Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 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 mor ths, $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, 30c cents oer week. Single copies, 6 cents. Thought For Winter It may cool us off some to think for a moment about next winter. Last Winter both the Stratton Place asso- . ciation and the Homestead offered prizes for the best outdoor decorations, and some of the homes there were beautifully and elaborately decorated. r Decorations in Decatur homes, especially along the main streets and highways, and in the residential areas, especially at Christmas time when no flowers are in bloom, do much towards making Decatur attractive. An attractive city, one where the people are really interested in their own town, will sell itself to others. How about a city-wide decorations contest ? Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce might want to sponsor it. A few years ago this was done. Bluffton is known for its street fair. Van Wert for its peony festival. Decatur for its soybean festival. Now how about a winter contest that will help beautify our city? • • • • Summer School and Summer Reading As machines increase man’s productivity, he will have more and more spare time. But man is not normally used to “free” time. If each of us does not train himself to use his spare time, as well as his working time, he will reiver lead a full and productive life, full of happy hours. Frustration and discontent will result. So today more education to obtain a better way of life, and to use spare time creatively is a must. Two important" programs this summer are fulfilling this mission, and at the same time training our young people. Today’s high school y6ar is so full of courses that many intelligent youths cannot get into the school day all the courses they feel they will need in their future life, or as preparatory for college. So, a large number are attending summer school, taking extra courses. They in turn will be better prepared for high school and college, and eventually for life itself. For younger children is the summer reading program at the Decatur public library. This program encourages young people from primary age through high school to read throughout the summer months. Special awards are given. Usually competition is keen. These young people will not only have an enjoyable summer, with plenty to do in “spare” time, but they will be better prepared for reading classes again next fall, and will understand their school work so much better because of their summer pleasure.
WANE-TV Channel 15 TUESDAY Evenlag 6:9o—Amos & Andy 6:80 —News at 6:30 6:ts— ; Doug Ed wards-News 7:oo—Hotpohil Playhouse 7:30—-Shirley Temple 9:oo—Peck's Bad Girl 9:3o—Red Skelton 10:00—Garry Moore 11:00—Return to Pardise WEDN'ESDAt Morn I ax 7:00 —Sunrise Semester 7:Bo—Pepermint Theatre 7:4o —Willy Wonderful 8:00—CBS News B:ls—Captain Kangaroo 9:oo—Our Miss Brooks 9:3o—Star and the Story 10:00—On the po 10:80—Sam Levenson 11:00—I L»ove Lucy 11:30 —Top Hollar Afternoon 12:00—Love Os Life 12:30—Search For Tomorrow 12:45—Guiding Light I:oo—Ann Calone 1:25 —News I:3o—As The World Turns 2:oo—Jimmy Pean Show 3:30 —Ho useparfy 3:oo—Big Pay-Off 3:3o—Verdict Is Yours 4:00 —Brighter Day 4:ls—Secret Storm 4:3o—Edge Os Night 5:00 —'Dance Date Evening 6:0-0—Amos & Andy 6:3o—News at 6:30 6:4-s—Doug Edw>ards-News 7:oo—Sea Hunt , 7:30—-Special Agent 7 B:oo—Keep Talking B:3o—Tra-.kdown 9:00 —Millionaire 9:3o—l've Got A Secret 10:00—Circle Theatre 11,:00 —Woman’s Vengenee wkjg-tV Channel 33 TIEBDAY Evening 6:00— Gatesway to Sports 6:15—-News. Jack Gray 6:2s—The Weatherman 6:3o—Dragnet 7:oo—Steve Canyon 7:3o—The Jimmie Rodgers Show 8:00 —The Californians 8:80—Bob Cummings 8:00 —David Niven 8:30, —Rescue 8 10:00—Whirly birds 10:30—News and Weather 10:45—Sports Today 10:50 —The Jack Paar Show WEDNESDAY *6*3o-*?ontlntal Classroom 7:00 —Today 9:00 —Dough Re Ml 9:3o—Treasure Hunt
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20 Years Ago Today 0 — o June 9, 1939—Mrs. Herman Yake, 89, longtime resident of Adams county, died at her home south of Peterson after a week’s illness. W. Guy Brown, Decatur high •school principal and chairman of the Adams county welfare board, spoke at the annual township trustees’ picnic. Mrs. Charles Holthouse left today to attend the national convention of the Delta Theta Tau sorority at San Francisco, Calif. A tremendous welcome is being planned at Indianapolis late this month for former governor Paul V. McNutt from the Philippines, where he has been serving as high commissioner. Report Tonight On Roundup And Camp Adams county 4-H junior leaders will hear reports on the Purdue roundup and the junior leaders’ camp at tonight’s meeting, beginning at 8 o’clock at the Monmouth high school. Six junior leader campers, who were to return this noon from the weekend camp at Oliver Luke Limberlost Camp near LaGrange, will report on their braining camp. The six are Connie Bergman, Esther Brehm, Sharon Diehl, Jeannie Stoltz, Stanley Hill, and Max Moser. Thirty-three county 4-H club members attended the state 4-H club roundup at Purdue University last week. After the business meeting, Deanna Small and Tim Ringger will be in"charge of recreation. The Kirkland township club will provide the refreshments. COURT NEWS Estate Cases The estate of Adelaide M. Gass was closed Monday, with the supplemental report and petition for discharge being filed-* In the George H. Blassburn estate. the co-executors’ final ac.count was filed. The notice was ordered issued, returnable July 3. An inventory was filed and approved in the Emil Christner es-
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CHAPTER 27 | ■ qrHE TRIP to Duchess Harbor 1 1 had taken twenty minutes in ! Caxton’s limousine. Bryno Manfredi shaved that to fifteen minutes by keeping a heavy foot on the gas, and a wary eye out for stray policemen along the way. When he turned off the highway into the road leading to the shore Murray Kirk slipped off his overcoat and stipes, and Bruno, observing this, said, "Now I see I really got myself into something. What are you supposed to. be— Kirk of the Commandos?” The knot which had been withstood so far tightened in Murray's stomach. It pressed up against his diaphragm, and breathing became difficult. "That’s me,” he said. “Watch out when you get to the driveway. The garage is on this side, and there were a couple of guys hanging around it last time. Best thing is to come in around the other side, and slow down when you’re near the corner of the house, so 1 can jump off there.” He had the door already open as the car passed the corner of the house, and he jumped out, skidded and almost fell on ground which was Icy-hard and slick under a film of frozen snow, and then regained his balance and ran,- crouching low, to the side of the , building. Light showed behind the lowered Venetian blind in the window there, but the window itself was a foot above his head. He braced his hands on the sill and cautiously drew himself up until he was resting on his forearms, his stockinged feet dangling free. Hanging there like that, he found that every sound arbund him was magnified and distorted. Everything became approaching footsteps; the wind flicking at the cuffs of his trousers was a restraining hand laid on him. It cost him an effort not to look around at the threatening unknown. Not that it would do any good to look, especially if something was there. In his position he was a perfect target—the classic sitting duck—for anything aimed his way. It was hard to gauge whether it was that chilling realization or the bitterness of the night air that was numbing him into helplessness while he strained to see through the slats of the blind. It seemed an endless time before Bruno finally came into sight in the hall. Joe, the majordomo, was with him, shaking a doubtful head, and then George Wykoff himself appeared, along with a man who might, from the looks of him, have been one of the nephews Mitchell Dowd had referred to. He towered a head over Wykoff, but he had the same vulpine features, the same sulky air about him. Bruno was apparently having a hard time of it, but was playing his hand well. Hls manner was one of indifference,’mild puzzlement, the manner of a man who finds himself the Innocent victim of a misunderstanding between a corporation and a customer. He spoke casually, shrugged, looked al his receipt book with a frown
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tate. A petition was filed Monday for sale of livestock at public auction and the sale of crops in the open market. In the Heber C. Bowen estate, an order determining the value of the estate and amount of tax due was filed Monday by the Indiana department of internal revenue. Proof of mailing to all interested persons of the determination of inheritance tax of the William Bollenbacher estate was filed. The appraisers reported the estate valued at $14,366,15 with a tax due of $168.66. Adams county requests payment of $13.49 in fees for services rendered in administrative costs. Civil Cases A demurrer to the complaint was filed today in the American Radiator. and Sanitation Corp, vs Jack Hasenbiller, of Berne, casg, because the defendant claims that facts do not warrant a cause of
—and then Wykoff turned away ; from him and headed directly toward the window from which Murray dangled. That, Murray saw, was something he hadn’t taken into account. The phone was on a table not five feet from the window. When Wykoff picked it up and dialed, his back was toward Murray. But as he started to speak he slowly turned, his eyes abstractedly fixed on the wall. Then slowly he turned away, nodded, replaced the phone. He must have called the utilities company, must have been satisfied by what he had been told. He gestured at Bruno, and Bruno, still magnificently unconcerned, still the man who could take a job or leave it, whichever suited the customer, followed Joe out of sight down the hall. Murray let his feet down to the ground. To the best of his recollection there were two windows in the living room he had just been looking into, two windows in the dining room beyond it, and then there was the room with the desk in it He counted his way along the side of the house and waited, watching the glow of light from the livingroom windows and from the upstairs windows above them. In his mind’s eye he saw Bruno at the head of the cellar steps, moved with him downstairs, and followed as Bruno crossed the cellar to wherever the fuse box was. When the lights went out Murray heaved himself up to the sill and pushed at the window frame. It slid up an inch and then stopped. He pushed harder, balancing precariously on his knees and using both hands, but either the frame was jammed or there was a safety catch holding it. If it was jammed—but there was no use thinking about that. The thing to do was try the catch first. The outside of the sill was very narrow. Lt was hard finding a foothold on it after he had gotten himself up to a standing position there, and meanwhile Bruno must be well through his count a hundred. Murray pulled the glass cutter from his pocket, ran it in a semicircle around the point where he calculated the catch would be, and worked the glass loose from the frame. He had calculated correctly, the i catch was directly above the opening he had cut. He reached . In and turned it, and with one i heave pushed the window up the full way. The room was a well of darkness. He Lowered himself cautiI ously into it, holding his breath I as he passed through the Invisible i wall ordinarily provided by the i electronic eye, half expecting the alarm to go off next to his ear. . Then he was inside. He swiftly drew down the window behind i him, and turned on the flashlight which Was the second of the three I tools he had brought along with i him.
The third tool was a chisel meant to serve as a jimmy, and if the’ desk didn’t yield to it—he couldn’t keep that thought from
action by the plaintiff. Divorce Cases The law firm of Custer and Smith filed a notice that it will serve as counsel for the defendant in the Marlene Melching vs Don Melching case. A citation was issued to the Adams county sheriff for the defendant in the Robert L. Ross vs Alice Joan Ross case. An affidavit was filed showing failure to comply with ■an order of the court. The order was ordered returnable June 13 at 10 a. m. Irene Death was granted an absolute decree by the court Monday in her case against Dan Death. She will receive custody of both minor children and S2O a week support. She also will retain all property now in her possession. The defendant was granted the right to visit the children at times approved by the court. He will also assume costs involved in the case.
rising in his mind—he would have no second chance. The desk was there against the wall. He tried the top drawer, hoping against hope that it was unlocked, but it remained immovable. He slid the chisel into the narrow crack over the lock and struck it hard with the heel of his hand. He stood there poised for a second blow, but afraid to deliver it, feeling the time running out on him lightning fast. It was the sound of voices in the distance that released him from his paralysis. Wykoff was grumbling about something; it was clear that if power wasn’t restored in time for the $64,000 Question the Staten Island Utility Company was going to have to answer for plenty. If the electric company wanted to monkey around —! Murray struck the chisel again. It drove in deep, he bore down on it, and felt the drawer give. He inched it out, saw with cold foreboding that it was empty, and tried the next drawer below it. There was a binder there with a sheaf of paper in it. He turned the light on it, saw the columns of figures headed by cryptic ini- •— ■ tials, thrust it inside his shirt, and got to the window as fast as he could. Once outside that window and with it closed behind him he could breath again. He balanced on the sill, shoved the window down, and dropped clumsily to the ground. He was not a second too soon. Still crouching there, shaken by the fall, he saw the Tights of the house go on. It was that close, he knew. Close enough to have gotten a broken skull or worse if George Wykoff kept the ledger in the bottom drawer of his desk instead of the middle drawer. Close enough to make him even more terrified after the event than he had been during it He made his way toward the car, pressing the binder of papers to his chest The rear door of the car was open—it took Bruno to realize that a door would have to be left open for this exigency—- > and he went through it, huddling out of sight on the floor there, the door left open behind him. Then Bruno came out of the house, thrusting his receipt book into his pocket tossing the tool box on the back seat with a flourish, slamming the car door, getting into place behind the wheel, starting the motor. The wheels spun on the icy road, the car lurched forward, found traction, and moved down the driveway, jouncing as it went over the small rise leading to the road away from George Wykoff. Bruno reached around and slapped Murray on top of the head. ■ "Tell me something, he said. “Is it true what they say about a guys hair turning white if he’s scared enough?" ij Is the purloined ledger worth the risk of being socked with , the charge of breaking and i entering? “The Eighth Circle" . continues here tomorrow. _
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