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12 KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE "Thursday, Jan. 31, 1952 AFTER WOOL GABARDINE COATS BONIFIED 29:88 Value WINE GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN 22,98 Value Rayon Gabardine 10 20 JACKETS Sport Shirts $198 BLOUSES SKIRTS $198 $159 DRESSES Girls' DRESSES JACKETS $169 Truman's Plan To Recognize Tax Unit Okayed By B. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON OT) President Truman's plan to take the Internal Revenue Bureau but of politics and reorganize it under a. merit system was a long step closer to realization today.

It had received the overwhelming approval of the House and, unless vetoed by the Senate, will become effective March 15. House approval of the plan came indirectly late yesterday. By voice jvote the House killed a resolution that would have rejected the plan. One of its major provisions would abolish the patronage system of appointing revenue collectors and put them under civil service. The plan would abolish the 53 internal revenue collectorships and authorize up to .14 district commissioners who, with deputies in every state, would be civil service employes instead of political appointees.

All other key bureau em- ployes, except the commissioner himself, would be under civil service. President Truman sent the proposal to Congress after disclosures of scandals in the Internal Revenue Bureau. He said it was designed to correct organizational defects that contribute to "inefficient management" and thereby afford "the opportunity for improper conduct." Nothing would prevent the pres-! ent collectors from keeping their! jobs under the new setup, if they' can qualify. Some members of Congress don't' like the plan of Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap to rotate the deputy collectors from one area to another.

Dunlap told the Senate expenditures committee yesterday it is his intention, if the plan is not rejected by Congress, to shift the tax collectors from state to state so they won't get too chummy with taxpayers. The committee scheduled more hearings for today and hopes to end them tomorrow. Strippers' Plumes BALTIMORE ostrich plumes, considered chic by another generation of more stately souls, are back in demand, Baltimore antique dealers report. The customers? Strip-tease gals who want 'em for their costumes. Electrocution Of Collozo Delayed For Legal Purposes WASHINGTON WV-The electrocution of Oscar Collazo, the Puerto Rican who tried to assassinate President Truman, has been delayed from Feb.

1 to an indefinite date. Harry M. Hull, chief clerk of the U. S. District Court here, said the 'automatic" stay of execution was ordered pending the exhaustion of legal proceedings which could save Collazo's life.

It may be "many months," and at least one month, before the execution can take place, Hull added. Collazo is in the district jail. Pending now is an appeal to the Court of Appeals for a new trial. Hull said the case could possibly be taken through the Supreme Court to President Truman. Collazo was sentenced to die In the electric chair for killing a White House guard in the assassination attempt on Nov.

1, 1950. His accomplice was shot and killed in the gun battle with guards. Let Ray Hatch Worry For You Now We Enow! Enterprising Writer Gives Story Of How Groundhog Legend Started (Elaine Kahn was an Associated Press staffer in Pittsburgh until she was married last year and moved to Punxsutawney, Pa. There she met "Mr. Dr.

Frank A. Lorenzo. In the following article she tells of the doctor and his Groundhog: Club) By ELAINE KAHN LIGHT PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. The man who made the Punxsutawney groundhog what it is today is a rotund country doctor of 73 with an international reputation as a host and 'gourmet extraordinary. Dr.

Frank A. Lorenzo became president and chief mixologist of the Groundhog Club some 30 years ago. His mixologist title derives from the potent brew concocted for the club's annual July picnic. One drink is guaranteed to make shadows see groundhogs. A picture showing the groundhog taking a swig brought heated protest from the Humane Society several years ago.

Things were smoothed over only after Lorenzo swore on his honor as chief mix- ologist that the animal was drinking a mixture of honey and other equally pure ingredients. and non-alcoholic The Groundhog Club as such came into being some 60 years ago when a group of the town's early German settlers took to picnicking at Gobbler's Knob on a keg of beer and some of the abundant groundhog meat. Word of the annual outing reached Clymer H. Freas, one-time city editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit, and he christened the group the Groundhog Club. The outings, then held in late August or September, grew more and more Freas, a Pennsylvania Dutchman, knew the legend of 'the groundhog- as a weather prophet.

He also knew good story when he saw one. He placed the weatherworks on Gobbler's Knob, a windy hill outside Punxsutawney, and claimed for the native groundhog copyrights, patent rights and all other rights concerned with long-distance weather prognostication each Feb. 2. Today, keeping the legend alive is the chief vocation of Punxsutawney's 10,000 'citizens. The July picnic, a stag affair, is attended by thousands.

The purchase of a ticket entitles the buyer to membership in the Groundhog Club for one year. All a member has to do Is eat, drink and be merry the day is cloudy shadowless, and, of course, keep faith in the! it means spring is just around the groundhog. corner. The qualifications for mixologist! The pilgrimage Lorenzo makes are a large amount of pride the groundhog lair come dawn faith in the ability of the ground-! Saturday may be purely imagi- hogr as a master weather and undertaken from the arid prodigious and indlgna-. comfort of his favorite easy chair, tion to be directed at an his (that is, the groundhog's) and imitators of the Punxsutawneyj prediction will ring with no less animal.

'authenticity or garner any less Lorenzo is without peer in publicity. departments. He fumed last year! This year's Feb. 2 doings are when the National Geographic So-j i a ted to be the biggest ever. The ciety blasted the groundhog as a i private dinner Lorenzo always lazy, shiftless animal "heaped with! gives spilled over into a larga honors he does not deserve" and I civic affair to be held in a church, "credited with powers beyond his! A special railroad car from Pitts- abilities." 'I'm surprised such a scientific organization would un-1 Punxy does nof intend to let leash such -a drive," Lorenzo de- them down.

It is reliably reported clared. "How can they call the celebrities and newspapermen for the event. groundhog all those things when that a special groundhog has been primed in the protocol of the we have records to prove the occasion and will emerge from his groundhog can be just as or as our best human weatherman?" burrow in time to catch the television cameras trained on him. The good doctor uses stronger' CICU rl words when he refers to groundhog clubs in Quarryville, Allentown, Arkansas and the latest challenger from Wisconsin. 'Impostors," he snorts.

"At best Johnny-come-latelies trying to horn in on the fame and publicity of the Punxsutawney groundhog, the only true and 'original weather prophet." On Feb. is American tradition that if thel day is sunny and the groundhog! sees his shadow, the prediction is for six more weeks of winter. If! hv SBffBU UJ Legion Feb. 2, 5-8. Legion Home, north entrance.

RIVAL DOG FOOD German Police Raid Commies and Nazis FRANKFURT, Germany West German police began nation- I wide raids this morning on party I headquarters of Communists and the Nazi-type Socialist i Party. Frankfurt police said the action was ordered to begin simultaneously at 6 a.m. (midnight in all West German cities. It was ordered by the West German Constitutional Court to gather evidence against the two organizations. The federal government at Bonn has asked the court to ban both as unconstitutional.

There were no immediate reports of incidents. Police said they were instructed to confiscate all "material giving evidence of hostile activities of the two parties which can be used in the trial." Homes of leading officials in the Communist and Socialist Reich (SPR) Parties also were searched. PRAIRIE and Mrs. Doyle Ramseyer entertained with a supper honoring the Prairie Aces following the basketball game with Carrollton on Wednesday night. Guests included the yell leaders, Cletes Deason, Jean Quakenbush, Glenda Lowry and Patricia Stoops, the ball team, Jack Ramseyer, Max Hughes, Ralph Drake, James Lindley, Don Fields, Jon Day, Dick Oilar, John Quakenbush, Earl Engle and Duane Crites.

Additional guests included Mr. and Mrs. Olas Quakenbush, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lindley, Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hughes and daughter, Judy, Phillip Ramseyer and Nancy Otiker of Kokomo. The Prairie Home Economics Club will meet at the school build- jing at 1:30 p.

m. Feb. 5 with hostesses, Mrs. Ernest Sweet, Mrs. Darrel Stoops and Mrs.

Ralph Pumphrey. The project lesson, "Eti- jquette in Entertaining," will be I given by Miss Ruth Wimer. The lesson has never been given in the local club, in case some of the members should get it confused with a lesson that was given last year on "Good Management on Entertaining." The Prairie High School Band and the twirlers will perform at the Jefferson-Prairie basketball game to be held at Washington gym in Kokomo on Friday night. William Silence and Ned Gray- json have returned to their homes after receiving officer's training at Ft. Riley.

Kas. James Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Newman Hill, has been sent to Camp Roberts, to receive basic army training. Mr.

and Mrs. Dale Burton are the parents of a son, Jerry Lee, born Saturday afternoon. The mother was the former Elizabeth Crail. FREE To The First 50 Customers Friday Morning POUND ROLL STARK WETZEL SAUSAGE WINDFALL Junior MYF met at the Methodist Church Sunday night. Lynn Johnson led the singing, prayer was offered by Carol Ann Mitchell and on the life of "Abraham" was given by Ruth Ann Downs, Max! Bunch, Jane Zehner and Mitchell.

A valentine party at thelm church was planned for Feb. 12. Dr. Phillip Hershberger of Indianapolis, was a of his parents, the Rev. and Mrs.

Glen Hersh-i berger, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Zehner mov-! ed from the Mrs. Clara Nading I property to the Mrs.

Nannie Grisso double on Monday. Mrs. Nading will move from what is known as the Charles Patterson farm, north of Windfall to her home here in the near future. Mrs. Hershell McCord and children of Roann spent the week end with her parents, the Rev.

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