Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1954 — Page 9

Auto Black Markets . Flourish In Russia Must Wait Months For New Automobile MOSCOW (INS) — So many Russians want to buy automobiles that organized black-marketing has sprung up in several major cities and legitimate customers must wait months tor a car. Railroad engineer A. Esebua of Grozny in the Soviet Caucasus learned the hard way. After dreaming for years of owning his own ear. he finally eaved up 16,000 rubles ($4,000) to buy a 5-passenger Pobeda. Grozny has a population of 100,00 but no state auto dealer. So he high-balled a thousand miles up to Moscow to buy his dream car. When he arrived. Engineer Esebua found he would have to spend

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several months in Moscow if he wanted to buy a car from the state automobile store — checking in periodically to keep his name on the waiting list. , He found the same situation at Baku and Tblisi. capitals of Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia. Being a good Soviet citizen, he spamed who offered to sell him cars—at a $2,500 mark- »>. -. The hewwpaper Evening Moscow traced the career of one black market operator Gavril (Galik) Levantin. During the week Galik chauffeurs for a big wheel in the Ministry of Building of Enterprises for the Metallurgical and Chemical Industries. Sundays he wheels and deals for himself in a courtyard around the corner from the state auto store in an east Moscow suburb. Galik first bought a 4-passenger , ‘Moßkovitch , ’ car in March, 1950, for the regular price of $2,250. He made enough by re-eelling it to an out-of-town buyer to break into the Pobeda classy

NEW ASSISTANT secretary of the Treasury is Lawrence B. Robbins, shown in his office in Washington. (International) In the past three years, the freeenterprising chauffeur has bought

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and sols halt a dozen Pobedas, pocketing a thousand to 1,500 dollars edch time. That would be six months’Salary for an average taxi driver, a peopled court judge or a schopl teacher. Galik and his colleagues in Moscow, Leningrad, Thlisi and Baku steer clear of the law by putting ficticious prices on the bill of sale. Engineer Esebua, Evening Moscow and Leningrad Pravda ail chortfa indignantly; “There ought to be a law . . Esebua blasts the Ministry of Trade for not showing “more consideration for the working people.” He suggests either opening an auto store in his town or permitting out-of-town customers to buy through big city stores. Evening Moscow urges authorities to limit the number of cam any one person can buy. Leningrad Pravda suggests banning private sales and channeling the used-car business through state secondhand stores.

Meet Monday Night On Farm Outlook Purdue Economist Will Be Speaker rTfc Robert Suter, agricultural economist from Purdue University, will speak at the annual Adams county farm outlook meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock (CST) In the Adams Central high school. Suter will discuss the prospects tor supply, demand and prices of farm products in 1955, including the latest information available, to assist the farmer and his wife’ in adjusting their farming operations for 1955. In his discussion Suter will consider such questions as, "Will consumer demand be as high next year ae in 1954? What will be the effect of crops produced on diverted acres on grain prices. How’ will beef prices in 1955 compare with 1954. What are the chances for a favorable hog-corn ratio for the year ahead? Are farm machinery and fertilizer prices going to be lower? Will milk and egg prices pull out of the slump? The meeting has bben planned by the county extension office. , and is open to all who wish to attend. The answers to the questions to be discussed should help farmers and businessmen in this community make dollar and "sense” adjustments in their businesses. according to the extension Affire r ‘ i

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Missouri First . NEW YORK (INS) — Missouri outranks all other states in the production of lead. The value of lead mined in the state during 1953 was estimated at more than $35 million, reports the 1954 Encyclopedia Americana Annual. Port Grows NEW YORK (INS) — Detroit is growing steadily as a port of ’ entry. The 1954 Encyclopedia . Americana Annual says the 1952 value of exports and imports passing through the Michigan Customs District exceeded $1.5 billion. X-Less DALLAS. Tex.. (INS) — A statistician for the Dallas Public 1 School System dabbled around ’ with the registration cards and found that not one child In 90,000odd claims a last name beginning ‘ with X.

Red Bears? VIENNA, (INS) — A Czech newspaper says there are about 2,000 bears living in Czechoslovakia. The animals, although moving freely In the country's vast woodlands. are harmless, the paper asserted. Potato Boycott LONDON, (INS) — Groqers and restaurant managers report that so many Britons are on diets that there is a big slump in the sale of potatoes. Wives Angry VIENNA (INS) — Reports from inside the satellite world indicate a growing dissatisfaction of housewives with various "ersatz” condiments which in many cases were eaid to contain poisonous and harmful ingredients, and which are officially sold at state-run shops.

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Da Vinci Devised Air Conditioner Famed Artist Also Inventor Os Merit WASHINGTON (INS) — An exhibit featuring an "air conditioning” unit by Leonardo da Vinci may surprise some of hla devotee* who did not know that the famous artisbalso was an inventor of considerable merit. A model of the air conditioning gimmick built for the boudoir of Beatrice d’Este, wife of Leonardo’s patron, is one of a number of the painter’s inventions on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The models of the inventions were constructed by a authority. Dr. Roberto Guatelli. Dr. Guatelli spent years studying the artist's notebooks which contained descriptions and sketches of many different kinds of machines. Some of them are believed to have been used with success In Ijeonardo’s time. Among them were his steam gun, which discharged a projectile by steam pressure created when water flowed Into a barrel kept at red heat bj live coals. Leonardo also invented a pyra-mid-shaped parachute, an excavating machiae consisting of a large crgne with a serieti of pivoting arms, and a printing press carrying a movable bed of type under the plate. Dr. Gutelli's first models were completed for the 1938 exhibition of Leonardo’s work in Milan, Italy. He accompanied the exhibit to Tokyo. where it was destroyed during World War Two. Dr. Guatelli set about building a new set of models upon his release from a Japanese concentration camp. Wine Jag LONDON (INS) — Derationed sugar and a big soft fruit crop has stimulated wide interest in home-made wines in Britain. Townspeople living in flats are as busy as village folk in turning fruit — cherries, elderberries, blackberries, loganberries, black currants and the like— into wine.