Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1955 — Page 8

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- SPEECH CORRECTION CLINIC IN DECATUR

/ ' 'a a / t®- . ■ m MISS DONNA TIMMONS, one of the teachers, plays a ‘ fish game” with three youngsters. The game is designed to give them practice in pronouncing words containing sounds which are difficult for the children to say. The boy# are. left to right, Gary Dodie. Richard Miller and Charles Swoveland. ■ **

About 40 Adam« county youngsters be: ween-six and 10 years of age are working hard in special school classes this summer to overcome speech difficulties. They are the childrenwho-are enrolled.in tafl speech correction clime at the Lincoln school. sored by the Adams fippMy. for crippled children. The ejinic was made possible through contributions during the sale of Easter seals. The clinic is being eendmted by two graduates of Indiana University who majorcj-io— epeertr~YnT are TfaTnelTnspeceh therapy. One. .Mists Margaret Harris, is a Decatur girl. The other is Miss Donna Timmons of DelpM. The clinic staff also include’ members of Psi Inta Xi rororUy who assist the instructors during recreation periods and while individual inetrfiction is being given to the children. Two members of the sorority are present for each session. The instructors work with small groups of children- who are grouped according to their speech difficulties. Among - the classes of speech impediments are faulty arti nutation, cleft palates, stuttering and difficulties brought on by faulty hearing. To keep the children interested much of the instruction and work on special sounds is presented in the form of word games. The children also hear stories designed to help -them recognise certain sounds. They are asked to tell of expe: ience-s of their own which givs them practice in artirulaUon. They work on scrapbooks .using pictures of words which they v find difficult to pronounce. In addition, they .are asked to make up stories All of these projects are carried out as definite aids 4n—improving the'speech of the youngsters. Miss Harris pointed out that in a good many cases there is no or ganic cause for the speech imped intents. The children have developed the habit of poor articulation and often do not realise that their speech is faulty. In these "cases.. AIB CONDITIONED Tonight & Thursday * • \ • > 1 . •> O O' OUR BIG DAYS! | „..’i First Show Tonight at 71 | Continuous Thues, from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! 0 j 0 Technicolor Adventure! Gregory Reck “PURPLE PLAIN” Introducing Win Min Than ALSO — Shorts 15c -50 c _—O—O Fri. & Sat.—Rock Hudson “Captain Lightfoot"—Color Sun. & Mon.—Betty Grable “3 For the Show" — Color

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F J rTL lE* I?VT ¥ A l/'a W ® if I ! •• MRS. FRED ISCH, a member of Psi lota sorority, reads to some of the children who are attending the speech Correction clinic sponsored by the Adams county society for crippled children. The youngsters are. left to right, Michael Beery. Dick Cowan. Steve Magsamen, Janet Gerber. Sue Lehman. Bobby Schumm. David Mills and Bobby Hawkins. Two Psi Ote members attend each morning and afternoon session to assist the instructors. • — ■

speech therapy merely means pointing out the fault and then drilling the child in the correct articulation. The classes are ...>w going into he third week of the six week clinic and already improvement is noticed in some of the children. The clinic has a message repeater w-hieh is a tape-recorder that enables the-youngsters to hear their speech. Also at the clinic is an auditory training unit for those youngsters who are hard of hearing apd must overcome speech difficulties resulting from the partial deafness. In addition to the actual instruction of the children,, the teachers ' •wtttrt»e "pare n*a. rot The youngsters and have shown them I how thejy cats help their children's speech. Willie the regular dinie heurft | 9 toll aron-and 12:30 to 2:30 p. m., “ are limited to children between six D «£fas« Tonight & Thursday g Terrific In Technicolor! “CAINE MUTINY” Van Johnson, Humphrey Bogart Fred Mac Murray, Jose Ferrer ■■—O-'-'O -** Fri. & Sat. —“Border RiVer” & “Hong Kong” -- —o—o Sun. & Mon.—'Outlaw’s Daughter' & “Return From the Sea” —o Cartoon on Every Program

r wJ i 1 At - — *7 * *< * f i m N-1 ' 19 If * .*' 1 alo Bll* ”* MISS MARGARET HARRIS, speech instructor, at the a mirror which is used frequently in the speech correction clinic. The girl who is receiving individual attention in this picture is Sonja Strahm. Watching and waiting their turns for instruction are, left to right, Susan Reynolds. Sue Lehman and Dick Covyan,

and 10. Miss Harris and Miss Timmons are also giving after hours instruction to several older or younger than the age limits. Through its clinic the' crippled children society makes possible valuable help to parents of children whose speech is faulty. Without such a clinic many of these children might never receive the extra training they need. Would-Be Assassin Killed By Policemen Factory Worker At i MUNCIE, Ind. (INS) —A 55-year- .. jQli._Mun£ie factoty jwrker was shot and killed by police late Tues- ' day night when he set oik to assassinate the “other man.” i James Bruce fired one shot at Russel Fowlkes in his estranged wife’s kitchen but missed. Fawlkes took off running. Two blocks later, he said he noticed Bruce still chas-/ ing him. At that point, police who had been alerted that Bruce was shooting up the neighborhood caught up with the "gunman.” Patrolman John M. McCain and Sgt. Melvin Milter, said thejvidfetitified themselves and onderad Bruce to put up his Ijands. But they said Instead he whirled with a gun in his hand and they fired. The police fired five shots at B.ruce and hit with two. one of which severed his jugular vein. Bruce’s only other outburst against society occurred July 4. 1952, when he was arrested for shooting off a gun in the city and with having no permit for the weapon. GOVERNMENT IS (Continued from Page Oqg) gram which he carried out as agriculture minister under the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi from 1946 to 1951., In his post, he expropriated hundreds of acres of his, own land on the island of Sardinia, where he was born. Former Highway Official Is Dead INDIANAPOLIS (INS) se: vices’will be conducted Thursday for a,' 7-3-ytar-ol.d former su--perintendent of equiinnent for the state highway department. J, Russell Gardner a native of Monticello who had lived in Indianapolis 26 years, had been ill for i some time. ' j, i If jolt have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat 1 Want Ad. It brings results. J

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Several Slightly Injurefl In Wreck Automobile, Truck In Wreck Tuesday Several persons sustained minor injuries in an accident at 1:20 p .m. Tuesday seven miles east and three; miles south of Monroe at a county road intersection. Mrs. Bernice Kiley. 68. of Celina, 0.. route two, was arrested for failure to yield the right of way after she hit a truck driven by Victor City,' Tei,. Mrs. Kiley sustained cracked ribs. gers in the Serna truck including Manuel Loera. 46, of Crystal City, who received a cut over his left eye. and Ernestena Rodriguex, 20 of Crystal City, who is suffering from a possible fracture of the right arm. „ • Two Other passengers in the truck, Ruven Serna, ,9. and Lidia Serna, 15. brother and sister pl the driver, were not injured. The injured 'persons were treated bj a Willshire, 0.. physician and re leased to their homes. Damage to the truck was estimated at SIOO and to the car at S4OO Sheriff Merle -Affolder- an* statg trooper Walter Schindler in vestigated the accident. ■■ ■: V. - -,. Annual 4-H Dairy Tour Here Thursday Purdue Dairyman To Lead Annual Tour The annual 4-H take place Thursday beginning at 9 a. m. and led by Blaine Crowt of the Purdue dairy department according to an announcement by Leo Seltenright, county agent. The tour will begin at the Wil Ham Kohne farm a mile west of Decatur on Monroe street and a half mile south. The breed on this farm is Red Polled and the tojlic will be “Fitting Dairy Calves." Next stop will be the Everett Singleton farm which features Brown Swiss cattle. The topic here will be "Feeding." Thin farm' is located two miles west of Decatur on IT, S. 22-1, then one land a half miles north, a half milei west apd three, fourths of a mile north.'Phe Paul Fuelling farm will be visited next: for the discussion on "Showing.” The Fuelling herd is Guernsey. The farm is located two and a half miles north of Monmouth and a half mile west. The tour _wiK end at Hanna Nuttman park with a j lot luck dinner. y - —

Refugee Leader Is T Slain In Germany Slovak Leader Dies When Mail Explodes MUNICH (INS) — Police Andi federal security -agents searched I West Germany today for the man who killed a Slovak refugee leader in a well planned "murder by mail." , . ; The victim was Matus Cernak. 50, an anti-Communist now and a wartime official in his homeland under a Nazi puppet ruler. He was killed Tuesday when he opened a package in the suburban Swabing post office aiid the package exploded. ~ * WM “’The murderer was believed to be a foreigner who speaks poor German with a Slavic accent. The police investigation has established thua- far that the deadly parcel was deposited Monday evening in a- Frankfurt post office. The suspect was described by postal clerks as 40 to jyyygara-oldr-slender. and 5 foot 4 inches tall with dark hair. The West German radio network asked the population to be on the lookout for clues and the Bavarian police offered a reward for information leading to who mailed the bomb. ; The blast also* killed an elderly woman bystander, injured 13 _neri- - sons and damagerTTKe' post office seriously. Cernak was chairman of the National Council of Slovakia, a group of anti-Red Slpvak .refugees. The police Stfro ffmrifiwW-ap-parently was aware that the vic_tim normally opened his mail himself in the post office building. Youth Arrested For Improper Equipment LAPORTE. Ind. (INS) — Richard W. Rice, of Porte, was scheduled to appear today on a charge of having improper equipment on his automobile.

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IL I T aOB I iyW - i ■■ Surrounded by guard* and trailed by reporter*. Molotov (second left) leave* the train. _- t -I " _ 1 1 •., ■ ■ - < I ' 4L 4 x —ewe 1 eiwawiiwm'iMM.! k f 1 ■> * W I: A' sW/ 'V' < W Molotov lunches with Maj. Lenox Lohr (right), director of the Museum of Science and Industry, . at the Museum. At left, interpreter, who also can be seen near Molotov In upper;photo. ( BOOS OF DISPLACED PERSONS and refugee* and accusing placard* failed to daunt Russia’s Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov as he detrained in Chicago for a three-hour visit while en route.across the nation from the UN memorial session in San Francisco. The veteran Communist waved to the crowds and was seemingly oblivious of the heckling. (International tioundpboMj,

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