Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1959 — Page 2

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MRS. EDWARD GERBERS IS HOSTESS OF MERRY MATRONS “Techniques in Laundry” was the lesson given by Mrs. Edward Marbach at the recent meeting of the Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club. Members met at the home of Mrs. Edward Gerbers. The meeting was called to order by the vice-president. Mrs. Walter Thieme, after which the club cojlect was repeated by the members. Giving the history of the song of the month. “America the Beautiful.” and leading the group in singing was Mrs. Richard Marbach. Mrs. Arthur Krueckeberg was in charge of the health and safety lesson. The gypsy frolic and 4-H fair were discussed as was the club family picnic to be held August 30 with a pot luck dinner at 12:30 noon. Mrs. Louis Krueckeberg wil be hostess for that affair. Refreshments were served to 13 members at the close of the regular meeting. The Ladies Fellowship of the Decatur Missionary church, will meet in the chyrch basement at 7 o’clock Thursday. Members of the Monmouth high school are reminded of the record hop, autograph party, and the handing out of year books that will take place at tne school Saturday from 8 until 11 o’clock in the evening. CLUBS Calendar itemi for today’s pu*. ♦cation must be phoned ir by 1 •Jn. (Saturday •:») Phone 3-ZUI Marflou Roe* THURSDAY • Women of the Moose, Moose home, officers at 7:30, lodge 8 p.m. Ladies Fellowship, Missionary church basement, 7 p.m. FRIDAY Friendship Circle of Missionary church, Mrs. Norma Humbleson, 7:30 p. m. SATURDAY Monmouth high school students special party, school. 8 to 11 p.m.

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* ; IL©(edh Miss Mary Kocher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kocher, Jr., of 434 Johrj street, celebrated her 16th birthday Sunday. She is astudent at Decatur high school. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris re-1 turned Sunday from a two-week, vacation which included a trip toI the Straights of Mackinac, a visiti at Florence, Ind , and fishing at Barbee Lake. Their Son, Robert,! is staying with his great-grand-i mother, Mrs. Irvin Lock, at Flor-! ence. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Shaffer-of Decatur, attended the recent Shaffer reunion held at Rockford, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wortman of Convoy, Ohio, were among the many relatives who attended the second Bowersock reunion held Sunday. Larry Butler is visiting at the Cherry Point, North Carolina Marine air base. He plans to return home this week. Jack R. Meyer Is Home From Hospital Parkview hospital officials re- j ported today that Jack R. Meyer,! 17-year-old Decatur Catholic high 1 school junior, has been dismissed from the Fort Wayne hospital Jack, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyer, was returned to his parents' home, on rural route 5. this afternoon. It is hoped that cards will continue to be sent to the youth who suffered serious facial wounds i and a broken arm in an accident July 19. At the Adams county memorial hospital: A six pound, 15 ounce boy was born at 4:17 a.m. today to Dan and Bette Royer Ross of 316 West Marshall street. Robert and Judy Ann Burk Haggard of Decatur, are parents of a seven pound, two ounce girl born at 2:25 a.m. today. At 10:42 a.m. today, Bruce and Alice Yoder Hirschy of rural route 2, became parents of a six pound, 13 ounce boy. ■ , T„

Arrange Entrance To Ball State College Susan Elizabeth Gerber, Judy Alice Hott, Edwin Kieth Williams, William Bischoff, Bob Shraluka,: aril 1959 Decatur high school graduates: Robert James Murphy, 1959 Decatur Catholic high school graduate; and Larry Hoffman, 1959 , Monmouth high school graduate. J all recently spent two days on the .Ball Staff Teachers College cam- : pust. Muncie; participating'in the ! placement testing program and I making other arrangements for enI trance to college this fall. Miss Gerber, daughter of Mr. ! and Mrs. Carl David Gerberl 121 S sth Sr., was a member of choir Latin and French clubs. Miss Hott, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Richard Harold Hott. 312 N. 10th St., was a member of Rainbow, and received an award in typing. William Bischoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Bischoff. R.R. 2, Monroeville, was active in many sports. Bob Shraluka, son of Mr. and Mrs. : Robert W. Shraluka, was a member of the school paper and annual staffs, and two plays. He was also active in sports. Robert Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy, Jr., 323 South' First St., was a member of the! ! band, chorus, choir, and received • awards in music, religion, and for i the highest scholastic standing for four years. Larry Hoffman, son of , Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Hoffman, i was a member of class plays, baseball team, and student council. Holla Gives Answer To Kennedy Charges WASHINGTON <UPI) - Teamster boss James R. Hoffa charged today that Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, has “deliberately distorted the truth . . in a mad desire to advertise his brother’s candidacy for president.” The chief counsel’s brother. Sen. | John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, i is amorfg the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. Hoffa appeared on NBC-TV's “Today” program to answer charges by counsel Kennedy that the Teamster Union is run byracketeers and gangsters who have misused their position for personal gain.!’’ “Mr. Kennedy Is vbry cafeless with the truth.” Hoffa said in re- ' ply. “. . . In a mad desire to adI vertise his brother’s candidacy, he 'has deliberately distorted the truth.” Hoffa said the record will show ! That only 107 of about 3.000 Teamster officials have been accused I of any wrongdoing and all but 14 of these have been cleared. The remainder, he said, are under investigation and “will be Cealt with.”

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Notre Dame Expands Television Teaching SOUTH BEND. Ipd. (UPI) - The University of Notre Dame said today it is expanding its experiment in teaching advanced mathematics by closed-circuit television. About 180 high school and college teachers are taking three-credit summer courses conducted by Dr. Arnold Ross, head of the Notre Dame mathematics department. I " ■. • ' Says Expeditionary Force In Dominica HAVANA 'UPD —Cuban Foreign : Minister Raul Roa says the Dominican Republic has mustered an i expeditionary force of 20,000 men | “including foreigners” which might invade Cuba at any moment. Roa told newsmen Tuesday Premier Fidel Castro's government “knows all about” the alleged expeditionary force and could defeat it with ease. The foreign minister said also that Cuba may boycott next month’s Santiago Conference of Western Hemisphere foreign ministers unless it agrees to discusr economic as well as political problems. • .. * The conference was called by ’ the Organization of American States primarily for the purpose ! of discussing the crisis created by I recent Cuban-based invasions of [ countries in the Caribbean and Central America. Castro told a news conference Monday that he himself might attend the conference, but Roa said Cuba will not decide whether to send anybody until it hears whether the foreign ministers will discuss the economic issues it wants to include agenda. In Summer Camp FORT SILL, Okla. (AHTNC) — Cadet James T. Taylor, 21, son of j Mr. and Mrs. Victor Taylor, route I 1, Geneva, Ind., is receiving six i weeks of training at the reservs i officer training corps summer camp at Fort Sill, Okla. The training is scheduled to be completed July 31. Taylor, a 1956 graduate of Petroleum high school, is attending Purdue University. StapH Admitted Carl Callow, Decatur: Carl Melcher, Hoagland: Mrs. Quincy Ball, Decatur; Ronald Bruce Zerkel. Berne. Dismissed Orley Krugh. Convoy, Ohio; Carl Melcher, Hoagland; Miss Linda! Breckley, Bluffton; Mrs. Robert Rawley and baby boy, Rockford Ohio. STATE SEN. Continued from page one Grills, who had required reading in full all bills during the 1959 session because the Constitution requires it. said the case could be carried to the U.S. Supreme Court because of the 1787 Compact. I DECATUR DRIVE-IN THEATRE Tonight & Thursday BUCK NITES! Real Bargain Entertainment — A Tremendous Top-Notch Picture! The Story of Crazy Charlotte, The One The Boys All Liked, The One They Had to Put Away for a Year—The One WJiose Husband Ignored Her! JEAN SIMMONS .Home BeFsP*e « mWRUHYWOfIfMING EFfSM3MBAUST.i» MERVYIiUROY Full Carload for a Dollar! —J O-oi—-Fri. & Sat.—2 in Technicolor! “California” Ray MiUand & “Saga of Hemp Brown” Rory Calhoun. -0 Sun.—“IMITATION OF LIFE” • «

Big-Game Hunt On In Michigan City MICHIGAN CITY; Ind. (UPD— Volunteer big-game hunters, on the trail of a “mountain lion” which has taken to prowling in back yards were hoping today to lure the creature into shooting range with chunks of raw meat placed in the woods at suburban Long Beach. The bait plan was decided on after the “cat-like” animal was spotted by Evan Kelley Monday night in the back yard of his Long Beach home. Kelley said he was sitting ip a lawn chair when he heard a rustling sound in the bushes. He 1 turned a flashlight at the undef--1 brush and a buff-colored animal with a long tail stared back at him. Kelley, who is a former employe of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said he was certain it was a mountain lion. The creature! fled, however, w'hen he went next 1 door to get a gun. Harold Rayder, chief deputy sheriff of LaPorte County, said the 'lion” had been seen by mor torists and law enforcement officers several times in the past few weeks. “It is a pretty good-sized cat,” Rayder said. He speculated that' the animal may have come from > the Michigan woods. Asks Property Tax On Railroads Killed f INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —A railroad executive called for the elimination of property taxes on railroads Tuesday night in line with; a national policy to keep roads.! airways, calans and other “high-j ways of commerce” free of taxation. “The tax shakedown of the railroads across the nation is inflicting such deep financial wounds that, despite all we have done to help ourselves, our very existence as a private enterprise service is being i hurt.” said David I. Mackie, chairman of the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. Mackie said Indiana railroads will pay taxes on operating property this year totaling $14,825,000 —a sum equal to the total revenue, . receipts of all civil townships in ■ the state. Mackie said railroad taxes paid to 1,266 different taxing units in Indiana should be eliminated. He , ,citid ike 14 milion dollar elec- ■ tronlc freight classification yard completed by the New York Central Railroad at Elkhart a year ago as “proof positive” that the ir.dustrj’ ir striving to keep abreast of the nation’s economy. Railroads also are making giant i strides in another area of selfI help—the” transportation of truck trailers in freight cars, commonly known as piggybacking, he said. “Every time we improve our properties to provide you with bet\ter service, we are whacked with higher and often unrealistic taxes,” he said. Railroads “are the most important transportation arteries of al. Why should they pay any taxes at all?” ; Trooper And Solon Involved In Crash CLINTON. Ind. (UPI) — Indiana House Majority Leader Donald Foltz <D-Clinton) and fltate Trooper Robert Wiot, Clinton, narrowly escaped serious injury Monday night when a state patrol car in which they were riding collided with a truck loaded with 10 tons of watermelon on U. S. 41 near here. Foltz, who said he was studying State Police patrol procedures, was uninjured. Wiot was treated for severe bruises. The' trucker was charged with reckless driving.

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Zinsmaster Motors Adds New Salesman Zintsmaster Motors of Decatur announced the addition of Robert Munson, of Fort Wayne, to its sales staff today. Munson will start work immediately. Munson, his wife and children will move to Decatur as soon as suitable housing can be procured. Mrs. Munson is a teacher at Adams Central school. She is the sister of the Rev. J. O. Penrod, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Decatur. Gambling Trial To Jurors On Thursday TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPD— Five defense attorneys and two government lawyers in the nation’s biggest excise tax evasion trial delivered their final arguments to a federal jury today in what was expected to be a morning. afternoon and evening session of legal oratory. The defense had asked Judge Cale J. Holder for 5 hours and minutes for all five lawyers to make their summations. U.S. District Attorney Don A. Tabbert said the government would want equal ; time. However, Holder told toe law- ' yers he wanted all final argu- ' ments completed in one day and said he would recess toe court occasionally to give toe jurors coffee breaks. Holder and the seven attorneys discussed toe judge’s instructions to the jury Tuesday in a session delayed nearly two hours. The jury, which listened to 29 days of government testimony and two days of defense evidence during six-day weeks, got the day off. Eight defendants are charged with evasion of $326,000 in taxes on more than three million dollars in i bets handled as an international ; svndicate based here in the fall of 1957. Holder studied 173 possible jury instructions presented by attorneys for both sides but indicated he would give only 47 of them to j toe jury. The legal session got underway late when the defense lawyers api peared without the defendants. Holder said all eight defendants I must be present at all court sessions and the proceedings were delayed while they were rounded I up. The defendants were indicted on five counts —conspiracy to evade taxes, evasion of taxes during I September, October and NovemIber, 1957, and failure to properly 'apply for a gambling tax stamp. The judge was expected to deliver his instructions to the jury Thursday morning. The case then would go to toe jury later that day. If convicted on all five counts, each of toe defendants could be sentenced to 21 years imprisonment and fined $41,000. Traffic Death Toll Soaring In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — State Police Supt. Harold S. Zeis today blamed an upsurge in multipledeath highway crashes for Indiana’s soaring traffic toll. During toe first six months of 1958, Zeis said, there were 34 collisions in which two persons were killed, 10 in which three died and four crashes which claimed four lives—a total of 114 killed in 48 multiple death accidents. But the first half of this year, there were 36 two-death crashes, 14 which killed three, two in which four died, one that claimed five lives and two which caused six deaths. Those 55 multiple-death accidents, Zeis .pointed out, claimled 139 lives, 25 more than the i year before, to account for nearly i half the 55-death increase in Indi- , ana this year.

Purdue Universify Student Is Suicide CHICAGO (UPI) — A Purdue University engineering student who “wanted to be a perfectionist” and feared he couldn’t make the grade shot himself to death, authorities said today. Joseph Sittier Jr., 22, shot himself with a .22 caliber rifle in the bathroom of his suburban -Berwyn home* Tuesday, despite 13 hours of tearful pleas by his parents and f idnccc Eleanor Wolfe, 19, Attica, Ind., his fiancee and also a Purdue student, and Sittier’s parents pleaded with the youth through the night, taking turns talking to him through the locked door. “I know I’m crazy,” Sittier told them. "I know I’m not worthy of everything I’ve received.” “We just talked all night,” said the distraught Miss Wolfe. “We just talked about nothing in particular.” Sittier, who was released last Friday from Forest Hospital, Des Plaines, lIL, where he had been under the care of a psychiatrist since last May, locked himself in late Monday. Early toe next morning, his parents and fiancee heard a shot.- They forced the door and found the youth dead, a bullet hole between his eyes. Miss Wolfe, an attractive blonde who was visiting the Sittiers, said her fiance had been despondent “because he wanted to be a perfectionist and felt he couldn’t make The youth’s father did not call police during toe all-night vigil. He said he thought their presence would excite his soi). Kirkland Township Rate Is Unchanged Kirkland township’s rate for 1960 will be the same as this year. 11 cents, township trustee Theodore Heller said today. Because of the increase in toe property valuation in Kirkland township, the 11-cent rate will raise $2,489, as compared with $2,396 this year. The budget this year calls for expenditures of $2,473, as compared with $2,472.50 a year ago. poor relief will total $l,lOO this year; the poor relief rate will be figured by the county auditor. GRAND CHAMPS Continued from page one 4-H club work. Other placings in the poultry contests were hybrid divisiog—first Miss Bailey; second, John LaFontaine, Washington Variety .Farmers; third, Alan Habegger, Monroe Boosters; and fourth, Dave Bailey, St. Mary’s Sodbusters. White Rocks: first, Don Wietfeldt; second. Dean Schieferstein; Root Roving Rangers; third, Don Schieferstein, Root Roving Rangers: fourth, Paul Rich, St. Mary’s Sodbusters, and fifth, Phil Schieferstein, Root Roving Rangers. Early Leghorns: first, Ted Habegger. Hartford Hoosier Workers; second, Cynthia Fuelling, Root Roving Rangers; third, Jerry Alberson, Hartford Hoosier Workers, and fourth, Larry Alberson, Hartford Hoosier Workers. Late Leghorn: first, Steven Minnich, French Happy Hoosiers: second, Roy Fuhrman, Root Roving Rangers; third, Ronald Poling, Washington Variety Farmers; fourth, Rita Mattax, Monroe Boosterettes;. and fifth, Saundra Mattax. Monroe Boosters. Hens: first, Paul Rich, St. Mary's Sodbusters; second, Denny Arnold. Kirkland Future Farmers,, and third, Ronald Arnold, Kirkland Future Farmers. Thirty Compete In Pheasants David Sommers, Monroe Boosters, placed second in the pheasant project, where 30 entries competed. Third place premium went to Harold Mailand, St. Mary’s Sodbusters; fourth, Rex Kuhn, Jefferson Go Getters, and fifth, Thomas McKean, Monroe Boosters; In toe quail project, these, additional premiums were awarded: second, Kenneth Selking, Preble Jolly Juniors; third, Clair Inniger, Monroe Boosters; fourth, Steve Randolph. Kirkland Future Farmers, and fifth, Marlin Bleeke, Union Workers. MILNER HOTELS Ask for Ask for The 111 The MILNER J&Etft MILNER "450" **SSO" • Medan •Tke"Ss®" Feroitare »ore • Freshly • Air Ceadb Decorated Honed Rooms Rooms . _ u • Free Tele- • New Wall to vision WaN Carpets • Medon Tile mornlna ■•♦ h papar • Clean • Complete Comfortable hotel Rooms service Price $4-50 Price $5.50 For The Thrifty ECONOMY PRICES Writ* now for your credit card H. I. Dildia, Pres., Milner Retell 31th Floor, Booh Tower Detroit. U, Mich.

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Young People To End Tour Thursday A group of young people from the Decatur Methodist church will return Thursday from a four-day tour that included a trip through Mammoth cave and a visit to Cincinnati, O. The Rev. Hazen Sparks, Robert Rice, Watson Maddox, and Miss Anita Smith chaperoned the group, which was driven by Rev. Sparks, Rice, and Larry Sheets. Those making the trip were Susan Gerber, Connie Baxter, Thelma Walters, Nancy Rice, Etta Mae Soliday, Becky Maddox, and Jerry Mclntosh. Monday, the group drove 310 miles byway of North Vernon to Louisville, then to toe site of “My Old Kentucky Home” at Bardstown, Hodkinsville, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, and finally to Mammoth Cave. Tuesday, they saw Mammoth cave, and drove on to Nashville, Tenn. Today they will drive to Cincinnati, 0., and spend tomorrow touring toe Zoological gardens and seeing a ball game. They will return home late Thursday evening after supper at Richmond. American Is Beaten By Festival Guards VIENNA (UPI) — A young American Negro jazz musician who threatened to resign as a delegate to the Communist - run World Youth Festival was beaten Up Tuesday night by festival guards, it was discolsed today. Willie Ruff, 27, New Haven, Conn., was attacked when he tried to photograph guards roughing up another delegates outside festival headquarters at toe international fair grounds, toe antiCommunist international news bureau said. I The bureau charged that six guards converged on Ruff, knocked his camera out of his hands, and then attacked him. Ruff, “fed up” with the way toe festival was being run. had prepared a letter of resignation. “I can’t stand any more of this.” he told the anti - Red agency. Ruff came to Vienna from Moscow where he and another jazz musician had made a big hit with the Russians in major concert halls and at impromptu street concerts. Festival guards have been trying to keep newsmen from covering the convention. Ferdinand Wimmer of the United Press International was thrown out of toe fair grounds Tuesday after climbing a fence in an attempt to get to U.S. delegation headquarters. Life photographer Robert Lackenbach's press pass was revoked by the Communists who charged he had “attacked” one of their special guards. Never du Mont, representing a West German TV network, said he was beaten up by Red guards. The Communists denied this charge. Other American Delegates complained that Communist organizers of the festival had refused to let them display pictures showing how Negroes live in the United States. Some angry American delegates who have been denied recognition by toe Communists have threatened to join anti - Communists from India, Israel, Italy and Brazil in setting up a rival meeting. John Miller. 21, Stanford University student from Chicago, told a news conference toe Americans might picket festival headquarters. COUNT BASIE Edgewater Park Celina, Ohio SUNDAY, AUCUST 2 Tjw Perk ep tenifhi 1 T I <*—■* n • lAIV ■ »»•$ w wvllglwwS HTHA ■1 Fairway 11 dilllMW’l