Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By _ A THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. - — — President > i John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Sabacrlption Rates: *®ail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 18.00; Sis mos.ths, $4.25; J months, $2.25. Mall, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, '—, • months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier, 30c cents ner week. Single copies, 6 cents. V Liberty or Tyranny We in the United States of America often brag about our freedoms—political freedom, economic freedom, social freedom, and religious freedom. In fact, we often think of these freedoms as having - been attained, as belonging to us, and as of ends in themselves. —. But a freedom in itself is useless. It must be used to be valuable. The freedom to speak out is worthless to a man who will not take the time to investigate and find out. The great freedoms won by our forefathers were valuable to them only because they wanted to use them. They have no value in a society where people are so busy they cannot take the time to help run their own government. Economic freedom—the ability to move from a poor class to the middle class, and eventually into the rich class—means nothing in itself. The poor or middle class groups must first have the desire to make something better of themselves. Then they must have the educational opportunity to develop themselves so that they can make the great change from poverty to riches. Religious freedom also can be meaningless. It was once very important. It was so important that thousands died defending their own beliefs. But today the term “religious freedom” is often used as a camouflage to hide religious indifference. “Democracy” is used the same way, and interpreted as meaning the right not to take part in our government! Lack of exercise of our great liberties will undoubtedly lead to their decay. It cannot be otherwise. Within five generations it may be necessary for our descendants to again rise up and fight for freedoms—freedoms which we have today, but which we are allowing to ebb away through lack of use. It seems that the biggest problem we have today isn’t oppression by others—it’s that internal selfishness that makes us think only of our desires, or our little family. This seems to be all that matters, unless we are big enough to realize that we are just little mites in a much bigger world, a world in which we must function and take part, or else lose our identity. Christian selflessness, devotion to others, and interest in the general welfare must replace narrow, greedy selfishness if our great nation is to continue to grow and expand. Today we still have our freedoms. Are we each using them to the best of our ability ? Are we attempting to adjust and learn in this modern, fast-moving age? Or " are we pulling within our shells, content to just live, and content to allow our precious heritage to our children to seep away?

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Senate, House In Compromise Wheat Measure WASHINGTON (UPI)-Congres-sional farm leaders predicted today that both the House and Senate woulcL, approve a compromise version of stop-gap wheat legislation. But the measure, drawn up late Tuesday by a House-Senate conference committee, faced the threat of a presidential veto because of a price-boosting feature. The bill, effective only for the 1960 and 1961 crops, would reduce farm acreage allotments for wheat 20 per cent below the present floor of 55 million acres. In return for the acreage cut, farmers would be given price supports at 80 per cent of the “fair earning power” parity' level, or about $1.90 a bushel. Supports for the 1959 crop are at 75 per cent of parity, or sl.Bl a bushel. Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee, a member of the conference group, predicted that President Eisenhower would approve the compromise measure. “If he doesn't, he will have a lot of explaining to do because this bill will reduce surpluses by 300 million bushels a year,” Elender told newsmen. Under the bill, farmers would be forbidden to grow any crops on the acreage taken out of wheat. As a further bonus for keeping the land idle, they would be given a payment "in kind” from government surplus wheat stocks equal to one-fourth of the normal production of the idled acreage. The bill also would limit price support benefits to individual farmers on wheat for 1960 and 1961 to $35,000 each year, Ellender said. In addition, it includes provisions to tighten production controls and • abolish all control on wheat grown for use on the producer's own farm. The compromise bill was drafted after the House and Senate had passed differing versions of stopgap wheat legislation. Eisenhower, who has sent seven messages to Congress demanding action to cut wheat surpluses, had originally recommended a sharp cut in price supports with eventual abolition of production controls. Under the present wheat program, surpluses will total about 1,300,000,000 bushels by July 1, representing a government investment of more than three billion dollars. Under the present wheat program, surpluses will total about 1,300,000,000 bushels by July 1, representing a government investment of more than three billion dollars. / \

Elks To Initiate Class On Thursday A special initiation of candidates for the Decatur 8.P.0. Elks will take place Thursday at 8 p.m. at the local lodge. George Bair, exalted ruler, said all members are urged to attend the ceremonies. Liberate Awarded Damages By Jury ■■ LONDON (UPI) — Liberace won $22,400 in libel damages today from the London Daily Mirror and its columnist William Connor, who writes under the pen name of sandra.” A jury of 10 men and two women took three hours and 24 minutes toadecide that a Cassandra column written three years ago implied that the American pianist was a homosexual. The jury itself set the amount of damages. The jury’s verdict was announced on the seventh day of the trial. * Libreace had sued Cassandra and the Mirror for a columh written in 1956 which described the 40 - year -old performer as “the summit of sex — the pinnacle 61 masculine, feminine and neuter, everything that he, she or it can ever want.” Liberace said this implied that he was a homosexual and had hurt his career. He denied in testimony during the trial that he was a homosexual. The jury found that these words did imply that Liberace was a homosexual. Its verdict of guilty and award of damages were made on the basis of his one column. The charge in the second of the two articles Liberace alleged were libelous was declared “not proved." The, second article, printed Oct. 18, 1956, said “rarely has the sacred been so well marshalled alongside the profane." Justice Sir Cyril Salmon noted in his summing-up this morning that this latter charge had “scarcely been mentioned” in testimon yat the trial.

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Kidnaping Charge Filed On Adkins PARIS; m. (UP!)— Ex-convict Kenneth Adkins, who abducted his half-sister and held dozens of lawmen at bay for 16 hours with an empty rifle and shotgun, today faced a charge of kidnaping and a probable charge of rape. Adkins; 22, was arraigned in police magistrate’s court on the kidnaping charge Tuesday night a few hours after he released Mrs. Nyra Kennedy, 34, and surrendered meekly to an attorney who appealed to his “sense of manhood.” Bond was set at $7,000 and the stubbly-faced, distraught farm laborer was held in the Edgar County jaiL State’s Atty. Wayne S. Jones said a rape charge probably would be filed against Adkins to-I day. Jones said Adkins admitted in writing that he raped Mrs. Kennedy in his mother’s darkened bungalow at nearby Charleston! Monday night and Mrs. Kennedy, confirmed that the attack occurred. Adkins seized his half-sister at her home here late Monday, forced her to accompany him to his mother’s home in Charleston, and drove his mother and another woman from the house at gunpoint. City, county and state police, summoned by the mother, barricaded the cottage throughout the night and into the day. They were armed with riot guns and tear gas but held their fire for fear that Adkins would harm Mrs. Kennedy. The former convict threw a scribbled note from the house saying that he forced his half. sister "to submit to sexual rela-| tions” and would shoot himself after he got a chance to kill Capt. Logan Cox, a Charleston policeman whom he hated. Car Slightly Damaged When Hit By Trailer A semi-trailer collided with an automobile Tuesday at 10:05 p m. at the intersection of Monroe and Second street, causing minor damage to the automobile. The city police investigated. The automobile driven byjiarold O. Runkel, 52, of Geneva, received S4O damages when the semi driven by Faucon, 24, of Roanoke, 111., struck the back end of the car. •Neither driver was injured.

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The People’s Voice This column is for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of . interest. No articles will be | published without signature of the author. I O — ° Thanks Decatur Dear Friends: I am that mad Russian you wrote about in paper June 11, 1959. The Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, your Methodist minister, who married us, told us of this article in your paper and gave us his copy of same. I want to highly congratulate Decatur, Indiana, and all the people in it, and especially Richard D. Lewton, your clerk of the court of Adams county, and the Methodist minister. Rev. Sparks, who performed the marriage ceremony so beautifully. There is no one who can prove to me that American and Russian people cannot live together in peace and happiness if they would lay down their guns and sit arounda conference table loaded with goodies to eat and allow me to be master of ceremonies! I am of a family of nine children that adopted the United States of America as our beloved country—or perhaps it might be the other way around; . perhaps the United States adopted us to help make her the great nation that she is. I am quite sure we are doing all in our power to help bring about better understanding so we can solve our differences in peace. My sister, Mrs. Bert Stone, is teaching English to the families of the foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. My sister. Bee, was just retired from teaching high school in Chicago. 111. My oldest sister, Matilda Fenberg. is that great.attorney in Chicago, 111., the author of the article in the April isue of Reader’s Digest, “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met,” the life of Clarence Darrow. ; Matilda has been sponsoring and trying to put over a universal di- ; vorce law for the United States, and now I am going to ask her to 1 work on a universal marriage law, ' so that I or anyone else won’t have to make three trips to Indiana to have a knot tied so that it will not ■ untie. Sincerely yours, Louis J. Fenberg

20 Years Ago Today o June 17, 1939—Figures show SB,649.71 due in spring taxes were permitted to go delinquent in Adams county. Mrs. Luella Ellsworth, of Decatur, was elected president of the Adams county Democratic Women's club. Other officers are Mrs. Clara Anderson, of Geneva, vice president; Mrs. Dorothy Kichar, of Decatur, secretary, and Mrs. Helen Reusser of Berne, treasurer. Steve Everhart, Adams county Boy Scout commissioner, has announced that 39 Decatur Boy Scouts will attend the annual camp at Big Island, Rome City, the week of July 2. > Two Decatur youths arrested for a breakin at the Blue Creek Dairy plant here, were given 1-10 year state prison sentences, suspended during good behavior. Three other lads involved were turned Over to juvenile court. Young Democrats To Meet Here Saturday The Young Democrats of Adams county will meet at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, Harry Hebble. Jr., president, announced this morning. The election of officers and delegates tS the state convention will take place at the meeting. All present members and those desiring to join or see the club are invited to attend.

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