Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1957 — Page 8

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OPEN HOUSE NOVEMBER 24th at »-.mm? THE VERA CRUZ opportunity school, which includes several students from Adams County, will hold its first open house Sunday, Nov. 24. from 1 until 4 p. m. Pictured above, the school, which was made available by the township trustee to the parents of the students, who, working closely with the Wells county superintendent of schools, were able to open the school Jan. 3. 1955. —(Photo by Ginter)

The Vera Cruz opportunity school will hold its first open house Sunday, Nov. 24 from 1 until 4 p.m.. school authorities have announced. The school, which is supported “ largely by gifts of dubs and philanthrcpic organizations, and the mothers of the students, was founded in 1955. Many persons have expressed a desire to visit the school, but are unable to do so during the week. For that reason a Sunday open house will be held. Wells county superintendent Lloyd C. Lieurance, teachers, officers, committee chairmen, and others will be present to explain methods used in teaching and to answer questions. The school building is in Har- ■ a ' ■■■--- ‘ — Last Time Tonight — Technicolor Thriller! ‘•JET PILOT’’ Jahn Wayne. Janet Leigh ALSO — Shorts 15c -50 c WED. & THURS. Jack Palance, TV’s Best Aetor, h A Terrific Dual Bole! MX-M pmwrti HOUSE of I ■numbers! ■jack PALANCE I ■ with HAROLD J. STONE I ffi| and Mrodvdng ■ [Ji Barbara LANG | '• It I a Most Amazing Prison Break Ever Filmed! Taken Behind the Walls of San Quentin! —-0-0— Fri. A Sat — “Outlaw's Son” ’ A “Land Unknown” Son. A Bion.—GABY COOPER, ; “Love in the Afternoon”

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rison township, Wells county, and is made available, rent free, through Ervin Randall, townchip trustee. Vera Cruz is located four miles east of Bluffton, four miles south of state Road 124 or one-half mile north of state road, 116. Paul Baumgartner and Lloyd Fiechter are serving as chairmen of the committee on building and grounds, properities and equipment. There are six parents and two non-parents on each of their committees: Max Fosnaugh, Russell Huffman, Floyd Petzel, Earnie Harris, Kenneth Millington, Fred Hoeppner, Palmer Moser, Homer Ginter. Sam Farlow, F. Edward Murray, Clayton Zeddis, Raymond Barnes, Harold Bowman, and Jerome Yager. I The committee on ways and means, with Mrs. Floyd Petzel as chairman, is in charge of all fund raising projects sponsored by the parents organization. This committee is composed of six parents, Mrs. Sam Farlow, Mrs. Palmer Sprunger, Mrs. Clayton Zeddis, Mrs. Leroy Wioel and Mrs. Everett Seaman. In December, 1955, Ed James, of Wells county, and Elmer Isch, of Adams county, were appointed committee chairmen for a financial campaign to raise funds for the school. Contributions are still being accepted through these chairmen. Monthly parent and teacher meetings are held throughout the school year. Special programs, open to the public, have included films entitled “For Those Who Are Exceptional” nd "Ona Candle.” Speakers secured for programs were Dr. L. P. Harshman, psychiatrist from die Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, and R. N. Dixon, principal and teacher of “slow learning" classes at Garfield elementary school in Lima, 0. Officers for the school this year are: president, Mrs. Max Fosnaugh; vice president, Mrs. Homer Ginter; secretary, Mrs. Paul Baumgartner; treasurer, Mrs. Leroy Wibel; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Sam Farlow. The executive committee, composed of officers and committee chairmen, approves plans of work of the standing committees and transacts other business. , Supt. Lieurance serves as adviser for the school. The first enrollment was 10. At the close of last year the highest

enrollment of 32 was realized. At the present time 29 students attend, 18 from Wells count)', seven from Adams county, three from Huntington county, and one from Chattanooga, 0. The educable class is taught by Mrs. Alfred Girod. Subjects include reading, spelling, individual arithemtic .and writing. Mrs. Hugh Cobb has both trainable and educable students under her supervision. Teaching consists .of reading, numbers, speech stories, health and exercises, self care and play. Mrs. Harvey Inskeep teaches shop, music, handwork, rhythm band, ceramics, sewing and weaving. , Mrs. Girod and Mrs. Cobb are licensed teachers and have taught since the school opened. They have been taking various courses offered through classes given by Ball State Teachers College and Purdue University. These teachers are new being paid through the local school corporation. The school lunch program, started in January, 1956, is operated undeadhe supervision of Ben Stout, principal of the Poplar Grove grade school in Harrison township. Mrs. Lloyd Fiechter, who is serving her second year as cook, also teaches several cooking classes. Rose Hill Dairy, of Bluffton, has donated milk continuously since the opening of the school. Both Mrs. Inskeep and Mrs. Fiechter are paid through the school's donation fund. Don Croy, of Vera Cruz,, is serving as janitor this year. Transportation, which at first proved to be one of the biggest problems and expense, is being furnished by means of fiyje passenger cars and one station wagon driven by four parents and two non-parents, Mrs. Leroy Wibel, Mrs. Sam Farlow, Mrs. Homer Ginter, Mrs. Ralph Hoffman. Mrs. Harvey Inskeep and Mrs. Gl.en Jamison. Through the cooperation of the following superintendents and trustees drivers are now being paid seven cents a mile; E. M. Webb, Gail Grabill, Hugh Tate, Edwin E. Prible, Charles L. Fulton, Glen Jamison, Ervin Randall, James H. Stroup, Autie Lewis, Carrie M. Souder, Wayne Raber, J. Raymond Cox, Doyle Espich. Jesse W. Haffner, L. A. Mann, and Raymond E. Moser. The financing of a school is usually the factor that makes it impossible. The idea for the Vera Cruz opportunity school having originated with parents, it was not too difficult. The first two budgets that were presented to a group of parents and community workers were as follows: (1) For one semester no transportation cost, one teacher, no helper, $2500; (2) No transportation cost, two teachers, SSOOO. Transportation was to be furnished by parents or trustees. Dr. T. O. Dorrance, who has served as phy-' sician for the school, asked the SSOOO budget be adopted. It was, and the entire bill was paid by contributors. Now after the student is transferred into this corporation just as a regular student by his superintendent or trustee, their transfer charges are paid by their own corporation less the amount the state would pay (80% of the difference), if the costs are obove that of a normal public school. L. Luther Yager, joint representative for Adams and Wells counties, helped in the passing of house bill No. 125 in the 1955 legislature. It states "All such children shall receive credit for school work accomplished on the same basis as normal children who do similar work.” This bill, passed in the second year of the opportunity school, provided for a public school. In the 1957 legislature, house bill No. 13 was passed and appropriated fundrf for studying needs of the mentally retarded. Since there should be one teacher for each 10 students, it costs approximately three times more for each child’s education. The entire cost for one year of school for 30 students “Would be approximately SI2OOO, about S4OO per student. This is much less than if the children were placed in a state institution where the entire expense of food, clothes, and shelter is approximately S3OOO per student. In one year’s time approximately $70,000 on 30 students could be soved from taxes. The Vera Cruz children have their food, clothing and shelter furnished at home, and only their instructional expense is charged to the public. After the school's first year, money was received which was used to finance the second year with some adjustments. This plan may continue with little more than the cost of a normal public school yet benefit the students, their parents, and believe the regular school of a problem It is not equipped to handle. Parents feel very fortunate for the interest and understanding given them by Supt. Lieurance from the very first time they approached him with the idea for a school. He had been the need for this type of school, but first had to have interested parents. Some groups were going to wait until all the details were worked out before applying for state aid after bills 125 was passed, but Supt, Lieurance said, “We will work out our problems as we go along.” All this has been possible

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through the efforts and contributions of an interested community including these and other groups: Crippled Children's Society, churches, schools, home demonstration clubs, sororities, lodges, men’s service organizations and many individuals. Local newspaper publicity and Farm News has also contributed greatly. An article “Opportunity Knocks for Indiana Children” appeared in the Prairie Farmer in Sptember, 1955, and was written by Simon Schwartz, of Berne. The current November issue of Farm Journal carries an article about the school entitled “Suppose It Were Your Child,” written by Richard F. Braun, associate field editor, of Fort Wayne. Identify 18 Os Recovered Bodies Aircraft Carrier Docks With Bodies LONG BEACH, Calif. (UP)—Authorities today had succeeded in identifying all but one. of the 19 bodies reclaimed from the sea following the Nov. 8 crash of a Pan- 1 American Airways Stratocruiser between San Francisco and Honolulu. Identification of the recovered victims began Monday immediately after the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea docked with the bodies and 14 cartons of wreckage of the plane. Thirty-four passengers and eight crewmen were on the luxury plane when it crashed, less than a half hour after it had radioed a routine position report Autopsies are planned on the bodies to determine, if possible, what caused the plane to crash without sending a distress signal. Debris picked up by planes and ships in the task force was packed in trucks to be taken to San Francisco, the point from which the! plane departed, for tests. Those identified were: Capt. Gordon H. Brown, Palo Alto, Calif., pilot; Eugene O. Crosthwaite, Felton, Calif , purser; Phillip Sullivan, Arlington, Va. and Yvonne Alexander, 26, San Francisco. stewardess. William Deck, 24, Radford, Va.; Mrs. Tomiko Boyd, Baltimore, Md., Anna (Clack, 35, Midland. Mich., and son, Scott, 6; Thomas Henry McGrail, 52. West Roxbury, Mass, and Mrs. Nicole Madeline La Maison, New York. Edward Ellis, Hillsborough, Calif.; Robert Halliday, 38, New South' Wales, Australia*; William Hagan, Louisville, Ky; Robert Alexander, 38; his 33, and daughter, Judy, 4, Los Altos. Calif.,*and Toyoe Tanaka, 50. Tokyo, Japan. The one unidentified body appears to be that of an Oriental woman, coroner’s officers said. Downtown Bakery In Decatur Closed Smith’s bakery, which was located on Second street, between Jefferson and Court street, on the west side of the street, has closed, and the ovens and equipment have been removed from the building. The bakery was started this summer by Byron Smith, Vho formerly had been a baker for Stewart’s bakery.

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STATE 1.3 Million 100% / All OIHEI NATUBAI yZZ7/7KzA 7.1% £ HEALTH 4 27 \ L HOSPITALS-/ •* FEDERAL (Civilian) 2.5 Million 100% / All OTHER ■ Bwlk < UT % . NA TUI AL Js. ' ’ lESOUICISjXWta' ‘ M MfAITM 4 DEFENSE LOCAL 4.0 Million 100% / ■ ■■ all OTHti $ / MIAl ™ CSC ' 6 9 % 1? 5 * i ioam Vjcommol PUBLIC EMPLOYES—Here is how the nearly 8,000,000 public employes in the U. S. were divided among federal, state and local governments in 1956. Figures do not include school board members or employes of contractors or other persons serving the government on a contract basis. This chart was compiled by the National Industrial Conference board, New York, from Bureau of Census figures.

State Traffic Toll Is Over 1,000 Mark Richmond Resident Is I,oooth Victim By UNITED PRESS The I,oooth person died from injuries sustained in 1957 Indiana traffic Monday. And before the day was over at least two more were killed. Robert C. Wallace, 40, Richmond, apparently was the I,oooth name added to the list of dead.. The traditionally unlucky number 13 was involved in Wallace’s death as the state hit the 1,000 mark four days later than last yearWallace, a mechanic, was injured Nov. 13 nd he was the 13th traffic fatality recorded in Wayne County this year. A car driven by Gerald M. Adams, 47, Anderson, skidded on rain-soaked U.S. 35 about 15 miles northwest of Richmond and hit Wallace and fellow mechanic, Charles Norman, 36, Richmond. The men were working on a stalled car.

Wallace died during an operation on a compound fracture of his right leg in Reed Memorial hosp list Richmond. Norman was on the "critical list" after the accident but now was reported to be “recovering satisfactorily.” He lost his right foot. Wallace is survived by his wife, Clara. The couple had no children. Less than two hours after the I,oooth death, Forrest Lee Copas, 41, Bronson. Mich., was killed .4 mile east of Brighton on Ind. 120 in LaGrange County. Copas lost control of bis car and it rammed head-on into a tree. Copas was thrown from the automobile and it rolled over on top of him, state police said. State police said Copas was pinned under his car with a fractured skull, neck. Jaw and left leg and his chest was crushed dliver Hughes, 78, Indianapolis, became at least the 1,002nd victim. A car speeding to take an injured boy to Methodist Hospital hit Hughes who was walking home from work. The car was driven by Mrs. Joan Bush, 42. Indianapolis. She was taking her son, Donald, 11, for treatment for a cut arm. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad- they bring results.

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Texas Desperado To Face Murder Trial Whitley Returned From State Prison VERNON. Ind. Wl — Texas desperado Victor Wayne Whitley, 26. was returned from Xhe Indiana State Prison Monday night for trial on first-degree murder charges in the slaying of State Trooper William KeUems. by two dtate troopers and Scott County authorities, Whitley was driven here from Michigan City and taken to Jennings County Jail. Whitley, sentenced to life imprisonment recently, in the abduction of a deputy sheriff, will be tried in Scott Circuit Court in the Sept. 30 shooting of KeUems near Scottsburg. He was taken here rather than to Scottsburg because authorities felt the Scottsburg jail not safe enough for Whitley, whose two-state crime spree with a fel-

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low desperado cost the lives of two state troopers, the wounding of several other law officers and the life of his companion. Whitley was captured near North Vernon a day after KeUems was shot down at a roadblock. Butcher Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. today for Mrs. Emma Francina Butcher, 97. a former resident of the Geneva- Bryant area. Mrs. Butcher was the mother of Ray Butcher of route 2, Berne, and the aunt of Walter Butcher, of Decatur, GaU Butcher, of Rockford, 0., and Paul Butcher, of Berne. In addition to the son, she leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ora Reed, of Fort Wayne, with whom she has Uved for the past three years; two sons, Harry and Homer butcher of Bryant, and 23 grandchildren. Service were held at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, the Rev. Ralph Sheppard qf Kokomo officiating. Burial was in the Grovt HUI cemetery.

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Three Automobiles Involved In Pileup An unidentified driver signalling for a left turn off U. S. 224 caused a pileup of three following cars at 4:15 Sunday resulting In possible internal injuries to one driver, Roman Reyes, 19, 109 16th street. He was removed to the Adams county hospital. His car was damaged to the extent of 9475. Other cars involved were driven by Bertha DeWitt, 44, Van Wert, Ohio. Damage to the DeWitt car resulted in S6O damage. The third driven by Way mon Austin, 30, Indianapolis, redeived 110 damages. At Gilmer, lex., an annual sweet potato festival called the Yamboree is held.

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