Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1955 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ~ Publlshsd Every Evenin* Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur, lad., Post Office aa Second Clan Matter Dick D. Heller i. President J. H. Heller — Vice-President Chas. Holthouse „— Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, ?Y Six months. >4.25; 3 months, |2.M. By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, >B-00; >9.00; 6 months, >4.75; 3 months, >3.40. By Carrier: 25 cents per week. Single copies: I oenta.

.1 You've had Saturday and Sun* day to get rid of that New Years ■ eve headache and should be ready i to start 1955 with A lot Os fresh enthusiasm. o o-*— The Daily Democrat is working every day to present to its readers a better newspaper. Some days we fail and some days we succeed. We hope, with the constructive criticism of our readers \ io-vontinue to grow with DecatUr. 0 0 Read the advertisements in the Daily Democrat Progressive merchants tell you about their barMore 7 than 75 percent of the "becatur merchants advertise , regularly in the Daily Democrat. More than 75 percent of the J people of Decatur read the Daily Democrat every day.—0 0 . The 1955 March of Dimes, the national fund raising machinery from which is derived the money to fight that dreaded disease, polio, starts today. Dimes are collected in every state in the nation throughout the month of January to aid in research and rehabilitation. It is one of America’s most worthy fund raising causes and should receive the' support of everyone. 0 ■—o Residents of this area, who did their Christmas shopping with local merchants found “that their dollars went farther and their gifts were well received. Ifj you continue to trade right here at home, you’ll find that at next Christmas time, you will have i more dollars saved for the holidays. Decatur merchants give you good values the year around and your dollars spent here will give . tor your mone? then of anyplace we know. Trade Iff; Decatur. 0 0 . Legislators meeting at Indianapolis could well spend some time-.-studying a . state miotor patrol system. Maybe if every county in the state had two or more special traffic officers with strictly traffic duties, the death rate could be cut down. Maybe if stiffer penalties were imposed by courts, motorists would be a lit-

Colds Can Be Avoided

Will yoa have a cold this year? Will you have more than one? The common cold costs Americans a total of about $2,000,000,000 each year. Between SO and 60 per cent of all absences from Work ale blamed on this everyday disease. This week, Dr. Bundesen will tell you how many colds you can expect. He win also tell you how to avoid them and what to do if .you or a member of your family gets a cold, influenza or pneu- ' monia. By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, BLD. ABOUT 20,000,000 persons are beginning this new year with a cold. Even if you don’t have a , ' cold now, you’ll prbbably have at least one before the year is over. Statistics prove it. ( With 20,000,000 persons spreading as many as 20,000 Infection- , filled droplets every time they . sneeze, there isn’t much chance of escaping. 1 If you live in a crowded city; ■you’ve got to expect frequent i contact with cold germs. Even < half an hour after a cold sufferer i — sneezes. 4,000 of the infectious i droplets will still be in the air < waiting for you. -. I In the United States alone, I there are about 500,006,000 colds 1 each year. That means virtually 1 everyone has at least one cold, i two out of every three persons ’ have three colds and two out of 1 every eight have four colds each i year. Yet, with all these victims to i study, we doctors still don’t know 1 what causes the common cold, i Even worse, we don’t know how I to cure a cold. ' ’ 7 i Precautions to Take < We can, however, 1 give you some pretty good advice on how I to avoid catching more than your t allotted-Sfiare. And by adhering c firmly to this advice, you will enhance your chances of escaping r completely. I

tie more careful. Something should be done to make tie high' ways safer for sane and sensible motorists. _ — Adams county’s newest school, Adams Central, has been designated as the sectional basketball center for the tournament in February. The selection was made on a basis of gymnasium seating capacity and the school’s ability to handle the crowd. It will be ~. the first year in more than ten that a section tourney _will not be held at pecatur high school. Adams Central has a:large parking area; a big seating capacity and a fine hardwood floor on which to play the games. The -- 1955 sectional tourney should be a good one;.- ■. “ —J - - —0 0— ■ Thurman Drew, new business manager of the Adams county. Memorial hospital has been trained in public service. With a fine record of ten years in the office of county auditor, the new manager knows that a public office is a public trust. He knows that he is a servant of the people, spending our money and operat- . Ing an institution owned by the people. The hospital trustees deserve congratulations in the selection of Drew and we are confident that the same sound thinking will be used in the selection of a new superintendent of nurses. -—0 0Traffic tragedies over the holiday week-end are mounting and final results will be sickening. Deaths will total more than 300 ih 0ur.45 A huge majority of these fatal automobile mis- — haps *cou}d be -avoided:—Speed;" >alcohol and carelessness combined to ihake Death the celebrant and people the victims. Thousands of words of warning have been printed and spoken, but they seem to go unheeded. Manufacturers continue to produce higher powered automobiles and states plan to build more super highways, where speeds can be doubled. Very few accidents listed trucks and busses as — participants. - -

If you know a person has a cold, avoid him. I realize this Is easy to say and often difficult to do. Actually, you can catch a cold from a friend even before he knows he has one. It may be two days before he develops symptoms. • — ' Don't worry. Don’t quarrel. If you are a wor- / rier, or are upset emotionally, you're a likely candidate for a cold. , Stay out of drafts. / DonT become overtired. Get plenty oi rest and avoid overwork. . - Don’t share drinking glasses or towels with other members of the family. • . J Get plenty of fresh air and outdoor exercise. Wear adequate clothing. This means overshoes in wet or snowy weather. Effect of Drafts Now don’t get the Idea that such things as drafts or wet feet cause colds. In themselves, they don't. You can sit in a draft all day long without coming down with a cold. But you are more likely to catch cold if you do. It is believed that all these things—fatigue, wet feet, rapid change of temperatures—lower your resistance to the cold virus. Then, when you are struck by these germs, they take control. You lack the" resistance to fight them off. 'You get more colds in bad weather, but cold or nasty weather doesn’t cause colds directly. So If you come down with a cold, blame a virus, not the weather. ' ' QUESTION AND ANSWER R. H.: My doctor told me that I have a dropped kidney. Would this have any influence on my becoming pregnant? • I Answer: In most cases, pregnancy can occur in persons with a dropped kidney.

t 0 20 Years Ago | Today ,i 4 ; > January 3—There were sixity fatalities over the New Years holiday. * Bruno Hauptmenn goes on trial at Flemington, N. J., for the murder of Charles Lindebergh, Jr. The 74th congress convened today. Both houses are strong Democrttlc. Fire destroys an I'l-room house on the Burl Johnson farm southeast of Decatur. Frank Martin elected president of the Adams county board of commlMlonere and Phil Sauer, vice-president. '• The Cloverleaf Creamery basketball team was defeated by Zanesville. 3d to 21. Buys Health Bond The Order of Eastern Star has voted purchase of a >5 health

Help Fight TB >rv!3KMV x** * -/fnplv Buy Christmas Seals

bond, officials of the Chyi s t m a s seal campaign in Adams county Annou no e d today. A 1 Iproceeds from the annual Christen a s seal sale are used tn the fight o n tubercu-

losis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the “white plague.” The sale is conducted by the Adams county tuberculosis association. Court News Marriage Licenses Richard B. Spear, 23, Cleveland. 0.. and Barbara A. Summers, 20, Cleveland, O. _t ; ’ Dean Plaugher, 19, Lima, 0., and Jerry Williams, 16. Lima.. O. Charles Foster, 21, East Palestine 0.. and Joann Stewart, 20, Youngstown, O. —- Divorce Case - \ In the divorce case of Pauline E. Williams vs Armond F. Williams. the defendant has shown an attempt to comply with a court

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SYNOPSIS •VU photeg-aphing a hawk mlgrati e•« *._e mountains' of West vir- , K ua, w. ’ irfessioUai lenstitan, Charles - Jearaa-that some one is dytaz a «a*le. 'a grave Infraction of local go .'<■ i >wa. He explores the ledge ».i~re he has seen an eagle in flight <al “omes upon a decadent mansion ww occupied by one Anson Metcalf a—' his sister. Dana, both expert fai- . «*“rs. As Gratton approaches the resid n.-e. he is greeted by lovely young D .a who manages to keep at bay a vicious dog guarding the place. She ignores the intruder’s reference to eagles, diverting him by exhibiting her pet hawk. ■’Butcherboy,” a wicked looking fellow who meekly obeys the girl's commands. -Dana speaks of her father who long ago had left this house, and of her. hope of one day leaving here to join him. Returning to the village, Gratton finds a demolished car which had been towed in from a canyon. Search had failed to produce a driver or a body. CHAPTER ELEVEN THE old barber finished his sandwich ahd moved to the marble wash basins, where be very carefully scrubbed and dried his hands. Then' he shuffled toward the tar chair, sucking his lunch out of his teeth with -little sounds like a chirping sparrow. I pointed to the mugs. "Do you mind telling me a little about these ?" / He hobbled over, his chocolate skin wrinkled into a smile. He had put' on steel-framed spectacles wlr ch made him look like a sleepy Mahatma Gandhi. “You seem to have a lot of customers,” I said. He shook his head slowly. "Most of those gen'men gone on, suh." He said it very sadly. "Only five still livin’.” "These look in use.” “I dust them every morning.” . '"Were they all local men?” I "asked. ■ ', fie took his glasses off and polished them, blinking. f "Lots of them was summer folks, come down from the cities to take the waters. Back when Fairfax Springs was really something. Come back each year, each gen’man come in here for his own barber." “You had other barbers?" “We had all ( six qhairs workin’, suh." He grew an Inch in height. "When Fairfax Springs was something." ~ •’I imagine you remember most of your customers well,” 1 said casually. "Deed I do." He took down a • pale number done in forget-me-nots and gold initials. “Some of the ladies used to hand-paint their husbands’ shaving mugs in those days. This is Mr. Morgan with the posies. He only wanted once over.” He set it back and lifted a pink and gold one. Jrowning at a speck on the interior. "Mr. Wakefield, that. Cold water with his lather." “Why la UiiS »ne blank?' 1 I asked, touching an undecorated mug. , ■. " •That,” he snorted. “That’s Mr. Cadwaller from New York.” He turned the mug around but left it sitting in its niche. It was the first time I’d seen a nude with a Police Gazette silhouette in china

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-order concerning attorney fees and has been feleased from cus4ody of the court. Glendening Estate A report of the sale of personal property for >293.75 has been filed for the Laura Glendening estate. The schedule to determine inheritance tax has been filed with reference to the county assessor. The schedule shows a net value of >4.680.98. > -— ■*- Household Scrapbook \ | BY ROBERTA LEE • —; s Cough Remedy An excellent cough remedy can be madp-for children by taking onions. and white sux&r >nd boiling together into a syrup. Give one teaspoonful as often as seems necessary to relieve the coughing. Buttermilk Fare creams andjpdsinetics have their rightful place, but if a quart of buttermilk is taken daily a de- *" , ■ - 1 "• '■ . ■ ,l ' l ”

painting. •That's quite artistic,” I grinned. “Did ms thaj?” ”He was a bachelor, suh.” He turned the mug around with the lady to the wall. "All three of those gen'men long dead.” - “Did you ever have a client by the name of Metcalf?" I asked. ; " He picked a mug from the lower 1 row, black with an Intricate Old ' English M in gold. "There,” he said proudly, "is Mr. ' Anson Metcalf. One hot towel and i twice over. A fine gen’man.” ; —' "You"know the family ?" "1 ought to, suh. Done their bar- [ berin’ almost since I started workin’ here in nineteen hundred.” He put the mug carefully in its place. “While you work on me,” 1 fol-, lowed him to the furthest Chair, “tell me a little about Mr. Metcalf. Any man Svith- a shaving mug like that must be interesting." l,sat down on the cracked black leather seat and said* to give me a trim, fairly close. 1 noticed the bottles at the other chairs were empty. While he adjusted a starched cloth about my neck with Very clean-smelling hands, he started Oh a long train of reminiscence, talking around a couple of straight pins pinched m his lips. He finally used the pins to fasten the neck cloth and 1 could understand him better. “Mr. Metcalf started coming here after his own hotel- burned down. Always come to me. Say no one but Jeff could shave him right. Stop in every time he come to town." He’d begun to nibble at the back of my neck with a pair of hand clippers. “You say he owned a hotel?” ‘The Metcalf House, suh. Over next to the mineral springs. Burned down Tong about nineteen two.” ~ "Ymfre talking about a different Anson Metcalf,” I said. “I’m thinking of a young man.” ‘That’s young Mr. Anson. Hets the grandson.” in the mirror I could see him shaking his head. ‘That’s different, suh. Yessuh, mighty different." He laid down his clippers and started with bis comb and scissors. 1 let him get under way and then I asked, "You know him?” "Yessuh, he come in ’bout every two months with his hair long and straggledy. Young Mr. Anson don't take the care in his looks like his granddaddy did.” He stopped and looked at me over my shoulder in the mirror while his scissors went on munching on thin air. , -• “Ever notice, suh, folkses’ breedin' don't run true to form like horses and bird dogs. People has done too much helter skelterin’." He went back to his slow work on my hair. "You say young Anson has no pride?” He stopped, motionless. “Nosuh. I didn’t say nuthin’ like that. He got all kinds of pride. 1 say he

tided improvement in the ion will be noticed within & ,fo»' weeks. Putty Touch uuttywtth a brush dipped in nitric or muriatic acid. After an hour or so the putty wiU be soft and can easily be removed. Recognition Given Adorns County Native The latest issue of True Detective magazine gives recognition to a native of Adams county. Capt. Riley Stewart, who is chief of detectives for the Kalamazoo, Mich., police force. Capt. Stewart is the son of Mrs. Catherine Stewart of Decatur and a brother of Roy Stewart and Mrs. Mabel Striker, He helped%olve a murder ease in which a student nurse was killed at Kalamazoo state hospital for the mentally ill The story of the investigation which led to_the arrest of a patient Louis Smith is told, in the magazine.

don’t take no care of his looks.’* ’’What about the father ? Old Anson's, s,on?” “He used to come in here.” we weren't making much progress because every time he talked ne stopped cutting. "Mr. John Metcalt never to be the man his daddy was. He was a gen'man. 1 don't mean he wasn’t, but beside old Mr. Anson drivin’ up and tyin’ his fast horses out in front, Mr. John never seemed to have much subject to him. You know the kind, suh.” - • . He scratched his gray mossy head and chuckled. “For all of that, he married one mighty handsome lady. Yessuh. Miss Belle, she was a beauty.” . “Really ?” “Mr. John, he twice as old as Miss Belle, they say. No one never thought he had it in him." After a while 1 said, “You don’t see young Anson very often ?” "Nosuh. He live 'way back up on the mountain and no one see him miich. Always been peculiar. Makes me use his granddaddy's mug arid brush on him. Want e.-vrything just like the old days." His reflection watched me from the mirror. “They say nothing's been changed up at the old home. No electric, nothing different trom tiie way his granddaddy had it” He shook ms head. “Arid if that’s how young Mr. Anson want it, 1 can tell you that’s how it gwine to be. He that kind of young gen'man. Have nis way or bust.”- ' “What does this young Mr. Anson look like?” 1 asked. He stopped again to do his thinking. "It strange about young Mr. Anson,” he said. "He come in here and he go out. Then a long time pass and he come and go again and after he gone it’s hard to say what he look like. Ain’t no one look like young Mr. Anson, 1 don’t guess.” “Well,” 1 made an effort, “is he big ?” 2. "Cain’t say he look big but he seem big. Yessuh, guess it's that he talk and teel big.” , “Is ne light comptexioned?” “His hair dark. Real black and long; But his skin, it white.” ”Hia face—what’s it like ?” "Best 1 can remember it always looks unhappy. Like somethin' 'hurt inside. Kind of hard for me to remember much how my gen'men look. They all look like their shaving mugs settin’ back there in rows. That's how I think young Mr. Anson look. Like that shaving mug—gold and black.” I thought about that for a long time while he droned on. It must have got me for I came to when he laid a brushful of warm lather at my temples. He chuckled as he stropped his razor with a slow, slapping sound. “Yessuh, somethin’ 'bout tlio way I works puts folks to sleep.” He tilted my head and laid the straight sharp razor on my cheekbone, feeling for the place to start (To Be Continued),

New Address Mr. and Mr*. Lester Cowans of Decatur hava received the new address of their son. Joe.' H* is now serving with the 3rd Marine division in Japan, where he works in the disbursing office. His new address te Cpl. Joe D- Cowans IJ86041; Office of the Dish. Officer; 3rd Marine Div. F. M. F.; % F. P. O. San. Frapciaco, Calif. Doherty Promoted Kenneth A. Doherty, whose wife, Marcella, and mother, Mrs. Florence B. Doherty, live-in Geneva, recently was promoted to sergeant in Germany, where W is serving with the «th armored cavalry regiment. A tank commander in Company H of the regiment's 3rd armored battalion Sgt. Doherty entered the army in January, 14163, and completed basic training at Camp Atterbury. New Address The new address of Ralph Busse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Haul Busse, is: Pfc. Ralph Busse U. S. 554197«8; Tnk. Co. 30th Inf. Regt; Prov. Group 3rd Div.; Ft. Benning, Ga. -.y :••• ■■ —■ 1 0 * Modern Etiquette j BY ROBERTA LEK ■>_ —-• Q. How does one “tackle” a whole-fish served at the dinner table? A. First cut off the head and tail, and put to one side of your plate.. Run the knife the length of the fish, just above the so the fish separates in two parts. Remove the backbone, now exposed, placing it also on one side of the plate. If you get a small bone in your mouth/ remove it as quietly as possible with your fingers, using your napkin as a casual shield. Q, Is it still necessary for a man to ask permission to smoke when a group of women who he knows do not smoke? A. Yea. this is still the courteous and thoughtful thing to do, Q. 1 have been told that one who visits a sick friend in a hospital should always bring some kind of present Is this correct? A. This is not obligatory. You may do as you wish. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

SYNOPSIS While photoi.iap.nng a hawk migration in the mountains of West Virginia. ace proles* Jn*l lensman. Charlea Gratton, learns that some one is Hying an eagle, a grave Infraction of local game htWs. He deplores trie ledge ..be ,nas.-a*wa an».aagj* Ja- Hight/ and comes upon a decadent mansion now occupied or one Anson Metcalf and his sister. Dana, both expert falconers. As Gratton approaches the residence. he is greeted by lovely young Dana who manages to keep at bay a vicious dog guarding the place. She ignores the intruders reference to eagles, diverting him by exhibiting her pet hawk, "Butcherboy." • wicked looking fellow who meekly obeys the girl's commands. Dana speaks of her father who long ago had left this house, ind of her nope of one day leaving here to loin him. Returning to the village. Gratton finds a demolished car which had been towed In from a canyon. Search had failed to produce a driver or a body. And in the quamt village barber shop he is briefed on Metcalfs past and present, lovaltv to her 'odd brother. Anson, a recluse in the rotting house. - ■—- CHAPTER TWELVE THERE was a framed photograph on the marble shelf at the next chair. I rolled my eyes toward it. "That looks like a photograph of this shop,” I said. "It is.” He stopped his work with the razor and shuffled over, bringing me the picture. “Took back tn nineteeh hundred' when this shop was opened." In the faded brown photograph 1 could see the same center pedestal, the six chairs with six gleam--ing, white-coated barbers, standing at attention beside a properly bibbed customer in each one. “1 started at number six chair, there." A knobby brown finger reached over and pointed out a shining, black young face and ivory grin. “Now I’m all that’s left." The old voice choked off and he occupied himself with his razor and lather. It hfed been a long trip up to chair ninnber one. , "Yessuh, I'm like those old'mugs over there on the wall." He replaced the lather that had dried on my neck. “Each year one or ' two more .gets set aside. Most of their families ask me to keep them on nere tn the shop where they’s been so many years. I’ve lived to give most of them their fast shave, one. way or another. Like old Mr. Anson Metcalf. Left word ne wanted it that way." He laid the razor against the back of my neck with a shaking hand. “One snowy day in nineteen twenty-six they sent for me and had me driven up, just as soon as it happened. I did him tor the last time, with this very razor.” The cold blade slid down my neck, like the blade of Time. • • • The courthouse was a rather small building sitting back in some elm trees behind an iron fence. It was that old kind of red brick with an orange tinge and tt looked M if there ought to be Civil War militia bivouacked on the lawn. Maybe it was the cannon anchored there. The conservation officer’s headquarters was in the basement only he wasn’t there. I sat down and sthoked a cigaret over a little

New Income Tax Law, How It Affects Payer

(Editor!* note: It’s time to start thinking again about squaring your income tax accounts with Uncle Sam. and this is tbs first of a serie* of 12 article* designed to make the job easier for you. Under -rith* new income tax law passed by congress last year, many change* were made that affect all pf us. Ona change to remember 1* that “D-Day” for sending in your personal income tax return is now April IS, instead of March IS. Many other changes have been made including new tax forms. This and subsequent articles will explain what the revisions are and give you helpful hint* to avoid mistakes and perhaps save you money.) By FELIX COTTEN WASHINGTON (INS) — In making out yout income tax return for 1954, you still have three forms to choose from, although the ’ revenue law passed by congress last year has made necessary a number of changes in these forma. The new benefit* granted taxpayer* in that law' have made the forms a bit more complicated- too. It your total income from all sources is less than 35,000 for the year, you can choose either the 1 punchcard form IQ4OA or short i form 1040, provided you meet cer- • tain conditions explained in your instructions. If your'income is 35,000 or more. .. you must use the long form 1040 ■ and figure your tax from the rate* i provided by law. Under certain conditions, you • must use the long formTo4ff even i if you earn less than 35.000. .This I is always triUL whexe JQjLlt£miz.e i your deductions instead of. taking the standard deduction of 10 perI cent of your income .Also, If you and your wife file a joint return i and your combined income is 35,-. 1 000 or more, you must use the 1 long form. You have until April. 15 thia 1 year, and will have in future years, to file your return without • penalty. But you may file anytime after Jan. 1 and the internal rev1 enue service warns that those who wait until the last minute will 1 run a greater risk of making ‘takes. ‘ Also, the old rule holds that IT . you are looking for a refund you will get It sooner if you file early.

magazine called West PR-ptnta ’ Conservation. After two cigarets i and two issues 1 divided my time ■ between the square windows up . near the ceiling and a poster of a / beir named Smokey. About quarI ter after three the door opened and broke the monotony. He was a leathery man with a ; stiff neck that went straight down r from trie ears and W eyes wer* 1 like slits with deep wrinkles at the outer corners. 1 thought tie was grinning till he smiled and then.lt i looked 100 empty—a smile that showed no teeth. He wore a hardvisored cap and olive green shirt , and breeches. His cartridge belt 1 made the breeches sag below his i belly like a child with its diaper at half-mast. .. "What can I do for you?” .He moved over to his desk and leaned on it and yawned. 1 introduced myself. I didn’t feel it registered but 1 went on. "Do you know some people named Metcalf up on Third Hill mountain?” “Yes. Anson." He kept iua lips pinched tight as It he’d Just taken a spoonful of mineral oil. “What sori of person is he?" “High and mighty.” He settled back against the edg* of the desk. "One ot Chore dickey bird people who think* you shouldn’t kill a hawk even If you catch It with its claws in game.” ’ "Have you known him long?" “Since ne was a kid. Kindofa mother's boy.” “What doe* be do for a living ?’’ “He don’t hafta do nothing. His old man left him well-heeled. He never.done nothing as far as 1 know but fly hawks from the time he was a kid.” -..“Any law against flying fal•cons ?” “In some states they’d get him for hunting with An illegal device.. Then there’s having a protected species of hawk m your possession.” - “Ever arrest him for those offenses?” “That’s pretty hard to do.” He was tlie kind who could belch and look you straight in the eye. “Closest 1 come to getting the two of them was for flying them hawks at gamp outa season. TheyTe always at IL” “By them, you mean Anson and the girl?” I asked. “Both of 'em. She's as bad as he is. 4 .i "Did you get a conviction?" "Without another witness, it’s their word against-mine.-You take a Metcalt into court and you have to have it on him cold. They ain’t . well liked but you might say they're well thought of.” “So—you didn’t make the arrest.” „ "1 hate to shoot a man's dog on his own property and it about amounts to that,' goin' up -there with that black dog ot his.” “You j haven't been t<j the house?” ”1 been there but T stayed in my car.” Hej waited tor me to make something ot it. When 1 didn’t, tie went on. "Thej?’ve got a poor old colored Woman up there's been ’ . . 1 ’ ~TT-” 2-“' ’ . . \ •’

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Qne point stressed by internal revenue official* 1* the necessity of reading your Instruction* carefully and going over your return painstakingly to see that your arithmetic 1* correct, that all n*oessary check mark* are filled in and that all other information I* supplied. More return* are balled up through simple error* than from any other cause. More than half the W. 000.000 persons who will file returns this year can use the punchcard form 1040A and let the office of the internal revenue director figure their tax. The service would like you to use this form if you can. If so, It §hould not be bent or pinned, as it is run through computing machines which will do a faster and better job than a man with a pencil could. Yen can tne this form H you earn less than 35,000 consisting of wages subjected to the withholding tax and have not more than 3100 of other wages, interest or taxable dividends. Husband and wile can file adjoint return on the 1040A punchcard. but they should list their Income and credits separately and indicate by a check mark that tt 1* a joint return. All the taxpayers does is to fill 2. out th*’required spaces, including the exemptions on the reverse side, and mail the return to the required Internal revenue district director's office. All withholding statements of both husband and wife, of course, should be attached to the return. The taxpayer will get a refund or a bill for additional tax owed, as the case may be. The short form 1040 can be used by taxpayers earning les* than 35.000 a»4 having income of more than 3100 from non-withholding sources or income such as rents, royalties, annuities, etc. A head of a "household can use this torn* but not the punchcard. I Next: What is taxed, and-what isn’t.) ' Washington — Using explosives the army has developed a method of sinking telegraph poles in loose sand or earth without having to dig a hole. Melbourne — The name Australid was ftnSt applied to a-group of South Sea islands. -

with the family for generations. They tell it around here the Metcalfs never let her know the slaves were freed. Sb* just goes on thinkin’ she belongs to ’em." “The reason I—” “They say he raises rabbits for his nawka to kill. 1 couldn't say, but one day 1 seen him on Sleepy Greek mountain with a big White Rock rooster—probably tyin’ it out tor tus hawks to slaughter.” “The reason 1 ask about those hawks—did you ever see any sign of an eagle near their place?" — He shrugged and got off the desk "W* see eagles every now and them Specially at this tune - of year." “ “1 saw an eagle from the Sleepy Creek tire tower Saturday,” 1 said. “It landed near the Metcalf place." He squinted at me a little harder. “What did you say your name was?” “Charles Gratton.” “You th* fellow Red had up in the tower?" 1 said 1 was. “Someone called and asked me who you were and 1 couldn’t remember what your name was.” He was grinning his empty grin again. “Who was it asked you?” I al-' most didn't recognize my voice. hear him on the telephone. Must of been a bad connection.” “ When did he call ?’’ 1 asked. “Sunday afternoon. But he wanted to knew about who was up there Saturday.” “You said you didn’t know?” “That’s right. 1 couldn’t think of yotfr name ! told him aU 1 knew was you were somebody down here from New York takin’ pictures. A guy with a camera. He said that would help.” * 1 walked through the courthouse gate and moved along the sidewalk, aware only of leaves loosened by the wind coming down around me. No, he hadn't said who 1 was. That would help. Which of the calls had been made first.? Probably Uie one to me in the tower. That had drawn a blank. Then this one got him the news 1 was a photographer from New York. The next call got him my name and Yale club address. What would the next move get? I noticed 1 was passing the bus station. 1 turned in. In phone, booth I lifted the receiver, "Operator, were you on duty yesterday afternoon?” "No, sir." “Do you know the operator who was?’ I asked. “Yes, sir. She’ll come on this evening." "What time?” f “Six o’clock." ’ “ jjp — y “Where is the exchange?" “The Telephone building is on Washington street, sir. 4 ’ 1 thanked her and she giggled. I’ think she thought I was trying to. make a date. 1 returned to the inn and Went to my room. With luck Td get more’ about those calls this evening. (To Be Continued) rd&ii