Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1958 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COl/INC. Entered nt the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr President John G. Heller — Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Mstms By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, MOO; Six months, $4.25; S months, $2.25. By Mall, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year. *9.00: 6 months, *4.75; 3 months, $2.50. Hv Carnet 3t’ cents per week Single copies. 6 cents

Decatur faces its first real test in county play this week, as it meets undefeated Geneva tonight, and once-beaten Berne Friday. The Bears are highly touted as the best team in the county, the one to beat in the county tournament and sectional. o o The city council meeting tonight is expected to discuss two important city problems. One is the Pennsylvania unilateral action concerning the Dayton street crossing. The second is t|ie election date for the issue of selling or keeping the city electric lines. r O—O Decatur stores report a good volume of early Christmas shopping this past weekend. Persons who plan their shopping early can find just what they want right in Decatur, without a bothersome ’ trip elsewhere fighting mobs of drivers on the slick highways and streets. o o— U. S. department of agriculture figures reflect something wellknown to economists — during a recession, depression, or whatever you call it, many people return to the farms. In the year ending in April, 1958, the farm population was 20,827,000 —431,000 more than the year before. About 93,000 people moved back on the farm. The same trend was quite apparent in the 1930'5. This can increase the farmer’,s problem of obtaining a just and fair return for his labor. » o—o— ... ! Continued high federal expense for agricultural research can be justified only if this research results in better prices to the farmer, more profit to both the farmer and farm industry, and better .service oe lower cost to the Amer- : ican public. If farm research is only going to provide more profit for industry, then it should be carried on by industry, and not • by the public. Some universities „ r .seem to have lost sight of the .farmer and the general public, hit;

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who, after all, are the reasons that farm research started in the first place on a federal scale. o——o COPE, the AFL-CIO committee on political education, spent a total of $570,000 in the entire United States this past campaign. This doesn’t seem like very much at all when it is compared with the more than $1 million given by just 11 millionaire families to the Republicans in the 1956 campaign. Yes, the 11 families gave a total of $1,010,526 to the Republicans, including $152,604 from the Rockefeller family. It is easy to understand the Rockefeller popularity with Republicans, isn’t it? Even the Harriman family, much ballyhooed by the Republican press as a millionaire Democratic family, gave $30,000 more, out of total gifts of $39,000, to the GOP. The Democrats, who support the best interests of those making under $15,000 a year, still depend on the little contributions, door-to-door, for their support. o o The terrible Chicago school fire tragedy had repercussions in Decatur today when worried mothers called school superintendent W. Guy Brown and school board members to find out why there were no fire escapes at the Lincoln school building. Brown explained that there are several reasons for this: first, the boiler room, or heating system for the building, is separated from the classroom area by an asbestos ceiling.* Second, the stairways are of steel and stone construction, one at each end of the building, and are fireproof. They meet all the requirements for fire safety prescribed by the state fire marshal, he explained. Also, the presence of fire escapes, very attractive play areas for children, add problems to the school ground. Undoubtedly the absence of fire escapes at the 40 year old, twostory building will be discussed at the next school board meeting, since no one wants a tragedy repeated here.

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20 Years Ago Today o—- ■ -o Dec. 2, 1938—Decatur police report many complaints received on out of town persons selling coal in the city without properly qualifying according to law. J. Ward Calland, field manager for the Central Sugar Co., announced today that the U. S. department of agriculture has fixed the 1939 quota of acreage for sugar beets in the local plant’s district at 14,228 acres, nine per cent lower than the 1938 quota. i Dee Fryback has returned from a hunting trip to Danville, 111. Thirty members of the Gecoe club of the General Electric Co. attended the second annual conference, held at Hotel Keenan in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. James Beatty, of Indianapolis, were visitors in Decatur today. <>- o Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE I o ■ -o Q. Is the practice of leaving a little food cm your plate considered a mark of delicacy? A. It was once upon a time, but now its considered merly wasteful. We do not leave a little food on our plates unless we really cannot eat it. It is, however, polite to leave something on the serving platter, as someone else might want another helping. * Q. Should a fee be given to the clergyman who performs a baptism? A. Since baptism is a sacrament of the church, there can be no fee. However, parents usually make a donation to the church, this being tendered in a sealed envelope to the clergyman after the service, usually by the baby’s father. Q. If a man must wait in line at a box office for his theater tickets, should the girl he is with stand in line with him? A. This is up to her. She may keep him company, if she wishes, or she may wait in the lobby for him.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED When Paul Rettigs wife died, he had three small children. Knowing Paul’s wanderlust and worried over what might happen to the children, his young sister Elizabeth went along on Paul’s haphazard trek by covered wagon from Illinois into the Southwest One day in hostile Indian country in North Texas. Elizabeth realizes they are lost Paul, rather than admit this, announces that they have arrived at his chosen spot Within a week he completes a sod hut there. A cavalry unit led by Lieut. Harry Butler comes upon it—to Butler's delight. for he had become Elizabeth's admirer when the wagon paused at Camp Supply. Then Bat Masterson and Pat Garrett become passers-by. They warn Paul that his new home is smack in the dangerous path of a buffalo run. but Paul obstinately chooses not to believe them. After the two men leave. Paul sets out alone for Adobe Walls to replenish the wood supply he neglected when he chose his settlement site At dusk, winds and rain drive him to the ground for shelter. Then, seeing buffalo stampeding across the prairie toward him. Paul races away till he drops dead of exhaustion. Meanwhile, seeing the storm brewing. Bat Masterson and Pat Garrett turn back to the Rettigs’ sod hut. It is blown down by the cyclonic winds, but Bat and Pat and Elizabeth and the children survive, with no worse injury than Elizabeth's broken arm. The decisive help of Bat and Pat is not appreciated by young Tom Rettig. When he realizes his father Is dead. Tom Is unreasonably angry at Masterson for not finding and rescuing Paul Rettig. Masterson and Garrett are relieved of responsibility for the little group when Lieut Finley Burkhauser’s cavalry patrol comes along and takes Elizabeth and the children back to Camp Supply. f, CHAPTER 10 LIEUTENANT GUTHRIE CASWELL was the contract surgeon at Camp Supply, and for a man who had been hardened by twenty-nine years of frontier service, he was amazingly gentle with Elizabeth Rettig. A canopy of ether sheltered her from pain while he realigned the broken bones, then he placed the arm in cotton and wrapped it in gauze before covering it in a cocoon of horsehair and plaster of Paris. She was sick from the effect of the ether, too sick to eat or to . care about anything, so Lieutenant Burkhauser took charge of the children, taking them to the quarters of. the chief scout and his Indiah wife, where, for a jug of the sutler’s whiskey, Mobeetie Jake agreed to care for them until Elizabeth had recovered enough to assume the responsibility. Actually Mobeetie Jake spoke a few words of Kiowa to his wife, took the jug, and went behind the stable to spend the rest of the day. The children remained with the brown-faced woman. Recalling his promise to Tom Rettig, Burkhauser went to Mobeetie Jake's quarters and found the boy squatting on the front step, idly tracing figures in the dust with a stick. "It's about time we had that talk, ain't it, son?*' "If you want,” Tom said, not looking up. "You want to tell me about your pa?" "He was swell," Tom said, swallowing hard. "Most kids' folks is always sayin’, 'don’t this,’ and, 'don’t that,’ but pa was never like that.” “I see,” Burkhauser said. ‘The first chance I get. I’ll talk to

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i Major Collins about it. But I want to get the straight of it first When did your father leave Adobe Walls? Before the storm?” Tom Rettig nodded. “And when did Bat and Pat Garrett come back?" “After the wind started to blow.” “Then don’t you think it was a little late to start out and hdnt your pa?” “What side are you on?” Tom demanded. “All right,” Burkhauser said, rising. “We’ll let Major Collins decide it, all right?” The next morning, Elizabeth Rettig felt well enough to sit up and Dr. Caswell had her moved to a chair on the west porch of the infirmary where she could see the parade, and most of the post activity. Elizabeth was watching thia when Finley Burkhauser came onto the porch and sat on the railing, hat in hand. "Exciting, isn’t it? You know, a man can patrol the plains for days and see no one save a few Indiana and some buffalo, but there’s people out there, moving around, doing things. And here's where they gather.” "Where do they all come from?” Elizabeth asked. “And where are they ail going?” Burkhauser smiled. “Where did you come from? They come from the same place, and the cities and the poor worn out farms and some of them come from nowhere. Where do they go? To places like Mustang Creek where they make foolish mistakes and die, and cry, and sometimes live to look back on It ail as the greatest years of their lives and call themselves pioneers. Someday this country will be fenced as far as you can see. Os course, It'll take another hundred years to do it, but It’ll happen.” "You sound like you don’t approve.” "Oh, I approve. But I’ve seen a lot more of this than you have, Elizabeth. Take Texas, a half wild country holding several million cattle just waiting to be driven north to market And Dodge City is the place, the railhead now. Cattle replacing the buffalo, only they’ll come more slowly, and every time a hoof touches the ground it’ll mean business, money. expansion, and a new life far someone.” "You sound convinced," Elizabeth said. "Is Harry convinced?” He frowned. "Ah, I was afraid Butler was going to pop up. We’re not alike, Harry and L He’ll be a general someday.” “The way you say that is strange. And what will you be, Finley?” "I don’t know, and I never worry about it.” He crossed his hands on his knee and leaned forward. “What I’m trying to say is that Harry likes the middle road. He’s a conservative man.” "And you?” He shrugged. "I've had a few ups, a few downs. You’d say that I was a restless man.” “Yes, I would, giving up a gobd

Bananas Sliced bananas that have been dipped into pineapple or grapefruit juice for from 15 to 30 seconds and then removed, keep their natural color for several hours. Report Wild Animal Seen In Allen County FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) -An armed posse scoured northwestern Allen County today after a farm wife said an animal she described as a “black panther type” killed a 46-pound pig and a dog and Phased horses off her pasture. Sheriff Frank Nagel said several other farmers also reported signs of a wild animal in the area, among them big paw tracks in the snow.

military career to join the Texas Rangers." Then she smiled. “But it does sound exciting.” "Elizabeth, it’s a kind of living no one will ever know in the east. Stay here, Elizabeth. Be a part of it” She looked at him steadily. "Finley, I was thinking of staying.” ! “That isn’t what I meant, exactly." He frowned. “Likely you’ll think I’m a damn fool, but I don't have a lot of time to waste, Elizabeth.” He rubbed his hands against his thighs. "Are you in love with Harry Butler?” “Finley, that's none of your business.” "Oh, I’m not trying to pry, Elizabeth. But if you're not, I sort of wanted you to think of me once in awhile.” She smiled: she couldn’t help herself. “All right, I'm not in love with Harry.” She touched his hand. “Finley, I don’t know you. Why, I just met you.” “Sure, sure, but what is there to know?” He shook his head. “I’m making a mess of this, ain't I?” “Perhaps if you didn’t rush it' so, it wouldn't be such a mess.” “I told you I haven’t the time. You will think of me, kindly?" “Yes,” she said. "I like you Finley." He seemed vastly relieved. “Well, that’s something, ain’t it? Maybe we can talk of this later, huh?” "Come tomorrow,” she said. He frowned briefly. “Can’t “I’m leaving for Texas tonight." He smiled then. "So you can believe me when I said I didn’t have much time. Besides, between you and me, you’re too good for Harry Butler or William B. Masterson.” This made her laugh. "Bat? Finley, 1 certainly don't love him. Or you either, Finley. I just don’t make up my mind that fast” “Maybe after you think of me awhile—” He let the rest trail away and took her hand briefly. “Are you going back?” "I think I will,” she said. "I don’t like to quit a thing so easily. Besides, Bat told me about a place a few miles west where cottonwoods grow thick along the banks.” “Sure, that’s the cattle crossing,” Burkhauser said. “Elizabeth, if there’s anything I-can do to help —” "Thank you, Finley, but no. A person is always better off if he don’t lean too much.” He made his goodby brief, for he. in no way meant it to be permanent perhaps, she decided, he even wanted to kiss her, but the thought was only tn his eyes before he left her. She wm surprised at herself, for she had not been shocked by his frankness, his quick appraisal of her; in truth she was pleased at what he saw in her. Finding a husband, she knew, would not be het largest worry. Perhaps finding the right one, the one who married her because he loved her, not because she was an available woman, would be more difficult. (to Be Continued)

Buys Health Bond Help Fight TB Buy Christmas Seals The Decatur Red Men Lodge has voted purchase of a $5 health bond, officials of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas seal sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the "white plague.” Low Temperalures This Year in Stale Average To Date In State Below Normal INDIANAPOLIS (UPI I—ls the average temperature for December is no higher than normal, 1958 will go into Indiana’s weather records as the third colest calendar year in the 20th Century. This possibility is based on records for the first 11 months in Indianapolis, but doubtless could be projected over other state areas, although not all of them. From January through November this year, the Indianapolis average temperature was 52.5 degress. An average for December of 31.1 degrees, which is normal, would mean a 1958 calendar year average temperature of 50.7. Such a low average is extremely rare, although the months within a calendar year have a way of balancing unusually warm spells with unusually cold spells so that the extremes over an 86year period of record are only 6.8 degrees apart. The coldest year and the warmest year occurred only four years apart. The coldest was 49.6 degrees in 1917, the warmest 56.4 degrees in 1921. Outside of chilly 1917, the only times the average annual temperature was lower than 50.7 were in 1875, 1885, and 1904. This year, some very outstanding departures from normal have been recorded. The biggest departure was last February, when a string of many sub-freezing days held the month's average to 23.7 degrees, nearly 8 degrees below normal. March, too, was cold, 4.2 degrees colder than normal. The cool summer, with no temperature at Indianapolis exceeded 90 degrees, also contributed to the low average. June was 4.6 degrees than normal, July 2.5, and August 2.1. As a matter of fact, only April and November among the 11 months thus far showed abovenormal averages and both were not great departures. The November average of 43.6 was 2.1 degrees above normal. The normal average for Indianapolis for December is 31.1 degrees. The mercury would have to average 17-plus, or almost 14 degrees below normal, to break the present calendar year tecord of 49.6. That is most unlikely, perhaps virtually impossible. Last year's average was 52.5, just about halfway between the extremes and only one-twentieth of one degree off the normal average. Muncie Man Dies Os Asphyxiation MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD — Floyd Landis, 37, was found dead in his bed today and authorities said he apparently died of asphyxiation from a defective gas space heater in the rear of a two-unit apartment building he owned.

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Record Dividends To Policy Owners Record Dividends By New York Life Policy owners or the New York Life Insurance company will receive in 1959 record high total dividends of approximately sll,000,000, an increase of 4.5 per cent over the corresponding dividends of ,$106,200,000 payable in 1958, according to Roy J. Schick, manager of the company’s Fort Wayne general office. He also announced that in 1959, the company will continue to credit interest at 3.15 per cent per annum on dividends left on deposit but will pay interest at 3.25 per cent per annum, or at the guaranteed rate if higher, under supplementary contracts. The 1959 record amount includes dividends to individual life insurance, annuity, and accident and sickness insurance policy owners as well as group policy owners, Schick said. Os the total amount, $106,800,000 is for payment of dividends in 1959 to individual life insurance and annuity policy owners. Dividends to individual life insurance and annuity policy owners will vary according to the amount of the particular policy, the plan and benefits, the age at which the policy was issued and the time it has been kept in force. COURT NEWS Marriage Application Mary B. Fleischmann, 70, Decatur, and Clarence Wilbur Motter, 63, Waynesfield, 0. Drain Petition In the matter of the petition of the Heber C. Bowen, etal drain, an appearance was entered for the petitioners by Mark A. Morin. Appraiser's Petition In the matter oL the petition by the city of Decatur for the appointment of appraisers to make an appraisement of certain electric utility property owned and operated by the city and proposed to be sold, a petition for appointment of appraisers was filed. Inlot 64 in the town of Willshire, 0., has been transferred from Laura B. Geary to Calvin Hamrick and others, trustees of the Union Brethren in Christ church.

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