Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 222.

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Auto Workers « Seeking Pact With Chrysler Strikes Authorized By Union's Leaders Against Two Firms DETROIT (UPD—The United Auto Workers Union, with strikes' authorized against both General Motors and Chrysler, today concentrated on Chrysler in hopes of getting a quick settlement. The UAW Executive Board authorized the strikes in a five-hour meeting Friday night in an effort to speed up contract talks which have made little progress since they were started 5% months ago. The union used similar strategy on Ford Motor Co. and reached an agreement with Ford only six hours after the company’s workers went on strike throughout t|ie nation when the deadline passed without a settlement on Wednesday. Sept. 30 Deadline The board set a Sept. 30 deadline for a strike at General Motors but left the date for a Chrysler strike to the discretion —of the UAW bargaining team at Chrysler. UAW President Walter P. Reuther explained he hoped to reach an agreement with Chrysler without a strike deadline, although the union was prepared to set one even before the GM deadline expired if Chrysler negotiations bogged down. He said he would enter the Chrysler talks personally today but would quickly shift to talks at General Motors if there was no progreess et Chrysler. Wantsp ‘‘Brass Tacks” “elf they (Chrylser) are prepared to get down to brass tacks, I will stay there,” Reuther said. “If not, I will go to GM. Thee decision is up to Chrysler. “If Chrysler gets down to business and bargains seriously, an agreement could be reached there by Monday,” he said. “We feel the Chrysler contract is superior to that of General Motors and it would be easier to reach a quick agreement at Chrysler.” Both companies have made only two similar offers to the union to date. Both offered to extend their old contracts for two years but withdrew these offers when the old pacts expired during the Memorial Day week end. • They both offered package agreements which would have netted their employes between 24 and 30 cents an hour within 18 minutes of the time Ford offered die union the same contract under the pressure of a strike deadline. The UAW rejected all of the offers but settled with Ford a short time later for a slightly improved package. « , Reuther made it clear, however, that GM and Chrysler would have to offer more than Ford to reeach an agreeeement. NOON EDITION

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New Industry Added To Business Report Monthly Barometer Is Issued By C.C. A new industry was added to the Chamber of Commerce business barometer for August, making the report for eight Decatur industries, and also making a comparison of figures for last month and a year ago difficult and somewhat inaccurate. — ”” 1 The report shows that eight inr dustries have 1.502 employed in 1 August, against 1,481 employed by ; seven industries in July, probably a decrease of about 25 or 30, but probably an increase over the figures of a year ago for seven industries, 1,378. The payroll for the month of August for eight industries is $454,304, also probably a decrease over a year ago when 1,378 employes drew $406,747. The July payroll shows $748,768, reflecting the General Electric vacation pay, a mighty boost to Decatur’s economy. Electric and gas meters stood the same as last month, and the electric meter number was the same as last year, 3,948. Gas meters were 2,322 a year ago, 2,380 in July and August. Water meters decreased one, but showed an increase over a year ago, when there were 2,529 meters. In July there were 2,559 water meters, and in August 2,558 meters. The number of telephones, including rural, jumped from 6,178 a year ago and 6,230 in July to 6,259 in August. Direct poor relief in Decatur decreased in cost during August. A year ago 21 cases involving 86 persons cost $1,552. In July this was 26 cases involving 111 persons, at a cost of $1,317. In August, 27 cases involving 106 persons cost $1,192. Direct relief is obtained from the township trustee. The number of births was also up in August, when there were 64 reported, and nine deaths, as compared with 36 births and eight deaths in July, and 50 births and seven deaths a year ago. Carloadings in and out also decreased slightly. In August there were 927 carloadings in, and 1,101 carloadings out, for a total of 2,028. In July there were 1,101 carloadings in, 1,055 carloadings out, for a total of 1,156. A year ago there were 1,344 carloadings in, and 1,535 carloadings out, for a total of 2,879. The value of building permits decreased to 15 valued at $14,295 in August from 16 valued at $19,025 in July, and 6 valued at $86,045 a year ago. Three Women Killed In Accident Friday HUNTINGTON, Ind. (UPD — Three women were killed Friday night when two cars collided at a highway intersection. Four other persons were injured in the collision at the intersection of Ind. 5 and Ind. 124. Killed were Mrs. Josephine Welsheimer, 38, and Mrs. Lois B. Lytlfe, 63, both of Columbia City, and Mrs. Lytle's granddaughter, Carol Reinhardt, 21, a student nurse at Fort Wayne.

Red Torpedo Boat Sunk By Nationalists Nationalist Boats Sink Torpedo Boat During Sea Skirmish TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD — Nationalist Chinese gunboats sank a Communist torpedo boat Friday night in a 40 - minute sea skirmish near the blockaded Quemoy Islands, the Defense Ministry announced today. The ministry saicj a direct hit by Nationalist guns set the Red craft on fire. The communnique added that one Nationalist boat was “slightly damaged" in the fight, which involved two gunboats and three torpedo boats. The fighting started at 11:10 p.m., when the two forces “encountered” one another 13 miles southwest of Big Quemoy Island. Convoy Runs Blockade A Chinese convoy braved Red gunfire today to deliver supplies to the beleaguered islands. The Defense Ministry said an unspecified number of landing craft reached the beach on Quemoy and unloaded all their supplies despite a barrage that started 20 minutes after their arrival. The communique did not indicate the quanity ,of cargo unloaded on the island, nor did it - say whether the landing craft were escorted by U.S. destroyers. Adm. Harry D. Felt, U. S. supreme commander in the Pacific area, arrived from Saigon to take a first - hand look at the Formosa situation. The admiral said the situation here is still “very serious” despite U. S. - Chinese “progress” toward breaking the Quemoy > blockade. - During his stay here, Felt will - confer with Vice Adm. Roland r Smoot, whose Formosa Defense . Command Friday assumed tactii cal control of all U. S. air, ground . and sea forces in the Formosa area. Chiang Makes Toor i The question of getting supplies t through the Communist blockade r of the Quemoys remained a major t problem for the Nttionalists. Pres- - ident Chiang Kai - shek visited . the U. S. - protected Pescadores Islands, southwest of here, Friday . to inspect the area where convoys . bound for the Quemoys assemble. r It was Chiang’s second visit to 5 the Pescadores since the unreCOontinued on page five) - Asks Gov. Handley Appear Before Jury i Asks Handley Back Up Charges Aired ? SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD — ; Governor Handley faced a request i today to tell a St. Joseph County grand jury what he knows about - his alleged charges of a “scan- ) dalous” lack of law enforcement > in the South Bend area. Prosecutor Patrick Brennan said . Friday night he asked the gover- , nor to appear before the jury to . back up statements made at a [ St. Joseph County Republican rally at Mishawaka Wednesday i night. “The law unfortunately exempts ; the governor from being subpenaed before the grand jury,” Bren- , nan said, “therefore I am asking ! the governor to appear.” Brennan said he asked Handley in a telegram Friday to back up his charged with evidence before the grand jury at 9 a.m. (c.d.t.) Monday. Handley was not available for comment. Brennan quoted Handley as saying there was a “scandalous breakdown of law enforcement in St. Joseh County.” Brennan said the governor told a county GOP corn roast and sausage fry that he was talking about Brennan and a July 19 state police raid on an alleged bawdy house known as the West Side Lunch. Brennan accused Handley of trying to drag the state police into the political campaign. “The Handley charge was serious and affects not only the political aspirations of an individual candidate but the welfare of every citizen in the county,” Brennan charged. He said he also will ask the grand jury to make an independent investigation of the governor’s charges. “Handley knew or should have known that I had requested the state police to keep the place under surveillance and to make arrests long before the governor ordered the raid,” Brennan said. “No such action was taken by Htmdiey.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 20,1958

Sharp Warning Given By Khrushchev To U.S. On World War Danger

Use Stop-Gap Measures For South Schools Makeshift Solutions Used After Schools Are Ordered Closed By AL KUETTNER United Press International The big question in two Southern states today was not what would be done if public schools were abolished. In Arkansas and Virginia thfe problem was being met with makeshift solutions. The Little Rock school board today starts emergency television classes. The classes are on a pilot film, previewing the six-hours-a-day of TV classes scheduled to begin Monday. At Charlottesville, Va., parents of school children were organizing classes to be held in lodge halls, churches and private homes. The classes will begin Monday, taught by public school teachers from the closed high school and elementary school. Little Rock’s high schools and Virginia’s Warren County and Charlottesville high schools and elementary schools, were closed by Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus and Virginia Gov. J. Lindsay Almond in the eface of court desegregation orders. School Supt. Virgil T. Blossom said 210 of Little Rock’s 3,480 high school students have already entered other schools. He said many have left the state. Chief Judge Simon E. Sobeloff of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has been asked by the Norfolk, Va., school board to stay a federal integration order against six Norfolk public schools. If Sobeloff denies the board’s request it is believed Almond will order the Norfolk schools closed too. Meanwhile, 12 Negro students who quit high school at Van Buren, Ark., because ,of a white students’ anti-desegretation strike were scheduled to return to classes Monday. The 12 planned to return even though Federal District Judge John E. Miller Friday turned down a request by their attorney for an injunction against the Van Buren school board. In New Orleans students circulated a petition saying the 69 newly-enrolled Negro students at Louisiana State University’s New Orleans branch were “unwanted.” They said nearly 1,000 students, COontinued on pasre five) Milk, Ice Cream Companies Bought Two Firms Operate In Decatur's Area Two milk and ice cream distributing companies which operate in the Decatur area, and three others, were purchased by the Wayne Co-operative Milk Producers Friday, it was learned today. Pioneer Ice Cream and the Rose Hill Dairy in Bluffton, both of which distribute some milk products in the Decatur area, are among the companies affected. The Hoosier Condensed Milk company of Bluffton and Central Dairy of Fort Wayne were the major companies • purchased, including the other two, and the Ridgeville receiving plant of the Central Dairy. Smith’s Pure Milk company, of Decatur, which distributes Gerber’s Central Dairy mjlk from Bluffton, and the Home Dairy of Berne were not affected by the purchase. The milk business has been highly competitive in the past few years, due to the lowering of the price of milk, and ice cream. The purchase is not expected to have immediate repercussions in the Decatur area, depending, of course, on the aggressiveness of the new combined sales force.

Tote Os Confidence to Steel Union Head McDonald Backers Oust Rebel Group ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. (UPD— Officials of the United Steelworkers of America were confident today the giant union will be solidly united when it meets to thrash out a new contract with the basic steel iendustry next spring. The steel workers Friday, ended fl five-day convention which gave Its president, David J. McDonald, t an enthusiastic vote of confidence by moving to oust the leaders of ■ a rebel fa ction. * , Union officials felt the dramatic ' move — carried on in a tense atmosphere marked by frequent j emotional outbursts — closed their t ranks and ended a two year intrat union feud touched off when the monthly dues were raised from $3 * to $5 at the last convention. The insurgents were led by Don--5 aid C. Rarick, McKeesport, Pa., ’ millhand, who unsuccessfully op- , posed McDonald for the presiden- ' cy of the 1,250,000-member union ' last year. Rarick, who polled 223,i 516 votes in losing by a 2-to-l margin, made it clear he would 1 challenge the convention action by ■ taking thee issuee to thee rank and 1 file 1 Ine rebel leaders technically 1 will be in the union until the nor- . mal trial procedure -runs its r course. Baric)# also hinted he may - take court action before that. Despite McDonald's victory last i year, the large number of votes ) polled by the 39-year-old Rarick i was interpreted as a blow to the i prestige of the colorful union chief who succeeded the late Philip f Murray in 1952. f However, the leadership was » confident today that the rebel faction no longer had the backing of t (Continued on page five) f i Shooting Gallery Incident Cleared Bullet Not Fired By Decatur Girl r ~The shooting gallery incident at ? Bluffton, in which a gallery conI i cessionaire was accidentally shot ’ i by a gun which had just been used 1 by a Decatur girl, has been comI pletely cleared up, Bluffton city . | police reported this morning. Clarence Boles, 57, of Muncie, , w r as running a shooting gallery . Thursday night at the fair. Pistol I shots were three for a quarter. A Decatur teen-age couple went up to the booth, and the girl fired three shots from the pistol and laid the gun down. Someone in the crowd juggled the gun, which still had three shots in it as the concessionaire went up to adjust the targets, and he was accidentally shot in the back just below the kidney and close to the spinal column by the .22 calibre slug. The girl asked the man if he had been hurt and he replied no, that he hadn’t, not realizing „ the bullet had gone completely through him. The Decatur couple went on their way down the midway, and it was not until later that the man realized he was seriously injured. The first story on the incident in a Fort Wayne newspaper wrongly stated that the young lady involved fled from the scene, and that she had actually fired the shot. Actually, as soon as the Decatur couple realized that the man had been injured, they went, with the girl’s mother, to the Bluffton police station, and made a full statement of what had happened. The Bluffton police described the shooting as an accident. The accident took place about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. The , bullet perforated the small intestine in two places, and the man lost a considerable amount of blood in internal bleeding. He was taken to the Clinic hospital by Harry Schwartz, of Bluffton route 3, and a blood transfusion by John Flannigan was given immediately. Boles is expected to remain in serious condition for three or four days.

Declare U.S. Is Militarily Ahead Os Reds j General Twining Scores Critics Os Military Strength WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday night the United States is “militarily superior overall' ’ to I Russia now and exected it to I continue to be in the future. Twining took °to task such critics as Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin (Ret.) and others who contend this country is entering a dangerous period when it will . trail Russia in military strength. He said in a speech before the i Defense Oreintation Conference Assn, that he conceded Russian strength should not be underrated. But he added: ( “Considering our superior strategic retaliatory power, our flexible and mobile tactical power, our industrial powes and our economic strength, I say in full confidence that we are militarily superior overall to the Soviet , Union today. I see no reason why, ; with concentrated effort and good judgment, we should not be superior in the 1960’s as well.” Twining’s speech added up to a report on “where we stand from a national security point of view” ' a year after the launching of Russia’s first Sputnik. ( He said there had recently been ( statements which tended to “con- ’ fuse the onlooker as to just what , our military situation actually is.” Former President Truman and Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) have been particularly critical of the administration’s defense programs. And Gavin in a recent book, “Wai» and Peace in the Space Age,” said the United States was entering a period in which “our own offensive and defensive missile capabilities will so lag behind those of the Soviets as to place us in a position of great peril.” Twining said it was “erroneous” to compare what Russia “might have in 1962” with what the United States is “certain we will have at the same date." _____ 1 Roanoke Girl Named Junior Miss Indiana Miss Judy Rhodes Fifth In Contest A Decatur high school girl, Judy Kay Rhodes, 17, placed fifth among the 17 finalists in the Jun- i ior Miss Indiana contest at Bluffton Friday night. Miss Rhodes, sponsored by the 1 Decatur Chamber of Commerce t as runner-up in the Soybean . Queen contest last fall, was the . only Adams county girl in the top j five listing. Other local contestants were Miss Jeanne Smith, of j route four, and Miss Joy Everhart, of Geneva. , Miss Rhodes, a senior at Deca- ‘ tur high school, is the daughter ( of Mrs. Naomi Rhodes of Decatur. ] She gave a reading in the talent section of the contest. First place in the contest was won by Myra Jane Hatter, 18, of Roanoke; second, Rebecca Rudy, 17, Bluffton; third, Linda McCoy, 19, of Kokomo; fourth, Bonnie Lou Barker, 18, of LaGrange. ( Only five places were listed. ( Fifth place was a prize of $lO. 1 None 1 of the 16-year-old girls in < the contest placed in the top five, 1 all in the 17-19 year old group, i Adams county’s other two entries i were both 16, i INDIANA WEATHER Occasional rain tonight and j showers likely Sunday. Windy t Sunday and turning cooler. ( Low tonight 60 to 66, high Sun- « day 70 to 75. Outlook for Mon- , day: Fair and cooler. c

Resigns r f IIP Glen B. Custard Custard Quits Post At Pleasant Mills Principal Resigns To Accept Leo Post Glen B. Custard, former Adams county superintendent of schools and presently principal at Pleasant Mills, announced today that he has resigned his position, effective Friday, September 26, and will begin as principal of the Leo high school in Allen county the following Monday. County superintendent of schools Gail M. Grabill was not available for comment, but it is understood that no one has yet been obtained to replace Custard as principal at Pleasant Mills. Custard came to Adams county from Wells county in 1951, and served as principal at Pleasant Mills until January 12, 1952. In an election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hansel O. Foley on Jan. 4, Custard was elected county superintendent to fill out the unexpired portion of the term. He served as county superintendent for one and one-half years, and then returned to his principal's job at Pleasant Mills, where he has served since that. time. •*I have to leave Pleasant Mills,” Custard said. “I have enjoyed my work there very much, and I feel that great progress has been made there in the past few years.” Custard, a resident of Monroe, will replace Russell Steiner as principal at Leo. Steiner, also a former Adams county man, principal at Hartford, and candidate for county superintendent in the 1933 election, has been promoted to another position in the Allen county system. Policemen's Ball Here This Evening The Fraternal Order of Police will hold their annual policeman’s ball tonight at Sunset Park, starting at 9 o’clock. Tickets are still available from all law enforcement officers in Decatur. The “Keynoters,” a local organization, will provide the music for the dancing. The price of admission is $2 per couple, and an invitation to all persons wishing to attend has been extended by the club’s president, Robert Hill. Public Invited To Lions Club Supper Signs advertising the Lions clubsponsored pancake and sausage supper, open to the general public, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Monday evening from 5:30 o’clock until 8 p. m. were- painted on ten Decatur store windows this morning by Joe Dunit, Decatur painter. Entertainment is now being arranged for during the dinner. All Lions club members are asked to report by 4:30 if on a kitchen committee, and by 5:15 if on the waiters’ committee. Anyone not listed on a kitchen committee is a waiter, Frank Lybarger, chairman of the committee, said today.

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Demand U.S. Interference In Red China Ended Communist Radio In Far East Pounds Out Same Warning MOSCOW (UPD— Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev says Communist forces from China will throw the U.S. Army and Navy out of Formosa unless the Americans leave voluntarily and without delay. y In one of the sharpest notes / penned so far in his copious co> / respondence with President Eisenhower, Khrushchev Friday repeated his warning that U.S. resistance to the Communists would mean a new world war. Steps U Training The Communist Radio in the Far East pounded the same line today, saying in a Peiping broadcast that units of the 3-million-man “liberation army” in China “are stepping up training to put themselves in fighting trim in view of U.S. armed provocations.” The Red broadcast denounced ' U.S. appeals for a moratorium on violence in the Formosa area as ’ “hy pocr is y,” charging that , “American imperialists are continuing to expand military threats and armed aggressive activities ' against (Communist) China.” Khrushchev demanded that the United States cease its “interference in the internal affairs of China” — meaning its'refusal to surrender the Nationalist islands to the Reds. “The American Navy must be withdrawn from the Taiwan (Formosa) Strait, and American sol--1 diers must leave Taiwan and go '■ home.. .’’ he said. i On Chinese Side I “If the United States does not i do this now, no other way will • be left to People’s (Red) China ■ except the expulsion of armed ‘ forces hostile to us from its own t territory... 1 "We are completely on the side > of the Chinese government.. .to s unleash a war against People’s Chin? means. . to ignite the con- ’ flagration of a world war.” , The Soviet premier accused the I United States of using Formosa . as “a springboard. . .for an attack on the (Communist) Chinese People’s Republic.” He denounced U.S. insistence on a non-violent ' settlement as “nuclear blackmail.” Decatur Attorneys Attend Bar Meeting Several attorneys from Adams county attended the bar associa- t tion meeting Thursday and Friday in Fort Wayne. Three attorneys and their wives attended the banquet and dance at the War Memorial Coliseum last night for the climax of the meeting. Those attending from Decatur were: Mr. and Mrs. David Macklin, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Voglewede, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson. Two resolutions were adopted by the convention: A recommendation that the driver’s license of persons convicted of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor be suspended for only 90 days instead of the present year: and that the terms of all judges be lengthened to six years and that thfir selection be taken out of partisan politics. A dance was held from 10 to midnight following the banquet and 1 meeting. ONLY 13 DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER TO VOTE NOV. 4 * ■■■> ■