Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1963 — Page 2

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Temperatures Skid Io Near Freezing By United Press International Stiff northerly winds sent temperatures skidding toward freezing today as far south as the Carolinas in what could be the ast wintry blast of the season. Rain drenched the Pacific Northwest and the South. Drought- busting thunderstorms moved across Oklahoma Wednesiay and dumped more than 1% nches of rain on some areas. Tulsa, suffering through its driest April in 69 years, recorded its first measurable trace of rain. A funnel cloud was sighted near Fargo. N.D., but lifted back into

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the * clouds with ♦-roar like a freight train, witnesses said. Hail pelted Fort Smith, Ark, and thunderstorms hit Dallas, Tex., and Memphis, Tenn., late Wednesday. Up to 2 inches of rain fell in the Dallas area. Nearly 5 inches of snow fell in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. ShoweiK washed the western slopes of the Cascades and extreme northern Sierra Range. Despite the rain, most of the southland enjoyed warm weather Wednesday, with the mercury climbing to 95 at Laredo, Tex. Caribou. Maine, recorded a high of 36. The brisk winds Wednesday fanned new fire threats across the Atlantic states.

Mushroom Season Is On In Indiana

Mushrooms are beginning to pop up around Decatur and Adams county, and the mushrooms hunters will soon be out in earnest. Mushrooms are at the height of their “season” beginning each year around this time. The danger of picking and preparing the bad mushrooms can be avoided if hunters know the "foolproof four,” which are explained in the following information received from the Indiana department of conservation. The morels or sponge mushrooms are highly prized as food. The several kinds are somewhat different in shape and size, about two to six inches tall, but all have caps made up of irregular pits and ridges. The cap is tan to brown, and the stem a bit lighter. Favor Bottom Lands Delicious when cooked, they seem to favor areas that have been burned over bottom lands, and they group around elm stumps. Attempts to cultivate them have met with no success. They are found in mid-April through May in Indiana, depending on the weather. Most people agree morels are best prepared by frying them lightly in butter, but there are two schools of thought as to whether they should be fried or first dipped in beaten egg and floured. Both ways are recommented. Shaggymane mushrooms usually grow from four to six inches tall, although larger specimens are found. The cap is white with brownish pointed tufts. They belong to the “ink-cap" group which are distinguished by the dissolution of the ripening cap into a black fluid. In Groups Shaggymanes grow in groups of a few to dozens on lawns in grassy parks and fields in both town and country from spring until fall. Unfortunately they cannot be kept, even under refrigeration, more dhan a few hours for they continue to ripen and soon turn into a black wet mess. They are most easily digested, and delicious when steamed for a bout five minutes and served with melted butter. They are also eaten with grated cheese sprinkled on them. The shelf mushroom, or sulphur polypore, is found on old rotten logs, or on standing trees, both living and dead. They prefer oaks, but are commonly found on 'Fun Fair' Friday At Lincoln School Gym A dozen to 15 booths will be set up in the Lincoln gym Friday evening for the second annual PTA “fun fair” Vic Porter, event chairman, said today. The public is invited, and the doors will be open from 7 until 10 p.m., he added. Anyone attending the many fish fries or dinners Friday night is invited to drop by with the family afterward. Games and prizes will provide entertainment for all, and tickets will be available at the door.

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many other trees. The shelf mushroom is found in the fall and is easily distinguished by high coloring of orange and yellows and the overlapping fan-shaped shelves which may extend for several feet along the trunk. They appear in the same place year after year. Shelf mushrooms are excellent in flavor, sliced, breaded and fried in butter, and many claim they taste like breast of chicken. Puff Balls Puffball mushrooms grow on the ground or on rotten wood. They are white Toughly spherical and vary in size from an inch to a foot in diameter. Split vertically, the interior is uniformly smooth and white. If a stem is evident through such a section from bottom to top, it is not a puffball. They occur all through the growing season but are more abundant in the fall. They may be found in grassy meadows and among hardwood trees and come up in the same places every year. Any which have begun to turn yellow inside should be discarded and inspected for infestation by small worms. Mushroom hunters should avoid the deadly “destroying angel” which is identified by the partial veil and bulbous base. Slate Distribution Figures Announced Motor vehicle fees and motor fuel taxes in the first quarter of 1963 totaled $57,286,457, an in-, crease of nearly $4 million over the same period last year, according to a report by the Indiana state auditor’s office. The report was made in connection with distribution of a net total of $55,323,815 from the fund, of which $29,321,622 went to the state highway department, $17,703,621 to counties, and $8,298,572 to cities and towns. The distribution by counties included : Adams, $146,627; Allen, $526,733; Blackford, $76,828; DeKalb. $155,023; Jay, $146,174: LaGrange, $138,731; Noble, $178,146: Wells, $145,792; Whitley, $138,216. Distribution t<\, cities and towns included: 523052; Angola. 813,-* 138: Auburn. $17,579; Bluffton, $17,269; Columbia City, $13,296; Fort Wayne, $447,859; Garrett, $12,081; Hartford City, $22,293; Huntington, $44,896; Kendallville, $18,728; Portland, $19,375. Gallonage Taxes The auditor’s office is also preparing checks for $753,471 for the quarterly distribution of alcoholic beverage gallonage taxes to cities and towns. The distribution total for the January-through-March period is the lowest of any quarter since the first quarter of 1961. Cities and towns receive 50 per cent of the revenues. The distribution includes: Decatur, $2,093; Angola, $1,192; Auburn. $1,596: Bluffton, $1,567; Columbia City $1,207: Fort Wayne, $40,663; Garrett, $1,096: Hartford City, $2,024; '.Huntington, $4,068; Kendallville, $1,700; Portland, $1,759.

Attendance Report For Rural Schools Hartford Center high school had the highest attendance percentage among five Adams county high schools during the past six-weeks grading period, the next-to-last period of the school year, according to the attendance report of Mrs. Mildred Foley, county attendance officer. Hartford’s 52 students posted a percentage of 97.1, while Adams Central, 280 pupils, second at 96.6, and Moumouth, 160 students, third at 96.5. Geneva, with a student body of 164, and Pleasant Mills, with an enrollment of 76, each had identical marks of 94.4. Attendance was not as high as usual during the past grading period due to chicken pox, which kept a number of students out of school, Mrs. Foley said. The 24 pupils in the fourth grade at Monmouth had the highest attendance percentage among the county’s grade school classes, with a figure of 98.9. Grade Attendance Other grade school figures, with pupils, are as follows: Adams Central—grade one, 83 pupils, 95.8: two, 97 , 93.7; three, 82 , 96.1; four, 88, 96.8; five, 90, 96.9; six, 79, 97.0; seven and eight, 79, 96.5. Pleasant Mills—grades one and two, 28, 97.3; two and three, 29, 95.7; four and five, 23, 97.6; five and six, 25, 94.8; seven, 15, 94.9; eight, 18, 95.5. Geneva—grade one, 57 students, 94.8; two, 60 . 95.1; three, 47, 94.8; four, 69, 95.1; five, 59, 95.8; six 43, 93.5; seven and eight, 108, 93.5. Jefferson —one and two, 29, 92 9; three and four, 25 , 93.9; five and six, 20, 95.3; seven and eight, 18, 96.1. Monmouth—grade one, 29, 85.4; two, 30, 89.6; three, 31, 93.2; four, 24, 98.9 (highest); five, 31. 97.9; six 21, 98.6; seven and eight, 54, 97.1. Hartford —one and two, 29. 96.5; three and four, 34, 97.7; five and six, 31, 96.1; seven and eig(rt, 27, 97.3. Lutheran Schools Zion Friedheim — one and two, 19, 97.7; three through five, 30, 98.0; six through eight, 26, 98.2. St. John’s —one and two, 24, 97.3; three through five, 32, 96.2; six through eight, 41, 96.7. St. Paul's —one through three, 22, 94.8; four through eight, 16, 97.5. St. Peter's —one through four, 33, 97.0; five through eight, 28, 96.9. Amish school No. 2, with 38 students in eight grades, had a figure of 97.0. while Amish school No. 3, 41 pupils, had a mark of 87.8. The Kirkland Bible school’s "36, students" in grades one through, eight had a mark of 93.4, while the 41 pupils in grades nine through 12 had a mark of 97.3. State Officers Are Entertained By DAV Officers of the state department of the Disabled American Veterans were entertained by the local chapter of the D.A.V. and its auxiliary last Sunday. Dinner was served to 19 guests at the noon hour. Brief talks were made by the state officers and a gift was presented to the auxiliary’s state commander. Entertainment was provided by a barber shop quartet. Out of town guests included: i from Elmer Pond chapter 1, Pat Patterson, state department chaplain, Mary Patterson, auxiliary commander and state V.A.V.S. chairman of the Fort Wayne Veterans hospital; past commander Chester Schwartz, Naomi Schwartz, state department junior vice commander Tom O. Conley, Wayne Hurst, Alva 0. Hurst, Jim McCoy, Ellen Collins, Denny Collins, commander of auxiliary 1 Iris Guether, Willard Guether, Jessie Hakey, Vivian Turk, Herbert Labean, C. Basting, Francis Watson, Chester Watson, L. J. Didier. Other guests: from chapter 40, Fort Wayne, Maud Meyers, Minnie Meyers, Oscar Meyers, Evelyn Ruch, Della Fuelling; from South Bend 6, auxiliary commander of state department Lydia Deavel, Edward Deavel, Francis Gilmer, state auxiliary adjutant, Roy Gilmer; from South Bend 39, Mane Makielski, commander and state hospital chairman; from Terre Haute 9, senior vice commander Ermage Cranford and Elmer Cranford, state sergeant at arms; from Muncie 25, Mary Garrett, state department adjutant; from Portland 24, Seth Wendel, chapter commander, Olive Wendel, auxiliary commander, Harry Smith, Mildred Smith, John Buckingham; Bertha Buckingham, Glen McBride. Grace Mcßride; from Hartford City 67, Virginia Smith, Francis Smith, Ruth Monroe, Clarence Monroe; from Indianapolis 2, vice commander Millard Harman, John Thomas and Shirley Thomas. State Convention Os Lions In May The annual state convention of the Lions clubs of Indiana will be held May 10, 11 and 12 at the Sheraton hotel in French Lick. Lions clubs of French Lick and Jasper, who will host the convention. have planned entertainment, dancing, luncheons and dinners for each of the three days. All Lions and Lionesses are invited to attend. I

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Two Local Students Awards Nominees Miss Marilyn Knudsen, Decatur high school student, and Frederick A. Schurger, Decatur Catholic high school student, have been nominated by their respective schools for the annual achievement awards, program, sponsored by the national council of teachers of English (NCTE). Miss Catherine Weidler is the Decatur high school faculty sponsor of the NCTE in Decatur. For the sixth year, the council is conducting the awards program throughout the nation to grant recognition to outstanding high school seniors for excellence in English. The writing abilities and literary awareness of each nominee will be judged by local and state committees. NCTE will announce the finalists at its annual Thanksgiving convention, and will send their names to every U. S. college and university with the recommendation that these students be considered for scholarship assistance. Colleges and Uhivefsities welcome the announcements of ..these superior students in English each year and honor the recognition extended to them. According to a survey just completed by the achievement awards program, 86% of the institutions polled take into consideration the award announcement when inviting, accepting, and

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recommending program finalists for scholarship aid. Reports of finalists from previous years show that 99% of them attend colleges of their choice and more than 70% of the total students honored receive scholarship aid averaging almost SIOOO per year. According to James R. Squire, executive secretary of NCTE, the achievement awards competition is part of a comprehensive program undertaken by American teachers of English from the primary to the graduate school to develop verbal competence. The council through its periodicals/ books, and committee reports seeks to contribute to a national educational program for improved instruction in English. Founded in 1911, the NuTE is a professional, nonprofit organization of teachers of English at all levels. Currently* the council’s membership is over 78,000.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1963

To Withhold Judgment On Russian Stand WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy believes that if Russia fails to honor her commitments on Laos, the chances of settling Berlin and other cold war issues will be drastically reduced. The President told his news conference Wednesday he would withhold judgment until he heard from Undersecretary of State WAverell Harriman, who has gone to Moscow to discuss the crisis with top Soviet officials. His statement followed a Defense Department announcement that more than 3,000 U.S. troops would be dispatched to Thailand, just across the Mekong River from Laos, next month to take part in SEATO maneuvers. The Pentagon also said one squadron of supersonic jet fighters, probably 18 planes, would be sent into Thailand by the Air Force. More than 30 ships of the eight SEATO nations already are assembling in the South China Sea for a naval exercise starting Monday. Kennedy said the 14 - nation Geneva agreement last year guaranteeing Laotian independence and neutrality was “a test of whether it is possible for an accord between countries which have serious differences ... to be reached and maintained.” The President said “If we fail in Laos, I would think the pros pects for accords on other matters which may be geographically closer to us would be substantially lessened.” He appeared to be challenging Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to prove that his professed policy of "peaceful coexistance” had not been abandoned in Southeast Asia under ressure from Red China. He declined, however, to be drawn into a discussion on this aspect. Russia has refused to join Britain—the two countries were cochairmen of the Geneva conference—in an appeal for all sides to observe the 1962 agreement on Laos unless the statement contains a paragraph blaming the United States for the recent outbreak of fighting.