Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1962 — Page 3

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, IMI

SOCIETY

PROFIT AND PLEASURE CLUB HAS DINNER Fifteen members of the Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club gathered Tuesday evening in the home of Mrs. Alton Corson for their Christmas dinner/ and meeting. The meeting opened with the singing of “Silent Night,” and roll call was answered by "An idea that gives sparkle to the holidays.” Mrs. Alton Corson gave the devotions with the reading of "The Christmas Story.” Mrs. Harry Smith was in charge of the Installation of officers for the coming year. Hostesses were named for the following year. The members then held a Christmas exchange. The door prize was won by Mrs. Delota Engle. GECODE CLUB HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Gecode club had its Christmas party in the American legion hall recently. The tables were beautifully decorated with poinsettias, big white candles and dolls, with colored dresses holding napkins in place, were centered on the tables. A delicious chicken supper was enjoyed by the 63 members present. After supper, Mrs. Maggie White, the president, held a ahort business meeting. Entertainment followed the business meeting. The Teen Tones gave several Christmas selections, accompanied by Mrs. W. Rafert. Mrs. Violet Sheets sang, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," and "The Mackinaw Band,” accompanied by Mrs. Ella Scherry. Mrs. Edwin Plasterer gave a reading, “It’s Christmas.” Santa came in and treated everyone to candy and directed group singing. He also handed out the gifts for the gift exchange. A large box was donated by the Gecode club to the Good Fellows. The hostesses were, Ella Scherry, chairman; and Akaleah Fuelling, Nellie White, Ethel Schlickman, Zulu Holloway, Olive Loshe, Alma Fruchte, Eloise Noll, Esther Wasson, and Evelyn Plasterer. Julius Baker took pictures throughout the evening. 1 1 1 -r OUR GIFT TO YOU r*;. w 1963 DATE BOOK This handy pursesized social secretary and calendar will help you remember important dates, plan a party, go shopping, select a gift or mail a package. Visit us today and ask for your 1963 Hallmark Date Book! SMITH \ DRUG CO. I es> X

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VALPARAISO U. GUILD HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Decatur Community Center ’ was the scene of the recent Christmas party of the Valparaiso University Guild, Decatur chapter. The party began with a dinner served from tables gaily decorated in holiday fashion. Ruffled red nylon net streamers were used ciown the center of the dinner tables with lovely centerpieces of evergreen and pine cone, centered with a red candle. Beautiful red and green satiny holiday balls with contrasting red or green satin pompon ribbons were used as individual favors. Each guest also received a black program booklet with a “burning candle” artistically done in paper on its cover. Mrs. Willard Fawbush read Matt. 1, verses 18-25, followed with a Christmas prayer and a table prayer. Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, president of the local guild, closed the dinner with prayer and welcomed the 66 members and 15 guests present. She introduced the key ladies who, in turn, introduced their guests. An octet composed of Mrs. Herman Bleeke, Mrs. Elmer Bultemeier, Mrs. Richard Buuck, Mrs. Edgar Krueckeberg, Mrs. Fred Schamerloh, Mrs. Carl Smith, Mrs. Herman Steele, and Mrs. Wilbur Stoppenhagen presented a selection of Christmas carols accompanied by Mrs. Kenneth Schnepf on the piano. Mrs. Krueckeberg then introduced Mrs. Willis Bulmahn who, in turn, introduced Mrs. David Mayhugh. Mrs. Mayhugh is presently on the faculty at Valparaiso University while her husband Is completing his law studies there. She chose for her topic “Women in Literature” and through her vivid dramatization in various literary forms made her audience feel the presence of actual women in real life situations. The first of these was comedy in the life of a housewife as she reviewed in part Jean Kerrs’ book "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall." Next the group could feel the tender love of a woman for her husband as Mrs. Mayhugh read Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “How Do I Love Thee.” With equal feeling, she read a poem by Robert Browning of a jealous, contemptuous woman who was planning to murder her rival and then the love of a woman for a misunderstood daughter in Tennessee Williams’ play, “The Glass Menagerie,” and an old woman s theory of life by a French poet. Last, but not least, was a reading of the famous 0. Henry Christmas story, “A Gift of the Magi.” Mrs. Kenneth Schnepf was the accompanist for group singing of favorite Christmas carols and Mrs. Louis Jacobs played during the cookie exchange which followed. The program was arranged by the program committee, Mrs. Elmer Bultemeier, Mrs. Wm. Boerger, and Mrs. Willis Bulmahn. Decorations were in charge of Mrs. Louis Jacobs, assisted by Mrs. Robert Zwick and Mrs. Walter Stoppenhagen. The Blue Creek Friendship village home demonstration club will meet Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the Conservation building. There will be a potluck dinner and a Christmas gift exchange. A meeting of the Trinity Bible class of the Evangelical Trinity church will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the church. Hosts will be Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Wynn, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bodie and Miss Josephine Weldy. Mrs. Nellie Krummen will have the devotions and program. The Adams Central P. T. A. will have a Christmas program Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the school. The program is to be given

Club Schedule Ruth Rawlinson, Society Editor Telephone 3-2121 Calendar Items for each day's pOblication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday* 9:30). SATURDAY Psi lote Trading post: 1-4, Elvira Eady, Carolyn Brown. MONDAY Adams county Democrat Women’s club, C. L. of C. hall, 6:30 p.m. Children’s rehearsal, Methodist church, 10 a.m. MONDAY Adams Central P. T. A. Christmas program, school, 7:30 p.m. Deborah circle, E.U.B. (Trinity) church, Mrs. James Shackley, 7 30 p.m. Academy of Frindship of Moose lodge, Preble, 6:30 p.m. Research club, Mrs. Glen Dickerson, 2 p.m. TUESDAY The Baptist Women’s missionary society, church, 7:30 p.m. Methodist church Mother’s study club, church, 8 p.m. Catholic Ladies of Columbia, C. L. of C. hall, 6:30 p.m. Decatur Garden club, Mrs. Charles Beineke, 2 p.m. 39ers club. Community center, 6:30 p.m. Pocohantas lodge, regular meeting, Red Men’s hall, 7:30 p.m. Wesleyan service guild, Mrs. Walter Krick, 7:30 p.m. Merry Matrons club, Preble Gardens, 7 p.m. Happy Homemarkers club, Mrs. Clarence Mitchell, evening. Jolly Housewives home demonstration club, Pleasant Mills Methodist church, 6 p.m. Monmouth P.T.A., school, 7:30 p.m. Root township home demonstration club, Mrs. Russel Fleming, ll;30 a.m. WEDNESDAY Live and Learn home demonstration club, Mrs. Harry Lehrman, all day. Bethany circle, Zion United Church of Christ, church parlor, 7:45 p.m. W.M.S. of Pleasant Mills Baptist, Mrs. Lowell Noll, 6:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Emmaus Guild, parish hall,, 8 p.m. Decatur home demonstration club, C. L. of C. home, 12 noon. Friendship circle, United Church of Christ, Fairway restaurant, 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY Trinity Bible class, church, 7:30 pm. Blue Creek Friendship village club, Conservation building, 10:30 a.m. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Simon Schwartz, Berne; Mrs. Arthur Thieme, Fort Wayne; Larry Tinkham, Decatur; Master Randall Winteregg, Berne: Miss Wanita Lehmann, Bluffton; Arthur Thon, Monroeville. Dismissed Mrs. Della Neuhauser, Berne. Locals Charles Lose will celebrate his 77th birthday Sunday with a family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lose. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lose and family of Cincinnati, 0., are expected to come for the celebration. Lester Habegger, of Geneva route one, was dismissed Thursday from the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. by the primary department. "Die Church Mother’s study club of the First Methodist church will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the church. There will be a $1 gift exchange. The Baptist Women’s missionary society will meet at the church Tuesday Evening at 7:30 p.m. Cookies will be packed for the ahut-ins. mM'M'M'MkMkkl'Xkkkm 5 CHRISTMAS | j SUGGESTIONS | J BEDROOM FURNITURE ALL STYLES | No monthly pay- g | ments until March g rUHRICKBROS. I Discount Furniture J

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HUGE AIRLINE (Continued from Page Cne) plosion. A few seconds later there were two more explosions. People were screaming and grabbing their kids." The plane took off from Chicago and was on the last leg of a flight from Boston. Capt. Carl C. Rader Jr., 38, Burlingame, Calif., a 12-year veteran with the air line, was piloting the ill-fated Constellation on an instrument landing. A spokesman said earlier the plane had “lost radx control” when approaching the airport. Seven structures, including one commercial building, were knftwn to have been destroyed. The blazes were contained by midnight, the fire department re ported. Clean up operations continued throughout the night and" official counts of the known dead and injured would be determined later,. Negro Church Bombed, Two j Children Hurt powerful bomb tossed Friday night ,in-front of a Negro church used for pro-integration meetings. injured two children, one of whom ! was inside the church rehearsing . a Nativity play. •— | The bomb, apparently dynamite, was believed thrown from 1 a moving car in front of Bethel Baptist Church. The church and i four surrounding houses were severely damaged. Following the explosion, a large crowd of Negroes gathered at the scene. Police attempted to move them out with snarling dogs, and finally filled two police wagons with bystanders. The Negroes were later released. Before they were driven away, one yelled to the minister of the church, the Rev. V.C. Provitt: “Reverend, please come here, J’m in the wagon. I’m trying to get home to my baby. The homes of Provitt and! James R. Reddis, directly across j from the church, suffered the most damage. Reddis’ 7-month-old daughter, Rene, was asleep in a front room and was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. She was later released. The bomb exploded in front of the Reddis home, and caved in. the entire front of the house, dig- T ging a crater near the street. j Provitt’s house was ripped by the explosion, and his automobile ! was almost demolished. , Twenty-five Negro children were in the basement of the church, practicing a Nativity play when the bomb exploded. A section of the roof of the church was ripped loose, and the children were, showered with • broken glass plaster. One member of the play cast, Marilyn Matthews, 8, was treated at a hospital for minor in- | juries. She also complained of glass in her eye. Two Autos Damaged In Accident Friday Two cars wfere heavily damaged in a two-car accident Friday at 9:45 p. m.. at 334 N. 13th St. Ronald E. Mefferd, 16, route 5, Decatur, was traveling south o.i! ' 13th street and had stopped toi l make a left turn into a restaurant i ‘ driveway. As Mefferd stopped, , his car was rammed in the rear j by an auto operated by Curtis P. J Jones, 29, 2351 /2 N. Sixth St. Damages were estimated at s3ooj j to the Mefferd vehicle and $l5O to ] Jones’ car.' -j J

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Really Cold | If you think the weather has been 1 cold the past few weeks listen to this one: a friend of our Raymond i McAhren, was at a church meeting ! some time ago, and as he was ’ leaving he got in a discussion with < a large group of people. Later, he went out to his car, and reached in his overcoat pocket for his keys. Low and behold the wrong set of keys was in the pocket — it was : not his coat. So back inside he < trudged, and looked for his coat, • which he couldn’t find. As he took the coat he had on. he discovered 1 that he already had his overcoat ’ on. underneath the preacher's coat, which he had taken by mistake! , ' It's a cold day when you have to \ wear two overcoats! A Teacher You’re all heard about how pedantic teachers sometimes are — I well, we heard a good one this 1 I week!j Seems that the principal ’ at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Union township, Mr. Richard Lewer, got up. as usual a week ago Friday morning, dressed, ate breakfast, went over to the school i to await his pupils. He got busy i with his work, and didn't notice I anything amiss. Finally, about 8:30 ' a.m., when no pupils had arrived, >he thought something might be | wrong. Hurrying outside, he notici ed the cold weather and swirling | snow, and then realized what had happened — snowdrifts, which he | didn’t have to drive through to get ■ to school, had closed the roads, and the school busses weren’t running! So he, too, had a free day. Everyone is Stuck Yes,, the snow left plenty of people stranded a week ago. Bill Spice, hurrying home Thursday night from a Boy Scout meeting at Bluffton got stranded on the county farm road, and a kind I . farmer let him in to call a wrecker. Spice called Ernie Bauman, and was told that Bauman’s son, Bill, had his wrecker out right then, j but he would soon be back. So, Spice waited, And waited And WAITED. About 4 a.m. he called again to find out what was the matter, and finally got a very angry Ernie. It seems that Bill had been called out on the, gravel road east" of Decatur that runs . _past Bob Holthouses — and four T or five cars were “hung up” there jin snow drifts, including Gene Rydell, who was driving to pick; 1 up his daughter, who was stuck I just a few hundred yards away. Anyway, even the wrecker finally got stuck, Bauman called his dad, who came right out. “Can’t get a wrecker stuck”, he said, jumped into the cab and started the motor. But the wrecker WAS stuck, and a few minutes later a piston went out, just to prove it. So Spice had to wait until the next day before he could get his car out of the snow bank. Embarassing Find Over at Gary, the Chamber, of Commerce was greatly [. incensed g Christmas Tree a Ornaments f A and | | Miniature Lights » s . — ! « * IMYERS FLORISTS 903 N. 13th St. | A M

at mismanagement of city affairs, and called for a state board of accounts reckoning. The state board dutifully came and reviewed the books. Among other things to be done illegally — $301) paid out by the city of Chamber of Commerce dues! Girl’s Hockey Adams county has one unusual sports enthusiast — Faye Cott, of Geneva. She was. a member of the Ball State Teachers College 1962 varsity field hockey team. This is the fourth year that .field hockey has been a varsity sport for women there. This year the group played five games, and had ! 'a fine 4-1 record, defeating Indiana university 7-0, among others. j .. Mrs. Eva Taylor Is Taken By Death Funeral services for Mrs. Eva Taylor, 82, a former resident of Berne and Linn Grove, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Yager funeral home in Berne. Mrs. Taylor died at 6:16 a. m. Friday at the Cooper rest home in Bluffton, following an illness of nearly four years. Death was attributed to heart trouble and a number of strokes. A native of Wells county, she was born June 9, 1880, the daughter of the Rev. Robert and Jane Archer Miller. She was married to Charles E. Taylor October 4, 1898 at Portland. Mr. Taylor died in 1951. Mrs. Taylor had resided in Berne at 509 Railroad street for many years. Surviving are six sons: William Clen Taylor, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Harry Orville Taylor, Richmond: Edwin Taylor, Berne; Lloyd Taylor, Westport; Paul Taylor, Berne; and Virgil Taylor, Azula, Calif.; three daughters, I Mrs. Ethel Pennington, Marion; I Mrs. Mary Graham, Keystone; and Edna Taylor, Fort Wayne; 16 grandchildren, and 21 greatgrandchildren. Several half-broth-ers and sisters live iq Oregon. A son, Harley Kenneth Taylor, preceded her in death. The Rev. William McCoy will officiate at the services at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Yager funeral home. Burial will be in the Twin Hill cemetery, Pennville. Mrs. Taylor was a member of the Friends church. SAVE 50% ?ON ROOM ACCOMMODATIONS 1 ANY WEEKEND X ( Thursday thru Sunday: 2-Day Minimum ) XwiTH THIS COUPON UPON REGISTERING X COMPLETELY AIK CONDITIONED X RADIO AND TV IN EVERY ROOM X NO CHARGE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 14 ■5 Home of the World - Famous .£ * Chalet ♦ "X Ample Adjacent Parking £ RAN DOLPH at LA SALLE - J *• th* h*art of Me Loop - X For Reservations &In forma tiom -X Write BISMARCK HOTEL, Room. £ or Phone CEWtro! 4-012? I V. Offer Expires December 30, 1962 r

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