Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1964 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1964

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Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Anspaugh of 4925 Holton Avenue, Fort Wayne, and 247 Forty Ninth Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Fla., will celebrate their golden wedding aniversary Sunday, July 26. An open house for relatives and friends of the family will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center from 2 until 5 p.m. Sunday, July 19 Mr. and Mrs. Anspaugh and their family attended worship services at the First Evangelical United Brethren church of Fort Wayne, where they are members. Following the worship services a family dinner was enjoyed in the banquet room of the Bear Field inn. A Mr. and Mrs. Anspaugh were married July 29, 1914, in Decatur by Rev. J. H. Rilling, pastor of the Bethany E. U. B. church. They resided in Decatur for 35 years. The couple are the parents of six children; Mrs: Earl (Elva) Smith, Van Wert, O. Mrs. Raymond (Etta) Beer, Berne; Lawrence E. Anspaugh, and Mrs. Ted (Clarice) Hill, Decatur; Mrs. King (Betty) Sullivan and Mrs. William (Barbara) Church, Jr., of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Anspaugh request that gifts be omitted. I PLAN CELEBRATION FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY The children of Mr. and Mrs. Truman H. Goldner request the presence of their friends and relatives for the 25th wedding anniversary of their parents with a surprise open house reception Sunday, August 2, at 2 p.m., at the community hall, Tri Lakes, Columbia City. “MISS WREN” TO BE NAMED NEXT MONTH August 21 and 22, the Wren homecoming will be held at Moser memorial park, Wren, O. At this event the reigning queen, Miss Harriet Schaadt, will relinquish her crown to the new queen, “Miss Wren of 1964.” At the 1963 celebration, Miss Schaadt was chosen from eight contestants of the tri‘county area. Announcing the “queen contest” .for 1964 on the above date, the Wren Lions club is again planning a spectacular program and events. Applications for entry are going out to many organizations at this time. Qualifications for the girl are: (1) 13 through 19 years of age; (2) single; (3) sponsored by an organization. Entries must be returned by August 10. The girls are judged on the following points: poise, personality, and talent. The winner and runners-up will receive scholarship bonds of SIOO, SSO and $25, respectively. t In addition to the Miss Wren contest, another highlight of the program wit be a night entertainment with instrumental, groups, plus rpany other interesting sessions. The two day festivities are held for the enjoyment of anyone wishing to attend. As an added feature this year, someone will drive away . the owner of a 1956 Ford sedan in ' very good condition, loaded with groceries. The Wren homecoming has been promoted in the past several years by the Wren Lions organization and through their combined efforts were able to improve the facilities at the park as well as other area projects. At present they are making extensive improvements to the grounds at the park including a black top area to be used for tennis court and ice-skating rnk combination. Recently they also acquired an addi ional number of flags and standards to be displayed in the business district. The club has 54 members doing a job for the betterment of the community.

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SARAH CIRCLE MEETS WITH MRS. HARVEY The Sarah circle of the Decatur Evangelical United Brethren church met at the home of Mrs. Harold Harvey for the July meeting. The leader, Mrs. Homer Arnold, opened the meeting and used the lesson on “Put Prayer First.” The devotions were read from the 11th chapter of Luke and the sixth chapter of Matthew. Following prayer, Mrs. Arnold gave the introduction to the lesson “What do we pray for?” Other members taking part were Mrs. Charles Kent giving “Worship through prayer;” Mrs. Joon Kelley, “Prejudice;” Mrs. Sephus Jackson, “Hie self-satis-fied;” Mrs. Gerald Cole, “What prayer does.” Mrs. Cole also gave the poem on “Someone Had Prayed.” Mrs. Arnold closed with prayer and the group repeated the “Lord’s Prayer” in unison. The business meeting was conducted by the circle chairman, Mrs. David Wynn. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Mrs. Jackson reported on the reading course and the Evangel subscriptions. Mrs. Wynn announced about the WSWS DRIVE-IN THEATER Tonight & Thursday 2 Hilarious Hits—COLOR! “PILLOW TALK” Doris Day, Rock Hudson & “Operation Petticoat” Cary Grant. Tony Curtis -—o-o — Fri. & Sat.—Walt Disney Fun! "MERLIN JONES” — In Color! & “SUMMER HOLIDAY” — Color —o Sun. A Mon—“ The Longest W FuR Length — At Regular Price! Tremendous with 42 Stars!

executive meeting to be held at the Trinity church.- The Lbis and Sarah circle will have a joint meeting and a sew-a-pad day August 18 at the Trinity church, beginning at 9 a. m. Mrs. Jackson closed with an article on “Personal prayer and inventory” and gave the closing prayer. The hostess was Mrs. Harvey and she was assisted by her granddaughter, Miss Gloria Harvey. The Pleasant Mills community organization meeting, which was scheduled for Monday at 7:30 1 p.m. at the Pleasant Mills gym has been canceled. The St. Mary’s - Blue Creek l Farm Bureau will meet at the Blue Creek - St. Mary’s club house at 7:30 p.m. Friday and will have as a special feature the barber shop chorus. Three prizes will be given in - acake r contest and ice cream will be . served. Those who plan to attend should bring a cake, if not I % pie, and individual table service. Births At the Adams county memorial hospital: Glen and Nora Miller WeiL Fort Recovery, 0., are the parents of a 7 lb., 6% oz., baby boy at 8:05 p;m., Tuesday. Edward and Phyllis Barr Mc- 4 Cullough, route 6,' are the parents of an 8 lb., 6 oz., baby girl born at 12:52 a.m. today. Hospital; - Admitted —■ ! Mrs. James Helm, Misses De- 2 r borah and Judith Fox, Decatur. ■ Dismissed " Mrs. Sam Brandenberger,; ! Berne; Mrs. Edward Borne. Mrs.; Richard Dale Fuhrman, Decatur. •

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Socielu SAUER FAMILY HOLDS REUNION The twenty-eighth annual Sauer family reunion was held Sunday, July 19, at Hobart park in Troy, O. AJter a noon picnic lunch, a business meeting was held with Resell Fleming of Decatur serving as chairman. The entertainment committee then furnished gpmes for the children and bingo for the adults. The original John Sauer family of ten children, which came to this country from Germany, has now grown to 196 members, with 21 being deceased. Although there were previous meetings, the first official reunion was held in 1936 and the first officers were elected at that time. Those attending this year’s reunion from the Decatur area included the following: Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sauer and Wilma; Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Sauer; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fleming and Janet; Mr. and Mrs. Enos Osterman and family; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sauer and family; Mrs. Florence Engle; Mr. and Mrs James Engle and family; and Mr. and Mrs. C. William Porter and family; .. ' . ' . _i , . MISS OMLOR TO WED OCTOBER 17 Miss Ann Omlor and James Bailer are planning an October 17 wedding in the St. Mary's Catholic church. Miss Omlor is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Omlor, 648 Mercer Avenue, and Bailer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Haley, 244 North Seventh street. She is a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and is employed by Happy Humpty Drive Ihs, Inc. He is a graduate of Decatur high school and is employed by the Decatur wa er department. - s Locals Misses Louise apd Mary Catherine Hindenlang, along wi t h Misses Alice Throton and Kittin Glessler, spent their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swygart and family of Chester, S. C. Mrs. Sharon Kay Swygart also motored with them to Myrtle Beach. A recent vacation for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hindenlang and fSSi« fly was spent with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swygart and family of Chester, Si C. City Parking Meter Is Struck By Auto A city parking meter suffered $5 damage when struck by an automobile at 10:35 a.m. today. The incident occured at 148 N. Second St., when Alberta Beery, 68, of 639 Mercer Ave., was backing an auto into a parking space, and struck the meter with the rear bumper. Damage to the car was estimated at S3O. Two Firms Donate To Open Dairy Show .Two more firms have contributed cash donations towards the Adams county extension open dairy show to be held July 31, at the 4-H fairgrounds at Monroe. The firms are: Stockman Farm Service, Decatur, and Tom Burk, Burk Elevator, Willshire, O. The donations will be used for prizes money for dairy exhibitors in the open class show. Trash Fire Brings Call To Department Firemen were called Tuesday night to extinguish a trash fire in the alley behind the Mirror Inn tavern. The burning trash got out of hand and burned a power line in half before firemen put out the blaze. There was no damage other than to the power line, from the 7:30 p.m. fire. . \ ~ JENNIFER ELIZABETH BURis the name of the six 2 pound, twelve ounce daughter of — Ralph D. and Deanne Johnson £ Burdette, 415 Jackson street, born “at the Adams county memorial -hosgttal at 12:30 a. m„ July 16, -1964.—(Ph0t0 by Cole) I

Miss Linds Lou Rayl m-33 Plan. Salt W'JJing Mr. and Mrs. 'Thurman Rayl, route 6, announce the engagement of their only daughter, Linda Lou,- to Merlin Hedington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hedington, route 1, Monroe. Both are graduates of Adams Central high school. Miss Rayl is precently employed by the Decatur Kroger company. Her fiance is employed by the Berne Furniture company. A fall wedding is being planned by the couple. Two School Students Killed By lightning INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Two high school seniors were killed Tuesday by lightning while they were on a summer job at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway golf course in suburban Speedway. ... The victims* Jerome U. Albright of Marion County and James Patrick Cross, Indianapolis, both 17, took shelter in an outdoor toilet during a thunderstorm. Lightning " hit the small wooden building, according to one official, as if it were a bomb. Albright, a senior at Decatur Central, and Cross, a senior at Indianapolis Cathedral, were doing landscape work and were iapnot missed until late Tuesday afternoon when they failed to , check in their equipment. , Daniel G. AGleich, deputy coroner, said the boys had been electrocuted. The lightning apparently struck a corner of the rest room. The £olf course is next to and inside the famous Indianapolis 500-mile race track. Crisp Coordinates Printed Pattern 9487 10 - f0 Wra I V H Hl “ V PiW n & <■ rsW 5 * (nj Clever coordinates for double fashion and fun! Wear one-piece playsuit for sun — wrap on the skirt for golfing, going places. Send now! Printed Pattern 9487: Misses’ ’ Sizes 10. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 playsuit and skirt take 5% yards 35-inch. FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern — add 1S cents for each pattern for first-class mailing and special handling. Send to Marian Martin, Decatur Daily Democrat Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., u New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Name, Address with Zone, Size < and Style Number. ~ - t YOUR FREE PATTERN IS i READY—choose it from 250 de- » sign ideas in new SPRING-SUM--1 MER Pattern Catalog, just out! i, Dresses, sportswear, coats, more! Send 50c now. ’ -

Club Schedule Telephone 3-2UI Judy Hinchy Soeiety Faww Calendar Items for ••ch day’s publication must be phoned la by 11 aun. (Saturday t:M) WEDNESDAY Pleasant Mills WSCS, Mrs. Wayne Clouse, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Builders’ class of the Trinity EUB church meeting, church, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, executive meeting, 7:30, regular meeting 8 p. m. Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4 Kay Boch, and Shirley Hoffman; 6-9, C. Brown and Kay Grimm.’ Live and Learn home demonstration club, Marcella Sprunger, 1:30 p.m. FRIDAY St. Mary's and Blue Creek township Farm Bureau, Blue CreekSt. Mary’s club house, one mile west of Willshire, 7:30 p.m. Psi lota Xi Trading Post. 1-4 S. L. Collier and Barbara Osterman; 6-9, B. August and S. Elliott. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Home,social,Bpm. SATURDAY Psi lota Xi Trading Post, 1-4 B. Fager, and Nola Isch. MONDAY Cootie Auxiliary, VFW post home, 8 p.m. Continued Hot Is Forecast In State By United Press International Continued hot and humid. That was the monotonous forecast for Indiana today as far into the future as the wea’herman could see. Forecasts for the next two days as well as the five-day outlook called for above-normal temperatures and no sign of relief except slight cooling in the north portion of the state about Sunday. The summer warmth was interrupted only briefly Tuesday when rain and thunderstorms swept selected areas of Indiana, dropping temperatures up to 12 degrees. At Indianapolis, thunderstorm killed two teen-age boys when lightning struck a small building in which they sought refuge while mowing the Speedway Golf Course. Rain in the capital city totaled about threefourths of an inch. South Bend received IVi inches of rain during the 24hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. Other areas of the state received little or no precipitation. High temperatures Tuesday included 93 at Louisville, 91 at Cincinnati, 90 at South Bend, Fort Wayne and Evansville, 89 at Lafayette and Indianapolis. Overnight lows this morning included 71 at South Bend and Indianapolis, 70 at Lafayette and Evansville. 68 at Fort Wayne, 67 at Louisville and 62 at Cincinnati. , Highs today and Thursday will range into the 90s throughout the state, lows tonight, from 68 to 73. The Friday was more of the same. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging 5 to 9 degrees above normal highs of 84 to 90 and normal lows of 60 to 69. Precipitation will total about one-tenth of an inch to local amounts of one inch. A few scattered thundershowers were expected throughout the period, possibly being more abundant during the weekend. Man Is Killed By Drag Scoop Bucket GREENFIELD, Ind. (UPD —• Claude Albert Doolittle, 26, Greenfield, was killed by a blow to the head Tuesday when the bucket of a drag scoop struck him. Hancock County Sheriff Edwin Kirkpatrick said the accident happened while '’Doolittle was working in Finley, 15 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Number Os Measles Cases Decreased INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The number of measles cases last week was 75, a drop of more than 50 per cent from the 171 cases the week previous, the In- ’ diana State Board of Health ! reported today. The board also reported a case of tularemia, or rabbit fev- , er, in Johnson County. It was , the second such case in the state ’ this year.

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Miss Marsha June King z D W«l ember 8 Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, Jr., route 1, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Marsha June, to Noel Edward Hunt, son of Byron Hunt, route 1, Amboy. Miss King is a graduate of Monmouth high school and attended Taylor University and International Business College She is employed as a receptionist at CTS of -Berne. Her fiance is a graduate of Oak Hill high school and the Purdue agriculture extension course. He is now engaged in farming. The couple plan to repeat vows at the Mt. Pleasant church November 8.

Bank Embezzlement Trial Continues FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— Ernest W. Mullins, Jr., 38, Chicago contractor charged with aiding and abetting a Brookston bank embezzlement involving up to SBOO,OOO, testified at his federal court trial Tuesday that a cashier involved in the shortage once threatened to “send me to jail.” Mullins, testifying in his own behalf, said he is Illiterate and said he did not realize he was breaking the lawt when he opened accounts in various Chicago area banks and deposited cashiers’ checks given to him by the cashier, Glenn Garrott, 44, Brookston. Mullins _told the jury that when a Chicago bank officer questioned the procedure, he asked Garrott about it and Garrott threatened to “send me and my wife and my brother and my brother’s wife to jail.” Garrott testified for 2*/i hours for the government Tuesday. The case was expected to go to the jury of 10 men and 2 women late today. Garrott, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges, told how he had, while cashier at the Brookston Farmers State Bank, wove a web of loans, cashier checks and other financial maneuvers while backing Mullins in one ill-fated scheme after another. ”1 hoped I could get it back,” Garrott said in explaining why he continued to lend money to Mullins during a period stretching from 1948 until 1963 even though Mullins failed to make good earlier debts. At one point, Garrott said in

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order to finance Mullins he took $12,000 to $14,000 from his annual salary and gave it to Mullins. Garrott identified cashiers' checks introduced as evidence by the government, and admitted he did not enter them as liabilities against the bank in order to avoid detection. Garrott said he never realized any personal gain from the transactions even though he said Mullins kept telling Rim with more capital Mullins could pay back the loans and mgke a profit. < Patterson Funeral Thursday Afternoon ; Funeral services will be held, at 2:30 p.m..Thursday in the Didgck funeral home, Grover Hill.'O., for Mrs. Grace E. Pa terson, 39. of. Roselm, 0., stepmother of Herman Patterson'of Berne. Venetian Blinds At Courthouse Cleaned -T Venetian blinds appeared in the courthouse windows today-af-ter a two-week absence for cleaning- I The county commissioners authorized the cleaning of the blaads after taking ©ids from several firms . Three Indianapolis -f Firemen Injured INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A firetruck skidded on a city street while speeding to a trash fire Tuesday, striking a truck aiukinjuring three firemen. Firemen James C. John T. Noone, 30, and Patrick E. Nix, 28, were treated and released from General Hospital.