Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 13.

H fR' i v ,' | *?TE> : - (n& tvi « |r 1 1 MO II i»B ’ TOW Wi i a WELL PROTECTED TOURlST— Surrounded by New York City policemen, touring Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan leaves the USSR Embassy enroute to the U. N. He visited SecretaryGeneral Dag Hammarskjold in his offices and told an unrehearsed conference with 250 reporters a high-level conference between Ease and West “is bound to take place,” but it is “difficult to say when.” 1 Utility Sale Is Discussed At C. C. Meeting

The Decatur Chamber of Com-, merce moderated a 3%'hour program on the proposed sale of the Decatur electric utility to more; than 300 Chamber of Commerce, Lions club, and Rotary club members, and others interested in the civic question, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday night. In the county tourney, two PT A meetings, and a meeting of the parents of high school seniors interested in attending college, one of the largest crowds in the history of the annual meeting swelled the auditorium. There were very few empty seats for the dinner. Robert H. Heller, former Chamber president and former speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, opened the meeting by introducing the Rev. William C. Feller, who gave the invocation. Leo Kirsch then led in the singing of “America.” • Dinner music was furnished by Chet Longenberger on a Wurlitzer organ, courtesy of the Decatur Music, House. The dinner was served by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, who,assisted the regular staff. After dinner Kirsch led three more songs, and then Heller introduced the directors and officers of the Chamber of Commerce for 1958 and 1959. Louis A- Jacobs, president during 1958, spoke briefly, stating that at this time last year the Chamber had 178 members, and that this year there are 215 members; he praised Dale 'Morrissey and Tom Allwein for their work on committees, and Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary of the Chamber. He also 4 thanked the industrial committee for its fine record in 1958, and the industrial procurement committee, with M. J. Pryor, Herman Krueckeberg, and Cliff Brewer, for its work. Jacobs then introduced the new president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, George W. Auer. The Chamber did not take a stand, they emphasized, on the ' sale, but presented the panel discussion to facilitate intelligent discussion of the problem. Carl H. Bowen, a partner in ; Consoer, Townsend Associates, of Chicago, was introduced. Bowen explained that he had thought-this , was a luncheon meeting for men only, and had brought along only | a few notes, not a prepared , speech. He then reviewed the history of his group’s association with th ecity on the problem. When I&M made, its offer to the , city, he explained, there was some question as to whether the city should keep or sell the lines. His , group whs asked to make a pre- ; liminary survey of the rural lines to see wffi their condition was, j and what could be done about it. The report, Bowen continued, showed that the rural lines had ’ about 1,000 customers, that they 1 provided 15% of the sales and ' 20% of the profit of the company. 1 The physical condition of the lines ' ranged from “poor to fair," he 1 said. All of the rural lines, ex- 1 cept the Union Chapel line, had • voltage drops in excess of 5%, the

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I . normal allowance. One big trouble I was the fact that the rural lines were not independent feeder lines, but came off the end of city lines already giving a great deal of power to city users. Bowen then reviewed their recommendations, and stated that a cursory survey of the city revealed that about $215,000 would be needed there. They suggested buy- ■ ing all power rather than generate ing part. Bowen left immediately on completing his speech in order to catch a plane to Chicago. J. Calvin Hill, general manager of the Fort Wayne Division of the Indiana-Michigan Electric Co., was then introduced, and gave the following address: "Three years ago we were invited to sit dcAvn with your city officials and discuss with them the power problem that confronted the city of Decatur. I’m sure their purpose at that time was to find out whether or not it would be feasible to interconnect the Decatur generating plants with our system to provide needed additional capacity and to ascertain whether power could be purchased from us for les money than you could then manufacture it. “It quickly became fairly obvious that the purchase of power from us was more economical than generating it locally because power could bep urchased from us for around 0.95 c, while cost of producing it locally was 1,287 c at the steam plant a'.d 1.922 c at the diesel plant, or cn average of about 1.4 c for sz-th plants. After considerable discussion, vour officials signed a contract to buy 7000 KW of capacity from us in November, 1956, and we proceeded than to construct the facilities necessary on our part to fulfill the terms of the contract. This involved bringing in three separate power sources to the west edge of Decatur with proper switching equipment so that a highly reliable and continuous source of power could be supplied. “Soon after this contract had been consummated, some of your rural customers went to the public service commission and com* plained about the high rates they had to pay for electric service and also about the poor service they were getting. After a hearing here in Decatur, the commission ordered the city to adjust certain of its rates and to improve the quality of its service to these rural customers. At that time the city did not have in its coffers the money necessary to comply with .the order of the commission or to install the facilities necessary to accept the power that was contracted for to be purchased from us. “This was a sad dilemma for the city to find itself in and it was sometime afterwards that we again were contacted to see if we would make a survey of your system and make an offer for the entire system. The survey pointed up some Salient facts about the Decatur utility, most of which you have seen in the papers or (Continued on pa*e eight)

Submit Bills To Increase Jobless Pay Ask SSO Maximum In Unemployment Benefit Payments INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Two hills to increase unemployment benefits were introduced in the Indiana Legislature today, and a Democrat lawmaker called for a legislative investigation of utility rate hikes. Reps. John Kirkpatrick (D-Fort-ville) and Howard Snyder IDSouth Bend) offered bills to raise unemployment benefits from a maximum of $33 to SSO a week for 30 weejcs instead of the present 20. Kirkpatrick said the bill was designed to raise the average weekly payment $lO to sls above its present level. Rep. Paul Pierce (D-Indianapo-lis) offered a bill calling for creation of a legislative investigating committee to probe the Public Service Commission. The committee would have subpena powers. “During the past several years," Pierce said, “inadequacies in the operation of the PSC have been obvious, including the consistent granting of rate increases to large utilities. In this day of spiraling inflation, a rate payer constantly is getting gouged by higher prices and should be protected against the raids on his pocketbook now being attempted by the utility industry.” Earlier, the House Education Committee recommended passage of a bill to raise minimum salaries for many of Indiana’s 34,000 teachers and add an estimated 18 million dollars to the proposed budget. ' The 16-member committee. 12 Democrats and 4 Republicans, voted unanimously that the House act favorably on the bill. The action came after a public hearing on the bill, co-sponsored by Reps. Donald Foltz (D-Clinton), majority floor leader, and J.J. Bailey (DAnderson). „ t , The bill provides for minimum slary increases from 25 tp 50 per cent in three categories. The base for teachers with three or fewer years of college would jump from $2,187 to $3,000; four yars of college or a degree from $2,727 to $4 000, and five years of college Continued on p*se five R. Nelson Snider Is Speaker At Banquet Soil Conservation • _ Banquet Jan. 26 R. Nelson Snider, principal of Fort Wayne South Side high school will be the featured speaker at the fifth annual Adams county soil conservation banquet, at the Berne auditorium, Monday, Jan. 26, at 6:45 p. m. Snider, a well-known humorist and public speaker, will be featured on this year’s program. A graduate of Ball State Teachers College and Columbia university, he has been principal of South Side since 1926. For many years he has been an outstanding leader in educational activities in northeastern 1 Indiana. He is probably best known for his humor evident in his many speaking engagements in this area. One soil conservation district supervisor will be elected at the annual meeting following the banquet. The term of Ben Mazelin, Monroe township farmer, will expire. L. Luther Yager, Berne business man, will act as master of ceremonies for the program, which will include entertainment by John Smith from Auburn. Hie meal will be served by the Palmer House. - Tickets may be obtained from any of the district supervisors, Ivan Huser, Ben Gerke, Richard Scheumann, Herman Bulmahn, or Ben Mazelin. They are also available at the county extension office and the soil conservation service office. INDIANA WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy, windy and cold this afternoon and night with snow flurries north and east this afternoon and extreme north tonight. Locally heavy snow squalls near Lake Michigan. Saturday fair and continued cold except for snow flurries continuing extreme north. Low tonight kerb to- 5 above. High Saturday 14 to 22. Sunset today 5:46 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Saturday 8:04 ata. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Clear or partly ' cloudy. Snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Lows Saturday night 5 above to 5 below sere. Highs Sunday in the 20a, ’ I

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Cuba’s Revolutionary Government Postpones Trials Os 631 Persons

Indignation j Mounts Over Castro Acts 1 Mass Executions In Cuba Deplored; No U.S. Intervention WASHINGTON (UPD—lndignation mounted in Congress today against Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro’s mass executions of followers of ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista. But State Department and congressional sources said flatly the United States would not intervene directly in the island republic to halt the killings. Angry lawmakers called for a United Nations investigation, a trade embargo against Cuba and a ban on tourist travel to the Caribbean vacation spot. Sen. John Sprkman (D-Ala.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was the latest to add his voice to the growing chorus of protest against the executions, which now total at least 238. Public Opinion Shocked Sparkman said, "I hope the Cuban government will take into consideration the fact that public opinion has been shocked in this country” by the murders. He said the United States should use its “very best offices and offers of friendship” to persuade Castro to end the executions. But he added: “I don’t think there is any direct action we should take.” Along this line, Castro said in Havana “200,000 gringos will die’’ if the United States sent Marines to Cuba to curb the killings. No U. S. official has suggested dispatching troops. Chairman Wayne Morse (IlOre.) of the foreign relations subcommittee on Latin American said he expected the United States to name a new ambassador to Cu b a ‘‘momentarily” to convey this country’s concern over the executions. Non-ldterference Policy The former ambassador, Earl T. Smith, resigned after the new Castro government accused him of having aided Batista. Morse made his statement after his group received a closed-door briefing on the Cuban situation from assistant secretary of state for interamerican affairs, z Roy Rubottom. Rubottom warned the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier that this country must adhebe to its traditional policy of non-inter-ference in the internal affairs of Continued on page five Andrew A. Cooper Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Andrew A. Cooper, 62, of 821 North Tenth street, a fireman at the Decatur light plant, died at 2:55 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill since last March with leukemia. He was born in Coleman, Mich., April 12, 1896, a son of Arthur and Evelyn Cooper, but lived in Fort Wayne most of his life until, moving to Decatur in 1954. He served in the U.S. army during 1916. He was a member of the Moose lodge at Fort Wayne and the Legion of the Moose. Surviving are his wife, Alice, to whom he was married April 2, 1924; two daughters, Mrs. Daniel J. Bailey of Decatur, and Mrs. Everett C. Foulk of Fort Wayne; and one sister, Mrs. Don Manter of Huntertown. Funeral services will be Conducted at .1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funqral home, the Rev. Paul IX Parker officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery .©with military rites by the American Legion. Friend may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. - - ~

General Marshall I: A Reported Better Retired Statesman Has Mild Stroke FT. BRAGG, N. C. (UPD — An Army physician said today that Gen. George C. Marshall appeared in ogod spirits and was making satisfactory progress toward recovery from a mild stroke. A spokesman at Womack Gen- , era! Hospital here, said Marshall - “had a comfortable night and apl peared in good spirits this morn- • ■ In an 8 a.m. medical advisory on the condition of the 78-year-old ■ retired soldier-statesman, he said ■ that since Marshall's admission to 1 the hospital Thursday “his prog--1 ress has been satisfactory.” Marshall, the only non - West Pointer ever to reach five - star : army rank, suffered the stroke J Thursday morning at his winter ' home at nearby Pinehurst, N. C., and was rushed by ambulance to the new, multi-million dollar, nine- ! story hospital here. T?' Calls Stroke “Transitory” Col. George W. Powell, chief of ! medicine at the hospital and one ■ of the doctors who treated President Eisenhower following his heart attack, described Marshall’s > stroke as “transitory” and said > there was no paralysis. Dr. Henry D. Mclntosh of Duke ; University Medical School, a spejrialist in circulatory diseases, examined Marshall Thursday night and concurred in Powell’s diagnosis. Powell said Mclntosh is one of several consultants used by the hospital here and that there was “nothing unusual” about calling him in on the case. Powell said he did not anticipate moving Marshall and that he d’d not know how long Marshall would Continued on page five Four Decatur Youths Held Al Van Wert Involved In Theft Os Beer At Wren Four youths from Decatur are being held in the Van Wert, Ohio, county jail on charges of delinquency filed against a 15-year-old and 17-year-old, and charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor to the two 18-year-olds, Earl Shaffer, Van Wert probation officer, said today. The names, released by the probation officer, were Terry Holtsberry, 18, Decatur, and Clarence May, 18, Decatur. The other names wefe withheld by the Van Wert authorities, due to the ages involved. , Shaffer reported that May and Holtsberry entered a beer tavern in Wren, 0., last night and ordered a six-pack of beer. While the attendant was filling their order, the two younger youths entered the back of the building and carried out two cases of beer. It was reported that the 15-year-old youth actually carried out the stolen beer, but that both youths were involved. According to Shaffer, apparently someone tipped off the sheriff’s department of the incident. Authorities arrived on the scene and took chase after the two older youths in the auto, the two younger ran from the scene and split up, going In different directions. One of the Deeatur youths walked from Wren to Decatur byway of the railroad track. He was taken back to the Van Wert authorities |oday by his parents. All of the youths are now in the county jail in Van Wert and are being held there. Two are being held in the jail part of the building, while the two younger ones are being field in a detention ward; — According to tlje Van Wert authorities, bonds have not been set as yet for their release. It was stated, however, that if the parents should arrive today, bonds may be posted. , The hearing is scheduled for Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Shaffer said.

>’• Negotiators Ask Harvester Pact Be Voted Down t e ■■ " Surprise Switch By Negotiators; Vote Today By Council 1 CHICAGO (UPJ) — The United ■ Auto Workers International Har- • vester Council, handed a “do not pass” recommendation by its ne- ' gotiating committee, today was to [ vote on a proposed settlement of 1 the union’s 64-day strike. , The proposal must be approved . by both the council and 37,000 rank-and-file workers at Harvester t plants in six states. The general . membership will vote on the pro- , posal Saturday. L Despite the rejection recommendation, a spokesman for the farm j equipment manufacturing company said he expects both the council, made up of representatives of 33 UAW locals, and the r membership to approve the strike- , breaking proposal. Ratification would put workers . back on the job by Monday at . Harvester plants in Illinois, Keni tucky. Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and California. > The settlement, announced ■ Wednesday following an 18 - hour • bargaining session, would provide ; wage increases of six cents an • hour or 2% per cent, whichever is greater, for all employees retrof active to Aug. 23, 1958. Similar ; annual wage increases would b- > com effective during the life of ! the three-year contract. Duane (Pat) Greathouse, head j of the UAW Harvester Council, 1 said he personally would back the i proposal but accused the company Icf releasing details of the agreeI ment before the full negotiating {committee had a chance to xamin it. “The negotiating committee members resented everyone settling the strike- but themslvs," Grathouse said. William J. Reilly, Harvester’s manager of labor relations, said he believed the settlement would be ratified because it is “the most liberal one the UAW has mad in • ngotiations,” based upon compar- . isons with the automotive and ■ farm equipment industries. I “We do not intend to grant any f more concessions,” he said. E Phil Schieferstein Dies This Morning Former Trustee Os Root Township Dies I Philip L. Schieferstein, 87, prom--1 inent Adams county farmer, and I a former Root township trustee, died at 10:45 o’clock this morning ' at his home, three miles north of ' Decatur on U. S. highway 27. He had been in failing health since last March. He was born in Allen county Jan. 9. 1872, a son of George and Elizabeth Schieferstein. He was first married July 30, 1902, to Ada May Lewton, who preceded him in death Oct. 30, 1925. He was married to Goldie Gaunt July 2, 1935. Mr. Schieferstein was a member of the Zion Lutheran church in this ■ City., M ' Surviving in addition to his wife • aye two sons. Thurman D. Schiefetstein of Root township, and Mari low Schieferstein of Decatur; one ' brother, George Schieferstein of Monmouth; nine grandchildren; i four great - grandchildren; four step - grandchildren, and eight : step - great - grandchildren. One daughter, five brothers and one • sister preceded him in death, jFuneral services will be conduct*; ■ ed at 3 p.m. Monday at the Zwick : funeral home and at 3:30 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church,.the Rev. i L. W. Schulenberg, of St. Paul's « Lutheran church at Preble, officiating. Burial will be in the Deca- • tur cemetery. Friends may call at the funet-al home after 7 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. 1

Temperatures Drop To Zero In State Indicate Cold Wave To Be Short-Lived United Press International A 12-inqh snow was dumped on an Indiana area today in the midst of near-zero temperatures as the season's third severe cold wave swept across the state. A wintry storm swirled across the northwestern tip of Hoosierland, spreading a deep and drifting blanket of white over the area, closing factories and schools and blocking traffic on the Northern Indiana Toll Road and paraL lei free highways nearby, including U. S. 12 and U. S. 20. Temperatures dropped as low ' as zero and may drop to 5 below tonight. South Bend reported a foot of snow fell in about five hours up to noon, and the City Works Board held an emergency meeting to map plans for combatting the storm. Studebaker-Packard Corp, and Bendix Corp, sent employes home when the storm worsened. Some stores also sent clerks home to prevent them from being stranded. The Weather Bureau reported at noon that 3 to 6 inches of new snow might fall in northwestern Indiana within 50 to 100 miles of Lake Michigan this afternoon and tonight. \—J . “Strong northwesterly winds are causing considerable blowing and drifting,” the advisory said, “and driving conditions are becoming quite hazardous." A thin coating of snow accompanied the steady drop of the mercury from above - freezing levels Thursday to wintry readings by dawn. Icy highways were ' blamed for at least one fatal traffic accident, at the southern out- ' skirts of Indianapolis. Temperatures dropped to zero at Fort Wayne, 2 above at Goshen, 3 above at Indianapolis and Lafayette and the Cincinnati area, 4 above in the Chicago area and South Bend. 5 >above at Terre Haute, 7 in the Louisville area and 8 at Evansville. Continued on page the Dulles, Mikoyan Open Conferences To Precede Parley With Ike Saturday WASHINGTON (UPI) -L Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today began crucial cold war discussions focussed on European security and hopes of uniting Germany. German unity and efforts to end the European arms race topped a list of subjects Dulles and Mikoyan intend to discuss in efforts to end the European arms race topped a list of subjects Dulles and Mikoyan intend to discuss in efforts to find some ground for hard-rock negotiation on settling major East-West disputes. The 63-year-old Soviet official, back in Washington after a nineday glad-handing tour of other American cities, was to meet with Dulles twice today and confer with President Eisenhower Saturday morning. Some officials beHeve the round of discussions eventually will lead to a conference of big power foreign ministers on ttie German problerq, including Berlin, and the thorny question of ending the European arms race. As in his first conferences with Dullps two weeks ago, Mikoyan was “picketed” by Hungarian refugees when he called at the State Department. This time there was a heavy guard of 88 uniformed metropolitan police spread out in the vicinity who kept the pickets across the street, half block from the building entrance. The State Department would not comment on reports the police detail was reinforced after the department received word of a plot by 10 students of three universities to assassinate the Kremlin diplomat. Mikoyan arrived early today •from New York.

Rebel Regime To Publicize Horror Crimes Havana Trials Are j Delayed; Matanzas Trials Continue • HAVANA (UPI) — The revolu- ’ tionary government postponed the ? start of “war crimes” trials for 5 631 Havana prisoners today, but " other trials were resumed in Ma- ‘ tanzas under new rules providing ‘ greater rights for accused Batista supporters. v At the same time the regime v launched a campaign to publicize , the “horrors” committed by oust- _ ed President Fulgencio Batista's P army and secret police. , Capt. Jose Gonzalez Rigueral, aide to the commandant at Caba--8 na Fortress in Havana, sid the strt of trials for 631 men imprisoned in the capital had been - postponed for 24 to 48 hours. He - could give no reason. They had ■* been scheduled to begin today. It was assumed the delay was due to new procedures adopted by 1 Fidel Castro’s revolutionists to fa- ' cilitate investigation of the accu--1 sations and speedy up legal pro- , • cesses. 1 In Matanzas, the regional army . commander, Capt. Willim Givis, , sid the trials there were resum- ’ Ing immediately under new legal ’ proedures that will make them longer but will furnish additional safguards for the rights of pris- , oners. Refugees Flown Out ! Executions were, reported Thurs- ‘ day from both Matanzas and Las ' Villas. Galvis said condemned army prisoner Capt. Isidoro Lopez Quintero, convidted of crimes and abuses, was executed by a firing squad at Colon. > At Casilda, near Trinidad in Las Villas Province, policeman Gerarj do Hernandez also was executed , by a firing squad. ’ In Santiago, Raul Castro, brother of Fidel, told United Press five persons had been sentenced at Guantanamo City and their executions were pending. This would bring the total of the executions in Oriente to date to 111. The first of 77 former Batista henchmen who gained refuge in foreign embassies in Cuba were flown into exile in Argentina today with permission of the new government. President Manuel Urrutia said in a television interview today that the revolutionary courts had t been ordered to turn over to the - government documents and dosi siars enumrating th crimes of 1 Batista supporters. i He said the evidence would be f (made public to “correct foreign opinion," particularly in the Unit1 ed States, on what is going on in i Cuba. Publicize Batista Crimes ) Urrutia said relations with the > United States are cordial but Cuba s insists on maintaining its own i point of view. r Cuba was becoming increasmg- ! ly sensitive to foreign criticism of (Continued cn P»8« » r Indiana U. Dean r Meets Parents And Students Os D.H.S. j Clum Bucher, associate dean of . the Indiana University, conferred , with 43 members-of the junior ana a senior classes of the Decatur high school Thursday afternoon. Last evening, Bucher spoke to i many parents of present seniors a who plan advanced schooling. He said, "Expect your child to work e up to his potentiality, do not expect s your child to ke e p up with the, i Joneses.” Bucher spoke of costs, n housing, morale, urged that stus denst make their own decisions, i A coffee hour was held following the meeting, with coffee prepared t by Mrs. Rpbera Chronister, and - served by Betty Smith and Glori* - Wall, seniors. Hugh J. Andrews, t principal, said, “This was one of - our finest meetings of parents in i recent years.” The speaker was introduced by Deane T. Dorwln, K and Andrews presided at the meeting-

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