Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1956 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published livery Droning Bxcept Sunday By TH* DHCATUR DEMOCRAT COk INO. ■ntored at the Decatur, Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller —.... President J. H. Heller Vloe-President Chas. Holthouse —... Secretary Treasurer Subscription Rates: ®y Mail In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *B.oo| Mx months, $4.15; S months. 12.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, ft.OO; 8 months, 14.75; > months, 12.50. By Carrier: 80 cents per week. Single copies, g cents.

We beg your kind indulgence for mentioning polio precautions again. It should be the subject for every backyard discussion and utmost care should be taken to keep our children in the most advantageous positions, healthvise. Observe the basic rules of health, it will help! p. o Wo can count among our blessings the protection which our location gives ns against hurricanes. As we hear and read of warnings of impending storms along the south and east coasts of the United States, there is a sense of security that is not held by others including those who fly through, above and around the storms themselves to learn how and where they may strike. People demand more money to be expended for warnings and research. New electronics equipment will be of great assistance but men are required, men of courage, and intelligence, to inquire more deeply Into the secrets of such storms. When reading or hearing of hurricanes remember to count your blessings. o President Eisenhower vetoed a rivers and harbors bill which involved some thirty-two projects that "fell short of meeting the proper standards.” While no actual appropriations were included in the bill it is of interest to us in this part of Indiana. Reservoirs on the Mississinewa river and at the junction of the Salomonie and Wabash rivers would have an effect upon northeastern Indiana. Too, it gives us an opportunity to look more closely at the ultimate damming of the St. Marys rivw since flow of water from the reservoir at Celina will not be Influenced immediately. A water reservoir for the future is among our musts and since there is do inclination to permit greater lowering" of Lake Michigan for water usage by Chicago, we probably cannot look toward the Great Lakes as a source. It would appear that we cannot afford to long postpone at least an investigation of a dam or reservoir in whieh .the St.

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Marys river would be involved. Our power problems can be solved but where is there a guarantee of an adequate supply of water* 0 0 "Stratton Lake” has . been drained through the efforts of the street department and that eliminates another breeding place for insects, It is expected that the cost of drainage will be met by those interests which are said to be responsible and that is as it should be. —o 0 If you are interested in making a comparison of the platforms of the two major parties, the following is a thumb-nail sketch of the planks contained in the Democratic party platform. We shall endeavpr to present a similar condensation next week from the San Francisco convention: Democrats promised to: Uphold the Supreme Court school desegregation decision as "the law of the land” but oppose use of “force" to carry it out Balance the budget and reduce taxes. Restore farm price supports to “full parity.” Broaden social security, expand public housing, aid school construction, liberalize unemployment compensation. Continue efforts “to eradicate discrimination based on race, religion or national origin” and to recognize that every child has full right under the constitution “without discrimination” to educational opportunity. Repeal the Taft-Hartley and raise the minimum wage from $1 an hour to $1.25. Seek internationalization of the Suez Canal, grant defensive arms to Israel, oppose the admission of Red China to the United Nations. Provide defense forces “so clearly superior in modern weapons to those of any possible enemy that our armed strength will make an attack on the free world unthinkable.” Provide ■ adequate protection within a philosophy of tree trade for domestic industries suffering from competition of foreign imports.

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• — 20 Years Ago Today A—- — 17 • • Majority of proposed budgets already have been filed with county auditor John Tyndall. Mary Bieberich Schroeder, formerly of Adams county, dies in Nebraska. Central Sugar plant la remodelled and ready for opening of sugar campaign. Work started on new concrete coal bin at court house. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Niblick go to Toronto, Canada, to attend K. of C. dbnvention. Mr. and Mrs. George Sprague are vacationing at Rochester, Minn. Miss Coralene Townsend and Patsy Fullenkarap are visiting friends in Frankfort. Ky. The Leo Kirsch family is vacationing at Oden, Mich. ' Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ehinger and Mr. and Mrs. Clem Kortenber leave on week’s motor trip to Niagra Falls.„ Mrs. Paul Bohner, Mrs. Roy Price, Miss Pauline Buckmaster, Miss Rena Kelsey and Mrs. Erwin Steer are hostessed for Better Homes economics club. q i — o Modern Etiquette I BY ROBERTA LEE Q. What are some suggestions for appetizers at a cocktail party? A. Simplest, of course, are peanuts. olives, pretzels, and cheese crackers. If you want to be more elaborate, you can serve small sandwiches of various kinds - - and the modern cookbooks are full of suggestions on this. Q. When a man is invited to be the guest of a woman at a banquet or similar affair, is it proper for him to bring her a corsage? A. Only if the affair is to be a formal one, and he knows she is wearing an evening dress. Q. What is the proper way to cut a three-tiered wedding cake? A. Usually, the projecting bottom tier is cut first. ■ U - ■ ! < I Household Scrapbook I BY ROBERTA LEE » - Silk Stockings When examining stockings te see if they are in need of darning, be sure first that there are no rings on the lingers and then double them into a fist with the nails turned into the palm before thrusting the hand -through the stocking. This will prevent your starting a “runner.” " ,

Challenge For Dr. Mays ® A new nwel by ELIZABETH SEIFERT. © 1955, by Elizabeth Seifert Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. » ” r , l ——9 r. 1 " ".a

’ , CHAPTER 20 BY THE time the Cpynty Medical Society dinner was held, all of the physicians connected with the clinic had met Chad. They took their turns serving as examining doctors. They were intimately aware of the problems which he had solved, of the methods he used in solving them. Unpredictably or not, the man was literally everywhere! " Dr. Mays sometimes worked hard. Often he seemed not to do a thing. He was a "genius at organization." He was “crazy as a coot.” Thus the doctors discussed him among themselves, and by the night of the dinner at least half of them had spoken to John Blandin about seeing to it that Mays was there. “And properly dressed « . worried some. “At least see to it that he has on shoes!" blurted Dr. Moore. “Only man 1 ever knew," agreed John, smiling, “whom I had to look at to be sure he was wearing them.” But he said he’d do what he could to keep Chad in line. And he engaged Helen’s assistance for the project “A regular meeting wouldn’t matter so much,” he explained, “but with the wives invited ' • • • But John and Helen did not see Chad for two days before the evening of the dinner. He was off to the clinic before breakfast, home after they went to bed. During the second afternoon he phoned to assure them that he would be on hand. He also hung up before any injunctions could be* issued. He was neither late nor early. At exactly five minutes before the hour set for dinner, he walked through the main door of Hie Country Club, as nonchalantly as any night club singer making an entrance, and as exqdisitely dressed. Although it was July, and the night warm, he wore tail coat, a carnation, lawn tie—his red-brown hair was brushed but not slick—he graciously greeted Newell McCrillis and a couple of other reporters: he spoke to the men nearby, then crossed the lounge to where Helen Blandln stood, talking to John’s guest, Mrs. Milbum. “It figures,” said John to the men near him. “Never to do the expected.” Chad sat at the head table and looked alternately bored and ab-sent-minded. He spoke only once during the meal. That was to ask

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if Dr.. Wilkins-Smith was present Hearing that he was not he sat back again. When the speeches began, his boredom visibly increased, and in his turn he made a speech well calculated to bore his audience. He did speak on his work at other clinics, but dully; he quoted figures and named places. He dismissed their own clinic with a single sentence, saying that it was too early to talk about it “I suppose,” said Alice Milbum, at the end of the evening, “it would have been better to leave him alone. That afternoon at my house, he was really brilliant —it didn’t matter how he looked. But tonight—he looked;? wonderful, and —” Her ringed hands flew out in a gesture of acute dismay. • • • On the morning immediately after the dinner, Lacey Van Hom sat on the terrace, eating her breakfast In the morning paper she read a brief account of the dinner meeting. Dr. Chadbum Mays, it said, had spoken on the subject of diagnostic clinics. Newell McCrillis had not been able to do very much with Chad’s speech. It was as dull to report as to hear. But well displayed on the same page was reported an interview with Dr. Claude Wilkins-Smith. A warning, it was announced to be, against clinics such as had been lately established in.the suburbs of the city. Dr. WilkinsSmith managed to imply that the place had deliberately sought to evade the supervision of municipal laws. He spoke, with an obvious effort toward fairness — called to the attention of the reporter—but also with admitted alarm, of the superficiality of a 45-mlnute check up. What could possibly be discovered in such a time? What could be detected? Cancer? T. 8.? Anemia? Why, said Dr. Wilkins-Smith lightly, even a test for pregnancy took longer than that! There was another question which had occurred to this thoughtful, conscientious doctor who was the Superintendent .of the County Hospital. Why should such a service—good or bad—be offered free? Either the County Hospital, or the two City Generals, afforded care to the indigent of the district. This clinic ballyhooed its services, whatever they were, as free to all. If the service was worth anything, it would be worth a slight charge. Os course there was less danger of legal involvement by not having any money change hands. ...

sustained in an accident Sept. 19, 1965, at a county road intersection in Jefferson township. oy Real Estate Transfers Harold Eugene Nelson etux to Charles E. Wheeler etux, .15 acre Wabash Twp. William Kautfman etux to Frieda Lehmann, 42 acres Blue Creek Twp. Frieda Lehmann to William Kautfman etux, 42 acres Blue Creek Twp. Herbert C. Dailey «tux to Peter L. Schwarts etux, 20 acres Monroe Twp. Justus Augsburger etux to John Moore etux, ot 361, Geneva. Victor H. Laux etux to Herbert C. Dailey etux, lot 391, 392, Geneva. Dick D. Heller etux to Charier. Richard Johnson etux, lot 906 Decatur. Hazel D. Shatter to James L. Frey etux, lot 909 Decatur. Krick-Tyndall Co, to Julius. Lengerich etux, land Washington Twp. Ralph M. Hobbs etux to Harry James etux, part lot 351 Decatur. Minnie May Samples etal to Christ Johnson etux. .75 acres St Marys Twp. > Ora E. Johnson to) Herbert E Cook etux, .75 acre St.\Marys Twp.

Oh, by legal, the doctor meant things like suits for malpractice. ... Though of course the service was not really free. These clinics recommended a selected list of doctors —who doubtless would charge the jiatlents plenty ! And over and beyond the money question, Dr. Wilkins-Smith must deal again with the mental anguish, the risks... It made a man like himself ask a few questions! And he might suggest that others pause for the same purpose- • • • Lacey read the interview through twice. Then she sat thinking, disturbed. It was an attack, but subtly done. Nothing to put your finger on as a direct accusation. . —ltwas also b threat of a more concentrated attack to come. . . . Chad had talked about the clinic that Sunday afternoon but her mind had been on the man rather than on what he said. She had accepted the “idea” as being worth-while if he and John Blandin endorsed it. But Wilkins-Smith, by innuendo, made the same idea sound like blatant quackery, designed to drum up business for “the selected list of doctors.” So, she sat troubled, a pretty blue-eyed girl with her golden hair tied back by a rosy ribbon which fluttered in the morning breeze. She’d go talk to John . . . Or to Chad himself. Maybe he didn’t realize how damaging that article could be. If she, with ner i loyalties, could feci a doubt which might turn into disapproval of the whole clinic idea, what effect would it have on others? If there was some way in which I Chad could interpret the clinic i "idea” to the public, some man- [ ner of defending it, he must be i urged to make that defense. Ho couldn’t realize how much influence lay in the words and works ■ of a man like Wilkins-Smith! • Someone must tell him! Now, Lacey must see him ! again, and talk to him. For both i their sakes. She would take John- • ny to the park, and Chad surely ; would come to her there. Somei thne. , i She did wish there need be no ' explanation, that there was no story to tell. But of course sho • had to tell him about her mar- • : riage as soon as she could bring • herself to it. It she did not, others i would. And everything depended upon the manner in which that story was told. Because her mar-_ riage ... (To Be Continued)

F A ’ / fi • | ...’. l; *. ;•*.<|B' Ma - — K ■'* bt- ‘Mr' mJHMW' $ ' V-WmM II ' * ’-AL i .* gh J I . «y , ; ... . r «Ua>..-. JIRSI lIGERS Dorn at Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo in 12 years 101 lin "maternity ward incubator, the same typo device used fbr babies. They were put there when it became apparent their Bengal mother wasn’t hep to what to do about them. Cuba are ted from bottles every three hours. (International) Prescribed by Slate Board or Accounts School City A nd Town Budget Form No. I NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES In the matter of determining the Tax Rates for School purpurea of the School Corporation of Adame Co. Central Consolidated School Corp., Adpms County, Indiana, Before the Board of School. Trustees. JiL — Notics te hereby given the taxpayers of Adams County Central Consolidated School Corporation, Adams County. Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said school corporation at their regular meeting place on the 30th day of August 1956 will consider the following budget: BUttIET CLASSIFICATION FOR SCHOOL CORPORATION SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND G. Auxiliary Activities 3200 LEASE FUND A. General Administration H.‘Debt. Service 100 Lease Contract, Holding Co. * 31000 1. Bd. Seh. Tr. & Sec. J. Capital Outlay—Altera. 3000 Total Lease Fund ...^.... L ...,..| 31000 Office $ 3725 Total Spec. Seh. Fund 3111075 VETERAN MEMORIAL BUILDING 2. Office of Supt. of Seh. ' 1400 TUITION FUND ‘ FUND B. Instruction 13540 B Instruction .'3134507 Veteran Memorial Building C. Coordinate Activities 20700 Total Tuition Fund 3134507 Fund 3 31700 D. Operation of Seh. Plant'2 30630! -BOND FUND Total VeterAn Memorial E. Maintenance 13930 H. Debt Service 3 15625 Building Fund 3 31700 F. Fixed Charges „ 13450 Total Bond Fund 3 15625 ESTIMATE OF FCN DS TO BE RAISED « Mb^R^iWp^FoS^V^a’rT 0 Tmtlen Rend Lee.e Bl'dt l ' WD® Ud 3^ t 1957/'ln?lu ß W° B r 184507 J? 625 31""S 31" 00 3. Necessary Expenditures, Aug. 1 to Dee. fl, present year .• 486.9 <a1486 646a 3. Additional Appropriations to be made Aug. 1 to , ,„„ Dec. 31 of present year l”98a 3J»O 4. Outstanding Temporary Loans to be paid before Dec. 11 of present year—not included In line 3 or 3. _— — 5. Total Estimated Expenditures (Add lines 1,3, 3 and 4). ... 169339 189193 22090 31000 31700 FINDS ON HANDS AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY i 6. Actual Balance, July 3let of present year 51238 61695 1410 I<9T 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December » . Settlement) 37237 31857 6071 14571 3. Miscellaneous Revenue to -be received, Aug., Ist of present school year to Dec. 31st of next school year (Schedule on file tn office of Sehood Board). a. Special Taxes (See Schedule).„ . b. All Other Revenue (See Schedule) — 13<w» 77470 . 9. Total Funds (Add lines 6,7, Ba, and 8b) 101475 161022~~ 7481 16363 10. NET AMOUNT REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DEC. 31st OF ENSUING YEAR (Deduct line 9 from line 5) 67864 28171 1440 k 14632 31700 11. Operating balance (Not in excess of expenses from Jan. 1 to June 30, less miscellaneous revenue for the same period) 35463 25537 358 14184 874 13. AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY (Add lines 10 and 11) 93327 53708 14967 30816 32574 r PROPOSED LEVIES Net Taxable Property <8,804.440 Number of Taxable Polls FINDS Z / Levy on Amount *• J Property Be Raised Special . J 1.06 i 93327 Tuition .61 53708 ~ Bond .17 14947 Lease .35 30814 Veteran Memorial Building : .37 32576 TOTAL • 32.56 $225394 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED ~ .... -.(Tabulate below amount to be collected in current year and amounts collected in each ot the previous three years.) To Be Collected Collected Collected Collected Name of Fund * 1953 1954 1955 1954 Special , 573*3 54115 65336 79821 Tuition. ;;-vr- 31659 43898 *8179 48588 Vocational ... «6«5 66«0 6616 ’ 10411 Sinking .5: ’ .. 62486 Bond . I. 141 63 1 2488 13282 13014 Transportation ; 13330" " 2i>813 2i>676 Lease ■ ... ...4. 31636 ■ 35638 31234 Cumulative Building 20676 21690 TOTAL . i; 1856J2 169004 194353 204756 Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereog. After the tax levies have’ been determined and presented to the county auditor got later than two days prior to the second Monday in September. and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to dd. by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for further and final hearing thereon by filing a petition with the county auditor on oy before the fourth Monday of September or on or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date is later, and the state board of tax commissioners will fix a date for hearing in this county. - FLUYD MITCHEL WILLIAM L. LINN ' Dated Hite 3rd day of Augurt 19,74 b — — EVAN YAKE —— ' ■ AUGUST 10—17 DANIEL I.ANTZ , AUGUST SCHLICKMAN HAROLD V. SCHWARTZ SILVAN SPRI NGER . : . - Board of School Trustees ■ : -

CHAPTER Xi piVE YEARS earlier, Lacey V was eighteen, slender, often called exquisite in her pale-golden loveliness. During a year away it school in Switzerland, her nother nad built this house. When Lacey came home that nunmer she was presented at a jarden party, with a formal ball icheduled for Christmas time. But by October of that year, thick creamy invitations were going out for the wedding of Alice Lacey Milburn to Dr. Britton Van Harn. A brilliant man, forty (rears old, the young girl, Lacey, lad adored him, she knew now, rather than loved him. There was a strong possibility that the popular and successful doctor had married her for her money; he must nave known other exquisite girls of eighteen. He was a very handsome man, and all women ‘‘adored” him. But’it was Lacey he married, and she had been very happy; before they were settled from their honeymoon, Johnny had announced his coming; this knowledge haloed her joy. But as the months went by, that joy became less radiant. A natural development, her mother said. Lacey had married a doctor: of course he left hgr alone much of the time. Also, said her mother,' a man who waited to marry until he was forty had become pretty well established in the selfish, extravagant ways of bachelorhood. He’d change—Lacey must be patient.

These discussions always included a mention of Brits ‘‘heart.’’ He had one. Alice thought he used if as an excuse to get out of pnpleasant tasks and scenes. But the fact that Brit had . already suffered one doronary attack terrified Lacey. She —they—must say or do nothing to “upset Brit.” But perhaps she had not done enough, because, just a montfi to the day before her baby was due, Britton Van Horn, having returned frem a night call, was found dead in his car after he had brought it into the garage. Even naw, sitting on the terrace, warmed with the sunlight which came through the leaves, Lacey chilled again with the cold iorror which she remembered so avidly from that nigh*

one naa ncara cne car come m, had waited for the sound of Brit’s step in the hall and on the stairs —familiar sounds which that night never came to break the mounting stillness in the house. She exactly remembered the growing fear she felt as she found her slippers, put on a robe, and went downstairs and out into the garage—to stand frozen beside the car, physically unable to open the door or touch the man slumped across the wheel. She had, finally, managed to creep back into the house, pick up the phone and summon John Blandin. From then on, Lacey had been shielded and protected; the rest of the nightmare went on Without her. That same night she had been taken to the hospital, where she stayed until Johnny was safely born. She had left the hospital Sir her mother’s home/ and had ved in it ever since. John and the Coroner had said that Brit’s death was obviously sudden, of course, the result of a severe heart attack, to which Dr. Van Horn was subject No one, to Lacey’s knowledge, had questioned that finding. And yet— Had his death really been simply from a heart attack, wouldn't people have talked to Lacey about it? About Britton? No one ever did. pacey knew that he was talked about, that stories were told. They could be told to Chad in a way to . . . There even might be those who wondered if Lacey had not induced the fatal attack . . . Once, because no one ever mentioned the matter of Britton’s decth, or its manner, she went to the Central library, and read the newspaper accounts, which had carefully been kept from her at the time. “Dr. John Blandin, the family physician called by the widow . . ." But she hadn’t known she was a widow, when she’d made that frenzied phone call! ”. . . testified that Dr. Van Horn had been dead for as long as two hours when found. . . And that wasn't right! That couldn’t be right! Lacey had heard ths car come in—she'd waited a little; she’d moved slowly, fearfully—-but it couldn’t have been rnwe than fifteen minutes—-

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tmny at tne most — before sho reached him. It had taken John anotifitr ten to get to her. But—■ Lacey’s testimony fi?d been taken and accepted, without her leaving the hospital. Wasn’t she believed? Or did they believe she had drifted back to sleep and was too shocked to remember it? Or had allowances been made for her youth, her approaching motherhood —and ’ her family’s wealth? She knew that she had told th# truth! As for the cause of the attrek, or the true explanation of that two-hour lapse of time, if others knew about those things,, or guessed, she had not been told Lacey herself never mentioned the tragedy, nor gave even her mother an opening to apeak of it. At first John Blandin had ordered this protection of her. Later, the door of silence remained closed. Friends and acquaintances might have been less considerate, but Lacey didn’t nave many "friends and acquaintances.'” Since the tragedy, she had Kept very much to herself, getting over the shock and grief of it, devoting her full time to Johnny. Part of that sweet air of innocence which had charmed Chad was loneliness, and inexperience in dealing with people, except on purely superficial social occasions, like her mother's parties. She had lost intimate touch with the world of human beings. . . . Perhaps even as a child, but certainly as an adolescent, she had gradually learned to suspect kindness, never sure whether people liked her for herself, or for her mother's money. Even Brit—and suddenly the tragic climax of her marriage plunged her still more deeply into doubt and uncertainty. - Then Chad happened. Nol knowing who she was, Chad had seen her, talked to her, asked nor to marry him. For herself alone! Lacey took a deep breath. Sh« had to see him now. She had t< talk to him frankly and openly. If only she could bring herself to de it, to put the hurt and doubi behind her and tell Chad everything he should know, must know if ever their love were to mature into something rich and peaceful and everlasting! (Is Be Continued./