Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1955 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published livery Evening Exoept Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Deeatnr, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dfok D. Beiler President J. H. Heller Tlce-Preefdent Chaa. Hoithonse — — Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: Ono year. Six months, $4.15; > months, $2.85. By Mail in Adamo and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; $9.00; « months, $4.76; 8 months, $1.60. By Carrier: $5 cents per week. Single copies: I cents. '

The wholesale price of coffee seems to be on the downward grade, losing another few cents on the price of green coffee but It will have to keep on going down to please the millions of drinkers, many of whom are now seeking substitutes or using less. 0 0 Six Decatur Boy Scouts pass-* ed the hat fbr the Polio Drive between halves at the county basketball tourney Saturday night and the fans opened their hearts to this worthy cause and contributed a sportsman's share to the fund. -—o The International Telemeter Corporation of Los Angeles is promoting a Pay As You See plan for televiaion. It would provide a plan where if those so desiring could pay a nominal fee and get the baseball game of the day. football, prise fights or other sporting eventa Sounds like an attractive addition. 0 0 Conservation department officials are warning winter fishermen to make sure the ice is safe before venturing out Often times the snow slows down the freesing thickness of the ice for several days. If you abide by the rules and use common sense ice fishing is one of the finest of winter sports. —0 0 Bob Feller recently signed his 17th seasonal contract with the Cleveland Indians. He joined that baseball team immediately after graduating from high school and has built up a fortune of around a million dollars. The Indians have paid him 1700.000 and the balance of his fortune has come thinks he is worth the $30,000 he will draw and expects to conclude hie career with more than 300 wins. He has already chalked up 342. ‘ ■ ” '' - . J —4 O 0i— Representatives Hines and King have introduced* a bill in the legislature to pay bonuses to those who have served from Indiana in the Korean war. They propose SIO,OOO per month for domestic service and $15.00 per month for overseas service. They also include the means of paying

F A Realistic Appraisal Os The Polio Menace

By NEMAN IL BOMBESIN, MJL PROBABLY no disease holds mon dread, or cause* more worry for you parents, than poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis. While polio, of course, Is a terrible disease and has caused tragedy In many an American home, ilt la not the wholesale killer or : paralyzing terror that most of you have come to believe. I know you’ve probably been reading a lot of newspaper stories about polio and th* current March of Dime* campaign. But I think a few mor* articles are In order to help you better understand Just what polio is, what it does and doe* not do, and what you and science can do about it Incidentally, I want to urge you to support the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis* March of Dimes program before it ends next week. Polio is on the increase in the United State*, and this organization is spearheading effort* to find an effective preventive. Statistic* Tell Story Just how. great a menace Is polio? Well, let's look at some of the statistics. The number of cases, of course, varies from year to year. In 1938, there were only 1,705 cases to the entire country, in 1952. the total was 57,828. More than 1.000 of these were In Chicago alone, and I had to declare that it had reached epidemic proportion there. There were about 40,000 cases in 1954. Yet even in the worst years, the proportion of those stricken with diagnosed polio is relatively

same by transferring funds left in the Korean fund and supply-* ing the balance by transfer of moneys from the general fund. Indications for its passage seem favorable. 0 0 Many highways are slippery and hazardous and will remain that way for several weeks. All the laws in the world can’t help careless motorists. Your safety depends on your driving habits. Adams county has not recorded a 1955 highway fatality. If wo are all a little more careful, we can keep it that way throughout the year. It usually isn’t faulty .cars that cause the highway tragedies it’s faulty drivers. Q- 0 i ' Principal Glen Custard, Pleasant Mills high school and manager of the 1965 Adams county high school basketball tournament, did a good job as administrator of the annual county event Custard and his aides were on the job all the time to see that the program started on time and that .everything was in order. Jefferson township high school had charge of the concession stand and the entire tourney was a grand success, both from a financial and spectator's viewpoint We should all be glad we live in a county where the friend* ly spirit is mixed with the spirit of competition in such a manner that all the losers can salute the winner, and mean it —-0 0 “ Congratulations to Monmouth high school, the Monmouth Eagles and Coach Porky Holt. The 1955 Adams county basketball tournament was one of the greatest Two of northern Indlana’s finest. Monmouth .and Deit out Saturday night before a capacity crowd at Adams "Central’s great new gym. Spirit ran high, but sportsmanship prevailed and the losers were high in their praise of the county champs. We join the hundreds of fans in congratulating Coach Holt the winner, and Dave Terveer, coach of the runners-up Commodores. Both coaches had their teams in great shape for the tourney and indications are that the sectional tourney to be played next month will be a thriller.

i small. Actually, the chances of your child contracting a diagnosed ease of polio during the first 20 years of hl* life is as low as IM to one. Adults Havu Good Odd* You adult* have even better odd*. 11l explain why In another column. Even if you or your youngster are stricken, you still have the odds in your favor. The Nation-1 Foundation reports that 50 per cent of the recognized cases of polio recover completely. About 30 per cent show slight aftereffects, and about 14 per cent are left crippled. Some six per cent may die. The death rate has been cut in half sine* the 1938-41 period. Os the 14 per cent left severely handicapped, many are greatly aided through rehabilitation and special equipment. The 30 per cent suffering only a mild degree of paralysis usually are able to continue living an ordinary life with few, if any, restrictions. Each year, on the average, the number of cases of measles, scarlet fever and tuberculosis is far greater than the reported cases of polio. Still, for every recognized case of polio it’s estimated there are at least 100 cases of unrecognized polio. QUESTION AND ANSWER E. M. J.: is dilantin helpful? Will it increase the blood pressure? Answer: iMlanttn, properly employed* under the physician's direction, is helpful. It is employed to control convulsion*.

Record Discharges The following servicemen received their discharges recently and had them recorded in the county recorder's office: Cpl. Cart F. Thieme, of route 3. was separated January 6 at Fort Sheridan, 111., after two years service. S/Sgt. Neil R Hesher, of 422 North Tenth street, was discharged January *9 at Mitchell Air Force Base, N. Y., after four years service. Pfe. Arthur L. Ford, of route 2, Geneva, was separated after completing two years service at Fort Carson, Colo. Cpl. Bruce A. Sc-hnepp, of 412 Fifth street, was separated at Fort Sheridan. 111., on January 7 after two years service. New Address Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fleming of route three have received the new address of their son, James. It is: Cpl.’ James W. Fleming. JJ. S. 56447W9. Douglass House, Room 334. Houghton, Mich. Crorection The address of Pvt. Donald E. Aurand. son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Aurand, was listed Incorrectly recently. The correct address is Pvt. Donald E. Aurand 1399899; M. A. D.. N. A. T., T. C. Bks. S-17; Memphis, Tenn. Court News Marriage License Dennis L. Karma nsky, 18. Geneva, 0., and Helen Ternky, 19, Geneva. O. Ordered to Appear The court has ordered the clerk Jan. 31 to draw names for the grand and petit juries of the February term of the Adams circuit court. Cause Continued „:In the divorce case of the Pauline E. Williams against Armond F. Williams, the cause has been continued to Feb. 7. Real Estate Transfers Frank C. Arnold etux to Arnold Lumber Co., Inc., inlpt 946 in Decatur. D. E. Foreman Admr. to Edward F. Lobsiger etux. Inlot 354 in Decatur $1741.66. D. E. Foreman etal to Edward F. Lobsiger etux, inlot 354 hr Decatur. — Roland L. Reppert etux to Dick D. Heller etux, SEU of outlot 63 in Decatur. Homer Steiner etux to Robert J. Steiner, 80 acres in Monroe

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN WE CLIMBED out of the Jeep. Far off in the southern sky 1 could see the air lane beacon throwing its beam. » "My idea, Red, is to work TH of this from here out, moving your lights as we eliminate each piece of territory. I don’t think 1 could have seen him from the fire tower Saturday unless he’d, been this far out the rocks. And I don’t think we’ll need the gun now.” "What about the tools?" Red asked. "I’ve got a fire rake and a mattock in there.” “Let's use the lights till we find something to dig for,” 1 said. We started working side by side, our shadows making long Jerky steps in the path of light. I could see where Luger had stirred the leaves as he followed below me along the cliff. 1 couldn’t see Anson's tracks but Red pointed them out to me now and then. There was no trace of the parka. I had been pretty certain there wouldn’t be. — We were well out toward the end of the rocks when we both decided to stop for a smoke. We'd been at it since about three o’clock. I held my watch in the headlight glare. It was nearly Tour-thirty. T I turned to Red. "It doesn’t look very hopeful.” _ “Even it he’s here,” Red added. “I didn’t expect to find him lying on top the ground,” I said. “1 know you didn't." “Do you think it would do any good to work back over it?” “If you want to be on hand when that eagle gets home we won’tliAYeJtixna." “Let’s try one more thing,” I said. "I don’t think he’s out the ridge beyond this point unless he’s been dragged there. Let’s go back and work the other direction. I could be wrong." Jeeps turn on a dime and it’s a good thing they do for we wouldn’t have got out of there. We found the place back on the log road where we had started and swung in again. We’d learned that we could cover more ground by getting close to the base of the rocks and heading the Jeep parallel, which threw our lights tn a longpath rather than in short crosssegments. I was working out in front of Red a little piece when 1 came to some long furrows in the leaves and then 1 spied the oblong patch of new-turned earth. Red drew the Jeep up closer and we started digging. The grave wasn’t deep and it didn't take long. He'd been buried face down. When we got him over on his back the jeep headlights showed a face raked with deep gouges. The

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Twp. 5 Robert J. Steiner to Homer Steiner etux. 80 acres tn Monroe Twp. Flossie Brandyberry to Roy McDaniel. .46 acre in Monroe Twp. George E. Strickler etux to Herbert B. Spencer, .79 aere in Washington Twp. Central Soya Co.. Inc. to Glenford Z. Beiler etux. inlot 77 in Decatur. - -*■ ’ Donald E. Grote eutx to Gerald W. Springer etux, 4 acres in Union Twp.

20 Years Ago • Today

January 15—Hitler carries 90% of the vote in Germany. Leo Ulman elected president of the Holy Name society. The Central beet growers association will meet tonight in the Decatur high school building. E. W. Busche is president. H. F. FrOchte, 82, father of Mrs. M. F. Worthman. died this morning at his home in Magley. Severin Schurger is named chairman of the ticket committee'

hair of his head was white and abundant. 1 looked up. "Get it, Red? White hair?* In the glaring lights. Red’s face was as pale as the dead man’s. "Yes," he said, "1 think 1 do.” "1 think we'll find that Anson Metcalf started using white targets to tram his eagle sometime since last "Why?” Red asked and added; ”1 see why, of course, but I mean, why since last spring?” “Because Harrison Purcell, here, was at the Metcalf place last Spring and made the statement that he was coming back for his daughter Dana this fall.” . - ■ "He looks like a nice guy,” Red said. “Yes," I said, “I think he was—a nice guy trying to do a nice thing." "What do we do?” Red asked. “The State police?” "Yes. 1 think they might be interested now." We left him lying there, a tall man in a tan tab-collar shirt, tweed Jacket and tan slacks, correctly dressed for a country weekend. Our lights dimmed and then flared brighter as Red started the Jeep's engine. As the beams swung away, Harrison Purcell was still staring at the stars. Just before we reached the paved road, Red stopped the jeep. “I want to see if there are any tire tracks,” he said. He climbed out, taking the shotgun with him. I followed around in front of the jeep. "Too dry,” Red said. "No mud. Not even our own.” ~ “Here are some.” I pointed. “Those are old ones. I'd say two or three days, at least. See how they've dried out and cracked?” He broke the shotgun and removed the shells. 'That tire track is like one 1 saw in the Metcalf fhne,” I said. "The same diamond tread. Do you think it could have been made Saturday night?” "This is Tuesday.” "Wednesday," I corrected him. "Well, yes, it’s Wednesday now," Red said. “Those tracks aren't too old for that." He put the shotgun in the jeep and got in. I got in beside him. "I think Anson Metcalf came here Saturday night and buried Purcell. It’s possible he had to finish him—you saw that place on his temple. How he got Purcell’s Cadillac into the Potomac river 1 don't know, unless he hid his own car and drove the Cadillac. It would be a long walk back.” "Fourteen miles, maybe’ less,” Red said. “And he had all night to do it.” , “J can’t help wondering if it

for the president’s ball. Berne loses to Portland for first defeat in 13 games. Buys Health Bond The Berne American Legion has voted purchase of a $lO health

Help Fight TB 1 •Id’ »•« til i ■ Buy Christmas Seals

bond, officials of the Chri s t m a s seal campaign in Adams county annou need today. A 11 proceeds from the annual Christ; mas seal sale are used in 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. Dallas —Some of the oils used by tanners to lubricate sole leather and increase its resistance to moisture and its flexibility, cost more per pound than butter.

would nave happened just this way it 1 hadn't been up tn the tower to see it. And tor Anson to see me." “How else could it have happened?” Red asked. “For example. why take the Cadillac up to the Potomac and dump it?” "So no one would And the car parked here and start searching.” and discover Purcell lying, I suspect, unburied at the bottom oi the cliff. Just an accident, falling 08, or —if someone noticed the talon marks on his sac victim of a wild eagle that knocked him off-balance. What’s wrong with that?” "Well, nothing, I suppose,” Red said. -• ■. ' "I think that might have been j the original idea—before I horned I in. Ot course, getting the Cadillac into the Potomac wasn’tbba a nice distance away from. Purcell It we nadn t found him tonight.” We were beside my Jaguar now. “Shall we take your car?" Red asked. "It s faster.” 1 got out ot the jeep and looked at my watch. “Its quarter after five. How long until daylight?” The sun comes up a little after Six now.” Red climbed out and i peered at the sky. “This kind of weather, daybreak should be around five-thirty.” “Do you suppose the eagle’s somewhere near?” “Wherever it is, it may move off any time after day breaks.” 'That doesn't allow too much time to get there.” I nodded toward Third HilL “1 don’t like going in on Metcalf without the States,” Red said. ’There’s going to be trouble and if he gets hurt-well, we ought to have some law along.” “We can’t get the State police over there in less than an hour. We re wasting tune talking about it.” “He may have trouble calling the eagle in to him. If one of us could be there to scare it away,” Red said. "Look—let me go over. You go for the States.” 'That’s a good idea," I said, "only you’ve got it backwards. Take the Jaguar and go for the police.” 1 handed him the keys. “You’ll call them from the crossroads ?’’ “You’d better let me go over there,” Red said. "You don’t know the place. I’ll need your jeep to get in the lane. And the shells for that shotgun,” 1 held out my hand. He gave them to me. “Don’t use that if you can help it,” he said. "We’ll get there as soon as possible.” “Ypu’ll know the lane,” I said. “A mailbox and an old brick gate post.” I " (To Be Continued)

New Income Tax Law, How It Affects Payer

(Editor’s note: This is the twelfth and final article of a series giving you helpful hints on how to figure your 1954 federal income tax under the new law passed by congress last year. The deadline for paying these taxes is April., 18.) By FELIX CIJTTEN ■ *- _ WASHINGTON (INS) — If you were making payments in 1954 on goods purchased under the instalb ment plan, the new tax law gives you a formula under which you can figure interest to be deducted in computing your taxable income. This new concession wjll be an advantage to many taxpayers, since in previous years you were allowed no deduction for interest on installment purchases unless you could determine the precise amount of the interest included in the carrying charges. You deduct interest, of course, only if you itemize your contributions, non-business and miscellaneous deductions on page three of the income tax return and use the long form 1040 in making out your return. If the total of such deductions do not add up to more than 10 percent of your "adjusted gross income"—entered on page one of the return —you might as well save yourself some trouble and use the standard 10 percent deduction. In that case, you can use the short form IMO in making out your return if your income was less than $5,000 for the year. If you are buying a house, you might find it to your advantage to itemize your deductions, since your interest on the home mortgage, together s-with other allowable deductions, may add up to more than 10 percent of your adjusted gross income. In that case, interest on installment purchases would help. ; Here is what the new law allows you: If the store cannot tell you how much interest you paid during the year on’ your installment purchases you can deduct as interest six percent of your average monthly unpaid balance. But in no case more than the total service or carrying charges paid during the year on your purchases. * The reason it was difficult in the past to determine interest was that often you could not figure how much of the service or carrying charge was interest because the interest was not separately stated in the installment purchases contract. u Suppose, for examplei that on Aug. 1, 1953. you bought $640 monthly: payments of S3O each. This wotild mean a carrying charge of SBO for. the two years. You began your monthly payments Sept. 1. 1953. and made 12 monthly payments in 1954. Your monthly balance, oh. Jan. 1. '.954, was S6OO and on Dec. 1 was $270. You add the balances at the beginning of each month in the rear anrt divide by 12. This gives you an average monthly balance of $35. You can deduct as interest six percent of this, or $26.10. Note that your carrying charge for the year was S4O. and that if your interest had figured out as more than this figure, you could not deduct more than the S4O. Even if you did not make monthly payments, but only quarterly or

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT RED waited in my roadster till 1 got moving. Then the roar of the Jaguar reached me as 1 gunned the jeep down the road tn the opposite direction. I rattled along the paved road doing forty with an effort, down •into the valley, climbing up the other side. At the Metcalf lane I slowed just enough to turn in. It’s on that kind of terrain that a jeep takes over. I gripped the wheel and plowed through ruts and soft spots with the comfortable feel of Red's shotgun against my leg, counting on the curves to cover my approach. At the old orchard I pulled off the lane aiid cut my lights. It was just light enough to make out the silhouettes of the dead apple trees against the skyline. ■ , ' -— 1 drew Red’s shotgun from the jeep and dropped the shells in with two icy little sounds. I started walking to the house. Then 1 saw him move off the rear porch and walk away from the house. As far as 1 could see, Luger wasn't with him. I gave hiin sixty yards and started after him, keeping the house between us by taking the driveway around the front. I stayed among the trees on the lower side but the dense growth opposite the house slowed me. With his lead and in this light I didn't think he could see if I cut across the lawn. Holding the shotgun in one hand 1 pushed my way out and started running over the long leaf-strewn grass. I got to the far end ot the house and was running for the place "where I’d last seen him when a tapping' jerked me around with. the gun halfway to my shoulder. It sounded like someone hammering on something hollow and it seemed to come from a point high above me. There was no one at either ot the secondJfioor windows or on the roof. Then 1 saw

irregular payments, you still would take the total of your monthly balances and divide by 18 to arrive at the average monthly balance on which you would figure your six .percent Interest. Unfortunately, of course, you can get no deduction for interest on the payments made in 1953, because the new privilege was not In effect then. i..— •___ ■■ • T » - 0 Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE u — Q. Is the usually accepted "How do you do” the correct acknowledgment to an introduction when a friend brings a stranger to your home? A. In this case, a somewhat more sincere and gracious acknowledgment is in order. To put your friend at ease, you should tell him you are happy he brought his friend. And to put your friend's friend at ease, you can say, "I’m pleased you could come?’ Q. Is it proper to take chicken or chops up in the fingers when eating? z-x A. Chlckefr and chops are. not finger foods, except at a picnic. Anyone who has learned to eat properly can, with a little practice, cut all the meat from the bones without waste. Q M hat rules should be observed In typewritten social letters? A. Single sheets of paper should be used, written on orte side only. And your signature should always be written by hand. 1 — .... Household Scrapbook | BY ROBERTA LEE — n Fresh Fish Fresh fish can be distinguished

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something move against the little attic window high in the gable end of the old bricks—two hands beating the panes. Keeping my eyes on the small window, I found the safety catch on the shotgun with my thumb and pushed it forward, moving toward the house. As I got closer 1 could make out Dana's face pressed against the glass. She looked as if she were trying to tell me something but I couldn't get the words. 1 motioned I was coming up and started running for the rear porch. I dashed into the house to be confronted by Cricket. “I want to see Miss Dana, Cricket” “Miss Dana not here. You go ’way." “She’s upstairs,” I said, “and I’m going up.” J; started to move around her. “You caint see her. You git outa here.” I pushed her aside and sprinted up the staircase. In the middle of the upper hall, stood Luger looking enormous and mean as sin. If Dana could reach the bottom of the attic staircase there was just a chance she could control him. “Dana.” If she heard me I couldn’t tell. The only sound was old Cricket down below fumbling toward the stairs. My voice had set Luger on his toes. 1 could see the eighty or ninety pounds of him, like the muscles of a giant black snake, shifting under gleaming hide." AU the time 1 could hear Cricket dragging herself up the stairs. Luger’s ears were laid back now and I certain he hadn’t moved a step closer. Then Cricket’s voice came, wheezing and thin: “Git him, Lugfer.” 1 saw him go down for the spring and yelled, “No, I<uger. Na” 1 might as well have been speaking Bantu. 1 shot from Uie hip. The

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first barrel missed. The second churned the ivory-and-pink snarl into a bloody mass almost a yard away from me. 1 leaped over the sprawling shape and reached the attic stair door, my ears ringing from the blast but not enough to shut out the sound of his nails twitching on the bare floor boards. I managed not to be sick and got the iron bolt pushed back and the dooropen. White and shaken Dana sobbed, "Hurry. We’ve got to stop him." “Just a moment.” 1 held her arm. “What happened to you?” “It’s nothing.” She was pulling me along. "We’ve got to hurry.” “When did your brother lock you in here?" 1 asked. u “Yesterday afternoon. We’ve got th stop him. He s going to kill Tundra.” ;= “Tundra?" > i She didn’t answer. She was dragging me down the attic steps. At the bottom she saw Luger. “I'm sorry,” I said. “It was Lufcer or me." Cricket struggled to her feet from beside the dog. “Mlstuh Anson kill you for this. You shoot his Luger.” "Hurry,” was all Dana said, pushing past Cricket. "Miss Dana, you stay where Mistuh Anson put you. You see what already happen.” Cricket tried to hold her but she tore loose and ran down the steps. 1 caught up with her In the downstairs hall. “This gun—" 1 said, trying to get my wind— “Do you have any shells?” r “You wofi’t need it now,” she said. “Come on." She was out the back door, running tn the direction 'Anson had gone. 1 followed her, running along a driveway through the trees till we reached a small brick buiding that looked like a carriage house or stable. Dana threw the doer open and disappeared Inside. (To Be Continued; t