The Circleville Herald from Circleville, Ohio • Page 1

Cloudy, Cooler Cloudy and cooler tonight. Low 45-50. Saturday fair, and a little warmer in afternoon. high, 75; low, SI. At 8 a.

rn. today, 53. Year ago, high, 81; low, 47. Pre cipitation, .39. River, 2.80 ft.

he ircleville erald An Independent Newspoper FULL SERVICE Allocated Preaa leased wire for state, national and world newt. Central Press picture service, leading columnists and artists, fall local news coverage. Friday, June 4, 1954 7c Per Copy 71st House-Senate Parley To Air Housing Setup Upper Chamber Gives Overwhelming Approval To Eisenhower Plan WASHINGTON on President housing program, fresh from overwhelming victory ri the Senate, was ready today for Senate-House conference in which public housing was the chief point in dispute. The senators late yesterday shouted approval of the over all housing legislation providing liberalized government insured credit for home buyers, a stepped-up slum clearance program and new safeguards aimed at preventing any future abuses in government-aided housing. By a 66-16 county, the only roll call vote on the complex measure, they also endorsed controversial request for authority to build 35,000 new public housing units a year for four years.

The House version contains no such provision, public housing having been rejected there by a vote of 211-176. Chairman Capehart (R-Ind) of Senate Banking Committee, announcing a Senate-House conference committee to work out a com- I promise hill would start a week from today, predicted that the joint group would ORK at least some publlilc housing and that the House would OK at lelllast some public housing and that the House would accept it. MAJOR PROVISIONS in the Sen- y.e measure are: 1. Lower down payments and longer repayment periods for home mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Down payments would drop on an $8,000 new home from the present $650 to $400 and on a $16,000 home from $3,200 to $2,200.

Repayment periods would go to 30 years across the board on all new homes, 2. No change in the maximum I rlA-insured $2,500 home repair loan program, repayable in three years. Lenders would take 20 per cent of the risk on of these FHA-insured loans. 3. A program for more effective slum clearance, with federal grants to communities to clear blighted areas.

The Senate refused to take program for payment, 40-year FUA insured Jiortgages for low-cost homes in slum cleared areas. It voted to require a 5 per cent down payment with a maximum 30-vear term. 4. An increase in the amount of government money available for direct loans to veterans who get private credit to buy homes under the GT Bill. The Senate voted to allow a total of $200 million, double the present authorization.

SHOT FATALLY when a Los Angeles police officer fired at a theft suspect in the downtown section, the body of Fenwick K. Erickson, a passerby, is photographed by a news cameraman. The officer, Patrolman Jac I). Sailer, said, sure there was no one else in sight when I fired two shots at the running suspect after he had ignored two warning New Lights Ready For Park Opening New- lights for the main baseball diamond have been installed and will be used for the first time Sunday night during the all-day ceremonies for the official summer opening of Ted Lewis Park. This announcement was made Thursday by Mayor Bob Hedges.

The lights are but one of many improvements this year at the park, the mayor said. Some projects still remain to be completed, he added, pointing out an unfinished section of bleachers and a section of backstop. Boyd will be out at the park Friday and Saturday to try and complete the Mayor c'. plenty of volunteers, so everyone possible should come out and lend a The mayor also said that the 5. TIGHT NEW restrictions on (continued on Page Two) Star Farmer Award Given Bellville Lad COLUMBUS Litt, 17, af near Bellville, yesterday was named star farmer of 1954.

The award, presented at the annual state banquet of Future Farmers of America, honors the boy as a successful farmer who owns a third interest in his 264- acre farm, operates 60 more acres of rented land and is an established cattle and hog raiser. He shares state honors with pretty Betty Grooms of New Rome fcho yesterday began her reign as queen of the young farmers. She is a home economics student at Ohio State University. Miss Grooms won the honor at last state fair and will reign until next year's FFA convention. Young Litt was honored for around He has served as president of his local FFA chapter and region- vice president of the Northeast irict of the Ohio FFA Assn.

Other FFA members honored: Arnold Fast, Celina, best pork producer: Robert E. High, Rockford, star dairy farmer; Donald Rager, Dunkirk, star lamb producer; James R. Warner, West Milton. star broiler producer; Tom Marfort, Spencerville, farm electrification award; Max Heilman, Kenton, farm mechanics award: Hutchinson. Albany, soil and management award and Bob Beck and Earl Rush, Loudonville, farm fire prevention award.

Dairy awards for efficient reduction went to the Bremen and Lancaster chapters. Solar Battery Seen To Run Ordinary Home BALTIMORE UPL-The Air Force announced today development of a solar generator which when refined could convert sunlight into I enough energy to run a home. The Air Research and Development Command said the new generator evolved through research conducted by Donald Reynolds and Lt. Col. Gerard M.

Leies at I the Wright Air Development Cen! tor near Dayton, Ohio. Last April 25, Bell Telephone Co. unveiled a solar battery which con- i verts sunlight into electricity through silicon transistors. Light striking razor-thin strips of silicon creates a flow of electric curren in atoms in the strips. The Air Force generator uses cadmium sulfide, a yellow powder employed as a pigment in the manufacture of paint.

The powder is processed into crystal form. The Air Force said a of the crystal, four feet by fifteen feet, would supply enough current to take care of a house. The pilot model supplies a charge of one quarter of a volt and can operate an electric clock. The slab capable of supplying the power needs of a house could either rest on the roof or be built into it, the ARDC said. The crystal in the first model is about the size of a sugar cube.

to opposite sides of the crystal are electrodes, or term- inals. A wire running from the positive electrode to a motor or battery and back tn the negative electrode forms the circuit. That simple device is the solar the Air Force said. Circleville Community Band would play Sunday from 6:30 p. rn.

to 7 p. rn. The Hall-Adkins Post 134 American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps will take over then and play until the main ball game gets under way at 8 p. he added. Exhibitions by various groups will go on during the entire day which coincides with the birthday of the man for whom the park as named star and singer Ted Lewis.

Festivities get under way at I p.m. Sunday. SINCE NO food or drink will be served, other than cold pop by the Pickaway County Children's Home, Park Board Secretary Monty Lambert has suggested families turn the day into a picnic affair. He pointed out that residents and their friends could take advantage of the new charcoal pits and benches, part of the new improvements. Six diamond matches during the afternoon will each be for two full innings, and an evening fray is scheduled for seven frames.

The baseball portion of park program was listed as follows: vs. Elks (Mosquito League) Electric vs. Kiwanis League) 2:30 Kiwanis vs. Rotary (Little League) Iks vs. Lions (Pony League) General Electric vs.

Elks (Little League) 4:00 vs. General Electric (Pony league) Sen. McCarthy OKs Airing OI Phone Calls Monitored Talks Due To Be Entered Into Record As Evidence WASHINGTON McCarthy has finally agreed to permit use in the McCarthy-Army hearing of his monitored telephone calls with Army officials. McCarthy and Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch agreed today that all monitored telephone calls between Pentagon officials and senators' including McCarthy, should go into the public record.

Welch and McCarthy further agreed that efforts should be abandoned to make public calls involving other key fixtures in the between Administration officials only, and calls involving Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr, aides to McCarthy. McCarthy and Welch had a conference outside the hearing room and returned to announce their understanding. Welch said the hearings subcommittee should recognize the that disclosure of calls within the Administration barred by President directive forbidding testimony on conferences between Administrative officals.

RED REBELS SCORE PAIR VICTORIES Dulles Grave Says Indo Situation But Not Hopeless HE SAID IT also should recog- nze McCarthy has taken the consistent stand that if these calls are not introduced, all the others should not be. McCarthy said he agreed with Welch but if the other senators were going to put their calls into the record, he would agree to put in his. The upshot of the McCarthy- Welch overturned by the subcommittee itself or later be that calls involving senators, including 1 McCarthy, would be made public, but no others would be. The Welch McCarthy understanding climaxed an debate in the hearing room on the issue of the monitored calls. In one uproarious moment.

Sen. Symington (D-Mo) shook a consent agreement for release of monitored calls at McCarthy and called on him to sign it. All other investi- (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON of State Dulles told Congress today the military situation in Indochina, grave, but by no means He made the statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in supporting President proposed new $34 billion foreign aid program. Dulles urged that Congress allow the President great in spending the funds to enable him to act and in meeting the Communist threat. The situation in Indochina, he said, fraught with danger, not only to the immediate area but to the security of the United States and its allies in the Pacific area.

area is one which is Vital to the peace and safety of the United States. China has been supplying to the Vietminh an increasing volume of munitions and military supplies. There is also evidence that Soviet arms have been supplied in increasing quantities to the Communist force in Indochina. Communist plan is not only to take over Indochina but to dominate all of Southeast Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees ot a secret briefing on the situation in the Far East yesterday from James A. Yan Fleet, retired Army general, just back from a mission to Japan.

Korea and Formosa for President Eisenhower. Wiley quoted Van Fleet as saying that no formal decisions had been reached on what the administration would do about the expanding Indochina Communist crisis. The President made a similar statement at his news conference Wednesday. Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn) told the Senate yesterday he understands a policy has been determined, but that administration leaders apparently feared to tell Congress and the public what it is for fear of losing control of ongress in the coming elections.

as serious as war has no business in Kefauver said. decisions before this country are far too grave for them to wait on He demanded that Congress and the public be told just what is planned about intervention in Indochina. Military representatives of five powers the United States, Great Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand opened secret talks here yesterday on measures which may be taken to combat communism in Southeast Asia. No results were announced. Foreign Aid Director Harold E.

Stassen told a news conference yesterday the President should have authority to use $1,133,000,000 requested for Indochina in the new- foreign aid budget in other adjoining areas if the Communists should overrun Indochina. Electric vs. Joe Wilson Fords (County League) Elyria Hearing Turnpike Decisions ELYRIA UP the Ohio Turnpike Commission had to route its $326 million toll road through Elyria is not for a court to decide, Common Pleas Judge Arthur D. Tudor says. The judge, hearing the third day of injunction lawsuit to stop the commission from condemning right-of-way in the city, indicated he would rule further on the question today.

special counsel, Robert J. Shoup of Cleveland, argued it was not necessary for the pike to cut through the city. He added the court, by refraining from questioning the necessity, would give the commission power to run a toll road Toll Increases QUONSET POINT, R. I. IP Death of another Bennington crew member early today raised the toll the May 26 explosions aboard the big aircraft carrier to 102.

Lima Phone Cable Replacement Asked COLUMBUS State utilities commission examiner James L. Fulton Jr. yesterday recommended the Lima Telephone and Telegraph Co. be ordered to replace underground cable with new aerial cable. After hearing complaints of William R.

Beaman and others regarding telephone service, Fulton said new cable would provide better service to subscribers in the Alger and McGuffey areas. Beaman had thought service would1 improve after a rate increase went into effect but expectations have not been 27-Foot Channels Needed By Ohio PUT-IN-BAY harbors and channels should be at least 27 feet deep to accommodate ocean commerce, the Harbor Development Subcommittee says. A. W. Marion, director of the Ohio Natural Resources Department and chairman of the subcommittee, said the recommendation will be passed along to Gov.

Frank J. Executive Committee on Navigation and Harbors. In July, Marion said, the subcommittee will visit the Toledo port for further study of the problem of converting to ocean commerce. House Pane! OKs Welfare, Labor Funds WASHINGTON UP) Tho House Appropriations Committee voted today to give the Labor and Welfare Departments $1,948,946,011 in new cash to finance them for the fiscal year starting July I. This is only $16,339,250, or less than I per cent, below- the amount requested by President Eisenhower.

It is $302,243,250 less than the same agencies were voted for the present fiscal year. The recommendations were embodied in a bill drafted by a subcommittee headed by Rep. Busboy (R-111) and sent to the House floor for debate. It was the ninth of ll annual departmental appropriation bills presented to the House. Tile House has passed eight others and the Senate three.

Only one has been sent to the President. bill allotted the Labor Department $298,704,000 of the $29,635,000 it requested through the President; the Department of Health, Education and Welfare $1,637,615,011 of the $1,652,509,261 it requested: the National Labor Relations Board SS.400.000 of the $8,700,000 it asked; the National Mediation Board $1,217,000 of the $1,261,000 it sought, and the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service $3,010,000 of the $3,180,000 it requested. Compared with appropriations for the present year, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare took the biggest most of it for grants to states for public assistance. For this purpose the committee recommended $1.2 billion, amount requested by the President but a reduction of S198 million from current vear funds. Here's Chance For Pictures! managers and their players will have a big opportunity to have keepsake pictures taken Sunday during the program arranged for the 1954 Opening of Ted Lewis Park.

During the regular season, only the Mosquito League playing in mid afternoon will be in action during the best hours for photography. Arrangements have been made, consequently, to have a commercial photographer on hand at the park only for pictures of groups but other shots which may also be desired. In view of the plans for picture taking, the members of all teams and their managers are asked to be on hand at least one- half hour before the time set for their exhibitions. For the convenience of the crowd expected to visit the park Sunday, the list of exhibitions scheduled for the baseball teams is repeated in main story on the Sunday program. Managers in particular are asked to be alert for this opportunity to have their clubs photographed as a group.

Ohio Fuel Gas Co. Outlines $33 Million Building Plan Special Check Business Said Just Too Good New Ruling Made COLUMBUS UP county board of education may discharge a stenographer or abolish the position at any time, according to a new ruling bv Atty. Gen. C. William Nipissing Fishing Proving Too Good "ANORTH BAY, Ont.

Seven fishermen from Hamilton, Ohio, are accused with possession of more than SOO pickerel and pike taken from Lake Nipissing. The legal limit is six of each species for each angler. The men are Omer Jacobs, Joseph Wolner. C. R.

Brown. Paul Brown, W. Brown. Frank G. Beierlf and Howard Shreek.

A conservation officer said the fish, cleaned and filleted, were packed in ice. All equipment of the fishing party was seized. CLEVELAND here are refusing to accept private money orders called but the president of the firm which makes them says the only trouble is that business is too good. The money orders are sold by the Merchants Service Corp. of St.

Louis, for mailing in payment of loans, mortgages, charge accounts and similar debts. According to the Better Business Bureau here, the Manchester Bank in St. Louis is stamping the money orders as against uncollected George D. Weese president of Merchants Service, said the have been getting to the bank in St. Louis ahead of the cash that was paid for them.

Although the Manchester Bank previously honored the orders even though the cash was still en route, it now refuses to pay on the before the money arrives. Otherwise, the bank would be paying out as much as half a million dollars on the hope that the corp-; other accounts out of that state were full enough. Weese estimated his firm and the Manchester Bank are about five days behind the incoming waves of money orders. are trying to cut down our operation, but we haven't been able to pull back fast he said. is one business where expanding sales are bad.

and when things get slower, He advised those who have the to put them through their hanks again or send them to i the Manchester Bank. COLUMBUS Ohio Fuel Gas Co. today announced its $33 million construction program which should be finished Nov. I will enable it to supply gas heat to 70.000 more homes than it could one year ago. Extent of the construction gram was outlined today by A.

W. Lundstrum. company president. He said that for the first time iii seven years Ohio Fuel will be French Send I New Chieftain To Indochina PARIS UP ordered Gen. Paul Ely, armed forces chief of staff, to the double-barreled job of military and political chief in Indochina today.

By putting a new man in the combined command, Premier Joseph Laniel's Cabinet sought to bolster the sagging de-) tenses of the revolt-torn country. Ely, 56, replaces Gen. Henri Navarre as military commander in chief and Maurice Dejean as commissioner general of Indochina, Navarre particularly has been a major target of criticism since the fall of Dien Bien Phu. Ely recently returned from a survey mission to the Far Eastern battleground. His report has been made the basis of government plans for all-out defense against new Vietminh rebel threats to the vital delta around Hanoi.

The appointment came shortly after shaky regime gave further evidence of its determination to fight on in Indochina. The Cabinet yesterday named Edouard Frederic-Dupont minister for the Associated States of Indochina and raised the post to full cabinet rank. Frederic predecessor, Marc Jacquet, the junior ministerial rank of secretary of state. In combining the top Indochinese military and political commands the government returned to the setup followed when the late Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny hurled the Communist-led Vietminh back from the delta in 1951. De Lattre had been given both posts after a try at dividing them, to minimize military influence on the developing Viet Nam government, had not proved entirely successful.

By again concentrating power in one hands, the government obviously hoped Ely would be able to repeat De Lattre's successful offensive. able to deliver gas to heat virt- natly all homes on company lines. In addition, the program enables the company to supply more gas to industrial and wholesale customers. This year's 'ifci figure sets a new record and is half again as large as the $22 million spent in 1949-50. The company spent $118 million for construction in the seven years ending last Dec.

31, he said. The Ohio Fuel construction will complete the between a huge new supply of gas available to Ohio Fuel and the company's customers. Ohio Fuel gets 90 per cent of its gas from Louisiana and Texas gas fields, and completion of the new Gulf Interstate pipeline from Louisiana to Ceredo, will boost greatly gas available to Ohio Fuel. LUNDSTRUM listed these district construction figures: Toledo $668,000, Fremont $149.000, Elyria $391,000. Mansfield $376,000.

Springfield $52,000, Columbus $1120,000, Zanesville $47000, bus $1,120,000, Zanesville $47,000, specific items for new construction and do not include a $6,200,000 item for pipe, meters and other material. trying to spread the new gas available around fairly to all our wholesale and retail Lundstrum said. The company serves communities in 49 of 88 counties. Wholesale customers are located in Dayton. Cincinnati, Lima.

Lancaster, Delaware and a number of smaller communities. It is taking 1.400 railroad car loads of pipe to complete the construction job, Lundstrum said, and much of it was purchased from steel mills in Ohio. Hanoi Lifeline Threatened By Successes One Baffle Involves Hand-To-Hand Combaf Af Cafholic Seminary HANOI, Indochina UP Communist-led Vietminh rebels scored two bloody successes in the Hanoi delta yesterday. One posed a new threat to the vital French lifeline between Haiphong and Hanoi. The other turned a Roman Catholic seminary into a battleground where hundreds died in hand-to- hand combat.

Wave after wave of Vietminh troops crushed the stubborn defense of the 60 Vietnamese manning the garrison at Cho Moi. 24 miles southeast of Hanoi and only 9 miles south of the Haiphong- Hanoi road. Over this road are convoyed supplies and equipment landed at Haiphong harbor. Cut off by the Vietminh for nearly three weeks and under almost constant rebel assault during the past seven nights, the defenders smashed five assaults last night before the Vietminh tide overwhelmed them. How many Vietnamese escaped death or capture was not known.

Meanwhile, in Geneva, the Indochina peace conference made another effort to break its deadlock on the issue of how a proposed Indochina should he supervised. THE VINE PARTY parley went into its 16th secret session, the last one planned before a long weekend recess, to be followed by a semipublic debate next Tuesday. High level military representatives of the two Indochina commands also met in secret this afternoon on the problem of defining assembly zones for the regrouping of the rival armies after a truce. The deadlock on the policing of any cease-fire seemed as hopeless as ever. The Communists gave ground slightly yesterday, agreeing with the West that the proposed neutral nations supervisory commission (Continued on Page Two) Lad Loses Hands In Home Blast COLUMBUS James.

15, yesterday had both hands blown off while mixing chemicals in the garage of his home He is the son of Ohio State University Prof. Clifford L. James. He also received a puncture of the groin. His condition in University Hospital is listed as fair.

It was not determined what chemicals the boy had used. District's Rainfall Cuts Into Drought The drought that many farm leaders fear is bringing about a critical situation for the nation has been caught napping so far this month in the Circleville area. Precipitation for the district for the past three days has been running more than one-half inch above normal, thanks to several downpours of cloudburst proportions. Precipitation reported by local weather observers Friday, covering the 24 hours ending at 8 a. was .39.

That amount of rainfall, plus the little deluge of .64 inch recorded last Wednesday and precipitation Thursday, totals a little over an inch for the past three days. Normal for the past three days is about .36 inch. Another Big Traffic Toll Seen For Ohio COLUMBUS UP If history repeats itself, more Ohioans will die in highway accidents in the coming weekend than were killed during the Memorial Day holiday. The state highway safety director, U. C.

Felty, says: records show a definite letdown in traffic safety the weekends following a holiday and a sharp increase in the number of He said 20 died in traffic in Ohio during the Memorial Day period, and added that the motoring public avoids the usual letdown in its driving habits, the figure will increase this The director warned there would not be a letdown in traffic enforcement by the state highway patrol. Patrol Supt. Col. George Mingle said: are going to take the same action against reckless operators as we did over Memorial Day when 3.918 persons were arrested and 6,072 written warnings issued. Those who do not intend to cooperate might as well plan on being Col.

Mingle said the patrol auxiliary, composed of more than 4,000 American Legionnaires trained in traffic, will augment the patrol in its safety drive. Ohioan Replaced LAFAYETTE, Ind. tft-Mrs. J. R.

Salisbury of Kansas City, yesterday was elected president of the National Council of Presbyterian Women. She succeeds Mrs. W. Verne Brchanan of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Sohio Cuts Gas Price By Penny CLEVELAND Standard Oil of Ohio today cut retail prices a cent a gallon on its regular and premium grades of gasoline.

That made the price on regular grade 26.9 cents and premium grade 29 6 cents at most operated stations in the state. The firm said the cut was due to weakened price conditions in both retail and wholesale markets The price cut is expected to be duplicated by other oil firms since Sohio iy feta irenji..