Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1952 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1952

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LEGION AUXILIARY IN SOCIAL MEETING The January] Social meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary was held last evening at the Legion home. A film from the 1950 Girl’s S|:ate held at Bloomington was shown. Mrs. Clark Flaugh, Girl’s State chairman, was in charge of the meeting. Cards were played during the social hour and prizds for bridge were won by Mrs. T. C. -Smith and Mrs. Luke Thaman; pinochle, Miss Margaret Biting and Mrs. Phil Sauers: bunco, Mrs. Ed Jaberg and Mrs. Clark Flaugh. Refreshments were served by A the following committee, Mrs. Harold Tiernan, chairman; Mrs. Vincent Borman, Mrs. Wilmer Rau<Lei> bush. Mrs. Charles Rape, and Mrs. Ernest Lauttenheiser. JOLLY HOUSEWIFE CLUB MEETING ON THURSDAY The Jolly Housewife Home Economics club held their regular meeting iri the Pleasant Mills school on Thursday with twentyeight members, one guest and three children present. Singing of the club creed opened the meeting and roll call was answered by "A New Year’s resold* tion my husband should make.’* Mary Bhrsam gave a talk on club refreshments for the lesson. 4-H leaders were appointed at the business meeting. . Contests were enjoyed during the social hour and refreshments were served by Freida Golliff, J Lois Funk, Addie Hahnert. Esther Ehrsam and Helen Wlllfamson. The Rosary Society will meet Monday evening at seven thirty o’clock in the Knights Os Columbus hall. > Members of the Union Township Woman’s club are asked to note that their .meeting • will be held - Friday afternoon at one thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Mae Stults. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook and daughter will move to Kalamazoo, Mich., next week. Cook is employed there in the gas line construction business. : . - After 52 Years The Ownership of ■J. ' » Hite’s Grocery ' . ... reverts to My Son CHARLES/ He is well equipped with years of experience to carry on the business. And I ask for him the same fihe consideration you have always given me. , ' • I want to thank the thousands of Customers that I have served down through the years. It might be of interest to some to know the prices on my opening day, January 15, 1900. Here they are: - f Potatoes. peck 10c Bacon __plb. 8c Beans -a2 lbs. 5c Bread 2 loaves 5c Crackerslb. 5c « •Il ' ; Sugar lb. 3c One amusing incident I recall — Bread Wagons ' delivered bread to the homes every morning. r But I thought I could sell some, so I ordered 6 a day and sold them. Then for Saturday I ordered 12 and when I closed up I still had 11. But I kept on selling a little each day, then the bread wagons were taken off and being the only Grocery in the South End, 1 really began to sell bread. Sam E. Hite - ' ,(v r *

F" 1 ■*" l J !wt-'i f « Harry Essex, Adams cobnty and fourth district Republican chairman Caq state committee in Indiknapokttended a meeting of the RepubliiisPthis week. ‘ . • i Society Item* fgr day’s publication phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday B:3O a. m.) Phone 3-2121 Phyllis Acheson SATURDAY Tri Kappa i sorority bake ‘ sale, The Schafer Store, 9:30 p.m. D.A.V. Auxiliary bake sale, Pu-b---lix Service Store, 9 a.m. SUNDAY I Zion Lutheran Walther League 4 to 6 pan. in Parish hall. ] \ MONDAY Rosary Society, K. of C. hall 7:30 p.m. I Pythian Sister Needle Clpb, K. of p... Home, after Temple. Methodist Night Circle, Church Basement, 8 p.m. ' . ‘ TUESDAY ! Sunny Circle Home Ec . club. Preble recreation center, 7:30 p.m. Eagles Auxiliary, formal initiation, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Historical Club, Mrs, Lydia Worthman, 2:30 p.m. llt L ’ Bethany Circle of Zion E. and R, church, Mrs. Albert Fruchte, 8 P.m. V ' St. Vincent de Paul society, C L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Monroe W.C.T.U., Mrs, Darrell Williams, 2 p.m. ■ 111 1 FRIDAY Union Township Woman’s Cl ib, Mrs. Stults, 1:30 p.m.\ • V " 11 IWJOHUTAL ji Admitted: Julius Baker, pecatur. Dismissed: Mrs. Edwin Lehnun and baby girl, Monroeville; Mrs. Roman Beer and baby girti Sarah. Berne* Mrs. Herbert Miller and laby girl. Willshlre,O„; Mbs. Ei.ri Lehman and baby girl, ; Berne; James Myers, Decatur; Mis. Lev is Smith and baby girl. Monroe. «* X-— 2, ’'■ 1 *i -p ’‘ i O i ! Carnivorous animals never have laps than fbur tpes on eadli foot. I DON’T TAKE A CHANCE : TAKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co. Pretty! (Practical! I f ; i ■ jr | /W/ \ J-O \ ' vm \ W w® /I?! A—hi Ur® f I I R 9019 r®T ; 30-« Inj DOUBLE DUTY Style —for home ’n’ /own wear —comjfortable for kitchen chores, pretty for marketing. Use contrasting fabric fdr the flattering revers and: the scalloped pockets. Choice: of carp sleeves or set-in sleeves. Pattern R 2019: in misses sizos 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 30, 32, 34‘ 36, 3jfr, 40, 42. Size 16 takes 4 yards 3binch; % yard contrast. | I Send Thirty-five cents in coifts for this pattern to Martan‘Martin, care of Decatur Dally Democrat, Pattern Dept.. P. O. Bog 6740, Chicago 80, Hl. Print plainly YOUR NAME, ADDRESS. ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. if f ■ i h ' :! n " I i H Mil IL? I

Accident Results In Driver's Arrest 1 One Slightly Hurt ‘ As Autos Collide A truck driven by R. E. August of Stevenson an automobile driven by Dan Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mills of this city, ] collided at about midnight Friday night at the Monroe and Eighth street intersection. The mishap resulted in slight injury to Douglas Thompson, Decatur, riding with Mills, and the arrest of (August on a charge of failing to stop at a stop street. August entered a plea of guilty to the charge in justice l of peace court following the mishap and was fined $5 and costs, amounting to 315.75. a Damage to the two vehicles involved was estimated to be about >350. Two other occupants rif the Mills car j were uninjured* and Thompson did not require medical care. His injuries included several scratches and bruises. Automobiles- driven ,by Harvey Haggard, Decatur route 2. and Martha L. Mast,: Urbana. 0.. figured in a slight accklent Friday afternoon at the corne |of Monroe and Seventh streets. - Combined estimated damage to the involved cars was less than 325. One other traffic arrest was recorded at I police headquarters: Calla B. Steller, Fort Wayne; was charged with running a stop sign, and on a guilty plea the case was continued in justice of peace court, The alleged offense occurred at Third and* Jackson streets. Tom Bosse Plans To ' Enter Notre Dame Tom Bosse, son of Mr. afid Mrs; Ed <A. Bosse of this city will leave next Tuesday for South Bend wherd he will enroll as a student at .Notrq Dame University. Mr. and Mrsi Bosse will accompany Tom, who was graduated this week from Decatur Catholic high school. Pancake And Sausage Breakfast Held Today Several hundred members of the Decatur Masonic lodge gathered at the lodge hall at 6 o’clock this morning for the annual pancake and sausage breakfast. Following the breakfast the Fellowcraft degree was exemplified;' The .break fast is an annkml trfiahi and each year draws many members, The inititation started at 7:«fl o’clock and was completed about 9:30. 1 Edgar Sauer 111 In California Hospital Mrs. Russell Fleming and Rheinhold Sauer leftftoday for California to visit their bijother, Edgar Sauer, formerly of Adams county. Edgar Sauer, is ill in a hospital in California and he has two small children. Mrs. Sauer died some time ago and Mrs. Fleming and Reinhold Sauer will bring the childreq to Adams county,for a temporary visit. !j : : - !■'. ■ Both Wrists Broken In Fall At School Robert Hugh Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. True Andrews of Decatur, route 1, suffered a painful injury in a peculiar: accident at the Monmouth high school gymnasium Friday, 'i Young Andrews was playing in the gym when he fell in. such a manner that he broke both wrists. The young man was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital where the injuries were treated and tliten he was removed to hiS home north of Decatur. ; ... : : '.J ' 1 \ \ 4 HI - ■Fl® I®® fg'W jOF , Is F/ * t KNOWN for her wisecracking screen roles, Thelma Ritter has just been voted “Sweetest Mother of the Year** by the American Confectionery Association. The mother of a 14-year-old boy and ■ 9-year-oJd girl, the actress will soon celebrate her silver wedding anniversary.antemattonol) : i - ' ■ ■ H

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w. ■, j S ? "' i ■ / ? * — MRS. MABEL ODDIS, 29, follows an ambulance doctor from pier as l|e carries her 2%-pound new-born baby in a special oxygenized suitcase en route to New York’s Bellevue hospital from the liner Italia. Mis. Oddis, from Germantown, Pa_, gave birth to the infant aboard the liner at sea. , M /International i

Orders Full Probe I Info Death Os Boy Child Buried Alive In Pile Os Gravel .Bloomington, 111., Jan. 26.—(UP) —Mayor Cecil Cone today ordered a “full investigation” into tW death of a six-year-old boy who died' in a hospital after he was buried alive for 45 minutes in a gravel, pile. ‘ ; Jerry Greene died in St. Joseph’s hospital where he was rushed yesterday after 18 firemen finally su<>, geeded in bringing him out the bottom of’ a hopper. Jerry was first by John Wolf, a switchman for the Gulf. Mobile and Ohio railroad, who saw the youngster fall into the hopper full of loose gravel used to dump stones onto the tracks below. ) The boy, screaming for help, was burled trp to h»« urmpiti. Nearby workmen rushed to his aid and' the fire’department was summoned; All began digging for Jerry who, slipped lower and lower as he struggled. Anxious parents feared the boy might be theirs and climbed onto ithe shifting gravel, hampering res-, cue work. Jerry sunk deeper as the gravel was trampled over him. 1 .. Police lines were set up to hold back 400 persons who crowded, around the hopper. Among them were Jerry’s par-*' ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Greene. The mother wept and prayed as; she watched the efforts to reach’ her son. ; j ' Forty-five minutes later, Jerry; was brought out the bottom of the; hopper. Firemen immediately ap-; plied a resuscitator and the boy to the hospital. He was unconscious although a' faint' heart beat was detected, > Further efforts to revive him with -a resuscitator were to no avail, ft William J. Whef»el, president of; the Builders Supply Co., where the gravel pile was located, said the firm Jiad had “repeated trouble” with children playing around the 1 stones. | Police said the graVel was moist and loose. The mayor did not indicate what course the investigation would take.

THE INDIVIDUAL PAYS MOST, DEFENSE GETS MOST | ■ 'tl Tne BUDGET hm « C.'nrali.nt ; DOLLAR & ,'WfeSf lz ill *^jr—;U , Bi rest Taxes m ladividaals / / .- W\ 36C * \ Ek ' w LM XleV asdOtkerlam l£kJLA s W,; - Z4< t K r* i ‘ -J ■ \w A / Military Services Ai )■ ZI & /A KC JsSr • imcwiw wna a nn Mkuht • teeuu v im wrai DIRECT TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS la largest source of the budget dollar as divided in this chart accom* paying President's budget message. By far, greatest percentage go«s to military services. " • : ■ TV" ~ n - ’ - ’!>' :

Forest Owens Heads | Relief, Loan Plan • . >1 Forest Owens was elected chairman of the Decatnr G..E. employes relief and loan plan for 1952 aj? ; a meeting of the membership week. Lloyd Kreischer was nai 4d vice-chairnfan. H George F. Laurent, of • personnel, was appointed secretary- ; treasurer, and John F. Welch, plfent manager, was appointed a member of the board. Representatives ejec- . ted were Ernest Lake and Raym&hd Crist, from building 1, and M(ty Moran and Lloyd Ahr from building 2. ■. • ; Swine School Opens Here Monday Night - ; School Is Planned For Adult Farmers A swine school for adult in the Decatur area, will be off^Cd 1 by the Decatur high school, starting Monday at 7:30 p.m., Vau|lui Miller, vocational agriculture teacher of the local school faculty, ■announced today. The school will consist of *'lo meetings and each session will ..be two hours. Miller will be the'lnstructor. Among his other aegtivities in the interest of agriculture, he is an instructor for the Future ; Farmers of America and has evented a lively participation among j; high school students in this phase of agricultural education. ; Varied subjects of discussion will be included in the agenda for the swine school, including breed#' of ; swine, selection of swine housing - and equipment; feeding market > hogs; the breeding herd, management bf the breeding herd, sow?and litter marketing; disease and p&rai sites found in hogs. * Hog raising is one of the prln- ' ciple occupations on Adams county farms. Much of the corn froni the > 40 to 50 thousand acres planted to corn is fed to the hog crops ou tlie farms in this (county. Persons interested in hog railing are invited to attend the sfcort course. , ;

Plan Program Os Electric School Farm, Home School In Berne Feb. 13 Program planning for the farm and home eleetrio Mthool .February "13 in the Berne Auditorium, was developed in the extension office recently. Those On the committee helping to develop the plans were: . Harffld Floyd, Ivan; Huser, and Henry Rumple of the R.E.M.C.; Ann Smith, Rose Ann Bilderback and Harry Mazelin, 4-H electric project members; Mrs. Glenn Schaadt, Mrs. Miltop Kreutzmaij,' Eva Brewster, and liarold Zeigler of the Home Clubs; J(. L. Albaugh, Howard J. Fugate andE.W. Boltin represented the \lndiana and Michigan Electric Co. Ivan Huser will be chairman of (the morning session which will Start at 10 a.m. The program will begin with an animated cartoon, called “Ready Made Magic.” Harry Mazelin will give a demonstration on "Intra Red Brooding.” This is a timely topic as intra red brooding is meeting with reahy acceptance. Oscar Lowery, Purdue agricultural engineer, will diSeuss electric wiring and safety. 'He will be asked to discuss electric fusing, dust proof motors, outdoor switches, armored cpble in barns and home hazards in both room switches and extension cords. A free lunch wifi be served at noon. Mrs. Glenn Schaadt will have charge of the afternoon program. A film, “Father Sees the Light,” will be followed by a demonstration by Ann Smith and Rose Bilderback on “Lighting the Home Study Center.” Margaret Buchan’s topic will be, “See Your Home in a New Light.” The afternoon program was set up on the triple of home lighting by reasrin of a request made by the home economics clubs of the county. Wiis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Welpert are the parents; of a .baby girl, born at 5:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces. ■ GIRL SCOUTS Brownie Troop 2 ‘ met Friday afternoon at Lincoln school. The meeting opened with the Brownie song and the following officers were elected: president, Janet Milby; scribe, Onalee Barkley. Games ler; vice-president, Gladys Gamswere played and Onalee Barkley served refreshments. Scribe, Onalee Barkley The drug, digitalis, is made from dried leaves bf the foxglove. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur TRY OUR MARKS FILM SERVICE FOR QUALITY PHOTO FINISHING Smith Bexall Drugs

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