Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1962 — Page 3

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1962

SOCIETY

BELLMONT CLUB MEETS TUESDAY The Decatur Bellmont home demonstration club met Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Robert Geimer. Phe meeting was opened by the president, Mrs. Eloise Roeder, leading the club creed. The song of the month, "Prayer of Thanksgiving, was sung by the group. The members answered roll call with a family tradition for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Corita Pierce gave a very interesting lesson on buying clothes. The citizenship lesson was given by Mrs. Thelma Franklin, "Which United States." Games were played during the social hour and the prizes went to Mrs. Mary Kenny, Mrs. Josie Beauchot and Mrs. Corita Pierce, rhe next meeting will be the hristmas party. Everyone is to meet at Mrs. Mary Call's, December 27 at 8 p.m. »A,? uest at meeting was Mrs. Merlin Lister. Refreshments were served by the hostess. girl SCOUT COUNCIL MEETING The neighborhood Girl Scout councill meeting was held recently in the Boy Scout room of the Community center. The meeting was opened by repeating the pledge of allegiance and roll call. There will be two performances December 8 of the ballet Nutcracker Suite, presented by the Fort Wayne Ballet company. One performance will begin at 1 p.m. and one at 3:30 p.m. A Girl Scout national convention will be held in October in Miami, Florida. Anyone interested in going should write to Mrs. Robert Reinhart in care of the Girl Scout office; room and board will be paid. Gay camp was discussed and there will be six days of camping this year, three days in two consecutive weeks. Anyone wanting to use Camp McMillen should send in first, second and third choice of dates. Cookie sale orders will be taken March 9 and 16. All leaders and co-leaders are urged to attend the January meeting of the neighborhood council as there will be a new pro gr a m taught. There also will be a meeting the third Thursday of January in the evening about this new program. The program of the day was about crafts. Mrs. Custer gave a very interesting talk on puppets and how to make them and on puppeteerlng She demonstrated the making of hand puppets, shadow puppets and the large puppets which are called marionettes. Mrs. Doris Williamson gave a very interesting talk on weaving and how to make looms. A demonstration was given by Mrs. Sittier on making burlap pictures. Anyone having a further interest in this craft, should contact Mrs. Simeon Hain.

TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB MEETS Miss Carol Gable, representative for the I & M company, presented a very interesting lesson Wednesday evening to the Town and Country home demonstration club when they met in the I & M building. She demonstrated and explained the use of small electrical kitchen appliances. She baked and cooked several different foods and prepared desserts and appetizers which were given as prizes to the members after the lesson. Following the demonstration, a short business meeting was conducted by the president, Mrs. Herman Heiman. Plans were discussed for the annual Christmas party to be held December 19, a 50-cent gift exchange will be held. Roll call was answered with a Thanksgiving tradition. Fourteen members and six guests were present. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. Herman Myers, Mrs. Bernice Adams and Mrs. Cyrill Becker.

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SUNNY CIRCLE CLUB HAS MEETING The Sunny Circle club met Tuesday evening at the Preble recreation center with Mrs. Ralph Mankey, president, opening the meeting by leading the members in a repetition of the club creed. Devotions were given by Mrs. William Kruetzman. A family tradition for Thanksgiving was the roll call answer for November. The song of the month, "Prayer for Thanksgiving,” was led by Mrs. Gerhard Heckman, “Happy Birthday" was sung to Mrs. A. A. Fenner, Mrs. Ed Reifsteck and Mrs. Glen Girod. The ladies who made hats in the special lesson modeled them and showed how they were made. A birthday auction was held and then a jewelry demonstration was given by Mrs. Robert Clark. The December meeting will be December 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Preble Gardens. Prizes were won by Mrs. Milton Kruetzman and the guest, Mrs. Waldo Conrod. Hostesses were Mrs. Ralph Mankey and Mrs. William Kruetzman. The Nuttman Ave. United Brethren Missionary Association meeting will be in the p arson age Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The Beta Sigma Phi council will meet with Mrs. Fred Corah Tuesday at 8 p.m. Locals The Decatur ministerial association will hold its regular December meeting Monday at 9:30 a.m. in the United Church of Christ. The Eta Tau Sigma will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for a Christmas party with Mrs. Ray Heller. The Welcome Wagon will meet with Mrs, Herman Krueckeberg, 328 Limberlost Trail, Tuesday at 8 p.m. Burl Johnson, who was reported in the Veterans’ hospital, is in Parkview hospital, Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Haney of West Lafayette will leave Tuesday for a three-months trip to Tucson, Ariz. Their address will be 2537 North Orchard St., Tucson. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Archer of Arlington, Va,, are spending a few days with their parents and attending the funeral of Archer’s grandfather, William McCullough. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Currie and sons, Raymond and Roger, of route 6, returned home Tuesday evening after a motor trip through the southern and western states. Thenoldest son, Everette Dale, accompanied them to Roswell, New Mexico, where he will take over the duties of his new job shortly. He plans to make his home at Rosewell. After a tour of the Carlsbad Caverns, they continued on to Vacaville, Cahf., where they spent Thanksgiving day in the home oi; A/2c and Mrs. Charles Van Ostrand and son. Mrs. Van Ostrand is Mrs. Currie’s sister. Also with them on the trip were Mrs. Harold Houtzel and Billy Joe, of Roberts, 111. Births At the Adams county memorial hospital: Peter M. and Mary Schwartz Schwartz, route 2, Geneva, are the parents of a baby boy born at 8:46 a. m. Friday. The baby weighed 8 pounds and 4 ounces. A baby boy, born Friday at 12:27 a.m., and weighing 9 pounds and one ounce, was born to Forrest and Dorothy Uleman Dreyer, route 5, Decatur. Frankton Building Destroyed By Fire FRANKTON, Ind. (UPD—Fire destroyed the main building of the Frankton Saw Mill Lumber Co. here todky and one fireman was injured. Hie cause was not known. No estimate of damage waa made.

Club Schedule Ruth Rawlinson, Society Editor Telephone 3-2121 Calendar itema for each day's publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday**9:3o). FRIDAY Friendship circle, Decatur Missionary church, Mrs. Gerald Gerig 7:30 p.m. Good will truck, call 3-2585 or 3-3481. MONDAY Decatur Ministerial association, United Church of Christ, 9 a.m. Literature department, Miss Frances Dugan, 7:45 p.m. Decatur Ladies Firemen’s auxiliary, fire station, 6 p.m. ... Adams county home demonstration chorus, Farm Bureau, Monroe, 6 p.m. Junior American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, 6 p.m. Hope circle, WSWS, Union Chapel, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Chase. 12 noen. Civic dept., I & M, 7:30 p.m. Pleasant Mills P. T. A. study group will moet Monday at 7 p.m. Music department. County home, 6:30 p.m. Pleasant Mills P.T.A. study group, 7 p.m. TUESDAY Eta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Ray Heller, 6:30 p.m. Welcome Wagon, Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, 8 p.m. Beta Sigma Phi council, Mrs. Fred Corah, 8 p.m. Dutiful Daughters, EUB church, Conutry Charm restaurant, 6:30 p.m. 39ers, Community center, 12 noon. Loyal Daughters class, Bethany EUB, Mrs. Metta Hamma, 6 p.m. Tri Kappas, Mrs. Richard Mies, 7:45 p.m. Catholic Ladies of Columbia, business meeting, after church. WEDNESDAY Nuttman Ave. U.B. Missionary association, parsonage, 7:30 p.m. Hospital Admitted Forest Andrews, Monroe. Dismissed Miss Jayne Byerly, Decatur: Mrs. Earl Harmon, Decatur; Mrs. Roger Scott and baby girl, Berne; Mrs. Dannie Simerman and baby girl, Decatur; Master Stanley Cuercher, Geneva. Steven L. Butcher Promoted By Navy USS NEREUS (FHTNC)—Steven" L. Butcher, engineman third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Butcher of 1062 Russell st., Decatur, Ind.,i was advanced to the present rate, Nov. 16, while serving aboard the submarine tender USS Nereus. Adavancement is the result of passing a Navy-wide competitive examination after meeting profession! an dmilitary requirements. Two State Officers Begin Second Terms — INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The first two of the newly elected Indiana state officials to take office will be inaugurated in ceremonies this afternoon at the Statehouse. Mrs. Dorothy Gardner, Indiana’s first woman state auditor, will begin her second term as will Secretary of State Charles O. Hendricks. Both are Republicans and were re-elected Nov. 6. Polish Refugee Is Crushed To Death SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD —Edward Pankiewicz, 37, North Liberty, a refugee from Poland, was crushed to death Thursday night when a station wagon slipped from a jack while he was working under it. His 12-year-old son, Leszik found his father beneath the vehi-clerHeand-his.mother, jacked _up the car and pulled Pankiewicz free 1 ; and the son then rode his bicycle a half-mile to the home of a neighbor to get help. Jury Indicts Man For Poisoning Wife INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Delbert J. Moon, 55, Lawrence, night superintendent at an Indianapolis industrial plant, was arrested Thursday night on a Marion County grand jury indictment charging he poisoned his wife with intent to kill her. The indictment, returned Thursday, accused Moon of feeding arsenic to Mrs. Mary E. Moon, 50. He was arrested in the couple’s home, where Mrs. Moon lay in bed paralyzed from the neck down by an illness of several weeks. Froien Meats Frozen meats may be roasted without thawing, but you must allow about one and -one-half the usual cooking time thawed meats, are roosted the same length of time as fresh meats.

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Betty Allen Thrills Concert Audience

Decatur was fortunate indeed- to be included in Miss Betty Allen's well-booked coast-to-coast tour of the United States and Canada, during which she will sing Bach with the Seattle Symphony orchestra, conducted by Milton Katims, and Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" with the Detroit symphony conducted by Paul Paray. The large audience in the Community Center Thursday evening apparently realized their good' fortune as they gave her their rapt attention and enthusiasticallv applauded Miss Allen’s magnificent performance. Hers is a rich, warm mezzo-soprano voice with contralto timbre. This, coupled with her personality which communicates to her audience her zest for life and a joy in what she is doing, gave the audience Thm-sday a memorable evening. Miss Allen has a regal bearing and a regal voice. Long a favorite cultural ambassador throughout Europe, South America, North Africa, and in the Carribbean, this summer Miss Alleni toured the Far East for the first time, singing in Japan and Hong Kong and Seoul, South Korea, and Singapore, under the auspices of the. President’s program for cultural presentations abroad, administered by the ANTA] Among ten major appearances in New York last season, she was soloist in the Easter performance of the Bach “St. Matthew Passion” with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Decatur was doubly fortunate in an accident of the program printers. The beginning of the program was not included and the in-

Search Is Underway For Missing Plane WARSAW, Ind. UPD —The Indiana Civil Air Patrol began a search today for a twin - engine plane missing from Gary Municipal Airport since Wednesday morning. Authorities said the pilot, Warren Davis, was not qualified to fly dual engine aircraft and had not been cheeked out at the con-1 trots by a qualified instructor. The search was conducted along the Indiana, Illinois and Michigan state line. Patrols from other states will join the search Saturday unless the aircraft is found, CAP authorities said. The CAP was notified by the Air Force to conduct the search. Davis failed to file a flight plan before leaving the Gary field. He was known to have enough fuel on board for a 4%-hour flight. There has been no radio contact since departure. Authorities said his destination may have been St. Louis, Mo., Tulsa, Okla., or Oklahoma City. Davis purchased the plane Monday. Davis lives at Portage and is manager of the Jones Truck Lines at Gary. Associates indicated Davis planned to go to Tulsa on a business trip.— Charles Robison, commander of the Gary municipal squadron of the CAP, said two planes from the squadron are searching today. Robison said the hunt will be expanded if the plane still is missing Saturday. Ex-Lawmaker Dies At Greenfield Home GREENFIELD, Ind. (UPD — Robert F. Reeves, 81, a member of the House of the Indiana Legislature nearly half a century ago, died Thursday in his home.

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sert failed to arrive before the concert. Thus, Miss Allen was forced, graciously, to read the beginning of her performance which in her l lovely speaking voice, heightened her communication with her audience. Indeed, this was an artist Decatur probably would not have been able to obtain were her career only slightly more advanced. Miss Allen’s accompanist, Kelley Wyatt, also received much of the applause from the audience attending the concert. His performance matched hers in superb artistry. The program included: Adelaide, Ich Liebe Dich and Der Kuss by Beethoven. Die Liebe Hat Gelagon, Lachen Und Weinen and Liebesbotschaft by Schubert. Fruhlingsnacht, Der Nussbaum and Waldesgesprach, by Schumann. Five Norweigan Songs by Greig, Lys Nat, Mens Jeg Verter, and Eros. Sylveiin and Leit Etter Livet by Christian Sinding . Recitative et Air: L’Amour est tin Oiseau ribelle, from Carmen by Bizet. Out of the Depths by Alan Houhaness. My Shepherd will Supply My Need by Virgil Thomson. The Song of Grusia, The Lilacs and Floods of Spring by Rachmaninoff. Spirituals: Round about the Moutain, Oh Glory, Ride Up in the Chariot, New Bom Again and I Got a Home In -a Dat Rock. Miss Allen rewarded tho enthusiastism of her audience with three encores.

Election Expenses Filed By Singleton Adams county sheriff Roger Singleton, victorious Democratic candidate in the sheriff’s race November 6, filed the highest amount of expenses incurred during the campaign. Singleton’s expense statement, filed in county clerk’s Richard D. Lewton’s office, showed expenses amounting to $1,128.35. Singleton won the election by more than 2,000 votes over Republican cani didate Roy Chilcote. Robert F. Carr. Republican, who . was . defeated by Edgar Selking i for the Root township job, also has filed b:s expense statement, showing $20.15 expenses incurred in the campaign. Indiana's Share Os Fund $86,166,719 WASHINGTON (UPI) —lndiana’s share of federal highway funds for the fiscal year beginning next July 1 will amount to $86,166,719. The final allocation of funds for federal road aid was announced Thursday by the Commerce Dena r+ment. That allocation covered funds for primary and secondary roads and their urban'extensions. William J. Porter Envoy To Algeria WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy Thursday nominated William J. Porter, a career diplomat, as the first United States ambassador to Algeria. He now is U. S. charge d’affaires at Algiers. Kennedy also announced his intention to appoint J. Wesley Jones, a career Foreign Service officer, as U. S. ambassador to Peru. Jones, presently ambassador to Libya, will succeed Ambassador James Loeb who recently resigned his post at Lama, Peru, and will be reassigned.

,—, — ____— -4r, & ;• A .W : NOSE CONE— Knitted nose cone for nippy winter days was among ski paraphernalia seen recently in Toronto, Canada.

Four Persons Die In Stale Traffic By United Press International Indiana’s 1962 traffic death toll climbed to at least 1,104 with the j death of four persons Thursday. | An Indianapolis man and a; Terre Haute man died in cartruck collisions, a Gary woman was killed in a car-train crash, and a Henderson, Ky., man was killed in a three-car smash-up. Mrs. Lededlia Bryant, 59, Gary, was dead on arrival at Gary Methodist Hospital after the car in which she was riding was struck by ia freight train at a crossing in Gary. The driver, Lethaniel Bass, Mrs. Bryant’s son-in-law, was in fair condition at Gary Methodist. Police said the crossing gates were down at the time of the accident. Millard Smith, 79, Terre Haute, died Thursday night. at St. Anthony Hospital, Terre Haute, after his car collided with a truck and two other vehicles on U.S. 41 in Terre Haute. State Police said Smith apparently ran a stop sign. The truck driver Dan Smotherman,' 42, Atlanta, Ga., was not injured. Edw’ard Gels'ke, 60, Indianapolis, was killed when he missed a short detour at the site of a bridge onstruction project on Indiana 67 near Anderson and collided with a truck. The truck driver, Raymond L. Richardson, 44, Perrysburg, Ohio, was not injured. , Earlier Thursday, Oatis A. Benton 111, Henderson, Ky., was

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