Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1958 — Page 2

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Debt For Average Family Is $16,000 Per Family Share Os Debt Mounting By ROBERT G. SHORTAL United Press International NEW YORK JUPir— The Average American family is almost $16,000 in debt. That figure is the family’s share of the gross public and private debt which now exceeds 850 billion dollars, it is an amount roughly triple the average family’s annual income. Since 1953. the per family share I of the total debt has grown by I $2,500. The sharpest increase has ’ taken place in the private sector, principally reflecting sharp inI creases,in mortgage and consumer debt. The Tax Foundation, anons profit research organization, esti--1 mates that the average family’s ; share of, the gross government (debt has grown from $6,375 in 11953 to more than $6,600 at' present. It estimates that the per family i share of the total private debt, I including corporate debt, has (swelled from $7,161 to $9,318. The corporate debt is included i because, in a sense, the consumer | has to pay for it. Corporate debt ;is considered a cost of doing ; business and is reflected in the (price companies charge for their i products. The corporate debt per family amounts to $5,170 against $4,187 in 1953. The amount owed by individuals —consumer and- mortgage debt—and unincorporated enterprises amounts to $4,150 per family against $2,970 in 1953. The $16,000 that the average - family owes is a lot of money. It would buy a three-bedroom, spliti level home, or a big car and a flashy boat, of" would send two (children to college for four years, i The figure, however, is only an | average. It is obvious that some (families owe a lot more than others. Many families have no consumer debt or mortgage debt at all. , Not only is the debt burden rising, but the government’s take of the family’s income also is mounting. The Tax Foundation noted that : a $4.500-a-year income family pays l out $1,393 each year in direct and hidden taxes. In the six years 1953 through 1958 this family has paid ! a total of $8,500 in taxes, the ! Foundation said. It pointed out that this six-year i tax- total is equal to what would | be, spent in one year by seven i families for food and beverages, or 112 families for tobacco or 42 families for medical care. — Policeman's Ball Here Saturday Night The Fraternal Order of Police will hold its annual policeman’s ball at Sunset Park Saturday night ( from 9 o’clock until 1 o’clock. ( Several tickets may still be purchased from any enforcement officer in Decatur. Robert Hill, president of the F. ( 0.P.. 'stated that a fine turnout ! is expected for the dance. The ! "Keynoters" will be the featured I band to provide the music. Trade in a. good tow n — Decatur

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Campaign Plan Is Outlined For Democrats Fact Book Outlines Campaign Issues Os Democratic Party WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Democratic Party took the wraps off its major campaign arguments today and recommended that its candidates concentrate on President Eisenhower’s "failure of leadership,” Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s “doubletalk” and the “Adams scandal.” The Democratic National Committee was distributing a “Democratic Fact Book" designed to provide party leaders, candidates and precinct workers with ammunition on every national election issue. The 96-page document led off with four pages arguing that President Eisenhower has “abandoned the leadership of the office of president.” It said this alleged lack of direction was to blame for the recession, Soviet advantages in • science and weapons, loss of friends abroad and “GOP corrup tion in high places’. Hits All Issues The 1958 campaign outline, made public late Thursday, attacked the President more boldly than have previous Democratic election-year broadsides since Eisenhower assumed office, including some criticism of his fondness for golf. It devoted eight pages to “doubletalk" charges against Nixon and one page to Presidential Aide Sherman Adams’ gifts from and relations with Bernard Goldfine, the New England businessman, captioned “Adams Scandal Shakes Public Confidence in Government.” Equal space is given to a favorable review of the record of the Democratic - controlled Congress for the past two years and to giving Democrats credit for supplying leadership to meet defense, economic and other problems. Nixon was accused of talking on both sides of such issues as foreign policy, civil rights, inflation, education and other issue?, A set of Nixon quotations is provided. Another eight pages was devoted to the “GOP recession.” Clean Government “Myth” Other sections deal with such subjects as inflation, agriculture, civil, rights, corruption, educarion, health, housing, labor, power, small business, taxes, veterans, edented high-level corruption.” On civil rights, the booklet says the 1957 civil rights law showed that a Democratic Congress could act on this issue. It criticizes the President for failure to give his' personal endorsement to the Supreme Court decision against segregated schools and blames his “do-nothing policy” for "school crises” in the South. In the “corruption” section, the pamphlet says that “one of the biggest myths of the EisenhowerNixon administration is that it has given America clean government." It says Eisenhower has allowed wrong-doers to stay in government or. to leave with letters of praise and has tolerated “unprecedeented high-level corruption.” Report Shortage At Logansport Utility Await Completion Os State's Audit LOGANSPORT. Ind. <UPI — City officials here are awaiting | completion of an audit by the I State Board of Accounts which may reveal a sizeable shortage in the Municipal Light and Water Co. office. The audit by two members of the board began April 15. the day after office records were found mutilated and assistant chief clerk Ralph Parker disappeared. A third examiner joined the team a short time later. Mrs. Gerald Hershberger discovered the mutilated records when she opened the office for business on April 14. a Monday. She discovered that a large safe was unlocked and records were missing from the first floor office in the city building. A check of a smaller safe also revealed missing records. Mrs. Hershberger called police. They went to a basement vault where they found the records scattered about. They had been splattered with thick mimeograph’ ink. Parker was last seen on April 12. a Saturday. On May 21, .authorities at O’Hare Airport in Chicago contacted Parker’s brother here ,and told him the former clerk had left articles in a pay locker on- May 3. The locker was opened when he failed to claim his personal belongings* within the altoted time. The brother turned the articles over to police. Employes of the light and water office have been given he tests at Indianapolis, but authorities have not revealed the results.

Type Os Religion Worry For Clergy Fearful Present Popularity A Fad By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Religion is enjoying unprecedented popularity in America. But what kind of religion? That question haunts many thoughtful clergymen. They would like to rejoice in the statistics that show church membership, Sunday School enrollment and Bible sales at an all-time high. But they keep wondering how much is faith, and how much is fad. This week a distinguished Protestant journal. The Christian Century, brought the question into the open — and offered an answer that will shock a lot of churchmen. What America is experiencing, the Century said, is not so much a “revival” of traditional religions as the emergence of a new religion. Minimises Beliefs This new “national faith” is a vague, watered-down version of Protestant Christianity. It minimizes the importance of particular religious beliefs, but places great sentimental value on “reli-gion-in-general.” Its creed is summed up in the popular cliche: “The only thing that matters is that you have faith in God.” The Century went on to say that “Faith in God,” as defined by popular religion today, is essentially a "chummy relationship" with a Deity who is thought of as a sort of indulgent grandfather in heaven. The classic Christian view, it said, was well expressed in the famous statement of John Calvin: “We are not our own; therefore let us, as far as possible, forget ourselves and all things that are ours. We are God’s: to Him, therefore, let us live and die;. . . ( Let his wisdom and will preside in all our actions.” Church Must Resist “The religious goal is outlined in different terms today,” the Century commented. “God is now offered in packaged, post-Calvinist, highly-marketable forms. He is expected to baptize what is ‘expedient’ for man, to concur with man’s reason and will.” The Century said it is past time for churches to repent their long “acquiescence” in the "erosion ’ of America’s Christian faith. Protestants must decide, it concluded. whether they really believe that "God can be packaged" and made “subject to man s ma'nipulations.” , If the answer is no. they must ( part company with popular reU-j gjosity and inject into the current “revival" the firm, clear tones of “prophetic witness to the sovereignty of God.” Call 10 Witnesses For Slaying Probe Indianapolis Jury Hearing Teel Case INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — Prosecutors seeking a murder indictment against divorcee _ Connie Nicholas in the slaying of her wealthy lover called 10 witnesses before a grand jury Thursday. -- Newsmen believed the . large number of witnesses were called by Marion County Prosecutor John Tinder in an effort to bolster his contention that the 42-year-old career woman deliberately shot and killed Forrest Teel during a jealous rage. The defense has contended the fatal shooting occurred in self-de-fense during a lovers quarrel. ■Neither Mrs. Nicholas nor the *“other woman" over whom they allegedly quarreled in the July 31 slaying attended the jury hearing. Mrs. Nicholas, who took an overdose of barbiturates in a suicide attempt after the shooting remains in General Hospital with eye and arm injuries. She claims the injuries were inflicted by Teel in a struggle over the gun in his car outside the apartment of the other woman Laura Mowrer, 29, a secretary. Miss Mowrer moved to California after the slaying. She had been employed by the big drug firm Eli Lilly & Co. Teel, 54, was vice president of the firm. Miss Mowrer turned down an invitation to appear voluntarily before the grand jury. However, authorities said she will be called as a witness during the trial. Among the witnesses called was television station photographer James 'Bechtel, who brought film and a projector to the grand jury room. The film showed Mrs. Nicholas lying in the front seat of her own car. with one arm across the back of the seat, in a position in which she apparently had lain for manj hours while in a coma from the sleeping pills. Mrs. Nicholas was found near death almost 20 hours after Teel was killed in his white Cadillac outside the apartment of Mrs. Nicholas’ younger rival. Tinder said he believes the paralyzed arm which keeps Mrs. Nicholas hospitalized was due to her position while unconscious. I

Rackets Group Ends Teamster Union Hearing • • * • Misconduct Record Os Teamster Union Scored By Member WASHINGTON (UPD -*r The i Senate Rackets Committee pre- ! pared to close the books today on what one member called “a great record of misconduct” in the Teamsters Union. Thee committeeee wound up seven weeks of hearings late Thursday but left its record open for a closing statement by Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) Summing up the Teamsters investigation. McClellan said he would make it public later today or Saturday. The committee devoted a large part of its final session to a long, involved examination of what chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy described as “fraud, collusion and favoritism" in millions of dollars worth of Teamsters insurance business. Went To Friend It purported to show Teamsters president James R. Hoffa channeled the lucrative account of the Ceentral Statee Teamsters Confeerence through his friend. Allen Dorfman of Chicago, who shared jin about $1,400,000 worth of commissions over seven years. This, according to staff invesjtigators, was about a million I dollars more than the average 'commission rate. In addition, they said the Union ■ Casualty Co. which got the in- ; surance was not the low bidder. They said it collected some $650.000 more than the other bidder would have got in the first three years the policy was in effect,’ Hoffa, questioned earlier, denied Hoffa, questioned earlier, denied ihe promised to help Dorfman get the insurance. He said he told Dorfman he probably would get it if Dorfman’s bid was competitive. Low Bidder Rejected Testimony showed the union tossed out the first round of sealed bids in which the Pacific Mutual Co. was low* and called for new ones. Pacific Mutual was again low but was told by Hoffa it was unacceptable because the company had some financial difficulties in 1936. Investigators said they later found bids submitted by other companies in the files of Union Casualty. As the hearing came to a close committee members showered: down strong words of condemnation on Hoffa and his associates. Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) said the “shocking disclosures. . . seem to indicate there is just no end to the scandals.” Sen. Irving M. Ives <R-N. Y.> chimed in with the remark about the “great record of misconduct.” First Atlas Firing Ends In Explosion Another Effort Is t Planned On Missile CAPE CANAVERAL* Fla. <UPI’ —The Air Force went back to work today determined to make the next attempt at a 6,325-mile flight a success. The first attempt at sending the 100-ton Atlas — the nation’s first intercontinental ballistic missileon an ocean-spanning flight Thursday ended in explosion after only 80 seconds of flight. But another effort appeared likely soon. Success would have meant the United States had at last countered Russia’s boast it aloqe has an ICBM that could devastate targets on another continent with a hydrogen warhead. The Soviets have said they shot a tactical missile more than 5,000 miles in August, 1957. The Air Force, which rarely Offers an explanation of a failure, made no exception to the rule after Thursday’s flop. In a brief statement after the blowup, officials said only that the Atlas “exploded and destroyed itself’ and that the “cause of the malfunction is not yet known." If the flight had been successful, the massive weapon would have climbed almost 600 miles above the earth, and moments later would have dropped its special nose ©one into the South Atlantic at a predetermined area 6,325 miles from Cape Canaveral.

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Steelworkers Plan Rebel Group Ouster Convention Sets Stage For Action ATLANTIC CITY, N.J, (UPD— The stage was set today for expulsion of a rebel union group branded as “traitors" by an angry convention of the United Steelworkers of America. Delegates Thursday roared their approval of a resolution which set in motion the machinery to cast from its ranks the dissident group which has opposed the leadership of President David J. McDonald. Hie rebel bloc is headed by Donald C. Rarick, McKeesport, Pa., millworker, who polled nearly a quarter of a million votes in his unsuccessful bid to unseat McDonald last year. Rarick, a brawny six-footer, remained defiant on the convention floor as 3,500 shouting delegates stood up. booed him lustily and waved “goodbye.” Accused Os Slander “I’m not worried,” he yelled above the din. “I know the rank and file will back us up throughout the country.” The opposition faction, which operated under the title of the Dues Protest Committee, was accused in the resolution of trying to “undermine” the union and "slander” its officials. The resolution put the convention on record as favoring initiation of complaints against the rebels on the local union level. The steel union constitution provides for appeal of the local's verdict, first to the international executive board, and then to the next convention in 1960. The resolution, introduced by Joseph P. Moiony, chairman of the convention resolutions committee, climaxed a hectic week which saw intra-union feuds dominate all other business. Rebels Haaed Rarick had only the support of a few other delegates during the sessions conducted in an atmosphere made tense by the flare of tempers and a steady barrage of hazing aimed at the minority faction. Adoption of the resolution consolidated the position of the 55-year-old McDonald who took over the 1,250,000-member union in 1952 after the death of its founder, Philip Murray. It signaled the probable beginning of the end of the intra-union bickering which began when the 1956 convention in Los Angeles raised the monthly* dues from $3 to $5.

FOR THE FINEST AUTO INSURANCE YOU CAN BUY, CALI. OR SEE COWENS INSURANCE AGENCY L. A. COWENS UM COWENS 299 Court St. Phone 3-3601 Decatur, Ind. Public Night Auction We, the undersigned, will sell at Public Auction the following personal property—Located 1 mile west of Bluffton on State Road No. 124 to County Road No. 100E, then 1 mile north to County Road No. 100 N, then % mile west, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1958 -Sale Starting at 7:00 O’clock P.M.-30-Head High-Grade Holstein Dairy Cattle-30 T. B. & BANGS TESTED A CALFHOOD VACCINATED Horney. 3 years old, due to freshen Nov. 26 , 70 lb. cow';' Clarabelle, 4 years old. due to freshen Oct. 18, 80 ib. cow; Betty, 4’juwrs old, due to freshen Nov. 7, 70 lb. cow; Silver, 4 years old. fresh, rmiking 80 tb. now; Judy, 4 years old, fresh, milking 70 lbs. now; Faith, 2 years old, fresh, milking 60 lbs. now; Joe, 3 years old. fresh, milking 60 lbs. now; Star, 3 years old, fresh, milking 60 lbs. now: Flossey, 2 years old. jpi)kjng 50 lbs. now; Hope, 2 years old, milking 50 tbs. now; Bessie, 2 years old, milking 50 lbs. now; Grand, 8 years old, milking 70 lbs. now; Lady, 8 years old, milking 50 lbs. now; Helen, 4 years old, due to freshen Oct. 21, 60 lb. cow; Rosie, 3 years old, due to freshen Nov. 7, 60 tb. cow; Copper, 4 years old, due to freshen Nov. 8, 60 lb. cow; 2 Holstein heifers, due to freshen by day of sale; 2 Holstein heifers, due to freshen Feb. 15 and March 5; 5 Holstein yearling heifers; 1 Holstein heifer calves. NOTE:—AII these cows and heifers are from Wells County Artificial Breeding. Several of the above are rebred by Wells County Artificial Breeding. All are calfhood vaccinated, and were raised by owner. This is a good young herd of Holstein Dairy Cattle, all have good udders, plenty of size and very good production. Exact breeding dates and production records will be given day of sale. We invite you to inspect this herd at anytime. DAISY EQUIPMENT: — 2 Surge seamless milking units, like new; 2-unit Hir.man milker, complete; 6 can Frigidaire milk cooler; 2 wash tanks; 10 gal. Dairy water heater. -HOGS—--1 Chester White & Hampshire sow, vaccinated with 8 pigs by side. 2 Chester White & Hampshire sows, vaccinated, due to fajrow soon. 12 weaned Chester White & Hampshire pigs. CHICKENS — 100 head of Neuhauser Leghorn pullets, just starting to lay. -HAY-STRAW—OATS—--2,500 bales of mixed hay, most without rain. 500 bales of wheat and oats straw. 200 bushels of Clintland oats. HOG EQUIPMENT $ MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - 1 summer hog fountain. 2 winter hog fountains; 2 12-hole hog feeders: 1 pig brooder. 55,000 B7U Superflame oil heater; 250 gal. oil tank; Monogram hardcoal stove; electric chicken brooder; 55 gal. Toastmaster electric water heater bushel hog feeder, cast iron bottom; 30 bushel hog feeder, cest iron bottom; 3 winter hog fountains; 10 small 2 bu. size feeders. TERMS—CASH. Not responsible for accidents. Sale will be held under tent. JAMES CLOUD and WOOD-HOHMANN FARM, Owners Ellenbbrger Bros., Auctioneers Bluffton phone 543 — Fort Wayne phone K-5512. Old First National Bank—Clerk.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1958

'W' j Br • Jerry Lee Beard Pvt. Jerry Lee Beard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beard, of route four, Decatur, recently spent a 14-day furlough with his family. Pvt. Beard is now completing his training at Fort Leonard Wood. Beard s address is: Pvt. 2 Jerry Lee Beard F. R. 16573468, Hq. & Hq. Bn. U.S.A. TC E., Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Hutker In Arkansas The address of Ted Hutker has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hutker of Decatur. Hutker is now in the process of his six month active duty training with the United States Army at Camp Chaffee, Ark. His address was given as: Pvt. Ted Hutker F. R. 16597997, Btry. “D” 4th Bn. Arty. Tng. Comd.. U.S.A. Tng. Cn. F. A., Camp Chaffee, Ark.

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