Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1959 — Page 1

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Propose State Referendum On Direct Primary Bill Introduced In State Legislature For Referendum INDIANAPOLIS <UPI) — Two lawmakers proposed today that Indiana voters indicate in a statewide referendum whether they favor changing from the convention to the direct primary system of nominating candidates for three top state ticket offices. Reps. Richard Wright (R-Win-chester) and Leland Buxton .(IlBlocher) introduced in the Indiana House a bill to put the question up to voters in the 1960 election. The majority, however, might j not rule. The bill merely requires i that the results of the referendum be reported to the 1961 Legislature for any action it may wish to take. “Do yop favor adoption of the direct primary as a means of nominating candidates for U.S. senator, governor and lieutenant governor?" was the referendum question outlined in the bill. Legal Maneuver Staged Also in the House, advocates of legislative reapportionment apparently were behind a preliminary maneuver on the population enumeration measure <HBB* which passed the House 51-46 Wednesday and was sent to the Senate. The maneuver came on a motion to recall the bill to the House floor. The motion was tabled by ' a 56-39 roll call vote. Attorneys said it was a move to prevent opponents of the bill from taking advantage of absences among the representatives at some later time toj-ecall the bill for another showdoWin an effort to reverse the passage action. Only one recall Continued on page five Local Lady's Mother Dies Last Evening Mrs. Mack Fisher, 73, of Angola, mother of Mrs. Ned Johnson of Decatur, died at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday night at the Cameron hospital in Angola after an extended illness. Survivors include her husband, one son and six daughters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Wiecht funeral home in Angola. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional light rain or drizzle and fog tonight, probably changing to .light snow west late tonight. Warmer most sections tonight but turning colder west late tonight. Friday occasional light snow northwest and extreme north and some light rain south and east central, changing to snow early Friday. Low tonight ranging from the upper 20s northwest to the 80s south and east. High Friday 27 to 32 northwest to low 30s southeast. Sunset today 6:01 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Friday 7:55 ~gj m. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries north. Low Friday night 10 to 20. High Saturday 20 to 30. 12 Pages

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Resume Hearing On Right To Work Law Bishop, Labor Head Are Top Witnesses INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Minority Democrats in the Indiana Senate lost another bid today to pull the “right to work” law repeal bill out of committee. Sen. William Christy of Hammond moved to recall a tabling motion which Wednesday prevented the Democrats from taking | the bill (SB1) from the labor comI mittee and resolving the Senate into a committee of the whole to : debate it at length. But Christy’s move was defeated by precisely the same 25-23 margin by which his proposal was i tabled 24 hours earlier. The rebuff apparently meant i that tonight’s resumed public i hearing would be held as sched- • uled, with a Methodist bishop and ' a veteran labor union leader waging a battle of conflicting ideas on the repealer. Bishop Richard »C. Raines, Methodist bishop of Indianapolis, and Dallas Sells, state head of the AFL-CIO, were billed as the top witnesses at a hearing by the Senate Labor Committee. Raines favors the law, enacted by the 1957 Legislature, and Sells opposes it as the representative of thousands of Hoosier union members. The hearing is a continuation of a public hearing begun last ’Diursday night, called by Sen. George McDermott chairman of the committee. Minority Democrats tried in the Senate Wednesday to ram through a motion to have the Senate sit tonight as a committee of the whole to argue the merits of the repeal bill. But Republicans closed ranks and rebuffed the motion 25-23. The rebuff brought charges on the Senate floor this morning from the Democratic floor leader and a freshman senator. “Failure of the Republican majority to permit a full and open airing of the issue before the entire Senate is, in our judgment, a tacit admission that these hearContinued on page five Abandon Attempts At Concert Monday Unable To Obtain Quality Perforator Officials of the Adams county Civic Music association, who had been attempting to arrange a concert for next Monday evening, announced the effort had been abandoned as a quality performer could not be obtained. An attempt was made for the concert to replace the one cancelled here last Thursday. Stan Freeman, noted pianist-humorist, was scheduled here last Thursday, but his travel arrangements were snarled through error in the booking association? and he was unable to reach Decatur, having been erroneously routed to Decatur, 111. Freeman is booked solidly for the entire season and could not be scheduled here at a later date. The next regularly scheduled concert of the fall and winter sea* son is slated to be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center in April.

Defense Head Testifies At Missile Probe Says Full Squadron Os ICBM Ready To Fire By Summer WASHINGTON (UPD—Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy revealed today that the United States will have a full squadron of intercontinental ballistic missiles ready to fire from the West Coast by next July. A full squadron is expected to include 10 of the 5,500-mile Talas ICBMs. McElroy told a full-seale Senate inquiry they will be located at “Camp Cook.” Uris presumably would locate them at Vandenberg Air Force Base which was created from part of Camp Cook north of Los Angeles. . McElroy was the —lead - off witness at the opening of an “unvarnished” missile investigation by two Senate Subcommittees headed by Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.L The defense chief said under questioning that the Camp Cook ICBM station will be a “soft base,” meaning that the missiles will be located above ground. He conceded that should war come some of the missiles might be destroyed in an initial attack by the Soviets—possibly by missiles launched from submarines. Polaris Range Cut McElroy also revealed that the Navy’s Polaris missile has been “downgranded” somewhat in order to speed its development. He said there has been “some sacrifice in range.” • Edwin Weisl, attorney for the subcommittee, said he had been told that the Polaris’ range is now to be 800 to 1,000 miles instead of 1.500 miles as originally sched- . uled.' .• — McElroy did not confirm the figures, saying they were classified. The defense secretary said, however, that the U.S. will have submarines “fully loaded” with Polaris missiles by the fall of 1960. He pointed out that the original operating date for Polaris was in 1963. Under further questioning, McElroy conceded that Russia has an ICBM more powerful than any produced by the U.S. Chiefs Have Reservations He said this helps toe Russians in outer space experiments but not in missile strength, because toe U.S. Atlas has “adequate thrust” to reach any target. McElroy also insisted that toe Polaris will have “adequate range to reach any target that would be assigned to it.”. He reported that five nuclear-powered Polaris subs are under construction. At toe outset of toe hearing, Continued on page five Homer Winteregg Is Head Oi Committee Named Chairman Os County Extension Homer Winteregg is the new Adams county extension, committee chairman elected Wednesday at the annual meeting, reports Leo N. Seltenright, county agricultural agent. Everett Singleton was elected vice chairman, Mrs. Noah L. Habegger was reelected secretary, Wilbert Thieme was elected treasurer and Mrs. Kermit Yoder was elected director. By decision of the committee, toe past chairman, PaOl Yoder, will serve with the officers to form toe executive committee. The all-day meeting was opened by chairman Paul Yoder and roll call and reading of the past year’s minutes; by secretary Mrs. NoaH - L. Habegger. The treasurer’s report was distributed and discussed. Peter B. Lehman, building committee chairman, reported on the cost of the sheep barn and discussed plans for 1959. Township extension representatives reported for their communities and, 4-H clubs. Project committee chairmen reported on activities of their committees. , -.«<« The dates of the Adams county 4-H fair were set oil July 28-29-30., The possibility of a county drainage program was discussed by county agent Seltenright. After considerable’discussion it was recommended that the groups involved be called together for discussion and use their decision to guide what can be done with this program. Discussion was held on a 4-H fair catalog and it was the decision of the committee to continue as in 1958 with a mimeographed listing of rules for 4-H club work. Dates of coming extension events were announced including RoOontrtnued on page five

i . i ii.ii uji yr — i Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 29, 1959,

New Price Support And Control Program Urged By Pres. Eisenhower

Broad Civil ' Rights Bill Is Proposed 15 Senators Back Counter Proposal To Conciliation WASHINGTON (UPD — Fifteen senators today sponsored a broad civil rights bill to back up the Supreme Court’s school integration order with “massive assistance” from the federal government. „ Countering the conciliation plan offered by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, toe liberal measure would offer legal, financial and technical aid in school integration cases. It would furnish advice, grants for school buildings apd teachers, and the attorney general’s legal intervention as needed. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), who introduced toe legislation, said he expected toe “threat of filibuster” to be used against the bill as it was in 1957. With obvious reference to Johnson's proposal, he added: “Then some ostrich-like proposal, burying it|s head in toe sand so that it cannot see toe school problem, offending — and helping—almost no one, will probably be served up as a ’reasons, able compromise,’ ‘a step in toe right direction,’ a means of ’avoiding controversy’ and of preserving party unity. I hope the Senate will not be misled by these maneuvers.” Other Bills Ahead Two other prior civil rights bills already are in the hopper. They are a liberal measure by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) and Continued on page five James F. Parrish Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon James F. Parrish, 82, lifelong resident of Adams county, died of a heart 'attack at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternpon at his home in St. Mary’s township, two miles south of Pleasant Mills. He had been ill since Nov. 2. He was born in Washington township Aug. 8, 1876, a son of Joseph and Nancy Smith-Parrish, and was a farmer in this county all his life. Active in Democratic party circles, he was a former precinct committeeman in Blue Creek township. He was married to Alverda May Dilling Oct. 18, 1901, and she died' March 18, 1935. He then married Mrs. Margaret Dellinger May 17, 1941. Mr. Parrish was a member of the Willshire Methodist .church. Surviving in addition, to his wife are three sons, Henry B. and Lester R. Parrish of Fort Wayne, ancl Robert J. Parrish of Ohio City, O.; three daughters, Mrs. Dwight (Mary) York of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Kenneth (Virginia) Dellinger of Willshire, and Mrs. Buster (Lucille) Blair of San Diego, Cal.; three stepsons, toe Rev. Lawrence Dellinger of Willshire, the Rev. Omar Dellinger of Burbank, Cal., and Kenneth Dellinger of Willshire; 19 grandchildren: eight great-grandchildren; one brother, John Parrish of Washington township, and one sister, Mrs. Maggie Essex of Alymra, Ark. Two daughters, three sons, four brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. Lawrence Dellinger and the Rev. William D. Powers official* ing. Burial will be in Zion cemetery near Honduras. Friends may call at toe Zwick funeral home after 7/o’clock this evening. The, body >vill lie in state at toe church from 12:30 p. m. Saturday until the services.

Negro Boy Not To Serve In Congress Act Embarrassing Northern Democrats WASHINGTON (UPD — Embarrassed Northern Democrats wondered what to do today about a would-be page boy —a Negro—left on the Capitol doorstep by an elusive Chicago congressman. The boy — 14-year-old James A. Johnson Jr. of Chicago — flew to [ Washington under toe impression ‘ that Rep. Barratt O’Hara (D-Ill.) ! had arranged an appointment for ’ him as a House page boy. But all indications were that he ’ would not get the job. Key Democrats denied that O’Hara had the 1 job to give. Chairman Francis E. ; Walter (D-Pa.) of toe Democratic f Patronage Committee said he in- ’ formed O’hara of this last Friday. 1 Walter said that he told O’Hara, before knowing that Jimmy was 1 a Negro, that there was no job ! available and O’Hara should not ’ have toe youth come to Washington. ’ Jimmy, standing on the Capitol ’ steps, said: “The Southern Demo- - crats are against me." ■ : O’Hara, finally contacted after ’ a day arid a half search, said that ’ the whole matter was a “sad misunderstanding.” He insisted that ' the situation could be straightened ! out by March 1 at the latest. • But he didn’t say how. • “This is a case of a—se- ’ quence of unfortunate misunder- • Standings,” O’Hara told United ’ Press International on his return here from Chicago. “I told the ’ boy his appointment had been de- ‘ layed and that he could either wait in Chicago or come back here to wait developments.” He said there was no indication 1 that Southern congressmen were trying to block the appointment “but then I'm not cm toe patron--1 age committee.” Funeral Saturday For Harold Wolfe Harold E. Wolfe, 43, former Fort Wayne resident, died Tuesday at Georgetown. Ky. Surviving are the wife, Beatrice: a stepson, Robert Campbell pf Fort Wayne; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wolfe of Decatur; two brothers. Hubert and Delbert Wolfe, both of ’ Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. Kath- ' ryn Chastain of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at ' 12 noon Saturday at the Klaehn ! funeral home in Fort Wayne, with ■ burial in Covington memorial gardens. Friends may call at the fu- ‘ neral home after 7 p.m. today. Caroline Lehman Dies This Morning Former Local Lady Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs, Caroline Lehrman. 80, a ■ former resident of Decatur, died at 9:45 o’clock this morning at the ■ Cherry Grove nursing home in ' Fort Wayne. She had been in ill L health for several years. She was born in Madison town- - ship, Allen county, Aug. 17, 1877, 1 a daughter of Fred 'and Sophia Wiegman-Boknecht, and was mar- ’ ried to Ferdinand Lehrman Dec. 17, 1899. Her husband preceded ! her in death July 1. 1944. They moved to Decatur in 1938 ■ and Mrs. Lehrman resided here ■ until becoming ill three years ago. ■ She was a member of St. Peter’s ■ Lutheran church. 1 Surviving are two sons, Oscar F. Lehrman of Fort Wayne, and ■ Herbert Lehrman of Madison ' township, Allen county; one daugh- • ter, Mrs. Wilbert (Helen) Steele of Decatur; five grand children, ■ four great-grandchildren, and one i sister, Mrs. Charles Lehrman of s Decatur. Three Sisters are dei ceased. ■ Funeral services will be held ■ at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick ’ funeral home, the Rev. Fred > Droegemueller officiating. Burial ) will be in the Decatur cemetery. i Friends may call at the funeral • home after 2 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

Snow Warning Is Issued For Plains Stales Up To 10 Inches Os Snow In Rockies; Moving Eastward United Press International A new storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountain states today and then whipped across into the plains states, where four inches were forecast for Friday. Heavy snow warnings were out for portions of Kansas, Nebraska, lowa. South Dakota and Minnesota. The Chicago weather bureau said the storm may move eastward into the northern Great Dakes states. A brief but potent snow fall blanketed Utah with from two to 10 inches. Main highways were clogged, causing a rash of minor accidents, and high winds disrupted telephoneand telegraph communications. ■ Five inches of snow fell in Denver, and light snow continued to blow across northern and western Wyoming and western Colorado. Mist Slicks Roads A freezing mist glazed highways from northern Illinois into southern Wisconsin and made driving hazardous. ’■ ■■ Emergency crews in Utah worked throughout the night to 1 clear drifting highways, already made slick by a rain and hail storm. Roads at higher elevations were extremely dangerous. The storm dumped five inches .of snow Wednesday night at Lander, Wyo.; three inches at Eagle, Colo., and two inches at Casper, Continued on page five ! Monthly Business Report By Chamber Employment Pay Gain During Year The Decatur Chamber of Commerce figures on industrial em-ployment-show -an increase-of 276 persons for the month of December over last year’s figures, with the eight industries reporting, according to Fred Kolter, executive secretary. The December figure shows 1,518 were employed duirng December as compared with 1,242 last year and 1.516 In November. The industrial payroll shows a considerable increase reporting $690,500 during December, $440,940 a year ago, and $566,642 during November. Electric meters including rural, increased from 4,001 to 4,002 in December as compared with 3,961 in 1957. Water meters decreased from 2.568 to 2,565 in December, but increased over last year’s figure of 2,539. Gas meters also shows an increase for December reporting 2,420 in the month as compared with 2.410 in November and 2,346 last year. Telephones increased over a year, ago from 6,159 to 6,275 in December, but decreased over the previous month by 11. Direct poor relief from the Washington township trustee increased from 32 cases to 35 cases in December over the November figure, and also shows an increase of three cases over figures from last year. Persons involved, shows an increase of 23 over the November figure, as 140 are now involved as compared with 117 in November, and 130 in last year’s figure. Costs decreased to $1,373 in December from $1,496 in November and from $2,027 recorded a year ago. Both births and deaths increas : ed from four deaths and 38 births during December of last year to 12 deaths and 52 births in December as compared with nine deaths and 50 births in November. Carloadings decreased considerably over both last year’s figures ComMnuad on p«g* flvo

Annual Meeting Is Held By Scouters Dildane Reelected Council President Ward Dildane, Fort Wayne lawyer, was reelected president, and Herman H. Krueckeberg, Decatur banker, was reelected a vice president of the Anthony Wayne Council of Boy Scouts at the annual meeting Wednesday night in Fort Wayne. Also reelected members of the executive board of the council, which supervises scouting in northeastern Indiana, were W. Guy Brown, E. E. Rydell, E. M. Webb. Clarence Ziner and Harold Sprunger. Attending the meeting from Adams county, in addition to those already mentioned, were a number of institutional representatives and district commissioners, including Sylvester Everhart, Dick Heller, Jr., and Don Norquest. 1958 Accomplishments The accomplishments of 1958 and the goals for 1959 were mentioned in the introductory talk by council executive R. L. Van Horn. Under a new regional-executive, Frank Braden, 1 the council has launched the new explorer program, which should have a greater effect on youth than the Cub Scout program; a new scout executive has been added to the staff; a new office building is under construction as a gift from Clarence and Edith B*. Shuster; and a number of other improvements have been made’. South district, which includes Adams, Wells, and Jay counties, was one of the four districts reporting to the council. The membership goal in south district was I 1,266; and 1-Jl2 boys were actually in troops at the end of the year. The whole council fell only ten boys short of its goal of 8,590 boys in scouting. In units the district did not do so well, since the goal was 47, and only 42 were Continued on page five Boy Kills Parents, Brother And Sister 16-Year-Old Farmboy Shows No Remorse ■ i AUBURN, N.Y. (UPD—A high school sophomore who nursed grudges against his family shot and killed his father, mother, brother and sister. Police said he confessed to the slayings early today. , John Jayne, 16-year-old farmboy, apparently shot each of them twice—the second shot a kind of coup de grace. “I didn’t want to see them suffer,” he told police. Jayne showed no remorse, police said, and matter-of-factly told how he came home from Moravia High School on the bus Wednesday afternoon and was eating ice cream in his family’s farm home kitchen with his mother and sister when he decided to kill them. He took his father’s 12-gauge double barreled shotgun and killed his mother Amber, 55, and his sister, Elizabeth, 14. Each was killed by two shots—one in the stomach and one in the head at close range. He found his father Willis. 66. in the barn and killed him in the same manner. waited 45 minutes for his older brother, Willard, 19, to return home and shot him as he got out of his car. He then walked a mile to the neighboring farm of Horace Young and told him there had been an accident. Young investigated while his wife called police. State police found Willard still alive and took a dying declaration from him. He said John did the shooting, police reported. John, according to his confession, bore a grudge against his parents for a whipping he got last summer. He also carried a summer. He also carried a grudge against Willard and believed his sister sided with his older brother.

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Asks Congress Change Costly Farm Program Favors New Federal Support Plan Based ' On Later Prices WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower urged Congress today to abandon “excessively expensive” farm price supports conceived in depression and war, and adopt a new program keyed to prosperity’ and peace. Heart of Eisenhower’s new program was abandonment of price supports based on a parity formula dating back to 1919-14 in favor of new federal supports tied to average market price of immediate- preceding years. The President’s proposal applied to the six basic crops now covered in the mandatory support program — wheat, corn, cotton, peanuts, rice and tobacco. Eisenhower recommended that the secretary of agriculture be given flexible authority to scale I new price supports between 75 and 90 per cent of the average market price of a supported-com-modity during the immediately * preceding years. The President did not spell out this time period in his message. But it apparently would apply to the previous three year®, because this is the time element specified in the new corp program which begins this year. . Concern Over Surplus Underlying Eisenhower's proposal for a new price support and production control program was his deep concern over the mounting surplus of farm commoditiei purchased by the government under the current support program. He stressed in his 1,506-word message to House and Senate that revolutionary progress made in farm production over the last 50 ’ years make changes in the gov- ! ernment program essential. The President also announced a new, but undefined, program of surplus disposal overseas which he said would amount to “using food for peace.” He did not spell —■ out details, but said he is putting into motion an exploratory plan for cooperating with other friendly nations in getting the greatest possible use of farm surpluses in each. — —— — — His proposal was certain to run into stiff opposition in Congress, however. The big Democratic majority has resisted administratipn efforts to lower farm price supports. J" ; ■ Program Has Not Worked - Eisenhower said that by the start of the new fiscal year ndxt July 1, the government would hold more than nine billion dollars in farm surpluses. He said the huge stock of government wheat was so large that if America did not --- harvest one bushel this year, the surplus supply was more than enough for domestic use, export sales, foreign donation and needed carry over for an entire year. "The price support and production control program has not woked,” he said. The President pointed out that, even though the government recovers some of its investment from Surplus disposal, the final cost of fixed price sup- ' ports would be “impressively large.” He objected to the present sup- ‘ port program because most of the federal ihoney involved went to , those storing the surpluses and to “relatively few producers of a few crops.” “It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty," he said. Eisenhower’s message was in ‘ keeping with the administration drive to balance the federal budget in the neighborhood of 77 billion dollars, partially by cutting federOontlnued on page ftve BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—The " Indiana House, after a twohour debate, today passed 59-37 and sent to the Senate a school consolidation bill cutting off state funds after Aug. 1, 1963, to high schools smaller than 120 pupils or four classroom units.