Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1959 — Page 1

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Sturgill Brothers Under Heavy Bonds The Sturgill brothers, Donnie Dewayne and Billy Joe, are being held on $20,000 bond each in Wells county jail after being returned to Bluffton this week from an arraignment before a federal commissioner in Bristol, Va. Die pair waived extradition and were returned to face the charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with intent to murder, Deputy Wells county sheriff Miles A. Hoopengardner and state police detective Walter Schindler brought the brothers to Wells county. Die pair and a third suspect, yet unidentified, allegedly fired the shotgun that wounded Howard Vaughn, 26. of Bluffton, Nov. 4 at 6p. m. Die Injured man was apparently mistaken for another fellow involved in the family feud with the Sturgills. They had lived in Decatur prior to the shooting, but suddenly moved out when police authorities began an investigation on their activities in Wells county. Sheriff Ray Durr, of Wells county, said the pair had refused to identify the third party until they conferred with an attorney. They did not indicate that they would even after the conference. Die federal bureau of investigation officers assisted Lee county, Va„ sheriff's officers in the apprehension of the pair last week. Die FBI entered the shooting case when the pair violated a federal law of crossing state lines in an attempt to escape prosecution.

Fact-Finding Board To Resume Hearings

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower’s steel strike fact-finding board will resume public hearings to put "heat” on union and management negotiators to reach an agreement, it was learned today. There is no definite date for the sessions but they will be held before the three-man board makes its required report to the President on Jan. 7. Board Chairman George W. Taylor was widely credited with narrowing the differences in the strike during a week of hearings in mid-October The panel concluded that a settlement was impossible at that time because both sides were hopelessly deadlocked. Eisenhower reconvened the board Wednesday under the TaftHartley emergency procedures. This was viewed as a formality so far as immediate action was concerned. Mediation Chief Rests Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan, who has left town to. rest up from the wearing negotiations, has said he plans no further talks before Nov. 23 at the earliest. m x He put off mediation efforts to permit union and management officials '‘to devote full attention to problems of reopening the t? Page*

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Protest Berlin Radio Station

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Russia has protested to the United States and other Western powers against a proposal to set up a West German radio transmission station in the Allied-held sector of Berlin, it was announced today. The Soviet Union accused the United States, Britain, France and Western Germany of “fanning up the cold war” and demanded that they take “appropriate measures to preclude such unlawful action.” Announcement of the protest was made by the official Soviet news agency Tass in Moscow. The ' State Department in Washington confirmed that a note on the subject had been received»dtarretary of State Christian A. Herter was ' expected to discuss it at a news conference late this afternoon. Tass said the Russian note declared that the decision of Western Germany to establish the radio station was “unlawful since it is incompatible with the existing status of West Berlin.” Official sources in Washington said the note raised again charges that the Western powers are interested in transmitting “hostile propaganda” from the free portion erf Berlin They said the protest was directed against a new West German statute which would provide for erecting a transmitter under control of the Bonn government in the West sector of Berlin which is occupied by the British, French and Americans. Although officials here declined to elaborate immediately on the Russian charge, the Soviet Union traditionally has claimed that

'mills under the 80-day injunction. After the fact-finders report, the National Labor Relations Board will have an additional 15 days to conduct a vote among the steelworkers on the final company offer. Following another five-day period, the union will be free—on Jan. 26 — to strike again. Union Leaders Pessimistic AFL - CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are pessimistic about chances of agreement before the anti-strike injunction expires. Eisenhower, in reconvening the fact-finding board, called on union and management to recognize their responsibility to the nation and to try to reach a settlement as soon as possible. Most steel mills have reported a steady increase in production since the strikers were ordered back to work. Reports from Pittsburgh said the industry should hit 60 per cent of capacity by the end of the week. But the strike that lasted for 116 days continued to have repercussions in other industries. General Motors halted all passenger car production Wednesday at its plants in Willow Run, Mich, and St. Louis because of a steel shortage. The layoff boosted the number of auto workers idled so far to almost 226,000.

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West German official operations should not be permitted in West Berlin, since it is still Allied territory. Officials sad that the new Sovet note did not protest against American radio activities in West Berlin, which have been a frequent target of the Russians in the past. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged repeatedly at the Geneva conference last summer that RIAS (Radio in American Sector) was used to broadcast “hostile and tendentious propaganda” to East Germany and other Communist areas in Europe.. However, the note received here today from Russia concerns itself only with plans of the West Germans to set up a transmitter. Urge Continuance Os Mental Health Gifts A meeting was conducted at the Richmond state hospital Saturday with representatives from all counties, which donate Christmas gifts to the hospital, Mrs. W. Lowell Harper, Adams county Mental Health gift chairman, reported today. Dr. J. Klepfer, superintendent of the state institution, spoke to the group, urging them to continue the good work that they have accomplished in the past. He stressed the fact that expensive gifts are not sought, but the comfortable, warm and actually inexpensive gifts are welcomed. List of Gifts

Mrs. Harper listed the following items for men and women at the Richmond hospital as welcome gifts: Women— warm nightgowns, robes, bed jackets, undergarments, head scarfs, and shawls and shoulderettes. Men—T-shirts, pajamas, wash trousers, and underwear. She emphasized the fact that all the gifts should be a little larger than for the ordinary active person, because the patients there are not too active and tight clothing makes them uncomfortable. She said that both men and women could use billfolds to carry pictures of their families and other important papers. Also listed as good gifts for both are washable slippers and scuffs. (Continued on pare three) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy through with rain south, rain or snow central and snow extreme north beginning this afternoon or early tonight and continuing into Friday, probably changing to snow flurries entire state by late Friday. Total snow accumulation by late Friday 2 to 4 inches extreme north. Not quite so cold most sections tonight, but turning colder again entire state late Friday and Friday night. Sunset 4:33 pan. c.s.t, 5:33 p.m. c.d.t- Low tonight 28-35 north, 35-42 south. Sunrise Friday 6:26 a.m. c.s.t, 7:26 a.m. c.d.t. High Friday 30s north, 40s south, low Friday night 20-30. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and cold with continued snow flurries north. High 25-35.

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Labor, Industry Give Divergent Views On Solving Unemployment

Big Crowd Attends Spiritual Emphasis Speaking before the largest crowd of the week Wednesday night, made up of many young people as well as adults, Dr. John L. Schmidt, Spiritual Emphasis week speaker, delivered a challenging sermon on the theme, “Life’s Prizes and Prices.” Two passages of scripture made up his text. St. Matthew 13:44,’ “Die Kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he and sells all that he has and BB the field.” St. Matthew “Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, to the guard, and you be put in prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.” Dr. Schmidt said, “We are all free to make our choices, but we are not free from the conseouences of the choices we make. Both goodnss and evil have their price. We may deny ourselves and discipline ourselves or we mav indulge ourselves. Both have their price. An athlete pays a price in self-disci-pline and training. George Washington lived a life of sacrifice and paid a price; Benedict Arnold also paid a price. Jesus Christ paid a price for a world redeemed; Judas Iscariot also paid a terrible price tor \the 30 pieces of silver. Young people may choose personal purity, but it has its price in selfrestraint, in gritting the teeth, squaring the shoulders, in bracing the feet, in looking unto God who is our help and in learning to say “No”. They may indulge themselves and pay the price of carrying with them through life a miserable secret and a sense of guilt. You can’t get something for nothing. There a price tag on everything. It is not a question of will I pay, but what will I pay for what I get?” The second thought in the sermon was that the good must be paid for in advance, while the bad mav be charged to a future date. “The price of peace must be paid in advance. The price of war i is paid later on in dead bodies,' broken homes and destroyed cities. The devil runs a charge account, but the price of goodness is, cash in advance.” Third, “We believe that the best things in life are free, but all has been paid for and we are debtors.” He asked, in the words of the Apostle Paul, “What have you that you did not receive?” We ought to go on with a constant sense of our indebtedness. The Rev. Harold Bond presided over the service. The Rev. George Yarian read the scripture, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell led in prayer, the Decatur high school choir, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold sang two anthems. Tonight, the Rev. Hazen Sparks will preside, the Rev. William C. Feller will read the scripture and the Rev. Edward Pacha will offer the prayer and the special music will be furnished by the choir of Trinity E.U.B. church. Die service will begin at 7:30 and the public is invited to hear Dr. Schmidt speak on the theme,, “A Convincing Counselor.”

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Says Berries Not Dangerous

NEW YORK (UPI) — The chemist whose laboratory experiments disclosed that a weed killer used on some cranberry crops produced cancer in rats .said Wednesday night the tainted berries were not dangerous to humans. Dr. Boyd Shaffer, a toxicologist for the American Cyanamid Co., said his experiments with aminotriazole produced cancer in jrats only after “continued adI ministration over the lifetime of the rats at a relatively high dosage.” He said similar experiments with dogs produced no cancer. “..If you ask .me whether the very small amount of residue presented (in the tainted cranberries) is dangerous to people, I steadfastly maintain the answer is no!” he said. Magazine Sapports View Shaffer said a human “would have to eat 15,000 pounds of cranberries a day for many years” before he would suffer any ill effect from consumption of the chemical residue. The McGraw - Hill Chemical Week in an editorial prepared for the Nov. 28 issue supported Shaffer's view. The magazine said la person would have to eat large amounts of the berries every day for more than 20 years to reach the feeding-test levels at which the weed killer first proved harmful. “And nobody, but nobody, eats that many cranberries,” Chemieal Week added. Professor Robert D. Sweet of Cornell University also debunked reports that the tainted berries might be dangerous to humans. Compared With Clgarets “As far as the danger is concerned,” Sweet said, “I would rather take my chances with cranberries than smoke cigarets.” Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming started the controversy Monday when he warned that a portion of the Washington and Oregon crops had been contaminated by the weed killer. Some food chains and grocers across the nation withdrew their stocks from public sale. Wednesday the Navy ordered its commands at home and abroad to halt serving the berries if they came from Oregon or Washington. The Army and Air Force were expected to follow suit.

Funeral Saturday For Marcus Stahly Funeral services will be held Saturday for Marcus W. Stahly, who died Tuesday evening at Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Methodist church in Geneva, the Rev. D. Richard Wolfe officiating, assisted by the Rev. Roger Lautzenheiser. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Geneva. Friends may call at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne after 7 p.m. today, and may call at the church from 11 a.m. Saturday until time of the services.

Five Persons Are Killed In West Blizzard BILLINGS, Mont. <UPI) — A howling blizzard killed five persons and left Montana reeling under more than a foot cf snow today. Ground and air transportation was snarled, hunters were trapped in the wind-swept Rockies and thousands of cattle were stranded by the swirling snow The worst storm of the winter, packing 50 mile an hour winds when it broke out of the high mountain ranges, pushed toward the northern and central plains and the upper Mississippi Valley today. Many Hunters Lost Heavy snow warn in g s were posted for portions of Nebraska and South Dakota with local accumulations of more than four inches. The storm was expected to reach northwest lowa tonight. The Montana blizzard left many hunters unreported. However, sheriff’s officers said the hunters probably were not in any serious trouble because of the relatively warm temperatures. Cattelmen feared heavy losses. A veteran stockman estimated 10,000 to 15,000 sheep and cattle were stranded in high mountain ranges. Riders expected to try today to get feed to the cattle. Air travel was halted because of poor visibility and many motorists were forced to abandon their cars. All highway travel between Helena and Missoula across the Continental Divide was stopped by the state highway patrol and sheriff’s officers—closing a 117 mile stretch of U.S. 10. An estimated 50 cars slid from the highway in the Hellgate Canyon between Missoula and Helana. Motorists Leave Cars However, the only traffic fatality was a professional guitar player killed in a two-car crash near Billings. He was the fifth person to die as a result of the storm which howled down from Canada early Tuesday. Four Air Force fliers were killed when their FB6 Scorpions crashed after running shot of fuel The stom was so bad at Helena that motorists abandoned their cars on city streets and trudged through the heavy snow after chains and snow tires proved useless. The Weather Bureau at Helena said the storm should let up today. But already there were 14 inches of snow on the ground at Helena. Elsewhere around the country, showers were expected from the southern Plains to Illinois. Scattered rain was forecast for most of the Atlantic states and portions of the upper Ohio Valley. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies were forecast in the South and West while the Southwest looked for sunny weather. Annual Thanksgiving Service Is Planned The annual community Thanksgiving service, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at the Missionary church at 9 o’clock Thursday morning, Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day. The Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, pastor of the First Methodist church, will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon. The offering received at the service will go to CROP.

School Organization Problems Studied At a meeting of the northeastern Indiana county school superintendents at Grant county in Marion Tuesday, the group discussed educational problems pertinent to all state counties, according to a report today from Gail Grabill, Adams county school superintendent. Grabill. who attended the allday meeting, said that the highlight was the comparison ot notes on progress of the school reorganization act of 1959 within the area counties. Each superintendent, who, by virtue of his office, is a member of the nine-man study committees which are surveying existing school facilities, who will recommend any plans for improvement, if necessary. The group discussed how its counties were going about the problem of consolidation and the progress each has made. LaGrange county, Grabill said, has apparently accomplished the most as it has had an early start over most of the other area committees. The discussion of special education received considerable attention as the prospect of this type of training has become of national as well as state concern. The problems related to the special education system, such as transportation, methods of financing, methods of establishing such curriculum, and other pertinent information were discussed. Another topic of discussion was the pupils transferring from one area to another and from one school to . another. The related problems of such transfers also entered into the interchange .of ideas by the superintendents. Three Are Inducted Into Armed Forces Three Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning for active induction into the nation’s armed forces under selective service. Those in the group were Ned R. Kipfer, Chauncey L. Wolfe and Thomas D. Norman, the latter a volunteer.

Labor Law Changes In Effect Friday

WASHINGTON (UPD — Six major changes in U.S labor law sharply curtailing unions’ rights to picket and conduct boycotts against employers go into effect Friday. • Attorneys for organized labor, business groups and government agencies differ widely on the precise impact of the changes in the Taft-Hartley Act. But they do agree that it will be years before the courts and administrative rulings spell out exactly what a union can and cannot do under the new statute. “The new amendments occupy less than five printed pages but... seldom has legislation packed so many apparently close and difficult questions into such a small amount of type,” one member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRBI said recently. Unions Win Concessions Unions did win some concessions in the new law they have generally condemned as anti-la-bor. The building trades will benefit by revisions to permit greater union control over hiring. All unions won a point in another section authorizing discharged strikers to vote in representation elections. within limits. But most of the changes appear certain to hamper union activity. The major revisions include; —Abolition of the so-called “noman’s land” by allowing state courts and agencies to handle

DETROIT (UPI) — Labor and industry offered widely divergent views today on how to solve the nation’s unemployment problems. United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther urged Congress to enact a 10-point program to help the nation’s jobless but representatives of the nation’s three biggest auto companies said the problem could best be met through - increased automation, without legislation. Reuther, General Motors Vice President Louis G. Seaton, Ford Motor Co. Vice President Malcolm L. Denise, and Chrysler Corp. Vice President John D. Leary were among 13 witnesses representing labor, government, business and education before a special Senate committee on unemployment problems. Seaton set the keynote for the industries and Denise and Leary echoed his statements. Seaton said GM’s experience and record “completely refute” the view that technological progress — automation — decreases job opportunities. “The soundest solution to unemployment is employment—more job opportunities through economic growth and technological progress,” Seaton told the committee The GM vice president did not outline any specific plan for accomplishing this but indicated he felt it could be best accomplished by private industry without lation“Insofar as our business is concerned this means providing attractive, high-quality products that people want and will buy,” be said. “The only way we know how to accomplish this is through skill, imagination and vigorous efforts in research, engineering, production and marketing—in all the functions of managements.”a Reuther called for enactment of an area redevelopment bill, community facilities legislation, federal minimum standards for unemployment compensation benefits, laws to improve distribution of surplus foods, social security improvements and federal fair employment practices legislation in his program. The union president told the committee here the first priority of the United States should be to re-establish a full employment, full production economy and that national economic policy should be based on this objective.

labor-management disputes where the NLRB declines to assert jurisdiction. —Broadening the present ban on secondary boycotts and outlawing “hot cargo” clauses whereby an employee agrees to stop doing business with another firm having union troubles. —Banning picketing for recognitoin or in organizing drives at plants by unions not certified as bargaining agents for the workers, except under Imited conditions. Right To Vote —Permitting unions in the garment and construction industries to protect union standards by making contracts which restrict subcontracting despite the general ban on secondary boycotts. —Giving replaced economic strikers the right to vote in NLRB elections if they are held within one year after the strike began—Allowing pre-hire contracts, hiring halls and agreements providing a worker must join a union within a week after he’s hired in the construction industry. Other parts of the new law dealing with reports on trusteeships, bonding and regulations barring ex-convicts from holding union office already have gone into effect. Requirements of reports on union finances and democratic procedures become effective Dec. 13.

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