Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1951 — Page 3

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MISS SUE HARPER GUEST AT PRENUPTIAL BREAKFAST Miss Sue Harper was guest of honor at a pre-nuptial breakfast given Saturday morning at the Faul Edwards home on Adams street. Mgp. Philip J. Schmith, of Indianapolis, was hostess. Miss Harper will be married to Gerald Ault, of Lorain, 0., on Sunday, September 2. Guests were seated at beauu fully appointed tables laid with white damask and set with crystal. A low arrangement of yellow and white gladiolus formed the centerpiece. The guest of honor was presented with a lovely gif from the group. Guests included Mrs. C. C. Stienhauser, Miss Joan Ludwig Miss Jacqueline Warren and Misfc Betty Anspaugh, all of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Leonard Niccum. of Waynedale, Mrs. F. W. Weber, of New Haven, Miss Nancy Bell, of Tippecanoe' Lake. Mrs. William ■ Schnepf, Mrs. Stewart McMillen, Mrs. Richard Burkett and Miss Dell McMillen, of Valley Farms, Mrs. Lowell Harper, Mrs. Robert Yost, Mrs. E. E. Rydell, ‘ Mrs. LaVerne Roth, Mrs. Robert Raatz, Mrs. George Alton, Miss Ruth Holthouse/ Miss Jane Dailey, Miss Phyllis Kraft and Mrs. Edwards. MIRS INA ANDERSON WEDDING ANNOUNCED . Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Anderson, of Schumm, 0., former residents of this city, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ina -M. Anderson, to Frank Hagen Napier of Dayton, O. The ceremony took place at noon on Friday. Mrs. Namier is connected with , civil-service at the American Air Base in Saudia Arabia and her husband is civil? engineer with International Bechtel, Inc., in Saudia Arabia. I \ \ The Rebekah Lodge will meet in the 1.0.0. F. hall Tuesday evening ’at seven thirty o’clock. All members are asked to be present as final plans will be made fpr the district meeting to be held he,re August 21. ; The Hoosiers of Mason county, Mich., and adjoining counties, will hold their third annual picnic at the state park located north and West of Ludington. Mich., on r Sunday. A basket dinner will be teerved and Coffee and ice cream will be provided. j The Ladies Aid of Union Chapel will have an all day meeting at

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the church Thursday. ,A potluck dinner will be served at noon and the day will be spent in sewing and quilting. The ladies of the church are invited. ’ \ - „ . The Phoebe Bible clafcs of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet in the social rooms of the ’ church Thursday evening at seven forty five o’clock. Society Items for day's publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Phono 3-2121 j Phyllis Acheson MONDAY Flo-Kan Sunshine Girls, \K. of P. home, 6:15 p.m. TUESDAY Rebekah Lodge, 1.Q.0.F. hall, 7:30 p.m. .Eta Tau Sigma sororityj Mrs.’ Dick Arnold, 8 p.m. Monroe Better Homes club, 4-H girls, Bluffton park, 6:30 p.m. Trinity E.U.B. WSWS, church, 7:30 p.m. Eagles Auxiliary regular meeting, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. Willing Workers class of First Christian Mr. and Mrs. Chris Inniger, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY C. L. of C. juveniles, Memorial park, 2 to 4 p.m. • • Decatur Home Economics club Mrs. Roy Price, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Pleasant Mills Metih odist W.S.C.S., church, 1:30 p.nL . Ladies Aid of Union Chapel, church, all day.' Phoebe Bible class of Zion E. and R. churdh, social rooms, 7:45 p.m. X Bethany E.1i.8. WSWS Unit 4, Mrs. Clem Snell, 7:30 p.m. *FRIDAY Friendship Village club, 4-H clpbs and families! Berne park, 6:30 p.m.

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The Pleasant Mills Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service .will meet Thursday afternoon at . one thirty o’clock at the church. All members are urgt.l to bring articles for the Mary Johnson hospital? Robert Hansel of Lancaster. Ohio, former Decatur lad\ who is studying for the ministry, gave the sermon at the First Presbyter- [ ian church here Sunday morning. Mrs. Mary Leitz Edington of Bluff ton . was soloist. , The Wren School Mother’s club is completing plans for the Wren homecoming to be held in Moser park August 17 and 18. ( City officials in Van Wert, 0., have been Ordered to vacate the city hall, by Wednesday or face prosecution by the state industrial commission. - f The order will he obeyed if room?* for the offices can be secured. ■ ' -i Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Schmith and Dick Kamp, of Indianapolis spent the weekend with Mis, ?Echmith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. t’aul Edwards. . •’)* ’ " Mrs. Therese Hayner and Miss Ruth Guide, of Dayton, 0., are visiting .with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ne(relter at Acres and will > eturn to their homes this evening. The group plans to spend the day in Fort Wayne. Miss Helen Kocher of Los Angeles, Cal., is visiting here and at Hamilton Lake for three weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kocher. Mn and Mrs. James Kocher, Jr., and family spent Sunday at Ham-y ilton lake. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Heller spent 1 J the weekend at Lake Manitou near Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. David Baker and daughters Kathleen and Rosemary, of Marion, O„ visited friends and relatives in Decatur over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gould and children Carolyn and Jay, and Mrs. Gototschalk, of Geneva, have returned from a trip through western states, visiting in Yellow stone park, the Black Hills and Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Strickle” and their nephew, Neil Keller, have returned from Cody, Wyo., where they spent the past fewweeks. They visited in Cody withi Mr. and Mrs. Glen Newton. Mrs. Newton is the former Barbara Kohls of this city.

Two Are Uninjured As Plane Crash-Lands Indianapolis, Aug. 13. —(UP)—A light plane that crash landed in a feild northeast of here was ready for the repair garage today but its two occupants were uninjured and happy to be alive. The plane, piloted by Theodore F. Wilson, 46. San Gabriel, Cal. narrowly missed high tension power lines Saturday night when it developed engine trouble and glided down for a landing. Wilson and a passenger, Donald W. Leeper, 44. Gibsonia, Pa., walked away from the craft after it skidded to a stop just shcaZ of a clump of big trees. • Wilson 8 radioed the airport control tower here the engine had stopped and he was ‘ going to attempt a landing on a (highway. The frlane had taken off from here en route to Pittsburgh, Pa. ■ 1-. • Admitted: Mrs. Benjamin Gerke. Decatur. Dismissed: Mrs. Karl Hilty and baby girl, Berne; Mfs. Nell Ricketts, Rockford, O.; Mrs. John Wendel, Celina. O.; Mrs. C. E. Burkholder, Monroe; Mrs. John Ross, Decatur: Mrs. Monroe Perrv and baby girl, Monroeville; Mrs. W. L. Troutner, Willshire, 7 O.; Mrs. Oscar filler and baby boy Decatur; Mrt. Paul Erdei, Decatur.

* n i IBBBF' tpy mH* LONDON'S QUADRUPLETS NEAR THEIR HAST BIRTHDAY with a varying show of assurance, as the Cole babies, Frances Edna Marie and Patricia try to stand with aid of a strap between two perambulators. The qqads will -Jafi One yeas phi in S«Bte®bsr jWd their individual personalities are already developing. (Intemattoyl)

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> dr * | 'Ate?MRS. IRA E. HUBER was the former Miss Fern A. Passwater, only daughter of Mr. and Mrk Delton Passwater of 219 North Ninth street, before her recent marriage, The Rev. Samuel Emerick officiated at the rites in the First Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. Huber have Returned from a wedding’trip west and are residing in Willshire, O. « • — Photo by Edwards

Theorizes Rabies Shots Halt Polio Texas Physician's Theory Under Test z Dallas, Tex., Aug. 13 —(UP) — Seventeen women volunteers today will begin telephoning all polio victims listed in the Dallas area in an attempt to test a physician’s theory that a person inoculated against rabies may be immune to polio. ( The theory is that of Dr. Herbert F. Hipps of Waco. Tex. The »job of contacting victims is iu the hands of Dallas 'women headed by two sisters, Mrs; Thomas E. Alt and Mrs. C. K. Ellis. Mrs. Alt said she has the records on about 1,500 polio cases in the'area since 1942. “The names will' be divided among the volunteer women who are members of the same church, Mrs. Alt’&aid. > So far, the physician’s investi-

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gation has been inconclusive. .He has collected names of 700 persons all of whom received Injections against rabies and escaped polio although exposed to the dread disease. Since first announcing his theory, Dr. Hipps has learned of one ca&e tending to discredit it. i He has been infrmed that B. WStieghan, 25. of Cotulla, Tex., became a victim of polio seven years after receiving 14 antl-rables “shots." Hipps said the virus of, both rabies and polio attack the spinal cord brain, indicating a similarity between the disease. Vaccination for one might well produce immunity to the other, he eaid. At* Front, Tex., a group of volunteers will be innoculated against rabies in a preliminary, expert nient to test the Hipps ' theory further’. Warn Os Crackdown On Price Violators

Indianapolis, Aug. 13.—(UP) — Violators of price control regulations faced tough sledding- in ’ndiana today as a result of a crackdown) by the state t director of the office of price stabilization. Director Vernon J. Dwyer, who warned the enforcement staff has "Men increased, Said special agents ‘'now are checking violators as of a jiattern of investigation which will cover Indiana.” He said large populated areas already haye been checked and are being kept under "constant surveillance." The increased staff made it posible to "extend the investigation into the smallest communities.” Dwyer said. I Included in the checkup will be manufacturers, processors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and operators of services. / Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Kneuss are the parents of a ba|>y daughter, born at 1:02, p m. Saturday at the Adams couqty memorial hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 214 ounces. Mrs. Kneuss is the! former Miss Rose Merriman. ' i Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sipe, Monloeville, are parents of a baby son, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday at 5:28 p.m. The baby weighed 9, pounds, 6 ounces.

Annual 4-H Camp To Open Next Sunday Four-Day Camp In Kosciusko County The fifth annual 4-H club camp will be held August 19, 20, 21. and 22 at Lake McClure Id Kosciusko county. All club members who completed their project work are eligible to attend. Classes will be conducted ini nature, study, swimming, health, Handicrafts, recreation, singing, and camp newspaper. Evening programs will include vespers, stunt night, talent night, camp fires and movies. \ The cost of the camp is $6.50. Applications to attend the camp are still being accepted. Any 4-H member interested in attending camp should contact the county extension office for further information. The members of the staff aret Arthur Parrish and Rudy Meyer of the state conservation department; Mrs. Holman Egly and Schuller, local 4-H club leaders; Mrs. Ervin Lochner, Rosie Bechdbll, Nellie Price, Mrs. Harry Crownover, Mrs. Elsie Haines, Vaughn Miller, Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Archbold, Anna K. Williams, and Gloria Koeneinan. jThe Indiana sthte board of health will furnish a doctor and nurse for the staff. Two lifeguards are being sent by the. Decatur junior police. | 4-H members whose applications have been received are: Evelyn Griffiths, Margaret Krlffiths, .Colleen Egly, Bette Royer, Dorothy Fast, Rowena Merriman, Shirley Workinger, L Karen Sue Allison, Neoma Jean Monger, Carolyn Mitchell, Arlen Mitchell, Sandra Sue Merriman, Mary Lou Ehrsam, Thomas Stuber, parbara Carr, Alan L. Miller, Evelyn Mann, Joy Ever hart, Harold Vanhorn, Doris Ann Bluhm, Herman Witte, Norbert Witte, James Boerger, Jiinmy Lobsiger, Gretchen Schnepp, Dale Fuel, ling, <Carl Bluhm? Sonya Yoder, Mark Hylton, Allen Lehman, Larry Heniser, Donna Kay Small, Deanna Small, Ronald Stuskey, Georginna Essex, Gail Gerke, Robert Wechter, Virginii Baker, Flossie Schwartz, Marilyn Christener, Deanna Sipe, Barbara Lehman, Leo Busick, Larry Lee Lautzenheiser, Betty Steury, Kenneth Von Gunten, Danny Gerber, Jerry Gerber, Ronald Gerber, George Turmail, Betty Ann Turmail, and Jimmy Klrchhoffer. \ Cite Obstructions At Road Crossings Sheriff Bob Shraluka arid county highway superintendent Frank Singleton today issued a joint statement urging farmers to cooperate in making county road intersections “less hazardous.” Both men noted that corn was exceedingly high, and weeds almost matched the corn, making it unsafe at 4 several intersections throughout the county. The statement was an appeal to farmers to reduce the corn and weeds to lesseii the view obstructions encountered while driving, A number of intersections are c’early believed to be dangerous, the men reported, and several accidents are already attributed j to obstructions x at the intersections. \

ELIZABETH BENTLEY ( Continued '• From Pa Ke One) and a recent target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., was eaid to have testified before a “task* force" of the senate internal security committee, which is investigating subversion in general. 13 VIOLENT ; (C«atin«ed From Pas* One) be froip Indianapolis. Police said Purtiebaugh’s auto apparently was passing another car and collided head-on With .Brinkerhoff’s vehicle. Kenneth L.} White, 16, Petersburg, died yesterday when a tire blew out on a car in which he rode. It swerved into a ditch along Ind. 61 about _*one-l|alf mile east of Petersburg. Another Sunday accident killed Paul R. Conley, 38, Hillsdale. Police said Conley was tossed from his car as it went out of control on Ind. 163 west of Clinton and rolled over three times. Saturday accidents killed WilHam Crick. 33, Kokomo, who died In a two car crash on U.S. 31 north of Kokomo, and Mrs. Edra Beebe, 35, Forest Hills, N.Y., killed when h_er husband’s car collided with another auto on U.S. 50 west of Seymour. ' A Hatfield youth, Paul Partridge, 17, was drowned Ln the Ohio river near his home yesterday, and the body of Eugene Wlencek, 20, Michigan City, was washed ashore Saturday from Lake Michigan where he drowned while swimming Friday night. i Gilbert Albert Beck, 47, Evansville, was struck and killed by a car driven by Ethel Lucille Batson, 39, also of Evansville. Police said the woman was charged with drunken driving. Beck was killed a few hours after'he attended the funeral of his son, Leo, who bad been killed in Korea.

F « it* w XjT' \ JI vIKKs Mb FOLLOWING THEIR RESCUE from the swampy wilderness, part of the Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds, where they had been under artillery fire for 13 hours, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Looker, of Harrisburg, pose with Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher, of Dauphin, Pa, The two couples started on a fishing trip and unknowingly went into restricted waters of the Chesapeake Bay off the Aberdeen artillery range. They ran out of gas for their outboard motor and the Lookers went ashore in search of fuel An Army patrol spotted the Fishers. All firing on the range was cancelled until the Lookers were found. In group (L to r.) are: Mr. Looker. Mr. Fisher. Mrs. Looker and Mrs, Fisher. (International)

Judging Contest To Be Held Wednesday Decatur FFA Sponsor Os Judging Contest A land and soil conservation judging contest will be sponsored by the Decatur Future Farmers of America and will be held in conjunction with the extension field day Wednesday at the Ben Gerke farm, it was announced today by Vaughn Miller, vocational agricultural instructor in the Decatur high schools. ' I Vocational agricultural students from Geneva, Monmouth, Adams Central, Berne as well as Decatur high school, will participate in the contest, which will have as its objective the member’s ability to determine the best cropping system for different kinds of soils. At the. same time, demonstrations on pasture renovation and sodded waterways with county agent L.E. Archbold in charge will also be held. , ' Archbold and G. P. Walker and Tom Bushnell, of Purdue University, will serve as judges for the FFA competition which itself be judging. w ** * The students will judge four .areas of soil and will score each area according to the color, tex;ture and depth of surface soil, natural drainage, slope of land and the extent of erosion. The students will also determine i the class of land, type of cropping system and which soil management practices to use on the land. Their knowledge 6f such things will be tabulated by the judges and, the winners named for the all-day contest. j The field day is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Jim Moses, president of the Decatur FFA chapter and general chairman of the field

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