Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1961 — Page 11

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SEEING DOUBLE—Many schools across the nation are having doubling-up problems in i classes, but few have a situation like that at Morgan School in Montrose, Colo. Principal , Harold Kraus proudly poses with five seta of twins that are currently enrolled at the * school—all in the tot cadoi

SCHOOL REPORTER the pros and cons of having summer school sessions available. The greatest emphasis was given to driver’s training courses, since up to this time that is the only course that has been offered at Hoagland. The concensus of opinion of the panel members seem to indicate that having other courses also available during the summer months would be advantageous. The members of the panel were Sandy Hoile. Priscilla Perry, Barb Smith and Bob Bleeke. —H.H.S.—

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AUCTION FURNITURE, BUTCHERING EQUIPMENT, MISCELLANEOUS As I have sold my market and am moving out of town, I will sell at Public Auction at 512 S. 13th Bt., Decatur, Indiana, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 Commencing at 1:30 P. M. The following personal property, to-wit: Gas Cabinet-type Heater, like new; Large Space Gas Heater, sixroom size; Writing Desk and Chair; Player Piano; Bed; Dresser; Chest; Victrola and Records; Gas Stove; Kitchen Table; Floor and Table Lamps; Rockers and Chairs; Stands; Clock; Porch Glider with Cushions; Metal Lawn Chairs; Drapes; Blinds; New Metal Storm Window, by 67M; 12 Guage Repeater Shotgun, like new; 22 Rifle; 22 Pistol; Shells for Guns; Dishes; Hand Tools; Garden Hose; Lard Cans; Crocks; Post Auger; Lawn Mowers; HUSSMAN Mt HORSE COMPRESSOR FOR WALK-IN COOLER OR SHOW CASE, BOUGHT NEW, USED VERY SHORT TIME. Large Iron Kettle and Jacket; Lard Kettle and Jacket; Lard Press; Platform Scales; Meat Rail; Block and Tackle; Hooks: Lard Scoop; Antique Marble Wash Stand; Paint; Brooms; Saw; Hedge Trimmers; Nails; Large Roll of Leatherette; ®-Ft. Galvanized Water Tank; 50Gal. Oil Water Heater; and many other articles too numerous to mention. MRS. EARL SUDDUTH. Owner E. C. Doehrman, Auctioneer TERMS—CASH. Not Responsible in case of accident.

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Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee •— — Q. What does a girl at a big college prom do when she has "lost” her date in the mob? — — A. If the boy you’ve been dancing this particular dance with must hurry to the next girl on his program, don’t get panicky. Stand at the 'door until you are found by your date—don’t wander about searching for him. It is a good idea, incidentally, to avoid such mixups by pre-arranging a meeting place. Q. My boy friend has asked me to go to a wedding with him, to which I have not been invited. Is it proper for me to attend? A. If the wedding is in church, you may go without an invitation. But do not go to a reception following the wedding without an invitation. Q. I see a good number of people tipping their soup plates in order to scoop out the last bit of soup. Is this proper? A. Yes, if done properly. You tilt the plate gently away from you, using your spoon, of course, in the same direction. Q. I’m lefthanded and when dining out. I'll switch my coffee cup over to the left side of my plate so that I can drink it more easily with my left hand. Is this all right? A. Only if there’s plenty of room between you and your lefthand neighbor. For the sake of convenience, why not train yourself to eat "right-handed” as gracefully' and efficiently as you do “lefthanded.” Q. Is it all right for the Eridegroom’s mother to invite her friends to her son’s wedding? A. She must not do this herself. She may suggest the names to her son, and he passes them on to his fiancee, who does the mailing of invitations. Q. Is it necessary to have a train on a white satiri wedding dress? . ; A. This depends upon the formality of the wedding — and, of course, upon the bride’s wishes in the matter. Q. Is it expected that the bride put her wedding gifts on display? A. This is less often seen now.

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but it is still in good taste to exhibit them. Cards are removed from the gifts displayed, and gifts of like value are grouped together. Checks are recorded on proppedup cards reading, “Check, $50,” with the donor’s name omitted. Q I see more and more women shaking hands with men and other women upon being introduced. Is this now considered the proper thing? A. Although considered optional, I think it shows more sincere pleasure and warmth over a meeting or introduction when women do offer their hands. Q. I received a birthday card with a handkerchief included from a friend. I neglected to write her a note of thanks, and my husband says I’ve been rude. Is this so? A. I’m afraid so. One should always thank a donor of a gift, whether large or small. Q. When a person who is making an introduction fails to speak a name clearly, and it is important that you know the name, of whom do you ask that the name be repeated? A. Ask the person introduced, not the one who has made the introduction. Q. Is a soup bowl ever placed on the table without a plate or saucer under it? A. No, not anymore than you would place a coffee cup on the table without a saucer. A ptatte should be placed under a soup, cereal, or dessert bowl. Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Cleaning White Furs White furs can be cleaned very nicely with cornstarch or a 50-50 mixture of flour and salt, rubbed in and then shaken out again. However, in view of the fact that the man in your life isn’t very fond of white streaks on his black coat, be sure to shake every last bit of the powder out! Linoleum Luster One old-fashioned, harmless way to add luster to the linoleum, if you're not going to wax it, is to add a little sour milk to the rinse water when you wash the floor. Durable Shelf Paper Discarded window shades make good, durable, heavy-duty shelfcovering. Lipstick Economy When one of your lipsticks has worn down to a nub, dip out of the tube with a pin and save it until you've collected five or six. Melt the pieces together, pour the molten stuff back into the tube, let it cool in the refrigerator, and you’ll have a new lipstick. Vases If you are buying a vase that is to hold flowers choose one of a neutral shade, so that it will blend with any kind of flower. If it is to be used for decorative purposes buy one that is colorful as it takes the place of flowers. Dress Alteration If the old hem marks show after you’ve altered the length of a velvet dress, here’s how to get rid of them: Hold the affected areas over the spout of a steaming teakettle and, at the same time, spray alcohol on the marks with an atomizer. Before the velvet is quite dry brush it back and forth, with and against the nap, with a soft brush. This routine may have to be repeated for complete success.

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City Fights Back To Keep Industry

By BRUCE AGNEW United Press IntenattoMl BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (UPD— Some people had to sell apples to keep alive, but not Helen Balanda. THEY kept her on the job during the depression, even though they probably didn’t need her. THEY paid the doctor Mils for Epifanio Bevelacqua's mother through an illness that lasted 32 years. THEY did things for thousands of others, too, and in many cases for their fathers, grandfathers and gr ea t-grandfathers before them. So it is not hard to understand why the people of the “triple cities” — Binghamton and neighboring Johnson City and Endicott —refused to stand by idly when THEY suddenly had a fight on their hands. THEY in reality stands for just one thing in this hilly, wooded part of New York State —for the Endicott Johnson Corporation, second largest shoe manufacturer in the nation (the largest; International Shoe Co., of St. Louis). It has been managed for three generations by members of a single family, and folks speak of it simply as “E-J”. So when a big New York City company began buying up huge blocs of E-J stock early this month, people of the three cities took it as a serious threat by outsiders to end hometown control of E-J. And that meant war. This is the story of that fight, which E-J and the townspeople won last Thursday when President Albert A. List of Glen Alden Corp, announced the holding company will sell back the E-J stock it had been accumulating. The people of the triple cities are excited and proud of victory—and a little amazed, too. Certainly some of the fervor that went into the battle came from self-interest, from a fear the “outsiders” might shut down some of E-J’s 27 plants and wipe out jobs. But anyone who has talked to the townspeople can tell you that E-J was helped by an invisible asset that was never listed in the company’s annual report to stockholders. That asset was goodwill —a fantastic and even fanatic goodwill in the three cities toward a corporation whose policies have won it something between devoted affection and downright love. This was pretty much a stock market war, and it is very likely that many of the 130,000 citizens of the triple cities never fully understood the complicated strategy. But that didn’t stop factory workers, policemen, schoolteachers, small businessmen and evqn 13-year old Ed Wachtman from coming up with what was needed —money. They dug into savings accounts, cashed bonds, took out loans and pledged millions of dollars to buy stock in their company. Suddenly, E-J is more of their lives than it ever was before, and that is the way they want it. Most of E-J’s 27 plants are concentrated in the triple cities. They are small industrial complexes surrounded by houses that ridge the rolling hills. Even in the central business district of Binghamton, tree-covered hills without a building on them seem to be within easy walking distance. Fifteen thousand persons in the triple cities work at “E-J” plants —about a third of toe area’s total industrial employment. But Endicott Johnson and toe Johnson family have grown to mean much more than a paycheck or a boss. “My dad worked for E-J for 42 years. He’s retired now—He’s 78. E-J pays all his medical bills, everything. My mother, before she died, was sick for 32 years. E-J paid her medical expenses. I’m sure it was over $25,000.” That’s why Epifanio Bevelacqua, 40, of nearby Vestal, a leather cutter, bought nearly SBOO worth of stock—-25 shares. A World War I veteran remembered even further back. “You can’t imagine what it was like after World War I,” said H. Clair Sturdevant, 65. of Binghamton. “Men were starving, selling apples, standing in line at soup kitchens, everything else. But E-J was one of the few companies in the country that gave every soldier his job back when he got home.”

E-J also gave sls a week to dependents of employes who went off to fight. Sturdevant’s veterans of World War I barracks (666) put up S4OO for stock. Mrs. Helen Balanda, 61, who lives on North Arthur Ave., in Endicott, works at an E-J plant pushing leather through a machine that levels it to a uniform thickness. Her husband, Mike, works at an E-J tannery. Mrs. Balanda smiles a lot, and when she does her eyes crinkle behind her glasses. “In toe depression, everybody had work,” she recalled. “Maybe two, three days of work a week, but steady work. No layoffs.” During toe depression, George W. Johnson, son of toe company’s builder, also handed out free shoes to every child in toe triple cities. And if an unemployed man needed medical care, he got it. Helen and Mike Balanda put SI,OOO of their savings into stock. Endicott Johnson has given the triple cities parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, libraries and a golf course. It has built homes, and let workers buy them on long-term, low-interest loans. In 1920, its employes raised funds to build two stone arches at toe entrances to Johnson City and Endicott. Carved on the arches is: “home of the square deal.” In the first week of this year, all this was threatened. The Glen Alden Corp., a New York holding company which controls a wide range of companies, bought a large bloc of stock from an Endicott Johnson director and offered to buy additional stock at $30.50 a share. In toe triple cities, there was one conclusion — Glen Alden was trying to take over E-J. There were many fears — that Glen Alden would close the shoe company, which had lost money in 1960 for the first time in years; that Glen Alden would close some of toe plants; that it would discard pensions and benefits, and stop caring about the workers. Almost no one knew what to do. "They were all puzzled,” said Joe Christina, 50, of Endicott, a big-boned man with a lined, leathery face who has worked at Endicott Johnson since he was 16. “People didn’t know — they couldn’t understand how the Johnson family * didn’t have 51 per cent.” Christina and three other workers met with a lawyer, and. he suggested a petition to authorize the company to use $lO million out of the more than SSO million pension fund to buy stock. Monday morning, the start of the second week, toe four-man committee called a meeting of about 200 workers representing every plant. “They didn’t, even know what it was about," Christina said. “All they knew was we had to get out of this somehow. We told them if we can’t help ourselves, there’s nobody who can help us.” The 200 had questions toe fourman committee couldn't answer. So they telephoned Frank A. Johnson — 52-year-old grandson of founder George F. Johnson and the fourth of his family to run toe huge company — and asked him to come over and talk to them. Johnson came over, and with that appearance he began a hectic week that took him into every plant, to explain what was happening, to answer questions, and to tell his people why he felt his already-begun plans for modernizing, for new styles, for new sales techniques, promised a good future for the company. “I never asked them to buy stock,” said Johnson, a big lean man with thinning gray hair who runs instead of walks up the stairs to his second floor office tn toe original Endicott Johnson plant. . , “I wouldn't ask anyone to buy stock. That was their own idea-” But Johnson did tell them, “This is the worst thing ever to face Endicott Johnson.” And the workers, who call him “Young Frank” and shout hello to him on the street, believed him. While Johnson visited toe plants, the key task of masterminding the stock market campaign and organizing a drive to buy $5 million worth of stock was carried out in a small building in Endicott, across the street from an E-J recreation center. Wayne Cawley, tall, 43-year-old

owner of an electronics company, had organized the committee from the three Chambers of Commerce during that first confused week. He sat down behind Ms long wooden desk and began littering it with papers the following Monday, Jan. 9. Three phr-aes sat by Ms left hand, one a direct line to New York. They rang constantly. During the first two days, committee members made phone calls all over the country, asking Endicott Johnson stockholders to keep their shares and support the Johnson family. They placed ads in newspapers and on radio and television, and distributed thousands of campaign buttons reading, “All the way with E-J.” Children loved the campaign buttons. So did everyone else. With the aid of two Investment counselors from New York, they began buying E-J stock, slowly, and balancing to keep the price stable. In Elmira, N.Y., about 50 miles away, Joel Carroll, 60, heard about what was going on, and thought back bn Ms life in Binghamton before he moved away, 35 years ago. He picked up the phone and ordered 10,000 shares Os stock—about $320,000. “When I was a young boy," Carroll said, “all my aunts and uncles worked for E-J, and their children did, and now three or four generations of my family have. So naturally, I have a great attachment and affection for the company." Carroll, who is retiring as head of a building business, was the biggest buyer. One of the smallest—one share and only 13 years old— was Ed Wachtman of Vestal. “I’m head of my own firm,” the blond, crew-cut boy bragged. “Comet Enterprises. We do odd jobs — like mowing lawns and shoveling snow." Ed said he bought the stock purely “for the investment.” then — after Ms mother prodded Mm — he said he had really bought it to support E-J. “I cashed in two bonds to buy the stock,” he said. “I’ve got enough to buy another share now. I guess I will, too.” The big buyers and the little buyers were all welcome. Individuals, parent-teacher groups, private clubs phoned or sent delegations to the committee headquarters. A furniture store offered a share of stock with every S2OO purchase. In Wayne Cawley’s office, the phones kept ringing. “More people in the triple cities have learned more about the stock market tMs week than they ever dreamed of knowing," said Cawley with a tired grin. In the middle of that week, E-J supporters won a court order that stopped Glen Alden from buying the stock. Then the petitions came in, with the signatures of 8,200 workers asking that pension fund money be put into E-J stock. Friday night, the triple cities celebrated with a torchlight parade. Only seven days before, they had been confused and worried. Now they felt they were winning. Early in the third week of the crisis Cawley added up the results. At least 50 per cent of the stockholders were “friendly.” Glen Alden, at best, had 10 to 12 per cent. “I think we’re home free,"’ he said. “I hope.” Many businessmen in the triple cities warn under their breaths that winning tMs fight is only the beginning, that Endicott Johnson has a lot of problems to solve. Frank Johnson agrees. E-J was falling behind the times, he says, in the type of shoe' it stressed, in styles and in salesmansMp. “But last year’s loss came from the shock of reorganization and from Inventory write-downs—get-

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Reds Admit Farm System Imperfect

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst On Feb. 8, 1855, almost six years ago, former Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov mounted the rostrum of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow and abjectly submitted Ms resignation because he had not been able to cope with the U.S.S.R.’s agricultural pro Hems. Last week, the man who now sits in Malenkov’s chair, Nikita Khrushchev, admitted again that after six years of tinkering the Soviet agricultural system still was “very imperfect.” The seven-year plan had fallen far short of its goals and supplies of meat, butter, milk and eggs still were not reaching the public in sufficient quantities. But it was a measure of the man and Ms power within the Soviet Union, that tMs time there were no abject apologies from Khrushchev. His Underlings QiMms He already had fired Ms agricultural minister, and now in an unbroken parade before the Communist party Central Committee last week, his underlings confessed their sins and errors. When a farm official complained that milkmaids were doing what milking machines should do, Khrushchev rejoined that the Soviet minister in charge "should work as a milker for a month.” When another confessed that poor farming methods as well as a wet spring had cut grain yields down to 73 per cent of plan, Khrushchev snapped: “We are criticizing you for this.” At the conclusion of the dreary parade, Khrushchev tinkered once more. On the one hand, he ordered new agencies set up to insure a better supply of agricultural equipment to the farms. On the other, he ordered an overhaul of the procurement system to insure better distribution to the consumer. Within the Central Committee, Khrushchev had won a wMtewash and there appeared no likelihood ting rid of a lot of shoes we should have cleaned out a tong time ago. “We started work on reorganization two years ago, and started building a team in 1960. I feel very confident.” So do the triple cities. And they have a bigger stake in it now than ever before. Victory came Thursday when Glen Alden and E-J jointly announced agreement for Glen Alden to sell its shares to the E-J pension fund. And there was no doubt who turned the tide. "I have been deeply moved by the loyalty to the jlndicott Johnson Corp, evidenced by employes and members of the community,** said Glen Alden President List. “Glen Alden has had no desire to force itself upon the employes and the other shareholders....” -

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he would suffer the fate at Malenkov. Planning Warns** Perfect But as Soviet agricultural trouble shooter dating back to Stalin's time, it appeared that Khrushchev’s planning had been teas than perfect. The “virgin lands" plgn by wMch Khrushchev proposed tn produce millions of tons of grain in cold and distant Kazakhstan and Siberia, so far had been a disappointment Borrowing from United States experience, Khrushchev ordered a vast expansion of corn production for fodder. But he reckoned without climatic and other experiences. In 1967, he promised that by 1960 or 1961 the Soviet Union would be producing as much meat per capita as does the United States. But by the end of last year Soviet production still was less than half that of the United States. Heralding a new deal for the Soviet consumer, Khrushchev said last week that true socialism and communism cannot be built on industry alone and that more attention must be paid to the farms. It remained to be seen what added sustenance the Soviet consumer would gain from the comforting words. Silver-Bached Broshes Do not put silver-backed brushes into water. To elean, rub the bristles well in flour until they are dean; then use soft paper to remove all the flour. Polish with silver polish.

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