Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INCat tha Oecatur. Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. .— President John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse — Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six months, $4.25: 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier, 30 cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents. More About Power Speedy, untiring effort on the part of the city repair crew at the steam generating plant enabled the city to have the generator apart Wednesday when the insurance and GE repair men arrived. This is definitely speeding the return of the 5,000 kilowatt generator to aciton. Those who worked under L. C. Pettibone * and Lester Mitchel on the repair job were: Albert Cook, Walter Bollinger, Jim Lough, Kenneth Lough, Kenneth Butcher, and Chet Howard. ' The Decatur steam plant was originally built in 1897, when B. W. Quinn was mayor, and W. H. Niblick, J. W. Vail, and J. S. Coverdale were on the electric light committee. Notice the name of the committee. Electric lights were about the only thing that used electricity then. No radios, no refrigerators, no stoves, no deep freezes, no television sets, no electric dryers or washers, no electric fans, or blankets, or toasters, or frying pans, or the million and one gadgets we want toattach to our lines today. Naturally there is a good bit of sentimentality connected with our own electric light plant. Every real citizen of Decatur would prefer to keep it, IF it could be done at a profit, and IF it could keep up with the area’s electric needs. But we cannot justify keeping it just for sentimental reasons. Having the franchise is a wonderful thing, if it means good electricity for all our needs, ~ home and industrial, low rates, and a profit for the city. But it is a useless burden to us if it means poor power, keeping out industry, sending industry away, high taxes, and high local rates. That is why the election is being held. The present city council includes several members who wish that the city could keep the plant. But so far no one has suggested a practical way. Each voter in the city has a right to make his own choice, to choose which he wants to do. A large number of voters have not yet made up their minds. They want to wait until they can plainly see both sides of the picture. The biggest question is this: can Decatur, with its five-man city council and its mayor chasen for fouryear terms based on the whims of the public, manage a million dollar corporation? Or will interest in the light plant dwindle as citizens become irate over sewers, or streets, or water, or something else? Will politics in the future interfere as it has in the past? These are problenfs that everyone must answer for himself. But let’s keep the discussion on the plane of reason, away from sentimentality and “druthers.” If it isn’t practical to keep the plant, let’s admit it while we can still make a profit on the sale, and keep down our taxes, sewage disposal rates, and provide for the future payment of the sewage disposal bonds. Let’s not wait until it’s too late, as we may have done as far as the electric plant itself is concerned. - Remember, too, that it is not the fault of any one city council, or any one group of men, either the ones in now, or those in previously. Just as we once had little grocery stores on every corner, and we now have only a few left to compete with the supermarkets, so all bver the county the small and inefficient operation is giving way, sometimes profitably to those concerned, and sometimes ruining those concerned. Let’s not be ruined. Let's make a profit if we have to get out of the electric business. The election is April 14. Then you can decide what the city will do. i .

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CHAPTER 27 ’THE SUN had set when they 1 drove the ponies down to the Platte about a mile above the Rocky Mountain Fur Co camp. Mordecai Price pointed to himself and Big Nose Yenaer and addressed the Indians: “We will go to the camp so that all the white men may be prepared to receive our brothers, the Snakes.” This was pleasing to Beaver Tails and his friends. The two men crossed the Platte with Rhoda Marsh riding behind them. They rode down the roughest side of the river and went in the last quarter of a mile on foot No guards were out Most of the camp, ft seemed, was gathered around a card game being played on the packs. Mordecai and Big Nose and Rhoda left the trees and walked across grass that had been cropped down to dust by the pack animals. "Stay off to one side," Mordecai said to the woman. Someone at the card game saw them. Aftfer a quick buzz of talk there was silence. One of the players who stood up to look was still holding the pack of cards. •‘That’s Lajoie." Big Nose muttered, “him in the cut-up shirt." Loafers all around the camp began to rise, cranning their necks. Someone said, "Big Nose!” "See your men?’’ Mordecai asked softly of Big Nose. Big Nose hesitated before saying no. - — Mordecai stopped about twenty feet from the main body of men. From the corner of his eye he noted that Rhoda had obeyed and moved away. He held his rifle. Old Belcher, waist high. "Who thinks he’s running this shebang?” he challenged. ~ The turning of heads did it Men looked down toward the packs that had been stacked to make a gaming table. A man was seated these. partly obscured by those around him. But after Mordecal's harsh question, they moved away. "That's one of the no-good—!” Big Nose said. Mike Nesmith's hands were on the canvas that had been spread over the packs. He was not directly facing Mordecai, so that Mordecal’s view was from the side. Nesmith was looking along his shoulder. There seemed to be a merry twinkle in his eyes. “You’re one of Jim Shandy's men?" Mordecai asked. ‘‘Reckon I am.” “You just lost the job." “So?" Nesmith said pleasantly. He did not reveal any help he had by glancing toward IL “Who’re you?” "Git!" Mordecai said. Watching Nesmith, Mordecai - saw the man spread his* hands like a Frenchman. “Ain’t no use to get haired up.” Nesmith said. "I don’t even know you.” He put his left hand palm up on the packs. The other fen naturally at his side, as if he were shrug-

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Body Missing Since November Recovered MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (UPDThe body of Don Gyllstrom, 29, Chicago, was found near Ogden Dunes in Lake Michigan Saturday. Gyllstrom had been missing since last November, when he and three hunting companions drowned as their boat overturned. Young Jordan King Visits In States WASHINGTON (UPI) — Jordan’s youthful King Hussein arrives today for an informal visit during- which he is likely to ask for additional U. S. aid to strengthen his reign. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Acting Secretary of State i Christian A. Herter will welcome the 23-year-old monarch when he flies in by military plane from San Francisco.

ging off the whole thing. That attitude was still with him when he flipped a short rifle up from beside his leg. The forestock slapped down into his left hand in a smooth motion. Mordecai heard the click of the big hammer as he was swinging his own weapon. He aimed and fired without time to raise Old Belcher. Mordecai saw Nesmith’s big body turn, as if the man were looking at something on his right. He was gone beaver, Mordecai was sure, but it wasn’t a fact until Nesmith rolled down between the packs. Mordecai dropped Old Belcher. He drew his knife and went leaping toward Lajoie. Lajoie had a pistol. He put his hand on it, and then he saw how Mordecai was holding the knife, poised for a throw. It ran out of Lajoie. For one uncertain moment he stood his ground, and then joined the packers and engagees who were scattering away from Mordecal’s charge. Mordecai spun toward the scatterment of men. He heard the voyageur Letourneau let out a high-pitched yelL ’’Behind! Behind!" • It was too late when Mordecai turned. He saw the rifle bearing on him, a heavy eight-sider held by a man who was kneeling behind the packs. Off balance, he hurled his* knife at the sour, whiskered face behind the rifle, but he was still top late. Big Nose’s rifle boomed. He had located his man at last. Parson Bill Kerr tipped forward. His rifle barrel came down on the packs as Big “Nose’s bullet struck him. The ball from Parson Bill's rifle punctured one of the curved tins of alcohol in the packs. The doin’s was over, though Mordecai and Big Nose didn't know it for a while. Mordecai dragged out his pistol to meet further threats. Still killing mad, Big Nose was busy with his wiping stick. All the while Letourneau was saying that there were no other evil ones in camp, but his words didn't stick until the blood heat began to run out of Mordecai and Btg Nose. Mordecai saw Rhoda, stock still, staring at him as if he’d just scalped a half-dozen innocents. He turned away from her angrily. What did she think the fur trade was, a picnic on a slow Massachusetts river! He wasn’t apologizing to no one or explaining nothing. ’This here train is going on tomorrow!" he yelled, • • • They were building packsaddles around big tires to replace the one* left behind on dead animals. Rhoda stood alone near the river. The violence had stunned her, or so she thought at first. Now she wae wondering if it had been the quickness of it all that had astonished her, and she was wrest-

Questions Value Os Summit Conference DES MOINES. lowa (UPD— House minority leader Charles Halleck (R-lnd.) has questioned whether a summit conference endorsed by President Eisenhower would do any good in the Berlin prisis. ' “The other summit conference didn’t produce too much," Halleck told newsmen Saturday night before addressing a Republican fund-raising dinner. Halleck said he was confident, however, there would be “no big war” over Berlin. He said he did not know “what good could come” from a summit meeting between Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev., Halleck also said he planned to launch an“offensive’ ’ this week to restore 225 million dollars cut from the President’s foreign aid program by the House Appropriations Committee. He said the foreign aid program provided “offshore defenses” for America and he was “happy that our missiles and bombers are closer to Russia than their’s are to us.” He said the Democratic-con-trolled committee’s action was "highly charged with politics.” Anderson Asks For Flood Control Fund ANDERSON, Ind. (UPP — The City of Anderson became the first local governmental unit to apply for money from a new state flood control revolving fund created by the Indiana Legislature. Mayor Ralph R. Ferguson asked the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission for money to reinforce levees and clean the White River channel. A flood last June barely missed' putting the municipal electric and water plants out of service. Over 2.5 W Daily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

ling with the thought that it had been unavoidable. What she had seen was part of the life of •‘the depraved Mountain Men, more vicious than the savages with whom they consort in heathen practice,” in the words of a speaker who had been as far west as St. Louis. She walked, along the river slowly, still watching the camp. The Snakes who had forsaken the pony drive to hunt Sioux were returned. Before dusk they had howled from across the river, waving a scalp. Now, apart from al) the camp, they were having a victory dance, pumping their knees high, Wanting, “Hey-ya! Hey-ya! Hey-t-a-a-a!" The best of all the men of the Missionary Society, the gentle Reverend Jeremiah Shandy, had left a vast unmapped. area between the glowing picture of salvation for the Indians and the Styne Age culture wherein they lived. Gentle words about a gentle God, hymns in a foreign tongue, aqd hoes thrust Intel brown hands trained to bear weapons were not going to roll away centuries of darkness. Or was it darkness? "Hey-ya! Hey-ya! Hey-i-a-a-a!" The Snakes had set a pole up, with the small dark patch of the scalp suspended at the top. Terrible, yes. But they were happy topShe was faltering and she knew it, but she knew, also, that her doubts came not from some selfish weakness within her but from a hard logic born into her. There was a strangeness in the whole scene from her view beyond the cast of firelight It was like looking from some safe point in civilization upon the advance of white man into the realm of heathens. But one of the Snakes in the scalp dance was staggering from drunkenness. Therein lay the whole history of the white man's encroachment from east to 4 west: He had nothing that the Indian needed, not even religion. There could be no such thing as a quick and painless substitution of Deity. The night was suddenly chill. Rhoda stepped up to a fire and saw Lajoie raise his head and stare, all animal still, at MordeThe yelling of the Snakes, suddenly more frenzied than ever, was a wail going up to the cold stars. Their noise no longer greatly bothered Rhoda, not while she was here at the fire, watching Mordecai going from on# group of workers to another. Lajoie looked at her with a sneer, but she did not notice. Across the flames she kept watching Mordecai. ‘ -1 ain’t fretting over her," Mordecai claims, but dos t believe it. He’s sore about Rhoda’s playing up to Lajoie and then Beauregard. Continue “Rendezvous" here tomorrow.

Larry Duff (above) of Berne, was named a county com growing champion at a banquet held recently in Indianapolis, where other Indiana corn growing champions were honored. Duff’s yield of 128.79 bushels per acre topped Adams county in the 1958 national selected junior two-acre DeKalb corn growing contest. , — >ii" 11 n 1 “ Household Scrapbook ! By ROBERTA LEE I o Brass Tarnish To prevent brass from tarnish- ; ing apply a thin coat of lacquer. ■ Or rub once a week or oftener with a flannel cloth moistened with any light oil such as that used for sewing machines. The metal will then ’ gradually assum the color of fine bronze, a far more artistic finish than that of polished brass, and one that can be maintained’by the application of oil alone, without polishing. Grease Spots > You can remove a grease spot t on the wall paper by pattirfg fulf. ler’s earth, French chalk, or plain i talcum powder on it and allowing , it to remain for several days. Then brush off. 1 Mold Cheese will not become moldy if ■ the cut part is rubbed with butter 1 and then covered with waxed paper. U

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20 Years Ago Today 2 ft . „ - r „"\ I I, , March 23, 1939—A volunteer fire department has been organized among employes of the Central Soya Co. and McMillen Feed Mills. Paul Felber was named fire chief with Cliff Steiner and Clyde Steele as assistants. Officers are Henman Von Gunten, president; Gene McCann, vice president, and Gerhard Schultz, secretary. Paul M. Bahner has been appointed clerk-treasurer of the town of Monroe, succeeding Earl Sauders, who resigned. Roger Swaim, Bluffton newspaper publisher, was a business visitor in Decatur. Officials of the Citizens Tele- ’ phone Co. announced that an appropriation has been authorized to purchase city type telephones for ■ all rural customers requesting ' them. Dr. Clark Kuebler, professor of classic languages at Northwestern University, was guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club. - » o | Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE I > ——o ■ Q. What are the duties of the . bridegroom’s family before the , wedding? , A. Nothing special, outside of i paying a call on the bride's family I soon after the engagement has , been announced, and to buy the , bride as nice a wedding gift as possible. It's nice, too, for the I man’s family to invite the girl and her family to a gathering in their t home sometime before the wed- - ding. i Q. Is the "Mr.” ever printed • or engraved in front of a man’s i name on his social stationery? A. No; his name appears as just plain "John Q. Dodge.” . Q. Is it proper to use both the knife and fork when eating fish? A. Only the fork should be used.

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