Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY' DEMOCRAT P THB M wrcA??ra dSSoS*?* coTSc B ’ Kntered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John O. Heller Vice-Presklent Okas. Hoithouse Secretary-THMururer BwteerfpttM Bacas: BT w 5^. b S, A £S! T m £^. sl > 0 ““ , ‘” ; °“ By Carrier, 30c cents Ser weak. Single copies, C cents. Welcome, Auctioneers! Nearly forty years ago a young Adams county man, Col. Fred Reppert, founded the Reppert School of Auctioneering. Himself an auctioneer at 17, trained by his father “the hard way” in county sales, Col. Reppert made a name nationally in all types of auctioneering before founding his famed school- in January, 1921. Following his death about 1946, his daughter, Miss Eleanor Reppert, operated the school until her death in 1952. At that time the present president of the school, Dr. Roland Reppert, took over. Col. Q. R. Chaffee, of Towanda, Pa., himself a city superintendent of schools before he became an auctioneer, heads the faculty at the school. This will be the 78th three-week session. With more than 5,000 men graduated during the past years, every state and every province of Canada lists famous auctioneers who have trained at Decatur. Most of the local auctioneers also get their start here. It looks like this year’s summer class will include between 80 and 90 students. The youngest registered so far is 13 years old. He and his father, from Kent City, Mich., are both attending as a father-son team. A boy from Pennsylvania is 15; his father is a former graduate. Four 16-year-olds, including one each from Markle, Ossian, Henderson, Texas, and Sebierville, Tenn., are attending, including one whose father* was a graduate. Twice each year Decatur is proud to welcome students from every corner of the continent to the school. We are proud of the fine, friendly relationship that has been built over the years by the students. The townspeople are happy to do anything they can to make their guests feel at home. In the past the auction students have been noted for their courtesy, friendliness, and obedience to local laws and customs; all of which has added greatly to the local prestige of the school and its graduates and students. This year the faculty will include 12 famous Auctioneers from all over the country. A number of the professors have been at the school for many years, having trained under Cbl. Reppert himself. Students at the school will, of course, operate several sidewalk sales this year, including one for the PTAs of the public schools. They will also have a chance to attend the county 4-H fair, which includes quite a cattle show. Not all of the graduates of Reppert’s School of Auctioneering become auctioneers—many are salesmen or other types of businessmen who use the course to build • confidence in deal.ng with the public. Following the Second World War the school was Approved for GI Bill students, and hundreds attended each session. - J So, Decatur gladly welcomes the 78th Reppert class, and hopes that each student will feel at home in our city, and will find it a friendly home for the three-weeks that $ they will spend here. ■ V ----- . — ~ ' L

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Government Warns On Service Schools The U. S. civil service commission receives numerous inquiries sometimes complaints, regarding the activities at so-called "civil service” schools. Some of these schools exaggerate opportunities for federal employment. Some give the impression that they are connected with the government. Tq warn the public of misleading information, the commission’s Cincinnati office, covering Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky, and West Virginia, points out that: 1. No “civil-service” school is connected with the U. S. civil service commission or with any other agency of the federal government. The commission does not make recommendations regarding any school. It does not sponsor any advertising or other material issued by any school. 3. No fee is charged for securing federal employment. It is not necessary to secure the services of a school to compete in examinations or of a private employment agency to obtain federal employment. 4. No “civil-service” course is required for taking civil-service examinations or for learning about them. There is no assurance that the ability to pass any written test required for some positions can be gained by taking a course from a so-called "civil-service” school. 5. No school can obtain special advantages for its students in civilservice examinations or appointments. 6. No school which gives special preparation for civil-service examinations is given any advance or special information regarding civilservice examinations or any other civil-service information that is not available to the general public without cost. 7. No school can properly promise success in passing civil-service examinations or "guarantee” employment in the federal civil service. Information about examinations for positions in the federal government may be obtained, without cost, from the civil-service representative at many first- or secondclass post offices, from the Cincinnati Office of the commission, or from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington 25, D.C. • ...

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED The preparations of Dean Crockett 11. millionaire explorer, for a party in his penthouse included hiring Bertha Cool of the Cool & Lam Detective Agency to keep out gate crashers and sneak thieves. He believed a woman was the gate crasher who got away from a previous party with one of his valuable relics. Crockett's press agent, Melvin Otis Olney, tipped off newspapers about the precautions against gate crashers and then had reason to regret it. For somehow an intruder got past big Bertha and an X-ray protective device with a jade Buddha and a pygmy blowgun treasured by Crockett Bertha, furious over her apparent lapse, summoned her bantam-weight partner. Donald Lam. while Crockett Insisted that his stolen curios be recovered without police involvement Following a hunch. Donald visited the offices of the International oGodwill Chib, the sponsor of Crockett’s recent expedition to Borneo. There in the staff of a club flag. Donald found the missing blowgun. Then visiting the studio of Lionel Palmer, a photographer who was at the party, he found the jade Buddha secreted in the back of a camera Donald is telling the story. . . • CHAPTER 10 ELSIE BRAND, my secretary, showed me a clipping from the newspaper. “Seen this?” she asked, placing the tip of her finger on a paragraph near the bottom: “It is rumored that a wealthy individual who spends much of hi* time cruising around in foreign countries, getting material for a tax-exempt foundation, has been away from home too much, too often and too frequently. His much younger wife has other plans for spending the rest of her life." “Is that supposed to mean something to me?" I asked. “It should," she said. I was about to say something when Bertha Cool appeared in the doorway, standing militantly with the dark wood blowgun in one hand, the jade Buddha in the other. “Don’t think Pm going to go parading up there with this junk." she said. "You're going to fix the fee, aren’t you?" "You bet I am." "Then you’d better have the last contact with the client" “The last contact," Bertha said, "will be when 1 fix the fee. I'm not going to do it in his house, going up there like * delivery boy. “I’ve been thinking this thing over. Donald, you have to admit that when it comes to financial matters, Bertha has the right hunches. » . . Now, here’s the way to play this. You take this stuff up and deliver it You tell 'him about how you recovered it IDon’t make it look so darned simple and easy, the way you did when you were telling it to me. “Dress it up a bit Tell him about the way you reasoned things out only don’t tell him that you started in the middle of the book. Go baek to first

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20 Years Ago Today O o July 27, 1939—Moose lodge officers and building committee members are study four bids for construction of a $30,000 building at First and Jackson streets as a new lodge home. Henry Yaggy, 70, was brutally slugged in a robbery attempt at his farm home five miles southeast of Decatur Harold Niblick left last evening for a 10-day trip to Philadelphia , and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Kortenber ' are spending several days at Rome City. The Decatur Junior American ’ Legion baseball team was eliminat- ' ed from the state regional tourney at Indianapolis, losing to Evansville, 11-9. COURT NEWS Marriage Application Norman Roy Williamson, 23, of . Fort Recovery, 0., and Barbara . Jean Rush, 18, of Decatur.

principles. TeU him about casing the joint so as to determine there really was only one elevator. Dress it up." "He may resent that,” I said. "He can resent it if he wants to. We have a living to make. He’s already put a value on that bunch of junk at nine thousand bucks. We’ve got It back for him without any fuss or trouble." I shook my head and said, "Nix, Bertha, nix.” “What do you mean, nix? I’m talking about money." ’ “I’m talking about money, too," I told her. “But let’s be logical about it If it had taken a month to grab this stuff, we could have built it up into a big play. The way it is, we went out and grabbed it “We can’t possibly build that up into a big job without getting in trouble with questions of business ethics and all of that Therefore, since it’s got to be a relatively small job anyway, why not minimize the thing and make it appear we toss those things off every day before breakfast? - “We send him a bill for the work of one operative for one day, and dress it Out a little with expenses in the line of taxi fares, meals and incidentals. We get in solid with a new client. The next time Crockett has any job, we’re in on it. Any time Crockett’s friends want anything done, they’ll come to us because they’ll have heard all about us from Crockett." Bertha blinked her eyes and said, ’Til think it over. I’ll sleep on it before 1 send him a bill. But you take the junk up there." I said, "If you promise to make the guy a nominal charge, I’ll take the stuff over and give him a build-up on the work.” "It’s a go," Bertha said, and literally shoved the stuff into my hands. "Want me to telephone and tell him you’re coming?” Elsie Brand asked. I hesitated for a moment, then grinned and said, "No, I want to see the guy’s face when I hand him the stuff. That hole couldn’t have been bored in the flagpole without somebody in the house knowing about it —in other words, that had to be an inside job. I want to find out whether Dean Crockett the Second carefully arranged to have this stuff missing and then called us in as window dressing, and, if he did, why he did it" “Don’t get tough with him,” Bertha warned. “I won’t unless I see a blazed trail leading to where I want to go," I told her. “How about the photographer? Couldn’t he have done the whole thing?" Bertha asked. “He might have,” I told her, “but I have another idea on that"

JO— — o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE | o o Q. When a house guest wishes to give his hostess a little gift of appreciation when should he present it? A. He may bring it with him and present it soon after his arrival, at some opportunity during his visit, or send it to her soon after his ' return home. All this, of course, does not relieve him of his obligation to write that all-important “bread-and-butter” letter to his hostess promptly after his visit. Q. When a small paper cup of sauce is served on the dinner plate, what is the proper way to use it? A. Turn the cup over and use your fork to empty it. Then put the empty cup on the plate, to one side, out of your way. Q. When an invitation written on an informal card is received, and a reply is requested, is it all right to make this reply over the telephone? A. It is quite all right to acknowledge an informal invitation over .the telephone.

■ | "What?" s “I’m not certain the photogra- ' pher even knew the idol was in the camera.” "Why?" i "The way it was wrapped in cotton." “What does that have to do j with it?” t 1 said, "Suppose some woman wanted that idol and knew that the best way to get it out of ’ there was to conceal it in a camera. That Speed Graphic that the idol was in had a wideangle lens. In other words, it J was a one-shot camera. The ' photographer used that to take a picture of the guests at the table, ' and then that was the last shot he was going to make with it ’ that night. “Anybody that knew the photographer and knew cameras could be pretty certain of that, so that was the camera in which to hide the jade IdoL "So some woman who wanted that idol used Lionel Palmer as i a cat’s-paw to get the chestnut out of the fire for her. Then she intended to come drifting into Palmer’s studio. She watches for an opportunity, opens the back of the camera, slips out the Idol and that’s that” "What about the cotton?” Bertha asked. “That's what makes me think the photographer didn’t do it” ‘‘Go on,” Bertha said. "The cotton was just pushed in there loose. Loose threads of cotton can stick to the inside of a camera and raise merry hell with photographs. A photographer might have put a soft cloth inside the camera, but he wouldn’t have been apt to have packed the idol in loose cotton and then put it in the camera.” Bertha’s greedy little eyes lit up. "Look,” she said, "I’ve got an idea. Tell him that for the moment you can’t tell him where you recovered the idol because you’re working on it to try and fix the responsibility. That’ll give us four or five days’ more work. You can hang around that photographer’s studio and see who comes in.” “I couldn’t hang around that obnoxious guy for a week without killing him," I told her. "Then FH Cultivate him," Bertha announced. I shook my head and said, "You’re all wet, Bertha. The thing to do is to put the cards on the table with Crockett, make a quick turn on the thing, and then if he wants any additional information about Lionel Palmer, he’ll give us the job of finding out" Bertha sighed wearily. “Arguing with you," she said, “is as bad as trying to argue with the calendar. Get out of here and do it your way.” (Continued Tomomtoi

Paddlewheel Satellite To Be Launched WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States plans to launch a “Paddlewheel” satellite from Cape Canaveral, Bia., around Aug. 7 to test feasibility of using solar power to operate radio equipment aboard space probes to be fired later at the planet Venus. Reliable sources said today that if the Paddlewheel shot is successful that National Aeronautics and Space Administration also plans: —To launch a 375 pound-pay-load toward the moon in early October with the hope that it will go into a lunar orbit. —To fire a deep space probe in November into a trajectory which would take it to the vicinity of Venus if the planet were in a favorable position. Actually, Venus won’t be in shooting distance of the earth again until 1961. Scientists In England Disclosure of these plans followed a report in London that U. 1 S. scientists are at Britain’s big Jodrel Bank radio station for an I attempt to put a rocket in orbit around the moon “between Aug. 1 and 10.” » This report is wrong, it was . learned. The Americans are at [ Jodrell Bank to help track the Paddlewheel satellite. Other ma- [ jor tracking stations for this shot t are at Cape Canaveral, Hawaii, and Singapore, with Goldstone in ' California and the Millstone Hill ’ station in New Hampshire assist- ’ ing. NASA had planned td launch t the Paddlewheel in an advance i of a Venus probe scheduled for last month when the bright planet f wai in a favorable position. Tech- • nical difficulties forced postpone- > ment of the Venus shot until 1961, and the Paddlewheel experiment . also was held up. The paddlewheel satellite will , be launched into the fattest orbit yet attempted. If all goes well , it will extend about 20,000 miles from the earth at its farthest reach and will come within 150 ‘ miles at its closest approach. Use Three-Stage Rocket, The satellite will be launched by a three-stage rocket consisting 1 of an Air Force Thor booster with second and third stages developed from the Navy Vanguard rocket. The satellite’s elongated orbit will enable it to make repeated samplings of the so-called Van Alen radiation belts around the earth and provide new data on their intensity and extent. The payload will weigh about 140 pounds. Once the rocket is free of the earth’s atmosphere during firing of die second stage, a plastic sheath covering a 29inch sphere will be jettisoned. Four arms, each about 3 feet long, will be folded under the sphere like a duck’s wings until the plastic jacket is removed. They will then spring out, each pointing in a different direction, and lock in position. Instead of storing its data on magnetic tape, as has been done in several other satellites, this one will use memory units built around tiny transistors similar to the memory units of some electronic computers. O O Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE | O 0 Costume Jewelry If your costume jewelry and bracelets are discoloring your skin, you can avoid this annoyance if you will simply coat the surfaces in question with some colorless fingernail polish. Ice Cube Trays One easy way to prevent that pet annoyance of sticking ice-cube trays, is to give the bottoms of your trays a good coating with ordinary floor wax.

Feed Your Pastures! NOW Is The Time To Improve Yoor Pasture Because. .. 1- More Time Available To Do The Job. — 2. Soil Is Most Receptive To Plamt Food. ✓ 3. Improves Winter Hardiness. 4. Steps up yield of grams when it Is most needed. 5. Improves the feeding quality of hay and pastures. SEE YOUR ... ’ • < ADAMS COUNTY FARM BUREAU COOPERATIVE ... SOON BERNE-MONROE-PLEASANT MILLS—WILLIAMS—GENEVA

Scattered Rain To Continue In Slate United Press International A pattern of scattered rain which has hung over Hoosierland the past 10 days will continue most of this week, indications were today. The five-day outlook for the period ending Saturday called for an inch of precipitation—considerably more in some areas — mostly about the middle of the week. Lafayette and Indianapolis reported light showers this morning, and more rain was predicted today for all portions of the state. Although weekend precipitation was generally light, Indianapolis measured .27 of an inch in the 24-hour period which ended this morning. Near-normal temperatures were predicted in the extended outlook, which means tht high will range from tile lower 80s north to the low 90s south, the lows from 60 to the low 70s. Evansville reported a high of 90 Sunday, but the maximum did not get past 79 at South Bend. Overnight readings ranged from a humid 71 at Evansville I ■■MMk

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