The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 1

WSATN6R Generally fair with iltUe temperature change through Friday. FIVE CENTS HPt-f TV A TT "VT HPT? TV 1 xm UA1LY JvbFOR.lJifR Tuscarawas County's Most Complete Newspaper Odd-Numbered Homes Sprinkle today VoL 53. No. 300, Members of Associated Press Telephone 4-2167 Dover, Ohio, Thursday, August 1,1957 Serving 9,375 Families The Best In Comics Brakes Fail Trucker Zips Down A Hill Port Woman Dies 11 Hours After Spouse PORT WASHINGTON Residents here were shocked today over the sudden deaths of a prominent local couple as a result of heart attacks suffered within a period of 11 hours. Dead are Harold C.

Merkel, 54, a carpenter, and his wife, Verna Schreiner Merkel, 56, a 1st Grade teacher in Newcomer stown schools. Mr. Merkel died at 6 p.m. Wednesday while seated on a chair under a 'shade tree in his back yard. Mrs.

Merkel, who went into shock over the death of her husband, suffered a stroke and was removed to Twin City Hospital four hours later. She died at 5 a.m. today. Both were life residents of here. Mr.

Merkel was a son of William and Laura Dietrich Merkel. Mrs. Merkel was a daughter of Edward F. and Katie Goettge Schreiner. They were members of the St.

Paul E. Church. Easter Sunday in 1926, they are survived by a daughter, Jean. Mr. Merkel also is survived by a brother, Roy J.

of here. Other eurvivors of Mrs. Merkel are a brother, Carl E. Scljreiner of Gnadenhutten, and four sisters, Mrs. Fred F.

Miller and Mrs. Roy J. Merkel of here, Mrs. G. W.

Seiber of Massillon and Mrs. Elda Goettge of Columbus. Double services will be held at the St. Paul Church Saturday at 2 p.m. (Slow Time) with the Rev, Clarence Higgiris jr.

officiating. Burial will be in Port Washington Cemetery. Friends may call at the Ourant Funeral Home in JNTewcom- erstown from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 1 to 2 on Saturday. UNIONTOWN, Pa.

truck driver who skillfully drove his brakeless vehicle at an 85 miles an hour down a curving mountain road without denting a fender said today he's mighty lucky to be alive. State Trooper Reu Silbaugh, a man with nerves to match those of Glenn Switzer of Fairmont, agreed with Switzer. So did nearly a score of motorists who scattered out of the path of the truck, carrying 40,000 pounds of sugar from Baltimore to Chicago Wednesday night. Switzer, 28, had just started to descend the three-mile Summit Mountain hill on Route 401 when his clutch failed. IJien his brakes failed.

By this time, he said, he was "really rollin'." Just then, Trooper Silbaugh came along on routine the opposite lane of traffic. He quickly swung his car around, sped past Switzer's rolling truck and kept his siren roaring. Motorists scattered. "I was thinking about jumping a couple of times but then I looked at the speedometer," Switzer related. "The last time I looked I was rocking along about 85 miles See BRAKES FAIL, Page 4 Record Hop Tonight Another free record hop will take place tonight from 8 to 11 at City Park under supervision of Dale Swinderman, city recreation director.

The dances are being held each Monday and Thursday on the concrete pavilion near the shuffleboard courts. Road Paving Wasn't Asked Residents of the Reed Hill addition maintain a'statement by city officials Tuesday gave the impression property owners had asked the city to pave the road from Crater Ave. to the addition. I "This is not correct," a spokes- iman for the owners said this morning, "At a recent meeting with Mayor C. C.

Froelich and Service Director Vincent Bernard, those present agreed to pay the city in full before the work was done for the cost of paying the road on the crest of the hill and down to the grade bottom. "It was specifically decided at the meeting that the road running from the Proper and Staub lands should not be paved by anyone at this time. "The property owners already have paid in full the cost, nmg water and gas lines." City officials said the city will grade but will not pay jfor the cost of paving the road frbm Crater Ave. to the addition. COUNTY WORKER HURT Miss Edna Rutledge, 61, of 252 Fair Ave.

NW, New Philadelphia, received emergency treatment this morning at Union Hospital for cuts to her forehead and cuts and bruises to her right leg suffered when she tripped over an open desk drawer while working in Auditor Donald Kinsey's offices at the Courthouse. HOFFA DIO? John McClellan (left), chairman of the Senate rackets committee, watches chief counsel Robert Kennedy trace, with the aid of charts, the activities of racketeer Johnny Dio in the New York labor market and his relations with Jimmy Hoffa, crown prince of tho Teamsters union. The investigators charged that Hoffa was linked with hoodlums and Communist (International) i agents in trying to get a "strangle hold" over the eastern seaboard. Union Probe Continues Dio's Bodyguard To Talk By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON UP) Racketeer Johnny Dio's former bodyguard, 240-pound, barrel-chested Teddy Rij, goes before the Senate Rackets Committee today as perhaps a key The committee is hearing evidence which Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) said will show that.Team- Giant Labor Tie-Up Seen NEW YORK Wall Street Journal said today in a copyrighted story that Harry Bridges is seeking to ally his West Coast waterfront union with the Teamsters Union and East Coast longshoremen in a huge transport combine.

The story, written under a San Francisco dateline, said he "is very much inclined to join hands with a couple of other fellows who are equally powerful, equally unruly. "If his ideas are realized, he says very candidly, it would be sensational news not only for the On The Inside Boyle's Column 6 Health Talk 6 Obituaries ..,.,,4 Sports 9 Women's Page 7 Radio And Television 13 other unions but for America's businessmen and the U. S. government. "For his friends are Jimmy Hoffa, whoi seems likely to grab control of the teamsters and get it booted out of the and Capt.

BUI Bradley, whose East Coast Longshoremen's Union suffered a similar fate four years ago." In New York; Bradley was quoted as saying his union would negotiate with the teamsters form an amalgamated transport See GIANT LABOR, Page 4 sters Union boss James R. Hoffa, in a corrupt deal with Dio, sought and may have achieved "stranglehold" power over the Port of New York and "the entire Eastern Seaboard." In San Francisco, Hoffa said he is "ready, willing and able" to answer committee questions. Rij, who pronounces and usually East Ohio Gas Union Contract Expired Today, CLEVELAND WV-The Natural Gas Workers negotiating committee and representatives of the East Ohio Gas talked past' midnight, when the union's contract with East Ohio expired, but failed to reach agreement on a new contract early this morning. A company spokesman said there has been no strike talk but that union leaders have scheduled meetings in a number of cities served by East Ohio to report on the negotiations. The spokesman said the union committee rejected an offer of hourly increases ranging from.

cents, which he said would provide more than a 6 per cent boost including fringe benefits. Present wage scales are "complicated," the company spokesman said. Union demands were not immediately known. CURFEW IMPOSED IN JAPAN TOKYO U. S.

Air Force announced today it has ordered a "precautionary" week-night 7 p.m. curfew at Hamamatsu air base after several incidents involving Japanese townspeople and American airmen. The Air Force gave no details of the Incidents. spells his last name as "Ray," Is under indictment with Dio on conspiracy charges linked with the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. He is listed now as an officer of the Acme Dress Co.

of Midvale, N.J. Committee counsel Robert F. See BODYGUARD, Page 4 Union Charter Being Altered SAN FRANCISCO W-James R. Hoffa, acting and talking his assurance of succeeding Dave Beck as Teamsters Union president, says the union's chief executive should be an administrative officer under the executive board. Hoffa joined members of a special constitution committee today in reshaping the union charter union which Beck held virtually dictatorial power.

Hoffa, a vice president, flew here from his Detroit headquarters. The constitution changes drafted See UNION CHARTER, Page 4 Concern Promotes Son Of Doverites A former Dover man, Donald T. Goettge, has been promoted to chief metallurgist and inspector at the Irvin Works of United States Steel Corp. near Pittsburgh. He has been with the corporation 15 years.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Goettge of 1429 N. Wooster he is a graduate of Dover High and Ohio State University, the latter in 1939, He is married and has three children. Dispute Laid Aside Senate Acts To Meet Government Payroll 13 More File For Election Of 13 petitions filed this week at the County Board of Elections office for the Nov.

5 elections, seven are for school boards, five for township trustees and one for mayor of Midvale. Lewis Leggett of Midvale is seeking election as mayor there. Filing lor school boards were: New Donald Davis of 377 Ray Ave. NE; A. Sparks of 133 3rd St.

NW and Luke C. Warms of 213 N. Wooster Strasburg, who are seeking reelection; Tuscarawas Norris of. RD 1, Bolivar; Salem- Casteel of RD 3, Newcomerstown and Cecil R. Gardner of RD 1, Port Washington, and E.

Cramlet of RD 1, Newcomerstown. Seeking office as trustees are: Jefferson Glazier of Stone Creek (re-election); H. Law of Tuscarawas and Adrian Sherer of RD 4, New Philadelphia; B. Mullen of W. Main Newcomerstown, and McCollam of RD 1, Dennison.

Special City Audit Begun A special examination of records and activities of all municipal offices of the City of Dover was started today by F. L. Orange of Youngstown, a special state examiner. It was Orange who made a partial examination of city records here last Winter. His report, in which he was highly critical of some operations and business methods, led to an order for a more extensive examination because his findings did not coincide with reports of previous examiners.

Orange today said he did not know how long the examination will take but estimated it would require several months. He is from the Division of Municipal Corporations in the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices. The bureau is a branch of State Auditor James A. Rhodes' office. FLARE OF TEMPER.

President Eisenhower explodes with a rare shoft of temper after a reporter suggested that a sizeable contribution to the Republican Party could buy an ambassadorship. The reporter was referring to Maxwell Gluck, a Kentucky merchant chosen by President Eisenhower to be ambassador to Ceylon. Gluck, appearing before a Senate committee on July 2, was unable to give the names of the prime ministers of Ceylon and India. Ike barked to the reporter: "I don't take it kindly as suggesting I would be influenced by such things." (International) BRITAIN RECOGNIZES TUNISIA LONDON British government announced today it has recognized the new republican status of Tunisia. France did so Wednesday.

Pineau Flies To Arms Talks By ARTHUR GAVSHON LONDON (ffl French Foreign Minister Christian flew to London today' for disarmament talk with Secretary State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd amid reports that the Allies are divided on the advisability and ways of -making nuclear cutbacks. The British government has.ex- pressed opposition to halting immediately the testing of its newly developed H-bombs. And France has made clear that so long as nuclear weapon production continues, it wants to get in the nuclear inner circle by developing its own weapons. Officials indicated that the detailed consideration of these prob- See PINEAU FLIES, Page 4 WASHINGTON MV-The Senate voted 89-0 today to take up for 'inal action a bill carrying money run the armed services in the 12 months which started July 1. It did so shortly after the White House said the Defense Department and some other agencies might not be able to meet their August payrolls unless the Senate acted on pending money bills stymied by the civil rights debate.

Approval of the motion to take up appropriation bill temporarily displaced the civil rights bill. But it will automatically become 'the pending business again when the Senate completes action on the defense money bill. The plan was to adopt a similar procedure for the Agriculture Department money bill. Both are compromise versions already passed the House and needing only a final Senate okay to send them to the White House. Neither faced major opposition.

A White House statement said President Eisenhower was hopeful that the Senate "will act as rapidly as it can." Press Secretary James C. Hagerty described'the statement as one simply setting out the situation that exists. But the practical effect appeared to be to put White House influence behind moves in the Senate to place the civil rights bill aside temporarily in order to act on money measures. At the 5 Capitol, Sen. Knpvland (R-Calif) said the supporters of the bill, are willing to lay it aside to provide urgently needed cash for the Defense and Agriculture departments.

"I think we can 'bjf them promptly," KnowlanS 'saidU PV Page 4 Defeat Of Jury Trial Plan Seen ByKnowlami By JACK BELL- WASHINGTON Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) said today he was confident a jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill would be Defeated despite its revision in an apparent effort to sway wavering senators. 1 But supporters or a jury trial provision evidently hoped that the revised would tip the scales their way in the nip-and- tuck fight over the issue. A new section added to the pending amendment Wednesday night' would permit Negroes or others to serve as federal court jurors regardless of whether or See DEFEAT OF, Page 4 Practice Makes Perfect Dover High Cheerleaders And'Majo rets It way be vacationtirae but ewry afternoon or evening one find Dover HUgh'i cheerleaders or majorets practicing on tfce school campus for the 1957-58 athletic season. Photoprapher Ralph McKee caught cheerleaders Carol Dick (left), Judy Osborn, Rose and Patty Williamson high in their jtaks -and posed them accordingly.

Rehearsing their high steps in preparation for the football season and other school band appearances, Including tenttiat Halloween parade, are Charlotte Deuvali (left), Fatty McGinnis, Barbara Ballard, Carolyn Gopp, Carol KarUog and Gonigal, The Misses and McGonigal were majorets last year,.