Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1961 — Page 2

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lowa Patrolman Captive 46 Hours

LAMONI, lowa (UPl)—Authorities along the lowa-Missouri border today sought three men accused of holding an lowa highway . patrolman captive for 46 hours. Patrolman Robert Wflke, 81, stumbled Into a farmhouse Sunday night, ending a search that covered 300 square- miles and stretched across the Atlantic Ocean to a Netherlands clairvoyant. mike, a three-year veteran and father of three children, was under a physician’s care for unspecified “pains" and an “extreme case of shock.” Hie reason for his abduction was not immediately determined, authorities said but was believed to have involved a routine traffic check. Wilke told farmer Archie Keen kis abductors gave him only a sandwich and “a little something that didn’t taste very good" from early Saturday morning until they dumped him out of their car near Keen’s farm Sunday. Search Reran Saturday The search for Wilke was launched about 8 a.m. Saturday when Ids wife notified patrol headquarters that he had not returned from his regular tour of duty. Searchers, including several on horseback in the sparsely settled south central lowa counties, found his patrol car abandoned on a side road near U.S. 65 south of Lucas, 37 Rifles northeast of Lamoni. Wiflre’s empty gun belt, patrol uniform cap and summons book were found in roadside ditches about a mile apart. State Safety Commissioner Carl Pesch said the articles apparently were hurled from a moving car. 4 A Des Moines radio station called on a European extrasensory perceptionist for help after Saturday’s search produced nothE

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ing. Gerard Croiset of the University of Utrecht was contacted by transAtlantic telephone and told of Wilke’s disappearance, a station spokesman said. “Htrh. Gray House’' CA)iset told the station it was his impression that Wilke had been hit on the head and dragged from his car by three people. He was in a “high, gray house near water and a bridge,” the alleged clairvoyant .said. A station spokesman said Croiset declined to say whether Wilke was alive or dead and asked that he be sent a map bearing an “X” at the spot where Wilke's car was found. Swanson called Croieet’s vision “bull,” but a station spokesman said several of Croiset’s Impressions coincided with the facts. Croiset had not been told about discovery of Wilke’s hat but told the station Wilke's hat had been knocked off and kicked by one of the kidnapers. Police said Wilke’s cap shield was bent, indicating a struggle. The vision of “three kidnapers” checked with Wiike’s statement, the station said, and the “high gray house near water and a bridge” could have been Keen’s two-story light-colored farm home in this hilly border country. SevenMile Creek and a bridge across the creek lie a half-mile east of Keen’ * * "■ *\ #o* Lynn Orr, Bryant, Outstanding Girl BLOOMINGTON, Ind. <UPI> — Lynn Orr, 16, Bryant, was honored with the title of "outstanding girl" at the Booster Girls’ State at closing ceremonies Sunday afternoon.

Red Military m\m m A a IMAIAik BIJI uutnuntDers U. S. Strength WASHINGTON (UFU-The U.S. armed forces will be outnumbered almost 50 per cent by the Russians because of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s cancelation of troop reductions. The Soviet decision apparently means that Russia’s armed forces may maintain a strength of 3,623,000 million men, compared with 2,517,000 men planned for U.S. forces by next July. The difference of 1,106,000 men would leave the Russian military machine 44 per cent larger even if Congress approved the 25,000man U.S. increase requested by President Kennedy. Khrushchev’s decision, announced in a speech last weekend, came at a time when top Pentagon leaders were beginning to feel

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the United States and Russia bad approached a stage of “parity” in military manpower. The Soviet premier did not make entirely clear what strength the Russian forces would retain. In January, 1960, he said these forces would be reduced from 3,623,000 to 2,433,000 over a period of "a year or two.” Last weekend he said “the Soviet government was compelled to instruct the Defense Ministry to suspend, temporarily, pending special orders, the reduction in the grmed forces planned for 1961." This left unclear whether any reductions already had taken place. Pentagon leaders said American plans will be reviewed on the basis of Khrushchev’s announcement. Angler Is Hooked By Thieves Sunday LAFAYETTE Ind. (UPI) — It was the angler, not the fish, that was hooked when Louis Britt went fishing Sunday. While he was fishing along the Wabash River north of here, thieves jacked up his parked car, took all four wheels and tires and ransacked the trunk. * ,

Secretary Freeman Speaks At Meeting WASHINGTON (UPl)—Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman said today that before farmers can get new federal programs to lift thetr income, the general public must be shown how it benefits from farm productivity. Freeman, whose long-range proposals for new methods of controlling farm surpluses, were rejected by Congress recently, spoke here at a meeting of the National Association of Television and Radio Farm Directors. “As a nation we eat better, and cheaper in relation to our income, than any other people — and we share our abundance with more people than has any nation before us,” he said. “Nowhere on earth, and never before in the history of man, has any nation achieved the remarkable record of efficiency and productivity whiih the farmers of this nation have done in this bentury,” Freeman said. “Yet we neither fully recognize this powerful instrument for world peace nor do we appear to want to; preserve and strengthen the foundation from which it springs,” Freeman contended. He added that until the nation appreciates the importance of farming “we cannot adequately portray the need to manage this abundance so that the farmer can obtain a fair return...” New Castle Plant damaged By Fire NEW CASTLE, Ind. (UPI)—A fire which threatened part of the downtown business district Saturday night destroyed a casket company warehouse and left part of this city without electricity for a short time. The blaze, fed 'by exploding lacquer and paint thinner, caused damage estimated at between $65,000 and $75,000. The fire was discovered by patrons of a nearby tavern who heard an explosion and rushed outside to see flames shooting out of the three-story brick and frame building. Firemen from Muncie, Anderson, Mor el and, Lewisville, Knightstown, Mount Summit and Blountsville joined local units in battling the blaze. Residents of nearby apartments were evacuated but firemen kept the blaze from spreading. The spectacular blaze sent flames more than 100 feet into the air. It was visible for a distance of several miles. Joseph Burris, owner of the building used by the Conco Casket Co., said he was told children had been seen playing around the building shortly before the fire broke out.

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Capsule From Discoverer Is Snared Sunday HONOLULU (UPI) — A goldplated, kettle-shaped Discoverer capsule snared in its descent from two days in space was flown to California today for analysis of its contents. The 300-pound capsule was caught by an Air Force plane 60 miles northwest of here Sunday afternoon as it parachuted toward the Pacific after circling the earth at 18,000 miles an hour. The satellite, Discoverer XXVI, was launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., by scientists who hoped to see it race through space for four days. For technical reasons, apparently, they decided Sunday to trigger the mechanism which returned it to earth. The plane which made the dramatic catch, one of eight specially equipped Cll9s hovering in the planned recovery area, was piloted by Capt. Jack R. Wilson, 36, Toledo, Ohio. After a hook hanging from the plane’s bottom snared the capsule’s parachute the crew then hauled the capsule into' the big plane. Aboard the capsule we r e samples of eight chemical elements making their debut in space —iron, lead, nickel, magnesium, yttrium, bismuth, uranium and silicon. Scientists wanted to see how they reacted to the space environment. Auto Industry And Union Resume Talks DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers Uhion was expected to call on the auto industry today to find new ways of helping workers who lose their jobs because of automation or plant relocations. The problems of the displaced workers, whom the union Calls the “Okie of the 19605,” was expected to be brought up when the UAW resumed its new contract negotiations with General Motors and Ford. Bargaining talks with Chrysler resume Tuesday and with American Motors Corp. July 26. The 1958 Big Three contracts expire Aug. 31, the AMC pact sept. 6. At stake are wages and working conditions for the firms’ 600,000 UAW members The UAW promised to have more to say at GM today about

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■ » WASHINGTON COLUMN * ‘ Railroad Merger Drama ] Is Due for Long Run , 1 BY peter EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Ass* WASHINGTON—OIEA^—A last chance at »«Yiva!lis private enterprise may now be racing tbe U.S. eastern _. a In the opinion of some transportation^experte. «asS one rows east of the Mississippi River and roughly north of »Kne connecting Norfolk, Louisville and St. Louis have about three years in which to reorganize to save themselves and their customers, if they don’t dolt, nationalization—government ownership ana operation—loom within five years. WHAT IS CONSIDERED THE FIRST ACT of this epic dr**» fa now being played in the big Interstate Commerce Commission hearing room with examiner John L. Bradford presiding. Curtain raiser is the application of Chesapeake * Ohto— Walter J. Tuohy, president, with Cleveland financier Cyrual* Eaton pulling strings in the wings—to control and then at soma unspecified time merge with Baltimore & Ohio—Howard Jv. Simpson, chairman of the board. . . . Completing the dramatic triangle and thickening the plot 1* New York Central—Alfred E. Perlman, president—who argue* that any B&O and C&O merger must include NYC. BUT THE PLAY WILL GO ON FOR MONTHS. The examiner's report will be reviewed by the full ICC. There will be briefs, objections and exceptions from interested parties., «o decision will be handed down till next year and the wbele business may end up in the courts for final decision. NYC’s fear is that if C&O and B&O merge, a large part of the midwestem freight traffic will be diverted to their system for movement to the East Coast ports of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport News. . It is for this reason that New York state Industrial Council have intervened in these hearings to protect their interests. New York—through Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Atty. Gen. Louis K. Lefkowitz and Transportation Director Arne C. Wiprud—have petitioned that all U.S. railroad merger cases be consolidated into one ICC hearing. So far, the commission has decided to take, merger applications one at a time. This is what it has done in the past. Five raft mergers were approved in 1959, one in 1960. . But there are now nine more mergej applications involving 25 class one carriers before ICC. Two involving northeastern roads are considered most important. What is done with them may set a pattern for all U.S. mergers. . . . One would merge the five principal New England roads— New Haven, Boston & Maine, Bangor and Aroostook, Marne Central and Rutland. The second—and this may be mog important of all—would merge Norfolk & Western with Nickel N&W merged with Virginian in 1959. Pennsylvania controls N&W and has a piece of Nickel Plate. THIS BRINGS INTO THE CAST OF CHARACTERS Pennsy’s board chairman, James M. Symes. Last year be broke off merger talks with NYC. . But if Pennsylvania can now get ICC approval for merger of N&W with Nickel Plate, it can be combined with other holdings into what has been described as “a system so powerful that all other eastern roads couldn’t compete with it.

its plans to put factory workers on salaries, improve the unemployment compensation clauses m present contracts, and limit subcontracting to protect the jobs of plant employes. At Ford, the UAW planned to ask the company for contract language curbing overtime for some workers when others are laid off, as well as better rules governing production standards a worker is expected to meet.

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