Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1964 — Page 10

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PWblfrhU Bmry Evwiu Except Bunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Mimi at tte Daeatur. Ind.. Port Office aa Second data M».~ Dick D. Heller, Jr. Prertdeot John G. HeUer ———— Vice President Oaa. E. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Sebacrtotiea Kates Hr Mail, la Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, U 0.00; ta mouths, $8.30; 3 monuis, $3.00. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year. Hl.*; • months, *00; 3 months, $3.13. By Carrier. 35 cents per week. Single copies. 7 cents _ God In the Schools "They’ve kicked God out of the schools!” This is the charge made by a number of well-meaning people since the series of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. Only an atheist could believe such a thing. How could man kick God out of any place? God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-prevalent. Man cannot move him physically. He is still in the schools. Well, then, what has the Supreme Court done? It has outlawed teaching children dogmatic beliefs or prayers concerning any particular aspect of God. Notice that phrase, “any particular aspect.” On the surface, all of us would agree that it is a good thing to teach “the Bible” or about “God” in school. After all, God is good, religion is good, so what harm could it do? Have we forgotten the purpose of school? Many good things are omitted from school. Candy is good, but we don’t eat candy in class. Politics are good, and our country, our very kind of government, could never succeed without it, but we do not, in our public schools teach any kind of partisan politics. In religion, however, partisanship cannot be avoided. If you pray a general prayer, without mention of Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, you are inculcating your children with what most of us would consider “watered-down” religion — the stuff that makes people Unitarians. If you include the three Persons of the Godhead, you risk offending those who believe in the unity of God, or those who believe differently in the Godhead. Today, the average little child will not understand the vocabulary of the King James version of the Bible — yet many would object if the understandable American Standard Revised, or Douay version, or even the new Jewish translation of the Old Testament were use d —to these people, Christianity is not Christianity without the “good old book” — King James Version, of their parents and childhood days. Os course God is in the schools. But parents, and their churches, are responsible for the concept of God that is within the child, not the public school teacher. School teachers have legal responsibility to teach history, as clearly as possible, as ft is verified; to teach science, math, languages, as they are best understood; but public school teachers have no business teaching dogma; that is for the parents and their church. If we are to support public schools with tax money, then we must keep narrow sectarian beliefs out of the teaching; your belief may not seem narrow and sectarian to you, that is true. But it may infringe on the rights of parents to teach your religious ideas — "But Mom, the teacher said it was true, and you TOLD me to believe the teacher” — to little children. The alternative is to break up the backbone of our country — our free, public schoools where every child gets a broad, liberal education and go to either privately supported, or tax-support-ed private, religious schoools — which frequently lead to pettiness, crass competition, and wasteful hatreds — the very antithesis of the teachings of Christ. The editor does not believe that those who disagree with him on this are Communists. Nor does he believe they are atheists. Nor the aijti-Christ. He only feels that they could do more good by teaching, in the home, Church and Saturday and Sunday school, through the catechism, through good and powerful example in right living and right behavior — including only GOOD TV shows or suitable other entertainbent — and through patient instruction— a far stronger and more Christ-like Christianity than could ever be hoped for through meaningless “nice”’ exercises in the public school. Editorial written by Dick Heller

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HOAGLAND HIGH By Phyllis Franke The National Honor Society held an induction meeting Monday as part of the P. T. A. meeting. At this time, the members who were eligible to belong were inducted into the organixation. — H. H. S. — Joan Hockemeyer has received the Betty Crocker award for excellence in home economics. Miss Hockemeyer has received a pin awarded for this honor from her teacher. Mrs. Herderhorst. Her exam paper will now be judged on a statewide basis. — H. H. S. — Last week was a big one as far as sports was concerned. On Tuesday, the Wildcats took on the Jets of Adams Central. The Wildcats were winners by a small margin after a highly contested game. Don Thornell took scoring honors with 23. Friday night, the New Haven Bulldogs won in overtime by a score of 76-72. — H. H. S. — The senior and junior sections of the band have started to prepare for the annual N. I. S. B. 0. V. A. contests. Best of luck to all of those who haveentefed. — H. H. S. — On Wednesday, grade cards were given with six-weeks and semester grades. — H. H. S. — Once again the seniors were reminded that graduation is not far away when they were measured for caps and gowns Wednesday. — H. H. S. — MONMOUTH HIGH By Kathy Lewton Hi, my name is Kathy Lewton, and I am a senior at M. H. S. I will be bringing you the latest happenings at Monmouth for the second semester. — M. H. S. — - Friday, January 24, the Monmouth Eagles played a game with the Lancaster Bobcats. The Bobcats scored a victory over the Eagles by a margin of. 57 to 56. The second team game was won by Monmouth. The score for this game was 41-25. — M. H. S. — Tuesday, the sophomores were given’their hearing tests by Mrs. Grabill. — M. H. S. — January 23, the junior high and freshman teams played Geneva at the Monmouth gym. Geneva won over the junior high team by a score of 35-24. The freshman also lost to Geneva. The score for this game was 33-29. "L — M. H. S. — The sth and 6th grade team defeated the Lincoln school team, Thursday after school at Monmouth by a score of 61-9. — M. H. S. — Monday, January 27, the junior high and freshman teams will play Hoagland at Hoagland. The game starts at 5:30. Lots of luck! — M. H. S. — A meeting will be held for the members of the junior class and their parents, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Dorwin, Mrs. Schnepf, and Mr. McConaha will discuss the results of the preliminary scholastic aptitude tests which were taken earlier by the juniors. — M. H. S. - Friday, January 31. the Eagles travel to Woodlan to play against

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the Warriors. The scores for this game will be published at a later date. Let’s bring home another victory, boys! — M. H. S. — ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH By Judy Htrschy The annual homecoming held January 24 at the preliminary game between Adams Central and Pennville was a scene of great expectation and joy. The queen candidates were escorted to the stage in the gymnasium by the king candidates. The couples as they entered the gym were as follows: the flower girl and the crown bearer, Louise Stucky and Mark Webb, respectively; Judy Hirschy. escorted by Paul Hirschy; Carol Schwartz, escorted by Don Egley; Nancy Miller, escorted by Bill Hirschy; Suellen Bentz, escorted by Gary Clouse; and Debby Smith, escorted by Mike Leyse. The announcement for king brought Gary Clouse forward. After giving an acceptance speech, he crowned Nancy Miller queen. Upon receiving the bouquet of mums, Nancy expressed her gratitude and was taken to and seated in the chair of honor. We wish our reigning king and queen. Gary Clouse and Nancy Miller, the very best of luck and happiness. — A. C. H. S. — At the half of the varsity game between Adams Central and Pennville, the senior band marched. This was the first showing of their new band uniforms. Following the performance, the Music Loyalty cluKjtas presented by the Monroe Lions club a check for SBOO which will go to the payment of the uniforms. The new uniforms looked very nice! . — A. C. H. S. — Those Jets really rolled that ball! The Jets really upset the Bulldogs with a score of 96-51. Os the thirteen on the Jet’s team, all scored and four were in double figures. The preliminary score was Adams Central 60, Pennville 33. Nice going, team! — A C. H. S. — Monday evening after school the Y. F. C. club had as their speaker Rev. Gerald Gerig from the Missionary church in Decatur. The club wishes to thank him for his ver y interesting talk. — A. C. H. S. — CRESTVIEW HIGH By Terry Bollenbacher Hk Test grades and averages for the third six weeks -and firstsemester will be distributed during the last part of this week. — C. H. S. — Individual pictures were taken Monday morning of this week at the high school. The freshman, sophomore and junior students were called from their classes

during the first hour of the day. — C. H. S. — Recently one hundred selected band students from the county met at Ohio City for a preliminary rehearsal for the Van Wert County band festival which was held Tuesday, of this week. Tbirty-six of these students were from -Crestview. The festival was to give the more advanced band musicians of Van Wert County an opportunity to perform under the direction of different conductors and the chance to perfirm with other musicians of high quality. - C. H. S. — The Crestview community institute will take place February 4-5, at Crestview North. One of the main events of the institute will be a play entitled, “Tell It To Ethel.” The play will be presented February 5, at 8 p.m. in the Crestview North gymnasium. Everyone is. invited to attend! - C. H. S. — DECATUR CATHOLIC HIGH By Joan Gase The senior English students are very busy with the book comparisons. Several are reading “The Tempest,” “King Lear,” and other Shakespeare plays while others are being introduced to “The True Concept of Literature” .by App, and “Norms for the Novel,” by Father Gardiner, both of which deal with how to evaluate and criticize a novel. This assignment is due April 3. — D. C. H. S. — Again this year several members of grades 5 through 8 are entering the Journal-Gazette spelling bee. The students are kept busy studying their “Words of the Champion,” a practice book issued by the National spelling bee. Last year, Connie Gerber captured the championship of Adams county. This year the group is working hard in hopes of repeating last year’s fine performance. — D. C. H. S. — The high winds that prevailed last Saturday did not stop the enthusiastic boys and girls who participated in the March of Dimes bread sale. These teenagers, by contributing their time and help, are fast becoming worthy adult citizens of our community. — D. C. H. S. — The chaos which was brought about in the first day of the change in class schedule is gradually dying out. The high school students are finding that the closed noon hour shortens the school day .and thus gives them

PUBLIC SALE f, the undersigned, since I have rented my farm, will sell my farm machinery at auction, located 2% miles west of Berne, Indiana, on Saturday, Feb. 1,1964 -12:30, 2 - Tractors - 2 1958—720 John Deere Tractor with power steering, heat houser, ram, set wheel weights, in A-l shape. 3 bottom 14 inch. John Deere 3 point hook up plow, like new. 1948 John* Deere B Tractor, starter, lights. 2 row cultivators and side dresser, all in good shape. Farm Machinery New Holland Super 77 hay baler with motor; New Idea 1 row corn picker; John Deere 12A combine with motor; John Deere 10 ft. wheel disc, 2 yrs. old; Massey Harris 7 ft. 3 point hook up mower, like new; 13 hole John Deere grain drill on rubber; New Idea No. 17 traitor manure spreader; John Deere 290 corn planter; Graham plow; McCormick 9A 7 ft. disc; 2 rubber tired wagons with 16 ft. grain beds; rubber tired wagon with Killbros hopper bed; Case 4 bar side rake; Cross double chain 30 ft. elevator with 1 horse electric motor; cultipacker; John Deere 3 section spring tooth harrow; John Deere 2 section spike tooth harrow; grain blower; buzz saw with belt. Hogs and Equipment 12 White brood sows, due to farrow March 1. 1 Hampshire boar, a good breeder. Hogs will be tested. 5 hog houses, 2 winter hog fountains, 3 self feeders, 16 hog troughs, 2 writer tanks, barrels. Hay, Straw and Clover Seed 1700 bales first cutting mixed hay. 1600 bales of nice straw. 25 bushels of Little Red tTover’seed', Tesfed. Miscellaneous l/2 inch electric drill; power saw; 14 hole cattle feeder; heat lamps,- sprayer; wrenches; drop cords; hydraulic jack; some hardwood lumber, 4 by 4s—2 by ss—and 2 by 4s; 2’rolls cribbing; ladders; shovels; forks; chains; grease 1 guns; anvil; chicken crates; ; gas drums; and many articles not mentioned. TERMS—CASH Not responsible for accidents. E. M. Reinhard, owner Phil Neuenschwander, Auct. Maynard Lehman, Auct. First Bank of Berne—Clerk.

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extra spare time after school. - D. C. H. S. — High scorers in standardized bookkeeping tests given during the first semester are Mary Ann Holthouse, Larry Gase, Dan Lose, Richard Omlor, John La Fontaine, Ed Kohne, James Geimer, Dale Harshman, and Alicie Morales. — D. C. H. S. — The Commodores had a victory over Union Tuesday. They also defeated the Bishop Luers Knights on Friday. These games make our sixth and seventh wins. This Friday the Commodores will travel to Convoy to play Crestview. — D. C. H. S. — Last Wednesday the National Honor Society held a meeting during the activities period. The members were shown the pendants that were bought with their hard-earned money. These pendants are to be worn over the graduation gowns this spring. The next induction ceremony was discussed. — D. C. H. S. — Monday the students received .their report cards. Some are pleased to see their names on the honor roll while others are hopJng to do better in the next quarter. — D. C. H. S. — Last Wednesday, January 15, the sophomores wrote their answers to the I. T. E. D. test. This was an all day affair and (Continued on Page Three-A)

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