Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 93.

r HMHHH JT. W **W f • ■ ■ WroT woßr w ’ •? . ' H I HI *' ’<' V~ ■• trj MF B KICKOVER BLASTS MILITARY ATOM CONTROL-Chatting with Chairman John McCormack (D), Mass., (left) of the House outer space committee, and assistant chief of Naval Operations Research and Development Rear Adm. J. T. Hayward, the ’‘father” of the atomic navy. Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (right! prepares to testify before McCormack’s group. Rickover heaped scorn on military research programs and said he could have developed his atomic submarine “a damned sight faster” under civilian control.

Labor Report Shows Record Unemployment Record Idleness Os Workers Covered By Unemployment Pay WASHINGTON (UP>—A Labor Department report showing record idleness among workers covered by the unemployment insurance system gave new impetus today to congressional efforts to expand jobless worker benefits. The defr> rtment reported Friday night that 37,800 additional unemployed workers were added to the nation’s jobless benefit rolls for the week ended April 5. The figure possibly topped any period since 1938. That brought the overall total to a record 3,314,000. On the brighter side, the department said the number of fresh claims filed by newly laidoff workers dropped last week to 461,000—a decrease of 40,000. Maine Rate Highest Maine had the highest rate of insured unemployment with 14.8 per cent. Other percentages were: Michigan, 14.6 per cent; Kentucky, 13.2 per cent and West Virginia; 13 per cent. Thirty states reported declines in new jobless claims The largest reductions occurred in Michigan with 21,000; Pennsylvania, 11,300; New York 6,800; Illinois, 4,400; and California, 3,100. Twenty-nine states reported an increase in the overall number of workers carried on their benefit lists the week ended April 5. The biggest increases were in New York, 15,300; Michigan, 14,300, apd California, 5.600. Meanwhile, Democrats forecast speedy House approval of their plan to provide 16 weeks of federally financed relief payments to persons thrown out of work by recession. Override Protesta The Democratic - controlled House Ways & Means Committee overrode Republican protests Friday and voted to expand unemployment compensation benefits far beyond the levels recommended by President Eisenhower. The program would provide an extra 16 weeks of federally financed benefits for persons who exhaust their state payments. It also would grant benefits to about 900,000 jobless workers not now covered by unemployment compensation. Continuec on pa<?e elx) Scout Honor Court Thursday Evening •* Boy Scout troop 61, sponsored by the Decatur Rotary club, will hold a court of honor Thursday to make advancement awards. Parents of all the scouts are invited to attend at 7 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. W. Guy Brown will present the eagle award, Harry Maddox will present star scouting awards, Gene Ziner, chairman of the troop committee, will present the first class scout awards, and E. E. Rydell, south district chairman, will present the merit badges. ■ Earl Sheets will present the second class award, and H. P; Schmitt Jr., will present tenderfoot awards. Robert H. Heller, advancement chairman, has worked with the Boy Scouts, who will receive 30 awards. , fi

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Record Distribution Made In Road Funds Decatur And County Will Receive Checks INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—-Checks totaling 322.112,565 were sent today to Indiana cities, towns and counties as their share of roadbuilding funds from gasoline taxes and other motor vehicle collections for a three-month period The State Auditor s office sent 15 million dollars to counties and 1 7 million to cities and towns from ■ three - month collections ending ! March 31. Another 25 million dol- ’ lars went to the State Highway 1 Department, bringing the total distribution to a record 47 million ‘ dollars. / I Quarterly collections included , 22 millions from gasoline taxes—- , an increase of 50.6 per cent over I the same period a year ago. All but two weeks of the 1957 quarterly collections came before the gas tax increased from 4 to 6 cents a gallon. > The distribution by cities included : < | , Alexandria $14,682, Anderson 127,217, Auburn 14,916, Bloomington 71,452, Bluffton 15,415, Boonville 12,919, Cannelton 5,143, Columbia City 12,039, Columbus 46,606, Connersville 39,452, Crown Point 18,594, Decatur 18,447, East Chicago 137,670, Edinburg 8,329, Elkhart 98,064, Elwood 30,346, Evansville 326,361, Fort Wayne 367,571, Frankfort 38,127, Franklin 18,561, Gary 428,474, Goshen 32,990, Greencastle 21,086. Hammond 274,780, Hartford City 20,071, HoHuntington 38,257. Indianapolis 1,1 7 1,2 59, Ja s - Huntingburg 10,290, Huntignton 38,257, Indianapolis L 171.259, Jasper 13,231, Jeffersonville 46,152, Kendallville 16,646, Lafayette 101,154, LaGrange 4,800, LaPorte 51,792, Ligonier 6.026, Logansport 53, 358, Madison 26,398, Marion 89, 671, Michigan City 80,332, Mishawaka 86,487, Monticello 8,796, Mount Vernon 15,603, Muncie 165,708, Nappanee 9,618, New Albany 96,658, Peru 37,397, Plymouth 18,607, Portland 17,922, Princeton 19,467, Richmond 100,314, Seymour 29,241, Shelbyville 32,396, South Bend 334,313, TeU City 16,532, Terre Haute 162,917, Vincennes 47,776, Wabash 29,613, Warsaw 17,671, West Lafayette 33,312, West Terre Haute 8,517. The distribution by counties included: Adams 29,380, Allen 423,769, Bartholomew 154,006, Blackford 67,184, Cass 197,J01, Clark 152,014, Clinton 152,478, DeKalb 132,022, Delaware 268,069, DeKalb 132,022 Elkhart 287,125, Fayette 84,738, Floyd 90,635, Gibson 182,129, Grant 201,557, Greene 187,319, Harrison 144,491, Huntington 136,678, Jackson 154,640, Jay 139,867, Jefferson 116,098, Johnson 122,221, Knox 209,094, Kosciusko 223,861, LaGrange 122,788, Lake 561,013. LaPorte 251549, Madison 292,303, Marion 856,753, Marshall 163,223, Miami 145,991 Monroe 177,836,' Noble 155,083, Perry 133,233, Posey 136,570, Putnam 136,988, St. Joseph 422,830, Shelby 147,519, Starke 134,438, Steuben 113,213, Tippecanoe 196,448, Vanderburgh 246,675, Vigo 241,416, Wabash 147,438, Warrick 153,486, Wayne 175,254, WeUs 128,122,788, Lake 561,013, LaPorte 490INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday, a little cooler tonight. Low tonight in the 40s. High Sunday in the 70a. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer. NOON EDITION

Predict House Will Extend Jobless Pay Provide 16 Weeks Os Federal Funds For Unemployed WASHINGTON (UP) — Democratic leaders today predicted the House will quickly approve a plan to extend unemployment benefits far beyond anything recommended by President Eisenhower. The staff of the House Ways & Means Committee was putting final touches on a Democraticsponsor ed measure to provide 18 weeks of federally-financed relief payments to persons who have lost their jobs and exhausted their state unemploymerit benefits. It also would widen the relief program to include about 900,000 jobless persons not now covered. The Democratic-controlled committee stamped its approval on the measure Friday over strenuous Republican objections. Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-NY.), senior GOP committee member, and Rep. John F. Byrnes (R-Wis.) said the proposal outdid the “wildest" programs ever suggested by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Reed charged the Democrats with “panicky political irresponsibility’’ in o if e ri n g a measure that would cost from one to. two billion dollars. But Democrats figured the bill would have the support of many Republicans in a showdown on the floor. : 1 Cairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said his House subcommittee on legislative oversight will begin a Wednesday wit a study of Federal Communications Commission new phase of its hearing next handling of radio and television patents. Harris didn’t say so, but observers thought it certain the committee would touch on the government’s pending anti-trust suit against the Radio Corporation of America. A Senate Commerce subcommittee was preparing to make some recommendations next week for helping the nation’s railroads out of their growing financial difficulties’ The subcommittee’s main recommendation was expected to call for elimination of the 10 per cent transportation tax on passenger fares and the 3 per cent tax on freight. I Neither house was in session today and there were no scheduled committee meetings. Hoagland Girl Is Hurt In Accident Miss Alice Bultemeier, 20, of Hoagland, was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital this morning following a one-car wreck in Allen county. Miss Bultemeier was driving by herself when she lost control of the vehicle, and it plunged upside down in a deep ditch. As she worked to free herself from the wreckage, water began seeping into the car. Before it was too deep she was able to work herself free, but was on an uninhabited section of the road and had to walk more than a mile to her home. X-rays showed that no bones were broken, although an ankle was badly swolen. She was dismissed from the hospital later this morning.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 19,1958.

U.N. Council To Meet Monday On Charges By Russia Against U. S.

Strike Os TV And Radiomen Ended Friday 12-Day Strike By Technicians Ends With New Contract WASHINGTON (UP) — Radio and television technicians went back to work at the Columbia Broadcasting System today after a 12-day strike in eight cities. Leaders of a rival AFL-CIO union were expected to launch an immediate effort to bring the new CBS wage scale to employes of the National Broadcasting Company and the American Broadcasting Company. A spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said all 1,300 CBS workers who struck April 7 should be back on the job by midnight to ... night. The union voted Friday to accept a CBS proposal for a wage ' increase that would bring top pay 1 to $l9O a week starting after Au- ’ gust 1,1959. The vote was not announced. Another AFL-CIO union the Na- : tional Association of Broadcast ’ Employes and Tecnicians, was J believed certain to try to match ! the teEW’s gains at CBS in current negotiations with NBC and ‘ ABC. The IBEW traditionally sets the negotiating pace for the industry technicians. NABET members already have rejected on referendum vote an NBC-ABC pay offer that was less than the CBS men were earning before they struck. The IBEW spokesman said the three-year CBS contract called for a 6.4 per cent wage increase, retroactive to Feb 1, and a 2.4 per cent boost effective Aug. 1, 1959. The technicians walked off their jobs at New York, Chicago, Hollywood. Boston, San Francisco, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Hartford, Conn. Red Cross Is Still Short 01 Fund Goal Adams County Fund Is $1,636 Short The Red Cross fund drive is still $1,636.32 short of its $10,500 goal. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive director, gave the following report on the last 14 days: Friendship Village Club, St. Paul’s Sewing Circle, St. Paul’s Ladies Aid, Root Twp. Home Demonstration club, and Wabash Twp. Farm Bureau, each $5. Roy Runyon $5, a friend $lO, Nell Winnes $2.50, Ohio Oil company S3O, Mrs. Cornelius Bertsch $2, Albert Zimmerman $3, Mrs:" T. Sprague sl, and Mrs. A. R. Holthouse $5. Preble — Gladys Ewell, chairman, $28.50. From Blue Creek township, Donelda Markel, $10.25, Elmer Myers $4, Charles Brunstrup $5, Don Raudenbush $5, Calvin Hamrick $8,50, Delmore Edwards $9, and William Dague $4. French township includes Roger Kaehr $7, Mrs. Luther Yager $11.35, and Curtis Wulliman $6.50. Jefferson township, Herbert Sfhaadt, chairman, Irene Gerke, $17.50, Mrs. Floyd Baker $12.97, ■Mr. and Mrs/’Don Moore $29.55, Mrs. Holman Egley $8,50, and Dale Johnson $13.35. Kirkland township — Rosemary Spangler sl6. Monroe township man $10.75, Howard Teeters $25, members include Mrs. Don ForeHoward V. Schwartz $5, Mrs. Oswald Nyffler $2.50, Homer Winteregg $3, James’ Nussbaum $11.45, Horace Lehman SITSO,‘ and Roy Young SB. —— ——— — Preble township, Glen Girod $lO. Arnold Scheumann SB, Gerhard Bieberick $3, Melvin Buuck $5, Gust Koeneman $9, Henry Macke $6, Marvin Conrad $9, Vernon Macke sll. “ Root township, Charles Berning (Continued on pace six) 1

Surgery Performed On Herbert Hoover Former President Has Surgery Today NEW YORK (UP) — Former President Hoover today underwent a successful operation for removal of the gall bladder, a Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center spokesman announced. The 83-year-old former president took what he had told doctors was his first anesthetic when the operation began at 8 a.m. es.t„ the spokesman said. The operation was completed at 9:15 a.m., 15 minutes earlier than had been expected. Hoover’s sons, Herbert Jr.,' and tllan, were at the hospital during le operation. Hoover entered the Harkness pavilion of the medical center Thursday, and doctors completed a physical examination Friday. They described his condition as “good” except for this gall bladder condition.” I » Nurses have received instructions not to “thwart" the former president’s nightly habit of rising at- 2 a.m. and either working, playing cards or reading until 4 am.,' the spokesmen said. He indicated Hoover might be released from the hospital soon, but would not elaborate. Hoover has had several gall bladder attacks in the past. The last occurred in 1950 when he entered a hospital for treatment. The former president has been in good health and active in recent months. He recently spent a fishing vacation in Florida and in February gave a major address at Valley Forge, Pa., where he accepted a Freedom Foundation award and a George Washington honor medal. Open Registration In Girl Seoul Camps 12-Day Sessions At - Camp Ella J. Logan Registration for ahy of the four 12-day sessions at Camp Ella J. Logan is now open to Intermediate Girl Scouts, Senior Girl Scouts, and Brownies who will fly up this spring. Registrations are now being accepted by mail and will be accepted in person after May I in the Girl Scout office. The dates for the four sessions are: June 30 to July 11; July 14 to July 25; July 28 to August 8, and August 11 to August 22. The opening of the June 30th session will mark the 31st season of the Limberlost Girl Scout council’s established camp at Dewart Lake. Camp Logan capacity is limited to 84 girls per session. Applications for registration art processed according to postmark. Camp Logan offers a well-bal-anced program based upon Girl Scout program fundamentals, including: camping skills, nature, dramatics, music, crafts, games, outdoor cooking, and skills in living together. Canoe trips on Lake Wawasee, Lake Tippecanoe and the Barbee chain of lakes and on the Elkhart and Tippecanoe Rivers will be conducted. Experience in sailing canoes is also offered. A Counselor in Training Unit is offered for those girls who wish to prepare for future counselor experience. The course will be offered June 30th to July 25th, and July 28th to August 22nd. Registration for each sessibn is limited to 12 girls. The leader of an Intermediate or Senior Girl Scout Troop, or an individual Scout in need of financial assistance for any camping program may apply for a campership. There is a limit of one campership per season to any individual or troop. Applications are considered only on the basis of financial need, and the desire of both the girl and the parents for camping experience. Campership applications should be returned to the Coordinating Camp Committee as soon as possible.

Loyal Troops Ready Assault .... — —. On Bukittingi Mass For Drive On Last Major Rebel Stronghold City SINGAPORE (UP) — The Indonesian loyalists reported today ■ that troops which captured Pai dang Thursday are massing for r an assault on Bukittingi, last ma- • jor rebel stronghold on Sumatra. An army spokesman in Jakarta I said the Padang airfield, which ; was dynamited and sown with bamboo spears to block loyalist ; paratroop landings, has been re- ■ opened for use by government I planes. The airfield is 40 miles . from Bukittingi. ; It appeared the Jakarta regime • hoped to win complete control of Sumatra before Moslem New . Year’s celebrations begin next - week. i Reports circulating in Jakarta ’ indicated an all-out loyalist drive 1 against rebels on Celebes Island will follow the Sumatra campaign. 2 Maj. Gen. Abdul H. Nasution, the loyalist chief of staff, predicted in a New Year’s message the 1 government eventually "will be j able to reenlist the support of the ► army men who formed the back- ’ bone of the revolt. ’ (Continued on page five) Berne Man Still In ' Critical Condition Howard D. Beitler, 31, of Berne, critically injured in an automobile accident Thursday morning a mile south of Decatur, remains in critical condition at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. When he was taken to the hospital in Decatur originally, Beitler had no pulse and it was necessary to work for a considerable time to restore it. Rash Os Fires In Northern Michigan Scattered Showers Fail To Ease Threat By UNITED PRESS Scattered, light showers failed to remove the threat of forest fires today in a large area of the northern Middle West. The Weather Bureau said “exceedingly dry conditions’’ also prevailed in the Mississippi River valley and the Plains AtatesV Oyernight showers measured^!Anvehundredths of an inch fell throughout the area and on “the Pacific Northwest. "" * I However, in scattered parts of the country, heavier rain was recorded. In College Station, Texas, a half-inch fell, and a quarter-inch splashed on Alexandria, Minn., and Sioux City, S.D. Friday a 24-hour rash of fires burned out more than 3,000 acres of woodlands in northern Michigan. Fires believed touched off by arsonists crackled in Michigan. Fires believed touched off by arsonists crackled in Indiana forests while Minnesota, officials counted 500 woodland blazes al- i ready this season in comparison to the average of less than a dozen. - - " ' Northern Michigan had its worst fire ordeal in years as nearly 40 separate fires cut through the Manistee National Forest and parts of Crawford, Otsego, Cheboygan and Ogemaw counties. The Conservation Department 1 cancelled vacations of its em- i ployes to meet the threatin Indiana, about 1,200 pcres were burned south of Brownstown and In Greene County. State Forester Joe Deyoung said officials searched the area today for traces of arson in the Greene County fires. Meanwhile, two cold fronts swept across New England, bringing temperature drops up to 20 degrees. South of Pennsylvania, however, the weather was warm in almost static weather conditions.

Dies Friday Ir i I A * ■ ■ ■' IL Albert Harlow Albert Harlow Dies Friday At Hospital Ex-County Official Is Taken By Death Albert 'Harlow, 83, of 232 N. 13th street, former county official, died at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for the past three years and hospitalized for the past week. Born near Greensburg Jan. 1, 1875, he was a son of Phillip and Louise Decker Harlow. He was married to Cora Shoemaker June 18, 1902. Mr. Harlow began teaching school when he was 18 years of age and taught in schools near Geneva for 15 years. He also served as trustee of Wabash township and operated a grocery store at Geneva for 25 years. Mr. Harlow, active all his life in Democratic party circles, served as Adams county auditor from 1929 to 1932, and later was county assessor from 1947 until 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Harlow moved to Decatur in 1944. He was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Robert Zwjck, of Decatur, and two grandWilliam and Zane Zwick. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 o’clock Monday morning at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feler officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services. Second Suspect In Fort Wayne Robbery Seized In Robbery Os Fort Wayne Bank INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A second suspect was fingered by the FBI today in the $50,104 holdup of a Fort Wayne branch bank last Oct. 18. A warrant was issued asking the return to Indiana of J o h n Thurston Bartholomew, 39, Washington, D. C., who was held at Alexandria, Va., as a parole violator. The FBI said Thurston was a suspect in the robbery of a branch of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co. by two men wearing Halloween masks. Dari Dee Parker was arrested as the first suspect in the robbery a month ago at Canton, Ohio, and is held in Ohio pending removal proceedings to bring him to Indiana The FBI said Parker and Bartholomew served sentences together at a Virginia reformatory. Bartholomew was released a year ago today after serving a term for armed robbery.

Soviet Russia Forces U.S. To Stay On Alerf H-Bomber Flights Held Essential To Defense Os Nation WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States today mapped strategy to convince the world that American H-bomber flights are essential to guard against the threat of sneak Soviet nuclear attacks. Officials said U.S. representatives at a U.N. Security Council meeting set »for Monday will explain that Russia forced the United States to remain on a constant nuclear alert because of stubborn Soviet refusal to negotiate a cheat-proof disarmament agreement. Thus, the government officials said, American planes must be ready to take off instantly with death-dealing H-bomb loads whenever suspicious “blips” show up on radar screensReds Denounce Flights The Soviet Union on Friday denounced the H-bomb flights as “provocative" and endangering , world peace. Soviet Foreign Min- ■. ister Gromyko called on Security . City Counsil for a speedy meeting J, to hear the complaint and halt the e flights by planes of the U.S. Stra- „ tegic Air'Command. Gromyko's statement followed a report by Frank H. Bartholomew, • president of United Press, which 1 appeared in newspapers on April ■ 7 and April 8. ■ Bartholomew’s dispatch explained the SAC “fail safe” sys- ; tern under which alerted planes • head north toward the pole with H-bomb loads when suspicious , images show up on radar warning screens. Under the “fail safe" plan, the dispatch explained, the H-bombers automatically return to their bases unless, on reaching a predetermined point, they are given additional orders to continue to the target. The dispatch explained these orders can be given only on authority of the President. Cleared By Air Force “Fail safe,’ an expression borrowed from the Engineers, simply instructs the pilot to “proceed toward your target for a fixed number of nautical miles and then turn back — ‘fail safe’ — if for any reason you do not at that point and at that moment receive coded orders to continue to your target," Bartholomew reportedBartholomew’s dispatch, which was based on personal visits to SAC headquarters at Offutt Air Force Hase, Neb., and was cleared by the Air Force, disclosed bombers had taken off “many times” after objects had been picked up on the radar scope only to return home without going to their targets. “This actually has happened,” he said. “Not once, not twice, but many times. The great counteroffensive striking force of the Strategic Air Command has been sped t>n its way by alerts created by meteoric flights registering on the Dewline radarscopes, or by interference of high frequency transmitters creating artificial ‘blips’, or by the appearance of foreign objects on the scope flying in seeming formation which simply never have been explained.” “Accurate and Correct” Assistant Secretary of Defense Murray Snyder confirmed Frday the Bartholomew report was "accurately and correctly" described. The Defense Deparment would not reveal the location of the line beyond which SAC bombers cannot go without further orders. But the State Department said in a statement checked with the Air (Continued on page oix) BULLETIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ffl —An Air Force Thor missile Mew up with a, shattering explosion in an unsuccessful launching attempt today, the Air Force announced. The intermediate range missile seemed to “blow up on its launching pad,” an announcement said. <• ■

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