Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 176

Cheer Nixon In Siberia

NOVOSIBIRSK, U.S.S.R. (UPI) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon received the warmest reception yet ot his “peace and friendship” tour of the Soviet Union when he arrived in this Siberian industrial city today. A crowd of 20,000 cheering persons jammed the airport when the big Soviet - built TO -104 airliner carrying Nixon and his party landed here this afternoon following a one - stop flight from Leningrad. Hundreds of others lined the streets from the airport to the center of the city to wave at the cars and buses bringing members of the Nixon entourage into town. The vice president acknowledged the warmth of his greeting by telling the throngs in this “Chicago of Siberia,” 1,750 miles east of Moscow, that he was here “so that we can know each other better and bring the peace and friendship that all of us want.” Six-Hour Flight "I want to express my appreciation for your warm welcome and to extend on behalf of all the people of the United States our best wishes to the peoples of this city and to the great territories of Siberia," Nixon said in reply to welcoming speeches. “This is a closed city, and I am Isure you will agree with me that 'all cities should be open on both sides.” This was an apparent reference to the fact that few outsiders are permitted to visit this great industrial metropolis of western Siberia. Nixon and his entourage landed after a six-hour flight from the West, interrupted briefly by a refueling stop at Sverdlovsk on the border between Europe and Asia. Nixon’s arrival coincided with the end of the day shift in this manufacturing city of 800,000 persons. This fact may have explained the size of the crowds, although there was no question of the friendship and warmth of the vice president's reception. Visits Steel Plant Streets along the route from the airport to the city's center were so packed with people that at times it was diffcult for the motorcade to get through. People peered from balconies of five-story buildings and cheered as the vice president drove by. At Stalin Square in the center of town, people surrounded Nixon as he struggled out of his car. Nixon left the square to visit a steel plant, where 4,000 workers repeated the welcoming performance, crowding around to stare and smile. The vice president and Mrs. Nixon planned to see the Siberian Ballet tonight. So far Nixon appears successful in his campaign to win friends and influence important Soviet people. This was the deepest penetration into the vast Soviet land mass by America’s No. 1 traveling peace salesman. (Some of die glow was rubbed from the Nixon mission by the Soviet accounts of his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev which made out Nixon as a feeble and defensive debater in toe face of a righteous and lively Khrushchev. (West European newspapers said the published version in toe Soviet press was a “complete falsification” and that Khrushchev had not lived up to his pledge to print a full account of toe exchange. (Soviet press accounts of Nixon’s visit to Leningrad also made, him appear a poor second in talks with unnamed workers. The accounts indicated he was unable to answer questions on banning atomic tests and on U.S.-Soviet trade. (In addition the Soviet press

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today panned the American ex- , hibition in Moscow as reminiscent ■ of Disneyland and designed only I as a cold war propaganda weap- : on. Izvestia said toe electronic > brain gave out false answers on U.S. unemployment figures.) (Moscow newspapers also kept i up their stunning attack on the “Captive Nations Week” procla- ; mation by President Eisenhower, i Some said it had been a “disgraceful failure.”) Two other TO-104 jets carried a party of 100 newsmen into the heart of the Soviet Union, prob--1 ably the biggest number of for- : eign correspondents ever to journey so far into toe heart of Russia. The Nixons were accompanied i on toe flight by Georgy Zhukov, chairman of the Soviet state committee for cultural relations with foreign countries. They were seen off at the airport by Nikolai Smirnov, chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Soviet, who wished the American guests a happy landing. Nixon will spend the rest of today and most of Wednesday in Novosibirsk, the big manufacturing and communications center on the Ob River. Wednesday afternoon he will swing around and fly to Sverdlovsk, the big steel manufacturing center known as the Russian Pittsburgh, 850 miles east of Moscow. As he headed into Siberia, Nixon could show evidence that he has generated some good feeling among the Soviet hierarchy —a facb that may cause him to recommend to President Eisenhower that Premier Nikita Khrushchev be invited to the United States. Some examples of the good feeling Nixon has generated: —Khrushchev’s gesture of turning over his country estate to the Nixons Saturday night and then hosting a river cruise and dinner for them. —The unexpected decision by First Deputy Premier and Mrs. Frol R. Kozlov to accompany the Nixons from Moscow to Leningrad Monday. Kozlov is a native of Leningrad and this was taken as a compliment to toe Nixons. —Khrushchev's belated offer to allow Nixon to fly to Leningrad in toe U.S. jet that brought him to Russia last Thursday for his 11-day visit. Nixon declined with thanks. The Soviets originally hadi rejected Nixon’s use of the Amer-| cian jet in toe Soviet Union.

Strike Threat I In Aluminum I

NEW YORK (UPl)—The United Steelworkers of America (USW) , scheduled contract talks with the Big Three aluminum producers , today under new , threat of a strike which would shut down the , nation’s production of a second , basic metal at midnight Friday. In toe two-week old steel strike. ( Federal Mediation Chief Joseph ■ F. Finnegan reported “no sub- , stantial change of position by , either party in any respect” after a two-hour joint meeting Monday, , the first since the srike began, i No further meting was scheduled. . The cooper industry also was ' under strike threat, from the ! Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers i Union, which has been continuing j talks under •contracts extended j since June 30. , Record Steel Profits Steel companies continued , meanwhile to show record sales (

House Group Rejects Gas Tax Increase WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee today tentatively turned down proposals to solve the interstate highway financing by hiking the federal gasoline tax. The tax - writing committee, meeting in secret, voted down three separate plans that called for higher gasoline taxes to replenish the highway trust fund. Committee sources said that none of the three proposals gathered the support of more than six of the 25 members of the committee, making it appear unlikely that any financing plan which embodies higher gasoline taxes would be agreed upon. President Eisenhower’s request for a 1% cent increase in the tax, which has been opposed by Republicans and Democrats alike, was not even called up for a committee vote. It was understood that two of the votes came on plans which would have simply boosted the gasoline Tax by % and 1 cent, respectively. The federal now is 3 cents a gallon. The third committee vote was taken on a proposal that combined a tax increase with diversion of some excise taxes from the Treasury’s general revenue fund into the highway trust fund. Vesper Services At Fair On Wednesday The Rev. J. J. Klopfenstein will give the devotional message at the evening vesper services at the 4-H fair Wednesday at 7 o’clock. The Rev. Mr. Klopfenstein is pastor of the First Missionary church in Berne. The vespers will precede the public presentation of toe dress revue, “Patio Party,” toe second evening event for the second day of the fair. Don Gerig, music teacher at Adams Central school, will lead congregational singing, and a young men’s quartet from the Berne Missionary church will provide special music. The Rev. Emmett Anderson, pastor of the Union Chapel E. U. B. church, will give scripture reading and will offer prayer, and to close the services, toe Rev. Vernon Riley, pastor of the Monroe Friends church, will pronounce the bene-

and profits in newly released six month reports. The strike-threat-ened Aluminum Co. of America, (Alcoa) also showed a sharp increase in sales and earnings for the half-year period. The giant United States Steel Corp, was to release today a financial report expected to show record or near-record sales and earnings. Key issue in the stalemated steel negotiations is the industry’s insistence that it cannot pay a wage increase without raising prices and that both must be resisted to combat inflation. The issue is similar in the closely related talks with the aluminum firms, who normally follow a steel-set wage pattern. The union contends the companies can pay a wage increase out of increased profits without a corresponding increase in price. No Agreement Seen) USW President David J. McDonald saiu Monday night he sees no prospect of agreement with the aluminum companies before the' strike deadline. He said he is empowered to call about 30,000 Steelworkers on strike against the three firms without further union action. Asked if he planned to do so, he said only: “No contract, no work.” He said the companies have not suggested a contract extension. The USW represents about 30,000 of the aluminum firms' 58,000 workers. The Aluminum Workers International Union, which represents most of the rest, also is negotiating for new contracts to replace those expiring July 31. McDonald has not yet personally entered aluminum talks, although he has been in close touch with union negotiating teams here. Meetings were scheduled today with Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., and Reynolds Metals Co. The three coopanies produce more than 80 per cent of the nation’s basic aluminum.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 28,1959

West Powers Working On Compromise Plan To Save Geneva Talks

Auctions On Final Day Os 4-H Fair Swine and beef auctions, the public speaking contest, and a band concert will cap the 1959 activities for the county 4-H fair at Monroe Thursday. The sale of barrows will begirt at 6 p.m., with the beef sale following in the sale and exhibit ring between the sheep and swine tents. At 8 p.m., the band concert will begin, and during that intermission, the public speaking contest will begin, with six 4-H’ers comAdams county at the state fair pubpeting for the right to represent lie speaking contest. The day begins at 6:45 a.m., with the breakfast for livestock exhibitors. Two judging events are scheduled for the last day: food preparation, with the exhibits arriving between 8 and 9 a.m., and judging at 9:30 a.m., and dairy judging, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. As on every other day of the ■ fair, the home economics, electricity and handicraft exhibits and the . commercial display tent will be , open, along with the food tent and , the rural youth foot long hot dog i stand. 1 The fair for ’59 will end with the close of the beef auction, and the exhibits will be removed between ' 9 and 10 p.m. r Henry A. Boms Dies After Long Illness Henry A. Borns, 75, retired farmer and resident of Adams county for the past 45 years, died at 10:15 o’clock this morning at his home on Decatur route 6. He had been ill of complications for the past two years. He was born in St. Joe, 0., Aug. 18, 1883, a son of Leopold and Sarah Studer-Boms, and was married to Helen E. Meyers Oct. 18, 1915. Mr. Boms was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the Third Order of St. Francis. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, William J. Boms of Philadelphia, Pa.; two daughters, Mrs .Mark (Mary Virginia) Schurger, and Mrs. Carl (Ruth Ann) Braun, both of Decatur; 10 grandchildren; one brother, Charles Boms of Dayton, 0., and one sister, Miss Nora Borns, also of Dayton. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends mal call after 12 noon Wednesday until time of toe services. The Holy Name society will recitet he rosary at 8 p. m. Wednesday. Monmouth School's Years books Received Announcement was made today that the Monmouth high school yearbooks have arrived. The books will be distributed during a combination record hop and autograph party at the Monmouth school Saturday night from 8 to 11 o’clock. Two-Year-Old Girl Drowns Near Home MISHAWAKA, Ind. (UPI)-Cas-sandra Schott, 2, Osceola, drowned in toe St. Joseph River behind her home Monday night. She was found by her mother, Mrs. Herbert Schott, in four feet of water. Penn Twp. firemen and St. Joseph County deputy sheriffs applied artificial respiration for more than an hour before she was declared dead.

Indiana Halts Bid-Letting On Highways \ INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—lndiana today ended all bid-letting on fed-eral-state highway construction projects until Congress appropriates enough money to assure that claims will be paid. The Indiana Highway Department adopted a resolution which said it “will have no further lettings of the published program for 1959 until and unless the State Highway Department of Indiana is assured by appropriate action of toe Congress that their reimbursable claims will be promptly paid when submitted to the Department of Commerce for liquidation,” “When the Act of Congress is consummated and prompt payments in liquidation of reimbursable claims are assured, contract lettings will immediately be rescheduled.” This moratorium resolution covers all road construction planned for Indiana by the state highway department during the remainder of 1959. Highway chairman John Peters said there are sufficient funds on hand to pay for all projects on which bids were taken previously and on those for which blds were opened today. Handley Plugs For $ Governor Handley charged that “the national highway system is not going to be on sound financial basis until every penny which is sent to Washington by highway users is specifically earmarked for the highway program.” Handley said Indiana will continue to buy right-of-way and plan “with the same speed and athnepeat federal - state highway projects “with the same speed and energy ... .that we have in the past.” “If and when Congress enacts legislation insuring full participation of the federal government with the highway program, we will then assure lettings at an accelerated speed in order to catch up any loss of contracts that may accrue during this period.” Seeks Balanced Budget Handley maintained that “the motorists’ money should not be diverted to other uses. The gen- - eral (federal) budget can be balanced without penalizing the highway program. There is too much federal money being squandered in areas where we could readily trim our sails and yet help those foreign countries which are actually in a position to augment our national defense.” Handley’s statement asserted that “it is high time that we concentrate our interests on constructive and productive efforts rather than continue in the direction of a top-heavy Washington bureaucracy and a spend-it-all welfare state. “We have no intentions of awarding contracts for highway construction in Indiana when we cannot foresee the money to pay for toe construction. We do not intend to spend money in Indiana that we do not have.” The moratorium resolution was feigned by Peters and the other two members of the three-mem-ber highway department, Charles M. Dawson and H.E. Bodine. a- , Decatur Merchants To Fair Wednesday The Decatur Merchants will attend toe county 4-H fair on Wednesday, not Tuesday as was reported yesterday in the Daily Democrat. Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary of toe local Chamber of Commerce, also announced that merchants wishing to attend and seeking transportation should meet at the south side of toe court house at 12:15 p. m. The visit to the Monroe fairgrounds is an annual event for local merchants, indicating their interest In toe welfare of the 4-H program, Kolter said. He aded that the luncheon will be served at 12:30 p. m. for the group.

Higher Tax Rafes In Union Township Union township, which lowered its tax rate substantially last year, found it necessary to raise it back up again, and has submitted a budget calling for a rate of $1.68 for the 1960 fiscal year, as compared with 51.32 in 1959. The first township budget to be submitted, the amount called for to be spent is $28,184, compared with $24,432 this year, and $32,257 in 1958; $32,605 in 1957; and $30,856 in 1956. The net taxable property in Union township amounts to $1,675,480. The township rate will be 11 cents, to raise $1,832; $1.09 to raise $lB,322 for the tuition fund, and $.48 to raise $8,030 for the special school fund. The budget calls for $1,423 for pay of trustee, rent, clerical and travel expenses; S3OO for books, stationery, and advertising; $25 for care of cemeteries; S3OO for fire protection; $485 for other civil township expenses, for a total of $2,533. The tuition fund has a fixed charge of $21,000. In the special school fund. $5,450 is for coordinate activities; S2O for operation; $4,950 for maintenance; and $7,000 for fixed charges, for a total of $17,420. The township proof relief fund calls for SIOO for personal service and S9OO for direct relief, a total of SI,OOO. The auditor’s office fixes the poor relief rate. Final Arguments In Trial On Wednesday TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI)—A federal court jury got a rest today after more than five weeks of six-day-a-week duty in the trial of eight men accused of evading the 10 per cent federal tax bite on millions of dollars in bets. The defense, in a surprise move, rested its case Monday without calling a single witness. Five defense lawyers presented some documentary evidence Saturday and Monday, and then told Judge Cale J. Holder that each of the defendants rested his case. The government had spent 29 days presenting testimony from 132 witnesses in an attempt to prove the accused evaded $326,000 in excise taxes on more than three million dollars in bets. Holder spent today with the five defense attorneys and two government lawyers going over his instructions to the jury. The jury took it easy. Holder said final arguments would begin Wednesday at 9 a.m. The attorneys were expected to take all day and part of the evening in making their final summations. Defense attorneys asked for 5 hours and 45 minutes to allow time for all five of them to present their arguments. The government said it would want equal time. The judge said all arguments must be completed in one day, but he made no final determination as to the amount of time he would allow each side. If the final arguments take all day Wednesday, Holder’s instructions to the jury would be delivered Thursday and the jury probably would get the case in mid-afternoon or later. Lase Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPI) —Football Commissioner Bert Beil said today that a new professional football league will be announced shortly with at least six teams spanning the nation from eoast to coast. WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) today came out for Adlai E. Stevenson as Democratic candidate for president in 1960. Neuberger announced his choice in a brief Senate floor speech.

GENEVA (UPl)—The West is working on a compromise plan to save the deadlocked Big Four foreign ministers’ talks by offering Russia a proposal to keep the Berlin situation as it is until Christmas 1961, conference I sources reported today. The plan reportedly will prot pose that: Western rights in Berlin should remain unchanged until an , all - German settlement, unless modified previously by Big Four agreement. —At the end of 2% years—that is, around Christmas 1961—the , Big Four foreign ministers should meet again to reconsider the 1 Berlin situation. The new Western plan would would mean putting the Berlin issue on ice at least until after the 1960 U.S. presidential election, the British parliamentary election 1 which must be held before May, 1960, and the West German parliamentary election scheduled for . the fall of 1961. i It reportedly was studied by U.S., British, French and West ; German officials this morning and submitted by them to a ’ meeting of the Western Big Four 1 foreign ministers this afternoon. ’ They got together to draw up a list of proposals for a Berlin truce I settlement for submission 1 Wednesday to Russia's Andrei A. . Gromyko. The Soviet foreign minister and j his aides presumably were pref paring a similar list of Russia's terms. . Western diplomats were extremely cautious about predicting any major break in the confer- * ence, since toe drafts essentially 5 represent no more than summaries of positions already outlined verbally by the foreign ministers. ' However, there was a general feeling that translating these proposals and counter-proposals into black and white would help greatly to clarify toe issues and give the delegates something “solid” to work with. Most ooservers here were ■ agreed on one thing: that in de- , riding to put their proposals in draft form, toe Western Allies and Russia had shown they are eager to bring toe meeting to a speedy conclusion, if only with some rudimentary guarantee that there will be no fighting over Berlin. The proposal for toe written drafts came Monday, when Sec-

Grand Champions Selected At Fair

Miss Connie Bergman, a member of the Monmouth Merry Maids 4-H club, was chosen grand champion in the fifth division, or baking division, at the Adams county 4-H fair. Miss Bergman’s entry of an angel food cake was selected a state fair entry by the official judge. Miss Judy Coffee of Geneva, was awarded the reserve champion prize for her upside down cake and is automatically in line for state fair competition. Among the other state fair entrants will be Gyneth Schnepp for her Hungarian coffee cake; Jane Duff, a chocolate cake; Diane I Raudenbush for a yeast bread; Joan Schumann, butter cake; and Linda Balsinger, snickerdoodles. Winners in the different divisions include fifth division, first. Miss Bergman; second. Miss Schnepp; third. Miss Duff; fourth, Karen Sue Foor; and fifth, Susan Ann McCullough. Fourth division winners are, first. Miss Raudenbush: second, Alice Habegger; third, Larry Duff; fourth, Ann Moser; and fifth, Rosemary Schlickman. In the third division. Miss Coffee was first with Carol Norquest and Marjorie Lehman second and third, respectively. Miss Joan Schumann was the first place winner in the second division. Other winners are second, Sara Ploughe; third, Susan Wagley; fourth, Pam Heffner; and fifth. Carolyn Carver. In the first division, cookies were made with Miss Balsiger as first place recipient. Michael Leyse won second; Cynthia Fuelling, third; Kay Bultemeier, fourth; and Karen BoUenbacher, fifth. Food Preservation With a tempting display of frozen

1 retary of State Christian A. Her- ' ter, British Foreign Secretary Swlein Lloyd, French FJ/eign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur- ' ville, and Soviet Foreign Minister ' Andrei Gromyko met at a two ' hour “working tea’ at Lloyd’s villa. All three Western delegation spokesmen refused to say who 1 made the proposal, but Western sources said it actually came from Gromyko himself. The work of boiling the Western proposals into document form was being done today by a coordinating committee. Herter, Lloyd, and De Murville themselves decided to use the time to discuss the issue of disarmament with West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano. Commissioners In Regular Session The county commissioners met in a regular weekly session at the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg, Monday, further discussing ‘ upcoming budget appropriations ' for 1960 and handling several other 1 routine matters during the course of the meeting. I The commissioners appsoved a . plat for building lots submitted by 3 Floyd Liby of Monroe. Liby has had two other similar plats approv- - ed by the commissioners for the ? Monroe area. Frank Kitson, director of the f county home and farm, met with the group and reported on the in- ’ mates at the establishment. Kitson usually presents these reports to keep the commissioners updated on current events at tne county farm. ’ In addition to working on budget * problems, the salaries of deputy , assessors arose. After a survey of the problem, the matter was tabled until further information could be obtained. Robert S. Anderson, county attorney, and the commissioners set up a working outline for budget ■ requests, which were handed in on July 25, or earlier. No detailed report on the 1960 budget for Adams county was available as yesterday's meeting, but the entire budget was will be announced during the week of August 3.

peas, melon, and lamb patties. Miss Marilyn Stucky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stucky of Monroe, was declared as grand champion in the food preservation division of the 4-H exhibit. Miss Stucky and Miss Kristine K. Fuelling, reserve champion, will show their projects at the state fair Miss Fuelling won the second highest honor with a display of canned honeydew melon. Jars of green beans canned by Miss Joye Strouse and Miss Mary Ann Kipfer were also selected as state fair material as were the cans of cherries and com preserved by Miss Brenda Roe. Another canned product will be shown at the state fair by Linda King who prepared corn and dew berries. In the frozen foods division, Miss Gail Egly placed second with an arrangement of cauliflower and green beans. Frozen strawberries, beef roast, and spinach Won a third place rating for Lois Gerke. Both Miss Egly and Miss Gerke will bq sent to the Indiana state fair. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with some scattered showers or thundershowers tonight. Sunset 8:02 p.m. Low tonight 65 to 72. Sunrise Wednesday 5:42 p.m. Partly cloudy, warm and humid Wednesday with scattered showers or thundershowers mostly in afternoon or evening. High 85 to 92, low Wednesday night around 70. Outlook for Thursday: Continued warm and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 85 to 92.

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