Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1951 — Page 2

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Record Enrollment ' L -- "j ■ : In Laymen league Meeting Held Sunday By Lutheran Laymen A record enrollment of more t2r*u 1,000 members was announced at the Decatur sone meeting of the 1 Lutheran laymen’s league, held i. Sunday evening at St. Peter’s Lutheran ehsrch at Fuelling A special resolution of thanks and congratk ulatlons /was passed, honoring A Reinhard Averting, who has served V as membership secretary forth a past nine years- . A t ' Under Werling’s leadership, the membership has grown from a mere 45 members in 1943 to 1,044 ; in 1951. . J 4- John Bteke, of Suburban Trfn'tjl’ chureh.'Fort Wayne, was reelectj ed prerident of the scroop. Earj Caston, of Zion Lutheran, Decatun •was named incoming secretary. Rtffus Werling, of Bethlehem, was i«elected treasurer'"' and Msjrvfr Schroeder, St. John's, Bingen, \vd» named vice-president. The 1951 athletic commission consists of Ludolf Scliueman. St. John's Bingen, chairman; Robert Hollman, Trinity, secretary; Helbert Hoile, St. John's. \ Flatrock, treasurer. The Rev- E. P. Schmidt. Decatur, was Darned pastoral ad- , Visor and W. J. Oehlen. St. John s . Flat rock, will represent the teachers. ?■ : 4- | The opening' devotions and proJ gram were held as a joint meeting with the Lutheran women’s missionary league./ The Rev. Arnold Krentz, Fort Wayne, explained; the work of the Lutheran deacohess association.. This group, ivith headquarters at Valparaiso University, trains women for profeskionT al work in the church, including missionary activities, both'foreign and domestic, parish work; and service in the t church’s various Charitable institutions The laymen’s league heard reports of a highly successful, year in its newiy organized athleth; pro ’ gram, voted to subsidize the recent Seward high school choir cojicert. and authorized another seminar to be held some time this fall J The group was authorized to attend the annual convention of the Northern

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Iftdlaaa district dt the league, Mfalch win be held late th September at Valparaiso uMverbßy. Following the meeting. luncheon was served by ladies. of ths host church. society L ; -J- ? ! 1 | ■ ;i ■ tt ./ ! I The Wednesday Night Bridge club will meet at seven thirty b’clock that averting at the home bf Mrs. Frank SehmUM. 4; A ' | Mrs. Bill Reichl will entertain .members of the S- E. Bridge club Wednesday evening at seven thirty .'o'clock. The PhUalethean Circle of the Zton Evangelical and Reformed church will meet at the home of Mrs. Al B|ushwilier Wednesday evening at eight o’clock. Mrs. Agnes Yager itlli-have charge of the program and MrSlLeland Frank is the assisting hostess. • — ' ' \ Mrs. Louis Smitley wfl be hostess la Eta Tan Sigma sorority Tuesday evening at eigh* o’clock. ' of the Rura’istic study elulpwill hold' a meeting at the home jot MrS. Norbert Gase at eight o’clock Thursday evening. The American Legion Auxiliary social meeting will be held at eight o'clock Friday evening at the Legion home. ; Epsilon Sigma chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority wfll have a picnic at Hanna Nuttman park Wednesday evening at six thirty o’clock, Members age asked to bring tabid service. .| |i The annual Women’ Bowling League picnic Wfll be held at Han-na-Nuttman Park this evening at six thirty o’clock. Those attending are asked to bring table service. The regular Circle meetings of the Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service Will be held on Thursday. Circle 2A will meet at the home of Mrs- Niland Ochsenrider Thursday evening at seven thirty o'clock’ ;At two thirty ia the afternoon Circle 2B will meet with Mrs. RS A. Stuckey, Circle 3 with Mrs. Samuel Emerick and Circle 4 with Mrs. Amos Yoder.

ModistClnrch Conference May 23 . Anderson Host For Annual Conference The North Indiana conferunrte the Methodist church will convene la the First Methodist dhurch, Anderson, Wednesday afternoon The conference will be called :to erder by Bishop Richard Cambell Raines, reefdent bishop of the Indiana* area. The memorial service for deceased members will be conducted at 2:30 Wednesday with the Rev, Dr. George D. Greer, New Castle, delivering the sermon. The Holy Communion service will follow at 6:66. The Wednesday evening event wfll include the reading v of the reports by the six district superintendents, including Dr. A W. Pugh of the Fort Wayne district. Special addresses Thursday will include messages in the morning by Dr. F. T. Cartright of the board of mtawtom; in the afternoon by Bishop J. W. E. Sommer of Germany; and in the evening by Dr. George W. Crane, psychologist and lecturer at North western University. Friday sessions wfll include a morning program of recognition for retired ministers, an afternoon address by Bishop Sommer, and the conference lecture at 7:30 by Dr. Roy Smith, former editor of the Christian Advocate. Dr. Smith bwili also 1 lecture at the Saturday xuorntag session. A special youth program is pianfi/ecLfor Saturday evening witn special mYrtic by the Taylor University choir and an address.,qy Dr. Walter Towner of Nashville. The Sunday morning worship wfll be held at the church with Bishop Raines preaching the sermon. The ordination and commissioning service will be held at 3:3C p.ri|. The reading /of appointments will cQHchjde-'the i conference. An unusual feature of the sessions will be the election of delegates to represent this conference ?t the jurisdictional and general conferences of the denomination to be held within the next year. Dancing Feature On At Local Theater Theater goers “danced through’ a pleasant evening at the Adams theater when they saw the curreiV picture, “Royal Wedding.’’ The stars in the picture are Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford and Sarah Churchill, the latter the daughter of former prime minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain. In addition to the feature picHire. a short bn Egypt is highly interesting. \ Telegraph Traffic \ Returns To Normal Spiking an erroneous opinion circulating in the city. Mgr. Charles M. Reyner of the Decatur office. Western Union, today stated that telegraph traffic has returned to normal. Some difficulty in certain areas was experienced by patrons filing telegrams or telegraph money orders from last Thursday until early Saturday morning. Reyner said, because of resultant, labor difficulties at the largest switching centers of Western Union.

Estate Closed Following the filing of the filial report in the administration of the Henry Windmiller estate by administrator Harold Windmiller, the! court released the latter from his duties as -well as the surety bond, and considered the estate closed. The final report showed a balance dt 159K.49 remaining for distribution as well as "undisposed of’’ real estate in Linn Grove. Cause Continued The cause of action, Kruse Hardware and Sporting Goods company vs the Allen Dairy Products, company, originally venued bare from Allen county and set Tor jury trial today, was continued Until October -22 for jury trial, furors were dismissed less than an hour after reporting to hear the case before special judge John Decker. . V Ejection Expenses Joseph Bjemian, Democratic Councilman fourth district,' 12.10. Marriage Licenses . v £. John Stoddard, Lima, 0., Helen Lauer, Wapakoneta, O. Carl Adams, Jr., St. Clair Shores, Mich., Lois Jane Adams, Detroit, Mich. Crayton Grubb, route 2, Bluffton, Martha Mazelin, route 1, Bern®. Vaughn King, route 1, Donna Ainsworth, Decatur. . ; j Ray Sanders and Irene Forrester, both of St. Mary’s, O, Norman Ward and Delores Ginter, both of Decatur. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

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New Home Attracts * Crowds On Sunday . . Crowds visited the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Haugk. 220 Limberlost Trail, Stratton Place, Sunday afternoon and evening. Guests were shown through the modem and beautiful ranch-type house completed in this new building addition. -—*—— Handicraft School Is Held At Berne State 4-H Leader Conducts School / More than 50 people interested in the 4-H handicraft work attend-, ed the special period. wMiss Miriam Edmundson, of the state 4-H office at Purdue Univer* sity, bpoke to the -4-H members, parents and leaders. She emphasized the importance of learning arts and skills that will bring lasting satisfaction to the 4-H’ers. Examples of \ such Were described in many crafts including, Woodwork, metal work, embroidery, crochet, knitting, clay modeling, painting, leather work, candle making, etc. . The difference in craftsmanship and the handwork done on current popular novelties was brought out. All 4-H handicrafters work in at least three crafts during the year And learn some new crafts each year. The 441 fair at Monroe in August will include an ekhibit of the work done! in this project. Ribbons will be awarded on the same basis as other, 4-H projects. State fair exhibits Will be selected. This meeting was held at the Berne-French school. Gloria Koeneman. Adams county 4-H agent and Anna K. Williams, home demonstration agent, attended and will assist 4-H'ers with this work. CUT BARS _ (Ceattowvdi Wrum Pape O*»> prisoner ever got out of his cell in the 17 years he has served on the institution’s staff. The superintendent said the prisoners also would have bad to cut bars in a window of the cellhouse to get out. Then th4y could have dropped to the earth to freedom, outside the reformatory walls. 1 ■ 'I I r ~' Democrat Want Ads Bring Result*

w . . ■ ■ '. ; \ ' ' 1 . FiZbor Shaw thinks bo much of thia near Chrysler, he has selected it aa Pace Car for the 19511ndianapo/is race. J _ ', —.M , L „„ , t ~ ...... .^.......^..v-.■.-5,.. .. , x .,.-..<-.-v., • • - —sgg— -’-. b yjw» >gy<i y > bCT JU9B J ■ ?K; .■ - I ?'» •■' • • . >; '|'\: '. , . , — • -» jj< _, • i ' UttVCtt tuC most powerful —— --- /( |B ft] “ 1 curin theu.s: I* W • < *tOAiSsbK. ♦ if ijseenWHSo a ! ■ /■■* ■’ '• - ■ ’ r i 1 : WILBUR SHAW, AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS DRIVER, DRIVES NEW 1931 CHRYSLER-REPORTS TO YOU ON REVOLUTIONARY FIREPOWER ENGINE AND HYDRAGUIDE POWER STEERING

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Donates Addition To McMillen Park :•' ' \ ' Foundation Adds To fort Wayne Park The McMillen Foundation, founded by Mr. abd Mrs. Dale W. McMillen and family, has donated a 40-acre addition to McMillen park In Fort Wayne, which will be developed into one of the finest children’s recreation areas in the country. . . The deed for the park addition was presented by Mrs. Charles W. Crowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McMillen, and president of the Mo Millen Foundation, to Fred B. Shoaff. president of the Fort Vfayne park The project which will require several years to complete, may re\quire an expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars. Work in preparing the tract which w|ll be undertaken jointly by the city and the McMillen Foundation, will begin this week. The planting of trees, landscaping, and the” installation of the recreational equipment, /and general supervision of the rtrork in preparing the tract until ft is completed in the next few years, will be under the direction at the park board and Howard Von Gunten, park superintendent, and tylartin Nading/. Jr., city recreation director. Under tentative plans prepared by F. Elwood Allen, New York recreational consultant, the 40-acre area will contain the elaborate children’s center, five softball diamonds, a large hard-surfaced square dance area, a bicycle trial, a pony track, a large picnic area, a pond for bait casting, a small children’s theater, a grassy area for field garner and parking space on the outer areas for 700 cars. Foundation Provides Funds The McMillen Foundation, in donations to be made in the future, Will defray the costs of many of the improvements. The city, in an agreement reached between the foundation and Mayor Henry E. Branning, Jr., ,wilj, through the park board, landscape the area, seed it, provide water, and undertake othef construction work. 'Mr. and Mrs Stewart W. McMillen of Valley Farms, south of the city, are directors of the McMillen Foundation. \' The McMillen Foundation has donated one dollar for every two dollars raised from the Decatur Community /Center. Largest of tue Balkan nations is Yugoslavia.

Gene Meyers and Dan Kltson spent the weekend in Cincinnati- ¥., visiting with < Bill Gillig, student at Xavier University. Mr. gnd Mrs. Robert Mills vUited at Hanover college recently with their son Dan. Mrs. Mills attended a Mother’s day dinner at the Beta house. Merlin E. Lester of Decator, charged with speeding, was fined 225 and costs by Squire Estill of Willshire, 0., and Don Workinger was given the same dose tu Estill’s court art a charge of reckless operation of his car. qp j ■. — Judge and Mrs Myles F. Parrish are the parents of a baby son, Marion Ftanhlin, born Saturday night at the Lutheran hospital In Fort Wayne. The nehr son, first child in the Judge Parrish family, weighed six pounds and 10 ounces. Mrs Parrish’s room number,' is 350, Lutheran hospital The son has been named after the father of Judge Parrish, the late M. Frank Parrish. ' \ Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Reynolds, of North First street, are the parents of a baby daughter, born at 6:30 a. m. , today at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs- bon Agler are the parents of a baby daughter, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday at 6:12 a. m. A baby son was born to Mr. and Mrs.- Earl Call at p. in. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce. ' •

Admitted: ! Albert Sell merer, city; Johnny Ortiz, St. Joe;'.duo Rev. Edward Baumgartner, Berne Dismissed: Mrs. .Earl Call and baby boy, city; Miss Arlene Neumann. Decatur; Miss Arlene Meyer, Decatur; Mrs. John Waltke and baby boy, Decatur: Mrs. Rayiropd Gribler. Ohio City, O.; Mrs. Corwin Minerd and baby girl, Dixon, O-l Mrs Walter Schindler and baby girt, Berne. / l

mission ; . . is the nearest thing to an automatic pilot for a Ahr I can possibly imagine. “This engine .. \ I can’t get over the amount of power and Snap in this engine ... it’s incredible! “I drove 111 miles with the feeling I had expended no more effort driving around the block. .“When Mrs. Shaw drove, her comments juSt about squared with mine. Here’s what she thinks of the 1951 Chrysler ...” \ |;: r■ v ■ ■ ' ? '■ r B; • P : 4itfM?rT..... - V 4 ■ .vT- < Smartly styled Chrysler cotwertible to pace Indianapolis 500~mile race.

FIVE-HOUR <C— P — P—> J hoses en We sea green walls and yellow ceßihg of the prison corridors. Watiri 1 ran six inches deep. They ripped and plumbing itom the rosy pink walls of their individual ceils as virtually every officer in the area purroubded the prison buildings with ma chine gung, riot guns and tear gas grenade throwers. fry A Democrat Warn Ad— it pays

SALE CALENDAR / MAY X—Mns.Gus Hankey. 6 mites Westof Angola, Ind. Complete biose-out Sate 10:30 A. M. Midwest Realty Auction Co. J. F. Baumann—Auctioneer * / MAY 35—6:30 P. Rev. R. W. Parsley, Methodist parsonage, Pleaa gnt Mills. Household goods. Roy, Ned Johnson and Melvin Ldechty, Aucts. « I , MAY 26—Mrs. Jack Shannon, Wolcottville, Ind. Good Six Room Home and Complete line of Household Goods including Antique Ihurniture and Dishes. —Midwest Realty Auction Co. J. F. itanmann —Auctioneer. 1 r i /r MAY 26—Horse Sate, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Sale* Barn. E. C. Doehrman, Imct. i : MAY 26—-Mr. and Mrs. James Everett, % rti. N. of Pleasant Mills. 12 Cattle, Milker, Hay. 10 A. M. Suman Bros., Aucts. 1.. . r-'; •; • • ■

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; r • : Mrs. Shaw: “At first I cod'd hardly believe the ease with which I could turn the wheel. That’s important <. . especially in the summertime, i > ._ < 'Often after I have parked a car in the average parking space, I feel I should taxi home, shower and get dressed again. But with Hydraguide Power Steering I parked it with one hand. It practically drives itself.* Wilbur Shaw: “It’s hard to describe this new ChrysMl£ without going off the deep end... it has it in every department. “In fact, I think so much of this car, F*e selected it •i Pace Car of the 1951 Indianapolis 500-mile race!’’ (Mr. Shaw’s 'comments are reprinted through the courtesy of Popular Science Magazine.) •Mr, Shaw refers of course to standard passenger ritl ant racing cars or special models. / i CHRYSLER i ’ • finest engineered can in the world ti\ ! - ’I ■'

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