Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1963 — Page 6

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' ' - -X— -4—— Elect a WORKING JnH M A YOR |Hfl CARL D. GERBER Democratic Candidate for MAYOR •i- . ■ . ■ ■ •■.•■■ . .. .. •-. ■ - • As candidates for the city council, city clerk-trea surer and city judge, we believe it is highly important to elect a mayor who can begin, supervise and FINISH the necessary reforms Decatur needs. In goingon record in support of our candidate Carl Gerber, we believe that with our help and yours he can FINISH the job. We therefore, wholeheartedly endorse his program as follbws:

1. The re-establishment of regular daily office hours by the mayor. Decatur’s problems are big enough and the salary big enough to pay for a working mayor. The citizens should know when and where to talk to their mayor. 2, The streetdepartment again should provide prompt snow removel, weed cutting and the main street cleaned before Sunday church traffic. Most important there should be supervision of new street construction to eliminate “bird baths” in the pavement because of faulty location of grade and catch basins. Later, costly repair of mistakes takes money set aside for other street work. 3, An immediate investigation should be madednto the cause of rusting out of water heaters and softeners. These should last more than three years. Other cities don’t have this problem. 4. The money available for the construction of a new water source should be invested in the project before it is entirely frittered away. We are only kidding ourselves when we say we have enough water NOW. Higher rates have eliminated many desirable home use of water but there is still no surplus for a new industry. It’s possible a water supply

★ Vote Democratic, Tuesday, Nov. sth - - - ■ ■ . ... ' • ; .. ■ > ■ ’' • - • ■ » ■ Jt aHra Emm — CLERK-TREASURER J 4. 'dbeEJt — Councilman 2nd District n . . C(uJ<> C. — Councilman 3rd District tJLawrence ~J\onne ' Councilman-At-I>at ge .. . f ... •*' J4arotd rHifie? , — Councilman 4th District City Os Decatur Democrat Committee 171 N. 2nd St. BERNARD CLARK WENDELL MACKLIN DIANNE LINN MRS. FRANK BOHNKE City Chairman Treasurer Secretary Vice-Chairman

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source could also provide recreational fishing, boating or swimming uses. We believe this can provide recreation for our children now and industrial jobs for them in the future. I .... - . . ■ -■ ' 5, Girts are people. They deserve as much supervised recreation as our boys are now getting. A centralized recreation program organized with thought and energy can do as much for girls as it now does for boys with the same amount of money. (), Already our city has spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on new water towers, water mains and fire department improvements without insurance buyers gettingone cent of reduction on fire insurance on houses, stores and factories because the job is not finished. This should be done now. Pipe purchased last spring by the city should be put into the water mains where it belongs. Our city has spent enough to get back the fire rating it lost three years ago. A little work/ not a lot of money, will cut every citizen’s insurance premium. We Promise You a Working Team To Get The Job Done.

Warns Os Loss In Mailing Os Coins “If you have coins which you don’t care about, deposit them loose in the mails,” says postmaster John Bach. “You can demonstrat your indifference by taking some odd pieces of silver and a cereal box top or soap coupon and starting them off to New York or Chicago in an ordinary envelop. In most instances your gamble will pay off, but occasionally you will lose.” Boch and his postmaster associates all over the country take little notice of the wins. But postmasters everywhere become “mighty cbncerned about the losses, for their implications are far beyond the value of the money it- - Self.- r“There are rare occasion, when most everybody finds the need for sending coins by mail,” says Boch. “When this is so, a coin card should be used, and the coins should be fastened by tape to a piece of ordinary cardboard about the size of the envelope. When a choice can be made, however, a check or a money order ishould be used. These are the proper methods of mailing money under all circumstances.” The important reasons for keeping loose coins- out of envelopes are obvious. Envelope paper is good for the purposes it is intended to serve, but it sometimes gives way to the weight or the wearing action of bits of metal. This is particularly so if the envelope is run through a stamp cancelling machine. When the machine tears the envelope and the coins fall out, the post office which recovers them can neither send them back to their owners nor on to their destination, for there is no way or there are no methods of identification. Boch points out that “Besides the loss of money by the sender, the postal service loses too. Coins are hard on cancelling machines and sometimes cause expensive repairs. If the envelope -is handstamped — which it should be and usually is — the cost of processing is greater than that -of processing the conventional letter. Sometimes much more important than either of these items is the temptation to trifle with easily detectable money presents to all those through whose hands the envelope passes.” So the point is this: “If you’re determined to gamble, do so. But don’t do it through the mails.” * If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results. -— -

WWW® WiiiiW ' | H y,fM»uFK.fll I 11 iOl WKI i 4Jr iSL 'K&d I i " r l pj&L wHw* MP 1 " IKsnMWwßlSii IKWWiSIrWWSW’-’-THE BIG ONE— Fullback Sam Bly'he bulldozes to paydirt for the only touchdown in Decatur's 7-0 win over Concordia Wednesday, as referee Emil Sitko signals the score. The winning TD was set up by a blocked punt by Steve Hazelwood. Other Decatur ites shown above are Bill Blythe <531, Greg Ladd <7ll, and Deane Lehman (72.1 — 'Photo by Ma-c Lean) 'j. iFiM J ' S* . Aii _ ' 1® * J. ' ' f : ■■■ ; - EGLY DEFENDING— Jerry Egly, rugged Yellow Jacket linebacker, breaks up a pass play to Cadet end John Sheets during first quarter action in Decatur's 7-0 NEIC win over Concordia Wednesday. (Photo by Mac Lean)

'■■L * ‘ '| ! l, - "W 5 . ■ w AH | . . * _lHL_.— I .F ’ I tft \ I i lA.nA LAWRENCE AND THE CORNSTALK— County highway superintendent Lawrence Noll has. to climb a ladder to even come close to the top of the fourteen-foot cornstalk which he has grown in his garden at his home near Linn Grove. The corn is a “novelty variety," and the single stalk has five ears.—< Photo by MacLeam

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1963