Van Wert Times-Bulletin (Newspaper) - June 13, 1956, Van Wert, Ohio Weather Little change In temperature night and Thursday Scattered thundershowers Thursday and in extreme south Low tonight high Thursday VAN WERT Vol 19 12 Pages Van Wert Ohio Wednesday June 13 1956 5 Cents FuJi Service Associated Press leased wire tat state national and world news Central Press picture service Business office MM News office 2945 Scientists Warn Against Excessive Radiation And X-Rays WASHINGTON W industry has WASHINGTON W lated waste from industrial plants in the coming atomic power age may contain more latent lethal than would be turned loose in a clear war This is one of the conclusions of uie Academy 01 ences after a yearlong study of radiation dangers from all weapon testing at- power production medical uses At one point the report fore- cast that when an atomic power industry has been developed on a worldwide basis the lation of its radioactive waste products may represent more radiation than would be ed in an atomic war The scientists said that steps should be taken now to man against radiation danger from all sources They suggested keeping a history of each continuing record of the amount of exposure to tion from X-ray pictures cal treatment in laboratories or power plants and from fallout as the result of bomb tests Dr Warren Weaver chairman of the academy's Genetics Com- said he thinks people are spending unnecessarily too much of the slight tolerance to exposure to radiation by the ents can cause mutation of dren born to them or their de- it said The scientists worked out this table on radiation reaching the reproductive gans Up to age 40 accumulated radiation should not exceed 50 roentgens This scale is based on tics showing about half the He called stupid the use of X-rays for fitting shoes and spoke out against X-ray shots of infants just so the mother can see the skeleton of her baby is beautifully formed Genetics was a subject for jor attention in the report Over- Between Us By 1 Van Wert JUST BETWEEN US Mayor Clark Spitler who is the official greeter of the city and of the mythical key to the was called on to play a slightly different version of that role The mayor happened by as eastbound passenger train No 22 rolled into the vania station here A pedestrian called the train attention to a smoking box under one of the baggage cars lated radiation on the tive organs should not exceed 10 roentgens A roentgen is a of radiation An nary tooth X-ray gives an ex- of five roentgens to the jaw with of a roentgen of stray radiation born to parents under 30 nine tenths to parents under 40 But while one group of was urging in the use of another group meeting in St Louis said that in about five years Mrs Housewife may be able to serve her family a meal with foods preserved through atomic radiation The process was described day to a meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists It is in- tended to supplement day canning and refrigeration Capt Pomerantz preservation officer of the Quartermaster Food and Con- tainer Institute of Chicago said results of the program might be available to the general public in about five years and it could reduce prices somewhat He said a limited amount of AS CONDUCTOR H B Fox of Fort Wayne walked over to the Community Gas station to get a sprinkling can full of water to cool down tie bearing the flames started shooting out under the car igniting the wooden floor That was when Mayor ler always ready to do his good deed for the day for hometown citizens travelers alike got into the act Van Wert Flirting With 100 Degrees Chart Recorded 96 at 1 O'Clock This Afternoon For several days now the this area tomorrow Bulletin temperature chart has been pushing the season's heat mark ever higher and today it was uncomfortably around with the mark Last Wednesday on tival Day the chart set a new high mark for the month of 83 The Ohio Crop Reporting vice reports that some cornfields over the state are having to be replanted because of early ex- rainfall and strawberries are now bearing in all parts of the state A year ago weather here was THE MAYOR suggested the city firemen might do a much better job putting out the fire than by using the sprinkling can method And lie turned in the alarm In nothing flat the firemen had the blaze knocked down preventing serious damage to the baggage car and its load of magazines consigned to the Atlantic seaboard It wound up an eventful day full of variety for the firemen Earlier yesterday they had had a short circuit on an electric range and then a power lawn mower caught fire THE OTHER day we had a squib in the colyum about some county students winning high honors while away at college for the past four years Heavens to how the list has been increasing since A fact in which Van Wert County ought to feel some justifiable pride Because young men and women who graduate cum laude or sum ma cum laude with high honors and with highest honors don't come a dime a dozen They deserve all sorts of congratulations when they compile records like that is why we like to mention them in this colyum degrees The next day it went more moderate wit to 88 degrees Friday there high of 59 degrees and a lov a it was 86 50 for June 13 Saturday the chart climbed of the nation is sufferin to the 90s for the first the same as Van Wert i touching tie 90 mark hot and Sunday it was a high of 96 today grees Monday it was 96 Yesterday it pushed the MORNING tempera mark up to 98 were in the 70s and 80 At 1 p m today it was 96 the plain states eastward yesterday's high wasn't readings of 90 and until 5 p m With four hours to go tins afternoon it cool front moved into certain that the plains but little would be reached again and expected east of the Mississip every probability would be River where more hot anc weather in the 73 per cenl range was forecast witt RAINS HAVE been spotty afternoon and evening the area With things the city today it is probably temperatures included Far- to believe that just outside N D 99 El Paso Tex 98 city to the north and east and Minneapolis 95 day evening there was a Momes Denver and Kansas shower that left water standing 94 Boston 91 Cleveland 90 fields this and Philadelphia 88 The weatherman was New York 86 change in temperature five-day forecast is for might and tomorrow but ranging eight de- ed thundershowers were above normal with late north along the east side of thunderstorms every day Mississippi valley and are due Monday radiation could permit keeping some foods to a long time at ular refrigeration temperatures He said the food doesn't become radioactive Army research now tutes most of the work being done on the new approach Flans for a pilot plant capable of ing out 30 tons of radiated food daily are in the works A group of 10 volunteers all former conscientious objectors are now on a 100 per cent ated food diet at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver Capt Fomerantz said there Is no difference at all in their be- havior when on the radiated diet He said some foods such as green leafy vegetables fresh fruits and dairy products don't lend themselves to the process Strawberries turn white Lettuce wilts and milk tastes burned Pork products poultry sel sprouts broccoli and fish were termed the most promising foodstuffs for radiation RULES OUT PARLEY BETWEEN DULLES CHOU Two Injured In Delphos Crash Of Auto Truck Vehicles Sideswipe On Highway 30 Victims In Hospital A Delphos youth and a Columbus truck driver were injured in a THERE'S BEVERLY Ann ler daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Agler of Wiltshire She was graduated cum laude at Mi- ami University Monday Miss Agler is a graduate of the shire High School class of 1952 She will teach next fall in the Hamilton High School There's Sobert Scheldt son of Dr and Mrs W C Scheldt who summa cum Wheaton College laude from We had his record in the paper yesterday so we'll confine ourself here to con- gratulating him THERE'S MARY Lou Dietrich of Lexington Ky who was summa cum laude at Transylvania College Lexington Monday She is the daughter of Mrs Marie Dietrich who is a sister of John and George enstein of Van Wert Mrs Dietrich is now a dietitian in the Lexington Veterans Hospital Majoring in history and social science Mary Lou carried straight As all during her col- lege career She now plans to teach high school Ike Said Studying Loyalty Program IN THAT OTHER colyum about top graduates we mentioned Keith L Kraner of Wren who received a doctor of veterinary medicine de- gree at Ohio State University We have a note now that Dr Kraner on Friday will the staff of the Pennsylvania cs burg Pa He and his wife Mary will reside at Camp Hill Pa a suburb of Harrisburg His wife is the daughter of the late Rev F J Ash of Marietta WASHINGTON ffl Harry P Cain said today President hower showed deep concern and interest in Cain's proposals for overhauling the government program Cain in further testimony prepared for a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on constitutional rights charged that Fascist type abuses have marked the program to an extent where plication for a federal job he said becomes a terrifying trap Cain said innocent men and women may be tabbed as security risks without ever learning why or having a real chance to defend themselves Cain a Republican and a er U has indicated he expects to be dropped from his a year ob as a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board because of his outspoken criticism of the program Cain denounced anew the ice of automatically suspending hose against whom derogatory in- is turned up He said the President among many ers wants this practice stopped CAIN SAID Eisenhower did not seem to know until their face talk at the White House last Thursday that under the present system a spy and a drunk are ing standard which mixes ty security and suitability with sometimes disastrous results This Cain said has resulted in employes being fired as curity risks and others who are suspended because so it is re- ported their files contained de- rogatory information Cain termed those figures so misleading as to constitute an unattractive bers game that he said could be- come a racket unless Congress The Cain evidenced a deep concern interest when I suggested said and that outfit and passenger car crash about 1 a m today 12 miles east of Van Wert on U S route 30 The injured both in the St Rita's Hospital in Lima are Virgil Cheatam 52 of Columbus and Raymond Falke 19 of phos Falke is suffering from a tured skull and a possible leg ture and his condition was re- ported as fair Cheatam has ond degree brush burns on his body Both to fee questioned about the accident this afternoon by state highway patrolmen and Sheriff W L Clay's department The truck outfit was and the car traveling eas when they apparently sideswiped A POLISH WOMAN OFFICER leaving South Korea by UN request along with eight other members ol the Nations Advisory commission surveys her luggage in Seoul while waiting for a airlift her to Panmunjom Other commission members Included seven Swiss and o j jg Cf matters relating to security should be separated from loyalty a j S senator from Washington should be indicated he tn hp from security Union Says Phone DR KRANER was graduated from Wren High School in 1947 and was salutatorian of is class In 1952 he received a bachelor of science degree from Please Turn to Page Two 3 Persons Killed In Headon Crash RAVENSWOOD W Va man woman and child were ed on West U S 2 today in fiery wreckage of a headon collision be- tween a passenger car and a bread truck The dead were identified as Mrs J S Townsend Jr her old son and Tom Gavin 22 of Middleport Ohio driver of the bread truck Maj Townsend stationed in as with the Air Force and the small daughter were badly counted alike in the over-all of those fired as security risks The President had thought that a clear distinction was being made between loyalty cases and Cam said that was the case until Eisenhower's 1953 ex- order setting up the gram now m effect Cain said this change made the program an all Strike Cost High CLEVELAND Iff Last year's long strike against Southern Bell seriously the finances of the Communications Workers of America gates told convention yesterday when they approved the union's budget of for Reports showed CWA paid out of its defense fund in an period ended March 21 or about million more than it took in Expenditures from the general fund for the same period were 327.398 more than receipts of FOLLOWING THE collision the traveled down the high way and overturned on its righ side blocking the westbound traf fie lane The passenger car swerved onto the south berm and stopped south and upright The car was demolished and damage to the tractor and trailer was at Cheatam sustained the brush burns when he was thrown from the truck cab The injured were taken to the hospital in the meyer ambulance of Delphos A large quantity of gasoline xom the truck tanks was spilled on the highway and the mable liquid was washed from the pavement by members of the phos city fire department The truck owned by Berm an Service Inc of Fort Wayne and operated by Security Cartage was transporting miscellaneous articles including bicycles truck axles and plywood Part of the cargo was tossed onto the north berm and fence row NO ONE WAS hurt when cars driven by William E Army 22 of Ohio City RFD 1 and Robert L 18 of Street collided Tuesday evening on state route No 118 near the U S route 224 intersection rear bumper and tailpipe of Army's car and the hood and grill of the auto were damaged The accident was in- by the sheriff's ment One minor city traffic accident reported by the city police department today At p m Tuesday cars driven Ann DAMASCUS Shaffer Street and a truck driven DV Lewis am ers said today India's Prime ister Nehru and Syrian officials will discuss a ist pact when Nehru visits next week Lost Prospector Is Rescued After Diet of Lizard MOAB Utah a boat carrying two uranium tors capsized in the raging mud- dy Colorado River one of the men took off for the desert The other Charles L Robinson of Hot Springs Ark elected to work along the river and eat berries to stay alive Robinson was day eight days after the hap Instead of berries lie ate rsw lizards and cactus and he lost 42 pounds during his ordeal Lizards taste a lot like dines or tuna when a guy is good and he said as he re- a Moab hospital Of his adventures he I was rescued alive only by a divine act of God There is nothing heroic about going through there You can feel your neck and wrists getting skinny That stuff about living a month in the for- est with a knife is bunk Not in this country The lizards are too small Robinson's companion Bryan Waelder 52 of Long Beach Calif was rescued last Friday after walking overland almost 100 miles through the desert Deputy Sheriff Wells of spotted from the an- and rescued him by Lewis Richard Elston were in collision when Matthews stopped for a traffic signal at Main and Shannon Streets and the truck struck the rear of the auto The tail pipe and tail light on the Matthews car and left front corner of the Elston truck were damaged British End Grip On Suez Canal Zone PORT SAID Egypt UP The last British soldier quit the Suez Canal Zone today ending 74 years of British military occupation m Egypt The last to leave was Brig J H S Lacey who quietly ed over the harbor house to the Egyptians at a m Egypt has taken over operation of the huge bases the British built in the area Britain retains the right to return to them at any time in the next five years if an outside power attacks Turkey or any Arab state The British pulled out six days before the deadline set m thp British Egyptian Wall Of Earth Falls Killing 6 Playing Kids Excavation in Brooklyn Tenement Area Scene Of Swirling Tragedy NEW YORK a whisper ing rush a wall of sandy earth swept down on a group of children playing m a Brooklyn excavation last night Six of them two girls and four boys were and crushed to death Police and the Brooklyn dis- attorney began an gation to determine if negligence was involved It could not be determined im- mediately whether a watchman iad been posted to keep hood children out of the square excavation It was in the ng section a dis- of aging closely packed ments Nine youngsters apparently were digging a tunnel in the soft sand at the foot of the wall of the excavation which was for a underpass Marie las had been sent to call her and sister home for per She saw them in the ust then the earth moved MARIE SCREAMED and another sister Dolores The sand swirled around her and sucked off her shoes bui two girls escaped A postoffice employe heard the screaming and armed in time to pull out Anatole Bykov alive but seriously injured Marie pulled a fire alarm box Second Argentine Rebel Aide Sought BUENOS AIRES Argentina Authorities pushed a dogged hunt today for a second top leader of last weekend's rebellion after seizing and speedily executing his chief in the uprising Still sought was Gen Raul Tanco an army leader in the regime of ex-President Peron Executed by a firing squad last night was Gen Juan Jose Valle who had hoped to become dent if the revolt succeeded An army spokesman said police were in hot pursuit of Tanco but gave no details The government earlier asserted Tanco had selected to take over as vice ident under Valle Also cut down by a firing squad in the latest executions was Juan Alberto Abadie an army reserve lieutenant who was second in com- mand of the uprising within the 7th Infantry in La Plata A government communique an- the two executions but did not say where or when they were carried out Unofficial sources re- ported Valle was put to death at the national penitentiary if if HE WAS seized in a police raid i President Pedro Aramburu Firing squads earlier had 25 persons as participants in the rebellion which broke out Saturday night and was put down after a bloody fight A source close to the ment said death sentences ed on 150 to 200 rebels had been commuted to life imprisonment Military courts still were sitting in secret sessions to deliberate the fate of others seized The usual practice has been to imprison conspirators or let them flee to foreign asylum The Aramburu government to have adopted the all-out repressive measures in an effort to wipe out the varied resistance it has met since Peron was over- thrown last September The government charged hard Peron supporters and Com- munist plotters were behind the weekend rebellion Red China Told If Must Alter Behavior State Department Says Communists Must Keep Earlier Agreements WASHINGTON ffl State De- officials ruled out today any meeting between Secretary Dulles and ister Chou of Communist China until the Reds substantially change their behavior The State Department has made clear the Red Chinese must 1 their agreement olf last Sept 10 to permit 13 cans imprisoned in China to re- turn home 2 Make a meaningful of the use or threat of in connection with its claims on Formosa the home of Chiang Chinese Nationalist The statement was issued after the Red Chinese regime had dis- closed a proposal made at Geneva May 11 This called for a quick agreement on the general of force by the United States and Red China and for a meeting by July u That proposal was rejected by the State Department and said there is not the slightest chance of getting such a as long as the Communist ue on their present line ON THE QUESTION of sa the Red Chinese proposed last Dec 1 a draft agreement under which both sides in general terms would renounce force The United States termed this unsatisfactory on the ground that it lacked a binding application to the Formosa issue The United States wording that would make it apply specifically to the Taiwan Formosa area or elsewhere The State Department said the United States had hoped its amendments to the Red Chinese draft agreement would be At i t e able then But these reasonable hopes were met by a Communist tion of amounted to its own proposal 22 Arabs Killed ALGIERS French said nationalist rebels killed 22 Arabs last night in the Sou Andas tains where 500 rebels were ed killed or captured in a French on a headquarters of Provisional offensive two weeks ago Chamber Of Commerce Joins Better Business Bureau board of of directors of the j tion by the United States in flem ILS monthly meeting yesterday organizations with international commitments for lighted by a decision to join the I the relaxation of trade restrictions National Better Business Bureau The BBB is an organization de- signed to maintain good relations Soon the pit was swarming with police and fire rescue workers The six children were pulled out but they could not be revived Frantic parents and relatives poured down from the surrounding tenements A grandmother com- Marie on the sidewalk above the hole She heard a wailing cry from the mother Mrs Theresa as her children ael 10 and Lorraine 5 were uncovered Don't look Don't the grandmother told Marie turning her away Which she called down came back the cry and the family burst into sobbing Another mother in hex frenzy of grief beat her head against a wooden The other dead children were mn William McKenzie 9 John T Kotov 7 Anna 8 and Louis Nitti 6 purchasers and merchants attempting to resolve complaints and is noted for its work against fraudulent business schemes The Van Wert Chamber has joined said Secretary Bob Colvin so it can receive releases from the BBB outlining current business complaints and how they are handled and warning of newest schemes being tried The services of the BBB in cases of local complaints also become available through this membership The directors also considered a referendum submitted by the an- meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United Stales covering administration of teral trade agreements The policy declaration as submitted to the national Chamber by its committee on policy but the conferees decided upon a dum The proposed wording I Tho Chamber members provide mechanisms through which arrangements for trade negotiations would be facilitated and serve as forums for the discussion of trade problems and the amicable adjust ment of problems involving com rules and commitments mutually agreed upon by the mem bers Under no conditions however shall the United States surrender its sovereignty or submit to control or domination by any al organization Colvin said that since the local Chamber directors look upon the proposal as seeking only a ering to discuss and does not the matter should be favored In further business at yesterday's meeting the directors voted to sub- mit to the local Chamber ship a series of changes in the code of regulations none of them of any major import These changes will be publicized further as soon as they are reduced to written form Colvin said They also be mailed to all Chamber For Slaying Mother Of 4 BALTIMORE ed handyman was seized today and charged with of a matron in the fashionable urbs of North Baltimore Police were holding Carl Camel Kier 21 at the police station on homicide They said he had been ing work in the area yesterday uie victim Mrs Jonn H Bopst 48 lived Two butcher a Japanese saber still in its scabbard and a heavy brass figurine was used as weapons m the slaving of the mother of four Mrs husband about 47 a vice president and partner of Mechanical Engineering Inc a contracting firm found the body when he returned from work Police found a blue suit coat of medium size near the home with a beer bottle cap in one The murderer evidently had en the keys to the family's 1953 sports coupe from Mrs handbag and escaped in the car later recovered No money was found in the bag Police said Mrs Bopst ed by friends as quiet and a delightful apparently was beaten with the brass ine of a man on a horse and stabbed with the two knives Plans Trip PARIS Foreign Christian will leave by plane for the United States for talks with U S -ary of State Dulles
