Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1958 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1958

MRS. ROBINSON 18 NEW CLUB MEMBER At the recent meeting of the Pythian Sister Needle club, held at the home of Mrs. Otto Beehler, Mrs. W. P. Robirtson was accepted into the club as a new member. _ - Although the meeting was to be a social meeting. Mrs. Ed Ahr, president, conducted a brief busi- , ness session before the recreation al period began. Prize winning games were played prior to the serving of refreshments by Mrs. Beehler, assisted by Mrs. Effie McGill and Mrs. Cletus Schnepp. The door prize was won by Mrs. Fred Hancher. * Thursday at 7:30 o’clock, the Bethany Circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church members are to meet at the church. Members are asked to note the change of date. Mrs. Ralph Roop is to be the acting hostess for the St. Anne’s discussion group Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Members of the Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club are to meet Tuesday at 7:30 o’clock at the Pleasant Mills school. A birthday anniversary party is on the agenda for the Thursday meeting of the Women of the Moose. The members are to meet at the Moose home at 8 o’clock. Admitted Clark Ross. Decatur; Francis G. Zimmerman. Decatur; Clarence Stapleton, Decatur; Paul E. Gerber, Berne. Dismissed Cleo Heffner. Decatur; Fred Hirschy, Monroe; Omer Lehman, Berne; Miss Vera Fisher, Willshire, Ohio: Clarence Stapleton. Decatur. Girl Scouts Girl Scout troop 8 met at the Lincoln school Thursday. We collected dues and the roll was called. Several of the girls gave a playlet on puppets. Then we passed out our treat. We talked on what we were going to make for Mother's Day. We closed our meeting with the Girl Scout circle. Scribe: Linda Sue Reidenbach V. F. W. Auxiliary will have a Steak Supper on Thursday, March 27, from 5 to 7 p. m. at Post Home. 71t3, Week’s Sewing Buy Printed Pattern « Jr 1 \ A IK MSlilpr WjVMu f *1 I ■ MT front I I 12-20; 40,42 Our Printed Pattern is SEWEASY. See the diagram—even a beginner can make this jacket in jiffy-time." Graceful flowing lines, “go eveiywhere” style — perfect for spring wools; pique or crisp linen for summer. Printed Pattern 9144: Misses’ Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40. 42. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send Thirty-Five Cents (coins' for this pattern—add 5 cents for each pattern for Ist-dass mafl--1 inc- Sand to Marian Martin, care at Decatur Dally Democrat Pattern Dept.. 232 West 18th StNew York IL N. Y. Print plainly NAM®. ADDRESS with ZONE. SIZE and STYLE NUMBER.

Society Items sot today s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:10 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 Miss Pat 2>hr TUESDAY K. of C. auxiliary, K. of C. hall, 8:30 p.m. Music Department of the Decatur Woman’s club, Methodist church, 7:30 p.m., rehearsal. Olive Rebekah lodge 86. 1.0.0. F. hall, 7:30 p. m. Church Mother’s Study club, Mrs. Ray Lehman, 8 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, Mrs. Mel Weisman, 8:30 p.m. Immanuel Lutheran PTA, school, 8 p.m. Jolly Housewive H. D. C. of St. Mary's township, Bobo school, 7:30 p.m, Delta Lambda and Xi Alpha Xi, chapters of Beta Sigma Phi, Mrs. Loyd Neal, 8 p.m. Eagles auxiliary, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. Gals and Pals HDC, Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY St. Vincent De Paul society, C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. C. W. F. of First Christian church, church, 7:30 p.m. Epsilon Sigma and Xi Alpha lota Exemplar'chapters of Beta Sigma Phi, Elks home, 8 p.m. Women's Associates of the First Presbyterian church, church, 8 p.m. Union township H. D. C., Mrs. Basil Gephart, 1:30 p.m. Ruralistic Study club, Mrs. Robert Geimer, 8 p.m. Ruth and Naomi Circle of the Zion E. and R. church, social rooms, of church, 2 p.m. Historical club, Mrs. Wesley Lehman, 2:30 p.m. THURSDAY Our Lady of Victory study club, Mrs. John Alberding, 8 p.m. Zion Lutheran Needle club, parish hall, all day. St. Ambrose study club, Mrs. Leonard Schwaller, 7:30 p.m. V. F. W. auxiliary, post home, 5-7 pan. steak supper. Monroe W. C. T. U., Mrs. Otto Longenberger, 2 p.m. Order of Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m., initiation. Bethany Circle of the Zion E. and R. church, church, 7:38 p.m. St. Anne’s Discussion group. Mrs. Ralph Roop, 7:30 p.m. Women oL the Moose. Moose home, 8 p.m., birthday party. FRIDAY Adams County Federation of Women's clubs, C. L. of C. hall, 12:30 p.m. / . r Friendship circle of the Decatur Missionary church, Mrs. Merrill Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Christian Companions class of ■ the Trinity E..- U. B. church, church fellowship hall, 7:30 p.m. Find Car Abandoned After Wreck Monday The sheriff’s department investigated an abandoned car accident Monday at 11:30 p.m. on the Mud Pike road, two miles south of Decatur. A car was found to have crashed through a fence on the property of Henry L. Bieberich, route 6, Decatur, and to have destroyed a city light pole valued at S6O. The car was registered to the Jones and Byers motor sales of Willshire, 0., but the driver of the car is unknown. The department is continuing the investigation. A 30 % Christian cannot be a 100% American. - - 4 * Gifts & Greetings for You — through EELCOMB WAGOR from Yoor Friendly Buainea* Neighbor* end Givi* end Boeiel Welfare Leaders Oe •// The Birth of a Bahr Sixteenth Birthday* EnZMementAnnonneoment* Chang* *f reaidenee Arrival* of Newcomer* t* Decatur Phone 8-3196 ar 3-4335 _ fjft M»t T obligation) V, r <

Farm Woman Named As Mother Os Year To Represent State For National Title INDIANAPOLIS ffl - M r s . Sarah Dodd Thayer, 67, Hope, was chosen “Indiana Mother of the Year” Monday sot being “the kindest, most considerate, most understanding and most liked person in the community," The Bartholomew County farm woman was selected by iana Chapter of the American Mothers Committee. She was scheduled to receive a formal award from Governor Handley in the statehouse April 7 and then represent Indiana in the “American Mother of the Year” contest in New York in April. “Ob, for heaven’s sake," said Mrs. Thayer when she learned of the honor, “I didn’t want that. There are a lot of good mothers. Someone else should have the honor." She married her husband, Leonard, in 1912 and has lived with him on an 180-acre farm for 30 years. She taught school at St. Louis Crossing in northeast Bartholomew County for four years before her marriage. Her six children are: the Rev. Orrin Dodd Thayer, Valonia Methodist Church, the Rev. Lynn Robert Thayer, Bright Methodist Church. Tomas Lincoln Thayer, Columbus Junior High School teacher, Richard Lewis Thayer, of the Irwin Union Bank, Columbus, a former Columbus mayor and Bartholomew County Sheriff, David Ray Thayer, Hope, farmer, state representative and teacher, and Mrs. Mary Alice Cooper, mother of five and former nurse. A letter of nomination from Joseph S. Foust, superintendent of Bartholomew schools said: “I have known Mrs. Thayer all of my life and have found her to be the kindest, most considerate, most . understanding and most liked person in the community. “She has inspired two of her sons into the ministry, two others into the teaching profession and the other son is a bank employe. The daughter is a housewife with a degree of nursing. What more could a mother do for the betterment of our state.” City Dog Licenses Are Now On Sale Mayor Robert D. Cole stated this morning that dog licenses are now available at the clerk-treas-urer’s office in the city hall. The. tags are priced at 50 cents and all owners of dogs must purchase and display the tags on the collar of the dog before the deadline, set at April 15. Starting April 15, all dogs without license tags will be impounded. Mayor Cole urged all dog owners to comply with the city ordinance as the ordinance will be enforced. Reports Spark Plug s Stolen From Auto William Bauman, 821 North 11th street, reported to the police Monday that someone had stolen a box of new Auburn spark plugs from his automobile which was parked in the Central Soya parking lot while he was at work. The theft occurred sometime between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and was discovered when he returned to his car. Wabash County Office Looted Over Weekend WABASH (IB — The ’ Wabash County treasurer discovered Monday that a burglar had broken in-, to her office during the weekend.; The thief escaped with $582 in cash and about SIO,OOO in worthless checks. Authorities said the burglar knocked off the combination on the safe with a heavy instrument to crack it. The thief broke into the Courthouse through a welfare office and entered the treasurer’s office through an unlocked outer door. Then he used a crowbar to force a steel door into the main office to get to the safe. Injured Boy Dies From Heart Attack HIGH POINT, N. C. OB A 15-year-old boy injured when his homemade rocket blew up died of a heart attack Sunday while receiving medical treatment, it was disclosed Monday. The boy, Terry A. Cline, was injured Saturday. He went to a doctor’s office Sunday to have his previously treated wounds dressed, and collapsed. His heart stopped as he was being taken to a hospital, where doctors tried vainly for more than an hour to revive him. Trade In a good town — Decatur TOMORROW TOT’S DAY AT Edward’s Studio

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■ 1 Captain and Mrs. L. B. Tickle of Fort Sill, Okla., became the parents of, a seven pound daughter, born Sunday. Mrs. Tickle was formerly Donna Kraft, daughter of Mr- and Mrs. Harmon Kraft. Decatur. . An eight pound, 12 ounce daughter wa's born to Jack and Mary Worthman Watson, Bearre, Ver- ' mont, Friday at 2:47 p.m. Lewis , Worthman is the maternal grand- ] father of the infant who has been , given the name, Dianne Marie. j At the Adams county memorial ■ hospital: This morning at 8:33 o’clock, a seven pound, nine and one half ■ ounce son was born to Frederick L. and Wanda Gibson Hamrick of 503% North Fifth street. Albert and Ruth Myers Roehm. Willshire, Ohio, are the parents of a six pound, three ounce daugh- : ter. The infant was bora at 10:13 o’clock this morning. At 9:30 o’clock today, William and Freddie Marssie Callow, 909 Monroe, became the parents of a seven pound, 13% ounce daughter. No weight has been recorded for the son of Cletus and Rebecca ( Wickey Christner, Berae, born at 10:04 a.m. today. Festival 01 Cherry Blossoms Postponed Mild Drizzle Brings Delay For Opening WASHINGTON (IB — Neither snows nor freezes nor the fact that not a single bloom would appear on time was able to force postponement of the 1958 national cherry blossom festival. But today a mild drizzle did it. When late winter snows made it obvious that the annual spectacle would be behind schedule, the people in charge of the festival grimly stuck to their plans. They had made these far in advance, and the plans said the official opening would be held at the tidal basin today. 1 When it snowed again on the ' first day of spring, the festival management again ruled out any postponement, despite the fact that no blossoms would be on hand for the event. The Japanese ambassador and high federal and District of Columbia officials had arranged to participate, and they couldn’t be kept waiting by a batch of balky buds. But today the planners caved in. They announced the opening ceremonies had been postponed until Wednesday. ___ "We wouldn’t want the Japanese 1 ambassador and all those government officials to get wet," a 1 spokesman said. Youthful Driver Is Acquitted Os Charge Larry A: Imel, 19, Decatur, arrested recently by the state police after a high speed chase on the Piqua road, was found not guilty of the charge in mayor’s court Monday. Imel pleaded not guilty at the preliminary hearing held recently and the verdict was given Monday. Kept Him Awake WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (IB — William H. Coney was fined $6 for having a noisy muffler ort his auto despite his excuse that “it keeps me awake while driving.” IKE i (Continued from page one) the recession. The eight - man committee, headed by AFL-CIO President George Meany predicted a “continuing worsening of the economic picture ” Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President will send to Congress late this week his plan for extending unemployment pay. Hagerty gave no details, but It is expected to provide up to 13 weeks of additional unemployment benefits with the states or employers eventually picking up the tab. Says Study Being Made Hagerty also said administration experts were studying antirecession bill No. 1 from Congress—a $1,850,000,000 housing bill which Eisenhower is expected to sign despite some feature* objectionable to him. It is designed to spur construction of up to 200,000 new homes and provide an estimated half-million jobs. Other economic developments: —John R. Staley, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce spokesman, urged Congress to repeal wartime imposed tax increases on transportation, communication and oil pipelines. Staley, vice president of Quaker Oats Co., told a Senate commerce subcommittee the railroads’ financial plight would be further relieved if they were permitted to drop unprofitable passenger services. —Two administration officials linked the President's embattled foreign aid and trade programs to *cooomic recovery- Secretary at State John Foster Dulles wanted that cuts in the proposed 83,900,000,000 aid program would result In more unemployment in American factories.

Academy Awards On TV Wednesday 90 Movie Stars To Appear Wednesday * 5 By VERNON SCOTT < United Press Staff Correspondent < HOLLYWOOD (UP) Shades of P. T- Barnum! i Ibe Greatest Show on Ea r t h j rolls into the nation’s living . rooms Wednesday night with 90— count ’em, 90—dazzling movie ’ stars, more film heroes and hero- , ines than ever gathered in one place before. Glamor girls galore: Kim No- ’ vale, Doris Day, Anita Ekberg, 1 Rhonda Fleming, Lana Turner. Matinee idols: Gregory Peck, 1 Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Tony Curtis. ! Singers: Tommy Sands, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Jones, Eddie Fisher. IPs the 30th annual Academy Award shindig—l hour and 45 minutes of whoopde-do and raz-zle-dazzle for Oscar’s big night. 90 Million Viewers Ringmaster Jerry Wais says the cast of his million-dollar production reads like the Beverly Hills telephone directory. A man who delights in tossing big figures around, he estimates 90 million viewers (a record) in the U.S. and Canada will watch the glitter set strut its stuff. “Instead of saving all the big awards for the end of the show we’ll start handing out important Oscars early,” Wald said. “T e n minutes after we go on the air Lana Turner will announce the best supporting actor. “This will be no stuffed-shirt affair No expense has been spared. Where else on earth could anyone see Rock Hudson, the top boxoffice star, sing a duet with Mae West. And who could afford to lure stars like Clark Gable and Gary Cooper to make their television debuts? Plenty of MC’s “Instead of soloists singing the top songs we ll have sextets of big stars belting them out. For instance, Shirley J ones, Ann Blyth. Anna Maria Alberghetti, Tab Hunter, Tommy Sands and Jimmy Rogers will sing “April Love.” “For masters of ceremony we have Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, David Niven, Rosalind Russell and Jack Lemmon. Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner, the newlyweds, will be custodians of the Oscars. “Every place you look there’ll be stars, stars, stars. 'Die Pantages Theater will be filled with them.” < , Movieland’s betting gentry s morning line on the Oscars reads this way—best "Bridge on the River Kwai;” best actress, Deborah Kerr (“Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison); best actor, Alec Guinness ("Kwai”); best director, David Lean (“Kwai”); best supporting actress, Diane Varsi ("Peyton Place’’); best supporting actor. Red Buttons (“Sayonara”L Plan Experiment On College Education Lack Os Motivation Seen Primary Reason CHICAGO W — The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schbols announced it will conduct an experimental program aimed at steering bright students to college and financed by a <174,000 grant from the Carnegie Corp. NCA President Lowell B. Fisher said Monday that lack of motivation rather than lack of finances was the primary reason many competent students do not go to college. “Lack of motivation—a desire to get a job and get a hot rod car or get married rather than to con- . ♦inue learning—is the chief problem,” M MUI r isher said the NCA will select about 50 high in which to conduct the two-year project. He said it will attempt to get the “results of intelligence tests out of the file drawer and into the family planning.” Students will be informed of their abilities during the project to get them planning early in life for college. Parents also will be told of their children's intelligence in an effort to combat possible parental hostility to a college education. Trade tn a good town — Decatur

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Future Farmers Twenty-six members and one visitor attended the first meeting of the Future Farmers 4-H club of Kirkland township. The meeting began with the election of officers. The results are as follows; John Lantz, president; Roger Schlickman, vice president, Jim Brown, secretary and treasurer; Glen Yager, recreation; Allen Freels, song leader; Don German, news reporter; and Junior Lantz and Rene Brown, health and safety leaders. — After the election the number of meetings and dues were decided. The next meeting will be April 1. Peppy Pals Preble Peppy Pals met Saturday at the Freidheim school. Fourteen members were present for the meeting which bgan with the pledges, led by Patsy Kalthoff and Mary Hackman. A demonstration entitled. “Ways to Make Introductions,” was then presented by Judy Conrad and Susan Kruetzman. Roll eall was answered by having the members name a favorite song. Recreational leaders were Judy Bultemeier and Cheryl Buuck and Delores Fuhrman. The next meeting will be held April 12, at 1:30 o’clock at the Freidheim school. Secretary Benson Scores Freeze Bill Continue Present Uneconomic Plans COLUMBUS, Ohio (W — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson said today the new farm bill just passed by Congress would freeze price supports and acreage allotments in “present uneconomic patterns.” Benson condemned the freeze bill—which the President is expected to veto — in a speech at Ohio State University's Farm and Home Week. "This freeze legislation was rushed through the legislative process without any opportunity for hearings,” Benson said. "The farm organizations were not given a chance to be heard.” Herschel D. Newsom, master of the National Grange, one of the big three farm organizations, recommended Monday that the President sign the freeze bill. He said a <veto of the bill would cut an additional 500 million dollars from farm income. There apparently are not enough votes in Congress to override a veto. Benson said the measure, if approved by the President, would result in a substantial increase in costs of operating the farm programs, and would “perpetuate measures already proved ineffective.” He said it would help pile "higher the government’s hoard of surplus farm commodities. Benson has made much the same sort of statements against the freeze measure in news conferences in Washington in recent weeks. The bill would freeze price supports and acreage allotments at not less than 1957 levels. Return State Funds For Bank Deposits Neadl 14 Million Sent To 480 Banks INDIANAPOLIS ffl — Indiana today returned nearly 14 million dollars of state treasury money ,for deposit in about 480 banks around the state. State Treasurer A. L. Fossler sent checks totaling $13,952,800, representing the amount withdrawn last July and placed in an Indianapolis bank. Deputy Treasurer Charles Bryant said the withdrawal was needed to place the funds in an "active account” in the Indiana National Bank so distribution of school and gas tax funds could be made easily. Hundreds of banks throughout the state hold state treasury money. A certain amount must be kept in a non-interest active account to facilitate fund distributions, Bryant said.

Indianapolis Symphony Concert Well Received

By Mike Kohne A crowd of over 700 persons gathered at the Decatur high school auditorium Monday night despite the adverse weather conditions to hear the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, sponsored by the Adams county Civic Music association. The audience warmly received the famous group which had been brought back to Decatur, by popular demand, for a second appearance in as many years. Renato Pacini, associate conductor replacing Izler Solomon who remained in Indianapolis ill with the flu, was called from the wings for numerous curtain calls after giving a magnificent performance. The orchestra opened with a spirited performance of Schubert's "Overture and Ballet Music from Rosamunde.” The orchestra, under Pacini’s encouraging hands, attacked the number vigorously, with such precision, that the members of the various sections seemed as one. The music was written by Schubert when he was 26 years old, and was completed, with the exception of the Overture, in five days. Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Seventh Symphony” was the major undertaking of the evening. Pacini gave an excellent performance of this number, conducting it just a bit faster than many other conductors would interpret it. The symphony Was a crowd pleaser, with its three move' ments of thundering tympani and the slow second movement, sometimes depicted as a “Procession in an old cathedral or in the catacombs.” After a brief intermission, Pat Cini reversed the second half of i the program and played the 1 lightning fast “Mephisto Waltz” - first. The waltz is considered by - many to be the greatest work ever composed by Franz Liszt. e

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Liszt’s greatest single achievement in the field of orchestral music consisted in the development of the symphonic poem of which the most well-known are the Mephisto Waltz and Les Preludes. Pacini zipped through the number with technical brilliance, rhythmic power and passionate expressiveness. The final number of the evening's program was Claude Achille Debussy’s “La Mer.” The three movements of the composition are entitled I—" From Dawn till Noon on the Sea;” ll—“ The Play of the Waves,” lll—"Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea.” Debussy, in La Mer, captured in immortal music, the shining beauty, the awful power, and the eternal mystery of the sea. All through the number it was possible to close one’s eyes and Imagine himself beside the roaring surf, watching a white foaming crest begin to form, advance slowly towards the shore, and suddenly bear this shining creation plunge forward and dissolve itself in majestic thunder. "La Mer” was the heaviest number of the program but Pacini brought the audience from its reverie with his first encore, “Pumpkin Eater’s Little Fugue,’ by Robert Mcßride. Not only the youngsters but the parents as well loved the theme which was based on Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. The arrangement involved only the string sections of the orchestra and was played in the form ' of a round. For his second and final en--1 core, Pacini led the Indianapolis > orchestra in a rhythmic, full chorded, and buoyantly festive arrangement of Anton Dvorak’s ’ “Slavonic Dance No. 1." The f Slavonic Dances of Dvorak were ; patterned after Brahm’s Hungarian Dances upon the suggestion ’ of Brahm’s publisher. Dvorak c used the Slavic fold songs,. for which he had a deep affection.