Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1959 — Page 8

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New Laws For Wheat Planned

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House and Seriate Agriculture committees plan to begin writing new wheat legislation shortly after the Easter recess. A House agriculture subcommittee, which has been holding hearings on wheat, plans to wind up Its public sessions by March 24, shortly before the recess. A Senate subcommittee plans to open its hearings on the wheat surplus problem on Thursday and wind up next week before the recess begins. On both sides of Capitol Hill, lawmakers are working against a May 15th deadline when Agriculture Secretary Benson must proclaim marketing quotas for the 1960 wheat crop. Benson has told Congress if it's going to write new regulations for the 1960 crop, the job should be done before the quotas are fixed. The first Senate wheat hearing won’t deal with the overall wheat surplus problem, it will be devoted to testimony on bills aimed at increasing acreage allotments for durum wheat. One durum measure would give Benson discretionary authority to increase durum allotments if a special advisory committee finds that supplies are short. WASHINGTON (UPD-The Agriculture Department reported that fire damage on American farms rose to a new record high of 156 million dollars last year, up four million dollars over 1957. The total loss figure included livestock, machinery, crops and farm buildings. WASHINGTON (UPI) — PrSt dent Eisenhower’s National Agricultural Advisory Commission today wound up its regular two-day quarterly meeting. The two days were spent mostly on a review of current farm problems, including administration plans to expand the soil bank conservation reserve after 1960. SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI> - President James Patton of the National Farmers Union planned today to call a strategy conference in the corn belt next fall or winter to bring as many farm organizations as possible into agreement on plans for a new federal farm law. Patton said he wants to "go into the next legislative year with a maximum of agreement on the action it will take to raise agriculture out of the hole it is in." Patton’s statement came Monday night at the Farmers Union national convention. The organization’s board of directors earlier Personal Income Al All-Time High Rate WASHINGTON (UPD — Americans earned money at a record rate last month and the output of the nation’s factories climbed back almost to the pre-recession level. _ ■* — _ In separate* reports Monday the Federal Reserve Board said industrial production rose for the 10th consecutive month and the Commerce Department said personal income, climbed to an all-time annual rate of $364,500,000,000. Incomes were $1,500,000,000 higher than the January rate and 17 billion dollars above the recession low of February a year ago. The increase resulted largely from payroll hikes and higher Social Security benefits. The production dinex, based on a 1947-49 average of 100, moved up to 144. This was one point below the pre-recession level of August, 1957, and two points jgelow the all-time high of February, 1857. J I 1 • Yes, do by all means i take care of the most < J precious of your posI J sessions—health. Beti ter have a health check- * up once a year. And be J sure to see your Doctor i at the first suggestion i of illness. { Bring your Doctors i prescriptions to this I fine pharmacy—and be i sure to come to us for J your needs in drugs a and health items. — f a i • HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

called on Congress to investigate "costly misconduct” of farm programs by the Eisenhower administration. WASHINGTON (UPD—Arthur S Flemming, Secretary of health, education and welfare, told a news conference Monday the administration plans to expand research on radioactivity in foods. Flemming said tests on milk show that radiation is well within the limits currently considered safe by experts. But he added that science doesn’t know enough yet to make a precise measurement of the long-term health effects of small amounts of radioactivity. General Probation For Yale Students NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) — Yale University authorities today followed up a general probation order affecting 3,800 undergraduates with a campus-wide search for the ringleaders of the worst "town and gcwn" riot since 1919. President A. Whitney Griswold said a vigorous investigation was being launched “to determine individual responsibility” for two snowball riots last week, resulting in the arrest of 41 students. One of the riots marred New Haven's St. Patrick’s Day parade. Griswold and deans of the undergraduate colleges decided Mondayto. impose "indefinite and general probation” on the student body so that any further misconduct could be punished by immediate dismissal. Even cutting a class could mean expulsion. About 300 students plastered moving autos with snowballs last Thursday until police broke up the barrage. Angered by the arrest of 24 students, about 20 students pelted the last division of the St. Patrick's parade on Saturday and 800 more joined in defying police, who used nightsticks and hoses to restore order. Sixteen more students were arrested. The students were charged with breach of peace, loitering and resisting an officer. All were released in bond for a court appearance Wednesday. Another student was arrested Monday for shouting an obscenity at a cop. Griswold apologized to the city fathers and met Monday with Mayor Richard C. Lee “to seek ways to prevent further disturbances.” But the Yale Daily News, while admitting undergraduates I were responsible for the riots, accused the city police of "shocking behaviofr” including club bi n g, punching and cursing students and faculty members. SERVICE CLUBS (<_<iuue<T freu. ,<■<• >im> v'idual - but are group problems. Also, 100 years ago, news travelled so slowly that it was six months before we heard about affairs in Europe, and very few worried about problems that were probably already solved. But today, with mass instantaneous communications, every little world problem is seen and studied by every person all around the world on the same day it occurs.” Problems Small Interspersing his remarks with continuing good humor and a number of jokes, Rev. Oldsen brought out the point, “we can all face the future confidently. Just 25 years ago we all had serious problems, but those same problems today seem small, and few materialized. "Humility is one of the most necessary things for ridding ourselves of the jitters. We must remove man’s self - centeredness. When we become overwrought concerning small problems, we should sit down alone with a pan of water, and hold one finger in the water for 15 minutes, and then ref move it, remembering that our lives will disturb the puddle of life even less than our fingers disturb the pan of water. Greater Power ; "We must have confidence in a power greater than man,” he continued — “even famous psychiatrists say they cannot help a man who believes in no power greater : than himself.” He related a story told often by a well-known' bishop, ‘ who was bothered by many troubles, and he paced back and forth I until late at night. Suddenly, he ■ had a vision, and was then able to :go immediately-to bed, and sleep I soundly. The vision—it seemed to him that God-had appeared to him. and said, “it's all right now bishop, you go to bed, and I'll worry I the rest of the night!” Rev. Oldsen told several personal stories concerning persons he I had known, some who had accepted life, and of others who refused to accept it, pointing out that those who accepted what came were those who succeeded in the end. I There were 37,600,000 families in the United States which owned I cars in 1958, compared with 36,i 450,000 in 1957.

Woman Is Convicted In For-Hire Slaying VENTURA, Calif. (UPD—Elizabeth Duncan, still maintaining hir innocence, todaF faced possible death or life Ln prison for hiring two killers to murder her son’s pregnant wife. Eight women and four men convicted the &4-year-old defendant of first-degree murder Monday in the “for hire” slaying of her daughter-in-laW, Olga, after deliberating 4 hours and 54 minutes. The same jurors return to court today to decide on the penalty Mrs. Duncan must pay. It could be death in the gas chamber or life imprisonment A third hearing, mandatory under California law, will establish her sanity or insanity. Mrs. Duncan, whose outbursts peatedly disrupted her 20-day trial of “liar" and “that’s a lie,” reaccepted the jury's verdict with outward calm. » But she broke into tears in t jail meeting with her 30-year-olc son, Frank, and defense attornej S. Ward Sullivan, sobbing: "I don’t see how the jury could do this to me. I didn't do it.” She had been told by Sullivan and her attorney-son to brace herself against an outburst in court. Duncan sat behind his mother and maintained his composure after the reading of the verdict. . Later, he appeared pale and shaken. At first, he refused to I comment on the verdict but then I said, "I suspected it was coming I but you can’t prepare for it It’s like death.” Asked to comment on the case, Dist. Atty. Roy Gustafson, who prosecuted the matron with cool deliberateness, said, "I wouldn’t have prosecuted her if 7 didn’t think sne was guilty.” Despite the confession of Luis Moya, 22, and Augustine Baldonado, 25, implicating Mrs. Duncan, the graying defendant who undercross examination admitted being married at least -11 times and having six or seven children hoped she would be found inno-1 cent. Recommends Boost In Foreign Aid Fund WASHINGTON (UPD—A highlevel advisory committee recommended to President Eisenhower today that his $1;600.000,000 request for foreign military aid in fiscal 1960 be increased by 400 million dollars.

The committee, headed by forjmer Assistant Secretary of Army William H. Draper Jr., said the i recommended increase would ' make possible new commitments for intermediate range missiles i and other advanced weapons for nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The group said it would not significantly change estimated spending in the next fiscal year which starts July 1. Draper told reporters that in all probability foreign military assurance would have to involve even greater spending in fiscal 1961 because of continuing world tension and the vital necessity of bolstering the free world against international communism. He said the President would submit the report immediately to the department involved, and then take quick action on whether to | ask still more money from a Con’gress where Democrats are threatening heavy slashes in the overall $3,90,0000,000 foreign aid program. The Draper committee report said members of the study group touring foreign aid areas had found evidence of long delays In getting specific programs under way, faulty or uneconomic programming and policy coordination in Washington without properly prompt or effective accomplishment. ... "K firm and presistent effort to improve the overall management of the (foreign aid) program is called for,” the report said. The committee warned, however against jumping on errors in the program to the diminution of its true effectiveness in behalf of national security. “To abandon the program, for errors and execution or for any other reasons, would be to abandon the free world hod to lose the cold war,” the report said. The nine member committee was established under Draper last November by Eisenhower who wanted an expert analysis of the military assistance program as related to the economic aspects of foreign aid. Flu Complications Blamed For Deaths GOSHEN, Ind. (UPD — Complications from influenza were blamed for two area deaths during the weekend. Thomas G. Likes. 2, son of the Emery Likses, Middlebury, died at the family home and Ervin L. Helmuth, 14, LaGrange, died in a Fort Wayne hospital. Railroads handled 43 per cent of all freight In the nation in 1958 and trucks 20 per cent. The rest went by ship and air.

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S4O Million Loss Estimated In London Fire LONDON (UPI) — London’s worst blaze since the wartime blitz ravaged a dozen homes and eight stores in the northern suburbs early today before firemen brought its LOO-foot flames under control. ,' Three firemen were injured | fighting the flames which roared. through Ilford High Street, a ma-| jor suburben shopping center. Scores of persons living nearby were turned out of their homes as a safety measure. Estimates of damage ran as; high as 40 million dollars. The fire, which burned for morel than 8 hours, cast a glow in the sky which could be seen for 15 miles. More than 200 firemen, some of whom came from communities as far as 68 miles away, helped to fight the flames. One burning building collapsed on a railroad track, blocking traffic for hours. Street lights were extinguished over a considerable area, and buses and cars had to be detoured aronnd the scene of the fire. “It was just like blitz days,” one official said. "We had to post firewatchers on the roof of the Town Hall to prevent showers of sparks from setting fire to it” Another official said the blaze i

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was Essex County’s “worst fire of the century." The great fire raid which ravaged central London on Dec. 29, 1940, did not extend to the suburbs across the Essex line. Discoverer I Is Reported As Lost WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Defense Department said today that Discoverer I, the first earth satellite to be launched into a pole, to-pde orbit, is lost and presumed ■ dead , Ecy W. Johnson, director of the department’s Advanced Research ■ Projects Agency, said Discoverer’s .death “must be assumed” because it is no longer sending radio signals and efforts to track it with radar have failed. •, The 19-foot, 1,300-pound satellite , was launched Feb. 28 from Vanderberg Air Force Base in California. It was" described at the time as the forerunner of satellites which one day will carry a man into space. For nearly five days, Discoverer l’s fate was uncertain because of the sporadic nature of its radio signals. But on March 5 its orbit was confirmed officially on the basis of 41 tracking reports from stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and the United States. Presumably the satellite descended into increasingly densd parts of the atmosphere and was burned up by air friction. Its lifetime had been calculated at around 30 days. Apparently it lasted only about half that time. I* ■ •. . ■ ‘ ■

> Temperature Below Freezing In State United Press International Temperaturps plunged to chilly levels far below freeztng today In the wake ol a new snowstorm which spread a thin white blanket over most of Indiana and created . traffic hazards. > It- was 17 at Lafayette, 19 at . Indianapolis, 20 at Fort Wayne, , 22 at South Bend and 26 at EvansI ville this morning. Snow depth ranged from, a trace at Evansville , to three inches in the Goshen area . far upstate, and • post-dawn , storm at South Bend featured “heavy snow,” the weatherman ’ said. i Highways and streets were iced with the latest precipitation, and , traffic moved slowly. Continued cold weather was ’ forecast through Wednesday, with , the likelihood of warmer temperatures and scattered showers det veloping Thursday. High temperatures Monday . ranged from 37 at South Bend to r 47 at Evensville. Today’s highs, , will range from 30 to 40, tonight’s t lows from 16 to 28, and WednesJ day’s highs from the mid 30s to , the low 40s. I Brisk winds continued to plague Hoosierland tux they had calmed down considerably from Sunday j gust velocities up to 66 miles i per hour. - Show depth at South Bend was t two in<Aies at 7 a. m. C.D.T., and ■ I at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne | one

Safety Conference On In Fort Wayne Charles J. Meyers, director of education for Arvin • Industries, ( Inc., will be guest speaker at the district meeting of the 16th annual Uortheastern Indiana safety con-, ference this evening in Fort, Wayne. ( Meyers will speak on "The fine principles ofmanagementto safety." The conference sessions are being held in the Chamber of Commerce building, sponsored by the industrial Safety committee of the Northeastern Indiana group. Rag Drive Thursday At Northwest School Decatur area residents are again urged to bring their rags to the Northwest school today and Thursday for the rag drive being sponsored by the Northwest school 1 PTA. Mrs. C. 1. Finlayson may be reached at 3-3001 for further Information or arrangements to pick-up rags from those persons who do not have children at the school. , Mrs. Arthur Beeler may also be called at 3-4265. The PTA will pur- * chase needed equipment for the school with proceeds from this , drive. , Trade ji a good town - Deci I TOMORROW TOT’S S DAY AT Edward’s Studio

TUESDAY, MARCH 17. 1959

Uses Hacksaw Blade To Escape From Jail BLOOMFIELD. Ind. <UPD — Clovis D. Klass. 23, Coal City, escaped from Greene County Jail here during the weekend by sawing through a cell window bar with a hacksaw blade. Klass was jailed on a public ' indecency charge while on parole from the Indiana Reformatory where he had served a term for burglary. Terre Haute Youth Dies In Accident SULLIVAN, Ind. (UPD—Daniel F. Scarborough, 19, Terre Haute, was killed today when his car smashed Into a semi-trailer truck on U. S. 41 about 3% miles south of here. ———, —— I CARRY OUT AVAILABLE EVERY DAY at FAIRWAY • Baked Beans • Potato Salad • Bean Salad • Cole Slaw • Com Relish • Herring . . . wine or cream sauce. r —