Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1963 — Page 3

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1963

SOCIETY

SUNNY CIRCLE i CLUB MEETS MONDAY NIGHT The annual Christmas party and secret pal gift exchange of the Sunny Circle home demonstration club was held Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Preble Gardens. Dinner was served from tables decorated with large, candle Christmas logs for centerpieces, and small individual logs as favors marked the place of each guest. Mrs. Marvin Conrad, the club president, asked all to join in the club prayer before the dinner. Roll call was answered by “How I Found Out About Santa Claus.” The origin of the song “It Came Upon' a Midnight Clear,” was given by Mrs. Ralph Mankey and all present sang the song. The members of the organization having birthdays during the month of December were seranaded with the birthday song. The opportunity school was remembered with a donation of money. Secret pal names were drawn for the year 1964, and a Christmas program followed which wasgiven by Mrs. Arthur Koen&nan on how various countries observe Christmas and where some Christmas cards originated. These carols were then sung by the group. Mrs. Milton Kruetzman presided over the candle light ceremony for the installation of the new officers. All members then sang “Silent Night,” which closed the program for the evening. — PINOCHLE CLUB HOLD# CHRISTMAS PARTY The Pinochle club had its Christmas arty at the ho.rne of Mrs. Calvin Magley recently. Delicious refreshments were served from tables decorated with candles and nylon tulle in the Christmas colors. Pinochle was played, following the dinner and prizes were awarded to Mrs. Lawrence Kohne, first; Mrs. Paul Hammond, second, and Mrs. Florence Engle received the third prize. After cards the annual gift exchange was held. Cards were written and sent to the two members who are in the hospital. Mrs. Porter will be the hostess for the month of January. If vou nave something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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CHRISTMAS PARTY IS HELD BY CLUB The Monroe Better home demonstration club met recently at the Dutbh Mill restaurant in Bluffton for their Christmas party. Dinner was served from tables decorated in the holiday fashion, using green boughs, candles and Christmas bulbs. The centerpiece of each table was dotted with red Yuletide balls with the name of each member tinseled, and given as favors. The president, Mrs. Leonard Johnston, welcomed the group and Mrs. Glen Stucky offered the dinner prayer. Following the dinner the group sang “Silent Night" and the Song of the month, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.” Mrs. E. Pierce read the Christmas story from the gospel of Luke for the devotions. Mrs. Harold Rich read the poem “Christmas for Penny,” and Mrs. Johnston read the poem entitled “The Joy of Little Things.” Mrs. Merle Kuhn, county president, installed the following officers for 1964: president, Mrs. Richard Reinhart; vice president, Mrs. ,Clifford Essex; secretary, Mrs. Harold Rich; treasurer, Mrs. James Nussbaum; publicity, Mrs. Eva Brewster; leaders, Mrs. Ed Pierce and Mrs. Carl Rash; alternate leaders, Mrs. Hiram Wittwer and Mrs. Martin Steiner; health and safety, Mrs. Ervin .Stucky; citizenship, Mrs. Otto Longenberger; song leader, Mrs. Wilbur Stanley., A comedy skit was then presented by Mrs. James Nussbaum, Mrs. Claude Laisure and Mrs. Clifford Essex. Each member received a gift from her secret pal whose identity was then revealed, and new names were drawn for next year. Group pictures were taken. It was voted that the club would send Christmas cards to Mrs. John Floyd, Mrs. Harve Sells and Mrs. Lillian Stucky, all members who are spending the winter in Florida. A gift was presented to Mrs. Kuhn, the county president, who is moving to Angola. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Harold Rich and Mrs. Edward Pierce.

Hospital Admitted Mrs. James Lybarger, Geneva; Chas.'J. Miller, Decatur; Mrs. Cfcas. Fiechter. Bluffton; Uris I.'Lehman, Berne; Baby Stephen Gaspers,' Decatur; Mrs. Hattie Suttles, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Robert L. Sprunger, Berne, Baby Stephen Gaspers, Decatur; Doyle C. Collier, Decatur. At the Adams county memorial hospital: A baby girl was born to Noll 'and Barbara Black Thatcher, route 5, Decatur. The baby arrived at 7:55 p.m. Monday and weighed 8 lbs and 12 oz. Daniel and Eileen Bieberich Freeby, 235 Limberlost Trail, Decatur, are parents of a baby girl, born at 8:30 this morning. She weighed 6 lbs. and 12 oz. Unusual Switching Activity On Erie The unusual switching activity on the Erie Lackawanna railroad Monday evening was caused by a wreck on the Pennsylvania raproad east of Lima, 0., that resulted in a number of freight cars being transferred onto the Erie line. The switching in Decatur was necessary to re-route the trains properly, M. W. Bumgerdner. Erie station agent explained. The Unusual activity had drawn the interest of local people, who wondered if there had been a wreak*" 'on the Erie line. / Trade in a cood town — Decatur.

Snow Bunnies on the Slopes p — y - <• ti - -ft Pi wWSt MWgmfi t J O "A. * WRBIII w - x When the weather ranges from cool to cold, ski-look sweaters fit into many facets of country living. Pullover (left) by Joan Marie has Icelandic pattern m gold, blue and black in brushed Orlon. Laced V-neckline is a new fashion touch. For actual skiing, jacquard sweater by Boepple (right) is long and easy-fitting. Orlon Sayelle m a firm, bulky knit texture is perfect with trim stretch pants.

Ruby Hearing For Bail Is Postponed DALLAS (UPI) - Dapper Jack Ruby, smiling and chipper, was back in jail today because his dramatic hearing for* bail bond freedom became too complicated Monday. One of the strippers from his Carousel Club, Karen Lynn (Little Lynn) Bennett, 19, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a 25-caliber snub-nose pistol, into the county courthouse. The dancer, a witness at the hearing, later was released from jail on SI,OOO bonds. Criminal Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown postponed the hearing until Jan. 10 after it had run for three hours and 25 minutes. The balding, 52-year-old man charged with murder in the slaying of suspected presidential assassin Lee -: Harvey was whisked back, to jail. Ruby did not take the stand. There were five witnesses for the state and defense, including “Little Lynn,” who was led crying from the stand to jail - before bond was posted. ' " Melvin Belli, who led the dramatic defense,. isaid he would offer more witnesses at the Jan. 10 hearing. Belli also asked that the murder trial be postponed from Feb. 3■ to Feb. 10 “because of a conflict.” but Brown did not rule on the request. The San Francisco lawyer also said he. will formaly request that the trial be moved from Dallas to another , Texas city '‘because of statements that have been macle and are being made by the Dallas News.’’ The defense sought freedom on bail for Ruby on the ground that he was temporarily insane when he dashed in front of national television cameras Nov. 24 and fired a snubnosed pistol into Oswald’s body. They contended he needs psychiatric aid outside of jail. Man Arraigned On Charge Os Forgery i Glen Dague, 32-year-old Fort Wayne resident and formerly of Adams county, was arraigned in the Adams circuit court this morning on charges of forgery. Judge Myles F. Parrish advis)ed Dague of his legal rights and 'ordered him remanded to the local jail until he enters a plea to the charge.. Dague was apprehended in Fort Wayne last week on a warrant and is being held tinder SI,OOO bond.

We Wd 7»r Gt r Lit ma A The First Methodist Church West Monroe at Fifth You Are Invited to Attend Christmas Eve Services Tonight 11 to 12 o’clock. < <*■ V . A. C. UNDERWOOD, „ 1 Pastor

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32 Persons Are Killed In Hungarian Wreck BUDAPEST, Hungary (UPI)— A passenger train crashed into a standing freight train in fog near Szolnok, Hungary, early today, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported. Thirtytwo pier sons were reported killed and 36 injured. West Berliners Pass Through Wall BERLIN (UPI) — Throngs of West Berliners carrying gifts to brighten Christmas Eve for their relatives in East Berlin passed through gaps in the Communist Berlin wall today. ' Communist officials opiened the wall two and one-half hours before the scheduled 7 a.m. 1 am. EST opening time and more than 5,000 West Berliners had crossed the barrier by midmorning. This was equal to the number all day Monday. Thousands of other West Berliners waited patiently in line in the snow for passes to make pwst-Christmas visits. The last passes for Chritmas Day visits were issued Monday. The pass bureaus in West Berlin school —gymnasiums set their opening three' hours early today to permit the 240 East German postal clerks processing piasses to go. home, at 3 p.m. and decorate their , own Christmas tree. Berlin’s atmosphere of Christmas cheer was shattered Monday by Communist machine gun fire along the anti-refugee wall where it separates West Berlin from East Germany. Communists VOPOS (peoples pjolice) apparently fired on and captured an East German at-, tempting to reach West Berlin. It was not known whether the refugee was hit by the gunfire. The shooting was, the first such incident since the East German Communist. regime opened a crack in the wall last Thursday to permit West Berliners to visit their relatives in East Germany for the first time since the wall was built 28 months ago. The Communists expected the biggest rush of visitors Wednesday. Thev promised to widen the crossing point at the Chaussee so that two lines of cars could move through together and to reopen a footbridge beside the Qberbaum Bridge crossing as they did on Sunday for the first big wave of visitors.

Fighting Reported Al Cyprus Capital NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPl)—Cypriots today opened fire on the palace of the president, Archbishop Makarios, and other fighting was reported in nearby areas of the capital. Makarios, leader of the island's Greek majority, was not in the palace at the time of the shooting. Shots were fired -from a moslem minaret and other high buildings near the palace. Makarios’ guards returned the fire, but there was no report of casualties. Greek guards on a rooftop near tire offices of the Cyprus Mail exchanged shots with Turks down the street from the newspaper plant. Another clash was reported in the Turkish section of the city between civilians and a police pirtrbl. i The rattle of automatic weapons mingled with the sound of Christmas carols from radios tuned in to a British station. It was the fourth day of fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Fourteen persons have been killed and about 50 wounded.

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Telephone 3-2121 Miss Kay Shaffer Society Editor Calendar items for each day's publication must be phoned in by 11 .'’•♦’’Hst J? 30) TUESDAY Olive Rebekah lodge, Red Men’s Hall, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY” Order of Eastern Star-Decatur Chapter No. 127, Masonic Hall, 1:30 p.m. Wortien of the Moose, Moose Home, 8 p. m. FRIDAY Decatur Missionary Church Fellowship Circle, Mrs. Lloyd Reef. 7:30 p.m. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Home, Social, 8 p.m. SATURDAY Story Hour, Public Library, 1:30 p. m. Locals Mrs. A. R. Holthouse plans to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day in Fort Wayne with the families of her daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome O’Dowd and Mr. and Mrs. James Holthouse. On Thursday another son, Dan and his family from , Louisville will arrive in Decatur to spend a few days with Mrs. Holthouse and other relatives. Mrs. Genevieve Christman and Mrs. Loren Erhart of Bluffton spent Sunday in Decatur at the Kenneth Erhart home. In the afternoon the gift exchange was held with the Erhart children, Kim, Kay and Douglas participating: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Briede, of Fort Wayne,- will entertain Christmas day for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Briede, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Briede and children. Pat Jr., Jean, Mike and Judy frorruDecatur, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Briede, Battle Creek, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Briede and children, Dianne, Richard. Jr., Bridged, Ann , and David from Indianapolis. Mr.’ and Mrs. Lowell Harper of 203 Stratton Way and. their daughter, Mrs. Gerald Ault and her husband and children, Kathy and Peter, will spend Christmas day in New Haven at the home of the Thomas Havensteins. Havenstein is a nephew of Mrs. Harper. The Gerald Ault family, whose has been in Rancho Cordova, Calif., will now make Akron, Ohio their new home, where Ault has accepted a position.

Kennedys Planning Quiet Christmas PALM BEACH. Fla. (UPD— Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, buoyed by the good wishes of her countrymen, prepared a quiet but bountiful Christmas today- for her children. She planned a private Mass with the children of the late President at the home of his parents, former Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. A spokesman said Mrs. Kennedy and the youngsters, Caroline, 6, and John Jr., 3, would also eat Christmas dinner in the evening at the oceanside home of the elder Kennedy, about a mile from the mansion oi C. Michael Paul where Mrs. Kennedy. and her family have been staying. The former First Lady has been in seclusion since arriving here last Wednesday, but ventured out on a last-minute shopping trip late Monday on Palm Beach's exclusive Worth Avenue. When a crowd gathered, she cut the trip short. Accompanying Mrs. Kennedy were the youngsters; Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Secret Service men. Mrs. Kennedy went Into two shops but when people began recognizing her, she climbed into a car with the children and drove away. Christmas at the Kennedy winter home will not be the same as in other years when a gathering of the clan had been traditional. This year, there Will be Mrs. Kennedy, the elder Kennedys, the former First Lady's sister. Princess Lee Radziwill and her two children, and perhaps one or two other family members or close associates. Boy Is Bitten By Two Doqs Monday A dog-bite case was reported to the' city police department Tuesday evening by Edgar Kiess, 226 N. Seventh St. Kiess reported that his 13-ycar-old son, Joseph, was bitten by two dogs on 13th street about 6 o’clock Monday night. The youngster was bitten on both legs and the kne? by the two animals. The police investigated, and found the dogs owned by Donna King, 934 N. 12th St. Mrs. King reported the dogs did not have any rabies shots and that she i would keep both .tied up for 14 days to check for] the possibility . of rabies. . .i-. ... > Trade in a good town — Decatui

WASHINGTON (UPD — Fear t that President Kennedy’s assas- t smation might be part of a c “worldwide conspiracy’’ to kill i all officials in line for the presi- ! dency prompted President < Johnson to order news of Ken- . nedy’s death withheld for a time. . s fc ".— ’ i Assistant White House Press . Secretary Malcolm Kilduff said ( in a radio interview Monday that Johnson ordered word of Kennedy’s death withheld at least until he could leave Dallas’ Parkland Hospital Nov. 22. Kilduff quoted Johnson as saying there was no way of telling whether the death of Kennedy was the beginning of a chain of assassination attempts aimed at himself and the next two men in line for, the presidency. Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass.. and Senate President Pro Tempore Carl Hayden. R-Ariz. As a security precaution against this threat. Johnson felt that he should get back to the presidential plane "Air Force One’’ at Dallas' Love Field before the news of Kennedy’s death was released, Kilduff said. Quotes Johnson He quoted^Johnson as saying, “we don't know whether this is a worldwide conspiracy, whether' they are after me as well as they were after President Kennedy, or whether they are after Speaker McCormack, or Sen -Tiayden ” Kilduff said that when Johnx son first learned oj Kennedy’s death. the new President’s thoughts turned to the eireumstances siirrounding lhe assassination of Abraham Lincoln 98 years before. On the night Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes - Booth, other .assassins broke into the home of Secretary of State William H. Seward and wounded him severely, but failed in an at-

Aliens Required To Report Addresses HAMMOND, Ind. — Officer in charge Byron G. Johnson, of the immigration and naturalization service, stated that aliens in the.' United States will lx* required ► to report their addresses io the attorney general within the neats fuure. All aliens with a few exceptions, who arc in the United States on January 1 each year, must report their addresses by . the end of that, month Only the following classes of aliens arc excused” from this requirement(l) accredited diplomats: ’(2) persons accredited to certain international organizations: Land <3) those.- admitted temporarily as..agricultural laborers. Forms with which to make the report can be obtained from any post office or immigration service office during the month of January. Johnson said that the law provides severe penalties for fail 4 ure to comply with the reporting requirement. i Junior Basic Troop Course Completed Nine Decatur women nnd one from Huntertown recently completed a Junior ty>ric troop leadership course, according to an announcement by the personnel committee of the Limberlost Girl , Scout council, The course was held in Decatur, complete with exception of the outdoor dav, poss, poned from Nov 25 until April 7, at Hanna-Nuttman park. Decatur ladies completing the course were Mrs. Dean Boltz, • Mrs. C. Doyle Collier, Mrs Arthur Girod. Mrs. Edwin Hagan. t Mrs Paul Johnson, Mrs. Norman r Phillips. Mrs. -Ren Eichenauer, i Mrs. Richard Gerig and Mrs , Kenneth Shannon Mrs. Arthur * Ordas was the Huntertown lady taking the course. r : If you nave something to sell or V-~trade — use the Democrat Want nds — they get RTG result*

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tempt to kill him. The. conspirator assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson lost his nerve and fled. At that time, was next -in line of Stic-, cession to the presidency after Johnson. Kilduff said that when Johnson was discussing the possibility of an assassination conspiracy he mentioned the attempt on Seward's life. Sought Permission 1 Kilduff said that, as the official , White House spokesman on hhe trip to Dallas, he asked Johnson for permission to release the news that Kennedy was dead. “No,” Johnson told him. “I think we had better wait fdr a , few minutes... .and I think I had better get out of ..here and' get back to the plane before you announce it.” A Secret Service gu.ard was assembled and Johnson was escorted to a waiting ear for the trip to the airport. Before the car left. Kilduff said he told Johnson -he was. going to make® the announcement as soon as the new President left. — Kilduff said that, once John- '* sori's car pulled away he ran •- back into the hospital and told newsmen that Kennedy was was dead In line with Johnson’s security order, however, he said he refused to discuss the new President’s “whereabouts or- destination.’’ Kilduff said that Johnson did not need any time to consider his decision to withhold the news of Kennedy’s death. He ■ termed Johnson's 'answer “immediate.” *- '■

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