Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1963 — Page 8

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U. S. Mail World’s Biggest Business

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (JJPI) — The United States mail service has achieved such a solid reputation for fast and safe deliver that millions of dollars worth- of jewels move through its channels every months. Most jewel merchants prefer the U.S, mails to transportation by private guards and armored trucks, and in 1958. when the Hope Diamond was sent from New York to the Smithsonian Institution here it came by registered mail. This high record of performance, of course, tempts thousands or peddlers of fraudulent schemes and merchants of pornography to use the mails. To fight- them the Pest Office Department deploys 1,500 postal inspectors around the nation. These men seldom perform deeds that create big headlines as, for instance, does the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nor do they attempt to wrap themselves in a thick coat of secrecy as do

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the men of the Central Intelligence Agency. But they are among the most effective of all federal investiga.tors. The pay-off is not how many persons you arrest in a year, but how many convictions you obtain. The postal inspectors move quietly, gather their evidence carefully and win convictions in 99 per Centof the cases that go to trial. ’ a '' Public Proves Gullible The American public is highly gullible when face to face with a get-rich-quick scheme. It -is impossible to say how much swindlers obtain each year because many of the suckers are so ashamed that they never ‘report their, losses. But the Post Office Department can say with certainty that the figure is at least SB3 million annually because it has a record of those cases. Year after year people fall for the same fraudulent tricks. Stephen Singer was convicted of mail fraud in Los Angeles early | tins year for telling people he would get their songs played on the radio. Postal inspectors say he took in $200,000. Kenneth P. Chamberlain was convicted in Wilmington, Del., of defrauding 125 persons of about $400,000. He sold counterfeit stock certificates or, in some cases, altered legitimate cerflficates and sold them. Hundreds of persons are convicted every year for swindling the public with promises of providing lucrative work that can be done in the home. Heavy Traffic There is a heavy traffic in pornography through the U.S. mails, but a good bit of it is on a small scale. Sometimes it involves only one or two persons who exchange obscene letters and photographs." Usually these cases are disposed of with a fine of SSOO or less and a period of probation. The punishment is heavier if it is developed in court that the accused person is a wholesale dealer in obscenity, Another quick way to get into trouble with the postal inspectors is to mail obscene material to persons at random, i Charles J. Nalewak of Shamokin, I Pa., got a prison term of from three to five years because he had I been mailing obscene material to I all young women whose names or j. photographs appeared in the,news-' paper. | Most of these cases are dis-' posed of quietly, but occasionally the postal inspectors become involved in litigation that gets international attention. Sometimes it calls for a judicial opinion in answer to this age-old question: Is it art or is it obscenity? One of the biggest such cases v ent to trial in Philadelphia in j June before federal district Judge I ‘Ralph C. Body sitting without a' jury. The defendant was Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros Maga-1 zine. Documentary Books, Inc.;. I and Liaison News Letter, Inc., j In this case the Post Office Department was nudged into action by the public. It got more than ' 35.000 complaints from citizens) whp received through the .mails advertising describing Eros Mag- ’ azine as “a new quarterly devot-! ed to love and sex.” The advertising also offered a publication called “The Housewife’s Handbook on Selective Promiscuity.” Acted Openly Ginzburg had acted openly with ’ no attempt to be-secretive about his project. Advertisements for Eros and his other publications had appeared in magazines and. had reached nation-wide distribution. His case was that what he' was distributing was not obscene. I The court disagreed and on June! 14 found Ginzburg guilty on all 28 counts of the indictment. He filed ; a motion for arrest of judgment and was released in SIO,OOO bail pending a hearing next month. The Post Office Department regards this as a notable victory because it is "a sort of legal piecedent on the distribution of magazines through the mail. It also encourages the public to take an active interest in the fight to keep obscene material out of the mails. Any time a federal department gets 35,000 letters it knows I it has to act—and quickly. One job the Post Office Departm,ent does not particularly relish is dealing with the 2.5 million pieces of propaganda mail that comes into the-country each month from behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains. Since January it has been required by law to impound. Communist -.prapagan-

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Open House Planned At New Parsonage

One hundred and three years ago a small United Brethren congregation near what is now Tocsin was given a half-acre of land by one of its members, Mrs. Margaret Jones. The church members were unable to muster sufficient funds to erect a church on the plot, but J 2 years later, on July 30, 1872, two more plots of land were deeded to the church and on this ground a church was built. The church was called Salem. Now, some 90 years and three da and so notify the person to whom it is addressed. Unless he requests that it be forwarded, it is destroyed after 20 days. The purpose of the law is to keep Communist propaganda away from Americans who have no interest in reading it. but it is an added and heavy burden on the Post Office Department.

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buildings since the first church was constructed, the congregation has completed a fine new parsonage where open house will be held Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The house is of brick veneer and Indiana limestone construction. The earliest available record, dated 1871, indicates that the Salem congregation w,as in the Auglaize conference of the United Brethren church and was a member of the Zanesville circuit,. The Zanesville circuit consisted of ten churches in Allen, Huntington and Wells counties. The pastor, of the circuit at that time was Rev. D. J. Schenck. Sometime in the late 1870’s the Salem church burned down and once again the congregation was without a place to hold its services. For a time the members met in the old Dailey school house,"the first brick school in the tovtnship. Later, the services were transferred to an old frame school building

in Tocsin.

Then, in 1887, Samuel and Elizabeth Kunkel, founders of the town of Tocsin, deeded to the trustees of the United Brethren church a tract of land and in the same year a church was built upon the site. In 1885 the name of the Salem church was changed to Tocsin. In 1891 the circuit was named Toepin and the parsonage was located there. In 1900 the Tocsin circuit was placed in the St. Joseph conference and in 1910 the parsonage was relocated at Cyaigville and the name of the cirdßit changed to Craigville. In 1915, the Tocsin church instituted a remodeling program which produced the present church building. The church officials whose names are engraved upon the cornerstone of that building are S. M. Wolf, D. J. Miller, N. J. Kleinknight, Raymond Wasson, Lydia Nash, Linda Miller, Elmer Davison, N. M. Johnson, William Kleinknight and Irvin Wasson. More building was done between 1947 and 1949, when the floors of the church were sanded carpeted and tiled, and the heating system was rebuilt. A rededication service was held in August of 1949 and a new organ was jnstalled at the church were sanded, carpeted

Two Slightly Hurt In Three-Way Crash Two children were hurt slightly in a three-vehicle accident twe and one-half miles south of Berne on U. S. 27 at 1:10 p.m. Thursday. Jerry Billingsley, 3, and Teresa Billingsley, 10, children of Mr and Mrs. Ray Lyron Billingsley, oi route 6, Crawsfordsville, received a bump ofi the head and a chest Injury respectively. The twe youngsters were treated by a Berne physician, and later released. The mishap occurred as a car driven by Erma Jeanette Burkhalter, 44, of Berne, was southbound on 27 where the highway is under construction. The Berne lady was halted by a flagman and the Billingsley car, driven by the children’s father, was stopped behind the Burkhart auto. Harry Lee Williams, 34, ol Farmland, was operating a two-ton truck and was unable to stop in time. His truck crashed into the rear of the Billingsley car, and shoved the auto into the rear of the Burkhart vehicle. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss, who investigated, estimated damages at $250 to the truck, S2OO to the Billingsley station wagon and S4O to the Burkhalter car.

F. Bright pastor of the church at that time. Then, in 1962, by order of the conference, the church was made a station and the need for a parsonage was created. A temporary parsonage was made in the house of the late Mrs. Frank Garton. In March of this year the property adjoining the church wa's purchased from Haldah Garton and ground was broken for the new parsonage. The new parsonage was completed just last week. Dedication services are scheduled for October 13, The Rev. Rueben H. Miller, D. D., LL.D., L.H.D., bishop of the west central area of the Evangelical United Brethren church, will be the speaker for the service.. If you have something to sell oi trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

I Explains Slate Park Heads’ Pay Boosts INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Jack L. y New, Governor Welsh’s executive o secretary, said today action taken e by the governor to increase sal5. aries of 11 park superintendents was the least expensive of two a alternatives. . New said the superintendents ,f have "taken on additional duties d as supervisors of construction , t and repair projects.” He said this 0 was cheaper than hiring new help. The pay hikes range from sls to $65 a month. Kepneth R. Cougill, director of the state parks division of the r Indiana Department of Conservation, said 11 other park superin- *' tendents did not get increases bey cause repair work in their area was minor. a “No one is claiming that our ’• park superintendents are qualified ’> construction superintendents, but ■t they are the eyes of our engirt neers,” he explained. n He said it would be impossible a to get close daily supervision of work to rehabilitate facilities, exr cept by following the “increased '- duty” step. The work is financed e by cigarette tax money. The pay 'f hikes come from dedicated, not t- general, funds. o Charles Weber, superintendent' y oi Lincoln and Scales Lake State Parks, received the largest increase from $3lO a month to $375. Cougill said this was because _ Weber recently assumed responsibility for Scales Lake in addition

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to Lincoln and because ihore than SIOO,OOO in construction work is underway at Lincoln. Richard Philpott, Turkey Run Park superintendent, supervised construction of an entirely new wing of the inn there. Philpott’s monthly pay of $335 was increased to $375. Other superintendents and their salary changes, which are in addition to free quarters provided at the parks, are: Raymond A. Fisher, Pokagon State Park, $345 to $375 monthly. Orville Henson, McCormick’s Creek, $345 to $375. Claris Keaton, Brown County, $350 to S4OO. Eugene L. Knoy, Richard Lieber, $360 to $385; Robert E. Lane, Ouabache State Recreation Area, $285 to S3OO. John Moore, Raccoon Lake State Recreation Area, $375 to S4OO. William J. Pommerehn, Clifty Falls, $335 to $360. Ray L. Raney, Versailles, $3lO to $335. William T. Svetic, Dunes, $350 to $375.

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