Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 207.

Open Catholic School Sept. 7

Plans for opening of the Decatur Catholic schools and new faculty members were announced today by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt, superintendent, and Sr. M. Almeda, C.S.A., principal. The St. Joseph grade school and the Decatur Catholic high school will open clasess next Wednesday, Sept. 7. Tuesday, Sept. 6, will be faculty organization day, with the grade school meeting at 9:30 o’clock, and the high school meeting at 10:30 a. m. All high school students are asked to report at the school at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon for schedule adjustments. The school's service office will also be open from 1 to 4 p. m. Tuesday. All grades, from the second grade through high school, are to report for classes Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock. First graders will not report until Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. Several changes have been made in class room arrangements at the school, and all high school classes will be conducted on the first floor this year. New Teachers Five new teachers have been employed for the 1960-61 school New high school teachers are: Leon Youngpeter, athletics and basic business; Sr. M. Amadea, English and Spanish, and Sr. M. Petronilla, librarian and commerce. The new coach is a graduate of Dayton University, and has been a teacher and coach at Chammanada high school in Dayton, O. Srs. M. Amadea and M. Petronilla taught last year at St. Thomas high school in Beloit, Wis. The new grade school teachers are Miss Shirley Taylor, of Monroeville, second grade, and Mrs. Weidler, of Decatur, who will teach the • sixth grade—- — - Advertising Index Advertiser Page Anderson Industry 5 A. & P. Tea Co., Inc 3 Adams County Farm Bureau Co-op ——- 6 Burk Elevator Co — 5 Bower Jewelry Store 3 John Brecht Jewelry 2 Boardman's Sewing Machine Shop 3 Decatur Drive In Theater — 8 Evans Sales & Service 5 Gambles 6 Goodyear Service Store 7 Goodin’s I.G.A. Market 4 Holthouse Furniture Store 6 Haflich & Morrissey 3 Haugks 2, 4 Kiddie Shop 3 Model Hatchery * 5 Miller-Jones 2, 3 Niblick & Co 2 Price Men’s Wear 7 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc 5, 8 Schafers 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Sears, Roebuck & Co 5 Stucky & Co i.-.1.... 8 Schmitt Market 8 Sherman Hotel 6 Smith Drug Co 5, 8 Stewarts Bakery 4 Sudduth Market 2 Sonotone of Eastern Indiana 4 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Van Wert County Agricultural Society 6 Mrs. E. M. Webb 3 Wester Ohio Horse & Pony Show 5 Zintsmaster Motors 2,5, 6,7

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High school faculty members are: Sr. M. Almeda, C.S.A., principal and mathematics; the Rev. Robert Contant, senior and junior religion; the Rev. Robert Jaeger, sophomore and freshman religion; Sr. M. Amedea, English and Spanish; Sr. M. Aquin, social science and commerce; Sr. M. Norberta, mathematics and home economics; Sr. M. Jovita, science and Latin; Sr. M. Petronilla, librarian and commerce; Leon Youngpeter, athletics and basic business. Faculty Is Listed For Adams Central The faculty for the 1960-61 school year at Adams Central high and grade schools has been announced, with a total of 36 teachers. Hugh Tate is assistant superintendent of the school and Herman Frantz is the principal. High school faculty members are: Thomas Adler, English and mathematics; Richard Allspaw, science; William F. Anderson, social studies; Wanda Archbold, commerce and physical education; Lucille C. Beavers, mathematics; Robert L. Brown, social studies; Edwin C. Bryan, driver’s training and health; C. Doyle Collier, industrial arts; Hubert L. Feasel, art; Donavon J. Gerig, band; Leon K. Gerig, vocal; Frankie L. Green, science and social studies; Harvey L. Haggard, social studies; Lee Hoopengarner, commerce and mathematics; Amzie K. Miller, Jr., head coach and mathematics; Joyce Nielsen, home economics; Robert W. Shoup, social studies and English; Donald W. Sprunger, English; Rowena Stucky, English and Latin; Martin Watson, ■ voactionaT agflcuttwe: ~ - ■ • Grade school teachers are: Jay K. Johnson and Leo Strahm, sixth grade: Elmer E. Ehrsam and Kenneth Watkins, fifth grade; Dolores B. Byerly, Margaret O. Kuhn and Sally Rose Reynolds, fourth grade; Veda Haggard, Helen M. Inniger and Harriet M. Mills, third grade; Frances M. Beaty, Mary Egley and Wanda M. Munson, second grade; Naomi Griffiths, Martha Habegger and Kathryn Dorwin, first grade. Robert Light, of Yoder, was hired Wednesday to teach the fifth ; and sixth grades to complete the list. |- -- INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued quite warm this afternoon, tonight and Friday although a little cooler extreme north Friday. Low tonight upper 60s extreme north and the 70s central and south. High Friday in the 80s extreme north and in the 90s central and south. Sunset today 7:17 p.m. Sunrise Friday 6:13 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Generally fair, continued warm and humid. Lows 66 to 71. Highs 83 to 89. r * - i NO PAPER MONDAY Monday, Sept. 5, will be Labor Day, and in accordance with custom for many years, the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Monday.

Virgil Smith Committed To State Prison INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Former state highway chairman Virgil W. (Red) Smith was committed to Indiana state prison today for a 2-14 year bribery term after making a surprise plea of guilty to four other charges pending against him. Judge Thomas E. Garvin in Marion Criminal Court formally committed Smith and imposed a $20,000 fine which a jury recommended nearly two years ago at Smith’s long trial. Smith had fought imprisonment with every legal means ever since. But the unexpected development was Smith’s action in changing his plea from innocent to guilty on four other charges stemming from the Hoosier highway scandals that broke more than three years ago and eventually ensnared more than half a dozen former state officials and employes. Garvin sentenced Smith to 2-14 year terms and SSOO fines on each of the four charges but suspended the sentences on grounds that if Smith had stood trial on each and been convicted, the terms would have run concurrently and the state would not have benefited. “I have no sympathy for the defendant,” Garvin said. “He is guilty of a very serious crime. But the thing that appeals most to me is the enormous cost to the Marion county taxpayer.” Prosecutor Philip Bayt said he would “reluctantly abide by the decision” of the judge to suspend the sentences. The disposition of the four indictments pending left only one still lodged against Smith. But this was in another court and outside Garvin’s jurisdiction. Smith was committed to deputy sheriffs immediately. He was to be taken to Marion County Jail pending the trip to Michigan City. If Smith’s behavior is good, he probably will spend no more than 21 months behind bars : • Smith’s attorney, Frank Hamil- ! ton, recommended that Garvin j suspend the sentences on the charges to which Smith changed his plea. » Melvin S. Johnson Dies This Morning Melvin S. Johnson, 67, of onehalf mile east of Monroe, died at 3 o’clock this morning at the Irene Byron hospital. Fort Wayne. He had been seriously ill for the past two weeks. Mr. Johnson was a retired employe of City Utilities, Fort Wayne. He was born at Dodge City, Kan., July 11, 1893. A veteran of World War I, he served overseas for 18 months. Mr. Johnson was a member of the CroSs Evangelical and Reformed church at Betne, and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are his wife, the former Martha Zurcher; two sons, Harold Johnson of Decatur, and Earl Johnson, at home; three grandchildren, and one brother, Dan Johnson of Califax, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Yager funeral home in Berne. The Rev. C. H. Schmid will officiate and burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p.m. today until time of the services.

ORLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Sept. 1, 1960.

Pennsylvania Railroad, Largest In Nation, Is Closed Down By Strike

Accident Total Is Higher This Year The sheriff’s department has released a summary for the first six months of 1960, comparing same with the first six months of 1959. During these first six months there have been 88 accidents, as compared to 78 for the first six months of the preceding year. Personal injury accidents were the same for both years, totaling 24, but so far there have been 62 property damage and two fatal accidents, as compared to 53 property damage and no fatal acci--1 dents for the same period in 1959. The amount of property damage • for the first six months this year ' is $80,738, compared to $50,151.00 for 1959. There has, however, been only one more person injured this year than last, 57 to 56. During this six month period in 1960, the sheriff’s department has traveled 33,752 miles and served a total of 163 court papers, such as summons, notices, orders, warrants, subpoenas, etc. Also, 22 papers from other courts were served. , Complaints investigated, such as thefts, vandalism, breaking and entering, indecent exposures, etc., have amounted to a total of 50. i Os the 88 accidents, 32 were one-car accidents, 74 Adams . 'county people were involved and i 14 motorists were arrested for . violations. A total of 13 of these I accidents occurred on county stone roads, with seven others on state roads. The injuries to the total of 57 injured consisted of crushed chests, broken legs and arms, basal skull fractures, teeth knocked out, on down to minor abrasions and cuts. The causes of most of the ser- . ious accidents were or are due : i j°. excessive speed, reckless , driving, failing to obey stop signs and driving to the left of the , center of the roadway.

i Delay Recess : Os Congress

1 WASHINGTON (UPD—A dead- • lock over sugar legislation blocked , the adjournment of the 86th Congress early today and left cam- . paign-conscious members fretting . to get away to the political wars. > Efforts to adjourn this morning > collapsed at 3:37 a.m. e.d.t. when ; Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Tex., t recessed the House until noon. Leaders were confident Congress could quit this afternoon or tonight. Rayburn’s action followed Senate refusal to accept House limitations on President Eisenhower’s request for authority to cut a 322,000-ton “windfall” sugar marketing quota for the Dominican Republic. The House wanted to limit Eisenhower to using such power only after the Organization of American States (OAS) invoked economic sanctions against the Dominican regime of Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo. But the Senate voted 62 to 17 to back Eisenhower’s plea for unrestricted authority. Wjtfe all, ofeer -obstacles -to adjournment removed, Rayburn concluded that the sugar situation was too snerlted to perrrrit 'any pre-dawn agreement* and ordered toe House recess. Senate Also Recesses The Senate, acting on minor measures, continued in session until 4:23 a.m. e.d.t. and then also recessed until noon. Before the sugar deadlock developed, the Senate and House polished off a batch of bills on what their leaders had hoped would be the last day of the post-convention session. The lawmakers voted to give Eisenhower $65 million of the $266 million in extra foreign aid funds he called vital for security, authorized his S6OO million Latin American aid program and ap-

1 ~ G. E. Offers New Three-Year Pact

The General Electric Co. offered three-year contract proposals Wednesday to employes represented by unions, which would include a three percent general pay raise, effective Oct. 2 of this year, with a second increase of four percent effective April 2,1962. The three-year contract offer, to replace a five-year contract which expires Oct. 1, would become effective Oct. 2 if it is accepted by the unions involved. Employes of the Decatur G. E. plant are represented by the United Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), which claims to represent 38,000 GE employes in the United States and Canada. Officials of both the UE and the TUE, which claims to represent 70,000 GE workers in the United States, late Wednesday flatly rejected the contract offer, made in New York. The IUE said the company offer was “unacceptable” and “totally unsatisfactory.” The UE termed the offer “an_ abomination” and “an atrocity” Five Features The company said its contract proposal package was built around five basic features “designed to meet the needs and desires of General Electtric employes.” They were: Greater employment opportunity. Income protection in case of layoff. General wage increases. Increase security on retirement. Greater insurance protection. On the first proposal, the company said local managers will be able to offer added retraining opportunities to eligible employes facing layoff. An employe with

proved a $550 million stop-gap housing bill. When the Senate revised the sugar measure, Chairman Harold D. Cooley, D-N.C., of the House Agriculture Committee angrily told House leaders the administration proposal was designed to topple the Trujillo regime. He said this probably would result in a Communist regime in the Dominican Republic. Democrats Threaten Objection Under the" parliamentary situation, unanimous consent was required for the House to accept the Senate revisions or send the legislation to a Senate-House conference committee to work out a compromise. Angry Democrats said they would block either move by raisobjection on the House floor. Cooley declared he was unwilling to participate in any compromise negotiations “at four o’clock in the morning on a matter of such international importance.” At this pbiht Raybuffi ordered the recess. Agriculture Committee to a meeting at 11 a.m. e.d.t. “to discuss the status quo.” The marathon session, which began at noon e.d.t. Wednesday, was marked by political bickering as well as the flurry of legislative activity. Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy accused Republicans of blocking a more liberal legislative program and in effect challenged Vice President Richard M. Nixon to debate the issue in the campaign. Republicans fired back at what they termed “fruitless . . useless” leadership of Kennedy and other Democrats.

three or more years of service could receive 95 percent of the job rate for his former job. In addition, the company will pay the cost of any such training. On income protection in case of layoff, the company proposed to set aside an amount of money equal to one week’s pay for each week of service to be made available to laid-off employes with three or more years of service. The proposal offered several alternative ways in which an employe could take advantage of the total amount of money available to him under the plan. The wage offer included the three percent general increase Oct. 2 of this year and the additional four percent April 2,1962. ' The increased insurance benefits proposal included a 30 percent increase in the pension base for pension credits accumulated before 1946. Also included were proposals for higher guaranteed minimum pensions and larger supplemental payments. The company pointed out that guaranteed minimum pensions are over and above social security payments.— — The insurance improvements ments (to bridge the gap between early retirement and eligibility for social security) were pegged on increased payments from $55 to $65 per month. The insurance improevments proposal provides for better maternity benefits (paying 50 per cent of the first $450 of all covered expenses, plus 75 per cent of all such expenses over $450 to maximum of $5,000 for any one pregnancy.) It also included an extended family security provision under which family medical coverage would be continued without cost for up to 31 days following the death of an employe. 11 Ribbons Awarded Local Fair Entries A total of eleven Adams county representatives at the Indiana state fair have won ribbons in the opening day’s judging. Adams county youth won five blue ribbons, three red, two white and one green ribbon. Also, Claude Striker of Adams Central high school finished third in the opening round of the horeshoe pitching contest. Ribbon winners in food preservation were, Marjorie Lehman, Jefferson, blue; Bonnie Lehman, Jefferson, blue; Mary Ann Kipfer. French, white; Joye Strouse, Root, red; Gail Egly, Jefferson, red; Lois Jean Gerke, Union, green; and Connie Bergman, Root, red. Those who received ribbons in the electricity project exhibit were, Steven Landis, Kirkland, blue ribbon for his extension cord; Mike McGough, Wabash, white ribbon for his trouble light; Larry Sipe, Blue Creek, blue ribbon for a lamp; and Marvin, Bransteter, Jefferson, blue ribbon for a lamp. Fair highlights for Thursday include the annual high school band parade add contest, th® naming of the grand champion 4-H sheep showman. of the grand champion 4-H steer, the final performance of the Western horse show and rodeo and the Pat Boone show. Decatur Library To Close For Holiday Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, announced today that the library will be closed all day Monday, which is Labor Day. Miss Heller also announced that the library will return to regular hours Tuesday, opening at 12 noon and closing at 8:30 p.ml every day, with the exception of Sundays and holidays.

PHILADELPHIA (UPI)-On the 111th anniversary of its first train the Pennsylvania Railroad shut down today for the first time in its history. Not a train moved over the biggest U.S. transportation system, and every hour of the strike-caused stoppage heightened its impact on eastern industry and the nation’s commerce. A midnight walkout by 20,000 maintenance workers halted all operations on the 13-state, 10,000mile network stretching from Virginia to Missouri. At least 30 m;'lion Americans were affected rectly or indirectly at the outselFi Big - city commuters in Ne& York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington were first to feel the cancellation of 722 daily passenger trains. More significant was the impact of toe industrial triangle of coal, steel and automobiles if the strike continues. The Transport Workers Union said picket lines were getting “good support.” Chicago Welder Hurt At Chicago, police reported welder William Roundtree, 43, was injured slightly when he tried to 34 Idle Here The Pennsylvania railroad here in Decatur, going along with the nation-wide shutdown, closed up shop about 9 o’clock last night with the passing through of the last Wednesday night train. Norman Gunsett, agent at the Decatur station, stated that approximately 34 railroad workers here in Decatur will be laid off due to the strike, as he win be the only employe left working. A total of two freight trains a day and one passenger a week pass through Decatur, but this will cease with the i complete shutdown of the Pennsy railroad. halt a locomotive being shuttled in the South Side yards by two supervisory personnel. Police said Roundtree tried to stand in front of toe engine and suffered possible back injuries when it grazed him. The federal government was legally powerless to intervene further in a three-year-old work rules dispute between the PRR and .the TWU. Delmarva peninsula, a long finger of land between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean was cut off from rail transportation. An agricultural and poultry

Accuses U. S. Os Harboring Cubans

HAVANA (UPD—■Defense Minister Raul Castro accused the United States today of harboring Cuban “war criminals” at its Guantanamo naval base and warned the big installation “some day” would be confiscated. He did not dismiss the possibility of a battle. The premier’s impetuous younger brother mixed the threat with expressions of gratitude for Russia’s “disinterested” offer of military aid to the revolutionary regime. But he added that Cuba could defend its “rights,” with or without rockets. "We don't plan to confiscate the (Guantanamo) base now because it is obsolete In our present military strategy. . but some day it will be Cuban,” Raul told an assemblyof sugar 'W&rkm"'<a 3Hiered at national headquarters of the Revolutionary Labor Federation. He said it was not impossible that fighting could break out over the status of the Guantanamo facility, located in Oriente Province and operated by the United States on a long term lease. But he added that any conflict would be provoked by the U.S. naval and marine forces there, not by Cuba. Raul claimed that “criminals of war” were being trained at the strategic Caribbean base to form a "fascist reserve.. .mobilized by Yankee Gold” — one that eventual would form the backbone of a counter-revolutionary inva-

area, it depends exclusively on the PRR for shipment of its goods as weld as for receipt of incoming goods. The Eastern Shore of Maryland was deprived of train service and the strike dealt a blow to its seafood and vegetable centers. First to feel the impact of the strike by the Transport Workers Union were the commuters. About 73,000 who use PRR facilities, including 15,000 between New York and Washington and 8,000 between New York and ifWladelphia, were forced to find Syther ways of getting to work. : Another 85,000 daily riders of the Long Island Rail Road which still is recovering from the effects of a 26-day strike that ended just four weeks ago were forced to detrain on the western end of Long Island and transfer to subways, buses or taxies to get to their jobs in Manhattan. Industry Layoffs Feared Steel from Pittsburgh, automobiles from Detroit and coal from the Pennsylvania mines were among the vital cargoes carried by the Pennsylvania. Fears of layoffs immediately arose in these areas should the strike against the giant rail line drag on. Michael J. Quill, the fiery leader of the Transport Workers Union, predicted it will be a long strike. "It has taken 114 years to dose down this system and it may take 114 days to start it up,” he said. -In New York the huge Pennsylvania Station took on the appearance of an empty shell. Inside the station, that normally handles more than 200,000 travelers, an occasional wanderer passed through the concourse—his footsteps echoing hollowly. Ticket windows, gates and news stands were closed while outside the tramp of picket’s feet replaced the shuffle of commuters and vacationers. The strike climaxed a bitter three-year dispute with the TWU I and the AFL Systems Federation ‘ over working rules and the i "farming out” of repair work by . the PRR. Wages were not an issue. Negotiations Collapse Final efforts to avert the strike , broke down at 11:40 p.m. e.d.t. ’ Wednesday night and at 12:01 . a.m. the maintenance men ’ walked off their jobs. Quill said the strike might last , days, weeks or even months before a settlement is reached. [ James M. Symes, board chair- . man of the railroad, termed the , strike “catastrophic.” continued on page three

, sion. , “If they don't die on the battle- ! field, they will face the shameful I task of having to die on their k knees, backs turned to the firing J squad, which is the manner in f which traitors are shot,” the gaunt-faced revolutionary warned. It was Raul Castro, more than t Fidel, who was thought to have . inspired the mass executions that . followed the fall of President Ful- . gencio Batista. The younger Casi tro also was responsible for the . kidnaping of scores of U.S. servicemen based at Guantanamo , during the last months of the . civil war. Raul urged a huge turnout for Friday's mass rally in Havana, i called to show Cubans contempt W*the anti-Communtet declara- ' tion issued last Monday at the conference of Western Hemi- ~ sphere foreign ministers in San Jose, Costa Rica. Fidel was scheduled to drum up further • support for the rally in a speech 1 later today. i Just before he spoke, five pho- ■ tographers representing such U.S. ■ news agencies as UPI and the ■ National Broadcasting Company . were arrested in the auditorium i and jailed overnight. Four were ► known to be Cuban. They joined i Harvey Rosenhouse, Mexican bu- ' reau chief for Time magazine, - • who was jailed without explana- ! tion Tuesday while on a brief • stopover in Havana.

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