Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1963 — Page 3

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1963

SOCIETY

PAST PRESIDENT’S PARLEY HOLDS BUSINESS AND SOCIAL MEETING The past president’s parley of the American Legion auxiliary, unit 43, met for a business and social meeting at the Legion home, Monday evening. The meeting was brought to order by the vice president, Margaret Rash. The regular order of business followed with the secretary and treasurer’s report from the previous meeting given by Mildred Beltz. The members voted to have a Christmas dinner, December 8, with husbands invited. A cash donation was sent to the auxiliary’s adopted nurse at Dayton, 0., Mrs. Anna Robison. The members present also remembered Elnora Brown, who is a patient in St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne in room 265. Following the adjournment of the business meeting Mrs. Lillian Burdg served as hostess. The remainder of the evening was spent playing pinochle, with prizes awarded the winners. A luncheon of pumpkin pie and coffee was served to the twelve members present. THANK OFFERING PROGRAM HELD AT UNION CHAPEL The of the W. S. W. S. of the Union Chapel church was held with a carry-in dinner at the church. Following the meal a thank offering program was held. The meeting opened with a prelude entitled “Come Ye Thankful People,” played by Mrs. Earl Chase. Mrs. Wayne Troutner gave the call to worship followed by the group singing, “For the Beauty of the Earth.” Betty Walters was the leader of the next part of the program with the following readers taking part: the Mesdames Tom Harrell, Kenneth Angle, Donald , Smith, Sherman Koos, Leroy Walters, and Wilber Foor, with the group giving the response. The program closed with each member placing her thank offering in a thank offering box and prayer offered by Mrs. Wayne Troutner. Officers for the coming year for the general meetings were then elected. They are: president, Mrs. Homer Miller; vice president, Janet Brown; secretary, Frieda Williamson; treasurer, Mrs. Arnold Roughia; secretary of Christian relations, Betty Walters; secretary of spiritual life, Mrs. Homer Tschannen; secretary of missionary education, Mrs. Ferris Fox; secretary of children’s work, Mrs. Kenneth Angle; secretary of youth work, Veda Williamson. The next meeting will be held during the month of January at the church. PYTHIAN SISTERS MEET MONDAY The Pythian Sisters Temple met at the Moose home, Monday, for their November meeting with Mrs. Cecil’Gause, mbst excellent chief, presiding. The Needle club met following Temple. Mrs. Wilfred Plasterer, president, conducted the business meeting and 10 members answered roll call. Mrs. Alva Buffenbarger and Mrs. Asa Pollock served a delicious luncheon at beautifully decorated tables. Games were enjoyed and the hostesses presented a gift to each member present. Plans were made for the annual Christmas dinner and gift exchange to be held December 9 at 6:30 p. m. at the Moose home.,

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DECATUR CAMERA CLUB HOLDS REGULAR MEETING The Decatur Camera club held their regular meeting November 11 at the I & M building with Paul Jchnson, president, presiding. The winning slide, an outdoor fall scene, was shown by Dorothy Schnepf. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Kelley, who showed slides of their trip through the Black Hills to the west coast. The next meeting will be held at the home of Ed Hesher, December 9, and will be a Christmas party. The Mt. Pleasant W. S. C. S. will meet Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Nevin Miller. The V. F. W. Ladies Auxiliary will meet at the <V. F. W. post home, Monday at 8 p. m. The Adams County Home Demonstration club chorus will meet in the Farm Bureau building in Monroe, Monday at 7:30 p. m. STATE OF NEVADA STUDIED AT MEETING The Historical club met recently at the home of Mrs. Lydia Worthman with twenty members and one guest present. Mrs. Bertha Smith gave an interesting report on the not too familiar state of Navada. Hie “silver state” or “sagebrush state” is a land of incredible beauty. It is sixth in size and the the 36th state to be admitted to the union. Carson City is the state capital. The next meeting will be hid at the home of Mrs. Arminda Lehman, Wednes-» day November 20, at 2 p.m. The Women of the Moose will meet at the Moose home, Thursday at 8 p.m. for formal enrollment. Clara Hindenlang is in charge of the chapter night program. SIX GUESTS ATTEND MEETING The Decatur affilate of hairdressers and cosmetologists met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. John Brecht. Miss Sharon Diehl, president, conducted the business meeting and opened with the pledge to the flag. Six guests were present for the meeting. They were Phyllis Beinz, Marlene Oliver, Beverly Umpleby, Jean Reynolds, Annabell Dubach, and Cathlgen Sauers. A report was given on the state convention held th Indianapolis at the Severin Hotel. The December meeting, the last open meeting until further notice, will be a dinner meeting wit htime and place to be announced later. Refreshments were served at the closing of the meeting by the hostess, Miss Sharon Diehl. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Fonda Lake, Mrs. Leo Teeple, Richard Mansfield, Jr., Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Clifford Hay, Mrs. Ethel Gaffer, Mrs. Jerry Fry and baby boy, Mrs. Thomas Gross and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Donald Bates and baby boy, Willshire, O. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

Club Schedule Telephone 3-2121 Miss Kay Shaffer Society Editor Calendar items for each day’s • publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m 'Saturday J? 30) TUESDAY Nu-U Club, 1323 West Monroe Street, 7:30 p.m. Profit and Pleasure Home Demonstration Club, Mrs. Roman Brite, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel Study, Mns. Elmo Lenegrich, 8 p.m. Monmouth P. T. A. “Back to School” night, 7:30 p.m. St. Domonic Study Club, Mrs. William Lose, Sr., 7:30 p.m. Associate Tri Kappa sorority, Lois Black, 7:30 pirn. Tri Kappa Active, 7:45 p.m. Mrs. Wm. Brown, important, bring mental health gifts. Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles Hall, 8 p.m. Delta Theta Tau sorority, Elks home, 6:30 p.m. Loyal Daughters class of E. U. B. church, Mrs. Frank Lynch, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Salem Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. Carl Schug, 1:30 p.m. Evangeline Circle of Zion United Church of Christ, Mrs. James Tumbleson, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of Lourdes Study Club, Mrs. Roman Brite, 8 p.m. W.M.S. of Pleasant Mills Baptist church, Mrs. Paul McCullough, 7 p.m. Business and Professional Woman's Club, Community Center, 6:30 p.m. K. of C. Auxiliary card/party, K. of C. Hall, 8:15 p.m/ Calvery Ladies Aid, Mfrs. Bertha Spangler, 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Missionary society, Parish hall, 1:30 p.m. Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Elks Lodge, 8 p.m. all chapters. Naomi Circle of First Presbyterian church, 9 a.m. church. Ruth Circle of First Presbyterian church, Miss Eleanor Pumphrey, 8 p.m. ONO Home Demonstration club Mrs. Don Menter, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Mt. Pleasant W.S.C.S. Mrs. Nevin Miller, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Moose home, 8 p.m., formal enrollment. Order of Eastern Star, Decatur Chapter 127, Masonic Hall, 7:30 p.m. Mary-Martha Circle of First Presbyterian church, Mrs. Ed Hagen, 2 p.m. Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Cloe Parrish and Susie Elliott; 6-9, Shirley Liby and Jo Klenk. So-Cha-Rae Dessert Bridge, Mrs. Tillman Gehrig, 7:30 p.m. W.S.C.S. First Methodist church, 11 a.m. chapel, noon lunch, program, 1:30 p.m. FRIDAY Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Jane McKensie and Barbara August; 6-9, Joan Brone and Barbara Rutter. SATURDAY Psi lota Xi Trading Post 1-4, Ann Arnold and Gini Elder. SUNDAY Chicken and Ham Supper, 4 p.m. Bake Sale, 3:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Lutheran church Ladies Aid. MONDAY “Meeting the Communist Challenge” by J. O. Dunbar, Community Center, 8 p.m. sponsored by Adams County Home Demonstration club women . V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary, Post Home, 8 p.m. Adams County Home Demonstration Club Chorus, Farm Bureau building, Monroe, 7:30 p.m.

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Locals Mrs. Lase Grimm, route 2, has i been admitted to the Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne for observation, A/1C Larry Geisel of Castle AFB, Merced, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Geisel spent several days visiting with Robert Geisel and family at Cape G'irordeau, Mo. Larry will spend a week visiting with his brother, who is a professor of sociology at the Southeast Missouri State College. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Archer have moved from Washington, D. C., where they have lived for the past two years, to Willshire, O. Archer is presently employed in Fort Wayne at Magnovox. Births Mr. and Mrs. Michael Durkin of 6139 Dog Leg Road, Dayton, 0., are the parents of a 6r. tb., 3 oz baby boy named Thomas Joseph. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Conrad and Mr. and Mrs. E. F. “Jiggs” Durkin, all of Decatur. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Maurice and Rosann Godde Miller, 321 Jackson street, are the parents of a 9 tb., Ai oz. baby boy born Monday at 7:40 a. m. A 6 lb., 2 oz. baby girl was born Monday at 5:39 p. m. to Marvin and Rochelle Burkhalter Cook, Geneva. Farmer Injured In Cornpicker Accident William Boerger, route 3, Decatur resident, was transferred to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Monday afternoon following a cornpicker accident on his farm. Boerger was taken to the local hospital before being transferred to Fort Wayne. The injury was in the genital region of the body. Pistol-Whipped And Robbed By Bandit MARION, Ind. (UP'll—Charles Harold Martelle, 62, owner of a filling station near Swayzee, told authorities he was pistolwhipped Monday night by a bandit who robbed him of about SSOO. Martelle said he was injured by a gunman who robbed him of several days’ receipts at a mobile home where Martellle and his wife live. He said the bandit hit him and knocked him down when he resisted, and threatened to kill the couple if they failed to give him the cash. Hulman Heads State Olympic Fund Drive--INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — An- • ton Hulman Jr., Terre Haute businessman and owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is chairman of the Indiana Olympic Fund drive. Indiana AAU President Elmer Marchino, Indianapolis, made the announcement and Hulman said a campaign goal of $20,000 was set. Three Tame Rabbits Stolen From Hutch RICHMOND, Ind. (UPD — The rabbit hunting season opened in Indiana Monday, but Charles Maurer believes somebody misread the rules. Maurer reported to Richmond, police that somebody broke the locks off his hutch and took .three tame rabbits

Grand Jury To Resume Probe On Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS ’(UPD — A Marion County grand jury will resume investigation of the tragic Halloween explosion at the fairgrounds coliseum Wednesday, hopefully armed with a special- laboratory report on suspect liquid petroleum gas tanks. The jury, as well as other officials studying the, cause of the blast which took 71 lives and injured nearly 400, are awaiting a report from Purdue University before Concluding their investigations. State Fire Marshal Ira Anderson Monday said the' examining engineers will probably have full test reports ready shortly before Wednesday. Anderson said it was strange that not one of the jury witnesses or other persons who were in the Coliseum had smelled the gas. He said federal regulations require an additive to the liquid petroleum gas which makes it smell like “rotten eggs.” The odor is meant as a warning, if the gas should begin leaking. The fire marshal made a personal investigation of the scene after receiving a call from a woman spectator who said she noticed the strange odor when she went to a restroom shortly before the explosion. When the jury resumes hearings, Prosecutor Noble Pearcy and his deputy, Leßoy New, may question members of the State Fair Board. New reportedly discovered that tanks like the ones thought to have caused the explosion, were standing in a hallway of 4he Coliseum during the 1963 Indiana State Fair. “There is some concern over why the board did not make closer inspection of its own building.” said New. The tanks supposedly were left over from the Shrine Circus held last April. Records in the state fire marshal’s office showed the Coliseum was last inspected in June. The building was also watched closely during the fair. During 1959, records show that the fire inspectors were called to the building on a complaint of leaking gas in a hallway.- They found that gas was leaking from a LP-tahk in a concession stand, according to the report. The foremost theory as to what caused the explosion is that a heat lamp caused the temperature in a spare LP-tank to rise to the point at which a safety valve popped and released the gas. The stream of gas pushing against a wall then knocked the tank to the floor, according to the theses, and a heat lamp on a popcorn bin almost 25 feet away may have ignited the gas.

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Farm Bureau Slates Doup For Reelection INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — George Doup of Columbus was scheduled to be re-elected president of the Indiana Farm Bureau today at the organization’s 45th annual convention closing session. Bureau members, who traditionally retain their presidents, year after year, also w/e scheduled to adopt resolutions including those touching on such national issues as public school prayers, the wheat sale to Russia, and the Indiana sales tax. At the Monday night sessions, nearly" 250 awards were presented and the farmer delegates heard an address by John C. Lynn, legislative director of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Lynn said farmers got so used to crutches they requested of the federal government during the 1930 depression years that "some of us are afraid to throw them away.” “We can’t move from where we are to a relatively free market overnight, but I’m certain that if we establish a transition program to bridge the gap, we will be well on our way to a freer and more prosperous economy," Lynn said. Larry Johnson, Muncie, accepted a safety program prize for the Delaware County Rural Youth. The Madison County Farm Bureau won top prize for a field crop program and Wayne County first in the jioultry program. Fined For Driving Without License ' Jackie L. McDonald. 30-year-old Decatur resident, paid a fine of $1 and costs, amounting to $18.75.- in justice of the peace court Monday. McDonald was charged with driving with an expired operator’s license on Sept. 25 by the city police.

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Justice Dept. J Seeks To Block Action By Jury WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Justice Department sought a dourt order today to block an >,„ Alabama grand jury from sub- • poenaing- several U.S. officials in an investigation of free transportation provided to Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. by the government. The suit asked the federal court tojprbid six Dallas County officials from using the grand jury to" "harrass, frustrate and obstruct" federal law enforcement efforts in the county. In its request for the restraining order, the government charged that the grand jnrv was part of a larger pattern of attempted intimidation of potential Negro voters in the county. The suit was filed in’U.S. District Court. The grand jury had subpoenaed seven Justice Department officials and a number of Negroes active in voter registration efforts in the county. Named as defendants in the

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suit were: Blanchard McLeod, solicitor" of the Dallas County judicial circuit; Henry Reese, county solicitor; James G. Cldrke Jr., county sheriff; James Hare, circuit court judge in Dallas County: M.H. Houston, circuit court clerk: Robert D. Wilkinson Jr., foreman of the circuit’ court grand jury: the Dallas County .Citizens council and seven of its officers. The subpoenas in question were issued by the grand jury Nov. 4. They called for the appearance before the grand jury in Selma. Ala , on Nov. 13 of Burke Marshall, assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights; John Doar. Marshall’s top assistant; and Arvid A. Sather. David H. Marlin,' Richard Wasserstrom and Kenneth G. Mclntyre, attorneys in the' civil rights div is ion. - A seventh subpoena was sent to Thclton Henderson, who resigned as an attorney in the civil rights division Nov. 6 after he admitted he lied when he denied loaning a governmentrented car Io a private citizen. The car was used to drive King frot.n Birmingham to a Negro rally in Selma and was the' subject of the grand jury investigation. If you have something to sell oi trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.