Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1959 — Page 9

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(Editor’s note: This is another in a series of articles presented as a public service by the Adams county bar asociation. These articles are not intended to answer individual problems which require specific advice.) WELL-DRAWN WILL You may not be able to take it with you, but if you leave a will you will at least know who is going to spend it after you’re gone. The right to make a will is one of the oldest privileges afforded by society. In Egypt, documents resembling our wills have been found which were written 30 centuries before the birth of Christ. The essential characteristic of a will is that it operates only by reason of the death of the maker. The will disposes of property only after death. Up until death a per-

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son who has made a will has full control over his property and can do what he pleases with it. If a person dies without a will (intestate as it is called in law), the Indiana statute of descent and distribution prescribes how and to whom his property will be distributed. Under the statute, those nearest and dearest to the deceased person do not always receive the property. In the case where a person dies intestate without any heir or next of kin, the state of Indiana will be the beneficiary. The advantages of disposing of your property by will rather than allowing the statute to do it for you are extensive. The will insures that property will pass to the person you want, in the amount you desire. The person who will administer your estate

can be named by you. Estate and inheritance taxes can often be minimized and other savings may be gained. These are but a few of the many things which can be accomplished with a will. The will must be in writing and signed by the person making it. Unless the will is wholly in the handwriting of the maker, or testator as its maker is called, the signature must be made or acknowledged in the presence of at least two competent witnesses present at the same time. These witnesses must sign the will in the presence of the maker and in the presence of each other. Although an individual may write his own will just as he may fill his own teeth or amputate his own arm, do-it-yourself wills are extremely dangerous. Laymandrawn wills are responsible for a high percentage of the litigation over wills that have arisen in our courts. Such wills often cause the loss of the valuable advantages that are to be gained from having

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a properly planned and drafted will. They frequently produce results far different than those originally intended by the testator or maker. Excellent Buys In Meat This Week WASHINGTON (UPD—Shoppers can find excellent buys in pork, beef, lamb and poultry this weekend as a variety of foods continue to flow to market in good volume. In pork, first-rate values can be found in loins, hams, bacon, sausage and chops. And in beef, boneless chuck, round and rib roasts, steaks, stew and ground beef offer excellent price tags. Lambs are featured at numerous .markets, and poultry continues to favor the family food budget, with broiler-fryers, hens, and turkeys still plentiful. Eggs, cheeses, and other dairy products also continue choice

values. Vegetable bins offer a fairly good assortment of items, the best values being potatoes, sweet poatoes, onions, squash, tomatoes, carrot, cabbage, snap beans, cucumbers, celery, cauliflower and green peppers. In the fruit line, plentifuls representing good values ihclude apples of many varieties, avocados, pears, grapefruit, lemons and Valencia oranges. Fish in excellent supply include canned tuna, shrimp and fish sticks. In Hiding BALTIMORE, Vt. (UPD — The Democrats got one vote in this town last election and Sam Miller, executive director of the party in Vermont, would like to present a citation to whoever it was. But “I can’t find him,” said Miller. “I think he’s a bit shy.”

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TRUE. The fact that you sign for and accept an insured parcel does not mean that you forfeit the right to file a claim for indemnity for damage to your parcel. Accept the package, open it. and determine what has been damaged. Then take the damaged items together with the carton or wrapper containing the insured or C.O.D. endorsement to the post office, where a claim form may be completed and signed. If the damaged items can be repaired to your satisfaction, you will be paid the cost of repairs. Otherwise you may file a claim for the total value and the post office will retain the damaged articles. Indemnity for repairs or replacement cannot exceed the actual value of the parcel or the insurance coverage purchased by the fee paid by the sender. The maximum indemnity payable on insured or C. 0. D. mail is S2OO. Either the sender or the addressee may file a claim for indemnity on insured or C.O.D. matter lost, rifled, or damaged in the mails. 2. May I Insure a Valuable Letter? NO. Letters are first-class mail, and only third or fourth-class matter or airmail that contains third or fourth-class matter may be insured. First-class letters having intrinsic value should be sent by registered maiL as registry service provides not only maximum security but payment of indemnity in the event of loss, rifling, or damage. For answers to other questions about the postal service call Leo Kirsch at the Decatur post office. The largest monolith in the nation is Beacon Rock in the Columbia Rjver Gorge between Oregon and Washington. It stands more than 800 feet tall.

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Most Oul-Of-Area 1 Workers Leave Stale ’ INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Most < migrant and foreign workers who i came to Indiana to help with the Hoosier farm harvest will have ’ left the state by the weekend, the I Indiana Employment Security Di- i vision said today. The division’s weekly farm < labor bulletin listed 2,313 out-of- 1 area workers on hand by the end i of last week. I ‘‘Except for a few late fields, the 1959 tomato harvest is com- i plete,” the bulletin said. ‘‘The late vegetable harvest in northwest i part of the state is being rushed to avoid frost. Harvest of pota- i toes, onions and other muck crops 1 is about 75 per cent done. Some j shrtage of labor exists in muck 1 crop areas around Logansport.” 1 The'report said 15 workers are 1 needed for the potato harvest i around Logansport. The tomato harvest was finished in the South i Bend area and nearly over in the Lafayette area. Soybeans combining and seed corn picking was in progress in 1 the Anderson area. The tomato 1 harvest was expected to end this week in the Fort Wayne area. Indianapolis reported tomato picking ended Oct. 3 and the pumpkin harvest now in progress ‘‘with good yield.” Kokomo area farmers reported yields of tomatoes ranging from 12 to 20 tons per acre. Marion area said the range was 12 to 22 tons there. Muncie’s tomato harvest ends this week, New Castle’s too. Connersville reported the “season as a whole was disappointing after a good start.” More than 20 billion glass containers were manufactured in the United States in 1958.

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Prefers Jungle To Life In Big City NEW YORK (UPD—Put life in the jungle up against life in a metropolis, and Mrs. Nicole Maxwell will choose the jungle every time. jrt “There is no traffic to dodge in the jungle,” she said. "It is clean. Nobody expects you to be on time. In a city, if. you’re five minutes late, people fret. In a jungle, a month won’t make much difference.” “A jungle is even safer for a white woman than a white man,” she continued. “The natives aren't afraid I’ll carry off their wives.” Mrs. Maxwell, a slender woman in her middle years, knows both cities and jungles. She is the product of well-to-do pioneer stock a native of San Francisco, and a resident of New York when she lands from one of her jungle trips. “I don’t call them expeditions,” she said. “I just pack up and go.” She returned two weeks ago from her seventh, eighth or ninth trip to areas of the work! where civilzation is just a five syllable word the white man knows. “I’ve been probing jungles ever since Indochina before the war.” she said. “I’m not sure of the number of trips. I’d have to get out my notebooks and count up.” Her latest, which took 10 months was a medicinal plant-hunting expedition. by river boat and on foot, through jungle areas in Colombia, Pru and Ecuador. Much of the time was spent talking and trading with witch doctors or other medicine men of the Ticuna, Shimaco and Jivaro tribes. The latter, she said, are the headshrinkers. Mrs. Maxwell’s trip was sponsored by Chas. Pfizer and Co. Inc., the pharma’ceutical and chemical firm, which wanted her to investigate and bring back plant specimens, which the natives use to treat toothaches, to heal wounds, treat skin infections, take off weight, and stop bleeding. Pfizer scientists now will test them, with an eye to development of new medicinal drugs. Mrs. Maxwell travels alone except for an interpreter, whom she lines up locally, and for her bearers — natives who handle her equipment. Her usual travel costume consists of jeans, tennis shoes, heavy cotton stockings to protect her from gnats, and a big-brimmed straw hat with a higlf crown. “I stuff the crown with palm leaves,” she explained. “Works like airconditioning.” More than 10 million of the 65 million telephones in the U.S. are served by independent systems other than the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Sew in a Day Printed Pattern nW IL /tri If /sir Ir Kbl\ /MI Br i V i U ; ■ Vi*f‘ I* 13 r« * TTrU L d? 1 . SIZES , ■■■■■a 9104 10-20 Inf HlAMAM'lilksfM* Whip up this breezy beauty in less than a day! No fitting problems — just button shoulders, cinch waist with belt. Gay for work or play in flower-strewn cotton or silk. Tomorrow’s pattern: Half-size fashion. Printed Pattern 9104: Misses’ Sizes 10. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4t4 yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattren part. Easier, accurate. Send Thirty-five cents (coins) Send FIFTY CENTS (coins.) for this pattern—add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St.. New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER.