Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 275.

Discoverer Satellite In Orbit, Hope Recovery Os Capsule In Sky, Sea

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPD — A flotilla of naval ships and Air Force C--119 “Flying Boxcars” stood ready today to snatch a Discoverer VIII satellite capsule out of the sky or sea. Joint sea-air forces were based somewhere in the mid-Pacific near Hawaii in an area caled “the ballpark" to capture the para-chute-rigged capsule from the satellite soaring as far away as 1,000 miles from earth. Discoverer VIII, 78-feet long and weighing 1,700 pounds, roared successfully into orbit over a polar route Friday. It was boosted into space by a Thor ballistic missile and thrust into an orbital velocity of 18,000 miles an hour by a second stage rocket. With the launching went America’s hopes to become the’ first nation to capture a man-made object from space. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union, as far as is known, has made such a recovery. Odds Defy Recovery Four earlier attempts were made by the Air Force but failed when the capsules were never sighted after their ejection. One plunged prematurely into the Arctic. Scientists said they have weatherproofed the satellite to withstand cold temperatures in space that caused tiny mercury batteries to freeze before activating the capsule. The capsule weighs 310 pounds and measures 27 inches in length and 33 inches in C^s l **were quoted at 700-1 against recovery. The feat if successful would be “the most significant achievement to date to space.” the Air Force said. It is a necessary step on the path toward orbiting a human into space. Capsule Should Float Discoverer VIII was scheduled to unleash the capsule some 27 hours after Friday’s launching at 2:25 p-m. e.s.t. and 17 passes over the North and South poles. Aircraft planned to snag the object from the sky as it parachutes back to earth while ships prepared to pluck it out of the sea. The capsule is designed to float after it strikes the water. The satellite has achieved the greatest apogee (farthest point away from earth) of any of its predecessors. It has reached 1.000 miles away compared with a previous best of 605 miles for Discoverer I. Its with an orbital period of 103 minutes. j Orbiting is the satellite s second stage, about 19.2 feet tong and five feet in diameter. The satellite weighed 8,500 P°^ ds ° n the pad but was reduced to 1,700 pounds in orbit after exhaustion of its fuel supply. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with a little warming today, tonight and Sunday, Low tonight upper 20s north to lower 30s south. High Sunday lower 56s north, 58 to C 2 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with near normal temperatures.

Highlight Meeting Held Friday Night

About 200 employes, their wives and husbands, attended the annual highlight meeting Friday night tor Central Soya’s Decatur plant at the Youth and Community Center. Harold W. McMillen, board chairman, and Dale W. McMillen, Jr., president, reported to, employes on the past year’s operations. The board chairman called 1959, **a successful year during which Central Soya employes pushed net sales to the $285,020,459 mark, nearly 60 million higher than the year before." He compared the 67 people on the payroll in Decatur at the end of the company’s first year, with the 2,850 employes now in the Central Soya family. “Os today’s employers,” he added, “more than 500 are shareholders, sharing ownership of the company with over 7,200 shareholders in 47 states and four foreign countries.” President Dale W. McMillen, Jr.,

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Mrs. Clyde Pease Dies Al Bluffton Mrs. Clyde Pease. 82, a native of Adams county, died at 2:30 a.m. Friday at her home in Bluffton. Death was attributed to a heart ailment, following an illness of three days. Mrs. Pease was born in Adams county, the daughter of Peter B. and Mary Hawkins Baumgartner. Her marriage to Clyde Pease took place May 30, 1954. Mr. Pease died in June, 1957. • A member of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, she had resided in Wells county for 43 years. Survivons are two sisters, Mrs. Mary Smith, of Adams county, and Mrs. Hattie Studabaker, who resided with Mrs. Pease;- two brothers, Joe Baumgartner, of Adams county, and Peter Baumgartner, of Uniondale, and several step-children. Five brothers preceded her in death. Services will be conducted in the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren Sunday at 2 p. m., the Rev. John Mishler officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends may call at the Mcßride funeral home in Bluffton until time of services. Fort Wayne Woman Killed In Accident COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPDA Fort Wayne woman was killed and four other persons were injured today when a car and a cattle truck collided at a highway intersection where a traffic light was oft during a power blackout. The dead woman was identified as Mrs Georgia Ferguson, about 30, who was riding in a car driven by her husband, Harold, 28. The most seriously injured person apparently was a relief driver on a cattle truck. He is Charles Edward Davis. 33, Bourbon. Also hospitalized were Ferguson and another passenger in his car, Robert HiU, 27, Fot Wayne. The truck driver, Donald Jay Welty, 27, Etna Green, was treated and released. Police said that by pre-arrange-ment, the Columbia City power utility had shut off electricity between 3 : 58 and 5:45 a.m. to make changes in its facilities. All stoplights were off during this period, and the police were without radio communication. The Ferguson car, traveling on Ind. 109, went through its intersection with U.S. 30 without stopping and hit the cattle truck, police said. The ruck then careened into the Columbia City Masonic Temple, causing considerable damage. A stone arch was broken down and the truck broke through a window of a furniture store below the Masonic Hall.

described the company’s achievements in production and operations during the past year. He said that the first year’s operations for the chemurgy division, which was acquired September 1, 1958, were satisfactory, and that the grain merchandising division continued to show increased activity and an improvement in profits. “Our Master Mix livestock and poultry feed tonnage showed a good increase over the year before,” he reported, and predicted, “A continued increase in Master Mix feed tonnage.” The president forecast "a profitable soybean operation this year, although processing margins for early hew crop soybean purcheses are not as good as a year ago.’” k He called Central Soya a “people minded and growing company,” and thanked employes, directors, shareholders and friends for their support

Distributor Tells Requests For DJ Payoffs PHILADELPHIA (UPD - Details of the Z'payola”—a system where disc jockeys are paid to plug certain songs—were revealed today by a Philadelphia record distributor, who told of requests for “SSOO per month per record” and “wall-to-wall carpeting.” Edward D. Cohn, who operates Lesco Distributors, said, however, that only about 20 of the city’s 200 disc jockeys expected and received payments, but even this was so costly that it exerted a “strong influence” on his decision to shift his operations away from the “pop” record field. In describing the system currently under investigation by a congressional subcommittee, Cohn said it cost him “thousands of dollars to get records played on local radio stations,” the amount varying with each disc jockey. Says Clark “Clean” Cohn’s company serves southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. He said the “payola” probably dates back “to the beginning of the world” but his first experience was about 10 or 12 years ago. He said he stopped in to see a disc jockey at a small stat'on outside the city and was referred to the manager who pointed out “that we can’t pay our men very much and you people will have to make up the difference-” Earlier in the week, two of the subcommittee investigators interviewed TV star Dick Clark after it was reported the teen-age idol had agreed with an ABC directive to drop his outside business interests ahd concentrate on his nationally televised “American Bandstand" and the “Dick Clark Show” programs. Cohn, who declined to mention any names, said that “Clark never took a penny” and that “if every disc jockey in this area was as clean as Dick Clark, I wouldn’t have any problems.” Disc Payments Varied National manufacturers’ representatives, who occasionally worked out of Cohn's office, were shocked at the “payola” conditions in Philadelphia and described them as the worst in the country, the distributor said. Cohn said payments varied with each request. “One asked for and was getting SIOO a month per record until he told me that others wre giving him up to $500,” Cohn said. Another asked for “wall-to-wall carpeting for his home” and still another “joked” about furnishing a room, he said. Cohn said his payments were always by check, except in one instance where the disc jockey insisted on cash.

Prisoners Riol In Greencastle Jail GREENCASTLE. Ind. (UPD — Putnam County Sheriff Kenneth Knauer nursed a cut lip today from a tumbler hurled in his face as he tried to subdue three rioting prisoners in his jail Friday afternoon. It was the second disturbance in the jail in the past nine days. The trouble began when the prisoners flooded their cell block by turning on all the water faucets. When Knauer and a deputy sheriff rushed 'jn to investigate, one of the prisoners hurled a water glass which split Knauer’s Up. But with the aid of city and state police, the prisoners were brought under control and placed in solitary confinement. The three prisoners involved were identified as Robert Terrell, 25, East Chicago; John J. Knowles, 23 Gary, and Jerome McGill, 24 Indianapolis. Knauer said the incident “didn’t amount to a whole lot.” “The men just wanted to act smart- They want to be the boss,” he said. The sheriff said all three had (Continued on page three)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Nov. 21,1959.

Anti-Trust Suit On National Homes Corp. LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPD — A civil anti-trust suit filed against National whomes Corp, here Friday charged the firm with tending to create a monopoly in the prefabricated housing industry. The federal suit against the world’s largest manufacturer of pre-fab houses was filed under the Clayton Anti-trust Act, Atty. Gen. William P- Rogers said in Washington. The government said National’s acquisition of seven smaller prefab companies through mergers and purchases last year tended to create a monopoly situation. The suit was designed to force National to dispose of the seven firms. Robert A. Bicks, the Justice Department’s acting anti-trust chief, said in Washington the government hoped “to check in its incipiency what appears to be a tendency to monopoly” in the growing multi-million dollar industry. He said the suit had “significance for a great cross-section of the American public because the purchase of a home is the greatest single financial undertaking in many a man's life.” National increased its share of the nation’s prefab business from 25 per cent to 38 per cent when it took possession of the seven companies, the suit said. It said none of National’s competitors, had more than a five per cent share of the market. National Homes has been the leader in the prefab field sos years. Its 1958 sales totalled more than 45 million dollars. The firm has plants in Lafayette, Horseheads, N.Y., and Tyler, Tex and sells its houses through some 600 builder-dealers. The government said National, by virtue of its mergers, expanded its market into California and boosted sales in the Southeast whereas its markets had been concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast before the mergers. Government statistics showed that production of prefab houses more than doubled between 1947 and 1954. In 1954, about 57,700 new homes, or 5.4 per cent of the 1,077,900 U.S. housing starts, were prefabs. In 1957, the percentage of prefabs rose to 6.6 per cent. The corporations acquired by National were the Knox Corp., Thomson, Ga.; American Homes, Inc., Allentown, Pa.; Lester Brothers, Inc., Martinsville, Va.; WG. Best Factory-Built Homes, Inc. (Effingham,- Ill.; Thyer Manufacturing Corp., Toledo, Ohio; Fairhille, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., and Western Pacific Homes, Inc., De-

Steel, Rail In Spotlight

By United Press International The steel industry and the railroads shared the national labor spotlight today as the United Steelworkers union warned their strike will be resumed in January and a railroad union planned a Christmas hoUday strike against one of the nation’s major railroads. Here was the labor situation at a glance: Steel: Steelworkers union counsel Arthur J. Goldberg wrote Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Muelle that • the government should speed stockpiling of steel for defense needs. In all likelihood,” Goldberg said, the steel strike wUI resume in January when the 80-day TaftHartley injunction expires. The steelworkers this week rejected a new contract offer and predicted there would be little real bargaining until two weeks or so before the injunction runs out. Railroads: The Transport Workers Union announced that 50 union locals bad voted to strike the

Portland Man Dies Os Explosion Burns v PORTLAND, Ind. (UPD—Lawrence R. Coats, 63, Portland, died in Jay County Hospital Friday of burns received six days earlier in an explosion at his home. Authorities said Coats was painting an upstai-y room when gas apparently ignited by a space heater blew the front off the building and set fire to the plant. Additional Snowfall In Northern States United Press International Snow swept back into Wisconsin and Michigan today, laying a one to four inch blanket over most of the two states and slicking some highways into treacherous ice paths. The snow was part of a damp pattern across the northern states. A wide rain belt covered the Pacific Northwest, northern Idaho and western Montana. Nearly 1 inches of rain fell at Olympia, Wash., during the night. Gladwin, Mich., reported four inches of new snow and three inches fell on Winnebago, Calumet and Outagamie counties in Wisconsin. Saginaw, Mich., and Wausau, Wis., had two inches and another inch landed on Green Bay and Eau Claire, WisFloating ice in Lake Superior cjracked the wooden hull of a fish®g , vessel and it sank in 10 feet of water in Chequamegon Bay near Ashland, Wis. Gerhart Schultz, Black River, Mich., who had bought the boat only the day before, walked to safety across the ice. The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted more snows today in northern Wisconsin and lower Michigan, with rain in the Ohio Valley, Florida, and the Pacific Northwest. Palm Beach, Fla., hard-hit by torrential rains during the week, reported another IV4 inches of Friday. A cold snap eased its grip on the Southeast as southerly winds (Continued on pas® three) Part Os Highway 118 Closed For Few,Days A six-mile stretch of state road 118 will be closed from state road 1 to state road 116, just north of Linn Grove in Adams county for about five days, according to the Indiana highway department. Through east-west traffic is being detourned onto roads 1 and 116 adding about five miles between Reiffsburg and Linn Grove. Highway department workers are making repairs to a bridge two miles east of Reiffsburg, the construction scheduled for completion Nov. 25.

Pennsylvania Railroad Dec. 21 in a dispute over wages and rules changesAnd Guy L. Brown, grand Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ordered his union’s 125 general chairmen to circulate strike ballots among the 47,000 brotherhood members. Copper: The United Steelworkers reached a new contract agreement with Kennecott Copper Corp, of Salt Lake City. The contract walkout. But both sides said “a walkou .tßut both sides said “a few details” remained to be worked out before union members could ratify the new pact. Meat: Wilson and Co. spokesmen reported many meatworkers heading back to work at packinghouses across the nation, signifying a gradual end to the United Packinghouse Workers of America union’s general strike against the giant meatpacker. The spokesmen said the returning workers had enabled plants in Memphis, Tenn., and Los Angeles, Calif., to return “to normal operations in all departments.”

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Auto Industry To Recall More Workers DETROIT (UPD — The auto industry will recall at least another 12,947 workers next week as new steel supplies begin to filter into parts and accessory r’ants. ' The recalls will drop the total unemployment in the auto industry because of steel shortages to about 202,873. The number of layoffs was boosted to 215,810 Friday when Chrysler Corp, was forced to lay off another 2,650 workers because of shortages increased during the past week. It had only 7,780 unemployed at the beginning of the week but was faced to close its Valiant assembly lines during the week, idling 2.700 in addition to the layoffs Friday. General Motors reported more than 213,000 workers idled at the beginning of the week but that figure was down to 200,000 by midweek. Ford said 2,500 of its employes idled by steel shortages at a foundry and two engine plants near Cleveland would resume work next week, although some of its workers would have an “extended two-day holiday” for Thanksgiving on Thursday and Friday next week. The recall will put Ford back up to full strength, however, as far as all of its workers being employed at leas part of the week is concerned. NOON EDITION

Military Heads Meet With Ike

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD —President Eisenhower today took over the role of referee in the rivalry between the armed services over division of the big defense budget for the next fiscal year. The Chief Executive arranged an early morning meeting with Deputy Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates and the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force, plus Dr. Herbert York, head of research and engineering in the defense establishment. Each secretary was intent on emphasizing the paramount needs of his own branch of the service and time for their arguments was running out. The military budget, expected to total in the neighborhood of 41 billion dollars for fiscal 1961, was one of a half dozen major budget categories awaiting completion before the Chief Executive leaves Dec. 3 for Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Budget Vies With Trip The service secretaries involved in the budget discussion were Wilber M. Brucker, Army; James H. Douglas, Air Force, and William Franke, Navy, Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaste, the White House staff Secretary, flew to Augusta with the Pentagon delegation. Important as the budget was in the preskient scheme of things, it was forced to compete for Eisenhower's attention with the intricate planning for his forthcoming 11-nation tour.

Launch Financial Drive

The First Methodist church of Decatur will launch its financial drive to secure funds for a new sanctuary with a kick-off dinner Monday evening, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks said today. The new sanctuary is a part of a long-range program begun in 1949. At that time, members voted to improve the physical facilities of the church. In 1953 the new chapel wing of the church was constructed. Hie new parsonage was built in 1955. To acquire room for expansion, the Yoder property north of the church was purchased in 1958. In the same year, needed repairs were made to the present dining room. Plans for the new sanctuary are being drawn by architects McGuire and Shook, Compton, Richey and associates, of Indianapolis. The same firm drew the plans for the chapel addition in 1953. The style will continue to be “early American.” Plans call for a seating capacity of 450 people. Included in the plans is a parking lot for 28 cars. The new building is to extend north and south, connecting with the west end of the chapel addition. The north end will be located on the newly-purchased Yoder property; the south end, the front of the building, will face Monroe street. It is hoped that the 325 families connected with the church will underwrite this program with

Apparently to meet Democratic requests that his trip be made a bipartisan affair, Eisenhower invited five Democratic and four Republican leaders from the House and Senate to have breakfast with him in Washington Nov. 30 to discuss the trip. This was after Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) urged Eisenhower to add to his travel party former President Truman or one or more other high ranking Democats. Rejects Dodd Proposal Eisenhower turned down the Dode proposal because he said the jam-packed tr«p schedule precluded his taking anyone but his own staff and a small representation from the State Department. Those invited — and the White House said most of them had already accepted — were: House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Democratic Leader London ,B Johnson; House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts; Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois; House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana; Chairman William J. Fulbright (D-aark-) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-W.Va.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Sen. Alexander Wiley (RWisc.), ranking GOP member. Senate Foreign Relations, And Rep. Robert B. Chlperfleld <R-IU.), ranking Republican, House Foreign Affairs.

pledges of a minimum of $15,000 a year for three years. This amount wiQ not build the new sanctuary, but added to the amount already on hand, will be enough to start construction. The rest can be financed. Virgil Krick and Earl Sheets are co-chairmen for the drive. Jay Markley has been named chairman of the resources committee; Mrs. Paul Edwards, chairman es arrangements; Lowell Smith, chairman of publicity and materials; Watson Maddox and Franklin Lybarger, co-ehairmen of visitation. The Rev. Marcus Blaising, of Fort Wayne, Is special advisor for the campaign. Co-captains of the drive are the following couples: Mr. and Mis. Don Boroff, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dailey, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elzey, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gerber, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kaehr, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sittier, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith, Sr. Indianapolis Plant Recalls 500 Workers INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Chevrolet Body plant here has ordered about 500 of its more than 2,000 employes laid off because of the steel shortage to report back to work Monday. Dag Hammarskjold Returns From Laos TOKYO (UPI)—U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold left Tokyo by plane en route to the United States from a weeklong visit to Communist-threatened Laos. — Hammarskjold went to Laos in spite of Soviet objections for talks with Laotian officials on the recent disturbances in the tiny southeast Asian kingdom. Advertising Index Adams Theater ... 3 Adams County Farm Bureau .. 8 Anderson Industrys Bower Jewelry 3 & 4 Butler Garage — 5 Burk Elevator , 5 Begun Clothing Store 7 Briede Studio * 3 John Brecht Jewelry 7 Brooks —7 Black Label Beer 6 Citizens Telephone Co. 3 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers 8 Ehinger’s Boston Store 7 Fairway Restaurant 3 Gerber's Super Market I *Gilling & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Holthouse Furniture —7 Happy Hours Roller Rink7 Johnson & Schnepf, Auctioneers 6 The Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 Kohne Drug Store 7 Kaye’s Shoe Store -7 Kiddie Shop 7 J. J. Newberry Co. 7 Petrie Oil Co 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency „„ 5 Schafers*7 Smith Drug Co. 5 & 7 Sheets Furniture Co. 7 Shaffer’s Restaurant 8 Teeple ...-. 5 Thomas Realty Auction Cos Uhrick Bros. 7 Voglewede & Anderson —8 Zwick Funeral Home 4 Church Page Sponsors ,3

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