Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 204

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Hartke, Fleming Hit 4th District GOP Recession

Republican-led business stagnancy in the Fourth district was blasted Thursday night by Mayor Vance Hartke, Democratic Senate Candidate, and W. Robert Fleming. candidate for congress, to a capacity crowd of 200 at Bluffton attended by five from Adams county. GOP ineptness at clearing the recession-unemployment-high cost of living picture was hit by the farm-raised Hartke who has only lived in the “big city" ten years. Hartke was joined in the speech by his wife and two of their five children, while Mrs. Fleming, the former Leah Peters of Decatur, was with her husband at the car-ry-in supper. G. Remy Bierly, Democratic candidate for the appellate court judgeship held for many years by the Republicans, and Burl Johnson, of St. Mary’s township, candidate for joint representative, also appeared at the meeting. Mrs. Bierly accompanied her husband. Miss Rose Nesswauld and Miss Rosemary Spangler also attended from Adams county. Jack Haymaker, son of former Democratic state chairman Ira Haymaker, and candidate for treasurer of state, also spoke briefly. Rural Background Mayor Hartke was raised in Pike county on a small farm in a family of four. His high school class had 12 members, and he was sent to college and supported there with help from his father and sister. Hartke stated that when he was a boy he thoughtout patches on his knees belonged there because everyone else had them, too. Then Roosevelt led the country down the path of prosperity, followed by Truman until the inept Republicans took over on a "false peace, prosperity, balance budget, and mess in Washington” platform. Patches will soon be back on the overalls if the present economics trend is not reserved, he said. Arrangements for the meeting, Which foßbwed a carry-in supper, were in charge of Joseph F. Eichhorn, chairman of the Wells County Democratic Central Committee, and Mrs. Dorothy Huffman, county vice chairman Who also is Fourth District vice chairman. Capacity Crowd The meeting was primarily for county precinct committeemen and vice committeemen, but a capacity crowd showed up. Introduced along with Haymaker and Bierly were Von Eichorn of Uniondale, joint state senator; Burl Johnson of Decatur joint state representative and the Wells County Democratic candidates. Hartke, pointing out that this year the Democrats are working tog as a team, whereas the Republicans are not working with their leader called Gov. Harold (Continued on page eight)

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President Signs Costly Bills Before Vacation 42 Pocketpickers Signed By Ike; 135 Not Acted On WASHINGTON (UPI} — President Eisenhower signed into law today a bill affecting the pocketbooks of nearly 90 million Americans. It increases social security benefits by 7 per cent and raises taxes on both workers and employers to help foot the bill. The measure was one of 42 the President approved in a flurry of bill singings that came a few hours before he was to leave for a vacation at Newport, R.I. He vetoed tw’o minor bills affecting Individuals, . ~~ — r Still remaining for his action are 135 measures approved by Congress before it adjourned. Eisenhower also signed a $3,298,092,500 foreign aid bill that was 652 million dollars less than he had asked of Congress, a farm bill which was pretty much what he wanted, and a bill on employe welfare and pension funds which he said was inadequate. He described the social security bill as “a significant step forward.” But he criticized a provision which increases federal grants for state-operated relief rolls by about 197 million dollars a year. He said this “can lead only to the weakening of the responsibility of the states and communities,” The new law increases taxes next Jan. 1 on both workers and employers by more than one billion dollars a year to help defray the cost of the increased benefits. Social security checks will be fatter, starting in February, for the 12 million persons now drawing benefits. For most of them, the increases will average $4.75 a month. Major provisions of the other bills Eisenhower approved: Foreign Aid: Provides $3,298,092,500 in military and economic aid to the nation’s friends in the free world during the fiscal year ending next June 30. The President has said one of major disappointments about the just-con-cluded Congress is that it reduced the appropriation by 652 million dollars. Labor: Requires that reports be filed with the secretary of labor for public inspection on the operation of welfare and pension funds operated by both employers (Continued on page eight)

Lie Test Frees Two Workers In Local Murder Callejos Boys Freed; Prado Still Loose Two laborers were cleared of the actual shooting of another laborer at the St. Mary’s packing plant labor camp at Chattanooga, 0., Tuesday evening, while authorities are still alerted to capture a third, suspected to be the murderer. Lupe Callejos, 24, was cleared of the actual shooting of Jesse Gomez, 33, but is being held as an accessory in the murder. His brother, Fernando Callejos, 16, was cleared of any blame yesterday in Indianapolis, where the two were given paraffin and lie detector tests, to see if either had fired a gun and to check their testimony. Until Gregory V. Prado, 36, who lived at the same labor camp as the Callejos brothers, five and onehalf miles east and one mile north of Berne, is captured, authorities in the tri state area, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigian, are on the alert. Prado is described as five feet, six inches tall, Weighing 155 pounds. Lupe Callejos had been apprehended Wednesday morning by the Adams county sheriff’s department who had set up roadblocks at the camp near Berne, in case any of the parties returned to the encampment owned by the Redkey packing plant. He was driving a car owned by Artemi© Callejos, “foreman” of the group at the Adams county camp. He and a younger brother, Fernando, were taken to the scene of the murder, where authorities received- this story: Lupe, Prado, and Fernando had come to Chattanooga, 0., earlier in the day, when Lupe and Prado had argued with Gomez over labor difficulties, probably the division of a bonus received earlier in the year when Gomez was working with the Callejos group. Gomez had chased the men out of his shack with a butcher knife, several of which were found in the Gomez hut later. Lupe received a slash on the right forearm. Returning to the Berne camp, the two older men left Fernando there, and came back to the Chattanooga camp just before the shooting. Hearing an argument, before the shooting, the management had contacted the Mercer county sheriff’s department; before they arrived, the shooting had taken place and Prado had disappeared. Authorities first searched for Artemio Callejos, owner of the car. He was found Wednesday morning to be probably innocent of any connection with the murder. An alert for Lupe and Prado was sent out. Because of conflicting reports about happenings before the shoot(Ccr”r.uec on pare Hv») ASC Balloting Starts Today Local Committees To Be Chosen by Mail Ballots for the election of the 1959 Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation community committees were mailed today, stated Vic« tor Bleeke, chairman of the ASC county committee. Three regular committeemen and two alternates will be elected. Mr. Bleeke urges all farmers to vote in this election. A ballot will not be Counted unless the name and address of the person voting is writton on the outer envelope — gummed labels cannot be used for identification—in order that eligibility to vote may be established. The ballot shall be placed in the plain white envelope and the envelope sealed before placing it in the outer envelope for mailing. The mailing envelope requires no postage and must be postmarked not later than September 9, 1958. After eligibility has been established the small envelope is removed and placed in a ballot box, without identification, for counting, by the election tabulation board, Fred Kunkel, Forrest Sprunger and Fred Ulman. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight, although possibly a thundershower extreme northwest portion. Sunny and warm Saturday. Low .tonight in the 60s. High Saturday 85 to 92. Sunset today 7:22 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:11 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and continued warm with possible showers north late Sunday. Lows in the 60s. Highs upper 80s north to the 90s south.

Decatur* Indiana, Friday, August 29,1958

U.S. Sends Carrier To Formosan Area; Reds Blast Quemoy

Adams County Places Five Ribbons Awards 4-H Winners At State Fair Announced Today In demonstration contests and the food preservation and electricity competition at the state fair, five Adams county 4-H’ers have placed in ribbon award categories. Results in clothing, baking, and handicraft projects have not come to the extension office yet. Esther Brehm, who represented the county, winning in the district special demonstration contest, won blue ribbon honors competing in the fresh and frozen vegetable contest with her demonstration, “Pretty as a Bouquet.” A Monroe Boosterette, she competed with nine other winners to the state contest, said county home demonstration agent Lois Folk, who accompanied the Adams county winner to the contest Thursday. In the food preservation contest, with three packages of three frozen vegetable varieties, Lois Gerke, of the Union Pals, placed in the blue ribbon category. Two county 4-H'er $ received redribbons in the food preservation contest: Karen Nussbaum, Monroe Boosterette, with three packages of three frozen food varieties, and Linda King, of St. Mary’s Keklongas, with one package of frozen fruit and one of frozen vegetables. Roger Roth, of the Kirkland Future Farmers, placed in the state fair 4-H white ribbon category, entering an air compressor. Two area 4-H club members received ribbons to the food preservation contest: Deanna Allison, route one, Monroeville, won a blue ribbon in the fifth division, and Roberta Koeneman, Monroeville, placed in the white ribbon category of the fourth division. Police To Arrest Traffic Violators INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —lndiana! police were asked today to use! flashing red lights to slow the flow of red blood in traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend.

50% Matched Savings Offered GE Workers

On the even of negotiations for a new wage contract, the General Electric company has announced a new savings plan whereby the mompany will add 50% to personal investments in U. S. savings bonds or GE common stock. This will be offered, the company's statement explains, if the workers will accept the new investment plan rather than an increase in wages in addition to the cost-of-living adjustments of the present contract. Payroll deductions up to 6% of straight-time earnings will be allowed, with a special first-year incentive. The new savings plan will be discussed with the representatives of the UE, which reprents Decatur plant workers* at meetings in New York which start Tuesday. Vernon Hebble, president of the local union, and Edward Hammond, will attend the national UE convention in New York at the same time as the negotiations. The company statement, released Thursday afternoon, reads as follows: The General Electric Company announced today further details of the rearranged compensation program which it is making available to employes and which is designed to help meet financial problems arising from both inflation and recession, while at the same time helping employes, if they so

Public Schools Give Full Year Calendar Grades Stagger Hours For Three Age Groups Decatur high school will start classes at 8:10 a.m. this Fall, and students will be dismissed at 11:10 asp. for lunch, returning to classes p.m. until the final bell al 3:30 p.m., W Guy Brown, superintendent of schools, announced today. Lincoln and Northwest grade schools will have staggered hours, with Kindergarten through the second grades, third through the sixth grades, and the seventh grades, arriving and leaving under separate schedules. The lower classes, kindergarten through second grade, will arrive at 8:30 a m. and go to school until 11 a.m., returning at 12:30 p.m. and being finally dismissed at 3 p.m. The middle grades, three through sixth, will start at 8:15 a.m., leave for lunch at 11 a.m., return at 12:15 p.m., and will be dismissed at 3 p.m. The seventh grade will arrive at 8:05 a.m., leave for lunch at 11:05 a.m.-, return at 12:05 p.m.. and end their school day at 3:05 p.m. A total of 177 days of school is planned for the 1958-59 school year, with six six-week periods ranging from 28 to 31 days in length. The calendar is as follows: ’ Sept. 2—Organizational Day. Sept. 3—Classes Begin. Oct. 10 —First 6 weeks ends. Oct. 23-24 — frorthern Indiana Teachers Ass’n Meeting. Nov. 21—2nd 6 weeks ends. Nov. 27-28—Thanksgiving. Dec. 24—Noon, Christmas Vacation starts. Jan. 5—1959 classes resumed. Jan. 16—End of Ist semester. Jan. 19—2nd Semester begins. Feb. 27—4th 6 weeks ends. March 27-30—Easter Vacation. April 10—5th 6 weeks ends. May 17—Baccalaureate Service. May 21—Commencement Service. May 22—Last day of school. Russia Brings Dogs Back From Rocket Trip LONDON (UPI) — Soviet Russia claimed today to have brought two dogs safely back to earth from a super-stratospheric rocket. A Moscow Radio broadcast said the animals were rocketed to a height of about 280 miles on Aug. 27.

choose, to build personal estates for the future. The new program offers each participating employe the opportunity to accumulate personal investments in General Electric common stock and/or U. S. savings bonds under arrangements whereby the company directly adds a 50 percent matching payment. He may allow these investments to multiply into a substantial estate, or he may withdraw them after a holding period and convert them to cash, if he chooses. Special features protect him in the event of job termination, extended layoff, total disability, or a strike. Among the most noteworthy features of the program are the financing arrangements to launch it in this recession year. The newly conceived program is being made available by a rearrangement of presently contemplated expenditures and not as a further added expense to the company. However, the proposed alternate program contemplates using up every bit of the funds committed under present contracts and contemplated for the next two years in other compensation programs for employes not unionized. Appropriate arrangements are being made for the various groups of company employes. Preliminary discussions to work out the (Continued on page two)

Miss Von Stroh Will Become Teacher Here Sunday Commission For Lutheran School To Missouri Native Miss Norma Lee Von Stroh of . Winfield, Kansas, will be commissioned into the teaching ministry of the Lutheran School at the ten-thirty worship service Sunday morning at Zion Lutheran Church, West Monroe and Eleventh Streets. The pastor of the church, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, will officiate. Miss Von Stroh will teach the third grade pupils as a second classroom is added to the local Lutheran school this fall. The school was opened in the fall of 1956 with one grade with the plan of adding a grade each year. Miss Evelyn Nussbaum of Gordonville, Missouri, has taught in the school the past two years and will teach grades one and two this fall. School will open next Wednesday morning at 8:20. Miss Von Stroh comes to Decatur from Concordia Teachers’ College at Seward, Nebraska, one of the two teachers’ colleges supported by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. She attended summer school in June and July at St. John’.h Lutheran College, Winfield, Kansas. As Miss Nussbaum, so Miss Von Stroh is a native of Missouri, having moved to Winfield, Kansas, with her family in 1955. The new third grade teacher at Zion School has been active in the Walther League, Lutheran young people’s organization, Sunday and Vacation school, and choir. During High School years she was a member of the Future Homemakers of America receiving her Junior and Chapter degrees, and a 4-H Club member for six years with two blue ribbons in Missouri State 4-H Round-up demonstration competition. Last year at Concordia College, Seward, she was chosen one of the seven outstanding women athletics of the year. Miss Von Stroh and Miss Nussbaum are both re-, siding at the home of Mrs. Walter Bauer, 345 N. Tenth Street Bobo Camp Meeting Will End Sept. 7 Night Preaching Starts At 7:30 p.m. The sixth annual Bobo camp meeting is now underway at the St. Mary's township town located four miles east of Decatur on highway 33, then north on highway 101, and the Rev. Harry W. Wood, of Milton, Ky.. with 12 years experience as a Methodist pastor, is the evangelist. Douglas Slack, of Vevay, is music director and song leader for the meeting which will last until Sept. 7, Gene Bebout, president of the association, and Max Case, secretary, announced today. The night meetings start at 7:30 p.m., and the Sunday afternoon session is held at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome at the meeting, it was emphasized, and all interested in good Gospel preaching and singing are invited to attend. Photographer No Bother Says Presiding Judge LOS ANGELES (UPD — Members of the American Bar Assn, watched Thursday as newspaper photographers took pictures during naturalization proceedings in federal court. Most states follow the ABA’s canon which frowns on taking photographs in courtrooms. “The presence of photographers "in no way disturbed any of the proceedings," presiding Judge Harry Westover said.

Pastor Returned | Rev, Paul D. Parker Rev. Parker, Nuttman Ave. Pastor, Stays United Brethren Conference Returns Decatur Pastor The Rev. Paul D. Parker who has been serving as pastor of the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren In Christ church has been returned for the sixth year. The assignment was made at the 166th. session of the Auglaize Conference, which was recently held at the United Brethren camp ground, Rockford, O. Rev. ana Mrs. farxer reside at 1022 Nuttman Ave. They announced their readiness to help make the community a better place in which to live. The regular schedule of church services will be resumed this week end. Decafur Youth National Delegate Ralph B. Thomas Represents EUB Ralph B. Thomas of Decatur, Indiana is one of 154 delegates to the general council of the United Christian Youth Movement, meeting at Massanetta Springs, Va., August 25-30. This delegated body of youth and advisors of youth representing thirteen denominations, twenty-nine states and two foreign countries is in session to conduct the annual business of the UCYN. and through the five commissions to formulate the future policies and program of interrenomlnational youth work. Thomas is one of the representatives of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The United Christian Youth Movement, ad ivision of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, is the largest Protestant youth organization in the world and provides a channel for cooperative youth programs which reach ten million young people. Police Receive Reports Os Stolen Bicycles Two bicycles were stolen late Wednesday from 510 West Jefferson street, city police were notified Thursday. One, owned by Donald Kaehr, is a red and white boys’ bicycle, with a front, mud flap. .A Western Flyer with the serial number 4881156, it has 24” wheels. James Kaehr is the owner of th? second stolen bicycle. It is red. w i-f h chrome-painted fenders, small front mud flap, and 26” wheels.

Brink Os War Threat Looms Near China Air Raids May Hit Formosa; Large US Fleet TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD—Communist Chinese artillery blasted the Nationalist-held Quemoy islands again today in what some sources said was a pre-invasion bombardment. The United States emphasized the urgency of the situation by ordering the giant aircraft carrier Midway to Formosa. Some Nationalist government offices began moving out of Taipei into the suburbs as a precaution against possible Communist air attacks. In Washington, President Eisenhower summoned Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter to the White House today and conferred wjth him about Formosa. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said “The United States is watching the situation” when asked about the Red Chinese threat to invade the offshore islands in the Formosa Strait. In London, the British Foreign Office said the situation in the Formosa Strait “is serious but not critical. British dplomats were recritical. British diplomats were regeneral war” in the area is not imminent. Build Powerful Fleet The Nationalist Defense Ministry said the Reds hurled a 7,100round bombardment early in the day at the small islands of Tatan and Erhtan in the Quemoy group, which controls the entrance to the Communist port of Amoy. The ministry announced later that the Red shore batteries fired an additional 1.810 high explosive shells into Big Quemoy in a twohour period today. When the Midway and the carrier Essex, now moving toward Formosa from the Mediterranean, reach the area with their, escort ships. Vice Adm. Wallace M. Beakley’s 7th Fleet will be a powerful fighting force of 6 aircraft carriers, 3 heavy cruisers, 40 destroyers, 4 submarines and at least 20 supporting ships of various types. There were these other major developments: —Premier Chen Cheng calld on the nation today to prepare for any crisis" including the bombing of Taipei. —The nationalists defied round-the-clock ■ Communist demands it surrender the offshore islands and rounded up Communist agents during the night in a sudden, fivehour clampdown of emergencymartial law. —A typhoon howling out of the Pacific pushed rainstorms into the Formosa Strait today and sent cloud blankets over the Quemoy and Matsu islands, reducing observation of Communist activities —and hampering possible Red troop movements by sea. —Radio Moscow accused “U.S. aggressive circles” of pushing (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Rosetta Graves Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Morgan's Mother Dies At Own Home Mrs. Rosetta F. Graves, 78, mother of Mrs. Luella Morgan of 622 North Seventh street, died at 4:30 p.m. yesterday at her Fort Wayne home. She was a native of Allen county, born April 14, 1880. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Morgan are one son, Ernest Graves, Wolf Lake, eight grandchildren; 1-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. The body was taken to the Klaehn Funeral Heme, Fort Wayne. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m, Saturday at the funeral home, the Rev. Dr. John Meister officiating.

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