Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVI I. No. 47.

Eisenhower Assails Stubborn Attitude Os Soviet Premier

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower said today that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s obvious and palpably intransigient attitude lowers hopes lor any really successful negotiations on Berlin and Germany. The President also threw cold water on Khrushchev's suggestion for a summit conference. He said such a meeting would do more harm than good unless it was prepared in such away as to promise some hope of accomplishing something, ■- ■' He told a news conference that Khrushchev’s rejection of the West’s proposal for a Big Four foreign minister’s conference on Berlin and Germany was not a hopeful development, particularly since it came at a time when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is in Moscow trying to create a good atmosphere for negotiations. Khrushchev's rejection came in a Kremlin speech Tuesday. Eisenhower, in one of his toughest statements in recent months, about the Soviet leader, said he could not, in fact, see much use in trying to hold East-West conferences of any kind if the Allies get a negative answer before ne-

Highway Building Cost Is Increased _ - ’ 4 - - -i ■lift 'i' iat.< ■•■ m!!!. ..

The Adams county "board of' commissioners announced Tuesday at their weekly meeting held at the Adams county court house that the new Adams county highway building being planned near Monroe will cost about SIB,OOO more than originally proposed. At first $32,000 was believed sufficient to construct the new highway building. Tuesday it was determined by the board of commissioners and Bud Werling, a representative of Civilian Building & Supply, Inc., of Fort Wayne, the firm drawing up plans and specifications for the new building, that it will cost nearly $50,000 to construct the new county building. Several reasons were given for the difference in the original estimated cost and the present figure, released Tuesday. Some of the reasons are the following: the original plans called for a building 100 feet long and 40 feet wide, the new plans for the building were changed to 140 feet long and 40 feet wide. The additional 40 feet added to give adequate space for storage of county equipment, and to store election supplies in the future instead of in homes and buildings as has been the practice in recent years. The original plans called for an all-metal building, the new plans specify reinforced precast concrete walls. Several state requirements were also listed as necessitating changes. Included in the $50,000 proposed cost of the building will be twd fuel tanks, water system, landscaping, drainage, etc. Werling stated to the commissioners that he will have specifications of the new building finished and will present them to the members of the county council March 16 when they meet with the board of commissioners to discuss the matter. The appropriation of SIB,OOO is expected to come from the general fund and from the selling of the old county highway building, and of the land near the Adams county hospital. Both sides will be put up for sale at a later date. Robert S. Anderson, county attorney, announced to the board of commissioners that he has requested that the board of zoning appeals re-zone the land near the hospital from a commercial zone to a residential zone. The commissioners believe that the new county building should be located in a ’ more centralized location within the county than was originally proposed when the Decatur site was purchased. Other business matters discussed during the meeting with the county auditor, Edward F. Jaberg, included several ditch and drain matters. Petitions filed included the cleaning and repairing of the Thomas drain in Hartford township, the Dehner-Lehrman ditch in

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gotiations even begin. ’ The United States and its Allies, ;the President said, are not going to give one single inch in pre- ’ serving their rights and responsi- ' bilities in Berlin. He added that there can be no i abandonment by the West of this principle of its rights and responi sibilities taken under wartime and ; , postwar agreements to which the ’ Russians subscribed. The President said the United ; J States.and its major Allies have ' made plans to defend their posi- : tioh in Berlin. So far as he : ' Imows, the President said, the en- ; fire NATO alliance stands firm with them in insisting on the ab--1 solute necessity to be firm. ’ He declined to disclose details t of military planning but repeated I that so far as the United States , is concerned, any act of actual . war would have to be started, by what he described as someone i else. Eisenhower said the United ■ States must always be willing to negotiate if there appears to be i any reasonable hope for accom- ■ plishment. But he said, if there is a negative answer from the i Russians before an attempt is made to negotiate, he simply canI

-"W * Union township. A petition was filed for tile drain for the tile branch of Bryan ditch which is located in Jefferson township. Three persons from Union township conferred with the commissioners about the Hines ditch which goes through Adams county and Van Wert county. Herman Moellering, county surveyor, and the Van Wert county authorities will confer on the matter. It was announced by the commissioners th&t the rest rooms located in the basement of the Adams county court house will be locked at 9:30 o’clock each evening because vandals still persist in destroying property in the rest rooms.

A Reapportionnient Battle Grows *'-■ - • 1

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A David and Goliath battle involving reapportionment and the Indiana Constitution continued in the Senate today amid indications the contest would end in a draw. Sen. Nelson Grills threw in the gauntlet last week when he began harassing . tactics in angry retaliation. to; Senate inaction on his reapportionment bills which have languished in committee since the beginning of the current session. The Republican majority accepted the challenge. Grills, an Indianapolis Democrat, uncovered a constitutional provision that requires that all bills be read in their entirety on third reading, a time-consuming process that had been ignored for years. Parlimentarians searched vainly for away out. To comply with Grills’ request, the Senate at times had 15 or more persons reading a bill simultaneously. Grills himself read several bills and the authors of others of others also joined in. Tuesday, Grills’ crusade reached a peak when Sen. Walter Baran (D-East Chicago) read one bill in Polish. “I want to call the Senate’s attention to the fact that If this bill is accepted as Senator Baran read it, the state capital would be moved to Lake County,” Grills said. “Is that bad?” Baran inquired. Sen. Marshall Kizer (D-Plym-outh) submitted a motion that the Senate change its rules to dispense with third readings. He said the Legislature was violating the Constitution by not reapportioning every six years, so what would be wrong with violating it further by ignoring the provision calling for a complete third reading? Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker, pre-

not see much use in conferences. American officials still hoped that the formal Soviet reply to the Western proposal, when it comes, would not slam the door on negotiations on Berlin . and German unification. They were studying the complete text of Khrushchev’s remarks at a Mowcow political rally Tuesday. They acknowledged that the Russian premier's tough position made it more necessary than ever to anticipate a possible Communist effort to cut Brataln, France, and the United States off from West Berlin. Khrushchev termed the Allied proposal for a Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting “unacceptable.” He called instead for a broad “summit” conference, presumably on his old terms of no agenda and no preparatory meetings. Msgr. Seimetz Is Slightly Improved The Vary Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, is reported slightly improved this week at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne where he has been a patient since suffering a stroke several weeks ago. Msgr. Seimetz has regained conscfousness, and is now able to swallow, but remains unable to speak/ although he has tried to speak several times. He is also unable to move, Ladies of the congregation. in two shifts, care for him from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m., and from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. During fee day a special nurse is' off duty/ Indiana Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperatures tonight. A little warmer Thursday. Lows tonight mostly in 20s. Highs ‘ Thursday ranging from mid 40s extreme north to near 60 extreme south. Sunset today 6:32 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Thursday 7:23 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows low 30s north, mid 3Cs south. Highs low 50s north, low 60s south. X

*- siding officer in the Senate, had no choice but to rule Kizer’s motion out of order or else admit that the upper chamber was not a legally constituted body. Such a move would have adjourned the session and would have revoked all bills already passed in the Senate. Kizer appealed Parker’s ruling, but majority Republicans banded together to defeat Kizer’s appeal, 26-23. The next move came from Sen. Matthew Welsh, Democratic minority leader. He called theattention of tire Senate to the fact that House Bill 26, a measure which provides for a referendum to deter mine whether a state constitutional convention shall be called to draw up a new constitution, had been in the Senate Public Printing Committee more than six days. Under Senate rules, the committee must then ask for more time to consider the bill or they must report it out. Welsh said the Senate has been in a “turmoil” because it is forced to comply with the provisions of an “obsolete’’ constitution. Sen. S. Hugh Dilin (DPetersburg) pointed out that the Public Printing Committee “has not met for 10 years.” It was the third time Democrats had tried to jar the bill from committee. The move failed when Republicans voted to transfer the bill to the Senate Elections Committee where it apparently would receive the same treatment and die a quiet death. Grills ' said he would continue his personal war against the Legislature until some action is taken on his reapportionment bill.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 25,1959

Warns Against Taxing Profits

WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Eisenhower today warned emphatically against taxing profits to such a dangerous point that the nation would have to find a new way of financing government. The President told his news conference that too many people were prone to decry profits and their place in the American economic system when actually the operation of the government was based squarely on successful profit-making private enterprise. Other news/»onference highlights: —Eisenhower used some of, the strongest news conference language ever employed to attack the current policies of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toward the West. He declared they were palpably intransigient and of such a nature as to cast a mood of hopelessness over present diplomatic negotiations. — —He threw down the idea of a surftmit meeting under the present East-West climate, expressed the viewpoint that a non-aggres-sion pact with Russia right now would not be worth much and said determinedly that the United States would notgiv§ one single meh in the preservation of b<ff rights and responsibilities in Berlin. —He thought the steel industry could avoid a price increase this year if the steel workers held their new wage demands to a level measured solely by increased productivity. —He reported that cancerstricken Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was reacting remarkably to radiation therapy, according to medical reports received by the White House. Eisenhower said the doctors were quite pleased to date. —Eisenhower said that while it was quite natural for the chiefs of the armed services to disagree among themselves on the necessity of higher defense spending, he thought because of his long military background and his position as commander-in-chief that he was more able than any single military expert to make an overall decision on the defense program. Almost disgustedly, the President dismissed as demogogic talk certain oratorical claims for specific weapons. He said such talk ignored the vital need for a balanced approach to defense. —He warned against tampering with the reciprocal trade proprogram., and said it would be a grave mistake if the United States gave way to increasing tariffs all along the line. —He announced that President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico, his recent host in Acapulco, had accepted his invitation to visit the United States sometime in the spring. Alex Pursley Dies Al Hartford City HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (UPD—- , Alex N. Pursley, 80, a Hartford City financier and father of . Bishop Leo A. Pursley of the Fort ■ Wayne diocese of the Roman, . Catholic church, died today in . Blackford county hospital. Pursley suffered a heart attack Sunday. L He was campaign manager in i 1936 for M. Clifford Townsend of . Hartford City in his successful bid • for governor of Indiana and was ■ a close associate of Townsend > during fee gubernatorial term i from 1937 to 1941. Pursley was first president of i the Hartford City Chamber of i Commerce and co-founder of sevi eral local financial institutions. • He also was a former Licking ■ Twp. trustee. I Pursley donated fee family I home near this citv to the Monfort Fathers, a Catholic order, : who operate it as the Marybrook . Novitiate. i Services will be held Saturday at St. John’s church.

Oldest Resident Os Ohio City Is Dead Mrs. Kate Carmean, 93, oldest resident of Ohio City, 0., died at 8:25 o’clock Tuesday evening at her home following an illness of three weeks. She was born in Hocking county, O„ Aug. 1, 1865, but had lived in Van Wert county for 82 years, since 1930 in Ohio City. Her husband, Solomon Carmean, died in 1940. Mrs. Carmean was a member of the Methodist church at Grover Hill, 0., and attended the Church of God at Ohio City. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Orpha Hyman of Willshire route 1, Mrs. Ocie Mohler of Hudson, Mich., Mrs. Goldie Thatcher of near Wren, and Mrs. 110 Jackson of Rockford, 0.: one son, Roy Carmean of Ohio City: 24 grandchildren; 54 great-grandchildren; five great - great - grandchildren, and a half-sister, Mrs. Cora Baldwin of Hudson, Mich. Two broth■ers and one sister are' deceased. Funeral services win be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Church of God in Ohio City, the Rev. Royal Kear officiaitng. Buriat will be in Kings cemetery at Middle Point, O. The body, removed to the Cowan & Son funeral home, will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Thursday.

School History Enacted Tuesday

Six members of Decatur Catholic high school presented the history of their school in playlet form, acting out “Reminiscences” under the direction of their U. S. history teacher, Sister M. Gregory, C.S.A., for the Adams county historical society Tuesday evening. Gail GrabiU, county superintendent of schools, accepted the 23 strip films of “The Ice Age in Indiana” presented by Mrs. William Christen, president of the Decatur chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa; Gerald L. Durkin, president of the Adams county historical society.. Herman H. Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State bank of Decatur, representing the banks of the county; Paul Kohne, vice president of the county 4-H council; the Chamber of Commerce of Decatur. Berne, and Geneva; and ‘ Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company. Kohne An Officer One copy of the film will be given to each school, public and parochial, in the county. The historical society also has a copy. The film was produced and distributed through the efforts of the Council for Local History, Inc., of which Dr. Robert Kohne, of Lafayette, is an officer. Luke J. Sheer, formerly of Huntington, helped develop the film and the teachers' manuals which accom- , pany it. Edward Wiseman, Decatur Catholic high school junior, welcomed the group, introduced the choruses, and explained the play briefly. Actors and actresses were*; grandmother, Patricia Kintz;' grandfather, Severin Schurger, Jr.; mother, Mary Schultz; father, Paul Hess; Mary, 17 years old, Dianne Baker; 81i1,15 years old, Michiel Ehler; Jim, 12 years old, Fred Zintsmaster; Sue, 10 years old, Carol Rumschlag; and Jean, 7 years old, Phyllis Mcßride. Sister M. Margaretta, C.S.A., directed the junior-senior chorus in singing “In a Monostery Garden” and “Dona Nobis Pacem,” and the high school girls chorus in singing “Ave Marla" and “Praise Be to Thee, O Lord.” — Play Given Scene: Family living-room after supper. Grandparents are visit-

County’s Drainage Problems Discussed A plan to remedy Adams county drainage problems was outlined to 35 interested persons, representing county departments, agencies, and land owners, by Don Sisson, extension engineer, Tuesday evening at Adams Central high school. The general consensus of opinion was “to mull it over with the neighbors,” before taking any definite action. j County representatives from fee highway department, extension agent’s office, commissioners’ office, surveyor’s office, tile manufacturers, drainage contractors, soil conservation service, soil conservation district, and land owners, heard Sisson explain how the cooperation, between groups involved in drainage problems, could become more comprehensive. He called the current drainage operation “insufficient” for Adams county’s actual needs. Sisson’s plan, in effect, calls for a representative committee to organize into a controlling body, planning drainage on a countywide basis. Leaders from all units directly concerned with drainage would man this board, providing fee county wife Jtoctional, longrange organization. After Sisson’s talk, an open discussion period brought to light fee many problems faced by the county. Leo Seltenright, county agent, asked the group if they wanted to act on Sisson’s proposal, but they declined, in favor of further discussion on the matter. Sisson also told of the proposed bill before the state legislature to codify all past legislation concerning drainage. He explained that several of the statutes now on the books are in conflict, and that the Indiana University law school would bring legislation up to date, if the bill is passed. State senator Von Eichhorn is making an amendment to this bill, stating fee time codification should start and finish. Among those attending were: Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent; Stan Arnold, Roland Miller, and Loren Belter, county commissioners; Herman Moellering, County surveyor; Fred Hausel and Elmer Phelps, soil conservationists; Dan Tyndall and John Hefner, tile manufacturers; Harvey Landis and the Thieme Bros., drainage contractors; Herman Bulmahn, Ben Mazelin and Ben Gerke, soil conservation district officers, and about 20 land owners.

ing the family. Coincidentally it is also report card day. Grandfather: (Looking over reports) Say—these are fine report cards! And Jim with a VG in history! I’m mighty proud of that. Jim: Oh I like history—especially American history. Bill: Well, my boy, wait until you study Indiana history. That really comes close to home. Sue: (in surprise) Does Indiana have a history too? I thought history was just about countries. (Laughter) Dad: Yes, Sue, states, cities, even people have histories. Why your own school has a fascinating history—if you would take the time and trouble to look into it. Jim: When did our school begin, Dad? Mary: 1881. Bill: How do you know? Mary: We looked up some of the history of our school for our U. S. History class. That’s how! Grandmother: Yes, St. Joseph school began in 1881, but its history goes back farther than that. We could almost say that it began about 120 years^ago. — Jean: That’s a long time. Do you remember it," Grandma? Grandfather: Oh, Grandma, how old you’re - - We'd better go home early tonight so that you can catch up on your beauty sleep. Grandmother: (Ignoring Grandfather’s remark) Well, Jeanie, I can’t remmember quite that far back, but I do remember hearing the stories told ,of early times in this area. Parish History Mother: St. Mary’s parish began in 1838, didn’t it? Grandfather: That’s right. Decatur marks its beginning in 1836. At that time Mr. Samuel Rugg, who helped to plan the town, gave lots for the courthouse and four churches, including a Catholic church. In 1837 and 1838 the twelve families who. wen? to_form St. Maty’s parish arrived here. Dad: Weren’t Anthony Kohne and Bernard Holthouse in that first group? Grandmother: Yes, and Henry Dierkes, Henry Minter, and Joseph Smith. Mary: George Pettish, John

Macmillan And Nikita 'Confer I \.-X

MOSCOW (UPD—Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev talked for four hours today. In a situation made tense by the Soviet leader’s blunt, cold war speech of Tuesday, the two resumed their little summit conference at the villa outside Moscow where Macmillan is staying. Khrushchev arrived for lunch and then they held a business meeting. A British spokesman said little business was discussed at lunch but in the talks afterward Macmillan sounded out Khrushchev about the Soviet leader’s speech in which he turned down a foreign ministers meeting as proposed by the West. “Since Mr. Khrushchev did make a speech like that, it is better for him to have made it while the prime minister is here than after he left, as it gives fee prime minister an opportunity to question him on the issues he raised,” the British spokesman said. ’ The British spokesman said Khrushchev and Macmillan would have another conference Thursday at the Kremlin before going to . Kiev for a visit. He said Khrushchev definitely would be taking the trip and probably would fly in Macmillan’s plane. Macmillan looked tired and a bit glum and observers said Khrushchev’s speech rejecting a foreign ministers’ conference on Germany had cast doubt on the success of his Moscow mission. Khrushchev on Nov. 27 proposed that West Berlin be turned into a demilitarized “free city,” that the Western Allies withdraw and that access to Berlin be turned over to the East German Communist government. He set a sixmonth time limit on carrying this out. St Mary's River ’ Is Again Receding St. Mary’s river, after going up to 9.12 feet Tuesday has receded to 6.51 feet'today, reports weather observer Louis Landrum. Landrum usually takes a daily reading at 7 a.m. also recording the precipitation. None was reported today.

Mueller, and George Spuller came in 1838. Mother: So did Timothy and Daniel Coffee. Sue: Those are the names of some of the children in my class. Bill: Os course! They are the ancestors of those children. Jim: I counted only ten. Who were the other two? Grandfather: Let me see—. John Closs was one Grandmother: And Henry Will was the other. Mary: The first Mass on record in Decatur was said in the spring of 1838 by Fahter Louis Mueller of Fort Wayne. It was said at the home of George Fettich. Jean: Was feat when our school began? Grandmother: Not exactly; though if there had been no St. Mary’s parish, there would be no St. Joseph school. Bill: Besides, they didn’t even have a church yet. . Grandfather: No, but they were thinking about one. In 1840 fee little group of Catholics bought land for a church and cemetery and in 1841 they began collecting funds for the church. Father: I heard that at that

Lenten Meditation (fey Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, First Methodist Church) “CONVICTIONS” Text: 2 Peter 3:14-18 Conviction is a condition and state of the mind in regard to some proposition—something one firmly believes. Isyery true Christian has some deep convictions. The creeds of the church the born out of the efforts erf men to state their firm beliefs. Thus we have within the Christian body the following statement about the trinity of God which covers some of the beliefs of most Christians: - ■ . 1* - “We believe in God the Father, infinite irt wisdom, power and love, whose mercy is over all His works, and whose will is ever directed to His children’s good. , „ . ..., “We believe in Jesus Christ, Sqn of God and Son of man, th* gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, die ground of our hope and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death. ■ . . “We believe in the Holy Spirit ast he Divine Presence in our lives,' whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth* of Christ, and find strength and help in time erf need. —-- “We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the ser- - vice of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth.” Amen.

3IX VCnti

—.—A *— Oppose Sharp f Increase In Minimum Pay INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A senate committee was told Tuesday that a sharp increase in mandated minimum salaries for school teachers might prevent Indiana’s local school units from paying lifetimfe career educators what they are worth. Howard Friend, research director for the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, made the statement to the Senate Labor Committee at a meeting to study a House-passed bill which would raise minimum salaries from $2,727 to $4,000 for beginning teachers and from $4,527 do $6,000 for well-educated and experienced teachers. Friend suggested that “high and rigid” minimum salary schedules would tax the capacity of local school officials to pay ‘‘salaries commensurate with background and abilities of experienced men and women making a lifetime career of teaching. “In other words, we believe that passage of legislation of the type represented in this bill would actually react to the long-range detriment of the teaching profession” 1 Friend said. - • I Friend quoted statistics from the I National Education Association fox I the school' 1 year 1956-57 which he ■ said showed that of 20 states with ’ average teacher salaries higher ! than Indiana, seven had no stateprescribed minimums, five had minimums higher than Indiana's and none was as high as those proposed in the bill HB2B. Friend said the chamber believes that if local school units > must raise minimum salaries to I comply with a state law, it might ’ bring over-emphasis on starting 1 salaries and dry up tax resources ' that otherwise might be available ■ for higher pay for experienced teachers.

time Anthony Kohne and John Closs walked to Cincinnati to get donations for the church. Jim: Walked? Grandmother: That’s right, Jim. Your father would never be able to do that—or you either. Sue: How much did they collect? Grandfather: S2O0 —in donations from ten cents to a dollar. But they didn’t build a church right away. That had to wait until 1846. Until that time Mass was said in the Fettich home, in Closs’s tavern, or in the old court house. Mary: The children had religious instruction in the old court house, too. School Started Sue: How’s come they didn’t start a school right away? Mother: It takes money and teachers to have a school, dear. Bill: There wasn’t any Sister® of St. Agnes at that time. Their community wasn’t even founded until 1858. Jim: Yeah—how could we have a school if we didn’t have any sisters? r- - ■ —— ; —-- Grandmother: As * matter ; <rf (Continued on pa,ge three) •