Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1958 — Page 1

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Launching Os New Vanguard Is Postponed Counts To Zero On Vanguard; Failure Calls Off Firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD — The Navy counted to zero on its temperamental Vanguard today and flames spurted from the rocket for a few seconds. But it never left the ground and minutes later the launching was called off. The new Vanguard, bearing a 20-inch artificial satellite that could revolutionize weather forecasting if it could get into orbit, did not appear to be damaged. At first the Navy announced it would push the countdown bacldo 35 minutes and began counting 45 minutes before the launching failure. But 15 minutes later, it was announced the attempt, believed to be a last chance for the Vanguard. had been “scrubbed.” There was no explanation of what caused the fizzle, the first time the Vanguard has failed to get off the ground since the spectacular blowup of the first rocket last Dec. 6. In six tries the Vanguard has placed only one satellite in orbit. The Navy has plans for five more Vanguards in the International Geophysical Year program, but informed sources said congressional pressure is mounting to kill the project. Indianapolis Plant Foreman Is Killed INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —A load fell off a lift-truck at the General Devices Co. Monday killing Osear Harper. 69, Indianapolis. Harper was foreman of the tool and die shop at the plant. Indiana Red Cross Convention Thursday INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — More than 300 persons were expected for the Indiana State Red Cross convention when it opens Thurs'day. Featured speakers were to be C. R. (Neil) Dalton, director of public relations and board member of the Louisville Courier-Jour-nal and the Louisville Times, and Joseph L. Carter, manager of the American Red Cross Eastern area. \ ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, showers south ending in all but extreme south and cooler tonight. Wednesday mostly fair north and central, partly cloudy, chance of a few showers extreme south and cool. Low tonight 50s north and central, lower 60s extreme south. High Wednesday 60s north, 68 .to 73 south. Sunset today 6:53* p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:28 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair or partly cloudy and cool. Lows Wednesday night in 50s. Highs Thursday in 70s.

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Shorter Work Week Is Sought By UE Union Proposals To G.E. Are Detailed “Bring back 50,000 jobs” is the title of a two-page leaflet describing the program for a shorter work week offered by the UE union to General Electric company ,fpr its new contract. The leaflet was distributed Monday to Decatur employes by Local 924, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers cf America (UE), Vernon Hebble, union president, said. The program was spelled out in the pamphlet. It has been presented to the GE in current negotiations at New York. The company meets with the union again today. This program, parts of which are printed’ below, covers all of the UE proposals. It is broken down into four distinct points: “(1) that the work week be reduced on October 1, 1958 to 37'4 hours a week, with weekly pay maintained at present straight-time earnings for 40 hours. "(2) On October 1, 1959, the regular work week be reduced from 37'4 hours to 35 hours a week at the then prevailing pay for 37*4 hours. “(3) line shorter work week without reduction in pay js of great immediate important in order to maintain the jobs and security of GE employes. If GE accepts the proposal, the UE will recommend to its membership that the two 314% wage increases due them under the present contract be applied toward the cost of reducing the work week. This would meet half the cost of the shorter wpsk week. The company could easily afford, from its. high level of current earnings, to bring laid off GE workers back to work. “(4) The UE conference board further proposes that the provision o fthe existing national contract dealing with separation pay be revised to provide one week’s pay for each year of service to any employe permanently laid off, whether employed in a plant being permanently abandoned by the company, or in any other plant.” Joseph Dermody, secretary of the UE conference board, signed the program, which was submitted to the GE. Also, the leaflet has a reproduction of a letter sent by Albert J. Fitzgerald, president of UE, to the major unions representing workers in GE. In this letter he emphasized the need for a shorter work week without loss in takehome pay, to provide more jobs for workers in the electrical industry. * James Beatty, Sr. Is Taken By Death James L. Beatty, Sr„ 89, of Indianapolis, died Tuesday follow-, ing a,year-long illness. Mr. Beatty was the father of James L. Beatty, Jr., well known here, and the husband of Harriet Wallace, a former resident of Decatur.

Death Toll Os 40 Feared In Train Plunge 20 Bodies Recovered Early Today; 40 Are Reported Injured BAYONNE, N.J. (UPD—A huge floating crane today attached slight to the second of three Jersey Central Railroad passenger cars that, with two engines, plunged through an open drawbridge into 50 feet of water in Newark Bay. They hoped to raise the car before noon. Twenty bodies had been recoered by early today and the death toll threatened to rise as high as 40. At least 40 persons were injured. The bodies recovered included seven picked up shortly after the tragedy Monday and 13 found in a passenger car raised by the crane. Amang the dead identified officially was George (Snuffy) Stirnweiss, former New York Yankee second baseman and American League batting champion in 1945. Stlrnweiss’ body was among those raised in the coach brought up early today. The Hudson County medical examiner meanwhile scheduled an autopsy on the body of Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, to determine whether he may have had a heart attack at the throttle. Nearly every window was smashed in the first car hauled up. A man’s leg hung outside one shattered window indicating he nearly escaped the watery death. The hands of another man’s body were badly cut, apparently from smached a window in a vain escape attempt. No one was known to have escaped from the second car which followed the two engines and the deadhead car into the water like a link in an an anchor chain. Mayor Among Victims Determination of the exact death toll might take days, officials said, because the strong tidal currents in the area may have washed bodies ,out through the smashed windows. One of the bodies brought up in the second car was tentatiely identified as that of John Hawkins, mayor of Shrewsbury, N.J. Police said he carried an unspecified amount of negotiable securities which ware recovered. Federal and state inquiries attempted to determine why the train rolled apparently unhesitatingly through two warning lights and a final red light into its watery tomb. Because of the manner in which the train ran nonstop off the bridge, inestigators were inclined to spotlight the heart attack theory as a possible •ause. Secoad Trainman Aboard One question being asked by inestigatorr was: Why, if the en(Ccntinued on page five) Approve Funds For Ditch Improvement Allocation Okayed By Commissioners The county commissioners Monday approved the $3,257.95 allocation from the general ditch improvement fund that was submitted by Herman Moellering, Adams county surveyor. The allocation was submitted for the drag-lining and repair of the Daniel Smith drain in Monroe township. Two statements from the Hartford steam boiler inspection and insurance company giving its report of the inspection of the boilers at the county home and jail were discussed. Minor repairs are needed to both boilers, the statements remarked. No estimates were given to the board of commissioners concerning the repairs. and no action was taken on the matter. A petition containing 103 names was presented to the board of commissioners for resurfacing county road 2814. The group asked that three miles on road 28’4 be considered for blacktopping, to help establish a north-south artery for traffic in the eastern part of the county, as a hookup with state road 116. The commissioners stated that the funds from the gasoline tax and federal aid are all used for this year, but the project will be taken under consideration. Wayne Keller, a representative from Fort Wayne, for the United Steel Fabricators, Inc., of Wooster, 0., presented books containing pictures of buildings built of steel for consideration in planning the new county highway garage that will be built in the future at Monroe. The books show the construe-1 square shape and the quonset tion of buildings built in the usual type. )

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 16,1958

Soviet Union Launches Determined Campaign For Red China In U.N.

South Schools Study Problem Os Education Ponder Problem Os Educating Pupils Now On Vacation BULLETIN LITTLE . ROCK, Ark. (UPD —Gov. Orval E. Faubus today signed a proclamation moving up to Sept. 27 a special election in which the voters of Little Rock will decide whether they want their four high schools reopened on an integrated basis. United Press International Officials today pondered the problem of educating hundreds of southern public school students now on an enforced vacation because of the integration crisis. Hie Charlottesille, Va., school board today filed petitions in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for a delay in the integration of two schools whose opening has been postponed until next Monday. Oth d r Charlottesille schools opened Monday on a segregated basis. In Little Rock, Ark., a total of 3,47O»pupds have been sent home from four high schools, ordered, closed by Go. Oral Faubus. Delayed opening of a high school and an elementary school at Charlottesille has turned a total of 11650 students out of class. The only white high school in Warren County, Va., remained closed under the order of Gov. J. Lindsay Almond. Byway of contrast, school integration began in Florida Monday with no hint of resistance. It was at the college level however. George Henry Starke Jr., 27, an ((Continued on page five) Lester Werling Fund Will Close Saturday Fund For Child Is Near $1,300 Mark Just a little over a month ago, Lester Werling was just another name in Adams county, but to his parents, relatives, neighbors, and friends, he was a six year old boy who had undergone nine operations, operations which had cost his parents hundreds of dollars and possibly could cost them more. Jt was at this time, that two of the friends. Miss Eldora Bultemeier and Mrs. Elmer Bultemeier decided to start a fund to aid the parents of courageous little Lester. That was back in August though, and since that time, more than $1,200 has been donated to the tester Werling fund. The fund seemed to have reached its peak about a week ago, and since that time, just a few donations have come in each day. Saturday the fund will close and all money received at the Daily Democrat will be turned over to the Werling family as soon as possible. With just a few more dollar contributions, the fund will reach the $1,300 mark. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the Lester Werling fund may send donations to the Decatur Da Uy Democrat in care of MarUou Uhrick, or drop it in the box at the Democrat office. Recent donors to the Lester Werling fund include Drs. Edward and | Elizabeth Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Ewell, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gay, Stephen, Eric and Patricia HeUer, Janeen Essel, Otto Spiegel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bleeke, Chauncey Sheets, Albert and Sara Ewel, Mr. and Mrs. Loren HeUer, Fritz Aumann, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jeffrey, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Buuck, Mr. and Mrs. Martin P. Bultemeier, Dennis E. and Thomas R. Rash, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hormann and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Martin GaUmeyer, Martin Witte, Ralph Allison, MUdred Swygart, American Legion, and as before, many anonymous donors.

Farm Prices And Profits To Drop Annual Forecast By Purdue University LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPD—lndiana farmers were told today that despite signs of “business recovin 1959, farm prices and profit margins will decrease. Purdue University agricultural economists took the wraps off their apnual peek into .the future Monday night in the first of a series of 80 meetings around Hoosierland designed to inform the farmers what the next year holds in store for them. “Returns from farming will be a little lower in Indiana in 1959,” the report said. “Large supplies of most agricultural products continue to depress prices and narrow profit margins.” The economists said of the general business outlook: "Business recovery appears to be under way. Barring any major change in the international situation. 1959 is expected to be a year of gradually increasing activity. Unemployment is expected to decrease but continue above normal. Consumer income and spending in the aggregate will increase.” The economists said it appears that larger farm marketings due tp increased production will result I in lower prices and slightly rising l rests. I The ram price of No. 2 corn for the 1958 crop is expected to average between sl.lO and $1.20 a bushel. Soybean pmjees will average near the loan rate of $2.09 a bushel, and the price of wheat probably will stay around the $1.82 loan level. Hog prices in the marketing year which begins this Oct. 1 are expected to average $2 to $4 lower per hundred pounds than the $20.50 average for the 1957-58 marketing year. The hog-corn ratio probably wiu remain above the long-time average of 13.6 to 1 through the middle of next year, but it probably will be below average by late next year. Beef cattle prices will be as high as or a little higher than they were this year. Dairy products will bring about the same prices. Prices for large Grade A eggs in the first half of next year will average 6 to 9 cents below this year’s levels. As a result, farmers will ba discouraged in replac(Continued on page five) Miss Judy Rhodes Entered In Contest Soybean Festival Entry At Bluffton Miss Judy Rhodes, daughter of Mrs. Naomi Rhodes of Decatur, and a senior at Decatur high school, will be the Soybean festival entry for the Junior Miss Indiana title at Bluffton this week. Miss Rhodes is being sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Miss Rhodes was the runnerup in the soybean queen crowning held last fall at the Decatur youth and community center. Miss Susan Custer, the first place winner, is attending Michigan University this year and will be unable to enter the festivities. The Decatur girl will give the same reading at the Bluffton fair which she gave in Decatur during the choosing of the soybean queen. The entries for the title of Junior Miss Indiana will parade Thursday for the swim suit placing, and will show their talents in music, dancing, readjng, apd etc., Friday. The naming of Junior Miss Indiana will be Friday at 8 p.m. ( The committee that chose the entry from the soybean festival consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Rydell, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kaehr. The Chamber of Commerce announced today that again this year, the crowning of the. soybean queen will be held at the' annual fish fry in October.

Premier Chen Warns Possible Spread Os War Says Nationalists Will Not Evacuate The Quemoy Islands TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD — Premier Chen Cheng told the nation today the war in the Formosa Strait will spread to the Chinese mainland if the Communist blockade of the Quemoy Islands is not broken soon. “We have absolutely no intention of idly sitting by and letting more than 100,000 civilians and military personnel of Quemoy and its adjacent islands be besieged without taking effective methods for their reinforcement,” Chen said. “I am iirmty or the opinion that should the enemy persist in sealing off Quemoy completely, it would mean extending the war.” The National Assembly adopted a resolution Monday requesting the United States and Nationalist armed forces to “take immediate and effective meas ur e s of 1 bombing the mainland coastal ! areas and thoroughly destroy the (Communist gun positions.” Cenvoys Fail The assembly said the U. S. Navy - escorted sea convoys attempting to break the Quemoy blockade “had little effect” and that bombing of the Communist guns ’is needed to “save - the 150,000 'civilians and soldiers on the islands from a helpless state.” Chen, in an interview with Choi Byung Woo, editor of the Korean Times, said his nation’s troops would never evacuate the Quemoy Islands even if asked to do so by the United States. Choi asked the "theoretical question” of leaving the islands and Chen replied: “It is not a theoretical question. It is a very realistic question. I tell you we shall never abandon the offshore islands.” Chen said any “concessions” made by the United States to Red China in the Warsaw talks would ((Continued on page five) Long Illness Fatal To Manley Foreman Retired City Light Employe Dies Here Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon for J. Manley Foreman, 68. well known Decatur man, who died at 1:20 o clock Monday afternoon at his home. 1210 West Monroe street. He had been seriously ill of complications from a circulatory condition for the past nine weeks. Mr. Foreman had been employed as a fireman-engineer at the city light and power plant for 30 years until his retirement. He was born in Adams county May 1, 1890, a son of James F. and Miranda Bebout - Foreman, and was married to Lessie 0. Teeter Feb. 4, 1915. Mr. Foreman was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Horace Orlyn Master of Fort Worth, Tex.; Stucky ot Fort Wayne, and Mrs. one son, the Rev. Robert Foreman of Dayton, O.; seven grandchildren; three brothers, Jesse Foreman of Fort Wayne, Arlie Foreman of Berne, and True Foreman df Ceylon, and one sister, Mrs. Dee Tinkham of Berne. One son and one daughter preceded him in death. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Black funeral home, and at 2:30 p.m. at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time ol the services.

Observe National Sunday School Week Decatur Churches To Join Observance The Protestant and Lutheran churches of Decatur and the Decatur area will go all out this year in sponsoring the annual national Sunday school week, September 28 to October 5, it was learned today. The Sunday school committee of the 'Decatur Lions club, including the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, AlVa Lawson, and Thurman I. Drew, has arranged for 1,800 celluloid Sunday school buttons to be distributed to all the Sunday schools of the city on the Saturday before the week starts, so that each child may wear a button all week. A total of eight store windows in Decatur will be painted in water colors advertising the week’s theme—“l go to Sunday Schooldo You?” Ministers of each church have been reminded to ask their Sunday school members to wear the lapel buttons all week, so that those who do not attend Sunday school will be aware of the number of Sunday schools and fellow _ residents who attend Sunday school regularly. In the past many churches have held separate education weeks. This will be the largest joint education week in the history of Decatur. The ministerial association is reported in hearty agreement with the program, which will focus attention on the importance of regular Sunday school attendance. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the F.B.L has many times stated that those children who regularly attend Sunday schools seldom are 1 e d astray to a life of crime. Telephone Official Is Lions Speaker Says Americans Face Adjustment Period “Americans face a most difficult adjustment—that of understanding and living with a prolonged ‘economic war’,” Paul F. Hoff, controller of the General Telephone company of Indiana, told the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Before the meeting, the club enjoyed a social hour, with Charles Kester playing the piano. “An Amateur Views World Affairs” was Hoff’s topic. Special guest for the evening was Charles Ehinger, president of the Citizens Telephone company of Decatur. “In the past, economic wars were usually limited, of short duration and nearly always resulted in a fighting war. However, since World War 11, we have been engaged in a constant economic struggle and without fighting, except in a few isolated cases,” Hoff continued. Hoff went on to stay “we have no other alternative than to continue the economic fight, since the price of losing would be far more than the cost of maintaining and even expanding our foreign aid. “Because of the development of national pride among small nations, that did not exist prior to World War 11, these nations are not interested in the fine points of theory concerning the evolution of governments,” reported Hoff. “We must not expect complete and "unequivocal allegiance to us in exchange for our dollars,” said (Caretlnued an page eix) Faces Four Charges For Traffic Death _ PERU, Ind. (UPI) — A TexasMexican itinerant farm worker who speaks no English faced four charges today in the traffic death Saturday of a 12-year-old boy. Miguel Montelongo, 32, Lavilla, Tex., was charged with reckless homicide, drunk driving, having faulty brakes and passing at an intersection. Police said Montelongo’s car struck a bicycle in U.S. 31, killing David Kroll, 12, of near Peru.

UN Assembly Session Opens In New York Quemoy Crisis May Be Brought Up To Assembly By Russia UNITED NATIONS, N.P. (UPJ) —The Soviet Union launched a determined campaign today to seat Communist China in the 13th U.N. General Assembly session opening this afternoon. It hinted strongly it would bring up the Quemoy crisis as well. The official Communist Party organ Pravad and the Soviet government organ Izvestia today printed twin demands the United Nations “expel the political corpse” of Nationalist China and seat Red China, Moscow dispatches reported. The Soviets might bring up the question even before the election of a new assembly president is settled. The tense Middle East situation was reflected in a presidential Contest between Dr. Charles Malik, the pro-American, lame-duck foreign minister of Lebanon, and Mahammed Ahmed Mahgoub, foreign minister of Sudan, who is backed by the Arab League. : May Switch Support The Russians were backing Czechoslovakia’s Jiri Nosek but were expected to switch the support of the nine-nation Soviet bloc to Mahgoub. The other announced candidate was Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic. The Soviet demand was expected soon after the outgoing president, Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, gavels the session to order after a minute of silent meditation. That is when the question oL credentials of the delegates is taken up as a matter of routine. It generally had been expctd the question of Communist China would come up later in the session. India has asked for a formal debate later, and most diplomats thought that in view of the Indian item Russia would not press the issue immediately. But Izvestia said today current events in the Far East “show with renewed vividness the extent of the abnormality of the existing situation” in whch Red China is not a U.N. member. IL S. Confident “The unrealistic position of the U.S. government, which still continues to prefer to turn a blind eye to the real situation in China, prevents the member states of the U.N. from adopting the only correct solution,” Izvestia said. Pravda took the identical line and then hinted the entire question of the Formosa crisis would be injected into the assembly meeting: "Although the preliminary agen(AV>n tinned an page five) Clerk Office Open For Registrations The clerk's office will be open for the registration of voters, transfer of voters and for change of naTne of recently married voters. Mondays from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., until registration closes Octobers, Richard D. Lewton, clerk of the circuit court, said today. The clerk's office, located in the northwest corner of the first floor of the court house will be open, and both doors to the court house will be open, September 22, September 29, and October 6, he said.

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