Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1956 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958

MISS SYLVIA SCHMIDT TO WED LEROY BPRUNGER The wedding of Miss Sylvia Roue Schmidt and Leßoy C Spnlnger will take p'ace Saturday, August 11, at 10 o’clock in the morning in the St. John’s Catholic church at Hartford City. Parents of the couple are and Mrs. Clifford Schmidt of Hartford City and Mr. and Mrs. Truman Goldner of route two, Decatur. A reception will be held in the school hall from 11 o'o’ock until noon. _ . - Miss Schmidt is a 1956 graduate of Hartford City high school. Her fiance atended Monmouth high school and is employed at the American Tractor .company at Churusbusco. COMPLETE PLANS FOR AUCTION SATURDAY A special committee for the Valparaiso Guild auction to be held Saturday afternoon and evening, met yesterday with the project chairmen to receive last minute instructions and working lists. The auction will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock and then again that evening at 7:30 o'clock. Those attending the meeting were the Mesdames Arthur Koeneman, Willard Fawbush, Arnold Thieme. Louis Krueckeberg. Theodore Bleeke, and Edgar Krueckeberg. The Central Soya company is donating the use of its tent for use by the Decatur circuit chapter of the Guild, where lunch will be served beginning at noon and continuing throughout the afternoon and evening. Hot sandwiches wilt be served and there will be home heme pies of all "kinds. In charge of the food stand will be Mrs. Edgar Krueckeberg, Mrs. Marie Krueckeberg, Mrs. Albert Horman, and Mrs. Rudolph Sedelmeyer. All proceeds of the stand, together with the auction receipts, will go into the Valparaiso Guild fund to be used toward the Guild chapter on the campus of Valparaiso. The Union Chapel W.S.W.S. wUI meet at the home of Mrs. Cliff

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1 Brown Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A free literature offering will be received at this meeting. ’"’l Society Items for today's publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Karen Striker Phone 3-2121 WEDNESDAY Decatur home demonstration club, Mrs. Charles Beineke, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Union Chapel W.S.W.S., Mrs. Cliff Brown, 7:30 p.m. Mt. Pleasant W.S.C.S., Mrs. Robert Fuhrman, 1:30 p.m. FRIDAY W.S.W.S. of Calvary E.U.B. church, church, 8 p.m. W.S.C.S. of Mt. Tabor Methodist church, Mrs. Austin McMichaels, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Homemade ice-cream social, sponsored by Church of God Missionary society, Memorial park, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Auction sale, sponsored by Valpo guild, Madison and Second street, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Ice cream social, Pleasant Mills school grounds, 5: 30 p.m., sponsored by school bandMONDAY Rose Garden club, family picnic, Hanna-Nuttman shelter house, 6 p.m. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Raymond and Bernadine Hackman Meyers of Decatur are the parents of a baby boy born Tuesday at 4:43 p.m., weighing seven pounds and 7% ounces. Today at 6:57 a.m., a baby boy was born to Glen and Alice Hawkins Manley of Decatur, weighing seven pounds and seven ounces. Chester and Frances Hess Stephenson of Decatur are the parents Os a baby boy born today at 8 a.m., weighing seven pounds and 11 ounces. - A baby boy was born today at 10:55 a.m. to Robert and Colleen Yoder Mankey of Preble, weighing six pounds and seven ounces. • Zwick Enrolled As Valparaiso Freshman VALPARAISO, Ind. (Special) - - William Zwick, son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Zwick of 428 N. Third, Decatur, has been accepted for admission to Valparaiso University, beginning in" September. A record freshman enrollment exceeding 800 is expected at the Lutheran school located 45 miles southeast of Chicago at Valparaiso.

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Marilyn Hutchison Married Recently To Herbert Hamrick The Trinity E.U.B. church in Decatur was the scene of the recent wedding ceremony of Miss MarilyueLucile Hutchison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hutchison, and Herbert Hugh Hamrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hamrick of Wren, O - - The Rev. John Chambers read the nuptial vows for the doublering ceremony. A strapless gown of pale blue chantilly lace over white satin was chosen by the bride. The gown was topped with a matching blue lace jacket; Her fingertip veil was caught to a pale blue crown. She carried blue chrysanthemums. Miss Vivian Ann Fuelling attended the bride as maid-of-honor in Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Weber of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Springer of Poe, Mrs. Eileen Bushman of Yoder, and Mr. and Mrs. Art Klenk of Fort Wayne have, returned home from a week’s fishing trip into Spanish Ontario, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gaunt and daughter Pamela recently took Mrs. Miles C. Jones and children back to their -home at East Moriches, Long Island, N.Y. Mrs. Jones had been Visiting relatives and friends for a month. On their way back tire Gaunts came through Washington, D.C. Miss Charmaine Des Jean is home visiting her mother. Miss Des Jean, who is. with American Airlines, has ben transferred to Los Angeles. Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hackman entertained at their country home with a dinner party Monday night for Mr. and Mrs. John Holthouse, Jr., and family of Wyoming, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bolinger and family Os Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Davef Tferveer and family of this city. Gilbert Promoted To A & P Director DETROIT - - Melvin. J. Gilbert has been promoted to director of operations for A & P food stores’ central western division with headquarters in Detroit, it was announced today. Promotion of Gilbert from assistant director of operations for the division was announced by division president Frank H. Bucher. Gilbert came to Detroit in 1952 as assistant director of operations after serving as operating superintendent of the division’s Louisville unit. At Louisville, he supervised construction of oiie of the company’s first single-level warehouses. WIOSPJTAL Admitted Clarence Uh rick, DecatSr; baby Leta Rose Koeneman. Convoy. O.; Earl'Landis, Monroe; Mrs. Joe Coffee, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs.-Don Hammond, Decatur; Mrs. Richard Rekeweg, Decatur; Mrs. Vernon Hirschy and baby girl. Decatur; Mrs. Edward Tricker; Decatur.

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a pink strapless ballerina length dress over white satin with a matching lace jacket. She carried a bouquet of pink chrysanthemums. Fred Hamrick, brother of the bridegroom, attended as best man. - From 3 until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, a reception was held at the Youth and Community Center with approximately 75 guests present. Serving the guests were: Mrs. Jack Wilson, sister ot the bridegroom, the Misses Lorranine Haugk, Lorene Bohnke, and Geraldine Hamrick, sister of the bridegroom. The bride is a graduate of Monmouth high school. Her husband attended Wren high school and is employed “at the Farmers Grain and Feed company in Willshire, O. Mr. and Mrs. Hamrick are residing on r’odte five, Decatur.

I ■W1 tL. : . . L-~, »«Xi'v.: .i •. ACTRESS Jeanne Crain presented this lovely appearance before Judge Kenneth N. Chantry in Los Angeles in getting a divorce from Paul Brinkman. She charged cruelty. She waived alimony, but he must pay S3OO a month support for four children. (International)

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Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Planned State Fire Marshal Indiana Chairman The appointment of Arnold Meister, Indiana state fire marshal, as Indiana campaign chairman for muscular dystrophy, was anounced today by Mrs; Dorothy S. Axsom, Indiana executive secretary for the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. Although Meister has not served heretofore in this capacity, he is, indeed, no stranger (o MDAA, for Indiana firefighters, as well as the national and international firefighting organizations, have given wholehearted supixirt to past MDAA campaigns. A native of Madison county* Meister has had a continuous career in firefighting service, beginning in 1918 as a firefighter of the Jlnderson fire department. At the end of his 25th year with that department, he transferred his active interest to plant protection safety for the General Motors Corporation. For the past four years, Meister has served as state fire marshal, with offices at. 145 West Washington. The campaign drive for muscular dystrophy for 1956 will be the last week of November, but already many Indiana fire departjnents have signified their Intention of actively participating In the drive. Muscular dystrophy is a chronic disease which is manifested by the gradual weakening of the voluntary muscles. Over a period of years, the wasting and resultant w-eakening becomes progressively worse, and the patient is confined to wheel chair and eventually to bed. This disease, which has been found in every part of the world and in all parts of the United States, may occur at any age. There are nine types of this crippling disease, afflicting more than 260,000 men, women, and children., 135,000 of whom are children between the ages of three and thirteen. Most of these will not reach adolescence, and few —if any—will reach maturity. (There are several muscular dystrophy patients In Adams county.) Research projects are presently being supported by MDAA grants in most of the university medical schools and other scientific institutions of the U. S., as well as in Canada and other parts of the world, to study the cause and possible cure for muscular dystrophy. A $3,000,000 muscle research center is being built adjacent to New York hospital and Cornell medical school for the study of this and related muscle diseases, and to help some 5,000,000 sufferers of muscle diseases. Aug. 11 Deadline On Camp" Applications Applications for the ninth annual Adams county 4-H camp will be received at the extension office until Saturday. The camp, to be held August 19-22 at Lake Mo Clure in Kosciusko. county, can be attended by all completed jLH members. The camp activities program is an important part of the 4-H program in the training for good citizenship. The days’ activities will include classes in crafts, conservation, nature study, recreation, singing, and safety. Organized sports, recreation and swimming are included in the afternoon program. Evening programs will include vespers, movies, stunt night, talent night, camp fire, pop-corn pop, and rythmetic games. A fee of $7.50 for the camp ’will include all expenses and transportation to and from the camp, with the exception of handicraft supplies. AH 4-H members wishing to attend this camp should complete their applications as soon as possible and send them to the extension office. » If you have something to sell oi roo,ms for rent, try a Democrat W&Qt Ad. It brings results.

k JsasMfaPMKaA* < 'O t sr' w® ••* * „> <. aftM —■ liß' * ,<*?■- -.- anafik SB&RKhL. x«3M»I. j&fc aaraM r w WW- >; b a '> * It-. i> Jw •i/ - W Sr iff ; • : O«PfF iwk . mwt ..jb MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM T. JOHNS will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday. August 12. with a family dinner to be served at the White Hall Inn in Van Wert. O. Open house will be observed by the couple at their home, 927 Leeson Avenue, Van Wert, from 2 until 4 o’clock in the afternoon and from 7 until 9 o'clock in the evening. The couple has five children as follows: Dallas of Van Wert: Mrs. Robert Tannehill of Livonia, Mich.; Mrs. Frances Reidenbach of Decatur; Mrs. Vernon Coffee of near Chattanooga, O.; and Louise, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Johns have 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Refugee Proud Os ’American' Boys Relates Years Os Nightmare Living CHICAGO (UP) zohn Drost said today that his sons are “real American boys.” , He said it with pride in his voice and a quiet smile in his eyes. It was plain he thought it was the best thing any dad could say about his sons. “They like hamburgers and hot dogs and all those things Just like every American boy," he said. “Rudolph is a Boy Scout and George is a Cub Scout, and they have lots of friends. Neither has a sign of an accent. “I think they’ll, make good American citizens. I’ve dreamed about that.” Before Drost, 47, and his wife, Doris, 36, began to dream about a new life in America for their children, there were years of nightmare living under first the Nazis and then the Communists in their native Czechoslovakia. When Hitler’s troops marched into Czechoslovakia in 1939, Drost was a practicing lawyer in Brno and his wife was a kindergarten teacher. His associations with liberal Czechs led to his arrest by the Gestapo in 1943, a short prison term and forced labor in a factory. With the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945, Drost reopened his law office. Three years later the Communists took over the government. They confiscated all Drost’s assets, some >60,000. Friends tipped Drost that the Communists were preparing to arrest him. He fled across the Austrian border to the American zone and, by means of messages smuggled back and forth, began planning with his wife to get her and their sons out of Czechoslovakia. Leaving 1-year-old Georgie behind with his grandmother, Mrs. Drost and Rudy, then 5, slipped under the noses of the Reds and made it across the border. For a year and a half, while Drost worked for church world service in Austria, they failed in plan after plan to get little Georgie across the Iron Curtain. With the help of the ißed Cross, the family was reunited in 1950, “just Welcome Wagon Hostess 4 Will Knodt on Your Doot with Gift* & Greeting* from Friendly Business Neighbor* end Your, Civio end Social Welfare Leader* On Mr btcatio* tft The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthday* EngagementAnnouncementi Change of residence Arrival* of Newcomer* to lsecatur Phone 3-3196 or 3-3479

in time to get Georgie on ouf papers to come to America under the Truman displaced persons act.” Church world service sponsored the family’s trip to the United States and sent the Drosts on to the Ravenswood Presbyterian church on Chicago’s North Side. "We’ll never forget what the people of Ravenswood church did” Drost said. “They started us off, found an apartment for us, gave us furniture, helped us with food, saw that the children got started in school.'' Despite his doctor’s degree, Drost started to work making meat balls in a canning factory. Then he switched to a job inspecting parts in an organ factory. Now he's doing work in keeping with his background, as administrative assistant of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church. He is thinking of studying law again. • “We’re very happy,” he said. “There’s so much freedom here. We’ll never go back —excbpt for a visit if things change there.” He and his ? wife became American citizens Dec. 6, 1965$ and w>ted for the first time in the Illinois primary election last April. “There was big excitement that day,” Drost said. “Finally we could vote as we felt.” (Next: A refugee family in Nebraska.)

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Three Parked Cars | Damaged Tuesday , One Driver Fined, License Suspended • Three parked cars were dam- ? aged in three separate accidents iHn Decatur Tuesday. The first oc- ! | curred at 1 p.m. when a car drivHen by Mrs. Josie Garard of De- | catur hit a car owned by Robert I M. Radice of Fort Wayne. I The Radice vehicle was parked I in the 900 block of Monroe street. I damage was estimated at 125 to I he Garard car and >IOO to the I >ther vehicle. I A car owned by Al R. KershI ler, of Decatur, parked in the I xlley back of Newberry’s was hit I >y a truck driven by Ralph L. I Slaughter of Decatur at about I p.m. Damage was only *ls to I he car and none to the truck. I More extensive damage was I mused in the accident which ocI ’urred at 6:15 p.m. on Court I street near Second street. The I accident also resulted in the arrest of Richard Kiser, 18, of Bluffton route four, on a charge of leaving the scene of the accident. Kiser made a left turn off Second stret, apparently at a high rate of speed. He struck a parked car owned by Donald Dean Presl of Oconto, Wfs. Damage was estimated at S2OO to each vehicle. Kiser left the scene of the accident and was later apprehended by city police. He was taken to Justice of the peace Floyd Hunter’s court, where he was fined $5 land costs and his,license was su- , I spended for six mouths. —y. ff jon have sometntng to sell c '•ooms for rent, try a Democrat | Want Ad. ’t brings results FILMS Developed by Edwards 24-HOUR SERVICE ~ Kuhne Drug Store ICE CREAM SOCIAL and SUPPER Union Chapel Lawn l Friday, August 10 6:39 P - M - (In Case of Rain, Ay*. 11) Program at 8:00 SPONSORED BY WORK AND WIN CLASS UNION CHAPEL CHURCH