Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 97.

AILfNG DULLES ACCEPTS NEW ASSIGNMENT— Attired in street clothes for the occasion, ailing John Foster Dulles chats with President Eisenhower (right) and (1. to r.) Mrs. Dulles, newly-appoint-ed Secretary of State Christian Herter and Vice P resident Richard M. Nixon following his acceptance of appointment as Special Policy Consultant to the President. Hie 71-year-old Dulles used the occasion to praise his successor, Herter. and heard Mr. call his new role "one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation’s welfare.”

Fine Aris Festival Here This Evening The fine arts festival will be held tonight at 8 o’clock in the gym at Decatur high school, seas taring a display of art work by several Adams county artists, combined with a musical program to be presented ty members of the high school choir and band. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art instructor at Decatur high school, is in charge of the art displays and arrangements. Miss Helen Haubold, choir director and vocal instructor, and Clint Reed, band instructor, are in charge of the musical program. The doors to the gymnasium will open at 7 o’clock so that the displays may be viewed. The musical program is slated for 8 p. m. and persons unable to view the art work.before the musical program may do so afterward. Art work to be on display includes: o» paintings, water colors, ink, pastel, cut paper, ceramics, chalk drawings, mosaics, lapidary art, aluminum trays and enameled copper jewelry, and many others. The music booster club of the Decatur public schools will feature a booth located in the gym to sign members to the newly organized association. No admission will be charged, but a free will offering will be taken.

West Nations Plan Strategy

LONDON (UPD—Experts of the Western Big Four nations finished work today on joint strategy for dealing with Russia in the forreign ministers conference next month. It was understood to in-' elude a phased arms control and inspection system for Central Europe. The policy package was sent off immediately for study by the British, French, United States and West German governments. The experts had been mapping the strategy since April 13. The British Foreign Office announced today the group had “finished its work.” —y — It was understood there still were some differences on the strategy which will .have to be worked out by the Western foreign ministers in their pre - Geneva meeting in Paris next Wednesday. There was complete official silence on the package but it was understood to include a firm Western stand on Berlin and a proposal for a two-phased arms control and inspection system for Central Europe. This last would be linked to progress on unification of East and West Germany. The East-West foreign minsiters meeting is to be held May 11 and the Russians have been accusing the West of trying to sabotage it in advance. This, in turn, has hardened the Western position in the belief that it shows the Russians do not intend to make any significant concessions. 'The U.S. plan, was reported to call for delaying a peace treaty for several years until- West and East Germany can be united stage by stage. Each stage would be linked to agreed moves toward European security. Britain believes the plan follows too closely on a 1955 Western proposal firmly and repeatedly rejected by Russia and offering no

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Police Keep HeavyOuard Around Castro NEW YORK (UPI) — The “American gangsters" reported converging on New York to assassinate Cuban Prime Minister i Fidel Castro for pay were located i Thursday night, going peaceably ■ about their business in Philadelphia and Las Vegas. But police refused today to relax their heavy guard around the people-loving statesman. Castro himself was unworried, and undeterred from his ebullient round of seeing sights and meeting people. * New York police already had thrown the heaviest security guard ever around the visiting Cuban leader. When they received a report Thursday that bands of hired killers were on their .gray tojbe city to sjgy Castro. they had nothing to add but vigilance. An estimated 30 plainclothes policemen were on guard with uniformed police thr'jgh the night outside Castro’s l/tfa-floor hotel suite. At least an equal number patrolled the lobby and hotel entrances. More than 500 police were detailed to a Central Park rally tonight for the biggest security headache — and the last scheduled appearance —of Castro’s New York visit.

promising ground for negotiations. France and West Germany oppose it for fear the Communists might gain the upper hand in West Germany. There were these other major developments in the East - West dispute: —Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, speaking before a Conservative Party rally in Preston, warned that a summit conference is no cure-all for East-West difference. But he said such a meeting could mark the beginning of better relations. —West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was meeting Italian Premier Antonio Segni in Griante di Cadenabbia, Italy, in an effort to produce a common Italln-Ger-man line on the Berlin and German problems. —Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and U.N. Secretary-Gener-al Dag Hammarskjold conferred for 2% hours Thursday in Washington on the German crisis. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge sat in on the meeting. < INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Saturday with a few scattered showers extreme north this afternoon and tonight and over north and west portions Saturday. A little cooler near northern border this afternoon. A little warmer most sections tonight but turning cooler northwest Saturday. Low tonight 45 to 55. High Saturday from the '> 50s or low 60s extreme north to the 70s south. Sunset today 7:32 p.m. c.d.t Sunrise Saturday 5:54 a.m. c.d.L Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and eooler. Lows from high 30s to low 50s. Highs 50 to 60. '

Castro just kept smiling. “In Cuba they had tanks, planes and guns and they ran away, so what can they do here?” he asked, “I sleep very well and don’t Jvorry at all.” The report or- the assassination attempt reached, police, a spokesman saM, from, a source within Castro’s party, the plotters were identified as five brothers named Scoleri from Philadelphia, all said to have criminal recores, and a man identified as David Rosen, or Joe Stacher or Doc Harris, said to be an associate of racketeer Meyer Lansky, who has operated as a Cuban gambling impress ar io. Philadelphia police reported each of the Scoleris “industriously” at work in eitner Philadelphia or nearby Camden, N.J. New Bomber Missile Passes First Test CAPE CANAVERAL, kla. (UPI) —A new bpmber-launched missile named the “Hound Dog” passed its first flight test high over the Atlantic tracking range Thursday. A 852 bomber near the cape fired the missile, a winged weapon with a range of several hundred miles. The Air Force said in Washington the Houng Dog “successfully met its test objectives.” Strategic Air Command bombers armed with the supersonic missiles could stay beyond reach of enemy air defenses to safelv attack their targets. The Hound Dog is designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Officials declined to say how far the first Hound Dog traveled At Santa Rosa Island, just offshore from Eglin, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration held another experiment in its “man in space” program. A two-stage rocket of the Cree type was sent up to an altitude of 15 miles to test a “deceleraion parachute.” Such devices would be used to slow the fall of a man or instrument package and reduce the heat created by atmospheric friction after a trip through space The Air Force said recovery teams were waiting in the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to retrieve the parachute package. But there was no indication whether the team was successful.

Valuable Awards Given Al Showcase Diamond rings, radio - phonographs, mattsesses and springs, enough paint to redecorate a room, electrical appliances and many more prizes, valued at $2,500, will be given away to visitors at the Decatur Merchants’ third annual Showcase May 5, 6 ‘and 7 at the Youth and Community Center. In what was termed by chairman Earl Sheets as “a bigger and better show” of more than 50 display booths of all new merchandise, the Showcase will be open to the public from 1 to 9 p.m. on the three days. New color, new fashion, and new styling will be the keynote of the entire exhibit. An added feature this year, will be the outdoor tent, displaying new cars and boats. Residents of the area may sign up for the prizes at the stores of the sponsoring merchants. The show itself is sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Co-chairmen for the event are Bill Lose, Paul Uhrick, and Ralph Sauer. Available at the Center will be free parking, and refreshments at the snack bar. More than 50 of Decatur's merchants are engaged in this year’s event, the highest number of the three-year show.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 24,1959

Senate Renews Debate On Labor Reform Bill, Push For Final Votes — gA. —r

Two Marion County Officials Are Jailed

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Two, Marion County commissioners went to jail today for defying a court order that they sign a payroll for 102 deputy county clerks. Republican Lester R. /Bull) Durham and Democrat Eph Virtu were put behind bars at Marion i County Jail to stay untij they pay SI,OOO fines levied by Judge John L. Niblack because they were in contempt of his Marion Circuit Court. Niblack did not sentence the commissioners to jail in the latest chapter of a dispute over who is county clerk. But he fined each and ordered them to jail until the fines are paid. Durham and Virt were ordered to sign the payroll by last Wednesday afternoon. They didn’t. So Niblack cited them for contempt, , but sheriff's deputies armed with ' arrest warrants could not find the commissioners until they surrendered to the court this morning. Upon arrival. Durham and Virt | signed the controversial payroll. Niblack said their eventual signatures kept them from getting jail terms. Niblack demanded to know why the commissioners had not complied with the court order earlier. “I was out campaigning for mayor,” Durham said. * “I was out over the county roads,” said Virt. Durham said he did not know he was in contempt. Attorneys were expected to file motions for new trials preparatory to appeal. Attorney Nelson Grills had asked Niblack to withdraw the contempt charges but Niblack overruled the motion as well as three other motions. Durham and Virt are engaged in a running battle with Governor Handley over who has the legal authority to appoint a successor to former county clerk Harry Gaspar, who died early this month. Handley appointed Edwin McClure and the commissioners appointed Gasper's widow. McClure is now acting clerk and signed the payroll earlier this week. Grills, a Democratic state senator, said that if his withdrawal motion is overruled he will take the case to the Indiana Supreme Court.

Nehru Denies Red Charges

MUSSOORIE, India (UPD - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru today publicly invited Communist Chinese officials and their Panchen Lama to come to India and find out for themselves that the Dalai Lama was here of his own free will. Nehru, obviously stung by Peiping charges that the 25-year-old god-king of Tibet was being held here against his will, spoke t o newsmen as he arrived for a conference with the Dalai Lama. Then he went to Birla House, the home-in-exile of the Tibetan leader, and they greeted each other with undisguised mutual admiration. ’ K “How are you?” said the Indian prime minister in English. “Very nice,” replied the Dalai Lama. Nehru said his taliks with the Dalai Lama were “full and helpful.” Nehru told newsmen that charges bv the Panchen Lama that the Dalai Lama has been held under duress were “patently not so.” He did not mention specifically that the charges also had been made by Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and the Red China press and radio. He said he would welcome any emissary from China to investigate the situation. “I would welcome the Panchen Lama to come here and meet the

Guidance Clinic Is iHeld For Students t A vocational guidance clinic for iiiterested juniors and seniors of both Decatur high schools was held Thursday night by the Decatur Rotary club at its regular meeting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. George Litchfield, chairman of the club’s occupational information committee, arranged the pftjgram in cooperation with the guidance departments of both high schools. Judge Harold O. Stump, of DeKalb circuit court, was the principal speaker. He said the rapid progress and many changes occurring in the modern world made selection of an occupation more (difficult but also increased one’s opportunities. He related his personal experiences as an F. B. I. agent during World War II and said it was a phase of his life which he had not planned but which proved to be very interesting and helpful later. He advocated a simple faith in God as a stabilizing influence. 1 The students and Rotarians then (divided Into a numbet of small conference groups at which the Rotarians told of their vocations and what .education and qualifications were desirable in them. Students were urged to ask questions and were invited To visit at the places of business of the men at a later date for further guidance if desired. The following served as conference leaders: civil service, Leo Kirsch; agriculture, Kenneth Schncpf; medicine and nursing. Dr. Wm. Freeby; pharmacy, Louis Jacobs; dentistry, Dr. Ray Stingely; retail, Carl Gerber; teaching, Paul Bevelhimer; management. Lowell Harper; business administration, Charles Gable, assisted by G. E. engineer Jim Ferrell. President Gail Grabill announced that the club will meet next Thursday evening at the Boy Scout cabin at Hanna Nuttman park, where members of the Rotary Boy Scout troop No. 61 will prepare the meal and arrange the program.

Dalai Lama or anyone else...the Chinese ambassador or anybody,’’ Nehru said. He said he would allow any -of them to se'e the Dalai Lama and would treat them with courtesy. Chinese Communist suppression of the rebellion in Tibet has strained Indian-Chinese relations. In recent days Red China has warned India repeatedly against “interfering” in Tibet, which Peiping insisted was a Chinese internal matter. The Dalai Lama was expected to give Nehru full details today of the uprising and his flight from the Chinese Communists, but Nehru told newsmen the Dalai Lama’s story would come out in the Indian Parliament and not in this resort town 130 miles north of New Delhi. State Trooper Badly Injured In Accident CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (UP) —lndiana State Police trooper James Gilliland, 49, Crawfordsville, was hurt seriously early today when he swered his car to avoid a collision and struck a pole. The accident occurred on Ind. 32 seven miles east of here. Gilliland said he was rounding a curve when another car approached traveling in the wrong lane.

Gives Plan Os Substation To Provide Power “Indiana-Michigan did not finance the Richmond substation for the city over a period of time, and the method used by Richmond would be more expensive for Decatur than the one chosen,” J. Calvin Hill, district manager of Indi-ana-Michigan Electric company, told Mayor Robert D. Cole this morning. ‘‘At Richmond, a 138,000 volt I&M line ran near the city. The city desired to buy power, so I&M planned to build a substation by their own line. The city would also have to have a transformer, and since it would cost more for the city to build it independently, l&M contracted to build the complete substaticr With the city transformers. Tr.e city will then pay for their share of the work in one lump sum, as soon as the work is completed. “This was feasible for Richmond because they have a 69,000 volt city line that runs in a circle around the city, and this substation steps the power down from 138,000 volts to 69.000. At Decatur, however, if the city-owned Decatur substation . were placed out where the I&M substation is located, it would cost considerably more to run feeder liges from the diesel and power plant out to I&M’s present substation than the present plan. “If Indiana.-Michigan owned the distribution system, they would place the two substations together in the city. However, they do not build substations outside of their own franchise area, so when they sell power wholesale to a utility, they locate outside of the city. . “The city could have... asked, for transformers by the I&M station but they would have been foolish to do that because of the expense involved running the feeder lines to the city,” he concluded. The mayor added that this information was supplied in answer to a question that he had asked Hill several weeks ago concerning financing arrangements at Richmond. The story was current in Decatur that Richmond had allowed I&M to build a substation for them, and then paid it off on a monthly basis, rather than in one lump sum. The mayor stated that he was also investigating the story in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette that it was illegal for a city to charge off in a city-owned utility the street lights or other civil-city expenses, according to a 1949 statute. Dies Os Injuries Suffered In Wreck LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UP)—Harry R. Hendershot, 23, near Monon, died Thursday in St. Elizabeth Hospital here from injuries sustained Monday when his pick-up truck smashed into a tree on Ind. 16 near Monon.

104 In First Communion Class

One hundred and four second grade students at St. Joseph's school will receive their first Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Catholic church at the 8:30 o’clock mass Sunday morning, May 3. There are 53 boys and 51 girls in the communion class, which has been instructed by the Rev. Robert Jaeger, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s. Confirmation rites for this class and all other communicants above the second grade, will be held at the church Tuesday evening. May 5. Adult confirmands will also receive the rites at this service. The confirmation rites will be conferred by the Most Rev. Leo Pursley, bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese. The first communion class includes the following: James Blythe, Timothy Bolinger, Gregory Braden, Thomas Braun, Gloria Cancino, Joella Carll, Mat-

WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Senate resumed debate on the Kennedy-Ervin labor feform bill today and planned to remain in session until late tonight pushing for a final vote. The session opened two "hours early and the senators quickly rejected by voice vote an amendment offered by Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) Case's amendment would have knocked out a provision of the bill exempting from financial reporting requirements any union having fewer than 200 members or less than $20,000 annual gross receipts. There have been numerous efforts to alter the bill, but thus far only a “bill of rights” amendment offered by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) has met Senate approval—and that by a single vote. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) flew back to the West Coast today after a brief huddle with sponsors of the anti-racket-eering measure. Recruit Southern Help The liberal faction expressed hope it would be able to overturn the “rights” amendment, and southern senators were being recruited to help in the fight. Sen. John Stennis <D-Miss.) told newsmen he and several other Democrats from the South were having “serious second thoughts" about having supported the provision, which was approved Wednesday by a of 47-46. - He said they were much disturbed over whether they gave the secretary of labor the same “scatter-gun power” to obtain injunctions that they denied the attorney general in civil rights legislation two years ago. It was reported a memorandum was being circulated among the southerners stating that the amendment might lead to enforced racial integration of labor unions in the South. Confer With Johnson Backers of the union reform bill sponsored by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) struggled to come up with away to get rid of the KfcClellan amendment as the Senate drove to complete action on the measure by tonight. McClellan's was the only on* of 17 amendments approved so far which Kennedy strongly opposed. AFL-CIO sources have threatened to oppose the bill if it stays in and Kennedy said the provision would jeopardize passage of the anti-corruption measure. Stennis and a group of other southerners held a whispered conference with Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) on the Senate floor Thursday night. Among them were Sens. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) and Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.). Aimed At Teamsters McClellan indirectly won another victory Thursday night when the Senate, climaxing an 11hour session, voted to add to the reform bill a ban on “hot cargo” contracts such as those used by the Teamsters Union. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) sponsored the* amendment that was approved but McClellan had offered a similar one. He and Gore both said the provision was

hew Carroll, Debra Cochran, Margaret Cook, Steven Darling, Luis Eguia, Thomas Ehinger, Colleen Fairchild, Brenda Feasel, Michael Gage, Mary Gase, Steven Gase, Marilyn Geels, Linda Sue Geimer, Roger Geimer, Susan Gerber, Samuel Hackman. James Hammond, Thomas Heimann, Yvonne Heimann, Barbara Hess, James Inskeep, Leonard Jaurigue, Jane Kbller, Nancy Keller, Patrick Kohne, Michael Kollman, Philip Lengerich, Rosemary Lehrman, Steven Lengerich, Cynthia Loshe,.-Eileen Loshe, Ronald Massonne, Jesse Mendez, Paul Mendez, Candace Mies, Paul Miller. Daniel Pierce, Walter Powell, John Rauch, Cheryl Rumschlag, Elsa Salazar, Patricia Schnepp, Janet Schooler, Anthony Schultz, Thomas Schurger, John Staub. Lynn Stafford, Catherine Stetler, Michael Terveer, David Tester,

aimed at curbing the power of the Teamsters, chief target of McClellan’s rackets committee. Gore’s provision would prohibit common carriers operating acrbss state lines from signing union contracts binding them to refuse to handle, use or transport products of other firms. The Teamsters have used such pacts to bring strike-bound and non-union companies into line. Other congressional news: Passports: Victor Perlo, once accused of leading a Communist spy cell in the government, was summoned to a hearing by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on proposals to strengthen the State Department’s power to deny passports. Chiefs: Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) and two Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the military chiefs of staff should be given three- or four-year terms instead of two-year tours, to increase their independence and encourage them to give Congress more candid advice. The committee Thursday approved Gen. Lyman L. Lemnltzer to be the new Army chief of staff and the renominations of the other three service chiefs. Radiation: Rep. Melvin R. Laird (R-Wis.) said the Public Health Service should stop making routine monthly reports on radioactive Strontium-90 in milk because the “scare headlines and stories’ were hurting .the milk business. Luce: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved > Thursday the nomination of Mrs. > Clare Boothe Luce to be U.S. am- • bassador to Brazil by a 16-1 vote- ■ Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) was ■ the lone dissenter. Safety Contest On Saturday Morning The “Safety First” contset, sponsored by the Decatur Business and Professional Women’s club, over 100 junior high and high school students from five Adams county schools, will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning entries in the safety slogan contest. More than 50 store windows of Decatur business establishments will be decorated with the slogans. AU paintings will remain on the windows until May 1. Students participating in the safety first contest are reminded to report to the Decatur Chamber or Commerce building Saturday morning to pick up their paint supplies. All unused paint must be returned to the chamber office. Painting of the windows wiU not begin until 9:30 a. m. and must be finished by 12 o'clock noon. Judging of the slogans will start at 1 o’clock, after which the students are requested to place their 1 names on the respective windows. Transportation for students assigned to windows on 13th street will be furnished by members of the Business and Professional women’s club. Refreshments will be Served to all entrants upon the completion of the paintings.

Robert Arriaga, Kenneth Bender, Theodore Braun, Victoria Lynn Braun, David Gilpin, Pedro Guerra, William Heimann. Diana Hurst, James Laurent, Donald Lengerich, Joseph Kohne, Robert Martin, Martina Mendoza, Cynthia Majorkl, Dolores Miller, Marilyn Peterson, Steven Rickord, Maria Serna, Gary Sharp, Donna Alberding, Sandra Andrews, Eileen Baker, Trudy Braun, Michael Ehinger, Stephen Gage, John Hackman, Judith Hake. Karen Hakes. Mary Louise Heimann, Janet Holthouse, Mark Keller, Kathleen Ketchum, Michella McDonald, Susan Miller, William Mowery, Mary Ann Reynolds, Julia Rousseau, Wendelin Ruble, Georgia Ruble, Catherine Schultz, Christine Schultz, Patricia Schultz, Susan Schurger, Edward Spangler, William Stetler, Elizabeth Terveer, James Wolpert, Joel Wolpert.

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