Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 94.

C. Os C. Membership Shows Good Increase

The 1959 membership campaign of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce was highly successful, according to a report by Lawrence Anspaugh, drive chairman, to the board of directors at the April meeting Monday night. Anspaugh reported 30 new members signed, with several additional ones expected. In thanking his committee, Roy Kalver and David Moore, and captains and workers, the chairman reported the membership at its highest level in recent years. The directors also announced the Chamber’s 32-acre industrial plot on 13th street is to be sub-divided into smaller plots of ffVd or more acres to attract several smaller industries. A plotted roadway going directly west will be surveyed Film On Fishing Shown Lions Club * ■ ... . .... A colored film on sport-fishing in the upper Amazon river area, including spin-fishing for piranha, entertained the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Ervin Lengerich, a member of Scout troop 62 and son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Lengerich, led the pledge of allegiance. Next week, W. M. Bumgerdner , will be in charge of a program on railroads On May 4, while the merchant showcase is being set up. the General Electric company will be host to the Lions club for a meeting starting at 6 p. m. The movie showed how two men flew into the Peruvian mountains and took a dugout, powered by a motor, into almost inaccessable waters to see if tropical fish would bite on standard American lures. — Die sportsmen penetrated deep into the jungle, and their guide had to stand guard at night, as head-hunting tribes frequested the neighborhool. They visited several friendly tribes, and fished with them. A large number of fish were caught in the streams. Climax of the trip was a stop on a lake which had only the dreaded piranha in it. This sal-mon-like fish, only slightly larger than a crappie, has jaws like steel, and razor-sharp teeth. They travel in huge schools, and the smell of blood so infuriates them ! that they can strip the flesh from ni«4 or beast in a few seconds. The Indians, to prove this point, tifcd a dead monkey to a rope and threw it into the lake; in a few seconds the boiling, churning water’showed that the dead monkey hacl been attacked. When it was pulled back to shore, nothing but bones remained. To fish for these fish the men used steel plugs and leaders. The fish bit strongly, and for their size put up a good fight, but did not seem dangerous, until one of the men leaned over to pull in one, and another leaped from the water, and fastened its teeth into his arm. A number of jungle scenes were included in the picture, which was shown by Merritt Alger. Guests for the meeting included Richard Knapp, of Andrews, Texas, and Fred Houtzel. of Decatur. Russell Acker, who has spent the winter in Florida, returned for his first Lions club meeting.

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PANAMA FEARS INVASlON— lnvasion-jittery Panama looks nervously to sea for the Yacht, Nola, reported cruising offshore with Roberto Arias, son of a former Panamanian president, his wife, British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn (above) and a supply of arms. Crewmen of a shrimp boat told Panamanian authorities they had helped the Nola raise a sunken launch loaded with rides, /revolvers, machineguns and grenadgs at a point 15 miles from the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.

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and improved to divide the area into fwo parts, each of which will again be divided into suitable plots witfi sidings on either the Erie or Nickel Plate railroad. More Inquiries Louis Jacobs, industrial procurement chairman, reported an increased number of industrial inquiries during the past 10 days. Long distance phone calls, along with follow-up letters and borchures, were made to industries in California and New Jersey, as well as io several rother firiCC Site competition is reported keen and the C. C. gives each lead prompt attention. Individuals who hear of any possibilities are asked to contact the Chamber office. Earl Sheets, chairman of this year’s Merchants Showcase, to be held at the Youth and Community Center May 5, 6 and 7, reported that all available display space has been taken, and (dans are underway to add tent space for auto and boat display. Displays will be more elaborate this year, and big crowds are anticipated. George Auer, Chamber of Commerce president, conducted last night's meeting, and monthly financial reports were presented by Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary. Indianapolis Worker 1$ Fatally Shocked INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Lawrence D. Hamilton, 30, Indianapolis, was shocked fatally Monday when a crane he was operating on a storm sewer construction project brushed against high tension electrical wires.

Near Showdown On Labor Reform Bill

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate moved toward its first 1959 showdown on the labor reform issue today with Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) predicting a ‘‘safe margin” of votes to keep his bill intact. Kennedy, chief sponsor and floor manager of the measure, said he expected the Senate to crush a move by Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.) to strip the bill of Taft-Hartley law changes demanded by organized labor. A vote was scheduled this afternoon on the Ervin proposal, one of 130 pending amendments. Ervin, who co-sponsored the Kennedy bill but split off on this issue, was backed by southern Democrats and some Republicans, including Sen. Barry Goldwater ( Ariz.l, senior GOP member of the Senate Labor Committee. Bill’s Key Test He was supported in debate Monday also by Chairman John L. McClellan!D-Ark.) and Vice Chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) of the Senate Rackets Committee. Mundt described the Kennedy bill as akin to “the proverbial boy sent out to do a man’s job.” But Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.) and various other Republicans, plus what Kennedy considered a solid contingent of northern Democrats, were lined against Ervin’s move. AFL-CIO sources looked upon today’s vote as the key test of the

Hearing Is Held On New Bowling Alley Decatur’s plan commission heard strong pro and con arguments Monday night ip the city court room chambers from the MiesDawson Realty Inc. and remonstrators to the petition to rezone about seven acres of residential land to commercial. The Mies-Dawson forces were led by the law firm of Custer and Smith and had representatives from the Brunswick Corporation, the nation's largest bowling supplier; two signed petitions from 325 interested persons, and a letter from the Chamber of Commerce tentatively aporoving tfyeir proposal to build a 18-lane bowling, alley along U.S. highway 224, on land adjacent to Schwartz Motor Co. near the Decatur golf course. Lewis L. Smith represented the objectors, who petitioned against the rezoning of the 690 feet along the highway and 500 feet in depth. The area is now zoned R-l, but if the Mies petition is approved Will become C-2, general commercial. The setting of the court room proved quite appropriate as counsels for both sides bantered the question in legal fashion: Smith made two major contentions that the commission wanted clarified before taking a vote. The commission took the arguments under advisement and will meet on appointment when all members have arrived at a conclusion. No date has been set for the meeting. The remonstrators’ tWo claims are that homes in the immediate area would be effectively curtailed from receiving loans from FHA for financing or refinancing if the rezoning is> allowed. Also, that since a little more than two acres (Continued on page four)

Kennedy-Ervin bill’s fate. They felt Jhat if the line could be held there the bill would go through in its present form —a form satisfactory to that organization’s leaders. Explains Move Dirksen told newsmen he was opposing the Ervin amendment only to retain “a vehicle” by which administration - proposed Taft-Hartley amendments can be considered later. These would include bans on secondary boycotts and organization picketing. Kennedy, who opposes the administration measures as “too controversial” at this time, wants to 4iold the bill’s Taft-Hartley revisions to those involved in the voting today. These include: —Permission for strikers to vote in representation elections. —Authority for building contractors to sign union contracts before actually hiring workers. L_ —An attempt at ending the socalled “no man’s land” in federal and state jurisdiction in labor disputes.

Nine-Inch Snowfall Recorded In lowa , United Press International Spring weather, stalled in northern snow drifts, was expected to stage a gradual comeback Tuesday from the Rockies \to New England. One of the heaviest late April snowstorms on record ended Monday night in the Midwest, although flurries continued during the night along the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Up to nine inches of snow fell in lowa Monday, the heaviest in 50 years for this time of year. Des Moines residents slipped and skidded in a six-inch snowfall, the third greatest amount ever to fall in April and the heaviest for the month since 1921. Showers and thunderstorms continued in the Southeast where a tornado Monday afternoon destroyed a school building under construction at Wade, Miss. The tornado also damaged another school, but Injured no one. A UnitecT Press International count showed at’ least 13 deaths connected with the outbreak of rain and snow since Saturday night. lowa had six deaths, Illinois four and New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming one each. In New Mexico, a Greyhound bus skidded out of control on rain slick U.S. 66 Monday, killing an Ohio woman and them critically 1 -

Cold air seeped southward during the night into Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri, and east across the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic coast.

Decatur. Indiana, Tuesday, April 21,1959.

Herter Nomination As Secretary Is Approved By Senate Committee

Bids Wednesday On New County Building Sealed bids for the construction of the new Adams county building being planned near Monroe, will be opened publicly Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock by the Adams county board of commissioners at the county court house, it was announced today. Bids may still be submitted at the auditor’s office in the court house until the deadline ,at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Any bids submitted after such time will be returned unopened. Results of the contracts awarded to contractors and construction companies from the surrounding area, will be announced as soon as they are released by the county officials. The commissioners stated in their regular meeting held Monday in the commissioners room that the three appraisers recently appointed to appraise the 95 acres of land, owned by the Adams county infirmary, and proposed to be sold at public auction sometime thia spring; and to apraise the present Adams county highway garage building, located on North First street, will take oath cd office next Monday morning and begin their appraisement of the county property. The three appraisers consist of the following: Don Cook, of Washington township; Eli Graber, of Berne; and Austin McMichael, of St. Mary’s township. Fix Pay Scale The board of commissioners fixed the pay scale for the primary election workers at Monday’s meeting. Election board workers will receive the following salaries May 5: inspectors, S2O; judges and clerks, sl2; sheriffs, $9; and a $2.50 meal allowance will be given to all precinct workers. Jack Rayer, a regular member of the city fire department, discussed with the commissioners the possibility of adopting the Purdue system in numbering or marking the county roads throughout the county. No immediate action was taken by the board, but the commissioners stated that the matter would be discussed at future meetings, and when a decision is made it will be released immediately. It was also stated that although the marking of county roads is somewhat costly, several neighboring counties such as Wells, Jay, and Allen counties, etc., have adopted the Purdue system during the past few years. An estimated $5,000 would be needed to complete the task of marking each individual county road. Other business disposed of Monday by the commissioners was an allocation from the general ditch improvement fund of $61.73 for the added estimated expense to complete the H. SwovelandHeadwall ditch in Blue Creek township. Ttaj commissioners concluded their weekly meeting by announcing that the rest rooms located at the Adams county court house will be open only certain hours during the day again as has had to be done in the past. Due to the vandalism caused during the past several weeks to the county property by adolescents, the rest rooms will be open, only from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., with the exception of Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, when the doors ■will not be locked until 9 o’clock. The rest rooms will be closed on Sundays and all legal holidays. INDIANA WEATHER Frost warning. Fair north and * central, partial clearing extreme south and quite cool tonight with frost or freesing temperatures most sections. Low tonight 25 to 32 north, 30 to 35 south. Wednesday mostly sunny and a t little warmer. High 50 to 58. Sunset today 7:29 p.in. c.d.t. Sunrise Wednesday 5:58 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thursday: Flair and a little warmer but with scattered frost or freesing temperatures likely again Wednesday night. Low Wednesday 27 to 37. High Thursday 55 to 65.

Slight Rainfall In Decatur On Monday Weather observer Louis Landrum reported an additional .11 inch of rain fell on Decatur Monday according to his reading at 7 a m. today. The St. Mary’s river is now at more than three feet for the first time in five days. The river is at 3.82 feet. Howard N. Shockey Dies This Morning Howard N. Shockey, 88, former Decatur resident, died at 1 o'clock this morning at the home of a son, Paul Shockey, Westminster, Md. Death was due to complications of old age. Mr. Shockey was a barber in Decatur for many years, and also followed his trade in various oth,er cities in this area. He was born in Allen county, O, March 20, 1871, but had spent tnost of his life in this area. His Wife, Leona, died Dec. 19, 1926. ✓ - X j Surviving in addition to the son With whom he made his home, are Be daughters, Mrs. Lyle Male and Mrs.; Tillmon Gehrig, i of Decatur, and Mrs. Lee er of Fort Wayne; ,six grandchildren and six great-grandchil-iren. ( Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the E. Harper & Sons funeral home in New Haven, with burial in the IOOF cemetery at New Haven. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Ike Submits Offer To Reds

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD—President Eisenhower has offered Russia a new plan for traveling the road to disarmament a step at a time. Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has sent a separate letter to Moscow backing Eisenhower’s plan. The first step — an installment plan for limiting nuclear weapons tests which increase the world's radioactive fallout — was made public as the Chief Executive prepared to end his two-week spring holiday in Georgia and fly back to Washington this afternoon. Eisenhower’s plan to approach the control of nuclear weapons gradually was outlined in an April 13 letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev had not replied to the note when the Russians broke the news of its existence Monday in Geneva where talks on test suspension are in progress. Releases Text The White House was something less than pleased by this development and gave Eisenhower’s full text to reporters Monday night without waiting for the Khrushchev reply. The United States proposal for a phased ban on nuclear weapons had been outlined broadly in Geneva by Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, chief of the American delegation. The Geneva conference on banning tests began last Oct. 31. The Russians insisted on their right to veto inspection aspects of any control system applying to underground explosions. “These negotiations must not be permitted completely to fail,” Eisenhower wrote Khrushchev, saying that without a new approach “no basis for agreement is now in sight.” Bypass Arguments Eisenhower’s new approach was this: Step around the current arguments, political and technical, over control of underground and outer space tests and try to seek an initial agreement on prohibiting tests in the earth’s atmosphere. “If you are prepared to change your present position on the veto,

Guidance Meeting Panelists Chosen Twelve panelists for the occupational guidance, meeting at the Youth and Community Center Thursday evening were announced today by George Litchfield, chairman of Rotary’s occupational guidance program. The meeting is primarily for members of the senior classes of the two Decatur high schools, but interested juniors are also welcome. The session will start immediately following the regular Rotary club meeting, and is expected to get underway at approximately 7:15 o’clock. Students will be divided into groups according to their preferred vocations, and the panelists will advise them regarding the particular type of work in which they are most interested. The panelists are as follows: Dr. Ray Stingely, dentistry: Louis Jacobs, Pharmacy; Dr. C. William Freeby, medicine and nursing; Paul Bevelhimer, teaching; George Auer, business administration; Tom Allwein, management; Carl Gerber, retail; Deke and Bill Schnepf and Dick Childs, farming; other professions, Robert Smithy attorney; Leo Kirsch and George Thomas, all other vocations;■ Foundry Employes At Peru On Strike PERU, Ind. (UPD—Some 150 employes of the Peru Foundry went on strike Monday after negotiations on a new labor contract bogged down.

■■■ . ir.n~Tl.wr on procedures for on-sight inspection, and on early discussion of concrete measures for high altitude detection,” the President told the Soviet boss, “we can of course proceed promptly in the hope of concluding • the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement for suspension of nuclear weapons tests. “If you are not ready to go this far, then I propose that we take the first and readily attainable step of an agreed suspension of nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere up to fifty kilometers (30 miles) while the political and technical problems associated with control of underground and outer space tests are being re- . solved." Would Allay Fears While such an admittedly onestep plan was operating, the President felt that “fears of unrestricted resumption of nuclear weapons testing with attendant additions to levels of radioactivity would be allayed, and we would be gaining practical experience and confidence in the operation of an international control system.” Eisenhower said he believed a lasting agreement for discontinuing the tests would be “an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.” Revisions In Train Schedules Announced Changes in Erie passenger train schedules, t effective next Sunday, when major areas of the nation switch to daylight saving time, were announced today by W. M. Bumgerdner, Decatur agent. Arrival times (all central daylight) are: Westbound—No. 1, 4:43 a.m. (regular stop); No. 5, 1:38 p.m. (not regular stop); No. 7 (daily except Sunday! 10:06 p.m. (regular stop); No. 9 (Sunday only) 7:31 p.m. (regular stop); Eastbound —No. 6, 1:34 p.m. (not regular stop); No. 2, 9:43 p.m. (regular stop); No. 8, 1:54 a.m. (not regular stop).

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Foreign Relations committee today unanimously approved the nomination of Christian A. Herter to be secretary of state. Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) said he would ask the Senate leadership to bring the nomination up in the Senate today if possible. “There has been some confusion in the circumstances surrounding this appointment,” Fulbright said. “I think that fast action by Congress will correct any impression that may exist that there is a difference of opinion about the appointment.” Herter himself has explained that the delay in his appointment by President Eisenhower to succeed John Foster Dulles resulted from the fact that the chief executive was awaiting a medical report on the new secretary. With Rare Speed Dulles resigned last Wednesday. The President named Herter last Saturday and formally sent the nomination to the Senate Monday. Herter told reporters Monday that “the only delay was that he (the President) was waiting for the physical report that I was delighted to have made for him.” Herter suffers from chronic arthritis. The committee acted with rare speed in approving the nomination. Its vote, at a closed sessoin, came less than two hours after 4t convened a public hearing at which Herter was the only witness. j .... During the 65 minutes of questioning, mostly by Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), Herter said that: —He did not believe the United States should use npclear weapons “in the initial stages” in any shooting war that might break out over Berlin. —The United States would have to “think very carefully” about using nuclear weapons if it appeared that Russia was “willing to carry it to the point of an allout war.” Leaving for Paris Herter was warmly praised by every committee member present, including Morse. Morse, who questioned Herter longer than all other committee members combined, drew from the secretary-designate statements, on several hypothetical situations which might arise over Berlin. Herter plans to leave Monday for Paris where he and representatives of Britain, France and West Germany will try to hammer out final policies and strategy for dealing with Russia at the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference. The Geneva meeting, scheduled to begin May 11, will try to resolve the East-West deadlock over the fate of Berlin and divided Germany. But the Western Allies, at their Paris meeting beginning April 29, first must reach com-

Violence In Mill Strike

HENDERSON, N.C. (UPD — A jarring dynamite explosion broke an eerie silence today as powerless police watched street lights and searchlights shot out over the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills. The blast, largest in the 23-week-old strike violence here, came as more than 330 frightened non-union workers were bedded down inside the two plants of the mill complex, afraid to leave as armed bands of unionists roamed outside the gates. Bullets shattered all street lights and police searchlights near the inill grounds. In one 15-minute period, 10 windows of the North Henderson Mill were Shot out, Police Helpless Police said a stick or a stick and a half of dynamite was thrown inside the North Henderson Mill plant grounds between the gate and waste house abbut 4:10 a.m. No extensive damage was reported. Police, warned by angry unionists to stay away front the plant, kept at a distance, fearing that daylight may bring more trouble. One officer said he feared “all hell will break loose” when mill

mon ground for negotiating with the Soviet Union. Herter made it clear Monday he will continue to seek advice from Dulles, whom he visited at Walter Reed Hospital soon after returning from a week - end vacation in South Carolina. Team Worker But the incoming secretary also served notice he will rely less on personal diplomacy and delegate more authority to his subordinates than Dulles did. Orville Heller Dies Aller Long Illness Orville Heller, 75, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Preble township. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1957 and had been ill since that time. Mr. Heller was an engineer for 1908 until his retirement in 1947. the Buckeye Pipeline Co. from He was born in Darke county, 0., July 25, 1883, a son of Jacob and Angeline Elzey-Heller, and was married to Minnie Brown Nov. 8, 1908. Mr. Heller was a member of the First Methodist church in Decatur. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Wayne (Verea) Johnson of Kirkland township; two sons, Vearl L. Heller of Union township, and John V, Heller of Preble township; six grandchildren; two brothers, William Heller of Root township, and Roy Heller of Kirkland township, and two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Jones of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Pearl Yake of Kirkland township. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:80 a. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. Three Youths Leave For Army Induction Three Adams county youths left early tjiis morning for Indianapolis for induction into the armed forces, and one transfer from West Liberty,Ky., to the local selective service board, left with the group for a physical examination. The contingent consisted of the following: lor induction, Franklin Neil Keller, Don Lewis Lehman, and Arthur Sweat, Jr., a volunteer. Jesse Pete Ball left for a physical examination, and was recently transferred from local board 74, in West Liberty, Ky., to the 10c,’4 board.

hands besieged in the plants attempted to leave for their homes. The unionists, members of the Textile Workers Union of America, disregarded their union leadership’s plea to remain calm Monday night in the nearly six-month-old strike which officially ended Sunday. Appeal To State City officials ordered every policeman on duty and appealed to Gov. Luther H. Hodges for state reinforcements to prevent possible bloodshed. Unionists became riled when the number of former striker! added to a second shift at the mill amounted to less than 30 persons. This was after the union ratified a' new contract Sunday with the mills. The few unionists added to the opening of the second shift Monday afternoon left the plant “while the getting was good,” one unionist said. He said the nonunion members inside the plant were “sure scared to death.” Ruby Burroughs, a unionist, said the non-unionists cursed, ridiculed and mistreated her.

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