Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 159.

Special Session Threat Raised By Pres. Eisenhower

Rezoning Approved For Bowling Alley

After three months of submitting, revising, and revamping, the Mies-1 Dawson Realty Co., Inc., saw its rezoning petition approved into ordinance Tuesday night at the city council meeting. The council unanimously agreed to allow the 3.7 acres north of U.S. 224, next to the Decatur Golf club, to become .general commercial from residential. Mies-Dawson plans to construct a $300,000, ultramodern, 16-lane bowling emporium and parking facilities oh the site. The new ordinance, passed after the rules were suspended allowing the three readings, calls for the 330-foot by 500-foot area to be named Villi Terrace addition with the 60-foot street included in the plat to be named Tyndall avenue. The plat was also approved last night by the board of works and safety and the resolution adopted by the council. The remonstrators attempted to stall proceedings on a vote, by asking that the ordinance not be read past a first reading. The objectors said they needed time to obtain counsel for die three-month-old argument. In other business last night, the council referred three light requests to the city light and power deparment. Mrs. Melvin L. Baumgartner, 216 N. Fourth street, Robert E. Durbin. 733% High street, and Robert E. §mith, route 3, Decatur, filed the requests. Complaints Filed A complaint was filed against the Decatur Canning Co., stating that smoke and soot from its chimneys during the canning season' creates a health hazard to residents in the vicinity of the factory. The complaint, signed by several home-owners in the area, was referred to the board of health by the council. _r The George Hawkins sewer project was referred to the street and " sewer committee as was a complaint by 26 property owners on North Third street. The 60-year-old sewer in that area has broken down four times in the last eight years, dumping sewage in many basements in thft neighborhood. ] The city engineer, Ralph Roop, said that he would take action on the complaint as soon as current : work projects are off the drawing board. The home owners promised complete cooperation with Roop on 1 resolving the problem. Two Sewers Approved The council also approved a $31,697 sewer for the Monroe and 12th street area, which was submitted by Roop after the street and sewer |:

Democrat-Erie Tour To New York

Try a steamer trip up the Hudson to West Point, and travel through downtown New York to see the Empire State Building and the United Nations for a weekend vacation this summer! August 7-10 will be the third Erie railroad-Decatur Daily Democrat bargain weekend vacation tour to New York City, which otters just such sightseeing to area residents. This year, the itinerary includes a visit Saturday to the U. S. Military Academy, up the Hudson river, before the tour visits New York City, Saturday evening and Sunday. The cost for the weekend trip is 152,25 tor adults and *35.25 for children between five and 12 years of age. The tour will leave the Erie railroad station on the dieselpowered “Lake Cities” shortly after noon Friday, August 7. After arriving at the Hoboken Erie railroad station Saturday morning, and checking into the Hotel Governor Clinton, jn mid-town Manhattan, the vacationers will begin a 100-mile tour, up the Hudson River, which will end at the West Point pier, where they will beein a one and one-half hour tour at the U. S. Military Academy. Saturday Evening Open The weekend tourists will return to New York in the after-

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I commitee asked that he draw up specificaions for the project. Also approved was a sewer for the G.E. plant, allowing sewage to enter the new northwest sewer. The cost of his sewer will be $14,000. Plans for the new N. 12th street sewer were also adopted last night with bids to be received July 27 for construction. The council adopted this matter in the form of a resoluion. A legal notice will appear in he Daily Democrat, explaining the procedure for the sealed bids. Prizes Awarded At Old Fashioned Day Mrs. Eva Bayles and Miss Jane Raudenbush were selected as the best dressed employes in a search conducted yesterday in conjunction with old fashioned days. The judges stated that they were looking for employes most completely dressed in an old fashioned costume and the two selected were old fashioned from head to toe. Miss Raudenbush appeared in a white eyelet embroidered dress dating back 70 years. She wore a black frilly hat with a black lace shawl around her shoulders. To complement her black satin shoe's, she wore long black silk stockings. Beneath her full skirt, pantaloon ruffles peeped out. Miss Raudenbush is employed by the Sears store. A Gerber employe, Mrs. Bayles was also attired in black and white. Her black full skirt came to the ground, and she wore a white blouse, carried a matching bag and wore an appropriate hat. Her shoes and stockings also matched the fashions of yesteryear. Mrs. William H. Kohne and Mrs. John Arnold, in the form of Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma, were awarded the prize for the best dressed shoppers. Mrs. Kohne will be listed as official winner as only one person was to be selected. The three-winners received five dollar prizes. In a contest conducted by the Sears and Roebuck company to find the oldest catalog, Mrs. Mary Jane Runyon was declared the winner with a catalog dating back to 1899.

noon, and will have the evening open, giving them an opportunity to see what individual things they would like to see in the big city. There will be free exhibits by the Curtis-Wright company in the RCA building, and by the U. S. Rubber company in Rockefeller center. And then there are Coney Island, the Roxy Theater, guided tours of the NBC radio and TV studios, the Hayden Planetarium, the Cloisters, a replica of a medieval monastery, or the Broadway theatrical productions on the "Great White Way.” Sunday morning, the tourists wilTbe able to attend the churches of their choice, as many are in toe vicinity ot the hotel. In the afternoon, there will be a sightseing tour of downtown New York. Among toe things to be seen are toe familiar landmarks one always hears about but perhaps has never seen: Times Square, the Metropolitan Opera House, Greenwich Village, Washington square, Macy’s, the Brooklyn bridge, Chinatown, Wall Street, and the United Nations. The weekend in magical Manhattan will close Sunday evening, when toe “Lake Cities” leaves Hoboken station. The passengers will return to Decatur shortly after noon Monday, August 10.

WASHINGTON (UPI)' — President Eisenhower today raised the threat of a special session of Congress as a last resort if the legislators should make what he regarded as disastrous cuts in his foreign aid program. He suggested this possibility as one of the alternatives open to him. He did so ih reply to a question at his news conference about Tuesday’s Senate cuts in the foreign aid bill, t The questioner pointed out that the President had spoken of disastrous results if Congress chopped the foreign aid program. Eisenhower recalled that he had described his recommendation for $1,600,000,000 in military aid as a minimum and that his commission studying the foreign aid program had urged an additional 400 million dollars for this purpose. The Senate voted Tuesday to cut 383 million dollars from his recommendation. Eisenhower said he could use all his persuasive power in an effort to get congressional approval of his recommendation. Secondly, he said, if the follow-up foreig aid appropriation bill should be cut too deeply he could ask for a deficiency appropriation nxet year. The final alternative he mentioned was a special session of Congress. 1 He said he never would stop fighting for this nation’s security. He personally believed that the senators voting for foreign aid cuts were not taking into account the tremendous U.S. responsibility to protect its own interest. Already trimmed $621,590,000 below recommendations of the Senate Foreign Relations ’Committee, the-controversial military and economic assistance measure faced still more assaults. Leaders hoped for a final vote by nightfall. A 12% hour session Tuesday saw the Senate inflict severe cuts. It also wrote in a privision to put military aid on a permanent basis as part of the Defense Department budget and thus femove it from the jurisdiction of congressional foreign policy committees. When the Senate resumed deliberations today, the $4,164,820,000 bill orginally recommended by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had been cut to $3,543,320,000.\ President Eisenhower orginally asked an authorization of $3,930,000.000. The House voted $3,542,000,000. Fund Directors To Meet This Evening The directors of the 1959 Community Fund in Decatur will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the offices of the Leland Smith Insurance agency. All members of the board are urged to attend.

Air-Conditioned Coaches For the tour, an unusual opportunity to see New York accompanied by a tour conductor at a reasonable cost, there will be travel in air-conditioned coaches, with pillow service both ways. The cost includes round-trip railroad coach fare, the pillow service, continental breakfast in diner on toe trip out, tip included; transfer of passengers by motor coach from Hoboken through Lincoln Tunnel to toe Day Line pier foot and the hand baggage to be delivered to the hotel; room with bath (on a two-in-a-room basis) in hotel two days and one night, including bell boy tip for handling luggage in and out of hotel; toe 100-mile tour to West Point; and lectured motor coach sightseeing trip of downtown New York with stop for a visit at toe Empire State building and toe United Nations headquarters and motor coach transfer from hotel to the Erie railroad station; pillow service on return trip, and continental breaklast in diner on return trio. There is toe usual *lO deposit for reservations, to be paid on or after July 24 but not later than August 3. Those who want more information should contact toe Decatur Daily Democrat office.

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Ike Scores Statements ! i By Khrushchev WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presit dent Eisenhower today in effect ■ accused Soviet Premier Nikita ’ Khrushchev of making irresponsible statements on possible war I over Berlin. The President made his com--1 ment on Khrushchev's recent re- • mark to former New York Gov. ’ Averell Harriman that if the West • wants a fight over divided Brlin “you can have it." : Questioned at his news confer- ■ ence about the remark, Eisenhower said he did not think that ! responsible people should indulge • in anything that remotely re--1 sembles ultimatums or threats. Eisenhower said any tough face- ■ to-face negotiations between him ’ and Khrushchev would raise difficult problems. He said they might '■ be misunderstood by the Allies of the United States with whom the ; American government tried to I work closely in the interest of 1 security and world peace. i The President was commenting on Khrushchev’s statement to i- seven visiting American gover- . nors that a visit by him to the ; United States or by Eisenhower to Russia, would be “beneficial.” Eisenhower said that if Khrush- . chev just wanted to come for one . of the routine ceremonial or social visits by a head of state, ’ then the only important question [ would be what kind of reception I the Russian leader could expect. However, the President said, if r Khrushchev is talking about tough negotiations, then the advisability ’ of such a meeting would have to . be seriously studied. ’ The President said he would 1 never rule out the possibility of ! a negotiating meeting with Khrushchev but that the tough problems involved would require ’ coordination with U.S. Allies. • On other problems of international interest, the President said: —■Die United States is ready, when the Geneva foreign minisiters’ meeting resumes Monday, to discuss anything in an effort to • find a Berlin solution.

Segregation Is Morally Wrong

WASHINGTON (I) Pl) — Pres ident Eisenhower said today he believes racial segregation is morally wrong when it interferes with equality of opportunity. He explained he was referring to equality of opportunity in affairs controlled by government ■ and in the economic and political • fields. , *- i This was the President’s first . flat statement of his personal feelings on segregation. It was made at a news conference attended by 190 reporters. Heretofore in the field of civil ' rights, the President has more or 1 less confined himself to statements that it is his duty to sup- ' port enforcement of the law as • interpreted by the U.S. Supreme ■ Court. He has steadfastly refused > in toe past to express an opinion i ton the principles considered by i the court, especially in school integration cases. Stick to Berlin Position ’ Other highlights of the Presi- : dent’s news conference: 1 —He expressed hope that steel > wage negotiations would not lead ) to a strike, but that labor and > management would continue negol tiating until they reach an agree- • ment. >| —He mentioned a special ses- . sion of Congress as a possibility should toe House and Senate fail to provide sufficient funds tor sot--1 eign aid, particularly military assistance which the Senate pared E doWn Tuesday. ‘ —He saw no reason why a ) Roman Catholic should not be J elected to high national office. As s for himself, his own vote would never be influenced by the

BULLETIN Bert Mihm, 65, of Ohio City, O„ was killed almost instantly about 1:30 o’clock this afternoon two and one-half miles north of Berne on U. S. 27. Mihm had gotten out of a truck loaded with lumber to tighten ropes as the lumber was shifting, and he was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Frances Wilson, of Portland. Death Car Driver Faces Court Today. The arraignment of Lester Cable, the driver of the car which crashed into the rear of a semitrailer here June 27, killing his stepson and daughter, was scheduled in Adams circuit court this afternoon. Pauper attorney Robert S. Artderson pleaded the Cable defense while county prosecutor Severin H. Schurger prepared the brief for the state. Judge Pro Tern Hubert R. MeClenahan heard the evidence of both sides. The charge of reckless homicide was entered by the state after county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., fileck his final report, showing indications that Cable was guilty of drunk driving at the time of the accident. The prosecutor then entered the charge in the death of Cable’s stepson, Harold Lewis, 10, of Dayton. Under law, the court has three alternatives in the case. Besides fines up to SI,OOO, the defendant can be sentenced from 1 to 5 years in the state penitentiary; can be given a lesser sentence to the county jail or work farm, or released. Cals?. however, can request a trial as part of his defense under constitutional rights. Report Gov. Long's Condition Is Worse BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) — Reports circulated in the Louisiana governor’s mansion today that Gov. Earl K. Long’s physical condition is worse. Dr. William Cook, who treated Long after a heart seizure in 1950, called on the governor Tuesday but declined to comment on his condition. Dr. Robert Heath said there had been no “drastic” change in his condition. But state legislative leaders who called on the 63-year-old governor indicated his health has deteriorated. The governor's office, at Long’s okay, agreed, at request of newsmen to issue twice daily medical bulletins beginning today. House Speaker Robert Angelle said Tuesday Long “is a very ill man.”

reitgion of a candidate: As to whether a Catholic could be elected, Eisenhower had no opinion. —He said the United States will go back into toe Geneva foreign ministers’ conference next week sticking to its position that West Berlin must be kept free. He questioned toe wisdom of having any separate meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev while toe United States is attempting to find toe road to world peace in close coordination with her Western Allies. To Meet De Gaulle —He said he felt he was not using his veto power at all lightly. He maintained vehemently that, because he will be finished with political life when he leaves toe White House in January, 1961, he is approaching legislation sent to him by Congress with no thought of political gain. —He said he planned to confer personally with French President Charles de Gaulle at what he termed the first opportunity to discuss points of difference between France and toe United States, particularly involving De Gaulle's refusal to permit NATO atomic weapons on French soil. Eisenhower, however, did not know where or when such a visit would take place. —ln response to a hypothetical question, he said Vice President Richard M. Nixon would have toe authority to order toe release ot nuclear bombs for combat use if he, the President, was forced by an emergency (obviously such as an incapacitating illness) to step out of his post temporarily.

Kentucky U. Professors At Central Soya Keeping its commercial research finger on the educational pulse of the country, the Central Soya Co. entertained its fifth group in a series of eight planned for this summer, when 11 agricultural scientists from the University of Kentucky arrived Tuesday for a luncheon at the Fairway restaurant and a tour of the Decatur plant. The company will host a similar group from the University of Mississipi on Thursday with two other groups being slated for later in the month. W, W. Cravens, of the company’s research division, presided at the luncheon, while Watson Maddox, associate in sales training, lectured on the plant tour. Dr. W. P. Garrigus; director of animal research at the Lexington, Ky., school, explained the pleasing results of tranquilizers on animal growth, especially steers. Dr. Garrigus and Dr. Nell Bradley, head of the beef cattle research, told how the use of stevestirol and antibiotics in grass forage had increased the yield of beef production since they started the study. The tranquilizers relieve stresses in the animal, making it more amenable to feeding conditions, thus permitting more growth than the animal which is not being fed tranquilizer addatives. He pointed out that during the summer, when the heat is most oppressive to cows, the use of the compounds has alleviated the stress that is found in most other cows. Dr. Garrigus said that the results, while certainly impressive, were ‘ not wholly conclusive. ■*- . He also noted the large per- ' centage of U. K. undergraduates ; who continue into graduate , school. While no specific number was available, he cited the fact ( that at least 20 land grant schools i have Kentucky men on their i staffs. The most certified meat Hampshire sires in the country are located at "U. K., Dr." Garrigus ad- ’ ded, “and they are led by Automation, who is the champion of his class.” He smilingly confided that the bull’s name could not have been more appropriate. The five sires are also joined in the short horn class by “Ringwell , Lodestar,” the international grand champion of 1954. This bull is named for the famous Texas oil strike of a few years back. On Coldstream, a state-owned 11,000-acre farm in the picturesque Kentucky hills, and on Spindeltop, another farm also named for a famous Texas oil strike, the researchers devote most of their experimental efforts. Being the horse center of the U. S. and possibly the world, Dr. Garrigus noted that the research done on diseases and parasitic and hereditary defects is perhaps the most diversified in the world. He said that the anpual field day would be conducted at Coldstream next Wednesday with all guests being transported on rub-ber-tired carts. t/tneFs wiiO Hvvciiuea tftC tray* long meet were: Prof. John Robertson, swine research: Dr. R. B. Grainger, animal nutrition; Dr. C. E. Barnhart, head of swine research: Prof. George Pendergrass, beef cattle extension specialist; Dr. C. Frank Buck, animal husbandry: Dr. Milton Shuffet, agricultural economist; Prof. Dan Dowden, dairy research; Dr. Doti Jacobson, dairy research; Prof. C. E. Harris, poultry specialist, and Drs. Bradley and Garrigus. Heavy Fire Loss At Auburn Supermarket AUBURN. Ind. (UPI) — Fire swept an Indiana state legislator’s supermarket on the DeKalb County Courthouse square today and caused a loss of about 8120,000. The Leas Supermarket, owned bv State Rep. Lyle Leas, was burned out and two neighboring stores were damaged bv smoke and water. Firemen saved a big cluster of buildings nearby from going up in smoke. T eas estimated W« loss in stork and equipment at 875.000 to SBO- - The rest of the loss was to the three-story building. also owns stores in Garrett and Angola. The Culbertson Hardware Store on one side of the market was datpaeed bv fire and smoke. A Western Auto store on the other side sustained smoke damage. -*■ —ji-'-rg- r- -~-s—*ev'a-.-' , '=i=s=s==Maa

Union Leader Gives Warning

NEW YORK (UPl)—The Eisen--hower administration appeared today to hold the answer as to whether there will be a nationwide steel strike next Tuesday midnight. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America, in effect dumped the deadlocked steel wage dispute into the administration's lap when he warned Tuesday the union would not agree to another strike truce. McDonald told Vice President Richard Nixon in Pittsburgh that the wage talks were getting “absolutely nowhere.” He said there would be no extension of the present contracts beyond the midnight July 14 deadline "unless I see the possibility of a new labor contract.” McDonald's statement was seen as a warning that 500,000 union workers in the basic steel industry would walk out next Tuesday midnight unless the White House persuaded the industry to offer a wage increase. The two-week truce beyond the original midnight June 30 deadline was arranged as a result of President Eisenhower’s intervention June 27. Nixon, in Pittsburgh for the AllStar baseball game, also met with Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute. The vice president said he would report both conversations to President Eisenhower. Further negotiations in the talks aimed at agreeing on a new contract were scheduled here today. A non-inflationary of the steel dispute without a strike “continues to be probable" the magazine Iron Age said The metal-working weekly said the odds are 7 to 4 that both sides will bow to the President’s wishes on an agreement tha would no se off a steel price like that could bring another round of inflation. Industry and union negotiators are keeping a delicate balaoce that suggests “a meeting of minds soon that would result in an agreement which would be less than either wanted but just aboit the White House would like to see,” the magazine said. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warm this afternoon. Partly cloudy and windy tonight with scattered thundershowers likely northwest portion late tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, windy and warm with scattered thundershowers spreading across most of state. Turning cooler north Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 64 to 70. High Thursday 84 to 90 north, 88 to 94 south. Sunset today 8:15 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:25 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Mostly fair and cool. Low Thursday night Ipw 60s. High Friday near 80.

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File Petition For Election On Plant Sale The city council received aperequesting a special or general election concerning the proposed sale of the city-owned electric utility and franchise to I&M, Tuesday night in an unusually busy meeting. The petition bad 155 signees, but will not be regarded as valid until auditor Ed Jaberg verifies the status of the signees. Verification is necessary because at least 100 of the petitioners must be freeholders and resident taxpayers of Decatur. In the p r o p o s e d contractual agreement with I&M, city officiate allowed a clause in the document, calling for the honoring of just such a petition. _ Preceding action on the utility sale to I&M includes a special election, conducted on April 14, when by a vote of 1,500 to 1,227, the voters of the city rejected the offer of $2,102,300 for the plant and franchise. The resulting furor, raised by« outraged rural users and commercial consumers of city power, paved the way for the citizens to voice an objection to the election results. A petition, bearing 2.269 signatures of registered voters, (constituting a majority of the city’s registered voters) was submitted to the council, asking that efforts be extended to bring about a new and different sale of the plant and franchise. ■> City authorities contacted I&M and the offer of $3,200 less than the original resulted. The offer of $2,099,100, however, did not include the purchase of a fleet of six, cityowned trucks. City officials declined to comment on what action would be taken about initiating the mechanics of ♦ new etectron until the county auditor complees his check of the petition. Rotarians To Host Sons Or Daughters , Decatur Rotarians will entertain their sons or daughters at a special program at the club’s weekly dinner meeting Thursday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Youth and Community Center. Everett Widemyer, of. Warren, who has the unusual hobby of raising beats, will present the program. He wHI bring one of his top performers, a bear imported from Germany, as a feature for the evening. *

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