Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1958 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATOR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur. Ind.. Post Office aa Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller - President J. H. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse - Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six months, $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 88.00; 8 months, $4.75; 3 months, 82.90. By Carrier, 30 cents per week. Single copies, 8 cents.

V Ten days ago Decatur gardeners were busy watering their produce. But a week of heavy rains has ehanged the picture. Now weeds are the big problem and will remain so for some time. —-o o If businesses in Decatur valued at $2,000,000 and producing $300,000 a year in profits to owners and workers, were annually inundated by a preventable flood, we would have prevented such things years ago. Yet each year for the past three years almost the same thing has happened to our farmers in this area, along the St. Marys, Wabash, and streams and ditches leading to them, with little action or thought on our part. ——o o A 1957 Decatur graduate, Gene Baxter, will take advantage of the tremendous educational and character-building advantages of a West Point education. Baxter will start July 1, and will be a member of the class of 1962. He had a fine record at Decatur high school,, and was exceptionally well thought of by his teachers and classmates. A hard worker, and a fine athlete, Baxter can be expected to make an outstanding record at the military academy. His family, friends, and the entire community are proud of him. o o The new restaurant ordinance, which requires an eating establishment to keep clean and handle foods safely, is being accepted by the owners and public alike. It has been a great incentive to clean up. At the same time, it is educational, keeping hard-working restaurant owners abreast of the latest health information. It is not intended to be punitive in any way, but a help to owner and the public. If a restaurant owner complains, and not many have, the public should take a good look at his establishment to see if it is a decent place in which to eat a meal. After all, the law only requires what the public has thinking they were getting—a good meal, safely prepared in conditions that do not threaten tjie patron.

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Monroe has decided to sell its power facilities, and buy its power directly from the producerdistributer, Indiana - Michigan. The progressive community has had serious electric problems for several years. Many, even in Decatur, believe that the sale was the only sensible course of action. The entire community hopes that the situation will soon be solved for the good of Monroe and Adams county as a whole. O——O — 4—-— -- Well, the old screams of the Republicans heard >■ during the Truman administration, about the terrible Democratic scandals and the need for a “great crusade’’ by their General seemed to have cooled with the recent revelations concerning Ike’s chief advisor, Sherman Adams. It seems that human nature is the same regardless of political parties. Adams, of course, is no more to blame than Harry Vaughn. The change of administrations did not change human nature. Graft, in public and private life, is a moral problem better handled by the churches and public opinion than by political parties. Both men were wrong. But the problem is, the Republicans got into office by promising a big cleanup. They haven’t been able to deliver, of course. They can’t change human nature. Bnt they have been able to wreck a good foreign policy which, up to 1953 was retaining Communism. They have caused a large amount of ill will by tariff raising. They raised interest rates, rejected flood control and relief plans, and set up the econpublicans have done very little good and much harm, as much by inaction as by any particular action. It is now obvious that increased interest rates not only increased the national debt, but (triggered the recession. This was one of Ike’s first moves in the White House. To return sanity to government, elect W. Robert Fleming, Fort Wayne attorney and former Adams county resident, to Congress this fall.

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Early County History Presented To Society

The history of Adams county In the early 1870’s has been made available to the Adams county historical society by the gift of and illustrated historical atlas of the state of Indiana published in 1876. Homer Niederhouser, Berne industrialist, found the 82-year-old book at his home, and gave it to Menno I. Lehman, one of founders of the historical society, for the society’s use. The gift will be accepted at the June 24 meeting of the historical society at the Decatur public library at 8 p.m. According to the interesting old book, in 1870 there were four car- 1 riage and wagon makers in Ad- ’ ams county, employing 25 people. Only one flour mill was left, and it employed two men. One hub and wagon material factory employed 14. Six lumber companies in the county employed 28 persons. There were no other industries listed in the county, and the total value of the goods produced by all 11 factories was $93,662. The 69 workers averaged a yearly salary of $255.91, less than a dollar a day. In one section of the book the population of Adams county was compared township by township with the 1860 and 1850 census figures. Decatur had grown from only 231 residents in 1850 to 531 in 1860, and 858 in 1870. In 1850 there had been eight Negroes living in Blue Creek township. In 1860 there were only five left, and one was living in Decatur. In 1870 there here no colored people living in me county. Pleasant Mills was the only other town listed by name. Its population was 71 in 1850 and 80 in 1870. No figure was given for 1860. Township figures were as follows: TOWNSHIP 1870 1860 1850 Blue Creek 820 651 425 French 824 689 344 Hartford 935 618 265 Jefferson ... 494 446 297 Kirkland .... 508 322 190 Monroe .... 960 607 347 Aaron Yoder Surgery Scheduled Tuesday Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock, the 13 blood donors for the Aaron Yoder heart operation will meet in front of the Daily Democrat office. Mrs. Dolores Ellenberger will be in charge of the. group. They will be transported to Indianapolis by a bus of the Teeple Truck lines. Helping to alleviate costs of the operation are two cash donations. This morning the Aaron Yoder heart operation fund, sponsored by the Adams county Red Cross chapter and Post 43 of the American Legion, totaled $92.65. This heart operation fund will help obtain two special nurses needed to aid in surgery. Having announced that it will help pay food expenses of the donors, the Adams county Heart Association donated a check of SSO this morning.

Four Persons Dead In Indiana Traffic Royal Center Man Is Killed By Train By United .Press International At least four persons were killed in weekend traffic in Indiana and another fatality was added to the total of the previous weekend which ran into double figures. Roy E. Vernon, 70, Royal Center, died Sunday night about two hours after his car was hit by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train three miles northwest of Logansport. Vernon was thrown from the car by the impact at a Cass County road crossing. Mrs. Delores Melson, 43, Tipton, was killed Saturday night when a car driven by her husband ran off Ind. 1 and overturned in DeKalb Oftunty. Mrs. Miriam Hale, 70, JTarentum. Pa., was killed Friday night when she was hit by a car in Indianapolis, where she was visiting relatives. Donald Waldron. 22, Winchester, died Sunday night in Randolph County Hospital from injuries sustained early Saturday when a car in which he rode struck the rear of a slow-moving truck on Ind. 32. The car driver was Garry Gisher, 21. Winchester, and truck driver George Butts. 33. Columbus, Ohio. J.W. Rudolph King, 8, Richmond, died in Reid Memorial Hospital in his home town Sunday from injuries sustained a week earlier in a two-car . crash at a Union County road intersection. Authorities said King drove through a stop sign and his car was hit by an automobile driven, by John Osborne, 26, Spring Valley, Ohio, who escaped injury. King's passenger, Arthur Sullivan, 75, Richmond, died last Monday from injuries, sustained in the smasb-up. Fish Story BRIDGETON, Me. — (IB — Ice fisherman Carl Meserve pulled his line at Highland Lake when the flag waved and found his baited hook undisturbed. But wound about his lead weight was an old broken line with a two-pound brown trout oh the end. .

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Root 1252 1377 1099 St. Mary’s 925 931 611 Union . 865 703 412 Wabash 957 678 410 Washington .... 1846 1342 779 A large number of local merchants listed their names in the business directory that year. In the professional field, 10 Decatur attorney firms were listed, including Studa baker & Quinn, David Showar, D. D. Heller, J. R. Bobo, Sam C. Bollman, E. F Numbers, W. S. Congleton, Schaffer Peterson, C. M. France, and E. A. Huffman, Doctors numbered four: A. Sorg, W. H. Schrock, F. A. Jelleff, C. L. Curtiss were physicians. Glenn was the “surgeon dentist.’’ Bankers were listed as Jesse Niblick, Alex. Eichar, and H. C. Dent, the first with the Adams County Bank, and the latter with the Citizens Bank. Linn Grove and Geneva listed more businesses than any of the other towns. Monroe had a saloon at the time, and T. J. Martz was Saloonkeeper, M. B. Merryman had a sawl-mill in the same community, as did J. R. Kingsburg. J. C. Coldwood was a physician and surgeon at Salem, in Blue Creek township, and William Langhorst had a tile and brick kiln at Williams in Root township. Ceylon had the J. P. Riggs mill, and Dr. B. B. Snow was the physician there. E. J. Hunter and C. C. Baumgartner were the physicians at Linn Grove (then called Buena Vista) in Hartford township. A list of the Adams county patrons of the atlas, their residence by section and township, where born, when they came to Indiana, and post office address, lists 335 Adams county residents at that time. About a page of history is included on pages 292-293. It states that thdre are 5,337 school children with an average school attendance of 2,357. There were 93 schools with 106 teachers, earning an average of $117.48 a year Outlook For July Steel Output Grim Expect Operation To Hit Skids In July CLEVELAND, Ohio (UPD— Although elated by June operations and sales reports, steelmakers exi pect operations to hit the ekids i in July, Steel Magazine reported i today. The magazine described the I outlook for July as “grim” even . though steelmaking recorded its seventh consecutive advance last , week. I According to the magazine, furnaces operated at 64 per cent of capacity and produced 1,725,000 net tons of steel for ingots and ’ castings, the highest of any week this year? Production was up 3.5 points over the previous week. Steel said production has increased by 35 per cent since hitting a low point in April. The magazine predicted that the output for June will top January’s 6.75 million tons if operations continue at the current rate reflects a demand generated by construction activity, replacement of depleted inventories, and hedging against a possible price rise. In some cases, it also reflects a mill's desire to save money on semi-finished steel by turning out as much as possible before labor costs go up. Scrap Advance Halts Steelmaking scrap halted its price advance at most consuming centers last week. Steel’s composite on the prime grade dropped 50 cents to $35.67 per gross ton. More declines are likely since dealers can’t see much point t o holding out for higher prices when signs point to reduced activity during July. Scrap exports are falling. First quarter scrap exports are estimated at about? 925.00 p gross tons. Predictions of total 1958 exports are slightly below 4 million gross tons. That's far enough under last year’s total, 5,921,149 tons, to insure that quotas won't be instituted in 1958.

1 A. ' AHEAD OF THE REST— Ens. T. Patrick Flood, who was quarterback on the crack Navy football team, leads his graduating classmates at, Annapolis, Md., by being the first to wed. Bride is the former Janet Seiler, Tucson, Artz. ■ Flood is from Phoenix. (VPI Telephoto)

The Rev. Leonard G. Hubartt, above, of North Manchester, will be the evangelist at the 40th annual camp meeting of the Adams County Holiness Association, to be held at the camp grounds at Monroe, from June 18 to 29, inclusive. Meetings will be held each evening at 7:45 o’clock, and Sundays at 2 and 7p. m. A children’s meeting will be held each weekday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Song leaders will be Gospel Crusaders. One of the features will be missionary day Sunday afternoon, June 22.

20 Years Ago Today O - '—o June 16, 1938—A final distribution of 4.6 per cent is made in the liqpidation of the Peoples L an & Trust Co., following approval of the final report by Judge H. W. DeVoss in the Adams circuit court. This brings the total distribution of 79.75 per cent to deposits of record when the bank closed, E. W. Busche, of Monroe, president of the Central Beet Sugar growers association and prominent Adams county farmer will sail June 30 for Bremen, Germany, for a two to three month stay in his native country. Dr. N. A. Bixler, local optometrist, has been elected president of the Decatur Lions club. Other officers include H. H. Krueckeberg, first vice president; Glenn Hill, second vice president; D. Burdette Custer, third vice president; Ed Bocknecht, secretary; George Rentz, treasurer; Roy Mumma and • Ralph Gentis, directors; Phil Sauer, tail twister; E. V. McCann, Lion tamer. The fourth district meeting of the Indiana fireman’s association was held in Decatur last night, with many state officials in attendance, o—■ ■ Q | Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE o o Q. Do you consider it proper, when in a group of people, to speak with another person while someone else is already speaking to the entire group? A. It is rude to “cross converse.” When one attempts to talk with another person while someone else is talking to the entire group, it probably prevents that person from listening to the first speaker. He may be very much interested and wish to listen. Q. What is the correct saluation of a business letter addressed to both a man a woman? A. “Dear Sir and Madam.”

POLIO (Continued from Page pne) two shots of the vaccine can provide substantial protection for at least one polio season, National Foundation officials said. A study of the 1956 polio picture by the U. S. public health service revealed that paralytic polio among those patients with one or more shots was 75 to 80 per cent less than among the unvaccinated. Normally, the first and second shots are given two to six weeks apart with the third, or booster shot, given seven months after the second. The Salk vaccine stimulates production of polio-fighting antibodies in the blood stream for the production of antibodies. The first shot takes effect seven to ten days after injection, preparing the bloodstream for the production of antibodies. The third creates a sharp rise in antibodies that provides long-lasting protection. If the body is infected by the polio virus, the antibodies prevent it from reaching nerve cells where the real damage occurs, thus preventing paralysis. However, medical Authorities warn that an individual who may be immune personally and comes in contact with the virus may pass the infection on to an unvaccinated person in whom it can cause paralysis. For that reason Dr. Jonas E. Salk has pointed out that ‘Your neighbor's vaccination does not protect you.” The National Foundation urges all under 40 who are unprotected, to get two shots now. while there still is time before the 1958 polio season. Dave McKay, a representative of the Eli Lilly company, will appear at thA Moose lodge Tuesday evening for the meeting. He will speak on the program the lodge is sponsoring. The meeting will start at .8 p. m. and all members nre welcome to attend.

Rev. Busse Closes Lutheran Ministry Preaches Farewell Sermon On Sunday The Rev. O. C. Busse, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, well known clergyman and givic leader, preached his farewell sermon Sunday after having announced lus retirement some time ago. He based his sermon on II Corinthians 13:11, “Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.” The house of worship was filled to overflowing by members of the parish and many friends from far and near. The chancel of the church was decorated with beautiful floral bouquets. prominent among which was a floral design simulating an American flag, presented by the Decatur post of the American Legion. Immediately following the services a farewell carry-in dinner was served to the gathering, supervised by the wives of the members of the church council. The principal of the parish school, F. C. Smiege, served as master of ceremonies for the brief program which followed. Representatives of the various church organizations presented Rev. Busse with mementos: Kenneth Selking for the grade school baseball team; Ralph Ewell for the Walther League; Gilbert Ehlerding for the Aquila and Priscilla club; Mrs. William Selking for the Ladies Aid; Mrs. Theodore Ewell for the sewing circle. Edwin Reink in g, chairman, speaking in behalf of the congregation, expressed to Rev. Busse the general appreciation of the parish for his fine leadership during the past 12 years. He read a letter from former American Legion state commander Ralph Gates in which the latter commended Rev. Busse for his excellent leadership in Legion both locally and on the state level. Reinking thereupon presented to Rev. Busse a beautiful diamond ring, a gift from the congregation, and a lasting memento of his pastorate at St. Paul's. Present at the gathering besides many friends and relatives were Rev. Busse’s daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hertel, and their three sons. Grant, Bruce, and David, of Tyler, Texas. This summer Rev. Busse is planning an extended tour of Europe mainly in the interests of the armed services commission of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod.

COURT NEWS Marriage Applications Alice Ann Beer, 17, route one, Monroe, and Amos Earl Miller, Jr., 19, Bluffton. Linda Sue Place, 20, Spencerville, 0., and Ronald Lee Davis, 22, Lima. O. Alma Irene Hadding, 64. Lima, 0., and Stephen Roessler, 57, Lima, O. Divorce Case In the case of Juanita Deßolt vs Lloyd Deßolt, the plaintiff agreed to pay the mortgage payments on real estate when due, premiums on life insurance, and the utility bills. ~ Separation Case An affidavit for suit money was filed in the case of Sarag Mendez vs Blas Mendez. A notice was ordered issued to the sheriff of Adams county for the defendant returnable June 20 at 3 p.m. Estate Cases The final report was filed in the estate of Addie Andrews. A notice was ordered issued returnable July 11. file report of sale of real estate, and the proof of publication of notice of real estate were filed in the estate of Kathryn Sabilla Cole.

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j Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE o■ - o Geraniums The geranium plant has passed its period of greatest usefulness when it becomes too large for a pot five or six inches in diameter. It should then be used to provide cuttings for new plants. ~ Metal Teapots If the metal teapot is seldom used, it should have a lump of sugar kept in its to eliminate any musty odor. Lemons Put the lemons into a Masop jar, which is sealed, and they will keep for several months.

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