Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1963 — Page 10

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How Accurate is “News”? Every newspaper, including the Decatur Daily Democrat, tries to get its stories as accurate and impartial as possible. But it is never possible to be absolutely, 100% accurate as far as everyone in a story is concerned! This may sound a little funny — after all, a spade is a spade, and no one should have any trouble describing something that has actually happened. But just try it some time. For example, an accident happens. Two cars collide. A police officer, perhaps two, arrive at the scene and “investigate.” They take down the descriptions as given by the two drivers and other witnesses. Frequently there is disagreement on what happened. The policemen, using their professional judgment, write down what they think is most likely to have happened. This is recorded on a standard accident form. Sometimes the office makes a mistake, and the accident is recorded wrong. Then comes the reporter, the next morning. The officer who investigated is probably off duty, at home, asleep. Or he is out in the car on duty, and cannot be interviewed. So the reporter ,to get the story, reads the report. Sometimes he reads it incorrectly (they are a little complicated, you know!) Or the officer wrote it down wrong. Or the person to whom the officer spoke gave an erroneous version. Or the witnesses honestly disagreed over what happened. Then the reporter must bring his notes back to the office, and actually type up the story. Another chance for a mistake — in your notes, a.m. and p.m. are easily interchanged, names are hard to read, etc. Errors in typing are easy to make. After the story is written, the editor checks it for content, its style, capitalization, punctuation, etc., gives it a headline, and decides where he wants it in the newspaper. Then it is given to the linotype operator, who must set the type. Again, mistakes in typesetting are easily made, and the machine may malfunction, causing numerous errors. After the story is set in type, a proof is made of it, and a proofreader examines it for errors. Sounds easy, and at this step many errors are caught. But reading proof day after day makes it easier to catch obvious mistakes like a letter out of place, rather than factual mistakes, or wrong words, lines left out, etc. —which make mistakes in meanings. Now, you may ask, why doesn't the reporter check each fact out with every witness, and completely verify the story? Well, in wrecks alone, we have more than 2,500 a year! This would mean perhaps 10,000 telephone calls, to people working, sleeping, etc.—physically humanly, and totally impossible. So the police report must be accepted at face value by the reporter. Every reporter tries to be as accurate as he can. But errors will be made, and no one should accept a story at face value, if it sounds ridiculous — for example, the Fort Wayne JournalGazette story, taken by telephone, which mistakenly had jewels, rather than tools, taken from the Adams county highway garage last week! Editorial written by Dick Heller

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MONMOUTH HIGH By manna Star The P. S. A. T. was given Tuesday to the juniors who plan to enter college after graduation. P. S. A. T. stands for preliminary schoastic aptitude test. Deane Dorwin, from Decatur high school, came to Monmouth and talked to the juniors about the test. — M. H. S. — The seniors are very busy trying to make the play a big success. The play, entitled, “The Boarding House Reach,” is written by Donald Pay ton. It is a three act mystery-comedy, and will be given Wednesday, October 30, by the senior class of M.H.S. Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased from any senior. — M. H. S. — The stage help, make-up, publicity. sound effects, ticket committee, ushers, etc. were chosen so rthe play. They are as follows: publicity committee: Dianna King, Steve Hoile, Dean Schieferstein, and Kathy Rafert; stage crew: John Osborn, Gerald Cook, Ken Scherer, Ben Hebble, Dianne Miller, Pat Railing, and Jean Wolfe; ticket committee and ushers: Nellie Campbell, and Phyllis Compton; prompters: Marjorie Kolter, Gloria Thieme, and Kathy Lewton sound effects; Bob Brandt; make-up and hair dresser: Cheryl Buuck, Judy Fifer, and Marjorie Bleeke; program committee: Sharon Mann and Janice Hockemeyer. Bob Brandt is the master of ceremonies. — M. H. S. — “Golly, is the first six weeks over already?” My how the time flies." Yes, this is what was heard at Monmouth Wednesday, as the report cards were handed out for the first six weeks. The honor roll will be announced in a later column. — M. H. S. — October 17, there will be a meeting of the sopohomore parents. This meeting is the same as the freshman parents. It*s to give the parents a better understanding of the guidance counseling of the North Adams community schools. All sophomore parents are invited to attend. - M. H. S. — Wednesday, October 23, there is to be a ham supper at the Monmouth school. It is sponsored by the P.T.A, Anyone wanting to buy a ticket should contact any student from M.H.S. — M. H. S. — Class meetings were held Wednesday. The purpose of this meeting was to select delegates from each class to help the picture editor of the annual. The representative for the freshman class is Brenda Crozier', sophomore class, Debbie Strickler and Roberta Kunkel junior class. Judy Bultemeyer. The junior class also chose the junior editors for the annual. They are as follows: editor, Connie Reinking; business editor. Steve Hakes; snapshot editor, Fred Feulling; picture editor, Judy Bultemeyer. — M. H. S. — ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH By Judy Hirschy "My feet arc still rolling” was the departing sigh. Monday evening. October 7. the seniors sponsored a party at the Roller Dome in Fort Wayne. Three buses transmuted over 200 high school students to the party The balance from the ticket sales will help pay for the senior class trip to Washington. D.C. — A C. H. S. - October 1, the juniors and seniors completed their magazine sales. The junior class sold $2,048; the senior class sold $1,865. The top salesmen and their sales are as follows: Ed Beer. $178: Steve Hildebrand. $164; Eric Nussbaum. $163; Arlene Parrish, $115; Carol Hoagland. $103; and Ron Christ- • ner, 100. Congratulations to these students and thank you for your interest! — A C. H. S. — The high school student body voted for a new school song Friwrote the first song, which was to the tune of "On Wisconsin." The second and third songs were written by Reg Converse and John Geimer. respectively. Voting was quite difficult for all three

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songs were terrific and well written. The winning song was the one written by Gloria Rupert. Congratulations, Gloria! — A. C. H. S. — Buy your molasses here! Our FFA boys are now selling molasses made from the cane which they harvested last week. They would be very happy to supply you with molasses at S.BO cents a quart or $3 .00 a gallop. - A. C. H. S. — The freshmen and junior high chose their cheerleaders Tuesday, October 8. The following freshmen tried out: Linda Sauers, day, October 4. Gloria Rupert Dianne Moser, Judy Double, Carol Macy. Gretta Wulliman, Pansy Zimmerman, Carol Tonner, Linda junior high girls tried out: Cheryll Williamson, Barbara Brunner, Darlene Geyer, Anita Girod, Donna Roudebush, and Marlene Stucky. The new freshmen cheerleaders are Dianne Moser, Pansy immerman, and Carol Tonner. Leading the junior high will be Barbara Brunner, Donna Roudebush, and Darlene Geyer. — A. C. H. S. — CRESTVIEW HIGH By Terry Bollenbacher Last Wednesday morning, at 9:45, all schools in the Crestview district participated in the “mass school evacuation.” Many other schools in the area took part in this evacuation sponsored by the WOWO radio station, in connection with fire prevention week. - C. H. S. — J. C. Edwards talked to the seniors last week concerning the alcohol test that will be given in December. The test covers the history of alcohol and how it affects man. All junior and senior students will take the test. The boy and girl from Crestview receiving the highest grade on the test, will then compete with other students in the county. One studen fro mthe county will then be given the opoprtunity to go on a trip to Washington next summer. Let’s study real hard, and make sure that a student from Crestview takes this exciting trip! - C. H. S. — The sophomores had a class meeting Tuesday. October 8. They discussed their jello sale that will begin very soon. Plans were alsq . made for a class dance which will be held Nov. 9. * — C. H. S. — Twanty-two members of the F.F.A. recently went on an eightday trip to New Knoxville, where ■the state farm-o-rama was held this year. Many farm operations were viewed by the members, and they had a very exciting trip. — C. H. S. — Cheerleaders have been chosen at Crestview North and South so rthe 1963-64 basketball season. Cheerleaders at North are; Rose Ann Hargeshimer, Jill Frey, Karen Rase and Jo Ann Taylor. Those chosen at South are: Becky Werling, Diane Werling, Kay Dauler, and Coleen Schaadt. We would personally like to congratulate each of these girls and hope they will do their very best - C. H. S. — Test from the University of/ Cincinnati, Findlay College, and the preliminary scholstic aptitude test will be given October 15, 16 and 18 to all the seniors interested in going to college. Good luck! - C. H. S. — A very excellent article was published in the October 11 issue of the Knight News. It concerned careful driving and the endless stream of speeding reckless drivers on the highways today. "By the time you are old enough to get a license, you are probably wise and mature enought to assume the great responsibility of the safe operation of an automobile." This was one of the main points in the article. If many people would grow up and live up to this code, the world would be a much safer and better world in which to live.” - C. H. S. — DECATUR CATHOLIC HIGH By Joan Gase Wednesday, our school held a practice fire drill. The purpose of the drill was to see how quickly and orderly the entire body of students could evacuate the school. - D C. H. S. — The fourth grade pupils re- T reived their junior fire marshal badges Thursday. - D. C H. S. — The first meeting of Our Lady’s Sodality was held last Thursday evening. The perfect. Terry «■ Meyer, conducted the meeting. Sharon Sutton gave a talk on school spirit. Father Ueber asked the members to take more active part in their sodality. - D. C. H. S. — This coming Friday the seniors r ....

will initiate the freshman class. A dance will follow the initiation. — D. C. H. S. — Sunday afternoon, a get-ac-quaint party in honor of Leo Gavilli, the foreign 'exchange student, was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Severin Schurger. Juniors and seniors from Decatur attended the party. The boys spent the'afternoon in an informal football game while the girls danced to the top tunes. All who attended the party thougnt It was a great success. — D. C. H. S. — Tuesday, 30 juniors and seniors took the preliminary scholarship aptitude test. — D. C. H. S. — The juniors are sponsoring a skating party October 23 from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. at the Happy Hours roller rink. Everyone is invited to attend. Admission is 50 cents. Tickets may be purchased from the juniors — D. C. H. S. — DECATUR HIGH' By Marilyn Knudsen There are more improvements to be found in various parts of the school. Going into the west entrance to the new annex, one can see workmen enclosing the area, making it extend to coincide with the extent of the annex. They have installed a heater to provide us with a warm welcome on wintry mornings. — D. H. S. - Music instructress, Miss Helen Haubold, has announced that choir officers have been elected. President Tom Baxter, vice president Debbie Crider, secretary Margaret Kocher, adn treasurer Larry Reinking will be assisting Miss Haubold. Pat Collins is the 1963-64 accompanist. — D. H. S. - Can anyone have better reason to be proud than we are? Thanks and praises should be extended

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to our band and to Richard Collins who make half-time as interesting as the game. — D. H. S. — The American Legion speech contest is the current project of the speech classes. Speaking on the Constitution, each student, speaks from eight to ten minutes. Mr. Kelly will select the finalists who will compete before the school. - D. H. S. — With a strong sense of purpose the student council has swung into action. Two meetings have been held, and the following officers were elected: president, Alan Kalver; vice president, Bob De Voss; secretary-treasurer, Sally Schnepf. At an assembly program . Monday, the student council was presented to the student body at Decatur high school by the advisor, Amos Ketchum. Alan Kalver anounced the policies and purposes of the group, followed by short talks by class presidents, Gary Schultz, Bob DeVose, Richard Cowans, and Terry Hilyard. - D. H. S. — Gail Grabill, superintendent of schools, and Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high school, also spoke at the assembly Monday. Grabill’s traditional opening address encouraged the students to accept their share of the responsibility towards making our school a better school. He • also discussed the North Adams administration. - D. H. S. — While plaudits and praises are being doled out, the juniors are to be commended for the dance they sponsored last Friday night. Publicity was handled through advertisements in the “Jacket Journal,’’ artistic posters, and a banner displayed at the game. The Center was in the mood of the theme, “October Haze.’’ The juniors and their sponsors, Hubert Feasel and David Clayton, put forth a fine effort. — D. H. S. — Deane Dorwin and Mrs. Jack Schnepf are talking to students interested in Indiana University. High school day will be held there November 2 for interested stu- ; dents. ' t - D. H. S. — Two suggestion boxes have been! placed in the study hall. One isN for comments on the “Jackets I Journal,’’ which will have as aH part of its editorial page a column ■

HOAGLAND HIGH By Sandy Nycom ■I I Glee club met in the gym Monday during home room. They have been and will be working on several songs for future use in choir festivals and for graduation. , — H. H. S. — F.T.A. had the induction of new members Monday. This meeting was held in the band room during home room. We hope all new members will contribute as well as profit from this club. All who joined are supposed to know more about the teaching profession as a career. — H. H. S. — The Home Economics club met Tuesday in the cafeteria. There was supposed to be someone to demonstrate how to decorate a cake but there was a change in plans. — H. H. S. — Pep block met in the gym Thursday. The members voted on selling candy starting Thursday of this week. The cheerleaders taught the members a few of the new yells for this year. Our spirit is high this season as we are going to have a great ttam to back! Keep yelling, kids! — H. H. S. - Friday was test day for most students as it was the end of the first six weeks grading pefiod. It just doesn’t seem possible that we have been in school this long. I hope the rest of the year is just as full of fun and excitment as the past six weeks have been for the students here at Hoagland high. j — H. H. S. - I for letters to the. editor. The other ■ has been placed there by the stuIdent council for helpful criticisms ■ from the student body and the ■ faculty. ■ — D. H. S. -

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