Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1959 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1959

Farm Bureau's Leaders Study Farm Program CHICAGO (UPI) — Officials of the nation’s biggest farm group today studied plans designed to strengthen the agricultural economy, including one proposed by „ real “grass roots” farmers. A six-man panel of farmers proposes to wipe out the crop surplus in three years without costing taxpayers any more money. More than 5,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation met in the third day of their 41st annual convention to thresh out _jhe many complicated problems the farmer faces. One of the problems is a skidding farm income. Another is the eight billion dollar surplus of corn, wheat and cotton. The six farmers, all from one Illinois county, believe they have in one package the solution to both slipping prices and chock-full bins. Try Direct Action Their plan has been endorsed by the Illinois Agricultural Assn., but the federation’s resolution committee took no action on it. However, proponents will, try To get it approved by convention delegates through direct action from the floor. The idea—called the “Champaign plan”—proposes to reduce the surplus by giving farmers credit for crops not grown. Federation leaders have not encouraged them, but Illinois delegates claim support has been picked up from other state groups. The plan calls for a referendum among farmers. If the referendum passed, Congress would amend agricultufal laws to permit farmers to keep out of production a certain percentage of their acreage, in addition to present soil bank retirements. The U S. Department of Agriculture would determine the percentage. If it were determined that, for example, 5 per cent of a farmer's land should be idle, then the farmer would get credit for whatever number of bushels he could have grown on the fallow 5 per cent. Should the figure be 1,000 bushels .he could pick up 1,000 bushels from surplus storage and sell it or feed it to his chickens or do with it what he pleased. Took Year’s Study The plan resulted from a one- , Lyle Grace, president; Eugene Curtis and h&..son> J?as; .George McCoy, Grover Dubson and Richard Burwash. Grace, Burwash and the younger Curtis told the United Press International they were keeping out of the fight to get the plan approved by the federal io n. “We’ll leave that to others,” Burwash said. The three said their plan would eliminate the surplus in three years and restore a free market to agriculture and thus stabilize prices. Trade In a good town — Decatur. z— -

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Phone Conversations Startle Listeners NEW YORK (UPI) — Many Nevfe. Yorkers making telephone calls startled by strange voices on their lines Tuesday: “Space ship one, space ship f one, come in, space ship one. > "This is flotilla leader. I am > now over Washington. Do you - read me space ship one? r “I read you, flotilla leader. We are now approaching New York. ■ First wave now in control of ' Sheridan Square . . . “This is space ship X-15 call- ; ing from outer space. We are* in ' trouble. Can you read me?” ’ The police operator on the ( switchboard at the Charles St. Station couldn’t answer the calls fast enough. Residents of New . York’s Greenwich Village hasten- > ed to warn authorities an inva- , sion of spacemen was imminent. Police checked with the tele- , phone corrDany and embarrassed ■ telephone officials soon reported ! it was all a mistake caused by the boredom of two installations experts plus an electrical phenomenon. The phone company spokesman said the testers were on a closed . icicutt and should have been able to safely brighten the tedium of their job but for an electrical “inductive cross” that caused their conversation to be heard on ■ lines in several exchanges. ; Nixon Expected To Cut Primary Effort WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice > President. Richard M. Nixon, can be expected to limit his 1960 presidential primary efforts to a handful of states even if Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller invites contests in all possible areas. This judgment came today from a well-posted informant, who said Nixon would be too busy in Washington to engage in primary scraps for national convention delegates in a dozen or more states. It was indicated that the vice president would be in only four to six of the state primaries. Rockefeller told a news conference at South Bend, Ind., Saturday that, if he became a candi-1 date for the Republican presiden- ’ ’hr ously consider entering all state primaries- _ . jp aB ng cord Preference Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now have laws of various types to allow voters in a primary election to record thenpreference among candidates for the presidential nomination of their party. Nixon was expected to be entered in the June 7 primary in his home state of California and in the May 20 primary to Oregon, where a new state law will put all major contenders in both parties on the ballots Depending in part on Rockefeller’s moves, the New Hampshire primary March 8 and the Wisconsin primary April 5 and possibly one of two other states were listed as likely places for preconvention campaigns by Nixon. Organizations Set Up Supporters of both Nixon and Rockefeller already have set up campaign organizations in New Hampshire, which holds the nation’s first presidential primary. Wisconsin, which holds the second, also is a probable spot for a contest between the two contenders. As the underdog and with most of the GOP organization leaders leaning heavily to Nixon, Rockefeller needs to show voter support if he is to get serious attention from the national convention. U.S.Contlnuea from page ona homelands France, for turning its face from NATO at the moment when most military planners argued that defense of Western Europe is possible only if all forces are brought under central command. Issue Must Be Settled This was precisely the great issue which must be settled sometime this week, probably between President Charles de Gaulle and President Eisenhower when they meet privately this week end at start of Western summit talksHerter said Tuesday the United ; States originally committed its military forces to Europe’s defense on the understanding the whole of Europe’s defense shortly would be integrated. But de GauUe recently was quoted as saying “integration has had its day.” Tuesday he told parliamentary leaders that while I he still supported NATO the de- I sense structure itself should be < something more than a simple coalition but rather less than an < integrated command. 1 . BRITISH Continued from page one shifted into a comfortable sports j jacket and slacks. For about 30 minutes he watched from the . flag bridge as the task force got underway — joined in picking out the harbor sights by his spn and daughter-in-law, Maj. and i Mrs. John Elsenhower. <

BA Mi MSr • JnSI Anil Mb -1 1 Ji JKis-a 4 ■ i PEOPLE EATER— Philip M. Vella netted this nine-foot, 450-pound man-eating shark off Stinson Beach, hard by San Francisco. Vella said a 25footer was caught, but was chopped in two and tossed overboard because he and his crew couldn’t get it aboard. Three Os Family Die In Traffic Accident MARSHOLLTOWN, lowa (UPD —A mission of joy turned into tragedy for a prominent Carroll, lowa, family Tuesday night. John Meyers, 34, his wife, Dorothy, 31, and their daughter, Patty, 3, were killed in a fiery headon collision with a truck near here. Two other daughters. Jean, 7, and Ann, 2, were seriously injured. The Meyers family was returning home to a family Christmas after driving to lowa City to pick up Jean, a cerebral palsy patient at a special school there. Among the wreckage lay a tiny mas ribbon. The card read, “To Mommy, and Daddy, from Jean." Five other Meyers children ,- who were left at home, were orphaned by the crash. Additional Workers Aid Christmas Mail The post office department once again plans to deliver all Christmas mail prior to Christmas day as it has for the past several seasons, postmaster Kirsch noted today, in urging local mailers to cooperate with the post office department by mailing Christmas cards and packages early and often. To cope with the additional rush in mailing during the Christmas season, the following men have been added to the staff assisting the regular employes: Rex W. King, H. Leon LaCoax, Allison G. Lindahl, Jime Price, and Donald Reidenbach as clerical assistants City carrier assistants are Leo M. Feasel, Ronald G. Morton. Max . Daniels, Dwight E. Egly, Paul E. Gross, Leo H. King, Jr., and Jerome H. Ginter. The regular city carriers are: Norbert L. Bleeke, Robert A. Light, Jay H. Martin Harold E. Thieme, William P. Schrock, Jr., and John L. Frank as relay and specials man. The rural carrier assistants for the seasonal work are Chalmer L. Reber, Ray D. Kauffman, Jack L. Shady, Kermeth Parrish, Floyd M. Roth, and Donald E. Reidenbach. The regular workers are William E. Chase, Gerald R. Durkin, Harold J. Hoffman, Richard E. Maloney, Charles W. Malony, and Thomas A. Miller/ Postal authorities in Washington estimate the current Christmas mail on a nationwide basis will be the highest on record both for greeting cards and parcels, postmaster Kirsch announced. These conclusions are based or. samplings of postal receipts made in several major cities across the country which show anticipated increases of 2 to 5 per cent over last year. The postmaster called attention to the recent action of the civil aeronautics board which approved * postmaster general Summerfield’s plan to make use of surplus space on commercial planes to speed the movement by air of first-class mail during the Christmas rush. Local mailing conditions show the count of parcels going out of the Decatur office 503 ahead of last year. Outgoing letters and Christmas greetings are only 1,091 ahead of last year, with a total of 150,837 mailed to the close of the office last night. Over XSOO D«3y Democrats an •old and delivered in uecatur each day.

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Icmirt stipulation in the month-old dispute. zi stipulation agreed to Nov. 24 by Local 12430 of the UMW District 50 provided for peaceful picketing and free entrance and exit of all l&M supervisory and non-striking personnel. Robert Schall, Mishawaka, testified he was knocked down by a picket Monday at the entrance to the Twin Branch plant at wakaKenneth Stanley, a

foreman, told the court he found a power failure last Thursday was caused by a metal chain thrown over a power line on an Elkhart County road. Harry Depue, Elkhart, another foreman, said three men followed him to the scene of a power failure on an Elkhart County road last Friday, played a flashlight in his eyes and threw stones at him while he was repairing a 7,200-vyit line. None of the incidents was re-

ported to police. The company, which asked for ;the hearing, alleged Monday that i roofing nails had been scattered |on its property and that power i failures were more numerous in recent days than usual. Still on strike were 400 plant workers, linemen and metermen in South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart, and Benton Harbqf, and Buchanan, Mich.

Clerical workers represented by another UMW local ,settled their

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f (strike against the firm over the weekend. ■ 1 Anderson Teocher Is Killed By t-oft ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD—Clarence Burns, 57, Anderson High School teacher and former football coach, died in St. Jhn’s Hospital here today of injuries sustained in a fan Tuesday night.