Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 1

WEATHER Cloudy and not as cold tonight, with chance of some light freezing rain on drizzle; lowest temperature in 20's. Tuesday cloudy, windy and warmer, with some rain likely. OHIO ARCHO. HISTORICAyj! MAC; m9 HIGH tc 15TH. STS.

ESTABLISHED 1809 NO. 235 LANCASTER, OHIO, MONDAY. JANUARY 18. 1954 7c PER COPY OH TM PA II Ifil mlA Graf Recommends Study Of Gas Distribution In City Congress Receives Ike's Program For Health Services SEA YIELDS ANCIENT VASES WASHINGTON President Eisenhower proposed today the government bolster private insurance plans as a step toward bettering the health of all Americans. In a special message to Congress, Eisenhower asked for $25-million to start a system of government re-insurance of private plans, to help take care of extraordinary expenses beyond those now covered.

The President also proposed a five-year plan for expansion of the program for rehabilitation of the disabled. Under it a total of 660,000 disabled persons would be returned "to places of full responsibility as actively working citizens, Eisenhower's plan "rejecting the socialization of medicine," also called for a continuation of present public health service programs, by a new, simplified formula for grants-in-aid to the states for health purposes, and a stepped-up program of construction of medical care facilities. The President told Congress the total private medical bill of the nation now exceeds $9-billion a year an average of nearly $200 a family and still Is rising. He said the emphasis in dealing with the problem must remain essentially on private care, but that the government can and must help. "Freedom, consent, and individual responsibility are fundamen Most Lines Too Small For Needs A recommendation that the city administration and council study the natural gas distribution system here with the idea of making improvements before the gas department finds itself unable to render proper service to Lancastrians is contained in the annual report of City Engineer Walter VV.

Graf. 1 Funds for such needed improvement or revamping the distribution lines are already available in the form of an accumulated balance in the Gas Department that can be used only for such improvements within the department Most of the lines in the distribution are pipes laid 60 years ago, to a small too cope with the tremendous demand for gas here today in view of Lancaster's rapid building expansion. Since 1945 the sale of gas by the city has more than doubled, while the number of customers has increased by 22. Last year the Heath Leak Service Co. was employed bv the I i -v i Vx -rr tal to our system," he said.

"In the tnat tne traditional relationship and the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness, must be preserved. RECOVERED from the bottom of the Mediterranean by divers, part of a cargo of Greek and Roman pottery lost to the world for 2,000 years is put on display in a large Paris department store. One of the divers is shown with two of the vases. At left is a Roman vase, at right a more elegant type of Greek vase. According to the story, the vessel carrying the pottery sank while sailing from the Grecian island of Delos to Marseilles, France.

(International Soundphoto) CHECK VACCINE POLIO vaccine to be used in the injection of 500,000 children in the next few months is checked for safety by a laboratory technician manufacturing the substance for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Each batch is also checked by the U.S. government and by Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who developed the vaccine under a March of Dimes grant to the University of Pittsburgh. (International) Missing $300,000 Ransom Clue Only Hoax, Savs Barber LAS VEGAS, barber who claimed he saw a man take a suitcase from a police car at the time of the Greenlease kidnaping in St Louis admitted to the FBI Saturday that his story was a hoax.

Frank Beninato, held here on a worthless check charge, now claims he was appearing in a Tampa, night club that night, and only told the story to get even with his wife and a former St. Louis police officer, Louis Shoulders, who were, in Beninato's words, "mean to me," the FBI reported. Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan, who arrested kidnap-murdered Carl Austin Hall, have been indicted for perjury by a federal grand jury in connection with their testimony concerning their handling of two suitcases in which Hall said he carried the ransom money, of which more than $300,000 is still missing. Driver Rescued From Flaming Truck By Police CLEVELAND Two policemen rescued a driver from a flaming truck today after it plunged 45 feet off a bridge and overturned on the street below. The driver was Edward Black, 43, who was knocked unconscious by the fall.

He was taken to Marymount Hospital with a broken right leg, internal and chest injuries and a possible skull fracture. Black, an employe of the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Freight Lines, was hauling more than 100,000 copies of Sunday suDDle- ments for the Pittsburgh Press. The supplements were printed in Cleveland. yip? Benson Reveals Ike's Farm Surplus Plan WASHINGTON President Eisenhower soon will ask Congress for authority to use up to one billion dollars worth Cold Wave Grabs, But Loses Grip The cold wave that swept into Lancaster over the weekend was fast losing its grips this afternoon and the weatherman predicts a low in the 20s tonight as compared with a bitter six above zero minimum last night. There may be light, freezing showers or drizzles tonight and the outlook for tomorrow is warmer weather with the possi bility of ram.

That the bitter cold of last night will not return tonight was indicated at 1 m. when the official temperature was 39 degrees. Highest official temperature in Lancaster on Saturday was 38, with the mercury dropping to a low of 32 that night. The highest temperature yesterday was 32. The brunt of the Arctic cold wave shifted from the Midwest to the northeastern states today, bringing New England its most severe sub-zero weather in two years.

The frigid seizure lost some of its bite in the North Central region, but temperatures below the zero mark were still general in all the Canadian border states from Montana eastward. South Suffers The cold pushed freezing temperatures south thru North Carolina and into Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and New Mexico. Overnight lows in the northeast area included 31 below zero at Saranac Lake, N. -28 at (Turn Page 5, Sec. Col.

5) Two Basil Men, Woman Injured In Auto Collision Three Basil persons were injured Saturday afternoon in a two-car accident 1.6 miles north of Pickerington on a Fairfield County road, state highway patrolmen here reported. Peter Debelich, 30, Basil Rt, 1, suffered possible chest injuries and lacerations on his knees; his wife, Minerva, 31, possible head injury, laceration on forehead and both knees, and Robert Snider, 20, Basil Rt. 1, laceration of left ear and facial abrasions. Snider was driving alone in a car owned, patrolmen said, by Orrin Belt, Columbus, and Debelich was driving his auto, accompanied by his wife. The injured were taken bv the Reynoldsburg Fire Department emergency squad to a Reynoldsburg physician's office for treatment after the accident which occurred at 1:15 p.

m. Patrolmen cited Snider for an appearance in Lancaster Municipal Court on a charge of unsafe operation. They said he was passing another car without assured clear distance. D'ANNUNZIO WIDCHV DIES GARDONE RIVERA, Italy-Maria D'Annunzio, 95, Princess of Montenevoso and widow of Italy's World War I poet-soldier hero, Gabnele DAnnunzio, died at her home here today. of surplus farm products to help strengthen the economies of friendly countries.

This plan was disclosed today by Secretary of Agriculture Ben son in a statement before the Senate Agriculture Committee, outlining the administration's new farm program. The proposed use of government surpluses which Benson said today now exceed $5-billion would be in addition to $2-billion worth of surpluses which would be "insulated" from regular commercial supplies for special uses. Such uses would be for disaster relief, the school lunch program and for stockpiling for national May Learn Identity Of Infant A Fairfield County official, who asked that his identity be' kept secret, revealed today that "a very promising clue" had been uncovered in the case of an unidentified baby boy who was found abandoned here early last Saturday morning. "We have discovered a 'hot lead' which we think will lead us to the infant's identity," the official said. He.

declined further comment in the case, which involves the finding of a two-months-old baby boy in a public telephone booth just outside the main entrance to Yielky's Restaurant, East Main St. Pike, about 7:30 a. m. last Saturday, The infant, who was described as being in "good condition" when found by two bread deliv-erymen, was taken to Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital following the discovery. The baby, wrapped in blankets, had been snuggled inside a pasteboard box and then deposited in the 'phone booth.

Meanwhile, "Little Boy Blue-Eyes," as he is called, is enjoying a wave of unprecedented popularity. Information passed on by various city and county officials revealed that literally scores of persons have sought to identify the pretty, blue-eyed tot. Capt. Merrill Martin of the Lancaster Police Dept. reported that dozens of persons had 'phoned his headquarters or visited in person to obtain information relative to filing for adoption.

That was the story at the Fairfield County Sheriffs office, too. Deputy Sheriff Milton Speakman revealed that about a dozen persons, some from Columbus and others from adjoining counties, had 'phoned for information about adoption proceedings. In Private Room Jack Zuber, business manager of Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital, reported that the baby was in "excellent shape" today. "We have him in a private room," Zuber said, "so that we can keep our eyes on him at all times." Zuber also reported that a number of persons had telephoned or visited for information about the baby. Many of the nurses and administrative personnel of the hospital have said they'd like to take the baby home.

Dr. Fred Spangler, a member of the hospital's staff, told the Eagle-Gazette that a number of his patients had asked him if it would be possible to file adoption proceedings in the case. Dr. Spangler said that he knew of other, physicians whose patients had asked them for similar information. But adoption of the baby is out of tbe question for the time being.

Leo Rinehart, executive secretary of the Fairfield County Child Welfare Board, told the Eagle-Gazette that state law forbids adoption of an unidentified abandoned baby for at least two years. The baby now is officially in the custody of the Child Welfare Dept. "As soon as the baby is discharged from the hospital," Rinehart said, "we will place him in a foster home." Everyone Interested "A number of wonderful fam-, ilies have come forward and volunteered to provide a foster home for the baby," Rinehart stated, "We are considering all these and the public may rest assured that he will be put into an excellent home with an excelent family when the time comes for us to place him." Rinehart reported that he received more than 50 personal calls and telephone calls over the weekend. "It seems as tho everyone in Fairfield and sur rounding counties wants to take custody of the little tyke," the Welfare official said. County Sheriff's Deputy Dale George worked all day Saturday and yesterday checking numerous "leads" on the case.

He handled the case from the start when two bread deliverymen, Robert Wilson, and his son, Robert, found the baby in the booth about 7.30 a. m. Saturday. George said footprints of the baby were made at the Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital Saturday night, and that hospitals in the area were to be checked on the (Turn Page 5, Sec. Col.

5) field of medical care, this means of the physician and his patient, I "In adhering to this principle, and rejecting the socialization of medicine, we can still confidently commit ourseselves to certain national health goals." "One such goal is that the means for achieving good health should be accessible to all. A person's location, occupation, age, race, creed or financial status should not bar him from enjoying this access." Today's special message was the fourth Eisenhower has sent to Congress to fill in the details of the broad administration program which he outlined in his Jan. 7 State of the Union report. Praises Existing Plans The President praised existing private hospitalization and medical care insurance plans, and said progress made in that field "indicates that these voluntary organizations can reach many more people and provide better and broader benefits." Eisenhower said the government need not and should not go into the insurance business to furnish the protection which private and non-profit organizations now provide. "But the government." the President added, "can and should work with them to study and devise better insurance protection to meet the public need.

"I recommend the establish ment or a limited iederal reinsurance service to encourage private and non-profit health insurance organization to offer broader health protection to more families. This service would reinsure the special additional risks involved in such broader protection. It can be launched with a capital fund of $25-million provided bv the government, to be retired from reinsurance fees." Like Bank Iusurance Altho Eisenhower did not go into detail on what he meant by "re-insurance," he apparently had in mind something along the general idea of the system bv which the government insures bank depositors against loss. The private health plans would pay (Turn Page 5, Sec. Col.

6) Sugar Grove Man Dies Bv Rifle Shot Self-inflicted Ralph V. Crampton. 66. Sugar Grove, died at 12:55 p. m.

today in Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his right forehead, Dr. Joseph A. Geer, county coroner, reported. Sheriffs Deputy William Cor- nett reported that he was noti fied about 6:25 a. m.

today by Melvin Morris. Crampton's son-in-law, to come to the family home in Sugar Grove because Crampton had shot himself. Upon arriving. Cornett said he found Crampton lying on the kit chen floor with a .22 cal. rifle bullet in his right forehead, a .22 cal.

rifle lying on a table, a half-filled botte of beer and a lighted cigaret also lying on the table. Dr. ueer. who accompanied the county officer to the scene, returned a verdict of suicide after Crampton died, and reported that Crampton left a note, addressed to his daughter, Mrs. June Morris stating he had not been sleeping for several days and was in ill health.

Despondency over this condition prompted Crampton to take his life, the coroner said. Crampton, still alive, when found on the floor, was rushed to the hospital in a James Sheridan Sons ambulance. Arrangements for funeral and burial were being completed this afternoon by Frank E. Smith funeral home. Firemen Answer Three Calls, But Only One Genuine Lancaster firemen answered three calls over the weekend, one a false alarm that originated in Carroll, and a second that was sent in because of mistaking furnace heat vapor coming from a chimney as a fire.

The third alarm was to extinguish an aut fire. Saturday at 10:21 p.m. a fire was reported at 231 Witte Ave. There was no fire. Firemen traced the telephone call, which they had thought came from a Lancaster resident, to Carroll, and an investigation is underway to ar rest tne person responsible.

At 1:19 a.m. Sunday, the fire department extinguished a blaze in the wiring under the hood of a 194S coupe owned by Harold Wolfinger. 817 S. Columbus St. and parked on Eyman Ave.

west of ourth St. A short in the igni tion started the fire which de stroved winne and scorched paint. Firemen estimated loss at When a neighbor saw vapor from gas furnace heat coming from the chimney and spreading over tne root at the home of Mrs Virginia Ritchie, 1400 W. Main at 8:53 p.m. yesterday, she mistooK it lor smoke from a fire and called the firemen, they re ported.

Advertising In Neivspapers Now At Record Level CHICAGO NewsDarer adver tising executives today were told their business is at a peak level put tnat tney can't relax in thP year anead. The advice came from Arthur sorter, vice president of an advertising firm, Leo Burnett Co Chicago. He spoke at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Ass'n. In his speech he assumed that ne was the advertising manager oi a newspaper and he considered conditions from that point of view. He said newspaper circulation has never been in a healthier condition, national advertising revenue has shown gains for 12 years, and the number and var lety of advertisers is at an all- time peak.

"Can I relax?" Porter asked rhetorically, and then cited rea sons why he believes this is no time to ease up. He said production costs are high and that "the newspaper has never been in such a. drastically vumpeuuve position oeiore. Says Falling On Knife Caused Cut In Arm Dale Eugene Snyder, 23, of 233 W. Allen police reported yesterday at 7:36 p.

was treated at Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital for a deep cut above his right elbow, after being brought to the hospital by a relative. Snyder told police he suffered the injury when he fell on a knife at his home, but police reported they learned at the hospital that the would could not have been caused by falling on a knife as the direction of the cut could not have been made, they said by such action. The surface cut above the elbow was long with a deep hole in the center, police reported. city to make a vegetation survey oi leaks in the gas system, and, in the openion of Engineer Graf, the survey was very successful. It resulted in the finding and re pairing of more than 100 gas leaks, some minor, others of major importance.

Favors Yearly Survey These leaks had developed ovpp the years on the distribution system which consists of a considerable amount of old pipe, and Graf recommended that the leak survey service should be used each year because it is inexpensive and seems to produce results. Graf also believed that owing to the very high percentage of heating load which the gas de- (Turn Page 5, Sec. Col. 3) Four Departments Of Firemen Fight Farm Home Blaze Firemen from four departments battled flames for three hours yesterday after gaining control of a blaze that caused an estimated $8,000 damage to the farm home of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry C. Fischer on tlkhorn a half mile southwest of Lithopolis in Bloom Fairfield County. Most of the loss is covered by insurance. Elwood Sarber. assistant chief of the Lithopolis Fire Department, who unofficially estimated the loss to the dwelling at $8,000, said the fire apparently started from an overheated coal heating stove in the kitchen.

The fire began at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The roof and the attic of the 2Vt -story frame house were destroyed, and the second floor rooms were severely damaged. Most of the family's furniture was carried safely from the burning building by firemen, Sarber said. Firemen from Lithopolis.

Canal Winchester, Groveport, and Madison Township, Franklin County, departments, fought the stubborn flames nearly three hours before extinguishing it. Besides the unoer stories, the first floor was damaged by water, Sarber reported. Five firefighters suffered minor cuts fighting the blaze and were given first aid treatment at the scene. Sarber said. Home at the time the fire broke out were Mr.

Fischer, who is chief engineer at the Ebco Manufacturing Columbus, and one of his four sons. Bill 8. Fischer's wife. Virginia, and the three other sons. Harry 12, Robert 9, and Douglas, 7, were away.

Until the Fischer home can be remodeled, the family will live in a small caretaker's home on the farm. The farm was formerly known as the Van Camo uroo- ertv. I 1 Work Starts Soon On Extension Of Pennsv Turnpike HARRISBURG. Pa. Cov Jrvht, Fine of Pennsylvania looks today for actual construction on the northeastern extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike to start by the end of February.

In a statewide radio hrnnrtiat Saturday night, he disclosed the route will be announced today. The project is expected to run from Scranton to a point near Philadelphia. The present tool road runs from the Ohio border to King of Prus GOES TO JAIL TO PROVE POINT emergencies. The "insulating" idea was advanced by the President a week ago in a special message to Congress outlining his farm program. Benson told the Senate committee that President has authorized him to announce the plans for the expanded use of farm surpluses abroad, in advance of the chief executive's budeet messaee which is scheduled to go before Congress Thursday.

The secretary said this message would set for the the President's new proposal. Details of how the overseas surplus program would be handled were not specified in Benson's statement. He did say the billion dollars worth of surpluses would be used over a three year period to "complement our general program of economic and technical development" arboad. Opposition Heated Sen. Ellender (D-La) said in advance of Benson's appearance he wanted to know "just who suggested President Eisenhower's farm program and why." Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) of the committee billed Benson's testimony as an outlook for agriculture." Eisenhower said his farm pro gram, which has stirred up heated opposition from manv Demo crats and some Republicans, was Dased on the most thoro and comprehensive studv ever made or tne farm problem and of gov ernmental farm Drocrams." Taking part in the studv he saia.

were more than 500 eminent iarm leaders, agricultural ml. leges, scores of producer and traae groups, national farm or. (Turn Page 5, Sec. Col. 6) Dog Here Dies Of Poison; Another Burned With Acid William Garrett 640 E.

Allen Saturday night, reported to police his pet dog, a mixed shep-held, spaniel, had died of poison ing. The dog had eaten some food Wednesday night put in the yard by someone. A veterinarian, who performed a post-mortem on the animal, said some phosphorous or arsenic was used. The poisoned food was placed near the Garrett house, and close to the driveway by some person, and fortunately none of the four Garrett children got ahold of the food, it was learned. Fairfield County Humane Society officials, who were also notified of the Lancaster dog's death, also reported someone had thrown acid on a collie dog in Lithopolis Saturday, badly burning one of its hind legs.

Judge Kilhurger Orders Release Of Man In County Jail Common Pleas Judge Harry Kilburger early this afternoon ordered the release of a Lancaster man from the Fairfield Coun ty Jail on a writ of habeus corpus. Harold E. Chilcote, 32, Boving Rd. had been held at the jail since Saturday afternoon for questioning during an investigation concerning a stolen check which had been cashed in a Lan caster business establishment, his attorney Abram Cunix told the court at a hearing earlier today. Chilcote's petition for the writ of habeus corpus filed in the Clerk of Courts office early this morning, states that he was unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the sheriff at the county jail and such detention is without legal authority." No warrent had been issued for Chilcote's detention.

Three other men were also held for question ing in connection with the case, according to sheriff officers. Asthma Treatment Avoids Patient's Trip To Hospital BALTIMORE Relief for chronic asthma sufferers, which a specialist says has worked in 95 out of 100 cases without hospitalization was announced at a weekend medical meeting here. Dr. Leslie Gay of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine told a regional meeting of the American College of Physicians he had achieved success through injec tions of the hormone ACTH in a gelatin solution. For the first time, said Gay, severe asthma can be treated without putting the patient in a hospital.

Previously, he said a I crystalline form of ACTH had been used successfully but the homone was absorbed so quickly by the body that only small amounts could "be injected at the This required hospitalization. Using it in gelatin, Gay said the body did not absorb it as fast and much lyarger doses could be given. SHOTGUN STOLEN Dr. James Hagely, E. Main Lancaster Rt 5, local veterinarian notified police late Saturday afternoon that his Remington 12-guage semi-automatic shotgun and its case were stolen from his office recently.

i lat-H hit- i rt iniwiiriitnniriiiiiimi'tiMtiitiiiyTiiiiMiriiiiiiiniiiiiiiraiiiJ PAUL C. FISHER, 38, is accompanied by his wife, Monique, and their 12-week-old daughter, Caroleen, as he surrenders at the U.S. Marshall's office in Chicago to begin serving his indefinite jail sntence for contempt of court. Fisher, a pen manufacturer, refused to let the United States Labor Department examine his books to see if he had violated the wage and hours law. He said he would go to jail "just to prove my point" and that he then would turn over his books.

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