Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1952 — Page 7

WiODNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1952

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St. Joe Plays Monmouth For County Title St. Joe of Decatur anil Monmouth will battle at 4 o’clock Thursday "afternoon at the Commodore gym hi this city for the Adams county junior high school basketball championship. > These teams adbanceh to the f finals Tuesday night, St. Joe, north I division champion defeating HarV 1 ford, south division runnerup’ and f Monmouth, north division rurinerf up. downing Berne, south division j eßampion, in games played at Moh- | mouth. ' .J - [ *j Site of the championship game « was determined by the toss ofa # coin following last night’s games, % with Sit. Joe winning the flip. There | wiil be no admission charge, and .vl'the public is invited to attend totw-- , " -r , I ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

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morrow’s game. will be Hubert Zerkej, ftlr., and Robert Lord. Th® Daily Democrat trophy willJbe presented to the new .champpion. . i. i ihbT Monmouth eliminated Berne in the opening game Tuesday mgtit at the Monmouth 44-43. Mobmouth led at all periods, 6-4, 16-14 and 30-26. Myers led the winners with 20 points and Yoder’s sevep topped a well-balanced eßrne scoring. ' 3 \ jSt. Joe scored >a 37-22 trtumpi over Hartford in iftst night’s second game. The Decatur team was ou t in front at al periods, 12-7, 2MC and 28-17. Wilder paced St. Joe witi 18 points, and Short was tops fqr Hartford with Ift Monmouth FG FT TP Worthman 0 ; jft ; 0 Brown 2 ;2- 6 Myers L__ 10 . ft-:\2D Schnepf3 6 12 Davis t-__ 2 3 6 Heller L___ ,0 o'] L 9 Lewton L 0 0 9 Beery a-i.- <0 0 9 Elzey _.ai____ 0 0 J 4JL- 0 0\ 9 l) Totals|_L 17 10 44 Berne FG FT-TP Nussbaum 3 ft ; 5 Whitehurst _____j_i__ 2 0 4 Yoder j.J_. 3 17 Ehrsam .__i. 2 2 5 Hanni L_ 1 : ft ■ 2 Lloyd r . r _ 3 i ft ; 6 Hendricks r —. 0 1 ji 1 1 Reinhard 0 (M L 9 T. Lehman -“-i-- ft 0 ! J Sprunger \_o 1:1 Liechty ft ft I) ' ' - 4 *L. _________ Totals 14 ft 3ft 7 St. Joe 1 i ’ FG FT TP Faurote 1 . 1 Lengerich 0 0 1 Omlorl4 0 0 J Voglewede L_ 4 1; 9 Wilder 9 ft ; 1$ E. Meyer 4- 0 ;ft| j, <► Murphy 0 0 <• Teeple 0 ■ 1 ; ' 1 Costello V- 0 0 (I R. Meyer 1 0 1 Rumschlag ;4 0 •(>=!<■ Heiman 0 0 <■ 1 1 : ’• '" "'' Totals 4 17 3 33 Hartford I FG FT TP Fox 1 0 2 Zuercher l- 11 3 Miller 4 4 1 101 i 0 H. Short -J— 0 1.0 ! ■ ft Shor\ :—--4 s\t ! -ft , 1 (1 | Biberstine; 1* ft 0 .ft Stahley ’. 0’ -1 H <ii D Dubach -J— ft 0 ' ft C. Dubach —-1 2. 4 . Totals 9 4 23 Officials: Zerkel, Lord. ■ _-4—p [. f i High School Basketball Mishawaka 63. Foil Wayne North 61 (overtime) South Bend Riley 54, Brazil 46. i Gary Froebel 54i Hammond | Clark 477 r . Sullivan 47. Terre Hhutei W]ijey 38. Terre Haute Garfield 64, Otter Creek 47. . Columbus 104, Mooresville 48. Lafayette 64. Crawfordsville 57. i I Trade in a Good Town* —Decatur

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Wednesday i, Adams Central vs Chester Center at Pleasant Mills. Fridgy f Garrett at Yellow Jackets. 'Commodores at Lancaster Central. Harlan, at Monmouth. •i Jefferson at Pleasant Mills. Redkey at Berne. Geneva at Ossian. Poling at Hartford. | Klenk’s Winner In First Tourney tilt Klenk’s of Decatur was victorious in its first test in the AA;U. tourney Tuesday night, defeating the Sand Point Merchants, 69-61, in an opening round game. Klenk’s led at all periods, 16-13, 34,32 and 50-47. Crist paced Decatur with 20 points, closely followed by Reed with 17. Ken Spiker was high for Sand Point with 20. Klenk’s will make its second start in the meet at 7 o’clock Thursday evening at the West Union gym in Huntington county. Klenk’s , FG FT TP Ballard 5 0 10 Schnepf 11 3 seed’ J. 1 3 17 Troxel 0 0 0, Moser 2 3 7 Crist 8 4 2ftbfeyer 3 3 9 Conrad | 4 .\. 113 TOTALS 27 15 69 Sand Point FG FT TP McClure -_ T 7 0 14 Ken Spiker 7 6 20 Keith Spiker 10 2 Baumgartner 10 2 Courtney * 0 0 0 Snodgrass —7 1 15 Doepke 2 15 Hornberger 113 TOTALS 26 9 61 Man Is Acquitted Os Double Murder Third Trial Ends I"In Jury Acquittal Crown Point, Ind., Feb. 20 — <VP) —Victor Smelko, 30, 11amntond, Ind., was freed today in the Good Friday slaying of his sister-in-law and her husband April 7. 1950. , A jury of seven men and five women acquitted Smelko in his M|ird trial on charges-of murdering Mrs., Josephine Pappas, 32, and lier husband, George, 58. The first two trials ended in hung juries. The body of Mrsf Pappas was ifiQund on the bed of her home in Munster, Ind., on Holy Saturday, ■ Afrit 8. A bullet was lodged in hpr left temple_ and a gun was in her left hand. with a bullet in his right' temple, was found in the kitchen. Smelko, who was discharged irom the service as a psychoneurotic, said he found the bodies Saturday when he went to the Pdppa’s residence to do some painting. “• * • s :He said he became frightened jahd fled to Pittsburgh. He was Jr rested when he returned April 0 and has been held since then at the Lake county jail. . The defense contended that Mrs. Pappas shot her husband and then herself. Prosecutor David P. Stanton brought out testimony that Mrs. Pappas was right-han.ded and Would not have held the gun in per left hand if site had done the Shooting. " ’ * t.‘ The trial was 'held al Lake county criminal court presided oyer by special judge stay Hed■man. P Smelko is married and has four-year-old twin boys. ai ’ ■

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. —i_i » .'2L ' ? ' 1. i Northern Midwest Lashed By Blizzard Toll Os 60 Lives Taken By S tor his By United Press J s I felizzards lashed sections of the j northern midwest today but ap New England storm that caused two ship disasters was dying out, ■the midwest and eastern Storms • took a toll of almost 60 li , High winds piled up huge snowdrifts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and (the Dakotas. paralyzing transportation an many, areas. Highway, travel was dangerous in northern ;lltnois and Indiana because pt icy : roads. In lowa, telephone' comJ viunications were crippled to 34 ' towns. . ’ , \ ■ The Atlantic ocean was subsiding off the Massachusetts coast' ’ where 13 seamen clung to the, 1 | stem of one of two tankers torn ' ; ?.paYt by the mountainous waves, i Fourteen men were believed ! in the two (shipwrecks and onp 1 L‘he mainland" England count*' ed at least 32 dead from the heavy ’ snowfall swept inland by the nor--1 (easter. Most diets of heart attacks • brought on by oiyerexertlon, or on 1 ( slippery highways. 1 . At least 12 persons died, in the » ■ midwest due to icy pavements; 1 • F or heart attacks. A freezing drizzle began falling I! In the Minnesota blizzard area - i tills morning, making conditions s (even worse, and] high winds drift--5j ad snow back onto highways as j : ’ast as they were cleared. Winds ] were .expected to diminish tonight; I ’ however. ? Some sections of the mid1 ; west had 19 /inches of »now. i Rescuers used two snow plows j end an ambulance t,o reach a sipk ./farm woman at Hazelton, S. D-. t and take her to a Bismhrck, N. D., . j hospital. t : A two-year-old Menominee, Wis., I ( boy was forced to spend the night i in an ambulance with his mother ? and the driver when the vehicle (bogged down nine ■* miles from j! Rochester, Minn. The,boy, Ken--1 ueth Bakken, was being taken to - ( Rochester for treatment of a brain i tumor. A rotary snowplow finally - ( ‘xtricafed the ambulance after eight hours. ; ;

BOWUNSSCOReS AMERICAN LEGION LEAGUE Burk! Standard won three from Tanker*: Gunners won two from Non Coms; Destroyers won tWo from Ashbaucher; Bultenieler won , l( two from Macklin. Standings W L Pts. BurkesJ Standard 16 5 20 . Ashbau/phers 12 9 17 Destroyers ; 12 9 16 Tankers 11 10 15 Non Cgms 11 10 14 Gunneri __..j 8 13 12 Macklins 8 13 11 Bultemfiers 6 15 9 High .games: L. Koeneman 234; ,W. Fniix 217-222; C. Cook 22j!; t B. Andrews 219; E. Zvlick 213; U pimsuju; W. Schnepf C. Stfcfens 201; FL Strickler 20i; V. Bormann 200; H. Engle 200; H. DeVor 100. \ High;series: W. Kranz 4507. dfcNTRAL SOYA LEAGUE I. L w L Pehcß 10 5 Wondefs 9 6 Bums 1.. v 9 6 < I Feed Mill .....1... : ... 9 H 6 .Dubs ... .. ... i...... 9 :! 6 Blue Prints .......J...'8 1? Bag Service 8 7 MasterfMixers ' 5 10 Better ’Halves .. 4 11 M. & R . .... 4 11 High|games: /Women —Way 191->T’63-15df (504), Smith 192. ‘ - i G.E. ALLEYS t G.E. Monday Nite League i Standings '■l W L /langek 11 7 Stators., ' 9 9 Office *. . ... ; 9 9 Packer! 7 11 20(7 Scores: Dull 208, Schuster 222, Ldurent 222.], G.E. Fraternal League Standings W L Teeple|Truck Lines 16 5 k* of d 12 9 Moose-hurke 12 9 •G.E., cjub .. 11 it) Petcrsfi ll Elevator 11 10 West l|nd Res’t 11 10 Elks 10 11, Amef|<>h. Legion '. 1 20 GOO series: Zelt 644 <213-212-219).' 200 forest Custer. 200, Laurent 200; ißulkner 212-225, Gage 201, Wolpejt, 209, : (i.E. Women’s League . Standings ' W L Team |*o. 2 __ 10 5 Team No. 3 8 7 Team |io 4 6 9 Team |io. 1 . 6 9 High'score: Scitafer 17a. fro Basketball Jnrtirtaapolis 82, Boston 81.

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Warriors Whip Madison Last Night. 55-22 I The Jefferson Warriors chalked up theif eighth victory of the sea, 4on ,Tpesd|y night, walloping the Sinless Madison township team from Jay county, 55-22, at the Geneva gym.. •.. . Jefferson led at all periods, 12-5, 38-10 and 46-12. .1 Dick Keller paced the Warriors With 13 points, followed by jack Wendell w|th 10. For Madison, who Obtained only four ’ field goals, Bcheffer led with seven points. « : The Warriors will close their seasbn Friday night, meeting the Spartans at Pleasant Mills. | Jefferson / FG FT TP butcher 2 1 5 (j.‘ Kuhn ....2 0 4 Swiftser 2 0 4 Kellar '4— 6 1 13 Stolz ... 11 3 1 \Miller 11 3 Stuber — T .___ 2 15 Wellman 2 2 6 Wendell 4 2 10 0. Kuhn .4__ 10 2 Totals 23 9 55 j* ] ■ Madison FG FT TP N. Prescotto 4 4 linelj T 0 11 Klingel 12 4 Evans 0 0 0 Get linger |*__lo 2 Schaffer 1 5 , 7 stoner 0 11 j>. Prescottll3 {Totals 4 14 22 Officials; Baldwin, Timmons. | . Preliminary Jefferson 39, Madison 25. r. , . A total pf 23,650 persons were killed or injured in traffic accidents In Kentucky in 1950, the equivalent ftf more than one per cent of the State’s population.

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. "Y W, 111 Bl G.E. Girls To Play At Marion Thursday 1 The, G.E. girls baMyetball team will piny the Haisley Oil Co. team, at Marion Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock. f ' ■• ’ : College Basketball Anderson 80, Franklin 67. J Butler 70, DePauw 55. Camp Breckinridge 95, Oakland City 89 (overtime). Indiana Central 78, Hanover 73. Loyola 59. H j Taylor 90, Earlham 78. Kansas 66, Oklahoma A & M 46. | Louisville 82, North Carolina State 67. > ' v "4 •'» —— :. 1

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APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTHATOR. W.W.A. %«». 477 S Notice i* hereby fflvew, That the understat ed has been appointed AdminiHtrat>r with, will annexed of the estatb of Willis A. Fonner late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Bhemßa P.Mer . Administrator W.W.A. Voalewede A Anderaon Attorneys Feb. 19, 1952 FEB. 20—27—MARCH 6 NOTICE ■ Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Zoning Appeals at City Hall March 4 at 7:30 o clock p.m. at Decatur, Indiana on an appeal of Kenneth Singleton. Public 'participation is invited. Clarence Zlner, Chairman. FEB. 20 | Electrical resistance units of ! glass with built-in conductors of ctjramic j oxide are available for heating up to 600° F aqd using up to 10 waltts per square inch.