Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1958 — Page 6

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14,400 Students Now Completing Tests Scholarships To Go To 735 Highest The national Merit Scholarship Corportation today announced that it has completed the mailing of] test score reports measuring the ; educational development of 478.000 students to 14.400 public, private ,and parochial high schools located throughout the U. S. and possessions. The examination, called the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, was given the morning of April 29 to nearly a half million youngsters (about 31 per cent of all students who will be seniors this fall >. It is believed to be the largest number of students ever given the same test on a single LOSEUGLY FAT IN TEN DAYS OR MONEY BACK If you are overweight, here is the first rea)lv thriiliug news t.. coiTie along in years. A new & convenient way to gei rid of extra pounds easier than ever, so you can be as slim anil,trim as yon want. This new ).ro<lm t called I PATRON curbs both -ItiHiger .&*LU>£:ti:LE. :Nci .drirKs, ririi. iliar, . no exercise. Absolutalit—har-mi-ess-WDen you take IHATRON, veil still enjoy your meals, still eat the foods you like but you simply don't Ijave the urge for extra portions and automatically your weight must come down, because, as* your, own doi-tbr will tell you, when you eat less, -yon weigh less Excess' weight endangers your heart, kirfnevs. So n<> matter what. you have tried before, get I MATRON -end prove to yourself what it can do. I>IATIU>N is sold on this GUARANTEE: You must lose, weight witli the first 'package you use or the package costs you nothing. Just return the bottle to your druggist and get your money bark. DIATHON costs j.’t.iMi and Is .sold with this strict money back guarantee by: Smith llrug Store - llecntiir - Mall Orders Filled

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[ day. The intensive three-hour bat- ; tery of tests was devised, graded, and reported by Chicago’s Science . Research Associates, a national ■ educational testing organization. About October 1, the top scoring 10,000 students will be chosen and notified that they are Semifinalists in the completion. The highest scorers in each state are chosen, with each state’s quota dependent on its population. The Semifinalists will take a secI ond examination in December to further substantiate their high ability before being named Finalists. Finalists will compete for at least 735 four-year college scholarships ' with stipends ranging from SIOO to $1,500 a year, depending upon, individual need. Colleges will benefit as well, receiving unrestricted grants to help them in educating the Merit "Scholars. Besides these Merit Scholarships, hundreds of other scholarships are given to the high scoring students by colleges, universities, and other f cholarship- awarding agencies. The total estimated value of the battery of awards: about $5 million. The National Merit Scholarship Corportation, founded in 1955 with grants of S2O million from the Ford Foundation and $500,000 from the Carnegie Corportation of New York, will provide 325 scholarshtns. Other Merit Seholarships will be awarded by more than 80 corportations, foundations, individuals. and professional societies. The Merit Program has awarded about sl2 million in scholarships to some 2.300 of the nation’s most talented students in the three years of its operation. Until 1958, the massive talent hunt began with fall examinations of high school seniors. Last year, MSBC decided to test the 1958 crop of students at the end of the junior year, so that their scores could be reported before the stu-

1 ' I ■ | dents started their senior yeat, | ' Thus, the 1958 results are being; 1 ’ made available to students and | i advisors in time for planning senI ior year courses. Test scores will : I also be helpful to guidance counI selors, MSBC believes, for steering College-bound students along the right academic roads. This year's tests, prepared by ■ SRA, give students a crucial assessment of their own academic ( ■ strengths and weaknesses by pro-] 1 viding,scores for verbal and math- ■ ematical abilities, and attainments in natural and social sciences. Interpretive, materials for students were sent to high school guidance officials, aldng with each individual student’s five sub-scor-1 es. The sub-scores included: d> ! knowledge of vocabulary, (2) ab-i ility in mathematics and quantitative thinking. (3) ability to read, and comprehend the social scienc- ] es, <4l ability to read and com- 1 phrend the natural scicnces. anrf (5) English usage. Total scores 1 and composite sub-scores ha&e also been sent for each tested student. Sputnik To Appear I Again Sunday Night Brief Flash Expected t^st View INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — The] rocket carrier of Sputnik 111, | speeding, along 700 miles above I ; the earth, will be seen only a | I few more times in the United' : States before Labor Day —, and perhaps only once in Indiana. —- Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob- ; servatory scientists said most of , | the flashing carrier's appearan- ) I ces will be limited for the East ■ Coast regions: Most sightings are !■ expected in the Far West. • i The only Indiana sighting prom-

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A WELCOME FROM THE MAYOR— While New York extended itself in greeting to the officers and men of the atomic submarine NautJ ilus, the vessel’s skipper Comdr. William Anderson (left* and Admiral Hyman Rickover <right> who fathered the nuclear-powered j sub get a hearty greeting from Mayor Robert F. Wagner, The three were attenaing ceremonies honoring the sub's achievements.

lised was at 7:58 p.m. c.d.t. Sunl day, when the satellite will be seen in a brief flash' over an area ] ! between a line from Illinois to: _Llu>uisia&u.=a«d ;fr<i«r Michigan to [Central Florida. Hoosier interest in the rocket I carrier was whetted within the I last two weeks when it made alI most nightlj’ — and sometimes ] twice nightly—jaunts across Indi- ] ana skies, with clear, starry skies most of the time furnishing a perfect setting for the viewing. The highest temperature ever recorded in hte U.S. was 134 degrees in Deathy Valley, Calif., on July 10, 1913.

Stale Police Give Warning On Signs Not Legal To Lead Motorjsts To Road Indiana state police warn that it is unlawful to post signs within 200 feet of a highway; recently this 1 law has been violated in this area. Anyone convicted of violating this law will forfeit a fine from $5 to SSO, authorities remind area residents. In Burns there is the following statement: it shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain in the right of way of any highway in the State highway system or within two hundred feet of such right of way any sign or device, directing or indicating on what highway or route a person should travel in order to reach* a designated place or highway without first getting the written consent of the State High- : way Commission to erect pr maintain such a sign dr device: Provided. that the-foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to signs, devices, and markers erectled and/or maintained by any deI partment of the State, or by the State Highway Department. Commission or its authorized employees. Any person violating any. of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall "be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and the State Highway Department or commission is hereby authorized to remove any such sign or device, erected or maintained in violation of the provisions hereof. FORT WAYNE (Continued from page one) Nathan Shefferman for a few years, and in 1952 got a charter from the Jewelry Workers Union to organize carnivals. Kennedy said testimony in the next few days would show that organizing pressure by the huge Teamsters Union was at least a •■factor” in the abandonment of the "big top” by Ringling Brothers. Barnum and Bailey Circus and the elimination of smaller shows. Testimony was scheduled from the operators of eight circuses and carnivals. Kennedy said John Ringling North, head of “The Greatest Show on Earth.” was in Europe but had submitted a sworn affidavit to the committee. The Ringlings gave up their annual summertime tours under canvas two years ago and the gradual loss of smaller shows has been the despair of circus buffs throughout the nation. Ringling s show now appears only in large cities, in indoor arenas or outdoor stadiums. Kennedy said while other economic factors obviously had a part in the decline of circuses, the organizational drives of the Teamsters also took a toll. He said there would be testimony about other Ringling labor difficulties, including violence when the circus was in Philadelphia and Teamsters sponsorship of a rival show to compete against it during a Boston engagement. The committee turned to the circus situation after two days of testimony about violence in the taxicab industry in St. Louis. i B. A. Foster, manager of a St. Louis cab company employing only Negro drivers, told the committee Wednesday his vehicles were shot at, burned and bombarded with stenefi fluid in 1954-55 when his drivers voted to leave the Teamsters for an independent union. Criminal Appeals Court May Loose Its Name — OKLAHOMA CITY (UPD—State Sen. George Miskovsky said the wants the name of the state Criminal Court of Appeals changed to “The State Court of Criminal Appeals.” _ . “That iyill put the criminal blame where it he said j —on the convicted person ratherthan the judges.

Ball State Offers Nighttime Math Parttime Classes < Start In September Ball State Teachers College will I go on the offensive during the 1958-59 college year to sharpen mathematics study to several levels beyond the regular mathematics courses provided for the college’s daytime students. For example, persons who are not able to attend daytime classes but would like to start the study of mathematics on the college level may enroll in beginning college algebra to be taught at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for un dergraduate college credit or simply to become acquainted with algebra. Other courses available in the evening include advanced calculus which will be taught Wednesday evenings from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. so that participants may have an hour for supper. Already several college mathematics instructors from the Ft. Wayne area have enrolled in the course which‘will be taught by Dr. P. D. Edwards, head of the mathematics department. The course is also available for graduate students who are teaching in Indiana high schools. Some of the teachers may wish to enroll in a course in complex variables to be taught at 4 p.m. It will meet for one hour on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. Some forty high school teachers , of mathematics will be enrolled I in two experimnetal courses pertaining to the teaching of high school algebra and geometry. These courses are underwritten by a major research grant provided by the National Science Foundation of Washington, Dr. C. The program is directed by Dr. Charles, Brumfiel. associate professor of mathematics, and his assistant, : Robert Eicholz, assistant profess-1 or of mathematics. ” The mathematics department i plans to provide an instructor for a course in differential equations which will be taught for 35 graduate engineers of General Motors plants in Anderson. Ind. Persons interested in enrolling in any of the on campus mathematics course may make arrangements by writing to the Ball State office of extended services or to th* college’s graduate office. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad— they bring resuits.

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Berne Area Farmer Dies Suddenly Amos A. Liechty Suffers Attack I Amos A. Liechty, 65, prominent farmer and trucker residing 214 miles northwest of Berne, died very suddenly at his home thismorning at 2 a. m. of a coronary attack. The son of Christian J. and Adeline Neuenschwander Liechty, he was born July 16. 1893, and has been a lifelong resident of Adams county. He is a member of the First Mennonite church of Berne. On Jan. 27, 1915 he was married to Della Nussbaum, who proceeded him in death in 1955. T h e couple had four sons and eigKT daughters, two of whom died in infancy. The surviving children are Erwin J: Liechty, of route 4, Decatur; Grover D. and Ernest R. Liechty, of near Berne, and Amos A. Liechty, Jr., of Berne; Mrs. Ira Gerber, of Berne. Miss Irene Liechty, of the Belgium Congo. Africa: Mrs. Maurice Scholl, of Polo, Ill.; Mrs. Simon Neuenschwander, route 2, Rockford, O.; Mrs. Philip Neuenschwander, of routed,Berne.and Mrs. DonE. Herman, of rout? one, Geneva. Brothers and sisters of the deceased are Walter Liechty, of route one, Berne. Mrs. Levi Lehman of ■route one, Berne, and Mrs. Noah Lehman and Mrs. E. W. Lehman

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of Berne; also, 26 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.» Saturday at the First Mennonite church, the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after 7 p. m. this evening. Clear, Hol Weekend Is Indiana Outlook Temperature High Expected at 90 ■. United Press International Fair and warmer weather was on tap for Hoosiers today and Frida and theoutlookforSa tu r—day was fair and mild. The possibility was seen of a few small showers in north and central portions of Indiana this afternoon. But the Weather Bureau said “the chances of anything more than what might be s called a sprinkle is very un- ’ likely.” Otherwise, only clear skies and mild to warm temperatures were ahead. : ~ = Highs Wednesday ranged from 77 at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis . to 82 at Evansville, although the . Chicago area had 83 and Louis- : ville 85. Lows this morning ranged i from 55 at Evansville to 64 at i j Lafayette.