Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1963 — Page 3

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1963

MT. PLEASANT W.S.C.S. MEETS AT MILLER HOME The Mt. Pleasant W.S.C.S. met recently at the home of Mrs. Nevin Miller. The president, Mrs. William Fifer, opened the meeting with prayer. Miss Marsha King gave the devotions in the absence of Mrs. Bill Goldner. Mrs. P.obert Teeple presented the lesson entitled “Peace with God.” The group then sang "Trust and Obey.” Seventeen members answered roll call by naming a favorite recipe. During the business meeting the secretary and treasurer’s reports were read and old and new business was discussed. -• It was announced that the society wiJL,send Christmas boxes to boys in service and shut-ins. Mrs. Robert Fuhrman gave the closing thought for the day. Mrs. Nevin Miller, hostess, then served refreshments. The December meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. William Hosea. The Pythian Sister Needle club will meet at the Moose Home after Temple at 7:30 p. m. Monday. The hostesses will be Mrs. Clyde Harris and Mrs. Martin Weiland. The Phoebe Bible class of the Zion United Church of Christ will meet in the church social room, Wednesday at 2 p.m.

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The Builders class of the Trinity E.U.B. church will hold a family Thanksgiving supper at 6 p. m. Friday at the church. Members are to bring a covered dish and table service. Turkey will be furnished. Thursday at 6 p. m. the Trinity Bible class of the Decatur E.U.B. church will meet in the fellowship hall for a carry-in supper. A social meeting will be held by' the D.A.V. Auxiliary at the D.A.V. Hall, Monday at 7:3Q p.m. The Pleasant Mills Community organization will meet Monday at the school at 7:30 p. m. All parents and teachers are urged to attend. Wednesday at 2 p. m. the Ruth and Naomi Circle of the Zion United Church of Christ will meet in the church parlor. Locals David Hendricks of Gary, spent several days visiting Richard Hendricks of Decatur. Dick Mansfield, Jr., has returned to his patrolman duties on the Decatur police force. Mansfield was hospitalized recently due to an ulcer condition. Mrs.. William Pate, route 4, Bluffton, has been released from Wells county hospital. Louise Elizabeth Fiechter, 19, route 4, Bluffton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin E. Fiechter, and Robert Kay , Reimschisel, 26, of route 2, Ossian, have applied for a marriage license in the Wills county clerk’s office. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Alma Reppert, Decatur; Edgar Hockemeyer, Monroeville; Mrs. Martha Price, Berne. Dismissed Mrs. Fredrick Kukelhan and and baby girl, Roy Sautbine; Decatur. Road Toll May Be Worst In 22 Years INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Indiana is almost a cinch to rack tip its worst one - year traffic death toll in 1963 since 1941 and the third worst in history. After a 10-fatality weekend, the toll stood at 1,154 with 44 days remaining in the year and an average of 3.6 deaths per day recorded in the first 321 days of the year. If the average continues, the final toll would be 1,312 with 158 fatalities* added by New Year’s Eve. Since the all-time record year of 1941 when 1,478 were killed, no year has had more than 1,277 deaths. This was the record for 1952. A 1,312 - death calendar year would rank third behind 1941 and the 1,367 killed in 1937. The only other time as many as 1,300 were killed was in 1936. Die toll that year was 1,305. Already this year, more persons have been killed than for 22 complete years of the 35 since 1928. Last year’s toll of 1,233, the worst in 10 years, stands likely to be passed about the first week of December. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Club Schedule Telephone 3-2121 Miss Kay Shaffer Society Editor Calendar Items for each day’s publication must be phoned In by 11 am '‘Saturday J? 30) TUESDAY Church Mother’s Study Club, Mrs. William Journey, 8 p.b. Sunbeam Garden Club, Mrs. Ralph Ross, Sr., 7:30 p.m. Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men’s Hall, 7:30 p.m. 30’ers Club Dinner, Community Center, p.m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Mrs. Ray Heller, 8 p.m. St. Jude Study Club, Miss Rose Mary Miller, 8 p.m. Wesleyan Service Guild, Mrs. Elmer Chase, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY New England Dinner and Bazaar, Methodist Church, 5 until 7 p.m. Ruth and Naorm Circle of Zion United Church of Christ, church parlor, 2 p.m. Phoebe Bible Class, Zion United Church of Christ social room, 7:30 p.m. Shakespeare club, Mrs. Pettibone, 2 p.m. Ave Maria Study club, Mrs. Paul Briede, 8 p.m. Live and Learn Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Gladys Koos, 1:30 p.m. Pleasant Mills W. S. C. S„ Methodist church, 7:30 p.m. Historical Club, Arminda Lehman, 2 p.m. Woman’s Association of First Presbyterian church, 8 p.m. church St. Vincent De Paul society, C. L. of C. Hall, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Trinity Bible Class of Decatur E. U. B, church, carry-in dinner fellowship hall, 6 p.m. FRIDAY Builders Class of Trinity E.U.B. church, family Thanksgiving supper, 6 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration club, C. L. of C. Hall, 1:30 p.m. Friendship Village Home Demonstration club, St. Mary’s Conservation building, 1 p.m. Golden Age Group of Methodist church, Mrs. W. P. Robinson, 9:30 a.m. Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Dee Macke and Barbara Fuelling; 6-9, Kay Grimm and Norma Moore. • Monroe W. C. T. U., Mrs. Raymond Crist, 1:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Moose Home, 8 p.m. Gals and Pals Square Dance club, beginners classes, 7-8 p.m. Community Center. FRIDAY American Legion Auxiliary unit 43, Legion Home, 8 p.m. special. Psi lota Xi Trading Post,. 1-4, Nola Isch and Dee Macke; 6-9, Jane Heller and Jackie Burke. SATURDAY Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Madeline Blackburn and Leona Gentis Story Hour, Public Library, 1:30 p.m. Ham and Turkey Supper, Moose Home, 5 until 7 p.m. MONDAY Pythian Sister Needle Club, Moose Home, after Temple, 7:30 p.m. D. A. V. Auxiliary, D. A. V. HaH, 7:30 p.m. social . Pleasant Mills Community Organization, Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 pm. New Regime In Iraq Partially Lifts Curfew BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD _ Iraq’s new military regime today partly lifted the ’24-hour curfew it clamped on the country during its seizure of power in Monday’s coup. The capital was reported calm in Baghdad Radio reports. (However, the British Embassy in Baghdad reported to the Foreign Office in London that “fairly heavy firing” was heard in the city early today, with “occasional" firing heard up to 10 a.nf. (2 a.m. EST). This indicated the army still might be carrying out mopping-up operations against die-hard members of the strongly pro-Baathist natonal guard who resisted Monday’s. tak®e”e?;i- ■ In announcing relaxation of the curfew, Baghdad Radio said persons would be allowed to circulate between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., but private vehicles still were forbidden use of the streets. Senior Iraqi army officers who had supported the Iraqian Baath regime, it was learned today, participated in Monday’s coup d’etat. With the oil-rich country still sealed off from the outside world more than 24 hours after the overthrow, information wps scant but these points appeared clear:

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Resume Search For Hotel Fire Victims

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPD —Search resumes today for the remaining 16 victims of Monday’s pre-dawn fire here which killed 25 elderly guests of a residence for the aged. Seven bodies and part of an eighth already have been removed from the smouldering debris of the tragic fire and another person died in a hospital from injuries. Det. Capt. Albert Wilson, in charge of search operations, called off the hunt late Monday night because the rubble of the Surfside Hotel, where the victims were trapped, was “too hot in the center, ■ too smoky and it was too dark.” A three-man FBI team has arrived here to help identify the bodies which may prove difficult if not impossible in some cases. ' Many Damaged The spreading fire, with flames that soared 200 feet, destroyed four other hotels and damaged four additional guest houses which housed no residents other than token maintenance staffs. Milton Rauer, 48, the owner of the Surfside, six of his relatives, eight guests and three employes made their way out safely through the billowing, smoke and flames shortly after® the flames erupted about 4)30 a.m. (EST). Fifty-six pieces of fire equipment and more than 450 fireFred Reinking Dies Monday Afternoon Fred J. Reinking, 67. of Fort Wayne, a native of Adams county, died at 4:10 p.m. Monday in the Lawton nursing home. He was a member of Emmaus Lutheran church and its Men’s club, and was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are two sisters. Misses Freda and Helen, and two brothers, Walter and-Otto, all of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Wellman's funeral home, the Rev. Walter M. Schoedel officiating. Burial will be in Concordia Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral borne after 7 p.m. today., If you have something to sell o»*s ’trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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fighters' including those from nearby communities battled the flames but for the most part all they equid do was watch helplessly’ while the 60-year-old frame building was leveled. City Commissioner Meredith Kerstetter. director of public safety in charge of police and fire operations said Monday that the Surfside “was routine_Jy inspected in June and that it measured up to fire safety regulations. However the fire department will be alerted to continue a thorough investigation of all buildings.” No One Saw Fire Fire Chief Warren Conover said that 1 at the Surfside “they were as safe as they could get .for a frame building. Usually we have been blessed when one of these frame buildings catches fire that somebody it, now that the vacation season is over and not so many ’people around, well ” Atlantic City, a jammed seaside resort area in the summer has the second largest ratio of elderly population in the United States next tp St. Petersburg, •Fla. u Rauer said later the fire was “a quick, sudden thing—a blast of flame. The night man smelled smoke, awakened me, and called firemen and pqjice. “By then, everything was a mass of . flames. We jumped to safety from a back window of the first floor.” Home, School Assn. To Meet Wednesday — The Decatur Catholic—schools Home and School association will iear Msg.r, J.x William diocesan superirijendent of instruction, at the association’s meeting at 8 p. m. Wednesday. The meeting will also be the occasion for the induction of 22 Decatur Catholic high school students into the NationaT Honor ciety. Teachers will be in their classrooms for conferences with parents for a half hour before the meeting. Zipper Handle A lost or broken pull handle from a zipper in a purse or (th a garment can be replaced temporarily by a paper clip of apl>,4«(opriate size. Merely thread the,, clip through the loop at . the top of the slide portion of the zipper.

Barghoorn To Relate Stay In Soviet Prison NEW HAVEN, Conn, (UPD— Yale, Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn prepared to tell State Department officials today of his 16 days behind Russian prison bars on spy charges. Barghoorn’s trip to Washington includes a session with high ranking foreign advisers of the Kennedy administration. Speculation was high that the political scientist might have an audience with President Kennedy. No official appointment has been scheduled, however. Barghoorn was scheduled to talk with Llewellyn E. TOiompson, Soviet affairs adviser, William R. Tvler, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, Richard H. Davis, Tyler’s deputy. The session was to be held at the State Department, but Secretary of State Dean Rusk was not expected to attend. To Reveal Details At the meeting. Barghoorn was expected to reveal some of the details of his arrest and imprisonment. He has not spoken, publicly at length about either since his return to the United States Sunday. At a massive rally Monday night in the university’s Woolsey Hall, 2.500 students and faculty members jammed the hall to pay tribute to the returned scholar. Originally scheduled as a protest and fund-raising rally by the Yale Committee for Barghoorn, the gathering was transformed into a gigantic “welcome home" demonstration. Address Rally Barghoorn and Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. addressed the rally. Businesslike at the podium 'qgf, the giant hall, the sandy-haired, 52-year-oldprofessor called his ordeal a basic, conflict between segments of Soviet society. He said he regarded himself as a symbol and added that something similar might have easily happened to someone else. Barghoorn said the massive support voiced by American academic communities was “a vindication of my activity. I did e, not go to the Soviet Union with any kind of intelligence mission in mind.”

Says Propane Gas Cause Os Coliseum Blast INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Propane gas caused the explosion at the Indiana Fairgrounds Coliseum which fatally injured 71 persons Oct. 31. according to a report made public Monday. W. L. Walls, National Fire Protection. Association, wrote the report to be included with an overall report being compiled by. state. Marion County and Indianapolis officials. ■ > “Through process of elimination and supported by the physical evidence and observations of witnesses, it is concluded that the , explosion was caused by/the? ignition of a propane-air mixture resulting from the release of propane from one of five cylinders in the area." his report stated. Walls came to Indianapolis and participated in several fire marshal’s hearings as well as making an on-the-spot probe. Five liquid petroleurp gas tanks were found either in the commissary beneath the box seats where the explosion occurred. or nearby. The tanks today were undergoing a continuing series of exhaustive tests at Purdue University. Walls’ did not concern itself with the actual. point or cause of the explosion, that is the series of event leading to detonation, nor attempted to place responsibility for the tragedy. These areas are still being probed by the governmental investigating team and by a Marion County grand, jury. “The pattern of the explosion damage,’’ Walls said, “is con-

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