Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 206.

India Service Chiefs Resign

NEW DELHI, India (UPI) — Defense Minister V. K. Khrishna Menon and the heads of India's army, navy and air force resigned today. The internal dissension in the nation’s armed forces erupted as fresh reports came in that Communist Chinese troops were massing along India's northern frontiers. The resignations caused grave concern throughout the country, and threw the government and Parliament into turmoil. The service chiefs quit because they said Khrishna Menon was playing politics with the armed forces. Khrishna Menon, offered in turn to quit himself. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has not yet accepted the resignations. But he is due to make a statement in Parliament Wednesday, when he is expected to announce his decision. Deny Mass Invasion It was reported that a fresh wave of Red Chinese troops backed up by mule-packed heavy weapons was advancing toward northeastern India. Press reports from Jorhat, In the border province of Assam, said the Reds are moving along the border between India and Communist - conquered Tibet "where an incursion has already taken place." This was an apparent reference do the Longju area, where the Reds seized an Indian border post a week ago. An Indian government spokesman, however, denied that the Red Chinese were beginning a mass invasion. He said the reports were “baseless.” But the Reds were reported ready for action, with Indian and Chinese forces only a stone’s throw apart in some places. Thus far, - there have been no major incidents, only minor skirmishes. Say Military Demoralised There was no denhing the seriousness of the internal military rift. The nation’s three chielk of staff — Lt. Gen. K. 3. Thimayya, Vice Adm. R.D. Katari and Air Marshal S. Mukherjeehanded in their resignations in protest against Khrishna Menon’s handling of military affairs. They said promotions were given without consulting them, a move which demoralized many officers and men. They also said they were not satisfied with the treatment given them by Khrishna Menon. Pakistan’s President Mohammed Ayub, who flew here today from Karachi, said India and Pakistan must settle their traditional differences "because of the overwhelming pressure from the North.” Report Troops Massing Ayub said the recent flurry of road-building in Communist-in-fluenced Afghanistan poses a threat of “great military pressure” on the two mations of the subcontinent. Red Troops from China were reported massing all along India’s 1,800- mile Tibetan border, apparently ready to support the Communist columns which are said to have thrust “fairly deep” into Indian territory in the Siang and Lohit areas of the northeast frontier. The Reds also are said to have invaded the Indian protectorate of Bhutan. Dispatches from the border reported “bitter fighting” at the frontier post of Longju, which was believed to have been abandoned to the Reds. Troops Driven Oat Unconfirmed reports said Indian troops and border police have been driven out a number of other control posts on the frontier. These reports said police units with only token quantities of ammunition on hand had been unable to stand up to seasoned Communist mountain and jungle troops. Bad weather over the border made it impossible to airdrop ammunition and other supplies to the beleaguered Indians. On the diplomatic front, Nehru told newsmen Monday that India will not support the Dalai Lama’s appeal to the United Nations for action against the Communist conquerors of Tibet. “This will not serve any purpose,” the premier said. Carroll Myers To Croton, 0. Church Carroll Myers, who recently resigned his ministry at the Decatur Church of Christ, has been called tq the Croton, 0., Church of Christ as minister. His wife, Ruth, the two Myers children, Sharon and Randy, will move with the Washburn, 111., native to his new quarters next week. The 1952 graduate of Minnesota Biide College had preached in Illinois and Kentucky before accepting the call to Indiana.

DECATUR DAIIA DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

i Ike, Nikita Will Meet In Camp Retreat i WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower and Soviet Pre- ' mier Nikita Khrushchev will go 1 into seclusion at Camp Davis for 1 two days of fateful cold war talks : at the end of the Russian leader's U.S. tour. 1 This was disclosed today by ' diplomatic sources who said Ei- ’ senhower plans to take Khru- '■ shchev to the isolated and tightly 1 guarded presidential retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains on Sept. 25. Eisenhower will remain there with him until about midday Sept. 27. There, behind a tight security ring of U.S. Marines, Secret Service offciers and State Department police, the leaders of the world's two most powerful nations will try to find grounds for easing the tensions gripping the divided globe. The Camp David sessions will take up almost all of the three days allotted for Khrushchev’s wind-up visit to Washington just before he leaves the country. The ceremonial aspects will be taken care of when he arrives for the first time in Washington on Sept. 15 and goes through a round of formal functions on Sept. 16. Between his two visits to Washington, Khrushchev, his family and his official party, will visit New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Des Moines and Ames, lowa, and Pittsburgh. Eisenhower selected Camp David. as the site for his hard-rock talks with the tough Soviet leader in order to give him an opportunity to assess the real intentions of Khrushchev entirely removed from the intrusions and pressures of protocol and press. Rulers Os Cambodia Escape Assassination TOKYO (UPl)—The King and Queen of Cambodia escaped injury but a prince and a palace servant were killed and two others wounded in an assassination attempt, a Chinese Communist news agency reported tonight. The New China News Agency, quoting an official communique issued by the royal cabinet in Phnom Penh today, said: “The King and Queen of Cambodia yesterday escaped an attempt upon their lives when a bomb exploded in the royal palace, killing Prince Norodom Vakrivan and a servant and . wounding two other persons.” The prince was protocol chief of the palace. According to the communique ; the prince received an “Asiatic foreigner” with a large pared containing a so-called “gift from ; a friend at Hong Kong” addressed to the Queen. When the package was opened. King Norodom Suramarit and the < Queen left the room to receive Foreign Minister Son Sann and the Cabodian delegation to the United Nations, the communique said.

State Fair Opens Wednesday |

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana’s 107th State Fair opens its gates Wednesday to the vanguard of nearly a million visitors with a record-breaking jackpot of $185,589 in prizes dangling before thousands of exhibitors. The annual show, which really is a collection of dozens of attractions playing individually before Hoosier farm families and urbanites, is a nine-day affair running through Thursday, Sept. 10. Spotless buildings dotting the big fairgrounds were dressed up in holiday decorations as the mighty show prepared for its 1959 premiere. Last - minute preparations were made to get the show “on the road” with as few hitches as possible. Most fairgoers will spend at least a day sightseeing. Some will return day after day until the exhibits are hauled down and the grounds cleaned up to signal the end of the current fair. Bigger and Better, Etc. Officials who planned and staged the fair called it bigger and better than ever. A sprawling midway jhrwpacked with concessions of many kinds, including thrill rides for kids and

City Council Approves Tax Rate Monday The city council met Monday night in special session, approving the ordinances for budget classification and for levy and also adopting a resolution authorizing the clerk-treasurer to transfer $7,560 from the parking meter fund to the general fund for the salary of two policemen. No opposition appeared to remonstrate against the proposed tax rate increase of three cents over last year's figure. The 1960 budget figure is $1.46 per SIOO, excluding the $1 poll tax which also was adopted last night. A breakdown by department for the city expenditures is: mayor’s office, $6,055; clerk-treasurer’s office, $8,238; city judge’s office, sl,845; department of law, $2,272.50; police department, $53,639; fire department, $32,764; engineering department, $6,950; city hall, $5,315; department of health, $2,805; department of sanitation,- $14,400; common council, $3,000; miscellaneous (such -as hydrant rental, insurance, and others) $24,545; debt department, $8,950.61, or a total 6f $170,779.00 in the general fund budget. The street fund is $62,360; park fund, $9,510; recreation fund, $3,114, and firemen’s pension fund, 900.50; police pension fund, $13,$3,359. The proposed levies approved at last night’s meeting are as follows: the general fund, a $1.14 tax on every SIOO assessed valuation; 8 cents for the park fund; 11 cents for the street fund; 10 cents for the recreation fund; 2 cents for the police pension fund, and 1 cent for the firemen’s pension fund. The $1 levy for poll tax also enters under the category of the general fund. September Arrives On Cooling Trend United Press International The books were closed today on one of the hottest Indiana Augusts in history, and September arrived with a cooler trend in effect. The mercury touched 90 only at Evansville Monday on the last day of the sweltering month, while other Hoosier areas basked in lower temperatures, including 82 at Lafayette, 83 at South Bend, 85 at Fort Wayne and 87' at Indianapolis. Overnight lows were much more pleasant in the northern half of the state, where South Bend, Fort Wayne and Lafayette shared minimums of 62. But Indianapolis’ 68 and Evansville’s 72 were relatively warm. Generally mild temperatures were expected to prevail through Wednesday during cloudy and rainy conditions, with highs ranging from near 80 to the mid 80s today and in the mid and upper 80s Wednesday. Showers and scattered thundershowers, originally forecast for Thursday, now are scheduled to start today in the south and spread over the rest of the state by tonight, continuing hrough Wednesday in all secions. At Indianapolis, August went down in the official U.S. Weather Bureau records as the seventh hottest August since statistics were kept in 1871. The average temperature was 77.3 , degrees, warmest since 1947.

adults, was one of the attractions. Special entertainment in front of the grandstands and in the Coliseum drew heavy advance sales indicating sell-out crowds would witness many of the attractions, including singers Ricky Nelson, Rosemary Clooney and Jimmy Dean; Jan Garber’s orchestra; daredevil car drivers, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and others. There were contests galore—some of them new and many others traditional. Four-H youths had their own contest field, for boys and girls in many lines of endeavor. Youngsters and oldsters entered open classes of competition. There were contests for sheep shearers, chicken barbecuers, horseshoe pitchers, spellers, high school bands, baton twirlers, piebakers, crocheters, vegetable growers, animal raisers and others. Grand Circuit harness cards will bring nationally famous horses and sulky drivers to the fair for those who like racing. Exhibitors will vie for a share of the largest total prize money ever offered. Open class awards

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September, 1,1959.

One-Cent Increase In Federal Gasoline Tax ! . ' " ' - Okayed By Committee

i : ———— . - ——— Jr ; -*■ , O £ i IKE, MACMILLAN CHAT ON TV-JF*resident Eisenhower (left) talks to British. Prime Minister Harold • Macmillan during their television appearance at 10 Downing Street. During their unprecedented fireside chat, carried throughout Britain via radio and television, Eisenhower told Macmillan that present meetings with other Western statramen show their. conviction that peace is imperative.

—- Ike Makes Big Hit In London

LONDON (UPI) — President J Eisenhower and Prime Minister ' Harold Macmillan left it clear today that they still do not agree completely on a summit policy. ’ Although nothing they said in ; their joint radio-television chat ! Monday indicated any serious ‘ friction, it was quite clear that ’ Eisenhower’s price for formal summit negotiations with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev was higher than Macmillan's. After winding up two days of cold war talks wtih the prime minister the President this morning took time out from his European peace crusade to deal with White House business that has piled up. He scheduled no more major political talks until he goes to City Swimming Pool To Close Labor Day Labor Day will be the final day the city swimming pool will be open this year, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., announced today. The pool will be open during its regular hours until the Labor Day holiday, when it will be open from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Last week was a record week for {he pool, Zerkel added. Well over 5.000 persons were in the swim last week, during the days of August’s heat wave.

total $141,337, and 4-H premiums $44,252. New Queen Named Pulchritude will prevail on the opening night when a new “Miss Indiana State Fair’’ is chosen to reign over the event, succeeding Carol Parks of Crawfordsville. On the opening day, Governof Handley will accept the State of Indiana’s first 50-star flag from a representative of the firm which supplies the winners’ ribbons for the fair. Each day has a special designation. The opener is County FairScout Day. Saturday is Youth Achievement Day. On Sunday, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, who spent his boyhood in Indiana, will be celebrated with a pageant and other commemorative features. While attendance is bound to run into the hundreds of thousands, whether it sets or approaches d new record will depend a lot on the weather. The outlook for the opening day was partly cloudy with normal warm but not uncomfortably hot temperatures.

t 7 Paris Wednesday to meet with French President Charles de - Gaulle and Italian leaders. Make Big Hit * This afternoon he left free for ■ a small tea party for the Indian ’ high commissioner in London, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, ■ and several other women. Eisenhower invited a number of old World War II comrades-in- ; arms to dinner this evening. Macmillan and Eisenhower made a big hit in Britain with their fireside chat, unique in his--1 tory. Its impact, coming at the end of overwhelming ovations for the President by the British public, 1 was tremendous. The British press was unanimous in its praise. Eisenhower declared he was willing to go to Moscow or the summit or do anything else for world peace provided there were prospects of success and provid- , ed Khrushchev during his coming visit to the United States showed ! he wanted peace. Says Peace Is Imperative “Peace is imperative,” he declared. “If we are to have a summit, Mr. Khrushchev must under- ’ stand that as you and I do.’’ Macmillan made it clear he was less demanding. “I have never concealed to you that I have always wanted a summit meeting and with your initiai tive we may get it under the best conditions,” he said. He was referring to the President’s invitation to Khrushchev. Toward the end of the chat, Eisenhower again stressed his point. **l will not be a party to a meeting that is going to depress or discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results and with that single exception there is nothing they cannot ask me to do.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with a few showers o r thundershowers likely south and extreme west this afternoon. Occasional showers likiey tonight.' Wednesday occasional rain likely. Not much temperature change tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 65 to 72. High Wednesday 70s north, 75 to 83 south. Sunset today 7:17 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:13 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Rain ending, becoming partly cloudy and cool. Lows low 60s north to upper 60s south. Highs mostly in the 70s except around SO extreme south.

Bid Accepted For New County Truck The county commissioners met in regular session at the offices of county auditor Ed Jaberg Monday, approving one of four bids for a new 1959 pick-up truck for the county highway department. The commissioners accepted the bid of Decatur Equipment Co. after a careful study of all four bids and a personal inspection of the • vehicles. Quite a bit of time was spent reaching a decision as not one of the bidders exactly followed the specifications of the legal advertisement concerning the bid. The problem of re-aligning the bids for the equipment specified was done by telephone. The commissioners traded in an old tractor for the new 6-cylinder International Harvester truck. The winning bid was slightly higher than two other bids, but the commissioners felt that it would be the best buy over the years considering maintenance and general upkeep. The other bids, after being revamped, were: Butler Garage, a used 6-cylinder 1959 GMC pick-up, $1,543, and a new 1959 8-cylinder GMC, $1,929: Phil L. Macklin Co.. 1959 Dodge 6-cylinder pick-up, sl,725: Schwartz Motor Co., 6-cylin-der 1960 Ford pick-up, $1,755, and 8-cylinder Ford pick-up, $1,855. W. W. Cravens, Central Soya Co. executive, received favorable comment on his request for road improvement to the new proposed Soya experimental farm. The firm recently purchased 162 acres in Root township, northeast of Decatur, formerly the Decker farm. Plans for the road improvement were referred to highway superintendent Lawrence Noll. 'A tentative date for a meeting with the county council, a state board of health representative and the commissioners was set for a discussion of establishing a sanitary code for the county. Dr. William Freeby, county health officer, suggested the meeting. Bob Yost presented samples of insulation available for the work considered at the county farm. Nothing definite was stated on this situation. Harry Sheets, of Decatur Water Softener, will present an analysis of the county's water at the next meeting. St. Joseph School Book List Published i Book lists for the St. Joseph Catholic grade school are published on page four of today's Decatur Daily Democrat, "Die Catholic schools will open next week for the 1959-60 school year. School officials announced that there will be no change in textbooks for the Decatur Catholic high school this year.

Midnight Tonight Is Filing Deadline United Press International Deadline day arrived for Indiana mayoralty* candidates to file as independents, and a number of them already had their hats in the ring. Midnight tonight will mrk the closing of the filing period in advance of the Nov. 3 municipal elections. By that time, all independent candidates seeking office outside the Democratic and Republican tickets had better have their petitions with the required number of signatures on file with their county clerks or they’re out of luck. This also was the last day for political parties to fill vacancies; on their municipal tickets, and for towns which did not have primaries last May to file their slates after local conventions. There was increasing evidence in reports from cities around the state that a considerable number of mayor hopefuls would compete on independent tickets with the regular-party nominees. At Peru, where 14 persons sought mayor nominations in the primaries last May, two men filed on independent tickets, creating a four-way race for November in that city. Fred Clark and Robert W. Good, who said they are Democrats, filed against Democratic Mayor John Devine, the incumbent, and Republican Sherman G. Cox, a former mayor. Former mayor George Meuhl- , hausen of Logansport filed as an independent party candidate Monday in an effort to get back his ! old job which he held until 1955. A three-way race also was cre- ’ ated at Martinsville. . But at Indianapolis, George W. j Dodd, who sought to be elected ■ mayor as an independent, was ruled off the ballot by the Marion County Election Board which cited the fact that signatures on his official petition were not notarized as required by law. However, three mayors elected in Indiana's more than 100 cities a few years ago were independent party candidates, and within the last decade Vincennes, one of the state’s larger cities, had an independent party mayor.

Cape Canaveral Is Tied Up By Strike

United Press International A walkout by operating engineers tied up construction projects at the,Cape Canaveral missile test center today and the flight engineers threatened a strike tonight against Pan American World Airways. But threatened strikes in the rubber, glass and meat packing industries were averted. Negotiators planned to meet today in an effort to end a strike by members of Local 673 of the AFL-010 Operating Engineers Union at Cape Canaveral. They set up picket lines at both entrances Monday. A construction company spokesman said the workers were demanding double time pay for over time work in violation of a government contract. Thousands of workers could be involved, he said, because other craft unions refused to cross the engineers’ picket lines. Arrange Truce A 24-hour truce was arranged Monday night in a strike threatened by the Flight Engineers Union against Pan American World Airways. The union said it would walk out if the airline began training so-called “third pilots” for jet planes. Pan American, a union spokesman said, had agreed not to begin the training program until tonight to enable negotiators to try and work out an agreement Another transportation strike, this one in the railway industry, was threatened for November by the Railway Labor Executives’ Assn. Seek Wage Increase The {Association, comprised of 11 non-operating railway unions,

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Public Works Committee today approved an immediate one penny hike in the federal gasoline tax to keep the super-highway construction program going. The vote was 25-6. Chairman Charles A. Buckly (D-N.Y.) told reporters afterward he would ask the Rules Committee to clear the plan Wednesday so it can go to the House floor Thursday. The proposal, drafted by the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, provides for > boosting the federal levy on gasoline from 3 to 4 cents a gallon for 22 months. y For a three-yea r period after the higher tax expired some of the receipts from automotive excise taxes would be shifted from general revenue into the highway trust fund. President Eisenhower, who called for a 1% cent tax hike, has described the penny plan as a step in the right direction. It was estimated that the tax hike would bring in an extra one billion dollars. The vote appeared to bring an end to weeks of jockeying between the Public Works Committee, which handles highway legislation. and the ways and means group, which is responsible for revenue measures. Democrats on the Public Works Committee tried to get the Ways and Means Committee to accept a 12 - month penny increase, a compromise hammered out by Speaker Sam Rayburn. But the Ways and Means Committee re-’ jected this. 13-12. last week and held out for the 22-month boost. Before approving the plan, the committee adopted an amend- ' ment declaring it the “intent and 1 policy” of Congress that the ’ states should be reimbursed for 1 highways, bridges or tunnels they have built as part of the interstate highway system. Buckley said there now are about four billion dollars worth of such projects for which the states eventually should be repaid. Contractor Dies Os Fall Injuries MARTINSVILLE, Ind. <UPI) — Thomas Prather, 49, Martinsville contractor, died Sunday in an Indianapolis hospital of injuries sustained a day earlier when he fell through a basement stairway in a house he was building. Prather’s neck was fractured.

. demanded an end to a three-year r wage freeze and saidit would . seek a 25-cent hourly wage in- , crease plus improved fringe benei fits. In the drawn-out national steel . strike, negotiations were in recess [ until Wednesday. AFL-CIO Presi- . dent George Meany called on all unions to make Labor Day next . Monday a "support the steel- . workers day." , An agreement late Monday appeared to ahve headed off a ■ scheduled strike in the meat pack- . ing industry. Armour & Co. reached a con- . tract settlement with the United Packinghouse and Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union scant hours . before 14,000 in 27 plans across > the country would have gone on . strike. Rubber Workers Get Increase The agreement was expected to set the pace for other major packers. Swift & Co., Wilson & ; Co., Cudahy Packing Co., and Morrell, which also faced strikes. A "package” increase of 10-cents-an-hour headed off a schedi uled strike by 23,000 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. workers in . 11 cities. The settlement with the United Rubber Workers union was reached four hours before a strike deadline at midnight Monday night. Negotiators meeting in Pittsburgh agreed to a day-to-day extension of contracts between the Flint Glass Workers Union (AFLCIO) and the glass container industry. Federal mediators arraggedjhe contracts extension, thua ' a strike by 2,000 mildmakers threatened for midnight Monday.

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