Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 239.

Steel Unions Officials Draft Battle Strategy Against Ike’s Orders

WASHINGTON (UPI) Top union officials drafted strategy today for fighting President Eisenhower’s effort to send 500,000 striking Steelworkers back to work for 80 days under court orders. Other labor leaders accused Eisenhower of “strike breaking" for invoking the Taft-Hartley labor law in the 88-day steel’ shutdown. The President used national emergency provisions of the law for the second time in four days when he took the first step Friday to force a no-strike “cooling off period in the steel dispute. Eisnehower declared that the strike would have severe effects on the economy and seriously endanger the national health and safety if permitted to continue. He voiced “profound regret” that a voluntary settlement had not been reached. Arranged Discussions Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and Union General Counsel Arthur J. Goldberg arranged day-long discussions today to shape battle plans for the opening of hearings Monday by a three-man presidential board of inquiry. Union attorneys huddled until late Friday night. The fact-finding board faces an Oct. 16 deadline for reporting to Eisenhower on the strike issuesWith this report in hand, the President was expected to direct the attorney general to go into court for the 80-day back-to-work order. No judge ever has denied such a request. Eisenhower obtained a similar injunction Thursday to force 85,000 striking East and Gulf Coast longshoreman to report back to their piers Friday. The two days between Eisenhower’s appointment of a dock fact-finding board and the court order matched a 1956 speed record. - Predicted Longer Delay Government officials predicted, however, there would be a longer delay in getting Steelworkers back on the job because of the union’s opposition to the president’s action. The Dockworkers did not fight against the injunction. McDonald said the President's “drastic act i o n.. .will settle nothing on a permanent basis." He expressed fears that the move would harm industry-union relations. McDonald promised that the Steelworkers would obey the "law of the land” if the injunction was granted. ‘ Rank-and-file strikers appeared displeased at Eisenhower’s intervention at this time but some conceded they needed the 80 day's pay. A number of strikers charged that the Presidents move bolstered the companies’ position and would hurt the chances of winning any benefits. Criticised By Beuther Al Whitehouse, director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department and hea'd of Steelworkers’ District 25, said Eisenhower’s use of the Taft-Hartley law was designed to help management. "Hie president is guilty of strike breaking and scabbing," Whitehouse declared. United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther said earlier at his Union’s convention in Atlantic City, N- J. that use of die TaftHartley procedure would amount to presidential strike breaking. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

Lay JTibetan Issue * To United Nations

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI) — Ireland and Malaya made plans today to formally propose to the U. N. General Assembly that Communist China be called upon to respect human rights in Tibet. The two delegations planned to send the proposal to the assembly on Monday. They were heartened by a Steering Committee recommendation for a full-dress debate on the Chinese suppression in Tibet and were prepared to fight any move to pigeonhole the issue in the Assembly. The Steering Committee Friday night voted 11 to 5, with 4 abstentions to grant the Irish-Ma-layan request to bring the Tibet issue into the United Nations, but the 82-nation assembly will have the final say on Monday A spokesman for the two delegations said sentiment for a de-

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accused Eisenhower of blundering and prejudiced pro-management internvention in the steel dispute. He made the charge in a Pennsylvania speech written before the Taft-Hartley action. Girl Found Guilty Os Manslaughter INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A Marion Criminal Court jury of 6 men and 6 women found 18-year-old Lousie May Ree Hunsbarger guilty on a charge of voluntary manslaughter Friday night in the shooting death of her ex-convict step-uncle. The crime carries a penalty of 2-21 years in prison. Sentencing was deferred until Oct. 15. The prosecution had demanded firsbdegree murder conviction on grounds that the death of Ben E. Giberson, 41, was premeditated. But the jury after hearing three days of testimony during which defense attorneys pictured the Dayton, Ohio, girl as being a victim of adult abuses, deliberated nearly four hours before - deciding that no premeditation was involved Miss Hunsbarger testified she was forced to live with Giberson as man and wife while the exconvict posed as her father. Police who investigated the 4th of July slaying quoted witnesses as saying Giberson laid a revolver on the kitchen table and told Miss Hunsbarger the first one to grab tt would'live. “Make the first shot count, Giberson allegedly said. He died from a single bullet wound in the chest. Defense testimony revealed that Miss Hunsbarger’s mother was married six times and that the girl had lived in the homes of five step-fathers, one of them Ben's brother, Ernest (Red) Giberson, who served a 20-year prison term in connection with the 1933 machine-gun slaying of an Indianapolis policeman. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Viola Nan Giberson, 36, Dayton, Ohio, said at the trial she should have been more strict in bringing up her daughter. "I might have put my foot down,” she said. Lions To Entertain 4-H Junior Leaders Adams county 4-H junior leaders will be the guests of the Adams county Lions clubs, the Decatur Lions club being host Monday evening, reports Leo N. Seltenright, county agent. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. 4-H junior leaders successfully completing their project work will be honored at the dinner meeting and awards and pins presented. Speaker for the occasion will be Mauri Williamson, assistant to dean Earl Butz, and field secretary of the Purdue ag alumni association. 4-H key awards sponsored by the Cities Service oil company will be presented at the meeting.

bate on Tibet was growing in the world organization and he was confident a majority of. the members would support the Steering Committee recommendation. There were indications, however, that a move would be made to postpone indefinitely any discussion of Tibet. Tibet’s neighbor to the south, India, which is host to the exiled Dalai Lama, has quietly opposed U. N. .debate on the Tibetan question on the ground that Communist China is not a member of the United Nations and could not defend itself in the debate. The Soviet bloc called the move for debate an attempt to interfere in the domestic affairs of Communist China and to revive the cold war. Ireland and Malaya were accused of being “tools” of the United States.

Question FCC Head On Shows

WASHINGTON (UPI) — House investigators question the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to determine whether government laxity permitted the rash of ‘fixed” television quiz shows. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) called FCC boss John C. Doerfer as the main witness in his commerce subcommittee’s lengthened inquiry. Adequacy of current government regulations and the possible need for new leiglsation were focal points of the hearings. The FCC has said previously that it does not believe it has authority to police TV quiz shows. Harris said the subcommittee also planned to hear testimony from the Federal Trade Commission—the government’s watchdog over advertising claims—at hearings Monday. The chairman previously had announced that the inquiry would end Friday. Still up in the air was the question of whether Charles Van Doren, 8129,000 winner on the NBC TV quiz “21”, would testify. The subcommittee has sworn testimony Raymond A. Greider Dies This Morning Raymond A. Greider, 63, farmer residing on Ossian route 1, died at 8:15 o’clock thi§ morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for five weeks. Mr. Greider was a member of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ at Zanesville. Surviving are his wife, Emma; a foster son, Donald Krick of Ossian route 1: four step-daughters, Mrs. Ray Mcßride of Craigville, Mrs. Devon Clifton and Mrs. Fred Hoffman, both of Decatur, and Mrs. David Brandyberry of Fort Wayne; a brother, Samuel Greider of Fort Wayne; a half-sister, Laura BeUe Herman of Fort Wayne; two foster grandchildren, and 10 step-grandchildren. , Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Elzey funeral home at Ossian, the Rev. Reuben Zurcher and the Rev. William Clague officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn cemetery at Ossian. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. Cold Air Sweeping East From Rockies United Press International A surge of cold air swept out of the Rockies today, chilling the northern Plains and choking off a brief warming trend. The mercury climbed into the 60s late Friday, but dropped back into the 30s when the chill air blew through Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. Cold rain and snow accompanied the blast. Minot, N.D. reported 5 inches of new snow and Glasgow, Mont., measured 2 inchesA broader cold snap spread over the East, dropping temperatures as much as 25 degrees in New York State through th Ohio Valley. Zanesville, Ohio, reported 44degree readings Friday night, 24 degrees below the same time the night before. Rain was confined to the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to Florida. Greensboro, N.C., received 1% inches and Tallahassee, Fla., was hit by a 1.03 downpour. The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted fine football weather for most of the nation today, broken only by cold and blustery conditions in the central Plains and upper Mississippi Valley, with cold winds and rain mixed with snow in that area late this afternoon. A few scattered showers were predicted for the middle Atlantic states and along the central Gulf Coast.

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that “21” was “rigged.” Harris refused to disclose whether the subcommittee had issued a subpena to back up its invitation for Van Doren to appear. But other members indicated that no subpena had been issued NBC suspended Van Doren from his $50,000-a-year network job Thursday until questions raised by the investigation are. resolved. TV producer Daniel Enright, accused of rigging the “21” quiz show, conceded Friday that he helped “fix” another NBC quiz show—“ Tic Tac Dough” — which still is broadcast by NBC. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer today. Increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday with scattered showers Sunday. Turning cooler late Sunday. High today mid 70s. Low tonight low 60s. High Sunday mid 70s. Outlook for Monday: Showers ending and becoming cooler. Kentucky Motorist Killed Early Today 1 RUSHVILLE. Ind. (UPI) — A Kentucky motorist was killed and his companion was injured critically today when their car ran under the rear of a truck on U. S. 52 a mile and half west ot Rushville. The dead man was identified by Rush County deputy sheriffs as? Willard Herman Keith, 26, R. R. 1, Smithstown, Ky. U.S. Calculations Confirm Lunik Claim WASHINGTON (UPI) — U. S officials said today that American calculations based on skimpy Rusisian data roughly confirmed Soviet Performance claims for the Lunik 111 satellite. These officials emphasized that Russia was supplying only sparse information on Lunik 111. But they said U. S calculations indicate there was no reason to doubt the accuracy of the daily reports from Moscow. Hie Soviets have said that Lunik 111, launched Oct 4. would start back toward the earth today after soaring out to a distance of about 291,870 miles on a course which carried it within 4,375 miles of the moon Oct. 6. American scientists could not make accurate predictions of Lunik IH’s course because the Soviets failed to disclose its launch ing velocity and other necessary data. But calculations based on what information they did get from Moscow were in rough agreement with Russia’s claimsFor instance, the Russians announced that Lunik 111 would make one wide - swinging orbit around the earth each 15 days. U.S. scientists figured 13.92 days. The Soviets said Lunik 111 would come within 24,840 miles of the earth at its nearest point. This also jibed with American calculations. There was one apparent discrepancy. A chart published by the official Russian Tass news agency showed Lunik 111 crossing the mootj’s orbit behind the moo»*. U. S Calculations indicated the satellite crossed in front. 4-H Grain Show To Be Held October 22 The annual 4-H grain show will be held Thursday October 22, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, reports Leo N. Seltenright, county agent. Al Probst, Purdue agronomist, will judge the show. 4-H crops members have been notified as to exhibit requirements. i .. There will be no soybean show this year.

Mrs. Rhoa Tricker Farm Census Leader Appointment of Mrs. Rhoa W. Tricker of Monroe, as a crew leader for the 1959 census of agriculture was announced today by field director Jahn E. Tharaldson of the census bureau's regional office at Detroit. Mrs. Tricker will direct a force of census takers who will canvass all farms in Adams county. Before assuming her post, she will go to Logansport, where she will receive five days of training by a member of the census bureau’s staff. Topics to be covered include procedures for recruiting of census takers, census taker training, canvassing methods, preparation and submission of reports, and the supervision of the census takers to insure a complete and accurate count. The crew leader is one of the key people in the field operations of the census of agriculture. It is her responsibility to recrut and train the census takers and supervise their work; plan and allocate work assignments; review the Work of the census takers and take remedial action where necessary, and to conduct difficult interviews. After completing her training, Mrs. Tricker will return to her district where she will! spend several weeks recruiting teensus takers, and training them jn preparation for the start of the field canvass November 11. Wren And Willshire Mail Is Rerouted Mail to Wren and Willshire, 0., has been rerouted by the post office department causing a temporary delay in delivery because some clerks were not aware of the change, Robert Frisinger, assistant postmaster, announced today. Mail for those towns used to leave Decatur on the star route in the morning. Now it is routed by train earlier. This should give better service. However, some clerks on the railroad, used to dropping all mail for those two towns at Decatur, have continued the practice. That means that mail was sent out from Decatur, scheduled for Wren and Willshire from Lima, 0., but it was mistakenly returned to Decatur. Since the star route at Van Wert now, there is no way to get the mail to Wren and Willshire if a mistake is made. Last Saturday, the first day of the new schedule, no first class mail or second class mail (newspapers) was received at Willshire, and the postmaster finally had to drive to Decatur to pick up the mail. This is slowly being corrected as each clerk in the huge railway department of the post office is educated to the change. Within a week or so the service will be faster than before. . Decatur Daily Democrat subscribers in the area, who have been receiving their papers a day later -than usual, are asked to “bear up” until the post office has adjusted the problem—within a few days papers will be received in the normal time. Only Physicians To Give Anesthetics INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —lndiana Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers ruled today that registered and licensed nurses have no legal authority to administer anesthetics. Steers’ ruling came in answer to a question from the Indiana Board of Medical Registration and Examination. Steers said opinions on this matter were issued in 1951 and 1953.’ "The administering of an anesthetic is a duty to be performed by a licensed physician only,” Steers ruled.

Callifhumpian Parade Here October 31 The annual Callithumpian parade will be Saturday night, October 31, starting at 7 p.m. and extending through the main shopping area of Decatur, Kenneth Shannon, chairman of the parade committee, announced today. This will be one of the finest Halloween parades in history, with nine bands already signed up and several more expected, he added. Bill Bowers will head the parade, and Clyde Butler, Lyle Mallonee, and Walter (Joe) Elzey will assist as parade marshals. Those working on various aspects of the parade now are: Marion Robinson, judges; Ernest Atkinson, music judges; Martin Sprunger, implement dealers; and Robert Sautbine, auto dealers. The exact amounts of prizes, and the various categories, will be announced later. All marchers and drivers in the parade are being warned that no candy or other objects will be thrown from the parade this year. This will prevent the possibility of some child, anxious for candy, being killed by the wheels of a parade vehicle, as had happened in other towns. Shannon added. As is customary, the parade will be on Halloween. Some consideration was given to holding it on Friday this yeaix rather than Saturday, but chief of police James Borders indicated that through traffic was heavier on Friday, and would pose a bigger problem then. Britain's Labor Party Faces Split LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s Labor Party today faced the distinct possibility of a wide-open split between the warring moderate and leftwing faction; as a result of the crushing defeat it suffered in Thursday's general elections. While the battered Socialist leaders prepared for what amounted to an “agonizing reappraisal” of party policies, Radio Moscow saw the decisive victory scored by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Conservatives as proof ot Britain's desire for “peaceful coexistence.” In its first comment on the British elections. Rauio Moscow said that “it was driven home to the British voters that the Conservatives had the greatest desire and a special knack for dealing with the Soviets.” "Vote for Peace” “The British voter cast his vote for peace, for peaceful co-exis-tence (and) this fact imposes very great obligations on the new parliament ... “it said. Moscow asserted that “it can be said without exaggeration that the visit by Macmillan to the Soviet Union, which led to an improvement in British-Soviet relations, was a most significant asset in the Conservatives election campaign.” “Nor must it be forogtten that Macmillan and these other Conservative leaders have lately been advocating the early calling of a summit conference,” Radio Moscow said. A similar line was taken by Communist China The London correspondent for the official Peiping Peoples Daily was quoted by the Red New China news agency as saying the vote reflected British hopes for an end to the cold war. Will Use Aa Mandate Macmillan, in a brief televised “victory” statement to the nation Friday night, pledged to use the election results as a mandate to play a leading role in the “constant search for peace.” He is expected to increase the pressure on

Long Process To Reopen Mills

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — It takes only four days to shut down a steel mill. But full steel production cannot be restored until at least three weeks. The agonizing, tedious process of re-opening the idled mills precludes any chance that strikedepleted stockpiles could be ret built during the 80-day “cooling off” period of the Taft-Hartley Act. If a back-to-work order is issued under the law. it would be weeks before any sizeable majority of the half million striking Steelworkers would be on the job. More than a third of the 80day Taft-Hartley injunction period would be consumed by preparations. A U.S. Steel Corp, spokesman said his firm could operate in the normal range tor only 50 days. The firm produces 28 per cent of the Nation’s steel capacity. See To Repairs An advance guard of maintenance crews, must enter the

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Co-Chairmen Named On Community Fund

The 11 co-chairmen, each of whom will appoint five captains, for the Community Fund drive starting Tuesday, October 20, were named this morning by James Basham, drive chairman. The goal this year is $20,429. The co-chairmen are: Wiliam Small, Wilbur Petrie. Deane Dorwin, Earl Sheets, Ralph Habegger, Ted Hill, Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, Kenneth Gaunt t Leo Kirsch, the Rev. J. O. Penrod, and Roger Gentis. All of the chairmen have had experience in the program before, and several have already selected their team captains. Only Two Calls Again this year each solicitor picked by the captains will be called upon to solicit only two calls. This should make the work exceptionally easy and fast for all concerned. The workers will be spurred on by the news that Berne attained of its goal in just one day’s campaign. Os the cities of comparable size, Decatur has the lowest goal in the area. other Western leaders for an early meeting at the summit with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Labor Party Chief Hugh Gaitskell also appeared briefly on television Friday night. He said the party would have to do some drastic “re-thinking.” Soybean Production Under 1958 Harvest WASHINGTON (UPI > — The Agriculture Department Friday forecast soybean production of 529,793,000 bushels compared with last month's forecast of 532,669.000 bushels and the 1958 production of 574,413,000 bushels.

mitts and determine what repairs, if any, are needed. Fuel lines, water pipes and electrical switches may be in disrepair because of the long stoppage. This maintenance force would be augmented by standby crews. Before the strike started last July 15, steel was being produced at the rate of 2,344,000 tons per week. But industry experts said it would take two weeks before even 80 per cent of rated production capacity could be achieved. Coke oven workers, ore crane operators and blast furnace tenders are the next group of steelworkers calledThe painstaking task of coke plant operations would begin. , Blank charges, which had been “simmering” in the chambers of the ovens since July 12 — three days before the strike — must be NOON EDITION

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A large sign was placed on the court house lawn, and on Tuesday, October 20, the first figure will be placed in the blank left for amount received, just under the goal. A similar block, listing all of the agencies which benefit from the drive, will be run daily in the Decatur Daily Democrat. Helps 8 Groups This year’s goal, which contains one hew member agency, is 10% above last year's. The funds received will be distributed among the agencies which are members. This includes: the youth section of the Decatur Community Center; the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the U. 5.0., Mental Health, and the Crippled Children’s Society. Each group has submitted a budget to the community fund board of directors, and these were carefully studied, and approved. The reviewing committee was satisfied that the amount asked represented a fair goal, anad one which the city can easily afford. — • Court House Offices To Be Closed Monday Because of Columbus Day, a legal Hobday, the Adams county court house will be closed Monday. The regular hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. will be resumed Tuesday. Burns Prove Fatal’ For Young Mother WASHINGTON, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Eleanor Sue Purdue, 20. the mother of a month-old son. died of burns at Daviess County Hospital here Friday. Mrs. Purdue was burned by flaming gasoline which accidentally ignited at an automobile repair shop where her husband William, worked.

drawn. Oven temperatures must go as high as 1,800 degree fahrenheit. Heat BoUt Up Meanwhile, crews had been building up the heat in the giant blast furnaces. Industry sources said it takes six to 10 days before high quality iron can be produced. Skip cars trundle the coke atop the furnace. The coke, iron ore and limestone are dumped into 300-degree heat. The mass slowly works to the bottom and the temperature goes up to 22.800 degrees when the burning coke and repeated blasts of hot air get going. Two days later the bottom is filled with “good” iron and tapping begins. The molten iron is poured into "thermos’’ tank cars and hauled to the open hearth furnaces. Steel making begins at this phase.

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