Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1963 — Page 6

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Slight Decline In Businesses In This County Statistics released today by G. J. Aubrecht, district manager ,of the Chicago office of Dun & Bradstreet, reflect the activity of the business population in Adam's county during the past year. Figures obtained from a physical count of the Dun & Bradstreet reference book for January, 1963, totaled 380 manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers in this area as compared to 393 in January, 1962. , The Dun & Bradstreet reference book lists all manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers who seek or grant commercial credit. It does not include some of the service and professional businesses such as beauty and barber shops, security dealers and real estate brokers. Aubrecht added that during the past year 182 changes were made in the Dun & Bradstreet reference book listings of Adams county businesses, including names added, names deleted, and changes

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in the ratings of continuing businesses. , . Using the Dun & Bradstreet reference book listings as a guide, it is interesting to review what has happened in the larger county communities during the past year: Listings in Listings in January, 1963 January, 1962 Decatur.. 216 228 Berne 92 89 Geneva.. 41 43 As one phase in revising credit reports and keeping them up-tc.-date, Dun & Bradstreet, through its national network of offices, writes annually to all businesses jn each of the 50 states listed in the reference book (23 pounds — 4,915 oversize pages) to request their financial statements. This year, these requests are feeing sent to approximately three million businesses —to the corner grocery store worth a few thousand dollars as well as to businesses worth millions. When the owner or officer of a business enterprise, or his accountant, fills out and mails his financial statement to Dun & Bradstreet, it becomes a part of the credit report on his business and a factor in determining the credit rating of his business. The 'Dun & Bradstreet credit rating Consists of two symbols. The first, a letter of the alphabet, indicates financial strength or the tangible net worth of the business.

The second symbol Is a number which reflects a composite appraisal of the background, operations, financial stability and payment record of the business. Each reference book listing, which includes the rating, is a condensed summary of the information contained in the Dun & Bradstreet credit report. The report includes the following: a history of the business, (who owns it, who runs it, and how long it has been operating); a description of what the business does and how it does it; a financial section which usually includes the latest financial statement; and a record of how the business pays Its bills. While credit reports are primarily used by businesses who want to evaluate the credit risk of a business before shipping or selL ing. insurance underwriters also use credit reports to review risks, rates and coverage for fire and other types of insurance. Indiana Technical Name Is Changed FORT'WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) — Indiana Technical College celebrated the arrival of the new year Tuesday by changing its name. 1 Hereafter, the school will be known as the Indiana Institute of Technology.

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National Foundation Provides Treatments Top-quality medical care, though often capable of changing the whole life prospect of infants and children with crippling disorders, is unavailable to the majority of these patients. But the Adams ■ county chapter of the National Foundation-March of Dimes is seeking to help remedy'this critical situation by making a satrt at solving the problem here at home. Mrs. Roy Kalver, chapter chairman, pointed to the fact that the natoinal health organization, through national headquarters and some 500 of its chapters, is financing a network of more than 50 treatment centers across the nation for birth defects, arthritis and polio. Die centers are affiliated with more than half the nation’s medical schools. Mrs. Kalver recaued that recently Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundition-March of Dimes, has observed that “no other health organization in the United States or, for that matter, not even the federal government has attempted any such comprehensive network of special treat-

ment clinics.” O’Connor also recalled that “we invested a great deal of study and thought in this project before began in 1960 with three pilot units patterned after our polio respiratory centers. But even with all this planning and preparations — which included medical conferences across the country—we did not foresee the full magnitude nor the urgency of the needs that these special treatment centers very soon brought to light. We need fully twice as many centers. “The thoughtful and compassionate generosity of the American public has permitted the March of Dimes to make some headway in meeting the research and medical-care problems posed by 250,000 infants born each year in our country with significant birth defects; and the thousands of children and adolescents crippled by some form of arthritis or rheumatic disease.” These March of Dimes-financed centers are the setting sometimes for family dramas where emotions range from despair to jubilation. More than once have parents given up hope for their child only to find that early treatment has made it possible for their youngster to escape serious disability or death. It is so often a matter of prompt action and expert treatment that makes the difference, Mrs. Kal-

ver said. i Each center provides continuous and comprehensive care for inpatients or outpatients by specialist members of “health teams.” In the case of birth defects, this would aften mean a pediatrician, a pediatric neurosurgeon, uro.ogist, orthopedist, physical therapist, medical social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist, and others. Simarily, all of the special medical and other skills needed for the study and the treatment of arthritis are enlisted in the “health teams” at the arthritis centers sponsored by the March of Dimes. In a review of the progress in two years of these special treatment centers. Dr. William S. Clark, director of the medical department of the National Founda-tion-March of Dimes, said: “What we have been achieving through our centers may seem breathtaking and miraculous to some people. But the underlying principle involved here is really very simple. It has been the guiding principle of The National Foundation-March of Dimes throughout its first quarter century, the anniversary of which we observe this month. It is this: “Do something to .prove that the best care can be brought out of our great medical centers and hospitals to America’s doorstep in every town and village, and the American public, seeing that it can be done, will demand that it must be done. That’s the March of Dimes in a nutshell.” Good Fellows Club Voices Appreciation Members of the Decatur Good Fellows club, sponsored by the Delta Theta Tau sorority, today expressed their thanks to all who helped make Christmas a little merrier for the less fortunate of the city. A total of 83 families, with 368 people, were visited. “The entire community is to be commended for its spirit of neighborliness and generosity in contributing canned food, toys and money for the purchase of food. We were most happy that we were also able to purchase either mittens, headwear or socks for each school age child. “The Good Fellows wish to thank the Decatur Daily Democrat for publicity, the Decatur fire department for the general distribution center and additional help, including serving hot coffee to all workers. Also city schools and other organizations who contrifeuted the much needed canned foodL — ■ “Appreciation also goes to the following Decatur merchants who donated toys, clothing and foock. Jani Lyn, Kiddie Shop, MillerJones, Sears-Roebuck & Co., Bowers Hardware, Smith Drug, Western Auto, J. J. Newberry’s, G. G. Murphy Co., Myers Firestone, Gambles, Niblick, Habegger-Shaf-er’s, City News Agency, Holthouse Drug, Smith Pure Milk, Kroger Co., Gerber Supermarket Hammond Fruit Market, Wolffs Produce, Decatur Baking Co. “Thanks also to Charles Stonestreet for use of his time and truck. Trucks and drivers needed for delivery Sunday afternoon were donated by the Teeple Truck Lines, Lyle Malionee and the city Os Decatur. “High school students who aided were James Williamson, Jim Hake, Steve Hazelwood, Tom Macklin, Bill Hain, Ben Colter, ‘Phil Hess, Donna Bixler, and Joe Geimer and his station wagon. “It is only through the generosity of all those mentioned, and many, many more individuals, civic and social organizations, and business men and women, that the Good Fellows club and its projects were a big success again this year. May each one know that through his contribution, the needy ones experienced a pleasant moment at Christmas time.” Rockefeller Makes Bid For Support -ALBANY,.. N.Y. (UPI) — Gov. Nelson A- Rockefeller, prominently mentioned as a possible 1964 Republican presidential candidate, has made an open bid for support of conservatives and liberals. In an inaugural address starting his second term, Rockefeller said his administration would be “conservative, liberal and progressive.” lie delivered the speech to a packed assembly chamber in the state capitol Tuesday. The governor told his audience there is a “danger that voters may mistake words for substance, panaceas for basic solutions apd be deluded by slogans and labels, such as conservative, liberal and progressive.” ~- z - “Life. can be over-simplified—-made all black or all white,” he added. "Conservative, - liberal and progressive are not mutually exclusive concepts. There are important elements of basic value in all three.” He said conservatism should be respected “because we know the measureless value that is our heritage to save, to cherish and to enrich — because we believe that everything that is soundly built for the future is built in the present and on the foundations of the past.” “We should respect liberalism—because we should be more con-

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Congress Planning Many Investigations

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress is planning a heavy diet of investigations this year with inquiries already set on such diverse subjects as the baby adoption racket and narcotics peddling. Other scheduled investigations range from sales of pep pills to teen-agers, to newspaper mergers and stockpile surpluses. Even the Billie Sol Estes farm scandal may take an encore. Last session Congress spent more than $5 million on investigations, accumulated thousands of pages of government-printed testimony and heard a bewildering number of witnesses testify with moist faces under the glare of camera lights, t Out of last year’s- inquiries, perhaps the major accomplishment was enactment of tighter federal controls over the manufacture and sale of drugs. This grew out of hearings on the babydeforming drug, thalidomide. Crack Down On Gambling Congress also passed a package of laws cracking down on gambling and the interstate shipment of gambling deVices, largely as the result of Senate crime hearings, The preliminary lineup of investigations for the new 88th Congress, which convenes Jan. 9, reads like a handy catalog of Crime and profiteering. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee- will fry to expose the operations of foreign lobbyists who work against the interests of U.S. foreign policy objectives.. Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark., chairman of the permanent investigations subcommittee, has inquiries scheduled into world trafficking in dope. He also may look into the current dock strike, alleged biribing of college athletes, and the awarding of a multimillion dollar contract to General Dynamics for the all-service F--111 fighter plane. Invites Estes’ Testimony McClellan already has extended an invitation for indicted Texas farm financier Estes to testify in the marathon farm scandal hearings. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., wants his juvenile delinquency subcommittee to wind up its sesU. S. Army Captain Is Killed In Saigon SAIGON (UPI) — An American Army captain was killed today and three other Americans were wounded, two of them seriously, by Communists who shot down five U. S. Army helicopters a U. S. military spokesman announced. The spokesman said the slain captain was a military adviser taking part in a government assault on the eastern edge of the Plain of Reeds, about 30 miles southwest of Saigon. cemed with the opportunities of tomorrow than in the record of yesterday—because out of lhe past and the present a better future can and must be evolved,” Rockefeller continued. “And we should respect a progressive point of view—because the opportunities and challenges that face us now and in the future are of such size and scope that we can never halt and say; *our labor is done’.” Rockefeller, who has refused to commit himself to a full four-year term, gave no indication about his plans for 1964. But, persons close to him predict he will make himself available “when the time comes.” ; ,

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sions on the sale of pep pills to teen-agers, and mail order sales of guns to youngsters. Dodd also has preliminary plans for investigations into the baby adoption rackotand the condition of juvenile detention homes. In the House, Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., has announced he will inquire into newspaper mergers and monopoly ownership by newspapers of radio and television stations. House subcommittees are sure to dig into Defense Department spending, and waste or inefficiency in the. giant foreign aid program. Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., will continue his investigation into alleged excessive profits in the nation’s multi-billion stockpile program. Hockey Results NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday Detroit 1, New. York 1 (tie). '-■< Tuesday Boston 3, Toronto 0. Chicago 4, Detroit 2. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Monday Muskegon 5, Fort Wayne ?. Tuesday Minneapolis 5, Port Huron 4. Omaha 6, St. Pai3l.4 College Basketball Notre Dame 90, Illinois 88. Pittsburgh 71, Princeton P>,. » Furman 62, Air Force 53. Ohio State 97, Brigham Young 91. St. Louis 87, Kentucky 63. H. S. Basketball Connersville Tourney Connersville 60, Greensburg 49. Shelbyville 80, Rushville 68. Greensburg 74, Rushville 56. Connersville 64, Shelbyville 61 (final). If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results. SHOP Un EQUITY WAY Ar The Some Top Qualify Ar The Same Low Price EVERY DAY r JUG MILK' 36c a 70c Gallon ! plus deposit •■■■Uavw of Month Chocolate Pecan Divinity wa. I Quart I THERE IS AN EQUITY STORE NEAR YOU