Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1963 — Page 2

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Four States Rank High In School System By ROBERT M. ANDREWS United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—Professional educators today gave high marks to four states—California, Illinois, New Jersey and Washington—for passing their test of a good public school system. The judgment was made by the National Education Association, in “Ranking of the States, 1963.” a booklet measuring the nanon’s educational fitness 90 different ways. The NEA cautioned that statistics can be misleading, but sug-

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gested that states ranking in the top 25 per cent of the nation in these categories “could probably be considered among the better state school systems:” —Percentage of eighth-graders in 1958 who finished high school in 1962. —The amount a state spends on each pupil. —Average teacher salary. —Proportion of teachers holding a bachelor’s degree. Os states in the top one-fourth of the nation. New Jersey scored in all four categories, and California. Illinois and Washington in three. Individually, Wisconsin ranked tops in keeping 92.3 per cent of its eighth-graders until high school graduation. Georgia was lowest with 51.8 per cent. New York state spent the most on each public school pupil—s64s. Mississippi spent the least—s3l2 The national average in 1962-63 was $432. California pays its classroom teachers the most—an average of $7,05o —while the lowest average salary of $3,610 is in Mississippi. The national average is $5,735. In elementary schools, 99.7 per cent of Oklahoma's teachers hold bachelor’s degrees, but in North Dakota, they account for only 16.7 per cent of the teachers. In secondary schools, all the teachers in Arizona, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming hold bachelor's degrees. Arkansas was least with 81.6 per cent. The NEA report confirmed burgeoning public school enrollments across the land. The 40,007,912 pupils enrolled during the 1962-63 school year represented a 44.6 per cent increase in the past decade. State Traffic Toll Is Pushed To 146 By United Press International Indiana’s 1963 traffic death count was pushed to 146 Wednesday, two more than the 144 recorded this time last year. Police reported the Sunday death of Elmer Benge, 28, Thayer, of injuries suffered Saturday when he lost control of his ear on a patch of ice on Indiana 10, and rammed into a tree; His death raised the weekend toll to at least 13.

[4 3c I \ U1 W ■ TUCK IT AWAY LARRY— Commodore guard Larry Gase looks to be ready for a line plunge in first period action of the game won by the Decatur'Commodores. While Gase gathers up the ball, Rex Funk (32), Terry Myers, Mike Baker, Gary Clouse (behind Gase) and Dave Currie (20) look on. Clouse tied Gase up for a jump ball.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

ijQMTSkJBi 1 %BuF' r jhK' " " " 18 IT ROUND OR ISN’T IT?— Jerry Fosnaugh (54) and Erv Inniger (53) of Berne, appear to be checking if that bouncing object is round, while Geneva’s Jerry Buckingham appears only to want to grab the object. The action occurred in the fourth quarter of the Bears’ triumph over the Cardinals, and oddly enough a foul was whistled on Inniger on the play.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

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! Proposes Capital Streets Patroled WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Texas congressman proposed Wednesday that U.S. Marines patrol the streets of the nation’s capital “until crime is abated.” The bill was introduced by Rep. Omar Burleson, D-Tex., chairman of the House Administration ; Committee. “It’s a pretty drastic ' step, “I’ll admit,” Burleson said, | “but it’s needed.”

Societu JAN.-FEB. MEETING FOR JOLLY HOUSEWIVES The Jolly Housewives home demonstration club held a combined January and February meeting Tuesday evening in the Pleasant Mills school. The meeting was opened by the group singing the song of the month. ‘"Hie Old Oaken Bucket," preceded by the reading of its history by Loretta McCullough. The club creed was repeated, followed by devotions by Ethel Mann. Roll call was answered by the thirty members present, telling “A habit I want to break,” and “My birthplace.” The lesson, “Recreation for the bedfast,” given by Bemiece Chapman and Gloria Bowen, offered a variety of examples for entertaining the bedfast of all age groups. The members agreed to give a donation to the international farm youth enterprise and the heart fund. Irma Mailand gave the health and safety lesson on fires, stressing the importance of prevention. Della Johnson and Zula Holloway enacted an entertaining skit, entitled, “Which America,” during the citizenship lesson. Doris McDermott, Metha Hilpert, Esther Ehrsam, Loretta McCullough, and Bertha Bowen received birthday gifts from their cheer sisters. A game was played and prizes awarded during the social hour. Della Johnson won in the cake raffle. A delicious lunch was served by the combined hostesses for January and February, Dessie Johnson, Clara Hindenlong, Loretta McCullough, Nellie Jackson, Ethel Mann, Kathryn Bauman, Bertha McMichael and Bessie Koos. Mrs. Edwin Hagan will be hostess to the Literature department of the Decatur Woman’s club Monday at 7:45 p.m. The Adams county home demonstration chorus will meet in the Farm Bureau building at Monroe, Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Dramatic department of the Decatur Woman’s club will meet at the home of Mrs, August Kelly, 614 Washington St., Monday at 8 p.m. The Mary circle of the Decatur E. U. B. church will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Dorothy Alger. Tuesday evening, after church, the Cathoic Ladies of Columbia will meet in the C. L. of C. hall.

At 6:30 p.m. in the Community center, the 39ers will have a car-ry-in dinner Tuesday. Locals Rufus Kirchhofer returned from the hospital to his home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brader, of Eaton, 0., formerly- of Decatar, have moved to New Castle, where Brader wil manage the furniture department of a large store. He formerly managed Holthouse Furniture Co. here. Dale Morrissey, of Haflich & Morrissey, has been in St. Louis, Mo., for several days attending an annual shoe buying convention. Mrs. Dick Heller, Sr., who has been visiting with her mother, Mrs. Van R. Grant, in Rensselaer, since early pecember, is expected to return to her home here this weekend. Mrs. Grant will accompany her daughter, and plans; to stay here a couple of weeks. Delmas Roe, of route one, Monroe, was dismissed Sunday from the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. Harry J. Moser, of route one, Geneva, is being treated at the Jay county hospital for a head injury, dislocated arm and fractured ribs suffered about 3 p.m. last Saturday when he was struck by the top branches of a falling tree. Mrs. Gordon Glentzer, of Portland, the former Peggy Dunn, a Monmouth high school graduate, has filed for clerk-treasurer on the Democratic ticket in Portland. Lewis L. Martin, of route 2, Geneva, Hary J. Moser, of route one, Geneva, and William Boice, of Geneva, have been admitted to the Jay county hospital, and Richard R. Hofstetter, of that town, has been dismissed.

Girl Scouts TROOP 384 Brownie troop 384 had our weekly meeting after school Monday at Northwest school. We opened our meeting with the Brownie promise and Brownie song. We are learning the Girl Scout laws. We sang songs and played games. Mary Sills treated us with candy bars. We closed our meeting with’ the hand friendship circle. Scribe, Anne Helm. TROOP 178 Monday, after school, troop 178 met. We started the meeting with the Girl Scout promise. We had our meeting and worked on our second-class badge. We are going to have a cookout Friday, March 1, at Hanna-Nuttman park from 4 until 7 p.m. Scribe, Margaret Smith Births At the Adams county memorial hospital: Today at 4:40 a. m., Donald and Mary Merkel Salway, Ohio City, 0., became the parents of a baby boy, weighing 6 pounds and 5 ounces. A baby girl, weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces, was born to Bert and Marjorie Oswald Brewster, Linn Grove, today at 2:53 a. m. Joseph and Janet Brendstaff Schindler, 105 North Thirteenth St., are the parents of a baby boy born today at 2:35 a. m. The baby weighed 6 pounds and 5 ounces. Hospital Admitted Miss Elsie Canales, Decatur; Mrs. Lillian Bond, Denver; Norman Buettner, Decatur; Miss Teresa Hirschy, Decatur; Floyd Mcßride, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Edward Drum and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Larry Worden, Decatur.

Divided Opinion Over Rafe Boost WASHINGTON (UPI) — The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that any requests to delay a proposed May 1 increase in private or leased wire rates would be ■’sympathetically consdiered.” FCC Chairman Newton Minow made the statement in testimony before the Senate communications subcommittee. -Minow acknowledged there was “some division” of opinion within the commission over the recent decision to hike by $4,012,000 a year rates charged the press and other users of leased telegraphic services of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Western Union. “It may be that the press should have a special rate, a preferential rate,” he said. “This is an open decision. It is not yet finally determined.’’ Asked by Sen. A.S. Mike Monroney, D-Okla., if the rate boost might be postponed beyond May 1 Minow replied: “I am quite confident that if requests for more time are made, they will be sympathetically considered.” United Press International and the American Newspaper Publishers Association, which have protested the rate boost, said they would file petitions for reconsideration with the FCC Friday. The petitions will ask that the increases now scheduled to go into effect May 1 be postponed pending the restudy. UPI and the ANPA have been the only intervenors on behalf of the press during the years long rate study by the FCC. The NPA’s petition will include information provided by numerous individual newspapers and the Associated Press. AT&T itself sought certain modifications on grounds the proposed rates were “discriminatory.” It noted that leased wire costs to the press would go up 19 per cent while charges to the government for similar services would be reduced 8 per cent. Minow emphasized that the commission had invited petitions for reconsideration by interested parties. He said none had yet been received as far as he knew. Indianapolis Man Is Crushed By Bus INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Henry W. Meier, 64, Indianapolis, a custodian for Indianapolis Transit Co. for 19 years, was crushed to death today when a company bus backed over him at the firm’s terminal, The bus was being prepared for its first run of the day by Paul Earthing, 60, Indianapolis. New York Stock Exchange Prices MIDDAY PRICES A. T. & T. 120%, Central Soya 29%, du Pont 238, Ford , 42%, General Electric- 73%, General Motors 60%, Gulf Oil 40, Standard Oil Ind. 52%, Ctahdard Oil N. J. 59%, U. S. Steel 46.

Milwaukee Police Defective Charged MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) — A veteran police detective today faced charges by investigators studying crime and corruption in Milwaukee that he tipped off prostitutes and took a bribe. Harry Daniels, 40, who spent most of his 15 years on the police force as a vice squad detective, was free on $2,500 bail today pending another court appearance Friday to determine whether a preliminary hearing will be held at that time. The warrant, signed by Asst. Atty. Gen. Le Roy Dalton, the governor’s special investigator in the John Doe probe, was served on Daniels Wednesday. Within minutes he was summoned before Police Chief Howard O. Johnson who suspended the officer indefinitely. Daniels, who is married and has seven children, faces a maximum total of '2l years in state prison if convicted. In his arraignment before Circuit Judge John L. Coffey, the John Doe magistrate, Daniels indicated through his attorney he would contest the judge’s power to issue warrants under a John Doe investigation. “I don’t know anything,” was Daniels’ only answer to questions of newsmen. His attorney, Howard McGrath, would not comment. The warrant carries nine counts, including three counts of misconduct as a police officer; two counts of false swearing as a John Doe witness; bribery; solicitation for bribery; aiding and abetting prostitution; and harboring a felon. The charges alleged that Daniels tipped off two prostitutes that two men they were propositioning were police officers. In another count, it is alleged Daniels accepted S2O to use his influence to aid a man charged with selling liquor after hours. Daniels is the second person, but the first police officer, named in a warrant since the John Doe probe started last May. The first warrant charged convicted gambler William Goldman with false swearing in the investigation and conspiracy to commit bribery. The probe, which has been attacked for its secrecy and longevity by the mayor of Milwaukee and the district attorney of Milwaukee County, was ordered by Gov. John Reynolds when he was still attorney general. Cancer Society Board To Meet March 7 The Adams county. Cancer society will hold a board meeting Thursday, March- 7, at 8 p.m., Mrs. Robert Krueckeberg, president of the organization, said this morning. The meeting will be held at Mrs. Krueckeberg’s home at 403 Bollman St. The local chapter's president also explained that the film “Breast Self Examination,” which was shown this afternoon and will be shown again Monday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m., is a new film, and not the same one that has been shown in recent years. Our advertisers are for your HOME TOWN — DECATUR. Patronise them. —

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Film Sunday Night At Baptist Church The film, “On The Rim Os Tomorrow,” will be shown Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist church. A part of the current missionary emphasis at the church, the film will highlight the area under study, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Photographed in living color and with special music and sound effects recorded on location, the film concentrates on the problems of Christian youth, exploring the questions they are raising and examining some of the solutions they are discovering. The experiences of three young people are , dramatized to show the problems and opportunities in these lands today. Two County Students In Ball State Band MUNCIE, Ind. — Two Adams county students are members of j the 94-piece Ball State Teachers College varsity band and will participate in its winter concert in the college assembly ball Sunday at 3:30 p.m. They are: Richard F. Collins, who plays the trumpet, is the son of Richard M. Collins, 1039 Parkway Drive, Decatur. A music major, he graduated from Decatur high school; Janice Yoder, saxophonist, is the daughter of Roger Yoder, R.R. No. 1, Berne. She graduated from Geneva high school and is majoring in home economics.

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