Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1958 — Page 6

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January 14 Hearing For Irvin's Appeal ; Hearing Date6eb, By Supreme Court EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPD—The U. S. Supreme Court will begin deliberation Jan.’"l4y on the appeal of “Mad Dog” killeKljeslie Irvin, now confined in death row at Indiana State Prison. Irvin’s attorney, Theodore Lockyear Jr., said the high court informed him of the date for the hearing. Lockyear and James Lopp, another attorney, will go to Washington to present Irvin’s case. Irvin, now 36, was convicted in Gibson Circuit Court at Princeton in December of 1955 for the fatal shooting of W. Wesley Kerr, Evansville service station attendant, on Dec. 23, 1954. Irvin was accused of five other “Chinese execution” slayings in the Indiana-Kentucky area during a six-month crime spree. The victims were forced to kneel with their hands tied behind them and then were shot in the back of the head. A month after his conviction, Irvin broke out of jail at Princeton and triggered a nation-wide manhunt which ended with his cap- - ture in a San Francisco pawn shop. The former Evansville pipefitter was sentenced to die in the Indiana electric chair, but the sen-

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tence was stayed several times while his attorneys carried the case through state and federal courts during a three-year period. In one instance, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge granted Irvin a stay of execution only hours before he was to die. In each case, the court ruled that Irvin forfeited his right to a new trial when he escaped from jail and was at large when the appeal for a new trial was filed. The appeal before the nation’s highest tribunal is legally listed as Leslie Irvin versus A. F. Dowd, warden, Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Ind. Irvin’s attorneys will argue that their client’s constitutional rights were violated and he did not receive due process of law on several points; that the jurors were prejudiced; that the prosecuting attorney also appeared as a witnessin the case and that the trail should have been venued to another area because of widespread publicity. The state’s case will be argued by Richard Givens of the Indiana Attorney General's office. Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Paul Wever had planned to assist in the case, but will not go since he no longer will be in office. Givens indicated he would file new charges against Irvin if the high court should reverse the decision of the U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Berne Autioneer To Preside At Meeting Auctioneer James Liechty, of Berne, president of the Indiana auctioneers association, will preside at its annual convention Monday. January 5, at the Washington > hotel in Indianapolis. Auctioneers i from throughout the state are ex- | pected to attend. j Francis Kiss, a native of Buda- - pest, Hungary, who now resides at Portland, will speak at the evening banquet concerning his fight as a freedom fighter during the revolution, and his sentence to prison, i Prominent auctioneers from all parts of the country will speak. BUDGET-MINDED RANDOLPH, N. Y. —<UPD - Randolph village trustees agreed j—but only after considerable de- | bate—to buy a brick schoolhouse i with 11 classrooms, and auditorium, cafeteria and playroom. The ' total cost was sl.

Satellites At Glance AMERICAN Explorer I: Launched Jan. 31, 1958. Weight, 30.8 pounds; tubeshaped, 80 inches long; time of orbit, 113.35 minutes; speed, 19,000 m.p.h.; maximum height, l, miles; minimum height, 218.2 miles. Expected stay in orbit 3 to 5 years. Vanguard I: Launched March 17. Weight, 3.25 pounds; sphereshaped, 6.4 inches in diameter; orbit time, 134.25 minutes; speed. 18,365 m.p.h.; maximum height, 2,458 miles; minimum height, 409.1 miles. Expected stay up at least 200 years. Explorer III: LAunched March 26; weight, 31 pounds, tubeshaped. 79 inches long; orbit time, 115.7 minutes; speed, 18,000 m. maximum height, 2,000 miles; minimum height, 100 miles. Believed burned up in June. ..Explorer III: Launched March Weight, 38 pounds; bullet-shaped, 80 inches long. Expected to stay in orbit 5 to 10 years. Atlas Missile: Launched Dec. 18; weight, 8.500 to 8,700 pounds; orbit time, about once every 100 minutes; speed. 17,100 na.p.h.; maximum height, 625 miles; minimum height. 118 miles; expected to stay in orbit about 20 days. RUSSIAN Sputnik I: Launched Oct. 1957. Weight, 184 pounds; sphere-shaped. 22.8 inches in diameter; orbit time, 96 minutes; speed, 18,000 maximum height, 560 miles; minimum height, 125 miles; burned out Jan. 4, 1958. Sputnik II: Launched Nov. 3, 1957. Weight 1,118 pounds; coneshaped, 15 feet long; orbit time, 103.7 minutes; speed. 17.800 m.p.h.; maximum height, 1.020 miles; minimum height, 140 miles; burned out April 14, 1958. Sputnik III: Launched May 15; weight, 2,925.53 pounds: coneshaped; 11.8 feet long; orbit time. 105.21 minutes; speed, 14,746 m.p.h.; maximum height, 1,120 miles; minimum height. 128 miles; the carrier rocket burned out Dec. 3, 1958, but the Sputnik is expected to remain in orbit for a year longer. Pedestrian Killed When Hit By Auto TERRE HAUTE, Ind. <UPI) — Mrs. Mary Lewis, 78, was killed Thursday night when she was struck by an automobile operated by Mark Richardson, 31, while crossing a city street. 8,800-POUND Continued from page one tercontinental ballistics missile able to carry a hydrogen warhead thousands of miles. Tumbling Like Football For the Air Force, it was a bull’s eye on its first attempt to shoot a satellite. An automatic stering system used for the first time on a space shoot, performed perfectly and the Atlas was guided rather thrown into the precise orbit planned for it. Defense Department scientists explained that the Atlas is tumbling around the earth much as a football which has been dropkicked. Eisenhower h i m s e 1 f proudly proclaimed the success of the firing at a formal White House dinner for the diplomatic corps Thursday night. His staff kept in minute-by-minute contact with the firing from the time the countdown began until the long, sleek rocket orbitted successfully. Just before leading his guests in to dinner, the President stepped to the center of the room and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have just heard some news that may be of some interest to y0u...” Then he told of the newest and greatest American satellite achievement and applause broke out among the assembled diplomats. To newswomen covering the event, Eisenhower said “they got what they were shooting for.” Five Satellites in Sky The new satellite outweighs Russia’s Sputnik II which hit 1,120 pounds and Sputnik 111 which weighed 2,925 pounds. However, the total weight of Sputnik II and the rocket which carried it into flight has been estimated at about 7,000 pounds and Sputnik 111 with its carrier rocket are believed to have weighed even more.

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But it was significant that the I Atlas' payload and carrier are i one unit. The achievement means that there are now five satellites flashing through the skies—four of them launched by the United States, the other by Russia. the • J HHh, . sPEdwiq lntnrr.at.onai Under® Sunday Schno* L—sem Bible Material. Luke 1:26-58; 2:1-3X Devotional Readiar: Luke 1:67-71. Joy Lesson for December 21, 1958 A MAGAZINE which advertises expensive things —- cufflinks for SIOO and over, cute little earrings for SSOO, mens shirts for sls each—carried once a full-page advertisement with exactly eight words besides the manufacturer’s name. It read: “JOY —the most costly perfume in the world.”

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As an ad for perfume, that was obviously silly. It would appeal only to the kind of person who does not ask, “How good Is this?" but “how expensive is it?" You do not raise the quality of

your merchandise merely by raising the price. Nevertheless, as a parable, or a starting-point for meditation, that is worth several minutes’ serious thought. Joy 1$ Lifs’t PerfuMO Perfumery is at the same time one of the most useless and yet most popular things sold. How many thousand gallons of it, will be -sold for Christmas presents no one knows. And yet what good is it? A very practical-minded character might ask. All it does is to smell good. Ah, but that is just the point. Let the reader think back over the happiest moments of his or her life. Isn’t it true that some sort of fragrance pervades each happy memory? The mint In Grandmother’s back yard, the ttov key at Tranksgiving, the smell of the Christmas tree, and the spring lilacs, and the perfume she wore the night she said “Yes.” An odorless world would be a dull world. It’s the pervasive and haunting fragrance of life that lift it out oi the commonplace. So with joy. Unlike perfume, It has no market value; but like perfume, its usefulness is mainly indirect. As there are cheap and vulgar perfumes, so there are cheap „ ■ V :..._ and vulgar joys. But there are rare and exquisite joys too. The same situation, the same relationship, the same duty, the "same old story" can be for one person a drudgery and for another a delight, because one person lacks the joy the other has. Just as literal odors make past moments memorable, so joy makes life’s best moments memorable. Fragrance of Christmas Christmas is a time of joyous fragrances; but if they are all for the body and none-for the soul, we have missed the true fragrance of Christmas. There is a word in the Greek New Testament which, the first time it is used (John 12:3) means literally fragrance — the odor of the precious ointment which Mary poured on Jesus. Four other times it is used figuratively in speaking of the "fragrance" of the Christian life. This and another word (H Cor. 2:15, Eph. 5:2, Phil. 4:18) suggest that the Christian life is more than correct, it is lovely. Beauty is inwoven with Christianity. The perfume of joy comes to us in the song of the angels, in the song of Mary, in the adoration of the shepherds. Wherever Christ has come, it is as if sour and horrible odors had been replaced by frangrances from beside the River of Life. What are the high days the church celebrates? They are called, and they are,,, “feasts” or festivals. Christmas and Easter are seasons of joy; not reckless devil-may-care pleasure, which Is quite another thing, but joy that links earth to heaven. Good Nows of a Great Joy How stupid and twisted some definitions of religion seem, in the light of the Christmas, story! You may detect at least some of the counterfeits passing for Christianity by this, that they are joyless, they are without fragrance. An enemy of Christianity once defined religion as a sum of scruples—in other words, a mess of Dont’s.” A would-be friend of Christianity defined this religion as “God’s attack on man.” We should take our cue from the joyous angels, not from such gloomy scholars. Did the angels sing, “You’d better be afraid —we have a whole new list of Dont’s!” Did the First Angel shout in a voice of doom: “I come to announce God’s attack on man!"—? Christmas is the word of freedom to men in prison, Christmas Is the word of joy to a world in sorrow, the coming of a Rescuer to a world that was loat.

Rural Churches UNION CHAPEL Evangelical United Brethren Emmett L. Anderson, pastor Warren Nidlinger, supt. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. Evening program, 7:30 p.m. The morning sermon titleris "The Gospel according to St. Nicholas.” The annual Otterbein Home Offering will be received during the morning worship service. The Sunday evening program will consist of the pantomime “The Star and the Stable.” The Christmas program practice will be Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6 o’clock. There will be no services Wednesday evening due to it being Christmas eve.. Remember the birth of our Saviour wherever you may be on that night. WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor Bethel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lesson: "Joy at the Savior's Birth.” 10:30 a.m., Christmas program by the children and youth. Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting. Wood Chapel 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10 30 a.m., prayer service. i 730 p.m., Christmas service by i the children and youth. 1 Thursday, 8 p.m., prayer meeting and youth fellowship. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST Oakley Masten, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. Lowell Noll. S. S. Supt. 10:15 am., morning worship. Sermon by the pastor. 130 p.m., Saturday, program practice. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, final rehearsal of the Christmas program. 7:30 p.m., Christmas program. Offering divided between A.B.C. orphanages and the American Bible society. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY Robert R. Welch, pastor Sunday, 9:15 a.m., morning worship. 10:15 a.m., Sunday school. Tuesday, 7:15 p.m., choir practice. 7:30 p.m., prayer & Bible i study. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierhart, minister I 9:30 a.m., morning service. Theme "When Christ Enters Our ; Family Circle.” 10:30 a.m., Christmas program. 6:30 p.m., M.Y.F. 7:30 p.m., Christmas Pageant, '‘The Holy Nativity.” PLEASANT DALE Church of the Brethren John D. Mishler, pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school with Loren Liechty as superintendent hnd Mrs. Valera Liby Jis children's Director. We'invite your family to be present in classes this Christ’mas Sunday.. 10:30 a.m., morning worship. The nursery, kindergarten and primary classes will have a part in the Christmas worship hour. The pastor will speak on "Christ—The Prince of Peace.” 7:30 p.m., Christmas program. Junior, Jr.-Hi. and youth will present special music at this service. A Christmas play “Once to Every Man” will be presented with assistance from the choir. There will be no Bible study and prayer service Wednesday of this week. Yiou are invited to worship God with us and to enjoy the blessings of the season by honoring the savior.

SALEM Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur 9 a.m., Sunday school. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m., Christmas communion service. Wednesday. 7:15 a.m., Christmas program by the Sunday school. Thursday, 10 a.m., Christmas day worship service. WINCHESTER United Brethren in Christ C. N. Van Gundy, pastor Morning worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:15 a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. ST. LUKE Evangelical and Reformed Honduras Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9 a.m., Christmas program of the Sunday school. 10 a.m., Sunday school hour. Thursday, 9:30 am., Christmas service at St. John’s Church. PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Billy J. Springfield, pastor Church school. 9:30 a.m. Christmas children’s program, 10:30 a.m. ST. JOHN Evangelical and Reformed Vera Crus Louis C. Minsterman. minister 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., church service. Sermon, “Christmas Reflections.’’ 7:30 p.m., Christmas program of

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the Sunday school. Thursday, 9:30 a.m., Christmas day service with carols. SALEM METHODIST Pastor, Billy J. Springfield Christmas children's program, 9:30 a.m. Church school, 10:30 a.m. There not be any prayer meeting Wednesday night. U. B. RIVARRE CIRCUIT Huber Bakner, pastor Mt. Zion 9:30 am., Sunday school. 10:30 am., class meeting. 7 p.m., Christian Endeavor. 7:30 p.m., Tuesday evening Christmas program of exercises and recitations by the children of

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the church. Mt. Victory 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., class meeting. 7:30 p.m., Christmas program of recitations, exercises, by the children and a play by the Friendship j class. Pleasant Grove 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 am., Christmas program with the children in charge. Let's keep Christ in Christmas I this year yb attending church and, bringing others. We welcome you and yours. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, w CHRISTMAS Rev. i. R. Meadows The Christmas season is here. God grant at this glad anniversary of our Saviour’s birth our hearts may be stangely warmed by His

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love and exalted with His divine presence. Let us ponder in our hearts all that the Christmas day and season commemorates and be bigger hearted men and women than we ever have been in the past. Christ, on that first Christmas, surrendered Himself to earth and the evil hand,s of men. We eulogize the Cross and the Blood—and this is perfectly proper, but they never would have existed if the babe had not been born in Bethlehem's manger. God, on that occasion, gave to sinful earth the most matchless gift that heaven had. How ungrateful we would be if our hearts were not melted and our lives were not surrendered to Him. Do we not owe H i m that much for His gift to us? Be in the church of your choice next Sunday and every Sunday possible. THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” —Romans 6:23.

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