Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1948 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered nt the Decatur, ind. Po»c Office aa Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y- 4 Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Hei.er Vice-President Subscription Rotes By Mail in Adams and Adjoin j>g Counties One year. >8; Six months. >3.25; 3 months. >1 75. By Mali, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties; One year. 11; ( months. |3.75; 3 months, >2.00 By carrier. 30 cents per Week. Sing e oopir-s 4 cents. July brings national celebration of our Independence, the peak in vacations and the big street fair and 4-H dub show. . - -Q Q —— Baring strikes and catactroph- 1 lea, government oil experts say 1 that there will be plenty of gasolino this summer, but that they i are not so sure about the supply of I fuel oil next winter. In that case. • more people will have to drive < south to get away from the xero 1 blasts. 1 —o— —o s

Thia is the year in which one of the oldest issues in American politics was left out of a political campaign. For the first time since it came to power, the Republican party platform omits the words "protective tariff There are a few casual words about safeguarding industry and agriculture, but the tariff is not listed as a means. Year in and year out the one feature that could be counted on in a Republican platform was defense of the high tariff. This year there is not a word about it. ——-o o- —■ William Feather, the editor of several stimulating pamphlet size magazines, asks the question: "Wonde; bow many tons of tale lets, crystals, and powders ure consumed daily by the American public to correct what the radio announcers euphemistically refer as 'acid indigestion ? Why is acid

indigestion so ;<t- ilent ’ " , * B! Sflffc July 4 RccipC' cause* it? Bad diet? Bud whisky? The most important ingredients Chain smoking? Fatigue? Worry? in planning a pleasant, safe Fourth Maybe this is something for the of July holiday trip are Rockefeller medical men to generous helpings of Common study?" Sense. Extra Care and Courtesy, —-o o according to Col. Robert Rossow, The Indiana Gross Income tax ,head of the State Police. Too often department hit the jack-pot with these vital items are left behind, collections totaling 36i.154.122.36 he says, and tragedy is the result, for the .fiscal year ending yester ‘ Each July 4. several men. women day. This year's payments on and children are killed in traffic gross income exceeded those of a smashups. others are victims of year ago by 11 million dollars We boating, swimming and flying misoften wonder what Indiana would haps Still others are hurt In do without the gross income tax. homemade fireworks blasts or which when It became effective over-exertion. or overdoses of sun. was criticized severely. The crl-' 1/et's stop believing that Indeticism today is that the rates are pendence day accidents cannot be too high, for the state is building prevented, and that loss of life and up sui h a big surplus, it will have injury is inevitable. Mix a genail the loose money on deposit in erous portion of Colonel Rossow's the banks. More of the gross in condiments Into your recipe for come taxes should be divided to 1 holiday fun this week end Common local communities for the payment Sense. Extra Care and Courtesy of teachers salaries. will help any dish. The peanut will soon cease to AJr , h)plMnU o¥ „ (10 . be maligned “Not worth pea mestic air line services in the first nuts" is a familiar phrase for quarter of IMS totaled 977.333, ... . . . compared to M 75.653 in the similar something of small value. Mow the m7 ql , Brfer> B BBln o( „ 8 British government Is discussing cent. Railway Express reports.

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| two vast peanut-growing projects, one in West Africa, one in East Africa. The plan is to clear 5,000.000 acres in the west and 3,000.000 tn the east, at a total cost of some >50,000,000, providing work for nearly 300,000 native workers. The idea Is not to exploit the natives, hut to help them to earn money and raise their standard of living. As it Is a project of the Dabor government, it will be carried on as a state enterprise and not for private profit. o__ 0 __—q-— British troops will remain in Berlin. Secrete.; y Bevln has Informed the House of Commons, thus backing the position taken by General Lucius Clay, commander of American troops in Germany The showdown with the Soviets may create grave circumstances, but a country cannot be independent if 1< lets bullies run the show. Our position lu Berlin came from understanding with the Russians at the end of the shooting war and no American wants to see the

’ time when we have to pull down i our flag and back away from the promise we made to the German people. -■o -o Leon Henderson seems to have , injected himself in the movement to have the Democrats nominate General Dwight D. Eisenhower or Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas as their presidential candidate instead of President Truman These moves l<x>k more selfish than patriotic and are not promoted a sincere interest in the party. Henderson would not be a I help to the Democrats and General Eisenhower has told the country that he is not a candidate. ! President Truman, win or lose, is the logical candidate for president and on his shoulders must rest the ’ responsibility for making the campaign. —o . o

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Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 <t Talcum on Rug If talcum powder has been spilled on a rug, don't try to sweep it up Hold your va uum cleaner over it to draw up 'he loose powder, and then what's left can be removed by rubbing the spot very gently with a damp doth Rinse the doth frequently so the powder that sticks will not go back into the rug. Light Biscuits A sei ret for making light biscuits is to add just enough liquid to make a soft dough. Then mix it lightly, and just enough to combine the flour and liquid. Any handling after that has a tendency to toughen the dough. Waterproof Shoes Apply castor oil to the shoes about twice a week, and they will be waterproofed Popcorn may be grown on any soil that will grow good field corn.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE A ; OLD woman came to meet Anuiew and Nora Andrew introduced himself and explained that he would like to aee the Interior of the house which waa, he underatood, for aale. “Come in, come in," the old woman said. "I’d show ye around, but my knees are aquawkin' today. Tune waa when I could count on feeling decent come aummer, but not any more: 'f 1 sell thia fam I’m going to live In a big city with atcam heat and have my comfort till 1 die." The house was of simple conatruction, almost four • square, with a center chimney. There were four rooms and a primitive sort of bath on the ground floor, and four rooms and a wide hall on Uie second floor. Andrew had a steel tape with him and made quick measurements of the rooms, putting the figures down in his notebook. "You see.” he said once to Nora, who was beginning to stand impatiently first on one foot, and then on the other, "this end of the upstairs could be turned into a bath. It's right over the downstairs one. And there's ample storage room in the attic. The proportions of the rooms arc good, tco " "Yes," »he murmured, "but such frightful decor!” "Please," he cautioned her. fearful that the old woman would overhear and be offended.

Already the bouse waa beginning to look different to his eyes: he bad begun redesigning it Not ao much redesigning. either, aa refurbishing and renovating it Very little needed to be done. He tested the woodwork, prowled through the incredible Junk in the small cellar to iavestigat* the soundness of the beams and the foundation walla. Nora refused to come with him. "Hurry, Andy," she reminded him. “Don't forget you’re supposed to come up for air occasionally." When he came up, he waa wearing a satisfied smile. The underpinnings were all in g«xxl shape. Os course the porch would have to bs ripped off, but the ground could be graded in the back to form an attractive terrace. The barn was literally falling to pieces, and be examined it with an eye to lumber, for it was apparent that the lumbering methods he had practiced on the Wheeler farm would not be feasible here There was no Umber, the old lady having sold off everything but a few acres around ths bouse, and whatever repairs were made would have to be done with wood from some other source. Nora went out to sit in the ear while Andrew talked to the old woman, flte wanted twenty-eight hundred tor tte place, which was cheap enough, considering the there waa very little land—only tores acres and a bait It sate 4a*«w HgUe. looking at Ous

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o —~; Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 0 Q If a girl has beet) corresponding with a number of young men. and becomes engaged to be married. should she stop the correspondence? A. Yes; the girl should stop this correspondence immediately upon announcement of the engagment. q What is the proper thing to say when two persons seperate after an introduction? A. "Good-hye. Mrs. Wilson*' IS sufficient. Try to avoid the trite phrase, "Pleased to have met you." Q. May one ever lay a piece of bread on the table to butter it? A. Bread must be broken into small pieces which are held between the fingers while being buttered. Resistance to stem rust is the "backlMme" of wheat improvement, says the U. 8. Department of Agriculture.

farm, how great a bargain his purchase of the Wheeler place had been. He dismissed the thought, however, trying not to get into the habit of comparing every place he saw with his first love. "I’ll have to do some estimating," he told the owner, "and I'll have to come out here again and see it 1 could get anough out of the barn and the porch to make the alterations I have in mind." The old woman waa scandalized. "The porch!” she echoed. "Surely you're not Dunkin' of takln' it down! Why, what would this house t>e without that piazzy?” Andrew refrained from saying that It would be a good deal handsomer. He understood that be had made an error. "Thcre'd be more light in these front rooms," he began, but she interrupted him, her mind traveling its single read, as the minds of the old so often do.

"I'd never have been able to stay in thia house if it hadn't b'en for that piazzy," she said stubbornly. “That and the tellyphone. Why. days and days there wouldn't be nobody comin. to see me, and me too creaky in the legs to walk anywheres myself. But 1 could talk to my friends on the tellyphone and I could set on the piazzy and watch the folks go by. Winters there's not much passin' anyhow, but summers 1 could watch all the cars and the people, and not feel so—so lonesome." Andrew said tactfully that she would see plenty of people in the city, when she moved there, but she was not to be diverted. "I don't know as I'd even sell the place if I thought that piazzy waa going to come off," she said with quavering truculence. He smoothed her down as best he could, and escaped to the car and Nora.

He left Nora at the Howells’, I met her hosts who were strangers | to him, and drove on toward Bran- l field. 1 instead of approaching the Poli* house from the east, he took a I long loop north and crossed the I river above the town, so that he ' could see the new bousing develop I ment which was going up on the outskirts. The location waa an attractive on*, but the houses them- i selves- In all stages of completion —were nothing less than eyesores. Andrew stopped the car. and got out to Inspect them. Small and boxy, with ugly proportions and even ugiier finishing, they were bad enough from a distance. But when he started through one of them, he was appalled at the shoddy materials used, at the slip shod methods of construction. In this locale, only the best would do. he felt, and here were houses going up which would be small protoctlon la a much kindlier climate. The sound of hammering emne from above him. and he went up the stain. Wylie was putting down SMW ffaariag tn one of the tiny i MPStatn runs. He looted up when, Andrew agterad. and grutasd, I

Consolidated School Board Members Named Berne. July I,—Four members of the new school board s rested by the consolidating of the Berne and French township schools, have been named. Two were named from Berne. two from French township. From Berne. Clifton H. Sprunger, publisher and manager of the Herne Witness and l*reston Zehr, plant superintendent of the Economy Printing Concern, were named Sprunger was eto. ted to a threeyear term. Zehr To one year. From French township EH J Graber, by virtue of being township trutee, is on the board and the other member la Menno Augsburger, a farmer These four members will appoint the fifth member of the board.

Marriage Licenses Robert Inch of Berne and Jane Kehrn. same address Burvll Eugene Watkins, route 6. Decatur, and Rulh Imogene Her man. route 1, Geneva. Partition Suit Filed Alvine Harkless filed petition for partition against Anna Wood ward. Leona and Martin Bents. Fram ile and Richard Myers. Carl and Ixris Bucher, and Eileen and Leonard Morrison. Case will be heard Sept. 7. Henry B Heller Is attorney for the plaintiff. STRIKE SETTLED (Cont. From Psre One) and appointment of a permanent grievance arbitrator. At Milwaukee, an AFL federal union representing 5.000 workers at the Milwaukee Harvester plant, also announced acceptance of the 11-cent raise. Previously, the CIO United Automobile workers, representing workers at seven other Harvester plants, had accepted the offer. o__ 0 __ o 20 YEARS AGO ; TODAY 0 0 July 1. 192$ was Sunday. Trade In a Geoa town —'aeeatis

“Come to see Lou's Baron’s solution to the housing shortage?" he asked with an acidity which waa scarcely concealed. Andrew raised hia brows. “Baron's putting these—things—up?” he said. “1 hesitate to call them houses,” he added. "do does everybody else,” Wylie said, grimacing. Andrew waa puzzled. "But I thought," he hesitated a moment, "or. rather, 1 always understood, that Baron did a good Job.” Wylie straightened up. spat accurately out of one of the ungiazed windows. "None better," he said succinctly, "when he's hired. You give him a contract, and make it good and tight, and he'li turn out a fine piece of work. But thia is different" "How different?" "He ain't being hired to do thia —this is his own idea. He secs

there's a housing shortage—a real acute one, loo—he happens to own this tract of land out here, he fells his own timber, digs into his hoard of fittings and such and comes up with ail the old truck nobody in bis right mind would ever want, and builds these. Half of 'em are sold, a'ready." 'There must be some pretty desperate people around," Andrew said disparagingly. "What's he getting for them?" "Six to eight thousand apiece." Andrew gasped. "Ain't it a crime? I tell you I'm ashamed to work on 'em! But people are desperate—some of the houses in town are so crowded they’re a health and fire hazard. And there ain't a Uung to rent anywhere!” Andrew shook his heaA "Well, if these peanut shells anm't hazards," he said, “what are they?" Wylie sighed, stooped to his work again. "They’re going to

leak. and.warp, and fall tn on people in no lime,” he said gloomily. “But at least folks won't have their inlaws with 'em!** Andrew drove away again in a thoughtful mood. A good sound house like the old woman's In Lisbon could be had for twenty-eight hundred. With the expenditure of two or three thousand dollars. It would be a really attractive home, and still not curt as much as these atrocities. Yet he knew that many of the younger people of Branfieid would ehoose the Baron houses end spend the difference rather t>*a live out of town. He began to figure angrily Why, land wasn't high anywhere around here—not high, as he was used to thinking of it m the metropolitan district—and a tract like that couldn’t coms to much. He estimated the cubw footage of the houses. the approximate cost. Before he had reached home, he was already designing one. But not an ugiy, bwy affair like the one Wylie had been working in. it was email, but it was gracious It was practical, but A was altrac.tree. * /<*• Bs Coattaate/ '

BEG PARDON John W. Jarrett, railroad worker convicted recently on a public intoxication charge, was taken to the state penal farm at Putnamvllle Wednesday hy sheriff Herman Bowman and Bot by Mayor John Doan, as erroneously stated yesterday. The sheriff was accompanied by two special deputies. TRUMAN MAKES (Con* From Page One) rental housing. •'lh makes no provision for pule lie-assisted low-rent housing---or. in fact, for any rental housing." the president said. The bill, he said, was properly labelled as the "teeny-weeny" housing bill. It fails also, he said, to provide for farm housing. And it fails, he added, to provide for housing research, for financial assistance to large-scale home construction. or for encouraging large-scale production of prefabricated housing. With respect to the secondary market mortgage feature- of the bill, .Mr. Truman said it repeals the present authority of the government to purchase FHA-insured mortgages, on rental properties. "Thus." he said, “it actually ellm-inau-s an existing aid to urgently needed rental housing." t\ THE IHWTHH T <'OI KT OF TUB I MTKI> STVTF.S FOR THE XOKTHKKV IHSTMKT OF IWIAMA F»rt W«)w l)l»l«t»fi tn the ina'ter of Alvin Gutowlts <l/ b/a Alvin's Joy and Gift Shop Bankrupt In Bankruptcy No. 2S.T'-. NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF CHKIHTORS To the creditor* of Alvin Gutowlts. >f 321 North Third St De. atur. Ind .1 bankrupt. Notice I* hereby given that said Alvin Gutowlts has been duly adjudKt-d a bankrupt on a petition fl! <1 by him on June it. 194*. and that the first meeting >f hie creditors will he held at Ft. Wayne. Indiana Fereral t'lerke Office on July 22. 1»4J), at 3»o -.'c I >. k pin. at which place and time he »ald . redltora may attend, prove heir claims, appoint a trustee. appoint a committee of creditors, e«urine the bankrupt, and transact i< h other business ,t« may properly i.nee before -aid meeting. Dated at ■c.rt Wavnc. Indiana, l ine 2">. ISIV .Vs 1.1.1 AM G KEANE Referee In Bankruptcy lt-7-i

* COUNTY AGENT’S * COLUMN • • Sprays Weedy Corn John Macy, who operates the Frank Ma'fz farm in Monroe township, sprayed seven acres of weedy corn <>:i June 15. A field exaininaion two weeks later shows that weed and alfalfa growth Is checked and the corn is growing nicely. The corn in this field was planted on a late plowed alfalfa seal. The corn came up in an uneven manner. but the alfalfa made a rapid growth Mr Macy felt that cultivation under the circumstances was impractical. He. therefore, got Edward Von Guntoii to spray the crop. For a satisfactory kill of weeds, three-fourths to one pound of 2-4-D is required per acre, states county agent L. E. Archbold This is a heavier dose than corn may tolerate without damage, the appliatione should lie made in so far aa possible between rows so as not to spray the top of the corn plant. Kent Ellis, ot the Purdue horticultural department, leports that different varieties of sweet corn respond differently to 2-4-D. The differences vary from a mild stimulation to growth to excessive breaking of the stalks. He suggests the possibility of considerable variation in 2-4-D effects on different varieties of field corn. Puppy Pals The Preble Peppy Pals 4-H club held their meeting at Phyllis Schnwpp'a home. June 24 A demonstration was given by Ruth Bnltemeier on "Food Preparation." and Phyllis Srhnepp gave one on "Clothing,.' Pledges were led by Doris Keuneke. Marilyn and Bhelva Miller were in charge of the games. Lovely re-

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freshments were served by Ruth Bultlmeir to the member# present. Sewing Sues June 24 the St. Mary's Sewing Sues held their sixth meeting. The roll call was by naming your "Choice Corsage." The pledges were led by Glendy Johnson. There was a 4-H roundup Winner Carrie Drake, present, who handed out pictures and gave a talk on her trip Refreshments were served by Joann Riley. -Sbelnda Johnson, Mary and Betty Jones, and Lou Roebuck. Nineteen mem be s were present and two leaders. The next meeting will be July 8.

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