Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 29.

Retired Army Chief Os Staff Says Civilians Set Military Policy

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, retired Army chief of staff, charged today that budget-minded civilians have "unfortunately" taken over military policy making from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taylor, now retired, told a Senate hearing that the three military leaders on the Joint Chiefs of Staff try to think objectively about the nation's overal defense needs but are forced to think instead in terms of fixed budgets. While Taylor was testifying Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Thomas D. White told the House Space Committee he thinks more money should be spent for an airborne bomber alert system. White also said that in his opinion the shelved 870 bomber should be developed “as rapidly as possible.” The Air Force chief, however, said his views had been rejected by his civilian superiors and he accepts their decisions. White also said that in view of the furor which has developed, it was "unfortunate”- -that Gen. Thomas S. Power, chief of the Strategic Air Command, had spoken out so strongly in support of instituting an immediate around-the-clock airborne alert of his bombers. But on the other hand, he seemed to give qualified support to Power’s view. “Until our early warning system...is in operation—and working on the assumption that Russia has a significant number of missiles —it would be prudent to have a certain number of aircraft on alert," White said. In his testimony, Taylor toki the senators that instead of being free to consider free world defense needs, military strategists at the Pentagon have been "frozen” in their thinking by fixed budget percentages. He declared that to halt a declining trend in U.S. military afrength, “heroic” measures in- \ 'men, money and sacrifice” are needed Immediately. “The alternative is military inferiority,” the retired general sh a .rd tnere is no living long with communism as an inferior.’ Taylor testified before the Senate’s combined space committee and its armed services preparedness subcommittee. * New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner said Eisenhow- “ er's space and defense programs had "all the order and clarity of a bowl of spaghetti well soused in sauce.”

Bad Faith Is Charged U.S.

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Soviet Union today charged the United States with bad faith in breaking off negotiations on settling Russia's lend-lease debt. A statement by the Soviet embassy'said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made it plain in his Camp David talks with President 'Eisenhower last fall that settlement could be made only if the United States agreed to relax trade restrictions. The statement said U.S. representatives at the talks refused to discuss either this or the granting of long-term credits to the Soviet Union. The talks were broken off last week.The embassy said Khrushchev at Camp David “pointed out...that the substance of the question lies in the removal by the United States of the discriminatory restrictions on the trade with the U.S.S.R. and in the permission to the American businessmen to trade unrestrictedly with the soviet Union.” American officials said the Soviet statement puts the two countries at "cppojsite poles on the lend-lease issue. They said the U.S. understanding of the Camp David talks was just the opposite—that only lendlease would be gUt neither side has a transcript. The State- Department has offered to resume negotiations any time the Soviets will limit the talks to lend-lease. The Soviet Union received more than 10 billion dollars in lend

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In a prepared speech to the Women's National Democratic Club Meyner accused the administration of soft - pedalling the widening gap between our missile and military programs and those of Russia." He said the U.S. space and defense programs lacked "leadership from the top or from any direction." Names Workers For Bloodmobile Visit Names of workers for the Red Cross bloodmobile visit next Monday wexe released today by Mrs. Cletus B. Miller, chairman of the Red Cross blood program. Eight staff aides will help at the Youth Center from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m., during the hours that the b'oodmobile collects blood, Mrs. H. Engle, chairman of the aides, announced. Those on duty will be: Mrs. Max Kreps, Mrs. Louis Zwick, Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs. Noel Burton. Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. Ed Bauer, and Mrs. Clarence Smith. Mrs. H. H- Krueckeberg and Mrs. Dan Tyndall will help on transportation to and from the Center. Persons desiring to give who are not scheduled for a regular time may walk in at any time. Mrs. Lee Fleming, chairman of the canteen committee, announced the following workers: Mrs. Lucile Miller, Mrs. Charies Beineke, Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. Stella Srhnepf, Mrs. Woodson Ogg. Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Miss Susan Custer, and Mrs. L. E. Archbold. Nurses who will help are: Mrs. Florence Aurand, Mrs. Pete Meyers, Mrs. Harold Whitright, Mrs. Wilbert Fuelling, Mrs. Clarence Black. Mrs. Burdette Custer, Mrs. Lawrence Hutker, Mrs. James Inskeep, Mrs. Dan Kwasneski, Mrs. Mark Colchin. and Mrs. Norval Rich. Doctors who will make necessary checks are: Doctors G. J. Kohne, Norval Rich, Harold Zwick, John Terveer, John Carroll, and C. W. Freeby; alternate doctors, R. K. Parrish and Arthur Girod.

lease aid during World War 11. The actual debt was scaled down to about two billion dollars to cover only civilian-use items still in the pipeline at the end of the war. During lengthy negotiations in 1947-1948 and again in 1951-1952 the United States offered to settle for 800 million dollars. The highest Soviet settlement bid was 300 million dollars. The Russian statement also charged that U.S. refusal to grant trade concessions as a part ot the lend-lease settlement violated the World War II lend lease agreement between the two countries. The Russians said that this agreement provided that the debt should be settled on terms which would eliminate “all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce,” including reduction of “tariffs and other trade barriers.” . President Eisenhower was asked at his news conference Wednesday about the break-off in negotiations. He said the Soviet attempt “to put two or three ether problems together with the lendlease alks was a typical maneuver and there was nothing done." “Hut it doesn’t mean that sooner or later there won’t be something done,” Elsenhower added. The Russian statement said the Soviet Union “is ready at any time to continue the negotiations” to settle the lend-lease debt if the U.S. agrees to “simultaneous normalization of the economic relations” between the two countries.

Mrs. Chas. Peterson Dies Last Evening Mrs. Maude T. Peterson, 78, of 521 Penn street, died at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday evening at the South View rest home at Bluffton. She had been in failing health for three years with complications. A lifelong resident of Adams county, she was born in St. Mary’s township Nov. 15, 1883, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fuller, and was married to Charles A. Peterson in August of 1901. Her husband preceded her in death. Mrs. Peterson was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, and the Royal Neighbors. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Eugene Melchi of Decatur, and Mrs. Lynn Shirk of Fort Wayne; one son, Ralph C. Peterson of Goshen; 14 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one brother, Ralph E. Fuller of Rochester, N. Y., and one sister, Mrs. C. L. Custer of Pleasant Mills. One son. one daughter, four brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Sens. Kennedy And Humphrey Test Strength

WASHINGTON (UPD — Sens. John F. Kennedy .(D-Mass.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) squared off today for a second presidential primary contest —this time in West Virginia. Kennedy was prepared to announce at a news conference that he would enter both the West Virginia primary May 10 and the Indiana primary May 3. Robert Barne, director of the Humphrey campaign committee, was en route to Charleston to file the necessary papers and the SI,OOO fee to put Humphrey in the West Virginia race. Vote Not Binding Humphrey previously announced he would enter West Virginia and had challenged Kennedy to a contest there. Both already have entered the April 5 Wisconsin primary. West Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd, both told United Press International they intended to remain neutral in the KennedyHumphrey contest. said the outcome would have “no great significance” in view of the faet that the vote will not be binding on West Virginia delegates to the national convention. Kennedy had planned to make his announcements today at Charleston and Indianapolis, but rescheduled his news conferences for Washington. He wanted to remain here to answer expected Senate roll calls on the aid-for-education bill. Meet In Oregon In addition to their contests in Wisconsin and West Virginia, Kennedy and Humphrey are expected to be in the May 20 primary in Oregon, where a new state law compels the entry of all nationally recognized presidential candidates. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) told newsmen Wednesday that he was seriously considering running against Kennedy in the Maryland primary May 17- He said he would make a decision by Saturday. Morse already ~ has announced that he would be in the Oregon primary, where he will compete against a field of candidates, and the District of Columbia primary. where he will face Humphrey. /

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1960.

Classes Resumed At Hartford City

HARTFORD CITY. Ind. (UPD—I Classes were resumed in city | schools today with officials trying | to act as though the absence of a principal and two of his teachers was due to illness instead of double murder and suicide. School Supt. EP. Blackburn barred newsmen from the William Reed elementary school where 44-year-old Leonard Redden went berserk Tuesday and shot to death two of his teachers before their horrified pupils. He then drove to a lonely woods and killed himself with the same gun. "We are doing just like we we would do if a teacher were absent with the flu,” Blackburn said. "We brought in substitute teachers and we are trying to, have normal school. We are not going to talk about what happened Tuesday. The boys and girls are more ready to go on than we are.” But Ralph Grimme, one of the teachers threatened by Redden after the principal had killed Mrs. Minnie McFerren. 62. and Miss Harriet Robson, 52, disclosed that j one change was made this morn- ' ing which would not have been made normally. Pupils of the sixth and fourth grades were moved into the two rooms where last Tuesday the 40 fifth graders taught by Mrs. McFerren and Miss Robson sat. The change was ordered by Blackburn and the school board. Today, the fifth graders studied and recited in two strange rooms where their eyes cannot go to the spots on the floor where they last saw their teachers lying dead with blood spurting from their wounds. Grimme said the fifth graders probably will continue in the new rooms for the remainder of the school year. “Everything is calm and quiet." Grimme insisted. "We are pretty sure everything is going to be all right.” Neither Grimme nor Blackburn would say how many of the youthful witnesses to the tragedy were absent from school today. “From here on,” Blackburn insisted, "our schools are going to be out of the spotlight if I have

School Aid Measure Debated By Senate

WASHINGTON (UPD —The Senate debated today a proposed four-year program of federal aid fbr school construction and teachers’ salaries that would allot S2O for each school child. The Senate returned two and a half hours earlier than usual after staying until 11:06 Wednesday night to work on rival aid-to-edu-cation proposals. The lawmakers were scheduled to hold a memorial service for the late Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) and then begin debate on a 880million dollar construction-salaries proposal by Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.). Monroney offered the measure as a substitute for a Democratic plan that would grant" states 500million dollars a year for the next two years, only for construction. Clark Voted Down Late Wednesday night, the Senate rejected by a 44-44 tie vote a measure by Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) to provide $1,100,000,000 or more yearly for an indefinite period for school building and teachers’ wages. Clark’s move was turned down after Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.) told the chamber that President Eisenhower had advised him he wanted "no part” of a school aid bill thatj provided funds for salaries. X Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) said he hoped for a final vote on an education aid bill Friday. It appearedlikely senators would meet close to midnight again tonight. Other congressional news: Economy President Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers told the Senate-House Economic Committee in prepared testimony that Congress should

anything to do with it. Our schools I are going to be just like schools down in Podunk, Muncie or Indianapolis. How many children were absent from the fifth grade is something we just are not giving out because we are trying to have a good, normal school.” But school in Hartford City will be dismissed again Friday. This time to allow the pupils and teachers to attend funeral services for Mrs. McFerren and Miss Robson. Last rites for Redden, a twice-wounded World War II veteran. will be held Saturday in the First Christian Church where he was Sunday school superintendent. This quiet central Indiana tosvn of 7,000 was shaken by the inexplicable school tragedies. But the hardest task of all fell to mothers who had to bring their children through their first meeting with violent death. Mrs. Dorothy Markin, a vice president of the school's ParentTeacher Assn., calmed the fears of her 10-year-old son Doug with two sleeping pills prescribed by a doctor. “I dread Doug's going back, she said. "It's a good idea to shift classes so the children don’t have to go back to the same rooms. Their eyes would go right to the spot where they last saw their teachers." Must Accept Reality “Even little children have to accept reality,” Mrs. Dean Jackson, mother of Tommy, 11, said. “But I wonder/* she mused, “if the real thing were any more terrifying than some of the things the children see on television.” In the Reddens’ grief-shattered home, the principal’s wife. Hazel, 40. tried to shield her children from the horror of her husband s rampage. , "I can't give up, she said. 1 have my two sons, one in the third grade and the other a freshman in high school. The older one is all broken up, but the little one hardly realizes what has happened.” "I know they need me. I m going to try to hold up for them if I- can."

1 . 1 guard against another recession. 1 Management spokesmen urged a ' crackdown on inflation, which ' they said was "caused by union wage, demands. Poll tax: Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) of the House Judiciary Committee -rejected President Eisenhower’s suggestion to expand a proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw poll taxes. Celler said the measure would be “too large a target to fire at ’ if provisions were added to extend House terms to four years and to allow the President to veto separate items in appropriations bills. Strikes: Rep. John J. Rhodes (R-Arz.) intriduced a proposed amendmefit ■*;to. the Taft-Hartley Act which would let striking workers vote periodically on whether to end a walkout. Rhodes said in a prepared House speech that his bill would require the National Labor Relations Board to hold votes every 45 days during a strike on the best management offer. —. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Friday. I Ratu spreading over south and I possibly central portions tonight, continuing Friday. Not so cold north tonight. Low tonight ranging from the upper 20s extreme north to the upper 30s extreme south. High Friday 38 to 44. Sunset today j 6:08 p. m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 7:49 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Lows in the 30s. Highs 35 to 45.

Syrian Forces Moved Toward Critical Zone By t'niled Pre.. The bitter border dispute between the United Arab Republic and Israel worsened today with the dispatch of strong lank-led Syrian forces toward the demilitarized zone south of the Biblical Sen of Galilee. Fresh troops and battle equipment were Ix-lng moved toward the embattled demilitarized zone .village of Tawafk on the Israeli- ■ Syria border despite an urgent [United Nations plea that both I side* withdraw all military force* from the area. ; Neither side had so far responded to the U N. request, and at the •United Nations in New York. Is[rael and the United Arab Repub- ' lie traded charges of aggression Widnesday night in letters to the UN. Security Council. Israelis and Syrians at the trouble spot remained at wary arms length and there was a temporary lull in the 10-dy series of border incidents that threatened to touch off the Middle East powder-keg. UPI Correspondent Zaki Salama reported from the Arab side of Tawafik that for 30 miles north of the village roads were clogged with tanks, armored cars, and trucks moving south. Trucks carrying scores of Syrian soldiers moved bumper to bumper along the rough desert roads. In the hills overlooking the demilitarized zone, a network ol trenches could be seen, connecting a complex of bristling gun emplacements. As the trigger-tense .Israelis and Syrians eyed each T Saad Kamal, of the U.A.R. Northern (Syrian) Region Command, charged Israel with “massing troops and armor” in the craggy hills overlooking the village. And at the same time, in. Jerusalem, Israeli Premier David BenGurion warned his people to be ready to face a “grave, perhaps decisive military test.”

Membership Goals Are Set For Scouts Membership goals for each Boy Scout troop. Cub pack and post in the south district have been set so that the Anthony Wayne council can reach 10.000 boys during the Ziner, Adams section chairman, golden year of scouting, Eugene said today. South district had a goal of 1.366 for 1959, but reached only 1.212 by January of this year. Since each scout must recruit one other new scout to receive the 5 oth anniversary achievement award this year, the membership goals should be easy to reach, he explained. Every unit that had 50 members December 31 of 1959 must have at least the same number Nov, 30 of this year to qualify for the membership award. Goals set, with number in the troop Dec. 31 and the number needed Nov. 30 are: Dec. 81 Nov. 30 45.49 1 scout 40-44 2 scouts 35-39 3 scouts 25-29 s scouts 20-24 6 scouts 15-19 7 scouts 14 or less 8 scouts "The number registered Nov. 30 must be a net gain, not just new members; in other if there are 14 scouts in your troop,” Ziner explainer, “and you lose four of them, you must actually gain 12 scouts to show a net gain of eight.” x. Advertising index Advertiser pae *“ Adams Theatre - Affolder & Miller ----5 Beavers Oil Service. Inc. 5 Burk Elevator Co» Butler Garage —— " Briede Studio •» Bukets .... ® Decatur Sport Center -7 Equity Dairy Store 2 Goodin's Market — ° Goodyear Service Store —4, 7 ■ Masonic - -7 Myers Auto Sales- 7 Model Hatchery — » Niblick & Co. —-— f L Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Standard Food Stores 8 J. F Sanmann, Auctioneer 4 Scmitt Meat Market — 2 Smith Drug Co. 3. 5 Stewarts Bakery 3 Sheets Furniture Co. 6 Shaffer’s Restaurant.»— 3 Stucky & Co. -J 5 Sonotone of Eastern Indiana -.4 Dell Shaw, Auctioneer ----- 4 Stop Back News Stand s™. 5 Sudduth Market 8 Teeple 5 Victory Bar 7 Walls Honey Products, Inc. — «

STANDS PAT—Gen Thomas 8. Power, left, head of the Strategic Air Command, stands pat on his statement that Russia could knock out U. S striking force in 30 minutes with 300 Power s warning was tagged "unrealistic by Defense Secretary Gates, at Senate hearings on Soviet missile strength. At right is Lt. Gen. Bernard Schriever. Air Research and Development Command. -

Rail Strike Threat Eased

CHICAGO (UPD—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers agreed today to submit its wage dispute with the railroads to binding arbitration. The union’s action wiped out the threat of a nationwide strike by the men at the throttles of the nation's freight and passenger trains. The railroads agreed Wednesday to a proposal by the National • Railway) Mediation Board that the carriers and union, locked in unsuccessful negotiations and mediation efforts since early last fall, submit their wage differences to an arbitration board. A BLE spokesman in Cleveland said there were no strings attached to the decision by the 40.000-membcr union. The engineers union’s action heralded a possible peaceful settlement of the entire railroad wage dispute, which involves four other operating unions (on - train employes) and 16 non - operating unions. The engineers traditionally are the pace-setters in railway way negotiations and their settlements with the carriers often form a pattern for the industry. Mediation efforts broke off last week in a parallel wage dispute between the railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive foremen and Enginemen. The mediation board has not yet proffered arbitration in that case. ■ ,_ — ~ I The Switchmen’s Union of North America, the Order of Railway, Conductors and Brakemen and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, together with the non-oper-ating unions, also have been negotiating under mediators. The switchmen's union threatened an imminent break-off. The engineers' decision to accept arbitration did not apply to the work rules dispute, in which the railroads sought major revisions to save them, by their estimate, more than $500,000 annually. Negotiations over work rules have not yet reached national bargaining teams. It was understood that the out. will ask for a six-man arbitration board, made up of two union representatives, two railroad representatives and two public memk>crs. ■» The union has sought a 12 per cent wage increase and the railraods demanded the engineers take a 15-cent-an-hour pay cut. If the union had rejected the NMB proposal, it would not be free to strike until 30 days had elapsed, and complicated Railway Labor Act machinery could have held up a legal strike for at least 60 dys. Breakin Reported At Heller Building A break-in at the Heller insurance and real estate office in the Heller building on East Monroe street was reported to city police by Robert Heller this morning. Heller told police that the building had been entered between 6 p. m. Wednesday and 9 a. m. today. Police investigated and | found that access to the building had been gained through a rear door on the east side of the building. ... Heller reported a cash box with SB-10 in silver missing The police are continuing investigation.

East Europe's Red Countries Sign Document MOSCOW (UPD — Eastern European Communist countries today signed a document that may be a declaration of their policy on East-West issues. A Soviet journalist said the text of the document would be released later by the Tass news agency. Soviet and foreign journalists were called to the elaborate St. Catherine throne room in one of the Kremlin palaces to witness what was called a "Signing ceremony.” . , But what exactly was signed was not revealed to the approximately 70 newsmen present. The signing came at the end of a one-day meeting of the eight members of the Warsaw Pact. The premiers and first secretaries of the Communist parties of 'Albania. Bulgaria. Romania. I Czechoslovakia. Hungary Poland East Germany and Nikita Khru- , shchev for the Soviet Union each signed four times—either copies of lone many - paged document, or I four different documents. 1 Approximately 75 leaders of the ! various Communist countries were on hand for the 30-min Ute ceremony, as weD as observers from Red China, Viet Nam, Mongolia and North Korea The observers did not sign the document. . ... The premiers and party first secretaries convened in Moscow Monday for what was announced at first as an agricultural meeting However, two days ago it was announced that following the agricultural meeting the members of the Warsaw Pact would con fer. -r-r?—-Up to now. Soviet newspapers have made no mention of the current gathering of the Communist leaders. Funeral Friday For Mrs. Etta Hoover Funeral services for Mrs. Etta Hoover, of Convoy. 0.. who diet! Tuesday after an extended illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the H. D. Smith funeral home a. Convoy. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery, Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Alvie Dulin Dies After Long Illness <,Alvie Dulin. 21, died Wednesday at the Irene Byron hospital at Fori Wayne; where he had been a patient three years. Surviving are the parents. Coy Dulin. West Liberty, Ky.. and Mrs. William Nickells, of east of Decatur; a brother and four sisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Friday in the Riverside Mission church, on the Jay-Adams county line. Burial will be in Gravel Hill cemetery near Bryant. Friends call at the Nickells home until time of the-services.

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