Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1956 — Page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956

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HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEETS AT 8080 SCHOOL The St. Mary’s township home demonstration club met recently at the Bobo school. The meeting was opened by the o!ub prayer, and devotions were led by Mrs. Otis Sbifferley. Several songs were sung by the group, after which Mrs. Paul Rich reud the history of the song of the month. Roll call was answered by 32 members. The lesson on finishes on other fabrics was presented by Mrs. Harvey McDermott and Mrs.

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Richard Malland. Mrs. Cart Frey read a poem, written by Mrs. Lucille Miller, about the recent club trip to the wooden shoe festival at Spencerville. A flower auction sale was conducted by Mrs. Bertha McMichaael, and the. door prise was awarded to Mrs. Fred Hilton. Refreshments were then served hr the committee in charge, which included the Mesdames Lee Custer, Earl Williamson, Otis Shifferley, Kenneth Ohler and Varlando Clark. ‘“■i.i'i i-'* I Miss Esther Meyers will be hostess to the Sancta Maria study club Wednesday evening at eight o’clock. The Adams county chorus is asked to meet Monday evening at 7:80 o’clock at the Farm Bureau building in Monroe. The Gals and Pals home demonstration club will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Lyle Bailey. The bi-annual birthday auction will be featured. The Sacred Heart study club will meet with Miss Margaret Heimann Monday evening at eight o’clock. The 26th anniversary of the Decatur high school class of 1931 will be observed at a class reunion planned for June 17 at the Decatur Youth and Community center. Lettree have been mailed to members, and those who have not yet made their reservations, are asked to notify the committee member who has previously contacted them. Pamela Ann Guant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tbomas Guant of 428 Stratton Way, celebrated her fifth birthday on Memorial Day. with a party given by her parents. Those present were: Diane ana Linda Guant, Brenda Feasel. Antoinette Faurote, Cheryl Rumsch lag, Sharon Kaye, Dehra, and Teri (Guant; and the honored guest Cynthia Gehrig and Karen Jenqiqgs were u|iab)e # to attend. • ■ The' Academy of Friendship of the Women of the Moose has scheduled a dinner at the West End restaurant for June 1.1, at 6 p.m. This dinner is for all of the members and they are asked to contact or Allie Noll for reservations which are to be in by June 9. Also planned is a group trip to Chicago June 24. -Members are asked to contact either Hazel Schultz, Charlotte Smith, or Iva Hunter for reservations to be in by June 16. Stop That Cough USE ■ “OUR OWN” COUGH SYRUP KOHNE DRUG STORE

AjBTJWH THE ENGAGEMENT AND APPROACHING marriage of Miss Harriet Rauch to Kenneth Schwaller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schwaller of route one, Monroe, has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rauch of route one, Decatur. Miss Rauch attended Monmouth high school and is employed in the office of the Standard Grocery. Her fiance was graduated from Decatur Catholic high school and is presently engaged i'l farming. The St. Mary’s Catholic church in Decatur will be the scene of the wedding, which will take place August 11.—Photo by Edwards.

Plan Gingham Ball At Center June 16 Annua! Square Dance Event Planned Here A rededication .kick-off party, the Gingham Ball, an annftal square dance event, will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Saturday night, June 16, it was announced today. Sponsor of the event will be the Central Soya recreation association with Don Heiman, Cy Becker and Everett Hutker as co-chairmen, fol* the event. 'r“ • The general public is invited to take part in the evening of entertainment, dancing to the call and tunes of Geels’ well known square dance band. Tickets, selling for 50 cents per person, are now on sale at Holthouse Drug Co., Why store. City News agency, Community Center office, and Kimpel cigar store. The first dance held last year in connection with the dedication of the Center was attended by several hundred square dance enthusiasts and indications are that this year’s event will set a new attendance record. Mooseheart Show On TV Sunday Night Feature Child City Oq, Television Show The American Broadcasting Co.’s' coast-to-coast television show “You Asked F r IL’’ with Art Baker, will feature the child city of Mooseheart, 111. Sunday night, according to Paui P. Schmitz, director general of. Mooseheart., Baker, master of ceremonies of the show, with his camera and sound crew' spent three days at Mooseheart to” film the sequence, it was reported. Scenes of the child city and many outstanding features will be shown throughout the story. The following station r which can be received in Decatur will telecast the program: WCPO-TV, Cincinnati; WTTV, Indianapolis and WTVN, Columbus, O. Carl Sheets, Chairman of entertainment for the local Moose lodge, contacted the Waterloo station to the telecast but he was informed that it would not be carried at this time on WIN-TV. Several of the ABC affiliates will carry the program at a later date and Sheets said it was possible that the northern Indiana station might carry the show later. Seasonal Increase In Polio Reported WASHINGTON (UP) — The public health service today reported asharp Jump In polio cases last week. But it said the increase was strictly seasonal. There were 112 cases last week compared with 85 the week before. .But last week’s total was considerably less than the 240 cases reported in the comparable week of 1955. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

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Elkhart Residents Killed In Accident , ELKHART. Ind (UP) — John Jones, 28, and Juanita Messick, 26, Elkhart, were killed Thursday In a c'/llision of two automobiles on Ind. 19 just outside the Elkhart city limits. Jones’ wife,-Odel, and Paul Frederick Jr., driver of the second car, were injured.. Police said the Jones car was hit as it turned oft the highway into a parking lot. i , ■ .... . Million Dollar Fire Loss At South Bend SOUTH BEND (UP) — A fire , Thursday night destroyed a block-, long brick machine room of the United States Gypsum Co. plant here and damages was estimated at a million dollars. Night watchman William Kartinski, South Bend, said the lights went out in the machine room and a burst of fire jumped to a pile of paper boxes. The cause of the fire was nt determined immediately. !

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ws Society Items tor today’s publication must tie phoned In by I 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Karen Striker Phone 3-2121 FRIDAY I Work and Win class of Trinity church, church, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY | District four rural youth square |dance, 4-H club building near Marion, on road 18. MONDAY Pythian Sister degree staff, K. of P. home practice, 7 p.m. Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club, Mrs. Delmar Connelly, 7:30 p.m. Juniors of the American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, 4 to 6:30 p.m4 Sacred Heart study club, Miss Margaret Heimann, 8 p'm. Adams county chorus. Farm Bureau building in Monroe. 7:30 p.m. The V. F. W. Ladies auxiliary will hold a regular business meeting Monday at 8 p.m. TUESDAY Happy Homemakers, Mrs. Clarence Mitchell, 7:30 p.m., guest night. Gals and Pals home demonstration club, Mrs. Lyle Bailey, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Sancta Maria study club, Miss .Esther Meyers, 8 p.m. 'Women’s Golf League, open season, Decatur Golf club, 1:30 p.m. Two Alabama Miners Killed By Explosion Exhausted Rescue Workers Find Pair BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UP) — Exhausted rescue workers found the bodies today of two miners trapped deep underground by a violent explosion. The explosion at 11 a.m. Thursday trapped the two veteran employes of Alabama By— Products Corp, some 700 feet below the earth’s surface. Relatives of the two men awaited recovery of the bodies after an ■all — night vigil while rescuers ‘searched the sub-surface labyrinths. The trapped men were Thomas Hogeland, 56. and H. M. Robbins. 61. Their families arrived at the scene, at Praco, in northwest Jefferson County, before noon and re; irataed despite a drizzling f®ln.” It, was reported at fi-A.m, ?JBDT that the rescue operations had progressed to about 500 feet from the area where the men were believed to be. The blast shook the earth for several hundred yards and inflicted several minor injuries among the remaining 129 miners in the shaft at the time. The cause 0f the explosion was not Immediately determined. ' K ; ■ ?.. -„ ■ Rescue operations were hampered by fire in the vicinity of the explosion. Searchers reported it was slow work digging through .the debris. Rev. Albert Swenson Will Visit Sweden The Rev. Swenson of near Wren, Ohioi, father of Mrs. Lewis Smith of Decatur, .will leave Saturday for New York, where he will board a plane and arrive in Sweden Monday for a month's visit. Rev. Swenson will visit his brother, Vols. His last visit to Sweden was in 1934 when be attended the presentation of the Pa»sion Play. His return trip also will be by air. Final Memorial Day Traffic Toll Is 98 CHICAGO (UP) — Final figures shwed today that 98 persons died in traffic accidents during the oheday Memorial Day holiday. The national safety council, which had predicted 110 deaths during the Wednesday holiday, said ft "is distressed that the holiday toll was so tragically close to cur pre-holiday estimate.** Improvements Made By Church Os God The Decatur Church of God has completed redecorating the interior of the sanctuary and basement, laying of new carpeting in the sanctuary, purchase of new church hymnals, and erecting new Church signs near each highway leading into Decatur. This Sunday, the congregation will worship in the Improved sanctuary, which has an overall color scheme of soft green, the woodwork having been refinished to harmonize with the pews. The carpeting Is also a soft green. The work has been supervised by the church trustees, M. P. Irwin,*’Herman patterson, Clarence Strickler, Kenneth Roop and Kanneth Mitchel, and the finance committee, Herman Hammond, Paul Strickler and Floyd Mitchell.

/'■ \ \ ' 'x h - * ? ’’ MRB. ALMA GOELZ of 310 North First street, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Willa Mae, to Walter Stafford, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Stafford of Auburn, , The bride-elect is a graduate of Decatur high school and is presently a student nurse at the St. Joseph hospital school of nursiag In Fort Wayne. Her fiance was graduated from Central high School in s' Fort Wayne and is employed at the Auburn hardware wholesale firm. ,No„date has been set for theLJfedding. ... ....

FORT ( ARB()N Colo Pvt Davis W. Linnemeier, 18, son of Herman H. Linnemeier, 518 Mercer ave., Decatur, Ind., is receiving basic combat training with the Sth infantry dlvUiop a.l Fort Carson, Linnenfeier Is training with company B of the division's 28th infantry regiment The Bth paring for its move to Europe next Linnemeier was employed by Stewart’s Bakery ip Decatur before entering the arthy in April of . y *“- I A I. Sr . e!■nl<« sll »iiU, J porary residence in Stratton Place to their home oa.Merfer avenue. Mr. and Mrs. nfthded Linn are moving from their former residehce on Mercer avbnUe to their and Frank Braun will return this week-end from ,a fishing trip in upper Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Striker and daughters, Karen and Mara Dee, have returned from a visit at Kalamazoo, f Mrs. Dale Xnuersoii and sons David and Terry Lee of Hoagland, recently motored to Decatur, 111., and Clinton, 111, ;to visit relatives and friends. •’-’N *•* C. ■ - —-—ua ■■

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" Glen* Everett and Shirley Johnson Everett of Pleasant Mills are the parents of a baby boy instead GAMcfil Ahl * Patsy M%4 AneUy Gaskill of Decatur are (he parents of a baby boy. born today at H:lt> a.m., Weighing five pounds was born to Clyde Roush and Jane Admitted liter Michael AUijpni-Decatur; Mrs. ‘Joe Sapp, DWMdftT Mrs. Joseph Hilty, Monroe: James Ritter, Decatur ■»»««' v'ivli MU. Mr,. Bertha Rice, Whtor; Mts. Willis C. Glendenning, Geneva; Mrs. William Rupert, Mpufoe- Mj-p. Gerald vitle; Mrs. David A. Macklin and baby boy, 1 .”.l z .'.a... .11 Bake Sale, Saturday June 2, at sponsoreu by »t, Marks Lutheran Church, Monroeville, Ind. 128 t 2

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