Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1961 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1961

SOCIETY

MONMOUTH FHA HAS HOLIDAY PARTY i The members of the Monmodth chapter of FHA went Christmas caroling Thursday, December 14, singing at the homes of various invalids, Adams county hospital, Adams county home and members of the Monmouth faculty. After caroling,, the girls went to the home of Gladys Busick, where they enjoyed delicious refreshments. <_ Monday, December 18, the FHAers had their Christmas party at? the home of Marian Caston. Instead of the usual gift exchange, the group decided to give this money for a needy cause. This money will be used to buy shoes far a needy family in Adams county. • Favorite Christmas Carols were sung and games were played. Judy Conrad explained the Christmas customs in different lands. Refreshments were served by Sharon Witte, Janice Franz, Marian Caston and Judy Conrad. OLIVE REBEKAH LODGE MET TUESDAY EVENING Nine members of the Olive Rebekah lodge met at the IOOF hall Tuesday evening for a regular meeting. The door prize was won by Miss Laura Stanley. The Three Link club met after lodge and prizes were won by Mrs. Maggie Haley and Mrs. Robert Judt. Refreshments were served during the social hour by Mrs. Wilford Plasterer, Mrs. Fred Hancher and Miss Vera Fisher. CHURCH MOTHERS STUDY CLUB MET RECENTLY Mrs. William Journay was hostesses recently to the members of the Church Mothers study club. .Guests at the regular meeting were Mrs. Richard Collins, Mrs. Loren Arnold and Mrs. John Dell. During the business meeting the Girl Scout troop sponsorship agree-! ment was read and approved by j the group. A report from Mrs. Custer, leader of troop 69, was read, which told of the activities of their troop this year. The program for the evening was under the direction of Mrs. Myton» Spence. Devotions were given by Mrs. Doyle Collier. The Christmas story was presented in song, verse and instrumental selections. Those assisting Mrs. SpenCe were Mrs. Kenneth Watkins, Mrs. Ray Lehman. Julie Zerkel, Cindy Koons, Alan Zerkel, Steven and Don Spence, Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess, who was assisted by Mrs. Stan Kling, Mrs.

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Clubs Calendar items for each day’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30). Colleen Heller WEDNESDAY CYA Christmas party, Rose Marie Meyers, 8 p.m* Decatur Bellmont club, Mies Recreation bowling, 8 p.m. Ava Maria study club, Mrs. Al Schmitt, 8 p.m. Bethany gjrcle, 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 Women of Moose excutive committee, 7:30 p.m.; enrollment, 8 p.m. Monroe WCTU, Mrs. Ferdinand Martz, 1:30 p.m. Order of Eastern Star, Masonic ■ Friendship circle of Missionary! church, Mrs. Norman Hart, 6:30 p.m. . , SATURDAY Wesley class of Methodist church, parsonage, 6 p.m. hall, 7:30 p.m. .. MONDAY St. Ambrose study club, Mrs. Arthur Lengerich, 6 p.m. TUESDAY Decatur ladies firemen auxiliary, Mrs. Rhoda Hill, 8 p.m. Karl Johnson and Mrs. Ed Summers. * <4 ADD SOCIETY Members of the St. Ambrose study club will meet at the home of Mrs. Arthur Lengerich Monday at 6 p..m. for a pot luck supper. The Decatur ladies firemen auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Rhoda Hill. The Wesley class of the First Methodist church will meet Satur* day at the church prasonage with the Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Underwood for their Christmas dinner at 6 p.m. All members are asked to bring their own table service. ■ L'j £• '' ' ' • ——— - —— —- The Happy Homemakers home demonstration club meeting for January 16. The Cathojic Young Adults will have a Christmas party this even-! ing at the home of Rose Marie Meyers at 8 o’clock. AU CYA members and Catholic college students are invited. » The Decatur Bellmont home demonstration chip is planning a bowling party to be held this evening at 8 o’clock at Mies Recreation on North Second street. All m'embers are urged to attend. Mrs. Norman Hart will be hostess to the members of the Friendship circle of the Missionary church Friday at 6:30 p.m. Sees Banner Year For,Auto Industry DETROIT (UPI) — Frederic G. Donner, General Motors board chairman, believes the auto industry will have its second best year in history in 1962 with sales of more than seven million cars and one million trucks. In a year-end statement, Donner said “the momentum of recovery and expansion of the past nine months should carry through 1962.”

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|WIHEL Jihr v OF J I 1 ■ Miss Sandra Sue Brunner betroth a ( Tlofd Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brunner of route three, Decatur, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sandra Sue, to Fred Al Tumbleson, son of, Jess Tumbleson and tnC late Manie Cully Tumbleson of Wren, O. .'• Miss Brunner is a senior at Pleasant Mills high school. Her fiance is a graduate of Crestview high school and is employed at Meshberger Stone Corp. • No wedding date has been set.

Hospital - _ —_ — — : ——-4- _ ADMITTED Master Alan Beitler, Berne; Miss' ; Luann Phillips, Berne; Herbert i Hawkins, Berne; Master Robert McKean, Decatur. DISMISSED Miss Julia Anderson, Decatur; Mrs. Lulie Walters, Decatur; Mrs. Richard Braun and baby ■ boy, Decatur; Daniel Lose, Decatur; Master Rickey Rehm, Pleasant Mills; Mrs. Jake Shaffer, Decatur; Miss Mary Ann August, Decatur; lyirs. Logan Sprunger and baby girl. Berne. , " BIRTH At the Adams county memorial j hospital: ; ’ j Ronald arid Beverly Patrick Morton, 325 N. 3rd street, are the parents of a ’baby boy born today at 7:01 a.m. The baby weighed seven pounds and 1214 ounces. A baby girl weighing six pounds and nine and one half ounces was born today at 7:47 a.m. to Richard and Ruth Schfnidt Pyle of route ten. Fort Wayne. Wendell and Carol Archer Beer, 1022 S. 13th street, are the parents of a son born today at 9:12 a.m. The infant weighed six pounds and eight and one-half ounces. Queen Mother Plans For Canadian Visit LONDON (UPI) — Queen Elizabeth the queen mother will visit Canada for about 10 days the first half of June, it was announced today. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Is Seriously 111 WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former first lady Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is seriously ill in her Washington home. - The 89-year-old widow of the former president has been suffer-, ing from a respiratory ailment and complications.-. She has been sick for about three weeks, but her doctor said today she was “holding her own.”

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Steel Production Increase Foreseen NEW YORK lUPII—Total 1962 steel production will exceed 110 million tons. Iron Age magazine predicted today. An estimated 97 million tons was produced this! year. As much as 65 million tons could be produced in the first half of 1962 to fill the expected strikehedging order rush, the metalworking weekly said. Rising business activity will also contribute to the increased tonnage. .. Commenting -on the chane'esof a strike next year, Iron Age said only „ a factor not now in sighL could avert a walkout. Most of the factors in the 1959 negotiations still are present, it’'added, and little has been done to ease , the pressure that caused the I lengthy 1959. strike.. .. I Union demands for job security have strengthened, the magazine said, and this shapes up as the key issue in negotiations. Steel companies, hard - pressed on the cost front from cornpetition within the industry, from foreign steel, and from-other materials, are not likely to settle for a contract package that contains large wage increases, the magazine said. - *• Dual Salary Charge Is Made On Nutting INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh plans to confer with State > Motor Vehicles Commissioner C. Allen Nutting regarding charges that he is drawing salaries both from the state and from the federal governments. Rep. Winfield Denton, D-Ind., confirmed Tuesday in Washington that Nutting receives about $2,000 to $3,000 a year as a field representative for him. As motor vehicles commissioner, Nutting receives $10,300 a year from the state. The dual ' salary charge was made Tuesday by Ed Higdon. ■ "Jeffersonville. ~Ulark~C<sUifty"TtF publican chairman. Nutting is 4he county’s Democratic chairman in addition-to his official duties. Denton said that Nutting receives the federal salary for checking social security and vet-; erans benefit claims in Indiana’s 1 Bth ! Congressional District. He'! said Nutting does the work for hipi mostly on weekends. “He’s had the job seven'or eight, years,” the Democratic congressman said. “I am getting value received for what he does and so is ! the government.” When informed of the situation. Welsh said, “I will discuss the situation with Mr. Nutting. I have not had the opportunity to talk with him yet about it.” Nutting, who was not in his" office here Tuesday, was not, available for cofnment. Denton also said that two other district Democratic officials are on ; his payroll in similar capacities. I They are Bth District- Chairman Gordon St. Angelo, Huntingburg, and Frances Luckett. English, former national committeewoman.

LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Willis and grandson of Cincinnati, 0., were afternoon callers Tuesday at the hojne of Mrs., Sarah Durbin. The, Willis" were former neighbors of, Mrs. Durbin before moving to their present home. Mrs. M. A. Frisinger is visiting ip Lima, O. for a week with her ‘daughter, Betty and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gentis and ttjaughters, Kathy rind Susie, of Wauseon, 0.. spent Christmas weekend in Decatur with their families. '* Mr. and Mrs. James Webb andj family are visiting in Orlando, Fla., with Webb’s parents; Felton B. Moore of Lincoln. Neb., is spending the holidays’ visiting his daughter, Mrs. Doyle Collier, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Collier and family spent Sunday in Muncie i at the horpe of Dr. and Mrs. Ken-! nefh Collier and family. Other, guests at the family dinner were; Dr. and Mrs. E. H. iAllen and Mrs.|i Hazel Burdge of FOrt Wayne, Felton B. Moore of Lincoln, Neb. Miss Polly Whitted of Gary is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and ; Mrs. Francis Eady of Winchester! street. Tuesday evening Polly fell, ! cutting her head. After a quick; trip to the hospital and a few stitches. Polly returned to her grandparents’ home. Polly's brother, Chucky, is also visiting here with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Taylor and family of Bay Port. Mich., were holiday visitors in Decatur with Mr. and Mrs. Richard McConnell and other relatives. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garard spent Christmas day in Fort Wayne as guests of their son-in-law and daughter, and granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Louth, and Debra Jo. Miss Julie Anderson. 10-year-old daughter off Mr. and Mrs. Ro-' bert Anderson of 2239 Stratton Way, had her tonsils removed; Tuesday at the Adams county! memorial hospital, and returned home last night, where she is recuperating. ; . Mary Stetler, of Willshire, 0., has been . admitted to the Van Wert, 0., county hospital. | There were 29 adults and three L babies in the Van Wert, 0., counhospital Over Christinas. Nell Alberson, of route 2, Geneva. has been admitted to the Jay county hospitalBates, of route 4, Bluffton. and Dwight Kern, of route one, Craigville, have been dismissed from the Clinic hospital in I Bluffton. . Arnet Stauffer, 60, of Berne, who suffered-a mild stroke Christmas eve, -is a pdtfent at the j Adams county m&mteriaP hospital j His sight and speech ‘ have been j slightly affected, but .there is no paralysis, _ \ ..... ' Glen Boror, Jr.. 9, son of Mr. j and Mrs. Glen Borror, of route; 5ne ’ • underwent a tonsillectomy Tuesday at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. Ribert Girod-, of route 4, filuffton, was dismissed Saturday from the Wells county hospital. Half Million Paid Allen To Cancel HOLLYWOOD (UPI)-Comedian Steve Allen was paid about a half-million dollars, a spokesman said Tuesday, to cancel his contract with the American Broadcasting Co. ABC paid Allen for the final 12 weeks of the entertainer's 26-week contract with the network. Indianapolis Bank Is Holdup Victim INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Citizens Federal Savings & Lo.ah Association branchsat the Meadows shopping center was held up and robbed of an estimated $2,500. A bandit entered shortly before noon and took the money while brandishing a revolver at members of the branch staff He wore sunglasses, witnesses said. It was the second holdup at the branch in 11 months. Last Febbandits got $2,200.

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New Mantle Os Snow In North HalfOfU.S. Bv United Press International Deep snow cover got ja fresh 1 veneer of white in much of the north half of the nation' today. Arctic cold continued to bite into , the northern plains and Dixie. Thunderstorms brought rain to I Arkansas. leaving .32 of an inch at Little Rock. Fog clothed sections of Southern California. Slightly warmer air moved into southern Florida, where freezing temperatures sent bikini-clad bunseekers scurrying for fur mats Tuesday, but freezing temperai tunes were reported again early I today in northern sections of the state. Polar air pressed east from Montana and the Dakotas into Minnesota and northern Michigan and soutty into lowa. Readings near 15 degrees below zero were I reported in some areas of Minne- ' sota and North Dakota. The southland’s cold added to i the misery of 15 families left j homeless bf the flooding Peart River, which was expected to ' crest more than eight feet above i flood stage near Columbia, Miss., today. Flood waters were receding at the Jackson, Miss., suburb of Flowood, which battled high* water over the Christmas holiday. Agriculture experts said truck garden crops and fruit were damaged by the freeze which hit Florida Tuesday but the loss of citrus fruit appeared to be light. Stores reported brisk demand for electric and oil heaters for Florida’s unheated homes. Light snow fell from the Rock- ; ies to the northern Appalachians . and southward as far as Missouri. The snow wasuheavierin the cen- ! tral Rockies with two inches i measured in six hours early today. Colorado’s Rabbit Ears. Fremont and. Vail passes reported blizzard conditions late Tuesday. Burlington, lowa, had an addii tional inch of snow and Ohio was I girding for up to four* more inches [today. Traffic deaths in lowa, Nebraska, and Missouri were blamed on ice-slick highways. Five persons died when an over- : heated stove set fire to a home I at Burnsville, N.C., during 10-de- : gree temperatures Tuesday. ! A high school athlete plunged 11,600 feet to his death Tuesday when he lost his footing while crossing a snow bank on Califor- , nia’s Mount Baldy during a ski ■ outing. However, the snow proved to be a boon to two airplane pilots At Dubuque, lowa, a J crippling Ozark Airlines turboi prop plane.. skidded off a runway I into a 15-inch snow drift to avoid I plunging jpto a ditch. The 22 passengers escaped ~ injury. At Detroit’s Willow Run Airport a private plane with four aboard made a safe belly landing on a snowpacked runway when the landing gear faded to lock. t•* ■ . I Blackwell Is VA Regional Manager WASHINGTON (UPI) — William R. Blackwell, assistant field director for the Veterans Administration benefits program in eight north central states, has been named to succeed William Holsinger as manager of the VA regional office in Cleveland, Ohio. Holsinger is retiring. Blackwell has been with the VKg since October, 1946. He was named chief of the administrative division in" Huntington, W. Va.„. in June, 1946. In 1960 he was named assistant area field director for the states of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG resuits.

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£ HL OHfli ■ J] SANTA CLAUS AT COUNTY HOME during the Christmas program presenting a gift to resident Jake Keiper. The jolly presented gifts to all the residents at the holiday party held recently. The Decatur Zion E & R church choir sang many Christmas carols under the direction of Mrs. John Eichenberger a& part ■ of the evening's entertainment and little eight year old Robert Morrison of Pleasant Milts surprised the residents and visitors with his talent at the piano —(Photo"by Briedel

Rash Os Fires Is I Reported In State By United Press International Indiana's biggest rash' of fires in months destroyed three, business buildings in 30 hours at Hobart, Connersville and Crown •Flames of undetermined origin broke out in a basement shopping area of Harvey’s Variety Store in downtown Hobart early this morning and destroyed the place with a loss estimated at $150,000, not counting damage from smoke and water to appliance stores on each side of the store. At Connersville, fire swept al three - story downtown building, housing the Fayette Theater and the Eagles lodge late Tuesday. The loss was estimated at between SIOO,OOO and $300,000. A Christmas night blaze swept i a department store at Crown Point with heavy damage.

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, In addition to the business fires.,— a number of house fires were re1 ported including two at Clermont and New Whiteland blamed on Christmas decorations. Charles Dehoney, New Whiteland. was burned on the hands as ho carried a flaming Christmas tree from Ms home. The tree burst into flames apparently because of a short circuit in the electrical wiring of the tree lights. Damage of $15,000 was caused to the home of O. R. Ruf, oresident of the Clermont Town BeortL when fire broke out near a Christmas tree Tuesday night. The blaze 1 occurred while the family was away from home. It apparently I started in curtains near a floodj Kgbt. Courthouse Party j Here This Evening The annual courthouse party will be held this evening at the Palmer House in Berne. The ! party is an annual affair for courthouse officials and their 1 wives or husbands.