The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1958 — Page 3
5 Men Perish In Hotel Fire
IlES MOINES ur five elderly nun -A-e:' t<xlay wh-’n firo sv. <: story hotel just off tk business district. About 14 or 15 othe
upstairs win-1 in second-floor rooms and the 209 others fled' )ther two on the third floor.
District Fire Ch^f Bob Burns
t 2:40 jajd firemen were probing the
charred ruins to determine whether there were any other
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The victims included Joe Inger-.-roll. 69; Melvin Allen, about 75: Orien Immell. 62; and Everett Dean Martin. 75. The fifth victim was so badly burned he could not be identified
immediately.
Burns said the fire apparently started in the cafe on the first floor and shot up through the up-
per stories.
Rex Peterson. 31. said the building was “filled with heavy smoke" before he and most of the other men residents were aware of the fire. Peterson and other survivors told how the--groped in the dark along the walls and stairway and found their way outside.
NORWOOD, Iowa (UPl — In vestigators today blamed defective wiring for a fire that kded three children despite their fath er’s valiant attempt to rescu them. The victims were asleep in a •upstairs bedroom Sunday when the flames swept the two-stor; farm home of Mr. and Mrs. B?r nard Abraham. The Abrahams and four other children escape the blaze. Killed were Roger Abraham. ^ Barbara Eileen, 8, and Sharon Kay, 14.
Abraham, 47 said he tried to rescue the trapped children by climbing a ladder to the second > floor and breaking windows. He I was hospitalized with slashed arms along with a daughter who suffered a back injury jumping from a second floor window. REPORTS CN RUSSIA
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By HENRY CATHCART Central Press Washington Writer VrrASlITVC.TON—Don’t get your hopes up for a tax cut just bet W cause of the big hearings being conducted by the House ways and means committee. Chairman Wilbur Mills (D), Arkansas, is dead set against a tax reduction unless a big surplus is available in the federal treasury or business gets so bad that it needs a quick shot in the arm. Neither condition is in sight now’. The hearings w'ere set last summer when the Democrats anticipated that the Eisenhower administration might ask for a tax cut in the President's budget message. They wanted to beat him to the punch. However, sputniks have intervened and the administration has made it clear that it will seek anything but a tax cut. Defense spending is going up and a deficit is not an unlikely prospect. * • * * • PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS—Two possible contenders for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination are jockeying for position in Senator the congressional “space race.” Symington They are Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri. Both are in the forefront of efforts to force a sweeping overhaul of United States’ missile-age defense planning. Johnson quickly seized the initiative and took charge of the Democratic drive to compel greater efforts on the part of the Eisenhower administration to overtake Russia’s space-weapons lead. However, Symington, a former Air Force secretary who long has proclaimed his belief that U. S. defenses are inadequate, is reported determined to play a spectacular role in the current session of the missile-minded Congress. The Missourian is preparing a bill, which he expects to introduce with bipartisan support, to abolish the Joint Chiefs of Staff system and give a single commander broad authority over all of the armed forces. * • * * * • FARM BATTLE RIC. ONE?—The fight over the farm policies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson shapes up more and more Os one of the biggest battles of the new session of Congress. Many senators are lining up against the embattled Benson and demands for his resignation would come as no surprise to observers in the
Capital.
Benson’s programs are believed doomed and even the secretary himself has admitte i that he doesn’t see much chance of getting his program through. A number of senators are urging a “noconfidence” vote in the Agriculture secretary who says he won't quit as long as Mr. Eisenhower wants him to serve.
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• EDUCATION AID HOPES LOW—The chances for any federal aid to education bill, other than possibly a scholarship program,
are just about nil at this session of Congress.
That old bugaboo, the segregation . Segregation
largely in any discussion of the possibility of providing federal funds for the construction of public
schools. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (Dl, New Bugaboo
York, has made it clear that he again will try to
attach a rider to any school construction bill denying fedcial aid
to any state that practices racial segregation.
That, in effect, would kill a school measure just as it has in the past two years. Strong southern opposition, coupled with the votes
of economy advocates, would defeat the bill.
Two Brothers Drowned Sunday WINCHESTER (UP) — Two Randolph County brothers drowned Sunday afternoon when thev broke through the ice of a creek south of New Pittsburg. The bodies of Michael Marvin Barga, 10. and his brother, David Allen Barga, 8, were recovered in about five feet of water a half hour later by their father, Norman. The boys were playing on the creek with Steve Swank, 8, Union City, when the accident occurred. Stove said David broke through first and his brother drowned as he wont to the younger boy’s aid. Steve ran about a half-mile to the Barga home for help. Barga recovered the bodies of his sons as neighbors held on to him with the aid of a long rope. Barga said he told the boys repeatedly not to play near the creek.
CHICAGO i UP i — In the rough, tough and greasy automobile repair business. Gordon Sherman is a rarity. He's an egg-
head.
Furthermore, he’s w-a Iking proof that an intellectual can make an unqualified success of business. Sherman, young, balding and erudite, majored in classical ■Indies at the University of Chicago and was an AAU gymnastics champ. In less than two years he has ~uidcd the growth of Midas Inc. from a raw idea to a flourishing system of more than 200 repair shops specializing in muffler replacement. In his jpare time. Sherman browses in classical literature and philosophy and plays classical piano, sometimes with a string quartet. He also plays a set of bagpipes which he made himself. Recently he took up horticulture and built his own greenhouse. Sherman’s approach to business is unusual, to say the least. "We have a conceptualized ap-
proach.” he said, "‘with philosophical overtones. In other words, we're eggheads.” The Midas shops are franchised and run as independent businesses. Their operators are of varied background former lawyers. school teachers, even housewives. To maintain contact with this growing commercial empire Sherman employs about 20 "field counselors.” most of whom are liberal arts graduates. One is a former assistant professor of philosophy. "As our field counselors we try to hire thinking persons," he said, “men and women with exciting inner lives who can bring something to the venture.” Sherman regards his field counselors as “traveling educators” whose main duty is to '‘communicate our goals and objective" to the shop operators. The business itself is unusual : n many aspects. The shops ; handle muffler replacement nothing else. The work is done i on a production line basis, lowering the cost and cutting the | time consumed to an average 15 minutes per car. The shops don't even look like automobile repair garages. They are designed to appeal to housewives.
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“Women do much of the driving." Sherman said. “They have the time and should accept some of the responsibility for maintaining the family car. Yet conventional automobile repair advertising actually frightens them away.” Sherman said he’s toying with the idea of putting playpens in the shops so women can bring the youngsters along. For all the high flown language and “conceptualized approach,” the business is based on a sound and simple foundation. “We make a profit," Sherman said.
Financier Robert R. Young (above), ebaimnn of the l^'i 'l of the New Y:ik Central Rail- • oid w's fo-'nri (’('id iii the billiard room of his Palm Beach, .i t. acme. Police said the 60-year-old financier kiU i nimsel. by puLtng th-> muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Young won control of the N. Y. Central in 1954 after a bitter proxy fight.
i p> Ammssador to Moscow, I v. 1 n E. Thompson arrives in N''v York from Frankfurt, C t nci ay, en route to Washingtin. D. C. where he is expected to g ve Piesident Eisenhower and ii’o State Department a fre~h leport on the USSF’s reaction to the recent U. S. proposal for a summit meeting.
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2 SCIENTISTS FOR 1-Dr. Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Science, tell* the Senate hearing on "scienca amt education for national defense” that it is “both desirable ami necessary” ‘hat America double the scientists in next 10 or 15 years. (International)
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HERE SHE IS, MAC-’’Memo to USAF Lt. Bill McLeod, on Eniwetok: Sir, here’s that pretty blonde schoolteacher you talked to in a San Francisco cafeteria last November. She s Patrice Olsen, 25. Yes, she’ll write, once she gets your APO.” McLeod wrote to the Board of Education, giving details he remembered — name Pat, home state Utah, fifth grade teacher — and said he wanted to know her better. She turned up. (lntcniatio.ini)
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m -! t the coming Into being of the world’s first full•a for civilian needs, at Shippingport, Pa., in the Pittsi • , .e out.-ide. Another is the heart of the whole busir core, shown being lowered into position with its ra and 165 pounds of highly enriched uranium. The third
photo is downtown Pittsburgh, Lt up like a Christmas tree by atomic power. (Interi%at\onal)_
“UNUSUAL TIMES '—“These are unusual times and that is why we have proposed an unusual approach.” UAW President Walter Reuther tells 3.000 delegates to a special collective bargaining convention in Detroit. The “unusual approach,” pruiil-shaiing. (Inter national)
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