Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1959 — Page 4
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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, 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 mos.ths, $4.25; 3 months, 32.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 30.00; 6 months, 34.75; 3 months, 82.50. By Carrier, 30c cents tier week. Single copies, 6 cents. What Do You Want? ' ♦ A petition was introduced at the city council meeting Tuesday night requesting that the city again consider selling the electric utility. This is not bringing up the past issue. The offer previously made by Indiana-Michigan is settled and dead. It is not still in effect. J The board of works has been requested to contact utilities to see if any now desire to buy the local utility. NIPSCO, the company that furnishes gas here, and does have electric lines in north-central Indiana, is not interested. The REMC’s cannot operate a city line, so they are ruled out. An Ohio company that comes to the Indiana line is an intra-state utility, and cannot come into Indiana. It was contacted two years ago to see if it would be interested. This lea ves* lndiana-Michigan as the most likely company. There is little doubt that Indiana-Michigan will make another offer. Whether it will be any way near the previous offer is not yet known. The city can be expected to hold out for the highest amount possible in any offer. If an offer is forthcoming, the city will then consider an Ordinance. This will be fully written up, and of course advertised legally. There will be time to remonstrate against it, if anyone desires to do so. A remonstration- petition, demanding an election, would require the signatures of 100 legally registered voters. The fact that more people signed the petition now than even voted in the April 14 election carried great weight with the council in their action Tuesday night. The precinct by precinct breakdown of petition signers was staggering. Apparently only one precinct still favors retention of the utility. There has been a substantial shift in understanding and opinion since the election. Many now realize the staggering cost and burden that would result from bonding to build a substation. Some, who thought that it would be practical to continue generating power, now realize that it is not practical, and would not be continued even if the citizens committee came into office. The fact that the citizens committee did not make any practical, concrete recommendations for improvements that would solve the rural and industrial troubles was impressive to others. We must admit, even if we now ran a straight line directly to every farmer’s home, the farmers would not be satisfied. They W’ant a rate adjustment that cannot come under city ownership. The many troubles at the generating sites, while not really significant, have swayed others whose jobs have been threatend by temporary power shutdowns. All these things have added up to a change of heart. If an election is held, there is little doubt but that the majority now clearly favor the most advantageous sale, and investment of the monqy to help lower taxes and sewage rates. -
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WANE-TV Channel 15 WEDNESDAY f. veiling 6:oo—Amos & Andy 6:3o—NewH nt 6:30 6:4s—l>oug Edwards-News 7:00—-Sea Hunt 7:3o—Special Agent 8100—Keep 'Palkin* B:3o—Tiaekdown 9:oo—Millionaire 9:3o—l’ve Got A Secret 10:00—U. S. Steel Hour ll'.OOCraah Dive THURSDAY Morning 5 7:oo—Sunrise Semester 7:3o—l’eperrnln-t Theatre 7:4s—Willy Wonderful 8:00—CBS News 8:15-—Captain Kangaroo 9:oo—Our Mine Brooks 9:3o—Star and the Story 10:30—Breakfast in Fort Wayne 10:30—Sam Levenson A. 11:00—I Dove Lucy 11:3 o—Top Do 1 lar Afternoon 13:00—Dove of Life 11:30—Bearob for Tomorrow, 13:45—Guiding Light I:oo—Ann Colone I:2s—News 1:30 —Aa The World Turns I:oo—Jimmy Dean 2:3o—'Houseparty 3:oo—ißig Pay-Off 3: SO—Verd let Is Yo urs 4:oo—Brighter Day 4:ls —Secret Storm 4:3o—Edge Os Night 3:oo—(Danes Date Evening 4:OO—ASSOS A AndjG ' 6:3o—News at 6:30 4:4s—Doug Bdwsrds-Nsws 7:oo—Highway Patrol 7:30—Bo Id V ent ur e B:oo—December Bride B:3o—Yancy Derringer 9:00 —Zane Gray Theatre 9:3o—Playhouse 90 11:00—Bruma Convoy WKJGhTV Channel 33 WEDNESDAY Evening 4:oo—Gatesway to Sports 6:ls—News Jack Gray fcMA-The Weatheman 6:30 —Wagon Train 7:10 —The Price Is Kight I:oo—Kraft Music Hail B:3o—Bat Masterson 9:oo—This la Your Dife 9:3o—Death Valley Days 10:00—Border Patrdl 10:30—News and Weather 10:45 —Sports Today 10:50—The Jack Paar Show THURSDAY > Classroom
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Pig Promotion Sale Is Scheduled Friday Plans have been completed for the fourth annual Northeastern Indiana 1 4-H — FFA pig promotion sale to be held Friday at 8 p.m. at the Madison county 4-H club barn at Alexandria, according to information received by Leo N. Seltenright, county agent. To date 27 swine breeders from 11 counties have consigned 36 pigs representing 22 gilts and 14 barrows. 1 'Eight breeds are 1 represented in the consignments, including Duroc Jersey, 9 head; Spotted Poland China, 7 head; Hampshire and Poland China, 5 head each; Chester White and Berkshire, 4 head each and Landrace, 1. This sale, one of a series of four being held in Indiana, is designed to make approved top quality pigs available to 4-H and FFA members with a minimum amount of driving. 4-H and FFA members only will be permitted to bid in the auction sale. 4-H club leaders and vocational agriculture teachers have been invited to take prospective pig club members to the auction to fill their requirements. The proceeds from the sale are to be used by the Indiana swine breeders association and the participating breed associations for the advancement and improvement of the state swine production and marketing program. Auctioneers Tom Bartlett, Muncie; Ned Johnson, Decatur; and Ray Elliott, Portland, are donating their services to sale program. Carl E. Scotti R. 2, Yorktown will clerk the sfcle. Sale managers include Loren Smith, R. 1, Hartford City and Don E. Orr, R. 1, Tipton. M. E. Cromer, county agent, Muncie, is serving as secretary. COURT NEWS Marriage Application Savilla K. Hilty, 21, route two, Geneva, and Andrew J. Shelter, 20, route one, Monroe. A Divorce Case An affidavit for a citation was filed and approved in the case of Margaret W. Wolfe vs Hubert M. Wolfe. A citation was ordered issued to the sheriff of Adams county for the defendant, returnable May 29 at 9 o’clock.
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CHAPTER 16 ■tVTHEN Murray Kirk’s bedside W phone rang, he was blearily aware of the daylight that flooded the room. It was morning. “There wero two calls for you after you left yesterday." Mrs. Knapp, Murray’s secretary, announced over the phone. “One of them wm from Ruth Vincent. She wanted t 6 remind you of your date with her tonight." "Good. Who was the other call from?" “George Wykoff, Duchess Harbor, Staten Island," Mrs. Knapp said as If she were reciting an incantation, and Murray came wide awake. “The phone number’s unlisted, but he left it with hie so that you could get in touch with him as soon as possible. Do you have pencil and paper handy?” “Hold it a second,” Murray answered, and lay back with his eyes closed to consider this development. Right now, he knew, thebe was a fair chance that one of LoScalzo's bright young men -was crouched in a thicket of telephone wires in the depths of the St. Stephen listening to every word. But It was too late to do anything about that, 100 late to do anything but curse the fisherman’s luck that lured a big one like Wykoff —a killer whale among sharks — to your bait, when ail you could do was stand there with your hands tied and watch him get away. “Hello, are you there?" said Mrs. Knapp. “Yes. About that phone number, Mrs. Knapp, just tear it up. Forget about it Is that clear?” One of Mrs. Knapp’s virtues was that nothing ever had to be repeated to her. “I understand. Is there anything else, Mr. Kirk?” “No,” said Murray. "That’s it." * • • Late in the afternoon Mrs. Knapp came into Murray's office to tell him that she haa the theater ‘ickets for him, that a table for two had been reserved at Le Pavilion, and that George Wykoff had been phoning at regular intervals. He had been expecting to hear from Mr. Kirk, and what was goihg on there, anyhow? “What did you tell him?” Murray asked. "Oh, just that you weren’t available. From the way, he sounded he wasn’t very happy about it” "That's his tough luck,” Murray said. He described to her the gist of his talk with LoScalzo, and Mrs. Knapp said, “Well, in that case we certainly don’t have any choice, do we? I’ll take care of it if he phones again. I’ll tell him you’re out of town or something Did you know that a couple of detective agencies are going to be called to Albany for hear-
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Plan Early Vole On Stopgap Wheat Bill WASHINGTON (UPD— Chairman Allen J. EHender of the Senate Agriculture Committee said today the Senate plans to call up a stopgap wheat bill for a vote this week. The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a bill for 1960 and 1961 crops setting price supports at 65 per cent of parity for growers who comply with present allotments and supports at 80 per cent of parity for those who cut production 20 per cent. Republican leaders said they would offer tne Eisenhower wheat program as a substitute to this measure on the Senate floor. Ellender said this could hold up passage of any wheat legislation until after 1960 marketing quotas are announced on June 1. The Senate bill would allow each grower to choose the program he preferred for his own farm. A plan approved Tuesday by the House Agriculture Committee would make the program approved in a referendum binding on all wheat farmers. Under the House plan, if mar-
ings on illegal wire tapping next week?" “No, where'd you pick up that information?” “Somebody from Inter-Ameri-can told Mr. Strauss about it. The ones they’ve grabbed aren’t competitors, unfortunately, just a pair of small operators, but can you picture how this will stir up things in Albany now? They don’t know one agency from another up there. It would be the worst possible time for us to get into any kind of trouble.” “It’s always the worst possible time,” Murray said. ♦ * * On the way back to the St Stephen to dress for dinner he bought an evening paper, and while soaking in the tub he read it, starting with the comic strips and wending his way through the sports section to land in Dr. Marie Zinsser’s People’s Problems, a long-winded column, couched in psychological gobbledegook, and dedicated to the proposition that anyone who wrote in for advice must be guilty of something to start with. The first letter struck a familiar note. Dear Dr. Zinsser, Right after we got back from our honeymoon my husband said he wanted his mother to live with us a little while. Even though she is mean and bossy I said all right, but it is three years now, and I am so unhappy all the time I could die. How can I make my husband understand that it' is wrong for his mother to .live with us while she can afford to live by herself f Edith Murray read the answer with fascination. Dear Edith, When you say “wrong’’ don’t you mean it is only "wrong” for yout The lives of two other people are involved in this, you know, and I am afraid that unconscious antagonisms in you prevent you from taking this into account. One must understand his own motivations fully before he— It was an answer, Murray had to admit, squarely in the great Zinsser tradition. While dressing, he put Berigan’s “I Can’t Get Started" on the phonograph and set it for replay. He briefly considered his neighbors in the apartment next door, dismissed the thought, and turned tip the volume of the machine. There were only two suites on the top floor of the St. Stephen, arid the couple who occupied the other one —a retired rear admiral and his wife—had acute hearing partly compensated for
keting quotas were approved by a two-thirds vote, growers would have to comply with allotments reduced by 30 per cent, and prcie supports would go up to 90 per cent of parity. If quotas were rejected, the department would be directed to offer support at 50 per cent of parity to everybody—in effect, 50 per cent of parity support for unlimited production. SIP Kekionga St. Mary’s Kekionga 4-H club met May 14 at the Pleasant Mills school house with Susie McCullough presiding. County home demonstration agent Lois Folk demonstrated “A treat for You,” and spoke briefly to the group. A tea party was planned for the mothers of club members sometime in the future. Nancy Jane Irwin and- Nancy Bailey led the pledges, while Nina McAhren led the group in singing.
Roll call was answered with the names of each member’s favorite boy friend. The date of the next meeting will be announced later.
by a sense or humor. They would tolerate three replays of any record at the peak of its volume, and then would knock at the door in good-natured protest. When Murray opened the door, one or the other would say, “Now, hear this!” which was his cue to say, "Aye, aye, sir,” and turn the machine’s volume down. But what he needed now, Murray knew, was loud music and a drink. Murray poured himself the drink, downed half of it, and took the remainder to the bedroom. Pushing the cuff links into his shirt, he mentally framed his own letter to Dr. Zinsser. Dear Dr. Zinsser, I am a romantic-type fellow who is hopelessly in love with a girl who imagines she is engaged to a cop who is under indictment for perjury. Tell me, do you think I have any right to expect a wedding present from a man in jail? The familiar knock sounded just as Berigan had completed his third mournful round of the song, and while Murray was still trying to draft a proper Zinsserite answer to himself. He loudly goose-stepped to the door and threw it open. “Aye, aye, sir,” he said. The man standing there blinked at him. It was not the admiral. It was a chauffeur in dark livery, his driver’s cap held close to his chest in both hands. A compact little man, a head shorter than Murray, with a slightly batteredlooking face and bright, black shoebutton eyes. “Hell," said Murray, Tm sorry. I thought you were somebody “My name is Caxton, sir,” the chauffeur said. “I’m from the Clientele Limousine Service. Are you Mr. Kirk?” “Yes, but I don’t think Tm the Kirk you want. I didn’t order any car.” The man looked with puzzlement over Murray’s shoulder into the empty room beyond. “Dp you have somebody else here who might have called, sir?” “No. You can see for yourself there’s nohody else here." "Well, thanks, Mr. Kirk,” Caxton said, and when he said it Murray knew that he had been beautifully taken. But there was no time to make any move now, no time foY anything but regrets. Not after the man flipped the chauffeur’s cap aside with one hand to show the gun held in the other, its barrel tn a straight line with Murray's belly. For the first time In his life Murray finds himself looking into the business end of a gun, as the story continues here tomorrow, and learns what it is to feel terror. _
Congressional Record Cites Civics Club The study of civics ofttimes seems to be a dreary subject, although by nature it is a necessary one. The children of Mary’s Catholic Civics club of St. Joseph's elementary school,, however, approached the subject in such a manner that it gained mention in the congressional'record. Under the guidance of Sister Mary Joan of Arc, the club members have been corresponding with noted congressmen and international figures, including the chaplain of the Prince Ranier of Monaco, the husband of Former film star, Grace Kelly. Seventh grader Dick Omlor, writing on behalf of the club members, sent six poems about Oregon fir trees to representative Charles O. Porter of Oregon. Oregonians are celebrating their centennial this year and Sr. Jban of Arc thought the poems in the state’s honor would be a good of civics study. Rep. Porter addressed the house on April 23, singling out the writers of the literature and praising their interest in a sister state, although the gap may be many in rpiles. James McGill, Patricia Powell, Jon Alberding, Steve Geimer, Ann Schurger, and Karen Andrews are the authors of the now-famous poetry. Alice Voglewede wrote the Prince of Monaco and received the reply from chaplain J. F. Tucker. He noted that the club’s interest in Parade magazine’s article about the Prince and Princes was deeply welcomed. Also on the correspondence list of public figures is Rep. Clayton Powell of New York. All the representative expressed their pleasure that the young pupils were getting acquainted with the record. As Rep. Porter said, “Our government is big and complicated. It doesn't seem to be getting less so. It is a good thing for you to learn about it now.” Taylor Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Church of the Nazarene in Van Wert, 0., for Mrs. Rebecca Jane Taylor, 77, who died Sunday at her home in that city. Surviving are five sons, including Roy E. Taylor of Decatur; six daughters, two brothers and two sisters. o —o 20 Years Ago Today o - o May 20, 1939—David E. Smith, jurge of the Adams circuit court from 1913 to 1919, died at his home in Fort Wayne, where he had resided for more than 15 years. " Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sheets are building a new home on North Third street. Otto Kirsch, while unloading lumber at the Kocher Lumber Co., found a five-leaf clover and a seven-leaf clover. Three armed, unmasked bandits obtained $5lO in cash in a daring daylight robbery at the Van Wert Federal Savings and Loan association. The Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp., Fort Wayne, announces it will go into production on television receivers, to be ready for a mass market in October.
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PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, a resolution was adopted by at its national convention in Cleveland, 0., 1920. mawng we ». .jw sassy* mind the citizens of America of the value of toe.Light_of and of our debt to those who helped save „ Poppy WHEREAS, the purchase of and the weann nStef is encouraged for the sole purpose of communities work and the bulk of the poppy funds remain in toe commumUes where toejt are raised and are expended by the Legion and auxu THEREFORE, I, Robert D. Cole, mayor of toe cityof Decatur, do hereby proclaim Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23, 1959, as “Poppy Days” in the city of and all citizens of our city to wear a Poppy in ca's heroic dead and in helpfulness to our living disabled and deP^n thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to. be affixed toe seal of the city of Decatur this 20th day of May, A. D 1959 - „ . *r» Robert D. Cole, Mayor, city of Decatun
Firm Stand Urged On Housing Measure WASHINGTON (UPD —Republican House leaders urged rank-and-file members at a closed-door conference today to stand firm against the Democrats' “budget busting” housing bill. GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) predicted after toe hourlong caucus that toe House would reject the bill and adopt instead a scaled-down substitute offered by a conservative coalition and backed by toe Eisenhower ’administration. Democratic leaders disputed this. While they did not claim to have toe votes to put through their $2,100,000,000 bill without change, they believed they had more than enough to beat the $1,300,000,000 substitute. The administration - backed substitute proposed eve#- less spending than President Eisenhower originally suggested. The first key vote was expected late today on whether to adopt the substitute. The biggest fight centered on a public housing provision of the Democratic bill. The cost of this feature was not even counted in the bill's $2,100,000,000 price tag. There is no comparable section in the substitute bill. Republicans charged that the public housing section would boost toe total cost to $5,800,000,000 over a 45-year period. Halleck conceded that he probably would lose some Republican votes when the substitute is put to a vote, but predicted that it would be adopted with help from conservative Democrats. " “This sure is a budget-busting bill without any question,” he said. Over 2.500 Daily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur jach day.
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