Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1957 — Page 3

SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 1957

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JUNE 2 BRIDE-ELECT IS HONORED AT SHOWER Miss Judy Gephart, June 2 brideelect of Robert Speakman, was honored at a miscellaneous bridal shower Thursday evening, held at the home of Mrs. Raymond Raudenbush. Upon her arrival, the guest of honor was presented with a corsage of white carnations. Numerous games and contests were enjoyed, with prizes being won by Mrs. Arthur B. Miller, Mrs. Herman Ulman, Mrs. True Gephart, Mrs. Ed Borne and Mrs. Miriam Sommers, who in turn presented them to the bride-etlect. ’ After Miss Gephart had opened her many useful gifts, the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Verlando Clark and Mrs. Arthur Miller, served refreshments. Present for the affair were the

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SUNDAY EVENING LENTEN SERVICE The First Methodist Church 6:00 o’clock 7:30 o’clock Fellowship Supper Worship Service ANDERSON COLLEGE CHOIR Prof. Robert A. Nicholson, Director THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND - SUNDAY MORNING KEEP LENT 9:30 a. m. Sunday School AS THE SEASON OF 10:20 a. m. Morning Worship SPIRITUAL RENEWAL (Courtesy of Leland Smith Insurance Agency)

Mesdames True Gephart, Richard Speakman, Herman Ulman, Amos Inniger, Armanda Zelt, Glen Roughia, Miriam Sommers, Leota ConnCll, Ed Borne, Rudy Kolter, Clara Drum, John Shook, Artie Jackson, Goldie Hilyard, the hostesses and the honored guest. Unable to attend were Mrs. Florence Schnitze, Mrs. Elmer Scott, Mrs. Curt Miller and Mrs. Mildred 'Miller. RUTH AND NAOMI CIRCLE HAS RECENT MEETING The Ruth and Noami circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church met recently in the church parlor, for a regular meeting. Seventeen members answered roll call. Mrs. Milton Hanni, leader for the afternoon, read an interesting portion of the book “The Church in Southeast Asia.” Chairman Mrs. Tony Meyer, conducted the business meeting. It was reported that there had been 12 side calls and 28 social calls made during the past month. Two piano numbers were rendered by Miss Lydia Kirsch, after which a lunch was served by the hostesses, Mrs. Orville Slusher and Mrs. Joe Rash. TWENTY MEMBERS ATTEND RECENT CLUB MEETING Twenty members of the Preble Sunny Circle home demonstration club attended a recent meeting of that organization, which was held at the Preble recreation center. Mrs. William Kruetzman called the meeting to order, after which the group sang “The More We Get Together,” and “Dreaming,” led by Mrs. Milton kruetzman. Recitation of the club creed followed, and the lesson on wardrobe planning was given by Mrs. Glen l Girod and Mrs. Edwin Reifsteck. A health lesson on heart attacks was presented by Mrs. Orley Barkley. A donation of $2 was voted to the I.Y.F.E. program, followed by the report of the care of mental patients. given by Mrs. Erwin Buuck. Various games were played and prizes were won by Mrs. Milton Kruetzman and Mrs. Marvin Conrad. A white elephant sale, club and flower sale will be held at the April meeting of the club. Devotions were offered by Mrs. Buuck, after which refreshments were served by her and Mrs. Reifsteck, assisted by the Misses Marceil Buuck and Mary Reifsteck. DECATUR GARDEN CLUB IS GUEST OF BERNE CLUB Twelve members of the Decatur Garden club went to Berne recently, where they were the guests of the Berne Garden club. Mrs. C. A. Smith, of the Berne club, was the program chairman, and welcomed the guests. She introduced a girls quartet from the Berne high school, who sang two songs “Kentucky Babe,” and “Carolina Moon.” Miss Carolina Hirschy introduced the speaker for the evening George Stauffer, of Fort Wayne. Stauffer, who is a member of the Fort Wayne men’s glee club, is a keen garden enthusiast, and told of his hobbies, which include seed testing. As a part of his talk, he showed several colored pictures taken at the home of the Men’s garden club. Following the program the hostess served refreshments. Attending from the local club were the Mesdames Delton Passwater, Lawrence Green, Robert Garard, N. A. Bixler, Martin Zimmerman. Amos Yoder, K. Remy Bierly, Wesley Lehman, Cal Yost; Don Mac Lean, Fred McConnell and William Kohls.

Society Items lot today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.). Phone 3-2121 GWEN HILYARD SATURDAY Bake Sale, Goodyear store, 9 a. m. Sponsored by Ruth and Naomi circle otf the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Rummage and bake sale at the former Gerber's market, 9 a; m. Sponsored by the St. Paul Lutheran Ladies Aid. Monmouth P.T.A. bake. sale, Western Auto store, 8:30 a.m. MONDAY Our Lady of Fantima study club, Mrs. Cornelius icetmer, 8 p.m. Civic department of Woman’s club, Bethany E.U.B. church, pot luck supper at 6:30 p.m. Parent and Family life education study group, Monmouth high school. 7:30 p.m. • Women’s Missionary association of Mt. Zion U.B. church. Mrs. Arlo Drake 7:30 p.m. Juniors of the American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, 4 p.m. Decatur Camera club. Youth and Community center, 7:30 p.m. V.F.W. and its auxiliaries, post home, carry-in-dinner at 6:30 p.m., installation of officers at 8 p.m. D.A.V. junior auxiliary, D. A. V. hall, 6:30 p.m. zSacred Heart study club, Mrs. John Girard, 8 p.m. Adams county chorus, at Farm Bureau Bldg., Monroe, 7:30 p. m. TUESDAY Happy Homemakers home demonstration club, Mrs. Kermeth Parrish 7:30 p.m. Eagles auxiliary officers meeting, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. Blue Creek Up and At It 4-H club, Kimsey school, 7 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Preble restaurant, & p.m. „ WEDNESDAY St. George study club, Mrs. Dick Des Jean, 8 p.m. FRIDAY Harvesters of Mt. Zion U.B. church, Mrs. Gifford Bunner, 7 p.m. Mrs. Gifford Bunner will entertain the Harvesters of the Mt. Zion United Brethren church, next Friday evening at 7 o’clock. The Adams county chorus will meet Monday evening at 7:30 at the Farm Bureau building in Monroe for practice. All members urged to be present. Duane Davis Is Reported Improving Duane Davis, seven-year-old boy who was severely injured when struck by an automobile Tuesday evening, is improving steadily at Parkview memorial hospital. The boy suffered a skull fracture, brain and broken right leg. He was hit by a car driven by William Lich--1 tie, 21, of Decatur route three, as he crossed North Third street. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Davis of North Second street are his parents. The boy's room number at the Fort Wayne hospital is 443. Vampire Study ITHACA, N. Y. — (tf> — Cornell University scientists are trying to find out how vampire bats can live on nothing but blood. Bats have been imported from Mexico for the studies.

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Calls Parley On Rationing Salk Vaccine Polia Fighters And Surgeon General Hold Conference WASHINGTON (UP)— Surgeon General Leroy' E. Burney called polio fighters into conference here today to decide whether voluntary rationing of Salk vaccine is necessary. A shortage of Salk shots developed suddenly last month when Americans began responding to a “get vaccinated” campaign. The campaign was launched earlier in the year at a time when public apathy had permitted 26 million doses of the vaccine to pile up on manufacturers’ shelves. Burney invited a dozen representatives of the American Medical Association, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers to the strategy meeting at Public Health Service headquarters. He planned to give them an up-to-date report on the vaccine demand and supply situation, with estimates of future production and figures on inventories on hand in various areas. Public health officials said Burney wanted the group’s views on the desirability of re-instituting the government’s voluntary allocation system which was suspended last July 31 when detnand for vaccine began to fall off. The system was designed to channel available shots to the “priority group” most susceptible to polio — youths under 20 and pregnant women. The Public Health Service recommended to manufacturers how their output should be distributed so that each state got a fair share based on the number of persons in the priority group. The conferees were asked to weigh arguments for and against a return to allocations. The “pro” argument is that 23 milliont children and pregnant women have yet to receive their first protective shot, and millions more have started the three-shot series but haven’t finished it. Only one out of four high school’youths, for example, has had the first shot Since the age group under 20 is hardest hit by polio; Burney and others feel strongly that it is/ entitled to first call on available supplies. The “con” argument is that the I AMA, the National Foundation I and others have made a tremendous effort to arouse public inter- : est in the importance of having ; every adult under age 40 inoculated. This campaign is just now i catching on. It would be a shame ; to check its momentum, by for- • bidding shots to the 20-40 age ; group, if the present shortage of vaccine is going to be a tempo- [ rary situation. Letter Arrives ROBINSON. 111. — W — Seven years ago Mrs. A. C. Buchanan S., who then was a student at St. wrote a letter to her son, Richard John Seminary, Little Rock, Ariz. The letter never reached Richard in the mails. Mrs. Buchanan died recently and then the letter was returned to her husband by the post office. He turned it over to their son unopened. __

Official To Lose Two Stale Posts Lee Fails To Win ' Political Clearance i INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — An offi- ’ cial who failed to win political clearance is losing two state jobs. Governor Handley has directed I that J. Otto Lee terminate his' duties as state printing board di- < rector by Monday, according to < Clarence Drayer, director of pub- 1 lij works and supply. Lee also is a member of tho state election board—a post he ’ will also give up. The action was taken because ' Lee, state printing board director 12 years, “couldn't clear his county chairman or his district chair- ( man,” said Handley. Lee said 11th District Republi- ( can Chairman H. Dale Brown re- , jected him "because I wouldn’t agree on a certain contractor” for , state printing. "He wanted to cut other people’s throats and I wouldn’t stand for it,” charged Lee. ; 1 M/Sgt. and Mrs. B. G. Puckett, of Lompoc, Calif., are ’parents of a 10 pound, 14 ounce son, born at the Camp Cooke Army hospital at Lampec, March 25. The mother is the former Miss Evelyn Frohnapfel. At the Adams county memorial hospital: A daughter was born Friday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock, to Ger- , hard and June Reppert Witte, of 213 South Seventh street. She weighed nine pounds and three ounces. - ■ - Admitted Master Douglas Duane Ellenberger, Geneva; Mrs. Raymond Crist, Monroe; Thurman Douglas, Decatur. Dismissed Herbert Kuhn, Rockford, O.; Miss Jeanette Alspaugh, Willshire, O.f Mrs. Ray Weddle, Wren, O.; Mrs. Lewis Kable, Celina, O. An estimated 10,600 persons perished in fires in the United States during 1956. This was 875 fewer than in 1955. . »!■ —in lisinw ii

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War On Polio Continues In Nation Laboratories

By ROBERT E. JACKSON i United Press Staff Correspondent i NEW YORK (UP) — The shots < now being fired in clinics around < the country are not the last in the 1 war on polio. 1 Jonas Salk, the modest Pittsburgh doctor whose vaccine pro- ] vided hope for eventual victory , over one of nature's most cruel , and crippling diseases, does not ( himself consider it to be the “final word.” Today, at the Pittsburgh University laboratory in the city’s Municipal Hospital, Salk works on outside the spotlight which fell on him two Aprils ago. -The old 18 hour days under strain are gone, but you will still find him there on Saturday: —Looking for better and stronger strains of polio virus to put in the vaccine. —Trying to eliminate the expensive use of monkeys for growing virus. —Establishing the length of immunity provided by Salk shots. Salk says that all available evidence shows that the vaccine acts like a permanent natural immunization dose—in other words, that three shots, in the proper dosage, would seem to protect a person for life. But since the studies have been underway only five years, it is impossible to say and doctors at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis cautiously say, “The vaccine appears to be 90 per cent effective after three shots and provide immunity for two or three years.” w In other laboratories, other doctors are working to keep up with Jonas. Dr. Albert Sabin of Cincinnati still is seeking a live-virus vaccine which he believes would prove more effective than Salk’s killed-virus type. The Public Health Service, the polio foundation—and Americans who have marched almost five billion dimes into polio war chests since 1938— still seek the “final” answer. The polio rate fell dramatically in 1956—from a peak of 57,879 cases in 1952 and 28,983 in 1955 to “only” 15,128 cases last year. In the first weeks of 1957 the rate dropped to one-half of 1956 and one-third of the average of the previous five years. But polio-fighting officials, while saying that the vaccine “undoubtedly” contributed to the decline, warn that it is not the whole story. Polio tends to wax and wane unexpectedly. Dr. David D. Rutstein, head pf the preventive medicine department of Harvard University, said in a recent article in Harper’s

magazine, “The evidence that the presently available polio vaccine does not decrease the number of carriers, and the clear-cut vaccine failures, make it apparent th|t polio will not be eradicated by this means.” But polio officials say it would be “very foolish” for anyone to wait for an improved vaccine, which, at best, “is still some time away.” , ' Auto And Truck Reported Rifled A car and a truck parked in the Standard Market lot on North Second street were rifled early this morning and another car at the General Electric company parking lot was striped of its hub caps Friday night, according to police reports. Alvin Thatcher, of Monroe route one, reported to police this morning that someone had entered his car and strewn the contents of bis glove compartment over the front seat. He stated that the only thing taken was a screw driver. Richard Roe of MonrOe route one, reported that a gun belt and

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holster, a quantity of .22 caliber shells and 56 or 87 worth of small hand tools were taken from his truck. The hub cape were taken from a car owned by Albert Huston of Decatur route four. He reported the theft last night. , «* * 1 to

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