Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 53.

Renew Demand For Peace Pact

Farm Banquet Is Held Here Last Evening More than 300 persons attended the 37th annual farmers achievement banquet, Tuesday night at the Youth and Community Center as Dean Earl Butz, of Purdue’s school of agriculture, explained the role that education must play in today’s social structure. More than 75 awards and recognitions were announced last night by Leo Seltenright, county agent, Martin Habegger, chairman of the dairty herd improvement association, Elmer Baumgartner, of the First Bank of Berne, and Tom Allwein, manager of the Central Soya Co. plant. The awards are: Crops Project Senior champion in 5-acre corn, Dan Fiechter, rose gold award; junior champion David fuelling, rose gold award; crops project awards. Ben Mazelin, rose gold award; Mrs. D. Bollenbacher, Del- >, mas Bollenbacher, Matine Kipfer, Elmer Isch, Raymond Ringger, Eli Kipfer, Mrs. H. Egly, Hugo Bulmahn, Mrs. Lucy Schnepp, Erwin Schuller, Holman Egly. all green gold awards; Edison Lehman, Harold Moser, Gilbert Bultemeier, Henry Heiman, Martin Habegger, Eugene Heiman, Franklin Steury, L. R. Schwartz, Lores E. Steury, Merle Kuhn, Ben Mazelin, Raymond Becher, all junior gold awards; junior medal winners, Ted Kipfer, Tim Ringger, Gary Ringger, Perry Isch, Phil Moser, Gerald Bulmahn Larry Busick, Dwight Moser, . all grten Dennis Schuller, Leo Busick, John Rumple, Claude Striker, Ronald Habegger, and Richard Sqhwartz, gold awards; Roy Mazelin, silver z award: and 5-acre soy bean yield champ was Hugo Bulmahn. Dairy Project Dairy efficiency award went to Ben and Noah Mazelin. They will be presented with it officially at special ceremonies in Indianapolis later this month. Rolandes Liechty, Roy and Edison Lehmann, Martin Habegger, Ben and Noah Mazelin, j C. P. Steury and son, Albert Ewel I and Becher and Yager received: gold awards for dairy herds. Others were: Kenneth Beer and sons, Paul Liechty and sons, Raymond Becher, Jr., C. P. Steury and sons, Franklin Steury, and Lehman and Yager, silver awards; L. Reuben Schwartz, and Harry Wulllman and sons, bronze awards Elmer Dale Johnson, certificate of production. Swine Projects Gold certificate winners in Hoosier swine testing project: Wilbert Thieme, Union township, and Paul Yoder, Hartford township. Beef Projects Hoosier gold medal calf club winners: Sandra Strickler, silver medal; William H. Kohne and sons — and Lanark farm, bronze medal. Poultry and Sheep Projects The program of work for the coming year was outlined by Welden Lehman, chairman. FFA poultry judging and 4-H work top the list of this committee. Dan Kauffman, chairman of the sheep projects committee, told of the district sheep school, Feb. 23, lamb club meeting, June 10, and promoting the 4-H lamb club show. Others On Program Master of ceremonies for the evening was Herman Krueckeberg of the First State Bank of Decatur. Entertainment was by the Decatur high school girls’ quartet. Joining in the festivities were the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs. The invocation was given by the Rev. Richard Ludwig of the Zion Lutheran church. Door prizes were given after the program was completed.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Robert R. Welch, St. Paul Misisonary Church) “ON BEING PERFECT” . MaU. 5:4M8 Jesus Christ did not come to confirm old usages and forms, but to introduce a new life to mankind. He acknowledged that the worldly loved the people who loved them, and scrupulously returned the salutations of all who saluted them, but he insisted that, after all, this was a poor thing to do. It was complete paganism, x but very defective Christianity. It had no relation to the* cross. Jesus said, that as Christians, we should do than others. We should love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use us. The Psalmist said (Ps. 35:13) "the prayer I offered for mine enemies is a prayer I might have offered for myself.’’ So true a prayer it was. so full of love, that he would wish nothing more but that the blessings he prayed for his enemies should also be upon him. Obeying this principle. Jesus said, “ye therefore shall become perfect as your heavenly father is perfect.” (vs. 48, Rotherham’s translation). « . ’

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LEIPZIG, East Germany (UPI) —r Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev today renewed his demand tor an East-West conference to conclude a peace treaty with Germany. The Soviet Leader insisted that German reunification can be brought about only through, agreement between , the two German states. “That is the only way to peaceful reunification,” he told a mass i rally of Communists here. 1 At the airport, Khrushchev said his talks with Britain’s prime ’ minister had been “useful” and that both sides understood the other’s attitude better now. "Disputes will not be settled by force,” he declared. “Only lunatics can seek solutions in a war.” But in his speech at Wilhelm Leuschner Square in Leipzig, the Soviet premier promptly restated ed proposals that already had been rejected by the West. A vast crowd of factory workers and others, who were given the day off, jammed the square in a drizzling rain. An East German radio commentator set the figure at 200,000. Western observers estimated about 50,000 and thousands left to get out of the rain before the loudspeakers had carr ie d the translation of Khrushchev’s first At one point about 1,000 persons left in a five-minute period. Massed bands drummed up enthusiasm with Communist march tunes. 'Die main reason given for Khrushchev’s flight here was to visit the Leipzig spring industrial fair. But he said when he arrived at the airport near Berlin that he planned to talk with East Germany’s Communist bosses about a peace treaty and his ultimatum to the West to get out of Berlin by May 27. Khrushchev told the crowd in the square that one of the most important international questions to be Solved was the writing of a peace treaty with divided Germany and “liquidation of the occupation regime in West Berlin.’ Security precautions were cancelled on his fifth visit tq East Germany. His routes through the city were made public, and thousands of factory and other workers were given the day off so I they could welcome him in style ! Khrushchev was met by East German Communist Party boss Walter Ulbricht, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl and Johannes Dieckmann, speaker of the rubber-stamp East German parliament. They accompanied him on the 97-mile drive to Leipzig

Bill To Repeal Time Law Is Sidelined —

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Time law repeal joined “right to work” repealon the sidelines today as the Indiana Legislature moved within six days of die date for adjournment of its 61-day biennial session. An effort to blast out of a House committee the Senate-passed bill repealing the 1957 tune law calling for seven months of CST and five of CDT failed by a 46-39 vote Tuesday. The effort was sparked by Rep. Ralph H. Waltz (R-Hagerstown) and produced a half-hour of familiar arguments which left the doomed bill exactly where it was, buried in a hostile committee. Waltz contended the 1957 law “is making a laughing stock out of the Legislature." “Let's get rid of this law nc one wants to obey,” he said. Rep. John F. Coppes (11-Nap-panee) warned that adults are ■ •

Council Approves Plan Os New Sewer The Decatur city council approved specifications of city engineer Ralph Roop’s plan for a sewer on West Marshall street during the regular meeting Tuesday night in the council chambers. The council also ■ authorized the board of works to accept bids on the proi ject. A receipt for $14,600 from a finance company was made a mat- ; ter of'record after being read by clerk-treasurer Mrs. Miriam Hall. Mayor Robert D. Cole said that ' the city borrowed the money in 1946 to pay engineering costs for sewage treatment work. A matter of rezoning the High street area that would have been the site for the county highway garage in Decatur was discussed after a letter from county attorney Robert S. Anderson requested such rezoning action. The council decided that because the site for the garage was not definitely set for Monroe, the matter would be taken up after the site was actually chosen. Anderson asked that the area be reverted to a residential district. Under new business, the council discussed what could be done to alleviate the parking meter problem in front of establishments that were undergoing repair or rejuvenation. Several suggestions were made, subject to further discussion. A complaint about water standing near the Northwest school was entered by Mr. Alva Buffenbarger. Mayor Cole asked street commissioner Bernard Clark to check the catch basins in that area for possible clogging. Police chief James Borders said that the new police car would be delivered later this week after being serviced by Saylors Motor Sales. After the bills were read by Mrs. Hall, the deposits left in the various departments as of March 3. are: recreation, $7,205.78; sewage works, $11,411.40; water works, ~.«2,57U&; general fund, $48,533.25, •• park, $420.24; street, $9,565.60, and parking meters, $7,060.86. Mayor Cole said that the council and the city planning commission would attend the special meeting tonight to hear Milfred H. Eggerding, of Community Planning Consultants, speak in the council chambers. He also invited the general public. Driver Killed When Train Hits Truck WHEATLAND. Ind. (UPI) — Joseph L. Loudermilk, 23, Vincennes, was killed Tuesday when his truck was rammed by a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad freight train at a crossing here.

setting a bad example for children by breaking the time law, and Rep. Theodore C. Davis <DGreens Fork) said it was forcing school buses to transport children at dangerous hours. Schenk Defends Law The co-author of the 1957 law, Rep. Charles Schenk (D-Vin-cennes) defended his handiwork. "We do have something uniform,” he said. “Only a few of you are confused. Don’t try to confuseall of us.” His reference was to the fact some cities and towns observe the law's mandate and others remain on year-around “fa«t” time. Another major issue of the 1959 Assembly — reapportionment —also apparently will be sidestepped with a resolution creating a sjtudy committee to report to the 1961 lawmakers. The Senatepassed joint resolution setting up the study got past second reading in the House, along with an amendment by Rep. Carrol Dennis (D-Indiana polis) which reminds the state auditor that the Constitution requires him to conduct, an enumeration in 1960 for the purposes of reapportionment. An effort by Rep. Richard Wright (R-Winchester) to knock out the section added by Dennis was tabled, 45-38. The .last enumeration was in 1935, the last reapportionment in 1921, Dennis said. The House also passed and sent to the Senate a minimum wage bill calling for $1 an hour and overtime after eight hours for many thousands of persons not now covered by interstate wage rules. Excluded are employers of less than 20 persons, hospitals, charitable institutions and homes for the aged. An amendment also excluding the canning industry was added before the bill was passed 66-22. \

Decotur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 4,1959.

Eisenhower Warns On War Scare Stemming On East-West Tensiop

p - r" ' w~- — -.--y ■ —- ~ T I I III * ■ 4 J?M MACMILLAN ENDS SOVIET VISIT—At the end of his visit to Russia British Prime Minister Harold MacMJllan (left! shakes hands with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev after announcing complete disagreement during their summit talks on Germany and a Soviet . promise of early negotiations to save “peace and security.” MacMillan announced on his return to London he hoped to report personally to President Eisenhower in Washington and “concert our jpolicies.” ......... ..

. ■—... J-. .... —_ . Cautious Note Os Optimism

WASHINGTON' (UPD — President Eisenhower said today the Western “Allies were somdwhat optimistic as a result of Russia’s latest note on the Berlin crisis. He indicated the United States wad Willing to consider all kinds of solutions for tile problem of German unification and peace treaty. Eisenhower told his news conference7 that the note from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last Monday was filled with distortions, but it shows a somewhat less rigid attitude on the part of the Soviet leader. The President just a week ago attacked the stubborn attitude of Khrushchev on the Berlin crisis and said this dimmed the hopes of negotiating any settlement. Eisenhower reoeated again that the United Scales will never abandon its r'ghts and responsibilities in Berlin. And he again rejected the idea of a summit conference without some assurance that constructive steps would come out of such a parley. While the President’s news conference was in nrogress, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London called on the West to study the possibility of a partial pull back from Central Europe to prevent war. The prime minister told the House of Commons that he and Khrushchev had a “useful and constructive discussion” on limiting nuclear and conventional forces in an area of Central Europe. He said the matter should be further studied by all the countries concerned. Eisenhower said the United States and its Allies are taking as optimistic a view aspossible of the Berlin situation since Khrushchev’s latest .proposals. He said a hopeful aspect of the Russian vote was Khrushchev's admission that something might be accomplished by u a foreign ministers’ conference, instead of a summit meeting. This indicates some lessening of the rigidity of previous Russian proposals, Eisenhower said. He added that this was the positive side of the Russian note and the United States, in consultation with its Allies, was considering it is optimistically as possible at the moment. The President’s indication of willingness to consider various solutions to the German problem came when he was asked to comment on Khrushchev’s insistence that there should be separate treaties with the East and West Germany. •

Easter Bunny To Aid Spring Opening For Decatur Stores Next to Santa Claus, nothing intrigues little children (or grownups) as much as the Easter Bunny, and the white-haired hare will be in Decatur all day Saturday to greet shoppers r.nd hand out Easter eggs at- many of the local stores. The bunny is part of the promotion for “Spring Opening", sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Residents are invited to visit the participating stores, and register for the 7-piece bronze-color-ed dinette set which will be given away to some lucky person. The set is on display in the window of the Chamber of Commerce. Store windows and merchandising displays on the inside are geared to the holiday theme. Store managers expect many gersons to register for the contest because the warm weather affords many an opportunity that was lacking all winter Jong.

■ —- - - State Senate Boosts Budget - . - ■ — —

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Senate, ignoring a warning from the state auditor that a financial crisis may lie ahead, went on a big spending spree Tuesday night and tacked nearly 19 million dollars to the biennial budget. State Auditor Albert Steinwedel, a Democrat who took office only last December, gave the senators a pessimistic picture of revenues below business experts’ estimates. But his speech, just before the Senate met as a committee of the whole to study the record billiondollar budget bills, apparently fell on deaf ears. When the senators finished with the bills late Tuesday night, they had increased the proposed budget for tiie next two years to almost $1,061,000,000, a sum nearly 19 millicm dollars higher than the $1,041,800,000 proposed by Governor Handley’s budget committee. Much Compromising Ahead The bills still must go through second reading, where further amendment may /be made, adding or subtracting sumfe now included, and final passage. But when the bills go to a

Heavy Absenteeism At Schools Due To Flu • Absenteeism at local schools swelled above the normal figure today as many schools reported increases in flu cases. Spot checks throughout the county also showed vast increases, although not sufficient to cause an epidemic scare. Decatur high school reported 118 of 480 pupils absent, but of course, these are not all out with the flu. Monmouth reports twice as many absent as usual, but this is not an alarming figure, either. Flu at Pleasant Mills is slacking off with only 12 children out of school today. Adams Central gives a figure of 99 of 915 absent. Berne reports 180 pupils out from its entire enrollment. In Decatur’s elementary schools, 47 of 850 are out at the Lincoln school, while 15 of 293 are out at the Northwest school. Included in these out at Decatur high are three of the first, five basketball players, Larry Daniels, Bob Shraluka, and Rich Canales. Coach Paul Bevilhimer did not indicate how this would affect his practice sesions for the regional game Saturday with Fort Wayne South Side. $25,000 In Damages Is Sought In Suit A complaint case seeking $25,000 in damages for personal injuries suffered in a two-car collision February 17, 1957, at the intersection of a county road and U. S. 33 about 2&mites east of Decatur, has been filed in the Adams circuit court by Marie Lambert against Lawrence A. Michel and Faye Michel. According to the original complaint, the plaintiff states that Faye Michel was the driver of the auto involved in the collision while Marie L ambert was a P as " senger in the same motor vehicle. The plaintiff alleges in the original complaint that as a result of the collision, the plaintiff was thrown with great force about and upon the various parts and Continued on page flvs INDIANA WEATHER Becoming cloudy tonight with snow extreme north, rata or snow central and rain extreme south late tonight and Thursday. Not quite so cold south tonight. Low tonight 25 to 30 northeast to around 40 southwest. High Thursday low 30s extreme north to the 40s extreme south. Sunset today 6:40 p. m, CDT. Sunrise Thursday 7:13 a.m. CDT. Outlook for Friday: Mostly cloudy north, partly cloudy south ith snow flurries north. Lows 22 to 34. Highs 35 to 42. _

I ——” Senate-House conference committee, as they must, they face almost insurmountable - odds in reaching an acceptable compromise. The House previously passed the budget bills after hacking the appropriations to $1,018,000,000 plus a tentative 20 million dollars for state aid to school teacher sal- | aries, effective .only if revenue is great enough to absorb such an expenditure. The House Democrats did most of their cutting by across-the-board slashes of various departments by 25 to 35 per cent of requested appropriations. The Senate restored most of the slashes and added millions more. The Senate budget package included about $9,600,000 in increases made by the Senate Finance Committee, plus about $9,200,000. State aid to schools received the biggest boost. The original Handley budget called tor about 192 l /a million dollars tor state school aid. Democrats in die House in committed funds. ' The Senate Republicans hiked the amount to raised this to about 206 millions

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower warned today against war scare stemming from East-West tensions, saying the nation’s defenses are powerful and satisfactory for the present. The President said it was true that the United States was forced by Russian propaganda and vituperation to live in a half-world of peace and threat. But he thought it was unwise to devote so much public discussion to the possibility of this country suffering some form of attack. Eisenhower, speaking specifically of the Strategic Air Command, said he saw no present need 1 for an airborne alert with bombers constantly aloft. But he thought the day might come when such an alert would be necessary. For the moment, he said emphatically, measures taken by the Defense Department are completely adequate. Other highlights of the President’s news conference: —He was highly pleased over the success of the latest moon rocket, Pioneer IV. At the time of his news conference, the satellite had gone 203.000 miles from the earth, sending back what the President said was very interesting information on the belt of radioactivity around the world. —He was happy to report that cancer-tricken Secetary of State John Foster Dulles, has responded beautifully to the injection Tuesday of radioactive gold. ..■.'l-..—-—He again rejected the idea of a summit conference without some assurance that constructive steps would come out of such a meeting. * —Told of Democratic threats to supplemental appropriations for fiscal 1959 into next year and thus seriously unbalance his budget. Eisenhower said heatedly he could not imagine anything worse than throwing a budget out of balance for political purposes. He said the most recent Russian note was filled wtih propaganda distortions, but was somewhat hopeful in its admission that

Pioneer Speeds For Rendezvous At Moon

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Pioneer IV hourly soared nearer the moon today and the moment when it becomes a true planet of the sun. The 13.4-pound capsule of scientific instruments reached an titude of 207,608 miles above the earth at 10 a.m. c.s.t. and was clipping along at 4,689 miles an hour. At that hour it had completed about five-sixths of its flight toward a late - afternoon rendezvous with the moon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the little space probe, launched at 11:10

more than 210 millions, approving that item by a 26-20 roll call vote after a plea for economy by gens. Richard Ristine of Crawfordsville, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and D. Russell Bontrager (R-Elkhari). Governor Might. Veto Ristine warned that the governor might veto the budget and call i a special session “to undo some of the damage we’re doing here tonight.” Handley had said previously the budget could stand an increase of around nine million dollars if the additional money were spent for such things as a teen-age intermediate penal institution and an appropriation tor the Veterans Memorial School Construction Fund. But he warned he would veto a deficit-spending budget. Bontrager warned that the adoption of a red-ink budget would “hasten the day when the situation in Indiana will parallel that in Michigan.” Senators also added $400,000 to the budget tor the state park division of the Conservation Department-, SIOO,OOO for the state forestry division, $44,600 for the state | oil and gas inspection division.

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something could be accomplished in a foreign ministers’ conference. He promised that the Western Allies would answer the note as constructively as possible. In a discussion of national defense, he said this.country would have to act as rapidly as possible if there was evidence of enemy missiles or planes coming in our direction. In such a circumstance, he said a president would have to act but that this in no way changed the constitutional right of Congress to declare war. The President’s discussion of international tension provoked by statements of Soviet Premier NH-; kita Khrushchev and other Russian leaders came up repeatedly during Eisenhower’s meeting with 230 reporters. This was the chief executive’s eighth straight news conference this year. Mrs. Corine Hough Is Taken By Death Mrs. Corine Hough. 18, a native of Decatur, died Tuesday morning at her home on the Jay-Adams county line northeast of Bryant after an extended illness. Surviving are the husband. Bur* ley Ray Hough; her parents, Mr. and Jdrs. Goy DuWn.-ofDecaturj two brothers, Alvi and Billy Dulin, of Decatur, and eight sisters, Mrs. Gladys Mowman. Mrs. Ula F. Gallawoy, and Dollie, Sarah Jean, Patty Lou and Linda Sue ' Dulin.allofDecatur, and MrS» Maxine Shauver, Bryant. The body is at the Baird funeral home, Portland, but will be j taken to the home of the parents, t where friends may call after 2 p. . m. today. Services will be at 2 p. m. ■ Friday at the Riverside Mission church on the Jay-Adams county line, with burial in the Gravel . Hill cemetery.

p.m. c.s.t. Monday at Cape Canaveral, Fla., will reach the point of its nearest approach Jto the moon at 4:24 p.m. c.s.t. At that time it will be 239,000 miles above the earth. It will be 37,000 miles from the moon, plus or minus 2,000 miles, the NASA calculated. At 8 a.m. c.s.t., Pioneer IV was 198,323 miles above the earth, speeding along at 4,742 miles an hour. Officials said that only a collision with a meteorite could stop the 13.4-pound satellite from joining Russia's 3,245-pound Lunik iq orbit around the sun. But Pioneer IV’s timetable was set back. When the satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday, scientists had hoped it would .reach the vicinity of the moon at 10 a.m., today. The time was pushed back to 2 p.m. when it was discovered the satellite was slightly off course and another recalculation late Tuesday established the 5:24 p.m. rendezvous. The deviation in course also swung Pioneer IV farther away from the moon than the 15,000 miles originally predicted and cancelled out two experiments to be triggered near the moon. Nevertheless, the project was considered an unqualified success and President Eisenhower hailed it as “a splendid achievement” marking another major step in scientific space exploration. It already has gone farther than arjy man-made object except the Lunik. The best previous performance by an American space probe was the 71,300 miles traveled by Pioneer I last November. > 4 While the deviation in ccfifte knocked out a planned test of a camera - triggering device and measurement of radiation in vicinity of the moon, officials still exjpected to acquire a mass of scientific data from Pioneer IV.