Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1959 — Page 3

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959.

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MRS. MITCHEL HOSTESS TO MERRIER MONDAYS Mrs. Gene Mitchel's home was the scene of the Merrier Mondays club August meeting recently. Mrs. Gene Hurst was co-hostess for the 16 members who answered roll call by naming their favorite songs. Mrs. Gene Bluhm, president, called the meeting to order. Mrs. Loren Liechty and Mrs. Russell Welch gave devotions and a poem, respectively, and Mrs. Dale Fruchte led group singing. Mrs. Leroy Kolter gave the lesson for the month, on washing machines and the best types an individual should use. Mrs. Loris Steury and Mrs. Gerhart Witte gave the secretary’s and treasurer’s reports, respectively. The Merrier Mondays delegates to the Purdue homemakers’ convention, Mrs. Leroy Kolter, Mrs. Robert Hankey, and Mrs. Edward Bluhm, reported oh their trip. Standing and repeating the club creed, the members closed the meeting. Door prizes went to Mrs. Darrell Arnold, Mrs. Dale Fruchte, and Mrs. Envin Liechty. Receiving secret pal gifts were Mrs. Gene Hurst, Mrs. Ervin Liechty, Mrs. John Reed, and Mrs. Leroy Kolter. A barbecue will be the special feature of the next meeting, at the home of Mrs. John Barger. Members are to bring meat and their own table service. 0.N.0. CLUB MEETS WITH MRS. BULMAHN The 0.N.0. (Our Night Out) home demonstration club met Sunday at the home of Mrs. Leroy Bulmahn for a family carry-in dinner. Mrs. Jim Merriman, president, conducted a brief business meeting. Mrs. Lillard Fawbush gave the club prayer. Games were played during the afternoon, and ice cream and soft drinks were served. Mrs. Leroy Bulmahn and Mrs. Willard Fawbush received secret pal gifts. SURPRISE PARTY MARKS MISS BAKER’S BIRTHDAY Miss Judy Baker was surprised Wednesday evening with a birthday party at her home on Bellmont road. Ice cream and cake were among the refreshments served, and following the celebration marking her 16th birthday, there was a slumber party. Attending the celebration were the Misses Ann Omlor, Gloria Voglewede, Patty Alberding, Susie Keller, Kathe Hain, Nell WaMer, ahd Carolyn Kohne, The Pocahontas lodge will have a picnic for members and their husbands at the home of Mrs. Theron Dull on Bellmont road, Tuesday at 6 p.m. Each member is to bring a covered dish and table service and a white elephant. IMPRINT CHRISTMAS CARDS on display. Please order early. Will hold for future date. Boxes of 21 for SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50. MARGARET BRAUN, 222 N. 7th St. Phone 3-3820. 190 3t

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IL©(£§llbs The Misses < Sue Pageler and Mary Dick* left Thursday mornieg for Kansas City, Mo., where they will attend the Weaver airline school. Gideon Gerber, Bluffton, has been admitted to the Clinic hospital in Bluffton to receive treatment. John P. Tyndall, Bluffton, has been admitted to the Indiana University school of medicine. The new class numbers-180, the largest in the history of the LU. school. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kipfer have come from Sebring, Fla., to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kipfer, route four, Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Fritzinger held open house Wednesday evening for 25 r e 1a t i y e s and friends, in honor of their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Fritzinger, Parryville, Pa. The Burt Fritzingers were visiting Decatur this week, and will leave today for St. Paul, Minn. They plan to return home after Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. John Baumgartner, Lois and Gene Lamar, of route four, Bluffton, left Tuesday for a three-week trip to Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They will visit Pvt. and Mrs. Galen Baumgartner and Mr. and Mrs. Don Lloyd and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yergler. Pvt. Baumgartner, stationed now at Fort Bennings, is a son, and Mrs. Lolyd and Mrs. Yergler and daughters of the Baumgartners. .Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Converse and granddaughter Susan Blodgett, Ashland, Neb., have returned home after visiting with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis V. Converse and Reggie, of route four. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gerig and son attened the Amstutz reunion Tuesday noon at Lehman park in Berne. Charles Kent, Decatur real estate man and auctioneer, is enjoying a vacation at Rosebud, Montana, where he is gathering agates for his collection of gems. Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ellsworth of 135 Limberlost Lane, and a junior at Decatur high school, celebrated her 16th birthday today. Judge Lowell L. Pefley, of the Whitley county court, has announced that he will appoint the ninemerqber school reorganization board for his county during or shortly after the county convention next Monday. Randolph county Judge I. W. Macy named his committee members Monday. Mamie Eisenhower Visiting Mother DENVER (UPI) — Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower,yyife of the President, arrived in Denver this morning for a visit with her ailing 81-year-old mother, Mrs. John S. Doud. Mrs. Eisenhower’s trip to Denver by tram was not announced until after her arrival.

IfapWl ADMITTED Mrs. Anna Bulmahn, Decatur; Cline Orr, Portland; Mrs. Anna Kenney, Chicago. DISMISSED Mrs. Rae A. Brown, Berne; Mrs. Robert Ellenberger and baby boy, Berne; Mrs. George Kleintoub and baby girl, Decatur; Miss Estella Canales, Decatur. GLOBS Calendar items for today’s puu ■cation must be phoneo u by • Mb. (Saturday 9:30) Phone 3-Zlll • Mariiou Roop THURSDAY Mount Pleasant WSCS, Rev. George Christian, 7 p.m. Women of the Moose, chapter night, officers, 7:30; lodge 8 p.m. Town and Country home demonstration club, picnic, HannaNuttman park, noon. Happy Homemakers home demonstration club, Mrs. Clarence Mitchell, 7:30 p.m. Kirkland WCTU picnic, HannaNuttman shelter house, noon. FRIDAY Ladies’ Aid, Calvary E.U.B. church, Mrs. Roland Miller, 7:30 p.m. Mt. Tabor WSCS, Mrs. Lawrence Andrews, 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY Ladies’ Aid, Preble Lutheran church, ice cream social and bake sale; schools grounds, north of Preble; all evening, with program at 8 p.m. Fackler Reunion, junior fair building at Van Wert Fairgrounds, noon. Weldy Reunion, Irvin Zimmerman home, Preble. MONDAY MONDAY Decatur Woman’s Bowling Association, Mies Recreation, 8 p.m. Adams county home demonstration chorus, Monroe Farm Bureau building, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Pocahontas lodge, members and husbands, Mrs. Theron Dull, 6 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma, Joe Rash residence, 8 p.m. Bnirfc ✓ Philip and Gloria Timmons Kaehr, route four, became the parents of a son, Jeffrey Lynn, Sunday at the Bluffton Clinic hospital. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Timmons, Berne, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kaehr, route four. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Robert and Marilyn Jean Hauser Litwiller, Geneva, became the parents of a baby boy weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces, at 6:04 a.m. today. Over 2,500 Daily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur °ach day.

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> Funeral Held Today For Charles T. Aker Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m.- today in Bluffton for Charles Theodore Aker, 89, father of Mrs. Lucy Dick, near Decatur, and Raymond Aker, Craigville. The Rev. Marvin Hall officiated at the services a| the Thoma funeral home, and burial followed in Fairview cemetery. Mr. Aker died at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Wells county hospital, where he had been a patient five weeks. He was born March 8. 1870, in Lancaster township. Wells county, to William R. and Eliza j Grove Aker. His marriage was j May 28, 1893, in Bluffton, to Min--nie France, who died in 1946. A | lifelong resident of Wells county, j he was a member of the First Baptist church. Survivors include six daughters, ■ Mrs. Harvey Clark, Howe; Mrs. i Lucy Dick, near Decatur; Mrs. i Ivy Mendenhall, Pleasant Lake: ; Mrs. Arthur Strehlow, Orland: Mrs. Earl Kean and Miss Jeanetta Aker, both of Bluffton; three sons, Leroy Aker, Angola; Raymond Aker, Craigville, and Russell Aker, Coldwater, Mich.; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Brickley, Celina, 0.: 46 grandchildren, 65 great-grand-childrbn and one great-great-grandchild. Two sons, a daughter, and a brother are deceased. Suspect Sought In South Bend Murder SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPD — Police sought a stocky man in his 30s today whom they believe may have killed Ralph Baker, 51, in a robbery attempt. Baker’s nude body was found with a Venetian blind cord; wrapped around his neck in his; pillaged apartment Tuesday. St. j Joseph County Coroner Dr. Ed-’ ward S. Shelley said Baker, an i awning company worker, died by. strangulation •in the predawn hours Monday. Police Suspected robbery as the , motive for Baker’s death after. neighbors told of hearing a voice *in Baker’s apartment cry out, “please, please, I haven’t any. I haven’t any.” Mrs. Dollie Cardwell, who heard the voice, and two other neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sco- , field, said they saw a stocky man . hurry from the building just aft- . er the voice was heard, get into a car and drive away. Baker’s body was found by a ' neighbor and the apartment building manager about 24 hours after he had been killed. Over 2.500 i xlly Democrats art sold and delivered to each dav. a. 1 I Sfl MIL PALM PRINT GOT HIM-Darryl Kemp holds his head in what no doubt is worry as he is arraigned in Los Angeles in the sex killing of Nurse Marjorie Hipperson. A palm print was found in her apartment A police check of some 200,000 palm prints turned up Kemo.

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i Michigan Youth Dies In Toll Road Crash VALPARAISO, Ind. (UPD—Forest E. Williams, 20, Battle Creek, Mich., was killed today when an automobile hit a bridge abutment and overturned on the Northern Indiana Toll Road west of here. Two companions, Lewis Smith, 46, and Charles Thomas, 33, both of Chicago, were injured. f Senate Fails To Override - Housing Veto I | WASHINGTON <UPD—The SenI ate Banking Committee began I drafting new housing legislation i today in the wake of Senate rei fusaL to . .override President Eisi enhower’s veto of a $1,375,000,000 bill. * Eisenhower’s objections to four or five provisions in a $1,050,000.000 substitute drawn up by subcommittee members last week complicated the committee’s consideration of that measure. Chairman A. Willis Robertson • D-Va.) called today’s meeting within minutes after the Senate failed by nine votes Wednesday to override the (July 7 veto. The vote was 55-40 for overriding. But a 64-31 vote was needed to get the two-thirds majority required to override. Housing subcommittee Chairman John Sparkman <D - Ala.l promised to begin efforts immediately to send a comprehensive new housing bill to the White House, So did other senators from both parties. But they still were divided on how high the bill's price tag should be and what it ■ should include. j At Gettysburg where he is vacationing, Eisenhower was reported i “quite pleased” that his veto was sustained. Acting presidential ;news secretary Wayne Hawks al.so noted that Eisenhower said at his news conference Wednesday he would like to see a "sound" bill passed. I Meeting Planned On Third Major League NEW YORK (UPD — Pertinent information concerning the organ- > izing of franchises will be turned over to delegates of the newlyformed Continental League by a major league committee during a meeting here next Tuesday. The meeting will be the first of-; ficial one between the two groups. Information such as financing of franchises, acquisition of player personnel and like matters will Ibe given over to the Continental League delegation, it was announced by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. That was something of a turnabout inasmuch as Frick said the meeting would be “entirely exploratory” when he first announced that it would be held. Frick is a member of the major league committee which will meet with a founders’ group from the third league. Others on the major league committee are the two league presidents, Warren Giles and Joe Cronin, and club owners Lou Perind of Milwaukee, Tom Yawkey of Boston, Bob Carpenter of Philadelphia and Arnold Johnson of Kansas City, Bill Shea, chairman of the founders’ group for the third league, said he expected Ed Johnson of Denver, Craig Cullinan Jr., of Houston, Jack Kent Cooke of Toronto, Wheelock Whitney of Minneapolis - St. Paul, and Walter Orr, representing Mrs. Dorothy JKillam of New York, to attend for the Continental League. Over k.SOI I Wy Democrats an sold and delivered to DecaUr each day

Indiana University To Buy Showboat '< BLOOMINGTON, Ind. <UPD— An Indiana University department saved the profits from a rustic playhouse in the Brown County hills and will buy an Ohio River showboat. Prof Lee Norvelle of the Speech and Theater Department, said the showboat “Majestic,” complete witty 32-whistle calliope and an auditorium will be purchased and used beginning next summer as a proving ground for student thespians. The boat and its diesel-powered . tug will be bought from Capt. I Thomas Jefferson Reynolds of i Point Pleasant, W. Va., who built the boat in 1923. It is described as I the last of America's river show- ■ boats. Until this season, the ‘‘Majestic” was operated by Hiram College of Ohio and about 300.000 persons saw performances during the 10 years Hiram players performed on the boat. The university will buy the boat with $30,000 accumulated in profits from operation of the Brown ! County Playhouse at Nashville. | Ind., a self-financing university i operation which has been providing summer theater since 1948. The “Majestic" will tour Indiana towns along the Ohio River from Lawrenceburg to Evansville. Hot Weather Still Plaguing Hoosiers . United Press International , Hot weather hit Hoosiers with i a sweltering broadside today with ] more temperatures in the 90s due < and relief in sight only for the extreme north portion of Indiana. Il High readings Wednesday were ■ in the upper 80s and the 90s | ‘ throughout the state, including 96 in the Louisville area, 93 in the Chicago area, 92 in the Cincinnati', area and at South Bend, 88 at Fort Wayne and Evansville and 87 at Indianapolis. Today’s highs will range from 84 to 90 north, near 90 central and 90 to 95 south, with a range of 90 to 95 Friday and “continued warm" Saturday except for “possibly a little cooler extreme north.” Relatively cool nighttime readings and relatively low humidity kept the current warm spell from being as discomforting as earlier hot weather this summer. The mercury dipped to lows ranging from 62 at Lafayette and ( Cincinnati to 68 at South Bend ] early this morning, and lows from , 65 to 71 were expected tonight. 1

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Hoosier Native To Head Marine Corps GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPD - Maj. Gen. David M. Shoup, 54, an Indiana native who won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the battle of Tarawa in World War 11, was picked by President Eisenhower late Wednesday to be commandant of the Marine Corps. Shoup was born at Battle Ground. Ind., near Lafayette, and is married to the former Miss Zola DeHaven of Covington, Ind. Shoup now commands the Parris Island, S. C., Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He was jumped over nine senior generals to toe commandant’s post, subject to confirmation of a nomination which toe President will send toe Senate shortly. Shoup would succeed Gen. Randolph Pate, whose second two-year-term expires Dec. 31. Shoup was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty" during toe battle for the Pacific island of Tarawa, one of the bloodiest in Marine history. He was a colonel at the time of the 2nd Regiment of toe 2nd Marine Division. He was credited with heroism in exposing himself to heavy fire Nov. 20-22, 1943, and

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rallying hesitant troops in a charge against heavy Japanese fortifications. Decatur Vehicles Involved In Wreck X A Willshire, O. man was slightly injured Tuesday morning in an accident 3.2 miles west of route 118 on highway 33 near Rockford, 0., in a collision involving two Decatur vehicles. Dale G. Schaadt, 21,. of Convoy, O. was driving a truck owned by Stewart’s Bakery of Decatur, and was turning from the east to north into a private alne. Elvin Byer, 56, also of Decatur, attempted to pass the truck, and struck it. The two vehicles spun into the driveway and the truck struck the front end of an Ohio state highway mower, driven by Denver Pond, 62, of Rockford. The mower was stopped at the edge of toe drive on the berm. Martin Snyder. 72, a passenger in the Byer car, received cuts and bruises on the right arm. He was not treated for the injuries. Byer was charged in Celina municipal court for improper passing, and posted a $25 bond, which was forfeited Wednesday morning when he did not return for court.