Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1954 — Page 10

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, IndL, Poet Office as Second Class Matter Dick D Heller u President H - ?. el . ler Vice-President Chaa Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: 1 By Mall in Adams end Adjoining Counties: Ono year, 18.00; Six months, >4.25; 3 months, >8.85. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, >9.00; 6 months, >4.75; 8 months, >8.50. , / By Carrier: 85 cents per week. Single copies: 6 cents.

Read the advertisements in the Daily Democrat! These merchants have good values and are here to serve you every shopping, day of the year. X) 0 It looks like the famous Sheppard case at Cleveland should close in time for every one to hang up their stockings and start getting back to normal after some rather startling evidence. -—£ 0_ Are you paying close attention to the advertisements running in the Daily Democrat? You ought to. It will make your Christmas shopping so much easier. Be sure to look them over. They will save you time, trouble and money. —— Have you boys in the army or children in college or married and living in some other part of the country? Perhaps they will enjoy receiving the home paper for a year or six months. Try it as a Christmas gift. 0 0The early meetings of Republican and Democratic members of the house and senate seemed harmonious but whether they go on that way when the problems that realy contain issues arise, is a story still to be told. 0 0 Blaming every thing that has happened on Governor Craig may not be the smartest politics for the G.O.P. faction. Indiana as well as the nation ought to quit quarreling and get down, to the teal business of running the state and country. . —\ —9 b— The Capehart-Jenner faction of Indiana met Tuesday to decide on plans for the coming legislature. Apparently they hold an edge over the Craig forces as of now but just which side will be able to handle the Democrats, it any. will perhaps be the answer to what laws will be passed and which will not. -—- Friday night is the Decatur high school band concert and dance. Proceeds from the event will go to the fund to be used to purchase new band uniforms. The present uniforms are more than 12 years old.

• » (Household Scrapbook i BY ROBERTA LEE • — „ Dish Towela A light-weight curtain rod fastened securely behind the kitchen range, or on any convenient wall space, makes an excellent device for drying the dish towels or any other small article, in bad weather. It can be painted the color of the kitchen woodwork, is never unsightly and never sags.

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Adlai Stevenson says he has quit fooling around with politics and has formed, a partnership with W- Willard Wirtz, a law professor at Northwestern University. They plan to open an office in Chicago January 1. Sounds like a good pair. ■ i-0 -0- ' S-D day failed to accomplish its goal, but fatalities were cut down tremendously. Now let's all be good citizens and drive and walk a little more cautiously each day. The theory of S-D day should be used by all of us every da&in the year. 0 0— Decatur stores wil be bpein every night no w~ until Christmas eve. If you are one of those last ' minute shoppers, here is good news. The Decatur stores have replenished their merchandise and' still offer some of the best bargains in this part of the country. Visit them tonight and see for yourself. It will pay ybu to shop in Decatur. 0 0 _ Basketball fans can obtain scores of games the night they are, played merely by dialling telephone number 3-2171. The service is extended to all telephone patrons through the courtesy of the Citizens Telephone Co. and the Daily Democrat. The extra news service is available from 5 o'clock in the afternoon until 8 o'clock in the morning and the tape is changed each time during the evening that a local basketball score is received. -T~o—o—- — Mfci There seems to be a great GOP question in Indiana. It is whether Governor Craig has been a good or bad governor. Alligned on the negative side of the question is the Jenner-Capehart faction of ■- that party and on the affirmative side is Governor Craig. It seems to be the humble opinion of many ordinary citizens of Indiana, that all of the elected officials have more important problems before them, but maybe when they're fighting each other, they're not figuring out new ways of taxation.

Chapped Lips A good remedy for dry and chapped lips Is, to use a very greasy lip stick, or apply a little cold cream to the lips before using the stick. A Cold Remedy It is claimed that almost any cold can be cured quickly by a tenminute leg and arm exercise, then a dose of quinine, followed by a -hot lemonade. An ordinary sneeze travels two or three feet.

Gas Pipe Line Adds To Home Heating In City

A third main gas pipe line through Adams county was completed recently between Western Kansas and Detroit, Mich., allowing 70 more homes in tie Decatur area to use gas heating, it has been announced. The $22,886,000 program cut across the northwest corner of Adams county, and a feeder pipe from the main line to Decatur is now being constructed along U. 8, highway 224 west of town. The pipeline, part of the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company’s $66,750,000 expansion program. will feed an additional 100,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas to 34 mid western companies, including the Northern Indiana Public Service company, which services Decatur and the Fort Wayne area. Approximately 2,000,000 additional cubic feet of gas will be used in the Fort Wayne area, and five percent of this will go to Decatur. Construction crews wprking ten hours a day seven days a week completed the bridging of the gaps in the line in little more than three months after the federal power commission authorised the project. At the peak of activity along the pipe line more than 2,000 construction workers were on the job and some 600 pieces of major construction equipment, from power shovels to specially designed pipelaying equipment such as ditchers, were in service. The pipelaying, totaling 2295 miles of 30-inch, 26-inch and 24inch steel pipe, and weighing altogether 76,000 tons, was carried out with almost split-second timing. (Engineers raced against time to lay twin 24-inch pipe beneath the natural bed of the Mississippi river, which would have been impossible had ice started coming downstream. This completes the first phase of an overall $66,750,000 expansion program earlier announced by Panhandle. Hearings on the re : maining phases, all of which will boost capacity by 50 percent, will get underway before the federal power commission next month. Panhandle presently can handle 970,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. The recently-completed line will increase this to 1.070,000,000 cubic feet, and the whole program will mean that 1,425.000,000 cubic feet will be available. One of the main features of the. program, besides the new pipe l|ne will be the placing in operation *of a huge un3erground storage field in west-central Illinois near Waverly. This will allow huge quanti 11 es 7>r jp|s to be stored in the midwest during the summer when consumption is down, and then fed

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CHAPTER ONE THEY say a nawk watch Is where a man switches places with the hawk. It sounds innocent enough the first time you hear It—the way it sounded to me when my editors gave me this assignment. “Do you good, Grat, to photo* graph hawks and eagles for a change. Get your mind off people/’ AU that was in a big mulberry and mustard-yellow room high above RocketeUer Plaza. I can stiff see the picture editor watching me from where he sat on the corner of his desk beneath the photographic murals. 1 liked the idea. For one thing, hawks nave always had a "Sinister attraction tor me. 1 don't mean I’ve studied them or even know anything about them. They just, somehow, appeal tn a ruthless, unearthly way. I guess i was a little sour on the human animal. Months of doing picture atones of civilized men preying on oach other. -* n large groups or as polished individuals, gets to you. Giving murder back to nature where it belongs seemed like a nice thought. So . . . ... nere 1 was, in a glassed-in box called a fire tower, jutting forty or fifty feet above the backbone of the mountain just to put us a little closer to the sun. They had said it was one ot the best places tor the hawk migration. Since I'm not one of these birdy people, 1 wouldn't know, but the lack of human beings and their nasty little ways, for the present at least, was refreshing. Once every hour or two since noon a small breeze had found its way through the opened glass panels of the tower. Not enough to use tor air, just the Indian Summer smell floating up, dusty-dry and tea-like. It wouldn't have been so bad it all day long there hadn't been this feeling of waiting. My Leica was ready on its tripod i where 1 could cover anything com- J ing at us from the north but, tor some reason, we were seeing hard* i iy any nawks. Red said it was the I lack ot wind. From what I’d got I to know about Red since morning, I I could say it wasn't rash conjecture. - I Being shut up in here ‘with another person wasn't my own idea i but i couldn't have got here with-, i out him. He seemed all right, a I quiet, six-foot angular

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> into feeder lines during the win- - ter and peak consumption days. l Thirteen separate construction projects were ordered in this socalled looping of Panhandle’s third i line. They ranged from southwestern Kansas to southern Michigan with the pipelaying sections ! running from 15% to 40 miles. Most of the pipe laid is 30-inch and was supplied by three steel companies. When the temporary construct tion authority was granted" last fall and pipe started to be shipped from the mills, construction crews of about 200 men each —called "spreads’’ in pipelaying parlance —moved onto the right of way along which Panhandle’s two other main lines run. First, after right-of-way had been cleared, ditching machines which gouge out a several footdeep trench and vlrhich, in ideal soil conditions can cover a mil® and a half each 24 hours, moved out along the surveyed route. When the ditchers could not penetrate difficult soil and rock, .they by-passed the section and left the work to be completed by dynamiters. Behind the ditcher came the stringing crews, placing the 40 to 60-toot length* of pipe at the lip of the trench. Close behind come the welders, and behind them a mobile X-ray machine which examines the welds for flaws. Then other crews cleaned and put a coat of primer, on the pipe, which had been trussed up on skids. Following the painters cam’s the wrapping and “dope” crews. Present-day pipelaying methods are exacting and pipe is handled with utmost care to prevent any weaknesses from developing after it is underground and gas is moving through it under pressure. Over the painted pipe went a protective wrapper sealed to the pipe by a thick adhesive composition. The wrapper, tightly drawn onto the pipe by machine, is made of asbestos felt reinforced with glass fiber. Where the pipe is going to rest on rock or be covered by it, special rock, pads are added for extra protection of the insulation. After another electronic inspection to detect any tears in the insulation, no matter how minute, comes the critical lowering-in process. Four specially designed tractors equipped with booms and pneumatic cradles and working in close coordination, carefully lift the pipe from ths trestle on which it sas rested a/id lower it into the tfesfeh. Finally, behind ( lAe lowgrifig-in crews come the to er the pipe and, closely Uh their wake, are the clean-up |cr< ws which smooth over the right of way and restore property to Its original state. —

guy about tour years younger than 1 am—not over twenty-five—with crew-cut, red-orange hair. It grew all over-him—at open neck ot his plaid wool Shift, on his wrists and on bis shanks where his khaki pants never quite met the tops ot his short Bass field boots. The slightly undershot jaw, straight nose and sensitive mouth gave him an almost classic profile but most of the time ne had an expression of sunny, wide-open wonder and in tense interest in what you were saying. With it all, he appeared to have a horror of going out on a limb and making any statement that might, in the next thirty years or so, mislead you and cause you to regret naving taken ms word tor IL Which probably made him the most efficient game technician in West Virginia. I reached for my binoculars lying on the topographic map mounted on the table. I focussed them on the foreshortened contours ot our ridge, wishing Pornothing would happen. Earlier today 1 had found a ledge or spine of rocks, knife-edged narrow, a mile or more to the north ot us. 1 studied them again. It was a stratum that would ordinarily be lying flat These were shoved up nearly on end. From what 1 could see they dropped oft sheer on either side. There was something fascinating aboht their bleached and jagged look like the bony dorsal fin of the mountain——the way a skeleton ot a huge animal arouses your morbid curiosity. 1 heard Red clear his throat behind me. - ........ "It's nothing.” he aaijJ. "I thought it was going to be a hawk but it's just a buzzard.”' 1 swung my glasses back to the rocks up the ridge. Now, with a spot ot sunlight on them, 1 got the odd unpresslon part ot them had moved. 1 brought the lens into sharper focus. There was something tan on one of ,the points. When it moved again 1 saw it was a man. His head seemed to be bare and in this light ms hair looked white. If he was holding his hat I couldnt make it ouL “Spot something T” Red asked beside me. “Just a man, On that narrow mass ot rocks up to the north. He seems to bd looking for something." "Probably hawks,” Red said. I

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WAITH P. RfUTHE* to shown 1 after he was unanimously elected s to his third term as president of the Congress of Industrial Or* 1 ganlzatlons (CXO.) at the labor organization’s annual convention I In Los Angeles. Among those returned to office with Reuther, who also heads the United Auto ’ Workers, were James B. Carey as secretary-treasurer and John V. Riffe as executive rice-preel-dentflntemationalSoundphoto)

! . > » House Rules ' MANILA (INS) — Employes of 1 the Philippine house of representatives are no longer allowed to play dice, chess or checkers —of drink liquor — inside their offices ' during office hours. The Secretary 1 of the House, N. Pimentel, de- • nounced these “entertainments” as “not only immoral, pure and j simple, but also Illegal, indeed.” r -. • Greece Swamped By Mackerel Run i ATHENS (INS) — The biggest > run of mackerel ever to be record- • ed in Greek fishing annals has i swamped the country’s fish-mark- > ets as fishermen work day and i night hauling in an unexpected - bonanza. I According to the experts, a large I school of mackerel must have - come down from the Black Sea in- • to the Aegean. For some unknown » reason the fish passed through , the narrow Trikkeri Channel and i entered, by the thousands, into the Gulf of Volos — an area of i' approximately 200 square miles. As news of the run began to i spread, fishing boats from all over > the Aegean began converging on ' the Gulf. An average of 150,000 . pounds of mackerel daily are «e---t BQUjj, to have been hauled during • a recent week. Truckloads of mackerel leave » Volos hourly for Athens, Salonika and other large centers and the i price of mackerel on the market has dropped by two-thirds. t

’*l hope he has better luck than we've had." For.some reason, seeing him up there on my rocks was just a little irritating. 'll you've had enough—" Red closed tus hawk count book and clipped it into the pocket of his plaid shirt—"we may as well call it a day.** "You think there’s no chance ol an eagle ? I've come a long way.” "It’s five-Ofteen. With the wind right there’s always a chance of an eagle till sunset, but we haven’t even bad a flight ot hawks today. I'm getting numb." He rubbed his posterior anatomy. "Let’s go down and get our stuff together. Then it nothing turns up I'll come back and lock the tower." After all the trouble I’d caused him, 1 couldn't object. To be certain 1 wouldn’t miss anything, 1 dismounted the Leica and bung it around my neck. Red gathered tils dog Charm into his big arms and 1 followed them down the seven flights of steps. Down on the ground my legs were tingling and stiff. I slapped 1 them and walked around the atony , little open space while Red put the ' ax and some left-over kindling in the ranger s cabin and locked the . door. 1 was drowsy with that slug- I gishness that comes on a hot day 1 from doing nothing more violent than stare into a bright sky. Red nad his big Shoulders and head stuck into the Conservation commission's jeep. “Here's the rest of this lunch Ruth, my wife, packed. 1 could use a little, couldn't you?” It had been a long time since food. 1 said I could. - We stood by the dead ashes of our noon Are and ate the sand- ' wicbes, watching Charm bounce i around the clearing at the base of J the tower with her peculiar little i limp, searching out scents among the weeds and flinty stones. “How did she get that tup?” 1 asked. * "A crazy driver—when she was three months old." lUs red-brown eyes were hurt. "For a while live thought she wouldn't live. The I vet advised putting her to sleep—you know how they are—but we— Well, you wouldn't want anyone doing that to you, would you ?” "She'D never be able to hunt?" "No, but that doesn’t matter. We re lucky to have .her." (To Be Continued J

I 20 Years Ago | I Today , 1 • . December 16, 1934 was Sunday. O'— - 0 Modern Etiquette i I BY ROBKRTA Ltl ' 0 — i Q. Will you please suggest a letter of condolence I can write to a bereaved friend? A. "Dear Alice: 1 am writing because I want you to know how deeply I sympathize with you in your sorrow. Words seem so futile at such a time, but 1 wish there were something I might say dr do to help. Siticerely, etc." Q. Is it necespary to write a “thank you" note when one has been entertained informally at dinner? A. No; when leaving, be sure to tell your hostess how much you have enjoyed your evening, and then in a few weeks invite her to your home. Q. If olives and celery are to be served, when is the proper time to pass them around the table? A. During the eoup course. Q. How does a woman introduce her son's wife "to her friends? A. The formal intrdduetion to acquaintances is “My daughter-in •law," and to good friends, ‘Dick's wife.” _. Buenos Aires—Agricultural and pastoral products comprise more than 80 percent of Argentina's normal exports. SQUARE DANCE EVERY FRIDAY/ NIGHT S ' Down At The MOOSE j GIFTS 1 for Christmas and Any Occasion For Young and Old Open 6 Days A Week ‘ and Evenings SCHWARTZ Gift Shop 260 E. Water Berne j ■———4 i

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