Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol .LVI. No. 194.

BIGGEST NUCLEAR SUB— The submarine sail, known as the conning tower in the pre-nuclear era, is set in place on the Triton, world’s largest submarine, at General Dynamics Corporation yard in Groton, Conn The 5,900-tori atomic submarine, being readied for launching on Tuesday, is 130 feet longer than the Nautilus and is designed to serve as a floating distant early warning station, running ahead of the fleet to give advance warning of approaching enemy vessels and planes.

First Survey Is Completed On City Power ■I ■'

A field survey of the rural distribution system of the city of Decatur Light & Power company, the first of five local electric surveys, has been completed by Consoer, Townsend & Associates, and is now being evaluated by the city council members. Neither the council nor the city has yet studied the plan, nor decided what action, if any, will be taken before the entire survey is completed. The summary of findings and conclusions stated: the rural distribution feeder circuits were in poor to fair physical condition. Based upon maximum hourly loads on these rural feeders, the voltage drops vary from 4.5% to as much as 32%. Spend or Sell The rural distribution system appears to have grown to its present size without the benefit of too much sound engineering advice. To improve the rural lines to a satisfactory condition, the immediate spending of $300,000 to $330,000 is necessary, and probably $75,000 to SIOO,OO per year for approximately three to five years. It was Consoer Townsends opinion that if the utility is to continue in operation, it must abandon the idea of generating its electrical energy, since it can be purchased wholesale at quite eduction in cost. The costs have been and are too high to maintain either generating or distribution facilities. To bring both rural and city lines to a satisfactory physical as well as financial position would require the immediate spending of nearly $1,00,000, abandonment of the generating department, and an increase in revenues of approximately $75,000 a year for at least five years. Except for the high cost of generating electricity, the rural line has created the present critical situation,. Consoer-Townsend continued. They advised selling the rural lines if the city desired to continue its own distribution system without terribly high immediate expeditures. The rural system consists mainly of seven feeder circuits: Union township, 105 miles long, with a transformer capacity of 2,060 kilowatt; Union Chapel line, 22 miles long, with a transformer capacity of 500 kilowatt; Root township line, 32 miles long, with a transformer capacity of 750 kilowatts; Yost and River road line, seven miles long, with a capacity of 550 kilowatts; Mount Pleasant line, 11 miles long, with a transformer capacity of 185 kilowatts; the )Vashtogton township; j and the Mud Pike line, 18 miles long, with transformer capacity of 420 kilowatts. Voltage Drops Conoser-Townsend estimated voltage drops on the feeder lines as follows: Union township, 15%; union township Chapel, 6.5%; Root U township, 4.5%; Yost and River Road, 10.5%; Mount Pleasant, 7%; townshi P. 32%; Mud Fike, 24%. The main problem, they stated was that these feeder were just extensions of circuits supplying substantial loads within the city limits. They should be, the report continued, separate feeders supplying the rural lines only. This results in an excessive vlotage drop at the city limits which wots. ens the farther the circuit extends. (Continued on page four)

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Johnson Says Test Failure Grim Warning Democratic Senate Leader Says Failure Warns U.S. Lagging WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Democratic leader seized on the ex--1 plosion of America’s first moon rocket today as a “grim warning” that this country is behind Russia in missile development. Simultaneously, high military offcials here, as well as foreign sources, said the Russians may now beat the United States to the moon. The nation’s first moon rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral. Fla., Sunday morning, exploded after traveling only 50,000 feet in 77 seconds. Its first-stage Thor missile—the Air Force’s intermediate range ballistic missile <lßßM)—exploded and demolished the entire three-stage rocket. Lt. Gen. Roscoe Wilson, Air Force research and development chief, said a new U.S. try to shoot a rocket to the vicinity of the moon would be made in another 28 days. He said the Thor still could be relied upon as an IRBM. But Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, who long has demanded a greater step-up in U.S. space and missile development, saw the blowup as a timely warning to Americans. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Space Committee, agreed with several other congressmen that the moon failure was not too significant in itself because it was the first trial “and the chances of success' were uncertain at best.” “What is significant,” Johnson said in a statement, “is that we are still having so much trouble with our best and most thoroughly tested rockets. “This is a grim warning to America. Our best is second best and unless we step up the pace we won’t be in the race at all." General Wilson said the Russians might beat the United States to the moon because their location would give them “an earlier shot by a day or two” when conditions next are ready—a little less than a month hence. He. also said he thought “they probably have tried already.” In London a leading British space expert 'predicted Russia would try very soon”—possibly within days—to launch a moon rocket. There were reports the Russians had tried to “shoot the moon” not once but several times (Continued on page two) INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Warmer north and central portions Tuesday. Low tonight 55 to 62 northeast, 62 to 67 southwest. High Tuesday 85 to 92. Sunset today 7:37 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:01 a.m. Outlook fqr Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cool north portion. Partly cloudy and warmer sooth. Lows 60 to 70. Highs 80 to 90.

Two Witnesses Deny Link To Gambling Ring Gambling Syndicate Probe Continues By Indianapolis Jury INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A Tennesseean and a New Yorker denied today that they had any connections, even as customers, with a betting parlor which federal authorities contend took in $3,500,000 in 10 weeks. Ben Goad, 73, Nashville, Tenn., and Ash Resnick, New York City, made statements to newsmen as they waited for a federal grand jury to call them as witnesses under subpena in a probe of an alleged international syndicate Mudea~atT^fTe _ Tfauto,lhd.,laSt Nov. 29. They were among 24 men scheduled to appear today as the jury started its second week of a twoweek inquiry in which 180 persons were due to testify. Goad said he suffered a stroke last January and retired as an employe of the Rainbow Dinner Club in Nashville. Before that, he said, he did odd jobs such as answering telephones. “I don’t know why I was called,” he told reporters. “I never placed any bets.” He said he didn’t know anything about the Terre Haute operation. He said U.S. marshals even had his subpena addressed to the wrong place. Resnick was asked if he was a bettor or a gambler. “Neither,” he told newsmen. “I don’t know why I’m here.” Others on today’s witness schedule as announced by government spokesmen were: Walter Gray, Chicago, described as an industrial builder. Neville Alfred, Fort Worth, Tex. Gilbert Beckley, Covington, Ky. Sam Anderman, Santa Monica, Calif. George Brooks, Los Angeles. Sam Einstoss, San Francisco. Manuel Fine, Los Angeles. Jerome Zarowitz, Miami. Morris Orloff, Los Angeles. Abe Samuels, Chicago, manufacturer of duplicating machines. Albert Joseph Schultze, Houston, Tex. Michael Shapiro, Beverly Hills, Calif. Harold Tracton, Los Angeles. Benjamin McKeage, no address. Harry Engelman, New York City. Hershey Lass, Chicago. John R. Crawford, Wynnwaod Pa. Herman Sharwell, Columbus Ohio. Herman Miller, Philadelphia. Paul B. Fassula, Baton Rouge, La. Daniel P. Shanahan, Boston, (Continued on page two)

Injuries Fatal To Decatur Resident Crash Hurts Fatal To Charles Tolan Funeral services were held this afternoon at Rockford, 0.. for Charles R. Tolan, 26, of 107 South Seventh street, who died Saturday at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne of injuries suffered in a traffic accident near Fort Wayne last Thursday night. The accident victim was riding his motorcycle east of Fort Wayne on U. S. highway 30 during a heavy rainstorm Thursday night when he was struck by a westbound car making a left turn into the McDonald sandwich shop. Driver of the car was James S. Perrin, 22, of Fort Wayne. Perrin has been charged with failure to yield the right-of-way. Tolan was thrown 45 feet by the crash and suffered multiple fractures of the left leg and foot, fractures of the right leg, and internal injuries. He was in critical condition from the time of the accident until his death. He was born at Rockford June 8, 1932, a son of Reid and Donna Tolan. He was a veteran of the Korean conflict, serving from 1950 until 1954. He had resided in Decatur since his discharge from service, and was ah employe of the Ford plant at Lima, O. Surviving are his father and stepmother, two half-brothers, Thomas and John Tolan, and a half-sister, Roberta Tolan, all of Rockford route 2; a brother, Lloyd Tolan of Van Wert, 0., and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Charles Schumm, of Rockford route 2. Services were held at 2 p. m. this afternoon in the Olive Branch Church of God, near Rockford, the Rev. Albert Swenson official tag. Burial was in Riverside cemetery -at Rockford.

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Democratic-Sponsored Housing Bill Is Killed By Close House Vote

First Attempt At Moon Rocket Ends In Failure Air Force's First Moonshot Attempt Fails Early Sunday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The Air Force — its first moonshot effort a failure — made tentative plans today to try again in four weeks to fire a rocket around the moon. There was speculation Russia might make a similar attempt several days in advance of the second U. S. effort. Meanwhile, the Army was reported ready to shoot for the moon. Disintegration of the U. S. rocket after it had traveled less than 10 miles of its projected . 220,000 - mile journey into space Sunday was cited by Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas as a “grim warning” to Americans this country is behind Russia in missile development. But most officials stressed there had been little expectation of success in this nation’s first effort to probe the mysteries of the moon at close range. They maintained the failure was not significant. Reds Poke Fun European newspapers, meanwhile, expressed disappointment at the U. S. failure. But most expressed confidence the U. S. would succeed in the near future. Communist nations, as expected, poked fun at the U. S. failure and chided this country for building up advance publicity for a venture which had little hope of success.” Space research chief Roy John- < son said after the explosion of 1 the rocket Able I that the Air Force probably also would get ■ the next moon chance. It cannot 1 be attempted before Sept. 14 1 when the moon’s perigee again 1 brings it relatively close to the < earth. Because of the moon’s < position, Russia could make an attempt a day or so earlier. ( The Air Force had three moon i shoots assigned and the Army 1 two. 1 A completely successful flight i would have given the earth its first crude pictures of the moon’s 1 eternally - hidden dark side. S This picture would have been S reconstructed by scientists from 1 radioed data from a television- < lie “scanning device” in the moon 1 satellite. i Army Rockets Ready s Two fat Army missiles stood j out in their sparkling towers at (Continued on page two)

Old Decatur Landmark To Be Sold Wednesday

(Editor’s note: This is the first of two articles as written by Miss Barbara Fiechter, Daily Democrat reporter). Wednesday marks a sort of official end of an old Decatur landmark and the era of a fine craft that Decatur and, in a quiet way, the state and surrounding area, have enjoyed for 6 years. Some 25 pieces of woodworking equipment and a cider press will be sold at 640 North Third street, High’s Woodworking Mill. All sorts of things have been made in this mill: things whose mention has a tinge of nostalgia attached, such as the Kirsch car, a symbol of custom craftsmanship in cars when it was handmade around 1913; to things that have installed in homes, that have been used in machinery, that are useful, free from manufacturing flaws, and real works of art. The articles have been used from the time most farm machinery needed strong wooden parts, to the age of the picture window which needed strong framework and fine cabinets and wall paneling for the rooms behind the

fen Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic Two Crashes Claim —Five Lives Saturday United Press International Ten persons were killed in Indiana traffic during the week-end, including five in two crashes occurring less than 30 miles apart Within the same hour. Anton Jefkich. 31, Milwaukee, Wis... became the last, victim when he died in a South Bend hospital just before midnight Sunday from injuries sustained in a truck-car accident on Ind. 2 earlier in the day. Jerkich’s big truck loaded with steel tubing ran into the rear of a car and Jerkich was burned when the cab burst into flames. A pickup truck and a car smashed headon Saturday night on U.S. 52 two miles north of Lebanon. State police said three persons were killed in the crash because Francis D. Padgett. 46, Indianapolis, got on the wrong side of a dividing strip coming off two-lane pavement. Padgett, his mother, Rose, 65, and William H. McCauley, 33, Dumas, Tex,, were killed. Two passengers in the Padgett car and two in the truck were injured. State police said apparently Chester Smith, 57, Bloomington, was driving the truck around a Rational Guard convoy when Padgett’s car approached. The truck burst into flames. All three of its passengers were thrown into the grassy strip dividing the lanes. At nearly the same time, two cars collided in a one-lane railroad underpass on the outskirts of Indianapolis. John Murphy, 28, and Ellen Aikman, 50, both of Indianapolis, were killed. Authorities said Murphy's car hit the side of the tunnel and bounced into a car driven by Wallace Miller of Greenwood. A two-car crash Sunday night at an Elkhart County road intersection two miles south of Elkhart killed Mrs. Sophie Catherine Kazda, 45, South Bend, and seriously injured her husband, George, 55. Authorities said Kazda disregarded a stop sign and his car rammed the side of an automobile driven by Keith Cook, 16, Elkhart. The Kazda car bounced into a tree. Cook was hospitalized. Martin Mylet, 71, Peru, died in Dukes Memorial Hospital at Peru Sunday from injuries sustained Saturday night when he was hit by a car. The driver of the car, John Singletary, 55, Peru, said he was driving on U.S. 24 on the west edge of Peru when Mylet stepped from the curb into the path of his car. Mrs. Georgiana Barnes, 29, Elk(Continued on page five)

windows. And “Decatur will miss it” is the prediction. Decatur, and the surrounding area, are already finding out, as orders for woodworking have been refused already, in preparatiqn for the sale of the woodworking machines. Two craftsmen, Peter Kirsch and Ernest High, have worked to establish the mill by making all these things. It's worth a trip through some history books, to talk to someone who knew the founder, and to make a trip to the mill itself to talk to the man who built and continued the business. Founding the mill in 1893, thirty-year-old Peter Kirsch, a German immigrant, settled down in Decatur after working around the area as a carpenter. His business was making wooden parts for farm tools and planing wood for smooth sidings, walls, and “house trimmings. The name of the establishment: the Peter Kirsch Factory, or the Kirsch Planing Mill, according to the Citizens’ Historical Association. Born in the derman university city of Heidelberg, Kirsch had (Continued on page five)

Three Nations Propose U. N. Secretary Act Resolution Would Empower Secretary To Seek Settlement UNITED NATIONS (UPD—Norway, Colombia and Canada today proposed a resolution for United Nations General Assembly consideration asking Dag Hammarskjold to take steps to settle the Middle East situation. The draft resolution, product of days of negotiation, would empower Hammarskjold to go personally to the Middle East on another of his “quiet diplomacy” peace missions, informed diplomats said. Qualified dipomats said it would be possible for the assembly’s emergency session to vote on the resolution by Thursday and for Hammarskjold to be in the turbulent Middle East by this weekend. The resolution, d esig ne d to make possible the withdrawal of American and British forces from Lebanon and Palestin, calls upon Hammarskjold to conduct a study for the establishment of a U.N. peace force. U.S. Attitude Stiffens It also would allow him to begin negotiations on the setting up of an Arab development institution in a Middle East do-it-yourself economic program as suggested by President Eisenhower. Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Hans Engen did most of the negotiating work on the measure. A stiffening attitude by the United States against having the Eisenhower plan watered down too far cost Engen the support of several sponsors. The assembly’s public debate on the Middle East was 35 minutes late in starting today as negotiations were rushed on the resolution. Dr. Charles Malik, foreign minister of Lebanon, had been listed as the day’s opening speaker, but he cancelled at the last minute. Engen planned to make his resolution public Sunday night after an all-day session of negotiating. But his negotiations st ailed abruptly and he indicated he would introduce the resolution formally later today or Tuesday. So many varying points of view have been written into the resolution that U. S. delegates indicated they were doubtful they could ac(Ccntiuufcd on page four) Contempt Citation Voted On Hutcheson Carpenters Head, 12 Others Cited WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate voted contempt-of-Congress citations today against Maurice A. Hutcheson, president of the Carpehters’ Union, and 12 others who refused to answer questions before its Rackets Committee. The action was by a roll call vote of 87-0. The cases now will be sent to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a SI,OOO fine on each count. The action came after Chairman John L. McClellan denounced the tactics used by an “underworld element” to obstruct the committee’s work. He said the contempt citations were necessary to “support the power and integrity of the Senate and the Congress.” McClellan also told the Senate that 10 of the cases—not including the Hutcheson case—involved “frivolous” and “capricious” use of the Fifth Amendment in what he called a “flagrant abuse” of the constitutional right of self Incrimination. Those witnesses, McClellan said, invoked the constitutional privilege so as to “keep from giving testimony against another.”

Speaks Tonight A w W. Robert Fleming, Democratic candidate for Congress from the fourth district, will speak at Monroe this evening at the town hall at 8 o’clock at a meeting open to the general public. The dynamic attorney, former U. S. commissioner, will speak on campaign issues to a meeting sponsored by the Young Democrats of Adams county. All county and township candidates have been invited to attend.

AFL-CIO Council ; In Policy Meeting •*- ' Meany Prestige At Stake In Meeting UNITY HOUSE, Pa. (UPD — AFL-CIO President George Meany stakes his prestige against the power of James R. Hoffa's Teamsters’ empire at a series of toplevel policy meetings beginning today. Meany faced opposition within the AFL-CIO Executive Council for his expected proposal to outlaw union agreements which give aid and comfort to the Teamsters. But he received powerful support Sunday from United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther in the move to put a quarantine tag on the scandal-scarred truck union. Meany and other labor chiftains met today at this Pocono Mountain playground ownd by the International Ladies’ Garment Workrs. The UAW leader said it was incompatible with federation ethical standards for AFL-CIO affiliats to have formal links with the Hoffa-led union, which was expelled from the federation of corruption charges last year. He predicted the council would follow Meany’s advice to threaten ouster (proceedings against unions which affiliate with the Teamsters. This step could endanger the bargaining power of many smaller unions which have counted heavily on the truckdrivers support in strikes and organizing campaigns. About a dozen affiliates have mut ua 1 assistance agreements with the outcast union, and Hoffa has tried to bring others within the fold. Joseph Curran, whose National Maritime Union recently joined a three-way transport alliance with the Teamsters and the racketridden International Lon|gshoremen’s Assn., has spoken out in defense of the pacts. Curran said they are essential to unions whose members have to work side-by-side with the 1,500,-000-member Teamsters Union. One council member — Carpenters’ Union President Maurice A. Hutcheson — failed to appear to explain his refusal to tell congressional probers if he fixed a jury with union money. Hutcheson, under indictment on a charge of conspiring to bdjhe a state official in Connection with an Indiana highway scandal, said the SenaV committee lacked jurisdiction. He was expected to come under sharp criticism. Other items which appear likely to come up at this meeting of the federation’s 29-member governing body: —Revisions in the "no-raiding” agreement, which some AFL-CIO officials believe has acted to {Continued on nace att)

Six Voles Shy Os Two-Thirds Vole Needed Measure Opposed As Inflationary By Republican Leaders WASHINGTON (UPD — The House, by a 6-vote margin, today killed a Democratic - sponsored billion-dollar housing bill. This raised the prospect that Congress will adjourn this week without providing any new funds for city slum clearance and urban renewal projects. The bill—opposed as inflationary by the administration and Republican congressional leaders— was called up under no - amendment rule which required a two-thirds vote for passage. The vote was 251-134 in favor of the bill, 6 votes shy of the twothirds majority needed. Object to Procedure Democratic leaders warned Republicans in advance of the vote that it was the House’s last chance to vote on a housing bill. Rep. Albert M. Rains (D-Ala.l, sponsor of toe Democratic bill, said defeat of the controversial bill would mean that Congress, for the first time since 1948, would adjourn without enacting new housing legislation. . "J . Republicans objected in vain to the no - amendment procedure. They charged that Speaker Sam Rayburn sanctioned it to force toe House to vote this and another politically potent bill up or down. Republican leaders had demanded that the House be given a chance to vote on a 400-million-dollar bill which they drafted Friday as a substitute for the Democratic bill. They pointed out that the GOP bill was “acceptable” to the administration. The House then moved on to an--1 other bill blocking adjournment—a Senate-passed labor union reform bill. The Senate, meantime, acted on a number of uncontested bills and then voted, 87-0 to cite President Maurice A. Hutcheson of the Carpnters Union, and 12 others for contempt of Congress. The accused refused to answer questions before the Senate Rackets Committee. Rayburn, in an effort to clear the housing and labor measures, postponed scheduled House action on 62 routine bills that were expected to pass by unanimous consent. The housing and labor bills were among 35 measures scheduled for consideration under the two-thirds rule. Republican leaders said toe Senate - approved “KennedyIves” labor reform bill likewise had no chance of mustering toe needed two- thirds majority. They accused the Democratic leadership of trying to shift responsibility to the GOP for failure to pass “sound and needed” housing and labor legislation. Issue “Clear-Cut” But .House Democratic leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) said the House would face a “clearcut” issue on toe labor bill. “Any member voting against the bill is voting for a continuation of the scandals in labor and management disclosed by the McClellan (Senate Rackets) Committee,” he said. “Anyone voting tor toe bill is voting * for reforms to meet these abuses.” The Kennedy - Ives bill provides for policing of labor union and some management funds, as well as requiring secret balloting in union elections and other reforms. The House Labor Committee refused to consider it last week. The Senate, with more timeconsuming work ahead than the Hous, prepared to take up today the nomination of W. Wilson White to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s new civil rights division —a post he has been holding on an interim basis.

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