The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1967 — Page 3

Tuesday, April 18, 1967

The Dally Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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SHEINWOLD ON BRIDGE

Bridge Teaches English Lesson By Alfred Sheinwold Students of the language know the difference between being the center of attraction and being caught in the middle. Thousands of college students . discovered the difference when they played today’s hand in the annual Intercollegiate Bridge Championships. South dealer *' East-West vulnerable NORTH A 543 i V 9 O KJ83 + Q 10 9 6 5 WEST EAST A 3 7 6 2 A KQ8 VK832 A C 742 O 10965 + K8 +J7432 SOUTH A A 10 9 S? QJ 10 7654 O AQ * A South West North East 1 V Pass 1 NT Pass 4 V All Pass Opening lead — A 2 Whenever this hand was played South took the ace of spades,

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cashed the ace of diamonds and draw both with the queen and

overtook the queen of diamonds with dummy’s king to discard a spade on the jack of diamonds. It was a good start. In most cases declarer then held dummy’s nine of hearts. East took the ace of hearts, cashed a spade, and then led the ten of diamonds to put South’s trumps in the middle. If South ruffed low, West would over-ruff at once with the eight of hearts. The king of hearts would later take the setting trick. MUST DISCARD If South ruffed with the ten of hearts, West could defeat the contract by discarding. West would still have K-8-3 of trumps and would surely win two trump tricks from South, who held QJ 7 6 5; West must not overruff when the fourth diamond is led, since then West has only 8-3 of trumps and South can

jack. South can avoid the awkward position by leading dummy’s fourth diamond to discard another spade before he touches trumps. When East gets in with the ace of trumps he has no diamonds to lead; and if East lead a spade, South can safely ruff with a low trump. DAILY QUE«riON Partner opens with one heart, and the next player passes. You hold: S-K Q 8; H-A; D-10 9 6 5; C-J 7 4 3 2. What do you say? Answer: Bid one no trump. Even though you have 10 points in high cards, you should not bid two clubs. The clubs are too weak, and you have no fit for hearts. You would bid two clubs if partner opened with one spade, since you would plan to show the spade support at your next turn.

Vehicle Safety Check Begins Next Month

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The voluntary vehicle safety check program which begins in Indiana next month may be the last before the start of mandatory vehicle inspection. A 1967 law—and the 1967-69 state police budget—appear to assume the program of mandatory checking would start in 1969. But officials of both the Indiana State Police and the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety are discussing the implication of a phrase in that law which may mean starting mandatory checking in 1968 instead of 1969. The new law says that “on or after Jan. 1, 1969” no vehicle subject to the inspection shall be allowed to drive on the highways. It provides that the new four-member board, which comes into existence this July 1, can postpone the deadline to July 1, 1969. State Police Supt. Robert O’Neal said that the 25 addij tional troopers authorized for the establishment of the vehicle check program would not be enough to get the plan into operation next year. But he said as soon as Governor Branigin appoints the new board his de- : partment will confer to determine if it wants to try to begin some checking in 1968. O’Neal said it might be possible to assign some regular troopers to assist the 25 designated for manning the inspection stations and their mechanics. Since there are about 2.7 million vehicles to be inspected, state police figure that on the" basis of experience in other states, at least 3,000 inspection stations will be needed. ONeal said that while the main authority for the new in-

spection rests on the board, state police “must go around and check to see if the stations comply to the board’s rules as to equipment and space.” “It’s got to be clean with no fraud or irregularities,” O’Neal said of the inspection station system. Director Floyd A. Kline, Sr., of the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety, who is supervising the voluntary check beginning in May, said his agency would continue with a voluntary check in 1968 in the event the state police and the new board find they are unable to get the mandatory program rolling next year.

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I* in a series. Some diaries and letters written by women involved in the great westward migration that had impetus in 1867 are preserved. They reveal, among many interestingly revelatory details, what of all their household possessions women chose to take on the long treks by wagon, boat, or both. ' Naturally, wagonloads had limitations imposed by the maneuverability on rough trails; fording of streams; the capability of the owner’s draft-animals; the necessity of quick movements on occasion wherever Indian hostility manifested itself. Necessities of existence had primary consideration. There was scant room for anything else. It naturally was devoted to belongings to to which family associations or sentiments were attached strongly. Certainly, if a wife’s

wishes prevailed at all, her wedding gown, any baby clothes, and the cradle of her children went. Because of their being kept resolutely by mothers, some families possess cradles or cribs that crossed the Appalachians, Kentucky, the South or West with pioneers. Cradles are among the comparatively few articles of house furnishings of which a collector can obtain samples spanning most of American history. To make cradles more attractive to couples faced with moving about, a manufacturer marketed in 1867 a rocking chair that could be taken apart and reassembled into a rocking crib for baby. Another new device was a self-rocking cradle, operated by windup clockwork. CLARK KINNAIRD

Left: Self-rocking cradle, powered by clockwork, that was patented in 1864. Right: a combination of rocking chair and cradlo that was brand new for new mothers in 1867.

NOTES AND QUOTES from BETTY H. SENDMEYER County Extension Agent • Home Economics

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On The Farm Front

About 80 million tons of freight travel up or down the Mississippi River annually. Lake Ontario is the lowest of the Great Lakes.

By Bernard Brenner WASHINGTON UPI —Farm “strikes,” or withholding actions, will not help farmers win effective bargaining power, according to a government farm official. David W. Angevine, head of the farmer cooperative service of the Agriculture Department, makes that blunt statement in the current issue of a magazine published by his agency. Angevine did not mention the milk holding action launched by the National Farmers Organization last month, but on farm

strikes generally, he said: “Yesterday’s farmer could strike. He could keep some of his products from the market indefinitely. Tomorrow, however, an increasing number of farmers will need—first and foremost—a place to deliver their products. With that assured, they’re in a position to seek a fair price.” The department official also listed some of the ways in which he thinks farmers can build an assured market. These included farmer ownership of food packing, canning and proc-

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Traffic Sign Survey By Insurance Agents

Motor vehicle transportation has contributed much to the advance of the American way of life, but at the same time it has become both an economic affliction and a humanitarian challenge to the American people. Last year, more than 50,000 were killed, approximately four million injured, and $13 billion were lost as a result of traffic accidents. An estimated 100,000 households are affected to a major degree annually by accidents on our roads and highways, and the nation’s economy suffers a loss of over 500,000 man-years of productive time. As complex and imaginationstaggering as the dimensions of the traffic safety problem are, we are happy to note one group of public-spirited citizens doing something about reducing this traffic toll. Through the efforts of our own county Association of Independent Insurance Agents, a carefully controlled survey of traffic signs in Putnam County will be conducted during Protection Week, April 16-22. The agents will attempt to locate traffic signs which are obscured, which are in a dilapidated or unreadable condition, and which do not meet uniform state or national standards. The results of the survey, noting the condition of each traffic sign in the covered area, will be given to government units for study and follow-up. The benefits will be immediate as well as long-range, for besides providing an extensive study of the condition of traffic signs in general, the survey will also give the various communities a check-up on defective installation which can be quickly repaired. In connection wtih the local

efforts Mayor Raymond S. Fisher has issued the following proclamation: To The Citizens of the City of Greencastle WHEREAS, The National Association of Insurance Agents is seeking to promote the safety and welfare of the American people, and WHEREAS, motor vehicles are resonsible for the largest number of accidental deaths throughout the United States, and WHEREAS, uniform and legible traffic signs can significantly reduce this tragic toll on our highways and streets, and WHEREAS, there are in the City of Greencastle member agents of the Putnam. Association of Independent Insurance

Agents who have public-spirit-edly pledged to conduct a survey of traffic signs in cooperation with (Police Dept., Traffic Dept., Dept, of Public Safety, etc.) during the week of April 16-22, 1967, and WHEREAS, the citizens of our City are being asked to cooperate with these agents and to recognize their public service role as responsible members of the community, NOW, THEREFORE, as Mayor of the Ctiy of Greencastle, I hereby proclaim the week of April 16 through 22, 1967 as "PROTECTION WEEK” and I urge all citizens to support this worthwhile activity during this period. Signed: Raymond S. Fisher Mayor

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Prince Has A

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LONDON UPI — Prince Charles appeared in public Monday night for the first time with a girl friend—tall, blonde and very anonymous. Queen Elizabeth II's 18-year-old son and heir to the throne escorted the girl through a barrage of gaping commoners and into a theater whera she stole the show. The fashionable audience at a West End revival of Noel Coward’s play “Fallen Angels” squirmed, stretched necks and nudged each other in frustrated attempts to identify the royal date. It was in vain. Royal attendants kept stiff lips. Buckingham Palace , spokesmen declined to comment. Theater folk from stars to stage door keeper refused to talk. They said they had “orders.” Charles, the mysterious miss, the prince’s sister Princess Anne, her escort, Charles’ aunt Princess Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon kept to themselves. They perhaps were the only persons in the audience who focused their eyes on the stage. A few persons clustered close when Charles arrived. After all it was the first public drive for

the prince with the Beatle hairdo since he got his license last week. But the crowd mushroomed when the blonde appeared. In the past Charles had attracted special attention by breaking his nose in a rugby match, in appearances singing and playing the cello, trumpet and guitar and once by slipping away from school for a nip of cherry brandy. But romance. Never. Continental newspapers said last year Charles had a girl friend. London society circles pooh poohed the idea. Charles, who for years has escorted only sister Anne in public, and the girl with the unknown face both dressed informally, Charles in a black suit and bow tie. Inside the theater Princess Margaret, usually the center of attention, was upstaged by Charles’ girl. The princess dropped her purse. It was a long moment before nearby theater - goers took their eyes off the blonde, scrambled for the purse and handed it to Snowdon. After the show Charies drove off with Anne, her escort and the Girl.

essing plants, of nationally advertised brand names; and of merchandising facilities. “This farmer ownership is the road that we In the farmer cooperative service believe many farmers will travel if they are to gain enough power to bargain effectively for fair prices,” Angevine said. He contended most farmers today do not have effective bargaining power and Americans, both farmers and city people, agree that farmers should have more to say about prices they get. There does not seem to be any fear among consumers that they would be hurt if farmers had more bargaining power, Angevine said, adding if that there is no substantial belief that strong farm bargaining power would push food prices beyond the reach of the American consumer. In developing bargaining strength, however, he argued that most farmers are too specialized to afford a strike. A generation ago, an Iowa farmer might dump the milk from a few cows as a means of forcing prices up, the article said. But in those days the farmer could afford it, at least temporarily, because he had some com, some hay, a few hogs and some egg money. But today, said Angevine, the farmer that used to milk a few cows may be milking 50; the farmer may have $100,000 invested in equipment and he may have a skilled dairyman on his payroll. Keeping the product of this specialized farm off the market, he argued, is not a realistic bargaining alternative.

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Check the fabric labels to see what you are getting in the way of shrinkage control, fiber content, weave and finishes. You might consider a fabric treated for durable press or soil and stain resistance. The easier care may be worth the extra initial cost. Whether the fabric you choose is plain, double woven or one of the new self-lined, check to see that the finish or the pattern is applied true to the i grain. This is important to cutting fabric correctly and matching patterns. It also affects the draperies’ hanging qualities and I appearance. The new self-lined ! fabric has a synthetic material ! applied to the back. The purpose is to make lining unnecesArmy Fighting Huge Oil Slick WELLFLEET, Mass. UPI — Army engineers manned bulldozers while conservationists used towels and detergent today to fight a mysterious discharge of crude oil contaminating Cape Cod’s beaches and killing hundreds of birds. But the Coast Guard called off efforts to trace the source of the massive oil slick which moved in Sunday along a 35mile stretch of the eastern shore of Cape Cod from Provmcetown to Chatham. The oil was reported spreading over the sand today. A Coast Guard spokesman discounted reports that the heavy black oil was the same as that seen floating off the New Jersey coast late Friday. “If it is the same slick, why didn’t it come ashore in Nantucket or Long Island?” he asked. “We figure it came south or southeast of the Cape and could have been dumped 5 or 105 miles off the coast.”

I sary and to provide some insulj ation. , Deciding how much fabric to buy may be a problem. Tin width of the area to be curtained will help determine the mosl economical width of fabric to buy. Be sure to allow three oi four inches (or a double bottom hem) per panel for adjusting the length should the fabric shrink. To match patterned fabrics, allow an extra pattern repeat for each length of fab-

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