Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 247.

Expert Scores Space Policy

WASHINGTON (UPD — Missile expert Wemher von Braun lashed out at the nation’s new space policy today in a growing interservice uproar following announcement by Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris that he is retiring. Von Braun said the decision to give the Air Force full control of the space program indicated lack of confidence “in a proven rocket team,” and threatens to put the United States even further behind in the space race. Von Braun, German-born scientist who led the team that launched the first U.S satellite, addressed a breakfast meeting of the National Association of Food Chains. His* criticism of the policy shift came on the heels of Medaris’ announcement that he will step down Jan., 31 as commander pf the Army Ordnance Missile mandAssociates said Medaris was not retiring because of his disappointment with the Army’s new scaled-down role. But he has spoken out. against the move. Medaris, 57, is retiring after 38 years of service. Says Army Twiddles Thumbs Von Braun said constant "reevaluations and reassessments” also are slowing American progress in space. “We must carry forwrd a long range space program if we don’t mean to abandon the heavens to the Reds,” he said. Von Braun said the Army agency is twiddling its thumbs, waiting for “someone in Washington” to decide whether to break up its “marital relationship” with the Artny and make it the new “bridegroom” of the Air Force. "We have not sued for this divorce,” he said. It is “painfully clear,” he said, that die United States is behind Russia in space exploration, chiefly because Soviet rockets are more powerful. •’lf we continue at this leisurely pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon,” he said. The Russians are making great strides in space exploration that will permit them to conduct “even more astounding” feats soon, he added. McElroy Due Home , America could make a great stride toward matching superior Russian rocket thrusts by speed-' ing development of the Saturn, a 1,500,000-pound thrust rocket, he said. He said the Saturn project is moving ahead “but it could move faster.” Both Von Braun and Medaris have repeatedly complained that the Army is being left out in the cold in this country’s search for new and t>etter space vehicles. There have been reports that Von Braun might resign unless his agency gets more attention. The fight over the military space program is one of the major headaches Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy will face when he returns this afternoon from a month-long Pacific tour. McElroy, who hopes to leave his cabinet post by the end of the year, must decide what to do about the German scientists in Medaris’ command at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AlaBy a recent decision which appeared to lodge chief responsibility in the Air Force, McElroy took the Army largely out of the space field but left unsettled the future of the 2,100 scientists and technicians at Redstone. Dev-toptar Saturn Rocket The Huntsville scientists have been developing the giant Saturn rocaet, a 1,500,000-pound thrust vehicle, for the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). But the Army missile men have complained they are getting insufficient funds to speed the development. Medaris, a native of Milford, Ohio, has been active in missile work since 1855. He supervised the launching of, America’s first

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earth satellite in 1958 and has led in development of the Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile. Teacher Institutes Thursday, Friday Five teachers, two from Decatur, and three from county schools, will attend the 106th annual convention of the Indiana state teachers' association at Indianapolis Thursday and Friday, giving the school children a sought after vacation. Paul Bevelhimer and William McColly are the official delegates from Decatur, while John Rosier of Monmouth, Harry Anderson of Geneva, and Donald Sprunger, of Adams Central, are the delegates from Adams County. Also attending the Indianapolis confab will be Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art teacher from the Decatur high school, who usually attends the Indianapolis session of the state meeting. The sessions are divided into regional sites with teachers having the perogative of attending any throughout the state. Most of the Decatur and county teachers will travel to the Fort Wayne regional ISTA meet. Miss Charlotte Vera will attend the Muncie regional, however. Some Catholics To Attend Some of the Catholic school teachers will attend several of the sessions at the Fort Wayne convention, although the institute for Cathohc teachers was conducted in Fort Wayne at Bishop Luers high school Sept. 2. The entire county and city school system will be closed during the two-day convention. Lutheran teachers will attend a two-day conference at St. Peters Lutheran church at Fort Wayne. W. Guy Brown, who is past president of the Northeast Indiana teachers* association when it functioned as a separate group and was instrumental in forming the state-wide organization, will attend the past presidents banquet in Fort Wayne Thursday at the Van Orman hotel. Doan As Chairman The city and county schools will conduct the social studies elementary workshop with Robert Doar-» of the lanccln school, as general chairman. The speakers and their topics for the city portion of the program will be Mr. Mervin Rupp and family, “School and Home Life in Alaska;” Mrs. F. Hazen Sparks “Hawaii, Our 50th State,” and Lowell J. Smith, “1959, A Lincoln Year.” The county, under chairman Earl Dawaid, will conduct the exhibits for the three themes presented by the city schools. Dawaid is a teacher at the Monmouth school and has a committee re resenting all the county elementary schools. They are: Harold Long, of Geneva township school; Edna Glendenning. Hartford Center; Shirley Hirschy, Jefferson township; Delores Mitchel, Pleasant Mills; Marcella Scherry, Berne-French, and Kenneth Watkins, Adams Central. Aumann Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Henry J. Aumann, who died suddenly shortly before noon Monday at her home north of Decatur, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, and at 2 p.m. at the St. John's Lutheran church. The Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church.

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Bid Awarded Monday For Highway Radio The county commissioners handled a bit of the Nov. 3 election details at Monday’s megting besides accepting the low bid from Motorola, Inc., of $5,329.96 for a two-way radio system which will be installed in the county highway department vehicles. On the election, the commissioners set the expense schedule for the various officers at the precinct level, who will conduct the election. The expense schedule is: inspector, $22; judge, sl2; clerk, sl2; assistant clerk (if needed) sl2; sheriffs (2) sl2, and $3 per person a day for meals. This schedule is for each of the 11 precincts. Approve Election Site The commissioners also approved the change of the location of precinct 1-D, which will now be at the old Dinner Bell restaurant. Formerly, it was at Faurote’s Radiator Shop. The Dinner Bell is located at 418 Winchester street, just east of the former voting poll. The commissioners checked the facilities at the new location during the morning session of their meeting. They also received confirmation on the 10 other Decatur polling places and the three in Berne. The 10 others in Decatur are: 1-A, the city quonset building on Grant stfeet; 1-B, Decatur Canning Co.; 1-C, the county jail; 1-D, the Dinner Bell at 418 Winchester; 2-A, the court house; 2-B, the fire station; 2-C, Worthman Fieldhouse; 3-A, the old county garage at First and Jackson; 3-B, the Daimon Case residence at Seventh and Nuttman; Decatur-Root at the Decatur Equipment Co., and 3-C, the J. E. Sheets garage at 957 Walnut. In Berne, the sites are: A, the Sam Nussbaum building; B, the auditorium, and C, city hall. The bids on the two-way radios were taken at yesterday’s meeting with only G. E. and the winning Motorola entering legitimate bids. A third bid from Century Auto Parts, Inc., of Indianapolis, was not pertaining to the actual radio bids and was discounted. The G. E bid was $6,097.70. Five Mobile Unite The cost will include five mobile units to be installed in the trucks, a base station to be installed in the Monroe county garage, a tower, antennas, and other pertinent electrical equipment. The cost of maintaining and depreciation over a 10-year period was estimated at about SI,OOO. All the costs have been allowed for by the commissioners in the highway department’s budget. Two county residents attended the meeting voicing drainage problems, which were referred to county surveyor, Herman Moellering. Richard Huffman, of Wabash township, told of a catch basin problem, while Eli Habegger, of Wabash township, expressed a similar drainage problem.

f jg eL LAST VISIT WITH GEN. MARSHALL—Mrs. George C. Marshall is attended by Canon Luther D. Miller, former Chief of Chaplains of the U. S. Army, as she arrives at Washington Cathedral where the body of the late Gen. Marshall lay in state in Bethlehem Chapel. Hie former Army Chief of Staff died at Walter Reed hospital last Friday.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1959.

Asks Federal Court To Issue Injunction Aimed At Halting Steel Strike

United Fund’s Drive Opened

“A poor, shivering man. caught in an ice sjtorm while hitchhiking south in a light jacket, was one of the many, many beneficiaries qf last year’s Community Fund drive,” Louis Jacobs, Community Fund kickoff speaker, told 60 earnest workers at the breakfast held this morning at the Decatur Community Cenjer. The goal this year is to raise $20,429 for the eight member agencies, including the following: Crippled Children .$1,200 Boy Scouts 2.895 Girl Scouts 2.125 Salvation Army 1.320 U. S. O. 513 Mental Health 700 Youth and Recreation — 5.000 Red Cross 5,876 Operating fund 800 $20,429.00 The operating fund includes enough to carry the member agencies between gifts, and to operate the drive, such as postage, envelopes, paper, and other office expnese connected with the drive. First Report Tonight ’ At 5 o’clock this evening cochairmen are to make their first report to James Basham, drive chairman. At that time the amount collected the first day of the drive will be tabulated, and recorded on the huge sign on the court house lawn, and in the Decatur Daily Democrat. A check of captains this morning shows that many have already npade their contacts, and collected several hundred dollars each. Jacobs, in addressing the group, explained how the shivering man, sick and cold, stumbled into town, and was brought to the local Salvation Army for care. The local committee saw that the man was fed, housed for the night, and given medical attention. Every other agency in the fund is just as worthy, and every donor gets more than his money’s worth from every dollar given, he stres-

sed. Donors who wish to give to certain agencies only may do so by having those listed in their envelopes. Experts Choose Cases “The great value of the Community Fund is this,” Jacobs explained. “If ten ragged beggars approached you, to which would you give, because they needed it, and which would you refuse? Unless you personally had time to check into every case, from the ragged boy to the ragged old man, youd would not be able to judge fairly. “That is where the Community Fund enters the picture. The Community Fund agencies go deep into the background of every case, and fully investigate before dispensing funds. They administer the funds as a trust.” Jacobs ended his speech by a “druggist’s demonstration” on types of campaigns. In the first glass of water he placed inert ingredients and this caused no reaction; likewise, inert co-chairmen or captains will get no response in the weeklong drive. In the second he placed a half-heartde reactor, which stirred up a little water; this was like the half-hearted drive which takes months to complete. But in the third he placed an ac(Continued on page three)

Red Cross Chapter InCommimity Fund

Perhaps the most well-known agency on the Decatur Community Fund list this year, is the local chapter of the American Red Cross. A major reason for its popularity could be the fact that so many persons in every community are associated with the organization. A good question to ask is, “Why is the Red Cross so well-known? When you learn this answer, you have learned the function of the organization and its need in the community.” Multitude of Functions To detail all the functions of the Red Cross, even on the county level, would take more space than the pages of this newspaper. But, starting with the 588 pints of blood obtained this year from volunteers for the county’s quota, you’re heading on the right track. In the month of June alone. 63 pints were used by county residents who urgently required them. In disaster, 18 families suffered from high water during the early spring thaw. The local chapter assisted those who requested aid and provided cots for families forced to double with others. During the 4-H fair the chapter set up a first aid station: it conducted first aid classes in Berne and Decatur for the sheriff’s department and the fire department; it conducted home nursing courses; assisted the Moose with their polio round-up; had first aid stations at the county and sectional basketball tourneys; conducted many meetings on orientation with the Red Cross program; gave many talks ard demonstrations to various groups; and many, many other worthwhile civic-help projects. To list the board of directors would be like listing a “Who’s Who” of Adams county. The chairman for 1959, however, is Wilbur Petrie, with Mrs. Wanda Oelberg acting as executive secretary. Through these two, all the projects must be cleared and through these two, the projects are carried to completion along with the various hard-working chairmen of each specific project.

Start Building Os 12th Street Sewer Work is now starting on the 12th street sewer, which will take 50 Decatur lots off the Monroe street sewer and drain them through the much larger northwest sewer. Mayor Rober< D. Cole announced today. The 12th street sewer, which will provide direct relief for homes on 12tb, 11th, and Jackson streets between Nuttman and Monroe, and indirect relief for all homes on the Monroe street sewer, <s a part of the present administration's continuing plan to rebuild Decatur’s sewers, and to prevent basements from flooding, the mayor added. The sewer will start from the northwest sew’er at 12th and Nuttman. and run south on 12th street to Jackson; and later will run on to Mcnroe street. The main sewer will turn east on Jackson, to ITth. where another lateral will run north toward Nuttman. The main sewer will run south on 11 th street to Jackson, with two laterals, one east to 10th street, and one north almost to Monroe street. As soon as funds are available, the sewer will be extended across Monroe street along 11th to Adams street to pick up all of the sewage originating west of 11th street. This in turn will provide major relief for all Monroe street sewer patrons. « The Yost Construction company is building the sewjy, and the first tile has already arrived.

Vast Organisation The vastness of the organization on the local level, gives only a hint of the intricate system used throughout the entire nation. And the Red Cross, like many other of the agencies, is international in scope. In the county, there are 28 members on the board of directors with 21 others acting as chairmen of committees, besides Petrie and Mrs. Oelberg. These volunteer workers give their time and ability to make the local chapter function. They ask that you give of your charity. If you are not contacted by one Os the volunteer Community Fund vjplunteers, do not feel slighted as the make-up of this collection is quite complex and easy to overlook someone. If you are not contacted* call James Basham, the drive chairman, at Central Soya or at 1 hMthome. All donations will build j Decatur’s quota of $20,429. <

— —— ■ ■ -—-—— Fear Effects Os Court Order WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gov- — — eminent officials expressed con- commanded back to their jobs at*the Taft-Hartley vote on nianage- *^ arm l old P ay scales ' may express this j ment's final offer. The union will iLSv court ' ordered resentment by slowdowns, refus- campaign for an overwhelming V SJ * steel striice. ing to work overt i me and other “no” vote and management will mX Stat X .... ... *° taPr °' C b "’ but to seek an Injunction to send -There may be ' chaos" in gaming positions. the striking steelworkers back to steel mar kets when mills reopen. —The strike is likely to resume the mills for 80 davs rt wdl take weeks — perhaps a after the injunction expires uriBut Labor Secretary James P month or more—to get produc- less negotiators reach an agreeMitchell and chief fact - finder tion U P to 90 per cept of capac- ment well before the deadline. George W. Taylor made no se- Some experts say only 50— A back -to - work order issued cret of their belief that such a not 80 —days of production will now would prohibit resumption of truce would not settle the mara- possible because of the need the walkout until around Jan. 10. thon dispute to warm furnaces and then re- This would probably inspire a Here’s what informed sources P air facilities. ■ flood of proposals for dealing in Washington believe may occur —Further bargaining will pro- w *th emergency disputes th a t during the so - called 80 - day ceed without any heat on the cou^d bring woe to union ana “cooling-off” period: parties for an agreement. Dur- management when Congress re—Negotiations will stop for 10 ing the strike, both sides felt convenes in January. days or two weeks while man- economic pressure — the workers Taylor and Mitchell have agement and union leaders are got no paychecks and the indus- warned that unless this dispute occupied with back-to-work prob- try sold no steel. is settled at the bargaining table, lems- Strike Resumption Likely it may lead to contract terms Possible Slowdowns —Union and company officials imposed by government decree —Workers, angered at being will point their major efforts toiin the future.

PITTSBURGH (UPD — A U.S. | 1 attorney, acting under orders of 1 President Eisenhower, today asked Federal Court to issue an injunction to halt the 98-day steel ' strike for 80 days. U.S Atty. Hubert I. Teitelbaum ‘ handed the Taft-Hartley back-to- ’ work petition to the clerk of the ’ Western District Court of Penn- 1 sylvania. putting it up to Federal Judge Herbert P. Sorg to decide 1 whether to order 500,000- steel . workers back to their jobs. The government petition was J nine pages long and listed all the ' strike-bound companies. Teitelbaum received the petition ! from George C. Doub, an assist- ! ant attorney general who flew here from Washington. Union Will Appeal The petition asked for an injunction directing the United 1 Steelworkers Union — on strike 1 since July 15—to instruct its mem- J bers to return to work for 80 days and for the immediate issuance of a temporary restraining order pending issuance of the injunction. It was the second time this month President Eisenhower resorted to the Taft-Hartley law to end work stoppages. Earlier, he invoked the law to send the striking East Coast dock workers back to their jobs. A spokesman for the union said USW general counsel Arthur G. Goldberg would appeal the petition on grounds that: —“The steel strike does not imperil the national health or safety within the meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act. —“The provisions of the TaftHartley t Act Which have been invoked are unconstitutional.” The spokesman did not elaborate on the union’s contention of unconstitutionality. A reluctant President Eisenhower ordered the Justice Department to seek the injunction Monday after his special fact-finding board reported there was virtually no hope for a voluntary settlement of the 98-day basic steel strike. The President acknowli edged it was a “bad day for the nation.” Will Obey Injunction United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald said his union would try to block the order in district court here and, if unsuccessful, it would carry the fight to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia and to the United States Supreme Court. McDonald said the steelworkers would obey a return to work injunction but would be free to strike again at the end of 80 days. Government lawyer s were geared for what was expected to be the first all-out challenge of the government’s power to force striking workers back on the job under the 12-year-old Taft-Hartley labor law. Justice Department lawyers were known to have examined every aspect of the strike in their long preparation for a legal battle with the Steelworkers Union. The burden of arguing the government’s case has fallen on the shoulders of Doub. chief of the department's civil litigation division. and his assistants. Doub is a 57-year-old grey-haired Marylander who served as U.s. attor-

ney in Baltimore before he was named to his present post in 1953. Make No Predictions Asked whether the governme t expected to get its injunction despite the Steelworkers opposition, one member of Doub’s team would say only: “It depends on what kind of a presentation we make ” “We never anticipate what a court may do,” he added. Informed sources said Justice Department attorneys were impressed with the caliber of the Steelworkers legal talent. They were anticipating even such eventualities as a union move to Call Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and other top administration officials to the stand in an effort to discredit the President’s finding that the fourmonth old strike constitutes a threat to the nation's defense program, these sources said. Max Andrews Dies Early This Morning Max E. Andrews, 34, native of Adams county, and former resident of this city, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of 10 days. He had been employed at the Peter Eckrich Co. in Fort Wayne for the past two and one-half years, and resided at 812 Runyon Ave. in that city. Mr. Andrews was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose lodge. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. . Nancy Andrews of Decatur: his ' wife, Anna: one daughter. Dawn Andrews, at home; four stepdaughters, Sylvia and Ida Mae Imbody, at home, Mrs. Catherine Wolfe and Mrs. Mary Ehrstad, both of Fort Wayne; one brother, Otho Andrews of Mishawaka, and two sisters, Mrs. Esther Klinger of Monroe, and Mrs. Christine Moorman of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home in Foil Wayne, with burial in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER® Fair south, considerable cloudiness north tonight and Wednesday. Colder extreme north tonight and central Wednesday. Low tonight 35 to 40 extreme north to 38 to 45 central and south. High Wednesday near 50 extreme north, 50s central to 60s extreme south. Sunset today 4:59 p.m. CST., 5:59 p.m. CDT. Sunrise Wednesday 6:01 a.m. CST„ 7:01 a.m. CDT. Outlook for Thursday: Considerable cloudiness and quite cool central and north, partly cloudy with little temperature change south. Chance of some scattered rain central and north. Lows mostly in the 40s. Highs 50s central and north, lower 60s south.

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