Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1952 — Page 12

Gate Crashing Costs ' ft* ARLAN, Ky., UP — Two teenboys learned that a one-cent fine for slipping into a movie is store expensive than paying at, the box office. The youths got a sur* ; prise when court costs totaling •>15.60 were attached to their fine and they both ended up paying $15.51 for a movie they didn’t even get to see. ' i - j Germany has 10 leaning towers whose departure from the perpen* dicular has fascinated visitors for generations, the tower at Metz* gerturn leaning six and a half feet from the normal upright, according to the German tourist qffice., -

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Rod And Reel Opossum NAGS HEAD. N. C. UP—Mrs. Nellie Pridfceri -caught an opossum with rod and reel. After fishing in the. nearby duif' she left her rod and reel on the porch without removing the bait. Later she found that an opossum had gotten itself hooked while tiding to remove the 'shrimp. ' i f ■ i

Cartridges Sound Alarm ’ LOQMis, Calif. UP — Frank Dcwihg credits ,rifle cartridges with saving his life,jeven though they were never taken, from their box. The explosion of the cartridges awakened Doring in time to flee

his flaming home. Combing The Voter J pOSTON UP r-i\ Democratic forper State Sen. Joseph Murphy, who is running again this fall for political office, passed out pocket combs on which was printed: p‘l don’t need this — but Massachusetts needs Murphy/’ Murphy is almost completely baldheaded. The children’s bureau says that 1.0100.000 children are picked up by poji<?e each year. Os these, 300,000 are brought into court* for their delinquent behavior.

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Rural Phone Service Aided By REA Funds By PATRICIA WIGGINS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON UP — One day last summejr a Virginia electric company receiv9d a $200,000 federal loan to bulla some new power lines. The following day a telephone cooperative in Kansas got a. $602,000 loan to help- replace hand crank phones along its farm circuit. Both loans and hundreds of others like them, were approved by the Rural Electrification Administration. The REA* is one govetn--1 ment agency that has won friends on both sides of the political fence for, boosting electrification on American farms and putting the farmer’s phone service on a par with his city cousins. The REA, headed by Claude R; Wlckard, a former secretary of ag* riculture, under a 10-year presidential appointment, has been in the electric loan business much longer—since 1935 —than the telephone .business — authorized by congress in 1949. But just recently, personnel shifts ’ and other ihoves undertaken to put the emphasis on telephone loans, where most work remains to be done. The demarid for rural telephone service is noW about the same as the demand for electricity 15 years ago. By July 1. 1952, REA had approved $2,592,629,925 in loans to 1,080 electric borrowers — chiefly non-profit and cooperative or public organizations. More than 84 percent of the country’s farms are now wired for electricity and mod-, ern farm practices against Ift percent that were electrified in 1936 when the federal program started. More than half thef new farms electrified in that time are on REAfinanced systems, The loans bear two percent interest and borrowers have a maximum period of 35 years to repfty them. Nonetheless, $343,000,000 had been returned to the federal treasury on principal and interest payments by April 1, 1952. Only one loan foreclosure has marred the books. Under the telephone program, REA hafc approved loans totaling $82,000,000 to 190 borrowers. Many of the Joans have not yet been .advanced, and no payments are due' for about five years in the new program. But one anxious borrower has already paid off his $23,000 loan. , Rural telephone service has lagged far behind, other rural advances. According to U. S. census figpres, fewer farpis had telephones in 195 ft than in 1920 w'hen rural telephone - service hit its peak. The 38.7 percent of the farms that had telephones in 1920 fell to 25 percent in 1940 and had only increased to 38.3 percent in 1950, despite a decline in the total number of farms. REA experts, who discuss the situation with the zeal of crusaders, explain the situation this way: In the early flurry of telephone

interest that put crank phones in 2,498,426 farms in 1920, there were no arrangements made for maintenance, replacement or improvements. The cost for a phone, line and central office was about $25 to S3O per farmer' who had about a 17-party line. < |i • When lines began to go bad, or pqles blew down, they just stayed .that way. And as the old systems got in woi*se shape farmers began to realize ,the need for better service. Merely to replace the old system, it would take SIOO per farmer today,, but for up-to-date equipment and iservlce like that within the cRy limits, the cost is closer to S4OO. This higher cost is what put a crimp in recovery of rural phone systems. Congress then moved in to speed up the process by authorizing REA to take on the rural telephone loan program. The REA makes no grants or Subsidies and maintains no rural electric or telephone facilities. It pierely acts as banker to local systems—and gives technical advice In, construction and operation problems. , Each year congress appropriates funds for REA programs, to. take into account carryovers- left from the previous year’s allotments. For fiscal. 1952, the REA has $245,000,00ft in its electric and $65,-

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000,000 in Its telephone lean program. • j Cautious Driver DETROIT, ! UP — Sometlmeu 4dps can be pretty hard to please. Mk?- Frank E. Wilson maintained her U-turn was legal and asked W|iat she di(l wrong. "You were too th® said an he handed her a ticket. | Drought Disregarded j MEMPHIS; Tenn. \UP — Th s Stiinmer drought played havoc with farmer’s crops but France Schulte fftund two flowers growing up through the iconcrete on a patio at his home/ 1 ■ —L.——' ■ Gas Deadly In Homes iUP —Carbon ide poisoning in the home kills about 1,000 persons a year, accord ing to the National Safety Coun cij. Such accidents are caused by gas leaks or| incomplete combustion of gas ini home appliances. Jansas is one of the leading gyßaum producing states In the country. I V'' . ■’ It you have sometning to sell or rooms for reht try a Democrat Want Ad. It s brings results.

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NEEDING MONEY to help finance his education, Melvin Blase is shown _ solving his problem near Columbia, Mo., where he is enrolled in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. Melvin brought along 80 head of registered Durocs from his home in St, Charles, Mo, rented a farm and is In business. flntematuMuUj

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