Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1959 — Page 3

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1959

j : .W ' J ■ 'ST * ’ <t J 5*7. jj •• Miss Dorcas L. Suman — Photo by Anspaugh Engaged To Wed *r ” ” August Twenty-Ninth Miss Dotcas Louise Suman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otho Suman of 1209 West Adams street, and Walter Van Dine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Van Dine, of 6816 Ball Road, Inkster, Mich., are planning an August 29 wedding, her parents have announced. Miss Suman was graduated from Decatur high school, has attended Olivet Nazarene College, and is presently the supervisor ofchildren at Worthman field. Her fiance also attended Olivet Nazarene College, and is employed by the Stanford Ply- - mouth company of Lincoln Park, Mich.

Huntington County Farmhouse Blasted WARREN, Ind. (UPD—An explosion wrecked a Huntington County farmhouse Monday while al four members of the family which lived there were away. One side of the two-story frame house was torn out and part of the second story fell into the lower floor. All the windows in the building were blown out except one. Vaughn, Helms, owner of the Meuse. wis plowing a field about half a mile away. His wife and their two daughters were in Warren shopping. . .

Notice to Our Customers A $lO Gift Certificate Will Be Awarded To The Best Dressed “Old Fashioned” Customer at the Decatur “Old Fashioned Side-Walk Sate Jubilee ” Retail Division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce

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CLUBS Calendar items tor today's put ’cation must be phoned tr by 1 «.m. (Saturday 9:30) Fnone 3-2121 Marilou Roop TUESDAY C.L. of C., C.L. of C. hall, 6:30 p.m., potluck. Decatur Weight Watchers, 1316 West Monroe, 8 p.m. Wesleyan Service .Guild picnic, Hanna-Nuttman park. 6:30 p.m. Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Wilbert Thieme, 8 p.m. Monroe Better Homes Demonstration club, Mrs. Clifford Essex, 7:30 p.m. V.F.W. Auxiliary, post home, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Decatur Home Demonstration club, C.L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C., Mrs. Carl Frey, 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Emmaus Guild family picnic, Hanna-Nuttman park, 6:30 pin; THURSDAY Friendship Village Home Dem-' opstration club, Kimsey school, 1:30 p.m. Women of the Moose regular meeting. Moose home, regular time, installation postponed one week. Bethany E.U.B. W.S.W.S., church, 2 p.m. Zion Lutheran Needle club, parish hall, 1 p.m. Union Chapel Ladies Aid, church basement, all day. r Friendship club of Church of God, postponed.. Order of the Rainbow for Girls, Masonic hall, 6:45 p.m., all petitions must be in. FRIDAY V.F.W-' Auxiliary, post home, regular time. SATURDAY Christian Companions class of Trinity E.U.B. church, Lehman

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bride-elect is HONORED WITH DINNER A dinner party honoring Miss Mara Dee Striker was held recently at the Fairway Restaurant. Miss Striker and Ronald Lee Vetter Will exchange nuptial vows June 21 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon at the Bethany Evangelical United Br'ethren church. Upon her arival at the restaurant, Miss Striker was presented with a white carnation corsage, a gift from Mrs. Dan Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio, who was unable to be present but who called the guest of honor during the dinner. Friends of the bride-elect who attended the affair were Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, Mrs. Gerald Smith, Mrs. Norbert Aumann and daughter Carolyn, Mrs. Fred Bashara and daughter Marian, Mrs. Malcolm Locke and daughter Judy of Portland, and the honored guest’s mother, Mrs. Fred Striker. Unable to attend were Mrs. Harry James and Mrs. Harley Lehman. MISS EVA MILLER ' HAS SURPRISE PARTY A surprise birthday party honoring the thirteenth birthday anniversary of Miss Eva Miller, was held recently at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Miller. Those in attendance included the Misses Carol Ann DeVine, Sandra Liby, Janelie Roth, Miriam Yager, Gloria Zimmerman, Marilyn Baumgartner, Mary Ellen Mann, Sylvia Miller, Donna Miller, and Mrs. Stanley Arnold, Mrs. Flow'd Andrews, Mrs. Dale Liby, Mr. and Mrs. Lores Steury and children Mark, Doug, Tim, and Lori, Dennis Arnold, Mike Leyse, Bruce Mann, and Robert Miller. The Thursday meeting of the Friendship club of the Church of God has been canceled. A stated meeting of the Order of the Rainbow for Girls will be held Thursday at 6:45 o’clock at the Masonic hall. All petitions are to be in at this time. A busiess meeting of the V.F.W. auxiliary will be held tonight at the V.F.W. hall beginning at 7:30 o’clock.

Food Supply lines Disrupted By Strike NEW YORK (UPD - Food supply lines for New York City and some surrounding communities were disrupted today by two unrelated strikes that idled harbor railroad barges and the distributing facilities of a major super market chain. Virtually all the 46 tugs which propel the railroad barget were idle in an unauthorized walkout over the ’ lay-off of about 350 oilers. The city receives a major portion of its perishable fruits and vegetables in freight cars which are ferried by barge from New Jersey terminals west of the Hudson River. The other walkout was of 1,400 warehouse employes of the A & P food stores, who quit work on expiration of a two-year contract Monday. The warehouse handle supplies for 400 stores in the metropolitan area. An A& P spokesman said most of them will exhause supplies on hapd by the end of the week. Fresh milk and bread deliveries were not affected. ' The tug stoppage resulted from the discharge by 10 railroads of a number of engineroom oilers, who tarere said to be no longer needed on the roads’ new. diesel tugs. The railroads said 125 had been given notice as of Sunday night; the Transport Workers Union, which represents most of them, put the figure at over 300

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PSI IOTA XI SORORITY HAS ANNUAL CONVENTION Over 500 delegates and rnembers represented the 97 chapters of the Psi lota Xi sorority who met recently for the 56th annual convention. The two day meeting was held in the Purdue Memorial Union in West Lafayette. Mrs. Paul Moore, president, and Mrs. Floyd Reed, corresponding secretary, represented the Decatur chapter, Alpha Delta. During the business session, delegates authorized SB,OOO for the national philanthropic program including speech clinics, mental health units, and art salons. Scholarships to 24 high school girls to attend the Ball State and hearing summer boarding clinic were also made known. The Van Wert, Ohio chapter, Beta Delta, was th? recipient of one of the awards, a prize painting. Plans were made for the midyear luncheon which will be held January 30, 1960, at the Murat Temple* in Indianapolis. The 1960 Psi lota Xi convention will be held June 17 and 18 in Louisville, Ky. Boys Return From Conservation Camp David Swictard, Decatur, and True Myers, Berrfe, have returned to Adams county from a week’s conservation camp held at Purdue Limberlost camp on Oliver Lake recently, . ; .. . L.JI . Adams county’s two campers, along with youths from a twelve county area in northeastern Indiana, attended classes each jjiorning on soil conservation, soils, wildlife, and forestry. In the afternoons, soil conservation officers supervised sports and special activities, including classes on firearms and lifesaving. Friday the campers participated in a land judging contest, which was followed by presentation of camping awards. Elmer Phelps, of the United States soil conservation service office here, was chief director of the camp, which is co-sponsored by the soil conservation districts and the Indiana department of conservation. Conservation officer Jack Hurst, Geneva; helped with the afternoon programs, which the department of conservation officers supervised. Myers, 13, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Myers, Berne, and Swickard, 14, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton A. Swickard, 215 Stratton Way, Decatur. The two were sponsored in part by the First Bank of Berne, the First State Bank of Decatur, the KrickTyndall company, and the soil conservation district supervisors. The two were chosen after coming out with the top scores on quizzes given at their schools this spring to best their basic knowledge of conservation.

JUoih Mrs. Martin Gallmeyer, Don Gallmeyer, Mrs. Norman Ostermeyer, Willis Conrad, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hackman, returned Sunday evening from a two day trip to Sheboygan, Wis., where they attended the marriage of Robert Schmidtke to Marilyn Wilsing. The bridegroom is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Schmidtke, former minister of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moser this week are Mr. and Mrs R. E. Ehnbon and children. Kristin, John, and Danny, of Hurley, Wis. Mrs. Enbon is the former Miss Juanita Lenhart of Decgtur. <0Richard Macklin and Mayor Robert Cole caught 52 .perch at Hogback lake over the weekend. Bryce Thomas, principal of Lincoldn school, left Monday for Bradenton, Fla., where the Thomas will spend the summer, after a weekend visit in Cleveland, Ohio, with his son, Dan, and his new grande, son. Mrs. Thomas left for Florida several weeks ago.— — - —- Mrs. Dent Baltzell of rural route 6, and Mrs. Jim Bonnett of Bluffton, Ohio, left Monday for a six weeks’ visit in Honolulu, While in the islands, they will visit with the Frank Robinson family of Kailua Heights. Mrs. Robinson is the daughter of Mrs. Baltzell. Guests Sunday at the home of Mrs; Ida Lehman and daughters Clara, of Berne, were Mrs. Sam Steffen of Pandoraa, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs; William Klickman arid daughter Margaret, and Mrs. Ida Stepler of Decatur. - Miss Barbara Liechty and John Liechty, Berne residents, attended a birthday dinner held Sunday at the home of Frank Liechty of Decatur. * \ Mrs. Della Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Foreman, Mrs. Leona Gentis, and Mrs-. Henry Adler of Decatur, attended the special services held Sunday at the First Mennonit church at Berne. Paul Schueler, 34, and Francis E. Jamison, 31, both of route two, answered to charges of speeding in the Bluffton justice of the peace coiirt over the weekend. Cited By state troopers for speeding, each paid $19.75 and costs.

' ; X ™ 4 \ s vz7_-~. t \> ’ W m 'flr j % B A tyi.:-,' 4 » -V '■& s 'tttttt*' «> JiBB ' i <^. b -<S i'- ' >-« - '*>/w ’- Miss Jacqueline Ann Snyder — Photo by Anspaugh Miss Snyder To Be October Bride A fall wedding is being planned by Miss Jacqueline Ann Snyder and her fiance, Ronald Wayne Ford. October is the month selected by the couple. Miss Snyder’s engagement was revealed today by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder of rural route 5. Ford is the son of Mr. and Mrs? Lester W. Ford of 1228 Mix Avenue. A 1958 graduate of Adams Central high school, the brideelect is employed in the office of Dr. Joe Morris. Ford graduated from Decatur Catholic high school in 1957 and is enrolled in the General Eelctric apprentice school in Fort Wayne.

Mercer Co. Sheriff Closes County Jail Turning four prisoners free Monday, Mercer county, 0., sheriff Bruce Barber continued his plans to close the Merger county jail. His action is based on letters he sent to the county commissioners and to the county’s three courts (common pleas, probate and juvenile, and Celina municipal). In the letters, he said he would close the county jail because funds the county commissioners provided for January in the annual appropriations are inadequate to operate the jail. The county commissioners have reported that a fair distribution of available funds was made in the January appropriation. One of the four deputies was to be released Monday as a result of the “Jack of funds.” Three prisoners released early in the afternoon had served their time on drunk driving convictions and were serving time for fines and costs. Celina municipal court judge Carlton C. Rieser, notified Monday that the three would be released, suspended the rest of the fines and costs. One prisoner, released later in the afternoon, was serving a deferred sentence on a manslaughter conviction. He is under bond of $5,000, and officials have reported that he must eventually complete the sentence before the bond can be cancelled. Sheriff Barber kept two other prisoners in the county jail, for their cases have not been taken care of in court yet. Barber had said earlier that he would handle prisoners awaiting court action but would not keep them in jail afterwards. Judge Rieser has announced that municipal prisoners will be taken either to the Toledo workuouse or the city jail in St. Mary’s.

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Report Friday Night Is Becoming Most Popular To Shoppers Friday night is replacing Saturday night as the most popular shopping night on “Main Street, Indiana,” a survey of 146 Hoosier cities and towns showed today. I The Indiana State Chamber of> Commerce reported that for the | first time in the 10 years it has been making shopping trend surveys the Friday night communities, edged out the Saturday night I areas. The study showed 50 communities are observing Friday night shopping schedules exclusively, 49 open Saturday nights exclusively, and 26 open both Friday and Saturday nights. Next in popularity was a combination of Monday and Friday nights with seven communities. From 1950 to 1959 , 34 communities have dropped Saturday night openings to switch to Friday night. The five which made the change this year are Albany, Bedford, Greendfield, Linton, and Mitchell. Anderson and East Chicago adopted a combined Monday and Friday night schedule during the year. Most common day for stores to be closed is Wednesday with establishments in 65 communities shut down in the afternoon on this day. Thirty-three are Closed ' Thursday afternoon and six Monday mornings. Thirty-two communities have no weekday store closing periods.

En©g[p)M ADMITTED Mrs. James E. Beitler, Berne; Mrs. John H. Hosknis, Bryant; Miss Donna Strahm, Decatur; Mrs. Ben Whetstone, Bryant; Edwin Bauer, Decatur; Mrs. Rudolph Eickhoff, Decatur. DISMISSED Harlan Burgett, Decatur; Mrs. J. O. Penrod and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Hubert Goelz and baby boy, Hoagland; Peter Figert, Geneva.

Steady Parade Through Library l By Readers

Although the theme of the public library's summer reading program is ‘Tarade of Books,” nowadays there is a parade not only of books, but also of people. • Many of those people who make up the constant flow of traffic in and out of the library are probably among the 790 who have enrolled in this summer’s reading program. Os the 790, 58 are enrolled in the “downstairs” department for the high school. Pupils who will be freshmen next year have been allowed to get their books from the high school department this summer, located along with the adult bpoks on the newly remodeled ground floor of the library. The enrollment downstairs is from all classes of high school pupils, up to and including seniors. The parade qf people and books that turns to the right, as you go into the library, and heads upstairs i£ the parade of grade school readers. In the grade department’s program. 640 children are enrolled, from kindergarten to the seventh grade. The parade does not only go from the door to the main desk to leave books, to the bookshelves to get books, to the main 'desk again for checkout, but it also is likely to lead past a row of large white cards along the north wall. Here the names of pupils enrolled in the program are listed. Beside each name is a long blank space, where the reader glues on a colored dot for each book he reads in his summer program. Thirteen of these names have a string of ten or more dots behind them and this list is growing fast. Last Friday, six pupils had completed ten or more books. By Monday evening, that list had more than doubled. When the pupil reaches the tenbook, mark, he may take out more than one book at a time, which gives him an extra advantage in his’ reading program. Those who have not yet read ten books may take out only one book at a time I —and all books must leave the library overnight, and not •be returned the same day. However, the library is careful to stress that the reading program ' is not a speed reading contest, but I a program to enrich a child’s readi ing experience. A child may have gotten a late start in the program, dr may be reading harder books I than others. Factors such as those i do not show up when one looks at I the number of books a child has read.

To keep a record of his own pro- ' gress, each pupil enrolled in the summer reading program has a “Parade of Books” record card. ' It’s a drawing of a parade, complete with baloons, ice cream cones, and lots of paraders. Twenty of the paraders have blank • faces, where the pupil pastes a: 1 book face- whenever he finishes a . book. After he has read 20 books, and has filled up the blank faces, he begins to get gold stars — one . for every five books he reads—to paste on the balloons that float above the parade.

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‘ "I ■Bp t r 1 : ,» 4) . ■’sgiiL &W.IBBI Willis F. Bulmahn, of Decatur, was graduated recently, from the business administration school of; International College, with a BSC degree. He was from Monmouth high school/ in. 1953,where his extra-curricular interests were centered in basketball. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bulmahn, of route 2.

Cox Infant Dies At Van Wert Hospital Baby Stephen Dean Cox died about 10 p.m. Monday in the Van Wert county hospital, Van Wert. Os He was born Sunday to Walter L. and Betty Jane Lockhart Cox. Surviving besides the parents are a brother, Randy Lee, at home, on route one, Willshire, O.; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Lockhart, Liberty township, Van Wert county, and Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Cox, Van Wert; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lockhart, Willshire township, Van Wert county, and Charles Ault, Willshire township; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Cox, Fort Wayne, and Mr, and Mrs. Walter Fronefield, York township, Van Wert county; and the paternal great-grandparents, Mrs. Ervin Cox, Van Wert, and Mrs. Michael Kreischer, route ■ four, Van Wert. I Friends may call this evening at , the Cowan and Sons funeral home, 1 Van Wert. Graveside services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday, in Woodlawn cemetery, Ohio City, O. the Rev: Albert N. Straley, officiating.

Bnirta Jeffrey Alan Kershner was born June 9. at the Indian River Memorial hospital in Vero Beach, Fla., to Dick and Laurene Kershner, former Decatur residents. Kershner was manager of the Goodyear store .here fbr a number of yean?. The third child of the Kershnew, Jeffrey weighed six pounds, eight and one half ounces and was born at 2:48 p.m. 1.