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Indiana State Library Indianapolis, Indiana THE HOOSIER DAY By FRANK A. WHITE Trucks A Problem, But Here To Stay A Yale University study concludes that traffic congestion, so evident to all of us who travel by automobile, will grow worse before getting better. We continue to be so prosperous on a national scale, or our credit is so good for installment buying, that the number of automobiles on Hoosier highways grows by leaps and bounds. We become more reluctant to walk, even short distances. We are more and more dependent upon trucks for bringing into the community almost everything we use and taking out all our products.

New toll roads are becoming congested shortly after completion. Truck Restrictions Not Always Answer RUSHVILLE REPUBLICAN Vol. 86 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Tuesday, June 23, 1953. Eight Pages Five Cents Contract Of Plane Firm Is Under Fire Sen. Bridges Says Henry Kaiser-Son Firm Has Developed Know- How" With Planes.

WASHINGTON tfWHenry Kaiser and his son, Edgar, launched a vigorous deefnse of their record as airplane builders today, and found themselves under immediate attack. Sen. Bridges (R-NH), chairman of a Senate armed services subcommittee inquiring into Kaiser contracts, told the father son team their production costs for the Fairchild C119 cargo plane were five Bernard H. Niehoff Burial Thursday Bernard H. Niehoff, 62, well known and related in Rush County, died Monday at the Veterans Hospital in Indianapolis where he was taken Friday after suffering a stroke.

He resided in Indianapolis. Besides the widow and four children, survivors include his mother, Mrs. Magdalena Niehoff, two brothers, William and Gus Niehoff, and three sisters, Mrs. William Herbert, Mrs. Gust Herbert and Mrs.

Harry Herbert, all of Rush County. He was a native of Franklin County. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 in St. Church at Indianapolis and burial will be in the church cemetery. times as much as those of Fairchild Merrill C.

Horine, of the truck- jne and Aircraft mg industry, told the Society of Au- a. tomotive Engineers currently, that Ho sald had developed a he believes the emphasis will come know-how as plane makers, and gave an opinion that Living Costs Edge Pp Slightly For Third Month with time on building our bridges and highways to meet truck requirements, rather than imposing drastic restrictions on size and weight of trucks. He believes that increasing the size and weight of trucks on highways will effect economy savings greater than under construction and under maintenance or roadways. It is very easy to get an argument on this point, for many highway builders and users know of the high cost that would be involved in building our roadways for bigger trucks and the inconvenience trucks now' impose on passenger car traffic. the productive capacity of the big WASHINGTON (JI The cost of Willow' Run, plant which jiving edged upward another three- Kaiser is running would have been ten(hs a cent between mid.

just as valuable if it had remained idle. Harry Compton, 73, Rites Wednesday Harry Compton, 73, brother of former Rush County sheriff, Ed Compton, now of Indianapolis, died Sunday night at his home near Flat Rock following a brief illness. The widow, six children, 13 grandchildren and four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. I Rylla Groves of Indianapolis and I Mrs. Ruth Cutsinger of New York, I survive.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 in the St. George Lutheran Church and interment will be in the St. I George Cemetery. Friends may call at the late home. ROK President Sets High Price For Truce In Korea That Is Unacceptable tour In a statement opening the hearing the senator said also that the 59 planes obtained by the Air Force from Kaiser could have been had from other sources for 16 million dollars.

starting-up costs figured in, the outlay has been 168 million. In affect Bridges was answering April and mid-May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was the third straight month the BLS consumer price index registered a rise. The bureau said all major living costs items showed slight increases, except for transportation which showed no change. The new index showed retail a statement from the elder Kaiser which had contended most of the prices for city families with mod- money represented the cost of a Prate incomes were 114 per cent productive capacity increase.

1949 as of In testimony Henry Kai- May 15. ser accused Fairchild of This was nine-tenths of I per its on a contract to give cent higher than in May a year 0j nical aid in Kaiser Cl 19 opera- ago and 12 per cent above June, restrictions and carrying on vigor- 1950, when the Korean War broke among the various states. ous assault gainst us in its own out. Indiana officials have taken steps competitive interest. He said the several major labor wage to see that the best scales are ob- result was a false impression about tracts are geared to fluctuations tamable and the best techniques Kaiser operations, especially about of the cost-0f-jiving index but none items the firm charged to the Air Force and the way it got the contract.

BUILDING COLLAPSES IN MASS OF FLAMES While intense flames boil upward, firemen move into rubble of a building in central Philadelphia Monday after an explosion wrecked the four- story warehouse. Note partially buried automobile in right foreground. (AP Wirephoto) West Berliners Tell World Red Rule Over Germans Is Germans Hungry Annual Garden Tour AITH Be Held Thursday The Rush County Garden will be held Thursday. The group will leave the county extension office at 9:30 a. rn.

and will go directly to Dr. Kenneth farmstead approximately l'i miles south of Rushville on old state road 3. Roses and their culture will be discussed by W. B. Ward, garden specialist of Purdue June is only 1.69 inches, less than University.

The next stop during half the normal amount. Temperatures To Continue High Is Prediction Made temperatures duplicated and the pattern will continue virtually unchanged the re- Rhee Says Price Must Be Paid Or ROK Army Would Leave U. N. Command And Go It Alone CLARK CONFERENCE IS OF NO AVAIL SEOUL, Wednesday South rn abider of the week, the Weather defiant President Tuesday Bureau predicted. It was 90 here at I p.

the same as yesterday when a high of 92 was reached. It should reach 92 again today, possibly higher. The night low was 62. The long-range outlook is for temperatures averaging 3 to 6 degrees above state normals of 86 to 91 with only a trace of rain likely in the next five days. A 17-acre forest fire in Floyd County pointed up increasing danger of crop and woodland damage from lack of rainfall in most of Indiana.

Rainfall here so far in Weighing Of Trucks Is Tricky Business Horine condemned the uniformity in truck BERLIN UP Under black banners of mourning of the dead in East rebellion. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told the world today period of to- lack slaves The whole world has been shown that they will no longer bear tyranny, that the period of totalitarian rule over the Germans is talitarian rule over Germans is -phc great crowd stood in hushed silence. Police said thoro were those attending The leader of West Germany 50.000 even before the service be- ner hour, Mr. spoke at a vast memorial service gan. employed in weighing trucks.

Indiana state police officers conducted a test with loadometers that indicated weighing of loaded trucks is a tricky business. The state police took a vehicle and known weight load to go on in advance. They weighed this truck loaded ith acid on two loadometers and then on four of the loadometers, or portable scales. They found a difference of 7,000 pounds in the two tests. Further tests showed that the two loadometer methods of weighing was off, and then when four loadometers were used the margin of error was reduced to less than one-half of one per cent.

Many other factors cause differ- ence in truck weights, Jim Nicholas, general manager of the Indiana Tractor Maintenance Motor Truck Association, has pointed out. Among are grade of lour lo Cincinnati approach to scales, degrees of ill Be Thursday are affected by this month's report. The largest increases between He offered to build cargo planes Aprl, 15 and May 15 were regis- on a fixed-price contract without redetermination, a type of deal he called unprecedented in recent Air Force history. Both Kaiser and Fairchild now build the Cl 19 on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. During the questioning of Henry Kaiser, Sen.

Symington (D-Mo) put in a comment that as secretary of the Air Force he had been against a contract award to the Willow Run management. The deal was made eight months after Symington left the Air Force office. in front of the West Berlin City Hall hailing the of who arose against communism in the Soviet zone, where hunger was reported adding to the misery there His voice filled with emotion. tered in food, which rose one-half the 77-year old Chancellor who of I per cent and medical care which went up four-tenths of I per cent. Costs of food, clothing, fuel, rent and other basic needs of city families with moderate incomes are considered in arriving at a composite price in terms of the 19471949 average.

The newest index reflects the situation as of May 15. After a 4 per cent dip in Feb mary, the cost of living index rose .2 per cent in March and another .1 per cent in April, when the index stands for a Germany united in alliance with the free world, declared: The Chancellor added: Germans behind the Iron Curtain call to us not to forget them. We will never rest this I swear for the whole German people until they again have freedom, until all Germany is again united in peace and Refugees to West Berlin reported that the East Germans, undaunted the morning will be at the James Martin 4-H garden, Noble Township, at 10:45 rn. At this garden varieties and selection of garden exhibits for the fair will be discussed During noon hour those attending will enjoy pitch in dinner at the Rushville Memorial Park. Tho4e attending are to bring their own table service along with food for the pitch in dinner.

Sweet-! ened tea is also to be brought by Following the din- Ward will devote considerable time to answering of questions and problems with gardens, especial of insect control. One stop will be made during the afternoon to see a garden belonging to John Warfield on the McKinley Lockridge farm, approximately two miles northw est, of Rushville. The tour and noon meeting is open to anyone interested in veg-' stable gardening and flower gard- The Floyd County fire broke out Monday at four separate points and apparently was started by sparks from a railroad locomotive. It was extinguished by railroad crews and volunteers after a four- hour fight. weapons, an unarmed, de by Soviet tanks and firing squads, ening as well as 4 garden club fenseless people can be beaten to the ground, but their will, their determination, will never He added: whole world has been shown that Germans will not be Inquiry Of Civil rigidity in different types of truck bodies and application or non ap-; plication of brakes, which cause Continued on Page Five stood at 113.7 per cent of the 1947- 100 Jol)S Uo I5c 1949 average.

Made By Senator Judge Is Caught In have defied martial law with protest marches demanding bread through the streets of Leipzig, Dresden, Demnitz and Eisenach. The tottering puppet government of Premier Otto Grotewohl admitted it faced in feeding the 18 million restive East Germans. East Berlin was better off than most areas, But with two policing Russian armored divisions living Continued on Page Five members. Those attending are requested to bring specimens of weeds, insects or diseased plants such as are occurring in their gardens, so that Mr. Ward can give the information on their control.

raised his price for a truce in Korea and hotly rebuffed his critics even as special emissaries were flying here from Washington bent on getting him back in line. After Gen. Mark Clark had spent two days trying to get him in tow, tough, old Syngman Rhee emerged and demanded terms which a U. S. Embassy source here promptly labelled unacceptable to the IL Rhee, in a CBS after the Clark conferences, said his price had to be paid or he would pull out the South Korean Army from U.

N. Command and go it alone His terms: A mutual security pact with the United States; simultaneous withdrawal of both U. N. and Chinese forces from Korea; resumption of the war if three months post-armistice talks get nowhere. firm stand was voiced shortly before he was scheduled to go into conference with Assistant U.

S. Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson and Gen J. Lawton Collins, U. Army chief of staff, who are hunying here from Washington.

release of more than 27,000 anti-Red Korean prisoners upset a truce just as it was about to of be signed and drew down upon to him criticism from abroad. Rhee, showing no signs of backing up in the face of the mounting criticism, said the IL N. was risking failure through a He said U. S. soldiers had been told earlier in the war they were fighting a war in Korea that otherwise would have to be fought in their own backyard.

Then Rhee Soviet Opens Wide Areas Of Russia To Foreigners MOSCOW UL-The Soviet government has opened wide areas European and Asiatic Russia unrestricted travel by foreigners. The first visitor to benefit from the new freedom will be Mrs. Perle Mesta, President party-giving minister to Luxembourg. The relaxation was disclosed Monday night in an official note delivered to all foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow. The order gave no indication asked: that the tight policy on you truly eliminated the admission of foreign visitors was danger of having to fight in your being relaxed.

In recent years I own back Approximately 40 4-H boys and Web Of Evidence IO adults will take part in a 4-H tractor maintenance tour HOA ear-Old Man Succumbs INDIANAPOLIS A. Kiney, who said he was HO years old and that he fought with the Confederate Army at Shilloh and Gettysburg, died today from the effects of injuries suffered in a fall June 15. He had recovered after being struck by an automobile when he was 80. Relatives have been unable to find documentary supported detailed stories about his Civil War campaigns. He said he was born Feb.

IO, 1843, near Covington, and joined the Kentucky Volunteers in 1861. Kiney, looking like a biblical prophet with his long white beard and heavy thatch of hair, was a favorite of the staff in the nursing home where he spent his last few years. He was noted for a prodigious appetite, his skill at gin rummy and periodic sessions of Bible reading. He had lived in Indianapolis since 1870 and had been a railroad worker, saddle maker, cabinet maker and lumberjack. Kiney is survived by a son, W.

A. Kiney of Chicago, and a stepdaughter. Mrs. Mary Frazier of Indianapolis. cinnati Thursday.

The group will meet at 8:15 a. rn. I on the south side of the Courthouse and will be assigned to cars. They will then proceed to Cincinnati WLW television studios where they will be taken on an escorted tour of the studio. From there the group will go to the Co-operative Pure Milk Association plant where they will see milk as it comes to the plant, the cooling and pasteurizing processes and the making of cheese and ice I cream.

Following lunch at the dairy, the of Cin- In City Water Case WASHINGTON Sen. Monroney (I) Oklai called today for a senatorial inquiry into plans of the Eisenhower administration to strip civil service protection from thou- OKLAHOMA CITY Jv-Hizzoncr sandi ol government jobs. the judge was in a legal tizzy Monday. He accidentally violated a city statute, and as he frantically tried to patch things up, he came close to breaking another law. It all started with a broken water pipe at Judge Evert home.

His wife woke up and told the judge the lawn was soaking up a lot of water. Ordinarily, that be anything to get excited about. But in drought-dry Oklahoma City, where the water supply is party will proceed to Crosley Field. to witness the Cincinnati Brooklyn disappearing faster than apple pie baseball game. Following the game i ln an orP an omc- a the group will return home.

wet lawn Chairman Philip Young of the Civil Service Commission announced Monday President Eisenhower soon will issue an executive order for a review of about 134,000 jobs to determine whether they should be stripped of civil service protection. Young said posts involved will include jobs brought into the civil service in 1947 by an executive order of former President Truman. Young said he couldn't guess how many present job holders might be replaced, but said veterans be affected. He added, how- can Ute says lawn watering is out this summer. With visions of irate neighbors swimming through his mind, the judge leaped into his car at 5 a.

rn. and raced for the nearest plumber. Sleepily, the plumber told him all he had to do was take a cutoff tool and stop his water supply. He gave (joes To South America the judge the proper tool. As Crismore fished for the water be embarrassing.

A city stat- ever, that 1,600 of abouf 8.000 gov Govt arehouse Blaze Is Probed PHILADELPHIA agents and city fire officials today probed ruins of a five-story warehouse which collapsed and burst into flames, destroying tons of baled rubber and tanned leather from government stockpiles. Hundreds of firemen fought the stubborn blaze for hours Monday as volumes of black smoke be fogged North Philadelphia and temporarily halted service on a nearby Reading Railroad line overpass. Many firemen were treated for smoke inhalation or minor injuries. Intense heat prevented search of the rubble for possible victims. Some reports said 12 persons only carefully usually have been given entry visas.

There was no immediate indication from Washington that the Soviet move would be followed by similar U. S. action. Countering Moscow, the U. S.

since March. I Mrs. Mamie Frasher, 70, died 1952, has required all Soviet offi-1 Monday afternoon at 3:15 at t0 Sct State and Defense De-j Rites Thursday For Mrs. Frasher the home of her son, Merle Frasher, southeast of Orange. A native of Jay County, she was born January 25, 1883, and she was a daughter of Jerry and Mary Baney Miller Her husband, Alva K.

Frasher, died in 1939 For years, the Frashers resided on a farm southwest of Laurel. Besides the son at whose home she died, survivors are two other sons, Earl of near Buena Vista and Eli of near Laurel; three daughters, Mrs. Russell Wicker of Glenwood, Mrs. Clyde Evans of Rush County and Mrs. John Reed of near Greenfield; a sister, Mrs Rose Miller of Muncie; 13 grand children and 14 great-grandchil I dren.

The Rev. Armour Keller of An-1 partment permission before trav-1 eling more than 25 miles from Washington or New York City. Other NATO nations have followed suit. Mrs. Mesta, who arrived here June 12 for a visit, plans to leave soon for the Zaborozhe section of the Ukraine, home of the Za borozhe steel plant and the er Dam.

U. S. Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs conferred in Seoul with South Korean Prime Minister Paik Too Chin who only recently returned from the United States. Presumably they discussed the situation arising from the prisoner releases.

It remained in doubt whether Clark succeeded in his two-day mission to quiet heated objections to a truce that leaves Korea divided. Returning to Tokyo, Clark told reporters: have nothing more to say than I said Asked about brief meeting with Rhee, he said, only stopped in for a few Assistant U. S. Secretary of State R. Robertson, fresh I from a secret meeting with Presi- The new order apparently clears! bident Eisenhower, left Washington for Toyko and Seoul.

He was ac- Continued on Page Three All 4-H tractor maintenance members who have attended the required number of meetings and turned in record books are eligible to attend em ment atorneys arc in the group urrc trapped, but an who dersonville will conduct the funeral escaped said he was the only one services Thursday morning at IO in the building. in Laurel Moster Mortuary Eisenhower Brother that may be let out. Monroney said in an interview he thinks the Senate Civil Service Committee, of which he is a member, should call Young before it for an explanation of the order. Things Going On In Rushville Tonight Kiwanis Club, Odd Temple. TB Executive Committee, Chester Dearinger.

P. E. Mrs. Roy Shanks. Eagles Lodge.

Princes Theater. On Good-Will Mission WASHINGTON President Eisenhower sent his youngest brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, off on a good-will mission to South America today. The President drove to National Airport to bid goodbye to Dr. Eisenhower, who is president of Pennsylvania State College.

Dr. Eisenhower was accompanied by his wife and by four government officials from the State, Treasury and Commerce Departments. The party is to tour IO South American countries. Dr. Eisenhower said purpose of our trip is to increase if possible the good will and friendship that exist between the peoples of South America and the United valve, he suddenly remembered another city statute.

Only a plumber or a water department employe is permitted to touch the gadget. The judge put the wrench down and called the water department, waiting patiently for the emergency man to show up. Meanwhile, neighbors with raised eyebrows began hopping into their cars to go to work, driving past the shimmering green Crismore lawn. By now, it was the best-looking lawn in town. The water man came, turned off the supply, and told the judge when the pipe was fixed he would turn it on.

Crismore, back on the bench, was a little more lenient with the accused defendants that afternoon. He said he now knew first hand what it meant to be caught in a web of circumstantial evidence. Rotary Hears I Coach Weaver Paul Weaver, coach of the Rushville High School basketball team, gave a review of the past basketball season at the Rotary luncheon Tuesday noon at the Durbin Hotel. Mr. Weaver gave an intimate: talk as to the many problems en- countered in trying to put a winning team in the field and discussed many of the drawbacks that present themselves while trying to build a loyal set of boys that will go out and win.

The FBI, denying reports that sabotage was considered a probability, said it was investigating I whether violation of stat! affecting destruction of gov- eminent property was involved. The government stored baled I rubber in the building under a lease contract. There was no im- I mediate indication of the cause of the fire. where friends may call after noon Wednesday. Burial will be in Laurel North Cemetery.

the way for foreign residents to visit much of European Russia and vast sections of Siberia but it still lists many restricted areas. It also bans automobile Journeys Explosion CaUSeS of more than 25 miles outside Mos- cow, except to three places the $150,000 Fire At monastery town of Zagorsk, the; Tchaikovsky Museum at Rim and g0SJjfn Foundry the Tolstoy Museum at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Tula Even these GOSHEN, Ind. Monday cannot be visited by car without destroyed the foundry of the Proof Prior notice. Co manufacturer of battery cables I he new regulations also specify an(j switches, causing a loss esti- THE WEATHER 16-mile-deep forbidden zones along the Soviet borders with five neighboring Finland, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. There are no such zones, however, along borders with such Soviet allies in Eastern Eu- mated at $150,000.

The estimate was made by John Kilburn, plant manager. The fire started when a molten metal pot operated by Charles Grim slipped from tongs and fell Power Lines Blaze Near Fire Station A hot blaze roared inches away from the fire station early Monday afternoon. The blaze started when power lines fell across each other after an insulator accidentally was Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. No decided change in temperature. Low tonight 58-68.

High Wednesday 80 92. on an oil line An explosion fol- rope as Poland, or along the Chi- jowecj nese-Russian frontier in Asia. FAIR I knocked off during weed-cutting He was in high praise of the boys operation in the rear of the build- in their efforts to win in the past season and told of the many heartaches the boys encountered in losing games. Scott Meiks and J. P.

Cooper were visiting Rotarians from Shelbyville. The Rev. Gibson Wilson was a guest of Will Moster. ing west of the fire station and across the alley. The power wires blazed fiercely over the alley until two of them burned down.

Firemen, who watched to see the flames did not spread, said the wires were a sheet of fire for a few minutes. I LOCAL TEMPERATURES 9 a. rn. today I p. rn.

today Monday, June 22 1953 Highest 92 83 85 Lowest 65 63 Precipitation 0 .14 .99 (Data by U. S. Weather four days. ..80 ..90 NT 82 58 Continued on Page Three Road Closed Between Rushville, Milroy State Highway 3 was closed between Rushville and Milroy Monday while workmen reportedly started repairing and improving the crossing at the New York Central Railroad a mile south of here. The State Highway Commission detoured through traffic over U.

S. 52 and Ind. 244 by way of Andersonville and Milroy. Local traffic, however, was using old Highway Grim suffered burns on his right leg. Another employe, Waggoner, was overcome by i smoke before he could escape from the building.

He was taken out and I revived. The fire spread from the foundry to an adjoining plant. However, it was brought under control before it did much damage to this plant, in which most i the 300 workers are employed. The company had moved from Cleveland, to Goshen only last fall. 3 It was unofficially reported that AlbUUl of UiffpOUr OSUR Ind.

3, between U. S. 52 and Ind. 244, would be closed for three or old picture will be found on page 5..