Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1958 — Page 1

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THUNDEROUS WELCOME TO NAUTILUS — Every vessel in the channel blows a welcome with sirens, horns and whistles as crowds line the pier at Portland, England to greet the nuclear-powered U.S. Submarine Nautilus docking at the end of a trail-blazing undersea journey across the top of the world/ Enroute from Hawaii the vessel had sighted land only twice, at St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Straits and at Iceland, where they disembarked the ship’s Captain, Comdr. William R. Anderson, who was flown to Washington for decoration by President Eisenhower.

Only One Tax Unit To Have I Lower Rate

All property taxes in Adams, county except in Union township, 1 will be up in 1959 if the county council and tax adjustment board! allow the proposed rates, a study of the legal ads shows. Decatur’s tax rate will approach $6, being $5.96 in Decatur-Root “ and $5.92 in Decatur-Washington. This year’s rate was $5.66 in Deca-tur-Root and $5.60 in DecaturWashington. In Union township a 35 cent reduction in rates, from $2.68 to $2.33, is proposed by the township trustee. These proposed rates are the highest’possible. The county council local tax adjustment board, and state board of tax commissioners may lower, but not raise these figures. Past experience shows that the county rate will probably be slightly lower than proposed, and some other units will certainly be lowered, depending on complaints from taxpayers at the public meetings and on errors found by the various tax boards. Rate increases proposed range from one cent in Preble township to 39 cents in Geneva. The state property tax rate will be decreased from 15 cents to eight cents by law this year The state can, if it wishes, set the tax lower, but not higher. The estimates included here are based on the maximum slate rate of eight cents in each taxing unit The proposed county rate is sz cents, as compared with a final rate last year of 83 cents. So ea.h unit loses seven cents on the state level, and gains nine cents in the county level, a net increase in the rate of two cents over the 195» figures. . , ~ Total township rates, including both the township fund, previously advertised on a township basis, and the poor relief rate, which will run in the county ad Friday, are proposed as follows: Blue Creek. 34 cents; French, 18 cents; Hartford, 29 cents; Jefferson, 33 cents: Kirkland. 13 cents; Monroe, Preble, and Union, 11 cents each; Root, 15 cents; St. Mary’s, 25 cents; Wabash, 29 cents, and Washington, 21 cents. Township rates will range from 34 cents in Blue Creek to 11 cents ' in Preble, Monroe, and Union. City and town corporations will be taxed at the township rate of the township in which the property is located; for example, DecaturRoot will have Root township’s rate, Decatur-Washington will have Washington township’s rate. School and library rates for the various taxing units are proposed as follows: Blue Creek, $1.52; French, $3; Hartford, $2.18; Jefferson, $2.11; Kirkland, $2.68: Monroe, $2.69; Preble. $1.36: Root, $2.09; St. Mary’s, $2.16; Union, $1.22; Wabash, $3.08; Washington, $2.74; Berne, $3.24; Decatur-Root, (Continued on page five)

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j Second U. S. Sub Cruising Under Ice Cap USS Skate Cruises In Continuation Os Historic Voyages WASHINGTON (UPI) — The USS Skate, second American nuclear submarine to sail under the North Pole, today cruised beneath the polar ice cap to continue its historic explorations. Hie Defense Department announced Tuesday night the Skate crossed the North Pole at 9:47 p.m. e.d.t., Monday while exploring undersea routes beneath the polar cap. It was the second historic subpolar crossing for U.S. atom subs in eight days. The USS Nautilus passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic byway of the Pole last week following a hitherto unknown “deep sea valley” proclaimed by the White House as a new route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.) told the Senate the voyage of tte Skate, coming quickly after the Nautilus cruise, demonstrated the “one-two punch” of the Navy. He read the Senate the United Press International dispatch disclosing the Skate’s accomplishment. Staying Under Ice The Skate sailed from its home base of New London, Conn., July 30, carrying a crew of 10 officers, 87 enlisted men and nine civilian technicians. It is skippered by Cmdr. James F. Calvert.of Cleveland, Ohio. The Navy said the Skate surfaced in an “ice lead” about 40 miles from the Pole and reported its polar crossing by radio. “The submarine is continuing her underice explorations,” the Navy said, ivum Page six) Mostly fair this afternoon and tonight except chance of ag few late afternoon or evening thundershowers extreme south. Little temperature change tonight. Thursday partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely north, warmer north Thursday. Low tonight 64 to 68 north, 68 to 71 south. High Thursday 84 to 88 north and east, near 96 extreme southwest. Sunset today 7:41 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:56 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Warm and humid with scattered thundershowers. Lows 65 to 73. Highs 85 to 92.

U.S. Marines Begin Pulling - Out Os Beirut Battalion Os 1,700 Begins Withdrawal From Lebanon Today BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)—A battalion of 1.700 U.S. Marines began pulling out of Lebanon today —the United States’ answer to Russian charges the American troops were here for "aggression.” The Marines began their move by pulling their heavy equipment up to the beaches where they landed July 15 at the invitation of President Camille Chamoun who felt his government was threatened by outside forces. on the beach estimated it would take two or three days before all 1,700 men and their equipment were placed aboard the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The withdrawal leaves approximately 9,000 airborne troops and 3,000 Marines in Lebanon. The men and officers of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd U.S. Marine Division began moving out only a few hours before the U.N. General Assembly opened its crucial debate on the Middle East in New York. Th 2nd Battalion was the first to come ashore here in response to the urgent appeal of Chamoun for assitance in "maintaining the independence and integrity” of Lebanon. The partial — but significant — withdrawal was announced Tuesday by Adm. James (Lord Jim) Holloway, commander of American forces in Lebanon. He said the evacuation was carried out in agreement with Chamoun and President-elect Maj, Gen. Fuad Chehab that “there has been material improvement in the internal and external security situation” in Lebanon. A State Department spokesman in Washington said he knew of no plans for any immediate withdrawal x>f, additional .troops from Lebanon. He laid down the following conditions under which such withdrawals would be carried out: —“Whenever requested by the Lebanese government” —"Whenever the United Nations has taken adequate measures to achieve the goals for which the U.S. fores were requeste.” Approve Renewal Os Beer, Wine Permit Protests Filed To Beverage Permit The application for the renewal of the beer and wine retailer permit of the A&P Tea company was approved by the county alcoholic beverage board despite petitions signed by more than 800 names protesting the application. Twenty-nine persons appeared at the court house Tuesday to protest to the alcoholic beverage board the application for the renewal of the license. Several were members of the Adams county W.C.T.U., and the ministerial association was represented by seven ministers from in and near Decatur. Several petitions containing more than 800 names signed by residents in and near the community protesting the renewal were submitted to the board. The county board unanimously approved the application filed by the company. The board could find no legal reason to deny the application, as the A&P has complied with the laws in past years. The four major reasons given by the peoplfc protesting the renewal were: children are influenced by the selling of beer and wine in a grocery; the operation of such a permit is injurious to the pride the people in this community have for their church and schools; there are many outlets for alcoholic beverages within Adams county and Decatur which the petitions charged are bringing about a decline in personal responsibilities in the community and nation; and that other groceries in Decatur do not handle alcoholic beverages. The above mentioned reasons appeared on the petitions filed by the group. The remonstrance containing the names will accompany the application when it is sent to the alcoholic beverage commission in Indianapolis, for final action. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Defense Department said today the time is close at hand for America’s first rocket shoot to the moon.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 13,1958

President Eisenhower Offers United Nations Peace Plan On Mideast

Accuses U.S., Great Britain Os Aggression Gromyko Addresses U.N.'s Emergency Session After Ike UNITED NATIONS (UPl)—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko today accused the United States and Britain of “aggression” against Lebanon and Jordan. Addressing the emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly immediately following President Eisenhower, Gromyko said Russia “cannot remain indifferent to the fact that in the immediate neighborhood of its frontier, the fulcrum of war is being built up." He said the assembly had been called into emergency session because of “the aggression of the United States and the United Kingdom against Lebanon and Jordan.” He shot an open warning to Turkey, lying between the Soviet Un« ion and the troubled Middle East, not to become involved. “Any disturbance in the area can only drag Turkey into the holocaust of war,” Gromyko said. "The Soviet Union wants to m main on good terms with Turkey? and this is why we offer this warning.” "There has appeared the thesis.” Gromyko said, “that the acts of the United States were prompted by some alleged indirect aggression against Lebanon by other states. This is completely unfounded. Propaganda was launched at full speed to make the slogan popular... “One can definitely state that indirect aggression has become a part of American policy... “In order to justify an armed attack, the legend was launched regarding indirect aggression. From the East, from the South, from everywhere, except the West, from which the troops, in fact, came.” Gromyko said the United States and Britain showed “complete contempt for the U.N. and its charter” by sending forces into Lebanon and Jordan. “Os course,” he said, “the leading statesmen of the United Kingdom and the United States realize lull well that intervention in the domestic affairs of such countries cannot but cause reaction by the I (Continued on page five)

Ann ual Monroe Days Ai e Planned Sept. 11-12-13

For the third straight year, three civic organizations in the town of Monroe will sponsor “Monroe Days,” an old-fashioned street fair with rides, free attractions, beauty contest, tractor pull, and greased pole climb, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Sept. 11-13. Howard Habegger, general chairman, announced that the three days of entertainment would please the entire family, and only the finest entertainment, meeting the standards of the county ministerial association, would be furnished. Members of the planning committee aret George Thomas, Dick La Fountaine, and Wayne Minnich, of the Monroe rural fire department; Gale Cook, Mel Liechty, and John Genth, of the Monroe Lions club; and Paul Zurcher, Howard Habegger, and Gene Hike of the Monroe town fire department. For the past two years all funds from the "Monroe Days” festival have gone to buying a rural fire truck and building the fire station and town hall in Monroe. This year, the rural fire department will use its share for maintenance of its truck; the town fire department will start a fund to buy a new truck; and the Lions will use theirs for a worthy charity in keeping with their charter. Among the many new features this year will ba an improved

55 4-H Projects To Indiana Fair Adams County 4-H Projects To Fair Adams County 4-H’ehs will be represented at the Indiana state fair with 55 project exhibits from the 31 4-H clubs of the county. Exhibitors were chosen at the county 4-H fair held the last three days of July at toe fairgrounds at Mpnroe. The state fair will begin Wednesday, August 27, and will wind up its activities Thursday, September 4. Clothing and food preservation projects will have the most Adams county competitors, nine in each, and another jgirls’ home economics project, baking, will have eight Adams county entrants. Three special events will have Adams county entrants. Before the fair begins, Monday, August 25, Lois Jean Gerke, of the Union Pals, will compete in the food preservation judgitig contest. She won the district contest at Wabash earlier this summer after winning toe county contest in June. Esther Brehm, of the Monroe Boosterettes, will present her special demonstration, “Pretty as a Bouquet,” in the special demonstration contest. Thursday, August 28, on high school band day at fie fair grounds, she will compete » the raw and frozen foods contest, showing how to make a relish plate. Saturday, August 30, named youth achievement day at the state fair, Carol Norquest, of the Decatur Peppy Gals, will represent the county in the state fair dress revere. She will model her ensemble along with 93 other contestants in the fair grounds coUseuin. Following are the names of the exhibitors, along with their projects and clubs. Pig project, Joan Brown Kirkland Kut-Ups. Sheep project, Gyneth Schnepp, Washington Happy Hustlers, Gary Fifer, Root Roving Rangers. Beef project, Charles Bentz, French Happy Hoosiers. Dual purpose animal project, Joe Kohne, Washington Variety Farmers. Dairy project, Rosetta, Gregg, and Sara Nell Liechty, Wabash Workers and Berne Jolly Workers. Entomology., Steven Kaye, Decatur City Slickers. Garden collections, Mary Jane Baker, Jefferson Work and Win; Lois Jean Gerke, Union Pals; Jim Fuhrman, Preble Green Leaf. Forestry, David Swickard, Decatur City Slickers; Sheldon Bixler, Monroe Boosters; and Lynford Weiland, Union Workers. Wildlife, John Geimer, St. Mary’s Sodbusters. LontinuteQ ua page six)

midway down the main street of Monroe, including 16 rides and concessions of the Carpenter Brothers show out of St. Mary’s, Ohio. A Monroe days queen will be named on the last evening of the show, following a talent contest Friday night. Martin Steiner and Mrs. Clarence Mitchel will head the committee to arrange the queen contest. Merchants interested in sponsoring a contestant may do so by submitting the name of the girl, telling what she plans to do in the talent contest phase, and enclosing $lO. The fees will be completely expended in the purchase of prizes for the girls, and every girl entering will receive a prize. The winner of the title “Miss Monroe Days” will receive a prize and also be certified by the committee for entry in the Junior Miss Indiana contest at Bluffton later this fall. Details on entering the contest and on-Sthe age qualifications may be obtained' from the committee. The celebration will open Thursday night with a parade of bands and vehicles through the streets of Monroe. It is hoped that all the county bands will enter. Each band will receive a cash award, and special awards will go to the three best majorettes. Elmer Ehrsam and Leo Strahm are co(Contblued on page six)

Florida Man Testifies To Placing Bets Contractor Relates Placing Bets With Gambling Syndicate INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A Florida building contractor said today he placed SIOO and S2OO bets on the University of Miami with a gambling syndicate which operated for 10 weeks at Terre Haute, Ind., last fall and grossed millions of dollars. Julius Gaines, who said he had built 8,000 homes in the Miami area and once “ran a couple of hotels,” was the only talkative person among 13 men from cities stretching from coast to coast who showed up as witnesses in a federal grand jury investigation of the syndicate. Most of them refused to give even their names, and some turned their backs on newsmen seeking to question them about their connections, if any, with an operation raided last Nov. 29 after it ’allegedly grossed $3,500,000 in 2% months. Gaines showed newsmen his subpena showing he was called to testify about wagers he made. “I never het on. anything, but football, and I never bet on anything but the University of Miami,” Gaines said. “I’m a sucker.” He said he was a witness because his telephone number showed up in records of phone calls at Terre Haute. Sam Segal, Minneapolis, Minn., sales manager for a wholesale liquor distributor, said he placed some bets on football games by telephone. But he did not say how much or on what teams he wagered. Glen Johnson, a U.S. Treasury intelligence agent who led the raid, identified other witnesses already on hand as: Ex-Bookmaker Named Julius (Yammy) Fischman, St. Louis, Mo. (business unknown). E.A. Thornwell Jr., Atlanta, (Continued on nwre Six) Five From County To State Fair Schools Five 4-H Members Chosen By Council Five 4-H’ers from Adams county have been selected to attend the Indiana state fair girls school and the state fair boys camp at Indianapolis during the last part of August and the first days of September. Three girls will attend the girls’ school, from August 26 through September 5. Helen Rumple, of the Jefferson Work and Win club: the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rumple, route two, Berne has completed nine years of 4-H club work. Jean Wass, of the Union Pals club, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Wass, route two, Monroeville, and has also completed nine years of 4-H club Work. Third delegate to the girls school will be Janice Van Emon, of the Wabash Cloverblossoms. Just completing eight years of club work, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymojnd Van Emon, rqute two, Geneva. Completing the Adams county delegation to the two schools wijl be 4-H boys. Larry Busick, of the Root Roving Rangers, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lydia Busick, of route three, and his completed eight years of 4-H membership. Attending the boys camp with Busick. August 26 through September 5, will be Alan Habegger, of the Monroe Boosters. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Habegger, route one, Berne, and has also completed eight years of 4-H work. Adams county’s five were selected by the 4-H club council on the basis of their outstanding 4-H ac(Conr.sued on rn<« Six)

Nationalist China Under Red Pressure Tells Os Danger Os U.S. Involement TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD— Defense Minster Yu Ta-wei said today that Communist seizure of the Quemoy and Matsu outpost islands would involve the United States in the war of nerves against Nationalist China. In an exclusive interview, Yu said that loss of the Quemoys and the Matsus would move the Nationalist defense line back to the Pescadores, which the United States has promised to protect. The U.S.-educated defense minister said the Communists are already developing a pattern of pressure against the outpost islands just like the one they used to drive the Nationalists out of the Tachen Islands three years ago. This time, Yu said, there is one difference — Nationalist China is determined to fight if necessary to hold on to its last outposts instead of pulling out as it did from the Tachens. “We will defend our territory to the bitter end...” he said. “If you do not hold the QuemoyMatsu line, what line do you hold? Any other line would involve America, because the only other line in th® Formosa Straits is at the Pescadores.” The defense minister said the Communists have moved their Russian-made MIGI7 jets to a forward base only 15 minutes by air from Taipei. He emphasized the Nationalist need for late - model U.S. planes “to maintain air sulConur.ve<j on p*k« five) Poor Relief Rates Listed By Townships Six Are Unchanged, F6ur Will Increase Six township poor relief tax rates will remain the same, four will rise, and two will decrease according to the levies and rates estimated by the county auditor’s office. Blue Creek and Washington township poor rates will show the greatest increases, three cents each, bringing Blue Creek up to 16 cents and Washington up to 18 cents. French township will have a two-cent increase to five cents, and Jefferson a one-cent increase to five cents. Root, Union, Kirkland, Monroe, Hartford and Wabash are estimated to remain the same as was estimated last year. Their rates werer Root, eight cents; Union, one cent; Kirkland, two cents; Monroe, four cents; Hartford, no rate, Wabash, ten cents. St. Mary’s township’s poor relief rate will go down two cents to 12 cents, and Preble’s poor relief rate will go down one cent to one cent; Hartford’s proposed rate last year was one cent, but this was reduced to zero last year, and nothing was requested this year since only S6OO is expected to be ex pended, and it is estimated that there will be $1,141.33 balance in the Hartford township poor relief fund Jan. 1. Estimated poor relief figures will vary from $29,300 needed in Washington township to only S6OO needed in Preble and Hartford. Other amounts needed are: Blue Creek, $2,550; French, $950; Jefferson, $1,250; Kirkland, $750; Monroe, $4,000; Root, $5,000; St. Mary’s $4,800; Union, $1,000; and Wabash, $5,200. Estimated operating balances for Jan. 1, 1959 range from $16.89 in French township to $6,909.02 in Washington township. Other balance estimates are: Blue Creek, $19.52; Hartford, $1,131.33; Jefferson, $514.89; Kirkland, $314.63; Monroe, $955.22; Preble, $2,731.35; Root, $494.07; St. Mary’s, $2,002.64; Union, $Bl6 31; Wabash, $1,769.62. Total amount needed for direct relief administered through the township trustees in Adams county is $56,000, with an average rate of nearly seven cents needed to collect the amount needed in addition to estimated balances Jan. 1.

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Ike Denounces War Hysteria By Khrushchev Urges Creation Os Standby Force, Self Aid To Arab States UNITED NATIONS (UPD — President Eisenhower today urged speedy creation of a standby United Nations military force and a do-it-yourself economic program for the Arab states in a six-point peace plan for the Middle East. Eisenhower addressed the opening session of a United Nations General Assembly call e d into emergency meeting to consider the Middle East crisis. It was his first appearance before the U.N. body since he made his dramatic “atoms for peace” proposal from the same rostrum on Dec. 8. 1953. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were the only speakers listed at today’s meeting of the 81 U.N, members. - The President denounces efforts of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchv ”to create a war hysteria” in the Mideast crisis. Without mentioning Khrushchev by name, Eisenhower said the Russian leader’s efforts “to ploit man’s horror of war” could be called “ballistic blackmail.” His 6-Point Plan The President said it was "important” that his six-point plan be viewed as a whole. He listed it: "United Nations concern for Lebanon. “United Nations measures* to preserve peace in Jordan. “An end to the fomenting from without of civil strife. “A United Nations peace force. “A regional economic development plan to assist and accelerate improvement in the living standards of the people in these Arab nations. “Steps to avoid a new arms race spiral in the area.” As a means of preventing outside sources from stirring up strife from within, the President propoked U.N. monitoring of radio broadcasts “directed across national frontiers in the troubled Near East Area.” Need Standby Peace The President said carrying out of his peace plan could mean “in a few short years” that the Lebanon and Jordan crises would mark “the beginning of a great new era of Arab history.” Referring to Russia’s “ballistic blackmail,” the President demanded: “Should it not be serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?” Such pressures will never be used successfully against the United States, he said. But he said he had asked to address the General Assembly for the second time because such pressures created “dangers which affect every one of us.” The Lebanon and Jordan crises "clearly demonstrated” the urgent need for setting up a standby UN. military force, the President said. Mideast nations should be able to get “prompt and effective action” by the United Nations when endangered by “armed pressure and infiltration coming across their borders,” he said. This required a U.N. military force to make the world organization’s “presence manifest in the area of trouble,” he said. “Therefore, I believe this assmbly should take action looking toward the creation of a standby U.N. peace force,” Eisenhower said. \ Explains Economic Plan In proposing a regional Arab development program,. the 'President broke with the U.S. tradition of. offering* economic aid only on a nation-to-nation basis. But he emphasized that the nation-to-nation policy would-be continued except when the regional basis appeared more feasible. 7; Eisenhower made clear that the United States would not take the (Continued on oa«o ata)