Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1954 — Page 9

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No Price Policies Bring Prosperity Ciisfomers Os Case Determine Prices SEATTLE, Wash., UP — The rising cost of coffee doesn’t mean a thing to the proprietors of a small roadside case near Seattle. The prices never vary — there aren’t any. Instead of offering a menu with a fixed charge for each item, Mr. and Mrs. Ed V. Connor tell their customers, “Pay what you think it’s worth". Most patrons rate the meals highly. They give more for hamburgers and steaks than Connor would dare put down on a regular menu;— ■ The Connors started their un-

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usual system when Ed became exasperated with a table of customers who couldn’t decide what to order. They all wanted steak but were afraid of being served fre?h “filet of old Dobbin.” “That did it,” Connor said. “1 told them to order anything and pay what they thought it was worth. Everybody paid —and more » than usual.” i From then on there hasn't been i a price in the house. No Cheats k Such methods wouldn’t work for poor cooks who could easily go 1 broke serving poor dishes. The ■ Connors, with more than 14 years’ experience as cooks, know how’ to select and prepare food. “People don't cheat,” Connor ’ said. “They lean over backwards to be fair and even pay extra cups of coffee. I just leave a fresh pot on the table so they can help themselves. Under the old system, f I was second and third-cupped to

• death.” One evening when a dozen or ' more teen-agers ordered hamburgers by the gross and soda pop by 1 the gallon, Connor thought his business was about to be wiped out. But the teen-agers paid for . everything and even left a tip. - ’ Although the “pay what you ! think it’s worth” method has been in operation only a few months, business has improved so much ' that the Connors are expanding their case and have already added another waitress. “A lot of people said we were crazy when we started our priceless menu,” Connor said. “We only wish we’d gone crazy a long time ago." . _ One late model U.S. interceptor airplane carries more electronic equipment than the average television station —495 tubes and 6,400 coils. °

Reds, Nationalists Are Vying For Art Engage In Contest For Ancient Art HONGKONG, UP — Communist and Nationalist Chinese are engaging in a new “War.” Their battleground is Hongkong. Their ammunition is American dollars. They are contesting for ancient paintings, rare coins and pieces of calligraphy and valuable porcelain and potfery. Both factions consider these objects d'art as national treasures that are important to control. So far Communists- have been more successful than Nationalists because they are willing to pay fantastically high prices. About a year ago Chinese Communist agents here bought from a refugee Chinese collector of old imperial antiques two of the “Three Rare Calligraphy" collections. The price they paid was around SIOO,OOO. Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. It Is one- of the essential qualifications of a Chinese scholar. Higher Price The “Three Rare Calligraphy” collections were said to have been collected by Emperor Chien Lung (1710-1790). They are works of China’s greatest calligraphist, Wang Hsi-ehinh.' his son, Wang Hsien-ching, and his grandson, Wang Hsien, who lived during the days of China’s Eastern Chin Dynasty (317-420 A.D.). The man who sold these precious collections to the Communists said he had brought them from Peiping some five years ago when he fled that ancient Chinese capital in the face of the Communist advance. In Hongkong, both* Communist and Nationalist agents approached him for these national treasurers. In order to save face, he sold two collections to Communists and one to the Nationalists. ' . “Communists were willing to pay a higher price,” he explained,

fcSH! / J ~~ "FANTASTIC” and “absurd” la the way Dr. Hugh Hamilton, 49, prominent Kansas City, Mo., obstetrician, describe* hl* arrest cm charge of conspiring to poison his wife Martha. He is shown in a hospital under guard, where he is confined with a broken hip. -The flowers at his bedside were given to him by Mrs. Hamilton, said his attorney. f International) “but I didn't want to displease the Nationalists.” Communist agents discovered another refugee Chinese curio dealer who possesses a complete collection’ of more than 100,000 specimens of China's ancient money in the form of cloth, gold, silver, copper and paper. The collection dates back to the Chou Dynasty (403-211 8.C.). World-wide Search According to the owner. Communists, after lengthy negotiations agreed to pay him about $125,000 for the entire collection. They gave him a portion of the price they prortifsed to pay as a de? posit against the collection, promising that the balance would be paid to him “within a short period of time.” However, the transaction has not been completed for some reason known only to the Communists. The field of operation for Chinese Communist agents is not lim-

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Bum Steer MEMPHIS, Tenn., UP — The label uns enough for Mrs. Margaret Collins’ young grand-daugh-ter. Instead of buying coarse thread to sew buttons on a coat, the girl returned with No. 60 thread, explaining that on the bottom of the spool “it says ‘Coats’.’* That's' tne name of the firm that made the thread. License Trouble PENSACOLA, Fla., UP — FrltZhugh Saffold picked the wrong price and the wrong customer, but what landed him in-jail was the lack of a license to do bus!gess. He was convicted of the license offense after he tried to sell a 35-cent ring for |s—to a police officer. Try, Try Again BEDFORD, Ind., UP — Mrs. Homer Craig was so delighted when someone answered the newspaper ad about her lost dog, saying it had "been found, that she forgot to get the name and address of the telephone caller. So she advertised all over again. Almost 81 percent of all vacation trips in the United States are by automobile. ited to this British crown colony. They are looking for rare Chinese national treasures throughout the world, including mainland China. Recently official Chinese Communist publications claimed that in Kwangtung Province alone during the past two years a total of 7,400 volumes of rare ancient books, 1,000 sets of ancient paintings and rare calligraphies, 7,300 coins and more than 1,000 piieces of valuable porcelain and pottery had been collected. These treasures are now either being closely studied by Communist experts on Chinese antiques or are on display in various "people's*’ museums throughout Communist China, especially in Peiping, to remind Chinese of the "greatness and glory of the people’s motherland.”