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Tuesday, September 26, 1967

The Dally Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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CONTRACT BRIDGE By B. Jay Becker (Tap Record-Holder in Master*' Individual Championship Ploy)

South deaJer. North-South vulnerable NORTH 4 10 7 6 2

4 Q863 4 K10 9 4

WEST EAST 4 4 AK Q J 4 4KJ97632 4A4 4954 4 10 72 4632 4875

SOUTH 49853 9 Q 10 8 4 AK J 4AQJ

The bidding: South West North East 1 NT 2 4 2 NT Dble Opening lead — seven

hearts.

I have it on excellent authority that this deal occurred in a match in England between two teams of medical students. At the first table, the bidding went as shown and South wound up playing the hand at two no trump doubled. It is possible that North's two notrump bid might be regarded by many as an exaggeration and distortion of his values, but ours is not to reason why—we merely report what happened. East naturally had some doubts that this contract could be made, so he doubled. Apparently the standard of play at the table was much higher than the standard of bidding, be-

cause the defense proceeded to function in the most approved style and exacted the maximum

penalty'.

East took the heart lead with the ace, cashed his five spades, and returned a heart. All told, the defense scored twelve tricks and South went down 2,000. There must have been something peculiar about the North hand which appealed more to the medical eye than it would to most practitioners of bridge, because the bidding at the second table followed this strange

course:

South West North East 1 NT 2 4 2 4 Pass 3 4 Pass Pass Dble The East player at this table was likewise assailed by doubts that North-South could make their contract, and he, too, doubled. After leading the ace of hearts, he cashed the A-K-Q-J of trumps and played another heart. This permitted West to cash all his hearts, and, after the dust had settled, the autopsy revealed that South had gone down eight—2,400 points, counting East’s 100 honors. So the outcome was that the pair who went down. 2,000 at the first table actually showed a profit of 400 points on the deal. My sources do not reveal whether they viewed the escapade as a triumph for their bidding methods, but, judging by results, they clearly outbid their op-

ponents.

GOP may go along on LBJ's tax surcharge

WASHINGTON UPI—A key taxes, is designed to bring in House Republican indicated about $7.5 billion in revenue. Monday the GOP might go Byrnes’ demand that the analong with a Johnson adminis- ticipated deficit be cut in half tration compromise to break would mean, under present the deadlock over the Presi- forecasts, that the spending redent’s proposed 10 per cent tax

surcharge.

Rep. John W. Byrnes, Wis., ranking GOP member of the tax-writing House Ways &

Means Committee, declared gy United Press International

that a tax increase was un-1 avoidable and proposed that

ductions would have to total about $7 billion. Currently, the Ways & Means Committee is bogged down in a stalemate with the administration over the tax in-

crease. The committee wants the President to spell out spending cuts before it asks House members to vote for a politically unpopular tax increase.

5 more die on Hoosier highways

Mrs. Sylvia Verndy, 34, Mar- j was killed Monday in a two-

Congress couple it with a ceiling on nondefense spending. He said the federal spending cuts and the revenues from the proposed tax increase should be planned to reduce the anticipated $29 billion federal budget deficit for this fiscal year by half. Byrnes’ proposal, contained in a speech to be delivered to the American Bankers Association today in New York, indicated that the committee and the administration w'ere moving close to an agreement on the tax issue. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler floated a simlar trial balloon last week. He said the admnistration would go along if Congress wanted to link a tax increase directly to cuts in spending. The President’s proposal, a 10 per cent surcharge on personal and corporate Income

tinsville, who was injured cri-

tically.

Five persons were killed Monday in Indiana traffic accidents, including a mother and son in a Johnson County crash, to in-1 crease the state’s 1967 fatality

toll to at least 1,065, compared | struck a ditch embankment, with 1,137 a year ago. Her daughter, Sheryl, 1, was

car collision on U. S. 40 in Clay

County.

Judy Barnett, 16, Wabash, died Monday in a Wabash hospital from injuries suffered Sat-

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Mrs. Irene Burton, 33, Franklin, and her son, John, 12, were killed Monday when their car collided with another auto on Indiana 252, two miles east of Trafalgar. Police said their car; pulled from a county road into the path of a car driven by

Annie Yeagy, 25, Summitville, was killed Monday when her car went out of control on

U. S. 35 west of Marion and I urday in a crash on Indiana 15

south of Wabash. Her death increased the weekend toll to 12. Army Sgt. Bobby Lowe, 20, Greens Fork, died Monday in a hospital at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio from in- 1 juries suffered last Thursday, in a crash on Indiana 1 near

I injured seriously.

Wayne Dickmeyer, 18. Vallonia, was killed Monday when his motorcycle collided with a

train near Seymour.

Let's have a book on Apathy

(By DICK WEST) i Apathy is going to the book WASHINGTON UPI —First counter in a drug store and

in Playbov Magazine. Apathy is learning

that

we had a rash of "happiness is” books. “Happiness is having a beautiful neighbor who undresses with the shades up.” etc. Then we had a rash of “misery is” books. “Misery is sticking out your hand to make a left turn and hitting a traffic cop in the mouth.” etc. There a’-o have been a few books dealing in this fashion with other emotions. But none that I have seer touches on the most predominant emotion of all: apathy. Sooner or later, I’m sure,

someone will get around to year subscription to compiling an “apathy is” book, gressional Record.

Meanwhile, perhaps the follow- Apathy is Phyllis Diller in a

discovering that a new “happi- Doris Day is making another ness is” book has been publish-; picture. ed. Apathy is the latest magaApathy is turning to the zine article giving the inside television page in jour news- story of William Manchester’s paper and reading that five of feud with the Kennedys. this season’s new situation Apathj’ is a joke about Bobcomedy shows are going off the by Kennedy’s hair, air next month. Apathy is a Television footApathy is hearing that ball commentator’s third ex“Valley of the Dolls” is being pianation of what a “pass patmade into a movie. | tern” is.

Apathy is another magazine photograph showing the upper

half of Liz Taylor.

Apathy is being given a one-

the Con-

Edith Altman, 70, Reelsville, i Hagerstown. Famed Scollay square dies Monday at 283

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LOCAL OPERATOR HONORED -Mrs. Evelyn Hanneman has been honored by General Telephone as its “operator of the month” in Greencastle. Selection of an operator for the special recognition each month is based on the number of calls handled by the operator, her co-operation, courtesy, and dedication to customer service, and her attendance. Mrs. Hanneman handled an average of 24 calls per hour during August and has not been absent from work in the past seven j r ears. She has missed only seven days of work in her 16 years of employment by General Telephone. Mrs. Hanneman and her husband. Robert, reside at 306 East Hanna Street.

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Apathy is a fifth commercial during a situation break on the Johnn Carson show. Apathy is a freshman sena-

Apathy is the printed matter, Lor denjing he is a candidate for the vice presidential nomi-

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Wall Street Chatter

NEW YORK UPI—E. F. Hutton & Co. says market strength at the moment seems to be more narrowly based than it was in the first eight months of the j’ear. Such a condition, according to the company, dictates the need for much greater selectivity and a positive investment and trading approach.

Shearson, Hammill & Co. says the near term outlook for the market appears to be favorable, with the line of least resistance apparently on the upside. It suggests that investors keep a constructive attitude toward the market for the time being.

The Alexander Hamilton Institute notes that the demand for equities continues strong, despite the administration’s tax surcharge proposal. The analjst says investors apparently are convinced that “a strong dose of inflation lies ahead,” with or without a tax boost.

The Navy Department was created by an Act of Congress April 30, 1898.

By court decree. Vermont’s full eastern border, the Connecticut River, belongs to New Hampshire.

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BOSTON UPI — Scollay Square, the sailor’s delight in puritanical Boston, died Mon-

day. It was 283.

to the war zone, soldiers and sailors went to what one police court judge called “the cross-

roads of hell.”

The old Howard got its beginning as a church, but was

„ . , changed to a theater after the who used Boston as a jumpoff | Rey wmiam Miller an , e spot for Europe during World of doom miscalculated the end

Wars I and II, passed into his-

The square, a haven to thousands of sailors and soldiers

of the world. When the world continued past April 23. 1843, Miller and his “Millerites” le^t

the area.

The old Howard became a theater w'here the world’s great

tory when Mayor John F. Collins signed a proclamation renaming the area Government Center, site of the city’s new government buildings — fed-

eral, state and local.

actors and actresses performed

But the new multistoried halls Shakespeare. Edwin Booth was

of bureaucracy never will re- a st ar attraction,

place the legendary old Howard! As the buildin? becamc a burlesque theater. Joe’n Nemo’s vaudeville and then burlesque hot dog parlor, the tattoo em- j palace Fred A1 , en Sophie poriums, arcades, shooting gal-! Tucker . Ann Corio, Phil Silvers leries, photo shops and bars that and Abbott and Costello led the

lured the servicemen. I parade of stars .

A stone’s throw from Boston’s But with the arrival of urban waterfront and the Charlestown ; renewal, the famed square be-

pounds, Young reportedly Navy Yard, Scollay Square drew gan to die. There still are reshas suicidal tendencies and i servicemen like only a honky taurants and stores in the area, should be considered armed tonk district can. but it retains little, if any. of

ADDED TO LIST—Henry Theodore Young, 56, bom in Kansas City, Mo., has been added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list He is charged with escaping from Washington State Penitentiary while serving a life sentence for first degree murder. Standing S'S” tall and weighing 135 to 140

and extremely dangerous.

Sent to Boston for the last | the atmosphere of the wartime night or three before heading Scollay Square.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE of REAL ESTATE

Thursday, October 5, 10:00 A.M.

1967

and day to day thereafter until sold at the Central National Bank of Greencastle. Parcel I 80 Acres, less a railroad right-of-way, in section 2, Russell Township, located three miles East of Russellville and mile North of State Road 236. This property has a solid seven room house, two metal ear corn cribs, good well, and other farm buildings. Approximtaely 14 acres of open pasture, the remainder in woods— good potential. Parcel II Lot One (1) in Block (1) in T J. McGans, East addition to the town of Russellville. This property is located on the southeast corner of Third Street and Warren Street in Russellville. Parcel III Lot One (1) in Block (3) in the Town of South Russellville. This house is a solid five room house that is suitable for remodeling, has a new gas wall furnace and gas tank that sell with property. Parcel IV Part of Lots 4 & 5, Block (2) in the Town of South Russellville. A business (former Hardware & Implement Store) with 50 feet of frontage with large metal covered shed in wear, located on Main Street in Russlelville Terms: Cash —10°o down of time of sale—balance upon delivery of deed—sale subject to the approval of the Putnam Circuit Court. Bids should be made at the office of the undersigned. For additional information or appointment contact: CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK OF GREENCASTLE Administrator CTA Fred McGaughey 24 West Washington Street Greencastle, Indiana James M. Houck, Attorney

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