Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1963 — Page 4

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Goldwater for President Since Goldwater’s New Castle speech last month, the Hoosier press has widely debated his qualifications for president of the United States. Some think he is qualified, some do not. He is strongly backed by the Pulliam press, which includes most of the large newspapers in Indiana; his column rqns in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, a good indication of how that paper feels. Goldwater is a strongly conservative senator in many respects. He is opposed to deficit spending, to large foreign aid commitments, even ' : to changes in civil rights legislation. Indiana Republicans, including many right here in Decatur, strongly back Goldwater, and his point of view. Most of the Taft Republicans will back him — a few, because of his flirting with Southern Democrats on the racial issue, will be luke-warm. Many people, both liberals and conservatives, would like to see “Stone-age Barry” (as the liberals calk him) nominated. This would test the real strength of the political conservatives in a way that is has not been tested since 1924, when “Silent Cal” Coolidge was nominated. Many Republicans, especially here in Adams county would like to nominate a “real” Republican again, if only for old times’ sake. They do not like to have public heroes, who are not “true” (or conservative) Republicans, in office. The nomination of Goldwater by the Republicans would certainly give people more of a choice between philosophies than a tweedledum-tweedledee race between Rockefeller and Kennedy. In the latter case, no one would know who was the liberal, who was the conservative. We think it would be nice to be able to pick candidates on their philosophies, rather than perpsonalities. After all, the men appointed by the president will make or break the administration, and whether the president looks well on TV is secondary to his philosophy.

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Ijh 1 W ji.J K_t -..ju. rib LONG, LONG HORN — Berne accordion -maker Chris Zuercher shows off his twelve-foot long Swiss Alp horn. The horn, a traditional Swiss signaling device for use in mountain regions, is constructed entirely from wood. — (Photo by Mac Lean. SOCIAL SECURITY QUIZ 1. Q. I am already receiving social security benefits but they are not very large. Is there any way I can get them increased? A. The only way social security benefits may be increased is if the persons returns to work and earns more in one year than he did in one of the years used in figuring his original benefit. However, this is not done automatically. If you have worked since first becoming eligible for social security you must file an application to have your benefit recomputed. 2. Q. My wife and I are both, school teachers and we earn about the same wages. When we retire will she have to take one-half of my benefit amount? A. Definitely not. The social security law provided that a woman can receive one-half of her .husband’s benefit amount, but only if she is not entitled to a larger apiount on the basis of their own work. In your case, your wife would be entitled to approximately the same benefit as you will be on the basis of her own earnings. 3. Q. How do Igo about checking my social security account to §ee if all my earnings are reported? A. Contact your local social security ofice and request Form OAR-7004, request for statement of earnings. Complete the form and mail it in. In about two weeks you will receive a statement showing' the total earnings credited to >our account since 1937 with an individual report of the past several years. Compare this statement with your own records and if there is any error contact your local office for assistance in getting it straightened out. 4. Q. How old do you have to be in oder to get a social security number? A. There is nd age restriction. However, we do not recommend that you apply for a number unless you actually have 'a need for it. 5. Q. I recently requested a statement of the earnings credited to my social security account. In the yearly - breakdown I am only credited with S4BOO for 1961 but I earned $5500, Should I do something about this? „A. In this particular case, the ' 'answer is no. You see, the most earnings a person can pay social security tq,x on is S4BOO. Since earnings of more than this are not taxable that iJ all that can be credited to your account. 6. Q. What is the amount of the lump sum death payment that is made when an insured worker dies? 1 A. This ranges from up to $255. The lump sum deatlz payment is three times the iasured 'worker’s benefit amount, geierally speaking, with a maximum amount speaking. wiUAjr maxiMASONIC PICNIC Fri., July 12, 19C3 Pot Luck at 6:00 p.m. Demolay Movie— Ditneyland Slides i , •—£- Hanna-Nuttman Shelter House.

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Zuercher Only Accordion Manufacturer In State • ■ —-y-. . .r-

By Michael Thoele .. .. Many, many years ago dn Bern, Switzerland, a young "boy, just out of high school, took up apprenticeship training to become, like his father before him, a maker of accordions. For three and a half years he worked hard, from six each morning until eight each evening. Only during the last year of his apprenticeship, when he received about one dollar a week, was he paid for his work. One day he finally .received the papers which certified him as an accordion maker. For Chris Zuercher that day in March of 1912 was the beginning of an accordion-making career which was to carry him far from the shores of his native Switzerland and bring him to another Berne, this one in Indiana, where, until his recent retirement, he made and sold accordions in his own music store. As a boy Christ, now 68 years old, worked for his accordionmaker father, Uhlrich Zuercher, who employed more than 20 craftsmen in what was considered a large accordion factory But the law would not allow Chris to serve his apprenticeship under his own father and, despite his experience, with accordions, he was required

I ~ yWf..;'' w hEHi i i -•i ' AN ANTIQUE— That accordion which Chris Zuercher is holding more than 70 years old. It was made in 1889 by Zuercher’s father Uhlrich, in the family accordiofi factory in Bern, Switzerland. — (Photo by Mac Lean) DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC, Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John G. Heller Vice President J Chas. E. HolthouseSecretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates By Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $10.00: Six months, $5.50; 3 months, $3.00. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year $11.25; 6 months, $6.00; 3 months, $3.25. By Carrier, 35 cento per week. Single copies, 7 cento.

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to serve the full apprenticeship term. At the age of 19 he completed his training and worked in vari- ' ous places throughout Europe, gaining more .valuable experience. : This experience served him well, as he had learned all the construction details of accordions, rather ’ than specializing in just one part of the instrument,. as many craftsmen did. In some of the factories in which he worked he was plant superintendent. During this time he met and married his wife, Ida. To Berne In 1922 After several years of working ; he began to want to go into business for himself. Europe was already crowded with instrumenti makers, so he and his wife decided to come to America. In May, 1922, they reached this country. Seeking i a settlement of their native people they came to the Siyiss ambassador in Chicago, who referred . them to Berne. Zuercher worked for a time as cabinet shop foreman at the Dunbar Furniture plant, then built a small shop, i bought some tools and began building accordions. He had some trouble adapting to the American i measurement system, but his I business grew rapidly and he was I kept busy filling incoming orders

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for accordions. At first he worked alone, but as his business mushroomed he began to need help. His wife was able to aid him a little, then, after a few years John Reidel, a German who had worked with Zuercher in an European accordion factory, came to Berne and went to work for him. Later, Reidel returned to German and Zuercher began training his three children, Walter, Sylvan and Irene to make accordions. Now he has retired, and Walter and Irene run the store and handle most of the business, though he still does some repair work. Only Onp In State The Zuercher shop repairs and rebuilds accordions from virtually every state in the union and is currently the ony accordion-manu-fatcuring firm in Indiana. Besides this it handles a full line of musical instruments and imported Swiss yodeling records. The present music store was built in 1952 after Zuercher’s other store burned down, taking with it $20,000 worth of equipment, tools and stock. In the back and basement of the new shop are private playing rooms where lessons on the accordion and other instruments are given by local teachers. Walter Zuercher is the director of a 110-piece accordion band, composed of accordion players from the Berne area Nearly 95 per cent of the accordions in the band are Zuercher-made instruments. “The accordion,” says Chris, “was first patented in 1828 in Italy, but in just five months there were Austrian and Swiss patents, too. The piano accordion was not invented until 1905.” He explained that there is much handwork involved in building an accordion, which has a complex system of inter-connected valves enabling the player to span a wider range of tones than is possible on a conventional piano keyboard. Swiss accordions, he adds, have special tone chambers and reeds and are truly precision instruments. There is, however, no accordion or make of accordion which has ever achieved a fame which would make it as outstanding as the Stradivarius among violins. An accordion, with a life span of only 12 to 15 years, simply wears out before it has a chance to become famous. Besides their inner complexities the Zuercher accordions all feature beautiful exteriors. The older ones are finished in intricate geometric inlaid wood designs. The newer ones are covered in bright plasttic and metal trim. The frame of the accordion is still wood and the plastic is shaped over it. Formerly, Zuercher made all the accordion parts by hand. Some of the pieces are smaller than matchsticks. They are made from a variety of materials, since metal, wood and felt are all used in accordion construction. Zuercher even made the inlaid wood designs for his older accordions, shaping the small splinter-size pieces himself. In the bld days it took as long as three weeks to make an accordion. Now the accordion business, like most others, has become partially mechanized. Though the lion’s share of the work is still done by hand many of the smaller metal pieces Zuercher purchases from Swiss manufacturers, rather than shaping them himself. The bass mechanism is still entirely hand-construct-ed. • . ;■■ -r—“To make accordions,” says Chris, “you must be a mechanic, a woodworker and a musician. It takes all three.” The tools which he uses are many and varied, ranging from an electric saw to odd-shaped pliers and small tweezers. His small shop in the rear of the store is crowded with bits and pieces of accordions. The

ii us HMMSr mPWW ■ •*>. « JBg | .f * . JMR w . I. 1 ■> ■'4 Hg J| JM b l JUDrS JM ' ON THE WORKBENCH— Chris Zuercher Checks over one of the many accordions which are repaired and rebuilt in the Zuercher music store in Berne. Small and specialized tools are used in repairing the instruments.—(Photo by Mac Lean) ■ 1 ■ ■ ———————————————————- ————————

shelves are laden with the parts i and, materials used to make the f instruments. Since coming to the United | States he has returned twice to Switzerland, once in 1948 and once in 1958. On the 1948 trip he made arrangements to buy the small parts which he no longer handmanufacturers. The 1958 trip was the Berne-to-Bern excursion made by 78 Berne residents. Chris said that there was more change in Switzerland between 1948 and 1958 than there was between 1922, when he first left, and 1948, but that the accordion business still flourished there, unlike the United States where television and other modern forms of entertainment have cut wide inroads into the former popularity of such older forms of recreation as accordions. Travel Widely Mr. and Mrs. Zuercher travel a great deal, especially since his retirement. They have been to every state except Alaska and Hawaii and have flown over 35,000 miles. They have recently returned from a trip to the western states. Zuercher speaks several languages, including French, Italian, high German and, as he puts it, “a little English.” He still makes special accordions, but only a few. Now that he has retired he is working on a new idea—an electrified accordion— which would do away with the conventional push-and-squeeze accordion playing operation. The population of Bern, Switzerland, when Zuercher first left it, was 350,000. At that time Berne, Indiana, had only 900 people. “At first I didn’t like it at all," says Chris. “Now F wouldn’t live anywhere else in the world.”

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