Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1948 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties; One year, $6; Six months, 13.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Ad joining counties: One year, $7.00; t months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Greetings to 1949! o o Happy New Year to you! ——o o Let’s be better citizens in 1949. o o Bang! Here it comes, the parade of 1949. o Q. May you be showered with blessings, both spiritual and temporal ' during the coming year. o o~ That loud, lusty cry that you may hear tomorrow morning will be from the 1949 Babe. o o Old Father Time is near the end of the hour glass and everybody seems ready to welcome the New Year. o o The New Year brings an honor- • ed title to a capable young man. From today on. he becomes Judge Myles F. Parrish. o o — As this column will not appear i again until Monday's issue, we extend advance congratulations to the first born babe in 1949 and to the parents. . o o Start the New Year by taking renewed interest in your city’s problems. If you are a member of the Chamber of Commerce, attend the annual meeting on January 12 and talk over municipal subjects with your friends and fellow citizens. Employment in Decatur did not slack off until the last quarter of the year. We hope that the New Year, robust and strong, brings employment for all and that past records are shattered when it comes to number of persons employed in local industry. o o Pesident Truman is back in Washington and start the New Year from his desk in the White House. Refreshed by a Christmas vacation in his home town and early morning walks, he will be busy preparing his State of the Nation address to Congress, which will be given next week.

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Times have changed! A ship load of scrap iron and steel from Japan has docked at Philadelphia and the scrap metal will be sold to American foundries. There is no sense in letting the old machinery and equipment in Europe or Japan, when the foundries and steel mills in this country need it so badly. We hope they bring back most of it so that it can be processed into building materials; automobiles, refrigerators and the like. - ——o o There are many projects on Decatur’s work table that will require attention during the coming year. In municipal proposals fall the sewage disposal plant, revamping of the sewer systems and improvements at the city electric and water plants. Final action will probably be taken during the first of the half of the year on the City Plan ordinance and the legal machinery to be set up for zoning and land use. These projects are important to all the people and the more who become interested in them, better will be the decision in their disposition. o o A proposed war memorial iu Houston, Tex., may take the form of a stadium seating 100,000 people and costing $5,000,000 says Mayor Oscar Holcombe. Just what form a war memorial should take is a problem with which some uni-! versifies are now wrestling. There are two schools of thought one favoring a public building which might not b e erected without the funds which could be obtained for a war memorial. The other prefers something more symbolic, such as a program of aid for the blind or for underprivileged children. Either may b e good, but which is better depends on the special needs of a community. o o The Year Ahead: The year which lies ahead is a blank chapter in the history of the world and every individual, waiting to be filled in. The historian gathers together the filled sheets from the past year, and another volume has been added to the story of mankind. Each can write what he will on the new pages now to be started. This year can be like other years or it can be better, or worse. It is I a year of hope for those with vis- . ion, of gloom for those who dwell among the blunders and misfortunes of the past. It is appropriate and valuable to look back on the old year as it closes and consider it. But the new I year belongs to those whose creed is expressed in the words of the Apostle, Paul: k “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I .press toward the mark . .

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|| CHAPTER ONE DONNA COLLWELL let herself through the front door into the dimly lighted hall with the noiselessness of long practice. Inside, with the door closed behind her, she shook herself with brisk impatience, as if to brush away clustering snowflakes. But the snow had long since ceased falling and there were no flakes. She dropped her white fur wrap and hood on a hall chair and pulled the cord to extinguish the light of the torchere that had been left burning for her. Silently she ascended the long stairs and turned down the dark corridor. She had no need to feel her way. She knew every inch of that hall, every inch of the house. It was her home. As she passed the door of her parents’ room she paused briefly, half expecting to hear a drowsy query from her mother, “Is it you, Donna?" There was no query. It had taken Donna a long time to break her mother of the childish habit of lying awake to greet her when she returned at night. She had succeeded after a fashion. Her mother no longer called out to her.

| Donna was not a parent and did inot know that although maternal i nature can be silenced it can not Ibe controlled. Her mother no Jonger called out to her but she slept lightly, waiting, until her 1 daughter came. She had heard the car crunching snow as it entered the driveway. Still she waited. Donna was with Mark Banister. Even on winter nights they often sat long in the parked car. Mrs. Collwell dozed again. Later, much later, she heard, or thought she heard, light steps on the snowy porch below. She sensed rather than heard Donna’s soft ascent of the stairs and her passage through the darkened hall Shen she sighed in sleepy comfort, snuggled her tace against her husband's shoulder and went to sleep in earnest. Inside the closed door of her room, Donna did not press the light button. Without fumbling, in utter darkness, she placed her earrings, necklace and rings in the proper compartments of the velvet Jewel drawer of her vanity. She hung her evening gown on its satinpadded hanger in the closet and set her silver slippers in their accustomed place on the shoe rac'u In darkness she prepared for bed, donned pajamas, furry bathrobe and mules. In darkness she brushed her teeth and washed her hands, not bothering with the removal of The covers ot her bed were turned back in readiness for her. It was her mother's way of saying good night, now that she was cured of the childishness of calling out Donna took the down puff from the foot of the bed, pulled an easy chair around to face the wide window, draped herself warmly in the silken comfort and sat down. It was three-thirty on Sunday morning. There was no moon but the snow and the pale sky blended into a vague ligbUwM la which

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1 o o i Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ) p 1) Q. Is it all right to reply to an invitation by writing the acceptance or regrets on one’s visiting card? A. Never; this implies haste, lack ■ of appreciation, and is ilLbred. J. Should radishes, olives, pickles, i or anything of the kind, be placed ■ on the bread-and-butter plates before the meal? A. No; bread and butter are the only things to place on this plate. Q. Does the bride or the bridei groom select the church and the ; clergyman? A. The bride. More than 111,000,000 bushels of ’ grain were shipped to Omaha, Neb., in 1947.

the snow-bowed trees were like little mountains of the same vague lightness, faintly emphasized. Donna sat motionless, huddled in the big chair, until the lightness paled into full morning. She was thinking. If, on that Sunday afternoon, when various special friends dropped In as they always did on Sunday afternoon when Donna was at home, she should have announced gaily, “I sat up all night by the window, thinking!" the remark would have been greeted with fond, derisive chortles of unbelieving glee. “Thinking! How, Donna?” “What with, Donna?” “Who wound up the gray cells, Donna?” “What gray cells?” “Did you have to use a dictionary, Donna?" They would not have believed it Her parents would have believed it because Donna did not lie, but they would have been surprised and puzzled. They would have wondered if something had happened. They would have asked If she were feeling welt In the eight years that had passed since Donna was sixteen she had sat up many nights, all night, at that same windowthinking. Only Donna knew that To her, thinking was a secret, personal, private thing; a thing to be indulged In behind a closed door, locked away beyond laughter, reserved from question or comment. On this night, she was not sad but mildly regretful. An era had closed in her life and, though she saw it end with reluctance, she reminded herself that there were other eras to come—less happy eras, perhaps; yes, probably less happy, but more exciting, more purposeful. On that night. In the parked car in the driveway of her home, Mark Banister had proposed to her. Donna had postponed that proposal as long as she could, clinging to the happiness they had shared for so many years, but on this night it was inevitable. Realizing that she could stall no longer, she had faced It firmly. On that night, early in December, Donna's crowd had held their yearly party at the Lakeside Club. The Lakeside was not really a club, it was merely called that from custom and for convenience. It was housed in a clumsy, rambling structure on the shore of a private lake. It had been Instituted, before Donna and her crowd were bom, by their fathers and mothers and had been added to, improved and modernized by their own physical efforts and financed by the scant allowances of their childhood. There was no initiation and there were no dues. Membership was not by election but by the natural social selectivity that prevailed in the community. In earlier years the Lakeside crowd had held its big party on New Year's Eve. The war changed that For a few years there had been no party—no men. On this jcar, at Us uuusUace of the mar-

D 0 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Dec. 31 — The town of Monroe is menaced when fire destroys the two story business block owned and occupied by Liechty Bros, and Company hardware store with loss of $35,000 to $50,000. iMrs. John Lengerich, 82, died this morning of pneumonia. Fred Reppert, Sr., 88, father of Col. Reppert, died this morning at his home in Vera Cruz. Dr. J. S. Coverdale, 79, died early this morning. He was the oldest practising physician in years of service in the county. Dr. W. E. Smith undergoes operation for removal of fifth nerve at Ann Arbor hospital. Mrs. Zoa Clauson, 94, dies at home of daughter, Mrs. C. W. T. Davis in Blue Creek township. To Issue Temporary Windshield Stickers Indianapolis, Dec. 31 — (L'P) — Hoosiers who buy new cars after tomorrow will be issued temporary windshield stickers until the regular 1949 license plates come out. secretary of state Charles F. Fleming said today . He said new plates probably would be issued starting about Jan. 17. The stickers will entitle the driver to a new set of plates when they are issued, he added. Recreation Director Is Rotary Speaker Dennis Norman, director of the Adams county recreation program, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Mr. Norman discussed the purpose of the county recreation program, started here a few months ago under the direction of Purdue and Indiana universities, with the aid of the McMillen Foundation and a tax levy in the 12 townships of the county. L. E. Archbold was chairman of the program.

ried members, the date had been pushed forward to early December. The married members were a powerful majority and their argument was sound. Christmas week was a family holiday, and they were families now. Some would be away from home, visiting relatives. Others had relatives coming to visit them, and they couldn't very well walk off on visiting in-laws on New Year's Eve, could they? Besides—and this was conclusive—it was almost impossible to get baby sitters on New Year's Eve. Baby sitters, too, had dates on New Year’s Eve. So the big party was moved up to the first Saturday night in December. It had been very nice—not like the parties of earlier years but very nice. The Lakeside afforded no such luxury as regular club service but they got around that by borrowing and loaning maids from their various families and hiring a bartender. Some married couples objected to the costly consumption of liquor by certain members and guests, but they had got over that hurdle by signing stubs for their beverages, the bills to be sorted later and the charges equitably apportioned. The party had gone off very well and by unvoiced agreement the unhappy changes in the group were ignored by alb David was not there. David, Donna's brother, had not returned from the war. Annette, David’s wife, now his widow, was there with a new young man from New York. Nice enough, apparently, but they did not know him and to them Annette was still David’s wife, the mother of his small son. Rita and Bill were not there. Bill, with his good flying record, had landed a nice job with an airplane company in California and they had gone west The Lakeside crowd could never be the same without Rita and Bill. Nina was not there. Nina and Ray had married early in the war when Ray was sent away to training camp. Later, when he came home on his first leave, Nina had started proceedings for a divorce. Now she was married again, to some stranger, and living down in Texas. Ray was there with his new wife, Adelaide, a girl he had brought back from England. She was all right very pleasant but they were too used to saying “Nina and Ray” to permit the new "Ray and Adelaide” to come easily. Theuna was not there. Thelma had been the baby of their crowd, accepted because she was Marie's sister and the two were inseparable. Marie being one of them, Thelma had been the baby sister of the group. Thelma, too young for them ami too young for marriage, had briefly enjoyed a romantic wartime elopement but the romance had waned with the honeymoon. Thelma, a chastened wraith, unrecognizable u the gay baby of the Lakeside crowd, had come home alone to have a baby. She did not have the baby. She died suddenly instead. (To Bt Costumed;

Buys Health Bond The K. of P. lodge has voted purchase of a $5 health bond, officials Hos the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from i the annual HbHl IB Christ mas Buy Christmas Seals Bea i sales are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the “white plague.” The sale is conducted by the Adams county tuberculosis association. Asks Assessment Voided Robert L. Brown, a Kirkland township farmer, has sued county surveyor Virgil F. Bowers and county treasurer Norval Fuhrman to void the $204 assessment placed upon him for the repair of a drainage ditch. The suit alleges that Brown did not receive proper notice of a hearing on the project, and adds that the assessment places a “gross and unfair burden” upon him. It asks the court to restrain the county treasurer from collecting the assessment. G. Remy Bierly is attorney for the plaintiff. Partition Suits Filed A partition suit has been filed by Patricia I. Meyers against Flora M. Garner, Thomas Garner and (Marilyn E. Garner. Parrish and Parrish are attorneys for the plaintiff. Robert E. Gay and Harold J. Gay have filed a petition for partition against Kathryn E. Gay. Attorneys for the plaintiffs are DeVoss and Smith. Sues For Divorce Harold iMosser has sued Ruth Mosser for divorce, charging cruel and inhuman treatment during the past four years of their 24-year married life. Plaintiff alleges that defendant falsely accused him of infidelity and “assumed and maintained a cold and indifferent attitude" toward him. Further marital life is “not only impossible, but unbearable,” the suit concludes. The couple has two children, who are self-supporting. Court Grant Divorce Bonnie L. Werling was granted an absolute, divorce from Melvin W erling, and the court approved a property settlement already made between the parties. Mrs. Werling was to assume her maden name. OIL INDUSTRY (Cont. From Page One) 3,909 miles without any trouble at all," he said, "and many could make 4,000. But I make my living selling oil ... . ” At Pittsburgh, a spokesman for a big oil refinery said frequent oil changes are necessary when driving on dusty roads, because dust in the crank case acts as an abrasive and “wears out the engine." In winter driving, he said, when the choke is used some of the gas goes into the crankcase, affecting the oil. A Sinclair oil official at Atlanta, Ga., said the government’s proposal would fail to provide “the most economical operation of engines.’ At Des Moines, la., the manager of the Continental Petroleum Co. said fortifying agents in unchanged oil are used up, and that damage to the motor results. He said a motorist might save on the cost of oil by adopting the proposal, but “In the long run he would pay more than that for engine repair.” At Milwaukee, garage mechanics said the 4,009-mile change would “save a lot of oil but wreck a lot of motors.” Mechanic Ed Sweeney said oil shoulu be changed every 500 miles In winter. At New York, a Sinclair engi-

UNPOPULAR 'i O Do"'* aye* \ Ji 7 .* »p«l row hm. Th. J X/yf ft 'of* "**conitruction ■Z M.fhod’' can correct crow *yw. So®. COIM toko Imi than on. dafl Over 9,000 iikcmim, al agM. UiOH'lffii M Km M Hk> NM-hoSt IkHmlm. Write— CROSS IYI FOUNDATION . 703 Suh IU(, SmSm. **kK NOTICE! No hunting or trespassing, day or night, on th* D. W. McMillen Byrl Williamson, Tenant Roy S. Johnson & Son Auctioneers & Real Estate DeVoss Bldg.. Ground Floor Phone 104 157 So. 2nd St. WeTI be glad to Repreaent You in the transaction of Real Estate at Public Sale or private sale. 25 years in this busines in Decatur. We welcome your investigation of our record of which we are proud. ' Melvlr Liechty, Rep.

neer said ‘‘we don't think it’s sound from an engineering point of view to recommend for 30,000,000 vehicles a blanket, 4,000-mile period for oil changes when you don’t knoif the operating conditions.” "Some cars could get by with it,” he said. But he said for their own protection motorists should change their oil every 1,000 or 1,500 miles. He set the maximum, for ideal driving conditions, at 2,000 “to quote a general figure.” APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX ESTATE NO. 4488 Notice Im hereby given* That the undersigned has been appointed Administratrix ot the estate of William Weber late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Sophia Weber Administratrix December 30, 1048. Feed L. Litterer Attorney Doc. 31 Jan T-14 Claims to be allowed by Board of Coinniiisloners, Monday, Jan. 3, 1940. Haywood Pub. Co. oper 429.00 Decatur Light & Power do .... 247.03 Thurman I. Drew aud post .... 15.00 Virgil F. Bowers surv mil .... 12.18 Arnold & Klenk surv stakes 255 Cail Runyon staking ditch 10 00 Mrs. Virgil F. Bowers typing 115.00 Krick-Tyndall Co. tile 33.56 Arnold & Klenk C. H. oper .... 6.85 Dr. Fred I. Patterson inf oper 200 Decatur Democrat Co. Leg adv 50 00 Decatur Ins. Agcy office bond 150.00 W. H. Zwlck & Son Sold, bur 150.00 Glen Egley fox bounty 5.00 John Geels do 500 Irene Byron sanat 276A9 Highway Albert Fox asst Supt 59.85 Martin Huser truck dri 40.5(1 Gorman Fox do 48.60 Krick-Tyndall Po. oper 19,92 D-A Lubricant do 94.60 Mac Allister Mach. Co. do ..”*228.86 Easter Tire & Tread Co. do .... 308.25 Haywood Pub. Co. do 60.00 John W. Karch Stone Co. mat 123.79 Ft. Wayne Pipe & Sup do .... 113.94 Decatur Light & Power oper 24.69 Korte Bros, do 93.42 Certified before me this 3Oth day of December, 1048. Thurman I. Drew. Auditor Aduina County. Dec. 31 Jan. 7 Orange juice will retain most of its value overnight if carefully stoppered.

I'ulilii Minn! 55-ACRE FARM-55 | Having purchased an apartment building in Decatur and my mntW will move there to make her home with us, we will sell at public auctiM to the highest bidder without reserve the following described EH J: farm on the premises: 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 19491 at 1:30 P. M. I LOCATION: % mile due west of Pleasant Mills, Indiana. 514 mill sooutheast of Decatur, Indiana, on Road No. 33 to Pleasant MilM Indiana, and then % mile west. Known as Chas. Troutner farm. 5 LAND—SS acres. Very fertile black loam soil. Level, no open ditchM about 5 acres good timber balance all farm land. Good drainage ofl lets and farm is extra well tiled. IMPROVEMENTS-Extra good 2 story 7 room house, 4 rooms dull and 3 rooms up. Basement Hsx2o. Good hip roof barn 32x60; H* barn and granary; Chicken house; Brooder house; Good drove welW Large, filtered cistern. Electricity to all buildings. This is one of Adams County's best farms. Situated only 1, mil from Pleasant Mills where there is a good Grade and High Schofl Grain Elevator, Stores and Churches, on good road. TERMS & POSSESSION—Farm will be sold free of all liens tB debts; 1/3 cash day of sale. Balance cash upon delivery of DeedaA Merchantable abstract. Possession will be given on or before Marfl 1, 1949. Farm and buildings may be inspected any time. MR. & MRS. LOREN B. TROUTNEI Owner! Roy S. Johnson & Son—Aucts.—Decatur, Indiana. Melvin Liechty—Repr,—Berne, Indiana. 2'JlB PUBLIC SALE As we have decided to quit farming, we will sell the following d scribed personal property at public auction. LOCATION: I*4 miles North of Rockford, Ohio, on Road No. 118. th< % mile west, on: TUESDAY, JANUARY 4,1949 Starting at 10:30 A. M. (EST) • 20—Head of Cattle-20 Registered Ayrshire cow, 4 yrs. old, good flow of milk, bred Oct** Registered Ayrshire cow, 11 years old. good flow of milk, bred Sept. 1 Registered Ayrshire heifer, from old cow, 8 months old; grade AyrsM cow, 4 years old, fresh by day of sale; 4 Guernsey cows, 4 and »J* 3l old, calf by side; Jersey cow. 3 years old, calf by side; 2 Guernsey co* 3 and 5 years old, good flow of milk; Jersey cow, 2 years old. good™ of milk; 4 Guernsey heifers to freshen in Jan. and Feb.: Regutw Guern ey bull, 2 years old; Guernsey heifer calf. 4 months old; U 1 ’ Ayrshire heifer, 10 months old; and some are vaccinated. 22—Head of Hogs-22 These cattle are all T. B. and Bangs Tested. _ , MILKERS: Hinman Double Unit—pipes and stall cocks for > staigood condition. 20 head of Shoats; 2 sows, bred in December. 5 Sheep and 1 Goat 3 ■ two year old ewes and 2 ewe lambs; nanny goat. 400 Bales of good wheat straw. Farm Machinery 1941 Farmall H. Tractor with lights and starter, all and cultivators in first class condition; new 14" Moline breaki s on rubber; 13" Li'tle Wonder breaikng plow: Roderick Lean a ride, used one season; 2 • 60 tooth harrows: McCormick-Dee delivery: John Deere rubber tired wagon and 16' grain bed, rubber tired wagon and 16’ grain lied: 2 section spring too’ » Dunham rotary hoe; Superior 10 hoe fertilizer drill: O' l '* fjd spreader; Implement trailer; 2 wheeled stock trailer: New der hay loader. MISCELLANEOUS: Forks, shovels, gas cans, grease gun. m |lk f cooling tank, and many other small articles. One Rat Terrior-Fox Terrior cross pup. One English - 1 pup, 7 months old. ► TERMS—CASH.' Lunch served by Ladies of Olive Branch C DELMER CAYWOOD & SON, Ownerl Roy A Ned Johnson, Melvin Liechty—Auctioneers I Sam Krugh—Clerk. ‘ I In ot bad » utter uk v.UI be be’-l w ttt I

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Speeding ChargedT? Decatur Resident ‘Carl Johnson, of Decatn. rested by sheriff Herni ? s! Thursday night f or " North Second street. He Ll arraigned in justice 0( . will court at 5 p.m. today. Pe ‘ NO ADDITIONAL —Page possible for ate money for China on [ The current Chinese a d „ 1 calls for $275,000,000 i n ’°? help and $125,000,000 in 5 assistance. More than | 2 R S’ >lre.d, ta QUICK RELIEF with WOOUEY'S OINTMENT from CHEST t THROAT COLDs MUSCULAR a ijjq CRAMPS i A warming, soothing ointlneilt for the relief of congestion am I colds by a counter Irritant 35c of your drug store 60c SI? All Kinds of own w*®™ 9ecrtur,tod. IRON ■ SHOP—Corner Washingto & 11th Sts. Res—l 22 S, 13th St,