Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1959 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1959

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THREE SPEAKERS ARE FEATURED AT WOMAN’S CLUB A guest speaker from the National wildlife conservation department was featured at the Monday evening meeting of members of the Woman’s club. He urged all . members to buy conservation stamps to enable the department to collect funds for conservation work. i : < Following a talk by Miss Cheryl Ashbaucher, a student at Decatur high who told the group about the music association, the club collect was given and the pledge was led by Mrs. Gerald Durkin. Mrs. Eugene Morrison gave the devotions telling of the importance of the Lenten period. Secretary, Mrs. Leo Curtin, gave her report, after which Mrs. R. C. Hersh tola of the Federation of Clubs luncheon to be held Friday at the C.L. of C. hall. Mrs. Ned Knape, chairman for the evening, introduced the special speaker, Mrs. David Martin, who told of her trip around the world. She reviewed her own experiences and discussions with the different people she had met and invited the members to read the book, ‘ The Ugly American." This book shows the ideas people of different countries get of Americans by viewing movies, reading headlines, and many other things. To conclude her talk. Mrs. Martin showed slides of the World’s Fair and stoles from India. The money gift, which was presented to the speaker, v.'as divided by Mrs. Martin to be sent to the Philippines Junior Federaltion of clubs and the Indian affairs project. Members of the committee in charge of the evening included "Mrs. Ned Knape as chairman, and Mrs. William McColly and Mrs. David Embler. Members ofthe Decatur Home Demonstration club will meet Wednesday at 2 o’clock at the C.L. of C. hall, - Thursday at 1:30 o’clock, members of the Friendship Village Home Demonstration club will meet at the Kimsey school. Members are reminded of the birthday auction to be held and asked to note the change of date. TOMORROW . ■ is DAY * at Edward’s Studio

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CALVARY E.U.B. SOCIETY MEETS FRIDAY EVENING Members of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Women's Society of World Service met Friday. The meeting was called to order by the president and a song was sung. Mrs. Walter Koos offered a prayer, after which Mrs. Harry McDormick and Mrs. Louis Hamrick read Easter poems. Seven members and one visitor were later served refreshments by Mrs. Hindenlang and Mrs. Koos. ACADEMY OF FRIENDSHIP MEETS AT MOOSE HOME The Academy of Friendship members met at the Moose home Monday evening for a regular meeting. The. business meeting opened with the chairman in charge. Mrs. Oran Schultz repeated the collect and Mrs. Ben McCullough read the minutes of the ]ast meeting as well as roll call. Plans were completed for. the club’s chapter night, which will be held April 23. At this time all chapter members of 25 years or more will be honored. Mrs. Herbert Feasel gave a report of the Business and Professional Women's dinner, after which the Friendship song and benediction closed toe business meeting. During toe social hour, games were played with the high score prize being awarded to Mrs. A. J. Zelt and consolation prize to Mrs. Ben McCullough. A lunch was served to nine members at a table appropriately decorated with a St. Patrick’s theme. Hostesses were Mrsj Oran Schultz. Mrs. Wilford Plasterer. Mrs. Tom Noll, and Mrs. Evelyn Kingsley. TWENTY NINE MEMBERS ATTEND GECODE MEETING Twenty nine members of the Gecode club met recently at the American Legion Home for their regular monthly dinner meeting. After the dinner, a short business meeting was held. Games were played and door prizes awarded at toe end of the evening. The committee in charge of the meeting included. Mrs. Ruth Foreman and Mrs. Phyllis Myers as co-chairmen, assisted by Mrs. Alice Kukelhan, Mrs. Nyla Wilkinson, Mrs Homer Liby, Mrs. Okaleah Fuelling, Mrs. James Staley, and Mrs. Vernon Aurand. . A toeeting of the Past Matrons ofthe O.E.S. will be held Thursday at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Harry Essex.

CLUBS Calendar items tor today’s pub cation must be phoned in by U mb. (Saturday 9:30) Fnoue 3-2121 Mariloa Roop TUESDAY Tri Kappa, postponed. Loytfl Daughters class of Bethany E.U.B. church, Mrs. Adolph Kolter, 7:30 p.m. y Wesleyan Service Guild, First Methodist church, 7*30 p.m. Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club, rMs. Hubert Marbach. 7:30 p.m. Church Mothers study club, Mrs. Charles Chew, 8 p.m. Root Township Home Demonstration club, Monmouth school, 6:30 p.m. Lincoln school P.T.A., school auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Emm'aus Guild, parish hall, 8 p.m. t WEDNESDAY Historical club, Mrs. Delton Passwater, 2 p.m. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs. Weldon Soldner, 2:30 p.m. Priscilla Circle of First Christian church, Miss Ava Kraft, 7:30 p.m. Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S.. Mrs. Charles Morrison, 7:30 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration club, C.L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Zion Lutheran Needle club, parish hall, 10 a.m. Order of the Rainbow for Girls, Masonic hall, 6:45 p.m. St. Anne’s study club, Miss Margaret Eiting, 2 p.m. Bethany W.S.W.S., church 2 pm. Do Your Best class, Trinity E.U.B. church, 7:30 p»m. Friendship Village Home Demonstration club, Kimsey school, 1:30 p.m. Past Matrons of the 0.E.5., Mrs. Harry Essex, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Federation of Women’s clubs, C.L. of C. hall, 12:30 p.m. MONDAY Evening Circle of Methodist church, Mrs. J. F. Azbell, 8 p.m. Eighty members of the Rosary society attended the meeting which was held Monday, Students from Decatur Catholic high school presented a play deplicting the history of the high school. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Robert Eiting, Mrs. Adrian Coffee, Mrs. Robert Ulman, Mrs. Otto Baker and Mrs. Carl Baumann. The Evening circle of the Methodist church will meet at the home of Mrs. J. F. Azbel Monday at 8 o’clock. Vernon C. Anderson Is Mayor Candidate HAMMOND. Ind. (UPD — Vernon C. Anderson, Who resigned as administrative assistant to Governor Handley last week, announc- ; ed Monday his candidacy for the Republican nomination for mayor of Hammond. Anderson was mayor from 1948 to 1956 but Jost his ■ bid for reelection to a third term I in. 1955.

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Holy Week Services At Christian Church ‘ ■ The First Christian church will observe holy week with evening sermons at 7:30 p.m. starting Sunday . evening, and extending through Good Friday, the Rev. Edward Pacha, pastor, announced today. The spiritual meaning of the life of Christ during the last week as it applies to life every day and hour throughout the year will be emphasized. The brotherhood theme for the week is toe urgency of the Easter message. The week’s subject for Rev. Pacha’s sermons will be, “the Christ, the gospel, and me." On Maundy Thursday, a candlelight communion service will be held, and will be open to all believing Christians. Good Friday will be an evening of prayer at the church. On April 2 at 7:30 p.m. a discussion study of the scriptures will begin for anyone interested. Members of the group will choose their own starting point in the scripture. A chapter of the Bible will be read, followed by a five-minute talk on - I the historical background, theoI logical beliefs, and theories concerning the chapter. This will be followed by a full discussion of all questions arising. Workshop On Aging Slated Wednesday The fifth workshop on aging will be held at Ball State Teacher’s college Wednesday. Mrs. Florence Conner, of Decatur, will attend. ' 'Mrs. Conner is active in social work with aging persons. She was formerly active with toe golden ace group at the East Side Methodist church in Connersville, her former home. The workshop is made possible through a provision of the J. Walter and Arrena I. Kirkpatrick memorial lectureship fund for gerontology. The problems of the aged will be the primary subject of discussion. | Persons from business, professional, educational, social and civic organizations will tell of toe implications of the local community and the aged. The lack of understanding on the part of those who associate with the aged is usually depicted as the major consideration in such a discussion. The fact that these older persons need to feel useful and not be relegated to ; the sidelines merely because of their age. is also prominent in such discussions. ADMITTED Master Jack Brown, Decatur. DISMISSED Masters Mark, Douglas, and Timothy Stipp, Portland; Mrs. Ralph Sauer and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Chester Feasel, Decatur; Master William Jones, Decatur.

Heart Stopped, Girl Is Now Recovering Vickie Steiner, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Steiner of Geneva route 1, is alive today after her heart stopped beating for four minutes while undergoing a tonsillectomy at Adams county memorial hospital last week. While ether was being administered, her heart stopped. Attendants injected a shot of adrenelin directly into the heart and within a short time, she was breathing again. She seemed to be getting on all right affer oxygen was given, but that night her temperature rose to 107 degrees. She responded to treatment and completely recovered in three days. She, however, still has her tonsils, and may keep them for a while. Stock Exchange To _ Slay Oh Wall Street NEW YORK (UPI) — State Republican leaders Monday night assured the New York Stock Exchange it could stay on Wall Street. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and leaders of the Republican - controlled Legislature agreed to turn down Mayor Robert F. Wagner’s request for a city tax on securities transactions, one of a number of measures the Democratic mayor had suggested to permit raising of 157 million dollars in additional revenue. The board of governors of the exchange appointed a committee Monday to consider the possibility of moving the market out of New York City if the tax were imposed. The exchange had acquired property in Newark, N. J., in 1933 for such a move when it was threatened by a similar tax, wtuch never went into effect. The exchange entered into negotiations for a move to Jersey City several years ago when a proposed transactions tax was again killed. Sentenced To Life For Slaying Boy CROWN POINT, Ind. (UPD - Willie Lee Conway, 39, Gary, pleaded guilty Monday to the fatal shooting of a teen-aged boy last! April 10 following an argument j oter money in a house Os 11l fame, , and was sentenced to life impris- ' onment. Conway was scheduled to go on trial Monday for the murder of Edwin C. Martindale, 19, Chesterton, in Conway’s Gary establishment, Fifty prospective jurors were dismissed by Judge William J. Murray of Lake County Criminal Court after Conway pleaded guilty. - Conway entered a plea of guilty, to second degree murder and the life term "was immediately imposed. Police said Martindale and two other boys were lured to Conway's place by two women. Conway took some money from Martindale but when they haggled over the price, the youth demanded his money back. Martindale was shot in the back and died while his brother, Wesley, and a companion, Thomas Appleman, 21, drove around looking for a hospital. When police went to the Conway house, they found the accused killer and toe two women had fled. All three were arrested later in Milwaukee and were returned to Crown Point. The women ’have been held as material witnesses and were released Monday after almost a year's imprisonment. Mail Carrier Held For Pilfering Mail INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Robert Johnson Jr., an Indianapolis mail carrier, was held under $2,000 bond today on charges of pilfering the mails. Johnson was arrested Monday on a federal charging him with pilfering at least $65 from toe mails in the past few months.

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Bluffton Youth Wins Medal For Bravery WASHINGTON (UPI)-An 18-year-old Bluffton youth has been selected as a recipient of the Young American medal for bravery for his 1957 rescue of a minister froth drowning in an icy Indiana lake. The youth, William Joseph Steury, was selected for the award by a committee of U.S. Justice Department officials. The announcement was made Monday by Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers. Steury, at the risk of his own life, saved the Rev. Wayne Piety, 62, Bluffton, from drowning in Kunkel Lake Feb. 21, 1957 after Piety fell through the thin Ice while fishing. The rescue took place after Steury saw the minister break through the ice. about 25 feet from shore. The youth crawled out on the cracking ice three times trying to pull Piety to safety. On his third trip he tied a rope around the minister and held his head above water until help arrived. Steury, now a student at the University of New Mexico, will go to Washington with his parents to receive the medal from President Eisenhower at a date to be announced later. Strike Threatens New York Papers ’ NEW YORK <LPl)—Newspaper apd printers’ union officials meet • today with federal mediators in a new effort to prevent a strike . against 10 daily New York news- •• papers. : —-— .*. Federal Mediator Bernard J. , Forman said Monday representa- ( fives of the Publishers Association , of New York City and New York Typographical Union 6 had agreed to meet at 2 p.m. An initial meeting Saturday produced no results and the union, an affiliate of the International Typographical Union, voted Sunday to ask the parent organization for permission to strike. A reply from ITU headquarters in Indianapolis is expected later this week. J The principal issue between the publishers and their 4,000 composing room employes Is a contract ! clause covering the resetting of advertisements that come to the paper in plate form. Previously, local ads were reset in each composing room and national acta, as for chain stores, were not. The current dispute results from a recent arbitration award in which certain ads by • grocery chains were ruled nationi al rather than local. Also at issue in the new contract talks are wages, union discipline over foremen and the use of teletypesetters. The old contract expired Dec. 7. The newspapers affected are the New York Herald Tribune, the Times, the News, the Mirror, the World Telegram and Sun, th Journal-American, the Post, the Journal of Commerce, the Long Island Press and the Long Island Star-Journal. A walkout by the printers would be the second major newspaper strike to hit New York in less than four months. In December a 17-day strike by deliverers completely shut down the city’s newspaper publication. o—— — I Modern Etiquette I ' By ROBERTA LEK I Q. One of my friends has asked me to take charge of the bridal book at her wedding reception. How do I properly do this? A. You stand with the book open on a small table and as the guests reach the end of the reception line, after speaking with the bride and bridegroom, you ask them to sign the bridal book. Q. When serving wine at a dinner party, should the glasses be filled in the kitchen and then brought in to the table? A. No. The wine should be poured into the glasses, at the right of each person, and without moving the glasses.

One Os Few Maple Camps Near Cambridge City

As Told By Mrs. Gene Rash The colorful operation of maple syrup production is considered a rare thing today, as compared with the many producers of past years. One of the last of the maple camps can be found in Wayne , county, about five miles north of , Cambridge City, on state road 1, on farms owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Rash, of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shafer, of near Cambridge City. Sugar water is reported dripping at the present time into more than 500 buckets hanging from spikes on tapped maple trees. Shafer, in his 47th year of maple sugar production on his farm and the neighboring -Rash farm, reports that the operation was start-) ed in 1863 by his grandparents, and still continues: The work irivolved in making maple syrup comes during the spring rush of other farm jobs. The run of sap so far indicates that this year will be normal for syrup production, but is somewhat under last year’s re-, cord level; also, the sugar content is reported below normal in this year’s run, which started in volume about three weeks ago. Some of the tapped trees are over 200 years old, but are still yielding a good flow of “sugar water.” A few of the larger trees are tapped at three points around the trunk to fill three palls regularly as sap is collected by a tank wagon for transfer to storage reservoirs at the “sugar house.’’ About 50 gallons of sugar water is required to produce a gallon of maple syrup. This means a lot of labor in handling and the slow "boiling down” process calls for lots of time, wood for fuel, and careful work, to produce good Syrup. " —Sugar water is gathered from trees daily when weather conditions favor sap movement. During ideal weather, the buckets may need emptying twice daily, but sometimes during the season they will fill only every two days. Shafer continued by saying that there is still frost in the ground making it possible for the use of a tractor in pulling the tank wagon for collecting sugar water. However. they still depend on “Queen and Bess,” their Percheron mares, to pull the wagon when the ground is soft. “Queen” is a former circus performer, and is well over 30-years-old, while “Bess,” her daughter, is about 23-years-old. Test trees near the farmsteads are tapped earjy in February to observe sap flow, and to serve as a guide for the proper time to start full-scale operations. Temperature changes help in the sap flow, but changes early this year were too extreme. Sap will not flow from frozen wood, and there have been several heavy frosts since the trees yrere tapped Sap flow is also slowed by windy weather. Maple syrup gets a final hydrometer test at the Shafer farm to assure thickness necessary in keeping quality and consumer satisfaction in the finished product. Sugar water flows by gravity from storage reservoirs to the eight-pan evaporating unit in the sugar house. Aromatic vapor fills the air as the sap is gradually converted to syrup during the slow process. “Once we start to boil the water, someone must be on the job until all of the syrup has been drawn and filtered,” Shafer comments. Hand skimming is deme as the sugar water passes through the first stages of evaporation. The sugar camp operation brings numerous visitors to the farms each year. One of nature's tastiest products flows from the finishing pan whbn the process is completed. REXALL “Thank Yon” SALE Now Going On FREE Mi 31 Multi-Purpose • Antiseptic, 8 ox. With Purchase of Rexall Aerosol TOOTH PASTE $1.52 Value SPECIAL £g c REX ALARM CLOCKS Regular $2.98 SPECIAL $239 Cancelled CHECK OASE $1.95 Value SPECIAL SJ. 69

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IL]©©§i<Q® Homer Felber, brother of Miss Marie Felber, superintendent of nurses at the Adams county memorial hospital, is recovering from eye surgery performed Friday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. R. E. Glendening, assistant cashier at the First State Bank of Dtcatur, is reported improving following surgery at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. John Kaehr, Bluffton route 4. was dismissed from Clinic hospital Sunday after treatment. , Steven DeVore, son of Mr. and Mrs) Jay DeVore, was dismissed from Wells county hospital Saturday after surgery. Miss Eloise Noll, nurse at the General Electric company, has been returned to her home at 223 South Eighth street after being in the Adams county memorial hospital since February 3, suffering from a fractured and dislocated right ankle. Ronald K. Bassett, a 1952 graduate of Decatur high school, enrolled in the professional accounting school of International College Monday. Mrs Marvin Taylor has been dismissed from the Parkview hospital and returned to her home in Monroe. Mrs. Ferris Bower will return home today after spending several days visiting With friends and relatives in Akron, Ohio. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Ernest and Berdella Alt Liechty of Berne, are the parents of a seven pound, three and three < fourth ounce boy born at 6 p.m. Monday. . This morning at 1:20 o’clock, Lauren and Norma Jean Funk Myers of route 1, Monroe, became parents of an eight pound, five and One half ounce girl. A seven pound, three ounce girl was born at 5;02 a.m. today to Burley and Mary Ashcraft Billington of Bryant. Makes An Ideal GRADUATION GIFT! Bill |■I■(J I I I I I I I i I , *i I- ■ r * X'/j? V \ * fl ■ I Wj W A JsS? 44; Slim and handsome— ‘4 x wfey styled .for. dress and £ sport wear! This new i dimension in self-winding "» 7/ watches adds elegance to i ''y rugged construction. Winds J as you wear it, shock* S resistant, waterproof.* • -X- - f B.T-500-s79.«>< FrteM (MlV* T»« 4 | 5 MGR JEWELRY STORE