Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1949 — Page 6

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Poe Firemen Plan For Big Fair Crowd Records Expected To Be Shattered Plans are complete for enter | taiolng one of the largest crowds ever to attend the Poe Firemen’s Festival in Poe. nest Saturday Last year the crowd was estimated at nearly 4,0tt0 and with a favorable break in the weather, the committee expects a turn-out larger than the if»4S record The festival Is held in a tent and on adjoining lots. Friends and j patrons of the festival come from all parts of Allen. Adams and Weils counties, the committee announced. Arrangements have been made to feed, the crowd Last week the Poe Firemen bought four of the choice 4-H club pigs at the Ossian fair and these were butchered for the event. The pigs were brought to the H. P. Schmitt locker service in this city and cooled out for further processing Mr. Schmitt said the hogs weighed 200 pounds each. Martin Gallmeyer, chairman of the committee on arrangements, announces that the champion pigs will be roasted and stuffed with home-made sauer kraut and served to the crowd during the afternoon | and evening The picnic will get • underway at one o’clock. The firemen will stage several events during the afternoon and evening and special attractions will be offered in the big tent, under the sponsorship the Poe firemen Funds from the festival are used in maintaining the Poe volunteer fire department and purchasing equipment as needed Mental 111 Vets Removed From Jails Indianapolis. Aug 24 — (UP) Indiana's new plan to move ment-I ally ill veterans out of jails de- ' spite Institutional crowding has,. affected 61 persons, the Indiana department of veterans affairs I announced today Three months ago. the depart I ment announced a plan to transfer vet* r ins from jail cells where they were held temporarily bwcause there was no room in institutions. Director Clinton Green announced that in most cases the veterans were removed within three to five days, whereas in the past many often stayed there as long as four months awaiting admittance to a veterans hospital. Some were moved to the U. S veterans' hospital at Marion and others temporarily to four state mental institutions.

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• SEATING«THE BATHING BEACH BUGABOOjC jCS ? Mayor fad G. Madsen (left) and Edward G. Lomas, disposal plant Win superintendent, check chlorinator. It take. 100 lbs. chlorine a day. lL jt*iTT * illicit Jk\ /J ■ Ik' ar— ’ /'» l-ake Beach: takes steps to clean. S WATER POLLUTION, the danger to summer use of beaches that BBS «m ’| threatens resorts every season, is fought at 80-year-old Geneva-on- ■ < the-Lake O. by gcrmiciding sewage with liquid chlorine before / gggl waste is discharged from the town s WOO.OOO disposal plant. Visitor- j y w Jle3 conscious Geneva-on-the-Lake (a hundred thousand some weekends) . Frank J Hull. Ashtabula takes a bacteria count weekly along its five miles of beach to make g Edward L. Keyes, 7B ( e ), bacillus colL gure bacillus coll is not present In harmful quantity, f/nfernahons/) county water works supervisor, how water Is

SCHOOLS ADOPT (Cont. From Paga Ooe> Tt> Hoffman, third grade; John R Parrish, fourth grade: Matildi Sellemeyer, fourth grade; Rosamond Gould, fourth grade; Opal Sprunger. fifth grade; Vera Van Buskirk, fifth grade; Glennys Roop, sixth grade and library; Hubert Zerkel. Jr., sixth grade and assistant coach Junior-Senior H. S. W. Guy Brown, principal; Merrit* J. Alger, mathematics and science; Hugh Andrews, mathematics; Harry Dailey, mathematics and science; Dean Dorwin. social studies, English and assistant coach; Sylvester Everhart, phy. ed., health, and safety; Charlotte Vera. Latin and English; Helen Haubold. mus-

ic; Maynard Hetrick, commercial; i Arnold Conrad, commercial. Kathryn Kauffman, art; Amos Ketchum, industrial arts; Kleanor Pumphrey, librarian; Dale W. Rovs, 1 English; Albert Sellemeyer. band; Lowel J. Smith, social studies; Alice Joanne Newcomb, vocational home economics; Rebecca Walters., phy. education, health, safety: . Catherine Weidler. English; Robert Worthman. phy. education, coach; i Vaughn Miller, vocational agriculture. Farmers lose about 8400,000.000 each year in decreased land values, lower crop yields and reduced incomes t>ecause of erosion by wind and water. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Cardinal Is Guest Os Mrs. Roosevelt Friendly Visit From Spellman Reported New- York. Aug. 24. —(UP)— The personal reconciliation of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Francis I Cardinal Spellman. Roman Catho- ! lie archbishop of New York, who had been at loggerhead* over fed eral aid to education, wai disclosed by the late president’* widow today. The Cardinal called upon her uni expectedly at her Hyde Park. N. Y.. » home, a few day* ago and they had a "pleasant chat," she said in her syndicated newspaper column. "The other afternoon." she wrote, "a* 1 was signing mail witff side glances out of my window, and 1 am afraid my thought* centered ou how quickly I could get out for a *wim. Mis* Thompson (her secretary!. came upstairs to my desk, looking somewhat breathlea* and said: ‘Mr*. Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman is on the porch :>nd he want* to see you.* "The Cardinal had dropped in on his way to dedicate a chapel In Peekskill. We had a pleasant chat and 1 hope the country proved a* much of a tonic for him a* it always I* for me." That was all she wrote on the subject. The Cardinal * personal reconciliation with Mr*. Roosevelt followed the public reconciliation of their view* toward the Barden federal education bill which would supply federal fund* for public schools but not for parochial schools. Nebraska has a larger percentage of land area in farms than any other state.

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(Cont. From P»xe One> | SENATE APPROVAL congress to put oft a vacation until It make* "social security more of a leality and less of a mockery than It ha* been tor too many year*. Unknown i % fl Tb * V s *** rj S :IS A three-week* nationwide investigation and questioning by Milwaukee Wi*. police have failed to establish the Identity of this woman. recently transferred to a hospital from the Milwaukee Friendship home where she ap- , plied for shelter, on July SI. PoI lice say she was suffering from a , self-inflicted rasor slash on one . wrist and an overdose of sleeping pill*. She agreed to being fingerprinted but would not permit taking of her picture. A police photographer made this surrepitious photo after her fingerprint* failed to establish her identity.

Six Injured As Bus Is Rammed By Truck Greyhound Bus Is Damaged In Crash South Bend. Ind., Aug. 24. H’P)— six riders on a Detroit-to-Chicago Greyhound bus were Intured today when a big truck rammed the reat of the coach as It stopped to discharge a passenger. The accident occurred at dawn on Ind. 2. three miles west of South Bend. Injured and treated at Memorial hospital and then released were Mrs. William Gromer. 26. Detroit: her daughter. Karen. 16 months old; Mrs Frank Bennett. 56. Chicago; Bill Denny. 14. South Bend; Fred Wright. IL Oakwood. 111., and Mr.’. Christina Cannon. 59. Toronto, Canada Driver A. L. Anderson. 40. Chicago, who was unhurt, said he stopped on the outer lane of a four-lane pavement to release a passenger. The but was hit from behind by a semi-trailsr driven by A. J. Oberdorf. 40. Clyde. O. Oberdorf told authorities he didn't see the bus until he was almost on it. The force of the collision shoved the bus 200 feet into a farmyard It did not overturn. The injured passengers were believed riding In the rear of the 'coach, which was badly damaged

State Detective Is Promoted To Sergeant Indianapolis. Aug. 24. —(UP)— Promotion of Elmer Cord of Shelbyville from detective to detective sergeant and his transfer from Connersville post to Indianapolis headquarters was announced today by the Indiana state police superintendent. Supt. Arthur M. Thurston said Cord would replace Lt. Robert Shields, who was promoted recently to officer In charge of the Indianapolis post. Trooper Robert Dillon of New Castle was promoted to Cord's old post and Frank J. Bena of Batesville was advanced to technician class at Connersville. — Fear Wealthy Widow Met With Foul Play Ix>s Angeles. Aug. 24 — (UP) — Mimi Boomhower. Jolly, fun-loving widow of a wealthy New York inventor and big-game hunter, has vanished from her 175.000 Bel-Air home and police said today they feared she met with ’’foul play." Mrs. Boomhower. 48. has been missing since she telephoned her business manager. Carl Manaugn. Thursday afternoon that she was going to meet a “gentleman” that evening. She did not say where or for what reason. She is believed to have had valuable jewelry with her.

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Dairy Companies Face .arge Damage Suits Indianapolis. Aug. 24 — H P> Five dairy companies and four milk marketing associations today faced a 818.621.367 damage suit filed for dairy farmers disgruntled over prices they get for their products. The suit was filed in behalf of milk producers in the Indianapolis area yesterday in Marion circuit court by attorney Silas C. Kivett. It sought triple damages for losses the suit said were suffered by the producers because of an alleged price conspiracy.

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