Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1951 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. ; •ntwed at thh Decatur, Ind., Post Office &s Second ClAss Matter, t Dick D. Heller •4—4 President A. R. Holthouse ------ Editor J. H. HellerVice-President Chas. Holthouse Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, >6; Six months, 13.25; 3 monthst' >1.75. ( v By Mail, beyond Adams arid Adjoining Counties; One year, $7.00; 6 months, >3.75; 3 months, >2.00. By Carrier, 25 cents per Week. Single copies, 6 cents. \ ■ • A s. ' ■ t

1 • ' . ‘ ,A farmer’s barn was burned to J S - • . the ground and he theorised that a sparrow carried a lighted ette to a nest in the rafters, caus* ing the blase. Frequently we read; where humans smoke cigarettes ip bed and wake up in the clouds. 1 ,o v o The state legislature, has been; called to meet in special session next Monday for the purpose of considering action in regards tp the anti-secrecy law which holds up >3,500,000 in federal welfare funds. Gov. Schricker summoned < the legislators to the state hotwe and according to officials. immedi*y ate action will have to be taken 1 or the state will not receive its.’ quarterly payment of pensiop and | dependent children funds from,: Washington. The- Indiana law is. in conflict with the federal meas-k ure which, forbids release or publi- £ cation of names of recipients on the welfare rolls. If the Republican majority bolts on repeal of the law the state’s welfare program may fold up. '

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE HOUSE was very dark but it was not stilL Sitting on of her bed » where aha had waited for an hour, EUen Fowler had heard all the sounds, arranging them in her I mind with the su'reness of long habit. She had sat with her moth* er till her father came in. She had noted the click of the bolt on the front door and the small, crisp rattle aa the chain slid into place, the little, snick aa the downstairs tight was turned off. Tonight the judge seemed to • •tiptoe with unusual caution, ( and bis facie. When he looked in -at Martha’s door, wore a kind of shamed defensiveness that made .Ellen look down involuntarily to see if he carried his shoes in his band. But he was shod, and as correct ?Bs usual, so Ellen decided that She 'had imagined there was a look <of slyness about him till she came . to the door and .detected coffee on his breath.: . I r . "She’s asleep, 4 * she whispered. "Your face is hot," Ellen added as she kissed him good night. The tall clock in the hall below chimbed eleven. Timbers creaked. Her mother coughed sharply, and instantly she heard her father stir. Then quiet fell again. She had no idea hpw much her father knew about her and Tony. If she could make* the back stairs without any creakings... She made it! The door there opened soundlessly. She had left it ajar an inch and biled the hinges with a feather. 7 : ' On the doorstep she Sat down and put on her shoes. They had rubber soles and had been bought f&r qiiiet attendance on the sick. Now .she was free and could breathe, at least until she had to slip back in again. She ran swiftly. The bus station was brilliantly . lighted but almost empty. Tony Riceo came toward her. "Hi, sweet! I was afraid ydu weren’t going to make it" "1 was getting uneasy too," Ellen said. "My father had been out and I know he wasn’t asleep when I left. 1 can’t stay long, Tony. Tony, this is all crazy. I shouldn’t have come at alL\.” •‘Well, It’s the best we can do, if you won’t let me comg to your bduse,” he argued a trifle sulkily., “It’s so dismal, Tony. 1 can’t be myself at home. People are always dropping in on Bunday afternoon, and 1 can’t be free unless my ”7 father stays with Mother, because the nurse doesn’t come on Sunday." 1 “Your mother ought to be in a hospital," be said glumly. “Let’s ride one time around on the little old bus. That will take an hour. - It goes out to the county line.and back. I asked the guy.* \ 1 “All right. But I can’t be out too long. You were clever to think of meeting me here at the bus' . station. It’s so public. People never look at each other in a bus station—not directly.” The bus chugged away down the main street, stopping briefly at a roadside eating place where a man in white pants, obviously a cook, got off. There was only one other person aboard now. Ellen and Tony sat side by side, holding hands. They were anonymous, lost in aa isolation impossible by day. They talked in Uttie snatches

Blood donors from this county have the satisfaction of knowing that their contribution to the Red Cross Bloqdmobile may be helping a boy who is making a gallant fight for his life at Riley Memorial, hospital. Severely burned in 1 a trash fire, the boy must undergo several skin graftings and already has received nine blood trans- ■ V | fusions. Blood from the Fort * Wayne area unit is furnished free to the child. Chalk a good deed up to yourself, if you have ever been a donor. \ . 1 \ • o 0 jj.‘ ■ ’ • •• • 1•. ’ Farmers and other property • owners in the northwest section; ■s’ | of the county and extending west.ward to Tocsin, Seem to be inter- ; ested in forming a volunteer fire department organisation. * About i 80 persons attended the original £ meeting and the concensus favorA ed such an organization, with shares at $25 each being offered s to those who wish to provide fire fighting equipment in the Preble area. The idea is not entirely , new, far Poe atod Hoagland oper-

above the rumble of the aging gears and the roar of the motor. Ellen’s head was close to Tony's shoulder, his arm around her, his chin bent a little to rest close to the top of her head. Their meetings had begun shortly after the dismal football game. Tony had called her a few days later. “Listen, I want to see you. I can come over kind of late. Wait up for me." She had protested. “No, please, Tony. Don’t come here, to the house. TH . , . meet you at the bus!” So she had slipped out and met a slightly affronted Tony in the bus station. They had had coffee and doughnuts in the restaurant and talked till time for the late bus, and then Ellen had gone pome alone, hurrying through the shadows, frightened but exhilarated too, because being with Tony, being that other stranger Ellen, was so wonderful “Sneaking off with you like this frightens me,” She said as they jogged along. He stiffened slightly. “Listen sweet, this is your idea,” he said. "I’d much rather ring your front doorbelL 1 can walk into your house like a gentleman. I’m not afraid Os your father." She knew what his offended tone implied, that she was being a snob, that the Fowler house was a snob house. He saw the dismay in her eyes and gave her arm a little squeeze. j “Forget\lt, baby," he said. “You say where I’ll meet you. Only you are being kind of silly, you know —all. suffocated up with ancestors and. stuff. The worst of it is that there is fire in you. if you’d let it loose instead of keeping it damped down with old moldy precepts you learned in some grim girls’ school.” "Oh, Tony," she mounted unhappily, “I don’t khow! I’m so mixed up. Anyway, you never have said that are in love with me.” , > "Didn’t IT Did 1 forget that little detail? Ah right, I’ll say it. I’m in love with you* Listen, over there at school there are a thousand girls more or less. L could be spending tonight on a nice, easy date —movie and a bahansi split, less than two bucks. But I’m not over there. Fm here. I’m nere, , off training, so I’ve got to sneak 1 in, and I’m here with you. Move over a little—have to dig up another four bits for the guy. This .is where he turns around, the end of the line." “Tony, let me.. His, black brows knotted. “Don’t ever say that! I won’t be broke as long as I can play good football and stay in solid with the alumni. When I’m broke I won’t Show up, seetj* Ellen’s heart was hurting. Tony was so alive, with that dark, dangerous, alert look in his face, the ■ quick amber fire that leaped in his eyes when he bent them on her. Tony would take life and run with it, just as he snatched up the muddy ball. He would always take plaudits as his due and judge all men friends with no artificial distinctions of birth, till they proved themselves otherwise. She looked up at him, unaware that something pitiful lay in her eyes, a raw, newly awakened kind of ’ pain: that her mouth was a plea and the pride in her face broken

‘ate similar departments in the interest of those communities. Sponsors of the Preble department will hold another meeting October 15, when-' legal steps toward formal organization of the fire fighters win be completed. .- . —o——o— ——- Those who nave stuck to their seats to watch a long ball game to its finish may be glad that they were not taking in a recent contest in Japan. Two teams played 37 innings before a decision was reached, and took two days to do it. When darkness interrupted the contest after nine innings, it was agreed to continue next day. When one team finally won two to one, they .had played eight hours. A slugger like DiMaggio might have finished the gams in the first nine innings. . a •O’ ' O office h<§ received a postal card froip a Decatur housewife, inquiring became of the city directory? Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Chamber of.‘Commerce, informs this column that the directory (Polk) is ! being printed and should be delivered here in the near future. There fs no city-wide distribution of. the directory, sale of the books being on the subscription plan. However. it is liktly that a few extra copies may be obtained through the: Chamber of Commerce. The publishers of the directory are: R. L. Polk & 431 Howard Street, Detroit, Mich.

like a shattered vizor, leaving her undefended. 1 ' ■ “What shall we do, Tony?” she asked. "All this— ’’ she included the drab vehicle in a gesture of distaste —“all this is no good! You hate it as much as 1 do.” “I hate it worse," he said. “I hate it because it stands for the fact that you think you’re too good for me." 'I “All right," she said desperately. “Come to my house on Sunday. But it will be as you’ve seen : already. And don’t be surprised if my father asks you, in a nice fatherly way, what your intentions are?” "I haven’t any intentions. I can tell him that, in a nice, gentlemanly way.” “You said you were in love with me, Tony.’’ She tried not to be plaintive but It was there. He drew away a little, on guard. "1 am in love with you, sweet But do you Know where I’m going to be for the next few years ? Right in the huddle of some mighty grim experiments, it 1 get what 1 wanL Los Alamos, or some other secret hideaway, working on stuff to keep the wrong people from taking over the world. So, \mless my plans change or I’m disappointed about getting the connection I’m after, there won’t be any place in my life tor even ‘ a sweet little girl like you. So this is all there is. Do you want to call it off right now?” "I’m sorry. 1 shouldn’t have 1 asked,” she said dully. ' “Ydu had a right to ask. You . bad a right to think that maybe I’d marry you some day. .Maybe 1 wilt You suit me. You’ve got 1 something 1 need, 1 guess—and , probably I’ve got something you • need too. I’m not afraid, and you are afraid of everything. \ You're . like something grown to the past, j to your family and what people . say, and all that junk. You’re like ; this gray stuff that grows on old trees —it never blooms or has any t fruit and it grows there because ‘ the trees are beginning to die, but ’ it goes on clinging, and'you go on . dinging, and you ckn’t see that j what you’re holding to Is dead , already.” . \ "But if I let go, what have I t got toehold to?" \she cried des* perately. v 5 “Some people get along without , roots. I’ll get along. My people ’ get along. That’s bedause they 3 come from a race so old they , aren't even concerned about what’s past and gone.” \ She stiffened a little, and her t head went up. “It has to be the , right way'—for me, Tony,” she I said firmly. , He had reached for her hand t but now he too drew away. “All right then. This is all there is! If . you can’t, all right.” “1 can’t, Tony. But I do love e you. 1 know I love you.” j "Let ; it go,” said Tony, “let it 1 go. We’re here anyway.” , The bus jolted to a stop under j the lighted marquee. 3 “I’m walking home with you," 3 Tony said. \ j “No," she pulled free. “No—not , tonight, Toby/’ 3 — She brpke away from him and t ran. Tony threw bis cigaret away. He had spent four dollars and all f he’d got out of It was this feeii ing that somehow he was a heeL 1 (To Be Continued) ~

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iNecmnca.Al McDonald In San Diego Mr.\ and Mrs. Hirold McDonald have received the Address of their ' sort, who recently enlisted in the navy. It is: Jackie L.. McDonald SR 340-57-11. Go. 51-|&6, U.S.N.T.C., San Diego, 33. Cal. —-—•- A Joins Air Force, Gene L. Myers, of Decatur, has enlisted in the air force, according to an announcement made by the Fort Wayne aripy and air recruiting station. Myers, who } has had prior service with the army, has enlisted for four years and was sent to Sampson air force base, Geneva, N. Y., for training. Heller To Virginia Pfc. Dick Heller. Jr. left, this morning by airplane for Camp Pickett,, Va.. wherfe he will |oiu j the 43rd division of, the U.S. army, He previously had stationed at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., and enjoyed' a week’s furlough in Dedatu'r; 13rd division has been assigned to Europe. — 4 U. (L Household Scrapbook BY ROBERTA LEE „ 1 ——— 0 Measuring If medicine or extract is to be measured by drops fnjm a ibottll'. try dipping the finger in water and moistening the elm of the bottle in one place. Use this place from Whirth to drop the content-!'; The drops will come out quite evenly. lodine Stains l To remove iodine- oi cotton or linen, make a paste or starch and cold . water* knd spread over the stain., Let stand until.' dry; then brush off. - ■ ; ■ Added Flavor Try filling the cavity of appfe*, cored for baking with orange* marmalade and a little butter and sugar. , — ' 0 — 20 Ago TODAY p.. IU September 26', 1931 was Sunday. 1 Tire Congressional Medal of. Honor is the highest U;S. military decoration.

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Question Youths In Ex-Deputy's Death Spencer, Ind., Sept. 2(F. —(UP)- - Two teen-aged youths were 1 ques t'ioned today in the death of former Owen county deputy \sheriff Warren B. Johnson, whose bludgeoned body , was found • along a road four miles south of here. Sheriff Carl Christy took into custody John J. Phipps, Jr., 17, And Gterald Parrish, 19, both of Freedom, several hours after Johnson’s body was found. The 47-year-old Johnson was flbund dead on the Lawrence F. Dyer farin yesterday. Coroner Dorus Macy said he was beaten beyond, recognition, apparently with a heavy instrument. • , 'Europe’s Danube River has more than 300 tributaries. —— MMr ’WK ’Jia sy-’ t tT... , A PARATROOPER hangs in mid-air • n split second before the line .upper left) rips open his parachute in 437th Troop Carrier Wing maneuvers. Other 'chutes of his •’?tick” opcA up below. The paratroopers are members of 187th rtcgiinental Team. De.’cnse photo. ', (Internationa!) 122 N - 13th st>

Divorce Granted Paul Burgess was granted an absolute divorce from Margaret Burgess by the Adams circuit court and wks restrained from remarrying during the next two years. The defendant in the action was given custody of the three minor children. Files For Divorce Bryce Harvey, through attorneys Custer and Smtih, filed suiL foi divorce Mary Harvey, charging and inhuman treatment. The complaint states that the couple was married June 30, 1942, and separated nine .years later, June 30, this year. Order restraining the defendant from removing, selling or disposing Os household goods and automobile sustained by the court. v Will Probated The last will and testament of Elizabeth Laisu’re was probated in the Adams circuit court, and letters of administration with the will annexed were issued to Elmer Baumgartner. The latter file 1 his application as administrator after Corliss Lalsure, named executor by the will, filed her renunciation. The application notes a personal estate of probable value of >3.000, and bond . for 16,000 approved. Estate L Closed The proceedings tor the estate of John Yager were declared closed by the court following the filing of the final report by admin-istrator-Leo Yager, which showed a-balance, of >6,790.49 and the distributing of certain stocks and bonds. Sureties k’ere released and administrator discharged. I ■;j ■ ; t ‘ 0— 4) Modern Etiquette | BY ROBERTA' LEE ' I 0 — —U 0 Q. What is the distinction between. “American plan” and “European hotels? J s , A. “American pian” means so much a day for room, including table d’hote meals. In the European plan” hotel, the prices of rooms include no food. And the restaurant charge is so much for each dish' ordered. i Q. At a wedding reception, who should btand in the receiving line, and in what positions? A. The bride should stand at the right of the bridegroom, with her maid ,of honor on her right, the bridesmaids next. h Q. May one use the knife to cut open a muffin? A. Neter! Bread of all kinds should be broken open with the fingers, never cut. Since 1937< Sjebra?ka has had the only one-house.l or unicamcriai. legislature tn the nation.

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