Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1958 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958

BIRTHDAY PARTY GIVEN FOR STEPHANIA ANDREWS Miss Stephania Jo Andrews, young daughter of and Mrs. Max F. Andrews, was the guest of honor at a recent birthday party, given in honor of her fourth birthday anniversary. Scene of the celebration was the child’s maternal grandparents* home, where Mrs. Andrews andjier two children had been staying. After a lengthy play period, the small guests were escorted to the kitchen, where colorful birthday decorations were used throughout Ice cream, cake and lemohade were served from a table appropriately decorated for the occasion. Favors were ornamental plastic whistles and lollipops. The guest of honor then opened her many birthday gifts, which were received from the following guests: Mrs. Roger Fruchte and son Mike: Mrs. Kenneth Singleton and son Dougie; Mrs Robert gmith and daughters Linda, Cinday and Barbara Jean: Mrs, Richard Mies and daughter Jennifer Jo; Miss Candy Mies and Billy Strickler, and the birthday girl's young brother, Brian. Mrs. Andrews and the children have now joined Lt. Andrews at their home in Fort Riley, Kan., but wilt return here the latter part of July to spend the remainder of the summer. The Thursday evening meeting of the members of the Rainbow ftirls ,has been postponed until next Wednesday. It will be held at the regularly scheduled time, 6 45 o’clock, at the Masonic hall. Thursday afternoon, another in the series of story hours being conducted by Miss Jeannette Hahnert. will be held in the auditorium of the library beginning at 4 o’clock. The metnbers of the Junior American Legion auxiliary will have a picnic Monday at the William Schnepp home. Members are asked to meet at the Legion home at 1:30 o'clock. Tuesday at 7:30 o’clock, the members of the Olive Rebekah OPEN ALL DAY WE*-'' FAIRWAY RESTAURANT

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’ ’1 Calendar items for today's pubIcation must be phoned In by 11 ua. (Saturday 9:30) Phone 3-2121 Miss Marilou Uhrick THURSDAY Ladies Fellowship, Missionary church, 7 p.m. Union Chapel Ladies Aid, church basement, all day. Onit 3 W.S.W.S. Beathany, Mrs. Jesteen Cole, 2 p.m. Town and Country Home Demonstration club, Mrs. John Bayles, postponed until July 10, 1:30 p.m. Rainbow Girl, Masonic hall, 6:45 p.m. Postponed to next Wednesday. , Zion Lutheran Needle club, Parrish hall, 1 p.m. Unit 1 Bethany EUB Women’s Society, Mrs. Howard Eley, 2 p.m. Story hour, library auditorium, 4 p.m. : Monroe rural fire department, Monroe town hall, 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY Limberlost Archery and conservation club meet, 2 miles west on 224 and Vi mile south on road east of Erie crossing, 1:30 p.m. MONDAY County Home Demonstration chorus, Monroe, 7:30 p.m. , Junior American Legion, Legion home, 1:30 p.m., picnic at William Schnepf hon>€7 TUESDAY Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club, Hanna-Nuttman park, 6:30 p.m., bring dish and table service. Olive Rebekah lodge, 1.0.0. F. hall, 7:30 p.m. Rose Garden club, Mrs. Joe Hunter, 2 p.m. Profit and Pleasant Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Harve Smith, 7 p.m., swimming, 8 p.m., business lodge number 86, will meet at the 1.0.0. F. hall. • A regular monthly meeting of the Monroe rural fire department will be held Thursday at 7:30 in the Monroe town hall. Mrs. Joe Hunter will be hostess to the Rose Garden club, which will meet Tuesday at 2.o’clock. »Assisting. hostess is Mrs. Ralph E. Roop and the.lesson will be presented by Mrs. Dale Moses. - The Profit and Pleasure Home Demonstration club members will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Harve Smith. There will bfc swimming at 7 o’clock and a business ' meeting at 8 o’clock. Two 4-H club members will give a demonstration on "you and your personality.” <»” ■ Hanna-Nuttman park is the scene of the Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club members’ picnic to be held Tuesday at 6:30 o’etoek. Members are to bring a covered dish and table service. It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multii tude.-—Voltaire.

First Family Marks 42nd Anniversary Moonlight Cruise On Potomac River J WASHINGTON (UPI) - Nothing’s more romantic for a youhg-at-heart couple than a moonlight cruise down the Potomac River —particularly when the couple are the President and Mrs. Ej£enhower. The First Family celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary Tuesday night with a picnic supper and the cruise aboard the presidential yacht Barbara Anne. They boarded the sleek, 90-foot white cruiser about 6 p.m., EDT, for the outing. Mrs. Eisenhower smiled and said, "Another year, another year.” • The returning yacht docked at 9:40 p. m., EDT, more than an hour later than expected. The sun had long since set and an orange moon shimmered on the Potomac. The ship captain said he had taken the Eisenhower party about 15 miles down the river to a point opposite Fort Belvoir, Va. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower were married July 1, 1916, in Denver, Colo., 13 months after Eisenhower’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy. Miss Delora Mishler, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John Mishler, is in Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne after receiving a fracture of one leg. Miss Mishler, who will be a junior at Adams Central high school, was riding on a motor scooter when the accident happened. She was to have attended the high school journalism institute presently in progress at Indiana University. Miss Mishler’s room number is 319. Mr. and Mrs. Al Anderson will leave) Thursday for four days vacation at their cottage on Henry lake. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gerke of Decatur, attended a surprise birthday dinner in honor of Mrs. Ada Sites held at the home of Mi\and Mrs. Julius Winhover of Van Wert, Ohio. J 1 Mrs. Clara Myers was visited by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Smith of Bluffton, Sunday afternoon. Monday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Collins of Bluffton, were Mr. and Mrs. Orval Lenhart of Monroe. ' qtl fy#. Admitted Baby Nancy Jane Shaffer, Decatur; Frank Torres, Decatur. Dismissed Brian Myers, Ohio City, Ohio; Mrs. Richard Bemont, Pheohix, Ariz ; Mrs. Glenn Gerber and baby girl', Monteplier; Mrs. Norman Becher'and baby boy, Berne; Mrs. Ronald Yoder, Berne; Baby Deborah Fisher, Decatur. Mrs. Mar- 1 tin Selking and Mrs. John H. Hoskin have not yet been dismissed, as was stated yesterday. Some people read just enough to keep themselves misinformed.

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Mrs. Grace Buckner Named At Bluffton Mrs. Grace Buckner, widow Os Franklin Buckner, former Bluffton mayor, has been appointed city clerk-treasurer at Bluffton. She will serve until Dec, 31, 1959, serving out the unexpired tertn of Mrs. Phebe Murray, who died last week following a stroke, j 35,000 Os New York Children To Camps Parents Are Chief Trouble To Master By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor NEW YORK <UPI) -Some time this week, 64-year -old Edward G. Fischer will steer the last child onto a camp train, comfort the last sobbing parent ad heave the proverbial sigh of relief. These last seven days have been times to try trainmen’s souls, even the soul of a man practiced as Fischer is in the art of handling children by the carload. Fischer is stationmaster at Grand Central Terminal, departure point for camp each year at this time for 35,000 children, ranging in age from four to 16. "Some of them are so small, the camp leader strings them all together on a rope, like wash on a line,” said Fischer, "who has been working out the transportation logistics since 1947. ‘ "But we’ve never lost a child,” he said. “And only a few of the kids ever miss trains. Then it’s the parents fault; they didn’t get up early enough. Says Parents Double Work “This job would be a cinch if it were just the children to handle. But the parents and other relatives double the work. Each parent thinks his child is the only one in the world.. .the parents spend a whole week kissing the kids goodbye.” Fischer, a grandfather of seven children, said that on some days as many as 9,000 children board trains for camps in the Adirondacks, the Berkshires, and New England in general. “No other terminal in the country handles anything like that number,” said Fischer. Fischer and his staff start gearing for the June crush two months in advance — deciding which guard shall be stationed where, the location of placards indicating the rendezvous point for each of the 330 camps, and how many extra trains and cars are needed. Jumble Repeated In August Come August, the whole process is repeated as the children return. “Then,” said Fischer, “we have other things to contend with. Misplaced frogs, mice, turtles and fish. Kids collect the darnedest things. But they all come back looking healthier than when they left, so we are happy.” Fischer has been with the New York Central Railroad since 1909 and in charge of camp t rains since 1947. He will retire next August, at 65, delighted, he said, to j get rid of the youngsters for a while. “But I know what will happen,” he smiled. “By next June, I’ll be so lonely for them I’ll probably be right back at Grand Central helping out.”

Five Accidents Are Reported In County One Slight Injury In Accidents Here Five accidents occurred within the past 24 hours in Adams county, causing approximately 91,175 in property damage. One personal injury resulted from one of the mishaps reported to the state police, sheriff’s and city police departments. j , I An accident was reported to the sheriff’s office at 2:45 p. m. Tuesday, occurring three miles south of Monroe on the Tile Mill road. A car driven by Carl I. Schug, 57, route one, Monroe, struck the right front side of a truck driven by Floyd R. Thornton, 34, route two, Geneva, after the truck ran a stop sign at the intersection of county roads 33 and 16. Riding with Schug were his wife, Myrtle, 52, and four grandchildren. The girls were extremely nervous from shock as a result of the accident, and Mrs. Schug received a few cracked ribs from the mishap. Mrs. Schug was taken to a doctor in Berne where she was treated and released. Thornton was arrested by. the sheriff’s department for disregarding a stop sign, and will appear to answer the charge in justice of the peace court Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. Damage was estimated to the Schug auto at $350 and $l5O to the pick-up truck. The sheriff’s department and state police were then called to the intersection of the Salem road and highway 118 at 5:35 p. m. in answer to a tractor and vehicle accident. Involved in the accident were William Kauffman, 63, route two, Berne, operator of the farm tractor, and Glenda L. Winkler, 17, Willshire, O. The driver of the tractor failed to yield the right of way to the approaching auto, and was struck on the left side. Kauffman was arrested on the charge, and was scheduled to appear in justice of the peace court later. Damage was estimated to the tractor at SSO and $l5O to the auto. w „ Charles G. Wickard, 33, Indianapolis, attempted a left turn off Oak street onto Mercer avenue Tuesday at 2:35 p. m., and struck a light pole at 506 Mercer. Damage was estimated at $175 to the vehicle and $5 to the .pole. The city police investigated the accident. The state police was failed to Geneva at 2:50 p. to. to investigate an accident at the intersection of U. S. 27 and highway 116 in that city. lona J. Alberson, 34. route two, Geneva, made an attempt to turn right onto U. S. 27 and struck a vehicle operated by Harry F. Anderson, 32. Geneva. Damage was estimated at $75 to each automobile. The sheriff's department received a report at the Adams county jail of an accident occurring on the Piqua road today at II o’clock. A car operated by Thomas Lambert, 19, route six, Decatur, was reported as parked, and an auto driven by Jesse G. Niblick, 73, Decatur, supposedly struck the vehicle in an attempt to back from a drive on the Piqua road. Both vehicles were estimated at $75 damage each. State Traffic Toll 418 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A relatively safe weekend June 2729 helped improve Indiana’s traffic death toll for 1958. Four weekend deaths held down last week’s fatalities to 15, compared with 22 in the corresponding period last year. Through Sunday midnight, the year’s toll was 418, compared with 500 a year ago. The lower toll last week increased the percentage improvement .over last year from about 16 per cent as of June 22 to about 16% per cent June 29. frade in a good town — Decatw

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Library Tops Books On Independence Day

From “The Americans” back to “America’s Colonial Heritage,” through "The Haul West,” and winding up with "The American Story,” the group of books now spotlighted at the Decatur library celebrates America’s birthday by telling about the people who made this country and the events that shaped their lives. These four are among the books spotlighted in the library alongside the Declaration of Independence, commemorating Independence Day and inviting readers to celebrate it by reading some books about America. ! Author Harold Coy dedicates “The Americans” to the "young readers who are curious to know more about an inventive, freedomloving people." Not a textbook, but a story that tells how the Americans lived, how they felt and how they tackled their problems; about the Purtains and Virginians, the German "plain folks,” Scotch-Irish, Irish-Irish, Yankee inventors, slaves and freedom, cowboys. Swedes, Slaws, scientists, and the engineers who helped to make this country. It seems quite Lord to b e 1 ie v e now, i n modern America, that many of the ancestors cane here not because they wanted to but because they had to. Coy continues. And it’s funny, heads, but lhey didn’t know they were backward. The world was going at a dizzing pace: sailars steered by the compass and were learning to fell their position by the sun, moon and stars; and there were books printed and people who were clever enough to read them. Coy takes the readers through the American’s experiences from the birth of the republic through a crisis, in "Two Countries or One?” through the progress of the new nation, “How We Went to Town,” to “A Big War and a Little Atom,” and the future. Unlike the writer of a textbook, he includes vingettes of people such as Jefferson. There was the time the German Scientist, Baron Humboldt, came to visit the President. Seeing in the White House a newspaper that lambasted the President, the surprised Baron asked why such things were allowed. Jefferson invited him to take the paper with him, declarnig that should he hear the reality of America’s liberty, or freedom of the press, questioned, he should show this paper—“and tell where you'found it!” What shaped these ideals and the destiny of America happened long before the times of Washing, ton and Jefferson, however.-Ip the library’s book nook, “America’s Colonial Hertiage," by Patricia C Acheson, tells of the events that happened from feudal times tc the American revolution to make people sacrifice much in ordei to come to the new world, to build a new life in a wilderness, and to utilmately create a new nation dedicated to the principles of freedom. This is the story of what happened from the time when, 400 years ago, “the land lay dark and silent and unknown,” to the day when this was inscribed on the Libesty Bell: “Proclaim liberty through all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” Coming closer to the present, Madeline Sadler Waggoner, in “The Long Haul West,” described the era in which many people had “a handkerin’ for western’ ” but in Cumberland road could not handle the thousands of people who wanted to go west, and the railroads were not in wide use yet. This was the era of the canal, of the Wabash-Erie canal in Indiana, and of the Erie Canal, or Clinton, or Clinton's big ditch, in the east. In the beginning, eleven million dollars was appropriated for internal improvements, including canal building, but the Hoosier state ended up with seventeen million dollar bill. The expense was not only in money but in lives; tragedies on the\ canal happened because the canallers propgressed faster than the Indians were willing to leave. Still, the canal brought riches and things which made living in Hoosierland canal city quite luxurious. The boats brought silk, which cost 80 bushels of corn a

yard, and it brought about a change in frontier clothes for the richer people; men wore pointed boots, fawn colored pantaloons, ruffled shirt fronts then. A trip on the canal, especially on the boat Silver Bell ( painted silver all over) was considered a trip sot an aristocrat. J. Richard Beste, the English journalist who toted his wife and eleven children over most of the United States during that era, gives a vivid description of the pebple in Terre Haute, a canal paradise-. There was the Erie Canal, which provided a waterway from Lake Erie to the American East coast, and which assured the Atlantic states that the rich trade of the West would not be shipped instead through the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence to British-Canadian ports. The Erie brought money to the new country, and made life more leisurely; but many profits were not commerical. “Hoggies,” as drivers were known to canallers, provided folklore through the songs they sang and the stories they told about their feelings for their work. Strange new religious cults—the Shakers, the Spiritualists, and the Normans—came west with the canals, and even architecture was influenced, with pillared Greek houses coming into style. These stories about the Erie, or Clinton’s big ditch are told in "The American Story, from the age of exploration to the age of the atom,” also on special display in the public library for the fourth of July. Written by 60 members of the society of American historians, many of them Pulitzer prize winners or Bancroft award recipients, the book presents the full story, believing that “Our American past is filled with matter that should stir the blood like ancient Hebrew poetry or Scottish border balladry. ’ Reading in this collection of short essays, is almost like conversing with each writer, states the foreword to the book and the group illustrates several ideas which no reader of American history would have formed generations ago. They concern patriotism, demoraey and the outlook for the future, idea which have changed and broadened even since Lincoln’s time.

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JflglaVaßiMMw Horse and Pony Club Jim Singleton, president, opened Friday's meeting of the county 4-H horse and pony club, at Dr. __ Edward Peck’s farm. Debby Smith and Tom Peck led in the pledges. Leader Everett Singleton explained. the record books and 4-H horse show plans. The show . for the county horse and pony club is slated for July 29,’ the opening Tuesday of the county 4-H fair; members will be judged on horsemanship and will ride later in the parade. Bob Brown and Debby Smith presented • demonstration on proper saddling, bridling, and riding; each members practiced on these riding fundamentals afterwards. After refreshments were served, the meeting was adjourned until July 11. when the group will convene at the Kenneth Worden farm, northeast of Berne, beginning at 7 p.m. , Tyne -mW.:-——mg" t-sBIRTII9I — '■ l,l Mr. and Mrs. Duane White of Decatur, route 2, became the parents of a girl born Monday at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. At the Adams county memorial hospital: At 9:45 today, a five pound, ' twelve and one half ounce girl was born to Leo and Joyce Faye Young Ross of route 4, Decatur. . TIME TO STORE YOUR FURS In Our Modem VAULT KELLY DRY CLEANING 427 N. 9th St. i PHONE 3-3202