Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 173.

g' MISSOURI ROLLS ON—Farm buildings are little more than rooftops in the vast expanse of muddy water swirling from the Missouri River near St. Charles, Mo. Far out of its banks, the river has brought mounting damage to crops in the area and is flooding the low-lying residential property in the northern part of St. Charles.

Defense Bill Is Passed By House Today Compromise Bills On Reorganization For Department Passes WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House unanimously approved a compromise bill granting President Eisenhower powers to reorganize the Defense Department for the nuclear-missile age. By vocie vote, the House approved the measure as drafted by House-Senate conferees. There was no debate. The compromise legislation now goes to the Senate. It gives the President most of what he asked for but ignores several powers he requested. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy reported that the Middle East crisis has demonstrated that U.S. defense forces "are ready, and that they can move rapidly to those parts of the world where they are needed." The secretary made the statement to the Senate preparedness subcommittee. He was recalled for what Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) termed “an audit of the nation’s defenses.” McElroy’s prepared statement included an optimistic report on missile development. It stressed the fact that the Defense Department has recently let a contract far the development of a liquid fuel engine with “about one million pounds thrust.” The compromise defense reorganization bill made changes in two of the three House-approved sections criticized by the President. It used new language that the secretary of defense is the boss at the Pentagon with Army. Navy and Air Force secretaries responsible to him for the operations of their departments. The conferees stuck close to Senate language in granting the President wartime authority he requested to change or abolish military functions or shift them from one service to another. But the bill also "provided that the Senate or the House could veto any peacetime move of the secretary of defense to change legally assigned functions of the three services. Unchanged was the provision attacked by the President as “legalized insubordination.” It would let service secretaries, or individual members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, take dissenting views to Congress on their own initative. The provision is in the present law but has never been used. Late Bulletin BELLEVILLE, 01. (UFI) — Five explosions rocked the near center of this city about noon today, resulting in the evacuation of thousands of presons from their homes in an area two miles long and a half mile wide. Police said the fifth explosion occurred about one-half hour after the first four. First reports listed two persons injured, but no death*.

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Humphrey Launches Farm Measure Fight Seeking To Re-Write Administration Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) today launched an uphill Senate battle to re-write an administration backed farm bill and preserve parity as the basis of national farm policy. Humphrey charged that the bill, with administration blessing, would ‘openly abandon the objective of seeking to bring farm prices and farm purchasing power into closer relationship with . . . the rest of our economy.” In a speech of some 80 pages, Humphrey asserted the measure was “the result of submission to what is virtually legislative black-mail-giving in to (Agriculture) Secretary Ezra T. Benson under the fear of otherwise getting nothing at all.” Chairman Allen J. Ellender (DLa.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee, leading spokesman for southern Democrats who favor the bill, warned as debate opened Wednesday night that unless new farm legislation is enacted this year cotton and rice planting allotments will be cut drastically in 1959 and thousands of farmers may be “driven from the land.” Ellender predicted the measure would be approved without major changes. He said its major provisions would prevent acreage cuts for rice growers, offer cotton growers a choice of relatively high or moderately reduced allotments, and give corn growers complete planting freedom and “stable” prices. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), however, denounced the bill as a “fatal compromise with the (administration’s) dreadfully wrong policy.” He served notice he would join Humphrey and others fa seeking amendments to save the parity principle, and raise dairy and feed grain supports. For cotton, rice, and corn the bill abolishes the “fair earning power” parity price as the basis for government price supports. Beginning fa 1959 for com and in 1961 for cotton and rice, the parity principle would be replaced by support on 90 per cent a of the past three-year open market price. Permanent price floors under the new plan would be 30 cents (Ccntinued on naira five) All Streets, Alleys Being Sprayed Again All streets and alleys in Decatur have been sprayed twice now to keep down mosquitoes, and the third round is in progress, Bernard J. Clark, city street commissioner, said today. In addition, 133 trees on city right of way have been cut down, including mostly dead elm trees and a few maples. °A total of 142 truckloads of tin cans and trash have been hauled since Jan. 1, he added. Rafas have cut down the effectiveness of spraying this year, since much of the spray was washed off during the torrential downpours. Individuals can help the city, Clark mentioned, by keeping their own property, garbage cans, and trash sprayed so that mosquitoes cannot breed.

UN Works On Problems For Summit Talks Works On Security, Protocol Problems For Summit Talks UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —The United Nations has begun working on security and protocol problems connected with a summit conferance fa the Security Council, and it was reported U.S. Marines may be asked to guard a 15-block approach to the building. A source close to SecretaryGeneral Dag Hammarskjold said the United Nations would be ready by Monday to play host to President Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, arid other government chiefs invited to attend. But some sources doubted security arrangements could be completed fa time. It was expected that anti - Communist organizations fa New York, particularly remnants of the Hungarian freedom army who escaped the 1956 Soviet tank attacks, would give the Soviet delegation a sizzling reception when it arrived. U. N. Security officials said they were ready to cooperate with the U. S. Secret Service, Britain’s Scotland Yard, the French Surete and Russia’s security organization. Khrushchev’s sudden provisional acceptance of Elsenhower’s touched off reports that a 15bid to a summit meeting fa the block stretch of Manhattan’s First Aevenue may be closed off and policed by U. S. Marines. The glistenfag U. N. edifice fronts on First Avenue, while the East River flows behind it. Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev, who Wednesday night delivered to Hammarskjold Khrushchev’s ‘request” for a Monday meeting of the council, said he had no qualms about putting up the Soviet premier fa his embassy fa the heart of New York’s Park Avenue, or at a suburban place the delegation owns at Glen Cove, Long Island, 25 miles from the city. He said, however, that Khrushchev might decide to stay at a New York hotel. New Rain Threat To Kansas, Missouri Cool Canadian Air Brings New Threat United Press International Cool, Canadian air swept out of fae Rockies and into the Plains states today, threatening another heavy dose of rain for floodplagued Kansas and Missouri. Forecasters , said as much as three inches of rain were expected during the weekend fa parts of Kansas and Missouri where floods fa the past two weeks have caused an estimated 38 million dollars in damage. A few isolated severe storms during the night crackled over the northern Plains, with Kief, N.D., about 40 miles southeast of Mfaot, suffering the heaviest damage. Torrential rain accompanied by hail and high winds damaged homes and crops in the Kief area and flooded basements. The cool air pushed through Montana during the day Wednesday and reached through Wyoming and into the western Dakotas and Nebraska early today. The Weather Bureau warned of possible tornadoes fa the path of the cold air mass, but none materialized. A storm system that dumped heavyraihfrbmJfiffiaha east to the Middle Atlantic states and sent flash floods raging across parts of Louisiana Wednesday began easing up during the night. Only a few thundershowers remained fa Ohio and the lower Mississippi Valley this morning and most rain measurements were light. About 1,000 workmen took advantage of the respite from flooding rains in the Plains states to sandbag levees along the swollen Missouri River. Only Four Cases Os Polio In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Indiana’s polio case total for 1958 was increased by one last week with the addition of an official diagnosis in Warrick County (Boonville). But it made the total for the year only four, a far cry from the 28 recorded by this time last year and the 71 established as a five-year median for this time of year. -

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Sen. Knowland Protests Terms Set By Russia Congressmen Voice Criticism Os GOP Approach To Talks WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland protested today that a Middle East summit meeting on terms laid down by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev would result in "another Munich” for the West. He particularly objected to Khrushchev’s demand that Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru participate fa the proposed meeting at the United Nations. Knowland also suggested that President Eisenhower might consider calling fa former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman for advice on the Middle East crisis. Os Khrushchev’s summit terms, Knowland told a news conference: “We cannot idly stand by and let him say who will attend the conference and how it will be conducted. If we do, the United Nations’ effectiveness would be severely damaged and it could well go the way of the League of Nations.” He also criticized Khrushchev’s insistence that no votes be taken or resolutions adopted if the chiefs of state meet. ‘We cannot sit back and let the Soviet Union unilaterally change the provisions of the U.N. charter,” the GOP leader said. In another development, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said the United States should insist that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion be included in any summit Middle East conference. Humphrey said, “We would be anything but realistic if we did not insist on including Israel.” He also urged that the United States insist that President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic attend the conference. Nasser is reported willing to do SO. Humphrey was one of the congressmen voicing an undercurrent of criticism of the administration’s approach to the summit. He warned that the administration’s "reluctant approach” will "weaken and undermine” the U.S. ultimate position if the talks take place. Administration spokesmen have (Continued on five) Scout Leaders In Training Session Three-County Meet Held Last Evening Representatives from Decatur, Berne, and Geneva Boy Scout troops and Cub packs attended ~the three-county planning session at the Wells county game preserve Wednesday night E. E. Rydell, chairman of the south council, introduced the district leaders of the various phases of scouting, including outdoor activities,' membership, publicity, transportation, and others. With a total possible rating of 150, south district has already scored 109 points in the tests for successful scouting, leading the other three districts of the Anthony Wayne council. District leaders conferred with local troop and pack leaders fa their specialties and then the entire group broke down into local sessions to discuss next year’s program. The council had not yet provided the mimeographed sheets of council and district projects, so the group voted to<take the program charts home, and work on them in committee meetings after the council sends the necessary information. Before the meeting, a group picnic was held for the families of the scouters.

Committee Favors Security Pay Hike r ‘ '4? Tentative Approval By House Committee WASHINGTON (UPI)-A Demo-cratic-led congressional drive was under way today to raise,both the benefits provided and the taxes imposed by the social security system which covers nine out of every 10 American jobholders. , The drive was launched without ’ administration support, and there ' was no clear indication of how ‘ vigorously the administration would oppose it. The legislation J seemed sure of winning House ap- . petoval. Its ultimate fate appeared fa rest with the Senate, where the > outcome was less certain. The Democratic - controlled ‘ House Ways and Means Commit- ’ tee started the ball rolling late k Wednesday by tentatively approv- . fag a bill, which would: , —Raise monthly cash benefits ’ by 7 per cent for the 11,800,000 pwsons now on the social security rolls and boost the minimum monthly benefit to $33 from the present S3O. J-Raise social security taxes a maximum of $25.50 a year for employes and $38.25 a year for self-employed persons, effective next Jan. 1. The new tax would be imposed cm top of four other tax increases scheduled to take effect by 1975. The effective date for these taxes would be advanced so they would all go into force by 1969 at which time employes and employers would be paying a tax rate of 4 per cent and self-employed would be paying 6% per cent. Second Polio Clinic Is Held Here Today Clinic Sponsored By Local Moose Lodge This afternoon, beginning at 3 o’clock, the second doses of the dollar polio clinic are being given at the Moose home, 108 Jackson street. There has been a good response to the second session of the clinic, states the committee in charge, who expects over 360 persons, or about the same number as the June session recorded, to come for the Salk anti-polio shots. A few extra shots will still be available, according to the sponsors. Any area resident who has not had the full series of shots may check in at the clinic to receive his dose for sl. Those unable to pay this fee may receive theirs also, the lodge taking care of the arrangements. Supervising the anti-polio operation will be the county health officer, Dr. William Freeby; the city health officer, Dr. John Terveer, and pharmacist Dan Freeby. Registered nurses who have offered to donate their time are the Mesdames Leo Feasel, Wilbert Fuelling,, Harold Hoffman, Mary Jane Miller. Joan Lutes, Bill Arnold, and Mark Colchin. Nurses aides who check prospective vaccine receivers for colds and fever will be Mrs. Imogene Irwin and Mrs. Lelia Brokaw. Headed by governor Anthony Murphy, the lodge committee in charge of the polio vaccination is Lester Sheets, Anthony Baker, and Dan Christen. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair north, partly cloudy south, and a little warmer today. Fair and a little warmer tonight. Friday partly cloudy, warm and humid with chance of scattered thundershowers. High today in the 80s. Low tonight 64 to 70. High- Friday around 90. Sunset today 8:06 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:37 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Scattered thunderstorms and turning cooler north portion. Low Friday night low 60s north to around 70 south. High Saturday low 70s north to 90s south. 12 Pages

Tension Eases Over Lebanon Crisis Today Call Parliament To Meet On July 31 To Select President BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD— The ' opposition appeared today to be warming up to the trouble shooting mission of U.S. Deputy Under- ‘ secretary of State Robert Murphy. An end to the crisis and the withdrawal of American troops seemed only a matter of time. Tenion eased sharply Wednesday when Speaker Adel Osseiran of the 66-man Lebanese Parliament announced it would meet July 31 to elect a successor to controversial President Camille Chamoun. The session originally had been scheduled for today. Murphy has talked with leaders of both sides in an effort to help find a suitable compromise candidate and his efforts drew praise today from the opposition newspaper Telegraph which predicted confidently the U.S. forces will “go back where they came from” soon. It said Murphy, through talks with opposition leaders, “now ; knows the facts about the situal tion in Lebanon. We have learned i that the information collected by > Murphy will lead to a relaxation f of the crisis within the next few 1 days.” The pro-government paper Albina also reported the possibility of a compromise arising from Murphy’s talks but expressed government feelings against such a move — although the government decision to seek a presidential candidate outside Parliament represented a major compromise. The independent newspaper Nahar said Murphy is making progress because he had President Eisenhower’s full authority to en--1 gage in talks. ' The feeling here was that every ' day is vital in seeking a solution. 1 No one knows how long the extremist opposition elements will ! continue to accept U.S. troops and fleet activities without provoking a real incident. Mrs. J. 0. Tricker Dies This Morning Decatur Lady Dies After Brief Illness Mrs. Cora Tricker, 66, wife of ’ J. O. Tricker of 343 Mercer ave- ’ nue, died at 7:50 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been seriously , ill since Sunday. She had been employed as a practical nurse at the hospital for ‘ 11 years until retiring last year. . 1 Born in St Mary’s township Jan. ' 30, 1892, she was a daughter of ■ Harvey and Harriet De GarmoDaniels, and was married to J. O. Tricker, Jan. 31, 1913. Mrs. Tricker was a member of i the Bethany Evangelical United ; Brethren church and the MissionI ary Society of the church. Surviving in addition to her husband are one-son, Byron J. Tricker of Pontiac, Mich.; one daughter, Mrs. Mary jean Stuart of Decatur; three grandchildren, and one brother, Otto Daniels of Huntington. Four brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 3 p.m. at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas 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. The casket will remain closed at the church.

Approve Tax Relief For Rail Workers House Committee Approves Measure WASHINGTON (UPD — The taxwriting House Ways and Means Committee today approved, 14-11, a bill to provide special income tax relief for the nation’s one million railroad workers. Before its final action, the committee knocked out by voice vote a provision that would have provided similar relief for 2,300,000 federal government employes and lesser tax cuts for self-employed persons covered by social security. The measure would permit railroad workers to deduct from their taxable income amounts paid into their pension fund in excess of 3 per cent. ■ The pension tax now is 614 per cent on the first $4,200 of annual j earnings. Thus, the minimum tax , saving for railroad workers earn- . ing $350 a month or more would be $27.30 a year. However, railroad workers hope to persuade Congress to provide a , 10 per cent boost in their pensions under a plan which would raise , the tax to 7.5 per cent on the first $4,800 in annual earnings. The railroad unions’ drive for the special tax relief measure was coupled with their push for the bigger pension program. The tax relief was designed to offset in part the higher tax, thereby resulting in little reduction in take-home pay. However, the close vote in committee indicated that the tax relief measure has little chance of clearing Congress this year. Railroads have opposed the pension boost which they claim would add about 175 million dollars to their annual cost of operation. Railroads must match the pension fund contributions of their employes. Railroads have opposed the special tax relief measure on the theory that railroad unions won’t push their drive for the pension increase, if the tax relief measure is killed. Temperatures Climb Into 80s In Stale Cooler Trend Over Weekend Forecast By United Press International Temperatures climbed into the 80s throughout Indiana today and may hit 90 or above before a cooler trend sets in during the weekend. For the first time in days, the mercury crested in the 80s from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River Wednesday. It was 81 at Lafayette, 83 at Fort Wayne, South Bend and Evansville, and 84 at Indianapolis. Readings in the 80s were due again today. Lows tonight will range from 65 to 70, and highs Friday around 90. Fair weather prevailed in the north portion of the state today, ending a round of cloudy Weather. No rain was forecast for today or tonight, although it was expected to be partly cloudy in the southern two-thirds of Hoosierland. Any hope of a dry spell to pull the state out of its rainy-season woes was disspelled by forecasts calling for the possibility of scattered thunderhowers Friday and a more definite likelihood of scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday. The north and central portions face a cooler trend Saturday, but it will stay warm and humid in the south. Lows early today ranged from 55 at South Bend to 67 at IndianMarine Commander Uninjured In Crash BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD —Brig. Gen. Sydney Wade, commander of U. S. Marine forces in Beirut, had a close scrape Tuesday when his helicopter crashed into a tree, it was disclosed today. Neither Wade nor his pilot was hurt.

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Will Consult Allies Before Sending Note Doubt Possibility Os Arranging For Conference Monday BULLETIN PARIS (UPD — Premier Charles de Gaulle has decided to attend a summit meeting in New York if the big powers and Russia decided to hold it there, providing it does not last more than two or three days, it was announced today. WASHINGTON (UPD — The United States today began drafting for submission to its Allies a proposed note to Nikita Khrushchev on an East-West summit conference. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were at work on a reply to the Soviet premier’s conditional agreement to meet with the West at the United Nations in New York. Hagerty would give no hint as to the draft’s contents. He said he did not expect “any immediate answer” to Khrushchev because this country intends to consult its Allies, principally Britain and France, before dispatching a message to -the Kremlin. The general belief here was that a summit meeting will be held but that issues of participation, timing, and subject matter remain to be settled. Dulles to Europe It appeared that Khrushchev’s proposal that the meeting start Monday was out. Both in London and Washington the belief was that all the necessary arrangement could not be made by Monday. The National Security Council met for two hours today. Dulles stayed behind and talked with Eisenhower for another 30 minutes before returning to the State Department. Hagerty said that as far as he knows Dulles still plans to fly to Bonn and London this weekend. The secretary has scheduled a conference with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Saturday afternoon and a one-day session with the Baghdad Pact nations in London before returning here early next Tuesday. Pakistan, one of the Baghdad group, is expected to protest inclusion of India in any summit conference on the Middle East. _ • Agree on Site Diplomatic authorities in Washington said the summit meeting might get under way in two weeks. First, however, the Allied governments must reply to Khrushchev's demand that India. and the Arab states participate. A common ground of agreement between the United States and Russia was the New York site for the summit talks. Khrushchev specifically named the city in his official note to Eisenhower; ■- Dm Informed view here was that the United States would reject the Monday date as too soon to permit adequate preliminary arrangements. Further, Western leaders, including U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, are already committed to a series of diplomatic conferences in Europe next week. Some officials indicated the belief Eisenhower and Dulles would make one more effort to get agreement on limiting the area of discussion to the Middle East. They also may set up some ground rules to avoid turning the meeting into a propaganda slugfest. Khrushchev’s demand for inclusion of Arab leaders and India’s Jawaharlal Nehru as participants was not seen as an insurmountble barrier to a conference. Opinion to diplomatic quarters was that world expectations had generated a momentum which would carry the big powers (Continued on p*g*