Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 203.

Speak At Atftiffton Tonight

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Hartke, Fleming Bierly Campaign In Fourth District

Vance Hartke. Schricker - like Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate, and W. Robert Fleming, candidate for congress from the fourth district, will speak at Bluffton tonight along with Decatur’s G. Remy Bierly and Jack A. Haymaker.candidate for treasurer. A carry-in supper at the Bluffton 4-H grounds will start at 6:30 p.m., and Hartke will address the group at 8 p.m., Mrs. Dorothy Huffman, vice-chairman of the Wells county Democrats, said. Mayor Hartke told about 500 persons attending an Ox Roast at Waterloo Park Wednesday that the farmers want and need "understanding and an occasional helping hand.” He spcke along with W. Robert Fleming, Fort Wayne, Democratic nominee for Congress from the Fourth District, Jack Haymaker, Bedford, candidate for State Treasurer, and G. Remy Bieriy, Decatur, candidate for judge of the appellate court from the Second District, were introduced. Hartke 'said he had talked with Hoosier agricultural leaders and was convinced farmers want less controls. He said: "Virtually every segment of our economy has been able to obtain .help in the form of tax rebates, fast tax writeoffs, depreciation allowances, mail subsidies and such aid without federal control." He added, “In the case of the farmer there is an even more basic problem. “Agriculture is the foundation of our economy even in days of diminishing farm population and growing cities and suburbs. The farmer alone has almost no control over the price he receives from the goods he takes to the market place.” Hartke noted that this situation calls for some guarantee that the “bottom won't be allowed to drop out from under the farmer.” Hartke said that is the basic reason why he supports a constructive farm program. “This is why I resent and shall resist claims of certain Republican leaders that the small farmer must go because he is too inefficient. I believe these family farms and small businesses have been kicked around too long,” Hartke said. Fleming spoke briefly about “five keys" that will lead to a Democratic victory for all candidates on every governmental level. He pointed out that (1) there is a need to maintain a good and adequate precinct organization; (2) it is necessary to make sure polling is complete; (3) publicity by personal contact with the voter is essential; (4) registration is imperative to success, and (5) there must be an adequate and prepared election day organization. "It takes all five keys to win,” he stated. He noted that these are the. keys that the eight counties in the Fourth District are using to unlock the door of victory for Democrats. —_ .. Boy Drowns Despite Deaf-Mute's Attempt WOLVERHAMPTON, England (UPI) — Graham Warrilow, 12, watched helplessly as Reggie McKnight, 4, floundyed in the middle of a canal near here. Graham cannot stfim. He is a deaf, mute and could not scream for help. The only persons who can understand him by lip reading are his parents. Graham ran half a mile home to fetch his father hut by the time they got back to the c«nal it was too late. Reggie was dead.

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G. Remy Bieriy

Area City Councils Approve Tax Hikes Berne, Bluffton Will Raise City Tax Rate In city council meetings in this . area this week, city tax rates apI proved and to be submitted to county tax adjustment boards include six-cent to seventy-cent increases over existing tax rates. At Berne, the city council approved a proposed $1.42 tax rate, a six-cent raise over the 1958 rate, $1.36. The rate is based on a valuation of net taxable property of $4,186,510. For the corporation, the budget is $95,461, and for recreation, $5,000. Bluffton's city council has adopted a total civil city tax rate of $1.95 for 1959, 24 cents higher than the current rate. There is a 15-cent increase in the general fund levy, 4 cents in the park levy and 5 cents in recreation. The coming year’s budget for these units is $135,395 for the general fund, $4,280 for parks, and $7,040 for recreation. Ten cents was trimmed off the proposed tax levy leaving a $1 663 levy in Huntington’s city council meeting thfs week. The proposed levy is 8.3 cents higher per SIOO assessed valuation than the 1958 civil city levy, and the proposed budget stands at $615,000.30. In Kendallville’s city council meeting, 13.5 cents was pared off the proposed rate, resulting in a tax levy of $1.46 with a budget of $144,960.51 going on to the county tax adjustment board. City council members in Peru formally adopted a $3.35 tax levy for 1959, which is to raise $466,651.53, The 1959 approved budget is $676,051.12, with $466,651.53 to be raised through taxation. Decatur’s 1959 tax rate, approved by the city council and still to be acted on by the tax adjustment board, is, $1.43. Last year’s proposed rate, $1.46, was reduced to $1.41 by the tax adjustment board. In the levy estimate for -the coming year is sl.ll for the general fund, 5 cents for thq park fund, 12 cents for the street fund, 11 cents for the recreation fund, and 4 eents for the police pension ftXnd. The total amount tc be raised, based on the higher net taxable property evaluation of $11,301,610, is $162,368.20. Winter Center Hours Start September 2 Winter hours for the Decatur Yoiith and Community Center will start September 2. Youth room hours will begin at 3:30 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Youth room, Kenneth Watkins, assistant manager, .announced this morning. Saturdays the room will be open from 1 p.m. until 10 p.m., and on Sundays, from 2 p.m, to 5 p.m. Holidays the room will be closed as usual. For service and reservations, telephone calls ape received from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. g .... ■- - ■ - INDIANA WEATHER Continued fair and warm is predicted for northeastern Indiana Friday and Saturday, with a slight possibility qf scattered showers in the extreme north late Saturday. A cold front predicted eartier has failed to materialise. t I

Ft Wayne Lawyer Says Union Forced Contract Robert Hines In Testimony About Rackets WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Senate Rackets Committee was told today a former Teamsters official used “extortion” to get a labor contract with a small carnival whose workers had never even asked to join the union. The committee heard an account of the forced 1952 unionization of the Cetlin and Wilson show from Robert L. Hines, Fort Wayne, Ind., attorney. When he finished, Chairman John - L. McClellan called the activities of Harry Karsh, the union organizer, "a hijacking operation.” Hines was the first witness in the committee’s continuing investigation of President James R. Hoffa and the men around him in the 1,500,000-member Teamsters Union. The committee said the Teamsters would be shown to be partly responsible for the end of an American institution — the circus under its own big top. Wouldn’t Move Wagons Hines said he was called to the Fort Wayne New York Central railroad yards by the Celtin and Wilson owners the night of July 6, 1952, and found pickets led by Karsh blocking the unloading of flatcars carrying the carnival’s equipment and animals. He said the owners had been warned by a local humane officer that they’ had to feed and water the animals immediately and police had insisted they could not block the street with wagons while the animals were being unloaded. The Teamsters refused to move the wagons and the carnival didn’t have its own hauling equipment, Hines related. > The witness testified that Karsh said he was representing Local 450 of the Carnival. Amusement and Novelty Device Workers, affiliated with the AFL Jewelry Workers Unton. He said Karsh admitted he had neither represented nor had talked tb the carnival workers. Finally Signed Contract Hines said that when he protested the whole affair was “obviously extortion,” Karsh replied: “Call it what you want, I’m going to hold you here until you sign the contract.” After hours of bickering, Hines said, carnival owner John Wilson finally signed the contract, which required his workers to join the union within 30 days and pay $4 a month dues. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Karsh had been an official of St. Louis Teamsters Local 688 in the 19405. and was “bought out” for SIB,OOO when Harold J. Gibbons, now a top Hoffa lieutenant, took over the union in 1949. He said Karsh became a labor consultant associated with <Cont!nued on naxe six) Union Township Applies For Aid 10,000 Acres In Flat Rock Watershed A second area meeting on watershed planning was held in Monroeville Tuesday evening, to review the problems of flooding from Flat Rock creek and its tributaries in two Indiana and two Ohio counties. Robert Roy, Allen county, is head of a committee which has been studying the problem since last March, and their findings were studied at the Tuesday meeting. Over 135 farmers of Allen, Van Wert, Adams and Paulding counties went on record to make application for federal assistance under the Small Watersheds Act, a second project of its kind in northeastern Indiana (the first has been the Long-Amstutz watershed project). Federal aid seems to be the only solution to the flooding of Indiana and Ohio farms near the state line, it was said. All counties but Allen remain to be formally asked to be co-spon-sors. Farmers will make joint applications to both Indiana and Ohio for assistance to relieve flooding, which has prevailed for 80 years, Flat Rock creek being the main source of the trouble. Harry Moore, state soil conservationist, of the soil - conservation service, explained how a conservany district might be organized in order to carry out a ditch dredging project in both Indiana and Ohio. ' In Adams county, approximately 10,000 acres in 16 sections of Union township would be affected.

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Decatur, Indinaa, Thursday, August 28, 1958

Search Continues For Berne Tomato Worker In Local Slaying

Anderson Band As Slate Fair Second Day Crowd Likes Fair Weather In Indianaplois INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Anderson won the Indiana State Fair high school band contest today for the second year in a row, piling up 243 points for a 15-point triumph over Princeton. Ben Davis was third, one point behind Princeton, with 227; Indianapolis Manual fourth, 224; Jeffersonville fifth, 223; Franklin sixh. 222; Elwood Wiilkie and Crown Point tied for seventh, 219; Anderson Madison Heights eighth, 210; Salem and Selma tied for ninth, 206, and Jasper 10th, 204. Walnut Grove was disqualified for taking more time than was permitted. Dale Darlage, Cortland, was scheduled to put thousands of dollars in his pockets by nightfall. The 17-year-old Jackson County boy whose black Angus steer, “Shorty”, won the 4-H grand champion steer title on the opening day of the fair will sell the animal to the highest bidder at an auction today in the Coliseum. Edward Meyers, 18, Rushville, whose Shorthorn won the reserve grand championship, also will sell his 1,074-pound winner. Record price of $6.75 per pound for the grand champion steer was paid in 1949. But the 1958 figure is I expected to be nearer and possibly lower than the $2.75 paid last year to Max Woebbeking, Woodburn, also for a black Angus. Dale’s steer weighed 1,006 pounds at judging time but may vary by today. He paid $l5O for it. The sale of the grand champion steer shared interest on this second day of the 106th annual state fair with selection and sale of a ' grand champion barrow as climax ito 4-H swine judging, nd the annual high school band contest. A cherry pie-baking queen also was to be determined today. Band Contest Slated The 1957 band contest winner, Anderson, was back again this year with hopes of repeating. The contest is the top event in the state for bands and victory brings SSOO and a six-foot trophy. Opening day of the fair was blessed with pleasant weather. Slightly warmer temperatures in (Continued on page eig-ht)

Preble Township Lad Has 10th Operation

A little Adams county boy is, lying in Parkview hospital today following the tenth operation performed in his brief six years. An operation is an ordeal for anyone, but little Lester Werling, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Werling, has come though his with flying colors and like any othdr youngster whi have not yet attended school, is anxious to start this year Only one thing is preventing Lester from starting with other first graders this fall and that is an intestinal defect which can be corrected only by operations. Judging by other operations, the young Werling boy will be in the hospital approximately 18 days. Cards may be sent to Lester at Parkview Hospital. Lester underwent his first operation when he was only one day old. By die time he was three, he had been operated on three times and since that time has been' on the operating table three times since May of this year the latest being Wednesday. A fund has been started by Mrs. Elmer Bultemeier and Miss Eldora Bultemeier to help his family with the expenses of his operation. Plans hacj originally been made to discontinue the fund Saturday but this writer will continue the campaign in hopes that an even larger sum of money can be collected. Over SSOO has already

Decatur Reservists i Complete Ist Week B Battery Members Practice Positioning FORT SILL, Okla. — “B” Battery has completed the first week of “summer camp” now in training at the Army post. The men ■from in and near Decatur have been attending their required two weeks training with the United States Army. The men are members of the 424th Howitzer Battalr ion normally located in Decatur. , Several of the men received ’ schooling this past week from regular Army personnel concerning their respective asignments with--1 iit the functions of the Battalion. Many were required to attend classes at night to understand [ rribre of their required duties to en--1 able the group of men to work as one unit. ; the past week, the howitzer sections have practiced time ■ and time again the proper way [ in setting the large guns into posi--1 tioti, enabling them to have the guns in position in minumum re* i qutjed time. fStonday the day consisted of organt.ing the schedule and equipment that would be nedeed to comthe training within the two I weeks. Tuesday, the communications section within the battal- ’ jon installed wire in the area pro--1 vided for the reserves for telephones and military radios. Wednesday, 26 of the men were taken to the firing range to qualify with 1 the small arms weapons, while the Howitzer sections continued their I practice with the large guns. 1 Thursday and Friday was much 1 the same as the previous days • with many of the men attending I the classes and doing their requir- ■ ed assignments. Saturday, due to the cancellation of the large artil1 lery and missile demonstration because of the jet plane crash, the men attended more classes and service practice with the large ‘ guns and were given the remainder of the day free. The average day for the reservist starts at 5 a.m. and ends approximately at 4:30 p.m. First • call is at 5 o’clock, and then reville at 5:30, followed by breakfast at 6 a.m. Following breakfast, the men begin their day by policing the area around their living quarters. At this time,, the day’s work ; or duties start. Noon “chow” is • served at 11:30 to 12:30, and then ' back to work or class-rooms again. ■ The evening meal is given at 5:15 p m. and the day is normally done, ; frith the exception of evening duties if such a case should arise. i (' m. uea on Pane rive>

been collected but mura more is needed. Five years ago, a young lad was struck with the dread disease cancer. The expense of his operations, hospital and doctor bills, was brought to the attention of a Democrat reporter and later, the Tommy Mann Fund was started. At this time area residents dug into their pockets and through combined efforts donated over S2OOO dollars to a boy few had even heard of and who fewer still ever knew. Adams county residents again have a chance to open their hearts and pocketbooks for a young lad who some day wants to go to school. Donations for the Lester Werling fund can be sent in care of Marilou Uhrick at the Decatur ; Daily Democrat. By giving only a I few cents, you can save - a family hundreds of dollars, Donors other than those mentionte family, Alvin Witte, Lorena Witte family, Alvin Witte, Korena Witte, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Scherry, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schroeder, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hoffman, Mrs. Flora Schuller, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Striker, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Worth, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ostermeyer, Leo Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Eickhoff, Stiefel Gram Company employees, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bultemeier, Mi*. (Continued on page five) *

GE Employes Offered New Savings Plan Security Package Offered Workers At Local Plant The General Electric company announced Wednesday that it would make available to all em- ( ployes a new savings and security program with a pioneering com- ■ bination of numerous features to help employes personal savings to j grow in prosperity while at the < same time providing substantial ] personal assistance in periods of < craVerSny. j The new program would be ( made possible through a rearrangement of expenditures for 1 pay and benefits currently con- , templatedfor the next two years. , A rearrangement of the terms of the 1955-1960 agreements is being proposed to more than 100 unions ] with whom the company deals. Similar arrangements are being studied and discussed for salaried and other employes not represented by unions. The total cost of the new proposals are estimated to be approximately the same as presently contemplated expenditures. In New York this week preliminary discussions of proposals made by the company and those by the union have been in progress with representatives of the UE/IND., who represents local General Electric employes here in Decatur. Similar discussions have been underway with the lUE/ AFL-CIO and the many other unions with whom the company deals, a company spokesman said. The new program will be an ■•omnibus” package which combines improved savings and investment features primarily providing for the accumulation of U. S. savings bonds and/or General Electric common stock, with a retirement estate building option. Meanwhile, the program would make funds available in case of total disability, layoffs, separations or strikes. Etfen that portion of his program savings which the employe may elect to leave irrevocably on deposit until retirement under the ‘estate building’ feature may be with(Contr.iuec am pare five) George F. Marbaugh Dies At Hospital Willshire Resident Father Os Soya Man George F. Marbaugh, 86. of Willshire, O, father of Wilbur (Joe) Marbaugh, Central Soya employe here, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 8:20 p. m. Wednesday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage a week ago. A native of Mercer county, 0., he was born Jan. 22, 1872 the son of Gottlieb and Cordelia Cook Marbaugh. A farmer he has been employed by the Willshire elevator for 18 years. ® He was married in 1893 to Margaret McGough who died in 1943. In 1922 he moved to Willshire, 0., from Mercer county. Five brothers and one sister are also deceased. A sister, Mrs. Emma Smitley, lives near Berne. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Mabel Boroff, Piqua, O.; Howard Marbaugh, of Rockford, O.; Mrs„ Earl Shull, Fort Wayne; Walter Marbaugh, of Sturgis, Mich., Mrs. Paul Schaffner, of Willshire. O.; Mrs. Clarence Rickert, of Rockford; and one step-daughter, Mrs. Ben Hoverman, of Van Wert. O.; also, 35 grandchildren and 42 great-grand-children survive. One daughter and two sons are deceased. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William Powers officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p. m. this evening.

Terrorists Blamed For Hoosier Bomb = I ndianopolis Leader's Windows Shattered INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Police today blamed terrorists for an attempted bombing at the home of Maurice Hutcheson, president of the Carpenters Union, and a blast which shattered windows at another union officer’s home. Poli c e Chief Frank Mueller ordered special guards to patrol Hutcheson’s home and the homes of other officials of the Carpenters Union. Police Lt. Richard Caine said he doubted if the unexploded bomb found at Hutcheson’s home or the one which damaged the home of international vice president John R. Stevenson Tuesday night were intended to kill anyone. “I do not consider this an attempt on Hutcheson’s life,” Caine said. “It is more of a scare than a serious try to kill somebody.” Hutcheson’s wife, Ethel, 5L found the bomb with a partly burned fuse Wednesday beneath the bedroom window of their home located In a fashionable North Side section of the city. The bomb consisted of three sticks of dynamite. Caine said n the bomb had gone off “the worst it would have done is smash windows.” Hutcheson said he knew of no reason for the attempted bombing. "I can’t imagine anyone trying to do this to me,” he said. The International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, which has its headquarters here, has been investigated by Congress and the AFL-CIO in connection with Indiana highway scandals. Hutcheson and two other officers of the union have been indicted on bribery charges for alleged profiteering in the sale of about SBO,OOO in land and lots for highway right of way. Long-Amstatz Ditch Examined By Group Approved Necessary For Federal Aid Representatives from federal and state agencies met Tuesday with county conservation and extension officials to review the Long-Amstutz watershed project. Allover reaction to the meeting was reported favorable from the project, which asks federal aid under the recent Small Watershed Act . Victor Bleeke, chairman of the county ACS commission, Ben Gerke, chairman of the board of supervisors of the Adams county soil conservation district, and county agent Leo Seltenright went with Cletus Gillman, Ed Brown, and Fred Housel, of the Soil Conservation Service office here. The six local men accompanied representatives of the United States forest service, geological survey', and watershed planning division of the USRA soli conservation service, tthe Indiana state department of conservation. After the group inspected the Long-Amstutz watershed site they returned to Decatur to discuss the project, first of its kind in the northeastern part of Indiana. Witness For Committee Still Listed Critical WASHINGTON (UPD — Teamster organizer Barney Baker, 284pound Senate Rackets Committee witness, remained in critical condition at aWshington Hospital Center as the result of a heart attack. Baker was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after being stricken an hour before he was to resume the witness stand. He was placed in an oxygen tent and put on the critical list. A hospital spokesman said this morning: “His condition remains the, same.”

Two Brothers Take Lie Test ...... In Indianapolis Armed Killer Os Chattanooga, 0. Laborer Sought Authorities are still searching for Gregory V. Prado, 36, involved in the murder of a laborer at the St. Mary’s packing plant labor camp at Chattanooga, 0., Tuesday morning. Prado, five feet; six inches tall, weighing 155 pounds, disappeared from the labor camp, as did Lupe Callejos, also a transient laborer, when Mercer county officials arrived at the scene of the shooting, about 9 p.m. Tuesday. Lupe Callejos was apprehended by Adams county sheriff Merle Affolder when returning to a labor camp five and one-half miles . east of Berne. With Lupe. was Artemio Callejos, 30, owner of the escape car and “foreman” of the group at Berne. • Adams county officials turned Lupe Callejos over to Mercer coun- • ty authorities for action. Mercer • county sheriff Bruce Barber and ' deputy Ferd Peak took him and a witness, Fernando Callejos, 15, to Indianapolis this morning for lie ’ detector tests. Authorities believed ’ Lupe to be the driver of the car I which took Prado from the Chat- ! tanooga camp after the shooting. . Gomez had been arguing with [ the laborers from the Adams count ty encampment over a pay settlement. They had argued over a di- . vision of a bonus received when - he was working with them ear- - lier this year. Artemio was sores man of the group, and received • the group’s pay from the field foreman, dividing it with the other , workers. £ — The three had evidently been arguing over the settlement earlier in the day; a cut, probably a knife slash several hours old was found on Lupe’s right forearm. The murder happened at 9 p. m. in a small one-room shack at the camp Tuesday evening. When the bleeding man was found twice, shot, police were notified andT’ . rushed to the scene. The arguers 1 fled before the authorities arrived. Authorities first searched for • Artemio, who was said to have . been involved in earlier argu- ' ments. Later they sought Prado, • whom witnesses identified as the ■ murderer, after refusing to give I any information except to say that the crime was not committed by ■ Artemio Callejos. Gomez had lived in the oneI room shack at the Chattanooga , camp after separating from the Callejos group earlier this sum- [ mer. Five other Mexicans, witnesses to the shooting, lived in the . same shack. Gomez’ body was taken to the t Dick and Stallter funeral home in I Celina, late Tuesday night. Auth- - orities. who began to search for • relatives then, have been unable f to locate the family, and funeral arrangements are incomplete. k * r • Polio Cases Clmb As 14 Cases Added INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana’s official tally of polio cases made a sharp climb last week when nearly as many cases were reported in seven days as were - reported in the year’s previous - 33 weeks. J The Indiana State Board of - Health added 14 cases to the list - last week, raising the 1958 inci- - dence to 32. compared with 67 a year ago and 237 as the five-year - median. New cases were added from - Allen County, 3; Cass, 2; Elkhart, s 2; Grant, 2; Howard, 1; Lat Grange, 2; Montgomery, 1; and Rush. 1. 9 Previously, three polio deaths s were recorded, one in St. Joseph and two in Allen Counties.

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