Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 February 1949 — Page 3

FfUDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949

House Votes Demos' Bill On Soldier Bonus

Republican Senate - However Is Expected To Pass Measure Only In Amended Form By Eugene J. Cadou INS Staff Correspondent Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17. The Republican-controlled Senate had custody of the bonus bill today following Its quiet passage in the House, 84 to 6, late yesterday. The GOP senators are nearly certain to amend the measure to finance the bonus with a two per cent sales tax, exempting all foodstuffs and purchases under 40 cents. The House bill stipulates that the bonus shall be paid with an increase of one-fourth of one per cent in the gross income tax. Estimates are that the sales tax method could pay for the bonus in less than two years. The gross income tax increase would not be able to finance the bonus until five or six years. Rep. W. 0. Hughes, of Fort Wayne, GOP House floor leader, served notice that the Republican policy was to vote for the measure but to hold out for the sales tax method of financing it. However, the six representatives who voted against the bonus were all Republicans. They were Philip H. Willkie, of Rushville, son of the late Wendell Willkie and World War II Navy veteran; Clem Conway, Mooreland; Harry E. Danielson, Plymouth; Dudley W. Gleason, Angola; Merrett R. Monks, Winchester, and Russell I. Richardson, Lebanon. Rep. Harry Muller, Anderson Democrat and chairman of the House Public Morals Committee, announced he would seek to amend the bill prohibiting nudist camps to outlaw the disciples of Gypsy Rose Lee. The amendment would call for imprisonment for not more than one year or a SSOO fine for “any person who shall in any place willfully expose his or her'private parts in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex.”

Star Light

How good it is to step forth into the night after a day of rain and see that the sky is clear and the stars gleaming in their accustomed places. A sky that clears by daylight is full of radiance but when it clears in darkness there is a glittering promise in every winking ray of starlight. There is reassurance in such stars hung in a night sky washed clean and made ready for clear days to come. Work is done by sunlight but it is under the stars that great dreams are dreamed. There is warmth and life in the day’s sunshine; but it is the stars that lure man’s mind to the endless immensity of a universe so broad that tangible reality can never span it. . No night is so dark as a starless night, nor is any life more drab than that of one who has never known the thrill of starlight after a storm, the comfort of it and the soothing assurance of stars once more in order. Give a sailor a star to steer by and he will come home to port. Give an airman the company of a star shining clear and you have given him both certainty and direction. Give any man a star on which to fix his eye and he can reach as far as his imagination points the way. The rains come, ana the dark days of a perverse season; and

the sky clears at evening. There is a sweet smell to the darkness, the fresh fragrance of a rainwashed world. And there is the brilliance of a thousand, galaxies overhead, starlight in the clear night sky.

G. F. Woods,

GOVERNMENT RESTS

Washington, Feb. 16. The government today rested its treason case against Milford E. Gillars, “Axis Sally” of the Nazi radio after three and one-half weeks of testimony. Otto DeYoung Jr., was in Indianapolis on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry DeKock Jr., were Indianapolis visitors Monday.

Coyote State

South Dakota selected the pasque flower as its official flower, and the ringneck pheasant as the state bird. Its motto is “Under God the people rule.” r

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KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

Mr. and Mrs. George Knip spent the week-end in Chicago visiting Mr. and Mrs. Omer Fleming and family. Mrs. Fleming is the former Jeanette Knip. Mr. T. R. Abbring made a business trip to Logansport Tuesday. Mrs. Fred Boissy, who has been quite ill, is able to he out again.

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