Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVL No. 213.

i I Iw Zt .. f • k(W : ' swssKsfc ffs S 9* k u i SLsll ” * - -■'' - 19 fl w“ w RB MAINE VICTORS READ NEWS — With Democrats hailing their smashing victory in traditionally Republican Maine, and President Eisenhower conceding the GOP took a licking in Monday's election, Senator-elect Edmund S. Muskie (left) and Governor-elect Clinton A. Clauson read of their victories at the Governor’s Augusta mansion. Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler called the Maine elections a “strong national trend.”

Counter Plan By Union To GE Proposal President Os Local Union (n Statement On Company's Plan The UE union has proposed a counter plan to the General Electric Co.’s offer concerning a savings program, Vernon Hebble, president of the local union, said today after returning from New” York city where he took part in the early part of the negotiations, and attended the union’s national convention. The UE proposes that each yaar for two years the work week be cut 2*4 hours. Thus, a worker on a 40-hour week this year would go on a 37*4 hour work-week next year, and a 35-hour week the next year. This would mean that employes laid off could be rehired The union idea is for the workers to do this rather than take their 15 cent an hour wage increase due to them in cash. The union figures that this would cost the company $156 per worker, and.because of the tax structure, one-half of this would be reflected in GE’s net profit figure. The union also feels that the GE proposal is not fair, because it calls for no increase on the part of the company of any kind, as it plainly states that no additional expenditures are anticipated. The union also figures that the union will finance the plan by the workers’ postponing their 3.48% wage hike from Sept. 15 to Dec. 31, that they give up the 1% deduction in pension payments, cut takehome pay 1% a year for two years, and then figure the 3% company contribution without including vacation, holiday, overtime, incentive. social security, or unemployment pay and contributions. Also, the union feels, that some workers would not be able to save the full 6% a year, and the company would add to its profits from this. Workers, by union figuring, would have about 25.15% deducted from their pay before take-home. The text of the union report follows: “It has been called to our attention that there is some confusion in the minds of some people in this area regarding the current negotiations between the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) and the General Electric company, in order to clear this up we would like to make very clear our proposals to the company,” So stated Vernon Hebble, president of UE Local 924, representing the workers at the GE plant in Decatur. Hebble has just returned from New .York where he was a delegate from the local to the UE 23rd national convention., Hebble also took part in the early negotiations between the union and the company. "The UE proposal to the company is a very simple one” continued Hebble. “Hie GE-UE workers are proposing to apply a total of fifteen (15) cents in wage increases due them in the next two years, toward the cost of reducing the work week by two and one half (2*4) hours each year. This represents half of what it would cost to put more than 40,000 laid off GE workers back to work. Right here in Decatur where we have been very fortunate in the past several months by having few layoffs, it would mean much greater job security to those who are now working—and that is what this reopener in the five year contract is—job security. “The actual cost to the company during the next 12 months would amount to $156 per worker, half of (Continued on page six)

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Lebanon Reaction To Hammarskjold Cool UN Secretary Plans Return To New York BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD—Lebanon reacted cooly today to efforts by U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to speed the withdrawal of American troops from its territory. Hammarskjold, who was unable to get Jordan to agree to withdrawal of British troops from its territory, flew to Beirut for talks with Lebanese officials as his Middle East peace mission began drawing to a close. The U. N. chief eliminated a return visit to Cairo from his itinerary and planned to fly back, to New York in a few days. It was learned the present Lebanese government, headed by outgoing President Camille Chamoun, has decided the withdrawal of U. S. troops is a question that should be resolved by U. S. and Lebanese officials. There was general skepticism here whether Hammarskjold would be able to accomplish much on his mission before returning h6ine. He was sent to the Middle East Aug. 26 by the U. N. General Assembly resolution calling for a pledge of non - interference by Arab states in the affairs of their neighbors and withdrawal of Anglo - American forces from this explosive area. Jordan and Lebanon want solid security pledges before agreeing to withdrawal. Annual School Bus Inspection Sept. 17 State Police Will Conduct Inspection The annual inspection of the school buses of Adams county will be held Wednesday, September 17, by the Indiana state police, G. M. Grabill, Adams county school superintendent, announced today. The guide used for the inspection will be in compliance with the school bus specifications as prepared by the state school bus safety committee. All bus drivers are to stand by their bus for the inspection. Any exception must be reported to the trustee or respective superintendent. The schedule is as follows: at Geneva high school, 8 o'clock, Wabash township, <7 buses): 8:30. Hartford township, (4 buses); 8:45, Jefferson township, (4 buses); 9 o’clock, Berne-French, (5 buses); and 9:15, Blue Creek township, (3 buses). At the Decatur city parking lot: 12 o’clock, Adams Central, (14 buses); 12:45, St. Mary’s township, (4 buses); 1 o'clock. Union township, (3 buses); 1:30, Preble township, (4 buses); and 1:45, Root township, (5 buses). It is anticipated that 12 to 13 buses will be inspected per hour. Mrs. Esther Best Dies This Morning Mrs. Esther Best, 89, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died this morning at the South View rest home at Bluffton. She was born in Adrian, Mich., Nov. 10, 1868, a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Bailey-Buehrer, but spent most of her life here. Survivors include two sons, Elmer Best of Bunker Hill, 111., and Edward Best of Ukiah, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Agnes Nicolet of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Emma Johnson of Akron, O. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have I not been completed.

Primaries Are Held Tuesday In 10 Slates McFarland Wins In Arizona, Pepper Is Beaten In Florida WASHINGTON (UPD — One former Democratic s e na t o r emerged on top today from the first major test in his campaign to return to Congress, but another returned to political limbo. The survivor was Gov. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona, majority leader of the Senate during the last two years of the Truman administration. He won the Democratic senatorial nomination in his state Tuesday to oppose Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican who defeated him six years ago. Among the losers in the primary elections Tuesday in 10 states wag former Sen. Claude Pepper, once a prominent voice among Southern liberals. He was snowed under in Florida by Sen. Spessard L. Holland, a conservative who was renominated for a third term. Georgians Vote Today Primaries also were held in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the last heavy round of nominating activity this year,’ candidates were nominated for eight U. S. Senate seats, seven governorships, 59 House seats and many state and local offices. In a state in which Democratic nominations are equivalent to election, Georgia Democrats held a primary today to name candidates for 10 House seats, gover- ‘ ’nor and other state offices. In primaries later this month, Rhode Island will be the last state to nominate candidates for the Nov. 4 elections. Holland’s victory in Florida reemphasized that incumbent senators who want to run again have been having a fairly easy time this year. Only Holland had formidable opposition among seven incumbent senators rendminated Tuesday. However, fhost of the other six can expect tougher opposition in the elections Nov. 4. Holland can take reelection for granted in a state where the Democratic nomination has been tantamount to election. Wisconsin GOP Cheered In Arizona, Goldwater was renominated without opposition for a rematch with McFarland, who defeated Democratic national committeeman Stephen W. Langmade. In Republican Vermont, Rep. Winston L. Prouty won the GOP senatorial nomination from former Gov. Lee E. Emerson to run for the seat of retiring Sen. Ralph E. Flanders. Frederick J. Fayette. Burlington attorney, was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. _ Democratic Sen. William Pro*" mire easily won renomination in Wisconsin against token opposition from two opponents. The fact he polled fewer votes than former state Supreme Court Judge Ronald Steinle, unopposed GOP candidate, cheered Republicans (jContlnued on page five) Otto Fuhrman Dies Os Farm Injuries Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Thursday for Otto Fuhrman, 60, who died Tuesday morning at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, from injuries sustained Sunday afternoon when he was run over by a tractor. Mr. Fuhrman suffered internal injuries when he was thrown off the tractor as the machine hit a stump on his farm three and onehalf miles southeast of Poe. The tractor ran over his body. The farm accident victim was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim and the Lutheran laymen’s league. Surviving are the wife, Clara L.; his mother, Mrs. Anna Fuhrman of Ossian; two daughters, Mrs. Harvey Eggers of Cedar Bluffs, Neb., and Mrs. Elvin Hormann of Fort Wayne; four sons, William D. and James Allen Fuhrman, at home, Melvin Fuhrman of Fort Wayne, and Otto Fuhrman, Jr., of Decatur; four grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Fred Wellenseik of Fort Wayne. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. A. A. Fenner, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening;

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 10,1958.

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Hint Request i Nationalists Give Up Isles Negotiations With Reds May Bring Up U.S. Recommendation BULLETIN NEWPORT. R. I. (UPD — President Eisenhower will return to Washington Thursday to make a television and radio report to the people on the Formosa situation, the White House said today. WASHINGTON (UPD — U.S. officials said today American-Red Chinese negotiations might lead eventually to a U.S. recommendation that Nationalist China give up Quemoy and Matsu. But they said any such recommendation would be a long way off despite hints from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that concessions might be in the making if the Communists would renounce use of force in Formosa Strait. Two senators immediately took stands on what the United States should do next in the Formosa crisis: —Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), former ambassador to India, said President Eisenhotfrer should try to persuade Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kaishek to abandon the offshore islands. However, he conceded that both Chiang and the United (States might “lose face” by a withdrawal. —Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) said “The problem is one of negotiations for the purpose of peace—or of making military threats for the purpose of forcing a particular result.” But he said the issue is “much bigger than saving face for John Foster Dulles.” Islands’ Political Value U.S. military men in the past have regarded the islands as of little Yniiitary value. However, officials stress that they have taken on political and psychological value in that the Nationalist Chinese have stationed strong garrisons on them. Dulles was asked at a news conference Tuesday whether the United States would be ready to recommend that Nationalist China evacuate the two offshore islands if Red China renounce use of (Continued on page five)

Home Football Season To Open Friday Night

Twenty-six gaily colored posters e in downtown windows, purple and € gold streamers from the main c street light poles, and American flags remind the citizens of Deca- t tur that Friday night Decatur high e school will open its 1958 home foot- c ball schedule. v The posters were prepared by t students of Decatur high school ( and Decatur Catholic high school, £ and three prizes will be awarded for those judged to be the best, t A parade at 7 o’clock tonight \ will be part of the pre-game rites, t Names of the winners will be « announced at the football game. Friday night, and in the Decatur ; Daily Democrat. t game will start at 7:30 f 1 o’clock and will be preceded by a f junior high football game at 6 < p. m. Season tickets for all four s ■ home football games are now on sale. < Besides the kickoff game Friday j ■ night with the New Haven Bull- ( dogs, DHS will also play Garrett j I Sept. 19, Portland Sept. 26, and t ; Penn, Oct. 7. Former DHS football players , ■ will be honored just before the gamfe starts. Next an American Legion color r guard, Joe Rash, commander, will j march onto the field at the head , of the Decatur high school band. « Jack Heller, representing the Booster club and past letterman ’ from Decatur high school, will pre- j sent the city school system with

Aulo Workers Heads Hold Session Today To Study Decision On Strike Deadline DETROIT (UPD—The United Auto Workers’ executive board was scheduled to decide today whether recent progress in talks with the “big three” auto companies was enough to warrant another delay in setting a strike deadline. UAW presiden t Walter P. Reuther last week called the meeting for, the announced pur-, pose of setting a strike deadline and picking a target company for a strike. But since then Reuther personally has entered negotiations with all three of the companies and reported some progress at all except Chrysler Corp. Reuther concentrated largely on General Motors, meeting with a negotiating team headed by GM Mice president Louis G. Seaton . until 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night * Not Hopeful He refused to say whether he believed the negotiations had progressed far enough to postpone any strike action, as was done when the question of setting a strike deadline first came up last month. But he did not sound hopeful. “The simple fact is that we have been probing most of the day,” he said. “We have nothing 'oh the table yet." Reuther said the top officials of the union would meet before the executive board meeting to prepare a report, and possibly a recommendation, to the board. He said the negotiating teams at GM, Ford and Chrysler all would appear before the board to present reports of the progress they have been making and submit recommendations. Optimism At Ford The most optimistic report came from negotiations at Ford Tuesday. "It was the best day we had,’’ Kenneth Bannon, chief UAW negotiator at Ford, said. “There was a changed attitude.” Malcom Denise, head of the Ford negotiating team, agreed with Bannon that the “atmosphere of the talks has improved.” Chrysler reported no new progress in its talks. All three companies recessed the talks today to permit the union officials to attend the executive board meeting. Hope of avoiding the union threat of a strike was raised by (.Ctontinued on pa.se five)

a flag, a gift of Post 43, the American Legion, and a flag-pole, gift of the General Electric company. George Auer, plant manager of the General Electric company, and Robert G. Smith, commander of Post 43, the American Legion, will be present for the presentation, which will be accepted by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of schools. The color guard will then post the flag, and it will be raised while the Decatur high school band, under Clint Reed, plays the Star Spangled Banner. After the flag ceremony, Lowell J. Smith, announcer, will introduce the fathers of the present football team. They will be sitting in a group in special chairs, with their sons’ suit numbers on their chairs, so that they may be identified. Those taking part in the American Legion color guard are Fred Bieberich, Bob Aschbaucher, Don Cochran. Charles Chew. Frank Detter, Bill Hunter and Dee Fryback. Those who designed the posters, and the store windows in which thev are displayed are: Decatur Daily Democrat, Ronnie Baker; Price’s Mens Wear, Jackie Burke: Blackwells Department store. Judy Roberts; Schmitts Market. Beckv Maddox: Jani Lvnn, Nick Conrad: Goodyear, Margaret Slusher; Sutton’s Jewelry store, Tessy Snyder; (Continued on page five)

Tension Grows OnEveOf U.S. Court Hearing Negro Attorneys Seek Immediate Integration Order By AL BUETTNER United Press International Tensions mounted today on the eve of a historic U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the Little Rock integration issue. Here are the latest developments : Negro attorneys submitted a final brief to the high court asking that Little Rock’s Central High School be ordered integrated immediately. Arthur S. Fleming, secretary of health, education and welfare, is(•jjk’d a statement to the effect wrat “federally impacted” schooldistricts that received special funds from the federal government face loss of the money if public schools are closed because of integration. The government helps finance education in areas where government personnel causes an extra burden on local facilities. I In Madisonville, Ky., between 300 and 400 white persons stopped a car carrying four Negro children and one white child to a recently integrated school. Police dispersed the crowd. Council Delays Meetin The Madisonville in c i dent brought the first show of activity by U.S. marshals—the police arm of the federal courts. Marshals have been alerted for integration duty in such points as Little Rock. At a Federal Court hearing in Richmond, Va., a Negro parent testified her daughter is transported five miles to a Negro school but that a white school to w’hich she was . denied admission is only 4’/z blocks from her home. The Little Rock City Council postponed pending Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing, a meeting to decide how far local police would go in helping the government enforce order at Central High if it is again integrated. The NAACP brief to the Supreme Court asked the court to “restate in unmistakable terms . . the supremacy of all constitutional rights over bigots — big and small." In this language NAACP attorneys filed their final brief with the nation’s highest court just prior to Thursday’s historic hearing. The issue there will be whether the integration at Central will be put into effect once more or whether a 30-month cooling off period granted by a district fedQCtar.tin.iea on pase five) Electronics Plant To Build In Berne New Plant Will Be Opened October 15 A new electronics plant, to be opened October 15, and employing about 40 persons to start with, eventually working up to about 110, will be constructed soon in Berne, it was reported here today. The plant is said to be owned by American Automatic, a subsidiary of Automatic Electric Co., of Chicago, 111. The land utilized will be approximately 11 acres on the Henry Ehrman farm on the northeast edge of the city. L. Luther Yager, president of the Berne Area Development, Inc., announced Monday that the land was being cleared for industrial purposes. The Berne Area Development, Inc., was formed in August, 1957, and has actively searched for new industries for the Berne area. Last winter an option to buy part of the Henry and Virena Ehrsam farm was signed by the group. The group has now taken up the option on the land desired.

Severe Winds, Rain Hit Midwest Areas Southwest Part Os Michigan Hard Hit United Press International Severe winds and flooding rains lashed sections of the Midwest during the night, causing heaviest damage in Michigan and lowa. A wind and hail storm pipped Van Buren County, Mich., Tuesday night and authorities feared heavy damage to the state’s fruit crop, centered in that area. The storm plunged the community of Hartford, Mich., into darkness as it swept the southwest portion of the state. Streets were littered with fallen tree limbs, power lines and television aerials. An electrical storm near Muskigon, Mich., touchd off numerous fires and caused power failures from Lake Michigan to the Muskegon airport. Wind velocities in the area were estimated as high as 65 miles an hour. A squall line in lowa spawned an unconfirmed tornado and dumped torrential rains in the southern section. Flood warnings were issued in the counties of Madison, Union, Taylor and Ringgold. An unofficial five inches of rain in % hour struck Villisca, lowa, Tuesday night, and Creston, lowa, was swamped with three inches of water in an hour. Water eight inches deep coursed through sections of Creston during the storm. . Firemen rescued a car load of teen-agers trapped in a flooded railroad tunnel. Other heavy rainfall amounts in the Midwest included .98-inch at Concordia, Kan., .80 at Lincoln, Neb., and .66 at Fort Wayne, Ind. The storms occurred in advance of a cold air mass pushing south through the Great Lakes and the Plains into northern Nebraska. Overnight readings in the cool air ranged in the 40s and 50s. Other thundershowers occurred during the night in the Rockies, Arizona and southern Florida, but most amounts were light. Decatur Young Men In Court October 1 .. Arraignment Delay Granted By Judge Two Decatur youths, Roy Litchfield, 18, and Larry Allen Walchle. 19, were granted until October 1 in which to enter a plea to charges of grand larceny and second-degree burglary at 10 o'clock today in circuit court. The men were charged with the two offenses in June after it was learned that both men were involved in the theft of $1,150 in golfing equipment taken from the Decatur Golf course during that month. The additional time in which tc plead either in abatement or at bar was granted by Judge Myles F. Parrish today after the pair appeared in the Adams circuit court for their arraignment. Representing Walchle is G. Remy Bierly, and . Litchfield is represented by Hubert R. McClenahan. Both men were released under SIO,OOO bond each after they were questioned and charged with the offenses. , Grand larceny carries a penalty of SSOO fine and 1 to 10 year imprisonment: second - degree burglary carries a penalty of two to five years. Three juveniles were charged with the same offenses at the time the two men mentioned above were arrested. They appeared in juvenile court shortly afterward and were put on strict probation to the probation officer. Indiana Tech Plans Annual Homecoming FORT WAYNE — Preliminary plans have been completed for the Indiana Technical College alumnl’s' annual homecoming, which will be held October 10-11.

James Hagerty Denies Adams Has Resigned Results From Maine Election Seen As Clincher To Act WASHINGTON (UPI) — An administration official said today that Sherman Adams for all practical purposes has left the White House staff and is not expected to return to work as the assistant ... to President Eisenhower. Adams left this week for a fishing trip in New England. The administration figure told United Press International, “I think the question of a resignation is over and done with — I don’t believe he’s coming back.” If this official’s information was correct—and there was every reason to believe it was—all that remained was the formality of a White House announcement of Adams' resignation. However, the vacation White House at Newport, R.1., denied that Adams has resigned. “It is just not true,” White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said. “There has been no resignation in any shape, form or manner submitted by Governor Adams,” Hagerty said. Adams’ decision to leave the White House has been in the making since the House investigation of favors extended to Adams’ good friend, Bernard Goldfine, the Boston textile tycoon. If there was any doubt in Adams’ mind about leaving, it was, according to officials who should know, resolved by the Maine election where the AdamsGoldfine affair may have been a factor in the startling Democratic victory. The Democratic victory in Maine caused hard-pressed Republican candidates elsewhere to renew their cries that Adams should go. A friend of the former New Hampshire governor, who has been Eisenhower’s “chief of staff” since the start of the administration, expressed the belief that Adams had come to the conclusion that his political effectiveness was severely damaged by the Goldfine disclosures. Suspend License Os Death-Car Driver INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State _ Motor Vehicle Bureau Tuesday suspended the license of a youth involved in a double-fatality smash-up a year ago. William Quinnette. 20, Indianapolis, still faced indictments in the deaths of Miss Donna A. Parker, 19. Indianapolis, and Forrest Payne, 25, Louisville, when Quinnette’s car went out of control here. Catholic Church In China Persecuted VATICAN CITY (UPI) — The Vatican City newspaper Osserva-. tore Romano said Tuesday night the Catholic Church in China is undergoing a persecution unparalleled in the darkest ages of history. The newspaper carried a long review of events in China in commenting on an encyclical letter made public Monday in which Pope Pius XII condemned the unauthorized election of Chinese bishops by Communist-sponsored assemblies as “rebellion”, against the church. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler this afternoon with chance of a few thundershowers extreme south portion. Fair and cooler tonight. Thursday fair and rath- . er cool. Low tonight 42 to 50 north, 50 to 56 south. High Thursday 67 to 75. Sunset today 7:03 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:21 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Lows 55 to 60. Highs 80 to 85.

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