Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1958 — Page 1

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Ike Calls For Ban On Atomic Weapon Output U.S. Disarmament Proposal Renewed In Note To Russia WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower today called on Russia to join the United States in banning production of atomic weapons. He proposed that nuclear materials be manufactured "only for peaceful purposes." "Die President renewed the U.S. disarmament proposal in a note to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. '7 * ’ He brushed aside Khrushchev's statements and note of last Friday proposing an immediate halt to nuclear test explosions The President said the "timing, wording and manner” of the Soviet declaration “cannot but raise questions as to Its real significance." He also urged Khrushchev to accept the “open skies” disarma-ment-inspection plan, first proposed by Eisenhower in 1955, and the recent U. S. proposal to ban space warfare. The White House said the note was cleared with the North Atlantic Treaty Aliles. It was delivered to the Kremlin this morning. For Peace Purposes In asking Russia to accept his "atoms for peace" proposal of 1953, the Presides t said the "heart of the nuclear problem is not the mere testing of weapons, but the weapons themselves.” He said if weapons are dependably dealt with, “then it is natural to suspend their testing.” But he said Russia "continues to reject the concept of an internationally supervised program to end weapons production and to reduce weapons stocks.” The President said if Russia is as "peace-loving as it professes," it should surely want to bring about an internationally supervised diversion of nuclear material from "weapons purposes to peace purposes.” j Referring to Khrushchev’s April 4 letter asking for a suspension of nuclear testing, the President said,—“lt seems peculiar that the Soviet Union, having just concluded a series of tests of unprecedented intensity, should now, in bold headlines, say that it will not test again, but add, in small type, that it may test • gain if the United States carries out is already: long-announced and now imminent series of tests.” Cites Bermuda Declaration The United States, Eisenhower said, is trying to develop the “defensive rather than the offensive” weapons and to learn how to "Minimize” nuclear fallout. "It goes without saying," the President said, “that these experiments, so far as the United States is concerned, are so conducted that they cannot appreciably affect human health." He recalled the joint declaration made by toe United Kingdom and the United States in Bermuda on March 24, 1957. He said toe two countries declared that they would conduct nuclear tests only in Such a manner as would keep world radiation from rising to more than a “small fraction ■of toe levels that might be hazardous." He said toe joint declaration also pledged toe two countries to continue publicly announcing test series well in advance of their occurrence and expressed a willingness to permit limited international observation of such tests if Russia would do toe same. Russia, he said, “has never responded to that invitation ” He said toe latest series of Soviet tests was conducted "behind a cloak of secrecy,' So far as the (Conttauad on pa<« »dx)

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Lower Food Prices Forecast By Expert Labor Department Man Sees Decline MILWAUKEE (UP) — Housewives can look forward to lower food prices starting in Igte spring, a Labor Department expert said today Ewan Clague, commissioner of labor statistics, made the forecast in a speech prepared for a local; chapter of the Controllers Institute of America. Clague said spring crops will reduce prices of fruits and vegetables which have been at all-time highs because of crop freezes in the South. Increased marketing of hogs and cattle, be added, may bring lower meat prices later in toe year—probably in September or October. He said prices of new cars, refrigerators, television sets and appliances will slide down to autumn lows before 1959 models go on There 'ds no hope, Iwwever. (hal haircuts, streetcar fares, movie admissions, doctor bills, electricity rates and other "service’' items will go down. Clague said they will climb "slowly but steadily” in price. Clague said most of toe recent price changes were not caused by toe recession. Food prices, he said, respond to seasonal trends. The cost of services lag behind business conditions, he added. Oily prices of “soft” goods like clothes and house furnishings and "hard” goods such as cars and appliances have weakened during toe economic decline, he said. Clague said toe recent recordbreaking levels of toe government’s consumers price index were due to high food prices. The index could go down in April or May if farmers sent enough hogs and cattle to market to halt toe rise in meat prices, he said But so far there have been no signs this will happen, he added. Fruits and vegetables will be cheaper In toe second half of toe year and big crops this springbarring bad weather—should reduce prices In toe next few months, he said. Discloses Weapons Asked By Indonesia Dulles States U.S. Not, Sending Arms WASHINGTON (ffl — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles disclosed today that Indonesia asked for American arms during toe last few days. He said it is still the policy of toe United States not to supply arms to either the Indonesian government or rebel forces during the present crisis. He said toe rebels have not asked for American arms. Dulles also sharply criticized the Soviet bloc for selling arms to Indonesia during the present civil war. Dulles charged that the Soviet bloc’s deal with Indonesia is not sound or healthy in a situation where arms may be used for offensive operations inside a counHe told his news conference that the United States follows the , broad arms policy, of supplying arms only where there is a nged to repel aggression from or where small arms are needed for internal forces, such as/the ; police—to maintain law and order. The United States does not believe in the promiscuous spreading, as Dulles put It, of large amounts of arms, Dulles said it did not seem wise i for the United States to supply (Continued on PMte ’•!*) -

Columbia TV, Radio Systems Hit By Strike 1,300 Technicians On Strike, Some, Os Programs Disrupted NEW YORK (UP) — Columbia Broadcasting Systerh radio and television stations across the nation were on toe air today with supervisory workers behind toe cameras and control panels in place of 1,300 striking technicians. Film was substituted for some scheduled live television shows in which the camera work was considered too intricate for toe inexperienced hands. This will include tonight’s scheduled Red Skelton show from Hollywood if the strike is still cm, the network said- An old Skelton program will be shown from film. The 1,300 members of eight locals of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off their jobs at 1 p.m. Monday in a surprise strike. Their contract had expired Jan. 31, but negotiations had continued in Washington with officers of toe Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service sitting in on toe talks. The strikers man CBS-owned radio and television stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis, TV stations only in Hartford, Conn., and Milwaukee, and radio stations only in Boston and San Francisco. Ask Higher Wages The network serves a total of 200 TV stations and 201 radio stations, but only the 6 radio and 6 TV stations it owns were affected. There was no agreement between company and union spokesmen as to tog issues involved. William C. "Fitts Jr, CBS vice president in charge of labor relations, said toe action was “an economic strike for exorbitant wage demands.” Fitts said the company had offered a 7 per cent wage Increase over two years that would bring base pay after three years service to $lB5 a week. Fitts said also that toe strike had been called "despite the union’s commitment to toe Federal Conciliation and Mediation Service that there would be no work stoppage pending a ballot" on the company’s last offer. Officials of toe IBEW New York local, whose 800 members are the largest single body of strikers, denied that any such commitment had been made. 1 Dispute several Issues Union officials said toe company offer was 6 per cent rather than 7 and would not cover the cost of living increase since their last contract. But they said there were other equally important matters in dispute as well. One of them is "job security because of the threat of automation,” the local’s business manager, Charles A. Calame, said. Another, he said is a "clarification of work jurisdiction over video tape.” Tape, which can record a TV show and play it back immediately without the processing required for film, is an issue for nearly all technical TV unions who are maneuvering for jurisdiction over its handling and toe jobs it will open. The IBEW radio and TV technicians are a small part of a large electrical workers unicm and only CBS of toe major networks .employs them in toe engineering 'and camera jobs from which they are on strike. Similar workers at toe National Broadcasting Co- and toe American Broadcasting Co. are covered by contracts with the National Association 6f Broadcast Engineers and Technicians. Were Some Hitches Fitts said CBS had put into effect an emergency plan to permit (Continued on pa« 4 five) '

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U.S. Newsmen Released From Cuban Custody Held For Entering Restricted Areas Without Authority HAVANA, Cuba (UP)—A group of American newsmen held for enterjng restricted territory without proper authorization have been released from custody in Santiago de Cuba, it was disclosed today. They were Harold Lidin of toe United Press, Homer Blgart of the New York Times, and Robert Taber of the Columbia Broadcasting System. . Three others were released at 9:30 a.m. today. They were Ward Cannel of NEA, Ray Brennan of toe Chicago Sun-Times, and Alan Jarlson of KRAM-KSHO-TV, Las Vegas, Nev. A seventh newsman, Bob Silva of WKCT. Miami, Fla., also was reported released. Silva was arrested by Cuban army authorities when he stepped off a plane at Santiago last Saturday and was held until this morning. Cannel, Brennan and Jarlson were held overnight in toe Furte Moncada, toe Cuban army headquarters m Santiago de Cuba. Brennan said they were not mistreated. Negotiations for release of the newsmen were conducted in Havana between US. Ambassador Earl T. Smith and Cuban Prime Minister and Minister of State Gonzalo Guell. The Cuban government maintained that the newsmen were in a military zone during a state of emergency without proper authorization. Santiago de Cuba is the capital of Oriente province where the rebels are carrying on the heaviest part of their campaign against toe government of President Fulgencio Batista. The American ambassador said afterwards that the Cuban government has "suggested and requested” that toe newsmen leave Santiago and return to Havana. Batista’s government announced earlier loyal troops in eastern Cuba have turned back rebel thrusts at both Santiago and (C'iutlnued on page five) To Distribute Phone Directory By May 1 Citizens Telephone Printing Directory The new Citizens Telephone rompany directories, which will include eight more pages than last year's, are scheduled to be ship ped about April 21, and will reach all subscribers by May 1, Charles D. Ehinger, president of the company, said today. Miss Joan Wemhoff, of the Decatur office, was in charge of the compilation of the manuscript. The R. R. Donnelley & Sons company world’s largest printer of telephone directories, is presently printing the new edition. As in previous years, the 1958 directory will contain listings for subscribers of the Decatur, Pleasant Mills, Monroe, Berne, Linn Grove and Bryant exchanges of toe Citizens Telephone company. The Sprungers of Berne will lead all listings in toe alphabetical section, with a total of 92, while 75 Lehmans, 45 Habeggers, and 38 Neuenschwanders can also be found. In the Decatur section, the largest number of listings is for toe Millers, with 46, followed by 34 Smiths, 30 Johnsons, and 24 Myers. „ The alphabetical sections beginning with “Q” and “X” presented no problem to the printers as there is not a single family name In toe area which begins with either of these letters. The new directory will be bound with a green cover and will have a total of 140 pages, as compared with 132 in last year’s book.

Civic Music Group Plans Member Drive Final Concert Os Season Thursday A meeting of the executive hoard, committee chairmen and division workers of the Adams county Civic Music Association with the new president, Dr. Freeman Burkhalter presiding, brought the third annual memberfp campaign of the Association a start Monday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Mrs. Grace L. Ruth, representative of the Civic Concert Service, New York, was present to outline the mechanics of the drive which is in charge of Mrs. Roy Kalver, campaign chairman, and Mrs. Dan Tyndall, co-chairman. Mrs. Kalver reported that the workers, numbering over 100, to cover the entire, area of Adams county and neighboring communities, have already enlisted to make this year the best season yet for the local organization. Final instructions to workers will be given when a meeting in toe Youth Center officially launches the drive for 950 new members, next Monday night. The campaign will be directed by Robert Misenheimer, regional director of Civic Concerts. Headquarters have been established in toe Decatur Youth and Qbmmranlty Center wild special phone number 3-3116 and in Berne at the Berne Witness newspaper office with phone 2-2141. Mrs. Menno J. Lehman Is headquarters chairman in Berne. New members. as well as present members, may secure their memberships for next season at either of the above centers which will be open daily from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. The dues are $7.50 for adults and $4 for students, and the local association has reciprocity with any other Civic Music Association in the United States where there is the capacity to accomodate out-of-town visitors. Within this area, (Continued on page six) Clothing Drive By Legion's Auxiliary Children's Clothing Particularly Needed The American Legion auxiliary unit 43 is conducting’ a clothing drive for the “Save toe children federation” during children’s month. The auxiliary has readied its headquarters at the Legion home for a community-wide campaign that needs public cooperation. Clothing for needy children here and abroad will be provided by ‘he children federation. The ‘he campaign through the save American Legion auxiliary urges local residents to bundle up new and used clothing toe rest of this month, and leave it at toe Legion home. Mrs. R. C.Hersh explained that children's wear is especially desirable, but that infants’ and adults’ garments are welcome, too. All clothing should be mended and clean. Most needed are lohg-sleeved sweaters, shirts, pants, dungarees, overalls, hats, knit caps, cotton dresses, underwear, socks, pajamas, clotty coats, sheets, blankets, diapers, baby shirts, bootees, low-heeled shoes, rubbers, overshoes and work shoes. Clothing brought to the Legion home will help children and their families in areas as far from home as Korea and Greece; in southern Appalachian hornet, or in disaster areas hit by floods, blizzards, earthquakes or other natural catastrophes. The save toe children federation, now in its 26th year of service to needy children and their families, is sponsored by many national figures, including Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, James A ! Farlhy, and Gladys Swartoout. Local committee chairmen are Ed Bauer and Mrs. R. C. Hersh. Those desiring clothing to be picked up call Mrs. R. C. Harsh, 1 3-3042.

.in-*.— ■ - —— - Air Force Jet Abandons Non Stop Flight Abandons Attempt To Fly Non-Stop Tokyo To Madrid TORREJON AIR BASE, Madrid, Spain (W — A U. S. Air Force jet Stratotanker gave up its attempt to fly non-stop from Tokyo to Madrid today and landed at Lajes Air Base in the Azores—l.2oo miles Short of its mark. The plane landed at Lajes at 10:25 a m. e.s.t. The shortened flight of 10,288 miles broke the previous unrefueled jet distance record by nearly 4,000 miles. But it was 947 miles short of the distance record held by the Navy’s propeller - driven "Truculent Turtle” patrol bomber, set in 1956 on a hop froth Australia to Ohio. Capt. George Spotwood, Air Force spokesman at the joint Spanish-American base here, said the giant tanker had counted on the push power of the jet stream to beat the Navy’s mark. "Jet. stream winds they had counted on decreased over the American West Coast and fagain over Washington,” he said. “It just didn’t give enough push power to get them here. We’re not very happy about it but we've got another plane ready at Yokota air base. They’ll try it tomorrow or next week or whenever the winds seehi right.” An Air Force spokesman said the plane had radioed that its fuel supply was not sufficient to allow it to complete the 11,487-mile flight from Tokyo. The KCI3S was reported over Washington, D.C., at 5:24 a.m. about seven hours flying time from Madrid. The Air Force said the plane set a new non-stop speed record between Tokyo and Washington of 13 hours and 47 minutes, beating an old record of 31 hours'and 25 minutes set by propellor-driven Contlnuec on pane »lx) Margaret Whistler Dies Monday Night Heart Attack Fatal To Native Os County Mrs. Margaret Christen-Whist-ler, 56, a native of Adams county, died suddenly of a heart attack* at 8:30 o’clock Monday evening at her home in Indianapolis. Born in this county, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Christen. She graduated from the Decatur high school and later taught school at Hoagland. Her only son. Bill, was killed in an automobile accident six months ago. Mrs. Whistler is survived by her husband, Kenneth Whistler; her mother, Mrs. Ed Christen, who had planned to return to her home near Decatur in a short time from Park Ridge, 111., where she has spent the winter months. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Crum of Richmond, and~ Mrs. Naomi Allen of Park Ridge, 111., and two brothers, Ferd Christen of Park Ridge, 111., and Ellis Christen of Fowler. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, not so cool south portion. Wednseday increasing cloudiness and warmer, with showers likely west and south by . afternoon or evening. Low tonight mostly in the 30s. High Wednesday 56 to 64, Sunset today 7:16 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:17 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Rainy and windy, gradually clearing late Thursday afternoon and turning cooler. Lots Wednesday night around 46. High Thursday In the Ms.

Severe Earthquake Hits Alaska Region One Os History's Strongest Quakes By UNITED PRESS One of history’s most powerful earthquakes echoed across wide sections of the United States when it rocked a desolate tundra region in Alaska. The quake Monday broke five seismographic instruments in a Piermont, N. Y., laboratory, 3,590 miles distant. At Fairbanks, about 150 miles from the quake area, light fixtures swayed and articles were toppled from shelves. Its Intensity on various seismographs across the country ranged from 7.5 to 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. The greatest earthquake previously recorded was a' 1950 tremblor in Tibet which hit 8.6. University of Alaska and U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey scientists placed the center of the quake at the Indian Village of Hughes, northwest of Fairbanks on the Koyukuk River. No deaths or injuries were reported. Geologists said the quake was too far inland to cause tidal waves along the Pacific Coast. Frank HelvieNamed As Rotary Governor Succeeds Local Man As District Leader O. Frank Helvie, of South Bend, Monday was elected 1958-59 governor during the 55th annual conference of Rotary International district 654, which opened yesterday at the Hotel Van Orman in Fort Wayne. Helvie succeeds Clarence Ziner, of Decatur, who has served as governor of the district’s 40 Rotary clubs during the past year. Ziner was named district representative to the council on legislation of Rotary for the international convention to be held June 1-5 at Dallas, Tex. One of the highlights of Monday’s program was a speech by each of the four students brought to the U. S. through the American Field Service international scholarship program, and sponsored by Rotary clubs of this district. Ken Eliasson, of Sweden, who has attended the Decatur high school during the present school year under sponsorship of the local Rotary club, was one of the speakers. Other students are Gertrud Schneider, of Switzerland, student at Warsaw; Oriel ViUagarcia, of Argentina, student of Columbia City, and Bertil Johansson, of Sweden, student at Bluffton. The Columbia City Rotary club was named the recipient of a S2OO donation from past district governor Hermon Phillips of Angola, "for the best effort toward promoting a good youth program at the local level.” Other speakers Monday included Edward V. Long, lieutenant governor of Missouri and special representative of Rotary International president Charles G. Tennent; Dr. Carl C. Byers, of the public relations department of General Motors, and E. C. Kilbourne of Fort Wayne, who promoted attendance at the Dallas convention. A large number of Decatur Rotarians attended the conference banquet Monday evening. The local club will not' meet Thursday evening, but members desiring to make up attendance may report at the Youth and Community Center at the usual time Thursday to report to the secretary. Today’s conference opened with a breakfast meeting for all club presidents, secretaries . and new members. -- The district discussion contest preceded the closing luncheon of the conference at noon today.

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March Jobless Total Highest in 16.5 Years New Figures Taken As Heartening Sign In Recession Fight WASHINGTON (UP) — Unemployment slowed appreciably in March while total employment showed the first over-all gain since the downward trend in jobs oegan last year, the government reported today. The March unemployment figure rose 25,000 to 5,198,000- The February figure was 5,173,000. Employment increased by 323.000 — from 61,988,000 in February to 62.311,000 in mid-March. The March unemployment total was the highest in 16’4 years, but the increase In the number of jobless was down considerably from the 700,000 jump in February and the one-million-plus rise in January. The 62,311,000 jobs figure for March compared with the total of 66 million for October and the all-time high of 67,200,000 in July, just before the recession began. President Eisenhower said the new statistics “indicate a slowing up of the decline.” , ' “The figures released this morning -fey the Departments of Commerce and Labor show a pick up in jobs in March and a levelling off a unemployment.” the President said in a statement issued by the White House. “These statistics indicate a slowing up of the decline.” More Part-Time Jobs Administration officials took the new figures as a heartening sign in their battle against the recession, even though March normally is a month in which unemployment decreases from 100,000 to 200,000, rather than increasing as it did this March. One significant aspect of the latest unemployment and employment figures announced jointly by the Commerce and Labor departments was that the number of workers on the job part-tiine because of slack work reached a record high for the period since World War H. "The number of regular fulltime workers on part-time because of slack work (and other economic factors) continued upward, reaching a new post-war high of 2,300,000 in March,” the , report said. The rise in both employment and unemployment — as was the case in March —is accounted for in the fact that the size of the labor force changes. For example, 1 the labor force usually increases greatly in June when students, take summer jobs and drops in ■ September when they return to school. , . An Optimistic Sign The report was based op a midMarch survey of 35,000 households 1 in 330 areas across the nation. The report by (fommerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell said "unemployment was unchanged instead of its usual seasonal improvement” The seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment increased to an even 7 per cent of the civilian labor force as compared with 6.7 per cent in February. The comparable figure tor March, 1957, was 3.9 per cent (Continued on page four) Pre-School Clinic At Pleasant Mills » The Pleasant Mills annual pre- . school clinic is to be held Wednest day, April 16, at the school, under ( the direction of the Pleasant Milla > parents and teachers association. ■ I Beginning at 8 a.m., the local 1 doctors will give the physical ex- ! aminations to the children from Bobo, Blue Creek, Union and St. . Mary’s townships who will be six j years eld on or before September ■ 30 of this year. Any person having a child entering school this fall and who has 1 not been contacted is asked to f phone Mrs. Clarence Black at 7-7284.