Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVI I. No. 136.

Asks Doctors -J To Aid Fight On Inflation ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPD— President Eisenhower has asked the nation’s doctors to help fight inflation by charging fees that their patients can “reasonably Pay” Uncontrolled inflation, he said Tuesday night, inevitably would force Americans in mass volume to turn to the government primarily for medical assistance and this would cause the nation “great loss.” Eisenhower spoke at the American Medical Assn.'s annual convention here. He flew back to Washington immediately after his address. The President offered nothing to differ with the AMA’s basic opposition to compulsory govern-ment-controlled medicine. But he coupled the threat of such compulsion tq possible run-away inflation in which “all prices would go out of sight and everybody would go broke.” “The medical profession, as much as any other, has vital interest in preventing inflation,” Eisenhower said. “Certainly it wants .to provide its services for a fee within range of that people can reasonably pay.” He continued: "If the time ever comes when large numbers of our citizens turn primarily to the government for assistance in what ought to remain a private arrangement between doctor and patient, then we shall all have suffered a great loss.” ♦ The President focused his attention on one group of Americans who are particularly prey to the ravages of inflation and the cheapening dollar—older people who live largely on fixed retirement income, pensions, insurance and savings. “To this group,” he said, “inflation is not jnerely a threat—it is a robber and a thief. It takes the bread out of their mouths, the clothes off their backs, and it limits their access to the medical care and facilities they need.” At this point, the President advised the doctors to pitch in a* part of a national social and economic effort. “Here is a situation,” he sai.i, “that calls for true team effort among the medical profession, industry, government and the broaa body of our citizenry.”

_ - 0 Rackets Probe To Pittsburgh -.0• ' I ‘

WASHINGTON (UPD-The Senate Rackets -Committee’s investigation of pinball gambling and prostitution in Lake County, Ind., branched out today into the Pittsburgh, Pa., area. Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee would bring from the Pennsylvania city two witnesses who had long been sought for questioning. He identified them as John La • Rocca and Gabriel Mannarino, alleged associates of Chicago mobster Tony Pinelli. Kennedy said the committee believed that La Rocca attended the 1957 underworld convention at Apalachin, N.Y., although he was not one of . the gangsters arrested there. Kennedy indicated the Pittsburgh figures would not fit directly into the Lake County picture but would be quizzed about other matters. Committee investigators have testified that the Chicago crime syndicate sent Pinelli to Gary, Ind., in 1954 to set up a juke box and pizza business as a front for gambling and other rackets. Giancana Mum Sam (Mooney) Giancana, reputed No. 2 leader of the syndicate. invoked the Fifth Amendment Tuesday when asked about the matter. So did John Formosa, alleged , operator of an air-conditioned bawdy house in Gary, and Frank Zizzo, who was accused of running a bookie joint in connection with a pizza restaurant. „ They would tell the committee nothing about charges that pinball gambling and vice operated m Lake County with the blessing of deputy prosecutor Metro Holovachka. . , ._ Giancana was viewed as an important witness because of his reputation as the current chief of staff, if not the commander-ta-chidf, of the Chicago underworld. But Giancana only laughed when asked how he ranked in the crime

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Steam Generator To Return To Service The steam generator at the city electric plant will go back on the line today if the condensate pump, sent for repairs to Fort Wayne, is returned in time, L. C. Pettibone, superintendent, stated. , At the diesel plant five pistons have been replaced in the diesel engine; and four are still at Bald-win-Lima-Hamilton for repairs. Two more will be sent out to be serviced. Corroded metal bands are being replaced. Meanwhile, Pettibone continued, the line crews have been busy cutting down and trimming trees along' power lines in the city and county. * Night voltage has been surging well over 120 volts in homes that use electric power between 2 and 4 a.m., Pettibone explained, because the city does not have automatic transfersZfis there would be in a sunstation.JThe voltage does not fall\betow 120 volts to the homes in the city lines, but during the night the voltages increases and cannot be controlled without turning it off temporarily to make the necessary changes. Few complaints have been received because fey/ people are using electric power at that time. Orders Hoffa Carry » Out Union Cleanup WASHINGTON (UPD— A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that Teamsters President James R. Hoffa must carry out a sweeping cleanup program ordered for his huge union by a special board of monitors.*’ The three-judge court, in rejecting the union’s appeal against the program, said that while the monitors have only advisory power, they have the right to go to federal courts to enforce recommendations if the Teamsters prove defiant. Today’s ruling also gave Federal Judge F. Dickson Letts veto power over a special Teamster convention which Hoffa called to get rid of the monitors. On another phase of the dispute, the Appeals Court suggested that one of the monitors, Godfrey D. Schmidt, should be replaced because as an attorney far employers dealing with the Teamsters he is involved in a “conflict of interests.” The ruling upheld about a dozen clean-up directives issued by the montors and approved by Letts. But it said the lower court judge must spell out the changes he wants the union to make and not just approve the monitors’ action.

0 I 'l ■' hierarchy. ’ He refused to confirm or deny that he told a Chicago newsman he “had fun” hiding out from the committee for more than a year before a subpena-server caught up with him recently in Las Vegas, Nev. Investigator Richard Sinclair said Formosa once bragged to him that his Gary bawdy house, the M. and J. Motel, was na- ' tionally known. Formosa said it took in more than $114,000 in three years, according to Sinclair. Turns Over Records Holovachka has denied taking payments from racketeers but reI fused to give the committee an accounting for $327,724 in cash said to have passed through his , hands during his eight years as a public official. In his second appearance before the committee in two days, however, Holovachka did turn over : some tax records which he had taken from his accountant after the committee subpenaed them. This presumably cleared him of possible contempt action. Holovachka told the committee • he did not recall getting S3OO ; worth of Christmas gifts in one year from a pinball company that 1 allegedly had a gambling monopl oly in one comer of his county. Staff investigator Laverne Duffy : testified that the Lakeside Spei cialty Co., East Chicago, Ind., dispensed $23,400 worth of gifts to > city and county officials. I Duffy said the gifts were sent i to such officials as East Chicago : mayor Walter Jeorse, police chief • Mike Vinovich, sheriff Jack West and Holovachka. Holovachka said he didn’t know i why the company sent him a ! barometer, a spice chest radio ■ and other gifts in 1956. But he said he would have returned them i if he had known what he knows • now. >

Secret Offer By Russians Termed As Unacceptable

GENEVA (UPD-Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding said today that a secret Russian offer to extend conditionally Western rights in West Berlin for a year was “totally unacceptable.” Berding charged the Soviet Union with trying to force a “breakdown” of the present Big Four foreign ministers’ conference by advancing such a proposal. The secret Soviet offer proposed that during the 12-month period of status quo in Berlin West Germany and Communist East Germany sit down together to work out “the problem of reunification” and agree on the “principles of a peace treaty.” Berding said these conditions are utterly unacceptable to the West snice they leave West Berlin under a continuing threat and perpetuate Communist control in East Germany. Made Proposal Orally “We can only speculate that (Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei) Gromyko made —the—proposal, knowing it was unacceptable, in order to bring about the breakdown of the conference,” Berding said. I Gromyko made the proposal orally to the Western Big Three at a secret session Tuesday. He refused to introduce it in writing. An American spokesman, at a hastily summoned news conference, gave the following account of the proposal outlined by Gromyko: —The Soviet Union could accept. ’ “the temporary maintenance of 1 certain Western occupation rights in West Berlin for a one year pe- ' riod.” —During this period, an all1 German committee of East and West German representatives, with equal numbers from each ■ side, “should work out the problem of reunification and agree on the principles of a peace treaty and facilitate the development and broadening of contacts between i East and West Germany. —The Soviet Union would, insist on a one year limit for the successful completion” of these negotiations “in order to prevent West Germany from delaying the peace treaty indefinitely.” —Russia’s agreement to a one year recognition of “certain occupation rights in West Berlin” would be conditional upon the following: , —The West must reduce the level of its forces and armaments in West Berlin to a "symbolic number." Gromyko did not say Tuesday what he meant by “symbolic” but previously, according to Berding, he has said this meant one platoon for each of the three Western powers. —Hostile propaganda agamst East Germany and “other socialist countries” from West Berlin must be stopped. All organizations in West Berlin engaged in espionage and hostile activities against the (Communist) German Democratic Republic and other socialist countries must be “liquidated.” —The Western powers must promise not to “station atomic or rocket installations in West Berlin.” Eugene Braun Heads Knights Os Columbus Eugene Braun, of 1016 Mercer avenue, was elected grand knight of the-Knights of Columbus, Decatur council 864, Monday evening at the annual election-meeting at the K. of C. hall. Braun, who was deputy grand knight, replaces Art Lengerich, who was voted one of the three trusteeships. Braun’s deputy grand knightship went to David Terveer, while others elected are: James Brazill, chancellor; Milo Clay, advocate; Mark Colchin, warden; Don Heimann, treasurer; John Held, secretary; Dave Kable and Fred Lengerich, guards. Art Heimann will remain as financial secretary of the council. Plans were formulated at the meeting for a bus trip to Terre Haute. The tentative date for the trip is July 12. Any member wishing to attend should contact the grand knight-elect or sign the list on the K. of C. bulletin board. Joining Lengerich on the board of trustees were newly elected trustees Bud Kriegel and Gerald Martin. The next regular meeting wil be June 22 at 8:30 p.m. at the halt

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 10,1959.

Authorizes Billion For Foreign Loans

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted today to authorize on£„, billion dollars a year for five years for this country’s development loan fund for foreign economic aid. The financing would be done through Treasury borrowing. The action was a slop at President Eisenh'oWer who had requested only 700 million dollars to extend the assistance over a single additional year. Eisenhower had asked specifically that the financing not be removed from direct congressional appropriations. The committee adopted by a vote of 11-4 the proposal of its Chairman, —J. —William Fulbright (D-Ark.), to whom Eisenhower directed his plea. But it knocked SSOO million from the yearly amount Fulbright suggested. A move by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) to limit the amount to 750 million dollars annually was voted down. Other congressional news: Loans: A House banking subcommittee voted to authorize loans totaling one billion dollars to assist local governments in ! construction of water and sewage plants and other public facilities. This was' another slap at the administration, which, had termed the bill unnecessary and antagonistic to the President’s plea for a balanced budget. The measure was sponsored by Democrats. Bonds: The House Ways and Means Committee began public hearings on one phase of President Eisenhower’s request for more leeway in financing the government. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson told the committee that increasing interest on government bonds —one of the requests — would help stabilize the bopd market and would not be inflationary. Insurance: The House approved a measure imposing a 60 per cent increase on the income taxes of life insurance firms. The measure now goes to the Senate. Boy Scout Leaders Prepare Campout In preparation for the council campout this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the south district Boy Scout committee met Tuesday evening at Decatur. A tape-recorded speech by Dr. Arthur Schuck, chief scout executive, was played to the men present. Dr. Schuck told of a plane trip he was making, and how the man sitting beside him had told him that he was an important business executive, and too busy for scouting today. '“Oh, yes,” he said. “I have a son whom I want to be interested in scouting, but as I said, I’m too busy to help out myself.” Dr. Schuck then told the “busy executive" that the Boy Scouts would be glad to take raising his son, but didn’t he really think he should take some time to do that himself? The executive then admitted that this was so. Dr. Schuck closed by explaining that the purpose of the institutional representative should be a source of help in obtaining parent participation, not a listening post for excuses. Scout leaders present "from Adams county were: Decatur: Kenneth Gaunt, Gene Rydell, Bernard Hain, Dick Heller, T. C. Smith, and Steve Everhart; Monroe: Orval Neuenschwander and Jim McCullough; Berne: Emerson Neuen and Ray Beer. The south district, which includes Adams, Wells, and Jay counties, is now leading the council with 100% of the units taking Boys Life. Also, 100% of the 1958 units have been reregistered. A total of 50% have received the national award, and 50% have reregistered with a gain in membership. South district is second in the four new boys cateoiry, with 40%. *•’

Mrs. Eliza Slusher Dies Tuesday Night Mrs. Eliza Florence Slusher, 91, a resident of Washington township most of her life, died at 11:40 p. m. Tuesday at the Berne nursing home after an illness of complications of two and one-half years. She was bom at Ridgeville Nov. 22, 1867, a daughter of Abraham and Nancy De Boy. Her husband, James Slusher, pi-eeetied her in death. . | Mrs. Slusher was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church. Surviving are eight sons, Oscar of Pierceton. Lee of Fort Wayne, Chester of Rockford, 111., Orville and William of Decatur, Wiley of Fort Wayne, Warren of New Corydon, and Othel of Fort Wayne; five daughters, Mrs. Mae Chevillot of Buffalo. N. Y., Mrs. Goldie Zimmerman of Rapid City, Mich., Mrs. Estella Hendrickson of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Bonnie L. Zimmerman of Monroe route 1, and, Mrs. Georgia Paille of Modoc; o n e brother, Jacob De Boy of Ridgeville; two sisters, Miss (Jewel De Boy of Saratoga, and Mrs. Gurs- ' ney Buncell of Muncie, and many grandchildren. Three sons are deceased. Funeral services will be com : ducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p. m. today until time of the services. Mrs. Lida Sheeley Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lida Sheeley, 88, died at her daughter’s home at 304 West Adams street at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Death was attributed to arteriosclerosis. She had been ill five weeks with complications from a broken hip. Mrs. Sheeley was born "June 17. 1871, in Polo, 111., the daughter of John and Mary Attley Sheeley. She was married to Edward Alexander Sheeley, now deceased. A resident of Decatur for the past 25 years, she was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. G. J.. Kohne, and five grandchildren. One grandchild is deceased. Friends may call at the Black funeral home. The Rosary society will meet at 8 o’clock tonight to recite the Rosary. Services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rev. Robert Contant officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery, Marcus Buffenbarger Is Taken By Death Marcus (Curly) Buffenbarger, 77, Hoagland, died about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday in Parkview memorial hospital, Fort Wayne. He had been ill three months. Born April 5, 1882, in Van Wert, 0., he was the son so John and Jane Humble Buffenbarger. In Hoagland, where he had lived for the past 45 years, he was a furnace contractor. He was a member of the Anfioch church at Hoagland. Surviving are two brothers, Alva Buffenbarger, 1128 West Marshall street, Decatur; and Henry Buffenbarger, Fort Wayne. Five brothers and two sisters preceded him in death., Friends may call at the Black funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the funeral home, the Rev. R, L. Whitenack officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery.

Hershel White Dies At Kendallville Home Hershel E. White, 53, route three, Kendallville, brother of Floyd White and Harold White, Willshire, 0., died at 4:25 a. m. Tuesday in his home. Mr. White had been ill six months. He was born January 21, 1907, in Mercer County, O„ and resided near Ohio City, 0., and Chattanooga, 0., before moving to the Kendallville area 16 months ago. A farmer, he was a member of the Albion Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are the widow, the former Audrie*Book; tliree sons, Blaine White, Fort Wayne: Jerry White, route one, Ohio City, and Dennis, at home; six brothers, Harold White and Floyd White, Willshire, 0., Homer White, St. Mary’s, 0., Elmer White. Coldwater, 0., Donald White, Spencerville, and James White, Rome, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Martha Bollenbacher, Chattanooga, and six grandchildren. The body is at the Cowan and Son funeral home, ‘ Van Wert, 0., where friends'may ■ call after 7 p. m. today. Services 1 will be conducted at 2 p. m. Fri- ■ day in the Chattanooga Methodist church, the Rev. A. N. Straley, - Van Wert, officiating. Burial will * be in the Riverside cemetery at e Rockford, O. K r Strike At Fruehauf Plant Is Settled j FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— About 550 employes of the Frue- ‘ hauf Trailer Co. returned to their , jobs Tuesday after contractual ) agreements ended a six-day strike which halted production at the plant. Members of Local 776 of the AFL-CIO Allied Industrial Workers Union accepted hourly increase after striking last Wednesday in a wage dispute.

Employment At Record In Mav

WASHINGTON (UPD—Employment rose by more than one million last month to a May record of 66,016,000, the government repo rt e d today. Unemployment dropped by 238,000 to 3,389,000, The unemployment figure was the lowest in 18 months'. The government attributed the drop in joblessness mainly to recalls of factory workers to their jobs. Secretary of Commerce Lewis L. Strauss and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell said the 1,004,000 rise in employment was caused by an untisually large pick up in non-farm jobs as well as a further seasonal gain in agriculture. The May record figure compared with the old time high of 67,221,000 set in July, 1957. . , The seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment declined to 4.9 per cent of the total labor force. It was the first time it has dropped below 5 per cent since November, 1957. It was 5.3 per cent in April and havered around 6 per cent last winter. -I Despite the drop in unemployment, the jobless total remained about 700,000 above the May, 1957, figure. It was about 1,500,000 tower than the year ago total, however. The average weekly earning of factory workers hit a new alltime high of $90.32, passing S9O for the first time in history. The work week increased 12 minutes in May to 40.5 hours, highest since 1955. Overtime in manufacturing edged up to a record 2.7 hours a Week. Dr. Seymour Wolfbein, deputy assistant secretary of labor, said the greater than seasonal increase in the number of non-farm jobs was one of the most heartening

Hunt Is Widened For Missing Girl DETROIT, (UPD—Police checked hundreds of telephone “leads” including many crank calls, today, but came up with no tangible clues in the disappearance of Susan Lawrence, 14. The girl disappeared last Monday morning on the way to the library of the Mumford High School to study for a final exam. She never arrived. More than 200 police had searched throughout the night over a 12-square mile area around the girl’s home, without finding a single clue. The operator of a gasoline station near Susan’s home, Ernest Windles, 47, reported he saw a girl answering Susan's description in an old automobile with two young boys. He said the car bore Arkansas' license tags and stopped at his station for gasoline. He said the girl was lying down on the back seat with a quilt oyer her. Det. Lt. Blake Wallace, however, said so far nothing tangible had been turned up. More than 150 telephone tips had been received by the police. Lawrence said that Susan got a telephone call about a month ago which she said was from a person who had threatened to hit her “so she wouldn’t know what happened.” “If I ever get hold of Susan, she’ll never know what hit her,” the caller told a friend of the family. Susan was described as a slight 'girl, weighing 70 pounds and 4 feet 11 inches tall. She looked more like 9 or 10 than 14 years old. Lawrence, 52, said the family began receiving strange calls . about" two months ago. “The telephone would ring, but ; when we picked it up, there was . nobody on the other end,” he r said. Because of the trouble, they s changed their telephone to an un-

- listed number. 1 Susan’s mother, Miriam, 46. • said she was a shy child who 1 didn’t talk to strangers, got good lt marks in school and was always very considerate. The parents were unable to explain the apparent grudge someone had against Susan.

- City Swimming Pool ' To Be Open Thursday , The municipal swimming pool, > on North Fifth street, will be opened for the summer season Thursday. Rules and regulations ' for the pool are printed oh page ’ 2 ~of today’s Daily Democrat. ' Plans for special adult nights at the pool are now under study and will be announced later.

items in the report. Factory employment rose by 100,000 to 16,100,000 last month. The durable goods industries, which were hard hit in the recession, accounted for nearly all of the job increase. Substantial gains were recorded in steel, primary metals, fabricated metals and machinery industries. Even the hard-pressed auto industry showed a small job increase in May.

' w I B ** 4 L - ... />'• x Bp*~ r I w?** _SI LAUNCH FIRST MISSILE SUB — The U. S. S, George Washington, first Polaris-missile submarine of a planned fleet of nine, leaves the ways of the General Dynamics Shipyard at Groton, Conn., wi|h the prayerful hope of President Jisenhower that “ . . . this ship will be always ready but never used.” The nuclear powered vessel will patrol toe world’s oceans with all major military targets within range of its 1,500-mile two-stage rockets.

Decatur Youth Badly Hurt In Theater Blast A Decatur teenager was one of three youths critically burned in an explosion at 8:03 p. m. Tuesday when a gas explosion tore apart the men’s restroom at the Licolndale Drive-In, on Lihcoln highway west, Fort Wayne. Richard Miller.ls, who will be a junior at Decatur high school next fall, received burns on his hands, arms, chest, legs and feet, amounting to nearly 60 per cent of his body. He and the other two boys underwent surgery last night > at the Parkview hospital, in Fort Wayne. Hospital authorities this morning listed all three on the critical list. Severe Eye Damage Noted Steve Hathaway, 15, of Fort Wayne, and Kenneth Pancake, 17, of Maumee Road, Fort Wayne, were also treated at the hospital. Hathaway also suffered extreme damage to his eyes, but the extent of injury was not immediately determined. Miller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laun Richard Miller, of 210 3. Ninth street, stayed at the hospital with the boy most of the night. Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold reported the accident to the parents late last night. Mrs. Miriam Miller, the boy’s mother, operates the Dinner Bell restaurant in Decatur, while his father works at Krick-Tyndall Tile Co. Mrs. Miller is still at the hospital with her

son. Assistant fire chief Marion Shroyer of Fort Wayne said that the accident happened when two gas space heaters, which heat the men's and women’s restrooms during the cold weather months were removed. The line to each had been left uncapped. Gas Seeped In Unchecked A third line on the circuit runs I gas to the popcorn machine in the buiMing. When an attendant tried to light the popcorn machine, he noted that the gas line had been turned off earlier in the day. About *7:15 p. m., the gas line was opened. This allowed the restrooms about 45 minutes to fill up with gas. Later, someone reported a strong smell of gas. The assistant manager then realized the trouble and ran to the rear of the building to turn off the gas valve. Before he got there, the explosion tore out the wall of the men's room.

Bystanders in the area reported a loud explosion, which resembled a dynamite blast. One witness said he saw one of toe youths come tumbling out of the building, screaming, and holding his ' hands over his head. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through Thursday. Showers and thundershowers this afternoon. Some scattered showers and thundershowers over the state tonight and Thursday. Not quite so warm south this afternoon but warmer again Thursday. Low tonight 66 to 72. High Thursday 85 to 92. Sunset today 8:12 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and warm with some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low Thursday night upper 60s. High Friday near 90.

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