Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1964 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1964

SOCIETY

HONORED WITH BRIDAL SHOWER Miss Betty Schultz, bride-elect of Dan Meyer, was honored at a shower Thursday evening, given by Miss Mary Lou Geimer, Miss Ruth Lichtle, and Mrs. Butch Gehm. Upon arrival. Miss Schultz was presented with a corsage of tinted pink carnations. Games were played and prizes were won by Mrs. John E. Meyer, Miss Janet Meyer, and Miss Kathryn Faurote, who in turn presented the prizes to the honored guest. Miss Schultz opened her many lovely gifts, and all attending were served refreshments. Those in attendance were the Mesdames Jerome Braun, John E. Meyer, Glenn Wilder. Frank Clingenpeel, Ernest Hanni; Miss Pat Braun, Miss Joyce Braun, Miss Janet Meyer, Miss Linda Meyer, Miss Kathryn Faurote, Miss Carol Kessen, Miss Ruth Ann Braun and Miss Sharon Miller. Unable to attend, but sending gifts, were the Mesdames Florian Geimer, and John Meyer, Jr., and Miss Susan Braun. The Salem Methodist WSCS will meet at the home of Mrs. Agnes Carver at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Remember to bring articles for the auction.

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I Minnie Egly Retires From G. E. July 1 Mrs. Minnie C. Egly, of 115 “Parkview Drive, will retire July 1 under the normal provisions of the General Electric pension plan, after completing more than 20 years with the company. Mrs. Egly, who is currently vacationing, joined the company at the local plant March 20, 1944. She worked for about six months, and was then transferred to the Fort Wayne plant for several months. She returned to the Decatur plant in April of 1945, and during her service has been employed in the miscellaneous finish section, the winding and switch sections. DCHS GRADUATE HONORED WITH DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Voglewede entertained at dinner Friday evening honoring their daughter, Alice, a Decatur Catholic high school graduate. Those present besides the host and hostess and honored guest were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weaver and daughter and James Weber of Coldwater, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. David Voglewede and children of Columbus, O. and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Voglewede and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holthouse of this city. The Calvary EUB ladies aid will meet at the home of Mrs. Flo Kelley Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. St. Ann’s study club, Mrs. Helen Fekete, 1004 Quinn Court, Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. , The Olive Rebekah lodge will meet Tuesday at the Red Men hall at 7:30 p.m. Locals Mrs. Orval Habegger, teacher at Adams Central school, submitted to major surgery Thursday. She is in room 304 at Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne. Miss Pat Beal, student at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, arrived home to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beal. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beal and daughters, Pat and Jayne, and Bill Beal of Auburn, will attend the graduation exercises at Ball State Teachers College Sunday. Miss Sharon Tylisz of Michigan City is a member of the graduating class. Arlene Parrish, Karen Bieberich, Marilyn Stucky, and Mrs. Glen Stucky are attending the state Sunshine camp at Camp Tecumseh, Delphi, this week. Arlene and Karen are the president and treasurer of Adams Central’s society next year. Marilyn Stucky is serving as a councellor, Mrs. Stucky is atending as a member of the State Sunshine board. Mrs. J. C. Stevenson and children of Delta, Colo., are on a two weeks’ visit with Mrs. Sherman Kunkel. Mrs. Stevenson was for merly Harriet Kunkel. No One Injured In Three-Vehicle Wreck No one was injured in a threevehicle accident at 6:30 p.m. Friday on U. S. 224, two-tenths of a mile east of the city limits. Donald E. Eckstein, 39, of Columbus, 0., was pulling off the road when struck in the rear by a car driven by Paul Darline Davis, 55, of route 3, Decatur. A panel truck, operated by Willis L. Bolin, 31, of Fort Wayne, was following the Davis car and struck it in the rear. Eckstein told investigating officers the turn signals of his car were on, but Davis said they were not. Deputy sheriff Harold August, who investigated, estimated damages at $750 to the panel truck, $375 to the Davis car and $l5O to the Eckstein auto.

a Y-lil-R ./tJvr . /, Iff T ‘ r " Is, i ( , // 45 v ■ k . - - - If I iHpHHHHMfI / ■■ MRS. MINNIE C. EGLY, of 115 Parkview Drive, is shown above as she received a number of retirement gifts from her co-workers at the local General Electric plant. Mrs. Egly retires July 1 after completing more than 20 years service with G. E. Pictured with Mrs. Egly are, left to right, Betty Stetler, Lenore Burkhart. Glennis Barkley, Kenny Beard, Wilbert Steele, Agnes Fairchild, Donald Hoagland, Aldine Luginbill, Zula Holloway, Lenote Lytle, Edna Callow, Ed Shaffer and Frances Reidenbach. '

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Check Lad's * Confession To Five Slayings KALAMAZOO, Mich. (UPD— A calm teen-ager ate supper and then took a long nap in his jail cell Friday night while Michigan State Police checked out his admission of five slayings in a four-state crime spree. Larry Lee Ranes, 19, a slight-ly-built, unemployed Kalamazoo area Army veteran, was arrested early Friday in front of the home of a friend here. He offered no resistance and promptly admitted the slaying of Plymouth, Mich., schoolteacher Gary Albert Smock, 30, last Friday, police said. Ranes told police he also killed Elkhart, Ind., service sta tion attendant Charles Edward Snider, 33; a Michigan Air Force man; another man in Las Vegas, Nev., apd a fifth “somewhere in Kentucky,” according to state police Det. Sgt. Karl Lutz. Ranes, speaking impersonally and showing no remorse, politely answered the officers’ questions, Lutz said. He said he did not know the names of his victims and was vague about details in the Nevada and Kentucky slayings. ‘I think he's relieved that he’s got this off his chest,” Lutz, heading the investigation, said. One of the victims is believed to have been Airman 3C Vernon La Benne, 21, Southfield, Mich. La Benne was working in a service station near Battle Creek April 6 when shot by a holdup man. He was to have

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been married the next day. Shot Twice The Indiana victim was shot twice in the side of the head with a .22-caliber pistol about 5 a.m. last Saturday. Smock also was killed early Saturday. Ranes said he hitched a ride from Smock near Kalamazoo last Friday night. He pulled a gun on Smock and forced him into the trunk of the car. Smock was “kicking and makiag a lot of noise” in the trunk, Ranes said, so he stopped the car and sought to tie the teacher’s hands with a piece of rope. When Smock resisted, Ranes fired two shots, the second killing Smock. Ranes said he took $3, a wristwatch and a pair of shoes from Smock’s body before abandoning the car on U.S. 131 just outside Kalamazoo. The shoes “looked expensive and I wanted them,” he told police. With Smock’s body in the trunk, Raines said he drove to Elkhart before abandoning the car and robbed the service station, killing Snider in the process. Then he drove back to Kalamazoo. The car was found late Saturday and Smock’s body was discovered in the trunk. Although showing no outward signs of remorse, apparently it was a strong sense of guilt that led Ranes to unload his confession on a friend. He was caught when the friend, Arthur Booth, called police Thursday night. Booth told police Ranes had confessed the murders to him and said he planned to contact a priest and then take his own life. Admits Slaying When police grabbed Ranes, they asked, “Did you kill Smock?” “The schoolteacher?” Ranes said. “Yes, I did.” Police said Ranes was carry- ' ing a .22-caliber pistol' and told them he used the weapon in al the slayings. Technicians at the state police crime lab in Lansing .were checking the ballistics today. Preliminary tests prior to Ranes’ arrest had led police to believe Smock and Snider were kiled with the same gun. Ranes was arraigned before Municipal Judge Clark M. 01m-

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stead at 3 a.m. Friday and waived examination. Later Friday, he was taken into Circuit Court and Eugene Field was appointed as his attorney. County Prosecutor Joh n Scbwendener said Ranes might be taken into court on Monday for arraignment. If not then, he said it would be June 15 when the arraignment took place. Meanwhile, police sought the help of authorities in Nevada, Kentucky and Indiana to investigate Ranes’ story about the other slayings. He was held in the Kalamazoo County Jail, where sheriff’s deputies said he calmly ate sup-' per and then took “a long nap.” The 5-foot-7, 135-pound youth was described by police as welldressed and neither cocky nor arrogant. He is clean and neat, police said, and had a suntan. His hair 1 ' was cut in a modified duck-tail in the back. “He’s been very cooperative,” Lutz said. Goldwater, Nixon Invited To Parley CLEVELAND <UPD — Ohio’s hosts for the 56th annual governors conference set the stage for a possible GOP presidential “summit” huddle today by inviting Sen. Barry Goldwater and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon to join former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the conclave. “Maybe if we get them all in the same city block someone will start talking,” commented one Republican along the many wondering how to crack the tension following Goldwater’s primary victory in California. v . Both the Arizona senator and Nixon were expected to accept the invitation to hear Eisenhower speak Monday night and join in any other public sessions at the conference. The invitations caught backers of Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton by surprise. And it gave Goldwater

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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) SATURDAY Psi lota Trading Post, 1-4, Henrietta Snively and Jane Booth. SUNDAY Eagles auxiliary, installation of officers, Eagle hall, 2 p.m. O. N. O. home demonstration club, family picnic, Boy Scout cabin, Hanna-Nuttman park, 4 p. m. MONDAY Pythian Sisters Needle club, after Temple, Moose home, 7:30 p.m. Gals and Pals home demonstration club. Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 ‘p.m. Decatur Affiliate of Indiana Hairdressers and Cosmetologists, Berne school cafeteria, 7 p.m., closed meeting. Flo-Kan Sunshine Girls, Moose home, 6:15 p.m. Past Presidents Parley, American Legion home, Mrs. Tillman Gehrig (hostess), 8 p.m. Merrier Mondays home demonstration club, Mrs. Jim Arnold, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Olive Rebekah lodge, Red Men hall, 7:30 p.m. St. Dominic study club, pot luck supper, Mrs. F. R. Costello, 6:30 p.m., meeting will follow. Women’s Missionary society. First Baptist church basement, 7:30 p.m. Xi Alpha Xi of Beta Sigma Phi, rush party, Decatur Youth and Community center, 8 p.m. Kum-Join-Us class of Bethany, annual picnic, Hanna-Nuttman park, 6 p.m. Sarah Circle of the Decatur Evangelical United Brethren church, Mrs. Edward Hesher, 1 p.m. Delta Theta Tau, Anthony Wayne Meadows, Mrs. George Anderson, 8 p.m. Rose Garden club, Mrs. Wilbur Stanley (hostess), 1:30 p.m. Delta Theta Tau, Mrs. Gerald Bixler, 609 N. sth, 8 p.m. St. Catherine study club, Mrs. Sheldon Daniels, 8 p.m. Dutiful Daughters class of Decatur E. U. B. church, Mrs. Dick McConnell. Our Lady of Good Counsel study club, Mrs. Louis'Staub, 8 p.m. Kirkland WCTU, home of Mrs. Victor Byerly, 1:30 p.m. Monroe Better Homes home demonstration club, Mrs. Claude Laisure, carry-in dinner supper, 6:30 p.m. Beta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Joe Rash, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY St. Ann’s study club, will meet with Mrs. Helen Fekete, 1004 Quinn Court, Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Calvary EUB Ladies aid, Mrs. Flo Kelley, 7:30 p.m. O. N. O. home demonstration club, Mrs. Paul Busse, Jr., 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Missionary society, parish hall, 1:30 p.m. Business and Professional Women’s club, dinner at Dutch Mill, .Bluffton, 6:45 p.m. , ’ Zion Lutheran Missionary society, picnic, Lehman park in Berne, 12 o’clock noon. THURSDAY Decatur chapter 127, Order of the Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. Salem Methodist WSCS, Mrs. Agnes Carver, meeting and auction, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, business meeting, 8 p.m. supporters a chance to parade their candidate before his party’s 16 state executives for whatever that might be worth politically. Scranton, New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and other GOP presidential possibilities all will be on hand at the governors’ meeting. The invitation to Goldwater seemed to strengthen th® opinion of Republicans here that there was only an outside chance of a “stop Goldwater’’ movement being launched in this pre - convention: forum. Gov. John Anderson Jr., chairman of the conference said Goldwater is “so close to the Republican nomination it would take a miracle to keep him from getting it." The Kansas governor, who was squeezed off his own state’s cnovention delegation by Goldwater forces, told newsmen: “There’s no closing the door to anyone. But I think he’s got it going downhill.”

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HIKING, NOT HITCH-HIKING— John Schafer, left, and Gary Paarlberg, both Crown Point residents, pause for a moment in Decatur, as they head for Greenville, 0., on a hike of 200-plus miles. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

State Traffic Toll Increased To 477 By United Press International Two pre-dawn mishaps and a collision Friday night pushed Indiana’s weekend traffic death toll to three and that for the year to at least 477 compared with 463 this time last year. Gary Bevier, 20, Elkhart, was • killed this morning when his car collided with a truck on U- S. 6 near Butler. Marilyn Nagy, 21, Elkhart, his passenger, was hospitalized in fair condition but trucker Alvin Nadraski, 46, Toledo, Ohio, escaped unhurt. The other fatal accidents included a three-car wreck near Logansport Friday night and a car-pedestrian case. Larry Fluhr, 19, Nabb, was killed and his companion, Leo King, Scottsburg, injured, when they were hit by a car early today on Indiana 3 three miles north of Marysville. The driver, Royal Hard, 56, Flint, Mich., told police the youths were apparently lying in the driving lane and he ~ didn’t see them in time. Ronald Cook, 29, Logansport, was killed late Friday when his car was struck by another on Indiana 25 a mile north of his home town as he turned into his driveway. Pays Convention Filing Fee Friday INDIANAPOLIS (U PI) — George R. Glass, Shelbyville, paid his SI,BOO Republican state convention filing fee Friday as a candidate for the Indiana Appellate Court. Glass, making his first bid for elective office, is a former Shelby County GOP chairman.

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Lorry Vizard To Graduate Monday | MUNCIE, Ind. — Larry K. JVizard, Decatur high school graduate, earns his bachelor of science degree in earth science at Ball State Teachers College Sunday. Vizard is a transfer from San Bernardino Valley College, California. w He has studied at Ball Slate in preparation for high school * teaching in science and social science, and has been a member of the Geography club, the social science club and the Young Democrats. During his senior year he was initiated into Sigma Zeta, national science honorary fraternity. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Vizard, Decatur route 3. Hospital Admitted Mrs. Anna Voglewede, Mrs. Ora Brentlinger, Decatur; Menno Stauffer, Berne; Mrs. Glenn F. Hoffman, Hoagland; Mrs. Rebecca Schindler, Geneva. Dismissed Miss Kendra Zurcher, Baby Judson Todd Wickey, Berne; Miss Karen Soherry, Miss Jeannie Crozier, Master Jan Witte, Master Gene Witte, Decatur. —i — __ i ——— candid f NOW AVAILABLE Af* Smith Drag Co.