Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1959 — Page 2

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Two Pupils Attend Institute At I. U. Two Adams Central high school students. Rosalyn Mishler and Loren Habegger, will attend the yearbooks division of the 13th annual high school journalism institute which begins Sunday at Indiana University. Habegger. son. of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Habegger, route one. Berne, will be editor of the Adams Central yearbook Cen-Trails next year, and Miss Misfiler, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John Mishler. Decatur route two, will be the assistant editor. • Both staff members will attend daily lectures for the yearbook instiute, and the editor, in his second year at the institute, will take editor’s workshop, while the assistant editor will be enrolled in editing and copywriting. The instituters will travel to Brown county the second Sunday they are there, and LOST 25 POUNDS IN 30 DAYS TAKING REGIMEN TABLETS WITHOUT A DIET $3.00 and $5.00 SIZES KOHNE I DRUG STORE

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will see a play given in the Brown county playhouse by I. U. students, “On Borrowed Time.” They will also attend two banquets, including the awards banquet on the final night of the two week institute. , Editors will prepare tentative dummies for their 1960 books and | awards. The awards will include a jI $l5O scholarship provided by the Arbutus, the Indiana University yearbook. Prof. Grdtchen A. Kemp, ‘of the 1 U department of .journalism. is the director of the institute, a two-week session for high school ' yearls..>k staffs. ' Tin two Adams Central staff ' members will leave Sunday with; Mr. and'Mrs. Habegger, and will return to Adams county Saturday. August 8. 1 i Mrs. Harold C. Kiel Dies At Fort Wayne I Mrs. Mary A. Kiel. 53. 510 Greenlawn Avenue, Fort Wayne, died at 6 p. m. Thursday in St. | Joseph's Hospital. I She hadjbeen a patient there for the pgist 25 days. She had lived j in Fort Wayne since 1927, and was) a member of the Most Precious I Blood Catholic church, its Rosary society, and the Daughters of i Isabel. Surviving are the husband. Harold C.; one son, John, three daughters, Mrs. Clarence Kinder. Fort Wayne, Mrs. Vance Battershell, Fort Wayne, and Miss Nancy Kiel, at home; four brothers. John Linder, Payne, 0., Wililam Linder. Monroeville, Henry Linder. Hicksville, O . and Joseph. Sturgis, Mich.; three sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Schall, Monroeville, Mrs. Frank Brady, Payne, O.; and Sister Mary Theophane, Tiffin, 0., convent; and five grandchildren. D. O. McComb and Sone funeral home. Fort Wayne, arc in charge of arrangements. — ... Two LaPorte County Barns Are Destroyed LAPORTE, Ind <UPp — A $50,000 fire destroyed two barns late Thursday on the LaPorte County farm of Dr. William Scholl, the foot remedy manufacturer.

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NOTES FROM AFTER THIRTY By JACK HELLER FROM THE HIGH COUNTRY This column arrived at the Democrat by mail as the family. Jim Reidenbach and I vacation in Colorado. Won't be too much local information in it. but will try to make it interesting for you. We; are centered near Gunnison, the vacation center of southwestern Colorado. The rorty is in the midst of its annual Cattlemen’s Days celebration, complete with parade, horse show and. naturally, a rodeo. This year, they have an added attraction. With the state celebrating the centennial of the gold rush in 1859 that opened Colorado and started it on its way, most of the loCaj| businessmen are sporting beards of all sizes, styles and* shapes. There is a city beard contest going on, and the competition is fierce. So is the itching. LOOK OUT BELOW As we crossed the continental divide (in 2nd gear) at Monarch Pass on U.S. 50, which is better than 11,000 feet high, I couldn’t help , but think of a story Dr. H. R. Frey, ' Decatur optometrist, told recently. Doc crossed the, divide during the Second World War in a troop train. The crossing was made at the time for bed, and all the troops were in the process of undressing. As tile train started down the grade, the train got away from the engineer, and began to pick up speed. Dr. Frey said most of the fellows didn't think too much of it until the conductor came through and told I them what had happened. Then, I there was a terrible scurry. Doc said most of them didn't know whether to put on their pants or i bail out the way they were. To i add to the mess, the conductor got j caught in the car among the churn- ■ ing G.l.s and couldn’t get up front to find out what was wrong. Dr. Frey never did know what happened in the engine for sure. At ■ least they finally got things under control. Looking back. Doc said it was really funny, seeing all those guys trying to get dressed and look out the window while the train shot down the mountains and around

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| curves. At the time, though, it was far from funny. OH. BROTHER One of the families at our second campsite was from Arizona, and the man and I got to talking about camping and fishing. He added that when he left Phoenix, the weather was terrible—it was real muggy. The humidity was up to almost 30%. When I got done laughing, I told him about the Adams county humidity. Like some of the nice days when the temperature is i 90 and the humidity 95%. He said he had heard about the midwest humidity, but didn't know whether it was true or not. He wasn't too anxious to accept an invitation to find out, though. JUST A STORY AND A HALF Wheeled into Crested Butte, and immediately started looking in folks' back yards. Sure enough, there they were, only they weren’t ■ ’’two story outhouses, only story and a half. They better have a ladder inside, or that would make it worse than ever. WHAT’S THAT STUFF? As we came into Gunnison one day, we noticed a lot of white stuff in the eave troughs of houses. We were curious as to what it could be—wondered what people would put salt on their roofs for. Getting out of the car, we noticed seme in the grass, too. Sure enough, it was hail. It had rained recently, and there was considerable hail mixed with it—enough to leave a couple of inches on the roofs. INTERESTING FOLKS Stopped in at the paper here in Gunnison, and met Wally Foster and his wife, Vesta. They are real fine folks, and showed us some real western hospitality (which is, by the way, as good if not better than southern). Wally took time out to show us the town. Went past the uranium mine, but they weren't giving out samples. Also met Sven Wiik, the local ski coach at Western Colorado State College. Mr. I WiiU. who was a Swedish commando during World War 11. will also coach the downhill run and the jumping ski teams for the United States during the 1960 Olympic games. He has made several trips : to Squaw Valley, California, to help 1

Thor Carrying Movie Camera Fired Today CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. <UPI> — An Air Force Thor thundered skyward today packing a small mpvie camera capable of taking pictures 300 miles above the earth. The versatile snub-nosed Thor blasted off at 7:47 a.m. c.d.t. in a rare early morning launching designed to give the 16 millimeter camera proper sunlight exposure on a 1,500-mile test flight. ’ The nose cone and its camera were recovered intact about 10:20 a.m. c.d.t. after it was sighted by an Air Force plane at the impact area near Antigua Island. The 65-foot weapon, which also doubles as an Air Force satellitebooster, lifted smothly from the pad into a clear sunny sky. Ascending with a characteristic rumble, it was visible about two minutes before it disappeared out of sight, leaving a thin . vapor trail high above. Reliable sources said the camera was encased in an 18 - inch data capsule placed in the rear I of the special “heat sink" nose! cone. If all went as planned, the camera should have started tak- j ing pictures at the time the mis- > sile booster section separated from the nose cone —about 125 mijes above the earth. A similar flight last may resulted in photographs of the earth from the highest altitude yet achieved. Some 40 feet of film taken then showed the Florida Peninsula as the nose cone separated at the “darkness of space.” At the top of the film Kentucky and the Carolinas also were clearly visible. The purpose of the camera, however, was not to record the earth but to reveal important information about performance of the missile, particularly at the time of nose cone separation. Acclaimed as one of the United States’ most reliable intermediate range weapons, the Thor already is in the hands of troops in Eng- • land as part of the NATO defense lines. But on its test flight four days ago, the misisle developed a malfunction and was exploded in air by the range safety officer. Van Wert Supermarket Robbed Second Time Burglars entered a Van Wert supermarket through a hole in the roof Wednesday night, for the second time. Cutting a holg' through the roof of the Marsh Foodliner the burglars filled six empty cartons and loaded them with cigarettes worth about SI,OOO. They also attempted to take four cartons of coffee. ■ about SIOO worth, and three quarts iof milk. Police found the goods stacked inside the rear door of the store, where the burglars apparently set off an alarm, which frightened them away. April 11, 1958, burlars had also broken into the store through the room. That time a sack full of cigarettes was taken. design the winter games center there. Wally Foster brought out an interesting sidelight of Gunnison. At a recent Chamber of Commerce board of directors meeting he got to -looking around. Os the twelve men there, not one of them was a native of Gunnison, and only one was a native Coloradoan. Only two had been in the town for more than ten years. He gave us an invitation to move out, and add to the immigrants. Don't know where we could do better for scenery, fishing and fun. LITTLE MAN Had an experience driving out that makes a person feel mighty small. As the sun came up Sunday morning, we were driving through the flatlands of central Kansas. And they are flat. South of us was a thunderstorm, and the lightning was shooting straight down to the ground—because that was the tallest thing there. Nothing spectacular, just nature in a beautiful dis- ! play of power and vastness. Nothing for miles and miles but plains, with the sunrise just breaking behind us and the lightning and thunder to the south. Makes a person , feel mighty lonesome. DROP US A LINE As you travel on your vacation, i if you run into anything unusual, like two story out 'houses, drop a line to the column. The rest of us would like to hear about it. Might : want to go there ourselves to see < the unusual—or to check and see if you’re telling the truth.

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Unique Task For French Catholics Editor’s Note: Louis Cassels, prize-winning writer for United Press International on religion in America, is currently in Europe. In this dispatch he reports on religious developments abroad. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International PARIS <UPI) — The Catholic church in France is grappling boldly with a task unique in religious history. It is trying to re-convert a nominally Christian ' nation that has lapsed into paganism. Ecclesiastical leaders like Maurice Cardinal Feltin, archbishop of Paris, are completely realistic about the situation that confronts I the church. They describe France as a “de-Christinaized” country which can be won back to the church only through earnest, imagainative missionary efforts. French bishops are not indulging in Gallic overstatement when > they call modern France a “mission field.” Although 94 per cent of the people are baptized Catholics, surveys indicate that only about 20 per cent actually practice the faith. And this 20 per cent is drawn primarily from the rural areas of the provinces and from the upper economic groups of the cities. Many Historial Factors Among working class Frenchmen, the number of practicing Catholics is much smaller. A careul check in one urban industrial parish showed only 600 regular church goers in a population of 19,000 persons. There is one parish which has not recorded a baptism marriage or burial for 20 years. Many historical factors have contributed to the estrangement of the French masses from the church. For centuries before the French Revolution, the church was closely identified with the privileged classes. The revolution of 1789 was as much a revolt against the church itself as against the monarchy which it had supported. Although anti - clericalism, in the sense of active hostility toward the church, has declined markedly ni recent years, many Frenchmen still regard the church as a bulwark of political conservatism. This is a major handicap in a country where political radicalism is strongly entrenched in the working classes. Long-Range Effort Church leaders know that this heritage of bitterness and disturst cannot be quickly overcome. They have embarked, with humility and determination, on a long - range effort to show skiptical Frenchmen that Christianity is not an empty ritual nor a tool of the vested interests. One project on which much progress has alre a d y been achieved is the revitalization of worship. Liturgical reforms have made the celebration of Mass more meaningful to French Catholics. There is heavy emphasis on the congregation's duty 40 participate rather than sit as passive spectators. A massive output of scholarly literature, by both clergymen and laymen, has helped to restore religion to a position of intellectual respectability. In fact, the most obvious signs of religious revival in France today are among the intellfectuals, particularly the students and faculty of great universities like the Sorbonne. The church is also living down

its reputation as a citadel of: • political stand - pattism. Bishops and priests are taking outspoken, liberal stands on such issues as the Algerian war and the socialization of industry. Killer Executed In Sing Sing Thursday OSSINING, N. Y. UPD - Leroy Keith, 52. of Akron, Ohio, was executed at Sing Sing Prison Thursday night for the slaying of a cab driver during a 1956 holdup. Keith’s electrocution had been delayed five times, twice to allow him to lodge an appeal with the U. S. Supreme Court. On both 'occasions, the high court refused to step into the case. He said just before his death that he was “disappointed in” New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller for not staying his execution again. His lawyer had told him he had no other legal moves to take, but Keith had maintained up to the last that “1 may; be lucky again.” At the time of the December, 1956, shooting of cab drivern : Joseph Suro of Jersey City, Keith | was on parole from a life mux-, der sentence in Ohio and was wanted for questioning in connection with another Ohio killing. Keith was convicted of killing Suro after the cab driver refused I to follow directions given by | Keith and three companions who had taken the cab to go to a ■ supermarket they planned to 1 hold up. According to trial testimony, Suro was shot when he refused! to turn into the wrong end of a one-way street, then tried to signal policemen parked nearby : in a patrol car.

] PUBLIC AUCTION We will sell at Public Auction, the following personal propertylocated at the corner of U. S. 27 and Clark St., Berne, Ind. Monday Night, July 27th 6:00 P.M. Deluxe electric range, Westinghouse 30 in. 1956, like new; Frigidaire refrigerator; Dryer, Apex good condition; Washer, Maytag—porcelain wringer type; Air conditioner, 1957 1 ton Westinghouse. Living Room Suite, 2-pc. brown Lawson, like new; 4-pc. Bedroom Suite, spring, mattress, bed, dresser, chest of drawers, night stand; Maple youth bed; Baby bed. Safe. 21 in. wide, 32% in. high, depth 22% in., extra good shape; odd tables and chairs, dressers; Dishes; 2 big iron kettles; 1 old copper kettle; and many other items. Mrs. Chris Balsiger, Owner Auctioneers—Emerson Lehman First Bank of Berne—Clerk and Phil Neuensch wander. Not responsible for accidents. 1 SPECIfIL july «" d to AUG. lit BRAKES RELINED NEW BRAKE SHOES and LABOR included »$5 M - WHEEL QUALITY CHEVROLET-BUICK, INC. i HOME OF THE L-O-N-G TRADES N. 13th St. Phone 3-2918 I ——— — :

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"MISS U.S.A." — Terry Lynn Huntingdon of California reigns as "Miss U.S.A.’’ in the "Miss Universe” contest in Long Beach, Calif. The 19-year-old from Shasta is 5-foot-6Va, weighs 120, shapes 36-23-36. Trade in a good town — Decatur. NOTICE! It's Been Changed. New Name! New Owners! at the site of the old Dinner Bell. — Come In and Meet JEAN at JEAN’S RESTAURANT