Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1959 — Page 6

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Veterans Star In Openers In Major Leagues By FRED DOWN United Press International There’s no pro like an old pro when it comes to launching a new season. They say it ever and over again while the rookies are dominating the headlines in the spring, but the words never rang truer - than yesterday when Warren Spahn, Robin Roberts and Nelson Fox showed the young ’uns how it’s done in the big leagues. Spahn, Roberts ana Fox, whose combined careers add up to a total of 36 years of major league experience, seized the opening day | headlines as the Milwaukee ’.Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sex got off to winning starts. Spahn, the brilliant 37-year-old southpaw from Buffalo, N.Y., who has recorded nine 20-victory seasons, cooled off the ambitious Pittsburgh Pirates with a sevenhitter as he pitched the Braves to an 8-0 victory. Roberts, starting his 10th straight opener, pitched , a five-hitter to give the Phillies a 2-1 decision over the Cincinnati Reds. And Fox, who didn’t hit a homer all last season, blasted if one in the 14th inning to provide the White Sox with a 7-5 win over the Detroit Tigers.. Cubs Snowed Out The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Athletics, 64, and the San Francisco Giants '•beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5, in the other openers. Boston a New York in the American League was rained out and Los Angeles at Chicago in the National was snowed out.

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All that talk about the Braves needing a second baseman was pretty much forgotten* as the National League champs parlayed their ewo long suits—pitching and power — into an easy victory. Spahn, who struck out six and walked only two in scoring the 44th shutout of his career, delivered a tworun single himself. Ed Mathews blasted a two-run homer and Bill Burton and Hank Aaron had three hits each in Milwaukee’s 13-hit attack. It was the second straight loss for the Pi- • rates, who have made only 13 hits and one run in two games. Roberts, most frequent open in gday pitcher since Walter Johnson, carried a two-hit shutout into the ninth inning and then pitched his way out of trouble when the Reds had the tying and winning runs on base and Jerry Lynch batting. Roberts, who struck out two and walked one, doubled home the Phillies’ first run in the sixth in- , ning and got the decisive tally in ' the eighth when Sparky Ander- , son’s single delivered Chico Fernandez. Roberts and Don Newcombe each pitched no-hit ball for the first five innings. J— Near League Record Fox, the White Sox’ little to-bacco-chewing second-baseman, blasted his two-run homer off Don Mossi to break up a marathon that fell only one inning short of the A.L. record for an opening day game, kt was Fox’s fifth hit in a four-hour and 25-minute struggle during which a total of 11 pitchers saw action. There were 31 hits, including homers by Jim Landis, Al Kaline and Charley Maxwell in addition to Fox’s game-winning clout. Maxwell's homer, a three-run pinch job in the eighth, was the blow that sent the game into overtime. Gerry Staley was the winner and Mossi tne loser,- ( Gary Bell gained credit for the Indians' victory although he needed help when the Athletics rallied in the ninth. Herb Score, questionmark firebailer failed in relief,

Decatur Golfers Defeat Concordia The Decatur high school golf team defeated-Fbrt Wayne Concordia, 12-4, in a match played Friday afternoon at the Decatur Golf course. Decatur won five matches, lost only one, and halved the other two. Steve Edwards and Jack Dailey, both of the Decatur team, were medalists with scores of 43. The Yellow Jackets will entertain Huntington at the Decatur course Monday afternoon. Results of Friday’s match: Edwards <D) 43, K. Boseker <C) 45; Conrad <D) 49, Theye <C) 51: Dailey <D) 43, Schwartz <C> 55; Beery (D) 47, Reiter (C) 47 (halved match and medal); Ratliffe <D» 49, L. Boseker (C) 54; Burk (D> 48, C. Moellering <C) 50; R. Moellering (C) 52, Hoffman (D) 55; Affolder (D) 59, Springer <C) 60 (match play won by Springer, medal play by Affolder). but Dick Brodowsky finally retired the A’s. George Strickland paced the Indians with three hits and Rocky Colavito Masted a double while Bob Cerv had a triple and Hector Lopez a homer for Kansas City. Score faced three batters—walking two and running up a 2-0 count on the third before he was relieved. Jackie Brandt celebrated his return from Army service with a ninth-inning double that scored Jim Davenport with the Giants’ winning run. Homers by Bob Schmidt and Willie Kirkland gave the Giants two late-inning leads, but the Cardinals had tied the score at 5-5 in the eighth on a walk, an error and Alex Grammas’ third hit. Johnny Antonelli, aided by Al Worthington’s ninthinning relief, picked up the victory. The five opening day-and-night crowds totaled 137,456 with a high of 38,332 in Detroit and a low of 20,988 in St. Louis. lent Loan

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Association Opens 53rd Season Today DENVER (UPD-The American Association, expanded into the largest professional baseball league in the nation despite minor league hard times, opens its 53rd season today and Sunday with high hopes for record attendance. Minneapolis opens at Holton tonight. Sunday, Indianapolis plays at Louisville, Denver is at Dallas, Omaha is at Charleston and St. Paul is at Fort Worth. The American Association dropped Wichita and added Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth this year. The 10 teams will play 162game schedules, and are divided into eastern end western divisions. Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Charleston and Minneapolis hre in the eastern division. Ed Doherty, president of the league with offices in Denver, said pre-season ticket sales were higher than last year throughout the league. “In Texas,” he said, “the fans have been more responsive . than any of us had hoped. All we need, is a break in the weather and good crowds are assured. , “Louisville has rallied behind it.< new club and more box seats than ever before have been sold," Doherty said. Minneapolis, where the baseball public hankers for a major league team- has support problems. But at Denver, where owner Bob Howsam is operating without a big’league club tieup, has a slight increase in advance sales over 1958. Dallas also is operating independently, and may not be quite up to triple-A standards. “Look for Marty Marion to to come up with a good ball dub at Houston,” Doherty said. “Fbf* Worth has good power and t ’ balanced ball club.” Each division will keep its own standings, but overall standings will also be kept on all 10 teams. The pennant winner will be the team with the best overall wonlost average. A playoff among division leaders and runnersup will determine the American Association’s entry In the little world series against the International League champs. I Today's Sport Parade I (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International 2 NEW YORK (UPI) - Fearless Fraley’s facts and figures: It’s mighty difficult in most athletic eases to be a “chip off the old block” and at least two sons of major league stars are conclusive evidence as far as far as baseball is concerned. Don Lee, son of former White Sox star Thornton Lee, has been sent down to the minors again by Detroit while Hal Trosky Jr., son of the former Cleeland first baseman, also has been farmed out by the White Sox. One offspring who might make it big, say the Phillies, is Jim Hegan Jr. Young Jim -is finishing up his schoolin while his dad runs out the string as a Phillies catcher, but the Phils had the youngster in camp and like his looks. If pappy holds out enough they could wind up as teammates. Richards Plugs Rookie Bowling has made a fantastic surge forward in recent years but, surprising as it may be, there still are “pocket” areas throughout the country which still are resisting 10 pins. In Massachusetts, as example, the accent has ffemained on candlepins and duckpins. Brunswick-Balke now reports the first major crack in the New, England armor with ground to be broken next week at Haverhill, Mass., for a 32-lane 10pin palace where automatic pinsetters are expected to push the 10-pin game across the goal line. When an argument arises as to who is the best fielding shortstop in the major leagues, the argument usually simmers down to Roy McMillin of the Cincinnati Reis and Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox. Who's the best? "Neither.” claims Baltimore boss Paul Richards, putting in an oar for his rookie, Ronnie Hansen. “Hansen can make plays no other shortstop in baseball can make,”’he insists. “He has the best glove in America.’’ The big question with Hansen, however, is the size of his bat. Preview Os Preakness Brookfield Farms has its colt, intentionally, in a silk - lined rut. The colt won the Pimlico Futurity last year when the race was the second richest on the stakes schedule. ‘Now, with the Preak- ■ ness increased to $150,000-added to become the second wealthiest stake, Intentionally Is one of the. favorites for the May 16th Triple Crown event. This season in the AmericanLeague should be called “Will Harridge’s revenge." Harridge stepped down recently as American League president and was succeeded by Joe Cronin. But A. G. Spalding already had packaged thousands of dozens of balls bearing the Harrldge signature, what with each team using 75 balls per game on the averae. Thus the new leaue ball bearing Cronin’s signature will not be manufactured until summer "and may not be in use until the World Series—if then.

137,456 Fans Attend Major League Games United Press International Despite poor weather, a reasonable healthy total of 137,456 fans turned out Friday for the five ma-> jor league basebail openers. The average 0f„27,4Q0 per game was about 5,000 YeWer than the average for the'l9sß openers When all eight games were played. The best crowd was at Detroit, where 38,332 braved 37-degree temperature to see the Tigers open against the White Sox. Other crowds were 33,317 at Pittsburgh, 22.630 at Kansas City, 22,189 at Philadelphia and 20*88 at St. Louis. Mixed Doubles To Be Resumed Tonight Mixed doubles will be resumed tonight at 9:30 o’clock at the Mies Recreation alleys. This is a Handicap event and one-league bowlers are invited to participate. This is also the closing week for the annual doubles tourney, and reservations may be made by call- . ing at the alleys. There will be open bowlijg today and limited open bowline Sunday. r The first annual singles tourney will open Saturday, April 18. This will be five games across 10 alleys. Local bowlers are asked to sign Two More Members Added To C. Os C. ’Hie Deeatur Chamber of Commerce added two more new members today, when drive chairman Larry Anspaugh announced that Robert A. Mason, an accountant, and Gillig and Doan mortuary have signed membership blanks. Ferris Bower, operating on Capt. Dick Wertzbcrger’s team, signed Mason, while Capt. Bob Holthouse gained the signature of Gillig and Doan. The new members will display the “Make Decatur Greater” membership emblem. A full accounting of new memberships will be available in Monday’s edition of the Daily Democrat. Reports Automobile Ransacked Friday A. N. Hilton, of 417 Elm. street, reported to the city police Friday that thieves ransacked his auto sometime between 4 and 6 p.m. Friday and stole a set of keys. The auto was parked in the garage behind the Hilton home. Hilton also stated that a similar incident occurred about a Week ago. He informed the police that his other auto was ransacked and another set of keys taken. Police are investigating. Minor Accident Is Reported By Police A minor accident occurring at Monroe and Second streets Friday at 9:45 p.m. and causing only $lO in damage, was reported to the city police department. A car driven by Jerry T. Winahs, 17, route six, Decatur, backed into a car driven by Doyle L. Egly, 21, Decatur, which was stopped in the lane of traffic on Monroe street. Damage to the Egly auto was estimated at $lO and no damage resulted to the Winans vehicle.

MAJOR National League W. L. Pct. G.B. Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 Philadelphia ... 1 0 1.000 San Francisco . 1 0 1.000 Cincinnati 11 .500 % Chicago 0 0 .000 % Los Angeles ... 0 0 .000 % St. Louis 0 1 .000 1 Pittsburgh 0 2 .000 1% Friday’s Results Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 0. Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 1. San Frahcisco 6, St. Louis 5. Los Angeles at Chicago, postponed, snow. American League W. L. Pct. G.B. Chicagol 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 *0 1.000 Washington .... 1 0 1.000 Boston 0 0 .000 % New York 0 0 .000 % Baltimore 0 1 .000 1 Kansas City ... 0 1 .000 1 Detroit 0 1 .000 1 Friday’s Results Cleveland 8, Kansas City 4. Chicago 9, Detroit 7 (14 innings). Boston at New York, postponed, rain. Only games scheduled.

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Winter Wheal Crop To Add To Surplus WASHINGTON (UPD-W Agriculture Department's crop summaiSLindicateg die 1959 winter what most of its have done in recent years—add substantially to the wheat surplus. The department Friday estimated the fall-planted crop would total 996-million bushels. This is nine million bushels above the Dec. 1 forecast but 18 per cent less than the record 1958 crop of 1,180,000,000 bushels. Hie expected harvest still would be 19 per cent above average. If the estimate holds true, it would add about 200 million bushels to the wheat carryover which is scheduled to be about 1,280,000,000 bushels by July 1. Department economists have estimated that the carryover 15 months hence will be close to 1,500,000,000 bushels. There is nothing firm about the current estimate of production. The estimate for the 1958 crop as of April 1, 1958, was 964 million

Vote “NO” apbil nth We Would Like To Have These Questions Answered How did the appraisers arrive at the $2,102,300 figure which is the exact offer of I&M to the dollar? Why did two I&M men and two city officials sit in the meeting when the appraisals were made. 9 - • Why did it take I&i»> weeks and numbers of men to make their appraisal and the three who made the appraisal for the city in a matter of hours? Why should a Florida appraiser advise us how to vote? . Have the Chamber of Commerce and the Newspaper been impartial on this issue. They promised they would be. In an ad Monday, April 6 a statement was made that I&M would pay taxes on an assessed valuation of $852,000 and would pay city taxes of $49,972. How did they get this information? All we have seen is the price I&M has offered for the plants. Are they being prompted by I&M? , Has anyone explained the operation of a demand meter that will be placed in all business houses and commercial establishments? W’ho pays the cost of government, when funds are drawn from the Light Plant? Only the electric users. Who pays the cost ot government when funds are drawn from taxes? Only the property owners. What do they mean debt free Decatur? Sell the light plant, pay off all the bonded indebtedness then be broke? How will we pay the street lighting then? Do yota know that if we sell our Light Plant, that Decatur will be mandated by •< the Indiana Rating Bureau to construct a water tower of 1,000,000 Gal. Cap. for fire protection at an approximate cost of $250,000. To our Country Cousins, we are not trying to continue your troubles, but do the thigs that must be done to help you. A City owned Light Plant provides competition in a normally monopolistic field. It provides the individual a greater opportunity to tell how he wants this service administered. It supplies a facility that gives active support to loial municipality. It provides deversification of power resources vitally importanttoday. ' . ' ■ You may be assured that if we keep the plant, that our committee shall continue to function. Vote for the people who care, not for those who are not concerned. QUESTION: Who will sell Electrical Appliances in Decatur if I&M takes over our electric power system. ANSWER: Not the small business man. Every business man in Decatur knows what happened to the Gas Appliance business. When I&M opens their office in Decatur the same thing will happen to the Electric Apoliahce business, as you know theysell Electric Appliances. The-City Light Plant is here to help—the small business man, not destroy him as I&M will. QUESTION: We would like to ask why the Editor of the Decatur Democrat, has not printed an editorial explaining to the business men of Decatur, how their Electric Power bills will be raised by the use of the Demand Meter, which will be installed by I&M in every business and commercial building including churches. Why do the two largest Industries or the management want the people of Decatur to sell the City Light Plant? ANSWER: The answer is very simple, if they purchase huge blocks of Electric Power from I&M, they will be in a good position to dictate terms. Big Business, I scratch your back now, you scratch mine. We have never lost a new industry due to inadequate supply of power. If the City Light Plant cannot manufacture an adequate amount of power for new industry, they can buy any amount needed. QUESTION: How will I&M find 30 to 40 new industries? ANSWER: After all they service approximately that many towns and cities, and there is no question every town or city they serve was told the same High Sounding Story by I&M. In a meeting between I&M and the City employees, I&M gave the impression they would keep the employees, if they could qualify. I&M was asked if they would put that in writing as a guarantee. This was not done, and it was possible to make the qualifications so high that none of the employees could qualify. Now if they (I&M) were to hire some of them. Tell me how could the other departments of the city absorb the rest of them when the other departments have more men now than they need. Now please let me tell you this, I&M is not buying the City Electric Utility to help the City of Decatur, nor the people in Decatur, nor the farmers, they are huving it to help themselves. VOTE NO on April 14. GO VOTE! If you are confused, VOTE NO to save what you already have, j CITIZENS COMMITTEE

bushels. At harvest time, it was 1,180,000,000 bushels. Department officials pointed out that weather conditions between now and harvest time as well as damage from Insects could greatly influence the final production. The current forecast assume^.normal ’ weather, insect and disease condi- ; tidh for the remainder of |he crop season. w ’ The 1959 yield of winter wheat was estimated at 21.4 bushels per acre. This is well below last i year’s record yield of 26.8 bushels, . but ahead of any other year by a ‘ considerable margin. The department said the 1959 ; wheat crop is encountering considerable difficulty in trying to reach the pace set by the 1958 1 crop, and by April 1 was beginning to lag badly in some major ’ producing areas. Trouble spots were in Texas, Oklahoma, and South Dakota where plants were struggling for survival against dei _ ;—; — :

LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE NO. 1311 MEMORIAL SERVICES for Bro. Tice Baker Sunday Evening 7:00 P. M. dillig & Doan Funeral Home, members please attend.

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pletlng soil moisture.. In a report of food grain stocks on farms as of April 1, the department said they were about 60 per cent larer than a year ago and 25 per cent above average. The department, said the rye crop condition as of April 1 was 84 per cent of normal. Pasture conditions were 80 per cent of nOHnal. ’ » ■■IM. The "Snuff Information Center” says thht the average weekly consumption of snuff in the U.S. is two ounces per user and that the average retail price is 10 cents an ounce. /

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