Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1959 — Page 1

Vol. Lyil. No. 46.

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MOSCOW (UPT) - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev turned down today the West’s proposals on Berlin and nuclear test suspension. Speaking at an election rally, Khrushchev flatly rejected last week’s Western call for a Big Four foreign ministers conference on Berlin and Germany. He said it would be “unbusinesslike” and “unacceptable.” He called anew for full and formal summit talks to decide the German question, nuclear test bans and the whole field of EastWest dispute. The speech appeared to blast hopes of a new approach to the German stalemate just when Khrushchev's “little summit*’ talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain had created fresh hopes. In Washington, U.S. officials commented that an electioneering speech by Khrushchev did not constitute a final and official reply. They noted that the Western notes on Feb. 16 proposing the foreign ministers on Berlin and Germany were formal and official communications and. as such, required a similar reply. Khrushchev scored the Western stand at the Geneva nuclear conference. “To accept the Western proposals (on inspection and control) would mean full capitulation,” he said. "We regret it but we shall have to continue with our (nuclear) tests too,” he added. Wasta Summit Meeting Khrushchev said a conference of foreign ministers as suggested by the West to .thresh out the problems ot Berlin. Germany ’and overall European security could last for many months or years. "It would 6e more expedient if •the Western powers agreed, 00. a conference ot heads of government which could make decisions.” he said. - == Khrushchev objected to the exclusion of Poland and Czechoslovakia, which he described as “the first victims of German invasion (in World War II) and Germany’s neighbors from any talks on Germany. He noted that the West's latest notes called for East and West Germany to have “consultative votes” at an East-West conference. ■‘Thus they admit the existence of the two states,” he said. He said that once this is conceded it is only logical to “admit their Jeanne KaehrTops In Art Exhibit Miss Jeanne Kaehr, Adams Central senior, plated first with a painting at the national school art award exhibit Saturday, winning a gold pin award and the opportunity of entering national competition at a later date. Four of Adams Central’s 11 entries reached the finals of the event at the Fort Wayne art school. Two paintings by Miss Kaehr, and one each by Donald Egley and Jerry Cauble, were among the 391 chosen from the more than 1,400 entered. The student artists, coached by Hubert Feasel of Adams Central, will display their artistry for the remainder of the week at the Fort Wayne school as the exhibit continues to display the best student works. The Adams Central art class, 32 strong, will tour the exhibit today under the guidance of Feasel. Decatur area residents, especially high school age citizens, are welcome to visit the exhibit and note the excellence of the works. Adams Central was the only Decatur area school to enter paintings in this exhibit although BerneFrench school had a photography, exhibit.

Lenten Meditation (Byßev. Harold J. Bond, First Presbyterian Church) LENTEN PRAYER OF PREPARATION O Eternal God, before whose face the generations rise and pass away, who hast been our guide through all the seasons of hope, anxiety, fruition and disappointment which makes up the years of our lives. We lift our souls unto Thee in penitence and gratitude for Thy continued mercies. As every morning brings a new sunrise to the world, so may new impulses and aspirations to serve and please Thee come to our souls. In our necessities we have never called upon Thee in vain, in joy we have never been unwarned or unguided, in sorrow Thou hast been our comfort, in weary and ineffectual days we; have never been forsaken. . Thou hast been to us through all the journey as a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night; Thou hast delivered us from the enemy and hast drawn us out of deep waters into safety; keep us ever in Thy Love. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.

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right to decide their own desti- Wtih reference to talk of airnies.” lifts or armed convoys to get supThe West does not recognize plies to the isolated city through East Germany. a new Red blockade, Khrushchev said: Friendly to Britain "Die U.S.S.R. would not stand Die Khrushchev speech, deliv- aside if there emerged a threat ered during a one-day recess in to the (Red) German Democratic his talks with Macmillan, con- Republic ... Any aggressive adtained a biting personal attack on vances would be opposed. No one the United States. would be allowed to violate the He said Soviet police would not safety of the G.D.R. by land, sea have to protect Macmillan to the ot air.” same extent U.S. police had to w ... protect First Deputy Premier Ooxe Good Will Anastas I. Mikoyan during his re- Macmillan journeyed into the cent visit to the United States. snow-covered Russian countryside “We have no hooligans" like today to pay a visit to “Atom those who “tried to throw some City” at Dubna, some 50 miles eggs at Comrade Mikoyan,” he west of Moscow. It was a trip of said. strange contrasts, during which Khrushchev’s words for Britain, the prime minister’s party got a though, were friendly. He pro- look at aspects of Soviet life posed a long-term non-aggression ranging from peasants in horsetreaty with the British, an idea drawn carts to the world s biggest one London newspaper reported atom-smasher. Macmillan himself wanted to dis- Earlier indications had been cuss. that the Macmillan - Khrushchev The two men are known to have talks had revived the short-lived discussed the German stalemate “Geneva spirit” that was generat their meeting Monday. Khrush- a ted by the Big Four "summit chev’s speech today indicated no conference” in that Swiss city in prospect of compromise in Riis- 1955. sia’s insistence on handing over Statements made by the two control of West Berlin’s lifelines men Monday night oozed good to the German Communists. will.

State Senate Hikes Budget

INDIANAPOLIS' (UPI) Die record billion dollar budget passed—and pared—by the House was almost back where it started too result of* a Senate decision Monday night to tack another two rpillion dollars onto it. .... The Senate voted 31-18 in an overtime session to appropriate two millions for the Veteran’s School Construction Fund, Neither Governor Handley’s original budget nor the appropriation bills adopted by the House Monday provided for the construction fund. Senate Bill 130, the $2,000,000 bill, passed after a long debate during which Sen. James Spurgeon (D-Brownstown) charged that they cannot exceed 90 per cent of their bond limit before applying for a loan. Spurgeon said this usually happened after the schools had built luxurious gyms, swimming pools and “deluxe appliances.” Money Badly Needed But Sen. Richard Ristine (RCrawfordsville) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, maintained that the extra money was badly needed because only $400,000 remains in the loan fund. The fund was established in 1955 from the eight million dollar surplus from the appropriation to give bonuses to Korean War veterans, and grants loans to school units at one per cent interest. The measure now goes to the House, where its future is uncertain at best. In the meantime. Governor Handley and Senate majority Republicans—even including ' the rebels and mavericks—were planning to upset the allowances for running the state which House Democrats have presented to the Senate. The lower chamber appropriatedsl,olß,ooo,o(X), —as compared with the $1,041,000,000 proposed by Handley’s Budget Committee, a 23 million dollar cut. However, S2O million may be added for school aid, according to the House measure, if gross income tax revenues are considerably higher than present estimates. Republicans Object GOP chiefs screamed to high heaven about slashes in Republi-can-controlled departments and likewise charged haphazard meth-

F — ... . : : - i ods/ , Republican Lt. Gov. Crawford i F. Parker, a leading possibility for -tbe fiOP, title, was a notable victim of the Democratic House budget pruners. J "Diere’s, just enough left in my budget foe my salary—not even ' enough to pay my secretary,” Parker declared. "I’ll have to , type my own letters if this goes . through. But I imagine there will ; be some changes in the budget ' over here in the Senate. Senate Finance Chairman Rich- ) ard O. Ristine also was irate. , “The House operated in an unfair and lazy manner in an acrossJ the-board cut,” said Ristine. “Its . method of budget cutting was an ‘ insult to the hard work of the budget committee and the House Ways & Means A Committee.” t But Senate Democratic floor j leader Matthew E. Welsh, Vincennes, maintained that “since all department heads said in hearings they were satisfied with their - budgets, there might have been a : well justified suspicion these • budgets had some padding.” : And House Speaker Birch Bayh ■ Jr. said: ■ “The Republican departments i are filled with loyal loafers.” i Sen. Nelson Grills, rebel Indian- • apolis Democrat, continued his , "grillibuster”, announcing he i would pursue his demand that all (Continued on page atx> I Arrested In Attack On Fellow Worker A Mexican laborer, Reves Viarrial, 53, of route one, Monroe, I formerly of Cortelto, Ttx„ was arrested by the sheriff’s department ! early today and placed in the Adams county jail when a fellow ! worker accussed Viarrial of striki ing him on top of the head with an axe Viarrial appeared in mayor’s • court this morning and pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and battery. The trial was set for Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Viarrial was returned to the Adams I county jail, but efforts to post a . bond of S2OO for his release were being attempted by the accussed. The alledged victim, Santos Garcia, 35, of r o u t e one, Craigville, and also formerly of Texas, stated to the local law officers that Viarrial ehme at him with an axe while he was sitting in a chair in a cabin on the Ezra Kaehr farm, located three miles west of Monroe on state road 124. Garcia gave no apparent reason for the alleged attack. Garcia’s wife and a neighbor entered the room and took the axe away from Viarrial, and took Garcia to his residence for treatment. Soon afterward, Garcia was taken to the Caylor-Nickel clinic in Bluffton for father treatment. He received several stitches on top of his head to close the wound and was later released. The incident occurred about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 24,1959.

Demand Flood Control Move For Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A crowd of several hundred persons jammed Governor Handley’s public flood control hearing Monday and heard an Army engineer testify that the recent Wabash River floods could probably have been averted by the construction of only three reservoirs in Northeasts em Irxiiana. Cdt Charles Noble, Louisville, Army district engineer, testified that the reservoirs, already sanctioned by the Army and now awaiting state and federal construction appropriations, would be located on the upper Wabash and the Salamonie and Mississinewa Rivers. Handley told the flood control enthusiasts that both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders already have agreed to back a 3t4 million dollar appropriation to help avoid future floods. If the money is appropriated, it would be the first time in Indiana history that a state flood-control project was financed by the Legislature. Crisis Fund Drained “It is npw up to the federal government to carry out its promises to give us the needed appropriations to correct this serious condition,” Handley asserted. The governor also reported that he has only SB,OOO left in his emergency fund to handle future flood emergencies as the result of expenditures by the National Guard and other state agencies. in the last inundation. The program is for Congress to appropriate the many more millions of dollars for thpse reservoirs and for scores of others in different parts of the state. The three projects named, however, are the most important, according to testimony. Joseph I. Perrey, chief engineer, Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission, outlined projects to stem the yellow, swirling Waters that actually -haw been approved by the U.S. Army engineers, subject to congressional appropriations. Additional Projects Asked In addition to the three reservoirs, the list includes the following: —A .reservoir on Mills Creek. —Seven protection projects along the upper Wabash River. —Four agricultural levees. —Partly completed projects, including the Mansfield Reservoir in Parke County and various enterprises at Indianapolis, Vincennes and Evansville. —The Monroe County Reservoir on Salt Creek, which would be the largest lake in Indiana. Lawrence B. Koenig Is Taken By Death Lawrence B. Koenig, 67, of 602 MarshaU strpet, retired county highway department employe, died at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill of complications for several months and serious the past two days. Born in Ottawa, 0., May 29, 1891. he was thg son of John and Anna Heuwe-Koenig, and had lived in Decatur for the past 30 years. He was married to Carrie Kick April 16, 1918. Mr. Koenig was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Holy Name society. Surviving in addition to the wife are five daughters, Mrs. Eugene Gase, Mrs. James Hackman, Mrs. Richard Fairchild and Mrs. Donald Swygart, all of Decatur, and Miss Doris Koenig, at home; one son, Lewis Koenig of Upton, Mass.; one brother, Ralph Koenig of Delphos, 0., and 11 grandchildren. Three brothers and two sisters preceded him In death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Rev. Robert Contant officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body, taken to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, will be returned to the residence, 602 Marshall street, where friends may call after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 p. m. Wednesday. St Mary's River Rises Three Feet Weather observer Louis Landrum reported the St. Mary’s river at 9.12 feet as of 7 o'clock this morning. Rainfall of .04 inch helped raise the river depth from an even six feet reported yesterday.

Cily School Board Meets Last Evening “The Decatur 1 school board met in a special meeting Monday evening in the office of W. Guy Brown, superintendent of schools. Also joining in the meeting were 12 interested parents. The meeting was opened with a report by Brown on recent developments in the state legislature on bills concerning education. Brown has spent several days in the state capital since the legislature convened, to help push bills that will help area schools in finances. The majority. of the meeting time was spent in a discussion of matters of school policy. The board and several of the parents werte concerned over the question of discipline. Several concrete suggestions were brought forth, and the delegation was assured the problem would be ironed out as as suitable answers can be found. The board, superintendent and parents then went on a “surprise” Inspection of the Lincoln school rest rooms. It was reported that some comments had been heard about dirty conditions existing in the rest rooms. Both girls and boys rooms were inspected, and found to be very clean and sanitary. The school bpard thanked the parents for taking the time to attend the meeting. They assured them that they were always willing to talk with any patrons of the public school who had constructive criticism or suggestions. Today First Day To' File City Candidacy Today is the first day candidates seeking nomination in, the spring city primary election may file with the clerk’s office, Richard D. Lewton. Adams county clerk, announced today. February 24 marks the first day a declaration can be filed with the . .dwt AAft. primary election by a candidate fpr a city office. Candidates have dntil March 26 to file. I. Town elections will be held In Monroe and Geneva May 5, while city elections will be held in Berne and Decatur the same day.

Shorter Work Week Sought

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The AFL-ClO’s call for a 35-hour work week appeared unlikely today to get an answer from Congress this year. Even congressional backers of the proposal conceded that there was little chance of it winning approval in 1959. But they said that the new demands might pave the way for action in the future. The AFL-CIO executive council demanded Monday h thaf Congress revise the Federal Wage and Hour Act to provide a seven-hour day, 35-hour work week for about 20 million workers covered by the law.' Organized labor also is renewing a drive to extend coverage to eight million more workers and to boost the minimum wage from $1 •to $1.25 per hour. Members of the House Labor Committee gave these two reasons for doubting that Congress this year would consider shortening the work week: —Labor committees of both the Hotise and the Senate already have a heavy agenda, including labor reform legislation, proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley law, the higher minimum wage proposal, and school aid bills. —Reductions in working hours historically take time- to achieve, and there is a lot of opposition in Congress now to shortening the work week. Other congressional news: Housing: The House Banking Committee called up for action a $2,100,000,000 housing bill drafted by a housing subcommittee. The Senate already has approved a $2,675,000,000 version. The administration’s bill carried a $1,650.000,000 price tag. The House Commer c e Committee, meanwhile, hoped to complete work on a four-year, 365 million dollar program of federal grants to help communities build and expand airports. Farnf: Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) cited statistics which he said showed that major benefits under the government’s price support program have gone to “the very large corporate operators.” He said the federal government paid $3,400,000 in price supports to three big farm operators in Arkansas, Mississippi and California

•* . City Studies Traffic Survey

A traffic survey report by fltate highway engineers, devised to help downtown traffic and improve downtown parking, has been sent to all city council members and the city attorney, for study. Mayor Robert D. Cole said this morning. The report makes certain specific suggestions, the effects of which will have to be carefully studied by the city council, and the people of Decatur, before any action is taken, the mayor explained. , The council had earlier planned to install traffic lights at First and Monroe, Third and Monroe, and Jefferson and Second streets, when it was believed that it could be done for very little money, possibly by the state. Too Costly However, when the state engineers reported that the traffic load was not enough to warrant stateinstalled stop lights, and that cityinstalled lights would have to be synchronized with the Second and Fifth street lights, costing an additional $12,000, the city decided to take a second look at the traffic problem before authorizing such an expenditure. Traffic engineers were invited to make a preliminary study for the council, which also has the ‘‘major thoroughfare report” made by the state in 1949. Frank S. Vukovits, an engineer from the state office, made the report under the direction of William H. Bilby, of the bureau of traffic engineer- ' ing of the state highway department. “ Only obvious improvements to help the central business district were recommended. A complete survey will be made at a later date when the backload of previously scheduled surveys is completed—Die present redbmmendations would require small expenditures, which could be met from the parking meter fund. Main Recommendations Principal recommendations of the plan are: four one-way streets to facilitate the flow of traffic around the main business district; widening of certain streets to in- ' creSSe parking faciTifies In "the main business area; marking and enforcing standard parking restrictions at comers and school crossing intersections, to facilitate mov-ing-car approaches to intersections; installation of stop signs at

in 1957. China: Walter S. Robertson, assistant secretary of state and Far Eastern policy expert, told a Senate disarmament subcommittee that forecasts of Moscow-Peiping friction were "wishful thinking.” He said it was unlikely that either Russia or Red China would allow differences to outweight the practical military, political and economic advantages of Communist unity. Propaganda: Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen told the Senate that there may be a propaganda plot in Russia’s shipment of low-priced microscopes, ■ projectors and electronic demonstrating equipment to this country. He said it “would be easy indeed to use equipment intended for schools and colleges and part of a plan to convince people here at home that Russian equipment is better, her teaching methods are superior, and that she has so much apparatus of this type as to be supplying this country out of surplus.”

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'„ streets which now lack sii&darrfl signs. These are only recommendations by the state department, the mayor cautioned, and have not yet been studied by the city council so many changes can and will be made if good and sufficient reasons are given. Those who particularly favor or object to any of the specific points should contact a member of the city council and explain the recommendations or objections, the mayor added. Council members who will be considering the plans are Clyde Drake, Ed Bauer, Norbert Aumann, Lawrence Kohne, and Carl Gerber. — The recommendations total 14, and are: Enforce Parking That in the downtown area and at school crossing intersections, standard parking restrictions be established by painting the curbs yellow (and enforcing the restrictions) as outlined and shown on pages 290 and 291 of the manual. At many of the intersections in the business area, vehicles pßrk too close to the crosswalks and alongside stop signs. This is due to improperly marked parking restrictions. This is a very hazardous condition and cuts down on th<j visibility of stop signs and motorists entering the intersections. A good example of such a condition exists on the east side of Second street, the first meter space north of Jefferson street. This meter space permits vehicles to park too close to the crosswalks of the intersecting street with Second street. The parking meter space should be eliminated and a standard parking restriction established at this location. That Jackson street “Stop” for Second street. There is no control at the present time and many hear misses occur at this intersection. Second street carries the heavier volume of the two and should be preferential at this location. Definite control is needed at this spot. - That Madison street "Stop” for Seventh street. -■. That Jefferson street “Stop” for Tenth street. ’ First One-way ’rtiat First street be made oneway southbound between Marshall street and Adams street. With -First -street- one=way . southbound, presently eliminated parking on the east side can be restored. However, if the fire chief feels his emergency vehicles will encounter great difficulty in traveling the street with parking on both sides permitted, parking should not be restored. Third and Fifth That Third street be made oneway northbound between Adams street and Fifth street. On this street presently eliminated parking can be restored when the street is converted to one-way operation. That Fifth street be made oneway southbound between Third street and Adams street. Fifth street being one-way southbound will divert Fort Wayne factory traffic around the downtown area on its way home from work. This would reduce the congestion on Second street that now occurs when this traffic passes through town. The intersection of Fifth and Third streets make a natural beginning and terminus of two oneway streets. Madison and Jefferson That Madison street be made one-way westbound between First street and Seventh street. Angle parking on the south side of Madison street between Second street and Third street will have to be reversed. That Jefferson street be made one-way eastbound between Seventh street and First street. This

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—- I. I Istrcef J. 4 used by the fire department as a route to service the central business area. Making it one-way will help improve the speed and safety of the vehicles on their way to an emergency. The firives to the A&P parking lot, city parking lot, and the alley tyetween these lots on Monroe street be made “Exit Only.” This will eliminate the congestion that now exists on Monroe street in the vicinity of First street when eastbound vehicles stop to turn into these drives. . That parking be eliminated on the north side of Monroe street between Second street and, the St. Mary’s river. This will involve the removal of nine parking spaces. These will be replaced many times over with the restoration of parking on First and Third streets. The elimination of parking alongside the curb in these two blocks of Monroe street is necessary for die establishment of a lane to carry the vehicles that normally turned north at First street but now will have' to turn north at Second street. Students Instructed That the junior high school stu- T dents be. instructed in the procedures to follow when crossing streets near the vicinity of the school. Field studies showed that many students crossed streets in the middle of the block, came out from between cars, walked in the traveled roadway of the street and went in all directions, when coming or going to school. This is a very bad situation and if continued to exist, a serious accident can result, with injury or loss of life to some student or students. That steps be taken to revise existing city traffic ordinances to bring them into conformity with state laws and the model traffic ordinances. All* changes should be bast'd on factual study of conditions and traffic needs of the city. Widen Streets That serious thought be given to the widening of First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth streets from Adams Street to Marshall street. At the present time these roadways are only 30 feet from curt to curb. The right of way 66 feel on these The curb and walks could easily be set back 6 feet on each side. . This widening would increase t£fi roadway to 42 feet, curb to curb. Parking could be put back on these streets where it is now prohibited and there would be ample roadway left for the movement of two lanes of vehicles without any congestion or delay. Funds from parking meter revenue could be used to finance the cost of widening these streets. By using parking meter funds for such purposes they will be doing much to help relieve congestion and delay. At the present time the funds are used, among other things, to pay the salaries of The intended use of revenues fnjm parking meters is for the improvement and maintenance of public streets in cities having parking meters. It must be understood that the • widening program should be over a period of years. In this way no great expenditures of funds will result at any one time. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Wednesday mostly sunny, warmer north and central. Low tonight 18 to 25 north, 25 to 30 south. High Wednesday in the 40s. Sunset today 6:31 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Wednesday 7:25 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly fair and mild. Low 22 to 32. High 45 to .. 55.