Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1960 — Page 1

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Convair Workers Remain Off Jobs

RAN DtnX). C»ht •UJM> - Convair m*chlAi*t* rtayrd mrt on a crippling •trikr at k«ur key At* la* mlMlto ba*»* today but other maetunut* rndnd I ona-day work stoppage and returned to their job* at Uw two Convair plant* where the mighty mi*»dc» ar? made However. the Intarnation*! A»«n ot Mactani »t« <IAM • threatened to pull out key worker» at the ptanu to stow production, yet *tMl allow moat plant worker* to remain «m the job to help finance a rtrlke fund The fund would be uaed to help support about 30.00 IAM maintenance and construction workers striking at the important air force base* at Cape Canaveral. Fla : Vandenberg, Calif ; Offut. Neb. and Warren. Wyo. • The strike at the bates began Monday and already has caused postponement of a test launching of an Atta* at Cape Canaveral and tied up construction of pads and Attas equipment al all the bases. Picket lines were thrown up by about too workers at Vandeniwrg. about SOO workers at Cape Canaveral and a similar number struck and walked picket lines at warren and Offut. Thousands of other union members at the various bases refused to cross the picket lines, including about 1.500 members of the Transport union and the Teamsters union at Cape Canaveral. About 25.000 workers at the Convair plants here and Pomona. Calif. began returning to work at midnight after a work stoppage. The machinist attended a mass meeting during the work stoppage to map out strike strategy.

I & M Takes Option On Downtown Site The Indiana - Michigan Electric Co. has taken a 30-day option on the 66 by 132 foot property now occupied by Decatur Super Service at 224 West Monroe, and is surveying the property to see if it is suitable for its district tradquarters here. J. Calvin Hill, manager of the Fort Wayne area, stated that this is not necessarily final, and that I&M is still looking around. If the site is purchased, the same front-line will be kept, but the building itself would be completely rebuilt, according to the tentative ideas ..Qt„two jengineers from the New York office, who joined Hill in looking over the site this morning. Parking facilities would be provided in front of the building. The district headquarters here should be ready between October 1 and January 1 of next year, regardless of the site finally selected, Hill said. A total of 23 families would be moved to Decatur in the transfer of the headquarters from Bluffton to Decatur. Three homes have already been sold to I&M district employes, Decatur realtors reported. Also, a 40 by 80 foot addition will be added to the present diesel building to house the Decatur line office which will be completely separate from the district office. This will be built in the same style, and on the south side of the present brick building. It should be completed by October 1.

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Credit Bureau Head Lions Club Speaker Developing good credit habit* l» | very easy. but caretas*nc*» In payment of bills can coat credit railing overnight, Ed Cook, manager , of the Decatur. Bluffton and Warsaw office* ot the Credit Bureau, told the Decatur Lion* chib Mon day night. Mike Martlndlll. son of Mr and Mr* C. 8 Martindill, and a mcm- ' bcr of Boy Scout troop 62. led the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Male Cawvrntion Roy Price reported that he attended the Lion* state convention in Evansville May 20-22. and that many people asked to be remembered to their Decatur friends He asked that .< large delegation of Decatur and area Lion* plan to attend the national convention in | Chicago July 6-9 The district winners of the talent contest, the I Pleasant Mills quartet, performed very well, he added Cook was introduced by Harry Schwartz, program chairman for June, who announced that Ed Hai gan, district manager of l&M, will I address the club next week. Basis For Business •‘Credit, the basis for all modern business transactions, depends on two things, the character of . the applicant, and ips proven abilI ity to pay. Never before has credit been so important to the businessman,” Cook stated. “The Credit Bureau of Adams I county is a cooperative effort I which provides the facts so that i each businessman - member can evaluate the ability of the buyer ,to pay for his purchase. It proivides a permanent record of the i entire past credit history of a person, regardless ot where he has come from, or how recently he has arrived, as all the credit bureaus of the U.S. and Canada and many cooperating foreign countries, are part of the same system. ••Not only are records kept and abstract information reported, but the bureau also provides a billcollecting agency. Local Organisation “Credit bureaus were originally organized by businessmen to provide information for themselves, and the Adams county bureau has a board of directors of six members which guides its policies. In addition, the national, state and regional -gatherings'df""‘managers provide much valuable information, and help policy develop on a unified scale. The local board meets once a month. The local members are: Jesse Sutton, chairman: Ernest Uhrick, vice-chair-man: Herman Krueckeberg, Ralph Habegger, David Moore and Wilmer Bultemeier." The local bufreau changed management on March 1, when Cook became manager. Doesn’t Pass Judgement “The bureau never passes judgment on the credit of anyone — they merely provide the facts of that person‘s past credit reliability, promptness, and outstanding debts. Each businessman knows best the credit needed to meet the requirements of his own business. “Credit is like your conscience —it fdllows you wherever you go. Nothing dismays a cross-country deadbeat like being followed by

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Speech Clinic Will Be Open Next Week More than !W children have hern registered tor the *iath annual •ummcr "perch clinic. sponsored jointly by the Adam* county crippled children *oclety and P»l lola XI wrortty. with tnrtlng to *tart in Decatur next Monday and In Herne the following day Mia* Lol* Shippry. <•’ the Fort Wayne oral training center. Hamilton school. will be the therapist In charge. She ba* had several year* experience in conducting speech clinics. Mi** Sue Petrie. Indiana University senior in speech therapy, and a resident ot Decatur, will assist Mi** Diane Rhode* Decatur high school 1960 graduate, will work a* a speech aide. A total of 37 arc presently registered for the Decatur clinic, and 15 for Berne. Anyone else desiring to register may do so by attending the testing session, or by contacting Gail Grabill. Testing will begin next Monday at 8:30 a m. and continue as necessary at Lincoln school. Three rooms will be used. The school will start next Wednesday in Decatur. and last six weeks. The program will be in Berne Mondays and Tuesdays in the afternoon, and in Decatur Wednesday through Friday in the mornings. Testing will be held in Berne Tuesday, June 14, at 12:15 p.m. at the Berne-French school building. This is the sixth year that Psi lota Xi sorority has cooperated in providing the speech clinic by providing aid. Elwood Boy Drowns In Morse Reservoir NOBLESVILLE. Ind. <UPD — Michael Scwartz. 9, Elwood, drowned in Morse Reservoir Monday when he fell from a dock while fishing. Authorities believe his fishing line became tangled and that he fell while trying to untangle it. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair through Wednesday with no important temperature changes. Lows tonight 47 to 52. Highs Wednesday 78 to 80. Sunset today 8:11 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warmer. Lows 55 to 62. Highs 72 to 82.

Red Press, Radio Attack Eisenhower

MOSCOW (UPD — The Soviet Union today followed up Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s denunciation of President Eisenhower with new press and radio attacks against the President and his administration. 1: ; Pravda .the official Communist Party newspaper, hit out at Secretary of State Christian A. Herter for his expression of “disgust” at Khrushchev’s press conference last week. It said he did not mention Khrushchev’s disarmament proposals because he has “lost his balance due to the failure of the espionage activities...He is trampling underfoot elementary standards of international law.” Foreign observers here have mentioned the U.S. presidential campaign as one of the underlying motives of the attack. But others discount this view, pointing

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 7, 1960.

Hundreds Os Passengers Rescued From Subway In New York Following Fire

Herter Favors Trip To Japan

WASHINGTON (UPI> — Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told Congress today he believes President Eisenhower should go through with his plans to visit Japan despite increasing antiAmerican demonstrations there. Herter told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "under the existing circumstances, I think the plans ought to remain unchanged.” He said he would prefer to have any other discussion of the trip in closed session rather than the public hearing. Herter made the statement in reply to a question by Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper <R-Iowa) after he had urged the Senate group to approve the new U.S.-Japanese security treaty which has provoked mounting left wing demonstrations in Japan. Repeating the President’s words in signing the treaty last January, Herter said it lays the basis for “an indestroctible partnership" of complete equality and understanding between the two great powers of the northern Pacific. Senate Democrats already have expressed doubts about Eisenhower’s trip Chairman J- William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Foreign Relations group has said the •President should not go “unless he can be properly received Sen. John Stennis <D - Miss.) said Monday he was “increasingly

out that the Russians do not believe- there is enough difference between the American parties to make the November outcome important. Whatever the reason, the favorite target appears to be Vice President Richard M Nixon, although Eisenhower himself has been singled out repeatedly, in contrast to the tactics before the summit. /' Scout-O-Rama On Friday, Saturday Boy Scouts from five troops, packs or posts from Adams county will join with 133 scouting units from nine northeastern Indiana counties in presenting the 1960 Scout-O-Rama at the Fort Wayne coliseum next Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening. Real rockets. bee keeping, aquatics, puppet shows, signaling, aviation, fingerprinting, wood burnng, and an Indian village are a few of the more than 100 exhibitions of scouting that will be shown in the colorful show. More than 20,000 people are expected to see the 5,000 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Explorers show and demonstrate what scouting has taught them. Tickets are available from any of the scouts in advance, and also will be available at the door. Troop 62, sponsored by the Decatur Lions club, and under the direction of scoutmaster Byford Smith, will give a signaling demonstration. Troop 63, sponsored by the Amercan Legion, led by John Eichenberger. will give a general nature demonstration. Troop 65, sponsored by the Trinity E. U. B. church, and with Herald Hitchcock as scoutmaster, will show how to win the home repair merit badge. Troop 69. of Berne, led by Karl Hilty. will given a marksmanship demonstration, while. Berne pack 3067. led by Melvin Sprunger. win have an exhibit entitled “Indiana, my home state/’

concerned” alout the projected I presidential trip. He also said that |if the Japanese riots get worse. <hev could have an influence on U.S. ratification of the security pact. Acting Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield < Mont. I told the Senate that he. too. was concerned. Sen. Warren Magnuson ID-Wash.) read to the Senate a letter from a Japanese business figure who advised that Eisenhower postpone the visit. Herter was the first witness at the Senate hearings on the security treaty, which was approved two week's ago by the tower house of the Japanese Parliament • Japanese ratification is expected to be completed by June 19 when Eisenhower is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo. But there is tionbt that U.S. ratification will be accomplished by that date.

Michigan Man Hurt ; In Collision Monday ! 1 * A car driven by John E. Isch, j 21. 121 N. Third street, was hit 1 headon by a car driven by Gerald i Stout, 65. School Craft, Mich., Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, on U.S. 27, at the curve by the former Connie’s fruit market. J - Stout was going south and apparently was going on into Monroe, when he decided to go on -arottnd-the-eurve instead - He-eut-across the gravel and into the path of the Isch car. which was heading north into Decatur. Isch said he saw Stout coming and applied the brakes, but couldn!t get out of his way. 1 Passengers in Isch’s car were ’ his wife. Lois, 22. and their 10- , tnonth-old boy, John James. Mrs. Isch received a severe sprain to . the right ankle and lacerations to . the right wj-ist. Young John was ; at first believed to have a possible brain concussion and wbs i kept overnight at the hospital. He > was released this morning with 1 nothing but a big “shiner" on his right eye. His father had a lacer- 1 ation above the right eyebrow and cuts to the right arm and right knee. Stout was reported to have Revere lacerations to the face and head and a fractured hip. Trooper Dan KwasneUfi. and : sheriff’s deputies Robert Meyer and Charles Arnold investigated 1 the accident. '

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NEW YORK «UPl' —Fire broke mil in ■ lMj»tling Manhattan sub-; ! way tunnel near Grand Central I Terminal today raging tor 90 miniates while heroic tram crewmen; and rescue workers led hundreds i ot smoke - stricken pe**eng< r* to i safety in stifling darkness . First reports said 60 persons i were taken to hospital* with' smoke poisoning. Hospital disaster' t teams treated score* of others at sidewalk first <>d stations. No deaths were rctxwted The two-alarm fire broke out in la pile of construction lumber one • block south of Grand Central Teriminal at 8:24 a.m. C.d.t., toward I the end Os the morning siArway jam. What would have been a minor fire threatened a major disaster with crowded city subway trains speeding m under the streets. Police sounded a maximum disaster alarm which brought every Manhattan emergency unit and two field hospital teams to the scene. Heroic subway meftormen and conductors .platform personnel, police and firemen led human chains from the stalled trains to safety on smoke-enveloped station platform? at the Grand Central subway station and at 34th Street. From the platforms, the passengers groped their way upward to sunlight and fresh airEvery subway vent in an eight block area was belching smoke. The shuttle train tunnel, running from Times Square to Grand Central, was filled with smoke and shuttle passengers nearly panicked as their train pulled into the terminal station. Hand-in-hand the chains of .passengers groped their way to the streets. Within minutes police rescue squads and special disaster teams from two hospitals had turned streets and sidewalks into ■ a' first-aid-■ ■statiorr.- - Ambulances shuttled dozens of the more • serious cases to hospitals.

The scene was Manhattan's geographical center. Express subway lines linking all New York’s boroughs converge underneath the Grand Central Station, terminus oLthe New York Central and New Haven railroads. Only the city subway lines were involved though smoke poured into the rail terminal as well. Old lumber, trash, crates, oily rags, and odd bits of train equipment litter the corners of many Lexington line platforms. “It is just frightening, said Cavanagh. “When we finally got to the fire, it was burning with a peculiar greenish-blue flame. It was a pile of rubbish and trash about 15 by four feet. There was something in it creating the noxious fumes that affected the firemen. The smoke just cut you to pieces.”

Mrs. Emma R. Jesse Dies This Morning Mrs. Emaa Ruth Jesse, 76, a native of Adams county but a resident of Fort Wayne most of her life, died early this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clifford (Normal Jessup at Decatur, Ga. She suffered a stroke Sunday morning. She was born in Adams county Dec 13, 1883, a daughter of BemdiCt and Christina Dettinger-Lin-inger. Her husband, Fred Jesse, preceded her in death in 1954. Mrs. Jesse had made her home with her daughter in Georgia for the past year. Surviving in addition to’he daughter are one sister. Mrs. Albert (Julia) Brushwiller of Decatur: three brothers, Daniel Uninger of Marion, and George and Roger Lininger of Fort Wajne, one grandchild and one greatgrandchild. The body will be brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p m. Wednesday. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral heftne. the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will ,be m the Decatur cemetery.

Fuhrman Reelected Head Os Foundation Earl Fuhrman, of Schafer Co.. Inc.r and the First Slate Bank, was reelected president of the Doratur Memorial Foundation. Inc.. l in the annual meeting Monday night at the Decatur Youth and ■ Community Center. ■she foundation is the group that raised the money to build the center. and still maintains an Interest in it. although the city recreation board actually administers the program at the center. M J. Pryor, manager of the Gas company, was elected first vice president, and Louis Jacobs was elected second vice president. T. F. Graliker was reelected treasurer, and Mrs. Roy Kalver was reelected secretary. Elected To Board Charles Ehinger. Bill Small. Don Gage and Robert S. Anderson were elected members of the board. The foundation heard a report from Richard Linn, manager of the center, and discussed the possibility of air conditioning the building. Lowell Harper. Ward Calland, and Louis Jacobs were appointed to look into the air conditioning possibilities. Mayor Donald F. Gage attended, and reported that most of the comments that he heard on the building were favorable. He stated that he was very happy that a city the size of Decatur could operate a building like the center. Swimming Pool Report Cal Yost and M. J. Pryor reported that the swimming pool committee had visited the new saucershaped pool at Tiffin, 0., with George Auer and Dr. James Burk. The pool had cost $105,000 to build five years ago, and was estimated 'to Cotl W. BOO today. It costs $lO,000 a year to operate. The pool is 80 feet by 120 feet. The committee

Russ Present New Arm Plan

GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet Union formally presented its newest arms-eiimination plan today as a “basis for discussion” at the 10-nation disarmament conference. But Soviet delegate Valerian A. Zorin told reporters at a news conference following the formal meeting with the U.S. and British delegates that American plane flights over the Soviet Union and similar actions by "aggressive forces” will not contribute to any agreement. “If leaders talk war, that won’t contribute to agreement either,” he said. Zorin Sidesteps Question ut he sidestepped a question as to whether insulting remarks hy“A head of one state against the head of another would increase tension .This obviously was a reference to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s violent personal attacks against President Eisenhower and other American leaders. “That,” Zorin said with a frosty grin, “is a matter for the leaders themselves, or their attitude toward each other.” Zorin tried to seize the initiative at the arms conference when it reconvened for its 33rd session after a five-week recess by immediately presenting the new Soviet plan which had been informally unveiled by Khrushchev five days ago in Moscow. The latest Soviet proposal calls for the destruction within 12 or 18 i months of all means of delivering atomic warheads, and total disarmament witnin four years-. While insisting that the West accept a strict time limit for the whole process of disarmament, Zorin later told the news conference that the duration of the time limit is subject to negotiation Question "Package” Concept Chief U.S. delegate Fredric M. Eaton said the West would study : the new Russian plan with great

was asked to investigate other types of pools next year. Mayor Gage stated that the city would investigate the possibility of converting the cooling pool* at the steam plant to wading pools. The condition of the roof of the building, and the fixing of It. was discussed, and Yost was appointed to look into the matter. Ray Lefts. of the city recreation board, read the financial report of the recreation department, and stated that it looked very favorable. about fl .200 ahead of the same time next year. 1 The possibility of attracting state conventions to Decatur was then discussed. Perry Johnson Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Thursday for Perry Johnson. 80, native of Adams county and former resident of Decatur, who died Monday at 11 a. m. at his home, 3120 Taylor street. Fort Wayne. He bad been ill for the past six weeks. He was born In Adams county Dec. 30, 1879. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Johnson. His wife, the former Ocie Martz, preceded him in death Feb. 22. 1957. . Mr. Johnson was a member of LocaTTOT. Fort Wayne. Survivors are two sons. Raymond Johnson of Decatur, and Glen Johnson of Fort Wayne: three grandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren, and one sister, the Ray cemetery near Monroe. t Two brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Rey cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

care. But he warned that the road to success in the talks here lies in the discussion of specific first steps toward disarmament rather than complete package plans. Eaton said the collapse of the Paris summit meeting and the progress being made in the development of neiV weapons emphasized the importance of the conference here. Today’s scheduled meeting of the separate but related nuclear test ban talks were postponed by mutual consent until Wednesday. The day’s session lasted 80 minutes. Western diplomats said they hoped the new plan meant Moscow finally wanted serious disarmament negotiations but they said it may be some time before the true Communist intent becomes clear. . Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin avoided comment when he arrived Monday except for one brief reference to the “forces which he said broke up the Big Four meeting in Paris. He said he hoped these forces” would not place obstacles in the path of the disarmament conference . . . , Zorin carried in his briefcase Khrushchev’s new plan in the form of a disarmament treaty. He " made no reference to the Soviet premier’s threat in Paris to take the whole arms issue back to the United Nations Genieral Assembly. Chiefs of the five Western- acleI gations — the United States, Britain, France. Italy and Canada —Met tp discuss tactics Monday evening and ended by expressing the hope Russia now seeks serious negotiations. •' Some Western diplomatic sources said the West may seek a brief recess after today in order to give more time to study of the Soviet plan .made only five days ago..

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