Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1953 — Page 9

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Aviation Board To p Hold First Meeting ( A, Early Meeting Os City Board Likely Members of the newly formed ' Decatur board of aviation commis- ■ signers likely will hold their first i meeting within the ‘next few days, it was revealed today:

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Commissioner Jacobs said Mayor Jdhn Doan has indicated to him that thejs, organisational meeting of the boaird, to elect of* Tiers. would take place very soon! Other members are Andy Appel-I man, Robert Smith and Roberts Cc.le. | R is known that .Mayor Doan has up calling the first meeting until all the commissioners were done wjth their vacations. | The duty of the board—inde-1 pendent of the usual municipal controls—is to determine the reus-

ability of city-operated airport. They are tdKinvestigate the possibilities, exi&tsfes and income of an airport B (he city. They also will determpje how much an airport would ?ie used provided the city should J jnance an airstrip. It is genet|jly conceded that the : obvious plac&Hor the commissioners to start Bblring is the airstrip owned and Operated ait present by .Miss Josfeihine Ivetich. called | the “Ili-Way;®i|port.” aVthe south limits Os tWOcfty on U. S. highway 27. jCole, and Jacobs, have already taken flights with ihliss Ivetich. A campaign was started last summer to ge| up interest in the airport idea ahd the city council has followed through in its promise to study The advisability of having a board set up. The board is legally empowered by a state i statute entitled, “the act of 1945.” The council last month i voted unanimously for the formation of the bpard. | Fishing On The Job | j Wash., UP — ! William B. Shaul. 53, manager of the fisli ladder at Rock Island Dam. was fined SIOO and given a 30-day jail sentence. A State'Fish- ! eries Department inspector. Art Walfeins; said he found Shaul, with tKvq salmon and a gaff in his 1 possession, standihg in the middle of the ladder. ! i'l - . ■ ■■ China Gets Auto Plant HONGKONG, UP —The cornerstone for China’s first automobile I plant was laid July 15 in North- , east China, according to a New i China News Agency report published here. The exact site was not disclosed. The agency said the plant had been planned by Soviet experts > and would be equipped with Soviet machinery.

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German Starts '•" < ■ New Search For White Indians German Explorer 1 , To Search Again J For White Indians I BONN, Germany, UP -j- A yoqng German explorer is heading hajcklto the Guianas this year in' his second attempt to find the fabled “white Indians” of the TumjicHumac Mountains. Manfred Rauschert told rejidrters he failed twice\last year to, get through to the “white Indialnk,’’ > once because his Wayana bearers went on strike, the tittle because one of the three Frenehmen he was teamed with became' hysterical in the South American jungle. “There are a lot of stories about these ‘white Indians.* ” bearded Manfred said. “But all that is certain is that as long as anyone can remember they nave driven uninvited guests from their homeland by attacking them With giant-poison-tipped arrows. I | “Everything else—whether skin actually is as white as thait lot Europeans, whether they hjave long beards, and whether tjh|ey really have Herculean strength all this is yet to be proved. That is why I am going back. On my last trip. I gathered iai lot of information from the people? of Dutch and French Guiana.' Most of the stories concerned battles between outfits prospecting for gold and the**white Indians.” Fist Fight ’I • “But some individuals apparent-

ly have won the ’white Indians’ friendship. For instance, there are stories of a Brazilian missionary who visited them. Then there is a much-feared hunter, a man who studies ’black magic’ and ‘ other similar matters. “I met him three times, and he told me many interesting' things. I hope this year to find out how much of it was the truth.” -. Rauschert said he made two attempts to strike through tk> the home of the “white Indian**” last yjear. The first failed, he said/ because hjs Wayana bearers . refust'll to enter the “white Indian? territory. . -C’The second time,” he sgid, “I tried it with three, Frenchmen. That was , most unpleasant; One night, deep in the jungle, dne of Frenchmen suddenly became hysterical. There was a tunhilt in our tiny shelter Qf\leaves, and a terrible fist fight. We almost massacred each other, because? each tfl&ight the other was the dttacker. We returned to the base the nsxt day. f » New Plans “Later the man who. hap become hysterical gave a radio sinterview and told his French countrymen all kinds of stories aboiit the White giants. He said nothing about our fight.” “I have,” he continued, ‘!<ome Up with a special trick for setting through to the ‘white this time, and 1 hope it ys-orks.” \ Rauschert wouldn’t reveal his “trick,” however. Last year, Rauschert said, he learned a couple of things. I'pr nistance, this year, he will. take with him only tennis shoesS; one pair for each month in the jungle, since leather shoes are useless there. ,a> His cameras and other Equipment will be packed in |mall, light, watqr-tight metal peases which wlil he- fastened beneath the seats of- she canoes so that even if they .Aurnupside-down, nothing Will be lost. ft ' Instead of a pack for his;|bpyk. Raqschert said, he will this’year carry his emergency rations' ip small bags slung over a shoulder.

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States, Cities Act To Abolish Slums Nation's Attack On Slums Stepping Up CHICAGO, UP — The nation’s attack on slums has ,been stepped up since? the first of the year, the National Association of Housing Officials- reports. Illinois and Maryland have given cities new laws to get tough on rundown areas. Cities in.iother states are Setting up their own programs. \ At Trenton. N. J., Wilmington. N. C., and Los Angeles, new minimum housing codes have been adopted and crack-downs on law violations stepped up. Similar laws are being consid-

ered in Houston, Tex., Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Gary. Ind., and Pittsburgh, the association says. Chicago Commission Illinois allows cities to set up housing conservation Commissions with the right to condemn property and buy, sell or lease real estate to enforce over-all plans for city improvement. ...Chicago has set up its own elty commission on neighborhood conservation, only city in the country so far to recognize conservation of housing standards a$ a separate aspect *pf slum-fightihg. the association adds. In Detroit, the city council has provided $50,000 for the city plan commission to finance a neighborhood rehabilitation program-? The real estate board in the Norfolk-Portsmouth, Va„ area has started a project to show bow slums can be prevented. A city block has been set aside to showhow basically good buildings can be kept liveable and improved by repairs and renovations.

Window Trap J EDENTON, N. C., UP Lillie Belle Wynn, a „ laundress, knew just what to <io when she found a burglar trying to crawl through a window in her home. She lowered the window on the midsection of.''? the struggling burglar s and held there until the sheriff arrived. . ! . .. _ Hot Bullet FORT WORTH. \Te£. UP—Bob- / by Jenkins, 9. got shot for ddffig a good deed. Spotting a traph fire back of the apartment house where he lives, he picked up a handful of dirt tossed it on the flames i; to keep them from J spreading to a back sense. The dirt contained a live bullet that exploded. The slug hit the boy on the side of the head. '■ L ' AIf you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results. Trade in a Town -- Decatur 1