Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 119.

|r < : ; . ■' .. hP'C? il f/ Kfe m m ,<! ■ •"'’ ** AJ«I ifll ~ APPOINTEES FACE HURDLES — While Lewis L. Strauss (left) squeezed through to confirmation as Secretary of Commerce by the narrowest possible vote of 9 to 8 from the Senate Commerce Committee, Ogden R. Reid (right) was wearing down opposition to' his appointment as Ambassador to Israel. Reid assured the Senate Foreign Relations committee he did not intend to use the Ambassadorship as a springboard to politics and that he had “no political ambitions whatsoever.” Strauss said, “I am grateful for the vote of the committee.”

Nikita Sees No U.S War

MOSCOW (UPD— Premier Nikita Khrushchev told a group of American businessmen Tuesday in an interview made public today that the Geneya foreign ministers conference will succeed “or we would not have agreed to participate.” Khrushchev predicted there never would b< a war between the United States and Russia. He said Russia was ahead in rockets now hut conceded that the United States “will not remain behind us long.” The Soviet leader forecast increasingly greater democracy for the Soviet Union as its standard of living improved. He insisted Russia wanted nothing but to compete with the West economically in peace. • He said- tliat if the foreign ministers do not reach agreement immediately they should work until they do. Will Visit Zlbaida , But Khrushchev compared the West’s package peace plan with Noah’s ark. “It contains all sorts of animals, clean and unclean,” he said. Khrushchev met for two hours with 40 visiting business and professional men from Miami. Fla. He told them the Western leaders “propose that East Germany give up its capital in East Berlin.” “Is it supposed that East Germany will, transfer its capita} to -Jupiter he ’asked;'. “No reasonable person can hope for a solution on that basis. This proposal <the Western package plan) does not provide a basis for discussion.” Khrushchev's statements were made public as the Tass news agency announced he would visit Albania from May 25 to June 6. Observers said this indicated he expected no new Berlin crisis

Herter Lashes ♦ ' Russian Plan

GENEVA (UPI) — Secretary of 'State Christian Herter -branded Russia's draft peace treaty today as a “package proposal for the permanent division of Germany.” Authoritative conference sources said the secretary delivered this sweeping denunciation of the Russian plan to the Big Four conference after pressing privately for secret and intimate talks designed to open genuine East-West bargaining over Berlin and Germany. The text of Herter's speech was not released at once. The sources said Herter spoke for about 15 to 20 minutes and gave another detailed review of the West’s own cold war package peace plan which offered Russia global troop cuts and security in Europe in exchange for a Berlin new deal and reunification of Germany. Lloyd Backs Herter At the same time, the secretary was said to have explained again in painstaking fashion why the free West is determined to continue to reject Russia s own package plan. The West insists this would mean keeping Germany permanently divided and condemn 17 million East Germans to permanent Red rule. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, the sources said, • backed up Hertefs renewed attack on the Soviet plan, h Earlier, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy arrived here from

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during the May 27 date he originally set for the Allies to get out of West Berlin. Khrushchev called the Western plan for free elections in both Germanies “a product of unrealistic thinking” and said “the solutions must come from the Germanies themselves.” • Won’t Start War Details of the interview were released only this morning. It was the first time the Soviet premier had granted a mass interview with a group of American businessmen. He held a shorter one with a group of Canadians last year. . During the talk! Khrushchev cited an old Russian proverb: "To achieve sqjnething difficult it is necessary tc eat a ton of salt.” He said the "foreign ministers will have to eat a lot of salt and we are prepared to eat more than one ton if necessary.” “But even if they do not succeed in eating or digesting the salt on the first try, they should make new efforts,” he said. Khrushchev rejected the idea that the Soviet'Union and the United States would ever face one another across a battlefield. “We will not start a war and no lunatic in the United States will start one,” he said. He... appealed to Americans to give up the armament contest for better living. “We will have to sweat plenty to catch up with you but when we get up there we will not harm a single soul,” he said. “You and your children and your grandchildren can sleep strongly, assured that the Soviet Union will never wage aggressive war. .Our we a pon s are for defense.”

Washington to serve as senior adviser to Herter and said in an airport statement that it is up to the Russians to decide whether there will be trouble over Berlin. McElroy said normal precautions had been taken by American military forces in the vicinity of Berlin, but added he did not expect any difficulty. “As to whether there will be trouble, it’s obviously going to be for 'the Russians to decide,” he said. “The Western powers have nothing to do with stirring up difficulties.” . ' Get Down to Grips Previously, there were indications that the Big Four conference, in which East and West are tightly deadlocked on rival plans for Germany and Berlin, may soon get down to hard-tacks bargaining in secret. Herter sent an invitation this morning to the other two Western foreign ministers and to Russia’s Andrei Gromyko to have dinner at his villa Thursday night. The invitatin was not just a social one. It was designed primarily to enable East and West to get to grips at last with the problem's facing them without the presence of a whole roomful of diplmats and the knwledge that almost every word they said would be published and- broadcast to the world. There were these other developments: ' . . \

Petition Signed By 2,269 Voters Favor City Utility Sale

The Decatur city council adopted a resolution to investigate all possibilities to effect the sale of the city’s electric utility at the regular meeting Tuesday night. The action resulted after a petition, containing names of 2,269 registered voters, was submitted by the Association for the betterment of Decatur, requesting the council to take such action. The council also postponed further action on the Mies-Dawson rezoning petition after passing the first reading of an ordinance, allowing the petitioners request to rezone 7 acres of residential land for commercial use. AU councilmen except Lawrence Kohne voted for passage on first reading. According to law, three readings are necessary before the' ordinance can be enacted. Remonstrators Without Counsel The remonstrators were without counsel as Lewis Smith withdrew, because of his association with city attorney John L. DeVoss in their private law firm. Attempts are being made by the remonstrators to hire a law firm from Bluffton. In presenting the petition for a utility sale, the petitioners had

The breakdown by precincts is: SIGNERS PRECINCT YES VOTES NO VOTES TOTAL ON PETITION 1-A 123 190 313 z 230 1-B 37 129 166 200 1-C 100 114 214 155 1- 104 -■>. 154 258 236 2- 195 156 351 230 2-B 61 153 214 81 2- 98 93 191 122 3-3-B 136 152 288 201 * 3-C 100 95 195 215 3-D 106 189 275 1227 1500 2727 2167 Besides this number, 102 signees were gained by petition carriers at the First State Bank, Thomas Realty, the Fairway Restaurant, and other places around the city. |

Bill Jenner Defends Company —

£ INDIANAPObIS. umr-PriMafe Hfizen Tuesday defended his St. Lawrence Seaway Corp, and turned his Wrath on newspapers, radio and television for “swallowing a political smear that has hurt the state and its future expansion.” The former U.S. senator summoned newsmen to his law office here to give “my side of the story” and to castigate them in person for “gutless, scurrilous, unjust and dirty” accounts they had printed and aired in recent weeks. In a fist-thumping, shouting, session, Jenner said formation of his land speculation firm was “a straightforward, open and above board, business deal.” Jenner said the “whole mess” was perpetrated by Illinois Sen. Paul Douglas “who is fighting to keep Chicago the center of Midwest industry and is cutting Indiana’s throat in the process.” A Douglas bill pending in the Senate would create a national park in the Indiana dimes area where state officials seek to build a deep-water seaport Jenner said the land firm, of which he is president, was formed to “promote the future of the proposed seaport as well as the rest of the state. There has never been a corporation as clean as this one filed with the state.” Incorporation papers for the proposed firm were filed with the Indiana secretary of state and approval of an application for. permission to sell three million dollars worth of stock, at $3 a share, now awaits action by the Indiana Securities Commission. Politicos Appointed Part of the money raised by Jenner came after he appointed several political figures to the board of directors. They included GOP state chairman Robert W. Matthews: Republican state committee treasurer George Stark; Jack Morgan of Austin, 9th District Republican chairman, and Frank Pope, husband of the 9th District GOP vice-chairman. “You ask me why there are so many politicians on the board of directors?” Jenner asked. “It’s because I have spent most of my adult life in politics and they are the only people I know.” — Jenner said Charles A. Farrell, a Fort Wayne industrialist, came to bis office several months ago

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more signees in every precinct, with one exception, than the number which voted “no” in the special election. Even in precincts that voted to retain the utility, the petitioners came up with overwhelming numbers, indicating a change of feeling his overcome Decatur voters on this issue. Prominent Voices Heard Attorney Robert G. Smith presented the petition and several prominent local men told of their reactions in the canvass, Everett Hutker, Cal Yost, Lowell Harper, Otto Speigel, Ray Leitz, ClArk Mayclin, Hersel Nash, Pete Krick, among a few, all told that the consensus of opinion had favorably altered towards a sale since the special election, and that the sale should be effected, whether by another election or by administrative means. The resolution reads in three parts. First, the board of public works and safety will study the petition. Second, the board will contact public utilities concerning possibilities of negotiating a sale, and thirdly, the board will report its findings of such a study and recommend to the council what action should be taken.

» w JU!**. 1 jS and attempted to interest Jenner in the land speculating firm. “I wasn’t interested at that ar time,” Jenner said. “But he came pl back several times and I began to tn become interested.” al Jenner said Farrell introduced sa him to William H. Keller, an Indi- he anapolis insurance executive who be was organizing the firm. th “I told Keller I would go along,” Jenner said, “with the stipulation pc there were to be no shenanigans re if my name was connected with fi< it. No founders stock. No promo- Sa , tion stock. No gimmicks. No sal- Gi ary for Bill Jenner.” B< He said he naa already become ar involved in the firm when he dis- bi ’ covered that Keller, who had lif named the corporation’s 20 direc- vi , tors, “had been in some kind of w< trouble’ with the Securities Ex- aj . change Commission. ’ Fi Summer Classes To g Open Here On June 1 E l ar Registration is currently under- ci ; way at Decatur high school for st • classes in summer school. Al- nt > though pre-enrollment has taken “s place for most of the regular pu- he ■ pils, interested persons in the city ba ; and county may enroll before the lo • starting date, June 1, according to ■ an announcement from principal w • Hugh J. Andrews. Je ■ Classes will begin at 7:30 to 11:30 st 1 a.m. daily on June 1 and will con- g< elude on July 24. Courses are being (1 offered in seven courses, although 5 I the driver training class is filled. k Courses still open and the teach- 0 ; ers are: senior English, two credits, Deane T. Dorwin; beginning typing, one crediti Maynard Het- P? rick; American history, one credit, Lowell J. Smith; beginning alge- j* j bra, two credits, Hugh J. Andrews, . , and high school band, one credit, Clint Reed. w > A nominal charge will be made p t for book rental during the summer $3 ; school. Although additional pupils ] a r will be taken, those wishing to en- ! roll should do so as soon as possi- al bless not many openjpgs are w , available. Arrangements can be p< • made at the principal's office in la > the high school. ~ in

INDf'-NA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, showers south this afternoon spreading to remainder of state to--night and Thursday. Continued rather warm and humid. Low tonight 65 to 70. High Thursday in the 80s. Sunset today 7:57 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:26 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy and continued warm and humid with scattered showers and possibly a few thunderstorms. Lows in the 60s. Highs in the 80s except near 90 extreme SOUth. ; Mrs.-Cheney Miller Is Taken By Death Mrs. Cheney Ellen Miller, 62, died about 4 o’clock Tuesday after- . noon at her home in Bluffton following, a heart attack. She was the widow of William Miller, who died in 1943. Surviving are two sons, John Robert Shaw of near Bluffton, and Charles Crawford Shaw of Huntington county; a daughter, Mrs. Homer Flowers of Bluffton; 12 grandchildren; four great-grand-children; a brother William Springer of Kalamazoo,- Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. Sylvia Schwartz of Geneva, Mrs. Arthur Johnson of Mongo, and Mrs. Mervin Stahl of Decatur; two half-sisters, Mrs. Virginia Gephart of Decatur, and Mrs. Marporie Wagoner of Gloverdaye, 0., and two hdlf-brothers, Homer Springer of Decatur, and 4 Calvin Springer of Washington, D.C. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. R. G. Cockrel officiating. Burial will be in the'Six Mile cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

syuw»w^ l wayz/s<mw^^«Jl^j>^M**»M*?Tyw*h>i»''*T** w ygy?g*!*?y' “Tried To Get Out’ “I called Keller to my office nd he gave me a satisfactory exlanation and showed that his •oubles with the SEC were only long technical lines,” Jenner aid. “But I told him that either e or I would have to step aside ecause it might look bad with le public.” Jenner said Keller quit the cororation and 10 of the original diectors did the same, He identied them as Harold A. Rickert, aratoga; Morgan L. Miers, ireensburg; James D. Smith, iedford; Jack B. Catterlin, Indinapolis; Harry F. Cooke, Greensurg; Dora A. Ogden, Indianapos; Charles Westfall, Frances ille; John W. Bailey Jr,, Greenrood; Howard E. Nyhart, Indianpolis, and J. Keith Lungren, Yankfort. Jenner said they each took with rem the $9,000 they had invested 1 the firm and he contacted fatthews, Stark, Pope and Moran to join the board and furnish dditional capital. “I would have backed out then nd there, but I hated to be assoiated with a failure right at the tart of my private career,” Jener said. He said he later tried several times” to get out, but ,e could not get his investment ack and “I am in no position to jse $40,000’ “I want to say right now that re have not purchased any land,” enner said. /‘How could we? The tate has not even given us the o-ahead to sell stock:” But he said the corporation has a SI,OOO opticm” on 46 acres of and along U.S. 20 in LaPorte Jounty. Criticizes Newsmen "That land is not even near the reposed port site,” he said. Right now it looks like much of ny land we do buy will be scatered around the state, perhaps ight here in Marion County.” Jenner said the firm probably ron't buy any land in the Burns Mtch area “because they want 3,000 to $4,000 an acre for that and.” “Our firm wouldn’t be able to ifford those prices,” he said. “It ras formed h)‘,give the littlq people a chance to get in on the and boom as a hedge against nfiatlon.”

Graduate Exercises Thursday Evening The 78th annual commencement exercises for Decatur high school slated for Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium, were announced today by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of public schools. “Pomp and Circumstances” by Elgar, will be featured during the processional as the 83 senior class members enter the auditorium. The invocjUAI the Rev. Wiliam Feller, minister of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. After two musical selections, “With a Voice of Singing” by Shaw, and “America, Our Heritage” by Steele-Ades, are presented by the high school choir, Harry Moyer, president of the 1936 graduating class, will introduce Dr. John H. Furbay, the featured speaker. Dr. Furbay, director of the world-wide educational program of Trans World Airlines on four continents, will deliver the address “Let's Join the Human Race.” Dr. Furbay is an internationally known lecturer, author and global air commuter. He recently returned from a global lecture tour, addressing 66 organizations in 22 countries. Following the address, Evbrett G. Hutker, president of the school board, will present the diplomas to the graduating class. The Rev. Harold J. Bond, minister of the First Presbyterian church, will deliver the benediction. The recessional will feature the traditional singing of “D. H. S.” by the high school choir. All choir selections will be under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor of the Decatur public schools. The organ will be furnished by the Decatur Music House. Decatur WHT Host ss 1960 Library Meet The Decatur public library will host the 1960 annual meeting of the Indiana library association and library trustees association next spring, according to an announcement from Lowell J. Smith, newly elected co-chairman of the trustee association. Smith was elected Tuesday at the district meeting at Wabash, where the announcement of the 1960 site also originated. Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur librarian, reported that Patrick Murphy, of the Fort Wayne public library board, was elected chairman of the trustees, and Evelyn Cult, of Wabash, was named secre-tary-treasurer. Dr. Mary Royer, professor of education at Goshen College, delivered an inspiring talk on children’s literature that enthralled the audience at the Wabash Carnegie memorial library. Besides Miss Bertha Heller, Mrs. Martha G. Heller, children's librarian, Miss Etta Mallonee, assistant librarian, and Miss Frances Dugan, trustee, all from Decatur, attended the meeting. The 1960 meeting date has pot been set, but it will be in the spring, and will be announced at a later date. Five Men Killed In Fire At Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md. (UPD—Five men were reported killed and five injured today when an explosion and fiye swept a hangar at the Martin Co. where they were cleaning a plane. ' » A company spokesman gave the casualty figure. He said three of the injured were taken to a hospital. The spokesman said the men were cleaning the hull of a Martin Marlin plane with a cleaning solvent and a pressure hose whne the explosion occurred. About 12 men’were ertiployed on" the pfo-’ ject, he said. >

Many Farmers View Minimum Tillage

A crowd of between 250 and 350| farmers, agricultural agents, and agronomists witnessed methods of minimum corn tillage tried side by side in a field with both Blount and Pewamon type soils on the Mugo Bulhamn farm northeast of Preble Tuesday. The higher Blount soil was in prime condition for -plowing, but the “jackwax’ south part of the field,- where the Pewamo was, proved quite sticky. The very fact that they were able to get a fair seeding there proved the value of minimum tillage to many farmers. A number of farmers from Hancock and Harrison counties flew in for the all-day meeting. The Hoosier chapter of the soil conservation society of America met at noon for a dinner meeting at the Fairway restaurant, where the Kriek-Tyndall Tile Co. were hosts. Nearly 50 members were here for their annual spring field day. The event was sponsored by the northeastern Indiana area supervisors working with the soil conservation districts. The organization is headed this year by Ben Gerke, of Adams County. The soil conservation service, including local conservationist Cletus Gillman, and the Purdue extension department, including county agent Leo N. Seltenright, also sponsored the field day. Leaders Present A number of high-ranking agriculturalists from all parts of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois were present and greatly impressed by the demonstration. From the Purdue extension, staff wore: agronomy department, Gilbert Walker, Russ Stivers, Harrq Galloway, and Cliff Spies; Les Hill, agricultural engineer; Howard Knaus, of the visual adis department; R. O. Cole and Charles McKee, of the soil conservation department. From the U.S. soil conservation service were; Indianapolis office, Oscar Ackerson, agronomist; Lester Binnie, deputy state conservationist; M. M. Merritt, state soil conservationist, and Ward Studor, assistant state soil conservationist; from the Lafayette office, William Briggs, plant materials technician. In addition, there were . numerous county agents and SC! engineers. For many, it was a victory foi the progressive farmers of this area, who have pioneered in minimum tillage before Purdue university showed much interest. Midwest Interest Present from Ohio State university were Dale Friday and Gordon Ryder, of the agronomy department, and W. E. Gill, agricultural engineer, Larry Heitkamp, Wert county agent, was also there, work In minimum tillage 15 years ago, and currently are testing 14 different methods, emphasizing the strip processing method, which ’allows the farmer to plow at his leisure in the spring or fall, and then plant later in a separate operation when the weather is just right for planting. This is advantageous to the big farmer who does not want to attempt all the plowing and planting at one short burst of good weather at planting time. Michigan university then picked up minimum tillage, and is currently pushing it very strong, especially tractor-track planting. Wisconsin, Illinois, and now Indiana are also practicing the laborsaving methods. Used For Soybeans Also of interest to farmers is that

64 Road Accidents In County To Date The Adams county sheriff’s department reported today that a total of 64 accidents have occurred within the county boundaries since January 1, bringing injuries to 46 persons, and causing an approximate damage to vehicles and property at 843,285. The report shows that residents involved in the 64 mishaps include: 64 local residents, 18 nonresidents, and 16 out-of-state persons. Arrests made by the investigating officers of the drivers involved in the accidents total seven. They consist of the following: improper turn, failure to yield, failure to signal, no operator's license, improper passing, and two for reckless driving. The report shows that the greatest number of accidents have occurred on U. S. 27, where 20 mishaps were investigated. Second main highway in which accidents occurred is U. S. 224 with 17 accidents recorded, and third is U.S. 33 with two mishaps reported. A total f>f 39 accidents have occurred on the main highways, and the remaining 25 have occurred on county roads and state roads.

•1 < fey l ? 1 ’" ___ ■ . fact that minimum tillage may be used for other crops than corn. This year Bulmahn has planted a field in soybeans with his minimum tillage method. Tests in this have been conducted for three years novy at Michigan, J. We rd Calland, head of the national soybean crop improvement association, sUted. Bulmahn uses a five-year rotation system. He plants corn, soybeans, and oats his first three years. In the oats he seeds clover, and harvests clover seed the fourth year. For the fifth year his crop is wheat, plowing under the clover, and again planting a green manure legume for plowing under at the beginning of the next cycle. The center of the field was plowed and cultivated in the traditional manner by outfits furnished by the Farm Bureau Co-op, Herman Dierkes Massey-Ferguson, and the Minneapolis - Moline dealer at Preble. 17,000 Population t The plants were placed in 42 inch rows about 7 inches apart, at the rate of about 20,000 seeds to the . acre, aiming at an adult popula- . tion of about 17,000 plants per acre. . This should yield about 125 bushels i to the acre. During, the past three years, Bulmhan has gotten increasingly better yields per acre. In 1956 his - first test indicated 125 bushels to , the acre. In 1957, his field ran 130 bushels to the acre and last year • one field had 130 and another field ■ 134 bushels. i The seed used was Indiana Hy- ■ brid 601, furnished by Fussell • ium nitrate was also applied per I acre, for 66% free introgen avail--1 ability. Bulmahn’s field tested 900 pounds of phosphate in the low 1 land, and 320 pounds in the high, • so he did not use phosphate on a " field-wide basis. He did put in 150 ' pounds per acre 8-32-0 while plant* 1 ing. The field tested 325 pounds of • potash in the low area, and 235 in the high, so 100 pounds of Muriate potash was added to the l ’ whole field on a per-acre basis. A total of 200 pounds of amnion(Doc) Housel, of DeKalb county. )r (Die public address system used was furnished by International l_ Harvester. I. One setback to the demonstration was the failure of the wheeltrack method to materialize. The . dealer who was to furnish the , equipment had forgotten the day, . and was not prepared to tractor- [ track plant. Three commercial .methods were £ iseiudihg '{hei Deere unit planter, the Internatl ional Harvester strip tillage meth- ; od, and the plow-mulcher method, i The Bulmahn plow-plant method, ! ideal for the size farm on which 1 it is utilized, was the other meth- - od shown. Several other Adams t county farmers are now using . minimum tillage methods of one i type or another. While the upper part of the t field, a Blount silt loam, was . ready for planting, the southern, I low part had recently had a sur- - face drainageway constructed - diagonally across the field, and . the spoil dirt there was very diffi- - cult to till, as it was under both - minimum and regular tilling methods. Most farmers were impressed by the fact that they were able t to till and plant it at all.

The number , of property damage accidents, personal injury mishaps, and estimated damage for each individual month for 1959 are the following: January, 17 property damage accidents, three personal injury mishaps, damage estimated at $19,625; February, 15 property damage accidents, no personal injury mishaps, damage listed at $6,630; March, seven property damage accidents, five personal injury mishaps, damage given at $7,830; April, four property damage mishaps, six personal injury accidents, and damage $6,540; and Mgy, five property damage accidents, two personal injury mishaps, and estimated damage at $2,660. Lase Bulletin LAFAYETTE, La. (UPD—A Negro dragged two white boys into his house today and killed a white woman and two police officers before he died in a blazing hour-long gunbattle. RIO DE JANEIRO (UPD— A ferryboat with an estimated 150 persons aboard collided with a tug in Rio Bay today and sank. At least four men were known dead. • Authorities feared many others were trapped and killed inside the ferry. •>

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