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LOOD PROGRAM LEADERS from the third district, which includes six counties and six organizations, are pictured above at the Decatur Community Center Monday noon. Mrs. Ferris Bower, left, talks with Alfred O. Schell, administrator; Mrs. Ray Moore, Warren, third district chairman, and Claren Neuenschwander, Adams county Red Cross chapter chairman.—(Photo by

Meeting Held Here For Blood Program

“Our regional blood center is switching from glass to plastic bottles of whole blood because the blood arrives to the patient in much better condition, and keeps longer,”*Alfred O. Schell, regional center administrator, told the third district meeting in Decatur Monday noon. More than 20 representatives of the six chapters were present for the dinner and workshop. A Working Director Schall explained that the new director of the regional center, Dr. Margaret J. Ball, was trying to improve the laboratory procedure. and implementing the conversion to plastic, and was attending the district meetings, or other meetings, only when specifically asked. Representatives were present from Adams, Jay, Huntington,, Allen and Randolph counties. Mrs. Ferris Bower, Adams county blood program chairman, introduced Claren Neuenschwander, Red Cross chapter chairman, who welcomed the group to the workshop session. The Rev. William C. Feller gave the invoca- . tion. Following dinner, each member of the group was introduced, and then the meeting adjourned to the adjoining room for discussion and slides on the Red Cross blood program. Schell told the group that blood collections were, as usual, down for the months of July, August and September, but that when October is added in, the region was in better shape this ye<ar. Exchange of Blood The complicated exchange of blood with exchanging hospitals outside of the region is requiring more time and effort, and more blood, with the Fort Wayne region owing the central exchange 2,700 pints on paper; these will probably not be collected, however, because the Fort Wayne icgicui.has-hulped.Qutijiothcr _ fields. The use of exchange blood now for open heart surgery at Indiana University center in Indianapolis was announced by Schell; formerly from six to 12 donors were needed in person. Schell explained that different equipment requires different number of pints of blood for open heart surgery, and that some hospitals require two for one replacement, or as many as 35 pints for one operation. Plastic Containers Fractionation, and the use of stored red cells in plastic containers was discussed. Schell stated that every area hospital was to be visited before Jan. 1 by a person who would train local nurses in use of plastic bottles. The plastic bottles are now used principally for those bottles sent to Chicago, but the switch will soon be made to those used in Fort Wayne hospitals. A report on progress will be given at the next district meeting. The national institute of health may extend the length of life of blood above the present 21-day limit, since most hematologists agree modern methods keep it fresh much longer. Nominating Committee J. Nelson Bechstein, Huntington grocer, was named chairman of the nominating committee for the district officers to be chosen at the next meeting. Members are Mrs. Ferris Bower, of Decatur; Mrs. Jack Carpenter, Winchester, t Mrs. Jane Abramson, Jay county, ' George Rey, of Allen county. ( The next meeting will be held in Huntington county March 2. The group also voted to meet cnly twite during the year, in ad- 1

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dition to the annual region meeting in Fort Wayne, unless a special meeting is called by the president. Higher Costs The hospital participation charge will be raised to $5 a pint from $4 a pint because of the increased cost of plastic containers, Schell explained, on the unanimous vote of the participating chapters and hospitals. He explained that even though the blood is given free, it costs the Fort Wayne region $7.50 to collect and distribute each pint; under the proposed plan, the hospital (usually by charging the patient) will pay $5, the regional bank, $1.50, and the American Red Cross $1 of the cost on each pint. The latter $2.50 comes from the member chapters, of course. Last year the Red Cross collected 2.6 million pints, 45% of all blood collected in the U. S. They furnished all the blood to 2,250 hospitals, and supplemented 1,600 others. They furnished blood for orie-half of the open heart surgery done in the U. S. from the ■ 56 operating regional centers. Use of Blood In each 100 pints, 46 are usually 0, 40 are A, 10 are B, and 4 are AB. Only 15 of the 100 will be Rh negative, and this means that less than one in 100 will be AB negative. This explains why it is absolutely impossible to have' large quantities of all kinds of b.ood on hand unless every county meets its quota every time. It takes 12 pints of blood to produce just 25 cc’s of fibrinogen, 6*£ pints to produceF'loo cc’s of serum albumen, and 7 pints to produce gamma globulen: 50% of all vaccine immune globulen is produced by the American Red Cross through its regional centers. Vaccine Immune The last mentioned, VIG, is used when someone rubs a vac”cination and gets it in his*eyes or other parts Os his body, a condition which frequently results in death, Schell stated. If a local doctor ever feels, he needs VIG, he should call Schell immediately at Fort Wayne, and get the phone numbers of members of the committee which handles the product, as it is very rare, and can be released only on the authority of a committee member, a doctor. Os $17.5 million spent each year on Red Cross blood, the American Fed Cross, through its member chapters, pays $4.5 million; the chapters through the regions pay SG,S million, and the patients through hospital participation pay $6.9 million. Local Collections In discussing the local blood collections, Schell pointed out that many smaller communities are overlooked that would be glad to have perhaps one collection a year. People don’t like to drive 15 miles to the county seat to give blood, but would come three or four miles to a small town. In fact, the Fort Wayne region collects 80% of its blood on mobile runs, 20% at centers. The growing use of blood through ejnmunohematology and cryobiology was cited as a reason for increased collections. Hobart Man Killed By Foil At Plant HAMMOND, Ind. (UPI) — An eight-foot fall from a ladder at the American Maize Products Co. here was fatal Sunday for Lawrence B. Doll, 41,, Hobart. Doll died in St. Margaret Hospital here three days after he fell while at work.

Mrs. Olive Hoblet Dies Last Evening Mrs. Olive E. Hoblet, 84, of Willshire, 0., and a native of Adams county, died at 7:10 o’clock Monday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient for seven months. She was txirn in Adams county April 19, 1879, a daughter of William and Minerva Johnson-Tink-ham, and had Ivied in Willshire since 1934. She was married June 6, 1897, to John Hoblet, Jr., who preceded her in death Aug. 7, 1932. Mrs. Hoblet was a member of the Union E. U. B. church at Willshire. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ehtel Bebout of Willshire; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Schwartz of Columbia City; 14 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. Thtee sons, Homer, Vercil and Kenneth,,and one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Union E. U. B. church at Willshire, with the Rev. A. Robert Heckman officiating. Burial will be in the Rockford, 0., cemetery. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. Thursday until time of the services. Industrial Heads Hear John Welch “The Decatur plant has been a very successful operation in recent years,” John Welch, former Decatur resident and general manager of the general purpose motor department of the General Electric company in Fort Wayne, said at the noon luncheon of the local industrial division Monday. Well known in Decatur, Welsh was formerly manager of the Decatur plant and was president of the local Chamber of Commerce when the industrial division group was being formed. He was introduced by George Auer, Decatur plant manager, and Ed Hagan, chairman, presided over the meeting. Welch explained to those attending that the motor business, which he has been in si ice 1942, is “very, very good" at the present time. He explained that General Electric employs on the average of 300.000 persons a year in its world-wide operation, approximately 250,000 of whom reside in the United States. He said last year's net business sales was approximately $4 billion. He depicted how large this figure is by explaining that t' million seconds equals 13 days, but a billion seconds is the equivalent of 33 years. Various Divisions The general manager told hqw the company is divided Into separate groups, each with a vice president, and each has several divisions under it, and some of the company’s various operations. Welch said that the Decatur plant covers 172,378 square feet of ground, and started operations in April of 1920. He said the payroll at the local plant averages around $3,600,000 each year. “We look forward to the next decade with great optimism,” he said in concluding, and finished by'spiking the oft-heard rumor of the Decatur plant being closed down by saying, “We have no present plans ,to close the’ Decatur plant or to sharply curtail its activities.” Hagan” announced that the election of officers will be held at the December meeting.

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Four Kokomo Children Die In Fire, Mother Is In Critical Condition

REDDY FEATHER SAYS: AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE "TODAYS DECATUR BOY SCOUTS COMMUNITY FUND GIRL SCOUTS Ml $19,697.62 CRIPPLED CHILDREN SOC. LITTLE & PONY LEAGUES LAA The JS ° WK $28,993 SALVATION ARMY KWV MENTAL HEALTH ’W r YO .U R e , COMMUNITY CENTER JL still Needs’ AMERICAN RED CROSS $9,295.38.” Give The United Way Clear Way For Hoffa’s Trial

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court today cleared the way for the trial of Teamster President James R. Hoffa on charges of trying to buy acquittal by a Tennessee jury. The high court rejected Hoffa’s claim that the grand jury which indicted him on jury tampering charges was not properly impaneled. The charges followed a jury '♦ deadlock in Hoffa's trial at Nashville, Tenn., on charges of violating the Taft-Hartley labor law by accepting illegal pay- > ments from an employer of members of his union. At the time it was alleged that Hoffa, using his wife’s maiden name, had secretly acquired interest in a trucking business. Trial of the fiery Truck union chief on the jury fraud charges had been postponed from Oct. 14 pending outcome of his Supreme Court appeal in which he claimed the grand jury was not properly constituted. To- i day’s opinion means- the trial ( can now be held. Hoffa and six others were accused of approaching members of the trial jury last fall and offering them or their relatives t cash and other inducements to acquit him during the trial then in progress. ' < In other major actions follow- t ing a two- week recess, the < court: . i —Refused to intervene in the case of two northern Negroes ] Edward U. Gerber I Dies This Morning Edward U. Gerber, 54, of Berne ( route 1, died at 7 o’clock this morning at the Adams county me- ( morial. hospital after a one day's illness of a heart condition. A lifelong resident of Adams and Wells counties, he was born ( in Wells county Sept. 16, 1909, a | son of Daniel and Frances ] Reimsdhiisel-Gerber. and was married to Sadie Schwartz June 1, 1935. Mr. Gerber was a member of ( the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving in addition to his wife , are five sons, Danny’J. Gerber of Kansas City, Mo., Ronald G. Ger- ] ber of Decatur, Jerry L. and Stephen E. Gerber, both at home. , and Phillip R. Gerber of Liberty Center; two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Rose) Kipfer of Bluffton 1 route 4, and Miss Peggy Ann Gerber, at home; six grandchildren; two brothers, Eli Gerber of Bluff- 1 ton, and George Gerber of Clearwater, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Aldine Lude and Mrs. Deloy Mills, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Albert JEhrlSon of Plymouth. Three brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Apostolic Christian church, with the Rey. Samuel Aeschliman officiating. Friends may call at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton after 7 p.m. Wednesday. The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon Friday until time of the services.

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arrested in Jackson. Miss., on charges growing out of a civil rig ht s demonstration. The court let stand lower court rulings that the two— James Brown of New York and Lucian Richards of St. Louis—could not seek relief in federal courts until they had exhausted, all avenues of appeal in state courts. They were arrested last June 5 on charges of parading ’ without a permit. '* —Agreed to review the conviction of New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison on charges 'of defaming the character of Continued on Page 8) Story Os Welcome Wagon Told Lions The story of Decatur’s Welcome Wagon was told to the Decatur Lions Monday night by Mrs.’ Glenn Mauller and Mrs. Fred Corah, the representative and assistant ..representative. Charles Stonestreet It'd the pledge of allegiance, and Rev. A. C. Underwood gave the invocation. Clark Cayclin spoke 30 seconds on motors; Dick Sullivan spoke on coins; Dick Mies spoke 47 seconds on bowling; Bob Holthouse spoke on aspirin: and Gordon Hooper gave the history of chickens. Fred Corah introdußpd the speakers, who tokL-+fmv Welcome Wagon was founded in 1928. Each of the hostesses trained for two weeks so that they would know, what they were required to do. At least ten sponsors are required to operate the program. Calls are made on new residents, new babies, 16-year-old girls, and engagements. Gifts from sponsors include a Church directory, doctors’ directory. Welcome Wagon folder, baby call book on baby care, good will bag, map of city, pamphlet on library. Red Cross folder, phamplct on diseases, post office pack on mail service, family health record, driving pamphlet, letter from city officials and letter from hospital. So far this year 185 baby calls have been made, 60 newcomers, 27 brides, have been called on The Welcome Wagon club takes p.fts to the county home residents on their birthdays. About 75 new families move into Decatur each year, they stated. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and rather cold tonight and Wednesday with scattered anew flurries likely. Northwesterly winds 15 to 22 miles per hour tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight in lower 30s. High Wednesday low and mid 10a. Sunset today 5:32 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:27 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and continued cooi. Scattered snow flurries likely along ’nd near Lake Michigan.

KOKOMO, Ind. (UPD—Fire of undetermined origin killed four small children today and left their divorced mothpr in critical condition from burns. Authorities said the children apparently suffocated when the flames swept through their modest two-story frame home, which was damaged extensively. The four children also suffered bums, authorities said. They were identified as Randall and Ronald Lee, 5-year-old twins; Raymond, 4, and 8-months-cld Regina. The boys were sleeping in an upstairs bedroom at the time of the blaze. The' mother and her other child were asleep downstairs. <- Mrs. Roxene Lee, 21, the mother. suffered critical burns in apparent efforts to save her children. police said. Two of the boys were killed outright. The other boy and his infant sister died a short time later in Howard Community hospital. Authorities learned Mrs. Lee was divorced from her soldier husband, Ronald Lee, less than two weeks ago. Lee is stationed at Fort Worth. Tex. A cab driver found smoke pouring from the family’s two-story frame house on the city’s southeast side. He battered in the front door but was driven back by the flames. The children were found in an upstairs room by firemen. The mother was found downstairs. Most of the downstairs part of the house was destroyed, firemen said. Dig Holes For New Courthouse Lights The Weikel Line Co. began digging holes this morning for the installation of four new street lights around the Adams county courthouse. Holes were dug this morning and afternoon on the north and south sides of the courthouse square. Names Drawn For Jury Service Here Thirty-six Adams county residents were drawn and announced today by county clerk Richard D. Lewton for grand and petit jury duty, during the November term of the Adams circuit court. The drawing was held this morning by Lewton in the presence of jury Commissioners Ed--waid Belling and Clarence Zinci, Lewton explained Ziner was substituting for regular jury commissioner, James Gattschall, who is Hl. The twelve drawn for grand jury duty were: Milo Habegger, Berne; Archie Hedingtoa, Blue Creek; Donald Dailey, Wabash; Robert W. Gase, Decatur-Root; Charles Burkhart, Blue Creek; Paul Busse, Jr,, Kirkland; Robert F. Carr, Root; Glen D. Brewster, Jefferson; Eugene Farlow, Wabash: Harvey Haggard, Kirklard; Le Roy Hoag land, Washington; and Frederick Mailand,” Preble. From the above, mentioned 12, six will be drawn to serve on the “grand jury when if “convent s Tuesday,-Nov. 19. ' Petit Juryrs Twenty-four Adams county residents were drawn for the petit jury, with 12 of those to be drawn to serve. Drawn for petit jury duty were: Alfred Beavers, Decatur-Washing-ton; Robert Maser, Berne; Ivan Huser, Hartford; Walter Heiman, Washington: Harold Baker, De-catur-Washington; Wilbur Selking, Preble; Robert Lehman, Jefferson; James Meyers, Jefferson; Paul Moore, Decatur-Root; Fred Liby, Hartford; Jerome Nussbaum, Berne; John S. Brite, Root tup. Db.vle Rich, Mon roe-Monro'',’ Arnold Scheumann, Preble; John Baumgartner, French; Roger L< ngenberger, Washington; Paul Bryan, Hartford; Virgil Gilbert; Blue Creek; Ray Ford, Wabash; Everett Geisgl, French; Artie Keifer, Berne; Albert Davison, St Mary's; Robert Blaney, Deca-tur-Washington; and Robert Cook, Decatur-Washington.

Yale Professor Is Arrested In Russia

MOSCOW (UPI) — A Yale University professor, noted for his anti-Communist views, has been arrested by the Russians as a spy, the U.S. Embassy announced today. An embassy spokesman said Professor Frederick Barghoorn, 52. a member of Yale’s political science department, had been touring the Soviet Union. The spokesman said the embassy was informed of Barghoorn's arrest by the Soviet Foreign Ministry, but it was not known where or when be had been taken into custody. The spokesman said the embassy was pressing for further details about I Barghoorn’s seizure and was seeking "the opportunity of seeing him.” He is believed to have been arrested a few days ago. Had Tourist Visa Barghoorn. a bachelor, came to the Soviet union early last , month on a one-month tourist visa. Tlie embassy said he had been in Tbilsi in Georgia in cont nection with the Robert Jenkins , Clarion Concert Group, and at Alma Ata in Kazakhstan for the f opening of the American graph- ( tc arts exhibition tn October. The charge against Barghoorn followed by only nine days the arrival back in Moscow of two Russian diplomats ordered to leave the United States for al-leged-espionage activity. The FBI charged the two and a third Russian working in the United States had been engaged in an espionage conspiracy with John William Butenko of Engle-

U. S. Convoy Passes Check

I BERLIN (UPD — A U.S. Army convoy sent out to test Russian intentions today passed through two Russian checkpoints oh the Berliri highway without harassment. The convoy of 54 men jn 13 vehicles traveled along the 110mile highway through East Germany from Berlin to the West without dismounting sor —a—ffratTcount as the Russians demanded last week. Informed sources said the convoy passed without incident Russian checkpoints outside Berlin and on the East-West German border. The Russians did not demand the convoy dismount to be counted, the sources said. - . The convoy cleared the Russians' Babelsberg checkpoint, just outside Berlin, in about one hour, and the Russian checkpoint at Marienborn; on the East-West -■ German border, in about 8( Minutes, The convoy was considered an expression of Western Allied determination to keep Berlin routes open. At neither checkpoint did the Soviets demand the soldiers dismount, informed sources said. This was considered signifii cant because there were more passengers in today’s convoy than in the convoy halted by the Russians Nov. 4 and held for 41 hours. In the convoy halted last week there were 20 passengers: Today's convoy comprised 54 men in 13 vehicles. This included 26 drivers and co-drivers, and 28 passengers. , The convoy was regarded as a test of Russian intentions because of this composition., The Western Allies tfhave told the Russians their soldiers will dismount only if there are more than 30 in a convoy. Moscow Radio said Sunday the Western claim to "the right of uncontrolled passage” over the highway, was "illegal.” East Geflnan Communist

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wood, N.J., an American electronics engineer. The two who were returned to the Soviet Union had diplomatic immunity but the third, an employe of the Russian trading group, Amtorg, was jailed. A few weeks before that, the Soviet Union released the Rev. Walter Ciszek, 58, a Roman Catholic priest, from prison after 20 years of confinement, including time in, Siberia. At the same time, American student Marvin W. Makinen, 24, of Auburnham, Mass., was released from a Communist jail where he had been serving time for allegedly helping refugees escape from East Germany. Exchanged For Spies Father Ciszek and Makinen were released and returned to the United States in exchange for two accused Soviet spies who were set free in the United States. - Barghoorn, whose home is at New Haven, Conn., is a recognized authority on the Soviet Union. On Sept. 4 he made a speech before the American Political Science Association which was strongly critical of Communist tactics. Barghoorn, the embassy said, had been stationed in the Ameri-. can- Embassy here several years ago as a press officer. Last year, he came to the Soviet Union in connection with the visit.of the Yale University chorus. The professor is attached to the Russian studies department of Yale.

leader Walter Ulbricht Monday in a speech to his Council of State said "We will not put up with the U.S. government interferring in the domestic affairs of the German Democratic Republic through provocations by the West Berlin occupiers on the autobahn of the G.D.R.” ' Both Radio Moscow and Ula German peace treaty that would end Western rights in Berlin. Fred Drayer Dies Monday Afternoon % Fred Drayer, 7f>. of 1023 Rose avenue. New Haven, and a native of Linn Grove, died at 3:10 p.m. Monday at Parkview memorial hospital". Fort Wayne, where he was admitted following a heart attack at his home Monday morning. Mr. Drayer was a member of the Apostolic Christian church and the Quarter-Century club of International Harvester, where he was employed for 28 years before retiring in 1955. He and his wife, Nettie, who survives, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in, 1960. Also surviving are a ispn, Hilmer Drayer of New Haven: two grandchildren; a great-grand-child; three brothers, Christ Drayer of Bluffton, Henry Drayer of Decatur route'4, and Charles Drayer of Decatur route 4. and Charles Drayer of Craigville route 1, and two sisters. Mrs. Rose Leffenwell of Electra, Tex., and Mrs. Amelia Aeschliman of Elgin, 111. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the E. Harper & Son funeral home in New Haven, and at 1:30 p.m. at the Apostolic Christian church. Burial will be in the IQOF cemetery at New, Haven. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

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