Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 14.

Four Children Killed As Bus Hit By Train

STEVENSON, Ala. (UP!) — At least four achool children were killed and at least eight critically injured when a school bus and a freight train collided early today at a rural crossing. The driver. Charles Beavers, was injured but not critically Two of the dead and two of the injured were believed to be nieces and nephews of the driver. The bulk of the bus wreckage was found under the Southern Railway train. « The bus had been taking the children to a grade and high school at Stevenson, just south of the Tennessee border in the north-

Asks Housing Program To I Be Continued WASHINGTON (UPD - President Eisenhower asked Congress today to continue most existing federal housing programs without expanding them. He also renewed a request, turned down by Congress last year, for higher Interest rates on GI home loans guaranteed by the Veterans Administration. Elsenhower told the lawmakers in his fiscal 1961 budget that the program of direct VA home loans to veterans should not be extended beyond its scheduled expiration next July 25 . The President’s message said ” -legislation will be requested only for the authority necessary to continue important existing programs and provide necessary to continue important existing programs and provide necessary flexibility in interest rates.” The budget showed that some housing dollar outlays will rise in the fiscal year starting July 1 as the government makes good on obligations authorized under present law. u _ Eisenhower again asked Congress to permit the VA to raise the maximum interest rate on guaranteed GI mortgages to 6 per cent. It is now fixed by law at s¥« per cent. Because market interest rates are much above this level, little loan money is available for GI mortgages, the President said. A speedup in slum clearance activity will require an extra . $50,000,000 from Congress to be spent by June 30, the President Repayment of past dollar advances will lower net urban renewal outlays from $197,000,000 m 1960 to $172,000,000 in 1961, although disbursements actually will rise. Subsidy payments to help communities finance low-rent housing

Japan Leader To Sign Pact

By STEW ABT HENSLEY United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, a « minor league war >rteninal who became a niajor league ally, is here to sign a longterm military and economic pact with the United States. The 63-year-old premier, who arrived Sunday night for » threeday visit, withstood the assaults of Japanese Communsits and Socialists plus the vituperation ot Russia and Red China to work out the new alliance against Communist aggression. - With President Eisenhower looking on, Kishi and Secretary State Christian A. Herter will sign the treaty Tuesday Simoon in the East Room of the White House where President Buchanan received the first Japanese mission 100 years ago. Eisenhower and Kishi will confer Tuesday morning. The President win give • luncheon in Kishl’s honor following the conference and the Japanese leader then Will go to the State Departmoo* for further talks. Vice President Richard M. Nixon met Kishi at the airport and paid tribute to Kishi’s unrelenting struggle to keep Asia’s major industrial nation, with its population of 90 million, firmly in the camp of the western democracies. It was just 12 years ago that

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least corner of Alabama. The accident occurred between the small I towns of Fackier and Stevenson, both northeast of Scottsboro. Ale. The collision occurred at a point where the highway crosses the tracks after peraleling them for several miles. The children were rushed by a relay of ambulances to the Jackson County Hospital in Scottsboro and North Jackson Hospital in Stevenson At least one injured child was taken 50 miles to a hospital in . i Chattanooga. Tenn.

projects will rise from $130,000,000 to 1960 to $146,000,000 in 1961 The President said that he was not asking Congress to authorize additional low-cost housing beyond the 37 000 dwelling units provided for to the 1959 bousing law. By June 30. some 500,000 public housing units, mainly apartments, will be occupied and another 125,000 will be under construction. Eisenhower forecast.

Daniel Kaehr Dies Here Early Sunday Daniel Kaehr, 78. retired Adams and Wells county farmer, died at 4:30 o'clock Sunday morning at his home. 344 Oak street, following an Illness of two years with complications. He was born in Wells county Dec. 9. 1881. a son ot Mathias and Mary Aeschliman-Kaehr. and had lived to Decatur for the past 15 years. He was married to Ida Baumgartner March 3, 1968. •Mr. Kaehr, after moving to Decatur, was caretaker for several years of the Legton memorial park on Winchester street. He was a member of the Christian Apostolic church. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters. Mrs. EsteUa GQliom, Mrs. Carl (May) Hirschy and Mrs. True (Irene) Gephart, aU ot Decatur; seven sons, Roy, Lorse, Ivan and Lester Kaehr, all of Decatur, and Harry, Ed™ B ”* and Harvey Kaehr, all of Fort Wayne; 24 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren, a n d uree brothers. Joseph Kaehr of Decatur ( and Jacob and Reuben Kaehr, both ot Bluffton. One son, three daughters, three brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m. Wednesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Christian Apostolic church, the Rev. SBT ” Aeschliman officiating. " Bunal will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services.

Kishi was released from Suga mo prison in Tokyo where the Allies had kept him for three years as a secondary war criminal. He was “purged" from ever holding public office but this ban later was lifted. The Japanese-American security treaty continues the right of the United States to base military forces in Japan, but under conditions which recognize full Japanese sovereignty. It replaces a pact hurriedly drawn in 1951 along with the general peace treaty which the Japanese have felt merely continued the occupation in many respects. An attached exchange of notes gives Japan an implied veto power over how the United States can use its Japan-based forces—--85,000 men, most of them in fighter wings of the U. S. Fifth Air Force. The agreement requires the United States to consult with Japanese officials before using these ’ forces for hostile action in other countries or under the United Nations Command in Korea. The treaty, subject to ratification by Congress and the Japanese Diet (parliament), is in effect for an initial term of 10 years and will continue idefinitely unless one r'riy gives a year’s advance notic* X tennintaioa.

Heavy Snow In Midwest Area Moves To East United Proas latenisUeasl , A heavy snow storm laid down four Inches of fresh snow through the heart of the Midwest today and swept eastward with treacherous rain, freezing drizzle and snow. Only light snow continued falling to the States hardest hit by a weekend storm, but strong winds drifted a 5-10 inch snowfall in Nebraska and Kansas Up to eight inches of snow covered southern lowa and extreme northern Missouri. The storm pushed eastward early today through northern Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Indiana, southern Michigan and northern Ohio with depths up to four inches. Hazardous driving conditions were posted in all the affected states. . . . . ... , Eight persons had lost their lives in accidents blamed on the weather, including five in auto accidents in Colorado, two in Missouri highway mishaps and one by freezing to Texas. Snow flurries, freezing drizzle and rain moved south of the storm path, through southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and turning into rain while moving southeastward into the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. , . Many of Nebraska s main highways were threatened with closure. as deep drifts limited motorists to one-way traffic in many spots. . . In Colorado, police closed a 25mile stretch of U.S. 40 and a 31mile section of U.S. 24 Sunday night because of blinding snows. Temperatures during the day were to plunge far below freezing from Minnesota and Wisconsin southeastward through Kansas and Kentucky and into the Gulf region. Light snow was for the north Atlantic coastal staets, while rain was expected over the south Atlantic states. Temperatures of zero to 10 above chilled residents through Nebraska. Kansas. lowa and Missouri. and the mercury was in the 30s to the far West and from Texas northeastward through the Ohio Valley and into eastern Pennsylvania.

Low Traffic Toll In Slate Over Weekend United Press International Indiana’s weekend traffic death toll was held'to an unusually low total of four, despite a doublefatality accident near Gary Sunday. The weekend deaths raised the 1960 fatality toll in Indiana to at least 46. Virgil Loy, 47, Logansport, and Mrs. Opel Smith, 34, R.R. 1, Hobart, were killed on U.S. 6 just west of the Gary city limits when a pickup truck driven by Loy turned into the path of a big semitrailer driven by Phillip Strahin, 27, North Canton, Ohio. Strahin’s truck smashed Loy’s and shoved it into a third vehicle driven by Russell Pogue, 40, Hebron. Strahin and Pogue were unhurt. Horace Bepler, 63, Muncie, was killed Sunday night when a car in which he was riding collided headon with a truck in U.S. 40 south of Greencastle. Authorities said a truck driven by Jerry Stout, 25, Bentonville, Ark., tried to pass another truck driven bv Donald Burks, 31, Mooresville, when a car driven by era Howjell, 61, Muncie, crashed into Stout’s truck head-on. Rowell was driving east in the westbound lane of the dual-lane highway, po 1 ice said. Howell. Stout and Burks were injured and taken to Putnam County Hospital. The only other weekend fatality occurred Friday night, victim was Emil Burson, 16, East Chicago. Burson’s car went out of control on an East Chicago street and smashed into a utility pole. INDIANA WEATHER Heavy snow warning extreme north. Snow extreme north this afternoon and tonight with accumulation new snow 2 to 4 indies. Cloudy with occasional rain or drisrie central and sonth probably changing to snow flurries late this after* noon and tonight. Turning colder this afternoon and eveningColder tonight. Tuesday cloudy and colder with snow flurries north half. Low tonight 15 to 25. High Tuesday 24 te 36. Hasardous driving warning for central portion cancelled. Suneet today 5:48 p.m. c.d.L Sunrise Tuesday 8:62 a.m; e.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Variable cloudiness and eo 1 d with chance of snow flurries northwest. Lows Tuesday night 16 to 18. Highs Wednesday mostly in the 295.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Jan. 18, 1960.

$79 Billion Budget Is Submitted To Congress By Eisenhower Today

Urges Caution In Cashing Os Checks City police chief James Borders urges all store owners to the Decatur area to scrutinize all checks very thoroughly as the forgeryartist is still working this area. The latest victim, whose name was withheld for obvious reasons, cashed a 858 check signed to Paul H. Reiter, whose name has appeared on all the checks stolen from Scott-Seiling Corp, of Fort Wayne. The check passed here, however, was from a book from the Peoples Trust Co. of Fort Borders said the check was passed this weekend in Decatur. He further requests that merchants and proprietors check all Identification of a checkpasser. and if they have any doubt to refuse the customer, or call the police if they the man to be connected with file Reiter case. The Scott-Sailing checks have been passed in the Fort Wayne-Decatur-Bluffton area ever since they were stolen .last October. Chief Borders reminds that the checks have been for as high as sßQ,and the store owner will stand Sw entire loss* _ Adams County Sixth |)i CROP Campaign Adams county ranked sixth in the state in the CROP drive this year, as compared with 12th in 1958, and the drive produced sllO.$4 in the state, the Rev. Gerald L. Wilson, state director of the church world service-sponsored drive, said today. Rev. Wilson made the report in the Indiana Church Councilor. Adams county ranked sixth behind Elkhart. Shelby. Carroll, Miami, and Porter. Silvan Sprunger, of Monroe township, and Hugo Boerger, of Root township, headed the Adams county drive this year.

Democrat Reaction On Budget Skeptical

WASHINGTON (UPD — Democrats reacted skepticaly today to President Eisenhower’s budget forecasts. Republicans praised ; <them. Congressmen of both parties agreed there is little if any . chance the $4,200,000,000 surplus he • foresaw will materialize. Democrats were quick to note that the President’s spending plans for fiscal 1960 contemplate cutbacks in a number of welfare programs. They said Congress is ’ not likely to buy these reductions. - Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting the President’s plea for higher postal rates and another increase in gasoline taxes. “The people must view with caution the President's estimate of a

Advertising Index Advertiser Pa< * A&P Tea Co. —— 3 Adams Theater ----- ° Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5,7 Bower Jewelry Store 2 Budget Loans ’ Butler Garage ... —— ’ Burk Elevator Co. — « Briede Studio — 2 Buick -- * Cowens Insurance Agency 7 Ellenberger Bros., auctioneers . 6 Haugks — * Holthouse Drug Co. —• Holthouse Furniture Store ...—- 8 Indiana University 2 Kelly Dry Cleaners — 2 Kent Realty & Auction Co. .... 5 Merl Knittie. auctioneer 6 Masonic Lodge » Myers Cleaners 3 Marge & Charges Dance Studio . 2 J. J. Newberry Co 6 Old American Life Insurance Co. 4 R. K, Parrish, M.D. „ - 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency Smith Drug Co. 3, 4 Shafter’s Restaurant • Stucky & Co. T —..———— —ts-* E. C. Stucky Soil Service - 8

f ’ •’X'l THE FEDERAL BUDGET ~ ’'“"“I™ *84.0 5/9.0 K. rfi I NATIONAL SECURITY ■ $43 7 INDIVIDUALS I MS( I Jit. ■ aan I B > I — ■ * INTEREST $96 $23 5 CORPORATIONS aJn. £ I . J. IXveterans $5.5 [ , -J.® $9.5 EXCISE TAXES ALL OTHER sl3 5 I I UDGET BREAKDOWN — Simplified, this is the nation’s budget breakdown for the coming fiscal year—as outlined by the Fresident in his budget message to Congress. __

Seek Contributions To March Os Dimes Letters to Decatur business and professional men asking for contributions to the March of Dimes have-been mailed out by M J. Pryor, member of the city drive committee for the National Foundation. Stamped, addressed envelopes have been included to facilitate the -speedy return of checks and money. Aiding Pryor in the preparation of the mail appeal were Misses Mary Miller and Betty Walters.

$4,200,000,000 surplus for the new fiscal year,” said House Democratic Leader, John W. McCormack (Mass.). "We should, recall that in January, 1958, in presenting the budget for fiscal 1959, Eisenhower forecast a surplus of $500,000,000. We ended that year with a $12,500,000,000 deficit.’’ House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) saw the budget as a Republican challenge to Democratic and “dogooders” and called on the public to support the President and econ-omy-minded members of Congress in their determination to hold the line on spending. .Hep. Lee Metcalf <D-Mont.). chairman of a liberal Democratic bloc in the House, said he was “shocked and appalled’’ at the President’s proposal to terminate or cut back existing programs in Se field of water pollution, hospiI construction, and veterans and college housing. Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mpnt.) said that the President’s forecast of a $4,200,000,000 surplus m#kt year was based on “ifs, and buts.” Mansfield said that he doubted Congress would “look kindly ’ on the requested hike in gasoline taxes and in postage rates. “The President is in no position to indicate a possible tax cut next year even if his assumed surplus comes through,” Mansfield added. “That will be the responsibility of the next president and the 87th Congress.” "T - Senate Republican Leader Ever* ett M. Dirksen (Hl.) said if Congress follows the recommendations “the surplus can be achieved." _ “The whole responsibility rests on the shoulders of Congress since Sunder the Constitution it is the pnly_body. UL EWerMOSM has the authority to appropriate funds out of the federal Treasury,” Dirksen said.—

'Hie polio bowling sweepstakes will toe held in February instead of the current month, according to an announcement by Gerhard Schultz, chairman of the event. The First State Bank will sponsor the tourney this year and will donate the trophies. Due to circumstances beyond control, preparations could not be made in time to start the sweepstakes this month. Decatur’s teen-agers, who have contributed greatly to this year s March of Dimes, will conduct a balloon sale on the streets of Decatur next Saturday, all proceeds going to the fight against polio, birth defects and arthritis in children. The Adams county sheriff's department has co-operated in the drive for lands by distributing coin cannisters i all places of business throughout the county. Persons in the rural areas who have received mailing pieces with return envelopes are urged to send lin their contributions promptly. I These people will receive no per- ! sonal solicitation and this is their opportunity to give to the National Foundation. It has been pointed out that most of the $2,000 spent on polio victims last year, was expended on persons living in the county’s rural areas.

Ike’s Visit To Russia In June

WASHINGTON (DPI) — President Eisenhower today seemed likely to reject demands that he take a long Democrats on his for* eign travels, particularly his June trip to Russia. The-White House announced that the Chief Executive, who flew backdate Sunday from a quail hunting weekend in southwest Georgia, would make a 10-day visit to the Soviet Union June 1019 Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) immediately suggested that Eisenhower invite Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to accompany him on the Russian journey. Mansfield Idea Spurred Mansfield and former President Truman also want Democrats, included in the Eisenhower party at the May East-West summit meeting in Paris.—~ ; On the Russian trip, Mansfield said, it also might be a good idea to include Sen. Alexander Wiley fR - Wis.), ranking Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee. - By inviting leading members of the Senate to the summit and to Russia, Eisenhower would insure

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower pent Congress today a "pay our own way" budget geared to the biggest tax eduction year in history and the fattest Treasury surplus since 1948 He proposed a $79,816,000,000 spending program which envisioned: . —A boom year for business and pers»>nal income —No tax cut this year, but a $4. 1M.000.000 surplus he hoped could pave the way for tax relief later — possibly in 1961. * —A crackdown on tax cheats. — A new half-cent a gallon boost in gasoline taxes. —New postal rate increases, including a five-cent letter and an eight-cent airmail stamp. -Doubled space spending with a hope of rocketing the first American into space in 1961. —A 41 billion dollar defense program, with the accent shifting to missiles. Propose* Welfare Cuts In the teeth of a Democratic Congress in an election-yeur mood to expand programs, Elsenhower proposed whittling a number of federal social welfare activities. He phrased his philosophy this way: “I believe our people have the determination to hold expenditures in check, to pay their own way without borrowing from their children, to choose wisely amogg priorities, and to match sound public policy with j»r;vate initiative." Here is how the budget for the 1961 government bookkeeping year that begins July 1 stacks up against estimated spending in the current (I 960 yedr. in billions oi dollars: 1968 1961 Receipts 78 ® 84 0 Spending 788 Surplus 02 Biggest single spending item is defense—4l billion dollars. The national objective — “peace with justice for all peoples." “Our hope,” the President said, “is that the heavy burden of armaments on the world may be lightened. "But we should not delude ourselves. In this era of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles disarmament must be safeguarded and verifiable. The problems in achieving (this). . are tremendous. Yet we must face up tc these problems for the only alternative is a world living on the edge of disaster." Revenues Should Soar Uncle Sam’s total tax take next year is expected to soar to an all - time high of $102,178,000,00C or one fifth of the estimated gross national product of $510.,000,000,000 also a record. But only part of the revenue—and spending — show up in the budget. For example, the huge sums collected in Social Security taxes, as well as the estimated $11,700,000,000 in benefits to be paid old folks next year, are funneled through a special trust fund.

“continuity in foreign policy Mansfield declared. Administration officials took a dim view of Mansfield’s proposal. They noted that past Democratic presidents, notably Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman, took no Republican senators with them on their foreign trips. Plans Announced Sunday Plans for the state visit to Russia were announced Simultaneously in Moscow and Albany, Ga., where Eisenhower spent a hunting weekend at the Blue Springs plantation of W. Alton Jones, board chairman of the Cities Service Oil Co. Details of the Russian trip will be announced later. The only city currently on his itinerary is Moscow, but Eisenhower plans to go to several other Soviet cities in repaying the visit to this country last September by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. . There was no immediate word on whether Mrs. Elsenhower would make the trip. This would depend on the type of schedule because she does not take well to arduous travel, and also, on the condition of her mother, Mrs.. John S. Doud, wfio has been seriously ill in Denver. Colo.

They are not reflected in the budget itadtf. The President's surplus is admittedly “iffy." a tact congressional Democrats are sure to seize upon. In part, it hinges on the accuracy of bi* forecast of a whopping W* per cent increase in the nation's total output this year, this in turn stimulating a $4,700.000,000 boost in the income tax take. Elsenhower also based his revenue esimates on the expectation that Congress will •'ogtinue all present taxes and raise federal levies and fees for item* ranging from postal service to patents to the tube of 9663,700,060 a year. In an election year and with a politically hostile Congress, this is viewed as a shaky premise at best , * . A fellow Republican, In fact. — said Sunday Eisenhower would be lucky to wind up with two-thirds of the huge surplus he expects. GOP National Chairman Thruston B. Morton said the surplus probably would not exceed $2,800,000.000 even if spending is held to the proposed level, since be doubted very much that Congress would vote either the postal rate or gasoline tax hikes. President Challenges Congress Nevertheless the President, in a message spiked with Impfied criticism of Congress, challenged the lawmakers to “jpln with me Jn. a determined effort to achieve substantial surplus.” Eisenhower's mess age contained few surprises. One reversal was his plan to earmark money to begin construction of 30 new public work* projects. For the past two years his administration has adamantly opposed any new starts of water resource* projects. His view that the federal government should withdraw from domestic spending programs wherever -possible was threaded throughout his budget. On the labor front, Eisenhower said he would seek funds to implement the 1959 labor reform bill, as well as legislation to extend unemployment compensation to cover three million more workers and expand coverage of the " Fair Labor Standards Act. Rules Out Tax Cut Once again he called to’ removal of the 4% per cent interest ceiling on long-term government securities. He noted that interest on the national debt now has climbed to 12 per cent of total federal spending and warned that it could rise even higher if the ceiling isn’t removed to give the Treasury more flexibility in selling securities. The President ruled out a tax • cpt this year, declaring with emphasis that any money left over should be used to retire part of the national debt, estimated to be $284,500,000,000 next June 30. Eisenhower left open the possibility of tax reductions later, however, if spending is held down now and “reasonable' restraint is exercised in the future.

His foreign aid budget was lit-_ tie changed: from an estimated $3,350,000,000 this year to $3,450,000,000 next. The newr „ economic assistance, economic assistance, 000.000 tor defense support, and _ 000,000 in outright military aid. Named Principal Os Zion Lutheran School Smith F. Snively has accepted the call of Zion Lutheran church in Decatur and will become principal and fifth Krade Uacher at the Zion parish school next rah. / according to an announcement made at services Sunday by the ' congregation’s pastor, the Hev. Richard C. Ludwig. He is PresentI ly teaching at Emmaus Lutheran school in Indianapolis. Snively, who has a master s de ’ gree in education, will move to ! Decatur shortly after July 15. , Plans for his installation at the local church will be a y I later. The local congregation began its *? f^r l teacher and the first four . years ago. Each year an adftoon- , al higher grade has been added. , Mils Evelyn Nussbaum is presernHJeadung grades one and two, jtpfitar Norma Von Stroh teaches the third and fourth grades. —

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