Van Wert Times-Bulletin (Newspaper) - December 29, 1956, Van Wert, Ohio Weather Cloudy and cold with occasional Hurries today and tonight Sunday cold with snow likely bv 2 i low 30s south Low tonight north south VAN WERT Vol 11 187 10 Pages Van Wert Ohio Saturday December 29 1956 5 Cents Full Service Associated Press wire state national and world Central Press picture serrice Business office News office 2645 SHOW BRINGS HIGHWAY HAZARD Between Us By I Van Wert JUST BETWEEN US the New Year's holiday weekend starts day And there's more snow filtering down this morning and more snow forecast for Sunday night So things are going to be rough for traveling if intend to do any of that the holiday All ask is that you be careful when you get on the careful how you handle car and be careful how you fortify yourself for the drive After all we don't want to lose any of the few steady customers of this colyum We treasure each one of you SPEAKING OF snow and try weather Miss Charlotte ilton rings our phone to report an item very much related to said snow and wintry weather It seems that the current issue of Time Magazine carries a able item on Paul Siple who used to live in Van Wert and now is at the South Pole with Admiral Byrd's latest exploration SPEAKING of being on the highways reminds us of a phone call late the other evening from Mrs Kenneth Morris of South She wanted to know if it was unusual for a possum to be in the middle of the street in front of her house We allowed as how it was a bit un- usual so deep within the city Just about that time she told us ov er the phone that an auto had just struck the possum That ended the phone call quickly and w e don t know the fate of the possum But it does seem that a motorist should have been able to avoid such a sad accident It dramatizes the fact that drivers need to be careful and stay alert for anj eventuality SINCE MONDAY'S paper won't get out on the rural routes and to any country readers we might have until Wednesday morning w e ant to take time io wsb ery one the happiest of new years We might add that if things can continue as good generally as they were during this year we be satisfied CONSIDERING 1956 from the standpoint of the city as a whole it was a good year The climax of course came with news that we'll get a new factory but you could think of a lot of other nice things We don't want to go into all of it too thoroughly in this coh um because we like to devote the last one of the year to a re- of the local scene at the turn of the And we'll save that for Monday's paper But we do want to make the point that things look real optimistic in these hyar parts for the new year and we sincerely hope that some of that rosy outlook rubs off on each and every one of you customers Happy New Ike Aides Test Reaction To Mid-East Plans Combined Military Economic Policy Eyed By Solons and Public WASHINGTON W The hower administration tested the wind of congressional and public reaction today to a double-barreled idea for keeping Middle East peace with military pressure and vast economic aid Secretary of State Dulles who worked out the idea was ready to unveil it officially with dent Eisenhower at a New Year's Day conference with Democratic and Republican ers of Congress at the White House Meanwhile the suggestion was allowed to to some men In that way the tion hoped it would not come as a complete surprise to the lators on Tuesday and the public would be prepared for possible new U S policy moves in the troubled Middle East Purpose of the idea was under- stood to be primarily to put Russia on notice that any Middle East aggression would not go un- challenged Russia since the time of the Czars has coveted the Middle East's warm water ports V NOW THE AREA'S vast oE re- sources are an added lure With British and French prestige ing in the Middle East new and bolder Soviet economic and tary intrusions are expected I Britain and France have been urging the United States to step into the power vacuum before Russia does Eisenhower was reported ready to throw the full force of his of- fice into a vigorous appeal to the congressional leaders to back this 1 standby authority similar to that voted him to deal with the Formosa crisis in early 1955 the use U S troops in the Middle East if he deemed it essary 2 A far-reaching economic aid program for the Middle East perhaps totaling as much as a dollars This would go to both Israel and the Arab countries on assurances from them that they would end their bitter rivalry Although Eisenhower is ed strongly fn favor of Dulles idea it is possible he would de- cide not to press it if the leaders give it a cold re- ception Initial congressional reaction EXHAUSTED AFTER HOURS of fighting the brush fire raging in the Malibu Calif hills firemen from Los Angeles County try to catch a few minutes sleep on their truck Officials say that the blaze has endangered the homes of many Hollywood and TV may continue for several International Government Peeved At 3 Newsmen Salvage Crews Set for Work Along Canal Phone Negotiations Still Deadlocked COLUMBUS to end the strike against the Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co will resume Jan 8 federal Nicholas Fillo announced Friday A bargaining session between company representatives and of the striking tions Workers of America recessed last midnight with no reported Principal issues in the strike arc retention of the union shop clause no strike agreement and cation of supervisory personnel Escaped Bandit Sought by Police CINCINNATI 17 A posse of FBI men and police combed the wooded area near the Fernald At- Energy Commission plant Friday in an unsuccessful hunt for Walter Skiba 36 Cleveland bank bandit who escaped from South Bend Ind Dec 10 His companion Edwin scnd 34 Newport Ky who was raptured by county police day near the plant was returned to South Bend The two men fled the jail together while awaiting trial in a holdup at Bristol Ind somewhat slow seemed cool in WASHINGTON j SUEZ Egypt Salvage ican newsmen who entered Red workers stood by today to begin na this week have had their clearing major blocks from the ports revoked except for travel Suez Canal All they needed was back to the United States They j the final go-ahead also may face legal action by the government Both U N and Egyptian had said they expected the The State Department Friday I operation to begin Friday at this announced the moves against southern terminus of the canal Bomb Scares Keep New York Policemen Busy 36 Calls Received In 24 Hours Cranks Blamed For Big Rush j NEW YORK pursued their all-out hunt today for New York's Mad Bomber after be- ing snowed under by 36 bomb scares in a 24-hour period Things got so bad by late day that Chief of Detectives James B Leggett sharply tailed the activities of his bomb squad He ordered the to respond only to those calls in which a suspicious ob- ject had been found A suspicious object was found early today in the Times Square Theater The pipe object capped at both ends but found to contain only wadded paper was found lying near the stage The theater official who made the discovery summoned police who found it harmless 350 persons in the movie house were unaware of the incident Friday's wave of calls ed by police to cranks and pots kept authorities in an almost continuous state of activity At one juncture calls were pouring into police headquarters at the rate of one a minute -S THE ALARMS sent police around the city into pers stations theaters churches hotels and bus and Tail terminals It caused police to intensify their hunt for the diabolical Mad Bomber who has planted some 33 bombs in the city since 1940 Twenty-two have exploded ing 15 persons No deaths have re- Rewards totaling have been posted for the maniac's capture The discovery which caused the greatest alarm occurred Friday night at Madison Square Garden where some persons were Violence Flaring Anew In South Negro Woman Shot on City Bus Amid Dispute Over Integration By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Negro woman was shot in both legs while riding an ed city bus at Montgomery Ala and a high school band director was beaten by hooded men near immediately slapped a hood of burlap over my head The former conductor of phony orchestras at Spartanburg S C and Charlotte said the men told him they were administering Safety Experts In I GUI 111 Road Fatalities 490 Traffic Deaths Predicted As Cost Of This Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Highway safety and mainten- experts were keeping close Camden S C in new outbursts of i the beating because he had spoken racial violence in the Deep South I for racial integration before a ham D Worthy a reporter for the But day passed with a double attending a holiday college 1 T j II T i I d dockage still clogging the key ball tournament A suspicious waterway the wrecks m the ins wrapped in a Baltimore Afro-American and a Look magazine round Stevens and photographer channel and the technical lower Phillip Harrington cles the start of salvage j lavatory of the arena It accused them of misusing j An official of the Egyptian Suez their passports by going into Canal Authority said no orders to munist China where travel by start the work had been received A Garden security official ed out of the structure with the device and deposited it in a Americans is banned under U S I from his headquarters at parking lot Police later found it government policy Newsmen of lia half way up the canal other nations face no such Aides of U S Lt Gen tions by their governments j A Wheeler in charge to contain nothing more harmful than a firecracker Similar devices were found Mrs Rosa Jordan 22 gomery was the first victim of gunfire in the spreading ern controversy over segregation on city buses She was reported in fair condition in a ery hospital Investigators said Mrs Jordan was riding toward the rear of a bus Friday night when a bullet from a pistol slammed into the vehicle near the floor passed through her left leg and lodged in her right leg Other white and Negro gers escaped injury and were en to police headquarters for When the bus resumed its run it was fired on again but no one was injured in the second attack As a safety precaution Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers ed all city bus runs halted for the night THE SHOOTING was the most serious incident in the Alabama capital since city buses were grated under federal court order eight days ago On Wednesday night two buses were struck shots but there were no injuries Guy Hutchins 52 Camden High School band director described from his hospital bed how a band of hooded men tied him to a tree and beat him with a board after he stopped to change a tire day night 15 miles north of den He was returning from a tele- vision appearance at Charlotte N C at the time Hutchins said a car full of hooded men pulled up behind Lions Club meeting Hutchins said he had never made any gration remarks anywhere Doctors said Hutchins suffered severe bruises At Tallahassee Fla separate transportation apparently was ar- ranged for two white passengers who boarded a Cities Transit bus Friday and sat behind a Negro minister and Ms wife who were occupying a front seat The Rev W W Woods told newsmen he kept his seat the driver asked him to move to the rear The driver conferred with a policeman and finally told the white passengers get off the got a man who'll take the minister said The two then left the bus This was the latest development in a campaign by the Negro Inter Civic Council to integrate buses Suits have been filed in both state and federal courts to test the validity of a city ordinance and a Florida law un- der which Negroes seat from the rear of the bus and white persons seat from the front the tire The next thing I knew men were bursting out of the car and swarming over me They Here You Can Ike Hoping For Another Golf Round AUGUSTA Ga UB President Eisenhower enjoying a weekend vacation before Congress goes back to work hopes to get in an- other round of golf today at this holiday retreat I The President flew here from j Washington Friday smiling ly as he stepped from his private plane Columbine III Within a few minutes after the plane landed at Bush Airport the President was on bis way to the links and within the hour he was Worthy entered Communist of the canal clearance project for Friday at de- na through Hong Kong last the U N arrived in Suez j store a doorway of a Stevens and Harrington were day They said they had private home in Queens a 32 Dies Of Knife Wound PIQUA body of Darnell Davis 32 a knife wound in his left side was found at 4 a m today in the rear of the Veterans of For- eign Wars Bldg at thc southern edge of the city He was pronounced dead on ar- j rival at Piqua Hospital Sheriff Richard of Mi- reported to have reached Peiping from Moscow last Wednesday In Baltimore Editor C W Kay of the Afro-American said We do to comment Look magazine in New York also declined comment on the State De- action The mam reason federal ban is the continued imprisonment tions to launch the operation im- mediately Those engaged to start the ance job were primed but just stood by Capt P W Dekoe of the U Dutch salvage ship Tyne said he and the Danish Protector were ready to work but are waiting for orders Sunken ships damaged bridges by China of 10 Americans despite j and debris still litter the a Chinese agreement 16 months i channel wreckage of the Suez ago to free all U S citizens it had in prison or in detention Some Americans were freed but the 10 have been kept back Plan COLUMBUS hattan movie theater and the New Year's Eve dilU i- i I Grand Central Terminal All were i p m First Baptist Church fake bombs fashioned to look like service the authentic article Only two legitimate bombs have been found since Monday The first explosive device was found in the city's main public library The other was discovered early Friday m the Paramount Theater in Times Square Both missiles were traced to the mer speaking p m Emmanuel Lutheran State fighting lasted only six days nearly twj months ago Clearing them out expected to be a long and complicated operation The only previous work done to open the canal consists of limited i operations by three British ELAND gun duel on vessels in the Port ithe East Slde early ended Police Gun Duel Leaves Man Dead Commission Friday permitted of some one man dead and a 4 i area ana removal 01 some mines ami County is investigating the i Ohio Bell Telephone Co to issue j death It was not known million in common stock to j ately if Davis had been stabbed at the point where his body was discovered reimburse its treasury for spent for improving its ephone system County Fair Showed Profit But Balance Slips Backward Truck Destroyed In Highway Fire j ambulance man wounded 1 Charles Alexander 25 was ed by the wounded officer and his partner Edward and his ner James Chaloupka had gone to Alexander's home on a report Fire of undetermined origin a motor truck and its he bad been beating her cargo of automotive parts about and causinS a disturbance p m Friday nine opened the door i south of Van Wert on state an Thc county fair last of Ridge Township D way 81 the top of a showed a gross profit of A High of Ohio City Harry Lee State patrolmen of the Van Wert fairway wounding the officer Secretary Nolen E Stuckey told of Wulshire Township and Wiley post who investigated the fire Chaloupka fired members of board of directors of Kerns of Van Werl reported thc truck which had been back five of nine builds the Van Wert County Agricultural w P jones of converted from an old school bus Society at the annual meeting be- ing held today at the Despite the profit of the big ex- j position Secretary Stuckey said I the society's balance is nearly 000 less than the balance at the j Year's Eve service S p m St Thomas Lutheran south Harrison Township New Year's Eve service 9 p Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church night fellowship service Wesley Methodist Church New Year's Eve worship and fellowship p m Mt Zion Church five miles east of night service 10 p m Euclid Avenue Church service sermon Healing Rev Maurice j WillSman j 11 p m Trinity EUB New j Years worship service I p m Trinity service playing the course This may be his last vacation for a while He plans to fly back to Washington Sunday night for conferences Monday and Tuesday with congressional leaders The Con- gress convenes Thursday On day Eisenhower will meet with Re- publican leaders to discuss the ad- legislative program for 1957 That White House session will plans The next day New Year's Day the agenda will be given over to foreign policy for the year ahead with special attention to these mam immediate 1 The danger of Communist penetration of the Middle East and discussion of the United States role in the future in ing with that threat 2 Whether to admit to the ed States more than 21.500 garian refugees the quota ance watch on roads today They had the same thought in mind the slippery conditions could increase the number of auto crashes The National Safety Council has predicted that there will be 490 fatalities during the current New Year's holiday weekend At least 706 Americans died daring last Christmas iday It was an all-time high for any holiday in the nation's tory As of 7 a m today the national accidental death toll for this end was 34 Of these 30 died in traffic Friday's snow created new ards to plague the motorist who may be celebrating more this weekend than last The Ohio highway department's early weather bulletin today listed all of the state's highways as pery and hazardous for travel The Ohio Turnpike is wet and requires caution in driving the report said A light snow was reported falling over most of the state PRESIDENT Eisenhower de- the highway accident toll at Christmastime has urged erican motorists to make this the safest New Year's weekend on re- cord All of us should be determined to save lives this the President said in a statement sued by the White House He said that the terrible ties of speeding or careless and reckless driving cast a terrible shadow on this Christmastide Eisenhower called for a decent regard for the safety of ourselves and others to avoid an equally tragic toll over New Year's bureau has pre- that Ohio temperatures will average eight degrees below normal for the period through next Wednesday The normal high is 35 for ern Ohio 40 in the southern part of the state The normal low is 24 A slight warming trend may develop Monday but the mercury is expected to dip again by Additional precipitation probably in the form of may come by Monday and again Wreather conditions that might have made for a white Christmas could bring about a black New Year's in Ohio The immediate forecast for today and Sunday calls for afternoon snowfalls in most of Ohio and more snow Sunday Small during the period that be- gan this morning the weather reau said Northern Ohio generally faced cloudy and colder weather today with occasional snow flurries More snow is predicted for day afternoon or evening The highest temperatures today expected to be in the upper 20s falling off tonight to about IS de- grees above Counties near Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio were warned to NEW YEAR'S DAY 10 a m St Thomas Lutheran Church south Harrison Township Year's Day service Trinity Church Open church for prayer all day p m Assembly of God meeting and Bible study ly fixed by this government cations are the number will be J H hiked if the chiefs are willing to go along Poet Dies CHARLESTON S C Bennett author and poet died here Friday at the age of 91 He was a native of Chillicothe Ohio and worked as a newspaperman there from 1833 to 1890 ship was elected to finish thc un- and Driven by Harry expired term of Lester Galloway 46 of Delphos who resigned Kenneth D told the Patrolmen that was elected to the unexpired term he wfs eastbound when he ob- of Vaughn Morgan who also re- served under thc instru Dead Boy's Skin Indonesian Premier Gaining In Effort To Stem Revolt Central Ohio got about the forecast except that knr temperatures were expected to stay above 20 degrees Snow which was falling steadily at ing was expected to slightly then resume later Further south forecasts called for wind and cold today tonight and Sunday but a low tonight of 25 degrees or higher Afternoon snow was in the picture the weather bureau said Burglar Felled By Police Bullets CINCINNATI Leonard Browns 30 charged with a burglary here and described by police as was shot and wounded Friday as he sought to flee from detectives Brown was taken to General Hospital suffering shotgun wounds of the back hip and legs Six de- had set up a watch around Brown's house armed with guns and other weapons on a tip would return Officers said he alighted from a axi and shot when ho j beginning of thc year Permanent improvements j which included renovation of one of the horse barns into a pony i barn and improvement of toilet j facilities cost and new equipment cost The balance at the close of the year is Directors their families and other officials enjoyed a dinner at noon at the Hotel Marsh and this then it burst into i sent Jennings Township In his extensive financial re- pert Secretary Stuckey said that to totaled of which 561.42 was collected for family tickets outside gate admissions and admissions to the grand- stand day and night Other big items in receipts in- cluded 14 collected for CHICAGO catur 111 girl 70 per ceat of her body burned has tne skin of a dead 3 ear old in an attempt to save her life Surgeons at Children's afternoon the directors will fees for speed en- vene to reorganize for the coming 1 try fees m hall rentals in barn rentals the Mendon fire department men put out thc flames but the truck and cargo were almost a lal performed the total on2 and Adieus skin grafting on Cincy Evans burned last month I when her dress caught fire Doctors said only skin grafts can encourage her own skin to grow and replace scorched tissues 5th Life i Seven directors will be sworn in to office by County Treasurer Walter Putman notary public five starting three-year terms two un- expired terms Commencing his first three-year term will be William B Campbell who replaces Clifford Schaadt as director representing Harrison Director Schaadt did not seek reelection A A from the county tax levy and a Christmas auto col- from the State Department near here died today in a extending from neck to knees DAYTON fifth victim of came from thc body of Case III of Chicago a Christmas of I Dayton hospital Paid out for for the Frank Smith 50 of Indianapolis fair was Free acts and died of suffered in a two- entertainment cost light car collision on U S 40 near power and water cost 12 miles north of hero the secretary's salary and His wife Anna 48 was killed the laborers were paid in the crash and his daughter The disbursements totaled Susan 12 died Thursday of ies in the collision Other A complete financial report of victims Mrs Grace Wilson DIRECTORS REFLECTED for the society appears today in Thc and August Rankin 61 both of terms iiv Wilbur 1 i holiday traffic Florida Vacation MUSKEGON Mich local employer is giving his 12 salesmen and families an expense paid vacation in Florida Burdette Gray owner of thc Gray Trailer Sales Co of gon says thc trips are in addition 1 to Christmas bonuses JAKARTA Indonesia Pre- mier Ah has won some backing on tne political front in his fight to re- tain power in the face of the de- mands from rebellious army on Sumatra for his tion Two of the three leading tics in coalition government said they would re- main in his Cabinet It was con- i certain the third party also would stick by the premier if thc other two groups followed through with that policy Thc announcements of support seemed to insure retention of power at least for thc limo being The was shaken severely in thc first after army leaders seized power in north and central Sumatra in a bloodless coup last weekend Thc premier's own Nationalist party and the orthodox Moslems i announced they would remain in cabinet crs the third party the I Moslem would stay with the others The Moslem parties earlier had threatened to quit the cabinet The small Veterans party said day it was withdrawing from the government PRESIDENT Sukarno m e a while called again for the dissident army groups to return to the path of duty immediately The central government sent to north Sumatra day to repel any possible rebel attack against a newly installed military chieftain But there still were no reports of any bloodshed in the revolt on Indonesia's second largest island Col in north Sumatra and Lt Col Achmad Hussein in the central section led the bloodless of ment machinery in those areas Both and Hussein de- manded that re- sign but announced their support for Sukarno revered as a hero in the Indonesian revolt against thc Dutch Sukarno has backed Economic Records Seen For New Year WASHINGTON Records ia employment income and tion should be set in the States next year barring emergency Secretary of Com- merce Weeks But he added in s year-end ment that is the biggest of the economic problems ahead Along with new highs in em- ployment wages production and exports established during the past year he noted that consumer es rose per cent during the year ended last month People more and spent more he said but because of the rise m prices the year's 6 per cent gam in personal income after es actually increased purchasing power only about 4 per cent that in 1955 Mishap Kills Boy DELAWARE ffi old Jimmy Terry was accidentally shot to death here Friday when a shotgun in the hands of an older brother went off as the boys wera preparing to go hunting
