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An Indiana County Newspaper That Sr vet Every Member of the family TEDDY It' twip that miltM unsafe fof Mijbdjf1 ltw a bridge club Volum8 59. 22 1. Twenty Page Indiana, Monday, May 4, ,957. Two Sections am Ml mm I I ftf IMS (UinTO v. IRIMMd 1 i niiri I Hi I i il In 1 1 1 iniiimn i'i hii ill i tit; Indiana Close Call For R.D3Cirl;Fire,Caused ienson Urges it 4M Wheat kJ mi To Surplus Of One local family escaped injury end a farm house was destroyed, as a result of the spring thunderstorm that hit the Indiana County area early.

Sunday morning. Other damage resulted in power failures caused by lines that wore reportedly down in portions of the cojnty. Twelve-year-old Lois Jean Conrad, daughter ot Mr, and Mrs. William Conrad, Indiana R. D.

3, escaped injury early yesterday morning when a bolt of lightning crashed into her bedroom, setting the bed on fire and causing considerable damage to the house. Steel Pay Highest County's Oldest Resident Dies A 104-year-old nan believed be Indiana County's oldest resident, passed away Sunday morning In Indiana County where he bad a resident since 184. tat W2L? ffi. Ira ws IM)te( Congress Asked To Act Now According to the report, a bolt of lightning struck the roof of the Term Limit Conrad down the side of the frame building, through On President He was Peter Bum who Ul 1- window and into the bedroom -Diougn xsmsmim through an electrical outlet. Bad -Truman WASHINGTON (AP) leaves no known relatives.

He was bora Oct. 2, 1854, in Cam-' brut County, Complete obituary appears on page The lightning set the bed clothes HOBOKEN, N. J. (AP) WASHINGTON Secretary Agriculturel Benson made, a hew appeal and bed on fire. Time of the incident 'was about 2:30 aim.

I'Steelworkers are at the topi Trunian: said today the Constitu today for congressional ac rune -of the Wages and bene tions ban on a third term sends XiA Jean. awakened bv the fits ladder industrial president into a second term 'with onf hand tied behind him." lightning, Mn to her sisters' bedroom and the children' reportedly America, Blough, chairman of U. S. Steel said today. "It makes no sense treat, a tioh designed to halt the fiir-l ther accumulation of surplus wheat.

I He told a meeting of the Newspaper, Farm Editors Assn. there is Browing public ran for their parents. Three other children were also Soviets Rush Envoy Home; tried Escape president way no matter who he is Republican or Demoi Blough told stockholders at in the house sleeping when the FOUND AFTER NIGHT IK; WOODS These three youngsters were found early yesterday after being lost for. IS hours in. wooded' area 10 miles east of Ocean: Lake, Ore.

Vet and cold, but otherwise unharmed, they cuddle with dog Prince, safely back at home. to are Anna' 8, with' brothers 10. The 'children wandered away from home at dusk Saturday and became lost; Soma 60 police and volunteers were called into search. -i (AP Wircphoto) crat," the former president told the annual meeting that the lightning struck. Senate Judiciary subcommittee concern over the cost of gov steel industry negotiating Mr.

Conrad was assisted by the ernment purchase and stor 1 nuunuuit in In one of his rare appearances before Congress. team in contract talks start-ing Tuesday will be conscious! RANGOON, Burma (AP) A age of unneeded supplies of ine the bed and mattress outside Truman sad the amendment the gram. ioi uiese siausucs: and checking for further damage. Tl.o rrtafii hut "By 1959, the steel Damage was estimated at about which put the ban into the Constitution In 1951 "is a bad amend-ment and ought to be repealed." Soviet military attache who apparently had tried to escape by leaping from a hospital window was Down out of Rangoon on a 5500. It is reported the lightning rt Hears Little worker earned about 84 cents US Cou He noted that he alone, among 175 apparently burned out at least two electrical circuits in the two story more per hour.

than the average shown little progress in dealing, with this problem. Benson announced at the same time the list of foreign officials who will participate in i food-for- million Americans could be eject-. Communist plane wage earner in all manufacturing. building. A screen of- 40 hefty guards ed tor a third term, if he could get the votes.

This is because the cents more per hour than the Liuhtnine is also believed re-1 peace conference opening here from the Soviet Embassy roughed average wage earner In the dura- Last-Stand Rock's Tuesday at the invitation of this amendment specifically exempted, the man who' was then president- sponsible for the destruction of a two story brick farm bouse, up newsmen and prevented them from questioning him. ble goods industries and 38 cents country to explore ways of moving wheat into needy areas Truman. owned by C. S. Weyandt, Homer.

more per hour than the autowork- Hospital sources said the' at The amendment was submitted City, located on Indiana RD er a fellow who used to be ahead I 1. In Urarul tache Col. Mikhail I. Stty- abroad. Attending this two-day confer- LITTLE ROCK, thifee-judge federal of him by nine cents." Mrs.

John Zorik, occupants of the1 ence wlU high-ranking officials guine, who apparently wanted to get political 'asylum in to the states by the Republican 80th Congress, and Truman said if was -'ironic" that' the Jirstmteffi duck'resldenWo'be; hamstrtin'g The Industry team- at the man- of Argentina, Australia, Frani Court today begany'a hearing; on constitutionality or the state law: governor four Tjublic hiih schools against 'Y house, smoke fit they re-tumed jhome The -embassy neither confirmed-; and the United States. The In NYG Hospital nor denied by this amendment Is one of -the agement vconference will be headed -Cooper, jxepii; under JeKal Jltiaok Food and Agriculture Organization will be represented by its di- Republicans' own." This was a have permittectithe transfer of funds that otherwise would tive president-r-personal serv NEW YORK ffiP-SiKging star1 See Close Page Col. 2 Sir Winston reference to President Elsenr rector-general Dr. B. to question, from the ices', Steel Corp.

Blough is have gone to. ine. little Jiocit scnuoia lor ue uuw-uiapiuucu bower. Polly Bergen -was rushed 'to me sugntry bunt, haggard looking man was brought to the air; port tojj Soviet Embassy -xar minutes before a' Chinese Commu "You don't have to be very Coopers boss; farm editors, Benson said wheat1 hospital today vand was reported bills now being considered by the IThe industry team," Blough in serious condition from a preg- Ike Invites nist transport plane took off for Attorneys for the National Assn. for the Advancement of.

Colored People contend that the prime law. Enrbute To Visit Ike smart to know that an officeholder who Is not eligible for re-election loses a lot of influence," Truman said. "So, what have you done? You've taken a man and put him agriculture committees of the House and Senate are littl! if any better than' the present federal said, "will also bear in mind that past collective bargaining sessions with representatives of the United Kunming and He was hustled aboard such haste most of his personal baggage was Act- 4 of 1958, is an Truman To. scheme" employed to block court- nancy. Her husband, Freddie Fields, said, her Illness necessitates Miss Bergen's immediate withdrawal as star of the Broadway musical "Jfyst Impressions." Her physicians, Drs.

Robert Lee lett behind. ordered integration, i LONDON AP) Sir Winsotn Steelworkers of. America have been characterized by substantial cost increases, major strikes and government Winnie Fete A weeping women identified as At the outset, -attorneys held a Churchill flew off to see President -wheat program. The he said, has failed completely. s-These bills would call for some cut-back in production but would raise price supports.

Benson said. the only approach that' would Improve the situation his wife, a Soviet nurse and. two brief conference among them Eisenhower today walking stick in his hand and a boil on his neck. guards accompanied him. in the hardest job in the world, and sent him out to fight our battles in a life and death struggle and you've sent him out to fight with one hand tied behind bim because everyone knows he can't run for re-election.

"If he Is not a good president, Blough added "if there is. a WASHINGTON (APV- President! selves to see' if they could reach a stipulation on some of the facts Hospital sources said Stryguine Feldman and Kermit Osserman; strike this year it will not be be The trip by British airliner was Elsenhower invited former Presi was brought to the hospital a week declared she is suffering possibil involved. Apparently it was tuuie. is a further reduction of wheat the 84-year-old statesman's first jet flight. After three days- as Ei dent Harry S.

Truman to a White ity of severe complications arising from a pregnancy. suooort prices to encourage great No report on any stipulation was made to the three-Judge panel. cause we have failed to exhaust every avenue in our search for a fair solution. We want to continue to produce steel and provide House stag dinner for Sir Winston ago suffering from an overdose of sleeping pills. It' was reported be had tried to commit suicide when senhower's guest at the White apd yon don't want to keep him, er use of this grain as livestock feed.

Churchill Wednesday evening but House, he will visit in New York Asked privately if any agreement you don have to re-elect him. told he must return to the Soviet work for our employees. had been reached, Kay Mattnews, Truman has sent regrets. with another old friend, Bernard Baruch. one of the attorneys for the gov We are determined to seek and There Is a way to get no of mm and it does not require, a constitutional amendment." Union, nis wife, and two Soviets sat with him all' night, the woman Announcing this today, presi Barnesboro Boy Critically Injured ernor, said: "We're not admitting1 The secretary declined to -say whether; he would recommend veto by President Eisenhower of pending-wheat bills should one or "I'm feeling very fine," told American Ambassador dentlal press secretary 'James C.

weeping almost continuously. anything.1 to find reasonable answers to the problems discussed, answers that accommodate the best Interest of all the parties concerned." Hagerty said Truman informed ine next upon recovering, John Hay Whitney, who saw Sir BARNESBORO A four-year- the other be The state education commission-r. Arch Ford, was the first wit Smicksburq Area Eisenhower that he has a New Winston off at the airport. Stryguine shouted invectives in English against the Soviet regime old Barnesboro boy was critically I know it going to be a won York engagement that evening. injured when he was struck by a Pastor Dies ness called by Wiley A.

Branton, aq fJAACP attorney. and Ms associates at the embassy. derful trip," said Whitney. "God Relations between Eisenhower car in Pittsburgh yesterday. He asked that Burmese officials, bless you and speed you until your SMICKSBURG Rey.

'Edward Top Court OKs Health Ford, in his cany testimony, Patrick Kirsch was struck by the and Truman have been strained particularly the director of mili return." identified, minutes of a Board of Education meeting at which the since the 1952 campaign. Political The boil looked as if It had al J. Kroen, pastor of Lutheran churches In Smlcksburg and Trade City, died suddenly at his home tary intelligence, Lt Col. Win, be summoned. Apparently be wanted $250,000 NYDiamond theft To day auto when he alighted from his father's par while the family was visiting In Pittsburgh.

He suffered a compound fracture of the skull charges then ended the friendly board ordered' funds 'Withheld ready burst, but the spot was still red. to ask their protection. from the Little Rock district inlrelation which, had existed previ- Home Checks here on Saturday. Rev. Kroen was pastor; of Salem comoUance with one.

of the laws ousiy, The two Soviets then demanded that he return to the embassy and and other injuries. Churchill was to have visited the United States in 1958. The trip had to be abandoned, however, when WASHINGTON (API The under challenge. I Last May, fcisenhower invited Police identified the driver of the car as Oscar Katz, 48, of Pitts tried to remove him. when he re Thi.

irkanui Simrenut Court.lTruman to accompany him to NEW. YORK (APW-A diamond Lutheran Church, Smlcksburg, and i Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, Trade City. He was also a member of the Free Accepted Masons o( Supreme Court today approved searches of private homes by fused. He broke away and threw he was taken ill with pneumonia Memorial Day-services at Arling dealer, Julius Furst, 50, told po himself through a first-floor win in the south of France.

burgh. Patrick la a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kirsch, 710 Bigler Ave. in ruling on a state appeal, today upheld the validity of oae of the laws which allows the transfer ton National Cemetery.

Truman I declined that invitation, saying he dow in what one witness said was lice he was held up'and kidnaped today, then robbed of his brief health inspectors without warrants. The court split 5-4 in ruling oh Traveling with Churchill this time was his bodyguard, Scotland He Is listed in critical condition Irwin and other Masonic units, A complete obituary appears in today's Indiana Evening Gazette. would be unable to come to a leap for life!" He was brought back, elven of funds to schools entered by dis See First Page Col. I in Shadyside Hospital. Washington.

placed pupils. sedative and bundled Into a car case containing $250,000 worth of gems and necklaces. He was wounded before being dumped from a car. the case of a Baltimore resident who had been fined S20 for re-! fusing to admit to his home a city health inspector "who had no The school-closing law was up by the Soviets, who drove cff. held, last week by the Arkansas Newsmen learned Friday that Furst said he was about to enter the Soviet Embassy had taken out Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision.

search warrant. the West Side Airlines Terminal Justice Frankfurter wrote the exit permits for Stryguine and his wife, and that they would leave Attorneys for the state argueo tne law merely extended the police powers of Gov, Orval E. Faubus on 42nd St. between 9th and 'lOth avenues, when a gunman forced Boffling Mystery Surrounds 6-Month-Old Cose Finding Of Girl's Body majority opinion which said, "in light of the long history of this kind of Inspection and of modern1 Sunday for. Moscow, via Peiping.

The newsmen waited at the air him Into an automobile where another man waited. and was invoked to prevent violence he felt would come with in- port all night. Three hours before tesration. the plane's departure, members of In a struggle to retain of his briefcase, Furst said. needs, we cannot say that the carefully circumscribed demand which Maryland here makes, an appelant's (the Baltimore home Act 4 passed by a special 1958 See Soviets Page Col.

4 a gunman's weapon went off and legislative session at Faubus' request. It empowered bim to close he was put out of the car. Furst, Clue To Family Disappearance- owner) freedom. has deprived him Party tonight, Catholic Center. 221 any schools against possioie vio suffering a shoulder wound, staggered into a lunchroom.

Police of due process of law." Justice Douglas said In his dis lence or court-ordered integration, subject to ratification by patrons. were called. Store Furs-Call HO 232x A similar abrupt disappearance near Camas. a few miles! purchased a small amount of gas See Integration Page Col. 1 of a Minnesota building contras east of this lower Columbia River oline.

Then they disappeared. VANCOUVER, Wash; (AJ) The body ef a little girl, found1 bobbing In a Columbia River sent that "the decision today -greatly dilutes the right of privacy "which pvery home owner, had the right to believe was part of our tor, his wife and their five chit city. Dr. E. A.

Waterman, the After ground and aerial of the- heavily wooded gorge slough, provided a probable solu Annual UHS dren last Dec. 29 remains a mystery to authorities today. American heritage." tin's examined the body and said he was certain it was tion today to Hie baffling mystery of the missing Ken Mania family of Portland. Sheriff Leon Odegaard, Glencoe. areas failed to turn up clues, police speculated that the Martini car plunged into the river.

In one Band Concert "We witness indeed an inquest over a substantial part- of the Fourth Amendment," Douglas said no clues have bees that of the missing girl. There were six fillings in four teeth, the received by his office to date as The annual concert by the ln-i of the most unusual search opera- The body, found Sunday and wrote. Inside The Gozefte PETER EDSON SAYS United States foreign aid gets into trouble when administrators try to make It a domestic eicl program. See Edson's column on page 6. BIG INDIANS WIN The Big Indians won two games during Swing Out weekend events.

This and other sports on pages 14 and 13. diana Joint High School Bands is as that of 11-year-old! same as the work Dr. Waterman1 tions ever undertaken in this area, tn the whereabouts of Earl Z-rust, 30, and his family of Silver Lake, scheduled for Wednesday evening, Susan MartlB. had been In the wa-, bad done for Susan. the flow of the Columbia was a community of about 600 persons The body was clad in red and halted by an upstream dam while May 6, at the local high school ter for a considerable time', said auditorium.

Coroner Paul Mylan. It may have Hi miles west of Minneapolis. white striped pedal pushers and a1 skin divers and a sonar device Report Godfrey As Satisfactory George Pollock, UHS band been submerged since the Dec. 7 conductor, announced today that disappearance of Ken Martin, 54, blue-quilted coat. Friends and rel-iwere used to probe the slack atives of the Martins said Susan i river's bottom.

This too was fruit-was wearing similar pedal push-lless. ers the day the family vanished Friends and neighbors of the Dr. Harry A. Canfield, UHS mu-ihis wife, 48, and their three pretty NEW YORK (AP)-Arthur Godfrey was reported in satisfactory1 condition today at Columbia Pres sical director, will be the guest I young daughters Barbara, 14, Odegaard said earlier, however, there wore indications the Zrusts planned to leave. A few days before the disappearance Mrs.

Zrust obtained copies of birth certify cates of all members of the family. Zrust left behind withholding tax statements for hi) employes. But there is no proof the fam conductor for this week's pro-. Virginia. 13, and Susan.

Other Features and that the coat belonged to Vir-'Martins have given up hope that ginia. ithe happy, well-liked family ever gram. i Police, who. have run down; The family, after telling friends' would be found alive. tUUla'i Iubi BMlueai Hirm Clludi U.1S OxVMVVfdl II Etlwrui BplUl Kotef It telj StMru TV-Bdte byterian Medical Center where he is recovering from as operation to remove lung cancer.

The 55-yer-old TV and radio Bom the Junior and senior scores oi ciues the Iive-montns-; Bands will appear for the concert! old case, believe the Martin car A sister, Miss Margaret Martin, they were on their way to the lt-17 beginning at 8 o'clock Wednesday plunged off a highway into the woods to get Christmas greens, happily climbed into their red and ily intended to sever Its ties with star was out of bed several times evenina. icoiumoia Kiver or one of its trio- a Seattle school teacher, said she was saddened but relieved to hear that Susan's body has been found. "Now, at least 1 have some idea Sunday the hospital reported. He fickets may be -secured from 1 Diaries. The body of Susan appar- white station wagon Sunday morn-i ing Dec.

7, and drove east up the Oregod side of the Cqjumbia River me rubers of the bands, uoaiea iree oi tne wreckage WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy and quite warm today and Tuesday with scattered thundersnowes. Fair and warm tonight Low tonight SO to 60. High Tuesday 80 to W. walked about the room unaided for the first time since the five- Silver Lake. They left their noma unlocked, the utilities still on lud.

took apparently only few artfc cles of clothing with them. as to what happened to the tam- information may be secured by in me spring current and was fiour operation Thursday. calling the high school office. cashed to a backwater sloush-to lscri Locks whare Martin Uy," she said..

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