Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 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., Poet Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr President John G. Heller ---- Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates i By Mail In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 18.00; I Six rnosths, Mb; 3 months, 82.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 8M0; 8 months, $4.75; 3 month*. 82.50. < By Canter, 30c cents per week. Single copies, 8 cents. Budget Time The variousPriepartments of city, county, and township government are now preparing their budgets for the year 1960. Following the spring assessment, figures are now being compiled which will show the total valuation for the governmental units. The unit leaders, knowing how much money they need to raise their budgets, and knowing the assessed valuation, can figure out what tax rate will be necessary to assure them of their budget for next year. Wells county has reported a gain of $963,960 in personal property valuation. Most of the gain was registered in the county’s 11 towns and cities, while five of the nine townships showed modest gains. A number of announcements have already been made which will affect the county tax rate. The county bridge fund has been increased, and a new fund for maintenance of the court house set up. The state has created by law a county education tax of 25 cents. Most of this will go into increased pay for school teachers. A sum will be set aside for the education study commission, which is charged with drawing up a feasible county school system. Appointments on this board will be made by the judge of the circuit court within 90 days. A number of tax increases may be expected; if there are any units of government for which you believe the taxes are out of line, why don’t you go in and talk with the responsible people right now, while they are making up their budgets. They can show you their needs, and perhaps you can show them where to cut some corners. At least you both will have a better understanding of each other s problems when you are finished. The purpose of government is to serve the people of a given area. It can only function effectively when all th people show an interest and understanding in the problems presented. Unfortunately a number of people will wait until the final tax rate is published, and then come forth with their problems. By then it will be almost too late. Now is the time to see that needed changes are made. The civil city of Decatur is one of the few major units in the county which has been running on the same amount or less for several years. Some of the smaller townships have been able to keep their rates down, but most of the rates march steadily and none too slowly forward. Interest by the public will be the most effective thing possible to keep government expenditure in line with what the people desire. But remember—if you want better streets, better sewers, better schools, etc., you must expect to pay for them I Don’t ask for both improvements and lower budgets without a detailed explanation of how such a thing is to be accomplished!

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Rain Is Reported Throughout Nation United *resi International Rain fell over much of the country Monday and the U. S. Weather Bureau said showers were expected in isolated areas of the country today. Although no general rains were forecast today, the weatherman said an isolated shower or thundershower could fall in nearly any section of the country except the Pacific Coast and the Ohio Valley where generally fair skies were predicted. Showers and thundershowers were reported along the Eastern Seaboard Monday night. Some of the heavier six - hour rainfall amounts during the night were Hartford, Conn., nearly an inch. New York City, .7-inch and Boston, ,6-inch. Isolated and scattered showers occurred from the southern half of the Great Plains southwestward over the southern Rockies and into the southern Plateau. A few light rains along the Pacific Coast left only traces of moisture in some spots from Washington to the northern tip of California. Temperatures during the night were uniform over the greater portion of the country except west of the Rockies. East of the Rockies the mercury was in the 60s and 70s while temperatures west of the mountains ranged from the 50s near the coast to the 90s over the southwest desert. COURT NEWS Marriage Application Thomas Jay Swoveland, 21, of Decatur, and Betty Faye Neal, 20, of Berne. o— — 20 Years Ago Today July 21, 1939—The First Mennonite church of Berne has extended an invitation to act as host for the 1940 world conference of Mennonites. Mrs. W. A. Lower and Miss Elizabeth Peterson visited friends in Fort Wayne last evening. W. Guy Brown, of Decatur, has been elected to the executive board of Irene Byron sanitarium in Fort Wayne. Phil Sauer and Walt Gilliom have returned from a fishing trip at Lake James. Sirloin steak is 23 Vi cents per pound; butter, 26“ cents a pound; cane sugar $1.27 for 25 pounds; watermelon, 25 cents each. i

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CHAPTER 19 “]\ SR. CROCKETT put his hand IVI in the middle of Lionel Palmer’s chest and pushed him back,” Melvin Olney said. “What did Crockett say ?” Sergeant Sellers asked. “He said, 'Damn you! Don’t ever grab hold of my coat. Don’t ever start pulling and hauling at me again!*** "Wbat did Palmer do?** “He . . . well, he went into the other room. Angry and sullen, I guess. I never have been able to figure Lionel too well. He’s rather emotional.” "But be went out before you left’” “No. He went into the transcribing office. He was there when I left—but Mr. Crockett had gone back to his own study and closed the door.” “You went out by five-forty-five?" “Shortly before. I was down in the lobby by five-forty, perhaps • couple of minutes before that . . . but Mr. Crockett was back in his study before that Perhaps you’d better let me explain. I know approximately when I came and when I left I was here over an hour in all, but I can’t reconstruct the event sequence to help you very much on the time element T was working on a lot of things, making a lot of calls while 1 was waiting for Mr. Crockett to come out of his study. I can’t recall the exact time everything happened, but I know it was all between four and five-thirty.” Seilers whirled to Mrs. Crockett "How long did you remain tn your studio?” he asked. “Let’s say Donald Lam left around five o’clock. How long did you stay there after he left?” “Perhaps another hour " “Then you went out?” “Yes.” The model with you?” “Yes.” “Where were you after that?” T came up here.” "Have dinner here?” “Yes.” “Who else was here?” “No one. I was here alone . . . that is, my busband was In the penthouse here but he was closeted tn his private apartment No one ever disturbs him in there.” “But there was an extra key to those doors? You could get in there if you had to?” “Yes. I opened the doors this morning.” "You knew there was an em- ' • ergency .key?” “Naturally." "You knew where it was kept ?’’ “Yea”

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Charged In Slaying Os Estranged Wife WEST COVINA, Calif. (UPD— Dr. Bernard Finch, 41, faced arraignment today on a charge of murdering his estranged socialite wife, Barbara. Finch, who according to police chief Allen W. Sill maintains he was in Las Vegas, Nev., at the time of his wife’s slaying, was returned here Monday from the desert resort. He was arrested Sunday in the Las Vegas apartment of his former nurse. Carol Tregoff Pappa, 22. and booked on suspicion of the gunshot killing of his 33-year-old wife Saturday night outside their SBO,OOO home here. Mrs. Pappa, now a cocktail waitress, appeared to dash Finch's alibi when she admitted driving him here Saturday so he could talkwith his wife about a divorce, police said. The couple had been separated since May. Finch’s father, Dr. Raymond R. Finch, revealed his son had been under phychiatric care for several months and said he had been “acting strange and goofy lately.” “The boy is a brilliant surgeon and is well known for his work,” said the elderly Finch. "But lately he has been completely overworked and just plain out of his mind.”

"Where ?” "In the safe.” “Who had the combination to that safe?” "My husband and myself.” “No one else?” “As far as I know, no one else.” "And you were here alone?” “Yes.” “Your husband didn’t open the door and come out?” “No." “How long were you here?” "AU evening." “What did you do?” “1 watched television for a while, then I read and then went to bed.” Sellers thought things over, said, “Okay. I guess we’ll talk with this Lionel Palmer. ... You know him?” “Os course." “Does he have a key to your studio?" “He has one at the moment, yes.” "Did he have one yesterday?” "Yes.” ’•Why?" “I was having him photograph some of my paintings.” "What’s the idea?” “You can’t carry canvases around with you," she said. “I have him make photographic copies of my paintings on four-by-five colored film." "How many photographs has he made?” Tve painted something over two dozen pictures. He has colored films of all these. Those photos were made over a period of time. There were two new pictures he hadn’t photographed. I ... I presume he made the photographs sometime yesterday. That’s when I told him to make them.” "What time?” "I didn’t give him any time. I saw him the night of the party and gave him the. key to my studio and told him to go in there whenever it dras convenient to photograph the pictures, but I told him to phone to be certain I wasn’t working, because if I was, I didn’t want to be disturbed.” "You described the paintings you wanted photographed to him?” “Yes. They were both on easels." “You don’t know whether he went over and photographed the paintings or not?" “No.” “WeD, we’re getting around,” SeUers said. "This is just a pre-

Temporary Transformer Moved To Station A temporary 65-tan transformer was moved Monday to the IndianaMichigan Electric company’s transformer station five miles west ’ of Berne. - Two flat-bed trucks, moving side by side, took the transformer from ? the Pennsylvania railroad station 5 in Berne to the I&M station, so that ? another transformer can be taken - away in the same manner for re- - pairs. At this Adams county station, the transformer divides the » 138,000-volt power carried on the - cross-country line to two smaller , voltages, 33,000 volts and 66,000 » volts in power. 1 r Establish Service 1 Facilities In Berne s 0 In an expansion move, the Microt- matic Hone corporation, of De- . troit, Mich., is establishing jobi honing service facilities in Berne. The new building, with a 10,000 ' square foot capacity is to be com- ' pleted in mid-October, in the northeast city limits. Bernh’s city area ! development committee, with the Berne Chamber of Commerce, has 1 made the land, formerly a part of the Henry Ehrsam farm, available to the Detroit firm. Berne street, which leads to the tract, is now open.

liminary talk. You people are going to be interrogated in more detail later.” Wilbur Denton cleared his throat and said, “If you are interested in tracing all the keys to Mrs. Crockett’s studio, I have extra keys in my desk." "You have what?" “Extra keys." Mrs. Crockett hastened to explain. "Whenever I want some mode] to go in there, in case it is not convenient for me to meet her and give her a key before she arrives, I instruct her to come up here to get a key. Then I’ll telephone Mr. Denton and tell him to give the girl a key." “How many keys have you got?” Sellers asked Denton. "Two." “Where are they?" "In my desk drawer." “Take a look," Sellers said. Denton went over to the desk drawer, said, "I keep them in this little stamp box.” He opened the drawer, then opened the box and stood frowning down at it “Only one key here,” Sellers said. “Yes,” Denton admitted. "There should be two?" "There were two the last time I looked." “When was that?” “Day before yesterday." “You keep this desk locked?" Sellers asked. "No.” "Well, what do you know!” Sellers said. “One key missing. You’re sure both of them were here a couple of days ago?” “Yes, sir.” "You didn’t give one to anyone?” “No, sir." "Okay,” Sellers said. ’There’s no question but what Crockett was killed by somebody that shot a dart into his chest from that studio apartment over there across the light well” He turned to Inspector Giddings and said, “Get a bunch of men, Inspector. Start making Inquiries of all persons who have apartments here In the place. See if anyone noticed a blowgun point- ; tng out of a window. If so, find out what time It was and see if they had any opportunity to see the face of the person using the blowgun." Lionel Palmer has reason te be a very worried man. “Yon don’t even know what trouble te—yet!” he te told as The Count of Nine” continues here tomorrow.

On-The-Job Training Curriculum At Berne Berne-French school will offer a vocational on-the-job training curriculum for its juniors and seniors next year, E. M. Webb, superintendent of the Berne-French township school, said Monday. The program, known as diversified cooperative education, will be open to junior and seniors beginning with the 1959 fall semester. Eight subject matter areas will now be available to the BerneFrench pupils, making it possible for them to receive training in many more occupational areas, Webb said. Leonard Kingsley, coordinator of the new program today listed the seven other areas of study which the school now has: commercial, vocational agriculture, vocational home economics, industrial art. fine arts, academic, and general, for any student who does not plan to go on to college. In the new area of diversified cooperative education, the student will receive on-the-job training in a selected occupational area in local industries. This area could include, Kingsley said tfeis morning, subjects ranging from upholstering in local factories for boys r to a pre-nursing curriculum for - girls. » Webb announced that the Bernet French school board had received requests from leaders of their industries for such a program. The ' program will be planned with help j from the state department of edut cation, which has had such a proj gram available for some time. Schools such as Arsenal Technical high school in Indianapolis are , examples of whose schools formed ; around the vocational program, c An advisory committee, which ) will be a consultant group on matters such as arranging training schedules between the industries and schools, is to be appointed, Kingsley said. County superintendent of schools Gail Grabill, in giving an outline . of what is effective in other Indi- ■ ana schools, said that the potential worth of such vocational programs is immeasurable. The vocational program makes ' it possible for a pupil who indi-i cates he is not interested in a j strictly academic program to receive training in a particular vocational field. For instance, in ' commercial subjects, pupils taking typing would do actual work for local businesses. In large voca- ; tional schools such as in Indianapolis, students could get on-the-job training in a wide variety of businesses, even such things as barbering. As the potential worth of such a program is unlimited, he said, »it is just as good as schools make it, and takes a. i great deal of organizing, for example, in agreements between the school and the business on the work which the pupils do for the business. Peppy Pals When the Preble Peppy Pals met Saturday afternoon, Mary Heckman was in charge. Helping her lead pledges was Christine Reifsteck. Members answered roll call by giving their favorite spot for a vacation. Shirley Scheumann and Barbara Werling gave a demonstration, “Kiddies’ Special.” Cheryl Buuck and Janice Miller served refreshments after the business meeting.

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LOS ANGELES (UPD — Frank H. Bartholomew, president of * United Press International, said " today that the biggest “real 5 threat of war” exists in the per- * son of the Communist boss of " East Germany. Bartholomew said that on a re- - cent trip to Russia he had found » no indication of war preparations. - There were no air-raid shelters . in Moscow and no air-raid sirens, 1 he said. “There has never been an air- , raid drill,” he said. “Nothing in ' the press indicates that war is 1 expected. The people are told ■ that they will be successful in completing the seven - year plan f and the government will be suc- - cessful in preventing war. 1 “My own personal opinion, j then, is that we are observing the perpetration of the greatest mili- * tary bluff in the span of writen > international history.” i Bartholomew said, however, in ] a speech prepared for delivery to t the Los Angeles Advertising Club, j that “a real threat of war does * exist.” 1 “I think it lies in the person of - Walter Ulbricht, secretary of the - Communist Party of East Ger- ; many and the Communist boss of r that unfortunate section of his nation.” Bartholomew interviewed Ul1 bricht in his “moth - eaten” East - German empire and said he was 2 a curious fellow, about whom > Westerners should know as much . as possible, “because he may . loom of increasing importance in our scheme of things ahead.” 1 “Don’t take your eye off that : little man with the bitter, sarcas--1 tic look and he itchy riggerfinger,” he warned. 1 Barholomew described Ulbricht as a German who has lived in the ’ Soviet Union so long he speaks >, German with a Russian accent. Ulbricht obviously regards his . present position in East Berlin as

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“next to impossible,” Bartholomew said. East Berlin is shabby while West Berlin is prosperous, he said, and Ulbricht can not hold the East Germans under his thumb forever with promises of a better life when they can take a subway ride to the West and see “what democracy really does.** "Henne Ulbricht knows the only way he can perpetuate himself and his crew is with the armed might of the U.S.S.R. immediately behind him, or by demolishing West Germany and digesting it into his own moth-eaten empire,” Bartholomew said. “Therefore, all evidence points to the fact that Ulbricht wants trouble and is constantly urging upon the Kremlin tha he be allowed o bring the situation to a head.” FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth have suffered reel embarrassment because their plate dropped, slipped or wobbled at just the wrong time. Do not live in fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH, the alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. “BROASTED” GOLDEN BROWN , CHICKEN and CHOPS SHAFFER’S RESTAURANT 904 N. 13th St. CALL 3-3857