Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1959 — Page 8

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New Rural Youth Officers Elected

The Adams county rural youth under its new officers, will complete its tenth year of community service in Adams county this year with the appointment of assistant officers for 1960. These are the song leader, devotion leader, news reporter, recreation leaders, and sports chairman for the year 1960. All these officers will attend a district training school in Huntington September 19 and 20. They will be installed at the annual banquet to be held in November, and they will take office immediately after installation. Ron Gerber, a draftsman for Decatur Industries, is president for 1960. A graduate of Adams Central high schoQl. he comes from Monroe township. He was in 4-H club work eight years, and in rural youth three years. In 1959. he was reporter for the rural youth group. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward U. Gerber. New vice president of the rural youth will be Leslie Ploughe, of KMdand township, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ploughe. Also a graduate of Adams Central high school, he does factory work in Fort Wayfte. and is a student at Indiana Technical college. A sixyear member of 4-H clubs, he has been a rural, youth member for three years, and attended the state rural youth camp this year. Mis* Rodenbeck Is Secretary Miss Deloris Rodenbeck is secretary elect of the rural youth group. She is a graduate of Monmouth high school, and lives in Root township. The daughter of Mrs. Meta Rodenbeck, she is a key punch operator for Lincoln Life in Fort Wayne. She has been a rural youth member for two years. Last year's vice president of the rural youth, Jerry Sprunger, is the treasurer for next year. He lives in Monroe township, and is a graduate of Adams Central high school. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Sprunger, he is engaged in farming. He was a 4-H member for seven years. In addition to being the 1958 vice president for rural youth, he was the recreation leader in 1959 for the group, which he has been a member of for four years now. The Indiana Rural Youth, reorganized in'Adams county in 1949, is co-sponsored by the extension service at Purdue University and the Indiana farm bureau. Three state advisors from Purdue and three from the department of education at the Indiana Farm Bureau serve as state advisors. Adams county's Farm Bureau advisors are Mr. and Mrs. Merle Kuhn of Wabash township. Mr. and Mrs. William Boerger of Root township, and Ray Miller, the Farm Bureau insurance agent in this county. Extension advisors are Leo Seltenright, county agricultural agent, and Miss Lois Folk, home demonstration agent. The Farm Bureau advisors are selected by the Rural Youth members and Farm Bureau board of directors. Education, Service, and Fun Education, community service, and recreation are the three big spokes of the wheel that runs the rural youth 'program, for the biweekly meetings. Once each month is a business meeting, the second Thursday night in the month, and the second is a special activity. For instance, the special activity coming up for Septem-

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\tSfl F'' ' V* I’;: 9a" ' * T" " 7Y ■ ■' j J ■ p*' inß RURAL YOUTH officers for the coming year are, left to right, Ron Gerber, president; Leslie Ploughe, vice-president; Deloris Rodenbeck, secretary; and Jerry Sprunger, treasurer. These officers will be installed in November for the 1960 rural youth year.

ber is a hayride and wiener bake, for October, a dinner party in Bluffton, a theater party in Fort Wayne, for November, the annual officers’ installation banquet, when the above officers will begin their duties. Last week’s panel discussion, “Finding the Right Mate,” is an example of the educational features programmed for the monthly busifiess meetings. On schedule for the rest of the year will be a tour of the Adams county trailer sales, a magician's demonstration: and a talk from Miss Lois Folk, county home demonstration agent, "Dollars and Sense.” District and state schedules of meetings and special activities include the four district meetings each year, in addition to square dances, recreation training meetings, Christmas parties, roller skating parties, and sports tournaments. — Huntington’s LaFontaine hotel will be the scene of the September 19-20 district training school for the newly elected and appointed officers.

State Trips to Washington, D.C. TWb state meetings combine all ten Hoosier districts each year: the state convention in Indianapolis in November and state rural youth day at Purdue Universityin January. Special statewide activities include the yearly state trip in March to places such as Texas, Mexico, Florida. New York, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. State sports tournaments in bowling, softball and basketball, tour reunions in April and October and the state square dance on farmer’s day at the Indiana State Fair are added special activities for all state rural youth members, who average about 4,000 to 4,500 each year. The national rural youth convention is held along with the American Farm Bureau convention in December, every other year in Chicago, where it will be this year. Last year Boston, Mass., was the host city; next year, Denver. Colo. The Adams county group has evidence that it has taken part in the state projects which all local rural youth clubs may enter, including the talent find held during the state fair; a talk meet held at the state convention; contests in the club scrapbook and newsletters, in citizenship; public relations for agriculture, safety, and recreation leadership. Such contests have been a part of the national convention program until this year. The program is being revamped right now, Miss Gloria Koeneman, one of the midwest district’s four delegates to the national committee of the rural gouth. However, the program will still continue to have the talent find and the talk meet. The talk meet, which Miss Koeneman has helped to plan, is first held on a statewide basis, wtih the speakers being prepared on a general topic, and approximately 20 minutes before they are to speak, on a more specific part of that topic. Win In State Contest The county rural youth have evidence that they have participated regularly in some of the contests. In 1954 they won the second place In the state on tne newsletter contest. They have placed third in the state, among the ten districts, on the public relations for agriculture program, as they promfib* understanding between rural and urban dwellers through newspapers. TV and radio, speeches and visits to farms. Two silver and five gold awards have come to the county rural vnuth group during the nine years since its last reorganization. This was the Prairie Farmer-WLS award for its sa«retarv’s book work, describing the club’s overall program.

Community Service Angle Intermeshing with the education and recreation* points of the rural youth program is the community service work the rural youth has done. One yearly project has been the stand at the 4-H fair, with the profits going to the 4-H clubs. At this summer’s fair, the group sold 1400 foot-long hot dogs and 300 regular-size ones at their foot-long hot dog stand. This May. the group also packed 45 gift boxes for the Adams county mental patients at the Richmond state hospital. To help with expenses, the group has one money-making project each year, with this year's project an ice cream social at the 4-H fairgrounds Saturday at Monroe. This year's membership in the county rural youth is 53. The highest membership since its reorganization was in 1957, when there were 112 members. Os these 53 current members. Miss Sally McCullough' and Miss Gloria Koeneman are working in state and national rural youth committees. Miss McCullough is the treasurer of the state rural youth, and Miss Koeneman, a district officer in 1957. is in the last year of her twoyear term as a representative of the Midwest district on the 13member national rural youth committee. Past presidents of the rural youth since their last reorganization are Robert Snrunger, 1947; Rose Merriman Kneuss, 1950; Henry Getting, 1951; Jim Merriman, 1952; Gloria Koeneman, 1953; Earl Yoder, 1954; Roger Koeneman, 1955; Tom Noll and Earl voder, 1956: Carl Bluhm, 1957; Bluhm and Alan Miller, 1958, and Miss Legora Markle, 1959.

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Yellowstone Park Center Os Powerful Earthquake

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont (UPD—-A series of mighty earthquakes smashed into southern Montana near Yellowstope Park Monday night and early today and a reported 16 persons were killed. Montana state highway patrolman Robert Spears said there could be 25 dead in the main slide and the toll “could go even higher.”, The quakes brought an 8,00 <1 - foot mountain tumbling down, threatened to shatter a dam on the Madison River and endangered upwards of >SO campers in the river valley. Helicopters from throughout the western states, some carrying para-medics, were sent to the scene, near the Idaho, Montana and Wyoming boundaries. Mayor Charles Bower of Ennis, a community about 50 miles downstream from Hebgen dam, told United Press International he thought the death toll would be between 50 and 75. Six persons were reported injured at Rainbow Point near Hebgen Lake. Four in Family Dead ’Copter pilots were expected to try to lift to safety the campers marooned downstream below Hebgen dam and trapped by the 200 to 300 foot slide that closed off the only avenue to safety from file box canyon. Four of the reported dead were members of the Purley Bennett family of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, buried when the quake split the mountain and triggered the main slide seven miles downstream. Another couple nearby also was killed. The Montana civil defense headquarters said it had been informed by Idaho state police that eight dead had been found in Reynolds Pass on the south fork of the Madison River in eastern Idaho. Two more unidentified persons were killed in a rock slide at Cliff Lake, >2 miles west of Hebgen Lake. The first quake hit at 1:39 a;m. c.d.t. with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. The San Frahcisco earthquake, of 1906 measured 8.25. Crack in Dam The temblor was felt throughout the Northwest but hit hardest near the juncture of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in the Rocky Mountains. Jolting aftershocks followed at 2:59 a.m., 3:44 a.m., 5:08 a.m. and 10:28 a.m. Three hours after the first shock a 17-foot crack appeared in Hebgen dam in Gallatin County. The Hebgen dams the headwaters of the Madison River which flows north into the Missouri River. Hebgen dam is only a few miles from the west entrance to Yellowstone Park where damage was reported light. Howe v p r, rangers barred tourists from Old Faithful geyser. United Press International reporter Paul Quinn said after ..a flight over the dam that "the entire side of a mountain was torn away, there were trees and rocks all over the top of the slide piled 200 to 3»0 feet above Mont 1. Between the dam and the slide downriver sections of the highway were torn up. Houses Float in Lake "Cars were scattered all along the way with people standing outside,” Quinn said. "Women and children were waving handkerchiefs and bandanas. SOS signs made with white clothing showed up clearly.” About 30 dams were located next to the downriver side of the dam. The series of quakes, first death dealing temblors to strike this area since 1935, split open foot; hills as though they were eggshells. The north shore of the lake behind the dam was cropped off 6 to 15 feet, submerging the highway there. ’ The south shore heaved up 6 to 15 feet as though the whole lake were tipped in a giant saucer. Several houses floated crazily in the lake. Telephones and electrical power were knocked out in West

Yellowstone. Chimneys fell, gasoline pifmps tipped over and buildings were shifted from their foundations. Suddenly, a Huge Roar Quinn sAid the giant slide looked from the air "as if it had been shoved off a mountain top by a huge hand. It blocked the highway and trapped the tourists between it and the dam seven miles away.” Only a mother und son survived In the Purley Bennett family. The dead were Bennett; daughters Carol, 7, and Susan, , and son Tom. 11. "Suddenly there was a huge roar,” Phil Bennett, 16, told United Press International "I looked up and saw the mountain cascading down on us.” Rescue teams who reported eight dead in the Reynolds Pass area in eastern Idaho said they were leaving the area after recoverng £ix bodies. They said there was nothing more they could do. Downstream from the slides, residents of Madison Valley — undef order of Sheriff Lloyd Brook of Virginia City, Mont. — fled from their lowland homes to higher ground. Robert E. Crennen of UPI arrived in Ennis shortly before daybreak, the first newsman to reach the town about 50 miles below the dam. He said "99 per cent” of the town’s 600 residents already were gone. Although it trapped travelers between it and the dam, the fallen mountain was expected to give residents of the valley an extra I*4 hours to escape from the flood danger should the dam give way

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because the slide formed a temporary natural dam across the river. Quinn said that from the air it was not possible to determine whether the dam had been damaged by the shocks, which by 6 a.m. were hitting West Yellowstone every 10 minutes. These aftershocks, however, were far less in intensity than the first one which registered a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. An official of the Montana Power Co., however, told Quinn that the quakes opened a 17-foot-long crack in the dam. Quinn said the "dam is brim full.” The road upstream from the dam was covered by water when he flew over it, he said. River Rising Fast Sheriff Brook said a highway patrolman at the town of Lyon, about 10 miles below the dam and about 30 miles northwest of here, radioed him that the water in the Madison River below Hebgen was rising “very fast I’m getting the hell out of here.” Brook said if the dam went out all at once it would create a 40foot wall of water that would not spread out appreciably until it reached Meadow Creek darn’ below Ennis. From there, he said, it would “go pretty fast all the way to Three Forks.” At Bozeman, Mont., Gallatin County Sheriff Don SiJc erlr ill warned residents of the towns of Toston, 21 miles north of Three Forks, and Townsend, 32 miles north of here, to be ready to flee. The Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin rivers flow together near Three Forks to form the headwaters of the Missouri.

Three Bridges Closed The tremors were felt through Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah and Canada. Three bridges crossing the Madison River north of here were closed and a 15-foct crack in the earth was reported along the side of one of them. Tn historic Virginia City, Mont., about 40 miles northwest of the park,' many old buildings were damaged. A 12-foot section of wall fell into the second floor courtroom at the courthouse whcih was built in 1864, was badly dampie, built in 1864, was badly damaged. There were reports of toppled chimneys, crumbled fireplaces and cracked plate glass windows in Butte. A chimney toppled on the city library at Dillon, Mont. At Boise, Idaho the state capital building was rocked so hard that filing cabinets still quivered minutes after the first shock, police reported. Dr. Don Tocher, seismologist at the University of C&lifornia ir Berkeley, said the first major shock registered a magnitude of approximated 8 on a scale of I°. The destructive San Francisco earthquake of 1906 had a magnitude of 8.25 and the northern California earthquake of 1957 which caused heavy damage registered 5.25.

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