Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1956 — Page 2

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Two Accidents Are Reported In City Two accident* were recorded in the city Thursday as a icsult of slippery street*. Car* operated by Rahe.it A. Cummings, Decatur, and Mabel Strickler, Decatur. collided on Grant street at tfihn The Comiiiings car slid through the intersection from Kim street into Grant street and Into the path -of the Strickler auo, which was unable to

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stop. Damage* to the Outnuiinga car were estimated at S3OO and the Strickler auto, which was unable to age* of $175- * Two trucks collided iu the City parking lot due to ice. The trucks were driven by Oscar Sprague and Lawreuce R. Smith. The accident, which occurred at the north end of the parking lot. caused S!W damages to the truck Sprague was driving and $lO in dents to the truck Smith was operating

Democrat Leaders Back Highway Plan Road-Users Pay Bill Through Higher Tax WASHINGTON’ (INS) — House Democratic leaders endorsed legislation today to authorize a 48-billion-dollar highway construction program with all roaduaers paying the bill through higher tares. , Chainnah George Fallon (t>-Md.) said he will- introduce the Mil in the house Monday and that bis public works .subcommittee on roads will begin closed-door consideration of the measure Wednesday. House speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas has met with Fallon on the bill and will go over a final draft of the legislation today. The bill is almost identical to the one defeated in the house last summer in a squabhle bver howe ui p’ajTfdr the construction. Unlike last year, however, the tax-writing ways and means committee haa been asked to handle provisions for financing the huge construction program. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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Attendance Report Os Rural Schools Pleasant Mills high school and St. Peter * Lutheran school grade one through three led the attendance at county school* during the past six weeks according to a report by county attendance officer, Mr*. Mildred Foley. Pleasant Mills, with 89 students, had an attendance percentage of 98.8. St. Peter’s grade one through three has 27 pupils and showed a i percentage of 98.7. Attendance was generally lower in most schools during the past period because of chickenpox and flu. Other high school reports show Adams Central. 195 students. 95.2 percent v Geneva, 133 students, -M.7; Monmouth, 153, 97.7: Hartford. 56 students, 97.8. and Jefferson, 43 students, 96.9. Attendance records for the county prttttr Mt iitMiiS rltt tuttt* t ttHtnttttt Mills — grade one and two, 32 pupils, 97 percent: grade three and four. 27 pupils; 96.2; grade five and six. 24 pupils. 95 6 ; grade seven and ,ight. 5$ pupils. 96.9 and Bobo, grade four through six, 22 pupils. 94.2. and grade one through three. 34 pupils, H.l. 1 Jefferson — grade one afid two. 30 pupils. 96; grade three and four, 36 pupils, 94.1; grade five and six. 36 pupils. 95; grade seven and eight. 32 pupils, 97. Hartford — ’ grape one and two. 33 pupils. 97.2: grade three and tour, 38 pupils, 96.6; grade five and six. 28 pupils, 96.1; grade seven and eight, 23 pupils. 95.8. Monmouth — grade one. 30 pupils. 95; grade two and three, 29 pupils, 94.6; grade three and four. 32 pupils. 95.6; grade five and six. 36 pupils, 97.5: grade seven and eight. 36 pupils, 96.9. St. Peter’s — grade one through three. 27 pupils 98.7. grade four through eight. 31 pupils. 98.5. Geneva — grade one. 43 pupils. 95; grade one and two, 40 pupils, 96.2; grade two. 45 pupils, 92: grade three, 39 pnpils, 96; grade three and four. 32 pupils. 94.4; grade four. 39 pupils, 96.1; grade five, 40 pupils. 95.2; grade six, 51 pupils, 95; grade seven and eight. 86 pupils. 95. * J ‘- Adams Central one. 73 pupils. 92.8; grade two. 85 pupils. 92.7; grade three. 88 pupils. 94.9; grade four, 77 pupils. 95.4; grade five. 62 pupils. 93.7; grade six. 73 pupils. 96.8; grade seven, 82 pupils, 94.9; grade eight, 63. pupils. 95.9. Union township — Luckey grade five through eight. 31 pupils. 93.4; Schnepp grade one through four. 33 Dupilg, 8&9; Immanuel Lutheran gYade four through eight. 37 pupils, Preble township' — St. John's grade five through eight. 31 pupils, 95.9 and grade one through' four, 47-pupils;9s.st St. Paul’s grade four through eight. 32 pupils. 98.1. and grade one through three, 17 pupils. 96.7; Zion Lutheran grade four through eight. 39 pupils. 98.4. and grade one through three. 32 pupils. 91.5. >. .'j ' _ Blue Creek township . —Kimsey grade five through eight. 24 pupils. 98.1. and grade one through four. 35 pupils. 95.4. Lincoln grade five through eight, 34 pupils. 95.4. and grade one through four. 27 pupils, 97.1. T— Regular Meeting Os Legion Monday The regular meeting of A4sms Post 43, American Legion, be held at 8 o’clock Monday night at the Legion home. Free lunch, will be served following the meeting. AU (Members are urged to be present. ‘ ; -

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Dr. Ralph W. Sockman. pastor of Christ Church. New York City, will be tfie principal speaker at the 25th annual Indiana pastors conference at DePauw University Jan 30 arid 31 and Feb. 1. He will -‘present the Mendenhall lectures on The Cos« of Christianity.”

Fruit, Vegetable Volume Increases Chicago Wholesale Increase Reported CHICAGO (INS) — Chicago w holesale dealers of fresh fruits and vegetables handled a larger toltime in 1955 than in 1954. The total arrivals by rail and (ruck amounted to 125,056 carloads of which 75,897 were unloaded for trading purposes. Arrivals in 1951 totaled 127,073 carloads with only 75.874 being unloaded at Chicago. Rail arrivals of fruits and vegetables whidh are not sold here move to other consuming centers. Truck arrivals are usually unload ed for trading purposes at Chicago. Ten foreign countries and all states expect Rhode Island shipped an assortment of 85 different kinds of fruits and vegetables through Chicago. Marketing of produce by truck is on the increase with trucks delivering the equivalent of .21,468 carloads or 2.352 more than In the previous year. Rail shipments were off around 4,000 cars with only 103,588 carloads arriving cqjnpared with 1954. ¥»£jtyatoes headed the shipments wiib* .15,699 carloads distributed in.. Chicago. Bananas were second wi|h 5,447 carloads, lettuce third with 5.400 cars. Apples, cabbage, celery. grapes, onipßS, oranges, tomatoes and watermelons arrivto ’ifbod cars over the 12 month period. California ranked as the top shipper with 20,000 carloads followed by Florida with 11.284 carloads and Texas third with 4.28 S caiioads. Other large shippers were Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, North Dakota and Washington. Arriving-Tram South American countries were peaches, plums, grapes, honeydew melons, some pineapples and practically all of the coconuts, the latter coming from Honduras. ' Cuba shipped most of the pineapples. Canada practically all of the rutubagas. Iran-Iraq shipped dates. Oqions, chestnuts and garlic from Italy, grapes from South Africa and French endive from Belgium. Chicago — Twins occur once in SS births and triplets occur once ip 7.600 births Quadruplets occur once in about 670,000 births, and about ,50 verified cases of quintuplets have been recorded.

Bombay Police Chief Blames Reds In Riots Says Communist Party Organized, Maintained Riots BOMBAY (INST*- Bombay’s police commissioner accused the Indian Communist party ot organising and maintaining the bloody anti-government riots which went into their fifth day today. Commissioner K. D. Bilimoria said the tßeds were making the riots a trial of their strength. » The official death toll rose to 3d when one rioter was killed thia morning. The dead man was part of the frengied mobs which were looting shops and destroying other property- When the rioters attacked the police with stones and acid "bombs," officers opened fire. " Bilimoria said the Communists had sat up a well-planned riot organ iaation that was managing to keep the disorders flaring despite the arrest of more than 1,300 communist, leftist and labor leaders. The commissioner said that “this showdown with the had to come sometime.” An estimated 500 persons, including scores of policemen, have been injured since Monday. One policeman was stoned to death Thursday when the demonstrators cut him off from the other members of his patrol. The patrole have been the targets not only of stones, but of home-made acid bombs. The major part of the rioting has been in the northern and central sections of the sprawling port city on India’s west const. 1 This is the area where the city’s industry is concentrated and is almost exclusively populated with Marathi speaking Indians. This linguistic group wants Bombay for the capital of the new Maharashtrian state which is being carved out of .Bombay state. The government's announced decision to make the city a separate state, administered from New Delhi, set off the protests on Monday.

I . ‘ ' Giant Power Shovel ; Unveiled Thursday s , Giant Power Shovel Is 16 Stories High CADIZ. O. (INS) — A giant pow % I er shovel, 16-stories high and said s to he the largest piece ot mobile , land machinery in the world, has been unveiled by the Hanna Coal i Co., of Cadis, Ohio. A slight mishap marred the > demonstration Thursday when a r “friction clutch" slipped. The op- : erator put the bucket on the ground and its contents spilled out. Several children standing near- • by scattered to a safer distance, l but they did not "narrowly miss . death” as reported elsewhere. Both the operator and the company claim that the shovel wag under control at all times, and there was no danger to any of the spectators. The thammoth coal scoop is sp large, that It has an elevator to carry the operator or maintenance men to the tip of its 160-foot height. So big is the bucket, that four automobiles could fit into it easily. The bucket can take out a bite of earth of nearly Ifiß-tons, And is so powerful it could lift two railroad locomotives if there was some way tit attach them to the boom. Here are just a few statistics: Dipper capacity, 60 cubic yards or enough to fill a room 10-by-20-hy-S feet; boom length. 150 feet; weight. 2.750-tons; height of boom point. 147 feet; cost, >2,600,000; electric power, 720®— volts, or enough to light a town of 2®,000 persons or 5200 homes. ” The juggernaut creeps along on -eight crawlers, or "cats" each eight-feet high. 23-feet, long, and each weighing 60-tons. l£ach‘ of the crawlers is powered by a 25ff-hOrse power motor. The machine, which receives Its Rower ’from a trailing electric cable, can handle approximately 7200 tons of material an hour, and deposit it some 290-feet awSy, or nearly the length pf a football field. Power ig supplied by 16 electric motors, with a total horse power ra nng oT-Urfinfr’eiiTiiva'TEht tn tne latest ocean-going freighters. ■ Only one man is required for actual operation of the huge shovel. which has been named the "Mountaineer.” The operator can control all operating functions by the use of two foot pedals, (wo hand levers, and one whistle cord. The "Mountaineer" will be put to work in the eastern Ohio strip’ Ininfhg- fields of Hanna, a subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. ' Trade in a Uood Tcvn — Decaiul ■

INCOME COMPARED WITH 1939 - — .... -T~- - —DOUARS-M GROSS m. WEBCLYS SOCIAL SECURITY, INCOME TAX | FAY NET SPENDABLE PAY, - ■■■■ WORKER? 3 DEPENDENTS — TO - J —I </ 60 .. B GROSS WEEKLY >“ “• EARNINGS > -SA ICURRENTJJOLLARS) f W I < i io, - —— 1 j/ too — / 30 ■ y' CONSUMER ■ ~ TO PRICE INDEX ■ * „ IIWSIOOI TO -20 I -- « I W"'W ' lib'' w *‘W * « Illi TT Illi e I 1 0 iW IHJ IW (Coortaay National toduatriai Cunfersnc. Board) HERE'S THi AVERAGI INCOME of • manufacturing production worker with three dependents traced from 1939 through the first bait of 18M. Consumer price index (inaet) goes up similarly.

Annual Limberlost Land Party Planned Geneva Lions Club Will Sponsor Affair The annual Limberlost land party, sponsored by the Geneva Lions club will be held Friday evening, March 23, at the GenevaWabash school. A feature of the party will be proclaiming ot "Girl of the Limberlost 1956" and her court of honor from among contestants - representing various schools of Limberlost lands. Through cooperation of the Ufflberlost Association, Inc., a special feature of thia year’s party will be announcement of the name for the new lake being sponsored between Geneva and Ceylon by the association as the beginning of Limberlost park. This winning lake name will be selected from among the

PUBLIC SALE We, the undersigned, will sell M Public Auction the following personal property on the Audrey & fieaaie Brough Farm. Located 4 tnfles East of Ossian. Indiana (Locker .mile* sough of FbrC"Wawne. Indiana, on State-Road No. 1 to Ossian, then 4 miTas east and >4 mile north; or 3 miles north of Tocsin, then 1 mile east and ’4 mile north,’ or 4 miles south of Poe, on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 ... ~' Sale Starting at 10:30 A. M. - 38 — HOLSTEIN DAIRY CATTLE — 38 (T. B. and Bangs tested—Some calfhood vaccinated) REGISTERED HOLSTEINS —Summit Roemer Magic Lady. 4 years old, fresh with heifer calf, a 7 gal. cow; Beauty Clintonia Maid, 2 years old. will freshen March 10; Lady Roemer Princess, 2 years old, due to freshen Oct. 10; Judy Towerline Homestead, 114 years old, due to freshen. Aug. 27; Summit Roemer Magic, Lady’s heifer, eligible, 1 year old; Summit Roemer Magic Lady’s heifer, eligible. 6 weeks old. HIGH GRADE HOLSTEINS—SALLY. 2 years old, calf by side, milking 7 gal. now; ROSIE. 5 years old, calf by side, milking 6’4 gal. now; TOOTS, 5 years old, calf by side, milking 6’4 gal. now; TINY, 5 years old, calf by side, milking 5’4 gal. now;' BLACKIE, 6 years old. was fresh Dec. 17, milking 6 gal. uow; SPECK, 2 years old. calf by side, a promising heifer; RUNT, 5 years old. due to freshen by day of sale, a 6 gal. cow; MAY, t years old, due to freshen by day of sale, a 6 gal. cow; BESS, 4 years old. due to freshen Feb. 5. a 6>4 gal. cow; STAR. 4 years old, due to freshen March 1, a 5Va gal. cow; PEARL, 3 years old: due to freshen June 14, gave 5 gal. with Ist calf; ANNE. 4 years old. due to freshen June 8. a 6 gal. cow; SUE, 2 years old. due to freshen May 17. a a gal. heifer; PEG, 3 years old, due to freshen March 20. gave 6 gal. with Ist calf; SPOT, 2 years old, due to freshen in Spring, milked 6 gal. with Ist calf. HOLSTEIN HEIFERS—3 good Holstein heifers, due to freshen in January; 4 Holstein heifers, due jet freshen in May and August. Exact breeding dates will be givefc day pf sale. 2 Heifers, 14 months old, open. 1 Heifer. 11 months old. This is a good herd of Holstein cattle and were mostly raised on, this farm. They are all young, healthy, good producers, and are nice ly marked. You are welcome to inspect them and see them milked anytime before day of sale. 34 — HOGS ~ 34 22 head mixed Gilts, mostly Chester Whites, due to farrow in Feb. and March. 1 Registered Chester White sow, due to farrow Feb. 25. 2 Registered Chester White gilts, due to farrow Feb. 27. 5 Registered Chester White gilts. 8 months old. eligible to register. 3 Chester White boars, 3 months old, eligible to register. Registered Chester White boar; 2 years old. HAY—2OO bales 2nd cutting alfalfa hay. Some oats. 2 TRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT " 1950 E-3 Co-op tractor in Ist olass condition; Cultivators for Co-op tractor; manure loader tor E-3 and E-4 tractor; Co-op 7 ft. power mower. 1941 Oliver 70 tractor with new M & W pistons and sleeves in A-l condition; cultivators for Oliver tractor. — FARM IMPLEMENTS — New Idea No. 7 manure spreader, brand new, less than 30 days old; Dunham 8 ft. wheel disc; Co-op 8 ft. tractor disc; 2-row international corn nicker, pull type;, good, rubber tired farm wagon with 16 ft. rack and false endgate; good, rubber tired farm wagon with 14 ft. rack and false endgate; power stand for unloading wagons, 1 year old: David Bradley 36 ft double chain elevator with drag, 1 year old; Coop 16hole fertilizer grain drill; Black Hawk 4-row corn,planter, in A-l condition; Co-op cultlpacker. like new; rotary hoe; David Bradley 14” tractor plow, on rubber, like new; Case 14” tractor plow on steel; International spike tooth harrow, like new; Minneapolis Moline side delivery hay rake; Case hammer milk 150 gal- gas tank or rack, how & nozzle: Seed Easy power grass seeder: oil burner tank heater: *2 g : ion ft. rubber hose: light cords; small tools, and many miscellaneous articles not mentioned. DAIRY EQUIPMENT —2-.uuit Perfection milking machine in good condition. complete with new pump, pipe * stall cocks; 13 m|Jk cans; 4-can Zero electric milk cooler. — . -■. --+= TERMS — Not Responsible for Accidents. Sale Will Be Teld Under Tent. Lunch Served by Bethlehem Ladies Aid. EDWIN F. GRAFT and AUDREY and JESSIE PROUGH —- Owners Elleu’berger Bros.—-Auctioneers - - Ft. Wayne Phone K-5512. Bluffton Phone 543. . Ossian Slit.® .Bank Clerk ■ , > r \ 9 0

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1956

short essays to be submitted to the secretary of the Limberlost Association by the school children of Adams. Jay and Wella counties suggesting names (other than Limberloat) from Gene Stratton Porter’s books. As in former years the party will begin with a big fish supper prepared and served by the Geneva Lions club. This will be followed by a special program of entertainment. \ .. This year for the first time, brief releases on the party are being given a tew national publications and some of the national wire services as a buildup for things to come. High schools of Limberlost land are urged to begin considering selection of their entry far "Giri of the Limberlost, 1956”. Among the points on which contestants will be judged are beauty, personality, charm and a talent demonstration. Miss Barbara Cox of Petroleum currently reigns as "Girl of the Limberlost.”