Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 177

Favor Billion Dollar Federal Bond Issue To Finance Road Crisis

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee today approved a plan to float a billion dollars worth of bonds to meet the federal highway financing crisis. The proposal would be linked with a stretch-out in construction of tiie 41,000-mile interstate superhighway network. This stretch-out would be felt by the states beginning with the apportionment of federal money for the year starting July 1, 1960. The Eisenhower administration is opposed to the issuance of bonds as a solution to the financing muddle. It has urged instead that Congress hike the federal gasoline taxes from 3 cents a gallon to 4% cents. The committee Tuesday rejected the tax increase approach. It was reported to have voted 15-10 at today’s closed door session to approve the bond issue plan, which was advanced by Rep. Frank Ikard (D-Tex.). The proposal would authorize the issuance of up to one billion dollars worth of revenue bonds against the assets of the highway trust fund. The bonds would be repaid within five years. To beef up the highway trust fund so that the bonds can be repaid, one-fifth of the receipts from the existing 10 per cent excise tax on new' automobiles would be shifted from the Treasury’s general fund to the highway fund for four years, beginning July 1, 1961. This diversion scheme, also criticized by the administration, would bring in an estimated 250 million doUars a year tor a total of a billion dollars in tour yean. The proposal contemplates a stretch-out in the construction program, now scheduled to be completed by 1972, to four years after that date. Nucleaf Conference Meeting Postponed GENEVA (UPI) — The three power nuclear conference cancelled a scheduled meeting today by unanimous consent. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers north tonight Sunset 8:01 p. m. Low tonight low 70s. Sunrise Thursday 5:43 a.«. Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers, continued warm and humid except turning cooler northwest late Thursday. High 87 to 93, low Thursday ' night mid-€os north, low 70s south. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and cooler north, continued hot and humid south with scattered showers and thunderstorms. High low 80s north, low 90s south.

Nixon, Khrushchev Discussed U.S. Bases

SVERDLOVSK, U.S.S.R. (UPI) —Vice Presiddent Richard M. Nixon flew to this Ural industrial city today after disclosing he had discussed the issue of U.S. military bases with Premier Nikita Khrushchev last Sunday. The disclosure of the bases discussion came during a heated exchange with an excited Communist heckler in Novosibirsk in western Siberia this morning before Nixon left there for Sverdlovsk. His most vigorous encounter came with a 30-year-old man named Grigori FedoroVitch Belausov. He identified himself as an electrician at a hydro-electric station, but he questioned Nixon With all the skill and sharpness of a wel-indoctrinated Coihmunist Party worker. At times he shouted directly into Nixon** face, interru|pted him and spoke with such vigor that some of his fellow workers calmed him down. “Mr. vice president, may I ask a question?’* Belausov asked. When Nixon invited the question, the Russian said: “We’re acquainted with your speeches and we’re very happy with the friendly things you say in them. The Soviet Union has no military bases outside her borders and the United States has many in other countries. Why is that, I’d like to know.”

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Jackie Hurst Wins 2nd Championship Jackie Hurst, of the Monmouth Merry Maids, was awarded the) grand champion rosette in the handicraft project for this year. Exhibiting an embroidered baby blanket, a table cloth, and four napkins decorated in Swedish weaving, and a smocked pillow top, Miss Hurst won her second grand championship this year. Her first was in home improvement. Lila Kruetzman, of the Preble Jolly Juniors, received the reserve grand champion award. The daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kreutzman and a 4-H member for eight years, she is in the handicraft propect for the sixth year. Marton Moake, handicraft judge from Fort Wayne, awarded the folowing premiums in each division and permitted these exhibits to go on to the state fair. Six exhibits will be entered in the state fair 4-H handicraft class: an aluminum tray by Erma Stauffer, of the Hartford Happy Go Lucky 4-H club; a wool stole, Marjean Neuenschwander, Wabash Cloverleaf; headboard for a bed, John Landis, Blue Creek Sodbusters;. baby blanket, Jackie Hurst, Monmouth Mery Maids: a tree branch, Richard Weiland, Union Workers, and a skirt with Swedish weaving as decoration, Lila Kruetzman, Preble Jolly Juniors. In division I, the first premium went to Miss Stauffer; second, Steven Randolph, Hartford Hoosier Workers; third. Miss Neuenschwander; fourth, Ellen Kay Lindsey, Hartford Happy G. Lucky; and fifth, Kathleen Rofert, Preble Jolly Juniors. In division 11, first was Richard Gerber, Kirkland Future Farmers; second. Bob Brandt, Preble Jolly Juniors; third, Sharon Diehl, Berne Jolly Workers; and fourth. Linda Conrad, Kirkland Kut-Ups. Third division winners are: Miss Hurst, first; second, Ruth Ann Hoffman, Preble Jolly Juniors; third, Diane Sue Raudenbush, Blue Creek Up and At It; and fourth, Pauline Ripley, Blue Creek Up and At It. In fourth division competition, Richard Weiland placed first. In the fifth division, first premium was awarded to Nancy Adamson, Union Uals; division six, first, Lila Kruetzman, Preble Jolly Juniors; second, Sandy Grote, Union Rais; and seventh division, second premium, Conie Bergman, Monmouth Merry Maids.

It was here that Nixon tipped his hand on what he had discussed with Khrushchev. “I have discussed this problem with Mr. Khrushchev,” Nixon said. “As you know, we have political and foreign policy differences. When we both agree upon a disarmament program, with adequate inspection, then we feel we can take up the question of bases. Now I’d like to ask you a question. . The Russian cut in bluntly to say that “I’m not satisfied with that answer.” But Nixon persisted. “In East Germany and Poland, the U.S.S.R. has troops,” he said. “Why are her troops in those countries.” “We have no Soviet forces there,” the Communist insisted, his voice rising. “Is Poland your country?” Nixon demanded in a flrm voice. “la East Germany your • country? Is Hungary your country? We say this is not our countr. Then wh do you have Soviet troops there?” Then Nixon called the roll again in a quick staccato: “What about Poland, East German, Bulgaria and Romania — wht about Hungary?” “American troops and Western troops are in Germany and the Soviet Union had to maintain its troops there,” toe Russian replied.

Delay Strike On Aluminum

NEW YORK (UPDA Friday strike deadline against the nation's biggest aluminum producers has been postponed until 30 days after settlement of the steel strike, which goes into its third week today with no end in sight. With 500,000 steel workers on strike, an estimated 78,000 others laid off transport and mining jobs and steel production at less than 85 per cent of national capacity: —Chief Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan, after separate conferences with both sides, said he saw no immediate prospects of a quick end of the strike but he is still trying. He was to meet with both sides again today. —The United States Steel Corp, largest of the nation’s steel companies, reported that its net profits in the first half of this year had set a record of 8254,948,496 — about 10 cents on each dolar of sales. —oger M. Blough, U.S. Steel chairman, said the firm would not raise prices unless it were forced to make an “involuntary settlement” by government intervention. —David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW), characterized the profits at U.S. Steel and other steel firms as “astronomical,” and asked: “How can they possibly justify the phony ’inflation’ issue at a time when they themselves are rolling in unprecedented wealth?” —ln Washington, the Commerce Department announced that it has reminded still - operating steel firms that they must give priority in delivery to defense contractors. It said it had no knowledge of any defense manufacturer who had been unable to obtain steel. McDonald signed agreements extending the union’s contracts with the big three aluminum companies — the Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa), Reynolds Metals Co. and the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.—in the presidential suite of the Roosevelt Hotel. Winners Are Named t In Tuesday Events In the two events of the- opening night of the 4-H fair Tuesday, the Blue Creek Up and At It, Jefferson Work and Win, and Wabash Cloyerblossom clubs won top honors in the grand parade and the entertainment festival. With a green and white float along the theme, “Work and Play the 4-H Way,” the Up and At It club took first prize in the float division of the parade, winning S2O. At the center of the float was a tai clock, showing eight hours each for work, play, and rest. On the ends of the float were club members showing 4-H work and play. Second place went to the float paraded by the Berne Jolly Workers, who won sls. Third place and $12.50 went to the Preble Jolly Juniors, while fourth place and $7.50 went to-the Monmouth Merry Maids. The three judges for the parade were Mrs. Mildred Foley, Mrs. Carl Kuhn, and Simon Schwartz. For the entertainment festival, the judges were Mrs. Myron Simmons, Mrs. Glen Stucky, and Tom Adler. The Jefferson Work and Win 4-H club placed first in the entertainment festival’s musical division. Other placings were awarded to Max Meyers, Jefferson Go Getters, second; Joan Brown, Kirkland Kut-Ups. third; Jerry Morningstar, Wabash township, fourth; and Rocket Man Wayne Bauer, Monroe Boosters, fifth. In the non-musical division, the Wabash Cloverblossoms placed first, the Washington township Happy Hustlers, second, and Mrs. Herman Miller, htird.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 29,1959

Mrs. Robert Liechty Dies This Morning Mrs. Robert U. (Emma Rose) Liechty, 66, 655 High street, Berne, died about 1 o’clock today at the Berne nursing home following a heart attack. She had been a patient for six weeks at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne before entering the nursing home July 1. Born July 30, 1892, in Wayne county, 0., she was united in marriage November 27, 1913, in Sonnenburg, 0., to Robert U. Liechty, who survives. The Liechty s moved to Adams county shortly after their marriage. Mrs. Liechty was a member of the First Menonite church, Berne. Surviving in addition to the husband are five sons, Melvin Liechty, route one, Berne; E. Gordon Liechty, Berne; James Liechty, Berne; Loren Liechty, route one, Berne, and Robert L. Liechty, Jr., Fort Wayne; four daughters, Mrs. Melvin (Anna) Myers, route two, Berne; Mrs. Ralph W. (Corrine) Liechty, Wooster, 0., Mrs. Adrian, (Berneta) Lehman, Berne, and Miss Colleen Liechty, at home; thre brothers: Clyde Sprunger, Redurbin, 0., William Sprunger, Apple Creek, 0., and Dr. Earl Sprunger, Aple Creek, O.; two sisters, Mrs. Bruce (Pearl) Weaver, Orville, 0., and - Mrs. Ross (Eana) Wyre, Philadelphia, Pa., and 26 grandchildren. One son died in infancy. The body was taken to the Yager funeral home, Berne, where friends may call after 7 p. m. today. Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a. m., att he First Mennonite church, the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Bilria? will be in the MRE cemetery.

East, West Reject Plans

BULLETIN GENEVA (UPI) —The United States and the Soviet Union agred today to tend the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference by next Wednesday, the U. S. delegation announced. GENEVA (UPIj _ — Both East and West today rejected their rival plans for a Berlin truce. The double rejection appeared to doom the Geneva talks to failure. The West, in turning down the Soviet draft, called it old hat and unacceptable. The Soviet rejection came today in Pravda, toe official organ of toe Communist Party. It condemned toe Western plan for refusing to order toe reduction of West Bekflin occupational troops and called toe development a “drastic change for the worse.” Diplomats drew only one conclusion from this and toe somber Moscow report that Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev had given no indication of any change in Russia’s attitude—the Geneva conference is finished. Both sides had submitted their proposals in writing Tuesday in hopes putting them down in black and white would help clarify toe issues and aid toe foreign ministers in finding possible points of compromise. However, neither side budged very far in their written plans from the conflicting verbal proposals that have left this conference in a deadlock for eight and ' one-half weeks. After a night of study, toe West concluded that Russia’s draft for

Grand Champs Are Selected At 4-H Fair Grand champions were named in* the broiler, poultry, and pheasant and quail judging Tuesday at the 4-H fair. Cynthia Boerger, Monmouth Roving Rangers club, received first prize for her exhibit of three broilers, dressed and frozen Tuesday morning at Graber’st Produce, Berne. The daughter ■ Mr. and Mrs. William Boerger; she has been in 4-H three years. In the poultry competition, judged at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. Don Wietfeldt exhibited the grand champion poultry project. Just completing his first year of 4-H club work and his first year in the poultry project, he exhibited a pen of White Rocks. He is a member of the Union Workers club. Gary Jeffrey, of the Preble Jolly Juniors, placed first out of 30 competitors in the pheasant project. The son of Mr. and Mrs Donald Jeffrey, he is in his third year in club work, and exhibited three pheasants. In the quail project, Larry Bieberich, of the Preble Jolly Juniors, placed first with a pen ■ of three quail. The son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Gerhard Bieberich, he is in ' his fifth year of club work and in ' his third year with the quail pro- ‘ ject. Prof. Roberts Judges Prof. Roy Roberts, of the poultry department of Purdue University. I was judge for all three divisions of competition. Twelve ' competed in the broiler project, ’ and the remainder of the placings ' were awarded as follows: second, Leroy Boerger, Root Roving Rang--1 ers; third, Harold Mailand, St. Mary's Sodbusters; fourth, Allen Mailand. St. Mary’s Sodbusters; fifth, Leßoy Adams, Jefferson Go Getters. Nancy Bailey, of the St. Mary’s Sodbusters, was awarded the reserve grand champion rosette for her pen of hybrid chickens. She is now completing her sixth year in (Continued on page two)

an interim agreement on the status of West Berlin left the gap “as wide as ever,” one diplomat said. A West German spokesman went even farther. “We are deeply disappointed about the Russian paper,” he told newsmen. “It does not contain the slightest effort to meet the West half-way, neither in substance nor form." The diplomats said a great deal, possibly everything, may depend on a luncheon meeting today between U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko at Herter’s villa. Henry Borns Rites Thursday Morning Funeral services for Henry A. Boms, who died Tuesday after a long illness, will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic church. The Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt will officiate and burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. The Third Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 o’clock this evening, and the Holy Name society at 8 p.m. Pallbearers will be Hubert Gase, Eddie 'McFarland, Jac¥ Braun, Richard Martin, Louis Rumschlag and Raymond Heimann.

- ... - fe T F : Mb ■ ' * -;V'' '•■ Jb'■■••• ' ' h-"- ’->•.: 4. -' . ;■ r ■ . F - - -yfe. i H -.,»: STRIKE TIES VP GIANT INDIANA REFINERY—Some of the 5,000 petroleum workers at the giant Standard Oil Company refinery at Whiting, Ind., display their picket signs as negotiations for a new contract fell through and the strike began. The plant normally produces four million gallons of gasoline a day but company officials say the supply to the nearby Chicago metropolitan area would not be affected since other refineries and pipelines will fill the gap.

Atlas Missile Is Fired 5,000 Miles Tuesday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD —A revamped Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile thundered 5,000 miles Tuesday night to punctuate congressional queries into whether we are losing the missile race with Russia. It was the second straight Atlas success after five consecutive failures. However, a minimum of two additional test flights probatJly will be necessary before the huge war rocket reaches operational readiness. About Wz hours after launching, the Air Force announced the shoot apparently was a complete success. An attempt was made to recover a tiny data capsule carried in the blunt “heat sink” nose cone of the missile and designed to record additional information about the flight. The search for the data capsule was called off some six hours later with the 18-inch vehicle still unsighted. A spokesman said it was not unusual for such a small capsule to elude searchers in the vast expanse of ocean and did not detract from the overall success of the shoot. Tuesday night's launching gave a dramatic punch to earlier statements by a top Air Force officer in Washington that there was “no cause for alarm” over the string of misfirings, ranging from Feb. 20 to June 6. The last successful shoot was July 21. Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force research chief, told a House committee Tuesday he was confident the Air Force would succeed in eliminating the troubles. He said the Atlas, originally slated to have become operational this month, still should be ready for limited deployment to combat units within 60 days. Tax Rafe Increase In Washington Twp. Washington township will add a three-cent levy for the area outside Decatur this year to pay fire--fighting costs, previously paid by the individual to the fire department called, according to the notice to taxpayers brought in for publication today. The township rate and the library rates will remain the same, three cents and Jive cents, respectively. This will mean a total rate of 11 cents for the area outside of Decatur, and three cents for Decatur-Washington. The reason for this is that the library and fire department rates for those people living in the city are part of the city budget, and are paid through city taxes. Allowed for the township this year is $3,779; for fire fighting outside Decatur, $984; and for the library outside Decatur, $1,640. This makes a total township budget of $6,305, not including poor relief. Figured in the poor relief budget is SI,OOO for personal service; SBSO for other "Operating expenses; $15,200 for direct relief; $12,750 for direct relief other than medical, hospital and burial; commissary relief, $1,700; for a total of $31,580. The poor relief rate will be figured by the county auditor. The school rates for Washington townsnip are split, the part outside the city falling under the Adams Central levy, and the part in the city under the Decatur school levy.

Rotary ‘ Governor John S. Jackson District Governor l ■ At Rotary Thursday The Decatur Rotary club will be host Thursday evening to John S. Jackson, governor of the 654th i district of Rotary International, > who is making his annual official visit to each of the 40 Rotary ; clubs in the northern third of ■ Indiana. f He will address the local club at the weekly dinner meeting at : 6:30 pi- m. at the Youth and Com- ■ munity Center, and will confer ' with Hubert P. Schmitt. Jr., pres- > ident of the club, Tom H. Allwein, > secretary, and committee chairmen on Rotary administration and I service activities. Jackson is president of the Jackson funeral chapel in Rensselaer and a member and past president of the Rotary club in that city. A Rotarian for 22 years, he was formerly a member of the Tipton club and served in 1958 as group representative. Jackson was elected district governor for (Continued on page three)

State Sen. Grills Files Court Action

INDIANAPOLIS <UPD - State Sen. Nelson Grills today filed court action against 24 holdover colleagues of the Indiana General Assembly in a new effort to gain reapportionment of the state. In effect, he said he hoped to force the legislators into special session. The Democratic lawmaker filed the action in Marion Superior Court 5, just before a meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Sub-committee met in the Statehouse a few blocks away. Grills charged in his suit for a declaratory judgment that failure to carry out provisions of a 1921 act requiring an enumeration every six years had made unconstitutional all action taken since the expiration of the six-year periodHowever, he said he did not seek to invalidate all legislation since 1927, but hoped to force a special session of the Legislature to act upon reapportionment. Grills, Indianapolis, who staged a lengthy demonstration on behalf of reapportionment during the 1959 Assembly session, went all the way back to the Compact of 1787, which provided for the territory pow including Indiana to be admitted into the United States as a basis of his claim Hoosiers are pntitled to proportionate representation, vitcd also was the 1816 Constitutional Convention in addition to the 1921 act which specifically required an enumeration of male in-

Gyneth Schnepp Is Lamb Show Champ Gyneth Schnepp shewed the grand champion lamb at the lamb show judged Tuesday at the 4-H fair. Top showmanship honors went to David Singleton. Miss Schnepp, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Schnepp, Washington township, is a member of that township’s Happy Hustlers club. She has been in 4-H for seven years, and is 16 years old. Her winning exhibit was a yearling Hampshire lamb. Singleton, a member of the Root Roving Rangers, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Singleton. Second placing went to Rex King, in showmanship, also of the Roving Rangers, and third place went to a third Roving Ranger, Gary Fifer. King also showed the reserve grand champion, a yearling Lincoln lamb. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, Sr., he has been a 4-H club member for nine years. Premium winners in each division, jrdged by Wayne Hafner, Bryant, were: Spring wool lamk class—first, Steve Hazelwood, Kirfc land Future Farmers; second, Dianns Moser, French Peppy Peppers; third, Daniel Wolfe. Root Roving Rangers; fourth, Edward „ Zeigler. Hartford Hoosier Workers, and fifth, Rex King, Root Roving Rangers. Spring mutton lamb class—first, Rene Brown, Kirkland Future Farmers; third, Gary Fifer, Root Roving Rangers; fourth, Blair Brown, Kirkland Future Farmers, and fifth. Gail Egley, Jefferson Work and Win. * Yearling lamb: first. Miss Schnepp; second. King, and third, Larry King, of the Roving Rangers. Pen of three lambs—first, Rene Brown, Kirkland Future Farmers, second, David Singleton, Root Roving Rangers; and third, Dennis Bollenbacher, Decatur City Slickers.

habitants over the age of 21 within the next 6 years. The suit said “more than 6 years having passed since the enactment of Chapter 78 and Chapter 271 of the General Assembly of 1921.” The suit pointed out that this is “a period considerably longer than six years” and that the acts passed since then are “wholly unconstitutional.” “Refused to Comply” The suit maintained that the holdover senators, including both Democrats and Republicans, “have wilfully, intentionally and openly refused to comply” with the constitutional requirement for r®' r "’e«'>ntative government. Grills gaid the question now becomes a juuiciai oue tor’the determination of the courts of Indiana. Grills told other members of the subcommittee, who had waited impatiently for his late arrival, that he was not trying to knock out any laws passed by previous General Assemblies, but wanted to gain reapportionment before another regular session meets. “If the judge rules in my favor, I would as plaintiff ask that the judgment be withheld for 45 days, otherwise we would have no Legislature,” said Grills. “The Governor could then call a special sessionand we could reapportion as a ‘de facto' Legislature,” ’ Grills said both Hawaii and Minnesota had taken such action. (Continued on page two) .

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