Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1957 — Page 2

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Americans Jamming Roads For Holiday Estimate 45 Million Autos On Highways -7- By UNITED PRESS A inass exodus of Americans began today with an estimated 45 mijljon cars hitting the highways for a long Fourth of July holiday weekend of fun for some and, inevitably, pain and tragedy for others. Despite the best efforts of law enforcement agencies and safetyFILMS Developed at Edwards 24-HOUR SERVICE Holme Drug Store ■W' _ .... . ’■ ! t

FURNITURE AUCTION MONDAY, JULY Bth, 6:30 P.M. 218 SOUTH FIRST STREET, DECATUR, INDIANA 2 Pc. Living Room Suite; ’3 - 9x12 Rugs; Sectional Bookcase; 3 Rockers: Stand Lamps; Floor Lamps: Cedar Chest; Stands; Chair & Ottoman; Studio Couch: Gateleg Table: Secretary Desk; Mirrors; Cfocks; Buffet; 2 Metal Utility Cabinets; 2 Chests of Drawers; End Tables; 4 Pc. Plastic Leather Living Room Suite; Corner Table; New 32 ft. Trailer Tarpaulin; Lawn Mower. Metal Bed complete; 2 Dressers; Throw Rugs; Coldspot Refrigerator; 2 Kitchen Utility Cabinets; Kitchen Table, 4 Chairs; Automatic Toaster; Pressure Cooker; Dishes, pots, pans, garden tools and other miscellaneous articles. 21-In Philco Television Set. T^RMS—CASH. ’ ~ T " FOREST LAKE, Administrator of Mrs. EtLi G. Lake, Owner GrffiTd Strickler. D. S. Blair—Auctioneers Haugk—Clerk C. W. Kent—Sales Mgr. B Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty & Auction Co. B Decatur* Indiana Phone 3-3390 • Not responsible for accidents. 13 6

Looking for a New Home? See These! B * ■ JjjE jL—«- ! f < (IM* 1 TtKHKmdw Mr Jr w Bw | is one of the Finest 3-Bedroom Homes in Stratton Herc is a New ’ largc 3-Bedroom Brick Home with full B Kace. .Look this one over and you will like it. All basement, breezeway, attached garage. Owner will ' ' ““ ■cc largc rooms and very nice finished basement. v- This is a lovely Family Home, 3 blocks from business ■■iced below today’s building" cost. Owner will accept i take smaller home in trade, inspect this fine home. district. 2 Fireplaces, 3 Bedrooms and Master Bering trade-in or will help finance to a responsible party. • room is 12x26. Full basement with recreation room, ■£. carpet and hardwood floors, gas heat, life-time roof. . <■ ' • ? - - » " ■* 1A» batha, large attic fan, large garage. Immediate Possession. B - vou have been looking for a lovely Home with a 'Y c have 3 New 3.Bedrpom Homes such as the above, magazine dream basement, here it is, you will not They have been built by some of Decatur s finest CarB< ou want a Beautiful lase Ranch’ Type Home with believe it until you see it. An inspection of this fine ; penters and ar«;£lassed with the finest of Homes, yet cottage type garageTsurrodnded by an acre lot property will make you want to move in today. Let are only priced from $17,000 to $19,000. Call and is very nicely shaded and landscaped, let us show us take you on a personal tour of inspection. let us show them to you. this ft is net very imen that you get a : ~7*- — a ** i iirfffiiHMn — B' jWT ZX wqE| *. J —**S| jgy g | | S| - i-Ou ■ H IP- I»- R ~ laKißj' I w y' n ‘ <e 2-Bcdroom Home, located on an extra large T^“s * s a vcry n * cc R T?'P C 2-Bedrooin Modern an d w *il be just 2 blocks from the new Southside Home on a large lot, 2*/i miles cast of Decatur. : - School. Garage and nice shrubbery. Priced only 411,500.00. K Beautiful Downtown location. Newly redecorated in- $7 500 00 and outside, 3-Bedrooms. fire-place, hardwood ’ 7 ■# BEDROOM Modern.home on nice WILL SELL on Contract with about 1 FARMS FOR SALE.— APARTMENT HOUSE — large shaded lot. apross from High , $2,000 down, very nice 2 bedroom • k ... > School, only $11,500. Quick Pos- modern home, largc garage. This ACRES—Moocrn set of Build- THIS IS A VERY fine Duplex. 2 * ; «ession. ' home is like new. you will like It, ,n R s on "nved Highway. 5 inoin Apartments, excellent locaOnly SII,OOO. 77 ACRES—Modern Buildings and lo- tion And in fine state of repair. 'uir>K> ■» btobaam u j . catcd 9" St. Highway in Ohio. Live Very comfortable and let one VICE 2 BEDROOM Modern one NEW 3-BEDROOM HOME one block 93.75 ACRES—Southeast of Decatur— apartment help you pay for this story home and good garage on from g. E. Automatic Washer and Washington Tjvp. • ... fine jiomc. 2 car garage. This exua tong tot, south end of town, Dryer built-in. - It4s empty~Beryoa !.>."> ACRES—East of Willshire, Ohio. apartment is and has always been - only I can have immediate possession. 40 ACRES — New Modern Home, rented. 'Look Now!) Only $12,000.00. close to Wren, Ohio. - J—--—*—— —J— ' : — r — » ** — r "■ - ■ FOR CORfIPLETE INFORMATION and INSPECTION OF THESE HOMES — CONTACT THE KENT REALTY & AUCTION CO. PHONE 3-3390 — DECATUR, IND. ! C. W. KENT PAULINE HAUGK GERALD STRICKLER - - - - - - -

conscious motorists, at least 400 and possibly more than 500 holiday travelers are marked for death on the highways. Other holiday celebrants will reach their destinations safely only to join the long fatality list in drownings at crowded beaches and resorts. Still more will be killed in airplane and miscellaneous accidents. Added to this will be the uncounted toll of injured in traffic 1 wrecks and the anticipated more than one million dollars lost in property damage. The National Safety Council estimates there will be one traffic smashup' for every 20 miles of highway travel during the fourday weekend. The 102-hour holiday period begins at 6 p.m , focal time, today and ends at midnight Sunday. The council figures these accidents will kill 535 persons, or 70 more than the 465 who would die in traffic during a non-holiday period of the same length in early

July. Law Enforcement agencies again planned an all-out assault on reckless motorists, and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover added a warning against picking up hitchhikers. “Offering a ride to a stranger, . like passing on a hill or a curve, is a dangerus. blind gamble.” said Hoover in the FBl’s Law Enforcement Bulletin. r Claim Votes For Gas Control Ease House Committee Approval Likely WASHINGTON (UP) — Backers claimed today they have enough votes to push through the House Commerce Committee a controversial bill to ease federal controls over producer prices of natural UsOpponents weren’t acknowledging defeat. But they were privately pessimistic. One said a careful nose-count indicated the measure would win approval, 13-15. when the final showdown comes next Tuesday. The committee Tuesday wound up work on proposed amendments to the measure, brushing aside both proposals for tightening it up and for relaxing controls even further. On several major test votes the committee took a clear-cut stand in favor of easing federal controls over producer prices It rejected, 17-13, a proposal to require the Federal Power Commission to continue to take cost of production into consideration in regulating producer prices. It also rejected the administration's recommendation that the FPC be allowed, but not required, to consider production costs. This left intact a major provision in the bill that would bar the FPC from considering production costs. The bill would require that producers be allowed "reasonable” market prices, without regard to individual production costs. Trade in a good town — Decatur

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Building Permits Issued In Decatur 18 Permits Approved By City Engineer Eighteen building permits were approved by city engineer Ralph E. Roop during the past month a”d a half. Six permits were issued to either build or add to present garages, and six permits ycre issued to allow additions, i epairs or minor changes to buildings. One permit issued will ckey the construction of a business site, and two will permit building of new homes. There were three additional permits granted by Roon A request submitted by Floyd Acker to temporarily locate a house trailer on Washington street was at first refected, but later approved by the board of appeals. Mrs. Viola Richards, of fc>4 Dierkes street, sought a permit to cirage a one-family dwelling into ;wo apartments, but was not granted a permit because the home is now in R-l, and the amount of space does not agree With ordinance specifications. The request will be submitted to board of appeals for further bearing. x George Litchfield, of the Pioneer restaurant, received approval to construct rest rooms in his highway drive-in restaurant, located at 304 North 13th street. He stated that total cost, including the changing of doors, would be $350. A building permit was granted to Mark D. Colchin. of Homestead number 4, who estimated that with a cost of $3,500 he can build a new foundation for his home, and replace the house on the present lot. Repairs amounting to S3OO will be done to the Lester Thomas residence at 604 Adams street, and an enclosed porch, estimated to cost $1,450, will be built on die Melvin Luhman residence at

W North Fifth street. Repairs to the Hollis Bonifas property at 1005 Russell street, will amount to SBOO. Hubert Gilpen has been granted a permit to build a $1,600 warehouse and car wash, on Eleventh street. Roy E. White, of 321 North Ninth street. construct a $695 garage at the above mentioned residence, and a $1,200 garage will be constructed at the Drexel Eugene Beam residence, located at 703 Dierices street. Work on a garage at the E, L. Hammond home on Line street, will amount to $450, and a $1,500 garage will be built at the Louis Jacobs residence, at 116 North Tenth street. A garage at the Clifton Hart home. 1003 Schirmeyer street, will be relocated on the same property, and will cost an estimated SIOO. Simeon J. Hain, Jr., has received a permit' to construct a $15,000 home at 206 Stratton Way, and Clark W. Smith will build a new $12,000 home in Park Place. Other permits granted were to the Church of the Nazarene for wrecking of a barn at 103 North Eighth street; to Hammond’s market at 240 North 13th street to put into operation a walk-in cooler and to Pay! E. Strickler for the storage of trailers on 12th street. A $15,000 laundry and dry cleaning plant will be established at 905-915 North 13th street, following the permit granted Robert Aeschliman. Arrange Hill-Billy Shows And Dances A series of hill-billy shows and free teen-age dancas will open at Sunset park Sunday, July 28. according to an announcement made today by management of the popular pavilion and park, southeast of Decatur. Free tickets for the dances will be distributed by various Decatur merchants. Three hill-billy shows will be presented each Sunday throughout the season, starting July 28, at 2,4, and 8 p.m. Further announcements will be made later.

Compulsory Driver ' Test Is Confusing Vast Majority Os i Applicants Pass INDIAN APOUS (UP) -i- bit 5 ana's compulsory driver testing , program was just three days old j today, and at least qfie testier con- , fessed that on the first day sfic was "more confused than the customers.’’ The 1951 .Legislature ordered all persons applying for license renewals to take an examination. Indiana's 184 auto license branches were given the job of doing the testing. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Robert McMahan reported some branch personnel were a little /scared” about procedures for administering the 10 multiple-choice questions and the eye tests given with the aid of new machines. Mrs. Opal Kyle, deputy manager at a Terre Haute license branch said branch workers Were “kind of confused" on Monday—-the first day of the program. “We were more confused than the customers,** Mrs. Kyle said. Spot Check Made But a spot check of branches around the state showed the tests going rather smoothly, the /vast majority of applicants passing, and only slight grumbling because of the inconvenience. One of the biggest stumbling blocks seemed to be the identification of highway signs. Applicants must identify various shapes of signs. ■ - Branches at Bloomington. Princeton, and Tarre Haute, > for example, said more persons failed on that score than any other- Few persons were failing the eye exams, but some drivers were told they must get glasses before they can drive. At Gary, branch manager Mrs. Marie Miller said only seven of the 57 applicants the first day failed. Five of the seven failed the written test, two the eye test. Manager James G. McDonald at Princeton reported about a 10 per cent failure—all on the written test. "If they’ve read the manual, they don’t have any trouble,” McDonald saidHe referred to a manual prepared by the Motor Vehicles Bureau available at all license branches. Many applicants who fail the first tiime go home to study the manual, then return to pass the test on the second try. Made Eyen Easier McMahan planned to make it even easier. He said he will distribute a list of 75 questions and answers to newspapers,, just like those appearing on top test, ‘/only reworded a bit’’ “If they know the answers to every one of the 75 questions they’ll be able to pass,” McMahan promised Mrs. Ruby Ryan. Bloomington manager, said there is one com- -

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mon mistake: "We find that people think that just bebause they've driven for 40 years that they know ail the rules." She said there were few complaints. but once in a while a disgruntled driver will “scribble his own comment’’ on the test paper. Women do just as well as men. the managers reported. In fact, Mrs. Ryan said of the “six to ten” persons who failed the written test in, two days at her branch only one was a woman. "And she was in a hurry,’* Mrs. Ryan pointed out. Annual Farm Bureau Picnic Next Sunday The annual Adams county Farm Bureau picnic will be held Sunday at Lehman park In Berne, with a basket dinner at noon. Program for the afternoon will be recreation by rural youth, songs by the pet and bobby children and the amateur will an-

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tertain the group with numbers. Speaker for the afternoon will be George Doup, vice-president of the Indiana Farm Bureau. All Farm Bureau members and their families are urged to attend. RADIO & T.V. SPECIAL Closing out our 1957 Floor models’"to make room fur the . . NEW 1958 MODELS Coming Soon I Only a few styles left. BUY and SAVE! SEARS CATALOG SALES OFFICE Phone 3-3181 Decatur, Ind.