Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1959 — Page 1

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Wesl Locks k Talks Between Ike, Makoyan Hope For Possible Break In Berlin Crisis, Germany B> LLETT. WASHINGTON (UPI) —The White House announced today that President Eisenhower wilt cOD te r Saturday with Deputy Soviet Premier Anastas L. Mikoyan. Eisenhower set the Saturday 'inference for 9 a. m. in his hite House office. Secretary Jf State John Foster Dulles will participate in the meeting. By WALTER LOGAN United Press International The West looked today to the forthcoming Washington talks between President Eisenhower and Soviet Deputy Premier Amastas I. Mikoyan to provide a possible break in the Berlin crisis and the deadlock over Germany. The Western powers, after a weekend study of Soviet Russia’s poposals for a 30-nation conference on a German peace treaty, were generally agreed the Russian proposals were not acceptable as they now stand but they appeared hopeful of further negotiation. West Germany was near dismay over the Soviet proposals and fearful the Soviet move was only another effort to try to perpetuate the division of Germany into two states. West Germany also received new Soviet warnings against reviving militarism. To See Mikoyan Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mikoyan meet in Washington either next weekend or the following Monday. Communist diplomats in Europe already have hinted that Mikoyan was going into the meetings ready to do some negotiating on the German question. UPI diplomatic correspondent K. C. Thaler said diplomatic soeculation in London was that Mikoyan would use the Berlin issue as a bargaining factor in moves to promote a meeting between Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. These sources said Mikoyan might couple his Khrushchev suggestions with a compromise offer on the Berlin and German questions. Communist diplomatic sources hinted he had been given some leeway for discussion as one of the top Kremlin men. Prepare Counter-Proposal Mikoyan himself has given no such indication. In Los Angeles Sunday he said Russia would withdraw its troops from East Germany if the Americans withdraw their troops and suggested the American withdrawal be car* ried out a third at a time. All previous Russian proposals of this nature have been rejected. The United States, while consulting With its allies, was reported preparing a broa4 counter-pro-posal to the Soviets to keep negotiations alive. But what concessions it would contain —if any—was not yet known. Most of the Soviet proposals were measures rejected many times, in the past by the West. UPI ' <iiplomatic correspondent Stewart Hensley reported Washington diplomats not unduly concerned over the Soviet proposals and mildly pleased with the fact the Russians were make new proposals at a time of lower tensions in the Berlin situation.

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Polio Contributions Return Envelopes Mailed In County Five thousand mailing pieces requesting contributions to the March of Dimes have been sent out to residents of Adams county, outside of the city of Decatur, it was announced by Mrs. Leo Curtin, county campaign chairman.'' In the mailing piece is an addressed stamped envelope in which the contributor may enclose his gift to the Adams county polio foundation. Inasmuch as many persons are desirous of contributing to the 1959 March of Dimes, the Adams county chapter is using this method to make it as easy as possible. Hie chapter feels that every mother and father in the county is anxious to aid the Foundation in its efforts to combat the “Three faces of crippling” that attack children, namely, polio, arthritis and birth defects. A prompt and generous response is hoped for as $65,000,000 is desperately needed to carry on the fight. The mailing piedes were not sent to Decatur residents as a comprehensive Mother’s March has been planned. Assisting Mrs. Curtin in preparing the pieces for mailing were Mrs. Arthur Burris Mrs. William Christen, Mrs. Joseph Kaehr, Jr., Mrs. W. W. Cravens, Mrs. Ferris Bower and Mrs. Roy Kalver. George Auer, Decatur campaign chairman, has announced his assistants in the March of Dimes. They are Tom Allwein, chairman of the industry and labor division; Gerhard Schultz, bowling polio sweepstakes; Charles Gable L sports and basketball games ; Kenny Gaunt, coin colectors; Mrs. Robert Lane, Mother’s March; Richard Linn, youth activities; Mrs. Robert Worthman school card collections; Louis Jacobs, retail and commercial division; Roy Kalver, publicity and promotion. Auer, who is also in charge of special gifts solicitation, ■ has announced the sending out of letters to a specially selected group of donors. Dick Linn, in charge ot youth activities, announced that more than 250 teen-agers attended the benefit record hop at the Community Center Saturday night. He also announced a lollipop sale by the Boy Scouts in the downtown section Saturday, Jan. 17. Sheriff Merle Affolder and his deputies have assisted in the March of Dimer campaign by dis- x tributmg coin cannistersi andposters in stores t h r o u g h o ut the i county. The three-fold purpose of the National Foundation is of special | appeal to mothers—particularly those who have experienced the heart-breaking grief that follows the birth of a malformed child and all who know the pain and suffering ot arthritis. They take heart and courage from-the 1959 March of Dimes. They see promise of help similar to that already extended to thousands of polio victims. They look to March of Dimes supported research to fulfill the promise of disease prevention for generations of the future. INDIANA WEATHER 7 • Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer this afternoon. Continued mild tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight in the 20s north and the low 30s south. High Tuesday ranging from the low 30s extreme north to the 40s south. Sunset today 5:4$ p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday, 8:05 a.m. c.d.t Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild. Low Tuesday night upper 20s north to mid 30s south. High Wednesday mid 30s north to upper 40s south.

Plan Public Hearing Over Right To Work 1 ■•■ - . Sets January 22 As Hearing Date On Controversial Law INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A tentative date was set today for a public hearing on the controversial “right to work” law, already the object of two repealer bills on file in the Indiana Legislature. The date was revealed shortly after a deadlock over committee appointments ende dwith Democratic Speaker Birch Bayh Jr. announcing House committee membership and taking no retaliation measures to penalize Republicans for “packing” the Senate committees with GOP lawmakers. Sen. George W. McDermott (RAlexandria), chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, set Jan. 22 as a tentative date for a hearing, six days after the first date on which proponents of repeal could' try to force the bill out of McDermott’s committee. Hours before the Legislature ■Was to resume its session early this afternoon, Bayh made public the House committees in what he described as a “do unto others” gesture. Consideration of legislation was slowed for two days because of the dispute. -• Bayh had delayed announcement of House committee membership in reprisal for what was termed by the Democrats as “packing the Sennate committees with Republicans’’ by Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker. Bayh, however, made no attempt to retaliate against the Republicans in his committee appointments and apparently gave the minority GOP representatives their proportionate " share. Explains His Stand “We were in effect presented* with the alternatives of whether to seek ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’, or to follow the newer teaching, ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” Bayh explained. “I have chosen the latter course. I Minority members of the House have the principal committee assignments they requested and they, .are represented on committees at least to the proportion of their membership in this chamber or, las is frequently the case, in greater proportion." Asks Senate Fairness “We now ask again that the lieutenant governor treat our Democratic colleagues in the Senate with the same degrees of fairness that we have treated his Republican colleagues in this chamber. , “We have done our part to emphasize the need for thinking and acting constructively in the interest of the people of our state and not for temporary political advantage. The choice of fairness and cooperation is, now the lieutenant governor’s. We have walked the first mile." Parker was non-committal about the appeal. * "I’m glad to hear that the House committees are appointed," Parker said. “That’s their business.” similar comment came from Senate President Pro Tern Wendell Martin. , “I am sure,” he said, “that they (the Democrats) are capable of runnihg the House. We look forward to running the Senate for Continued on page five

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Nixon Opposes Hike In Defense Budget Feels United States Overtaking Russia WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) today challenged Vice President Richard M. Nixon to make public a percentage comparison of U.S. and Soviet ballistic missile strength by the end of this week, or he wjll do so himself. Symington, former air secretary 'in the Truman administration, ■ based his challenge on a pubi lished report that Nixon had said > this country is now ahead of Russia in development of military ballistic missiles. , Actually, Nixon was understood . to have made it known he believes the United States is rapid- ‘ ly gaining on Russia rather than being ahead in the space race, J and that the “gap” is much nar- ’ lower than generally held, i’or ’ that reason, Nixon is said to be ready to fight Democratic moves ■ so increase the new defense budg- • et. I Blames High Officials Symington told the 'Senate he i does not know “a single impartial [ expert in the missile field” who would support a claim that, this country is now ahead of the Soviets in ballistic missiles. ■ Meanwhile, President Eisenhower conferred at length with Sec- ; retary of State John Foster Dul- ! les, Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy; Dr. James R. Killian, special science adviser to the I President, and others on what the t White House called “natural security matters” and matters in- . polving the U.S, role in the space . age. Ta challenging Nixon to die , close the percentage of long- ; range ballistic missiles this country will have at the end of 1959, compared with the number Russia will have, Symington said: “There seems to be a continuning effort on the part of high officials in this administration to lull the people into a state of complacency not justified by the facts.” He also demanded that Nixon . tijsclose the percentage of ICBMs planned to be operatoinal by Januuary, 1961, "two years hence, against estimates of Soviet strength at that time. “Surely- the people have the right to know the truth.” Symington said. Urge More Spending Symington also assailed the administration for failing to use additional money Congress appropriated last year for missiles and other defense projects. He said only 34 per cent of the $1,321,000,000 Congress added to the administration’s defense budget had been allocated for assigned purposes in the current fiscal year. Rep. Overton Brooks (D-LaJ, new chairman of the House Space Committee, called on the administration today to spend one billion dollars on space programs in the coming fiscal year. A member of the space' committee, Rep. Lee Metcalf (DMont.), said he did not see “anything that looked like a sufficient appropriation’” for space in Eisenhower’s State of the Union message. s 1 These statements came on the heels of earlier demands by Sens Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) arid Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) for a stepped up defense outlay. Both said the budget could fce boosted without raising texes. Says. Lag Is Big Mansfield, assistant Sen ate Democratic leader, said his party would "do what we can to close the missile lag, and it is a big lag at this time.” He said on a television program that Congress would not “sacrifice security for economy.” Clark said in a radio interview that more money should be spent Continued on pe«e five

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Retrial Granted In ' Right Os Way Suit Rices Are Granted New Trial By Judge • The first new trial in 10 years on the bench was granted Friday |by Judge Myles F. Parrish to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rice, as defendants in the case that the state had filed ’against them to condemn 3.30 acres of their land ;along U. S. highway 27 for highway purposes. Most unusual aspect of the case ■was the fact that defendant Rice ■argued the case himself for the y past year or so, after a disagree--1 ment with his attorneys who had - filed the motion for a new trial. 1 The case started when the state f offered the Rices $3,600 for the I land, on which they had their ■home located. The Rices refused V to sell for this, and the state, on ’ Dec. 2, 1954, filed suit against the 7 Rices to have the land condemned _ for the right of way. On January y 28, 1955 Custer & Smith entered their appearance for the defendi ants, and on April 19, 1955 a par- - tial argument was heard in court, i- and continued until May 6. At t> that time the Rices’ objection to the sale was withdrawn, and the ‘ court appointed three appraisers r for the vafhe of the land: T. F. e Graliker, August Selking, and Roy s S. Johnson. On May 20 the three men filed their report, and set the value of e the land in question at $17,606. 1 On May 27 the state filed an ex--3 ception to this, claiming it was too s high an appraisal. On Nov. 25 - Voglewede and Anderson entered the case for the state. The case ■ was finally set for trial on Dec. - 10, 1956. The jury heard the case for nine days, and reported out a ; value of $9,990 for the land. The , attorney for the Rices immediate- . ly filed a motion for a new trial. . The Rices were dissatisfied with > the way their attorneys handled the case, and decided to represent themselves in c-ourt. Continued on paffe five Two Persons Injured ! In Wreck Saturday Auto And Truck Are ! Involved In Crash Two persons escaped serious ini juries Saturday afternoon in a truck and car collision that occur- ! red approximately six miles east of Decatur on U. S. 224 at the intersection of county road 27. A passenger in one auto, Virgil Atkins, 19, Grover Hill, 0., received a head laceration and the driver of ■ the truck in vol vcd, Merle Robinson. 31, Farmington, N. J., received a possible knee injury. Both men received emergency treatment at the I Adams county memorial hospital . and were released. The accident occurred when the , truck driven by Robinson attempt- ’ ed to pass a car operated by Clif- ’ ford L. Baker, 23, of Grover Hill, Ohio, at the same time the Baker 1 auto was attempting a left turn onto county road 27. The truck driver stated that , the Baker auto failed to signal indicating a right turn, when he attempted to pass and ' could not avoid the collision, i Baker was arrested by the sheriff’s department for failure to sig- , nal when signal required. He will appear in court to the charge at a later date. Deputy sheriff Robert’Meyer and i state trooper, Dan Kwasneski inI vestigated the accident. They estimated damages to the Baker auto at $450 and estimated SI,OOO dam- ’ ages to the large diesel truck. < The truck traveled a distance of. 108 feet from the point of impact, landing 18 feet from the roadway on the left side of the road on its ' side. The auto was pushed in front of the truck the same distance. The sheriff’s department aided a wrecker service today in removing the truck from the scene of the accident.

Orders First 4 Space Capsule To Be Built Manned Satellite Contract Awarded To St. Louis Firm WASHINGTON (UPI) — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration today ordered McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis, to build the first U.S. “space capsule” to carry a man into an orbit around the earth. The work is expected to take at least two years, informed officials said. The space agency said that the manned satellite would cost more than 15 million dollars. McDonnell will design, develop and build the satellite. It was selected from among 12 companies who submitted bids in a government competition. — - A powerful rocket booster, probably an Atlas missile, will hurl the manned satellite or space capsule into orbit. The purpose, NASA said, will be to “carry a human passenger ' through the atmosphere, into orbital flight and safely back to earth again.” With the satellite and its human occupant, the United States will be able to study the psychological and physiological effects of space flight on man. Research will cover the reaction of a man to weightlessness as he travels around the earth in a virtually gravity-free state. Studies of weightlessness up to now have been limited to manned flights in jet aircraft and to the launching of a monkey in an Army Jupiter missile. In the jets, pilots arched sharpi ly upward and coasted weightless . over the top of the plane’s tra- . jectory. Neither the men nor the monkey were weightless for more t than a few minutes. I The space capsulQj>lso will enable studies of man's reaction to ' very high acceleration during ,the launching through the atmosphere and very high deceleration on reentering the atmosphere. The manned space flight operation is called "Project Mercury.” Dr. T. Keith Glennan, NASA administrator, has said it would take “several” years to get a man into space. Glennan said McDonnell was selected “after careful assessment of the technical value of the proposals, facilities, experience and other qualifications of the various companies.” , Nine Traffic Deaths Recorded In Stale F ive Kil led Sunday, Four Last Saturday United Press International The first non-holiday weekend of 1959 ended today with the traffic death toll on Indiana highways barely staying under double figures. —,—_.—_ At least nine persons were killed in automobile accidents around the state during the 54-hour period, including a three-year-old Illinois girl and two Starke County youths in separate crashes Sunday. The toll included five persons killed Sunday and four Saturday. Three-year-oM Patricia Hoaks of Iroquois, HL, died of shock and concussion in a three-car accident near Spencer Sunday. Her father, Curtis Hoaks, 26; her mother, Thelma, 26, and an older brother, Michael, 4, were reported in serious condition at Putnam County Hospital at Greencastle. Police said the accident occurred when a car driven by Charles Goff, 45, Indianapolis, swerved across the center line and smashed into the Hoaks vehicle, a third car then crashed into the wreckage. Goff was being held in Owen County Jail, on a preliminary charge of reckless homicide and drunken driving. Another head-on crash Sunday killed Rose Mae Bailey, 17, North Continued on pace flV* -A ” ■' ' ' «

Thick Fog Blankets Part Os California 25 Vehicles Tangle In Fatal Accident United Press International A fog blanket' shrouding parts of California, blamed for a fatal chain reaction series of traffic crashes, and a pocket of cold clinging to Florida highlighted the nation’s weather picture. Thick fog near Bakersfield. Calif., Sunday triggered a series of wrecks which killed a high school basketball coach and one of his players end injured eight other persons. Involved in the pileup were 20 cars, two passenger buses and three trucks. One of the trucks loaded with butane gas overturned, spilling the flammable gas onto the highway. The gasoline tanks of two cars caught fire, but the butane did not explode, a factor which authorities believed averted an even greater tragedy. —r —- The Tog also prevented a plane carrying Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan from landing at Los Angeles Sunday. Hie fourengine airline/ landed instead at Burbank Airport, thwarting plans for a demonstration by 1,000 refugees massed at International Airport in Los Angeles. Freezing in Florida Fair, generally mild weather prevailed over much of the rest of the nation Monday, twit a stubborn cold air mass retained its grip on Florida. Although some warming occurred, temperatures early Monday registered a sub-freezing 26 at Cross City and 29 at Jacksonville, Fla. The winter playground of Miami shivered, in an early morning reading of 50. The lee shores of the Great Lakes got a reprieve from five days of intermittent snows with snowfall Monday confined to a few flurries in the lower lakes and New England. Syracuse, N.Y-.. was hit by a three-inch snowfall Sunday to boost its accumulation to 26*6 inches. Tankers Freed From Ice Warmer weather overspread the New England states and the Great Lakes south through the lower Mississippi Valley and Texas. Light fog accompanied the warming trend in parts of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. The milder readings and a shift in the wind enabled a Coast Guard cutter to break through a Lake Michigan ice mass Sunday to free three tankers stranded off Chicago since Saturday night. A seaman aboard one of the tankers suffered a head Injury in a fall Saturday night and was removed from the ship via a Navy helicopter and. rushed to a Chicago hospital. Heavy rains and winds up to 50 m.p.h. buffeted western Washington and western Oregon during the night, dumping 1.75 incheS-Of rain at Brookings, Ore. Jack Gordon Named Area CD Director Appointment Made At State Meeting; John G. (Jack) Gordon, Decatur business man and Adams county s civil defense chairman, was named area CD director at a meeting held at Indianapolis Saturday. County chairmen from throughput the state were called to the meeting by Roland F. Knox, state civil defense director, to discuss better coordination of defense plans throughout Indiana. Nine areas were set up throughout the state, with a director named for each area. Gordon, as reprecivil defense in nine Northeastern sentative for this 'area, will direct Indiana counties. Gordon’s section will be known as area 3, with Fort Wayne as the headquarters. '

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Infant Found In Apartment Near Hospital 43-Year-Old Woman, A Grandmother, Is Held As Kidnaper NEW YORK (UPI) — A baby girl kidnaped from hospital nursery 2Vz hours after her birth 10 days ago was found alive and well Sunday night. A 43-year-old grandmother was arrested for the kidnaping. Even after the child had been positively identified as missing Lisa Rose Chionchio, police said the woman, Mrs. Jean lavarone, mother of eight children, continued to insist that she had given birth to the infant unattended in the Brooklyn apartment where she arid the baby were found. Police and FBI agents recovered the infant early Sunday evening after a telephone tip to police directed them to her apartment. In the face of the woman’s calm denial, however, they withheld positive identification of the child until her bloodtype and footprints were checked with hospital records. They checked out perfectly. Mother of Eight Hie child’s father, Frank Chionchio, 28, an attorney, found his own identification —a tiny scar he had noticed above the baby girl’s left eye In his brief first glimpse of her after birth. Chionchio spent 15 minutes at St. Peter’s Hospital, to which the . baby was returned, and then left, wreathed in smiles, to take the good news to his wife, Frances, 26. She had been sent home from the hospital last week because the - crying of other babies and' the sight of their happy mothers had i been too much for her to bear. The couple has one other child, an 18-month-old daughter. Police said Mrs. lavarone, a widow, had had eight children by two marriages, the youngest now 3 years qld. Her oldest chikLa married son, died last summer. Another son, Francis Anthony Getch, 21, father of two children of his own, is presently in a Brooklyn jail. The next oldest child is 16. Police said some of them are in orphanages. The FBI said Mrs. lavarone was employed in the accounting department of a Brooklyn department store. Chief of Detectives James B. Leggett said they had no evidence that she had been under psychiatric treatment at any time. Find Hair Bleach She insisted the infant was her own out-of-wedlock child, and named an alleged father. But police said medical examination of Mrs. lavarone “shows there has been no birth nine days ago.” And the blood types of both Mrs. lavarone and the man she named were found incompatible with that of the infant. __ The woman and the baby were found less than one mile from the hospital from which the child was taken. Also found in the room were hair dye and bleach materials with which Mrs. lavarone apparently changed the shade of her blond hair after alarms were issued for a “brassy bleached blond” kidnaper. Her hair was a reddick, darker blonde at the time of her arrest, but hospital workers were understood to have identified her almost positively as the loiterer they saw near the baby nurseries in both St. Peter’s and nearby Long (Continued on page eight) DePauw To Observe 122nd Anniversary GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPI) - DePauw University will celebrate its 122nd anniversary Wednesday during its annual Founders and Benefactors’ Day here. Officials will also honor the 75th anniversary of the university’s present name, , which was changed from Indiana Asbury University in honor ol Washington DePauw, New Albany.