Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 126.

- v h-v v #■ 4 IkSt/ L£2i Si ’ I • ■r JmEM *wA w lbw ■fl Ja ' • ' \A |-I I *■ '■* ■- - 1 - ARMY CALLS FOR DE GAULLE — French soldiers in Algeria lounge beside an army truck posters front and rear calling for Gen. Charles de Gaulle to head the French government. De Gaulle, meanwhile, was reported working on formation of a new cabinet in Paris.

Ike Believes Recession Has Spent Force Cautions Against t Over-Optimism On Any Early Upturn WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Eisenhower said today ne believes the recession has largely spent its force. But he cautioned against any optimism that a healthy economic upturn would occur in the near future. He told a news conference that some of the economic indices point to an upturn. But he said one swallow does not make a summer. Some parts of the national economy, such as the auto and other durable goods industries, still are not doing too well, he said. On the whole, he said, die nation is weathering the recession well. Says Tax Cuts Not Warranted In other news conference remarks, the President: —Said that as of now the economic situation does not warrant anti-recession tax cuts that would greatly increase the federal budget deficit. —Said he would deplore any peacetime attempt to control wages and prices. But he said he feels strongly that both must be held down in an effort to maintain stable living costs and a sound dollar. —Declined to comment on the crises in France and Lebanon. But he did say he happened to like Gen. Charles de Gaulle.-(The French general appears headed for control of the French government.). Because of the President’s refusal to discuss the French crisis, his news conference was devoted almost entirely to domestic matters. Reporter Draws a Chuckle The President mostly was in a serious and calm mood. But there were several chuckles, including one when a reporter identified himself as representing United Press International. 1 As to his decision against a tax cut, he said that a question in which a tax reduction was identified as an anti-recession measure appeared to be loaded. He said was not so sure that it would have an anti-recession effect. The President said he and his economic aides had tax reforms and reductions under constant study. But as of now, he said, they do not believe large tax cuts are justified in the light of increased federal spending. Eisenhower expressed hope, however, that Congress will approve the minor tax reforms ana reductions he has recommended for relief of small business. Not a Prophet He said government policy is aimed at a sound dollar and a stable cost of living. He added, however, he does not know what the government can do about rising prices other. than combat them with its fiscal policies. He said his economic aides haa told him labor costs accounted for about 80 per cent of the price of durable goods. As long as wages on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Thursday mostly sunny and warmer. Low tonight 38 to, 45 north, 44 to 52 south. High Thursday 74 to 82. Sunset today 8:04 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:21 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and turning cooler with widely scattered showers. Low, Thursday night upper 40s. High Friday 60s north to low 70s south.

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Refuses Analysis Os France, Lebanon Eisenhower Refuses Comment On Crisis WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower said today he likes Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the military leader who appears headed for control of the French government. The President recalled at his news conference that he had had a friendly association with De Gaulle in the past. He said he was one of those who liked the French general. The President flatly refused, however, to attempt any analysis of what effect De Gaulle’s likely rise to power in France would have on Frtach relations with the United States and other Western powers. . ? Eisenhower opened his weekly news conference with a statement that crises still plague France and Lebanon. Therefore, he said, it was inadvisable ior him to discuss either topic, and he told reporters not to ask him to. Wouldn’t Analyse the General But a newsman, stating that he meant no reference to any current international crisis, asked whether the President would recall his past association with De Gaulle and give his impressions of the Frenchman. The question evoked laughter from the President and newsmen. Eisenhower immediately pointed out that De Gaulle is part of the present French crisis and therefore he could not try to analyze him. But the President went on to say he was one of those who liked De Gaulle. In other foreign news conference developments, the President: —Said the world situation seems to call for more intensive review of current U.S. international responsibilities than might normally be the case. He said every day there are conferences to determine what new duties and responsibilities fall on the United States as a result of particular world events. Live and Let Live —Declared that the United States must not adopt dictatorial. Communist-type policies in efforts to influence allies who are having trouble. He said the United States must observe the principle of live and let live while trying to exercise influence by persuasion. —Said U.S. forces seem to be pretty well dispersed to meet threats of small wars developing quickly. He made the statement when a reporter said there had been suggestions of administration studies of the “small war problem” and American ability to deal with it.

—Repeated the administration belief that the so-called Mansfield amendment to the Eisenhower Doctrine permits certain U.S. action to deal with Middle East aggression even if the aggression does not stem from a Communist nation. —Said the United States has been careless in its requirements for Foreign Service officers to (Continued on page eight) Heller Recovering Following Surgery Dick Heller, Sr., publisher of the Decatur Daily Democrat, is reported in excellent condition following surgery Monday afternoon. He is recovering in room 302 at the Parkview memorial hospital. Fort Wayne. No visitors will be permitted until early next week. The operation was performed by Dr. Warren Hastings, and Heller was able to speak and to move both arms and both legs immediately after surgery. Spinal fluid which seeped into the cranial cavity is believed by the surgeon to have caused the pressure which made the operation necessary.

Coty Summons Gen. De Gaulle To Conference Former Free French Leader Summoned By President Coty BULLETIN PARIS (UPI) — President Rene Coty summoned Gen. Charles de Gaulle to Paris today. The former Free French leader headed at once for the capital. PARIS (UPl)—Gen. Charles de Gaulle left his home 150 miles east of Paris suddenly today. There was speculation he was answering a call from President Rene Coty to attend a conference of political leaders preparatory to forming a new government for France. Simultaneously, thousands of angry Communists and Socialists massed in Paris’s Bastille quar-ter—-historic starting point of the French Revolution of 1780 —to protest De Gaulle’s apparently steady rise to power. De Gaulle sped away from his home at Colombey - les - deux - Eglises shortly after 5 p.m. (11 a m. c.d.t.). His destination was not known immediately. Coty, striving desperately to find an escape from the threat of a military dictatorship or a Communist grab for power, began his crucial conferences at 4 a.m. Strike Hits Transportation He refused to accept Premier Pierre Pflimlin’s resignation until a new gove rnmen t could be formed. Pflimlin, his government crumbling around him, asked to quit after he was unable to muster a constitutional majority in a shouting, fist-waving session of the General Assembly Tuesday night. A lightning strike shut down Paris subways, buses and suburban trains, coinciding with the anti-De Gaulle demonstrations and hitting the capital at its rush hour.

Tax Distribution Over $1 Million June Distribution Listed By Auditor The total tax distribution for Adams county for June is $1,047,451.26, county auditor Edward F. Jaberg reported today. Os this, $40,408.69 goes to the state for state tax, state school tuition, teachers retirement fund, Indiana state fair board and state forestry program. The county tax distribution is as follows: $126,452.32 to the county; $l6O for special judges; $22,315.14 for county welfare; $19,835.67 for bridge cumulative; $2,479.46 for the hospital fund; 1 $17,356.21 for hospital bonds interest; $17,356.21 for hospital furniture and equipment; and $20,645.50 for poor relief. The township distribution will include; $13432.09 for Blue Creek: $1,238.37 for French; $23,540.75 for Hartford; $17,616.33 for Jefferson: $1,260.01 for Kirkland; $2,590.71 for Monroe; $21,111.38 for Preble; $38,275.11 for Root; $25,339.28 for St. Mary’s; $16,899.20 for Union; $59,317.74 for Wabash; and $2,803.41 for Washington. The schools will receive $406,271.01 in the following manner: Decatur school system, $179,955.08: Berne-French school, $102,169.66: Adams Central school, $124,146.27.

The library distribution will be: Decatur library, $11,818.03; Berne library, $6,005.18; and the Geneva library, $2,154.01. Civil tax will be distributed: Berne civil, $33,801.66; Geneva civil, $5,920.72; Monroe civil, $2,271.15; and Decatur civil, $89,795 92. Os this money, $1,036,116.90 war collected at the treasurer’s office; and from bank tax. Hee* Attack Fatal To Alphonse Brinkman Alphonse G. Brinkman, 56, died suddenly of a heart attack at 11 a.m. Tuesday while operating a tractor on his farm near Ottoville, O. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Anna Schwaller of Monroe, Mrs. Lena Smith of Columbus Grove, 0., and Miss Verena Brinkman, at home; and two brothers, Fred, living in Michigan, and Cletus, Landeck, O. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic church at Ottoville, with burial in St. Mary’s cemetery at Ottoville. Friends may call at the Kolkmeyer funeral home at Delphos, O„ until time of the services. , .

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 28,1958

Vanguard’s Satellite Fails To Orbit, Falls Back To Earth, Burns

Postal Boost, Pay Increase Signed By Ike Increase In Postal Rates And Wages In Effect On August 1 WASHINGTON (UPI) —The four-cent stamp for local and out-of-town letters definitely goes into effec* Aug. 1. President Eisenhauer signed a bill Tqesday which raises both ncstal rates and wages. First class letters will be increased from 3 to 4 cents. Air mail will be hiked from 6 to 7 cents. It will be the first increase in firstclass mail rates since 1932. The President said the bill’s "public interest” features outweighed its objectionable provisions. But he said several provisions caused him “grave concern,” including one which would assess the treasury for an “excessive amount of postal services costs” intead of levying them against users of the mails. He said these postal services would cost about 100 million dollars a year and “logically a n g equitably” should have been financed through proper rates of postage. c » Other presidential objections were “failure of the Congress to provide sufficient revenues to meet the full cost of operating the postal service,” and a salary structure for postal' workers which raises pay of lower salaried workers whereas some top bracket employes got no increase at all. The penny boost in letter charges is the main item in the rate increase package, biggest in history and expected to bring in an extra 550 million dollars annually when all its provisions take effect. The new law also gives pay raises of 265 million dollars a year to 520,000 postal workers, retroactive to last Jan. 1.

Oscar C. Ewell Dies Early This Morning Preble Man Is Dead After Long Illness Oscar C. Ewell, 54, of Preble, who owned and operated a hardware and implement store at Preble for 20 years, died at 5:10 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill since February. He was born in Preble township July 12, 1903, a son of Charles and Amelia Fuhrman-Ewell, and was married to Clara Bultemeier Sept. 28, 1924. Mr. Ewell, who operated the Preble business from 1935 to 1955, was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Fred W. Bieberich of Preble, and Miss Gladys Ewell, at home; two sons, Edgar Ewell of Preble, and Ervin Ewell of Decatur; five grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs. Otto Wefel tof Preble, Mrs. Paul Meyer and Mrs. Elmer Schlaudroff, both of Fort Wayne. One daughter preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m,' at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church. NO PAPER FRIDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Friday, May 30, which is Memorial Day.

Plan Speech Clinic In Decafur, Berne , 4th Annual School Planned This Year A speech improvement clinic for children in the first through the fourth grade will be held in Decatur and»Berne again this year, Gail Grabill, president cf the Adams county society for Crippled Children, announced today. This is the fourth year of the school, which is aided by the local chapter of the Psi lota Xi sorority. The sorority provides assistants in the school program. Miss Patricia McComb of Fort Wmrne will be the principal therapist, aided by Judy Locke and Jeanette Hahnert, who have helped with the program in the past. The six-week school will open June 16 with testing and will close July 25. The school will run from 8:30 a. m. until 11:30 a. m. in Decatur and Berne. Parents will be notified by telephone or mail as to the testing time, and days will be announced at Berne and Decatur. Parents interested in enrolling their children in the program are asked to call and leave the name and age of their child, as well as their own addresses, with the following; county superintendent Gail Grabill’s office, from 8 a. m. until 4 p. m.; Lincoln school principal Bryce Thomas’ office, from V a. m. until ? p. m.; Jeanette Hahnert, or Mrs. David Heller, at 3-3875. No charges are made for the clinic, which will be held at both the Lincoln in Decatur and BerneFrench schools. The clinic is sponsored through contributions to the society for Crippled Children, and through the cooperation of Psi lota Xi sorority. Parents are urged to call immediately so that a testing schedule can be set up. Last year more than 60 Adams county children Osn’-r iert in rage Six)

Historical Society Meets Last Evening Monthly Meeting Is Held At Geneva Site "A total of 36 members and guests attended the May meeting of the Adams county, historical society at the Gene Stratton Porter home in Geneva Tuesday evening, president Gerald R. Durkin said this morning. Mrs. Price, the official hostess of the home gave a lecture tour-, beginning on the front porch, and including the unique entrance hall and stairway, the front room or library, where Mrs. Porter wrote 10 of her books (five on nature and five novels) and numerous articles. The various photographs, relics, and articles in the home were explained in detail. Also described were the sun porch, dining room, music room, bedroom with two paintings by Mrs. Porter, and the special back porch. Rooms in the home are furnished in quarter-sawed oak, and sliding doors are provided for every door opening. There are three fireplaces. Jack Lee, Geneva school principal, took Mrs. Price’s lecture on a tape recorder, and played it back for the group after the trombone selection, "Kentucky Babe,” by Jerry Moser and Marvin Biery. Robert H. HeUer then gave a talk on the recent history of the Gene Stratton Porter Memorial, the state bird sanctuary, and Rainbow lake. More than two-thirds.of the lots on the lake have already been sold. One road hat ’been built, and two more are planned to give access to the back area of the lake. The meeting was called to order by president Durkin, and minutes of the previous meeting at Berne were read by Nelson Doty, secretayr. , The June meeting will be held the last Tuesday of the month, June 24. At that time the members will decide whether or not to hold meetings during July and August.

House Group Backs Ike On No Tax Cuts Committee Okays Extending Excise, Corporation Taxes By United Press International The House Ways and Means Committee supported President Eisenhower’s no-tax-cut stand today by approving an administration bill to extend present corporation and excise taxes for another year. Approval was by a vote of 21-2 after the committee had rejected, 19-2, a proposal to cut the federal excise tax on automobiles from 10 to 7 per cent. The President, meanwhile, told his news conference he believes the recession has spent most of its force and that a tax cut now would not be warranted. His top economic advisers told Congress that even if current tax rates are continued, an 8 to 10 billion dollar deficit is likely in the fiscal year starting July 1. Other congressional news: Alaska: The House revived the Alaska statehood bill which it had voted tentatively Tuesday to kill. On a roll call vote of 199-174, members rejected a motion to send the bill back to committee. The action saved the bill for further debate and possible amendments. Arms: me Mouse Appropriations Committee voted $38,310,711,000 to run the Defense Department for a year starting July 1. The total was nearly 4 billion dollars higher than the appropriation for the year ending June 30. AEC: President Eisenhower asked Congress to give the Atomic Energy Commission an additional 334 million dollars for the year starting July 1. This would increase . the total request for the AEC to about $2,500,000,000. Unknowns: Two caskets in the rotunda of the Capitol lent a solemn aspect to deliberations of Congress. Bodies of the unknown servicemen at World War II and the Korean War will remain in the rotunda until Friday when they will be removed for permanent interment at Arlington National Cemetery. Alaskan statehood continued to occupy attention of the House. The statehood issue faced a life continued on page five All Dogs In City Should Be Tagged State, County And City Tags Required Every dog running loose in the city of Decatur should wear around its neck three tags—a county license, a city license, and a rabies shot tag, all of them marked 1958, city health officer John Terveer and Mayor Robert D. Cole warned today. With rabies on the increase over the state of Indiana, and with dog bite of such common occurrence in Decatur, all dogs must be tagged with all three permits, they emphasized. State law requires each dog to be vaccinated against rabies every year. A tag is issued, and must be worn around the dog's neck. Otherwise months of agony will be lived moment by moment by parents of children bitten by untagged or unknown dogs. A city ordinance for the licensing and control of dogs in Decatur has been in effect here since 1935. Last year 256 dogs, were licensed —this year only 141 permits have been purchased. Either many dogs died, or else owners have forgotten to obtain city licenses. County licenses are sold by the township assessors' annually, and most dogs have them. But a 50cent city license, to help defray the expense of maintaining the city dog pound, is also needed for dogs (Continued on page five)

Dies Tuesday ■ .........,,«• »■«,<« Am Cal F. Peterson Burialßites Friday For Cal F. Peterson Prominent Decatur Man Dies Tuesday Funeral services will be conducted Friday for Cal Fuller Peterson, 55, prominent Decatur resident, who died at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at his home, 603 Penn street.- He had been ill of complications for six months and in critica 1 condition for some time.

Mr. Peterson had been prominent in Republican party circles his entire adult life. He had served as a Republican precinct committeeman since 1932 and had been a delegate to all Republican state conventions since 1948. He was reelected to both positions in this month’s primary election. From 1926 to 1930, he served as chief clerk to Charles Biederwolfe, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts of Indiana. Mr. Peterson was elected chairman of the Adams county Republican central committee in 1940, serving in that position until 1944. He was a member of the Masonic Blue lodge in Decatur, and the Scottish Rite and Shrine in Fort Wayne. He was employed as yard conductor by the Pennsylvania railroad in Fort Wayne until his illness. Mr. Peterson was a member of the Church of God. Born in Adams county Dec. 2, 1902, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson, and was married to Edna L. Neukorn Dec. 19, 1924. Surviving in addition to his wife are his mother, who resides in Decatur; five sons; Cal M. and Charles M. Peterson, both of Fort Wayne, Richard K. Peterson of Mohroe, Don R. Peterson of Decatur, and Ralph T. Peterson, at home; seven grandchildren; one brother, Ralph C. Peterson of Goshen, and two sisters, Mrs. Lynn Shirk of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Eugene Melchi of Decatur. One sister preceded him in death. • Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, and at 2 p.m. at the Church of God, the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, f Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services, 'Hie Masonic Blue lodge will hold a memorial service at thf* funeral hofne at 8 o’clock Thursday evening.

Marvin Preble Loses Bid For New Trial INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Marvin L. Preble, an Austin housemoving contractor who was sentenced to prison for perjury and presenting a false claim in the Indiana highway scandals, lost a bid for a new trial Tuesday. Special Judge Norman E. Brennan overruled Preble’s motion in Marion Crimifial Court. Preble was sentenced to 1 to 10 years for perjury and 2 to 14 yearss on the other charge last February. The false claim sentence was suspended.

Second Failure Os Navy Moon To Make Orbit Shot 2,000 Miles Into Space, Fails* To Go Into Orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, FJa. (UPD —The Navy reported early today that the full-scale satellite launched Tuesday night with the Vanguard rocket shot 2,000 miles into space but at an off-angle which caused it to plunge back to earth and burn. It was the second consecutive failure of the Vanguard to blast a fully instrumented 20-inch satellite into orbit, the satellite President Eisenhower talked about in 1955 when he first announced this country's space program for the International Geophysical Year. The Vanguard was filed at 10:46 р. c.d.t. It pierced a*puff of clouds and in about two minutes ' was no longer visible. At first it appeared the launching was successful and that the satellite would join in space the 6.4 inch Vanguard test moon put into orbit last March 17, the two Explorers and gigantic Sputnik 111 which weighs 1% tons. Signals Then Silence Radio Corporation of America at Riverhead, N.Y., reported it picked up a signal at 10:50 p.m. с. and received it until 11:08 p.m. Downrange stations in the South Atlantic also picked up signals shortly after the launching. Then there was silence and listening points around the world dimmed hopes of orbiting by turning in negative reports. Navy scientists at Cape Canaveral and Washington admitted behavior of the Vanguard was confusing. But it was not until dawn that they announced the attempt had failed. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard project who came to this launching, base to observe the event, said the 72-foot rocket “appeared to fu'nction well through the firing of all three stages but still did not result in an orbit.”

In Wasnmgton, Dr. Richard W. Porter, chairman of the IGY satellite program, issued an identical statement to newsmen who had kept a vigil with him. Hagen said radio signals received from the satellite at a Navy mini-track station on Antigua Island in the West Indies indicated that the satellite “had assumed an arc-like upward attitude.’’ Will Gain Information This prevailed, Hagen said, as the satellite sped southeastward otfer the Atlantic. According to initial calculations the satellite reached “a peak altitude of about 2,000 statute miles at its zenith and fell back to earth,” Hagen said. He emphasized that while the little artificial moon failed to attain an orbit with the three oher U.S. saellites now whirling around the earth and the Russian Sputnik, the great height achieved by the satellite was expected to (Continued on page eight) Memorial Day Parade Here Friday Morning A memorial day parade will • mark the annual Memorial day observance in Decatur Friday at 9:45 a.m. The parade, composed of units from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Boy Scouts, and other civic groups, will march from the Legion home to Second street, down Second to Monroe street, to the bridge across the St. Mary’s river, where brief services, under the direction of the VFW will be held. The group will then march back to the court house lawn, and to the peace monument, where an oration will be delivered by Judge Myles F. Parrish. The Legion will have charge of the memorial service at that time. A joint band from the two Decatur high schools, under the direction of Clint Reed, will lead the parade.

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