Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1964 — Page 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1964

SOCIETY

MUSIC DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT CONCERT The Music department of the Decatur Woman’s club will present a ' spring concert for the club's April meeting, Monday, 8 p.m., at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. All members are urged to attend and bring a guest. The program will be as follows: Women’s chorus: “A Prayer,” by Pearl Boyce Bown; “Waters Ripple and Flow,” Czecho-Slovak folksong; “Clouds,” by Ernest Charles. Origin'Ll piano compositions: “Four Songs for the Piano”; a. Fantasie, b. Nocturne c. Reverie d. Ballade, by Mrs. Harry Dailey. Vocal solos: Where’er You Walk from “Semele” by Handel; Into the Night by Clara Edwards; Soon It’s Gonna Rain from “The Fantasticks” by Schmidt, by Jerold Lobsiger, baritone. Women’s chorus: Selections from “The Sound of Music” by Richard Rodgers. The narrator will be Mrs. Ferris Bower and the soloists are Mrs. William Feller and Franklin Parrish. The chorus wil be composed of the Mesdames Dan Tyndall, Clyde Butler, Harry Dailey, William Feller, Dan Freeby, Simeon Hain, Jr., Richard Linn, Richard Ludwig, Fuhrman Miller, Wayne Roahrig, Smith Snively, Jethro Sprunger, Richard Wasson, Carroll Schroeder .and Alan Zoss, and Miss Alice Roth. Miss Helen Haubold will be the director, and the accompanists will be Mrs. Edgar Gerber and Mrs. Jerold Lobsiger. The Caliente home demonstration club will meet at the I & M building, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Monday at 7:30 p.m., the Gals and Pals home demonstration club will meet at the Pleasant Mills school. The Monmouth PTA will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the school. The first part of the program will be given by the kindergarten under the direction of Mrs. Cole. The main speaker will be Mrs. J. T. Mullins. She will speak on the peace corps in Columbia, South America, and will show souvenirs from there. Sunday I Menu... I • Ham Steak S • Pan Fried Chicken S • Roast Beef « • Roast Pork • Swiss Steak ■ HOURS: 11 a. m. to 8 p. m.B SMORGASBORD 0 4:00 to 8:00 p. m. B IV SEASONS I RESTAURANT I at VILLA LANES U. S. 224 W. Phone 3-3660||

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WALTHER LEAGUE TO PRESENT PLAY A three-act comedy, “Quit Your Kidding,” will be presented by the Inter-River Zone Walther Leaguers at the-St. John's Lutheran auditorium, Bingen. The play will be given Saturday and Sunday, starting at 8 p.m. The story concerns the Buford family. The uproar begins when the children discover that their aunt, who is coming for a visit, will give $5,000 to each of the girls. The lone boy, Winnie, decides to get his share, and then the fun begins. The cast is made up of Leaguers from the various area congregations. Included in the cast are: Joyce Etzler, Wanda Etzler, Margaret Witte, Betsy Dickerson, Richard Doty, Merlin Thieme, Karen Witte, Karen Wolfe, Franny Etzler, Tom Engle, Leroy Boerger, and Perry Schroeder. The public is invited to this presentation. A free will offering will be taken. Mrs. Lee Faurote will be hostess to the Eta Tau Sigma, Tuesday at 8 p.m. W. C. T. U. INSTITUTE SCHEDULED TUESDAY The Adams county Women’s Christian Temperance Union institute will be Tuesday at the Antioch Misionary church, one mile east of Peterson. The theme of the program will be “Dimensions in Service.” The morning session will begin at 10 a.m., and the afternoon meeting at 1 p.m. Each person attending is asked to bring a sack lunch. Pie and coffee will be furnished by the Kirkland Union. Mrs. Ferdinand Martz will lead the opening song service, following the salutes to the American, Christian and temperance flags. Devotions will be given by the Berne union. The forum on “The Challenge of pay Departmeht,” will be given by the directors of the different departments. A song service will open the Efternoon session, and meditations will be in charge of the Decatur union. Special music will be given by Janie Nussbaum. Mrs. Mary Bly, the state director of institutes, will give the message, “Dimensions in Opportunities and Responsibilities.” A playlet, “Come Let Us Reason Together,” will be given by the Monroe Union. The service will close with prayer. The Decatur Home Demonstration club will meet Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the C. L. of C. hall. The chairman for the meeting is Mrs. John Gase, and the hostesses are the Mesdames Gordon Black, Homer Bittner, Clinton Hersh, and Dorus Stalter. MISS COLEEN ROUGHIA HONORED AT SHOWER Miss Coleen Roughia, brideelect of William L. Curry was honored at a miscellaneous shower recently at the home of Mrs. Henry L. Bieberich. Mrs. Bieberich w a s assisted by Mesdames Harley and Lawrence Roop. The honored guest was presented with a corsage of white carnations tied with appricot satin*ribbon, the colors she has chosen for her April 11 wedding. The entertaining rooms were decoated in the white and apricot color scheme. Various games and con-

BIRTHDAY PARTY HELD BY METHODIST WBCS The W. S. C. S. of the First Methodist church met Thursday morning for regular circle meetings. Members were invited to t h e dining room at noon when the Dorcas circle served a delicious lunch. Since this was the birthday party, the tables were attractive with decorations symbolic of the four seasons of the year. Guests were seated at the table that represented the month of their birth date. The head table had a beautifully decorated cake as the center piece. This was cut later and served as the dessert course. Mrs. D. C. Shady had charge of the business meeting following the lunch hour. She reported April 15 as the date of the annual conference of the W. S. C. S. at Grace church of Kokomo. The motherdaughter breakfast will be April 25. Mrs. Harry Essex reported for the nominating committee. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Gail Baughman, president; Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, treasurer; Mrs. Raymond Walters, secretary of missionary education; Mrs. Robert Babcock, secretary of youth work; Mrs. Richard Childs, secretary of children’s work; Mrs. Robert secretary of Christian social relations; Mrs. Lowell Smith, secretary of spiritual life; Mrs. Joe Azbell and Mrs. August Kelly, local church activities; Mrs. D. C. Shady, organist. Other officers held over from 1963 were Mrs. Doyle Collier, vice president; Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, secretary of supply work; Mrs. Lloyd Ahr, recording secretary; Mrs. Carl Gerber, secretary of student work; and Mrs. Frank Crist, secretary of literature and publications. ’' The afternoon session opened with organ music by Mrs. Harry Dailey. Mrs. Lowell Smith presented the mediation “For the facing of this hour.” She named the following attributes for this need: Calmness, courage, tolerance, truth, service, faith an d hope. Mrs. Collier lighted a candle to represent each and finally a large candle was lighted for character. Mrs. Smith closed the period with prayer. Mrs. Gail Baughman then presented an interesting lesson on “Our later years, a time for responsible living." She stated that these later years are not to be feared but enjoyed. Old age is a gift from God, and God should be thanked for it. Mrs. William Little gave a short talk on the American Association of retired persons, whose purpose is to promote a more dynamic retirement. Their slogan is “Purpose, independence, dignity.” Mrs. Little had attended a symposium where this was discussed. Mrs. Shady closed the meeting with prayer. tests were enjoyed with prizes presented to the bride-elect. Delicious refreshments of salad, crackers, nuts, punch and coffee in keeping with the color scheme were served to the following: Mrs. Leonard Roughia, mother of the bride-elect; Mns. Robert Curry, mother of her fiance; Mrs. Goldie A. Roop, grandmother of tis e bride-elect and the Mesdames James Moses, Claude Marckel, Arnold Roughia, Everett Currie, Sherman Archer Don Hakes Larry Curry, LaVern Gerber, Clarence Woods, Louis McDowell, George Tyner and Virgil Christy and the Misses Debra, Linda, and Karen Roop and Mary Jane Roughia. Those unable to attend but sending gifts were the brideelect’s grandmother, Mrs. Glen Roughia, the Mesdames Donavin Sprunger, Robert Nash, Louie Powelson, John Horn, and Dale Currie and the Misses Sharon Sprunger and Gingerlu Roughia. Tri Kappa Asociate chapter will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the horpe of Mrs. M. P. Swearingen. Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs. W. L. Harper will serve as hostess.

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Club Schedule Telephone 3-2121 Mrs. Connie Mitchel Society Editor Calendar Items for each day’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30) FRIDAY Board of Managers of United Church Women, Mrs. A. C. Underwood, 512 Limberlost Trail, 8 p.m. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Home, 8 p.m. (Business) Rummage Sale, Delta Theta Tau Sorority, C. L. of C. Hall 6:30 to 9 Rummage Sale, First Presbyterian Church basement 1-5 p.m. Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Gwen Doan and ColleCh Linn. 6-9, Norma Moore and, Jeanne Knape. SATURDAY Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4, Marcia Stevens and Nola Isch. American Cancer Society Film Showing, I & M Building, 1:30 p.m. Rummage Sale, Delta Theta Tau Sorority, C. L. of C. Hall 9 to 3 Rummage Sale, First Presbyterian Church basement 9 a.m.2 p.m. “Spring is Here” Variety Show, Zion Lutheran Church, Friedheim, 8 p.m. Story hour, 1:30 p.m., ages 5 to 7, Decatur Public library. Play, “Quit Your Kidding,” Inter River Zone Walther League, Bingen Auditorium, 8 p.m. American Cancer society film showings, I & M bldg., 1:30 p.m. — women only, 2:15 p.m. — men only. SUNDAY Play, “Quit Your Kidding,” Inter River Zone Walther League, Bingen Auditorium, 8 p.m. Organic Garden and Farm club of Northeastern Indiana, I & M bldg., 1:30 p.m. ‘Spring is Here” Variety Show, Zion Lutheran Church, Friedheim. 8 p.m. Music department rehearsal, Decatur Youth and Community Center, 2 p.m. MONDAY Kick-off breakfast for all Civic Music workers, Boy Scout room, Community Center, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Woman’s club general meeting, Decatur Youth and Community Center, 8 p.m. I. H. C. A., I & M Building, 7:30 p.m. D. A. V. Auxiliary, D. A. V. Hall, 7:30 p.m. Business. Pythian Sister Needle Club, Moose Home, after Temple, 7:30 p.m. Merrier Mondays Home Demonstration, 7:30. Mrs. Ed Bryan, assistant Mrs. Jerry Mitchel. Staff Practice, Pythian Sisters Needle Club, Moose Home 7:30 p.m. Gals and Pale home demonstration club, Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Tri Kappa Associate chapter, Mrs. M. P. Swearingen, 7:30 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Lee Faurote, 8 p.m. Monmouth PTA, Monmouth school, 7:30 p.m. Alphia Xi sorority, business, Mrs. Walter Sommer, 8 p.m. Delta Theta Tau sorority, Mrs. Loften Rich, 8 p.m. Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles Hall, 8 p.m. St. Catherine Study club, Mrs. Bill Lengerich, 8 p.m. Decatur circuit chapter of Valparaiso University Guild, Zion Friedheim school, 8 p.m. Rose Garden club, Mrs. Calvin Amick, 1:30 p.m. Sarah Circle, Decatur EUB church, Mrs. Gerald Cole, 1 p.m. Monroe Better Homes home demonstration club, Mrs. Eliza Hahnert, 7:30 p.m. Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club, Mrs. Oscar Miller 7:30 p.m. St. Paul’s Missionary society, Mrs. Forest Durr, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY Emmaus Guild, Parish hall, theme. Education month. —Pleasant Mills W. S. C. S., Mrs. Clyde Jones, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Women of the Moose, Moose home, 8 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration club, C. L. of C. hall, 1:30 p.m. Caliente home demonstration club, I & M bldg., 7:30 p.m. • Trinity Bible class, Decatur E. U. B. church, 6:30 p.m. LAWN FOOD 10-6-4 USE OUR SPREADER FREEi MYERS FLORIST 903 N. 13th St. <

Mt'"-"' ‘’A . ‘ ; -aM <k Mi* k X 1 **' A SPECIAL prophetic week will begin Sunday at the Decatur Missionary church, with the Rev. Arthur Albro, above, of Grabill, as the speaker. He has appeared at the local church on two previous occasions, speaking on the Book of Revelations. Services will be held each night at 7:30 o’clock, except Saturday. The public is invited. MISS PAT ROBERTS IS HONORED AT SHOWER Miss Pat Roberts, bride-elect of Lowell < Butch > Gehm, was honored recently with a surprise bridal shower given by Betty Schultz, Ruth Lichtle, and Mary Lou Geimer. Upon arrival, she was presented with a white corsage. Games were played, with the prizes presented to the honored guest. Miss Roberts then opened her many gifts. Refreshments were served to the honored guest, the Mesdames Carl Roberts, William and Dean Gehm, Jan Schlickman, Dale Burkhart, Robert Walters, and Ernest Hanni and the Misses Sharon Miller, Kathryn Faurote, Ruth Ann Braun, Carol Kessen, Joyce Tricker, Janet Baker, and Jeanne Lose. Unable to attend but sending gifts were the Misses Sharon Wietfeldt and Susan Braun and Mrs. Ron Hadley. The Trinity Bible class of the Decatur E. U, B. church will have a carry-in supper Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Members are aisked to bring their own table service. The Adams county chapter of the American Cancer society will sponsor film showings Saturday at the I & M building. The film at 1:30 p.m. will be for women only, and the film at 2:15 p.m. is for men only. The public is invited to see these films. Half Million Loss In Fire Al Muncie By United Press International A Muncie lumber yard and the business district of Otterbein were damaged heavily Thursday when fires broke out The estimated damage to the McCarty Wholesale Lumber Co. yard at the southwest edge of the Muncie business district was between $250,000 and $500,000. Damage to two destroyed and one partly destroyed buildin g at Otterbein, northwest of Lafayette, was estimated at between $55,000 and SIOO,OOO. Officials at Muncie said most of the damage was done to lumber, five railroad cars and surrounding property of other companies. The fire which Muncie firemen fought for two hours before brining it under control, sent smoke billowing that could be seen more than eight miles away. Muncie Police Chief Marion Gibson, Jr., told of witnesses seeing boys playing in a caboose parked along the yard, stealing a flare, igniting it and tossing it into the lumber yard. Authorities later found two boys 9 & 9 years old who admitted

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Hospital Admitted Mrs. Hugo Beitler, Mrs. Felix Yoder, Mrs. Ernest D. Schwartz, Berne; Mrs. Walter Thatcher, Wilshire, Ohio; Mrs. Levi Schwartz, Geneva; Baby Tonya Brown, Orval Baughman, Mrs. Fannie Elzey, Master Richard Harman, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Felix Yoder, Berne; Mrs. Clarence Black, Convoy, Ohio; Mrs. Jerry Brewster, Geneva; Mrs. George Kahn and baby boy, Mrs. James Pollock, Decatur. Locals Deputy sheriff and Mrs. Otto Poole, of Billings, Mont., have returned home after a two-week visit with Mrs. Poole’s sisters, Mrs. William Hoffman and Mrs. La Vaughn Sudduth of Decatur, and other local relatives. Paul Drew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Drew, of Zeeland, Mich., suffered a cracked left leg and concussion when knocked from his bicycle last night. He was reported all right otherwise, in the Zeeland hospital. Mrs. Marcia Freeby, wife of Dr. C. William Freeby, is reported doing very well following major surgery Wednesday. She is recuperating in room 469, Lutheran hospital, no visitors will be permitted for about a week. Births Jeffrey Melvin is the name of the baby boy bom April 4 at the Parkview memorial hospital, Fort Wayne, to Melvin and Barbara Tinkham Herring of Fort Wayne. He weighed 6 lbs., 3% oz. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tinkham of Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. James D. Stanford of Danville, 111., are the parents of a baby daughter, Alice Marie, born Thursday. She weighed 8 lbs., 14 oz. Mrs. Stanford was the former Lois Suman. Mrs. Wilbur Suman is the maternal grandmother. GIRL SCOUTS Troop 207 Brownie troop 207 of the Northwest school met Wednesday. An election of officers was held with the following elected: president, Karen Earhart; secretary, Paula Wilkinson; treasurer, Jenny Bay; scribe, Linn Mcßride. Debby Sprunger furnished the treat. Troop 377 Troop 377 met Thursday after school in the Presbyterian church. The meeting was opened with the roll call and paying of dues. Mrs. Bodie read the budget report. We worked on the good grooming badge. The troop bought the treatScribe, Cindy Kneus. playing with a lighted flare in the yard. They said the flare fell between two stacks of lumber and they could not retrieve it. At Otterbein, on U.B. 52, firemen from six towns fought flames in three buildings for three hours before bringing the fire under control. Otterbein fire chief Claude V. Rowe said the fire broke out. in the rear of the deserted Fitting Hatchery and Schwamberger Feed Mill, which was destroyed. Rowe estimated damage at between $55,000 and SIOO,OOO. The flames quickly spread to a building housing Wade’s Television Service and General Repair sheet metal shop and to the roof of the two-story brick building housing the Beatler IGA grocery and Masonic Lodge hall.

Woman Negro | Leader Shot In Baltimore By United Press International Maryland’s only Negro state senator, Mrs. Verda Welcome, was shot and wounded early today in front of her Baltimore home. Mrs. Welcome is a leader in Maryland’s civil rights struggle. Police had no immediate clue to the identity of the person who fired five shots at her or whether it was due to her civil rights activity. Mrs. Welcome was struck in the hip and the heel. She was treated at home by her husband, Dr. Henry C. Welcome. Mrs. Welcome had just returned from a church meeting at a downtown hotel and was alighting from her automobile when the shots rang out. Three of the bullets struck her car. In Washington, church leaders said they will announce today plans for a massive interfaith rally this month in support of the civil rights bill. Delegates of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen from all parts of the country are to participate in the April 28th rally in the nation’s capital. Purpose of the demonstration is to dramatize the united backing of major religious bodies for the civil rights bill in Congress. The rally, called the “National Inter-Religious Convocation on Civil Rights,” will be held in an auditorium at Georgetown University. President Johnson told a group of business executives in Washington Thursday that legislation will only be a first step toward elimination of discrimination. "The problems of our society will not automatically disappear with passage of that bill. You can be sure,” the President said. “They will have to be dealt with by all Americans." Elsewhere: Greenwood, Mill.' Police Thursday picked up 23 persons taking part in a Negro voter registration campaign at the Leflore County Courthouse. i It you nave something to sen O’ urade — use the Democr;.’ Want ads — they get BIG results k

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Ik Mrs. J. Thomas Mullins Monmouth PTA To Hear Os Peace Corps Mrs. J. Thomas Mullins, first peace corps mother to visit Colombia, South America, will be the guest speaker at the Monmouth PTA meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Mullins, a teacher at Price school in Fort Wayne, will describe the work of the peace corps in Colombia as she and her husband twice visited their son while he was stationed there with the peace corps. The son, Tom, after completing; two years in Colombia, is now on the selective board of the corps at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mullins will speak on the peace corps work as she viewed it while visiting with her son. The Monmouth kindergarten children will also participate in the Tuesday meeting. Providence, R. 1 .1 The Rhode Island House, by a 61-31 roll call vote, shelved for this session a controversial bill banning discrimination in housing. Cleveland, Ohio: ABout 1,000 persons attended funeral services Thursday for the Rev. Bruce Klunder, a white minister killed accidentally by a bulldozer Tuesday when he threw himself into a ditch during a civil rights demonstration at a school construction site. Montgomery, Ala.: The Chamber of Commerce said Thursday more than 120,006 copies of a booklet containing “The Truth” about the civil rights bill have been ordered by persons across the nation.