Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 58.

91st General Assembly Adjourns At Midnight; Price Control Vetoed

Little Action On Final Day

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Cist Indiana General Assembly adjourned its 61-day session almost on the stroke of midnight early today. The Senate quit almost precisely at 12 o’clock (c.s.t). The House stopped three minutes later. An ear-splitting roar of approval greeted Sen. C. Wendell Martin, Senate president pro tern, when he moved to adjourn. The House “stopped the clock” and worked for two minutes after the official closing hour before Speaker Birch Bayh signaled the end of the session. Very little was done on the last day. Members of both houses spent the waning hours singing songs, autographing legislative di-, rectories, wandering around the halls and giving impromptu: speeches and presentations. Only occasionally did they de-, sert their playmaking to .approve! conference committee reports on bills already passed but amended: on the way to enactment.’ The re- i mainder of the time was spent) waiting for the printers to return copies of bills to be sent to Gbver- i nor Handley for his signature. I Jobless Pay Hiked At least one important piece of I legislation was finalized as the I last few hours ticked away. 1 A conference committee agreed on an unemployment compensation bill which would provide $36 a week for 26 weeks. The measure, which was expected to get Handley’s approval, -carried an emergency clause which would put it into effect before the end of the week. Looking back over the 61 days of the session, few could refute the "do nothing” tag hung on toe politically divided General Assembly. The bills that faded to get anywhere, both good and bad, far outnumbered the few that were passed and sent to the governor. Topping toe list of achievements was passage of the budget and four important flood control measures. Both houses earlier approved, by voice vote, a two-year budget which added up to $1,052,937,000. That was considerably more than the $1,041,000,000 budget presented, by Handley at toe start of the session. Geimer Infant Dies At Hospital Today Anna Marie Geimer, infant daughter of Gerald and Marjorie Meyers-Geimer, 715 St. Mary’s street, died at 11 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she was born at 8 p.m. Monday. Surviving in addition to toe parents are five brothers and sisters, David. Dennis, Philip, Patricia and Linda; and the following grandparents. Mrs. Verena Meyers, Cornelius Geimer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geimer and Mrs. Anna Meyers, all of Decatur. Services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rev. Robert Contant officiating. Burial win be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may caU at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Lenten Meditation The Art Os Relaxation “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.”—Eccl. 9:11. About 10 years ago Owen Murphy started a little factory in a bam to make relaxing machines. Toddy the company has five factories and does an annual business erf $25,000,000. Murphy predicts it will go to $100,000,000 in'five more years. This story dramatizes our pathetic dependence on quick, mechanical methods to relieve tensions. But these do not correct the real causes of tension. One of these is the fact that our ambitions often outrun our abilities. For much of our anxiety comes from our desperate efforts to get ahead in the world. To be sure, it is good to dream and to strive. But if our striving makes nervous wrecks out of us, we had better get another dream. It is folly to live beyond our means—mentally, physically, vocationally, of financially. ■ The writer of our text spoke cynically. But he spoke better than he knew. For those whose faith is in God can learn to live within their limitations. Then we. can do our work without undue strain or fatigue. And in so doing, we honor the Creator who made us as we are.

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Actually, however, the budget was closer to $1,061,500,000. A host of appropriation bills passed by both houses added about 8(4 million dollars to -he approved budget figure. Os toe additional funds, about 3>4 millions were tacked on by virtue of a measure which would place disabled persons on state welfare. Die bill faces a possible veto by Handley. Another $3,400,000 was appropriated for flood control, about one million for school building loans, $300,000 for a Chain O’Lakes State Park in northeastern Indiana, $300,000 for teachers’ pensions and $250,000 for distressed schools. About a dozen other bills made up the remainder of the addi- < itional funds. --- The four flood bills provided: i —Two million dollars to be made available for loans to local | communities in their fight against ! recurring floods. —5155,000 for flood control projlects on the White, Wabash, St. Jo- ' sei*, St- Mary’s, Maumee. Pajtoka. Whitewater, Kankakee and Yellow Rivero. . " | —51,250,000 tor the long-planned j Monroe Reservoir and dams on , the Mississinewa, Salamonie and | Wabash Rivers. . • Enactment of the Wabash ‘Valley Compact with Illinois, a two-state plan to end the annual communities along toe Wabash in Indiana and Illinois. Steve Sutton Wins Oratorical Contest Steve Sutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C. Sutton. won toe first phase of the annual Knights of Columbus oratorical contest Monday night at the local K. of C. hall. Sutton bested Robert Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy, Jr., by one point in a very evenly contested meet. Both lads are seniors at Decatur Catholic high school. The subject of the contest was “Patriotism is a moral duty.” Sutton told of every American’s debt 1 of honor, respect, and service due God, parents and country. He further went on to exemplify the good citizen. Sutton said that Americans can and must study candidates before an election to exercise their privileges as citizens, thus assuring continuance of toe American way of life. He also pointed out that participation is / fundamental to “our way of life—the young American serves in the military because his love of country demands it.” Sutton will now compete in the regional contest at Huntington later this month. The judges, from the Fort Wayne council, were John Mertes, instructor at North Side high school; Carl Kohne, U.S. post office, and Cletus Junk, partner in the Cham-berlin-Junk Advertising agency. The latter two are former Decatur residents. Carl Braun, past grand knight, was master of ceremonies for toe contest. Art Lengerich, grand knight, presented each boy with a cash award.

Mrs. Agnes Sudduth Dies This Morning Mrs. Agnes Ada Sudduth, 70, of Washington township, died unexpectedly at her home at 3:30 a.m. today after being ill for four weeks. * She was born March 19, 1888 in Monroe township, the daughter of Aaron and Celia Smith Odle. She married Walter F. Sudduth, who survives, on July 26, 1906. A member of W.S.W.S., she also belonged to the Evangelical United Brethren church. She spent her entire life in or near Decatur. Other survivors are a son, the Rev. Argo B. Sudduth, Delphos, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Chalmer (Marie) Werst, Decatur, and Mrs. Leo (Betty) Beard, Decatur; four great - grandchildren and four grandchildren. Two daughters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Zwick funeral home Friday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Sudduth officiating: Buriat will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Discuss Extending Jobless Pay Plans

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower and Republican congressional leaders today discussed Democratic proposals to extend the jobless pay program for another year, but reached no conclusions. House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck, (Ind.) told newsmen the discussions still are in a preliminary stage. He refused to say what stand the administration would take, but said it was “hoped, within limits, that it (an extension) can be kept temporary.” Secretary of Labor James P z Mitchell sat in on the weekly White House legislative meeting.' He has suggested that the administration send Congress a plan of its own rather than merely oppose the Democratic proposal for a one-year extension beyond April 1. Halleck said there was no discussion of an alternate plan Mitchell is said to favor — that Congress enact minimum federal standards on the amounts and duration of jobless pay provided under the state - operated programs. One Republican lawmaker said the issue was whether the White House should back a relief extension, perhaps three months, to take the Republicans off a political hot spot. The administration faced this problem: If no new legislation is enacted payments will be cut off abruptly on April 1 for about 300,000 jobless 'persons. But enactment of the Democratic plan would throw the President’s narrowly balanced budget into the red. Mrs. Caroline Sallot is Taken By Death Mrs. Caroline Sallot, 66, a native of Monroe township, died at her home in Berne Monday at 3:45 p.m. after a four-month long illness of carcinoma. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Sarah Beer, Berne; four brothers, Ermin and Raymond Beer, Berne, Elmer C. Beer, near Berne, and Merlin Beer, near Geneva; five siatfers, Mrs. Lillie Rich of Monroe, Mrs. Noah Roth of Decatur, Mrs... Ed Spichiger, Linn Grove, Mrs. Henry Nussbaum, near Berne, Mrs. Edna Schindler, Berne. " The body is at the Yager funeral home, where friends may call. Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home, the Rev. C. A. Schmid, pastor of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church, officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 10, 1959.

To Veto Price Control Bills

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Handley announced today he is vetoing two price control bills passed by the Indiana Legislature. One “fair trade” bill would permit the establishment of minimum prices on most commodities except food and clothing. The other would set cost as the minimum price for milk and milk products and create a dairy industry regulating board. Handley said the “fair trade" bill’s constitutionality was ques tioned by the attorney general. Furthermore, he said it is a form of control and regimentation and the citizens would pay higher prices. “Consumers of Indiana, and that means everybody, would suffer under the regulation proposed by toe bill,” said Handley in a veto statement. “Free citizens have developed and prospered under a system

! Appraisers Named : For Power Utility r Judge Myles F. Parrish, of the i Adams circuit court, announced • late Monday afternoon the ap- - pointment of three Adams county - freeholders to appraise the city I electric utility. Named as apt praisers were: Guy T. Shoemakt er, of Largo, Fla.. Robert Long. of Geneva, and Eli Graber, of . Berne. ' Judge Parrish stated in his an- . nouncement that appointing three ■ appraisers was rather difficult f because the three persons had to ■ be freeholders within the county. • but were not to be residents of I Decatur. In making his selection, Judge Parrish appointed a civil • engineer, an electrical engineer, i and a professional appraiser. t Shoemaker is a resident of Larl go, Fla., and a freeholder in HartI ford township. He is a 1910 gradL uate of Purdue University. Since . that time he was associated with Utilities Operations in charge of I design and construction of power . plants, sub stations, and distributing systems, throughout the i United States. In 1935 he was appointed vice president and manager of the Kansas City Power & Light company. Shoemaker re- ’ tired in 1951. He is an electrical ; engineer. Long is a resident of Geneva, graduate of Geneva high school, and a veteran Os World War 11. 1 He is at present a reserve officer in the enginees corps of the Unit- ' ed States Army, holding the rank of major. Long is maintenance engineer of the Wiedler levy at the Wabash river in Geneva, and a farmer and freeholder in Wabash township. He is a civil engineer. Graber is a resident of Berne ' and a freeholder in Monroe town- . ship. He is a former French ' township trustee and a former ’ member of the Adams county welfare board. He is a professional appraiser for an insurance company. Evans Funeral Rites Wednesday Afternoon Funeral arrangements for Lewis E. Evans, who died Monday at the Adams county memorial hospital, have been completed. Services will be held at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home in Geneva at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday, the Rev. C. E. Snyder officiating. 1 Burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery, east of Berne. f

which imposes as few controls as possible. State government has not yet become the dominant force in the daily lives of its citizens. They have been able to handle their own affairs without a bureaucrat sitting at their elbows. “House Bill 5 (fair trade bill) seeks to nullify the law of supply Hnd demand and Inevitably would stifle uninhibited competition and result in higher prices for the consumer. We have seen other states where such regulations are enforced get into grave fiscal and governmental difficulties because their economy was regimented. “A small army of governmental • employes would be required to (enforce this law, and litgation coming from it would fill the calendars of our courts.” ( The governor rejected toe two bills by pocket veto, which means they will not be presented .to the 1961 Legislature for a showdown ion overriding the governor’s action. Handley also announced at a news conference that te will per- ( mit the tavern hours extension bill to become law without his signature. He said he has delivered it to the secretary of stato. The bill allows taverns to stay open an hour later each night. 1 He said he ulso will reject by pocket veto a bill designed to place every disabled person on the public welfare rolls. Handley said the effect of this bill would be to raise the welfare load by about $3,250,009. The bill was “totally misrepresented” to him and the Legislature, Handley said. A bill tightening the state’s not-for-profit corporations law is still ; under study, Handley said. He has J not decided whether to sign Or . veto.

Report Macmillan Heals Allied Split

By WALTER LOGAN United Press International British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Paris for talks with President Charles de Gaulle, was reported today to have mended much of the split in Allied ranks over their approach to the Berlin crisis. He was helped to some extent by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who made an apparent major concession on Berlin Monday night — but one that found no favor with Washington or Bonn. ' Khrushchev sugested that Rusgsia o ahead with its plans to turn West Berlin into a "free city," but he proposed that a token garrison be stationed there made up of Big Four or neutral troops. The plan was criticized in most Western capitals because it did not change Allied determination to resist making West Berlin a free city and because it would introduce Russian troops there for the first time. Plan Helps Macmillan But it helped Macmillan who insists that only negotiations can avert a war over Berlin and who insists that the Soviet Union will relent on its Berlin stand if the negotiations get started. Macmillan got a chilly reception on his arrival in Paris Monday because of reports he favored a policy of partial surrender in Central Europe to previous Soviet calls for a demilitarized zone. But he convinced Premier Michel Debre that Britain is as determined as France to stand firm against Communist pressure in Berlin. He received a boost in this from »West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano who said Macmillan had discussed with the Russians & form of disengagement with which West Germany agrees. Western observers in Berlin said Khrushchev’s new Berlin plan might open the way for a face-saving deal with the West that would prevent war over Berlin. But they cautioned that long

Mrs: D.D. Clark Dies At Anderson Mrs. Mary Clark, 91, former well known Decatur resident, died Monday at Anderson following an illness of several weeks of complications. She Was the widow of Dr. D. D. Clark, prominent Decatur physician until his death many years ago. Mrs. Clark was a member of St. Mary’s catholic church at Anderson. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Btelph (Anna) Amrine and Mrs. Wilbur (Margaret) Poole, both of Anderson; Mrs. George (Vera) Baker of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Virgil (Alice) Van Matre of Muncie; four granchildren and six greit-grandcbildren. She was preceded in death by a son. Dr. John Clark, former Fort Wayne dentist, a daughter, Miss Winifred Clark, and another child who died in infancy. The body was removed to the Waltz & Hiday funeral home in Anderson. Funeral services will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Anderson at 9 o’clock Thursday morning. The body will be brought to Decatur for burial in the Catholic? cemetery. Matthew Welsh Will Speak Here March 24 Decatur will be the scene of an address by the man haijed as the probable Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1960, state Senate minority leader, Matthew—E. Welsh. The senator from Vincennes will speak at the Jefferson)Jackson banquet in the Youth and Community center Tuesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. Members and guests of the Adams county Jefferson club will attend. I As part of the festivities, new officers of the local Club will be • elected. A nominating committee, appointed by the 1958 officers, will announce the slate of candidates during the meeting. Price of the tickets for members will be reduced to 50 cents, while non-members will pay the regular fee of $l5O. Anyone who might wish to attend is encouraged to do so. The 1958 officers of the Jefferson club, Bernard Clark, president; Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, vice president; Ed Jaberg, treasurer, and Mrs. William Hunter, secretary, wish to thank all members for the fine support given throughout last year. They also express their wish that this continues in 1959.

and difficult negotiations lay ahead. Washington dispatches said American officials were confident Khrushchev's alternately hot and cold tactics will not dent the solid Western resistance to his Berlin demands. And they said his “concessions” will not fool any Western officials. < They also dismi c sed hiss new ■BerTTn “concession” on toe ground that the whole idea of a “free city” was not acceptable and that any refinements of the proposal did not make it any more acceptable.

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Puts Defense Above Budget

WASHINGTON <UPI> — President Eisenhower told Republican congressional leaders today that he puts national defense above a balanced budget but feels that his new military budget is "adequate” to defend toe nation. The President’s view was relayed by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) who said after Eisenhower’s weekly meeting with GOP leaders: “He puts toe defense of our country above budget requirements. The defense of our country comes first and will always come first in the minds of the administration.” o This obviously was in reply to Democratic charges that the President is more Concerned with a balanced budget than in providing an "adequate” defense. Saltonstall and House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck said toe overall military spending program is adequate even though the chiefs of the military services had expressed reservations. Taking note of Democratic criticisms that United States should not cut ground forces during the Berlin crisis, Halleck said: “The over - all package for armed defense of the country was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Halleck said the President probably would make known at his news conference Wednesday his position on proposed cuts in the Army and Marine personnel. The Defense Department, meanwhile, announced that toe radar warning line across the top of the continent will be extended across Greenland at a cost of- more than 27 million dollars. The line, built to give warning of a bomber attack, now runs from toe Aleutian Islands, araind Alaska and across Canada to eastern Baffin Island. The President’s fiscal 1960 budget calls for an outlay of nearly 41 billion dollars. “Whenever you spend more than that,” Halleck told reporters ’ you don’t strengthen the defenses but you weaken toe country" by the effect on the economy. Some Dmocrats have challenged Eisenhower’s judgment on the adequacy of the ; defenses that would be provided under the new military budget. Snowfall Results In Rise In River Snow accumulated to ,06 inch, aiding in the rise of St. Mary's river today, according to weather observer Louis-Landrum. The river had dipped slightly over the weekend despite an inch of rainfall and was at 9.90 feet Monday. Today at 7 a.m., it was 10.86 feet. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness this afternoon with some scattered snow ending. Cloudy tonight with rain or snow beginning again southwest. Wet snow extreme north, rain or snow central and rain probably accompanied by thundershowers extreme south x Wednesday. Warmer south. Low tonight mostly 20s north to 30s extreme south. High Wednesday mid 30s extreme north to up- | per 50s extreme souto- Sunset today 6:46 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Wednesday 7:04 a.m. CDTD. Outlook for Thursday: Decreasing cloudiness with little temperature change. Lows 35 to 45. Highs 45 to 55.

Miss Mary Wilder Lions Chib Speaker Interesting colored slides of rural and village life in, France were shown to the Decatur Lions club and members of the Decatur Yellow Jackets sectional championship team by Miss Mary Wilder, home demonstration agent-in-training in Adams county the past month. Boy Scout Zane Zwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zwick, led the group in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Glenn Hill presided at the meeting. Guest Lion, Roy Gilmer of the Fort Wayne Central club, and guests Fred Isch and James Cowens of Decatur were introduced. Frank Lybarger reported that Roy L. Price. Ed Highland, Herb Banning, Fred Corah, Alva Lawson. Leo Seltenright, Cletus Gillman, Roger Gentis, Harry Schwartz and Lybarger had manned the food stand at the McMillen sale recently. Jerry Price also helped at the sale, during which 70 pounds of hamburger and countless cups of coffee, hot dogs, pieces of pie, and other food were sold. Miss Wilder, who spent three and a half months in France visiting with 13 farm families as an international farm youth exchangee. showed colored slides depicting life in the villages where French farmers live, and how 30 per cent of the French people gain their livelihood from farming. The mechanization of the French farm was shown, as were intimate scenes of life from thie kitchen breakfast, to work in the grape harvest, hay making, noon lunch, use of cheese, or wine, transportation, and many other difference! in French and American life. All in all, however, Miss Wilder emphasized, people in France and the United States are really very much alike, and the touching friendliness of every French family, and their interest in America indicated that the people of the world are all truly friendly. Miss Wilder was introduced by I program chairman Herman Krucckeberg. Two former Adams county 4-H club members, Robert Sprunger and Beulah Bertsch. • have been IFYE's, and Adams i county families have been hosts ■ to three’ exchangees from other lands. To date, 56 countries have exchanged 2,000 young people through the program. Indiana has sent 29 abroad, and 215 farm families here have been hosts to 55 IFYE’s from foreign countries. Miss Wilder’s trip was sponsored by the Purdue collegiate 4-H club, the Indiana extension service, the U. S. department of agriculture, the state department, and the national 4-H club foundation. Funds came from local, community and county organizations throughout Indiana. A DeKalb county farm girl from St. Joe. and a graduate of Purdue, Miss Wilder will becOipe the home demonstration agent ! in Noble county next week. She spent the summer of 1958 in France.

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