Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 234.

Steel Union Rejects Industry’s Offer As Totally Unacceptable - - -- ■ - - - - - - - - ■ - *■— - —

PITTSBURGH (UPl)—The powerful Wage Policy Committee of the United Steelworkers Union today rejected an industry proposal to end the crippling steel strike as “completely unacceptable.” However, USW President David J. McDonald contacted industry negotiators almost immediately then announced both sides would meet jointly at 1:30 p.m. c.d.t. in further negotiations. “The Wage Policy Committee has made a detailed analysis of terms submitted by the ■'industry to set’le this dispute,” McDonald told newsmen in a hastily prepared statement. “These terms were rejected unanimously by the committee members as being completely unacceptable.” McDonald said he expected to meet with the Wage Policy Comagain at 3:30 p.m. c.d.t. McDonald did not disclose terms of the proposal but it was reliably reported to include benefits equivalent to about 7 cents per hour per man in return for contract revisions on working conditions. The USW’s executive committee Sunday rejected the peace proposal aimed at ending the 83-day strike which has idled a half-mil-lion steelworkers and 200,000 in related industries. The union president said Sun- , day he would advise the White House by telephone on the status of ■the negotiations in the nation’s longest steel walkout. However, no. report of the conversation was forthcoming from the union, Washington or Eisenhower’s vacation White House in Palm Springs. Calif. May Shift Talks Eisenhower warned in meetings with unicm and industry chiefs last week that the economy-chok-ing strike must end quickly. The President’s words were taken to mean that he might invoke 80-day backto-work provisions of the Taft-Hartley law if settlement was not near — possibly when he returns from his Palm Springs vacation Thursday. Sources in Washington said Sunday night that the government may call the negotiators to Washington if an impasse is not broken here in an effort to “pressure" a settlement without direct government intervention. If the talks are moved and still no agreement reached, the source told UPI, the government then would be ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. Name Omitted From Table Captain List Th names of Dick Braun, of the Shafers Co., and Everett Shauver, of the retail division, were omitted from the list of table captains for the Decatur-Rural Fish Fry on Oct. 22 at the Decatur high school gym. Also Chet Longenberger, of the Music shop, has replaced Jim Webb, formerly of the music store, as a captain. The list of workers will be published towards the end of the week.

BELL RINGER FOR V. S. SAVINGS BONDS— Mrs Robert Lemons of Wichita, Kansas, receives a laughing} serid-off from Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower at the White House to begin* A nation-wide tour tor U.S. Savings Bonds. Mrtf. Lemons hopes txt stimulate interest in the savings bonds and stamps program. She holds her Liberty Bell award as “Mrs. U. S. Savings Bonds of 1960.**

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Di ADAMS COUNTY

Former Local Lady Is T,ken By Death Mri. ilelen Marie Myers, 53„ wife of Homer Myers, of Bellflower, Calif., and former residents of Decatur, died Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Paul Latta, Warsaw. She had been at the daughter’s home since becoming ill with carcinoma five months ago. The family lived in Decatur for several years while Myers was employed by the Kraft Cheese Co. plant here. Mrs. Myers was a member of the Presbyterian church. Order of Eastern Star, and VFW auxiliary, at Bellflower. , Surviving in addition to th’e husband and daughter are a son, Norbert Myers of Downey, Calif., three grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Gaylord Acheson of Willshire, 0., and Mrs. John Van Gundy of near Rockford, O. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p. nf. Tuesday at the McHatton funeral home at Warsaw, the Rev. Norman Van Gundy, of Ohio City, 0., officiaitng. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery at Warsaw.

*•r A ■ Dodgers Take Series Lead Over Chicago

LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The Los Angeles Dodgers, leading two games to one, figured they faced their biggest obstacle today—Early Wynn—in their hope of winning the World Series in five games. Now 17-10 favorites to win the series, the Dodger players believed if they could beat Wynn they would wrap the series up on Tuesday. But they agreed that beating Wynn, who shut them out, 11-0, in the first game, was a big job. “But we’re rolling now,” said Manager Walter Alston, after admitting the Dodgers were lucky to win Sunday’s second game, 3-1, before the largest World Series crowd ever — 92,294 fans who jammed Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He named Roger Craig, who took that first game trouncing to oppose the White Sox ace who won 22 games and lost 10 during the regular season. Craig was a tower of strength for the Dodgers, after being recalled from Seattle, winning 11 games while losing five. Today’s game was a 11-10 plck*em affair with another recordbreaking' throng anticipated. Lack Key Hite In naming Wynn, Manager Al Lopez of the White Sox bemoaned the lack of key hits in Sunday’s game. “I can’t recall when we ever got to a pitcher for 11 hits and five walks in six innings like we did to Don Drysdale and not score,” he declared. “That’s the

- .««■. - - - - - - ■ - - - - ■ - ■■ ' —f —■ U.S. Plans Firing New Moon Rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed today it is studying plans to launch another moon rocket from the cape. No date was indicated, but the brief announcement had the effect of wiping away a little of the gloom that spread among American missilemen with Russia's firing of Lunik 111 this past week- ' end. U.S. scientists had hoped two weeks ago that the weekend would ' see a satellite headed for an orbit around the moon. The trick was accomplished—but with a bit of variation. The “U.S.” they had planned to mark the satellite became instead “U.S.S.R.”—signifying the launching of Lunik Ill’s 967-pound payload toward a programmed cigar-shaped orbit around both moon and earth. NASA estimated that about five months would be required to repair damage at “complex 12” on the cape.

way it goes sometimes—you outhit ’em, but they get 'em when they need ’em. That’s the way it was.” Alston, who has been confident all along, would not go beyond his pitching plans after naming Craig to face Wynn again. Neither would Lopez disclose whom he had in mind for Tuesday's fifth game. Alston did say that his relief ace, Larry Sherry, a hero in the Dodgers’ pennant playoff victory and in Sunday’s game, would be back in the bullpen. The game was scoreless going into the bottom of the seventh inning, although the White Sox had runners on base in every inning. Allowed One Hit Big Dick Donovan had allowed only one hit—a harmless second inning single by Gil Hodges—and hadn't walked a man going into the seventh. He got the first man in that inning and then came apart at the seams. Charlie Neal, who with Furillo was one of the pennant playoff hitting stars for the Dodgers, began it with a single off that left field screen which the White Sox had been battering. On a hit-and-run play, Wally Moon grounded out. Neal going to second. It probably would have been a double play if Neal had gone off with the pitch. Then Donovan’s control deserted him. He walked Norm Larker and Hodges to fill the bases, and although he had yielded only two hits, Lopez took him out for relief ace Gerry Staley. Alston sent up Carl Furillo, who won the second and final playoff game for the Dodgers, to hit for Don Demeter who had been playing center field. Ball Takes Hop Furillo looked at Staley’s first pitch, a strike, and then rifled a Staley sinker just to the left of second base. Luis Aparicio cut over for it, but it took a bad hop and went over his glove and on into center field as Neal and Larker scored. Staley closed the door then, but it was too late. Chicago came back in the eighth and finally routed Drysdale when Ted Kluszewski singled and Sherm Lollar got a gift single as right field Moon lost his fly ball in the sun. That’s where Sherry went in to pitch. He hit Billy Goodman on the right leg with a pitch to fill the bases and it looked as if the White Sox finally were rolling. Sherry had different ideas, though. He got Al Smith to ground into a double play, Kluszewski scoring, and retired Jim Rivera on a pop. The Dodgers made it 3-1 in the eighth when Maury Wills singled and scored on Neal’s double.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Oct 5, 1959.

“Complex 12” was the launching pad for the Atlas-Able moon rocket that was supposed to have carried America’s own 375-pound satellite toward a lunar orbit sometime early this month. But the Atlas-Able blew up during a static test Sept. 24. The first and second stages of the fourstage rocket were destroyed and the pad itself heavily damaged. NASA said it was considering , plans “to conduct a similar experiment using other launohing facilities at Cape Canaveral.” The satellite remained in storage, but a new moon rocket appeared to be, at best, several weeks away. Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, commander of the Air Force missile test center here, had no immediate comment on the Russian shot. But one official said the fact that Lunik 111 was . designed to take and relay pictures of the moon’s far side “really hurt” the morale of missilemen here. U.S. missilemen had hoped to get pictures of the moon’s far side with their satellite. The AtlasAble was the only vehicle being prepared for the trip when it exploded. 8 James Murphy Dies Aller Long Illness James E. Murphy, Sr., 80, well known Decatur resident, died at 8:15 o’clock Sunday evening at his home, 618 North Third street. Death was caused by complications following an illness of three years. He had been bedfast for the past year. He was born in Wabash Feb. 18, 1879, a son of Timothy and Catherine Driscoll-Murphy, but had lived in Decatur most of his life. He was married to Catherine Lange April 19, 1904, and Mr. and Mrs. Murphy celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1954. Mr. Murphy was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the' Holy Name society, Knights of Columbus, and was the first commander of the VFW fathers auxiliary. Surviving in addition to his wife are five sons, Edward Murphy of Piqua, 0., James E., Jr., Anthony and Joseph Murphy, all of Deca- I tur, and Patrick Murphy of Gene- ' va; 13 grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren; and one sister, I Mrs. A. J. Sailers of Kendallville. Three brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15 a. m. Wednesday at the St. Mary's Catholic church, ■ the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may 'call after 7 p. m. today until time of the services. The rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Tuesday. Anderson Child Is Dead Os Meningitis ANDERSON, Ind. (UPI) — Six-year-old Richard Cutler of Anderson died in an Indianapolis hospital Sunday of meningitis, two days after he was taken to the hospital and three days after he became ill. • Blame Plastic Cover For Infant's Death INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -A plastic mattress cover was blamed today for the death of 6-months-old Stephen Reed. Saturday night. Deputy Coroner Daniel Gleich said the infant was sleeping with his face pressed into the plastic cover. Stephen’s body was discovered by his mother, Mrs. Clarine Reed, Indianapolis.

'■* — Democrats Os City Open Headquarters Richard J. Sullivan, unopposed candidate for city judge, keynoted the opening of the Democratic campaign Saturday night at the city headquarters, telling the more than 200 persons in the audience that ‘‘the city of Decatur needs progressive leadership, and this can only be found in the party that stands for progress — the democratic party. Sullivan told the partisan group that he is interested In “tomorrow.” The future of the city, he said, must be guided by capable hands, indicating that his party has the se attributes. Gives Accounting He gave an accounting of Mayoi Robert D. Cole’s record for the past three and a half years, telling how the mayor devotes his ful! time to the task of city adminis tration without having outside interests to minimize his effec tiveness. He also told the group not to underestimate the campaigr of the opposition. He insisted that the Democrats battle the opposition with facts and to answer all the accusations expected from the opposition. He cited the need for a “grass roots” campaign on the precinct level. Sullivan noted the outstanding persons working (ar the party in this respect and urged them to continue their unceasing work to win the election. He closed telling how the office of city judge became effective with the 1959 legislature, and how he filed for the office. He noted how he would have a year’s practical experience of law work behind him when he takes office on Jan. 1. “Although one year of practice never made a man an accomplished jurist, I feel that I can carry out the duties of the office with dignity and I will always strive for justice and fair treatment of all,” he said. Hospital Profit Is Shown In September The Adams county memorial hospital made a profit of $353.26 during the month of September, Thurman I. Drew, hospital manager, reported today. Deposits for the month were $27,569.72, and the operating cash on hand at the beginning of the month was $10,094.23, for a total of $37,569.72. Bills for the month were $9,342.17, and the payroll was $17,874.29; expenses totaled $27,216.46, leaving an operating cash balance of $10,447.49. ■Hiere were 35 patients and 9 babies present on September 1. During the month 179 patients Were admitted and 49 babies born, including 28 boys and 21 girls. Three patients died, and one infant was stillborn. A total of 163 patients and 45 babies were dismissed from the’hospital, leaving 48 adults and 12 babies on September 30. A total of 272 out-patients were treated in the emergency, emergency surgery, and laboratory and X-ray departments. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy and mild with scattered showers and thundershowers this after* noon and tonight Tuesday showers and thundershowers ending most sections and turning eoeler by afternoon. Low tonight mostly in the 60s. High Tuesday ranging from the 60s extreme northwest to the upper 70s extreme southeast Sunset today 5:21 p. m. CST., 6:21 p.m. CDT. Sunrise Tuesday 5:45 a.m. CSt, 6:45 a.m. CDT. Outlook for Wbdnesdsy: Mostly fair and mild, although partly cloudy and cooler north. ' Lows 55 to 65. Highs 68 to 73 north, 75 to 85 south.

Thousands Are Homeless From Flood, Storm United Press International Floods and tornadoes combined to leave thousands homeless in the Southwest today. A five-day snow storm, meanwhile, stranded ranchers in southern Colorado. At least 6 were dead and 65 missing from the multi-million-dollar floods and tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas. The Red Cross estimated that 1,000 homes in Oklahoma were damaged by flood waters. Hardest hit was Guthrie, Okla., which was flooded for the third time in nine days just as 600 families were returning to their homes. “I've had it. I’m going to look for another location,” said one i Guthrie resident after the second i flood. ! Rains of 6-10 inches were com- »• mon in Texas where eight twistj ers struck nine communities Sun- » day. 5 Up to 4 inches fell in Oklahoma, s adding to a foot or more already , fallen. Civil Defense Director Tom Brett said this year’s flood may prove the most disastrous in Oklahoma history. p An estimated 10,000 head of cattie and sheep were threatened by e starvation in Colorado, where most of the wet mountain valley has been cut off from civilization y since a snow storm struck a week ago. No deaths or injuries have been , r reported. An Army helicopter crew made a systematic check ® for stranded families in the snow- “ bound area. 11 The weatherman said skies would be sunny in the area today e and the weather would be '• warmer. P In Oklahoma, some hope was n offered that the flood-producing it conditions might end. The forei- cast was for occasional light rain [1 or drizzle. e Elsewhere, it was expected to be generally fair to partly cloudy for most of the area from the s western Plains to the Pacific t coast and from Georgia northi- ward into Neiv England. f ' < t g?' 4& a - ' s ° Lightning 801 l Hits I Home, Children Die 1 BICKNELL, Ind. (UPI) — Two " young children burned to death ' early Sunday when lightning 1 struck their one-story farme home I near here. J The victims were Violet Suzz--1 anne Brown, 13, and her brother, ; Ralph Franklin, 8. Ralph would • have celebrated his ninth birthday r anniversary next Monday. The accident occurred during a driving rainstorm, when the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brown, were returning from a short auto trip. The parents found the house ablaze when they returned home, and the father rushed into the burning house in a frantic search for the children before he was 1 driven back by smoke and flames. > Mrs. Brown called Bicknell fire- , men and her husband drove to • the home of the children’s grandparents to see if the children were there. However, firemen located the i bodies of the children in a bed- : room. They said the little boy I appeared to have died outright, i possibly after being struck by I lightning. The girl died on the I way to a hospital. r

r Dock Strike Is Critical r

BULLETIN NEW ORLEANS (UPJ>—The New Orleans Steamship Assn, said today it has filed charges I of unfair labor practices against the two longshoremen’s locals whose walkout last week sparked a strike that has tied up ports from Maine to Texas. The charges may lead to a court order holding up the . New Orleans strike. WASHINGTON (UPI) -Government intervention in the five-day old dock workers' strike was expected today in an effort to end the paralyzing tie-up in Atlantic and Gulf ports. Federal officials were reported to regard the dock walkout as more critical than the 83-day-old steel strike. Hundreds of ships and millions of dollars of cargo are tied up in ports from Searspoint, Maine, to Brownsville, Tex. Federal authorities prepared to seek a court order to stop walk-

Russia Lunar MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Union’s third lunar rocket was almost two-thirds of the way to its target today on a course that should swing it around the moon. A russian scientist said it has paved the way for flights to Mars and Venus “in the immediate future.” The Tass news agency said that by noon Moscow time (4 a.m. c.d.t.), the “interplanetary space station” had reached a distance of 154,100 miles from the earth. The moon is approximately 238,000 miles from earth. The Tass announcement said data received from the rocket “confirm the high precision achieved in putting the rocket into its set orbit.” Earlier the Soviet press and radio hailed the success of the new lunar probe attempt and Russian scientists told the wprld the Soviet Union’s space program was not aimed at establishing military bases at the moon. But one scientist. M.N. Gnevyshev, laid a basis for future space tries with his statement about the present effort paving the way for flights to Mars and Venus. Days to Moon A big question remained: Will the rocket circle the moon as is intended and photograph the as-yet-unseen side? Tass said the ro ck e t would reach its closest point to the moon ■ at 5 p.m. (9 a.m. c.d.t.) Tuesday, adding that it will then be 4,300 . miles from the moon. The Soviets had indicated that i the rocket would photograph the ■ far side of the moon and trans- . mit pictures of it back to earth by radio signal. t When the rocket reaches the vir cinity of the moon Tuesday, Tass ’ said it will have taken about 2V4 i days to cover the distance from earth. • This is longer than the time taken by either of the previous Soviet moon rockets — the first launched last January and the second last month. This is because the third rocket, launched Sunday morning, has been given a slower speed so that it can orbit around the moon and return in the direction of earth, Tass said. Success of the rocket was expected to be determined sometime today. Evgeny Fedorow, corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Science, reassured the world today on Soviet space aims. He wrote in Pravda, the official Communist newspaper: “Soviet scientists are studying outer space with peaceful aim. No one in the USSR is planning to fence off the region of the moon where a Soviet pennant lies (carried there by the Sept. 12 Lunik II) and start building military bases there.” Sees “Beneficial Effect” “It may be this will > have some beneficial effect on these inordinately zealous Western brass hats who, much ahead of their practical possibilities, openly dream of keeping whole countries under a threat of ‘bombing from the moon',” he said. The fate of the probe hung in the balance and the scientist who worked out hairline circulations apparently were powerless to help it. Special transmitters aboard Lunik 111 were to switch on from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. e.d.t. when its path may be determined exactly. If the rocket performed as the Soviets expected the 614-pound ‘‘interplanetary space station”

outs by two New Orleans locals of the striking International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). If they succeed, it may pave the way for similar injunctions to halt work stoppages in other Southern ports. Action to halt the pier tie-up on both coasts under the TaftHartley Act was expected within two or three days unless there ■ are signs of early settlement. General Counsel Stuart Rothman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) planned to ask the five-member board for permission to seek an injunction to halt the New Orleans walkout. If the NLRB gives Rottfrnan a green light as expected, its New Orleans office will seek a temporary restraining order from a federal judge against the strike by the two ILA locals. Then a > hearing on the government’s plea for a preliminary Injunction would be scheduled. A temporary order could be effective for up to five days-

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Hails Probe contained in the 3.424-pound final stage of the rocket would careen around a “corner” near the moon like a car skidding around a sharp turn. It could skip out of control and plunge into the depths, of space. It could stall, turn and plunge back to a fiery death in the earth’s atmosphere. Take Electronic Pictures But if the Soviet scientist’s calculations have been exact, it could negotiate the corner perfectly, whip around the back of the moon which no man has ever seen, take crude electronic pictures of it and radio them to earth. If perfection is achieved, the rocket could slew around the earth as it did around the moon, circling both earth and moon in a huge, cigar - shaped orbit for months to come. This, too, may be known today. Scientists discussing the latest Soviet space triumph said Sunday night it would take a day and a half or two days to detrmine the course of the rocket presicely enough to say whether Lunik 111 will achieve its double orbit There has been no mention of the exact time the rocket will beging skidding aroundito comer, . skimming some 6.000 miles from the surface of the moon. Today’s I transmission from the moon probe was expected to disclose that. Soviet scientists hailed the third i cosmic rocket as “the beginning of interstellar navigation” and t that it was a far greater achleve- , ment than the moon hit of Sept 1 14. , Enter New Period Scientist Nikolai Barbashov said the equipment carried by the rock- • et meant that data from the other ’ side of the moon would be availi able for the first time. He added that the launching “means that we have entered the period of " planned mastery of cosmic space ’ and qf flights to the moon and t the nearer planets of our solar f system.” Soviet scientists said if the ’ rocket successfully swings into its ' cigar-shaped orbit around moon f and earth it will “photograph” 1 about 40 ler cent of the ide of ■ the moon that is always hidden to the earth. They said its orbit would be on ’ a different plane than that on which the moon swings about the earth. It is expected to make a round trip about every three days but will intersect the moon’s path only oncfe every 27Mt days. Decatur-Made Boats Popular At Showing The Duo-Marine Corporation was well received at the national boating trade show at Navy pier ’ in Chicago last week, and four new ' distributors were signed up, Vic ; Porter, president, said this morn- ’ ing - The newest model of the Duo j Marine line, the Hep Cat 14, designed for small lakes and one i motor, and selling for about half ► the cost of the more expensive i Volare 16, was especially popular. • Smallest On Lake I The new model was the smallest boat on the lake because of the .three and four-foot waves and two tornado warnings there. Catamarans are especially safe, and al- : most impossible to sink. Three models were shown at the • show—the Volare 16. Hep Cat 14, and Cat Fish, the fishing model of the boat. Attending with Porter were Neil and Ronald Hesher and Ray Meyer. One-Motor Cat The Hep Cat is the only catamaran designed for single engine operation. This boat has prop-line design, which splits the tunnel of air under the boat so that the foaming' water goes around the motor. This prevents prop slippage, and allows the motor to operate at 100% efficiency. The new model, which seats six and has a recommended maximum horsepower of 45. is 13 feet six inches long, and weighs 475 , pound.-. The transom is cut for standard shaft length, and long shaft is optional. The air-ride gives the catama-ran-type boat the smoothest, safest ride of any boat, especially at high speed. The Duo Cat boats are built in Decatur by Duo Marine, Fish Fry Tickets Are Priced At $1.75 The price for fish fry tickets In Friday’s edition of the Daily Democrat was erroneously listed at $1.25. The actual price for the fish fry, the professional entertainment and other features of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce event, is $1.75.