Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 149.

Senate Votes * Repeal Os Tax On Train, Airplane And Bus Tickets Today

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate voted today to repeal immediately the 10 per cent tax on train, airplane and bus tickets. It also voted to repeal—effective June 30, 1960 — the 10 per cent telephone and telegraph tax. The Senate adopted these recommendations by its Finance Committee as it neared final action on a bill to extend for another year higher tax rates on corporate profits and on liquor, wine, beer, and other items which were first imposed to help finance the Korean- Win 7 ' Otherwise, the higher rates expire on June 30 and the Treasury would lose three billion dollars a year in revenue. - Other congressional news:’ Nuclear: Eugene J. Quindlen of the Office of Civil Defense told a joint atomic subcommittee that perhaps 48,900,000 Americans would die of blast, fire, or radiation in an H-bomb war with Russia. He said another 20 million would suffer serious injury but recover, while the remaining 128,100,000 survivors would be menaced by fallout to some degree. Shelters: The House Appropriations Committee nevertheless rejected a subcommittee recommendation that Congress put up four million dollars to build two of eight proposed underground centers from which the government would operate in case of attftck. - Financing: The Senate Finance Committee approved, 11-0, a oneyear increase in the national debt limit to 295 billion dollars and a permanent increase to 285 billion. The higher ceilings already have been approved by the House. Air Time: Robert D. Swezey, chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters’ freedom of information committee, told a Senate communications subcommittee the Federal Communications Commission rule requiring equal time for all candidates on newscasts has had “a crippling effect’’ on coverage of news events. State Rights: Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would press for Senate action on a states rights bill similar to the one the House passed Wednesday. The House bill would prevent a federal law from nullifying a similar state statute. Atom Wan Scientists, said an H-bomb attack would catch the nation's poppulation “practically naked and completely unprepared and unprotected.” They told a congressional atomic subcommittee that much could be done co shelter people from the bast, heat, fire and radiation of nuclear war.

Steel Seeks Strike Delay

NEW YORK (UPD—Steel labor and rrjanagement were down to the wire today in their deadlocked contract negotiations. The 171-man Wage Policy Committee of the United Steelworkers of America assembeld to debate an industry proposal for an indefinite postponement of a scheduled strike of 500,000 workers at midnight Tuesday. Industry’s proposal, advanced by R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of the U.S. Steel Corp., was regarded in some sources as virtually a 24-hour ultimatum to the union. Cooper urged that negotiations be continued indefinitely, with either side free o break the truce upon giving ten days' written notice. The expiration date of the present contract is midnight June 30. , - Close Down Near The chief negotiator for industry warned that “if a strike is to take place at midnight June 30, it will be necessary to commence closing down some activities on June 26 (Friday).’’' ' ■ ; Accordingly, Cooper continued, the orderly continuation of operations requires “a meeting of minds” no later than today. David J. McDonald, president of the Steelworkers union, said he would present the companies’ proposal to the policy committee to day...He refused to say what his recommendations would be.

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It is not being done, they said. Highways: Congressional opponents of an auto gas tax hike were not swayed by President Eisenhower’s warning that work on the interstate superhighway system would start shutting down this month unless new funds were provided. The President said work on the 41,000-mile road network would cease in 36 states and the District of Columbia within a year unless the highway trust fund was replenished. Mrs. Lucy Watkins Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lucy P. Watkins, 74, a native of Willshire, 0., died at 1:40 p. m. Wednesday in .the home of her sister, Mrs/ George Price, Fort Wayne. She had resided the past year at the Price home. She had been ill for several months. Death was attributed to carcinoma. Mrs. Watkins was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving in addition to the. sister are ©ne brother, Paul Shaffner, Willshire; and three other sisters, Mrs. Frederick Hancher and Mrs. William Keller, Decatur, and Mrs. Esther Lotter, Fort Friends may call at the Cowan and Son funeral home. Van Wert, 0., where services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday, the Rev. William D. Powers officiating. Burial will be in Willshire cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid through Friday with scattered showers or thundershowers extreme north and a few scattered thu nd e rshowers south mostly in afternoon or night. Low tonight 67 to 73. High Friday 88 to 94. Sunset today 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:19 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy, warm and humid vjith scattered thundershowers mostly afternoon and evening. Lows low 70s. Highs mostly in high 80s. BULLETIN NEW YORK (UPI) — The Floyd Patterson-Ingemar Johansson heavyweight title fight was postponed today from tonight to Friday night because of rain and wet grounds at Yankee Stadium.

Cooper reiterated industry’s demand for a one-year wage freeze. He told reporters that the twelve biggst steel companies were detrmined to hold the line on labor costs. Position Unchanged “The companies’ position that there be no employment cost increase is unchanged,” Said Cooper. “We have seen no union proposal which provides any possible chance of concluding labor agreements.” McDonald, however, said the union made “a non-inflationary, reasonable proposal' to the companies of a specific character.” But, he added, the companies “have not changed their position.” He said he would tell the Wage Policy Committee that-“we have no agreement, that we have nb collective bargaining meeHnf scheduled.” ; He refused to outline details of the union’s “non-inflationary” offer. About the possibility of future talks, McDonald said:"We certainly want to meet; we want an agreement.” If the union’s policy committee rejects the extension of their meetings, tens of thousands of workers would be laid off in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Youngstown, Cleveland, Gary, Ind., Birmingham and other steel centers. “t ■' ' .

David Uhrick Wins Valued Scholarship ■■ ■■ I® ’ • . J ■ WK David A. Uhrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Uhrick of 951 Dierkes street, a 1955 graduate of Decatur high school and 1959 graduate of DePauw university, has been I named a national defense graduate fellow for three years, valued at $6,600. One of the most valuable scholarships ever issued to a Decatur young man, it was recommended for Uhrick by the head of the Ohio University department of chemistry and the dean of the graduate school there, where the work will be done. A Rector scholar at DePauw, Uhrick majored in chemistry, and will pursue this In his graduate work. A letter advising the Decatur youth of his appointment adds: “This appointment is in recognition of your ability to pursue graduate study in your chosen field. You may at the discreation of the university and in conformity with your own wish, be given some responsibility in the laboratory or classr oo m approximating oneeighth time. The contract will be continued and renewed upon the basis of satisfactory scholarship, conduct and service. It is expected •flat you will carry 14-16 hours of graduate study in the university each semester.”

Agreement Reached By Dunbar, Union U.I.U. Local 222 and the Dunbar Furnihire corporation at Berne reached an agreement Tuesday on a new contract, subject to ratification by the union members. The union will meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Berne auditorium to approve or disapprove the threeyear contract, which has these new provisions: wage increase of 18 cents per hour for hourly workers and 12 cents per hour for piece workers and spread over the three-year period, the increase in pay retroactive to May 1 of this year; agency shop, modified wage progression; lower requirements for third week vacation; lay-off bottom of plant-wide seniority list; and other minor improvements. Work will resume Monday at 7 a.m. if the union membership ratifies the agreement, ending the strike six weeks after it began May 19. A picket line established at the plant the first day; of the strike had been maintained since then. Management and office personnel were, allowed to go in and out of the plant, and there were no demonstrations of any kind. Monmouth Teacher's Father Dies Suddenly 1 William B. Rosier, 81, of Greentown, father erf John Rosier, Monmouth teacher arid' Decatur swimming pool assistant, died at 8:30 a. m. today following a heart attack. Death was instantaneous. He had been in failing health for two years. Funeral arrangements are not yet completed. Two other sons, Gerald, erf Marion, and Harold, of Tucson, Artz., six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren survive. The Rosiers left this afternoon for Greentown.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 25,1959.

Heavy Crop Damage Done By Cutworms

Cutworms are reported to have completely destroyed hundreds of acres of Adams county corn this week, and raided numerous toma-. to plants in local gardens, according to reports coming into the county agent’s office. Comqion cutworms operate at night, cutting off the plants at ground level. During the day they curl up and hide in loose soil. There are many other species, some of which operate under the surface, and others which climb plants and feed on tomatoes which are staked outdoors or in greenhouses. Fields Leveled The Schnepf brothers farms north of Decatur reported a 90acre field of corn twice leveled by cutworms. A 90-acre field of corn belonging to Dr. Roland Reppert was reported 80% destroyed. Sever at reports of extensive cutwarm aamage came from Kirkland township. Persons who believe that their fields have been damaged by cistworms are asked to report the location of the field, and seriousness of the damage to the county agent's office. When damage is first noted, oom crops should be sprayed with 1/3 gallon toxaphone <60% emul-j sifiable concentrate* or with 1/6 gallon dieldrin (15% emulsifiable concentrate) per acre. The amount of water used to distribute the chemical will be determined by the type of sprayer and the! size of nozzles on the spray boom. Concentrate Spray Best results will be obtained, according to the Purdue Universi-j ty department of entomology, by concentrating the spray in a 12 tol 14 inch band directly over the rows. In the case of underground feeding cutworms, the kill will be further improved if the field is cultivated and fresh dirt thrown around the plants after the spray has been applied. For home gardens, newly setl vegetables and flowers can bei protected by dusting .both the' plant and soil with 5 per cent DDT or with 5 per cent chlordane dust." Commercial vegetables can be sprayer the same as Corn, provided no edible parts are present. Otherwise, the soil only should be treated by means of /props on the spray boom. Field toes, and also greenhouse tomatoes, can be sprayed with dieldrin before the fruit forms, or with toxaphone anytime up to one day before harvest. ?

rfF fl t fl a I - HOFFA GETS FLORIDA WELCOME-Arriving at Orlando, Fla., for a one-day visit during which he appeared as a guest speaker at a union installation of officers at Cocoa Beach, Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa (left) is given a rousing welcome by Teamster members from Cape Canaveral. On hand to greet Hoffa were John Riffe and other Florida teamster officials. .

Showers Skip Over County Wednesday Showers, mOSt-of-them light, began skipping over the county Wednesday noon, leaving as much as .9 inch in»Uniou township, none in other areas. The most rain hit in the midsection and the.northwestern part of the county, as it did Monday in the first significant rainfall for this June. A shower hit Decatur between 11 a. m. and noon, leaving .20, almost a quarter of an inch of rain and a humid, warm atmosphere, as the sun began to warm up , the area even through the clouds that remained from the shower about I p. m. The near quarter inch rainfall brought Decatur's total for June to 1.54 inches. In the area around Decatur, however, slightly more ’ rain has "been' recorded, as 1,55 has fallen during June in Union township, Cecil Harvey reports. Extremes in weather have been recorded around thq, area this past week. Until Wednesday, Fort Wayne had had 133 inch of rain for June, which is 2.42 inch below the average for the month. At Paulding, 0., Wednesday afternoon, a severe electrical storm brought winds as high as- 70 miles per hour, and dumped three inches of rain and hail in 20 minutes. Last year by June 26 9.32 inches of rain had fallen in Decatur, while in Hartford township 12 inches had been recorded, and in Root township, 9.90 inches. Fort Wayne's total 'for the month was 8.29 inches. And area residents were hoping for warmer weather, which would help yellowing cornfields to become green, and which was necessary so that blossoms could set on tomato plants. Crops look generally good throughout the .county, although more rain would help corn and .soybeans. Oats and wheat look good, and wheat Should be ready -for harvest in a couple, of weeks. Monday's showers helped to freshen up the crops, when as an average throughout-the county, .79 inch of rain fell, with the most rain, 1.20 inches, falling in Blue Creek township, and the least, .10 inch, in Preble township. The heavy ,9-inch shower fell in approximately .half an hour Wednesday noon, Erwin Fuelling Continued on five

Larry Klenk Injured In Florida Accident Larry Klenk, of route 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Klenk of Decatur, suffered severe injuries in a two-car collision near Fort . Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, and is in fair condition there, according to word received here by his parents. Klenk was riding with Darwin Bohnke ©f Decatur on a vacation and work-seeking tour of Florida when a car sqddenly pulled out in front of them. Bohnke was reported uninjured. Klenk suffered extensive cuts to the head, requiring more than 100 stitches to close, a broken right arm, right shoulder, and right elbow. He has been in surgery every day since the accident, one cut on his head requiring 3W hours to close. He will undergo surgery again this afternoon. It will be about. a year, according to the doctors, before he can undergo plastic surgery. Klenk’s address is room 363, Holy Cross Hospital; Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He reports that five or six Decatur people have already visited him there.

Senate Probe Os Rackets In Last Round up WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Committee headed into, its last round-up of Teamster officials today with .a possible Pittsburgh newspaper shakedown as the first objective. William Poch, business manager of the Pittsburgh Sun-Tele-graph. was Scheduled as the opening witness in a two-week inquiry that will embrace Teamster President James R.” Hoffa and most of the other top lieutenants. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy told newsmen' . Poch would be questioned about a re- , cent Sun-Telegraph strike and some of the events that preceded if. He said Ted Cozza, head of a Teamster local whose members drive newspaper trucks in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington, also would testify. He said the committee wanted to determine whether any shakedown was involved. Earlier this year, the committee heard testimony that some New York newspapers were forced to pay tribute 'to’ labor “fixers” to get their Sunday supplements delivered during Teamster strikes. The committee has ranged far ’and wide to pull in Teamsters for the new hearings, which probably will be the final phase of a marathon three-yea r investigation of the Teamsters. Hoffa, the controversial president of tlfia big truck drivers union, likely will be called in Friday. for his third round of questioning. Kennedy 'said at least 15 other Teamster officials who had been previously quizzed also would make new appearances. Power Off Briefly To Moke Switchover Elecric power was off in Decatur for two minutes about midnight last night while a switchover was made at the city plant. The city steam generating plant and the larger semi-permanent standby from Indiana & Michigan are now , being used.with the small portable standby from I&M now not needed.

Castro’s Regime Faces Trouble

Editors Note: The following dispatch is based on authoritative private advices reaching United Press International in New York from Cuba. 4 ' By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Copyright 1959 United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) — Fidel Castro’s revolutionary regime in Cuba is in serious trouble. Government forces have been alerted against attack either from within or without. The country’s economic situation, which is going from bad to worse, is the main concern right now.' Some 300,000 sugar crop workers will be out of jobs upon completion of the sugar harvest at the end of this month. When that happens, Cuba’s unemployed will hit near the one million mark, or approximately half of the nation’s working force. 4 Six months after victorious. Castro forces successfully ousted President Fulgencio Batista from 1

Long Appeals To Residents Os Louisiana BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI)-, Gov. Earl K. Long appealed to the people of Louisiana in a smuggled tape recording Wednesday night to pray him out of the mental hospital into which he said he was railroaded by his "jealous” wife and ambitious nephew, U.S. Sen. Russell B. Long. Political observers speculated the colorful meandering stumptype speech, broadcast on radio stations throughout the state, might draw thousands of political supporters to the Covingon Junior High School basketball court where Long will appear for a district court habeas corpus proceeding Friday. His wife, Mrs. Blanche Long, whom he bitterly accused of conspiring with his political enemies, fled the state Tuesday indicating she ivould make no further "effort to force mental treatment on her husband Friends said she believed he would be released at Friday’s hearing and feared his alleged "homicidal tendencies.” The court will not rule on Long’s sanity but on whether he was properly committed to the state hospital. Wants Sanity Ruling New Orleans radio station WNOE to which Long’s attorney, Joe Arthur Sims, took the original recording, quoted the attorney as saying Long would prefer a sanity hearing “to enable him to refute charges that he suffers from mental instability.” The station

Starkweather Dies In Electric Chair

LINCOLN, Neb. (UPD-Charles Starkweather, redhaired confessed | slayer of 11 persons, went calmly to his death in Nebraska’s electric chair early today. Five charges of electricity were pumped into the body of the 20-year-old killer who committed 10 knife and rifle slayings in a bloody reign of terror in January of 1958. He later admitted an 11th slaying. Dr. P. E. Getsher pronounced the killer dead at 2:05 a.m., e.d.t., only four minutes after he walked into the chamber. Ironically, Dr. B. A. Finkle, veteran prison physician, who was to have pronounced the killer dead, collapsed at the prison only minutes before the execution, and it was announced shortly after Starkweather’s death that the docor had died of an apparent heart attack. Finkle was in his 70’s. ’ Doctor Hastily Summoned Dr. Getsher was joined in the death chamber at the last minute by Dr. George Lewis Jr. Lewis, hastily summoned after Finkle’s collapse, entered the prison gates on the run at 2 a.m. The execution was not delayed. Starkweather merely shook his head negatively when Deputy Warden John Greenholtz asked him whether he had a last statement. But earlier, he made an apparent attempt at humor when Greenholtz entered his cell to announce it was time to go. * ... “What’s your hurry?’ Starkweather was quoted by the deputy warden. Earlier in the evening, the slayer told a guard, “I had’ a feeling that tonight was "the night.’ Starkweather entered the small, garishly lighted chamber at 2:01 a m. and walked quickly to the large oaken chair. He shot the 40 spectators a quick glance.

office, Cuban business is almost at a standstill. Each revolutionary law passed has brought with ,it an almost ctwjijete paralysis in its field. For example, rent reductions paralyzed the construction field. The agrarian reform law has paralyzed cane, tobacco and rice plantings. Import and exchange controls have paralyzed imports. Restrictions on installment sales have almost halted retail trade. The agrarian reform law has, in addition, fanned physical resentment to an unprecedented degree, even among many \vho were ardent Castro supporters. Some tobacco farmers have vowed they will die rather than surrender their lands. These are native Cubans, not representatives of large outside business interests which alio are affected. “"Government reorganization, has created chaos. Some 20,000 ifatista soldiers are out of, jobs. So are many other thousands of public servants. The spark of rebellion has been I lit. *’. / ‘

also quoted him as saying that 15 doctors were being flown to the hearing by chartered plane. Long ‘‘l feel certain thdt having a man like the Hon. Robert D. Jones of this district deciding my case that I’ll be a free ma? Friday.” | Judge Jones had been asked earlier if he could be described as a “Lopg man” politically. He replied: “I want to make it quite emphatic that whatever political affiliations I may have will never go over into my court.” Long said he had never ‘‘tried to hurt” his political enemies. “I have never believed in reprisals... and I want to say this: I have no idea of impeaching anybody, taking acKantage of anybody.” State in “Good Hands” He implied he was not presently governor and said the state was in “good hands’-’ those of Lt. Gov. . LethCr Frazar and “President pro-tern Bill Cleveland.” " J Long’s speech, taken from the hospital by Sims, was delivered in a strong, clear voice. It wandered and digressed, but veteran statehouse reporters said it “sounded like the same old Earl.’ ""This is Gov. Earl K. Long talking from the Mandeville Hospital,” he started out. “I’m glad to tell you good people that as far as mentally, 1 never was in better health than I am today. In my whole life, I’ve never been unconscious except when I was asleep.” Later in the speech he said, “I’ve satisfactorily recovered mentally.” But he said he was 11 pounds underweight “after they got through shoving me from one street corner to another, and put me on stretchers and tying me and shooting me with hypoder-' mics.”

Pale, Head Shaved | His head was shaved and he 'was pale. A guard was close on | either side but he did not appear to need their help. He was seated and asked whether he had anything to say. He shook his head, and officials began the grim job of preparing him for death. A green curtain was pulled around the chair as the electrodes were fastened into place and Starkweather was strapped into the chair. When the curtain was opened, the mass slayer presented a groteque picture. 'The mask did not cover his nose or his shaven head, now fitted with the electrode. His left leg, gripped by another electrode, was bare to the knee. ’ > The anonymous executioner, from outside the state, thre the switch the first time at 2:03 a.m. Starkweather’s body surged upward and ouward against the heavy straps as the 1,200 volts struck. The second surge one minute later caused a crackling noise in the chamber. Three more, charges, each hurling the slayer’s inert body against its bonds, were delt the killer. Calm Throughout Day Starkweather was calm through his last afternoon, Greenholtz said. The execution had been stayed four times. Most dramatic of the last-minute stay? came May 22, when a U.S. district judge called it off only 98 minutes before the execution hour. Responsible for that stay was Starkweather’s father, who spent a desperate night and early morning telephoning federal judges in a vain effort to stop the execution. Starkweather died specifically for the death of Robert Jensen, 17, Bennet, Neb., one of his 11 victims.

In the last three weeks, government forces have been put on I three separate alerts against at- ; tack. Apparently feared is an air 1 strike from wit h o ii*t, possibly against Santiago and mounted 1 from the Dominican Republic, • which in turn has been charging ' that attacks against its own government have been mounted from 1 Cuba. Also feared is an attack on the model prison at the Isle of Pines ’ where most ardent Batistianos are confined. > At the moment, any blow ■ against Castro probably would not . be successful. The opposition, although sizea- ! ble and growing, is not now ori ganized. However, information in Cuba is 1 that organized opposition is being built up outside, principally in Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic where Batista presently ~~ - is' in exile, and in Miama. l It all adds up to trouble for Castro.

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