Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1959 — Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. 1959

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TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB HAS PICNIC DINNER The Town and Country home demonstration club gathered at Hanna-Nuttman park at noon Thursday for a picnic dinner. After dinner, Mrs. William Keller, president, took charge of a short business meeting, with nine members, one guest, and six children present. Mrs. Mark Colchin presented the health and safety lesson, “Gear Your Work to Your Heart.” The group also discussed a club tour to Fort Wayne, the time and place of which will be announced later. The business session closed with the club prayer, and a social time followed. HAPPY HOMEMAKERS ARE MRS. MITCHEL’S GUESTS When the Happy Homemakers home demonstration club met at the home of Mrs. Clarence Mitchel recently, Mrs. John Smith gave the month’s lesson. Mrs. Smith described bleaches and softeners before the short lesson on family safety and health < was given. The vice president, Mrs. Gerald Cook, opened the meeting, reading a poem entitled “Year-Around Garden.” Mrs. Eli Schwartz presented devotions, reading a poem, “If Failure Could Spell Success.” Miss ■ Marjorie Schwartz recited a prayer poem. Mrs. Mitchel, assisted by her daughters and granddaughter, served refeshments to the seven members and three guests present. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Gerald Cook. TWENTY ATTEND WSCS MEETING THURSDAY Nineteen members and one guest attended Thursday's meeting of the Mount Pleasant Women’s Society of Christian Service at the home M the Rev. George Christian. Opening the meeting, the group sang, “The Church is One Foundation.” Mrs. Robert Teeple gave devotions. “Faith with Works in the Local Church,” was the lesson Mrs. Robert Teeple gave. Mrs. Florence Susdorf was in charge of the business meeting. Flowers, sick calls, and sick cards were reported, the group discussed a new project, and a committee was appointed to get the project under way. The third Sunday in September will be family night at the church, it was announced. The meeting closed with the Psalmist’s benediction. After the business meeting, a silent auction was followed with refreshments. EAGLES AUXILIARY PLANS FOR CHARTER NIGHT Fifteen members of the Eagles’ Auxiliary made plans for charter night. August 25, in their business meeting this week. The local auxiliary will invite groups from Bluffton, Fort Wayne, and Van Wert for the night. Mrs. George Meyers was appointed chairman for the charter night program. Mrs. Richard Baker was appointed chairman of the refreshment committee. Mrs. Ray Kramer was appointed trustee for the coming year. Mrs. Evelyn Spangler was hostess for the evening. Ten officers met before the regular meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for August 25. charter night, beginning at 8 p.m. MISS ROSEMARY STRAHM HONORED AT SHOWER Miss Rosemary Strahm, brideelect of Lyle E. DeGraw of Rockford, la., was honored at a miscellaneous bridal shower recently. Mrs. Clarence Drake was hostess 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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for the shower, at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren s church fellowship hall. When Miss t Strahm arrived .she- received an i orchid pink gladiolus corsage. As the 18 guests arrived, each painted ■ her signature on a tea towel as a i souvenir for the bride-to-be. ! A parasol was suspended from • the ceiling of the hall, and streami ers draped from the parasol to the r gift table. Games were played, and • four guests won prizes and pre- | sented them to the honored guest: ■ the Mesdames Harry Brown, John . Barkley, Ralph Stevens, and Wili liam Strahm. i After the bride-to-be opened her gifts, refreshments of cookies, punch, candy and peanuts were served in the church parlor from a table decorated with a center- , piece of flowers and candles. J Guests present were the Mes- . dames Hubert Gilpin, Herman Sautbine, Ralph Stevens, Harry 1 Brown, Harry Poling, Fannie Hitchcock, Ed. Hower, John Bark- ’ ley, lona Hickernell, Ed Hesher, Clarence Drake, William Strahm, 1 John Kelly, and Paul Johnson, and ; the Misses Janice Kelly, Laura : Kelley, and Madeline Kelley. Unable to attend but sending gifts were the Mesdames R. O. Wynn, Walter Henkel, Frank Fisher, Man- ’ ley Foreman, and Cedric Fisher. WOMEN OF THE MOOSE HAVE CHAPTER NIGHT Thursday evening the Women of i the Moose held chapter night at the Moose home. > A social hour followed the business meeting. Mrs. Robert Morris, senior regent, asked for a meeting of all chairmen this coming Thursday evening at the Moose home, at , 7 o’clock. The next regular meet- [ ing will be August 27. with officers ■ meeting at 7:30 p.m., and lodge at 8 ]).in. , ROSE GARDEN CLUB HAS . FAMILY PICNIC RECENTLY The Decatur Rose Garden club . family picnic was held Tuesday i evening at Hanna-Nuttman park. Mrs. Grover Levy was chairman i of the hostesses, and assisting her were Mrs. Richard Mailand and . Mrs. George Squiers. The hostess- . es provided the meat, rolls lemon- . ade and coffee for the carry-in , supper. Afterwards, a sock contest and . a guessing contest were held, with Mrs. Kenneth Parrish winning , prizes in each of these games, and ’ Harold Mailandl winning the men’s part of the sock contest. Mrs. ! Grover Levy was in charge of the sock contest, and Mrs. Gerald Durkin was chairman for the games. Mrs. Anoli Crist auctioned off the white elephants brought to the , picnic. The next meeting of the club will be a business session, at the home of Mrs. Paul Daniels the second Tuesday in September. Mrs. Clem Kortenber will be assistant hostess. 1 Wednesday evening Mrs. Fern Frey. 314 North Ninth street, will be hostess to the Pleasant Mills Women’s Society of Christian Service. beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The Decatur home demonstration club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock iin the C.L. . of C. Hall. TH? fl IfltepiM Admitted Mrs. Carl Hormann, Hoagland; Mrs. Elizabeth Graber, Berne. Dismissed Mrs. Wendel Abbott and baby . boy, Decatur; Mrs. John Isch and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Walter ■ J. Doctor, Fort Wayne: Miss The- ' resa Bradley, Helena, Ark. Over BAK 1 tty Democrats an sold a>id uellvered io Decatur each day

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Calendir items for today’s pito •cation must be phoned in by, I •jr. (Saturday 8:80) Phone MID Martian Reep SUNDAY Gals and Pals square dance club, family picnic and square dance, Joe Geels’ barn, 5 to 10 p.m. MONDAY VFW and Ladies' Auxiliary business meeting, Post home, 8 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. Facklef Reunion, junior fair building at Van Wert Fairgrounds, noon. Weldy Reunion, Irvin Zimmerman home, Preble. 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. C.L. of C. August potluck dinner and social night, C.L. of C. hall, 6:30 p.m. Decatur Garden club .Mrs. Gail Baughman, 2 p.m. Tri Kappa Pledge picnic, Boy Scout shelter, Hanna-Nuttman, 6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Decatur Home demonstration club, C.L. of C. Hall, 2 p.m. Pleasant Mills W.S.C.S., Mrs. Fern Frey, 314 North Ninth street, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Zion Lutheran Needle club, Parish hall, 1 p.m.

The Misses Linda Pollock, Jeannie Schultz, Twanette Magley, and Dianne Shipman left today for a week at Lake George. The Misses Carol and Kay Kesson are spending the week in Chicago as gpests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gillig and family. William Weikel of Berne forfeited a S2O bond in the Celina. O. municipal court Friday morning for speeding. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Fields, Jr., of'Geneva are the parents of a daughter born Thursday at the Jay county hospital. The Geneva town board has given permission for a natural gas survey ot be made in that town from a newly organized Ohio-In-diana Gas Co., which will purchase from Louisiana-Michigan Gas Company. Mrs. Joseph Eichhorn, wife of the Wells county prosecuting attorney, has accepted a position as teacher of English and mathematics at the Geneva high school. Dave Cole, a 1950 graduate of Decatur high school and president of the Decatur camera club for two years, will join the staff of a Bluffton photo studio next Monday. The father of three sons. Cole expects to move to Bluffton in the near future. The Bluffton civil city rate will be incerased 37 cents, to $2.25, as compared with Decatur’s proposed levy of $1.46. Menno Lehman, publisher of the Berne Witness, has returned from a trip through Alaska by air, during which he was able to visit many proposed industrial sites and get some idea of the termendous problems facing the 49th state. The U. S. Army corps of engineers has completed plans for cleaning the Salamonie river near Portland. Indiana-Michigan has submitted a sealed offer to the Portland city council offering to buy that city’s municipal electric system. The bid has not yet been opened. The Portland Industrial Development Corp, is selling shares in its organization, the local labor unions there are urging their members to buy shares. Local Square Dancers On Telecast Tuesday “Promenade 21,” popular square dance program on WPTA-TV Tuesday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 o’clock, is of special interest to many local people next Tuesday, as the Decatur Gals and Pals square dance culb, with their caller, Carl Geels, will take part in the telecast. v - — yaMf-JaMWI CANDIES ' HOW AVAILABLE AT SMITH DRUG CO.

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Ft * ■ I * ■ Jerry Lewis and Diana Spencer are cast as newlyweds in the hil- : arious comedy, “Don’t Give Up| the Ship,” playing at the Drive-in theater Sunday and Monday. Their honeymoon is interrupted when Jerry is called up on the carpet as the only officer in Naval history; to “lose” a fully equipped destroyer escort. Stewart McMillen Farm Up For Sale The 360-acre Stewart McMillen farm located southeast of Decatur has been placed for sale, and ad-; vertised in the Wall Street Journal, it was learned today. The property is listed as “an outstanding 360-acre Adams county farm, with three sets of modern improvements, for farming and livestock operation on a large scale, a large part of farm is good river bottom land, extra well drained and fenced and in a fine state I of fertility as evidenced by corn and beans now growing on the farm: two sets of farm buildings;; owner's home, guest house, swim-' ming pool, and situated in an attractive setting.” It will be sold as one unit or as 260 acres with two! sets of farm buildings and 100 ; acres with a ranch-type home, guest house, etc. The listing is by a local real estate agent. Accident Reported In Hartford Township A one-car collision occurred Fri-' day morning in Hartford township, with damages totalling $1,075. A truck was also involved in the accident, but did not suffer any damage. Deputy sheriff Robert E. Meyer reported that a Citizens j Telephone Line was broken in two places by the impact of the automobile. Larry Lee Dubach, the driver of the car, told police that he tried to avoid a truck driven by I Harry Rose, 66. of College Park,l Ga.. a produce buyer, as he was pulling out of a driveway at Merlin D. Alt’s farm on county road 37, three miles wbst of Berne. Dubach, 20, of route 1, Berne, was driving south on the blacktop; road when Rose pulled into his I path. Dubach turned his car to-i ward the berm, lost control, spun into a ditch and hit the telephone pole. He escaped injury. Deputy Meyer reported the accident as happening at 10:25 a.m. Parked Vehicle Is Damaged Friday City police reported an accident 1 which occurred Friday at 308 N. Fifth street, causing $35 in damages to the parked vehicle of Faye Ahr, of 208 S. Fifth street. Police said a truck driven by Richard Jackson, of 130 S. 11th street, turned the corner from Nuttman avenue onto Fifth street, and the left rear door opened, striking the windshield of the parked Ahr machine. Rev. Ivan Auasburger Will Preach Here The Rev. Ivan Augsburger, Baptist missionary to the Dominican Repubic, will be guest speaker at the Decatur Baptist church for the ■ next two Sunday mornings in the absence of the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, who is on vacation. Rev. Augsburger and his family have been living in Berne while on furlough. They will return to Dominica within the next few weeks.

1 BMH ■8 BUCKING INTEGRATION— Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus dis. , plays in Little Rock -a letter and a dollar bill he says he received pledging support to his segregation policy. Speaking to the Arkansas Farmers .union, he admitted integration is inevitable, but he said be wouldn't help it along.

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Vice President To Attend Akron Derby CHICAGO (UPT) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon turned i from football to racing today by i leaving Chicago to fly to Akron, TOhio, to attend the 22nd annual ' All-American Soap Box Derby. [ The vice president left Midway | ! Airport at 8:40 a.m. c.d.t. for his flight to the rubber capital of the J [U.S. He was scheduled to return jto Washington Sunday. Nixon, looking chipper on his first trip away from Washington after his exhausting tour of Russia and Poland, was one of 70,000 fans who sat in 90-degree temperature Friday night at sprawling Soldier Field to watch the Baltimore Colts defeat the Coliege All-Stars. I The vice president, once a fair- ; to-middling tackle for the Whittier [College football team, arrived in .Chicago Friday morning to attend ; the football classic. Earlier in the day the vice presI ident spoke at a meeting of the [ Football Writers Assn, of America. Trie vice president lapsed into gridiron lingo to discuss the international scene. He said that during his Russian tour. Soviet Premier Nikta S. i Khrushchev tred to catch him in ;a “mousetrap play” as they i sipped champagne together n Moscow. The Sove premier, Nixon said, 1 attempted the diplomatic equivalent of a football “mousetrap i play” —a stratagem in which defensive lineman is allowed to ‘ charge through a hole, only to be blocked out from the side while i the ball-carrier goes through the igap. I Nixon said the mousetrap event [occurred while he visited the i American exhibit at the Moscow Fair last month. • Champaigne was being poured I and Khrushchev rattled off a toast. “Usually you raise your glass jin a toast to the president, or to peace and friendship,” Nixon said. “But I had learned never to raise my glass until I hear the translation of the toast, and this hs served me well. Khrushchev proposed the toast in Russian and several of our people drank, but I said, “What’s the translation?” “It was ‘I propose to the ending, of American bases and withdrawal of American troops from i Europe.’ I “I told him, ‘I will drink to ; peace.’ and he said. ‘I can’t drink ;to peace—the only way I can is I for you to get rid of your bases , in Europe.’ “ Okay,’ I told him, ‘if you won’t drink to peace, drink to i talking, because if we’re talking iwe won’t have war.'” Elderly Driver Dies i Os May 22 Injuries MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (UPD— Roma Kirk. 80, Monrovia, who battled for 83 days to stay alive j after he sustained spinal injuries in a car-truck crash May 22, died in Morgan County Hospital. Kirk was injured when his car collided head-on with a truck on a narrow bridge on Ind. 42 east of Monrovia. i State Police said Kirk and the ' truck driver tried to stop as they i approached the bridge on a wet ; j road, but the left rear wheel of ■ ■ the truck locked and the two ve- ; i hicles crashed head-on. Gaynel Lankenau Is Colorado Graduate Miss Gaynel Lankenau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lan-, kenau of 414 North Third street, will be graduated from Colorado State University this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Lankenau and their, daughter. Alyce, left Friday eve-1 ning for Colorado Springs, Colo., to attend the commencement exercises. Miss Lankenau has majored jin music, and will teach in the j Colorado Springs school system this year. Berne Feed Store Is Reincorporated The Berne Master Feed Store Inc., has been reincorporated as the Berne Master Feed Store Corporation by David Ringger, Howard i E. Habegger, Martin Kipfer, and Carl Kipfer. The incorporation papers, registered this week at the countv recorder's office were filed July 25.

137 Catholic School Students To Chicago A group of 37 pupils from Decatur Catholic high school will journey to Chicago Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. to witness the Broadway musical, “The Music Man.” The group will travel to the j ■ Windy City via a chartered bus, I and will tour various places of in- | terest once in the city. The Rev. j Robert Jaeger, assistant pastor at i St. Mary's Catholic church, said J that he and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morin will accompany the pupils for the matinee performance. For-! rest Tucker has the lead role that starred Robert Preston in the original Broadway version of the box office smash by Meredith Wilson. The pupils are asked to bring along a packed lunch as cold • drinks will be furnished. The group will dine later that day at a res-' taurant in Chicago and return to Decatur later that night. The trip is sponsored by the high school as part of a cultural improvement training. _ Strike Threatens General Telephone FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD—A j contract between General Tele- ! phone Co. and the Communica- [ tions Workers of America will expire at midnight tonight unless a dispute over a new one is settled in the next few hours. A company spokesman said that negotiations will continue in Fort Wayne “right up to the deadline.” He said that in the event no settlement is reached and a strike is ■called, the company will try to continue telephone service with supervisory personnel. The dispute involves about a third of the company’s 92 exchanges, the General Telephone spokesman said, and affects approximately 700 operators and plant employes. Among the major areas involved in the negotiations are Terre Haute, Elkhart, Valparaiso and LaPorte. Employes at the remaining twothirds of the telephone system are I represented by another union, I the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. They are not involved in the CWA negotiations. The company spokesman said he has “nothing to report" on the (status of the negotiations except that they will continue until the midnight deadline. “We are not prepared to say the dispute cannot be settled,” he i insisted. Major difference was said to be |on wages. Farm Goodwill Tour Will Start Sunday The second WKJG farm goodwill tour of Europe and Russia leaves Fort Wayne’s Baer Field Sunday, at 2:30 p.m. Leading the contingent ! of 15 agricultural leaders from the Fort Wayne area is Wayne Rothi geb, WKJG radio and television farm director. During the 21-day tour, the group I will cover some 11,000 miles and i visit England, Germany, Russia, Swenden and Holland, stopping at selected points which are of interest to farm people. Fire Escape Fall Fatal To Woman ANDERSON, nld. (UPD—Mrs. Stella Graham, 50, a widow died Friday in an Indianapolis hospital of injuries suffered when she fell from the fire escape of an Anderson apartment hotel. Michigan Beer Truck Driver Is Killed ' HAMMOND, Ind (UPD—James E. Reigle, 28, Pontiac, Mich., was killed late Friday night when his beer truck went off an elevated section of the Tri-State Highway within the ctiy limits, plunged into a street below and overturned. Etna Green Youth Dies Os Injuries WARSAW. Ind. (UPD — Lloyd Graber, 18, Etna Green, died Friday of injuries sustained wheri a pickup truck in which he was riding collided with a car on Ind. 119 five miles west of Goshen Aug, 7. Fireworks WATERTOWN, N.Y. (UPD—Mr. and Mrs. James R. Filkins, of Watertown, have started a new Independence Day Tradition. On July 4, 1958, Mrs. Filkins gave birth to a daughter and on July 4, 1959 to another one. Trade in a good town — Decatur. “BROASTED” GOLDEN BROWN CHICKEN and CHOPS SHAFFER’S RESTAURAMT 904 N. 13th St. Phone 3-3857

Centennial Monday Os First Air Mail LAFAYETTE, Ind. UPD- Lafayette was all agog today over ! a tiny bit of paper with stickum j on the back. A long - planned celebration! marking ilhe cerltennial obsre ! vance of the first air mail flight I in United States history comes off! Monday when a full day’s observance known as "Operation Jupiter” is . held. The high point of the day was the first-day sale of a special commermorative 7-cent air mail stamp by the Post Office Depart-! ment. Dignitaries due to attend the I ! celebration were Postmaster Genieral Arthur E. Summerfield. House i ‘ Republican leader Charles A. Hal- , j leek, Sen. Horner Capehart, Governor Handley and Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker. | Halleck will unveil a bronze I plaque commemorating a flight by John Wise from Lafayette to a t J point near Crawfordsville, 30 ’ miles away, with 123 first-class’ letters in a gas-filled balloon on Aug. 17, 1859. The Postoffice Department recognizes Wise’s flight as the first air mail flight in the nation's his-1 tory. It issued a colorful red, J white and blue stamp, first on j sale here Monday and next day at ' the remainder of the country’s i postoffices. A great crowed was expected to i throng the old city along the: banks of the storied Wabash River' to witness the festivities, which included a balloon ascension by 33-year-old Donald Piccard in a hydrogen-fileld balloon, a replica of those of the Wise era. Piccard| is the son of the famed Swiss sci- • entist and balloonist, Jean Piccard. Just as Wise carried 123 letters, i Piccard will match the number, i Os the 123 letters mailed in | 1859 on Wise’s flight, only one is known to exist today. It belongs to I Thomas A. Matthews, Springfield. Ohio, stamp collector. He values i it at $5,000. Frade ii a *own — Decatur I

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