Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1961 — Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1961

SOCIETY

SORORITY HAS VALENTINE PARTY AT YOUTH CENTER Tri Kappa sorority held a Valentine party at the Youth and Community Center recently. The party began with a silent auction. AH items were furnished by the members. The remainder of the evening was spent playing cards. Mrs. Robert Worthman and Mrs. Richard Mies won the prizes. Refreshments were served by the committee. LADIES AID MEETS WITH MRS. FRIEDA IRWIN The Ladies Aid of the Mt. Zion United Brethren church gathered at the home of Mrs. Frieda Irwin for a regular monthly meeting recently. The meeting was opened with devotions read by Doris Neuenschwander. A prayer by Dollie Sprunger followed. Each member then presented a favorite poem or reading. The minutes were read by Esther Cook. Ten members and 11 children were present at the meeting. The children entertained with several songs. Following the meeting a silent auction was held with the proceeds going to the church building fund. Refreshments were served by Esther Cook and Frieda Irwin. MRS. LETITIA MILLER TO SPEAK TO WOMAN’S CLUB Mrs. Wesley Lehman, program chairman for the Civic department of the Decatur Woman’s club meeting which will be held February 20 at the Youth and Community Center, has announced that the speaker for the event will be Mrs. Letitia Vance Miller, public relations director of the Goodwill industries of Fort Wayne, Inc. The Fort Wayne Goodwill Industries serves Adams county as well as 14 other counties in Northeastern Indiana. Existing for the sole purpose of serving the handicapped through a rehabilitation program offering jobs and job-training, Goodwill Industries form the largest network of rehabilitation workshops in the world. There are almost 130 such units in the United States and 18 in foreign countries. Goodwill Industries is a nonprofit. social welfare organization based on religious concepts. It is non-sectarian and no consideration of race, creed or color determines who is to govern or who is to be aided. The program Monday will include presentation of two Goodwill sound-color moving pictures, broken by a question and answer discussion period. The first picture. “A Chance,” is narrated by Gene Raymond, with Richard Crenna of the "Real McCoys” in the lead. The other picture, “To Help Themselves,” is narrated by Charlton Heston. The pictures are up to date and speak for them, selves.

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EMBLEM CLUB GIVES TO CANCER FUND The Emblem club held a business meeting at the Elks home, with Mrs. Jesse Newton serving as hostess, recently. The meeting was conducted by the president, Mrs. Lavelle Death. It was voted to donate 925 to the cancer fund. The door prize was won by Mrs. Hazel Schultz. LOCAL Mrs. Ralph Yager will spend the weekend in Chicago, visiting with her daughter, Kathryn. The Builders class of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will meet at 7:30 Saturday evening at the church. TTre Merrier Mondays Heme Demonstration club will have a dinner Saturday evening at 7 o’clock in the basement of the Preble restaurant. The St. Mary's and Blue Creek Conservation club will have a merchandise trap shoot Sunday. The shoot will start at 1 o’clock at the club grounds one mile west of Willshire, Ohio. The Adams county Home Demonstration chorus will meet Monday evening at 7:30 in the Farm Bureau building in Monroe. Each member is asked to bring a guest. Also, any demonstration club member is welcome. Members are reminded to bring cookies. Mrs. Erwin Buuck and Mrs. Clara Fuhrman will be hostess to the Sunny Circle Home Demonstration club at the Preble township community building at 7:30 Tuesday evening. The Church Mothers Study Club will meet Tuesday evening at the home of Kathryn Summers at 8 o’clock. The Decatur Garden club will meet at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Wesley Lehman. The Decatur W.C.T.U. will meet with Mrs. Floyd Ruse Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. All members are urged to attend. They are also reminded to review the life of Frances Willard and re-read the February message. The Friendship circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet with Mrs. Fred Corah Wednesday evening at 8:30 following Lenten services at the church. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Ethel Farr. Decatur: Mrs. Hugh D. Sprunger, Berne: James Hackman. Decatur; Mrs. Gloria Buckner, Decatur; Robert Habegger, Berne. UMiaaed Charles Fisher, Decatur; Mrs. Randall Stalmaker. Adamsville, Ohio; Mrs. William Judd. Decatur; Mrs. Kenneth Prichard and baby girl, Decatur; Howard Habegger, Monroe; Mrs. Anthony Wayne Weaver and baby boy. Berne: Mrs. Morris Krueckeberg and baby girl, Decatur.

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Miss Carol Ann Rumschlag —Photo by Anspaugh Srandenburq — Speak VoaM ffllay 6 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Rumschlag of 511 Madison street, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their only daughter, Carol Ann, to Stephen Lee Brandenburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Brandenburg of Monroe. The bride-elect is a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and is employed by Niblick and Co. department store. She is a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Her fiance is a graduate of Adams Central high school and is employed by the Magnavox Co. in Fort Wayne. The nuptial mass will be celebrated in the St. Mary’s Gatholic church of Decatur May 6.

Red Cross To Staff Station At Tourney Three doctors, a nurse, and eight Red Cross volunteer first aid workers will staff the Red Cross first aid center at the Adams county sectional tourney next Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, Gerald R. Durkin, chairman of the first aid committee of the Adams county Red Cross, said today. Also, four ambulances are scheduled for standby duty at the sectional, in case of serious injury or sickness. The schedule for volunteer service is as follows: Wednesday evening-: ambulance. Hardy & Hardy, Geneva; Dr. Joseph Schetgen; first aides, Darrel Brown and Harold Schlagenhauf. Thursday evefting. Zwick’s ambulance, Dr. J M. Burk, and first aides, Mrs. Noble Lobsiger and Mrs. Dwight Whitacre. Saturday afternoon, Gillig & Doan ambulance, nurse. Mrs. Mark Colchin; first aides. Mrs. Robert Johnson and Mrs. Carl Faurote. Saturday evening. Yager’s ambutanee. Dr. H. M. Luginbill: first aides, Roy Gilliom and Iris Lehman.

BIR TH At the Adams county memorial hospital: Joe P. and Margaret C. Miller Schwartz of route 1. Bryant, became the parents of a seven pound, fourteen ounce baby boy at 5:23 p.m. Thursday. A five pound, fourteen ounce baby girl was born at 2:32 a.m. today to John N. and Phyllis' Biberstein Fuhrman of route 1, Decatur. Nike-Caiun Rocket Combination Fired WASHINGTON (UPD - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today the successful firing of a NikeCajun rocket combination to study winds and temperatures in the upper atmosphere. The NASA announcement said the shot took place Thursday night at Wallops Island, Va. The vehicle carried a 60-pound payload containing 12 special explosive charges which were ejected and detonated at intervals from an altitude of from 20 to 52 statute miles.

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Clubs Calendar items for each day’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30). Carol Bebout FRIDAY Christian church, prayer service, midnight Thursday to midnight Friday. Pleasant Mills Baptist church. World Day of Prayer services, 7:30 p.m. Faithful Workers class, Union Chapel church basement, 7:30 p.m. Psi Ote Trading Post, 1 to 4 p.m., Phyllis Hutker, Alvera Eady; 6 to 9 p.m., Carolyn Brown, Mary Jane Allison. Women’s Society of Christian Service, Pleasant Mills Methodist church, 7:30 p.m. United church women services, world day of prayer, Bethany church, 1:30 p.m. Children’s servcies: Lincoln, Baptist church; Northwest, Missionary church; Southeast, Church of God. ; United church women's services, world day of prayer, Bethany church, 1:30 p.m.; children’s services, 3:15 p.m., Lincoln, Baptist church; Northwest, Missionary church; Southeast, Church of God. SATURDAY Builders class, Trinity E. U. B. church, 7:30 p.m. Merrier Mondays Home Demonstration club, Preble restaurant, 7 p.m. Psi Ote Trading Post, 1 to 4 p.m., Jo Klenk, Jane Reed. Children’s Story Hour, ages 5, 6 and 7, Decatur public library, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Decatur Social club, Youth and Community Center, round and square dancing, 8 to 11 p.m. Decatur Social club, Decatur Youth and Community Center, 8 to 11 p.m. Fish fry at Pleasant Valley church, 4 to 9 p.m. SUNDAY Sing bee, Greenbrier UB church, 2 p.m. MONDAY Adams county Home Demonstration chorus, Farm Bureau Building, 7:30 p.m. Senior Citizens planning group, Boy Scout room of Youth and Community Center, 7:30 p.m. Research club, Mrs. Gail Baughman, 2:30 p.m. Rosary society, K. of C. hall, 8 p.m. V.F.W. post and auxiliary, 8 p.m., post, downstairs; auxiliary, upstairs. TUESDAY Sunny Circle Home Demonstration club, Preble township community building. 7:30 p.m. Church Mothers Study Club, Kathryn Summers, 8 p.m. Decatur Garden club, Mrs. WesI ley Lehman, 2 p.m. Decatur W. C. T. U., Mrs. Lloyd Ruse, 1 o’clock. Loyal Daughters class of Bethany EUB church, Mrs. George Hanna, 7:30 p.m. Church Mothers Study club, Mrs. Edward Summers, 8 p.m. Monmouth P a rent Education group, Monmouth school, 7:30 p.m. Decatur Methodist W.S.C.S., guests of service guild, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Women’s association, Presbyterian church, 8 p.m. Ruth and Naomi circles, Zion E. and R. church, 2 p.m. Ave Maria Study club, Mrs. J. H. Bruntou, 3 p.m. WEDNESDAY Friendship circle of Zion E and R church, Mrs. Fred Corah, 8:30 p.m. Kennedy's Home Is Offered For Sale WASHINGTON (UPD—Negotiations are being held to sell President Kennedy’s Georgetown home, but Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger won’t identify the prospective buyers. Kennedy purchased the house for $78,000 in 1957 as a gift for his wife while she was in the hospital for the birth of their daughter, Caroline. The Kennedys were said to be asking 9105,000 for the home.

Dr. Wolbrecht Named Executive Director The Rev. Dr. Walter F. Wolbrecht has been named executive director of The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod's board of’ directors. The 45-year-old church leader, who has served as executive secretary of the synod’s board for higher education since 1955, will assume his new post next month. The newly created position will make Dr. Wolbrecht the chief executive officer of the synod’s board of directors and coordinator of the programs of the 2,500,000-member church body’s various departments. The office was established by the triennial convention of the Missouri synod in San Francisco in 1959. Top Fiscal Advisers Meet With Kennedy WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy meets today with his top fiscal advisers and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the search for a solution to the overseas drain on U.S. dollars and gold reserves. The President had an appointment with Brentano to discuss this country’s effort to persuade West Germany to pay a larger share of NATO and foreign aid costs. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other U.S. and German officials also were scheduled to participate. Kennedy arranged to meet earlier with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Chairman Walter Heller of the Council of Economic Advisers, Budget Director David Bell, Chairman William McC. Martin of the Federal Reserve Board and other financial experts to consider the dollar-gold drain. U. S. dollars and gold are flowing abroad at a rate of nearly $4 billion a year. This is because U.S. foreign aid and military outlays and spending by private American citizens and firms abroad exceed U.S. earnings overseas. Check Forging Ring Smashed By Arrest DAYTON, Ohio (UPD—Police at Vandalia, Ohio, announced Thursday they have smashed a SIO,OOO check forging operation which hit 61 cities in Indiana and Ohio during the past six months. Authorities said the arrest of Robert G. Hayes Jr., 26, Kettering, Ohio, at his home climaxed five months of investigation. They said Hayes, a plumber, had passed 218 checks totaling more than SIO,OOO. Police said Hayes hit every major city in central and southwestern Ohio and Indiana cities of Indianapolis, Richmond, Marion, Anderson and Muncie. The suspect had equipped himself with a printing press, check protector, typewriter and printing materials. He wrote checks on five Dayton insurance companies, the National Cash Register Co., Delco the Highland Machine Co. of Cleveland and the Acme Finance Co. of Cincinnati, police said. Hoosier Is Killed In Home Accident TELL CITY, Ind. (UPI) — Lewis Harber bill. 61, Uniontown, was dead on arrival at Perry County Memorial Hospital today after hurt in a home accident Authorities said he was crushed between a tractor and a wall of a garage.

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Rentschler Chair To U. Os Cincinnati Two foundations have given stock valued at $103,105.02 to the University of Cincinnati to establish in perpetuity a chair honoring Peter E. Rentschler, president and treasurer of the Decatur Casting Co., Decatur, Ind., and of Hamilton Foundry, In<*., Hamilton, Ohio. In reporting the aift to the university board of directors at its monthly meeting, Dr. Walter C. Langsam, university president, said the donors were the Hamilton Foundry Inc., foundation and the Decatur Casting Co. foundation. On recommendation of Dr. Langsam. Dr. Roy O. McDuffie, veteran member of the university’s department of chemical and metallurgical engineering, was appointed as the first Peter E. Rentschler professor of metallurgical engineering, effective immediately. Rentschler has long been interested in the university’s development. He is a member of Dr. Langsam’s advisory council and has been active in support of the annual campaigns of the corporate division of the University of Cincinnati fund. In 1957 he gave to the university $15,000 to aid in teaching metallurgical engineering—the field in which Dr. McDuffie is a nationally recognized evnert. Dr. Langsam termed the 1957 gift “a generous investment in American youth.” A Cincinnati native. Dr. McDuffie holds three degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Following service in the Edgewood Arsenal and with the DuPont Co., he joined the Cincinnati faculty in 1925 as instructor and in 1947 reached the rank of professor. “A pioneer in the field of metallurgical engineering education, he has held numerous high posts in local, regional, and national professional associations,” Dr. Langsam said in nominating Dr. McDuffie. “A dedicated teacher and a productive scholar, he is presently also an examiner for the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers.” The join foundations Rentschler professorship gift was the largest of more than $410,469.62 in gifts and grants reported by Dr. Langsam. He told the university board that during the last quarter of 1960

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the university had received a total ’ of $1,635,103.06 in such benefactions. Girl Scouts 11 Brownie troop 20 met Tuesday.afternoon at the home of Janiqgj Call for a Valenttae party. were played and prizes were won by Sandra Moore, Saran Singleton and Vicky Feasel. Gifts were exchanged and a luncheon was served. Scribe: Sandy Plasterer Troop 551 held a Valentine party Friday, February 10, at the Youth and Community Center. Games were played and prizes were won -j by Marsha Basham, Vicki Wolfe and Connie Harmon. Sloppy Joes, potato chips and pop were served to the girls. The troop met again after school Monday. Mrs. Dave Heller showed the uses of triangular bandages. An investiture ceremony was held and three girls received pins. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Kingdwn Hall Corner Monroe and. Ninth Sunday, 3 p.m.— “What Is God’S : Way to Salvation?’’ is the subject of a Bible lecture to be delivered by P. E. Gerber, a local representative of the Watchtower Soci* ■ ety. The public is invited. i Sunday, 4:15 p.m— Watchtower, Bible Study and discussion of “Showing Fruitage of the Spirit” ; and “Apply Your Hearts One of the scripture texts to be dis- . cussed is Deuteronomy 32:45, “Apply your hearts to ail the . words that I am speaking in . warning to you today.” Tuesday, 8 p.m.— Bible Study, , using the study aid, “Your Will Be Done On Earth.” nFriday, 7:30 p.m. — Theocratic Ministry school followed by the ‘ Kingdom Ministry service meeting.

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