Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1955 — Page 3

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1955

gecrerii

PINOCHLE CLUB&OLDB PARTY AT HOME OP MRS. MOSES Mr*. Jim Moses was hostess to the Pinochle club Wednesday even* • lug for their annual Christmas party. A candlelight Chrhrtmas luncheon was served to the group, after which Santa Claii’s arrived and distributed the gifts. (Games were played and prises were awarded to Mrs. Vernon Custer, Mrs. Robert Ashbaucher, and Jerome Keller. The travellrtg prise was won by Mrs. Jim Moses. A business meeting was held and the following officers were elected sos the coming year: Mrs. Bill Porter, president; and Mrs. Ashbaucher, historian. Refreshments were served and ‘ the next meting will be held in January at the home of Mrs. Royal Friend. Mrs. Lawrence Kohne will have charge of the prises. CHRISTMAS PARTY IS HELD FOR EMPLOYES The annual Christmas party for all employees and wives of the Meshberger Brothers Stone Corporation was given by Mrs. Verle Meshberger and daughter Carolyn Sue at the Dutch Mill, Bluffton, Dec. 18. At 6 p. m. a sumptuous dinner of roast turkey and baked ham was enjoyed by all. The tables were arranged and beautifully decorated tn accordance with the season by Miss Anna Sprunger. Following the dinner, Mrs. Meshberger presided and Introductions were made by R. Paul Beaty, after which Harold Owens presented some of the future plans for the corporation.

jr SUN - & MON - y A ® Continuous Both Sun. ■ M WVmAJUwm 1 A Mon. from ONLY 15c-50c MAY THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON BRING YOU ALL . HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH and CONTENTMENT! Exciting, Suspense-packed Story of an Indiana Family, When Three Criminals Take Over Their Home for 48 Hours! Many Scenes Photographed in Indianapolis! *C?KIC* ET I T All TF I DCM KKI I I O I S «■ ARTHUR KENNEDY • MARTHA SCOT! DEWEY MARTIN • GIG YOUNG y® MARr murphy Ma .yW *”*• * iaaP * " ,ns visuyisioH I Wil ’ NOTE:—William Wyler Has Just Been Named by National Board of Review a* 1955'* Best Director For Hl* Direction of “Desperate Hours.” O © — TONIGHT AND SATURDAY — The 100th Filming of a Zane Grey Thriller! Millions of Readers Hail “Robbers Roost” as This Famous Author’s Greatest Story! Exciting in Technicolor! “ROBBERS ROOST’ George Montgomery, Richard Boone, Sylvia Findley ALSO—THREE STOOGES Comedy A Cartoon—lsc-50c

I To All Our Friends and Customers | I • WE WISH THIS TO BE THE MERRIEST | I CHRISTMAS OF THEM ALL! . W I BLACKWELLS g t* r - ' WBW S g ED LANGHORST 808 UNE OARROLL BLACKWELL ; <Wi | | FLORENCE SHEETS FRANK ROWLEY m 1 | g JENEVA MARKER BERTHA LANE LW •■ • ' < Wlßtx g ALVINA BRANDT MAXINE JACKSON ’ ’’> ;.. ' <TS ’• "k y \ 3 W JUDY LANE WILLIAM SMITH ■' I J fl g DAVE HALTERMAN *- ANITA SMITH > - ■ U?' WW / « g Vfr ‘ '-MMk/ e

Walter Zuercher, in charge of the entertainment presented several members of his accordion band in a concert together with dialogue by L. J. Montague of Keystone. Charles Stanley, of Pennville, proved that magicians still use the top hat as a standby in their acts. Not to be outdone, Gale Stopher of Fort Wayne, vehtriloquist, ably demonstrated what made Charley McCarthy so popular. Several bejauttful door prises were given at the close of the meeting, and Mrs. Meshberger and Carolyn were presented with an automatic rotisserie by the employees. Those in attendance in addition to the hostesses were: Cheater Runyen, Mr. & Mrs. Harold Owens, Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Sales, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Lehman, Mr. & Mrs. Ted Graham, Mr. William Armstrong and Friend, Mr. & Mrs. R. Paul Beaty, Mr: A Mrs. Orville Bergman, Mr. A Mrs. William Dague, Albert Bixler, Mr. A Mrs. Calvin Dubach, Truman Dudgeon. Lester Egly, Miss Theda Heller, Mr. A Mrs. Alfred Hannie, Wilbert Heil, Mr. A Mrs. Glen Hoffman, Mr. AMrs. Hugh Mere, Mr. A Mrs. Richard Meshberger, Mr. A Mrs. Clarence Minnich, Mr. A Mrs. Harold Minnich, Mr. A Mrs. Dale Morningstar, Mr. A Mrs. Victor Mcßarnes, Mr. A Mrs. Roy Nevil, Def Wayne Nevil, Mr. A Mrs. Carl Newland, Mr. A Mrs. Clarence Patch, Mr. A Mrs. Francis Patch, Freeman Reynolds, Elroy Stauffer, Claren Steln'er A Friend. Mr. A Mrs. Claud Weaver, Mr. A Mrs. Levi Yoder, Mr. A Mrs. Harold

Young, Norman Young, Harold Call A Friend, Mr. A Mrs. T. Ellis Wallace, Mr, and Mrs. Howard Patch, Mr. A Mrs. Herman Kelsey, Mr. A Mrs. Richard Young. Mr. JF Mrs. Edward McCullough, Mr. A Mrs. Russel Hirschy, A Mrs. Wayne Hinchman, Richard Hardy, Anna Sprunger A Miss Barbar Burry. The Preble Sunny circle home demonstration club will meet Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Preble recreation center for their Christmas party. A potluck supper will be followed by the secret pal gift exchange. t The St. Vincent DePaul society will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the C. L of C. hall. The Union township home demonstration club will meet Wednesday all day from 10 o'clock until 3:30 o'clock at the Youth and Community Center for their Christmas party. A cary-in dinner will be featured at noon and each member is asked to bring a 50 cent gift. Hostesses will be Mrs. Alfred Grote, Mrs. Margie Shaffer, and Mrs. Archie Smitley. Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned In by 11 a.m. (Saturday 1:30 sun.) Karen Striker Phone 3-2121 FRIDAY Decatur high school class of 1952, reunion, Youth and CommunityCenter, 8 p. m. TUESDAY (Preble Sunny circle home demonstration club, Preble recreation center, 6:30 p. m., potluck supper. Decatur Weight Reducing club, 1127 Nuttman avenue, 8 p. m. WEDNESDAY Union Township home demonstration club, Christmas party. Youth and Community Center, 10 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. St. Vincent DePaul society, C. L. of C. hall, 2 p. m. M>IRTH> | At the Adams county meihorial hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Joel Neuenschwander of Berne are the parents of a baby boy born today at 10:22 a.m., weighing seven pounds and four ounces. '&|OfflTAL I Admitted Mrs. Eliza Kneuss, Geneva. Dismissed Mrs. James Teeple, Decatur; Muris D. Gray', Ossian; Rose Marie Schaefer, Bluffton; Samuel Schaefer, Bluffton; Arlo V, Lehman, Berne; Mrs. Raymond Cross and baby girl, Monroe; Mrs. Owen Wemhoff and baby girl, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Jack Raudenbush and baby girl. Willshire, 0.; Mrs. Russell Powelson, Monroeville. CLAIMS TO BE'ALLOWED BY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DEC. 39. 1053 Co Haywood Publishing Co. A El 216.00 Irene Byron Howpltal C of P .1'110.50 No. 343 Antwerp Sales Prop. ............ 2135.00 Chester Shoaf Diesel 198.90 Board of Commissioners. Certified before me this 23rd day of December. 1955. FRANK KITSON Auditor Adams County Dec. 23

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

Mrs. John Peterson left Thursday for Detroit, Mich., where she will spend the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Magley of North Second street, and their children, Miss Twanette and Herbert, left yesterday for an automobile trip to Florida, where they will visit Mrs. Magley’s sister. They plan to be absent a couple of weeks. They will be at Briny Breezes, near Lake Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Busche and children Frieddie and Patricia arrived last evening from Jacksonville, 111., to spend a few days with relatives and friends over the holiday. Busche is a professor at McMurray College and Mrs. Busche is teaching in the public school of Jacksonville. ■ (Mr. and Mr*. Wayne Storme and daughter Kathy of Nashville, Tenn., visited in Decatur last evening with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Striker and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stewart. Pedestrian Scalds To Death In Excavation High-Pressure Live Steam Line Broken NEW YORK (INSr —A pedestrian was scalded to death Thursday night when he fell into a New York street excavation and broke an exposed highyptreseuree live steam line. A Five policemen and another pedestrian were injured when they tried to rescue the man from a eight-foot-deep hole on Manhattan's east side. Three of the policemen were injured seriously, one scalded so badly the bones of his fingers were visible when he was pulled from the piL The dead man, tentatively identified as Jack Taylor of New York City, was crossing the street when a car swerved around the corner. Taylor stepped back, reportedly slipped on ice and plunged Into the excavation. Gilbert Long, a pedestrian, jumped in after Taylor. Then patrolman Joseph Cltelli leaped in and pulled out Long. Cltelli was scalded throughout his body with the flesh peeling off his hands and legs. He was taken to Bellevue 'hospital, where doctors listed bis condition as critical. A group of policemen finally succeeded in pulling the body of Taylor from the hole. Christmas Mail Is Largest In History WASHINGTON (INS) —The largest volume of Christmas mail in history was reported today by postmaster general ArtbUr Summerfield. He said that late checks with a cross-section ofthe nation’s largest post offices show a six per cent increase in letter mall and nine per cent more parcel post. Two Young Men Die In Two-Car Crash LAFAYETTE, Ind. (INS) —Two young men were killed and five injured Thursday in a two-car head-on collision on Ind. 53 near Lafayette. Dead were Rpnald Kanne, 22, of Rensselaer, and Harold Ivan Sutton, 19, of Remington, the drivers of the two cars. Five others riding with Sutton were taken to the hospital in Lafayette.

Head-Joined Twins Home At Christmas Twin Girls Survived Separation Surgery CHICAGO (INS) — The 14-months-old Andrews twins, headjoined twins who survived a separation surgery last April 21, will celebrate their first Christmas at home just like any other youngsters their age. Last year at this time, Christine Mary and Deborah Marie Andrews were In Chicago's Mercy Hospital where they were under observation for the successful operation that followed. They are the only twins io survive such an operation. The Brodie Siamese twins, Rodney and Roger, were separated at the head but' Roger died a few weeks after the operation. Rodney is now at home on his parent’s farm at Ferris, 111., where he will spend Christmas. However, the four-year-old boy is hemorrhaging slightly in the head and the left side of his body is impaired. The Andrews twins and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Andrews, hosted the press to a preChristmas party, Thursday. Deborah, the larger twin at 21 pounds, crawls and tries to stand alone. She jabbers "no, no" and "da-da”. Christine, at 15 pounds, also gives indications of catching up with her bigger sister. Their mother proudly says the twins are “very good babies” and progressing well after their long ordeal. Retired Indiana U. Professor Is Dead MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — Prof. Guido H. Stempel, Sr., 87, professor emeritus of comparative philology at Indiana University, died at a Martinsville nursing home today. He was the father of Prof. John Stempel, head of the IU journalism department. Dr. Stempel was active as a scholar in languages and literature at IU for 44 years before his retirement in 1938. He also helped develop IU as a musical center. India To Establish Mongolia Relations NEW DELHI (INS) — The Indian government announced today that India has decided to establish diplomatic relations with Outer Mongolia and exchange ambassadors. Nationalist China recently vetoed in the UN security council the Soviet-backed proposal for admission of Outer Mongolia on the basis that it is not a truly independent state but an integral part of China. The Soviet Union in the UN “package deal” fight then vetoed Japan’s application for admission to the UN. Trade in a Gocc Town — Uecatu

MERRY CHRISTMAS And A HAPPY NEW YEAR COWENS INSURANCE AGENCY L. A. COWENS JIM COWENS 209 Court St Phone 3-3601 Decatur, Ind.

GUESS WHO ... Everybody to impersonating Santa or Mrs. Santa these days. Here Hilda Estaves gives her Impersonation of M's. Santa Claus—and while tt may not resemble a reasonable facsimile, the gift-laden pack on Hilda’s back may give a vague clue. Cardinal Spellman Flies Over Fuji Takes Controls Os Jet Plane Briefly TOKYO Cardinal Spellman flew oven Japan’s sacred Mount Fuji today in a jet plane and the Roman Catholic prelate took the controls himself —for ten minutes. The New York Cardinal’s pilot, Maj. Allen McDonald of Everett, Wash., commented after th«L thir-ty-minute, two- hundred -J mile flight: J. “He (Cardinal Spellnurff) is a McDonald said that “in two natural-born jet pilot.” weeks, I could make the Cardinal a pilot.” The beaming archbishop of New York told Intel-national News Service: “It was wonderful. There was a fresh coat of snow on Mount Fuji. It was the first time I was that close to it and I looked right down on it.” McDonald said the Cardinal was smiling all the time during the flight over the mountain south of Tokyo and was "never nervous.” The Cardinal is scheduled to fly to Korea Saturday to celebrate Christmas mass for U. S. troops. This is his fifth consecutive Christmas visit witlr troops in the Far East. Passenger Killed As Car Overturns MCCORDSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — William Boyette, 35, of Indianapolis, died today of injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding went out of control and overturned on Ind. 67 near McCordsville. Boyette died a few hours after the accident in the Hancock county hospital at Greenfield where the driver, James T. Higgins, 48, of Muncie, was taken in critical condition.

THOUSANDS OF (Contlnueg from Page Oner confirm reports of higher casualties. Governor Goodwin J. Knight declared a state of emergency in the areas swept by floods and state relief agencies were ordered to cut red tape and aid the storm refugees. Coastal Humbolt county appeared to be the area hardest hit by the storm. Eureka, the county seat, a city of 25,000 population, was isolated when highways and railroads were blocked by landslides and when telephone wires were blown down by the storm. Fragmentary reports by radio todl of the evacuation of the entire town of Weott — 350 persons — on Highway 101 about 50 miles south of Eureka. A Humbolt county newsman. Elmer Hodgkinson, reported via short wave radio that thirty Weott residents were drowned when the Eel river overflowed its banks, putting the town under an estimated eight feet of water. To the south along the Eel. twenty - five persons were seen clinging to debris at Rio Dell and they were feared lost. To the south in the Sonoma county resort area along the Russian river the communities of Guerneville, Monte Rio, Rio Nido and smaller towns were evacuated. Hundreds of the refugees fled into Healdsburg, itself hit by what was described as the worst flood in more than fifteen years.

- 8 iwJrnL /Sep JCliVva J L-— A*’* <v. • _ ■ Im, a $

May the spirit of Christmas enter your home in all its shifting glory, and spread Its glow through many a day and month to come. May your heart be light with laughter and warm with friendship and love. May you experience in fullest measure all the joys of the season . . . and in the year ahead enjoy good health, good cheer and good fortune. MHBSL JMMMi

PAGE THREE

Tavern Employe Is Robbed Os $5,000 INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Police searched today for two thugs who jumped upon a tavern employe from behind, knocked him to the ground and robbed him of >5,000. Theodore Dimoff, the victim, suffered severe bruises about the face. He was taking the money from a bank to the tavern to be used for cashing pay checks of packing house workers. fckkkftkkkkkkkkkMlkNlMlkMl | GIR SELECTIONS I 1 FOR !j LATE SHOPPERS I I ROSARIES I STATUES I PLAQUES I s * I £ Plus Many Other Gifts J | OPEN EVENINGS 5 M. RRAUN | i RELIGIOUS STORE J 222 North 7th St. PHONE 3-3820 g i Between Monroe Street V a and Nuttman Ave.