Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1959 — Page 1

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New Delay In Right To Work Repealer Bill Action Postponed Again Today By Democrat Minority INDIANAPOLIS JUFT)—Minor ity Democrats again postponed action today on their plans to try forcing a “right to work” law repeal bill out of an Indiana Senate committee. Sen. Matthew Welsh, party floor said after a lengthy caucus that |he group voted to take no action today, but the matter will be discussed again Wednesday at another caucus. Democrats hkve repeatedly delayed an effort to blast the bill out of the Senate Labor Committee for a showdown. The first time, they said they were doing so to await the result of a public hearing. Then they said it was because three Democratic senators whose votes were needed were ill. Monday th delay was blamed by Welsh on the illness of Senate President Pro Tem C.W. Martin. It appeared Martin’s illness, expected to keep him out of the Senate the rest of this wek, and anothr public hearing on the bill would delay a showdown at least until Friday, if not later. The hearing Thursday night will feature Methodist Bishop Richard Raines, who will speak in favor of “rWM to work," and Dallas Sells, state head of the AFL-CIO, who will speak against it. Sells to Accept The labor committee invited Sells late Monday, and Sells was expected to accept. A daily legislative bulletin issued by organized labor said the invitation was “an extreme privilege rarely granted to organized labor and we shall accept.” Republican minority floor leader Cable G. Ball of Lafayette said he will ask the Indiana attorney general for an official ruling on whether a proposed “union reform” bill awaiting passage in the House is unconstitutional. Ball said the bill, which contains a “right to work” law repeal clause, may be unconstitutional because it contains more than one subject. The “reform” bill and a separate “right to work” repealer moved past second reading in the House Monday and are ready for a final showdown on passage. Several moves to delay passage of the two bills were beaten back. The most serious attempt to derail the “reform” measure came from Rep. Otto Pozgay (D-South Bend) who objected to “right to work” repealer incorporated into the “reform” bill. His motion to cut the repealer lost out by a 70-24 roll call vote. “House Bill 66 is nothing but a smokescreen,” he said. “When it gets to, the Senate, the repealer provision will be knocked out.” (Continued on page tour) Stepfather Os Local Resident Dies Monday Lemuel O. Lintemoot, 78, retired Western Union maintenance employe, died at his home in Ohio City, O. Monday. Among the survivors is a step son, Raymond McDougal of Decatur. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Cowan & Son funeral home, Van Wert, 0., the Rev. Roy Kaehr officiating. Burial will be in the Woodlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

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Red Cross Chapter Meets Last Evening Fund Raising Head Speaks At Meeting An interesting talk by Mark Jury, Fort Wayne Red Cross, chapter manager, on fund raising, and reports from the standing committees, occupied the Adams county Red Cross committee Monday evening, Earl Fuhrman, chapter r chairman, said today. 1 Jury complimented the local r chapter cm its fine blood program, - and the percentage of cooperation s achieved in this county among those who understand the necesr Sity of a strong blood program. In - Allen county, he commented, only 5 two per cent of the people give r blood, which is then used by all * the people of the county when they need it. j It is quite possible, he warned, _ that chapters like Allen county, j that do not meet their quotas, j may have to institute the credit . system, whereby a person who 1 gives blood gets a nine-month cres dit towards the use of that blood, . which he may give to anyone in his r family or to a friend who needs it i in that period. Others would have to purciftse their blood when need- - ed, rather than have it on hand at ■ a blood bajik. ' If everyone eligible gave blood, J there would be plenty on hand, 1 and donors would only have to give , once every nine years, he added. Rural Flans » { Setting up a rural committee to raise funds for the Red Cross and j Community Fund in the 20 townships of Allen county was a real problem initially, he explained. 1 First, he spent three months gets ting active, interested chairmen - in each township, chairmen who 1 would take the initiative and real--1 ly organize their own townships. 1 He was greatly aided by the home 1 demonstration associations, 4-H workers, addition associations, like ' Stratton Place or Homestead, PTA ! groups, church groups, and rural ’ fire departments. During the cam- , . paign, which should start at least , , a month before the regular campaign, each to.wnship chairman . was called for a report once a I week regularly. 1 The strong fund raising program secured the interest of a number otlocalities in the Red Cross, in- - eluding the Amish groups, worn- ‘ en’s clubs, and certain comnfun- ; ities which had never had first aid, blood program, home nursing classes or other Red Cross train- ! ing. Home Service j The quarterly report oq horde j service for October, November and > December by the Rev. Benj. G. > Thomas showed 37 persons, including 33 on active duty, two veterans r and two civilians were aided dur* ing the period. Twenty-eight cases i of limited service were referred t to other agencies. ■ A total of SBS was lent to two servicemen. - One remittance of $7.60 was repaid, making the account of "this serviceman paid in full. Services performed during the period were: reporting to the military authorities’ concerning emer--1 gency leaves or leave extensions; * birth or death reports; assisting > the wives and children of service- - men for overseas travel; health - and welfare reports; counseling in 1 personal and family problems. r Disasters . The activities of the disaster r committee included: Mrs. Arthur Miller and Mrs. Robert Johnson, i who attended a one-day disaster : training course at Columbia City (Contiiauad on p«<a four)

Storm Girdles Midsection Os Nation Today Swollen Rivers In Ohio, Pennsylvania Continue To Recede United Press Intematiannl A storm belt girdling the nation’s midsection glazed highways with freezing rain, snow and sleet from the southern plains to the mid-Atlantic. However, the precipitation produced no further flood threats to Ohio and Pennsylvania where swollen rivers continued to drop. Flood refugees were returning to their water-damaged homes, and states of emergency were liftd in most strickn communities. The treacherous ice storm broke out Monday night in a band stretching from Kansas and Oklahoma across northern Arkansas and Missouri and into the Ohio Valley and the mid - Atlantic states. * - Up to an inch of snow and sleet coated roads during the night in a 17-county section of southern Illinois, and state police reported highways “very icy and hazarous.” Two to three inches of show blanketed the Oklahoma Panhandle, and freezing rain glazed roads in. the northwest, central and south central portions of the state. A car-truck crash blamed on the ice killed two persons late Monday on Oklahoma’s ' Turner Turnpike. New Cold Wave A wave of cold air pushed into the northern third of the country under clearing skies. Temperatures along the leading edge of the cold air mass skidded 10 to 20 degrees from north central Texas northeastward to the Ohio River and southeastern Pennsylvania. A United Press International count showed 128 deaths blamed on weather-connected traffic accidents, exposure, exhaustion, tornadoes and floods since the outbreak of the winter’s worst storm a week ago. There were 19 deaths in both Ohio and Wisconsin, 14 in Michigan, 13 in Illinois, 10 in both Indiana and New York, eight in Pennsylvania, five each in Kentuckey four in lowa, three in Missouri, two each in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington and one in North Dakota. The Chicago Transit Authority put in an emergency order for 1,000 additional tons of salt to augment its supply which has dwindled to only 500 tons due to recent heavy snowfalls. Transit officials said they started out with a supply of 40,000 tons in November. The Milwaukee sanitation department reported it has spent rriore than half of its $612,000 allotment for snow removal so far this month. The allotment is supposed to last all year. Milwaukee has had 20 inches ,of snow in the past week. Mine Search Delayed In the East, a Pennsylvania mine inspector said it would be several days before large scale pumping operations could begin at Pittston, Pa., where 12 miners were trapped underglround by Susquehanna River floodwaters. Andrew Wilson, the inspector, said super structures will have to be removed from the top of the shafts before foe large pumping equipment can be lowered into the mine. Small portable pumps have been pressed into service, but (Continued on PK» tour)

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Kidnaped Baby Is Found Alive And Well Today 28-Day-Old Baby Is Found, Mother Os Three Arrested NEW YORK (UPD I— Twenty-eight-day-old Johnny Tavarez, kidnaped nearly five days ago, was found alive today suffering from a respiratory infection. A 25-year-old mother of three, who claimed she' had a recent miscarriage, was held as his abductor. Die boy was admitted to file Roosevelt Hospital pediatric ward for treatment of bronchitis. He was reported in satisfactory condition and was expected to remain in the hospital about a week. However, Chief of Detectives James Leggett said Johnny had acute bronchitis and an infection of the fewer intestine. The boy was suffering from a cold at the time of the kidnaping. Johnny's jubilant parents said they were “very, very happy” to have their baby back after more than four days of pleading and prating for his return. Die child was recovered in a apartment only seven blocks from the scene of the kidnaping as the result of a tip from the Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario, police said. Johnny was abducted last Thursday afternoon from the Tavarez apartment on Manhattan's West Side. The confessed kip n ape r was identified as Mrs. Asuncion Ortiz.She told police she had been pregnant since last May and had fest her child by miscarriage within the past 10 days. Thus, she said, she was able to pass off little Johnny, who weighed only pounds, as her own baby. Mrs. Ortiz, a short, heavy set woman, said she fooled her husband, her in-laws, and her own relatives by telling them the baby was delivered by police while she was alone in her apartment. A police spokesman said her husband, Angel Ortiz, believed her story and never suspected that Johnny was the kidnaped Tavarez child. Johnny was positively identified Continued on page five Soil Conservation Banquet Is Held Decatur 4-H Team Awarded Top Honor Four Decatur high school youths shared top billing with a Fort Wayne high school principal at the fifth annual Adams county soil conservation meeting and election at the Berne auditorium Monday evening. Die land judging team of Len Thieme, Fred Lehrman, David Van Horn, and Rex Allison, coached by Bill Journay, of Decatur, won gold medals for their efforts at file 4-H fair. Van Horn is from Decatur, while the other three are from Union township. The boys set a precedent by winning because no team from Decatur had ever before taken top honors. R. Nelson Snider, principal at Fort Wayne South Side, performed an operation on the audience's collective “funny bone” in his talk cm the “Anatomy of Humor." By cleverly dissecting the ancient art, Snider did what most doctors do after an operation—left his “patients” in stitches. A member of Fort Wayne’s Quest club, comprised of the city's most learned fellows, Snider explained that the talk was an assignment the club had given him a few years ago. Snider ran the gamdt of humor from horror stories to religious jokes to topical humor. A true exponent of humor, Snider surprised many of the guests with his brilliant play on words. s uontinueo on pa<« five

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Plan Mothers March On Polio On Friday Mothers March In City Friday Night The 1959 Mothers’ March against polio wpl be held Friday evening beginning at 6 o'clock, it was announced today. The Decatur chapters of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority are sponsoring the march and will be assisted by the Business and Professional Women’s club ‘ and the Junior Women of the ’ Woman’s club. • Mrs. Robert Lane and Mrs. Ar--1 thur Burris are the co-chairmen ' of this year's project, and volunl teer workers are still needed, they ! stated. Anyone wishing to assist in the march is requested to con- ! tact one of the co-chairmen. Apl proximately 100 persons will take 5 part in the collection of funds for ■ the National Foundation. Those, 1 Decatur residents who wish to contribute are asked to turn on their ! porch lights starting at 6 o’clobk I Friday 1 The following have been apr pointed as captains in the drives ‘ Mesdames Bonnie Baker, Janice Schulte, Kate Hess, Gladys Keller, 1 Lucille Stucky, Patty Mansfield, ' Mary Inskeep. Dorothy Faurote, ' Kathryn Morris, Helen Bair. Ruh--1 amah Custer, Virginia Babcock, Ida Holthouse. Laving Affolder. j Bessie Appelman, Gerald Cole and Messrs. Fred Corah and Gedrge t Bair. , Mrs. Robert Holthouse is chair- • man of the Monmouth Mothers' i march and will be assisted by Wili liam Schnepp and Richard Lewton. The collection will be made i by members of the Monmouth P.T.A. 1 In Monroe the Mothers’ March is ■ under the direction of Mrs. Gladys Crownover and she will be assisted by Mesdames Helen Geyer, Clifty Fruchte, Pauline Dick, Dorothy Pierce, Lillian Steiner and Helen Reinhart. 4 High School Choir Entertains Lions “ — Ladies Entertained i At Meeting Monday The Decatur high school choir, directed by Miss Helen Haubold, entertained the members and wives of the Decatur Lions club at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Monday evening with a selection of religious, seasonal, and popular music. Boy Scout Lupe Briones, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Kato Briones, opened the meeting by leading the group in the pledge of allegiance. . Lion Herman Krueckeberg presid- ; ed at the meeting in the absence ■ of the president, Glenn Hili. The ' fine job which the Decatur choir [ does in its annual Christmas coni cert, open house entertainments, and joint recital with the Berne 1 and Bluffton choruses was menL tioned and the group wss given . a standing ovation for its performanbe. j Because of the civic music proi gram next week, the Lions pro- ! gram has been postponed for a week Following the dinner the choir L filed into the room, and standing ! on the stage in the north corner presented its program, which op- : ened with three religious selec- . tions, “Elijah Rock,” “I’ll walk ; with God," and “Fairest Lord ! Jesus.” During the latter number Ron Feller sang the solo part, and Jack Dailey played a trumpet solo. . The mood of the singing then t changed, and the choir sang “The Sleigh” and “Winter Wonderland.” , Puringi the latter number Karen > Robinson sang the solo part, and . Kay Wynn played the celeste, ; while Eleanor Miller accompant led all the selections on the piano. A medley of popular tunes from . the play, “South Pacific,” was sung, by the choir. The program . Closed with the Fred Waring ar- . rangement of “The Battle Hymn t of the Republic.” Kay Wynn and Eleanor Miller played a piano duet during the number.

Submit Bill On Reduction Os Gross Tax Would Restore Rate Effective Prior To Boost During 1957 INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Two Democrats moved today.to reduce Indiana gross income taxes by restoring rates to what they were before the 1957 Legislature raised them. Reps. John Stacy of Lawrenceburg and Rex Minnick of Brazil introduced a bill to repeal the increases imposed by the last Legislature, which hiked the gross income Tax rate for most wage earners from 1 to per cent. Stacy said most Democrats opposed the increases two years ago when the Republic ali - controlled assembly boosted gross income and hiked the state gasoline tax. Also introduced in the House today were a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, and a bill to repeal the chain Store tax. The Senate got a bill by Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, Elkhart Republican whom Governor Handley defeated for the U.S. senatorial nomination last summer, to revise the state election laws governing party nominating conventions. A bill to repeal the widelyviolated 1957 time law survived a move to kill it in the Senate, and the House accepted a majority report recommending passage of a “ripper” bill to wrest patronage in the Indiana Department of Revenue from Handley and place it in the hands of a Democratic-, controlled state finance board. Would Bar Proxies Bontrager’s bill would ban state officers or employes and their families from being convention delegates, bar proxy votes from being cast, and prohibit offering jobs as inducements to secure votes. Bontrager said the bill was his answer to the direct primary system proposed in another legislative bill. He said he believes the convntion system is “by far a better system than a direct primary.” ' Sen. David Rogers (D-Blooming* ton) tried to amend the time law repeal measure by postponing action until 1961 pending a committee study. But Senate members, adopted a motion to table his amendment proposal by voice (Comitinuwl on page four) Mrs. Anna Kukelhan Dies This Morning Lifelong Resident Os Root Township Mrs. Anna Kukelhan, 80, widow of Charles Kukelhan, and a lifer long resident of Root township,; died early this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl C. Fuelling, five miles northeast of Decatur. She had been a semiinvalid for tlfe past seven and one-half years. She was born in Root township Jan. 24, 1879, a daughter of Fred and Amelia Auman-Melcher> and was married to Charles Kukelhan Nov. 26, 1905. Her husband preceded her in death March 6, 1053. Mrs. Kukelhan was a member of St. Peter’? Lutheran church. Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Carl (Esther) Fuelling; six grandchildren; and three brothers, William Melcher of Hoagland, Gottlieb Melcher of Fort Wayne, and Edward Melcher of New Haven. Two brothers are deceased. / Funeral services will be conducted at 1 ;30 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. Petes's Lutheran church, the Rev. Fred Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Road Improvements Planned In County Resurface Mud Pike South From Decatur Blacktopping of 4*4 miles of county roads, and resurfacing of five miles of the Mud Pike road from Decatur state road 124, were outlined by the county commissioners as county projects during the coming year at the regular session held Monday with the county auditor, Edward F. Jaberg, at the court house. It was definitely planned that the Mud Pike road, which runs from Decatur to state road 124 near Monroe, will be resurfaced by the county during the year. The road is five miles in length. New blacktop roads planned for the year include: one mile from state road 116 on county road 24; three-fourths of a mile south of state road 116 on county road 28*4; one-half mile from Ceylon to Geneva, near Rainbow Lake; one mile west of the Ben Eiting corner on county road eight; and one mile on county road seven east of the Picqua road to county road 30. Jaberg stated that Ervin "Bud” Werllng, a representative of the Civilian Building & Supply, Inc., of Fort Wayne, again appeared with the commissioners with plans concerning the proposed county highway garage near Monroe. More changes on the building were proposed by the commissioners and the plans are to be re-submitted by Werling within the next week or two. Boyd Rayer was- certified Monday as the county commissioners’ .appointee to the Adams county alcoholic beverage board. The industrial board of Indiana notified the county auditor that hearings of compensation cases will be held in Decatur at the court house on February 9 and 10. The administration of the workmen’s compensation and occupational diseases laws is the responsibility of the industrial board. ’Hie workmen’s compensation and occupational diseases Continued on page five Mobile X-Ray Unit In City This Week Health Project In Decatur This Week The old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” applies to Decatur area residents who are urged to participate in the Adams county X-ray check for tuberculosis this week. The health project is jointly sponsored by the Indiana state board of health and the Adams county tuberculosis association. No assessment is made to the individual. Little time will be lost by those persons receiving the check-up because only overcoats, metal combs, pens and similar Items must be removed. Minors (under 18) and pregnant women, however, will not be Xrayed. The schedule is: Tuesday, 10 a.m. to noon at Decatur Casting Co. and from 2:30 to 6 p.m. at GeneralElectrip Co.; Wednesday, 8:30 a.m, to 11 a.m. at General Electric Co. and from 1 to 4:30 pm. at Central Soya Co., Thursday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the court house for the general public. Industrial concerns may arrange appointments by contacting either affiliated organization. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing tonight, colder sooth. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 5 to 12. High Wednesday in the 30s. Sunset today S:SB p. m. CDT. Sunrise Wednesday 7:16 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy with little temperatura . change. Scattered snow flurries north. Lows 18 to 20. Highs around 30.

Aims At Reds Dominance Os Entire World Tax-Free 7-Year Plan Advanced At Meeting Os Party MOSCOW (UPD—Nikita Khrushchev launched the Soviet Union today on an historic economic offensive he said would win “millions to socialism” and vanquish the forces of war. Khrushchev was buoyant and jovial as he put forth his tax-free seven-year plan before a cheering Communist Party congress and said it was aimed at ending the cold war by making-Russia supreme over the capitalist world. With it he put an implied Communist doctrine that neither hot war nor cold war is inevitable in the face of growing Communist economic power, and a plan that will increase Soviet production 80 . pet cent by 1965. “The seven-year plan is a decisive stage in the economic competition of socialism and capital- ■ ism,” he said. “This plan will ( greatly influence the entire interl national situation and prove a new t triumph of Marxism-Leninism. Predicts Decisive Change "Our successes in the fulfill- — . ment of the plan will attract to . the side of socialism millions of , adherents,” he said. “They will lead to the strengthening of the forces of peace and the weakening of the forces of war. “A decisive change in favor of socialism will take place in the domain of economy in the world ( arena,” Khrushchev declared. t As a token of the Communist 3 system’s rising strength, he said, , the direct taxes on the people will ’ be abolished in the “near future.” ' He then called for an 80 per cent incrase in overall production to bring Russia abreast of the West. The smiling, wi s e cr a c k i ng 1 Khrushchev mentioned that Rus- ’ sia had rockets and inter continenL tai ballistic missiles/DUt his aims appeared to be to convice the world the Russians and communism would win out by replacing military force with economic power. / ■ The immense scope of the plan — higher industrial production, higher agricultural output, higher wages for all—indicated the Soviet Leadership is banking heavily on uninterrupted peace through 1965. End Taxes in 1965 Russia’s national income will ■ rise 62 to 65 per'cent over last year at the end of the seven-year i period, he told the 1,275 cheering i delegates. It will be almost six • times higher than 1940, he said. And in doing this, he said, ■ taxes will be done_away with by . 1965. Direct taxes on wage eam- ■ ers now contribute 7.8 per cent > of the national revenue under the . Communist system. This meant government opera- , tions including defense and social- ’ Ist benefits would be financed eni tirely by kickbacks from the na- , tionalized industries. He noted the Soviet has CIBMs k and he lauded Soviet triumph in launching the first earth satellite and the first artificial planet. He . added the Soviet Union "has ' everything necessary to bridle the ■ (OonOknued on page four) I t Monsignor Seimetz ■ Condition Unchanged l The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of the St. Mary’s ! Catholic church, .is still on ' • critical list at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne, according to authorities. The Monsignor was admitted to the hospital Saturday following a stroke at the • church rectory. No change in his condition has been reported, although it was stated that he has regained consciousness at intervals, and that he is being fed intravenously. His temperature is reported slightly over normal. The stroke has affected the Monsignor’s speech and has paralyzed his right side.

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