Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 7.

® A' A : >Wk ■ fL \ J* H f » *\ iJEI-ii» h rl RECORD HOP TONIGHT at the Decatur Youth and Community Center is another of the fund-raising events planned during the annual March of Dimes campaign in Decatur this month. Pictured making plans for tonight’s hop are. left to right—Jim Kat hr, Steve Blythe, John Cowan, Pat Cook, Joe McNerney, Sev Sehurger and Jim Martin.

More Violence At Albert Lea -

ALBERT LEA. Minn. (UPD—A non-union meatpacking worker’s home was bombed Friday night and the victim said the violent Wison & Co. strike “is getting to be as bad as Hungary." Two other non-strikrs reported that 13 windows were broken in their homes during the night. Both said the windows were smashed simultaneously, apparently by large sticks, indicating several persons participated in the vandalism. The erode, homemade gasoline bomb caused minor damage to the colonial-style home of Frank Seidl, who said he has worked 10 years at the Wilson plant here without joining a union. Seidl and his family were away when the bomb was thrown against the side of th house. No one was injured. - — ~ “This is the work of a bunch of goons,” Seidl said, “but they can’t sacre me. I’m going back to work Monday.” One homeowner in Seidl’s neighborhood reported however that "tonight everybody was carrying guns and they looked like they might use them.” "The atmosphere is tense.” Don Franz, news director at radio station KATE said. “Nobody knows exactly what’s going to happen next.” Overworked and undermanned squads of policemen and sheriff s deputies have been fighting to quell the violence which has struck Albert Lea and surrounding Freeborn County since National Guard troops left town. The Guardsmen were ordered to close the plant Dec. 11 after two days of rioting on picket lines which were set up Oct. 29 when the tjnited Packinghouse Workers of America struck Wilson plants across the nation. The plant reopened under federal court order and the Guardsmen left town last week.

Advertising Index Advertiser Adams Theatre Beavers Oil Service, Inc. . » Bower Jewelry Store ------- 3, 4 Briede Studio —— - 3 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage - ® Citizens Telephone Co. —— 6 t Uecatur Ready-Mix, Inc. —• 8 Ehinger’s “Boston Store” 7 Fairway 3 ’ 61 8 Fanning Soil Service 8 First State Bank 6 E. F. Gass Store ...— ———— 3 Green Belt Chemical Co. 8 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home I.— 3 Holthouse Furniture Store 7 - Howell TV-Radio Service 5 Kent Realty & Auction Co. .... 5 Klenks 8 Kiddie Shop -7 L. C. Leonard, Dist. ——- 6 Moose - — 6 J. J. Newberry Co. 7 Rash Insurance 8 Schafers — ——7 L. Smith Insurance Agency 5 Sears-Roebuck & Co. 5 Smith Drug Co. .——3; 5,7 Sheets Furniture Co. ------- 4,7 Shaffer’s Restaurant 4 Sutton's Jewelry Store —7 Mel Tinkhafn Insurance Agency 6 Teeple , 5 • Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc. —— 8 Zwick Funeral Home 4 Church Page Sponsors ......—-A

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Tighten Drinking Rules On Airlines WASHINGTON (UPD — The 'Federal Aviation Agency (FAAi today prohibited airlines from serving liquor to passengers who are “high” in the sky. Under the new FAA rules, passengers are not allowed To nip' from their own bottles and the airline stewardesses are barred from serving alcoholic beverages to persons who “appear to be intoxicated.” Violators will be subject to a fine of up to SI,OOO. The new airborne drinking regulations take effect March 10. The FAA said its new drinking rule does not require the airlines to determine whether a passenger actually is drunk. “Crew members may rely on the appearance of the passenger in determining whether or not to serve alcoholic beverages,” it said. - ■ The agency noted it already has a rule forbidding airlines to carry passengers who are "obviously under the influence of alcohol.” Several pilots and stewardesses have urged during various government hearings that cocktails aloft be barred or restricted.. They complained that drunken passengers have endangered flights. Open New Industry At Columbia City A new industry, Columbia Tooling, Inc., has started operations in Columbia City, and will employ between 30 and 35 people by March 1, it was anpounced Friday. The firm is partially owned by Adams Engineering. Inc., of South Bend, which also Operates a plant in Three Rivers, Mich.

No Justification For Tax Reduction

WASHINGTON (UPD — Democratic' leaders don’t expect the election year Congress to override President Eisenhower’s opposition to a general tax cut. Eisenhower’s forecast of a $4,200,000,00 budget surplus next year may provoke considerable pressure by rank - and - file lawmakers for a tax cut. But the Democratic chieftains see no justification for a tax reduction at this time. Eisenhower is firmly opposed to any general tax relief at this session. He wants the budget surplus, forecast in his State of the Union Message Thursday/ used to reduce the national debt. The Democratic , leaders said Friday they have not entered into any “gentlemen’s agreement” with the administration to refrain from a tax-cut drive. They are not likely to do so in the politically - charged atmosphere of a presidential \election year>/ Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, asked a bold taxes after a visit with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, - s>id he had not talked to pemocratis leaders

Runoff Election On In Louisiana Today NEW ORLEANS (UPD — A hillbilly singer who warbled his wa/ to the Louisiana governor’s office once before was favored to do it again today in a runoff primary election with a debonair bigcity mayor. Former Gov. Jimmie Davis, who wrote and made famous the ditty "You Are My Sunshine” before winning the 1944 election, was a slight favorite to beat 47-year-old New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison. Nomina tioh in today’s second Democratic primary is the same as being elected governor in Louisiana, where Republican opposition is minor. Davis’ hopes hinge largely on the weather. Clear weather was forecast, but rain could hold down the vote in rural areas where Davis has his greatest strength. Morrison won the first primary by more than 65,000 votes on Dec. 5, and since then he and Davis have been clawing at each other verbally in a campaign as wild and vicious as any staged by Gov. Earl Long. The man who wins today will replace Long, who cannot succeed himself as governor under Louisiana law. Long, whose wild summer antics in and out of mental hospitals ripped his political career to the extent that he finished a poor third in the race for lieuenant governor, broke his monthlong silence this wee.k to announce his support or Davis. Youths Nabbed Here Ransacking Autos City police remanded several young boys to their, parents Friday night after catching the youths ransacking cars in the G.E. parking lot. The parents all promised quick and decisive action, as the boys apparently did the ransacking as a lark. A G.E. employe, Don Krall, of Willshire, 0., called the police on a vandalism complaint. He told police that he did not know if anything had been taken from his car.

about any agreement this year. The Senate Democratic leadership and the administration agreed in the 1958 election year that neither would launch a tax cutting drive without first consulting the other. This ruled out tax reduction as an election issue by eliminating the political advantage of making the first proposal. - Some Democrats question Eisenhower’s predicted surplus. They say he based it in part on the assumption that Congress would raise postal rates, which it is not likely to 'do. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy north, fair sooth to- ' night with little temperature change. Sunday mostly elondy with little temperature change, with chance of rain or snow north. Low tonight 28 north to 37 south. High Sunday 35-48 north to 46-52 south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy with rain south and rain and snow mixednorth.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1960

Russian Ships Cruise Near Area Staked Out As Rocket Target Area

West Germany Acts Against . Reich Party BONN, Germany (UPD — An alleged > “Neo-Nazi” organization threatened today to defy a government ban on its public meetings, imposed in a sweeping crack down on elements believed to be involved in the outbreak of antiSemitic acts that have swept Germany since Christmas. A spokesman for the German Reich Party (DRP», an ultrarightist group whose week end public meetings were banned Friday, said the party would use "all legal means” to get the ban revoked. The state of Rhineland-Pfalz banned the public meetings only hours before they were to start, Main target was a huge gathering at Kaiserslautern Sunday, in which top national leaders of the party were to participate. But the ban also would apply to committee meetings set for today in five Kaiserslautern taverns, if party leaders went ahead with a plan to open the sessions to the public. First Official Move Chances of the party holding the large meeting Sunday were dimmed Friday night when officials of the Kaiserslautern La?«iwirtwchaftshalle, where the gathering was to be held, announced the DRP could not use it. Interior Minister August Wolters said he cracked down on the congress because “DRP members participated in the anti - Semitic and anti-Democratic outrages of the past days, and leading members of the DRP approved these outrages.” It was the first official move against the party since two of its members daubed a Cologne synagogue with swastikas Christmas eve and touched off a chain of anti-Semitic incidents across Germany and around the world. Young People March In the continuing controversy sufrounding anti-Semitic incidents, West Berlin police Friday night arrested 24 Communists for distributing newspapers that charged the West Berlin and West German governments with prime responsibility for what may be a major resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany. More than 35,000 persons, most of them young people who were too young to have fought for Nazi Germany, Friday night marched through downtown West Berlin to protest anti-Jewish vandalism and demand the punishment of neoNazis. Kokomo High School Junior Is Missing KOKOMO, Ind. (UPD -William Bradley? 17, a Kokomo High school junior, has been missing from his home since New Year’s Day and police learned that his car was found abandoned in Mexico. Bradley vanished under mysterious circumstances with only sl7 in his pockets. Mexican police reported the car was found 21 miles from the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. Missing from the car was Bradley’s target rifle which he apparently had with him when he disappeared after buying $2 worth of gasoline at a Kokomo filling station the evening of Jan. 1. His disappearance failed to coincide with any reasons why he should leave home. Police said relatives and friends said Bradley was in good spirits and had not been involved in any quarrels with his parents or girl friend. Bradley’s father, George, and two' relatives went to Mexico to aid in the investigation. They feared the youth may have met with harm at the hands of someone who stole the car and-drove it out of the country. ' I V ' '"'J T

U. S. Steel, Union Sign Formal Pact

WASHINGTON (UPD — U. S. Steel and the Steelworkers signed a formal contract late Friday night ending their long dispute. The three remaining “big 11" firms are expected to follow suit today. U. S. Steel, the world’s largest producer, was the eighth of the 11 major firms to conclude individual contracts with the union. Great Lakes, Wheeling and Armco probably will sign agreements today. The U. S. Steel contract fal I lowed the general terms laid down in the agreement memorandum ■ pounded out last Monday with the I help of Vice President Richard M Nixon and Labor Secretary ■ James P. Mitchell. ’ Union President David J. McDonald urged, after the U. S. ■ Steel signing, that the union and • the world’s leading steel producers ‘ how the American steel industry can really produce,” McDonald said he hoped the ■ committee on human relations set , ud by the contract would "dem- >• oHstrate tor all time” to Congress ‘ that there is no need to impose legal shackles which “neither the union nor the steel industry want.** He said the committee can pave the way for steel peace. The group is to try to fifa solutions to labor-management problems to avert strikes. R. Conrad Cooper, vice president of U. S. Steel and the chief industry negotiator, expressed the hope that the human relations committee can reach solutions to problems one - at-a-time so that they will not pile up during contract negotiations. Cooper also said that if anyone assumed his company was. not happy with the new contract, “this is not the case — repeat, not the case.”

License Plate Bid Increased To S6O Spirited competitor! came to the bidding on the new Indiana license plates, JA 1960, this morning after a real hustling session Friday. The top bid as of 10 a. m. was S6O by Leo A. King. Sr., of route 3, Decatur. - „ ~ A battle really took hold on Friday, however, according to a running account from Mrs. Velle Death, license branch manager. John Doan, former Decatur mayor, topped the Yost Construction Co. bid of S3O with ja s3l motion. Dr. Edward Peck, local veterinarian, quickly topped this with a $35 offer. Doan retaliated with a S4O bid after he learned of the Peck bid. Things remained at a standstill until late in the afternoon when Paul Strickler of the Adams County Trailer Sales called to ask the top bid. He then offered & $45 bid, which stood until this morning, when King called the branch office to check the bidding.* ~ " .. ,n All proceeds for the bidding will go to the Adams county cancer society, which this year is rebuilding its organization. All bids will be published daily in this newspaper to keep the interest at a high pitch. The bid price does not include the price of the plate itself. . .. Bids may be called m at the branch office or at this newspaper. The branch number is 3-3803, while the Democrat number is 3-2121. Peterson Reelected Hospital Board Head Cal E. Peterson was reelected president of the Adams county hospital board at its organizational meeting Friday night. Peterson has served as president of the board for the past 12 years, j Dee Fryback was re-elected secretary of the board. Other members are C. August .Nagel of Berne, and Eli Dubach, of Hartford township. . ..

Autopsy Evidence Blow For Defense LOS ANGELES (UPD — From the lips of a fellow doctor came the words that may determine whether surgeon Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff will die in the gas chamber. The witness at the murder trial was Dr. Gerald Ridge, who has performed in his lifetime more than 1,800-autopsies. And after examining the body of brunette Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch. 33. and visiting her clifftop home. Ridge put together a story of what may have happened there the night of July 18. It ran completely contrary to the version of an accidential shooting which the defense unveiled Friday with a demonstration intended to show Mrs. Finch had the gun and her wealthy husband wrenched it from her hand. The trial was in recess over the week end. Ridge testified after the sixman, six-woman jury saw the contents of a so-called “murder kit” which the red-haired Carole carried up the steel S-shaped hill to the Finch garage. Asked About Wounds The autopsy doctor actually picked up for the prosecution where Swedish maid Marie Arine ladholm left off in her testimony. The girl had said she saw Mrs. Finch run out of the garage with the doctor after her. Whichello turned to the wounds on Mrs. Finch’s body. Ridge testified that she had been shot in the back, the .38 caliber bullet going through the left shoulder blade and emerging over her breast. She had two skull fractures, the autopsy surgeon said, and there were cuts, bruises and skin bums on both arms, her right leg and injuries to her face and right hand. Whichello asked the doctor to give his opinion of how. where and when the fractures were iifc curred. Body Found On Lawn The first, over her left ear, was suffered in the garage next to the Finch’s red Chrysler convertible, the doctor said. He said blood in the garage and in and on the car indicated that. “Could it have been inflicted by striking her head against the garage wal?” the prosecutor asked. “Yes, it could.V “Could it have been inflicted by a blow from a hard, instrument such as a pistol? “Yes.”

Wheels Stolen Off Auto Last Night Thieves stole a pair of wheels tires and all. from a car parked near the Washington street repair shanty cf the Pennsylvania railroad. They did it the easy way by jacking up the front end of the car, and left the vehicle on blocks. r „ The car, owned by James Maggard of 238 N. Sixth street, was parked near the shanty while he was working. He told police that the theft occurred between 11:30 p. m. Friday and 1 a. m. today. He reported the theft at 2:12 a. m. today. ‘ l—- — Judge Byrd Accepts Case Jurisdiction ; ' Judge Homer Byrd of Bluffton accepted jurisdiction of the Dunkirk election dispute Friday by appearing in the Jay circuit court in Portland. Meanwhile, the Jay county city has two mayors. Republican Richard Overmeyer remaining in office on his contention that he remains mayor until fied. Clifford Bennett is serving as mayor pro tern appointed by the city council, which is 4-1 Democratic, and which goes under the Indiana law authorizing the council to name the mayor.

WASHINGTON <UPD — Russian shipa bristling with electronic gear cruised today near the central Pacific region which Moscow has staked out as a rocket target area. Russia asked other nations Thursday to keep their planes and shipa out of a 45.000-square-mile area east of the Marshal Islands from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15 because they will fire powerful new rockets, designed for heavy satellite and planetary space missions. into the region to test tWr accuracy. Some official sources here speculated that the tests mean Russia is preparing to put a man in space this year. One key U. S. space authority said, "1 would be extremely alert, starting right now, for news that Ahe Russians had put a man in » rocket." The United States does not expect to put an astronaut into orbit until at least late 1961. The Navy said Soviet merchant ships “with considerable electronic gear” have been spotted about 700 miles south of Midway and 1,200 miles west of Honolulu. ’ How big a fleet the Russians are sending to the Pacific region was not known here. ■ The State Department said it would not protest the Soviet stay-out warning to ships and planes. Officials said there was nothing illegal in the Russian W Space scientists were divided over what the Russians are up to. There was speculation that the Soviets are: —Setting up a system for recovering astronauts from manned satellites. , Testing huge rockets consisting of clusters of existing Soviet engines which generate 600,000 to 800 000 pounds of thrust each. —Developing improved .upper stages capable of stepping up the efficiency of their multi - stage vehicles. ' —Testing the accuracy of military missiles based, perhaps, on Kamchatka across the Bering Sea from Alaska. First State Bank's Deposits Increase iDeposits in the First State Bank increased during the past year, as did the amount loaned out, the annual statement of the bank indicates today. Deposits in 1959 increased from $15,209,437.80 to $15,805,210.61. Loans were also up, from $5,115,053.31 to $5,847,653.40. Ten years ago, in 1949, the First State Bank had deposits of $9,179.834.53, and loans of $3,243,756.00, which means the bank had a substantial increase in the past decade in business. The bank has total assets of $17,028,461.10, and more than sll million of this is in liquid form, with slightly less than $6 million in demand deposits. The annual meeting of the bank’s stockholders will be held Tuesday afternoon to elect directors for the coming year.

Seven Removed From Ice Floe

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (UPD — Air Force planes which landed on ice Hoe Charlie in blowing snow and 30 degree below zero weather Friday removed seven more men from the science station. Five civilians were taken off the floe in the first flight as the planes landed on the tiny airship during a half-hour of daylight. Two more civilians were flown out id another flight. Thd civilians brought out Friday said small bits ‘of ice continued to break off the sides of the island during the day and tiny fissures called “spider cracks” have been working their way from the edges toward the camp. They added, however, teat the withdrawal from Charlie is proceeding ip an orderly manner and all equipment, including a D-6 crawler tractor and a Humber of small sleeping huts will be taken out.

Nixon Will Enter Oregon's Primary WASHINGTON <UPD — VicePresident Richard M Nixon made a soft-shoe entrance into the IMO GOP presidential race today. This is his 47th birthday. He dropped the first shoe quietly in Oregon bv informing Gov. Mark Hatfield that he will definitely be in that state’s May 20 presidential primary. Hatfield told a news conference that Nixon apparently had ’‘decided to announce his candidacy in this way.” The other shoe was to fall a little more loudly today in New Hampshire, where Gov. Wesley Powell arranged to file papers for Nixon’s candidacy in the state's March 8 primary — the nation’s first. Nixon’s office stuck to a firm no comment about either event—obviously preferring to let the events speak for themselves._at least momentarily. Now unopposed for the GOP nomination, Nixon has shown no desire to rush the pace of his pre - convention campaign. Some staement from Nixon was expected later today, probably after the formalities have been completed in Concord, N.H. New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller pulled out of the race on Dec. 26. He nailed this down by announcing late Friday that he would ask to have his name withdrawn from the New Hampshire primary if it was entered by persons “pledging” their support to him. ' Greensburg Attorney Seeks Congress Seat GREENSBURG, Ind. (UPD— Herrod Carr, Greensburg attorney - who ran for Congress from the 10th District in 1948 and 1958, an- „ nounced Friday he will seek the Republican nomination again this Carr is a former'Decatut County prosecutor. He rah against for- , mer Rep. Ralph Harvey in 1958. Harvey won the nomination but lost to Rep. Randall S. Harmon in the fan. Sr. Martha Ann Body To Sisters* Convent The body of Sr. M. Martha Ann, C.S.A., native of Decatur, who died suddenly Thursday evening at Yonkers, N.Y., will lie in state at the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes here after 12 noon Sunday. The body will be brought to the Gillig & Doan funeral home and will be taken to the convent at noon Sunday. The body is being accompanied by Sr. M. Vera and Sr. M. Rosemary, former-principals of the Decatur Cathplic high school. Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Monday in St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The rosary will be recited at the convent „ at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

The station is Located approximately one mile from where a 26.600-foot chunk of the ice broke off Wednesday, taking part of the landing strip with it. Eighteen men still remained, the ice island but they were not to be removed until all the $200,-. 000 worth of scientific equipment was flown out. The five civilians brought out to Ladd Air Force Base here in the first flight were • Robert I. Walker, 22. Memphis, Tenn., Warner E. Chapman, 39, St. Petersburg, Fla., Roy E. Willie Jr., 23, Bethesda Md., Thomas J. Herron, 26, Marquette, Mich., and Charles T. Chance, 24, Franklin Lakes, N.Y. The two were brought off the ice floe Friday and so far nine persons have been flown out. NOON EDITION

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