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STRAINED RELATIONS— CharIes E. Bohlen (left), U. S. ambassador to the Philippines, and Assistant Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson discuss the strained relations between the U. S. and the Philippines in a Washington talk. ,

House Passes Bill Boosting Teachers' Pay Would Boost Salary Os 18,000 Teachers Throughout State INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A bill boosting the salary of 18,000 teachers at an estimated annual cost of nine million dollars, passed the Indiana House late Tuesday with only one dissenting vote. Rep. Rex Minnick (D-Brazil) raised the only protesting voice as the Democratic-controlled lower chamber passed the bill by a margin of 92-1 and sent it to the economy-jconscious Senate. Minnick said he favored increased — increased salaries for teachers but felt the hike was too much. The bill (HB 28) set up three categories for salaries and boosted the minimum for-slightly more than half the state’s 34,000 teachers. Minimum annual pay for teachers with three or less years of college would jump from $2,187 to $3,000; for four years of college from $2,727 to $4,00Q. and five years of college or more from $2,727 to $4,200. The bill also provides addition a’ salary hikes based on teach jig experience. Extend Sick Leave The House, by a 95-1 vote, also passed and sent along to the Senate a bill increasing the maximum sick leave for a first-year teacher from 7 to 14 days. But a bipartisan revolt almost squelched Another Democraticsponsor ed school bill. Rep. Jean LaGrange (D-LaPorte) led the assault on a measure (HB 15) which would force consolidation of small high schools. LaGrange attempted to amend the bifi so that high schools of 120 pupils or four classroom units would continue to get the same support from the state they now receive. The proposed amendment lost. 35-58. The amended bill, as passed along to third and final reading, provides that after Aug. 1, 1963, high schools with enrollment below about 200 or 250 would be cut off from state funds. The bill also provides that no new construction of high schools serving less than 120 may be started after the effective date of the emergency act. County School Tax The lower chamber also brought forth for the first time another school bill bound to cause a controversy." It would provide for a county tax of 25 cents per SIOO of assessed property valuation to be distributed to school corporations on a county-wide basis. At present. local taxes for schools are on a township or school corporation basis. T Other General Assembly highlight: —A House bill to rip away from Governor Handley control erf the Indiana Department of Revenue and turn it over to a Democraticcontrolled State Finance Board advanced in the House and was slated for second reading today. —A fair trade bill and one setting preliminary steps for reapportionment were shoved into the calendar for final House passage today. - Continued on page rive INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Thursday mostly cloudy, with some light rain or drizzle likely north and • west by afternoon or night. Warmer south and central portions Thursday turning colder extreme north in the afternoon. Low tonight mostly in 20s. High Thursday 30s north to 40s south. Sunset to- - day 6 P- m. CDT. Sunrise Thursday 7:55 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Friday: Cloudy and colder with rain changing to snow. Lows near 20 north, upper 20s south. Highs low 20s north to upper 20s sooth.

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Agree To April 14 Date For Election Officials Os City Agree To Changes Mayor Robert D. Cole and the Decatur city council have met informally and decided that if the county insisted on postponing the election until April 14, the city would agree to the later date so that the people of Decatur could have the Jchance to vote their own , preferences on the prosoped sale of the electric utility, it was announced today. The city officials also agreed to the added cost imposed by the county in re-printing the city ballots on the question. Mayor Cole continued. “The council did not believe that it was right, but agreed to it in order to speed up the agreement, and settle the question of the date of the election. The city,” he added, “printed the ballots in good faith and believed it was doing the correct thing. The county clerk and the county election board refused to even look at the ballots, count them, or to ask the printer under oath or the city officials who prepared the ballots, if election laws were conformed with. The city had asked the clerk far the election board f. take charge of JHlelection anc print the ballots, and the cler’ ntd not even informed the other members of the election board. “The city has always intended to pay the entire cost of the election from the utility budget, as was done in the Kendallville election, the only precedent under law.” Mayor Cole added. “It has been the position of the city that the election should be held promptly, based upon the information made public by both the city officials, Consoer-Town-send, Indiana-Michigan, and the many other interested parties who have brought out their facts or beliefs concerning the sale,” he said, "The city deplores the delay made necessary’ by taking the matter to court to adjudicate.” The April 14 date was chosen as the earliest possible after the consideration of tire declaratory judgment by the court next Monday during the first day of the February term, the mayor said. Indiana-Michigan insisted that the matter be kept non-political by not holding the referendum at . the same time as the regular pri- ' mary election when Republicans and Democrats are chosen to ; represent their parties in the fall , election. The question of sale j cuts sharply across party lines, | he continued, and should not be , decided on the basis of personal loyalties, but on the basis of what will be best for Decatur. The city’s position has been, and will continue to be, the may- , or concluded, that the people themselves have the right to decide this question in a city election as prescribed by law. Byroade Approved As Ambassador FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — ! Henry A. Byroade, Fort Wayne, . was approved by the Senate Forugn Relations Committee Tuesday ♦b be ambassador of Afghanistan. , Byroade presently is ambassador , to the Union of South Africa. x , 4 ' St. Mary's River - ] Continues To Drop i i The 3t. Mary’s river continues | to recede and now measures 15.50 . in depth, according to the readign taken at 7 o’clock this morn- ■ ing by Louis Landrum, Decatur . weather observer. ] Monday morning at 7 o’clock, ( the river reached its peak, meas- i uring 18.52 feet' A decline of near- ] ly one foot Tuesday morning show- i ed the reading at 17.52. No rain i has been recorded during the past 1 two days.

14TheftsAnd Burglaries In County Cleared Five Teenagers And One Adult Admit To Series Os Robberies Five teenagers and one adult from Allen and Jay counties have cleared up 14 Adams county thefts and burglary cases, according to police chief James Borders, and sheriff Merle Affolder. Two teenagers and an adult, Rollie A. Gillenwater, 29, all of Allen county, are being held in the Allen county jail on second degree burglary charges. Two Jay county youths are being held in Celina, 0., on forged check charges. A third youth from Portland, 15-years-of-age, is expected to be picked up by authorities on larceny charges. Additional charges of grand larceny will be filed against the two youths held in Ce--1U Seven couffty ttfefts and Wee city thefts were cleared up by the Portland youths. Two attempted safe jobs in Monroe and one breakin at Berne were cleared up by the two teenagers and the adult from Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne thieves also cleared up several breakins in Allen and Wells counties. ° The attempted safe jobs at the Adams county Farm Bureau and the Farm Bureau elevator in Monrod, on January 20, were admitted by the Fort Wayne suspects. Only small change and small articles were taken from the business places, but both safes were heavily damaged. The Sunoco service station located at the north edge of Berne, also entered January 20 by the culprits, was admitted. A radio and Wee cans of anti-freeze, stolen by the thieves from the station, were recovered in a field near the station Tuesday by Karl Sprunger, Berne police chief. The three Allen county persons were first apprehended by the sheriff’s department in Berne the night the incidents occurred in the southern part of the county. All of the subjects were questioned by the sheriff’s department and the Berne police at the Berne city hall, but had to be released for insufficient evidence. Seven thefts which occurred on route six December 1, were cleared up by the Portland youths. Small hand tools, tires, wheels, auto accessories - and many other items were taken by the youths with the help of the small green pick-up truck used in the burglaries. Several of the articles were destroyed by the youths and Continued on page five Plan Open House On New School Plans Public Invited To Open House Tuesday The officers of the Northwest elementary school, the Decatur school board, and superintendent of schools, W. Guy Brown, have planned an open house meeting at the Northwest school at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 3. The meeting is open to the public, and is being held for the purpose of inspection by people in the south end of town in anticipation of the planning stages of the proposed south elementary school. The first hour of the meeting will consist of an inspection of the Northwest building, one of the most modern elementpjy schools in this area. After the inspection, Carl Bradley, of Bradley and Bradley, architects of Fort Wayne, will address the group. A question and answer period will be held during which the architect of the new building, the superintendent and the school board will attempt to answer questions from any of the group. Bradley and Bradley, who designed and built the Northwest school, have signed a contract with the Decatur school board for the south school. Bradley recently conducted the Decatur school board on a tour of area schools built or remodeled since the construction of the Northwest school, to point out new methods of construction and maintenance. The new south school will consist of kindergarten through the sixth grade. It is hoped that all people interested in schools will attend the meeting. Officials are open to any suggestions from the public for means of improving the proposed building. Refreshments will be served, at the meeting by the officers of the Northwest P. T. A. * ■ — ""

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Broad Labor Program Outlined To Congress J ' * Today By Eisenhower

Senate Passes Bill To Repeal 1957 Time Law To Permit Hoosier Communitites Set J Own Time Schedule INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Seriate today passed and sent to the House by a bare constitutional majority a bill to repeal the 1957 time law and permit Hoosier communities to have free reign in setting whatever time schedule they wish to observe. The vote was 26-22, with party lines broken and western senators generally voting for retention of the present compromise law and eastern senators for the repeal bill (SB31). In the House, a bill taking the first step toward legislative reapportionment passed and was sent to the Senate by a bare constitutional majority, 51-46. The House bill establishes procedure for a 1960 enumeration of residents. Lengthy debate, however, was largely on reapportionment, since sponsors of the bill (HB8) indicated it was the first step in gaining legislative reapportionment, which tisf Indiana Constitution requires every six years but which has been ignored since 1923. The enumeration showdown provided the first test this session of the relative strength of urban and rural legislators. Urban lawmakers generally lined up against the bill, city representatives for it. Cities would gain from reapportionment enough strength for control on rural-urban legislative issues. Long and strenuous debate preceded the showdown Vote on the time repealer. Sen. Ruel Steele (R-Bedford) contended that the time qustion never could be legislated to everyone’s satisfaction. But he said “this bill is not toe answer.” Sen. Robert Brokenburr (R-In-dianapolis) said passage of toe bil would “eliminate anarchy—there will be less confusion and more harmony if the law is reContinued on page five Traffic Survey Is Underway In City State Engineer Is Conducting Survey A traffic engineer from toe state office of the Indiana highway department is making an initial traffic report on the business district of Decatur which toe city may use as toe basis for a long-range traffic planning program. Mayor Robert D. Cole announced today. A few months ago the city council passed an ordinance requesting the state to install traffic lights at three corners in toe downtown section. At that time the city was hoping to be able to construct the lights itself if the state found that traffic did not warrant a state light. Further study of the problem showed, however, that to build lights that would conform to state specifications as required by law would cost between SIO,OOO and $14,000. The council and mayor then decided that a complete survey of traffic problems, including projected traffic flow, should be made before any large expense is planned. The state highway department sent one of its engineers, Frank S. Vukovits, to Decatur to make the survey. Copies of the survey, when completed, will be sent to all members of toe city council, toe city attorney, and the mayor, for full study before any future plans are made. The new survey will complement the 1949 throughfares survey, toe mayor added. Additional, more complete surveys may be made jn the future when engineers in other departments are available for work in this district. Mayor Cole worked closely with Con binned on page five J * '■ -2

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Historical Society Meets Last Evening State Development Shown At Meeting A series of very interesting colored slides, showing the development of Indiana from the territorial days, and also showing the 20 state parks, entertained and enlightened the members of the Adams county historical society Tuesday evening. Eudolph Holycross, president of the Whitley county historical society, and a teacher at Columbia City high school, showed the slides. The 1959 membership drive started Tuesday night with the signing of new members. The importance of a state museum was discussed, and the necessity for immediate action on the part of the Indiana house and senate to make this a reality by 1966, the 150th anniversary of statehood. Holycross started his slide series with a picture of the first territorial capitol, built in 1800 when William Henry Harrison was governor. In 1804 the poulation of the state made it necessary for the governor to call a territorial legislature, which met on the second floor of the building. Also in the picture was the building which housed the Indiana Gazette and Western Sun, first newspapers in fee state. In 1813 the territorial capitol was moved to Corydon, and the government met in the pictured building there. When Indiana became a state in 1816 the government continued in session there. The governor and house met onthe first floor, the senate and supreme court met on the second floor. During *the "' institutional convention it was hot and sultry, and many sessions were held <j° wn the street under a huge elm tree, known as the constitutional elm. This tree was cut up and sent to historical societies as mementoes a few years ago, but pictures of it as it used to stand, and of the monument now there were shown. In 1824 the capitol was moved ito Indianapolis, and a new building built there to house the government. In 1878 the present state capitol was built. Pictures of the circle tower, with its famous four statues of George Rogers Clark, William Henry Harrison, James Whitcomb, and O. P. Morton; the historical society building and the state library; the World War I memorial and the national headquarters for the American Legion, and other Indianapolis buildings were shown. (Continued on page six) Senate Republicans Rebuff Repeal Move Democrats Move On Work Repeal Beaten INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Majority Republicans in the Indiana Senate today closed ranks and rebuffed the first Democratic effort to pry the controversial “right to work” repeal bill out of committee. ' On roll call vote of 25-23, the GOP bloc firmly turned down a Democratic proposal that the .bill (SB1) be recommitted from toe Senate Labor Committee to the Senate meeting as a committee of the whole at a public hearing scheduled for Thursday night. All Republicans present supported the motion to table the proposal, including several considered in favor 6f "right to work” repeal, and Sen. James Spurgeon of Brownstown, toe lone Democrat against repeal, voted with his own party group. GOP Set Precedent The Democratic strategy was outlined in a caucus. Sen. William Christy (D-Hammond), co-author of the repealer, said Republicans set a precedent for toe strategy when in 1957 they held a committee of the whole nieeting during a public hearing on “right to work.”

Mighty Allas j Thunders Into Skies Tuesday No Shot To Moon, Only Routine Test Os Atlas Missile CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD — The Defense Department said an Atlas missile that thundered into the skies Tuesday night on a I spectacular high trajectory flight accomplished its mission although it fell short of some test goals. Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, | commander of the missile testing center, told reporters the firing of . the 100-ton Atlas was “a perfectly ( routine test.” The Atlas was not intended to fly the full 6,300 mile rqnge of an ICBM. This one was scheduled to go between 4,500 and 4,900 miles. The Atlas firing was so spectacular and its upward climb into the skies so steep that speculation arose as to whether the United States had put up another unannounced shot for the moon or another satellite. But Yates firmly sat on the budding rumors. ' In Washington, President Eisenhower told his news conference today that this nation is making , remarkable progress on missiles such as the Atlas. The President said America lagged behind at first because it gave priority to air-breathing mis- . siles like the Bomarc rather than to ICBMs such as the Atlas. The Defense Department said that “on toe basis of early telemetry the test of the Atlas achieved most of the Air Force objectives” and flew its “programmed range.” t There was no indicatiorf that the , nose cone had been retrieved from ■ the South Atlantic. , To reporters who watched the firing, the missile’s engi ne s seemed to burn longer even than in the launching which put an Atlas into orbit Dec. 18. The latest Continued on page five Judy Rhodes Wins Oratorical Contest Legion Contest Is Completed Tuesday Miss Judy Rhodes, senior, won the 22nd annual Decatur high school-American Legion oratorical contest by telling the role of the American youth, in relation to the constitution, to fulfill this country’s destiny. Bill Bond, who spoke at assembly Tuesday, was ■ named alternate for the county meet, which will be the latter part of February. Miss Rhodes, speaking at assembly Monday, graphically illustrated historical conditions on a “blackboard of time” to depict the background for her conclusions. She intends to continue her education, possibly at Indiana University, majoring in speech correction. Winners of the county meets will then compete in district meets and toe state contest, toe site and date to be decided later. The state winner continues to the national contest. Decatur has won one state meet, finishing second and fourth in others. Other finalists here were Kathleen Schultz, John McAhren. Peter Friederici, and Larry Ritter, all seniors. The pupils were judged on poise and personality, effectiveness of material, and oratorical skill. The judges, all on toe English staff, were Catherine Weidler, Paul Bevelheimer, and Lex Dormever. Connie Baxter acted as moderator for both sessions. ' The local contest was sponsored by Adams Post 43, American .Legion. • ... ..

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Rev. Richard C. Ludwig

To Install Lutheran Pastor Sunday Night Special Service To . Install Rev. Ludwig The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig will I be installed'as pastor of Zion Lutheran church at special services to be held Sunday evening at 7:30 o’ clock. The Rev. Harold I. Haas will preach the sermon and the Rev. Herbert Bredemeier will be the liturgist. The rite of installation will be conducted by the Rev. Harry Behning, who is visitor for the Decatur circuit and who has served the local congregation as its vacancy pastor. Rev. Ludwig has served Trinity Lutheran church of Uvalde, and St. Paul’s Lutheran church of LaPryor, Texas. He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis June 5, 1956, and received his pre-seminary-training at St. John’s College in Winfield, Kan. He served his vicarage at Our Savior Lutheran "church in Detroit and during that year earned a master of education degree from Wayne University. Rev. and Mrs. Ludwig have a two-year old daughter, Denise Sue. Rev. Ludwig's father, the Rev. Paul W. Ludwig, Sr., serves in Gordonville, Mo. The Zion mixed choir will sing “How Lovely are the Messengers,” by F. Mendelssohn, arid the men’s chorus will render “Now Thank We all our God,” by Cruger. Karl Reinking will direct both groups. Pastors of the other Lutheran congregations in the Decatur area will also participate in the installation rite. The visiting clergy, the Zion choirs, and the Zion church council will be included in the proContlnued on page five Plan Organizing Scouts In Monroe Meet Monday Night To Organize Troops A meeting to discuss formation of Cub Scout troops in Monroe will be held at the Monroe Methodist church next Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. Cub Scouting is for boys 8,9, and 10 years old, and Boy Scouting is for boys 11, 12 and 13 years of age. Explorer work for young men 14 and older was recently organized in Monroe and is sponsored by toe Monroe Lions club. Boys who are 8-13 years of age and their parents are urged to be present- at the meeting Monday. Also, boys who will be eight years old in toe next year or so and their parents are urged to be present. Any other families in toe Monroe community who are interested in Scout work are invited to attend this meeting. Scouting has made a tremendous ’contribution in the lives of many boys, the Rev. B. Willis Gierhart pointed out. “This fine program deserves the strong support of toe community. It is hoped,” he continued, “that every family in toe Monroe community that has a young son will avail themselves of this opportunity of sharing in scouting work.”

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Seek To Drive Rackets From Labor Unions Calls For Revision Os Taft-Hartley Act, Protect Treasuries WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower sent Congress today a broad 20-point legislative program designed to drive racketeers out of labor and protect union treasuries from corrupt officials. In a special message, Eisenhowe also called for major revisions in the Taft-Hartley Act to place tighter curbs on secondary boycotts and outlaw coercive picketing. He said enactment of the program would eliminate bauses disclosed by the Senate Rackets Committee and ‘‘protect the public interest and insure the rights and economic freedom of millions of American workers.” Eisenhower said his program would be “complete and effective” and not a “piecemeal” one. Ulis obviously was a criticism of the bill introduced by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Republican congressional leaders have called the Kennedy measure “half hearted.” Enact Criminal Penalties The President said his recommendations would end improper practices “without imposing arbitrary restrictions or punitive measures on the legitimate activates of honest labor and management officials.” The President proposed that Congress enact criminal penalties for such “wilful violations” of the act as “bribery between employers and employe representatives” and the “embezzlemnt of union funds.” “ Th Plresident recommended : public disclosure of union finances i secret ballot election of union ofi ficers and other provisions which • would put union affairs in a "goldi fish bowl” to protect rank-and-file members. . He also masked Congress to change the law which now bars dismissed strikers from voting in ; union representation elections and allow the National Labor Relations Board to determine their eligibility. This Taft-Hartley provision has been attacked as a union-busting device by organized labor. Bipartisan Labor Board He also asked Congress to extend the Taft-Hartley requirement for a non-Communist oath to employers who wish to use services of the NLRB. -He said this would “equalize the onus” of the affidavit provision which now applies only to union officials. The Eisenhower recommendations were practically the same as those he submitted last year in an unsuccessful effort to get Congress to approve an antiracketeering bill. He made one new request in asking Congress to make the labor board legally bipartisan by providing that not more than three members of the five-mem-ber board may be of the same political party. He also requested two other Taft-Hartley changes favored by unions. One would speed up NLRB election procedures by eliminating a hearing where no substantial objections to an election are received. The other would authorize the labor board to certify building trade unions as bargaining representatives without an election under. certain conditions. Asks Secret Vote The President also asked Congress: —To require all unions give members the right to vote in secret without restraint for union officers, provide machinery to insure an accurate count of votes and give all members a chance to be candidates. He also asked a ban on use of union or employer funds for electioneering for union office. —To require unions to observe minimum standards on supervision over the affairs of subordinate bodies and limit such control to. correcting corruption or re-estab-Continued to page S