marathon cold wave, claiming a heavy toll in multiple fatality fires and in deaths from exposure, over-exertion and traffic accidents. At least 141 persons have been killed in the latest blast of wintry weather which began during the weekend. New England counted 32 deaths,, and Pennsylvania, Mississippi, New Jersey and Georgia reported 20 victims eachFlash Fire Kills 12 Among the Georgia victims were 11 children and a mother of four of them who were killed Monday night when a fire blamed on a radiant heater engufled their two-unit apartment house in Atlanta. ■ . The latest deaths brought to at least 347 the number of fatalities blamed on die weather since a cold wave invaded the Midwest Feb. 6 and began its sweep from the Rockies to the Atlantic. j The storm marooned hundreds of persons in trains and cars stalled by towering snow drifts, isolated scores of rural residents, forced' schools and industries to shut down in the Northeast, the Midwest and South, and interfered with the work of Congress. State of emergency were in effect in snow-paralyzed Springfield, Mass., and Michigan City, Ind., and in fuel-short Huntsville, Ala. Gov. Theodore McKeldin declared a legal holiday today in snowcovered Maryland. Maryland was buried under a snowfall of up to 19 inches, including a 16-inch blanket at Baltimore, the heaviest in 16 years. In Massachusetts, state officials estimated it would cost one-half million dollars to clear roads. Government Workers Off All government workers in Washington, D.C, were given today off in the wake of a 14-inch snowfall, the biggest in 22 years, and near zero temperatures. Corridors were empty in government buildings Monday and less than 100 of the 431 House members showed up. In Michigan City, hit by a freak 42-inch snowfall, some 70 pieces of snow removal equipment fought to free the city, but ran into the problem of what to do with the snow, already piled into small mountains along the sides of roads. Fifth Army headquarters in Chicago pressed a helicopter into service late Monday to rescue 21 Boy Scouts and six adult leaders trapped in deep snow near Westville, Ind. The boys had been snowbound since Saturday and ran out of .food Monday morning. Helicopters also were used in Pennsylvania, lashed by its worst snowstorm in 20 years, to remove two boys requiring emergency treatment to hospitals. Emergency crews rescued 850 boy and girl Scouts marooned Monday by 10-foot drifts in New Jersey, and at least 150 Boy Scouts remained snowbound in mountain encampments in the state. About 1,000 Boy Scouts were stranded by snow in camps in New York State. Overnight temperatures plunged toward zero . for the second straight night in all of the nine Southeastern states except Florida. Atlanta recorded a low of 2 above zero. iLoutinued on Page Flvo)

ONLY DAILY MRWFAPBJI ADAMR COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 18,1958

Four More Indicted On Charges Os Bribery In Indiana Road Scandals

GOP Leaders Rule Oul Any Spending Orgy Rule Out Attempts To Buy Prosperity By Spending Orgy WASHINGTON (W — The administration’s legislative and economic high command today ruled out attempts to buy prosperity with a federal “spending orgy.” It also said no to anti-recession tax cuts now, banking instead on expectations of a business upswing in mid-year and on econo-my-bolstering programs already started. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said after a White House breakfast meeting that “merely going on a spending orgy is not the solution of our economic problems.” He said a tax cut would not be “advisable, feasible, or wise at this time” because of heavy government obligations and the need to hold the federal debt line. Meet Without President The administration, Knowland said, feels the ecenomy will pick up by the middle of the year. If it doesn’t, the situation will be reviewed before Congress adjourns. Republican legislative leaders discussed the recession with administration economic leaders over bacon and eggs at a White House conference in President Eisenhower’s absence. The President, who usually presides at the weekly legislative meetings, is vacationing in Georgia. Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams attended today’s breakfast, but a White House spokesman said that no one presided. He said it was an informal round-table discussion. Meeting with Knowland and the other legislative leaders were Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. Also sitting in were William J. Saulnier, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Gabriel Hauge, another of the President’s economic aides. As the Republicans conferred, congressional D e m o c rat s were calling for inc re a sed federal spending on public works to pull business out of its slump. Increase Highway Spending The administration already has proposed a two-billion-dollar post office building program spread over five years- Knowland said anti-recession programs already projected will have a “beneficial .Conttnuea on page five;

Ruling Scheduled On Officer's Plea To Rule Today On Plea In Abatement A ruling will be made about 4:30 o’clock this afternoon on the plea in abatement in the case of public intoxication against Dale Death, former city policeman. The ruling this afternoon will be on Death’s plea to dismiss the charge on the grounds that the original case was not properly filed. Death claims that because no warrant was ever issued in the case, it was never legally before the city court, and therefore cannot be before the circuit court. Prosecuting atorney Lewis Lutz Smith argued that Death voluntarily, and of his own free will, appeared in city court, and in every hearing sice, without an affidavit, while free on bond. The case arose when Death, a policeman at the time but offduty, was arre&ted by police officer Raymond Seitz and police chief James Borders on a charge of public intoxication following an automobile accident near the Standard Market. The grand jury or the prosecutor cauld re-file the ease against Death by filing another charge, if the plea in abatement is upheld.

Slight Moderation Promised Hoosiers Warmer Weather Is Predicted Thursday By UNITED PRESS Winter’s coldest blast of the season in Indiana eased its grip slightly today in what forecasters said was the start of a gradaul warmup. Temperatures dropped below zero again this morning, as they have almost daily somewhere in Hoosierland since Feb. 7. But the most sustained intense cold wave in 10 years made a slow retreat as the day wore on. . The moderation trend was almost imperceptible. But forecasters said it would continue steadily at least through Thursday, when the mercury may rise within a few degrees of 32—freezing— in the south portion. Nevertheless, temperatures will fall to zero in the north tonight and ntar zero in the south. Moi e snow harassed a winterweary area around the Yip of Lake Michigan overnightly, including about 6 inches on the LaPorte area and a lesser amount in the South Bend section. But Michigan City, snowbound with a 42-inch weekend, fall, escaped any appreciable new amounts and was well on its way to digging out. i .« However, additional snow flurries were expected in the general area around the tip of Lake Michigan at least through Thursday. LaPorte’s official weather station reported nearly 50 inches of snow has fallen thus far in February. Snow fell there today for the 18th consecutive day and snow has been on the ground for 54 consecutive days. It didn’t get quite as cold Monday night as forecasters thought (Continued on five) Discussion Os Co-ops Held At Lions Club Full Discussion Is Held Monday Night A full discussion of cooperatives, triggered by the movie, “Partners,’’ showing the Co-op side of the cooperative question, occupied the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Forrest Tucker, manager of the Adams county Farm Bureau Co-op, a charter member of the Berne Lions club, and Hal Austin, from the public relations office of the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-op, were introduced by Leo N. Seltenright, county agent. The movie on Co-ops followed a movie several weeks ago against Co-ops, sponsored by the American tax equality association, which opposed co-ops. The movie shown Monday night was produced by the American institute of cooperation, which favors Co-ops. Austin explained that there are four types of business ownership in America: the individually owned business, the partnership, the profit corporation, and the cooperative corporation. In the co-op, the buyers, not prof-it-seeking investors, put up the money for the operation. This” is done by keeping records of each buyer. At the end of the year, all money left over above expenses is recorded in the accounts of thebuyers in proportion to what they bought. When this reaches $5, a stock certificate is issued. In Adams county, stock issued in 1945 was paid off this past year. This allows the co-op to use the buyer’s money for a period of time for operating expenses. Actual building programs, like the new grain dryer, are purchased by regular stock, which earns interest. The movie showed how a farmer convinced his city cousin that coops were good for both farm and city persons by showing him how the co-op works. Following the movie a spirited question and answer period followed. Jack Gordon asked a question concerning the tax exemptions (Continued on five)

FCC Examiner Says Poorest Applicant Won Least Qualified Os ' Applicants Granted Television Channel WASHINGTON (UP)—A Federal Communications Commission examiner said today that the FCC picked the “least qualified” of four applicants when it awarded a Miami television channel to a subsidiary of National Airlines. subsidiary of National Airlines. The examiner, Herbert Sharfman, testified before a House investigating subcommittee which has heard charges that FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack received money from an attorney jfor the successful applicant, Public Service Television Inc. Mack, who has denied any wrongdoingj has been promised an early hearing. The subcommittee also had heard allegations that Col. George Gordon Moore, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower’s brother-in-4aw, was a “key influence” in the FCC decision. Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark) said Moore “ought to come forward’’ if he can shed any light on the subject. - Overruled by Commission Sharfman conducted 32 days of hearings in 1954 to determine who should get the lucrative Channel 10 at Miami. He recommended in a 90-page report that the channel be awarded to Col. A. Frank Katzentine, former Miami Beach mayor and owner of radio stations in Miami. But the commission overruled him last February and awarded the channel to Public Service, a subsidiary of National Airlines. The vote was 4-1-1, with one commissioner voting to uphold Sharfman’s recommendation and one voting for a third applicant. The subcommittee’s ousted chief counsel told the group'last Thursday that the FCC had awarded the channel to the “least qualified” of the applicants, overruling a “strong opinion” from its examiner. Sharfman said today that while he didn’t use the phrase “least qualified” in his report, that was a “fair” characterization of his findings. Sherman Adams Mentioned ownership, civic record, and a Sharfman said he recommended Katzentine because he was “best (Continued on page five) County Oratorical Contest Wednesday Decatur And Geneva In Legion Contest The 21st annual Adams county American Legion oratorical contest will be held at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday at the Decatur high school. Two Adams county schools, Geneva and Decatur high school, will be represented this year. The contest is jointly sponsored by the American Legion, department of Indiana, the state bar association, and Adams Post 43, local post. A prize of sls will be awarded to the first place contestant, and $lO to the second place. Judges have already been chosen for test, which is open to the public. The winner of the Adams county contest will represent the county in the district contest to be held in Fort Wayne on or before March 7. The district winner will speak against the district 5 winner in the one contest to be held in Fort Wayne. An award of $l5O will be presented to the state winner at the finals, which will be held in Decatur March 21 at 2 p.m. The national winner will receive a $4,000 scholarship, and three runners-up will receive lesser scholarships. All high school students, particularly speech and social science students, along with their instructors and principals, are ”Urged to attend.

12 Burned To Death In Fire Al Atlanta Two-Family House Destroyed By Fire ATLANTA (If) — Flames touched off by radiant heaters roared swiftly through a two-family dwelling in Atlanta Monday night, killing 11 children and a woman. The victims were a mother and her four children from one family and seven youngsters from another. Parents of the seven escaped with burns, and a second* couple and their five children got out safely. Shortly after the apartment fire a three-alarm blaze broke out in a three-story building supply and paint store in the heart of Atlanta and it was still raging out of control early today. Firemen said apparently no one was in the structure. Firemen fcught the duplex blaze in weather 11 degrees above zero and were able to save most of the structure. But the fire flashed through so rapidly that the victims apparently did not awaken. “They never had a chance,” said Assistant Fire Chief C. W. Poole. “The fire must have started on the ground floor on one side and they were all asleep upstairs." Larry Jewel Jones, 29; and his wife* Sarah,2B, were hospitalized with burns. Jones told his wife to flee, then tried to save the children—but flames were so widespread he had to jump for his life. The dead were the seven Jones children: Jones’ sister, Mrs. Mary (Continued on pa«e six) Noted Violinist In Decatur March 10 David Rubinoff To Give Concert Here Decatur residents were assured today of musical highlight Monday evening, Mar. 10, when David Rubinoff, internationally . famed popular concret violinist, will appear at the Decatur high school auditorium under the sponsoring of-the Decatur Lions club, M. C. Sieling, president, said today. “We feel fortunate indeed in being able to bring such a great artist to Decatur, “Seiling said in making the announcement," and we are all aggressively determined to make this one of the outstanding events of the music season." Pointing out that special committees and tickets selling locations would be announced soon, the local chairman urged all organization members “and others interested in civic betterment” to join in making the concert a huge financial success for the benefit of the leader dog school for the blind and the Lions cancer fund. “Rubinoff and his violin," ■ long-time favorite American combination, is well-known to millions both from his current concert appearances, nationwide radio broadcasts with Eddie Cantor, television guest concert “in tune with the times." The famed musican will bring here for his concert the fabulous Stradivarius violin, which, insured for SIOO,OOO, is reputed to possessthe most beautiful tonal qualities in the world; and a brand new program of famous favorites loved by people everywhere, such as the Warsaw concerto, Chopin’s Polonaise, Deßussy’s Clair de Lune, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. These compositions will have their premier jper(>rmance as violin solos arranged and played by the maestro. Tickets will be available soon. Library Will Close All Day Saturday Miss Bertha Heller, librarian at the Decatur public library, announced tndav that the librarv will be closed SMundav. in. commemoration of Wa shin "ton's birthdav Regular hours will be resumed next Monday. -• -'

Three Union Heads, Stale Buyer Named Carpenters Union President And Two Os Aides Indicted INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —A grand jury today indicted Carpenters Union Pres. Maurice A. Hutcheson, two of his fellow international officers and a former state right-of-way buyer on bribery charges in the Indiana highway scandals. Hutcheson, Vice-Pres. O. William Blaier and Treas. Frank M. Chapman were charged with bribery and conspiracy to bribe a state officer. Harry Doggett of Greensburg, former chief assistant in the Indiana State Hiway Department right-of-way division in the administration of former GovGeorge N. Craig, was indicted on charges of accepting a bribe, extortion and Receiving profits from a public contract. The indictments were returned as the jury wound up an inquiry into alleged landk profiteering on proposed highway routes in Lake and Wayne Counties. A U.S. Senate subcommittee heard evidence last summer that Chapman and Blaier bought nine lots in Lake County and one in Wayne for about $20,000, then sold them to the state at an $81,400 profit which Hutcheson, former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith and Doggett shared. Prosecutor John G. Tinder said the highway scandal stories broke in early April. “As far as I know,” Tinder said, “we have now gone as thoroughly as possible into all highway leads " Meanwhile, the second highway scandal trial got under way with selection of a jury to try Austin housemover Marvin Preble on charges of perjury and presenting a false claim. Preble was accused of receiving 58,850 for a house-moving job along a right-of-way at Indianapo!is, although the job was not done. He went on trial Monday before Special Judge Norman E. nanThe first highway scandal trial was held last fall. It resulted in the conviction of Smith and Milan attorney Robert Peak on charges if conspiracy to embezzle public funds in connectioif with backyard land deals along the Madison Ave. Expressway route in Indianapolis. Each was sentenced to 2 to 14 /ear terms but they appealed. Former highway right-of-way :hief Nile Teverbaugh of Monroe City and Doggett were acquitted by the jury which convicted Smith and Peak. Restrict Visits To Hospital Patients Thurman Drew, hospital administrator, announced today that only the immediate families will be permitted to visit patients at the Adams county memorial hospital because of the overcrowded conditions at the present time. , Noah Steury Elected — As C. of C. Director Noah Steury was elected as a member at large to the board of directors of the Charhber of Commerce at-the director’s: meeting at the Chamber’s office Monday evening. He will fill the term of Tom Allwein, who was elected chairman of the industrial division for 1958, and who by virtue of his position is already a member of the, 15-man board. The board accepted and approved a balanced operating budget in excess of $7,000 which is based on a paid-up membership of 230 members. ' V , The board approved plans for a vigorous membership drive which will begin March 3. Dr. Ralph Allison and Dale Morrissey, co-chair-men of the drive, explained to the board their plans to have teams of members contact prospects who should belong to help make Decatur a better community.

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