Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1958 — Page 8

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Two Minor Wrecks Reported In City Only Slight Damage Done In Accidents Two accidents occurred within the city Monday causing only

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slight damage to the autos and trucks involved. The city police department was called to the scene of both mishaps to conduct their investigations. A truck, driven by William How-" ard Herman, 34. Fort Wayne, was struck from the rear by a car driven by James Lee Wolfe, 20, route one, Geneva, Monday morning at 10:20 a.m. at the intersection of Monroe and Second streets due to icy conditions. Wolfe stated that he was unable to stop in time to avoid the collision with the Herman truck stopped for the traffic signal. Police officer Al Nern estimated damages to the Wolfe car at $45 and no- damages to the Herman truck. Icy pavement was blamed for the second collision investigated by the city police on North Third street at 4:28 p.m. Vehicles driven by Dwight Davis. 27, Decatur and Vivian Margaret Miller. 38, Decatur, collided as the Davis vehicle attempted a right turn into an alley and the Miller auto was unable to stop in time. The Miller auto struck the right rear tire of the Davis truck. Police officer Jay Minch listed the damages to the Miller auto at S4O and $5 to the Davis truck. Increase Reported In Outgoing Mail Volume Increased Over 1957 Figures The Decatur post office is already experiencing a 2.3 per cent increase in outgoing mail handling this year over the same period last year, postmaster Leo Kirsch announced this morning. Figures for the first two weeks of December, 1957, show that 133,372 pieces of cutgoing mail were cancelled, while this year during the same period, 141,581 pieces were cancelled, a total of 3,209 more. Six assistant carriers have been named to help the rural mailmen, and an equal number will aid the city postmen. Four clerical assistants were named by Kirsch. Clerical assistants this year are Jack D. Barlett. Nolan G. Ginter. Robert E. Noll, and Robert A. Strickler. Regular city carriers are Jay H. Martin. Norbert L. Bleeke, Robert A. Light, Harold E. Thieme. John L. Frank, and William P. Schrock, Jr. They will be aided by Max L. Daniels. Jack L. Shady, James D. Tumbleson, Jerome H. Ginter, Leo H. King, Jr., and Jack M. Weldy. Regular rural carriers are Thomas A. Miller, Charles W. Maloney, Harold J. Hoffman. W. Earl Chase, Richard E. Maloney, and Gerald R. Durkin. Assistants will be Lester A. Backhaus. Flpyd M. Roth, .Tack L. Shady, Chalmer L. Reber. Jerome H. Ginter, and Jerry K. Price. Rockpt engines on ballistic missiles produce more than four million horsepower during part of their flights.

Continuing Fight On Tuberculosis In World

SCIENCE TODAY By DELOS SMITH DPI Science Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Tuberculosis scientists would be much happier people if only they could explain (to their own and one another’s satisfaction) why tubercle bacilli seem to be less lethal than they used to be. In 1900 these chemically clever bacteria killed half the Americans in whom they succeeded in establishing colonies,- and made a mark on just about aH of them before their lives were finished. Now they kill about one in five, and two-thirds to three-fourths of us live out our spans without ever being touched. , The wonder-working drugs are not the whole answer. The oldest drug has been in use only 11 years and the best drug, only six. They don’t explain what has happened. Nor is it wholly explained by the vast anti-tuberculosis drive of the past 50 years. A numbep of epidemiologists point out that man was getting an upperhand on the bacillus before there was any anti-tubercu-losis movement anywhere, even before anyone knew the baeihis existed. Peak Year 1850 The change began somewhere around 1850 which was the evident peak year of a world-wide expidemic of some 50 years duration, and the death rate of American and European cities was 400 or more per hundred thousand population. By 1904 when the antituberculosis movement got fully underway in the United States with the organization of the National Tuberculosis Association, it was down to a little under 200 per hundred thousand. It had been more than halved in 50 years while nothing worthwhile was being done. Since 1904 the association and its some 3,000 affiliated societies have been zealously arousing Americans to the TB danger. Public opinion was mobilized and educated. Great health campaigns were waged. Special departments were formed at all levels of government — federal, state, county, municipal — to fight tuberculosis. Sanitariums and clinics were set.

Three Bandits Hold Up Service Station SELLERSBURG, Ind. (UPI) — Three bandits held up a Service station early today, rifled twb cash registers and kicr.aped an attendant. Arthur Porter, 53. was released unharmed in the country near here after the cash registers were cleaned of $l5O to S2OO. Porter said one of the thieves carried out a small cash register and was ordered by one of his companions to “get the big one, too." They loaded both registers into their getaway car. DELAYED Continued from page one mony that the fire was burning as much as 20 minutes before the first alarm was turned in. “There was definitely a time element involved," he said. “Definitely and positively there was a discrepancy in times—definitely a delayed alarm.” He said speed and accuracy in reporting a fire is vital because “you either win or lose a fire in the first few minutes.” Quinn, a veteran of 30 years on the fire department, said "precious time was lost" after the alarm because the fire trucks raced to the wrong address. Gave Wrong Number The caller gave the address of Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic rectory. The trucks drew up to the rectory, then had to go around the corner to the school building where children were suf-

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up in the thousands. Unquestionably all this has speeded the decline of the disease while improving public health in general immeasurably. Unknown Force At Work Nevertheless a second and unknown force has been at work, too. Scientists which they knew what it was. Is the power of the bacillus to sicken people and then kill them less than it used to be? Definitely not. The strains isolated • from today’s patients .will kill laboratory animals as surely as those isolated by Robert Koch, who discovered the bacillus in 1882. So it must be assumed defensive human body chemistry has been improving its collective ability to deal with the bacillus. But how? There are several possibilities. One is that most if not all the Americans whose defensive chemistry was not up to the task, have been killed off by the bacillus, along with descendants who inherited their susceptibility. The Americans with the best defensive chemistry for the bacillus survived and bred the present generations which inherited their good defenses. Resist Bacilli Onslaught Or, perhaps, defensive human) body chemistry "adapted” to and thus became increasingly resistant to the onslaughts of bacilli That sort of thing happens in bacterial chemistry routinely; disease - causing microorganisms "learn” how to deal safely with drugs which once killed them. It could happen in human chemistry. There is reason to believe that in centuries past, tuberculosis peaked and then declined on its own, only to peak again. If that is so, and the evidence is more suggestive than reliable, who is to say it can’t happen again? At any rate, tuberculosis scientists can't feel completely confident that a total victory is in sight. There are just too many unknowns. They'll have the confidence only when they thoroughly understand defensive body chemistry against the bacilli and are able to manipulate that chemistry at will.

focating in classrooms and jumping from second floor windows. Eighty-nine children and three nuns died as a result cf the holocaust. Harold Marks, attorney for Coroner Walter McCarron, asked ths commissioner if firemen had “reached the school three minutes sooner, could every child have been saved?” Quinn replied, "yes,” but later refused to say positively that firemen could have saved everyone. “We did everything humanly possible to get those children out of the school alive,” he said. ) Quinn said there were "three I persons inside the school building who knew qf the fire, and did not give an alarm immediately.” Earlier testimony showed at least two school teachers smelled smoke but did not immediately ring the school fire bell to empty the building or turn in an alarm to the fire department. The school janitor,’ James Raymond, 44, told the coroner's jury last week he spotted the fire at 2:20 p.m. Or 2:25. He said he told the rectory housekeeper to call the fire department and then rushed into the burning building. Blaze in Stairs Authorities believe the Dec. 1 blaze started under a baserrjent stairwell and raced up the open stairs to the second floor where most of the victims were trapped and died. Miss Pearl Tristano, 24. a teacher in the school, testified Monday that one of her pupils smelled smoke about 2:30. She said she notified another teacher and the second teacher tried to find the mother superior. In the meantime, Miss Tristano said she evacuated her class in fire drill formation and then remembered to sound the school fire alarm. I Trade ’n good town — Decatur.

Ji ’ Hr jWW TESTIFIES AT INQUEST - Jamea Raymond. Janitor at Our Mdy of Angela school, testifies «t coroner’s Inquest tn Chiengo that he tew fire, fatal to 92 persona, 20-25 minutes bdfore the alarm was recorded He said he told the rectory house-' keeper to call the tire department, but was not sure whether she did or not Kayiimnd rescued a number of children Knutson Says Duped Into Public Appeal Political Foes Os Wife Spread Rumor WASHINGTON (UPD — Rep. Coya Knutson’s husband charged today that his wife’s political foes duped him into making his public •“Coya, come home” appeal. Andrew Knutson testified he was driven to sign the appeal by I persistent rumors that his wife was “running around” with her administrative assistant. Bill KjelIdahl, and was being dictated to by Kjeldahl. The 50-year-old Oklee, Minn., hotel operator admitted he was “steamed up” by the stories which circulated before the Nov. i 4 election in which his wife was defeated. But he said he now believes they were untrue. The blond Democratic congresswoman sat at the side of the room as Knutson testified before a House elections subcommittee, i She blinked frequently and appeared to be fighting back tears i Knutson said he did not write the “Coya come home” letter which was issued in the form of a press release May 4. He said it was handed to him by a tnan named Jimmy Turgeon after a meeting he attended at Turgeon’s home. The letter, which drew national attention to the Minnesota congressional campaign, called on Mrs. Knutson to quit Congress and return home to be with Andy. It also contained unfavorable comments about Kjeldahl. Knutson said he assured Turgeon had written the press release. He said “it sure surprises me” to hear that a handwriting expert testified the writing was that of Maurice O. Nelson, an officer in the campaign of Mrs. Knutson's Republican foe, Odin Langen. Nelson denied it. Knutson testified he signed a typewritten copy of the press release because “they told me that Kjeldahl was dictating to my wife and how they were running around together.” Under questioning, he said most of the stories were relayed to him by Mrs Millie Melby, operator of a store across the street from his hotel. Mis. Knutson’s lawyer, Walter Surrey, asked if Knutson felt “you were used by opponents of your wife.” CORRECTION An accident reported in the Decatur Daily Democrat Monday concerning an accident that occurred at the intersection of Second and Jackson streets Saturday afternoon caused by icy conditions, should have read: Cars driven by Herman Dierkes, 46 Decatur and Beverly Joan Halberstadt, 19, route five, Decatur, collided when the auto driven by Miss Halberstadt, headed north on Second street, was struck on the left side by the Dierkes auto that was headed east on Jackson street, rather than previously stated. The Dierkes auto was unable to stop due to icy conditions. Police estimated damages to the Dierkes auto at $lO and SBO to the Halberstadt auto. If you have sr .nr ething *o sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat /,>«t Ad — They bring results

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