Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1957 — Page 8

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4-H Fair Notes By Dick Heller, Jr. As the tents went up on Monday morning, the fair grounds, now three years old, took on its latesummcr festive look. The food tent, commercial tent, the poultry and rabbit tents, then, in the afternoon, the show tent and sheep tent went up. -O - . Three shifts of workers will be on hand each day in the food tent, handling enormous quantities of home-cooked food. Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. Arthur Koeneman, and Mrs. Lewellyfi-Lehman have general charge. — O — Paul Yoder reports that 150 head of hogs have been entered in the swine show this year. DECATUR /faartf I — Last Time Tonight — | "TAMMY A The BACHELOR” | DebMe Reynolds—ln Color I A “DRAGOON WELLS MASSACRE” I Dennis OTCeffe—Color *| WED. Till IRS. FRI. Music, Songs, Action, Fun — In This Great Entertainment! TH —JO-0 Coming Son.—James Stewart, “Spirit of St Louis” —o—o— . “Bernadine” coming to the ADAMS Sun. & Mon.

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Thirty-two boys have entered lambs in the sheep show this year, about one-third more than „ the 20 or 22 that showed last year, v Vic Baltzell said Monday. >. through his corn-cob pipe, as he •j helped put up the show tent. I- - O - e Eugene Sprunger, Berne voca(j tional agriculture teacher, didn’t read the newspaper too closely last week, because he missed e the articles placing him, on the i commercial tent measuring com- [. mittee with Martin Watson, and i, didn’t get there until most of the u measuring was done. The tent is a f t>p by the school on the pavement agaih. — O — D The food tent will open about 1 9:30 each morning, and close about 10:30 or 11 o’clock at night, Mrs. Hersh reports. I~ 0 “ Some of the male workers I Monday included Otto and WalI ter Thieme. Harry Crownover, I Ezra and Dick Kaehr, Paul I Kohne, Alonzo Smith, Peter B. I Lehman, Dan Kauffman, Hugo. I Bill, and Otto Boerger, and Vic • Baltzell, with apologies to any- - one missed. A large group of i younger fellows aided these men- ! tioned. - O — There are nine sub-chairmen, ! usually with co-chairmen, in the food tent, for such projects as salad, dishwashing, tea, soup, tables, pie and cake, coffee, sandwiches, and cold drinks. - 0 - Not only farm necessities like milkers are displayed in the commercial tent—refrigerators, furniture, freezers, all the latest models, besides rest ’ benches, are in the tent, just north of the school. - O - Don’t miss the display of homemade. original lamps in the electric display in the Adams Central school. Also, on the walls of the WE BUILD NEW HOMES or REMODEL THE OLD Also Garages, Kitchen Cabinets. and General Repair. I Free Estimates. Call EMMIT OWENS | Ph. 6-6887 Monroe, Ind.

pre-judged displays in the school rooms are aprons, school dresses, and party dresses made by the 4-H girls. — 0 — Marion Moake, Allen county 1 recreation director, was on hand at 10 o'clock to start judging handicrafts. — O — Blood donors are urgently needed on August 6 to meet the county quota of 127 donors. New donors are especially heeded because this visit of the bloodmobile will be just short of the time period which would allow those who usually give, and gave in June, to give again. If you would like some information about the blood program, and what it means to you, please visit the Red Cross trailer. — O — Bad colds haven’t slowed down the extension workers, although Sally McCullough reports a very sore throat and Gloria Koeneman has a sniffly nose. — G — Jim and Dave Singleton had their four Chester whites and two crossbreed pigs in the brand-new pig barn ahead of all the rest in that class of livestock. — O - On July 22, district conservationist Jack Hurst and some helpers released 120 hen pheasants in ten wildlife refuges in the county, according to reports from the conservation tent. — O — * The food tent is not the only organization set up with a shifttype work schedule. The rural youth tent wdl be run on a schedule, and also the Red Cross trailer, which has seven shifts of workers Tuesday, four shifts Wednesday, and five shifts Thursday. — 0 - There are 81 girls already entered in the dress revue for Thursday night and more are expected to enter so that there will probably be 100 girls on parade at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. — 0 — Plaster casts of such animal tracks as the oppossum, mink, and muskrat are part of the con--servation exhibit of Jim LeFever of Berne. — 0 — The low price of eggs this summer hurt the poultry show, and fewer entries than last year were received.

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MRS. MYRTLE NEADSTINE, in charge of coffee making at the food tent, talks over the plans with Mrs. Orval Neuenschwander and they help Mrs. Stanley Arnold set up things at the cold drinks counter. More than 100 ladies will help with different parts of the fobd tent this year, with nine committees set up on a three-platoon system of relief.—(Staff Photo!

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U. S. SENATORS Richard B. Russell (left), of Georgia, Sam J. Ervin (center), North Carolina, and John Stennis, Mississippi, talk things over in Washington after a caucus of 16 Southern Senators. Sen. Russell, leader of the bloc opposing President Eisenhower’s civil rights bill, said that if a jury trial amendment to the measure is defeated, his side will filibuster against passage of the legislation.

Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, | girls 4-H agent, reported that, there was a two-inch rain in Geneva and Wabash township Monday afternoon. It barely sprinkled at the fair grounds, but rained hard in Washington township between the fair grounds and ( Decatur. Walter Thieme reports | that he drove through a showed j so heavy that it slowed his driving, then arrived home in Union ~ township to find dry fields and plenty of oats ready for combining. * ° ~ Darlene Smitley, daughter of Chalmer Smitley, had her four Holstein calves in the dairy barn at 6:45 a. m. Tuesday, well ahead of the rush. Others there early, were the Stanley Arnolds and Everett Singletons. — O — The John Deere and MasseyHarris farm machinery was set up and waiting by the time most of the early arrivals got to the fair Tuesday. — O — The wildlife exhibit included an unannounced guest, found in a culvert between the foot tent and’ the Adams Central school Monday night at 8:52 p. m. A baby skunk, odorless by the way, wa* trapped by or five boys. Elmer Rich, conservationist Jack! Hurst and sheriff Merle Affolderl wandered in, and the fun began. Merle retreated to his car for some self-defense weapons (tear gas», Jack Hurst got a sack, and Rich got a fence post. Larry Lautzenheiser took the sack and held it over one end of the six foot pipe, and Rich poked out the little varmint, which is now on display with the pheasants and quail. No, that is not a black and white striped pheasant, little bey . . . — O — The county extension office is set up for- three days in the Adams Central school at the door by the food tent. — O — Some people think the fair starts on Tuesday, but you’d have a hard time convincing the ladies who work there of that.’ They’ve been preparing, planning and working all winter for these three days. And if you still think there’s no activity on the faij grounds until the “first day,? Mrs. Harry Crownovet, treasurer of the food tent, reports that a profit of $37.10 was made Monday, just from sundry little sales to the workers. — O — Mrs. Eleanor Shoaf and Mrs. Wanda Oelberg were on hand early Tuesday morning to get the Red Cross trailer ready for cut fingers and smashed toes. An "ambulance was expected to be parked by the trailer for emergency. — O — Fisherman, take heed — Jack Hurst, the local game warden, says he helped release 300 more trout in the ole fishin’ hole—the old stone quarry just east and south of Geneva. These trout were real beauties, nine and ten inches long, well over the seveninch legal limit. And don’t for-

get to get your federal trout stamp before you rush off to catch the fish. A real good catch was reported after the last release in the spring. - O - Vic Baltzell says that Bobby Christener was one of the first to bring in his sheep Tuesday morning.

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Probing Break-ins At Pleasant Milts Members of the sheriff’s department are continuing their investigation of break-ins at the Glen Baumann service station in Pleasant Mills. A thief or thieves broke into the station early Sunday and again Monday morning. Cigarettes and S4O in cash were taken Sunday, but nothing was reported yesterday morning's entry, which was made through a side door. New Haven School Band Leader Dies Richard E. Guthier, 42. director of bands at the New Haven public schools, died Monday following a coronary occlusion suffered Saturday. Survivors include his widow, June; four daughters and two sons, all at home; his parents, Mr and Mrs. Clarence Guthier <X Huntington, and a sister. Mrs. Helen Brennan of Huntington. Funeral service? will be held at 1 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the E. Harp- ’ er & Sons funeral home in New 1 Haven and at 9 a.m. at St. John's ' Catholic church, Fort Wayne. Trade tn a good town — Decatui r - , - — - > It you have soir.ethlng to sell or • rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad, it brines results.

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TUESDAY, JULY 30. 1957