Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 150.

Senate Space Committee r . . . • ' " . • • . ‘ , Approves Kennedy’s Plan For Speeding Up Program

Fact Finders ' 1 . Launch Study

NEW YORK (UPI) — Federal factfinders step into the national maritime walkout today, opening hearings that could produce a Taft-Hartley injunction forcing angry seamen to untie strike-idled ships for at least 80 days. The three-member panel President Kennedy appointed under the Taft-Hartley Act to sift facts in the strike of 75,000 seamen assembledin New York preparatory to beginning hearings this afternoon. Kennedy asked the panel to report to him by Friday on issues in the dispute and status of attempts to settle the 12-day walkout which the President said has < reached the stage of endangering I national health and safety. „ Injunction Expected Once the report is in. the President is expected to order Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to seek a federal court injunction ordering strikers back to work for an 80-day cooling off period during which a negotiated settlement would be sought. Although union leaders were unanimous in denouncing Kennedy’s invoking the Taft-Hartley Act, there was no indication they would attempt to thwart the factfinders mission by defying the executive order setting up the panel and ordering the hearings. But several unions have threatened to fight any injunction all the way to the Supreme Court. Ralph E. Casey, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute (AMMI), the largest shipowners’ group, promised that management would give “full cooperation” to the factfinders. Cole Heads Panel Chairman of the panel is David L. Cole, Paterson. N. J., veteran labor arbitrator and former director of the Federal Mediation Service. The other two members are Judge Sameul I. Rosenman, New York, special White House counsel during the Roosevelt administra- ■ tion, and James J. Healy, BosFuneral Wednesday For Frances Gause Mrs. Frances Mae Gause, 69, former resident of Ohio City, 0., died Sunday at her home in Willshire. 0., following an illness of two years of complications. She was born in Van Wert county. 0., Feb. 27. 1892, a daughter of Daniel H. and Clara Belle Ag-ler-Fry. Her first husband, Jesse Henry Kline, preceded her in death in 1953. and she then married Benjamin Gause April 24. 1954. . Mrs. Gause was a member of the Church of God at Ohio City. Surviving in addition to Jier husband are one daughter, Mrs. Frank (Viivian) Glattli of Ohio City; five sons, Kenneth, Clifford, Frank (Vivian) Glattli of Ohio City, and JessejMCline, Jr., of Elida, O.i one Stepson, Wilbur Gause of Convoy, O.; three stepdaughters, Mrs., Roy (Delila) Slusser of Willshire, Mrs. Boyd (Mildred) Snyder of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Roy (Opal) Agler of Hobart; 15 grandchildren; three brothers, Thurman and Harry Fry of Ohio City, and Forest Fry of Chase, Kan., and two sisters. Mrs. Otto Webb and Mrs. Wavel Custer of Ohio City. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Church of God in Ohio City, the Rev. Fred J. Landolt and the Rev. Wilbur Sites officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert until 12 noon Wednesday, and at the church after 1 p. m. >

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY lOBWSPAFBR IN ADAMS COUNTY

ton, professor of industrial relations at Harvard University school of business. The panel can only report facts in the dispute to the President. It cannot make recommendations for a settlement. Even as the machinery for the fact finding mission was being set up Monday night, two major groups of ship owners filed unfair Tabor practices charges against four of the striking unions. Separate charges were filed by Vasey and Anthony J. Cardinale, coordinator of the tanker labor service committee. The managei ment groups asked the National I Labor Relations Board (NLRB> to I order the four unions to drop demands that some 500 foreign flag ships operated by U.S. firms be unionized. Flag Registry Troublesome Foreign flag registry of Ameri-can-owned vessels has been a major stumbling block in negotiations between shipowners and the unions. The unions contend that ships under so - called “runaway Hags” usually those of Panama, Honduras or Liberia — are used by owners to lower operating costs by escaping union pay. safety and benefit standards. Check Forger Given 2-14 Years In Prison Urban George Wirkner, 49-year-old resident of near Fort Recovery, Ohio, who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of check forgery last week, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to 2-14 years at the Indiana state prison, Michigan City, by circuit court Judge Myles F. Parrish late Monday afternoon. Judge Parrish ordered Wirkner be taken to Michigan City within the next five days, and sheriff Merle Affolder has indicated Wirkner would be taken Wednesday. The Ohio man was apprehended June 12, about three hours after he had passed a forged check at Miller’s Grocery on North Second street in Decatur. He had bought $4.59 worth of groceries, and cashed a check for $37, that had the forged signature of the Floyd Mcßride Welding Shop on it. Wirkner has a long list of previous convictions for the-same charge, one being in this county in 1954 wheft he cashed a forged check at Berne. New Jobless Claims Decline Last Week The number of new claims filed with the Indiana—employment security division last Friday for the Adams county area decreased from 19 to 13 for the week of June 23, Richard P. App, manager of the Fort Wayne office, announced today. Also, 84 claims were con- ! tinued, for a total of 97 regular claims. Nine new extended coverage claims were filed, the lowest number since May 31, A total of 51 were continued, for an extended coverage total of 60. All claims transacted totaled 157. Regular claims have been 100 or lower since May 8. with extended claims running between 40 and 60. Ibis is out of a total work force of some 4,500 persons. The unem- , plpyment figures cover only those persons who are covered by unemployment payments, and do not cover retail unemployment figures, where the employes are not covered by unemployment insurance.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Space Committee today unanimously approved President Kennedy’s plan for a speeded-up space program that will include trying to put a manned expedition on the moon before the Russians do. *’■? The’ committee approved a sl,784,300,000 annual authorization for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will be charged with the task of developing the manned moon flight. Sen. Robert Kerr, chairman of the committee, said the program would require expenditures of from $7 to $9 billion additional within the next five years. Another Senate committee, meanwhile, was taking a hard look at the budget of the U.S. Information Agency, which has asked the Senate to restore a cut made in its appropriations by the House. The agency had asked Congress for $141.2 million, but this was reduced to $127.1 million by the House. Other congressional news: Securities: Chairman William L. Cary of the Securities & Exchange Commission testified at a congressional hearing that there is evidence of substantial manipulation in stock sales. Cary urged approval of a proposed $750,000 investigation by the SEC to determine if existing laws and rules are sufficient. Legislation: Speaker Sam Raybum predicted after a meeting with President Kennedy that the House will pass an aid-to-education bill. Rayburn made the prediction after a survey of legislation at the weekly meeting of congressional leaders with Kennedy at the White House. Debt: The Senate Finance Committee voted to raise the national debt ceiling by another $5 billion, to a peacetime high of $298 billion. Social Security: Chances appeared good that a bill to increase Social Security checks for about 4.4 million persons will get to the White House by Thursday. The bill was passed by the Senate Monday and sent to conference committee. It increases minimum retirement benefits from $33 to S4O a month, raises benefits by 10 per cent for persons receiving survivor payments, and allows men to retire at age 62. The committee is expected to get out a compromise bill in time for it to be approved and sent to the White House before legislators leave Friday for a long Fourth of July holiday. Rites Held Monday For Faurote Infant Graveside services were held Monday at the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery for Michael Allen Faurote, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Faurote of that city, who died following birth at St. Joseph hospital Sunday. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Richard, at home; and the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Metz and William Faurote. all of Decatur. The Rev. Robert Hoevel officiated at the services. Red Cross Honored For Reaching Goal The “splendid leadership, fine organization, and outstanding efforts” that resulted in the Red Cross rural fund drive and the Community Fund drives of Berne and Decatur reaching their goals, were recognized for the second straight year by a certificate of honor from Truman Solverud, manager of the eastern area office of the American Red Cross. ’ Tn a letter to Wilbur Petrie, who has been president of the chapter for the past two years, he highly complimented ‘ all of the .county workers and Community Fund workers for their fine job this past year. Adams county is a “responsible community,*’ Solverud stated, in making the award.

Decatur. Indiana. Tuesday. June 27.1961.

Harriman Back To W ashington

GENEVA (UPl)—Special envoy W. Averell Harriman, head of the U.S. delegation to the 14-nation conference on Laos, flew to Washington today for consultations with his government. Harriman’s departure followed by less than a week the recall to Washington of Ambassador Arthur H. Dean, who headed the American delegation at the deadlocked nuclear weapons test ban talks in Geneva. The conference on Laos also has been bogged down for weeks over Soviet refusal to bolster the truce commission trying to police the cease-fire in the Southeast Asian kingdom. An official announcement issued by the U.S. delegation did not say if and when Harriman would return to Geneva. It said that during his absence, the delegation would be headed by John M. Steves, deputy assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs. Earlier, the royal Laotian government of Premier Prince Boun Oum ended its boycott of the conference and called for a real cease-fire by the Communist backed Laotian forces. The delegation said the cease-five was an “imperative” condition for a negotiated peace settlement. Since the conference opened oa May 16. the Vientiane government had refused to attend sessions in protest against the seating of the Laotian “neutralist” and pro-Com-munist Pathet Lao delegations on an equal basis. Thailand walked out two weeks ago in support of the Vientiane government protest. Its delegation also returned to the conference table today.

May Take Students To Lake Resorts Host families to the foreign exchange students visiting in Decatur next week, will be permitted to take their young guests to lake resorts on Independence Day, if they so desire. Wilbur Petrie and Herb Banning, in charge of the event, contacted the New York office or the American Field Service and were granted permission to allow students to spend a day away from the group. Several of the host families have lake cottages and are desirous of spending the Fourth away from Decatur. Normally, the rules are that the students remain together for all events, but on account of the holiday this special permission was granted by the AFS headquarters. | ’ So that arrangements can be made for taking care of the students who will remain in Decatur, the committee has requested that host families who are taking the youngsters out of town, contact either Petrie or Banning by Thursday evening, of this week. The busload of 35 exchange students and two chaperones will arrive in Decatur at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Youth and Community Center. The committee requests that a representative of each host family be at the Center by 2:30 o’clock, so that full instructions may be given. The group will depart from the Center at 8 o’clock Thursday morning, July 6. , . • -7" Evansville Truck Driver Is Killed ENFIELD, 111. (UPI) — Arthur Watson Tayler, 53, Evansville, Ind., was killed Monday when the semi-trailer truck he was driving was struck by a freight train on Route 460 near here.

Jefferson Club To Meet On Thursday State chairman J. Manfred Core will have a chance to visit with Jefferson club members and friends Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at a regular meeting to be held at the home of Miss Rosemary Spangler, county recorder, west of Decatur, Roger Singleton, Jefferson club president, said today. In addition Dr. Harry H. Hebble will report on recent local political developments, and on future plans of the party. Miss Spangler’s home is located three miles west of Decatur on highway 224 to the I&M station, then V/4 miles south on a gravel road along the township line. The home is on the west side of the road, across the railroad track. . AU Jefferson dub members and friends ate invited to attehd, Singleton stated. Home-made ice cream will be served. Agreement Signed For Cattle Testing The Adams county commissioners signed an agreement with the Indiana state livestock sanitary board for brucellosis and tuberculosis testing in Adams county at their Monday meeting. The agreement is for testing of cattle in French and Union townships next year, and was at a great savings for the county. The brucellosis testing will be at a charge of S2OO, while the tuberculosis testing will probably be at no cost. Every year the commissioners have the company test in two Adams county townships, and the money is in the budget for the payment of the testing. It is agreed, however, that any money that is not needed, reverts to a balance fund. This year enough money has accumulated in the fund that the testing is almost' at no cost at all. Last year, the tuberculosis testing alone cost $3,568 and the brucellosis testing was at a price of $443. County auditor Ed Jaberg stated that this would mean a savings of about three-quarters of a I cent on next year’s tax rate. The commissioners also let a bid for coal to the Monroe Grain & Supply Co. on a bid of $13.68 cents a ton. Bids were received at the last meeting, and the contract was awarded to the Monroe company. •> ( INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and a Utile warmer tonight and Wednesday. Chance of a few afternoon or night thundershowers, especially Wednesday. Low tonight in the 60s. High Wednesday 84 to 90. Sunset 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:19 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warmer with chance of a few scattered thundershowers. Lows in the 60s. Highs 83 to 93. Decatur Temperatures 12 noon 79 Midnight 63 <1 p.m 78 1 a.m 61 2 p.m 78 2 a.m 60 3 p.m 76 3 a.m 60 4 p.m 78 4 a.m 58 5 p.m 77 5 a«n 67 6 p.m 78 —6 a.m. . 57 .- i p.m. 74 8 a.m 72 9 p.m. ... 70 9 a.m. 75 10 p.m 66 10 a.m 78 11 p.m 66 11 a.m 84 Total for the 14 hour period endi ing at 7 a. m. today, 0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at 1.39 feet.

State Parole' Board Named By Governor INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh’s office announced today that a Gary attorney is giving up a lucrative law practice and a DePauw University professor is leaving the classroom to serve on the first full-time Indiana Parole Board. Welsh’s office announced the appoihtment of Milo Murray, Gary attorney; Dr. Paul A. Thomas, DePauw University penology professor at Greencastle, and Bert Rudicell, associate warden of Indiana State Prison at Michigan City as‘members of the board created by the 1961 Legislature effective July 1. The legislature created the fulltime board and established salaries of SII,OOO a year for the three members to supervise the paroles of prisoners at the state prison, the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, and the Indiana Boys School at Plainfield. A separate board will be named later to supervise paroles at the Indiana Women’s Prison and Indiana Girls’ School. Arthur Campbell, chairman of the State Board of Correction, said “background and experience” were given thorough consideration in selection of the board members. “Mr. Rudicell is a career man in the penal system since 1934, much of that time in parole,” Campbell said. “Mr. Murray has been on the parole board at the state prison for five years. He is giving up a very lucrative law practice to serve on the board at a financial sacrifice. Dr. Thomas has professional background and worked two summers at the Indiana State Farm in counseling and group therapy.” 8 . “Definitely the purpose of a full-time board,” Campbell said, “is to provide more careful screening of every parolee. We expect this board to spend a week at a time at the reformatory and the prison.” 1 While Murray and Rudicell will take office July 1, Thomas will not join the board until July 25 because he is teaching a course in penology at the University of Maine sumrtier school. Between July 1 and 5, the position will be filled by Robert B. Hougham, Franklin, former secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund. The executive office also announced four reappointments m penal positions. Paul H. Hoge was reappointed director of the Division of Probation. William E. Wilson was reapappointed director of the Division of Prison Industry and Farms. Glenn E. Douthitt was reappointed director of the Division of Classification and Treatment George Denton was reappointed director of the Division of Paroles.

Advertising Index Advertiser Par T Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop ,- z Arnold Lumber Co., Inc. z Burk Elevator Co. » Burke Standard Serivce 7 Drive In Theater » Decatur-Kocher Lumber, Inc. - 2 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 2 D. & T. Standard Service 7 Erie-Lackawanna Railroad 3 Evans Sales & Service 4, 5 Fasteeth £ Ford ’ Allen Fleming --—5 Fairway ® Haugks “ Husmann’s Decorating House - 3 Jani Lyn 3 Kohne Drug Store — 6 Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 Kohne Window & Awning Co. -t 2 Phil-Miz Auction Co. 4 Petrie Oil Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Standard Oil !-— 7 Smith Drug Co 4 Stucky & Co. 5 Clark Smith, Builder .....2 Teeple Truck Line .<l, 5 Uhrick Bros. 6 Walts Standard Service 7 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .. 2

Lists Summer Hours For Public Library Summer hours for the Decatur public library were announced today by Miss Bertha Heller, head librarian. The summer schedule will go into effect Saturday, and will continue to Tuesday, Sept. 5. The library will be open Mondays and Fridays from 12 nopn until 8:30 p. m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the library will open at 12 noon and colse ~at 6 p. m. The library will be closed all day July 4 and Labor Day, Sept. 4.

, V 1. w I>%.•*■ i-fc' '” 1- J?' KENNEDY IMPOSES TAFT-HARTLEY LAW — Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, right, tells a Washington news conference that President Kennedy has invoked the Taft-Hartley Law to halt the maritime strike. Presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger is at left.

Living Costs Dip Slightly In May

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Living costs dipped slightly in May for the second time in five months, the Labor Department reported today. Factory workers’ take-home pay advanced to a record high for the month. Price cuts for meat and poultry and some other items nudged the consumer price index down to a May reading of 127.4. In April the index stood at 127.5, a record high first reached last December. The 127.2 reading meant that the cost of some 300 goods and Services bought by city blue collar and clerical workers families has risen by 27.4 per cent since 194749. Thus, a bundle of goods which cost $lO in 1947-49 cost $12.74 last month. The department noted that in the past 8 months the consumer price index has been relatively stable, fluctuating narrowly in the 127.3 to 127.5 range. Continuation of this almost perfect stability would give 1961 the best non-inflation record since 1955. With the business recovery generating more overtime work for factory hands, pay envelopes grew fatter. The average factory production worker with three depend-

Inquire Into Stock Market Practices

WASHINGTON (UPI) — House investigators began an inquiry today into stock market practices to determine whether present regulations are adequate to protect investors’? Chairman Peter F. Mack Jr., D--111., of a House commerce subcommittee on finance, said in an opening statement that he wa s “alarmed” at recent market developments and that others shared his concern. ~ MacK cnea recent cases of manipulation and warnings by exchange officials against unwarranted speculation. He had said previously he thought stock prices might have been pushed too high in relation i. to dividends. As its first witness, the subcommittee caled William L. Cary, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), to discuss possible revision of regulations and laws governing the sale of securities on the established exchanges as well as over the counter. . t In addition to developing information on the various U.S. markets, the subcommittee hoped to convince Congress it should authorize a far - reaching $750,000 study by the SEC. Mack pointed to two recent warnings by G. Keith Funston, president of the giant New York

Man Sentenced For Indianapolis Holdup INDIAN APOUS (UPD—Federal Judge William E. Steckler Monday sentenced Charles O’Dell Smith, 23, Indianapolis, to 20 years in prison for the May 18 holdup of a branch bank here. Steckler said, however, that the sentence could be modified on the recommendation of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons. Smith pleaded guilty June 2 but Steckler deferred sentencing until Monday. Smith was captured minutes after the SB,OBO holdup at a branch of American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Co.

Seven Cents

ents took home $82.44 a week in May, about 85 cents a week more than in April. « This was a gain of about $1 a week over May, 1960, and also was a record high for May. But real buying power of factory workers’ earnings, although up from last year, failed to reach the May record set in 1959. This was because prices have gone up more than wages since then. Meat prices have dipped for the fourth consecutive month, reflecting ample market supplies and the sharp competition of, poultry prices which were at their lowest post war level, the department reported. Poultry prices were about 31 per cent less than in 1947, the department said. Also contributing to a 0.4 per cent decline in oyer-all retail food prices were cuts for eggs, fresh milk, strawberries, frozen orange juice concentrate and lard. Used car prices continued to advance and for the first time in 14 months equaled the year-agc level. The department also reported “widespread increases” in physicians fees.

Stock Exchange, and a number of warnings from brokerage firms to back up his statement that responsible officials were worried about the present state of the securities markets. He said the last general overhaul of the stock and bonds regulations was completed in 1938. “In view of the more than 20 years that have elapsed since that time,” Mack said, "it has seemed to us that it is now highly appropriate again to review these rules governing the activities of various security markets to see whether they are adequate to protect investors.”

Mrs. Anna Somers Dies This Morning Mrs. Anna Teona Somers, 81, a resident of Decatur for the past seven years, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lewis Butcher, 1109 West Monroe street. She had been in failing health for seven years. She was born in Clairmont county, O„ Nov. 8, 1879, a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth PowersSmith, and was married )n 1902 to John Somers. Her husband preceded her in death in 1955. Mrs. Somers was a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Bluffton. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Butcher are another daughter, Mrs. Albert Groll of Berwyn, BL; one son, Searell Somers of Bluffton; 12 grandchildren; one brother, Edward Smith of Portland, Ore., and one sister. Mrs. Russell Sparks of Hillards, O. One daughter, two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conduct, ed at 1:30 pm. Thursday at the Thoma toneral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Virgil Hull officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Wednesday.