Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1951 — Page 6

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Interesting Facts Revealed By Census 1950 Census Shows Adams County Data A round-up of 1950 census facts -about Adams county, issued today by district supervisor Jefferson D. MePike of Fort Wayne, reveals that: _• ' ‘ ■ ' The county’s population increased.- 5.4 percent between 1940 and 1950 c e Dwelling units number 8,520; Farms number 2,030; The average sire of farm -is 100.4 acres; r The average value of land and buildings of Adams county farms i amounts to 117,339 per farm; 447 farmers reported that other

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income of the family was greater in 1949 than the valite of farm products sold; Six farms have! 500 or more acres; ? , 1,245* of the county’s 2.030 farms are fully owned by the operators; ,1,421 farms have telephones and 1,916 have electricity; 685 farms, have electric milking machines; v 510 farms have grain combines and 531 have corn pickers; - 461 farms haves motortrucks and 1,526 have tractors.; i Adams county farmers’ spent $1,443,809 for and poultry feed in 1949; Farm products ibid in 1949 amounted to $8,566,758. Livestock and livestock products, other than dairy or poultry,] accounted for $2,889,873 of the total. ■ Go to the church ot your Choice next Sunday.

WORLD'S LARGEST (Coatliwxl From Page Onei emotion from what he had seen below. ]f 1 1 ' “It looks like we lost them all,” he said. He refused'to say The rescuers worked in teams in the dust-filled darkness to build a “firei block’’ 1 aimed at smothering a dogged blaze that hampered rescue operations all night. \ The four badly .injured miners taken from the mine were removed to West Frankfort Hospital. Their faces were black with soft coal dust blown into the skin by the force of the blast, _ ■ About 25 women, all of them wives, mothers ans daughters of the men trapped below, broke through police lines and made their way to the shaft hehd where rescue headquarters were set up in the offices of the' Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal» Co., owners' of the .mine.

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14 UN PLANES (Co»tlnne< From Page Oa») Communist probing attack in undetermlned srenth waA reported up to mid-day Saturday. An Bth army communique said It was Easily repulsed |vest of Yortchon .on the western front. • i, The 45,60040 n U. 8. battleship Wisconsin U. N. forces on the east dpast Friday ; wjth a bombardment*' of six-inch shells,, then banged ton up the toast to batteY rubbled Wonsan. ' The sth air force report for the past week its planes cut Communist r4il lines between the' >alu river Manchurian border* and central K,orea in 515 places. They destroyed or ’damaged nriqre than 250 railway cgrs. Other, sth fair force planes destroyed 59 cjommunist £un positions and damaged 2a. -Jn addition, C7O vehicles Were destroyed. .1 , i . ' ■ .1

Bank Stockholders Meet January 15 -C 7 ■ ’ The annual meeting of stockholders nf The First State Bank will be held January 15, tor the purpose of electing a board of directors and transacting any other business that may come before the meeting. I The meeting will be in progress from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The election of oficers is expected to take place immediately following th naming of the directors. ( . — ; * . . Christmas Program Sunday Is Postponed Due. to tne death of infant Terry Duane Chronister, the Christmas program scheduled to be presented at the Mt. Zion United Brethren church Sunday evening has been postponed indefinitely.

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•MAGINE the confusion of Pvt. Antonio Apodaca on seeing his name on the Communists’ prisoner list when he isn’t a POW at all, but right there at Fort MacArthur, Cal. Apodaca lost his wallet while wounded with the U. S. 24th division. and he figures the Commies used the information in it to boost their records. Once in Korea he heard "Seoul City Sue" broadcast that he was dead. (International) * Bank Robber Given Five-Year Sentence Indianapolis, Dec. 22>-(UP)— Wilbur Gene Seibert. 28, Evansville, who robbed the Patoka National bank of more 'than $l,lOO last Oct. 5, was sentenced to five years in federal prison yesterday. Judge William \E. Steekler passed sentence after Seib.ert had pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges. Seibert also was accused of holdups at two loan companies. .. ...j .“ . ' 7 4I J ! Until 1948, Utah was a part of Spain’s Aiperican The accordion was invented at Vienna, about JB3O. There are at least three different types of malarial fever. Oysters can switch sexes in middle age. CHRISTMAS CHRISTS BIRTHDAY * ■ '• • 0 .. •. ■ , A Have you accepted HIM as your Personal Savior? Victory Prayer Band J. R. MEADOWS Founder and Leader Phone 3-4183 Decatur ■ 898 ST 7 w ' A ' ! nn 4 \ U in J L W 1951 H. FROHNAPFEL CHIROPRACTOR

IWR .•'U ILL - Christmas M ay joyful z hears of Christmas *» overflow with good cheer and happiness 7 ' for all our friends m/ ' y ' . ■> ** '\\ ■ - Hoosier Pete Service 1 j 13th and Nuttman “Dutch,” “Larry” and “Gene”

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951