Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1956 — Page 3

MONDAY, JULY 80, 1956

HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUBS ENJOY POTLUCK DINNER A potluck dinner was enjoyed by the Jolly Housewife and Gals and Pals home demonstration clubs recently at the Pleasant Mills •Chool. The 4-H girls and their mothers were guests. After the dinner, Mrs. Carl Frey conducted the meeting. Devotions were read by Mrs. Agnes Backhaus. The safety lesson "Drink Milk for Health's Sake,” was presented by Mrs. Ben McCullough. During the business meeting it was mentioned that literature is available at the county extension office ors those interested in going to Lake McClurg at Silver Lake. August 16, and 18. Also members interested in going on the'three- day sightseeing trip to the Smokey 'Mountains may obtain iiterature at the county extension office. The door prize was won by Mrs. Joe Hahnert. Hostesses for the affair included the Mesdames Laurence Ehrsam, Agnes Backhaus, Ben McCullough, Fred* Bauman, Marshal Hilpert, and Jay Chapman. FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE HOLDS -M.EETING The Friendship circle otthe Missionary church held their July meeting Friday night at the home of Mrs. Carl Lichtenberger, with nine members present. Mrs. Leonard Johnston opened the meeting with prayer. The group decided that the September meeting will be a get acquainted party with the new pastor's wife. Mrs. Gerald Gehrig, Mrs. Lester Strahm gave devotions. The next meeting will be September 28. at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Rayer. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Lictenberger and Mrs. Lawrence Galla©ly. Mrs. Ada Loben&tein. Sunday school teacher at the Monroe Friends church, held a picnic recently at the Farm Bureau building in Monroe for her class. Gkmes were played and lunch was enjoyed. The ladies aid of Union Chapel chtirch will meet all day Thursday with a carry-in dinner at noon. The women the*chnrrh are invited' .■ .TT!T-**v - j \ The Zion Lutheran .Needle Club will meet Thursday afternoon \at 1 o’clock ift the parish hall. •’V Initiation wiU be held by th* Women of the Moose Thursdajyyvening at 8 o'clock. Officers slll meet at"7:9o o'clock. • ■ The ladies ' missionary society of the Mt. Zion U. B. church at Bobo will meet at the home of Mrs. Carl Seiple Thursday; evening at 7:30 o’clock. • „ - It's not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we ought to do that makes life blessed.— Goethe.

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Society Item* for today’* 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. TUESDAY Eagles auxiliary. Eagles hall, regular meeting, 8 p.m. Girl Scout program planning committee, meet with Mrs. Thomas Blackwell, Community Center. 1:30 p.m. Girl Scout training committee, meet with Mrs. Thomas Blackwell. Community Center, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Open meettag for all Girl Scout workers, Community Center 1:30 p.m. THURSDAY Ladies aid of Union Chapel church, carry-in dinner, all day, church. Zion Lutheran Needle clud, parish hall, 1 p.m. Women of the Moose, Moose home, initiation, 8 p.m., officers at 7:30 p.m. Ladies missionary society of Mt. Zion U. B. church of Bobo, Mrs. Carl Seiple, 7:30 p.m. David Embler Family To South Carolina Mr. and Mrs. David Embler and family leave Wednesday for Columbia, S. C., where Embler has been transferred to serve as time standard specialist at the new General Electric plant. Mrs. Embler and the children, Betsy, Jonathon and Paul, will fly td South Carolina and Embler will drive through to their new home. The family wild move into a newly -constructed home in Columbia. Their address wiU be 4670 Oakwood road, Columbia, S.C. The Emblers are well known in Decatur, where Embler has been employed with the local G. E. plant. Both Mr. , and Mrs. Embler have Jieen highly .active in. immunity affair*, especially those concerned with musical activities. Embler gained , area- recognition as a fine choral .conductor- with his G. "0 Aeolian choir which he directed and which was noted as one'of thVbbst industrial choral groups in the area. Florida Housewife Wins Women's Open DULUTH. Minn. (UP) — A shy. unassuming 23-year old housewife from Lake Worth. Fla., is the newqueen of women’s golf. Mrs. Kathy Corneliuta ? playing her first year on the women's golf .circuit, followed her husbanr's instructions to perfection to win the 11th annual U. S. Women’s open golf championship in an 18-hode playoff round with amateur Bar--bara Mclntire of Toledo, Ohio. The poker-faced brunette made easy work of Miss Mclntire at the “all uphill” Northland CountryClub. winning the playoff by seven strokes Sunday. When you talk, you are only repeating what you know: if you listen you may learn something. Trade in a Good Towiy — Decam

Mrs. Charles Darr of Rochester Is visiting with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stewart. Miss Donna Lou Kortenber of Chicago, IM, spent the week-end with her parents Mr. and C. F. Kortenber of Decatur. Mrs. Robert Wemhoff arid Mrs. Dean. Reber and daughter Susan traveled to Detroit, Mich, over the week-end. While there they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Wemhoff and family. Miss Marlene Laurent returned Sunday ofter spending several days at Pretty Lake as a guest of Mrs. Leo Teeple and Mrs. Andy Miller. Mrs. Emma Gauze left Saturday for a month’s visit with the F. Thomson family In Pontiac, Mich. Mrs. Catherine Nelson and her mother, Mrs. Sara Dixon of Decatur, visited relatives in Lima, O.j Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kortenber and daughter Betsy visited with Kortenber’s mother. Mrs. Joe Kortenber. in Fort Wayne Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garard visited with Mr. and Mrs. Mont H. Fee and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fee at Hoosierland Lodge near Greenfield, Sunday. Mr*. Gertrude Dull and sons Roger and Charles of New Haven visited in Decatur with friends Sunday. .... Miss Ruth Wlnnes will spend the next two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Winnes. Miss Winnes is a technician at the Mcßride cjinid in Oklahoma City, Okla. Mrs. Charles Camp and children Jeffrey, Ward, Gail, and Paige of Chavy Chase, Md.. are visiting with Mrs. Camp’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward Calland of Decatur. O. K.'Baker, job department foreman of the Daily Democrat Co., who Buffered a broken ankle in a fall at his home several days ago, was returned home over the weekend from Adams county memorial hospital. The condition of Frank Jennings, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. employe, who has been ill for some time, is regarded as serious. Steve Sutton, who underwent an emergency appendectomy at Adams county memorial hospital sev? erial days ago, is now- redovehting iat his home on North Second •r" 'iiaHiuiiiiiuuiuu iMr. ind Mrs. aee the parents of a*l>ab?*girf*born' Saturday at Um Parkviey- .memorial hospital in’l’ort Wayrib, welching five pounds arid 5% ounces afid named Ann? - (At the - Adams county memorial hospital: Joe and Josephine Uhrick Hale of Bterne are the parents of a baby gtnl born Saturday at 1:45 p.m.. weighing, eight pounds and 13 ounces. A baby boy was born to Fred and Aurora Gracia Espinoza of Decatur Saturday at 9:35 ami.. weighing six pounds and 11 ounces. Today at 1:42 a.m.. a baby girl was born to Delbert and Delphina Lovins Rhymer of Monroevttle, Monroeville, weighing seven pounds. r Fredrick and Margaret Griffiths Ehlerding of Decatur are the parents of a baby born Sunday at 5:21 p.m., weighing seven pounds and 5*4 ounces. Sunday at 2:38 p.m. a baby girl was born to Vivian and Mildred Flynn Powell of Decatur, weighing nine pounds and 7% ounces Edgar and Velma Hoffman Elilerding of Decatur are the parents of a baby boy born Sunday at 10:50 p.m., weighing nine pounds and four ounces. A five pound nine ounce babygirl was born today at 12:59 a.m. to Wildas and Dorothy Wittmer Leichty of Berne. Richard and Martha Painter Foreman of Pleasant Mills are .the parents of -a baby boy born tody at 8:10 a.m., weighing seven pohtids and nine ounces.

Girl Scout Leaders To Meet Wednesday All Girl Scout leaders and board members and otfyer interested persons are invited to attend a meeting at the Youth and Community Center Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Mrs. Thomas Blackwell. national field staff. Girl Scouts U S. A. will be the guest. She will also be working with various committees within the organization Tuesday and Wednesday. Fear Three Drowned As Boat Discovered CLINTON, Ind. (UP) — Anton Evoll, 30, Clinton, his son and a newphew were believed drowned in the Wabash River near here when their-tlaftiing motorboat was dis covered Sunday. The boys were Joseph 8, and Peter Hornick, 9, who was visiting the Evoll’s with his parents from Chicago. A search Sunday night failed to uncover any sign of Evoll or the two boys.

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Defectives Fight To Save Murderer Child Hurled From Roof Os Tenement NEW YORK (UP) — Detectives fought their way through a vengeful mob Sunday night with a prisoner who had attacked a 3-year-old girl and then hurled her from the room of a six-story tenement. The nude body of Jeanette Ribot was found early Sunday at the bottom of an areaway between a Catholic convent und an apartment building The child had been taken from her crib *n her mother’s apartment by Deigo Lugo, 24, carried up a Are escape to the roof and then across adjoining roofs to the Manhattan -tenement from which she was dashed,to her death. Jeanette’s pajamas were found on one roof and there was blood on the roof from which she was thrown. The neighborhood was inflamed over the atrocity. Police 'spent Sunday morning questionin': the child’s mother Mrs. Jorephine Mirindi Ribot, 22. and Lugo’s brother, 21. who lives with her They said they had slept undisturbed through the abduction. Diego Lugo arrived at Mrs. Ribot’s apartment in the afternoon wearing blood-stained dugarees. Police said his chest was covered with self-inflicted wounds. He was taken to the police station and under continued questioning confessed to the murder Sunday night. Lugb was taken back to the tenement roof handcuffed to two detectives. Word of his return spread rapidly th-ough the Spanish-speaking neighborhood. Enraged neighbors swarmed onto the roofs, shouting “Kill him! Kill him! Let us at him.” Detectives pulled Lugo off the roof and took him back to Mrs. Ribot’s apartment where they were met by an angry mob of 2.000. Detectives battered an opening through the mob Then they made a run fcr it to their waiting cars.

v n jmiu 'A&nfttft’ Mrs. -Pauline Aidape, Decatur: Decdtjfr; Mfr. C. L. MtosMt, Dfecktur; Mis. ». F. Bollenbacher, Celina. O.; Master Car-! Mrs. Anna Kruetzman, Mri. Lesils L. Sheets 'and babv boy, Decatur; Mrhi Walter Ryf. Decatur; Mrs. Emerson Wass and baby boy, Momoeville; Mrs. Carl Schultz and baby girl, Decatur; Joseph Fisher, Decatur; Steven Sutton. Decatur; Orval Scott, Decatur; Lowell Glen Engle, Decatur; Master Harald Edwiu Hamrick, Hoagland; Mrs. Melissa Werst, Decatur; Owen K. Baker. Decatur; Mrs. Lester Cowans, Decatur; Mrs. Gene Amstutz and baby boy. Berne: Mrs. Ray Debacher and baby boy, Monroeville; Mrs. Neal Richards and baby boy, Monroeville; Mrs. Neal Richards and baby boy, Monroeville; Mrs. Rose Shoemaker, Geneva; Mrs. Emil Nagel, Berne: Mrs. Fred Espinoza and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. I>ee Moser and baby boy, Decatur; William Adang, Geneva; Floyd Liby, Monroe; Mrs. D. F. Bollenbacher, Celina. O. Miss Faith Settlage Stricken By Polio ! Miss Faith Ann Settlage. 21 year-old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Settlage of Magley, is a patient at the 1 Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne suffering an attack of polio. It isf reported that she is ir. fair condition. The disease has caused paralysis of her throat. She is the sixth person in Adams county to become a victim of pplio. Five other cases have been reported' previously to local health board officials. None of the other cases was reported serious, If is always so easy to mistake our prejudices tor our good judgment. If you have sometning to sen oi moms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results

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Man Convicted Os Disorderly Conduct t Joe Wolfe of Geneva, arrested last week in Geneva On a warrant issued from city court, was convicted of the charge of disorderly conduct in city, court this morning. He was fined >1 and costs and a #n-day prison sentence was suspended, Three Persons Fined On Traffic Charges Three persons received fines on traffic charges in justice of the peace Floyd Hunter’s court over the weekend. 0. C. Kilkpatrick of Fort Wayne was fined $1 and coats on a charge of failure to yield the right of way. E. B. Roberts of MeConnellsville was fined $1 and costs for speeding. A fine of $1 and costs was paid by Daniel Recher of Three Rivers, Mich., who was arrested for speeding- . Trade in a Good Town — Decatot

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Chicago Fighting Outbreak Os Polio Find Difficulties In Polio Vaccine Shots (Editor’s note: More than halt the cases in Chicago’s polio outbreak have occurred in a West Side slum area. Only a small percentage of the area’s children had received Salk inoculations. The United Press sent a reporter into the section to find out why.) BY IRA LIRVEY (United Press Staff Correspandent) CHICAGO (UP) — Doctors said today that illiteracy, suspicion and pride are frustrating their fight to stem the notion’s worst polio outbreak. Fifty-four hospitals and nine public clinics now are administering Salk anti-polio vaccine free. But only 7 per cent of the current cases had received inoculations.

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the oldest, aged 9. “We took ’em from our own doctor. We can pay.’* For weeks all avenues of the city’s communications have urged mass inoculations and advised locations of health centers. A middle-aged woman stood outside her home, a few blocks from an inoculation depot, watching her, young children play. ’What polio. 1 don't know what you’re talking about, mister," she said. Five boys, the oldest 13, walked into a public clinic. "Wed like the shots, please, miss,” the oldest said. was informed aU minora needed parental consent. He’d have to be accompanied by someone of legal age. “But my mother and father work. I’m home alone with my little sister," he replied. "The same for all buddies here. Can’t we get the shots” ♦ ’ , , - -J— If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings, results.

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