Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1960 — Page 1

Vol, LVIII. No, 43.

Eastern Coast Crippled By Weather, Storm Boiling In Southwest

Study Payola I As Deductible As Expenses WASHINGTON (UPD — The Internal Revenue Service <IRS> has not decided yet whether record companies can deduct ''payola" from their Income tax as a legitimate business expense, it was learned today A top official of the IRS enforcement branch told Unit*ed Press International the matter Was “under active consideration." tie said a decision would be made "pfoi’nptly." He made the statement after Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.) questioned at House payola hearings Friday whether under - thetable payments to disc jockeys to plug certain records were legiti-| mate tax deductions as business expenses. “I certainly hope the Internal Revenue Service starts looking at some of these payments," Moss declared. He noted the House in-1 vestigation had turned up one check from a Boston record distributor to a disc jockey bearing the notation "sales promotion ’ - The IRS has assigned an agent to sit in on the hearings. A second agent has been assigned to coordinate the agency's efforts to track down payola not reported as income by disc jockeys. The IRS allows businessmen to deduct business expenses from their taxable income which are ordinary and necessary and which are not contrary to public policy. The IRS enforcement official who talked to UPI said the agency was trying to determine whether payola was illegal or against public policy The Federal Trade Commission contends that payola is illegal because it is a deceptive business practice. A company in the 52 Pef c e ? 4 tax bracket would save $52 in taxes on each SIOO deducted from its income as business expense.

I ■ ■ — State Department Interference Hit

WASHINGTON (UPD — The chairmanof the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and oher members of Congress have criticized what they called State Department “interference” in California’s reprieve for convict-auth-or Caryl Chessman. Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright (D - the Senate Friday that the State Department took "unprecedented action” by “interfering with the normal carrying out pf justice within a state.” Both the State Department and the White House, however, declared there was no intention to interfere when thy relayed a protest by Uruguay against Chessman’s execution. Assistant Secretary of State Roy R. Rubottom Jr signed a telegram to Gov. Edmund G. Brown informing him of the Uruguayan government’s fears that Chessman’s execution would cause hostile demonstrations against President Eisenhower during his March 2 visit to that country. The department said it was following a normal procedure of notifying state governors of any statement by a foreign country affecting state matters. It denied attempting to sway Brown’s judgment. Brown cited the State Department telegram as one of his reasons for granting Chessman a 60day repieve just 10 hours before he was scheduled to die in the San Quentin gas chamber Friday morning. Other major developments this week - / Defense: Sen. Stuart Symington ™ (D-Mo.) prompted a major Senate debate and an expected presidential reply by accusing the administration of telling congress one thing in secret committee testimony about the missile race 7 and telling the general public

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

| By IWird Press InUrnatioaal Gale-force winds. 20 - fool snow drifts and tidal floods combined to cripple the East today a new winter storm boiled out of the Southwest to threaten the I plains states. I Meanwhile, an ice cold air mass I sent temperatures tumbling as low as 10 degrees below zero in the Midwest. I The eastern storm trapped thousands of motorists and lefttons i of thousands of persons without heat and light when it knocked I out power to the entire half of a Pennsylvania county A southwestern storm was expected to lace the Texas-Oklaho-ma Panhandle, eastern Colorado, central Kansas and northern New Mexico with more than four inches iof snow and 20 to 35 mile an ihour winds . i The weather bureau said the winory blast would spread snow through Missouri and lowa, pdc |up highway-blocking snow drifts and produce hazardous driving | conditions in Colorado, Kansas and the Panhandle. More heavy snow was predicted today for northern New England, with' snow squalls and flurries I continued from inland New York and Pennsylvania south to West Virginia and west across the Great Lakes. At least 14 deaths were blamed on the storm which laid a foot of snow across Dixie tefore beltmg the East and New England with up to 36 inches of snow. I Tennessee counted five dead. Pennsylvania had four. and New Jersey both re ‘*° and there was one in West Virginia. West Virginia suffered u *~ e J’ “ 36 - inch snow fall and 20 - foot drifts and more Uian 1.300 per sons were stranded on New York and Pennsylvania thruways alone. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and warmer with light snow tonight. Sunday continued cloudy with light snow or rain. Low tonight 18 to 22 north, 24 to 28 south. High Sunday upper 20s north to upper 30s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries north.

something else. Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La.) urged the President to order production starts for the Army’s Nike - Zeus antimissile missile. Space: The House Appropriations Committee responded to i urging by the Civilian Space , Agency and granted every penny i of the 23 million dollars admin- , istration request to speed the man - in space project and other space programs. I Civil Rights: The Senate plunged as promised into a full debate , on civil rights legislation. Demo- . cratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson . (Tex.) introduced a minor House bill designed as the vehicle for civil rights amendments. Admin- . istration. farces shelved their votJing rights bill in favor of a more ! detailed version and planned to . offer it in the House. The House . Rules Committee released a rights . bill it had held since August. [ Payola: House investigators uncovered more under-the-table pay- . ments to disc jockeys to plug songs. Foreign Aid: The President ask- ■ ed Congress for a $4,175,000,000 foreign aid appropriation — nearly a billion more than was granted last year. Democratic critics ■ predicted the request would be • chopped by up to a billion dol- ■ lars. Appropriations: The House Appropriations Committee made a record cut in the Post Office Department budget, in spite of a warning the slash might force “nationwide curtailment” of mail 1.. £££¥&*£» Schools: A House education subcommittee approved a three-year 975 million dollar school construction bill. The compromise chopped funds labeled tor teachers’ salaries included in a Senate-pass-ed measure.

Chessman Fate To Legislature

SAN QUENTIN. Calif. (UPD — i The fate of Caryl Chessman rested with the California State Legisla-| ture today and a major fight was brewing over abolition of the I state's death penalty. Chessman was granted a 60day reprieve by Gov. Edmund G. I Brown Friday, who tossed the problem of whether or not to execute the 38-year-old Chessman to the legislature. The Los Angeles sex-rapist was back in his death row cell here, a hero among the 21 other convicts who would be spared the death penalty if the legislature acts favorably on its abolition. Chessman was reprieved just 10 hours before his im year fight to escape the death chamber seemed doomed to end in defeat. Will Be Test The governor chose to make the historic case a test of capital punishment in the state In granting the reprieve, he announced that the entire question of the death penalty will be added to the agenda fat the special session of the state legislature convening Feb. 29. ' - The governor’s announcement 1 immediately brought a howl of protest from angry state legislators who indicated that any bill to abolish the death penalty will have tough sledding in this year's Walsh To Capital Over Port Dispute z INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Secre-tary of State John Walsh announced late Friday he will go to Washington “as a private citizen" 1 to find out why Burns Ditch was selected as a site for a proposed Indiana seaport. Walsh told newsmen of his plans a few hours after Governor Handley replied to earlier charges about the port. The two have been verbally battling. Walsh, a Democrat running for governor, said he had “great fears and misgivings as to the conduct of the governor’s office” and Handley, a Republican in the last year of his term, accused Walsh of “making political hay out of a phony issue." Walsh said he favors an Indiana port but repeated his charge that Handley’s appointment of his friend, Durward B. McDonald of LaPorte and of former state Sen. John Van Ness to the Northern Indiana Lake Front Study Committee was "unfortunate.” Will Ask "Pointed” Questions “I am going to ask the Corps of Army Engineers some pretty pointed questions,” Walsh said of his Washington trip. "Why was one port area picked over another? Why Burns Ditch over Michigan City? The Army Engineers spent two million dollars on Michigan City and it’s only six miles away from Burns Ditch.” Walsh said the appointments of McDonald, from Handley’s home town of LaPorte, and Van Ness of Valparaiso, a former chairman of the Indiana Public Service Commission, “are imperiling the port.” McDonald is in charge of stock sales for former Sen. William E. Jenner’s St. Lawrence Seaway Corp., a land speculation firm. Walsh said he would go to Washington in a week or 10 days and would ask Sens- Homer E. Capehart (R) and Vance Hartke (D) of Indiana to assist him. McDonald Would Resign Walsh insisted membership on the Lake Front committee “conceivably” could mean advance information “about what is going on” in the whole area along Lake Michigan. He said the "very purpose" of the Jenner corporation was to speculate in land in the port area. His objection to Van Ness, Walsh explained, arose because “he was a member of the Legislature which appropriated two million dollars for purchase of the port site, and he now is assistant to the' president of Midwest Steel, which proposes to build in the area.”

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i session. Chessman could therefore still I face execution some two months from now. Eight measures to severely limit or abolish capital punish- ! ment have failed to get through the state legislature in the past 27 years. Hugh M. Burns. Fresno Democrat and a powerful figure in the State Senate, said bluntly: . “I see no excuse whatever for allowing this convicted criminal to cheat the hangman any longer.” His "Toughest Problem” Many lawmakers who oppose capital punishment and who have supported earlier attempts for Its repeal said they could not take the same stand now that the issue had become part of the Chessman case. But Gov. Brown, who has fought many stormy battles with the legislature since taking office in 1958. showed the lawmakers that he meant business by granting delays of execution to four other men scheduled to die during the time of the legislative session. Seventeen others also could ke spared by legislation. ~ The governor called the Chessman decision his "toughest prob, lem” since be took office. i Hartford City Man Is Killed By Train REDKEY, Ind. (UPD—Charles Foreman, 22, Hartford City, was killed Friday when his car was smashed by a Nickel Plate Railroad freight train near here. Six School Pupils Injured In Crash ALEXANDRIA, Ind. (UPD—Six Alexandria High School pupils were injured in a car-truck collision at the intersection of Ind. 9 and Ind. 128 Friday as they drove back to school after participating in a Future Farmers of America poultry judging contest at Frankton. Authorities said Phillip Cox, 16, the driver, disregarded orders to follow the car of his agriculture teacher and took a different route. Two Americans Are Rescued From Sea HAVANA (UPI) — Dispatches from Santiago reported today the steamer Lady Baylou had picked up two Americans who said their plane crashed into the sea near Cayo Santo Domingo off the northeastern coast of Cuba. The dispatches identified the Americans as Alfred and Thomas Cadoo. They were placed under technical arrest aboard the steamer which is heading for Santiago, according to a shep-to-shore report picked up at Villa Degilbara. There was no other information immediately available. Popular indignation oyer another plane incident involving Americans subsided today following formal apology from the United States. Two occupants of the plane were killed when it exploded in flight Thursday near Perico in Matanzas Province. Castro charged the plane came from a field in Florida to firebomb a sugar mill. The U. S. State Department acknowledged the flight originated in Florida and instructed the embassy here to express the government’s regrets. Feelings were further tempered by Castro’s acceptance of American aid into the investigation into the cause of the crash. Two offiCials ofthe CrvUAernautiCS Board were en route here. Documents recovered from the body of one of the fliers identified him as Robert K". Frost of Eugene, Ore. The second man’s identity was not yet established.

Clark Smith Seeks Board Renomination flfll fl * Clxrk W. Smith Clark W. Smith, of route 4. announced today that he is a candidate for reelection to the Adams Central school board, representing Washington township, subject to the Democratic primary May 3. Smith and his family live two miles south of Decatur on highway 27 on a small farm. His two daughters, Jeanne and Debbie, are presently attending Adams Central. 1 Smith is now completing his first term on the seven-man Adams Central school board, which includes elected members from each township, plus the township trustees from Kirkland, Monroe, and Washington townships, and one man appointed by the board. Injuries Fatal To Adolph L. Fossler PORTLAND, Ind. (UPI) — Adolph L. Fossler, former Indiana state treasurer, died late Friday in Jay County Hospital here while undergoing surgery following a traffic accident. Fossler, 63, 0 Indianapolis, suffered a crushed chest and his wife, Dorothy, 52, was injured when their state-owned car collided with an auto driven by Cletus Bunker, Oaklawn, 111., at the intersection of Ind. 1 and Ind28 south of Redkey last Tuesday. Only eight days before his death, Fossler announced officialy he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for state treasurer subject to the party’s state convention next summer. He was assistant safety director for the State Highway Department, with which he had been affiliated since he left the treasurer’s office in 1958 Fossler also was a former state tax commission chairman and Richmond resident. He was in critical condition since the accident but was reported slightly improved about 24 hours after his arrival at the hospital. Mrs. Fossler, who was still hospitalized, was listed in satisfactory condition. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theatre “ Beavers Oil Service, Inc. —° Bower Jewelry Store --— 3 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Butler Garage ... •--- 3 Briede Studio — ----- — 3 Citizens Telephone Co. ---- 3 Decatur Ready-Mix, Inc. 6 Fairway —- —— 3 > ® Vernon Frauhiger 3 Green Belt Chemical Co. 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Goodyear Service Store 5 Holthouse Drug Co. 5 Haflich & Morrissey ' 6 Klenks ® Rash Insurance Agency 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency — 5 Smith Drug Shaffer’s Restaurant ----- 3 Teeple “ Victory Bar —— 4 Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc. 6 Zwick Funeral Home - 4 Church Page Sponsors 2

Pre-Convention Banquet March 15 Plans are bring completed for an arva-wkte Sunday achonl work ' era and pa«tor. banquet that will tSTlii th*- county leading up to the I Indiana rtatr Sunday whonl convent ion in Brmr M«> 5 and • Th.banquet will br held In thr new. educational building of the Men-j nonitc church In Berne Turaday l evening. March 15 at 8 30 pin. Earl Chase. Decatur, and Stuart l-ohman, Berne, are co-chairmen of the banquet. Lehman la the I pretudent of the Adams county' Sunday school association and Chase Is a member of the board of i state officers of the Indiana Sun-i day school association. Various' committees are being appointed for the banquet. Special music I and reports about the program ot< the state convention will be a part ’ of the banquet. Clate Risley, national secretary of the national Sunday school association, will be the featured speak-j er at the banquet. Risley was in Adams county several years ago when he was the speaker at one I of the fall county Sunday school I conventions. He is well-known throughout the entire nation for i his tireless effort in promoting Sunday school work. He was one, of (he leaders in the three national Sunday school conventions that were held in the United States | last year. His articles on Sunday; I school work have appeared in all the leading religious periodicals' throughout the nation. One of his, best-known articles is his reply to an article ttnrt was* published about the loss of an hour that was spent in Sunday school on Sunday morning. All pastors, Sunday school superintendents, and teachers are urged to make reservations for the banquet. Letters announcing the banquet, dates of reservations, and prices will be sent-to all the pastors in the area in the near fu- j ture. All workers in Sunday schools are asked to contact their pastors for further information. Ike Furious Over Symington Charge WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower, already furious at any suggestion that he deliberately has misled the American people, will defend his military policies Sunday in the wake of a new missile deception charge. Sen. Stuart Symington <D-Mo.), a Democratic presidential aspirant, set off a major senate debate Friday by accusing the administration of telling Congress one thing and the public another about the missile race. against Russia. Symington declared the administration “does not have the right , to give information in secret to , Congress which shows the missile gap is widening in favor of the Sovet and at the same time inform the public that the gap is ' narrowing.” But, the former Truman administration Air Force secretary ’ charged, “That is what was done this year. And that is one of the primary reasons for the present confusion. The American people are paying the bill . . . They are

Give Statistics On New Prince

LONDON (UPD—Queen Elizabeth’s third child, a boy born Friday, weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces at birth, Buckingham Palace announced today. The new “baby Windsor” was not quite so lusty in weights at birth as his older brother Prince i Charles, now 11, who weighed in at 7 pounds 6 ounces. But he beat , big sister Princess Anne, now 9. . who weighed 6 pounds when she was born. ' The statistics on the infant’s birth were released shortly after another announcement from the palace that Queen Elizabeth and the baby had spent a good night and are “both very well.” Now with the release of the vital statistics, millions of the Queen's loyal subjects around the world were reassured the new royal heif- was indeed a fine.! healthy baby. The notice was posted on the Buckingham palace fence. , Withhold Other Details Thrilled Britons now had the; facts about the infant’s weight, but they were destined to wait an unknown period of time to find out his length, the color of his eyes and hair, and other distinguishing characteristics. Today’s announcement was limited to weight. PrinceJPhilip, an early morning caller on the Queen, was so satisfied all was well that he decided to go to a rugby game this after- j noon at Twickenham, just outside London, between Royal navy and air force teams. ■ i This was to be a rare “family

Wk ■( ** m W **i\ W' • V< ■** '—l i : >3W „ /kwHHMT 1 HUNT REWARDS MOTHER—A IJ.OOfr-mile hunt for her two children paid off for Mrs Margaret Sobol when she was reunited with her son. Walter Ainslcy. 7. left, and Shirley Francis. •. right, in Cleveland. Ohio. The British mother started her search six months ago in India when the children were removed without farewell by their father. Walter Sobol, a U. S. citizen,

Orders Probe Into Manuals

WASHINGTON (UPD — The’ head of a congressional investiga-' tion of a controversial Air Force 11 manual said today the nation is, in trouble if important military training booklets are as "bad" as I j several instruction pamphlets]’ ■ disclosed recently. Chairman Melvin Price (D-TIIJ l of a House armed services sub-’ i committee looking into an Air Force training manual linking i some U. S. clergymen with Communism said, “the several man-h uals that have dome to light, make you wander just how se- ; cure we are.” Price added, “if the really im-i' portant manuals — those essen- * tial to training and combat — are qs bad as these, we’re in trouble ” I He made the statements after' i Defense Secretary Thomas S. Il Gates Jr. ordered a Pentagon I investigation of all non-technical military manuals to weed out 1 matter that is inappropriate, in- i ' accurate or “lacking in good taste or common sense.” In addition to the churches-and-Communism manual, a number of Air Force trainng books have been made public giving detailed instructions for washing officers’ entitled not to be misled by false statements.” An angry President told his news conference Wednesday “if anybody — anybody — believes that I have deliberately misled the American people. I'd like to tell him to his face what I think about him.” He branded any such charge as "despicable.” Eisenhower will step back into the great election - year missile debate Sunday night in a nationwide radio-TV address. He was expected to reiterate the administration position that the nation has sufficient military power to deter Russian aggression. ~ NOON EDITION ~ I A. 4

. weekend” at the palace. Prince. ; Charles was staying home from. . Cheam school at least through [ Sunday afternoon. Prince Philip ; and his daughter were at home and so were Queen Mother Elizabeth "Granny Royal” and the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret: “Aunt Margot”. "Granny Royal” was proved a prophet. She predicted weeks ago her next grandchild would be a boy. i A first public look at the royal i baby—in a photograph or in per-1 son — was not expected for some time to come, however. Ancient and atomic age pageantry — from a 62-gun salute at the tower of London to a jet fighter squadron flyover—unfolded around Buckingham Palace to- ' day as the day-old prince took his I place in the 1,133-year-old royal history of England. Described as “Lovely” The new heir, described by royal obstetrician John Peel as “a lovely baby,” was reigning today tin a makeshift nursery on the ' ground floor of the palace. His ears would burn if he could hear or understand all the nice things being said about him. Prince Philip was first in to see : the Queen after the birth took.: place. He dashed out of her room < I beaming the traditional ■papa's grin “It’s a boy.” he ; • said, somewhat unnecessarily. Princess Anne. 9. joined elder ! brother Prince Charlies, 11, in . examining their little brother. “Oh. he’s so sweet, isn’t he?” i she said. No comment from 1

’ - , - — .1.1 aiMina I »■ dogs, mixing drinks, using the knife, fork and spoon, and rounding up dates for bacchelor offl- f; cers. The lawmaker suggested with tongue in cheeck that the staff member look for a military manual on how to write] military manuals. “That's ope manual they very definitely need,” Price said. Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp announced Wednesday that the pamphlet linking clergymen and Communism had been withdrawn after an angry protest from the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The booklet was part of a training course on security for non-commissioned air reserve officers. Chairman Francis K. Walter <DPa.) of the House Committee on un-American Activities defended the manual's statement that the National Council of Churches sponsored the revised standard version of the Bible and that 30 of 95 persons working on the project had been "affiliated with pro Communist fronts, projects and publications.” Two Men Killed As Car Hiss Fentepost GREENSBURG, Ind. < UPI) — Two mpn were killed and a woman was injured today when a car skidded out of control on a gravel road near here and smashed into a fencepost. The dead were identified by state police as Elmer LCe Johnson, 25. Adams, and William Albert Mounce. 32. R.R. 2. Edinburg- Marjorie Howe. 35, Adam#, sustained fractured ribs and frozen feet and was taken to Decatur County Hospital here for treat- ! ment.

. Prince Charles. 1 The Queen’s three Welsh corgis barked jealously on hearing the unfamiliar cries of the baby. It was apparent the new resident of the palace had upset things a .bit All over Britain, the man and I woman on the street were as • curious as so many doting aunts ' and uncles. Some estimated the : baby would lustily top Charles’ 17-pounds,~6 ounces at birth. Adjoins Orleans Room , a The baby lay in a blue - ribboned cradle used in past years by his mother, brother and sister. The royal cradle sat on a gilded frame in the small blue and white room adjoining the regal Orleans room in which he was born. This may be the closest he will ever be to his mother’s side over an extended period. In a month B , he will be taken in hand by the royal nursery to begin his training as a member of the royal family, Until his parents announce their choice of a name for him, the newcomer at Buckingham is referred to as "a royal prince of the house of Windsor.” His two nurses are less formal — they call him "baby.” The London Daily. Sketch opened a "name the prince” game. Queen Elizabeth picked ancient Stuart names for Charles and Anne and many precited that the baby—first child born to a reigning monarch in 103 years—would be christened James. - t —. - x - r - -•

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