Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 43.

Living Costs Inch Upward

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Living costs crept upward slightly in January but remained below the i all-time high, the government reported today. Higher prices for beef, veal and poultry outweighed decreases for fresh fruits, pork, coffee, eggs and milk, resulting in a slight overall increase for the month. The Labor Department said its consumer price index, based on 1947-40 price average' as 100, edged up .1 per cent from December. . The January index reading of 123.8 was below the record 123.9 posted last July and again in November. Government officials have said living costs now are relatively stable and will continue to show stability in the coming months. In the past nine months, living costs have fluctuated within a range of .3 per cent. Ewan Clague, the government’s No. 1 price expert, said this was •’the longest period of narrow ■

Two Decatur High Seniors Honored Two Decatur high school seniors have reached the finals of the 1958-59 national merit scholarship program and have been awarded certificates of merit. Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high school, announced today. Terry Marbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marbach of route five. Union township, and PJtiyllis Schmidt, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P. Schmidt, now of Lincoln, Neb., received the certif- 1 icates of merit. 5They stand among some 10,000 young people in the entire United States, representing about .6 of one per cent, of the high school senior class. \ Some 700 of the finalists .will be named merit scholars this spring: students and schools will be notified March 15, with public announcement to follow. More than 478,000 students were tested. TTie scholars, and the colleges they have chosen, will share in $3.5 million in merit scholarship funds of feted by organizations and individuals. In addition the names of the winners are sent to 1,500 colleges, universities and other scholarshipgranting agencies for consideration for thousands of other scholarships offered outside the’merit scholarship program. Previous experience indicates that finalists will be offered some $2.5 million worth of freshmanyear scholarship assistance from —these sources, in addition to the awards 'made to those selected as merit scholars. Two former Decatur students, Ted Schrock at Indiana University, and Ralph Thomas at Wabash, now receiving scholarships won through participation in the merit scholarship program. One-third of the Decatur senior class took part in the tests last spring and this fall, anti most of them placed very well. INDIANA WEATHER Fait 1 , not quite so cold north tonight Saturday fair and a little wanner. Low tonight sere to 10 above north, 8 to 18 south. High Saturday in the 20s. Sunset today 6:27 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Saturday 7:30 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Fair to partly cloudy and cold north with snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Increasing cloudiness and warmer south. Low sero to 10 above north to 10 to 20 south. High 10 to 18 north to 25 to 32 south.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Robert Jaeger, assistant, St. Maryjs Church) Thoughts from Psalm 118 (119) “For thy precepts are my delight, thy lawsm y counselors:” says the Psalmist. If we can say this and really mean it we will have attained a close union with God. Yesterday the first book of Samuel reminded up that the Divine Physician offers many prescriptions for the health of our souls. These prescriptions are not difficult to discover nor. impossible to follow. They have been revealed to us and can be found in natural law and in the divine positive law, the Ten Commandments. They have also received a perfect interpretation in the teachings, in the very life of our Lord. , We may think that lack of submission to God’s laws is a sign of our freedom. How foolish! To think that we cin somehow stretch that freedom outside of the boundaries set out of divine i necessity by the Perfect Free Agent Himself. All who seriously seek salvation, who really want union with God, will do well never to forget what is required. “If you love me, you will keep My word.” . '

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’ stability” of the 19 years in which , the government has been making . its monthly price report. The department also reported t that take home pay of factory . workers hit an all-time high for , January and showed the first improvement from year-ago levels since July, 1957. A factory worker with three dependents took , home $78.70 last -ahonth compered with $74.37 a year earlier. But January takehome pay was less than in December because of a seasonal cutback in hours and because erf the Jan. 1 increase ip social security taxes. The price report meant a penny an-hour increase for 82,000 aircraft workers. There was no change in the wages_of 1,250,000 auto workers, however. 4? Clague predicted that the coming month would see no change in the recent pattern of stability. The price index he said, will be "up a tenth, down a tenth.”

Some Offices Close For Monday Holiday Some city, county, state and federal offices will remain closed Monday in observance of Washington’s birthday. No mail deliveries will be made by city or rural carriers Monday, although the post office lobby will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 o’clock for box holders. Special delivery will be delivered and the pickup at outside boxes will be made at the usual holiday time. Others to be closed include the Adams county court house and the First State Bank. Offices that will remain open are the city hall, the Decatur library, and the Decatur license bureau. Retailers Discuss Program For Year The retail division committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce discussed the program for 1959 at a meeting in the chamber office Tuesday. Farris Bower chairman, said the- main discussion centered on the spring opennigs, which will be On Saturday, March 14. I All retail members of the chamber will participate, with store fronts being cleared and decorated to coincide with the theine, "Easter Parade.” Local residents are asked to register at any of the stories for gifts which will be given away on March 14 and on the Friday before - Easter. - ——- ■—' ’ The committe furthered outlined procedures to assist Qecatur businessmen in their bid for a successful year of operation. National Girl Scout Observance Planned National Girl Scout Week — March 8-14—will be observed with special preparations according to plans made at the Decatur Girl ' Scout association meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. D. > Burdette Custer. Group church attendance, special scout activities, and presentation of the Ji’liette Law program at the Youth and Community Center Friday, March 13, at 7:30 p. m., are on the observance schedule. All Brownie, Intermediate, and senior scouts will participate in the program at the center, which will be open to the public. Details of every phase of the Scout activities will appear in the Daily Democrat' prior to the function.

Two Youths Given . Suspended Sentences The remaining two young men of a quartet of Fort Wayne youths involved in the breakin at the Marathon service station at 13th street and Nuttman avenue late Monday evening, appeared in the Adams circuit "court Thursday afternoon and received suspended one-year sentences for second degree burglary. David Hensley, 19, and Ronald Keith Shuler, 17, both Os Fort Wayne, the remaining two of the quartet apprehended in connection with the service station breakin, pleaded guilty late Thursday afternoon to second degree burglary filed by local law enforcement officers. Two others, Arthur Terlosky and Robert Gilbert, also of Fort Wayne, appeared earlier this week in mayor’s court to charges of disorderly conduct. Their cases were continued. The case against Shuler was transferred from the juvenile court to open circuit, court because he will be 18 years old in about a week, according to Judge Myles F. Parrish. Robert G. Smith, local attorney, was appointed by the court as pauper attorney to represent the two young men. Judge Parrish gave several reasons why the suspended sentences were handed down as the disposition in the cases. Some are the following: both are first offenders: Shuler is married and the father of a small child and his wife is pregnant; Hensley is the eldest son in his family and his parents depend entirely on his support his father is disabled and his ihother suffers from a heart disorder: Hensley is a two-year veteran in the U. S. Marine corps and received an honorable discharge; and many others. Judge Parrish stated that the reason the two were given suspended sentences at the Indiana state farm instead of a state prison was that under the statute for persons undeii 21-years-of-age, who have not been committed for a felony before, they may be committed to,the state farpt. Both young men wege placed on an indefinite probation to the court and were ordered that full restitution be made to the owners for the damage caused by the pair: They are not to participate in any drinking, and costs of the action were assessed. No fine was listed. All four youths were picked up by the city police Monday night for the breakin, one was apprehended in the building, one was seen leaving by -a window, and the other two were caught about a block away. All were held in the Adams county jail for questioning until their cases were heard.

Cyprus To Join NATO Alliance

LONDON (UPD—The strategic island of Cyprus will take its place alongside the West in a new alliance with NATO members Greece and Turkey, Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff said today. Averoff disclosed the planned alliance shortly before departing for Athens with Greek Premier Constantin Karamanlis after initialing the agreement granting independence to Cyprus. ~ Newsmen asked him whether Cyprus would join the Balkan Pact linking Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey for mutual defense. "I would say no,” he replied, “because a new alliance is to be signed between Greece, Turkey and Cyprus and I think that this is quite sufficient.” Such an alliance would bring the new Cypriot nation firmly into the Western camp. During the four-year underground war against Britain on Cyprus, there had been a strong Communist movement on the island and Russia made the most of it. Youths Denounce Makarios Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes still was confined to a London clinic where he is recovering from injuries received in a plane crash that killed 15 members of his delegation. A medical bulletin Announced today that lie would be discharged next week. The Greek Cypriot bishop of Kitium, acting ethnarch of Cyprus flew home today to prepare for the triumphant return from exile of Archbishop Makarios, who was expected to become the new nation’s first president. He left London's airport as reports reached here from Nicosia of a demonstration by TurkishCypriot youths who shouted “Kill Makarios" and denounced the Zurich pact giving Cyprus its independences Police and armed troops broke up the demonstration and oogan-

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 20, 1959.

Indiana House Adopts Budget Increased Over Committee’s Proposal

Hear Testimony On Chicago Mobsters

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Rackets Committee heard testimony today that Chicago mobsters once “pushed” the records of singer Tommy Leonetti to try to make them hits. Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy brought this out after a juke box operator testified that Jgey Glimco, a Chicago Teamster official, asked him to put a Leonetti record in the top spot on his machines. Kennedy said the committee had interviewed Leonetti and learned that he had at one time been managed by someone with underworld connections. But he quoted the singer as saying that he did not know mobsters were pushing his records. He said Leonetti told the committee that their efforts were unsuccessful at any rate. Leonetti said he was not making any money during that period and later changed managers. Kennedy said. Leonetti now has several goodselling records including a hit recording of "Moonlight Serenade.” Said Rejected Request It has long been rumored that the underworld had a financial interest in certain singers and had used their juke box connections to push certain records. Testimony about Glimco’s interest in Leonetti’s records was given by Robert L. Lindeloff of Skokie, 111., a juke box distributor and president of the Music Operators of Northern Illinois. Lindeloff said Glimco, president of Teamster Local 777, requested that he ask other members of the association to put a Leonetti record in the top spot on their machines. Lindeloff said he rejected the request. Kennedy has said that Glimco’s name would figure in the committee’s current investigation of juke box racketeering in the Chi-

’ I . ized a patrol along the line div id- ' ing the Greek and Turkish Cypriot ; communities in Nicosia. Thousands of Greek Cypriots ’ flooded the streets of the island villages Thursday to hail the inl itialling of the tripartite agree- : ment freeing Cyprus, but most ■ Cypriots awaited Makarios' return before celebrating. Terms of the agreement signed by the prime ministers of Greece, ■ Turkey and Britain were withheld until Monday , when they will ■ be released in the capitals of the nations involved. Seek American Aid Informed diplomatic sources said Cyprus would be an independent nation in from nine months to a year and that one of the first acts of the new republic 1 would be to seek American foreign aid. They said the island also would request membership in NATO. Reports indicated Britain already was taking steps to free the 36 Greek Cypriot EOKA underground prisoners held in Eng- . land and the more than 1,000 . EOKA prisoners serving minor sentences in detention camps on Cyprus. ' In addition, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan pledged speedy return to the island of all political ' exiles. Returns Next Week ' The most prominent exile is Makarios, who represented the Greek Cypriots at the London talks. He announced plans to return to the island next Week. Makarios has been mentioned most prominently as tiie first Cypriot president. The agreement, still to be rati- • fled by the parliaments of Greece, I Turkey and Britain, grants Briti ain perpetual ownership of two military bases cm the island. Britain, Greece and Turkey will : join to guarantee the integrity of • the new republic.

cago area. Lindeloff also testified that juke box operators in Chicago and neighboring areas are forced to buy up to 50 per cent of their records from the Lormar Distributing Co., identified as a syn-dicate-controlled firm owned by Charles English. Lomar Charged More Lindeloff answered questions with such obvious reluctance that committee members several times if he were frightened. The witness denied this but Kennedy said Lindekrffs memory had become "awfully blank” in the last six weeks. He said Lindeloff talked freely in earlier interviews about of Chicago mobsters to take over juke box and pinball machine operators in northern Illinois. Lindeloff said Lormar charged juke box operators 5 cents more for records than or the distributors. Asked why he did business with Lormar, Lindeloff said the company might take away seme of his juke box locations if he didn't cooperate. But Kennedy said Lormar was controlled by the syndicate and asked Lindeloff if that wasn’t “the reason you’re afraid?” "I would not like to make that Jtatement,” Lindeloff replied. : ~ Hear Pranno Threat Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.) commented that some of the juke box witnesses seemed to have “much more discretion than they have valor” when they appear before the committee. The committee heard testimony Thursday that Chicago .operators were forced to pay “tribute” to the Commercial Phonograph Survey Co., owned by Michael Dale, and other trade associations in order to do business. Columbia City Mill Destroyed By Fire COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPD— Fire destroyed the sawmill of Holmes & Co., Inc., a hardwood lumber firm, with loss estimated at upwards of $65,000 Thursday night. It was the second time that David Holmes and his son, David Jr., I owners of the mill, had been burned out in less than five years. In 1954, flames destroyed the Holmes lumber business at Kendallville, and they moved their operations to Columbia City. A night watchman smelled smoke shortly before midnight and turned in « fire alarm. But the flames burst out of control before the firemen arrived. Chappuis Speaker As Rotary Meeting Robert Chappuis, manager of labor relations for the Central Soya Co. recalled some of his experiences for members of the Decatur Rotary club at its meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Lowell Harper was program chairman. Chappuis, who was an all-Amer-iman halfback and star in the 1949 Rose Bowl victory at the University of Michigan, told several interesting stories ’to illustrate the value of loyalty, dedication to principles, and humility. He also described his stay with members of the Italian underground after bailing out of a plane during World War 11. Peter Friederici, Rotary exchange student from Gerrqany, sang the French national anthem “LaMarseillaise.” President Grabbill presented him a transistor radio as a birthday gift from the club: , The Lions club will meet with the Rotary club next week. March 3, both clubs, will observe a ladies ’ night and attend the 4-H achievement banquet at the Center, ——'7* —S* ’ " —— - —,—-J— .. ..•*.

Mrs. Norma Thieme Dies Thursday Night Mrs. Norma Thieme, 37, wife of Gilbert Thieme, of Union township, six miles east of Decatur, died at 10:20 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health for some time and seriously ill for the past week. She was born in Preble township March 9, 1921, a daughter of Otto and Emelie Ewell-Wefel, and was married to Gilbert Thieme May 21, 1939. Mrs. Thieme was a member of Immanuel Lutheran church, the Parent-Teachers league at the church school, the Valparaiso Guild and the Berea society of the church.r— Surviving in addition to her husband are four children, Beverly Kay, Karen Sue, Susan Jane and Lanny Gene, all at home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wefel of Preble; one brother, Donald Wefel of Decatur, and oae sister, Mrs. Edwin (Leona) Reinking of Preble. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 1:30 p.m. at the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. C. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The Vasket will not he opened I at the church. -■ -- — —

Soviet Radio Assails Plan

LONDON (UPD—Radio Moscow today denounced the Western Big Three replies to Soviet proposals on Germany as devoid of "any constructive suggestion” for a settlement of the East-West dispute. The attack came eJ the eve of the departure for Moscow by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Macmillan told Commons Thursday night that the trip was being undertaken in hopes of breaking “the ice” in the cold war. The Moscow Radio attack followed by three days a sabrerattling speech on -Germany and Berlin by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Khrushchev, in a speech Tuesday night, warned that any attempt by the West to shoot its way into Berlin would mean war. On Monday, the United States, Britain and France delivered identical notes to Moscow proposing a broad Big Four foreign ministers conference on Berlin, Germany and European security. The notes suggested that West and East Germans sit in as "advisers.” The Soviet government had proposed a 38-nation conference to conclude a peace treaty with Germany. The participants would include all World War II Allies. The Western powers also ex-

Three-Year Term For Bank Holdup INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Henry Ray Persinger, 39, former town marshal of Jamestown, was sentenced today to three years in prison for the $2,275 holdup of the Ladoga State Bank last Dec. 30. Judge William E. Steckler, before whom Persinger appeared with more than a dozen townspeople present to support his plea for a second chance, said Persinger was “more worthy of leniency than anyone who appeared before me on this charge before.” Persinger previously had pleaded guilty. He told the court he was unable to work because of a leg injury and was low on funds when He held up the bank with the gun he carried as town marshal for more than a year.

INDI AN APOUS (UPI) — The Indiana House stamped preliminary approval today on record biennial appropriations more than seven per cent greater than the billion-doll ar proposal of the State Budget Committee. After an all-day session devoted to studying the 52-page appropriations bills, item by item, the House adopted a: budget totaling about $1,074,000,000, more than 32 million dollars higher than the $1,042,000,000 submitted by Governor Handley’s administration. Except for less than a quarter of a million dollars, the additions will go to state school aid and permit increased salaries for teachers. But this big 32 million dollar item is contingent upon the general fund surplus being at a safe level and state revenues showing healthy condition: FEPC Hike Granted Majority Democrats dominated the action as the budget moved to second reading, intermediate stage on its way to passage in the house of origin. Republicans made token efforts to thwart some of the increases, out the nearest thing to defeat for any of several dozen proposed amendments was the 46-39 margin by which Rep. James Hunter, East Chicago Democrat, won approval of an $11,200 annual appropriations increase for the Fair Employment Practices Commission. When the House finishes with the bills, it will be up to the Senate to do the job if any trimming is done. The Senate, controlled by Republicans, wa si expected to bringthe budget ini line with the | way it was when the administra- | tion submitted it; leaving the —er—•-

pressed determination in their notes to maintain the right of free access to West Berlin. Russia has said it would turn over its control functions to the Communist East German regime, which the Western powers do rioT recognize. Moscow Radio contended that the Western replies do “not provide a reasonable basis for settlement of the German question.” It claimed the notes “do hot contain a single more or less constructive suggestion capable of facilitating settlement of the questions either of Berlin or Germany." “It all boils down to the same invariable ‘No’ that the West has been giving us all the time,” Moscow said. “If* categorically rejects the Soviet proposal to demilitarize Western Berlin and make it a free city.” It said that the replies indicated that the United States is “not seriously interested” in reaching an agreement. There has been as yet no formal reply by Moscow to the latest Western notes. None if expected at least until Macmillan completes his visit.

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chore of final approval to a - conference committee. Handley threatened Thursday to veto the budget if it seriously strained, in his opinion, the state’s fiscal position. Considerable debate preceded th® approval of 50 additional state troopers for highway patrol, and a hike from 15 to 25 cents for adult admission to state parks. Minority GOP members opposed the extra troopers because they would cost $684,000 for two years and the park admission jump on grounds it would interfere with the "poor man’s recreation." Most of the budget changes were recommendations of thd House Ways & Means “A” Committee,. whose chairman is Rep. Walter Maehling (D-Terre Haute), veteran lawmaker and budgeteer. Cuts More Than Offset There were some reductions in proposed appropriations. But these were more than offset by increases. The State Welfare Department budget was cut by three million dollars but a proviso was approved that the budget committee may restore the slash at its discretion. University and college construction and contingency funds were cut $5,015,000, but the reduction was more than offset by an increase of $5,915,030 fcr higher faculty salaries. Appropriations for the Northern Indiana Children’s Hospital at' South Bend were reduced by SIOO,OOO over the objections of St. , Joseph County representatives. . Rep. Cable G. Bah (R-Lafay- . ette), minority floor leader, failed . in an effort to insert in the bill an emergency fund representing — three per cent of the general fund budget, or about $7,500,000, for use by department heads only if needed. It was aimed to protecting balances left over at the end of fiscal years which might be spent to keep them from reverting to the general ,fund. Open Ticket Sale On Home Talent Show Ticket sales will open Saturday for Zhe home talent show, “Around the World in a Daze,” which will be presented at the Decatur high school gymnasium - auditorium Thursday and Friday njghts. March 5 and 6. Mrs. Arthur Burris, general chairman for the show, sponsored by the Beta Sigma Phi sorority,— announced that ticket sales will open tomorrow at the First State Bank and the Decatur auto license branch. Members of the ticket committee are Mrs. Fred Corah. Mrs. Carl Gattshall, Mrs, Robert Babcock and Mrs. Wanda Howsell. Heading the advertising committee are Mrs. Richard Hess. Mrs. James Inskeep. Mrs. Bill Mansfield, Jr., Mrs. Eugene Zffier and. Mrs" William Affolder. Publicity Committee members are MH? Frank Crist. Mrs. Lula Fruchte. Mrs. William Mann and Mrs. Cletus Gilman. All proceeds from the show will go toward purchase of equipment for the Adams county memorial | hospital.