Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No, M 3,

PRESIDENT TRUMAN TO ASK HIGHER TAXES

Expect Drive Against Seoul In Short Time Enemy Patrols Malto Prating Attacks On Front Os 85 Milos Tokyo. Thursday. Dec W-Ml'D —Chloro* and Korean Communist patrol* mad* * series of probing attack* along on 84-nute front In Ko re* Wednesday and arm »pe»r h*ad« slabbing within 27a*ile* of l Heoul Homo enemy patrol* gained at i least aMea miles into South Korea, | They attnrk out from an attack fnn-e 0t.300.Hf1. R»dfl massed In two fornuitloa*. one within S 3 mile* nt Seoul and another In the *a»t A tull-acate offensive against Seoul wan expected within tea day* nr . two week*. * Gen nougfea MacArthur's headquarter* announced that these front line forces were backed up by well over l.noO.oav Communist reserves. Ttas U. M- Ilk army. wWeF officially absorbed the l»6.<«*man V.H. Iflth corps Wednesday, braced along a ISfktnlle ronsi-to-eoaat defensive line to mew the assault: Th* Communist patrol artion* crackled all along an XH-mile alrytch of ibis front from Kaesona in tbe west to within 2-3 mile* of the east coast — The main threat loomed north of Reoul. where 2OT.w<» Chinese and North Korean* continued to build Up striking power astride the ancient Mongolian Invasion rout* to the Korean capital Mac Arthur* headquarters gave Ohme potimatee of Communist strength: » hi Kbfea: Maaehuri.i or ew route— l-.35u.4M' troop* Already In K0rea—444.404 troops, comprising 272.17’1 Chine** and 167.233 North Korean* Against these force* the Failed Nation* have arrayed an aetiiust.il 23V.0M men. Including the I’. 1 S', r loth corps evacuated inlacljromj th* Korean u.itthea*t coast to I’u ; san in th* southeast coast Vniled Press war correapond*nt William Burson reported from the front that the Communist* already [ have concentrated lltl.iuw to 2<‘<>. i late Chin*** and 25J“’ft Nurtll Ko rean troop* within 33 mile.* of Seoul for an Imminent offensive Another 73.U00 to lOv.Oft" troop* from the revived North Korean army are In Un* farther ea«t for a possible attempt to sweep around J Seoul'* Haul* and cut the «th army front In two. Hursoa aaid. j He said the ctfeeensw» front was that the lied* might strike against Seoul any lime with in the neat 1" day* to two week* ( ertul often«lve. he said, the Sth army may abandon rteoul and make a stand farther south Hut if it prove* only a limited assault, be saM. the I'M forces may make their stand before the capital _ Chinese and North Korean com bat patrols jabbed at the Sth army Hu* all along a Mmile front in pre natation for the offensive An American patrbl withdrew after encountering s<».> to 70<> lied troop* moving south through Chang chon, seven miles south of the 34th parallel and 27 mile* northwest of Seoul It was the closest enemy ( penetration yet to the South Ko , rean capital. Some sfl mile* northeast of Seoul. I a probing attack by l.imo Commun | Im troop* forced South Korean unlfs to retreat a mile or more Another South Korean battalion farther east was encircled, hut broke clear after a 24-hour hattie Mrs. Edna Wolfe Dies This Morning ' J-Mrs. Edna Wolfe. 71. wife of 1 John Wolfe, of Went Farmington ‘ 0, died thl* morning at a hoepltul 1 la Warren. 0, after an extended illness. She was native of Adam* ' county, a daughter of Newton and . Rebec* Hawk-Gause ( Survivors Include her husband: , lin Gause of Heratur Funeral ar- ( four children and a brother. Ver- t rangements have not been com- , pleted. ——= ; , WEATHER Fair and aald thia afternoon t to^ii*M. meetly ( fair, windy and net ee Mid. tew tonight flue above to five I below. High Thvroday IS to I 20. I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Payment Is Urged For Christmas Seals Roliert 7.wick, president of -be Adams county tuher<ulo*.i* aaoix-i---atiow, reported today that Cirri*:mas sales to dale total (3.45 S >3. Thu county's quota is it,l<M), ami Arsons who have overlooked pa?' ing for their seals are asked to da so a* once In order -rbat the ciiuutriwbapter may meet Its quota. Griffis Toße Appointed As Envoy To Spain First Ambassador By United States To Spain Since 1945 Washington. Hee 27. il'P) The White House announced today that President Truman will nomi gate Stanton . Griffis to be this country's first ambassador to Spain since JJh-c 31. 1943 The president'* action ends a flywyear diplomatic stalemate dur Ing which this country'* husjue** with Spain has been conducted in Madrid by a charge d'affaires only Tile White House said also that the t’mted States has approved Spain s selection of an ambassador to this country. Kesumption i»f tnfi diplomatic tc lai ions with Spain coincide* with mounting tension between the Com munist and anti Communist noun trie* of (he world It may portend closer cpoperaHoq between Spain and the aullConi muntet Marshall plan countries of western Europe Spain as of how Is not a member of the Marshall plan group or of the north Atlantic defense pact. Simultaneously with the WJlitc House announcement about Griffis. Spain announced that *he i* sending Jose Felix Lequerii-a heir *a* j ambassador Lequericg.used to to Spanish Torrtgn minister. He has’ spent nuch time in tlu* country! ou diplomatic work Griffis, a 63 year old Bostonian, 1 recently resigned a* amhassudot to 'Argentina ll<- will he the first f S ambassador to Spain *in< - Nofi man Armour retired from (he post in 1943 Nomination <>t Griffis will, be gent to the new <2nd congress, after It convenes Jan 3 The exchange of ambassador* has I been in the making since Nov 4i .when the l otted Nation* ended a] in Spain ,] Maliy countries had ignored the | ban anyway, and (he *t*u* department was happy when it was end ! ♦•I. t | Presidem Tiuman, however, ap parently had to be won over Seveul week* ago at a mws nimteieiu.-e.he I said it would Ire a long, long time before he would name an amhassa 1 dor to Madrid Since then, authorities said, hr' has hern persuaded that it will be' in "the best Interest of the I'mlted ■ States" to srt.d an ambassador to | Spain Sales Conference Os McMillen Industries Annual Conference On In Fort Wayne Plant manager*, directors of tW *ale* training school. kr> manufac luring ..nd plant personnel of the necatur plam* of Central Soya company and McSiflllen Feed Mills are attending the 16th annual two day sales conference of the com panics in Fort Wayne today Ofririals and executive* of (hr five plants of the firm in Indiana. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Illinois and TenueSsir. along with company salesmen and representatives of the McMille.i farm supply division and the re(ail stores dlvifem. are “at tending, the conference at Hotel Vun Orman - (I W. McMillen. Sr, founder and board chairman of the company, wilt award 15-year serfice awards to 32 Central Soya Company etn ployfe at tba banquet tonight Main speaker at the banquet will be Col Jaek Major, Kentucky humorist. The conference carries through Thursday. -~

Season's Most ' Severe Cold : Hits Nation Worst Cold Wave Os Year Grips Nation; Cold To Continue By United Press The waist, cold wave of the season gripped the nation today from the 110-ky moentains to the Atlantic coaM. plunging temperatures fill below gero. It was 33 degrees below aero at IW.-i.iab, la, coldest temperature reported in the nation, and 31 below at Rochester. Minn, 2» below : at Lung Rock. Wi«, and 2» below at Helvidoe. 111. It was 21 below at Mason City, la 25 below at Redwood Fails. Minn . IS Mlnneaixdis, 22 below at Rm-kford. 11l , 17 Joliet. 11l 13 belo'w at Findlay. O, 10 be- , ! low'at .Columbus. O, and 3 below at Portland. Me New York and Chh-ago had tbeir . oldest weather of the season An ‘ otfi. ial reading of S 2 below gero was recoyded at Chicago’s Midway ‘ airport odd it was l(t above in New ( York lo.atmg the record of six above..**! fttr llee. 27 in 1H72 1 «4 The titiuperature varied widely In the Chleago"area. which was stinggilng to dig ont from under a nine inch Christmas snowfall It was three above in the loop but O'Hare field on the city's noithwest <dge, t n iH.ttt d an itnofficiaT HT Wow xcio Six tleaib* w«ie counted from i the cold in New England where ( I temperature* dropped to gero in Ihr suhnihs rd Boston _ ■ , The weather bateau ciasM promise only «llrht reffef within (he '. next 2* hours. In Hall Lake Ciry. endirring ll* I7lh straight day of fog. the wintry; chill frose the mist Into a four-inch-thick <h< altb nt ice that coated I ' power and t.-l. phone wit- - am! diinfiled •itiiv Seattle was being drenched by | ~ .Ua. grealaj-t rainfall in hlvtnxv Tlt-j ' city broke the old annual rainfall I record of 45.7 S inches on Sunday and'sffice vhrit rhe roinball for thl* ' year ha I climbed to 45 Sk InchP* ' 'MoreTain waTToi< cast Tor today: Ibufcrtldei W.athti staved oft flood j I thieats along the Snoqualmie. Nook-j ’sack. Skagit and Snohomish tiver*| lin (hr- Pacific northw.-*! | The cold wave knif. d faf to the I •south It w*» 1.5 above at Amarillo.' .Tex Ftrenfen who fought k tank' ;<at fire at Ranger. Tex . were (<wp*‘ Hl a ith Jet j lodiana. oliU>. Pennsylvania and | I New York Many minor auto acci 'dents were repotted in New York City and it y sidewalk* < aa-t-d l | many sprains and fractures among ' (r«re Te rase n*«( | I temperatures Dip ' Below Zero Today * • 0 I Some Thermometers Hit 10 Below Mark laical thermometers registered I is low as in below xero last night.! the average being between six and > eight. a cursoty survey revealed this morning . I Night police officer Roy.Chili-ote *aid that thermometers registered from five to 10 below. Joe Me- • llrlde. city fireman, who lives on j Stevenson street, said that a neighImr's thcrmoineTer showed eight 1 below at 6 30 this morning. The merctlrv began to drop ear ly last evening and at midnight i refo temperature was reported The cohlest period was early thl* I morning < The lluily Hemoerat thermome I ter climbed from the sub xero read ( Ing of between six and eight to ' four above at S:Sir this morning Furnace firing was heavy' in the I residential and business distriits 1 as citixens battled with sub rero I temperatures, lankily, however, no I fires were repotted i An official reading at Baer Field. < west of Fort Wayne, set the tern- i |>erature at eight below, the low ( eat point reached this winter City and townahlp schools are closed this Week for the Christmas i vacation, so the extreme cold weather did not affect the. opera < lion of these Institution*

ONLY DAILY MtWPRAMA IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 27, 1950.

Hunt On For Stone Os Scone Si®i IV J*P-H L, £ '1 JUT 7 ■ ~S| ■ HIRE IC THE FAMOUS Wttwre nt Scone, resrtng under--the British coronation throne In Westminster Abbey before thieves stole it. much to the jubilation of Scottish nationattsrs Air Intense hrtrtt H i on hy Scotland Yard detectives. The :i.K-poun<l stone first wa<'jda> 1 ed in the abbey In 12M by Edward I. who brought it from Scotland | To remove It the thieves had to break a leg off the throve, oldest |dei-e of furniture in the ahtiey., Twenty-seven ftrillsh monarchs, in eluding King George VI. sat there to lie <rowm*t.

Awiit Furihef Word On KomoN) Jennings Korean War Victim Is In California —i——— —— [ . rtft ihr'f wrorrt Wi’to* [day hy Mr wh<l Mfm Frank J»*n idneM from their M»n I’D KeiinoMh <JeniHnit* who arrived In Oakland, (’al early yeaorday morniUK from Korea The parent*- talked wUh rhelr j <»n yesterday afternoon from a iTiavMl hospital in Oakland The; | three-min Ute < all wan atranced hy jthe- Ameri» a« Hed C'hhm in Oak ’ land • It is poMMihle that Kenneth will] Ihe »eflt to Great l*ake?*. naval; traHdiU center However »n i ' definite wpnl has been received j bstamt . , i r ‘ Kenneth and Igewin Smith, marine <'-oihpaatoib*. were separated in Oakland Smith was sen: to an army hospital Doth men had their feet badly frozen, hut Ken rneth (oii his mother that he Lcould walk. . The Oecatur marine* were with | the. first division and made their j earape from the Kato area in I North Korea to llamhung They ! were flown to Hawaii and then t«> j • Califomfar.-- — 1 If Kenneth in sent to Great j i ’ akes. hi* parents plan to leave ‘ I immediately to visit-him at the : naval training hawe. I 1™ ■ ; : i Varied Program ts Offered Lions Club Members of the Decatur Lion* <iub Tuesday spent tlie evening being carried away-first on tic wing* of song, I hen on the fancy of travel to the west roust. They returned to earth long enough to lisiep to Robert llonekemper scoutmaster of the Lion- Hoy Scout troop, and Herman Kruei kaberg. of the Scout exeiuttre committee, review the progress of the troop during the past year. I and the manv successes gained as I Well a* plans for future expansion Marcus Foreman a member of: the Purdue glee club, and Alice; l-aligston member of the school of miislr al Indiana Tnivershy. were gqr*t soloists during the program,. | each singing segatinal mmk ac > com pa n led by Mrs Charles l-vng stou L K Anspaugh. presidem of the club, then Introduced Roy Price, speaker of the evening ' who related the recent trip he and ■ others mad< to the west roast Walter Kt'lrk. program cjiairman I of the Lion* club Infrmltti-i-d the! soloist s

NEW SERIAL STORY Her*'* a short Christmas i loe* at*ry by Sarah Elisabeth 1 *-* Rodqer wh• e h will make j sparkling hotidaif reading for I all. Thia interesting story will start >n the Daily Democrat Thursday. You'll enjoy reading all 18 chapters. Glasgow Declares Stone In Scotland Z 2. Stolen Coronation Stone Still Sought London. IM t 27 »ri’( The Glasgow bußetin jubilantHy today that Emjlund s stolen eoro 1 tmiU+Hj Ft one uafrly hi/ ■ Scotland Hut police doubted it. The historic impound atone of ‘f nwiuurchu h.-t%e h*-tn <rown»d f"; »»'” >»•.»»< wa* .ripped from the cufiMuitionj chair in Westminster A.bb*v and lugged away on mnming. The Scottish new spap**r headhn ed it* ♦dhtoH* h»day. ’ Ihe alone is back?” it said that an anonymous main telephoto d la<l hiatft; described himself as a conspirator, and reported the stotoo was '‘safely in Scotland B Scotland has been trying tn set I ; back the stone of destiny’ ever I since King Edward I removed it t*' i England in 129" The stone, on which ScotHsh kings had been crowned since the fifth cent ary, now is supposed tn symboliie jhe i English monarch’s sovereignty over j SctdlajuL— _ . SeoHand Ya»d was (rankly skepti ! cal of (he Glasgow bulßtin report and was inclined to write it off as :ihe worlr of~ri>rank*t<hr. ... - - -d The anony-ntou*.rail wa« Hared |-Ui a public ti ll phoui booth tn Nr-w---ca*tle 111 ihr north of England The caller d*-*crib*<l hin>**-lt a* "otte of the <-(<n*ptra' ■-r-' He -how*4 no trace <>t a Scots aci-rnt A Newscast le pidine radio ear , was ord<rt d in the. lelepliont- h >*>th hut no one wa» there when th* cat arrived -e - * The cutler *a|d ■ the atone had I been ta£*n to ScoQand "five hour* ago" and that It now wa* a* safe | *« if ft w< r< uttdi r lock and key " Yard'* lop opetatlve* wa* called to I map the grea!e«t search in Britain * history Tliev privately ,xpre**td j the belief tha- the «tone tjttll was I In the London area: police. *u*p4<ling Scottish na tionali*:* wrte trying to take the stone back to Scotland, alreadv , wen* searching every automobile, truck, train and ship hound from England ><> Scotland Road block* Were, established on , all highway* leading Into Scotland If caught, th* thieves will .face a| ttwra Te l-a*e F***>

Will Request Congress For Expanded, Higher Tax Program Next Year

Order 30 T« Report For Physical Bums Notices Are Sent For Exams Jon. 2 Notices are Ireing aent to 3ft Adam* county youth* today and Thu rod a y by The Adam* count y se leclive service office’ to report January 2 in Indfanapoli* for tfretr pre Induction physieal* .Name* of the men who will be called were not available today, according to Mr* Elmer Chaae. »ec retary of the board who i* preparing th*- li»t. ' - . She .ahficljtnted H»at tbo make-ap of the Ila: will ba qliauged*' at least ,-.n jw ti-eur' by the lime the men report tor the physical*. The aelective service official*, attribute thl* mainly to tha number of young men subject to call who have already enltaled. ’ „ Mrs Chase I* rechecking the Hat. .forwarding notice* to men who will report. She «ald that they will then ! have »n notify her of exemption* I from the physical*. If they have not I already done so. I The recent call for men to take •tbeir physical* raise* the total t<i 125. to date 36 men have been in ducted into the armed torpe*. There Is no way ol indit-ating. officials [ said, the number of men who will |h* inducted into the aarvteeajn ijannnry. I The local board, for instance, ha* ’ no knowledge of the number "until we open the morning mail It i« probably safe to assume, though, tliat a call for induction will be made in January There have been calls cvety nnmth since September with two men leaving thin, nine in I October. 14 In November and 11 in imeember _ The Ift, men < for pre-induc lion physical* Januiry 2 wilt be the Second “larges: contingent to under ■giT the exaiiilliatifiu s slrrcp thc ortbreak of the Korean war: an men wi re called in October I Army To Call More Reserve Officers 9,740 Face Call To Duty By March 22 Washington. Dec 27 — il'l’i —| The army plans tn call some »,-74#| nto're reserve lieutenants and rap ! 'ains tp active duty hy March 22 J The i-allup announced last night.! will bring to 27,<H10 the number of army officers returned to uni form on an individual basis since the Korean war began Army spokesmen said moat of Hie new group. Including sflo physicians and 85# dentist*, are expected to volunteer ‘a* a patriotic service In time of national eno-rg ency.” They added, however, that mandatory order* will Ire issued utrlea* enough men volunteer The order will affec t 5.42 ft lieu tenino. l.Jflft captain*, loft Wart. 165 chaplains and 413 assorted rnftstfchf spectaHst* tn 'addition rev the medical officer* The men witt be called from both active and In active reserve ranks.. - The officers, a* tn previous call*, will be ordered to active for 21 month* They will be given 30 day* to close out person al and buxines* affairs unless they volunteer to report sooneY tlfflt er* with four or will Ire exempted upon request The entire groufr excep’ for the medlial offlcArw; will go on aTtfvV lu j hytwer-n March 1 and 22 Tin-"medical men will report in two group* on Feb 5 and March 13 . ' Good reiiows Club Previously reporter. ..3941 P 2 Kappa aorority .... 10ft.an z Mr. and Mfe. U V. Bracey 5.00 Friend . ~. J -J..".. 500 Frlrnrt ’ |in Total .7, .7.,.....11053 02

France Seeks Billion Dollar .Arms Program ! Government Warns Ll,. Os Great Russian e Strength In Arms Paris, Dei. tl’Pt The French government, seeking ap- *" proval of a billlon-dollar rearms mem program, warned today that |( Russia ha* an army <rf 4 Sfto/wi" men under arms In addition to * The 650 ftftO men In the armed aera vices of the European satellite states. , I The esfimate of Soviet armed strength wa* made by defense minister Jules Moi h during dej hate on the 21.t»14.*o>'.ftOO rearma , merit 11117 the c'civer'utnent fit" seek , itu: tn push through a reluctant I national assembly jM*fore Jan 1 Mik h said th* Red ‘army ha* 170 » division*. He s«id hi* figure* on j Soviet and sat'-llite army strength . Hated- back to the first of this > year and were the latest poraeaa- ! ed by the French government li Ruasia'a military budget tor a 1950 was 1» time* that planned bv France tor neat year. Moc b a said. i The rearmament program la- det signed to help France carry out . her pledge to help build western “■ Europe's defenses again*' c.»m---1 muni*m However, thr*rebellion* -• national a**emidy f» not expected i 1 to approve the measure .tor. at: 1 least a month The arm* bill wa* designed to set off a program under which ' 1 France h’as promised with Frilled I .State* aid to contribute a 2«*li»l siori army*. 2S THgfitef plane ■-•roup* anil mas* production of war material* by the end of IkXl " Finance minister Maurice Petsche said however, that the gevei tipi, lit doe. not plan to impose wartime control* anil rationing or'. place France* economy on the! emergency basis recently establlbheif m the I'nited state* I Ol the fl.ol4,ofto.'»of> Premier ' Rene iTeven * government .proi pose* to spend on arming, ijflfl, would be paid for by j American credits in 1951. Th* ; government asked the assembly ‘to finance the rest with t47l.«ftn. j •mm in new taxes and iIC. fWfl i'rtfi jin Ihurowed funds ' , But the assembly with an eye iTwra T* Fee* 4'wari Litchfield Boy Dies At Hospital Tuesday Funeral Services Friday Morning Christopher Paul Litchfield, three-year-old son of Mr and Mra George Utchfield of the Home stead adMtlon dlert —at — o'clock Tuesday night at Hus Ad am *_ county memorial hospital Death was attributed to neriton l:l» following an operation The Ih>v was born in Avilla June 19. 1*47. the family moving to Decatur after, the father pur chased the Pioneer confectionery m thia i-itv Surviving are the parents, foulirother*. Roger Stephen Roy and Gregory, all at tome, two «i*. ter- lioseann and Janet, also gt home the paternal grandmother. Mr* Ellen Litchfield of Arills and the maternal g-jindparenf*. Mr and. Mrs Roy Dayman of South Whitley Funeral aervlcea will be held at 9am Friday at the St Mary's Cathulit church, the Very Rev. M*gr J J Seimett officiating at . the Angel* max* Burial will be in the Catholic eemetary Th< 1 body waa' removed to the Gilllg I A Doan funeral house, wharo I friend* may rail after 7 o-'clnrk I this evening t

Frice Five Cents.

To Ask Tax, Boost To Meet Mounting Defense Costs In Countering Reds Washington Dec - fk’Pi-— President Truman will aak '-Ongreea for an "expanded and higher.Jax program next year to meet mount 9ng defense co»t* in. countering Communist aggression, it waa "an noun ceil today , « Th> i equest for new iaxe* pt oh ably will go tp congress a “lew week*" after the new g*nd eongie** eonrene* on Jan 3. a high soiire.raid. White House pres* aecretarv Joseph Short said Mr Truman would make his tax recommends Hons public "at an appropriate time.' Short bad said last night that he doubted very much" that the president would make any request a for new taxeoTrnmedlafely after tW new eonare** convened But if wa* obvious that the request for new takes wa* a matter of timing The I equewt for the new tax. a will be submitted after the emagreaw I receives the elate of the union message and the budget from Mr Trit ' -0.-0. He is win king on them rj<>w -Hi* rapmted that the budget will I pl oxide toi spending at*an 27».‘’“<i PMiMg) in fl*<-«l 1952. cUefly for he armed fm < e» •** The president will make known 1 hi* view* and rvcommendaHou* on 1 ! th* new taxes necessary for the de J fenae prngrqnt at an app'Opria .- 1 j time In the meant in ie it i- pi-Piv. ■ I'-crralH that'a niui h broad'-r arrd e*—-- — pattded tax program will tie OS', •ary to meet the heavy cost* of the deu.nse Ptogjgtu in :lit <aleti: '• .o 19»1 and "-übeequep'ly " Short declined to answer oih» c que-tion* .about detail* of the m-s tax program “ .Asked wtietner rne firexldent's new tei-omiio ndallon* would tn elude a hike in iwrsonal ineoo>.» • 'mu— Short de* lined to clirivmnu, ' A government official said, how ever that there had been a misln terpretation of some of Short'* -re mark* last meh: arid there I* "no \ chgnge whatsoever in tkr~»y' <*2. .. sity for additional taxes or the rri tent lon of the president to ask for th»m -" - He «aid that while th* new (ax program would go to congress a (-"few week**'"al! er It convene* on Jan 3 there i* les* urgency In g-e> ~ •tag • tax mearure 'o enngre** after the first of the yvrir than there wa* during the lame duck session He *«id Mt Truman will a«*ure the public of hjs desire'to pay M much as possible of the cwt ofjXa. defense program as -we am alone Mr Trnman'a nnly recent re quaat for new taxes ha* been on ,-orpor*tb>n« A corporation tax l-oost of about |3.DH>.<lfl*.t>o’' i» h“ .ng wrked out hy senate-house con ferees and is expected to be feas.srd Wore the new <ongre«» takes over Jan 3 AMiur fWtFthird* of the anticlpat ed >7>,9o»,aftl.t«o» Spending request would lie used to build up the nations armed force* $61,938 Increase In Taxes In 1951 A tax table pre|>ared hy the Ind iana taxpayers association places the 19S1 -property Mlf in thta i-oun-tv at 11.t1?3;953 This is an increase of 9<i>3x over the 91.tH2.n4ft ~ charged to taxpayers thia year In Wells couniy the IHI tag bill totals *971,828, a boost of »3.USg In Whitley county the taxpayers are tharged with ***1.224 for 1951 taxes. The tax Mil In Huntington conn ty la *1.5(14.137 and *1.045 414 Hi Jay county, the latter showing au Imroase o( *9Ko«ft The t»f.l tax bill la th* *2 counties In the stale totals (2M.aM.tM. an Increase of *3 sjg.ttl -over this veer. MSBfflfd-. ing to the table prepared by tho taxpnvers association