Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1961 — Page 6

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FAuru Indianapolis Area Stores Oppose Law INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Operators of Indianapolis-area discount houses and other seven-day-a-week stores planned a meeting today to fight the plans of Marion County law enforcement authorities to ’ prosecute violators of the 1905, Sunday “blue law.’ Spokesmen said “the public wants Sunday service and it is up to us as retailers to give it to them." Some merchants said the only day they make a profit is Sunday. The battle shaped up after downtown merchant and city religious groups went on record last week as favoring strict enforcement of the 56-year-old law which bans all except necessary busi-

PUBLIC AUCTION As we have sold our farm, we, the undersigned, will sell at Public Auction the following personal property—Located IVz miles north of Bluffton, Ind., on State Road No. 1, on WEDNESDAY NITE, OCTOBER 11, 1081 SALE STARTING AT 6:30 P.M. HOUSEHOLD GOODS - i . Frigidaire refrigerator; gas stove; Bendix dryer; 21” blonde console TV; blonde oak corner table, 4, end tables and coffee table, matching; davenport; 8-piece dining room suite; 5-piece breakfast set; twin bed, springs & mcttress; dresser; chest; double bed, springs & mattress, chest, dresser, stand: double bed frame, springs & mattress; single bed, complete; chairs; stands; tables; breakfast nook table, 30’x60”; sewing machine, treadle-typC; portable sewing machine; pictures; drapes; floor & table lamps; 2 hall trees; radio; dishes & cooking utensils; waffle iron; toaster; iron * board; porch chairs: ofl heater; pictures; bedding; large Siegler oil burner with large tank; other items. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS— Wheelbarrow; 3 ft. & 8 ft. step ladders; grindstone; hand corn shelter; 32 ft. extension ladder; wood fence posts; pig feeder; lumber, 2x4; cedar fence posts; garden tools; machines! tool box & miscellaneous tools: Stevens clip-type 5-shot 22 rifle; copper kettle; wooden butter churn; other items. TERMS—CASH. Not responsible for accidents. MR. & MRS. JOHN J. JOEL, Owners Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers Farmers & Merchants Bank, Clerk Bluffton phone 543 — Fort Wayne phone K-5512.

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Prosecutor Phillip L. Bayt, Police Chief Robert E. Reilly and Sheriff Rober t A. O’Neal announced a week ago they would start enforcing the law next Sunday. Two Indianapolis’ department stores published large advertisements in Sunday newspapers to comment on the issue. The William H. Block Co. said I in its ad “bravo’ to the enforcement officials. “We are certain all civic minded citizens will join with us in giving you wholehearted support," the ad said. “Retailing is a spirited and highly competitive business, and if the number of stores opening on Sunday continues to grow, we firmly believe it will be necessary for All retailers to remain open eventually. We would sincerely deplore the necessity of such action.’ L.S. Ayres & Co. also said

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SUNDAY AT THE DECATUB MISSIONARY churbh, Noah Rich, left, building fund treasurer, presented the final payment on the church to Lawrence VonGunten. During the past ten years the church has paid off 827,000 in bonds. Plans are now being made for a new Sunday School addition and the enlargement of the present auditorium. It is hoped that work on this project can be started by early spring. - . —w- — - -

failure to enforce th® law might force all stores “that wish to survive” to be open Sundays. “We are concerned from an economics point of view, from a human point of view, from a cultural point of view,’ the Ayres ad said. “If Sunday selling goes wild and widespread, think of all the related and supporting business and civic people who will be affected. More policemen will have to be on duty. More bus drivers,, more taxi drivers will have to work on Sunday. More restaurants will have to be open. More firemen. More repairmen. More public utilities’ workers. It could well mean YOU.’ Four-Year-Old Boy Drowns Near Warsaw WARSAW, Ind. (UPD —Edward Dausman, 4, Warsaw, drowned today in Irish Lake while his father operted a crane a few yards away. The father, Willard, 29, told authorities he had taken the boy to work with him this morning to let him play by the lake.

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Youth Is Acquitted On Traffic Charge James Lyle Plasterer, 22, Homestead 21, was found not guilty in city court this morning on a charge of improper mufflers, brought against him by two Mercer Ave. residents. Plasterer had been picked up Saturday, Sept. 23, after an affidavit for improper mufflers was signed against him. In court this morning, Plasterer had his employer, L. R. Zintsmaster, appear as his witness. Zintsmaster told the court that Plasterer’s car had been pushed into the garage that evening at 5 o'clock, as the clutch was out Before 5 p.m. The affidavit stated that the incident had occurred shortly before five, and thus the car wasn’t running at that time as Plasterer works at the Zintsmaster garage until 5 p.m. Pro-tern Judge Richard Sullivan found the youth not guilty. The four men arrested Friday evening for public intoxication on U.S. 27, about four miles north of Berne, all pleaded guilty to the charge and each received a fine which they hadn't paid as of noon today, and were in the Adams county jail. Ira Samuel Carpenter, 59; Jess Leo Carpenter, 50; and Fred William Carpenter, 47, all former Decatur residents currently living in New Corydon, were each fined $lO and costs, totaling $27. Each was also given a six-months suspended sentence. Other Fined The fourth, Vernie Mays, 52, Fort Wayne, was fined $1 and costs, totaling $lB, and was not given any suspended sentence. This was the first time Mays had appeared in this county on such a charge, while the Carpenters all have long records of public intoxication and disorderly conduct in Adams county courts. Also in court this morning, Judge pro-tem Sullivan ruled on the case of William Parrott against Russell Hendricks for assault and battery, and found the defendant Hendricks guilty and fined him $lO and costs, totaling $27. Sullivan had heard the case lasi Monday, and took it undertadvise ment until today. Lowell Eugene Beougher, J 9 route 1, Mendon, 0., was found guilty of a speeding charge, and was fined $1 and costs, totaling $19.75. Beougher was arrested by a state trooper Sept. 2. Mild Weather Is To Continue In State By United Press Internatlwhal Indiana’s honeymoon with mild weather continued today with little chance it will fade away this week except for a brief cooling trend around Wednesday. The mercury reached a range ol 74 at Fort Wayne to 82 at Evansville Sunday to climax a bright sunny day which lured many thousands of motorists to the highways for the first peek at autumn foliage. Overnight lows this morning from 48 at Fort Wayne and 49 at Evansville to 57 at South Bend and 58 at Lafayette. Highs today will range from 74 to 82, lows tonight from 50 to 64. and highs Tuesday from 74 to 82. The fivp-day outlook called for temperatures averagin near normal north to 2 to 4 degrees above normal central and south. Precipitation will total around one-fourth to one-half inch but locally heavier in the central and south, and one inch in the north. Indiana Flood Takes Over 750 Lives NEW DELHI, India (UPD - More than 750 persons, including 100 school children, were reported today to have died in last week's floods in eastern India’s Bihar State. Rampaging flood waters of the sacred Ganges River, spawned by two days of heavy rains, were said to have destroyed at least 100.000 houses and caused more than one million persons to flee.

Steel Production 1 Less Than Expected i CLEVELAND, Ohio (UPD—Un- ' certain labor conditions in the automotive industry continue to 1 keep the steel industry from hitting expected production levels, Steel magazine said today. The national weekly said Ford and Chrysler are buying cautious- ’ ly, and General Motors has not 1 released as much tonnage as 1 steelmakers anticipated. Steel sales officials have two theories — either auto steel in- > ventories are bigger than they estimated. or automakers do not intend to boost their October output enough to make up for the production lost last month. The magazine explained that if new model sales are good, automakers will probably order more steel for November delivery than they’ll take this month. Until they . step up their purchases, the steel market will have a hard time getting off dead center. Uptrends Elsewhere Despite this uncertainty in the auto industry, steelmakers are cheered by uptrends in other important markets. . Steel said tank and broiler fabi ricators are stepping up their > plate requirements. Similarly, the t shipbuilding and chemical industries are providing fairly strong demand. 3 A slight improvement in de- - mand for commercial steel bars s also was noted and more tonnage is going into forgings and light r toolwork. Defense requirements - are heavier, and the steel serv- . ice centers are specifying more t freely. 1 The structural activity con- > tinues to be a main prop of the t steel market, although the buildf n£! season is advancing. Steel said volume is being fairly well > sustained, and while j.t is com- . prised largely of public projects, t there is a good sprinkling of ■ commercial and industrial work. 1 I , Business Nears Peak The magazine said steel serv--1 ice centers report an increase in September business, with a fur- - ther gain expected thi s month. 1 Some think October will be peak 1 month of the year. ’ The latest figures (for August) 1 show orders for fabricated struc- ’ tural steel, awards for future construction, new orders received by manufacturers, and factory inven- * tories well ahead of those of a 1 year ago. r Ingot production this week is ® expected to be slightly higher “ than the 2,131,000 tons Steel esti- “ mates the industry poured last ’’ Week.

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ADMITS SLAYlNG— Stephen Schloneger, 13, is held by police after admitting the strangulation slaying of Yvonne Elliott, 7, in a swamp near her Elmhurst, 111., home. The youth told police he d killed Yvonne for a thrill.

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® POOCH SMOOCH—Fluffy, a wire-haired terrier, may be „ only four weeks old, but already she’s weathered her first t beauty contest with flying colors. Her little mistress, Gay ‘ Montgomery, 7, of Dallas, Tex., bestows a congratulatory kiss after the little dog won a costume pet contest.

Wife Os Red 1 Defector Is > 1 Taken By Reds i AMSTERDAM (UPD Ten So- ; viet embassy officials today fought i their way into a Dutch military 1 police office at Amsterdam’s Schi- ' pol Airport and dragged away the i wife of a Russian engineer who had defected to the West. The Russians took the woman to the airport office of the Soviet Aeroflot Airline where they held her under guard. The woman was the wife of a Russian chemical engineer, Alexei Golub, 35. who defected from a Soviet touring group and asked Dutch officials for political asylum Sunday. Dutch military police took Golub's wife from the Soviet tourist party as it passed through the airport en route back to Moscow today. Police sources said they wished to ask her if she really wanted to go home or would like to remain in the West with her husband. After Dutch police took her into their airport office 10 members of the Russian embassy staff then forced their way into the room. Witnesses said they scuffled with and punched personnel in the military police post and fled with Mrs. Golub to the Aeroflot airline qffice. The Soviet Tupolev airliner, which was to take off with the touring Russians, was still standing on the runway almost three hours after the scheduled departure. Dutch military police were, holdirxrt TMT«*r3 . TiTf, Wil B. UtnUU & pclßspMl Golub himself had been held at police headquarters pending a Justice Ministry decision on his request for political asylum. With his wife, he had arrived in Holland with a group of 29 Soviet citizens on an ntourist trip. His wife, however, refused to join him. She was later seen with an official of the Soviet consulate. Press reports said Golub was interrogated all day Sunday by special branch detectives who learned that his wife took fright at the last moment because her parents were still living in the Soviet Union. Experimental Drugs Are Used On Raybum f DALLAS. Tex. (UP)— Doctors hoped today to prolong the life of House Speaker Sam Rayburn with the use of experimental drugs but said there is no hope that the treatment will cure the cancer that is killing him. The use of the drugs, in fact, probably means trading comfort for a few more days of life. Dr. Ralph Tompsett. director of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, said Rayburn’s family made the decision to use the drugs. Rayburn, 79, received the first injection Sunday. A drug called “5 fluoro-uracil” was used, t has a tendency to keep the cancer from spreading and growing so fast. “The treatment has not been discussed with Rayburn, but with his family,” Tompsett said. Physicians for Rayburn’s immediate family declined to reveal whether he knows he is dying. Rayburn had several visitors Sunday. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, saw him for a second time. Other visitors included Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex., Rep. Homer Thornberry, D-Tex., and Leroy Collins, former governor of Florida.

Nine Persons Killed By Indiana Traffic By United Press International Another bloody weekend on Indiana highways resulted in nine deaths and sent the state’s toll for the year to at least 785. H. L. Alexander, 75, Fairbury, 111., was fatally injured Sunday afternoon in a two-car collision at the intersection of Ind. 18 and U.S. 27 near Bryant in Jay County. He died two hours later in a Portland hospital. Police said the accident occurred when Alexander apparently failed to stop at the intersection and drove into the path of a car driven by Orris McClain, 42, R.R. 1, Monroe. Alexander’s wife, Mary, 72, their daughter. Nancy, 33, and McClain's wife. Lola, 50. were injured in the wreck. Donna Jean Martin, 21, daughter of an Indianapolis physician, was killed early Sunday when the car in which she was riding swerved off a Marion County road and struck a bridge abutment north of ndianapolis. The driver, Charles R. McCrory, 21, Indianapolis, was injured. Kenneth Streicher, 16, Jasper, was killed Saturday night when his car went out of control on U.S. 231 just outside Jasper and struck the concrete base of a storage tank at a rubber products firm. Madeline Penfield, 50, and Marion Tucker, 55, both Norwalk, Ohio, were killed Saturday afternoon in a two-car collision at the intersection of nd. 3, nd. 5 and nd. 118 in Huntington County. Mrs. Tucker's husband, Edgar, 57, and Richard Denny, 21, R.R. 1. Yoder, were injured in the crash. Herbert Hoover Smith, 33. Austin, was killed Saturday when fils car overturned on Ind. 256

PUBLIC SALE 40 ACRE FARM PERSONAL PROPERTY We, the undersigned, since we have bought a bigger sell at auction, located I’i miles south on 116, then L 2 east of Linn Grove, Ind., or mile north of Hartford Township School, or 3 miles west, miles south, 1 mile west of Berne, Ind., on WEDNESDAY, OCTODER 18, 1961 12:30 P.M. - 40 ACRE FARM - This farm consists of 4G acres of good,level farming ground, .all tillable. Have 10 room home on farm, first floor with big kitchen and built in cabinets, large living room, nice den, bedroom, complete new bath room installed 2 yrs. ago, 2 pantries. 4 bedrooms' upstairs with storage room, basement under home; home has been newly decorated inside, have wood house close to home. Barn is 34 ft. by 50 ft., corn crib and granary combined 20 ft. by 20 ft.; garage 15 ft. by 18 ft.; milkhouse 8 ft. by 10 ft.; henhouse 10 ft. by 32 ft.; cement silo 8 ft by 30 ft. attached to barn. This is a good productive farm and level. ' For further information or to see farm call the auctioneers. POSSESSION: Will give possession on farm 30 days after sale day. TERMS—2O% down on sale day, balance when abstract and deed are turned over to you. TAXES—Buyer assumes 1961 taxes payable 1962. PERSONAL PROPERTY 13 HEAD CATTLE 3 Holstein cows, 1 black cow, 1 red cow, 1 roan bull, 2 yearling heifers, 5 spring calves. HOUSEHOLD GOODS - FARM MACHINERY - MISC. 19 ft. by 20 ft. 2-section farrow house with white oak floor and sills; 9 ft. by 12 ft. brooder house; International 2 12-in. breaking plow; spring tooth harrow; 10 in. John Deere hammer mill, R !a ' n blower; metal feed trough; 8 hole grain drill; 5 shovel plow; 2 medium size Duo Therm oil space heaters; 2 30-gal. tanks; 1 75-gal. tank; 1 large size Duo Therm oil heater; Radila coal and wood heating stove; 2 wardrobes; buffer: couch; rocker chair; Sellers kitchen cabinets; soft coal heating stove; bed and springs; tables, chairs, chests; commode; roll roofing; Hotpoint electric 4 burner stove: corn sheller; chicken feeders; lawn roller; hot water heater: 5-gal. lard: wash tank; hay forks; grapple’fork; lantern; milk strainer; 7 milk cans; cooking utensils, and many articles not mentioned. TERMS—Cash on personal property. Not responsible for accidents. MR. & MRS. DALE L MERTZ, Owners Phil Neuenschwander, Auct. D. S. Blair, Auct. Miz Lehman, Auct. , . Gerald Strickler, Auct. » C. W. Kent, Auct? — " First Bank of Berne, Clerk Hartford Happy Go Lucky 4-H Girls Club, lunch. M Improve Your Fireplace! J|| ' Hl! ‘ iKS HSK.ifS W ■ | 111 < ♦ NO FLOOR DRAFTS • NO SMOKE UNIFORM HEAT FROM FLOOR TO CEILIl Hv ING! BURN woot> . B R 'QUFTS or similar I FUEL! YOU CONTROL FIRE . . . YOUR home and FAMIIY SAFtRI Make* your hearthside love- / tier . . . more livable for a Jw* HX' lifetime! SEND FIREPLACE WIDTH AND HEIGHT . . . RECEIVE Colorful Booklet FREE i hone° R I “Complete Line of Fireplace Fixtures” BOWERS HARDWARE CO., INC. FREE PARKING WHILE SHOPPING IN OUR STORE ■

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near Scottsburg. Steven Nemeth, 23, Cedar Lake, was killed Saturday when his car struck a utility pole on a Lake County road near Cedar Lake. Eva Junei Perry, 21, Indianapolis, was killed early Saturday in a two-car collision at the intersection of Ind. 67 and a Marion County road southwest of ndian- & polls. Edward Voiron, 24, North Judson, was killed Friday night when his car skidded out of control on Ind. 39 near Knox. Two Persons Are Held On Murdfer Charges INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Two i persons were held on preliminary • charges of murder today in the shooting Sunday of Joseph L. Martin. 38, Indianapolis. Martin was killed by a shotgun ’ blast after what police sal: •■’■as a drinking party. , Held were Gerald D. Fishburn, 3 23. and Mrs. Ada M. Hoschouer, r 23, both of Indianapolis. 1 i

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