Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1954 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Bunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT 00, INC. *M«red at tht Decatur, tad.. Poet Office aa Second dace Matter Dick D. Heller — — Precident A. R. Holthouas Editor J. H. Heller — — Vice-President Chas. Holthoiue - Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: Ono year, $8.00; Six months, 84.25; 8 months, 81.28. By Mail, beyond Adame and Adjoining Counties: One year, 88.00: 6 months. 84.75 ; 3 months, 81.50. By Carrier: 25 cents per week. Single copies: 8 cents.

This is the taut week this year that you’ll have daylight at Ge suppentime. ■ o—o ■Hie Pine Tree state’s Chamber of Commerce might advertise, "Come to Maine for Muakle”. Rocky Marciano's road to riches bee the uncertainty of finding another pugilist on the road. ■ 0 0 . The Cleveland Indians are ready to chaHenge any team for the world's championship. —-0 o In the future all sermons de- - Uvered in mosques in Egypt will be written by the government. SociaJx political and religious of a controversial nature will (be avoided. The decree ■was handed down after ditturb- ; ancee in some mosques following attacks on Premier Nasser by preachers belonging to the fanatical Moslem Brotherhood movement The government might as well banish the pulpit. -—0- 0 • The national chairmen of both the Democratic and Republican parries have subscribed to the code of the fair practices campaign. The code calls tor political ■_ speakers and candidates to avoid vilification of opponents, libel, slander, and attacks based on religious, racial or national prejudice. It seems likefy that most political figures will subscribe to the pledge. Voters can help in enforcing the code by resenting any violation of intended standards in our campaigns. - The Chapel addition to the First Methodist church will be formally dedicated next Bunday with appropriate ceremonies conducted by Bishop Richard C. Raines of Indianapolis and dignitaries of the church. A recreation room for L children is provided in the basement of the new structure and its facilities will be utilised in conducting programs of interest to youth and the younger members of the church. The ceremony will take place during the morning worship hours and will mark the completion of the first unit in the long range building program for this congregation which was established soon after the founding of Decatur. -e,—o Former President Truman believes that a Democratic congress will help President Eisenhower more in the latter's fight for world peace than a Republican congress. In a letter written to the Indiana rally in Ihdlanapolis over the weekend, Mr. Truman outlined his thoughts on national legislation. The former President Mid that Democrats in congress have supported the Eisenhower

Pre-Marriage Check-up

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. THE prospective bride and groom should consult the doctor as well as the preacher to insure a healthy, stable marriage. It is important that every couple prior to marriage have a complete physical examination. This is to determine any defects or disease that might hinder a successful marriage. A careful study of any hereditary disease that may be transmitted to future offspring should also be conducted. Blood tests, including Rh tests and a blood test for syphilis should be done. Sexual adjustment is Just one small part of the larger adjustment a couple must make when going into the serious business of marriage. But it is important that a couple contemplating this (step discuss It with their physician. He will go into Its various aspect* and they can freely dlscuos their problems. kil it • • • • •- - • —

foreign relation policy and stated, “President Eisenhower needs a Democratic congress in Order to go down In history as a successful president who helped to eave the free world". Republican leaders in the last session of congress strongly opposed President Eisenhower's foreign policy. ; ' ft—_p Government must have been much simpler in the days of the founding tethers. A new book, “The American President,” records the story of a French officer who had business at the ___ war department. There he found the doors open, and two clerks writing. Asking for the Secretary, he Was told that he had gone oUt for a shave. This was in 1796. Nor was there much change by the time of the War of 1813. Those were the days when James Monroe, the future president, was at once Secretary of State, Secretary of. War, military commander of the Washington district, and the officer in charge of the artillery on the heights outside the capital. And taxes were lower. 0 0 Finish High School:— Educators are beginning to show concern over the number of high school etudents who drop out before graduation. They are conscious that this dropout is a reflection on the schools as well as on the youngsters concerned. In comparison to 5b years ago when large proportions of «he youth population dropped out of school at the eighth-grade level or before, the equation today is incomparably superior. Certainly larger proportions of the young people in the United States finish high school than ih any other country of the world. Yet, because our country is so dependelit on the educational level of its citizens, educators today are concerned over the number of youngsters who don't take advantage of all the schooling they can get. z These youngsters, unfortunate- , ly, aren't impressed with statistics showing that boys with high school diplomas earn 27 per cent and girls 54 per cent more than those with poly an eighth-grade education. Teachers, though, are impressed with the fact that twothirds of the frequent juvenile calenders should still be in school. Awareness of the problem is the fit st step in solving it. But solution requires more than lip service. Primarily it requires enlarged school facilities which will enable teachers to take time out from their regular activities to attend to the problem child while not neglecting the other pupils under thejg care.

Much of a person’s outlook on marriage is derived from childhood experiences and the way his parents conducted their marriage. Many times questions on sex have been evaded by parents. Falsa Modesty Many people don’t believe in talking about It. In this way guilt feelings may arise which can prevent an adequate marital adjustment. By simply talking over such problems with a physician, many couples may receive the proper mental conditioning for their new status. Young couples should take proper time for healthful marital orientation. , QUESTION AND ANIWEM L. D.: Is the new antibiotic, erythromycin, at all dangerous? Answer: There is no evidence that this drug Is harmful to the human body when properly used under a doctor’s direction.

•— ————o 20 Yean Ago I Sept. 20- Bruno Hauptmann arrested on change of receiving the 850,000 ransom paid in the Lindberg kidnaping case. Dale W. iMdMillen announces the building of a soy bean plant adjoining the sugar factory. October 8 is final day tor voters to register to vote November 6. President Roosevelt and Frances Perkins, secretary of labo”, confer on plans to stop the big textile strike. f Mr. and Mrs. J. L. 'Ehler go to Hot Springs, Va., as guests of the New York Life insuranote company. Ehler was awarded the trip for selling more than >200,000 worth of insurance ths past year.

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN STOREY locked his desk, reached for his hat. "Ever wish you were back home, Claudia?” "Sometimes I do. Days like today.” “Days like today. I think about our old office. Over Ed Horner’s bank. 1 made money there—all the money we needed. That old house we lived in was mighty comfortable, too. Fire in the fireplace at night, boys roller-skating on the sidewalks after dark, folks coming in at night to play rummy. Nobody plays rummy any more, not for fun. Nobody relaxes. Oh, I go out and dig around a little now and then, but its all phony. Claudia —all hollow. Bright on-the outside, hollow inside. All temporary. Just marking time from one election till the next. I never have sat down hard on a chair since we first saw this town. Out home, I was my own boss. Man came to me with a case and I knew it was rotten so 1 threw him out. But up here—” “It glitters," Claudia agreed sadly, "but it is mighty hollow.** “Ought to be a noble job. It was meant to be noble. I must have slipped some place. Got off key. Dignity must have deserted me, and the worst of it is I don’t know when or where it went.** He was gone at last and Claudia went about her final tasks. As for Josh Henning and his conniving henchmen—she drew lips straight in satisfaction. She had Josh where she wanted him. Barney Patton, who ran the paper back home, would be gleefully grateful to get something he could hang on Josh Henning, something the internal revenue boys could be j egged on to investigate—and Claudia had it all, locked in her desk. ( • • • Quincy put the goblets around the table, bumping each down with a disdainful thud. "One of those death’s-head feasts,** she declared. *1 can feel it coming on. Aunt Maude will time up to bawl and I’ll be tempted to throw a bowl of soup at her.” "We aren't having soup,” Penn •aid. "Can’t she sec,” pursued Quincy, "that Gil will go crazy if he hangs around Washington any longer? He needed a big job and he got it—and suppose it is all experimental? People get so panicky whenever anybody says atom. As Yates says, we've got to live with the things cracking around our ears from now on. We might as well get sophisticated about it It's lucky Winifred isn’t here though. Bay 'atomic submarine' to her, and we would Mavs hysterica.**

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Court News Marriage License James W. Riley, 20, Monroe, and Beverly Jean Elliott, 19, Decatur. Leroy David Ngsobaum. 24, Monroe route one, and Carol Jean Yoder. 18, Berfce. Asks Change of Venue/ Bertha L. Hamrick, plaintiff in a complaint for separaition frbm Frank Hamrick, has filed an affidnvit for change of venue. The court htas sustained the request and has ordered the parties to agree on another county within five days. • Estate Cases ’•£ Lee T. Miller, executor of the William W: Miller estate, has been ordered' to file the final report for the estate on or before Sept 30. The schedule to determine the inheritance tax due from the George Hindenlaatg, Sr., estate has been filed with reference to the county assessor. A notice has l>een ordered issued returnable Oct. 11. The last will and testament of Ida A. Merriman has been offered and accepted for probate. Three children. Chtelmer NibMck of Toledo. 0., Hazed Hyre of Toledo

“You need one more place. Kelly's coming,’* Penn said. “Good old Kelly. How the Storeys have taken Kelly to their bosom since Rufe busted himself up. I wonder if she ever feels like laughing about it? 1 would.” "It would never occur to Kelly to laugh. I doubt if she’s ever felt inferior to anybody. Kelly just sees what has to be done and does it She never has time for reactions or neuroses.” ‘Too bad,” remarked Quincy, "that she didn’t toss Rufe out before the accident I'd vote for shipping him off on an atomic submarine. You know what Aunt Maude’s promoting, no doubt? She’s working on Kelly to bring Rufe out here. Permanently. If that happens, I hereby announce my approaching marriage to the first indiscreet guy who makes a romantic pass at me.” "You can marry Yates Underwood any day you choose,” Penn reminded her. "And go live with grandpa? Thanks.” •‘You never even saw Grandpa Yates.” "Oh, yes, I have. I cruised by Lafayette Park and spied him hunched down on his green bench, glaring at the White House. He’s worn the first dime he ever made thin as a fish scale, rubbing it against the second one. I'm thinking very seriously of getting a job." “You’re in love with Yates,” Penn said. “That's why you're so unhappy about him." “But what good is it?” walled Quincy. “What good is being tn love with k man past 30, with all the spirit beaten out of him ? He insists that he’s fond of the‘old man, but I suspect it’s the money. Old Mr. Yates holds it over his head like that sword thing—the one that dangled. Yates is scared to death of being poor. He's always had everything he wanted.” "So nave you had everything you wanted. You'd make a poor job of being poor yourself. You’re as spoiled as Yates is.” "What arc you going to do with yourself all winter? Mope around here hoping that Marsh Nichols will drive by In his ancient chariot so you can get a glimpse of, his scornful profile?’’ “I haven’t seen Marsh Nichols since Winnie’s funeral. He's not on my mind at all,” Penn said, a bit too grimly. She went out then quickly. It was true that she had not seen Mgrsh Nichols but it was not true that he had not been on her mind. Tonight, Gif's last night at home before he shoved off on sea duty, he had gone with his mother to •ay good-by to Rutherford. Penn

And Mary Winteregg of Decatur, are heirs to the estate whidh includes real property and bank accounts. Mary Winteregg was appointed executrix of -the estate. (Household Scrapbook | ■V ROBERTA LEE f t- 8 The Umbrella To mend a leak In the umbrella, cut a piece of mending tissue a little larger than the hole, then cut a piece of silk or cambric a little larger than the piece of tissue. Place tissue over hole on under side of cover. Thc.i place silk or cambric over the tissue, tucking edge under the tissue. Place a wet cloth over ail and press with hot iron. ■ -- Polished Metals To keep ibright polishing moisten a bit of flannel with paraffin oil and rub thoroughly. This will keep the metal bright for a longer time. Boiling Milk Milk can be prevented fr’Mi boiling over the edge of the vessel, or saucepan, if a little butter is rubbed around the entL-j edge of the receptacle.

waitea, going about me business of getting the table ready, heavy with uneasiness until me lights of the car came down me drive. A fine, chilly rain was in me air. Kelly ran in first, me plastic rain cape she wore over her head and shoulders shining with wetness. Her face glowed, her red hair curled in wiry ringlets against her cheeks. Penn said: "Hello, Kelly," smiled briefly, and stood waiting. Gil was helping his mother up me steps. For me past weeks, Maude had showed all her years suddenly. « She had been crying, Penn saw as they came up into me light and at me sight of those swollen eyes and her aunt’s unsteady moum she frowned wearily. The least they could do for Gil now was to send him away with the encouragement of his family’s loyalty and understanding. "How’d you leave me boy?" Elihu asked as he closed me dooi on the raw, intruding air and moved to take Maude's damp coat "Moody.” Gil hung his raincoat over-a chair, put his cap with me plastic cover on top of it "Hi, you gals. Chow down for stragglers?" Quincy said: “Gil do you wear your blues or do you have to go aboard in some kind of suit treated with lead or something?” “Armor. Tin armor,” he teased "What have you been reading? Undersea comics ?” “But I did read where you were going to stay underwater for weeks—maybe months.” Quincy persisted. Maude gave a httie whimper, and the senator took her arm quickly. , “Gome in by me fire everybody.” It was a melancholy meal. Later, when Gil had brought down his gear and was tightening buckles and straps in the hall, Penn stood watching him, holding on to Elihu’s arm that trembled a little under her fingers. Qtiincy and Kelly stood by trying to be light and cheerful, but not doing very well at it • "I’ll run up and tell mother goodby,” Gil said. “Who’s going to drive me into town?” “I am.” His father went for his coat "And I’ll ride in with you,” Kelly said. "I'll get my tilings now.” “I thought you were going to spend the night,” Penn protested "I’ll drive you in me morning.” “I think I'd better not Penn but thanks anyway.” "I’ll turn me car around.” The senator went out ’’l'll hold the umbrella over you, Kelly," Quincy volunteered. (To Be Continued/

Girl's Kidnap Story Disclosed As Hoax Story Os College Student Is Hoax CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (INS) — <An attractive Radcliffe college graduate student, today prepared to leave school. temporarily at least, after her story of being kidnaped and held prisoner was disclosed as a hoax. Radcliffe President William K. Jordan said Miss Nancy L. Plummer, 22. socialite daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Plummer of Warren, Pa., is "reasonably well and should be able to return to her home within a few days." A search for Nancy was launched along the eastern seaboard when she vanished last Tuesday. She was found Saturday night in a Mattapan garage, where she fainted while trying to make a telephone call. Authorities were unable to find out whom she had been trying to call. At first she claimed she had been kidnaped by a man and woman- who dragged her into an automobile. Later she admitted the kidnap story was fictitious. Nancy’s father is a prominent engineer and an executive of a Jamestown, N. Y., iron works. He and Mrs. Plummer flew to Boston when they were notified of their daughter's disappearance.

President Jordan declined to say whether Nancy would return to (Radcliffe to follow up her studies for a master’s degree in Germanics. Registration for the college started today and classes resume Wednesday. Nancy vanished after leaving her room to go to the Germanic museum to file course papers. She said she had felt she had to get away from the college to study properly. She told pdllce bf going to Portland, Me., where she registered in a hotel and that she returned to Boston Saturday after seeing her picture In a newspaper and read 1 - ing that she was believed a victim of kidnapers She told police that between Tuesday and Saturday she underwent several “hazy hours.” The girl said that when she first was questioned at the Mattapan police station “the kidnap story seemed like a good one and I still was hazy.”

• CHAPTER NINETEEN WHEN GIL came down again Penn was alone in the hall. He gathered up his two canvas cases. “Is that all you take with you, Gil?” she asked. "No staterooms on submarine*'’ He tried to grin. Then he set his load down again and put his hands on her shoulders. “I hate shoving off like this with mother all upset,” he said. "And I’m sort of worried about dad, Penn. There may be a bad time ahead for him. Maybe I’m being selfish—mother thinks so—but I’ve got to get away—clear away.” “I know.” Penn stood on tiptoe and gave him a sisterly kiss.. He gathered her closer. “Penn — hold things down for me. Dad, I mean.” "I will. I’ll do what I can—but he doesn't talk, Gil. Anyway, he’s too solid—too important They won’t dare attack him.” "Even the big ones come down. I don’t want them to break his heart If anything gets in the papers, send me the clippings, will you? Dad has the APO number. Another thing—will you remember about flowers, for Winnie ? Christmas—and her birthday?” “Yes, I’ll remember." Unconsciously she had locked her hands behind his head. This was the old Gil, the boyish cousin she had adored. This was that very young dream again, and when Gil kissed her warmly on the mouth it sprang alive, quivering out of that adolescent mourning place where she had kept it buried so long.” "Good girl," he said. “Good-by now.” Grabbing up his gear, he ran out into the rain. Penn had not moved when Quincy came back and stood in the open door, shaking wetness from the umbrella. "We’d better help Almeda, so she can get that bus.” Penn came woodenly out of her dream. The dream was forever unattainable, she knew. But wasn’t that the magic of drcams, wasn’t that what you really wanted—to have them live on as mirages, something longed for, never to be realized ? Perhaps possession brought with it a kind of futility. Perhaps that was what life was all about. A. struggle—with no real wish for attainment. * • • A thin snow had begun falling, lying tn the little wreaths and whorls along the edges of the black road and making a wreath around his windshield, when Marsh Nichols drove the angling way to the Storey house.. The windshield wipers thudded doggedly, pushing the snow into little wet wads, and the old motor coughed and missed occasionally from the * cold. Marsh wore a heavy sheepskin-lined coat, the elbows worn thin from crawling over the rocky slopes of Korea, tlic collar turned high. The clothes suited his mood, which was one ot grimly going where he was sent, mixed with a secret sort of confusion that had a tinge of excitement in It and •omething of embarrassment and

' - .... M I k ' + .. BARRY RHEIN, of Bethesda, Md., fa seated among the giant hands of the 100-ton statue of the heroes who raised the flag on Iwo Jlma during World War IL The statue, cast in Brooklyn, N. Y, was taken to Arlington, Va, to be erected as a Marine war memorial at the National Cemetery. Xt was transported in 108 pieces. (International Soundphoto)

Strauss Confident 01U. S. Superiority Rare Interview By Atom Energy Head WASHINGTON (INS) — Atomic energy commission chairman Lewis L. Strauss is confident that the U. S. has superiority today in atomic and hydrogen super-wea-pons. But he warned that the time will come when such superiority will prove “relatively less important” as other nations develop enough of an atomic-age arsenal to wage full-scale war. The AEG chairman, in a rare public interview over NBC’a televised “Meet The Press’’ Sunday night, indicated he sees no danger of an atomic war, but added the grim report that there may be methods of delivering the hydrogen bomb for which there is no defense. He said, however, that there is a defense against “present methods” of delivering the H-bomb; apparently referring to delivery by ■bombers as contrasted with talkedof intercontinental guided missiles. He did not elaborate on his ' no defense” statement.

unease. He was going to see that girl again because his mother wished it, and though he had disciplined himself not to be glad, his pulse beat a little fester as he passed the country store and drove the last half-mile to the Storey gale." • - The wipers gave up as he entered the drive and snow stuck wetly to the glass in a lacy pattern. He dug an old rag out from under the seat and scrubbed the glass clear before he went up the steps to the side door and rang the bell. He looked hard at the girl who opened the door, managed a wintry smile. "You,” he said, “are the wrong Miss Houk, I’m afraid. I came to see the other one.” Quincy laughed. "It happens all the time. Will you come in? Penn’s upstairs boning up on her Russian.” ‘ ' "Thank you.” He stepped . inside. “I’ll wait here. I’m Marsh Nichols.” There were quick steps above, then Penn came down the stairs, looking a trifle flustered and startled. "Oh,” she said. “I thought Quincy must be mistaken when she • dit was you»” "She wasn’t I’m here. My mother wants to see you. Will you go over with me for an hour or two ? She hasn’t been quite so well lately." "You w'ant me to come?’”Penn looked at him levelly. He looked shabby and tired, but the rigid, defiant quality in him had not relented. "I’m asking you,” he returned coolly. z •Then wait till I change. I’ll hurry.” “You’re all right as you are. But put on a warm coat It's turning colder." "In these?” Penn shook her old tweed skirt ran her hands over the rumbled blue blouse that had two pencils clamped to the pocket “All right I’ll tell Quincy I'm going/* r .. " .. ' "I’ll bring you back.” He held her coat for her when she came back, and the warmth in his hands intimately on her shoulders made a quick uncertain confusion run over her. "He’s tn love with you,” his mother had said. All fantastic, of course. The , Imaginings of a sick woman who had nothing to do but make up pretty stories in her mind and fondly believe them to be true. He helped Penn into the car, slammed the door twice to make it stay closed, went around to the other side and got out the soggy cloth again. "Get rid of some of this snow. Getting thicker.” “I hope not.” Penn tried for a sociable tone. "I hope it doesn’t block the roads and knock out al! the power as it did last winter.” He said: "I was in Korea last winter.” "When will you be a doctor?" "I’ve got one more year—if the GI assistance holds out. I cwJldn't make it on my own. ThcreV lust enough income from the farni to keep mother comfortable.” "Are you going in for surgery T”

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Adams County People At Democratic Rally A large crowd of Adams county people attended the two-day Democratic rally In liMianapolir, mingling with thousands from all parts of Indiana ahd the United States. Dr. Harry H. Hobble, Democratic- county chairman headed the delegation, which included Mrs. HjeUMe; Deinooratfo vlce-dhaktf-, man Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, and her husband; Severin H. Scharger, Democratic candidatefor Judge of the Indiana appellate court; Robert H. Heller, local realtor and insurance agent who is a former speaker of the state house of representatives; C. H. Muselman, publisher of the Adame County Observer; Arthur Muselman, president of the Adame; county Young Democrats; Marlene Laurent, vice-president of the Adams county Young Democrats; Dick Heller, Jr., Toni Ruble, Bobby E. Heller. Rose Mary Spangler, Dianne Linn, Rheta Butcher, Honora Branii, Arleda Sorgen, John Hebble, Dalores Braun, aud Ruth A. Holthouse. Others from Adams county, whose names were not available this morning, also attended.

"Thoracic. 'That's chest and lungs. If I can get the internship I want and training under the right men. That’s another problem, too—no income for a kng time, leaving mother alone'Ouo muth.” “My mother had that blood thing,” Penn said. "She wasted away to a little shadow. And it was only one year after she died that my father was killed.” His face softened a little. ‘Tough—for a kid. I was a kid when, my father killed himself.” He slowed the car. "Snow’s piling up again." He stopped and got out with a rag. “Getting deeper." Marsh kicked snow off his shoes as he got back into the car. Penn looked anxious. “What if it gets too deep for you to take me home? Perhaps we’d better turn around now." "I’ll get you home. Mother’s waiting for you. She’s had Lula baking cakes and getting down the fancy dishes. I don’t have any chains, but ■ I guess I can borrow some if it gets too bad.” She could almost feel his thoughts coming out through his skin like the emanation of a fever, stiffening the arm next to her, tightening his jaw. He wanted no ’ favors from the Storeys, she was invited, she had been chosen, he had not done the choosing but he was tn command. She was the one to receive favors, not he. He drove into the yard of the old. Nichols place and helped her out with rigid gallantry. “You should have some boots.” He looked down at her thin shoes worriedly; “Wait—” He lifted her quickly, swung her up to the porch steps. “I forgot my boots. I’m sorry," she said. “I’ve carried heavier people.” Ha laughed a little. "Had to carry a lot of them. Not enough litters ” In the room at the rear, Mrs. Nichols was Sitting In a deep chair by the fire, a rug over her knees. She held up her hands and gave a pleased little crow. “You did get here! My dear, I’m so glad. I’ve been watching the snow piling up out there and I was getting worried. Take her coat, Luli. Leave it in here where it’s warm.” < "Your son,” Penn said, “is a very determined character.” "There never was a more dogged, obstinate creature on earth than Marsh," his mother agreed. “He simply has to be the boss even over poor little snowflakes. I was sitting here and only a few little flakes were coming down and I thought- What happy thing can I do to make this gloomy afternoon brighter? And right away I thought of you. So I had Lula bake , cakes and sent Marsh to fetch you. Set that coffeepot here on the hearth. Lula. And tell Marsh if he doesn't come in, l'u come out there after him. That will fetch him." She crooked a little gamin grin. "He knows I'm Just as stubborn as he' is. Gets it from me." She pighed gently busying herself with the frail cups on the tray. (To Be Continued/,