Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1952 — Page 6

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Deadly Cyanide Is Flowing Down River Worn Hoosiers Stoy Away From Wabash \ -} 'ii . ■ LAFAYETTE, Ind. UP —■ More than 3,000 gallons of deadly cya? nide flowed down the Wabash today and authorities warned Hoosiers to 'stay away from the river. A crew of staie health and conservation employed launched a rowboat and floated with thq poison to watch its effects and shoo swimmers, fishermen and animals away from the rivfer. i Health and conservation authorities conferred hastily in Indianapolis Thursday when they learned that workmen at a Lafayette industrial firm had accidentally dumped the cyanide into the Wabash. ; a. They sent an emergency'patrol to watch the banks of the fabled river and to take samples of 'the wa}er all along the way. 'il’he samples i will probably be tested in Indianapolis today, said Dr. L. E. B,urney, state health commissioner. The poison ha<| already killed hundreds of fish as it drifted lazily southward, but nt» human beings were reported dead or ill. | | The cyanide is drifting? at. a rate of about 1 mile per hbur and is expected to reach the c|ty of Terre HSute, Ind., sometimb (Saturday. ' ? \ Terre Haute its drinking water from the Wabash, and a state health expert has already been sent there to test, the water for contamination, ; I Sanitation workers doubed, however. that the, cyanide Would, seriously poison (lie Terre Haute drinking water. ' The poison spurted into the

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fiver Tuesday when workmen at the'Peerless Wire Goods Co. here* attempted to transfer it by hose from one tank to another. Burney said the concentration of poisbn at the point where it entered the stream was 480 times more powerful than that necessary to kill fish. V \ Robert W. Heider, assistant chief engineer for the state health board, said: “It was one of the biggest fish killings we have ever had in Indiana." M , .. . ——•——- ■ The addition of baking soda to vinegar causes it to “fizz” due to a chemical reaction betweerj the acetic acid in the vinegar and the baking soda, which forms a large number of small bubbles of> car-' bon, dioxide gas. 1

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Performance Test Os New Plant July 22-23 / i \ ... ' A performance and efficiency test of the city’s new diesel plant at Hamilton, 0., will be held July 22 and 23. All city officials — and interested parties —have been invited by the management of Lima-Hamilton-l-builders of the diesel. It is not yet known who is going to the demonstration, but there is great anticipation among the city officials of the outcome of the tests. It is those tests which will dotertnipe diow much money the city will save by their employment. Mayor > John Doan hopes many of the. city’s officials will attend the tests and urges all to try and make it.

Polio At Epidemic Stage In 9 States Indicates 1952 To \ Be Worst On Record NEW YORK, UP — Polio cases in epidemic proportions were reported today in local areas of lowa, New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, South. Dakota, Nebraska, West Virginia, Ohio and Florida by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.. Epidemic proportions means 20 or more cases per 100,000 population. Indications were that 1952 will be the heaviest polio year on record, exceeding even that of 1949, the record year. . At the end of ; this year’s’, 28th W'eek, July 12, there were 5,352 cases. The figure for the period last year was 3,856 and for it was 4,878. total cases for 1949 was 42,366 and the total so far this year is 28,668. For the week ended July 12, 1,0’47 new cases were reported. For the comparable week of 1949 new cases totaled 1,014 and in 1951 it

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President To Leave Hospital Saturday To Convention After Nominees Selected WASHINGTON. UP -President Truman, (comforted by the presence of h|s wife, today spent what he hoped would be (his last day of medical tests at the army’s Walter Reed hospital. Mr! Trutnan is scheduled tA leave the hospital sbrnelime Saturday am} return to the Whjte House fbr a quiet Week end before settling down by his- telephone and vision set for the iDemocratic national convention tn Chicago. Mr. Truman st ill ( plans to go tb Chicago next Thursday or Friday to address.the convention after the delegates have selected, the Democratic presidential and vice pi tsidential nominees. White House staff members were optimistic about the President’s physical condition? Apparently he has thrown off most of the effects of his virus attack. Thursday was the first day since Sunday that he had no fbver. Mrs. Truman, who arrived Thursday morning from Independence, Mo., had lurich. and dinner at the hospital with the President but returned tq the White House for the night. ‘. ‘i'[.~?' Iv ’V ■ <•; ■ was 615. The peak of the “polio year” is reached |n tire last week of August or the first week of September. The foundation said it will not be possible to estimate the proportion oU'tbis, year’s epidemic until the peak is reached. The foundation was receiving and meetyig requests from various areas. It flew five respirators from Boston to Omaha where 35 new cases were hospitalized. Go to the church or your choice next Sunday.

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W' ■ IK . ■ iSRS. PERLE IMESTA, minister tc Luxembourg, ! indicates her favorite Democrat by pointing to a Truman button in Chicago, where she s scheduled to address the Demoiratic convention. ' (International) Halleys ■ comet, in 1910, came within 54;870,00(» the sun, and then went around it at about 24 miles per second. . y i The heaver yields a peculiar stiiistance called dastoreum, an oily, heavily scented substance formerly used in medicine.

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FRIDAY. JULY 18, 1952

Motorist Fined As Reckless Driver , Sangor Huey 1 , 54. of Bryant, involved July 11 in an accident with Melvin Bixler, 26, of Geneva, was fined $10; plus costs in justice of the peace court today. The charge was reckless c riving. The, mishap occurred near Geneva on the Adams-Jay county line, when Huey crashed into the rear of Bixler’<| 'car.- All four occupants of Bixler's car were slightly Injured, received medical treatment. The damage to both cars was estimated at $350. ■. t j One of i the largest clubs in the world, open to all the>-600,000 members of the stjiffs of British Railways. the(ir wiivesy arj'd: children, will be irtaiigufaic-d next Jan. 1. it will furnish shorts, mu.-ye, drama, arts and crafts and stagfe competitions, the subscription being five cents a Week. ' j. ‘ i |dr-_ — . V Squirrel monkeys are not specially intjtlligent. yet liave'a brain case pi oportinnately larger than ■ ■■' ' ; - i Cottontail rabbits are the most prolific reproducers of upland game anlnials. with females averaging 15 progeny per year. •• . ___L —_ ' . Chile was the first country in the. We.slt rn Hemisphere to introduce a Social security system, in 1925. . «