Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1959 — Page 8

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Authorities Report On Five Accidents City and officers stated today that extremely icy road Conditions caused five collisions early this morning on city streets and county roads. Another mishap causing slight property damage was recorded north of Decatur. Wreckers had to be called to the acene of three accidents to remove vehicles! rA two-car collision occurred on U. S. 27 about one jmile south of Decatur at 6 o'clock today causing heavy damage to one auto. Cars driven by Leon N. Sprunger, 59, route four, Decatur, and Stanley Callow, 52, Decatur, collided when the Sprunger vehicle went out of control due to the icy pavement and struck the Callow vehicle. The Sprunger auto continued to slide on the ice, traveling approximately 200 feet beyond the point of j impact. ; ~ j Callow was treated and released j from the Adams county memorial hospital for a slight cut over his ip and a small bump on the right side of his face. The estimated damage was listed at S7OO to the Callow auto and $l5O to the Sprunger car. A .car driven by Patsy Hoffman, 20, otDecatut, slid on the ice on Norm "Second street today at 7:04 am. and struck a parked auto Owned by John Butler, also of Decatur. Mrs. Hoffman lost control of the vehicle and spun around on the street, striking the Butler car. 'City police estimated damages to each vehicle at S2OO. At 7:30 o’clock this morning, the sheriff's department was again called south of the city to conduct an investigation of a two-car collision near the Adams Central high school. The investigating officer stated that a car driven by Janice Ann Stork, 23 of Monroe, while headed west on state road 124 at 7:35 a.m. .3 of a mile west of Monroe, started into a spin and struck an eastbound vehicle driven by Alta Christina Byerly. 58, route two, Decatur. The Stork auto was; listed to have received damages estimated at SIOO and the Byerly vehicle SIBO. The city police was called to 424 North Fifth street today at 8 o’clock to investigate a collision which occurred near that home. ■

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Police stated that a car driven by Dorothy L. West, 42, Decatur, was southbound on Fifth street and struck a parked auto owned by Darrel J. Brodbeck, also of Decatur. Police estimated damages at $l5O to the West car and $75 to the Brodbeck auto. At 6 o’clock today, cars collided at First and Monroe streets, causing only slight damages. A car driven by Gale Sehaadt, 21, route two, Convoy, 0., attempted a left turn at the intersection and struck a parked auto owned by Herman Heimann, Decatur. Only $5 damages was recorded to hovv occurred to the Sehaadt vehicle, while S4O damages were listed to the Het.nann cs.*. Sunday's accident occurred at 9:45 a.m., four miles north of Decatur on U. S. 27. The report shows that a car driven by Floyd Ellenberger, 52, of Portland, struck a car operated by Jaralee Jean Magsman, 17, of Decatur. wltile attempting to pass and slid into thejMagsaman auto. The deputy estimated S7O damages to the Ellenberger auto and $45 to the Magsaman car. Take Bids April 15 On Alexandria Plant CHICAGO (UPI) — The General Services Administration announced it will open bids April 15 here on the sale of a U. S. government surplus Air Force plant at Alexandria, Ind. John W. Chapman Jr., regional commissioner of the GSA, said the iridustrial site of about 19 acres, 37 buildings and a railroad right of way are being offered as one unit for one sealed bid only. Quadruplet Girls Born In Mexico COLIMA, Mexico (UPD —Quadruplet girls, born Thursday on an isolated ranch, were reported "doing well” today in incubators at the Civil Hospital here. All four of the girls were named Maria after their mother. Maria Guzman — Maria Refugio, Maria de Jesus, Maria Guadalupe and Maria de Los Angeles. They are the second quadruplets born in Mexico this year. Four infants were born Jan. 22 ! in Toluca.

Monthly Report 01 Dairy Association The January report of the Adams county dairy herd improvement association was released today by Everett Rice, supervisor. Top herd honors for production of butterfat average was awarded to the Otto Kauffman herd. An average of 55 pounds of butterfat was recorded for the Kauffman herd. Otto Kauffman also won high honors for the best producing cow for the month with a production of 111,5 pounds of butterfat. The following persons are the second to tenth place farmers in the herd division: Franklin Steury, 54.9. pounds; Rolandes Liechty, 49.6 pounds; Martin Habegger, 48 1 pounds; Paul Liechty & Sons, 43.9 pounds; Harry Gerber, 43.8 pounds; Alfred Grogg, 43.0 pounds; C. P. Steury & Sons, 42.6 pounds; Kenneth Beer & Sons. 41.6 pounds, and Harry Wulliman & Son, 41.2 pounds. The second to tenth high butter-, fat production for individual cows went to the following persons: Harry Gerber, 105.5 pounds; Martin Habegger, 100.3 pounds; Martin Habegger,, 98.2 pounds; Rolandes Liechty, 97.0 pounds; Franklin Steury,, 96.5 pounds; Paul E. Liechty & Sons, 95.7 pounds; Kenneth Beer & Sana, 94.2 pounds; Harry Gerber. 2?.l pounds; and Franklin Steury. 89.0 pounds. Estranged Husband Kills Wife, Self ANDERSON, Ind. (UPI) — An estranged husband killed his wife, wounded an evangelist riding to work with her and committed suicide today. , Police said Mrs. Eva Mae Stigall, 42, was killed by two rifle bullets in her chest as she lay on a residential street after falling or jumping from her car as she tried to escape with her life. Her estranged husband, Sam W. Stigall, was found dead in his car parked in an alley half a mile from the slaying scene a few minutes later. He had shot himself in the head, authorities said. The Rev. James Moyer, father of four children and described by authorities as an evangelist, was wounded slightly in the ear by one of nine bullets pumped into Mrs. StigaU’s car. -x Patrolman Doyle Wright said Mrs. Stigall had picked up Moyer and the two were driving apparently in a car pool to a DelcoRemy plant where they both worked. As they drove along an east side street near Moyer's home, another car pulled up and the driver began firing into Mrs. StigaU’s car. Moyer, who was driving, told authorities he tried to back the car around a comer to escape the bullets and at the same moment Mrs. StigaU either I fell or jumped out. I Stigall stopped, got out of his ■car and fired at his wife twice as she lay in the street, authorities said. Then he drove away. When police arrived, they found Mrs. StigaU dead. Shortly afterward, they found Stigall dead. StigaU was identified by Moyer, who went with police on a searich of the area. Moyer and Mrs. StigaU both worked at Plant 10 of Delco-Remy Division of General Motors Corp. They had been riding together to work daily for some time, author-, ities said, and it was Moyer’s custome to drive Mrs. StigaU s car, a Cadillac, when she stopped to pick him up near his home. Geneva Farmers Class Meets This Evening The main speaker at the Geneva adult farmer class tonight at 7:45 o'clock will be a representative from Krick-Tyndall company of Decatur. The discussion group, meeting in the vocational agriculture room, wUI center on farm drainage problems.

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Report Completion Os Herd Averages BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — The Holstein - Friesian association of America reports the completion of new lactation averages by the registered Holstein herds of Paul E. Liechty & Sons and Benjamin D. ; Mazelin, both of Berne. ; The Liechty herd consisting of , 18 cows averaged 14,513 pounds of < tnilk and 527 pounds of butterfat. 1 The Mazelin herd of 17 cows aver- 1 aged 14,634 pounds of mUk and 555 pounds of butterfat. Lactation averages are calculat- I ed on the commonly-employed two- ' milkings a day, 305 day, mature | equivalent basis. This provides a ■ uniform basis for comparison and . selection in registered Holstein ; breeding programs. Rural Youth Meets < Thursday Evening Miss Mary Wilder, international farm youth exchangee who spent the past summer in France and is now working in the Adams county extension office, will presen tthe educational feature at the regular Adams county rural youth meeting on Thursday night. The meeting will be held at the Farm Bureau < Co-op building in Monroe beginning at 7:30 p. m Miss Wilder will show slides and tell of her experiences as a “goodvill ambassador” in France. AU girls are asked to bring along a pie for the pie and ice cream frolic, also on the program. Mark Ripley is in change of this part of the program Other actitivites on the program will be: mixers to be led by Jerry Sprunger, group singing in charge of Jane Uhrick, registration and name tags to be provided by Jean Wass and Paul Ger-b mann, devotions will be presented by Byron Linker, and recreation of progressive games to be led by ' Gloria Koeneman and Roger Ha- ' begger. , : I-pgora Markle, county prestdent, wiU conduct the business meeting. A report on state rural . youth day at Purdue University January 22 will be givne by thgse members in attendance. Plans will be made for the special activity of the month, which is a , one-day outing to Pokagon state park. AU members are urged to attend and anypne interested in the ; rural youth program is invited to ] attend the meeting. All young i people of the county are given a I special * invitation to attend and i become acquainted with the Agams county rural youth program. |

Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Executors of the Estate of Amos A. Liechty, deceased, will offer for s ?} e , at Public auction the following personal property belonging to said decedent, said sale to be held atthe„ ,l»t<? residence of the decedent located 1 mile north, 1 mile west and Vz mile ndrth of Berne, Indiana, on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1959 10:30 Fa«t Time 7 —TRACTORS —7 1956 McCormick Deering Farmall 400 tractor fully equipped and power steering, set of wheel weights. 1951 E 3 Co-op tractor with wide front axle and live P.T.O. 1953 McCormick Deering Super C tractor with cultivators, 2-bottom mounted plow, 7-ft. mounted mower, 2 wheel weights, all tor above tractor. 1944 John Deere Model A tractor on rubber tires. W-40 McCormick Deering tractor on rubber tires with starter ana lights. 1937 Farmall F 14 tractor with power lift cultivators. Old McCormick Deering tractor selling for junk. Combine - Corn Picker - Thrashing Machine 1954 No. 20 New Idea 2 -row mounted corn picker. . 1953 60 Allis Chalmers combine with recleaner and straw chopper. Huber 28-in. thrashing machine on hard rubber tires. FARM MACHINERY Little Gerrfqs 3 14-in. plow op rubber tires; 2 Little Genius 2 14-in. plows on rubber tires; John Deere 13-hole grain drill on rubber tires: New Idea 12 A manure spreader; McCormick No. 30 manure loader, 8-ft. heavy McCormick disc; 7-ft. heavy McCormick disc; Case 7-ft. tractor disc with clutch; Gerlach 32-ft. elevator with electric motor, 1 yr. old; Cobey rubber tired wagon with hopper bed, 1 yr. old; John Deere rubber tired wagon with 16-ft. grain bed; New Idea rubber tired wagon with 16-ft. grain bed; 8-ft. Dunham cultimulcher; --John Deere double cultipacker; McCormick Deering- 4-bar side delivery rake on rubber tires; McCormiok 2-row tractor corn planter with clutch: John Deere 2-section spring tooth harrow; McCormick lime spreader; small elevator; 2-wheel implement trailer; implement sled with railroad iron runners; 2-section spike tooth harrow. TRUCK 1955 %-ton Ford V-8 pick-up truck. MILK EQUIPMENT • 2-unit Surge milker with seamless pails, big pump and electric motor. Milk cans. MISCELLANEOUS Rubber-tire top buggy; sleigh; power lawn mower; air compressor; corn sheller; platform scales: rubber-tire wheelbarrow; electric brooder stove; drive belt; cross cut s<jy; step ladder; garden tools; log chains: forks: shovels; grease guns, and many articles not mentioned. Lots of junk iron. HOUSEHOLD GOODS 18-ft. Co-op freezer, 3% yrs. old; Speed Queen dryer; 9-ft. Philco refrigerator; Estate gas cook stove; desk with chair; upholstered rocker with foot stool; upholstered rocker; 9 by 12 gray and green all wool rug with pad; card table with 4 chairs; porch glider; lawn chairs; dining room table with 2 chairs; Electrolux sweeper; studio couch; buffet: 2 antique rockers; rocker; porcelain top kitchen table; floorlamp; table lamp. ' TERMS—CASH-. Not responsible for accidents. Vera E. Gerber & Ernest R. Liechty, co-executors of the estate of Amos A. Liechty, deceased Phil Neuenschwander, Auct., Berne, Ind. D. S. Blair, Auct., Petroleum, Ind. Howard E. Baumgartner, Attorney Gerald Strickler, Auct, Decatur. Ind. First Bank of Berne, Clerk Lunch will be served. 19

Urges Humility On Fellow Scientists By DELOS SMITH ' UPI Science Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — A scientist urges humility on his fellows because science definitely is not capable either of explaining or solving all the problems of the human race, even if many scientists think it is. Scientists who believe science is the only method of solving problems are kidding themselves —they have a faith in science which sfcietrce can’t justify, said Prof. Ernest Van Den Haag, anthropologist and sociologist of New York University in a communication to the American Assn, for the Advancement of Science. When you apply only the “scientific method” to problems, you are assuming “the cosmos is so arranged that its total magnitude and contents cannot exceed the grasp of scientific method — that nothing can exist that cannot also be known and proved scientifically.” ~ That assumption leads to the dilemm' that unless values‘ can be proved to be “right,” the universe becomes valueless. “Only science can make testable predictions, and thus prove scientific theories. But, if it is correct to say that only what is true can be proved to be so, it does not follow that only what is proved or provable, can be true.” Many Matters Pose Problems “Demonstrability and truth are not the same. And there are many matters which pose problems that will not yield to scientific methods. To ignore such problems surely is not to solve them. To pretend that science can solve them is to create pseudoscientific morals and to discredit science.” “The ends and purposes of life” have moral implications whose “truth” science can neither establish nor prove, he said. For instance, happiness -for - the-greatest-number scientifically is not a workable law for ttie human race. “Happiness is hard to observe, impossible to calculate. Yet we act — and must act — as though we knew what action will lead to a net increase of happiness.” But we don’t know. _ Science cannot prove the “truth” of this or other moral implications. "One may well allow that there is such a truth-even though people disagree on where and how to find it,” Dr. Van Den Haag said. “A difference of beliefs does not imply that there , is no truth or that it cannot be found. It implies only that it has not been found.” Issues Challenge He challenged the idea that

No School Today At Pleasant Mills Only one county school was forced to close today due to the icy roads which plagued the Decatur area during the night. Pleasant Mills school was the only school in Adams county which remained closed today because of the poor road conditions due to ice. , Gerald Vizard, principal, stated this noon that school would resume tomorrow if the weather permits.

“perfect knowledge, goodness, and wisdom, such as may be at- [ tributed to angels, would lead to • agreement on ends and means ’ and thus make government superfluous.” In the first place, he doubted angels are "cast from the same mold.” “They may have different pref--1 erences," he said. “Some, for in- ’ stance, may wish to leave nature ! unspoiled.. Others, in concrete cir- ! cumstances, might want to give ■ up some natural beauty in fayor ’ of, say, electric power or housing ’ developments. “No social science, indeed no > knowledge at all, can decide i which should be deme, which is better, or even by what means r the decision should be made. Yet ■ decisions must be made all the : time and we are not angels.”

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Traffic Death Toll Is Three In State ■> ’■ United Press International Indiana’s weekend traffic death toll was held to three, including a 15-year-old boy who fell off a truck loaded with baled hay. It was the fifth consecutive weekend this year that the toll stayed belqw double figures. Roman Girod, 15, died in Adams County Hospital - at Decatur Sunday front head injuries sustained when he fell from the hay truck on a road near his home near Berne Saturday. Mrs. Linda Sisk, 23, Gary, was killed and her husband and three sons were injured seriously Satday when their car skidded off the . Tri-State Highway at Hammond and overtv~ned. Mrs. Sisk’s husbagd, Lawson, 30, and their children ware taken to St. Margaret’s Hospital at Hammond. Delmer Howard, 46, New Augusta, was injured fatally Saturday in a two-car crash north of Indianapolis at the junction of U. S. 52 and U. S. 421. Howard was a left turn at the time, police said, and apparently did not see the other car.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1959,

Eisenhower Returns To White House Desk WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower returned to his White House desk today to face a< busy schedule after a quail-shoot-ing holiday in southern Georgia. The President flew back to the capital Sunday night, ending a t five-day visit on the estate of former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey. The White House said he cut short’ the vacation by one day to takd care of official duties. Resume Negotiations In Allis Strike MILWAUKEE (UPI) - Negotiations were to resume today in the week-old strike of the United Auto Workers against the Allis-Chhlm-ers Co. Federal conciliators were scheduled to meet with both sides in the walkout, which has tied up nine Allis-Chalmers plants across the nation. UAW officers Saturday reported to some 7,000 workers at the company’s main plant in suburban West Allis on progress of the contract talks. Trade ii a good town, — Decatur. .xaiFl