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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
TAXES COME FIRST

You're hard put TO find anything which less
than did 10 years But there service used by all
of which that is true-eleccy In the past decade, the
cost of living has risen 80 centhe the average resden
tial bill for power has gone down about six per cent,
At present. considerable number of power companies
pe+ionng public service commissions for moderate
increases The for that that the rise in par
cuary taxes has of last than offset financial advantages
resulting from operating economies end increased consumption
Last year. according to Wall Street Journal story the
industry Federal taxes Jumped Is per the
1850 figure Fuel costs went 3 cent and wages and
salaries 10 cent In 10 years the OF such necessary
materials copper and wood poles has about doubled 1t
used TO cost around 500 kowa Of capacity build
generating pian+-now The price may three fines that
Under such conditions existing electric rates many
stances too low TO pay the b to return fair profit the
investors and thus attract capital for the indusy vital
expansion proersma program which is expected to
10000 600 for this year alone.
Power, despite any rate increases. will still
mendous bargain for the domestic agricultural and industrial
alike 1t is interesting fact that companies
port that half of the additional money they request
rate increases will for taxes That's the sorry trend of
the times.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
LANGUAGE STUDY EASIER

CINCINNATI tAP)-Learning
foreign languages is not the tedi-
Gus grind it once was-at least not
at the University of Cincinnati.
Here the students have large
soundproof laboratory where they
get acquainted informally with the
language while they learn it. They
have foreign language records and
movies, a tape recorder and a
short-wave radio for foreign sta
tion and Voice of American
broadcasts.
The four hours of lab work are
in addition to three hours of reg
ular classroom study each week.
One beginning class conducted a
debate entirely in Spanish after
only four months study.
DR.. Chesley M. Hutchings, act
ing head of the department of ro-
nance languages, originated the
group study method a number of
years ago. The laboratory has
been in operation since 1850.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
The World TODAY

WASHINGTON, (APl - You
can always kill a chicken, with
out leaving tell-tale feathers
around, by showing it into a
cooler till it freezes to death.
Congress has a special deep
freeze of its own on hand when it
wants to avoid an embarrassing
situation, like a showdown vote
on UNIT.
1t simply sends the bill back to
Il committee for further study
even though that same commit
tee already had knocked itself out
studying the bill,
That's what the House did with
a bill on Universal Military
Training. And. as usual, rigor
mortiS was detected Immediately.
The subject Of UNIT is, and has
been, a hot potato. President
Truman, General Eisenhower, and
the veterans and service organi-
cations all favor it,
AgaiSt it were the AFL, CIO,
farm groups, some educators,
Spokesmen for several churches,
and a lot of parents. Particular
Iy a lot of parents.
So the house Armed Service
Committee knew it was walking
on eggs when early this year it
began hearings on a UNIT bill.
IT held hearings 10 days and
listened to 70 witnesses. for and
against, 1t proddcd. probed, and
looked under the bed.
Finally, by a vote Of 26 to 7,
the committee members decided
we should go ahead with UNIT
and drew up a bill to do just
that.
This bill would have permitted
the government to start a small
experimental UMT program next
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
ROTARIhNS IN
ATTENDANCE CONTEST

DU QUOIN. Ill. (AP) Pinck-
neyville Rotarians wheeled an ac-
cident victim into a Rotary meet
ing in their efforts to win an at
tendance contest with the Du
Quoin club.
Moreover the Pinckneyville
member was wheeled into the Du
Quoin club to get credit on Pinck-
neyville's record. It's rule that
visitors attendance be credited to
home clubs.
The visitor was Ray Shute who
had been injured at Pinckneyville.
He had not been released from
the hospital in time to attend his
home clubs weekly meeting, so
he was taken to Du Quoin in an
ambulance.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
PRISONER TALKS
Near DEAD END

MUNSAN, MARCH 14-(AP)
Prisoner exchange talks neared
a dead end today and u. n.
truce negotiators suggested turn
ing the whole problem back to
staff officers.
Rear Adm. r. f. Libby said
the negotiations are at a virtual
standstill and progress will be
al best extremely slow"
The Communists promised to
think it over. They may reply
tomorrow.
Libby didn't indicate how he
thought staff officers might crack
the apparently hopeless deadlock.
Less than three weeks ago staff
officers begged down on the issue
oi voluntary repatriation and
handed the problcm back to Lib
by and other top level delegates
on the truce subcommittee
A second group of negotiators
working on armistice supervision
met for almost az hours, their
longest session yet.
Col. Andrew J. Kinney said the
Communists hit dizzy new
high in intransigence and illogic,"
bringing the negotiations to
dismal new low"
Nonetheless, Kinney said "we
now have a clear circle drawn
around the things that might be
solved"
Kinney said the Communists
apparently are ready TO bargain
On the scope of a clause banning
naval blockades during an armis-
tice.
The Reds indicated they would
approve insertion of Korea" in
the clause This would allay u. N.
Command fears that the armistice
might ban possible naval action
along the China coast or in For
moSan waters.
In return, Kinney said, the
allies would drop demands that
each side report the location of
I'll major military units and agree
not 20 concentrate its armies to
post threat to the other side.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
SOUTH S0L0N
By Mrs. Ruth Diffendal
Phone 3271
FnVn0 Ef j

The Loyal Circle Class ofthe
Congregational Christian Church
met on Tuesday evening in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron
jerks with Mrs. Keith RoWand
presiding. Plans were made for a
bake sale. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Riegel, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Theobald, Mr..
Mrs. and Mrs. Ralph Sexton and
Patty O'Rouke, Mr.. and Mrs. c..
c. Rowand, Mr.. and Mrs. Kieth
Rowand, Mrs. Weldon Fast, Mrs.
Robert Banion, Mrs. Clifford Gle
mans, Mrs Jay Gossard, Mrs. Gail
Clark and Bobby Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Forest mover
cut of the Davis property to
South Charleston last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Duncan are
residing in the Daniels property
coming here from Jeffersonville.
Patty O'Rouke of Clarion Pa,
is visiting with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Sexton until
Easter season.
The following attended the
open gate Garden Club at the
home of Mrs. c. p. Roberts near
Newport, Wednesday. Mr.. Jay
Gossard, Mrs. Harry Theobald,
Mrs Joe Daugherty, Mrs Paul
Daughertv, Mrs. Luther Rehm
Mrs. Clifford Clemans, Mrs. Kieth
Rowand, Mrs. Gail Clark, Mrs.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

c. c. Rowand and Mrs. Pauline
Dudley.
Lynda Ruth Bennett is recover
ing from a tonsil operation Thurs
Gay at jamestown.
The Golden Rule Class of the
Methodist Church met on Friday
evening in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ancil Spears. Those attend
ing were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Crabtree, Mr.. and Mrs. Dick
jerks, Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman
Bently and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Devoe and family, Mr..
and Mrs. ChaS. Lutz and family,
Mr." and Mrs. LaWton Brackney
and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Pierce and family and Mrs.
Rhoda Butler
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred DEMENT, and
Mrs. Minnie DeMent visited on
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Marshall and family near Xenia.
Mrs. Francrs Womacks and
children andJo Anne Murry were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Maynard and family at
Springfield.
Mrs Paul Hycr, Connie and
Phillip, Mrs. Howard Murry and
10 Anne and Miss Anabelle Davis
attended several television pro-
grams in Cincinnati Mondoy.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
Pirates and Smugg|ers
bedeviI the Far East

MANILA-Rumors of a sudden
upsurge in piracy, smuggling and
slave trading in the iSland-stud-
oed Celebes Sea have reached thu
foreign offices of three nations
Comely Indonesian girls, kid
naped from their island homes.
are said to be appearing in tho
harems of More (Mohammedanl|
chieftains on Mindanao Island inl
the Philippines.
The girls command a high price,
on the Illicit slave market. They
repeatedly are plucked from In
donesian coastal villages by bold
Moro pirates who slip in underl
cover of darkness, then flee in
small boats powered by brightly
colored sails. Many clude naval
patrol craft among the reefs and
atolls.
Arms Smuggling Rumors
There have been other ugly
rumors of guns and ammunition
flowing into secthing West Irian
Dutch New Guinca), where the
Dutch and Indoncsians accuse
each other of melting the natives
10 revolt
Both nations claim West Irian.
Guns and bullets from the Philip
pines are reported to be in great
demand-just as in the days when
Indoncsians were battling 10 win
their independence from the
Netherlands.
Smuggling, piracy and slave
trading arc an old story in the
waters south Of the Philippines.
However, the problem became one
requiring action at the diplomatic
level because of reports that
pirates and smugglcrs are branch
ing out, coupled with unrest in
West Irian.
Report Requested
The Philippines foreign office
has asked Indonesia for full
accounting of reports that scores
of Philippines citizens are in
Indonesian jails.
In a campaign to stamp out
pirates and smugglers. the Indo-
nesian government has strength
ened coastal patrols and report
cdly has jailed anyone picked up
without an official permit.
The drive was ordered origin
ally TO curb the depredations of
Moro pirates who seized copra
boats off Indonesia, then sold
the cargoes in British North
Borneo.
Indonesia wants the Philippines
to do something about kidnapers.
Resistance Expected
If the reports are true, the
Moros could be expected to re-
sist any attempt to interfere
While they are Philippines citi'
zens, they never have been
actually conquered.
The Spanish, the Americans,
and finally the Filipinos all have
tried without success to subdue
the fierce Mohammedan warriors.
The Philippines national bur
eau of investigation and congress
sional committees have been
probing smuggling activities.
There never has been an official
disclosure of what they found.
The Netherlands government is
keenly interested and is making
its own investigation Both Indo-
nesian and Netherlands diplomats
have been in consultation with
the foreign office here.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
LOTS OF JOBS

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)
Vacant jobs in Australia are
fewer today, but there is still
plenty of employment
Secretary Fl. A. Bland, of the
Labor and National Service De-
partment, said the number of va
cant jobs in this Dominion fell
from 10000 to 100000 between
August, 1851, and last month.
Bland told newsmen the demand
for workers in many industries is
still in excess of supply. However.
there has been falling off of
employment in the clothing, foot
wear. textile and radio industries,
he said.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
CLAIMED But
DISALL0WED

WASHINGTON Up Once
upon a time, as March ID crept
up on him, certain taxpayer
fell to brooding about the high
cost-to him--of running the
government.
And so he looked through the
fine print of the tax laws, and
there he discovered a loophole.
Medical expenses, it said
there included amounts paid for
the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of dis
ease, or for the purpose of affect
ing any structure or function of
the body
So, happily. the taxpayer listed
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
PLAN SCRAP DRIVE

The second meeting of The
Stokes Champions was held at
So Solon school house March 8.
Mr. Eby talked about organi-
zing the club.
We planned a scrap drive for
March11, to raise funds for the
Club Treasury. The next meeting
will be held at So. Solon school
April 3.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14
ACCOUNTS IMPROVED

First and final accounts in the
following estates have been al
lowed and confirmed in probate
court: Jay d. Ferguson admins
traitor estate of Bertha j. Reese
Jay d. Ferguson, administrator
estate of Clarence B. Reese; For
rest E. Sidener, Jr., guardian
Lawrence G. Black; Maurice Z.
Hull, guardian Fret E. Hull; H.
B. Walker administrator estate of
Harry c. Robey; Hazel G. Camp
bell executrix estate of Charles c.
Campbell; Robert E. Wright, ad-
ministrator estate of Albert Kel-
ley; fourth and final account of
D. H. Jackman, guardian of James
Garfield Hoosier.
INVENTORIES APPROVED
An estate of S14,79225, all real
estate, was left by Helen Barbara
Gahm, late of Stokes township, ac-
cording to inventory in probate
court. Elmer Sampson Calm is
executor and Ernest Vallery, Paul
Butcher and Fred Rihl, appraisers.
An estate of $6,90581 was left
by Anna Cunningham, late of
Summerford township, S4,760 real
estate and 50, 1851 personal pro-
perty according to inventory in
Ia Ntttn AfYafT
ham is administrator and George
Myers, Frank Brady and Leon
King, appraisers.
LICENSE ASKED
! Abraham Watts, chain maker,
South Vienna, No. l and Rose
Marie Forsha, London No. a.
Arthur Borders, carpenter, Co.
lumbus and Dorothy Anne Morris,
typist, Lilly Chapel.
LICENSES GRANTED
Chester Epperhart and Ruby
Settle.
Vernon Lee Martin and Virginia
L. Venrick.
Abraham Watts and Rose Marie
ForSha.
DIVORCE ASKED
Dorothea M. Reynolds VS. O.
Emerson Reynolds.
Joseph Warner VS. Roberta War
ner.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Sarah Louise Stoker and George
B. Stoker to John n. Schlabach
and Mary Schlabach 1870 acres
in Canaan township.
Albert J. Braithwaite and Kath-
ryn BraithWaite to Ralph L. Good
son and Thelma Goodson lot 40 in
original town of Jefferson.
George E. Wickline TO Benjamin
Franklin Warnock and Dorothy
Jean Warnock lot l in George f.
Wickline subdivision of city of
London.
Raymond f. Laybourne and
Blanche A. Laybourne to Douglas
w Davis and Faye K. Davis, west
y Of lot No. 5 in the subdivision
of Outlot 2 in Gould and Waldon's
addition to city of London
Raymond T. Laybourne and
Blanche A. Laybourne to Walter
Z. Bussey and Lois F. Bussey
east Il of lot No. 5 in the SUBJ
division of Outlot 2 in Gould and
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14


eau, of course, turned him down
on all these deductions. But he
carried the matter to court-and
won out on almost every item!.
This reduced his net income, for
tax purposes, to zero.
And thee only flaw i'm an other
wise delightful story is that the
taxpayer is purely imaginary and
so is the court decision in his
favor.
Both were made up by John P.
Hodgkin, certified accountant
for Price, Waterhouse & Co., Phil
adelphia, who wrote a tongue-in-
cheek piece on the subject in the
current issue of Taxes" a maga-
zine published by Commerce
Clearing House, Inc, of Chicago.
Officials at the Internal Rev
enue Bureau here were much
amused by the article and said
they felt sure nobody would take
it seriously enough to claim any
of the recommended" deductions
all of which actually are per-
sonal expenses and can't be de-
Quoted.
They said all the items listed in
the article have been claimed by
actual taxpayers as medical ex-
penses at one time or another
and always have been disallowed
There was, for instance, the
fellow who claimed a $500 deduc-
ton for liquor on medical grounds.
Said he sometimes felt he'd die if
he didn't have a drink.
There is, officials said, one real
loophole: If you buy liquor on a
doctors prescription, you can de-
duct the cost of it as a medical
expense. But if it turns out the
doctor is your brother, and that
he comes around to split the pre-
scription with you and your
friends, you can't even get away
with that deduction.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-03-14

who voted to return it to the
committee.
One-third of the senator's face
the voters this year, too. The
senate could vote on UNIT on
its own hook, no matter what the
House does, although it couldn't
be law without House action.
But since UNIT apparently is
a dead chicken in the house cool
er, no matter what the Senate
does. The Senate isn't likely to
stick its neck out needlessly. AS
Winston Churchill might have
said: some chicken, some neck"
The Key West citizen., 1952-08-21
|DeLand Shuts
Out Leesburg
BY NEIL cILsRlDE

AoSOStobWo rTeoS SIuU WSuWt
The DeLand Red Hats shut Out
the Leesburg Packers 60 Wednes
day night to keep 5l4 games ou
in front of the rest of the Floridc
State League.
And with only 10 more nights
play, that looked like a pretty safe
margin for DeLand, who won the
first half pennant by only 1h
games.
In other games Jacksonville
Beach edged Sanford 6-5, Orlando
beat Cocoa 81 and Daytona Beach
defeated Palatka 90.
The Daytona Beach Islanders,
second place in the league, used
eight hits and four Palatka errors
to win their game. Palatka put
men on base n every inning and
it took three Daytona Beach pitch
ers to put down threatened rally
in the ninth.
George Klarman pitched his 14th
victory of the year over last-place
Cocoa.
Jacksonville Beach Relief Pitch
er Bill Herman scotched a ninth
inning Sanford rally to win that
game. Runners were on first and
third with two out when Herman
got Sanford batter to hit into a
force play.
The Key West citizen., 1952-08-21
COCA COLA WINS
OVER VX-l, 10 TO l

The Coca Cola nine strengthened
their hold on the lead in the Is
land City Softball league with a
l0-1 victory over the VX-1 nine in
the first game of double header
at Bayyiew Park last night.
Coca Cola took the lead in the
first inning when Ingraham doubled
to open the frame and scored mo-
mentS later on an error.
VX-1 tied it up in their half of
the first on two singles and a
fielders choice.
Coca Cola went ahead in the
third on an error and Robert Las
tres single. They iced the game in
the third on an error with four
run really climaxed by lngrahams
triple with the bases loaded. One
error, a fielders choice and four
hits netted Coca Cola four runs in
he sixth.
Ingraham with single, double
ind triple in four tries was the
zig gun for Coca Cola. Don Cruz
,lso aided the attack with three
'ingles.
Donny Williams, in notching his
iourth win of the second half Of
the season, limited the VX-1 bat
ters to three hits.
| In the nightcap, the USS Saufley
edged out Telco, lilo. Trailing 4
The Key West citizen., 1952-08-21
LUKE EASTER
AIDS INDIANS
By RALPH RopEN

Asseeisfed Press Sperfs Wrifer
Ever since Luke Easter became
a regular on the Cleveland Indians
il has been said. cas- Easter goes
so 20 the Indians"
CleveIand's pennant hopes have
waxed and waned the past two
seasons with the rise or decline
of Casters fortunes at the plate,
A trick knee more than lack OF
punch in the clutch has been re-
sponsible for Casters failure to
deliver the goods in the past.
Big Luke is hot right now and
so are the Indians.
Cleveland, with Easter playing
a leading role, swamped the Bos-
ton Red Sox. 1875, Wednesday and
pulled to within a game of the
American Leagues front-running
New York Yankees. The Yanks
were humiliated, 1913, by the Chi.
cago White Sox. Philadelphia beat
Detroit, IS, in the circuits only
night game. Another night game
between st. Louis and Washington
was rained out.
Brooklyn moved seven games
ahead of the New York Giants in
the National League, downing Gin
cinnati, 6-3. The Giants and Chi.
cago Cubs were rained out. In 9TH
er games, Philadelphia tanned
Pittsburgh, 81 and st. Louis
trounced Boston, 81, in q game
called because of rain in the eighth
inning.
Easter, Ray Boone and Larry
Dolby were the ringleaders in
Cleveland's rout Of the Red Sox.
Easter batted in six runs on a
grand slam homer and two singles,
Boone sent six mates across on q
homer and two singles and Dolby
drove In a pair of runs on his
9Th homer and two singles.
Chicago also came up with q
big inning to beat the Yanks. The
White Sox scored six runs In the
third inning to wipe out 2-l def
cit and that was more than Saul
Rogovin needed to hang up his
l1th triumph.
Carl Scheib drove home two runs
and scored the winning tally in
Scheib singled home two runs in
the seventh to de the score at 3-S
and then pranced over the plate
on one-baggers by Pete Suder and
Ferris Fain.
Brooklyn found Ken Raffensber-
~ ~
The Key West citizen., 1952-08-21

himself will be designated chair.
man of the new Praesidium. But, il
so. why for the first time since 1925
is he not to give the main address
to the congress. the report Of the
Central Committee?
This is a sort of state Of the
union speech summing up Com
muniSt stewardship of the Soviet
Union since the last congress met.
In this case it viii cover a 13-year
oeriod and will be especially i'm
2ortant.
Malenkov, a Communist Party
Wheel who worked his way up from
he ranks like Stain, is now Sched-
Iled TO give this report. the most
important thing on the agenda.
Furthermore. neither Marshal
3eris, head of the Soviet secret
police and Deputy Premier Malen-
Sov'S main rival. nor Deputy Pre-
Tier v. NJ. Molotoy. is scheduled
at this time to play any prominent
role IN the party session. This may
be . clue that Molotov is being
pushed into the background. since
he read the new fIve-year plan al
each Of the two previous congress
meetings, in 1884 and 1883.
Mol0tov is g and his age has
been considered = factor against
aim IA speculation On Stains sue
eessor.
American officials know little
shog' aalenkov except that sew
erzl years ago he launched dc
fermtned campaign In make sure
the h0ors Of al Soviet factories
Eere kept clean.
The Key West citizen., 1952-08-21
OUTBOARD CLUB
SETS RACE DATE

The recent meeting of the Out.
board Club met with crowded
roster Of business, racing business
that is. Their next two meets are
pretty close together, but knowing
outboarders, they are gluttons for
punishment, so they will be there
for the gun.
The Lions Club is sponsoring an
outboard regatta on Garrison
Blight on August 31st., with plenty
of Trophies and lesser Prizes. This
will also be point race. These
points go toward the yearly Tro
phies. In each class these trophies
in the past have been awarded
by the Cupboard Club, but this year
they will be awarded by various
Key West Merchants.
MIR. Brady of Poor Old Craig
service station is awarding the
class "B" 1852 Trophy. 1t is on
display at the station now. Several
of the class "B" boys are tied
for points at this time, so this
should be a battle of wits between
drivers, as the speed of these boats
are pretty evenly matched, also a
heavy field will be on hand. All
classes will be fighting hard for
those Lion Club Trophies.
The next race will come up on
Saturday evening Sept. 9Th at 9
Pm. or with weather permitting
as soon as the moon comes up in
the evening.
The starting point for this un
tried venture will be at the Count,
Beach. The Merchants of Key Wes
and Marathon have spontaniousl.
donated liberal amount of prize
money and a large field of boats
will be on hand, as the rules
allow only modified stock motors
and runabout hulls of twelve feet
minimum. Which means every day
fishing and pleasure boats.
There will be prizes for all
classes down to and including third
place, and one extra special Cup
for the over all winner.
Any entries interested in this
race should contact Otis Carey,