The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 February 1967 — Page 3

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Happiness is being about three years old and owning a puppy dog. At least little Marilyn JoAnne Martin thinks so. Little Marilyn was caught just outside a grocery store waiting for her sister, Sheila. Banner Photo—Frank Puckett, Jr.

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Choose Right Time To Show Generosity By Alfred Sheinwold It pays to be generous to the bponents—at the right time. If you pick the right time to refuse a trick you may save two tricks, and this is what econxmsts call a favorable rate of exchange. South dealer Both sides vulnerable NORTH 4 KJ 1096 VAT2 O 763 ■ * 75 WEST EAST £ S3* A AQ7 V J 1098 V 63 0 Q92 O J 1084 ♦ Q92 *110 8 6 SOUTH * 54 V KQ54 O AK5 _ * AK49 ME Wert North East 1 * Pass 1 A Pass E NT Pass 3 NT All Pass Opening lead — S? I South won the first trick with the queen of hearts and led a spade, finessing with dummy’s jack. East took the queen of spades and returned a heart. South won with the king of hearts and led another spade, playing the king from dummy. East refused this trick, but his generosity came too late. Dummy was In the lead, and declarer continued the spades to feroe out the ace. Now no matter what East returned declarer could get to dummy with the ace of hearts to cash the rest of the spades. South won three spades, three hearts, two clubs and two diamonds, making his contract with an overtrick. As we have noted, East was generous, but he picked the wrong time. Promptness is an important feature of generosity. WHEN TO REFUSE East should refuse the very first spade trick. Dummy wins, and South gets back to his hand with a diamond or club to lead another spade. From his point of view, of course, his finesse has succeeded. This time East takes his queen of spades, and now the rest of the spades are dead. Declarer can get to dummy with the ace of hearts to set up the spades, but then he can never return to dummy to cash the good spades. This defense limits South to one spade trick instead of three.

South is down one instead of scoring game with an overtrick. Prompt generosity makes a difference of 730 points. DAILY QUESTION Partner opens with one club, and the next player passes. You hold: S-A Q 7; H-6 3; D-J 10 8 4; C-J 10 8 6. What do you say? Answer: Bid one diamond. Show a new suit in response to a minor rather than raise the minor. Partner may be able to jump to game in notrump if he knows that you have the diamonds stopped. Even if he merely jumps to two notrump, you will be able to carry on to game.

15-Cent Stamp Brings $35,000 NEW YORK UPI—A 15-cent postage stamp was sold at auction for $35,000—believed the highest price ever paid for a U. S. stamp. A collector paid the record amount for one of three known copies of an 1869 issue with the center inverted. The stamp is brown and blue and portrays Christopher Columbus landing in America. The sale came during an auction at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel of unused stamps collected by the late Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., one-time president of Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis pharmaceutical manufacturing firm. The auction was the first of 10 scheduled to dispose of a vast collection which Lilly owned but of which only his closest associates knew. All the Lilly stamps are mint-unused. The first 42 lots in the sale catalogued at more than $220,000 value.

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Boa Is Afraid Of Chickens COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. UPI —Lucy, a rat-eating, 7%foot boa constrictor who’s “scared to death” of chickens and who haunts a family bar, may find herself replaced by a parrot or a monkey. It’s not what she does, but what she doesn’t do that is squirming her out of the hearts of the J. Wayne Stobridge

household.

“We’re getting beared with her,” said Mrs. Stobridge. j “Lucy used to like to swim in' a bathtub-now all she does is drink gallons of water. The last time she even ate was two weeks ago-a meal of 10 rats. | “We tried to interest her in; other things but couldn’t,” Mrs. I Stobridge said. “She’s scared to death of chickens.” And the lady of the house said the snake of the house has! even shrunk about 18 inches since she joined the family last

October.

"She’s really pretty dull,” said Mrs. Stobridge. “All she wants to do is sleep. We want something with personality. “We want to trade her off for son ething more exciting-say a 1 parrot we can teach to talk or a nice monkey.”

The Way I See It by Frank Puckett Jr.

DID YOU KNOW Clyde Miller, Street Department head, told Greehcastle City Councilmen Monday night that it cost $2,756.60 to operate the dump last year. The cost included bulldozing the debris, renting the property, and paying a man to stay at the dump. The employe hired to stay and care for the dump is supposed to collect money from commercial haulers in trucks and pick-up trucks. Residents of the city are permitted to dump free — at least they are supposed to. Last time, and by the way the only time, I have taken anything to the dump I got charged a quarter. Guess I will have to change my title. •Mayor Fisher reports that he is scheduled to talk with County officials soon about the dump situation. City residents pay for the dump while county residents use it. The Mayor hopes to work out an agreement where the cost can be split between city and county. •* •* •* $115,000 IS A LOT OF MONEY The President of the Greencastle Municipal Airport Board Howard Brackney read a letter from the board to the City Council Monday night, asking them to invest $115,000 in improvements for the airport, Brackney told the Council that the present airport, in compar- \ ison with other airports in cities of our size, wasn’t adequate. He said it would be possible to build a new runway equipped with lights plus many other facility improvements with the funds. By making these improvements Brackney said the airport 1 could then handle a little larger plane, allowing businessmen to fly in and out of the city. (Presently the airport has no paved runway. A factor obviously limiting the size of planes able to land.) The funds, according to Brackney, will be available through the state if a bill now in the legislature gets approval. He also j said it would be advisable to apply for the funds as soon as ; possible since there was a limited supply of money available. Brackney, also head of the city Water Works Department, asked the council to meet with the airport board within the next ten days to consider a plan of action. The money would be paid back through the increased traffic the airport will handle and the crops raised on airport-owed

land.

•V ** ** OUR APOLOGY Clifford Norton, City Engineer, is designing a water line relocation caused by the proposed highway improvements on Highway 240 rather than the overall plan. A story in our paper named Norton as the designer of the plans for the construction, etc. *• ** * * COURTESY OF A tip of the hat to First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company and Greencastle IGA Foodliner. The two firms got together and purchased some traffic signs for school zones throughout the

city.

The Street department posted the signs (shown below) and they have been labeled a real success.

Ruby Also Had A Brain Tumor DALLAS UPI — Jack Ruby, who died of complications from cancer Jan. 8, also had a brain tumor, an autopsy report has disclosed. The report showed Ruby died of an obstruction of the lungs caused by a massive blood clot. The secondary cause of death was lung cancer. Microscopic examination showed the brain tumor was the

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same type as found in his lungs, the report said. Cancerous material was found in the lungs, lymph glands, vertebra, liver, brain, ribs and pancreas. Ruby weighed 150 pounds at the time of death, although he usually weighed 180. Ruby, 55, shot and killed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963.

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Two Sentenced TERRE HAUTE, UPI - Charles F. Homing, Jr., 20, and Robert L. Sankey, 19, Terre j Haute, were sentenced to 1-10 year terms in the Indiana Reformatory Friday for trying to extort $13,700 from a furniture store executive last August.

Judge H. Ralph Johnston sentenced tin youths on their pleas of guilty Jan. 23. They were arrested last summer on charges they tried to extort the money from Milton Levin under threat of harm to his family.

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