Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1959 — Page 10

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Entered gt the D«««tur, led., Port Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. - ------President John O. Heller —,— Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer SubacriptiM Bates By Mail la Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, MOO; Six months, $4.88; 3 months, 12.25. By Maa, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: Ono year, $9 00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carirer. 30 cents per week. Single copies, 8 cents. Icy Roads With Christinas less than 10 days away, all who drive should keep in mind the dangers approaching from icy roads. Especially the first-year drivers, who have not yet braved an Indiana winter on the highway, should be especially careful. Chains and snow tires are good to have, but they do not protect you on an icy road. The ice clogs the chains and treads, and soon the tire surface is as slick as the ice itself. Slow driving on icy roads is the only safe answer. Most smart drivers go on the highway only when necessary during cold weather. Snow times hides the treacherous icy surface. Another good thing to remember—gravel country roads can be just as slick and dangerous as the paved highways. Every year Adams county has one or two fatalities about this time from icy roads. Let’s keep our minds alert, and slow down when road safety is limited. • « • • Lighting Contest For the first time in several years a city-wide outdoor Christmas home lighting and decoration contest will be held. Every home in town is eligible for the SIOO government bond first prize. The city will then be divided into districts, each of which will receive a $25 bond first prize. Stratton Place and Homestead will also have district contests with cash prizes. ' v Last year there were some beautifully decorated homes in Decatur. Many will be long remembered. We hope that Decatur will be the most beautifully decorated city in this area. If it is, motorists will drive from miles to admire the city. Starting soon, judging blanks, giving your address, will run in the newspaper: 'this will allow the judges to know in advance where the homes are located that want to take part in the contest. .- Os course the major purpose of the contest is to draw people closer together within the city, so that all of us can realize that by joining togeher in decorating our homes we are each helping to build a better place in which we all live. And if others wjio come here to visit, catch our spirit, and feel that Decatur is a good place to live and trade, then the Christmas contest will have a richer meaning for all of us.

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WANE-TV Channel IB WEDNESDAY jijO— Tom*Cale* berg News I:4s—Doug Edwards-News 7:oo—Sea Hunt 7:10 —The Unetnt B:JO— Mob Into Space »:00 —The Millionaire 9:3o—l’ve Got A Secret 10:00—U.8. Steel Hour 11:00—Phil Wilson New* s - prt,c w&. 1 >« B:ls—Oaptai •’Kangaroo 9:oo—Morning Playhouse 10:00— Red Rowe Show 10:30 —On The Go 11:00—1 Dove Lucy 11:30—December Bride dtteraeaa 12:00—Love of Life 12:JO—Search For Tomorrow 12:45—Guiding Light I:oo—Ann Colone Show I:2s—News 1:10—Ae The World Turns 2:00 —For Better or Worse 2:3o—Houseparty I:oo—The Millionare J:3o—Verdict la ToiUW 4:oo—Brighter Day 4:ls—Secret Storm 4:lo—Edge Os Night s:oo—Dance Date Eveaiag 4:oo—Amos & Andy 4:lo—Tom Calenberg News 0:45— Doug Bdwarde-News 7:oo—Highway Patrol 7:30 —To Tell The Truth B:oo—Betty Hutton B:lo—Johnny Ringo 9:oo—Zane Gray Theater 9:lo—Revelon Party 11:00—Phil Wilson News 11:15—Penny Serenade WKM-TV Channel 33 WEDNESDAY evening 4:60— Gatesway te Sports 4:ls—News Jack Gray 4:2s—The Weatherman B:lo—Yesterday's Newsreels 4:4s—Huntley-Brinkley Report 7:oo—MacKensie’s Raiders 7:lo—Wagon Train B:39—The Price In Right 9:oo—Perry Como Show 10:00—This Is Your Life 10:10—Wichita Town 11,00—News and Weather IHls—Sports Today 11:20—Jack Parr Show THVMSVAY Classroom 7:oo—Today 9:oo—Ding Doug School o:29—Cartoon Express

9:4s—The Editor’s Desk 9:ss—Faith To Live By 18:00—Dough Ro Ml 10:30 —Play Your Hunch, 11:00 —Price Is Right 11:10 —Concentration t I’tereoea k :00—News and Weather :15—Farms and Farming :10— It Could Be You ;00—Truth Or Consequences :10—Burns and Allen Show :00—Queen For A Day :10—The Thin Man :00 —Young Dr. Malone :10—From These Roofs :00—House on High Street :30—Santa Clause :00—Bozo „ s:3s—Road Conditions Report B to Sports B:ls—News Jack Gray B:2s—The Weatherman 4:30— Yesterday’s Newsreel 1:45 —Huntley-Brinkley Report 7:oo—Jeff’s Collie 7:10 —Law of the Plainsman 8:00 —Bat Masterson 8:80 —Staccato 9:09 —Bachelor Father 9:lo—Tennessee Ernie Ford 10:00 —You Bet Your Life 10:10 —Manhunt 11:00 —News and Weather 11:20—Jack^Par'r' Show WPTA-TV Channel 21 WEDNESDAY Evening 4:oo—Fun N Stgff 4:10 —Anne Oakley 7:oo—Shirley Temple B:lo—Oxsie and Harriet 9:oo—Hawaiian Eye 10:00— Fights . 10:45—Sports Desk 11:00—Hunt The Man Down TBL'ESDA* Masßißg . ‘ ' 10:30—Susie 11:00—Newp.., -- ■ Afteraeea 12:00—Restless Gun 11:30 —Love That Bob I:9o—Music Bingo I:3o—Mr. D-A. 2:oo—Day in Court 2:lo—Gale Storm 3:oo—Beat the Clock 1:10—who De You Trust 4:oo—American Bandatand s:oo—Little Rascals Clubhouse s:lo—Rocky and his Friends *4*o9—fun *N Stuff , 4:10— Huckelberry Hound 7:oo—Fun ’N Stuff 7:ls—Tom Atkins Reporting 7:10 —Gale Storm S:00 —Donna Reed :30—The Real McCoys 9:oo—Pat Boone 9:30 —The Untouchables 110:10 —Rock Island Trail 112:00—Sherlock Holmes

KBv w ROYAL FUN The sport of queens and princesses seems to be equally divided between horses and boats, judging from this newly released photograph of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and nine-year-old Princess Anne. In riding outfits, mother and daughter relax beside the lake at Frogmore, near Windsor Castle. The royal family’s pet pooch, a corgi named “Sugar, gets into the picture at lower right.

Smell-O-Vision j Premiere Jan. 8 By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent 8 HOLLYWOOD (UPI) —Smellies are upon us! There are some who say they’ve always zeen with us. But Michael Todd Jr. has his first SmeU-wo-Vision movie, “Scent of Mystery,” ready for its premiere Jan. 8. Another scented movie process, Aromarama, currently is being shown in New York, Though Todd denies the famed .Stock at-ds .had any thing to eo with it, Mike has chosen Chicago for. the debut of his odoriferous flicker. In Hollywood to make last minute preparations for the big event, Todd said audiences will be treated to scroes of various aromas during the course of the picture. “We’re not trying to revolutionize the movie business,” he said, somewhat sheepishly. “I want to give the public an evening of unusual entertainment. Something they will enjoy.” Olafactory Delights According to Todd they will enjoy such olafactory delights as garlic, wood shavings, pipe tobacco; shoe polish, steam engine smoke and, of all things, horses. Other scents floating through the theater will be roses, peaches, bread, bananas, wine, perfume and coffee. “In one scene we deliver three different smells within 30 seconds,” Todd went on "All together there are 50 smells integrated into the pictures.” Does Mike fear a field day for critics who could make obvious observations about how Smell-O-Vision really smells as entertainment? ... “I’m not worried," he said. “We're inviting that sort of thing. We want to have some fun with the entire project.’’ Fun Is Expensive Mike’s idea of fun comes high. He spent more thaii 2 million dollars on “Scent of Mystery"

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and 3 1-2 months shooting it in Spain. The cast stars Peter Lorre (and Paul Lueas. Elizabeth Taylor. who was married to his late father, makes a brief appearance in the film — probably because she owns a percentage of the pic--ture. Eventually, Mike hopes to open the picture in some 30 theaters in the United States and Canada, although it costs him $25 per seat to install Smell-O-Visioa equipment in popcorn palaces. “This may be the only picture of its kind to be made,” Mike concluded. I’ll see how this one is accepted before I try to film any others. “If it’s a success I think I’ll have a go at a comedy-myste have a g«r at*a comedy-mystery. You can get a lot of laughs with this gimmick.” Druggist In Small Town Has Problems - Editor’s Note: The small town druggist has his problems, too, in the pricing of pharmaceutical problems. In the following dispatch a neighborhood druggist reports that whatever the price of prescription drugs, he still has to sell “just about everything except groceries” to stay in the pharmaceutical business. • i By BOYD GILL United Press International EDINBURG, Ind. (UPD-Pres-ton Schaffer, a small town druggist, said today that m6st small drug stores probably don’t make enough profit from prescriptions to pay the salaries of their registered pharmacists. Schaffer, 47, operator of one of the two drug stores in this town of 4,000 population, said druggists do ! make a- larger percentage of profit from prescriptions than from patent medicines and sundries. “But,” he added, “to dispense prescriptions you have to have a registered pharmacist on duty at a salary of $125 to $l5O a week.

You can take anyone off the street to sell the other items in your store." Schaffer, a former Indiana state legislator who has been associated with the drug business here since he was in high school, said the average retail prescription drug markup is 40 per cent compared with 30 per cent for other items in the store. “It takes time and care by a specialist to fill prescriptions," Schaffer said. “You. have to have a larger markup on drugs to cover the pharmacist’s time and packaging. • Anything else in the store, you just pick up off a shelf and hand to the customer.” Schaffet said most druggists e>4cept those specializing .in prescriptions "have Had to branch ouf in other lines to make enough profit to stay in business. “We sell just about everything except groceries,” he said. Schaffer said his store has an inventory of about 2,500 drugs, and he has a lot of money tied up in them- He said one of the reasons why the number of drugs is so large is that stores must stock the same or similar drugs produced by various manufacturers. “One company will put out a tablet, and soon the others will put out similar tablets under different trade names. You have to stock all of them to fill prescriptions issued by many different doctors.” House Plants When watering house plants, it is better to use warm water rather than cold. Cold water can shock some plants to the extent that the roots are damaged and growth is retarded.. Piano Keys Change your piano keys from yellow to white by rubbing them with a cloth dipped in cologne water. Don’t touch the black keys!

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EDITOR’S NOTEi This .is the Jaat of three background dispatches on the birth control controversy. It reports on research efforts to find new techniques suitable for use in underdeveloped countries. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD *— The standard contraceptive devices prescribed by U. S. physicians are safe and effective. But they are not well suited to mass use in underdeveoped countries where the “population explosion” is having its greatest impact. For years, researchers have been trying to develop a cheap, safe, reliable “birth control pill” which could be used in countries where widespread illiteracy, lack of sanitary facilities and native taboos preclude general acceptance of standard contraceptives. Several promising leads have been found. One is a group of synthetic hormones called the 19-Norster-oids, which have been investigated by Dr. John Rock, professor emeritus of gynecology at Harvard, and Dr. Gregory Pincus, of the Worcester (Mass.) Foundation so Experimental BiologyI Field trials in Puerto Rico and Haiti since 1956 have indicated that these compounds are highly effective in inhibiting ovulation—and hence preventing pregnancy — among women who take one pill a day from the sth to the 25th days of their menstrual cycles. No Permanent Sterility The tests so far have covered about 1,000 “woman-years” of experience. Judging by the pre-med-ication birth rate among the woman concerned, there should have been at least 610 pregnancies in the group during this period. Actually, there have been only 18, and 17 of these occurred among women who admitted “skipping” the pills for several days. The pills do not cause permanent sterility. A few days after women quit taking them, normal ovulation resumes. Some of the patients have reported unpleasant side effects — nausea, headaches, cramps and irregular bleeding. The researchers believe these are primarily psychological in origin, and tend to disappear ’ wittf continued use bf the JHllSi A major drawback at present is cost —about 55 cents per pill. This problem might be solved through mass production. Another question is whether some adverse effect may result from long continued use of the pills. There has been no indication so far that such 1 will happen, but only time and careful testing can make sure. Experiments In India Another chemical compound known as Mer-25 is being investigated by scientists at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. Instead of inhibiting pvulation, this compound acts in the fallopian tubes to prevent a fertilized egg from descending normally to the womb. It has worked extremely well in animal tests. Its theoretical advantage for human use would be that it need not be taken before sexual relations; if taken within a day or two afterwards, it would cause what might be described as a very early abortion of the fertilized egg. A third compound, extracted

from common garden peas, has been tested by Dr- S. N. Sanyal of Calcutta, India, who claims that it is at least 50 per cent effective as a contraceptive. This pill has to be taken only twice a month. Western scientists who have tested it have not been able to duplicate Dr. Sanyal’s results. But the Indian government is considering mass field trials. Researchers also have tested a group of drugs called nitrofurans which inhibit sperm production in men. Results to date indicate that they have side effects, including drastic loss of male potency, which would quickly alienate users. Research is also attempting to make reliable the “rhythm” system of birth control approved by the Catholic church. This system depends on avoiding sex relations during the period immediately before and after ovulation. The only time when conception can take place. 72-Hour Period Although this ‘‘pregnable period” is relatively brief —about 72 hours — it is notoriously hard to pinpoint, and tends to shift unpredictably as a result of illness, emotion or exercise. Two lines of research are being pursued. One seeks a drug or compound which would “stabilize" the time of ovulation. The other seeks a simple and reliable test which will tell when a woman is preparing to ovulate. Some progress is reported on both problems, but neither Jias been fully solved so far. Very little money is being spent on birth control research. A few private foundations are supporting a few scattered projects- The governments of the United States and other major Western nations have shied away from the whole subject, fearing involvement in religious controversy.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950

20 Years Ago Today o Dec. 16, 1939—Severin H. Schurger of Decatur, has been elected president of the senior class at the Indiana Univeratty law school at Indianapolis. W A. Klepper, of this city, was among the guests at the annual dinner of the Indiana Socitey of Chicago, held at the Palmer hotel in that city. , The Decatur high school science club has been organized, with Dick Hammond as the first president. Other officers are Peggy Gaunt, vice president; Flossie Stainer, secretary, and Harry Massonee, treasurer. _ The Civic section of the Decatur Woman’s club held its annual Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Ray Stingely. Adams county high school basketball results: Berne 32, Yellow Jackets 28; Delphos St. John’s 29, Commodores 27; Hartford 26, Geneva 22; Pleasant Mills 35, Kirkland 28; Monroeville 37, Monroe 32; Jefferson 21, Poling 20. Furniture Polish A good formula for a homemade furniture polish consists of equal parts of kettle-boiled linseed oil, turpentine, and vinegar. Rub on all that the wood will absorb, then rub off the surplus with a clean cloth. Rub dry, and polish with a chamois or soft woolen cloth without lint.

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