Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1950 — Page 8

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S/Sgt. Lewi* O. Meadows. pic lured above, and hie wife anil | young daughter BMsrry Ann, will ’ observe Thaokagiving together In : Japan, where Sgt Meadow* has' lieen stationed for several months : lie la a veteran with 11 year* *er-1 vice in the army air corps. Mrs. Meadows and her daughter have been tn . Tokyo with Sgt Meadows for about three months. They formerly resided in Ft. Worth. Tex. Sgt Meadows is the youngest son of the Rev James R Meadow* nt Decatar and served all during World War 11.

IS DEAD AND fCewMwwsg Fe— Fiwte Oee> steam over the struggling soldiers. Twenty-two persons were burned, he said One tis the cars careened off the tracks and knocked down a tele graph ixde. cutting communications ' with the scene of the wreck for two hours, a railway spokesman said Twin investigations were to by launched by the Canadian department of transport and the Canadian National Railway. A CNR spokesman at Jasper said .an incomplete message, dispatched to the conductor of the troop train led to the collision The official said the message was * Ul - h#ve advised the c onductor the troop train was to "meet the No 2 (pa,ss- nger trai.nl.. from Vancouver at Gosnell and Canoe ißiver." He said, however, the message omitted the words and Canoe River" As a result the troop train travelled through the ■iml plowed into the east-bound pas-1 senger express. Democrat Want Ada Bring Results ■ ■ i (Jet Ready for Winter (Jet Set for trouble-free driving GO---’ to GAY’S MOBIL SERVICE 11th and Monroe Sts.

AUTO LOANS AND FINANCING Even though the car is an older model, does not pre- .. .vent us from handling your financing. We make loans on all mc>4el cars and also appliances. If you need cash to make purchases or for your personal use, consult us. Loans made same day you apply. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY 138 N. Second St. Decatur. Ind. Phene 3-2013

GIVE As THANKS — K THE PILGRIMS came to this land over three hundred and twenty-five years ago ... to establish the principles and build from a vast wilderness this great country of ours. Theirs wasn't an easy task, it was hard work and privation . . . but still, even with all the sacrifices they made ...THEY GAVE THANKS. Through time, these principles have withstood all attacks of strife, war and depression ■•*.'. we have preserved the fine heritage of our forefathers. -j. . „ We want to express our gratitude this Thanksgiving for the opportunity of reaffirming with you the faith in these principles, of guarding our freedom, of working with all the know-how and energv at our command ...WE TOO. GIVE THANKS. BEAVERS OIL SERVICE - ■ ■. • • . ■ ■ >,’£..,*?■ , ■ •

Newspaper Editor j Dies In Florida - Paul Poynter Dies At St. Petersburg St. Peterwtxirg. Fla.. Nov 22. — i (CPI—- Publisher Paul Poynter 1 nt the St. Peterutmrg Times died yesterday at the age of 75. Uta i health began falling nearly three years ago. Poyhter was a native of Indiana and had been connected with several newspapers in that state He' bought the Times In Itll when St. Petersburg was but a fishing village. "Opportunities are just as great today for the young man in pubUahing." he said recently Poynter supported prohibition in .Mg newspapers and refused to ac - cept liquor advertising. At one j time or other he owned, or had I interest tn newspaper* in Seymour, i Kokomo. Noblesville Sullivan and i Cofumhu* Ind.; Sarasota. Clearwater. Brooksville and Perry. Fla.; and Hickory. N.C. Poynter was born in Eminence. Ind. in I«TS. and graduated from DePatsw University in IM7. He i had served as president of the Ini diana Democratic editorial assoc la. tkm and as a memtier of the In ■ diana fuel administrating and the late President Roosevelt's IMb committee for economic and social survey of the south. He was on the Isiard of directors of Union Trust Co here and National Air- . lines. —■■ ’ A son. Netaon Poynter Is editor “ of the St. Petersburg Times A daughter, Mrs. W. C. (Eleanor! 1 Jamison, is editor of the Sullivan r . Times. His wife, Mrs Alice Poyn--1 ter. also survives. I ■ ~~r~ Plan Adult Farmer ' Classes At Berne 1 Piatt* were being completed for i * the formarkw of anadirtL farmer 1 idiaaa to h* conducted in the Herne-: French high achooCTF wax an- ■ Pounced here today The announcement followed a KUggeMion ■ by Herne school suffer I inendent to • offer These ••Haawetr to alf -Intereirt- j »*d adult farmers. Interested In. j dairy production. The first session will lie held on Tuesday evening. December 5. J Selection of dairy animals, feedJ iiig. rare, breeding, milk testing. I and record keeping are only a few | I of the subject* that should inter- j eet dairy men. and which will he; I offered in the series of classes. All interested”are urged to enroll either before*'or at the first meet King Enrollment blanks arid other information riiay be secured from the foljowing persons <’arl Piech-1 , ter. route 4. Bluffton, Hubert lach. • .route 1. Bluffton. Paul Nussbaum, Kilts Neuensch wander and . Kenneth Liechty. all of rural routes of ■ Berne Enrollment blanks and other information may..ttt>o be se • ured from Leonard Kingsley, vocational agriculture instructor. in the Berne high school rredeto • Gn6<* Tow* —- Oeeatus

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104 YfJUK AOO Henry Cole, an Englishman, sent the first Christmai J card*, a friendly idea that grew Into a big business Now, the, average American family sends 75 cards, but the cards you receive just before Christmas were begun in some CCSba as long as 18 months ago. Oper-

Seeks Recount For Slate Senate Post I ■ Could Throw Senate Into A 25-25 Tie I Princeion. Ind. Noy 22 -(!*!*» - | A UemocTatfr candidate for an.U; i diana neat who lost his race ; Nov. 7 filed for a recount today in a move which, if su< < e-tsful, would give both luditieal parties identical number of •senator.* in the 1951 legi*hr iir«- and give the Ikew H iats control of the upp«r house J Official elFc-ion returns earner i gave the Republicans 2‘i sj;it* toj 21 fiit the !»• ti;< ( i?? thu< assur- j Hear Danny Hoffman at the Hammond Organ at The Mirror Inn I I Thtirs. Fri. Sat. Evenings j .... ■ I

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ing GDP control : Bttt f&iirks (’ Kinion of Peters- ; burg, wit© lost to Sen Edwin Rea* • man, R P/to< eton. by 61 votes, flli ed tt pHiHtm far a Feeouxit In Gib (‘ill uit C< tit? Killion carried Pike county by ■ 1-21 votes and lo*t Gibson county by ! I The Republican' 4 won easy con- ’ trof of the house, taking 69 of the iw - . i ’F • In the senate. Lt. Gov. John A. Waikins. a Itomoerat electe'd in 1945. would cast the deeding vote in the event of a tie.with a quorum of senators. pr» ■» nt He i- prend-j • fng pffi. t r fit the senate by virtue < of hi- rffic-4 ! Should Ki I Ron -win the r» Count: :ihd Tht senate be lined up 2 , -3.[ Watkins’ vote would allow pas-are I .of a I»♦ niosciatic bill provided all. <<»! ■ st ma tor - we D pi ♦ sen f' and \ < f.n<j and provided tiny all voted : strict party tin<s. Howevj I Republican? co It ’.di ' blo< k iit h a metrical of pausing a • bill by having <•!»»• of th*ir mi rub. r fail t'. vote tin i* Thus, the ■. re fur Ho bill w. uld b» 2’> ai l •.he..A.u..tr axitjnsf 21 Wat kin? cutt Idno! cast a vote because their woiiid' the no tit. and the bill «ould notl pass fur Jack of a con<titiiu<>n.i| ■ tmijurhy of I’d j, SOUTH KOREAN i< «»ntla»M4to fr«M I’age O«ri ral,’and the Yahi rlvei pnwei dams hi the Mainhunan frontier Em h ride wax sending out pai trols today all along a front curv-

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YOU MIGHT THINK thio guy I" trout Ashing, but he'l not. Hr'» T/Sgt Janies Galloway. Chicago, of the U. S. Ist Marines, and he ■ got a gun. not a Ashing rod, and he's standing on ice, not in water. He's I testing the strength of the ire near Hiigaruri. near the Choaln reservoir 1 in cold, cold North Korea. (International Soundphoto) |

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x ations (above) at the Hallmark company, Kanaaa City, metlce uloua care and long month* in preparation. The firm claim* girl* are » beat Christmas card creator* because they’re mor* adept than men in •- expressing sentiment, more imaginative in illustrating. < InternativnalJ — 11 11 / "'" 1

ins .lime fflt mile* mismi from the - northwest coast. Hut this wan* ■tonly the preliminary sparring for ■tht battle to tome Tipton Factory To Close Indefinitely i Tipion. Ind.. 2*2 HID —j’ The-Oaken Manufa<*turinff Co. will ; ctaw» Friday bet uuwe of a lack of wto-et »leel. company officials said today. The Khntduwn will idle more than 200 workers, about one teiHh lof the town's atluli population [ The company makes poulriy equip-H I me nt j " I State Employment Is At High Level Indianapolis. Nov 22" H'P> 4 1 Indiana's nonagrx bhurnl employ mens « ohHll we.l at a record level -luring- O< to be r for the thin! straight month T ... The. employmejir ,se..jn ity , (IJyt. hmi-wld some 1 2'U.U‘U* person* were employed In jobs other than ! farming Tb* October total, third ! higbeMt in history, topped , .>nly figures for August ant! Sepf temher DEFEAT «<’4»Btfa(Mrd Feeo» rase o*ek ter* anti stripping the land for < !ay or minerals The ordinance, fundamentally, a »rade In « Good Town — (Jacatur

prottietiv** ro<UMhtr«v sets...out the * limUAiltubs usyetiMrr for, bullsUn* and -lie riiiiiinatiou of uns.itii-rjn-tury IndUatrtcs. Its Intention, is not. as Heller |H>int>sl out. to grasp (lower for ’ -he city, for It. does no «u< h thing It does not affts t tby tax rale, or I school rale, nor does.lt-extend Hie I municipal governmental powers I' merely re's out the aianner and type of dwelling that cannot be cimstrui led by relating what »pa< e is required on which to build, and

'o' ' • - - • ' • ' ' • ' ■ ' ' Once again we face Thanksgiving Day with gratitude for His favor in bestowing on us the blessings of democracy and all the fruits this fertile tree bears. But now, as our forefathers three hundred years ago, we are aw are of the need for protecting His gift against forces of evil that threaten to drag these works down into the lowest depths of tyranny. Again we are faced with the stern reality that “vigilance is the price of liberty.** A Fairway Restaurant

the stae Os buildings. , The other ordinance, approved the parehaaeo of* the property on i Montoe street, next to the St. ' Mary'* river «nd extending to; Jackson street, anj! owned by Mr i and Mrs. I A. Kalver and Mr. and Mrs Roy Kalver. The plot Is to serve as ■ free parking lot, with .the purchaae price- set at t12,.'»00. with |",.<MHI down ami payments of from $1 • |:i.ism annually f’ouncibnah also re erred two petitions to the electric light committee in conjunction with the superintendent, one of them for a light in the alley lietween Walnut and Dierkes street, as requested by Mrs. Edgar Iteinklng and eight others; the other was for the inRayMori 6. Kaßar Scientific Swedish Mastage and Mineral Baths Office Hour*: • a. m. Io 12 a. m. 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. gveninge by appointment. 124 North Ninth »t. Phene J-J074

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, xtgllation of a light on the pole near the residence of Ml*.* Laura : Strickler. R3*> Mercer avenue, signed by Florence IJchtenstiger and 1 17 others. TWO MORE tCMilnne* r***» Cea* One) ahead of time that the levees might not hold. They spqnt yesterday afternoon moving their cattle to higher ground. The Ripon police department said the wa'ers appeared to be subsid- ■ ing early today and that the floods I "don't appear to be 100 bad.'' Water from the swollen Moketumne river overflowed the Lodi area, isolating the town of Woodbridge across the river. Thlrty- , I two Woodbridge families were ) evacuated yesterday afternoon and the town was y-mporarlly abandoned. I In !»di. the water Wks two feet deep In places. The Yuba river flood forced the evacuation of g.-HXI personx from -he town* of Hammonton. Marigold. IJnda. Oiiverhurst. Arboga. Ostrom and part* of Wheatland, where the waters were three feet deep Sheriff Dower used a fleet of 30 • motor and row boat* to evacuate I those marooned by the water