Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1960 — Page 1

Vai. LVIII. No. 56.

Senate Reconvenes For More Record-Shattering Debate On Civil Rights

WASHINGTON (UPD — The «till-de*dkx-ked Senate. mildly refreshed by a Sunday of rest, reconvened at noon today for another week of record - shattering civil rights debate. No signs of any break in the deadlock developed during the one-day time out taken by the senators. Both sides in the fight were prepared for another gruelling round of night-and-day debate. , . Most of the senators spent the recess from 5:31 p m. Saturday to noon today catching up on their sleep and renewing an acquaintanceship with their families. Democratic Leander Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas told United Press International he hoped some decisive votes on the controversial legislation might be taken this week but conceded he did not know whether this was possible. In last week’s slx-day session. I the Senate set two endurance records without any significant votes being taken. The new week also posed the i likelihood of both branches of Congress debating civil rights at the same time. House debate is scheduled to begin Thursday on a milder civU rights bill. It has become more and more apparent that the Senates main hope for a solution lies in action on a House-passed bill. Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen (III.) said passage of a House bilL could shorten Senate debate. I The determined Southern bloc of 18 senators, fighting all civil rights proposals, was weM organized and showed no signs of halting its talkathon. The Senate took a welcome Sabbath recess at 5:31 pm e.s.t. Saturday after staying in session for 124 hours and 31 minutes, except for a 15-minute recess. The previous record was 85 hours and 23 minutes in 1954. with a 24-minute senators also * ad “ session continuously for 82 hours and three minutes without any recS. The old record was 54 hours and 10 minutes in 1915. Ladies Graduate In Mass Feeding Course A total of 15 Decatur area ladies graduated recently from the mass feeding class, sponsored J° ln “y the Red Cross and the federal civil defense administration. Miss Lois Folk, instructor, said today. The "graduation exercise" included the feeding of disaster rations to 50 people at the Decatur fire station, where classes were held. Included in the class were Mrs. Richard Ma Hand, Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. Ben Eichenauer, Mrs. Chalmer Bollenbacher, Mrs. C. Doyle Collier, Mrs. Herbert Fravel Mrs. Lee Flemming, Mrs. Dwight Whitacre, Mrs. W C. Schnepf, Mrs. Howard E. Habegeer. Mrs. Henry Heimann, Mrs. Schwaller, Mrs. Robert Railing, Mrs. Woodson Ogg, and Mrs. Charles Beineke.

Ike Returns To Washington

RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE, Puerto Rico (UPD - President Eisenhower wound up a four-day holiday in the Caribbean sun today and took off for Washington and a report to the American people on his ‘‘Operation Amigo tour of Latin America. Eisenhower’s Air Force Boeing 707 jet was airborne at 11:57 a.m. and headed for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., just outside Washington. . With him were his son Maj. John Eisenhower, a White House aide, and his daughter-in-law and four grandchildren. The President looked tanned and fit. He apparently was wellrecovered from a throat irritation that bothered him last week. Eisenhower got in a final round of golf on this Strategic Air Command’s own course this morning before he headed home after more than two weeks in Latin lands. Tuesday night at 7 p.m. the Chief Executive will go before the American people via radio and

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Taxpayers Warned On Tax Consultants WASHINGTON (UPD — The ] Internal Revenue Service has warned taxpayers to beware of ■’consultants" whose advice on Income tax returns could land the taxpayer in prison. The IRS said Sunday night that the taxpayer is responsible if a false return is filed, even if someone else filled out the forms. The agency emphasised howI ever, that there are competent 1 and ethical consultants, company cashiers, bookkeepers, lawyers, i auditors, accountants, bank employes and others who provide .valuable advisory services. It cited examples of some dis--1 honest operators who have gotten taxpayers in trouble with the government. One shady operator in Milwaukee collected from clients amounts Ihe told them they owed and kept I the money without filing their returns. The clients still had to file returns and pay Uncle Sam later. a general rule, the IRS warned taxpayers to avoid consultants who have no permanent place of business, claim they can get a big refund, ask a per--1 ceniage of an anticipated refund 'or suggest listing false exemptions and deductions. Indianapolis Man Is Shot To Death INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Charles E. Germaine. 60. an Indianapolis landscape gardener, was shot to death Sunday, apparently when a householder mistook him for a burglar. City police said Charles R. Padgett, 36, fired a single shotgun blast at Germaine when the gardner broke a door glass. Authorities said Germaine apparently had been injured elsewhere and may have been seeking help when he was shot.

New Hampshire’s Primary Tuesday

WASHINGTO N(UPI) — Political map-readers will watch the New Hampshire presidential primaries Tuesday for fresh clues to show where voters are heading in this presidential election year. The clues could be provided by write-in votes for president or vice president, or strong showings by supporters of presidential candidates other than Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass ). New Hampshire traditionally bolds the nation’s bellwether presidential primary. The next test

'• television and tell them that North Americans should give friendlier • and more serious consideration to the problems of their neighbors to the south. .. The President is not expected to advance any program of new substantive aid for South America. Rather, he will concenrtate on the need for greater understanding between the two cultures of this hemisphere. The President originally had considered delivering the speech tonight. s i Then he decided to add an extra day to his weekend in the Caribbean sun to give his scratchy throat a chance to recover from the strain of exposure i and constant speaking on his tour of Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Sunday afternoon the Presi- : dent’s voice still was a bit husky but was vastly improved over Fr- ' day when he had to apologize pub- i licly for it during a speech at ! nearby Dorado Beach. I

LONG WAIT OVER— Mr and Mrs. John Armonas kiss in Copenhagen Denmark, after being reunited. Mrs. Armonas and her son. John Jr., were permitted to leave their Soviet home to join Armonas and daughter Donna, of Wickliffe, Ohio. They had been separated since World War II. *

Decatur Firemen Answer Rural Call The Decatur fire department answered a call Saturday night at 11:20 o’clock to a roof fire at the I Tommy Bayr residence on U.S. 33, east of Sunset park. No estimate of damage was listed as it was a rural fire. Former Is Killed By Pile Os Baled Hay NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (UPD — Fred De Beck, 44, was killed Saturday when a pile of baled hay toppled on him as he worked on his father’s farm west of here. His father. Aloes De Beck, 72, was hospitalized at Mishawaka with possible internal injuries. Authorities said the accident happened when the men attempted to remove several bales of hay from the bottom of a pile about 30 feet high. They dislodged the top bales and were crushed as they fell.

will not come until Wisconsin votes four weeks from Tuesday. Nixon Unopposed On the Republican ballot in New Hampshire, Nixon is unopposed in the direct presidential preference vote. On the Democratic ballot, Kennedy has only nominal opposition from Paul C. Fisher, a Chicago manufacturer. A conspicuous blank space on the ballot almost invites write-in votes from persons dissatisfied with the principal candidates. Write-in votes for vice president also are permitted. A spectacular write-in vote for Nixon in 16 helped stall Harold nomination of the vice president as President Eisenhower’s running mate. Backers of both Nixon and Kennedy will be pressing for a big vote. Comparisons will be risky, however, because Republicans normally outnumber Democrats in New Hampshire by a substantial margin. Elect Convention Delegates In addition to the presidential preference balolting, New Hampshire voters will be electing delegates to the national political conventions. Democrats will choose 20, each with half a vote, and the GOP will elect 14, each with one vote. Other political developments over the weekend: —Kansas Democrats wound up their state convention without indicating clearly who will get the state’s support for the presidenial nominaion. Organizers for both Kennedy and Symington claimed a majority of the 21 Kansas votes at the national convention. —Sen. Herman E- Talmadge (D-Ga.) predicted that Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler ‘‘won’t last long” as party leader after the July convention. Talmadge also hinted at a possible Southern walkout by saying Southerners will “begin to resent” their role in the party.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 7, 1960.

Heavy Snow Slowed Delivery 01 Mail Heavy snows during the past week, and county roads that were closed daily by drifts, slowed and delayed but did Lot stop the rural mail carriers, the post office department said coday. During the early part of lasti week a few isolated customers were missed, but the worst day was Thursday. On that day 56% of the 405 miles of rural route could not be covered—22B miles. Route 3 had the most miles of inaccessible route, 57 of the 69] miles. Route 4, with 16 miles of the 68-mile route undelivered, was. the best. Route 4 can get to most 1 of his patrons by two different 1 ways, permitting service even when one route is closed. Snow Slows Driving All of the routes were greatlyslowed by the snows, reporting back to the post office late in the afternoon. By Friday most of the county roads were passable, and some of the rural cariers were able to deliver all of their mail, some missing only one or two patrons. Saturday was about the same. On Friday, route 5 still had 22 miles of his 67-miie route that he sould not deliver. Delivery By Route The following breakdown of last Thursday’s delivery by route will explain where the mail could not be delivered: Route Length/ UndeMiles livered 1 .. 68 51 2 69 31 3 69 57 4 68 16 5 67 50 6 .... 64 23 Today country roads were reported open one-way Only, which meant laborous backing to turnoff spots for passing. All of the county schools were open, and buses were reported arriving slightly late, but without any trouble. • - .

cjCenten Wleditation (By Rev. W. C. Feller, Zion Evangelical, and Reformed Church) “The Benign Look” Read Galatians 6:1-10 Do we mistake the benign, kindly look of God weakness? Does the thought of His mercy cause us to live under the illusion that He is an easy mark and that we can impose on His goodness? Do we think that because God is gracious and loving we can get away with something? If so we are greatly mistaken and are fooling ourselves, not God His benign look does not denote weakness. It [does not mean that He overlooks the sin of man and allows it to go unpunished If God allowed sin to go unpunished, who would fear Him? Men would trifle with Him. they would mock Him. Behind that benign look is the fact of His justice and holiness, and an omniscience that sees through all our disguises. We cannot pose or pretend before God. Rest assured, we caimot escape the laws ot God's righteousness. Treat the laws of God lightly in the moral world and the result will be the same as disregarding the laws of nature.- A man’s harvest in life will depend entirely on what he sows. Wheat from wheat and weeds from weeds; golden grains of truth, righteousness and good character or the blackened seeds of sin.

Record Cold Marks Are Set Over Weekend United Presx mation* New light snow fell over Indiana today as temperatures moderated from the coldest levels ever reached in March. Dawn found a new blanket ms, white spreading across the state, from Lake Michigan to the Ohio | River. But forecasters indicated it would not add more than It?; inches to. the depths already ac-| cumulated from the most wintry. week of the season. Temperatures were relatively moderate this morning, far above sub-zero levels reached Sunday, but still far below normal for this 1 time of year. A 9-below-zero reading at far-i south Evansvile Sunday set a. new record for the entire month . of March in nearly a century of official statistics in that citv. Previously, the coldest reading in ■ March at Evansville was 5 above] zero in 1899. "TaTavettc was even colder at 10 below. Terre Haute had —7 and at Indianapolis the —6 was a new record for the date and also, equalled the all-time March low set in 1943. , ‘ I But this morning, teenperatutes ranged from 10 at South Bend to 12 at Indianapolis to 15 at Evans-] ville and 19 in the Louisville area. The qew snow iced highways, some of them already slippery | and covered with packed snow . from previous storms. It raised. the accumulation at South Bend ito 11 inches, at Goshen to 8 I inches, at Lafayette to 7, at Fort Wayne to 6, at Indianapolis to 5 and at Evansville to 4. Forecasters had good news for Hoosiers who have had enough of the cold and snow that was so late in coming after most of the winter season had passed with moderate temperatures and little snow except for the far north. A little warmer weather was due the middle of this week and considerably warmer by next weekend. Little precipitation is expected this week and it will come in the form of light snow or flurries late in the week. * - Temperatures nevertheless will average 4 to 10 degrees below normal highs of 38 to 55 and normal lows of 23 to 38 during the next five days. Sunday highs were well below freezing. Indianapolis’ 20 was the lowest maximum. Evansville had 24, Fort Wayne 25 and South Bend 26, and Louisville had 30. Today’s highs will range from the low 20s to the upper 20s, tonight’s lows from 8 to 14 north to 12 to 18 south, and Tuesday’s hi ß hs fiom 33 te 32. The outlook for Wednesday was mostly cloudy and a little warmer. The new snow was expected to end by late afternoon or evening except In the Lake Michigan area where flurries will continue.

Profit Reported By Hospital For Month • The Adams county memorial I lawpital reported a profit of 82." I *33 29 for (he month of February. Thurman I. Drew, butlne** managar, aaid thia morning. Th<- profit thu month compare* I favorably with * lo*« of 84 902 07 Itn January, and a profit <>( only 8321.03 a yaar ago The ion *o far thi* year la II 968 71. compared with a toM of 96 059*2 at the ■ame time la»t year. The hoaI pital showed a small profit last i year, in spite of the high coats during the year, allowing the I county com miss loners tn end the, nnr-cent levy for hospital operation. The operating balance on hand Feb 1 was 98 762 86. and collected I dtiringWle month was 831 999 90 . • for a total cash un hand figure of I i 840.762 76 Bill* for the month of February 1 totaled 810.720 9C, and the month-1 , lv payroll for nearly 100 employe* I was 811.345 66. for total expense* 'of 829.066 61 The operating cash I I balance on hand March I was •: ‘ $11,696 15. A total of 209 patients were ad-; mitted during February, as com- | pared with 197 in January. There ] were 50 adults and nine babies in | i the hospital Feb. 1. and 13 patients , and two babies died during the! j month, with 190 adults and 65 ba- j bies dismissed. This left 56 adults I and nine babies in the hospital' i March 1. During the month of February I three sets of twins were born, and 67 babies, with 34 boys and t 33 girls. A total of 198 outpatients were . treated in the laboratory, x-ray, and emergency rooms during the j month. Sophia Schamerloh Dies Sunday Night I I Mrs. Sophia Schamerloh. 87. who resided in Madison township, i ; Allen county, four and one-half ’ miles southwest of Monroeville, died at 11:05 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been seriously ill for the past four weeks. She was born in Root township Nov 2, 1872, a daughter of Frederick and Verena Lehrman, and was married to Fred,Schamerloh Feb. 17. 1901. Her husband pre- ■ ceded her in death Feb. 14, 1943. Mrs. Schamerloh, a resident of Madison township since her marriage, was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Surviving are two sons, Paul Schamerloh, at home, and Edwin Schamerloh of Peru: and one daughter, Miss Della Schamerloh. at home. Six brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at St. Peter’s Lutheran church, the Rev. F. W. Droegemuller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services. Marshall Smitley Dies Unexpectedly Marshall Smitley died suddenly at 4 a.m. Saturday at Phoenix, Ariz., where he was vacationing. He is survived by the widow, Lucille: two sons, Harry and George. Both of Phoenix; four grandchildren: a sister, Mrs. Philip Baker of Decatur, and three brothers, Melvin Smitley of Corunna, Mich., and Gerald and Russell Smitley, both of Decatun_:_ . Funeral" services and burial will be held at Phoenix.

Movie Actors Go Out On Strike

HOLLYWOOD <UPD — The nation's glamour girls and movie heroes grabbed their mink coats, hopped into imported sports cars and roared off to their Beverly Hills mansions today in the first actors strike in filmland history. More than 14,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) walked off the seven major motion picture lots in a row with movie moguls over ‘‘residual” payments for post-1948 pictures sold to television. The strikers included some of the richest show-people in the world — Marilyn Monroe. Marlon Brando. Gina Lollobrigida, Doris Day, John Wayne, Cary Gran* and Jimmy Stewart. But the glamorous celebrities won’t be marching in picket lines carrying placards. , f No Picket Lines Most ..of the millionaire stars will be lounging around their swimming pools, visiting night spots, taking trips to Europe and throwing parties. ' A spokesman for the SAB said

I louse Opens Debate On Space Program

WASHINGTON <UPD The I I Hou** launch*-- * "dollar* and I ****** '* debat* today on the adminlatrattan request l<< 915 mil- > lion dollar* to run the nation's, *p*cr program in th* next fiscal i year. There ha# been con«ide r able 1 congressional Democratic crltl- j clam about the program* of the I I National Aeronautic* and Space Administration <NASA>. both coni corning the amount* of money the ■ civilian group asks and for what 1 I it use* the fond*. The President asked In his I budget for 915 million dollar* for; ;the year beginning July 1 and] i NASA endorsed the exact amount. Some congressmen have said; ] the agency isn’t pushing hard 1 enough and ought to ask for more, money In order to catch and pass 1 the Soviet Union in the prestige j race for space supremacy. Other* have charged the na- ] tion'a security was at stake in a ] military sense by what they term ' the failure of the administration !to hurry development of super rockets and orbiting, missile-warn-ing satellites. Rep. B F. Sisk (D-Calif.l, a member of the House Space ComI mittee, declared Sunday that "a ] new world cannot be conquered with pennies.” I Six Sections Give Red Cross Reports Obed Steffen, reporting for section 4 of French township, is the second Red Cross rural solicitor to report 100% donations during the first week of the campaign, Homer Winteregg and Silvan Sprunger. co-chairmen of the drive, said this morning. Other section leaders who reported this past week included Herman Bultemeier. of Pretole section 9. who turned in $2, and ' Eugene Sehlemmer of Union township 3, who turned in 88. A total of six sections and two individual gifts were reported for the week, for a total of 847.50. Winteregg and Sprunger urged all township chairmen to report their sections as soon as they collect them from the section workers. A total of 82,549.50 remains to be raised in the rural drive. James Worden Dies Early This Morning James C. Worden. 85, of Decatur, died at 1:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital after an illness of six months of complications. He was born in Adams county June 11. 1874, a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Worden, and was a lifelong resident of the community. Surviving are his wife, Clara; three daughters, Mrs. Eli Andrews of Decatur, and Mrs. Chauncey Putt and Mrs. Robert Houk, both of Fort Wayne; four sons, Arthur G. and Kenneth F. Worden of Fort Wayne, Charles Worden of Homer, Mich., and Floyd Worden of Albion. Mich.; 31 grandchildren; 22 great-grand-children, and one sister, Mrs. Nellie Meyers of Decatur. One son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Gillig & Doan funerai nome, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Burial will -be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services.

picket lines would be unnecessary because, “nobody ever heard of scab actors.” But the wealthy few are a minority Guild records show that some 80 per cent of the membership earns less than $4,000 a year. Walkout of' the performers marked the first shut-down in the colorful and stormy history of the studios. The controversial ‘‘residual” demand by performers asks that ail actors be paid for their work in INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair and colder tonight with lows around aero north to aero to five above south. Tuesday generally fair,, continued cold. Highs Tuesday IS to 25. Sunset today 8:43 p. m. c. d. t. Sunrise Tuesday 7:99 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Generally fair and cold with chance of some light 'snow extreme north. Lows aero to 19 above. Highs mostly in the 295.

JU*k qve*Uooad * atowdowm in I drvrk«wnrirt ot IM F-> rort«i. <fonigned to help this country put a | man on the moon. He rejected a claim by awociata NASA admin* i<trator Richard Homer that CnnI grr m forced the cutback by voting only about MW the 3 million i dollar* requested lor the rocket in ihe current year. The c<>ngre»»man charged that ts NASA had regarded the project "with the *ame »en»e ot urgency it merit!.’’ It would have acraprd ip the neccaaary fund* by trimming le«« essential program* Other c<>ngrc»«ional new* Peraanwel: Northern aeaatora hoped the Sabbath break would cure them — at leaat temporarily ' —from the to** ot aieep due to the continuous arsalona and the frequent after midnight quorum caXla by Southern filib >*tcr force*. Southerner* went back to their talkathon with rested throat* and new stocks ot debate material. Retirement: Sen Hubert N. Humphrey 'D-Minn.l caHcd for a six-point federal program tn provide better retirement security for the nation's 1« million senior citizen*. The Democratic presidential candidate proposed extension of Social Security benefit*, some tax breaks and assistance for old age I housing. • \ Selective Service Sends Three Youths Three young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning by the Adams county selective service board. Two sent for active induction into Army service were Martin Harold Bulmahn. Jr., and Allan Lynwood Fanow. Sent for preinduction physical examination was George Roger Litchfield, transferred from Columbia City. ’ Tl ~ Florence Des Jean Dies This Morning Mrs. Florence Des Jean, 01, weH • known Decatur lady, and a clerk at the Schafer Store for many years, died suddenly at 1 c( clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill only six hours with a heart ailment and complications, and died soon after removal to the hospital. Born in Riverdale, HI., April 7, 1898, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kipley, and had lived in Decatur for more than 20 years, making her home with a brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. John Neering, 338 South Third street. Her husband, Frank W. Des Jean, preceded her in death in 1937. Mrs. Des Jean was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Third Order of St. Francis, the Rosary society, and the Foresters. Surviving are one daughter. Miss Charmaine Des Jean of Los Angeles, Calif.; two sons, Richard Des Jean of Decatur, and Cyril Des Jean of Indianapolis; 12 grandchildren. and one sister, Mrs. John Neering of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15 a. m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Very Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services. The Rosary society will recite the rosary at 7:30p. in. Wednesday sjM-the Third Order of St. Francis at 8 o’clock. * w i ii r »r-|| -

films made since 1948 that are sold to TV. The actors claim sale of the films would flood the TV market with recent pictures and would put them out of work. .Threaten Europe Move In answer, the producers say *- they would not pay actors twice for the same job. Many threatened to move production to Europe. Production ground to a halt at 20th Century-Fox M-G-M, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Brothers, Disney and Allied Artists. Sound stages were battened, kleig lights' were stacked in emptyrehearsal halls, dressing rooms were locked and eanvas covers were placed on thousands of items in the property storehouses. The strike, called- at 3:01 a.m., e.s.t., forced 20th Century-Fox to halt four pictures — including Marilyn Monroe's “Let’s Make Love”—in mid-production. M-G-M had two pictures rolling while Columbia and Paramount had one each before the cameras.

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