Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1952 — Page 3

JULY 8, 1953

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I SURPRISE SHOWER GIVEN Ror bride-elect Miss Patricia Reed, bride-eiect of July 6, was pleasantly surprised ftt the home of Miss Barbara Waialters recently -with a shower. The I entertaining rooms were decorated with seasonal flowers'and a miniature bride and bridespiaids. Upon the arrival of the guest of honor, shO was presented -a cor- . sage of sweet peas from the hostess. Games we enjoyed and prizes awarded -to Mrs. Patil Morgan, Mary Michaels and Virginia Mitchell, who in turn presentedi -them to Miss Rbed. She received many lovely gifts during the evening. - JI A luncheon followed and was ’ rsprved to the Misses Marilyn Durr, Coleen Hirsclf, Mary Michaels, Virginia Mitchel, Katen Reed, Mrs. i Kenneth Ree<jl, Mrs. Kenneth Parrish, Mrs. Paul' Morgan and the guest of honor. : -Those unable to attend but sent ■; gifts were the Misses Patricia Bar- S ger, Vivian Baumgartner, Marva Strdhm and Nancy Parrish. Mrs. Walters and Mrs. Frank Longwell of \ Fort Wayne assisted the hostess during the, evening. All members of the Decatur Gar-den-Club who desire to attend the Silver Tea as guests of the Geneva Garden Club Thursday asked to contact the president, Mrp. r ! Harold Owens. i.-J .• ‘ ' i ' ' ! The Girl’s Missionary Guild Os the Union Chapel church will meet , with Ethel Cook at seven thirty O’clock Monday evening. Mrs. Eugene Ryddll will be hdsj tess at a picnic supper for meihfiers of the Presbyterian Ruth-and Naomi Circles on Wednesday evening at six thirty o’clock. Each j member is requested tb bring a covered dislfUind table service, arid ‘ J those attending should meet at the j liurch at six o'clock. ’ J - ,\ ' ' The [Wednesday Evening Bridge , . Club will be entertained in the home of Mrs. Frank Schmitz Wednesday at seven thirty o’clock. ■ p A ~ J : ' Mrs. William-(Ehrman will be hpstess for < the meeting of the Kirkland W. ; C. T. U. Tuesday afterribon, at one thirty o’clock. Our Lady pf Lourdes Study Club members will rheet at the hdme of p *. ' J’• - DON’T TAKE A CHANCE I, , take PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co. Ell 11 left Monday will lILIvI be ready at 3:00 o’clock Tuesday. Office Hours: 8:30 to 5:00 EDWARDS STUDIO

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Mrs. Raymond Voglewede Tuesday evening at eight o’clock. Mrs. Adrian Lichtle will be the chairman: I . — n ■■■ ■" ■ The D.A.V. Auxiliary will have a called business meeting in the Legion Memorial Park’ Thursday evening at eight o’clock. Mrs. Rufus Sommer, co|nmander, hqs asked the old officers to bring their materials for the new officers. Mrs. Sommer will also give l a report, on the convention. s 1 ■ 'A ' [ Mary and Martha Circles of the Presbyterian church will have a covered dish luncheon at the home of Mrs. Lowell Harper , Thursday afternoon at one o’clock. Members are to take a covered dish and table service. , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gar'ard were guests of Mr. and Mi’s. Kenneth Wilkinson at their cottage at Black’s Landing, Tippecanoe Lake Friday. Other\; guests we ‘e Mrs. Arlow Humbarger, Mrs. Mary Wilhelm, Mr. and Mrs. Howar 1 Montgbmery and son of Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Verlijn Jackson of Columbia City. Iterate Phone 3-2121 Kathleen Terveer Society item* for day’* publication must be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) MONDAY i • Adams county chorus, Monrqe School, 8 p.m. MONDAY L ■i Womans’ club, Dramatic section, Mrs. Paul Hancher, 8 p.m. , Girl’s Missionary Guild, Union Chapel church, Ethel Cook, 7:30 p.m. ! TUESDAY Rose Garden club, Mrs. Walter Butcher, 2 p.m. ; Pleasant Dale church, council meeting, 8 p.m. Great Books discussion f group, final meeting, library, 7:30 p.m!. Happy Homemakers club meeting postponed one week. Better Homes club of Monroe, Mrs. Alta Laisure, 7:30 p.m. Kirkland W. C- T. U., Mrk William Ehrman, 1:30. p.m, . ; J Our Lady of Louidbs study, blub, Mrs. Raymond Vogldwede, 8 p.m. > WEDNESDAY | Decatur Business and Professional Women’s club, Bluffton State park, 6 p.m. [ , ' !. ■ Wednesday Evening Bridge club; Mrs. Frank Schmitz, 7:30 p.m. Presbyterian Ruth and Naomi Circles, picnic supper, Mrs. \ Eugene Rydell, 6:30 p.m. $ THURSDAY 1 p Presbyterian Mary and Martha Circfe. covered dish luncheon, Mrs. Lowell Harper, 1 p.m. D.A.V. Auxiliary called business meeting, Legon Park, 8 p.m. ■ —■■■■—tv — \ Scout Pageant To Depict History Os The Sauk Nation “Voices Crying In the Wilderness” to be shown at Worthman field Tuesday evening at 8:30 is a pageant showing the history of the Sauk nation. The two outstanding characters of the Sauks were Black Hawk and; Keokuk. Both' men were eloquent speakers as well as leaders of their people. Both men held the honor of being war chief at various times. Black Hawk had pledged his life and sacred honor to protect his home lands from the pale faces and he did his best to uphold this honor. Keokuk was a more peaceful In-' dlan, and used his skill of speaking to persuade his people to follow the White Man’s advice. Much of the history connected with this pageant cannot be portrayed on the staged so. many times during the play a “PhantomPraying Indian” appears in the sky to narrate the connecting parts, — something different for this type of production. The ®“village of Saukenuk” will be constructed of natural woods materials, along with the other parts of the stage. The stage will really be,in 3 parts. The “village,” which is comprised of several large wickiups, land Indian! equipment makes a colorful center background for the stage. All thb scenery, lighting and audio-speaker system will be | set up with the help of the scouts. Geneva Herald Being; Issued Each Week Owners of the! Geneva Herald today emphasized [that they are still operating the weekly paper, and while it is for sale, no arrangements have been made for thd sale and they will continue to issue the paper each week.

Slays Estranged Wife And Himself Louisvtl|e Man In Murder And Suicide LOUISVILKE, Ky. UP — Gordon Deyne, 48, an advertising salesman who described himself Vs “doomed,” stabbed his estranged w r ife to death here Friday with a six-inch paring knife, then hanged himself. I In a letter found by police, Deyne wrote of plans to hang himself after his wife. Mrs. Dora Seger Deyne, 38, spurned his efforts for reconciliation. Police said they found Mrs. Deyne, a waitress, thinly clad, lying face down in a pool of blood near her bedroom door. Deyne was found hanging by a heavy wrapping twine from a closet door in the bathroom. The body was found by the landlady, who 'broke open the door after hearing screams several hours earlier. \ The letter, found by police \said in part: . li cannot live without her ... I would rather prefer death to a life of solitude. My wife is blind, stubborn, ignorant, and has never read a book, but I don’t want to die.” \ Members Os Girls' Stale Name Officers 625 Hoosier Girls To Select Officers BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UP — Some 625 Hoosier Girls’ State members went into the polls today to [Vlect thejr governor and six lesser officials who will govern their annual conference. I It’s the Federalists against the Nationalists, both parties campaigned virorously after nominating! their tickets in state conventions Friday. The Federalist ticket is headed by Sandra Grimes of Indianapolis for governor. She is opposed by Patsy Rutholdt of Goshen, gubernatorial candidate for the Nationists. The elected officials will be inaugurated Sunday in the presence of Governor Schricker, and three days of running a state government follow until the session sponsofed by the American Legion Auxiliary breaks up Wednesday. Other candidates. Federalist first, Nationalist second, were: ' Lieutenant governor — Gretchen Stultz, Ligonier; Mary Hiday, Anderson. Secretary of state — Cynthia Wilson, Indianapolis; D* ana Downs Lebanon. Treasurer — Ruth Horstman, Brownstown; Irene Dolata, Gary. Auditor — Heljen Tririkle, Orleans; Mary Ja,ne Gibson, Rising Sun. Attorney general—Judy Schortemei.er, Indianapolis; Laura Kay Hastings, Cdnnersville. ' Supt. \of public instruction — Mary Eiler, Plainfield; Gloria Perry, Mooresville. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wolfe are the parents of a baby girl, born at the Adams county memorial hospital this morning at 3:40 o’clock. weighed six pounds, 12 ounces. “VOICES CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS” TUES., JULY 8—8:30 P. M. WORTHMAN FIELD ! Decatur Boy Scouts

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SOIRITAI I Admitted: Mrs. Dpnald Taylor, Willshire, O.; Mrs. Henry Ruesser, Berne; Dr. D. D. Jones. Berne; Mrs. John Sprunger, Berne. .Dismissed: Mrs. C, P. Hinchman, Geneva; Mils. CorwTh Ineichen, Geneva; Mrs. Martin W, Fegel, Monroeville; Saumel Whitright, Decatur; \Mrs. Kenneth Barker, Decatur; Mrs. Brice Sheets and baby boy, DecatUr; Mrs. Alvin Myers and baby boy, Monroeville; Lester Egly, Decatur. Progressive Party Opens Convention Begin Drafting Os Party's Platform CHICAGO, UP — Progressive party members began drafting their platform today after hearing their keynote speaker call the United Stiites "the greatest war monger in history.” Panel discussions Friday allowed the delegates to the Progressives’ national convention to advance plank proposals, but the platform committee had yet to hew out a final statement of principles. Keynoter Dr. W. E. B. Dubois said Friday that America “today appears as the greatest ;war monger in history.” The Negro scholar charged: “In Korea, the United States has committed every atrocity that man; ever did !to man. We have . . .! poured millions of gallons of flaming gasoline ori shrieking men, women and children and turned a helpless nation into a stinking desert.” ■ He said the Progressive party platform contains) these planks: peace, stop the Korean war, offer friendship to the Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China, and restore and rebuild the United States. HOLIDAY DEATH <Contf*Me<l From Page Oaf) “all the firecrackers we could get” into a 16-inch pipe to make a bomb to stun fish in a nearby pond. Young Tony Sidwell was trying to hammer the ends of the pipe shut when the jerry-built bomb exploded arid blew his left hand off at the wrist. The flash also burned his body seriously. More than 3,260,000 persons fled from the steaming sidewalks in New York City and headed for beaches. At Coney Island, 1,600,000 people almost obliterated the sand. At 5 p in. a thunderstorm hit the area and the crowd dissolved in minutes.; President and Mrs. Truman both, ardent fans, turned opt to watch' the Washington Senators tangle with the New York Yankees. , Big superhighways were turned into datfger spots by buhiper-to-bumper traffic. A single crash on the New Jersey turnpike killed five persons and another collision on the Pennsylvania turnpike claimed five more lives. , BIG AIR RAID <Continued From Case One) railroad : and an important rail bridge at i’ongmi-Dong, near Sinanju. ! A formation of 8(5 flying -protective cover for the bombers, sighted four enemy MiG’s, but the Russian-built jets made no attempt to challenge thp raiders.| The 56h air force announced that for the firs ttime in nearly a year Allied aircraft flew a week of strikes against the enemy wifhout losing a single plane. On the ground, the< 155-mile battlefront generally was quiet.

Saralynsu Braden Awarded Honor By Capital Jaycees Miss Saralynsu Braden, daughter of Mrs. Olive Wherry of this city, a student nurse at the Indiana University school of nurses training at Indianapolis', has been honored by the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce as “honor nurse” of the year. The Jaycees (ionor the outstandihg member of the freshman and sophomojre classes at the school each year,' and a medal signifying the honor wa » presented to Miss Braden at a luncheon meeting at the Washington hotel. The award, based on a vote of the nurses themselves, is made on personality, dare of patients, scholastic ability and knowledge of procedure. Miss Braden graduated fi)om the, Decatur high school in 1951. :—i 4. Quiet Holiday Is Reported By Sheriff \ The sheriff’s department said July Fourth was pretty quiet *o far as Accidents were concerned but there was a terrific traffic situation at the Decatur.drive-in theater because of the holiday fireworks. Sheriff Robert Shraluka said it seemed ( as though he turned awdy hundreds of cars who tried to get a good look at the display from the sides of toads' and every other place a car could squeeze in to. Manager of the drive-in. Jay MacGinnite, said some cars drove in and Upon not finding any speakers available, parked on the grass to watch the pictures though they could not hear them. Said MacGinnite, “the display was very successful and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.” He said it lasted for about a half hour. Fined And Sentenced \ For Drunken Driving Albert Serno, 22, of Chattanooga, 0., was fined >61.75, including costs, In mayor’s court today after he Was found guilty of driving his car while drunk. Mtiyor John Doan also sentenced Serno to 10 days in the county jail and suspended his license'for 90 days: Citation Is Received By ReV. E. F. Schmidt The Rev. E. P. Schmidt of 1022 West Monroe street, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, Decatur, recent-

Published in accordance with the call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this .district pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act grid a call made by the Department ot Financial Institutions of the State of Indiana. i ( State No. 731 . f REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST STATE BANK Ol* DECATUR of Decatur, in the State of Indiana, at the olo*e of business ori June 30, 1952. , ; [ ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balances, and cash items ip process of collection 32,349,920.53 United States Government obligations, directs and guaranteed —1 5,879,173.15 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 427,855:38 Other bonds, notes, and debentures 20,060.92 Corporate stocks (including >8,250.00 stock ot Federal Reserve Bank) — 8,250.00 Loans and discounts (including 13.48 overdrafts) 3,399,566.64 Bank premises owned 111,903.00 Furniture and fixtures 28,094.15 39,997.15 (Bank premises owned are subject to $ none \ I liens not'assumed by bank) I . • [ Other assets - 4,404.00 TOTAL ASSETS— >12,129,227.77 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, an<J corporations — L >4.618,201.55 Time' deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 4,920,438.35 Deposits of United States Government (including postal Savings) 123,180.30 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 1357,648.13 Deposits of banks 104,795.86 Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) 15,407.49 TOTAL DEP051T5>11,239,671.68 Other liabilities 41,289.16 TOYAL LIABILITIES (not including subordinate obligations shown below) >11,280,960.84 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital* > 425.000.00 Surplus ——\ 175,000.00 Undivided profits 233,220.93 Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capital).-- 15,046.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 848.266.93 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACC0UNT5>12.129,227.77 ♦lncludes proceeds of > none of debentures sold to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, >300,000.00 of debentures sold to local interests which debentures are subordinated to the rights of creditors and depositors, and 1250 shares of common stock, par >IOO.OO per share. MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes >168,000.00 Obligations subordinated to claims of depositors and other creditors, not included in liabilities none (a) Included in Loans and Discounts are LOANS TO % 1 AFFILIATED COMPANIES none , (b) Included in Other Bonds. Notes, Debentures and Corpor- \ ate Stocks are OBLIGATIONS OF AFFILIATED COMPANIES y__ none (c) First lien trust funds; none (a) Loans as shown above are after deduction of reserves of 51,068.16 (b) Securities as shown above are after deduction of re-* serves of> none I, H. H. Krueckeberg, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true, and that it fully and correctly represents the true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belieL Correct—Attest: H. H. KRUECKEBERG i T. F. Graliker, E. W. Buscbe, G. W. Vizard. Directors State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of July, 1952, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. \ (SEAL) Rose Ellen Miller, Notary Public My commission expires November 24, 1954.

Monthly Report Is Made By Red Cross I The monthly report of the Adams county Red Cross chapter shows a total of 534 services rendered [during the month of June. The report, a* broken down by Mrt. Max Schafer, executive secretary, shows: cases served, 9 servicemen, 9 [veterans, 11 civilians; limited service not considered cases, servicemept 6, 8 veterans, 5 civilians; emergency 'communications, 8; leave extension or verification, 8; other reports for military 3, veterans 1, assistance pension 2, insurance 1, other government benefits 4, counseling in personal and family problems 8, referral to other agency 3, interviews (in) interviews (out) 22, letters received 56, letters writ/ ten 173, telephone calls 11, notarizations 2, hospital bed loaned 2, hospital bed returned 1, bed pan loaned 1, layette furnished 1, trips made (140 miles) 8. During this period, 24 volunteers worked 150 hours for bloodmobile visit when 11114 pints of blood were donated. The next bloodmobile visit will be July 17, and appointments are now being taken for this visit. . ■ ) . 4 ; ly received a citation for distinguished service from Valparaiso University. For serving ‘‘ag Valparaiso University chairman with distinction, intelligence, arid continued loyalty in his circuit of the Lutheran church ~— Missouri synod, (or a term of appointment ending June 30, 1952,” he was presented a framed certificate from the Indiana school, the largest Lutheran university in America. Dr. O. P. Kretzmann, president of Valparaiso University, in an accompanying letteri wrote, “Wi hope that it will serve as a continuing bond of friendship between us and a reminder of our common debt to those who follow after us.”. Three Youths Killed As Train Hits Auto MORRISON. lIIA UP — Thret young Rockford rben were killed Friday when their car collided with the eastbouhd Overland Limited On the Chicago and North Western tracks at a crossing. Robert ReWr, 31, was injured critically in the accident. Robert Wiles, 17, his William, 15, and Jerry Perrazino, 20, s|bn of [ MTs. Lewis Hallanbaugh, Rockford, were killed instantly in the crash.

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