Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 307.

Donald Gage Wins By 41 Votes

Set May 16 For Summit Talks

LONDON (UPD — Soviet Pre* mier Nikita S. Khrushchev may fly to Peiping for talks with Red China's leaders before the May 16 East-West summit meeting in Paris, Western diplomats speculated today. The diplomats predicted that a meeting of the Communist bloc leaders might also be held before Khrushchev meets with President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle. The speculation was based on these facts: —Khrushchev will have nearly two months between his March 12-27 visit to Paris and the EastWest summit meeting. —■He certainly would want to line up his summit plans with , other Communist leaders. “Western diplomats pointed out that a meeting between Khrushchev and satellite leaders could easily be held during the May Day celebrations in Moscow. Many of them will be in the Soviet capital- Wien. Khrushchev gave the May Day celebrations as the reason for his rejection of the original April 27 date proposed for the summit.Khrushchev did not visit Com munist China before the first East-West summit meeting in Ge neva in July of 1955. But he flew io Peiping in August of 1958 when he was plugging for a summit meeting over the Middle East crisis. Chinese Communist boss Mao Tse-tung then got Khrushchev to backtrack on his summit campaign out of pique because the Peipjng -regtaeTwas notinvited. Khrushchevs most recent, visit to Red China came in October following the Soviet premier’s tour' of the United States and talks with Eisenhower. It was believed Khrushchev discussed summit questions with Mao and other Red Chinese leaders then.

Volume Os Christmas Mail Exceeds 1958 WASHINGTON (UPD—The Post Office Department says the Christmas mail volume through Dec. 25 was running 3.7 per cent ahead of last year in the nation’s big cities. The rise was recorded at 271 pqst offices which each take in one million dollars or more annually and handle 67 per cent of normal U. S. mail volume.

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Soggy Debut Is Scheduled For New Year United Press International The 1960’s will make a soggy debut Friday with rain or snow covering more than half the nation, the U.S. Weather Bureau said today. The bureau said snow was expected for New Year’s Day north of a line from northwestern Oklahoma to northern Illinois and from the Rockies into the Pacific Northwest. Rain was forecast over eastern Oregon and Washington and from the southern Plains into the middle and lower Mississippi Valley. Snow fell Wednesday night along the middle Appalachians through Pennsylvania and New York states into Vermont and New Hampshire, around southern Lake Michigan and from eastern Washington into Idaho and Montana. Light rain was recorded in the lower Rio Grande Valley and along the Oregon - Washington coastline. The U.S. Weather Bureau said the snow area would spread today from the upper Ohio Valley into inland New England and over a vast area from the Dakotas and New c Btexfto westward :.over .Wo Rockies to the West Coast. Rain will fall in the southwestern states and California, the bureau said. A slight warming was forecast over the interior today and in the upper and middle Mississippi Valley and New England on New Year’s Day.

Hartke Urges Steel Action

WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Vance Hartke (D - Ind.) urged President Eisenhower today to

City Council Holds Final 1959 Meeting The Decatur city council conducted its last meeting of 1959 Wednesday night at city hall with three elected members of the administrative body bowing out. Mayor Robert D. Cole, barring an appeal victory of the latest legal action, presided over the last session. Mrs. Miriam Hall, retiring clerktreasurer, and Ed Bauer, retiring city councilman, also attended their last council meeting. Besides the usual reading of the bills, which were allowed, the council accepted a report from Ralph Roop, toning superintendent, and appointed Francile Mclntosh to the board of recreation to fill | the unexpired term of Joe Kaehr, who resigned last week. The current term of the recreation board will expire Dec. 30, 1961, at which time another person may be appointed to the board. In his annual report, Roop showed that he issued 130 permits with 15 being rejected by him, but granted by the board of zoning appeals. One was rejected by him and also by the board. Two that i he rejected were not appealed and i one was appealed and is still pend- 1 ing. He also granted one land-use permit. He netted a total of $149 j for building applications and $1 , for the land-use permit. Also a to- . tai of $223.50 was earned for in- ; spection fees on new buildings. i 1 149 Polio Cases In ’ Indiana During Year < INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The 1 next-to-last weekly morbidity re- ; port of the Indiana State Board of ; Health showed today that 14$ : eases of jx>lio occurred during 11959. The *'•‘ll was midway between last year’s 139 and the five-year median of 160 cases. No new cases were reported for last week, but one case the week before was charged against Rip- , ley County. \ ! \

exert the prestige of his office to end the steel strike. Alternatively, he urged Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell to unveil immediately the administration’s plan for settling the dispute. Hartke, from one of the nation s key steel-making states, made his proposals after Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan temporarily suspended government efforts to settle the seven-month-old dispute. Finnegan said in a statement Wednesday that neither the union nor management was willing to compromise now because both were too busy lobbying for votes in next month’s government-con-ducted poll of the Steelworkers on the companies’ last offer. Hartke said both management and labor would heed a presidential summons to a conference with Eisenhower or some other high administration official. The senator said Eisenhower’s “strong popular support” would help pressure the Steelworkers and the companies into settling the dispute. "They wouldn’t want to irritate ■ the President,” he said. Hartke criticized Mitchell’s refusal to make public now any administration plan for settling the dispute in case the strike resumes when an 80-day Taft-Hart-ley back-to-work order expires Jan. 26. \ Hartke said he asked Mitchell in November to disclose any government settlement plan.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Dec. 31, 1959.

Judge Parrish Finds Republican Elected Maybr By 41 Votes

City Victors In State Take Office Friday INDIANAPOLIS (U Pl)—Of iceseekers who triumphed in Indiana’s municipal elections will reap the harvest of their Nov. 3 victories Friday in inaugural ceremonies all around the state. Despite the fact it’s the morning after New Year’s Eve, winners in hundreds of races for city and town Offices will obediently gather in governmental offices from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River to take a solemn oath that they will perform their duties as prescribed by law during the next four years. Democrats had the most to crow about in the New Year’s Day festivities. They captured about two-thirds of the mayor seats in the state’s 108 cities, roughly the same margin they had the last • - Went GOP ■ There were .scattered points of Republican cheering, however, including Kokomo, wrested from Democratic control as the largest city salvaged by the GOP. The final official count of mayors elected was 71 Democrats and 37 Republicans. But even though they will be inaugurated Friday along with the rest, a few of the mayors-elect may lose their jobs in a matter of days. Recounts of votes cast in at least three mayor races decided by narrow margins probably will run past inauguration day. At Decatur, Mdjyor-elect Donald F. Gage, a Republican, will take office while a second recount continues in Adams Circuit Court. If the recount results in a decision that his Democratic opponent. Mayor Robert D. Cole, was elected, Gage will have to step down and give up the office, barring an appeal to a higher court. Contests Elsewhere Also in the throes of contests were mayor races at Elkhart and Dunkirk. At Dunkirk, the two candidates tied and a state opinion held the incumbent Republican should continue in office four more years because a successor was not elected. Democrat Wayne Hobson, who los, filed for a re(Continued on pare ithree)

TV, Radio Report Given Eisenhower

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — President Eisenhower has received a report on the Justice Department's investigation of “deceptive practices” in the radio and television industry, it was announced today. The report wll be made public tonight. White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President had asked Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers for an inquiry during House committee hearings on rigged TV shows. Hagerty referred specifically to the hearing in which Charles Van Doren admitted taking part in a fixed show. Hagerty sad the Justice Department report contained recommen-

Wilson Plant Talks Are Hear Collapse CHICAGO (UPD— A fresh attempt to end a long and bitter strike by the United Packinghouse Workers of America against eight Wilson & Co. plants across the country appeared close to collapse today. Both sides issued new charges Wednesday after the third meeting since talks to end the 64-day-old strike were resumed this week. The union said strike-settling proposals of the company “constitute a formula for destruction” of the UPWA. Ralph Helstein, union president, said the Wilson proposals could not be accepted because they would “give management life and death control over jobs and working conditions.” Wilson earlier this week offered the union the same terms agreed to be another union at its Denver plant. Helstein indicated the talks were elose to breaking up-when he itaW that unfer fie circumstances the union has decided there was “no point in maintaining the ful (bargaining) committee in Chicago at this time.” Talks are scheduled to resume Monday under auspces of the Federal Mediation Service but Helstein said only a sub-commit-tee would remain for the meet'ing. The company termed the union “irresponsible” for its statement condemning the settlement offer. The UPWA statement, Wilson said is “so inaccurate, distorted and inflammatory that it does not warrant an answer. It is obviously Intended for propaganda purposes." Decatur City Judge ' Takes Office Oath Judge Richard J. Sullivan, who . will take office at noon Friday as I the first city judge of Decatur in- , dependent of the mayor’s office. . was sworn in by Judge Myles F. i Parrish Wednesday afternoon in ■ the county court room. Judge Sullivan will be out of t town Friday when the other city officials will be sworn in.

dations of action by Rogers and that Rogers will continue to make recommendations. Receipt of the report was announced as the President and Mrs. Eisenhower prepared to gjeet the New Year at a private party at the Augusta National Golf Club, where they are spending their year-end holiday. The President went to his temporary office atxnit 8 a.m. to deal with some White House routine before his daily round of golf. Hagerty reported the Eisenhowers would dine with friends tonight in the trophy room at the club and remain there until the arrival of the New Year.

HR RM|SP^-x' z >w§£ , Ai b i w & E ■B Adolph Kolter Adolph Kolter Heads Street Department Adolph Kolter, former city councilman and owner of Kolter’s Vaults and Septic Tanks, will take office January 1 as city street commissioner, Mayor-elect Donald F. Gage announced this morning. Kolter, who was defeated for city councilman in the recent election, will replace Bernard Clark as head of the city street department, which builds, repairs and maintains the city streets, manages the parks, operates the city dump and city garbage department, collects trash and leaves, etc. Gage made the announcement at the request of Clark, he said, who had talked to him Wednesday and asked to be relieved Jan. 1, so that he would not have to operate on a day-to-day basis.

Another Recount Is Ordered At Elkhart ELKHART, Ind. (UPD—Democrat Richard Corns .prepared to take over the office of mayor in Indiana's 14th largest city Friday despite a ballot recount board’s report showing he lost by seven votes. The board reported Wednesday afternoon that the winner of the Elkhart mayoralty race last Nov. 3 was Republican Frank Parmater. Official returns previously showed Corns won by 19, although an unofficial tabulation election night gave it to Parmater by 10. Corns already has taken the oath of office and otherwise has qualified. Shortly after the recount board ended a three-week study of ballots cast and submitted its report, Corn’s attorney asked Elkhart Superior Court Juge Frank Treckelo to order the board to make another count. Treckelo granted the request. The Elkhart situation was one of three in Indiana’s 108 cities involving recounts in mayor races. The others were at Dunkirk and Decatur, where the outcome remained undetermined as inauguration day arrived.

Judge Myles F. Parrish, follow-, ing a grueling three-day count of the 3,501 ballots cast in the city election Nov. 3, ruled at 10:30 this morning that Donald F. Gage, Republican, was elected mayor by 41 votes, 1,459 to 1,418. This was the largest margin run .up by Gage in the three counts so •far. In the Nov. 3 election day count he won by four votes, 1,708 to 1,704; in the Dec. 11 recount, he won by 39 votes, 1,413 to 1,452. 3,501 Ballots Judge Parrish ruled on each of the ballots submitted to him. more than 3,000 in total. Os the 3,501 ballots cast in the election, 42 were not marked for either mayor candidate. leaving 3,459 ballots cast for mayor. If all the votes wpre counted for mayor, valid and invalid. Gage would have won by nine votes, Judge Parrish pointed out, 1,734 to 1,725. However, the attorneys agreed that 41 of Cole’s votes and 48 of Gage’s votes were invalid to start with. 582 Mutilated Judge Parrish ruled that 266 of Cole’* votes and. 227 of Gage's votes were in,valick Tnis left 1,459 votes” for Gtfge aqp 1,418 votes for Cole. In the first count by the precinct election boards, 21 of Cole's votes and 26 of Gage’s votes were ruled invalid, for a total of 47. In the recount by the recount commission Dec. 11, 312 of Cole’s, and 282 of Gage's were ruled invalid, for a total of 594 invalid votes. In the judge’s count, 307 of Cole’s, and 275 of Gage’s, were ruled invalid for a totaf of 582. The comparison of votes shows that Cole picked up five votes over the recount by the judge’s count,

The following table gives a precinct by precinct breakdown of the votes tabulated for the mayor’s race in each of the three counts; Ist is precinct board count on Nov. 3: second is the recount board count on Dee. 11; and the 3rd is the Judge’s tabulation, Dec. 31: Precincts Cole Gage Ist 2nd 3rd Ist 2nd 3rd 1-A (quonset) 171 151 150 196 176 176 1-B (Canning Co.) .. 106 84 85 138 103 103 1-C (Jail) .. 138 111 113 136 118 119 1- (Dinner Bell) ...... 134 114 115 194 171 170 2- (Court House 236 201 202 180 161 162 2-M (Fire Station) 105 87 87 144 118 120 2- (Worthman Field) .. 113 98 98 117 105 105 3- (County Garage)—. 219 193 194 196 172 171 3-B (Daimon Case) 175 135 135 170 135 137 3-C (Sheets Garage) .... 138 116 116 115 94 95 Decatur-Root (Equip.) .. 169 123 123 122 99 101 > .1,704 1,413 1,418 1,708 1,452 1,459 Majority 4 39 41

Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater 6 Arnold Lumber Co.. Inc. '— 5 American faegion — 3 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5 M. Braun Religious Store ------ 3 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Butler Garage —5 Budget Loans — 6 Conrad’s ”66” Service . 6 Cowens Insurance Agency ’ 4 Church of the Nazarene 2 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers . 5 Fairway 3, 6 First State Bank 6 Gambles -'Jiz.— 4 Haflich & Morrissey — 3 Kohne Drug Store — — 5 Masonic Lodge — 4 Myers Home & Auto Supply 6 Maico Hearing Service Center - 4 Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of French Township 5

I and Gage picked up seven. The I judge’s count gives seven precincts to Gage, and four to Cole; in the first count, Cole carried six, and Gage five. May Be Appealed The decision of the court may be appealed to the Indiana Supreme court for final decision. * Mayor Cole did not signify whether or not he would carry the case further. The decision was given by the judge at 10:30 o’clock this morning. Attorney Robert S. Anderson and Gage were present for the defense and attorney John DeVoss represented Mayor Cole. Several spectators, including John Doan and hi» son Robert Duan, and attorney Lewis L. Smith, were present for the ruling. Preeinet Mutilations Judge Parrish announced first that 41 of Cole’s votes and 48 of Gage’s votes had been stipulated invalid by the attorneys as follows, Cole first, then Gage: 1-A, 2,4; 1-B, 0,8; 1-C, 4,5; 1-D, 4,4; 2-A, 6,5; 2-B, 2, 3;2-C, 3,2; 3-A. 6,5; 3-B, 4,3; 3-C, 3,5; DecaturRoot, 7, 4. Ballots not counted because the judge ruled them invalid were.as* follows, precinct by precinct, Cole’s first, and then Gage’s: 1-A, 24, 20; 1-B, 21, 28; 1-C, 25, 12; 1-D, 15. 22; 2-A, 31, 14; 2-B, 16. 25; 2-C, 13, 12; 3-A, 22, 24; 3-B, 36, 33 ; 3-C, 20, 19; Decatur-Root, 43, 18, for a total of 266 and 227 respectively. Because many of the absent voters’ ballots were cast by the sick, aged, and inflrm. Judge Parrish was more liberal in ruling on those ballots, invalidating only two, one for each candidate. Gage’s vote was voted with a double X, and Cole’s with a flower drawn in the 1 circle.

Votes By Precincts

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