Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 304.

Begin Third Count Os Votes In Dispute Over City Mayor’s Election t .. _ _

The third count of votes in the | race for mayor of Decatur started this morning, and by the noon recess the mutilated ballots in precincts 1-A, 1-B and 1-C had been examined by Judge Myles F. Parrish and opposing lawyers. ] John DeVoss and David Macklin, representing the plaintiff. Mayor Robert D. Cole, presented 88 ex- , hibits, each a ballot, and explained why they thought they should be , counted. To most, exception was made by the opposing attorney, Robert S. Anderson, representing Mayor-elect Donald F. Gage. Anderson, in turn, presented 83 exhibits, many of which were excepted to by DeVoss and Macklin. Examining Ballots Judge Parrish indicated he would examine the 171 disputed ballots during the noon recess, but he did -'ot indicate how soon he would ' e - ' w re were 142 mare ballots thrown out by the second count than by the original election boards; however, the exact number of mutilated ballots per precinct was not known. The court room was open the public during the counting process. Spectators the first morning included Mark Morin, Frank Kitson, Donald F. Gage, Cal E. Peterson, Robert Doan, and Dick Burdg. Long Process There are 11 precincts in Decatur that must be counted. While at , least 171 were examined this morning, 743 ballots which were counted by the recount commission remain to be counted in the first three precinct*. , ’• Ip the first count, by the election boards in the respective precincts, GSge won by four votes, 1,708 to 1,704. In ' the recount completed Dec. 11,«Gage won by 39 votes, 1,452 to 1,413. There were 547 more mutilated ballots the second time than the first. Approximately 72 Local Man's Sister Dies In Washington Mrs. Frank M. Perley, 43, sister of Harry Dailey of Decatur, died suddenly at her home in Washington, D. C., of a heart attack suffered Saturday evenong at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Perley had been in excellent health, and her death was unexpected. Born in Decatur December 16, 1916, the daughter of Jesse D. and Destina Beery Dailey, Mrs. Perley was reared in Paulding, O. A graduate of the University of Miami, she taught school in Defiance, 0., for several years before she was married to Frank M. Perley, a vice-president of the American Security and Trust Company, Washington, D. C., who survives. The couple had lived in Washington since 1944. Mrs. Perley is survived by her husband, brother, stepmother, Mrs. J. D. Dailey of Paulding, O.; an aunt, Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer of Decatur, and a great-aunt, Mrs. John T. Meyers, of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the chapel at Arlington National cemetery, ' where burial will follow. Dailey and his stepmother will attend the ' funeral.

"Rocky” Quits Presidency Race

NEW YORK (UPI) — Gov. Nelson Rockefeller became the overwhelming favorite for the GOP vice-presidential nomination when he bowed out of the presidential race, a survey of state Republican leaders showed today. A large proportion of GOP leaders refused to believe Rockefeller’s declaration Saturday that he would “quite obviously” reject a place on the 1960 ticket as VicePresident Richard M. Nixon’s running mateRockefeller’s support for pumber two spot in the ticket —despite his advance rejection in his statement Saturday abandoning the presidential race — was registered in a week end poll of party leaders across the nation. Many Chose Rockefeller State chairmen or top aides in 28 states were willing to name a vice-presidential favorite. Seventeen chose Rockefeller. Six

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ballots were thrown out originally in all 11 precincts. Procedure Established In the present count, Judge Parrish and the attorneys for the two candidates will examine the ballots in open court. The attorneys will then agree on those ballots to which they can find no legal exceptions; and they will object to those which they believe should not be counted. Judge Parrish will then rule on all disputed ballots. Mayor-elect Gt<e, who was certified by the recount commission, will take office January 1, and hold office until the outcome of the present recount. At that time, Judge Parrish has indicated that he will certify the winner by his count; the decision may be appealed from the local court to the supreme court. Otoe.* Recounts Two other recounts for mayor are now in progress, one in Dunkirk in neighboring Jay county, and one in Goshen, where 18,000 ballots voted by the regular paper ballot must be counted. The Jay county election is now up to Judge Burl Whiteman, who must rule on the contested ballots. The recount in Elkhart county is still in progress; the Democrat won originally by 31 votes, but the Republican judge appointed a Republican recount commission, and the Republican candidate is slowly gaining on the Democrat, being only four votes behind at present. Mrs. Dili Antews Dies Al Age Os 94 Mrs. Belle Andrews, 94, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:30 o’clock Saturday night at the home of a niece, Mrs. Delota Engle, at Monroe, where she resided. She had been in failing health for several years with infirmities. She was born in Adams county Sept. 12, 1865, a daughter of James and Lydia Barnett, and was married to Joe Andrews July 17, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death. Mrs. Andrews was a member of the Monroe Methodist church and the Adams county Home Economics club. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. John Stoneburner of Decatur route 4. Only other near survivors are a number of nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Delota Engle and Mrs. Glatice Robinson of Monroe, and Albert Beery and Carl Barnett of Decatur. Four brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. A. E. Burke officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the 1 services. 10 Peruvians Killed By Two Earthquakes LIMA, Peru (UPI) — Two weekend earthquakes wrecked the provincial town of Pomabamba, leveling most of its houses and killing at least 10 residents, it was reported today.

named Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.) and two listed Sen. Thruston Morton, GOP national chairman. Single mentions went to Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, Rep. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.), and Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.) Virtually all the leaders polled by UPI in 48 of the 50 states accepted Rockefeller’s withdrawal from the presidential race at face value. Some felt this meant he would also be out out of the 1964 race as well, since Nixon could be expected to seek a second term. A few considered him a contender in 1968 (when he will be 60). Chairmen Give Opinions But a sizeable proportion ignored Rockefeller’s simultaneous rejection of the runtiing-mate position next fall“Quite obviously," Rockefeller

t — ■ Packing Plant Reopens Today

ALBERT LEA, Minn. (UPI) — Eight non-strikers were jailed today for carrying shotguns, rifles and pistols into Wilson & Co. packing plant, reopened with the lifting of martial law" here. The plant’s reopening and the city's return to civil rule after 16 days of martial law came off otherwise, however, without incident. “Everything went just fine,” Sheriff Everette Stbvern said. “There was no trouble whatsoever.” National Guardsmen, their rifles slung over their shoulders, searched cars as the vanguard of about 500 non-union workers drove past picket lines to get the plant back into operation. They seized about a dozen guns and at least one knife. The sheriff said the eight workers arrested, along with one more yet to be jailed, will appear before a judge for violation of a restraining order. An order issued by Judge John Cahill several weeks ago outlawed weapons in the plant vicinity. At least 150 workers, hired since the strike was called more than nine weeks ago, drove through picket lines this morning Latfr this week the company planned to put 350 more men back to work. The peaceful reopening of the plant was in marked contrast to the scene nearly three weeks ago when angry pickets stoned nonstrikers' cars and police confiscated guns, knives and blackjacks. Maj. Gen. Richard Cook, the guard commander, said there was excellent cooperation be t w ee n company and. union officials in preventing another outbreak of violence. The Guardsmen, with rifles slung over their shoulder s, watched as non-strikers filed into the plant during pre-dawn darkness. Although the scene was peaceful, observers said pickets at each of the plant’s six gates noted down the license number of each car that entered the plant gates. Martial law was declared here Dec. 11 and lifted as of midnight. Gov. Orville L. Freeman ordered the 100 Guardsmen to stay on duty as long as local officials felt they were needed. They will serve as auxiliary police and their commander, Maj. Gen. Richard Cook, was designated assistant chief deputy sheriff of Freeborn County. Local officials gave Cook “full i authority to act and exercise your own judgement in enforcing law and order ” They said they would “back up and ratify any and every lawful action taken by you and your men.” Pickets took up their positions early in the morning, four men at each of six gates of the plant. That is the maximum number allowed under terms of a court order issued by State District Judge John Cahill Christmas Eve.

c had said Saturday, “I shall not at . any time entertain any thought of 1 accepting nomination to the vicepresidency even if the honor were - offered, for this would clearly run , counter to all the considerations , inspiring my present decision - (against seeking the presidency)." Among the comments on this: 1 West Virginia State Chairman s Walter S. Hallanan — “There will 1 be an irresistible demand for t Rockefeller with Nixon." Missouri State Chairman H. K. 1 Wangelin — Rocky “will still be ; available for the vice-presidential - nomination.” 1 Connecticut National r man Meade Alcorn (former GOP national chairman — “I believe there will be a tremendous de- - mand that he serve on the ticket - with Dick Nixon.” Pennsylvania state Chairman George I. Bloom — “I think he r will take it when the time comes.”

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Dec. 28, 1959.

Explosion Causes Damage Al Bakery Escaping gasoline fumes reaching the hot ovens at Stewart’s Bakery, 229 N. Second street, caused an explosion this morning at 9:25 o’clock, blowing out the upper portion of the front window. Luckily, no one was injured. Fire chief Cedric Fisher said the explosion resulted when gas tanks used by the bakery’s trucks were overloaded this morning and the fuel seeped into the sewer lines leading into the bakery basement. When the fumes reached the baking ovens, the explosion occurred. Wife Tells of Roar Mrs. Roy Stewart, wife of the bakery’s owner, was in another section of the retail part of the building when the explosion rocked the building.' She said, “You never heard anything like it. It sounded like the plaster was falling down all over the entire building, and such a tremendous roar . . . ’* ‘I She added that the broken window, which shattered on the sidewalk below, was insured, and that little damage occurred elsewhere in the bakery. Chief Fisher advised the fuel company representative and the bakery owner to have the underground tanks checked for possible leaks as the employes in the basement stated that they often smelled fumes when the tanks were loaded. Firemen Clear Fumes The firemen watered down all the sewers in the area for about an hour, cleaning out any surplus fumes. Traffic on Second street was rerouted by city police while the fire trucks remained in the area, mainly as a preventive measure. Allen County Young People Are Killed Miss Judith Kay Bearman, 16, of New Haven route 2, and Wayne H. Mclntosh, 22, of Monroeville, were fatally injured at, 2:53 a.m. Sunday when Mclntosh’s car crashed into a concrete catch basin on the Minnich road near New Haven. Allen county authorities said McIntosh apparently fell asleep at the wheel and lost control of the car on the wet pavement. Both, victims died of broken necks. Miss Bearman, a junior at New Haven high school, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Bearman. Surviving in addition to her parents are a brother, James; sister, Janice; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bearman and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ohler. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the E. Harper & Son funeral home in New Haven, and at 2:30 p.m. in Emmanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. Harold M. Luecke officiating. Burial will be in the Emmanuel Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. . . Mclntosh was a 1955 graduate of Monroeville high school and was employed at Indiana Rod & Wire in Fort Wayne; two brothers, Larry and Galen, both at home; the paternal grandfather, Cary Mclntosh of New Haven, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Marie Augenstein of near Fort Wayne. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville, and at 2 p.m. In St. John's Lutheran church at Flat Rock, the Rev; John Houser officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p.m. today.

Boost In Federal Gas Tax Opposed WASHINGTON (UPI) — A chilly reception in Congress was predicted today for any administration request to hike federal gasoline taxes by another half cent a gallon next year. The American Automobile Association (AAA) said the extra levy would be proposed in January as part of a plan to raise the tax eventually to five cents a gallon from the present four cents. It said the second half-cent increase would be asked later. Frederick T. McGuire Jr., president of the motorists' organization noted that Congress boosted the tax by one cent at its last session and pledged an all-out fight against any further increase. He predicted Congress would cold shoulder a new request. McGuire said the effect of such an increase would be to repudiate the compromise on federal highway financing legislation which was worked out “with such difficulty” in the last session of Congress. _ President Eisenhower asked congress last January for a IMt cent increase in gas taxes to help finance tlje superhighway program. Congress finally Approved the penny-a-gallon boost until July 1, 1961. McGuire said a new 1 one-cent increase, , plus the average state tax of six cents, would mean an average gas tax of 11 cents and would cost motorists more than a half billion dollars a year.

Holiday Traffic Toll Is Near 500

By United Press International Despite perilous driving conditions over much of the country, the Christmas holiday traffic toll fell short of earlier predictions by safety officials. A United Press International count showed 473 persons lost their lives on the nation’s highways during the 78-hour holiday. Another 40 died in fires, 6 in plane crashes and 96 in miscellaneous accidents for an overall total of 615. New York led the nation with highway deaths with 42, followed by California with 34 and Pennsylvania with 29. North Carolina had 27, Texas 26, Illinois 23, Florida 22 and Michigan 21. Only five states — Alaska, Delaware, Maryland, Nevada and North Dakota — chalked up a fa-tality-free holiday. The National Safety Council had predicted 530 persons would be killed during the period from 6 jp.m. Christmas Eve to .midnight Sunday night. In 1953, the nation's last three-day Christmas holiday, 523 persons died in traffic accidents. Hazardous driving conditions beset holiday travelers in many states. One of the worst accidents over the holiday killed six persons in a head-on crash Saturday in Yazoo City, Miss. Four high school students were killed Saturday when their car plowed into a bridge support near San Antonio, Tex. First Bid Received On New License Plate The first bid on the new 1960 license plate—J A 1960—was filed with Mrs. LaVelle Death, auto license branch manager, by Leo H. King, Sr., of route 1, Decatur. King entered a sls bid. All proceeds from the top bidder will be donated to the Adams county cancer society this year. Bids, which will be published daily in this paper, will be accepted until the Feb. 29 deadline date, Mrs. Death said. King, who has won the bidding for two years in a row, said that he expected some stiff competition this year, because the money will go to cancer.

Mrs. Oliver Meyer Is Taken By Death Mrs. Marian Meyer, 46, wife of Oliver O. Meyer, of Bluffton route 4, and a teacher in Allen county schools for the past 20 years, died at 2:55 a. m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient 27 days. She had taught at Hoagland for the last six years. She was a member of the Hoagland Methodist church, the Mary Penrose Wayne chapter, DAR, and was treasurer of the American childhood education organization in Allen county. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Laura, Jeanne, and Marian Jo, at home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion F. Shookman of Hoagland, and a sister, Mrs. Jeanne A. Jones of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held L at 2:15 p. m. Tuesday at the D. ( O. McComb & Sons funeral home, . the Rev. James Lantz officiating. I Burial will be in Elm Grove [ cemetery, Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 . p. m. today. i : Mud Pike Closed By Washed-Out Bridge ' The Mud Pike was closed today ' three-fourths of a mile north of Monroe by a washed-out bridge, ; which should be fixed by Friday, ‘ Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent, said today. , The bridge consists of a large . pipe, which was originally set at ditch level. However, the ditch , was dredged this summer about one foot lower than the pipe, causf ing the water to wash under the pipe arch, causing the pipe and I roadway over the pipe, to sink. , The bridge has been closed by ; the county highway department. r County surveyor Herman Moellering and Noll will start work on [ the bridge Wednesday, and hope to complete the work in two days. . Meanwhile, the roadway will be . closed at that point. i The Mud Pike runs from the I Adams county memorial hospital i to state highway 124 one mile east of Monroe. I

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Ike Agrees To Talks In May

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — President Eisenhower agreed today to join in a proposal for a summit conference at Paris in mid-May. He also summoned 10 high government officials to a conference here Tuesday to discuss the government’s nuclear program hn 1960 along with other foreign and defense policy matters. This meeting presumably will deal with the current ban on testing nuclear weapons, which expires this week. In the first working day of his year-end holiday visit here, the President conferred with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter by telephone about dates for the proposed summit meeting. The United States, Great Britain and France originally suggested a meeting at Paris to start April , 27. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev agreed to a meeting but suggested April 21 or May 4 instead, dates which conflicted with plans of the Western nations. Await Allied Views White House News Secretary James C. Haggerty said Eisenhower had advised Herter that a meeting in Paris in mid-May was satisfactory if Britain and France also agreed. Hagerty said the proposed date probably would be May 16- He ’ denied reports that agreement on that date already had been reached but said there is “no obstacle to that date as far as we’re concerned.” He then announced the makeup of the group flying here Tuesday for the discussion of foreign and defense policy. . From the State Department will lse Secretary Herter, Undersecretary C. Douglas Dillon and Philip Farley, special assistant to the secretary. Representing the Steelworkers Vole Against ' ,'Y: Industry Offer WASHINGTON (UPD—A union straw vote shows that 95 per cent of the Steelworkers polled are against accepting management’s "last offer” to settle the steel dispute, the union president, David J. McDonald, said today. McDonald said the latest count in a union survey shows 57,000 Javor rejecting of the offer and 2,800 voting to accept itThe union leader said he assumed a government-run secret ballot k 'vote among the 500,000 Steelworkers on the comparties’ final con--1 tract proposal would “closely fol--1 low” the results of the post card 5 poll. J McDonald spoke to reporters 5 after discussing procedures for 5 this afternoon’s public hearing to ; be conducted by President Eisen- , hower’s fact-finding board. j The board stepped back into the . marathon dispute today by meet- ’ ing separately with union and ' management officials in advance 1 of the hearing. 1 Asked how separate negotiations > on a company-by-company basis . were progressing, McDonald replied; 1 “They are getting nowhere.” I He said there seemed to be “a ; lot oLacrimony” in the bargaining . discussions. The President’s three-man board ' headed by Dr. George W. Taylor, ; met separately with McDonald and , other members of the union’s four ’ man bargaining team. Management officials who speak for the 11 largest producers were

Defense Department will be Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr., John N. Irwin, assistant secretary for international security affairs, and Maj. Gen. Herbert Loper, retired, special assistant to the secretary for atomic energy. Others in the group will be Chairman John McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission; Gordon Gray, presidential assistant for security affairs and Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, White House staff secretary. Duck Rockefeller Comment Hagerty again ducked questions about Eisenhower’s reaction to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s statement bowing out as a candidate for the 1960 presidential tion“No matter how you ask the question, there will be no statement,” he said. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower flew here Sunday for *h year-end holiday expected to last at least through New Year's Day Friday. They went Immediately to the vacation White House, built for ' their use on the edge of the ex- , elusive Augusta National Golf ; club. Eisenhower headed for the first tee almost immediately and played an 18-hole round. For Eisenhower, the holiday gave him a chance to rest up from his recent 19-day good will mission to 11 nations and to get ’ ready for the 1960 session of Congress which opens Jan. 6. 1 While here, the Chief Executive expects to work part of the time I in his office at the golf club pro shop, putting the finishing touches > on his State, of the Union, budget and economic messages, which go to Congress next month. called to a morning session. The meetings were scheduled prelimniary to resuption of public hearings this afternoon. Both sides will present their position to the board of inquiry. This will foefode formal presentaXmn_pf : already has been' rejected by the Steelworkers as inadequate. The new sessions followed another futile round of bargaining here Sunday, both on a company--1 by-company level and on an in--1 dustry-wide basis. f The fact-finders, after their new ’ hearings, must report back to the ’ President by Jan. 6 on where 1 management and union stand in the dispute. t This wil set in motion machin- ) ery under the Taft-Hartley law for 1 the 500,000 Steelworkers to vote Jan. 11-13 on whether they want - to accept the final management t offer- - . , , The steel companies claim their - “last offer” would provide 30 - cents an hour in extra benefits 1 over three years. The union contends the package would be worth s only 22 cents an hour. r ’ INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder this afternoon and tonight with ocea- ? sional rain north probably be- * coming mixed with snow to- ; night. Tuesday cloudy and colder with snow mixed with rain in north. Becoming windy ’ late tonight and Tuesday. ’ Low tonight low 30s to mid 30s. High Tuesday in the 30s. Sunset today 5:28 p. m. c.d.t. i Sunrise Tuesday 8:05 a. m. c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with near I normal temperatures southern two-thirds of state, cloudy I and moderately cold with snow flurries northern onethird. Lows lower 20s to near 30. Highs upper 20s to near 40.

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