Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1961 — Page 3

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1961

SOCIETY

MERRY MATRONS CLUB MET WITH MRS. CARL THIEME Mrs. Carl Thieme was hostess recently to the, members of the Merry Matrons club for their Christmas meeting. Mrs. Ed. Marbach assisted Mrs. Thieme as cohostess. The meeting opened with the club creed, followed with the history of the song of the month being read.by Mrs. William Boerger. The ladies then sang “Silent Night.” The second chapter of Luke was read for devotions by Mrs. Ed Marbach and the usual business reports were heard. Roll call was answered with a “suggestion for a holiday centerpiece.” The new officers for 1962 were installed by Mrs. Marie Fuelling, and Mrs. Marie Krueckeberg was welcomed as a new member. After the business meeting, Christmas, carols were sung by the group and the traditional gift exchange was held. Secret pals were revealed at this time and then new names drawn for 1962. Games were enjoyed to conclude the evening’s entertainment and the hostess served refreshments to 19 members, four children and one guest. '''' BUFFENBARGERS OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING SUNDAY In observance of their golden wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Buffenbargar entertained with a family dinner Saturday evening at six o’clock at the Fairway restaurant. Guests present included Mr. and Mrs. Carl Buffen-! barger, Mr. and Mrs. Torrence and sons, David, Craig and Steven, j Mr. and Mrs. Mich Hover and | daughter, Kristi, Mrs. Mary Yo<jer: of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Slater of Toledo, O. and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Shannon of Fort 1 Wayne. Sunday, the couple held an open house at the Community Center from 2 to 4 p.m. In the receiving line with Mr. and-Mrs. Buffenbarger were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Buffenbarger, the couple’s son and his wife . Mrs. Judy Torrence and Miss Sue Hover, granddaughters of the couple, presided at the serving I table, which was centered with a three tiered wedding cake flanked with gold candlesticks holdinglighted gold tapers. Punch, cake and nuts were served to over 100 guests attending. Mrs. Clarence Shannon had charge of the many beautiful gifts received and Mrs. Mary Yoder was the guest registrar. Guests attended from Huntington, Colum-' bus, Fort Wayne, Toledo, O. and Preble. CHARITY CIRCLE met recently The Charity circle of Union Chapel EUB church met recently i with Miss Betty Walters, who wel-' corned ten members and one guest into her home beautifully decor-i ated in a red and white Christmas theme throughout the house. Mrs. Arnold Roughia, program leader, brought' to the group ’ thoughts of Mary’s and Joseph’s personal life, their journey to Bethlehem and the birth of their child, our Lord. The group was seated around a Christmas decorated portable fireplace. Mrs. Doyle Egley and Mrs. John presented a playlet of the heavenly angels’ discussion on Christ’s visit to the earth. Veda William-

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Clubs l Calendar items for each day’s j publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30). Colleen Heller TUESDAY K. of C. auxiliary, K. of C. hall, 8 p.m. TUESDAY Friendship circle of Zion E & R, Country Charm, 6:30 p.m. Olive Rebekah lodge, IOOF hall, 7:30 p.m. I WEDNESDAY Ava Maria study club, Mrs. Al Schmitt, 8 p.m. Bethany circle, Zion E & R church, 6:15 p.m. Live and Learn club, Mrs. Chalmer Barkley, all day St. Vincent de Paul society, .C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. THURSDAY j Women of Moose excutive committee, 7:30 p.m.; enrollment, 8 i p,m. Monroe WCTU, Mrs. Ferdinand I Martz, 1:30 p.m. i ‘ Order of Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. son closed the lesson period with prayer. Mrs. Dan Smith presided over the business meeting, at. which time the circle practiced singing Christmas carols which will be a special at church family night. The hostess then invited the group to a snack time seated ; I around a candlelit table setting, 1 each place being marked with a | Christmas wreath favor. ' MARTHA CIRCLE MEETS WITH MRS. JAMES BORCHERS The Martha circle of the Trinity EUB church met recently at the i home of Mrs. James Borchers. Mrs. Cleo Landis was the leader, using as her topic, “The Angels’ Messages.” Mrs. James Bowman read several passages of scripture frofrn the Bible and then the group sang “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”, While the ladies sat facing a lighted globe Mrs. Homer Arnold and Miss Barbara Bowman presented a skit entitled “Angels’ Point of View." The leader, Mrs. Landis, read “Christmas Prayer.” Mrs. Clarence Morgan conducted the business meeting, during 1 which time towels were collected for McCurdy mission school in I New Mexico. The meeting was closed with prayer by Mrs. R. O. ’ Wynn. During the social hour, the hostess served refreshments to eleven members and two children present Members of the Ava Maria study club will meet at the home of f Mrs. Al Schmitt Wednesday at 8 p.m. • I ■ The excutive committee of the . Women of the Moose will meet | Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Enrollment ■ will be held at 8 p.m. Mrs. Ferdinand Martz will be hostess to the Monroe WCTU Thursday at 1:30 p.m. A gift exchange will be held. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG resuits.

Police Scandals In Midwest Cities

By United Press International A new round of police scandals marred the Christmas .holiday weekend in the Midwest. • Charges were to be filed today at Milwaukee against two police officers held in, a service station burglary. At St. Louis moro rookio police officers were to undergo the Series of lie detector tests which have already disclosed petty thefts by three officers, statuatory rape by a fourth, and brought perjury charges against a fifth in connection with a shooting incident. A six-year veteran of the Des Moines, lowa, police force was under suspension today after being charged with assaulting his wife and threatening her life. The 27 lie detector tests at St. Louis brought resignation or suspension of six probationary patrol-J men. Results of the tests: —One patrolman confessed sexual intimacies with a 13-year-old girl hired to baby-sit with his children. He lost his job but will not be prosecuted because the.l girl’s parents declined to press charges. —Patrolman Wolf Hochman was! charged with perjury for falsely swearing that a man he shot last year was armed with a straightedge razor. , —Two patrolmen .were fired for petty thefts and a third accused of accepting part of the loot resigned. —A patrolman was suspended for refusing to take a lie detector test. H. Sam Priest, president of the : St. Louis police board, said the■ lie tests were given to disclose i criminal tendencies in rookie patrolmen and “avoid a major

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Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith, Sr., Christmas day included Mr, and Mrs. Ron Richardson and daughter Connie of Jackson, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Clark of Greenville, Miss Leona Lee of Jackson, Mich, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph; Smith, Jr., and children, Allen and Vickie. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ostermeyer of route two are moving to New Haven the latter part of this week. ■ Holiday weekend guests at the! home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Erp, | of route six, were Mr. and Mrs. Ottis R. Jackson of Indianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Jackjsok. of. Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Steury and children left this morning -for Florida where they will spend their Christmas vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Kent are vacationing in Yuma, Ariz. Their address is: Sheltering Palms Trailer Ranch, 25454 Bth street, Yuma, Arizona. . Mr. and Mrs. Marion Feasel, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Geradot of New Haven, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Shapell off Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Durn Brown of Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. William Lister and sons from Preble were among the guests attending the wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Buffenbarger Sunday. 2“ Mr. and Mrs. Will Strickler of near Redkey entertained friends during the Christmas holiday. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sprunger, Allen and Can of Berne, Mrs. Nellie Gould and Mrs. Clara Dague of Decatur. Mr. and Mi's. Harry Wolfe were afternoon callers.

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scandal sometime in the future.” Another 68 patrolmen were to undergo the tests. ’ Detective Inspector Rudolph Glaser of Milwaukee said patrolman William Duelge, 29. admitted breaking into a service station and taking items worth $296. He implicated patrolman Norman Niemi, 29, in the burglary. Patrolman Gaylord Brooks was suspended from the Des Moines police department after pleading innocent to the assault charge. All three cities previously have been hit by police scandals. In Milwaukee eight policemen were dismissed in 1951 for stealing food and merchandise from stores on their beats. At. St. Louis, a police lieutenant lost his job as a result of the disappearance of kidnap ransom money. ' Thirteen months ago at Des Moines one patrolman was imprisoned, height fired and seven suspended! U P to 30 days as a result pf a grand larceny investigation. I Even more spectacular were n« ■'< < scandals at Chicago and i Denver. | Forty-six Denver police officers have been charged with burglary and at least 20 have pleaded guilty. A sheriff of an adjoining county also has been convicted of burglary and conspiracy. In Chicago last year the .revelations of “babbling Richard Morrison brought conviction of seven police officers for serving as lookouts at burglaries and I accepting loot. His disclosures led to the resignation of Police Com- ' missioner Timothy O'Connor and ■ a department shakeup which brought a civilian superintendent, Orlando Wilson, from the University of California campus.

Corp, and Mrs. William G. Gerber are the parents of a baby boy born December 22 at Cherry Point. N. C. Marine base hospital. The infant weighed eight pounds and eight and one half ounces and has been named Rodney Duane. The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. David Gerber, of Ossian, and the maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Frauhiger, of this city. At the Adams county memorial j hospital: | Kenneth and Kay Singleton MarI tin, route six, Decatur, are the parents of a baby girl born Sunday at 3:29 a.m. The baby weighed five pounds and five ounces. A -baby girl weighing six pounds and 15 ounces was born at 9:51 p.m. Sunday to Ernest and Charlotte Harsha Webb, route two, i Geneva. Mrs. Amos Brown Dies At Bedford Relatives here have received word of the death last Thursday in Bedford of Mrs. Amos Brown. Funeral services and burial were held Sunday. Her husband formerly resided in this area, and has a number of cousins residing here. No Christmas Babies At Local Hospital No Christmas babies were born at the Adams* county memorial hospital for the second straignt year, a check with hospital authorities shows. The last “Christmas” baby born at the local hospital was an eight pound, nine ounce baby girl born at 8:18 p. m. Dec. 25; 1959, to Joe D. J. and Margaret Eicher Schwartz, of near Berne.

Eight Minor Wrecks Here Over Holiday Decatur and Adams county was relatively free of bad traffic accidents over the Christmas weekend, with four minor accidents in the city and four in the county, and none of the eight after 8 p.m. Sunday. Only person' injured in the accidents was Hazel Alberta Foor, 49. 906 High St., who suffered a lacerated nose and shock in the 8 p.m. Sunday mishap. The Decatur lady was traveling west on county road 31, one-half mile south of Decatur. At the intersection of the old Dent school house, she attempted to turn left and lost control of her vehicle on| the snow packed road, striking: down a rod of fence as she went off the side of the roadway. She was treated at the hospital and released, and investigating officers, deputy sheriff Charles Arnold and state trooper Gen 6 Rash, estimated approximately SSOO damage to the Foor car. Other Sunday Mishap The only other Sunday mishap occurred at 2:45 a.m. on U.S. 224. two and one-half miles east of Decatur. Pau} Verne Lehmann, 21, Wooster, O. v escaped injury when he fell asleep and lost control of his vehicle while traveling west The car went off the left side of the road. Deputy sheriff Arnold, who investigated, listed S2OO damage to the Lehmann car. The other, six accidents happened at various times Saturday, beginning with a one-car mishap at 3:15 a.m. on U.S. 27, one mile south of Berne. Henry Herman Behnfeldt, 33..,. stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., lost control of his car pn the icy road, while traveling nortff, went Jay county R.E.M.C. pole. Behnfeldt escaped injury, but approximately S3OO damage suffered by his auto. Deputies Arnold and Bob Meyer investigated. . City Mishap At 10 a.m. Saturday, cars driven by Virginia Marcile Bohnke, 26, Monroeville; Hearl J. Gambill; 18. route 6, Decatur. and~Ray Slusser. 53, Willshire, 0.. were involved in a three-vehicle accident at 624 N. Second street. M:\s. Behnke was stopped in the street to permit an oncoming car to pass before she turned' left. I The GampiH car was being pushed ! by the Slusser car, and failed to ; stop on the slippery street, ramming into the rear of the Bohnke car. The Slusser vehicle then crashed into the rear of the Gambill auto. Damages were listed a t S2OO to the ‘Gambill vehicle' SIOO to the Bohnke car and $lO to the Slusser machine. A car driven by Richard J. Wemhoff, 33, 621 N. Fifth St., collided nearly head-on with an auto operated by Joyce Faye Ross, 24, route 6, Decatur, at 618 W. Adams street, at 3:08 p.m. The Wemhoff vehicle was stopped, while traveling east, but the left front of the car skidded into the other lane, and was struck by the westbound Ross auto. The lady stated she attempted to stop when she saw the vehicle skid in front of her, but slid on the icy pavement. Damages were light, S2O to the Ross car and $lO to the Wemhoff vehicle. Driver Arrested Jack Dee Springer. 18, route 3. Decatur, was arrested for failing to have a licensed driver in the car while driving on a beginner's permit, following a car-truck accident at 3:47 p.m. at Adams and Tenth streets. Springer, who will appear in city court Jan. 15, was northbound on Tenth, when struck on the right side by a truck westbound on Adams, and operated by Marion E. Sipe. 31, 840 N. 12th St. A total of S2OO damage was sustained by the Springer car and $75 damage by the truck. Vehicles operated by Darrell Wayne Hendricks, 17, route 2 Geneva, and John Fox, 58. route 6, Decatur, collided at 4:10 p.m. on U.S. 27, one mile south of Coppess Corners, at the intersection of county road 14. Both' were northbound,- and as Fox slowed to turn left onto the county road, Hendricks was unable to stop on the icy road, and , slammed into the rear of the Fox auto. State trooper Gene Rash, who investigated, estimated damages at SIOO to the Hendricks’ pick-up truck and $lO to the Fox machine. Paul Lester Hilyard. 45, 1339 Master Drive, was struck in the rear by an auto operated by Gerald Robert Meyer,, 28, 116 N. Seventh St., as he attempted a left turn off 13th street onto Marshall street, at 8:45 p.m - Both were southbound, and Meyer was unable to stop on the slippery street. Damages were set at $l5O to the Meyer car and sls to the Hilyard auto.

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Woman Braves Flames Twice To Save Nine FONTANA, Calif. <UPI>—A 30y ear-old woman twice braved flames which gutted her home early today to rescue her eight children and her invalid husband, police reported. Officers said Mrs.’ Rosemary I Starry suffered second and third- f degree burns over nearly a third, of her body and was on the criti-1 cal list in kaiser Hospital. Also in critical condition was the hus- j band, Elmer, 30, and a daughter, I Donna. 6. Both . suffered second : and third-degree burns. Another daughter, Cindy, 8. was; in serious condition and two more: daughters. Jeanette, 4. and Annabelle, 13, suffered cuts on the body. The remainder of Mrs. Starry’s children were treated at the hospital for minor burns or smoke inhalation. They were: James. 3,! Rosemary, 10, David, 11. and | Deborah. 8 months. |, The foOr were expected to be released in care of an aunt. Mrs. | F.A. Lynch, also of this city 50 miles east of Los Angeles. Fire Chief William Janka said he had not determined what I caused the fire. Two firemen suffered minor burns fighting the* blaze. The father, recovering from a hip operation told police he believed a loor furnace near the Christmas tree started the blaze. Annabelle, asleep in the front room, told officers she awoke and saw the tree afire. She ran screaming to neighbors Mr. and .Mrs. Barney Smith, who returned to the Starry home and tried to help rescue the childcen, Officers said Deborah was hurled through a window by Mrs. - Starry and landed unharmed on a bush. The house and nearly all of the clothes and personal belongings—including Christmas presents—-of the family were destroyed. Police said all of the children ovei; six years of age were Mrs. Starry’s by a previous marriage. Those under six were by Starry. —"I woke and saw smoke all around,” said David. ”1 yelled what’s going on here. Let’s get out of here,” ambulance attendants quoted the boy. He said he also saw the tree afire when he awakened. The hospital where the victims were taken s u m m o n e d extra nurses to care for them. Hospital . Admitted .. Master David Burkhart, ’ Decatur: Arnette Stauffeq, Berne: Mrs. Wilbur Foor, Decatur; Clarence 1 Beiersdorfer, Berne; Mrs. Carrie T. Haubold, Decatur; Mrs. Elva Bauserman, Berne; Edward Kolter, Decatur: Mrs. Jake Shaffer, Decatur; Mrs. Samuel Wagner, Decatur; Miss Julia Anderson, Decatur; Miss Mary Ann August, Decatur; Master Rickey Rehm, Pleasant Mills; Baby Theodore Miller, Monroeville; Daniel C. Lose. Decatur; Mrs. Kathrine Brunnegraff. Decatur; Sylvan Strahm, Monroe. Dismissed Leroy Riffle, Decatur; Mrs. Emma Anderson, Monroeville; Mrs. Herman Moellering, Decatur; Mrs. Larry Gerardot and 1 baby girl, Monroeville; Mrs. Roger ! VonGunten, Berne; Master David Burkhart, Decatur; Loren Kruetzman, Decatur; Mrs. Eugene Braun and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. William Snyder and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Raymond Simpson, j Berne; Gary McMillen, North' Manchester; Mrs. Arlo Fourtney, ' Concoy, 0.; Mrs. Kenneth Martin; and baby girl Decatur. Trade in a good town — Decatur

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Opposition Grows To Death Penalty

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International "As the switch is thrown, there is a sputtering drone and the ! body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head elec- ! trode. followed by a faint odor of j burning ' flesh. The hands turn , red, then white, and the cords of I the neck stand out like steel i ‘ bands. A • “After what seems an age but j is, in fact, only two minutes. ; the switch is pulled and the body , I sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do.”! This description of a legal exI ecution was written by Warden i Lewis E. Lawes, who escorted; 150 condemned prisoners to thel electric chair in New York’s Sing Sing Prison. It is quoted, along with many I other accounts ’of executions, iri I ; a new book entitled "Capital. Punishment” by James Avery Joyce (Thomas Nelson A Sons. 1 ss>. Jovce is a British lawyer who believes the dqeth penalty is 1 brutal, barbaristic, and ireffectivc as a deterrent ,to crime This view is shared by a growing tody of America’s religious ; leaders. .'it’-. Call For Abolition Within the past four years, eleven major denominate -ns have come out officially for abolition of ; capital punishment. They are the | Eoiscopal Church. Methodist Church. United Prqabyterian I Church, Augustana Evangelical | Lutheran Church, the Disciples of I Christ, the Church of |ie Brethren. the American Baptist Conrvent ion, the Five Year Meeting i of Friends, the Unitarian-Univer-1 salist Church, the Union of Amer-! Scan Hebrew Congreations and the United Synagogue of AmerI ica. A fight against capital punishment also is being waged on an interdenominational basis by councils of churches in New York. Pennsylvania, Massachussetts, California. Illinois, Nevada and Nebraska. Although the Roman Catholic Church has taken no official position on capital punishment, many Catholic clergy and laymen are active in the drive for abolition. A Catholic, MacNamara, is president of the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment. The Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is chairman of a committee seeking to revoke the death penalty in Illinois. aasssiOpposition Not Unanimous Opposition to the death penalty is bv no means unanimous. The most influential advocate of caoj ital punishment in the United 1 States today is an elder of the United Presbyterian Church, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He cites the Old Testament passages which uphold the principle of exacting “an eve for an eye. a tooth for.-fl tooth, a life for a life.” However, the General Assembly of Hoover’s church adopted overwhelmingly in May, 1959, a resolution declaring that "capital punishment cannot be condoned by any interpretation of the Bi-

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ble" that takes into account the New Testament teachings of JeI sus Christ. These teachings, the Presbyterian assembly said, make it clear that “as Christians we must seek the redemption of evil doers, and not their death.” This assertion — that vengeance is not a Christian motive in deai.ng with criminals — is a common theme of most church pronouncements against capital i punishment. Advance Other Arguments Other arguments' 1 which reli- ■ gious bodies have advanced for abolition of the death penalty are: 1. It has demonstrably failed as a deterrent to crime. This assertion is supported by. statistical I studies showing that capital crime rates are no higher, and often are lower, in the nine ; states which have abolished the , death penalty than in the 41 ; which .retain it. 2. 14-is unfairly applied. Os the thopsnds ®f people who are fenind guilty of murder, rape or . other capital crimes each year, I only about 2 per cent are actual- . ly executed. Critics say those who go to the chair, gallons or gas chamber are usually the. ones who are too poor or ignorant to retain defense counsel for pro- . longed appeals, or who have be- ' come the targets of inflamed pub- ! lie opinion. 3. There are numerous documented cases in which men condemned to death have later been proven innocent. 4. Society is amply protected by h sentence of life imprisonment, and such a sentence leaves the wav open Tor possible rehabilitation of the offender. 5. It is much harder to obtain I convictions in cases where the death penalty may be invoked. Some Challenge Argument* Hoover and many other law enforcement officials challenge these arguments. They believe ’ the fear of being put to death does prevent some people from committing violent crimes, and that society is entitled to this protection even if it leads to some injustices. _ , Opponents of capital punishi ment have made little headway • in the camnaign for legal abolition. Their last victory was won ; in Delaware in 1958. Since that - time, at least two doz.en state ■'.» legislatures have rejected church- - supported proposals to outlaw exi ecutions. ■ But there is evidence that the death penalty is' gradually disappearing by a process of disuse. ' During the 1930’5, executions rtaveraged 167 a year In the United States. The average drooped I to 128 a vear during the 1940’5, > and to 74 a year during the--1950 s. There were 48 executions i I in 1958 . 49 in 1959, and 57 last II year. 1 Handy Hint Where space is so limited that it is impossible to hold a screw in place while starting it with the screwdriver, set the screwdriver Into the screw slot and then tape them together with some cellophane tape.