Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1958 — Page 3

MONDAY. DECEMBER 29, 195|

BOY STEW ABT HOME IS SCENE OF PARTY The 82nd birthday anniversary of Mrs. Catherine Stewart was, celebrated recently at the home of Roy Stewart on Nuttman avenue. Mrs. Stewart will observe her birthday January 20. Clever table decorations were used at the serving center with I birthday cake forming the centerpiece. Figurines representing the honored guest’s six children were the outstanding features of the cake which was iced in blue. Childern and grandchildrep of Mrs. Stewart who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Riley Stewart; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stewart and family, John, Danny, Susie, and Andy of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Mr. and 'Mrs. James VanSkyock; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart; Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart; Mr. and Mrs. Gorth Stewart and children, Jimmy and Becky; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisner and children, Ronnie and Amy Jo of Bremen; Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nusbaum and children, Chuck and Pattie of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Way he Storms and children, Kathy, Carrie and Patricia of Nashville, Tenn; Mr. and Mrs. John Doyle and children, Debra, Dana and Tommie; Miss Karen Striker of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Horn and daughter, Lori, of Howe: and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Striker and daughter, Mara Dee. Members of the St. Anne’s study club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 o’ clock at the home of Mrs. Auselm Hackman. Wednesday at 8:30 o'clock members of the Faithful Workers class of the U n i o n Chapel church will meet at the church. A meeting of the Heidelberg class of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will be held Saturday at 7:30 o’clock in the church. u * * ' * 1 Mrs. Loretta Steed Dies Last Evening Mrs. Loretta Estella Steed, 87, of Geneva, died at 5:25 p. m. Sunday at the South View Nursing home at Bluffton. Surviving are a son, Frank Steed of Elkhart, and four granddaughters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, with burial in Riverside cemetery..

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I I Calendar items tor today’s pub•cation must ba phoned in by 11 *jn. (Saturday 9:30) . Phone Mlfl MarilM Rooy ■’■■ • c v TUESDAY St. Anne’s Study club, Mrs. Anselm Hackman, 7:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Preble Restaurant, 8 p. m. Home demonstration club of Union township, Mrs. Iva Barkley, afi Kirkland Ladies club, Adams Central school, 6:30 p. m. Formal initiation of Eagles auxiliary, Eagles hall, 8 p. m. * Monroe W.C.T.U., Mrs. Orval Lenhart, 7 p. m. WEDNESDAY ..Faithful Workers, Union Chapel church, 8:30 p. m. SATURDAY Heidelberg class, Zion E. and R. church, 7:30 p. m. Z ADMITTED Mrs. Gus W. Bollenbacher, Celina, Ohio; Master Stanley Foor, Decatur; Albert Bixler, Geneva; Mrs. Ferdinand Reynolds, Decatur; Mrs. Ross Johnson, Bryant; Miss Phyllis Manning, Geneva: Miss Nora Truesdell, Fort Wayne; Master Richard Dubach, Geneva; Andrew Cooper, Decatur. DISMISSED Mrs. Max Ross and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Pete Bixler, Berne; Mrs. Cecil Macias and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Ralph Scott and baby girl, Monroeville; Miss Sharon Bieberich, Decatur; Miss Lisa Jean Bieberich, Decatur; Miss Vera Fisher. Willshire, Ohio; Mrs. David Nussbaum and baby (girl, Decatur; Mrs. Leroy Bulmahnapd baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Don Slusherand baby boy, Monroe; Baby Julie Lynn Schnepp, Decatur; Master Michael Leyse, Decatur; Mrs. Dan Durbin, Decatur; Mrs. John Girard and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Robert W. Clark and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Roy Cook arid baby boy, Decatur.

Miss Agnes Nelson, assistant chief nurse at the Veterans administration hospital in Montgomery, Ala., spent 10 days visiting with her mother, Mrs. John Nelson, and other relatives. V Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Fritzinger visited Saturday in Ossian with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Roop had as their dinner guests, Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Parent of Clare, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. George Parent and children Susan and Bruce, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Parents and Roops attended the wedding of Miss Joyce Parent and Gilbert Heim at the Sacred Heart church in Fort Wayne Saturday morning. Saturday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Kirchhofer were Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ehrman and family, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Becher, and Mr. and Mrs. Kent Koons and son Greg of Cincinnati, Ohio. Four Persons Found Dead In Texas Home Four Are Victims Os Mysterius Gas EL PASO, Tex. (UPI) — Poliee hinted today that the killing of four persons in the same house by a mysterious gas may have been cleverly planned murders and started an all-out investigation. Detective Lt. Al Hijar of the police homicide division said he had not ruled out the possibility that the deaths were caused by an "engineered gas job.” The victims were Maj. Forrest Tilson, 41; his wife, Vivian, 39, and Henry Epley Jr., 17, Mrs. Tilson's brother. Their bodies were found Sunday. H. H. Epley Sr., 60, Mrs. Tilson’s father, died in the same house Friday. Maj. and Mrs. Tilson came from Lawton, Okla., to attend the elder Epley's funeral. The elder Epley’s death was at first blamed on natural causes. There were other theories that something about the adobe house may have caused the deaths. One theory was that something in the mop bucket used in the bedroom where the Tilsons and Epleys died may have created a poison gas. Another theory was that a ,septic tank near the bedroom may have given off a toxic gas. * , At the Adams county memorial hospital: John L. and Shirley Marx Rowdon of route 1, Monroe, are parents of a six pound, five and one half ounce girl born at 12:25 p. m. Saturday. Twin girls were born at 9:16 p. m. and 9:46 p. m. Sunday to Ben and Victoria O’Campo Macias. of 846 North 12th street An eight pound, 12 ounce girl was born at 6:27 o'clock this morning to Homer and Rosalind Brotherton Betz of Fort Recovery, O. A boy weighing six pounds, seven ounces, was born today at 12:12 p.m. to George and Barbara Hurst of route 3. O - v I Household Scrapbook | | By ROBERTA LEE | o- o To Clean Feathers Cut some white soap into small pieces; pour boiling water on the soap and add a little pearlash. When dissolved and the mixture is cool enough, plunge the feathers into it and draw them through the hand until the dirt appearers to be squeezed out of them. Then place in a clean lather with some bluing in it. Rinse in cold bluing water to give them a good color; beat them against the hand to shake off the water, and dry by shaking them near the fire. Finn Custard Firm custard may be made without heating in the oven. Place the cups in a shallow pan and surround them with water. Then cover the pan tightly and set it over a flame so low that the water does not boil. Snede Shoes The shiny spots on suede shoes may be Removed by rubbing with sandpaper. Use a wire brush, obtainable at any shoe store, for brushing suede shoes.

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Nosed Columnist Is Taken By Death | Frederick Othman Dies In Washington WASHINGTON (UPD—Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Frederick C. Othman, 53, Washington columnist for United Feature Syndicate, who died Saturday night of a heart ailment. The services will be held at noon at Gawler’S Funeral Home in Washington. The body will be taken to Memphis, Tenn., for a private service and burial in Forest Hill Cemetery there. The writer, whose daily column sparkled with his sharp wit, died in Doctors Hospital where he had been a patient since suffering a coronary occlusion on Dec. 16. He was stricken with the heart attack while covering the House subcommittee investigation into the difficulties of defeated Rep. Coya Knutson (D-Minn.). A native of St. Louis, Othman began his newspaper career with the St. Louis bureau of the Associated Press while still an undergraduate at Washington University. He joined file United Press in 1926 and for the next five years traveled extensively covering such widely different events as the Al Capone trial, a Mexican revolution, a California nudist colony, and numerous murders, kidnapings and disasters. In 1932, he was sent to Washington with instructions to write a daily feature story. He found the nation’s capital a wonderful zoo, full of such phenomena as , blue eagles and official duck census-takers. After five years in Washington, Othman went to Hollywood to write a motion picture column for U.P., a stint that he recalled ‘ as a lot of fun. . But he returned to Washington • in toe mid-1940s to stay, becom- > ing a columnist for United Fea- , tore Syndicate in January, 1948. > His column was published by more than 150 newspapers in toe t United States and Canada. Othman is survived by his wife, 5 the former Hilda Cowan of Mem- . phis; a stepson, Jarnos E. Roper; and a brother, John F. Othman , of St. Louis.

Archbold Funeral Rites Held Sunday Funeral services were conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday for Miss Golde& Archbold, 71, who resided thrde miles southeast of Ossian, dHithe Elzey and Son funeral home in Ossian. The Rev. Milton Nolin officiated, and burial was in the Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Miss Archbold was born Feb. 10, 1887, near Ossian, a daughter of Robert and Miranda Metts Archbold. She has many relatives in this area. She was a member of toe Ossian Presbyterian church. Survivors include two brothers, Thomas, of Ossian, and Harry of Fort Wayne, and five nieces and nephews. Miss Archbold had been ill two months, and was taken to the Wells county hospital in Bluffton on Dec. 21. She died at 8:55 p. m. Friday at the hospital. John Genth Dies At Fort Wayne Hospital John H. Genth, 87, of Fort Wayne route 8, died at 11:15 a. m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital. He was a member of the Nine Mile Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are five grandchildren, Glen, of Monroeville route 2. Jewell of Decatur route 6, Mrs. Robert Hughes of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Harry Beck of Zanesville, and Mrs. James Harrison of Waynedale. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Nine Mile E.U.B. church, the Rev. R. E. Vance officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Elzey home for funerals, Waynedale, until noon Tuesday, when the body will be taken to toe church. Three Arrested For Traffic Violations Three traffic violators are scheduled to appear in justice of the peace court within the near future on charges filed against them by the state police. Paul Mendez, 30, Decatur, was arrested Saturday night on Monroe street by the state police for driving an auto with improper registration. He is scheduled- to appear within toe next few days. Bruce E. Dammeyer,2o, Fort Wayne, was arested for disregarding a stop sign at county road 36% and U.S. 27 in Preble township Friday. Dammeyer is scheduled for trial January 3 at 7 o’clock. Carl W. Renner, 18, Fort Wayne, was arrested Saturday by the state police on U.S. 27 approximately 'three miles north of the city and charged with speeding. He will appear to the charge of driving 85 miles per hour January 5 at 8 <f clock. This would be a fine word if men showed as much patience with their fejlow men as they do when they wait for fish to bite. It’s smart to pick your friends, but not to pieces. ,

Help Fight TB Buy Christmas Seals Buys Health Bond The Decatur Elks lodge has voted purchase of a SlO health bond, officials of the Christmas seal campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas seal sale are used in the' fight on tuberculosis and to provide clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against toe "white !*£ Urge Building Home For Men In Space Missile Scientists Speak At Meeting By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) — We’re on the verge of learning all we need to know in order to build a house for men in space 500 miles from the earth, so let’s get started on the building right away, two missile scientists told the annual meeing of toe American Association for toe Advancement of Science today. It would be a pre-fabricated house, shot into space in pieces by rockets. Space tug boats would be shot after the pieces, and three-men crews would corral the pieces and bolt them together. That done, 10 men would be put into the house and live and work ip it. All would be scientists, and their jobs would be to find out what space is like. 1 The tough problems growing out of the fact that no one really knows what it is like were worked out simply. The spacemen would take the earth's atmosphere and temperatures with them — they would be sealed into their tugs and house and get from one to the other byway of air locks. This eliminated the need for space suits and toe possible embarrassments to men of being weightless in "airless” space. Some of these ideas have been bruited about in science fiction and in theoretical discussions. Today, they were parts of a tightly engineered plan which was presented as a practical project for beginning man’s conquest of space. The plan came out of toe missiles division of toe l#Klsieed Corp., a prime government rocketry contractor, and was presented by two Lockheed scientists, Saunders B. Kramer and Richard > A. Byers, to the American Astronautical Society, a constituent of toe AAAS. The presentation made 1 it clear that toe plan was deep ino toe blueprint stage. In fact, it can be achieved wito- , in 10 years, they said. Most of the knowhow exists right now. A 500- ■ mile orbit would be easy for 1 present-day rockets. America’s ' monkey and Russia’s dog have showed that living creatures can • be transported in space without being harmed by the transport. The problem of “re-entry,” that is, getting them safely back to earth, is about to be solved, along with lesser technical masters. The scientists emphasized the module type of construction perfected in prefabricated earth houses. The space pre-fab would be in the shape of a wheel connected to several hubs by spokes. Rural Youth Party On New Year's Eve The Adams county rural youth will sponsor a New Year’s Eve party beginning at 9 p. m. Wednesday at the Farm Bureau Co-op b u i1 d i n g in Monroe. Activities throughout the evening will include mixers, games, contests, dancing, movies and entertainment. A buffet supper will be served before midnight. The committee making plans for this annual event is: Sally McCullough, Gail Hammond, Byron Linker, Leslie Ploughe, Delores Rodenbeck, Jean and Jane Wass. All county young people are Invited to attend toe party.

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20 Years Aga Today Qu i'll 1.. I Dec. 29, 1938—Ed Hurst, brick mason and volunteer Herman for a number of years, has been appointed Decatur fire chief by Mayor-elect Forrest Elzey, and wjill take office Jan. T. French A. See, of Buckahannan, W. Va., has been elected president of the 34th semi-annual term of the Reppert auction school, now in progress here. Other officers are Maroley Neal, Brownsburg, vice president; Bryan A. Steinmetz, Springfield, 0., secretary. Sheriff and Mrs. Dallas Brown are moving into the Niblick property on Jefferson street, and sher-iff-elect Ed P. Miller and family are moving into the county jail. A tree stump, believed to be 60 to 75 years old, was unearthed by workman laying the sewer for the ' new filling station to be erected adjacent to the Niblick department store. The stump was preserved in its original state. The lake in Bellont park and the ponds at the Krick-Tyndall plant are popular with ice-skating enthusiasts these days. O" 1 —— - o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE | o—— in ■■■ —o Q. Is a man supposed to light the cigarette of the girl he is escorting? A. There’s no need for a man to get up and run across a room i to light her cigarette, but if he’s close enough he always does. He always lights her cigarette when he's seated at the same table or on the same sofa, or when they both take cigarettes at once. And, if he’s very thoughtful, he’ll always carry matches even if he doesn't smoke himself. Q. What should a woman tip the attendant in a powder room? A. Usually 10to25cents, if just a towel has been given. If some special service has been rendered—needle and thread, aspirin, bromo—then the tip should be correspoindingly larger. Q. Is it considered good manners for one to tip one’s soup plate in order to scoop out the last bit of soup? A. This is perfectly all right, so long as you tilt the plate gently away from you. ’ t COURT NEWS Marriage Applications Carolyn Sue King, 20, route six, Decatur, and Floyd Charles Braun 26, Decatur. Mary Alice Johnson, 19, Monroeville, and James Merle Rennels, 23, Decatur. Estate Cases The final report was filed in the estate of Otis E. Shifferly. A notice was ordered issued returnable January 17. In the estate of Henry W. Fuelling, the proof of mailing of notice in the matter of final settlement to all interested persons was filed. A certificate of clearance was filed. The final report was submitted. The administrator was ordered to make distribution in compliance with the final report. The administrator was released and the sureties were discharged. The estate Was closed. Over 2,500 Dally Democrats am sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

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