Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1958 — Page 1

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IDLDED STEWARDESSES HUNT JOB-Idle in Miami, Fla., because of the spreading airlines strikes, Eastern Airlines stewardesses scan the want-ads In search of interim employment. They get a break weatherwise being in Florida since Ann MacGregor is from Jeffersonville, Ind., Kay Dahlen (center) is from International Falls, Minn., and Jo Tanner (right) comes from Findlay, Ohio.

Use All Means To Keep Berlin Traffic Open Dulles Soys U. S. Will Use All Means . To Keep City Open WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States will use .all means, including force if necessary, to keep open the road, rail and air communicattons to Communist-encircled West Berlin. Dulles was asked at a news conference whether the Western Big Three had ruled out the use of force if the Russians or East Germans tried to blockade the city. He said that the Allies have not ruled out any of their rights at all. He declared, however, that he thinks the question is still academic because, according to his interpretation, the Russians and East German Ccmmunists have not threatened Allied access to the city. Dulles said the only issue raised by the Reds so fan as he sees it, is whether the Soviet Union can turn East Berlin over to the German Communists and wiggle out of its responsibilities and obligations to the three Western Al lies. Dulles said, in fact, that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev may be having some second thoughts on the wisdom of his declaration earlier this month that Russia was ready to turn its Berlin sector over to the German Communists. He said the Russian leader obviously spoke without consulting his legal advisers and may be reviewing the situation now that he has found his legal position unsould. Dulles also made the following points at his first news conference since the Berlin crisis flared into the headlines: The United States and its Allies are in agreement that they might deal with East German officials as agents of the Russians on minor matters. However, he said, the Western Big Three and West Germany are equally determined not to deal with the East Germans in any manlier which might imply de facto recognition of the Communist puppet government. —The United States, Britain and France are firmly agreed that the Russians undertook a solemn obligation at the foreign ministers council meeting in Paris in June, 1949, to assure the Western powers and the world in (ContinueC on page eight) . — » MB ■■ M

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No Agreement On Railroad Crossing City Officials And Railroaders Confer No agreement or compromise was reached Tuesday night at the meeting held at city hall with railroad officials, members of the city council, city attorney and mayor, concerning the crossing problem at Dayton avenue, with the Pensylvania railroad company. The members of the council discussed the problem with five representatives of the railroad. They were unable tocome to any agreement on the proposal given by A. M. liarris, regional manager for the P. R. R., that the city of Decatur hire a retired man or elderly man to guard the crossing during the hours school children from the Northwest grade school would use the Dayton crossing on their way to and from the school. Harris stated that the railroad would pay $4 a day, five days a week for the watchman, and that he was to be under the supervision of the police department. The members of the council and city attorney, John De Voss, pointed out to the officials how this would be impossible for the city to do. Mayor ttobert D. Cole stated to, Harris that the city had tried to conespond with the railroad officials for the past two years and 11 months, but that the railroad had not given the courtesy to the city of Decatur even to reply to their request of a discussion concerning the problem. He continued by saying that the city was past the point of words, and that if it took a city ordinance to get their request, it was unfortunate that such action must be taken. Harris stated that he had no knowledge of the matter until he read the article in the Decatur Daily DemiScrat two weeks before the ordinance was proposed by the council. The ordinance requiring the Pennsylvania railroad to provide flasher signals and a watchman during school hours at the Dayton crossing was passed on a second reading by the council members during their regular council meeting last week. Harris stated that flasher lights would not help the situation because of the continuous switching done in that area, but that a watchman might be the solution. He also stated that a flasher system would cost, at a bare minimum, $30,000, and would take approximately one year to install. <f the ordinance is passed the railroad could be fined $lO to SSO a day if the ordinance was not complied within 90 days after the Continued on page five i

Com Fanners Vote End For Acre Control Acreage Controls Are Eliminated In Corn Referendum WASHINGTON (UPD-The nation’s corn farmers have voted for the end of acreage controls and for lower price supports in a special referendum. The plan approved by com-belt farmers in Tuesday’s referendum eliminates acreage controls and fixes price supports at a national average of 90 per cent of the Favor New Program Adams county farmers voted 669 in favor of the new program in which there would be no acreage allotments and price supports, and 76 in favor of the old program of acreage allotments and price supports, according to the local agriculture stabilization and conservation committee. The committee reported that approximately 2,200-2,300 voters were eligible to vote in Adams county, but only 745 voted here. average market price for, com during the three preceding years, but not less than 65 per cent of parity. Die other choice, rejected by farmers, would have continued the present program with reduced acreages quotas. Incomplete returns announced by the agriculture department showed 209,549 votes Tor the plan of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and 77,311 for continuance of the current program. The present plan, inaugurated in the days of the New Deal, had received little support in recent years because most growers .feed their com on the farm and are therefore little concerned over price supports and marketing quotas. N« Acreage Units More than 61 per cent of the farmers voting in a referendum two years ago cast ballots against continuation of the corn program, but the law at that time required (Contluaec on page eight) Durkin Reelected By Historical Society Judge Parrish Is Guest Speaker Here The election of officers for the ( Adams county historical society , was held Tuesday night at the . meeting of its members at the Adams circuit court room where . Judge Myles F. Parrish was the . guest speaker on the past history i of the Adams circuit court. x Gerald Durkin was reelected as . president: Robert Heller, vice president; and secretary - treasurer* . Nelson Doty, was reelected. Lowell Long, of Geneva, and Raymond Kohne, of Decatur, were elected as trustees for a three-year period. The nominating committee, with Bryce Thomas acting as chairman, presented the nominations to the members. Robert S. Anderson, president of the Adams county bar associatibn, introduced Judge Parrish as the featured speaker concerning the past history of the court room. Judge Parrish gave a detailed history of the court room, the activities it has witnessed, both legal and as a community and political meeting place. He then quoted from 12 or more law and history books taken from the court library, showing the establishment of the various courts of the state of Indiana; the state constitution adopted at Corydon, June 10, 1816, setting up three circuit courts in the state, composed of three judges who travelled to their various counties. Parrish praised the court law li- > brary as the equal of any in the . United States, with books back to the beginning of the state, added Continued on page five

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Former State Highway Head Is Convicted Jury Deliberates Less Than Hour To Convict Red Smith INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A jury of 10 men and .2 women deliberated less than an hour Tuesday night and returned a verdict of guilty against former Indiana Highway 'commission Chairman Virgil (Red) Smith on two counts of bribery. The jury recommended maximum penalties of 2 to 14 years in prison and SIO,OOO fine on each count as well as disfranchisement for 25 years. The prison terms are to run concurrently. Smith already is under a 2 to 14 year prison sentence in connection with another phase of the Hoosier highway scandals. “What can I say?” Smith exclaimed after the jury returned its verdict. He indicated he was “not satisfied” with the verdict. Special Judge Thomas E. Garvin set sentencing for Dec. 3. The jury went out at 4:50 p.m. fc.d.t) and came back with a verdict at 5:40 p.m. The unanimous verdict came on the first ballot, but several more were taken to determine whether Smith should get the maximum penalty. If Garvin carries out the disfranchisement recommendation, it would mean that the 51-year-old Smith could not hold public office or vote until he is 76. Smith was head of the highway department under former Gov. George N. Craig. He was charged with taking a $7,793 bribe from salesman Arthur J. Mogilner when Mogilner sold the state $529,000 worth of power shovels. Mogilner was the state’s star > witness during the seven-day trial. He testified he paid Smith i “commission” far preferential ’ treatment. , In closing argument before the case went to the jury Tuesday, deputy prosecutor Leroy K. New termed Smith “the master cor(Continued on page eight) I k More Polio Cases Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State Board of Health added six polio cases to its 1958 total last week, raising the year’s incidence to 129 compared with 147 this time»last year and a fiveyear median of 399. The latest cases included 2 each in Floyd and Vigo counties and 1 each in Clark and Washington counties. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with strong west to northwest winds and a few snow flurries north. Fair south and colder this afternoon and tonight. Snow flurries occasionally heavy near Lake Michigan. Hard freeze all sections tonight. Thursday generally fair and cold except snow flurries continuing near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 10 to 20. High Thursday 25 to 30 north, 30 to 35 south. Sunset today 5:23 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Thursday 7:42 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Friday: Fair and cold Lows Thursday night 10 to 20. Highs Friday in 30s.

■HIM**! I I 'l—Illegal License Scheme Charged Driver's License Racket Disclosed INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Evidence that a state examiner and an assortment of “middlemen” were engaged in an ■ illegal drivers’ license scheme was to be presented today to Marion County Prosecutor John Tinder. , Robert L. McMahan, commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of ] , Motor Vehicles, said today that he , f could not confirm reports that ( ( some, persons paid as much as t SSO for a license obtained through ; . the examiner. But ht, Saia the examiner was , . fired. j ( “He’s an ex-examiner as of 4 ' ! p.m. last night,” McMahan said. ' t “He wouldn’t talk to me when I ; > asked him about the charges. Hie next step, if there is one, is up [ to Tinder.” t McMahan said that a continu- • ous investigation is maintained in , his department for any hint of : . irregularities among the state’s 75 i examiners. ‘ t But he said that “we have no evidence” that the racket dis- . closed in Marion County is duplicated anywhere else in the state. An alert officer in the Indian- , i apolis traffic department recog- . qized a motorist brought in for t questioning as one whose license > had. been suspended. Examination i of his new license disclosed he . had obtained it through “a friend” . who named the ex-state driving t examiner as source for the illegal i certificate. 3 Inspector Audry E. Jacobs of Indianapolis police traffic department said today that five “mid(Continued on page eight) i ! ’ ; Studebaker, Union ’ Leaders To Confer l Federal Mediator B Arranges Meeting SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD—A v federal mediator arranged a meet- " ing for today of negotiators for Studebaker-Packard Corp. and striking United Auto Workers in an effort to iron out a contract dispute and send 6,200 employes back to work. Chester E. Ralston of the Fede eral Mediation and Conciliation ? Service said spokesmen for both 8 sides indicated they would attend. s Representatives of the union 1 and the company had indicated in ' earlier statements that each was 1 waiting for the other to make the 1 first overtures toward resumption 1 of negotiations, broken off when the UAW struck Monday. Ralston got the parties together shortly after company president Harold E. Churchill said in a newspaper advertisement that the strike “could ruin the immediate future of our company just as we see daylight ahead.” T. Forrest Hanna, president of UAW Local 5, said the union bargaining committee has been “ready and waiting to talk some more.” “We have been sitting here for two days,” he said. “All they have to do is call us and we’ll be ready to meet.” Company spokesmen said their ' negotiators have been “waiting for the union to call but we Continued on page five

Democrats Win At Least Three Alaska Offices Governorship, Two Os Congressional Posts To Democrats ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) — Democrats swept over Republicans like an Arctic blizzard today to win at least three of the four major offices in Tuesday’s history-making Alaska election. The political prizes of the 49th state that went to the Democrats included the governorship for William A. Egan, a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Ralph J. Rivers and a seat in the Senate for E.L. (Bob) Bartlett. Mounting returns from points as distant as Shemya on the tip of the Aleutian chain to Point Barrow on the Arctic Ocean, also gave the Democrats control of both houses of Alaska’s first state Legislature. Riding the top of the Democratic snowslide was Bartlett, who spent 14 voteless years at Congress as a territorial delegate. Bartlett, 54, will go back to Congress next January as one of Alaska’s first senators, an easy winner by a 6-1 margin over Republican R.E. Robertson, 73, of Juneau. All the Democrats needed to make a clean sweep was for Ernest Gruening, at 71 a veteran of many years in politics, to win over Mike Stepovich, 39, in their close race for the other Senate seat. Gruening held a scant lead throughout the night in this bitter contest between two former governors, and each territory - wide tabulation maintained jorincreased his lead by a handful of votes. But with only a 700-vote lead halfway through the counting of a turnout which may have exceeded 40,000, Gruening was not claiming victory, nor was Stepovich concedingEgan, the man who will serve as the first governor of the 49th state, is a 44-year-old merchant from Valdez with eight year’s experience in the territorial Legislature. Unofficial returns gave Egan a commanding lead over Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, a Fairbanks insurance man. Rivers, 55, a Fairbanks attorney, has more than 25 years of governmental experience to take with him to the House of Representatives. He was U.S. attorney in Alaska from 1933 to 1944, served as territorial attorney general from 1945 to 1949 and was mayor of Fairbanks from 1952 to 1954. Rivers’ GOP opponent was Henry A. Benson 48, territorial labor commissioner. Returns as of 7:45 a.m. c.s.t. with an estimated 50 per cent of the balloting reported. Governor: (R) Butrovich 7,907, (D) Egan 12,260. Senate Term A: (R) Robertson 2.906, (D) Bartlett 16,603. Senate (Term B: (R) Stepovich 10,137, (D) Gruening 10,832. Congress: (R) Benson 8,198, (D) Rivers 11,196. The two Senate seats, arbitrarily labeled “A” and “B” are not for any specified length. The Senate will decide on opening day Continued on page five

Americans To Mark ' Thanksgiving Day , Millions Observe Holiday At Home United Press International Millions of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving at home Thursday, while the traditional fowl simmers in the oven, and the winds howl outside. It was expected to be one of the homiest Thanksgivings in recent years with much of the na- ’ " tion facing bad weather and two ( ‘ of the largest airlines out of serv- , 5 ice because of strikes. 1 The National Safety Council did , not make a prediction on the ex- ’ pected traffic death toll, but it * noted that during a non-holiday a period extending from 6 p.m., ' Wednesday to midnight Sunday ’ 470 persons would be killed. s Most states and cities ordered ’ out extra contingents of police to , handle the expected heavy in- ’ crease in auto traffic and to ? keep the death toll at a minimum. f However, the National Safety ' Council said Thanksgiving is not one of the holidays noted for drunken or reckless driving. Strikes at Eastern and Trans- ■ World Airlines were expected to 1 reduce the air traffic by one- * third during the holiday period, " and many persons decided to f stay at Home rather than face a r long auto trip?--j Members of the armed forces throughout the nation and at for- , eign stations will be served full . dress turkey dinners from crant berry sauce to cocktail nuts. Inmates of penal institutions . will get fowl dinners with all the , trimmings, and throughout the nation the homeless and the vagaI bonds can share in giving, thanks . at charity kitchens. Churchgoers of all sects will at- , tend services in reminder of the ' days when the Thanksgiving turkey'was as much a sacrifice to j God as to pilgrims’ hunger. t ‘ Fuelling, Fiechter ; Com Club Champions ; Hugo Bulmahn Tops In Soybean Yield r David Fuelling, junior 5-acre ■ corn club member of Union town- * ship, had the high corn yield of ' 162 bushels per acre, according to * Leo N. Seltenright, county agri--5 cultural agent. Dan Fiechter, of * Kirkland township, has again won the 5-acre yield contest in the sen1 lor division with 159 bushels per ‘ acre reported by the agronomy 5 department of Purdue University. ' The 5-acre Winers will be honored at the farmes achievement ban- ■ quet to be held next March. Hugo Bulmahn of Preble township had the high 5-acre soybean yield with 48.7 bushels per acre. f Other soybean yields were 43.4 bushels for Raymond Becher, Jr. > and 40 bushels for Gilbert Bultemeier. u Following is the list of 5-acre corn yields: Dan Fiechter, 159; Benj, Gerke, 156; Mrs. Delmas Bollenbacher, 145; Delmas BollenI. bacher, 144; Martin Kipfer, 144; Elmer Isch, 138; Eli Kipfer, 138; I- Raymond Ringger, 138; Mrs. Helit man Egly, 135; Hugo Bulmahn, i- 134; Mrs. Lucy Shnepp, 134; Ervin y Schuller, 133; Holman Egly, 130; ((,. utinued on pare eight)

To Build New Grade School On South Side Architects Hired To Draw Plans For Elementary School The Decatur school board and W. Guy Brown, superintendent, today announced contracts have been signed with Bradley & Bradley, Fort Wayne architects, to draw plans for the new elementary school building, to be erected in the south part of the city. Members of the school board are Everett Hutker, president; Dr. James Burk, secretary, and Jack Heller, treasurer. Construction of the new building is part of the long-range expansion program of the Decatur public school system, adopted in 1954 following an exhaustive survey by lo’cal school officials, city officials, parent teachers association, and the Indiana University school survey commission, working closely with various orgamzaucns of the city. The new elementary building will be constructed on a 10-acre tract in the south part of the city, bounded by Mcßarnes, Bush, Grant and Bollman streets. This site, owned by the school system, will provide three entrances to the new building. The announcement by the school board stated, “Preliminary planning for the new south side school building will soon get underway. It will be the policy of the school board to confer with interested parent committees and teacher committees on the type of building desired. It is hoped that we shall have great interest in this project.” Completion In 1960 School officials have set a completion date for Sept. 1, 1960, in order to have the new building ready for occupancy by the opening of the 1960-61 school year. The new building will be a sevenclassroom school, to house kindergarten and grades one to six, inclusive. Construction of the south building is the second step in the expansion and modernization pro- , gram of the city’s school system. The initial step was erection of 1 the Northwest section of the city. , The south side building as was . the Northwest school, will be so ' constructed that a six-classroom . unit can be added when necessitated by mounting population. The overall plan also calls for ' remodeling and enlarging of the Lincoln elementary school, eventually devoting this building, the oldest in the city system, to house not only kindergarten and graces one to six, inclusive, for children in the central section of the city, but also all seventh and eighth grade (junior high) students. This will leave the Decatur high school building to be devoted exclusively to high school students. Bradley & Bradley were the architects for the Northwest school, and have also designed many other buildings in Decatur, including the Zion Lutheran parish hall (also used as a parochial grade school). the American Legion and Moose lodge homes, and the present” remodeling project at the Decatur public library.

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