Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1963 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY JO, INI

Friedheim Church Marks 125th Anniversary

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guest speaker at the Zion Lutheran church, (Friedheim). R. R. 1, Decatur, Sunday. The services are in observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the congregation. The English service will begin at 9 a.m. and the German service at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend these services. After the services there will be a dinner for the members of the congregation. A short program is planned and interesting displays of historical items have been arranged. Other Services Other services planned for this anniversary year are a reunion service May 12 for the confirmation classes up to 1913; a reunion service June 16 for the confirmation classes from 1914 through 1938; a reunion service July 14 for the confirmation classes from 1939 to 1963; a special Wyneken service September 8; and a service for the organizations of the j congregation October 13. Former ’ pastors and teachers as well as sons of the congregation will serve as guest speakers and organists for these special services. Founding of Congregation It was in the year of 1836 that the family of Friedrich Buuck arrived in Fort Wayne and purchased a tract of land, sight unseen, about 16 miles southeast of Fort Wayne in the northwest corner of Adams county. Upon this tract of land the Buuck family built the first log cabin in the area. Soon other famfiies began to arrive and thus was formed a small settlement which later was given the name of Friedheim. In June of 1837 a young pastor from Fort Wajme, Jesse HooVer, found out about this small settlement of German Lutherans. Making Hie trip either on foot or on horseback. Rev. Hoover began paying regular visits to conduct services in the'homes of the sett-

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Mt mS" ; Dr. J. W. Behnken lers February 25. 1838, this small group met to organize the first rural congregation in Adams county. At this meeting six candidates were nominated and two weeks later, March 11, the first election of officers was held. The original congregation consisted of 56 members, 26 adults and 30 children. Present Congregation From this humble beginning, 56 members worshipping in a 16 x 30 lob cabin church, has grown the present congregation. January 1, 1963, the membership roll showed 467 baptized souls and 334 communicant members. The greatest membership occurred during the 1870’s, just prior to the organization of St. Paul’s, Preble. At present Zion congregation conducts two services every Sun-

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day, one in the English and one in tiie German language. The average attendance in 1963 was 71 in the German services and 294 in the English services. There were 11 baptisms, and eight children and two adults were confirmed. The training of tike youth is still considered just as important as in the early days when the log cabin church served also as classroom. The congregation supports a Christian day school with 75 children in eight grades. The present teachers are Ernest Kalthoff, who serves as principal and teaches grades 6 to 8; Wilfred Rafert, who teaches grades 3 to 5; and Mrs. Wilfert, who teaches grades 1 and 2. In addition to the day school, the congregation also provides Sunday school for the children from nursery age to young people. The Sunday school is served by a staff of 25 lay people. There are also two adult Bible classes, one on Sunday morning and one on Tuesday evening. The physical property of the congregation is as beautiful and modern as any in the area. The church is the oldest building, having been erected in 1902. The parsonage, built in 1912, was dedicated on the same day that the congregation celebrated its 75th anniversary. The school, erected in honor of the men who served their country in World War 11, was completed in 1949. The newest building is the teacher’s home, which was completed in 1954. «2 SCHOOL REPORTER (Continued From Page Two-A) — D.H.S. — Mr. Ybeman attended the Grand Rapids football clinic. The clinic opened with two of the finest coaches in college football, “Bud” Wilkinson and “Duffy” Daugherty, leading an open forum about many basic phases of their football programs. The highlight of the cilinic was the * ‘Southern California offense” by the coach of the year,

John McKay. The clinic attracted over 1200 coaches from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois, which made this the largest high school coaches* clinic in the United States. — D.H.S. — Many students represented D.H.S. at the state' solo and ensemble contests held at Butler University in Inidanapolis Saturday. Those receiving a perfect score were: the girls’ double trio; receiving superior ratings: Cheryl Bollenbacher, Margaret Kocher, Tom Baxter, Alan Zerkel, Susan Ellis, and John Beeler; receiving excellent ratings: Rita Spence, Rick Doty, Karen Grice, Ed Cravens, and Pat Collins. The accompanists for the group were Miss Haubeld, Pat Collins, Rita Spence, Karen Grice, and Mrs. Hubert Zerkel, Jr. — D.H.S. — David Swlckard and Katy Smith have received certificates of acceptance for the Annual Anthology of High School Poetry. There are 26 anthologies throughout the midwest. The poems that are accepted are published in booklets which will be available to the students. — D.H.S. — The Pep Club has been organized by the cheerleaders and each student participating in the block has received instructions as to what he is to do and where he is to sit. — D.H.S. — If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Tells Os Rise And Fall Os Hie Movies

Editor’s Note: This b the third and final dbpatcb by DPI Hollywood correspondent Vernon Scott on the rise and fall of the movies. It deals with the boominc television industry and its effects on movies and the mass entertainment medium. By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Television is the new king of the mountain in Hollywood. It is keeping Hollywood going. The brash new medium which has all but destroyed motion pictures parodoxicaljy accounts for more movies being filmed than ever before. The answer, of course, lies in the fact that almost 80 per cent of all prime-time television shows are on film. That television has moved from live drama and comedy originating in New York City to filmed shows Has saved thousands of Hollywood workers from unemployment. Men and women once employed by studios and independent producers now act, direct, build sets and sew wardrobes for “The Dick Powell Show,” “Hie Beverly Hillbillies” and “Gunsmoke.” So television is both executioner and savior of the film colony. Hasten Own Demise Many Hollywoodians believe movie moguls hastened their own demise by selling recent pictutes to the networks. Producer Melvin Shavelson says “We are being driven out of business by studios who are selling pictures to TV that are only a couple of years old. If you count all the independent stations in the , country, about 40 per cent of television time is devoted to old t movies. So how can you expect t people to look at the new ones? » “The answer is simple. A major i movie industry cannot be supported unless all the pictures are ex- . cellent. But that’s impossible. So movies will become a new kind of , Broadway—only a few will be ’ made, and they will be something ’ extra special.” ’ Economics Different ■ A major question asked today is: > How can television films succeed ■ where movies fail financially? > A major half-hour television I show can be produced for $60,000 i a segment and break even in a ' prime time slot on the air. Prof- ■ its flow in on subsequent reruns. • But a movie rarely is made for f less than a million dollars, the - average being closer to four mil- . lion. ! Economically television has an- ; other appeal for the public. The cost of attending a firstrun movie can run as high as six or seven dollars. Consider admis- ' sion price of $2, parking, baby 1 sitter and perhaps a long auto driye, or other’ transportation. By staying home the same cou- ' pie can see a two-year-old movie or switch the dial around to any number of Westerns, dramas and comedies starring the biggest names in show business. Follows Pattern Curiously, television has followed the pattern of movies in other respects, compressing into a decade the 40-year evolution of motion pictures. In the beginning the three networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) possessed unique power over a stable of stars and life-or-death sentences for programs similar to that held by the studios during the 30s and 40s. Now, as was the case with the studios, the stars are producing their own shows (i.e. Danny Thomas, Ljjcille Ball, Jack Benny) with advertising agencies and sponsors moving in to claim prime time. Even the studios have joined the act Warner Bros, long has been an important producer of video films. Columbia’s Screen Gems subsidiary has kept the studio in the black. MGM has gained ground with “Dr. Kildare” and others, while Universal-Revue is turning out numerous series. Reacts Differently And public reaction to its new coaxial idols is vastly different from the old idolatry of screen stars who were worshiped from afar. Video’s heroes and heroines come right into the viewers’ homes breeding a new kind of familiarity. “It sure is different from starring in pictures,” says Robert Taylor, whose career has spanned both mediums. “You’re sort of public property when you work in a television series. People walk up’to you on the street or in other public places and slap you on the back as if you’d gone to school with them. Years ago they just stood and gawked from a distance.” Television’s major stars cannot compare incomes With, say, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, or even Elvis Presley. But they make up for it eventually with residual payments from reruns. Look To Fay-TV While television continues to roll along its prosperous way optimists among the movie crowd hope to find salavation in pay-television, which would provide brand new first-run movies piped into homes via closed-circuit television for a foe. In this way many a producer envisions regaining the cost of his movie in a single night, assuming 20 million homes would kick in

one dollar each to see his epic. As 1963 moves into its second month Hollywood is prospering. The sound stages are busy. New faces are building reputations. Fortunes are being made. Thanks to television. As for the slumping motion picture industry, 1963 promises to be more disastrous than 1962. It is, indeed, the waning tide of . the movies’ golden era. j Professional i Economists At Odds On Taxes By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - This should be the last time around for the professional economists who set themselves up to tell less- : er citizens about taxes, the gross ' national product and, in general, what happens next. These pros have been telling the Congress and the voters about • what’s wrong and what’s right ■ with President Kennedy’s tax bill, i They have talked more like professional politicians than proses- ; sional economists. But if they are ■ professional economists, the ordi- ; nary citizen would be warranted i in asking now by what standards t of knowledge, or what rules of • procedure and by what kind of • facts the profession of economist I is governed. What are the discit plines of the profession, if any? i These questions arise beeause . the iop men in the profession . have been talking freely in recent , days about that tax bill. They do r not agree among themselves on ; much of anything. So it follows that if any one of them happens to be right in his guesswork, all of the other must be wrong. And what does that do to the profession of economist? Three Advisers Disagree For example: Walter W. Heller, out of the University of Minnesota, loaded with degrees and . other distinctions, is the chairman , of Kennedy’s Council of Economic ; Advisers. He is a typical New > Frontiersman, aged 47. Heller

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helped draft the Kennedy tax bill. Naturally, he defends it on all counts. Heller’s is one professional economists point of view. The chairman of Harry S. Truman’s Council of Economic Advisers was Leon H. Keyserling. He is a spend-your-self-out-of-trouble economist. He likes easy money and credit policies and a big hike in government spending. Keyserling scorned economist Heller’s tax program as a pygmy bill for a giant job. Whereas Heller said the Kennedy tax program was designed to avoid recession, Keyserling said the end result of the Kennedy plan would be recession and stagnation. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s council chairman was Arthur F. Burns. He is on record in opposition to both Heller and Keyserling. Burns argued that if Kennedy really hoped to stimulate the economy by obtaining a higher rate of jobcreating investment, then the tax cuts proposed should be aimed more at corporations and persons in the high brackets who provide most of the investment money. Some Other View What is the ordinary Joe to think when professional economists such as Keyserling, Heller and Burns so urgently disagree? . Moreover, the AFL-CJQ.comes up with its own economists who

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prove to be special pleaders for low-bracket income tax payers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers have their own special pleading economists who can prove by their books that the AFL-CIO economists are wrong, that Heller and Keyserling are wrong and, maybe, that Buras is right. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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