Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1958 — Page 3

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DECATUR WOMAN’S CLUB TO HAVE MEETING TONIGHT The Junior Women's department will be in charge of the program for t|ie general meeting of the Decatur Woman’s club tonight at eight o’clock at the Youth and Community Center. Mrs. Floyd Reed, program chairman, is being assisted by Mrs. Eugene Chronister, Mrs. Robert Babcock and Mrs. Thomas Buuck. Mrs. James Montgomery of Fort Wayne,-third vice-president of the twelfth district is aranging the program, which will include talks by four exchange students. Ken Eliasson of Sweden, an exchange student at Decatur high school, will be a guest. Mrs. Floyd Cowens wiU also speak on Hinduism. Following the meeting, Mrs. Reed will entertain members of the Junior Women's section with a buffet at her home. ENTERTAINS WITH .BIRTHDAY DINNER Miss Helen Fairchild entertained with a dinner Sunday in celebration of the birthdays of Donald Thornton. Earl TumWeson and Miss Fairchild. Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs., Vernon Fairchild, Mr. and i-'Sfam TW>rnton and Reta Mae, Mary Louise and Alice, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fairchild Mid children, Dennis LeVon, Danny and Walter. Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tumbleson, Mrs. Earl Tumbleson, Miss Linda Cunningham and the honored guests. The Pleasant Mills Baptist Missionary society will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the homt of Sally McCullough. Mrs. Mary E, Braun will be hostess to a meeting of the Our Lady of Lourdes study club Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. The regular business meeting of the American Legion auxiliary will be held at 8 o’clock Friday evening at the Legion home. The Dutiful Daughters class of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren chftrch has postponed it’s meeting .to,next week. The Salem Methodist W.S.C.S will meet Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Helen Tinkham. - : - A meeting of the Zion Lutheran Missionary society will be held at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon at the parish hall. The Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed until next week. The Girl Scout Leaders club will — have an important meeting ThursSweet Dreams Printed Pattern

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* *~7l society Items tor today * publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday Phone 3-2121 MONDAY Decatur Weight Watchers club, library. 8 p.m. Women’s Missionary Association of the Mt. Zion U. B. Church, Mrs. John Gifford Bunner, 7:30 p.m. V. F. W. Auxiliary Meeting, Post home, 8 p.m. Junior American Legion Auxiliary Legion home, 4-6:30 p.m. Junior Auxiliary of D.A.V,, D.A.V. hall, 7.00 p.m. V.F.W. Auxiliary meeting, post home, 8:00 p.m. Sunshine Girls, Moose Hall, 6:30 p.m. • - .. TUESDAY Catljplic Ladies pf Columbia business meeting, C. L. of C. p.m. Council of Associated Churches, Bethany E.U.B. 7 p.m. Sacred Heart study club, Miss Phyllis Braun, 8 p.rg. Eagle Auxiliary officers business meeting. Eagles hall, 8:00 p.m. The Homemakers club, Mrs. Dwight Schnepp, 7:30 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Preble tavern, 8:00 p.m. City council Beta Sigma Phi, Mrs. Tony Faurote, 8:30 p.m. Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club, postponed. Dutiful Daughters class of Bethany Evangelical U.B. church postponed. WEDNESDAY Lydia Ruth Circle of the First Christian Church, Mrs. Paul Daniels, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel Study Club.JWrs. Ed Vian, 8 p.m. ; K. of C. Auxiliary card party, K. of C. hall. 8 p.m. Decatur Business and Professional Woman's club, Moose home, 6:30 p.m. Shakespeare club, Mrs. C. EPeterson, 2:30 p.m. — NaOmi Circle, Mrs. Chalmer Debolt, 8:00 p.m. Ruth Circle, Mr. Tom Burk, 8:00 p.m. Epsilon chapter Beta Sigma Phi, Elks, 8 p.m. Zjpn Lutheran Missionary society, parish hall. 1:30 p.m. Ave . Maria- study club, Mrs T. C. Smith. 8 p m. Our Lady of Lourdes study club, Mrs. Mary E. Braun, 8 p.m. Pleasant Infills Baptist Missionary society, Sally McCullough, 7:30 p.m. , ’ THURSDAY - Women of tire Moose, Moose home; ritual practice 8:00 p.m. D.A.V. Auxiliary hold regular meeting. D.A.V. hall, 8:00 p.m. Martha Circle, Miss Frances Dugan, 2:30 p.m. Mary Circle, Mrs. Roy Runyon, 2:30 p.m. Order of Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. Girl Scout Leaders club, Comimunity Center, 1:30 p.m. Salem Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. Helen Tinkham, 1:30 p.m. Town and Country Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Robert: Colter. 1:30 p.m. Methodist W.S.C.S., church, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Calvary Evangelical U.B. church. Mrs. Emma Miller, 7:30 p.m. ‘ American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, 8 p.m. day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the" Community Center. All leaders and co-leaders are urged to attend. The W.S.C.S. of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the home of Mrs. Emma Miller. A meeting of the Town and Country Home Demonstration elub Will be held Thursday* at 1:30;p;m at the home of Mrs. Robert Coltei,-. 253 North Fifth street. Mrs. Gerald Bixler will be the assisting hostess.

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MRS. ARNOLD W. GERKE was. before her recent marriage, Miss Ann Lee Hamand, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hamand of Perrysville. The groom s parents are Mr. arid Mrs. Benjamin Gerke of Union township. The couple is residing on rural routfP3.

Mr. and Mrs. James Elberson left'*tris weekend for Sarasota, Fla., whgye they spend the winter. Charles returned Saturday from a business trip to Florida. Mrs. Agnes Donohue of Evanston, 111., spent the weekend with Mrs. Lawrence Linn and daughter, Dianne, Rock Tooke arrived in Decatur Saturday to accompany Mrs. Tooke to their home in Onida, N. Y. Mrs. Tooke has been visiting here with her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Taylor, for the past several days. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Brames, Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schmitz and son, Bobby, of Kokomo, and Mr. and Mrs. James Fisher of Huntington, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schmitz. , Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Underwood have returned to their home, in Chicago after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Kortenber. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Archbold left Decatur today for a visit with their son. Bill and his family in Coshocton,' O. They will then visit their daughter. Alice Jane, in Fair Oaks, Calif., and head for old Mexico. Archbold, formerly county agent, retired from the Adams county Farm Bureau Dec. 31, as fieldman. Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Johnston and family of Norfolk, Va., spent the holidays with : Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colter and son, Benny. Johnston is stationed on the U. S. ..submarine. Tarsk, and was recently promoted to petty officer 2nd class. Clint Throne, of Montpelier, 0., former manager of the Decatur Canning company, visiting in Decatur Saturday. A complete 13-page brochure On Kendallville has been prepared for that city by the Indiana-Mich-igan Electric Co., which is presently buying Kendallville’s city power plant' . The newly organized Huntington Toastmaster’s club will be chartered Tuesday night. Karl F. Johnson, of • Decatur newly appointed surveyor of Huntington county. begun his duties today. Marvin D. Hirschy, 20, of route one Geneva, was arrested by the state police in Liberiy Center, Wells county, and charged with disregarding a stop sign. Frederick E. Lehman, 30, of Berne, was charged by the state police with speeding 75 miles an hour on state road one north of Bluffton. ’ b The U. S. Naval Academy for the training of midshipmen was opened at Annapolis, Md., Oct. 10 1845. ,

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Texas Reels Under Heavy Rain, Snow 1,000 Persons Are Forced To Evacuate By UNITED PRESS Texas reeled today under the combined blows of flooding rains which forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 persons in the southern part of the state and a 17-inch snow storm that strande'i motorists in-the West. The floods hit the Lower Ric Grande Valley Sunday in the wake of 36 hours of steady rains which dumped more than eight inches of water at Corpus Christi. Tex. ,• 1 ABout 400 persons flbd their homes in Edinburg where floodwaters inundated some 16 city blocks. Officials said about 501 persons, were evacuated in Bishop north df Edinburg, and about 35C persons in the Robstown-Clark-wood area near Corpus Christi. The Red Cross set up emergency shelters in churches- schools and a dance hall for the evacuees and evacuation patrols roamed tht flood-stricken area. West Texhs' + 'and southeastern New Mexico were buried under as much as 17 inches of snow Sunday. stranding motorists under deep drifts. Many highways were open to emergency travel only. The Plainview, Tex-, area reported a 17-inch snowfall. Amarillo, Tex., 3 in.ches and Lubbock Tex.. 5 inches. Most.pf the strand ed motorists were believe*! freed by Sunday night- * The snow storm tapcred' off during the night and_ the- rain storm moved slowly across eastern Texas and spread into Louisiana. Weathermen said the snow it expected to end today in New Mexico and Texas, and only occasional rain was predicted todaj from eastern Texas along the gull to Florida. A cold wave eased, up in the Midwest and East Sunday’, but E new blast of Arctic air poured into northern Minnesota and north ern Wisconsin bringing with it moderate to heavy snow. Three inches of snow fell at Duluth Minn., in one hour Sunday night Some warming occurred in most of the Atlantic Coast region- al though temperatures still wen Chilly. Skies. were generally clear y|f.es.l. of the Rockies except for some drizzle in central California and fog in the valleys of northwest ant central California. - — kev. William Feller Attends Convocation The Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church of this city, left this afternoon for Columbus, Ohio, where he will attend a national convocation on the city church. The convocation is sponsored by the board of home missions of the Congregational Christian churches and the board of national missions of the Evangelical and Reformed church, and will bring to-, gether some 500 delegates from these two church families which last June united to form the United Church of Christ. Participants in the convocation have been selected by the Congregational state conference and the Evangelical and Reformed synods. Quotas have been allocated to the state and regional bodies bn the basis of the. size and number of urban centers within their bounds. Rev. Feller is delegated as a members of the committee on national missions of tire Michigan-In-diana synod. The convocation opens Tuesday morning and will close in mid-afternoon Thursday.

Six Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic All Dead In Single . Vehicle Accidents By UNITED PRESS At least six Indiana. men, including an ex-convict apparently driving a stolen car, were -killed in traffic accidents in the first weekend Os the new yearAH six died in single-vehicle accidents- '' ■ I The ex-convict was identified tentatively by state police as Wesley Carl Roy, 24, Indianapolis, whom authorities said had "a lengthy criminal record.” Roy was killed Sunday when a car bearing stolen license plates ran off Ind. 57 and smashed into a tree near Oakland City. The victime had no identification papers, but a tattoo on his shoulder corresponded with one described in police files. s -' Samuel Tobe Dixon, 86, Linton, was struck and killed when hit by a pickup truck driven by Samuel T. French, Linton, as he crossed It was the first Linton traffic fatality in 14 years. Oaiiri ‘ E'Taylof r*437' LaFoHthine. died Sunday when a car driven by his son, Charles. 23. went out as control on a county road at the Huntington-Wabash County line. State police said Taylor apparently suffered a heart seizure which caused him to topple from the vehicle His son became excited and backed the car over the victim. ' A large fuel oil truck went out! of control when its brtikes failed' an a U.S. 24 hill near Logansport Saturday, killing Leon Depoy, 29, 'Macy, the. driver. The truck overturned in a water-filled ditch and burned. Depoy was the first Hoosier traffic fatality since New i Year's night.Walter Holcomb, 33, Charles- j town, died early Saturday when hit by a car driven by David Chester, 36- Jeffersonville. c:i Ind. 62 near Charlestown. Holcomb was directing traffic around his stalled vehicle when the Chester car hurled him 150 feet.

Our Annual January CLEARANCE SALE Begins Tuesday Morning at 9:00 —- .... .... ALL REMAINING O£ If MIT OIIITC WINTEr COATS & CAR COATS PRICED BELOW COST _ Such Fanious MSkes „ Straight Petite and Junior Sizes. KIMBERLY and LOFTUSS ONE LOT OF I 42 NYLON DRIP-DRY CHIPPEWA WOOLEN JACKETS HOUSE COATS Values to $17.95 HOW 510.95 M l", . DRESSES ONE RACK OF ONE LOT OF DRESSES DRESSES Values to $19.98 Values to $39.98 NOW $8.98 to $11.98 REDUCED TO DELOW COST. ’ ..INCLUDES; Straights. Juniors, Petite,j and Half Sizes. BERMUDAS, 'sum PANTS 20 FELT SKIRTS and TAPERED SLACKS unwe? on DRASTICALLY REDUCED! "OW QI.JO SPORTSWEAR Includes: — SKIRTS — SWEATERS — WASHABLE COTTON SWEATERS — BLOUSES — ALSO JEWELED TRIM SWEATERS AT BELOW COST! ; - ONE TABLE OF ALL REMAINING t ONE LOT liNGERIE MILLIHERV "hSF REDUCED Your Choice ——-- v jv Discontinued Colors WAY BELOW COST! Values to $1.95 Includes: — Barbizon Long or AS USUAL OUR Matched Sets and Luxite Slips | BARGAIN RACK | now OcK • ALL SALES CASH and FINAL! E. F. GASS STORE

MISS BARBARA JEAN BAILER’S engagement to Thomas E. Burke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Burke of Lima, 0., was announced Saturday by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Haley, 928 North 13th St No date has been set for the wedding.

Richard Himsel, 23. Jasper, died in his burning car along a county road northwest of Jasper early Sunday. State police said Himsel apparently fell asleep and the car rammed into a tree.

' j Word has been received here of the birth of a son, Clayton Charles, on December 27, to Sgt. 1C and Mrs. Raymond Call. Sgt. Call is > stationed with the army near ; Wurzburg, Germany. Mr. and-Mrs. ■ i Ellis Call of this city, are the pa- ■ ternal grandparents 4 .

| Levi S. and Josephine Schwartz Christener; Geneva, are parents of i a baby girl, born at 10:48 p.m. Saturday at Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 6Ms ounces. A boby girl was born to John and Susana Wickey Schmidt Monroe at 10:41 a.m. Sunday at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 5 pounds, ounces. j Joseph and Martha Shelter Hflty, Monroe, are parents of a 9 pound, 14 ounce son, born at the ' Adams county hospital this morning at 6:10 o'clock. The American dogwood is the official flower and tree of Virginia.

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Mlosrital v** • Admitted < Mrs. Ida Dague, Decatur; Mrs. Jane Emenhiser, Hoagland; Fred Roberts, Bluffton; Morris Blocker, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Chalmer Huston and baby girl, Rockford, O.; C. W. Dellinger, Decatur; Mrs. George Zimmerman, Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. Thomas Harrell and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Ross Johnson and baby girl; Mrs. Fred Colchin, Decatur; Mrs. Rolland Gilliom, Decatur; Mrs. Levi Christener and baby girl, Geneva; Flora Bright, Decatur; Mrs. Donald Walters and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Charles Myers, Willshire, O.; Mrs. Gerald Martin and baby boy, Decatur. Mrs. Ward Calland Slightly Improved The condition of Mrs. Ward Calland, who has seriously ill at Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital, is reported to be slightly better, but she is still seriously ill and no visitors are permitted. The attending physician said it would take two weeks to ascertain the exact seriousness.

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