Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1956 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1950*

CONSTANCE STRICKLER TO WED AUGUST 25 Mr, and Mrs. Roy Strickle) 1 of 427 Strattion Way, announce the engageihent and approaching marriage of their daughter, Constance, to Glen Lee Bowen, son of Harry Bowen and the late Mrs. Bowen of Wren, O. ’ Saturday, August 25. is the date set for the wedding, which will take place at the Church of God With the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick officiating, Mise Strickler Is a graduate of Decatur high school and’is employed at the First State Bank. Her fiance was graduated from Wren high school and is employed at the Kroger Store. DRAPERS ENTERTAIN SUNDAY AFERNOON Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Draper entertained Sunday with a basket dinner in honor of Mrs. Draper's sister and niece, Mrs. Rozella H. Avgen and Mrs. Maxine Rigby of Valdosta, Geo. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. N C. Humbarger and daughters Nancy and Carol, Arlow Humbarger, and Halen Humbarger of Fort Wayne: Mr. ana Mrs. Robert Humbarger and daughter Linda of Toledo, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Caudle of New Haven: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Roemer and daughter - Sandra and son Stanley of Woodburn; Mr.and Mrs. Lee Owens of Convoy, O; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Grover. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Caudle and daughter Martha, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhoades and daughter Anita Kay of Decatur. The Happy Homemakers home demonstration club will hold an outdoor meeting Tuesday evening at.7:3ff o’clock at the home of Mrs. Floyd Baker. Members are asked to notice the change of meeting.

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The Limberlost Trail Riders jvill meet at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Peck Sunday at 1 o’clock for a potluck dinner and meeting to be followed by trailriding and games on horseback. All members are urged to attend. Mrs. Lulu Mac Lean of Chicago, 111., is visiting her son, G.D. Mac Lean and family of Decatur. Miss Barbara Heller has accepted a position at Eavey’s Super Market in Fort Wayne as a cashier. * Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lehman and son Deane are vacationing at Crooked Lake near Angola, Miss Margaret Flaugh, Mrs. Etta Coverdale, Mrs. Edna Harden and Mrs. Mary Ahr traveled to Winona Lake Tuesday night to hear Billy Graham. Warren Harden is spending a two-weeks’ vacation in Maine and along the eastern coast. Miss Diane Linn is visiting with friends in Detroit for a few days. Dr. and Mrs. John B. Holthouse and family of Worland, Wyo. will spend the next two weeks with Holthouse's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Holthouee. Floyd Reed and Harold Strickler, Who are on a fishing trip in Wisconsin, will he joined this weekend by Gerald Strickler and son Tom. The group will them spend a week fishing in Minnesota. Mrs. Jim Egley and family from Chicago, who are visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp, were .joined yesterday by her husband, who is a pilot for American Airlines. He is the son of Mrs. Alvin Egley. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Strickler

r IB .-<> W WL' »t NEW JERSEY'S Gov. Robert Meyner, 48, bachelor Democrat, la shown at a garden party in Newark with Helen Stevenson, 28, a cousin of Adlai Stevenson and the girl with whom he has been "keeping company” since May. She said they first met when Meyner was keynoter at a mock convention at Oberlin college. (International)

and son Danny are visiting rela* tives ta Chicago this week. Mrs. Mary Dickson is confined to the Parkview Memorial hospital in Fort Wayne after undergoing surgery Monday. Her room number is 314. J. C. Strickler deft Sunday for Portland, Ore., where he is visit 1 ing with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Rfcllenberger will leave Saturday for a week’s outing at Lake Pleasant in northern Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Terveer and family moved into their newly purchased home at 315 Stratton Way today. 1 -- ■ William and Mary Micheals . .Spengdl' ot Waynedale- are. the parents of a baby girl, weighing six pounds and 11 ounces, and named PanftlS Site.» Mr. arid Mrs. James MichealK of route one. Monroe. ‘ are Thh grandparents. John arid Phyllis Hunter Acheson of Willshire. O. 1 . are the parents of a b<by girl born Saturday at 11:45 p.m.. weighing six pounds and five ounces and named Beth Ann. At the Adams county memorial hospital: : • • y Clement and Myrtle Haji Decker ot Decatur are the parents of a baby girl born Tuesday at 12:12 p.m., weighing five pounds and seven ounces. Tuesday at 10:55 p.m., a baby boy was born to Levi and Mary S. Hilty Shetler of Monroe, weighing seven pounds and four ounces. WIOIPJTAL Iv n )Mm| Admitted Miss Connie Jean Reinking, Preble; Lester Elias Richards, Decatur; Mrs. Charles Striker, Geneva; Master Thomas Lee GiUiom, Berne ' ' Dismissed Mrs. Richard Lengerich, Decatur: baby Harold Pate, Monroeville: Mrs. Joe Hale and baby girl, Berne The world’s largest gypsum quarry is at Alabaster, Mich. although 22nd in the United States in ranks 10th in the production of 20 major crops. It is rated the most selfsufficient food producing state in i the’nation.

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[UH Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Karen Striker ■” . Phone 3-2121 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., offers at 7:30 p.m. , Ladies missionary society of Mt. Zion U. B. church of Bobo, Mrs.Carl Seiple, 7:30 p.m. W-S-W.S. unit two of Bethany E.U.K church, Mrs. EarTFuhrman, 2 p.m. Rainbow for Gtrls, Masonie. hall, 6:45 p.m. SUNDAY Limberlost Trail Riders, Dr. and Mrs. Edward Peck, 1 p.m. TUESDAY Happy Hamemakers home demonstration club, Mrs. Floyd Baker, 7:30 p.m. Official Close To Steel Strike Near Final Contracts Are Near To Completion NEW YORK (UP)-—The official end to the one billion dollar steel strike is expected either Thursday or Friday. Negotiators for major steel companies and the United Steelworkers Union have been hammering away for five days on the final contracts that will end the 32-day strike. Top Industry and union representatives said Tuesday night U. S. Steel was "very close" to an agreement with the United Steelworkers on all non-economic matters. The economic issues of the dispute were settled last week when the union and leading steel companies signed ar unprecedented three-yeT agreement. It calls for wages and benefits that will cost the industry more than $1,300,000,000 over the life of the pact. However, the nation’s 650,000 striking steelworkers cannot return to work until formal contracts are signed between the union and the companies. Ev°n *f Anal agreements are signed later this week, top indus J try spokesmen said it will take a couple of days to get the mills “rolling again.” A general back-to-work orde- was net expected until Monday, at the earliest. Tuesday, Roger Blough, chairman of giant U. S. Steel Corp., said his firm hopes to resume its operations on Monday. Blough told a news conference the strike had cost “big steel" about 2 million dollars a day in out-of-oocket costs and upw'ards of 314 million in lost production. Blough said the three - year agreement signed with the United Steelworkers last Friady would boost the company’s total labor costs 57.4 cents an hour over the life of the agreement;’The. union had estimated the package hike at 45.6 cents an hour. The steel official indicated a price rise was expected but he declined to say when or how much. If you have sometning to mH 01 Want Ad. It brings results, rooms for rent, tfy a Democrat

Bribery Os Ecorse Officials Revealed Suburban Detroit Graft Is Charged DETROIT (UP) — A confessed grafter’s charges ’ that gamblers paid certain suburban Detroit city officials mote than SIOO,OOO in protection money today threatened to lead to a state investigation of local politics throughout Wayne county. The county's 18-member circuit court was expected to meet today to act on the state’s request for a grand jury probe of alleged crime, corruption and bribery in Ecorse. Mich., a downriver Detroit suburb. The long bubbling Ecorde political situation came to a head Tuesday night when William H. Montry, the city’s former police and fire commissioner, told a secret press conference he worked two years as a grafter and payoff man for a gambling combine in Ecorse. Montry was taken into protective custody at his own request on the orders of state attorney general Thomas M. Kavanagh. Kavanah has joined Wayne county prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien in a move to impanel a grand jury to investigate both Ecorse politics and politics throughout the county. i Kavanagh said Montry told I him: “I’d be a dead man if any of those people get to me." Kavanagh ordered Mon tr y placed under state police protection and taken to a secret hideout. At the press conference, Montry told newsmen he knew gambling had been going on in Ecorse for more than two years. He said he was paid S2OO a month for his part in the conspiracy “and passed an additional $6,000 along to others in the deal.” He refused to tell where the money came from but said there were about 25 persons involved in the conspiracy, all of whom knew each other. Montry said gambling was the only thing protected in Ecorse and consisted mainly of numbers, dice and the borbut game, although open gambling was not permitted. The Lord loveth a gratful receiver. If we trust more we will worry less. w .-A ».

81 -YEAR-OLD Mrs. France* Davidson' (above) seeks a divorce from her 59-y«ar-old husband Bryan in Santa Monica, Calif., court on grounds be insists on taking her dancing five er six nights a week. She told the judge she’d “go one or two nights a week, sometimes three. Then I’d get tired and he’d get mad.’’ She added, “I was even told he took other ladies on the other nights.” The situation climaxes 17 years of marriage. f International) M sl ¥ / k k / 'mi The . .Welcome .Wagon Hostess JVill Knock on Your Doot with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business and Your, Civic and Social Welfare Leaders . t On VHf occasion gift The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthdays EngagementAnnouncementi Change of residence Arrivals of .Newcomers to ]seeatur w Fhone 3-3196 or 3-3479 fife' cost er ohligatioe) V . . (1)

Diving Injuries Are Fatal To Lifeguard MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (UP) — Charles Ferguson, 19, Chicago, died Monday in a hospital here of injuries sustained when he dived into shallow water while serving as a lifeguard at Dunes State Park Judy 16. Hoosier Delegates To Back Stevenson Most Os Delegates Will Join Kefauver INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Most. If not all Indiana delegates to the Democratic national convention, will join Sen. Estes Kefauver in switching to Adiai Stevenson on the first ballot, party leaders said today. The majority wanted to vote that way anway. But until Kefauver bowed out of the presidential nomination race Tuesday in favor of Stevenson the Hoosiers had a legal obligation to support the Tennessean on the first ballot. State chairman Charles Skillen, a Stevenson backer, said Hoosier delegates now have a ‘ moral obligation” to vote for Stevenson. Democratic leaders for and against Stevenson agreed the eurden Kefauver announcement insured practically all of Indiana's 26 voters for the former Illinois governor and skyrocketed his chances for the nomination. Skillen issued this statement: “Sen. Kefauver’s withdrawal in favor of Adiai Stevenson would mean that the Indiana delegation on the first ballot will go to Stevenson. The moral obligation is as strong as if he were still a candidate. The move Indicates Stevenson may receive the nomination on the first ballot.’* But observers wondered whether supporters of Averell Harriman and Stuart Symington would feel

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obligated to give up on The first ballot. Neither former national chairman Frank McKinney, a strong Harriman supporter, nor former national committeeman Frank McHale could be reached for comment. McKinney once estimated Harriman might get as many sa eight of Indiana’s 26 votes on the second ballot. Hoosier support for Symington was believed slight. Kefauver’s Indiana campaign formjer Rep. A<ndif w Jacobs, s diaKetauver in backing Stevenson was “simply letting the people know his preference, but he doesn’t have the right to tell them (delegates) what to do.” Jacoba indicated most, but probably not aill. Hoosier delegates would vote for Stevenson on the first ballot. Kefauver was the only Democrat to enter Indiana’s May 8 presidential preference primary. He therefore won Indiana's 26 votes at the Aug. 13 Chicago convention — on the first ballot only. Delegate Dr. O. A. Noland, another Kefauver campaigner, said there was “no question” that Hoosiers would swing solid for Stevenson. Both Noland and Jacobs said they "agreed with the senator’s decision.” Jacobs said he was with Kefauver Monday night and knew the announcement was coming. "I think he did right in view of what happened in California, Noland said. He referred to the defeat Stevenson handed Kefauver in the crucial California primary. State Republican chairman Alvin Cast said “the devil he did!” when told of Kefauver’s decision, but he claimed it meant nothing to Republicans. ~ “I don’t think that's going to have any particular effect on our candidacy or our ticket,” Cast said. “I still think we have a lot of Democrats who will vote for Eisenhower, whether it was Kefauver or whether it was Stevenson.” On Stevenson’s chances for re-1

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