Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1963 — Page 8

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F / ’ 'fc fll I - */' A HELPING HAND— Daily Democrat reporters Bob Shraluka and Mike Thoele got in on the action at the woodland fire in Root township Wednesday. Here Shraluka, far left, and Thoele, farsight, help drag a length of hose through the woods to the fire area.—(Photo by Mac Lean) —. III’’”' '■'J rx.u t “LL "wn ■MW Wlffl B||k ( ' /1 I -gj/y \ Lr~ 9 ' - ■>&<. / NflE FlßEFlGHTEßS— Volunteer,firemen beat out the last of the blaze which burned through several acres of grass and woods in Root township Wednesday afternoon. Four fire departments, including the Decatur department, answered the call to battle the flames which spread rapidly becouse of wind and dry conditions.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Indiana Drought Is Eased By Showers By United Press International Moderately light showers fell ever most of ' Indiana late Thursday and early today and slightly eased a drought dating back to late August. The season’s first snow slur- - ries w.rc predicted for November's first day. Amounts ranged from .07 of uh inch : at Louisville to .46 of • an inch at Fort Wayne. Other totals included South Bend .41, Evansville .27, Lafayette .22. HOW LONG SHOULD A WATER HEATER LAST? Elect CARL GERBER and the Democratic team who will investigate the plumbing leaks caused by our city water. VOTE DEMOCRATIC

~ ' —— — ——*•— 7- — Parade of Barbershop Harmony Presented By Adams Co. Chapter S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. SUNDAY - November 10 -—- 2:30 p.m. Decatur Jr-Sr High School -- Auditorium — Donation... $ 1.25 Tickets available at: k — : —* — Holthouse Drug Stores or any Local Chapter Member. * ■ > ■ ' ’

Indianapolis .26 and Cincinnati ■O9. The Indianapolis rain, .15 of an s inch of which fell before midnight, raised the October total . to 117 and the month went down in the records as the driest October in 93 years of weather records. Temperatures ranged from 38 at Lafayette to 47 at Fort Wayne at overnight low points after hitting highs ranging from the mid 50s to the low 70s Thursday. Forecasts called for little or no rain the next five days and the possibility of snow flurries tonight in the northern third of the state. Temperatures will average about normal or slightly below the next five days with highs some days in the 40s and lows some nights in the 20s. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Zion United Church of Christ. The Rev. Wilmer Waston, pastor of the Church of the Naz.arene, will, have the devotions.

Leonard Hilyard Is On Yearbook Staff Leonard Hilyard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hilyard, 1339 Mas- . .ter Drive, Decatur, has been appointed to th? photographic staff of the 1964 Modulus, college yearbook at Tii-S.tatc '~TTiTya'rd.'aT963 graduate of Decatur high school, is . a student in the school of business administration at Tri-State. ink RICHARD OLSON, a traveling minister of Jehovah's Witnesses',”' and circuit supervisor, will make his semi-annual visit to the Decatur congregation during the week of Nov. 5. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday with a ministry training school. The Saturday evening program will begin at 8 p. th., and the week's activities will be climaxed at 3 p. m. Sunday when Olson will deliver a public Bible lecture entitled, “Building h happy human family." JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES KINGDOM HALL Comer Monroe and Ninth Sunday 3:00 p.m. — Public Bible lecture to be given by M. H. W'jggs. a visiting minister from the Lakeside congregation, Fort Wayne. Sunday 4:15 p.m. — Watchtower Biible study and discussion on the subject. "Everlasting Good News for the Time of the End.” jQna-xif....lhe...jicriptute.... consideration will be Rev. 14:6, “And I saw another angel flying in midheaven,, and he had. everlasting good news to declare." Tuesday— 7f30 p.m. — Theocratic Ministry School and Kingl dom , Service Meeting followed by a 30 minute discourse by the visiting circuit servant, Richard Olson. _ ' Wednesday through Friday — 8:00 p.m. — Area Bible studies. s Saturday — 8:00 p.m. — Bible discourage by Mr. Olson. All meetings are open to the public.'

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Mrs. Ralph Bickham Speaks Here Sunday r Utt ‘-’■ln ■ xRB* ! ?' ■ ‘ !|W w ’to Mrs. Ralph W. Bickham Mrs. Ralph W. Bickham of Fort Wayne, a missionary for two and a half years in Ghana, Africa, under the board of international missions of the Evangelical and Reformed church, will be the guest speaker for the annual thank offering service ii the Zion United Church of Christ, Third and Jackson streets, which will be held Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. At this time the thank offering boxes are to be presented. Mrs. Bickham and her husband were appointed missionaries in 1959 a id left that year to serve in Accra, Ghana, where they established a residence for the

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children of Evangelical and Reformed missionaries in that country Through their work they helped make it possible for the children to go to the Ghana international schoool in Accra and thus to receive a formal education. Ms. and Mrs. Bickham took to their missionary assignment a background of similar work in the United States. From 1950 to 1952 they served as houseparents for Indian American children at the Winnebago Indian school in Neillsville, Wiis. In 1952 they became superintendent and -matron of the South Illinois child welfare association at Hoyleton, 111., and continued in that work until their appointment in 1959 to serve overseas. A New London, Ohio, Mrs. Bickham was educated at Heidelberg College, Tifffin, Ohio, and Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Mo. Before her marriage in 1948 she taught school for several years in this country and in Hunan, Chinca. Mr. and Mrs. Bickham ha v e four sons, Brutfe, 12, ’William, 10, David 9, and John 6. Bickham is,, presently assistant administratox of the Fort Wayne children's home. The board of international mission of . the Evangelical and Reformed church is now a part of the united church board for world ministries of the United Church of Christ. (-The United Church of Christ was formed by a union of the Congregational Christian churches and the Evangelical and Reforme dchurch.) All members and friends of the church are invited to attend the thank offering service to hear Mrs. Bickham.

63 PERSONS (Continued from Page One) Was Family Night It had been a family night. The first rain in months had doused Indianapolis and dampened the trick or treating. Still, it was a good time for father and mother to have a good time and perhaps take the kids along. When tragedy came, at 11:11 p.m., it seemed to some like part of the show. The performers swirled into the center of the ring and spread their arms, welcoming applause. Chorus girls skated just in front of the south box seats and glided towards the center. Then the south stands lit up and some people, already moving towards the exists, thought it was a burst of fireworks. But it was a deadly blast. The force of the explosion churned through the 18-inch concrete floor and hurled great chunks of it through the air. Parents threw their bodies across their children. Clothing melted away in the flames. Victims died with their arms thrown upwards in self-protec-tion. Others were found later, when acetylene torches bit through the twisted steel of the stands. All of Indianapolis was mobilized to help. Taxis, private cars—anything that could get through the streets —carried the injured to six hospitals. Os the victims who got there, 13 were dead on arrival or died a short time afterwards. Fifty-four bodies were left on the ice, lined up neatly in two raws’, covered by canvass, coats, blankets—anything which could afford dignity to violent death. An upstretched hand, clutching, reached’ from one

Probe Outbreak At lowa Reformatory ANAMOSA, lowa (UPI) — The lowa Board of Control today opened an investigation into the outbreak at the Men’s Reformatory Thursday -in which prisoners stated a sit down strike and touched off a series of fires in prison work shops. Gov. Harold E. Hughes ordered the three men team here Thursday from Dee Moines to make a “cold determination” of facts brought on by reports of work schedule revisions. blanket, a neatly shined shoe from another. A young woman pointed to a shoe on the ice, torn in half. “That’s his shoe!” she screamed. She nearly fainted and was carried from the ice, hanging on the arms of the rescue workers.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1963

Two Men Will Visit Company Facilities Robert C. Hall and George A. Smith, both of Deactur, will be honored during visits to John Deere facilities at Waterloo and Dubuque, „ la., ahd Iroline, 111., Nov. 6-9. Both men are associated with the Paul W. Reidenbach Equipment Co., and were chosen for contributions to outstanding tractor sales records with the firm during the past year. The men and their wives will tour John Deere factories in the three locations, visit the new Deere & Co. administrative center in Moline, and attend a schedule of (special events. Extra Lining Your youngster’s play jcoat can be extra-lined for greater warmth with an old sweater. Just mend well, strip the buttons off, and sew it inside the coat.