Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. L.VII. No. 237.

HL 1 W HF ■ zdMfe ADMITS FATAL STABBING—SuIIen faced, ear-ring wearing Charles Baisten, 17, stands with Cook County Coroner Walter McCarren (left) and a Chicago detective after admitting he twice plunged a knife into the chest of 16-year-old Samuel Schwartz in an attempted robbery on a darkened Chicago elevated platform last Sunday night. He first said he was merely a spectator to the killing but confessed when confronted with alibis produced by two other youths he implicated.

Says Show Rigged To Permit Winning

WASHINGTON (UPD — A former contestant testified today that the now-defunct television quiz show, “Dotto,” was rigged to permit him to win 111,600 but he then was ordered to "take a dive.” David Huschle, young manager of a New York City restaurant, gave the testimony to a House subcommittee investigating the operations of the once popular TV quiz shows. The House group previously has heard testimony from former contestants and publicity agents that NBC's old “21” quiz show was rigged by giving contestants questions and answers in “Dotto” was the tost of a number of TV quiz shqws to be taken off the air in the wake of charges that they were “fixed.” Huschle, who earlier this year testified in a New York county grand jury investigation into TV shows, said he won the $11,600 by eppearlng as a contestant on three “Dotto” shows in June, 1958, when the show was carried at night on the NBC network. He said he previously had won $3,700 on the show when it was carried on the daytime CBS network. In these performances in February, 1958, he said he was given some help but was not supplied in advance with all of the questions and answers. Show's Budget Limited Huschle said, however, that on the .evening shows, Gil Cates, assistant producer, supplied him in advance with answers to all questions and also told him the identity of the person he was required to identify to win at "Dotto.” The object of the game was to identify a picture of a famous personage. The picture was filled in by connecting a series of dots on a large screen. A given number of dots were connected as a contestant answered a question correctly. Huschle testified that Cates contended it was necessary for him to lose after amassing winnings of $11,600 because the show had $2.7 Billion Road Funds For Slate WASHINGTON (UPD—The government announced today it would make $2,700,000,000 available to the states under federal highway programs this fiscal year. It also, set maximum amounts it will pay to each state. The limits. Imposed for the first time since the federal interstate highway program began in 1956, are intended to keep outlays from exceeding revenues. Each state may use its fund either for interstate system roads or other roads. The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the interstate highway system and half the cost of other federal - aid streets and highways. Highway Commissioner Ellis L. Armstrong said $1,800,000,000 would be available' to the state in fiscal 1961 for interstate highway systems and two billion dollars for fiscal 1962. Armstrong said that states dewring to spend more money than the federal reimbursement limit must acknowledge in writing that they understand the federal, government will not be able to reimburse them for the additional amount probably until late in fiscal 1963.

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a budget allowance limited to $lO,000 a week for prizes. May Call Van Doren As the hearing entered its third day, investigators indicated that Charles Van Doren, who gained national fame as a $129,000 winner on NBC’s “21," might be invited to testify. The subcommittee turned to the operations of “Dotto” after it had questioned the co - producer of “21” and his aide into the early morning hours behind closed doors. There was a growing probability the two will be called to testify publicly. Chairman Oren Harris <D-Ark.» said the two witnesses, co-produc-er Dan Enright and Albert Freedman, were “very cooperative” But he refused to divulge their testimony or say whether they would be asked to appear at an open hearing. Harris said the bearings might end late Friday. Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr. (D-Dl.) —asked if Van Doren would be invited to testify — said: “We want to hear from anyone whose name has been mentioned by other witnesses—if he wishes to testify.” Available Ta Testify Van Doren sent a telegram to the subcommittee Wednesday saying he would be available to repeat his statements that he never had been supplied with questions or answers in advance and had no knowledge of any assistance given to other contestants. Edward Kletter, vice president and advertising director of Pharmaceuticals Inc., which sponsored “21”, has testified he approved a $5,000 advance to Van Doren when the former Columbia University professor had piled up $24,000 in quiz winnings.

—1 Steel Move Up To Eisenhower • 4

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — Negotiations aimed at ending the 86-day steel strike were at an impasse today and both the United Steel- ■, workers and industry expected to next move to develop in the White House. President Eisenhower, expected back today from a vacation in the California desert, told both sides last week that h$ expected a “negotiated settlement” when he returned. Sends Committee Home Union President David J. McDonald sent the 171-member Wage - Policy Committee home Wednesday and said the USW would “go to court” if the government invokes the Taft-Hartley Act. But he added that if an injunction is Issued the union “would obey the law of the land.” Any hope that agreement would be reached Wednesday was dispelled when McDonald > announced "there is nothing fc> indicate any hope of a settlement in the near future. McDonald said an imparial fact-finding board appointed by President Eise.hower would be more effective than the Taft-Hart* ley Act. • • Tv*TT , Before disbanding the Wage- |

Ike Reluming From Vacation In California PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPD— President Eisenhower turned today from his California vacation to his desk at the White House for a new look at the possibility of executive action to end the nationwide steel strike. Eisenhower spent a week recovering from a cold at La Quinta, the California desert home of his friend, George E. Allen of Washington and Gettysburg. The chief executive was scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in his Boeing 707 jet transport after 2 p.m. c.d.t. The plane took off at 9:58 a.m. ■Die President shook hands with local civic officials before leaving and said he “felt fine.” PIKUP 3rd pgh: During the .... During the night at La Quinta Eisenhower, after receiving the report of a special Taft-Hartley law board of inquiry, ordered the Justice Department to seek an immediate injunction in the strike of 854*1 Eas and Gulf Coas dock workers. Shortly after his return to Washington, Eisenhower was expected to make an on-the-scene examination of the 86-day-old steel strike to determine whether negotiations have bogged down so badly that use of the Taft-Hartley law has become necessary in the case. The Chief Executive flew to southern California Sept. 30, suf- ■ sering from a bad cold. After a week of sunshine and playing golf in temperatures that passed 115 degrees in the sun, the President's ; physical condition seemed to have [ improved noticeably. Press Secretary James C. Hag- i erty said the President was 1 “greatly improved” although he still had traces of the cold. : The President lilted the weather and the secluded rest so much that he was reluctant to leave, ‘ but a heavy schedule made it necessary. Tonight he will be host at a White How* dinner for Brit- . ish Lord Louis Mountbatten, and 6 EriOnyMtte welcomes President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of • Mexico for a weekend visit. Berne Land Judging Team Places Eighth The Berne land judging team won a blue ribbon for placing 1 among the top eight teams at the northeasern. division of the state association 'of soil conservation district supervisor’s annual contest on the William Schacht farm in Huntington Wednesday. ' The Doyle Lehman coached 4-H ; and F.F.A. team took eighth place : in the 12-county meet, with Adams Cenral picking up a red ribbon for 15th place. A total of 23 teams ' competed. Martin Watson coached the Monroe school entry. i Vaughn Miller, ag teacher at De- < catur high school some eight years ' ago, coached the winning Hunter- 1 town team, which also had a sec- 1 ond entry that took fourh place. Claypool took second and North 1 Manchester third. 1 i

i Policy Committee, McDonald charged the industry hoped the < half million steel strikers would ] be forced back to work under the ] Taft-Hartley Act. ] "The steel industry is obviously < determined to avoid a settlement,” ( he said. “It obviously hopes that j steel workers will be forced back ; to work under an injunction.” Says Offer Pay Cut He disclaimed that industry’s j offer amounted to 15 cents per j hour spread over two years or 7% j cents for each year. He said the s proposal actually amounted to two , cents in fringes for the first year and about eight cents in pay the following year. * ( According to McDonald, the . steel workers would take home less pay because the “companies insist that steel workers contribute an extra 25 cents per hour' out of ' their own pockets to cover the 1 cost of insurance.” “Thus steel workers would ac- 1 tually suffer a pay cut of $4 a j month,” he said. “Steel workers would also suffer additions cuts in ' real wages during the next two > years because of the abolition of cpst of living adjustments in our ! old agreements which the com- 1 panies now demand we scrap.” 1

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Oct. 8,1959.

Ike Orders Injunction Sought To Force Dock Workers Back To Jobs

_ ;— Tropical Storm In Alabama, Georgia

United Press International Tropical storm Irene ripped across the northwest Florida panhandle today and swept into southern Alabama and Georgia. Heavy rain and gusts of 55 miles an hour pounded Pensacola as the center of the* storm hit the gulf coast city. The high winds knocked down a few trees and wires and ripped awnings, but otherwise property damage appeared to be light. No injuries or deaths were reported. Irene moved inland along a 200mile front from Apalachicola to a point west of Pensacola. The Weather Bureau said the storm would dump up to five inches of rain in some sections of Dixie before it wears itself out Forecasts of more rains brought the threat of new flooding in flood-weary Oklahoma. A line of thunderstorms moved into north - central Oklahoma Wednesday night as the flood crest on the Arkansas River spread into Arkansas. A broken levee admitted slight flooding Wednesday in Clarksville, Ark., and Van Buren, Ark., reported the river was 10 feet above flood stage. A few families were evacuated from Moffett, Okla., on the Ar- ' ’ ■ ■ v 14 Persons Killed y In Three Accidents United Press International Three accidents crushed out the lives of fourteen persons Wednesday on North American highways. Four women were killed and a man was critically injured in a head-on collision near Indio, Calif. Five persons were killed when a freight train smashed into their car in Anna, 111. Five others died when their car crashed into a trailer truck in Mont Joli, Quebec. Fashed 500 Feet The engineer of the freight train said he didn’t realize there had been a collision until the car had been dragged about 400 feet down the tracks. Police said the car was pushed along more than 500 feet. Three of the bodies were thrown clear, the other two were found in the wreckage. California highway patrolmen said the four-death accident happened when the two late-model cars smashed into each other rounding a slight curve. The victims were thrown out of their cars. Two of the California victims were elderly residents of Amarillo, Tex. Officers identified them as Elizabeth Curtis Boyd, 71, and Ida Taylor Harris. Failed To Stop Canadian police said preliminary investigations showed that the death car apparently failed to stop at an intersection ' and crashed ino the truck. All five victims were riding in the car. Also killed in the Calidomia crash were Miss Mary Delores Piazza, 21, and Miss Wanda Lou Mann, 23, both of Hollywood, police said. The injured man, a real estate agent driving Miss Piazza and Miss Mann to look at some property, was identified as Richard Ebenstein, 23, of Los Angeles. Killed when the Centralia, 111. Birmingham, Ala., train roared into their* car were Lolo Minto, 57, Mrs. Iva' Meyers, 44, Barbara Brown, 23, Donald L. Marks, 17, and his sister Phyllis Marks, 23, all of Anna, 111. Attend Billy Graham Crusade October 23 The Associated Churches of Decatur are sponsoring a trip to the Billy Graham crusade in Indianapolis Friday, Oct. 23. A limited number of seats have been reserved for this group and those planning to attend should contact their minister or the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., no later than next Monday. Cost of transportation will be $2.90 per person. The bus will leave Decatur at 4:30 p.m. and return at approximately 12:45 a.m.

kansas-Oklahoma line, where the Arkansas River was rising slowty. Snow swept out of the Colorado mountains Wednesday night into Montana and North Dakota, drop- • ping three inches at Minot, N.D., and two inches at Great Falls and Glasgow, Mont. A cold air mass sent temperatures plummeting to 28 degrees at , Minot—compared to a 54-degree reading at Jamestown, N.D., only 150 miles away. Salt Lake City reported a 38-degree chill—2B degrees colder than the same time the night before. Irene was expected to bring heavy rains to the east Gulf area today. The cold air front was likely to move into the north central Plains, the Weather Bureau said, drivint hunderstorms mixed with snow ahead of it. Light rains were predicted for tile Northwest, with scattered snow in mountain areas. In Chicago, the Weather Bureau said the sixth game of the World Series would be played under partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 70s and gusty winds up to 22 miles an hour blowing out toward left figld. Threatened thunderstorms were expected to hold off until the game ended. INDIANA WEATHER i "■ - -r*. -r~ Mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers spreading over most of state this afternoon. Cloudy with scattered showers, becoming windy and turning colder tonight. Friday partly cloudy, windy and colder. Low tonight ranging from the 40s north to ‘ 46 to 52 south. Highs Friday in the 50s north and central, lower 60s extreme south. Sunset today 5:17 p.m. c.s.t., 6:17 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 5:47 a.m. c.s.t., 6:47 a.m. e.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and cool. Lows in 40s. Highs 45 to 55. Austin, Texas Is Blanketed By Gas AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD — A propane gas pipeline blew up on the outskirts of Austin early today and quickly spread an explosive and toxic blanket of fumes over a three-mile area. Policemen, firemen and airmen from Bergstrom Air Force Base, some wearing gas masks, rushed through the streets, pounding on doors to awaken endangered families. Four hundred families fled. Although the danger of an explosion was limited to a radius of three miles, the sickening fumes spread over the whole city. Hundreds of persons reported headaches and nausea. The danger Os a widespread explosion lingered for nearly 3% hours—3:4o a. m. until 7a. m.—by which time the bulk of the gas had been diluted by the atmosphere. Engineers from the Phillips Pipeline Co., which owned the ruptured line, warned, however, that gas was still lying in low places and basements. The nature of propane is such that it could lie in low places and basements for months unless it is found and blown out. $71,952,000 For Indiana Highways WASHINGTON (UPD—The government announced today it would make $71,952,000 available to Indiana under federal highway programs this fiscal year. A breakdown by states said $21,143,00 would be available under tiie “regular” highway program and $50,800,000 under the •’superhighway Interstate” program.

Hearing October 22 On Bowling Alleys The review of the city’s recent ordinance, allowing the rezoning of 3.7 acres of land from residential to commercial, has been set for Oct. 22 at 1:30 p. m. in Adams circuit court by the issuance of alias notices and citations to the defendants by the attorneys for the plaintiff, Ray McDougal and others. The writ of certiorari, which is merely a court review of an action taken by a governmental body, in this case the city council, will be argued by the defendants, the city plan commission, the five members of the city council, and the Decatur plan commission, Charles Kent as president. Edris and Edris, a Bluffton law firm, requested the service of the notices after Judge Myles F. Parrish ruled that the answers in abatement by the defense were not substantial enough to discredit the previous service by the sheriff of Adams county. The defense contended that the proper persons were not served the first time. The judge ruled that while this was certainly true, all that was necessary to rectify this was a request by the plaintiff that the sheriff serve them again. The action resulted primordially , when the city approved a MiesDawson Reatly Co. petition to apnrove the rezoning of its property for WBdlng'aboWOng emporium and parking facilities for the sports arena. A bitter battle developed between the petitioners and a group of remonstrators, who own homes in the area of the proposed building site. The petition for writ of certiorari is one of the last legal resources available to the remonstrators. Should the court here decide to uphold the city’s ordinance, the objectors have an avenue of appeal open to a higher court. 12 Pages

World Series Resumes Today

BULLETIN * ' COMISKEY PARK, CHICAGO—The Los Angeles Dodgers held an 8-3 lead over the Chicago White Sox after four innings of the sixth game of the 1959 World Series today. The Dodgers scored twice in the third on Duke Snider’s home run and scored six in a big fourth inning. Ted Kluszewski hit a three-run homer for the Sox in the fourth. CHICAGO (UPD—Early Wynn, a righthander with a sore elbow, and Johnny Podres, a left hander with an ailing back, carried the [ pitching hopes of the Chicago , White Sox and the Los Angeles . Dodgers in the sixth game of the t World Series today. Although he has had only two days rest, Wynn was called upon by Manager Al Lopez of the White Sox to keep their series hopes alive. They faced sudden death, trailing the Dodgers three games to two in this best four out of seven game series. Manager Walt Alston went along with Podres, the winner of the second game, confident that. he would close it out and bring to the West Coast its first world’s baseball championship. “He tells me his back feels okay,” Alston said, “so there isn’t any reason why he shouldn’t beat them again.” . Wynn's Elbow Okay Wynn said his sore right elbow was “okay” and that he was “honored" by being selected to keep the White Sox in the running. The 39-year-old star, who won 22 games during the regular season, won the first game, 11-0, leaving in the eighth inning when his elbow stiffened. He started the fourth game in Los Angeles arid was knocked out in the fourth inning when the Dodgers scored

NEW YORK (UPD—Eighty-five thousand striking longshoremen appeared all but certain to be ordered back to work today under a Taft-Hartley ipjunction. President Elsenhower late Wednesday night ordered Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers to seek the injunction at once. He acted on the strength of a federal fact-finders’ report that the Maine to Texas strike was curtailing delivery of food and fuel to 22 million persons. Reached at his home here, William V. Bradley, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said “If the President of the United States signs the Taft-Hartley Act, we will comply with it.” Board Appointed Tuesday It tied with the 1956 ILA strike for the swiftest pre-injunction procedure in the 12-year history of the Taft-Hartley Act. The three - man fact - finding board had been appointed only Tuesday. It held a 90-minute public hearing Wednesday at which spokesmen for both sides blamed each other for the strike, rushed to complete its report, then flew the document by jet plane to President Eisenhower’s Palm Springs, Calif., vacation headquarters. By law, the President must have, the report in his hands before he orders the Justice Department to go after an injunction. This was a mere formality, however, since the gist of the report had been telegraphed to him long before the full report arrived. Asst. Atty. Gen. George C. Dpub, head of the Justice Depart ment’s dvti division, said in Washington that he would fly here today to seek the injunction in federal district court in New York. Injunction Never Refused Conceivably, the back-to-work order could be written out and handed to ILA officials by this afternoon. No federal court has ever rejected a government request for a Taft-Hartley injunction to stop a strike for 80 days. The White House did not release the text of the fact-finders' report. But Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the panel told Eisenhower the strikebound

four runs, set up for the most part by inept White Sox fielding. “There’s no reason to save myself, now," Wynn observed. "We haye got to win today or there isn’t any tomorrow, so it doesn’t matter how much rest I've had. I’m honored that the skipper picked me because both Billy Pierce and Dick Donovan are ready to go, too.” With a southpaw going against them, Lopez said he would stick to the lineup which won the fifth game in Los Angeles Tuesday, 1-0. That means Bubba Phillips will play third base with Jim McAnany in left field. Sherman Dollar will be in the cleanup spot in the batting order. Makes Lineup Change Alston made one lineup change, putting Duke Snider, who had been out with his chronic ailing knee, in center field. That gives him six left-handed hitters, counting Podres, in his batting order. The Sox, who again will wear the black stockings they wore in the fifth, game, were glad to get back to brick-walled Comiskey Park. "It feels good to be back in a real ball park,” said Nellie Fox. “That Coliseum park is for the birds—not baseball.” Lopez said he was happy to be back home, too. Neither Lopez nor Alston would speculate on their seventh game pitcher—if a se’venth game is necessary. However, Alston was expected to go with either Don Drysdale, the third game winner, or his relief ace, Larry Sherry, if Sherry is not needed today. Lopez said it could be Donovan, Piece or Bob Shaw, Tuesday’s winner. Donovan appeared to be the most likely choice.

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ports handle 81 per cent of oceanborne dry-cargo shipments to the United States. The board said the eight-day strike was “causing increased prices and reduced supplies" to consumers in coast areas as well as affecting the supply of vital defense materials. Although an injunction was considered a foregone, conclusion, it appeared unlikely that negotiations on a new contract would resume for at least a week. Union and industry souces said both sides would be busy getting the strikebound ports back in operation. In addition, it was believed the negotiated would call a cooling off period to let tempers abate. • British Cast Ballots Today On Home Issue LONDON (UPD—Britain’s voters cast their ballots today in a tense general election that will decide the governing party fort he next five years. Public opinion straw polls showed a sharp, lastminute swing in favor of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Conservative Party. At stake were 630 seats in the House of Commons which elects ' the prime minister. The Conserv- ‘ atives had a margin of 61 seats over the Labor Party when Par- , liament was dissolved last month but the balloting was expected to be close and the swing of a small percentage of the 35 million ■ voters could mean victory for ei--1 ther party. Final results were expected Friday. Polls conducted by three big , London newspapers, the pro-Con-servative Daily Mail and Daily Express and the pro-liberal News Chronicle, all registered gains by the Conservatives after they had slipped steadily downhill for several weeks. Britain’s 35,398,432 registered voters were called on to choose between five more years of “you-never-had-it-so-good” Conservative government and another try of socialism under the Labor Party. Whatever the outcome, Britain was certain to maintain close ties with the United Staes and her oher Western allies. The election battle was pitched a most entirely on home-front issues. • < But the voting would decide whether Macmillan, a close friend of President Eisenhower for 17 years, or Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell would represent Britain at a summit meeting with Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev. The chief domestic issues were old age pensions, rent control, cost of living, unemployment, farm prices, housing and nationalization. Hedges Resigns As Probation Officer Leßoy Hedges, former Adams j Central. Pleasant Mills, and Hayt- / ford Center teacher, resigned / Tuesday as probation officer in / Wells county. Hedges took the / job in July. ... In accepting the resignation. Judge Homer J. Byrd said Hedges indicated a wish to return to the field of education. , He resigned last spring as teacher at Hartford township, where’he had taught since 1956. Before that he had taught two years at Pleasant Mills and two years at Adams Central, and for more than 30 years in Wells county at Bluffton, Lancaster, and Ossian high and junior high schools. Hedges was the first to fill the Wells county probation office post on a full-time basis. Judge Byrd stated that he had three applicants for the job under consideration. Hedges said today that he is not ready to announce where he will teach.