Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1955 — Page 2

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THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

No Serious Mishaps Reported In County Two Minor Wrecks Reported In City Decatur disregarded the national trend toward wholesale slaughter over the holiday week end and recorded only two minor accidents, two city arrests and two arrests In the county by state police. The two local arrests were both made on Sunday and tor identical charges. Joe I. Jauregui of Decatur ■and Ben C. Macias were charged with reckless driving. Jauregui was arrested on North Second street and Macias was nabbed on Thirteenth street, both will appear in court at a later date. , Richard Moreno, Fort Wayne, was arrested by state police Sunday and charged with operating a vehicle while his license was suspended. He will also appear in court later. Jerome Harris, Covington, Ky.. was arrested Monday by state police for speeding in Preble. He was firmed HO and costs, amounting to $24.75. Mike Ehler lost his transportation Saturday when his parked bicycle was run over by a car driven by Luther P. Beitler. Mike parked his bike in front of the Beitler auto and entered a store. Beitler then returned to his car. and failing to see the bicycle, started to drive away and ran over the vehicle. The car was not damaged, but the bike has seen Its best days as it had $35 in damages. The other collision happened Monday at the intersection of Monroe and Fifth streets. A cat driven by Harold E. Thieme of Decatur was hit by a truck operated by John K. Mazelin. also of Decatur. Thieme, driving north on Fifth, was hit on the right side aS Mazelin, going west on Monroe, failed to recognize the stop sign. Damages to the Thieme car were estimated at $35 and the Mazelin truck at $25. One In County The only accident in Adams county, outside of Decatur, over the holiday weekend was a minor one which occurred a fourth of a mile south of Berne on U. S. highway 27. Three cars were involved in the accident, which caused a total of $350 property damage. One car driven by Paul Deßolt. 41. of Union City route one, was making a right turn into a driveway. Following close behind him was a car driven by Dorwin Myers, 31, of Portland route two. Myers was unable to stop and hit the rear of the Deßolt vehicle. A car driven by Willis Augsburger, 54, of Geneva route one, then hit the rear ot the Myers car. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Alan Coppes investigated.

Ossian Publisher Dies At Hospital William E. Hostetter. 74, publisher of the Ossian Journal since 19>16, died Saturday evening at the Wells county hospital at Bluffton. Surviving are his wife. Elizabeth: a son, Harold.of Fort .Wayne; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Gump of Garrett; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Trotter of Salem, Mrs. Alice Flanigan of New Albany and Mrs. Ella Flanigan of Ossian, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Ossian Presbyterian church, the Rev. Owen MoGarity officiating. Burial was in Oaklawn cemetery. „ Russia Pressed For Answer To Proposal Western Powers To Press For Answer UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (INS) —The four, western atomic powers will press (Russia today for an answer to President Eisenhower's proposal for a “watch dog" system to guard against surprise at-, tack. The U. S.. Britain, France and Canada will raise the issue when they meet with Russia at 3 p.iii. (EDT) in the 54th session of the UN disarmament subcommittee. The Eisenhower plan calls for an exchange of aerial surveys between Russia and the U. S. on military installations nad the posting of each other's teamgat key,centers for observing military ground movements. British minister of state Anthoriy Nutting also has before the committee prime minister Sir Anthony Eden's project for creating an inspection system based on experimental stages. It would be followed by disarmament -stages only after the inspection phase had been proventully effective. Soviet delegate A. A. Sobolev drew a shadow over the bright “Geneva spirit" by subtly resuming all last week the previous Soviet obstructionist tactics responsible for the nine year deadlock on disarmament moves. 7 He sought consistently to sidetrack and prevent discussion of the Emciihowcr proposal.

New State Trooper Is Assigned Here A new state trooper, Alan Coppes. has been stationed in Adams county to replace Walter Schindler of Berne. Schindler has been transferred to the public service commission, which is concerned with trucking. The transfer Is effective immediately and Schindler will help on regular traffic only in case of emergency. Coppes resides on Closs street In Decatur. , —i Flying Farmers Day At Plowing Contest WABASH, Ind. (INS) —Flying Farmers from four states will power their planes to a newly constructed air strip especially prepared for them. Sept. 14 of the Sept. 14-17 national plowing contest has been set aside as flying farmers day. A 3.MX) foot air strip recently was constructed just for the one day event. Michigan Man And Wife Are Murdered Prison Escapee Is Sought In Slayings STOCKBRIDGE. Mich. (INS) — An escapee from Jackson prison was the prime suspect today In the brutal slaying of a 63-year-old Stockbridge, Mich., chicken farmer and his wife. The bodies of Howard Herrick and his wife. Myra, 62, were found Monday night in a barn behind their home. They had been beaten with either a hammer or an ax. A search was immediately launched for Nealy J. Buchanan, 30, a burly Detroite ll , alter a truck was found abandoned in Stockbridge which he apparently used in his escape from Jackson. Stockbridge is a small crossroads village in Ingham county, located 18 miles northeast ot Jack son and 20 miles southeast of Lansing. The double killing apparently took place at 5 p. m. Saturday, when a neighbor heard a scream coining from the direction of Herrick’s 80-acre farm, four miles north of town. Two hours later, a Stockbridge farmhand, Jarvey Wireman, told Ingham cou | y sheriff Willard Barnes he gave a ride to a hitchhiker fitting Buchanan’s ‘descript«h and ’ droV? ’ hTm-fo Mason, Mich., 12 miles away. The murder was discovered at 11:16 p. m. Monday by sheriff’s officers who had been told by Herrick’s children they had .found their pareifLs’ home open but could find no trace of their father and mother. Capt. Verlis Babcock, of the Ingham sheriff’s department, searched the barn and found the farmer's body between two piles of baled hay. MrH Herrick’s body was found nearby.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956

49 Beauties Make First Appearance Contest Underway To Name Miss America ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (INS)— Forty - nine beauties from the United States, Canada and Hawaii, all eager/ to be crowned Miss America, make their public dabut tonight in • colorful parade of floats along the Atlantic City Boardwalk. An estimated 200,000 spectators will view the lovelies seeking this year’s crown. Wednesday night, the contestants get down to business when preliminary judging starts in the vast Convention Hall. Divided Into three groups, the girls will be Judged in talent and bathing suit and evening gown appearances by midnight Friday. Saturday night the panel of 11 experts will name the 10 semifinalists and these nervous young ladles will go through a final judging until the successor to Mies America, Lee Ann Merriweather of San Francisco is named. At stake in the contest is $25.000 in educational scholarships for 12 of the girls. In addition to a $5,000 scholarship, Miss America receives $7,500 in cash, a wardrobe, an automobile, television set, and jewelry. She also is assured ot some $50,000 from personal appearances during her year's reign.

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