Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1948 — Page 8

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Yellow Jackets

Beat Bluffton And Berne To Take Tourney Displaying plenty of impressive form the Decatur Yellow Jackets ran roughshod over Bluffton and Berne to eop the annua! four-team Mind tourney at Binfftcn New Year’s Day The Jackets won the final tilt last night by walloping Berne 45-30. after downing Bluffton in the second afternoon game. 56-4‘k Berne wen its way to the finals with a 35-28 win over New Haven and the hapless Bluffton five lost the consolation affair to New Haven. 55-3 s. By virtue of the draw, one hour before game time, the Bears and the Bulldogs met in the curtainraiser Berne stepped out to lead 11-ls at the midway mark, after being held to M at the end of the first period. They kept right on; to lead 27-17 at the end of the third stanza Liechty. ace Bear guard, showed the way with nine field j goals and a trio of free throws for 21 points Schwartz, his running mate, chalked up 10. Miner led the "losers with eight markers. With three of Bob Worthman’s charges hitting the net consistently. the Yellow Jackets had little trouble beating Bluffton. 5540. in the final afternoon contest. : The Jackets were held at 11-10 at the first quarter, eased away to a 25-21 margin at half-time and then tamed on the heat to lead 41-27 at the end of the third quarter. McElhaney chalked up 19 points Holmes snagged 15 and Lehman 12 with the entire team showing probably its best form of the season. Mertz was best for the losing Parlor City boys with 13 points and Nash was next with eight. The Tigers were no match for: New Haven in the consolation tilt The winners led 10-5. 24-18. 41-26 and 50-38. respectively, at the end of each playing period. Augenstein counted 15 points, Gladieuz I DR. H. R. FREY I OPTOMETRIST I (Above Democrat Office) « HOURS: 9to 12—1 tn 5 | Sat. til B—Close Thur. P.M. ■ Phone 27 *

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Mearoe at Pleasant Mills. Monmouth at Geneva. t Kirkland at Hartford. Saturday Fort Wayne Central Catholic at ■ got 12 and Klenke 11 for the vic- ’ tor’tws Bulldogs Swartz was best ’ for the losers with 13 points. Purple Ceps Title Game The Yellow Jackets won the ' title tilt from Berne with ease. ’ looking almost as good as they did * against Bluffton in their earlier contest. Ballard returned to the i form he displayed against ‘ the Bears in a recent regularly scheduled game and his teammates contributed in a stellar fashion. Meanwhile, they held, Schwartz to a measly five points > ‘ and practically swarmed all over the other Bear star. Liechty. whose best efforts produced only two markers. The Purple trailed 8-9 as the first period ended, but they strengthened plenty in the second period and when the midway mark . was reached they were out in front. 22-13. They lost “a couple of points from this margin in the third period and led 30-23 going into the test frame. Then they : turned on the heat again and won going away. 46-30. Ballard, of course, was the scori ing leader for the Purple, getting eight field goals and a brace of ‘ charity tosses for a total of IS points. Holmes hit five times from 1 the field for 10 markers. Lehman. McElhaney and Bogner were others to hit from the field, with all of the locals fitting in well on both offense and defense. Ellenberger turned out to be the Bear’s leading j scorer for the game with nine. points. Berne FG FT TP Shoemaker, f — 0 0 0; Ellenberger. f —1 0 2 Kreihbel. c ....... 0 0 0 Schwartz, g 3 4 10 I Liechty, g - 9 3 211 Sprunger f 10 2 Totals 14 7 35 New Haven FG FT TP Gladieux. f : — 2 0 4 I Augenstein. f 2 15 Parker,%c 2 4 8 Miner, g - - 2 0 4

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Grant, | f 0 0 0: Bohnke, c 0 11 Bogner, g 2 1 51 Totals 20 6 46 Berne FG FT TP Shqpmaker, f 12 4 Ellenberger, f 4 1 .9 Kriehbel, c 3 17 Schwartz, g 2 15 Liechty, g 10 2 Sprunger, f Oil McCrory, f ff 0 0 Habegger, c 0 0 0 Lehman, g 10 2 Weller, g 0 0 0 Totals 12 6 30 Referee: —Ireland. Umpire: —Kraning. o « Conservation Club To Elect Officers The annual meeting of the Adams county conservation club will be held Monday night at o’clock at the city hall, it was announced today by Robert Hill, president of the group. The election of officers | for 1948 will be held. Besides Mr. Hill, officers are Virgil Andrews, vice president, and ’ Charles Zimmerman, secretary-; treasurer. The present membership of the club is more than 400 and plans will be made at the annual meeting for the membership drive, which it is hoped will net at least 500. The club sponsors fox hunts during the winter months and also is i the guiding force in several conser- i vation projects. It is one of the largest clubs in northern Indiana. o— In peacetime the automobile industry uses more aluminum than any other industry.

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Bow/ Results Rose Bowl — Michigan 49. Southern California 0. Sugar Bowl — Texas 27, Ala- ’ bama 7. Cotton Bowl — Southern Methodist 13, Penn State 13 (tie). Orange Bowl — Georgia Tech 20, Kansas 14. East - West All Stars — East 40, West 9. Dixie Bowl — Mississippi 13, Texas Christian 9. ‘Gator Bowl —- Georgia 20, Maryland 20 (tie). Salad Bowl — Nevada 13, North Texas State 6. Cigar Bowl — Missouri Valley 26, West Chester (Pa.) Teachers 7. Vulcan Bowl — Wilberforce 27, Grambling 21. Sun Bowl — Miami (O.) 13, Texas Tech 12. Lily Bowl — U. S. Navy 12, U. S. Air Force 12 (tie). Harbor Bowl — Hardin - Simmons 53, San Diego State 0. Raisin Bowl — College of Pacific 26, Wichita 14. o Berne Legion Team Sports New Suits Berne, Jan. 2 — The Berne American Legion basketball team has new suits which were just purchased and made possible through donations by local business men. The suits are red and white, with red trunks and white jerseys, with red trimming. The jackets are red with i white trimming. The jackets will j have the lettering, Berne Post 468 on the back. A Twentieth Century Fund survey reports that one third of the American people live in areas with- . out public libraries.

Comets, Bulldogs Lead In Conference The New Haven Bulldogs and Kendallville Comets are tied for the lead in the Northeastern Indiana conference basketball race, each with three victories and no defeats. The Garrett Railroaders are in third place with three triumphs and two defeats. Columbia City has broken even in two games. The Decatur Yellow Jackets have won one conference game and lost two. Three teams, Auburn. Bluffton and We/saw. have suffered two feats each without a victory. One conference game is scheduled tonight, the Yellow Jackets at Warsaw, and New Haven is slated to play host to Columbia City Saturday night. The standings: W L Pts. Kendallville 3 0 1.000 New Haven 3 0 1.000 Garrett 3 2 .600 Columbia City 11 .500 Decatur —1 2 .333 Auburn 0 2 .000 Bluffton 0 2 .000 Warsaw 0 2 .000 Scoring Leaders Ned Schlosser, of Garrett, continues to lead the NEIC scorers with 57 points in five games, but Pat McGiffin, of Kendallville, has the best average with 40 points in three games. Ballard, Decatur forward, has tallied 24 points in three games. i Leading scorers are: Schlosser, Garrett, five games. 57 points; McGiffin, Kendallville, three games, 40 points; Pearson, Garrett, five games, 35 points; Poer, Garrett, five games, 33 points; Miner. New Haven, three ga\nes, 29 points; Stalf, Columbia City,- two games, 24 points; Ballard, Decatur, three games, 24 points; Lehman, Decatur, three games, 23 points; Gladieux, New Haven, three games, 21 points.

Gerhard Schultz Bowls Perfect Game Thursday Gerhard Schultz, of Decatur, bowling in a practice game Thursday at Mies Recreation, realized the crowning ambition of all bowlers when he hit the “jack pot” with a perfect game of 300. This is only the second perfect game ever rolled on the Decatur alleys, Don Stump bowling a 300 several years ago. As customary, Carl Mies, owner of the alleys, awarded Schultz with $25, a standing offer for a perfect game. 0 VFW Quintet Plays Independents Here The Decatur VFW and Decatur Independents will tangle tonight in a basketball game at the Lincoln gym. No admission will be charged and the public is invited. o Two Men Killed In Ambulance Joyride : Chester, Pa., Jan. 2 — (UP) — Two men were killed. and three others were injured last night when an ambulance in which they were joy-riding without permission crashed into a tree. Police said the SB,OOO ambulance was demolished. It had been taken from the Parkside fire department a few hours before the crash. The dead were Michael Malish, 22, and Edward V. Marker, 21, both of Chester. o ■ Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

GAME POSTPONED W. Guy Brown, Decatur high school principal, was notified by state police late this morning that Warsaw school officials had notified police that tonight’s scheduled game between the Decatur Yellow Jackets and Warsaw Tigers has been postponed. All traffic, except emergency, on federal highway 30. has been halted, making it impossible for the Decatur team to reach Warsaw. The game will be re-scheduled for a later date. Conference Planned - On Undulant Fever A special conference on undulant fever and care of milk has been planned for home demonstration agents in Adams and 11 other counties in the Fort Wayne district, the northeastern section of Indiana, Miss -Eva Goble, state leader of home demonstration agents at Purdue University, announced today. The meeting will be held Jan.' 9 in Huntington from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with top speakers from the university to conduct the sessions. Dr. C. R. Donham, head of the Purdue veterinary science department, will discuss “Undulant. Fever and Other Milk-Borne Diseases,” and Miss Lois Oberhelman. of the

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university home economics extension staff, will give a talk and demonstration on the care of milk utensils and home pasteurization of milk. County agent Walter Rusk and home demonstration agent Patricia Mauller, of Huntington. are in charge of local arrangements for the meeting, which is being held to prepare home agents for their part in home economics leaders meetings during the year and also in the 12 “dairy days” to be held over the state in March. o DOAN AND OTHER (Continued from Hage i> “At this time, I would like to assure you that regardless of differences of political beliefs that I, the board of works and the department heads will cooperate in every respect with the council and the citizens of Decatur. “I feel certain that I will receive the same cooperation from you. and feel equally sure that this entire group will strive to render to the citizens, a progressive and efficient administration.”

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