Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1957 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1»57

The School Reporter

ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH Barbara Fiechter

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Hello, 1957 !i This is station! ACHS taking! time out to re-| member that! you’re only 10l days old and] * have begun the! year right fori Central. The! new year didn't | leave much time 1

to regret the end of vacation — it poured on from the start a deluge of activity such as the county tourney, semester's end and final exams, department contests, and — yes, there’s even something quite new, and awfully nice around Central. What are we waiting for? Let’s dive in now —A.C.H.S.— Yesterday, tonight, and Saturday afternoon and evening are the 1957 county tourney days for Commodore, Eagle, Spartan, Cardinal, Gorilla, Bear, and. Greyhound fans. It’s good to extend Central’s welcome to all Adams county basketball fans — and let the top team take home the trophy Saturday evening! —A.C.H.S.— Ask the $64,000 question: “Which team is tops in the tourney?’’ and there’ll come seven different answers. However, at Central, the decision seems unanimous this afternoon. Steam built up to the bursting point since the drawings a week ago. From pep rallies to the corridor soothsayers, AC has been abuzz. Who’s the best team? It’s the Greyhounds! Yes, basketball is the magic word. "Good Luck!” is the magic Wish. Team, match a little bit o’ luck with your steam and scrap tonight and DOWN THOSE BEARS! —A.C.H.S.— Nearly drowned out — but ever-

Public Auction As I have rented my farm and am quitting farming, I will sell the following at Public Auction 6 miles West of Van Wert on U. S. 224 or miles South of Convoy on Road 49 then % mile East, on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1957 ONE P. M. (EST) TRACTOR—IMPLEMENTS—OATS 1951 Case Model SC Tractor, completely equipped and Cultivators; Case 2-Bottom 14 inch Breaking Plow, on rubber, with Hydraulic Control; IHC 10-A Tractor Disc; 3 Section Steel Spike Tooth Harrow; Implement Sled; “Comfort” Tractor Boom Sprayer; Tractor Buck Rake; 2 Section Rotary Hoe; John Deere Van Brunt 13 Disc Tractor Fertilizer Grain Drill, on rubber; Case Fertilizer Corn Planter, Tractor Control; New Idea 7 ft. Tractor Power MowCrr Coby Aubber. Tirq WqEou with 16 ft. Bed; IHC Steel Wheel Manure Spreader; Drum Roller; Old Side Delivery; Used Fence; 500 Size Electric Brooder Stove; Copper Kettle; Small Tools & Miscellaneous Articles; 200 Bushels Clinton Oats, from Certified Seed. NOTE—This Property is all First Class. It has been properly used and cared for. TERMS—CASH. Not Responsible for Accidents, BILL SCHAADT, Owner Roy S. Johnson, Ned C. Johnson—Auctioneers Meredith Springer—Clerk. z e . PUBLIC AUCTION ~ LIVESTOCK, FARM MACHINERY and EQUIPMENT Am leaving the farm and will sell all of my farm equipment on THURSDAY, JAHUARY 17, 11:00 A. M. LOCATION: One mile west of Preble on Highway 224 then north to first farm, or 5 miles west of Decatur, Ind., then first farm north of Railroad. LIVESTOCK: CATTLE—I 4 HEAD HOLSTEINS & GUERNSEYS, TB and Bangs tested? Three Good Cows, one freshened in October, two will be fresh May Ist. Two Second Calf Heifers, one just fresh, the •other will be Jan. 23rd. Four First Calf Heifers, one fresh, three due in Jan. Five Heifers, 2 two yrs. old, 3 yearlings. HOGS —6O HEAD —>3 Bred Sows, 7 Gilts, some bred, 50 Head of Feeder Pigs. — FARM MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT — Nearly AU New Since *53 And In Excellent Shape. IHC SUPER M TRACTOR Complete; Comfort Cover for Super M; IHC Two Row M.E. Corppicker; IHC 6 Ft. Combine with Pickup; J. D. 4-Row No. 49 Cornplanter; IHC Heavy Duty Manure Loader- with Scoop; 4 Section Spring Tooth Harrow; IHC 9A Heavy Duty 8 Ft. Disk; Comfort 7 Row Sprayer, Drops, Hand Spray and Barrel Complete; IHC 14” 3 Bottom Plow; Implement Trailer 14 Ft., Winch; Bean Cultivator; Hammer Mill; Power Corn Sheller; 14 Ft. Rubber-tired Wagon with Hack and Side Boards; Two False End Gates with Hand Rachett; International Fence Charger; Milking Machine, ten sjall cocks; Surge Electric Water Heater; Galvanized Wash Tanks; Five Hanging 50 lb. Chicken Feeders; 500 Capacity Electric Brooder and Miscellaneous Poultry Equipment; 4 Can Westinghouse Milk Cooler; Two Gal. Milk Pasteurizer; 50 Ft. Endless Belt, new; Platform Scales; 3 Hog Feeders; Automatic Electric Heated Hog Waterer; Water Fountain; SEIGLER Forced Oil Burner; COLEMAN Burner; 275 Gal. Fuel Oil Tank; 300 Gal. Gas Tank with Stand and Hose; INTERNATIONAL % TON TRUCK; and many other articles. TERMS—CASH. ROBERT E. RAY, Owner J. F. Sanmann—Auctioneer x Sale conducted by Midwest Realty Auction Co. Decatur, Indiana. . , Lunch Will Be Served by The Women's Missionary Society of The Antioch Church. 5 10 14

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present — during all this basketball, is the bowing out of semester I, and the arrival of the final exams, most of which were held this week. Tests on academic subjects will be cleared from the slate tomorrow. Goodness, there have been many “Good Luck” wishes dealing with basketball; to even the situation, then, here’s a word to all Centralites: concentrate, study hard, and beat all your own reedrds. And the results should expand the honor so that it will take up the whole front page of the GAZETTE two weeks from Friday! - A.C.H.S — It began in 1955. It reached one climax last week. It’s brought something (good things bear repeating) new and awfully good to Centralites. Looking back over the picture makes Central at once proud and humble to have this in addition to wopderful faculty, patrons, and parents. There are three parts to the picture. This is continuing the view of Central’s new equipment. .... —A.C.H.S,— Packing boxes, assembly parts, and new desks lined the high school halls the first three days of Central’s 1957 year. The arrivals were 60 new desks with grey plastic tops, and roomy book compartments to boot. English and history rooms 201 and 203 were the last two having the old right — or left —handed desks. Who will benefit from the addition to 201 and 203? All 200 high school pupils. Handy and much more comfortable than the old ones (ed’s note: experience is a good teacher; the desks have been tested to prove this!)' these new desks add much to the appearance of the school as well as as to the comfort of Centralites. In addition to the desks, 1957 has already brought to the high school divisidn a coral-and-brown-

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flecked tile floor for the home ec room. Friday saw the workmen move in to complete a speedy retouching job for the home ec department. with the floor waxed and in use Monday. -A.C.H.S —' Both the junior high and high school libraries expanded since the New Year began. Two dozen new .books are in the east wing, and 64 are being catalogued, ready for bookworms in study hall to devour, beginning soon. A new Betty Cavanna book. “Paintbox Summer,” and a book about » school teacher named “Susan Cornish" atfait readers. Mark Twain’s and Joel Chandler Harris’ humor are recaptured in “Tom Sawyer’’ and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus.” Books especially for departments are also there, with Houston Peterson’s “Treasury of the World’s Great speeches” and H. V. Prochnow’s “New Guide For Toastmasters and Speakers.” Tipping the scales for air travel and auto racing are “Jet Transports,” by John Llwellen and “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines” by Indiana’s Wilbur Shaw. -A.C.H.S — Colorful, convenient, and comfortable are the words to describe the new west wing that has begun to take on the final touches. Take a round-trip view of the unit, now, beginning at the passage-way, now completely tilled and painted, between the two primary wings. Special things to see in the southern half of the wing are the floors of one of the classrooms just completed. Tile blocks of the ABC’s, numbers, and animal pictures, flank the floor on two sides. Bright coral, soft blue, and greens dominate the six classrooms, the assistant superintendent’s offices and the adorning teachers’ room. Yellow walls and light grey floors combine with two walls of windows to brighten the cafeteria, which appears to be nearing the time when Centralites will eat there. -A.C.H.S.— These rustlings of activity that brought the “new look" will continue to mean a lot more to Central as the new equipment, books, and unit are put to use. They’ll certainly pay for in educational values, and so irom Central goes a “Thank you” tribute now to those who are working hard to make these additions possible! —A.C.H.S.— Contest activity has thrown two departments irito “boning up” work for district competition later this month and early in February. First on the calendar will come C-Day (contest day) for 15 music department vocalists and pianists. NISBOVA (short for Northern Indiana School Band, Orchestra, and Vocal Association) will draw the 15 Centralites to Harrison Hill school, Fort Wayne, to compete excellent, and good ratings. Pianists entering are sixth grader Mervin Mann; seventh graders Arvilla Smith, Karlo Stavenik, and Marilyn Stucky; freshman Carol McKean; sophomores Doveanna Nussbaum; and senior Sonja Yoder. Vocalists are Jim Hoffman, a tenor solo; a girls’ quartet, Maria and Irene Merriman and Chloe and Wanda Neuenschwander; and a girls' trio, Betty Steury, Carol Kaehr, and Cynthia Lehman. Two weeks from Saturday will be C-Day; practice hard, and Central is expecting a_ medalist group to appear that Saturday at Harrision Hill! -A.C.H.S.— Exactly 76 starlings, 3 squrrels, 5 ground hogs, 4 foxes, 254 mice, 2 moles, 708 sparrows, and 435 rats were the pests that bit the dust to tally the 58,690 points the FFA accumulated in their annual pest contest! In the Novem-ber-l-10-Decemberls war on harmful animals, ireshmen John Lantz and Alan Habegger, with 15,680 points and 6,200 points, respectively, topped the individual scoring. Official totals have been sent away to find the chapter’s rank in district VI, with chapters from Jay, Wells, Grant, Huntington, Wabash, and Blackford counties competing. —A.C.H.S.— Eight more phases of contest work lie ahead in the next month for Martin Watson’s FFA boys. February 6 will climax the months chapter members spent preparing the Central Future Farmers for chapter competition at Urbana. With chapters from 7 other counties, the Central FFA will participate in the public speaking, chapter meeting, and state chapter contests. Record books, and the program of work will be included in the contests taking in the scrap book, secretary’s and treasurer’s books, and news letter competition. —A.C.HJS — ; * There’s a sidelight on this printing that’s kept the GAZETTE mimeograph busy. Jim Hoffman, editor of the chapter program of work, has been since October preparing the part of the chapter contest The booklet, illust-

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rated with farm pictures, is divided into eight sections, with headings such as “Supervised Farming,” (programs the vocational agriculture boys carry on their home farms), "Community Service.’’ (such as the Thanksgiving baskets — and which could probably include the pest contest good deeds), “Earnings and Savings,” and “Scholarship.” - A.C.H.S.— DECATUR CATHOLIC HIGH By Marjorie Kohne

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Hi! Everybody — hope you all had a very happy holiday and that Santa was especially good to you. Hope too that you have made a few good sound resolutions (or the New Year.

icai. —D.C.HS« The hustling Commodores went into the Christmas holidays with a victory over the Pleasant Mills Spartans on December 21. Ttie game developed into a high-scor-ing contest, the Commodores chalking up 89 points and Pleasant Mills 77. Phil Reed, high-point man, dropped nine sizzling shots through the basket. By the way, that was a beautiful shot, by Bill Beal, from away out in the middle of the court. Nice going Bill! Anderson Gaels also went down to defeat before the Commodores on January 4. Here Dave Kable amassed a total of 31 points. With this victory the Commodores now have an 8 to 2 record and are in second place in the county lineup. Good work, boys! Keep it up! —D.C.H.S.— The junior high is not letting anybody forget about its basketball team either. That team is playing splendid bal). Last Thursday the Pirates beat Jefferson by 35 points with Carlos De la Riviera topping all scores with 14 points. Although this was the Pirates’ first victory in the county games, DCHS is sure it is not the last. -D.C.H.S. - The second team tourney was held Monday and Tuesday, and will be concluded tomorrow night in the first game of the county first team tourney. The Commordore seconds were victories Monday against Pleasant Mills, 36 to 18. However on Tuesday, even though the seconds were leading most of the way, they were defeated by the Berne Bear’s seconds, by a score of 28 to 19. Don’t get discouraged second, D.C.H.S. fans will stick with you to the bitter end! —D.C.H.S.— It seems there’s nothing but basketball news this week. But one can’t omit mention of the county tourney, the high spot this time of the year. The Commodores drew the bye and will play the second game in the semi-finals Saturday afternoon. This year’s tourney should prove to be a real thriller as the team are so evenly matched. Best of luck boys; DCHS is behind you 100 per cent win or lose. —D.C.H.S.— The senior economics class are now studying the topic “communism.” Individual reports on some of the leaders as well as false principles underlying coAmunism will be part of the work. —DCHS— Students of DCHS are keeping busy these day writing and correcting their American Legion essays on “Our American Heritage,” an eassay of not more than 500 words. Come on students; DCHS would like a winner. r ' -D.C.H.S.— Looking in on our typists this week — the juniors are climbing right on up with eight of them above 40 words a minute on perfect one-minute writings. Most of the seniors find the “feel” of the electric typewriters really different at first; but, after working on them for a couple of weeks, they hate to give them up. Ann Miller I still leads the seniors in speed with 79 words a minute on one-minute writings. Pat Teeple and Tony Gillig are doing 63 words a minute. —D.C.H.S — Come on you kids let’s go, f-i-t-e, fight. Come on you kids, you can do better than that - f-i-t-e fight, fight, fight! That’s one of the cheers heard at the pep rally held Wednesday evening in the gym with the juniors in charge. The rally was held ,of course, to organize a cheering bloc and to excite enthusiasm for the tourney game. Cheerleaders and juniors did a good job . • J J —D.C.H.S.— Want an qxtra-special package of sunsweet prunes? Quick action was taken by some of the freshmen girls after they saw the movie on prunes. They shared this, energizing food with the basketball team, and Monday night saw the ! seconds go to victory. Yes, prunes are high in iron and engery. —D.C.H.S — “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble — Fire Burns and Couldron

Bubbles,” These are words taken from Macßcth, which were dramatized in a scene by Janice Titus, Nancy Mies and Elizabeth Miller, who, acting like real witches, added much interest to this scene. Today, three other seniors dramatized the sleep walking scene, taken from the same play. -D.C.H.S.— What’s this? Salesmen in School? Well, it could very well be, for the juniors in English class are trying to self in one minute sales talks, book which they have recently read. This is one of many variations in making book reports. Sound like fun? —D.C.H.S.— DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL By Ellen Welch

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To begin this week's column, a rather belated "welcome back”; is offered to all of the students and faculty after their “all too short” Christmas vacation. Although the members of

D. H. S. have been back in school for a week and a half, still there have been many pleasant memories of the wonderful times that were had over Christmas vacation and now, rather begrudgingly, everyone is getting back into the on' studies. On well, it was fun while it lasted and just think, there are only 4% months until school will be out for good. —D.H.S.— The first few paragraphs of this week's column will be devoted entirely to basketball games, as there are a lot of past games to catch up on. —D.H.S.— On December 21, the Jacket defeated the Coltupbia City Eagles by a 61-51 score. At the start of the game it looked like the Eagles were going to run away with the -game, but the Jackets got rolling and led at the end of the first quarter by two points. They continued to hold a lead throughout ' the rest of the game and came out ' on top, 61-51. —D.H.S.— The second team Jackets were

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also very successful against Columbia City, for they trampled the second team Eagles, 50-30. —-D.H.S.— i Now to the holiday tourney! In the first game of tourney play the Jackets were pitted against the Elmhurst Trajans. The Jackets led by wide margins at all periods and the final score was Jackets 51 and Trojans 33. Because of their victory over the Trojans the Jackets were scheduled to play the Central Catholic Irish on December 28. -D.H.S — Against the Irish the Jackets played fine ball, but the Irish team had them tremendously outsized. The Irish led by wide scores in the first half of the game, but then in the 3rd quarter the Jackets began to perk up. But the Irish regained control and continued to lead throughout the rest of the game. The final score had the C. C. Irish out in front, 71-60. i —D.H.S.— Again the Jackets were scheduled to play the C. C. Irish, this time in a regular season game. The game was played at the C. C. gym. on January 4. This was another game In which the taller players controlled the ball, and C. C. led easily during the first quarter and about % of the second quarter. Then the Jackets, sparked by John Dorwin and Bob Shraluka, began to pick up speed. At half time the Jackets led by one point and the spirits of the Jacket fans improved tremendously. But this was soon to turn into a disappointment for the Jacket fans, for although the Jackets were behind by only two points at the end of the third quarter, C. C. took the game by a 74-66 score. —D.H.S.— During the C. C. — Jackets second team game, the J’s led for the first half but the Irish came back to defeat the Decatur team by a score of 50-32. —D.H.S.— And just a few words about the attendance at the holiday tourney games. Although many of the members of D. H. S. were away on trips over the Christmas holidays, still there should have been a larger number of Decatur students at the games. With more support, the Jackets might have

won the tourney, so Ipt’s see more Jacket fans at the remaining games this year! —D.H.S.Now to some other subjects of interest. \ In Miss Vera’s Latin I and Latin II classes, the freshmen and sophomores are now working on the various parts of the Roman forum. They are learning the parts of the forum and tomorrow they will see a movie of the forum, showing the various buildings, and also some slides that Miss Vera took while in Italy showing the forum. The freshmen and sophomores are finding this very interesting. —D.H.S.— In Miss Weidler’s English classes, the sophomores are now beginning to study Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. They are

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reading parts of the play to themselves and they are also acting parts out in class. , The junior English classes, under Miss Weidler, are now working on the study of modern plays. At the present time they are acting out the different parts in the play, “Our Tbwn." The juniors and sophomores are enjoying both of these plays. —D.H.B.— _ Do you know what happens tomorrow? It is the end of the semester. That means that Vi of the ’56-’57 school is over and there will be only 4Vi more months to study this year. In case you didn’t do as well during the last semester as you would have liked to, try to pick up those grades during these next few months. —D.H.S.—