Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1953 — Page 2

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77'i J -"X- r Firemen Called To Five Minor Fires Little Damage Done By Weekend Fires Fite minor fires—two suspected caused by pre-Hatyoween :prank-‘ sters — the Decatur fire departnqentj on the jump over the weekend. f ' At 1:55 p. tn. ’Saturday a small grass blaze north of jthe Wayne Novelty Co.,' Washington ißtreet, wai extinguished without (rouble otj dama®B,i»aid reports. . | Exactly an hourlater a stoker at 611 North Second street, owned

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s4ta«ta Egg Production Management Tour THURSDAY, OCTOBER XX TOUR STARTING TIME 12:30 P.M. - : - Ass" i > J .... . I Stop i No. Time Farip b ‘ . 1 12:30-1:30 Eliper Gerber —6 mi. E. Bluffton on Ind. 124—1 mi. North. i 4-floor converted barp —1 new Honegger House up apd another 2000 cap. in erection —total cap. 7000. Basement egg room. 2 1:45-2 :|5 William Pfister—Fro|t) Elmer Gerber fajrm 1 mi. S-, 1 mi. W., 1 mi. IVi mi, W. An all automatic operation in a new modern IQ4* poultry house with adjoining egg room. t ; -3 2:30-3:15 Honegger —1 mi. North Blufftpn, I|£ mi. East. Aj • “i 2000 cap. 3-Jloor K.empdeleri bapi—2ooo cap. house 'in erection— Basement egg room in barn. ' ? 4 3:30-4:00 Qbed Gerber —6 mi. East Bluffton on And. 10-year old project, still expanding. ' > , . 5 4:15-4:45 Howard Habegger — 3 mi. West of U. 6.'27 on Ind. 1154; and 2 mi. r"yr>'’. Wtfc on b&ktop — (T-mi. Wfst. . ’ .> rf-'X’ ' 1500 cap. new Honegger Poultry House?-jWd a Unique < '* . • a room. Refreshments will ba Served at this BV>p. ■ , 6 5:00-5:30 Elmer Heyeriy—4 jni. West of U. S. 27 on Ind. 124 and 1 mi. South. Very successful average size farm project. BE SURE TO ATTEND THE EUEHIHG POULTRY MEETHG Place: BERNE COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM TIME 7:30 P.M. ENTERTAINMENT —Walter Zuercher and members of his Accordion Bans. Hear l)r. L. A- Wilbelm, A?s*| Head Purdue Poultry Dep’t. and a nationally known poultry specialist discuss “The Outlook For Egg Producers?* Lee IxMimis: Good Breeding—-Good Management. Chuck Merritt: Why and How A Quality Egg. j , ■ l s >'f ■■ ' ' ’ ' : I PRIZES — 12 puppERIZED EQ£ ETC. \ ' J QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD—REFRESHMENTS^£RS£ Z ADMISSION Sponsored by '’ ' 'TI *IL " 4 * ■■ ■ " ■ ' ' • J . Gerber Feed Store Berne Hi-way Hatchery Route 4—Decatur ; Berne, Ind. ■ r' I. V . i"" .

by Vernon Frauhlger, Went on the blink, stoking up top big a blaze and causing much smoke. Firemen stayed pt the site a few minutes and no damage resulted. About 4:10 p. m. Sunday a used car at the Zintsmaster used car lot. First and Monroe, brought out the department when a fire of undetermined origin started in the front seat. No damage was estimated. A cornfield fire [nought to have been started by young vandals was extinguished on the Ermil Schifferly farm at route 3, after causing about 38 estimated loss in six small shocks of corp at 11 p. m. Sunday. \ » A rutfeish fire also thought to have, beep the work of hoodlums on a destructive spree, at midnight', Sunday was put out without any great loss. French Clpsjpg In On Rebel Forces Bqttglion Knocked Out Os Action HANOI, Indochina up_- —Freqch Union forces knocked a Commu-nist-led 'battalion out of action today apd closed in on 40,000 Viet Minh rebels dug ip behind limestone hills before the Red strongheld of Thanh Hoa. A French spokesman said Communists launched' sharp flanking counterattacks against two French Wits Sunday night some 50- miles south of here. They were beaten back affer furious close-quarter fighting that lasted until dawn. First reports said the Communists suffered 142 known dead, 30 Assumed dead, and many wounded and captured, the spokesman Said. French Union casualties were not disclosed. — The French' forces driving on Thanh Hoa, headquarters of the Reds 304 th division, captured a huge Red arsenal. Large quantities of Chinese-supplied equipment Were seized some 20 miles from Njnh Binb. Communist guerrillas made a direvsionary attpek within the Red River delta Sunday night but were driven off after a -five-hour artillery barrage. Details of the raid on a Viet Nam outpost only 12 miles south of here were withheld but French headquarters said the Reds seffered “heavy losses." If you have something to sell o'rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results. ,

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Decatur G. E. Aeojian Choir Will Sing At fish Fry A *v»atur<- of Thursday evening - program . t ; t:w h-h -< n-,,.; wil. .■ th-- •ippear.inro -•!' the Decatur Gwhti.l }•;!.■,- ■;< , n \ Sice choir. The organization has, since its inception in 1943, become widely known throughout this area for its versatality and high standaid of performance in presenting both sacred and seculor' , ' - Featuring an all-girl choir >of 30 voices, a mens’ glee club of Jk> voices abd a popular two-pjano team, the Aeolians appeared before an aggregate audience of. 25,000 last season. David C. Embler, choir director, is employed in the wage rate division and D. E. Foreman, a foreman at the Decatur plant, is the newly elected pfesident of ihe organization, which this year is observing Rs 10th anniversary.

Nine-Year-Old Boy 1$ |ce Box Victim 27th Such Tragedy |n U. 5. This Year ‘ OROVILLE, Calif. UP — Nine-year-old Thomas Kiely suffocated in the ice box of a vacant house trailer Sunday night, bringing to 27 the number of children who have died in such tragedies oven the nation so far this year. The boy’s widowed mother, Mrs. Nellie Kiely, said she had not seen her son all afternoon and assumed he was at a neighbor’s home watching television. Later in the evening she sent her eldest son, John, 14, to look for the boy.

' John looked in the trailer and then opened the small ice box. “I can’t explain why I looked in there,” he said, “but there he wah.” Mrs. Kiely said her son habitually went off by himself to brood since the death of his father a year ago. The trailer, located iir a vacant lot behind a grocery she runs in East Biggs, had been va-

Specifications For Repairs Available Specifications for repairs to the undermined abutment of the Dur-bin-Duer bridge in Blue township are available at the county Editor’s office, it was stated today. Bidding for the Job will take place in the auditor’s office *Bhursday afternoon. cant about two weeks, she said. One of the worst such tragedies this year was at proctor, Ark., where five children in one family died in an unused ice box stored on the back porch. The refrigeration service engine eers society has recommended that locks or doors be removed from abandoned Ice boxes, that the doors be padlocked or wired shty, or that the box be stored with Jia, door to a wall, or floor. The society said California, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, Massachusetts and Michigan have laws requiring discarded ice boxes to be destroyed and predicted all states will have such a law within two years. I

Monmouth's Honor Roll Is Announced ’Seventeen students of the eighth grade and high school of Monmouth school were placed on the honor roll for the first six week period of the present school term, Loren Jones, principal announced today. Following are the honor roil students and their “grade: Eighth Grade Beverly Stevens 2A, 3-B; Judith Goldner LA, 4>B; Carolyn Hoffman lA, 4®. Ninth Grade Ronald Bittner 2A, 3B; Betty Bultemeier 2A, 3>B; Bulhman, Mar lene 1-A, 4®. \ 10th Grade ißieeke, Shirley SA, IB: John son. Marlene SA, IB; Gueßing, Clinton *A, IB; Beery. David 3A, 2-B. 11th Grade ißlekay, Elaine 2>A, 3B; Lewton. Barbara 2A, 4B; Boerger, Kathleen lA, 4>B. 12th Grade Sqhieferstein. Donna 4A, IB; Bultemeyer. Richard 2A, 2B; Bulhman, Martin lA, 3(B. Ask County Council For Appropriations The, Adams county council in special meeting October 29 will be asked to make an additional appropriation and transfer of funds for operation of the Adams county memorial hospital. A request to shift funds, largely from operating to specific uses, is asked by the hospital board along with emergency appropriate be used in certain departments between now and the end of the calendar year. The council has been called for 9 a.m. on October 29 to consider the proposals. Flan Winter Training For Women Marines ■The marine corps is inaugurating a winter training program for women officer candidates. The class begins January 28. Capt. IE. W. Hanlon, who is in charge of interviewing women candidates for the training program in this area, said the class is known as the marine corps women officers training class. It consists of 12 weeks of special training. Graduates of the women officers training class receive commissions as second lieutenants, U.-S. marine corps reserve. The winter session will be in addition to the established summer training program for women officer candidates Qualified young womgn wno are recent college graduates are eligible to enroll in the winter WOTC class. Capt. Hanlon pointed out that applications for the January class must be received by marine corps headquarters by December 15. Application blanks and additional inforniatton are available at Rooms 404-468, Federal Building, Indianapolis. \ POLES, CZECHS (CowtisiwU From rw|n> par) been waiting for the day’s talks to start were under orders to protest strongly to the NNRC if Red propagandists Red to Chinese prisoners. f . | The 32 officers and civilians heard Communist “explainers" tell ibe prisoners Saturday that Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek was dead. They also heard the Reds misinform prisoners that the Communists pow occupy Formosa, the haven chosen by most of the antipommunist Chinese as their future home. ' \ ' ■ Trade in a Good — Decatur

Students Will Hear Congressman Adair * Congressman E. Ross Adair (RFqurth district) will speak to a county-wide gathering of 200 senior government students of Decatur high and county high schools October 27 at Decatur high school, to giVe them a first-hand account of the workings of the law-making body of the United States. The announcement came from Deane T. Dorwin, Decatur high instructor "who conceived the idea. Cooperating with Dorwin is county school superintendent Gail Grabill, who contacted county school today. Adair has (old Dorwin that hi? talk will be “Problems coming before congress, (to be discussed in a> non-partisan, objective manner.” Following the talk, Adair will throw open the meeting to questions fram the students, said Dorwin. Civilian Pilot Is Kilfed In Crash MUNSTER, Ind. UP — Erick Schmidt, 26, of Lowell, Ind., was killed Sunday when a, wartime surplus airplane he was piloting crashed into a tomato field. Schnhdt was on his way from Tinley ] Park, 111. to Triangle Airport 'at Dyer, Ind. Deputy Marshal Robert Landon of Munster said Schmidt lost con trol of the plane, a basic trainer cjwned by Syd Bovey of Dyer, after it weht into a spin at about 1,800 feet.

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More Applications Far Marriage Licenses Four more marriage license applications were taken out in the first nine months of this year over 19Q2 —318 against 314, according to , Ed Jaberg, county clerk. Isolationism Dead In America—Nixon \ Viqe President Ip Australian Speech MELBOURNE. Australia UP— Vice President Richard M. Nixon assured Australians today that slolatlonism is “dead" in the United States. The touring American “good will” ambassador spoke to members of the Victoria state parliament at a lunch before flying to' the Australian capital of Canberra. Nixon sai<d a great majority of both Democrats and Republicans recognize the necessity for the United States to “assume its position ‘of leadership in international affairs.” “There will be no isolationism in America —it is dead," he told the legislators. The American vice president said political differences between parties in the United States are “exaggerated.” “In my government, when the rights of minorities are hot protected, the days of free government are numbered,” Nixon said. “Our system is like yours and our objective like yours — we ■believe in freedom. Our responsibility is to conduct ourselves so our system of government will continue to represent the people.” WIVES <C*wtia—< Fr*m Page One> Saturday night when a car over turhed on a Jay county road neir Portland, injuring his mother, Flora. I Larry Prater, 21. Cedar Lake, injured fatally when his car smashed into a train at Crown Point. (Charles Black, 82. Indianapolis, killed Friday night when hit by a truck on an Indianapolis street Roger Hoard, 39, Bloomington, killed Saturday when his car rolled over in Ind. 37 near Bloomington. In the first five minutes of Monday, Arthur Marx, 26, Louisville, Ky., was killed and both legs of his wife, Dorothy, 25, were broken when their car hit a bridge on U.S. 150 near Shoals. Their sons William and Robert, wore not hurt. Trade in a good Town — Decatur

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List Honor Pupils For Adams Central Honor students for the Adams Central high school for the first six weeks of the first semester have ben*apnounced by John O. Reed, principal. Theye are 16 on the honor and 16 honorable mention. The roll follows: Ninth Grade Mono? roll—Carol Kaehr, Barbara Fiecbter. Honorable mention — Leslie Ploughe, Phillip Moser, Michael Lehman* Carol Heller. Margaret Griffiths, Phyllis Singleton, Virginia Steffen. Cynthia Lehmn. 10th Grade r . Honor roll — Dee Myron Byerly, Richard Kaehr, Palmer Inniger, Merlin Habegger, Paul Riley. Honorable mention —Marilyn Arnold. 11th Grade Honor roll —Allen Lehman, John Ripley, Shirley Rupert, Larry Schwartz. Honorable mention—Ruth Mae Weber, Ardola Parrish. 12th Grade Honor roll — Ruth Busse, Lester Egley, Barbara Haugk, Philip Nussbaum, Shirley Honorable mention — Sherman Arnold, .Sigrun Karsunky, Harry David Ringger, Ronald Stucky. Trade in a good Towu — Decatur

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