Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 169

New Plan To End Deadlock

GENEVA (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian A. Herter proposed today that the Geneva deadlock over Berlin be broken by converting the present Big Four conference into a permanent com, mission on Germany with East and West German advisers. Herter said such a body would have no time limit on its activities—unlike the all-German committee proposed by the Russians which would have to complete German re-unification within 18 months. - The U.S. secretary of state told the Big Four conference that setting up a permanent commission would be a “sensible and businesslike way” of breaking the East-West. deadlock here. Herter spoke for the West as a whole when he delivered the proposal to a plenary session cf the East-West foreign ministers conference this afternoon. Shortly before, the U.S. secregary had put the plan privately before Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during a Big Four lunch meeting in the villa of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. It was the first move by the West during the resumed Geneva talks to swing over to the offensive and seize the initiative from the Russians. Herter sharply attacked the Russian proposal for an all-Ger-man commission, describing the Red plan as “totally unacceptable. The West objects to the Soviet proposal for fear that it might ultimately lead to a Communist take-over of all Germany. “The intention of the Soviet proposal,” Herter declared bluntly, “is to obtain an unwarranted measure of respectability for the regime which has been imposed • upon the people of East Germany. “I am speaking of the so-called German Democratic Reptfblic,” Herter added. “That regime has no mandate from its people. It lacks that true independence which is a basic attribute of a sovereign state. “The purpose of the Soviets in putting forward the proposal is all too clearly to perpetuate the partition of Germany. I repeat, therefore, that this proposal is not acceptable.” Herter charged that Russia wcs demanding that the West accept Moscow’s all-German committee plan without any guarantees in exchange. “It would merely be in return for a statement that the Soviet Union, for a very limited period of time, would not violate its existing solemn commitments with respect to Berlin," Herter declared. He added that the Soviet proposal had “so altered the context of this part of the Western peace plan that its acceptance would now perpetuate the division of

County 4*HFair Opens July 28

Local judging in home economics began this morning at Monmouth school, and a week from Tuesday the 4-H fair will open with the horse show and horsemanship judging. Today the county extension office is sending out a program of the 4-H fair, for the three days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, July 28, 29, and 30. This week will see a build-up to the toree-day county fair at Monroe. And it is an important one for girls entering home economics contests in foods (baking, food preparation, and food preservation) and clothing. Projects from each club will be judged in their club groups this week. This morning the Union Pals judging began at 9:30 o'clock, and this afternoon, the judging for the Monmouth Merry Maids began at 1 o'clock. Tuesday the two judges will come to the American Legion home here, where the projects of the Preble Jolly Juniors will be judged beginning at 8:30 a.m., and the Decatur Peppy Gate, at 9 a. m., while the Preble Peppy Pals, will be judged at 11 a. m. In the afternoon, judging will go on to Adams Central school, where the Monroe Boostersettes’ projects will be judged beginning at 1 o'clock. Wednesday, judging will continue at Adams Central, and Thursday, it will be at the Berne school. Friday, the judging moves back to Adams Central, where home Improvement and clothing premium judging will begin and the junior and senior dress revue practices, for “Patio Party,” will be held. Wort on setting up the fair equipment began this morning, as

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Germany rather than assure its unification.” Herter said that the new Western proposal would enable the United States, Britain, France and Russia to utilize German advisers “following the practice adopted by the present conference.” Herter said that such a nonstop conference could study all the questions catalogued by Gromyko in his own June 19 proposals. Among these were reduction of occupation forces in Berlin, termination of “subversive activities, banning of atomic and rocket weapons from Berlin and preparations for German re-unifi-ation.” Herter told Gromyko that the procedure he was proposing was acceptable to the West German government — “the legitimate authority representing 51 million Germans.” It was announced that the Big Four will hold another secret lunch session Tuesday— at Gromyko’s villa. There will be no formal conference plenary session Tuesday. John M. Dull Dies Early This Morning John M. Dull, 91, Wilshire township, Van Wert county, 0., died about 4 o’clock this morning in St. Rita’s hospital, Lima, O. He had been seriously ill for the past month. He was born February 6, 1868, in Willshire township, where he resided all his life. His parents were Franklin and Rebecca Walters Dull. His wife, Amanda, died in 1944. A retired farmer, he attended Greenbrier United Brethren in Chirst church. Surviving are six children, Mrs. Carl Wienman, route one, Willshire, O.; Mrs. Chalmer Brodbeck, route two, Convoy, 0., Mrs. Dale Leathers, rural route. Van Wert, Mrs. Orley Krugh, route two, Convoy, Mrs. Judson Passwater, Willshire, and Miss Gladys Dull, at home; one sister, Mrs. Berdie King, Van Wert; 17 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Cowan and Son funeral home, Van Wert, the Rev. F. F. Kochensparger, Wren, 0., officiating. Friends may tall at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Greenbrier cemetery, Wilshire township, Van Wert county.

a group of food tent workers began cleaning the 4-H kitchen at the Monroe fairgrounds. Thursday, after the school is opened for fair work, the trestles and tables will be put up. The grounds will be mowed this week. Tents are to be put up after the mowing, and the grounds will be fogged Monday. First Day Parade The grand parade and the Adams county entertainment festival will climax the first day of the fair, Tuesday, July 28. That morning, these exhibits will be received: handicraft, poultry, pheasant and quail, electricity, sheep, dairy, beef, pigs, rabbits, horses and ponies, and conservation. That day will begin with the horse show, and- horsemanship judging may continue throughout the day. Beginning at 10 a. m., the homemaking, electricity, and handicraft exhibits will be open to the public. Judging of handicraft exhibits, poultry, pheasant and quail, lamb, and conservation will be during the first day of the fair. The food tent will open at 9:30 a. m. that day, and will stay open until the fair closes that night, as will the rural youth foot-long hot dog stand, which will open at 11 a. m. Tuesday evening will be the grand parade, beginning at 7:15 p. m. After the oarade, about 8:30 p. m., will be the onenight stand of the Adams county entertainment festival. "Patfn Party” will be the theme of the 4-H dress rerme, which will he at 7:30 o. m. Wednesdav, July 29. followin'* evening vespers, presented by the Adams county ministerial association at 7 p. m.

Heaviest Weekend Rainfall In Preble Scattered showers that began Friday and continued Saturday and Sunday left as much as 3.40 inches of weekend rain in Adams county. ' The high reading, 3.40 inches, was recorded at the Arthur Koeneman farm in Preble township, where 1.40 inches fell Friday and two inches fell Saturday and Sunday. The rains blanketed the whole area, with overcast skies that let some bright sunlight through this morning, as temperatures were in the more comfortable low eighties. More rain is predicted later this week. These latest rains, in comparison to the storms that covered the area in the last significant rainfall, on July 1, were gentle and calm as a whole, with some downpour in the places where the most rain wag recorded. Friday’s rains seemed to follow a pattern, a diagonal line across the southern part of the county, where the next highest readings were recorded, 3.25 inches in Hartford township at the Ivan Huser farm, and 2.90 inches in Geneva, at Jack Hurst’s rain gauge. The showers, however, skipped all over on Saturday and Sunday, with the most rain being recorded late in the afternoon of both days. At the Huser farm, 1.65 inches feil early Friday morning, when the rest of the county received sprinkles of rain; .80 inch Friday noon; .20 inch Saturday, and .60 inch Sunday, about 5:30 p. m. The rest of the county weekend weather picture, in totals, looked like this: Cecil Harvey reported 1.20 inches of rain in Root township Saturday and Sunday. In Union township, .70 inches fell Friday noon, Saturday, and Sunday, at the Erwin Fuelling farm. In Kirkland township, 1.70 inches fell Friday and Saturday at the Peter J. Spangler farm, where rain, not measured, also fell Sunday afternoon. In Decatur, weather observer Louis Landrum reported a 1.70 inch rainfall for the weekend, beginning early Friday morning. The St. Mary's river rose slightly, to 1.53 feet. In St. Mary's township, at the Richard Speakman farm, a total of one inch fell Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In French township, at the Harold Moser farm, one inch fell Saturday aftesnoon, 1.20 inch fell Firday, and no measureable amount Sunday afternoon, for a 2.20-inch total. Ben Mazeline reports 1.55 inches fell in Monroe township, the most of this, .70 inch, on Friday. In Blue Creek township the Austin Merriman farm received an even inch total. In Jefferson township, a half inch total for the weekend fell at the Harley J. Reef farm.

That day will begin with a breakfast for livestock exhibitors, from 6:45 a. m. to 8 a. m., when the weigh-up for the 4-H steer show will begin. Judging that day will be in electricity and farm shop, swine, garden, beef, and rabbit projects. The garden exhibits will be due at the school by 9:30 a. m. From 8:30 a. m. to 11 p. m., the home economics, electricity, and handicraft exhibits will be open, and the food tent will open at 9:30 a. m., 'the rural youth stand, 11 a. m. At 6p. m. will be the greased pig contest, and at 6:30 p. m. toe clothing girls will begin to prepare for the dress revue. Swine Sale at 6 p. m. Thursday, July 30, the last day of the fair, will feature toe sale of the pigs and beef cattle. The swine sale will be toe first one, beginning at 6p. m. sharp. After toe swine are auctioned off, toe beef auction will begin, with toe grand champion sold first. That evening there will also be a band concert, which begins at 8 D. m. During toe intremission will be toe public speaking contest. Two final judging events will be that dav: dairy and food preparation judging, both in the morning. There will be a second breakfast for toe livestock exhibitors to begin toe dnv. and the food nreoarafion exhibits will arrive between 8 and 9a. m. From 8:30 a. m. to 10 o. m„ the home economics elect-iritv, and handicraft exhibits w<ll be onen. a-v’ toe .food tent and the rural vmtto rtnnd wilt a«*ain he onen, toe food f«nt b*<dnnin<* at 9 a. m.. the rural youth again at 11 a. m.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 20, 1959

Decatur Lad Is Killed Sunday Evening When Auto Is Overturned

4 1 ... ■ * JWiiH J x jig llht /I llWfl Iw'lOCTMy ft •; •fl PURGE IS ON IN CUBA — Dr. Osvaldo Dorticos (right) appears pleased after being named new president of Cuba by the Council of Ministers. Dorticos’ appointment came shortly after Premier Fidel Castro withdrew his own previous resignation as Prime Minister of the island republic. Castro (left* recanted after president Manuel Urrutia was forced tp give up his office amid public demands that he quit.

Mrs. Bessie E. Dull Dies This Morning Mrs. Bessie E. Dull, 74, lifelong resident of Van Wert county, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at her home in Wren, O. She had been seriously ill for the past six months. She was born in Van Wert county, Dec. 21, 1884, a daughter of Oscar and Anna McGill-Bell, and married Charles C. Dull Aug. 2, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death Feb. 13 of this year. Mrs. Dull attended the Evangelical United Brethren church at Wren. Surviving are one son, Buford Dull of Wren; three daughters, Mrs. V. E. (Velma) Gahman of Wren, Mrs. Ralph (Chloe) Simerman of Decatur, and Mrs. Doyt (Martha) Tickle of Van Wert; her stepfather, E. E. McClure of Wren; one sister, Mrs. John Furry of Elida, O.; a half-sister, Mrs. Orley Gehres of Wren; a half-brother, Lohnes McClure of Wren; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Walter Purdy officiating. Bureal will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services.

Asks Court To Halt Mass Picket Lines

PITTSBURGH (UPI(-Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., asked toe courts today to break up mass picket lines of striking United Steelworkers which the company declared have “unlawfully” imprisoned supervisory employes in three Pennsylvania plants. The legal action, first of the six-day walkout of 500,000 basic steel workers, came as the government’s top mediator, Joseph F. Finnegan, was striving in New York to get negotiators for toe union and industry back to the bargaining table. In Washington, President Eisenhower received another report on toe strike situation from Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. The President also discussed the steel walkout with Dr. Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. J&L, the nation’s fourth largest producer, filed requests for injunctions in both toe courts of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and Beaver County. Hearings of the petitions were set for Tuesday in the Beaver County Court and Thursday at Pittsburgh. Can Hurt GOP J&L charged that USW members had through “malicious conduct" sealed off its mills, even blocking deliveries of milk to toe “hundreds” of supervisory work-

Six Entrants For 4-H Speech Contest Six Adams county 4-H’ers have entered the first county public speaking contest to be held in connection with the county 4-H fair. Two county winners, ? boy and a girl, will be chosen to represent ' th£ county at the state fair in the contest Thursday, July 30, the-last night of the fair. The entrants, the county extension office announced this morning, are Linda King, of St. Mary’s township; Elaine Weidler, Root; Jim Fuhrman, Preble; Jim Sipe, Blue Creek; Joyce Busick, Root and Donna Shoaf, Washington. The county contest will be during the intermission of the Thursday evening band concert. The winners will receive gold medals of honor and a chance to go on for prizes of trips to Washington, D.C., and the United Nations, at the state fair contest September 4. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, a little warmer northwest. Tuesday partly cloudy and a little warmer, chance of scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers extreme north. Low tonight 60 to 66. High Tuesday mid or upper 80s. Sunset today 8:09 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:34 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Generally fair with some widely scattered thundershowers late Wednesday or Wednesday evening. Lows 57 to 65. Highs in the 80s.

ers trapped in the plants. A political note has also crept into the strike news. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) said in a television interview Sunday in the nation's capital that a continuing strike would hurt GOP ehances in the 1960 election. Javits and Rep. Chester Bowles (D-Conn), appearing on another TV program, called on the President to take a more active part in trying to terminate the walkout. Urges Fact Finding Board Javits said “the sooner the President appoints a fact-finding board” in toe strike “the sooner we will get some conclusion.’ Bowles, asserting that the industry should hike wages and’ cut prices, said that steel prices had risen faster than wages and that labor costs had actually decreased, due to increased per-man output. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) also said Sunday that his Senate anti - monopoly subcommittee would reopen hearings soon on alleged price-fixing by toe steel industry. In the past, Kefauver charged, steel companies have boosted steel prices more than twice toe amount needed to pay iincreased wages.

A Decatur youth was killed and two local companions were injured, one seriously, Sunday at 4:30 p. m. when their car blew a tire and went out of control on state road 101 in Allen county, near Harlan. Stephen Nicholas Meyer, 17, of 631 S. 13th street, died of a skull fracture at 6:45 p. m. Sunday in Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne. Jack Rodney Meyer, 17, a cousin of the victim, who lives at route 5, Decatur, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyer, is listed in “poor condition” this morning at Parkview with multiple facial lacerations and a completely severed lower lip. The driver of the car, Donald Lawrence Case, 22, of 521 S. 13th street, was treated for minor injuries, and released. Gase was charged with reckless driving by the Allen county sheriff’s police, who reported the Gase vehicle driving at an excessive rate of speed on the wet highway. Cpl. Wellard Hadley said that Gase admitted driving 70 miles an hour while southbound on the highway when the tire blew. Hadley also reported that 202 feet of skid marks were laid down by the car as it careened along the east ditch an slashed through several feet of fence. On the last 60 feet of the fatal plunge, the car rolled over several times. The state police reported that Gase was thrown from the car, while the two injured youths remained in the car. The three youths were returning home after a Sunday outing at Hamilton Lake. High School Senior Stephen Meyer, a son of Arthur C. Meyer, had been employed as a clerk at the A & P store in Decatur during the summer months. He would have been a senior at Decatur Catholic high school next fall. The accident victim was born in Decatur Feb. 12, 1942, a son of Arthur C. and Beulah NicholasMeyer. His mother died several years ago. Stephen and his father have been making their home with their sister and daughter, Mrs. Richard Des Jean, 632 South 13th street. The Meyer lad was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. Surviving in addition to the father and sister are a brother, Robert E. Meyer, of Decatur, Adams county deputy sheriff, and a halfsister, Mrs. George (Virginia! Carey of Gladstone, Ore. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to tne Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday at the funeral home, after which the high school choir will go to the church for rehearsal for the funeral services.

Driver Os Wrecked Auto Is Located

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the driver involved in the one-car accident on the Piqua road, 3’,4 miles east of Decatur Saturday morning at about 1 o'clock, ended when Paul Eugene Fuhrman, the driver, called his relatives from Rockford, 0., Saturday night at 8 o’clock. Fuhrman was arrested by sheriff Merle Affolder for leaving the scene of an accident. The case was scheduled to be heard this morning in court but the defendant was scheduled to leave for national guard training and county prosecutor Severin H. Schurger postponed the hearing. No definite date was set for the hearing. Fuhrman, according to sheriff Affolder. ctyused an estimated $1,589 damage his car when he smashed/ into the bridge on the Piqua road after his right front wheel left the blacktop road and failed to get back on the road in (Contlneed oa »lx)

Ike Appeals To Congress Slow High Spending WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Eisenhower today pleaded anew that Congress refrain from authorizing any new water resources projects this year. In an exchange of letters with Rep. John Taber (R-N.Y.I, Eisenhower said “it is my firm judgment that the president and future welfare of the American people require that the skyrocketing of federal spending be stopped.” Taber is senior Republican on the House Appropriations Comommittee and will serve on a Senate-House conference committee which will draft a final version of this year’s public works appropriation bill. The President said his request for funds to finish water development projects already under way was “the highest expenditure in our nation’s history” in the field. The House passed a bill which would provide funds for 44 new projects. The immediate cash outlay would be only slightly above the President’s recommendation, but would cost much more in the long run. Eisenhower's latest statements, stiffly worded, were taken as an indication that he might veto any bill carrying funds for new projects. Other congressional news: Poultry: Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) issued a statement charging that the Small Business Ad-

Red Uprising Rages In Iraq

BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD—Two Cairo newspapers reported today that a Communist uprising in Iraq against the government of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem in the oil city of Kirkuk was still raging and that the Communists were hanging a “large number’’ of notables there. The death toll was estimated at between 50 and 100 persons. A clandestine radio calling itself the Voice of Free Iraq also reported today the fighting had spread to the city of Anah across the top of Iraq from Kirkuk and that Communists there had made “another” attempt to capture the city. Conflicing reports received in London from the British embassy in Baghdad indicated that “the situation in Kirkuk now seems to be calm,” a British Foreign Office spokesman said. The spokesman said the reports from Baghdad were dispatched late Sunday. He said there were no reports of injury among Britons in Kirkuk or of damage to British property. Army Brigade Mutinies Most of the happenings in Iraq were veiled by heavy government censorship but the government confirmed that the Communists began an attempt on July 14 to seize control. July 14 is the first anniversary of the uprising against King Faisal. The major fighting was reported confined to the city of Kirkuk where an army brigade there mutinied and joined the Communist rebels, the semiofficial Middle East News Agency reported in Cairo. Reports today said the Reds held large areas of the city and had seized an arms depot. Two Cairo newspapers, the government organ Al Gomhouria and Al Shaab, reported fighting was still under way in Kirkuk and that the Communist - led second brigade of the second army division had blown up a number of bridges in its mutiny against the government. Dragged Through Streets Mena reported the communists in Kirkuk executed a number of persons and dragged them through the streets. But in Lon-

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ministration is contributing to poultry and eggs by granting extensive loans to the industry. He said that while the SBA has been allowing $1,124,000 in loans to this field in the last 60 days, the Department of Agriculture in the last six months has "spent over 19 million dollars to support the demoralized poultry and egg market” He said these agencies “should begin conducting their business with some degree of common sense.” Stock: The administration indicated support of pending legislation to make some tax concessions in the reassignment of General Motors stock to public stockholders of the Du Pont Company. Under a Supreme Court antitrust ruling, General Motors stock now held by Du Pont must be distributed to public and corporate Du Pont stockholders. The measure under study in the House Ways and Means Committee would give public stockholders the same tax break as the corporate holders. Father Os Four Dies From Bulbar Polio GARY, Ind. tUPD—Louis Keplar, 33, East Gary, father of lour children, died Sunday night of bulbar polio. It was Lake County’s second polio death this year. Keplar died in Gary Methodist hospital. Relatives said he had received no Salk vaccine protection although his children had been inoculated. The two Lake county deaths are the only ones reported in Indiana this year from polio.

don the Iraq Petroleum Co. announced its 500 British civilians were safe. Kassem, in a radio appeal to the nation, asked Iraqis to avoid "blind fanaticism” that might lead to further civjl war. He warned that his government would “settle accounts” with the Communists and other anti - government forces but expressed hope no further force would be necessary. Heavy Baghdad censorship kept most of the details from the outside world, but reports reaching Caird and other Middle East capitals said anti - government flareups occurred throughout Traq with the heaviest fighting at Kirkuk, 90 miles from the scene of a major anti-government revolt last March. The March revolt in Mosul was crushed in a week of heavy fighting in which the Iraqi government said the rebels were aided by Egypt and Syria. “Fierce Battles” Reported The Damascus newspaper Al Wahdah said the Communists began “fierce battles” in Kirkuk three days ago and that Communists and Turkmen tribesmen battled in the streets. ’ “The Communists hanged eight of their corpses on gallows and dragged the remaining two in the streets of the city,” the Middle East News Agency reported in Cairo. It said army units rushed to restore order but one army unit, the second regiment, defected to the Communist side. It said the Communists assasinated the an-ti-Communist second - in - command of the defecting unit, dragged his body through the streets and then seized "control ... of important sectors of the city.” The Communists have become increasingly influential in the Kassem government since be came to power last year and Western diplomats have expressed fear they would try to take over the oil-rich nation. Reports from Iraq today indicated that the Communists* major effort may have started.