Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVH. No. 233.

' ZSb- * ■ i f" ; ' \ I Vi • > feta/ 1 ■ flßk, Xi''*'*' ■ CONSOLIDATES DOCK STRIKE—After announcing his Brooklyn, N. Y. longshoremen would not participate in the strike of 85,000 dockworkers in Atlantic and Gulf parts, Anthony (Tough Tony) Anastasia reverses his decision, telling workers they were on strike. His move consolidated the strike which brought an increasing pinch in raw materials and the threat of layoffs in many industries.

World Series Even, Resume Play Sunday

LOS ANGELES (UPD—The Los Angeles Dodgers came cockily home today after squaring the World Series with- the Chicago White Sox. brashly insisting that the Sox weren’t even as good as their top National League rivals. Battered 11-0 in the opening game at Chicago and bouncing back to take the second game there, 4-3, the Dodgers were in high spirits—and almost critical of the team they will meet on their home lot when the Series resumes Sunday. “When you play teams like the Braves, Giants and Pirates all year, this team don’t scare you,” said scrappy Don Zimmer. “And the* Cubs, too,” interjected Jim Gilliam, as if to say that the Sox would have to be considered fifth-best in the National League. Sox Don’t Have Power “They’re definitely not as good as the Gian* or Braves,” asserted Johnny Podres, the second game winner. “They sure don’t have their power.” “No, possibly not,” cautioned Gil Hodges, the quiet man of the Dodgers, “but let’s remember they may be stronger defensivly.” But even manager Walter Alston, who named strikeout king Don Drysdale to pitch the renewal game Sunday, agreed with his high-spirited players that “overall” the White Sox weren’t as good as the Braves or Giants. Al Lopez, the White Sox manager, in an attempt to disprove the Dodger rating named righthander Dick Donovan for the vital third game, and, refusing to be drawn into a controversy, said simply: “We lost one. But we’ll come back.” Goat, Then Hero His club lost Friday’s game on three homers, two by Charley Neal, the second baseman who, before he displayed his power hitting, figured to be the “goat” of the contest It was his first inning fielding lapse which made the White Sox a gift of two runs.

Floods Recede In Oklahoma

United Press International More than 2,000 Oklahomans evicted by floods began trickling back to their homes today. Red Cross officials estimated as many as 2,700 persons ought helter Friday night when October cloudbursts transformed placid streams into uncontrolable torrents. The floods also struck part of Kansas and Misouri. But while Oklahoma homeowner watched rivers race through their living rooms, residents on the East Coast and in the Rockies got a glimpse of clear skies for the first time in nearly a week. In the East, Hurricane Grade, reduced to a drizzle, limped out to sea after wreaking millions of dollars in damage through the Carolinas and Georgia. The threat of another hurricane evaporated when Hurricane Hannah veered further out in the Atlantic. The weatherman predicted a day of mild temperatures and clear skies tor the Colorado Rockies and officials planned to use the respite to clear away • the wreckage from four straight days of unseasonal snow. The Rocky Mountain snows

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“I think we’re over our fielding jitters,” explained Alston. He had reason to hope so. Because the Dodgers have made four errors in two games—three in the disastrous opener and one officially yesterday when the home runs, two by Neal and one by pinch-hitter Chuck Essegian, pulled it out. Fumbling, juggling play by the Dodger infield contributed those two runs to the Sox in the opening inning yesterday. It opened with Luis Aparicio doubling down the right field foul line. Little Luis went on to third by tagging up as Nellie Fox fliea to deep right. Then came Neal's jugling act which could have extricated Podres from the jam. Ted Kluszewski slammed a ball to Neal and he dug it out of the dirt several times as Landis raced safely past him to second base while Aparicio scored. With the double play gone, Neal still had time to get the lumbering Klu at first. Sherm Lollar singled off Neal’s glove—and Landis went on across the plate. Neal started making retribution in the fifth with a 370-foot homer into the lower left field stands. Podres, who had given up those two gift runs on a meager four hits through the first six innings, was derrlcked by Alston with two out in the seventh for the pinchhitting Essegian. Big Chuck got the message and bashed the ball into the upper deck of the left field stands to tie it up at 2-2. It also shook Shaw, who was destined to wind up as the loser. Because Shaw walked Gilliam and once again Neal stepped up to the plate. And Charley got more than even for that atrocious first inning as he walloped a towering 430-foot shot into the White Sox bullpen out in the far reaches of center field. Turk Lown came on in relief to get the Dodgers out and hold them scoreless the rest of the way. ~

were blamed for at least eight deaths—six in Colorado and two in Wyoming — and officials said the cold snap brought heavy damage to Colorado's potato, fruit, late grain and onion crops. Tornado warnings were posted in parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and Illinois and several funnels were sighted, but no damage was reported. In Missouri, overloaded storm sewers poured as much as three feet into Joplin streets. The floodwater churned through the main street of Seneca, Mo., and overflowed into business establishments. Other showers fell Friday night from lowa into the upper Great Lake and from southeast Arizona across New Mexico into southeast Colorado. Light drizzles were reported along the Virginia coast, in central Montana and in central Florida. ■ ■■ The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted scattered showers today in Arizona and New Mexico, through Texas and Oklahoma into the lower Mississippi Valley , agd. the Ofcio Valley and into Lakes, with thunderstorms predicted in southern Illinois.

Sen. Kennedy Speaks Tonight At Fort Wayne INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts launched a 48-hour Indiana political visit Friday night by saying that no negotiations can end the basic differences between the national interests and aspirations of the United States and Russia. Speaking at a $lO-a-plate fundrating dinner l of Indianapolis Democrats, Kennedy said the real roots of the Soviet-American conflict are a clash of interests —in Europe, in the Middle East and around the world. “Our aspirations as the most powerful leader of the free world conflict with their aspirations as the most powerful leader of the Communist world,” Kennedy said. “No negotiations can end these differences. “No exchange of personal visits, no amount of summit conferences can cause either side to compromise away its fundamental position in Germany, Europe or the world community.” Kennedy, an outstanding prospect tor the Democratic presidential nomination, is scheduled for a luncheon today with Purdue Uni- • versity President Frederick L. Hovde and to attend the PurdueNotre Dame football game in Lafayette. Fort Wayne Tonight He won’t be . able to stay until the end of the contest, however, because he will fly to Fort Wayne for a big Democratic rally tonight, Kennedy and Sen. Vance Hartke will travel Sunday to Evansville. Hartke’s home town, and then will join a motor cavalcade to Jasper for a meeting. Then will come a jaunt of a few miles to Huntingburg for a gathering in a big circus tent. He leaves Hoosierland for a whirlwind visit to Nebraska next week. "There is nothing-whatsoever in the results of (Soviet Premier Ni- ' kita) Khrushchev’s tour which justifies and relaxation on our part," Kennedy said as he developed his world tensions tfaeme. However, Kennedy said there are porfMe arem of negotiations between the two nations. “Both nations would like to be free of the crushing burden of the arms race and neither wants a nuclear war that would leave not one Rome but two Carthages,” he said. “Neither wants too many other nations, friendly, unfriendly or neutral—to join the Atomic Club and hold the power of life or death. Describes Election Issues “Neither country wants to breath radioactive air—we do not want the atmosphere we share polluted by an excess of nuclear tests. “Both nations seek to advance their economics and scientific achievements—and would benefit by a much greater exchange and pooling of ideas, goods and personnel between our two nations.’ Kennedy earlier told a news conference that the major issues of the 1960 campaign will be the decline in farm prices and Russia’s military and scientific advances over the United States. Kennedy said the United States was ahead of Russia when President Eisenhower took office in 1952 but has slipped behind since then. He also criticized the President tor failure to appoint a factfinding committee to investigate the steel strike and to try to settle it on the basis of the committee’s analysis. Kennedy said he would announce next January whettier he will run for president and Said if he were to run, he would enter a number of state presidential primaries “to give the people a chance to express their choice.” Petition Carriers At Breakfast Today Petition carriers with the Association for the Betterment of Decatur met tor an informal breakfast at the Decatur Youth and Community Center this morning to determine effective ways of assuring a maximum vote at the election on the question of the sale of the city power facilities. It was emphasized at the meeting that this is not a political issue, and that the best measures the association can effect' are those of friendliness. The petition carriers will be available to answer questions that arise among the people they contacted, and will be glad to talk with anyone about the question. The association also plans to have cars available tor rides to the polls. Anyone who wishes to vote November 3 and has no way to his voting (dace, can call 3-2143, and transportation will be furnished: • ■ ' ' 5 ROON EDITIOM 5

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Oct. 3, 1959.

East Coast’s Shipping Paralyzed By Strike; Peace Prospect Bleak

Printing Underway On Monroe Town Ballots Printing of the Monroe town ballots began today at the Decatur Daily Democrat office under the direction of town clerk Arthur Moeschberger, Democratic precinct committee man Gene Hike, and Republican precinct committee man Cliff Essex. A total of 250 ballots will be printed as required by law. Supreme Court To Reconvene Monday WASHINGTON (UPD—The Supreme Court reconvenes for the 1959-60 term Monday facing a heavy docket of civil rights, Communist and labor cases. As the “oyez, oyez” ot court crier George E. Hutchinson resounds through the marble court room, the nine justices will take their places on the high mahogany bench for a brief opening session. Opening business consisted mostly of admitting attorneys to practice. Then the court planned to go into a week-long secret conference to decide on which of the 300 or so appeals filed during the summer recess it will hold arguments. Most will be rejected, The results of the conference WiUf be—announced Oct- 12. Immediately thereafter beg iil l J hour of arguments in the dispute between the federal government and five Gulf Coast states over ownership of submerged offshore oil lands. The largest group of cases demanding the court’s attention this term is in the field ot race relations. Four more school segregation appeals have been - filed as well as a second test of the 1957 civil right law to protect Negro voting rights. In the general field of communism and subversion, the court has scheduled re-hrgument of appeals by Junis Irving Scales, former party functionary in the Carolinas; and Rudolf Ivanovich Abel convicted of espionage in New York. These cases were heard last term but the court wants to have another go at them before handing down a decision. Scales is challenging the “membership clause” in the Smith Anti - Communist Act, which makes it a crime to be a member of an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the government if the member is aware of this purpose. The court also has been asked to reconsider its ruling of last term upholding the authority of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities to investigate communism in, education.

Community Fund Drive Oct 20-27

Decatur’s Community F u n d drive to provide funds far eight local charities will be held October 20 to 27. James C. Basham, fund chairman, announced this morning. The drive will start on a Tuesday morning, with a complete breakfast for the 11 co-chairmen, and each of their five captains. All of the group, or their representatives, will be expected to be present at the breakfast to pick up their supplies. Why Tuesday? The Tuesday date for the beginning was set so that a telephone committee could work all day Monday making certain that the 68 co-chairmen and captains, or representatives, will definitely be present. Basham pointed out that each year days of time are wasted trying to take the kits of information around to the workers who do not show up for thief kickoff breakfast. To remedy this, a full breakfast, Including bacon and eggs, rather

High School Hazings Bring Court Action United Press International ■High school hazings in two Eastern Indiana cities resulted today in two seniors spending three days ’■ in jail at Richmond and four upperclassmen being disciplined at Bluffton, the latter for burning four freshmen with fiery sticks. , At Richmond Friday, Wayne Circuit Judge G. H. Hoelscher Sent Timothy Stottlemire, 17, and Stephen J. Torbeck, 17, to the juvenile ward of the county jail Until school time Monday for what he termed an “unprovoked assault” on James Wetzel Jr., 16. Stottlemire was charged with assault and battery for hitting Wetzel in the face. Torbeck was charged with disorderly conduct. Both are students at Richmond High School. At Bluffton, four upperclassmen. ■ escaped legal charges but were . subjected to high school disciplinary action for taking four freshmen to a state forest area, striking them with sticks and switches ■ and trying to “brand” them with the glowing tips of sticks drawn from a bonfire. Probation officer Leßoy Hedges said the four freshmen boys were not released to return home until after 1 a.m. Sept. 26 and that they showed their parents welts on their legs from the switchings and blisters on their hands from the “branding.” > Verdict Held Open In Auto Fatality County coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., delivered an “open verdict” this morning on the highway fatality of Robert James Kase, 19, of Fort Wayne, who was killed when two cars collided on U. S. 224 west of the Indiana-Ohio state line early in the morning of Sept. 12. Five other youths in the car, driven by Ronald Eugene Easley, 19, also of Fort Wayne, were injured in the fatal crash. Sheriff Merle Affolder, who investigated with state police, said that the Easley machine yas reported travelling at a high rate of speed on the “S” curve of the highway and attempted to pass another vehicle, striking it in the rear and than rolling, turning over several times off the road. County prosecutor Severin H. Schurger received the report from Winteregg this morning for further investigation. Schurger must determine what action will result from the coroner’s findings. A possibility of a third vehicle being involved is still a matter of contention as the Injured youths saM a third car Was involved. The highway death was the eighth of the year’ for Adams county.

than just coffee and doughnuts, will be provided, and the attendance will be checked carefully. Chairmen" Monday Basham’s 11 co-chairmen will be announced Monday, following a telephone conference to make certain that all will be able to serve this year. By starting on the morning of October 20, it is hoped that every list of names can be cleaned up by October 27«*-this will give everyone seven working days to make their contacts. Basham added that the one-week campaign should permit more concentrated coverage of the city. Anyone not contacted within that period should mail his contribution directly to Basham. Decatur’s goal this year is a realistic one. he pointed out, based upon the work of ehch independent agency and of the Community Fund campaign whteh ; spent a great deal of time considering the budgets. »

Associated Churches Meet Tuesday Night The Associated Churches of Decatur will meet Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. All members are urged to attend. Scout Membership Meeting On Tuesday I All Decatur, Monroe and Berne > Boy Scout troop and pack leaders I are asked to attend a special meett ing on membership at 7:30 p. m. I Tuesday at the Boy Scout cabin, . John G. Carlson, district executive, i said today. ! South district must get nearly ’ 300 new members to go over the : top in membership this year, and at the meeting plans will be made v to get 10 new members for each , troop, pack, and post before the ' end of the year. Attendance at the meeting will . count as a round table attendance, ; as no round table will be held this i month. Troops 61 and 63 in Decai tur need to attend the meeting to help boost the district’s round > table attendance figures in the • four-district council conapetition. 1 South district can gain ten points ’ in the competition by gaining 300 1 in membership. Allen County Amish Case Is Continued FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UPD — Allen Circuit Judge William H. Schannen Friday continued to Oct. 16 a hearing in the case of three Amish teen-agers charged with failing to attend school. Schannen delayed the case after opening a hearing and commenting it would be impossible to hear all sides in the matter in the time allotted. Two girls and a boy were among 20 Amish who dropped out of public high schools about two weeks ago to attend a new “vocational training” school established by leaders of the religious order. The case was similar to one in adjacent Adams county, where nine Amish children returned to classes 10 days ago after charges were filed against them of failure to attend three public schools. The children returned when faced with the possibility of being taken from their parents and placed in foster ' homes. Preliminary Ruling ■ Is Issued By Judge In the ruling on the Ray Mc- ' Dougal suit vs the city of Decatur, ’ the city plan commission and Mies-Dawson Realty Co., Judge Myles Parrish decided Friday afternoon that the answers in abatement by the city plan commission and Mies-Dawson were not predicated on a substantial basis, and also ruled to sustain the plaintiff’s demurrer. The judge, however, indicated that the preliminary ruling on the case are not directly involved with the determination of the case. The ' rulings yesterday affected only the service of summons and notices to parties involved. This preliminary cause of action resulted when the defendants claimed that summons for all interested parties was not carried out in a legal manner. The judge ' ruled, however, that in such circumstances the plaintiff may merely request that they be served on these persons with no jeopardy involved. In sustaining the plaintiffs demurrer, he ruled that the plaintiff is authorized to request this be carried out. No definite date was set for the hearing cm the review of the city’s ordinance, allowing the Mies-Dawson Co. a rezoning of 3.7 acres of residential land to commercial. The firm is seeking to build a new, modern $300,000 bowling emporium, but residents in the area are battling the city ruling, demanding that the courts review the case in its entirety.

Khrushchev, Mao Meetings Friendly < TOKYO (UPD —Reports from < Peiping indicate Soviet Premier < Nikita S. Khrushchev may be 1 succeeding in selling his new peace plan to the Chinese Com- t munist leaders, observers here < said today. Peiping Radio reported that > Khrushchev and Red China’s No. 1 1 Communist, Mao Tse-tung, held ’ their third meeting in three days « in the Red Chinese capital Fri- ( day. The broadcast said the meet- ' ings were held in an atmosphere < of “cordiality and friendship”. Sitting in were the top advisers i . of Khrushchev and Mao, Soviet ; Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko ’ ’ and Party Chairman Mikhail Sus- 1 > lov, and Chairman (President) 1 I Liu Shao-chi, Premier Chou En- i > lei and Defense Minister Marshal 1 1 Lin Piao. } London Daily Express writer < Christopher Dobson reported from , Peiping that the talks were so 1 secret Chinese would not even ad- ’ mit they were being held. 5 He noted that neither Khrush- * chev nor Mao attended the gala ’ performance of the Peiping ballet 1 Friday night as expected. J Observers here said comments by the controlled Chinese press s indicated that Khrushchev might ) be making headway in convincing the Red Chinese to help relax world tensions. “The Chinese people always support Soviet proposals for easing international tension, disarmaYnerit, bawitng aiiclear weapons i and the peaceful settlement of European and German questions”, ; said the semi-official Ta Kung ] Pao of Peiping. Greyhound Service Returns To Normal INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Grey- i hound bus service returned to nor- < mal Friday night when strikers < and the company agreed on meth- < ods of handling a grievance dis- 1 pute over the firing of a baggage 1 room employe. Young Mother, Son* 1 Killed In Accident KOKOMO, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Ula Suter, 21, Greentown, and her son, Robert Omer, who would , have been 3 Monday, were killed in a car-truck crash at a gravel road intersection six miles east of here late Friday. Mrs. Suter’s husband, Gerald, 25, was hospitalized in fair condition. The Suter car collided with a gravel truck driven by Marvin Thomas Endsley, 35, Marion, who was hurt but not seriously.

Report Offer Made By Steel

PITTSBURGH (UPD-Negotia-tions in the nation’s longest steel strike resumed today with neither side commenting on a report that a new "money” proposal had been rejected by the United Steelworkers Union. When Friday's bargaining sessions recessed, an industry source told United Pres International that negotiator for 1 major steel producers had offered economic concessions in return for changes in contract language. The source said the total value of the package proposal was “probably the most closelyguarded secret in the history of collective bargaining.” , As outlined by UPl’s informant, the industry would agree to a twoyear contract with “non wage” benefits provided the first year and an undisclosed wage increase the second. Management demanded in return changes in contract language that would permit individual firms greater efficiency. All money concessions, however, would fit into the industry’s pre-strike proposal. The absence of official comment on the reported proposal by either USW President David J. McDonald’br chieflndustry negotiator R. Cont-ad Codper* t»f U.S. Steel was in keeping with a joint security

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NEW YORK (UPD—The striking Longshoremen’s Union and the shipping industry took uncompromising positions today against early resumption of negotiations in the three-day-old Atlantic and Gulf Coast pier tie-up that threatens the jobs of more than a million persons. Robert H. Moore, deputy direc tor of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, planned informal talks with both sides during the week end in an attempt to work out a joint conference, but the prospects were bleak. Union and industry sources predicted the strike will go on another week or even longer unless the government obtains a Taft-Hartley injunction. The New York Shipping Assn, rejected Friday Moore’s bid for a joint session Monday, saying it would not resume negotiations until Oct. 15 unless the dockers return to work before that date. The date mark the end of a 15-day contract extension which the International Longshoremen’s Assn, cancelled by falling the strike. Alexander P. Chopin, Shipping Assn. Chairman, said that the employers would require the ILA to give assurances that any contract negotiated here will be honored regardles of the outcome of negotiations in South Atlantic and Gulf ports. The strike was called by the ILA here to back southern members in their contract extension demands. William V. Bradley, ILA president, said that “under no condition” will the Longshoremen return to the piers without a contract He said he would confer Monday with 11 waterfront unions, including* the Teamsters Union, in an effort to get 100 per cent observance of the Longshoremen’s picket lines. If truckers, office employes, ship’s officers, communications men, engineer and seamen refuse to cross the lines, the strike could cost the nation’s economy much more than the 20 million dollars a day it is estimated to be costing now. Approximately 800,000 workers in the metropolitan New York area would be affected and several hundred thousand more would find themselves without work in ports from Portland, Maine, to Brownsville, Tex. Escapes Injury As Navy Plane Crashes FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—Lt. Robert Hatfield, 28, escaped injury when his, FJ-3 jet interceptor crashed on takeoff from Baer Field Friday night. The plane, attached to the VU-4 Fleet Service Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., veered off the runway, crashed through 'an airport boundary fence and came to rest in a drainage ditch.

clamp placed on the talks since they moved here Thursday. At a news conference which followed Friday's sessions, Cooppossible effort to resolve our probpossible effort to reolve our problems through collective bargaining.” He emphasized he was speaking for both sides. “We are fully aware of the great public interest in this situation, particularly the desire that it be solved at the earliest possible moment.” Friday’s reported proposal marked the initial time management had spelled out in dollars and cents what it meant when it said it would give economic benefits in return for “increased efficiency.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy today, tonight and Sunday with scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and Sunday.. A little cooler Sunday. Low tonight upper 50s north to lower Ms south. High Sunday near rt north to lower Ms south. Outlook for Monday: Considerable cloudiness and mild with thundershowers likely.