Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1955 — Page 3

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1955

MISS JOAN LAURENT IS WED TO DAVID SPRUNGER The rectory ot the St. Mary's Catholic church was the scene of the wedding of Miss Joan Yvonne Laurent and David Alyn Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock The Rev. Robert Contant performed the ceremony. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. George F. Laurent 703 North Fifth street, and Mr. and Mrs. Truman Goldner of route two, Decatur. The britje wore a frock of aqua taffeta, princess style, with a stree 1 length bouffant skirt. She wore white accessories and a corsage arrangement of white carnations. IMrs. Robert Doyle of Fort Wayne, sister of the bride, attended as matron-of-honor in a navy blue dress with matching accessories and a corsage of pink roses. Lee Sprunger of Hartford City, brother of the bridegroom, served as best man and (Gerald Laurent, brother of the bride, seated the guests. The bride's mother wore a blue dress and the bridegroom's mother wore black and white. Both wore corsages of deep red roses. The reception was hehPfrom 2 until 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents. Servers included Mrs. Henry Neireiter. Miss Theresa Laurent, sister of the bride, and Miss Judy Goldner, half-sister of the bridegroom. Mrs. Louis Laurent, sis-ter-in-law ot the bride, presided at the guest book. The bride is a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and is employed at the General Electric

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company in Decatur. Her husband was graduated from Monmouth high school and is employed at the Leeward Aeronautical service at Baer Field in Fort Wayne. Following a brief northern wedding trip, Mr. and Mr*. Sprunger will reside at 221 South Eleventh street in Decatur. HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB HOLDS RECENT MEETING The Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club met recently -with Mrs. Ralph Bluhm, with each member dresed as a school girl. Devotions were given by Mrs. Allee Arnold and a special feature was given by Mrs. Henry Heimann. Mrs. William Kohne and Mrs. Clarence McKean gave a lesson on home business, and Mrs. Alton Corson gave a lesson on safety in the home. The president, Mrs. Ralph Bluhm, presided over the business meeting. Mrs. Harvey Smith and Mrs. Wilbur Lengerich gave a report on their trip to Purdue. During the social hour Refreshments. were sreved and games played. Hostesses included Mrs. Ralph Bluhm and Mrs. Clarence Miller. The door prize was won by Mrs. Alice Arnold and Mrs. Clarence Dick was welcomed into the club as a new member. Mrs. Joseph Hazelwood and Mrs. Ellis Converse were guests at the meeting. GEORGE WEIMANN HONORED ON 96TH BIRTHDAY George Weimann of Sehunim. 0., was honored with a birthday party Sunday, on his 96th birthday. The party was held in the church basement of the Schumm Lutheran church. A basket dinner was held at noon. Mr. Weimann still does his own cooking and until two years ago, he was the oldest assistant postmaster in the United States. He is the father of Mrs. Phil Sauer of Decatur. JAPANESE STUDENT IS WEEK-END GUEST Miss Reiko Sudo of Sendai, Japan, who is a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Gould and family. Sunday noon a Japanese dinner was served In honor of the eighth birthday of Linda Hawbaker of (Geneva. ■Dinner guests included Miss Ruth Gottschalk, Mrs. Goldie GottWchalk. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hawbaker and chi|a’rei?TlUt,‘*“Lrtf3a? Barbara, Rebecca and Jim; Charles Hawbaker, Miss Sudo, and the host family. Miss Sudo returned today to Ann Arbor. Others who called on her Sunday afternoon were: Miss Sally Hahn, Mrs. Adolph Weidler and Elaine, Mrs. Joe Hezelwood, Mrs. Chris Borne. Mrs. Walter Augsburger Xnd Jeanene. At 8 o'clock Thursday evening, the Great Books discussion group will meet in the public library. The meeting of the Emblem club has been postponed from Thursday. September 22,. to Thursday Sept. 29. The Pleasant Mills Methodist W S. C. S. meeting has been postponed until Friday at 7:30 o’clock because- of the prayer meeting on Thursday. The Women of the Moose will have a called business meeting

Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned In by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m,) Karen Striker Phone 3-2121 MONDAY Adams county chorus. Farm Bureau building in Monroe, 7:30 p. m. Adams Central P. T. A., school gym, 7:30 p. m. Evening circle one of Methodist church, ladies parlor, 8 p. m. Rosary society, K. of C. hall, 7:30 p. m. V. F. W. ladies auxiliary, business meeting, post home, 8 p. m. Rosary society, K. of C. ball, 7:30 p. m. TUESDAY Decatur Garden club, Mrs. Calvin 'Yost, 2 p. m. Merry Matrons home demonstration club, Mrs. Edward Gerbers, 7:30 p. in. Tri Kappa sorority, Garnet Heemstra in Fort Wayne, 8 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Mrs. Dan Christen, 8 p. m. Catholic Ladles of Columbia, C. L. of C. hail,, potluck supper, 0:30 p. m. Loyal Daughters class meeting postponed to Sept. 27. Meet with Mrs. Frances Eady. THURSDAY O. E. S. friend’s night, initiation. Masonic hall, 7:30 p. m. Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Robert Geimer, 8 p. m. D. A. V. auxiliary, social, 7:30 p. m. Women of the Moose, called business meeting. Moose home, 7:30 p. m. Emblem club meeting postponed to Thursday, September 29. Great Books discussion group, library, 8 p.m. FRIDAY Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. iGlen Mann, 7:30 p. m. Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the Moose home. The D. A. V. auxiliary will have a social meeting Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. w The Ruralistip study club will meet Thursday evening at 8 o’clock with Mrs. Robert Geimer. rl "■ 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Amick entertained at dinner Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Morris and son Bobby Dean of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Courtney and family, Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Amick and children of Anderson. The- party •was in honor of Mrs. Morris’ birthday and also for Mr. and Mrs. Courtney and family, who are moving from Decatur to New Orleans, La. < The Fort Wayne choral group of colored people will be guests at a dinner, to be given Wednesday evening at the First Presbyterian church. The choral group will sing a number of songs and recording of the annual national meeting of Presbytery will be given. Members and their wives are urged to attend. The city of Warsaw has been stopping traffic on U. S. highway 30 at an intersection there to permit children to cross to school in safety, but the state commission has ruled it can’t be done. Warsaw citizens are objecting to the ruling. $ The Geneva high school seniors will present the comedy “People are Funny,” October 14. John W. Ripley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland A. Ripley, has enrolled as a freshman in architecture at the Illinois State College in Champaign, 111. His address is John W. Ripley 120-1-D P. Q.U.; Champaign, 111. Dave Mac Lean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Mac Lean of North Third street, has arrived home from Denver Colo., where he attended the summer session at the University of Denver. He will go to Purdue University this week to continue his studies. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Beavers of Evansville visited with their parents, Mrs. S. D. Beavers of 610 Winchester street and Mrs.' G T. Burk of 228 South First street. They returned home Sunday after having dinner in Berne. Mrs. Hattie C. Beery is new making her home at the South View Rest home, three miles south and >4 mile east of Bluffton. Visiting hours are from 2 until 4 o'clock and from 7 until 8 o’clock. Mrs. Berry would be glad to see her friends. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Tutewiler and daughter Judy Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Helm and daughter Cynthia Gale, and Mrs. Carrie Heare, spent, Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Rex Heare and daughter Karen Sue of Fort Wayne, the occasion being Karen Sue's 2nd birthday. DON’T FORGET! Square Dance Tonight at the American Legion. It

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Slate Republicans Turning To Gates Republicans Weary Os Party Factions INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Rank and file Republicans, profoundly weary of party, factionalism, may turn to former Governor Ralph F. Gates for leadership, according to word circulated at the'GOP meeting for Vice President Richard M. Nixon this week end. Out of the smoke of battle between the factions of Governor George N. Craig and Senator William E. Jenner, Gates may emerge as the 1956 gubernatorial nominee or as the man who chooses a compromise candidate for governor, according to a number of leaders. The large array of aspirants for governor now apparently in the field will result in additional party disorder and 'confusion that will produce a demand for Gates from the humble precinct committeemen and committeewomen, it was said. This 1 list of candidates include* state revenue commissioner Frank T. Millis, Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley, house speaker George Diener, former house speaker W. O. Hughes, and possibly secretary of state Crawford Parker, state superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young and state chairman Alvin C. Cast. Jenner would be nominated for governor, although the senator had been regarded as favoring Handley. Gates, longtime Indiana Republican national committeeman, however, maintains stoutly he is not a candidate, but he has been doing much political manipulation during the past few months. Nixon attempted to allay fears of Hoosier GOP leaders that the farm and labor votes may be lost next year. He said with respect to the issue of slipping farm prices. “The Democrats made a tactical error. They shot their bolt too soon." Discussing Jenner’s prediction that the GOP may lose some congressional seats in Indiana because farmers may stay away from the polls or vote Democratic! the Vicepresident said: “I am not as pessimistic about it as Senator Jenner is. But we are taking nothing for granted.” Nixon, addressing the huge J 169 a plate dinner in Indianapolis Saturday night, predicted the Republicans will garner more union labor votes next year than they did in . 1952, adding: “American workers today have . more jobs, less strikes, higher wages ’ and greater purchasing . power than at any time in history, i and they have peace to boot. The ■ workers know from the size of their paytjhecks ;that Truman's ’Never Had It So Good ‘4B’ isn't in the same league with Eisenhower's ‘Best Ever ‘56.” Some 1,600 tickets were sold and from receipts, the Indiana state committee sent a $65,000 check to ■ the GOP natiShal committee. Speaking at the national plowing contest near Wabash, Nixon promised “bold" administration action to halt skidding form prices blamed past Democratic policies for troubles of the farmers. V Nixon outlined the administration'ls agricultural program as: 1. Continuation of the controversial flexible price support system. 2. A “Bold, imaginative program” to develop new domestic and foreign markets. 3. Increased research to reduce farm costs and increased use of agricultural products. 4. Continuation of soil conservation and similar programs. 5. A program of rural development to aid marginal farmers. Jkßi rth¥l At the Adams county memorial hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson ot Decatur are the parents of a baby boy born Saturday at 7:59, p. m„ weighing five pounds and I‘4 ounces. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Colin Finlayson 4Df Decatur Sunday at 1:40 a. m„ weighing eight pounds and six ounces. At 4 a. m. today, a baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fruchte of Decatur, weighing seven pounds and three ounces. A baby* boy weighing seven pounds and ten ounces was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eckrote of Berne today. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Moser of Berne became the parents of a baby girl born today at 5:35 a. m„ weighing six pounds-and ten ounces. . f&jOJWTAL v* 1 Admitted Mrs. Elmer Uhrick, Decatur: Mrs. Ervin Wodo, Rockford, 0.; Frank Hermon, Geneva; Mrs. Minnie B. Wilson, Willshire, O. Dismiaaed Mrs. Warren Gressley and baby

jb . few iK BdMh «■ J ’ ; Jit ** W' •''' mE$ W Jr ?•; •*•- g 4 A 1 m- r jj^l'" ■'•’-•’> Ewl- 33 pZfeBL . i'few IB V'JAfe' Wv32& r I I C <._ v I * ttJI ■” Wsslp I ' <?&•**y^'^W^Hnitr'-.'--.'•'•> • - - U..■■.&•.:■.■* ■■‘.',',,2-ii.:- ' THE NEWLY INSTALLED OFFICERS of the American Legion auxiliary are pictured above at their first meeting. In the front row from left to right are Mrs. Elmer Darwachter, historian; Mrs. Wilson Beltz, first vice-president: Mrs. Harve Baker, president; Mrs. T. C. Smith, secretary; Mrs. Ralph Roop, treasurer, and Mrs. Clark Flaugh. second vice-president. Standing are Mrs. Frank Crist, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Herman Dierkes, executive board; Mrs. Frances Monahan, chairman of the executive board: Mrs. Ed Bauer, executive board and Miss Eileen Selking, third vice-president. Mrs. Verena Meyer, the new chaplain, was not present for the photo.

Lutheran laymen Hold Convention Annual Convention Held At New Haven The membership secretaries from each of the 10 Lutheran congregations in the Decatur area were honored with award pins, and the Decatur zone, highly praised for its outstanding record of 36% of its communicants enrolled as Lutheran laymen’s league members, at the eleventh annual convention of the league’s Northern Indiana district held Sunday at New Haven. The convention contributed $2,000 toward Lutheran Hour support. half of which is to be used for the district’s assigned stations in South America. Grants-ln-aid were also arranged to aid area pastors who wish to attend summer sessions at Concordia Theological Seminary at St. Louis. A district recreational director is to be appointed to encourage interzone athletic competition. Dr. W. C. Birkner, stewardship director of the centra! district, explained the new' “St. Paul” budget and the convention pledged its support to it. A 16 mm print of the film “Martin Luther” was purchased and made available through the district film distribution director. Resolutions urging personal evangelism and the sponsor plan for the Lutheran Hour were also passed. .Herbert C. Beck of Lafayette was elected president. Adolph Dietrich of Hoagland is the new vice president, and Carl Bauer of Convoy will serve as secretary. Fullerton Boyd of Gary was named treasurer. Herman H. Krueckeberg served as chairman of the elections committee. T. G. Eggers, of St. Louis, director of films and tours, outlined the national program and described some of his recent experiences in the Holy Land. D. H. Callow of Decatur, Lutheran Hour director for the Northern Indiana district, reported to the convention and assisted with the sponsor booth display. The Rev. E. P. Schmidt conducted the installation of new officers and the closing devotion. Louis A. Jacobs, retiring president, presided. Over 400 members attended the fellowship banquet held at the Central Lutheran school, with the Rev. E. Nerger ot St. Paul’s, Fort Wayne, as toastmaster. boy, Decatur; Mrs. Momingo Cantu and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs Vernon Miller, Geneva; Mrs. Cora Pence, Decatur; Mrs. Robert Yost and baby girl, Decatur; Master Ronald Gleckler, Monroeville; Miss PaPula Ann Leistner, Rockford, O.; Charles Wheeler, Jr.. Bryant; Mrs. Allen Felt and baby girl, Monroeville; Mrs. Eugene Hitchcock and baby boy, Decatur; Miss Doris Yoder, Berne; Thomas Whiteker, Hartford City. ■' ' / Students, Teachers Are Invited To I. U. Adams county high school students and teachers have been invited by Indiana University to attend “High School Day” Oct. 15 at the University. Letters received by principals from the university state that an educational program including tours and visits to classrooms and laboratories has been planned. The program will include the Indiana-Villanova football game whJck willbe -featured., by school band day performances. This year bands from counties alphabetically from Adams through Lawrence have been invited to join with the newly uniformed I. U. Marching Hundred Band in pre-game, half-time, and post-game appearances. i

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Legion Holds Square Dance Here Tonight A square dance will be held at the American Legion home tonight, starting at 9 o'clock. The dance is for members and their wives or sweethearts and there will be no admission charge. To Tell Story Os Two British Spies Will Air Maclean And Burgess Case LONDON (INS) —The British government announced today it will tell in an official “white paper” the full, fantastic story of Donald Mac Lean and Guy Burgess, British diplomats identifed as long time Soviet spies before they fled behind the Iron Curtain four years ago. The bizarre case of Mac Lean and Burgess promises to stir up a violent political storm in Britain, with additional repercussions in the United States. A Foreign Office spokesman said the white paper, or official state ment, will be published in four or five days. The decision taken this morning to throw open the whole story followed revelations by Vladimir Petrov, a top Soviet intelligence agent who broke with Communist Russia in 1964 and won aslyum in Austral la. Petrov said he had proof that Mac Lean and Hufgess recruited while they were students at Cambridge university — 20 years before they disappeared in 1951. Mac Lean now is 42 and Burgess is 44. “Now that the royal commission in Australia has finished its work a white paper will be published giving a full statement,” the ’ spokesman said. As for stolen documents which Petrov said, the Russians obtained from the two Britons by the “brief cases full,” the spokesman said: “A presumption must be made that documents were passed, but ! in what quantity one cannot say.”' Asked the nature of the documents the spokesman said: “It would be easier to answer that question if we knew what documents were photographed.”’ Petrov told the London Sunday newspaper “The People” that another Soviet agent named Kislytsin had told him he had been in the Soviet embassy in London in 1945 and had received briefcases full of foreign office documents from Burgess. The foreign office had said Sunday that there was "insufficient evidence” to arrest Mac Lean at the time of his flight. He was then head of the United States department of the foreign offiee. The foreign office confirmed that Burgess, whose last post had been that of second secretary in the British embassy In Washington, and Mac-Lean had learned they were being investigated, and got Soviet aid in fleeing.

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Herman R. Silver, food chain executive and the victim’s father; members of the fire rescue squad which was summoned to administer first aid to Mrs. Oestreicher, and officials of the staff of medical examiner Dr. Mellville J. Aston. Also expected to be on hand is Earl Oestreicher, 29-year-old 1 Miami Beach motorcycle patrol- ■ man and husband of the dead 1 woman. Authorities indicated that Oestreicher will be present as an 1 observer and is not scheduled to 1 participate in the hearing. The couple eloped June 24 and 1 the marriage reportedly was not 1 viewed with favor by the bride's I parents. ’ Mrs. Oestreicher returned home after six weeks, her husband has • said, to reconcile her parents and ; it was during the visit that the 1 illegal operation occurred. The victim's mother, Mrs. Gertrude Silver, is charged with being an accessory. However, the grief 1 stricken woman is undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital where she is under constant guard I against a possible suicide attempt. If you have something to sell or , rooms for rent try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.