Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1955 — Page 15

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1955

TELL THEIR SIDE OF JET SNAFU HERE IS PART of the parade of witnesses at the House government operations committee hearing in Washington, where the U. S. Navy’s purchase of 1200,000,000 worth of McDonnell Demon jet fighter planes which were unfit to fly la being investigated. Testing the planes cost five pilot Uvea. (International) L >Jlr ■ • ' ....... < J. S. McDonnell (left), McDonnell Aircraft president, and D. P, Murray, contract a manager, at hearing. McDonnell said that of the 60 Demon Jets purchased by Navy, five crashed, four were converted at cost of $450,000 each. He said 23 actually have flown. Previously a witness testified the Jets, found to have engines too weak for the airframe, were made to Navy specifications.

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Rear Adm. Uoyd Harrison, former Navy Bureau of Aeronautics chief, and now a McDonnell vice president, defends his Job with McDonnell, a job he went to the day he retired.

Pet Food NEW YORK (INS) — Persians, poodles and parakeets are among the nation's pets whose owners are responsible for a 14 percent rise in the production of cans sos pet food. According—te—the American Can Company, • the popularity of canned pet food has risen to the point if here more.than, 621 million cans for this field were manufactured in tlxie first six months of 1955.’

ESTHER’S BEAUTY SHOP (Vogue Shop) Has Moved from 1 11 South 2nd to — 216 West Adams St. PHONE 3-3702

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Rear Adm. James E. Russell, now Bureau of Aeronautics I chief, testifies that the ground- > ed planes will be used to train men in maintenance, and for studying gunfire and vibration.

Advanced Registry Record Completed A registered Guernsey cow, Eagle Valley J. Dora, owned by Mr. and Mrs. (Stanley Arnold of route 6, Decatur? and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur ShefferT Pennville, lias coin 7 pleted an official advanced registry record of 9,786 pounds of milk and 503 pounds of.fat on two times daily milking for 305 days and met calving requirements. She started her record as a five-year-old. This production represents approximately 4,651 quarts of high-quality milk. “Dora” is the daughter of the famous Guernsey sire, McDonald Farms Joffre, that has 30 sons and tested daughters in the performance register of the American Guernsey cattle club. This record was supervised by Purdue University and w r as reported to the” American Guernsey cattle club for approval and publication. , t

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PETITE ITALIAN film actress Rossana Podesta arrives in New York aboard the liner Conte Biancamano, en route to Hollywood to begin work on film “Santiago.” She’ll be seen soon in the motion picture “Helen of Tmv ” (Intematio'nal)

MAJ. GEN. William F. Dean (standing) chats with Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor at Commonwealth club luncheon in San Francisco prior to General Dean’a retirement ceremony at the Presidio. (International)

Smug Towns PORTLAND, Orff. (INS — Smugness and complacency are the leading problems in many American towns, according to Harry J. Krusz. Assistant General Manager of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. People in those towns like things as they are and don’t want to change. Krusz said, despite the fact changes would be for the better.

Washington—About one-third of the world's land area was once covered by forests.

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Reminiscent of the sport coupe which Chevrolet introduced with such sensational success in 1950, a sport sedan makes its debut along with the company’s other new models. Elimination of the center pillar in the window area adds smartness as well as un-

I TV Show Prepared In Santa Claus, Ind. Show Prepared In Indiana Village SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (INS) — The lick of snow did not dampen the acting ability of the two men and two children who are to be featured in a national television show nett month, prepared in this litla village named after tl»e Christmas saint. The film sequences for December

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use on Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club and Disneyland programs were shot in a balmy autumn atmosphere of manycolored leaves in this southern Indiana 'town of Santa Cialis. But only the Christmas spirit will be showing when the national TV audience sees the results. Six - year -old Brenda Marin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Martin, of Santa Claus, and four-year-old Tommy Nord, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nord, of Marfeih Hill, open the sequence with a “Letter 1,0 Sama Claus” performance. The course of the letters through the mail to Santa Claus, Ind., post office is traced. Next character is !

excelled visibility. The hardtop sedan will be available in the Bel Air (above) and “Two-Ten,” two of three price-graduated series of cars offered by Chevrolet for ’56. Engine choices include two more powerful VB’s and one 6. The “Super Turbo-Fire ¥8” develops 205 h.p.

Santa Claus himself, Jim Yellig, ! who has been the jolly gentleman for so long he practically has lost his own identity. Featured in the Disney story of Santa Claus Land also Is Elbert S. Reinke, postmaster at the quaint post office which handles some four million pieces of mail each year. It was one of Reinke's predecessors, the late James F. Martin, who started answering letters which children sent to Santa Claus and dropped into mail boxes. Now the letters come from all parts of the world, even from be-' hind the Iron Curtain, and it takes 1 I the aid of many volunteers to as-

! sure that each hopeful letter writer gets a reply assuring him or her Sama will do the best he can, though not making any specific promises. Sherman Arnold In Indiana Play Cast BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Sherman Arnold, route 2, Decatur, is a member of the cast of “Othello,” to be presented by the Indiana theater here Nov. 11, 12. 18 and 19. He is a sophomore I at I.U. K Trade in a Good Decatur

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National Defense CAMDEN. N. J. (INS) — Four policemen detailed to keep gatecrashers out of a high school football game did an air-tight Job tot a while. Then the band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner.” The policemen snapped to attention .— and a score of small-fry swarmed over the fence. Radiant Heating On Tap For Stadia NEW YORK (INS) — Boon you’ll be able to watch a football game in below sero weather th perfect comfort Nth not at home via television, but seated right in the stands, out-of-doors! It will be done with radiant heating, says Dr. Finn J. Larsen of Minneapolis-Honeywell. Larsen says that such installations have already been tried and proved successful. New extremely sensitive electronic temperature and humidity controls have opened up new areas involving human comfort, he explains. Regulation of the semi-outdoors is ‘just the beginning,” he said.

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