Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII.-No. 42,

No U. S. Softening Over Berlin Stand

WASHINGTON GIFU—The administration is determined to prevent Russia from exploiting the illness of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to gain an advantage in the Berlin crisis. President Eisenhower made it clear Wednesday that there will be no softening of the Allied position in the face of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s statement that there would be war if the Western powers tried to shoot their way through a Communist blockade. Diplomatic quarters 'interpreted Khrushchev’s statement as a Russian attempt to throw a monkey wrench into Allied strategy and present the West with a new challenge while Dulles is hospitalized. The President told his news conference that Khrushchev ‘’must be talking about shooting to stopes from doing our duty.’’ Eisenhower added: Carry Ont Responsibilities "We are not saying that we are going to shoot our way into Berlin. We say we are just going to go and continue carrying out our responsibilities.. .so that if we are stopped it will be somebody else using force.” The President also emphasized that Dulles will continue to help guide U.S. foreign policy from his hospital bed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he starts undergoing radiation treatment for cancer Friday. Eisenhower declared that he wants the 70-year-old secretary to remain in his cabinet, post as long as he feels able to carry op., He said he knew of no one,who could equal Dulled “w>towi and knowledge” in foreigh affairs. Pointing' out that the doctors . * ' ■T I, . Lovellette Pleads Guilty To Charges Melvin Lovellette, 21, formerly of Decatur and recently a Fort Wayne resident, one of five men implicated tn aver 150 burglaries in and near Decatur, pleaded guilty to second degree burglary in the Allen circuit court Wednesday afternoon. Judge William H. Schannen, the presiding judge, continued the case so that Ohio authorities could prosecute him in that state. Lovellette was being tried for the burglary of Block’s Drug store in Fort Wayne Dec. 31, 1957. Lovellette readily admitted to the Fort Wayne burglary and 40 to 50 house breakins in Decatur, along with breakins and burglaries in surrounding communities and states. The penalty for second degree burglary carries a sentence of two to five years in prison. According to J. Byron Hayes, Allen county prosecutor, Lovellette’s defense counsel stated that Lovellette was only 19 when he was mixed, up in a series of misdeeds and was apparently not the leader. Since that time, Lovellette married and is the father of one child and had been working in « restaurant to support his family. It was also brought out that Lovellette was the product of a broken home and that he only went to the eighth grade in grammar school, and for the past few years has had to make his own way. No late reports have been given about Charles R. Johnson, 26, of Fort Wayne, or Dick Carpenter, 21, of Decatur, two other members of the five man burglary ring. Johnson has appeared in court twice, but no arraignment has been fixed. A public defender was appointed at Johnson’s last appearance in court to represent him at the trial; "

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have assured him that Dulles' disease has not affected “his heart and his head,” the President said that the secretary’s mind and spirit are "what we want.” N® Strategy Change - Eisenhower said that there would be no change in the Western strategy for a Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting because of the cabinet mjmber’s illness. He said that hSfed Dulles decided during a tair Tuesday at the hospital thattthe meeting should go “right- ahead.” In answer to another question, the President said he had given no thought to appointing a “chief negotiator” to substitute for Dulles if the Russians agree to the proposed foreign ministers’ meeting. He said that Dulles’ views are well known and he is backed up “by able men of his own choosing ” For that reason, Eisenhower said, it is not likely there will be any need to hold the foreign ministers’ conference in the United States because of Dulles' present disability. County Oratorical Contest On Friday Decatur high school meets Monmouth high Friday at 1 p.m. in the Decatur gym, but not in basketball. Two contestants, one from each school, will match oratorical skills in the annual American Legion oratorical contest. Adams post 43, American Legion, sponsors the annual event and will again present the prizes. First place is sls, while the runner-up receives $lO. Five local “judges” will be on hand to select their choice as the outstanding orator in the Decatur area. The public is invited, but especially those interested in speech, English or history.

Ike Economy Pleas Heeded

WASHINGTON (UPD—Congressional. Democrats decided today to give in to President Eisenhower’s economy ideas by cutting back their airport aid program. But Republican Sen. Norris Cotton (N. H.) described Eisenhower's delicately-balanced budget as a “house of cards...bound to be toppled sooner or later.” He said the “spending juggernaut” was “rolling through the halls of Cangress completely unchecked.” Key Democrats forecast the House Commerce Committee would trim the Senate-passed 465 million dollar airport plan. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.), who earlier sponsored a 437 - milliondollar version, was said to be 1 ready to urge the committee to cut it to 380 million dollars. That still would leave the Democratic measure 180 million dollars m®re expensive than Eisenhower's proposal. Democrats felt GOP charges that the program would throw the government into the red in fiscal 1960 were punctured by the fact that it would cost only 15 million dollars more than the President's in the next 16 months. Democrats, apparently feeling the sting of Eisenhower’s “spendthrift” charges, already have cut ' 100 million dollars from the airport plan in the Senate and 875 1 million dollars from an omnibus ~ housing bill in the house.

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana Democratic leaders split down the middle today on whether the rest <frd billion-dollar biennial state budget should be sharply trimmed. Most leaders of both parties in the Legislature, however, appeared to be resigned to the fact that i if Indiana is going to continue adequate services to its inhabit- • ants, there can be precious little . budget paring. The call for sharp reductions • came from Democratic state chairman Charles E. Skillen and Democratic State Auditor Albert A. Steinwedel. Skillen apparently favors slashing more than 80 million dollars from the appropriations bills. But House Speaker Birch Bayh, a Democrat, stood firmly for ap- , proving the budget as it came out of committee this morning for House study, and Senate floor i leader” Matthew Welsh also appeared resigned to a huge budget. "Unrealistic”: Handley On the Republican side, Gover- ' nor Handley described as “abao- ‘ lutely unrealistic” this morning a propopal by House Democrats to 1 add more than 30 million dollars to give state school aid a hearty 1 upward boost. ! Handley’s own budget commit- ’ tee proposed a budget of • $1,041,000,000. Democrats contend , the budget still stands at that round figure, even though a big

’ Other congressional news: Labor: Chairman John L. Mc- ’ Clellan (D-Ark.) of the Senate ’ Rackets inquiry was scheduled to introduce a labor clean - up bill. ’ This came on the heels of approv- ’ al by the Senate labor subcom- ,) mittee of a milder Democratic j measure sponsored by Sens. John . F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sam . J. Ervin (D-N. CJ. Senate Republicans said the subcommittee ' action did not kill off Eisenhow- ‘ er's sterner labor reform propos- • ais. ' Farm: Sen. Frank Carlspn (R- --’ Kan.) introduced a bill to' curb ’ the nation's huge wheat, surplus. ’ He conceded it might raise the ! price or bread by boosting the ’ cost of wheat. But Carlson sajd his measure would save taxpayers - at least 400 million a year by cut- ■ ting the wheat surplus, the num- ■ ber one farm problem. ’ Civil Rights: Northern liberals ; were assured that the first conI gressional civil rights hearings I will concentrate on the strong t proposals they support rather 1 than more moderate measures. ! Taxes: The House Passed by voice vote a bill to increase taxes ; on the life insurance industry by -200 million dollars a year. If it t becomes law it would bring in 545 - million dollars in taxes on- 1958 5 insurance income. The bill wa# s sent to the Senate where early hearings were planned.

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increase was made in school funds, contingent on the good . health of the state general fund surplus. Hdndley said he would veto the budget bill “if it jeopardizes the 5 state’s financial condition.” . ; Rep. Cable G. Ball, House minority leader, called the indefinite appropriation for teachers “a cruel hoax, nothing hoax, completely unrealistic, a snare,” He said he favored no “iffy” plan because “we want to be positive, the amount appropriated is actually paid.” The flurry of comments on state spending came just before the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole shortly after 11 a.m. c.d.t. to study the two budget bills. State party chairman Charles E. Skillen urged the lawmakers to pare the budget by about 83 million dollars and bring it down to the same size of the present twoyear budget. » State Auditor Albert A. Steinwedel advised the House as it met to tackle the budget problem that revenue estimates for the biennium beginning next July 1 were too optimistic. Steinwedel said he figures the general fund surplus will be pared to 7 million dollars by July 1, 1961, in contrast to State Budget Committee estimates that the surplus will be 45 millions. Says Revenues Lower Steinwedel said he based his estimates on the fact that revenues in the present biennium have been lower by millions of dollars than the estimates made by i budget-makers two years ago. “It is my hope,” Steinwedel said, “that the legislators will take appropriate steps to reduce the budget and avoid raising taxes for already overburdened taxpayers.” Skillen emphasized he did not issue an advisory but merely commented when asked his opinion. He said he felt the budget is none of his business. I Voter Registration Clarified By Clerk Richard D. Lewton, Adams county clerk, stated today that several phone calls at the clerk’s office . have indicated that some question 1 on the registration of voters for the special city election which is : to be held April 14 in connection ; with selling or maintaining the I city electric utility, still exists. : Lewton stated Tuesday that Ap ril 6 would be the last day for reg- ‘ istration of voters at his office for persons of Decatur who will vote ' in either the special city election ' on April 14, or for persons who ’ will vote at the primary election I May 5. Included in today’s announcement is that the clerk’s office will remain open several nights before 1 the deadline of registration April [ 6. The office will also remain open the last day until 9 o’clock to regI ister voters. An announcement will • ’ be given at a later date as to what . nights the office will remain open. Lewfon stated today that anyone who was registered for the gener* 1 al election in November of last year, will still be eligible to vote in the special city election and the primary. Anyone wjio is not certain if he is registered may contact or call the clerk’s office.

Lenten Meditation • r ‘ ■ - (By Carroll Myers, Minister, Church of Christ) “THE PILL” Read 1 Samuel 16:6-13 ■ . It seems that pills are those things which all of us are required to take from time to time. Many times pills are difficult to take. This* pill that Samuel was called upon to take by annotating little David was a difficult pill to take. Even today we t-- have pills that must be taken. Christianity calls upon us to take some pills and many times we rebel f6r various reasons. One pill that must be taken according to God’s, word is the pill of Believing, or Faith in God’s word. Another pill that is required to be taken is the pill of repentence or turning away from sin. Another pill required by God to be taken of man is the pill of confessing his faith in Jesus Christ as his personal savior. The above pills are quite readily taken by most people. But the pill of baptism is like a large horse pill, very difficult for some to swallow. Also the pill of Christian living is quite difficult for persons to take. Let us always look to God’s ' for whatever prescription he makes lor us. ■ .... / ■ ' ...

St. Mary's River I Is Below Nine Feet J * Ist. Mary’s river, reaching near I its normal level, according to weather observer Louis Landrum, |s now at 8.95 feet. No further . Jnow or rain was added to yesterJay’s total of .18 inch. 11 ■— — : i Ida Van Buskirk > Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ida S. Van Buskirk, 74, of 1 Monroeville, died Wednesday at ‘ the Parkview memorial hospital * in Fort Wayne, where she had f been a patient since Feb. 3. She 1 had been ill since the death of her husband, S. O. Van Buskirk, 15 < months ago. 1 Mrs. Van Buskirk was born in 1 Ohio but lived in Monroeville most ’ of her life. She was a member of ’ the Methodist church, the WSCS of the church and the Order of ] Eastern Star. ♦ : Surviving are a ll son, Lloyd: 1 daughters, Mrs. Helen Ball and < Mrs. Mary Clem, all of’Monroeville; five grandchildren; four . great ■ grandchildren; a brother, . jCharles Bittner of Preble, and four gisters, Mrs. Lizzie Bieberich and Mrs. Lona Ehlerding of near Decatur. Mrs. Emma Goldner and Mrs. Marie Zaugg of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be heldgt 4 45 pan. Saturday at fethe Marquardt funeral home, Nfenroevilk, and at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church, the Rev. Walter Meachan officiating: Burial will be in.the Monroeville IO OF cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p.m. today. Eisenhower Visits Mexican President AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD — President Eisenhower left behind drizzling rain and snow today as he winged across the Rio Grande into sunny Mexico for a two-day informal get-acquainted chat at gay .Acapulco with Mexico’s new president, Adolfo Lopez Mateos. Eisenhower hoped to be able to trade his heavy topcoat and hat for short sleeves when he arrived at the glittering Pacific resort for a leisurely lunch aboard Lopez Mateos’ yacht. The President made an overnight rest stop at Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin to break his 2,200 mile journey from Washington. Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty said Eisenhower was "up very early today.” He appeared rested and jaunty as he turned and waved in the chilly rain to a crowd of base officials and enlisted men. While he was traveling southward, the President put his good neighbor policies to work in a purely domestic political field. He provided a ride home aboard the Columbinelll for Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, and the Democratic congressman fro mthe Austin district, Rep. Homer Thornberry. 12 Pages

$2,300 Judgment Returned By Jury 4 judgment of $2,300 was handed down in the Adams circuit court late Wednesday evening to a six-year-old girl from Allen county for injuries sustained in a two car collision on the Paulding road near Fort Wayne Dec. 9, 1956. The original case seeking $5,000 was venued from the Allen circuit court last July to the Adams circuit court, and was brought to trial before the petit jury Tuesday. The complaint case was Gail Lynn Bower, by Aria Bower, her next friend, vs Bernard E. Kramer, of route seven, Fort Wayne. The jury returned its judgment of $2,300 after deliberating for nearly four hours. Judge Myles F. Parrish, said today. The verdict was returned at 12:30 o’clock last night. In the original complaint, the plaintiff stated that the defendant’s auto failed to have the auto lights turned on when the collision occurred. Also stated in the com-

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ATLANTA (UPD— Authorities, alerted through a freak set of circumstances involving a bomb scare, boarded an airliner today and arrested a passenger suspected of leaving behind in New York a suitcase full of narcotics. A federal Treasury agent and local police entered the Capital Airlines prop-jet viscount shortly before 3 a. m. and took into custoday a man identified as Richard Alston, 44, a Negro who gave two addresses, Jamaica, Long Island, N. -Y., and in the Harlem section of New York City. Alston was booked at local police headquarters on suspicion of possession of narcotics. Agents said he would be returned to New York, where federal authorities Wednesday night seized a bag left behind in a baggage check resulting from the bomb scare. The case would not have broken, Capital officials said, had they not received the bomb warning and had the owner not failed to reclaim the bag. Atlanta Police Capt. W. M. Riley said no baggage check was

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WASHINGTON (UPD—Six experts today'forecast “major breakthroughs" against heart and blood vessel diseases in the next 10 years which “will save thousands of lives.” —They said “extraordinary advances” in the past decade foreshadow even greater progress in the next. The prediction was made in a “report to the nation,” first of its kind, by the American Heart Assn, and the National Heart Institute, both just 10 years old. The six specialists presented papers on “a decade of progress against cardiovascular disease” at an hour-and-a-half meeting attended by congressmen, government officials, physicians and health authorities. Dr. Leroy Burney, surgeon general of the Public Health Service, sounded a note of caution in commenting on the papers. He reminded that heart and blood vessel diseases kill “more people than all other causes of death combined and disables courtless cithers.” Attack Heart Ailment Burney said he has “no doubt that our researches will one day begin to reduce the terrible statistics of heart disease.” But he said he was “unable to predict when or at what rate,” and added: “I caution against the expectation of a sharp drop in the death rate.” Dr. Howard B. Sprague, lecturer on medicine at the Harvard

Amstutz Baby Dies Wednesday Afternoon Christy Marie Amstutz, three-day-old greatgranddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Amstutz of 1045 Elm St. Decatur, died at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne Wednesday at 12:35 p.m. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Amstutz, of Fort Wayne, the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Amstutz, New Haven, and Mr. and Mrs. William Kitzmiller, Fort Wayne, and the other great-grand-parent, Mrs. Lillian Arlin, Jackson, Mich. Friends may call pt the E. Harper and Son funeral home in New Haven after 7 p.m. today. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the funeral home, the Rev. Henry Mueller officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery, New Haven. plaint by the plaintiff, it was alleged that by reason of the careless and negligent, acts of the defendant, the plaintiff was thrown violently about in the car, thereby suffering a fractured cheek bone in the region of her right eye, the loss of one. of her front teeth, a punctured lip and a concussion of the brain, rendering her unconscious, together with serious and extensive shock. It was also alleged that the plaintiff was taken to a hospital where she remained for a period of one week, and was then released to her parents. Continuing, the complaint stated that since the date of the accident the small girl suffered persistent and continuing headaches together with dizziness and had been unable to completely resume her normal activities in terms of play and exercise with her friends. It was also stated that the plaintiff , has continual night--1 mares and that the shock received, in the accident had not entirely worn off.

: found in Alston’s possession, but 1 that two small holes in his ticket ■ indicated a claim check had been • attached and latet removed. ; John Anderson, Washington public relations man for the airline, I said the bag contained 51 packl ages of heroin, which he estimatr ed would be worth about a half ■ million dollars on the illicit marl ket. > Investigators searched Alston at , the terminal and said they found 1 in his clothing a number of objects normally used by practicers ■ of voodoo, along with a switcht blade knife and a slip of paper ; bearing an Atlanta telephone > number. ■ . They found no narcotics, how- ! ever, and the only luggage Alston : had with him was a small valise containing magazines. Officers said the “voodoo” del vices consisted of particles of ■ rabbit bones, glass and sand, I wrapped in a cloth and tied. One of the objects, known locally as . “mo-joes,” was tied around Al- ; ston’s waist with a string.

■ Medical School, said the past 10 i years had produced new know- , ledge “through which thousands . of lives have already been saved.” “These advance s,” Sprague . said, “have brought us to the • threshold of even greater develi opments, of decisive breakthroughs that will make possible i the large - scale prevention of ; these diseases that now cut down t so many people in the best years . of their lives.” White Among Panelists 1 In addition to Sprague, the pani elists were: ’ Dr. Paul Dudley White. Boston ■ cardiologist and adviser to Presi- ■ dent Eisenhower. I Dr. Irvine H. Page, director of research of the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, proses- . sor of medicine at the Boston i University School of Medicine. Dr. Michael E. Deßakey proses- • sor of surgery at Baylor Univer- . sity College of Medicine, Houston, : Tex. i Dr. Robert W. Berliner, associate director in charge of research of the National Heart Inst titute of the Public Health Serv- ' ice. r Here is a topical summary of • what they reported: i Diagnosis — improved diagnosI tic tools, Sprague said, have made ■ it possible to apply new treat? • ments to many more persons. He cited as an example “the image ■ intensifier, which gives a brilliant I view of the beating heart on a

Veteran GOP Congressman Reed Is Dead WASHINGTON (UPD — Rep. Daniel A. Reed, who served longer in Congress than any other Republican member, died today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was 83. Reed, who was also senior GOP member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, had entered the hospital 14 weeks ago » for treatment of an infected foot. Reed liked to describe himself as an old-fashioned Republican. He was strong for high tariffs and low taxes. His views on these matters brought him into sharp conflict with President Eisenhower, who was the seventh president to occupy the White House since Reed entered Congress in 1918. His seniority gave him the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee when the Republicans won control of Congress in the November, 1952, sweep that put Eisenhower in the White House. It was in this capacity that Reed in 1953 tried to put through a quick income tax cut that Eisenhower opposed. He also tried to block a six-month extension of the excess profits tax that Eisenhower requested. Reed lost out on both tax issues, but only after a bruising battle in which he accused the administration of going back on its campaign promises. He finally gave in when administration leaders in the House, employing unusualy parliamentary tactics, called for a-Rpusc vote on a move • to by-pass his ’committee. A year later, Reed worked hand ijX-gJqve with the administration in putting through a mammoth, tax revision bill which overhauled all of the nation’s tax laws. Reed had to relinquish chairmanship of the committee when • the Democrats took control ot Congress in 1955. But he soon found himself battling the administration on another issue — the President’s liberalized trade program. He was one of five committee members who voted against sending the administration tariff cutting bill to the House floor. He led an unsuccessful floor fight to weaken it. • Reed was a strapping six-footer who once played and coached football at Cornell. He was born on Sept. 15, 1875, at Sheridan, N.Y. He attended public schools and was graduated from Cornell with a law degree In 1898. He stayed on at Cornell for several years to coach the Big i Red football team. Reed was elected to Congress from New York's'43rd District on Nov. 5, '1918; six days before the end of World War I. INDIAN*' WEATHER Fair and cold temight. Friday lair with modeaaJtt temperatures. LoW tonight® below to 5 above north, 5 to 12 above south. High Friday 18 to 25 north. 25 to 30 south. Sunset today 6:26 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 7:32 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly cloudy and warmer with chance of ‘ snow snorth portion and rain - south probably beginning Saturday night. Low 10 to 20. High mostly in the 30s.

fluorescent screen with considerably reduced exposure of the patient to X-rays.” Surgery — “phenomenal progress" in this field, according to Deßakey, has made 4t possible to cure “many conditions which only a few years ago were considered hopeless.” Aneurysms, the ballooning-out and thinning of an artery waH, can now be removed. Deßakey also cited replacement of diseased arteries with Nylon, Dacron, Teflon, and other synthetic substitutes, and open heart surgery made possible by heartlung machines. High blood pressure — Five categories of drugs have been de- ’ veloped for control of hypertension. Dr. Wilkins called this “one of the greatest medical advances of the past decade.” Prevention — Dr. White said the "toughest problems in preven- ■ tion are still unsolved.” But he added that “there is no reason to doubt...that we can protect our ■ young and middle-aged males by ■ diet, exercise, medicines and other measures from the ever-in-creasing threat of coronary heart disease.” ’ Arteriosclerosis , — Dr. Page said science now knows that this ■ malady, of which atherosclerosis' ■ is one form, "is not merely an ■ inevitable result of aging but that 1 it affects all age groups and may ■ well be reversible.” The disease : is a common cause of heart ati tacks and strokes.

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