Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 45.

liar I r <■ ■F"*9HHEWM Fjsh WIFE, DAUGHTER WITH WlNNlE— Carrying a bouquet of flowers and accompanied by her daughter Sarah fright). Lady Churchill arrives at tne airport at Nice, France, after a flight from London. They were enroute to the bedside of 83-year-old Sir Winston who is reported as progressing satisfactorily in his bout with pneumonia. ,

Churchill Is Reported As Still Better Medical Bulletin Notes Improvement •- In Elder Statesman ROQUEBRUNE, France < UP)— Sir Winston Churchills doctors announced early today that the 83-year-old statesman, suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy, “had a very good night.” Scotland Yard Inspector Ed-, mund Murray, Churchill's bodyguard, read a brief medical bulletin to newsmen at the gate of the villa where Britain’s “Grand Old Man” is' staying. The 17-word bulletin read by Murray was issued in the name of Lord Moran, the famed physician who flew from London Wednesday to attend the elder statesman. “Lord Moran has authorized it to be known that Sir Winston Churchill had a very good night," was all it said. New Victory For Two The former Prime Minister’s improving health represented a new victory for Churchill and Moran in a recurring battle with death. The history of the world might have been changed but for these two —the 75-year-old doctor and the 83-year-old statesman. They must have thought about it in the long hours in the sickroom of the Villa La Pausa where Churchill is recovering well from the fifth attack of pneumonia of his life, complicated this time by pleurisy and advanced age. More than 14 years ago they were together in another sick room—and again pneumonia was raging in the patient’s lungs, susceptible since childhood to dangerous congestion. First Bout World Cristo But that time Churchill was the Prime Minister of Britain, at the center of the wheel around which the free world was only beginning to spin its design for victory Moran saved him then, when he was stricken during conferences with President Roosevelt, with sulfa drugs which .were the forerunners of the antibiotics which served Churchill so well again in the past 48 hours. (Continued tm Page Five) Floyd Baker Seeks Trustee Nomination ’ Floyd “Whitey" “Baker, Jefferson township farmer, announced today that he will be a candidate in the Democratic primary for trustee of Jefferson township. Baker has served four years on the Jefferson township advisory committee, but has never held any other public office. A graduate of Jefferson high school, Baker is married to the former Josephine Walter, and they are the parents of two daughters. The Baker family attends the New Corydon Methodist church. Hugh David Mosser, a Republican, is the present trustee of Jefferson township, and he is not eligible for reelection, as he has served two terms. Baker is the only candidate to announce for the Jefferson township trustee so far.

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I Navy Carrier Group Seeks Missing Men Seeking Some Trace Os 23 Missing Men LAGES. Azores ,vP) — A U.S Navy carrier group swept through the Atlantic today, seeking some trace of 23 missing crewlnen of a US. radar picket plane. Overhead, more than 50 aircraft criss-crossed the skies north and west of the Azores spurred on by reports that the Ocean Weather Ship Delta had sighted a red flare in the area. Several planes raced to the area, but nothing further has been reported. . . The Navy tnrew into the search i the 15 ships of a carrier task force wEefi - was on maneuvers ; 500 miles southwest of the Azores. Thirteen destroyers, one carrier . and one tanker were ordered to sweep the ocean in an effort to j ioCate survivors. Th search, now in its third day has been hampered by bad weath er and the fact that the plans I disappeared without warning. Its last known position was 110 miles west of Corvo Island in the ■ Azores. The search now under —way is the biggest since, the hunt for sur/ivprs of the German training ship Pamir last year. Army And Air Force i Near New Squabble Make Rival Claims On Anti-Missiles WASHINGTON (UP)—The Army and the Air Force today apoeared ready to launch a new in- ■ ter-service squabble—this one a flare-up of- their longstanding fight over who has the best anti- ' missile missiles- _ , An Air Force spokesman at- ' tacked the capabilities of the Army’s Nike-Zeus anti-missile weapon one month to the day after Defense Secretary Neil H. McEl- 1 roy ruled work should go ahead ' on the Army rocket to the exdu- ( sion of the Air Force’s Wizard. I On Feb. 18, Lt. Gen. Donald L. Putt, Air Force deputy chief of | staff for research, told the House Armed Services Committee the Air Force doubts if the Nike- ; Zeus, estimated to cost six billion dollars or more, could successful- . ly combat a Russian missile attack. His testimony was made 1 public Friday in heavily-censored : form. • On Jan. 18, McElroy had tqld ( the Air Force to keep working on , detection and control systems it was planning for the wizard missile. But he said the Army would proceed with work on the Nike- ' Zeus as the nation's prime antimissile weapon. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, somewhat warmer by afternoon. Low tonight 18 to 25. High Sunday 40 to 43. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer. -- ; — ■ NOON EDITION I <

I Truman Plans New Blasi Al Ike Policies Democrats Assail* Hoover-Like View Toward Depression WASHINGTON (UP)— An ebullient Harry S. Truman tonight serves up to a SIOO-a-plate Democratic dinner a new “give ’em hell” blast at the Eisenhower administration in the merrily stewing congressional campaign. WnUe me iormer t-rewlueui gut ready to turn loose what he said would be a real “spasm,’’ some top Republicans were trying to spike his guns. Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland and three other senators issued open letters challenging Truman in his speech to turn his back on the “professional pessimism” of some Democrats. "Are you going to follow the lead of these members of your party and sell America short before the world,” the letter asked, “or will you reject this completely negative tactic?” Recall Truman Remark The senators charged that un- . employment, a key issue in the , campaign, was far worse under ( the Democratic administration ( that it is today. They reminded ; Truman that he said in 1950 the | economy could support from, three , to five million jobless. In a weekly letter to Texas con- j stituents today Senate Democratic ( Leader Lyndon B Johnson said I there should be mutual action and j confidence in the government—in- , stead of “partisan arguments’ — to meet the unemployment situation. • The Democratic National Committee Friday issued a resolution ; accusing President Eisenhower of employing a “Hoover-like approach'* to attack what it called "the depression now gripping the country.” . Democrats Confident While engaged like Republicans in some intra-party bickering. Democrats were suffused with confidence at the wind up of the two-day meeting about prospects of enlarging their congressional majorities come Nov. 4. Sen. George A. Smathers (DFla >, chairman of the Senatorial Campaign Committee, told the national committee that there was no doubt that he Democras would gain at least six Senate , seats this year. He said they might pick up 10 or 11 to increase their present 49 to 47 majority in the Senate. Berne School Bids To Decatur Firms H 5 Bultemeier, Haugk ■ Awarded Contracts Bultemeier Construction company, of Decatur, has been award- c ed the general construction con- < tract for the new Berne school ad- I dition with a bid of $237,150, it was c announced today. The bids on all phases of the 1 building have been under consideration since Jan. 22. Haugk Heating and Appliances, ; also of Decatur, was the successful bidder on heating, ventilating, , and plumbing, with a bid of $72,- ( 740. McKay Electric company, of Fort Wayne, won the electrical | work contract with a bid of $43,- • 384. The construction bids let to- j tailed $353,274. Cafeteria and dining room equip- < ment valued at $20,257.55 was ap- < proved, and general classroom and 1 office equipment totaling $9,733.92. ‘ Os the equipment total, $4,000 will 3 be paid from the present cafeteria funds, and $25,991 47 by the school ’ building corporation. Regular attorney fees and archi- , tects fees and other costs are not included in the above figures. , Construction will start when a ; lease-rental schedule has been approved and bonds sold, which will require about 60 days. 1 . " Omer Merriman Seeks Trustee Renomination Omer Merriman, Root township trustee, announced today that he will be a candidate for renomination, (subject to the decision of the voters in the Democratic primary May 6. Merriman is now completing his first term as trustee of Root township. Married, he is the father of four children. Sue, a student at Monmouth high school; Rowena, at home; James Merriman, and Mrs. Rose Merriman Kneuss, of Berne, all graduates of Monmouth high school. Merriman is a member of the Union Chapel E.U.B. church.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 22, 1958

GOP Congressmen To Appeal To Eisenhower For Benson To Resign

House Probers Call Attorney In Mack Case Probe Os Suggested Payoff In TV Case In Crucial Phase WASHINGTON (UP)—House investigators today prepared to enter the crucial phase of their inquiry into a suggested “payoff’ to FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack in the award of a Miami television channel to National Airlines. The House subcommittee on legislative oversight will call Monday Coral Gables, Fla-, attorney Thurman A. Whiteside, who has been accused of being a “fixer” and giver of $2,650 to Mack. Whiteside, waiting to testify for a week, declined to comment on the hearings or what he will say. However, he pointed out that he is appearing voluntarily “at the committee’s invitation” and is not under subpena. Calls Counsel ‘Liar’ When the charges were first leveled by former committee counsel Bernard Schwartz, Whiteside called Schwartz a “liar.” Both he and Mack have said the money was a loan arid Mack has invited the investigators to in- 1 spect his financial records. Subcommittee chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said Mack would follow Whiteside to the stand either on Tuesday or Wednesday. At the same time, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) renewed his call for a Senate investigation of independent agencies and suggested two cases involving the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) should be high on the list Morse Questions Jobs He questioned the “propriety” of former ICC Chairman Owen Clarke becoming a vice president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad after leaving the ICC. He said Edward M Reidy, who was ICC general counsel during a case involving the Southern Pacific Railroad, later resigned and became the railroad's attorney when it appealed the ICC decision to the . Supreme Court. For awhile Friday, the tension of the House investigation was , split with laughter by the cracker barrel wit of white-haired 70-year-old Jerry Carter of Miami, a Florida Democratic national committeeman. “I’m just a cheap politician,” said Carter. "The people I represent in Tallahassee can’t afford an expensive one.” Discussing the characters involved in the disputed Miami Channel 10 case, Carter said: All Honorable Men “Every one is an honorable man — compared with the standards of honor that we live up to tn this day and time." . _, As for himself, after the room quieted, the remarkably candid Carter added: "I have tried to be honest. I have tried to quit lying all my life. It's the hardest job I ever tried.” Interspersed in the laughter, Carter did some testifying. He said he had heard repeated rumors Mack had “pledged” himself to National Airlines through Whiteside. He said he once advised Mack to disqualify himself if he could not get released from I (Continued on Page Five) |

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, Pastor Union Chapel E. U. B.) “A BAD DAY” , Phil. 3:12 It seems the church of the Philippians, though a faithful and flourishing church, was disturbed by the judaizing teachers, who endeavored to keep up the law of Moses, and mix the observances of it with the doctrines of Christ and his institutions, so Paul begins the chapter with warnings against these seducers. He exhorts them rather to rejoice in the Lord. We are all aware of what the Apostle Paul renounced. Let us now see what he laid hold on, and resolved to cleave to, namely “Christ and heaven.” Paul had his heart upon Christ as his righteousness. And he was always disturbed when he found a people who were trusting in their good works to save them, and mixing the law of Moses and the observances of them with the doctrines of Christ. The same thing is existing in our so called protestant churches today, but are we ministers becoming alarmed?

Sergeant Sentenced On Espionage Charge Sentenced To Five Years At Hard Labor WASHINGTON (UP) — M.Sgt. Roy A. Rhodes today began serving a five-year hard labor sentence for conspiring to commit espionage under the lure of sex, vodka and rubles. Rhodes allegedly gave information to the Russians while running the American embassy garage in Moscow. . A 10-man Army court martial board also sentenced the 40-year-old married sergeant to a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances, The sentence is automatically subject to review by the Army judge advocate generat Chief defense, lawyer Lt. Cel John F. Hummel told the court before Rhodes was convicted Friday that Rhodes never would have been tried, except he was “toe stupid to protect himself.” He said Rhodes was largely implicated by four confessions he made to FBI agents and at the spy trial last year of Soviet agent Col. Rudolf I. Abel. Hummel said if Rhodes had asked for immunity at the Abel trial “we would never be here today.” No evidence was produced at the trial to indicate Rhodes gave the Russians any information of a secret nature. The eon--1 Missions read into the r&prd said he relayed some data about the habits and activities of embassy personnel. The prosecution based its case on picturing Rhodes as a small cog in a’ large spy ring. Hoover Says Nation In Unusual Stress ■ Receives Top Award Rom Foundation I VALLEY FORGE, Pa- (UP) — Former President Herbert Hoover surprised an audience today by delivering a speech in which he warned that the nation was in “an hour of unusual stress and trial” —then confessed it was the same speech he had made 27 years ago. Hoover, here to receive the highest award in the ninth annual Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge awards program, said in the speech that the United States was "beset with difficulties and confusions.” But he said the crisis was only a “passing trial,” from which the nation would emerge stronger in the future. Then, at the conclusion of his prepared text, he admitted he had made the same speech, “with slight elimination of less pertinent paragraphs," on May 30, 1931, when the world “was in the depths of the greatest depression in our history." That depression, he Mdd. was “an Inheritance from mistakes in the peace and aftermath of destruction from the first world war. Likewise, he said, “we now inherit the mistakes of the peace andt he aftermaths of destruction from the second world war. “Our people are today again confused and some are discouraged,” Hoover said. “But we rallied to a period of greatness (after the,, depression of the 19305) as we ■ wilt again today I Hoover received $5,000 and the (Gcntraue: >n Puge Five)

Warming Trend Brings Threat Os New Flood Last Vestiges Os ' Lengthy Cold Wave • Erased In Nation i By UNITED PRESS j A widespread warming trend . erased the last vestiges of a pro- j longed cold wave today and began to convert huge snow drifts into j running rivulets The U.S. Weather Bureau , warned that heavy rains could ( compound the situation and un- , ston the gathering waters. I Despite the flood threat, things , were definitely improved in the , eastern third of the nation and officials began to report progress , in the hard-fought battle against . winter troubles'. ' ~ ~ - Three tugboats made a rendezvous Friday in the ice-locked Mississippi River, crunching their way through 43-miles of ice to realize an accomplishment that was thought to be futile at first. It ecded a three-day battle to carve a in he ice-bound area near Cairo, 111. The two northbound vessels then wheeled .about to join the southbound tug in a ye turn trip downstream. As winter loosened its grip, rescue operations and mercy errands picked up speed. Helicopters carried feed supplies to Pennsylvania dairy farmers who were just beginning to get their products on the road again. Earlier, millions of dollars worth of : milk had been dumped. Upstate New York farmers got assistance from Army whirlybirds which flew in food and fuel. Cara- 1 vans of jeeps packed with vital ] supplies wheeled into line behind ‘ rotary snow plows that were i scraping away huge drifts and opening roads to isolated Indiana t farm families. • i £ Hassle Develops On i Geneva School Plan ■ Seek Referendum On School Change Another hassle between Berne and Geneva residents has grown out of the proposed school board j for the Geneva school, it was learned here this week. The present trustee and advisory board of Wabash township have submitted a school board plan which would provide that the $1 million school corporation be < run by a regularly elected school ( board from the school corporation ] area. There would be five members, elected at- different times ] so that there would never be a complete changeover- in the i board. It would be effective Jan. I 1, 1959. At the present time the school is run by a township trustee, who is advised financially by a township advisory board. The new problem has arisen because the city of Berne, with its own school system, is slowly expanding south into Wabash township. Under the present setup, it is altogether 1 possible within a few years that a trustee would be elected from the Berne i srhnol district who could control ’ the Geneva-Wabash township school, even though he himself : paid no taxes for that school. Residents from the Geneva*Wa- I bash township school area feel that the five-member school board would effectively check any such action. Even if the trustee ; were from Berne, the other four < members of the school board 1 could effectively guide him and protect the school system. Bro-Berne residents, on the other hand, point out that this will increase the township budget bv S4OO, and would lessen the in- I fluence of the trustee. Th»y are trying to force a referendum on the question; Pro-Geneva school district residents state that this referendum ' (Continued on Page Five)

Northern Indiana f Digs Out Os Snow Week-Long Battle Is Apparently Won By UNITED PRESS Northern Indiana’s week - long battle to dig out from a record snowfall appeared to have been won today, thanks to volunteer work crews and borrowed equipment and warmer weather. Bulldozers, snow blowers and plows sent in from as far away as Columbus, Ohio, bored paths through deep drifts that isolated scores of rural families for days in the-Michigan City-LaPorte area. A disaster area declaration which prevailed by order of Governor Handley since Wednesday night may be lifted shortly on the basis of reports from the area that the situation is under control at last. The improvement came as temperatures climbed above freezing for the first time in days and thawing reduced the depth of the snow blanket around the southern tip of Lake Michigan. The snow blanket, which measured up to 23 inches in the South Bend area at one time this week was reduced to 15 inches by this morning. A light drizzle over much of the state this morfiing was expected to. vanish by afternoon with no additional precipitation expected through Monday. Temperatures, warming up after a severe cold spell that prevailed most of the time since Feb. 7, hit highs ranging from 35 at South Bend to 42 at Evansville Friday. They dropped no lower than the 30s during the night and went below freezing only at South Bend, where the low was 31. Highs today will range from the 30s to the 40s, lows tonight from 18 to 25 and highs Sunday from 40 to 43 The outlook for Monday was even warmer. Unless the warmer trend continues through the rest of February, this month could go down as the coldest February in more than 80 years of weather records. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Indianapolis said the average temperature there for the first 21 days of the month was 18 degrees, about 13 below normal and three degrees below the coldest February on record—lß7s. Music Contest Held At Public Library Bth Annual County Contest Held Here Two county high school youths won the vocal and instrumental divisions of the eighth annual Federation of Women’s clubs music contest held at the Decatur public library. James Hoffman, of Adams Central, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoffman, won the vocal division with a tenor solo. John Fuhrman, of Mqnmouth, son of-Mr. and Mrs. Norval Fuhrman, won the instrumental division with a trombone solo. There were 11 entries in the contest, Mrs. Frank Crist, county music president, and Mrs. R. C. Hersh, president of the federation of women’s clubs, stated. Vocal entries included Gary Millingston, Pleasant Mills, bass solo; James Singleton, Monmouth, baritone solo; Gayle Custer, Decatur high school, vocal solo; Sharon Sheets, Decatur, vocal solo; John Fuhrman, Monmouth, baritone solo. Instrumental soloists included Brenda Sommer, Adams Central, cornet; baritone solo, James Singleton. Monmouth; baritone horn, Caroline Luginbill, Pleasant Mills; trombone, Gary Millington, Pleasant Mills; baritone solo, Dick Johnson, Pleasant Mills. A large crowd attended the contest, which was judged by Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, and Norman R. Guard. The* alternate, for both vocal and instrumental divisions is Gary Millington, from Pleasant Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. (Continued on pa«« five)

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Fear Political Boomerang If Benson Stays Farm Belt Party Leaders Press For Firing Secretary WASHINGTON (UP> — Rep. Ben F. Jensen <R-lowa> said today he wants Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to resign “for the good of the farmer." Benson Friday rejected the hopes of a sizable group of Midwest Republican congressmen that he would resign. He issued a formal statement following a visit from Reps. AL. Miller <R-Neb.) and Walter H. Judd <R-Minn.>. Bensop said he believes the farmers' "and all America”' want ; his farm program and he won’t L step-out nf office nut.of ‘‘cpoflgffl::, for political fortunes of indl1 viduals.” c . Nettiea by tne implication of j Benson’s statement, Jensen dej dared “He doesn’t dare place me 5 in that category. If he does I’ll tell him off plenty. I want him to re- , sign for the good of the farmer. 1 I’m putting. the welfare of our farmers ahead of Republican poli1 tics or any other kind of politics.” ““ Farmers "Quite Concerned” Miller announced plans to go p over Benson’s head directly to President Eisenhower. He said he ■ would advise his colleagues to J "take a group of three to five and 5 get an appointment with the President as sooh a£ possible.” He said the President would be told that keeping Benson in office ’ might “cause the defeat” of 10 to 25 GOP house members this year. 1 Miller and Judd had called on 1 the secretary to tell him he has become "a symbol of low prices ' for farmers, rightly or wrongly- ’ They said the people of the politically - potent farm belt are “quite concerned,” and agriculture is “sick” and needs new blood, They said they did not ask Benson directly to resign but left little doubt they felt he should quit to help save Republican seats in November. , Their visit came after a meeting Thursday of more than a score of Midwest GOP congressmen concerned over the near-defeat of Republican Alfred Quie in Minnesota's special congressional election last Tuesday. In a traditionally Rpublican district, Quie won by fewer than 700 votes. His opponent, Democrat Eugene Foley, had conducted a down-with-Benson campaign. ix>yal To GOP Benson’s statement said he Intended to stay on the job and fight for the President’s program of flexible price supports. “I will continue to pursue a course which I believe is best for our farmers and fair to all our people,” he said. “As long as God gives me strength, 1 shall continue to do all within my power to help our farmers...” In announcing plans to take the issue directly to the White House, ; Miller noted that Benson said in Republican. “His loyalty may cause the de- ' feat of Republicans,” Miller said. "That’s distorting loyalty ” Jensen said he has never asked 1 that President Eisenhower fire Benson—and won’t do so now. He ’ indicated he didn’t think such a I <cob f *oued on Pasre Five) ■ W .1 . ■ Increase In January Indiana’s sales of V. S. savings bonds for January continued to ’ show substantial gains over the sales for the corresponding period ’ of last year, acording to a report made to T. F. Graliker chairman ’ of the Adams county, U. S. savings ‘ bonds committee. The state’s sales for last month were $15,612,645.00 ; and 484,752,458.00 for January, 1957,'a gain of approximately • • ' per cent. Adams county’s savings bands I sales for January were $83,362.24 . compared with $11,458.84 last year, j Fifty-one of the state's 92 counties reported ’sales gains for this month.