Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1958 — Page 1

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Expect House Tax Cut For Self-Employed Likely To Override Ike Administration Protests Over Bill WASHINGTON (UPD — Ue House was expected today to override administration protests and pass a bill to provide major tax relief for self-employed persons. The Senate, meanwhile, met on routine measures. Before the House was the bill to allow self - employed persons to defer payment of income tax until age 70 on amounts ranging up to $2,500 a year placed in retirement funds. The Treasury says such a law would mean a loss of 360 million dollars in annual revenue. ' Although House passage appeared assured, many lawmakers figured the measure would be bottled up in the Senate or die there when Congress adjourns next month. Some lawmakers wre protesting the bill would discriminate against employes who have no pension funds. Secret Session Due A flurry of congressional committee activity was to be highlighted late today by appearance of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Allen Dulles before a secret session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The committee voted last week to call him to explain why the United States was caught flatfooted on the Iraq rebellion, and also what CIA knows about the new Iraqi regime. • • Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again were invited to the dally colosed-door briefing by the Senat Department on the Middle East situation. Attendance has been small because legislators claim they aren’t learning anything that isn’t available from newspaper accounts. Informed congressional sources reported the administration was swinging around to reluctant acceptance of a Democratic - sponsored bill to increase social security benefits this year. The House Ways and Means Committee Monday gave final approval to a bill to increase benefits by 7 per cent for the 11,800,000 persons on the rolls. Boost Jan. 1 The increased benefits would be financed by increased social security taxes on job - holders and their employers effective next Jan. 1. The administration was reported to have concluded financing of the plan is sound. The House Agriculture Com- ■ mittee showed signs of capitu- , lating to Agriculture Secretary ■ Ezra T. Benson’s demand for , lower price guarantees and more ( planting freedom for farmers. The , committee went behind closed door to reach agreement on a new catch - all farm bill. Southern Democratic farm leaders were under strong pressure ’ from cotton growers and textile 1 interests in the South to produce 1 quickly a new law to stave off ! scheduled sharp cutbacks in cotton plantings next year. A bill containing many of the ' (Continued on page fflve) 1 INDIANA WEATHER i Partly cloudy this afternoon, j tonight and Wednesday with 1 little temperature change. 1 Scattered showers north this afternoon and again Wednes- 1 day. Low tonight in the 60s. < High Wednesday in the 80s. 1 Sunset today 8:01 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:43 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy i with good chance of thunder- 1 showers. Low Wednesday night < 65 to 70. High Thursday 83 to 1 -88, _ - :

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Implement Firms, Union Seek Pact Strikes Threaten To Idle 75,000 Workers CHICAGO (UPD — Contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and one of four major farm implement manufacturers were broken off at least temporarily today because of a “wildcat’*’ walkout at the firm’s East Moline. Hl., plant. About 2,000 workers walked off their jobs late Monday at the International Harvester plant at East Moline, and picket lines were around the buildings today. Only office workers went to their jobs on the first morning showups. Harvester officials here said that the company notified the UAW that it would not resume negotiations until the workers returned to their jobs. At East Moline, however, it was reported ' that UAW regional offices here notified local union officials at 10:30 a. m. to go back to work. The UAW negotiations with the four companies involved about 75.000 workers. Deadlines for the expiration of the old pacts at the Allis Chalmers. John Deere, Caterpillar and International Harvester companies ranged from tonight to a few weeks. A spokesman for Harvester, which employs more than 36.000 workers, said “very little progress” was achieved in talks Monday with the UAW. Arthur Shy, assistant director of the UAW Harvester department, said a strike there “is very possible.” The old contract ends midnight Thursday. Most seriously pressed for a settlement was the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of Peoria, HL, whose contract with the union expires at midnight tonight. A spokesman for the company expressed confidence that a peaceful settlement would be reached. About 10,000 employes will be effected by the decision. Officials cf the John Deere Co. at Moline, 111., released general terms of a prouosal it made with negotiators of the UAW, whose contract with the company also ends midnight Thursday. First Set Os Silos Is Completed Here First Central Soya Battery Completed The first set of six silos were completed Sunday night at McMillen Industries here after six and one half days of continuous work. The cement pouring was performed by three tricks, 24 hours per day. The 70-man shifts averaged approximately 17 feet per day. The next group of six silos will start in approximately two to three weeks and is expected to be completed in the same amount of time, Dale Long, superintendent for the Jennson Construction company, said today. Work i? still being performed on the roof and surrounding the huge 110-foot structures, and will last for several days. The additional silos will house approximately 5% million bushels when they are completed, and will bring the total of bushels of beans storage capacity to 13% million bushels. Work proceeded steadily during the building of the silos with the exception of one day, when Decatur received heavy rains and work was slowed some. The new silos will be as large as any in the world, 80 feet in diameter and 110 feet high at their completion. The old silos built a few years ago are 26 feet in diameter.

Ike And Dulles Study New Note By Khrushchev Dulles Returns From European Conference To Meet With Ike WASHINGTON (UPD — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew home from talks with European leaders today to confer with President Eisenhower on the next U.S. move toward a summit meeting with Russia. Dulles, who has been attending a Baghdad Pact meeting in London, said he would confer with Eisenhower today. Their immediate problem was answering a new note from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. While the secretary reserved comment on the letter, diplomats speculated that Khrushchev’s failure to accept outright AngloAmerican conditions for a summit parley could have the effet of postponing a conference for weeks. With reports tirat Lebanon's political crisis is near solution the delay could give the United States time to withdraw its troops and enter any top-level talks clean of “aggression” charges. Dulles, meanwhile, said that steps taken at the Baghdad meeting will strengthen the morale of Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. He said the United States took an important step in lining itself up more closely with the three northern tier countries in the Middle East by pledging to cooperate on security and defense matters. U.S. Reaction Withheld Dulles said he wanted to study the full text of Khrushchev’s latest letter to Eisenhower. The note was subject to different interpr - tations. First reaction of United Nations diplomats was that Khrushchev might have abandoned the idea of a summit meeting In the U. N. Security Council. Official U. S. reaction was in suspension pending the return of Dulles who has been in Europe at a meeting of the Baghdad Pact and conferences with German and British leaders. President Eisenhower, through White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, let it be known Monday this country refused to budge from its conditions that any summit meeting be held under auspices of the U. N. Security Council. Some diplomats said it appeared Khrushchev was reverting to his original call for an independent five - power summit cons rence rather than one under U. N. auspices. Interpretation of- that cruicial point was one of the problems facing Dulles and Eisenhower today. Khrushchev in his not renewed blasts at the United States for “aggression” in the Middle East. (Continued on page five) Eight Crewmen Die As Bomber Crashes Instructor-Pilot Is Lone Survivor LORINQ AIR FORCE BASE, Maine (UPD — Eight crewmen of an Air Force 852 were killed today when the huge Stratofortress bomber crashed in a field as it was about to make a landing. There was one survivor. He was Maj. Moody E. Deaton, Dennison. Tex., an instructor-pilot. He suffered second degree burns of the fact and throat and cuts of the chest and back. His condition was good. The Air Force withheld names of the dead pending notification of next of kin. The large eight - million - dollar plane crashed to earth in a field on the farm of Carl Ireland about three miles south of Limestone, Maine. The plane, attached to the 42nd Bomb Wing at this base, had been on a routine training flight. The Air Force said a light rain was falling. Clarify Effective Time Os Postal Hike Decatur postal officials today issued a clarification of the effective time of the increased postal rates, which go into effect Friday. First class mail must be postmarked, or cancelled, before midnight Thursday night, under the present rates. As the Decatur office closes at 7 p.m., no mail dropped in collection boxes after the final scheduled pickup Thursday afternoon will be collected in time to use the present stamp rate.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 29, 1958

Lebanese Rebels Fail In Attempt To Murder Premier From Ambush

Vote Contempt Citation On B. Goldfine House Investigating Subcommittee Votes Contempt Citation WASHINGTON (UPD — The House influence investigating subcommittee today unanimously recommended that Bernard Goldfine be charged with contempt of Congress. The subcommittee voted 8-0 to recommend a contempt citation against the Boston millionaire friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Basis for the citation was Goldfine’s repeated refusal to answer 23 questions about his complex financial dealings. Three members of the 11-man subcommittee were absent. The absentees were Rps. Morgan M. Moulder (D-Mo.), Charles A. Wolvrton (R-N.J.( and John W. Heselton (R-Mass.) Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) announced the vote after a half-hour closed meeting. Harris said the full Commerce Committee will act on the contompt recommendation as soon,S» necessary paper work can be completed. If the full committee approves, the citation will then be submitted to the House. If tried and convicted, Goldfine would face a possible maximum sentence of a year in jail and SI,OOO fine on each count. Harris said he expected the full committee to act swiftly on the recommendation in order to send it to the House floor before adjournment of Congress, expected before mid-August. Meanwhile, these developments broke in the House’s two investigations involving Adams: —Members of the influence-in-vestigating subcommittee headed by Rep. Oren E. Harris (D-Ark.) differed openly over how to interpret a federal code of ethics for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), approved by the subcommittee late Monday. The question: Does it affect congressmen and White House officials who make “routine” inquires about the status of cases pending before the FCC? —An armed services special investigating subcommittee expected to question U. S. ComptrollerGeneral Joseph Campbell about (Continues on page five) Contract Awarded On Bridge Abutment To Take Bids For Court House Roof Bids for the construction of a new abutment for a bridge over the Smith ditch were received, and plans for reroofing of the court house were discussed by the county commissioners at the meeting held at the court house Monday. Bids from three contractors were received by the commissioners for the construction of a new abutment for a bridge located on the Mon-roe-French township line, three miles west and ( one and three fourths miles south of Monroe. The bridge is located over the Smith ditch. , The contract was awarded to the Baker and Schultz company for submitting the lowest bid. The three bids were: Baker and Schultz company, $3,755.62; Yost Construction company, $4,914.22; and Stout Construction company of Fort Wayne, $5,678. Bids for the reroofing of the court house building will be received by the board of commissioners August 11 at 10 o’clock. Bids must be submitted on forms prescribed by the state board of accounts and must be accompam ied by a certified check in an amount equal to 10 per cent of the bid price.

Funeral Wednesday For Dick D. Heller Publisher's Rites Here On Wednesday - Funeral services for Dick D.. Holler, Sr., president of the Decatur Democrat Co., publishers of the Decatur Daily Democrat, will be held at 1:15 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Zwick funeral Jjpme and at l;30 p.m. at the First > Presbyterian church. The Rev. Harold J. Bond, pastor . of the church, will officiate and • burial will be in the Decatur cemf etery. Co-workers at the newspaper office will serve as pallbear- > ers. Friends may call at the funeral i (home until time of the services. s Mr- Heller died shortly after t midnight Sunday after a long ill- | ! ness which necessitated operations * for a brain tumor. He first under- ‘ went surgery in November of 1956, ■ returning to active operation of the .newspaper late in December of 1 the same year. He returned to the f hospital for additional surgery last ■ May 24, and his condition gradual- ' ly became worse and he was in ' critical condition for weeks before ( death. , ■ The Daily Democrat office will ’ close at noon Wednesday until 3 o’clock out of respect to the news- , paper executive The day’s edition ' will be completed before noon but ’ Will not be published until after 3 ,'O’clock.

J Lois Jean Gerke Is 4-H Food Champion Is Winner In Foods ' And Baking Contest i Lois Jean Gerke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gerke, of Union . township, exhibiting a fancy yeast ’ bread, a tea ring, in division V, received the grand champion rosette for the foods and baking . contest at the county 4-H fair. Mrs. James Cisco judged the foods and baking contest, which includes five separate divisions, ’ divided according to years and ’ experience. Winners in the separate divisions were: division I, first, Ruth Ann Smalley, Blue Creek township: second, Sara Ploughe, Kirk- ’ land township: third, Sara Nell Liechty, Wabash township: Kristine Fuelling, Root township; and ' fifth, Connie Arnold, Kirkland township. - Division II winners were: Cynthia Carroll, St. Mary’s township: second, Kathy Thieme, Union township; third, Ruth Ann Beery, Preble township; fourth, Mary Heckman, Preble township, and fifth, Jean Clark, Preble township. In division 111, these were the winners: first, Phyllis Meyer, Blue Creek township; second, Carol Schwartz, Monroe township; third, Pauline Ripley, Blue Creek township. For the first division of breads, division IV, first place went to Mary Schwaller, Washington township; second, Sharon Harkless, Root township; third, Patsy Kalthoff, Preble township; fourth, Marilyn Stucky, Monroe township; fifth, Helen Reppert, Preble township. Fancy yeast rolls made up division V, where the first place winner was the grand champion; second place winner was Annette Thomas, Washington township; third, Jane Duff, Hartford townships Rosalind Bauman, Wabash township; and fifth, Judith Conrad, Preble township. Baumgartner Rites Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services and burial will be held here Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Kate Jacobson Baumgartner former Decatur resident, who died Monday morning at Columbus, O. The body will be brought to the Zwick funeral home at approximately 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, and brief services will be conducted at the funeral home, with the Rev. Harold J. Bond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

Slate Net Tax Is Opposed By Policy Group State Commission Refuses To Approve Tax On Net Income INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Commission on State Tax and Financing Policy refused Monday to recommend a state net income tax as a replacement for the gross income tax and most property taxes. . In a report destined for the 1959 General Assembly, the commission said such a tax in Indiana would require a higher rate than that in effect in any of the 36 states now levying it. The commission was directed by the 1957 Legislature to study the “revenue capabilities and impact” of a net income tax. The report, coupled with earlier reports on the present property tax and a proposed sales tax, indicated the commission will not suggest any change in the type of taxes which now finance state and local government. However, the commission had several recommendations on im- . provemento-in tax operations, including a proposal for an amendment to the Indiana Constitution

to permit "classification” of property for varying assessment procedures and tax rates. Reports on other types of taxes remain to be studied. The commission’s evaluation of the net income tax noted that it would provide the contemplated relief to property taxpayers. But it pointed out six major drawbacks * Stability Impaired —The stability of revenues would be “impaired,” on the local level even more than on the state level, because such tax revenue usually drops sharply as economic activity declines. A property tax is considered the most stable. —lndiana would have to adopt the highest net income tax rate in the country to equal the income derived from the present tax structure. One estimate figured the personal rate would be 11 per cent of net income. Another reported that to raise the required revenue in 1959. the net income tax rate would have to be onethird as high as the federal income tax rate. —The high progressive rates necessary would be a “deterrent” to the location of new “highly profitable” businesses and industries in Indiana. —The shift in taxing responsibil(Ccntir.ued on page tlv«) K. Os C. Officers Installed Monday Installation Rites Held Last Evening Newly elected officers of the Decatur Knights of Columbus council were formally installed at a meeting Monday night at the K. of C. hall. Edward J. Radamaker, Indiana state deputy- of the Knights of Columbus, was the installing officer. Also present were William Zahn, past state deputy, and Gerald Seifert, past district deputy. Herman J. Knapke was installed a$ district deputy, and Arthur H. Lengerich as grand knight. Other new officers are: the Rev. Robert Contant, chaplain; Eugene Braun, deputy grand knight; David F. Terveer, chancellor; Donald C. Miller, recording secretary; Arthur J. Heimann, financial secretary; William Mansfield, treasurer; Victor Braun and Thomas Rumschlag, lecturers; Walter Bolyard, advocate; Robert Bolinger, warden; Richard Braun, inside guard; John Held, outside guard; and Edward J. Heimann, Gerald J. Martin and Ralph Kriegel, trustees. A buffet lunch was served following the meeting.

Truman To Speak At Fort Wayne Sept. 11 Principal Speaker For Hartke Rally TRUMAN TO SPEAK AT T FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) — Former President Harry Truman will drop his sometime role of elder statesman and return to partisan speechmaking in a Hoosier Democratic party rally Sept. 11. A joint announcement that Tru- . man is to be a principal speaker . at a rally on behalf of Democratic j U. S. senatorial nominee Vance Hartke came from national, state j and local party officials today. 1 Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler of South Bend, Indi- ' ana Chairman Charles Skillen, 1 Fourth District Chairman James ' Koons and Allen County Chairman 1 Alex Campbell joined in making public plans for the Hartke rally. The rally will be held in the Allen j County War Memorial Coliseum at Fort Wayne. All state, district and , county party leaders are expected . to attend, in a united front demonstration that will have some former intraparty foes breaking bread at the same table. The entry of Truman in the Democratic political campaigning in Indiana was expected to add impetus to GOP plans to £et Vice President Richard Nixon into the state on behalf of Governor Handley’s ■ senatorial efforts. ’ Gail Egley Named ! As Grand Champion Selected Tops In Clothing Projects ! Gail Egley, of the Jefferson j Work and Win 4-H club, is the , grand, champion in the clothing j projects, after judging in the Adams Central school Monday. j The purple rosette was pinned ; on an aqua two-piece dress she " made for her work in division 5. ' The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j Holman Egley, the 1958 grand , champion in clothing is 14 years of age. I Declared winners also in cloth- , ing by Mrs. Dwight Smith, of Con- ' voy, 0., are: division 1, first, Shir- . ley Gallmeyer; second, Susan Bittner; third, Dianne Fawbush; ; all of Preble; fourth, Sharon ’ Zwick, Decatur; fifth, Janice Mil- , ler, Preble. The state fair apron will be Shirley Gallmeyer’s, and the headscarf that will be exhibited there, Kathy Thieme’s. In division 11, Ann Inniger, Monroe, placed first. Her skirt will be shown at the state exhibit. Cindy Collier, Decatur, placed first in division III; second-place winner was Linda Riley, St. Mary’s township; third, Barbara Tinkham, Blue Creek township. Division. IV first prize went to Rita Norquest, Decatur; second, Joyce Mosser, Wabash, and third, Kay Butler, Root. Hie state fair dress in this division will be Rita • Norquest’s. In division V, blue I ribbon winner was Gail Egley, ali so the grand champion. Second place in this division went to Arvilla Smith, Washington. Gail i Egley's exhibit will go to the state fair. Lois Jean Gerke will be exhibiting her project in division VI, at the state fair, as first prize winner; second place went to Margaret Boerger, Root. Helen Rumple, Jefferson, and Carol Norquest, Decatur, both will exhibit their projects at the state fair this August. Their placings were first and second in division VII, respectively. CLOSE FOR FUNERAL The Decatur Daily Democrat office will be closed from 12 noon until 3 p.m. Wednesday during funeral services for Dick D. Heller, Sr., publisher of the newspaper. Wednesday’s edition will be readied by noon but will not be printed until the usual press time of 3 o’clock.

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Uneasy Calm Shattered By Death Attempt Five Persons Killed When Another Auto Sets Off Booby Trap BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD—Lebanese rebels tried today to assassinate Premier Sami Solh in a near-miss ambush that shattered the uneasy calm before Thursday's crucial presidential elections. Five persons died when another car set off a huge booby - trap rigged to kill Solh as he sped over a mountain road from his summer residence to a cabinet meeting here. Solh himself escaped unhurt in the blast and in a fusillade of gunfire from the hidden rebels. The assassination attempt missed only through a quirk of •’ fate. The rebels, loaded an abandoned car by the roadside with explosives and stretched a tripwire across the road. American at Scene But seconds before Solh sped down the mountain road with a motorcycle and jeep escort, another privately owned automobile hit th tripwire. The force of the explosion hurled the car 200 feet down the embankment, killed the motorcycle trooper in front of Solh’s Cadillac and shattered windows in the escort jeep. Four persons in the automobile —a Nash Rambler —were killed, . A baby survived the blast and the fall. An American citizen of Lebanese extraction was one of the first to reach the scene and discovered that the car was driven by a cousin. The American was Edward Mokhiber, of Niagara Falls. N.%., who has been visiting relatives in the nearby mountain village of Beit Marie. The hidden rebels opened fire as soon as Solh’s car swung into view. Solh crouched in the back while his escort fired back. None of the bullets came near his vehicle, which took cover 'around a bend until troops drove off the attackers. Then Solh cont inued under heavy guard to the capital. It was the first assassination attempt against a leading member of President Camille Chamoun’s government since the rebellion erupted three months ago. Solution Appeared Near The assassination attempt came even while the, crisis appeared near solution. Prospects for an end to the controversy and withdrawal of U.S. troops had brightened with the reported acceptance of the presidential nomination, by Gen. Euad Chehab. Chehab, commander in chief of the 9,000-man Lebanese army, had been a key figure in the protracted negotiations to find the man to succeed President Chamoun who would be acceptable to both govrnment and opposition forces. An official statement on the general's position is scheduled to be issued before nightfall. He is expected to announce he wil accept the post if electd by Parlia- ' ment. ; ~~ Parliamnt is scheduled to meet Thursday to select Chamoun’s successor. If Chehab is elected—(Continued on page four) W Lase Bulletins PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) — The government of President Francois Duvalier today put down a revolutionary coup after several hours of fighting which left seven persons dead and a number of others wounded. LONDON (UPI) — Britain intends to propose a firm date “on or about Aug. 11” for a summit meeting of the U. N. Security Council in New York. .. diplomatic sources said tonight.