Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 258.

Government In Steel Dispute

WASHINGTON (DPI) — The federal government . re-entered steel negotiators today in an effort to end the 111-day-old strike. There seemed to be little chance for an early settlement. United Steelworkers’ President David J. McDonald, arriving for sessions with federal mediators, made it plain he felt nothing would come es the talks unless top steel company executive attended. It was the first time government mediators have moved into the dispute since similar talks in New York broke down Sept. 28. Federal chief Joseph F. Finnegan, who ordered union and management bargaining teams to Washington, met separately with each side before calling a Joint session. Just Marking Time McDonald told newsmen: “I don't think a summit conference could take place if the President and premiers were not present. Nothing can happen if they sulk in their homes and their offices.” ‘ R. Conrad Cooper, chief management negotiator, said he did not know the purpose of today’s session. “I’m here to find out,” he said. Finnegan conferred first with union officials to get a briefing on latest events. He later met with the industry bargaining team for the same purpose. Labor observers regarded the mediation session as merely a marking time operation before the high court hears oral arguments Tuesday on the legality of the Taft-Hartley injunction to send the 500,000 strikers back to work for 80 days. Mitehell Urges Settlement Government sources reported that Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell was urging steel management to settle the dispute before any court order goes into effect. The companies were said to be FHday to review the unkm’s challenge of the injunction. It stayed

Railroads Ask For Work Rules Change

. CHICAGO (UPD — The railroads today handed five big operating brotherhoods proposals for a full overhaul of work rules to wipe out "featherbedding” and strengthen the industry in its battle for economic survival. Union leaders said counter-pro-posals would be formulated at meetings of individual brotherhood committees in Chicago starting Nov. 11. The railroad move, coming close on expiration of a three-year moratorium against work rule changes, signaled the start of what is expected to be long and bitter bargaining. The specific proposals for rewriting rules governing job assignments and pay methods for 210,000 operating employes —the men who run the trains — were being served today by 113 individual railroads upon local brotherhood officials throughout the nationAimed At Fireman The work rules changes proposed by the railroads would hit hardest at firemen. If eventually put into effect, they would eliminate up to 35,000 firemen’s jobs on diesel and other non-steam locomotives in freight and yard service. The railroads estimate they could save about 230 million dollars a year by eliminating "firemen who fire no fires.” The railroads went to “establish the right. . .for management to determine when firemen should be used on diesel and other nonsteam locomotives in freight and yard service.” Fireman jobs on passenger trains would not be as-

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the effectiveness of the court order pending its final decision, which is expected soon. The parties were given until noon today to file any briefs with the court. Afterwinding up futile bargaining sessions in Pittsburgh Saturday, the companies challenged the union’s contention that • Taft* Hartley injunction, if sustained by the Supreme Court, would work to the advantage of management in any future negotiations. Congress Might Act They warned that “the bargaining position of the steel companies is not about to crumble whether or not there is an injunction.” But government sources said Mitchell told the companies they would be better off if they settled now rather than during any resumption of the walkout after the 80-day Injunction expiredAugust Selking Is Head Os Committee August Selking, of Root township, was elected chairman of the Adams county study committee at a special organization meeting Saturday. Harold Schwartz, of Adams Central's school board, was named treasurer of the group.Gail Grabill was named secretary of the group at a previous meeting. Selking is one of the five lay members of the committee which will start a survey of existing school facilities and conditions in the county and submit its recommendation to the voting public upon completion of its work. The group will attend its first regional meeting at Hartford City all day Wednesday. They will receive guidelines to start the initial survey.

fected, the carriers’ announcement said. Other proposed rule changes would: —Revise pay standards so that engine and train crews, which now may receive a basic day’s pay for covering 100 miles, .could be required to make 160-mile runs. —Open the way tor crews to operate through present crewchange points, “so as to end multiple changes on short train runs.” —“Wipe out the arbitrary lines now drawn between the work that may be performed by road crews and yard crews...” Wage Talks Underway —Eliminate all provisions which stipulate the number of crew members required, and drop rules requiring idle standby operating workers when self-propelled equipment is used. , Brass-tacks at the national level were not expected to get under way here before late November or early December, and ahead stretched a long trek through the procedual forest povided by the Railway Labor Act. Wage talks involving the railroads and three operating unions —the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Switchmen's Union of North America and Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen — are going on in Chicago now under the guidance of the National Railway Mediation Board. The unions seek a 12 per cent increase, which the railroads say would be about 36 cents an hour. The railroads have called for a 15-cent-an-hour pay cut-

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One Survivor Is Found Os Plane Crash

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (UPI) — One survivor was alive today to tell the fate of 26 victims of a plane crash in the rugged Blue Ridge Mountains. The plane, missing since Friday, was found Sunday. Ernest Phillip Bradley, 33, spent 36 hours in the wreckage of the Piedmont airliner with the bodies of 26 others who were aboard the plane. “I was getting close to a feeling of despair. I kept hollering and no one heard me.” Bradley said he heard, cars on a nearby highway and human voices and the screams of wildcats at night. He shouted to rescue planes and to the mute bodies of his companions in hopes at least one might be alive. He sat strapped and wedged in his airplane seat which was hurled from the fuselage of the DC-3 with eight bodies that were thrown through the- broken nose of the plane when it crashed Friday night. Buzzards Circle Overhead Buzzards circled overhead. Bradley was unable to move because of a painfully dislocated hip. He had nothing to eat or drink but managed to keep warm with a coat and blanket he fished from the fuselage with a stick. The wreckage, hidden beneath overhanging trees, was not found until Sunday morning. Even then Bradley, a union organizer from Clifton Forge, Va., thought the Army helicopter which hovered overhead had not seen the plane. A vast air-ground search which involved some 1,000 persons and a score of planes and helicopters ended when rescuers fought their way up a rough fire trail to the wreckage some 500 feet below the peak of a 2,500 foot mountain. The hunt started Friday night when the plane, en route from Washington to Roanoke, Va., vanished after radioing the Charlottesville Airport that ft would land in six minutes The Civil Aeronautics Board and Piedmont launched an investigation today to determine the cause of the crash.

Fails To Make Turn David Thompson, a CAB investigator from New York, said his 30-man team would spend about two days at the crash scene and estimated the entire investigation could take two months. Officials noted that the pilot, George Lavrinc, 32, of Alexandria, Va., radioed for landing instructions as he passed over Rochelle, a tiny Virginia town 15 miles north of Charlottesville. The flight, which Lavrinc had made many times, called for a sharp left turn at Rochelle to the Charlottesville airport. Housewife Is First Safe Driver Winner The first winner of the Chicago Motor club and Daily Democrat "Courtesy driving award contest” is Jo Ann Deßolt, a housewife from 403 Gage avenue. ’Mrs. Deßolt, a veteran of many driving miles, received the $5 check from fire chief Cedric Fisher this morning. Fisher told how when he stopped Mrs. Deßolt, she was visibly "shaken up” because she thought she had done something wrong. But actually to the contrary, she had done everything right, Fisher said. Stopped at Homestead He said that he followed her car down Second street this morning and into the Homestead area. Mrs. Deßolt stopped at the railroad crossings, indicated several turns by the light signal and despite the frigid weather, roUed down the window to indicate which way she was turning. This is the first winner of seven motorists, a pedestrian, and a bicyclist who will be chosen this week by a panel of judges selected at a kick-off luncheon last week. The checks were made available through the motor club by Donald Easter, of the Huntington office. May Frame It Mrs. Deßolt told Fisher that she would keep the check and "probably frame It,” as it was the first award of this kind she had won. Fisher also told how Mrs. Deßolt kept well within the legal speeds going through town and in the Homestead area. She came to full and complete stops at traffic lights and courteously yielded the right of way at a stop sign.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Hov. 2, 1959

Elections Tuesday To Decide Political Rule Over Cities And Towns

Fix Admitted By Van Doren

WASHINGTON (UPl)—Charles Van Doren admitted today that his 14 money-winning TV quiz show appearances were rigged—even to the point of following a script written in advance. Van Doren, who won $129,000 on the now defunct "21” show, told a House subcommittee that producer Albert Freedman supplied him with questions, and with some of the answers, before each of his appearances. “I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them,” Van Doren said dry-eyed and somber. The 33-year-old Columbia University English instructor thus publicly abandoned for the first time his protestations of innocence. He opened his testimony by reading in a low, steady voice a prepared statement telling his experiences on “21.” Some 600 persons packed the hearing room. “Supposedly an Honor” Testifying under subpena, the one-time “quiz whiz” said a friend first suggested that he ask to appear on “Tic Tac Dough,” a show which, like “21,” was produced by Dan Enright and Jack Basry. Van Doren said he easily passed the first examination for “Tic Tae Dough.” Then he took a second test which was much longer and more difficult. > He said he was called the next week and told he had been chosen for “21.” This, he said, was “supposedly an honor ” Van Doren said he was instructed in the rules, “by, I think, Dan Enright.” He testified that • before he got on the show, Freedman called him to his apartment. They had a conversation in the bedroom about the then champion, Herb Stempel. Van Doren said Freedman told him Stempel was “unbeatable because he knew too much.” Even though Stempel was unpopular, he quoted Freedman, he continued to win. Asked to Appear Hocuestly Van Doren said Freedman then asked if “as a favor to him I’ would agree to an arrangement” to tie with Stempel when he appeared on the show. Van Doren said he asked to appear honestly, but Freedman said

Mrs. J. Forest Ray Dies Unexpectedly Mrs. Lessie Ray, 63, wife of J. Forest Ray, died suddenly of a heart ttack at 7 o’clock Sunday evening at her home in Monroe. She was born in Decatur June 12, 1896, a daughter of Frederick and Lydia Johnson-Watkins, and was married to J. Forest Ray Nov. 6, 1913. Mrs. Ray was a member of the Monroe Methodist church, the W. S. C. S. of the church, and the Better Homes club. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Harry (Margaret) Beitler of Kendallville, Mrs. Wyne (Dortha) Hirschy and Mrs. Lee (Helen) Parrish, both of Monroe; two sons, Harold E. Ray of San Diego, Calif., and Frederick F. Ray of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Marion Watkins of Plymouth, and Chester Watkins of Monoca, Pa. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. Willis Gierhart officiating. Burial will be in Springhill cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funerl home after 1 p.m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon Wednesday until time of the services.

that wouldn’t work, that Stempel would beat him. Freedman, he said, explained that the show was “merely entertainment and giving help to contestants was a common practice.” Van Doren said that "foolishly and wrongly” and after an “intense moral struggle,” he persuaded himself that he should go along. He said he agreed to the plan to tie Stempel on the first show in exchange for Freedman’s guarantee that he would make at least SI,OOO. Before the show, he said, Freedman told him the questions that would be asked. He said he could answer many of them. But he said Freedman was dissatisfied with his answers, and coached him on how to hesitate, how to skip some answers, and gave him other acting Hints. Couldn't Stomach Arrangement Van Doren said Freedman also gave him a script to memorize before the show and that Freedman rehearsed with him. On the first show, Van Doren tied Stempel three time's. The second time they were pitted against each other, Van Doren beat Stempel—according to the script. Before the second performance, he said, Freedman boosted his guaranteed winnings to SB,OOOVan Doren said the same pattern was followed on the next 12 programs, with Freedman reading questions to him in advance.

Reinhardt Schroeder Is Taken By Death Reinhardt Schroeder, 60, who resided in Madison township, Allen county, two miles south of Hoagland, died at 2:20 p. m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for two years and seriously ill for the past 11 days. He was bom in Preble township Aug. 1, 1899, a son of William and Sophia Gallmeyer-Schroeder, and had farmed in Allen county since 1934. He was married to Ella Reiter May 8, 1932. Mr. Schroeder was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church, north of Decatur on U. S. 27. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, the Rev. Albert Schroeder of Jerseyville, DI., and Norbert Schroeder, at home; one daughter. Miss Elizabeth Schroeder, at home; one grandson; one brother. August Schroeder of Hoagland, and three sisters, Mrs. Luella Hockemeyer of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Herman Bulmahn of Root township, and Mrs. Ema Merkle of Fort Wayne. . Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at 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 o’clock this evening until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy northeast, mostly sunny southwest and rather cool this afternoon. Fair and colder most sections tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy north, partly cloudy and warmer most sections. Low tonight in the 565. Sunset today 4:43 26 to 35. High Tuesday mostly p.m. c.sX, 5:43 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday 6:15 a.m. c.s.t., 7:15 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cool. Lows 27 to 35. Highs mostly in the 51b.

Adams Central Band Is Tops In Parade The top band of the annual Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Callithumpian parade, Decatur’s Halloween festival, is Adams Central, directed by Don Gerig, The judges chose the Monroe school by one point over the Monmouth marching musicians, directed by D. L. Gerig. Third place was taken by BerneFrench in the band category. Jeannie Smith, drum majorette from Decatifr who attends Adams Central, won first place in the majorette contest, with Patty Johnson of Pleasant Mills taking second. Gail Egley of Berne won third prize. Good Effort A large crowd turned out for the parade despite adverse weather conditions Saturday evening. Kenneth Shannon, general chairman, and Marion Robinson, parade chairman, hailed the event as successful in every aspect. They especially thanked the city police department for the cooperation in keeping the traffic flow routed around the parade area. Police chief James Borders and his staff were posted at key positions along the parade route to keep traffic moving. The masquerade winners were also announced by Fred E. Kolter executive secretary of the C. of C. Those who won prizes and their categories are: Arthur and Mike Burke, best decorated pet drawn toy vehicle; Jim Beery and Joe “Dunit” as the best tall men (tied); Denfhis McCullough, best comic strip boy; Nick Conrad, best £iost; David Adams, best animal impersonation; Jerry Gehrig, most original adult; Cynthia Gehrig, best comic strip 'fcirl; R. F. Hartwig and family, best masked group of three or more; Roger Fawcett, best fat girl; Sharalyn Bollenbacher, best fat boy; Mrs. Harrison Miller, best witch; John August, most original boy; Gail Chaney, best kid clown; Gene Chaney .best adult clown; Judy, Jerry and Garry Double, most original girls; Judy and Bill Rydell and dog, most comically dressed pet. Parade Judges The judges for the bands jmd majorettes were Ed Heiman, director of the Decatur Catholic scnool band; Jack Renner and Jim Krehbill, of Bluffton school band. The masquerade judges were: (Continued on page eight) Aldine Aeschliman Is Taken By Death Mrs. Aldine Aeschliman, 84, lifelong resident of Adams and Wells counties, died at 12:45 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Cooper rest home in Bluffton. Mrs. Aeschliman, a native of Adams county, was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving are her husband, Joel H. Aeschliman; one foster daughter. Mrs. Clata Tonner; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Charles Wilhelm; two brothers, William Frauhiger of Bluffton route 4, and John Frauhiger of Craigville route 1; three half-brothers, Lew* Frauhiger of Decatur route 4, Amos Frauhiger of Bluffton, and Adams Frauhiger of near Bluffton: one sifter, Mrs. Elizabeth Reinhart of Bluffton; four half-sisters, Mrs. Jeff Heyerly of Blufton route 4, Mrs. Eli Dubach o near Geneva, Mrs. Leroy Beer of Decatur route 3, and Mrs. Rose Beer of Berne, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services wHI be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton, and at 2 p.m. at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. John Yergler officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

BULLETIN The ballots on the sale of the city plant will be counted, and everyone should vote his conviction on the question, Cal E. Peterson, president of the election board, said at 1:15 p. m. today. Nearly 7,000 voters in four Adams county cities and towns will go to the polls Tuesday to elect their city or town officials for the next four years. Most interest centers here in the Decatur election, in which Mayor Robert D. Cole, who has served one term, is opposed by former city councilman Don Gage. The Democrats have a complete ticket of candidates, and the Republicans have candidates for clerktreasurer and all five councilmanic posts, lacking only a candidate for city judge. Also on the Decatur ballot will be the question of whether the Decatur people favor the sale of the city electric utility to IndianaMichigan Electric company. The vote will indicate how the people feel on the question. Vote On Sale While the county election board has not yet ruled on whether the question of sale of the plant will or will not be left on the ballot, or counted, those favoring either a yes or no vote urged very voter to vote his convictions on the matter. The clerk of the circuit court, a member of the board, informed the Decatur Daily Democrat shortly before noon that the board had been unable to rule this morning because one member was out of town, and they didn’t know where he was, therefore the board couldn’t, meet. Since the election board had asked the city to decide the question, and the councilmen, on very late notice, had assembled early Saturday morning to consider the question so that the election board could act, there was little doubt as to the outcome. Also, the member of the board who was said to be “out of town” had been seen in the clerk’s office at 8:30 a.m., today so it was felt that he was not very far out of town, and would probably return in time to rule. As a last resort, the clerk himself is authorized by law to act for the board, or the remaining two members of the board may meet and decide the question if that is necessary. Berne’s Problem Berne’s city election this year has also been a hot one, with the

C A ND In A T E S Democrat Office Republican Robert D. Cole Mayor Donald F. Gage Laura R. Bosse clerk-treasurer Curtis P. Jones Richard J. Sullivan city judge Carl D. Gerber council—lst Robert Leroy August Norbert Aumann council—2nd Edward Deitsch Lawrence A. Kohne council-3rd Ralph E. Smith Clyde E. Drake council—4th Harold Eugene Teeter Frank Braun council-at-large Adolph L. Kolter “Shall the city of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, sell and dispose of its municipal electric utility system to Indiana & Michigan Electric Company as provided in Resolution No. 200 duly passed and adopted by the Common Council of said City on June 16, 1959? '« YES NO ♦ Monroe Democrat Republican Paul Lobsiger trustee—lst Orval J. Neuenschwander trustee —2nd Kenneth Hoffman trustee—3rd Arthur W. Moeschberger clerk-treasurer Berne > Democrat Republican Forrest Balsiger mayor Leland A. Neuen Richard L. Lehman clerk-treasurer Kenyon L. Sprunger James McCrory council Willard Wulliman Leslie Stuckey council Gorman McKean Dan Speicher council Fred L. Kirsch Roger Augsburger council Max Sprunger Edgar Lehman council Homer Niederhauser Geneva Democrat Republican Clarence Buckingham trustee—lst Lake Glendening Ray Umpleby trustee—2nd Gail Hodgin Walter Hofstetter trustee—3rd Dean McWhinney Annabelle Parrett clerk-treasurer Olive Dickerson

major question being the building of a sewage system and disposal plant. The Democratic candidates favor this, and the Republicans oppose it, generally speaking, although the Democrats have promised that pothing will be done without a full investigation and in complete open study. Monroe voters have, the easiest choice: the Republicans failed to< file any candidates. They will have only a complete ticket of Democrats to vote for. Geneva, like Monroe, will vote for three town board members, as trustees from wards, anad a town clerk-treasurer. Both Democrats and Republicans have full slates there. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Vote The election will be held between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Decatur time. A number of absentee ballots have already been received. The Decatur and Berne elections are under the supervision of the county election board, but the town committees supervise the elections in Monroe and Geneva, and any resident otherwise qualified may vote, since they have no official registration list. In Decatur, a high percentage of the 4,624 registered voters is expected to turn out because of the high interest in the campaign despite the relative lack of talking on the question in the weeks preceding the election. Most politicians generally felt that local people had become so heated over the electric plartt issue in the spring that they just didn't care to get in any more argument*. 2-A Largest Here Decatur’s 2-A precinct, wjpch votes at the court house, passed 3-A in number of registeredyvoters for this election. The 2-A precinct includes rapidly growing Stratton Place, and now has 537 registered voters. Die smallest number of registered voters in a precinct in Decatur are in 2-B, the fire house precinct, and 2-C. the Worthman field precinct, with 314 voters each. Berne's 1,648 voters are divided into three precincts, with Berne C being the largest in the county with 730 voters, and B next with 549. C is their smallest precinct with 369 voters. Indiana law measures a precinct and indicates that they should include about 1,000 voters each, but many Adams county townships are much smaller in population than this, and Adams county does not conform. Returns on 3-2171 Returns will be received at the Decatur Daily Democrat from watchers in the Decatur precincts and given out over telephone number 3-2171 starting with the first precinct to report, and until the • final precinct. Those interested in the results will be welcomed at their own respective headquarters, or at the newspaper office Candidates for each 'office, and the question to be stibmitted to the voters in Decatur afe:

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