Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1954 — Page 9

Hoosier Highway Death Toll Lower Eight Percent Drop Reported in State INDIANAPOLIS UP — Something nice is happening in Indiana's traffic accident situation. Nobody seems to know whether it’s coincidence of the result of traffic safety programs finally hitting the target. At any rate, provisional figures for Hoosier highway accidents thus far this year show tin eight per cent drop from the same period in 1953. And strangely the big drop has come about during the past two

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weeks. On May 9, the provisional total was 352 deaths since Jan. 1 as compared wlt'h 361 tor the same period last year. That was less than a three per cent reduction, or hardly enough to mention. On May 23, the provisional total was 377 as compared with 409 for the sarrie period in 1953. That meant 25 deaths in a dwo-week period as compared with 48 for the same period a year ago. For the 14-day period May 9-23, an average of only one death every 13 and one-half hours was recorded. The 1953 average was one death, about every seven hours. Normally, this tiine of year is a bad period for traffic deaths. Pleasant weather has lured as many or more motorists to the highways this May as last. Yet the weekend and weekday death tolls

have been down significantly. During the week ending May 23, a total of 16 deaths were added to the calendar year's fatality records. That compared with 20 for the same week last year. The big dr op was the week ending May 16, when the total was ( nine compared with <8 last year. Taxi Planes BROKEN HILL, Australia, UP — To get a job as a taxi driver here, you have to be a licensed plane pilot. Taxi companies are making more money from their taxi planes, going out to get rural families who want to see a movie, than from their automobiles. Taxi planes operate within a 100-mile radius of Broken Hill, with charges of about 18 cents a mile. Ground cabs cost 22 cents.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 27, 1954.

Methodist Church Officers Selected Reports Os Year's Work Also Listed At a congregational meeting of the First Methodist church there were reports given of the past year’s work and officers and committees elected. The following persons were elected to the following offices: Trustees: (term expires 1957) Dr. R. E. Allison. E. Watson Maddox, and Noah Schrock. Stewards: (term expires 1957) James Basham, Alfred Beavers, Lloyd Cowens, James.. Cowens, Glen Dickerson, S. L- Everhart, Carl Gerber, Robert Krick, Franklin Lybarger, John Mazelin, Ralph Smith, and Robert G. Smith. Honorary stewards: W. F. Beery, Mrs. E. N. Wicks, Henry B. Heller, and Fred Mills. Other officers: Doyle Collier, church treasurer, Mrs. S. L. Everhart, church financial secretary; Harry Dailey, financial secretary of the building fund; Lowell J. Smith, charge lay leader; Fred Busche, lay member and annual conference; Noah Steury, reserve lay member and district steward; Giles V. Porter, reserve district steward; Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, president Women's Society of Christian Service; Richard Eichhorn, president Methodist men; Anita Smith, president youth fellowship; Robert Theobald, church school superintendent; John Reed, assistant church school superintendent; Mrs. Clyde Butler, representative district missionary society; S. L. Everhart, head usher; and Mrs. S. L. Everhart, recording steward. There were also members elected to five commissions as follows: membership and evangelism, Robert Lane, Floyd Krick, Fred Busche, Willard Mcßride, Robert Ochsenrider, Mrs. Milton Swearingen, Mrs. George Helm, Mrs; Lloyd Ahr, Mrs. M. F. Loeke, Niland Ochsenrider, W. M, Bumgerdner, Carl Gerber, August Kelly, Mrs. C. I. Finlayson, the pastor, the secretary of promotion WSCS. the secretary of, spiritual life WSCS, the church school superintendent, the president of the Methodist men, the chairman commission on worship MYF, and the church lay leader. Commission on education: John

Reed. Mrs. Byford Smith, Mrs. C. | Doyle Collier, J. F. Azbell, Mrs. Fern Freeland, Mrs. James Newton. Mrs. Dortha Shady, Mrs. John Reed, Mrs. Alma Brayton, th'e church school treasurer, Mrs. Robert Shepherd, Chester Dalzell, Loren .Jones, Don Everett, Gail Grabill, the pastor, the church school superintendent, the divisional superintendents, the assistant superintendent, the church school secretyy, the church lay leader, one representative of WSCS. and one representative of MYF. Commission on missions: Mrs. W T . P. Robinson, Mrs. Leonard Soliday, Mrs. Noah Schrock, Mrs. Jesse Niblick. Miss Arleda Sorgen, Miss Etta Mallonee, Mrs. Willard Mcßride, the church school superintendent, Mrs. Erman Johnson, Mrs. Robert Theobald, the pastor, the church lay leader, the secretary of missionary education of WSCS, and the secretary of youth work of WSCS. Commission on finance: Russell Owens. George Helm, Harry Dailey, Deane T. Dorwin, Giles V. Porter. «Mrs. Ralph Smith, Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, C. I. Finlayson, the treasurer of the church trustees, John Fibersole, Richard Childs, J. G. Kaehr, Lloyd Cowens, Arthur D. Suttles, W. F. Beery, Alfred Beavers, Carl Gerber, the pastor, the church lay leader, the church financial secretary, the church treasurer, and the chairman ot the commission on missions. , Commission on worship: The pastor, the lay leader. Miss Laura Stanley. Mrs. Nila Neil, Mrs. F. E. Liechty, the choir director, the organist, the assistant organist, the janitor, the head usher and captains, Miss Helen Haubold, Mrs. R. E, Allison, Mrs. Robert Mills, Mrs. Asa Pollock, Chester Dalzell, Mrs. Miriam Hall. Mrs. Lois Kitchen, and Mrs. Chester Dalzell, director of the junior choir. Commission on Christian stew' ardshlp: Clyde Butler, W’atson Maddox, R. E- Allison, Carl Gerber. Mrs. Alfred Beavers, Miss Anna K. Williams. Leonard Soliday, and Frank C. Rowley. TV Excuse HARTFORD. Conn., UP — Edward W. Hennessey, 57, accused of threatening to kill a stranger, got off with a suspended sentence after explaining that he had been 'seeing too many “blood and thunder’’ television programs.

Skeleton Found On Formosa May Aid Man's History May Be Aided By Find TAIPEH, UP — Chinese an-j thropologists have unearthed a, well-preserved pre-historic skele-! ton in Formosa which they feel will shed valuable light on mankind’s evolution and migrations. Found during the excavation of a shell mound, the skeleton has been unofficially dated during the time when Formosa was the bridge between mainland China; and the lands which are now is-i lands in the waters of southeast-1 ern Asia. Prof. Li Chi-chih, of the Nation- ■ al Taiwan University, said the dis- ! coVery of the. "Formosa Man" may make possible the solving of the missing links between modern Asian civilization and the ancestral pre-historic times on the mainland. He claims that the discovery may prove to be one of the most valuable of modern times. The bones constitute a complete , skeleton except for a few minor parts. The cranium was shattered but the pieces have been put together. Almost Complete A complete upper and lower jaw I with seven teeth still attached was found in excellent condition. From the collarbone down to the knees i everything was complete except! for some broken finger bones. Li worked through four layers of excavation before coming upon the skeleton. Under the final shell ! layer, some 210 centimeters down, ; he found the "man” where he had ; been killed or buried thousands of : years ago. i Chinese anthropological experts long have maintained that the islanders of Japan, southeastern Asia and the areas stretching possibly into the South Seas originally migrated from the Chinese j mainland across the "Formosa 1 bridge.” They are opposed to the "Kon-Tiki school” which claimsj the South Seas Islanders came i from the coast of South America i on rafts. For this reason the discovery of the skeleton here is considered top-level evidence. They hope to I compare it with anthropological / specimens found throughout the j islands and prove a definite pat-i tern of migration. They hope to shed revealing light on the age old mystery of Polynesia and where the dusky islanders actually came from.

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