Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 70.

Employment Gains In Decatur

Chamber of Commerce figures shriw an increase in employment of 175 persons for February of this year over last year’s figures and an increase of 27 persons over the previous month of January. The February figure was 1.608 as compared with 1,581 in January and 1,433 in February of last year, with nine industries reporting. Industrial payroll increased $76,024 over-last February, and increased nearly SI,OOO over the previous month. ‘Total payroll for February was $607,503 as compared with January's figure of $606,528 and $521,479 a year ago. Electric meters, including rural, declined three over the January figure, but were 'up ’3O over the figures last year. Meters showed 4,002 for February, 4,005 in January, and 3,972 for February of last year. Water meters came up one' in February from the January fig- ’ ure of 2,566 and up 21 from the ’

Renews Challenge On Jobless Pay

WASHINGTON (UPD—AFL-CIO officials predicted today that no state would follow President Eisenhower’s recommendation to increase unemployment benefits to at least 50 per cent of its average weekly wage. Nelson Cruikshank. director of the AFL-CIO Social Security Department, said organized labor would continue to battle for federal standards to place a floor under jobless payments. Eisenhower and eight state governors on the executive committee of the National Governors' Conference came out Monday against federal minimum benefits. They said the state should take responsibility for making improvements. Ike Renews Challenge _ The governors met with the President and three of his cabinet members at the White House to discuss ways to strengthen the federal-state unemployment insurance system. The President renewed the challenge he has made for the last five years to the states. He said he hoped state legislatures would act this year to authorize payments equal to half of the average state wage for a minimum of 26 weeks. “The president has been exhorting the states to act since 1954. and not one state has come up to the standards he has set,” Cruikshank said. “I don’t expect one state will respond now because his prestige has declined since he made his first appeal.” , Boost Benefits Sharply The AFL-CIO is backing proposals by Democrats that would virtually compel states to meet federal standards to increase the amount and duration of benefits. Eisenhower's program would boost benefits sharply in several big industrial areas if the states follow through. ' In Pennsylvania, for example, < the average weekly wage in 1957 was SB2. Under the Eisenhower proposal, the state’s minimum unemployment benefit would be s4l. Pennsylvania’s top benefit to idle workers is now $35 a week and the average benefit during the first half of 1958 was S3O. In California, toe smallest benefit under toe Eisenhower formula would be $46.50 compared to an average payment of $33 during the depth of the recession last year. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell said Monday the administration will Recommend expan-

I ' - ' > 1 jjß KJ * f 131 wwIBB 11 NIXON GREETS JORDAN’S KING — King Hussein of Jordan, is greeted by vice-president Richard M. Nixon in Washington upon his arrival for talks bn the future of his nation and the Middle East situation. Full military honors were rendered King Hussein at the airport. ,

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« -X- . February figure of 2,546 a year’ ago. Gas meters declined three from toe January figure of 2,439,. but were listed 86 higher than the figure released for February of last year. < /' Telephones, including rural,' came up 46 over the January figure of 6,289 and up 179 from the February figure of 6,156 for last year. Direct poor relief increased from 27 cases involving 109 persons, in January to 35 cases involving 120 persons for February. The figure a year ago showed 153 persons involved in 40 cases. Costs for direct poor relief jumped from $1,476 in January to $2,665 in February of' this year as compared with $2,127 for February of last year. Births decreased over January 1 and February of a year ago as did ' the deaths recorded for each ■ month. Births reported at 49 while

sion of coverage to protect 3,200,000 more workers with unemployment insurance. No Appreciable Damage Found To Slow Repair Examination of the 5,000 kilowatt GE generator which burned out a portion of its armature stator and laminated iron core last Wednesday shows no appreciable other damage which will slow down the rewinding, Robert Wolf, superintendent of toe Fort Wayne GE apparatus service shop, announced this noon. Some damage may be found later today, but it is not expected. Work involved in the complicated process includes repairing the burned portion of the stator, unstacking the laminated iron core, replacing salvageable iron and new iron, pressing the core into place, preparing for rewinding, furnishing a new set of factorybuilt, GE class “B” stator coils (better than the present coils), winding supplies, temperature detecting coils, inserting, wedging, tying, bracing, connecting and insulating the coils and performing intermediate and final over-poten-tial test. Also, the bearings" and journals must be repaired, and burned iron deposits must be removed from the rotating field of the generator. The shop at Fort Wayne performing the work is one of 58 GE shops located in all major industrial centers. The facilities of this chain of GE shops is available around-the-clock on call at any ’time. At Decatur the superintendent Wolf, and the foreman, R. McCormick, were in toe power plant within two hours after receiving the first call. They first alerted the turbine engineering department at Cleveland, O.; who in turn called their specialist, John Cade, now on a job at Richmond, who came to Decatur to supervise the removal of the rotating field. Robert Schulte, GE field engineer from the Fort Wayne office, was at the Decatur plant to offer his assistance several hours after learning of toe failure. i

’deaths were recorded at seven for February as compared with 67 ■ births and 10 deaths in January [ and 59 births and eight deaths for February of last year. Carloadings In decreased as did carloadings out. Carloadings in for February showed 358 while carloadings out showed 1,079. January figures show carloadings in at 364 and carloadings out at 1,164, while February’s figures of last year show carloadings in at 382 and carloadings out at 1,867. Building permits issued in February increased one. butdecreased considerably value wise from the previous month. Building permits issued for February were listed at eight valued at $38,040 as compared with three permits issued and valued at $15,150 for February a year ago, and seven permits issued and' valued at $211,800 for January of this year.

City Council Sets Schedule For Salaries The Decatur city council met in special session Monday night, approving one new ordinance, which creates the position of city judge, and proposing another, which will set the salary scale for elected officials. This action all comes as a direct result pf recent state legislation, HB-135, which prohibits mayors from serving as city judges, and also empowers city councils with the right to set the salary schedules. Ordinance 10 provides for the office of city judge effective January 1, 1960, but he will be elected in the 1959 city elections. The judge’s salary and necessary expenses will be allocated from the ■ city’s general fund under provisions from the annual budget. The proposed odinance. No. 11, provides the estabHstrment of annual salaries for the mayor, clerktreasurer, and common council members, effective at the commencement of their terms after the 1959 elections, also payable from the general fund. Ulis ordinance is subject to a 30-day waiting period after publication in the Daily Democrat twice, as required by law. it must, however, be approved by the council prior to May 1, 1959. The new salary schedule will be: mayor. $5,500; clerk-treasurer, $4,500; city judge, SI,BOO, and council members, S6OO. This rate becomes effective on or after January 1, 1960. L_— INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, a little colder extreme north but warmer south. Wednesday increasing cloudiness with showers developing over most of state in afternoon or evening. Colder north and central Wednesday. Low tonight south. High Wednesday rang30s extreme north to 40s ing from 40s extreme north to 60s extreme south. Sunset today 6:01 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Wednesday 6:42 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and cooler. Lows 35 to 45. Highs 50 to 60.

Macmillan Is Enroute Home

WASHINGTON (UPD — British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today that as long as toe Western Allies stand firm on their principles “toe free world has everything to gain from being ready to negotiate” with Russia. He conceded in a statement on his departure for London that “the next few months will be a testing period for the whole free world.” But he expressed confidence that the West “shall succeed” in the “tough task.” The prime minister noted that he bad said upon his arrival here Thursday for his conferences with President Eisenhower that the diffeences between the Western Allies and Russia over Germany, Berlin “and so forth, ought to be settled by negotiation and not by force.” “I have no doubt that so Jong as we stand firmly on our principles—as we shall do— the free

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 24, 1959.

i ...JB ■ ! Richard J. Sullivan Is Judge Candidate Richard J. Sullivan, Decatur attorney, also associated with Judge G. Remy Bierly. of the Indiana appellate court in his local abstracting firm, announced today that he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the newly separated office of city judge. State law required the Decatur city council to separate the jobs of mayor and city judge. Previously, mayors of Decatur have also been city judges, and received extra compensation. Now the positions must be separate. Married, Sullivan is the father of one son, Ricky. He and his family reside at 110V4 South Third street. He is a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Adams county Jefferson club, and the Deeatur Lions club. A practicing attorney here, he is a member of the Adams county bar association. A graduate of Cathedral high school in Indianapolis, and Indiana university law school, Sullivan moVed to Decatur in 1958, when he assumed the law practice of Judge Bierly. Sullivan is the first announced candidate for toe newly created post. The city council set the salary/or the office, which begins op* eration next Jan. 1, at SI,BOO a year. Tie For First In Oratorical Contest , t . e Steve Sutton, Decatur Catholic senior, and Dave Guthier, Huntington Catholic senior, tied for first place in the Knights of Columbus • district oratorical contest at the local K. of C. hall Monday night. They will both advance to the regional meet at Huntingtori, on April 6. Speaking on “Patriotism is a Moral Duty,” both lads delivered well-organized, thought-provoking interpretations of the subject. The judges, Maurice O’Shaughnessey, of Monroeville, Bill Leonard, of Monroeville, “and Jim Brazill, of Decatur, voted each boy toe same number of points, allowing toe tie. Contestants from Marion, Muncie, Fort Wayne, Anderson, and the Decatur-Huntington winners, will comprise toe regional entries. Carl Braun, past grand knight of the local council, acted as master of ceremonies for the event. About 50 persons attended the contest, which took place after the regular K. of C meeting. Young Sutton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sutton, of Decatut.

world has everything to gain from being ready to negotiate," Macmillan told reporters at the airporj Macmillan headed for home with Eisenhower’s conditional agreement to meet with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and French President Charles de Gaulle in July or August to discuss Berlin and other problems. But American officials warned against assuming that a summer summit conference is a certainty despite Allied plans to send Russia a proposal for arranging such a meeting. U.S. authorities emphasized that certain conditions still have to be met before the Big Four meet around the conference table. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter headed a delegation of American officials and British diplomats who bade Macmillan goodby.

I Fighting Breaks Out Again Today I In Tibet Capital

I JWe i‘.*V * ** ■■ | DELHI, India (UPD — Wghling has broken out again in toe Tibetan capital of Lhasa and WOOO JBuddhist mopks haye joined toe revolt against toe Chinese Communists, informed sources reputed today. life, sources said toe fighting was ua a sirialler scale than last Week in toe mountain capital but ' that it had spread to other important centers of Tibet. « Reports from Kalimpong, toe town in northeastern India which straddles the main trade route into Tibet, said toe Tibetan rebels hsye improved their equipment by capturing Chinese arms and are . using them against the Commui nists, ’ ■ , The reports said the Chinese 1 Sleds had badly damaged the two biggest Buddhist monasteries in ’Hbet, Sera and Dropang, prompt- ! ing toe monks to join the battle. > The sources said the Dalai Lama’s summer place, Norbulingka, also was damaged. Use Guerrila Warfare Tibetan officials were meeting in Kalimpong to discuss the situation. They were reported prepar- ' ing to appeal to India for suppoet ■Die rebels were reported to have reverted to their pre-plarined tactics of ger rill a warfare against toe Chinese Communists which they have been carrying on at intervals for toe past two years. * The sources said Chinese troops were having a tough timg finding the rebels to toe mountainous it was <flfh«dt to es- ' timate the number of casualties but they believed the total would run into the hundreds, and perhaps thousands. The sources reported the Dalai Lama still is in Tibet and confined to his palace and that he even had toe support of the Tibetan Communists. Says Indians Safe “The Dalai Lama is safe as • far as our information goes,' ‘ the sources said. The Indian government still was in contact with its consul in Lhasa. A message received today be id Indians in Tibet were safe and fighting had stopped in the immediate vicinity of toe consulate. Tibet’s fierce Khamba tribemen have been fighting a guerrilla war against the Communist Chinese in Tibet for about two years. The fighting spread to Lhasa last week when reports circulated that the Chinese Communist government had summoned the Dalai Lama to Peiping—without bodyguards. The Dalai Lama is revered by Tibet’s nearly three million people as a reincarnation of the god Mrs. Laura Bosse Is City Candidate Mrs. Laura Bosse, of 512 W. Madison street, filed her candidacy for clerk-treasurer on the Democratic ticket today for the city's primary election May 5. Mrs. Bosse is the widow of the late Ed A. Bosse, former state’s attorney, and attorney here. Mrs. Bosse’s business experience includes affiliation with her late husband's law practice in Decatur and she currently is associated with Carl Braun’s New York Life insurance office. She is a licensed life and casualty agent. Besides serving two years on toe city’s recreation board, she is a member of the Red Cross board and toe Decatur library board, serving without monetary compensation. A member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, Mrs. Bosse is treasurer of its Rosary society. She is also active in the Civic Music association, serving on the membership committee. Mrs. Bosse’s son, Thomas D. Bosse, is married, and resides in Cleveland Heights, O. Mrs. Miriam Hall, present clerk-treasurer, has announced that she does no plan to seek renomination. Mrs. Hall was first elected in 1955, and is now Completing her first term. She defeated H. Vernon 'Aurand in the Democratic sweep of offices 3% years ago.

■ — . Chenrezi. » The Dalai Lama's brother, Gyalo Thondup, who is in India, said today lie had no first-hand information on events in Tibet or toe fate of his brother. A UPI dispatch from Taipei quoted a member of toe Chinese Nationalist cabinet, Li Yung-Hsin, as saying anti-Communist forces in southwestern China are marching on Tibet to join the uprising. Li, chairman of the Taipei government’s MongolianrTibetan As-1 fairs Commission, said the group I was moving toward Lhasa from I Scechuan, Kansu and Tsinghaij provinces. Monday Li reported the Tibetan revolt had spread to the adjoining Chinese provinces of Tsinghai and Sikang but gave no details on reported fighting. Li said the group reported marching on Tibet were “there to stay” and “teen adequate support these anti-Communist forces will achieve greater results.” Premier Chen Cheng called an emergency meeting Monday night of key Nationalist officials, including Foreign Minister Huang Shaoku and Dr. Tsian Ting-fu, China’s permanent delegate to the United Nations, to discuss the Tibetan situation. Government officials refused to comment on a dispatch from India appearing in the London Daily Express saying the Nationalists v/ere air dropping arms and supplies to the Tibetan revolutionary force. " - — - Distance would preclude any airborne assistance being flown ■ direct from Formosa but there i was unconfirmed speculation that 1 rebel assistance might be originat- • ing from secret operations based in South Viet Nam or Thailand. Two More Grass Fire Calls To Department The Decatur fire department re-1 ported two more grass fires Mon-' day evening after two others were, extinguished earlier in the day. At 6:15 p.m., city firemen extinguished one near the former country club on Parkview Drive, and at 7 p.m. another call, at the McMillen! farm on U.S, highway sent 1 firemen to extinguish that one.

Senate Passes Jobless Aid

WASHINGTON (UPD —A $389,500,000 Senate bill to aid areas hard-hit by unemployment headed today toward a probable trimming in the House and a possible veto by President Eisenhower. n < The measure squeaked through the Senate by a 49-46 vote late Monday after a 53-million-dollar administration substitute was defeated, 52-43. A proposed 200-mil-lion-dollar compromise was rejected, 70-24. The narrow margin of the final Senate vote gave hope to Republicans and conservative Democrats in the House who expected to repeat the success they had last year in chopping about 100 million dollars from the bill. Eisenhower vetoed that measure anyway. Urges Early Passage Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), chief sponsor of the bill, had urged early passage so Congress could act if the President again vetoes it. But the 49-46 roll call was far short of the two-thirds vote needed to override the Chief Executive. A similar bill is under consideration by a House banking subcommittee. It is not expected to come'up for floor action for some time. The Douglas bill, co-sponsored by 33 other Democrats and 5 Republicans, would authorize 300 million dollars in loans and 75tnilfion dollars in federal grants to help economically-distressed communities attract new industries. !r ~ Train Unemployed Workers Also included would be 10 million dollars to train unemployed workers in new vocations and 4% million dollars for “technical assistance’’ to depressed areas. The Senate Banking Committee estimated the bill would be of im-

— — — Extension Os Draft Signed By Eisenhower WASHINGTON (UPD -President Eisenhower signed into law Monday the bill continuing the peacetime draft for four —years beyond June 30. s Besides continuing authority to induct young men between 18% and 26 years old, the legislation I also continues special authority to i draft dentists and doctors and ex- | tends the law giving enlisted men j allowances for dependents. Lists Finalists In Oratorical Contest The four finalists for toe state high school oratorical contest, sponsored by the American Legion, were announced today by Hugh J. Andrews, Indiana chairman for the event. The contest will be Thursday at 1:45 p.rp. in the Decatur high school auditorium. Robert V. Morris, of Gary, will represent zone 1, by virtue of winning that contest at South Bend earlier this month. Mary Jo Volpert. of Peru, will be the zone 2 representative. This cdnt es t matched five contestants from the Kokomo-Peru area at Peru high Sam King, of Brazil, is the : zone four winner, taking me title - at the Linton high meat. Zone ’ three competition at Richmond L high school was won by Michael L. Donhelly, of Terre Haute. - X The winners, their families, and friends will be the guests of the Decatur American Legion post at ; festivities planned throughout the day. A guided tour of the city, a ' banquet at the Legion home, a dance, and other activities, are among the many events scheduled on the program. Also in attendance will be Richlard Smidley, of Indianapolis, di- > rector of Americanism for the I American Legion in Indiana.

mediate benefit to 112 areas of chronic unemployment and might help 150 more if conditions get worse. Opponents of the bill maintained the communities would need a lot more than federal aid to get back their economic health. To qualify for the loans and grants, a community would have to have at least 6 per cent of its workers unemployed and have an unemployment rate 6 per cent above the national average for one to three years. Two Republican co-sponsors of the bill—Sens. Jacob K. Javits (N. Y.) and Clifford P. Case (N.J.)— voted against it. Case said thq criteria, tightened as a concession to the administration, would mean only “a trickle” of aid to New Jersey. — \ —t ,• ——■

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany E. U. B. Church) “I Go To Prepare A Place For You” .John 14:W Y X. A little boy overheard his parents talking. He did not unde** stand all but grandmother was going away and would not return. He loved grandmother and wanted to be with her. When his parents went out to do the chores, he crept into her bedroom. “Grandmother, where are you going? I want to go along.” She explained that she had lived a tong time and was sick and wa%, going now to be with Jesus. There she would hot Jpe “It » all right. You cannot come with me now but if you 15ve*toid-obey Jesus, you too will come and be with him.” The lad was satisfied. It was all right. / So too every disciple of Jesus is comforted with the assuring words of Jesus: “I will come again and receive you to my self, that where I am, there you may be also.” We look forward, to a richer, deeper fellowship with our Lord who said: “I go to prepare a place for you.”

Decatur lions Hear Recording Monday The Lions club enjoyed a record’ ing by Ears Nightengale, entitled the “Strangest Secret In the World” and brought to the club Monday night by Dr. J-. E. Morris. Three members of Lions club troop 62 received special recognition for their outstanding service in receiving shoulder cords as den chiefs in local Cub Scouts packs. Those honored before the club were; Robert Auer, son of George Auer; Dale Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hawkins, and Jack Stauffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Stauffer. Several other Lions club scouts will receive their cords from their pack at a later date. The recording pointed out that out of any 100 persons interviewed at the age of 25, all would plan to make a success of themselves. But at the age of 65, one would be rich, four would be self-sufficient, a number would still be’ working and the rest would have been failures in life. The difference In men, the record pointed out, ’is that the few successful men were inner-direct-ed, and guided themselves towards success, while the failures were outer-directed, and allowed others to guide and direct them. -«/ ’’Society today Is like a wartime convoy—lt is geared to help the slowest in the group, rather than to speed along with the fastest. Those who think in the group will never be truly successful. The opposite of success in today’s world is not failure, it is conformity. “Those who actually have a goal which they hold above everything else are the ones who succeed. They are like a ship with a course set for it, under competent hands. Those with no goals are cast about on the sea of life like a derelict vessel. The most they can expect is to be kept afloat on our artificial plateau of government security. ' “The most important things we have in life are really and truly the free ones—our minds, health, parents, faith, hope, and dreams’. The others can be easily replaced, but these are invaluable, and cannot be replaced. . “We reap that which we plant,” says Nightengale, “in our mindslike a seed of corn or nightshade dropped in the fertile earth. Our minds, like the earth, care not what is dropped therein; and like the earth, they will return either bountiful crops or a poison, depending on what we plant there. “Yes, our thoughts and hopes and goals are the strangest secret in the world—strange because while it is known to all, few really understand it, just the five out of 100 who apply it. and are successful in life.” Five Men Bail Out Before Jet Crashes PETIT JEAN MOUNTAIN, Ark. (UPI)—A six-engine jet bomber from the Little Rock Air. Force Base crashed and burned atop Petit Jean Mountain at 9:50 a.m. today. There were five Air Force personnel aboard, and the base said all had been accounted for after they bailed out safely. ... -- -1, - —- ■ 1 ■- — l —*

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