Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1958 — Page 1

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Food Handlers Turn Out For 11-2 Hour Class Filth Danger Shown in Film To 135 Persons City health officials today expressed gratification and appreciation for the fine attendance at the food handlers courses, held Monday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Ray Lehman, city sanitation inspector, and Dr. John B. Terveer, city health officer, reported a fine attendance of 135 persons, 59 at the afternoon course, and 76 for the evening class. Each course continued for one and one-half hours. Twenty-three food handling establishments were represented by managers, and most of them by additional employes. Also in attendance were representatives from the American Legion auxiliary, the school cafeteria at Willshire, 0., and the following Decatur churches: Bethany Evangelical United Brethren, First Christian, Zion Lutheran and First Methodist. A number of individual housewives were also present. The food handlers course was - conducted by the city board of health and the Indiana state health board, with Charles Richardson, of the state board of health, in The course was set up under the new city health ordinances, governing food handling establishments, which went into effect in Decatur this summer. Richardson stressed a number of principal health practices to follow in the handling of food, not only in serving of foods but also in handling in retail stores. Importance of food protection to prevent bacterial food poisoning was also cited by Richardson. He cited the following seven easy rules for safe food: (1) Keep cold foods cold—hot foods hot, don’t let foods stand at room temperatures. (2) Keep hands clean and touch food with hands as little as possible. (3) Don't let anyone with a skin infection or a cold handle food. (4) Keep kitchens, dining rooms and storage rooms free from rats, mice and insects. (5) Protect food from sneezes, customer handling, and dust. (6) Be sure poisons are well labeled and kept away from food preparation areas. (7) Wash dishes, glasses, silver and utensils by methods recommended by your health department. Richardson also showed a United States Air Force film, depicting a complete food poisoning case, (Continued on page two) Erie-Democrat Trip Pleases Decatur Group Sixty-three residents of Decatur and area returned home Monday afternoon, completing a delightful three-day trip to New York City. They were part of the total of 162 from Decatur, Huntington and Rochester who took advantage of the special sunmmer tour co-spon-sored by the Decatur Daily Democrat and the Erie railroad. The group left Friday afternoon, spent all day Saturday and Sunday in New York, leaving Sunday night. All reported an excellent time, with perfect weather pervailing for the entire trip.

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Employment Payroll Increases In Decafur Monthly Report By Chamber of Commerce Encouraging increases in industrial employment and payrolls for the month of July are revealed in the monthly business barometer prepared by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The seven reporting industries disclose total employment during July was 1,481, as compared to 1,458 in June and 1,402 in July oi 1957. Payrolls in these seven industries totaled $748,768 last month, while the June figures were $516,225, and July of the previous year totaled $625,833. An increase of 20 was revealed in number of gas meter, with 2,380 in July, contrasted to 2,360 in June and 2,322 in July of 1957. There were 2,559 water meters in July, a decrease of one from June, but an increase from the 2,528 in July of the previous year. Electric meters including rural were unchanged for all three periods shown, at 3,984. Telephone (including rural) were 6,230, increased from 6,223 in June and 6,165 in July-of last year. There were 26 cases of direct poor relief (111 persons) at a cost of $1,317 in July. During June, where were 23 cases (74 persons) at a cost of $1,425, and in July a£ 1957 there were 21 cases (76 persons), with a cost of $1,286. 1 Births showed a decided decrease, with 36 reported in July, compared to 53 in June and 67 in July of 1957. There were eight deaths in July. Carloadings (in) dropped to 1,101 in July from 1,160 in June, but up from the 809 in July of 1957. Carloadings ( out) were 1,055 in July, increased from 936 in June and 1,046 in July of last year. Sixteen building permits, at a cost of $19,025, were issued last month, up from 13 at $6,825 in June, but down 14 and $33,750 in July of 1957.

$27,000 Fire Loss Al Farm Last Night Barn Destroyed At Lydia Busick Farm , Fire totally destroyed a new barn and its contents five miles north and one mile east of Decatur last night, causing approximately >27,000 damage. Owned by Mrs. Lydia Busick, ago. Destroyed along with it were the barn had been built two years feeding grain and straw, and new hay, along with a manure spreader, an approximate >12.000 loss. Neighbors called the Decatur fire department, which received the call at 8:20 p. m. When firemen and the fire truck arrived, they were forced to concentrate on saving a smaller barn and numerous small buildings, including hog sheds, nearby; fires developed there and were extinguished before the structures were damaged. Monroeville and Hoagland fire departments sent out a fire truck and a tanker each. By 10:35 p.m., the fire seemed to be under control, and most of the units left: one unit of the Hoagland department stayed until this morning. Cause of the fire was unknown this morning, according to reports from the farm.

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Victory Felt As Democrats Hear Fleming 4th District Candidate Is Monroe Speaker A large crowd of interested persons swelled the Monroe city hall Monday night to hear W. Robert Fleming, 4th district congressional candidate, explain his victory plans. Fleming was accompanied by his attractive wife, the former Leah Peters, a native of Decatur, accompanied by her husband. Fleming explained that victory can be won in the November election by carefully following a fivepoint plan: organize the precincts, poll the voters, register those unregistered, publicize your views, and get the voters to the poll on election day. Following Fleming, G. Remy Bierly, former state Representative, clerk, school teacher, and Decatur attorney, and now candidate for the appellate court judgeship, spoke briefly. Bierly called for a strong word-of-mouth campaign to counteract the sudden “news story” bombardment of Eisenhower features to aid Republican candidates. Bierly re* called that the Republicans were elected on four main pledges: peace, prosperity, balanced budget, and clean up the mess in Washington. “Instead of peace we havtf Lebanon; instead of prosperity, recession: instead of a balanced budget, the largest deficit in our history; instead of a clean government, one of the most corrupt since Harding and Grant,” Bierly concluded, "after just 5*6 years of Republican bungling.” Each trustee candidate present was called on for a short speech on his part in the campaign. Robert Kolter, Robert Gay, Omer Merriman, Otis Sprunger, Jim Lybarger, and several others gave brief speeches. The advisory board members (Continuec on page five) ' ' t • : I ‘F*

Grant S. Hughes Dies In Michigan Decatur Native, War I Veteran Dies Grant S. Hughes, Sr., 65, of Centerville, Mich., and a native of Decatur, died Sunday afternoon at a hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., following an illness of several years. He was born in Decatur Aug. 22, 1893, a son of James and Susan Everhart Hughes. He was married in Bluffton July 9, 1923, to Ethel Clark. Mr. Hughes, a veteran of World War 1, was a member of the Centerville Baptist church. V Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Grant S., Jr., of Three Rivers, Mich., and Robert, at home; a sister Mrs. Ida Stout of Anaheim, Calif.,; three grandchildren, and two brothers, James and Richrad Hughes, both of Huntington. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Fairview cemetery at Bluffton, the Rev. Dwight Clark officiating.

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Integration Crisis Flares In Arkansas After Court Decision

Gambling Slows As Grand Jury Stages Probe Better Who Lies Indicted Today For Perjury INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A bookie said today that betting has ebbed to a trickle since a federal investigation of an alleged multimillion dollar international gambling syndicate opened here. “Business is dead. People stopped (making bets) with all this publjcity,” said Eugene B. . Koren, Springfield, 111., who told newsmen he had been a bookie for “a couple of years” Koren was one of 23 witnesses due to appear today before a grand jury probing District Attorney Don A. Tabbert’s charges that a gaming ring which operated for 10 weeks at Terre Haute, Ind., last fall grossed upwards of $3,500,000 until federal tax agents raided the place Nov. 29. Koren was among more than 180 witnesses subpenaed from all around the nation to tell jurors what they know, if anything, about the syndicate. The inquiry Opened last week. Shanahan Is Indicted A Boston man was indil'ted late Monday for perjury, charged with lying about telephone calls made to the syndicate. He was Daniel P. Shanahan, 33, who was served with a warrant minutes after the jury handed a sealed indictment to Judge Cale J. Holder. He was released in $5,000 bond. K. Barney Levine, Little Rock, Ark., another witness, told newsmen he has been a bookie for 20 years. He said he owns the Westwood Club in Little Rock. Both Levine and Koren said they never pjaced bets at Terre Haute but subscribed to a handicap service for $25 a week. They said they have federal gambling tax stamps and pay a 10 per cent excise tax on the money they handle, “The 10 per cent tax is putting bookies out of business,” Levine said. “We can’t overcome it. It will shake us.” Harry Joseph, Austin, Tex., said as he appeared as a witness: “I bet on the World Series.” Maurice Dodson, Brimingham, Ala., gave his name to newsmen but said “I have nothing else to say.” At Las Vegas Club Morris Baker, Las Vegas, Nev., told newsmen he works as a “boxman” at the Flamingo Club. Also due to testify today, in ad(Continued on page two)

Old Decatur Landmark To Be Sold Wednesday

(Editor’s Note: This is the second article by Miss Barbara Fiechter, summer feature reporter for Decatur Daily Democrat, on the passing of a familiar Decatur landmark.) With the sale bills for "an unusually fine line of power driven equipment, all in excellent condition,” appearing the last two Saturdays in the Decatur Daily Democrat, came the news that one of Decatur’s old landmarks will disappear in the near future. With it will go a service Decatur and the area have used for 65 years: custom woodworking, the making of any kind of object that comes from lumber. The custom woodworking was necessary for many farm tools in 1893, when Peter Kirsch started the business as the Kirsch Planing Mill. Today, in the age of fast assembly line, the custom work is still in demand; one example: the present owner, Ernest High, recalls he has made two sets of kitchen cabinets each month during the past year. And house trimming and planed wood had always been in demand. He has had "wonderful business” since then, and it has been Increasing every year, Mr. High states. But there has been too much for one man to handle and

Shrine Band To Give Concert Here Friday Famous Band Will Give Concert Here Noah R. Steury, president of the Adams county Shrine club, announced today that he has received word from Ralph P. Troyer, potentate of Mizpah Temple, Fort Wayne, that he will bring the famous Mizpah Temple Shrine band to Decatur to present a summer evening band concert on the Court street side of the court house in Decatur Friday evening. The concert will be of both popular and classical music to which the public is invited. The event is being sponsored by the Adams county shine club. The 50-piece Shrine band is only one of the many services to the community by members of the Shrine. In seventeen hospitals throughout North America, Shrines have ministered to more than 250,000 crippled children without money or price and without regard to race, color or creed. The Shrine wants to know only that the child has no chance of having its little crippled body mended except in one of their temples of mercy. Carrying on this merciful work, which has grown until it has become the world’s greatest philanthrophy, has cost Shriners a staggering sum of money, but the smite on a Shiners face expresses the joy derived from seeing these little ones made well. Many charitable minded friends are joining with the wearers of the Red Fez in this work and any gifts are accepted from any one. Applications for entrance to these hospitals are solicted by Shrine club. City Pool Closed After Labor Day Hubert Zerkle, Jy., supervisor of the municipal swimming pool, stated today that the pool will be closed for the season on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. The pool will operate on the final day on regular Sunday hours, from 2 to 5 o’clock Labor Day afternoon. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair this afternoon and tonight, although some chance of isolated thundershowers extreme northwest tonight. Wednesday generally fair and rather warm. Low tonight 56 to 64. High Wednesday 85 to 95. Sunset today 7:36 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:02 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair with little temperature change. Lows in the 60s. Highs Thursday 85 to 95.

it is hard to find someone who will have patience and care around the machinery, and will learn the craft: one main reason for the sale of the equipment. You can’t help feeling his wish that the business could be continued in a new location, so that the line of equipment would not be broken up, and so that Decatur and the area still might have a custom woodworking shop. That is one question, you realize, along with him, that will not be answered until the auction Wednesday. Approximately 25 large pieces of woodworking equipment will be sold. Most of them are quite old, but they are of malleable cast, one of the finest types of metals. Mr. High, showing what work is done by the machines, pointed out, when this reporter came to the mill, a machine having four heads which would take care of one pice of woodworking in one job. instead of several different processes. One planer and matcher is able to process 25-inch paneling for a customer who wants wider than ordinary wood panels for a room. H o u s e trimming, baseboard, tongue-and-groove flooring, and door panels are among the woodworking items that go into new homes: and the woodworking mill (Continued on page four)

USS Trifon To Be Launched At Groton Today Largest A-Sub Still One Year From Sea Trial GROTON, Conn. (UPD — The USS Triton, the world's largest submarine which will act as a sonar-radar bloodhound for highspeed carrier task forces, goes off the launching ways at the Electric Boat Yards of General Dynafnics Corp, this afternoon. Triton is a radar-picket sub, 477 feet long and displacing 5,900 tons. It is so big that a special channel had to be dug in the Thames River into which it will plunge after being christened by the wife of Vice Adm. John M. WiU, head of the Military Sea Transportation Service. And 700 feet of cable and four cement blocks of five tons each were set up as an arresting apparatus to check the speed of the first twin-reactor submarine and keep it from plowing across the river into the opposite shore. Triton is 128 feet longer and 2,900 tons heavier than Nautilus, which now is homeward bound after a history-making under the ice crossing of the North Pole. It will be nearly another year before Triton will be ready for sea trials and then acceptance by the Navy. Triton’s job will be to scout for big task forces and flash back warnings of the approach of enemy air, surface and under - sea craft. It will be equipped with tons of special delicate detection devices and will carry a crew larger than any other submarine, 13 officers and 135 men. Faster on the surface than when submerged, Triton’s own safety (Continued on page two) 4th District Meeting Os Young Democrats Young Democrats of the fourth district will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the Hotel Keenan in Fort Wayne, with James L. Koons, fourth district Democratic chairman as the principal speaker. A new district Young Democrats chairman will be named, as F. Dale Barrett resigned recently to run for state senator from Whitley and Huntington counties. Miss Dianne Linn, of Decatur, district vice chairman, will preside at tonight’s meeting. Holthouse-Schulte Closes Next Tuesday Auction Next Week Ends 60 Years History Holthouse, Schulte & Co., men’s clothing store located at 166 North Second street, one of the oldest business establishments in Decatur, will close its doors Tuesday evening, Aug. 26. The store will hold a public auction of all remaining merchandise, and all store fixtures, beginning at 7 o’clock that evening* Auctioneers will be Ned C. Johnson, of Decatur, and Tom Bartlett, of Muncie. Holthouse, Schulte’s lease on its location expires . within a few months, and the owners, unable to find another suitable location in the city, decided on a liquidation sale, which has been in progress for several weeks. Next Tuesday’s auction will mark the closing of the store. . The building has been leased by the First State Bank, adjacent to the clothing store, and the banking institution plans an extensive remodeling project, to expand its facilities and improve service to its patrons. The store was founded more than 60 years ago by Henry Schulte and Peter Holthouse. Present owners of the store are Mrs. Al Scheiner and sons, William and Matthew Schulte.

Coroner's Inquest For Tolan Friday Motorcycle Victim Died Saturday A coroner's inquest into the death of Charles R. Tolan, 26, of Decatur, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the office of Dr. Edgar N. Mendenhall, Allen county coroner, at the Allen county jail. Tolen died Saturday at Parkview memorial hospital, Fort Wayne, of injuries sustained when his motorcycle was involved in an accident east of Fort Wayne last Thursday with an auto driven by James S. Perrin, 22, Fort Wayne. Perrin was charged with failure to yield the ight-of-way. Congress OK's Social Security Benefit Hike Passes Senate Bill i By Voice Vote : WASHINGTON (UPD-Another . major obstacle to congressional . adjournment was hurdled today , when the House passed and sent to the White House the Senate , version of a bill to raise social . security taxes and benfits. Approval was by voice vote afti er House Democratic leaders ‘ agreed to accept the Senate version rather than risk a presiden- , tial veto by pushing the administration- opposed House measure. The Senate bill would increase social security benefits by 7 per , cent, effective Jan. 1. It also would increase the present tax on employes and employers. For the wag-earner the tax now amounts to 2(4 pet cent on the first $4,200 in earnings, with employers matching the levy. This would be raised to 214 per cent and apply 1 to the first $4,800. Self-employed would pay a 3 3 4 per cent rate, instead of 3% per cent. No Housing Bill Th Senate, meanwhile, opened debate on a controversial bill to modify a Supreme Court decision that a prisoner must be formally charged upon his arrest. With this measure out of the way, the Senate hoped to speed on to consideration of a foreign aid appropriation and a few other major bills which must be cleared before adjournment. Democratic leaders all but ruled out any effort to pass a housing bill at this session of Congress. Speaker Sam. Rayburn said he knew of no move to push stop-gap legislation through the house, which Monday killed the Demo cratic-sponsdred housing meaiufe opposed by the administration. A "first step" bill aimed at curbing attempts to influence federal regulatory agencies was sacrificed to the adjournment crush. The measure grew out of the House influence subcommittee’s investigation of the Federal Communications Commission and the relationship between gift-giving Bernard Goldfne, New England textile millionaire, and Presidential Assistant Shernpan Adams. The House. Commerce Committee, which handled the legislation, held its final executive session without acting on it. It is expected to be revived next year. Fight Mineral BUI The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a biU to authorize the secretary of stat? to deny passports to subversives. Leadership In both Houses remained silent on a possible adjournment date but feeling ran high for a close to the session by the week 'end, if not before. The House was geared for a floor fight over a bill to launch a new program of subsidies for the mineral industry. Similar legislation has passed the Senate. The 650-milllon dollar bill faced such strong opposition in the (Continued on page three)

Gov.Faubus Hot To Call Session Os Legislature Postponement In Little Rock Denied By Court LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — Gov. Orval E. Faubus declined today to call a special session of the Arkansas Legislature to deal with the new Little Rock integration crisis. The new crisis was brought about Monday when the Bth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court decision that would have given Little Rock’s Central High School an integration postponement until mid-term, 1961. Faubus said the reversal of U.S. District Judge Harry Lemley’s de-integration decision by the Court of Appeals was "most regrettable.” “The higher court’s decision indicates an indifference and disregard for the will of the people that is most alarming and dangerous,” he said. But at the same time, he said, the spotlight in the crisis has moved over “to the school authorities, the officials of the NAACP and the parents of the Negro 1 children.” "Any action taken by the chief executive, the Legislature or the people before the attitude of these people is known might prove to be premature and unnecessary,” he said. Case Moved Back Faubus had been expected to call a special session almost immediately to prepare anti-intgra-tion legislation. He apparently decided against it in long conference with his advisers. The U.S. Circuit Court cancelled Lemley’s suspension of integration because, the opinion said, to allow the suspension “would result in accession to the demands.of insurrectionists and rioters.” Monday’s ruling did not order resumption of racial integration in Little Rock. It affired the June, 1954, U. S. Supreme Court order for desegregation of schools. The decision moved the Little Rock case back to its status of last fall, when two federal judges rejected appeals against integration and forbade Faubus to use National Guardsmen to enforce segregation at Central High School. The court’s majority opinion said, “The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down, or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violence and unlawful acts of individual citizens and opposition (Continued on naae rive) Commissioners See Highway Projects Approve Claims For Highway Workers After a brief business meeting in their regular Monday session yesterday, the county commissioners went on an inspection tour of county highway projects, accompanied by highway superintendent Lawrence Noll. County highway pay claims, for the third Monday of the month, were allowed during the brief business session, and additional appropriation requests including one • for the county "farm, and one for additional Adams county patients at the Irene Byron hospital, Fort Wayne, were he.ard. With the highway superintendent, they inspected the three miles of road under construction on county road 4, in Root township. On road 6, near the sales bam, the group examined the culvert being install* ed, and heard that abutments will be added when the weather becomes dry enough. The third inspection place was a water situation near Monmouth, a ditch drain;

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