Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1955 — Page 3

Friday, april i, 1955

MRS. MARION STULTS IS HOSTESS TO CLUB Mrs. Marion Stults was hostess recently to Union township home demonstration dub, with Mrs. Erma Rabbitt as assisting hostess. Mrs. Thearl Stults, president, had charge ol the business meeting. The story on the song of the month was given by Mrs. Donald Smith, after which Mrs. Earl Chase led the group in singing. Roll call was answered by telling of a bargain that was not a bargain. Mrs. Ivan Barkley read the secretary's report and Mrs. Marion Stults read the treasurer's report. A report on “Hazards in the Medicine Cabinet,” was presented by Mrs. Chalmer Barkley. Nellie Price showed the group how to make artificial flowers, with the assistance of Mrs. ißolland Gllliom and Mrs. Smith. At the next meeting members are asked to bring a white elephant which will be sold at the meeting. At the close of the meeting, refreshments were served to 18 members, six children, and one guest by the hostesses, Mrs. Stults and Miss Babbitt. FOUNDERS DAY IS OBSERVED BY LODGE The Knights of Pythias and the Pythias Sisters of Decatur held their founders day celebration recently at the K. of P. hotpe. A potluck supper was held for the members and their families. The program for the evening was as follows: vocal by Shelia Ahr and Violet Walcble, piano solo by Sharon Sheets, duet by Mara Dee and Karen Striker, talk on Knights of Pythias by John Parrish, accordion solo by Deanna Small, and duet by Sharon Sheets and Gayle Custer. Mrs. Lloyd Ahr presented a brief

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biography of Joseph Addison Hill, the founder of Pythlanism. Mr. Hill was a charter member of Eagle lodge Knights of Pythias of Greencastle, to which he gave considerable time and attention, It was to his inventive mind that the project of organizatlng an independant order, corresponding to the Knlgfits of Pythias, but designed for women, was attributable. Having a keen appreciation of literature and being an able writer, he gave himself to the project with enthusiasm. POTLUCK SUPPER IS HELD BY CLUB A potluck supper was enjoyed recently by the members of the Kirkland ladles club, their famil, ies, and sevetal other guests, at the parish hall of the Pleasant Dale church near Preble. Following the supper which was attended by approximately ICO guests, a short program and style show was enjoyed- The program consisted of group singing led by Dortha Shady, a male quartet com.posed of Milton and Harold Hoffman and Earl Deweese and Laverne Roth. Vocal solos were presented by Mrs. Noah Arnold and Milton Hoffman, reading by Mrs. Sam Henschen. The style show which was sponsored by the new Blackwell store of Decatur, was preceeded by a few brief remarks by Ed Langhors, co-owner of the store, who introduced the narrator of the show, Mrs. Ronald Scherry. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Harold Henschen, Mrs. Floyd Stoneburner, Mrs. Noah Arnold, Mrs. Kila Scherry, and Mrs. Ralph LeyseBETHANY CIRCLE MEETS IN CHURCH PARLORS The Bethany circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church met in the church parlors recently after the Lenten services. Mrs. S. E. Leonardson was program chairmanfor the evening and presented the lesson which was taken from a part of the book “Change of Heart," on India, by Ehrensberger. Refreshments were served by the hostesses for the evening, Mrs. George Buckley, Mrs. Ed Miller, and Mrs Noah Roth. The Catholic Ladies of Columbia will have a business meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at . the C. L. of C. hall. '- Magljjr Ladirs aid will meet all day Thursday“lt’lhe Tome of Mrs. Earl Wood. Assistant hostess will be Mrs. Franklin Fruechte. The Pei lota Xi sorority will meet with Mrs. Harry Houk Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Directions to the meeting are: take old 27 and use the second side road past the Dale Moses residence, go down that road to Flemming’s pond, turn left and go one miles west, turn right and go straight down that road. If there are any questions members are asked to call Mrs. Ray Lehman, also members please note the change of date. The Music department of Woman's club wilf have rehearsal Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock

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at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Society Items for today*! publication mutt be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Karen Striker Phone 3-2121 FRIDAY Union township Farm Bureau, Emmanuel Lutheran school, 7:30 p. m.. Pet and Hobby group will also meet. Work and Win class of Trinity, E.U.B. church. Rev. and Mrs. John Chambers, 7:30 p.jn. SATURDAY Story book Jiour, public library, 4 p. m. Bake sale, sponsored by junior class of Pleasant Mills, 9 a. m. to 12 noon, Schafer store. Bake sale, sponsored by the Rainbow for Girls, City Hall, from 9 a. m. to 12 noon. MONDAV St. Anne's study club, Mrs. Ed Keller, 7:30 p. m. Monmouth Mothers P.T.A. study group, school, 7:30 p.m. Junior American Legton auxiliary, Legion home, 4 p.m. Music department of Woman’s club, Zion E- and R. church, rehearsal, 7:30 p. m. Psi lota XI honorary group, Mrs. Edgar Gerber, 7:30 p. m. Sacred Heart study club, Julia Schultz, 8 p. m. TUESDAY Ladies of Columbia, C. L- of C. hall, 7:39 m. Psi lota Xi sorority, Mrs. Harry Houk, 8 p. m„ members note the change in date. Happy Homemakers home demonstration club meeting postponed until, a later date. Rose Garden club, Mrs. Floyd Arnold, 2 p. m. Beta Sigma Phi city council, Hobbs, 8 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Mrs. Robert Shraluka, 8 p. m. Gals and Pals home demonstration club, Miss Wanda Mann, 7:30 p. m. THURSDAY Music department of Woman’s club, rehearsal, Zion E. and R. church, 8:30 p. m. Magley Ladies aid, Mrs. Earl Wood, all day.

A marriage license was issued yesterday to Frances Laura Coblentz and Joe H. Schwartz, both of Geneva, route 2, at Bluffton. Dewey. S Shepherd, 57, a native of Hartford township in Adams county but for 32 years a resident of Wells county, died yesterday at the Wells county hospital following a heart attack. One daughter survives. Funeral services were held at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton this afternoon, Rev. Emerick in charge.Over 100 high school students from Van Wert high school left that city Wednesday night over the Pennsylvania railroad for Washington, where they and the city band which accompanied will march in the cherry tree parade. They arrive home Sunday morning. A. N. Pursley, Hartford City, well known Indiana Democrat leader and active in state financial circles was a Decatur visitor Thursday. He is the father of Lawrence Pursley of this city and for many years was connected with the Local Loan finance company, which has an office in Decatur. w Admitted Mrs. Ethel Christen, Decatur; Mrs. William Carrier, Convoy, O.; Mrs. Margie Armstrong, Geneva; Master Dennis Eugene Girod, Decatur; Master Gary Scheumann, Hoagland; Miss Karen Sue Scheumann. Hoagland. Dismissed. Mrs. Wayne Schnepf and baby boy, Decatur; Master Dennie Lynn Feasby, Monroeville; Mrs. Anselm Hackman and baby boy, Decatur; Lawrence Linn, Decatur; Mrs. Gene Nelson, Geneva; Mrs. Charles Fravel and baby girl, Geneva. GIRLSCOUT Girt Scout troop one met Tuesday afternoon at the Lincoln school. We discussed plans for our chopseuy supper to be held Saturday. All girls will meet at the A. and P. store at 1 p. m. and then go to the home of Ann Arnold. We closed the meeting by singing "Scotland is Burning.” , Scribe, Kathrine Schnepp Brownie troop 21 met Monday after school. The meeting opened wit

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To Present Operetta Again This Evening An amusing and entertaining evening was presented Thursday night to those who attended the Decatur high school presentation of “Harmony flail,” an operetta in two acts. Students of the high school, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold. also presented the operetta Thursday afternoon. The final performance will be given at 8 o'clock this evening in the Decatur •high school auditorium. Meeting Tuesday On Brucellosis Control A county-wide meeting on the area brucellosis control program is planned for Tuesday evening at the Adams Central school, it was announced by Martin Habegger, chairman of the Adams county liavestoek disease control committee. This meeting will start at 7:30 p. tn. Dr. Norvan Meyer, federal-state coordinator on the area brucellosis program will discuss the program as it applies to Adams county. He will also show a movie, “Triple Threat," which portrays the affects of brucellosis in livestock losses as well as human Infection. This meeting concerns the dairy and beef cattle raisers in Adams county and they are all invited to attend. 3s mssmncs 23 On Maneuver BEPPU, Japan — Army PFC Frederick W. Kukelhan, son of Mr. and Mrs- Fred Kukelhan. Route 3, Decatur, Ind., recently participated in Operation Tomahawk, an armynavy airborne maneuver in Japan. His unit, the 187th airborne regimental combat team, parachuted to its target and simulated the capture of an airfield and the destruction of a missile launching site. The troopers then withdrew to the seashore for evacuation by the navy. A rifleman in the team's Company F, Kukelhan entered the army in April, 1952. and completed basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash.

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The People’s Voice This column is for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest No articles will be I published without signature of I the author. 0 - ( Opposes UMT “And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” Esther 4:14. Deliverance comes to the children of God as they are willing to honor Him and labor according to His will, that the will of God overshadow the will of man. This has Always been true. America is again faced with the evil of compulsory military training which would turn the life of every able bodied youth in the hands of a military machine for 8-10 of his best years of life. A bill to extend the draft for another 4 years (H.R. 3005) was passed in the house of representatives on February 8, 1955. This can only be defeated if the senate votes it down. On February 1 the proponents of the bill appeared before the armed services committee and had the entire day to give their favorable comrhents. Those who appeared to speak in opposition to the proposed bill on February 2 had a total of one and one-half hours to present their messages. The nine witnesses were gaveled down at the close of ten minutes without opportunity for members of the committee to comment oc ask them questions. Four votes were east against this bill. In all probability bill H.R. 2967 will come before the house of representatives, soon. This calls for a natural reserve plan, which in reality is a bill to establish a U.M.T. compulsory reserve system. Every future veteran of two years service would be subject to six years in the reserves. Each veteran of six months service would be subject to nine and a half years in the reserves. Even though most congressmen voted for H. R. 3005, many are not in favor of H. R. 2967. There is no good reason for peace time compulsory military training and the marines, navy and air force do not want nor use the draft machinery. It is the army military that desire to fasten this hold on the nation..

The Army Combat Forces Journal February 1955 states. “Any reserve program to be effective must be sustained year after year for as long as the need for it exists. This means that its adoption in 1955 (if it is adopted) is merely a start. Money| will have to be spent for many years to build and sustain such a reserve force." In a press conference December 15. 1954 President Eisenhower outlined the new compulsory reserve program and said, “It had to be one that could be carried for fifty years if necessary." (N. Y. Times, Dec. 16, 1954.) This is not a four year program. It is the heart of a whole new military program. The army proposes to spend $485,000,000 on 2823 new armories for two hour a week drill periods for the new reserves. Such- an expensive program would not be abandoned at the end of four years. Military might does not assure security in any sense. If it did Europe would be the safest place on earth, military speaking. Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Russia, Japan and others were not saved by military preparedness and conscription. Thousands of freedom loving people from many nations have sought refuse from such folly. Hearings on H. R. 2967, the national reserve plan began on February 8 and continued for several weeks. Military and semi-of-ficial witnesses gave their detail support for the bill for three weeks. Following that, more than 50 non-governmental witnesses had their brief turn. Opposition to major provisions of the bill or to all of it were expressed by the Farmers Union, the Grange, the CIO, Women's International League for Peace, the National Association of Evangelicials, Methodists. Disciples, Brethren, Mennonites, Friends, Presbyterians, temperance groups, the National Council Against Conscription, Indiana Council of Churches and a number of others. There has been a hush, hush, attitude by the press on the hearings held by the Brooks subcommittee and the common fnan~ does not know that hearings have been held which are considering a radical new U. S. military conscription plan. There is much evidence why such legislation should not be brought about. Major General Kenneth B. Hobson, director of manpower operations, is on record as stating that the air force would hire civilians to fill its operations before using the draft. Volunteers fill the need of marines, the navy and the air force. The Chicago Tribune of December 18. 1954 stated, “The army will still be too big when

they get it down to about a million men as present plans seem to contemplate. Some of the questions asked of the President contained the assumption that an army of a million men would not be big enough to deal with little nonatomlc wars.” “The record . . . offers sobering evidence that peacetime conscription, always advocated as an instrument of negative protection, always becomes an instrument of positive aggression; that it brings in its wake militarism, conquest and ultimate defeat and disaster.” Former Rep. Howard Buffett in The • Churchman, December 1, 1954. “The Church is concerned with our survival as a democracy penetrated by Christian values. Militarism as away of life is a foe of democracy and our forefathers fled to these shores to escape it. We call upon our people to prevent any attempt to fasten peacetime conscription on the American people." Council of Methodist Bishops,. 1954. Even as it is the right and duty of each citizen of the nation to vote in the elections of the nation so his voice will help to carry on the best possible representative government, so is it the right and duty of all citizens to let those who represent them in congress know their convictions. The time is NOW to voice an opinion on bill H. R. 2967 which will come before the house of representatives soon. Senators should also be contacted as well as representatives. This may well be another time for which each of us must let our voice be heard on this issue so we can keep our country free from militarism and downfall as others have experienced. who traveled this way. Members of the Brooks subcommittee who should be contacted are Overton Brooks, chairman, Philip Winstead, Melvin Price, O. C. Fisher, . Victor Wickersham, Lester Holtzman, Lmroy Johnson, Walter Norbald, Jtfsfes E. VanZandt, James Devereaux, William Bray and Frank Osmers Jr. Their address is House of Representatives Office Building, Washington, D. C. Our own congressional representative has the same address. State senators should be addressed at the Senate Office Building, Washington, I). C. Rev. John D. Mishler, pastor of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren.

Sfiff Coal Mines Close For Holiday Traditional April 1 Holiday Marked PITTSBURGH (INS) — The nation's soft coal mines were closed today tor the United Mine Workers’ traditional April 1 holiday commemorating the establishment of their-eight-hour day. The celebration originally was known as John Mitchell day in honor of the man who gave them the eight-hour day, r but in recent years it has been called John L. Lewis day for the UMW chief. _ Observances were scheduled In various mining centers, highlighted by ceremonies at California and Uniontown, Pa. Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania and Sen. Matthew Neely of West Virginia were slated as the principal speakers at the California festivities. Rep. Augustine Kelley of Greensburg headed the New Kensington rally speakers. Kelley said the coal industry has bene “beaten to its knees by the do-nothing, care-nothing policies of the present administration."

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Confirmation Rite At Zion Reformed Confirm Class Os 11 In Service Sunday A class of 11 young people will become members of thpi church through the rite of confirmation in the 10 a.m. Palm Sunday service in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The pastor, the Rev. William C. Feller, will be in charge of the service and his message will be based on the theme, “Accepting Jesus Christ”. Members of the confirmation class are, James Ernest Corah, Sara Ann Eichenauer, Ronald William Feller, Patrick Lee Franklin, Rita Colleen Gantz, Larry Geene Hoffman, Tim Allen Murphy, Gary Howard Robinson. Karen Nadine Robinson. Judith Ann Stauffer, and Mary Annette Thomas. These young people have completed a two-year course of Bible study, church history and church doctrine under the leadership of the pastor. Wednesday evening the members of the class were presented to the official board of the church, in the presence of their parents and other interested persons, at which time they reviewed some of the teachings they had learned during their course of study. In the service Sunday morning the young people will jpublicly profess their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and will be received into full membership of the church. The class has chosen “Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” as' the class hymn. The service will open with the prelude, "Sanctus” by Charles F. Gounod, with Mrs. J. Fred Fruchte at the organ. Neil Thomas will sing “Open the Oates of the Temple," by Knapp. The senior choir, under the direction of Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, will sing “Blessed Is He That Cometh,* by Swanson. The organ offertory will be “What

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a Friend We Have In Jesus," by Converse, and the postlude will be “Hosannas Ring," tune ’St. Theodulph. All members of the church are urged to be present and an invitation is extended to friends of the church who are without a church home in this community to worship in this service. Dr. Steinhaus Heads Recreation Group COLUMBUS (INS)—Dr. Arthur Steinhaus of George Williams college. Chicago, was named president of the midwest association for health, physical education and recreation, in the second day of the group’s convention in Colurnbus. Other new officers named Thursday included Hester Beth Bland, state board of health. Indianapolis, as president-elect £ George Farkas, Indianapolis public schools as vice president for health; Richard Tiernan, Richmond, Ind., city schools as physical education director and Gertrude Appier, Bowling Green State university as delegate-at-large.

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