Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1956 — Page 8

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Harvey Opposed To Any Tax Reduction Indiana Congressman To Vote Against Cut RICHMOND, Ind. (INS! — Republican congressman Ralph Harvey, of New Castle, announced Monday night that he will, vote axatnbt any tax reduction bill that' tomes before congress. He added: "I would prefer a balanced budget rather than vote for a'tax reduction that would unbalance it.” Harvey, however, predicted that there will be a tax slash In a year if the international situation continues to improve.

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He said: 4 , > "At present, however, the cost of the defense program is going to preclude any substantial reduction in taxes. Two-thirds of t*r Federal taxes must be spent for our defense forces. It is regretable that this must be so, but it is." Harvey conceded that there la only an uneasy truce between the Russians and the West in areas, but maintained that the Communists have made no con siderable gains in recent months. Predicting the congressional situation, Harvey gave the federal aid to school construction bill a 50-50 chance, but saw administra tion success In bills for highway building, farm relief and health research. National Citation To Hoosiet Trucker Posthumous Award To Heroic Trucker SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) — A national citation was given posthumously to Harold J Ferguson, of near South Bend, whose flaming death in a propane gag explosion was credited with saving Ifeany lives. Ferguson was one of six professional truck drivers given -Gentlemen of the Highways” citations by Arthur Godfrey on a national radio and television show Monday. The Indiana .driver died Oct. 18, 1866 of burns suffered when he sought to warn others of propane gas leaking from a broken pipe line near Elkhart, Ind- < Ferguson smelled the gas as he was driving along a busy highway in his truck. He grabbed a fusee and . ran Jfor_ about, a, half-mile, where he lit it, apparently believing he had reached a safe spotBut the deadly gas had saturated his clothing and'the lighting of the fusee set off an explosion which cause his death 26 hours later. However, the action was credited with warning others about to enter the danger area, and no one else was killed. Ferguson had driven for Clemans Truck Lin<>, of South Bend, for 22 years, covering 11489,500 miles without accident at the time he was killed. Prison For Forging U.S. Treasury Check INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A 51-year-old Indianapolis man today began a fouf-and-one-half-year term tn federal prison for forging a fi&i’Sd’ United States treasury check. Ligonier Hatchery Destroyed By Fire LIGONIER, Ind. (INS) — Several thousand baby chicks were killed when a fire destroyed the hatchery owned by Mayor Roy Jorg of Ligonier Monday night. Two other downtown buildings were threatened but were saved by firemen after a three - hour -battle. ■ ' -

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JEALOUSY IS BLAMED Ur the twin killing of Dr. a P. Hart, 72, and Mrs. Mary Kostic, 35, in Massillon. O. Held is Nick Kostic, 37, a steelworker, who admitted the shootings when found in a bar, and said, “If you hadn’t got me when you did, you would have had three dead ones.” He indicated, he was hunting a jsecond man. Mrs. Kostic was killed at top of a stairway leading to the Kostic apartment over a laundry, and the doctor was gunned at the bottom of the stairs. (International)

Medical History By Deep-Freeze Baby Complete Recovery By Child Possible MARSHALLTOWN, la. (INS) —’ Two year old Vickie Davis, the ’’deep-freeze baby’’ of Marshalltown. la., is making medical history by recovering from a freezing that plunged her body temperature down to 60 degrees. S Her apparent recovery was announced Monday by physicians at Evangelical hospital who said they believed Vickie’s temperature of 60.8, taken at the hospital, was the lowest any human has survived. The doctors sdid the little girl’s temperature was probably 60 or 59 degrees when she was found frozen Saturday morning at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Davis, 48. The most amazing thing is that Vickie may make a complete recovery. Tfce threat of possible amputation of her toes was diminishing and she showed her mental recovery by singing parts of “Davy Crockett.’’ Her appetite has also returned — even to the point of eating, of all things, ice cream. Vickie and her grandmother, whom she was visiting, were alone them Saturday morning when the temperature dropped to 24 degrees below zero. An oil stove in Mrs. Davis’ fourroom cottage had been turned so low that it was nearly as cold inside the house as outside.

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE TOWS CLERK-THEASIRER FOR ISM FIAAACI.iI, OF MONHOE, ADAMS COINTY GENERAL FUND Di.bntweRecelpts “«<« Balance (General Fund) January 1. 1955 ...'.I 158.41 General Property Taxes 4194 fZ Refund From State - ■■■■■- -••••-- 118.13 « , State Liquor (Excise) Tax Salaries of Town Officials .-■ 3 J 4.00 Office Supplies and Expenses ‘‘£.47 Legal Expenses .. ... »«•« Town Hall (a) Operation IM-«-Insurance-All Kinds ~ .......... 206.90 Police (Marshal Salary and Expenses) : --I-.OV Water Supply and Hydrant Rentals 2000.00 Garbage Removal f ..^...:^....... , -- ”»•«» Elections '.. and Implements 100.31 Total General Fund Receipts and Disbursements 1 4751.19 9 3994.94 Balance (General Fund) December 31, 1955 3 759.34 SPECIAL FC A'DS Electric Wo"Xl Plant Balance January I, 1955 3 3290.69 a> Jrl'ca *35756 17 Earnings and Collections 3547.60 35756.17 Refunds and Transfers -......’ 5000.00 Total : 3 8290.53 ~,314069.06 344078.03 Disbursements Operating Expense 3 2511.<6 J 31314.27 Construction 1342.59 Interest on Bonds 4780.00 Refunds and Transfers 5000.00 ■ To&t ...J . ...X..8 4780.00 $ 8854.36 881314.2? Balance December 31, 1955 1.-.....-3 3510.68 . > 5804.71 >12763,75 STREET FUNDS ■ ■=,, _ . . Special Reeelpt. « Balance January 1,1955 ............ —8 ’’M* Gasoline Taxes and Mptor Vehicle Fees .................... 2133 06 Total Balance and Receipts Disbursements «,*•»»» Construction (see NOTE below) ».«......M.......~.< 'AA— Total Disbursements — J< 8i458,94 Balance December 31, 1965 ii;—" — * .17J-42 TOWN INDEBTEDAEMR . * At December SI, 1983 BONDS Interest Yenr . , < Rate Issued Purpose at Issue A meant Bond* . _ 4% 1951 Water Revenue Bonds for Construction of wA«r System —- >85000.00 , irsni. ■ inpw Total Bonded Indebtedness at December 31, 1955 .......... .395000 00 ' ARTHUR W. MOESCHBERGER, Clerk-Treaauypr JANUARY 24 rr— t—t:

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Both were found unconscious. Vickie was wearing only a T-shirt nightgown and her grandmother, fully clothed, lay with her head on the child’s body. ; _ Mrs. Davis’ temperature dropped to 70, but it has since returned to normal. Dr. J. J. Stegman, the first to examine Vickie, said both of the girl’s arms were frozen up to her shoulders and her legs frozen up to her thighs. The left side of her face and head also were frozen. Taken to the hospital and immersed in warm water, Vickie’S temperature rose to a feverish 103 degrees but now is below 100. Police have been unable to explain thß circumstance* under which Vickie and her grandmother were found. Mrs. Davis says she remembers nothing after watching a 10 o’clock TV news broadcast Friday night. „ ' v? 1 J*? ’ Veteran Methodist ; Minister Is Dead INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Last rites for an 80-year-old Methodist minister who had served several Indiana churches during the past 55 years, will be held Wednesday in Elnora, Ind. He was the Rev. Edward A. McBride, who died in Indianapolis Methodist hospital Sunday. He had been pastor at various times in Elnora, Alfordsville, Loogootee, Cass, Merom, Decker, Indian Springs and Newberry. Fourteen towns or cities in the U.S. bear the name Paris. ■<s<3 . ■' ■ The Suez canal required 13 years to construct.

Gen. Ridgway Continues To Accuse Wilson Former Staff Chief J Declares Protests To Wilson Ignored WASHINGTON (INS) — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway may be called to lead off a full-scale review of U. 8. military policy. Sen. Estea Kefauver (D-Tenn.) declared today he believes Ridgway "presents a mighty strong case" in his charges of "political pressure” in the Pentagon. Kefauver. who is actively seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and is a member of the armed services commitee, told newsmen that testimony before the group by Ridgway should be "the first step of a complete renew of the military defense program.” - Ridgway’S charges are running in the story of his life, appearing serially in the Saturday Evening Post. i - ■ In the first article, published last week, the former army chief of staff accused the Eisenhower national security to domestic political objectives. President Eisenhower, at his news conference last week, brushed aside the charges as representing what he called the “narrow fears” of some military officers and declared flatly that he has never permitted politics to 1 influence his handling of national defense. - ’ ■ * In the second article, released last night, Ridgway continued his accusations. He arrested that his protests against deci sinoshe believed "detrimental to the strength and spirit of the army” got him nowhere with defense secretary Charles E. Wilson. The general wrote; “After each exchange of views, I came away convinced that either the secretary was a man whose mental processes operated on a level of genius so high J could not grasp his meaning, or that considerations beyond the ken of a soldier's logic were influencing his think-

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ing." He renewed an old argument—that of professional soldier vs. civilian in control of military affairs. The retired four star general said: "I think the tendency, which was manifest many times during my tour as chief of staff, of civilian secretaries making military decisions on a basis of political expediency, constitutes a danger to this country.” ' He contended that Pentagon civilian bosses, "Largely ignorant of military matters, persistently disregard the counsel and override the judgment of loyal, competent professional officers, who hitve risen to posts of high responsibility after having spent a lifetime in the military service.” However, lydgway specifically exempted from his criticism former army secretary Robert T. Stevens — under whom the general served most of hie term as chief of staff. The general’s principal argument is that the administration is relying too much on airland nuclear power. *He declared that the army should be welded into a “streamlined, hard-hitting force, armed with nuclear weapons in adequate numbers and with greatly Improved non-nuclear weapons.” STATEAUDITOR tCootinuee H-om Page One> the state finance board to trans fer $70,000 from the state high way department to the toll road survey. Wedeking said he refused the offer and reported it the next day to Gov. George N. Craft. However, the story remained hushed up for nearly nine months. Hardin admitted soliciting a bribe, which he also admits Wedeking refused, but the auditor said he was simply trying to trap toll road commission director'and expose the toll road. Following the alleged trap attempt, Rardin voted with Craig in favor of the fund transfer against state treasurer John Peters. Craig and Peters testified earlies before the grand jury as did state police Supt. Frank Jessup, who said he found insufficient evidence in a private investigation of the matter to warrant filing charges. ; ; . .... ‘ If you have sometning to sell or rooms fbr rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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ASKS REVIVAL (Continued trom Fag* On*) i threshold of a 1409 billion econo-1 my.” ..He said that, while nuo production and demand and home-build-ing are declining, these developmeans are being “amply offset by increases elsewhere.” The President added: "The rap id expansion of six or 12 months Hack has given way to a tamer movement, but the underlying trend still appears to be upward.' He pointed out that the flow of business orders is still outrunning production and sales, and that business capital investment, already at a record level, promisesto advance further "in the months immediately ahead.” Mr. Eisenhpwer said: "Taking recent developments ail together, it is reasonable to expect that high levels of production, employment and income fill be broadly sustained during the coming year, and that underlying conditions will remain favorable to further economic growth.’’ Trade in • t»ood Tcwn — Decatu’

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