Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1953 — Page 6

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We hope all celebrants see treir way clear to the New Year. 1 .0 ' g The world may have grown fcld with its burden of worries and cares, hut as January near®, it seems to gather new spirit. That spirit must keep us going during the coming months. 0- o-— I Derelicts in Chicago’s Skid l|ow _ flopped back to a spirit of decency when they took up a collection for a fireman’s family. The | reman was killed a couple weiks ago in a tenement blase and die men of shattered dreams wan ,ed to do something for their frigid. Soiled bills packed into a cl [ar box totaling |33, were delivered to the engine house and then s nt to the fireman’s family. _—o o_— ’ | The Red Cross needs at 1< Ist 184 blood donors to meet the county s ‘quota of 150 pints w] en the Bloodmoblle visits Deca ur next Jan. 8. Giving blood is = a life-giving act and a highly c< mmendable thing to do. Reservations Tor the coming visit of |fae mobile unit can be made throiKh the local Red Cross office aiid the women in charge will greatly appreciate the enlisting of voljnteers. You may save a life a.ia reward for your thoughtfulness in contributing a pint of blood Bo this worthy cause. | ■ '.'-Jlo 0— I Some of the economists taking of a “mild recession'*, but most men are confident that IS$4 will be prosperous for the nation. One of the experts said, “Evenßf industrial production falls |s much as five percent, below this year’s record, it would still lea|e 1954 as the second best in the country’s history". ? Another business leader said, “People |n general are optimistic about ne|t year’s income and feel that tfie present is a good time to bui". And 160 million Americans can’t be wrong. I —o—o—- — will reconvene neki Wednesday and President Eisenhower will give his “state of tse Union message’’ to the legislative body and to the nation. The s|bsion promises to be interesting and chuck-full of political maneuvering, although there will be! a r:; serious note to the delibetatioms in view of the outbreak of hostilities in Indochina and the possibility of an invasion in On the home front, reduction pf taxes will hold the most interest, along with resolving of a farjn - fe

* * A New Method Which Is Used In Checking q Male Cancer

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.Q. THE same thing that makes cancer of the prostate curable, also makes for fewer cures, i _ One of the reasons cure rate of this disease is low is because the tumor produce*, no symptoms in most instances until relatively late. However, it Up the cases that do not produce -any symptoms that are usually'the curable cases. | > In Routine It is usually detected by a phy- 1 Mcian when he does a routine examination of the patient In this procedure, he may dib a rectal examination and at ihat time he may feel a hard nodule ;? tn the prostate gland. If tills is discovered, a sample of th<tis- , sues should be examined tqr deA terminelf a cancer exists. Ih this early stage, many men can be cured of this type of cancel It has been estimated that at least three iplllion men Inthls country are suffering from ■cancer of the prostate. v Early Symptom | One of the first symptonis of this disease may be a difficulty in urination with pain and burping. . There may even be blood in the urine. Other symptoms may be pain in the bones and\ Joints, since cancer Os the prostate spreads readily through the body to the bones and joints, fi Recently, some of these eases I .. 1-

policy and employment President Eisenhower has asked for the support of leaders of his party and a test of his leadership will be shown during the first weeks of the session. 0 0 The count; commissioners will convene on New Year’s day andi complete their organisation with the election of a president. Several appointments will be made by the commissioners, major places to be filled being the highway supervisor and district assistants, a county Attorney, physician and nurse, a trustee of the hospital and a member of the alcoholic beverage board. The members will be busy on New Year’s day supervising the taking of the annual inventory at the county farm and will continue in session on Saturday in getting the wheels of government in motion for 1954. > -t-H-- ' o p Our Sister States:-*- , It is possible that Hawaii may become the forty-ninth state in the union at the next session of Congress. Hawaii’s chances re-. cently improved when Sen. Russell B. Long of Louisiana indicated that he would vote for a bill already approved by the house of representatives. His vote is believed enough to give the bill a majority. Southerners have been particu- > larTy"wary of statehood for Hawaii for this would enlarge the senate to the point where it might be easier to get enough votes to limit debate on civil rights legislation and thus put a crimp in the filibuster technique which has worked so well for protesting minority groups in the past. While Hawaii may be admitted, chances for admission of Alaska do not seem so bright. Both territories have been promised statehood many times by the platforms of both political parties. Political expediency rather than platform, however, usually guides a party’s actions between eleclions. It is unfortunate that party politics are allowed to'dictate whether or not these two territories are to be admitted to statehood. Americans like to Judge things on their merits and if Hawaii and Alaska deserve to be states they should be granted that privilege and the question of admission should not be a political football.

were treated with injections of radioactive gold. Since it does not spread its radioactive properties too far, it causes little damage to the surrounding tissues. Some damage to the rectum may occur. It is believed by some that the radioactive gold helps to form a thick fibrous ring around the prostate, preventing the spread of the cancer to other organs. Other Treatments The giving of female hormone and the removal of the prostate are usually helpful forms of treatment. - These procedures help check the spread of the disease and also remove the primary source. All in aU, the outlook for patients with prostate cancer is becoming better every day if the disease is detected early enough. That is one reason why regular physical examinations, including checking of the prostate gland, are so important in the middleaged and elderly. QUESTION AND ANSWER Miss L P.: I have begun to work under fluorescent lighting. I now notice that I am becoming bald. Could this type of lighting be causing it? I am a woman of twenty-four. Answer: No, if anything, fiuo-, rescent light would stimulate the scalp rather than cause baldness, for this type of light gives off some ultraviolet rays. v’ >. ■ ■ '

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0 0 (Household Scrapbook I | BY ROBERTA LEE j 0 o Marking Handkerchiefs _ T l' Try starching and ironing the new linen handkerchiefs before marking them. The name can then be written very small and will be very distinct Boiling Milk If milk should happen to boil over on the Stove or in the oven, sprinkle a layer of salt on the burning milk. Allow it to remain for a few minutes, then brush off. Chapped Lipa ■’ The use of cold cream, glycerine, or lettuce cream are all good for lips that are roughened and cracked. , The army signal corps main tains a total of 11 telephone channels connecting the United States with Alaska.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE LIBBY was tired after Wilder i left and went up to rest. When she : came down for dinner she looked ' much better and remarkably pretty in a blue dress a little dark- ■ er than her eyes. Hugo got there i as they were going into the diningroom. Libby had been unconscious , the last time Hugo saw her; Kit ; found herself watching them both ; closely. ( Philip was tn high spirits. William beamed on everyone, un- 1 snubbed Miriam was calm. Libby ■ was too gay, too volatile. While she was always lively, she had her feet solidly under her and knew in what direction she was going. Tonight she was strung on wires. Was it simply reaction, or was Libby frightened and trying to conquer her fear? After dinner Mr. Strait came, with the result of his investigation into Philip’s bank statement. He and Philip went into the study. It was William who had put the kettle on to boil in the kitchen in the small hours last week; it was William who had leaped through the window in Philip’s study when Kit pushed the door open. William had raised a cheque of Philip’s from SSO to SSOO. They were all there. Philip lashed at William with words. He was a rat, he was a snake in tfie grass, he was a fool —and he was going to pay for his folly. White-faced and crushed, William cowered before the storm, huddled down in a chair. Philip went on: “You thought I was safe in Mexico and that you’d have plenty of time to cover your tracks. You were caught short when my telegram arrived. You came up here that Monday night and my bank statement hadn’t come. You came again on Wednesday night and when we were all in bed and asleep you steamed the bank statement open and destroyed the cheque you altered.** Miriam rose majestically in the middle of the furore. "Stop, Philip. 1 won’t listen to any more. William did wrong, certainly. I’m not denying that—but don’t worry. I haven’t very much, but I will see that you’re paid back in fulL The trouble is you keep the poor boy too short.” Philip looked as though he were going to have a stroke—“l what?” Mirtsm repeated: “You keep the poor boy too short. Wealth isn’t given us to hoard. If you had been more liberal with him, this wouldn’t have happened. Come, William—come upstairs to my room with me.” William lurched to his feet and followed Miriam through the door. Philip stared after them speechless. No wonder, Kit thought angrily. Philip was the most generous man in the world. Money meant nothing to him. William was no relation of his and he was under no obligation to fill William’s pockets. % \ Libby was sitting bn a hassock near the open .window. She said with a troubled took. “You know

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,—, A 20 Years Ago Today 0 —L - ■ ■■■!' .. ? Dec. 30 —The Cade farm is deft initely agreed upon as site for the 48 houses to be built by the govi ernment and sold to local people. | John Dillinger is now rated public enemy No. 1 by the police and FBI. James Adams may be dismissed* as chairman of the state commission because he is openly supporting R. Earl Peters for sen-; ator. . I Arthur Fisher, 83, exporter and importer of fine horses to and, from Belgium, died this afternoon. Cloverleaf Creamery that Carl Klepper has been trans-:-ferred to Huntington as manager, and Heber Humbarger will charge here. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur J

I believe Pm responsible partly, 1 anyhow. William was spending on ' me. He brought me flowers and 1 candy, and once a hat. He left, it 1 behind ’the door when he went. It 1 was a color I can’t possibly wear, 1 a red—” I : She broke off and looked wonderingly from Hugo to Kit, who? had turned to stare at each other. Kit said: "What hat, Libby? That red straw cloche with the navy ribbons?” Libby nodded. “Yes. That’s the one. Why?" Kit told ber ; about the hat, how they had found ft with the crown smashed in on her bedroom floor. Had William done it, in some dark dream of frustration — because at that time they all still; thought Libby had. run off with Tony Wilder. The destruction of the hat didn’t seem to Libby much —but then she hadn’t; seen it. Philip’s rage reawoke. He went to the foot of the stairs and shouted. William . came down. He! denied having had anything to do with the hat. "I didn’t, I swear I? didn’t. I didn’t go into Libby’s! room at all.” i Hugo said: "If you jumped! out through the study ' window,! how did you get back into the! house? I locked that window after: you, and all the other windowsand doors downstairs were locked.”* William wiped his forehead. “Ij didn’t bet back in until morning; when the maid came. I told her that I’d been out for an early, walk and that I forgot to put thr door on the latch.” He looked at Libby, his eyes pleading behind; his thick glasses. “I wouldn’t do A thing like that, Libby. You know; it, don’t you?” Libby said gently; “Os course you wouldn’t, william.” Philip took William into the? study with him. “1 want to talk; to you.” He didn’t close the door? Going past it on the way into the kitchen for a drink of water, Kit heard Philip say: “Here’s SSO-— and the next time you’re shorty come and tell me like a man.” WilHam’s gratitude was fervent, “l! don't know how I'm ever going to be able to thank you, Mr. Haven, But I’ve had my lesson.” Mr. Strait, meanwhile, was talktag to McKee in a room in tha village inn. The Scotsman wasn’t surprised at the news about Wils 11am or Philip Haven’s He said with a grin: “That man would give his shirt away. He’s probably made an enemy of Wil# liam Grant fdr life.” | Strait shrugged. “I can’t see William Grant as the directing force behind this whole business; he hasn’t gdt the brains for it, or the daring. He’s a small-time chiseller.” McKee said perhaps. “But don’t forget, Strait, that William found the shoe that Libby Tallis kicked off, and hid it, so that those peapie kept on thinking Cora couple of days that the girl was all right, that she just—” The phone rang. He scooped it up. ' '. It was the desk clerk saying that I

Promoted to Corporal Milton J. Habegger, of Berne, was promoted to corporal while serving as a unit postal clerk at the army and navy hospital in Hot Springs, Ark. Cpl. Habegger, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Habegger, 506 N. Jefferson st., Berne, is a member of the 9954th technical service unit. Before entering the army in March, 1952, he was employed at the Dunbar Furniture Co. Home On Leave Thomas L. Coffee; son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Coffee of Decatur, arrived home Tuesday evening for a 15-day leave., Coffee is serving id the navy and is stationed at Jacksonville, Fla. . i ■ ' Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE I o o Q. Is it really considered correct to accept a second helping of food when your hostess offers it to you, or is this a sign of greediness? A. One may certainly take a second helping if one wishes. It is a compliment to the hostess’ cookery to do so. However, if you don’t care for a second helping, you may say, “No, thank you.’’ , Q. Is A godmother or godfather supposed to remember the child’s birthday with a present each year? A. You are expected to give the child a christening present. Any other gifts beyond this depends upon how much you think of the child. Q. Is it proper to use a rubber, stamp return address on one’s envelopes? A. In business correspondence, this is all right. Court News Marriage Licenses Donald L. Sipe, 21, route 1, Monroe, and Coretta Chamness, 21, route 1, Howe. Gene Boothby, 18, and Betty Steady, 17, both of Lima, O.

if the inspector wanted to see Mr. Wilder, he had just come in. His room number was 24. Strait went to 24 with McKee. On the way he • said: “Anything new on the blackmailer in New York you thought might be linked up with the extortion of the $25,000 up here?” McKee said: “Not yet.” Anthony Wilder was evidently not expecting visitors. He received them in shorts and a singlet, over which he threw an elegant bathrobe of crimson brocade. McKee’s opening question took Wilder by surprise. A young married woman named Margery Adams was the particular blackmail victim McKee was concentrating on. Hers was the most recent death. He said: “I believe you knew a Mrs. Adams, Mr. Wilder? Her first name was Margery.” McKee knew nothing of the kind. It was a shot in the dark. Wilder swallowed, moved his Ups about, “Adams, Adams Madge, they called her. I knew her but only slightly. It was quite a while ago. Something happened to her didn’t it?" “Yes, Mr. Wilder, she jumped off the George Washington bridge last December. 1 understand you were a good friend of hers.” Wilder had recovered himself. He protested McKee’s statement. “I’m afraid 'you’ve been misinformed, inspector. 1 met the woman around town occasionally, in bars—that was the extent of it.” McKee went on asking question. Eleanor Oaks? Yes, Wilder knew her, she had been very kind to him. Samuel Pedrick ? He frowned, annoyed but patient. “1* think I’ve seen the man you describe with Eleanor. May I ask what this is all about?” McKee said that they wanted his help. “You’re a friend of Miss Tallis—and you know what happened to her?” At the mention bf the girl’s name Wilder stopped acting and became human. He seemed to be genuinely in love with her. He said that he wished from the bottom of his heart that he could help, but he knew absolutely nothing that would be of the slightest assistance. McKee and Strait were going when the phone rang. Wilder didn’t pay any attention to it. Instead he crossed to the door and held it open. McKee remained where he was, close to the table on which the phone stood. “Go ahead and take your call, Mr. Wilder. We can wait.” Wilder had no choice but to obey. He picked up the receiver. The voice that came over the wire was clearly audible to both Strait and McKee. It was a harsh, rasping whisper. “That you, Tony boy?" \ "What do you want.” Wilder said loudly, beads of sweat springing out on his forehead. “Who are you?” he demanded. "Wait'S minute . . . Here, inspector —” He turned and held the instrument out to McKee. The line went dead. ' /To OowNmkmM WF

Opposition Is Voiced To Plan On Aid To Aged Drastic Overhaul Os Social Security System Is Opposed WASHINGTON UP — A proposal by Rep. Carl T. Curtis RNeb. for drastic overhaul of the social security system ran into strong Republican, Democratic and labor opposition today. Curtis is chairman of a house ways and means subcommittee which recently completed a lengthy study cf the Social Security program. He announced Tuesday night that he will introduce legislation at the coming session of congress to put government payments to the aged on an entirely At present there are two federal programs of the aged. Those who have paid social security taxes during their working lives are entitled to retire at the age of 65 and begin drawing monthly check?, based on the amount of their contributions. The money come out of the social security trust fund. Any person still working at a job that earns him 875 a month or more is not eligible for payments. In addition, the federal and state governments share the costs of direct assistance payments to needy aged who are not covered by social security old age insurance. To be eligible, a person must be 65 or over and in many states must file a “certificate of need" showing that they have no other means of support. In most states, the average payment is around |45. The money comes out of general treasury appropriations. Under Curtis* proposal, all persons over 65, whose current income is less than fl ,000 a year, would be given a minimum payment of 845 a month, regardless of any showing of need. The money would come out of the social security trust fund, but a person would not have to have contributed to the trust fund tn order to be eligible for checks. Curtis proposed blanketing additional millions, including virtually all self-employed and profession workers, under social security taxes and benefits. Even people whose sole income was from rents or investments would pay Social Security taxes. Rep. Robert W. Kean R-NJ, a close student of social security and a colleague of Curtis* on the ways and means committee, contended that the Curtis plan would endanger the soundness of the 18-billion-dollar social security trust fund.

Dtemocraticj sources said the* democrats on the ways and means committee also would resist the Curtis plan strongly. These sources said the proposal “definitely wou'd put the social security trust fund in jeopardy.” Joe Curran, CIO vice president and chairman of.itss octal security committee, said in a statement that the Curtis proposal would "threaten the benefits now available by raiding he trust fund and ending all federal grants to states for the aged and for dependent children.” — Find Discrepancies In Auditor's Books St. Joseph County Report Is Revealed INDIANAPOLIS UP — Discrepancies in the St. Joseph county auditor’s office records of $19,340.87 between 1947 and 1952 were revealed today by the Indiana state accounts board. Chief examiner Robert R. Wickersham said the matter was certified to the state attorney general. It includes alleged overcharges and allowances not authorised by law in the administrations of Nicholas Musser and Leon B. Miner, who were county auditors during the five-yearperlod covered by the audit. Among the payments cited by the board were $1,199.84 and $1,200 listed as “excessive salaries” paid Judge J. Clifford Potts of Probate Court and Judge Dan Pyle of circuit court Other citations included "unauthorised” salary and travel allowances for 10 deputies and clerks in the coroner’s office. A separate report said irregularities discovered in the St. Joseph county highway department records between 1950 and 1952 resulted in recovery of $6,262.16. The {regularities were found in the administration of Frank Odusch as superintendent. Most of them were $5,827 overcharges for gravel purchased from Jacob Rose, La Porte. Also included in the recoveries were $398.40 for an error in computing cost of bituminous materials from Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Goshen.

The People’s Voice This column is for the use of our readers who wish to make 1 suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of Interest No articles will be I published without signature of I the author. 0 0 Preserve Wild Life Reports have been coming to us frQm different farmers of Adams Co. of seeing many foxes on their farms. Evidence of this has been quite noticeable in the lack of birds and rabbits by all hunters this year-If you are a good sportsman you are interested in* wild life. Let’s unite our efforts in an all out war against the destructive fox family and preserve our wild life. I took the thne to cover quite an area during the Igst snow looking for signs of foxes. To my surprise I saw more tracks than I have seen in several years. Don’t just sit and whine about nothing to hunt, join the fox drives and not only enjoy a good fox hunt but save our wild life. Rev. L. T. Norris. Plan Guided Missile Center Installation Plan Construction At Gary Next Year GARY, Ind. UP —Construction of a 81,500,000 guided missile launching center to protect the Chicago metropolitan area from air attack will begin here after Jan. 1, city officials said today. Mayor Peter Mandich and Samuel P. Boise, chaitman of the Gary airport commission, said the installation would be emplacement No. 12 in the army’s continental defense system. They said electronically guided Nike missiles would be used at the installation. The Nike has been reported capable miles an hour, but it has been termed a “last-ditch" defense measure for major, cities because it has an announced range of only 25 to 30 miles. Mandich said leases giving the federal government free use of space near the Gary airport Tor the missile depot and three launching sites would be signed next week. He said Gary was selected as the site for the project because of the city’s Important steel and oil industries. Ike Enjoys Golf Despite Weather Proves Self Rain Or Shine Golfer

AUGUSTA, Ga. UP — President Eisenhower has proved himself a rain-or-shine golfer as he relaxes in preparation for the coming session of congress. The President, clad in a waterproof jacket andr hat./teed off in a drizzling rain Tuesday and played a fast 18 holes despite the weather. It was a cold,'miserable day and Mr. Eisenhower had worked long in his temporary office at the presidential vacation retreat at the Augusta National Golf Club. But club members who played in the President’s foursome said he hit “long, booming drives” with his new set of lightweight clubs with enlarged grips designed to give his left hand a better hold. Only by a bit of stiffness on the iron shots did Mr. Eisenhower show the effect of being kept from the links the \ two previous days by work on his forthcoming messages to congress. McCarthy (Ceetia—4 Ft—esting and friendly conference,’j McCarthy said. The Republican senator said he also discussed with William Rogers, deputy attorney general, possible i perjury charges growing out. of the hearings at Fort 'Monmduth on espionage in. the signal corps. McCarthy repeated that he is "definitely not” a potential candidate for President and that communism would be one of the principal—“but not the sole issue” —in the elections this fall.

WILL BE CLOSED AU-DAY Thursday DECEMBER 31st, 1953 FOR INVENTORY Opes All • Day Saturday HALTERMAN’S

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1953

rr—n- i CAPT. Dunwood J. Larson ' (above), skipper of the U. 8. Navy cargo ship Bluejacket, led rescue of 36 men from the ■ - Swedish freighter Oklahoma after it broke in two in a storm 360 miles off Newfoundland. Seven other Oklahoma crewmen were picked up by the Finnish freighter Orion, (/ntematiosai; $50,000 Demanded For Girl's Return | Canadian Officials Term Demand Phony TORONTO, &nt. UP — A distraught father turned to the public today to help him raise 850,000 demanded in a ransom note promising the safe return of his 17-year-old daughter who was kid- * naped 23 days ago. Authorities were convinced, however, that the ransom note delivered tn the Marion McDoyfikidnap case was a phony. The father, Ross McDowell, was* stunned and bewildered when he saw the crude ransom demand. Although he, too, suspected it wa? the work of a crank, he did not want to risk harm to his daughter if she were still alive. “I can ohly think it’s another crackpot — but I can’t afford to miss any bets,” he said. 4le was certain the money could be raised — with public help — if it turned out To be an authentic demand. “I couldn’t raisd half of 850,000 even if I sold my house and my car and all my other belongings, * he said. "I don’t doubt I might get the rest of the money from public donations."

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