Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX, No. 46.

! V[ • *3*-itST' . 3IM -S*?" -.- Mk - ; - ', J^w' SLEEP SOLVES ALL— Two-month-old Elizabeth Eunice Barton slumt>ers away in her blanket at Idlewild Airport, New York, not troubled a bit by air lines strike tie-up. Elizabeth was bound for Cosmopolice, Wash., with her mother when they ran into transportation snag.

Heart Fund Drive In Decatur Sunday

Plans have been completed for the Heart Sunday drive Feb. 26. The American heart association was established in 1948 and Decatur has been a generous contributor to this organization since its beginning. In the next decade, there should be markedly reduced heart disease in young and middleaged people. Major research targets of the heart association are hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure which account for 90% of all heart and Mood vessel disease. The following will be calling on the residents Sunday for heart contributions: Mrs. Eugene Braun. Qrani St. and south to city limits; Mary Welker, east of Winchester to NPRR. and south to city limits: Mrs. Wayne Bodle, west of Winchester to PARR, to city limits; Mrs. Ted Eady, south of Adams to PRR. west of Winchester to PRR; Misses Sharon and Barbara Miller, south of Erie to NPRR. and west of Mercer to Grant; Girl Scout troop 473, south of Adams to Erie and east of Mercer to river, north First to Marshall; Mrs. Wayne Miller and Mrs. Thearl Stults; and assisted by Nancy Gerber. Donna Burk, Sarah Sutton. Judy Cook. Mary Frances Beckman, Patty Beam. Judy Len-

Six Airlines Back To Work

NEW YORK (UPI> — Six airlines, cleared to resume operations by the settlement of the worst airlines strike in history, today recalled thousands of laid-off employes and sped toward the restoration of full service. One airline — Pan American World Airways — said it’s operations already were back to normal. The others said they expected substantial operations today but that it would be several days before all flights were in the air. Almost all the 80.000 workers furloughed because of the six-day flight engineers walkout were notified to report to work today. Western Airlines, the seventh involved in the dispute, refused to join an agreement to refrain from reprisals against the strikers and call off lawsuits. There appeared little chance Western could restore normal service soon unless It reversed its position that it has fired its 130 strikers. Losses In Millions Total cost of the strike to the airlines, laid-off workers, resort areas and stranded travelers was estimated at S7O million or more. The th r e e-man commission named by President Kennedy to seek a long-range solution to the dispute planned today to start out by riding in airplane cockpits to see for themselves what the flight engineers’ duties entail. The engineers began their walkout last Friday night against Pan American, ignoring a presidential fact-finding commission set up to delay the strike. The walkout turned wildcat and spread in protest of a Feb. 6 Natiopal Mediation Board ruling that pilots and engineers of United Air Lines should vote to form a single un- . f. •• ion. Affects Other Lines Affected by the strike were Pan American, Trans World Airlines, American Airlines, Eastern Air

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hart, Becky Rumple, Cuppy Crone, Peggy Sheets, Dedee Murphy, Margaret Kocher, Jessee Rich, Marilyn Knudson, Becky Mauller and Susie Smith, PRR. to north Second and Adams north to Nuttman and Marshall; Boy Scout troop 64. Med Smith, scoutmaster. 13th St. to RR. Adams St. and north to Nuttman; Mrs. Mildred Powell and daughter, east of 13th to Second and Washington to city limits; Mrs. Clarence Painter and daughter. east of PRR. to sth and north to Washington SL; Mrs. Bob Keller and Mrs. Fairchild, north of Nuttman to Short, PRR. to sth St. i,, Mrs. Joan Workinger and Mrs. Vera Hammond, north of Marshall to city limits, east sth to river; Misses Sharon and Colleen O’Shaughnessev, north to Dayton and west to 13th; Mrs. Harold Baker, Susan Baker and Ruth Ann Braun. Stratton: Mrs. Justine Geimer and Mrs. Charles Jessup, west to 13th to city limits: Mrs. Sephus Jackson, from Erie to city limits on Mercer and to river. “If you are not at home when the volunteer worker calls, they will leave an envelope to mail your contribution to Mrs. R. C. Hersh, 344 South First St.. Decatur. Adams county heart chairman. Your contributions will be gratefully accepted.”

Lines. National Airlines, Western Airlines and the cargo carrying Flying TigeT line. Pan American, National and Western kept operating with sharply curtailed schedules. The others closed down. It was the second time Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg had succeeded in halting a massive transportation tie-up. Shortly after inauguration day, he helped end a strike by New York railroad tugboat workers who had closed down two commuter railroads and were threatening rail service throughout the Northeast Native Os Decatur Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Harter & Son Chapel, Delphos, 0., for Charles William Laman. 75, a native of Decatur, who died at 1 p.m. Wednesday at his home in Lima, O. He had been ill nine months. A son of Peter and Frances Laman, he was bom April 3, 1885, in Decatur. He was an interior decorator until his retirement. His wife, the former Bessie Handel, whom he carried in 1908, died in 1916. Surviving are a son, Edward Laman, route one, Delphos; a daughter, Miss Irene Laman, at home; one brother, Perry Laman, of Delphos; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Ridenour, of Elida, and Mrs. Ida Riley of Lima, O.; one grandchild and four great-grandchildren. The Rev. Fara Laman of Ada. 0., will officiate at the funeral, and burial will be in the Salem cemetery, north of Elida, O.

6,000 Persons Made Homeless By High Water By United Press International Rains tapered off east of the southern Appalachians today but flood conditions remained, leaving more than 6,000 persons homeless in their muddy backwash. Scattered showers pelted western Florida, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast to Galveston, Tex., as the South counted at least six drowning victims. Four other persons were missing at Hattiesburg, Miss., scene of two drownings in flood waters 3 to 10 feet deep. In northwest Texas, battered Panhandle counties geared for new snows expected to dump a half-foot on New Mexico and Texas. Clovis, N.M., was the first community to feel the new onslaught, reporting 3 inches during the night. Winds up to 30 miles per hour accompanied 2 inches of snow at Amarillo, Dumas and Borger, Tex. Follows Big FaU Many of the high plains towns hit by new snow had only begun to dig out from a 20-inch fall earlier in the week. Wind-driven snow cut visibility to zero at Amarillo and closed several highways. Cattlemen reported no present danger to livestock, however. Mississippi officials estimated the state's flood damage costs would top $1 million, matching earlier estimates at Birmingham, Ala. At least 5,000 persons rode helicopters, boats, National Guard amphibions and private transportation away from their homes and out of danger in Mississippi. State Sen. R. E. Gilder narrbwly escaped drowning when his 17-year-old son rescued him from the gorged Yalobush River as they moved cattle to high ground near Vardaman. Rains Swell Rivers In North Carolina, the Neuse, Cape Fear and Tar rivers swelled under Thursday's rains and the Oostanaula River continued its rise at Rome, Ga. River wrath elsewhere in the nation pushed lowa’s Skunk River 4 feet over flood stage. An ice jam edged the Raccoon River more than 2 feet over flood stage at Van Meter, lowa, and authorities at Marshalltown expected a crest today a foot above flood stage on the lowa River.

Volunteer Family Is Sought For Student Last spring on the first page of the Daily Democrat appeared a ‘‘want ad”, asking for a Decatur couple to undertake the pleasant duty of acting as “pcrents” to a foreign exchange student who would spend the school year in a Decatur homes A number of interested persons responded and a committee from the local chapter of the American Field Service selected Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gage, who are the “parents” of Miss Maria DeOliveria, exchange student from Brazil, who is a senior of the Decatur Catholic high school. The arrangement has worked out to the satisfaction of all concerned, and the Gages are experiencing the joy of having in their home an intelligent and lovable young lady. It now becomes the responsibility of the American Field Service in Decatur to find a volunteer family who will act as “parents” for the exchange student who will come here next fall. The family who is selected will furnish board ‘ and room to the student and will generally act as father and mother. The requirements are not too difficult —the couple must be at least 40 years of age, the wfe must not have a full time job and the student must have a bed of his own. - Mrs. Wilbur Petrie is chairman of the parent procurement committee and interested persons are requested to get in touch with her. If it is possible to achieve, the American Field Service would like the student to go into a home where there is another youngster of high school age. As yet the local chapter has not been advised if the student will be a boy or girl or the country of origin. Inasmuch as this year’s student was of the Catholic faith and went to DCHS, next year’s visitor will be of the Protestant faith and attend the Decatur high school. The American Field Service is now a unit of the Decatur Community Fund and all expenses, except the actual board and room of the student, will.be paid by Chat organization. The “parents” are allowed a SSO per month federal income ttfx deduction while the student is in their home. ~

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Decautr, Indiana, Friday, February 24, 1961. .

State Senate Slaps Down Bill Forcing Closing Os Most Business On Sunday

House Leaders Plan Jobless Pay Boost

WASHINGTON (UPI) — House leaders today laid plans for passage next week of President Kennedy’s anti-recession program to pay extra unemployment compensation benefits to the nation’s jobless. The House Ways & Means Committee approved the billion-dollar measure by a strong bipartisan vote Thursday. It also tentatively okayed a second bill to provide millions of dollars in public assistance for needy children of unemployed parents. House action on the first of Kennedy’s emergency proposals was predicted by the middle of next week if all goes well. The Senate also was geared to act fast once the measure comes over, The administration hopes to rush the additional benefits to jobless workers within two weeks after the bill becomes law. Meanwhile, a House labor subcommittee scheduled a day-long session behind closed doors on Kennedy’s bill to raise the minimum wage from 51 to $1.25 an hour and add coverage for 4.3 million more workers. The subcommittee held a brief session Thursday to lay the groundwork for drafting a wage bill. Has GOP Support House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana said Republicans would support the legislation. “We believe that steps must be taken promptly to provide additional relief.” Halleck said. The unemployment benefits bill

Depressed Aid * JL Plans Pushed

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges was expected today to answer criticism that he has been lukewarm toward legislation intended to help economically depressed areas. Hodges was the first witness scheduled before a House banking subcommittee hearing on President Kennedy’s $389 million program designed to pump economic vitality in chronic unemployment regions. Both the House and Senate stepped up the pace of processing depressed area programs—one of the high priority legislative goals on the New Frontier. A quiet backstage political struggle was underway among Democrats over how the program should be administered. “ Oppose Suggestion"" Most congressional supporters of the depressed areas proposal were fighting a White House suggestion that it be handled by the Commerce Department. Rep. Daniel J. Flood, D-Pa., has said he felt that Hodges, former North Carolina governor, had not exhibited enough enthusiasm for this approach to rescue labor surplus areas. He reflected the sentiments of others in Congress who are trying to keep it out of the Commerce Department. A Senate subcommittee, headed by Sen. Paul H. Dougias, D-111., was scheduled to reopen hearings next week on a bill which would create a separate agency to administer the program. Around Long Time The Douglas bill is a legislative old-timer around which the Senate Democratic liberals have rallied for the past three years. It is similar to the White House bill except for the separate administrative agency plan, and its program for financing. The Douglas bill would raise the money through Treasury borrowing while the administration measure stipulates direct appropriations.

would funnel nearly a billion dollars in extra compensation to about 3,125,000 workers whose unemployment benefits have been exhausted or will expire in the next year or so. Kennedy had asked $350 million for the children’s aid program. The committee cut it down, however, by setting more rigid standards for those seeking to qualify. The revised, fejll stipulates that an unemployed worker whose children were receiving special benefits must accept any job offered by the U.S. Employment Service. If he refused it, aid to the children would be cut off. Can Still Collect Under the regular unemployment compensation program, a worker can reject a certain number of “unsuitable” jobs and still collect benefits. The new provision in the children’s bill would not affect the basic jobless pay program. Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Tex., said the House would act promptly on the jobless pay bill. The measure would provide up to 13 weeks of additional payments to jobless workers, depending on the length of time various 'States pay benefits under the joint federal-state program. A worker could not receive more than a total of 39 weeks pay. Employers would bear the cost of the additional payments through an increase in the federal payroll tax. It would be raised from the present 3.1 per cent to 3.5 per cent.*

SATURDAY SELLOUT Herman Frants, Adams Central principal and sectional tourney manager, announced this afternoon that all tickets for the Saturday semi-final and final sessions of the tourney have been sold, and there will * be none for sale at the gym box offices Saturday. The Decatur high school office will be open from 7 to 8 o’clock tonight for regular season ticket holders to pick up their sectional tickets. Five More Sections Report On Campaign Five more of the more than 300 rural sections in Adams county have reported in the Red Cross rural campaign, and three of these sections report 100% participation, Homer Winteregg and Silvan Sprunger, co-chairmen for the county, announced today. The first reports were received from Blue Creek and Preble townships. . In Blue Creek, David D. Habegger has enrolled five members in section 8, collecting $8 for 100% participation. Mrs. Merle Riley, in section 9 of the same township, collected SB, for 100% participation. Donald T. Jeffery, of Preble township, collected $lO in section 21. Mrs. Russell Fleming, of section 15, Root township, reported $9 and 100% participation in her area. Mrs. Ned Johnson collected $4 for the Red Cross rural fund drive in section 33 of Root township. Almost without exception every section leader has had better luck this year, as people seem to understand better how their money is used to provide better services for everyone, from the boy in service to those injured in farm accidents, or those homeless because of flood, fire, or storms.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Members of the Indiana Senate rose up in overwhelming numbers today to slap down a bill which would have forced the closing of almost all business concerns on Sunday. The vote on Senate Bill 396 was 8-37. The bill, co-authored by Sens. Paul M. Bilby, R-Warsaw, and F. Dale Barrett, D - Churubusco, would prohibit Sunday sale of any product except drugs, newspapers, milk, gasoline and oil and food and drink consumed on the premises. It provided stiff fines and jail sentences for violations. Sen. Von Eichhom, D-Uniondale, one of the few voting for the measure, charged that supermarkets and big chain stores were driving small businessmen bankrupt by staying open on Sundays. He said they were seizing unfair advantage of the market place. Sen. Walter Baran, D-East Chicago, also in favor of the bill, stressed the point that “employes of businesses are entitled to be home with their families on Sunday.” Sen. Paul Bitz, D-Evansville, termed the measure a “ridiculous” bill. “We can’t legislate the people to go to church on Sunday,” he said. A law prohibiting auto dealers from remaining open on Sunday currently is on the statutes and has been upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court. Voting in favor of the bill were Democrats Bainbridge, Baran, Eichhom and Barrett and Republicans Bilby, Landgrebe, Rybolt and Somers. Not voting were Democrats Dillin, Grills and O’Bannon and Republicans Ogles and Conrad. The flurry of activity in the Senate highlighted a busy day for lawmakers and overshadowed a House decision to suspend its rules and push through a bi-parti-san measure changing the manner in which car owners pay their property tax. The vote on the much-amended bill was 83-1, with the dissenting vote cast by Rep. Rex Minnick, D-Brazil. Rep. Birch Bayh, D-Terre Haute, said the measure, if enacted into law, would add $9 to sl2 million to state revenues each year. He said it was a compromise bill “on which both sides have agreed” and said it was “vital” that the measure pass the House and go to the Senate for immediate action. The bill provides for an excise tax to be paid at the same time license plates are purchased. The tax would be set at 2 per cent of the true cash value of the, car as determined by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Rep. Joe Harris, D-Carlisle, author of the bill, said “this is an example of what we can do when we work on a bi-partisan basis.” The bill would become effective next Jan. 1 if it got by the Senate. Sen. C. Wendell Martin, R-Indi-anapolis, minority leader in the upper chamber, said he anticipates the bill also will pass the closing al tax loopholes to provide clsing all tax loopholes to provide more money for the state. Also in the House, the chairman of the Judiciary A Committee, Rep. Merrill Moores, R-Indianapo-lis, announced that a public hearing would be held after the session today on two civil rights bills which previously passed the Senate. The Senate got a late start, as usual, and immediately slapped down two pieces of legislation. One.would have provided that no candidate defeated for nomination in a state convention or a primary could file as an independent for the fall election. The other would have set up an annual five-day conference of Indiana judges and would have paid them $25 a day to attend. The Public Policy Committee of the House held an executive session late Thursday and voted to kill a Senate bill which calls for controls on dairy products to prevent milk from being sold below cost as a loss-leader. The controversial bill had passed the Senate 35-15 Feb. 9, and had been given a public hearing by the House Committee Wednesday. But a majority of members voting on the bill in the closed session decided to postpone

action indefinitely. Handley Rejects Two years ago a similar measure passed both the House and Senate but then-governor Harold Handley rejected it on the grounds such a law would hike the food bills of Hoosier families. The Senate is slated to get a joint resolution passed by the House Thursday, 79-13, calling for a constitutional amendment so that the lawmakers may meet annually. The session on even years would run for 30 days and be limited only to the budget and revenue matters. The odd-year session would be expanded to cover 90 calendar days but only 61 days of actually meeting. The Senate handed to the House a bpll calling for salary increases for elective state officials, with (Continued on page eight) Red Cross Chapters To Meet April 4 Eight or nine area Red Cross chapters will meet April 4 at the Allen county-Fort Wayne Red Cross headquarters to discuss forming an informal area organization, as the result of a groundwork meeting Thursday night. The first meeting will be especially concerned with exchanging ideas cm publicity, and getting good stories and facts to the various news media in the area. Porter Tulle, regional manager of the Alexandria office in charge of the states of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, explained how other areas are getting together to help give a uniform standard o 1 service in a given area. “For example, many people in Decatur and Adams county work elsewhere, and contribute to other United Funds. The person working next to them lives elsewhere. He gets certain services from the agencies of his home county; does the Adams county worker get the same? “When he doesn’t you can be certain that he will be very discouraged about helping. Therefore, it is urgent that Adam 4 county, area by area, reassess its program, see where it is weak, and bring the program up to an area standard.” Blood Program Example The blood program is a good example of this, already completed. Another example is the fund campaign—many ideas of the Adams county campaign came several years ago from Huntington county. But the exchange of ideas has been patchwork at best in the past. Miss Selma Bernstein, area worker, stated. A coordinating group, such as will be proposed at the April meeting, can greatly aid in the Red Cross local organization. It will help each chapter “sell” Red Cross. Representatives from Adams, Wells, Allen, Huntington, and DeKalb counties were present for the initial meeting Thursday. Attending from Adams county were Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, chapter executive secretary, and Dick Heller, chapter vice president.

Lenten Meditation (By William C. Dunshee, minister of the Church at Christ) m “His Steadfast Love Endures Forever!” Psalms 118: 1-9 Among the first fifty words of this Psalm of comfort and hope, the writer repeats no less than four times the statement of fact: “His steadfast love endures forever.” In this age of fear and uncertainty, these words of assurance could be repeated forty times four and it would not be too often. The Psalmist mentions some at the blessings at this steadfast love: “Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.” Who does not long to be liberated from life’s distresses! Further, the Psalmist says, "With the Lord on my side Ido not fear. What can man do to me?” In a society where the majority is often regarded as infaUatole, when will we learn that One plus God equals a majority in any given situation? As Paul said. “If God be for us, who can be against us?” Finally, the Steadfast Love provides a safe refuge: “ft 1» better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence In man ... or in princes.” “O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His steadfast love endures forever!” “Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul ... my life , . . my ALL.”

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Ed Hagan Speaks At Meeting Os Rotary Ed Hagan, district manager for Indiana & Michigan Electric Co., gave a short biography and classification talk to the Decatur Rotary club at its meeting Thursday night at the Youth and Community Center. Hagan, who recently became a Rotarian, was introduced by George Auer, program chairman for February. The first electric utility company to supply power from a central generating unit was started in New York City in 1882. The Jenny Electric Co. in Fort Wayne began its operations during the same decade. The Fort Wayne Traction Co. originally sold power to customers located along its interurbea lines. This company became a part of Indiana & Michigan in 1928. The Indiana 8c Michigan Electric Co. serves about 300,000 customers in 26 counties in eastern Indiana and southern Michigan. It has three operating divisions at South Bend. Marion and Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne division has two district headquarters. One is at Butler and the other is at Decatur. The Decatur district serves about 1,200 square miles, has 11,000 customers, and employs about 35 people. Indiana 8c Michigan has intra-connected lines with utility companies in seven midwestern states to insure.a constant reliable source of power. ■ Hagan began working for I& M immediately after graduation from Indiana Technical College. He said he and his company were glad to have become a part of this community. »I INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday. A little colder tonight. Low tonight 25 to M north, 28 to 3* south. High Saturday 34 to 42. Sunset today 6:31 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:25 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy to cloudy Wtth little temperature change. Low Saturday night 2S to 38. High Sunday 32 to 45. Advertising Index Advertiser “ Page Adams Theater S Burk Elevator Co 5 Beavers Oil Service, Inc —4, 5 Samuel Baumgartner & Sons ~ 5 Chevrolet .— 8 Cowens Insurance Agency ...... 7 Evans Sales & Service 5 Allen Fleming 6 Holthouse Furniture 5 Haugks 4, 8 Kohne Drug Store 2 Mel Liechty, Auctioneer 6 Model Hatchery — 5 Myers Florist 3 Niblick A Co 3 Peterson Grain Co ... 6 Petrie Oil -Co 2 Pure “5” Points Service —... 7 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc ..7 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 2,3, 4 Sutton Jewelry Store 3 Sheets Furniture ....— 2 Shady Lawn Motel 8 Teeple Truck Line 5 Tony’s Tap — 4 Rural Church Page Sponsors ... 6