Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 153.

Compromise Bill On Farm Price Support Passed

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House today passed a compromise bill providing $3,971,362,000 for the farm price support program and other Agriculture Department activities. It contained an amendment putting the first ceiling in history on support benefits. The limit would be $50,000, but this would apply only to single crops declared by the Agriculture Department to be in surplus. The Senate has yet to act on the bill. Other congressional news: GI Housing: President Eisenhower signed into law a bill raising the maximum interest rate on GI housing loans to 4*4 per cent. The increase is expected to stimulate housing sales, which had lagged under the old maximum of 4% per cent. The Veterans Administration was expected to give lenders immediate clearance to charge the new rate. The increase will not apply to existing mortgages. Air Defense: The Senate appeared ready to approve a military construction bill containing the Defense Department's "master plan” for air defense. Some Democrats criticized the plan, but conceded it is a step in the right direction. The new plan is part of a measure authorizing $1,209,971,000 to fill overall military needs. — Interest Rates: The House Ways and Means Committee was expected formally to approve a bill which would allow the President to order increased interest rates on government bonds. The measure was drawn up as a compromise, and was backed by most Democrats because it would give Eisenhower full responsibility for any interest hike. Immigration: Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) said “decency and compassion” demanded that Democrats and Republicans keep their campaign promises to revise immigration laws. Testifying before a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on immigration legislation, Case plugged a bill he cosponsored to admit thousands of refugees as non-qiiota immigrants. 'Gasoline: Some influential House Democrats talked cautiously of the possibility that Congress * might hike gas taxes by %-cent or 1 cents for one year if the Eisenhower administration would agree to use regular Treasury revenue

Power Utility Facing Strike

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The' Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc., Indiana’s largest electrical utility, said today it expects union employes to strike about midnight tonight. Hie company said in a prepared statement it expects to be able to continue service without interruption wih supervisory personnel. Elecrical usage in Indiana is at a peak point during a present heat wave with air conditioning and refrigeration equipment pulling a heavy load of power from the utilities. PSCI said about 1,430 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 1393 are involved in the walkout threat. The membership represents about half the employes of the utility, which serves all or parts of 69 of the state’s 92 counties. The strike threat came, the company said, when the union notified management it has terminated negotiations on a new contract. < A compromise on a new contract was reached after weeks of negotiations on May 13 on all matters except wages, the company said. The company agreed, the statement said, to a four per cent wage scale rate hike as recommended by the union through a federal mediator, which Would have provided An average increase of 12 ceits an hour and additional fringa benefits which would “bring total wages and benefits to an average of $3.20 an hour.” R.A. Gallagher, chairman of the board of the utility, sent letters to * * +

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to finance the faltering interstate superhighway System. Republicans thought the adminisration would go along. 20 Volunteer For Donation Os Blood Twenty persons have offered to donate blood for the heart surgery five-year-old Deborah Sue Seitz is to undergo next week. And enough transportation has been found for the 12 who will go to Indianapolis to donate bldod at the Indiana University medical center. After the appeal for another station wagon went out yesterday afternoon, three persons offered transportation. Those whom the family selects, beginning with close friends and relatives, to go to Indianapolis are now being notified. The operation will be performed Wednesday, July 8, at the medical center, but donors will travel to Indianapolis July 7, to give their donations the afternoon before the operation is performed. These twenty are the prospective donors, the Red Cross announced this morning t Mrs. Glenn Adams, route two, Berne: Elva Blair, Poneto: Jim Brazill, Park Place, Decatur; Max Case, route two, Berne; Mrs. Dale Clouse, Wilshire, O.; Harland Jackson, route 3, Decatur: George Litchfield, 1017 Mercer avenue; Mrs. Gerald Lybarger, route three, Decatur; Wilber Marbaugh, Bud Marbaugh, and Richard Marbaugh, Willshire, O.; Ben Mazelin, route one, Berne; Mrs. Lawrence Rash, 224 North Twelfth street; Miss Carol Sue Seitz, Decatur: Mrs. Lewis Sheets, route five, Decatur; Byfbrd Smith, 285 Park Place; Charles Stonestreet, 513 Jefferson; Vick Strickler, 1310 High street; Mrs. Homer Tschafflien, 421 Madison street; and,Phyllis Whitter,Decatur. The three who have volunteered to provide transportation are Kenneth Hirschy, 321 North Fifth; Lawrence Rash, 224 North Twelfth street, and Paul Stricklef, 503 Limberlost Trail.

- — all union employes informing them the union’s action in terminating negotiations means the company is an open shop. Gallagher said “any employe who desires may remain at work and we urge you ih your own as well as the public’s interests to do so.” The IBEW has’ been collective bargaining ,agent for PSCI employes since 1934 and no strikes have occurred during that 25-year period. “The company has a public service responsibility to fulfill and it intends to continue to provide service for the safety, health and welfare of the people of this state,” Gallagher said. Gallagher said the wage increase and working conditions provisions of the new contract the company agreed on were placed into effect as of today. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with occasional showers and scattered thundershowers locally heavy north half, partly cloudy south half tonight and Wednesday. A little warmer central and north and continued hot extreme south Wednesday. Low tonight around 60 extreme north to low 70s extreme south. High Wednesday 70s or low 80s extreme north to 90s extreme south! Sunset today 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:21 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Cloudy with . showers north, partly cloudy south. Little temperature change. Lows 65 to 72. Highs 80 to 05.

Red Deputy Premier To Confer With Ike

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov arrives here late today for /talks with President Eisenhower , and other high U.S. officials that . may show whether Russia is ready to crack the Big Four deadlock over Berlin. ' Administration officials would ’ like to think that Kozlov is bear- • ing some Russian “concession” ■ that would pave the way for a • Berlin solution. But their morg sober assessi ment is that his trip is designed ■ primarily to "sell” the Soviet Un.jion as an ardent advocate of .'peace, try to foster Russian- . American trade and pump for a summit meeting whether or not the foreign ministers reach any agreement at Geneva. The foreign ministers confer- ■ ence resumes July 13 after a ’ three-week "cooling off” recess • called after 41 days of deadlocked negotiations. Kozlov, the 51-year-old engineer ■ who runs the day-to-day machint ery of the Soviet government, has been mentioned as a possible successor to Premier Nikita Khrush- . chev. Vice President Richard M. Nixon will head an official delega- ’ tion to welcome Kozlov and his party when they arrive late’ this afternoon at the Military Air Ter- • minal aboard a commercial airl 12-13. * Unofficial Total Os L Donations $252.52 The Adams county v Multiple Sclerosis society netted $73.07 from the “hope chest” canister fund drive, according to an unofficial report from Mrs. Vernon Hurst, 1 county president. Combined with ’ the sales from the "balloon" drive, the unofficial total is $252.52. i The amount of sales in Decatur 1 led the three-city total, as local residents donated $34.33 in the canisters and Berne followed with $21.67. Geneva added $7.31 for the total of $73.07. Balloon sales were $179.45. Mrs. Hurst said today that the amount would be sent to state campaign headquarters in Indianapolis for the official count. She also added that persons wishing to contribute to the drive may still do so by contacting her for envelopes and enlightening literature on MS. The fund drive has been extended in many counties with Adams being one of them. The original drive started on Mother’s day and was to have ended on Father’s day. The addition will allow local residents to contribute until July 15. I / Record Collections Os Grosslncome Tax INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Former Revenue Commissioner Edwin W. Beaman said today that Indiana will end the 1958-59 fiscal year tonight with a record gross income tax collection of more than 177 million dollars. » Beaman, now Governor Handley’s administrative assistant, said the final figure would be released Wednesday. - He said they are expected to ran more than six million dollars higher than the previous record of about 171 million collected in the 1957-58 fiscal year. Beaman said net tax receipts will be lowered by estimated two million dollars because of refunds t ©taxpayers. He credited the payroll withholding system for the increase in revenue. The 1957 Legislature raised the gross tax 50 per cent. Collections in the fiscal year before the increase were 127 million dollars.

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liner from Philadelphia. Kozlov today is visiting Camden, N.J., to inspect the atomicpowered ship construction site at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. The President will hold a White House meeting with the Russian late Wednesday morning immediately after Kozlov confers with secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Kozlov will lunch with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then meet with Nixon in the afternoon, followed by an evening reception given by Nixon at the President’s guest house. # Thursday’s schedule for the visiting Russian and his party of about 25 includes a visit to an Agriculture Department experimental I 'station and a speech at a press luncheon. He also has scheduled a sightseeing tour of Washington and a reception at the Soviet Embassy. Kozlov leaves Washington early Friday for Sacramento to continue his two-week tour of the United States. The State Department listed the following dates for Kozlov's visit . in other American cities; Sacra- . mento, July 3; San Francisco i area, July 3-6; Detroit area, July i 6-8; Chicago area, July MO; . Pittsburgh area, July 10-12, in-, . eluding visit to Shippingport on July 11; New York City July Fire Department Answers Two Calls The Decatur fire department answered two calls, one late last night and one early this morning, involving a tree at the hospital, and a mattress and inner spring ' at the Eller residence. No one was injured in either fire. The firemen answered-the first call at 9:15 Monday at the south- ' west corner of the Adams county memorial hospital to extinguish a fire in an- old elm tree. The origin of the fire; was not determined. The early call this morning, at 5:35 o’clock, was the Eller residence at 1210 N. 12th street, where a mattress and inner spring were destroyed by a blaze of undetermined origin. The estimated damage to both articles Was listed at SSO. / /

16 Are Dead In Okinawa Crash

NAHA, Okinawa (UPI) — A flaming U. S. Air Force jet fighter plane, abandoned by its pilot, bounced off an Okinawa schoolhouse and crashed into a crowded housing area today with heavy loss of life. ', U. authorities here said their latest figures listed 16 dead and 75 injured. Okinawan police also said there 'were 16 dead, but said , the injured totaled about 100, with 86 persons hospitalized. No Americans were reported among the victims, all of whom were Okinawans. Okinawan police and newspapers said the dead included at least six school children. Most of the'dead were in the housing area located in the city of Ishikawa, about 25 miles from Naha, and officials were having a tough time identifying the bodies. Four children, two with skull fractures and two with serious, burns, were reported among the injured. ' Officials on this former Japanese island set up tents and other shelters near the resort city of Ishikawa, about 25 miles from the capital of Naha, to shelter the homelesS. Police said 150 persons were without homes. • There was some confusion on the number of persons in the jet, an FIOO Super Sabre. First reports said there was only the pilot, Capt. John G. Schmitt, Chalmers, Ind., who parachuted to safety.

Continue Probe Os Fatal Mishap Here Local police authorities are still working gathering data on the Saturday morning automobile mishap in which two Ohio children were killed in Decatur when the car driven by Lester Cable, 33, of Dayton, 0., slammed into the rear of a semi-trailer stopped at the Erie railroad crossing on 13th > street. Prosecutor Severin H. Schurger' said this morning that he and county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., are’-still waiting for the results of a blood’sample taken of Cable to be returned from the Indianapolis laboratory. Cable is being held without bond I at the county jail on a coroner’s writ for reckless homicide. The eldest Cable stepdaughter, Janice Lewis, 13, of Dayton, is still at Adams county memorial hospital since the tragic accident on Saturday. She was admitted for treatment of severe facial lacerations. The two other children were I released Saturday after treatment for minor lacerations and bruises. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday for Shellia Marie Cable, 13, of Cincinnati, at the Worst-Shank funeral home in Dayton. The services for the boy, 1 Harold Lewis, 10, of Dayton, were conducted today at the Putnam funeral home in Coldwater, Mich. Decatur Lions Hold Final Summer Meet The Decatur Lions club held its final meeting of the current season Monday evening. It has been the custom of the club for several years to discontinue meetings during July and August. The first meeting this fall will be on Monday following Labor Day. Retiring president, Glenn Hill, - thanked the members for their cooperation duirng the past year J and presented the gavel to presi-l . dent elect Roger Gentis. Gentis! outlined briefly his plains for the i ’club for the coming year and will i announce his committee appoint- - ments prior to the first fall meeting. ’ ' International counselor Roy L. Price presented the president’s pin t to Gentis with best wishes for the t continued success of/The Decatur club. The Lions Boy Scout troop , surprised the club by appearing j in full scout uniform and singing > three numbers for the group. George Noble, member of the : Petroleum club, spoke briefly with- regard to a fund raising pro-’ ject which will be considered later by the board of directors. //Scout Alan Kreischer led the group in the pledge of allegiance and L. A. Anspaugh and Jack ’ Gordon direcetd the singing. , H. H. Krueckeberg and T. I. ; Drew were appointed to the audit- . ing coryimittee to check the rec- ■ ords of the retiring officers.

The Air Force first said a trainee was with him but later said only Schmitt was aboard. A U.S. Air Force announcement said Schmitt’s aircraft developed engine trouble shortly after takeoff on a routine training mission. He first attempted to return to its base, Kadena Air Field near Naha, for an emergency landing. But Schmitt found the plane difficult to control and then realized it was on fire. He directed the plane toward an unpopulated area west of Ishikawa when an explosion occurred, filling his cockpit with smoke and flames, the Air Force said. He then ejected himself from the damaged craft. The plane struck the heavily populated area, expioaing with such force many houses went up in flames immediately. Most of the victims were burned so badly authorities had difficulty identifying the bodies. The crash was expected to have major political repercussions, and Lt. Gen. Robert W. Burns, commander of the U. S. sth Air Force, flew here from Tokyo to make a personal investigation. Socialist and other left wing groups in the, Ryukyu Islands and in Japan have campaigned to force withdrawal of .the U. S. Air Force on grounds frequent accidents endangered the lives of Japanese and Okinawans.

B Scientists < Visit Central Soya's Plant In an industrial-educational interchange of ideas, methods, and /ojher pertinent information about yurrent trends in agricultural research and commercial application, the Central Soya Co. hosted 13 visiting agricultural scientists from the University of Georgia at the local plant Monday. Following company policy of keeping educational sources up to date on the latest industrial innovations and at the same time al-> lowing the professional educators the opportunity to express the nature of their advances in agricultural research. Central Soya officials led the Georgia group on a tour df the local plant after a I luncheon at the Fairway restatttant. ' Dr. W. W. Cravens, of the research department, presided at the luncheon, while Watson Maddox, associate sales director, led. the plant tour. Dr. Robert S. Wheeler, director of instruction at the Athens, Ga., school and group leader, explained the various agricultural advances the school has produced in recent months. He cited the study of animal food flavoring which proved that productivity is not substantially increased through this method. Commercial firms had been adding anise oil, licorice and other addatives in an effort to increase the palatibility of animal food. Dr. Wheeler added that research at the school has shown that a “ton of beef can be raised on an acre of land.” Through a pelleting process of forage, the amount of forage necessary to raise one ton of beef has been cut from 15 pounds to seven pounds, resulting in a tremendous reduction in food costs for the beef cattle raiser. On a theoretical standpoint, only 500-600 pounds of beef could be raised on an acre of forage. I He also told of similar research J into the poultry and swine fields ‘ where through research a drastic 1 reduction in feed can still produce ■ more chickens, more eggs, and • more pork and ham. The methods of feeding are responsible for the gams in this area. The poultry disease laboratory at the university, Dr. Wheeler said, is the only one in the country which is used strictly for studying the various afflictions encountered by poultry men. He told how a 3pound chicken can be raised in IVz--8 weeks, which by comparison to present day time! tables, is quite a phenomenal feat. He also told of the study done on genetics, nutrition, and the problems that arise from research on swine, poultry and other animals. He cited the fact that the early weaning of a pig will result in a better quality pig. On the pelleting process of animal food, he noted how the vitamin “A”® content was enhanced. By feeding the animal a powdered form, as was the practice in the past, the enrichment of the food quality was not greatly increased. The group dined at the Van Orman hotel in Fort Wayne Mohday evening and viewed a movie on Central Soya methods. Ap open discussion followed. The visitors flew back to Athens today, arriving home about noon. In the group, besides Dr. Wheeler, were: Dr. E. Browne, director of the agricultural experimental station; Dr. Thomas J. Jones, di-1 rector of the school of veterinary medicine; W. O. Page, farm manager of the poultry department; Dr. R. C. Smittle, head of the poultry disease research; Arthur Gannon, chief of the poultry extension ; Dr. Hardy Edwards, poultry nutrition; Dr. E. R. Beaiy, school of agricultufe; Dr. J. W. Lassiter, animal nutrition: Dr. A. E. Cullison, beef cattle nutrition: H. B. Henderson, head of dairy; Dr. W. J. Milter, dairy nutrition, and Dr. A. F. Sewell, swine nutrition. Library Announces Summer Schedule The library will begin its summer schedule Wednesday. The library will open at 12 noon and close at 8:30 p.m. Monday and Saturday, and will open at 12 noon and close at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Because the library will be closed all day Saturday, July 4, it will be open until 8:30 p.m. Friday for persons wishing books to read over the holiday weekend. BULLETIN COVINGTON, La. (UPD— Mrs. Earl K. Long charged today in counter action to her governor-husband's .separation suit that he tried to her in a rage May 28. *

Thundershowers Break Hot Spell Temporarily

Skies cleared off this morning after scattered thundershowers lowered the temperatures and left Adams county with an average .76 inch of rain late Monday. Temporarily cooler weather was in the forecast for the area, which had sweltered in 90-degree temperatures over the weekend. Wind and electrical storms acompanied the cooling rain in parts of the county, and left some 25 individual telephones put of order south and west of Decatur. The Citizens Telephone company called in an extra trouble shooter for the Decatur arae, Dick Des-.. Jean reported this morning. The telephone service would probably be all restored by late this afternoon, he said. Damage this time to communications and power lines was not as extensive as it was in last Thursday's storms, for the city light and power warehouse reported only a small number of outages, which were repaired within an hour or sq after they were reported. The telephone company is just finishing work on temporary repairs made after last week’s stotffti. Mon Rain in North The most rain in the county fell in the northern area, with 1.40 ' inches at the Cecil Harvey farm in Union township. The least rain fell in Wabash township, in Geneva, where Jack Hurst reported .10 fell about 5:30 p. m. Monday and later on in the evening. Other areas reported mild storm activity compared to the rain last week. In Root township, the wind was high enough to tear down limbs of trees. Little damage was reported to crops, as the wheat is getting ripe enough so that it could stand higher wind. Some small patches of ripening oats were flat this morning in Kirkland ’ township. Wheat harvesting has . already begun in the county. The • Mazelins were combining wheat 1 on the Ed Neuhauser farm in Mpnroe township. The moisture 1 was still 14.4, and the test weight s — c ■; Contract Is Signed s On Testing Program r r ers met in county auditor Ed Ja- , berg's office Monday morning, en- : tering into contract with the state livestock sanitation board for brucello»is and tuberculosis testing, ( besides handling other routine ( business. The livestock contract calls top a budget sum of $3,124 to be paid ' the state board for the two-part ' testing program. In 1960, Roof and 1 Hartford townships will benefit from the' program. This year, ‘ Preble and Jefferson townships • were covered by the bovine eradication plan. Os the total, $2,624 will be allot- ' ted in the budget for the TB phase of the program, while the remain- ' ing SSOO will go for the brucellosis i phase. The program is a six-year continuum, calling for each county to be tested every six years, the ’ normal time throughout the state. An estimated 4,129 cattle will come under the control of the 1960 project with various" categories ; contained in the overall number. The commissioners also approved the city of Berne’s request for equipment and men to operate the equipment in building a new road I for a prospective new business. James Liechty represented the city and advanced the city’s reasons for the.road. Decatur is gaining a similar benefit from the county on a road for a proposed new industry. Berne will furnish all materials for the road, while the county merely supplies the equipment and. equipment operators. The commissioners also hired | two men to do minor repairs oni the courthouse and wash the win-! dows.

nrww BETTER TEMPER — Steel negotiations are underway in better temper in New York as R. Conrad Cooper (left), U. S. Steel executive vice president, and United Steelworkers President David McDonald shake hands across the table. The reportedly calm situation follows President Eisenhower’s plea. t’ - ' ... if - . ■_ »■ /

61. The yield for this stand of Knox wheat is expected to be about 40 bushels per acre. In Preble township, at the Arthur Koeneman farm, an inch fell. Cecil Harvey reported 1.10 inches for a shower between 5 and 5:30 p. m. Monday afternoon, while an additional .30 inch fell during the night. Rainfalls of one inch were recorded both in Union township, at the Erwin Fuelling farm, and in Kirkland township at the Peter J. Spangler farm. St. Mary’s Up One Foot In Decatur, the St. Mary’s river rose from 3.65 feet Monday morning to 4.72 feet this morning at 8 o’clock. The total rainfall was 1.03, weather observer Louis Landrum reported this morning. Approximately .59 inch of this fell in a hard 15-minute shower that began about 5:15 p, m. Monday. In St. Mary's toWnship, .70 inch was recorded at the Richard Speakman rain gauge. In French, township, the Harold Moser farm, reported the third highest reading in the county, with 1.20 inch. The rainfall appeared to slacken off sharply in Monroe township. Ben Mazelin reported a .20 inch rainfall for the Monday rains, adding that the rainfall was heavier about a mite and a half north of the Mazelin farm. On road 124, in northern Monroe township, Chester Habegger reported a 1.3 inch recording of rainfall. In Blue Creek township, al similar recording wgs made. Austin Merriman reported that .50 inch fell about 5:30 p. m. Mondays while more rain was reported north of his gauge. The county’s three southernmost townships, reported an average ,20-inch rainfall, on thfe edge of the heaviest area of showers. In Hartford township, at the Ivan Huser farm, .30 inch was record- . ed. In Geneva, Jack Hurst rei ported the ,10-inch fall, and Hars ley J. Reef reported .20 inch of t rain for Jefferson township NO PAPER SATURDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Saturday, July 4, because of the Independence Day holiday. To afford employes a longer weekend, the Democrat plans to publish at 12 noon Friday. Rural church announcements will be printed in Thursday’s edition, and city church announcements in the Friday noon edition. Resume Production At Dunbar Factory Production resumed Monday morning at the Dunbar furniture company, Berne, after a nearly six-week long strike. The return to work was assured Friday night when the members of U. I. U. Local 222 an agreement made by the Dunbar corporation and the union. Production and maintenance employes returned to their jobs at 7 a.m. Monday. The plant will not be ’ shut down for vacation this summer, because of the lengthy strike, officials of the Dunbar firm announced. However, employes who had made vacation plans will be permitted to take time off, and the employes will receive their usual vacation pay. The new contract is a three-year one» which includes a wage increase of 18 cents for hourly workers and 12 cents per hour for piece workers. The increase is retroactive to May 1 of this year. Also in the agreement is agency shop, sim(ilar to union shop. Workers who do not so desire do not have to beI long to the union, but have to pay i their part in expenses incurred in [ bargaining sessions with management.

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