Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1952 — Page 11

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Kindness Pays Off HARTFORD, Conn. UP — The state tax department reports there’s truth in the adage about catching more flies with honey than vinegar. The department said kind words are proving more successful in getting delinquent taxpayers to cough up than the old method of lyiving them arrested.

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(Pop Quells Fire j ELIZABETHTOWN, 111. UP °— : ‘A soft dripk bottler, Harry liortda. finds sodai pop can squelch a fire Hli * \ ,hg well a$ quench thirst. A* blaze lybroke. outs in paper and shingles •aboard a truck and l>orris killed ■the fire by shaking bottle after Lottie with his thumb oyer the Unicapped top and squirting pop on ithe flames.

Few Get More \ MEXICO CITY, UP — An economics sprvey conducted by the newspaper El Universal showed 55 percent of the national Income goes to p manufacturers representing eight- percent of the Mexican population. Wage earners and agriculturists representing 91 percent of |the population take 45 percent.

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Bartender Weeps ANNA, 111. UP—After a night of listening to sad stories from L customers. Bill Harris, a bartend,er I had ia sad tale to relate. While closing, he picked up an 6bjec||, left, behind by a patron and it exploded, releasing tear gas. Harris was hospitalized overnight for ey<f burns. it I 1 ! r

Dogs Weep Too ! CORINTH. Miss. UP — The jnQther dog gently picked up the jtlead puppy in her mouth and carried it across the highway where ishc buried it in a wooded spot. v'Wlicn she came back, she had tears in he‘r eyes," slid R. F. ?Ross.

'Copters Deliver Mail In Belgium Take Over Delivery Os Mail In Belgium BRUSSELS (UP)— Europes first regular helicopter air mail service, run jointly by the Belgian post office and Belgian airlines celebrated its “coming-of-age” this month. It is 21 months, in September, 1950, since the first helicopter took oft from Haren Airfield near Brussels on a round-Belgian collection and distribution trip. r Since then Belgians have become so accustomed to seeing the wasjplike niachipes carrying the “flying postman" hovering‘above their cities that they seldom look up- ''A i. The idea of pioneering the helipost In Belgium came to Postmas-ter-General M. Pineaux two year-s ago after a trip to Peterborough England, where he witnessed a maneuverability demonstration by helicopters. On his return he consulted Belgian Airlines (Sabena) and arranged for the purchase of two Amerjcan-built machines. A j ' trip Os 230 Miles Since then, six days a week, one of the two helicopters operating the service takes off from Haren on its 23(kmile trip around Belgian cities. The machine makes ten stops en route at Brussels. Libramont, Liege, Tongres, Hasselt, Beringen, Herenthals, Turnhout, Antwerp and again Brussels. An average of 12,000 letters are picked up or deposited on the I four and a half hour daily run. The landing grounds, or “heliports" as the liost office calls them, vary from football grounds to broad highways. The tight schedule provides for stopovers lasting only one minute except for the one re-fueling stop per trip, when seven minutes are allowed. , The slow-flying but highly-ma-neuverable aircraft can operate in weather which would ground most orthodox aircraft and in many cases delay mail trains. During last winter, with its fogs, blizzards and freezing weather, the helipost gqt through 95 per cent of its scheduled ’trips. In summer the efficiency rate is as high as 99 per cent.i ' 1 Only One Accident Only accident has happened fifteen days after the inaugural flight, a helicopter crashed into the River Meuse at Liege when its engine failed. The pilot swam ashore and the mail, carried in waterproof panniers strapped to the fuselage of the machine, was salvaged. The helicopter was back in service a few weeks later and is still flying. Letters delivered by helipost cost more than ordinary mail. In fact, thousands of Belgians whose mail has been carried by this means ate not aware of it. There are no special stamps or postmarks tb differentiate helipost letters from those! carried by ordinary transport. Summer Theater Old , LAKEWOOD, Me. (UP)—Anyone who has idea that the summertime country stock theater is a relatively modern invention shbuld not air his ignorance here. The Lakew’ood Theater began its 52nd year on June 7. It is the oldest such theater ip the east.

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America's First Flag Flies lAt Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (U.P.) — Visitors to this restored colonial, city until the Fourth of July will a strange flag iflying from the cupola of the 18th century Virginia capitol and from standards along historic Duke of Gloucester street. The flag looks ITEe’ a hybrid between our own Old Glory and the British flag. Actually it is a combination of the familiar red and white stripes and the British Union Jack. The Grand Unioij Flag, as it is called, was first national 'flag. It was thei first ban» ner to fly over new’lytraised regiments of the Continental Army or to .wave in the breeze from the masts >of the ships of the young Continental navy. Now almost forgotten. the Grarid Union Flag has been unfurled to help mark the 176th anniversary of the Virginia calling for American independence. \ Origin Unknown Unlike the Betsy Ross tradition's surrounding thei Stars and Stripes, the origin of/* the Grand Union Flag is unknowjn.\ It first appeared on Jan. 1, at General George Washington's camp at Cambridge, Mass. It was flying from a 76-foot mast frjom a burned schooner, high enough to be seen by observers in distant Boston. Three days later it was seen in Philadelphia waving from ships in the fleet of Commodore Hopkins when the fleet sailed into hostile Waters. One of the ships displaying the Grand Union Flag was Jhe Alfred, commanded by John Paul Jones, i The Grand Uriion Flag was adopted for by the hayy and it flew forts and barracks ashore

- CHINA II liiß! THAILAND FRENCH —Wliyg - ; 1 g. INDO CHIN A ~ I A PRO-FRENCH “non-political" gov* ernment, with nearly all cabinet posts filled by princes and mem-1 bers of royal entourage, is in control in Cambodia following King Norodom Sihanouk Varmen’s (left) t action In setting himself up as premier. The 30-year-old king brought' about resignation .of Premier Huy Kantou and extremists who fa-1 vored complete independence from. France. Black areas in Ipdo-China map (above) locate principal centers of Communist-supported Vietminh rebels. (International)

but it was' formally adopted by the Continental Congress. By April, 1776, it was shown on paper currency in South Carolina. Hoisted Over Capitol On May 15, 1776, the “Union Flag of the American States" was hoisted over the Colonial Virginia here after the British Flag had been hauled down. The Union Flag was raised to mark the unanimous passage of the Virginia resolutions calling for separation from Great Britain. Historians say that when the Flag was, arised in Williamsburg It, appropriately reflected the political thought of the time. M. M. Quaife, author of the book “The Flag of the United States,” says that although/ihe colonies had appealed for a redress of grievances they still considered themselves loyal subjects of the king. ' Flag Symbolic Thus the flag, with its alternate red and Wh|te stripes and the British Union Jack in the uppdr left corner, signified the coloniet' loyalty to the crown and their new union among themselves. The Grand Union Flag Continued to use until v the Declaration of Independence, which ended the possibility of reconciliation and settled questions of loyalty. Oil June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress enacted the first' legislation creating an American flag. A simple "'substitution of thirteen stars was made for the British crosses in the Grand Union Flag. Sky High MEMPHIS, Tenn. UP —Richard Kite and Paul Angel are pilots. Trade in a Good Town —Decatur!