Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII> No. 61.

President Eisenhower Appeals To Congress To Vote Foreign Aid

Governor Signs Jobless Pay Bill

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Handley today signed into law a bill which would permit 250,000 Hoosier workers to draw supplemental unemployment benefits if they are laid off from their jobs. He signed House Bill 10, which repealed a 1957 law prohibiting \ SUB. \ Handley placed his signature on - the measure in front of newsmen and photographers a few hours after he enacted more than 100 bills including the important biennial budget measures, four more ot the highway reform package bills, a broad school consolidation enabling bill, measures appropriating state funds for school construction and emergency loans, and another raising the maximum old age welfare monthly payment from S6O to S7O. Handley also signed this morning a bill (SB281) appropriating $230,000 in matching funds to counties for setting up probation officer systems. Signs Probation BUI The governor announced signature of the probation measure along with an accusation that ' Democrats in the House backed out on agreement with him that they would pass a bill appropriating two minion dollars for an intermediate penal institution for boys 15 to 20. Handley also warned that the \ population of state penal institutions has climbed 15 per cent since he became governor in 1957. ‘Tf any incident should occur from overcrowded conditions. I am placing the responsibility squarely on the Democrats,” the governor said. Handley said there had been a feeling that he might veto the probation bill in retaliation for failure of the penal institution measure to be enacted. But he said he had no such intention because he favors probation reforms as well as a new institution. Vetoes Another Measure Handley also announced that he has vetoed another bill (58169* which required state approval of county probation officers. He said he had no desire to "hamstring” judges and that he wants them to retain "home rule” control and the right to appoint their own probation officers. The SUB law will permit idle workers to receive benefits from unemployment funds established within the industrial plants where they worked, in addition to regular state jobless compensation payments. About 250,000 Hoosier workers in the steel, auto, rubber and aluminum industries will benefit from the protection of expanded payments in the event they are

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Edward Pacha, First Christian Church) “DANDELIONS” (Isaiah 30:8-17) In this passage of scripture we find words that make us think that htey were written today. “They are a rebellious people . . who say . . . Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more ...” Yes, in this day and time we are fast becoming a race of dandelions. Little flowers that are content to let the wind blow their seeds in any direction, ready to forget our concern, thinking of nothing but that we look “pretty for the short time ot our existence. Oh yes! It is harder to be the planter that must till the soil work the ground, and plant the seed. It is much easier to be a dandelion! Is this our problem? Are we looking for an easier '■ way’ I think that our problem goes much deeper than that. We are basically afraid of-falling! We don’t care to try, for we are afraid that we win fail! We win not take a stand, for we fear the faU that may result, * In this lenten season it would be wbll to remember that you have two choices open to you. You must take your “stand” for God or you may just “He there.” Before you make this decision though I think that it is only fair to warn you. The longer you “He there,” the more you will be stepped upon, and some day, when you do decide to stand, you may find your body too broken to d ° WiU you be the planter or the dandelion? The choice is up y to you! God bless you.

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thrown out of work by layoffs. At least 90,000 of these workers are estimated to be located in the Lake County area, a huge steel producing area. The others are scattered around the state in such industrial cities as Indianapolis, South Bend, Evansville. Lafayette, Terre Haute. Fort Wayne. Muncie, New Castle, Kokomo, Marion and other places. j Legalizing SUB was -me of the main Objectives of organized labor in the 1959 Legislature-perhaps next in importance to repeal of "right to work.” The 1957 Legislature, controlled by Republicans, enacted a law prohibiting SUB. More Grade School Pupils Are Absent Flu cases in the Decatur area high schools showed no increases today with several schools reporting the least absenteeisms since the outbreak last week. The elementary schools, however, are steadily increasing their number absent. The grade schools started their upsurge later than the high schools. Decatur high and Decatur Catholic both showed near normal numbers on the absent lists as the local high schools apparently have seen the last of this siege, at least. The high number out at Decatur high was 140 last Friday, the Catholic school high was 26 on Tuesday. Today, 30 are out at the public school and 11 out at the Catholic school. Adams Central also shortened its absentee list as 209, in all grades are absent today. The flu cases these have been on a steady decline since the high of 236 on Tuesday. Pleasant Mills followed the trend of the other area schools today as 22 were absent. The largest number out there was 35 on Wednesday. Monmouth reports the same number out today as yesterday, 20. The highest total at Monmouth was 30 on Tuesday. The Lincoln school hit its high today as 229 pupils are out with the flu. Yesterday, the total was 220. The increase there has been steadily raising since Monday when 130 were absent. The Northwest school also reported- an additional 10 pupils absent today, leaving the total at 58, the highest number at that school to date. St. Joseph’s school shows no increase today, although the figure Is still over 100.

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' i WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower warned Congress today that the united States might have to step up its military assistance program overseas because of the Soviet threat to Europe. His statement was contained in an urgent, 7,000-woH message to Congress appealing for approval of his $3,930,000,000 mutual security • prograng in the next fiscal year. Eisenhower told Congress Russia's threat in Europe might require an increase in his budget request for $1,600,000,000 in military aid for fiscal 1960 starting July 1. Preliminary indications from his special commission studying the military aid program, he said, point to an additional "increase in the level of commitments for vital elements of the military assistance program, primarily for the provisions of weapons to the NATO area." The President said he expects a written, interim report from the commission shortly. He promised to make further ecommendations to Congress "as are appropriate.”Eisenhower hammered repeatedly in behalf erf his theory that money for mutual security is fully as necessary as funds tor U.S., armed forces if the United States is to maintain the strongest possible Allies against the “perilous consequences” of Soviet and Communist bloc expansion. "Without the strength of our Allies.” he said, “our nation would be turned into an armed camp and our people subjected to a heavy draft and an annual cost erf many bUlfons of dollars above our present-military budget.” Eisenhower said the Communist Jobless Benefit Bill Approved By Committee WASHINGTON (UPD—Republicans rallied today behind a drastically modified version of a Democratic plan to prevent a cut-off Aipril 1 in jobless pay for an estimated 300,000 persons. — The bill, overwhelmingly approved by the House Ways & Means Committee Thursday, appeared to be assured of House passage Monday. One key Republican said it was his guess that President Eisenhower would hav*» no objection to the measure. House Democratic leaders originally planned to seek a one-year extension of the emergency benefit program enacted by Congress last year as a stop-gap anti-reces-sion measure. They even talked about giving Eisenhower power to cut off benefits after three months, thus handing him a political hot potato. Accept Trimmed Bill But the measure which the committee approved simply would extend the program only for workers who file valid claims before April 1 and have some benefits left. Those who exhaust state benefits after that date would get no extra payments.

Hawaii Cheers Statehood

HONOLUBU (UPI) - A huge bonfire reddened the sky over Honolulu Thursday night and 1 there was dancing and singing in the rain-dampened streets to celebrate congressional approval ot the bill making Hawaii the 50th state. While thousands squirmed their 1 way through- crowds in Waikiki and elsewhere around the island ! to enjoy the planned festivities, ; other thousands clogged the streets and highways with their ! autos as sightseers, making it : impossible for other thousands to : reach their destinations to join in < the fun. Military planes and helicopters

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■ • challenge to the free world was | "broad and deep—and will remain | : so for some time.” The gravest danger to America, he said, lies in the possibility that | • complacent satisfaction with American wealth and the preoccui pation with building up U.S. milii tary power might lead to disas- ‘ 1 trous evasion of the “realities of 1 1959." > I He listed these “realities” as: i —The„free world is confronted 1 by well-equipped, standing armies ‘ of more than 6,500,000 men of the i ; Soviet Union, Communist China j and their satellites. —The world is in “a great . epoch of seething change” with 21 ; new independent nations emerging ! from colonial status in a little ' , more than 10 years. Such nations > are “fired with ... zealous na- 1 ■ tionalism” which could be harm- ■ ful unless directed into productive ’ ■ channels. < —lnternational communism, “a 1 fantastic conspiracy," in 40 years < : has seized control of more than a j ■ third of the earth's population. < Masquerading behind a pattern of ■ i progress, it continues to exploit - and intensify world unrest. —The military position and eco- ( ; nomic prosperity of the United States are inexcapably interdependent with those of the rest of the free world. In addition to the *1,600,000,000 ’ for military assistance, he asked • then for 835 million dollars for de- 1 sense support — through which 12 I ' nations have been helped to bol- i 1 sler their own military power. ... ■ r 111 " ■' ■ 1 ■ ' ■

j Teamster Faces New Legal Difficulties

WASHINGTON (UPD—Chicago teamster Joey Glimco, who has weathered 36 arrests without serving time, today faced new legal threats to both his liberty and his citizenship. The Senate Rackets Committee was preparing papers asking Congress to cite Glimco for contempt and the Justice Department to . move to revoke his citizenship. It also worked on a request to . the Defense Department to deny f some of Glimco’s friends, who . have been doing work on Nike missile sites, any more govern- . ment contracts. j Chairman John L. McClellan . (D-Ark.) ordered these steps tak- » en Thursday after hearing the 50- . year-old, Italian-born Glimco int voke the Fifth Amendment to > questions covering a wide range of alleged misdeeds. McClellan, also ordered conr tempt papers drawn up against . Dominic Senese. another Chicago ; teamster official who made use of .his constritutional protection 1 against self-incrimination Wednes- ) day. It was brought out that a firm t in which Senese had an interest had been doing 60 per cent of the sheet metal work on Chicago Nike! > sites. i In three days of testimony, . staff investigators and other wit- » nesses have accused Glimco of j associating with gangsters, shak- > ing down businessmen, taking salt ary kickbacks from other union officers and misusing union funds. The committee planned to hold

flew over Waikiki dropping multicolored flares, ships offshore fired off statehood salutes. Huge search lights stabbed through the skies, adding a circus atmosphere to the night. But for some reason there was tittle exhiliration in the air. Things were a bit too orderly—noisy enough, but it lacked the Mardi Gras spirit somehow. People seemed to be out and about because it was the thing to do. Maybe it was because there were more people driving around looking than those who were getting out and doing something. The rains may have had something do with shackling enthusi-

Girl Scouts Climax Observance Sunday Brownies and Girl Scouts of Decatur will climax a full week's activities with a program Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Decatur Youth and Community center in honor of the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Low. Parents and those persons interested in Girl Scouting are invited to attend. Miss Judy Rhodes, a senior at Decatur high school, will narrate the entire program. The flag ceremony, pledge of allegiance and “America the Beautiful” will be the opening ceremony, followed by “A Day at Day Camp,” Miss Rhodes; a Brownies sing together, all Brownies; intermediate dance, troop 229; “Who is having an Overnight,” troop 473; film, Camp Logan; Camp Logan song, all Scouts; world friendship fund; “Scouts Own,” troop 116; “And No One Asked:" retreat. A free will offering will be taken to defray the expense of rental of the center. All Brownies and Girl Scouts are requested to meet at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. A rehearsal for the Juliette Low program, to be given Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the center, will be held.

a new round of hearings next week on the local’s welfare and pension funds which Glimco handled for many years as the sole trustee. Other congressional news: Water Diversion: The House was expected to approve the controversial Chicago water diversion bill despite ’framings that it would seriously damage U.S. relations with Canada. The measure would let Chicago make a one-year test diversion of more water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois waterway. Critics say this would damage shipping and power by lowering the level, of the Great Lakes. President Eisenhower has vetoed the bill twice in the past. EducatioiW Carl J. Megel, president the AFL-CIO Teachers Union, urged a House education and labor subcommittee to approve a four-year, $11,500,000, 000 federal aid plan for school construction and teachers’ salaries. He said the nation is "educationally asleep to the needs of tomorrow,” Civil Rights: Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare, told a House judiciary subcommittee the EisenIhower administration was stoutly opposed to proposals to shift responsibility for enforcing school integration from the courts to the executive branch of the government. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complained that the administration was “standing to one side” the integration issue.

- asm. But to true Hawaiians the i light showers and misty skies h were a good omen. Anything i, launched under such conditions, to o them, augurs well. There were smiles everywhere, s Traffic james were laughed at •. and patiently waited out. Today the celebrating will go e on. All government workers and h most employes of civilian estabt lishments along with school chili. dren have been given the day off e as a statehood gift. The big event :- will be entertainment staged in g Honolulu Stadium where the seating capacity will be increased to > handle 30,000 persons—of they can - find places to park their cars. 1

Here Monday flaw - - ' ■ Rev. Armin C. Oldsen Service Clubs Will Hear Rev. Oldsen At the joint meeting of Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs, the Rev. Armin C. Oldsen, noted author and theologian, will address the assembly at the Youth and Community Center Monday evening. Rev. Oldsen's address will be “Living without Jitters, in a Jittery World.” A former speaker on the International Lutheran Hour from 1951 to 1953, he is director of religious education *and public relations of Concordia Lutheran high school in Fort Wayne. He also is a summer preacher at Clear Lake Chapel, in Ray, Ind., starting there in 1950. He has written —three books, “Vices of the Passion,** "When Thy Face I See,” and “A Message From God." Rev. Oldsen is married and has four sons. He was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in 1936. A native of Illinois, he has served on the Valparaiso faculty as both a part-time and full-time professor. Seven Persons Dead In Fire In Maine EASTON, Maine (UPD— Seven persons—two men and five children — were killed early today when fire swept a one and a half story frame house just outside this small city. The victims were identified as John Hersey and five of his children and Carl Lundy who was visiting the Herseys. A fire official said the bodies . have not yet been recovered from ’ the ruins. Cause of the blaze is i not yet known. I ■ INDIANA WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer this afternoon and tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy . and mild. Low tonight ranging from upper 20s extreme north to upper 30s extreme south. High Saturday 40s extreme north to low 60s extreme south. Sunset today 6:50 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Saturday 6:59 a.m.' c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy with little temperature change. Chance of showers. Lows 30 north to 40s south. Highs 40s north to 60 south.

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By WALTER LOGAN United Press Intematiocilal s The Soviet Union expressed t alarm today that the Western Allies might refuse to negotiate I on the Berlin crisis. J Izvestia, the official Soviet gov- i eminent newspaper, accused the \ West of trying to solve the Berlin t crisis with tanks instead of the t negotiations wanted by the Rus- < sians. The magazine "New Times” re- i ported fears the Americans will 1 discourage British Prime Minister i Harold Macmillan’s negotiation i plans during his Washington visit 1 next week. ] It said Macmillan’s visit to < Moscow introduced a positive as- : pect to East-West relations and ! that “unquestionably there are grounds” for fears the “viewpoint 1 of opponents of negotiations would ; predominate.” < Both Izvestia and the Communist Party newspaper Pravda ; hailed the East German trip of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as showing the Soviet wanted to negotiate a solution to the Beritn crisis. Propose Army Withdrawal Izvestia added that Russia'' "proposes that the armies of both sides should withdraw and their diplomats should move forward.” a reference to a form of "disengagement” which Khrushchev and Macmillan promised to study. Macmillan, now meeting with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn, already has assured the German leader that his fears are groundless that any proposed "disengagement" would leave West Germany defenseless and without" promised ato mi c weapons. But the West Germans were reported still to have some suspicions that Britain might be willing to negotiate with Russia at the expense of either West Berlin or West Germany. That problem arose when West Berlin Mayor' Willy Brandt publicly'rejected the latest Soviet demand West Berlin be made a “free city” under 9 four-power charter that would Include Russia. British - sources said Britain was displeased because Macmillan believes the West should bargain with the Soviets at a conference ' table and not at long distance. ! The West Germans were reported to believe this indicated Macmil- ; lan might want to make conces- . sions. ; Red Visits Britain A sidelight on the Macmillans Adenauer talks was the arrival in h London today of Mikhail- A. Suss lov, generally regarded as No. 2 in the Communist Party ruling Presidium. He was in London with a group of parliamentarians at invitation of the British Labor Party but some observers feared the visit could embarrass Britain at a time when Macmillan is engaged in delicate talks with his allies. Macmillan flies to Washington next week for talks with President Eisenhower. The White House announced they would meet next weekend at Camp David, the nearby presidential retreat in Maryland. Both the White House and State Department expressed hope Secretary of State John Foster Dulles might*be able to participate to

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some extent in the Anglo-American talks despite his illness. French diplomatic sources in Paris, also slightly suspicious of Macmillan’s willingness to negotiate, have expressed hope Dulles would be recovered enough to take part in future East - West talks or that some strong American leader take his place. There was no immediate comment in Moscow on Eisenhower's Wednesday press conference statement which indicated the possibility of a nuclear war over Berlin, but Western observers noted that Russia in the past has frequently stated it believed its rocketry was superior to that of the United States. Both sides appear to believe there is now a nuclear standoff and that the? East-West jockeying for position In the cold war with frequent exercises in brinkmanship will go on indefinitely, Moscow dispatches said. Jackets Are Guests At Rotary Meeting Decatur high school’s basketball team and coaching staff were honored guests at the Rotary club meeting Thursday night to hear John Tatum, head football coach at Wabash college. Rotary president Grabill expressed his thanks to the team and coaches for having done so well in the sectional and regional. W. Guy Brown, responded by mentioning the interest that the Rotarians had shown toward the youths in the community. He cit- — ed the victory demonstration and pep rally as vital factors in lifting the morale of the entire community. Basketball coach Paul Bevelhimer introduced assistant Bill McCully, the team members and managers. He told an anecdote about each boy and explained how their willingness to play as a • team pa id of f—in the—sectional championship, and was the major factor in their near upset of South Side" in the regional. Tatum told the audience of his experiences in the world of ath- . letics and how athletics can aid a boy to become a useful citizen. He cited the case of Julius Kellogg, Manhattan College basket- ' ball star, as "true courage after being disabled toy an accident.” > Kellogg had been told that he r would never play again, yet went on to become the team's outstand- > ing player. i He further pointed to athletics i as the counteracting force against t juvenile delinquency. Tatum said ' that a boy who does his best, 1 whether on the playing ficra or off, will never feel disgraced. 1 Next week, the Rotary club will ’ meet with the Lions club Monday ' evening at the Youth and Com- ; munity Center ta hear the Rev. Armin C. Oldsen, public relations head of Concordia Lutheran high school in Fort Wayne. There will be no Rotary meeting Thursday. Robert Heller was program ■ chairman for the meeting.