Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1959 — Page 4

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Interurbans A new book has just been published giving in detail the history of electric railroads, or interurbans as we know them, in Indiana. Probably the thing which first comes to mind to the old-timers about interurbans is the great Kingsland wreck. Kingsland is that small town located at the intersection of highways 224 and 1 just north of Bluffton. On September 21,1910, nearly 50 years ago, a southbound extra passed by a siding while running 10 minutes late and started around a curve, just as a northbound local, loaded down with fair-going passengers, came around the same curve. The resulting head-on collision, pictured in the book, took 42 lives. It also resulted in so many law suits and- damage claims that the company folded. No fewer than 11 lines were proposed in Adams county between 1900 and 1927. Only three -ever became operational. Non-operational lines included the Bluffton, Berne and Celina Traction Co., incorporated in 1908; Fort Wayne, Decatur and Southern, 1915; Fort Wayne and Southern, 1901; Geneva Traction Company, 1904; Interstate Traction Company, 1904; Marion and Eastern, 1904; Richmond, Portland and Fort Wayne, 1913; and the Wabash and Rochester, 1901. On June 30, 1903 the Fort Wayne and Springfield Railway Company was organized and capitalized for $300,000, later this was raised to $1,000,000 in 1910. The line began operations on February 2, 1907. , For 20 years Decatur was connected by interurban with Fort Wayne, and during the period when roads were practically non-existent, the electric railway provided valuable passenger service. \ A total of 22.85 miles of trackage was operated between the two cities. In 1910 passenger service was 201,935 fares, and freight cars miles were 22,380. Passenger service was half-hourly in 1914. Flood damage amounted to SII,OOO in 1913, less in 1914 and 1915. On February 15, 1916 the Fort Wayne and Decatur Traction company bought the assets of the old outfit at a receiver’s sale. The new company was capitalized at $200,000, and started operations on Feb. 25. It operated 10 rounds trips a day in 1917, with 23.97 miles of track. Better roads, private motor cars, buses, overcapitalization, experimental equipment—all resulted in the slow death of the electric railway. - • By 1920 service had dropped to 166,385 — and freights 22,441 freight miles. Service was .abend- - oned September 30,1927 For seven years, from February of 1910 to Nov. 22, 1917, an interurban, capitalized at $675,000, operated between Geneva and Bluffton, with four round trips daily. Needless to say, overcapitalization resulted in the end of the company in a short time. “Electric Railroads of Indiana,” with many illustrations and printed on fine paper, by Jerry Marlette, and a companion volume, “Abandoned Railroads of Bedford

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Storms Buffet Europe, Boost Holiday Toll t LONDON (UPD — Storms and gales buffeted Europe today from Scandinavia to Italy, adding to the Christmas weekend death toll of 248 lives in automobile accidents, avalanches and floods. France, with 71 holiday fatalities, headed the list of hard-hit nations. The death toll reached 40 in Britain, 29 in Italy, 22 in Austria and 20 in Germany. Dozens of other victims” died in holiday accidents. Gales swept Britain and the Automobile Assn, warned motorists to "exercise extreme caution, otherwise there is a danger of being turned over.” The winds | whipped up huge waves which \ swept a father and his 9-year-old son to their death at Bournemouth. A fisherman was drowned when a wave knocked him off the rocks at St. Ives, Cornwall. The 70 Inhabitants of the Scilly Isles just off the coast of Britain ; have been stormbound since | Christmas Eve and coast guard officials called their condition “ap-1 palling.” Heavy snow made driving haz- j ardous in Scandinavia and seven! persons were lolled in car accidents in Sweden. Snow set off avalanches in Austria which killed | three persons: another 18 died on the highways. Storms in northwestern Spain sent., rivers lowing their banks. Floods and highway accidents accounted for at least 10 deaths. In Italy, Florence police were searching for a hit-run driver-who killed three persons. In all, 22 ‘ persons died in road mishaps. In Germany, two trains collided Christmas Day, killing 1 person and injuring 18 others, 5 critically. Three other Germans were killed in Grenoble, France, in a car accident as they checked the route they would have taken in next month’s Monte Carlo automobile Grand Prix. Sixteen men were drowned off the coast of Greece when heavy seas swamped their vessel. An elderly woman was killed at Mirande, France, when incessant rains caused her house to collapse. The toll in Portugal was at least 16 ° Three persons were killed when two cars collided with a truck near flood-ravaged Frejus, France. Two persons were believed washed overboard from the Dutch coastal vessel Deo Gloria Sunday night. The captain reported the engineer and his wife missing after a high wave struck the ship’s stern. —n I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE I o Card-Display For your Christmas card display this year, try wrapping some wire coat hangers with red or green crepe paper, attaching three ribbon streamers to each of these, and then pinning your cards on these streamers. Paint on Hair Tinted hair may be very attractive, but hair spotted with paint is not. The paint can've removed with warm vinegar on a cloth. Then give yourself a shampoo to remove that pickle odor. Painting Tip Painting in corners can soon spoil a good brush—making the bristles shaggy. Keep an old paint brush handy for this purpose. Always use the flat side of the brush. Painting with the edges of the brush will soon spoil its shape. Miller Now Home Robert J. Miller has returned to Decatur after completing four years and three months with the , Marine Corps. Formerly a sergeant with the Marines, he received an honorable discharge November 30 at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and has returned io Decatur with his wife and son Steven. The Millers are presently residing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. . Elmo Miller, Homestead. ■k ■

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Political Mention For Two Hoosiers INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Rep Charles A. Halleck and Governor Handley were mentioned today as possible Republican vice-presiden-tial nominees following the renunciation of presidential aspirations by New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The two Hoosiers were seen as possibilities to run with VicePresidetit Richard M. Nixon, the GOP presidential front runner, for different reasons. Halleck won political acclaim nationally for his successful minority floor leadership during the recent congressional session. Handley has been given credit for being one of the first three governors to jump on the Nixon bandwagon. Incidentally, Halleck has never publicly committed himself in the presidential contest. Gates Sees Halleck All bets are off, however, if : Rockefeller decides to reconsider and. accept the nomination for vice-president, a bare possibility in the opinion of Republican state chairman Edwin Beaman. Former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, who is national committeeman, I said Halleck is a distinct possibility. Gates also predicted that’ I Nixon will be unopposed in the i national, convention “except for ’ some favorite-son candidates with ■ little strength.” "I have never doubted that Mr. Nixon would be nominated,” GovI ernor Handley said. “But the decision of Governor Rockefeller will insure that there will be no' bitter in the national conygntm,,ftad Vill brjn& a>ut party unity and make certain that Mr. Nixon will be he next man in the White House“Mr. Rockefeller’s decision was no surprise to me. I felt in past discussions with him that he might be playing for futures, lie is one of the top leaders in the party and I believe a national future yet lies before him. It is good to realize that he has decided to ‘go through the chairs’ gradually.” Trouble For Capehart However, Sen. Homer E. Capehart, State Sen. Roy Conrad, Monticello, and a handful of other Hoosier GOP leaders were left high and dry politically by the Rockefeller decision. Capehart was one of the first senators and Conrad a pioneer state senator to come out for the New Yorker for president. Capehart’s forlorn status on the presidential limb may encourage a movement on the part of his enemies in the Statehouse to deny him renomination in 1962, according to reports. Regardless of the decision for vice-president, if Nixon is nominated and elected, Handley will be named to a high post in Washington, according to a number of observers.

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Temperatures Due For Chilly Plunge United Press International Temperatures in Indiana plunged toward the chilly 20s today after setting records for unseasonable warmth. A storm which stirred up a blizzard in the central plains Sunday headed eastward and was due to bring a blast of cold air to Hoosierland today with the mercury dropping to the 20s by tonight or early Tuesday. Before the cold arrived, however, an all-time record high reading of 67 degrees was recorded in Indianapolis Sunday. It was the warmest temperature ever recorded in the capital on Dec. 27. breaking an old mark of 62 set in 1946. It was within two degrees of ; the highest temperature ever recorded in Indianapolis in December. High readings were recorded in other Hoosier cities, but the Indianapolis temperature was tops. Evansville had 66, Lafayette 62, Fort Wayne 60 and South Bend 58. Rain also marked the end of the Christmas holiday period. At Lafayette, the 24-hour total up to 7 a.m. today was 127 inches. Evansville had .81, Indianapolis .43, Fort Wayne .22 and South Bend .09. Overnight low readings ranged from 44 at Evansville to 51 at Fort Wayne. Today’s highs were expected to range from the 40s to the 50s before the colder weather sweeps eastward. Highs Tuesday will be in the 30s all around the state. The five-day outlook called for temperatures to average near normal highs of 28 to 45 and normal lows of 13 to 30. Only minor day-to-day changes were expected the rest of the week, and precipitation, if any, will be light confined to snow flurries in the north portion. COURT NEWS Estate Cases In the estate of Mary Kohler, the value is found to be $12,115.02. The probate of will and determination of inheritance tax only was filed in the Homer Steiner estate. In the estate of Jacob Meyer, a petition to distribute was filed along with the final report. In the Alice L. Barr estate, the inheritance tax appraiser's report was filed, showing the value subject to taxes at $4,500. Complaint Case A motion for a new trial was filed in the Embrey Tomato Co. vs Otho Lobenstein by the plaintiff on grounds that the previous finding of the court, which was in favor of the defendant, was not sustained by sufficient evidence and was contrary to law. Gallivan and Hamilton of Bluffton are the attorneys for the plaintiff, while H. R. McClenahan is the| defendant’s counsel. The first action was filed on March 1, 1965 following a motor vehicle accident, and a verdict was delivered Dec. 7, 1959 by Judge Myles F. Parrish. Quiet Title In the Howard Lee Habegger vs Henry Krichcamp and Eliza Krichcamp, et al, the plaintiff received the quiet title. Marriage Applications Harold Wayne Dick, 22, of route 4, Decatur, and Ina Elaine Woodruff, 18, of route 2, Geneva. Darrel Fred Linder, 39, Lima, 0., and Audrey M. Spearmock, 36, of Lima, O. Daniel N. Schwartz, 22, of route 2, Geneva, and Leah J. Neuenschwander, 18, of route 1, Berne. Clyde F. Perry, 35, Kenton, 0., and Patricia R. Papera, 38, of Decatur. Ronald Lee Albert, 39, of Lafayette, 0., and Viola Maie Furley, 35, of Lima, O. >

Buys Health Bond Help Fight TB ( Use Christmas Seals United Cereal Workers have voted purchase of a $lO health bond, officials of the Christmas seal compaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds announced today. All proceeds from the annual sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the “white plague.” o20 Years Ago I Today 0— Dec. 28, 1939—Daniel P. Bolds, 82, who served as Adams county treasurer 40 years ago, died at the Pythian home in Lafayette. The quota system for sugar was restored by President Roosevelt for 1940 under the 1937 sugar act. Dick Parrish, a junior at the Indiana University school of medicine at Indianapolis, is spending the holidays here. Forty-three students are enrolled in the Reppert school of auctioneering for the winter term of three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mills and son Dan, of Terre Haute, spent Christmas in Decatur. o -o I Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE | o o Q. How does a married woman’s manner of signing her name to a formal letter differ from her

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