Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 215.

TIT IMk <. fete ' ■ ■fiwS H| K/K-v Bnuß BRO AT INTEGRATION HEARING—Crowds gather before the Supreme Court in Washington as the High Court met in special session to hear final arguments on racial integration in the nation's schools. Only 54 of the 180 seats in the chamber were available to the general public, with spectators from as far away as Tokyo in line for admittance, some of them having waited overnight for the doors to be opened.

Truman Scores GOP For Lack Os Leadership Huge Crowd Attends Democratic Rally At Fort Wayne Thursday FORT WAYNE. Ind. - Former President Truman charged Thursday night Republicans lack the leadership “to guide the destinies of this great nation and the tree world.” The speech by the 74-year-old ex-President at a rally of about 10.000 Hoosier Democrats in the spacious Coliseum was billed as Truman’s first of the 1958 Congressional campaign. He was expected to attack the Eisenhower administration again today as one of the featured speakers at a meeting of Midwest Democratic leaders in Omaha, Neb. Truman, who predicted victory for Vance Hartke in his U. S. Senate bid against Governor Handley, appeared as chipper as ever. However, he tripped and fell after speaking to a Young Democrats’ group shortly after his arrival Eugene Koons, Fourth District Democratic Chairman, and a security officer caught Truman just before he would have hit the floor. He apparently escaped injury. “Give ’Em Hell Later” At a news conference, Truman refused comment’ on presidential aide Sherman Adams, the Ouemoy crisis and racial integration. He said he didn’t want to comment on the integration issue while a case was under court consideration. “Wait until they rule and then give ’em hell if you want to,” he said. He said he wa*s pleased by Democratic victories in Maine because “there’s a lot of Republicans unhappy and that always makes me glad.” He said he would do as much campaigning this fall as the “Democratic committee wants me to.” In his speech, Truman said the nation must exercise decisive, forward - looking leadership to maintain its position of leadership in the free world. “Unfortunately, the official thinking of the Republican Party is not geared to this idea,” Truman said. “The only thing the only response they make to progress is to drag their feet and vote no.” Scores Way of Life The former President said mankind has made rapid progress in the physical sciences, particularly in creation of “terrible weapons (Continued on page six', INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer north portion tonight. Saturday sunny and warmer. Low tonieht 50 to 57 north, 48 to 55 south. High Saturday 80 to 85. Sunset today 0:59 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 0:23 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partlv cloudy with little temperature change. Lows Saturday night in the 50s. Highs Sunday in the 80s.

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Non-Union Workers Sign 6. E. Program Decatur Employes Sign Savings Plan George Auer, plant manager of the Decatur General Electric plant, announced today that all of the 100 Decatur employes not represented by a bargaining unit have signed up for the new savings and security program recently introduced by tically by these employes not in a bargaining unit. Their 100% participation demonstrates their belief in the worthwhileness of the new savings and security program," Auer said. “The program has been received enthusiastically at other General Electric locations. The latest figures show that over 95% of all General Electric employes not in a bargaining unit in Fort Wayne have signed up for the plan. In addition. the officials of 27 unions representing GE employes have indicated they will recommend to their membership acceptance of the new program,” Auer pointed out. New Features Announced Auer also announced three new features have been added to the olan. Since the new program involves rearrangement of currently committed and contemplated wage increases, special provisions have been worked out so no one who par ticipates fully in the new plan will suffer any loss because of these rearrangements of the increases. In addition, a provision has been included whereby employes will be able to save a percentage of thei) aross earnings rather than jus' straight time earnings. Summarizing the three features Auer said: “I. The plan has been liberalized so the company employes may save up to 6% of their gross earnings. This includes all straight time earnings as well as overtime pay light shift bonus, and cost of livinf adjustments. “2. The second feature insures hat any employe who is participatng fully in the plan and who terminates his employment for anj -eason (death, retirement, volunary termination, lack of work for me year, etc.) before September (Continued on page aix) Funeral Saturday For Salway Infant Peggy Sue Salway, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noelan Salway of three miles east of Decatur, died at 10:45 a.m. Thursday at Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. The child was bom Tuesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, the daughter of Noelan L. and Patricia Hurst-Salway. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Eddie Dean; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hurst of Decatur, and David Salway of Monroeville, and the great - grandmothers. Mrs. Jess Hurst and Mrs. Rhoda Hill of Decatur. Services will be held at 2 p.m.Saturday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Emmett Anderson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Ike Firm On U.S. Stand In China Crisis No Appeasement To China Reds, Doubts Likelihood Os War BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UFI) — Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy said today the United States “would resist an assault on the Quemoys by the Chinese Communists. WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower declared Thursday night the United States “shall never timidly retreat before the threat of armed aggression” in the Formosa Strait. In a 21 - minute speech beamed around the world from the White House, the Chief Executive held out the hope “diplomacy can and should find away out” of the crisis centering on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. But he said a “Western Pacific kunich would not buy us peace or security” — more likely it would lead to a “major war.” The speech was regarded at the White House and State Department as a tough restatement of U. S. Far East policy. Urgency of the speech was underlined by the fact the President returned here from his Newport, R.-1., vacation spot to deliver the report. He planned to fly back to Newport this morning. Does Not Expect War The President, stern - faced and speaking animately. stressed that while “there is not going to be any appeasement. ..1 believe that there is not going to be any wsr.** “There are measures that can be taken to assure that these offshore islands will not be athorn in the side of peace,” he said. “We believe that arrangements are urgently required to stop gun fire and to pave the way to a peaceful solution.” He did not elaborate. But reports have ranged from possibility of eventual e«acuata* and abandonment of the offshore islands to a proposal for demilitarization of Quemoy and the neighboring mainland coast. The President said it “is as certain as can be that the shooting which the Chinese Communists started on August 23rd • shelling of Quemoy) had as its purpose not just the taking of the island of Quemoy. It is part of what is indeed an ambitious plan of armed conquest. Fears Red Domination “This plan would liquidate all of the free world positions in the Western pacific area and bring thepn under captive governments which would be hostile to the United States and the free world. Thus, the Chinese and Russian Communists would come to dominate at least the western half of the now friendly Pacific Ocean.” (Continued an pajre two) / ■ Lists Election Os ASCCommitteemen County Election To Be Held Sept. 30 The election of the 1959 agricultural stabilization and conservation community committees was released today by Victor Bleeke, chairman of the ASC county committee. ‘ Three regular committeemen and two alternates were elected. The committee consists of a chairman and delegate, vice chairman and alternate delegate, regular member, first alternate, and second alternate. The election results include: Blue Creek township, Francis Luginbill, Harold DeArmond, Carl Smalley, Charles Brunstrup and George Sipe; French township, Elmer S. Isch, Roy Balsiger, Harold Moser, William Ringger, and Gaius Gerber. Hartford township, Elmer Dubach, Clarence Wanner, Harry Moser, Joseph T. Glendening, and Dale McCune. Jefferson township, Wilbert Baker, Herbert L. Schaadt, Vernon C. Bollenbacher, Ernest O. Sommer, and William Derickson. Kirkland township, Harold E. Henschen, Glen Griffiths, Robert Ehrman, Evan Yake, and Robert High. Monroe tovjnship, Walter Lehman, Howard Nussbaum, Gorman Kauffman, John Christener, Jr., and Albert Amstutz. Preble township, Leroy Werling, Vern Linker, Robert J. Werling, Waldo Conrad, and Harold Scherry. Root township, Jack Schnepf, William Fritzinger, William A. Selking, William C. Aumann, and Herman Franz, Jr. St. Marys township, Benoit P. (Continued cm page eirM)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 12, 1958.

Supreme Court Orders Little Rock Board To Integrate High School

Deputy U. S. Marshals Sei Al Little Rock Marshals, Lawyers Ready To Enforce Integration Order LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — The head of the NAACP in Arkansas suggested today that Negro students, with the Supreme Court’s decision behind them, may now integrate another school in Little Bock. So far, Central High, which was integrated last year under the protection of federal troops by nine Negroes, has been the main target of the NAACP. Mrs. L.C. Bats, head of the NAACP in Arkansas, commented on the Supreme Court decision: “Under the court’s approved Blossom plan, no child can be denied the right to attend the high school in his or her attendance area." “Blossom” is Virgil T. Blossom, Little Rock superintendent of schools. Top Department of Justice attorneys and a swarm of deputy U.S. marshals swung into action to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision. ! “That was not Gov: Orval E. Faubus commehted tersely when he heard the news. \ He said he will have no further comment until later this afternoon and perhaps not today. “We are studying me decision but we have nothing to say,” Stephen C. Bransdorfer, spokesman for the Department of Justice integration team in Little Rock, said. More than 50 deputy U.S. marshals, imported from outside Little Rock, reported for secret in(Con,tiJ»ued on page elgrhit) sl2 Billion Deficit Predicted This Year May Seek Increase In Gasoline Taxes WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower's budget director, admitting to a “sense of discouragement,’* Thursday night revealed the Treasury expects to wind up more than 12 billion dollars in the red this fiscal year. Budget Chief Maurice H. Stans also indicated the administration may seek higher federal gasoline taxes and another round of postal rate increases next year to avoid adding to the record peacetime dficit. Stans said the deficit would bd 1 $12,200,000,000 for the fiscal year which began last July 1 and ends next June 30. He told his news conference Thursday the President and his advisers must decide with in days about raising federal gasoline taxes by close to one billion dollars next year because the federal highway trust fund used to finance interstate highways will be exhausted next fiscal year. Stans declined to forecast Eisenhower’s ultimate decision. But he made clear he personally < was shooting for a return to . a balanced budget in fiscal 1961 and would prefer hiking the “user”type tax on gasoline to bigger red ink spending. Congress recently added one cent to the cost of first class and air mail, but Stans estimated the Post Office Department will have a deficit of 735 million dollars this year, partly because of new postal pay increases. He said that if the administration took a “consistent” position, the White House would ask Congress for another postal fate increase next session. Stans’ review estimated the government would take in $67,000,- ' 000,000 and spend $79,200,000,000 I in the 12 months ending next June 130, leaving a deficit of $12,200,000,000. This would push the pub- ’ lie debt to $283,000,000,000.

Many From County Hear Truman Speech Several Hundred In Big Crowd Thursday Several hundred Adams county residents were among the 13,000 esgmated to have jammed the Fort Wayne coliseum Thursday night to see and hear former President Harry S. Truman lambast the Republican party for failure in leadership in both Indiana and in the nation. Several from Adams county, Including Gene Hike of Monroe, were on hand at the airport to see the famous man from Missouri arrive at 1:30 p. m. Thursday. Later at the reception in his honor, many more stood close to the president as he waved to all his Hoosier friends. Nearly 1,000 persons crowded and milled in the corridors and reception room at the event sponsored by the Allen county Young Democrats. Immediately the president was whisked away to a press room where members of the working press and old friends, such as .Alex Campbell, former assistant attorney-general under Truman, Sherman Minton, former U. S. Senator from Indiana, district court and supreme court judge Under Truman, and others, s Appearing in excellent health for | man of his years, the former president snapped back answers as fast as the harpest, to the re- . potters, many of whom asked questions purely to test or embarrass him. Without ever losing his composure he answered and countered. Truman told a young man that he thought politics was a fine career for youth, and that everyone should know the basic precepts of democratic government, and practice them. I The president said he had no more books planned right now, but that he never knows what he may plan for the future. Truman stated that he thought there were plenty of good candidates right now for the presidency on the Democratic ticket, but he added that he didn't think (Comtiimued on pag'e eifflut) Telephone Official Is Rosary Speaker Richard Million Is Speaker Thursday Richard Million, of Indianapolis, of the public relations department of the Bell Telephone Co., gave an interesting demonstration and talk at Thursday night’s meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at the Youth and Community Center. Gene Ziner was program chairman. Million described the two kinds of research constantly being conducted by hs company and the telephone industry in general. Pure fundamental research in general physics brings new knowledge which can then* be given a practical application. In 1948, such research into the semi-conductors, particularly in silicon, developed the transistor. Transistors are rapidly replacing vacuum tubes. They are smaller, require much less power, and need no warm up period. The Bell solar battery was also described and demonstrated. It converts light into usable amounts of electricity. Its 11% efficiency and extremely long life offers many practical uses in the telephone industry. The 60 million telephones in America are used on an average of five times daily and each call requires energy. The Vanguard satellite now circling the earth uses solar batteries to transmit its messages back to earth. The telephone industry also conducts direct research into its own problems to develop newer and better phones. Customer preference polls are conducted. The familiar bell may some day be replaced with a more pleasing non-metallic sound. Direct long distance dialing, electronic switch(lOontinußd op P*«e five)

Chinese Reds Say Volunteers Ready To Fight Troops Are Being Pulled From Korea Ready For Action TAIPEI. Formosa (UPl)—Communist China warned today that the Chinese “volunteer” troops now being pulled out of North Korea were fully prepared to go “any place to fight against the aggressors,” including the Quemoy area. Communist China sent perhaps one million “volunteers” into North Korea to aid North Korean Communists fighting United Nations forces. They are being withdrawn into Manchuria and “are moving underwater obstacles in closely watching the situation in the Taiwan Strait area," Peiping tionalist frogmen there were reRadio said. Reports from Quemoy said Nationalist frogmen there were removing underwater obstacles in hopes of carving out an emergency landing beach but that Red artilleryy was bombanding the island almost without letup. The Communists drove back four Nationalist supply vessels Thursday with a record barrage that continued through the night and morning. The defense ministry said more than 60,000 shells hit Quemoy between 4 p.m. Thursday and 7 o’clock this morning. Mass Chinese “Protests” Reports from Quemoy said underwater demolition teams had started clearing coastal mines and steel spike barricades from a new (Continued on page eight) Announce Winners In Poster Contest Contest Part Os Home Grid Opener Two Decatur Catholic high school students and a Decatur high school girl won the first three prizes in the poster contest emphasizing the Decatur Yellow Jackets-New Haven Bulldogs fame which will start at 8 o’clock this evening. Clear, mild weather is expected to draw a record crowd for the first home game of the season which will be the scene of a colorful half-time ceremony in honor of coach Bob Worthman and former football coaches Hugh J. Andrews and Deane T. Dorwin. Winner of first place in the poster contest was Miss Judy Roberts. whose poster appeared in Blackwell’s Department store window; second place went to Jim Omlor, whose poster was placed in the Sears-Roebuck window; and third place was awarded to the poster in Price’s Mens Wear, designed by Miss Jackie Burke. Roger Gentis, of the organizing committee, will present the awards. Names of the winners will be announced during the football game tonight. Purple and gold streamers and American flags have decorated Decatur streets and the downtown section of the city for three days in preparation for the opening of the home football season. Season tickets for the home games are still available at the Decatur high school office. Tick(Continued page eight) Property Purchased By Methodist Church Trustees of the Firtit Methodist church, with Virgil Krick as chairman, have made final payment of $10,500 for purchase of the Mary F. Yoder property, 215 North Fifth street. L. A. Cowens, chairman of the official board, assisted in transfer of the abstract and deed. The property adjoins the present church property and will eventually be used for parking space and building expansion.

Monroe Celebration Opened Last Night Big Crowd Attends Monroe Days Event A far larger crowd than expected saw Linda Kruetzman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kruetzman, and a student at Monmouth high school, win the drum majors contest in connection with the firstnight parade at the three-day "Monroe Days” celebration on the streets of Monroe. Patricia Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benoit Johnson of St. Mary’s township, and a sophomore at Pleasant Mills high school, took second place. Drum majors from the Hartford and Willshire, 0., schools took third place in the event. Five bands marched in the parade, headed by their majorettes. The Adams Central group was not judged as it was the host band. Clint Reed and Leon Gerig judged the contest. More than 1,000 persons swelled the midway after the parade, and visited the many stands and games sponsored by the Monroe Lions club, the Monroe fire department, and the Monroe rural fire department. Paul Ehrsam won first place in the best decorated bicycle in the parade. He was chosen from the 26 bicycles which helped make the spectacle the best in the history of Monroe, according to spectators. Sharon Harmon placed second, and Johnnie Sprunger, third, in the bicycle contest. The parade started promptly at 7 p.m., Elmer Ehrsam and Leo Strahm, chairmen of the parade committee, said. Led by sheriff Merle Affolder, a red car decorated as the fire chief’s car, and the Monroe and rural fire wagons, it wound its way through the streets for nearly an hour, returning to the school grounds where it formed. Bands from Willshire, 0., Pleasant Mills, Hartford, Monmouth, and Adams Central marched in the parade. Decatur Catholic and Geneva were invited to march, but were unable to attend. Ten sports cars were in the parade, with the ten queen candidates mounted on the cars. The queen contest will start this evening at 8 o’clock with the judging of the talent portion of the contest. The crowning will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday, Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, chairman of the committee, said. The winner of the queen contest (Continued on page six) Report Ford Motor Is Preparing Offer Hoping To Prevent Strike Next Week DETROIT (UPI) — Ford Motor Co., threatened with a nationwide strike, is preparing an offer on one of the United Auto Workers' four major contract demands, an authoritative source said today. The source said Ford was preparing the offer only as an opening gambit to start the talks moving. At the same time, a union spokesman spiked reports that an agreement could be close at General Motors. The spokesman categorically denied that there was any dollars-and-cents figure on the table between the UAW and any of the auto companies. “They are a long way from using figures,” the spokesman said. Ford and the union began intensive, top-level talks on a new contract Thursday after the UAW named it as the target of a strike which will begin next Wednesday if an agreement isn’t reached by then. A strike at Ford could halt production of 1959 model cars by all the “big three” companies, who have been operating without union contracts since the end of May when the old contracts expired. There was a posibility General Motors and Chrysler might shut down their operations (Continued on page eight)

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U.S. Supreme Court Orders Integration Court Decision On Little Rock School Order Is Unanimous WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court today ordered the Little Rock School Board to proceed witjx integration at Central High School. The high court did so by upholding a decision of the Bth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Circuit Court had over-ruled a 2*6-year delay in integration granted by Federal District Judge Harry J. Lemley on June 21. The Supreme Court’s decision was unanimous. Chief Justice Earl Warren read a brief order on behalf of the whole court. On Bench 5 Minutes Warren said the decision was effective immediately. This means that the Little Rock School Board is under orders of the Supreme Court to admit Negroes when Cntral High School opens for the fall term Monday. Warren said the original Federal restrict‘’Court order of 1957 requiring desegregation was reinstated. The justices stayed cm the bench only about five minutes —just long enough for Warren to read the > three paragraphs which made up the historic opinion. The ruling was couched largely in technical language and did not go into any elaboration of its 1955 decision about "all deliberate speed” in integration. Many attorneys and jurists had thought it would do so. Nor did it say anything about force and violence at Little Rock. These subjects will be taken up, if at all, when the views supporting the judgment are released later. Warm said these views will be forthcoming "in due course.” Some Early Comments It was 11:11 am. c.d.t. when the justices filed into the marble chamber to deliver the decision—• 11 minutes later than usual. Lawyers who took part in the case waited tensely in the court room and the wings were filled with court personnel who had left their desks to be present at the historic moment. However, a tew seats in the spectators’ section were empty. Atty Gen. William P. Rogers was present in the courtroom along with several of his top assistants. Immediately after the historic ruling. Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s chief counsel and veteran fighter on integration cases, said: “We of course believe that such problems must be handled in the court and we assume that with this clear-cut judgment the legal at nosphere surrounding Central High School is now cleared up and neither the school board nor the governor nor any other person in the state of Arkansas can even pretend not to know what the law is. Anything now done to prevent desegregation in Arkansas is in open defiance of the law.” Attorney Richard C. Butler, who represented the Little Rock School Board, said the decision was “not unexpected by us.” But he said he and his colleagues were "deeply disappointed” that the high court did not approve a delay in integration. (■.Continued on paKe five)

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