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i SINGLE COPY 5a SIDNEY OHIO TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER II 1958 VOL LXIV NO 214 PURCHASE Beck and Co (above) by Mack Trucks Inc was announced today he ex Boy Scout und Drives Slated tn City County the republicans will Shelby County May Lose Blood Program Unless Money Is Raised of of to The deadline for two weeks from 1 in Oc WASHINGTON (INS) The US appeared ready today to bring the Suez canal crisis before the Uni ted Nations in an attempt to bring pressure on Egypt to agree on in ternational control of the water way COMMENTING on the purchase Peterson said the advent of super highways and toll roads an increasingly heavy flow of pas senger traffic has been going to inter city bus this major acquisi tion Mack is enabled to compete with this additional travel busi ness and at the same time pre pare for the tremendous expan sion inevitable when the present national highway building program has been completed" Peterson said that Mack is ac quiring all of the capital stock of the Beck firm as well as that of the Beck Realty Co both of which are privately owned The terms of purchase will be for cash or the equivalent thereof ac cording to the announcement Ordered To Leave Town Or Pay ine A fine of $10 and costs imposed in municpal court today against Vernon Belanger of Buffalo was suspended by Judge Raymond Boiler Jr on condition that the itinerant visitor in Sidney leave town by noon and stay away for a year 5 The New Yorker was found in an intoxicated condition Monday at Ohio avenue and North street and taken into custody police said Dies In Hospital Rimer Copeland a farmer of 4 Sidney died shortly after noon today at Wilson Memorial Hospital The body was taken to the Salm and Sharp uneral Home small firms Its newly organized electronics business has several research development contracts and makes components and radar missle tracking and gun fire con trols Mack Trucks has long specializ ed in the manufacturer of heavy trucks where mass productionmethods employed by makers of light and medium size trucks i and passenger cars cannot tie used The demand for heavy duty trucks is relatively small when considered in the total of 1200000 trucks produced in last year i Most heavy duty trucks particu larly in off the road models have to be specially designed for various uses and those for on thc road use must conform to the laws of the states in which they are to be used meeting of the group Chair man James McClain said plans are being made to expand the pro gram in 1957 This program is carried out with the assistance of the city recreation commission Charles Goss reported on the Jun ior Achievement program for this year and the organization voted to assist in painting the JA rooms The film Is Your Business" was shown to the Jay cees who will use the movie as part of their out the campaign this fall Dates for the one day Boy Scout fund drives in Sidney and Shelby county were announced to day by Ed Overing district execu tive The city campaign is slated for Tuesday Sept 18 and the county drive will be a week later Sept 25 A kick off dinner for workers in the city drive headed by Roth Jr is planned for 6:30 Monday Sept 17 at Masonic Tem ple Ralph Kerr is chairman of the county campaign and its kick off dinner will be at 6:30 Mon day Sept 24 in Anna school More than 600 volunteers are tak ing part in the campaign to insure that the Boy Scout program bene fitting 1000 boys in the city and county continue Overing said the county now has 434 Cub Scouts aged 8 9 and 10 in 18 Cub packs There are 423 Boy Ohio Draft Call Increased or October COLUMBUS A total duetion call for the month of tober of 995 was announced today by state Selective Service head quarters The total is up some 34 per cent from the September call of 748 and more than 63 per cent higher than the total of 609 in October a year ago However the total is still below the high which was 1034 'for March Low call for the year was 380 in ebruary The youngest registrant who may be inducted must be at least 22 years old on or before Oct 1 unless he is a Volunteer or delin quent The county by county induction call in this area for October in cludes: Shelby 2 Auglaize 11 Cham paign 2 Darke 2 Logan 3 Mercer 7 and Miami 3 Wheat orms Sent To armers COLUMBUS orms were being distributed to Ohio farmers tpday in preparation for distribut ing $11059000 as payment for not planting wheat The deadline for filing agree ments is set for Sept 21 but of ficials expect that it may bo push ed back a week in view of the late running farm season this year armers wishing to qualify for the payments which will average about $28 to $29 an acre must keep wheat acreage to an agreed allotment LONDON (INS) Britain and rance warned Egypt today that they will use military force if nec essary to prevent any with their interna tianal rights in the Suez Canal cri sis British Prime Minister Sir An thony Eden however is expected to tell the House of Commons on Wednesday that the dispute first will be referred to the United Na tions THE BECK company was or ganized in 1931 and has specialized over the years in the manufacture of big long distance type buses The company has just recently completed design of a new line of big inter city buses which are among the most modern in the field In November 1953 the Beck company took over the production of fire engine pumpers for the Ahrns ox Corp of Cincinnati and since that time fire apparatus had been built at the local plant Peterson stated that special Mack features including many of Mack manufactured components will be incorporated into the new line whenever and wherever feasi ble He disclosed that the com pany is now tooling an advanced new manual shift transmission for new inter city buses He emphasised that acquisition of the company now gives Mack complete production coverage in the bus Industry from the small school bus to the big luxury long distance liners In making the announcement the Mack president said the purchase adheres closely to the company policy of gradual diversification 1 and expansion within its primary field of production including plant here Previously Mack1 ha confined its manufacture to local transit type buses Possible future expansion of the local operation was indicated in the announcement from Plainfield that the transaction also includes a large plot of ground adjoining the Beck factory which will permit fu ture expansion of the operation The announcement by the Mack company also stated that II ouss who has been serving as general manager of the Beck company will continue as man ager of the plant which will op erate as a division of Mack Trucks Inc Enrollment In County Schools Totals 3552 More than 3500 students are en rolled in Shelby county schools this year Dr McCorkle county superintendent of schools said to day The superintendent said the school enrollment at the present time totals 3552 students or 167 more than were enrolled in the county schools at the end of the 1955 56 school year Dr McCorkle said that pects the total county enrollment to reach 3600 before the current school year ends In releasing the number of stu dents now enrolled in county schools he gave the following breakdown of students by districts: Anna 700 Botkins 376 air lawn 455 ort Loramie 541 Har din Houston 672 Jackson Center 475 and Russia 333 Ike Stresses Understanding Key To Peace WASHINGTON (INS) President Eisenhower said today pos sible chink in the Iron must be widened to build to understanding essen tial to enduring peace The Chief Executive addressed a conference of leaders of all phases of American life called to discuss the problem of improving contacts between peoples of dif ferent nations He said the great problem in the world today is to break through the animosity of govern ments to pursue the goal of peace on the individual level This type of attack he said is "based on the assumption that no people as such want that all people want Tickets On Sale or jaycee Paris Banquet The Jaycees announced today that tickets are now available for jtheir Parisian banquet to be held Oct 25 at the Moose Country Club Highlight of the banquet will be 1 the awarding of a 16 day trip for two to Europe that will cover five countries Only 150 tickets will be sold They are available from any Jaycee member I The Slow Pitch Softball League organized by the Jaycees was Scouts 11 12 and 13 years' of age in 23 Boy Scout troops and 126 Ex plorers 14 and over in 11 Explor er posts Purpose of the finance cam paigns is to maintain all ele ments of the present program in cluding outdoor activities com munity service projects adult training' courses organization and other activities and to extend Scouting to include the many addi tional boys coming of Scout age under the for God and My program Shelby county is a part of the Mi ami Valley Council chartered by the national council of the Boy Scouts of America to bring Scout ing to all boys who want to become members In addition to Shelbythe council administers programs in Darke Miami Montgomrey and Preble counties he added It was there because the Red Cross blood program Since that date 3185 pints whnto hlood have been given patients at Wilson Memorial Hos pital with no cost for this bloodCordonnier continued This repre sents a saving to the people of Shelby county of about $80000 since blood costs $25 to $35 a pint where there is no blood program Cordonnier said he Emerson Deam and Llbyd Lutz the other members of the county blood pro firnm nnmmiffpp nrP urging all IH terested persons to attend the meeting The invitation also is extended to of the hundreds of per Weather orecast Occasional showers in north tonight and Wednesday and most ly fair in south Low tonight 55 62 Girl Injured In atal Crash Is Improving The condition of Patricia Meyer 728 Spruce avenue seriously in jured in a fatal accident on the in firmary road Sunday morning was reported today by Wilson Me morial Hospital as improved She is suffering from a fractured jaw and numerous face and body cuts and bruises uneral services for James Jones who died early Sunday in the hospital as a result of his injur ies will be held at 1 Wed nesday from the Dearth uneral Home The 22 vear old Sidney resi dent was the second member of his family to be killed in an auto mobile accident A sister Mrs Estelle Alsip was killed instantly in a highway accident in July 1952 Although the address was listed as 111 Wilkinson avenue his father Luther Jones of Oak avenue said Monday that his son had been making his home with him on Oak avenue for the past several months MANY tho heaviest trucks are used by various segments of the construction industry and the continued rise in construction activity particularly highway building has also helped truck 'ales In addition S' ate goverdlrtg the'uco of heavy trucks have been liberalized In some cases Management of Mack Trucks has been strengthened in the last few years since Peterson for merly executive vice president of the Studebaker Packard Co be camo president of the corporation in January 1955 and has brought many new executives to the firm since that time In 1953 tho North east Capital Corp acquired a sub stantial block of the common stock and secured' repre sentation on the board of directors At the present time Northeast owns approximately 30 per cent of the Mack stock Sales of Mack Trucks Inc for the past few years show a growth from $149800000 in 1951 to $194 300000 in 1955 with the six months ending June 30 1956 showing sales in excess of $126600000 Earnings per share in 1955 were $415 with a 10 per cent stock dividend being paid A five percent stock dividend was also paid on June 18 of this year The company has just recently completed the sale of $19212000 subordinate debentures due in 1968 to secure additional working capital for the expansion program and to meet the increased demand for its products THE REPUBLICANS will do their part to spur interest Wednesday when California Sen William Knowland keynotes their platform convention Knowland minority leader in the Senate will be met at the Columbus air port by a committee of most of the big names in the Ohio GOP including Senators Bender and Bricker Attorney General William the nominee for governor and State Chairman Ray Bliss Although the convention actuary until Wednesday the Republicans are roughing out their platform today and rounding out the festi limAtanne hanniiptc and other social VlLlCb W1UI get togethers Made Here Purchase of the Beck and Company of Sidney by Mack Trucks Inc of Plainfield was announced this morning from tlie general offices of the corpora tion in that city Announcement of the purchase of the local company represents the consummation of negotiations that have been taking place over the past several weeks Beck president of the lo cal plant wasto Plainfield this morning for the completion of the negotiations Acquisition of the Beck company marks the first step by Mack one of America's leading bus manufac turers toward entering the key in ter city bus transportation field Peterson Mack president said that company will begin pro duction of! inter city buses im mediately in the facilities of the Township Group Transferred To Emerson School Transfer of the fifth arid sixth grade pupils from the Orange school to Emerson school and the opening of the kindergarten pro gram were completed Monday ac cording to an announcement today by superintendent of schools Harold McDermott The transfer of the two upper grades from the Orange school was decided upon following a confer ence of school officials with par ents of pupils in those grades held at the school Saturday afternoon Crowded conditions at Orange in the lower grades made it neces sary that some decision be made to alleviate the condition The trans fer makes it possible for the entire group to be assimilated into the school system without hiring an additional teacher Sherrill Andrews who was teach ing the combined group at Orange is being transferred to Emerson and will take the fifth grade with "Principal Wells taking over the sixth grade at that school McDermott pointed out that the planning of the board of education is to return the two grades to Orange next year when two more classrooms may be made avail able there The transfer became necessary when the enrollment at the rural school in the lower grades ex ceeded what had been anticipated on the basis of the survey last spring The superintendent stated that kindergarten classes were started Monday in all the schools with en rollment tight in all buildings ex cept Longfellow He indicated that approximately 25 more kindervar ten pupils could be handled at that school i With the completion of the kin dergarten enrollment the number of pupils in the loczal school sys tern reached 3361 as of this morn ing McDermott indicated that ad ditional pupils are coming in daily and this figure will probably reacn 3375 He pointed out that additional en rollment is expected in the high school He stated that approximate ly 40 students who registered last year have not enrolled this fall and school officials are checking on them this week The enrollment figures as re vealed today are as follows: 12th 134 Uth 176 10th 232 9th 222 Sth 258 7th 258 6th 271 5th 277 4th 360 3rd 297 2nd 304 lst 327 McDermott said that he is still short a first grade teacher at the Emerson school and at the present time is using a substitute until a permanent one can be located Suez Briefs PARIS (INS) The Universal Suez Canal Co today authorized its personnel such as key pilots at the canal to leave their posts be ginning Saturday Most of the pilots loyal to the canal company are non Egyptian If they quit the canal traffic may be paralyzed Saturday council room 'of the Sidney city eds from the sale of orget It is hoped he added that repre sentatives gf the various com munity minded groups who havebeen invited to attend the session Phelns Shows I Improvement Some improvements was indicat ed this morning in the condition of Jack Phelps 20 of 6 Sidney by attendants at Stouder i Memorial Hospital Troy where he underwent the amputation of a leg Saturday Hospifal attendants said that al heralded as a success at Monday zx zx znrllml LI' 4 It ft CTV Aim UlUUii nc uau ciuvww night his condition today was contrasting with Monday i 20 year old Shelby countian was admitted to the hospital be cause of injuries suffered last ri day night when he was forced off a highway in Miami county by a hit skip driver Veterinarian Describes Work In Shelby County Veterinary medicine and exper iences enjoyed or encountered in the last 10 years in Shelby county were related by Dr Roy Ware of Pasco during the Monday noon meeting of the Rotary Club in Hotel Wagner He was introduced by rank Hetzel program chair man The work of a veterinarian falls Into three general categories: pre ventative diagnostic and emergen cy the speaker pointed out The preventative includes the treatment of cows by vaccination against bangs disease and brucellosis al so hogs against cholera and dogs against distemper and rabies The diagnostic work is the hard est Dr Ware said if you hit it right the first time they call you This is furth er complicated by the fact the cus tomer will not always give the vet all of the facts which caused the trouble in the animal Most of this work is digestive distur bances he added It is in the emergency work that the most peculiar situations arise Ware stated as he added that if he can keep the stock owner calm half of his problem is solved He then related several amusing sit uations which had happened to him recently Ware is a member of the state examining board for veterinarians and told of the increased number Bond orfeited Ronald Coffman of Quincy was allowed to forfeit $10 bond when he failed to appear in Sid ney municipal court today to an swer to a charge of overtime park ing in a metered zone Aug 17 There were no other traffic cases slated on the court docket today 'counties with county wide regis more which have registration in communities Sept just will come up with a solution to the problem Cordonnier said that the $4000 by which the Red Cross fund cam paign failed in March rep resents the cost of the blood pro The chapter he pointed out shares the cost of operating the regional blood center with 26 other chapters the supply of blood to our hospital is stopped the lives of our families and friends wil be in dan ger and the hope of recovery of many future accident victims new mothers and other patients will be Cordonnier said rtftft a iatfl fhA lives many sick and injured persons in sons who have bc nefitted by re our local hospital have been saved because there was blood on the hos pital shelves ready for instant use Dems Show Strength In Maine Vote AUGUSTA Me (INS) Jubi lant Democrats captured at least one of traditionally Republican three congressional seats today for the first time since 1934 They captured the second dis trict and possibly could capture the seat in the first district if arecount should alter the close margin of the unofficial vote The Democratic show of strength in the first in the nation election was led by Gov Edmund Mus kie who became the second Dem ocratic governor since the Civil War to be re elected in Maine Adlai Stevenson the Demo Cratic presidential nominee hailed the Democratic victory in Maine and said it the national trend to the Democrats is still gaining Unofficial returns from Mon balloting gave Democratic State Chairman rank Coffin of Lewiston an 8000 vote victory over GOP State Senator James Reid of Hollowell in the second district Rep Robert Hale of Portland seeking his 15th term squeaked through to a narrow 72 vote win over James Oliver (D) of Cape Elizabeth in the first district Oliver said there was certain to be a request for a recount view of the closeness of the con test after the official tally is 1 made public by the governor and council in several Rep Clifford McIntire of Per ham swept to a third term by a wide margin over Kenneth Col bath of Presque Isle Inter city Buses To Be Polio Cases or Week Droo To 46 COLUMBUS (INS) The appar ent effectiveness of the Salk anti polio vaccine was demonstrated today with the report that Ohio had only 46 cases for the week ended last Saturday compared with 128 the same week last year The state Health Department reported only 336 cases so far this year compared with 894 at the same point in 1955 al Blood Center may result in the county being dropped from the pro gram in the near future This was disclosed today by Gus Cordonnier blood chairman for the Shelby county chapter American Red Cross who said the county is on the verge of losing the pro gram Cordonnier said a meeting to plan some means of financing the pro arhdulcfi for 7:30 flowers The Junior Teens will Tuesday Sept 18 in the sen on Proceei Me NotsuwilLbe used to furnish lief and rehabilitation service for those who received disabilities as direct result of their war serv ice and their dependents' orget Me iot Sale Set or Sept 21 22 The annual orget Me Not drive sponsored by the Sidney Chapter 48 of the DAV will be held ri day and Saturday Sept 21 and 22 Eugepe Millett general chairman of the drive annonced today that Mrs Roscoe Smith is chairman for the auxiliary and Mrs Andy Mack One Of Leaders In Heavy Truck Output Daily Circulation (Average net paid ae filed with ABC Subject to audit) 10054 10059 Ready To Buy amilies A nationally known name in the truck manufacturing industry for 40 years will be welcomed to the 'Sidney industrial community with purchase of the Beck Co by Mack Trucks Inc of Plainfield ounded in 1916 Mack Trucks has long held' an important posi tion as a manufacturer of heavy trucks Almost all of the trucks produced by Mack have a gross vehicle weight of 16000 pounds or more In 1955 the total number of trucks in this weight classifica tion produced in the United States was 173900 with Mack pro ducing about 85 per cent During 1955 Mack Trucks also produced about 42 per cent of all the diesel powered trucks made in this country The company makes over the road haulers as well as off the road trucks employed by the lumber mining and other industries Mack has also been an' increas ingly important manufacturer of transit buses and fire engines These accounted for 10 to 15 per cent of last sales With the purchase of the Beck Co local bus and fire engine manufac turer this proportion of the sales volume will increase materially In the coming years SALES vehicle parts and ac cessories represented another 20 percent of the 1955 dollar sales volume The company is reported to be the most fully integrated in dependent truck manufacturer in the United States It makes all of own engines and most of its 'frames chassis and transmissions Mack Trucks has also been ac tive in the export business which reflects about 10 per cent of the total sales Last year the company concluded an agreement with Elec trorail A of Belgium Under this agreement a new firm Mack Bel gium A was farmed to make Mack products for distribution in Europe the Near East and Africa The agreement with Electrorail marks the first time that Mack has permitted production of its pro 4 ducts overseas The truck manufacturer also en tered the electronics field this past year with the acquisition of two AN EGYPTIAN source stressed that is to our own advantage to operate the canal for the viefit of all users because we need the revenues twiden and deepen the canal but we will not bow to internationalization of the canal rench Premier Guy Mollet who is in Lon strategy matins with Sir Anthony Eden has frankly said that he favors force if necessary to internationalize the SUD'i1ies highly disturbed over the danger of a shooting war is trying to serve as a peace ma Whether he will risk the outraged displeasure Aour twa closest allies by bluntly telling them 'iTmake peace or fight alone is the hottest question in the' diplqmatic world today? I'M J' Cincinnati Talk Seen As Shot Jn Arm or Repubs COLUMBUS (INS) Republicans preparing 'for their biennial platform convention in Colum bus Wednesday were cheered today by word that Vice President Richard Nixon will speak Cincinnati the afternoon of Sept 28 Announcement of the Nixon appearance by Hamilton county chairman George Cynch was seen as a shot in the arm for a lagging election campaign that has exactly eight more weeks to run Leaders of both parties have been concerned about the lack of public interest in a presidential vear The presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson was in Columbus Saturday and re ceived only cursory attention as 'his motorcade wended its way through Columbus streets However i the chief election officer Secretary of State Ted Brown reported there vAoi sfratinns the last few weeks is an upowAns or since the national conventions He particular ly cited the Dayton and Cleveland areas where the out the drives are doing IWe most good Ohio has 21 tration and 16 some of their registration is t0 mph Speed Limit Is Effective October 1 COLUMBUS (INS) Oct 1 will mark the £ay Ohio motorists may lawfully operate their auto mobiles at 60 miles an during daylight rural highways was set at the last session of the Ohio Legislature It will replace the present 50 i' nizzx nnre TMnn limit aul powca gw The speed limit at pigm win remain oamv for all vehicles however and trucks over 2000 pounds empty weight school buses and' trackless trolleys will be limited to 50 mph at all times Approximately 1500 new signs are to be erected between now and Oct 1 notifying motor ists of the hew limit The signs have a stenciled overlay reading Limit which will be Tinned off the night of Sept 30 The new signs will read' Limit and Over Twtj'Tons However the on tKt4igns is in paint that under artificial illumination such as auto lights at night changes to to make the nighttime limit 50 miles an hour Inability to finance Shelby coun Neer Jr and Sue Spangler have share in the Columbus Region £1 1 T11J vMftv rACllU in tha hAbn naimn ro neau tins viuicuo The new maximum speed limit on unrestricted 1 The little blue flowers will beoffered for sale on the streets both days THCre will be a house to house canvas Members or me jun ior Teens of Sidney High School will compose the cooper ating group On riday evening the DAV auxiliary assisted by 'girls from the Holy Angels school will sell the Strong Protest WASHINGTON The State Deoartment made public today a rfrnnff nrotest to Red China charg friinlr hiips and fira annaratus of annlicants seeking to practice ini that the American Navy patrol an(j of highway vehicles used in rl a 1 Uaa win I cl 1OTC? ceivinv hlood through the program in Ohio Thomas Anderson vice piane uvwuvu uy construction ana mining rXg its president presided during' the on Aug 23 was attacked without Continued On page 2 great value meetin8 warnuf Egypt Seeking Strong Statement Prom US On Suez WASHINGTON4 (INS) Egypt Has informed the Eisenhower administration that the cap avert a world conflict by informing Britain and rance that a war over the Suez canal will not Via n1prated An unimpeachable source revealed that Egypt has reason to believe tne suggesuon xua cepted He said Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nas "T1 is convinced that a strong statement from Secretary of State John oster Dulles or Presi dent Eisenhower will calm the turbulent inter national crisis and lead to a peaceful solution war would cost hundreds of thousands of times more than the entire worth of the Suez the source insisted and rance are sabre rattling to divert attention from rtheir other troubles in Algeria Jordan and Cyprus Egypt cannot believe that American will play along with that THE SPOKESMAN said Egypt has urged the to inform Britain and rance in positive terms that this country will not accept war as a solution of the crisis He said Nasser feels that such an unequivocal statement virtuaUy tel ing our allies that they will have to go it alone if shooting starts would promptly ease the white hot tensions The Eisenhower administration waging its reelection campaign with the slogan pro gress and is expected to do ery within practical means to avoid a shoot fo conflict over the Suez with the all important election less than two months away Dulles has made it clear that the insist that Egypt guarantee freedom of naviga tion to aH nEs Sing the Suez waterway Nas ser OT that he has already given such as surance i Mack Trucks Purchases Beck And Company s'x ''S I 1 '1 I 'H Kb si 1 1 41 I I I I 'UH iH I I1 5( I I il I 1 I.