Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1959 — Page 1

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Treat Dulles By Radiation

WASHINGTON (UPt) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, encouraged by his doctors in his fight against cancer! began un;dergoing radiation treatment today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. One of his physicians said he “expected” and "hoped” that the 70-year-old cabinet member would be able to resume at least partial duties provided there were no more complications and he responded to treatment. Dulles demonstrated Sunday night that he is not ready to be counted out. He summoned Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to the hospital for a 15-minute conference on department matters. Herter and other Dulles lieutenants in the State Department assumed a more active role in directing foreign policy affairs to the absence of their chief, who is on indefinite leave. In his first appearance to Dulles’ place, Herter was to testify _ this morning at a closed session of a House appropriations subcommittee on the State Department budget. Dillon To White House At the same time, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon was designated by Herter to represent the department at the usual Monday meeting of the National Security Council at the White House. President Eisenhower prayed for his ailing cabinet member at Sunday morning church, services. He bowed his head as his pastor, the Rev. L. R. Edward Elson, asked God to heal the cabinet bulletins from the hospital have reported that Dufies Spring Opening Set Here For March 14 Decatur’s “Spring Opening” has been set for March 14 by the retail division of toe Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Jackie Miller, of Teen Togs, was appointed chairman. Assisting her wifi be Mrs. Pat Gass, of Gass’ Ready To Wear, and Miss Kay Aiberson, of the Kiddie Shop. The theme for the project will be Easter parade, with many local stores fixing their window displays and store fronts to coincide with this idea. The latest fashions and - styles will be depicted to articles written by the chairman and her committee. These iemlnlne features will appear from time to time in the Daily Democrat. Decatur area residents will have J an opportunity to win prizes during this period preceding paster. The committee will decide later on toe prizes ahd how they will be given. A prevue of toe festivities will , be a style show at toe Youth and Community Center March 10, sponsored by Delta Theta Tau sorority. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight, a little colder north and central. Tuesday mostly cloudy, a little 1 colder. Low tonight 18 to 25 north, 25 to 32 south. High Tuesday low 30s extreme north ' to the 40s extreme south. Sun- j set today 6:22 p.m. c.d.t. Sun- ( rise Tuesday 7:35 a.m. c.d.t. _ Outlook for Wednesday:. Variable cloudiness, quite windy and: warmer with scattered showers. Turning much colder late Wednesday afternoon or night. Low Tuesday night 20s ( north to 30s south. High Wed- , nesday 40s north to 50s south.

STRANDED IN RESCUE ATTEMPT— PoIice officer Thomas Gavin hangs on for his life after he crashed through the ice in a vain attempt to rescue two boys who went through the ice 6f the Muddy River in Massachusetts. Rescuers in the down a ladder before pulling Gavin ou. Gavin recovered one body. After treatment for iipmefsion and cold, Gavin was from the hospital.

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has been resting comfortably and his condition has been satisfactory since his operation Friday for a hernia. . ' Tests on tissue and fluid removed during toe hernia operation revealed that Dulles had a recurrence of toe cancer for which he underwent an operation to 1956. Dulles' physicians have decided against further surgery and will rely on radiation thereapy as the initial treatment. Other methods, including possible injection of radioactive gold, also may be used. The doctors sad that to many such cancer cases it was possible for toe patient to return to work. They said they certainly would not rule out a man of Dulles’ will power and physical stamina. “Time Will TeU” But whether Dufies ever would be able to, resume his full duties remained a question. One doctor told United Press International “only time will tell.” While Dulles could help gu ido State Department policy from his hospital bed by conferring with Herter, it was highly unlikely he would be able to attend a proposed Big Four foreign ministers meeting this spring. Rep. Emanuel Cefier (D-N.Y.) suggested Sunday toe President name Adlai E. Stevenson to succeed Dulles to the cabinet post. He said toe selection of Steven--son, twjp-time Democratic presidential nominee, would show a “genuine bi-partisan foreign policy.” However, most erf the speculation about a possible successor to Dulles centered around men closely associated with either Eisenhower or toe secretory. Besides Herter and Dillon, possibilities mentioned included Gen. Alfred M. Gruentoer, president of the American Red Cross; Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; New York banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. high commissioner to Germany;' and former New York (Jot. Thomas E. Dewey.

Only Three Weeks Left For Assembly

INDIANAPOLIS (UPIV — Rebel Republicans “tantalized” minority Democrats in the Indiana Senate'today by moving wittiin one step of passage a bill to repeal the state “right to work” law. Sen. Roy Conrad (R-Monticella), on© of a hal f ddken Republicans expected to support repeal, called down his own repeal measure on second reading. The bill advanced to third reading and a final showdown stage without discussion or amendment. The action was unexpected. Conrad parried questions about whether he intends to call the bill down for third reading Tuesday. But observers believed he simply moved the measure to the final stage to get the preliminaries out of the way, and that he Iras no intention of calling for a showdown until file rebel Republicans’ demands for strengthening of a pending “union reform” bill has been approved by reluctant Democrats. The Sfcnate reconvened late this morning, two hours before the House was scheduled to be gaveled to order. Perhaps the biggest item on the calendar this week is a Senate session at 2 p.m. c.d.t. Tuesday,

Urges Probe Os Toll Road Commission l INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Another . item was added to the list of vex- , atious problems of the Indiana Legislature today when Rep. Jean .R. LaGrange (D-LaPorte) pre- . pared a resolution to investigate , the Indiana Toll Road Commis- . sion. , LaGrange said he fears that toe east-west toll road in Northern I Indiana is “going broke’’’ and that l if it hits toe financial rocks, toe , state will have to “pick up toe pieces” with* toe taxpayers’ ! money. The commission’s annual report ! showed recently that its income . last year was $1,455,268 short of meeting interest on the huge bond issue of 280 million dollars while in the same period toe Ohio toll highway showed a profit of $1,800,00(1, according to LaGrange. “Indiana already has lost ; $688,000 from its State Highway ! Department funds,” LaGrange said. “The toll road boys said it was a loan to make a survey of , the abortive north-south toll road —a fond dream of former Republican Gov. George N. Craig that never materialized. “That money has never been repaid to the state and now the commission claims it can’t authorize repayment because the bondholders won’t stand for any ex- ’ penses except for the present eastwest toll highway. , “What right did Governor Craig have to take such a large sum of money from Indiana taxpayers and gamble it on a north-south pay road that is as dead as a dodo? How do we know whether there will be anAther raid on state funds with the east-west road finances slipping as they are now?” LaGrange charged that Craig’s toll road commission authorized huge salaries for Big Republican < politics bossing toe pay road and that Governor Handley’s toll rpad , commission upped those, salaries. LaGrange said an inquiry is necessary before it is too late and toe state is compelled “morally” . to take over the east - west pay highway. — : > —

a committee of toe whole discussion on a watered down “union reform” bill which the House passed week before last. A small group of Senate Republicans who favor repeal of “right to work” served notice last week that if the minority Democrats expected their help in repealing RTW, they will have to accept a much stronger “reform” bill than the one the House approved after numerous amendments toned )t down to a form said to be ao ceptable to union leaders. Democrats have been quoted as saying a strongly pro-labor element in their party won’t sit still tor “punitive” legislation against unions. If toe Senate Republicans, who control that house by a 27-23 margin, stand firm in their demand for teeth in the “reform” bill, it was virtually certain toe measure will go back to a reluctant House, setting the stage for a real political showdown.

Floodfighters Relax

WEST TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI> — Exhausted National Guardsmen' -and volunteers who saved this city from record Wabash River flood crests began to relax today, but efforts to contain the river continued downstream. The flood-swollen Wabash hit a second crest Sunday, forcing a 12foot bulge in a weakened sandbag levee which stands beteen the river and West Terre Haute. About 250 National Guardsmen and volunteer workers shared’ up two weak spots in the bulge and prevented floodwaters from breaking through and inundating the city. » The river level began receding at the rate of about an inch an hour Sunday night from the record 24.9-foot crest which pounded the five-block long makeshift levee nearly all day Sunday. More than 1000 workers maintained a patrol along the sandbag dike for signs of weakness and continued to pile straw on the pile of sand and burlap in an effort to prevent seepage. Grade School Closed Two emergency pumps operated at full blast in an attempt to

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> .— 7 r* 1 Third Polio Shot - 112 Killed By I At Hoou Thursday Kenh|ckyA|K | “The one-two punches have been applied jo the polio virus, but toe | ■■ knock-out blow is still forthcom- ||{H|!lfl?) fIfAC ing,” announced a spokesman for IIIUIQIIVI I II W the Moose Lodge 1311. Decatur, in urging all Decatur area residents SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPl)—Six to receive the third shot of the children and V their grandmother, Salk polio vaccine at the lodge who was# babysitting with them, Thursday. were killed Sunday when they When the inoculation program were trapped in a fire that swept started in June, 260 persons heedi their tiny four-room concrete ed the call. This number increased tdock home. to 400 for toe second dose in July. A seventh child, Queen Esther At least this many are expected ♦itman, 6, escaped the flames to take advantage of the third, or when her grandmother, Mrs. booster shot, next Thursday dux- Mary Reeyes, 58 Ordered the ing the hours of 3 and 7 p.m. £*» £ a J ert neighbors and call * ...... , . .. , toe fire department. After the first two shots toe es- The mo o ier> Mrs. Amelia Parkfective increase o. anti-bodies er> 32 was visiting in South Bend must be sustained by the booster when the flames broke out shot. The vaccine, acting as an Killed besides Mrs. Reeves were antigen, produces, in effect, the her grandchildren Wilbur Parker, polio virus in a weakened condi- 10; Terry Parker, 8; Harold Pittion. The body reacts by supplying m an, 7; Laurel Pitman, 3; Jepnantibodies to the blood, which ov- n i e Pitman, 18 months awfcjrfary erwhelm the introduced virus. Elizabeth Pitman, 6 merithrf. Even when the virus is completely The surviving child told authorannihilated, the body continues to ities that hot coals that dropped produce the antibodies. This as- from a stove touched off the sures the vaccinated person pro- tragic blaze. tection against subsequent attacks Deputy Coroner F. Dale Nelson from the introduction of the virus said Mrs. Parker had been marthrough different channels. Thus, Tied twice and resumed the name the importance of the booster shot, of her first husband after partThe first two are merely tempor- ing from her second, ary, while the third tends to give Flvp In Kentucky ~~ more lasting effects; PIKEVILLE, Ky. (UPI) — A For those who lack transporta- mother and four of tion to the Moose home, call 3-4113 her five children were burned to and arrangements will be made, death when fire destroyed their An assessment of $1 will be asked home Sunday. of all those inoculated who can as- - -— ford it. In other cases the Moose _ < |\| 1 , v & u vS JSL .T” present Playlet To , Persons under 46, the age group >l, , ■ ■ f • , determined most susceptible by a H|CtQnfa| \()CI6IV National Polio Foundation survey, •• ■*<*«« ivwi are asked to take these withouj A playlet entitled “Reminisfail. Older persons are also wel- cences „ wm presented by th e come, but the stress is on this ageJ Decatuf Catholic high schoo i for group. Immunization, it must be Adams county historica i soremembered, is singular. Because ciety at tb ‘ e February meeting children are vaccinated, Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 8:30 p.m. at chancesof the parents contact l 8 the Decatur Catholic high school toe ymis is not appreciably lea- auditorium sened. The child, although vaccin- program wi jj star t one-half ated. may still * hourlater-toan -usual .to allow who is no- affected by the dis members to attend special Lenten bu capable of transmitting it. The evening oniy way to be sure is to be vac- q{ school wiu cinated. Then toe odds °f contact- presented by eight memb ers of mg polio are greatly lessened. junior class _ one freshmant Persons must submit to a pre- and one gj r i f r om the third grade, liminary check to see if they have Sister M . Gregory, C.S.A., will dia cold or fever, before taking toe j-oot the program, shots. This is usual procedure to | Two musical numbers will be safeguard the individual. This P resented by the junior-senior mixcheck will take place at the Moose ed chorus, and two numbers will home, immediately prior to inoc- be presented by the high school ulation. choir. A piano solo will also be given. President Gerald Durkin stated Crash Proves Fatal that this would be the third m a _ — D . , series of programs on the history l 0 OCry Resident of Adams county schools. Pleasant _ / 1 Mills dad Berne have already givInd - jUf I .'— Rafa e| Mur- en thdi . programs and county supgo, 56, Gary, died in a a erintendent Gail Grabill has given hosipta a 1 • the history of toe county supervifi si°n of schools. Several other day afternoon on U.S. 41 in bcher- , , , . , . er vill e schools are already scheduled fer future historical programs.

lower two feet of water in the Upriver, a huge ice gorge area immediately behind the levee threatening the Wabash Valley recaused by seepage. The minor mained stationary and state offiflooding forced a grade school to cials said no attempt would be close until at least Tuesday be- made to blast the floe loose unless cause of water in the heating unusually heavy rains or a sudden plant. cold snap should occur. The flood emergency moved Handley inspected the 12-mile-southward with the crest of the long ice jam between Lafayette muddy, winding Wabash. Delphi In a helicopter. , Authorities fear a sudden break F in the gorge would send tons of tachment of National Guard icp m bridge and building wrecking onslaught down the river - Engineers said the jam apin? icV66. The move w&s 3t j i vw* l-ij:_ t the request of the sheriff following an inspection by National shiftin * 111 rold Guard engineers. ' temperatures. Handlev sent a detachment of 64 Meanwhile, the Wabash climbed ° Jo to slightly more than 20 feet at o Mount Carmel, 111, downstream SSSSSS *"»» West Tefre Haute, flooding remrorce the levee. hundreds of acres of bottomland. J..A 25.5-foot crest is expected to a major highway between Mount reach Hutsonville, 111., by noon Carmel and Princeton, Ind., was and move cm to Vincennes, Ind., expected to be closed by floodi Tuesday. waters as the river climbs to beDuring its week-long rampage tween 23% and 24% feet Thursday, across Northern Indiana, the Wa- In Illinois, the ice-jammed Kanbash cla med at least three lives. kakee R iver backed up behind a forced about 2,000 families from three-mile ice gorge southwest of 1 their homes and caused an esti- j o i ie t, sweeping away a number i mated 45 million dollars damage, of summer cottages.

» Breakins Reported By Police, Sheriff The city police and the sheriff’s departments reported today thaj each department investigated breakins over toe weekend. City police conducted their burglary investigation at the Donut Shop on Monroe street, while the sheriff’s department was called to the Werner Hoffman home on route two to report on a breakin incident. The sheriff's report shows that sometime between the hours of 7:30 and 11 o’clock Saturday night, thieves entered the Hoffman home by breaking a small window pane in a door on the south side of the home to gain their entry. While toe thieves were in the home, evidence showed that a bedroom wax entered and a ladies purse was ransacked. Nothing of value was reported taken from the purse. While roaming through the home, two rolls of summer sausage, valued at $7.75 were taken frorfc the refrigerator. A beagle pup Tvas also reported stolen from the home. No value was given for toe pup, but a description was listed. The pup’s description is as follows: female —eight inches high, four months old, all white forefront,black over back, all foet white, brown over top of head and lower hind legs, answer to the name of "Trixie.” The city police reported that the Donut Shop on Monroe street was entered by thieves sometime between 5 o’clock Saturday night and 3 a.m. today. The report shows that ..entry was gained into the building on the south side. Articles taken consisted of three cartons of cigarettes valued at $7.50. 1 Both the" city police' and toe sheriffs departments are continuing their investigations.

Gas Tax Hike Seems Doomed 1

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhowatr’s proposal far higher federal taxes on gasoline and avia ti o n fuel appeared boomed today irL light of congress sional opposition. S— Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee apparently sealed the doom rs the President’s request. The Arkansas Democrat said he saw no chance for any tax increases this year. Mills’ statement was significant because all tax legislation must originate in his committee and i tax proposal could not get verj far without his support. Eisenhower asked Congress in his budget message to increase the federal gasoline tax from the present 3 cents a gallon to 4Vfe cents. He said the boost was needed to keep the special fund, which the interstate highway program, in the black. Cites Tax Need Without the tax boost, the Chief Executive estimated the fund would be 241 million dollars in the red by June 30, 1960. The hike would bring in an estimated 690 million dollars next year. But Mills said in a speech before the tax executives institute Sunday night that when the fund was set up Congress ordered a study of costs and maintenance of the highways to better determine ‘‘an equitable basis for the distribution of the tax load.” Launch Move To Settle Reapportionment Issue INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - A bipartisan move to settle the legislative reapportionment issue by amending the Indiana Constitution was launched today in the Senate. Sens. Von A. Eichhom <DUniondale) and Willis K. Batchelet (R-Angola) introduced a joint resolution calling for a two-year study of reapportionment, submission of proposed constitutional amendments to the 1961 and 1963 Legislatures, and a voter referendum in 1964 if the two consecutive Legislatures ratified die proposi* tions. ' i■ V-’/

Big Three Send Note To Russia - ■ - ■■■

WASHINGTON fUPD — The United States, Britain and France today sent notes to Russia proposing a broad four-power foreign ministers conference on Berlin, Germany and European security. The notes, delivered in Moscow early today left toe time and place of toe meeting open for further negotiation. But American officials said the Western powers preferred that toe conference be held in Geneva or Vienna in late April or early May. It was proposed that the East and West German advisers sit in as consultants.. The U.S. note said that the meeting should “deal with toe problem of Germany in all its aspects and implications” as raised in recent exchange of notes between the West and Russia. Danger to Feace The Western powers again emphasized that “they reserve the right to uphold by all appropriate means” their access to Western Berlin. They again rejected Russia’s proposal that West Berlin be made a free, demilitorized city. Russia’s threat to turn over its occupation responsibilities in West Berln to East Germany m May 27 was denounced in the Western notes. “The danger to world peace inherent in this Soviet initiative is evident,” toe United States said. - Wthout being specific, toe Western Allies rejected Russia’s proposal of Jan. 10 that a 28-nation ’ German peace conference be held • in Prague or Warsaw within two months.

‘‘Unless there are compelling reasons of which I am now unaware, I cannot vote to increase the gasoline tax to keep the fund on a pay-as-you-go basis prior to the submission and analysis of the cost allocation study due on Jan. 3, 1961,” he said. Aviation Gasoline Taxx The President also proposed to increase the tax on aviation gasoline from 2 cents a gallon* to 4% cents, and to impose a new 4% cent levy on jet fuels. The purpose, he said, would be to make users pay a greater share of airway costs. Mills said the administration had provided no details on reasons for the Increase or how airway costs were to be split between military and commercial users. He said the Commerce Department was making one study of national transportation policy and the Senate Commerce Committee proposes another. “Here ggain it would appear to be inappropriate for any increases to be made in the tax on aviation gasoline until considerably more information is available as a result of these studies,” he said. , i'.L »*:. V* -o .y;_ , ,/cSs®

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. W. C. Feller, Zion Evangelical & Reformed) THE MIXED-UP PEOPLE Read Psalm 46 We may describe some acquaintances as being ‘mixed-up* people. What we probably mean is that their minds waver, they are pulled in opposite directions and are unable to choose, they are bewildered, and unstable in their ways. They have no real ground for faith, and no deep convictions with which to meet the changing flow of circumstances and events. They are easily swept away and cast down by unfavorable circumstances. The writer of the above Psalm gives a rather vivid sketch of utter confusion, occasioned by natural convulsions, and the rage of hostile nations. There are many events and circumstances in life that might cause people to become ‘mbted-up’. There are • raiamjtiyg, trials, tribulations and temptations which may come in some form or other to any and all or us, for no one is immune from difficulty. But God is greater than all of life’s difficulties and is able to deliver us from them all. We need not be a ‘mixed-up’ people, if we turn to Him who is our strength, a help in troubles most readily to be found. All other strength is weakness. God is all-sufficient and equal to all emergencies. He is 1 ever near, our sympathizing, faithful and real help. He will help us to bear trouble, to improve it, and to survive it. Trust Him.

Sjx Cento

— The Allied tt&tes were hammered out by representatives of the Big Three and West Germany who met here earlier this month. They followed a broad procedural outline already agreed to be their foreign ministers. The West proposed the meeting despite the fact that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is under • treatment for cancer. Dulles Worked Out Strategy Doctors have expressed hope that Dulles may be able to return to at least part-time duty. But it was not immediately clear who would represent this country at any Big Four meeting if Dulles was not able to attend. Before Dulles was stricken, he made a flying trip to Europe to work out strategy that would be pursued after a reply to today’s note is received from Russia. “ The United States said, that it did not propose to discuss in detail now the Russian proposal for a German peace conference. This was partly because U.S. views , had been made plain before ami “partly because in its view neither polemics nor insistence on toe prior acceptance of any limitations on the means of reaching satisfactory solutions can be helpful," the United Stales said. The United States noted that it had “repeatedly expressed its conviction that toe continued division of Germany constitutes a danger to European security and .world peace.” , “This danger Is heightened by • toe persistent and flagrant denial i to toe East Germans of human 1 rights and fundamental free- > dorrts,” toe U,S. note added. American officials said any agenda for the proposed foreign ‘ ministers’ meeting should b» broad, with neither toe East jam the West having a right to impose a veto on specific subjects to be discussed. (Continued on page three) No Ruling To Date In Ostrander Case The motion filed by Charles W. Ostrander. 39, to withdraw his plea of guilty to not guilty for the rape ease be was convicted of 4# 1956, has not been ruled upon by the Adams circuit court. Judge Myles F. Parrish, informed the Decatur Daily Democrat today. The motion filed by Ostrander to change his plea, has been set for hearing and ‘determination on March 2 at 9 o’clock. It was erroneously stated in Saturday’s edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat that Ostrander had been defiled his motion to change his plea. The error was brought about when it was learned that Robert S. Baker, the public defender for the state of Indiana, refused to represent Ostrander in ■ the hearing. Baker stated to the Adams circuit court that in his opinion, the motion filed by Os- ' trander was wholly without merit and that he would not appear to represent him in eourt. Ostrander was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison on May . 23, 1956. for rape of a young girl under the age of 16 years at gunpoint on April 12 of the same year.