Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1959 — Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1959.

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MRS. BUUCK OPENS SUNNY CIRCLE MEETING Mrs. Edwin Reifstik and Mrs. Mervin Conrad were hostesses recently for members of the Sunny Circle Home Demonstration club. President, Mrs. Erwin Buuck, opened the meeting with the club creed followed by the history of the song of the month which was presented by Mrs. Elmer Peters. Mrs. Robert Bury acted as secre- \ tary in the absence of the elected officers. During roll call, 17 members and one guest answered by telling their favorite song. The secretary and treasurer’s reports were read and approved, after which Mrs. Clara Fuhrman read the health and safety lesson. Miss Lois Folk was in charge of the lesson that was followed with devotions by Mrs. Marvin Conrad. The club prayer closed the meeting. SURPRISE SHOWER IS HELD FOR JANICE VOSHELL A surprise bridal shower was recently held in honor of Miss Janice Voshell, Sunday bride-elect of Luther Schrock, at the home of Miss Kathy Cole. Assisting hostesses were the Misses Janalee Smith, Judy Lane, and Barbara Suttles. Upon her arrival, Miss Voshell was presented with a corsage of white carnations. Gifts for the future bride were placed on a table decorated with white candles and a centerpiece of pink carnations and gladioli. Games were played, after which refreshments were served to the Mesdames James Engle, Grant Voshell, Robert Lane, Simeon Hain, Jo Klenk, Esther Sanquist, Laura Clark, Helen Hack, Arthur Suttles, Leland Smith, Jesteen Cole, and the Misses Susan Custer, Rosalie Wiedler, Sharon Voshell. and Debbi Hack. Those unable to attend but sending gifts were the Mesdames Harry Hebble, Jr., Jerry Xaehr, Noah

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Schrock, J.F. Azbell, Francis Ellsworth, Joan Buderman, Donald Norquest and the Misses Barbara Kalver, Carolyn Frauhiger, and Sandra Stevens. KIRKLAND LADIES CLUB MEETS AT ADAMS CENTRAL Tuesday evening, the Adams Central high school was the scene of a meeting of members of the Kirkland Ladies club. Twenty seven members and one visitor were present for the affair that was opened by the president, Mrs. Harold Henchen, who had the group repeat the club creed., During the course of the evening, poems were read by Mrs. Ernest Longenberger, Mrs. Ed Kolter, and Mrs. Thomas Griffith. Devotions were led by Mrs. Dortha Shady and the citizenship lesson was read by Mrs. Dorphus Schlickman, Mrs. John Barger, and Mrs. Edna Conrad. Mrs. Dortha Shady gave the history of the song of the month and Mrs. Barger was awarded the door prize. At the close of the meeting, refreshments were served by Mrs. Dortha Shady, Mrs. Ed Kolter, Mrs. Ernest Longenberger, and Mrs; Thomas Griffith. SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY IS CELEBRATED TUESDAY A party celebrating the seventeenth birthday anniversary of Joe ■ Longsworth was held Tuesday eve- | ning with the outdoor chicken dinI ner being served at the home of i his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Longsworth. Before the dinner, the honored 1 guest opened his many gifts. Later in the evening, cake and ice cream were served to Mr. and Mrs. Ray--1 mond Becher, Jr., Mrs. Clara • Becher, Miss Marjorie Lou Becher, Bob Lobsiger, David Hartman, Miss Barbara Bleeke, and the ■ guest of honor’s sisters and broth- ’ ers, Susan, Rita, Gloria, i Linda, Dennis, and Dwight.

REGULAR MEETING IS HELD BY CHURCH CIRCLE The Ruth and Naomi Circle members of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, met recently in the church paflor for a regu- i lar meeting. Ms .-Clara Meyers was leader for the afternoon and opened the meeting with the Circle singing several songs. She also presented a scripture reading and offered a prayer. Mike Kaehr played several sacred selections on the piano and Mrs. Ermel Johnson gave a musical reading. Mrs. Meyers’ topic for the afternoon was the Middle East. Subjects dealing with the Middle East were presented by Mrs. Tony Meyer, Mrs. Rufus Kirchhofer, Mrs. Floyd Shoaf and Mrs. Albert Harlow. Mrs. Tony Meyer, chairman, conducted the business meeting at which time it was announced that 68 social calls and 25 sick calls had been made for the month. The September meeting will be held in the form of a carry-in dinner at the church with a special program. The leader will be Mrs. Ermal Johnson. Sixteen members and one guest were served refreshments by the hostesses. Mrs. Ed Borne, Mrs. William Klickman, and Mrs. Kate Borne, following the meeting. Caholic Ladies of Columbia will meet Tuesday at 7:30 o’clock for a business meeting in the C.L. of C. hall. BWhs Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Miracle have become the parents of a baby girl in the Jay county hospital, Portland. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Donald and Joan Bates Foor of 411 North Ninth street, are parents of a six pound, two ounce girl born at 4:40 p.m. Thursday. A seven pound, 13 ounce boy Was born at 9:18 a.m. today to Boyd and Sara Ann Garwood Nevil of Geneva. IKwpW ADMITTED Bert Brewster, Linn Grove; Jesse Blume, Decatur; Mrs. John Bixler, Decatur; Mrs. Reinhart Selking, Decatur. DISMISSED James Feltz, Geneva; Jack Butler, Decatur; Mrs. Rufus Jenkins, Glenwood, Ark.; James Rhoades, Geneva; Bert-Harman, Ohio City, O.; Mrs. Zelda Hart, Decatur; , Mrs. Dave Barkley and baby boy, Rockford, Ohio; Mrs. Albert Andrews, Decatur; Mrs. Art Werst and baby boy, Geneva; Mrs. James Hake and baby boy. New Haven; Mrs. Gary Brewster and baby boy. Linn Grove; Mrs. Norman Beck and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Levi Shetler and baby boy, Monroe; Mrs. Davis Joiner and baby boy, Decatur. 14 Persons Killed In Yugoslav Wreck BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPD —At least 14 persons were killed and 40 injured Thursday when an express train jumped the tracks an dplunged into a river near Banja Luka, reports reaching here said today. ■ -

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Calendar Item* tor today’s pu« ‘cation must be phoned in by J aJB. (Saturday 8:30) Phone 3-21X1 MarUou Roe* FRIDAY C.C.C. class of Trinity E.U.B. church, Hanna-Nuttman park, 6:15 p.m. Friendship Circle of Missionary church, Lehman park at Berne, 6:30 p.m. SATURDAY Adams Central class of 1958 reunon, Lehman park at Berne, 6:30 p.m. SUNDAY Disabled American Veterans family picnic. Art Irvin woods, 12 noon. Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club picnic, Mrs. Lewis Krueckeberg, 12:30 p.m. St. Paul’s Walther League sponsored ice cream social, Preble Lutheran school grounds, program at 8 p.m. MONDAY St. Ambrose study club, Mrs. Herman Braun, 7:30 p.m. Junior of the American Legion Auxiliary, Legion home, 7 p.m. TUESDAY C.L. of C.„ C.L. of C. haU, 7:30 p.m. Sacred Heart study club, Miss Maureen Miller, 8 p.m. ILtsxssilLs Mr. and Mrs. Anthony (Fritz) Baker recently returned from Pittsburgh, Pa., where they attended the Moose national convention. Baker was chosen by the local Moose Lodge to the convention, August 16-20. Meetings were every day, both in the morning and afternoon, and the fellowship degree was conferred on many delegates. Next year’s convention will be in Chicago. Jim Huddleston, who lived in Decatur until he moved to Kentucky five years ago, is gravely ill with leukemia. He is an uncle of Mrs. Lester Thomas, Decatur. Cards may be sent to J.A. Huadieston, 406 Milton, Glasgow, Ky. Mrs. R. D. Myers has returned home after visiting several weeks with her daughter and son-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Rowland of Kinston, N. C. Miss Ann Uhrick, a student purse at Rockford memorial hospital at Rockford, 111., returned home today to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Uhrick. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Myers of Winchester street, will spend the weekend at Oliver Lake. Women of the Moose met Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Moose home. The next meeting -.will be held September 10. Civil defense has made partial payments, totaling $4,239.49, about 75 per cent of the estimated claims, to Van Wert county, 0., and three townships in the county for the damages caused by the February flood in the Van Wert area. Donna Githens, Wren, is one of the petit jurors drawn for the September terms of the Van Wert common pleas court. A new bridge structure containing 88 feet of roadway and having a 32-foot span has been completed

three weeks ahead of schedule on Maddox Creek a mile west of Van Wert. O. The new span, which cost about $30,000. replaced two small bridges at the intersection of two roads, and lies at a 45-degree angle with the crossroads. Demonstrations in the St. Mary’s Packing company in Delphos, 0.. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday will show a new procedure of checking tomato quality, developed by the marketing research division of the United States department of agriculture in which color and condition are determined separately. Sunday evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Swigard, Willshire, 0., were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Weddle and son, Roger Lee, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Weddle, all of Wren, O. Enrollment for Columbia City schools will be Tuesday. September 1, and the first full day of school will be Wednesday, September 2. More than half the easements for the proposed cleanout, of the Salamonie River by the federal government have bene obtained, and a public meeting was planned for Thursday evening to prepare for completing the task. Road 124 west of Bluffton has been reopened, the superintendent of the state highway department at Bluffton has announced. The bridge on that road has been replaced, and the railroad crossing on road-five ar Warren has also been completed. Clarence Pond, an educational! specialist with the state board of; education, will be at the organizational meeting of the Poplar Grove elementary school near Bluffton Saturday to explain the possible effect of the new school corporation reorganization act on Wells county schools. Mr. and Mrs. William Steffen, Bluffton, have moved from Wabash avenue to their newly decorated home in Villa North. COURT NEWS Marriage Applications Jerome Henry Ellenberger, , 23. of Geneva, and Shirley Ellen Day, 16, of Geneva. Estate Case In the Earl Crider estate, a petition for $250 allowance for the executors and SSOO for their attorney's fees was filed. Appointment Judge Myles F. Parrish appointed Lewis L. Smith, local attorney, as judge pro tempore, for August 28 and 29. Divorce Case In the Mildred M. Spears vs James M. Spears suit, a summons was ordered issued for the defendant, returnable Sept. 15. An affidavit for a restraining order.filed with Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. set as the date for the hearing on the allowance claim. Jury Duty The clerk of the Adams circuit court and the board of jury commissioners were asked to appear at the county clerk’s office for a public drawing of 24 names as prospective jurors on the petit jury and 12 names as prospective jurors on the grand jury. The drawing will be Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. Complaint for Wrongful Death A demurrer by the board of county commissioners of Adams county was filed in the Alice Mae Beitler, administratrix of the Howard Beitler estate vs the board of commissioners of Adams county, Wendell L. Abbott, Gerald Vizard, and Mabel Vizard case. The court set the date for the hearing at Sept. 11 at 1:30 p.m. Support Complaint In the Virginia M. Bohnke vs Darwin C. Bohnke case for complaint under reciprocal support of defendant, the trial was set for Sept. 4, at 9:30 a.m. A noitce was ordered issued to the plaintiff, returnable on Sept. 4, at 9:30 a.m. School Integration In North Carolina United Press International School desegregation in a fourth major North Carolina city, the tear ras bombing of a Little Rock school board meeting and the opening of Atlanta schools on strictly segregated basis for perhaps the last time dotted the integration scene in the South today. High Point, N.C., became the fourth major North Carolina city to vote to admit a few Negroes to previously all - white schools. The High Point city school board assigned two Negro sisters to an all-white junior-senior high school Thursday. J Other North Carolina schools already integrated on a limited basis include Greensboro, WinstonSalem, and Charlotte. These schools re-open next week. In Little Rock two well-dressed white women threw a tear gas bomb in a building where the Lit-' tie Rock school board was holding a meeting Thursday night. In Havelock, N.C., the larges} group of Negroes to enter North Carolina white schools was scheduled to enroll today. No disturbances were expected as 17 children of Negro U.S. Marine personnel enroll in two Havelock elementary schools. Over 2,500 Dally Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

Provided Bulldozer For Conservation Day provided the bulldozer for the soil conservation field day Tuesday at the Ken iDeke) Schnepf farm. The third part of the field day was the formation of an eight-ioot pan to channel surface water toward a grass waterway, to help save soil from erosion. In the first parts of the field day, th? visitors to the Schnepf farm saw a grass waterway being constructed and a 1 tile ditch being laid. Deitsch Teaches In Huntington County Ed Deitsch, who has taught school at Convoy-Union in Ohio for the past eight years, with a fouryear leave for military service, will teach at Jefferson township. Huntingotn county, this year. Deitsch’s new school starts Monday, and he plans to move to the area, which is 46 miles from Decatur. More Blood Donors Are Needed Tuesday More blood donors are needed to make appointments for the bloodmobile visit Tuesday, the Red Cross announced today. Workers are still at the Red Cross office, telephoning possible donors and volunteer workers. The I bloodmobile will be at the Decai tur Youth and Community Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesday. The hours between noon and 3 p.m. are still relatively free.! Workers today at the Red Cross office include Mrs. Phyllis Zwick,. Miss Florence Haney, and Mrs. i Clarence Smith. Bob Ashbaucher will provide fans for the bloodmobile next Tuesday, | while Gerber's Super Market will i be supplying food for the blood donors. The city street department will assist in setting up and taking down the mobile unit equipment, while the fire department will help in putting up flags around Decatur, Mrs. Cletus B. Miller, chairman, said this morning. Allen Co. Society ~ Wins Legal Round The Allen county Cancer Society, Inc., won the first legal round in a dispute with the Indiana Cancel Society, Inc., Thursday. In Superior Court 3 yesterday .Judge Lloyd S. Hartzler denied the Indiana society’s petition for a temporary injunction, appointment of a receiver for the Allen county organization and an accounting of its funds. The Allen county cancer society disaffiliated with the Indiana organization in September, 1958, on the basis that it refused to withdraw from the United Fund and conduct its own independent campaign for funds as recommended by the national and state organizations. The Indiana Society had filed suit July 10, charging that the Allen county society had failed to account and pay to the state organization the money to which it was entitled. Feed Wheat Program For 1960 Detailed Legislation enacted by the congress in 1957 permits farmers whose wheat acreage allotments are less than 30 acres to grow up to 30 acres of wheat for use exclusively on the farm where produced as seed, human food or livestock and poultry feed. To be eligible for this exemption from the provisions of the wheat marketing quota program, all producers having an interest in the wheat on a farm must file a “Feed wheat application” with the local ASC county office, r The final date for filing applications for wheat for harvest in 1960 has been established nationally as 15 days after the producer has been mailed his notification of 1960 measured wheat acres. Any producer who wishes to file an application or who desires additional information should contact the Adams county ASC office, 130*4 N. 2nd st. Decatur, Ind. Geneva School To Open September 8 David Rankin, principal of the Geneva school, has announced that the first day of school for Geneva will be Tuesday. September 8, with a half day session. These teachers will make up the elementary school faculty: Cather--1 ine Fravel and Nancy House, grade one; Mary Lou Isch and Ruth Brown, grade two; Ruth Neuenschwander, grade three; Sara Sink Briggs, grades three and four; Kathleen Bookout, grade four: Ruth Hunt and Edith Walter, grade five; and Ross Johnson and Harold Long, grade six. For the high school and junior high: Agnes Shoemaker, music and art; Bill Morris, physical education and history; Margaret Rhoades, English: Harry Anderson, coach, drivers’ training and industrial arts: Ned Yingst, commerce; Doyle Keith leney, history and math; James Turner, band and chprus; Bi!’. Kipfer. vocational agriculture and science; Lgvaun Muth, home economics and science; and Catherine Runyon, junior high English and library.

Indiana Democrats Will Meet Saturday FRENCH LICK. Ind. (UPUPerspiring Indiana Democrats arrived at this spa today to turn on the political heat during one of the hottest week-ends of the year. The occasion was the fall meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association which will 'be held Saturday as the kickoff for the municipal elections campaign with many eyes also turned toward the 1960 presidential and epnlo elections. The vanguard was smaller than during past years because of the fierce weather and the rising hotel costs which led many stalwarts to postpone their attendance until Saturday. The early birds were awaiting the arrival Saturday of national rfiairmn Paul M. Butler of South. Bend, who may hav a gubernatorial opponent for the current inside track man. Sen. Matthew E. Welsh of Vincennes. Welsh is being groomed by Butler’s arch enemy in Indiana, former national chairman Frank E. McKinney of Indianapolis. Governor Hopefuls Due A number of the mayoralty candidates protested rushing the 1960 season because they said they feared that the city elections campaign planning might be neglected. Other possible candidates for governor expected to be present include State Auditor Albert Steinwedel of Seymour. Secretary of State John R. Walsh of Anderson, Sen. Nelson Grills of Indianapolis, i Sen. Marshall Kizer of Plymouth, and Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker, who was defeated by 'Governor Handley in 1956. | There was no neglect for the office of lieutenant governor, with ; j at least three hopefuls cited. They fare Sen. Eugene Bainbridge of ■ Munster, Sen. Earl Utterback of Kokomo, and Kenneth Luckett of ■ English, whose wife is national I committeewoman. ■ I The observers recalled that M. t Clifford Townsend. Henry F. I Schricker and Handley rose from lieutenant governor to governor, ’ with the state in effect paying nearly all of their campaign expenses for traveling during normal duties as second man in the Statehouse. Symington to Speak Sen. W. Stuart Symington of ’ Missouri, the chief banquet speak- ' er Saturday night, was not ex- ’ pected to arrive until a few hours before his speech because of im- ' portant Washington issues. His II presidential bid is backed by Mc- ' Kinney and his close pal, Frank ■ M- McHale, former national comi mitteeman. Other presidential bidders probably will have representatives at French Lick, including Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, Sen. i Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, . Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, I Gov. Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Adlai E. Stevenson. The state committee will entertain state officials, members of Congress and nominees for mayor at a breaklast Saturday, to be followed by a meeting of the edi- ’ tors. t Other speakers at the banquet session will include Butler, Sen. Vance Hartke, Rep. Ray J. Madden of Gary, and state chairman Charles E. Skillen. Over 2,500 Dai:/ democrats are ; sold and delivered in Decatur ! each day. ► ICE CREAM SOCIAL SUN. AUG. 30 at 8:00 P.M. St. Paul's Walther League North of Preble

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Two Drivers Fined On Traffic Charges Two local motorists received $1 fines and cost charges in justice of the peace court after being arrested by state police for different violations. Mervin C. Rupp. 43. of route 1, Monroe, pleaded guilty to an improper passing charge filed Wednesday by state police. Rupp was arrested at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Winchester street extended. Edsel E. Reed, 33, of 716 Indiana, pleaded guilty to a speeding charge and paid the fine and costs yesterday. He was arrested by state police on U.S. 27. about two miles north of Decatur Sunday afternoon. Portland Family Not In Earthquake Area PORTLAND. Ind. (UPD — Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zerf as and their two children returned home today, ending fears they may have been kiled in the Yellowstone Park area earthquake Aug. 17. No word had been received from the family since it left Idaho before the quake after telling a relative they intended to tour the park. Neighbors had expected them home last Tuesday, and when they failed to arrive and had sent no word, the American Red Cross was asked to check on their whereabouts. However, the Zerfases telephoned Portland friends Thursday night from Lafayette -that they were enroute home. IdILNER HOTELS Ask for Afflh A* l ** Th. WMM Th. f MILNER fcfflL MILNER f -450” ' .Moder. ".The "BIB" Furniture hut ■MH’W • Freshly • Air Cundb i D#comtu4 Fsmbb looms Wall Carpet, • Moder. TU. worolef • Cleo. • C.imlrH f Comfortable hotel Imomi or it* re Price $4.50 Price $5 JO For Th. Thrifty ’ ECONOMY PRICES < Write no* toe yow credit cord ' M. J. Dehfle, Free* MflMr Meted MM Hw, Book Tower Detroit. 24. Mich. t WATCHING r ' YOUR WEIGHT? SWEETEN WITH SUCARYL It has no calories at all, and there's NO bitter AFTERTASTE. TRY IT! KOHNE DRUG STORE