Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII, No, 165.

Nation’s Steel Mills Are Closed By Strike — — s '

Fad-Finding Board Is Urged By Union Head NEW YORK (UPD—The United Steelworkers Union today urged the steel industry to join with it in forming a fact-finding board to study the issues involved in the strike and help bring about an early settlement. In a letter to the industry’s four-man bargaining team, union President David J. McDonald said a three-man fact finding committee should look into economic and non-economic matters in dispute and make recommendations to both parties aimed at halting the strike. McDonald said the industry and union each would name one man to the committee and Chief Justice Earl Warren would be asked to name a third, impartial member. The union chief said the finding of the board would not be binding but “we are confident that they would provide a basis for negotiations and facilitate quick settlement by the parties.” In the union’s statement, McDonald noted that President Eisenhower refused to set up a government fact finding board to study the economic issues involved In the dispuet. He also pointed out the companies refused to join with the union in forming a committee to study the deadlock over plant working conditions. “While the President felt it inappropriate to appoint a fact finding board as requested by the union,” McDonald said, “there is certainly bo inhibition on the companies and the union mutually agreeing to establishing their own fact finding board.” Industry and labor had separate jTie«>tines scheduled this afternoon with the chief of the Federal Mediation Service. Each side bitterly blamed the other for the strike which punctuated their failure to write a new wage contract for the industry’s half million workers. It appeared unliekly that Mediation Director Joseph F. Finnegan could find a quick or easy peace formula. His mediation services were accepted by both parties at the request of President Eisenhower Tuesday. Eisenhower had previously won a two-week contract extension, and a two-day renewal of bargaining after the talks broke down Sunday. He expressed “keen disappointment” at the failure of agreement. “I am confident that with goodwill on both sides of the bargaining table, agreement can be reached without undue delay,” the President said. Finnegan was to meet with industry representatives at 4 p.m.

New Civil Rights Bill Is Submitted

WASHINGTON (UPD — A new civil rights bill was approved today by the Senate constitutional rights subcommittee. The measure would keep the President’s Civil Rights Commission alive until Jan. 31, 1961, and require that federal election records be preserved and surrendered for examination. The next step for the bill is the Senate Judiciary committee, where southern members are expected to give it'tough sledding. > Chairman Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D-Mo.) said the subcommittee vote was 4-3 in favor of the bill. Other congressional news: Equal Time: The Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill which would exempt radio and television news broadcasts from a controversial “equal time” provision. Contracts: A House armed services subcommittee charged that Navy officials must have been “incompetent or deliberately careless” in negotiating a dozen or so defense contracts on which the government was overcharged more than 12 million dollars. Housing: Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) urged that Congress override President Eisenhower’s veto of the housing bill. He said Eisenhower’s action was “unwarranted and unreasonable,” and that the

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e.d.t. here. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America (USW), who went to the Pennsylvania strike scene Tuesday night following the final break in negotiations, planned to joint other union leaders in meeting with Finnegan at 5:30 p.m. Negotiations for new contracts to replace three-year agreements which expired June 30 were offi- . daily opened on May 3. Four- ! man teams representing the un- * ion and the 12 biggest steel firms began talks on May 11. 1 They apparently were little if at ! all closer to agreement Tuesday 1 than on the day they started. > — I ! Boy Scout Leaders ■ Plan Activities f Representatives of Decatur’s [ four Boy Scout troops met briefly , Tuesday evening to review two im- . portant scouting events, Steve Evl erhart, commissioner, said today. All scouters, including troop and pack committee members, are in- ; vited to attend the potluck dinner ' and program planning session of the south district, to*be held Wed- ‘ nesday, July 22, at 6:30 p.m. at ■ the Wells county game farm. Ulis planning session will include the distribution of the 1959-60 pro- ‘ gram notebook, fall program quar- . terlies, the council program, and many other important guides. Os special emphasis will be the ' display on golden anniversary ’ awards, available next year to troop members, including fifth national jamboree announcements. Each troop was asked to plan now to ..send at least one official troop representative to the fifth national jamboree at Untorado Springs., in the shadow of Pikes Peak and the Air Force academy, . next July 22-28. Applications may i now be made on a one-per-troop basis. Trees recently planted around . the Boy Scout cabin at Camp Quinn were then watered by the committee members attending the meeting. Indiana Professor 5 Named Director INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Dr. James B. Kessler, of Indiana University, was named Tuesday as the new resident director of the Commission of State Tax and Financing Policy. Kessler was granted a two-year leave of absence to take the job formerly held by Robert Pitchgll. Kessler will prepare the commission’s study on the local tax structure of the state in addition to directing the over-all activities i of the commission.

r ...I " ■ ■ vetoed bill “represents in my mind 1 the minimum measure that the Congress can accept.” The Presi- ■ dent rejected the bill because he ' considered some of its spending 1 provisions excessive. Defense: A House-Senate con--1 ference committee was set up to study two versions of the defense 1 budget. The Senate Tuesday night ' passed a bill providing 40 billion 1 dollars for the defense effort over the next 12 months. The House 1 version is 746 million dollars 1 smaller. Increases tacked on in the Senate put its bill $346,139,000 over what President Eisenhower re- ’ qupsted. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north; partly cloudy south, not much change In temperatures this afternoon through Thursday. Chance of a few scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers southwest and extreme south portions. Low tonight in the 60s. High Thursday 84 to ». Sunl set today 8:12 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:31 a. m. Outlook ' i for Friday: Mostly sunny with chance of scattered thunderI showers. Lown «to 72. Highs 87 to 94.

No Emergency At Present In Sfrikelke WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower said today that the steel strike for the moment had not created emergency conditions warranting use of the TaftHartley law, but he urged labor and management to continue negotiating. The President told reporters it was obvious that if the strike lasted so long that steel inventories required by the government were exhausted, the defense production program would face a very serious situation. He said, however, that he was in no position today to estimate accurately how long the strike would have to run before it interfered with the defense program. He suggested the fullest possible use of free bargaining between labor and management before there is any direct federal intervention. Under the Taft-Hartley law the President, if he determines that a labor-management dispute has created an emergency threatening the “health or safety” of the nation, can request the Justice Department to seek an injunction stopping a strike for 80 days. Eisenhower, responding to a variety of news conference questions about the steel strike which began at midnight when a half million workers walked out, made it clear that he did not believe conditions now warranted his use of the Taft-Hartley law. He did not believe he should have done more as chief executive in the days before the strike. He said too much government pressure inevitably changed the nature of free bargaining. The President in the pre-strike period confined himself to statements urging both sides to keep on negotiating. He said emphatically that he felt the nation must thoroughly test out and use the method of free bargaining in the steel strike. He was asked suggestions that he might have appointed a factfinding board before the strike began to explore the steel dispute in behalf of the public. Eisenhower said that he believed most of the essential facts of the dispute were available to the public and that a fact-finding board would not have changed the outcome. He expressed the belief that he had followed the best path by urging statesmanship on both sides and calling repeatedly for continued negotiations. . He then renewed his public request that the Steelworkers Union and the industry continue to bargain. He hoped their conferences this afternoon in New York with the head of the Federal Mediation Service would produce evidence of a' willingness to ccmtinue bargaining. Eisenhower said he still thought generally that wage increases in periods of current prosperity should be related to increased productivity. He also reiterated his belief that if wage hikes went beyond this standard of productivity, they would produce an inflationary result. Check Petition On Utility Election The petition bearing 157 signatures of freeholders and resident taxpayers, requesting that an election should be held to decide if Decatur will sell its electric utility, is being verified today, auditor Edward F. Jaberg announced. The petition was forwarded to the auditor by the city for verificaion, which is about half completed. In the first 80 ch- so names checked only three were not freeholders. Only 100 of the 157 petitioners must be qualified for the petition to be valid. Jaberg stated that the petition would probably be completed this afternoon, and .returned to the city with the certification required. *MayoTßobert D. Cole said that the city council and administration were discussing the holding of the election, but that no date had yet been set.

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Overall Business Climate Excellent A good overall business climate i sone of the factors which will make 1960 a record yea/ in Hoosier industrial development, Ted W. Schulenberg, associate director of the Indiana department of commerce and public relations said at a Fort Wayne area industrial development seminar Tuesday night. Eighteen members of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce were among the 100 representatives of Fort Wayne area Chambers of Commerce who heard Schulenberg and Herbert Steegman, area indutp trial development director for the Indiana and Michigan Electric company, speak optimistically about the total industrial development of the Fort Wayne area. Decatur’s delegation was the largest at this seminar, which attracted representatives of 23 area groups interested in industrial expansion. The group advocated another area , meeting this fall. The year 1960 will be regarded as one of the record years of all time, Schulenberg said. The per capita industrial expansion in Indiana has been s2ll in the past three years, he said, comparing this with $lO7 in Ohio, S6B in Illinois, and s3l in Michigan. His prediction of better things to come, he said, was based on three factors, the first of them be-; ing the good overall business climate in the state. He stressed the fact that Indiana is debt free and has no onerous tax situation. Second is the transportation development in Indiana, with its fourlape highways, toll road, and the impetus to be gained from the creation of the Lake Michigan port. The progress being maintained in the state itself, is the third factor, he said. Three facets of this Hoosier official activity are research and economic analysis of communities and areas, the planning phase of the state commerce department in determining the direction which industrial direction will take and lastly the promotion and sales approach. I and M industrial director Steegman commented on the competition that developed between individual communities. He said that management has had a more scientific approach in the selection of actual plant locations, an approach that places much more emphasis on the total community enthusiasm and interest. Steegman warned communities to make sure their existing industries are happy before starting to look for new industries. There are over 10,000 organizations, in the United States trying to attract new industries, he said, adding “We now have more inquiries for the northeastern part of Indiana than ever before. Northeastern Indiana is a hot’ industr’"’ <.rea today.” — Industries today -re looking for proper zoning and long range community planning as a prerequisite for plant location, he said. Annually, he added, 20,000 new jobs will be needed in Indiana to take caret of the population growth alone. |

iOS? i ’.B B KoL JFBIaI b tU I * Ir mUM »J 1 W J 11E FbJtynittjsSF-® : r BOH Uu IBh, || hh BHB K R ’ PREPARATIONS FOR STRlKE—Awaiting only the word to strike, a 1 Pittsburgh, Pa., local of the United Steelworkers Union displays ’ freshly printed picket signs. The local which has 5700 members i at Jones & Laughlin’s South Side Works is headed by Evan I. Jones 1 (center) who displays the new signs with treasurer Norman Linkes | (right) and George Oliver, a steelworker.

Half-Million Steel Workers ! f Close Plants ’ ; PITTSBURGH (UPf) — Half a ‘ million steel workers shut down 1 • she nation's basic . steel mills to- • flay in a strike for higher wages. ! | It could be the most costly 1 j walkout in the country’s history, i J and might affect the life of near- j ly every American. ■ The strike by the United Steels workers of America (USW)—sixth ’ since World -War II — cut off 90 : per cent of the nation’s steel pro- ' ’ duction in the midst of the great- 1 • efe| output period in steel annuals. ’ ~ picketing outside mills from ’ . coast to coast was reported or- 1 derly. USW President David J. Me- : , Donald left New York City, the i scene of the collapsed contract talks, and attended a strike rally I Tuesday night at the Fairless Works of United States Steel , Corp, near Morrisville, Pa. McDonald “No. 1 Picket” Raising aloft a picket sign proclaiming him the "No. 1 picket,” the union president said: “We’re absolutely determined on this strike and by the eternal gods we will win.” A crowd estimated by police at 1,300 roared its approval. After the rally, McDonald re- : turned to New York where later today both industry and union i leaders were to meet with federal i mediation experts at the urging of i President Eisenhower. i Pre-strike estimates were that ] the steel workers would Jose 62 , million dollars in wages and the ] : industry 248 million dollars in pro- , duction each week the walkout j . continued. [ A 34-day strike in basic steel , . in 1956 cost the industry an esti- . mated two billion dollars in lost ’ wages and production. It also led p to price increases in almost every item made of steel. Daily Cost Up ! But the day-to-day loss now would be greater since production 1 was running at record levels of 1 11,600,000 ingot tons of steel a month. In addition to the steel workers, about one million employes in other industries such as coal, 1 railroading and Great Lakes ore 1 shipping will be affected if the ! strike continues at length. Fabri- • cators will feel the pinch first, i with the nation’s automobile in- ) dustry suffering later. However, major auto firms in Detroit said they have enough steel stockpiled to carry them well into new car production, and the steel strike will not affect 1960 model car introduction dates. When the .strike began at 12:01 a.m., the steel companies were prepared. They had spent the final hours in the slow and costly process of banking blast furnaces, tapping out open hearths and cooling coke ovens. Although the walkout began officially at one minute after midnight, there were instances of scattered gun-jumping and premature picketing. Hit Bricks Early At the vast Homestead, Pa., works of U.S. Steel, sign-bearing ! pickets “hit the bricks” shortly 1 [before 10:45 p.m. i •

Eight Rutgers 0. Scientists At Central Soya The faltering New Jersey egg market and research on the feeding of sick poultry were topics of discussion of eight agricultural scientists from Rutgers University when visited the Decatur Central Soya plant "Tuesday afternoon. Dr. R. L. Squibb, head of the poultry science division; Dr. J. L. Cason, of the dairy science department; Dr. S. B. Randle, state chemist; Harry Rothman, Cumberland county agricultural agent; John Gerwig, farm crops agronomist; Charles Dupras, county agent; Dr. M. J. Babcock, agricultural biochemist, and Robert Markley, agricultural biochemist, arrived at 10* ».m. at Baer field after an hour and fifty minute ride from Newark, N. J. Rutgers University, which the professors represented, has about 6,000 male students and 2,000 coeds on campus, with numerous extensions over the state. The school was originally for men only, and was founded in 1766 as Queen s College; even today it has a separate college for women, but more and more women are being accepted in formerly all-male classes. Dr. Squibb, leader of the group, has been at Rutgers for 1% years, following 15 years in Guatamala and other South and Central American countries, where he headed a U.S. department of agriculture animal and human feeding project. At the present time he is engaged in research on the requirements of chickens sick with Newscastles disease for vitamin A, and the transmission of vitamins from mother chickens to the young chicks. Major Cost Crisis Hie poultry industry in New Jersey, 7,700 square miles bordering on New York and Pennsylvania markets, is faced with a major cost crisis today, he explained. Numbers of small poultry farms, with 1,000 or 2,000 hens exist side ijy side- Disease spreads easily, the traditionally constructed buildings on very small farms forces the cost of production of eggs to 38 or 39 cents a dozen, with a wholesale price of at least 40 cerfts a dozen needed for a profit to the farmer. Often he must sell them for less than cost. This is true because farmers in the south have gone into the poultry business in a big way, utilizing the most modern methods, with isolated low-disease flocks, and they can now raise eggs for 24-27 cents a dozen. With ship; ping costs of two or three cents a dozen added, these eggs undersell the New Jersey eggs on competitive markets. A farm unit in New Jersey today that expects to compete in the egg market must handle 10,000 to 15,000 hens, he explained. Many farms are just not that big. Dr. Squibb then contrasted the picture of animal agriculture in the United States with that in Central America, by stating that 80% of the food nutrients received by natives there is still from corn. Here in the United States, through the basic research of the land grant colleges, followed up by the technology of companies like Central Soya, agriculture has been scientifically reduced to a major business. which in turn has released a huge working force to provide the conveniences which are possible under a high standard of living. Changing Scene Dr. Squibb and Dr. Randle, the state chemist, discussed briefly how the changing scene of agriculture has vastly affected America. A few years ago the Middle West produced the beef for the entire country — now Florida has more beef cattle than Texas. When scientific research discovered the need of trace minerals in Florida to prevent “salt fever” and found the cure to several diseases, it was possible for the Floridans to compete very successfully with the rest of the country in beef production. The average American will eat 190 to 200. pounds of meat a year, and 700 pounds of dairy products, as well as an egg a day. It takes 1,500 pounds of commercial feed or concentrates in addition to roughage to produce this food. The average American will consume about 1,400 pounds of food lyThe incredible increase in the efficient conversion of plant food, such as soybean meal concentrates, into animal foods for human beings, has helped keep food costs to 22 or 23 per cent of income in the United States. While it still takes about 2*4 pounds of feed to produce one pound of gain on a chicken on the farm, under laboratory conditions it is now possible to get a pound of gain from a pound of feed. (Continued on page three)

Press Russia For Guarantee

GENEVA (UPD — The United I ; States, Britain and France today [ shunted aside West German sug- > gestions for an immediate sum- . mit conference and agreed to press Russia to put some Berlin guarantees into writing. The U.S. delegation said it was too early to start talking about recessing a conference that had just resumed even if it has been deadlocked since the start over Soviet demands for equal billing for the East German Communists. The British regarded the Bonn suggestion as "unrealistic” and the French took an equally sour view. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville was flying to Paris today to talk it over with President Charles de Gaulle, however. •Die Western foreign ministers were ready to pile pressure on Russi’s Andrei Gromyko to confirm in writing that the Kremlin has junked its Berlin time bomb and recognize the West’s continued rights in the city. The Western foreign ministers also reaffirmed their stand that there must be such fool-proof guarantees before there can be a summit conference in September. The foreign ministers were meeting today for the second plenary session since the Berlin crisis talks were resumed Monday. The chief Western aim was some sort of Berlin agreement that would permit them to attend a summit conference with no loss , of prestige. • Gromyko threw the Western ■ ministers into a tailspin Monday by refusing to give the fool-proof guarantees the West demands. Then he confused things further by refusing to attend secret Big Four sessions unless the East Germans went along too. The Gromyko moves dampened hopes of an early agreement. "Die West had expected to wrap up this meeting in about three weeks with an interim agreement on Berlia. The situation appeared so hopeless the West Germans circulated a memorandum to the Allies suggesting that the whole Berlin issue be shelved now and that a 1 summit meetnig be called to discuss such basic problems as Ger- : many and German unification. i • i The West German proposal ap- » peared to be a major reversal of 5 crusty old Chancellor Konrad . Adenauer who previously pooh- • poohed the whole idea of summit 1 talks as a senseless waste of 1 time. It was generally believed he had reversed his field for fear of a bad agreement on West Berlin. j White Cloth Needed 5 At Red Cross Office ' Used sheets—or any old white 1 soft cloth—are needed at the Red Cross office. The Red Cross supply ’ of white cloth is getting low, Mrs. ’ Wanda Oelberg, executive secre- ’ tary of the Red Cross, said today ! as she sent out the call for more; , after what is left is being taken ! to a cancer patient. The cloth may be brought to the office from 9 a.m.‘to 11:30 a.m. ’ and from 12:30 p.m. until 4 p.m., or after the office hours, at Mrs» Oelberg’s house.

Tennessee Prison Inmates Surrender

PETROS, Tenn. (UPD—Prison officials searched today for dynamite booby traps believed planted bv 95 convicts who surrendered after holing up for two days in a mine at Brushy Mountain State Prison. Earl Hensley, about 50, one of four hostages held, said four of the convicts told him the prisoners had set booby traps in the mine. The prisoners, haggard and worn, filed out of the shaft Tuesday. Two hostages, Ben Davis, about 36, and Hensley, the last of four mine foremen held by the prisoners, walked out of the shaft ahead of the prisoners. Neither they c nor Tom Jones and Sherdy Bunch, released earlier, were harmed. A few hours after the rebellion ended eight ringleaders were taken to the state penitentiary at Nashville. The tnd of the rebellion came shortly after the convicts vowed to “tear out of or tear down” the mine shaft which had been their fortress since Monday morning. Acting Commissioner of Corrections W. A. (Pat) Patterson, who

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/ - Begin Distribution Os Assembly's Ads INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Indiana Secretary of State John R. Walsh today began distribution of the Acts of the 1959 Legislature. Walsh estimated it would take about three days to distribute four-pound books to the 92 county clerks. He said clerks had requested more than 7,000 copies and that legislators asked for an additional 621. * About one-third of the new laws will go into effect when the acts are distributed and Walsh has received a reciept from each of the county clerks. He estimated that would be Monday. The books, which weigh a total of 16 tons, will be delivered by a private trucking firm. Others of the acts became effective previously, either on specific dates set in die laws or at the time they were signed into law by Governor Handley. Reject Rate Boosts On Passbook Savings INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —The Indiana Department of Financial Institutions today authorized Hoosier banks to increase interest paid on time certificates, but rejected a move to raise rates on passbook savings. The board which operates the department admitted newsmen to the meeting at the direct request of Governor Handley. It raised the maximum interest on time certificates from the present 2’4 per cent to 3 per cent. The increase will become effective Aug. L Maximum interest allowed on passbook savings remains at 2 per cent. The increese authorized by the board was not mandatory. A recent survey of 458 banks conducted by the department indicated that 183 would keep present rates even if the board authorized an increase. Another 186 said they would raise rates, if other banks did. - The survey also showed that 134 banks want to raise rates on passbook savings and 138 supported the increase in interest on time certificates. “I feel this is better than nothing. but I am disappointed that passbook savings also were not increased,” said Blaine H. Wiseman. Corydon, chairman of the department. A move by board member Joseph B. Crosby, Greencastle, to increase the interest rates on both types of savings was defeated for lack of a second. The move to increase interest rates was backed by banks whose officials claimed they were losing customers to savings and loan associations which paid interest rates as high as 3% to 4 per cent. There also were complaints that many Hoosiers were doing business with out-of-state banks paying higher rates.

said no concessions were made to the convicts, said the prisoners called from a telephone in the mine and said they were coming out. They gave no reason for surrendering but Patterson said “they knew the jig was up.” The prisoners walked from the shaft, covered by the guns of 25 guards and highway patrolmen. The convicts had listed nine complaints, rang in g from the quality of their food to unsafe conditions in the mines, as the reason for their rebellion. Andrews Funeral At Geneva Thursday Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pirn. Thursday for Mrs. Frances Ellen Andrews, 69, who died Tuesday morning in the Jay counyt hospital, Portland, after an illness of two weeks. The Rev. Edison Beihold, Geneva Methodist Circuit pastor, will officiate at the services, at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home, Geneva. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.