Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1958 — Page 1

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" —.—— — —fad — Bj it : - rWljfi < flw |Br- ; I KrvßfKSl n rL AjUy A j Oifll w THE CRUCIFIXION: Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — John 19:25.

Clamor Eases For Slash In Income Taxes Republican. Leaders Hopeful Pressure On Congress To Lessen WASHINGTON (UP)—Officials of the Eisenhower administration breathed easier today because much of the clamor for radical anti-recession income tax cuts has quieted for the present „ But the policy makers are keeping their fingers crossed. New pressures for a sharp reduction in personal taxes may build up when Congress returns from its Easter recessIf Congress does come back in an energetic tax - cutting mood, the administration hopes it can channel that sentiment toward tax legislation that would stirnulae the economy >n a broad basis. - Effects Could Vary Administration experts still prefer tax reductions—if necessary—that would stimulate economic activity by business as well as by the consumer to a broad personal Income tax cut They lean toward such revenue legislation as removing the 10 per cent excise tax on automobiles, transportation and communications. They expressed encouragement today that some of the more sweeping plans for income tax cuts seemingly have not picked up wide support. Only five or six weeks ago, there were strong and active advocates, some within the government, for such plans as a complete, but brief moratorium on the withholding tax. Optimism Sought There is hope that statistics to be released next week and on into May will generate sufficient optimism to reduce pressures for tax reduction even further. The employment figures for March will be released by the Labor and Commerce departments next Tuesday. A Labor Department official already has said they will show an increase of 200,000 over the 5,137,000 total 'Continued on pa«e »lx) NOON EDITION

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Gates Os Jerusalem Opened To Pilgrims Thousands Throng To Old Walled City JERUSALEM, Jordan (UP) — The old walled city of Jerusalem opened its gates to thousands ot American and other tourists and pilgrims today as Christendom hallowed Its saddest and most glorious hours. Visitors who converged on the Holy Land from most other parts of the world thronged through the city’s narrow, cobbled alleyways to visit 'shrines lining the path that Christ took to his death on Mt. Calvary. Thursday night, thousands of Holy Week pilgrims stood bareheaded in a tiny olive grove at Gethsemane to “watch one hour” in the garden where the Bible says the agony of Christ began 1,925 years ago. All week Easter pilgrims have poured into the city, defying the unseasonably chilly air- The arrivvals have swelled into the largest tourist influx Jerusalem has known in modern times. Gone was the lehr which kept the tourist-pilgrims from the holy sitej during the last two years. Instead every hotel bed in Jerusalem and the smaller communities for miles around are booked. Hotel keepers gave up their own sleeping quarters and even accommodated late comers In reception rooms. At the Mendelabum Gate — The only spot where Arab and Israeli territory join —a steady flow of pilgrims crossed into Jordan from Israel. The babble of tongues of all the European nations, South America, Asia and the Middle East turned. Jerusalem into an international city. Brown-robed Francisco fathers led services under the chill, clear Palestine sky and the silver green leaves of the olive trees that looked down on Christ during the night of his crucifixion. After services the pilgrim s crossed Palm Sunday Street, along which Christ is presumed to have entered Jerusalem, to visit the underground grotto where tradition says Judas delivered the kiss of betrayal. This morning in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, over the site where Jesus died on Calvary, Roman Catholic Mass of the Pre(OonUnusd on page »ix)

—— U.S, Allies Near Split On Policy Change Near To Dangerous Split On Disarming And Summit Talks WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States and its allies are near a dangerous split over a possible shift in policy on disarmament and an East-West summit meeting. Indications are that differences over these two important issues were argued by the allied powers recently and left unsettled. The diffrences are major ones, but the United States is confident they can b overcome. In an effort to get on with work toward a possible summit meeting with die Russians, President Eisenhower has ordered a speedup in this country’s search for a "new 100k 1 ’ disarmament policy designed to break the East-West arms deadlock. The top-level policy review will include the possibility of halting nuclear tests, halting production of nuclear bomb materials, reducing nuclear bomb stockpiles, reducing dangers of surprise attack and cutting back armed forces and conventional armaments, and the President’s proposals for an international agreement to use outer space for peaceful purposes. NATO Meeting in May The President’s hope is that the basic disarmament review can be completed in general form by the end of this month, and cleared with U.S- allies. The council of die North Atlantic Treaty Organization wUI meet in Paris May 5. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other allied leaders will attend. The United States, Britain and France of Monday told Russia they would be ready to begin diplomatic talks in Moscow ‘in the second half of April” on a summit meeting. Britain and France have registered objections to halting nuclear tests pending some agreement to provide them with more American nuclear know-how. In addition to the disarmament problem, it is known that the United States and its allies do not see eye to eye on how to proceed with summit negotiations with the Soviet Union. Negotiators Not Determined A crisis on this point was barely headed off last weekend when Eisenhower and Dulles held a series of emergency telephone conversations to discuss the problem of which allid nations would negotiate with the Soviets at a summit conference. The decision was to table the issue—temporarily. Monday’s Big Three note to Moscow mae no mention of the composition of negotiating forces on the western side. Italy, Turkey, West Germany and some other nations are understood to have QU®»tioa«d whether they should let the United States. Britain and France undertake diplomatic negotiations with the Russians on their behalf. Weekly Meeting Is Held By Rotarians Foreign Students To Visit Here In July An interesting film on modern farming ' was shown to Decatur Rotarians in their weekly dinner meeting Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Leo Curtin was chairman of the program and Gail Grabill, vice president, was in charge ofthe meeting. The program was brief in order that members could attend church services. The club will not meet next Thursday, but members will attend the banquet Monday evening at the Van Orman hotel in Fort Wayne, the highlight of the district Rotary conference to be held Monday and Tuesday. Club members were notified last night that Decatur has been included in the cities which will host a tour next summer, sponsored by the American Field Service. Included on this tour will, be 72 foreign exchange students. They will arrive in Decatur the evening of July 2, remain in Decatur all day July 3, and will leave early on the morning of July 4. The students will be housed in homes ot Rotarians during their stay here. Joe Kaehr has been named chairman of a committee to have charge of plans to entertain the students. The American Field Service is in charge of the foreign student exchange, which the Decatur Rotary club helps to sponsor. This year, Ken Eliasson, of Sweden, is attending the Decatur high school under guidance of the Decatur club.

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. • 1 •' '' W. • s„. Ike Proposes One Command For Military Congress Not Too - Receptive To Ike Organization Plan WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower's defense reorganization plan seemed to many today to take America a long step toward a single military fighting force. ——, Under pressure of the airatomic and missile age and with need for instant command decisions, Eisenhower’s plan broke with service traditions as old as the Republic. "Separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever," he told a none - too - receptive Congress in a special 7,000-word message Thursday. He said he would strip the present Army, Navy and Air Force Departments of their combat forces and assign those fighting elements to “truly unified” commands Unified commanders would have “unquestioned authority” over the air, ground and sea units assigned them and would receive their orders directly from the President , Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and the Joint Chiefs if Staff. Secretaries Cut The service secretaries and their departments would be cut out of the military chain of command completely. Their job from now on would be administration, supply, training and budgeting. The combat elements would in effect become forces of the Defense Department responsible to McElroy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. McElroy, who would have vastly increased power under the reorganization scheme, told newsmen that proposed legislation needed to carry out parts of Eisenhower's plan would be ready to send to Congress in about 10 days. Eisenhower called on Congress to repeal any current laws, which give responsibility for military operations to any Pentagon official other than McElroy. Sincd unified planning would be conducted by the Joint Chiefs and their Joint Staff exclusive of the individual services, the President said, the Joint Staff should be enlarged and equipped with an operations division to serve as the link with unified commands. “Clearly Incompatible” “We must recognize that by law our military organization still reflects the traditional concepts of separate forces for land, sea and air operations," the President said. He said such separation was “clearly incompatible with unified commands whose missions and weapons systems go far beyond concepts and traditions of individual services." At several points in this message, The President reassured Congress that he had no thought of merging or abolishing the traditional services. In ordering the streamlined new system, the President said the present chain of command was “cumbersome and unreliable in time of peace and not usable in time of war ”

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Vernon Riley, Monroe Friends Church) “THE GLORY OF THE CROSS” “No man taketh it from me, but I have power to lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” St. John 10:18. Jesus now facing the cross seemed to look at it in glory and honor to die for the human race. We do find later as He nears the cross, that in the garden He fought a great battle, as He prayed, not My will be dorte, but Father thy will be done. In another portion .of the Bible we find Jesus saying, destroy the temple, (meaning His body), and in three days I will raise it up again. - St. John 2:19. As Jesus found glory in the cross we too can sing the old hymn, “In the Cross of Christ I Glory.” ‘When the sun of bliss is beaming, Light and love upon nty way From the cross the radiance streaming Adds new luster to the day.”

26 Os State Senate Candidates Are In 12 Incumbents Are Included In List INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Twentysix candidates for the 1959 Indiana Senate were assured of nomination today because nobody filed against them. Records in the Indiana Secretary of State’s office showed 12 ; Republicans and 14 Democrats ■ drew no opposition in official dec- ’ Igrations filed for the May 6 nom- ■ inating primaries- ; *The unopposed candidates ♦hose names will automatically ■ appear on the November general i election ballots include 12 incumbents—7 Republicans and 5 Demo- ■ crats. I The lineup in the 1957 Senate was 33 Republicans and 17 Demo- ■ crats. Half of the 50-man upper I house will be elected in Novemi ber, and terms of the other 25 will S expire in 1960. At least four senators who • served in the 1957 General Assembly will be absent when the 1959 ‘ session convenes next January. ; Sens. John Van Ness (R-Valpa-raiso), veteran GOP Senate leader, and Peter A. Beczkiewicz * (D-South Bend) resigned to take administrative jobs. Sens. Glen * Neaville (R-Tipton) and John M. 1 Harlan (R-Richmond) are not 1 seeking renomination. 7 80 File 1 , A total of 80 candidates filed • W nomination to the 25'available Senate seats. Thirty-seven are ' Republicans, 43 Democrats. t Nobody filed for-. Republican " nomination from two senatorial 1 districts — Adams - Blackford - ' Wells and Clark-Jefferson-Ohio-Switzerland counties Party organ--1 izations will have to choose GOP nominees from those districts. ’ Van Ness’s resignation opened up a three-way fight for the GOP nomination to his seat. A four-way fight—the heaviest in the state—developed for the Democratic nomination for the ' Sullivan-Vigo Senate seat. One of the contestants is the incumbent, ' Sen. Paul Boyle (D-Sullivan). The unopposed incumbents included Sen. Matthew Welsh (DVincennes), the 1957 minority ! leader and Van Ness’ opposing Democratic spokesman. Observers kept an eye on a three-way fight involving Demo- , crats S. Hugh Dillin of Petersburg and Arthur S. Wilson of Princeton for nomination to Wilson’s seat from Gibson-Pike counties. Dillin Sought Governorship Dillin was a 1956 candidate for 1 the governor nomination and former House Democratic leader. Wilson promoted the controversial time law in the 1957 session. Unopposed Republicans include Sen- John R. Rees, Columbus; Sen. Charles Maddox, Otterbein; John K. Snyder, Washington; Otis Edward Saalman, Cannelton; Sen. ! Carl A. Helms, Fortville; Allen M. Morgan, Kokomo; Sen. Keith ' Fraser, Portland; Sen. Ruel W. Steele, Bedford; Sen. Thomas C. Hasbrook, Indianapolis; Sen. Richard ‘O. Ristin, Crawfordsville; Ronald R- Shively, Evansville, ’ and Robert A. Wright, Seelyville. Unopposed Democrats besides Welsh include Sen. Von A. Eichhorn, Uniondale; Leon J. Hum- ; bert, Greensburg; George C. RobJ erts, Buck Creek; Sen. Robert P. ! O’Bannon, Corydon; Sen. Ira J. ' Anderson, Uniontown; Virgil E. (Continued on pa<ge vlx)

Highway Bill Goes To Ike For Signature Bill Has Provision 11 For Regulation Os Billboard Flight WASHINGTON (UP)— The new highway bill would not compel , states to regulate billboards along the new 41,000- mile interstate highway system. But it offers two cash incentive plans to persuade them to do so. * Congress approved the bill in final form Thursday. President Eisenhower was expected to sign it in due course. Sponsors hoped that states — under one or both of the incentive schemes—would curb what they call “billboard blight”—especially along new portions of the inter- ' state system. i That network, first mapped in the 1956 highway bill; is expected . to cost some 40 billion dollars over the years. The federal gov- ■ ernment would pay 90 per cent. ; Th bill would allow states to ! spend federal funds to obtain socalled advertising easements unt der which property owners would agree not to place signs along the routes. Five per cent of the cost 1 of land for new rights-of-way S could W spent for this purpose. , It would also offer a bonus — at an additional % of 1 per cent i of highway costs — to states I which use their constitutional po- . lice powers, zoning laws and the . like to regulate billboards along . rights of way purchased since 1 July, 1956—some 65 to 75 per cent of the total mileage. States could qualify for these bonus payments by entering into agreements with the secretary of commerce to abide by federal (Continued on page five) Arthur M. DeArmond Dies This Morning . Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Arthur M. DeArmond, 76, retired Blue Creek township farmer, died at 5 o’clock this morning at his home in Gas City following a heart attack. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday. He was born in Randolph county, 0., March 10, 1882, a son of Orso and Florence Juday-DeArm-ond. His first wife, Olive Wagers, died in 1951, and he was later married to Gale Holtzman, who survives. Mr. DeArmond spent most of his life in Adams county, moving to Gas City five years ago. He attended the Christian church at Gas City. Surviving in addition to his wife are eight sons, Harold and James of Berne, Kenneth DeArmond of Decatur, Bryce, Murray and Clarence of Fort Wayne, Ralph of Ed monds, Wash., and Homer of East Sparta, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Gerald Hart of Decatur route 5. and Mrs. Dan Webster of Fort Wayne; 20 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Jesse Davis of Fort Wayne, and two half-sisters, Mrs. William Dellinger of Decatur, and Mrs. Maggie Marbaugh of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. Dewey Hole officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until noon Sunday. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock. Guests from representative groups in Decatur will be present to discuss the transient problem. AU members are urged to be present.

Six Appointed To State Commission Succeed Legislators Ousted By Court Rule | INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Governor Handley Thursday night named six persons to the State Office Building Commission to replace six legislators ousted by an Indiana Supreme Court ruling Wednesday. Handley expressed appreciation for the “fine work” done by the ousted members. He cammed three j Democrats and three Republicans , to the committee. He said the ( Legislature intended the commit- ] tee to be bi-partisan when it was , set up. Named to the Committee were 1 Republicans G Richard Ellis, a I Kokomo attorney and former state senator; John McGurk, an Indianapolis investment broker; and : Franklyn George, New Castle attorney; and Democrats Jack C. < Reich, executive vice-president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette, and Claude Gramelspacher of Jasper, father of State Rep. Robert E. Gramelspacher. Vernon Anderson, Handley’s administrative assistant, said aU but Fleming had accepted the appointment. He was in New York on a business trip and could not be contacted. Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker said the first meeting of the new group Would be (tailed next Wednesday or Thursday to discuss plans for a new 20 million dollar state office building. Handley, Parker and Budget Director William Hardwick are other members of the nine-man commission. The high court ruled the legislators off the commission on the grounds their 'membership violated the principle of separation of powers. The ruling said Handley may replace the six legislative members and action already taken by the commission can remain in effect Legislators ruled off the commission were Reps. Laurence D. Baker (R-KendaUville).x Walter Maheling (D-Terre Haute) and Earl Buchanan (R-Indlanapolis), and gens. Robert P. O’Bannon (D-Corydon), Richard O. Ristine (R-Crawfordsville) and Warren W. Martin Jr. (D-Clarksville). Cuba Renews Offer Os Pardon To Rebels Blanket Pardon Is Offered To Rebels HAVANA (UP)— Foreign Minister Gonzalo Guell has renewed the Cuban government's offer of a blanket pardon to the rebels in eastern Cuba as “the only means to avoid serious catastrophe” in this country. “The government is making every effort to achieve its goal,” Guell told newsmen Thursday night at his first press conference since taking office. "This is the only way to avoid serious catastrophe to the country.” The foreign minister added that the government has "good control" of the situation, although it may be “days or months” before the outcome is knownGuell’s statement came as the Easter holidays caused a lull in the conflict. Tension continued high because of the expectation that Fidel Castro’s rebels will call a general strike Monday. Reports from rebel-infested Oriente Province said a soldier and two rebels were killed Thursday at La Naya when the insurgents tried to ambush a government pa(Contlnued on pa*e six) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, with showers likely Saturday afternoon or evening south and central portions. Little change in temperature. Low tonight in the 40s to low 50s. High Saturday 58 to 76. Outlook for Sunday: Scattered light showers Saturday night and early Sundays becoming partly cloudy with showers ending late Suiday morning. Continued mild temperatures.

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Hundreds Os Families Are Out Os Homes Estimate Damage Os More Than 12 Millions In State By UNITED PRESS Flooding rains in California, blamed for at least 11 deaths and damage of more than 12 million dollars, eased up somewhat today, but weathermen warned of a new storm bearing down on the state. Elsewhere, a tornado threatening storm front moved out of the South, and another storm blew itself out in New England. As Californians headed into the Easter weekend, hundreds of families were out of their flood drenched homes and flood waters threatened to San Joaquin ValleyGov. Goodwin Knight, who earlier declared all of California a disaster area in the state's worst storm in 40 years, Thursday asked the federal government tor three million dollars in aid. Knight estimated damage to roads, bridges and levees at 12 million dollars, and there was additional damage to private property and crops. The barrage of storms since’’ Monday have killed 11 persons in California. At least 8,000 persons have been forced to flee -their homes at times during the week, and many still were being cared tor in emergency shelters. Weathermen predicted scattered rain today for California, with th heaviest rains early today near the central coast. However, forecasters said another storm head- ■ ing south from Alaska was expected to hit Saturday. In the South, a storm front which spawned two tornadoes at Wichita Falls, Tex., pushed across the Southeast, dumping hail and heavy rain at scattered points. A twister hit near Marshall, Ark., Thursday, causing minor damage- Near Birmingham, Ala., hail stones one-half inch in diameter accumulated to a depth of three inches Thursday night. Pine trees in the area were strippd by the fall. Locally havy rains were reported during the night in northeast Mississippi aqd Tennessee and northern Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Tupelo, Mias., was doused with nearly an inch of water, and Birmingham, Ala., received more than one-half inch. Showers and light rains extended through Kentucky and ‘across (ConttK-'e'J o~ Pau* Alx> Eisenhowers Plan For Quiet Easter GETTYSBURG, Pa. (U» — President Eisenhower settled down at his farm today for a quiet Easter weekend with his family. He motored here Thursday afternoon to join his wife, Mamie, who preceded him here by a day and their four grandchildren — David, 10, Barbara Anne, 8, Susan, 6, and Mary Jean, 2 — wh? have been at the farm since last weekend with their mother, Mrs. John Eisenhower. Contingent Sent By Selective Service Twenty-one Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning by the Adams county selective service board. Roger Franklin Hawkins was sent for ac- ’ tive induction into the nation’s armed forces. Those sent for physical examinations prior to induction were Glen Allen Bauman, Walter John Lehrman, Giuseppe Bonofiglio, Richard Leon Velez, Luther Jerome Hedington, Robert Allen Penrod, Willis Glenn Nussbaum. Donald Sylvester Shaffer, Thomas Christopher Smith, Jr., Charles Herman Schlemmen, John Alden Stucky, Chester Dale Smith, Lester Eugene Egly, John Williams, Galen Jqyle Baumgartner, Robert Lee Baker, Philip James Nussbaum, Jr., Hgrry Dale Yoder, Robert Wayne Sprague and Leon Lee Byer.