Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1959 — Page 1

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Handley Signs More Measures

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Handley worked his way down today through the remnants d f more than 400 bills passed by the Indiana Legislature, and among the latest measures signed into law were bills to grant additional benefits to workmen and to pave the way for reforms in the higway department and property tax assessment system. Handley signed late Friday bills increasing workmen's compensation and occupational disease benefits from $36 to $39 a week. He also signed bills which would: —Appropriate $300,000 ofr establishment of Chain O’LaJtes State Park in Noble County—Permit the sale and use of Fourth of July sparklers, heretofore banned under a law prohibiting fireworks except by special permit. —Create a committee to study legislative reapportionment. —Require publication notices in newspapers of highway right of way purchases with names of Bellers, price and size of property. —Exempt city transit companies from payment of the 6-cents-a- . gallon state gasoline tax. <—Raise from $25 to SIOO the minimum value of property on which a grand larceny charge be based —Provide 'a uniform manual for guidance of assessors in evaluating personal property. —Require charitable, educational and similar organizations exempt* . from property taxes to file exemption claims every four years. —Prevent the Indiana Toll Road Commission from building or leasing motels along the Northern Indiana Toll Road. —Require cities to spend 75 per cent of gas tax funds for construction and repair and limit amount spent for traffic policing and safety work to 25 per cent. Regarding the bill relieving city bus companies of gas taxes, Handley acted despite an opinion by Attorney General Edwin Steers stituttonal. T “If there is an actual constitutional question,” the governor — said, "perhaps it can be resolved in the courts. There is a public necessity for motor bus service in several Indiana cities and it seems some way must be devised to satisfy the need at this time.” Memorial Poppies Making crepe paper poppies is providing beneficial occupation for thousands of disabled war veterans in Hospitalsand convalescent workrooms throughout the country as the American Legion auxiliary prepares for the annual observance of Poppy day in May. Mrs. Melvin Luhman is in charge of Poppy day activities here as Poppy chairman of Adams auxiliary unit 43. “Veterans enjoy making the poppies.” said Mrs. Luhman. ‘‘The work helps them pass tedious hospital hours and gives them the encouraging experience of earning money again. Many become very skillful at shaping the little flowers from red and green crepe paper and wire stem. We hgpe that everyone will honor the war dead by wearing one of these poppies on Poppy day, and at the same time think of the disabled veterans who make the flowers for our auxiliary.

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: Flu Quarantine In ■ Town Self-Imposed ! FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. (UPI) —This little Eastern Indiana town ■ gave up parties, meetings and church services this weekend in 1 a determined effort to stamp out a flare-up of flu and scarlet fever. Citizens observed a three - day self - imposed quarantine through Sunday night at the urging of a doctor. ' Dr. D. R. Hutchison called for , the voluntary quarantine when one out of every five school children in the town of less than 1,000 was stricken with one of the two ailments, most of them with flu. He made His plea after local schools shut down Thursday because of the large number of absences. “I asked them to go on about their business doing essentials,” Hutchison said, “but to limit meetings and other get-togethers and to keep their children at home. ‘“lTiey were very quick to accept this,” he said. - Pastors announced that church services would be cancelled Sunday. A high school basketball banquet scheduled for Friday night was postponed. .. Hutchison said the sudden upsurge in the number of cases of the infectious ailments came late last week a few day's after the high school basketball sectional tournament. «r “I have no doubt that that’s a major place where it began,” the doctor said. “With everybody yelling, it, doesn’t take long for the flu to spread down the rows of spectators.” ‘ ' Results of Fountain City’s stringent anti-epidemic measures won’t be known for many days. fore we can judge the effect, ’ Hutchison said. ' .

Democrats To Push Cut In Foreign Aid

s WASHINGTON (UPI) — Democratic congressional leaders prepared today to put President Eisenhower’s foreign aid program through a shake-down process to reduce its cost by about one billion dollars. The Democrats promised scrutiny of each detail of the $3,929,995,000 recommendation for the next fiscal year. “Meat Axe” surgery on the President’s proposal was ruled out. But Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.) called the total “too high” and expressed belief the total outlay could be cut to three billion dollars. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) lent his influential voice to the economizers. He said the committee would need to engage in “considerable surgery” If the bill was to fully serve the national interest. The House Foreign Affairs Committee gets first crack at the program Monday when it meets to hear Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter plug for ex-

’(.fPresident To Ask Backing Os Nation In Stand On Berlin l . 1 .———J — ————■ —

t WASHINGTON (UPI) — Offi- . cials said today they expect Presr ident Eisenhower, in his Monday i address to the nation, to call for i firmness and courage to meet the Soviet threat to .Berlin. They acknowledged that the i President, among other tasks, - faces ~the necessity of convincing ) the people and U.S. allies that the > issues at stake are worth the . stern stand being taken by the I United States. White House Press Secretary • James C. Hagerty announced Friday that Eisenhower? would speak from his office from 9:30 to 10 ; p.m. e.s.t., Monday over all radio and television networks. The po- ■ tential audience is 50 million per- ' sons. It will be the second time in less than seven months the Presi- . dent has made a nationwide ra-dio-TV address on a world crisis. Last Sept, 11 he used the media i during the Formosa Straits ft-isis ■ to rally public opinion behind his I “no appeasement” policy. The President * has spoken of “perilous consequences’ if the Russians try to force the United ; States, Britain and France from their Western sector of the for- ' mer German capital. Ready To Fight The American position adds up, in effect, to the fact that the United States will fight before it will abdicate its rights and responsibilities there. For that reason, Eisenhower’s ■ foreign policy advisers believe he should spell out in simple terms the magnitude and fundamental nature of the basic issues which the United States government believes are at stake. in the American government view: 1. The Soviet Union is bound

tension of the Mutual Security Act. Committee Chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-Pa.) set the tone for the session when he said Friday there had been too -much “waste and inefficiency” in the program operation. He said his committee would. A warning of possible cuts also came from Rep. Otto E. Passman (D-La.), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid. He said the program should be trimmed to meet actual needs, not “bureaucratic demands.” The foreign aid program is regarded by President Eisenhower as one spending measure which should remain untrimmed. He seeks about $1,600,000,000 in military aid and $2,330,000,000 in economic aid to help this country’s allies counter the “broad and deep” Communist challenge. Democrats are expected to turn the President’s call for a balanced budget into a weapon against the full appropriation asked.

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under four-p ow e r agreements made after the victory over Nazi . Germany to support the Alied po- , sition in West Berlin until there is a general settlement of Gerrnan . problems, including reunification of the country. Proposal Violates Paste 2. Moscow’s proposal that the Western powers quit West Berlin , and permit it to become a neutralized “free city” is a violation of all pacts and unacceptable. 3. The Russian threat to turn East Berlin over to the German i Communists and also let them control Allied access to West Berlin is illegal under existing agreements and will be resisted. Eisenhower is expected to express the hope that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will agree in good faith to the holding in May of a foreign ministers conference of the Big Four to try to solve German problems, including the Berlin crisis. 73 The Soviet leader has agreed to such a meeting only if it is restricted to discussing his demands, which include a German peace treaty which would continue the division of the country. 17-Year-Old Girl Seis Flagpole Mark INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A 17-year-old girl came down today with a “world’s record” from a flagpole where she sat for 211 days braving such inconveniences as a 75-mile an hour wind, 13- • tsetow zero ■temperatures and 9 toothache. Mauri Rose Kirby staggered and weaved as she walked into a drive-in beneath the pole and submitted to a doctor’s examination to determine if her sevenmonth stand atop a 71-foot pole had harmed her. The steps were her first since a warm day last August when she was hoisted to an enclosed yard-square perch on the pole. “The first thing I want to do is dance,” said Mauri. “What I’ve missed the most is activity. I’ve missed going places and doing things.” Mauri came down at 9:30 a.m. c.s.t., and was greeted by a crowd and serenaded by a band’. 1 Miss Kirby said she was “tremendously excited” about the reception. "But I'm glad it’s over. I’d never do it again or advise anybody else to do it,” she said. Miss Kirby, who was named after the famous Indianapolis auto racer, Marie Rose, got the full treatment. A brass band, a host of civic officials and an admiring throng of teenage contemporaries were on hand when the derrick lowered Miss Kirby’s bosun's chair to 1 earth. A crown labeled “Queen of the Flagpole Sitters” was placed on her head. Miss Kirby said she tried her stunt for only one reason — “to break the record." The previous record was 169 days for women and 211 days for men. The girl’s only bulwark against the elements was a hut three feet square and six feet high She had a small electric heater, some ( books and a radio. Among other discomforts she endures was a toothache and two ’ smal fires that broke out when rain short - circuited her small heater. “A dentist came up in a derrick to fix my topth and I put the fires out by stamping on them,” she said. What if somebody breaks her new record for flagpole sitting? “They can have it,” she said with a smile. “I’ve got a lot to catch up on.” Indiana State Farm Escapee Captured RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI) — Charles Hayes Allen, 19, was scheduled to be returned to the Indiana State Farm following his arrest at his parents’ home northeast of here Friday. - Allen walked away from the farm Feb. 25. He was sentenced Dec. 22 for second degree burglary.

France Withdraws Flee! From NATO PARIS (UPI) — Military observers predicted today a major revision in Western defense strategy as a result of France’s decision to withdraw its Mediterranean fleet from wartime NATO control. Diplomatic sources., said the decision, revealed here Friday night, shocked the other NATO nations, coming as it did at a time when the West was attempting to put up a unified front in| face of the Soviet threat to West Berlin. They said Western diplomats' were concerned about the psycho- ■ logical effects of the French move, particularly on the Russians who have been trying to split the Western defense and dip-i lomatic effort. 1 Military experts said withdraw-! al of the French fleet from 1 NATO’s wartime plans for the defense of the Mediterranean would | leave a huge gape in the Western' defense scheme. j Although the French navy now, is under separate command, it takes part in NATO war games! and other tactical maneuvers in • the Mediterranean. . j French sources said the step was in line with President Charles de Gaulle’s declared aim of keeping French military and naval forces under French control at all times. /' Other observers said it appeared to steta from- qe .paulle’s attempts in recent months to gain a greater voic.e_for France in NATO’s top policy decisions. Northwest PTA To Sponsor Rag Drive —The Northwest school PTA will sponsor a rag drive Thursday, March 19, at the school. Pupils are asked to collect from parents, relatives, neighbors and others in order to gain a source of income to purchase needed equipment for the I Persons who do not have children at the school may also donate their rags and discards by calling Mrs. C. I. Finlayson at 3-3001, or Mrs. Arthur Beeler at 3-4265. Those who call, may have their rag bags picked up on Tuesday or Wednesday. With full approval of the fire prevention bureau, who estimate thousands of dollars are lost annually because of fires caused by old rags lying around, the project will also benefit householders as well as the school. And then, the school will use the money earned to purchase items such as litfrary books, movie projectors, and the likes. Last year, the money earned went toward a primary typewriter. This typewriter has larger-than-usua 1 letters to allow easier legibility for primary pupils. Sales in 1958 totaled $69.60. Suggested items, which are so often overlooked when such a collection is made, are blue jeans, curtains, blankets, clothes, and sundry other items that have become obselete around the house. Regardless of condition, the rags are valuable to such a collection as this. The only things not acceptable are mattresses, carpets, shoes, and clippings. r Children in school have been given large rag bags to be brought in Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. AA grocery bag, cartons, burlap sacks or other containers can easily be used to hold extra rags. Persons who do not have these large bags can also use these substitute con- . tainers. If it can be remembered what good was done during World War II by scrap iron, paper and rag collections, then the task is made 1 easier. Today, all scrap items, ; iron, rags, paper, rubber, and ; many others, are still prominent i in bolstering the! economy. In re- 1 ality then, the collection has a dual purpose. It affords the school an opportunity to earn a little cash for a good cause, and assists the country’s e c o n o m y by keeping j : prices for these mentioned items i at a lower level as dictated by the I < law of supply and demand. j

Local Lady's Sister Dies At Van Wert Mrs. Nora A. Fowler, 74, of Van Wert, 0., sister of Mrs. Bertha Blake of Decatur, died at 3:30 p.m. Friday in her home. She had been in failing health for several years. Other survivors are: a daughter, Mrs. Edwin Stewart, Rockford; two sons, Forest F. Fowler, Van Wert, and Herbert F. Fowler of Decatur, Ga.; a brother, Martin L. Reidenbach, Napa, Calif.; one other sister, Mrs. Julia Reinking Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Mark’s Lutheran church, ; of which she was a member. The | Rev. Herbert Games will officiate. ■ Burial will be in Woodland cemetery. Friends may call at the Alspach funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The body will be taken to the church at 9 a.m. Monday. I One Person Killed In Train Wreckage OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI)— Wrecking crews picked over a half-block of destruction today to determine if there were any more victims in the rubble left by seven runaway freight cars. One. person was killed and at least 16 injured, two of thdm seriously, when a gondola car and six box cars loaded with plywood thundered down the tracks at 60 The runaway cars crashed through the Union Pacific depot, rumbled across a busy thoroughfare then plowed into a building housing two cases, an automotive shop and several smaller shops. Sheriff Clarence Van Allen said there was a possibility other persons might have been trapped in the wreckage but no more bodies had been recovered. Between 15 and 20 persons were in the China Clipper, one of the cases. “I got down on the floor,” said Lui Wong, operator of the case. “I thought an atom bomb had exploded.” The cars crashed through a dead-end stop and literally scooped the middle of the station. Kenneth Dilley, about 38, Olympia, was killed and Loren O. Gans and Lloyd Pickett, railroad employes, were injured.

U.S. Is Willing To Wage WarFor Berlin;

WASHINGTON (UPD-Fight-if-we-must testimony by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor provided new evidence today that the United States is willing to wage general war to keep Berlin. testimony was made publie by the Senate preparedness subcommittee Friday night. Despite security deletions, It seemed to indicate that the general's conviction was shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. • It was clear that Taylor felt a clear expression of willingness to fight is the most likely deterrent to stop Russia from precipitating a war over Berlin. President Eisenhower also has spoken of “perilous consequences” if the Russians seek to force this country, France and Britain from the Western sector of the former German capital. Taylor appeared before the subcommittee Monday, but, the testimony had to go through Pentagon censorship before it could be made public. He said “national determination” to fight an all-out war was most likely to stop the Russians front launching one. The Joint Chiefs ot Staff; he added, has plans to meet the Berlin crisis and the Army has strength—at home and abroad—to carry then* out. Taylor said the Army “is ready to go right now” and that it can i retaliate Immediately and effectively. The Army would go into such a battle for Berlin with "the capability” to use nuclear weapons. Taylor said. I. The free world could not defend

West Prestige Falls To New Low In Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPl)—Western prestige sank to a new low in Iraw today following the failure of the Mosul mutiny. United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser also was a prominent loser in the revolt with his personal status reduced here to that of a traitor. Student demonstrators who were - called off the streets Wednesday have returned to their studies, but hgaaddnewspapers warned them to "keep their fingers oh the trigger.” It was less than two months ago 1 that by the personal order of 1 Premier Abdel Karim Kassem the ■ Baghdad press was permitted to! 1 resume -mentioning Nasser in a ■ favorable light. Today those news- • papers are closed, their plants ■ wrecked. 1 This morning on a pole out-, r side the Khayma Hotel a cartoon • poster appeared showing a villain- ! ous Nasser holding a bag filled I with U.S. dollars. I Baghdad newspapers and Communist publications elsewhere in • the Middle East were linking Nasser with the Western imperialists, which is a supreme insult to any leader claiming allegiance to Arab nationalism. Leading away from the muddy Tigris River here is a broad avenue bisected by a row of stately royal palms. It Is named Gamal Abdel Nasser. It now may be expected that the avenue soon will be renamed and that Nasser’s name will disappear just as his smiling pictures have disappeared from Baghdad shop windows. Linked with the anti-Nasser charges here are charges that British and American officers had a hand in the unsuccessful Mosul mutiny. American aid was not

Soviet Aim On City Economic

t „ ’ Armed Services Men J Meet With Seniors n Armed service personnel met b with 60 Decatur high and Catholic e senior boys recently in an infore mal panel regarding the status of each service branch. The representatives from the Air Force, Ma3 rines, Navy and Army discussed the opportunities of their respective branches and answered questions in the hour-long session at s the public schoolauditorium. —x-. V Al Lindahl, coach of the Catholic basketball team, escorted the-sen-iors from that school. Deane T. 5 Dorwin, teac he r at the public school, was in charge of the program.

> itself against the total strength of j ; Communist armies if “we ab- . stained from using nuclear weap- ’ ons,” he testified. . He added that President Eisenhower would be the one who would decide whether to use them . * Taylor, who served as Allied J commander in Berlin immediately after the 1948 Berlin airlift, im- 1 plied in his testimony that the 1 airlift may have been a mistake. He said Gen. Lucius D. Clay, I 1 the Berlin commander, felt Allied |* occupation forces “should have 1 used force on the highway, at 1 least to verify what the Russian 1 intent was.” - 1

0 Lenten Meditation (By Rev. William C. Feller, Zion Evangelical & Reformed) ‘‘The Power of Encouragement” Isaiah 41:9-13 • . “Fear not ... be not dismayed ...” The purpose of the verses of our Scripture lesson is to silence the fears and encourage the faith of God’s seryants.. Fear is common to man. and is one of hjs greatest enemies. R does not matter whether the things feared are real or imaginary, they are harmful just the same. Fear takes the joy out of life, and keeps us from doing our best. For the suppressing of fear Clod assures us that we may depend upon His presence with us, as a God all-sufficient for us in the worst of times. Are you weak? “I will strengthen you.” Are you destitute of friends and hope? “I will help you.” Are you ready to sink, ready to fall? “I will uphold you.” These are His promises: what more can we ask? In the assurance that God is with 445, let us be encouraged, let us trust and not fear. The man who has faith mgy not be able to live a care-free life, but he need not be fearful, for the Lord’s all-sufficient promise is, “I am with you. 1 win help you.”

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weathe* Parfly ckmdy today uithshowers tonight and becoming quite windy. Bunday showers during morning and becoming partly cloudy during after* noon. Warmer today and to* night. Low tonight 30s north to 50 south. High Sunday 40 north to 60 south. Outlook for Mon* day: Partly cloudy with about normal temperatures. \ explained, but it was charged many rebellious sheikhs still are on Britain’s payroll. However, it is worthy of note that the anti-tomerican demonstrations of last July were not repeated in the current crisis and thdt there is no outwnrd evidence of any anti-Americanism in Baghdad’s streets. Two Young People Hurt This Morning Two young people were hospitalized at 4:30 o’clock tpday from injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident that occurred on U. S. 224 about 4>4 miles east of the city limits. The car the couple was riding in was considered a total loss. Connie R. Wefel, 22, route three, Decatur, was reported suffering fr om lacerations to the back of her head and to her right knee. Her -companion, Alfred German, 25, of route two, Ohio City, O.» was reported suffering from lacerations to the forehead, left eye, and chin. The sheriff's department stated this forenoon that the German vehicle was eastbound on U. S. 224 and ran off the roadway on the right side and struck a rock driveway at the Arthur Heiman farm. After striking the farm drive, the car proceeded east dor 87 feet and turned completely around. Sheriff Merle Affolder was called to the scene to investigate the mishap and estimated about 11,500 1 damage to the auto.

BERLIN (UPI) — Western officials said today close examination of Communist proposals for West Berlin suggests that the real Soviet aim is.economic strangulation of the encircled city. Communist threats of war and blockade cannot be ignored, but recent Kremlin statements suggest they may have been intended mainly as bargaining points to persuade the West to accept Russia’s “free city” plan. The Russians have indicated that they would be willing to assure free Western access to a free Berlin — but that the city would have to sever all economic ties with the West. , That proposal, largely overlooked in previous reports on the Berlin situation, may be the essence of the proposed Soviet deal. Western officials say. It would mean termination of the 370-million-dollar yearly subsidy from West Germany that now keeps West Berlin alive, forcing its people to choose between trade with the Communists and economic crisis. It would be a short step, these officials believe, from East German economic domination of West Berlin to complete absorption of the city. Mayor Willy Brandt is aware of the threat. “We must belong to the Western trading area,” he says. “We cannot be separated from the Western mark. Political factors are important, but economic factors are vital, too.” Subsidies also make possible tax incentives to businessmen, encouraging them to establish and maintain factories here, and they cover the losses to shippers caused by East German interference with traffic.