Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 74.

B ’Sfl HaMI J - JR "3J lip? I || > HBHB jHHHHRr l| REUTHER IN HUDDLE— United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther (left) and his assistant, Jack Conway (right) talk earnestly with Senate Rackets Committee counsel Robert Kennedy just before Reuther appeared to testify on the 4-year-old strike at the Kohler Co., at Sheboygan, Wis.

House Group Rejects Farm Economy Move Favor More Spending Than Proposed By Pres. Eisenhower WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Appropriations Committee today rejected an administration attempt to economize on the farm program. It protested angrily that farm Income has dropped “to the •lowest point in 15 years.” The committee took this stand in approving a $3,216,988,549 agriculture appropriation bill Although the measure carried in direct cash $103,900,000 less than the President requested, op balanc it actually would provide for considraly more spending on farm programs in the future than the President proposed. More than offsetting the reduction in direct cash were budget increases totaling $368,500,000 for authorized outlays on next year's conservation subsidies, purchase of surplus perishable foods and lending authority for farm electrification, telephone service and credit programs. The committee for example recommended that Congress commit itself—-by advance authorization —to put up 250 million dollars in cash next year tp continue the agricultural conservation program at present levels. The administration had recommended the advanc authorization for the 1959 program be cut to 125 million dollars. Under this program farmers are paid part of the out-of-pocket costs of approved conservation practices. The Agriculture Departement had proposed to cut down the program by eliminating payments for construction of irrigation ponds and number of other practices. The committee said the present program should be continued. AU but $3,900,000 of the reduction in cash appropriations was in funds which the committee figured wouldn’t be spent, anyway. It cut by 100 million doUars cash for the long-range agricultural conserva(Contlnued on Page eight) Bueltel Is Speaker At Rotary Meeting Henry J. Bueltel, of Mersman Bros. Corp., Celina, 0., was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of "the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. The speaker discussed and showed a film of the mass production of Mersman tables, and methods of fine craftsmanship at the Celina factory. He foUowed the tables from the designing board, through cutout, veneering and finishing, to delivery to the home. Earl Sheets was chairman of the program and introduced the speaker.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Gerald I. Gerig, Decatur Missionary Church) “THE PROMISE” “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."—lsaiah 35:1. The coming of restoration to man and nature is the great hope *. of the church. We are aware of the fact that it was sin that caused Calvary and it has been sin that has caused the repeated crucifying of the Lord. The comfort which is ours is the knowledge of His return when nature and man shall be restored to their proper places. One of these days the curse shall be lifted from this world and peace shall be restored. In the meantime, we could make many of our desert places blossom if we would allow our teste and trials to become the means of spiritual growth. The people of God have been promised strength and that strength is equal to any situation that might arise. In this day of extreme fear, we need to be in contact with this strength giver. If we are to enjoy a future time of peace, we must make sure that we enjoy personal peace now within our hearts.

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60 Blood Donors Are Urgently Needed Here Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Next Week Sixty blood donors are urgently needed for the visit of the bloodmobile to Decatur next Wednesday, Mrs. Ed Bauei, vunuiuau Or the program, said today. The telephone caUing committee, which has been working aU week in scheduling appointments between 10 a m. and 4 p.m. next Wednesday, has only reached the two-thirds mark towards their goal. “If you hive been thinking of giving blood, but haven’t called up to schedule yourself, do so immediately," Mrs. Bauer advised, “by calling the Red Cross office during the day, or any of the workers at night.” Thursday, the calling committee included Mrs. Clarence Smith, Mrs. William Keller, and Mrs. Jesse Altman. Friday’s list included Mrs.: Joe Hunter, Mrs. Lee Fleming, and Mrs. Dan Foreman. Saturday. Mrs. Ed Bauer and Miss Fan Mammell will make the calls. “If you are unable to schedule a time, you will still be welcome if you just walk in," Mrs. Bauer promised. The goal for Wednesday is 127 pints of blood. This blood is ke r in the Red Cross blood bank in Fort Wayne. A daily quota is sent out to each hospital in the area, including the Adams county memorial hospital, and those in adjoining areas. When the Red Cross does not meet its quota in Decgtur, and other cities, it must cut down on the blood given to the local hospitals. Often less than the required amounts are on hand at the Adams county hospital for this reason. “If you are in an accident, you will need blood right then, not later. If this blood is not on hand, a special trip from Fort Wayne is necessary. This could cost you your life. “Be wise—donate your blood while you are healthy, so that it, and thousands of pints like it, may be collected and on hand when you and your loved ones need it,” Mrs. Bauer advises. INDIANA WEATHER ....Partly cloudy tonight. Saturday cloudy with little change In temperature, rain southwest portion oversprteuding north and east portions by afternoon or night. Low tonight in the 30s. High Saturday 45 to 52. Sunset today 7:05 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:35 a.m.Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy with rain ending by late afternoon. Little temperature change. Lows Saturday night upper 30s. Highs Sunday 45 to 55.

Senale Passes Anti-Recession Highway Bill Measure Designed To Create Thousands Os New Jobs In U.S. WASHINGTON (UP) — Overwhelming Senate approval sent an anti-recession highway bill to the House today where leaders mapped a short cut to put it into effect by Easter. The measure, designed to create thousands of new jobs by pumping $5,500,000,000 into road construction over the next two years, sailed through the Senate late Thursday by an 84-4 roll call vote. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said he hopes the bill will bo to the White House by April 3, when Congress starts its Easter recess. Johnson called it "one of the most important anti - recession measures we could pass.” He said it has a "potential” of more than 500,000 jobs. Today's Action Uncertain Before passage, the Senate substituted its completed bill tar a House-approved two-billion- dollar highway measure. That cleared the way for a Senate-House conference on the two bills that could shortcut House consideration of new Senate provisions. Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas has said he favors that course. The speaker hopes conferees can , approve a bill in time lor passage before the congressional recess. It was uncertain whether the House would act on the Senate bill today. If it does, one member by his single objection could block action. In that case, the Rules Committee could meet Monday to send' the legislation to conference. The measure would speed building of th 41,000-mile interstate highway system. In addition it would rush building of primary, ■ secondary and urban roads — the so-called A-B-C roads system. More Than Planned It was the Senate’s secopd ina- . jor legislative move to help end the business slump. Ohly last i week, it passed a $1,850,000,000 housing bill designed to create up to 500,000 jobs. — The total $5,500,000,000 outlay in federal and state highway funds was about $1,800,000,000 more than was originally planned for road construction before the recession provoked demands for emergency government actionOther provisions would author-, ize an additional federal-state ex- 1 penditure of 222 million dollars for the interstate highway system in the 1959 fiscal year and of $2,75,000,000 in th 1960 fiscal (Continued on page *)*•)____ Annual Easter Seal Drive Is Underway Crippled Children And Adults Aided The Adams County Society for Crippled Children and Adults annual fund drive opened officially today in Adams county. The Rev. William Feller and Leslie Sprunger of Berne, have been named cochairmen of the annual drive to raise funds for the crippled children of the county. Funds derived from the drive are used for the rehabilitation of crippled children and adults. The Adams county society is planning again, in addition to helping crippled persons, to carry on the speech correction therapy for school children of Berne and Decatur. In addition to sponsoring the summer speech clinic, the society last year purchased a plastic eye, a wheel chair, and aided in the physical exams for children in the Vera Cruz opportunity school. 1 The society has also helped other benevolent agencies aiding needy crippled children and adults. A message repeater, which will be used as a teacher aid- in the lummer speech therapy clinic, has been purchased and will be put into use this summer. Residents of Berne, by virtue of their contributions to the community fund, will receive their Easter Seals free, but any additional donations will be greatly appreciated by the society. Cannisters have beenthroughout the county in business establishments. This year’s annual nationwide appeal marks 37 years of service to the crippled by the national society and its 1,655 Easter seal affiliates. Approximately 90 per cent of the funds raised during the annual Easter seal campaign finance direct services to the handicapped within the state where raised. The remainder goes to help support a national program of service, education, and research.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 28, 1958

Union Economist Sees Unemployment Rise To Six Million By July

18 Men Killed In Collision Os Two Airplanes ' Two Planes Collide Over City In Texas; Cause Is Mystery BRIDGEPORT, Texas (UP)— Investigators seeking the cause of an aerial collision that killed 18 men said today the crash might never have occurred if the weather had been worse. • They said the pilots of an Air Force C 124 Globemaster and C 199 Flying Boxcar that collided late Thursday apparently were flying visually. Minimum visibility at the time, despite light fog, was reported as five miles — not enough to require flying by instruments. When visibility is three miles or less, all aircraft are required to fly on instruments, the Fort Worth weather bureau said they also are assigned a specific altitude at which to fly so as to prevent a collision. Why the planes crashed was a mystery- There were no survivors among the 15 men aboard the Globemaster from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, or the three aboard the Flying Boxcar from Carswell Air Force ’Base, Fort Worth, Tex. Five passengers on the C 124 were hitchhikers —two sailors, two Army men and an airman, Col. D. L. Beard who headed the investigators, reported. All 18 bodies were found by midnight Thursday night. The two planes collided over (Continued on page eight) I — Burton Fuller Dies , At California Home Word has been received here of the death Tuesday of Burton Fuller, 79, former Adams county resident, at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. A veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, Mr. Fuller moved to California more than 50 years ago. Survivors include three daughters, all living in California: two sisters, Mrs. C. L. Custer of Pleasant Mills, and Mrs. Charles Peterson of Decatur, and one brother, Ralph Fuller of Rochester, N. Y. '••I L. G. McMillen Dies At Home In Missouri Funeral Services At Van Wert Monday Llewellyn Gordon McMillen, 71. of Versailles, Mo., died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Mr. McMillen had not been in good health for several years and had been in poor health the past eight months. Mr. McMillen was a member of the Presbyterian church of Versailles and was an ordained deacon of that church. He was also a .member of the Masonic order. Survivors include two sons. Jack McMillen. Riverside, Calif., and the Rev. Pyron McMillen, of Sacramento, Calif.; one brother, Dale W. McMillen, Sr., founder of the Central Soya company. Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Rush R. Richison, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Leßoy Hansel, Memphis, Tenn.; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at the Kedwell funeral home in Versailles Saturday at 2 p,m. Funeral services will also be at the Alspach funeral home in Van Wert, Ohio, Monday, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Pyron McMillen will pay tribute to his father and the Rev. Robert Machran will assist at the Van Wert services. Interment will be in the Woodland cemetery in Van Wert. The family has requested that memorials be in the form of contributions to the L. G. McMillen memorial heart fund and sent to the Carmichael Presbyterian church, Marmichael,.Calif., to the attention of Rev. McMillen.

U.S. To Work On Rockets To Moon Defense Department Is Given Go-ahead WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States may send at least one rocket to or close to the moon within the next seven to nine months, high-ranking defense sources said tpday. Whether Russia will get there first is unknown here. The Russians had been expected to send a rocket to the moon soon but Moscow's Pravda newspaper indicated Thursday a Red launching may be held off some time. It was learned several secondstage rockets of the Navy’s Vanguard satellite-launcher already have been ordered for use with the Air Force Thor as a “lunar prpbe” rocket. The Thor is the Air Force intermediate range ballistic missile and will be “married’’ with the second-stage Vanguard rocket for moon exploration shots. The Army is studying the possibility of using a single powerful rocket as a second stage for its Jupiter-C launcher to carry out its part of the moon program announced by the White House and Defense Department Thursday. The present Jupiter-C has four stages. The top three are clusters ql solid fuel rockets. Somg Army experts believe a i-4j®r-C would te better for moon shots than the vehicle used to launch Army “Explorer” satellites. To carry out the program for exploring the “vicinity of the moon” the Defense Department may spon seek a special appropriation. - Burl Johnson Seeks Representative Post Seeks Democratic Nomination In May Burl Johnson, 58, St. Mary’s township farmer and former twoterm sheriff of Adams county, filed today for state representative on the Democratic ticket from Adams and Wells counties. Johnson lives one and a quarter miles south of Pleasant Mills and one mile west. He is married to the former Leone Keller, and they have two children, Dr. Max Andrews, M.D., of Illinois, and Jean Andrews Schaefer, who is married to Dr. Joseph W. Schaefer, who is now studying pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Johnson attended Decatur high school. Johnson is a life-long Democrat, and served as sheriff from 1931 until' 1935. He has served several times as delegate to the Democratic state convention," and is a member of the Jefferson club. A farmer all of bis life, except for military service, Johnson is presently chairman of the ASC committee, and a member of the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union. “ A veteran of World War I, Johnson served in the Rainbow division from May 8, 1917 until April 19, 1919. He served six months at the front, and was' wounded August 8 1918. Johnson is a member of Post 43, the American Legion; Chapter 91, Disabled American Veterans; and Limberlost Post 6236, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.* Annual Election At Moose Lodge Tuesday Adams lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, will hold its annual election of officers' Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock during the regular lodge meeting. Following the meeting, a Dutch lunch will be served. Nominees for office are:'governi or, Anthony (Tubby) Murphy and John E. Meyer: junior governor, Harold Stolp and Anthony (Fritz) Baker; prelate, Jack Rayer and John Brown; treasurer, Mel Kreps and Frank Ross; trustee, Harold Murray and Orval Fisher.

Veto Os Farm Bill By Ike Seen Certain 42 Os Democratic Senators Urge Ike Not To Veto Bill WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower will veto the bill providing a one-year freeze on farm price supports and make no accompanying concessions to farm uioC pressure in so, an formed sources said today. Unless there is an llth-hour change of heart in the White House, Eisenhower will reject the bill and allow the 1958 support rates fixed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to stand unchanged, these sources said. Administration sources had been predicting confidently there would be a veto ever since Congress began debating the measure sevral weeks ago. But there had been continuing spculation that Eisenhower might follow a veto—as he did in 1956—by administrative action to increase some support rates. The biu, if it were signed into law by the President, would freeze all 1958 farm price supports and i 1959 planting allotments at not less than 1957 levels. This would reverse support cuts ordered by Benson for nine farm commodities including dairy prbdu cts, wheat, rice, beans, and several feed grains. The measure would also prevent 1959 acreage cuts for cotton and rice. Forty-two of the Senate’s 49 Democrats, in a last-ditch effort to head off a veto, asked Eisenhower late Thursday to sign the freeze. The Democratic senators signed and sent to the White House a resolution sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. It called the freeze “an act of simple justice” and "an important wapon in, the battle against increasing un employment.” The move came just two days after Republican senators, after heated argument, voted 17 to 14 to ask the President to approve the freeze- Fifteen GOP senators were not present for that vote. Speculation that the administration might by planning some price boosting on its own to conciliate ? (Continued oh page eight) Mrs. Ella Speakman Dies Thursday Night Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs Ella Speakman, 81, a resident of Washington township most of her life, died at 10:50 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health since last September and critically ill for the past week. She was born in IRoss county, 0., Aug. 15, 1876, a daughter of John and Virginia Moss-Smitley, and was married to William Speakman Dec. 21, 1895. Her husband died Dec. 23, 1936. Mrs. Speakman was a member of the Pleasant Mills Methodist church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Dwight Sheets and Mrs. Curtis Hill, both of Decatur; three sons, Richard R. Speakman and Roy Speakman, both of St. Mary’s township, and Rolla E. Speakman of Fort Wayne: 22 grandchildren: 29 great-grandchildren; two Brothers, Rolla Smitley of Decatur, and Floyd Smitley of Washington township, and one sister, Mrs. Anna Collins of Portland, Ore. Five children preceded her in death. Funeral services will be Conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. ' .

Late Filings Swell List Os Candidates Democratic Ticket Filed For Primary As filing closed at midnight last night, the local Democrats had candidates for all 16 district and county offices and races for four nominations in the primary. The Republicans filled six spots out of the 16, and no county—or district-wide races were reported. They may fill their ticket later ' through the Republican county ’ chairman. The Democrats also filled their ; slate of 12 candidates, one for each township trustee, with races in Washington and Hartford townships. The Republicans filed only in Union, Washington, Monroe, Hart- . ford, and Wabash, with a race in Hartford township between Vilas Eugene Burry and David Alberson. Democrats filed full slates of three candidates in 10 of the 12 townships for advisory board, with contests in Root and Union townships where four men have filed for the three-man boards. In Union township Herman Geimer, Edgar Krueckeberg, Edgar Thieme, and Erwin E. Fuelling have filed, while in Root township, Everett C. Singleton, Edward Louis Selking, Winfred Gerke, and Carl E. Hurst have filed. Only three in each township may be nominated. In Preble township two men filed, Martin Selking and Edmund Auman. In St. Mary’s township, long a Republican stronghold, only William M. Noll filed for advisory board on the Democratic ticket. The Republicans were unable to fill any of the township advisory board tickets, and have one or two candidates in Preble, Root, Union, St. Mary’s, Washington, and Jefferson township. From Union are Adolph Marbach and Melvin Crozier; from Root, Robert F. Carr; from Preble, Charles A. Fuhrman, and Arthur W. Adam; from Washington, Nelson G. Doty; from St. Mary’s, Glen W. Foor and Lyle T. Bailey; and from Jefferson, Robert Lautzenheiser. The Democrats filled their ticket for 12 delegates to the Democratic state convention, with a race in district 11, including Berne B, North Wabash, and East and West Jefferson, between William Hirschy, and Otto F. Schug. The Republicans, with 13 delegates to their state convention, have races in district four, between Clifford G. Essex and Albert Fox, and in district five, between Ardon S. Mosser and Clarence C. Shepherd. Both tickets filled their quota of 39 precinct committeemen, with two Demochatlc races, in Geneva A and B, and one Republican race, in Geneva B. Democrats Thurman L. Baker and Walter Hofstetter are opponents in Geneva A, and Clarence E. Buckingham and Edward Thurman are against each other in Geneva B. Republican opponents in Geneva B are Ardon Mosser and Clarence C. Shepherd. There will be 127 Democratic and (Continued on pare eight)

List Os Candidates Filed For MayPrimaryElection The following is the list of candidates for major offices now on file at the Adams county election board, county clerk Richard D. Lewton reported this morning. Other candidacies, postmarked Before midnight, are possible, although none is expected. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN Congress , F, Dean Bechtol W. Robert Fleming E. Ross Adair Richard E. Houtzer Prosecuting Attorney Severin H. SchurgeV W Joint Senator (Adams, Wells, Blackford) Burl Johnson L. Luther Yager Clerk, Adams Circuit Court Richard D. Lewton j.— 'wM Sheriff r Merle Affolder County Assessor ' st Walter Koos Robert E. Lane James M. Teeple County Commissioner, Ist District Hugo Boerger Lewis F. Sapp Roland J. Millar v (Continued on pact fowl

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Prediction Is Made On Report By Labor Dept. Increase Os Nearly One Million Above Total In February WASHINGTON (UP)— An AFLCIO economist predicted today unemployment will rise to six million in June or July, an increase of nearly one million over the jobless total tost mnnth. Economist Nathan Goldfinger made his forecast in the wake of a Labor Department report showing that /‘substantial unemployment” — exceeding 6 per cent of the available labor force — has spread to nearly half the nation’s 149 major industrial centers. The department said it now lists 70 of the big industrial centers as “distressed areas” because their jobless total has reached or excels 6 per cent. Only 45 warranted that classification in January, when the last bimonthly survey of industrial centers was made, and 19 in March qt last year. ’ Ma New Areas Among new additions to the “distressed” list were Baltimore, Md-, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn , Indianapolis, Ind., and Buffalo. N.Y. In addition Zjmaller industrial centers were put on a separate list of “substantial” unemployment” bringing the total for smaller cities to 121. This compares with 72 in January and 59 in March of 1957. The department said five areas —including Detroit — had more than 12 per cent unemployment. Adding another gloomy note the dpartment said heavy manufacturing plants expect "few significant changes” in their hiring rate over the next two months. There may be “some additional” unemployment in several auto and aircraft centers, it said. Goldfinger said the report, reflecting widespread unemployment in heavy industry now with little chance of an upturn in the next two months, exposes the “false optimism” of President Eisenhower about the recession. The President said Wednesday he thought the nation was going through the worst of the recession now. Hold Weekly Meeting The President and his cabinet planned to take a new look at the economic situation today at their regular weekly meetingAfter the cabinet session, Labor Scretary James P. Mitchell was scheduled to go before the House Ways & Mans Committee to spell out details of the President’s plan for giving jobless workers additional weeks of unemployment pay. In another congressional development Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said he hoped the $5,500,000,000 anti-recess-sion highway bill will reach the President’s desk before Eastr. The Senate approved it 84-4 late Thursday. Johnson said he knew House leaders were “determined to complete action as soon as possible.”