Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1959 — Page 2

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Shakeup In Cabinet Is Made By Castro HAVANA (UPD — Premier Fidel Castro shook up the Cuban cabinet today in the faee of growing opposition to his controversial phip to carve up large Cuban farms. , The bearded revolutionary who overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista nearly five and a half month i ago announced replacements for five ministers, including the minister of agriculture. | The announcement came early [this morning at the end of a long I cabinet session. It climated reports that some of the cabinet ■ ministers had threatened to quit ! unless the land reform laws were ! modified. The official announcement gave no indication whether the five outgoing ministers resigned or ; were fired. Cattle ranchers, tobacco and sugar growers have fought the hand reform law. The,. United States formally added its voice to their cause Thursday. In a note to the Cuban government the U.S. State Department expressed ’"serious concern” that the law failed to provide prompt and adequate compensation to U.S. investors. The reform law. published June 3, stipulates reduction of all land holding to 1.000 acres. A number of U. S. sugar companies will be affected. The U.S. statement said it was sympathetic to the Cuban objective of land redistribution but implied that the way Cuba was doing it would hurt Cuba as well as foreign investors. Tobacco farmers in Pinar Del Rio Province have threatened open revolution if the government carves up their lands. Cattle growers have launched a fundraising drive to conduct a publicity campaign against aspects of' the land reform law they object to. " ■ The government has indicated it is going ahead anyway. Amendments For Marriage License Laws Are Announced Recent legislative amendments to marriage license-laws were announced this morning by Adams county" clerk Richard D. Lewton. | In the past, applicants for marI riage licenses in Indiana were re-’ quired to have a health certificate ' signed by, a doctor licensed in this state. An amendment to SBH 3-1-10 allows any’ licensed doctor. ■ even thofltr outside the state, to ■ issue certificates of health to Indiana couples. Another legislative act revamps the system of keeping marriage records by the county clerks. In, I the past, marriage returh records i were filed with the county where the marriage took place, not with the county where the license was issued, if they were different counties. Marriage return records will now be filed with the CQUhty where the license was issued. whether or not the *applii cants,, were-married there. This j will allow the county clerk a more efficient control of filing marI riage records. Both amendments will be effective July 1. Contact Lenses Any person desiring information on Contact Lens fitting and, wear-, ing are invited to consult with the j local optometrists. Dr. Harry H. : Hebble and Dr. H. R. Frey have received certificates of achieveI ment for their post graduate work ' in Contact Lens. advt.

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Allas Missile To Be Ready This Summer INDIANAPOLIS <UPIK< - Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, chief of the Air Force missile program, revealed Thursday night that the first operational Atlas inter-conti-nental ballistics missile will be ready this summer at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ‘‘The Titan has completed four 100 per cent successful flight tests in a row and the Minutemen is well into its research and development phase,” Schriever said during a talk before, the Caravan Club, a Shrine organization. The lean, 6-foot-3 career officer also made public for the first time Air Force development of a huge 100-watt thermoelectric generator that will be used to convert heat energy into electrical energy and ‘‘could provide power for electronic equipment in isolated areas of the world.” • C ‘‘The amount of electrical energy developed is at least 10 times larger than any similar device ever built in the United States, and is. pound for pound, the most efficient and compact device of its type for application other than laboratory study,” he said. Schriever predicted that the generator “will undoubtedly have valuable civilian applications."

Military Not Enough In a review of U.S. missile accomplishments, Schriever told his audience that “our Air Force intermediate range ballistic missile, the Thor, is now being delivered to bases in the United Kingdom. Similarly, the Army's Jupiter IRBM is being delivered in Italy. The Navy's IRBM—the subma-rine-based Polaris —is moving swiftly ahead in its research, development and testing phase.” But Sehiiever said military strength, though important, .cannot alone defeat the Communist challenge. He said we must rely on “the five -arsenals of peace." “They are the arsenal of positive military security, the arsenal of education for responsibility, the arsenal of continued economic growth, the arsenal of confident cooperation with our allies, and the arsenal of tough-minded patriotism," he said. Military power is, "first and foremost, a power for-'peace," Schriever said. “It is when countries are weak in comparison to the military might of the potential enemy that they invite conquest.” he said. “The surest way to peace is- to build a military strength sufficient to protect oar vital interests at home and abroad, and to affirm in thought and action our right to live in freedom." Lagging Behind Russia America is facing “a Communist challenge more crucial and more far-reaching than anything we have been up against since we became a sovereign nation some 180 years ago,” he said. Schriever warned that this nation is lagging behind Russia in the development of engineers and technicians and that “at this very moment" the Soviet Union is turning out three engineers to every one of ours and that this ratio soon will be four to one. “Moreover,” he said,'- "the Soviet Union is educating two scientists to our every one, and five metallurgists to our every one—and so on up and.down the line of today's science and technology" California led the U.S. in the number of registered motor vehicles in 1958 with 7,013.163. Vermont was last with 145,413.

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Limited Highways To Bring Problems INDIANAPOLIS <UPJI Indiana’s forthcoming limited access highways will bring motorists face to face with many safety problems, Matthew C. Sielski of the Chicago Motor Club and president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers told the Indiana Editor and Publisher Highway Traffic Safety Seminar today. “Motorists traveling along mile after mile of broad, straight, level, easy' roadway, soon become lulled by the constant hum of the tires and engine and general monotony of driving,” Sielski said. “It is drowsiness and not fatigue that presents a danger on the modern expressway.” Sielski recommended the following procedures: —Make a stop after . the first three hours of travel. —Make a stop every 100 miles thereafter. —Don't travel more than 500 miles in one day. Smoking a Danger Smoking in cars causes presence of carbon monoxide, which has an effect on drivers' reaction, Sielski also said. The average motorist in the United States is “the safest and most skilled'driver on earth,” despite popular belief to the contrary, according to Karl M. Richards of the Automobile Manufacturers Association. “Since 1941 our drivers have doubled the mileage they travel without any type of injury-produc-ing accident and have increased by 35 per Cent the mileage they travel without even a fenderscratch mishap," Richards said. “Our traffic death rate reached an all-time low of 5.6 fatalities per 100 million miles last year. In spite of the fact that we have twice as many vehicles in use today as in prewar years, our total yearly traffic deaths have stayed consistently well below prewar levels. Cites Safety Record “We have in this country twothirds of the world’s motor vehicles and three-fourths of the world’s yearly motor travel mileage. Yet we have only -one-third of the world's yearly traffic fatalities. This means that mile-for-mile our drivers have a safety record six times as good as that built by drivers in the rest of the world.” ■ ■ There are seven serious unsolved highway safety problems, Laid Dr. Amos E. Neyhart, Pepo sylVania State University: • Increase in the number of unfit drivers, increase in the number ol mechanically unfit vehicles, inadequate roadways, inadequate enforcement, increase in the .devil-may-care attitude on the part of drivers and pedestrians, personal problems and drinking and driving. W. Earl Hall, editor of the Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, maintained that the newspaper’s major role in safety is "the promotion of an irresistible wish for safety in our public.” “Away must be found to drive home the idea that’ observing the rules of Safety in everyday life is a basic tenet of the Christian ethic which keeps whispering to our conscience: ‘I am my brother’s keeper’," Hall declared. Violations Listed Rural and urban accident percentages were discussed by Albert E. Huber, former director of the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety. Huber said leading violations causing rural collisions are following too closely, operating on the wrong side of the road, failure to yield right-of-way and excessive speed. The government reports that 411.000 new businesses were established in the U.S. during 19581 and 356.000 were closed.

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Anti-Smut Campaign Success Increasing

A disclosure that one of the nation’s biggest “filth factories” has closed its doors, together with news of the roundup of some of the country’s biggest dirty mail merchants, featured a new exclusive progress report on thd 7? anti-smut campaign released from Washington. The report, in the form of a press summary, was furbished to postmaster Leo Kirsch by postmaster general Arthur E. Summerfield. Another highlight of the report concerns the jading of the operator of a filth-by-mail “club,” furnishing the ultimate in obscene movies. “Evidence that the postmaster general's drive against mail obscenity is catching on continues to mount,” the local postmaster commented in releasing the report. “Complaints from all over the nation indicate an increasing awareness by parents of this grave threat to our children, as well as a desire to do something about it. Here are highlights on recent progress by the past office department in its' anti-obscenity campaign. plus further details on the cases mentioned above. 1. Complaint about obscene mail are expected to be up about 100% this year, soaring beyond 100,000. Most of them involve unordered solicitations of youngsters. 2. Postal inspectors are now hot on the trail of dozens of dealers in smut and a number of important cases are pending with U.S. attorneys: Investigations by postal inspectors into all types of obscenity activities now are running at the rate of thousands annually. In addition to stepped-up investigations, the postmaster general’s campaign has produced in recent days notable indictments, convictions and raids, the local postmaster disclosed. They include: 1. In several New York raids, a multi-million dollar mail order • filth factory,” flooding the nation’s homes with solicitations, as well as obscene and pornographic slides, films, pictures and circulars, was smashed following investigation by postal inspectors. Three of the nation's largest and longestestablished filth dealers were in- • dieted and are awaiting trial. 2. In Detroit, a federal grand jury handed down one of the first major indictments under new law which permits prosecution of dirty mail dealers at the point where the .mail is received, rather than In city or origin. Three west coast dealers were indicted. One of the three was indicted on charges involving mailing of indecent advertising to a- 15-year-old boy and the others were also indicted on charges involving obscenity solicitations. 3. A married couple was sentenced recently in federal court at Sacramento. Calif., to 10 year’s imprisonment for the mailing of obscene material. This was the first conviction under the recent law. They were originally arrested in California on a warant issued by the U.S. attorney at Boise. Idaho. 4. At Los Angeles, one of the nation’s “obscenity empires,” mailing out thousands of salacious circulars every month, closed down and filed “out-of-business” papers with the post office department. .5. In another Los Angeles case, one of the most bizarre investigations in history led to a 6-month jail sentence for 70-year-old Albert J. Amateau. Amateau had long eluded prosecution by a clever system in the operation of a dirty mail club. Members of his “certified buyers register;” after paying an entrance fee and filing an application, complete with “references,” were furnished codes as a guideline to the particular kind of filth they desired from among a large selection of extreme obscenity. In addition to these crackdowns, the local postmaster noted that the post office department has

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been receiving continuing active support from the nation’s most influential organizations for the antiobscenity campaign. At the recent national convention in Denver of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, resolutions were adopted vigorously supporting the campaign and calling on P.T.A. groups at local levels all over the country to support antismut activities. Support has come also from such groups as major national organizations of prfessinal and business ■wmen. as well as many national Catholic, Jewish and Protestant organizations. And hundreds of the nation’s newspapers and magazines, as well as many radio and TV stations. also have joined in the all out effort to eradicate smut from the U.S. mails, the postmaster noted. “These instances of progress in the campaign against obscenity show that we can eradicate this half billion dollar breeding ground for juvenile delinquency,” he added. “However,” he added, “this is only the beginning. This battle is not over. We have only begun the fight. We must still have the cooperation of the people of this community. Every citizen should report the receipt of any filthy mail, or advertisements for filthy mail to me, promptly, and I will take it from there.” Jackie Hurst Winner In District Contest Miss Jackie Hurst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hurst of route 5, has meen named district winner of the American Legion Americanism contest for 1959, it was announced today. Miss Hurst, who will be a senior next fall at Monmouth high school, was a member of the junior English class of Mrs. Hugh Andrews. The jitle of her essay was, “Land of the free.” It also took first place in the Adams county contest. X .aBh. L//■ 7 f Z /'A Union Pals • Sandy Grote presided when the Union Pals met Tuesday evening. Mary Lou Thieme led the pledges, and Janice Allison, group singing. Club members responded to roll call by naming their favorite boy friends. Three demonstrations were given: on setting a table, by Paulette and Rarlene Thieme: on making a prism loaf, by Sandy and Pamela Grote and Karen Hoelle: and on the uses of milk, by Deanna Small and Ann Lehrman. During the business meeting the group discused the committee which -would be in charge of the club’s float. The next meeting of the Union Pals will be June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Emmanuel Lutheran school. Kut-Ups When the Kirkland Kut-Ups met Tuesday evening at the home of their leader, Mrs. Lores Steury, Donna and Cathy Cauble, Eva Jane Mankey, and Lois Bieberich gave a demonstration on making milk shakes. After the demonstration the club members and four guests sampled the milk shakes, along with cupcakes, for refreshments. Miriam Yager opened the meeting, and Sara Ploughe and Arlene Borne led the group in the pledges to the American and 4-H flags. Joan Brown led the group singing. All members are urged to attend the next meeting of the Kut-Ups. at Mrs. Steury’s home at 7 p.m., June 16. Miss Lois Folk, county home demonstration agent, will be the club’s guest that evening.

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County Rural Youth Holds June Meeting The June meeting of the Adams county rural 'youth was held at the Farm Bureau building in Monroe Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. After mixers of human bingo were played, the meeting was called to order by the president, Legora Markle. Group singing was led by Alice Kukelhan and devotions were given by Byron Linker. It was decided during the i course of the meeting, to have a foot long hot dog stand at ihe coming 4-H fair. An ice cfeam social for this summer, was also planned for a money raiding project. For the special feature of the month, there will be a chicken barbecue at the home of Gloria Koenemann Sunday afternoon, June 28. In the form of an “all you can eat” affair, a cover charge of $1 will be assessed, those in attendance. Those who! plan to attend the affair, which! will have a game period during the afternoon and evening, are asked to contact a rural youth member 50 that enough chickens can be ordered. Everyone is in-. vited to attend the barbecue? which will begin at 2 o’clock. | The eduactional feature of the evening was a talk on safety and was presented by Raymond Mil- j ler, the club’s adult Farm Bureau advisor. He told of several of his experiences and the way these, experiences affect a small, community. • A square dance and games were enjoyed after the adjournment of the 'meeting. Refreshments were; of the soda fountain style with each member making his own sundae, soda, and other unusual concoctions. Only Minor Damage In Auto-Truck Crash The city police reported an autotruck accident at the intersection of 13th and Adams street Thursday j at 4.13 p.m., involving $65 in dam-; ages with no one being injured. Don E. Strickler, 22, driver of the truck owned by Safety auto rental of Fort Wayne, was stopped in a line of traffic at the stop sign | on the northeast corner of Adams! street when the car driven by James A. Weber, 19, of Markle, struck the rear of the truck. Damage to the truck amounted to S3O. while the da’mage to the right front of the automobile w.as $35. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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Lengerich Begins Training Anthony L. Lengerich, route five, will begin active duty training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., June 21. Major Generaf Theodore S. Riggs, commanding general, VI U.S. Army corps, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, made the announcement Wednesday. The 18-year-old Lengerich is a member of Battery B, x 424th Field Artillery Battalion, Army reserve, headquartered here. After completing his active duty training, Lengerich will return to Decatur to complete his service. i Begins Training A/B James E. Singleton, who entered the U.S. Air Force recently, has been assigned to basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. His current address is A/B James E. Singleton, AF 16633696—F1ight ,334, <Box 1506— Lackland A.F.8., Texas.'He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Singletoh, of route 2, Decatur.

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