Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By 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 Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six moi ths, $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, W. 00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 month’. $2.50. By Carrier, 30c cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents. Our City During the past week county auditors all over the state have prepared the final form of the 1960 assessments, giving each taxing unit some idea of its growth. Also, these same taxing units have been busy preparing their budgets for next year. Five cities, including Decatur, in this area, have already announced their assessment gains or losses. These are good indications of the growth of the community. Here is a comparison: Decatur up $645,750 to $11,928,600 Blufftonup $303,490 to $ 6,840,800 Kendallvilleup $113,380 to $10,007,785 Columbia City up $ 29,820 to $ 6,610,150 Portlanddown $ 80,000 to $ 7,979,800 Decatur’s tax rate for the past three years has been kept relatively low. This year it is $1.43. The city administration will shortly announce the new budget and tax rate, and it is expected to be fairly close to this year’s. The following breakdown shows the Decatur tax rate for the past seven years. This year’s rate will be announced soon, probably next week. 1952- $1.52 1956-57 $1.36 1953- 1.61 1957-58 1.46 1954- 1.54 1958-59 1.43 1955- —1.39 1959-60 ???? It is quite obvious that Decatur is growing—the population estimate based on assessments shows that it now has an 8,200 population within the corporate limits. Its value increased tremendously this year, representing two-thirds of the economic growth of the county. One good reason for this is the obvious effort of the city administration to keep the tax rate as low as possible. This is obvious from the above figures. Columbia City announced this week that its rate will remain the same as last year—sl.6s. Huntington’s rate last year was $1.49. Bluffton’s was $1.95. It is no wonder that Decatur is a growing city. With water resources presently developed to take care of a new large industry, with both electric and gas potential, with a sewage system and a sewage treatment plant, with good fire protection, good schools, excellent parochial schools, fine churches, and a spirit of dynamic energy, Decatur is just now finding itself.

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Urges Encouraging Child's Creativity By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI) -r Junior’s strokes across the wallpaper are the strokes of creative talent. So encourage the child's creativity—don’t “cripple’’ it—even as you mop up signs of small artist at work. “The best art materials are the messiest,” said Dr. Howard Conant, re-affirming what every mother knows. Conant, a native of Wisconsin and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, is an abstractionist who works in oils, has two children following in father's artistic footsteps, is chairman of art education at New York University, and director of the newly-organ-ized Children's Creative Art Foundation. Lest he be misunderstood, Conant does not advocate the use of walls as easels. Rather, he believes the walls and floors will escape if a child is given a place of his own for painting, with the materials always at hand —in his room, the den, the basement playroom. Even turn him loose in a warmed bathtub. “The bathtub is practical,” said Conant, “because you can wash the child and the spilled colors at the same time’. “But we’ve never had any trouble with our children and walls, because they have a place of their own to paint. They work right alongside me in the basement studio.’ Conant lives with his wife. <a non-painter), a boy of four and a girl of 12, at New Rochelle, N.Y. "The important thing we’re trying to get across is this: Let the children create,” said Conant. The foundation, privately financed, works with both parents and teachers. Because he believes that expression of childish imagination should not be crippled, he opposed parents purchasing "stereotyped” art materials—these, he said, include those painting-by-numbers sets, the coloring books, the drawing books which encourage a child to trace the wol-k of others. Conant argues that these leave no room for a child's own ability. “Children possess art ability as a birthright, and with the proper guidance it can be developed,” he S 3 id He believes parents should encourage creatively as soon as a child can and wants to hold a i brush or squeeze modeling clay— j (

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CHAPTER 13 AT NINE-THIRTY in the morning I rang up Dean Crockett's place. The well-modulated tones of Melvin Otis Olney came over the phone. "Who is this taking, please?” “Donald Lam,” I said. “Oh, yes, Mr. Lam.” "I recovered the missing blowgun.” “You what!” he shouted into the telephone. “Recovered the missing blowi gun. Didn’t Mrs. Crockett tell you?” “I haven’t seen Mrs. Crockett” "Well, 1 recovered it and left it with her." His tone was coldly format “I am afraid you shouldn’t have done that The property should have been returned to Dean Crockett" 1 didn’t like the dignified manner in which he tried to rebuke me. “Crockett, was closeted in his hibernating room. He wouldn’t come out He has no telephone in there; no one else was home, and so I left it with Mrs. Crockett What’s wrong with that? It’s community property, isn’t it?” “I—Yes, I suppose so.” “Okay, 1 left it with her. Now I have the Jade Buddha. What do I do with that?” "You have what?" "1 have the Jade Buddha,” I told him. “What’s the matter with your connection? Can’t you hear?” "My ears hear,” Olney said, “but it’s hard for me to believe what they hear. I —Well, Lam, this is incredible.” “What’s incredible about it?” “Recovering both articles like that” A “That’s what we were hired for, isn’t it?” "Yes, 1 know, but . . . and in such a short time. It’s absolutely, utterly incredible. Mr. Crockett simply won’t believe his ears when 1 tell him.” “Well, perhaps he’ll believe his eyes when he sees the Jade statue. Now, what do I do about delivering this Jade Buddha?" “You come right up with it" A “Wait • minute." I said. “I’d better talk with Mr. Crockett himself. You didn’t like the idea of me leaving the blowgun with Mrs. Crockett and, unlebs Crockett is there—” "He’s here.” "In circulation?" "He will be. He told me to be here at nine o'clock, prepared to discuss a matter with him, and he wanted his secretary here, prepared to transcribe some records that he has been dictating.” "Re’s there ?” “1 tell you, he will be by the

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nine months to a year. And even tots can be trusted with paints, “if mother will be patient enough to clean up later.” Western Horse Show Entries Due Saturday All entries tor the all western horse show, scheduled for September 2 and 3 at the Indiana state fair, close August 1. Since entries must be postmarked not later than the Ist of August entry can be assured by call-j ing the horse department, state fair, at WA. 5-2576, or send a telegram to the department listing entries. Over 2,500 Dally Democrats ar* sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

time you get here. Come on up.” “I’ll be there in about twenty minutes.” “Very well. We’ll be expecting you.” I got in the battered-up agency heap and drove up to the apartment house. This time it wasn’t necessary for me to be announced. They treated me at the front desk as though 1 had been an honored ’ guest with an engraved invitation and their job was to roll out the red carpet 1 “Good morning, Mr. Lam,” the clerk said, all smiles. "You’re going up to the Crockett penthouse. They’re expecting you. You know the way. Just take the elevator to the twentieth floor. 1 They’ll meet you with the ele--1 vator to the penthouse.” “Thanks," I said. I went on up to the twentieth floor, walked down to the door marked 20S, which, from the outside, looked exactly like the door 1 to any other apartment. The door ■ was unlocked. I opened this door and found myself in the anteroom. The concealed slide was open to show the telephone and a printed sign over the telephone saying, “Press button and pick up receiver." I pressed the button, picked up the receiver, and a man’s voice said, “Yes, who is it, please?” “Mr. Lam—Who is this? It isn’t Olney.” “No, sir, this is Wilbur C. Denton, Mr. Crockett’s secretary. I am sending the elevator down for you, Mr. Lam.” "Very well," I said. I hung up the telephone and waited. A minute or so later the elevator came down and I went on up. I wondered if I was being X-rayed. 1 presumed I was. I stepped out of the elevator, and a tall, droopy individual extended a limp hand. “I’m Mr. Denton, Mr. Crockett’s secretary, Mr. Lam. I’m glad to meet you.” I let go of the hand as soon as 1 could, and said, “Where’s Olney?" “Mr. Olney is on the tele--1 phone." “All right,Where’s Crockett?" "Mr. Croclcett will be here momentarily.” “What do I do? Sit down and wait?” “It wIU only be a moment, I'm certain. . . . Mr. Crockett is geti ting out A very important matter this morning and tisked me to be here in However, I know that Mr. Olney feels the nature of your business is so important, Mr. Crockett wouldn’t want anything to interfere with seeing you.”

0 11 1 ■ ■ "O 20 Years Ago Today o o July 31, 1939—The 38th semiannual term of the Reppert school of auctioneering will open Aug. 7, with more than 60 students expected to enroll The 26th annual Borne reunion was held at Sunset park, with 115 family members and guests present. The annual homecoming for for--1 mer residents of the town will be ' held at Willshire, 0., Aug. 6. Huge crowd attends opening night festivities of the Decatur free street fair. Charles Allen, 70-year-old eccentric, who killed a Kentucky police chief and wounded nine other men, } surrendered voluntarily.

Denton smiled a watered-down version of Olney’s cordial manner and led the way into a part of the house I hadn’t been in before. It was a room fixed up as a transcribing office, with an ’electric typewriter, a transcribing machine, some filing cases and four or five fairly comfortable chairs. ’■Just have a seat," he said. “I’ll go right on with my work, if you don't mind.” “I don’t mind.” Denton fitted earplugs into his ears, held his long, bony fingers poised over the keyboard of the typewriter for a moment, and then came down on the keyboard like a piano player putting on a speed exhibition. 1 sat there and watched him, absolutely fascinated. The staccato of the keys was broken only by the tinkle of the bell as the carriage reached the end of its run. The door opened, and Melvin Otis Olney came in, all in smiles and diffusive cordiality. “Well, well, Lam,” he exclaimed. “The demon detective—you’ve certainly hung up a record for efficiency, speed of operation and satisfactory services. How are you?” He grabbed my right hand and pumped it up and down. His left hand was patting my back. Denton never looked up from his work, his eyes watching the typing, his fingers banging the keyboard. “You’ve met Denton?” Olney asked. “I’ve met him.” —• •■Weil, come on in. Mr. Crockett wants to see you.” He led me through the office into a private office and tapped gently on a door at the back of the private office. It looked like a closet door. There was no answer and he knocked again. When there was still no answer, he pressed a bell button, an ingeniously concealed button somewhere in the wait Even watching him, I couldn’t see where the button was. It was i a cunningly contrived bit of inlay that could probably have been found with a magnifying glass, but if a person didn’t know where it was, he certainly couldn’t put his thumb on it. I only knew it was there because 1 heard the sound of muted chimes as he pushed his thumb. Olney looked at his wrist watch and said under his breath, “That’s strange.” Murder strikes tn the Crock- * ett apartment as “The Count of Nine” continues tomorrow.

Arrest Woman For Slaying Os Husband TERRE HAUTE. Ind. (UP!)—A man was shot to death in his sleep early today and his wife was arrested in connection with the slaying. The dead man was identified by Vigo County Sheriff Herbert Beasley as Jess Roddy. 47, a welder, who lived seven miles north of here. His wife Helen, 43, called Terre Haute police and told them she wanted to-“report a murder” at her home. .The call was transferred to the sheriff, who raced to the Roddy home and was met by the wife. Authorities said she verbally admitted firing a .22 caliber rifle slug through her husband’s head while he slept. Friends of the family said the couple had been “having trouble for about two years,” and quarreled frequently. They have one daughter, Mrs. Barbara Jean Chandler, 25, who is married and lives at R.R. 7, Terre Haute. Roddy was dead on arrival at Union Hospital. He had been employed for many years by the Public Service Company of Indiana, but tok a job at Springfield, 111., during the recent utility strike. The shooting occurred after he had returned from work at Springfield. f Two Speeders Are Arrested Thursday City police arrested a speeding driver Thursday and he will appear in justice of the peace court Sunday at 3 p.m. A second driver pleaded guilty in justice of the peace court yesterday, paying a $1 and costs fine for speeding in Preble. He was arrested by the state police. Robert D. Doherty, of Bluffton, was stopped by city police for driving 50 miles an hour in a 30-zone Thursday on North 13th street. Lloyd B. Lister, of Lafayette, 40, was stopped by state trooper on U. S. 224 in Preble for driving 47 in a 30-zone. He paid the fine in court Thursday at 7:30 p.m., shortly after his arrest.

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COURT NEWS Real Estate Transfers Brice Bauserman, executor, to Karl E. Kauffman etux, 79 acres in Jefferson TP- $18,170. Lydia Liechty to Robert W. Sauder etux, land in Hartford Tp. Henry W. Schug etux to John D. Bluhm, etux, N% inlots 83 & 84 in Berne. Frederick L. Kirsch etux to Henry W. Schug etux, inlot 844 in Berne. Wayne E. Reusser etal to Artie 0. Kiefer etux, inlot 883 in Berne. Rolland R. Ryf etal to Herman D Ryf, 40 acres in Monroe Tp. Rolland R. Ryf etal to Herman D. Ryf. 40 acres in Jefferson Tp. Herman D. Ryf etux to Jean Kirchhofer, 40 acres in Monroe Tp. and 40 acres in Jefferson Tp. Jean Kirchhofer to Herman D. Ryf etux, 40 acres in Monroe Tp. and 40 acres in Jefferson Tp. Dale F. Schott etux to Richard V. Andrews etux, inlot 21 in Decatur. Leo F. Schultz etux to Richard C. Girod etux, inlot 7 in Decatur. Fichard C. Girod etux to Donald R. Moser etux, inlot 7 in Decatur. Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co. to Franklin Thomas Noll etux, parts inlots 224 & 225 in Decatur, $8,500. James M. Carnail. Admr., to Julius Brite etux, south part inlot 162 in Decatur $7,200. Albert Bieberich etux to Milton L. Hoffman etux, .81 acre in Preble Tp. Leo F. Schultz etux to Richard C. Girod etux, inlot 8 in Decatur. Richard C. Girod etux to Oscar F. Christianer etux, inlot 8 in Decatur. Trade in a woe* zowd — Decatil

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Firemen Called To Automobile Fire The Decatur fire department answered a call to the A&P food, store parking lot at 12:25 p.m. today, extinguishing a seat cushion fire in an automobile owned by Donald Gase, of 1621 Nuttman avenue. Fire department officials listed damage as slight as only two small holes resulted from the fire, apparently started by a cigarette. The call for the fire was received at the police department, who relayed it to the fire department. Pat Nelson, police radio operator, said that the firemen responded by arriving at the scene in just one minute and 40 seconds. MILNER HOTELS Ask for Ask for Th. Th. MILNER MILNER M 450" ’W • Modsra • The "850" Faraitaro has awr. • Freshly • Air Cm4Decorated Wooed Booms Rooms « • Now Walls. v | dM Wall Carpets # Free • Medora Til. morale, •atli paper • Cleaa • Complete Comfortabt. hotel Rooms sarvlca Price M-50 Price $5.50 For Th. Thrifty ECONOMY PRICES Writs now for yovr credit eord N.J. Daldla, Pres., MRa.r H.tili 35ft Rear, Book Tow.r Detroit, 34, Mich.