Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 103.

\\\ PRHR Kvi I■■ M I t i f I wHHEL.. I iiirrnr: FACE DOWN, FACE UP— Mrs. Harvey Peer keeps an anxious vigil at bedside of her daughter Linda, 10, who is in a special orthopedic bed in Martland Medical center, Newark, N. J. Linda spends an hour face down, then an hour face up. A bullet fired accidental!}- by an off-duty policeman in a neighboring apartment ripped through the wall and lodged in Linda’s back, paralyzing her.

Marine Corps Head Protests Defense Plans ' Corps Commandant Voices Opposition To Ike's Proposal WASHINGTON (UP>-The commandant of the Marine Corps protested today that President Eisenhower’s defense reorganization plan might open the way for giving the Marines “the bum’s rush.” Gen. Randolph McC. Pate told the House Armed Service Committee he felt “real apprehension’’ that language of the proposed bill might permit a future defense secretary to “rationalize the Marine Corps out of a job.” Defense Secretary Neil H- McElroy earlier assured the committee that the Marines, as well as the Army. Navy and Air Force, would “retain their respective individualities’’ under the President’s plan. Pate said he endorsed “wholeheartedly” many parts of the proposal. But he expressed “grave concern” about one provision which would repeal laws prohibiting the transfer, reassignment, abolition or merger of combat functions which Congress has assigned to the individual services. Pate said Congress should not permit this. Any “tampering with these functions, he said, “could be a most dangerous change 7 irir*y<as . Corps’ future abiltyto-fight xs concerned.” Pate said the Marine Corps already has survived “several attemots to reorganize it into nonentity.” He questioned whether the future of the corps should depend “upon the whim of a single individual” or oh Congress, which created it. “I would certainly hate to think that some future secretary of defense might misread the enactment of some of the proposed features of this bill as a mandate from Congress to rationalize the Marine Corps out of a job,” Pate said. “Or, as Gen. (Alexander A.) Vandegrift (former Marine commandant) put it somewhat less abstractly, in his testimony before Congress in 1947. ‘to give the Marine Corps the bum’s rush . The President said Wednesday night Congress should not revise his reorganization proposal to make it too “rigid.” Farmers Urged To Take Time To Vote INDIANAPOLIS (W . — Indiana farmers were urged today by the largest farm organization in Ho<> sierland to take time to vote in the May 6 primary. George Doup. president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., said the organization is interested in arousing in Hoosiers “a new awareness of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. “Even though extremely busy, Doup said, “Hoosier farmers should not let their peak spring work load keep them and their families from the polls.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair north and central, cloudy with chance of showers exrteme south tonight and Friday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight 38 to 45 north, 45 to 52 south. High Friday in the 60s. Sunset today 7:30 p. m- Sunrise Friday 5:45 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy north, cloudy with showers south. HJild temperatures. Lows Friday night in the 40s. Highs Saturday in the 60s.

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Rural Life Meeting Here Friday Night Meeting Scheduled At Catholic School A meeting will be held at 8 o’clock Friday night in the Decatur Catholic high school to explain plans for the national Catholic rural life convention, which will be held in Fort Wayrtte Oct. 16 to 22. Members of the St. Joseph parish in Bluffton will also participate in Friday’s meeting here. This meeting is one of a series of 23 in the diocese designed to lay the groundwork for the national convention. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary's Cathodic church here, and dean of the. Huntington deanery, has been named honorary chairman of the convention. Speaker at Friday’s meeting in Decatur "will be Joseph C. Meisner, field representative of the national Catholic rural life conference of Des Moines, la. A/rural life essay contest is also being held in schools of the Fort Wayne diocese, with the climax scheduled tor award presentations during the national convention. Seeking To Defeat Jobless Pay Bill ~ GOP Asks Aid Os ' - ministration counted on Southern Democrats to help House Republicans defeat today a Democratic plan to provide 16 weeks of federal relief payments for almost all the nation's unemployed. But Democratic leaders hoped the opposing coalition would be riddled with defections by the time the roll was called on the politically - explosive issue. Some nervous lawmakers still were trying to gauge the impact of their votes on reelection prospects next November. The House was called into session an hour early in hope of reaching the first test vote by alte afternoon. The first big test would come when Republicans moved to substitute the administrations plan for the broad Democratic relief proposal. The administration’s proposal would extend by 50 per cent the duration of present state unem ployment benefits. It provides nc help for jobless who presently are not covered by that program. In an effort to make it more palatable, GOP leaders knocked the mandatory provision out of the administration plan, giving individual states the right to refuse to extend their benefis. If the Democratic plan passed 1 the House and won Senate approval, Rep. Charles A. Halleck • (Continued on page five) I — ‘ Coroner's Inquest Into Beider Death ■ A coroner’s inquest will be held 1 Friday at 8 p.m. at the Allen coun- ; ty jail, in the death of Howard D. • Beitler, Berne. Beitler died of injuries suffered in an accident on April 17, when his car collided with a road grader of the Adams county highway department at 7 o'clock that morning at the intersection of U. S. highway 27 and Winchester street (extended) one mile south of Decatur. Beitler was first taken, to the Adams county memorial hospital and later transferred to the Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne, where he died on April 19, from a crushed chest and other injuries suffered in the accident. The other person involved in. the accident, Lloyd Wendel Abbott, Decatur, suffered facial lacerations.

Intense Rays / In Outer Space Are Revealed Report Made Public On Information Os U. S. Satellites WASHINGTON (UP) — Data from U.S. satellites disclosed the possibility today that invisible and silent deaths awaits man if he ventures more than 1,000 miles into space without heavy shielding against radiation. In the region beyond 1,000 miles, it was revealed Explorers I and 111 ran into yet unidentified rays hundreds of times more intense than scientists had expected. On the other hand, the chances of damage to spaceships from meteors turn out to be “extremely small” and problems of temperature control are easily licked. This and other information from America's entries in the satellite derby were reported publicly for the first time at an unusual joint meeting of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. Russia has yet to make a similar report of information gathered by the now deceased Sputnks I and 11. Five-Hour Limit The U.S. satellite information was disclosed by scientists participating in the American proram for, the International Geophysical Year. The* radiation report came from Dr. James AVan Allen, University of lowa physicist who designed cosmic ray instruments for the Army Explorers launched Jan. 31 and March 26. The instruments do not tell just what kind of radiation they ran into. But if the high rates were produced by X-rays from the sun, they represented a radiation dosage of .06 of a roentgen per hour. Five hours of such exposure would be equivalent to the maximum permitted atomic workers for an entire week. “This, ’ me report said, "could mean that it would not be safe for a human being to remain more than 1,000 miles out in space for more than five hours—unless he could be adequately shielded with lead or other layers of enough mass and density to block such dangerous quantities of the penetrating invisible light known as X-radiation.” Van Allen said, however, the dangerous zone may be limited to a region of space only a few hundred or a few thousand miles deep. Later satellites may tell. Can Control Temperature Meanwhile, scientists of the , ... servatory. Cambridge, Mass., reported preliminary information from visual satellite sightings. They said the atmosphere around 230 miles up is 14 times more dense than had been suspected. Nevertheless, the air at that altitude weighs only about ‘two ounces per cubic mile.” Scientists of the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that simply temperature controls designed for Explorer I proved the possibility of making space safe for man as far as heat and cold are concerned. (Cor.i.iiued on P»Fe elg*n>t) Franklin I. Koos Is Taken By Death Adams County Native Dies At Fort Wayne Franklin L. Koos, 76, of 901 Cresent Ave., Fort Wayne, a native f Adams county, died at 1:30 6’lock Wednesday afternoon at the ’arkview memorial hospital in hat city, following an illness of hree weeks. Mr. Koos retired six years ago f rom the Lincoln National Bank ’z Trust Co., where he had worked n the mortgage and loan department for 35 years. He was born in St. Mary’s township Feb. 26, 1882, a son of George and Catherine Lillich-Koos. His wife, the former Stella McFarlawd, died 10 years ago. Mr. Koos was a member of the Plymouth Congregational church. Surviving are two stepdaughters, Mrs. Eli Torrance of Minneapolis, Minn., and Miss Arna McFarland of Ashland, Wis.; four brothers, Bernon Koos of Enid, Okla., Walter Koos, Adams county assessor, and Edward Koos, both of Decatur, and Benjamin Koos of Ames, la., and one sister, Mrs. Philip Rash of Portland. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Klaehn funeral home, 420 West Wayne street, the Rev. William B. Howenstine officiating. Burial will be in the Greenlawn memorial park. ma y ca N at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 1, 1958

Mitchell Cites Need Os Early Decision On Tax Cut To Boost Economy . - ' - — ————- -

Court Upholds Ban On Sunday Sales 0f Autos Supreme Court Os Indiana Holds Ban Is Constitutional I, i INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UP) - The Indiana Supreme Court up- , held in a 4-1 vote the legality of : a. new state law which prohibits ; the sale of automibles cm Sunday. The majority opinion Wednesday quoted Scripture in ruling the 1957 legislation does not violate the state constitution, adding that the concept of Sunday rest “has been adopted by the government of most civilized societies.’’ In a dissenting opinion. Justice Arch Bobbitt said the law was a “clear’’ violation of the constitution and that “Christianity cannot be legislated.” “The purpose of such laws is grounded upon the concept that man needs one day each week free from labor,” Judge Harold Achor wrote in the majority opinion. He quoted the Biblical rule: t “Six days shalt thou labor and do . all thy work.” j Long-standing “blue laws” out- . law various kinds of work on . Sundays, but they hava not been enforced. The 1957 law actually ! invoked a heavier penalty for Sunday auto sales—lo days in jail and SIOO fine—than cm othea types of work. The case was appealed after Clarke Auto Co., Indianapolis, obtained an injunction against enforcement of the law- Law enforcement officials and other dealers brought the appeal. Achor’s opinion complained of many dealers who “make use of . loud- -.speakers, . amplified <music and other noise-producing- devices.” It said radio commercials bring droves of customers to car lots, causing "traffic congestion.” Achor said salesmen are “forced by the unreasonable and competitive lust of some of their neighbors in the trade” to work long hours. “Those who would prefer not to operate on Sunday find themselves almost compelled to do so in order to maintain their competitive position, and all who operate on Sunday do so under mental and nervous pressure,” he wrote. I Bobbitt said any ruling based in part oh religious grounds violates the principle of separation of church and state. | “Is it any more of a crime,” he asked, “for an auto dealer to (Contlnued on page eight)

Election Workers Are Selected For Primary «

Election board workers for the 39 precincts in Adams county have been named for the primary election next Tuesday. The workers were appointed by Dr. Harry Hebble, chairman of the Adams county Democratic' central committee, and Harry Essex, chairman of the county Republican central committee. Inspector’s posts are filled this year by Republicans, as the G. O. P. candidate for secretary of state carried Adams county in the last general election in 1956. The polls will be open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Indiana standard time (central daylight time, on whiqh the County operates the year around.) The election workers follow: East Union Republican—lnspector, W. G. Teeple; judge, Henry Scheumann; clerk, Iva P. Nidlinger; sheriff, Marie Marbach. Democratic — Judge, Edwin Schamerloh; clerk, Mrs. Mary Geimer; sheriff, Mrs. Paula Thieme. West Union # Republican—lnspector, Marie Barkley: judge, Forest Walters; clerk, Myrtle Workinger; sheriff, Virgil Barkley. -Democratic—Judge, Simon A. Lehman; clerk, Evelyn Grote; sheriff, Adele Bleeke.

Three Natural Gas Companies Indicted Antitrust Charges Filed On Companies MILWAUKEE (UP)-—A spokesman for one of three natural gas companies indicted b> a federal grand jury on antitrust charges said Wednesday night the Justice Department has violated the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission. Ralph T. McElvenny, president of toe American Natural Gas Co., New York, issued a statement in Detroit accusing the Justice Department of “attempting to extend the antitrust laws to matters within the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission.” The grand jury, which met Wednesday in Milwaukee, indicted three companies — American, Northern Natural Gas Co., ha. Neb., and’ Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Co., Houston, Tex. — and three top company officials—on charges of conspiring to monopolis toe sale of natural gas in the Upper Midwest. The indictment charged that the companies, starting about 1954, combined to monopolize the transmission and sale of the ,gas in Wisconsin, Minnesota and parts of Illinois and Michigan. American, Northern ’and Peoples also were accused of conspiring to prevent Midwestern Gas Transmission Co , a wholly- owned subsidiary Os Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., from importing natural gas. from Canada. Officers named in the indictment were McElvenny: John F. Merriam, president and director of Northern; and James F. Oates Jr., former chairman of the board of Peoples. - Merriam said that since “Northern was, toe first to file application to serve the northern Minnesota communities, it is annoying to us that we should be accused of conspiring to- block ..serviceto those communities.” ; ■ ’ ''■ ” Names as co-cohspifators, but not as defendants, were Frank W. McMahon, president of West Coast Transmission Co., Calgary, Alberta, and Russell E. Ritchie, vice president of Stone and Webster Corp. 1 The indictment accused the defendants of conspiring to: —Monopolize respective service areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois within which American, Northern and Peoples operate.—...., . Exclude Midwestern Gas as a competitor in the interstate transportation and sale of natural gas in these statesBoycott and refuse to purchase gas from Midwestern. (Continued on Page eigne)

West Root Republican—lnspector, Gustav Schoeler; judge, Chauncey Sheets; clerk, Florence Susdorf; sheriff, Perry Everett Democratic —Judge; Ed Schieferstein; clerk, Elinor Graves; sheriff, Martin Reiter. East Root Republican—lnspector, Richard K. Moses; judge, Marie Stoutenberry; clerk, Urcel Miller, sheriff, Frank Harkless < « Democratic—Judge, August Witte; clerk, Leila Tieman; sheriff, Delbert Fuelling. South Preble Republican—lnspector, Glen (Baumgartner; judge, Theodore Ewell; clerk, Ralph Mankey; sheriff, John Peters. Democratic—Judge, Harry Bauer; clerk, Ed Arnold; sheriff, Gustav Koenemann. North Preble Republican—lnspector, Arnold Scheumann; judge, Adolph Bultemeier; clerk, Mary G. Cook; sheriff, Harvey Caston. Democratic—Judge, Arthur 0. Worth; clerk, Alfred Buuck; sheriff, Gerhardt Zwick. North Kirkland Republican—lnspector, ’ Glen Griffith; judge, Joseph Sovine; clerk, Edna Shady, sheriff, Harvey Mankey. Democratic—Judge, Otto Ble(ConuDura on Pace Seven)

Flood Waters j Peril Arkansas Farm Families National Guards, Volunteers Battle To Save Farm Homes ■ By UNITED PRESS National Guardsmen and volunteers fought to cave farm homes south of Garland City, Ark., from floodwaters today in the wake of ' five straight days of violent , weather in the Southwest. Weathermen predicted no relief for < rain-drenched Arkansas and Texas today. The forecast was for showers and thundershowers from Texas east through the Gulf states to the south Atlantic coast. The worst flood threats were at Garland Ciy in Southwest Arkansas and at Dalls. Tex., where the Trinity River overflowed a lowland addition About 200 National Guardsmen, ! Air Force personnel and civilians ' worked through the night sandbagging a levee on McKinney L Bayou south of Garland City. Orders Out Guard The bayou, swollen by more ’ than 15 inches of rain sinoe Sun- ' day, already has inundated about j 60,000 acres of low farmland. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus , ordered a second National Guard ’ unit to the scene in an effort to prevent a second break which authorities said would flood the ■■ homes of 1,600 farmers in the ; Garland City area and inundate j another 60,000 or 70,000 acres of 1 land. At Dallas, the Trinity threatened to crest today at 34 or 35 feet, \ and about 100 families moved ’ from their homes near the river, i Police made a house-to-house canvass of the threatened section ;.Wednesdgx.night.warning : residents to seek shelter dn higher , ground. The mayor of Atlanta, Tex., near the Louisiana border, proclaimed the city a disaster area . Wednesday after nearly 15 inches of rain had flooded the city since Friday. All schools were closed and several families were evacuated. Cold Hits North A “small” tornado hit the town of Henderson in east Texas Wednesday night, causing some property damage, and hail storms also hit the area. Elsehwere in the South, more than one inch of rain fell at Jackson, Miss., and Monroe, La., while 86-inch was reported at Shreveport, La. C. Tom Bowen Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon C. Tom Bowen, 84-year-old retired farmer, of Wren, 0., died at 5:15 o’clock this morning at the Van Wert county hospital following an illness of six months. He had been hospitalized for the psst week. He was born in Willshire township March 20, 1874, a son of Charles and Louisa Parks-Bowen. His wife, the former Cora Debolt, preceded him in death. Mr. Bowen was a member of < the Wren Brethren church. Only survivors are a sister, Mrs. Fred Finkhausen of Decatur; two nephews, Russel Bowen ■ of Camden, 0., and Harry Bowen of Wren, and one niece, Mrs. Alta McClure of Wren. Funeral services will be conl ducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Wren United Brethren church, the Rev. C. Kockensparger and the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. . Burial will be in the Wren mausoleum. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p.m. . Friday until 1 p-. m. Sunday, afi ter which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. 14 Pages

— Receives Grant Bl B 1 * iiSil Fred P. Meier Fred Meier Granted Year's Scholarship Three From County Given Year's Grant Fred P. Meier, of 427 Bollman Street, science and vocational agriculture teacher at Monmouth high school for the past eight years, is one of three Adams county teachers honored with a year’s grant to study at a cooperating college in the field of science. Meier will study during the 195859 academic year at the University of Michigan, and plans advanced studies in cehmistry, astronomy, and geology. Also going to Michigan will be Douglas F. LeMaster, of route one, Markle, a teacher at Adams Central school. Ronald Townsend, of 521 S. 13th street, a teacher of math and science at Geneva high school, will study under the program at the University of St. Louis. 5 Meier „is -from Boonville,' begin*, ally, and received his BS degree from Purdue university and his masters’ degree from Ball State Teachers College. He is married to the former Lillian Meeker of Fort Wayne, and they have two children, Lyle, a second grader at Zion Lutheran school, and Kathleen. 4, at home. Two of the six teachers from Indiana going to the University of Michigan under the program are from Adams county. Fifty teachers from all parts of the United States will be attending the special program at the University of Michigan. Meier came to Monmouth high school in February, 1950, and teacher chemistry, biology and vocational agriculture. He has also driven a school bus there. He has resigned from the faculty to accept the national science foundation grant. Hie University of Michigan will receive $265,000 for the 50 teachers they will have studying there. Reuther Returns To Bargaining Talks Balance Os Power Now In Companies DETROIT (UP)—United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther came back to take command of the auto contract talks today, but during his three-day absence in Washington the balance of power shifted to the companies. ■ Union negotiators scheduled meetings today with General Motors and Chrysler. The UAW will meet again Friday with Ford. It met with Ford and Chrysler Wednesday with minor issues discussed. The union and companies are only three-to-four cents an hour apart on an annual wage increase factor; one cent apart on supplemental unemployment benefits, and both are free to agree on the length of a contract running up to two years. Reuther came back from Washington to find the “Big Three” coordinating their bargaining as never before. Company sources have confirmed that since bar(Oontlnued on Pace Seven)

Secretary Os labor Favors Tax Reduction % Prefers Tax Cut To Public Works Plans In Recession Fight WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of Labor James P- Mitchell said today the administration should decide “within 30 to 60 days” whether to cut taxes to bolster the economy. Mitchell said he did not see any short-term improvement in the business slump and that unemployment this month would not be much different from the 5,120,000 jobless recorded for April. He said he preferred a tax cut to a large scale public works program to combat the recession. Mitchell was asked at a news conference if the April unemployment figures indicated a tax cut was necessary. Decision before July “If there is a, bolstering of the economy necessary — and that determination will have to be made reasonably soon — then as opposed to any other form of government action such as large scale public works programs, I would favor a tax cut,” Mitchell replied. He said. tHat a decision should be made before July as to “what, if anything, needs to be done.” Mitchell was asked if the administration would oppose an increase in steel prices forecast for July. “A continual spiral of price increases is undesirable,” he said. Mitchell reminded newsmen, however, that President Eisenhower has advocated restraint on the part of management labor in setting prices and wage demands, be said the government was. ficft. prepared to go beyond that point. He said price control would result if the administration interfered in such matters. AFBF Opposes Tax Cut Mitchell spoke out on taxes and the state o£ the economy as several widely divergent groups joined in urging either tax relief or tax reform as an anti-recession shot in the arm. Spokesmen for the Committee for Economic Development, the National Association of Manufacturers, AFL-CIO, Americans for Democratic Action, the National Grange, the National Farmers Union and the National Federation of Independent Business presented their tax proposals to the fiscal policy subcommittee of the HouseSenate economic committeeTheir proposals ranged from tax relief for small business to a $7,500,000,000 cut in income and excise (sales) taxes. Only one group—the American Farm Bureau Federation, dissented, saying there was “no justification” at this time for either tax cuts or stepped-up pubic works spenldng. The CED urged Congress to plan now for a temporary 20 per .cent income tax reduction if there are no "clear” signs of a business pickup this month. The private research organization of businessmen and economists said through its chairman, Frazar B. Wilde, that the tax cut should be simple enough to assure passage without lengthy committee hearings. It proposed a March 31, 1959, ontinued on Page eight) ONLY 4 MORE DAYS ’TILL Decatur Merchants Showcase AT Decatur Youth and Community Center May 6,7, 8

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