Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1957 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5, 1957

MIBS GOTTSHALL FETED WITH MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER Miss Ramona Gottshall, brideelect of Ronnie Gephart, was rerently honored with a miscellaneous shower given by Miss Muriel Ann Foor and Mrs. Kenneth Married at the home of the Basil Gepharts. Upon her arrival, the honored guest was presented with a corsage of white carnations and an apron on which all the guests had signed their names. Wedding bells and an aqua sprinkling can with aqua and white streamers dropping to the gift table decorated the room. Games were won by Mrs. Jack Bebout, and Miss Helen Cook and Miss Judy Bruhstrup, who in turn presented them to the bride-elect. After Miss Gottshall opened her many useful gifts, refreshments were served to the Mesdames Claude Marckel, William Marckel, Glen Roughia, Arnold Roughia, James Moses, James K. Moses, Charles Tolan, Tom Gaunt, Lester Manley, Jack Bebout, Lisle Knittie, Wayne Clouse, Don Sprunger, Basil Gephart, and the Misses Helen Cook, Donelda Marckel, Sharon Sprunger, Colleen Roughia, Judy Brunstrup, Pamela €aunt, and honored guest and hossses. Those unable to attend but sending gifts were Mrs. Gerald Hart, Mrs. James Wilson, Miss Glenda Johnson, and Misss Marilyn Luginbill. TRI KAPPA PLEDGES ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS At a potluck dinner held at the home of Mrs. Robert Mutschler, the Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority pledged eleven new members, Tuesday evening. Following the supper, a short business meeting was held, preceding pledging services for these new members: the Mesdames Kenneth Nash, Richard Schauss, Leo Curtin, Ralph Bolinger, and the Misses Sara Brunnegraff, Marjorie Kohne, Elizabeth Millet, Sue Petrie, Ellen Welch, Marilyn Jefferies, and Twanette Magley. Coming on the Tri Kappa calendar is a business meeting, scheduled for Tuesday at the Youth and Community Center at 7:45 p.m. Church of God Missionary meeting has been postponed until Thursday evening, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. Flo-Kan Sunshine girts will convene Monday evening at 6:30 at the K of P home. It is urged that all members be there, for planning for the grand council to be held at Plainfield. Trade la a goad town — Decatar

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Society Items K>l today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 BARBARA FIECHTER WEDNESDAY Sancta Maria study club, Miss Esther Meyer, 8 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel study club, Mrs. .James Murphy, Jr., 8 p.m. Women’s Guild, Zion E and R church, church social room, 7:30. Saint George study club, Mrs. Frances Gross. 8 p.m. Rainbow girls inspection practice, Masonic Hall, 5:45 p.m. THURSDAY Evening Circle Four of WSWS of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, Mrs. Karl Johnson, 751 Parkview Drive, 8 p.m. Unit Three, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, Mrs. Arthur Baker, 2 p.m. Zion Lutheran Needle club, Parish Hall, 1 p.m. Couples and families of Wesley Sunday School class picnic, Hanna Nuttman Park,. 6 p.m. Ladies Aid of Trinity church, at the church, 7:30 p.m. Happy Homemakers* club mother-and-daughter banquet, Mrs. Clifford Roe, 6; 30 p.m. Rainbow girls formal inspection, Masonic Hall, 7:30 p.m. ' • Pleasant Grove WMA, Mrs. Robert Burger, 1 p.m. Unit One, Bethany EUB church WSWS, Mrs. William Linn, 410 Mercer avenue, 2 p.m. Unit Two of WSWS of Bethany EUB church, Mrs. Winston Rawley, 621 Winchester Street, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose officers meeting, general meeting, Moose hall, 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively. ’ -3— FRIDAY Salem Methodist Church Fellowship Supper, church basement, 6:30 p.m. Harvesters of Mount Zion United Brethren church, Mrs. Roman Sprunger, 6:30 p.m. Work and Win class of Trinity Evangelical and Reformed church, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gilpin, 7:30 p.m. Eastern Star rummage sale, Decatur Hatchery, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. SATURDAY , Eastern Star bake - sale, Western Auto, 9 a. m. Eastern Star rummage sale, Decatur Hatchery, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Berne Garden club flower show, 1 p.m. to 8:45. in Berne. SUNDAY Pleasant Mills Alumni picnic, east side of shelter house at McMillen Park, Fort Wayne, noon. MONDAY Pythian Sisters, K. of P. home, 7:30 p.m., Needle club follows. Flo-Kan Sunshine girls, K of P home, 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY Kappa Kappa Kappa, Youth and Community Center, 7:45. 24 Wedding Licenses Issued During May # A total of 24 marriage licenses were issued in May, compared with only 14 in April, clerk Richard Lewton said this morning. The clerk pointed out that 26 marriage licenses were sold in May last year. The three-day waiting period which will be effective next year may affect sales to out-of-state couples, Lewton predicted. He added that he felt that many Ohioans thought that the law was already in effect, cutting down on sales in April and May. « Petition To Vacate Plat Is Granted A petition to vacate the plat of 27 empty lots in the second Master addition was granted by Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court. The action will allow the McMillen Home building corporation to re-plat the lots in larger sizes, and authorizes them to vacate easements of three feet on each lot for street lights. \ .... : — If you have something to sell or -ooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad, it brings results.

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AU 13 CHILDREN of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham meet their mother as she leaves Chicago’s Lewis Memorial hospitll with No. 14, Joseph Mario. Papa is beside her. From left: Roberta Louise, 17, holding Louis Walter, 1; Henrietta; 14; Winifred, 11; Arthur William, 8; John Joseph, 6; James Michael, 4; Robert Leo. 2; Antoinette Marie, 5; Anthony Nicholas, Tjjpernadette, 10; Catholine Marie, i»i Mar.’ Josebhinfc.’ 16. All the chlldreh were bom in Lewis Memorial hospital. (International)

Mrs. Richard F. Gill, West Palm Beach, Fla., is visiting in Decatur with relatives, and will travel with Mr. and Mrs. William Bowers and Miss Esther Bowers to Indiana University, Bloomington, Sunday, to attend baccalaureate and commencement exercises for William Bowers, Jr. A zoology major, he will receive a bachelor of arts degree at the commencement exercises Monday. Lloyd Dunwiddie was among those receiving a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dunwiddie and daughter Suzanne are residing at 5415 So. Hanna street. Fort Wayne, where he has accepted a position with General Electric Co. I Lloyd Spiegel is recovering from Surgery at the Veterans' hospital on 10th St., Indianapolis. His vtfe and mother are with him.. i Thoiftas Smith, Jr., is a patient at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he underwent surgery Tuesday. Miss Wilma Andrews, teacher at Lincoln school, and Mrs. Veda Crist, of Monroe, teacher at Adams Central school, have enrolled at St. Francis College in Fort Wayne for the first summer term. Regular Meeting Os Elks Lodge Thursday The regular meeting of the Decatur Elks lodge will be held at 8 o’clock Thursday .evening at the lodge home on North Second street. Members are urged to attend as important business will be discussed. 1 : Firemen Are Called By Balky Water Pump A call at 12J0 a.m. today took the Decatur fire department to the Gerald M. Smitley residence at 1004 Russell street. The Smitieys reported that a water pump motor was humming away, and had failed to kick off. The firemen cut the wire into the motor, ending the possibility of a fire resulting from the overheated motor. Monroe Rural Fire Meeting Cancelled The June meeting of the Monroe rural fire department has been cancelled, Kenneth Mitchel announced Tuesday. The Monroe Farm Bureau building will be the scene of the next meeting, to be held the first Thursday of July, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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Woman Dies In Fall From 38th Floor Plunges To Death From Chicago Office CHICAGO (UP)—Chicago police* today sought to unravel the mystery of how a young divorcee gained entrance to a 38th floor office from which she plunged to her death. The woman, identified by a dentist’s receipt as Mrs. Marie Devaney, 32, apparently jumped from the office of Thomas P. McGuire, a grain broker late Tuesday. The velocity of her fall ripped all her garments except her underclothing from her body. Mrs. Devaney, the mother of a boy aged 7, struck a ledge of the Insurance Exchange Building and Joroke a glass door when her body hit the sidewalk. : She leaped or fell from the Board of Trade Building, Chicago’s second tallest building, located across the street from the Insurance Exchange Building, a distance of 60 feet. Police reconstructed Mrs. Devaney's actions after some of her garments and bloodstains were found in McGuire’s office by a scrubwoman. She slashed her wrists in a washbasin, awaited death, and then went to the window. Before plunging, she removed her shoes and red coat and left them alongside her purse. Mrs. Devaney was employed by American Barge Lines, whose offices are adjacent to McGuire's. However, J.J. Kane, office manager for McGuire’s office, told police he had closed the offices for the night several hours before Mrs. Devaney's fall. A four-foot wide ledge extends from the offices of American Barge Lines to McGuire's office, and it was thought Mrs. Devaney entered McGuire's office by this route. Police said McGuire apparently had no connection with the case. Mrs. Devaney was estranged from her husband two years ago. Fort Wayne Man Is Fined For Speeding Harry J. Meyej, 33, of Fort Wayne, was fined a total of $15.75 for speeding 75 miles an hour on U.S. 27 north of Berne Tuesday. Meyer appeared before justice of the peace Floyd Hunter Tuesday night. State Traffic Toll 412 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - State police reported, today 412 highway fatalities occurred in Indiana so far this year through last Sunday midnight. The total compared with 424 for the corresponding period in 1956.

%sJMriTHS | At the Adams county memorial hospital'. Fred and Nola. Lehman Isch, 1116 West Marshall, became the parents of a daughter ”at 7:10 o'clock this P.iorning. She weighed six pounds, four ounces. Southwest is Again Battered By Rains Rainfall General In Gulf Coast States By UNITED Locally heavy rainfall battered sections of the flood-endangered Southwest Tuesday night and today, and a new cold wave with freezing temperatures swept the Great Lakes. Rainfall was general throughout the Gulf Coast states. One thundershower Tuesday dumped nearly 2.50 inches at Fort Worth, Tex.i Several tornadoes swirled over Texas Tuesday, but only one touched down at Freeport Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, causing minor damage. A torrent of water from the world’s largest man made lake. Lake Teioma between Texas and Oklahoma, spilled over flood gates into the rampaging Red River. Army engineers issued a flood warning for residents along the river below the Denison dam in Texas and the Tenkiller, Fort Gibson and Pensacola dams in Oklahoma. They said a flood threat ’ also existed on the river between Lake Texoma and Fulton, Ark. A cold Canadian air mass pushed into the Great Lakes region, dropping the mercury to a low of 27 early today at Grand Marais, Mich. Temperatures registered in the low 30s at other points in the northern Great Lakes In the West, a heat wave moved inland from the West Coast, boosting nighttime readings into the 90s in the desert Southwest and the 70s as far north as Washington and Montana. COUR? NEWS Divorce Filed A complaint for divorce was filed by Eva M. Lenhart against Orval Lenhart, with summons issued to the defendant returnable September 3. A support hearing will be held June 7 at 2 p.m. Alias Summons Issued An alias or second summons issued in the complaint for of Mel Liechty, doing business as Mel’s Realty Auction Co., vs William H. Stavenik and Frieda Stavenik. was made returnable September 3.

15 From County To Graduate At I. U. Annual Graduation Exercises June 10 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Fifteen students from Adams County are among the 3,632 in the 1957 graduating class of Indiana University as tentatively announced by University Registrar C. E. Harrell. The University’s 128th commencement will be held Monday, June 10, at 10 a.m. in Memorial Stadium. It will be preceded by a weekend of commencement and alumni events, including an institute June 7-8 for alumni of three lecture sessions on the theme. “The University Regards the Universe.” Baccalajweate services will be held Sunday, June 9, at 8:30 p.m. with president Wilbour Eddy Saunders of Colgate, Rochester, N. Y,, Divinity School as speaker. The graduating class includes students who completed their degree requirements in February, the regular June graduates, and those due to finish „their ( courses this summer. '■ The tentative list of students graduating and their degree include: Berne — Mrs, Nancie Lehman Hedges, 8.5., medical librarianship; Millard E. Moser, 8.5., business; Barbara Ann Sprunger, M.S., education; Marcile C. Sprunger, M.S., education; Ernest M. Steury, doctor of medicine. Decatur — Harold W. Bohnke, doctor of dental surgery; William S. Bowers, A.8., zoology; Frank H. Conn. 8.5., business; Carol J. Elzey, 8.5., education; Carl M. Fenner, A.8., zoology; Hansel O. Foley, doctor of medicine: Carol F. Kalver, A.8., speech and theater; Elmer H. Macke, 8.5., business; David A. Owens, master of business administration: Mrs. Jacqueline Hite Schnepf, 8.5., education. Says Constituents _. Favor Budget Cuts Rep. Nimtz Reports On District Survey WASHINGTON (UP)—Rep. F. Jay Nimtz, Republican freshman Congressman from Indiana, said today a survey of his district showed approval of the Federal budget and tax cuts. But he said it also showed approval of Federal school building aids and the Eisenhower foreign aid program., iin Nimtz, who represents Indiana’s Third District (South Bend areal, said he got 12,536 replies to an eight-question list sent to his constituents or clipped from newspapers. The returns showed 65 per cent approval and 25 per cent disapproval of "reducing the budget even if it means cutting out programs of direct interest to you;” and 89 per cent approval and 8 per ceht disapproval of "a general tax reduction if cuts can be made without leaving the budget out of balance.” f Ten per cent had no opinion on the budget question, three per cent on the tax cut. The vote was 46 per cent for, 45 per cent against and 9 per cent without opinion on direct federal aid for school construction; 54 per cent for, 31 per cent against and 15 per cent undecided bn “foreign military and economic aid as a fheans of resisting communist ex-, pansion.” ’ I

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MRS. LUISA SCHOENHERR, proprietor of the “Sit and Kn>t” shop in Hollis, N. ¥., puts up a “Closed" sign for the time beeing, the ■ reason beeing that nobody wants to ’sit and knit with that swarm of bees on the sidewalk outside. She put up the sign after the bees had been there two days. (International Bowuiptioto/

WoSRITAL ©rl Admitted Herbert Kuhn, Rockford; Don Beery, Decatur; Master Fred Bricker, Geneva; Miss Marjorie Bricker, Geneva; Michael and Darlene Richards, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Gerald Buckey and son, Geneva; Mrs. Gaylord Knittie and son, Willshire. O.; Miss Vicki Lough, Decatur. Eisenhower Blamed In Girard Decision Hometown Friends Os Soldier Bitter OTTAWA, 111. (UPlj—Angry residents of this historic community of 20,000 persons today blamed President Eisenhower for permitting Japan to try an Ottawa soldier I on manslaughter J The government Tuesday or-1 dered Army Specialist 3C William, S. Girard, 21, turned over to a Japanese court in the fatal shooting of a woman on a firing range in Japan. The sbldier’s brother, Louis Girard, 28, vowed he would fight all the way to the White House in an effort to reverse the decision. Girard said he would have “plenty”, to tell Mr. Eisenhower, but added bitterly: "I don’t know how I’d ever be able to contact him. He’s probably out playing golf somewhere.” Others in the city, scene of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate, rallied behind their fellow townsman and complained Girard was the, victim of a "dirty deal,” a “travesty on justice.” Mrs. Walter Carroll, an Ottawa housewife, wired the President charging “you have traded the loyalty of the rilothers of America for the traitorous yesses of a country that has proven its sneakiness. - "Remember Pearl Harbor, Mr. President?” she added. Mrs. Carroll said she would urge other mothers to write similar messages because “Eisenhower has sold us down the river." Attorney Harold Langer of Ottawa, president of the La Salle County Bar Assn., criticized the decision as a “travesty on justice.” Organizations joined in on the protest. The Ottawa Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ottawa Chapter of the War Mothers Club accused |he Defense Department and other governmental agencies .of making Girard a pawn in international diplomacy. On the state level, John Englander, commander of the Illinois department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, charged the State and Defense departments with “selling American servicemen down the river.” Englander demanded legislation to prevent future executive agreements which allow foreign courts to try American servicemen. Although Girard was not well known here, having grown up in Streator 15 miles away, feeling ran high that a youth from Ottawa was getting a "dirty deal.” Girard’s widowed mother, Dorothy, 45. was hospitalized at Peoria State Hospital with a nervous condition aggravated by her son’s plight. “It doesn’t seem fair,” she said from her hospital bed. "The boys enlist and then they treat them like dogs. My boy was acting in line of duty."

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