Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 163.

Resume Steel Contract Talks At Request Made By Pres. Eisenhower

NEW YORK (UPI) — The executive board of the United Steelworkers union today ordered union negotiators to comply with President Eisenhower’s request for immediate resumption of contract talks in an effort to avert a strike at midnight Tuesday. The steel industry also complied with the President's request and a negotiating session was scheduled for noon. Immediately after the executive board meeting David J. McDonald, president of the USW, rushed from the room and telephoned R. Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator. to inform him of the executive board’s action. Is Still Time . McDonald emphasized that the union was not extending the contract and said the strike deadline still stands. However, he agreed with President Eisenhower that there is still sufficient time left to reach an agreement that would head off the sixth major postwar steel strike. The chief executive did not communicate directly with the labor and management negotiators. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty issued this statement: "There is opportunity and time for settlement to be reached before the strike deadline set by the union. "In the interests of union members, the steel companies and the public, the President hopes that the union and the industry will continue to work for a settlement” Hagerty said the President plans no overt intervention in the steel situation, but that Eisenhower and Mitchell "will be watching with a great deal of interest” any further developments. McDonald Sunday accused the steel industry of breaking off negotiations by refusing to attend a negotiating session this morning. The strike deadline had been postponed for two toeeks at the request of President Eisenhower. The union rejected suggestions for further extension without the assurance of retroactivity for any wage increase eventually agreed to. The industry has refused to give this assurance. Would Idle Half Million The strike, sixth industry-wide steel stoppage in the 14 years since the end of World War 11, would idle 500,000 steelworkers immediately and force the layoff of thousands more employes in supplying and steel-using industries if it is not quickly settled. Still at issue today, as on the day negotiations opened, is the indus-

Dog-Carryingßocket Launched By Russia

news agency Tass said today that another dog-carrying rocket was successfully launched and recovered on July 10. i Tass said the ballistic rocket weighed 4,840 pounds and carried two dogs. It said the dogs and the equipment were recovered. It was the second such space flight reported by the Russians this month. On July 2, Soviet scientists launched and recovered a “space rocket’* carrying two dogs and a rabbit. / The United States on May 28 shot two small female monkeys to a height of 300 miles and recovered them alive after a 1,500mile journey over the Atlantic. Able, a 7-pound Rhesus monkey, died a few days later while undergoing an operation, for the removel of an electrode from under its chin. Baker, a 1-pound spider monkey, is still alive. The report erf the latest space flight followed a Itussian practice of withholding announcements until several days after the event. The July 2 launching was not announced until July 6. Before the news of the last two flights, the Russians had not announced an animal ■ launching for nearly a year, but they indicated that such flights had meen made. For examole, they said one of the dogs Involved in the July 2 space journey was making its third, ascent |

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try’s demand for a one-year wage and price freeze. It says this would combat infla--1 tion. It has offered a compromise ' only to the extent of proposing that the union agree to contract changes which would cut other costs and thus permit a wage increase without an increase in total labor costs to the producers. The union has insisted that the industry is making such high profits that it could raise wages without increasing %teel prices? The union asked for a package of wage and other increases estimated at 15 to 20 cents an hour. Present wages average ,$3.10 an hour. Aaron W. Weiland Dies This Morning Aaron W. Weiland. 64, a resident of Decatur since 1927, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at his home, 114 North 11th street. He had been in ill health for many years. Born in Union township Dec. 18, 1894, he was a son of Frederick and Louise Schoenstedt-Weiland, and was married to Erna Bleeke Dec. 28, 1920. The family moved to Decatur in 1927. Mr. Weiland was a member of the Zion Lutheran church and highly active in circles of the church. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Harold (Katherine) August of Decatur; five grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Paul Reynolds of Decatur. One brother preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Zion Lutheran church, the Rev. Richard C. Ludwig officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Infant Suffocated By Blowing Drapes HANNA CITY, 11l (UPD - Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKinzie were alarmed by the number of child deaths due to plastic bags. They replaced the plastic curtains in their home with cloth draperies. The McKinzie’s baby daughter, Allison, suffocated Sunday when the cloth drapes blew across her crib.

t : Girl Deliberately I Sets Fire, 7 Killed ELMIRA, N.Y. (UPD—An ati tractive 15ryear-old girl was uni able today to explain why she . deliberately set fire to her home, killing six of her sisters and a , brother whom she loved “very dearly,” police reported. Psychiatric tests were sched- ' uled for sandy-haired Jane Shu- ! sko, one of 10 children, who ad- ■ mitted she threw a lighted match on some papers in a clothes closet late Saturday night. The ensuing fire swept her family’s half , of a two-story, two-family house . In a middle-class neighborhood, resulting in the asphyxiation of her sisters and brother, ranging in age from 2 to 12 years. '. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Lillian Shusko, 39, who was sitting on the front porch when the fire broke out, escaped uninjured. A sister, Catherine, 13, rescued the other child, 11 months, with the assistance of a neighbor. The father, Michael, 41, was at work at a cooperative milk plant where be is, A farming machine operator. Authorities said the fire swept ] the home so rapidly that rescue . of the seven victims was impossible.

Beef Tour Made By ■ 4-H Club Members Getting tips on feeding anc ' showing beef cattle, approximate ' ly 30 4-H club members, parent: and leaders visited four farm; this morning on the beef tour, th< last of five special tours before this year’s county fair. , With county agent Leo N. Selten ‘ right and boys’ 4-H leader Marvej Sponhauer, the tour visited foui Root township farms beginning a 9 this morning, when the firsl stop was at the Jack Schnepf fanr north of Decatur. There, T o nr Schnepf, in his second year*in 4-H showed his two calves, an Angus and a Hereford. Greg Schnepf, as the Wayne Schnepf farm, nexl showed the group his two animals • a Hereford and an Angus also * Greg is in his first year in 4-H At the Bob Carr farm, Michael Carr, showed his Hereford calf Bob is in his fifth year of 4-H club work. For the last stop before a noon lunch at Hanna-Nuttman park, the group saw two Hereford: and two Angus at the Bill Schnepf farm, north and west of Decatur. There twins Betsy and Sally Schnepf, each in their fourth year of showing beef animals, and in their fifth year of 4-H, told they would show three of the animals. Betsy will show an Angus, Darky, and Sally will show Dusty and Rusty, an Angus and a Hereford. Along the way, the group discussed the~ care of show animals, including the amount of grain, supplement and water it takes to feed them. The use of minerals and salts in die animals’ diets was discussed, along with care at die 4-H fair and showmanship, and how tranquilizers are used on show animals. Although Russell Browre, extension specialist, could not be there, the thirty beef raisers kept questions and answers circulating. — After the comment that someone was hungry and could eat some butchered beef, the group left for Hanna-Nuttman park, where there was a sack lunch and the group discussed more about show animals. The afternoon, which was sunny and right for wheat and oats harvesting, was left open for those who wanted to, to visit other 4-H projects. Fifth Pre-Fair Tour The beef tour was the fifth tour for 4-H members and leaders to get some tips on preparing thenprojects for exhibit at the 4-H fair. Members'of the beef committee are Paul Kohne, chairman; Walter Lengerich, secretary; Dr. John Carroll, William Schnepf, Jr., Henry Rumple, W. R. Stanley, Wilbert Baker, Van Holsapple, and Gerald Strickler. Judging for the beef porjects will be at 3 p. m. Wednesday, July 29, and the sale will be the following evening, the last day of the fair. The first tour for 4-H members was the. lamb tour this year. Leaders for this project, on the 4-H sheep show committee, are Dan Kauffman, chairman; William Fifer, vice-chairman; Leo King, Jr;, secretary; Victor Baltzell, John Baltzell, Luther Yager, Oscar Brown, Everett Singleton, Erwin Fuelling, Homer Winteregg, Dwight Schnepf, and Chris Biberstein. Sheep must be in place in the exhibit barn by 11 a. m. Tuesday forenoon, July 28, and judging will start at 2 p. m. that day. Conservation Changed For 4-H’ers in conservation, forestry, entomology, and wild life projects, there was the conservation field day at Hanna-Nuttman park. The conservation projects have been rearranged this year, to provide a buildup from learning the basic principles of conservation in the first years in the project to the actual practice of these principles in the more advanced projects. Wildlife, forestry. and entomology projects. These exhibits will be in place at the fair not later than 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, July 28. ’" * The 4-H dairy tour this year found approximately 100 dairy project enthusiasts touring South(Omtil<n<ued on p&ge four)

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Hoffa Is Recalled By Senate Probers

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Sen-1 ate Rackets Committee called Teamster President James R. I Hoffa back to its witness chair today to answer new charges erf abuse of power by himself and wrongdoing by his associates. Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Hoffa’s testimony, lasting “at least today and tomorrow,”would e the Teamster leader’s final appearance before the committee. His testimony will climax several weeks of sessions aimed largely at determining what, if anything, Hoffa has done to remove hoodlums and racketeers from office in the union. Kennedy maintains that practically nothing has een done. Kennedy said that Hoffa would not testify until after another witness had been questioned about some new material on the Teamsters. Me Would not identify this witness or the suject matter. Hoffa already has appeared three times efore the committee —in July, 1957, and in Septemer, 1958 and last month. On the second occasion, nine months after he took office as president, he insisted he was working to clean Up the union and would accomplish the job if given a chance. In addition to questioning him on this point, it seemed likely that the committee also would'go into Hoffa’s proposal for all of the nation’s transportation unions o and together as one powerful force. Proposes Legislation For Self Marketing WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calls.) today proposed legislation to let egg, chicken and turkey farmers set up "self help” marketing programs if twothirds of the producers approve.

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Ike’s Defense Plans Scored

WASHINGTON (UPD - Some Senate Democrats called today for further boosts in President Eisenhower’s defense budget. They said it is inadequate to provide security. Criticism of the defense program came as the Senate began debate on a bill which already is $346,139,000 higher than the administration request and $746,000,000 more than a House-approved measure. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) urged Congress to “force the administration to reorganize its defenses on the basis of the progress incident to this nuclear age, instead of continuing to let them drift in tradition.” Sen. Henry M. Jackson IDWash.) appealed for more funds for ballistic missiles, modernization of the Army, anti-submarine facilities and research and development. The defense appropriation is for the fiscal year that began July 1. The bill before the Senate calls for $39,594,339,000. Another Senate Democrat, Dennis M. Chavez (N.M.), defended the bill as being adequate for current needs. Other congressional news: Medical Care: Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare, urged rejection of a measure which would provide free medical care for old people through increased social security taxation. He said the government should seek instead away of broadening voluntary medical insurace. The American Medical Assn, is opposed to the bill, now before House Ways and Means Committee. But the legislation is one of the favorites or organized labor. Money: The President asked

I Favor Committee To Make School Study The Adams county trustees met in a regular monthly meeting at the offices of school superintendent Gail Grabill Saturday, approving two budget appropriations, totalling $7,000. The major action centered on the recent state legislature and the school corporations reorganization act of 1959. The trustees voted to approve the establishment of a study committee to oversee adequate school districts in the county. Nine persons will be appointed to the committee by the Adams circuit judge at a later date if the proposal is approved by the county commissioners and council. A representative of the trustees, the superintendents and principals, the school boards, and five lay persons, besides superintendent Grabill, will be named to make an adequate study of proposed i school corporation and/or corporations. » ' , The group will conduct studies, surveys, reports of existing facilities, determining the quality of an adequate educational program for the county. The appropriation for the county budget would be $4,000. Grabill also said that $3,000 would be set in the county board of education budget to hire personnel to conduct hearing and eye tests for county pupils. Law requires that children in the first, third and eighth grades take the eye screen test, while all children must have the audiometer test. The county has the necessary equipment, but must hire trained personnel to conduct the tests and render results and conclusions.

Congress to provide $3,435,000 to help run several executive departments. The supplemental appropriation would go for research in conversion of salt water to fresh water, for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and for the Treasury. Radioactivity: Dr. Alleyn H. Seymour, a Marine scientist, told a House Merchant Marine subcommittee that ocean currents carried radioactivity 3,000 miles after the 1954 nuclear tests in the Pacific. The subcommittee is studying the dumping of radioactive wastes in the ocean. Rackets: A witness told the Senate Rackets Committee that two officials of the Longshoremen’s Union on the West Coast tried to persuade a Teamster monitor to resign by offering him $105,000 back legal fees. Inflation: A United Press International survey showed that more and more voters are writing to tl\eir congressmen to appeal for action to halt inflation. Some writers complain about the inroads of inflation on fixed income. Others urge their congressmen to cut federal spending, reduce waste and increase employment. Bakery Owner Slain By Estranged Wife INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Jack L. Boyden, 36, Indianapolis bakery owner, was shot and killed by his estranged wife at her home Sunday, police said. Mrs. Marjorie Boyden, 33, was held on a preliminary charge of murder. Boyden was dead on arrival at Community Hospital with a bullet wound in his chest.

Five Michigan Children Die In Home Fire MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — (UPD—Five children were burned to death today when fire swept their home. Their mother and one child were seriously injured. The victims were all children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Langlois. Langlois was at work at the General Motors Tech Center in Warren when the fire broke out. Two of the victims were Russell, 7 weeks, and Sharon, 3 years, who were pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph hospital. The other three dead children were taken to the Martha T. Berry: hospital. - One girl escaped by jumping from a second floor window. She suffered a fractured leg. Mrs. Margaret Langlois, 28, the mother, suffered severe burns and was rushed to the operating room at St. Joseph hospital. Firemen said the fire started in the kitchen and an open window ’ created a draft which spread the ’ fire rapidly through the entire home. £ , • ; Robert Odle Named • Des Moines Manager Promotion of Robert W. Odle, ’ effective as of July 6, to the position of plant manager of its Des 1 Moines, la., plant, has been an--1 nounced by McMillen Feed Mills. ■ Odle, a native of Decatur, join- ’ ed Central Soya in 1937 as a member of the laboratory staff at the Decatur plant. He was named chief chemist of the Gibson City, 111., plant ini 1939, and returned to Decatur as chief chemist in 1943. He was appointed feed technician in 1945 and product standards manager in 1947. In April of this year, he was named production control manager of the company. In his new position, Odle will be responsible for general administration of all plant activities, exclusive of sales, at Des Moines. He and his family will move to Des Moines in the near future. Three personnel appointments have also been announced by Central Soya, Inc. Douglas Cunningham, who received a B. S. degree in animal husbandry from Michigan State University in 1958, has been appointed to the company's ingredient purchasing department at Fort Wayne. William T. Greve, a 1959 graduate of Purdue University with a B. S. degree in agricultural economics, has been assigned to the technical department of the Decatur plant as a production trainee. Greve, a basketball star at Purdue, received the Lambert scholarship award in 1957 and 1958. Also joining the technical department here as a production trainee is Blair J. Dravis, a graduate of the University of South Dakota with the B. S. degree in industrial management. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight. Tuesday partly sunny and warm. Chance of some thundershowers north in afternoon Or night. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday 84 to 88. Sunset today 8:13 p.m. Sunrise Tues- ' day 5:29 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers likely. Lows 62 to 66. Highs near 90.

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W est Powers Warn Russia

GENEVA (UPD—The Western . powers called on Russia today to I scrap its Berlin time-bomb once . and for all if it wants a summit i meeting. U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told Russia’s And- ■ rei Gromyko in unequivocal terms that the West will not negotiate ‘ under an ultimatum, duress or ■ the continued threat of a new Berlin crisis. Herter delivered ■ the warning I on behalf of all the Western [ powers as the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference resumed ’ after a three-week “cooling off” period. Herter, Gromyko and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister ■ Maurice Couve de Murville met for the second and probably decisive phase of the East - West talks. Herter Reviews Negotiations Herter was in the chair for the 19th plenary session of the con- . ference which opened here May 11 and bogged down after >six weeks of talks. Western officials said Herter delivered a general review of the negotiations up to date. The sources said Gromyko had indicated to the Western delegations that he did not wish to speak until after hearing what the West had to say. At a pre-conference session a few hours earlier, the Western foreign ministers agreed to ignore ’ Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush- . chev’s most recent war - like threats and listen to what Gro- ’ myko had to say in the diplomatic calm of the Geneva council chamber. ’ They took the line that Khrush- . chev’s tough talk to former Gov. Averell Harriman of New York was simply shooting from the hip 1 in the power politics game of bluff and counter-bluff. A "No-Nonsense” Truee They also hoped First DeputyPremier Frol Kozlov was taking home from the United States to Khrushchev a clearer picture of the real purpose and tough determination of the United States tn the Berlin crisis. The sources said Herter will demand a “no-nonsense” Berlin truce until 1961 as the rockbottom for a meeting of the heads of state. The general feeling in Geneva’s hot and sticky air was that a bare minimum' of agreement would be

Plan 4-H Speaking Contest At Fair Two Adams county 4-H champions will go to the state fair public speaking contests from the first 4-H public. speaking contest to be held at the county 4-H fair Thursday, July 30. Club members who are in at least their third year of 4-H work this year, and who are between 14 and 21 may enter. The county extension office will be taking entries from new until Friday. Speeches may oe made on any of these topics: agriculture, home economics, 4-H, health and safety, natural resources, or citizenship. When they apply at the extension office, contestants should give the general topic they will speak on. Club members who have attended college are not eligible, and the speech may not be read, although notes may be used. When the 4-H’er applies at the extension office, he will receive additional tips on making his speech, which should be from five to seven minutes long.

reached this time, possibly enabling the four heads of state to meet early in September without loss of face. The East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland called today for a "series of summit meetings” after the Co neva talks and predicted the Western ministers would have to accept a meeting of government heads. But the authoritative newspaper showed no sign of Communist Teadiness to seek a compromise on Berlin. Lloyd Expresses Hope The most optimistic statement came from British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd who said on arrival Sunday, “We are going back hoping to reach agreement.” He rredicted a short meeting. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter was guardedly optimistic. “Although I do not come here with high hopes,’ he said, “I believe it is possible with good will on both sides to reach an agreement.” French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville spoke only of a “limited concrete arrangement” and said that progress 1 “can only be moderate.” The key man again was Gro- . myko and he was expected to do most of the talking today. He set j the pace with his own arrival [ statement — another example of . the tough and unyielding stfnd he . maintained throughout the last . sessions. It was the same line: "Our proI posals of June 9 and 19.. .constitute a good basis for reaching an . agreement.” Demands Outlined ; A Western spokesman said the > Western foreign ministers would ’ seek at once to resume the secret negotiations they believe are the only chance to win success here. In these talks the 'American, British and French foreign ministers planned to demand from Gromyko: . —A truce ot tW.tpL.tW»ADda. half years in Berlin. —Absolute guarantees the West’s rights in West Berlin will not be endangered by a new crisis at the end of this “deep freeze’ period. —Acceptance of a Big Four commission to work with an allGerman commission on means of re-uniting Germany. '

The county winners will receive gold-filled medals of honor, and at the state fair, they will be competing for trips to Washington, D. C., and the United Nations, and a chance for national awards of trips to the 4-H club congress and S4OO scholarships. Industrialist, Four Passengers Killed DURANGO, Colo. (UPD — A plane crash killed Chicago pilotindustrialist Kenneth B. Ross and four passengers Sunday night, but a resulting 100-acre brush and forest fire has prevented search parties from brining out their bodies. Ross’ plane, a twine - engine Beechcraft, smashed into an 8,000foot mountain near Ignacio, in southwesters Colorado. La Plata County Sheriff Herbert McKinsey said Ross' passengers were identified as Mi's. Betty Mink. Washington, Iowa; her son Daniel, 17, and her two younger daughters. Mrs. Mink was thought to have been employed at Ross’ ptant in Washington.

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