Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1958 — Page 9

Six E.U.B. Churches Plan Stewardship

Hawaiian Fashions Reported Taming i More Than Half Os Sales Now Exports By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor HONOLULU (UPI) — Hawaiian fashions are tamer than their reputations. "The whole mainland thinks of us in terms of those wild Aloha shirts,’’ said Robert F. Gaffney, president of the Hawaiian Fashion Guild. “But the real Hawaiian is what we’re selling.” The “real Hawaiian” stuff features its share of bold pineapple and palm tree prints, especially during Aloha Week, the annual festival celebrated throughout the islands last week. But Gaffney said demands from style-conscious women in the United States are helping to tame both colors and designs of sports and resort fashions. “Haole,” says the manufacturers, when they talk of mainlanders' preference for subdued hues and prints. Sales on Increase More than half of the fashion industry’s annual sales now are export, Gaffney said. And the guild, with a membership of 21 out of the 50 island manufacturers, hopes to increase that total rapidly. It is looking to an annual gross of SIOO million 20 years hence — which would put fashion right up there with sugar, pineapple and tourism as leading industries. This year, Gaffney said, clothing sales, at wholesale, are expected to reach sll million, more than double the figure of four years ago when the guild was organized. “We’re trying to do something besides clothes for Coney Island, and still keep the authentic Hawaiian flavor the women want,” said Gaffney. Gaffney, a commander in the naval reserve, and his wife, who helps with designs.

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run the only children’s clothing firm in the islands. I saw resort collections of several manufacturers and found three major style influences: the Far East, Paris and New York and the home-grown, as typified by the muumuu. Native dress from the whole Pacific basin inspire such popular clothes as the simple sheath dress with slit skirt adapted from Chinese dress in Hong Kong; the sari of India; the sarong of Java; the banker’s coat of China; the pajama, kimono, judo jacket and happi coat (short, loose-fitting peasant coat) of Japan. Big Hit Currently the biggest hit here is the “tea-timer”, a tunic-like dress with deep slits at the sides, worn over skinny pants. Both are street length, and some Honolulu women wear the tea-timers on the street, although it is sold mostly for lounge wear. One of the first to make the tea-timer was nani sportswear, and President F. Robert Frazer said he got the idea from a picture of Siamese dress in National Geographic Magazine. Gaffney’s firm has adapted it even for toddlers — lining the underpants with protective plastic. For some silhouettes, the Hawai ia n manufacturers have looked to the West — thee chemise and over-blouse fashions both are going strong. And the feminine demand that figure should show even has caused less voluminous versions of the muumuu, that super-sack native to the islands. Now, manufacturers are making the holomuu, fitted sheathlike to just below the knees. The rest of the way to the floor is flounce. Pause That Refreshes SAN JOSE, Calif. — (UPI) — Ivan Ray Gomez has sworn off drinking on the job. Police arrested him halfway through a home burglary while he was taking time out for a cold beer.

Lancaster Chapel E.U.B. SfIEJk \ / 'W| B •'• " Hr - I rH . I - ESS . BE ■. The Lancaster Chapel Church which has a membership of 108 will have as its goal $9,162. Its General committee are Don Prichard, chairman; Dale Ploughe, Dwight Shady, John Clark, Arthur Blackmore and Reverend Fred Pflugh, pastor.

Old Salem E.U.B. •” ft - ’• - jHbkBBH|R The Old Salem membership is 138 and the goal is $10,920. The General committee members are Wayne Dubach, chairman; Raymond Cox, Henry Dunwiddie. Dale Grandlienard, Brooks Grandlienard and Reverened Fuhrman Miller, pastor. Old salem is located on the Linn Grove circuit.

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Alarming Increase In Poisoning Cases Physicians Urged To Watch Poisons By DELOS SMITH • UPI Science Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Doctors are urged to get on their toes about the “alarming rate” of increase in people getting poisoned —accidentally and unknowingly—in the present complicated modern world of chemicals-for-every-purpose. The urger is Dr. Walter J. R. Camp, professor of toxicology (which is the science of poisons) at the University of bitlinois and official toxicologist of that state. His alarm boils down to this’: More and more complex chemicals are becoming as available to people as water, but people have not enough respect for chemicals. This is mane worse by the sly effects of some chemicals inside the body. They don’t poison suddenly and dramatically but slowly as they accumulate over long periods. The doctor not mindful of subtle poisonings could mistake the symptoms for something else. He told doctors it was not wise

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Tocsin E.U.B. The Tocsin Church which has a membership of 163 will have as its goal $12,598. Its General committee consists of Harvey Teeple. chairman; William Double, Robert Imel, Ansel Beck, Wayne Wickliffe and Reverend Fred Pflugh, pastor.

Decatur Trinity E.U.B. Trinity Church has a membership of 411 and it will have as its goal $38,040. The General committee consists of Clifford Hover man, chairman; David Wynn, Ted Hill. Hubert Gilpin, Robert Butcher and, Reverend J. O. Penrod, pastor.

to drop the thought of posible poisoning in a female patient with strange symptoms merely because she gave her occupation as “housewife.” The modern home, he warned, “probably contains more poisonous substances than any oilier social area.” Cites Paints As another instance of the change from the past when poisons were relatively simple and acted unmistakably, he cited paints, many paints now contain comparatively little lead but their solvents may be more poisonous than the lead was. “Surprisingly, many workers handling toxic materials in industry have not the least idea what the materials are or of the dangers associated with them,” he continued in a lecture-to-doctors in the technical journal, “Postgraduate Medicine.” He said “reputable” manufacturers protect their workers “but many small concerns do not have such safety control and some, through either ignorance or indifference, make no attempt to protect those exposed to noxious substances.” Doctors Should Be Alert All this makes it important for doctors to be alert as to the possibilities of slow-acting, accumulative poisons causing strange body disorders. But the really

Geneva E.U.B. HBmb HMNiIMMMk'' The Geneva Church has a membership of 212 and it will have as its goal $24,433. Its General committee consists of E. C. Stucky, chairman; Lester Workinger, Robert Pyle, Tom Weaver, Joseph Anderson and Reverend Paul Temple, pastor.

Linn Grove Calvary E.U.B. M| ■MH■■■■■■■■ r WshlL a | Calvary Church has a membership of 60 and the goal will be $4,945. The General committee is Ray Wittwer, chairman; Robert Meshberger. Marie Zerkel, Lavauga Kistler and Reverend Fuhrman Miller, pastor.

important thing is to instill respect for chemicals in the public at large. That’s a discouraging business, he granted; previous efforts to “educate” people had so little result as to cause “one to wonder if any impression was made.” But he offered this advice: Carbon monoxide is deadly and a whole family can be killed by it if the home furnace is not fully burning its fuel; storing insecticides, compounds containing creosol, and any other non-edible chemical on the same shelves as food is asking for trouble, and so is keeping poisonous substance in unlabeled container and out in the open. These should be kept always in a locked cabinet. He thinks it paradoxical that drugs prescribed by physicians “are a common source of poisoning.” “That happens because there is a lack of respect for drugs and “unused medications are hoarded and often put to uses never intended by the physician, or the lables may be disfigured or fall off and the material may be mistaken for something else.” Green With Envy RODEO, Calif. (UPD — California bar manager Jake Fisher is exhibiting a 98-pound water-melon a friend brought from Oklahoma. He calls it a “Texas cucumber.”

Indiana Nurses To Seek Legislation Discuss Needs At State Convention INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana nurses next month will take “a first exploratory step” in the direction of legislation to prevent untrained persons from nursing. One of the speakers for the 54th annual meeting Nov. 6-8 of the Indiana State Nurses Association will be Miss Florence I. 111ing, educational assistant with the New York State Board of Examination of Nurses. She will discuss that state's experience with a mandatory law setting up standards for professional nurses. Miss Nancy Scramlin, executive secretary for the Indiana association, explained that while the question of legislation has been a much-discussed subject among registered and practical nurses, thi was the first time it has been on a formal agenda for the ISNA meeting. The ISNA officer aid she could not hazard a guess when—if ever —a bill requiring an examination Or Other proof of training for nprses would be offered to the Indiana Legislature. But she said it would not come in the 1959 session. “Anybody can put on a white uniform and nurse for hire under Indiana’s present permissive laws," she said. "We will never protect the public until we do have a mandatory law.” But nurse shortages and public attitude which aissum.es any woman can be a nurse were barriers to mandatory legislation. Miss Scramlin believed. Everything from alcoholism to infection was to be discussed at the annual meeting. Other speakers listed by Mrs. Genevieve Beghtel, president of ISNA, were:

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Local Group Os Churches Pledge Sunday Need SIOO,OOO To Fulfill Plan For Next Year Six of the Evangelical United Brethren churches of the Decatur group will endeavor to receive commitments for more than SIOO,000 next Sunday, which has been designated as stewardship Sunday, the Rev. J. O. Penrod, group chairman of the stewardship program, said today. Trained local laymen will call qt the homes of members and friends to tell the story of the church program, and to receive individual commitments of life and material possessions to underwrite the program for the coming year. The program used by the six churches, representing about one* half of the Decatur group of the EUB church, is the united stewardship canvass of the national council of churches of the U.S.A. Rev. Penrod, pastor of the Trinity EUB church of Decatur, is director of the program. Four training sessions have been held to guide each church in building its program for the new year. Congregational dinners were held by each church to acquaint the members with the new program. Visitors have been trained and they will be commissioned by the pastor in the worship services next Sunday to “Go forth in Christ's name” into every home of the church to ask for commitments to Christ and the church. The participating churches are: Trinity of Decatur, Tocsin EUB, Lancaster Chapel, Calvary of Linn Grove, Old Salem on the Linn Grove circuit, and the Geneva church. Each church planned its budget on the basis of the financial resources of the church members. Goals are a realistic proportion of this. Each church council of administration also took part in the decision of setting the goal. For most of the churches this is the first year in the program, which has worked very successfully in many of. the churches which have already adopted it.

Traffic Toll Lower Than Usual October State's Death Toll 817 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana stands a good chance of finishing “bloody October” with a traffic death toll 20 per cent lower than the average toll for that month in the last six years. Provisional statistics revealed by Indiana State Police today showed that 90 deaths were recorded from Oct. 1 through Oct. 26, indicating a considerable reduction from all recent Octobers except 1954. Barring an unusually heavy toll the next three days, the month’s total probably will be around 100. That would compare with 137 in 1952. 136 in 1953, 92 in 1954, 142 in 1955, 122 in 1956 and 124 in 1957. Just before the month began, Governor Handley called for a traffic enforcement crackdown to keep the toll down during a month which he said had established itself over the years as “bloody October” because it frequently resulted in a higher fatality rate than any other month in the year. Only 19 fatalities were recorded last week, compared with 24 for the corresponding week in 1951. The 19 deaths raised the year’s total to 817, compared with 915 a year ago, a reduction of 98. The low toll last week was helped by a relatively safe weekend in which only seven were killed in 54 hours.