Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1959 — Page 2

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Annual Methodist Conference To Open FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Twenty two Methodists in northeast Indian* will be authorized to take part in the 1960 election of new Methodist bishops as the result of their election this week to the ’BO north cehtral jurisdictional conference. The Rev. Hazen Sparks, pastor of the Decatur Methodist church, ahd Alva Lawson, lay member of the church board, will attend the election, which will highlight the ll«th annual session of the Methodist North Indiana conference meeting at the Wayne Street Methixfigt church in Fort Wayne Wednesday through Sunday. T|ie north central jurisdiction, which includes nine Midwestern stfites, has scheduled its quadrennial. meeting July 6-10, 1960, at Grand Rapids, Mich. The North Indiana conference, one of three in Jndiana, is entitled to'll ministerial delegates and an equal number Os lay representatives. principal business of the 1960 meeting will be the election of new bishops to replace those who wiH retux or those who may be transferred to other areas. .The North Indiana conference will elect eicht delegates to

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TOP SPEAKERS SLATED FOR METHODIST CONFERENCE al OPt Si Iwflfll FEATURED SPEAKERS for the Methodist North Indiana Conference meeting at Fort Wayne May 20-24 will be (from left) Bishop Richard C. Raines, head of the Indiana Area; Dr. Chester Pennington, pastor of Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis; and Dr. John Redhead, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, N. C. The yearly session draws pastors and laymen from Methodist churches throughout Northeast Indiana.

the 1960 general conference—the national legislative assembly which meets April 27-May 11 at Denve, Colo.. The eight automatically are included in the 22-member delegation to the jurisdictional meeting. The North Indiana conference session opens Wednesday morning with a memorial service in honor of ministers and wives who died in the last conference year. A full schedule of business meetings and inspirational programs follows, running through Saturday evening. Bishop Richard C. Raines, episcopal head of the Indiana Area, will preside over the conference 'and will preach Sunday at 10:30 a m. in a huge worship service at the Coliseum. He will speak on “Ambassadors for Christ.” In addition to heading the Indiana area, Bishop Raines also supervises the work of 1,000 missionaries in 40 countries as president of the division of world missions. He and Mrs. Raines returned earlier this year from a four-month tour of the Far East. Since that time he has spoken to many groups against admitting Red China to the United Nations and against recognition of the Communst country. An ordination service is set for 2:30 p.m. at* which time hew ministers will be received into the annual conference. The conference will adjourn with the reading of appointments as-, signing pastors to their churches for the year, i, ' A man always has two reasons for doing anything—a good reason and the real reason.—J.P. Morgan. . Superstition Is the only religion i of which base souls are capable. —Joubert.

Warm And Humid Is Forecast In State United Press International ', “Warm and humid" weather is expected to flow into Indiana by : Tuesday for a three-day stand with frequent periods of thundershowers. A string of chilly nights featuring late-season frosts that may have caused some damage to tender new vegetation, including tomato plants, finally came to an end and temperatures began a moderating trend during the weekend. The mercury may range between the mid 70s and 80 Tuesday at the climax of a slow rise. Sunday highs ranged from 58 at Evansville to 72 in the Chicago area. Temperatures fell to a range of 45 at Fort Wayne to 54 at Evansville this morning and headed for highs today ranging from 56 to 75. Tonight’s lows will be in the 50s, twell above frqst levels, and no further record cold readings were ~ expected the remainder of the week. The vanguard of the shower and thunderstorm wave hit along the Ohio River early today, dropping .37 of an inch of precipitation on the Louisville area and .36 at Evansville. At the extreme oppo-site-end of the state, the Chicago area reported drizzle after dawn. The five-day outlook indicated rain totaling an inch or more would fall in “occasional showers and thundershower periods through most of the week.” Temperatures will average near normal in the north to three degrees above normal in the south and cCnrtal for the period ending Saturday. Normal highs are 70 to 1 78. normal lows 50 to 57.

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Elks Building Fund Boosted From Alaska The Decatur Elks building fund got a boost from the 49th state last week, when the building committee of the local lodge received a SIOO money ordet from Alaska. The money was sent from Fairbanks by Glen Martin, former Decatur man and still a, member of the local Elks, to purchase a. bond in the lodge’s financial campaign to raise funds to build a new home on North Second street. Five Cases Heard In Mayor's Court Five cases were heard in mayor’s court this morning, three concerned reckless driving, one case was malicious trespassing, and the fifth was a public intoxication charge. Two of the offenders received fines, one case was continued, another is to be appealed to the Adams circuit court, and one offender is to make full, restitution. Thomas F. Garwood, 17, route five, Decatur, entered a plea of not guilty, but was found guilty by the court for a reckless driving charge filed by the state police Tuesday for the arrest on 13th Garwood indicated to the court that he- would appeal the decision handed down tp the Adams circuit court. A fine of $23.75; and a ll)-day suspended sentence at the Adams county jail will be imposed if the case is not appealed in 10 days. A bond of SIOO was posted by the defendant. Hubert R. McClenahan, local attorney, requested additional time to enter a’ plea in abatement for Lloyd Biberstein. of Geneva, on a traffic charge filed againgt him by Geneva town marshal. Preston Pyle. Biberstein is *cifarged ; with-redsless-dnying-to an incident that occurred in Geneva April 21. Ivan Hurless, 21. of Willshire, 0., appeared in court today on a malicious trespass charge. Hurless was arrested on an affidavit filed by Harold Shoaf, of route six. Decatur. Hurless is to make full restitution for a broken window in the Shoaf auto and to file a receipt with the court. Persons paying fines were: Clinton Death, of route three, Decatur. was fined $lB today for a public intoxication charge filed by the city police April 14. Death had previously entered a not guilty plea in court on April 15. Gerald Bleeke. 19. route five. Decatur, paid a fine of $19.75 for a reckless driving charge filed by the city police May 10 for an accident that occurred at Jackson and 13th streets.

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Open Inquiry Info Possible Tax Reduction WASHINGTON (UPD - T h e House Ways and Means Committee is launching an extensive inquiry aimed at “significant" income tax cuts, presumably’ next year. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (DArk.) said Sunday the committee hoped the tax bate could be broadened enough to permit “significant reductions in individual and corporation income tax rates without sacrificing the revenues needed by the government.” The committee time-table appeared designed to’ permit congressional action on taxes before the 1960 presidential .elections. Democrats and Republicans alike would like to law a tax reduction before the voters. President Eisenhower has been hinting at 1960 tax cuts. He said in January, however, that chances for reductions depend largely on the treatment Congress gave his 77-billion-dollar budget. Eisenhower’s chief economic adviser. Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, said Sunday that it- was still “too early” to give an administration position on tax cut possibilities for next year. He said if the fiscal 1960 budget. for the year beginning July 1, does end up balanced as hoped, and the economy continues to expand then there would be a prospect for a “small surplus” in fiscal 1961. Saulnier said a surplus could be used either to reduce the national debt or for tax reductions. But, he said, “It’s a little previous” to predict which path the administration would recommend. Business Is Better Than Predictions WASHINGTON CUPI) -.Business was even better in the first three months of this year than the record-setting space the government Originally reported. Revised figures issued by the Commerce Department Sunday night showed that the nation’s output of goods and services hit an all-time high annual rate of 467 'billion dollars, about two billion above the department’s earlier estimate. Heavy’ stockpiling of business inventories, especially steel, accounted for half the increase. The department calculated that factories and firms added to their inventories at an annual buildup! rate of five billoin dollars. This indicated a sharp reversal of the trend in the closing months when conweyiies .recced 'ffor mvenforie'ff.' Steer cdnsumers have been laying in reserves to use in the event of a steel strike this summer. The 467-billion-dollar figure was 14 billion above the last three months of 1958. It was 8 per cent higher than the recession rate at the beginning of 1958. The Commerce Department report showed that personal consumption and spending for home building rose to new record highs and business investment increased modestly during January, February and March.

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Russia Interested In Nuclear Test Ban

By FRANK H- BARTHOLOMEW I President United Press International . GENEVA (UPD — The most . important development of the opening week of the Geneva foreign ministers meeting occured , outside the Palais des Nations where the Big Four are discussing Berlin and Germany; Secretary of State Christian A. Herter is known to feel that ' Thursday’s meeting with Soviet ’ Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko 1 on nuclear test suspiensions of- • sered the first real hope ( in months that the Russians are sincerely interested in working ■ out a fool-proof method of poloc- ■ ing a nuclear test ban. > The secretary found that the meetixig he ■ and British Foreign . Secretary Selwyn Lloyd had with , Gromyko developed the first definite sign since January that the ( Soviets may accept new Ameri- , can scientific data to guide the , three nuclear powers in detecting ‘ bootleg atomic blasts. Nuclear Talks Drag Full significance of the Russian retreat on the nuclear front ’ was obscured by the Big Four wrangling and maneuvering on ' the business that brought them i to Geneva in the first place —the Berlin and the German unification problems. Prior to Thursday, the six-month-old Geneva nuclear talks, now in recess until June 8, had been proceeding at a snail’s pace due to continuous Russian rejection of all American efforts to bring the scientific detection formulas up to date. The new American data resulted from underground and high altitude U. S. tests carried out since last year’s Geneva meeting of British, Russian and American scientists worked out the original formula. The Nevada underground detonations and the Argus high altitude tests -of last year satisfied the Americans that the 1958 formula was inadequate for effective policing of any nuclear test ban. Herter, Gromyko and Llyod took the issue out of the hands of their experts, and the first hint of a possible change in Russia’s adamant stand against considering new Western data came in a cautiously worded statement by an American spokesman reporting on theif hoUr-long meeting. He said the nuclear Big Three shared the hope that there would be quick accord on holding new technical discussions which would lead to “swift agreement on control methods leading to a treaty. ’ Real Test Ahead The full significance of this statement became apparent later when it was learned that Herter considered this a major break in the slow-motion nuclear talks which have been going on here since last October. The new secretary, who is un-: dertaking his first big-league negotiations with the Russians, is j known to feel that the first week : i9 f.. the. Geneva. ’fion&rejtc. went well from the standpoint of the West. The real test of Russian inten-i tions, however, will come this | week when the Big Four are expected to hold their first secret sessions—meetings without Ger-, man advsiors or secondary dele- j gates. The Americans want these 1 meetings held with only three representatives of each of the Big Four, and without the presence of secretaries, press spokesmen or regular interpreters. Translation at these secret sessions would be done by the two aides accompanying each minis-

ter. All four ministers speak English and their infohnal discussions in Geneva have been conducted in English. But tor the hard bargaining sessions, where every word counts, they prefer their official language. Gromyko, who delivered even his arrival statement in English, occasionally surprises the other foreign ministers here with an exhibition of humor usually revolving around the square-round table controversy. West Position Strong Another Gromyko ttait has been his persistence, in casual. meetings with the other froeign ministers outside the conference chamber, in discussing the matter of seating Poland and Czechoslovakia in the formal sessions. Herter feels that the Western powers are entering the second' week of the conference—which he fells will last at least three more weeks—in a strong bargaining position with the presentation of the West’s package plan for free elections in Berlin, global troop cuts and German reunification. However, he is unwilling at this point to predict the outcome of this conference, which most observers feel will definitely lead to Two Are Fined For Traffic Violations Two traffic cases were heard in justice of the peace court over the weekend. Fines were assessed against each individual after pleas of guilty were entered for the offenses. Paying fines were: Nelson L. Zinsmeister, 20, route three, North Manchester, arrested by the state police on Mercer avenue, May 9, for speeding. A fine of $18.75 was assessed for driving 41 miles per hour in a posted zone of 30 miles per hour. Robert E. Durbin, 20. Decatur, arrested by the state police Friday on 13th street for driving with an expired operator’s Ji? cense. Durbin paid a fine of $lB.75 after entering a guilty plea.

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Diplomats Cautious On Nikita's Letter GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet Union may be fishing for new information in agreeing to a technical study of detecting high altitude nuclear explosions, Western diplomatic sources said today. They expressed concern at the fact that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has failed even to mention Western proposals for studying means of detecting underground explosions. Diplomats were hopeful but still cautious as a result of Khrushchev’s letters to President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Saturday. He accepted the Western proposal for a study by experts of means of detecting high altitude explosions but ignored completely the Western suggestion that this study include underground blasts too. Diplomatic sources said the reason could be that the Russians have enough data on underground explosions but that the United States'is more advanced on explosions in the upper atmosphere. They said the West was determined not to let any Khrushchev’s apparent concessions stampede them into a summit conference. The West has long insisted that discussion of new data on both types of explosions is necessary to work out a cheat-proof treaty on banning nuclear tests.

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