Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1955 — Page 3

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RUTH AND NAOMI' CIRCLE IN MEETING The Ruth and Naomi circle of the Zion E. and R. church met Wednesday afternoon In the social room of the church. After silent prayer, Mrs. Rufus Klrcbhofer, leader for the afternoon, spoke on "The Church In the Inner City." Mrs. Anthony Meyer, vice-chair-man, was in charge of the meting. After the social hoar, lovely r# freshments were served to 16 memStop That Cough USE “OUR OWN” COUGH SYRUP — KOHNE DRUG STORE

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bers and one guest by Mrs. Albert Harlow and Mrs. Bertha Hauer. MISB RITA HEIMAN HONORED AT SHOWER Miss RHa Heiman was honored Sunday afternoon a kitchen shower by Miss Anna Marie Lengertch at her home in Monroe. Miss Heiman and Danny Gerber will exchange vows Saturday, August 20, at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Upon her arrival, the guest of honor was presented a corsage of pink gladioli. Games were played and the prises, which were placed anger a pink and white umbrella, were then in turn presented to the bride-elect. After Miss Heimann opened her uqany gifts, refreshments were

served by the hostess to the Misses Kay Borman, Deloros Braun, Joanne Braun, Ann Durkin, Leola Ford, Alice Gage, Rosemary Gase, Marcella (Giliig, Nlta Osterman, Hazel Roberts and Rheta Ulman. Unable to attend but sending gifts were Miss Kathleen Pursley, FOrt Wayne; Miss AnHa Mendez, and Miss Joan Laurent. MARY ANN LAURENT HONORED AT SHOWER Mrs. Henry Neireiter of Decatur was hostess for a bridal shower Thursday evening honoring Miss Mary Ann Laurent, who will become the bride of Lamberto Michelini of Fort Wayne Aug. 27. Shower games were played and prizes were won by Miss Virginia Laurent and Miss Jane Laurent, who presented tbelr gifts to the guest of honor. Refreshments were served buf-fet-style by the hostess. The buffet table featured a floral centerpiece of garden flowers arranged with wedding rings. Among the guests who attended were Mrs. Mike Michelini of Fort Wayne, mother of the bridegroomelect; Mrs. Joe Laurent, mother of the brfde-to-be; and the Misses Clara, Mary and Jessie Michelina; Miss Jane Laurent, Mrs. Dora Laurent, Miss Virginia Laurent, Mrs. Robert Laurent, Mrs. Louis Laurent, Mrs. George Lauitent* Miss Marlene Laurent, Mrs. Joe Brennan, Mrs, Robert Mutschler, Mrs. Jerry Leitz, Miss Lydia Lehrman and the Misses Kathleen and Carolyn Terveer. Unable to attend were Mrs. Jerry Kohne, Mrs. Robert Doyle of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Ai Laurent of Marion, Miss Mary Martha Terveer and Mrs. Don Giant, sister of the bride-elect. Thursday evening Aug. 4, at six o'clock, the Everready class of the Methodist church will have a picnic at Hoftna-Ntotthian if ark in the shelter house. Members are reminded to bring their own table service, bread and butter sandwiches and one covered dish. The drinks and meat will be furnished. Pupils of Mrs. Ralph R. Johnson wil present a piano recital Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Monroe Methodist church. Those taking part are: Howard Williams, Leona Williams, Barbara Tinkham, Marilyn Stucky, Ned Stucky, Maris Mersbberger, Mary Ann Salano, Dinah Mendozah, Julia Sanders, Edith Dennison, Nancy Habegger, Arvilla Smith, Ronnie Smith, Janet Smith, Myrna Johnson, Doris Bluhm and Diana Brown. -The name of Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott, of Pittsburgh, was unintentionally oirnnkted from the out-of-town guest list of the Dalzell-Brent-linger wedding appearing in Thursday’s Dally Democrat. Mrs. Wolcott is the great-grandmother of the bride. The Catholic Ladies of Columbia will hold a regular business meeting Tuesday at 7:30 at the C. L. of C. Hall. The Zion Lutheran Needle Club will meet Thursday evening at the Zion Parrish Hall at one o’clock. Fred V. Mills, of Logansport, has enjoyed., visiting in Decatur the past several days. Cars driven by Clarence Ros 3, 63, and Vada E. Roe, 46, of Monroe, route one, collided Wednesday afternoon at Bluffton. Fronts of both cars were heavily damaged. Mrs. Mary M. Houk, widow of John C. Houk and former well known Hoagland resident, died Wednesday night at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne. She had resided the past 10 years with a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Lewton. Funeral services will he held Sunday afternoon from Antioch church at Hoagland, of which she was a member many years. Two daughters survive. Mrs. Bernard Clark and daughter Rose Mary will leave Sunday for a visit of several days in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Andrews are visiting for a week in New York City.

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Sect, Item, ter today', publlcatlon must bo phoned In by 11 a. nv (Saturday 9:80 a. m.) Karon Striker y Phono 2-2121 FRIDAY Mt. Zion. Young Married People’s class, weiner roast, llannaNuttman, 6:30 p.m. SUNDAY Adams Co. Farm Bureau carr hi picnic, Lehman park in Berne, 1 p. m. MONDAY Adams Co. chorus, Monroe, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Eagles Auxiliary officers, FagleS hall, 8 p. m. _ . ' - Catholic Ladies of Columbia, C. L. of C. hall, 7:30 p. m. THURSDAY Zion Lutheran Needle club, Parrish Hall, 1 p. m. Everready class of Methodist church, picnic at Hanna-Nuttmaa, 6 p. m. At the Adams county memorial hospital: At 1:55 a.m. today, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brodbeck of Decatur became the parents of a baby boy weighing seven pounds, eight ounces. I GkJOIRITAI IpH foftdl Admitted Richard Jackson, Decatur; Miss Candice Kendall. Ossian; Miss Patricia Hoffman, Hoagland. « Dismissed Edward S. Elzey, Geneva, Mrs. Charles Fetters. Decatur; Henry Nussbaum. Berne; Jim Lough, Decatur; Mrs, Harry B. Frauhiger, and baby boy, Decatur; Mrß'Floyd Steiner and baby girl, Geneva: Mrs. James Lovellette and baby girl, Decatur.

Variety Farmers The Washington Variety Farmers met Tuesday at the home of Bud Fisher to discuss final plans for the 4-H fair next week. President James Taylor was in charge of the meeting. Pledges were led by Larry Lautbenhiser and John Carroll. Roll Call was answered by the 22 members present. After the meeting, refreshments were served. Gary Attorney Dies In 6th Floor Plunge GARY, Ind. (INS) —An inquest is scheduled into the death of Alfred P. Draper, 53-year-old Gary corporation attorney, who died in a plunge from his sixth floor apartment Thursday. Mr. Draper’s death was unwitnessed. The body was found by a newspaper boy in a courtyard. He was a brother of Floyd Draper, who resigned recently as a judge of the Indiana supreme court. The widow, Leontine, a son and a daughter, are among the survivors. Democrat Want Ada Bring Result*

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Decatur Ladies Are Injured In Accident Three Sisters Hurt In Fort Wayne Wreck Three Decatur women were injured Thursday at 9:35 a m. in a truck-car collision ou a Fort Wayne street. The accident was caused when a truck driven by Daniel Pozzuto, 32. of Newcastle, Pa., skidded on wet pavement into the path of the automobile. The car was driven by Miss Editb C. Erviu, 67, of Decatur. Passengers is her car were her sisters, Miss Ethel F. Ervin. 57; and Mrs. Velma Durkin, 53, also of Decatur, and her two sons, Patrick and Daniel. The driver of the ear suffered leg, shoulder and face bruises. Ethel Ervin sustained cuts and abrasions on both legs and a slight back injury. Mrs. Durkin received a laceration and a severe abrasion on the right leg. Ethel Ervin was thrown from the car by the impact. The vehicle itself was totally demolished. The driver of the truck and the two Durkin boys were not Injured. The Decatur people were just starting out on a vacation trip. The injured were treated at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne and returned home later in the day.

Constable Is Held In Payroll Robbery West Virginia Man Fled With $79,000 PRINCETON, W. Va. (INS) —A 41-year-old West Virginia constable charged with fleeing with a $79,000 payrool, managed to get barely 100 miles by air before fast police work and airline cooperation stopped his flight. (Police say that constable Thomas C. Bivens of Bluefield picked up a payroll Thursday morning from the Fiat Top National Bank in Bluefield for delivery to a nearby American Coal Co', mine. Bivens, who lias been picking up the payroll twice a month for several years, usually was with another constable, but this time he showed up alone and IS minutes early. After learning that Bivens had disappeared with the payroll, which was in a leather bag, Mercer county sheriff Perry L. Dye assumed that the fugitive would try to escape by air. The sheriff checked quickly with Mercer county airport where authorities told him that Bivens had just boarded a plane bound for Charleston and Columbus, O. Dye contacted police at Huntington and the civil aeronautics authority. The crew of the Piedmont Airlines plane was aLerted by radio. The pilot then circled Tri State airport at Huntington until police signaled that they were on hand. Bivens, a former deputy sheriff, was arested as he alighted from the plane. < Detective Eris Fry quoted the runaway constable, father of three, as saying; ‘T’ve had a hard time for the last three or four years with sickness in the family. I decided to do something about it. it looks like I did wrong." Sheriff Dye and West Virginia state trooper E. N. Harvey drove to Huntington Thursday night and returned Bivens to Mercer county jail where he was held oday after being booked on a charge of grand larceny.

Cub Scout Swimming Party On Saturday A swimming party for ull Decatur Cub Scouts will be held at the city swimming pool Saiurday morning from 10 to 11:30 o’clock. All Cub Scouts of the eity are invited to atend. New Problems From Huge Crop Surplus Ail Time High Os Grain Production WASHINGTON (INS) — Out of the frying pan into the fire. Nothing else describes quite so well the position in which the government finds itself with respect to the current enormous supply of feed grains. j In trying to reduce surpluses of wheat, cotton and other crops federal programs to divert certain acreages into other channels have done just what many critics said they would — created new problems. This year's near record total harvest seems likely to produce not only surpluses of wheat and cotton but surpluses of corn, oats, grain sorghums, hay and other feed crops. — That this situation was developing has been known for some time. Agriculture secretary Benson made an attempt to stave it off by lowering 1955 support prices on the feed grains, other than com, from 85 to 70 percent of parity. However, this economic club appears to have had little effect. Farmers had to pladt something on the acres taken out of wheat and cotton, and feed grains seemed the logical answer. The current agriculture department report on the feed situation dishes out the cold facts and figures but makes little or no attempt to tell what they mean. According to official estimates, an all time high of 202 million tons of feed grains was in prospect for the 1955-56 crop year on the basis of July 1 forecasts. This would be 22 million tons—--12 percent above the previous record supply of last year. The acreage diversibn program is not entirely to blame for the present state of affairs. Officials point out that growing conditions have been favorable over most of the country, resulting in higher prospective, yields per acre. Also, the build-up of feed supplies has been a continuing thing since 1952 When the total available was only 168 million tons. As for prices, the current report notes that in early July most feeds were moderately to substantially lower than a year ago. It said they probably will continue lower this summer and fall if production is as large as now expected.

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Acquit Woman For Slaying Os Husband Woman is Freed By Marion County Jury • N HKANiAIPOI <1 ft (!I.N|K) *-Ste men and six women debated four hours in the sweltering heat of a Marion county criminal court jury room Thursday night and decided that Norma Jean White H pears was guiltless in the paring knife slaying of her first husband. The attractive young mother of two children was tried on a manslaughter charge In the death or Clarence White, July 20, 19M. Mrs. Spears, who remarried after the death of White, testified earlier that she had found her husband in a bedroom with a British war bride. She told the jury that she had carried the paring knife in her pocket for protection when she went out hunting her husband because she was afraid. She testified that when she confronted her husband and the other woman, her husband struck her in the face with his fist and that in

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the course of the scuffle, he waa stabbed. Deputy prosecutor Wilbur 11. Grant harped on the point that Mrs. Spears armed herself with the knife when she went looking for her husband, and that she had once left her husband and children for two months. But the Jury agreed with defense attorney Ferdinand Samper that “no purpose will be served by sending this mother to prison." TEE P L E MOVING & TRUCKING Local and Long Olatanoa PHONE 3-2607 ———■———a NOTICE My Shop Will Be Closed August I to 15 . ; ' PREBLE BEAUTY SHOP