Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1954 — Page 11

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Public Auction Real Estate - Personal Property The undersigned Executrix of The Heirs of Martin Kirchner, deceased. will sell the following described Real Estate and the under-, signed, the foUowing described Personal Property, On the Premises at Public Auction, on Saturday, February 13,1954 Personal Property at 12:30 P. M. - — Real Estate at 1:30 P. M., CST LOCATION—4 Mlles West of Decatur, Indiana on U. S. 224 to Preble, then One Half Mile South on Hard Surface Road. 60 ACRE—IMPROVED FARM—6O ACRE 1:30 P. M. 60 Acres of the very best level, fertile soil. Well Tiled, no open ditches on farm. 13 Acres of Growing Wheat (One Half Interest Goes to Purchaser). Seven Acres iir Little Red Clover, Timothy. Alsac and La’dino. . Five Acres of Usable Timber. HOUSE—Two Story, Seven Room Frame House. Asbestos Shingle Siding. Full Basement. Ample Closets. All New Plaster and Wiring in October 1952. Complete Storm Windows and Doors. House is in good repair. BARN —Good Barn 36 by 66 with attached Implement Shed 14 by 36. Implement Shed and Crib 26 by 30. Building 16 by 22 suitable for Chicken House, Hag House or Storage. All buildings under good roofs and on good foundations. nicely situated among grovA of maple shade trees. Drove Well. Cistern. Electricity. Telephone. This splendid 60 Acre farm is on a hard surface road in a fine community. FARM WILL SELL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. Your Inspection is Invited at any time. TERMS & CONDITIONS —Sold Free of all liens except 1953 Taxes due and payable in 1954. 20% Cash day of sale, Balance on Delivery of Deed and Merchantable Abstract of Title. Possession of Land and Buildings on or before March 1, 1954. Not Responsible for* Accidents. Statements made on day of sale shall take precedence over any statements contained herein. . _——— Heirs Os MARTIN KIRCHNER, By MILDRED BUETTNER, Executrix — PERSONAL PROPERTY — 12:30 P. M. - McDeering Corn Planter with Fertilizer Attachment, on Rubber, less than » years old; Little Genius 2 bottom 14 inch Tractor Plow, with 3 sets of Points I new; J. I. Case Heavy Duty Tractor Disc, 20 inch Blades 3 vr. old; Rubber Tire Wagon with 30 Bu. Box; Wood Wheel Wagon- 40 Rod Barb Wire, good; 70 Rod used Fence. 6 in. Stay, good- 11 Cedar Line Posts, new; End Post; Steel Fence Poste; Cribbing’ ’ Bags 5-10-10 Fertilized; 3 Jack Screws; Fuel Drums, Oil; Hog Troughs Log Chains; Lumber; New 8 ft. Tree ‘Pruner; New Blow Torch; House Door: Heating Stove; Concrete Blocks; Small Tools and Miscellaneous Articles. TERMS —CASH. NORMAN BUETTNER, Owner G. Remy Bieriy—Attorney Roy S. Johnson & Ned C" Johnson, Auctioneers — Decatur? Ind. Bryce Daniele—Clerk Jan. 22-27 Feb. 3-11

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GOP Congressmen Worry Over Taxes Worried On Relief On Dividend Checks WASHINGTON UP — Some Republican congressmen are getting worried about the political effect of giving substantial tax relief to stockholders with tat dividend checks, if was learned today. The tax-framing house ways & means committee voted Jan. 14 — over considerable Democratic opposition—to ease the tax burden for people who receive dividends. Some Republicans now are talking about asking the committee to revise its decision, with a view to being somewhat less generous* Other Republicans are dead set against any change, however, and it is uncertain what will happen. One Republican said privately that the final decision probably will be made on a party basis, with all GOP members of the committee standing together on some form of dividend relief and the Democrats opposing. The committee originally voted to ease the tax on income from dividends on the ground that they now are taxed twice. Corporations are taxed on their earnings, and shareholders are taxed on the same earnings after they collect their dividends. The dividend tax relief plan is one section of a broad tax revision program the committee is working on. ' Yesterday it approved a proposal to allow farmers special tax deductions for grading, terracing and other soil conservation expenses. These expenses are not deductible unde.r existing law, although a farmer may write off part of them as a gain or loss when and it he sells his farm. Tax experts estimated that farmers will save about 10-miUion dollars a year If they are allowed to deduct their expenses for soil conservation. The committee, in accordance with Mr. Eisenhower’s recommendation, set a limit o f 25 per cenUof gross income that may be deducted in any one year. But it agreed that if these expenses actually exceed 25 per cent in a given year, the farmer would be allowed to write off the additional in the. following year. Gubernatorial salaries in the United States range from $4,500 paid by Maryland to $25,00(1 paid by California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania.

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Predicts No Drop In Cost Os Food Consumers Warned By Ag Department WASHINGTON >U!P — The agriculture department told consumers today not to expect a break in food prices this year and predicted a slight Increase in late winter because of ’‘some tightening” in meat supplies. It said overall retail food prices In 1954 are expected to average “substantially the same as last year.” The department said food supplies generally should be as large this year as in 1953. But it said continued strong demand and the "relative inflexibility” of food

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE DALE carried an armtul of dresses and suite to the clothes closet, and pulled the door open. The row of hangers held other garments, from another life. Tailored shirts, slacks, the red velvet negligee . . . You foofc like a cardinal in that/ Dale kicked the door shut, feeling tensions mounting in her as memories swept over her. She looked down at her armful of silks and woolens and cottons, and suddenly let everything drop to the floor. From a hanger sne took a pair of gabardine slacks and a white silk shin. Her fingers were not quite steady, buttoning the shirt down the front, zipping the slack* side fastener. The dressing-table mirror was so dusty that she could not see herself in it, but she did not stop to dust it off. Ths suit she bad just taken off was tossed on Ehe floor with ths other things. There was one way ot discarding them, finally and forever. Grandmother would cringe at the wickedness of wanton destruction, but Dale was in no mood to consider the needy poor or church missionary barrels. She scooped up everything and went outside. Two more armfuls added the rest ot the dresses and bats ana lingerie to the pyramid on the lawn, and then, stooping, she touched a match to IL A flame like sudden sunlight rushed up, only to be lost in the brighter dazzle at reality. Dale stepped back a pace or two as the heat scorched her face. The smell ot burning doth was sharp and acrid, but she stood watching the curl of smoke, unwilling to move away until she was sure that nothing but ash was ieft. Was it possible to consume four months of one’s life in a bonfire! She glanced around and saw Grandy coming toward her along the path used so seldom, now that the raspberry canes had almost taken it over entirely. The old man stopped beside her, bands thrust into bis gray flannel trouser pockets, bls eyes fixed on the rolling smoke. "What’s this you’re burning Up?" he asked. "Bridges, or barriers?” “Does it matter?" “Maybe not,” be agreed. “If you're burning your bridges behind you, there's nowhere else to go lut forward, and that’s good. If It's barriers you’re burning away —that means a forward movement, too, doesn’t it ?” A “No," Dale said. “I’m going back, Grandy.” Almost desperately, she begged, **l know your predilection tor wise sayings, but just mt me alone, will you, please?” He took out his pipe, but ne did not light it. He cupped the smooth bowl in his palm and she saw the whiteness of bls knuckles. “What Happened to you in the city, Dale? What sent you running back here?” “I’m safe here, Grandy,”. she said. “That's aU.” “Your rock,” be said slowly. He kicked a pebble and sent it flying across the grass. “Your island. Dale, answer me this. Who lives it safely, anywhere?"

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-T . , , ■ , I ...... marketing costs will rule out any sharp reduction in-prices. - Mrs. Aryness J. Wickers, deputy director of the labor department’s statistics bureau, told the housesenate economic commit tee Tuesday Yro "marked change” is expected this year in "the general level of consumer goods and services.” iShe said consumers should not hold off buying needed goods in hopes of lower prices. Shorter meat supplies, the food report said, would probably bring about a slight price rise in late winter that will continue until midyear. But it said meat output probably will equal that of last year during the “late months” of 1954. •In addition to the decline in meat supplies, the department said "somewhat less” fish products, lard and fresh vegetables Will be available the first part of the year.

She pressed her feet bard into the resilient grass and shoved net bands to the very bottom ot her slacks pockets. “1 can cry!” He ebook ma bead at her. “There are no islands any more.'* “You quoted Browning to me, too!” He pinched a fold of her silk shirt between bis thumb and forefinger. “It’s gone yellow, hanging in that closet," he said. Then, with some secret knowledge bt her in his eyes and voice, “When are you going to realize that it’s a long time since Kelly died?" *T know exactly bow tong a time it was,” she said. “1 know every endless day and hour of it. Who better?” The old man sighed. “You’d better pour a bucket ot water on this dead bonfire of yours. If a wind comes up, the sparks’ll start flying. You don’t want to burfi your bouse down, do you?” Her defiance dropped from her. “Don’t worry about me,” she said, laying her hand for a moment on his arm. “I’U be aU right, now that I’ve come home.” She went back into the house. Only a few things remained now in her hags, among them —still in its wax paper wrapping—Grandmother’s fruitcake. On only one occasion had Dale cut it; on that June night, for Lora Thornton. She thought of Lora, who had been her own judge and jury and executioner. No islands? Grandy had forgotten that one. Or nad he known that she. Dale, would never seek the tar and final retreat of Lora’s island? Dale stood on a chair and put the square of fruitcake on a top shelf of the kitchen cupboard. One of Grandmother’s favorite reminiscences was the one about her mother, Dale’s great-grandmother, who bad kept the top layer of her wedding cake for her silver anniversary. “Didn’t it.” Dale asked her once, “go moldy?" Aaid Grandmother replied proudly, “No indeed. Made right and kept right, fruitcake'll last a lifetime.” The shelf paper was yellowed, and brittle as thin glass. I’U put on fresh papers, Dale decided. I’U scrub and polish from attic to cellar. until the whole house shines the way it did when we Hvwfi here/ Buoyancy at the prospect of physical work lightened her heart as she climbed down off the chair. She was about to close the cupboard when she saw the slip of paper protruding from the blue Wedgwood pitcher. ;1 Only one person in the world could have put it there. Ohly one person tn Dale’s life had written messages for her and stuck them whimsically into the toes of shoes, in dresser drawers, la mirror frames, under the clock. To remind you, Il I forget to say I love you . . . For Kelly had often lived in a world apart During his most intensive writing. Dale realized that for days on end she was less real to Kelly than the people he created and shaped and controUed. It had never occurred to her to be jealous ot them, or resentful of his work. AU writers should have sensible mwm like voul

However, increases over the first six months of last year are expected for chickens, eggs, manufactured dairy products, vegetable 611 shortening, fresh and processed fruit, canned vegetables, potatoes and sweet potatoes. This Had To Be BOSTON, UP — Among occulisted by men who recently joined the Massachusetts State Police were those of a butcher, baker and, of course, candlestickmaker. Landmark Goes WEST HARTFORD, Conn., UP —A historic landmark was wiped out by the Dutch Elm disease. The stump of a tree, planted by a slave in the Revolutionary War, fell victim to the disease and was removed.

She held hie note with both hands against her. Even before she unfolded and read it, it had banished the present and plunged her deeply and passionately into the past. Kelly was no artist, but he had drawn a flower resembling a halfopen tulip, its pistils tiny hearts. And he had written: I wear you on my heart. Some men could say things like that without sounding stickily sentimental . . . She stared at the words until tears swam in her eyes, blurring them. Finally, she buttoned the note in her breast pocket and walked over to the window. The concrete L of the dock was a sun-white protrusion into the blueness of water bluer than the sky. A green tendril of the rambler rose swayed gently against the windowpane. Near the buoy a solitary fisherman sat tn a rowboat. Farther out, plumy smoke rose from the funnels of the twice-a-week lake steamer, carrying its summer’s end cargo Os IStS. .__ . A carload of young people rode out on the dock, and the morning’s stillness was suddenly shattered by their shouts and squeals as they raced about in a violent game of tag, and then plunged single file into the water, slashing it to foamy whiteness. Dale’s hand reached up to her blouse pocket. Kelly, where are you? Help me out of this 4 . 1 belong out there on the dock with those blithe, ardent youngsters, not here in the shadows. Where, in all this grayness, are you? She found the second note when she was brushing her teeth after the lunch she had almost forgotten to eat. It was rolled around her toothbrush glass and fastened with an elastic band, and at first—using the clean glass she had carried into the bathroom —she did not see it. Then, sputtering mouthwash in the delight of her discovery, she slid the elastic band • off. The message said only, Clean | and sweet as a summer sky! Sleep i well, my lovely. Evidently he bad intended her to discover this one at bedtime. Dale buttoned it carefully Into her pocket with the other one, knowing now that Kelly had left the-notes, for her to read while he was in New York, seeing thepublishers. On the following day, while she was taking down the living-room draperies, Dale came on the third note under the little onyx Dulcinea. Die Jahre kommenund gehen, he had written. Dale crossed eagerly to the bookcase and took down Untermeyer's translation of Heinrich Heine. Kelly had ticked off the first stanza of the poem with a pencil. . . •The years keep coming and going Men will arise and depart; Only one thing is immortal; The love that is in my heart." Tears stung her eyelids. Had Kelly known death had awaited him tn that November blizzard, he could have left her no more enduring comfort than thia "1 have found you, Kelly," she whispered. “1 shall never lose you again." tTn Re Cantinnf'ii *

Two Brothers Held For Robbing Vets Charged With Theft Os Discharge Pay CHICAGO UP — Walter Cannon,26, Chicago, and bls brother Janies, 19, were held for felony court appearances Thursday on armed robbery charges in the holdup of four discharged Korean War veterans whcTlost more than f 1,600 in discharge pay. More than 30 men were rounded up by Lt. Frank Pape and detective Ted Bongiorno in their investtigation of the holdup which occurred last Monday. The four robbery victims were Harold Cox, 21, son of farmer Noel Cox, RR 1, New Harmony, Ind.; Robert Pattee, 22, North Manchester, Ind.£ Duane Halverson, 20, Bagley, Minn., and Richard Hortke, 23, DieteHch, 111. They were* robbed by two men who offered to bring them for $1 each from Fort Sheridan north of Chicago, to the city. All four viewed the “showup” Tuesday and signed complaints against the two Cannons. Fifth army officers were caring for the four veterans, who must remain here at least until the felony court showup. * Police said they believed that the Cannons, who admitted they had given the soldiers a ride, were armed with a 17th Century pistol and a car door handle held so it looked like a pistol. None of the money had been recovered. Police made a “raid” oit a South Side garage in belief they might recover some of the loot from a dice game, but cleared persons picked up there after establishing there was no dice game going on.

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MERCHANDISE AUCTION “THE HALL OF DISTRIBUTORS WILL HAVE ANOTHER OF THEIR WAREHOUSE AUCTION CLEARANCE SALES AT iMU THE DECATUR SALE BARN On Friday Evening, Feb. 12, 7:00 P.M. Save Money! All New Merchandise! . Power Portable Saws, Electrical Drills, Hardware, Tools, Socket Sets, Open End Wrench Sets, Household Equipment, Toasters, Electric and Steam Irons, Cookware, Dinette Sets, 'Electrical Appliances, Mixers, Dishes, Portable Sewing Machines, Luggage, Electric Heaters, Shot Guns, Power Rifles, Comforters, Quilts, Electric Blankets, Toys, Dolls, Watches, Jewelry, and many other items. All Merchandise Guaranteed. TERMS—CASH. FREE PRIZES. HALL OF DISTRIBUTORS, INC., Owners E. C. Doehrman, Auctioneer 6 11 ~i . ■ , — Q MEMOJQATATK FARM MKMBKRR Q||fL FRORi Hill FRED CORAH 207 Court Street >■■■ -J ||||r Decatur, Ind. Phone 3-3656 lllh OREAT NEWS/ ||| tjou/c ouuufe pofcuj. I MUJI | 111 tb o^eAaßtlud| rttdkA few packaffl M afoot! rB

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