Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1957 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT 'Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. 'twred at the Decatur. Ind., Port Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller President J. HL Heller Vice-President Chat. HolthouM Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: Che year, 18.00; Vx wmths. 14 45; S months, *' 25 " r By Mail, beyond Adams ar.v. Adjoining Counties One »<•»• 41.00 g months M7S; 3 months $2.50 By »trier 30 cents per week Single '■opjea 6 cents

After you have fcaid your fan installment of county taxes you can coast a little until state and federal taxes are due shortly after the first of the year. o o Paging publicity hound Superintendent Zeis! Is it fair Mr. Police officer to permit slot machines and gambling to operate in parts of Indiana and crack down in other sections? That’s a fair question, isn't it? ——o o—— We don’t know just what the advantage is to colored soap, or a cure for a headache guaranteed by some person dressed like a doctor, or the hundred and one other claims made by the parlor fakirs who invade your living room in the guise of television announcers. They don’t have to answer to anyone but their sponsor and they can say just about anything and get by with it. One thing which paid television would do, would be to eliminate a lot of the cheap trash you see and hear disguised as advertising and entertainment. o—o Hundreds of Hoosiers are spending week-ends at northern Indiana lakes, which are free from speeding motor boats and surf riders. Fishermen get the nod at the lakes now and are taking full advantage of the situation. If you’re planning a fall fishing trip in Indiana, it will save you time and money if you check over the new statutes. The law requires lights on all boats with motors driven after sundown and also requires a life preserver cushion for each passenger. It is wise ot check with the man at the boat livery or where you buy your bait and make sure you are complying. o--o The gasoline price war which has struck Fort Wayne several times and forced prices down to as low as 24.9 cents a gallon has been pretty much confined to Allen county. Prices in the Decatur area have remained steady at from 27.9 cents to 30.9 cents. A price war is beneficial to the motorist, but not a very healthy thing for the station operator. Fair prices should prevail and while they are extremely high, because of the added taxes and high tank wagon price, they are lower here than in most parts of Indiana. i

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Decatur merchants report a brisk pick-up in business the last few weeks and this is because more and more people of the Decatur shopping area know what excellent values and courteous treatment they receive at the hands of Decatur retailers. May this attitude always prevail. ■o o Ask any of the super market operators about the power of advertising in your dally newspaper. Several stores recently have reported receiving as many as 1,500 coupons for redemption after a single advertisement. Watch the crowds at the stores which advertise on special events days. You get more for your money in daily newspaper advertising than any other medium. We are convinced that newspapers are here to stay. You’re missing a bet if you don’t advertise daily in your home newspaper. -y " O O The Indiana Democratic state organization will start its fund raising campaign soon and in every county's Dollars For Democrat committee will be established. Wayne Coy, of Indianapolis, former federal communications commission chairman and presently president of an Indianapolis radio and television corporation has been named state chairman of the fund and he will be principal speaker at the kickoff dinner scheduled soon for Indianapolis. The big undertaking will be preliminary to organizing for the general campaign of 1958. O—O- — Possibly on cold winter evenings when you don’t feel like leaving the house, you’ll sit down and watch a TV show. Right now most of the polls show that a big percentage of home owned, sets are turned off. This results from the far under par programs which stations are trying to force onto the public, with no success. People won’t stay fooled very long and it looks like a golden opportunity for movie houses, skating rinks and other forms of amusement which have taken a severe beating while the TV fad • rose. Now it is fading and the smart operators of amusements no doubt will again get their share of the public's entertainment budgets.

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COUFH NEWS Marriage License James Lee Adams, 19, Berne route two, and Juanita June Litwiller. 18, Berne route one. Set for Trial In the complaint on promissory note by Household Finance corporation of Fort Wayne against William H. and Elizabeth Clark and Robert L. Clark, the defendants have failed to make an appearance. The trial has been set for Sept. 18 on motion of the plaintiff. Appearance Entered In the complaint to contest will by Florence Smitley against Lester Olan Smitley, etal, Severin Schurger and Hubert R. McClenahan have entered appearance for the plaintiff. Motion Submitted A motion for a bill of particulars filed by the defendants in the complaint for damages of Hattie N. Suttles and Robert Plumley against Richard J. and Maxine Moser has been submitted and the matter has been taken under advisement. Jury Trial Set The complaint for damages by Vaughn P. Thrumbull against Vera Hartsough, Fort Wayne Newspapers, Inc., and the News Publishing agency, has been set for trial

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WHAT IS HAPPENING The well-known Cool & Lam private investigating agency has a troublesome case Involving a missing person. After letting drop an indication that his problem Is a mineral rights deal. Texan Lawton Corning employs the agency to locate a Mrs. Drury Wells. Donald Lam and his partner. Bertha Cook find there's much more to the case than Corning had confided to them. Upon driving to the home of Drury Wells in Southern California Donald finds Wells to be both uncooperative and unconcerned about his wife. Weils' story Is that she walked out on him three days earlier.. A neighbor, Mrs. Frances Raleigh, tells Donald that she suspects Mrs. Wells was murdered by her husband. After reporting this to Coming. Lam notifies Frank Sellers, of police homicide, of the suspicion* Angered. Coming orders Lam to drop the case. Research in newspaper files by Bertha discloses that a short time previously. Mrs. Wells, the former . Yvonne Clymer, Inherited California property and 815.000 from an uncle in Texas. Aaron Bedford. The date, on which Drury Wells rented his home was a few days after that Bertha has s hunch there is oil on the inherited property, and tells Donald: 'We' 11 round up thia babe and get her mineral rights for ourselves. Then Corning can deal with us." Donald's argument that this would be unethical is Interrupted by arrival of Frank Sellers, who insists that Donald accompany him to the Wells place. They find It occupied by a stunning redhead tn shorts who identifies herself as Mr* Wells. Sellers had kept the house under police surveillance around the clock, and is angry now with Donald because of his "false alarm." But Donald is not satisfied. He finds a record of Drury Wells' having married an Estelle Ambler, but no record of a divorce. He flies to Sacramento where Estelle is living with her mother. CHAPTER 12 ‘"THIS IS my daughter, Estelle 1 Wells,” Mrs. Ambler said. “My name's Donald Lam,” I told her. “I’m a detective. Tm trying to get some information." "About Drury?” "Yes." "A private detective,” Mrs. Ambler hastened to say. "1 don't know as it makes much difference,” Estelle said. "He left my daughter horribly disillusioned," Mrs. Amblei 1 explained. "Is there a child?" I inquired. "Two children.” “How old?” "Five and seven.” "Estelle -hasn’t been well,” Mrs. Ambler explained. “We can blame it all on the treatment of that man. He ruined my daughter’s health." "Do you work?” 1 asked Estelle. "From time to time she does," her mother explained. "But she just can’t hold down a steady job. She isn’t physically capable of it, and I’m not too well myself. There’s just the two of us here taking care of the children.” "Does the father pay support money ?” “Well, he does and he doesn’t," Mrs. Ambler said, "and that’s one tiling that bothers me, We don’t believe in divorce. Drury has been trying to get what he calls his •freedom’ for the past five years. © 1957 by Erie Stanley Gardner. From m

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by jury Oct. 22. The law firm of DeVoss and Smith has entered appearance for the defendants. Divorce Filed A complaint for divorce by Bessie I. Johnson has been filed again- ( st Otto Johnson and a summons' has been ordered returnable Sept. 30. The plaintiff has filed an affidavit for restraining order, which has been approved. The plaintiff charges habitual cruelty. Estate Cases The inheritance tax report for the estate of Corydon F. Rayl has been submitted, showing a net value of $21,308.26. According to the report there is $lO tax due from each of two daughters and two sons and $26.54 tax due from two other sons who are heirs to the estate. Proof of the notices of final settlement of the Grace V. Romey estate has been filed. The final report has been submitted and approved and the administrator has been ordered to make distribution. There's gold in the sea, about 1.5 billion dollars worth per cubic mile • of ocean water, but attempts at • extracting the precious metal have failed because the operation costs 10 times the profit. — •» ' • ■ ' ' •• '

He’s ottered to make * property settlement if Estelle would give him a divorce. She won’t do it The man’s rotten to the core, Mr. Lam, absolutely rotten.” 1 nodded. “Os course, if we went ahead and got a divorce, we could get an order from the court providing for alimony, and jail him if he didn’t pay. But this way we have to threaten him every so often with failing to support his children, and Chen he’ll come through, after we put enough pressure on him. It’s been like that ever since Estelle left him. She’d have to scrape along as best she could, trying to keep the children going, and then put all the pressure she could on Drury Wells. At the last minute he’d come through with something. Talk about a war of nerves! He certainly is a past master at that sort of stuff.” “Do you know what he does?” "1 haven’t the faintest idea. Probably he does nothing. He’s about the laziest man I've ever seen in my life.” "How do you get tn touch with him when you go after him on account of the kids?” "There’s one address that will always reach him after a while. That’s the address of his brother, Dr. Carleton Wells." _ "An M.D. ?” 1 asked. "A dentist,” she said. “He has an office in Los Angeles. •“Drury always keeps in touch with Carleton, but no one outside of the family knows that they’re brother* Carleton is heartily ashamed of the way Drury acts. Carleton is a gentleman in every sense of the word. If it wasn’t for him, Drury wouldn’t do a thing for the children. Sooner or i'ater, Carleton always finds out where Drury is and any letters we send to Drury care of Carleton will be delivered eventually." Estelle Wells said, "1 suppose he’s in some trouble again. Is it serious ?” 1 gave her a reassuring smile. “I’m just checking up on him,” 1 said. “Now, do you know a girl by the name of Yvonne, a redhead, perhaps twenty-three or twenty-six years old, nice figure, around a hundred and twelve founds?” "I used to have a nice figure,” Estelle said somewhat wistfully. "Drury sure goes in for niceUgures. And I don’t know how he manages to get them. He can turn on the charm when he wants to, but 1 guess the thing that makes women, really go for him is that air of Indifference." “No, we don’t know any Yvonne,” Mrs. Ambler said. “Wait a minute," Estelle said. “Do you remember that Yvonne Clymer® who« lived across the strfeet from us tn Burbank? I always Was suspicious of that tie book publlined by William Morrow A Co

Ask Investigation Os Poor Service By Craigville Telephones INDIANAPOLIS W) — The Indiana Public Service Commission was told today that ’‘extremely poor” service by the Craigyille Telephone Co. was partly to blame for a $16,000 loss in a rural fire in Wells County last month. Seventy-six patrons of the utility asked the PSC to investigate service and either order improvements or consider giving another utility the franchise, for the area. The petition said an Aug. 11 farm fire destroyed a barn and other buildings while occupants of the farmhouse tried in vain to signal the telephone operator to report the blaze to a fire department. Three Students In Lutheran Ministry Edward Krauss is the third student from St. John’s Lutheran church on U. S. highway 27 who left Tuesday to prepare himself for the ministry in the church. He is the son of Otto Krauss of route 1, Hoagland, and begins his second year of studies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Edward Bultemeyer left last week to begin his studiesd at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, 111. Upon completion of the four-year college course he will teach in parish schools of the Lutheran church. He graduated from Monmouth high school last June. His brother, Richard Bultemeyer, a member of Bethlehem Lutheran church, Ossian, since his marriage, moved his family to River Forest the previous week-end, to begin his studies for the teaching ministry at the same school. Both are sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Bultemeyer. route 1 Decatur, a farmer, and an officer in St. John's Lutheran church. Seminarian Albert Schroeder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reinhardt Schroeder of route 1, Decatur, begins his last year of studies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. During the past year he served as vicar of St. John’s Lutheran church, Spokane. Wash. June 22 he was married to Miss Evelyn Langbecker, the daughter of Rev. Rolland Langbeck of Holy Trinity church, Walla Walla, Wash. Since the beginning of July Schroeder has been employed in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. Trade in a good town — Decatui

woman. Drury was always driving her home. He’d claim he just happened' to be coming along when she was walking down the street from the bus line.” "Yes,” Mrs. Ambler said dubiously. "Yvonne Clymer fits that description, and when 1 visited you I noticed he was pretty attentive to her. 1 wonder —” “Mr. Wells never married I again?" 1 asked. Estelle shook her head emphatically. "1 won’t divorce him.” “He can’t marry again," Mrs. Ambler said. “What do you know about the Clymer girl?” 1 asked. "To my mind she was a brash little strumpet who couldn’t keep her eyes off any man in the block,” Estelle said with some feeling. “And when she turned those eyes on Drury, you can be migjity certain that Drury was looking right back at her.” “You don’t know where she is now?" She shook her head. “But she lived in Burbank?" "That’s right" “Can you tell me where you live# there?" I asked. "I’d have to took up the address," she said. “Gosh. 1 should remember IL It was just before we finally separated. We were only there about four months—that was another thing about Drury. He’d keep hopping around, going from one place to another, and from one thing to another." “Fve got the address on one of your letters.” Mrs. Ambler said. “I’ll get It for Mr. Lam.” She bustled out of the room and in a few moments came back with an envelope which she handed to me. "That’s the envelope the letter came in. You don’t need to bother copying IL You can just take the envelope right along. The return address is up there in the left-hand corner. Yvonne Clymer lived across the street, catty-cor-nered, down about four or five doors." “Lived there with her folks?” “With her mother. They both worked. Her mother was a divorcee and I guess Yvonne was just a chip off the old block, from all I’ve heard. She really was strikingly beautiful in a bold sort of way.” “She had a good figure,” Estelle said. I told them. "I may be back after a while. I’m trying to check on some property." “Don’t bother trying to soften the blow for us,” Estelle said. “I know he’s in trouble. I’ve been dreading the day when he’d go to the penitentiary; but 1 knew it was going to come sooner or later." (To Be Continued} a. Distributed by King Features Syodlcat*. J !

CITY OFFICIALS SIGN $925,000 BOND ISSUE |M|LA <. JSwjEil ' ■'K ■.:>w W .v-.-.- v- Jfc, . x .. i, ■ < > y ...WE ••:•>> M J MAYOR ROBERT COLULand clerk-treasurer Mrs. Miriam Hall spent Tuesday and Wednesday of this week signing the bond issue of $925,000 which will raise the money for the new sewage treatment plant. Each SI,OOO bond must be signed by each of the officials. They are pictured here, with T. F. Graliker, president of the First State Bank of Decatur, in the bank's conference room, signing the 925 bonds. The bonds will be kept in the bank vault until Monday, when they will be turned over to the company which has purchased the bonds.—(Staff Photo*

a— —— 1 — 20 Years Ago Today 0 * September 18, 1937 — Maynard Brewster, ex-convict and alleged safe cracker, is held in Fort Wayne on charge. Eighth district PTA congress is planned for Elwood October 5. No heat is available at court house, where heating plant is being rebuilt. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. has filed petition to change from artificial gas to natural gas for its customers. Robert Lankenau of this city gets scholarship to Gaulledet college in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Frances Tcrveer, Mrs. Anna Voglewede, Mrs.,M. Deiningcr and Mrs. B. Wertzberger are attending a three day Catholic retreat at Rome City. ■ Bluffton Tigers beat Yellow Jackkets in football game, 13-0. Chet Mclntosh sets new city bowling record in open competition for single game by rolling a 268 score.

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1- 0 Modern Etiquette | t BY ROBERTA LEB I . • Q. When are bread and rolls served at dinner? A. As soon as the soup is served, the rolls or bread are passed. Most popular container nowadays is a shallow wicker basket that has a fringed napkin Ibid in it, ana several sorts of bread displayed. Q. What amount of tip is it customary to give to the bellboy who brings a telegram to one’s hotel room? A. Not less than twenty-five cents. s—; g Household Scrapbook ) BY ROBERTA LBB | '9 8 New Concrete New concrete can be laid successfully on top of an old concrete surface, but you must be sure first to get the old surface perfectly clean with soap and water and have it thoroughly wet when

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the new concrete is laid. Shoe Polish on Rug Shoe polish on a rug can be removed sometimes with cleaning fluid. Follow this with a regular washing with soap and water and a little ammonia. Trade in a good town — Decatui PHOTO FINISHING Films Left at Studio Before 5:00 P.M. Finished At Noon Next Day SERVICE GIVEN 6 DAYS A WEEK EDWARDS STUDIO