Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII, No. 232.

v —"— ’ ■ .■ -.'"l F" /■ —■ ■ » *<W . ,33 '~ , * f ~ £ y * ‘ ’ r * f M 5 ' 5 W ®BwFW H STRIKE TIES UP ATLANTIC-GULF DOCKS—With the liner Berlin for a backdrop, a squad of New York mounted police line up as Pier 88 as the International Longshoremen’s Association called its 1 190AOT members from Maine to Texas out on strike. The walkout threatened to cut off most of America's foreign steel and snarl commerce in perishable food and passengers all along the Atlantic and •■ Gulf coasts. ■; .’• .-t . ■ ■ •_■ ’"■■■'

aJwtt /.Sias I ■■■■■ ! I * Ziner Speaks At Rotary Meeting The weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club took place Thursday night at the Youth and Community Center, with Gene Ziner, secretary-treasurer of the Duo-Marine Corp., telling the group of the firm’s growth and expansion since its inception. Ziner, who recently attended the Chicago boating trading show, told the audience that the local firm has advanced from an embryonic stage to a point where it can soundlv walk on its own two feet. He told how the crowd reaction at the Chicago show helped make the firm’s new 14-foot “Hepcat” the hit of the show. The newest addition to the Catamaran family, the "Repeat" gives the firm one of the most modern boating items j in the competitive fleld. .. Ziner also showed a film on Catamarans. which was used on the TV program, "You Asked For It." The film, taken in California's warm waters, shows the highspeed, preciston maneuverability of the Catamarans in a most flashy style. The boat was used on the water ski jumps and around a marked water course to exhibit the speed and ease of handling. Rotary president, H. P. Schmitt, Jr., welcomed the visiting members from Bluffton, Fort Wayne, and Van Wert, O„ which helped to swell thd attendance at the meeting. General program chairman. Dr. William Freeby, Introduced the speaker and announced tentative plans for the next few meetings.

Handley Rejects Special Session

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-Cover-1 nor Handley today flatly rejected! as “politics” a suggestion by Lake County’s nine Democrats in the Indiana Legislature to call a special session to ease the, steeltruck Calumet area* economic ituation. “The legilators are playing their usual game, of politics,” Handley said at an unscheduled news conference in his Statehouse office. “They are taking advantage of an unfortunate situation for their own political gain. “The legislators and the Lake County mayors know full well it (a special session) is an impossibility.” Handley made the remakrs after the upstate legislators revealed they had urged him to call the session for the purpose of liberalizing unemployment compensation regulations so that strikers could draw benefits, and to declare a moratorium on payment of the November installment of local real estate and personal property taxes due by Nov. 2. “We can only help within the limits of the law and the statutes were passed by the General Assembly itself,” Handley said. "If any moratorium were declared, it would have to affect the whole state. Any amendment affecting only one particular county is unconstitutional. They know that. They’re only attempting to embarrass me. “It’s tragic when some politicians take advantage of suffering. “If a moratorium were declared, where would we get the money to keep schools open, to collect garbage, to pay policemen?” SHandley said present laws do not solve the problems of persons out of jobs for extended periods.

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.' - * 1 111 . " •• • - ... — Dodgers Seek i Series Evener

* r. ) « BULLETIN COMISKEY PARK — The Chicago White Sax, winners of the first 1959 World Series game by an 11-4 score, held I a 2-1 edge over the Los Angei les Dodgers after five innings of today's second game. 1 CHICAGO (UPD — The Chicago White Sox, off to a flying start i in their drive to make up for the ■ biggest blot on baseball’s record, tried to make it two In a row over ; the deflated Los Angeles Dodgers today in the second game of the : World Series. Manager Al Lopez called on erase the memory of how their ‘ last pennant-winner — the "Black Sox” of 40 years ago — threw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Shaw, a fast-balling righthander, was to face south-paw Johnny Podres, who hurled the Dodgers to their only World Series triumph —back in 1955 when they were based in Brooklyn. Podres has a 14-9 record against Shaw's 18-6. Early Wynn, a 39-year-old veteran who bounced back to win 22 games this season, and heavilymuscled Ted Kluszewski, with two home runs and five runs batted in, were the chief heroes as the White Sax shut out the Dodgers 11-0 and rocked them back on their heels with an 11-hit attack which made it the worst first game runaway in Series annals.

[But he said “we are hopeful” that | steel companies and steelworkers would “get together within the next few days.” Three state senators, five state representatives and one joint representative who also serves Porter County adopted a resolution at a meeting Sept. 29 calling for a special session to consider: —Liberalization of the state unemployment compensation law to permit strikers to draw compensation. —A moratorium On payment of the November installment of local real estate and personal property taxes. —An appropriation of adequate funds to alleviate “the emergency and undue hardship of the people of this county affected directly and indirectly by the steel strike.” —Other legislation for the welfare of the community’s residents. The resolution .said that relief funds were inadequate and have been exhausted. “The welfare and education of the youth of the country has been adversely affected by non-payment of tuition and book rentals," the resolution said. Considerable cloudiness this afternoon. Cloudy with occasional rain likely tonight and Saturday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Saturday 05 to 70 north, the 70a south. Sunset today 5:26 p. m. est, 6:20 p. m. edt Sunrise Saturday 5:42 a.m. cat, 0:42 a.m. cdt. Outlook for Sunperatare change. Lows In the 50s. Highs in the 70s.

Net On Ropes But the Dodgers insisted that they weren’t hanging on the ropes, pointing out that they had come back from a 12-2 toss to the Chicago Cubs to win the National League pennant in a feverish playoff with Milwaukee. “It’s losing the close ones that ’ hurt you,” insisted Dodger manager Walt Alston. “One like this is just forgotten.” You couldn’t sell that to the White Sox or to the 48,013 fans who cheered and jeered as the home chib racked up five Lm AnCraig, took a two run lead in the first inning, crushed the Dodgers with seven more runs in the third, and then, just far good measure, added another pair in the fourth. Started With Nellie Nellie Fox, the tobacco-chewing sparkplug of the White Sox, started the journey of annihilation in the very first inning when, with one away, he drew a walk. Jim Landis laced a single to right and little Nellie went to third. That’S when Big Klu started his heroics with a single to right which scored Fox and put Landis on theird. Sherm Lollar followed with a tong drive to center that kept Klu anchored on first, but Landis cantered home after the catch. That accounted for the first two runs — -but the massacre really started in the third inning. The pesky Sox started that fantastic third with a double. Landis singled him home and then Big Klu lofted a homer into the right field stands. Chuck Churn shouldered the load for Craig then and the roof fell in on him as Duke Snider collided with WaUy Moon in fielding — and dropping — LolIkr’s high fly. Lollar wound up on second and trundled home heavy-footed on Billy Goodman’s sliced single to right. Goodman advanced to third on Al Smith’s double to left center. Neal In Act That’s when Snider equalled the Series record for inept play as hi threw wildly to the infield for his second error of the inning. Goodman scored and Smith went to third. Second baseman Charley Neal got into the error act next when He gobbled up Jim Rivera’s grounder and tossed it into the dirt in front of the plate while trying to nail Smith at home. The ball struck Rivera’s discarded bat and bounced past catcher John Roseboro as Smith galloped home and Rivera went on to second. Wynn contributed to his own cause next with a double to center, scoring Rivera. But the next two men went down to finally end it. The game assumed comic opera proportions as the Sox added two more in the fourth. Landis started with his third straight single and then it was Big Klu againsmashing a homer against the upper rail in right field. As the ball dropped back on the playing field, Dodger right fielder Norm Larker picked it up in disgust and hurled it up into the roaring crowd. That Kluszewski blast ended the scoring for the day, and, while ft was five runs batted in to equal the World Series one-game mark held jointly by Yankees Tony Lazzeri and Bin Dickey, it also was more than the White Sox were to needrron this actual aHhlversary of the day 40 years ago when they started their sordid trip into shame and infamy.

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Back-To-WorkMoveßy Brooklyn Dockworkers Fizzles This Morning O -'J U. 'CL' ..A - L. 1: - . - .

- - V - X. pen. Kennedy [invades Stale For Speeches INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Dynamic Sen. Jack Kennedy invades Indiana today, probably to determine whether he will run in the Hoosier presidential preferential primary. The 42-year-old Massachusetts Democratic leader will begin a three-day whirlwind tour of north, central and southern regions of the state, accompanied by Sen. Vance Hartke, who plans to be with all Democratic presidential possibilities when they visit Hoosierdom. Kennedy is scheduled to arrive . in a private plane at Weir Cook ’ Airport. Indianapolis, at 4 p.m. : e.s.t., and then hold a news con--1 ference. He will speak at a Denw 1 ocratic 819-a-plate, fund-raising ’ dinner at the Murat tonight Die noted visitor win fly to Lafayette Saturday to be the luncheon guest of Dr. Frederick Hovde. Purdue University president, and then attend the Purdue - Notre Dame football game that afternoon. Mast Leave Game Kennedy will be forced to leave the big gridiron contest about a party rally at the Scottish Rite Auditorium there. On Sunday afternoon, Kennedy and Hartke will plane to Evansville, Hartke’s home town, and then participate in a caravan to Jasper for a reception at the American Legion home, preceded by another news conference. His next stop is Huntingburg for a party rally and box dinner in a big circus tent. He will fly from Indiana Sunday night for an invasion of Nebraska. Also accompanying Kennedy will be his newly-named Hoosier presidential campaign manager. Sen. Marshall Kizer, Plymouth. Acceptance of this post is nearly sure to mean that Kizer will not be a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial bid next year. Kizer is close to National Chairman Paul M. Butler, but the state senator said this does not mean that Butler is for Kennedy for President. May Win Primary Several weeks ago, Frank M. McHale, former national committeeman, a supporter of Sen. W. Stuart Symington, Missouri, for President, predicted that Kennedy would win the Hoosier presidential primary and that the Mis- . sour ian would not be a pri- ; mary entrant. Also backing Symington formidably is former National Chairman Frank E. McKinney. Symington spoke at the last two important Democratic gatherings in a period of six months, the Jef-ferson-Jackson dinner in Indianapolis and the banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at French Lick. Wilder Child Dies Early This Morning Cynthia Joan Wilder, 14-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Wilder, of Woodburn route 2, died at 1:20 o’clock this morning at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. The infant had been ill for the past six weeks. She was born In Fort Wayne July 9, 1958, a daughter of Arthur J. and Joan Heiman-Wilder. She was a member of the St. John’s Catholic church at New Haven. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Wilder and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heiman, all of Decatur route 4, and the paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Anna Tricker of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at St John’s Catholic church in New Haven, the Rev.Wllliam Ehrman officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Harper funeral home in New Haven after 7 p.m. today un-

Khrushchev Pleased With Visit Results

MOSCOW (UPD—Premier Nikita, Khrushchev is pleased and encouraged by what the Communist world recognizes as the unquali-] ■ fied success of his American mission, diplomatic observers aid today. Obervers here attached consid--1 erable significance not only to the mild tone of Khrushchev's i speeches in Communist Chnia but also the actual words he used in the presence of Mao Tse-tung and • other top leaders of the Communist camp. Khrushchev, acting very much i like the acknowledged elder statesman of international Communism, said in Peiping: •*We must reason realistically and correctly understand the present situation. And this does not ■ mean we are so strong we should test the stability of the capitalist system by force. This would be wrong.” “People would not undertand ' and would never support those who took it into their heads to act this way. We have always bedh against predatory wars.” James B. Sheehan b Taken By Death . James B. Sheehan, 82, retired farmer living on Decatur route 3, died at 11:30 o’clock Thursday morning at the South View rest home at Bluffton. Mr. Sheehan, formerly of Monroeville, had lived near Decatur for the past 20 years. He was a member of the United Brethren church and Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M. Surviving are three sons, Kenneth Sheehan of Columbia City, Thomas Sheehan of near Decatur, and Wendell Sheehan of Midland. Mich., and five grandchildren. The body was removed to the Marquart funeral home at Monroeville, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this • evening. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon, with burial in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Monday Deadline On Voter Registration County clerk Richard D. Lewton advises all Decatur voters that Monday will be the last day to register for the general election: Nov. 3. Residents who have failed to register for the election can do so Saturday until noon and Monday from 4:30 a. tn. to 9p. m. Lewton said he will keep his office open to this hour to accommodate those residents who can not come to the office earlier. This is strictly a volunteer extension of time for the clerk's office as no law requires the office to remain open beyond the regular 4:30 p. m. closing time. The high interest, however, in this election, which also involves the proposed sale of the city-own-ed electric utility plant and franchise to 14M for 82,099,300, is the reason for the time extension. The general election, which includes the races for mayor, the five city councilmen, and clerk treasurer, will add interest, as city judge is of little concern as usual, to the voting. The race for the Democratic nominee is unopposed on the ballot. The Democratic ticket is: incumbent Robert D. Cole, mayor; Cart Gerber, Clyde Drake, Norbert Aumann, Lawrence Kohne, and Frank Braun, all councilmen; Mrs. Laura A. Bosse, clerk-treas-urer, and Richard J. Sullivan, city judge. The Republican ticket consists of: Donald F. Gage, mayor; Curtis P. Jones, clerk-treasurer; Robert Leßoy August, Edward Deltsch, Ralph E. Smith, Harold Eugene Teeter, and Adolph Kolter, all councflmen, and no candidate for city judge.

The implication appeared clear —the Soviet Union certainly would not support any but a defensive war or what is known in Communist parlance as a “war of liberation.” He failed to specify any of the present danger spots in Europe, the Middle East or Asia. He did ■ not mention Laos or the Sino-In-i dian frontier dispute. On the latI ter the Kremlin is on record as • urging the dispute be settled by negotiation, and it would not be i surprising if the Soviet Union of- ' fers to mediate the dispute. Khrushchev, with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at his elr bow, undoubtedly will review the ■ entire Far Eastern situation int eluding the battle between Chiang I Kai-shek and the Communists. t Observers here said Khruf shchev, in addresing international Communit leader in Peiping, 1 was full of confidence not only • emanating from his own growing ► domestic political and economic 1 strength but with fresh knowledge of the Usited States position. Decatur Betterment Association Meets Members of the association for the betterment of Decatur will meet at 8 a.m. Saturday for breakfast with the 80 men who voluntarily circulated petitions asking for reconsideration of the sale of the Decatur municipal electric utility. Lowell Harper will preside at the meeting because Louis Jacobs, president, will not be able to be present. Anyone interested in attending the breakfast is invited to attend. Two of the petition carriers have some ideas which they would like to explain to the other men who worked with them. Many have already been busy making certain that every person interested in the sale is registerd to vote Nov. 3. ; r!ii'

Negotiators Not Hopefill

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald said today he was “not Jjppeful” that White House-ordered negotiations could bring a swift < end to the marathon steel strike. The union and 12 basic steel companies resumed deadlocked negotiations at 9:38 a. m. cdt. Before entering the conference room, McDonald said: “I am aft-aid I am not hopeful.” The industry bargainers refused to comment. A source close to the negotiations told United Press International that the two bargaining sessions here Thursday may have resulted in a “change” of thinking. “I believe the way is open for each side<to at least revamp their stands ..." the source said. “Let’s say there may have been a change of menu on that socalled bargaining table. Os course that’s no guarantee either side will like it but at least it’s a change." A joint announcement at a hur-riedly-called news conference that followed Thursday’s recess said merely: The “Sole Comment” “We have been considering our problems . . . and will meet again tomorrow . . . We have no further comment and we do not wish to answer any questions." The meeting was set tor 10:30 ta-m. •The cryptic announcement was made by chief industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper of United States Steel Corp, as USW Presi-

Table Captains For Fish Fry Appointed > The table captains for the annual rural-urban fish fry on Oct. 22 at the Decatur high school gymnasium were released today by table Chairman Ted Hill. The special category table captains are: Clyde Butler, garages; Roland Ross, Bag Service; Bill Small, Central Soya Co.; Bill Lose, First State Bank; George Laurent, General Electric Co.; Bill Linn, court house and post office; Norm Steury, Decatur Industries, and Carl Braun, real estate and insurance. Retail Captains The retail captains are: Bob Zwick, Ralph Habegger, Harold Niblick, Ivan Stucky, Bob Holthouse, Dave Moore, Floyd Gray Jim Webb, Wayne Price, Dr. R. E. Allison, Earl Sheets, Dick Wertzberger, Dale Morrissey, Don Whitacre, and Bob Wall. The captains will then procure the services of three or four vol- ; unteer workers to assist with the , serving of the goden brown fried ; fish. The fish, by the way, will i be prepared by the Jonah club, noted fish fryers from Silver Lake. Professional entertainment will headline the program after the meal, with Julius Baker, chairman, promising a top notch crowd pleaser. General, chairman Clarence Ziner and co-chairman Charles Gable said tins morning that plans are moving along well towards the zero hour. Tickets At 81.25 Tickets for the event will be available throughout the city and surrounding communities as was the case in years past. The actual date of ticket sales is not definite, but the target date is early next week. Prices for ducats are $1.25, which includes the entertainment as wtD. The event is sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, but the entire C. of C. gets behind the wheel of this event to promote good relations with the rural neighbors by serving them a good meal and showing an evening's entertainment that will not be easily forgotten.

dent David J. McDonald stood nearby. McDonald refused to say whether any progress had been made when the talks moved here for the first time since 500,000 steelworkers began the nation's longest steel strike July 15. The steel union president said Cooper's statement would be the “sole comment.” Might Be Forthcoming Underlying the negotiations was speculation that government intervention in the form of invoking the Taft-Hartley Act may be forthcoming if headway is not made toward a “negotiated settlement” by Oct. 8. That is the date President Eisenhower is scheduled to return to Washington from a West Coast vacation. The President implied after meeting with both sides in the nation’s capital last Wednesday that the federal government would act if the steel deadlock is not broken in renewed negotiations. At Thursday’s late afternoon press conference, McDonald and Cooper huddled briefly as newsmen and photographers filed into a room at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel in the downtown section of Pittsburgh. "Mr. Cooper, would you like to make the statement,” McDonald asked cordially. “We have a short statement that will be our sole comment." ' Cooper, the top spokesfnan for 12 major steel companies, then announced negotiations would be resumed today.

Six Cents

NEW. YORK (UPI)-A back-to-work move by Brooklyn clockworkers fizzled today, sending the Atlantic and Gulf coast strike into its second day with a tightening grip. The Brooklyn longshoremen had been ordered back to work by Anthony (Tough Tony) Anastasia, a vice president of the striking International Longshoremen’s Union, in defiance of “stay out” orders from ILA Inernationai President Capt. William V. Bradley. A few longshoremen reported for work at 7 a.m. c.d.t. but there was not enough manpower to form work gangs. Anastasia had ordered his men. members of the only ILA local with a dizeable treasury, back to work in the face of a milliondollar damage suit threatened by the New York Shipping Assn. The association claimed the ILA broke an agreement to extend its labor contract to Oct. 15. Coastal ports from Maine to Texas were throttled by the strike with unmoved cargo on ships and docks. Passengers struggled off and aboard liners with their won baggage. Bradley called the Maine-to-I Texas walkout of 85.000 longshorel men Thursday to bolster demands , of Southern dockworkers in their negotiations for a new contract. I The strike cancelled a 15-day con- . tract extension for North Atlantic , dockers which Bradley had agreed to less than 24 hours be- ' fore. Win Cast Millions The ILA claimed the strike was 100 per cent effective. It tied up approximately 200 vessels with cargoes worth 750 million dollars and inconvenienced passengers on several major luxury liners, including the American export liner Constitution which will dock in Halifax, N.S. Saturday instead of New York. Shipping industry sources said the strike would cost the nation’s economy about 20 million dollars a day and cut off 50 per cent of foreign steel imports critically needed because of the steel strike. The walkout brought the total of American workers on strike or idled by strikes to more than one million. Federal authorities in Washington were reported preparing legal papers for a Taft-Hartley Act injunction which would send the dockers back to work for an 80day cooling off period. The move was requested Thursday by the New York Board of Trade th a telegram to President Eisenhower. Called Meeting The back-to-work movement sparked by Anastasia, an international vice president of the ILA and longtime contender for the presidency, apparently was designed to prevent legal action against his well-heeled local. TTie pier boss called a meeting of his men Thursday night after the New York Shipping Association threatened to file * the largest and costliest damage suit ever” against the ILA for breach of contract. “A contract is a contract,” Anastasia shouted. “I believe in living up to agreements.” Youth Is Killed In Stolen Auto Crash EDINBURG, Ind. (UPD — A stolen convertible rolled over out of control in U. S. 31 today, killing a Michigan teen-ager and injuring his two young companions. Terry C Deal. 17, Muskegon, was killed and William Grams, 17, and Gerald L. Hilton, 18, both of Muskegon, were injured when the gar was wrecked about a mile south of here in mid-morning. Ike Will Celebrate Birthday At Abilene ABILENE, Kan. (UPD — President Eisenhower will celebrate his 89th birthday in his home town of Abilene and take part in ground breaking ceremonies for the huge Eisenhower presidential library building to be built here. The President will fly here Oct. 13 to break ground for the library, spend the night at the Sunflower Hotel and then return to Washington early the next day on his birthday.