Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1963 — Page 8

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Orville Hodge Leaves Prison, Has Job Waiting MENARD, 111. (UPI) -Orville Enoch Hodge, one-time political boy wonder who used the Illinois state treasury to finance high living, leaves prison today with $25 and a bus ticket he won't use. He served six years five months and 11 days for looting the treasury of $1,571.364—0r about $670 for every day spent in jail. The 58-year-old convict who once wore $35 monogrammed shirts will wear a new, prisonmade suit when he leaves the Menard State Penitentiary in a motorcade including his son, William, 26, two Springfield attorneys, and the mayor of his old

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home town. .v, Hodge has a job behind a hardware counter in Granite City, the city he called home for 47 years. He will work under Thurl Jones, 37, an old friend who manages the store owned by Hodge’s widowed sister, Mrs. Bessie Heley. Jones declined to reveal Hodge's salary but he said he pays his other clerks $75 a week. Live With Sister Hodge will live in a room at his sister's modest bungalow, a block north of the lavish twostory house which the state seized and sold to recover some of the money he stole while serving as state auditor. Hodge’s wife lives in Florida. His son, who dropped out of the University of Missouri when Hodge went to prison Aug. 20, 1956, operates a Granite City insurance business. While serving as Illinois’ state auditor, Hodge was known around the state as one of the last of the big spenders. He entertained with lavish parties that were the talk of the state capital, bought yachts, planes, and big cars, passed out expensive gifts to friends and speculated heavily in Florida real estate. • He posed as a millionaire with independent means inherited and multiplied by canny investment. But he financed his career as a playboy tycoon with phony state warrants cashed through a banker friend in Chicago. Performed Final Jobs One of Hodge's final tasks at the prison was to grade final examination papers of the 60 students in the heavy equipment class he taught. He also performed his regular duties Wednesday as the prison disc jockey. Hodge, a success in the real estate and insurance business and in Republican politics, also was a successful convict. He devised a filing system for the penitentiary’s phonograph records and, in addition to his work as disc jockey and teacher, showed travel films to the criminally insane and served as a chaolain’s assistant. Warden Ross Randolph said, “he certainly has been a model prisoner and has made a definite attempt to redeem himself. He is particularly concerned about what people think of him. He is humble and asking forgiveness.’L Singspiration For Youth Here Sunday Cliff Hoverman, chairman of the United Christian youth, announces there will be a singspiration and a film on Communism for the youth - f theDecaturarea Sunday, at 8:45 p.m. in the Trinity E.U.B. church, South Ninth St. Walter Henkel and Darrell Gerig will be the directors.

Union Meeting Al Berne Feb. 3-10 The annual union meeting of the churches of Berne, under the direction of the ministerial association, will be held Feb. 3-10 in the First Mennonite church. Hie speaker for this series is the Rev. Quinton J. Everest of South Bend, pastor and radio speaker. Rev. Everest is in his 20th year at the Gospel Center United Missionary Church, and in his 31st year of conducting the .weekly “Your Worship Hour” broadcast. This program is heard by some two and one-half million people weekly. Rev. Everest is in wide demand as a speaker for churches, camp meetings, evangelistic services and ministerial conferences. Directing the music and the union choir is Don Gerig, M. A., music teacher in the Berne-French school. The children’s work is under the direction of Rev. Marvin Zehr. Mrs. C. H. Wiederkehr of Berne will direct the children in grades 1-4 and Mrs. Gerald A. Towner of Dayton, 0., will be in charge of the pre-school children. South Whitley Plant Destroyed By Fire SOUTH WHITLEY, Ind. (UPD— A pre-dawn fire in sub-zero temperatures, set off by an explosion, destroyed a big house trailer manufacturing plant here today. The loss to the South Whitley Trailer Manufacturing Co., was estimated between $150,000 and $200,000. Cause of the explosion in a corner of a supply building was not determined, officials said. By the time firemen arrived, the entire plant was enveloped by flames. The temperature was 13 degrees below zero when the fire was reported. The plant, owned by Forrest Bratton, Elkhart, employed 53 persons. Bratton operates a similar plant in Elkhart. One fireman was injured after fighting the flames when his car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train near here. Richard Hoffman, 28, Columbia City, was hospitalized in fair condition. His car was wrecked. Several completed trailers on the plant grounds were saved, but 12 others partly finished in the plant were destroyed. Grease Spatter To prevent grease from sputtering excessively, sprinkle a little salt or flour in the pan before the grease is added. If it’s too late for such a preventive measure, turn a colander upside down over the frying pan. This will stop the flying grease, but will still allow the air to come into contact with what’s cooking.

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Berne Will Receive Sewage System Bids Bids wil be let Feb. 18 in Berne for 7.2 miles of sewers, two waste ponds, with lift-stations, screening chamber, two miles of cast-iron maia, and fencing, for a lagoontype sewage system, according to a legal advertisement running in today's Decatur Daily Democrat. Berne, a city for about 10 years, has never had a sewage disposal system, each home having either a cesspool, or dumping its sewage raw into Blue Creek and its tributaries. The town was mandated some time ago to build a sewage disposal plant, and for the past year the people of Berne have debated whether to build a conventional sewage disposal plant, like Decatur’s, or a lagoon-type plant. The latter is believed to be less expensive but some landowners have objected to having the lagoon located near them. Driver Arrested Following Accident One driver was arrested following a two-car accident Wednesday at 5:10 p. m., on the Piqua Road, five miles southeast of Decatur. Roger Daniel Braun, 28, route 5, Decatur, was southeastbound when he slowed to make a left turn into the driveway at his home. A car operated by Ray Allen Weddle, 36, Wren, began to poss on the left, and sideswiped the Braun car as it began turning. Braun was arrested for failure to signal, and damages were listed at $175 to the Weddle car and $125 to the Braun auto. State trooper Alan Coppes and sheriff Roger Singleton investigated. FARM (Continued from Page One) combination of payments plus market prices propped by federal supports should be set to give cooperating farmers more than they now earn and “substantially” more than non-cooperators. In addition, Kennedy called for passage of a plan under which farmers in federal milk marketing order areas could reduce output of surplus milk without cutting sales to the high-priced bottling milk market. The President said a new dairy bill also should “make it possible to drop the price of butter and butterfat and thereby increase their consumption.” Kennedy also warned European Common Market nations against putting restrictions on import? of American farm goods. He The United States “intends' to take every step necessary to protect the full rights due American agricultural exports.” Fountain Fen You con perform a fine job of cleaning your fountain pen at home by unscrewing all its parts, aljbwing them to soak for in vinegar then rinsing them ir a bit of lukewarm water.

Major Heart Surgery Performed On Johnson William H. Johnson, of route one, Monroe, is improving nicely after undergoing major heart surgery Monday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. Johnson’s chest was opened, exposing the heart, and the thickened percardial sac was peeled off the heart, which immediately responded with a stronger beat. Johnson has an excellent chance for complete recovery. His room number is 266, Caylor Clinic, Bluffton, Ind. BRITAIN (Continued from Page One) would seek barriers to AngloAmerican investment in Europe. Macmillan told the British people not to be discouraged. “We must rely on our own determination and vigor,” he said. Britain Will Rebound “Is this gloomy or grim?” he asked. “Not at all. It is the kind of situation in which we have al-

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