Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1954 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT . Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. % Entered at th* Decatur, Ind., Post Office a* Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller p resident A. R Holthouse Editor J. H. Heller Vice-President __ Chas. Holthouse —- Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six months, $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $2.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier: 26 cents per week. Single copies: 5 cents.

* Political debaters can easily > identify th* s3rd session of Congress as the McCarthy session. 0 0 If driving courtesy is contagious, it’s one epidemic no one should shun. i 0 ♦ If Schine skipped part of his basic training at Fort Dlx, he’s now going through the Washington version of indoctrination. -—-0 Dick Haymes, the crooner and night club entertainer will not be deported because he jumped over to Hawaii to court actress Rita Hayworth. What the government does to Haymes doesn't make much difference to us. but golly a guy has a right to carry on a Hawaiian romance. —-0 0 Nearly 10? young men lost their lives tn a ship disaster when an explosion occurred aboard the US aircraft carrier Bennington. Several score were injured and had it not been for the heroic work of the crew more lives would have been claimed. It was one of the •worst tragedies to befall the navy in peacetime. The skipper of the ship had/ the good presence of mind to order all the planes into the air, thus averting the possibility of a more horrible tragedy. —0 0— The Geneva conference has discussed the unification of Korea. It seems unlikely that these conferences will lead to any practical results. Korea has proposed that free elections be held under the supervision of the United Nations and the Chinese Reds take the position that supervision •would be unacceptable and pro- • pose instead a neutral commission. The kind of “neutral'’ commission the Reds would agree to has been set Up in the past. They have never accomplished anythin’? for they have always had hand picked members of the commission who vetoed anything which did not jneet their approval. Korea should be unified. It does not make sense to have a division

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among people who speak the same language and who have so many common problems and traditions. Bnt it appears that only unification along Red lines is possible as long as the Communists stubbornly insist on putting stumbling blocks in the way to achieve Jt. 0 0 The city’s annual clean up drive will begin next Tuesday and the street department is organizing the campaign to get every bit of dirt that clutters the streets and alleys. Using the four fire zones as districts, truck crews will canvass the city for rubbish, debris and unsightly objects that might strew the traffic ways in our fair domain. The cooperation of citizens is asked in this civic desire to get rid of dirt and rubbish. Pile the stuff at the alley right-of-way and workmen will dispose of it. ' u 0 Both Great Men: — The greatest American of them all, President Eisenhower told an audience, was George Washington. The popular nomination for this title is usually Abraham Lincoln. A few years ago a group of historians, rating our presidents, put Lincoln in the first rank, with Washington just behind him. Both presidents had immensely difficult tasks. Washington had to start the country off on its career under the Constitution. He had to find out the duties and apportunities of the country by trial and error. Lincoln took over when the nation was torn by cjvil war. He had to lead half the country in its efforts to overcome the other half. President Coolidge said once, “From this window in the’ White House Lincoln eould see the campfires of the Confederacy. Compared with him, no president has had any trouble since." Lincoln probably comes closer TO the popular heart. He seems more of a man of the people, who told jokes and who came up the hard way. Washington was an aristocrat, probably the wealth-

iest man in the United States when he wan president. To many he seems austere, like the Stuart protrait on our stamps. Yet he, too, was Intensely human, aa historians have begun to make plain. The nation may well be. equally proud of both. p Q g *B l 11 20 Years Ago Today •— — • May 27, 1934 was Sunday. Court News Appointed to Board Lenora' Glendening of Geneva has been appointed Republican member of the Adams county board of public welfare for a period of four years. Summons Issued A summons issued for the defendant in a complaint on note filed by Russell G. Schnepp against Lewi* Strong was not served and the court has ordered another summons issued returnable June 10. Change of Venue A complaint for personal injury and property damages filed by Earl L. Noble against Carl C. Wappelhorst in Jay county has been venued to the Adams circuit court. Complaint on Judgment A petition for proceedings supplementary and a complaint on judgment has been filed by George H. Harper against L. A. Holthouse, Jr. Earlier this year the plaintiff was awarded $2,519.78 in a complaint against the defendant by payment to the sum has not been made. The defendant has been ordered to appear in court Jund 10. IN SERVICE Jbl - — — , '■< New Address > Mr. and Mrs. Herald Mclntosh have received the following address for their son. who is serving with the U.S. armed forces: Pvt. Rex Bovine. U.S. 55 472 182, Co. B. 34th M.E.D. Tk. Bn., sth Armd. Division, Camp Chaffee, Ark. Harvey Promoted Pte. Don Harvey, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harvey of Monroe, was recently promoted to his present rank while stationed in Korea. 'His address is: Pfc. Donald W. Harvey U.S. 55 341 074, Co. A--1092 Engr. C.8.N., A-P.O. 358 Unit I, C/O P.M. San Francisco, Calif. No Decision Yet On Air Academy WASHINGTON UP —The Air Force says no decision has yet been reached on a site for its new air academy. The five - man site selection board met- again,, Wednesday to discuss technical data on various proposed sites, a spokesman said. He said there was “no indication of how soon -the hoard expects to reach a decision.”*

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Bennington Built For World War II Had Charmed Life During Conflict QUONSET JOINT, iR. 1., UP — Built for action in World War 11, the aircraft carrier USS Bennington never had it so good, until peace came. “Big Ben." as she wasaffectionately named by her officers and crew, was launched Feb. 26. 1944, at Brooklyn Navy Yard—a big ship in a mighty navy a proud flattop in Admiral "Wild Bull" Halsey's famed task fore* 58. Not a man was killed aboard "Big Ben” during-her glorious war time career, despite the ravages of a South Pacific typhoon and attacks by Kamikaze pilots. "We were so lucky that I thought the ship was charmed,” said retired Rear Admiral James P. Sykes of Willis, Tex., wartime skipper of the Bennington. Peace came and the Bennington went into mothballs. So did her charmed life. The Bennington, named for the historic Revolutionary battle at

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Bennington. VL, In which 14 Americana were killed, waa taken out of mothballs after the Korean conflict broke out But on het shakedown cruise in the Caribbean the Behnington was rocked by a boiler explosion and 11 men were killed. "Big Ben” displaces 33,100 tons . . . 899 feet long ... a 152 beam , draws 31 feet of water. She carries a normal complement ot 2,800 officers and men. A number of fliers left "Big Ben’s” flight deck never to return, during hm- three tyorld whit II fracific battles. Sharpshooting gunners knocked down every Jap Kamikaze pilot who attacked and damage was avoided. One diving Kamikaze plane exploded in the ocean 50 feet from the Bennington's rudder and the injpact hurled the aircraft's carburetor onto the Bennington's flight d6ck. The first USS Bennington was a gunboat which blew up July 21, 1906, in Sen Diego Bay. Sixty crewmen were killed. 46 more injured in the boiler explosion. It takes about three pounds of oyster shell or ground limestone per year for a hen that lays 200 eggs.

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