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HOME TOWM NEWSPAPER NOW IN OUR YEAR Home Edition Founded For All DennrtmentB 4141 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9,1960. Lenscd United International Prifo Per- Tan Ponte Photo rnce copy, len cents Snag in May Alter Spans On Military Order INDL4NAPOLIS (UPD-Indiana highway officials said today that many bridges built under the new interstate road program may have to be revised to inceease the clearance for military weapons moving on trucks. Chairman John Peters of the State Highway Commission said thai more than 40 bridges may have to be altered to meet a new Defense Department order. But other highway spokesmen said the state is hopeful some-j what fewer may be involved if the government takes into consideration alternate routes and does not insist on each and even' bridge having a 16-foot clearance. Peters said that when the inter- state highway program became effective in 1956, the standard clearance height was 14 feet inches.

But he said a new minimum was ordered recently to LL permit passage of the Atlas inter-1 continental missile and other im- riir portant military weapons moving IN tW JUIN IUK over highways on trucks. "Some will have to be raised' and in some cases the have to be lowered to meet situation," he said, "I don't know where the money, will come from," he said. "I'm! sure it will be on a 90-10 basis, with the government paying thcj Construction of a junior high largest amount." the Columbia grade In Washington, Rep. Jinr Wright school' moved -'closer to" reality (D-Tex.) charged before a House Monday evening when preliminary Public Works Subcommittee today (plans of the building were sub- Service Make It Twining OKs Present Plans WASHINGTON UPI) Gen. Nathan F.

Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, bluntly today with service chiefs who have recommended more submarines and a step-up in the Strategic Air Command bolster the nation's defenses. WASHINGTON (UPI) ever larger excess supplies dent Eisenhower called on Con-1 products that, as they- accumulate, I gress today to overhaul the fed-1 depress farm prices and endanger eral farm program to make it! the future of our farmers." "sensible and economically sound) He described the wheat situa- and not a political poultice." (Jon as "particularly acute" and The President submitted his pointed out that S.3,500,000,000 in new farm legislation proposals in a special message reiterating views he has expressed in the past but taking a softer line and inviting the lawmakers to suggest al- federal funds are tied up in that program. He said 30 per cent of Tells of Payola Deal' Probers Hear Band Leader BULLETIN' WASHINGTON (UPI) Joseph the government Investment in the Finan? a former Cleveland disc farm program went to wheat idi ill am wuiii i-u I'JJIJT i i though thai crop accounted cke adnutted thai ternatives. only 6 per cent of farmers' cash I received payments of at least to Republican legislators hailed receipts. $12,800 from record distributors i the conciliatory tone of the'flies-1 The President said he would ac-j and manufacturers, most of it for He said he differed with Adm.j bu Democrats generally I any "constructive ja consideratjon to their Arleigh Burke, chief of naval oper-1 a receptinn offered by Congress but that a constructive program must con-! WHERE ARE these signs are seen many times a week by persons living in and around Cass county, but the odds are you'll have to think a long time before you come up with the right locations.

Answers: (top to bottom) U.S. Rt. 24 west from Loganspnrt; U.S. Rt. 35 south from Winamac; State Rt.

Ifi west from Royal Center. (Staff photos) ations, who recommended Monday an additional one billion memoer ur LIle alt Ilwl for six new Poians submarines. ture Commi t( ee sa jd needed over- "First, thai, price support levels Sen Olin D. Johnston I constructive pro; member of the Senate Agricul- form with these yardsticks: "I think we should go along just! haulin; about as wp are Twinirror sarrJ of the farm program must i realistically related to what-j about as we are," Twining wa it until the Democrats control! ever policy the Congress chooses congressional payola i ro-'the White House as well as Con- respect to production control, today that a Boston re "It's a good program." The proposed budget for fiscal 1951 eress poses only three new submarines. I As for the Strategic Air Command, Twining said he favored an "airborne alert capability" but not the ful.

WA i WASHINGTON (UPI Lester a society band leader, told investigators record dislrib- it being recognized that the high-iutor only Monday promised him Submit Plans for School Addition tion of ten new classrooms, a cafeteria, library, and rooms for 1he administration, health and music departments. The new space would set the that thousands of bridges through-jmitted to board members of the school capacity at 520, includin 0 cut the country will- be affected! Logansport Community School both junior high and grade school Icy Highways Cause Wrecks Two Cars Extensively Damaged In Accidents There's nothing that Congress' er the support the more regiment- can pass that Eisenhower won't veto." he said. "And there's noth- ed must be the farmer. "Second, that price support lev- ing that the President can recom- els not be so high so as to stimuli 24-hour alert endorsed by mend that a Democrat would want Ia 'e still more excessive produc- i i tion reduce dnmpstic markets swift payment of a Mi-month-old bill which had aroused their curiosity. Lanin said he had been promised a $1.000 fee by the Dumont SAC chief Gen Thomas S.

Power to vote for." tion reduce domestic markets Record Distributing Co. for his Twining said the oint Chiefs of 1 The President said quick action! and increase the subsidies re-i band's appearance at an open-air Staff, 'of which Burks is a mem- is needed "to avoid visiting havoc quired to hold world outlets. ber. "went along with the program in the budget" on both counts. Earlier, Twining described as "without merit" the recent criticism of the defense program by Gen.

Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army chief of staff, who retired last-June. Twining said the nation! has enough military strength to) deter a Soviet attack "today or in A thin film of ice which covered! the foreseeable future." highways in Cass county was a related development, House I Warned fnr af r.d-.j--- Ure iam wm upon the very people this program is intended to help." "Even- additional day of de-j lay," he said, "makes a sound I solution more difficult." Pointing out that the government is spending $1.500.000 each otl Hardt, 63. of 23ff Wheat Otto Hardt Dies Suddenly "block party" for charity in Brockton, on Sept. 16, 1958.

Actually, Lanin said, he received only $400. The block party, which drew 35,000 people, was sponsored by Boston radio station WBZ. Lanin told members of the tmirdiM- nf Tacc ioia memoers or me A- PI prv sta-' lan( lounaer 01 me cassi minine-io sw r-hanfro- nf House investigating subcommittee ufhpat nncpt: fllane the county unapter 01 uisaoieo. Amer- pbilize wtiea prices aione, ine hf i that he "assumes" they are right I S3'd Unifies COnstrUCtlVC -IvaH VcLcidllS, UleU 01 3 nCari i I action is taken promptly ei rf pna mAn ls i arranged for his appearance i.n»ir i-ani 4hot ihtc on. ciLv SLreci ueodiLjiieni y.5*>i.

danger is very real that this en- city street blamed for at' accidents late Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Although no one was injured, i Republican Leader Charles A. Hal- leek (Ind.) accused Democratic presidential candidates, whom he did not name, of being "more in- uad erj a.m. Tuesday. He succumbed lc Pr te Sale the pressure of public indigna-f'he department garage at "612 tion." Expand Soil Bank The one clearly new proposal in Kace st.

Mr. Hardt was born in Logansport Sept. 16, Interest in Convention He insisted, however, that he I expected all along to get the full by the new ruling. corporation. United Press International at-1 While working on the plans tempted to get list of Indiana during the last month, local a'rchi- students.

there was extensive damage mi terestedm making headlines than (he rogram suggested that farm- and Sofia Kruck Hardt. He lived sl 000 fee If th Dumon firm lintVi 'mfllrino -hpfldwflv" in dp-1 ff all hie lifp flf thn Whpatlanrl 3VP- both crashes. ARCHITECT plans call for en-1 The altered, but officials said a compilation was impossible at this time because the situation is "up in the air." been assisted by Superintendent high, size and the transfer of the r-, iiitiii auu uic LI ui LIIC Charles Sharp and Ass.stant Sup- om the west to the north enntendent Carl Zimmerman. Although a definite decision on whether to build the addition is not expected for some time, ten- side of the gym. Medland and Bowman also rashes.

(making headway" in national de-( ers partic pa ting in the bank! all his life at pay fte balance he first occurred at 11:15 p.m. fense. program might be given "pay- nue address. said, he felt sure the money would Monday on a county road four miles east of Walton when a dog ran out on the road in front of an eastbound 1959 model conv.er- tible driven by Airman John Mayer, 23, of the Bunker Hill air U.S. TEMPERATURES NEW YORK (UPD-The lowest construe- i unior hi sch o1 now bein con temperature officially recorded in I Tt, Halleck commented after he and leaders met with President Eisenhower at the White House.

"I am not complacenl." Twining said, "but-1 am not fearful of the drew the plans for the Fairview fo WHEN MAYER applied the, na(ioii to miss the dog, his carl ments in from out of the existing government held crop surpluses. He recommended an orderly expansion of the soil bank program, under which farmers take land HE HAD BEEN employed byj the street department for two years. Prior to that he worked as a mechanic at the county highway garage. At one lime he operated a garage of his own. Mr.

Hardt w.as a member of come from Epic Records, for which he is a recording artist. Protesting that he has "nothing lo do with disc jockeys," Lanin lamented again and again that "I wouldn't be here" if Don Dumont, on the south ht Russian capability." out of production to hold down MiHartt was a member of the nation's too uni-i surplus output, from the present, the St. James Lutheran ctmrch the nation this morning was below zero at Devils Lake and' Grand Forks, N.D.. (he U.S. Weather Bureau reported.

Monday's high was 89 degrees at Laredo, Tex. MM i OUHQHlg Will Ut rreshman i Se lefmber building will be ready for use Ths Weather Forecast" LHS To Draw 200 Over 200 parents are expected lo turn out Wednesday for the Plans for a proposed junior high i building east of town near the stadium are being prepared by local architect Henry Wolf. THE STADIUM school and the Columbia addition, if and when they are built, would give the I second skidded sideways, knocking down la tefflenb in free-swinging pro- a telephone pole and ten rods of fence on the Roscoe Thompson logue to questioning by the combined Senate Space Committee subcommittee. farm before coming to a stop in and armed services preparedness a field. State Trooper Richard Keyes estimated damage to Mayer's car at 8500.

He and Deputy Sheriff Rex Harris investigated. city three new junior high schools. I Tt second crash occurred atj Tax Refunds WASHINGTON (UPI) 28 million acres to 60 the Eagles lodge. He was aj veleran of the first World War and for five was commander of the local chapter of Dis- acres. The conciliatory approach in (he Eisenhower message indicated that protests from farrt state Republicans to an earlier draft of the document had caused the President to soften his language him the $1,000 16 months ago.

He testified that Dumont spotted abled American Veterans. Survivors include his widow, Mamie; two sons, Otto of Fort Wayne and Carl, Logans- him at the subcommittee hearing Monday and promised that a check for the $600 would be in the mail today or Wednesday. Dumont's explanation for being so tardy, he said, was just "fool- The ence nig, INDLA.NA: Cloudy with rain de- Sc 0 ol. veloping south and central and some snow probably mixed with an( en a g. rain or freezing rain ext annual freshman-confer- Superintendent Sharp has indicat-1 a len Irene R.

Treasury already has started jht at -Logansport e( all three are needed. Monticello, lost control of her sending out tax refund checks to p. m. All north late this afternoon or mmute me schedule during which riing and continuing tonight, they meet privately with their child's guidance teacher. Wednesday rain south and central, snow or rain extreme north and not much temperature change.

Low tonight from low 30s extreme north to the 40s extreme south. High Wednesday 3,1 to 37 extreme Also at the board meeting Mon- program will begin at day trustees discussed salary in- I crease for secretaries and jani- jtors employed by the school system. No decision was made, however. The 350-member freshman class is divided among 12 guidance in-jHALLECK RAP'S DEMO LEADERS 1954 sedan and went into the ditch on U. S.

Rt. 24, five miles west of Logansport. SHE TOLD Deputy Sheriff Rex Harris she "was driving west on the highway, hit a slick spot, early bird filers. The department reminded taxpayers that they can file 'returns although he did not retreat from port: one brother, Fred'and one) 1 any of his -previously declared 1 half-brother, S. Smith, both The subcommittee showed a 1 of -this city.

keen interest in what transpired principles. Eisenhower described low farm income combined with surplus production as most vexing domestic problem." Wants "Constructive" Program The body was taken to the Fisher funeral home where final rites are pending. now if they have received a W-2 "We are most fortunate that our form from their employer telling i problem in agriculture is over at a disc jockey convention in Miami last year. One congrssman said the best description he heard was- 'broads and bribes." The subject of the Miami conclave of record-spinners figured CHICAGO (UPI) Adlai E.jas a side issue Monday when Adlai on Tour 1UI 111 1IUJIJ Ultll CUlUlljy Cl Ldllllg I HI to ujw- how much they earned in 1959. abundance rather than a shortage Stevenson, twice defeated Demo-jthe House Legislative Oversight completely around and The closer a return is filed to (of food," he said, "But it defies) cratic presidential candidate, to-J subcommittee launched hearings left the highway on the south side the April 15 deadline, the longer slructors.

DISCUSSION during the con- north to south. Sunset c.s.t., 6:15 p.m. ference will center on the child's WASHINGTON (UPI) House c.d.t. Sunrise the mid curriculum for the re in a nder of his three years' in high school. Guidance director Jack Ulmer said today the instructors 'will specifically discuss results of the Achievement and Occupational Interest tests taken by the Wednesday 6:44 a.m.

c.s.t., 7:44 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly cloudy and colder, chance of snow flurries extreme north. Republican leader Charles A. Halleck accused unnamed Democratic presidential candidates, today, of being "more interested in making headlines than making headway" in national defense.

The Indiana Republican made of the pavement knocking down a guard.rail post. There was considerable damage to the car. Several other vehicles were reported in the ditch along U. S. Rt 35 between here and Kokomo due to the slick pavement.

it lakes to get a refund check, officials said. common sense lo continue to en-1 day begins a two month part bus- courage, at the cost of many iness, part pleasure trip to Latin lions of tax dollars, the buildingj America. on under-the-table payments for playing certain records, and other deceptive broadcasting practices. Lows 20s north to 30s south. en ts last spring and October, i tne siate roent to newsmen after Hiqhs upper 20s north to mid respectively i President Eisenhower and his leg; islative leaders discussed the congressional debate over defense policy.

Asked if he meant Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex:) and before planning his final three- soutn Ulmer further pointed out that students are not advised to plan Highs Monday, lows last 12 a four vear program upon en(er hours, precipifauon for 24 hours hjgh schofl Hg said ending at 7 a.m. today: Chicago reveal jhat it js best for 44-31. Cincinnati 43-38 Denver 60-3S.

Evansville 54-35, Indianapolis 40-33 .18. Louisville 52-42 Miami 71-53, New York 39-33, San Francisco 60-48 .91. Washington 44-41. MONDAY TUESDAY 11 a.m ,39 1 a.m 37 Noon 40 2 a.m 36 1 p.m 41 35 2p.m 42 4 a.m 35 3 p.m 38 5a.m 34 4 p.m 38 6 a.m 34 5 p.m 3S 7a.m 35 o.m 38 8 a.m 36 7 p.m 38 9 a.m 36 p.m 37 lOa.m 37 9 p.m 37 a.m 38 10 n.m 36 Noon 38 13 p.m 3S Ip.m 38 Mid 38 2p.m 29 High One. Year Low One Year Barometer 38.60, uteady.

at 2 p.m. River Stages 7.36, at 7 a.m., Tuesday UOMC reader poses this question: Government for the students to wait until he has lakeni 5' min St on wh have been On the editorial page today. the Achievement and Interest tests outspoken in their criticism of de-' year ONCE THESE tests have been completed the student is usually well into his first year and has given an indication of where his ability lies. It is' then best, according to Ulmer, to discuss the results and future plans with the child's parents, to determine if they coincide with the hopes the parent has for his child. Refreshments will be served following the conference session in the newly-opened LHS cafeteria.

fense policies, Halleck replied: "You know who they are." Thor Tested CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) The Force today fired its'second "hot rod" Thor space rocket booster on il 1.700- mile test flight over the Atlantic Ocean IKE TO VISIT CAPE CANAVERAL WASHINGTON President Eisenhower WL! fly to Cape Canaveral, Wednesday to make a long-desired inspection trip through the missile test base there, the White House announced Press secretary James C. Hagerty said the President had wanted to go to the missile base for some time but heretofore had been unable to it into' his schedule. Eisenhower will take off in the presidential jet plane about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday from Andrews; Field in nearby Maryland for the! two hour flight to the Cape.

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The feeding table is divided into two sections, separated by a concrete block. Two columns of students line up outside of either section. Die through one door, receive their food and then file out through a second door. Cafeteria manager Mrs. Ann Owen said today that 900 meals were consumed.

The menu: cheeseburgers, baked beans, apple sauce, doughnut and milk..