Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1953 — Page 9

'S> . SECTION TWO

RODEO TICKETS NOW ON SALE QVEgLTHE COUNTER SALES " MAIL ORDER SALES OFFICE 13 END ORDERS AND 218 1 MAKE <’HECKS PAYABLE T TO RODEO TICKET OFFICE 7!’£¥ 1 H Y?'' I \ K ' 3 i 4l k ' HOTEL VAN OILMAN (OPEN BIG Mar. 27 2 ® » Shows Mar 2R 1 5J2.40 $3.00 •<J snOWS Mar. ZS speriFy Date on Mail orders iiiw^rnNglilij lijia£i.iiaiiwfc ■iiimi.U n*u i h mi ■■' 4 I»harti«-cuff ■' V 7 A kl oUse ' x -•/ £) * jf 1 peart-liniced - As. • /W?\ ' f in \v/ n \ f V -. Yr—*7. W. Jf | o IC-X> ff/i •*• i J 7 1 H- x '*w* .'t\ *' ~A ' | Z s \lf / / 1 WWfKlr 7 S WRMBMSIMEIB Pin-money shirt W with a million-dollar manner! ‘ ■ 1 V Fine broadcloth with a lovely sheen » F ** ’ * n P ear l buttons f / and links. Custom details: 1 / i high-or-low Johnny collar, ' % / 1/1 i shortie French-cuff sleeves. : Combed cotton in white, p| \ flower-petal pastels, glamour darks | . k so washable! Sizes 30 to 40. m HALTERMAN’S - Formerly The Douglas Store t

INO MONEY DOWN AT GOODYEAR I I On This Outstanding Value! I I 1 WITH THE PURCHASE OF I I r 11 ART HEW 1953 HOTPOIHT ■' I I |i ‘ _!l i 1 1 I . \ j jjkw mH *REFmimm JJ3K ■ ' il ■ ■ I "mr Vou Will "eceive HnO Pant' Ifflfe. ’>« I I i i t«r ° n| y --- - - uneucni PT >k I I - F U“ - V * I I 11 Chrome Dinette Set * „ I . ' i ' . ■ ' ■ •'..' ' • .: g I BUY THIS REFRIGERATOR Smmmetie SET .’.‘ W "ni HO MONEY DOWN I J niIIETTE GET mWO-W UIIIIIII UlI - - - .Ul ON TIRES, APPLIANCES, TV SETS and DINETTE SET f . . M<wac andradios I FOR ONLY use ° ur 4s ™ plan ! I I AJI [NN per Q ur Accounts I I " I good/Vear I :2X" n I DALE H. ALBER. Manager ★ JNO CO Signers I NO MONEY DOWN! 1 Phone 3-2009 : j . SU | * Y ou Set- Thp Terms _ hh^MH l^ Hhbhhhhbh|bhm^hhbb^h^h —

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Seeks To Dispel Wrong Ideas On Conservancy

In' two articles, Thomps P. Riddle, jJr., executive secretary oftMie Forti Wayne Citizen’s Civic Association, Inc., will aim his remarks directly at the people in Adams county with the hope that it will dispel; what he called erroneous ideas about the northeastern Indiana conservancy district. Riddle made a statement earlier this week that petitions would be circulated in the various counties concerned after they (tha counties) had an opportunity to hold meetings. The counties within the proposed district are: Adams, Allen, J DeKalb, Steuben an# LAG range. Said Riddle: r “Drainage problems are not confined; to political boundaries Just as traffic problems are no respectors of boundaries. And water is the. coipmort denominator that cities, counties and states together. After all, Decatur and Adams county get their water from Ohio. “Water problems, unlike traffic

problems, are confined to a given drainage basin, the Maumee basin watershed, in this case, and must be solved by coordination of plans. A conservancy district provides the vehicle for coordinating plans for the conservation of water and soil resources financing. The district is also useful in executing improvements and equitable distributing the costs according to the benefits derived by each unit of the; district,” Riddle made mention of the U. S. engineer’s office at Detroit, Mich., which keeps an accurate yardstick down through the years of the damage various localities suffer from flood rampages. He sai<F this measurement would be used to determine the blenefit derived by the people in the counties concerned when tpe time comes to assign charges for benefits. I About this, Riddle said the records at the. Detroit office show that where Fort Wayne suffered badly in a flood id 1913, Decatur’s loss was negligible. Riddle pointed out that if a measure were to be taken to lessen the danger of flood to FOrt Wayne, the l|ona share of the benefit, and possibly all; trout# be assessed against Fort Wayne. The guarantee of this, he averred.

Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, March 26, 1953.

is the accurate measurement of what should be charged iu the, Detroit offices. ", >“We are all stockholders in the Maumee Valley’s productive plant because the resources of power, stream flow, grass, forests and soil are locked together in’ oUr farm and industrial economy. Y “Adams economy rests not on the resources (of Adams alone but on the resources and economic prosperity of those who reside within the scope of the Maumee watershed.” 4 -Riddle testified that the problem is to get rid of the wafsr .in the flat land in the center por-. tions of the Maumee watershed. He said the highest elev'ation Of’ the shed is 1,120 feet. TJhe flats are where the problems are, he explained, where the elevation is 650 feet and lower. , ’-The general character of the flat lands,” he offered, “is such that the farmer must get rid of water in sufficient quantity, ,and

* Us I. lb 1 x B > .... -p.. •. t 4 ' ’ — • Joanne at birth. Doctor’s rubber-gloved hand la almost an big as she. JOANNE RUSSO, so small at birth three years ago she was given little chance to live,; is shown celebrating third birthday in New York. But a painful note is injected into the birthday cake ceremonies, for her sister, Rosemary, is afflicted witlutUare disea.se. Copley’s aneipip. and must have a blood transfusion every two weeks. Rosemary is not expected to live through next winter.' ' (International Soundphotos J

quickly enough, so that he can work his land. “Counties have always been burdened and have always run short of funds when problems arose requiring construction to deal with f Stream and ditch difficulties. “Both nature and man have ways of clogging ditches and if i these ditches are not cleared and . kept in control 1 , the farmer on , highlands, draining water, off on I his neighbor, living lower, becomes ■ a problem.” kiddle said that with tpe advent i of the conservancy district such problems would be ht\ an end: counties, he said, would be relievi ed of the financial responsibility i fqr both the maintenance and construction of ditches and improved outlets. “It is more economical,” Riddle maintained, “'to ibral with ditch problems — drainage, con- ' struction. maintenance —on a watershed basis than to treat it on an exclusive basis.” ' Riddle cited the possibility of •ra county doing segregated work on ditch construction and water control and adding, in relieving i its problems, other problems to | adjacent counties. ; Such occurrenb-

es would not he possible with the Coordinating features of a conservancy district in action, said Riddle. ' On the front, Riddle said the device of jmpoundages would be used by engineers to control the flow of the St. Mary’s, and St. , Joseph! rivers. pointed out that since the St. Mary’s was a slow moving river much of the time, its average flow would be increased throughout the year so as to prevent-waters from choking the rjver at certain times of- the year while it is almost stagnant, at other times. \ R'iddlq said the St Joseph river would be slowed by the same device, damming, thus permitting each river converging upon Fort Wayne to, so to spfeak, take its

|l 1 . , ' Special Center IceiCream For Easter h . ~ ' ■ *' J ” . ;. ■ ■ l - ■ ; i ll ' '""4" N 1 1" l 1 ij.l n I ■■■! !■!. 181 I 111 i JIIIIIJ M/jAllll!IJIIIIH . CHOICE OF CENTERS b / _ Rabbit-Chicken-Tulip . 55c Q t. ■ . v . X * IN THE BRICK / 1 "" ■ 1 — -- ■. ■ EQUITY’S FAMOUS FLAVOR OF THE MONTH Lo, k g u r r/r by I®® Cream, UHEESk j ALMOND TOFFEE 59c Lb. 49c Qt. 90c GaU Mild - Tasty ■ Flavorful It’s New—Different—Delicious EQUITY DAIRY STORES FRANK - LYBARGER, Mgr. DECATUR. IND.

turn in flowing into the Maumee rjver and back to Ohio. . The second article win appear in next Saturday’s Daily Democrat. 4, i Electronic Cop LYNN, Mass. UP — traffic signals are equipped with “eyes”, now. General Electric t’o. has developed an electronic device that “sees” lines of cars at an intersection and automatically regulates the lights to keep traffic moving at an even pace. i 4 ’ ■; f ’ j ■ \ '"* TH ~~ Book Passers VER,MILLION, 10. UP — When the new high school building here was completed, Ann Chadwick,

librarian, solved the problem of moving her books from one' building to the other by employing the old “bucket brigade” technique. Students lined up between the old and the new, libraries and passed the books from hand to hand. Crow COLUMBIA, Conn. UP — Mrs. Walter Wheaton didn’t mind when her pet crow, Jim, began stealing little items around the house and hiding them. And she was onlv slightly peeved when he started clothes pins from lines full of wet wash. But it was too much when he swiped an envelope containing 12.67 from a neighbor. Jim is on notice to find a new home. " 1 |