Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1957 — Page 3

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1957

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Methodist wesley class MEETS FOB PABTY THURSDAY The Wesley class of the First Methodist' church met in the church recreation room Thursday evening, for a clasg party. Mrs. Walter Lister was devotional chairman, and she read from the chapter of Corinthians, and also a reading entitled "Kindness." ■ The class president, Mrs. Clarence Smitley, conducted the business session, after which the meeting was turned over to the committee in charge of arrangements. A social hour was held, and refreshments were served to 21 members. Composing the committee were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ahr, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lister, Mr. and ’ Mrs. Niland Ochsenrider, and Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Kreischer. St. Catherine discussion club will meet with Mrs. Victor Hamrick, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. . - American Legion auxiliary, unit 43, will have a regular business meeting at the American Legion home. Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Members of Alpha Sigma chapter of Tri Kappa will be entertained by the associate chapter, Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, at the Youth and Community center. The Order of Easter Star will have a pot luck supper at the Masonic hall Thursday evening at 6 o’clock. A stated meeting will follow at 7:30 o’clock. Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock, the Bobo Community Organization — will meet at the Bobo school. Mrs Fred Smith will be hostess to the Ladies Shakespeare club, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The regular meeting of the Rebekah lodge will be held at the Odd Fellows hall, Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Florence Susdorf will entertain the members of the Mt. Pleasant W.S.C.S., Thursday afternoon at 1:30. Members are to bring items for the silent auction. St. Dominic study club will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, with Mrs. Gladys Coffee. The Phoebe Bible class of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will observe guest night next Thursday, with a pot luck x dinner to be served at 6:30 o’clock. Each member attending is asked to bring a guest, and a covered dish. Mrs. Richard Everett will be hostess to the Monroe Better x Homes home demonstration club, next Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. There will be a Valentine exchange, afnd members are asked to note the change in date. —r The Historical club "guest day" Stop That Cough ÜBE “QUR OWN” COUGH SYRUP KOHNE DRUG STORE

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will be held at the Evangelical ’ and Reformed church Wednesday t at 12:30 p.m. ‘ -- ■ ~U ' ' ' The fourth district Past Presidents Parley of the American Le- ■ gion auxiliary will meet in the i Columbia City Legion home, Wedl nesday. A-pot luck dinner will be Served at the noon hour, and reservations should be in to Mrs. Frances Monahan, 3-3849, by Saturday evening; \ Six-Monlh-Old Boy Dies Aboard Train Family Enroute To California Home PLYMOUTH, Ind. (UP) — Mark William Lowerson, 6 months, died aboard a train here Thursday while he and his family were enroute from Cheltinham, Eng., to California, to begin a new life. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lowerson said the family of four had arrived from England recently and were on their way to Vista, Calif., to live with an uncle, J. Lowerson. » The baby was ill during most of the train trip from the East Coast, but a doctor prescribed for diarrhea and said the family could continue traveling. The infant developed 104-degree temperature aboard the train and was treated by a doctor at Fort Wayne. The doctor advised the family to take the child to a hospital when they reached Chicago. But the boy grew worse and died on the train three minutes before an ambulance was to rush him from the train to Parkview Hospital here. The family continued on its trip and arranged for the infant’s bodv to be shipped to Vista for burial following an autopsy. G. E. Club Valentine Party On Saturday w The General Electric club of the Decatur G. E. plant will hold its annual Valentine party at the Community Center Saturday evening. Following games and refreshments the men and women cf the club will go as a party to the Adams theater, where they will see the last performance of Tom Ewell, in his newest comedy," "Great American Pastime.” Youth Is Killed As Auto Comes Apart MISHAWAKA (W — Joseph Wachs. 22, Mishawaka, was killed early today when his automobile broke down on U. S. 33 near here. Authorities said the car apparently “came apart” at high speed, and parts of it hit two houses along the highway. The car then smashed into a porch of a third house, throwing Wachs out. IbrfrMifrr? WANT ADS

US Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned in by 1 na. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) < Phone 3-2121 GWEN HILYARD FRIDAY ’ Union township Farm Bureau, ' Immanuel Lutheran school, 8 p.m. 5 Harvesters and Y.P.M.B. of Mt. ‘ Zion U.B. church; Mrs. Russell 5 Edgell, 7:30 p.m. ’ Decatur Vf.C.T.U., Mrs. Lloyd • Ruse, 1:30 p.m. Mt. Tabor Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. Clarence Chronister, 7:30 p.m. W. S. C. R. of Calvary E. U. B. church, church basement, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Bake Sale, sponsored by the Ruth and ’Naomi circle of the Zion E. and R. church, Mutschler building on N. Second street, 9 a.m. Pleasant Grove Harvesters Missionary band, at the church 2 p.m. t Pleasant Qrove Y.P.M.8., the j church. 8 p.m. , SUNDAY Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Her- , man Geimer, 6:30 p.m. MONDAY Honorary group of Psi lota Xi, I Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, 8 p.m. , Pythian Sisters, K. of P. home, 7:30 p.m. — Needle .club to fol- ' low. Valentine tea, given by Merrier Monday’s club for the Kirkland Ladies club, Farm Bureau Build- . ing in Monroe, 7:30 p.m. Bobo Community organization, 1 Bobo school, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY ' Merry Matrons home demonst--1 ration club, Mrs. Edward Gerbers, 7:30 p.m. ’ Monmouth P.T.A., at the school, 7:30 p.m. St. Catherine discussion club, I Mrs. Victor Hamrick, 8 p.m. i American Legion auxiliary, unit i 43, American Legion, 8 p.m. Rebekah , lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p.m. i St. Dominic study club, Mrs. Gladys Coffee, 7:30 p.m. , Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club, Mrs. Oscar Miller, 7:30 p.m. Rose Garden club, Mrs. Clem Kortenber, 2 p.m. Trinity W. S. W. S., church parlors, 7:30 p.m. Delta Theta Tau, Mrs. Leo Teeple, 8 p.m. Tri Kappa, Youth and Community center, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY B. P. W. dinner, Youth and Com- > munity center, 6:30 p.m. Fourth district of the Past Presi- ‘ dents Parley of the American Legion auxiliary. Columbia City Legion home, pot luck dinner at 12 noon. Historical club "guest day," Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, 12:30 p.m. Monroe Better Home demonstration club, Mrs. Richard Everett 7:30 p.m. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs. Fred Smith, 2:30 p.m. THURSDAY Mt. Pleasant W.S.C.S., Mrs. Florence Susdorf, 1:30 p.m. Phoebe Bible class of Zion E. and R. church, at the church 6:30 p.m. Order of Eastern Star, Masonic hall, pot luck dinner at 6 p.m.; stated meeting at 7:30 p.m. Overheated Furnace Brings Out Firemen An overheaated oil furnace at Knapp’s service station at Jackson and Second streets at 5:20 p. m. Thursday brought the city fire department rushing to the scene. A good amount of snrtoke appeared, but no damage was done. The furnace is located in the cellar of the building. > • Bill Introduced By Representative Yager Representative Yuther Yager of Berne introduced house bill 318 authorizing the Indiana department of mental health to place psychiatric patients in “family" boarding homes and requiring mental health representatives to visit each patient at least every 90 days. Weldon Lehman Heads Poultry Committee Weldon Lehman, of the Berne Hi-Way Hatchery, was elected chairman of the Adams county poultry project committee for 1957 at their meeting Thursday eveing. The secretary is Galen Baumgartner, of Baumgartner Hatcnery, and extension committee representative is Marvin Stucky, of the Decatur Hatchery. Others on the committee are E. Godon Liechty of the Globe Hatchery, Earl Stucky of Model Hatchery and Darrell Smitley of Limberlost Hatchery. . The poultry committee has scheduled an Extension Poultry School for March 5. It will be an afternoon session off "Practical Control of Poultry Diseases” by Dr. Moses and “How to Raise Chicks” by Robert Hogue, Extension Poultryman. Members of the Committee are furnishing birds for the county 4-H and FFA poultry judging contest scheduled for March 26. The 4-H poultry projects were discussed. 4-H members in the broiler project will start their chicks the week of May 13, 1957. third graders will be guestsFr.R

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Hospital Head ls> I Speaker At Rotary Thurman I Qrew, business administrator of the Adams coujity memorial hospital, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Drew presented an interesting discussion of the hospital, its eart> ly history, and its present excel- ,. lent financial condition. He also explained construction of the addition 1 now underway at the institution and of the greatly improved servi ice which the hospital will be able to render when the improvements , are completed. Cal E. Peterson, 9 chairman of the hospital board of trustees, was chairman of the prol - gram. 0 , Automobile Stolen ’ Thursday Evening Bingen Man's Auto Stolen Last Night A two-tone blue 1954 Studebaker club coupe belonging to Carl Irwin, of Bingen, was stolen from the St. John’s Luthearn church grounds between 10:30 and 11:20 , p.m. Thursday, sheriff Merle As- . folder reported today. Another car stolen from the Monr roeville area was found about i three-quarters of a mile south of - St. John's church, where U.S. highway 27 intersects the Hoagland , road. State police and deputy Sheriff Charles Arnold report that there is a good possibility that the man who left the Monroeville stolen car • stole the Irwin, vehicle. The Irwin car had license plate • J A 2130. The entire state has been alerted to look out for the vehicle. ■ Deputy Arnold reported that a thorough investigation was made ‘ of the Allen county car found at the intersection of the Hoagland 1 road and U. ST 27. The car was impounded by the state police, and gone over thoroughly for clues, which were numerous. The car was stolen from the ’ same locality in which an armed ( man wanted for rape had escaped on foot. Originally it had been thought that he had stolen the Alien and Adams county cars. How- ( ever, the man was caught, and had not stolen the cars. Apparently the Allen county ear had been abandoned when it had motor trouble. Auto Overturns, i One Youth Killed . T PRINCETON W Marvft • Gillie, 17, Petersburg, was fatally injured Thursday night when an i automobile overturned after blow- , ing a tire on Ind. 57 north of Somerville. Five other persons . were injured. SALES TAX (Coi rma Page Oee> In the House, an attempt to blast a resolution calling for a State Highway Department investigation out of the Roads Committee also failed. The lower chamber defeated. 66-22, a motion by Rep. Birch Bayh (D-West Terre Haute) to blast the measure out of committee. It thus repeated action of late Thursday, when the Republican majority called for adjournment over the shouts of protesting Democrats. Rep. Paul S. Clay (R-Indian-apolis), co-author of a bill setting up a highway study commission, said, "I’m afraid Mr. Bayh is more concerned with politics than with straightening out the Highway Department.” House majority leader Robert S. Webb (R-Arcadia) told the Assembly the Highway Department was “just as bad" during the administration of former Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schricker. He cited figures showing the department spent more money in the last 6 months of Sdhricker’s regime than was spent in the last 6 months of ex-Gov. George Craig's tenure of office. “We have no way of knowing what’s going on in the Highway Department,” retorted Bayh. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker urged the Senate Labor Committee to pass the "right to work” bill out for a floor vote. PlKup 2nd pgh: Parker FAMILY NIGHT “ EVERY SAT ‘ 7:30 p ’ M ‘ A aft tO 10:30 P. M. THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN SKATE FOR SI.OO Admission When Accompanied By One Parent. Clamp Skates Furnished. Shoe Skates For Rent. HAPPY HOURS ROLLER RINK Mr. A Mrs. J. C. Miller, OWNERS

Musi Sign Request , For Cost-Sharing Farmers Reminded ■< To Sign Requests ! Farmers ate reminded that in ' order to be eligible to receive cost- ■ sharing for approved practices un- ■ der the 1957 agricultural conser- > vation program, it is necessary > to sign a request in the county ■ ASC office prior to the time the : practice is started, according to s Oscar T. Brown, chairman of the , Adams ASC county committee. F The initial sign-up period will - end March 22. Farmers may sign requests at the county office during regular office hours, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office is closed all day Saturday. The following AC practices have been approved for Adams county: establishing of permanent vegetative cover, application of limestone to legumes or grasses, application of rock phosphate, tree planting, wells for livestock water, springs or seeps for live- ' stock water, sod waterways, the pits or ponds, pipelines for livei stock water, construction of dams, i establishment of permanent vegetl ation as protection against erision, tation as protection against erosioin, standard terraces, diversion terraces, constructing channel lining, chutes, drop spillways, ini lets as protection of outlets and water channels that dispose of excess water, streambank or shore protection, constructing permanent , open drainage systems, installing underground drainage, shaping or land grading to permit effective surface drainage, establishment of vegetative cover for winter protection, green manure, protecting diverted acreage, stubble mulching and the establishment of con- ’ tour farming operations on nonterraced land. I IF 1 ¥&|■ Admitted 1 Mrs. Bertha Liniger, Decatur; ' Carl Neal, Berne. 1 Dismissed 1 Mrs. Henry Murphy, Decatur: Mrs. Roscoe Purdy and baby girl, ’ Geneva; Miss Sandra Dewey, Mon- , roeville; Mrs. Donald Strickler and j baby boy Decatur. 1 T ' ' 1 Girl Scout News ; Brownie troop 28 met at Mrs. Heller’s Wednesday after school. We gave the pledge to the flag, ’led by Cassie Reynolds. Sharon Mcßride gave the roll call. We gave the Brownie promise. We made Valentines for our friends. The meeting closed with the Brownie arch. Scribe: Linda Mclntosch

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At the Adams county memorial hospital: William and Frances Haisley Hitchcock, of 121 Parkview Drive, are parents *of a daughter, born Thursday at 3:50 p.m. She weighed seven pounds, and one-half ounce. Miss Cheryl Anne Baumgartner, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Baumgartner, underwent a tonsillectomy at the Parkview memorial hospital Thursday morning. Mrs. Denzil Dowell and Mrs. Ed Wolpert left today for a win-' ter vacation in Florida. Lewis Smith, John DeVoss and Dave Macklin were in Indianapolis yesterday, attending a bar association meeting. Famous Speakeasy Queen Dies Thursday Belie Livingstone Is Taken By Death NEW YORK (UP) — Funeral services will be held Saturday for Belle Livingstone, the famed speakeasy queen of the prohibition era who associated, with the noted and the notorious of two continents while going through several fortunes during her legendary career. Miss Livingstone, whose colorful behavior made her the symbol of the prohibition era, died Thursday in the obscurity of a bronx nursing home. She was 95.- ; Afflicted with alcoholism, a heart ailment and debt since the end of the dry era, the one-time international playgirl spent the last years of her life dependent on the charity of friends. Described in her memoirs as “the"toast of Europe and America,” Miss Livingstone claimed friendships with King Edward VII of England, King Leopold II of Belgium, Theodore Roosevelt and other world renowned figures. Married four times, her husbands included an Italian count, a German industrialist and a son of a governor of the Bank of England. A one-time showgirl on Broadway, Miss Livingstone’s greatest fame came during prohibition days after she had spent three decades hobnobbing with European society. Resembling a combination of Mae West and her arch, though friendly, competitor, Texas Guinan, Miss Livingstone operated five New York speakeasies—illegal saloons which she preferred to call “salons.” Harassed by police and federal agents who raided her establishments, she made many flamboyant courtroom appearances and once spent 30 days in jail. With the end of prohibition, however, her fortunes faded quickly and she disappeared from the limelight.

Union Members Pay Dave Beck's Costs Pay For Traveling Os "Teamster Head WASHINGTON (UP)—When Dave Beck, president of the giant Teamsters Union, travels "for health," members of his union foot the bill. Beck is now travelling over- [ seas. He began his current trip . shortly after notifying a Senate . committee investigating labor . racketeering on Jan. 18 that he could not appear as a witness for reasons of health. At that time, Beck had just returned from Europe to his Seattle, Wash., home. He told the senators that his doctor said he need- . ed a rest. Three days later, Beck and his wife flew to Miami Beach, Fla., for a meeting of his union’s executive board and an AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting. This week they were in Nassau, i taking what Beck called a vacation. They left there Thursday for London, via Bermuda. The newly formed Senate Racketeering Investigating Committee was upset to learn that Beck was out of the country and planned to call him as a witness whenever he re-enters the United States. Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) ’said union spokesmen promised him Beck would return and submit to questioning. Here is what the Teamsters constitution, approved at the 1952 union convention where Beck was elected president, has to say on the subject of his travels and health: “The general president, for the purpose of promoting the interests and welfare of the international (union) and the making of diplomatic contracts with other organizations and institutions, and for the purposes of conserving his health, may in his discretion travel in this country or abroad and may take periodic rests. “The general executive board shall provide for all expenses of

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The Rev. Virgil S. Vardaman, j of Jonesboro, will be the evangelist for special revival services at ’ the Pleasant Valley Wesleyan > Methodist church, two miles east and one mile south of Monroe, beginning Tuesday evening and ' continuing through Sunday, Feb. 24. Rev. Vardaman, now a general evangelist, is a former pastor of the Bluffton Wesleyan church. ’ The Rev. and Mrs. Virgil Tucker, ■ Marion, will have charge of the 1 music. The public is invited to ’ attend the services.

. £ the general president when per* ' forming the services mentioned 1 herein or when taking periodic rests; the said expenses shall include travel in this country and ’ abroad, the full and complete 1 maintenance of his wife so that ! she can accompany the general 1 president, and all secretarial help and services which he deems nec- < r essary while engaged as afore referred to. The expenses provided ; for herein are in addition to all other constitutional compensation ’ and allowances.” 1 Inchiding among the other j 1 “compensation and allowances” ' the union has financed for its 1 $50,000-a-year president are his $160,000 Seattle home and all the ‘ furniture in ft. , ,