Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 165.

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Middle East Crisis Worry For Congress Crisis Costs Poll Over Deliberations In Congress Today WASHINGTON (UPD—The Mideast crisis cast a pall over deliberations of Congress today and could upset prospects for opening of debate on the administrationbacked farm bill. Although preliminary pl an s called for continuation of legislative business, there was a chance Congress might have to turn its attention to the crisis. President Eisenhower called off his usual weekly meeting with GOP congressional leaders in order that he could use the time to keep in .touch with the Middle East situation. Ellender Pushes BUI The farm bill provides for lower price supports and relaxed planting controls for corn, cotton, and rice. Sen. Alien J. Ellender (DLa.) was leading spokesman for lawmakers who want to push the bill through without amendments that would invite a presidential veto. But Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) planned to lead a drive for at least four major changes. He said the changes would encourage House farm leaders to accept it and would not go beyond principles sanctioned by the administration. Social Security benefits were up for discussion before the House Ways & Means Committee. House Democratic leaders were reported to have decided to push for an across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits which would require an increase in Social Security taxes. Agree on Policy Informants said a broad agreement on policy was reached in a secret caucus of House Democratic leaders and most Democratic committee members Monday. One of the planks in the agreement was an increase of 8 to 10 per cent in benefits for the more than 11 million persons on the Social Security rolls. • The same committee also was expected to give final approval to a 250-million dollar program of tax relief for small business. The committee reached bi-partisan agreement on the legislation Monday after weeks of study. The key provision in the com(CoiiUnued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Showers' and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and in most of state except extreme northwest portion tonight. Heavy thunderstorms likely in south and east portions ttus afternoon and tonight Turning cooler extreme north tonight Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler north, scattered thundershowers and turning cooler south. Low tonight 58 to 66 north, 66 to 72 south. Sunset 8:12 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 5:29 a. m. High Wednesday 70s extreme north to the 80s south, low Wednesday night in the 50s extreme north, low 60s south. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and pleasant, highs from upper 70s north to low 80s south.

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" «v ' ,1 * *" “ Adams County Home Health Report Given Inspection Is Made At County Request Raw milk from cows which have access to ditch water full of organic waste from the county home septic tank is being used at the county home, where hogs are being fed on garbage, according to a report from the, state board of health in the hands of the county commissioners. The state board of health inspection was made by D. John Turpin, public health sanitarian; Joyce Myers, nutrition arid Dorothy LiAhringer, R. N., consultant nurse, on May 14 at the request of the county commissioners. V If the state board of health approves the Adams county home, patients there can receive state and federal welfare assistance rather than township aid. This can cut the cost of township government and the tax rate in the county by as much as three cents on a hundred dollars valuation in some townships. It will not affect state or federal taxes, which are already paying for the county home patients in many counties throughout the country. The recent increase of $lO per month in room and board charge at the county home is expected to require some of the patients who have been paying their entire way to seek some township aid. if welfare department aid is not allowed. Certain changes, according to the report, are necessary before the state department of health can approve toe local home. Minimum health standards for the patients must be met. Six women and 21 men were housed at the home at the time of the report. There are now only 20 men, according to the monthly report of superintendent Frank A. Kltson. The public health sanitarian recommended that sewage be given secondary treatment to prevent a public health nuisance at the outlet to the open ditch. He also recommended that the feeding of garbage to the hogs be discontinued. Garbage should be buried or disposed of in an incinerator, he recommended. Drainage of water onto the ground surface area around the outside of the basement stairsteps should be eliminated to prevent the flow of water into the basement area, he continued. Turpin found ‘the kitchen wellequipped for the preparation and storage of food and utensils satisserving of food, and refrigeration, factory. The water heater, however, he considered too small for the home. He found .that toe shallow, twocompartment sink in the kitchen was inadequate for the washing of all utensils. He recommended replacing it with a three-compart-ment sink deep enough to wash all the utensils. Racks should be provided to submerge, wash, and sterilize the dishes. The third compartment should be provided with a booster heater to maintain the water at not less than 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Sufficient work space should be provided on each side of the new sink to allow for scraping and rinsing of toe dishes with a hand spray, and the air drying of the dishes after sterilization. All milk for the county home should be grade A pasteurized, which is the only milk considered (Continued on peso five)

Goldfine Still Sticks To Guns Before Probers Refuses To Answer Queries Regarding Financial Dealings WASHINGTON (UPD—NDjtonaire Bernard Goldfine, in the face of an almost certain contempt charge, txiay stuck by his refusal to answer questions of House investigators about his tan- ■ gled financial dealings. The gift-giving friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams said the House influence inquiry should be halted while a federal judge decides if the questions are relevant to toe probe. His suggestion was rejectedGoldfine was called to face a showdown on his refusal to answer 22 questions by toe subcommittee members. He said again today that they were not relevant. The textile tycoon read into the record a statement originally offered by his Boston attorney, Samuel P. Sears. The lawyer had been prevented from delivering the full statement and Goldfine was allowed to read it after he swore that he spent two hours to help prepare toe document. Sears charged that the subcommittee’s questions were aimed solely at “embarrassing and exposing alleged derelictions of Mr. Goldfine” and at laying groundwork for a contempt proceedings against him. Meanwhile agents of toe Interfal Revenue Service were conducing a new inquiry into the federal tax returns of the textile tycoon for some of the years he was generousl y paying bills for Adams and other public officials. Government tax sleuths were reluctant to discuss their new explorations of Goldfine’s harassed financial affairs. But United Press International was able to determine these facts: —Because of his testimony that he took as business deductions amounts spent on Adams ’ and other federal employes, the IRS is subjecting toe returns involved to microscopic reexamination. —lnternal Revenue officials In Boston are probing to determine why Goldfine did not make a tax return for 1956. Harry Cavanaugh, the district collector, reported that to his knowledge no return i for that year has been filed nor (Continued on page five) License Bureau To Be Closed Thursday The auto license bureau will be closed all day Thursday so that the bureau may move to a new location on North First street, Mrs. Lavelle Death, manager, announced today. The new location will be at 122 North First street, formerly the Frank Teeple residence located next to the Ashbaucher Un Shop. The license bureau has been at its present location for toe past eight years, prior to this the bureau was in toe Schafer Hardware store. Mrs. Death stated that business will resume as usual Friday at the new office. Severin Schurger, Henry Heller and the Schurger abstract company will occupy the office now occupied by the license bureau. -.. ..

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Soviet Russia Scores Use Os U.S. Marines Asks U.N. Council Order Marines To Pull Out Os Lebanon UNITED NATIONS (UPD — Russia today condemned the dispatch of American Marines to Lebanon as “aggression" against the Arab world and asked t h e United Nations Security Council to order them out immediately. U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge formally notified the council that American forces had landed in Lebanon "for the sole purpose of helping the government of Lebanon, at its request, in its efforts to stabilize the situation . . ” Lodge said the 5,000 Marines who landed at Beirut today would “afford security to the several thousand Americans” in Lebanon and would be withdrawn as soon as the U. N. could take over responsibility. He said the United States would start consultations on a resolution enabling the U. N. to do so. He said the U. S. forces were “not there to engage in hostilities, of any kind—much less to fight a war." Fight “Colonial Yoke” Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev denounced President Eisenhower's action in sending the landing parties into Lebanon. “It constitutes an act of aggression against the peoples of the Arab World,” Sobolev said. In Lebanon and Iraq, Sobolev said, toe people had rebelled against the;, governments of their own accord and to fight ‘‘the tyranny of the colonial yoke.” He described King Feisal’s Iraqi government—recognized by Moscow until Monday’s putsch — as the “domination of a criminal gang which ruled in its own interests” and also as a ‘ rotten regime.” Lodge said the Marines had orders to establish immediate liaison with the U. N. observation group sent to Lebanon last month as a watchdog team to “insure” the country against infiltration of men and material from the United Arab Republic. “It is too early,” Lodge told the council, “to tell what the outcome of the revolt may be. But it is a grave threat to the integrity of free and independent countries. Lebanon cannot combat it without support from friendly countries.” Lodge said there are “powers at work in the Middle East” seeking to substitute the threat of force for law. Pulling Contests Here On Saturday Horse Pony Pulls Saturday Afternoon Plans were completed today for the horse and pony pull to be held along U, S. highway 224 near Reppert's auction school Saturday about 1 p. m., it was learned today. Two teams of donkeys and a team of burros have been entered in toe pony pull. Both contests, the pony pull and the horse pull, should bring about 25 contestants . each .if the weather is right, it was estimated. All judging will be completed by local persons. Allen Fleming, ' trucker and landscaper, will do the grading for the pulling area. Contributors not listed previously who are supporting the pull include Yost Sand and Gravel and Vernon Frauhiger, concrete construction. Four trophies and $340 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners. A parade through town will start the pull at 11 a. m. Dr. Roland Reppert. owner of the land where the pull will be held, has also offered the use of the Reppert auction school PA system, so that all present may hear the awards called, and the pull weights. James Beery, of Thomas Realty company, will announce for the events. Pig iron will be loaded into the boat pulled by eaph animal. Ponies will start by pulling their own weight, and then adding weights until they can no longer pull. Horses will all start with the same weight, and 200 pounds will be added after each pull.

— St. Mary's, Wabash' Rivers Again Rise More Rainfall Ups Both Rivers Today Near-inch rainfall set the Wabash and St. Mary’s rivers on the rise again today, as the St. Mary’s, continuing to swell, stood at 11.76 feet this noon. The rains came Monday noon and early afternoon, accompanied by thunder, lightning; and in some places, damaging winds. However, skies cleared over the 1 area today, and the temperature, ■ dampened by Monday’s rainfall, soared again to provide hot, humid sumiper weather. Extreme recordings for the rain- ’ fall ran from 1.5 inches in Jefferson township on the Harley J. Reef farm, to one half inch on the Harold Moser farm, in French township. Only one other inch of rainfall was recorded in the county, also in the southern part of the ebunty: one inch even in Hartford township, on the Ivan Huser farm. 1 Other recordings stood well between the one-half and full inch mark, making certain that this general rainfall would affect the area’s two main streams. This morning in Wabash and Hartford townships the Wabash was rising and expected to spill over its banks. At 7 a.m. today the St. Mary’s was 11.52 feet, less than two feet below the flood level. Although there were high winds reported in Union township and almost all of the southern half of the county, damage appeared to be confined to Monroe and Blue Creek ' townships this morning. Several trees had been blown down and a granary roof blown off. On the Henry Graber farm, several win- ; (tows were broken by the high , winds. Wheat and oats, both ready for ( combining, are beginning to suffer r a -great deal, aS the oats straw is . weak now and wheat heads are 1 getting a dark cast. The storm - which hit heaviest around noon i Monday, struck the hardest through toe south central part of the coun- - ty, as the swath continued through - Blue Creek township, where a large i tree was blown in Salem and other i trees being stripped of some branches. f Unofficially, the county average I (Corn on page five) Hospital Awarded Account Judgment Allen County Twp. Is Ordered To Pay The Adams county memorial hospital won $838.30 judgement in back hospital bills from the trustee of Jefferson township, Allen county, in a decision in the Allen superior court by Judge Lloyd S. Hartzler Monday. The action was filed in May, 1955, by hospital attorney John DeVoss. He was aided in his appearance in the Fort Wayne court by attorney James Dumas, of that city. The action concerned the hospital bill here of J. B. Warren, who. on Sept. 8, 1954, was found in Jefferson township, Allen county, suffering from gunshot wounds. He was brought here to the hospital where he remained until Nov. 5 of that year. On the latter date he was removed by ambulance to Pineville, Ky. Judge Hartzler’s ruling discloses that evidence showed that the township paid for Warren’s medical card, and also the cost of transporting him from the hospital to Pineville, Ky. “The court must believe.” he stated in his written opinion, ’’from the evidence, that Warren was shot and injured in Jefferson township, that his condition was so critical that he had to be removed to toe hospital, and because of his condition, he could not with safety have sooner been removed from the hospital.” , The judge concluded that “the statutes and cases hold as the court read them, that where a person is seriously injured within the boundaries of a township and the person so injured is without funds, the overseer of the poor of the township where she person is found is charged with his care until he is returned to his home.” WASHINGTON (UPD — The State Department said today it has received unconfirmed reports that two American businesmen were killed Monday by a mob in Iraq.

At Least Seven U.S. Warships Now At Beirut Eisenhower Acts On Request Made By Lebanese President BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) — United States Marines landed in Lebanon today. At least seven warships of the U.S. 6th Fleet sailed into Beirut harbor with advance elements of more than 5.000 Leathernecks assigned to the fleet. The ships, including an aircraft carrier, anchored two miles offshore and sent the Marines ashore in small boat? on orders from President Eisenhower to help protect Lebanon’s ‘sovereignty and integrity” as well as American lives. Eisenhower acted on a request from Lebanese President Camille Chamoun. Lebanese government officials issued emergency orders to insure , that there was no opposition to , the U.S. Marine landing. Heavy guards were placed at the waterfronts of Beirut and Lebanon to prevent any vessels from going to sea. , Beirut airport was closed to commercial traffic. President Eisenhower made it clear that the landing of the Marines was an act friendly to Chamoun and ‘‘not an act of war.” The capital itself was quiet as it has been for days. U.S. Ambassador Robert G. McClintock flew his wife and family to safety. Twenty-five other U.S. ; embassy employes prepared to • leave within 48 hours and the oth- ; er 125 American embassy em- > ployes and their families were exj pected to follow shortly. ! The U.S. and British embassies advised all their nationals to stay . off the streets in Beirut after . noon. * The ships in the harbor were ' too distant for observers to determine their nationality. Shortly after noon the U.S. embassy ordered all Americans to ! move into the residential area around the Commodore Hotel in Ras Beirut, a suburb where foreign residents live on a hill overlooking the city. Normal activities in Beirut were almost at a standstill. Portraits (Continued on page five) Ask Government Aid To County Farmers Ask For Inclusion In Disaster Area Adams county farmers may soon be able to get government aid to cover three-fourths of their repairs and work necessary to restore the $120,000 worth of fields and facilities damaged by floods recently. Adams county was one of 20 Indiana counties hard hit by floods this spring which would be under the federal disaster declaration asked by Gov. Handley today by the U. S, agriculture department. Payments would be made through the local ASC committee land office, with the landowner paying 25 per cent of the cost. The U. S. Agriculture Department emergency committee asked Handley to request the declaration. Morris K. Derrick, state chairman of the Agricultural Sta-j bilization and Conservation Committee, said if the counties were declared disaster areas landowners would be eligible for federal aid. Each landowner must put up 25 per cent of the total cost of restoration under the Agricultural Conservation Program. The government pays for the rest when the Conservation Service approves the amount of work needed. Derrick said water damage to fields and facilities in the 20 counties was expected to rea c h five million dollars. Damage estimates at the ASC office today were: Adams $120,000; Wabash $1,000; Miami $150,000; Cass $500,000; White $1,000,000; Benton $375,000; Carroll $150,000; Blackford $200,000; Clinton $5,000; Putnam $210,000; Vermillion $100,000; Vigo $350,000; Morgan $20,000; Owen $25,000; Greene $50,000; Sullivan $25,000. No estimates were available on Gibson, Knox, Parke and Randolph. »

Fix Transcript To Lake County Jury Handley Will Turn Transcript To Jury INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Handley said today he will turn over a Congressional hearing transcript on an alleged ‘fix” in the Indiana highway scandals to a Lake County grand junr—without a State Police in -etskation, Handley told a news conference he received two thick files from the Senate Rackets Committee containing charges against Lake County Prosecutor Metro Holovachka which will be sent to the grand jury ‘‘sometime this week.” But the governor said he felt it would be presumptions for Indiana State Police to make an investigation bqsed on a Senate hearing. Earlier, Handley said such an investigation would be made to determine if criminal charges should be brought. The committee, headed by Sen. John L. McCellan (D-Ark.) accused Holovachka of a “fix’* to prevent grand jury indictments against three top oficials of the Carpenters Union on charges stemming from “quickie” profits on land sold to the State Highway Department. Holovachka said there was no jurisdiction for indictments in Lake County. Later, a Marion County grand jury indicted Carpenters President Maurice Hutcheson, Vice President O. William Blaier and Treasurer Frank Chapman on bribery charges in connection with $78,000 in profits on the sales. Handley called the failure of the Lake jury to indict a “whitewash.” He said before the transcript of the hearing is sent to the current grand jury he will ask Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers for a written “analysis” of the proceedings. He said State Police will keep hands off the case unless the grand jury asks for help. On another matter, Handley said . the United States seems to be “on the wrong side” in the Middle , East. Asked to comment on the landing of US. Marines in strife-torn Lebanon, the governor said the action shows this country needs “a reappraisal of our entire Middle East policy.” “It’s a matter of nationalism versus colonialism,” Handley said. ‘Unfortunately, we seem to be on the wrong side.” He implied that in the eyes of peoples seeking independence the United States appears to be supporting colonialism instead of selflUcntiaued on paste five) Allen County Youth Is Killed By Truck Injuries Fatal To Allen P. Schelburne Allen Paul Shelburne, 12-yeas-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Shelburne of Hoagland route 1, was fatally injured Monday afternoon when he darted front a driveway into the path of a truck seven and one-half miles west of Monroeville. The lad died at 2:50 p.m. in St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne, where he was taken after the accident, which occurred at 12:15 p.m. Injuries included a fractured skull, left leg and left collarbone. Harold Rauner, 41, of Hoagland route 1, driver of the truck, told investigating officers he had no chance to apply the brakes or to swerve before-striking the boy. He said he was traveling west on the Monroeville road at approximately 35 miles per hour. The victim ran out of the driveway from ~the north side of the road and was struck by the right front of the truck. The accident happened in front of the lad’s home. The accident victim was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic church at Hessen Cassel. Surviving in addition to bis parents are three brothers. Forest, David and Glen, and three sisters, Susan, Sally and Sheila, all at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Sorg of Hoagland, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Cordia Shelburne of Zionsville. Funeral services will be conducAke funeral home at Poe, and at ted at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic church at Hessen Cassel, the Rev. Mathias Bodinger officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetary Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 o’clock this evening.

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Marines Sent To Lebanon To Aid Americans Eisenhower Links Move To Overthrow Os Iraq Government WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower announced today that more than 5,000 U.S. Marines have landed in Lebanon to protect 2,500 American lives and heln defend that revolt-torn land against "indirect aggression.” TTie President linked the U.S. action to the bloody overthrow of the Iraqi government by pro Nasser rebels in Baghdad Monday. He said that in Monday’s coup “the lawful government” of Iraq “was violently overthrown and many of its members martyred.” "ITiese forces,” the President said, “have not been sent as any act of war.” He said toe Marines were dispatched in response to “an urgent plea” from President Chamoun of Lebanon “to help maintain security" and "to protect American lives.” First Since Korea Eisenhower said the American military measures in Lebanon "will be terminated” as soon as the U.N. Security Council takes the necessary action "to maintain international peace and security.” The President, who Monday called on the U.N. Security Council to act promptly in the grave Middle East crisis, said the American action was being reported formally to the emergency meeting of the council this morning. This was the first landing of American forces on foreign soil in such numbers and under such circumstances since Korea. ' Congressional leaders quickly ! supported toe President’s decision to use troops. 1 Senate Democratic Leader LynJ don B. Johnson said “Americans ! will certainly unite when the security of toe free world is imperiled.” ‘ House Democratic Leader John ‘ W. McCormack said “there was 1 no other course to take but a course of appeasement” To Protect Americans The president had called in Democratic and Republican con- ' gressional leaders Monday and , presumably advised them in advance of toe troop decision. Eisenhower said in a special ’ statement that Chamoun linked the troubles in Lebanon to Monday’s coup in Iraq. “President Chamoun,” Eisenhower said, “made clear that he considered an immediate U.S. response imperative if Lebanon’s independence, already men ac e d from without, were to be, preserved in toe face of toe grave developments which occurred yesterday in Baghdad whereby toe lawful government was violently overthrown and many of its members martyred.” The U.S. Marines were dispatched, toe President said, “to protect American lives and by their presence there to encourage the Lebanese government in defense of Lebanese sovereignty and integrity.” Can’t ‘Stand Idly By* Before President Eisenhower made his announcement news dispatches from Beirut reported that at least seven warships had dropped anchor in Beirut harbor and were disembarking troops. The U.S. embassy ordered all (Contlnn-1 on page dive) Sidewalk Sale Here * All Day Wednesday The Xi Alpha lota Chapter of Seta Sigma Phil will hold a rummage sale in front of the Holthouse Drug store Wednesday to join with the merchants in the “old fashioned sidewalk sale jubilee,” Dick Kershner announced today. Two other organizations joined with the merchants Monday and will erect stands on Second street for toe people attending the affair Wednesday. The Explorer Scouts will have a hotdog stand, and toe Delta Theta Tau sorority will have a popcorn stand. Stores will be open until 9 o’clock for the shoppers to seek the bargains at special reduced prices for toe Gay Nineties sale festivities. Second street is expected to be full of people from this community attending the affair. Hopes are high for big atendance for the record hop to take place cm toe street following toeall day sale, street following the all day sale, in the “jubilee.”