Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1955 — Page 2

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Rural Youth Hold District Meeting Gloria Koeneman District Officer Gloria Koenemar, of Preble township, was elected secretarytreasurer of Indiana rural youth district IV at the meeting held last evening at the Ossian high school gym. Other officers elected were: Eugene Biberstein. of Wells county, president, Doris Spraker, of Howard county, vicepresident. and Lois Beaver, of Huntington county, song leader. Seventeen Adams county rural youth members attended this meeting which opened with registration with Bob Yoder and Earl Yoder of Adams county in charge. Mixers were led by Max Reed of Wabash county. Earl Yoder, district president, opened the business meeting.

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State advisors present and introduced were John Marks and Bill Holms of Indiana Farm Bureau and Dick Tomkinson of the state 4-H club office. Sally McCullough and Raymond Worden represented Adams county as voting delegates. Arnold Gerke entered the district talk meet and won the right to participate in the state contest. All clubs were urged to attend the state rural youth convention in Indianapolis Nov. 9. Recreation was in charge of Wabash county and refreshments were served by Wells county. Those present from Adams county were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crownover, Farm Bureau advisors. Raymond Worden, Kiefer, Sally McCullough/SGloria and Roger koeneman, Dallas Nuenschwander, Earl Yoder, Bob Yoder, John Kipfer. Tom Noll, Carl Bluhm, Jim Schmiege, Gerald Siipe, Arnold Gerke and Charles Ripley. Trade in a Good Town — Decatu

Elks Lodge Meeting Here Thursday Night The regular meeting of the Decatur Elks, lodge wifi, be held dt g o’clock Thursday evening at the lodge home on North Second si>eet. AH members are urged to be present. Boy Slightly Hurt When Hit By Auto Phillip Johnson, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Johnson of Master Drive, escaped serious injury when he was struck by a car at 11 a. tn. today on Secsfid street. The boy darted into the street in front of a car driven by Walter G. Towle of Leamington, Canada, who was unable to avoid hitting the child. The boy’s only injury was a bruised knee. if you have something to cell oi rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brine® results.

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Named Delegates To Education Parley Harkless And Werst Bid To Conference Richard Harkless of Decatur route three, president of the Monmouth P.T.A.. and Edward Werst of Master Drive, are among the 700 delegates invited to participate in the governor’s conference on education in Indiana at Butler university Monday, Oct. 24. William Floyd, superintendent of West Lafayette schools, is serving as executive secretary of the conference committee coordinating plans sos the meeting. Delegates to the conference were chosen upon the recommendations of a special committee appointed by the governor. Its selections were based upon demonstrated interest in education through service at the community, county or state level. The conference is an outgrowth of the act passed by congress authopging the president of the United States to call educators and interested cftixens from over the nation to study educational problems at a White House conference on education. ; President Eisenhower has asked the governors of the respective states to arrange a state conference prior to the one at Washington. Dr. Russell J. Humbert, president of DePauw university and chairman of the conference committee. will preside at the Oct. 24 meeting. Governor George Craig will discuss the educational program in Indiana and Clint Pace, director of the committee for the White House conference, will give the keynote address. Chairmen of the six special committees named to study educa : tional problems in Indiana will present reports and 20 unit discussion groups will study these specific problems. Each delegate may attend only one of these unit meetings. Trade In a Good Town — necatu 1

pfew ’sß * ■ - 'C* TEST PHOT Tex Johnston (left) is greeted enthusiastically in Washington by Boeing Aircraft President William E. Allen after setting a speed record of 3' hours. 58 minutes from Seattle, Wash., in the Boeing 707, first U. S.-made jet transport. (International)

Three Accidents Are Reported In City One Driver Fined _ For Leaving Sc«M „ Three accidents, one resulting in the arrest of a hit and run driver, occurred in Decatur Monday. Maurice Fairchild, 32, of Luverne. 0.. was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident on Second street at 10:15 p.m. Fairchild hit a parked car owned by Bruce Schnepp of Decatur. According to witnesses, he stopped, looked at his car and then drove oft. Arrested by city police, he was brought into mayor’s court this morning where he was fined 325 and costs and his license was suspended for six months. Damage from the accident was estimated at S2OO to the Schnepp car and $250 to the Fairchild vehicle. Another accident occurred at 4:45 p.m. on Monroe street when a car driven by Ritd Linder, 23 of Decatur, swerved to avoid hitting an improperly parked car and then had to stop suddenly for a car which had stopped ahead of her. A truck, driven by Russell J* Blsei, 39, of Berne route one, was following the Linder car and was unable to stop. The truck hit the rear of the car, causing about S4O damage to the car and none to the truck. The parked car was not identified. Cars driven by Robert Jauregui qf Decatur and Barbara Loshe, also of fleowtur. collided, causing minor damage at the corner of Dayton avenue and 11th street. Jauregui had stopped for the intersection and then proceeded into the path of the Loshe car. He stated that i his vision was obscured by rain. : Cleveland Man Is Under $20,000 Bond Prosecutor Assails Verdict On Horay INDIANAPOLIS HNS) —A 40- : year-old Cleveland, 0., man who twice avoided being sent to prison for a finance company hojdup, today was being held under $20,000 bend, awaiting transfer to Clevelland, to face narcotics charges. Joseph Horay was one of four men arrested following "“a holdup and a gun battle with police in [ Indianapolis. July 26, 1954. The | o;her three were given prison terms ranging from 10 to 25 years. Two different juries heard evidence against Horay. The firsts deadlocked, and the second found ' him guilty Friday only of assault] and battery and fined him $l5O. He had been charged with rob ] bery and inflicting injury in commission of robbery. One member , of the' latter jury was disclosed to j have been convicted three times! on drunk charges. ; The verdict was assigned by prosecutor John G. Tinder but he decided to turn Horay over to fedefal authorities. U. S. commissioner Lawrence' Turner. Jr., then set a $20,000 bond for Horay and—ordered him returned to Marion county jail until released to federal authorities for trial on narcotic sale in Cleveland. Meanwhile, a storm of protest arose in Indianapolis over the Horay case. Jake Greene, chief investigator for Tinder's staff, said he was conducting a probe to determine if any fraud were involved. The probe will seek to cover these points, Greene indicated: The charge by Mrs. Edna Snider, of Indianapolis, that she was sent to the wrong courtroom when she appeared for prosecution duty on the Horay jury. The juror with the convictions on his record had been picked at random when the panel was believed exhausted. A "Charge made by a released prisoner wha had been in Horajd* cell block, that the Cleveland man declared he had expected a light schteiice "because I had it set.” An accusation by another ex-cell irate of Moray's that Horay had beaten up a youth in his cell block. The charge was made by Robert MarUu, 72, oi-Huiuiuoud, who was •

Officers Elected During Fall Rally Officers of the inter-river soge of th* Walther League vert elected at the annual fell rally held Sunday at the Zion Lutheran parish hall In Decatur. Officers elector were: Boger Koeneman of Zion, Friedheim, sone president; Arnold Gerke. St. Peter’s, Fuelling, as vice-president and Wilma Dippel of Bethlehem, Ossian, secretary. Following the afternoon rally, the banquet was held in the evening with St. Peter’s, Fuelling, in charge of the arrangements. Rev. Henry Abram, pastor of St. John's Ltuheran church at Flatrock, was tjie main speaker for the banquet. Authorize Repair Al Welfare Office County Board Okays Repairs For Floor County commissioners during their regular session Monday at the county court house authorized John Bixler, court house janitor, to repair the floor in the county welfare office. They also signed an agreement with’ the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline company. An agreement with this company under the name of the Michigan Gas Transportation company was signed by former commissioners Dec. 7, 1936. The new agreement was necessary because of the change in the company name. A petition for a black topped road in Hartford township for one and a half miles past the Hartford high school was filed with the commissioners Monday. The road will connect with two northsouth blacktopped roads. The high school is the only school in the county which is. not on a blacktop road. The commissioners in other business Monday allowed the regular claims and inspected a ditch at Curryville in Kirkland town ship. They also set precinct board salaries for the November elec- , tion and awarded a contract on a 1 new truck for the highway department to Saylors Motor Co. released from the Marion county jail Monday. Marion county sheriff Robert A. O'Neal disclosed that Horay had been named “cell boss” by his deputies, but denied that any of his deputies would have stood by and laughed at the beating, as I charged. Horay admitted to newsmen he “popped" Richard D. Duncan, 22, of Indianapolis, when he refused to abide by jail rules, but claimed he did not knock him unconscious [ Records show Duncan was i treated at General hospital after release for facial abraisions and a fractured right ankle. RS fliih The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gift* & Greetings from Friendly Business Neighbora and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion oft' The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthdays EngagementAnnouncementg Change pf residence Arrivals of Newcomers to City Phone 3-3196 or 3-3479 ■yi i i . i

Spanish Philosopher Jose Gasset Dead MADRID (INS) —Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega Gasset died in Madrid today at the age of 72. Agence France Presse said the famed writer, philosopher and s:atesman’had been ip poor health for many months following a »tompcb operation. , c Democrat Want Ade Print Reei/tt

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Woman Pedestrian Is Killed By Auto TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (INS) — Florence Halstead, 64, of Terre Haute, was struck by a car and killed Monday night as she triad to cross U. S. 40 in front of her .home. Driver of the car was Harry J. gelletl, 18, of Tetfe Haute. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur