Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1957 — Page 4

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Bargains galore will greet shoppers in the Decatur area when the big Dollar Day is announced soon. o oThe first month of this new year of 1957 is now history and economists and researchers are still optimistic about the remaining 11 months. Retail prices will remain high, they forecast, but profits may be smaller. Apparently there are yet no signs of a major business depression. This should bring hope to all of us but of course, we would like it much better if prices would drop a little. O'" -o We don’t believe that Harry Essex of Decatur ever took a dollar from the state of Indiana or anyone else which he didn’t earn. It is our conviction that Highway Chairman Peters, long known as pretty free with his words, will swallow his accusations before too long. Taking back-yard swipes at sincere and conscientious persons, without having the complete facts before him is a poor way to start a new administration. It places a serious doubt in the minds of many if Mr. Peters is the man to handle large sums of road funds. Our best guess is that the recently appointed Chairman is building a pathway to his own early exit. Perhaps the quicker this exit occurs, the better it will be for everyone in the state. . o ■-o ■■■— February term of Adams Circuit Court will start Monday. Instead of taking a vacation, Judge Myles F. Parris always devotes the bulk of his vacation time to make ready for the next term of Court. By pre-arranging his time

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t and schedule in this manner, the functions of the local court sail along in the smoothest fashion. Scarcely a night passes during vacation. Court terms that there are no lights burning in the Judge’s Chamber. Almost all of the upcoming schedule of hearings already is filled. For all of* this work over the year, the Court draws less than one legal lee on a large estate. Why is it that Circuit Courts always are the last to be considered when salary increases are in the making? There probably isn’t a Circuit Court Judge-in Indiana who could not make three times his salary with much less work. ■' ' o o - One trustee in Adams county received nineteen identical pieces of mail from a single department at Indiana University this week, and with this apparent waste of I taxpayers’* money in evidence, officials of that great school are dogging Legislators daily at the Indiana General Assembly for still larger amounts of our money for operating costs. We hope Rep. Yager and Sen. Eichhorn are apprised of such wastes of money before finally passing on the monies for Indiana University for the coming year. It is spending like ~ this, only in much larger amounts which makes the operation of state schools so costly. We be- x lieve it would be a popular move for the General Assembly to go over every state school request with a fine tooth comb and perhaps a few millions could be shaved off, and maybe this could be accomplished without disturbing the Indiana University pro- > grarn of building a 56,000 capacity ' stadium to'replace'fKe 25,000’capacity one never yet filled.

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Your Social Security (Editor’s note: This is the first of a esries of questions and answers pertaining to your Social Security inquiries. If you have a question to be answered, please write a letter to Social Security/ care of Daily Democrat. Answers to questions will be published each Saturday on the editorial page. Answers will be prepared by an expert on the Social Security regulations.) Q. 1. Can I get Unemployment Compensation in addition to my Social Security when I retire? A. 1. You can receive both if you are eligible for both. When workers 65 years of age or older become jobless for an extended period of time they should apply for their Social Security even while seeking employment. Meanwhile, they may be eligible to unemployment compensation, if the work they did and their employer were covered by the State Unemployment Compensation Law. If it is, they should call at their nearest Indiana Employment Security office and register for work, if they are willing and able to work, and a job is available. No one can receive unemployment compensation unless he is willing and aide to work and unless he reports for work to their office. , Q. 2. I am 68 and was self-em-ployed in 1955 and 1956. I earned >1,452 in *55 and 91,500 in ’56. What is the earliest I can claim my Social Security? A. 2. You can claim your retirement payments right now. In fact, unless your earnings run over 92080 for the year, it would be to your advantage to do so. Q. 3. If I apply for my Social Security payments and work earning no more year thereafter, will.l have to pay the Social Security withholding tax on my earnings? My employer says I will. A. 3. Your employer is right. This tax is required whenever you are employed or self-employed in work covered by Social Security, at any age, and whether you are receiving your Social Security or not. Q. 4. Would Lbe considered selfemployed for Social Security purposes? I own and live in a large house. I rent gut two apartments, providing utilities and do certain cleaning, renovating and redecorating. Also, we plan to take over and operate furnished apartments in Florida to rent to tourists for short periods. We will supply laundry and furnish .various sdrwtoes, and live in a part of the large house ourselves. Could we be con-

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*» CHAPTER 34 "THE CLEANER was gazing at * the awkward heap on the tedL “What’s happened to him, sir?" she gasped. “There’s been an accident," he said. “Go downstairs and fetch the porter. 1 suppose there is a porter?” "Oh, yes." She sniffed, then started coughing. ■ "Well, you fetch him," said Casson. f He bent over the bed and carefuly turnted the body. He tried to give it artificial respiration, tils eyes shut and his own breath coining bitterly against the reek of gas in the room, praying that by some miracle life might jump and move Jn the sluggish, ’ unwieldly limbs. In the end, choking, he had to stop. He groped his way into the living-room and sat down, his head bowed between his knees, searching tor breath. Then he went back to the bedroom and began all over again. Onc4f hope flared as he thought he saw the muscles of Macfarlane’s mouth twitch and contract; but the hope died as quickly as it had come and be had to accept what he had known before—that it was too late. Tenderly be laid the body back as it originally was, careful not to toueb the medicine bottle lying on the bed. He looked round the room to note all the details and Impress them on his memory, and went through into the livingroom. - -He wrapped his hand once again In his handkerchief, lilted the telephone receiver off its cradle, and dialed Strutt's number in Fulham. "What is ft?” Strutt asked. “Macfarlane. Dead." "Dead ? How ? How do you know?” “Gas.” i■. 4 > “Gassed himself?” “No.” “Don’t speak in riddles. What's happened?” “Macfarlane is dead,” said Casson slowly and distinctly. “He did not commit suicide. He was murdered.” < There was a pause at the other end of the tine. When Strutt spoke again his voice was coldly tuaUev-ef-faet. -*■ "Where are you?”

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sidered self-employed if wg do . this? A. 4. In the case of your present home, how much service you provide will determine whether your rentals would be investment income and not eligible for credit under Social Security, or whether t your rentals would be self-employ- . ment income. You should get a rulI ing from Internal Revenue. As to i the Florida venture, this should » clearly be self-employment income, if your .furnish the things ; you mentioned. 1 COURT NEWS Reply Filed In the complaint on account by Paul E. Hammond against Roy B. and Betty E. Friedley, the plain--1 tiff has filed a reply to the de- ' fendants’. answer. The plaintiff alleges the defendants owe him 1 9300 for rental on a trailer. f City Water Well Is ' Delayed For Week J Decatur’s new gravel type water ’ well has been delayed another * week, city engineer Ralph Roop 1 reported this morning. Robert " Williams, engineer for Layne--1 Northern company, who has con- * traded to do the drilling, reported " that the first test hole, drilled eight ? weeks ago by a well driller since 5 fired from the job, proved to be about four feet shy of the gravel i bed, necessitating a new bole. It 1 is hoped that by the end of next r week the three holes will be completed and tests can be made ' which will determine if it is pos- * sible for Decatur to provide more 1 water for its people and industry r by this method. Roop said. Williams stated that since the ' delay is in no way the fault of the ■ city, the extra drilling will be done ’ at the expense of the Layne-North-ern company. I ; Voter Registration Records Are Checked The staff of the office of county clerk Richard Lewtdn has begun the task of checking voter registration records of Adams county, i The names of persons who have died are being removed from the registration lists. All registrations will be checked and all persons who did not vote in either the primary or general elections of 1956 will be sent > a post card later this year to re- , mind 'them tnat ts they do not rei register, their names will be purg- * ed from the record. They will have the opportuity. to i re-register by returning postal * cards to the clerk’s office. If the ■ postal < cards are returned, the , the voter > registration lists even though bal- - lots were not cast in 1956.

”xn Macfariane’s fiat.” “You’re sure he’s dead?” “Yes.” "All right I’ll get a doctor along. I’ll be with you. Don’t let anyone in till 1 oome.” Strutt rang off. There was a tapping. Casson went through the apartment and opened the door- of the flat The cleaner was half-turned away from him, talking to a sturdy, bullet-headed man with a red face and large ears. He wore a waistcoat but no jacket “Oo are you ?" he demanded as Casson came out. Casson eyed him with some distaste. Slowly he took out his gold cigarette case, selected a cigarette and’lit it Then, once more, he contemplated the truculent, red-faced man before him. "What is your name?" Casson asked coldly. The other hesitated. “O’Connor. I’m the porter 'era* But yhat 1 want to know is . “There’s been an accident”. The cleaner lumbered forward. "What is it sir?” She tried to push past Casson but O'Connor seized her arm. “Now then, Mrs. Queenleigh," he said sharply. “Don’t you go rushing in. There’s something fishy going on ’ere.” He turned to Casson. “Now then, you, what’s up?" Casson paid no attention to him. “You are Mrs. Queenleigh?” he asked her. “Yas, sir. Violet Queenleigh. la Mr. Macfarlane in?" * "Very IJL" “I knew lt». . .” she began. “Knew what?” he ask sharply. “That something would happen. It said so in my Stars." Their colloquy had attracted a small and dispirited audience. A listless man of uncertain age and with heavily pouched eyes had shuffled up the stone stairs. He wore baggy, frayed tweeds and a bow tie. One of his shirt-but-tons was undone. He stood silently, one band tn the pocket of his coat, bls eyes shifting furtively from one to the other of the three people in front of him. Casson nodded towards Mrs. Queenleigh and said to the porter: ... .1 “Take her downstairs and look after her,"

20 Years Ago Today - >■„' , ' ' February 2, 1837 — Annual Boy Scout dinner is scheduled for next week, with Richard Van Horn, Anthony Wayne executive, as chief speaker. Berne and Monroe citizens are invited to a meeting at Monroe high school to discuss possibility of a school merger. Meeting will be held Thursday night. Mayor Holthouse is speaker at meeting of Evangelical men’s brotherhood. Mrs. Sophia Bieberich, 74, Preble township, dies. Dean William F. Barr, Drake UMversity, brother of Mrs. Mary Ketchum of Decatur dies at Des Moines, lowa, home. Civic Section of Woman's club plans public bingo party. Estella Kitchen becomes bride of Herbert Ratcliff, Ossian. Dan Niblick and his daughter, Miss Mildred, are attending annual Chicago style show. Ground-hog sees his shadow plenty today and causes prediction of six more weeks of winter. 0 "• ’ Modern Etiquette BY ROBIRTA L*l a—— — » Q. Is it all right to give a new baby the same name as an ol<jer brother or sister who has passed on? A. This is a question to be decided by the parents’ own feelings. In the case of a boy, this is often done, especially when the older brother bore the same name as the father. Q. My employer’s wife has just died. I did not know her, but would like to show my feeling in some way. What should I do? A. You could send flowers to the funeral, with a sympathy card enclosed. Q. Should a schoolteacher rise when the principal of the school (a man) enters her classroom? A. Yes; because she is really jn the position of a hostess, who always rises to greet a guest. 0 ■ —a I Household Scrapbook I BY ROBERTA LIB 0 0 Stabbora Wtadows When the weather stripping causes a window to stick, making it difficult to open or close, dip a cloth in hot paraffin and rub it along the stripping. It works like magic. Pantry Shelves When paper is used to protect the pantry shelves, try using three thicknesses. They can be removed one layer at a time as they become soiled. Fata •All cooking fats and drippings should be kept in the refrigerator to prevent their becoming rancid.

"I want to know *oo you think you .. *• •Take her downstairs,” snapped Casson. O'Connor looked nasty, then began to obey. He was torestalled by Strutt. The Superintendent came shambling up the stairs at a remarkable pace tor a man ot his build, moving sideways like a crab. “1 tun a Police Officer," he said to the porter. “Who are you?” O’Connor eyed him without pleasure. "Micheal O’Connor," he said. "And you?" said Strutt to the cleaner. “Violet Queenleigh, sir. This gentleman says there’s been a dreadful accid . . .’’ “And you?” Strutt snapped to the listless man with the pouched eyes. “I’m—er—that is to say I—er —live here and—er ..." "What's your name?” "Irwin Standing. lam .. .* Strutt squinted at him and gave him a cold grin. “Well, stop standing about here." He turned to the porter. "I’ll want yon later. And this woman.” He swivelled to Casson. “Now.” Casson unlocked the door and Strutt charged in, his head lowered as though he were meeting an invisible force. "Shut the door,” he said over his shoulder. He went straight through into the bedroom. Ths smell of gas still thickened ths air. The squat'policeman bent over the body for a moment, but peered for a longer time at the medicine bottle which lay on the blanket He sniffed tne toothmug, glanced at the scattered objects on the mantelpiece and the wardrobe, inspected the window. He came back to the bedroom door. “The mat?” he queried. “Yes," Casson replied. “It was up against the door. I tripped over it when 1 came in.” Strutt grunted. “Looks like suicide." JMBB "It wasn't- "WF Casson finds tt difficult to prove Macfarlane was murdered. Read Small Venom ia ■

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