Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1954 — Page 2

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Meeting Plate Is Changed For Services Pleasant Data church prayer servIces will be held Wednesday night at Parish Hail, instead of the

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church. The meeting wiU start at 7:30 o’clock ' Change in usual meeting place was announced due to the resurfacing of the highway along tffe church property.

Farmers Union In National Meeting Sept. 2 Is Date Set For Confab Indiana will be the fourth state this year to enter the official National Farmers Union family when it meets in Indianapolis. September ! In the Severin Hotel for its twpday constitutional convention. John €. Raber of Bristol, chairman of the Indiana Farmers Union’* organizing committee, announced Wednesday that the organisation has more than 5009 member families — the minimum needed to receive a charter from the national organisation. ’‘Organisation work got underway in Indiana 15 months ago," Raber said. "I am confident that by this time next year we will have at least J 0,090 members.” James G. Patton, president of the more than half-century old National Farmers Union, will be the' key speaker at’ the two-day meeting. Raber predicted that more than 500 farmers would attend the meeting which marks the &2hd anniversary of the Partners Union’s founding. So far this year. Raber said, three new states have been chartered by the national organization. They are Utah, Virginia and Illinois. The Illinois Fanners Union's constitutional convention was held in Springfield last month. \ Ha eaid that “a dozen or more” presidents o( state Farmers Unions will for the convention. Other Farmers Union officials scheduled to be ■present include Charles F. Brannan, the organisation’s legal counsel and former secretary of agriculture; Tony T Deehant, national secretary Gue F. Geiteler, assistant to the president and formerly chairman of the Commodity Credit Corporation, and Mrs. Flossie Harris, NFU director of education. Raber said: “The Farmers Union’s program is geared to the welfare of the n-ation’s family-type farmers. Such a program, and such an organization, are long overdue in Indiana.” The Indiana Farmers Union’s strength is “spread very well over the state, with the major concentration of members being in the south, along the eastern edge of the state, and the north-central section,” Raber said.. Officers of the temporary organ- - izing'committee are: Raber, chairm«S- WISeH ,iH|U' Uimbrldgn city, vice-chairman, and John F. Ehman, Atlanta, executive secretary. If you have something to sell or rooms for eut. try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

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Lightweight Rye Is Included In Supports . WASHINGTON(!NS)Bncause of rust damage and severe drought the Agriculture Department has decided to Include light weight rye in the price siipport program. The department says lighter weight rye, that otherwise would not be eligible for supports, will become eligible for the government program this year because of adverse weather conditions, l This action will ehable farmers to withhold light welghtyrye from market when prices are below the support level, as they have been recently. * ■. ■ ■ ■ Ike Asks Election Os GOP Congress Discusses Problem Os European Defense DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower’s "umbrella’’ was hoisted over Republican congressional candidates today following- the Chief Executive’s nation-wide appeal to voters to re-elect a Congress which will carry through UU program. Mr. Eisenhower also did some calm talking about the European army crisis during a half-hour ra-dio-TV address Monday night summing up the record of the Repub-lican-led 83rd Congress. He told his countrymen not to be discouraged by the gloomy predictions that the long-sbught European Defense Community has all Lui n r n fl . —. i Out COiidpSCw* . The free world, he declared confidently, is going to stick to the task of building * partnership Against Red aggression in Europe and is "certainly not licked” yet. But the President’s address was mainly political, and he made it clear be thinks it would be disastrous for Republicans to lose control of Congress In November. He didn't mention his own party by name and his digs at the Democrats were only by implication. But he said, leaving no doubt as to his meaning, that Is up to the voters to decide whether the new Congress goes ahead with bis program or is "stopped by some kind of political arguments.” He praised the achievements of the Republican 83rd Congress warmly but emphasized there is still much to be accomplished, particularly in those fields which got a chill reception from Capitol Hill fids ye«|, The Hrtesident has said his program shbuld provide An ambrella for GOP candidates, and he did his best Monday night to provide shelter for every Republican who has given him his support. Democrat Want Ada Bring Results

Church Delegates To Elect Heads Six Presidents Will Lead Council • EVANSTON, 111. (INS) — DeleIgatas <o the World Council ot Churches meeting at Evanston will vote tonight on six presidents, who will comprise the ruling presidium of the organisation. , Six churchmen, equally divided between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, were nominated at Monday's plenary session. Their election is viewed as almost certain, but there is a possibility of additional nominations from the floor when the nominations committee slate is presented to the delegates. The Western hemisphere nominees are the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; His Eminence Archbishop Michael, who represents the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Eastern Orthodox Churches and holds jurisdiction over North and South America; and Bishop Sante Überto Barbieri of Buenos Aires, Methodist bishop in Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia. The other nominees are the very Rev. John Baillie, renowned theologian of the Church of Scotland; Bishop F. K. Otto Dibelius, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany; and Mar Thoma Juhanon, metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Syrian church of Malabar, in South India. Also nominated as an honorary president was the Rt. Rev. George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester ot the Church of England, for 35 years a leader tn the world-wide church movement Bishop Bell's nomination was viewed as a placating gesture on the part of the Assembly to those who led the fight to permit presidents to be re-elected. Vacant House Awaits Pittsburgh Family PITTSBURGH (INS) An empty house awaited Albert Marshall and his family when they returned to Pittsburgh from a month's vacation. Marshall told police late Monday that somebody bed forced the door of his home and carted away: The TV set, stove, refrigerator, 3-piece bedroom suite, chinaware and dishes and clothing. He estimated the total loss at 32,000.

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Two Area Herds In Production Tests Brattleboro, Vt. —(Special) Two Holstein herds in Indiana have recently completed a year of production testing in the official Herd Improvement Registry program ot The Holetein-Friesian Association of America. z These are: Harold Melcher, Monroeville- • 14 cows averaged 484 pounds of butterfat and 13,014 pounds Qf milk in 295 days on 3 milking daily; 0. W. Barrick, Bluffton • -*8 pounds of butterfat and 12,481 pounds of milk in 287 days.on 2 milkings daily. Testing was supervised by Purdue University, in cooperation with the national association, » Quake Hits Nevada, California Monday Buildings Damaged; No Casualties Listed RENO, Nev. (INS) ~ A strong earthquake rocked northwestern Nevada Monday night and rolled westward into California * with shock waves felt as far west as San Francisco. The temblor struck at 10:54 p.m. PDT (1:54 a.m. EDT Tuesday) and lasted approximately a mniute and a half. No casualties were reported immediately but reports of damagq came from humeroui home owners and the city of Lovelock. 90 miles east of Reno. Lovelock police reported a brick mercantile building in the center of town was badly cracked by the sickening rolling motion of the earth. The street on which the building is located waw quickly roped off to prevent possible injury to pedestrians from falling bricks. Authorities in Fallon, where a powerful quake caused extensive

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New Polio Cases Reported In State SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) St. Joseph county health oficiale today reported four new cases of polio to bring the total ter the county to 31, this year. However, Fort Wayne hospitals list 52 cases, but persons struck by the crippling disease in adjoining counties have been brought to this city. Some of Steuben county's heavy number of cases are being cared for in Fort Wayne. Among the recent victims is a four-year-old blind girl, Karen Ifseramqji, ft fort Wayne. The little girl’s case is believed mild, and she is . being cared for by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Meersman..