Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1958 — Page 2

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- Four Accidents In County On Holiday „ Only One Injury Is Reported In County Four accidents occurred over the holiday weekend in Adams i county. , One driver received personal injuries as a result of one mishap, and two drivers were arrested for traffic violations following investigation of two accidents .by the city police and sheriff's j department. _ Helen M. Flueckiger, 49. Berne, I received bruises to her left hip, i leg, and arm, as a result of a mishap that occurred at the intersection of Water and Sprunger streets Saturday evening at 6 o’clock in Berne. A car driven by David Blenhe, 25. Plymouth. Wis., was attempting to make a left turn onto Water street from Sprunger street when the accident occurred. The driver

stated that he did not see the stop sign located in the center of the street, and made the turn into the path of the Flueckiger vehicle. Blenhe was arrested by the sher- . iff's department for failure to ] yield the right of way, and will . appear in the near future to the ( charge in justice of the peace ( court in Berne. Damage to the auto driven by Blenhe was esti- , mated at S3OO and damage to the ( Flueckiger car was estimated at S2OO. An accident occurred Saturday night at 10 o’clock on Monroe street involving three autos. Cars ' driven by Dale F. Hake, 18, Deca- . tur. and Emil H. Baurrigartner, ’ Jr., 20. Monroe, were stepped on Monroe street for traffic, when a car driven by Kathleen K. Schultz, 17, Decatur, failed to see them and struck the Baumgartner vehicle in the rear, causing it to i strike the Hake auto. Miss Schultz | was arrested by the city police department for reckless driving and appeared on the charge in justice of the peace court Sunday and was given a fine of $16.75 for the offense. Damage to the Schultz auto was, estimated at S9OO. $l5O to the Hake auto, and SSO to the Baumgartner vehicle. Two vehicles and a house were | involved in a mishap Sunday afi ternoon at 4.05 p. m. near the intersection of Meibers and Walnut t streets. Cars driven by Donald V. ' Hill. 54. Decatur, and William I I Hall, 78, route two, Ossian, colI lided at the intersection after fail- | ing to see one another. The car I driven by Hill was headed north I on Walnut and the auto driven by i Hall was eastbound at the time of the mishap. The car driven by Hall struck a house owned by I •James G Gattshall, 828 Walnut, street, as a result of the impact I of the accident. I Damage to the Hill vehicle was | estimated at SIOO, the Hall car was damaged at S4OO. and the damage I estimated to the Gattshall house at S2OO. An accident occurred at 2:20 a i m today five and one half miles: ‘ north of U. S. 224 on highway 101. ■ i A ear driven by Herman Witte. 18. i route three, Decatur, ran off the i road and struck a small culvert, I causing S3OO damage to the right , front of the automobile. ■’ . I i Railroad Sandcar Upsets, One Killed i INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - A raili road sandcar upset on a trestle at an industrial plant Saturday, : fatally injuring Ernest Lawler. 56. i an employe of The plant. Trade in a good town — Decatu

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Pennsylvania Railroad I Depot Is Destroyed CROTHERSVILLE, Ind. (UPD ( — The Pennsylvania Railroad de- | pot here was almost totally destroyed Saturday night when part of a combination passenger-freight train left the tracks. About 50 passengers were aboard the Itidianapolis - Louisville train. Three sustained minor cuts < and bruises. . i At least 300 yards of track were ; torn up when the first two baggage s cars came loose and left the i tracks. One of the cars smashed 1 into the depot, Which had closed ‘ for the night. —1 12 New Films Now At Library September List Released Today Beginning the 1958-59 film sea-' son, twelve 16 mm films are' available at the Decatur public library during September. The twelve, on deposit from thel Indiana library film circuit, may be obtained from Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, for showing to clubs, church groups, school classes. etc.; the names of the films and descriptions are: ADVENTURES OF A BABY FOX: 14 min., black and white—! a trip through the woods follow-' ing the antics of a baby fox as hel hunts for food and finds insect. | flower, and bird life along the I way. Accompanied by narration I. ' in verse and original music score. | A refreshing film that will be enjoyed by children and adults alike • because of the fine photographyi and originality. AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 14 min., color—a clear explanation of the strategy, the struggle, the movement of forces and the important military engagements of the war for independence. StresI ses geographical, social and po- ! litical factors which brought victory to the thirteen states. A CHANCE TO PLAY: 20 min., black and white—this film deals with the problem of the lack of community recreation areas and. its resulting impact on the coun-: try today. Because of the lack! of playgrounds and recreational areas, young children drift into mischief and petty crime, great-: ly increasing the juvenile delin-j quency problems. Because of the lack of social centers and reere-: ationalareas, old folks have nothing to do to keep them interested: in life around them. Ways of getting things done about these: problems are indicated. FISHING THE LAST FRONTIER: 9 min., color - National. Film Board of Canada* pictures a I j party of fishermen in northern Saskatchewan as they proceed j north to explore lakes few anglers : have visited. Points out access!bility by air between the lakes of the region FROM TEN TO TWELVE: 26 I min., black and white —the latest > I in the “Ages and Stages Series.’’ | Once again we see and hear i tive children in real life situa-[ i tions, hear their noisy shouts, wit--I ness their bursts of anger and: | watch their spirit of cooperation. I HUMAN HEREDITY: 18 min., color—describes roles of heredity | land culture in determining charI acteristics of human beings. ! j INDIAN CEREMONIALS: 18 I min., color —scenes taken at Gal-1 ! lup, New Mexico, site of the Inter- i tribal ceremonies held annually in | August. j THE ROMAN WALL: 11 nun. J black and white—examination of: the Hadrian’s great wall in Eng-j land. I ROOM FOR DISCUSSION: 25 min., black and white—defines dis-1 cussion and gives examples of its | use throughout history. Explains I proper discussion techniques and emphasizes the importance of dis-1 cussion in many groups Con-: eludes with a summary of the value of discussion in defining and > solving problems, enriching lifej experience and maintaining the ; essence of democracy. SUEZ CANAL: 18 min., black, and white—the first film in a ser-1 ies entitled “Our times" documents the history, geography. and management of the Suez Canal from Biblical times to the present. Because of the current Middle East crisis the film fills a need for good background and discussion material. THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE: 25 min., color—depicts the operation of Riley Hospital for Children beginning with the out-patient department and showing the activities of the various other departments. Includes sequences of the therapeutic work done at Camp Bradford Woods. WHY VANDALISM: 16 min., black and white — three boys, from unhappy home situations, share the feeling of being outsiders. Film shows them getting into trouble, the reasons and ways such acts can be avoided. JL— —- Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat. talk, laugh or sneeze without tear of insecure false teeth dropping, , slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com- ' fortably. Thu pleasant powder has no ’ gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. j Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline J Inon-acidi Checks "plate odor” I (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at . any drug counter. • J

Ribbon Awards For County 4-H'ers County 4-H'ers Win At State Fair Seventeen Adams county 4-H’er and one area 4-H club member received ribbon awards in 4-H judging last week at the Indiana state fair, according to a release received late last week. In an additional statement, three more 4-H’ers were blue ribbon winners. County awards were scattered throughout the ribbon classifications: there were seven blue ribbon winners, six red ribbon winners: and four green, or fourth place ribbon winners in the first group In the high school band contest, two county bands competed with 58 Indiana high school marching units. The Adams Central high school band placed 36th, and the Monmouth high school band, 39th. Area bands placing included Lancaster Central, Wells county, in 40th, and East Rockcreek, also Wells county, 47th. First place went to the Anderson high school marching unit, second to Princeton. third to Ben Davis of Indianapolis, and fourth to Manual, of Indianapolis. Placing in the blue ribbon category in the first division of food preservation was Anita Fennig. Blue Creek Up and At It. Ribbon winners in the food preservation were: first division, Cynthia Prague, Geneva, green; second division, Marsha King. Monmouth Merry Maids, red; and Brenda Roe, Blue Creek Up and At It. green; and Lois Wietfeldt, Hoagland, green; third division. Nancy Raudenbush, Blue Creek Up and At It, green. In the baking contest, fourth divi-l sion, Jane Duff. Hartford Happy j Go Lucky, placed in the blue rib-; bon. Placing in the red ribbon class in the category was Annette Thomas, Washington Happy Hustlers. In food preservation section 4993. according to a dispatch from Indianapolis, Lois Jean Gerke, Union Pals, received red ribbon honors. Two firsts, or blue ribbon plac-: ings. were awarded to Adams; county 4-H’ers in the electricity ■; project, in addition to awards an-. nounced earlier last Week. Lois Jean Gerke, Union Pals, receivedj a blue ribbon in division one, Ronnie Chistner. Blue Creek Sodbusters, in division two. also received a blue. Placing in the green ribbon class in division one Nancy Bailey. St. Mary's Kekiongas. Three firsts and three seconds went to county 4-H’ers in the oreft projects. Blue ribbons winners were Ricky Gerbers. Union Workers; Richard Weiland. Union Workers, and Paula Strickler, Washington Happy Hustlers. Red ribbon winners were Charles McCullough. St. Mary’s Sodbusters; Connie Bergman. Monmouth Merry Maids, and Sharon Diehl, Berne Jolly Workers. Three more blue ribbons went to Adams county 4-H club members in the baking contest: Cynthia Carroll, St. Mary’s Kekiongas; Lois Jean Gerke, Union Pals, and Phyllis Meyer, Monroe Boosterettes. Al- | so receiving ribbon awards in the i state fair contest were Rosalind Bauman. Wabash Cloverleaf, red; ' and Mary Helen Schwaller, Washington Happy Hustlers, white. In clothing, Rita Norquest. De- | catur Peppy Gals, received a blue I ribbon in her class; receiving red | ribbons were Gail Egly, Jefferson Work and Win. and Cindy Collier, Decatur Peppy Gals, while Lois Jean Gerke. Union Pals, placed in the white ribbon category. Ty Ballard placed 14th in the 180-210 lb. barrow class in the Berk- ' shire breed. Elden Holsapple showed the reserve grand champion barrow in the Berkshire class. ■ Joe Kohne received the followj ing placings in the Red Poll breed i of the 4-H dual purpose calves. 3rd in senior yearling, 6th in 3-year-old and over caw. 9th in the senior "Calf class, and 2nd in the lightweight dual purpose steers. Safa Nell Liechty placed 10th in the senior yearling class in the Holf stein 4-H dairy calf classes. ■ In the forestry classes. Sheldon Bixler, Monroe Boosters, and David Swickard. Decatur City Slickers, received red ribbons, and Lynford Weiland, Union Workers, received a pink ribbon. In the entomology class, Steven Kaye, Decatur City Slickers, received a pink ribbon. Rose Polytechnic Prexy Dies Monday TERRE HAUTE. Ind. (UPI) — Services will be held here Wednesday for Dr. Ford L. Wilkinson, 63, president of Rose Polytechnic Institute Wilkinson died Monday night in Union Hospital. He came here from the U. S. Naval Academy where he served as a civilian dean. He was a graduate of Annapolis in 1917 find also held degrees front Columbia and Louisville Universities. The Caribbean island of Trinidad includes among its population Chinese, Hindus, Moslems. Parsees. French. Dutch. Madrassis. Bengalese. Brahmins. Spanish. Portuguese. Africans and Near Easterners.

Schools Os America Face Many Problems

Editor's Noto: This is the first of three special reports on the problems facing Ame ri c a's schools when they reopen for the fall term. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — America’s schools and colleges will open their doors next month to nearly 45 million students — the largest number that any nation has ever attempted to educate. The bells ,that summon onequarter of the nation’s total population back to school also will assign the renewal of a perennial debate on the shortages and shortcomings in the U.S. education system. An urgent new note was injected into the debate last year—the "beep-beep” of Russia's Sputnik I. The fear of falling behind Russia in the race for technological supremacy prompted many Americans, including President Eisenhower, to pin an emergency label on the long-recognized need for strengthened schools. Responding belatedly to a special message which the President submitted seven months ago, Congress enacted a $887,400,000 meas-

ure which has been described as a "federal aid to education” bill. Actually, it provides federal funds for very limited sectors of education — loans to needy students who want to attend college, matching grants to states to buy science equipment and improve the teaching of science, languages and counselling services in high school; fellowships for, teachers taking postgraduate study to qual-: ify for college faculty jobs. The most ardent supporters of j this bill acknowledge that it will j not solve all, or even most, of the ■ : fundamental problems confronting U.S. schools as they begin their new term. Here are some facts, figures and conflicting opinions about the fundamental problems and what is being done; OVERCROWDING Lack of space is the most im-I mediate and obvious problem of j [ many school districts. Nationwide,| ; more than 70,000 new classrooms j ; have been built in the past year ! in an effort to relieve overcrowd- ] ing. But school enrollment con-, tinues to grow at a rate more > than twice that of the general ■ population. New schools are j opened only to be swamped with. | new students. The U.S. Office of Education es-| ■ timates that the classroom shortage this fall will total 132.800, compared with 142.300 in 1957. Thus parents can look for a slight j improvement in the overcrowding which last year had 800,000 students on double-shifts and nearly 7 million in classes of more than . 30 pupils each- But no major relief is in sight. President Eisenhower asked Congress three times — in 1955, j 1956 and 1957 — to authorize a' > multi-billion dollar "emergency" I , program of federal aid for class- i | room construction. The proposal j . [ got entangled with the school in- j ’ itegration issue and no action was* taken. The President abandoned it , this year. , The outlook for stepped up con- | struction with state and local fi-i ' nancing is not bright. Local prop-] erty taxes, which carry the main ■ burden of school costs, already' have reached the level in many school districts at which further * increases encounter serves resist-, 1 ance. Voters rejected nearly one-| ■ third Os the school bond issues | ; submitted for their approval last! * year. TEACHERS Nearly everyone agrees that' there aren’t enough good teachers i ’ to go around. But the scope and 1 cause of the teacher shortage are matters of sharp dispute. The National Education Associa--1 tion (NEA) says the public schools 1 will have a deficit of 135,000 * j "qualified teachers” this fall. It ■ j blames the shortage primarily on - teaching salaries which now average about $4,650 nationally, with i wide variations among the states. Critics of the NEA question both the figure and the explanation, i They charge that the NEA (which| has 600,000 teachers as dues-pay-I ing members) is a “teachers'j [ trade union” and that it has in- [ I sisted on certification standards! which tend to make the teaching ] profession a “closed shop” for | graduates of teachers’ colleges. Each state has its own stand-; ards for granting teaching certificates, The extremes vary widely, |

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but the typical requirement is a college degree with a specified number of courses in educational theory and technique. Those required courses are usually offered only by teachers’ colleges or the education departments of universities. Critics assert that this system has two bad effects: (1) Teachers spend so much of their college time learning how to teach that they neglect learning what to teach; and <2) many able people who might be attracted into teaching are ruled unqualified because they merely have a college degree in science, math, English, history, etc. The NEA replies that some training in teaching methods is urgently needed by anyone who is called on to manage a class of 30 or more children. In any event, the trend seems to be toward making it easier for ’ liberal arts graduates to get [ teaching jobs. Virginia drastically reduced its requirements for professional education training this ’ year and New York state can- ’ celled a scheduled ncrease in its requirements. Many other states

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Overheated Stoves Bring Out Firemen The city fire department was summoned twice Labor Day in answer to calls of overheated stoves. The first call was received at 7:50 a.m. from Mrs. Joseph Kaehr, Sr., at 410 Line street. A thermostat became overheated and the fire department was called to the scene. The second call was also from Line street. A call from Kenneth Shell, of 510 Line street, at 8:15 p.m. brought the fire department again in answer to an overheated oil burner. Damage to both of the houses was, considered very slight with the exception of a little smoke damage. Hammond Man Drowns At Kokomo Saturday HAMMOND. Ind. (UPI) Richi ard Schaller, 36. Hammond, drowned late Sunday in Hamlin ; Lake near Ludington, Mich, have liberalized the rules for ’ granting temporary or provisional • taching licenses to college gradu- • ates who lack pedagogical courses. ) (Next: Frills and “snap courses” uin the curriculum)