Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 150.

Union Rejects Steel Truce

,2'. : ' NEW YORK (UPD—David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, today refused to hold further negotiations with an industry-wide team. He asked the 12 major steel company heads involved in the nationwide strike threat to meet with him tonight. McDonald described a two-hour session with the industry’s main negotiators this morning as a “farcical filibuster.” He said the industry had no offer to make to the union, whose contract expires at midnight June 30. McDonald sent a telegram to the chief executives of the main steel producers warning that “time is running out” and calling for a meeting with him tonight to produce a settlement. Union Rejects Truce Earlier, R. Conrad Cooper, the industry's chief negotiator, said the union bargaining team refused an offer to resume discussions this afternoon. "Is this a breakoff in the talks?” Cooper was asked. “It seems like it at the moment,” Cooper said. Cooper said the industry is ready to meet with the steel negotiators at any moment. Cooper said eariler that the union’s rejecion of the industry’s truce proposal made the union responsible for any ensuing strike. The company proposed Thursday that the present contract be continued indefinitely during continued negotiations. The union turned that down and countered with a proposal for a 15-day contract extension with any settlement to be retroactive to July 1. The industry turned that down, claiming an agreement to retroactivity would ir ej u d i c e its no-wage-in-would irejudice its no-wage-in-crease position. Calls Proposal “Realistic” McDonald said the union had placed before the industry a “realistic” proposal calling for package increase which would require no increase in steel prices. Details of the proposal were not made public. A union statement said steel profits were presently “over $2 for each hour worked by each steel worker.” Cooper had announced eariler that the industry would begin cooling its furnaces today if a contract » settlement did not appear near. The gradual shut-down would idle thousands of workers by layoff before the strike deadline. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid through Saturday with a few isolated showers or thun- * dershowers mostly in afternoon or night. Low tonight 68 to 75. High Saturday 88 to 94. Sunset today 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:19 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Continued warm and humid with Isolated late afternoon thundershowers. Lows mostly in low 70s. Highs 88 to 94.

teflUrfl WMwHu MtF^Twwni, x - \d| * jOhl *- f ljg<. *M £ rWBB |MI IBf I H mb 9SS WiBBKI I '*- < ** •■•' > \ Ml < k <"-.Mw , * 1 v i ,? fc- EHHB ■ B iggaßMl; S s£>;■ Blßi n W 9iB x J ?♦ W|H it K W v a w fl K ’ ta JB Wipr fl . By • fr- f ,^> :/.&<„ .. -, 1 <:4/i‘«v- -•<-•-■ -.-- . < </<^;/.v?Ai : /-.-4^>>«*4^<;< : .Sr.-4i»ir.-.-.x<»i>»i+.-.x<tf.-A&>**>>s,>i<>.-.. .. ;....J J <. QUEEN HIGH-HATTED— Before boarding the royal yacht| Britannia ■ and sailing to Montreal for today’s formal opening of the St. Lawrence seaway, Queen Elizabeth II reviewed a high-hatted guard of honor in Quebec City, Que. She presented colors to Quebec’s famed Royal 22nd Regiment in a tradition-filled ceremony under a blazing sun. 1 ’ « ■ \' ■’ » » - ...X *

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT * ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

* - t i New Procedures 1 ' On Auto Licenses a In an intensified effort to keep ’ only eligible drivers on Indiana L highways, the commissioner of 1 the bureau of motor vehicles explained new proceedures tOlicense branch managers Thursday at Fort Wayne, in one of many dis- ; trict meetings throughout the l state. . .Mrs LaVelle Death, local ’ branch manager, said this morn- . ing that one of the major discussions at the meeting centered on the enforcement of a new proced- > ure for obtaining a duplicate li--1 cense. In the past, when a motl orist last his license, through mis- ; placing it or having it stolen, a substitute license could be obtain- ’ ed by merely applying at any branch office. A clerk would will • out a form and the substitute .license would tM granted. u Some Abused Privilege Some drivers, however, abused this privilege. Those who had ; their license revoked could apply and obtain a substitute, showing no violations. Under the new setup, a duplicate will be issued ’ only after checking with the mas- ’ ter file in Indianapolis. The local ( branch manager will write or call I Indianapolis, at the individual's . I expense, checking the records to verify his eligibility. Then the . duplicate may be issued. ■ I The duplicate license will be in ’ effect the length of time as the original. No extension is granted • under this procedure. R. C. Gilbert, cornmissioner of the bureau, told the branch managers i that his office is trying to make .. it easier for the general public to , I obtain duplicates, while rt the , same time preventing uriWarrant- ; ed persons the same privilege. The duplicates will be stamped J in red, denoting that it is only a • r copv of the original. 1 Mrs. Death also pointed out ! that persons seeking a restricted ' license because undue hardship would be inflicted on the individual’s family or dependents, should ', write the bureau at room 126 in the Statehouse, calling attention to Givens, who will then advise the person the procedures to follow to apply for the restricted operator’s license. Title Requirement Outlined The commissioner also outlined the requirements for owners of motor vehicles to obtain titles and registration papers. A problem has arisen with the influx of motorized carts and utility vehicles which in some cases do not meet the legal specifications. To be elegible, the vehicle must have the nine following specifications: 1, two independent sets of brakes. 2, a functional horn. 3, Continued on page rive

Violent Storms Lash Northern Part Os State United Press International Violent thunderstorms lashed Northern Indiana late Thursday in the wake of one- of the hottest days of the season, and heayy rain measuring up to more than five inches fell on some areas. At Huntington, 4.65 inches of rain fell in three hours Thursday night, heaviest downpour in at least 18 years there, and the city measured 5.18 inches in 24 hours. The storm flooded basements and Inundated streets. Roaring wind, hailstones, and lightning bolts teamed up with rain in the Rochester area Thursday afternoon to wreak damage. Fallen trees blocked U.S. 31 near the city and utility pedes were flattened. State Police reported that funnel clouds were sighted in five upstate areas during a period of several hours, south of Akron, southwest of Fort Wayne, at Rochester, south of Pierceton and east of Urbana. Other heavy rainfall reports came from Fort Wayne, 3.78 inches, Bluffton 3.04 inches and Warsaw 3.68 inches. The Chicago weather station - reported 4.58 inches in 24 hours. Many areas of Hoosierland, in fact, virtually the entire southern two-thirds of the state, got little or no rain to provide emporary relief from hot and humid weather. The mercury climed to 91 at South Bend and in the Louisville ahdVChicago areas at high points Thursday, 90 at Lafayette, 89 at Indianapolis, 87 at Evansville. 82 in the Cincinnati area and 78 at Fort Wayne. Overnight lows were mostly in the, muggy 70s, ranging up to Evansville’s 75, but areas where the storms hit had relatively comfortable readings in the upper 60s. Afternoon and evening thundershowers were predicted on a scat- 1 tered basis for today, Saturday and Sunday, and no relief was due from the heat at least until next Tuesday or Wednesday. Temperatures the next five days will average 4 to 8 degrees above normal highs of 82 to 90 and normal lows of 60 to 71. “Warm throughout period although probably some slight cooling and less humid by Tuesday or Wednesday," the outlook said, adding that precipitation will total about an inch occurring mainly in scattered thundershowers “almost daily.” Late Bulletin HEIDELBERG, Ger. (UPD — The U.S. Army announced today that a young American soldier held prisoner in Communist Czechoslovakia for nearly a year was turned over to U.S. military authorities today days ago. • MILAN. Italy (UPD — A Trans World Airline Jet-stream plane bound for Chicago with 71 persons aboard disintegrated in a thunderstorm tonight, killing all aboard.

Senate Votes Down Gas Tax Increase

WASHINGTON (UPD —The Senate, in a torrent of legislation, voted early today to keep gas taxes down and beer, wine, liquor, auro, cigarette and corporation taxes up. The chamber acted on these and a number of other important matters in a marathon 15-hour session that ended at 1:04 a.m. e.d.t. The lawmakers then took the day off. TTiey’ll come back to work Monday. In the key decision, the Senate rejected President Eisenhower’s appeal to hike the federal gasolin tax 1% cents, from 3 to 414 cents a gallon. Eisenhower said work on the interstate superhighway network would all but stop unless the tax was increased to replenish the dwindling highway trust fund. The gas tax boost was offered as an amendment to a bill to extend for another year the high tax rates imposed during the Korean war on beer, wine, liquor, autos and corporate incomes. The extension was approved 79 to 0/ The House has passed it. The Senate added administra-tion-opposed amendments to the Korean tax measure which would repeal the 10 per cent tax on train, plane and long-distance bus tickets, kill the tax break on dividend income from stocks, and increase federal payments to

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 26, 1959.

St. Lawrence Seaway Formally Opened By Ike, British Queen

Governor Long Is Released

COVINGTON, La. (UPD— Gov. Earl K. Long got himself released from a mental hospital today by firing the two men who ran the hospital. • x .*■ -i The case to keep Long in the Southeastern Louisiana (mental) Hospital was quickly dropped and District Judge Robert D. Jones let Long go. Long sat quietly holding an unlighted cigarette while Atty. Gen. Jack Gremillion joined a motion of Long’s lawyers to drop the commitment order which put Long into the hospital eight days ago. - Judge Jones then said there was no case —Long was free. Spectators jamming the sweltering courtroom —actually a junior high school gymnasium — broke into thunderous applause. Long leaped up and waved his hands triumphantly above his head. There was no doubt that Long was once more in control of the state. He personally signed the papers that fired Jesse Bankston, state director of hospitals, and Dr. Charles Belcher, supemiteridjent of the hospital where he had been held. Since May 30, Long has been in three hospitals. His wife, who fled Louisiana, had him drugged, tied to a stretcher and flown to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Tex. He got out of John Sealy in a little more than two weeks by I ' promising to enter Ochsner Foundation Clinic in New Orleans if he were released. He was, and he kept his promise for less than 24 hours. He left the hospital and roared to Baton Rouge June 18 in a state police squad car to take over. His wife anticipated his move, beat him to Baton Rouge, the state capital, had commitment papers made out and a crew waituonunuee on page five Rites Monday For William B. Rosier Funeral services will be held Monday for William B. Rosier, father of John Rosier, Monmouth school teacher, who died Thursday at his home in Greentown. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the First Methodist church in Greentown. The Masonic lodge will aiso conduct services. Friends may call at the Mast & Picket funeral home in Greentown.

states for welfare payments. The Senate earlier gave final congressional approval to a, oneyear hike in the national debt limit to a peacetime record of 295 billion dollars. The lawmakers also approved a permanent debt limit of 285 billion. The temporary limit' of 288 billion dollars was scheduled to drop back to 283 billion next Wednesday. Other congressional news: Vetoes: Congressional Democrats felt that President Eisenhower’s veto of the wheat bill gave them a farm issue which would help elect a Democratic president next year. Some Republicans conceded in private that the veto would hurt the GOP in the-Great Plains, particularly in the Dakotas, Montana and Kansas. The bill was aimed at curbing the huge wheat surplus by raising price supports and reducing planting. Air Defense: The Senate Armed Services Committee has accepted with misgivings the administration's new “master plan” for defending the United States against enemy air attack. The committee said the plan left much to be desired. It called, on the Defense Department and the military chiefs of staff to conduct a new review of air defense and report back by July 31.

Friederici Speaks At Rotary Meeting Peter Fritederici, foreign exchange student from Germany, addressed the Decatur Rotary club’s ladies’ night program at the Decatur Youth a CdmmnoutinyWc4s tur Youth and Community Center Thursday night. Officers for the new Rotary year were instaled; George Thomas, incoming vice president, presided. Wilbur Petrie at whose home this year’s student had stayed during the past year, introduced the speaker. Friederici briefly reviewed his early life. His family had for many years lived in that part of Germany which is now East Germany and under Soviet control. In 1950 4»s father learned that he was wanted by the police, so the family fled on foot through a cold February night, walking for five hours before they found safety in West Germany. Peter’s father died during his stay in America and Peter feels that the death was due to the hard work and constant fear which his father had experienced during the five years under Communistic domination. The speaker urged his hearers to appreciate the freedom they enjoy as Americans. Friederici then told in a humorous manner of what he had expected to find in Indiana. He had even expected some cowboys and Indians. He compared America’s schools with those in his native land and said American students have a • much freer and more pleasant re- , lationship with their teachers. He feels that America is a land 1 of unlimited opportunities and that anyone willing to work hard can accomplish much more than is possible in Europe. He praised the American Field Service program, and said it was making for better understanding between nations. Friederici considers Decatur a second home and said it is difficult •to say goodbye. In closing, he i thanked his American foster parI ents and the Rotary club for | making his stay in America possible. W. Guy Brown read a clipping from an English Tokyo newspaper, which described a Rotary meeting there at which 32 American teenagers were guests. Jack Dailey, of Decatur, was one of| them. The Rotary president, Makoto Den, was high in his praise both of the American Field Service program, and of the students themselves. Gail Grabill turned the gavel over to incoming president H. P. Schmitt, Jr., after thanking the club for -its fine cooperation during the year. The new president responded by giving Grabill a past president’s pin and introducing the other neWoficers, who are: George Thomas, vice president, Tom AUwein, secretary, Dave tyfoore, treasurer, and Wilbur Patrie, Glarence Ziner and the retiring president as directors. Child Is Drowned In New Swimming Pool MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD — Three-year-old Fred Gillespie, son of Muncie soft drink bottler’ Campbell vGillespie, drowned Thursday in a newly-constrpcted swimming pool on the estate of his grandfather, Fred Rieman. His mother and several friends were painting a bathhouse at one end or the pool at the time of the accident. Youth Drowned, In Small Gravel Pit CAYUGA, Ind. (UPD — Luther Cheesman, 17, Cayuga, drowned Thursday while swimming in‘ a small gravel pit northwest of here. Authorities said Cheesman apparently tried to swim across the pit, and drowned about 20 yards from shore. His four companions said he did not call for help.

Tobacco Bill, Wheal Measure Vetoed By Ike WASHINGTON (UPD — Democrats were convinced today that President Eisenhowers wheat bill veto had handed them a farm issue which will help elect a Democrat to the presidency in 1960. Democrats claimed, and some Republicans privately conceded, that the President’s action Thursday would hurt the Republican Party in the Great Plains, particularly in the Dakotas, Montana and Kansas. The President vetoed a wheat bill -which would have ports, and a tobacco bill which would have, frozen price Supports at the 1958 levels. Eisenhower termed them “backward instead of forward steps.” He said the wheat bill, although designed to curb surplus production. would give “the sick patient another dose of what caused his illness.” Although the major political im-i pact was likely to be confined to the wheat belt. Democratic leaders contended that responsibility to the taxpayers for continued production of costly wheat sur-1 pluses had now shifted from the Democratic Congress to the President. The wheat bill would have cut 1960 and 1961 planting allotments for wheat growers by 25 per cent, but given them a net increase in income by raising their support price 20 per cent. It also would have given the farmers free wheat from surplus government stocks. Opponents of the legislation argued that the bill actually would increase the cost of the wheat program by 110 million dollars a year. They also claimed farmers would pour fertilizer on the reduced acreage to increase yields qualifying for the 90 per eent oi parity payments. Taxpayers currently have about three billion dolars invested in some 1,285,000,000 bushes of surplus wheat. The surplus is expected to reach 1,420,000,000 bushels by July 1, 1960.

Thunderstorms Pelt City, County

Thunderstorms pelted parts of Adams county Thursday noon and began again in earnest Thursday night, leaving an average of almost two inches of rainfall throughout the county for the last 24 hours. Both the St. Mary’s and Wabash rivers rose slightly, as the earth, still dry from the drought of the first of June, soaked up the welcome rain. The situation with the light anj power and telephone lines damaged form the thunderstorms, which kept area residents up during the night, also seemed well under control this forenoon. One Transformer Damaged The thunderstorms left a flurry of burnt-out fuses and service outages for the power and telephone companies to fix, morning. The situation was well under control by this rvxin, reports from the Citizens Telephone company and the city light and power plant indicated. In the most serious power failure reported, a transformer on West Monroe street was damaged during the storm Thursday night, leaving approximately 15 to 20 homes without power for four or five hours. In rural transformers, 25 to 35 outages were reported, requiring repairs to transformers. However, everything was under control, the warehouse reported this noon. All circuits to Indianapolis, two to Bluffton, two to Linn Grove, and one to Berne were out for a time as a result of the night time storms. Several rural eight-party lines and several lines in town were reported down, Dick Des" Jean, of the telephone company, reported this morning. All toll lines were back in service this forenoon, as were most

MONTREAL (UPD — President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth formally opened the huge, half-billion-dollar St. Lawrence Seaway today. Thousands cheered the President and the Queen as they delivered the keynote speechs under dloudy skies across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal. The Queen, speaking first/ described the seaway as a "magnificent monument to the enduring friendship of our two nations and to their partnership in the development of North America.” Eisenhower, hatless, spoke for nine minutes and received his biggest applause when he delivered one sentence in what he termed “my prairie branch of French.” The Queen switched to French twice. Eisenhower said in French he was happy to be back in Canada after an enjoyable visit a year ago. “A Very Great Honor" The milling crowd sweltered uncomfortably in humid 75-degree weather in which the sun shone only intermittently through the light overcast. Eisenhower took blame for “spoiling” the traditional good “Queen’s weather.” "You’ve been having good weather, but we came up and spoiled it,” Eisenhower; told, the ' Queen an hour earlier at the St. Hubert Royal Canadian. Air Force Base. “This is a very great honor,” he told the Queen as she met him stepping off the presidential plane, , the Columbine 111. Today’s official opening of the seaway was seen and heard by I millions around the world on telet vision and radio.

The President, obviously reflect- I ing the wishes of his Canadian hosts, surprised accompanying ( White House correspon|dentp by ( riding through the crowded streets of St. Hubert and St. Lambert on Montreal’s south shore without a Secret Service agent in his car or at his side. Prince Accompanies Mamie The President and the Queen were in the open rear of the royal limousine driven by a Canadian uniformed driver. A U.S. Secret Service touring car from Washington carried- American, Canadian and British , security agents . and traveled 50 to 100 feet behind the President. Prince Philip, the Queen> husband. accompanied Mrs- ( Eisenhower during the ceremonies.

' of the lines in Decatur and nearby rural lines. Work on repairing the lines and blown fuses, begun as the reports of damage started about 10 p. m., continued through this morning, and would probably last until late this afternoon. Telephone repairmen had been called out to Berne, Thursday noon, as a brief, heavy thunderstorm drenched the town with 1.98 inch of rain in about 20 minutes. Service to four rural lines put out then was restored before evening, when thunderstorms began growling all over the county. Forecast: More of Same The forecast through Sunday is for more of the same weather, humid and warm, with thunderstorms predicted for and evenings. To date, however, the rains have been beneficial for both early and late-planted crops. The early planted crops, well up now, needed the freshening rain while crops planted after May’s rains have resulted in spotty stands,-which may be helped by this rain. Preble township, which so far had had the least rain of any part of the county, received its share, with 3.10 inches fading in the last 24 hours, .40 of it Thursday noon, and 2.70 Thursday night. Up to five inches fell in other parts of Indiana, with a 5.18 inch fall at Huntington, where a factory was closed temporarily this morning because of high water. Chicago received 4.50 inches, Fort Wayne (where forecasters were asking Thursday morning, “What’s Rain Look Like?”) 3.78 inches; Warsaw, 3.68 inches; Bluffton, 3.04 inches; Wabash, .21 inch; Peru, .53 inch, and Indianapolis. .02 inch. The county-wide picture, by .townships, for the past 24 hours, looked like this: In Preble town-

They appeared to >6e having an interesting conversation. z After the President and the' 8 Queen were serenaded with “O Canada,”- ini both French and English by a white-bloused choir, they left in a limousine to board the royal yacht Britannia,'berthed • neffr the ceremonial site. Five thousand persons were seated in the specially built stands in front of the shell-like ceremoial platform at the St. Lambert lock for the formal seaway opening. Another 5,000 were scattered around the nearly mile-long area from the lock to a point 300 yards on the far side of the Britannia. Otfier spectators were scattered throughout die sparsely buil area. The Queen and Eisenhower hailed the seaway as a new wonder of the world and an example of international cooperation. x The waterway is “a magnificent monument to the enduring friendship of our two nations and to their partnership in the development of North America,” Canada’s Queen told the President in a speech- carried throughout the world by radio and into millions of homes by television. “That partnership is most agreeably symbolized, Mr. President, in the fact that you and I have joined together to perform this ceremony.” The President said the seaway, which he described as a 2,300-mile waterway of locks, lakes and man-made channels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, was an example of the way other nations should work together. “But the seaway is far more than a technical and a cofnmer- " cial triumph.” he said in a speech heard by an estimated 50,000 per-

sons by public address system. “It has more significance than could the successful construction of even this notable aid to commerce and communication.” “It is, above all, a magnifient symbol to the entire world of the achievements possible to democratic nations peacefully working together for the common good. “May this example never be forgotten by us. May it never be ignored by others, for in the reasonable resolution of the acute international problems of our time rests the snigle hope for world orosperity and happiness in peace, with justice for all.” “The Queen told Eisenhower “You will always be remembered ■as one of the great miltiary lea<|Oontinued on page five

I ship, 3.1 inches in all fell at the Arthur Koeneman farn). In Root township, Cecil Harvey reports .50 inch fell at noon Thursday, 1.9 inch, bringing the, total there for June to above 4 inches. In Union township, at the Erwin Fuelling farm, one inch fell during the nigt>t. In Kirkland township, at tJieDan Fiechter farm, 2.6 inches was recorded for last night. /tnCWashington township, weather observer Louis Landrum reported this morning, 2.60 inch fell for the past 24 hours, .23 of this Thursday noon. The St. Mary’s a river rose from 1.32 feet Thursday morning to 8.87 feet this morning. In St. Mary’s township, 1.20 inches of rain fell at the Richard Speakman farm. At the Harold Moser farm, in French township, 2.20 inches of rain fell Thursday night ■ 26.90-inch Average So Far In Monroe township, 1.5 inches of rain, along with some hail, fell • Thursday noon, Ben Mazelin reports, while 1.10 inch more fell Thursday night. This 2.60-inch fall brings the June total so far to 4.30 inches, which contrasts with last year’s June total, 12.48 inches. However, the early Febreary rains, when as much as 5.34inches fell in one night, made up for that in the total ,for the year until June, which is 26.90. (The total annual rainfall averages about 34 to 36 inches.) Until June of last year, 9.02 inches had fallen. . Jta Blue Creek township, one meh fell, all Thursday night, at the Austin Merriman farm. 1.75 _ inch of rain fell for the total 24 hours att he Ivan Huser farm in Hartford township, 4.3 of this at noon Thursday. In Wabash township, in eneva, Jack Hurst reports a 1.50 inch total, with one « J inch for Thursday noon.

Six Cents