Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1946 — Page 2

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j GRAND OPENING ■ of the New j Hicks Garage & Motor Sale ! WILLYS SALES & SERVICE - */t MILE SOUTH OF DECATUR ON 11.I 1 . S. 27 : Saturday, June 8, 1946 ™ i Free ice cream and refreshments to everyone visiting our garage and show room on open* ■ ing day. We take this opportunity of welcoming back our old acquaintances and customers, and expect to get acquainted with those whom we have not had the pleasure of doing b business with in the past. Bring the family and enjoy a ride in a Jeep and get your refreshments and make our acquaintance. We earnestly solicit your patronage and will do our best to please you in each of our four departments, namely: I

I• • - 1 Show Room and Sales ■ Department We have now on the floor Willys Jeeps and ■ can make immediate deliveries. Our Willys cars, station wagons and trucks will followvery soon and with our large six cylinder automobile we expect to make our products stand l out before you in value, durability, beauty and ■ comfort. We will also have a complete line of household appliances and accessories, including radios, refrigerators, irons, etc. I I • Service Station & Lubritorium I i The greatest name in gasoline history—- — New Sunoco Dynafuel gasoline and motor oil and accessories. Once again Sunoco products are back in Decatur and for the first time Sunoco Dynafuel the very latest in gasoline, its the new high test gasoline at regular gas 1 prices, guaranteed equal or better than any } other Ethyl on the market. Try a tank full and you’ll he back for more. A new modern i station operating from sa.m.tola. m. —2O hours for your service. Also official AAA repair and towing service. A to Z lubrication and spring packing. A complete interior cleaning on your car FREE of charge with each and every lubrication or wash job. I -

To sum it all up, you people of Adams County have been SWELL to us during our recent loss by fire and have proven to us that you want us to continue in business to serve you better. You may rest assured that you shall receive the same fine courteous service with our same low prices and that same customer satisfaction that we gave you in the past. An honest business transaction means a satisfied custonyr and a continuation of our business relationship for years to come. Hicks Garage & Motor Sales CHARLES A. HICKS, Owner - -- and Staff Phone 103

i hut on a < urb. I offered to get ' l-rclspiead* hastily llliowii over | ilcc-lr face*. ! one woman wan nursing an ai him: tooth She wan barefoot.

I gave her an aspirin. A girl her coffee but she dtaappeared Into ihe crowd. A woman In a fur coat and Itighlßown was helped down the (Ire escape from the I Nth floor by her husband, who had thrown or another of bin wife's coal a In hla haste to get out. A crowd of bystanders flocked io the scene They were full of night club liiluflty when they arrived. but the horror of the scene Main sobered I hem, Al least 800 policemen kept the crowd back. An occasional break In a fire-hose did more to keep them under < out rid. I know I was drenched twice myself. When the excitement subsided. I went into a restaurant next door to the hotel, which bad been reopened to give shelter to refugees from the fire. The restaurant operator gave Hom hot coffee and soft drinks. Many planned to spend the rest of the night there, although ar-rnino-nic-nts had been made to

Repair Garage Our garage and equipment is of the very latest type, fully equipped to handle any job you may bring to us. Our equipment includes, lathes, crank shaft grinders, refacing and reseating equipment and reboring machinery, Bennet Farragan caster and camber wheel aligning equipment, motor analyzing, tune up, etc. All work under direct supervision of master mechanic and fully guaranteed. job wrMßfr be satisfactory no half way plan with us. Come out and let us talk over your car troubles and get our estimates. Body & Refinishing Shop Our body work must be done to your satisfaction and our fine Laquer finishes will give your car that mark of distinction which goes with fine craftsmanship. Our laquer finishes beautify your car, satisfies you and advertises us. We are equipped with a complete dustproof shop, latest equipment including, infrared heating, lighting and drying, hollow air guns and regulators; complete color matching with our new glow tip color mixing and matching machinery. 9

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accomodate them al two other hotels tine woman refused to budge because she had no shoes. When I went back to the hotel, again, the lights on the marquee still were biasing. The crowd I was thinning out. A drunk staggered up to the door. i "I have a loom in thia hotel." he Insisted. A Kiim policeman turned him , away with hi* answer. “You mean you had a room in , this ho'el. buddy." # txaminotion Planned . ’ For Merchant Marine The I'. 8. merchant marine cadet corps today announced the next semiannual competitive exatqlnu < lioU for appointment as cadet-mid shipman in the U. B merchant ma - rine cadet corps will lie held No- > vemlier S Young men between the ages of

161 k and 21 years who desire Io puiwuv <» career a* officers on vernels of the U. H merchant marine may apply for admission. In the t»*e «f veterans. -• three year ago waiver is allowed and five points are added to th- grade received In the competitive Maminalion. High school seniors scheduled to be graduated in January or February 1847 who do not possess the tequired scholastic units on date of suluulMlun of application will be permitted to take the November examination If they submit a statement signed by the principal of the school certifying that if they inire they will have the required units. Ful Infornalion and n>-<ea»ary application forms may lie obtained by wilting to the BI'J’ERVISUH. United Htatva Merchant .Marine faciei Corps. Washington 25 lr C. 0 The highest point in Texas is the top of (luadalupe, Peak which reais to an altitude* of 8.751 feet.

its ii| mi ,! ’i I* A1 Ml I m Anu you’ll lo oloces with that ,^*~** s > Im winter! Let Phillips 66 Gasoline brott ’ CHECK soHmh big orange-and-black sign of "66”! ' I

Macklin Super Service Madison & Third Sts. 4

Hotel Coffee Shop Sole Is Announced Royal Friend, former Central Soya Co. employe, baa pun-baaed the coffee shop a* the Rice Hotel and will take poavessiun at once, it wax announced today. Mr. Friend. who ha* In-en a Decatur resident for some time, bought the bu»im>oi from Ja< k Pickett of Cincinnati, O. Mr. Friend mated that the restaurant will continue to serve reg ular meal* and also abort orders. It lx open today under the new management. HIT-SKIP DRIVER IS ' (CeMteaed Fram Page Oaet pear before Mayor John It. Stultz Friday morning at 11 o'clock to answer to charges of leaving the scene. Police chief Ed Milk-.* *aid that Robert ib-Vore, also of Decatur, wh j pleaded guilty to a similar charge Monday, was to learn his punUhuirbt in city court late this afternoon. Mayor Stults has had hl* case under advisement since receiving his plea of guilty to a charge of striking Max lleare, 22, Decatur, and the latter's car on Monroe stieet early Sunday.

DECATUR YOUTH, (Continued Prom Page One) anew*. HU DFU the highest aviation honor the country can Itestow waa given "for distinguishing him self by extraordinary achievement while participating In aerial flight. (In May 21, J 945 he, with splendid display of courage and ability, participated In the deatruction of four enemy merchant vessels and three important airfield installationa, damaging three additional vessels near the enemy stronghold of Pontlanak. Romeo. Thia wgs all done with disregard for personal safety." Hia second DFC award was given for “20 flights In combat area | Where enemy aircraft wax ex i ported to be effective and where I enemy patrol* usually occurrd. from December IS. 1944 to March 7. 1945.” Details surrounding the air medal, which he received some tlim* ago. are not Included in the citations. The gold stars in lieu of the uth-! er air medal awards were given ' for flights In combat areas from i February 6. 1945 to May 22, 1945ln< hiding one on March 15. 1945' when serving as co-pilot of a navy j Liberator, he participated in five ■ diotiutl attatha enemy I 1 Shipping and Important land tn-; atallations, all on one.foray deepi

Knapp Service 2nd & Jackson Sts.

into tenaciously defended enemy territory." The score in that foray was two sunk, two damaged. Im portant industrial buildings levelI led. I In bis record are many such I names as Borneo. Hong Kong, , Singapore, Okinawa names that tell much when they an- listed • | alongside the dates that he "vis- • Red them. • Since his discharge, Simmy haheen employed by the McConnell g- Sons' wholesale tobacco and ■ candy tirin here He I* married to • Patsy McConnell, daughter of Mr. r and Mrs. Fred McConnell. Mr. Met 'onnell I* one of the propriet-' who'e«alc fir:::. Today Ilk* every other day | since he left service. Simmy Hain I was calling on merchant* in De t catur and vicinity handling their orders for tobacco and candy, ami , filling cigarette vending mach Ines. f H>- did the same thing yester day. “taking off" a few minutes ’ from his work to receive the num • erous decorations which he had ( won as. a navy pilot. . He preferred to receive them

i ON SALE THURS • —, J BATH TOWELS -- ■ - ; D.D.T. BOMBS I ' ...... . J PANTS HANGERS 1(K • SPONGE RUBBER BALLS jj® ■ WHITE PLASTIC PURSES - J LADIES’ RAYON PANTIES - £9® J CHICKEN FEEDERS- 29 S® 4 a WVk \ XAMXXjIrfA

Robert Komaiß Preble, Ind. H

withotr the < •■nmoriy naval iiffi-er.« whin ufatafl they sere hrn.uiiu '.-aMfl to Ihsatur. "i all me a! (gfl I'll slip home hi a bo ■ to get thi-iii." tin- hJ.riuJ told them. I Roy S, Johnson Auctioneers & Real [■ We'll bt glad to RextMt] in ths transaction of Rul M at Public Sale or private M years in this buimeia io M We welcome your Mitd of our record of whk* *1 proud. Phone 101 157 So.2gj DeVoaa Bldg., 0 Melvin Uichty. Rep. Berne, Ind., Phone 251. Bl I, LFOLDI for FATHERS DAY Holl house Dnif to