Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1957 — Page 6

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Mickey Mantle Rejects First Yank Contract By UNITED PRESS Mickey Mantle is shooting for a $60,000-or-better salary and byway of warming up for it he has fired his first contract right back at the Yankees—unsigned. The Yanks’ first offer, containing a $5,000 raise, left him cold, Mantle admitted Monday night in Baltimore where he was honored as baseball’s outstanding hitter in 1958. “I sent the contract right back to them,” he said. "It wasn’t signed, so I guess they knew how I felt about it” . While the 25-year-old center field sensation who won the American doFALSETEETH Rock. Slide or Slip? FASTMTH, an unproved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly In place. Do not elide, slip or rock. No gummy, not sour. Cheeks •‘plate odor” (denture breath). Get FASTBETH at any drug oMmter. .

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League’s “triple crown" last year did not reveal terms of the contract he sent back, It was learned that it called for a $5,000 raise over his 1956 salary estimated at $32,500. The Yankee offer Would boost Mickey’s pay to $37,500 this year. Hasn’t Announced Figure “I haven’t announced the figure I have in mind to any of the newspapers and I don’t intend to," Mantle declared. “But that contract they sent me was nowhere near it” As a banner box-office attraction who batted .353, drove in 130 runs and hit 52 homers to lead the league in all those departments last season, as well as win the circuit’s Moat Valuable Player award, Mantle feels he’s entitled to at least SBO,OOO. The Yankees realized be probably would turn down the first offer but they wanted to establish a price from which they could bargain. The highest salaried Yankee player currently la Yogi Berra, who will receive an estimated $55,000 this year. Joe DiMaggio’s SIOO,OOO-per annum was the highest player salary ever paid by the club. Mantle and the Yankees probably will get together in the $45,000450,000 range. Next move is up to the Yankees. Other Club Signings Elsewhere in the major league orbit, some of the other dubs were reporting more progress. Pittsburgh announced the sign-

ing of first baseman - outfielder Bob Skinner and third baseman Gene Freese. That gave the Pirates a total of 10 players under contract. Two of Brooklyn’s standbys, catcher Roy Campanella and pitcher Carl Erskine, agreed to terms. Both received pay cuts in the face of disappointing performances in 1956. Campy’s salary was sliced from $42,000 to $37,500 reportedly while Erskine dipped from $25,00) to $22,000. The Washington Senators announced the signing of pitchers Bob Wiesler, Pete Ramos and Ralph Groves, outfielder Dick Tettelbach and infielders Jose Valdivielao and Tony Roig. Those six were the first Senator players to agree to terms, Outfielder Jim Rivera became the fifth member of the White Sox to sign, following two rookies who agreed to terms earlier in the day, pitcher Bill Fischet and shortstop Don Prohovich. Two Dairy Cattle Herds Classified Two Ohio herds of dairy cattle were recently classified by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. C. N. Vickers, of Lamar, Colo., official inspector for the group, conducted the program. Twelve animals were inspected in the herd m tester F. Week. Ohio City, 0., 718 in the herd of Harold B. Pancake, Convoy, 0., 20 in the herd of Vernon Caffee, Willshire, 0., and 21 in the herd of Dale Caffe, also of Willshire, O. In the Dale Caffee herd, 2 were classified very good, 11 good plus, and six, good. This is the fifth time the herd has been calssified. Vernon Cafee's herd had one animal classed excellent, one very good, nine good plus, and six good, and his herd has been classified seven times. The Pancake herd, classified for second time, had six good plus and nine good animals. The Week herd, also classified for the second time, had one very good, six good plus, and four good animals. The classification program — in continuous operation since 1929 — provides a universally-recognized method of comparing the conformation of living animals with that of the truetype Holstein cow and bull.

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Store Manager James C. Webb, of 110 N. 13th street, has been appointed general manager of the Decatur Music House, according to Ernest P. Atkinson, owner of the store. This arrangement will allow Atkinson to devote full time to the coordination of piano and organ sales which have increased greatly the past year. Webb has been a resident of Decatur for the past six years, having come to Decatur as office manager for Decatur Industries. He has been in the field of music, both performance and educational, most of his life. His forma. 1 training in inudc was at DePauw university, where he majored in public school music. He has taught for several years privately and recently at Jefferson township school in Adams county as band director. He started as an instructor in instrumental music at the Decatur Music House in 1955, later taking over the piano sales department. CORRECTION It was incorrectly stated in Monday’s "Tourney Notes” colunin that Walter Lobenstein sustained minor injuries when bumped by a- door at Adams Central gym Saturday night. Hie injury occurred to Otho Lobenstein of the Lobenstein funeral home at Monroe.

Pin Boy Confesses To Strangling Girl Both Were Workers At Bowling Alley MANTADOR. N. D. (UP) —Authorities today planned further questioning of a 17-year-old pin boy who they said admitted strangling Rosemary Mertes, 14. shortly after leaving a bowling alley where they both worked. Authorities identified the youth as Harold Joseph Nepper. who also was the first person questioned about the slaying. Nepper. a high school senior at nearby Hankinson, worked as a pin boy and the dead girl as a foul spotter in the bowling alley. Officials said. Nepper had not offered any reason for the crime. The confession climaxed a week of increasing tension that saw more than 100 of the towns 138 residents brought in for questioning. Neighbors were silent about the atrocity, fearful that one of their friends might be the murderer. Rosemary’s battered and strangled body was found in a clump of trees surrounded by snow covered fields near here last Tuesday morning. The girl had been killed with her own scarf, and her mussed clothing indicated the killing was a sex crime, although she had not been raped. ’ Her body was so thoroughly frozen by sub-zero temperatures that a day had to pass for It to thaw out before an autopsy could be performed. Despite 8 below zero temperatures. nearly 500 people attended Rosemary’s funeral Saturday. Among these was her suspected killer. While all places of business were closed, Nepper listened to a sermon from a Catholic priest in which the townspeople were urged to pray for the slayer’s capture and his redemption. After Nepuer was brought in for the fourth time to be questioned, nolire said, he indicated that he wanted to confess the crime. The boy signed a statement in which he admitted killing the girl in his car, authorities said, and then driving to the grove of trees where he dumped her corpse. Ex-Senator Brooks Dies In Chicago CHICAGO (UP) — Funeral services will be held Wednesday for 'C. Wayland Brooks, 59, Illinois Republican national committeeman and former U. S. senator. w> - ■

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Fort Wayne Pastor Lions Club Speaker Lack of faith in God is the world's greatest problem today, and individual character is the most Important answer to it, Rev. Ervin Petznik, minister of the First E.U.B. church in Fort Wayne, told the Decatur Lions club last night in the weekly meeting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. “Some people think the problem is one of

January Sale of Better Dresses! EXCELLENT SELECTION I THk A large collection of famous make dresses for daytime and JKr JB dressier wear! Wools, Rayon Crepes, Novelty Fabrics, * Transition Cottons, Rayon Taffetas, and Satins. • g Sizes 7to 15 10 to 20 — and Half Sizes. IUB Reg. 8.95 Now 6.49 Reg. 14.95 Now 11.95 W Reg. 10.95N0w 8.95 Reg. 16.95N0w 13.95 Hf Reg. 12.95 - Now 9.95 Reg. 19.95 Now 15.95 g CHILDREN’S ROBES ON SALE ! QuUted W.shabl” Cottons Jh 1-3 Yr. 52.69 3-6 x $2.69 7-14 Yr. 53.00 A LADIES DUSTERS ON SALE! ONE RACK OF OVER 150 DRESSES! Reduced to $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 Junior, Misses, and Half Sixes! ONE GROUP $5.98 DRESSES’ To Close Out, Each $4.00 Don’t pass up this wonderful value! Dark Color Rayon Acptate or ——— ■ n , Dark Cottons! Junior or Half Sixes. JANUARY SALE of LADIES BLOUSES SAVE ON SWEATERS AT JANUARY rnlCßßi cloths! Stripes, Checks and Plains! We still have a very good selection! Imported Over choose from! ; Lambs Wool, or Orlon quality knit Sweaters! . „ . „ , „ y Cardigan or Slipover styles! Sale at $2.00 and $3.00 Also Ban-Lon Sweaters! Better Decreei and Nylon Blouses Reg. 8.95-Now 7.95 Reg. 7.95-Now 8.95 On Sale $4.00 and 84.98. Reg. 5.98--Now s4.9Bßeg. 3.98-Now LN, LADIES WOOL SKIRTS IN STOCK! OVER 60 Reduced for Clearance! GIRL’S WOOL SKIRTS ON SALE! Eluded are checks, plaids and stripes! Size 1 year to 14 year. Also Subteen Bto 14. Values up to $10.95 Reduced Prices from $1.49 to $4,95. Sale $3.00, $4.98, $6.95, to $8.95 JANUARY HAT SALE ! OREN Wednesday Very Good Selection! 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. High Grade Quality ! FELTS, VELOURS, VELVETS I *■■■ ■■ ■ OAx White, Black, Brown, Copper, Navy, Pink g ON SALE $2 -$3 ■VIWSSVII VWs — “For Smart Fashions” - !

east against west, or capitalism against communism, or totalitarianism against democracy, or crime and decency, but the real problem is lack, of faith,’’ he stated. "The ’ real battles In life are ideological,” he asserted. "The battle for character Is first lost within us before we sin outwardly. Character,” he emphasized, "is the essential need of life, a moral skill”. Roy Price, program chairman, introduced the speaker, who | is also a member of the Lions in

TUESDAY, JANUARY M. 1957

Fort Wayne. Herb Banning was introduced as a guest. ■ I 1 County Rural Youth Will Meet Thursday Magic tricks by Arnold Gerke, and slides of Japan and Hawaii by Dick Heller, Js,, will be the special and educational features at the rural youth meeting Thursday night at the Coop building at 7:30 p.m. in Monroe. Trade in « aooc '-• I — Decata