Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 255.

Utility Sale Election Clouded

Democrats In Stale Seek To Keep Controls INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — At least 65 mayors and 20 ex-mayors seek new four-year terms next Tuesday in Indiana’s municipal elections, in campaigns ranging from lukewarm to red-hot. Democrats are fighting to keep control of the majority of citiesThey now have mayors in 71 cities, compared .with 32 for the Republicans and 3 held by men elected on independent party tickets. The Republicans hope to regain the municipal power they lost in 1955 when the Democrats scored their heaviest city victory since the early 19305. Although newspaper postcards polls in two of the state’s largest cities — Indianapolis and Evansville—gave the GOP nominees an edge, observers found speculation difficult because local issues play a big part in the ballot-box decisions in many of the 108 cities in Hoosierland. Trends seen Wortnless Trends evident in other elections were considered rather worthless in view of what happened in 1955. Republicans scorred victories in the congressional election year in Indiana in 1954, and President Eisenhower swept the state and carried the rest of the GOP ticket with him in 1956. Sandwiched in between those years was the Democratic triumph in the municipal voting, and to many observers it just didn’t make sense. In most cities, the only mayoralty candidates were the Democratic and Republican nominees. In a fewjiowever, there were independent party candidates. Peru has four men seeking the office of mayor. The lone woman candidate is Mrs. Mary Bercik of Whiting, widow of the Democrat elected four years ago. She is the state’s only present mayor and is seeking her first election on her own merits. Two newly-created cities will elect their first mayors—Greenwood and Lawrence, both virtual suburbs of Indianapolis. Nearly 65 per cent of the mayors either hurdled opposition in last May’s primaries or were renominated without rivals. Some of them, such as Mayor Robert Ray of Gas City, were hoping for their fifth terms. Independent New Democrat The 69 mayors seeking reelecon included 49 Democrats, 18Rlti tion included 49 Democrats, 18 Republicans and 2 Independents. One of the men elected as an independent four years ago is running as a Democrat this time, Mayor John K. Bowen of Charlestown. Although 10 Republican mayors and 13 Democratic mayors did not seek new terms this year, 12 others who did lost out in the May primaries- These included 9 Democrats, 2 Republicans and 1 independent. Two Republican mayors who were renominated in May have died since. Mayor Nicholas Beumel of Tell City and Mayor Fred Rose of Hobart. Quite a few of the ex-mayors seeking to be restored as chief executives of their cities were defeated four years ago. Most of the ex-mayors served in recent years. An exception is M. Jack Edwards of Mardon, who served two terms from 1929 to 1935 as a young man in his 20s. Among the former mayors involved in contests now are Noland C. Wright at Anderson, former GOP state chairman, and Vernon Anderson of Hammond, until recently an administrative assistant to Governor Handley.

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Queries, Answers Given To Van Doren

NEW YORK (UPI) — .Charles Van Doren was given questions and answers to run up nis winnings to $129,000 on the quiz show t “Twenty-One,” an authoritative i source said todayt The source said Van Doren, I who earlier denied he had re- ! ceived any help in answering questions on the NBC program, > was fed questions and answers to help him over rough spots on the show. ) (The New York Times said it i had learned from an authoritative ■ source in the ’ Criminal Courts Building that both Van Doren 1 and Hank Bloomgarden, another i “Twenty-One” winner, had adl mitted to Dist. Atty Frank S Ho- ‘ gan that they had received both questions and answers on the ! show.) Many Given Aid Big prize winners of the pro--1 gram — with few exceptions—--1 received pre - broadcast aid, a source who has been questioned by authorities about rigged TV ; shows told United Press International. Neither Van Doren nor Bloom- : garden would comment. Van Doren, 33-year-old English instructor at Columbia University, i will appear Monday in Washington before a congressional com-

Resume Steel Negotiations

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — Major developments affecting the nation's basic aluminum and copper industries took place today as management and union prepared ' to resume industry-wide bargaining in the marathon steel strike. As the four - man bargaining teams representing the basic steel industry and the United Steelworkers prepared to go into direct bargaining this afternoon, the union announced developments which erased a threat of a strike in the aluminum industry but shut down the nation's last major copper producer still operating. The unionannounced it had agreed to “indefinite” contract extensions with the "big three” of the aluminum industry — Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser. Together they produce virtually all the nation’s aluminum. The extensions provide for retroactivity to Aug. 1 of any final settlement, which will be patterned after whatever settlement is reached in the steel industry. Copper Mine Struck* The USW also announced that the White Pine copper mines of White Pine, Mich., last major copper producer still operating, was hit by a strike Wednesday night. All other major copper producers have been shut down by strikes by the USW and the Mine, MiU and Smelter Workers union. The bargaining teams resuming direct talks in the steel strike today were headed by R. Conrad Cooper, for the industry, and USW President David J. McDonald, for the unicm. The meeting will be the first between Cooper and McDonald since last Sunday. Since then company-by-company bargaining has been underway in an effort to end the strike, which has cut sharply into the nation’s economy. Finnegan Sounds Warning The . talks will get underway with a warning from Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finn* gan that he would move back into negotiations Monday unless an agreement was reached by mid-

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mittee investigating quiz show rigging. It was reported his attorney has asked for a closed hearing under a house rule that any testimony which might tend to “defame, degrade or incriminate” may be taken in secret. Both Bloomgarden, who won $98,500, and Van Doren had appeared at Hogan’s office last Friday to make “substantial changes” in earlier statements they had given the district attorney. They had refused to discuss the changes with newsmen. Given Network Contract Van Doren had been given a $50,000-a-year contract as a corm mentator on NBC following his appearances on “Twenty - One,” but the network suspended him after the quiz show investigation began. He still teaches his three English classes a week and his students back him loyally. Hie UPI source, who asked that his name not be used, said he pressure on Van Doren “was terrific.” “Charlie was caught up in a tempting situation and his judgment was impaired so that he, like producer Dan Enright, began thinking wrong was right,” the source said.

night Sunday. The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a government plea that the USW be compelled to file by noon today its appeal of a Taft-Hartley 80-day back-to-work order- Hie government hoped to wipe out a six-day stay granted the union by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. Rejection of the government appeal by the high court meant the union had until Monday to file its appeal of the lower* court decision, which held sip the back-to-work order against the strikers. Contends “Pressing Need” The Monday deadline was set by the appeals court in Philadelphia last Tuesday. The govern(Contlnued on page «jx> • Mrs. Anna Bulmahn Dies This Morning Mrs. Anna Bulmahn, 78, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 5:30 o’clock this morning at her home in Root township, six miles north of Decatur. She had been in failing health since January of 1958. She was bom in Preble township Feb. 16. 1881, a daughter of William and Wilhelmina MackeHockemeyer, arid had lived in Root township since her marriage April 26, 1900, to William Bulmahn. Her husband preceded her in death Aug. 22. 1953. Mrs. Bulmahn was a member of the St. John’s Lutheran church. Surviving are two sons, Martin Bulmahn of Union township, and Harold Bulmahn of Root township; one daughter, Mrs. Erwin (Emilie) Bienz of Union township; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one brother, Herman (Pete) Hockemeyer of Preble township; and five sisters, Mrs. Conrad (Hannah) Scheuman of Ossian, Mrs. John (Martha) Witte and Mrs. Adolph (Louise) Stoppenhagen, both of Preble township, Mrs. Vaughn (Clara) Murray of Monrovia, Calif., and Mrs. Franklin (Bertha) Franz of Decautr. One son, one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating-. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Friday until time of t h e services. The casket will not be opened at the church.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday; Oct. 29, 1959.

No Trace Is Found Os Missing Judge CHICAGO (UPI) — The FBI today entered the search for Judge W. Lynn Parkinson of the U. S. , Appeals Court, missing from his home and office here for more than two days. The search for Parkinson, a Hoosier, turned to Northern Indi- . ana where he was prominent in law practice and on the bench before he went to Chicago. Announcement that the FBI had joined city police in looking for Parkinson came from U. S. District Judge William J. Campbell, senior judge of the district bench here. “We want to find the judge,” said Campbell. “I have absolutely no reason to suspect foul play. We want only to find Judge Parkinson.” A door-to-door search of the near North Side neighborhood in which the judge was last seen Monday turned up nothing to indicate the where-abouts of the distinguished jurist. Detectives questioned dozens of persons, stopping at gift stores, barber shops, restaurants and cocktail lounges where Parkinson might have stopped. The Lake Michigan shoreline nearby was also searched but no clue was found. The judge left the appeals courthouse Mon da y -afternoon, complaining he was not feeling well and had a pain in the back of the head. His family felt this might indicate his disappearance was caused by an amnesia attack. A cab driver said he picked up the judge near the courthouse about 6 p.m. Monday and drove him to the.exclusive Drake Hotel close to his home. The driver, Albert Swanson, 40, said the judge, appearing acutely ill, was helped into the car by a man and woman. Swanson said, when he got to the hotel, a doorman helped him assist the judge into the hotel arcade. The doorman, Michael Canavan 62, said he immediately recognized the judge but was surprised at his appearance. The men said they left the judge a few steps inside the entrance and saw him continue walking toward the hotel lobby. Police conducted a relentless search of arcade shops and the entire hotel. "We looked into everything—from top to bottom—but drew a blank,” a detective said. His family grew increasingly worried. The judge’s wife, Elsie Ruth, was put under sedation by a physician Wednesday night in her home. The judge’s son-in-law, John D. Southworth, said: “What makes it so bad is that he was a man of such routine that you could set your clock by hiiri.” Ballistic Missile Fired Successfully CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — An Atlas intercontinental ballisitc missile was successfully test ' launched “less than full range” down the Atlantic today. It was America’s fourth missile test success in less than 18 hours. The Atlas, scheduled to be the big daddy of America’s Atlas-Able moon rocket next month, thundered skyward carrying an ablative type nose cone. The Air Force announced in Washington that the Atlas “achieved all its test objectives as planned.” The Air Force said the Atlas shoot was “scheduled for less than full range.” The Atlas "full range” is 5,500 miles. Wednesday night an intermediate Thor was successfully fired down the Atlantic missile range. The Thor and Atlas missiles will make at least four thrusts into space by the end of this year. Included in this is an Ajlas-Able moon rocket next month in which the Atlas will be the big daddy or first stage of the important shoot. The firing climaxed another successful day of missile tests for American rockets. Earlier, an ad-vanced-model Bomarc interceptor performed as expected at the , Cape, and a 5%-ton rocket launched a 100-foot inflatable alu- ' minum-covered balloon at Wallops Island, Va* t .

Appraisers Set Utility Value Above I-M Offer; Vote Value Is In Doubt

Dec. 19 Date Proposed For Summit Meet LONDON (UPI) —French President Charles de Gaulle has sent letters to his Allies proposing Dec. 19 as the date for a Western summit meeting in Paris, informed sources reported today. The word from Paris came shortly after British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd had told Parliament here that a Western summit meeting probably would be held in mid-December. The Paris sources said they understood De Gaulle sent the letters Wednesday to President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. No replies have been received. The date for the Western summit session had been pin-pointed earlier by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, in a statement which informed sources said he made to the National Assembly’s foreign affairs committee. The Dec. 19 proposal m£ant that £be Western summit woirid follow Immediately after the Dec. 15-17 meeting in Paris of the NATO Council of Ministers. The disclosure came a day after President Eisenhower told his news conference in Washington that “expressions of readiness’’ to attend a summit parley had been received from the heads of government of Britain, France and West Germany. In Washington, U. S. sources reported that while “mid - December” is still an accurate forecast for the timing of the Western meeting, no definite date has been selected. They confirmed that Paris would be the site. “It now looks as if the date for a Western summit meeting most likely to suit all governments will be some time in the middle of December,” Lloyd told the House of Commons. Couve de Murville also was reported to have told the foreign affairs committee that: —Soviet Premeir Nikita Khrushchev is expected to make his announced visit to France in the first three months of 1960. Observers generally conceded the trip most likely would be made in March, for the weather then would be most favorable for a journey in France similar to the one Khrushchev made in the United States last month.

Halloween Parade On Saturday Night

•Rie annual Callithumpian parade* Decatur’s Halloween celebration, has enrolled 10 area high school bands and one junior band for the event, which will start at the county jail at 7 p. m. Saturday. General chairman Ken Shannon said that the 10 marching units will arrive at the jail 30 minutes before the start of the parade to prepare the marching order of the group. The bands will compete for three top prizes, while the best three drum majors will also be judged for monetary rewards. Prizes will also be given to area residents in the costume divisions with 18 awards awaiting the winners. Fred Kolter said he would present the prizes after the parade in his office at 722 N. Second. He will keep the Chamber of Commerce office open from 5 p. m. until after the event to assist visitors in locating the various places

, BULLETIN The Adams county election board deferred ruling on the question of the electric utility plant sale by election on Nov. 3, this afternoon, but may come up with an answer by Friday, Richard D. Lewton, county clerk, said this afternoon. The question arose when the three appraisers presented their appraisal this morning at a figure more than $175,000 more than I&M offered for the plant and franchise. The filing of an appraisal of $2,275,000 for the city electric utility today by the appraisers appointed by Judge Myles Parrish left up in the air the question as to whether the vote by the people next Tuesday would have any effect. The utility by law must be sold at full appraised value. The In-diana-Michigan offer is $2,099,100. Declines Comment Judge Myles Parrish declined to comment on the issue, saying, “No case stands before the court. If any petition or declaratory judgment is filed, I of course, will act on the request.” The appraisal was handed in at 11 a. m., and since the county election board was already meeting in clerk Richard Lewton’s office on another matter, the question of whether this issue will remain on the ballot, was discussed. Attorneys Interpreted Judge Parrish’s statement as an invitation for a declaratory judgment to take the electric issue off the ballot. No Statement The association for the betterment of Decatur had no comment to make on the matter at the present time, but expected to meet on the question this afternoon. The rural electric association, however, indicated that they would take the matter immediately before the public service commission and before the courts to get better service at a cheaper rate. Board Members Mark A. Mortal, Decatur lawI yer, and Henry I. Rumple and Harley Reef, »Jefferson county ’ farmers, were appointed to the board by Judge Parrish. They ■ made no public announcement of their consideration, of whether they hired an engineer, or to whom they talked; in fact, they received considerably detailed instructions from the judge as to how they were to proceed. Hie Betterment of Decatur Association filed a petition with the city following a special vote on April 14 of this year after the voters defeated the move to sell the plant to I, & M. The 2,269

of interest in the city. Marion Robinson, parade chairman, will be at the jail lining up the bands for the big event. He announced the following groups as entered in the judging competition: Decatur Catholic school, Ed 1 Heiman, band director; Adams Central, Don Gerig, band director; 1 Hoagland high school. Bob Meyers, ’ band director; Monmouth high ■ school, D. L. Gerig, band director ; ! Hartford Center school; Decatur 1 high school, Clint Reed, band di- ' rector; Berne-French school, Melvin Crafton, band director; Pleas--1 ant Mills high school, Helen Ehr- [ sam, band director; Bryant high ’ school, Norman M. Guard, band 1 director; Ossian high school, Clyde ‘ Ploughe, band director, and the • Adams Central junior band, which ’ will not be in the competition for the prize money. The top prize ’ is SSO for the best band. » • c>

signature petition moved the city council to draft an ordinance proposing a new sale to I&M after the firm made a new offer. In accordance with the statute, a new appraisal was requested. Mark A. Morin filed the document this morning in the absence of Reef, who is reported ill at his home. The appraisers were appointed Sept. 28 of this year. Girl Scouts Launch On Yearly Project Intermediate and senior Girl Scouts will again resume one of their yearly projects, that of selling a variety of nuts and candy to the public. Included on the Girl Scouts list of good things to eat are, mixed nuts, cahseu-ettes, Spanish redskin peanuts, and blanched Virginia peanuts as well as a new addition, peanut crunch, a delicious candy. Also available is a gift package. Lantern pack, consisting of one can of mixed nuts and a can of Virginia peanuts. All of the nuts are vacumed packed and last indefinitely. Selling these nuts is the only project carried on during the year that the entire profit will remain in Decatur to aid the local troops. Included in the local Girl Scout projects for the year are Christmas gifts for the less fortunate, treats for the hospital and county home, improvements for the Girl Scout cabin, hikes, trips, and parties. Orders for the nuts will be taken from November 1 to November 7. Money will not be taken until delivery of the nuts, which is planned before Thanksgiving.

Power Failure Dims Havana

HAVANA (UPI) — The second mysterious power failure in six weeks blacked out this tense city early today, shutting down international cable lines, halting newspapers and causing some radio stations to go off the air. There was no immediate explanation. Newspaper reports the first such failure was caused by sabotage were condemned by Premier Fidel Castro who called them rumors spread by anti-Cas-tro elements. He explained it on the million-to-one chance of an engineer throwing the wrong switch. The power went off at 1:50 a m and the city blacked out except for a large hotel (Hilton Havana) which has its own power system. There was a flicker of light at 2'30 but the lights went off again and the government began an immediate investigation. Showdown Imminent The development added new tension to a city already swept by anti-American sentiment as result of recent leaflet raids on the city and vitriolic attacks by Castro on the United States- A new Castro blast was expected soon. There were indications that a showdown may be imminent over Cuban-United States relations and Castro’s nationwide television and radio attacks on U.S policies and “foreign aggressions." Castro accused the U.S government Monday of permitting Flor-ida-based planes “to bombard the open city of Havana.” (The U.S Defense Department disclosed today that the U.S Navy destroyer-escort John Willis was buzzed by a twin-engined Cuban bomber in the Caribbean . Monday. It said the plane passed

All Members Os U.N. Back Disarms Plans UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — AU , 82 members of the United Nations are pledged to give unanimous approval to an East-West disarmament resolution but Nationalist China indicated today it has strong misgivings on Russian intentions. The resolution got unprecedented sponsorship from every mem,ber nation Wednesday, and thus was assured unanimous passage when it comes up for a vote early next week. It sends the Soviet, British, and all other disarmament plans to the 10-nation Disarmament Committee for consideration in its meetings next February in Geneva. But Nationalist China’s delegate N.R Wei planned to tell the Political Committee that China insists that control and inspection must be “adequate and effective” and that it doubts that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s plan contains I provision for this. The resolution was based on an original Soviet draft calling for backing Khrushchev’s "complete and general disarmament” plan in which he foresaw the scrapping of the world’s armies, navies, and air forces within the next four years. In two weeks of talks with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, U.S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge worked out amendments to the Soviet version to include other plans in the resolution and not to single out any for endorsement. Agree To Indefinite Contract Extension PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The United Steelworkers Union said today it has agreed to an indefinite contract extension with Reynolds Metal and Kaiser Industries, the same type agreement reached Wednesday with the Aluminum Company of America. A 10-day notice is required to terminate the pact. The extensions provide retroactivity to Aug. 1 of any final settlement.

over the ship at a height of 300 to 700 feet but took "no hostile action.” Regard Incident Insignificant (A spokesman said the incident was regarded as “insignificant” and that he did not know whether a protest would be made to the Cuban government.) Castro has convinced the majority of Cuban workers and peasants that planes piloted by Cuban exiles used machineguns and dropped bombs on the capital but he admits privately that the “Cuban government does not possess any such evidence.” Most Cubans in Havana are still friendly to the United States. But taximen, bartenders, shopclerks and others frequently interject such remarks in ordinary conversations as “why do you Americans permit assassins and common criminals to live in your country,” or “when is the United States going to halt bombing Cuba.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny this afternoon. Partly cloudy, not so cool tonight. Friday partly cloudy with little temperature change. Chance of rain extreme north portion Friday night. Low tonight 37 to 44. High Friday ranging from the 50s extreme north to the 60s south and central. Sunset today 4:47 p. m. c.s.t., 5:47 p.m., c.d.t Sunrise Friday 6:11 a. m. c.s.t, 7:11 a m. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly cloudy, little change in temperature, and rain. Lows low 40s to upper 40s. Highs 55 to 65.

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