Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1959 — Page 1

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Compromise r Is Sought On Record Budget

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A conference committee was expected to tackle the Indiana Legislature’s biggest headache today in an effort to Compromise a 35 million dollar difference between Republican and Democratic versions of the record billion-dollar biennial budget The Senate passed the big budget bill Thursday night, but it was so greatly changed from the form it had when the House passed it previously that hours of work and dozens of concessions remained to be made before the measure can be sent to Governor Handley’s dfesk in the last hours of the 61-day session, due to end Monday midnight. The budget as originally submitted by the Handley administration to the lawmakers called for expenditures of $1,041,000,000, about 53 million dollars higher than the budget for the current biennium which ends next July 1. What’s “Safe” Figure? “ The Democratic - controlled House slashed the budget with arww.the-board cuts of 25 to 35 per cent and came up with a version to spend $1,018,000,000, plus about 20 million dollars for additional state aid to teacher salaries if the state revenues were great enough. The Republican-controlled Senate restored most Democratic cuts and added items which boosted the budget to about $1,053,000,000 Handley and his budget experts apparently believed a safe budget would be somewhere between I $1,050,000,000 and $1,057,000,000. I The most dramatic change made before the Senate passed the big budget bill by a 41-8 vote was in the state school aid item. The original budget called for about 191 & million dollars for school aid. The House raised it to about JOT millions, plus about 20 millions more contingent on adequate state revenue. The Senate slashed it to about 202 million dollars and reduced the extra amount which might be available under the escalator clause from 20 to 17 millions. Met With Hau*Uey The school aid slash apparently came after a meeting in Handley’s office during which the governor was reported to have made . a vigorous demand “that the Senate GOP bloc hold the line on school aid or face the threat of a veto of die budget bil. Sen. Charles R. Kellum (RMooresville) earlier had rammed through an amendment adding eight million dollars to school aid. raising it to more than 210 milIkms. After toe conference with ~ Handley, he voted to nullify it Kellum said the cut was “a disappointment to me” but he "recognized an area of party responsibility is involved.” Democratic minority senators seemed pleased only that the Republicans retained the escalator clause for school aid. But through floor leader Matthew Welsh of Vincennes, they chided the GOF.

Eight Men Killed In Marine Plane Crash

CHERRY POINT, N. C. (UPD— A Marine Corps Flying Boxcar crashed and burned early today while trying to make an instrument landing during a violent rainstorm. Eight of the nine men / /aboard were killed. The plane, whipped by heavy winds and blinding rain, crashed / , into a dense swamp only a few yards from a busy highway. Names of the eight victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The lone survivor was identified as Sgt. Ralph Mauro Jr., Hamden, Conn. He was a radio operator in the *crew of six aboard the/ transport plane which also carried three passengers. Mauro was listed in "critical” condition from injuries suffered in the crash. He was transferred, to the Camp Lejeune Marine base hospital about 30 miles from the air station here. A Marine spokesman said the plane was on a routine transport flight at the time of the crash.

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Cub Scouts Planning Future Activities The committee of Cub Scout pack 3062 met in the office of Donald Norquest, institutional representative of the Lincoln school P.T.A., Thursday evening. Plans for the pack meeting Tuesday, March 24, were the main topic of discussion. Also discussed was the next meeting of the Lincoln P.T.A., scheduled for Tuesday. March 17. At this meeting, the renewed charters of packs 3061 and 3062. both sponsored by the P.T.A. of Lincoln school, will be presented. Clinton Steury, county organization and extension officer for the Boy Scouts, will make the award. Judge Myles F. Parrish, president of the Lincoln P.T.A., has encouraged as many -Cub Scouts and parents as possible to attend the meeting. «■ The pack meeting, the following Tuesday, will begin at 7 p.m., at the Lincoln auditorium. The members of the committee will be introduced to the parents and scouts attending from the four dens. All dens are urged to have some handicraft or projects on display. The topic of den study this month is Canada. I Advancement awards will be 'presented to the parents of the boys earning them. The parents will in turn present the awards to the boys. It is necessary for one of the Scout’s parents to be present before a Cub can receive his advancement award. Hie meeting will last only one hour at the most, and all parents and scouts are urged to I Application forms were distributed to the dens represented at the committee meeting, and will be passed on to the other dens today. Any boys in the area of pack 3962, the south end of town, are encouraged to contact an active Cub scout after their eighth birthday, so they can become affiliated with the pack. •Training'sessions tor any person interested in helping with the Cub Scout program are planned in Adams county. The sessions will be held in the Geneva high school building at 7:30 p.m., starting Monday. March 9, and running two more consecutive Mondays. These meetings will be of interest to den mothers, pack administrators and committee members. Billy Murray, Ted Eyanson. Donald Norquest, Harry Schwartz. Jay Markley and Jack Heller at* tended the committee meeting. They encouraged any advice or help on the improvement of the pack, and broadening the Cub Scout program in Decatur.

He said weather conditions were “turbulent and very, very poor. We believe it had a bearing on the crash.” The exact cause, however, was not known. Rites Saturday For Mrs. Leßoy Hansell Mrs. Leßoy Hansell, 64, the former Geraldine McMillen of Van Wert, 0., died Sunday at Memphis, Tenn., following a long illness. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Ann Rudnick of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Nell Richison of Fort Wayne; a brother, Dale W. McMillen of Fort Wayne, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Alspach funeral home in Van Wert, the Rev. Robert McCachran officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert.

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Gale Driven Snow Powers To Northeast United Freaa International A windstorm acting like a tornado damaged an auto plant at Monroe, Mich., today and sections of the Midwest struggled to free roads and streets from snowfalls up to 20 indies deep in some areas. In lowa, 4-year-old Carolyn Cotton and her father George, 30, suffocated in a snowdrift near Waukee. Their car stalled and they apparently fell into the drift while trying to reach a farmhouse. lowa counted 10 dead from auto accidents, slippery roads, or heart attacks brought on by exertion. Two deaths in Illinois, and one each in Oklahoma and Wisconsin brought the total dead to 14 in the latest of the winter storms. The storm was blowing into the northeastern states with heavy snow warnings for northern Michicago and parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. lowa Hard Hit At Monroe, a 60-foot section of cement block wall and windows were blown from a steel storage building of the Ford parts manufacturing plant Two roof sections were gone and workers automobiles parked nearby were damaged. In the main plant 300 persons were at work, but none was hurt. A Weather Bureau spokesman would not label the storm a tornado but would not rule out the possibility. He said a squall line passed through northern Ohio and could have reached into Michigan. lowa was perhaps the hardest hit of the mid western states by snow. Driving winds swept snows of up to 16 inches into drifts, and traffic was almost at a standstill throughout the .state. Hundreds of schools were closed Thursday and today. In Wisconsin, the state patrol reported 16 to 20 inches of new snow in the La Crosse area. Roads were closed in 10 epunties. Schools closed in Sheboygan and Wausau today, and handicapped children were told to stay home in Madison. School busses picked up only the children who could reach plowed roads. Three busloads of children were kept overnight at Ripon High School. Games at 15 Wisconsin high school basketball tournament sites were snowed out. Many Travellers Trapped In the eastern states, heavy rains were reported at many points. At Charleston, S.C., nearly 4% inches of rain fell Thursday (Continued on pa-K-e two) 24 Projects Offered For 4-H Clubbers Adams county 4-H clubs, which are among the 3,336 in Indiana celebrating national 4-H week, Feb. 28 to March 7, are offering 24 projects this year tor local youths from the age of 10 to 20 years, inclusive. County agent Leo Seltenright points to the more than 3,100 4-H alumni over the past five years as examples of what good the projects have done for community betterment. Two of this group have brought distinction to themselves and credit to the county, having earned state honors for 4-H projects. Roger Koenenman went to Washington, D.C., for the national competition in 1954 and Arnold Gerke earned the trip the following year. The current list of 32 county winners was announced in Tuesday’s edition of the Daily Democrat. The 24 f projects available this year are: alfalfa, beef, beef cattle, horsemanship and colt, corn, dairy, dual purpose cattle, entomolgy, electric, farm shop, forestry, garden, leadership, lamb, oats, pig poultry, potato, rabbit, soil conservation, soybean, tomato, wheat, and wildlife. And if the “city slickers” believe that these are just for “farmers” they should check the rosters of the local clubs. Many urban youths take advantage of these ex-tra-curricular activities to further their knowledge of the community. For further information, stop in at the county agent’s office. The presentation of the 4-H project awards will be made Friday by Seltenright at Adams Central high school at a meeting. Mrs. E. Quesenberry, northern Indiana adult 4-H leader, will be the main speaker. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. ri /- i i -

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Senate Passes Judge Pay Hike

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana Legislature voted Thursday night to have a commission study the question of legislative reapportionment, and to raise the salaries of more than 100 county and state judges. A Senate resoluation aimed at postponing for two years any definite action on reapportionment passed the. House 84-4, after an amendment to require an enumeration of adult males in 1960 was stricken out. The Senate passed 32-11 a House bill raising the average salary of county judges from SIO,OOO to $12,800 and state supreme and appellate court judges from $15,000 to SIB,OOO. On second reading, the House approved a bill to control milk prices and establish a commission to regulate the dairy industry after beating down so-called “crippling” amendments. The Senate-passed bill is eligible for a Flu Bug Continues To Hamper Schools Absenteeism at Decatur’s local school continues to rise at very ■ slow rate, while county schools appear to be holding their own with the flu bug. Decatur high school had 140 out today, an increase of three over yesterday’s total. Only one basketball player is reported out of school and that is substitute center, Bob Frauhiger. Decatur Catholic high school reports “slightly more than normal" | out with 20 of 150 in the high school and 18 of 550-at St. Joseph’s grade school. The elementary school total is considered “normal” for this time of year. Adams Central listed 143 home from the entire school enrollment of more than 900, while Pleasant Mills puts its total at 13, one more than yesterday. In Decatur’s elementary schools. Lincoln’s total continues to increase as 82 are absent, compared with 67 yesterday and 48 Wednesday. The Northwest school has 32 out, showing an increase of six over yesterday and 17 over Wednesday’s mark.

final legislative showdown today. Lights Burn Late The lights in the Statehouse burned well into the night as the Legislature worked frantically to dispose of a' logjam of bills with only a few hours of legal life remaining in the 61-day session which opened Jan. 8. Sixty-four House-passed bills were on the Senate agenda for third reading when the day began Thursday. The upper chamber passed 15 of them and then suspended rules to take the budget on second reading. Severpi of the bills were of more than passing importance, among them HB 290, a measure, which “calls for eu entirely new venture in the financing of Indiana schools.” The bill, which passed 40-8, provides for a county-wide tax levy of 25 cents per SIOO of assessed valuation, to be distributed .to school corporations -within the county on a per pupil basis. Sen. D. Russell Bontrager (RElkhart), the sponsor, said the measure was a companion bill to H 8276 and “actually would not affect most areas.” Would Penalize Some H 8276 provides that local school corporations levy a 50 cents per SIOO valuation assessment before they are eligible for state school aid. He said the 25 cents provided in H 8290 could be deducted from the amount assessed in H 8276.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. C. W. Wilson) “THE BRIDGE” II Peter 3:1-9 We are on the'bridge between two pillars of time. Namely, the first coming of Christ and the second coming of Christ. He came the first time to make our Salvation possible. His second coming is to call those who are His. Our position at present is that of looking back upon what has happened and looking forward to what is to happen. We do not know when he is coming so our attitude must be that of preparation. As in the days of Peter, there are scoffers and those who prefer to be ignorant. Individuals should realize that ignorance will excuse no one. We are a Nation so full of light that we are blind to truth. We have ears but refuse to listen. We have eyes but refuse to see. “The Lord is not slack Concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” II Peter 3:9.

Lowell J. Smith To Head Library Board Lowell J. Smit/, history teacher at Decatur high school and a member of the Decatur library board for seven years, was named president of the board, succeeding the late Dr. N. A. Bixler. Smith has taught in the Decatur school system since 1931. A scoutmaster in the Decatur Lions troop 62 for 18 years, he is also a lay leader in the Methodist church. He was appointed to the library board by the Adams circuit court in 1952. Other officers of the library board, which reorganized in January, are Raymond Kohne, vicepresident; Mrs. Hugh J. Andrews, treasurer; and Mrs. Alma Brayton treasurer. •hie library, which was open just 12 days during February, issued 5,119 books, as compared with 3.822 in the entire month of February , a year ago. Os the 5,119 distributed, 3,838 were in the children’s department, and 1,281 in the adult section. Fort Wayne Company Low On Big Contract CHICAGO (UPfl—A Fort Wayne Ind., construction company apparently has won a multi-million dollar contract frofn the Air Force, Air Force officials announced Thursday that the C &O Construction Co. was apparent low bidder on a sewage plant at the new Richard I. Bong Air Force Base at Kansasvilie, Wis. The company submitted a bid of $2,171,876. ' Officials said the contract would be awarded Trithin a week.

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Elsenhower gave congress sional leaders of both parties a 90-minute fill-in on the Berlin crisis today and received a pledge of united support for his firm stand. “The upshot is that we are united,” Speaker Sam Rayburn, said after the White House conference. "We don’t have parties in this thing.” . * “We think with the President that we must be firm and remain so,” Rayburn said. Rayburn, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson ( Sen? ate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck conferred with the President. Others present at the meeting were Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, Director Allen Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, and members of the White House staff. Joining in Rayburn’s comments, Halleck said that while this nation is going to remain firm in the Berlin dispute, “every honorable avenue for peace will be explored." Johnson said that “it would be foolish to pretend that we do not regard It (the Berlin situation) as a matter of concern.” ..sfc“I think we should say in language that all will understand that the Communists will discover that this country and its free Allies are aetermined to preserve the free world,” Johnson said. 'He said there is “no thought of • yielding to pressure,” but ths* titis . country is willing to negotiate with the Soviet Union about the . future of Germany. Dirksen said the President and four leaders took “a common and unified position.” Rayburn said there was no administration request for congres-

Flood Control Act Is Signed

; INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Governor Handley isgned into law today the first of three major bills involved in what probably is the most extensive flood control program in Indiana history. Handley signed a bill appropriating $1,250,000 for the Monroe Reservoir and dams on the Mississinewa, Salamonie and Wabash rivers, a fraction of the total cost of the projects, most of which will be borne by federal funds. Another bill appropriating $155,000 for flood control work and studies on the White, Wabash, Patoka, Whitewater, Kankakee, Yellow, Maumee, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers has been passed by both houses and .is nearly ready for Handley’s signature. : . ' " A third bill, establishing a twomillion dollar revolving fund from which local communities may borrow for flood control projects, passed the House early this morning 78-0 and needed only Senate concurrence in minor amendments before it goes to Handley. The general interst in solving the state’s flood problem was shown by the fact that only four dissenting votes were cast against the entire three-bill package as it rolled through the Legisltaure. 2 Floods Hit Two rounds of damaging floods, the worst in some areas since 1913, picked an appropriate time to hit Hoosierland. They came while the Legislature was in session and pointed "up sharply the .need for a costly program, promptly administered, in an effort to prevent such occurrences in the future. Floods hit other states, too, while Congress was in session.

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sional a ctton and that he did not think the House would want to take any. Eisenhower conferred with the ' congressional chieftains after the , White House announced that he and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would meet here March 20 to discuss the Berlin problem. . White Hem* Press Secretary James C. Hhgerty said the British jeader wafted to report to the President on MS recent Moscow talks with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. said Macmillan and his Selwyn Lloyd, will arrive March 19. The talks, Hagerty said, would last "a few days.” INDIANA WEATHER Light snow north and central, a few snow flurries ex- ~ treme south this afternoon and -r evening With snow accumulations of 2 to 3 inches likely north andcentral portions. Mostly cloudy, a few snow flurries north, heavy near Lake Michigan and colder tonight. Strong winds west to northwest at 25 to 40 miles per hour late this afternoon and tonight, diminishing slowly lutetonight. Saturday partly cloudy, a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan and not much change in temperature. Low tonight in the 20s. High Saturday 30s north and central, 35 to 43 extreme south. Sunset today 6:42 p.m. ’ CDT Sunrise Saturday 7:10 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy with not [ much change in temperatures and snow north and chance of rain south by evening or night. Low Saturday night 18 to 30. High Sunday 35 to 45.

' and the result was immediate planning of an extensive federal program to aid the states in their projects. Hodse Republican leader Charles A. Halleck, a Hoosier, said< only Thursday in Washington that federal funds may be available soon for flood control work on the upper reaches of the Wabash. Halleck said money for final , design and engineering work may [ be made available from Army - engineers funds not yet earmark- ' ed for specific work. ■ Cost of a three-reservoir project l in the upper Wabash has been i estimated at more than 42 million , dollars, based on 1954 price levels. .| ' ■ L Home Talent ShowzL-zz ’ To Present Second Performance Tonight Decatur’s home talent show, "Around the World in a Daze,” ! makes its final appearance on the ’ Decatur high school stage tonight - ' at 8 o’clock. Tickets are available t at the door until curtain time. This will be the last chance for local musical comedy lovers to see the take-off on "Around the World J in 80 Days” as done by Decatur’s j most apt artisans. 1 Proceeds from both perform an- • ces will go to purchase an "isolet- ■ te” for Adams county memorial • hospital. The machine is of the ■ incubator variety and most funci tional for keeping pre-mature births alive. The talent show is , sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi sor- , ority. - • - - - --- ,-