Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1957 — Page 10

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Schools have resumed after the holiday vacations, and first semesters soon will be over. Almost as quick now as one would be able to count to ten, we’ll be planning for summer vacations.. o—o , Congratulations to John Kintz, .- new president of the Adams county board of County Commission- .. ers. The well known Washington ' township official, with his years ' of experience will no doubt do an ’ excellent job in that position. Honesty, fairness and cooperation are spme of his attributes. £ ' —_o b . • - ’ According to statisticscompil- - ed by the information bureau of ; the American Gas Association, 46 percent of the nation’s residential housing units now are heated with gas. The popular method of home beating is growing steadily. O "■ O' . Seasonal winter weather, with emphasis on cold mornings, is in the menu for this area, for the next few days. Temperatures of near zero readings will be pretty common for a while. Some snow flurries also can be expected, according to weather experts. Guess .we can say that ‘.‘winter is on us.” - o—O—--—Highways are dear in this area, and many ice-fishing addicts likely will bundle up this . approaching week-end • and try their skill. Ice is reported to cover almost all of the northern In- ■ diana lakes, to a safe depth. Fishermen are cautioned, however, to be sure and have their 1957 fishing licenses and Lt always is a good idea to check locally with a Conservation officer as to ice safety, and good luck! o o This is March of Dimes month. ’ Money collected in cannisters; from benefit dances and by solicitations, all is placed in one big pot called The Polio Fund. This money is used to aid polio stricken persons, largely children and also for the never-epding fight to stamp out the terrible disease through research and medical developments. It is one of. the most worthy cavies and everyone with a dime or more can get in a lick -against the bold killer and crippler.

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Saving part of our Income regularly, no matter how small is an excellent habit <o— o—The Adams county highway department is starting 1957 with a healthy balance of $31,983.24, according to the annual report of Lawrence Noll, superintendent, made this week to the public and board of County Commissioners. Superintendent Noll has given an excellent accounting to Ms employers. the people, tor his actions and expenditure of more thttn-a quarter million dollars. Os course, each highway employe has a right to share in the fine accomplishments of the department, of . us, as part owners of great road System have a right to be proud of the Adams county road system. A big vote of thanks should go to Mr. Noll, all of his assistants and to the Board of Commissioners. They have done an enviable job. . "O "O Mrs. Mabel Striker, Recorder, Herman Moellering, Surveyor, Edward F. Jaberg, Auditor, Roland, Miller, Commissioner, first district, and Elmer Winteregg, Jr., County Coroner, start their duties as county officials giis week.Allofthe new officials except Mr. Miller are Democrats. Mrs. Striker and Mr. Moellering were re-elected last November, each without opposition. They had . performed their duties so well . K that no one cared to oppose them. Mr. Winteregg also was not opposed jn the general election. ’ Mr- MjUer has succeeded Lewis Worthman, two time holder of i the post of Commissioner of the first district. Conduct of the county’s business is big business. It is likewise important business. That our new officials will measure up to the greatness of our county, is taken for granted. Adj ams county has been Messed i with many efficient and capable officers and there is no reason [ to doubt that that chain of suci cesses will be broken. The Daily Democrat joins in wishing suc- . cess to each newly elected official. One official, Waldo Neal, i Treasurer-elect, does not start : his new term for another year, and of course we wish him continued success, too.

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS BRING LAUGHS I w s>' * * M‘*C'' ' WHILE MARVIN SCHAEFER reads New Year’s resolutions by members of the rural youth’, others join in guessing who wrote the resolution being read. Laughing at the resolution, read at the annual rural youth New Year’s party in the Coop building at Monroe, are. front row, left to right, Beulah Bretsch, of French township; James Schmiege, of Preble township; Ray Worden, Kirkland township; back row, Audry Wright, Grant county; Kathleen Boerger, Root township; and a Manchester College student.

Women Opposed To Men Flying Jets Hurting Air Force Recruiting ffforts HONOLULU — CT — America’s women are discouraging their men from flying the wild blue yonder as jet pilots, and the Air Force admits that the situation is hurting its recruiting efforts. ‘‘Women seem to be against having their men in the Air Force,” said Col. Barney Oldfield, chief of information services for the vast Continental Air Defense Command. “Mothers feel that jets are dangerous, and wives have the idea an air base is no place to

SYNOPSIS Casson Duker. a well-to-do amateur detective, is Intrigued when Henry Lockyer, a stolid banker, tells biin he had been blackmailed by an ordinary looking little man named Bagot who threatened to ruin bls reputation. Bagat promises not to bother him again. One thing distinguishes the insignificant Bagot: He paused to admire a piece of Roman sculpture in Lockyer’s bouse. Casson thinks this interest may trap him. Casqon goes to his friend. George Strutt a police superintendent, for help. Strutt becomes interested in the case. Later. Casson meets another friend. Nigel Willington, an antique dealer, and asks him to check his sales records of Roman sculpture for possible leads. Meanwhile. Strutt has dug up a similar case from the police Illes—the Greenhaugh case, in which the blackmailer called himself Martin. On a visit to Willington's. Casson sees a man answering Bagot’s description buy two bronze statuettes. He follows him. CHAPTER 7 BY THE TIME Casson had reached St James's Street, a taxi had stopped by the curb. Bagot—it must be the blackmailer—Bagot was bent half-way into the taxi, presumably laying his parcel on the seat. Casson memorized the number of the cab and slid his car into the traffic, drawing ahead. At Albert Gate it passed him, and he let it go away up the Carriage Road by the Barracks, easily keeping it in sight but screened from it himself by two intervening cars. ■ In King Street, Hammersmith, shortly after the Town Hall, it turned left. Casson hesitated. He knew that the streets which led down left to Chiswick Mall wdre residential, comparatively empty of traffic. His big car would lx! conspicuous and, if Bagot had noticed it in the Park, its second appearance might lead him to suspect Nevertheless Casson followed. He could do nothing else. As he turned up the street, he reached intd the dashboard cupboard for tinted driving spectacles and a tweed cap which he always kept there. He slipped these on, feeling foolishly theatrical. It was just as well. The taxi was drawn up half-way down the long street Apart from that, there waa no other car. Casson accelerated. The street was like one of those in a nightmare: interminable, empty, staring. Although the car swept up it at speed, it seemed onljL to crawl along the vacant length; But it passed the taxi in a flash. Casson was able to catch the number of thq house before the one into which Bagat was stumbling, his brown-paper burden clutched in his arms. In the

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r raise a family. “Sometimes the gals seem to be an immovable block to get around." ~ i ■ ' • But the author-airman thinks he has I “the gal radio and TV broadcasters.” , The Air Force is going to great lengths to sell the “gal broadcasts ers" the jets are safe and glamorJ ous* and that the Air Force life is B a good life. “We’re taking them for rides, z even through the sopic barrier," 5 said Oldfield. “That way they are reassured that jets aren’t danger- " ous, so they reassure mama, who , listens to them.” J Colonel Oldfield, in an inter? 1 view, contended jets are safe — ’ safer than propeller-driven planer ; —and he has the figures to prove ' it. The accident rate has gone 3 steadily down as the Air Force has

same moment he glimpsed a slur ; of paleness as Bagnt’s face was i turned toward him: But he could ; only have seen the back of Cas- : son's head and then the car was - away, safe, slowing down to turn ' into’Chiswick Mall. As he braked hard, Casson 1 glanced at the white plaque which . carried the street’s name. Bicker- ■ steth Street, W. 6. The house- ! numbers on Bagot’s side of the i street were unevens. The number J Casson had glimpsed was 49. The i house nearest to the Mall was 87. i Therefore Bagot’a was 61, Mr. 1 Blackmailer Bagot of 51, Biokert steth Street, London, W. 6. Got him! Casson drove fast back to Mayfair, elated. He confessed to himself ruefully that he was also relieved. He had by no means been certain that the gamble of the bust would pay off. Indeed, he still had to prove that he was not the dupe of a convincing coincidence. First he must prove that the man who lived in Bickersteth Street was Bagot Intuitively he himself was certain. But intuition was not proof and there was only one man who could make suspicion into fact That man was Lockyer. Therefore, somehow, he must show Bagot of Bickersteth Street to Henry Lockyer. And he must show him. not aa he had : seen him that morning at Chrisi tie's in his ordinary, everyday i garb, but in his disguise as a i blackmailer, with the heavy spectacles, the hair falsely parted, the mis-buttoned raincoat. Therefore he must catch Bagot when Bagot was “on the pounce.” But how to bring him and Lockyer together at that crucial moment: unseen to each other: one frightened to identify, the other terrified of detection? It added up to this. He must stalk Bagot, stalk him night and day, watch him as a hunter in his hide watches the tiger circling round the tethered goat. Then, the proof being reached, Bagot' could be given to Strutt as a gift, a gift which he himself could insist on helping to wrap for its delivery to the Public Prosecutor. In his flat that evening he got out a battered suitcase. Beneath pajamas he packed three worn shirts, a razor-case and hairbrushes, a Leica camera, a pair of binoculars, «nd-two- albums of photographs which he /iad taken of bilildings in Bath and Brighton and Edinburgh. They had been a preparation for a book which he

steadily replaced conventional aircraft with jets, he said. "In 1955. the Continental Air Defense .Command had 500,000 takeoffs and landings, he said. ‘‘The accident, ratio was 18 accidents per 100,000 hours of flying day and night, good weather and bad. ‘‘ln 19&, long before there were jets, the *ratio was 467 accidents per 100,000 flying hours.” Jet flying is safe, he said, because ground crews are so highly trained to keep planes in top mechanical condition and pilots are so highly trained against human error. “We spend 114,000 to $20,000 to train a mechanic before he can touch a jet plane. ■■“ We tawat fWjOOO to SIOO,OOO Jn a pilot before he even takes the controls of one of these planes. In contrast, a kid can fix up a jalopy

■ once planned to write on Regeni cy Living, and they would now I serve him as his disguise. Next morning he took the i underground to Stamford Brook, i walking from there across King Street and down British Grove to i Chiswick Mall. When he reached r the Mall he put his suitcase down and leaned on the railing, looking at the river. It was a bright, I. i fickle May morning with an un- ■ decided breeze. Small, puffed > clouds littered the blue sky and . the light on the water was not a i • . steady summer glow but brittle j ■ sheets of silver green. He picked up his bag and strolled on, sinking himself into • the identity Which he would as- ’ sume for the hunting of Bagot. • The Georgian facades of the 1 houses along the Mall confirmed - his intention. He would pose as ! an author writing a book on early ; Victorian London. He would be ■ Interested in antiques. He would, in his minor way, be a connois- - seur: though not of sculpture. 1 That was Bagot’s province, and ! Bagot should be made to take dei light in teaching him the aes- ' thetic value of his looted treas- ■ uses. IThe were Bagot ’ Casson turned back towards f Hammersmith and walked up ! Bickersteth Street It stretched J away northwards and, even in the • playful May sunlight, it looked bleak; solidly, bourgeoisely bleak. ' It was lined by similar and re--1 spectable mid-Victorian houses, each wedged between its neigb- ’ bora as if they stood shoulder to shoulder for support Viewed ‘ through the eyes of a dabbler in ; Victorians it was not an ugly ; street But it lacked joyousness. : It was a treeless avenue of moderate ambition. Casson walked on steadily and came to the road which cut across << : Bickersteth Street The comer house on the left-hand side was ‘ Bagot’s. It showed no sign of life. He examined the houses opposite, on the right-hand side. It was ifi one of those that he needed a room, a lair that should be his hunter’s hide. But none of them looked like a boarding-house *and there were no “Room to Let’,’ notices in the windows. — He walked on, depressed. If he could not get a room opposite No. 61, a major part of his 1 scheme would fait Wil) Casson succeed in finding a room? Don’t miss to-~ morrow’s exciting installment ’.I -’- • . . .

Soybean Champion I ■I 1 d 1 I 1 i < pa Roy Mazelin shows off the soybeans which won him grand champion honors in the crop show at the county extension office December 26. He. won over 24 other entries in the field. The event was judged by Martin Watson. Adams Central vocational agricul- i tore teacher. to go 70 m iles an hour and drive it before he learns how to drive, and mama doesn't think anything about It.*’ The colonel - expihihed that there is another reason besides female pressure why youngsters aren't as: eager to fly as they were 10 ox 15 We had a hungriet group of kids in the saiT‘Wowthey are a comfort-loving lot. To get to be an aviation cadet in the 1930 s was a real struggle. 2* Also there’s the cold war. “It is never as popular to fight to prevent a war as it is to fight a war, but all the money spent to prevent one is well spent, no matter how economically we could fight one.” Valuable Find TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — (W — Gary Beck, high school football player, found a runaway mink, but no one came to claim it. The mink had four offspring. Young Beck raised them. He soon found he had 55 of the animals Beet has sold enough pelts already to pay for two years in college. Venezuela, producer of 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day, exports more petroleum than any other nation. . r« 20Years' Agtr ~ Today O- f--L , o Jan. 3, 1937 was Sunday

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Uranium Search Is Now On In Italy Lonesome Parts Os Italy Are Searched ROME — W — Italy is about to have a "uranium rush." Peasants and shepherds are meeting an increasing number of people equipped with strange gadgets roaming the peninsula, from the Alps down to the tip of Calabria. At the beginning peasants and shepherds were puzzled to see so many strangers in the most lonesome parts of their territory. Then, they found out that those strangers were trying to find uranium on behalf of the Comitato Nazionale Ricerche Nucleari (National Nuclear Research COmittee) and Geiger counters. Especially in the field of the practical developments of nuclear science. Italy is far behind, and the CNRN is trying to make up'

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foe the time tost CNRN geologists said that there are good prospects to find uranium in Piedmont, Liguria, Calabria, and Lazio, because of the volcanic nature of the soil in those regions. Camillo Parisini, a mining engineer, may be considered a pioneer of uranium research. Parisini, whi was in the United States at the time of the big "uranium rush” and returned to Italy two years ago, started, some research in Piedmont, in the zone around of uranium research. Parisini, who ini had built a small plant which produced 300 kilograms of high quality uranium extracted from the ore he found in the zone. Meantime, Montecatini, the biggest Italian chemical industry, got interested set up a research point at Peveragno near Cuneo, Piedmont. Publio Ferrari, a mining engineer of Montecatini, directs research in the area. A total of 200 men are working in a number of galleries 1,500 feet underground in a remarkable radioactivity which, however, experts say, is not damaging to their health.