Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1959 — Page 1

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Khrushchev Visit To Begin September 12; May Speak To U. N.

WASHINGTON (UPD — Soviet l Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev probably will address the United Nations General Assembly when he visits this country next month but there is little chance he will address Congress. These and other details of the historic 13-day visit, which begins Sept. 12, were learned today. News of Khrushchev’s visit brought mixed but generally favorable reaction from American leaders. The reaction from veteran Washington security men was unanimous, however — it will be a tough job guarding the leader of world communism whose barbed verbal attacks on the United States have been legion. No details of President Eisenhower’s return visit to the Soviet Union this fal were immlediatey available. Menshikov Aids Planning Soviet' Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov is taking a lead in working out arrangements for the Visit Nothing definite has been decided on Khrushchev’s trip and probably won’t be for several weeks. But preliminary talks indicate the Soviet leader's itinerary probably will include: —Two days in New York City, including a speech to the U. N. General Assembly which convenes Sept. 15. —-An appearance on a nationwide television broadcast, most likely a speech. This may be his talk to the U. N. Assembly. —A cross-country tour including visits at lcast to Detroit vd San Francisco. This would follow the pattern set by Khrushchev’s Deputies Anastas I. Mikoyan and Frol R. Kozlov on their tours earlier this year. Khrushchev has expressed a particular desire to see San Francisco. --Attendance at a college football game, or a baseball game if the football date cannot be arranged. Nixon To Clear Picture Much will depend on the Soviet premier’s desires. A clear idea of these will be available to negotiators when Vice President Richard M. Nixon returns later this week from his trip to Russia and Poland. Nixon talked with Khrushchev about the visit while he was in Moscow. Eisenhower, in announcing Khrushchev’s visit Monday, said he would hold several informal talks with the Communist leader during his three days in Washington. Khrushchev also is expected to take some time out to see the sights of 'Washington. There are indications, however,

Steel Negotiators Again In Session

NEW YORK (UPD—Steel union and industry negotiators meet jointly with federal mediators again today following a session Monday which ended with recriminatory statements from both sides. At the governors conference in Puerto Rico, six Democratic governors introduced a resolution calling for a speedy settlement of the 3-week-old steel strike and for the appointment of a committee of governors to meet with President Eisenhower and explore possible remedies. Sponsors of the resolution were Govs. Foster Furcolo of Massachusetts, Qrville L. Freeman of Minnesota, Albert D. Rosellini of Washington, Gaylor A. Nelson of Wisconsin, G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and Edmund Brown of California. After Monday’s meeting, federal mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan said: “The status quo is still quo as' far as their positions are concerned.” But he said both sides “thought it would be profitable to meet tomorrow for further discussions.” The union and industry state- , ments Monday were in a sense answers to Secretary ot Labor James P. Mitchell who castigated both sides on Saturday for failing to their responsibilities to bargain. But they wound up as slaps at each other, and an apparent stif-

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that congressional leaders would not be anxious to invite Khrushchev to Capitol Hill, even it the lawmakers still are in session. Congress has an excuse for avoiding an invitation to Khrushchev since he is not a head of state Mixed Reaction To Plans For Visit Exchange United Press International The announcement of an exchange of visits between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev was received with generally fpvorable and hopeful comment from Washington to Red China. There was some snarp criticism in the United States, however. The Western Allies were generally pleased with the announcement, with French skepticism somewhat mitigated by the prospect of an Eisenhower visit to President Charles de Gaulle before the Khrushchev exchange. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was enthusiastic; West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, less optimistic, said he hoped the trip would show Khrushchev “the strength of the United States’’ and its determination to maintain peace. Red China’s official Hsin Hua agency said it was hoped the visits would “contribute to better mutual understanding between the two countries and further the cause of peace.” Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said it would be “a fine thing” for editorial writers, commentators and other news representatives to “build up the idea of courteous treatment” for Khrushchev to minimize the possibility of any “incident.” ‘.‘By all reports they have given fine treatment to Vice President Nixon,” he said. “We can do no less.” In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Telegraff sounded a note of warning, saying the American tradition of free speech may lead to “anti - Communist demonstrations” and “it is difficult to predict how the Russian leader will react to these.”

fening of the antagonistic positions which brought about the nationwide strike three weeks ago today. The industry statement, issued by R. Conrad Cooper, head of toe four-man team representing 12 major steel companies, said “It will take more than mere meetings and discussions to end this strike. It will take a change of union attitude ... when Mr. McDonald is willing to engage in two way bargaining, and when he is ready to give up the idea of having the government make a settlement for him in response to the crisis he alone created, then a sensible, non-inflationary agreement should be possible.” United Steelworkers of America President David J. McDonald replied that the industry had issued “an ultimatum” to the union and “an ultimatum to the government of the United States.” They "arrogantly say the shutdown can be settled only on their terms,” McDonald said. In Washington, Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mi.) made a new appeal to President Eisenhower to sit the negotiators down in the White House and make them bargain. If this fails, Symington said, Eisenhower should name an impartial public board to study the situation and make recommendations for settlement.

I I I S * J 9 " i» IKE AND NIKITA TO VlSlT—Addressings hastily-called news conference at the White House, PresidenpEisenhower confirms what he said was “ . . . one of the worst-kept secrets of a long time,” that an exchange of visits had been arranged between himself and Russian Premier Nikita Khruschev this fall. The announcement was planned to come simultaneously from Moscow and Washington, but 15 minutes of'answers and comments to reporters delayed the Washington announcement. xNixon Draws Big Crowds In Poland WARSAW (UPD — Vice Presi- ~ t dent Richard M. Nixon paid a .°"® come to surprise visit today to the War- « P lace this ; Nixon sagsaw cathedral of Stephan Cardinal it reminds you how Wyszynski, but the Polish primate te 3* b!e "" ,<* the terrib e was “on vacation.” suffering the people went through, _ ... . , , .. .... and that another war must be The official explanation for fail- a voided >• ure of Nixon and the cardinal to Nixon was virtually mobbed by meet was given by a vice presi- severa i hundred people, including dential spokesman, who said that a number of Polish war veteran s. Wyszynski went on vacation Mon- cemetery. He told the day * veterans he would convey their However, Nixon himself had greetings personally to American said Monday he had no plans to veterans when he visits the Amermeet the cardinal and that no re- ican Legion in Minneapolis Aug. quest had been made on his be- 20 and the Veterans of Foreign half for such a meeting. Wars in Los Angeles Sept. 1. Western diplomatic: circles here Nixon was visibl moved b had said m advance of Nixon s ar- stiUHinfinished monume nt marking rival Sunday that they felt a visit the last heW by Jew . by the vice president to the card- j sb jnsm-gents before they were dual would be diplomatically un- crushed * y the Nazis and by the Wlse ‘ piles of rubble around it. Wyszynski, spiritual leader of 25 “j think this ruined building, million Polish Roman Catholics, even more than the memorial, remains the storm center of trou- brings home some lessons we forbled church-state relations. Diplo- go t too quickly,” he said, matic sources felt a visit by Nix- As for the Nazis’ policy of hate on to the cardinal. would be im- exemplified by their extermination polite to his official hosts, Po- o f the ghetto’s < residents, Nixon land’s Communist government sa i d: Draws Big Crowds “All men should unite against Even more important, they felt, such prejudices, because here we was that a meeting with Nixon see again what happens when such would seriously weaken Wyszyn’- passions which are allowed to be ski’s precarious position here. nourished are unleashed.” The cardinal has managed to The president cancelled keep the church strong in Poland p i ans to visit the ghetto Monday even through the last harsh years because his talks with Communist of the Stalinist era. Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka ran Even though the cardinal was more than two hours longer than “on vacation,” a huge throng expected gathered across the square outside Hi s decision to visit the ruins the medieval brick cathedral today was not announced until his which was destroyed by the Ger- car W as i ea ving the Myslewicki mans in World War II m reprisal p a i a ce, where he is staying in for the Warsaw uprising, and then w ar saw, but a crowd of several rebuilt. hundred Poles was on hand by the Nixon also drew big and enthu- time the official motorcade reachsiastic audiences on visits to the ed the unfinished monument ruins of the Warsaw ghetto; to The memorial to 70,000 Jews who Palmiry, grave of many Polish died fighting rather than go to intellectuals who were extermi- Lh e g as chambers of Auschwitz nated by the Nazis; and to War- and Tremclinka, is being made saw University. from stone which the Nazis had He also paid a visit to the Huta earmarked for a monument to Warszawa, a high-quality special Adolf Hitler’s “1,000-year Reich.” steel plant which is eventually As Nixon returned to his car scheduled to produce 300,000 tons the crowd, which had been growa year. ing all through his visit, cheered The vice president laid wreaths and clapped. . at the ghetto insurgents’ monu- Then the Nixon party set off meat and at Palmiry. __ _ -for the wooded sand dunes of KalAs he was leaving the Palmiry miry, about 10 miles from Warsaw cemetery, a small boy gave Nix- where the Nazis executed Univeron a bouquet of flowers and a sity professors, doctors and other kiss on the cheek. Nixon gave intellectuals in 1940. the boy a ball point pen with the Kalmiry was also the execution vice president's name on it ground for thousands of Jews and Greeted by Veterans other hostages. As he walked out of the ceme- Both places served as grim retery, he paused on the sandy minders to postwar Poland of the pathway and looked back at the possible fruits of a tyrannical ocgraveyard. cupation.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 4,1959.

20 Building Permits Issued During July ' City engineer Ralph Roop issued 20 building permits during the month of July for a total estimated improvement cost of $224,155. The two largest expenditures will be made by Decatur Industries, Inc., who are in the process ‘of building a $75,000 plant on the newly purchased land on the west side of the city. The second largest item on the records for July is the new Elks lodge home, Which is being Constructed by the Yost Construction Co. for an estimated $65,000. Seven of the remaining total permits went for building or repair of garages, while five of the permits were for new home construction. One new tavern was granted a permit as was one used car lot. The four other permits were for additions to present homes. The Jesse O. Sellemeyer residence at Marshall and Third streets will be built at a cost of $26,000, while Adolph Kolter will build a $15,000 residence at 138 Limberlost. Clark W. Smith will build SII,OOO homes at 228 Grant and 234 Grant street. Ezequiel Guereca will build a $3,000 residence at 721 N. Uth street. The new tavern, at 916 N. 13th street, is being erected by Anthony J. Faurete at a cost of $9,500. The used car lot, at 239 13th-street, is-being revamped by Quality Chevrolet-Buick Co. at a cost of SSOO. The seven garage additions and i repairs are: A. J. Garard, 1 522 St. Mary’s, $400; William E. Rice. 916 Walnut, $1,310; James R. Kolter, 921 Adams, $350; Walter and Della Brodbeck $1,495; Andrew F. Miller, 316 Jefferson, $400; William H. Hutker, 1215 Mix Avenue, $650, and Morris Pingry, 934 Marshall, SSOO. The additions to houses are: ' Mrs. Alven Egley, 115 Park View, a $750 enclosed front porch; Clar- ‘ ence Drake, 636 N. Seventh, SIOO addition to house; H. C._ Hart, 350 Line, S2OO addition to house; Mrs. Kenneth Strickler, 1310 High St., $2,000 new porch. Preble Seeking To File Abated Appeal INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Attorneys for Austin housemover Marvin Preble today asked the Indiana Supreme Court for permission to file a belated appeal of his perjury conviction in the Hoosier highway scandals. Preble was sentenced to 1 to 10 years in prison on Feb. 17, 1958, when a State Board of Accounts audit revealed that he collected money for moving a house along the Madison Ave. Expressway in Indianapolis when in fact the house had not been moved. Preble also received a suspended sentence of 2 to 14 years for filing a false claim. The new petition, filed for Preble by attorney John W. Agnew, also requested that the high court allow Preble to remain free on $5,000 bond pending its decision. In his petition, Agnew said there was “not one scintilla of evidence” in the records to prove Preble guilty. He said the conviction was based on "conjecture and suspicion.” Jack Heller Heads City School Board John G. Heller, vice president of the Decatur Daily Democrat and a member of the Decatur school board for two years, was elected president of the board Monday night, succeeding Everett Hutker, retiring member of the board. Dr. James M. Burk, who is serving his second term on the board, was elected treasurer. Herb Banning, newly-appointed member of the board, was elected secretary. The board rotates its officers every year.

Anti-Freeze Drinking Kills Five Convicts PUTNAM VILLE, Ind. (UPD— Five convicts at the Indiana State Farm were dead today from a lethal anti-freeze cocktail that may have been sold to the victims concealed in a soft drink. Two of the inmates, Raymond Morton, 22, Indianapolis, and Paul Durcho, 39. Hammond, died during the night at Robert Long Hospital. Three others died Monday—Carlos White, 28, Hammond: Wilbur Bowen, 19, Jeffersonville, and Jesse Tudder, .41, Lafayette. , Twelve others hospitalized were expected to live. Prison officials launched an investigation to determine how the cohvicts obtained the poisonous drink, -v ' Supt. Walter Hock said he had no idea how the men got the antifreeze from the institution’s garage but assumed it was concealed in’ a soft drink and sold to the victims. Hock said the ailing men who able to answer questions were reluctant to discuss the affair. But he said they indicated they did not know what they were drinking. Hock ordered all barrels of anifreeze put under lock and key and instructed guards to search and ' see .if other stores were hidden about the institution. Officials said the victims apparently purchased their drinks from . a fellow prisoner in exchange for cigarettes. The incident was discovered ' Sunday night when guards noticed , several inmates walking about in a drunken stupor. The prisoners were placed in the lockup, where ' they became ill and were rushed to the hospital. Tudder, the first casualty, died in the institution's hospital. The others died at Robert long Hospital. / Tudder was serving a term for drunk driving. Marton was penalized for larceny, Durcho for violating probation, White for drunk driving, Bowen for larceny. Hock indicated other slok priooners as: Donald F. Cash, 19, Terre Haute serving a burglary term. James Moses, 26, Gary, serving a term for assault and battery. Harold Cockrell, 21, Kokomo, serving a term for passing bad diccks Harlan Cockrell. 24, Kokomo, serving a term for assault and battery. James McGill, 34, Kokomo, serving a term for assault and battery. Jesse Stewart, 17, Indianapolis, serving a term for vehicle taking. Glenn Bowen, 28. Jeffersonville, serving a term for larceny. Clarence Washington, 25 Indianapolis, serving a term for burglary. Jerome Carroll, 17, Indianapolis, serving a term for robbery. Johnny Finney, 30, Indianapolis, serving a term for assault and battery. , „ Leon Calloway, 20, Indianapolis, serving a tertn for embezzlement. Auction Students Welcomed Monday The Decatur Chamber of Commerce and city officials officially welcomed the 80 members of the Reppert auctioneering school class Monday afternoon in brief ceremonies. Bob Heller presided at the meeting “ Heller introduced the speakers, Louis Jacobs, of the retail division, Mike Pryor of the industrial division, and Mayor Robert D. Cole. Jacobs told of the Chamber’s efforts to organize the retailers of the community into a close-knit group to better serve the general public. Pryor expresed the purpose of the industrial group, which benefits the city and its citizens by assisting in all major civic functions as well as keeping abreast of current advances in the industrial area. Mayor Cole presented the group with a “theoretical” key to the city, telling them that the facilities of the city are at their disposal and “do not hesitate to use them.” He said that the citizens here will certainly enjoy associating with all the students at the school. In reciprocation, the dean of the school, Col. Q.R. Chaffee, assisted by Col. G.L. Petit, one of the famed instructors, took the podium, demonstrating the renowned art of tobacco auctioneering.

Reject Move To Override Veto

WASHINGTON (UPD —The Senate housing subcommittee rejected by one vote today a move to override President Eisenhower’s veto of the housing bill. It decided instead to begin drafting a compromise bill that the President would accept. The 5-4 vote came after seven days of hearings in which administration officials defended the veto against complaints by labor leaders, mayors and others that it was ill-advised. Other congressional news: —Civil Rights: A Senate judiciary subcommittee buried for at least a year a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) guaranteeing the states complete control over their public schools. The House Judiciary Committee rejected an administration proposal which would have declared that the states are "obligated” to take steps to end school segregation. —Labor Reforms: GOP congressional leaders urged Eisenhower at a breakfast conference to go on television to rally support for a tougher lUbor reform bill. —Steel: Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) said the steel stride demonstrates the need for action on his bill requiring advance notice of price increases in major industries where production is dominated by a few companies. He said such legislation is needed if the government is to obtain necessary facts for a fair settlement of the walkout. —Alford: The House elections subcommittee inspects 3,000 to i 4,000 disputed ballots in its investigation of the contested eelction ' of Rep. Dale Alford (D-Ark), Al- ■ ford, an avowed segregationist, : beat veteran Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.), a moderate on racial matters, by 1,256 votes last November. —Defense: The House was expected to approve quickly a *39, 228.239,000 compromise defense money bill. The total was just about what President Eisenhower asked and was about half-way between the original Senate and House figures. —Viet Nam: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets to decide whether to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of charges that the U. S. aid program to Viet Funeral Wednesday For Mrs. Murray Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday in Warren for Mrs. Lulu May Murray, 75, sister of Mrs. Rachel Eichhorn, 731 Mercer Avenue. Mrs. Murray died about 5:30 p. m. Sunday in the South View rest home, near Bluffton. She had resided at Liberty Center before entering the rest home. Mrs. Murray was born February 5, 1884, in Jackson township. Wells county. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Eichhorn, and Mrs. Justice Huffman, Bluffton, and a brother. Elmer Wolfgang, Liberty Center. Her husband, Frank Murray, died in 1958. The body was taken to the Grogg funeral home in Warren, where friends may call, and where- services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday, the Rev. Wyman Hull, pastor of the Liberty Center Baptist church, officiating. Burial wil be in. the Mossburg cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy extreme north, mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms central and south this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight with showers mostly extreme south. Wednesday partly ’ cloudy, quite warm and humid with few isolated afternoon or evening thundershowers likely. Low tonight 66 to 74. High Wednesday 87 to 95. Sunset today 7:55 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:47 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Continued warm and humid with widely scattered thundershowers late afternoon and evening. Lows 68 to 75. Highs 89 to 96. BULLETIN GENEVA (UPD—The West urged Russia to wind up the deadlocked Geneva Big Four talks today with a pledge to meet again in New York in in mid-September.

Nam is shot through with waste and corruption. Administration officials denied accusations made in a series of articles by ScrippsHoward reporter Albert M. Colegrove. Showers, Storms Rumble Over Slate United Press International Wabash and White River valley areas received up to more than two inches of rain today as showers and thunderstorms rumbled across Indiana on the eve of what may be one of the season's hottest days. Cagles Mill, near Greencastle, recorded 2.20 inches, Greencastle 2 inches, Elliston 1.30, Centerton 1.18, Bloomington 1.11, Seymour the Chicago area 1.01 and Indianapolis .97. The Indianapolis rainfall was the heaviest measured there in eight weeks. Elsewhere, the precipitation was less but in some cases still rather generous. Measurements included .81 at Columbus, .50 at Portland, .86 at Terre Haute, .59 at Wabash, .63 at Crawfordsville. The precipitation area was active over the northern portions of the state during most of the night. It spread southward, but no heavy rains or high winds were reported. South Bend had .18 of an inch, Lafayette .12 and Fort Wayne .04 up to 7 a.m. The Chicago area had an inch. The rainfall will be dissipated in a generally sunny trend Wednesday which will send the mercury soaring to the mid 90s from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. There was no relief in sight from the prospect of warm and , humid conditions, and they may . prevail the rest of the week or . k^tger.,...... ■■ «... -.. Bridge Contract Is Awarded By County The Adams county commissioners let a bridge building contract to Baker and Schultz Construction Co. of Decatur on the Berger ditch at Monday’s regular weekly meeting in the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg as part of many details handled. The local firm entered a sealed bid of 85,254.96 for the bridge over the Berger ditch, which is located in Blue Creek township, six miles cast of Berne on road 27%. A bid of $5,232 was entered by Dale Jordan of Portland, but the commissioners decided in favor of Baker and Sdhultz because of the previous work done by the local firm. Other bids were from Ruckman and Hansen, of Fort Wayne, $5,864.21, and Butler and Butler, of Spencerville, $6,132.15. A drainage problem discussed with Bob Weber and Charles F. Schwartz, both of P~eble township, was referred to Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent. A petition for a ditch cleaning project was approved by the commissioners. The Albert Schroeder ditch in Root township, located on the Norvin Bultemeier farm, route 1, Decatur, will be cleaned and repaired. Those signing the petition were Lloyd Scherer, Herman Bulmahn, Elmer A. Welter, Hulda Schieferstein, Ida Bultemeier, Albert Schroeder. Norvin Bultemeier, and Otto F. Fuhrman, all of route 1, Decatur. County home superintendent Frank Kitson submitted his monthly report, showing total receipts for the month at $4,068.85 for the 28 residents, including seven females. The county highway report, submitted by superintendent Noll, showed thgt from June 22 to July 22 the crews had traveled 24.306 miles with 1,646 miles being graded and 562 miles being mowed. A total of 5,865.6 tons of gravel were hauled and put on county roads, while 3.6 miles of black top roads were built Die report also covered the man-hours worked and the various installations involved. The commissioners have all the budget requests from the various county offices and are in the process of formulating the 1960 financial status. Die new budget will be released at next week’s meeting.

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