Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1959 — Page 2

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ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE to I norease Church Attendance In Adame County Dunecrou By The Fo'towlng Advortleere Who 8" He It Your Petronege ■ -

• — ■■ mi — How About I 960? Bev. J. R. Meadows 1960 ean be a great year in the -history of your church but hot ■/without you. God has no other way to build His Kingdom in the I church of your choice but to use ' you and me. We are given the ’free choice of how and when to t Decalur Mesic Hmm Wuriiteer Pianos, Organs Sales - Instruments - Service Sheet Music - Records IM N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3353 ar E TELEVISION SERVICE • RADIO AND TV REPAIR Kall 3-3772. If no answer Call 3-4037 DAVIDSON BROS. *9lO W. Monroe DECATUR I The MODEL Dept. Store Formerly • Blackwell Department Store • DRY GOODS. SHOES. LADIES t READY-TO-WEAR, Mens Accessories, Work Clothing, Boys and Girls Clothing 103 North 2nd St. Decatur “For The Best At Claim Ttae” BURKE INSURANCE SERVICE 239 N. Eleventh St. PHONE 3-3050 PARKWAY 66 SERVICE 13th A Nuttman Ave. Washing - - Lubrication Wheel Balancing Call For and Deliver Phone 3-3682 • STIEFEL GRAIN CO. PURINA CHOWS SEEDS — FERTILIZER Baby Chix Check-R-Mixing Garwood Homo Improvement U. S. 224 East ALL ALUMINUM AWNINGS Comb. Doors — Windows PHONE 3-2855 TEEPLE Local & Long Distance PHONE 3-2607 Stucky Furniture Co. 35 Tears of Continuous Business MONROE, IND - Kenny P. Singleton, Distributor MARATHON GAS Fuel OH, V.E.P. Motor OU, Lubricants Farm Service Decatur Phone 3-4470 BOWER Jewelry Store . 111., II „ Uk,, * Decatur Equipment Inc. Hiway 27 North M Sales and Service ■DB HW BEAVERS OIL SERVICE Dependable Farm Service Phone 3-2705 1 -■" 1 I''" 1111 1 i ■■■■■*'—■ Kelly’s Dry Cleaning Laundry and Furriers Agency for Slick’s Laundry Phone 3-3202 427 N. Mh St. Across from G. E. Miller’s Grocery Groceries, Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Ice Cream 937 N. 2nd St. Ph. 3-3307 The second best to never as good as the best. Try Our Ready-Mix Dial 3-2561 Decatur Ready-Mix Inc. The Firs! Stole Bask DECATUR. IND. ESTABLISHED 1883 MEMBER F.D.I.C. .■ i j. j . jji 1.1, 1.1 i “ i ■ j

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use our abilities and blessings but we should never misuse the privi-| lege. There is so much to do that all of us together, giving propor- 1 tionately of our time and talent, 1 i can just barely get the job done., That means if any one of us neglects to do our share, the complete job cannot be done. Can you pray? Can you teach Sunday School? Can you sing? Can you speak to your fellow members about Christian responi sibility? Can you tell others ' about Jesus? Can you swing a hammer, a paint brush, or a saw? Can you work with young people? Can you get to church every Sunday? If you can answer YES to any of these things, there is a “FuiC Photography” Complete Framing Service Cor. 2nd & Adama/bFive Points Phone 3-3362 ADAMS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-op Everything in Farm Supplies Berne - Williams - Monroe Pleasant Mills - Geneva GAY’S MOBIL SERVICE 13th and Monroe St. Phone 3-3609 V. F. Hurst and Son ORNAMENTAL IRON WE FINANCE Phone 3-4489 164 N. 15th St Decatur, Ind. Briede Stsdio formerly ■ n- J 202 S. Second St. PHONE 3-2511 ADAMS COUNTY TRAILER SALES* Inc. New and Used Trailers Decatur, Ind. GERGER’S “ SUPER MARKET Quality Pork & Beef Groceries and Produce 622 N. 13th Street ROOP'S MARKET .“For Quality and Economy” Choice Meats, Groceries, Produce Frosen Foods Stop & Shop with Brice & Edna! Ph. 3-3619 1109 Washington St. SMITH PURE MILK CO. Tour Local Milk Merchant Grade “A” Dairy Products 13< 8. 13th at Adams 24 Hour Wrecker Service We Pay Cash for Wrecked Cars and Tricks USED PARTS Henry Swygart Wrecking Yard U. 8. 224 Phone 3-8224 Stott “Quality Footwear” 154 No. 2nd Decatur, Ind. Habegger Hardware “The Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails” 146 West Monroe Phone 3-3716

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. real need tor you. It is just as •I simple as that. And to those who are deprived of health that they 1 are unable to attend services, ' they can do a great work for . their church by praying for their pastor, missionaries, and coworkers, and last but not least, for souls that need Christ. We urge you, in behalf of your church, to step forward in 1960 and ask this simple question: "I’m ready, where can you use me?” Decatur Lumber Co. BUILDER’S SUPPLIES AND COAL Free Estimates Phone 3-3309 Decatur, Ind. PRICE MEH’S WEAR QUALITY CLOTHING for MEN and BOYS 101 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-4115 LAWSON Heating - Plumbing Appliances Sales and Service Phone 3-3626 1835 W. Monroe St. Treon's Poultry Market Fresh Dressed Poultry Fresh Eggs — Free DeUvery Phone 3-3717 Zwick Monuments 315 W. Monroe St. DOWNTOWN Phone 3-3663 for Appointment Kocher Lumber & Coal Co. The Friendly Lumber Yard Phono 3-3131 SMITH DRUG CO. 149 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3614 Your RexaU Drag Store The Farmers Dairy SET IN STATION 964 W. Adams St. CREAM - EGGS - POULTRY R. O. Wynn Phone 3-2636 SESESSEEESE9SSS?S99K9BSEESSEES Jfieets FSLFURNITURI CO. FiX DECATUR 13-3*02 INDIANA Maier Hide A Fur Co. Dealer In AD Scrap Metals Telephone 3-4419 710 Monroe St. 1315 W. Adams Phone 3-2971 t 1 Beinelttam ma • DomescuJriTw7smith

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BlkUMMritl: *M4 D.v.t1.5.1 BMdlaf: Jo.hu* 15-9. God, Our Help Leeson for December 27, 1969 AT SUNSET, not a ray of hope. Alone, behind high walls, guarded by four squads of soldiers under special orders, his friends not knowing whether he was alive or dead. But by midnight—! the man was free, talking with his friends. (Naturally, hunted by the

police . . . but they never found him.) What was the explanation of it? Nobody has ever quite succeeded la explaining it. The man himself said an angel did it; but an angel is hard to explain,

too. The real explanation, every one felt, was in one single word: GOD. Th/ man’s friends had been praying to God, and God sent the angel. God had much more for Simon Peter to do. la treat Crisis Did God help people in "Bible times” only and not since then ? By no means. God himself cannot be seen, remember; so it to always possible for some one to doubt—to say, “Well, I didn’t see God there.” Nevertheless all through history there have been special occasions, crises as they may be called. when believers have been quite sure that God must have been specially interested and active. For instance, in World War n, on D-Day, innumerable slips occurred during that great invasion of the Normandy coast One writer who was there said that everything that could go wrong went wrong, and some things that couldn’t. But in spite of it all, the Allies got their foothold in the enemys land- What accounts for that? Or take the German guided missiles. If they had been just a few weeks farther ahead with production, England might have been completely smashed and the war would have had a different ending. ’YniatheldtheGermaxtoup?Hltler,of course; but what made Hi&br. (ordinarily a shrewd man) ao stupid? __ "Oat of Weakness” ’ L " u '* r For some people it may be easier to believe that God takes care of nations and of great events, than that God takes care of me. Let us not deny hia presence in the great crises. Last June a streamliner with 180 passengers on board ran over a suitcase filled with enough dynamite to blow the train in two —and the fuse was lighted! But the fuse went out, and the train was not hurt. When the passengers teamed about it, isn’t it likely that most of they said, "Thank God!” Some of them said it (perhaps) who hadn’t thanked God for anything in years. Yet God can be in simple ordinary lives, giving help to the weak and the unimportant, just as truly as he helps a Saint Peter or the British Empire. An immigrant woman abandoned by her GI husband, with three hungry children on her hands, said once: "Sometimes I go to bed and I don’t think I can get up again. But God, he wakes me up with a song in my throat and I begin again.” Sometimes the only way we discover God is to reach a point of weakness where we know that without him we are done for. Workers Tocothor We said that God had more for Simon Peter to do. This midnight miracle was the last of its kind in Peter’s life so far as we know. He lived for years after this, a hardworking missionary, no doubt often in danger, but kept and strengthened by what we absurdly call the "ordinary” Providence of God. Then came , a day when Roman guards came for him once more, and this time there was no angel to help him. So he was crucified. Had God forsaken him at last? No; his work was done. If you are, as he was, a "worker together with God” you may be sure that until your work to done you are immortal. We are at the gate of a New Year. What will it bring? Great dangers, great distress, great jjgSponsibiiities ? Whatever it may be, God knows what he is doing. We may see no angels, but with the eye of faith we can see the good hand of God guiding us, protecting us, giving us the help we need, whan we need it THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be hply and without blemish.’’— Ephesians 5: 6,7, 8.

Rural Churches U. B. RIVARRE CIRCUIT Huber Bakner, Paster ML Zien — 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. 7:00 p. m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p. m. Wednesday. Midweek Prayer service. Mt. Victory — 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. Class Meeting. 7:30 p. m. Worship service. 7:30 p. m. Wednesday: Midweek Prayer service. z Pleasant Grave — , 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. _ 10:30 a. m. Class meeting. 7:30 p. m. Wednesday: Midweek Prayer service. Revival campaign at the Pleasant Grove church Jan. 3 - 17, 7:30 p. m. nightly. Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Peters of Huntington, Ind., editor of the United Brethren, will have charge of the music and your pastor will be bringing the messages. We invite you to worship with us. Classes for all ages in Sunday School. Bring the family and come. ♦ . ST. LUKE EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH Honduras Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:00 Holy Communion service. Reception of new members. Baptism of children. 10:00 Sunday School. 7:30 Youth meeting at St. John Church with film "Boy and His Bible.” Friday, 1:30, Annual Meeting. ST. JOHN EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH Vera Crus Louis C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Holy Communion service. Reception of new members. Baptism of children. 7:30 Youth meeting with sound film, "Boy and His Bible.” Games: Arvilla Smith, Marilyn ■ Gase. Refreshments: Paul Yoder. Friday, 9:30, Annual Meeting. E. U. B. CHURCHES WREN CIRCUIT A. N. Str a ley, pastor BETHEL 9:30 A. M. Sunday School. 10:30 A. M. Prayer service. 7:30 P. M. Evening Worship. Sermon: “God's Promise is True.” Monday, 7:30 P. M. Mr. and , Mrs. Waldo AulLyill show pifl|pre.s of their European tour last .summer. Thursday, 7:30 P. M. Prayer meeting. WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 A. M. Sunday School. 10:30 A. M. Morning Worship. Sermon: “God’s Promise is True.” Tuesday, 6:30 P. M., Family night, potluck supper and program. Thursday, 8:00 P. M. Prayer meeting and Youth fellowship. MT. TABOR METHODIST Geo. D. Christian, pastor Morning Worship 9 A. M. Church School 10 A. M. Thursday — No mid-week service. MT. PLEASANT METHODIST Geo. D. Christian, pastor Church School 9:15 A. M. Morning Worship 10:15 A. M. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY 2 mi. east, 2 mi. north Monroe Robert R. Welch, pastor • 9:15 a.m., morning worship. 10:15 a.m., Sunday school. Wednesday, 6:45 p.m.,* choir practice. 7 p.m., annual business meeting and election of church officers. SALEM Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, minister 9 a.m., Sunday school. Classes for all age groups. 10 a.m., worship with holy communion. Sermon, “The Lord be Exalted!” Friday, Jan. 1, annual congregational meeting and election of officers, beginning with devotional service at 9 o’clock. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierha'rt, pastor 9:30 a.m., morning worship. 10:30 a.m., church school. There will be no Sunday evening or midweek services. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES ' KINGDOM HALL Corner Monroe and Ninth Sunday 2:30 p. m.: "What Did Christ Ransom?" Public Bible lecture by C. D. Steele, local Watchtower representative. Sunday 3:45 p. m.: Watchtower Bible study and discussion on the subject, “Practical Wisdom In the Space Age.*' One of the scripture texts for consideration will be Prov. 6:21, “For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it.” (New World Trans.) - Tuesday 8:00 p. m.: Bible study using the study aid, “Your Will Be Done On Earth.” Friday 7:30 p. m.: Theocratic Ministry Sdiool followed by Kingdom Ministry Service Meeting.

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UNION CHAPEL V Evangelical United Brethren Emmett L. Andersen, paster Warren Nidlinger, S. S. Supt. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship, 10:20 a.m. Evening worship, 7:30 p.m. Omer Merriman will give a report on the every member canvass to the congregation between the Sunday school hour and the morning worship hour. Sunday school teachers and their assistants will be installed during the morning worship service. The morning sermon title will be “Which Pathway.” The evening sermon title will be “So What.” ’ There will be iprayer meeting for adults and children Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. WINCHESTER United Brethren C. N. VanGnady, pastor Morning worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. Children’s hour, 10:55 a.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Slavery To Holiday Cards Is Deplored By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—It beats me why someone has not come up long before this with a new emancipation proclamation. It should be a proclamation to emancipate the American people from their slavery to Christmas cards. I realize that many persons will consider this to be a subversive thought Some of my neighbors will caution their children to come indoors when I pass by. Little old ladies who heretofore have given me a friendly nod when I see them on the street, likely will ignore me when we meet. My good friends who have favored me this year as in the past with the season's greetings will think of me as an ungracious grouser who should have both better manners and some gratitude. I am sorry if that is the way it must be. If so, so be it. The • Christmas card must go. Compared to a Christmas card, the exaggerated tail fins on my new car are useful and necessary contraptions. One-tenth of the money and energy squemderd each year on Christmas cards would sufici to create for the ; United States missile and rocket protection unsurpassed. Talk about waste k The stamp (bill alone, would buy a fleet of WjihafiSei/ For printing much more is spent than for . stamps. Morever, the patient pest men of the United States are hump-backed from lugging those great sacks full of cards and they suffer fallen arches, corns and ; bunions by reason of the extra mileage our Christmas whimsey imposes upon them. And, there are some individuals (your correspondent is one) who ' shucked most of the shackles of Christmas cardery long since, but who regularly receive cards in shoals and avalanches. This causes these free souls much anguish in the region of their consciences. They know in sadness that among their loving friends are some with the lint-picking habit of card-indexing the whole Christmas business so that during the days immediately following Dec. 25 there occur in living rooms across the land such scenes as this: The little woman: Oh, Fred, we got cards today from the Goosens and the Whooozits and the ■ Zumphs. The Zumphs’ is real pretty. Fred: Yeah, they musta mailed ’em after they got oursThe LW: Look in the index, > Fred, and see if the Whoozits • sent us one last year. Bet they didn’t. Fred: Nope, nor the year before, either. I’ll take ’em off our list. The LW: No, leave ’em on, but let’s send a real cheap card next year and mail it a couple of days 1 after Christmas. Fred: (reading sports page), Yump, awright. i It is the women, of coyrse, who keep the Christmas card business • going, wailing before, during and after the process of selecting and I addressing their offerings that it is an infernal chore. Christmas cards have become an oppressive burden. In the apartment building in which I live the nice women who tend to things behind the desk are card-weary and shaken by now. .In this ' Christmas season, they have stuffed thousands of them into the numbered boxes in which my neighbors and I receive our mail. This thing is out of hand, folks, and something should be done [ about it. I Smaller Pig Crop : In '59 In State ! ’-IMWIYETTE, Ind. (UPll—lndi- ! ana’s 1959 fall pig Cjop was estir mated by Pttrdue University sta- ! tistic'ians today at 3,501,000 head. ' four per cent smaller than the 1958 crop. The number of sows which farrowed was estimated at 496,000 head, two per cent less than last year. Officials said 271,000 sows were expected to farrow during the Dtecember-February period, also below last year.

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> Dreary Weather In “ Most Os Indiana i United Press International ? Northern Indiana appeared asj sured today of at least a light » touch of a white Christmas, but j it’ll be mostly typical dreary wini ter weather for the rest of Hoosi ierland. » The South Bend area reported an inch of new snow on the ground • this morning and the Chicago area t had two inches of new snow. 1 Fort Wayne, with an inch of old 8 snow still on the ground, reported • light flurries this morning, and the • Goshen-South Bend Area got light 1 drizzle and snow. Wednesday’s predicted 3 to 5 ’ inch snow accumulation in the ex- ’ treme northern portion failed to materialize, and the weatherman » held out no hope of state - wide j snow for Friday’s holiday. 3 Precipitation was expected to • end upstate by this evening, and t the outlook for most of the state ?.for’ Christmas day was mostly 3 cloudy and somewhat warmer f with highs ranging from the midr 30s north tb near 59 - r Considerable cloudiness and a 1 little warmer was the outlook for B Saturday. e Evansville reported a high of 47 □ Wednesday and an overnight low 1 of 40. That corresponded with an • overnight minimum of 23 at Gosh- ’ en and 24 at South Bend and Fort s Wayne. 3 f 32,500 Aliens To s ; Report In Indiana s HAMMOND, Ind. — Officer in g charge, J. D. Perfetto, of the Im- , migration and naturalization serv- ’ ice, estimated today that 32,500 , aliens will report their addresses 5 in Indiana during January under the federal alien address report B program. s The immigration official said e that 30,577 aliens reported their 1 addresses during January, 1959. Perfetto said that all non-citi-j zens, except those in diplomatic status, foreign representatives of :, certain international organizations s and those admitted temporarily as r agricultural laborers, are required to file the address report. !, He added that any alien who .. willfully violates the address ret port requirement may be fined up t to S2OO, imprisoned tor 30 days, s and deported. In addition, aliens who are not > in the United States during January must report their addresses 0 to the service within 10 days after s their return, i The officer in charge said that i address report cards will be avail-1 t able at the United States post offices beginning January 1. e General Telephone r declares Dividend s . FORT, WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — » General Telephone Company of jr Indiana announced a stock divi- . dend Wednesday to shareholders , as of Jan. 15 covering the threee month period ending Jan. 31 and payable Feb. 1. Shareholders of $2 preferred stock will receive. a . dividend of 50 cents par share and •those bolding $2.50 preferred stock, Series C, 62% cents. ■ - " ■ ■ - .r—

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959

Buys Health Bond Help Fight TB Use Christmas Seals The Decatur Lions club has voted purchase of a $lO health bond, officials of the Christrofts seal compaign in Adams cdunty announced today. All proceeds announced today. All proceeds from the annual sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide clinics, and otherwise carry on the fight against the “white plague.” The addres received from I* Sgt! John Parrish by his parents, is 16392050 50 Camron, Box 154, APO 109, New York, N. Y. The address appeared mcorrertty- -is>» thaTuesday, edition of the Democrat. Indiana Contractor Electrocution Victim a LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPD — An electrical contractor was killed and his helper was injured Wednesday when an aluminum ladder they were holding brushed against a 75,000-volt power line near Colfax. Carl Corn, 38, Lafayette, was electrocuted. William Hurst, 25, Lafayette, was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital here in satisfactory condition with shock. Corn and Hurst were installing an electric sign at a restaurant along U. S. 52, authorities said. They were trying to remove the ladder when the accident happenend. Glen Harlan, Frankfort, a service station attendant, said ha heard a cry for help and found the two men unable to release their grip on the ladder. He said he kicked the ladder several times before the men broke loose. The Lucky Winners In Our GIFTS GALORE Free Gift Drawing were: DOLL . . . BILL BRUNNER, 1115 Master Drive, City I TRAIN . . LORENZ STEELE!, Route 2, Ohio City, O. THANKS to the thousands of other entries. Sorry every* ~ one could not win. A Merry Christmas To All! HOLTHOUSE Drug Co.