Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1964 — Page 1

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Wrecks Mar County Holiday

Adams county deputies Harold August and Warren Kneuss were kept busy during the past two days, as six traffic accidents occurred in the county. Only one person was injured, however, and hers were minor injuries. Three deer and a dog were involved in two separate accidents. August investigated three mishaps within two hours Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. Violet Foreman, 45-year-old resident of route 2, Berne, suffered three fractured left ribs in one of the crashes. Mrs. Foreman was riding In an automobile driven by her husband, Donald Bari Foreman, 46, which was struck by a car operated by James Edwin Knittie, 17, route 5, Celina, O. Wreck Near Monroe The crash occurred at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of county roads 16% and 31, three and one-half miles north and two miles east of Monroe. Knittie was eastbound on county road 16% and had stopped for a stop sign. He failed to see the Foreman auto, northbound on county road 31, =and pulled into the intersection, striking the left rear of the Foreman car. Leaves Road The impact sent the Foreman vehicle careening out of control, and it traveled 189 feet, leaving the road and striking an I & M pole before rolling over on its top. Deputy August estimated $l5O to the Foreman car and $l5O to both the Knittie auto and the utility pole, which was snapped off by the force of the impact. Knittie was ticketed for failure to yield the right of way. Mrs. Foreman was taken to a Berne physician where she received treatment for the rib fractures and was released. Dog Killed A dog was killed in the first of the three mishaps investigated by deputy August. Pamella K Anderson, 20, who resides on a Decatur rural route, was northbound on U. S. 27, two and a half miles north of Decatur, when the dog ran onto the highway from the Robert Rice residence. She was unable to miss the animal, and her 1965 model automobile received an estimated $l5O damage. * Keith Otis Graves, 31, of St. Mary’s 0., lost control of his automobile at 2:05 p.m. Thursday, two miles east of Berne on state road 118. Graves was traveling east when his car went into a skid on the slippery pavement, traveling 130 feet and rammed into a Citizens Telephone Co. pole on the north side of the road. Graves was not injured, but his 1963 model car received an estimated S3OO damage, according to deputy August. The pole, which was broken off, was estimated at $lO. Christmas Eve Deputy sheri.f Kness investigated a pair of one-car mishaps, one Christmas Eve and the other early Christmas morning. The Christmas eve crash happened at 10:35 on state road 118, two and a half miles east of Berne, when Clifford Earl Ross, 18-year-old Berne resident lost control of his vehicle on the slippery si ate road. Ross was east bound when his car went out of control and left the right side of the road, crashing into a u.ility pole. In all. the car traveled isome 270 feet out of control. The impact sheared the pole in half, tearing down the lines. Several homes east of Berne were without lights for a few hours until an Indiana & Michigan crew could repair the damages. Damage to Ross’ 1965 model car was estimated at $750 by deputy Kneuss, who investigated. Hi’s Deer A s ation wagon operated by Gerald Wayne Trump, 27, of route 7, Crownpoint, Ind., received an estimated $325 damage when it struck a doe seven miles north of Decatur on U. S. 27, at 2:33 a.m. Friday. Trump was traveling south, enroute to Portland, and had just

crossed the Adams-Allen county line when three deer bolted onto the road. Traveling at approximately 65 miles an hour. Trump was unable to stop in time and struck one of the three. Trump and his family escaped injury, but the deer was killed outright. Evening Wreck Deputy August investigated another one-car accident at 8 o’clock Friday , night. Jack Lee, 21, of Fort Wayne,

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VOL. LXII. NO. 304.

1964 Runner-Up To 1941 In Useless Traffic Deaths

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Once again the horrible Indiana death toll of that record - breaking year 1941 resisted the onslaught of traffic, and 1964 had to settle for runnerup honors. Never in history were as many killed as- the 1,478 who died on sheets and Highways in Hoosierland during the bloody year when the United States entered World War 11. That was the year of tensions wh;ch reached a climax when on Dec. 7 the Japanese attacked i’earl Harbor and plunged the nation into a hot war. But the bulk of the traffic toll was racked up before Pearl Harbor, and the three weeks which re-' mained in the year 1941 after that momentous event had no appreciable effct on the final to al. Until 1964 came along, with hundreds, of thousands more motor vehicles traveling millions more miles than the now archaic cars of 1941 vintage traveled, no year ever seriously threatened to break that mark of 1,478. In the current year, however, the toll has been running 50 to nearly 100 ahead •of the comparable days of 1963 and promises to wind up at midnight , New Year’s Eve a lit le under or above 1,400. If it goes above 1,400 —and it No Accidents In Decatur Christmas Decatur observed a safe Christmas Day, accident-wise, as there was not one traffic mishap in the city during the 24 hours. City .police did investigate a late Thursday morning crash, which saw a car driven by John B. Anderson 82, of 722 Washington St , crash into a car operated by Paul A. Sommer, 20, of route 2, Decatur. Sommer was eastbound on W. Monroe street, in the 100 block, at 11:01 a.m. when, Anderson pulled from an alley and struck the left side of the Sommers vehicle. Damages were estimated at 9225 to Sommers’ machine, and 830 to the Anderson auto.

escaped injury when his small foreign sports car rolled oVer on the county road that leads to the old Dent schoolhouse. Lee was traveling towards Decatur on the county road. As he entered the curve near the U. S. 224 intersection, his auto went out of control and rolled onto its top. The vehicle traveled a total of 102 feet out of control. Deputy August considered the 1961 model car a total loss. Lee was not injured in the crash.

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is almost certain to do so with the addition in 1965 of names of persons injured this year who died later—it will place 1964 in the runner-up spot to the 1941 record. Previously, the runner-up year was 1937, with 1,367 killed. Even 1963 failed to break the 1937 mark, although it came fairly close. When 1964 rolled around, the 1963 death toll stood at 1,322. In the year which has passed since, 22 addi’ional deaths due to injuries incurred last year were placed on the list. <4 The 1,344 total for 1963 was only 23 behind the 1937 toll. Indiana crossed the 1,300 mark on Dec. 9, and it was only a question of time until the 1963 record was shattered and the 1,400 mark hove into view. An odd thing has happened Decatur Native Services Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Dessie Naomi Strebig, 71, a native ' of becatur, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Mungovan & Sons Funeral Home, Fort Wayne, and at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of 'he Immaculate Conception. Mfs. Strebig died at 12:15 p.m. Thursday at her Fort Wayne, residence following an illness of five months. Born in Decatur, r he resided most of her life in Fort Wayne, where she was a member of the Cathedral. Surviving are two sons, Dr. ‘ Charles Strebig, San Bernadino, Calif., and Rev. John S rebig, Hobart; a daughter, Mrs. Jeanne Strayanoff, Fort Wavne; a b'other, George Mann, Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Herma Boulton, Fort Wayne, and nine grandchildren. "7 Friends may call at Mungovan & Sons Mortuary from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. John S rebig, the son, will officiate at the Monday services. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Rosary services will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home.

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over the years in traffic death records. Back in 1935-37 when the statis icians first started keeping track, the number of fatalities n ctes and towns was higher than it has ever been since, despite growing populations and the hundreds of thousands of acres of rural areas annexed to the municipalities. More than 500 were killed in urban accidents in 1937 and nearly 500 each of the years 1935 and 1936. Last year only 339 were killed. Rural accidents claimed 1,001; lives last year, the second: heaviest toll in those areas im history. This year, the toll will; be above that, but the record of | 1,051 in 1941 probably will not; be broken. j I Mrs. Magsaman's Mother Dies Friday J Mrs. Daisy F. Shaw, 81, of Columbia City, mother of Mrs. Victo- Decatur, died; at 10:30 p.m. Christmas night in the Whitley county memorial hospital following an illness of four days. Mrs. Shaw was born July 5,' 1883, the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Winbrinner Hawk. She was married to James Franklin Shaw on Oct. 20, 1900. Mr. Shaw preceded her in death. A housewife, she was a member of the First EUB church of Columbia City. Two sons, Gerald and Melvin, of route 3, Columbia City survive, along with four daughters: Mrs. Victor (Evelyn) Magsaman, Decatur; Mrs. Raymond (Catherine) Nastrow of Elkhart; Mrs. Durwood (Geneva) Marker, of Columbia City; and Mrs. Reid McCullough; and 23 grandchildren. Friends may can at the J. A. DeMoney 8c Son funeral home, Columbia City, Van Buren and Washington streets, after 7 jj.fh. Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral

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Eagle Scout Rank To Five Boys 7 Five Decatur boys Ayill be ~ awarded the rank of EagleUn the Boy Scouts of America in an un- •* usual ceremony in the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium 5 at 7 p.m. Sunday, James Murphy, r chairman of the troop committee F for troop 64, sponsored by St. ~ Marys Catholic church, announcZ ed this morning. ~ The eagle rank is very difficult z. to attain, and for five boys in the t- same troop to reach the rank at r the same time is quite unusual. £ Troop 64, founded in 1959, is now 7 the largest troop in Adams coun- .= ty. "2 Oral Smith, Anthony Wayne r council executive, and G. William < Spice, Limberlost district execu,7 tive, will preside at the council, j Each troop committee member f- will have a part. i c '• The boys will practice in full regalia at 1 p.m. this afternoon so that the Our Sunday Visitor, of Huntington, can photograph the event. The boys who have earned the rank and will receive their new insignia at a court of honor Sunday evening are: «•- O«or<e Foes, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Foos. ’-t Dan and David Braun, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Braun. Robert Miller, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Miller. Roger Geimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Geimer. Troop 64 will be the only troop in Adams county with five active Eagle scouts. I home, the Rev. Howard Rees oft Rating. Burial will be in the I (Green Hill cemetery.

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AFTERMATH OF THE STORM— This scene on High.way 101 in California nt Rio Dell near Eureka is repeated all over the flood-devastated coastal area. Underpinnings of hundreds of bridges were swept away or weakened and transportation has been left crippled. This is the Eel River and the high waters carried logs and debris which washed against holies or any other obstructions, destroying or damaging them. — (NEA Telephoto)

Fog, Rain Prolong Misery Os California Flood Victims

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Persistent fog and drizzling rain prolonged the misery of flood victims along California's north coast today, frustrating rescue efforts for flood-shattered communities that could be reached, only by air. The aircraft carrier USS Bennington and the destroyer USS Wjjltbn docked in Humboldt Bay at Eureka Friday with aircraft and food supplies. But the military planes were grounded by , the weather, and the only flights. were made by about 20 - civilians piloting light aircraft -s on emergency runs to drop food -* and medicine to their stricken neighbors. * - U The weather also temporarily - halted the search for a Coast J Guaird turbojet helicopter which crashed Tuesday on a rescue | mission. Three-crewmen were! known to be aboard, and au- J thorities feared that two wom-1 en and a small girl also were d on the craft. g Hundreds Still Stranded Hundreds of persons remained ® stranded without food or shel-’ a ter in the flood-isolated valleys g and foothills of the Eel River® canyon in Humboldt County. J Some where known to have J taken refuge in barns or in the homes of neighbors on higher.® ground. Others set off on foot® through rain and mud, somej walking as far as 50 miles and-sr going without food for as long jj as two days. At Ferndale, which lost its J electrical power at the pu'set of || the deluge of rain, tnost of the® residents brought the food from® their • freezers to the local school. There, using power pro-S vided by emergency generao rs ■ shelter workers cooked a Christ-® mas stew for 2,500 flood refu- [g gees. Needs Helicopters a At Yreka in California’s nor- S them interior, Siskiyou County S Civil Defense Director Bill Sow- 3 le said he needed helicopters S badly ,to help people stranded g over a 3,000-square-mile area of M remote mountain' and forest land. . is He said highway engineers 5 had estimated it might take as “ long as two months' to punch = serviceable roads into som eg areas isolated by floods and ; rock and mud slides. The riv-'tS ers which lace the area also • were inaccessible. y-I He said he believed at least 500 persons were in need of food. “They are a pre’ty hardy lot,” he said. “But this has been five days, and I would imagine there are quite a number who are , homeless as well as nOon edition

hungry.” PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) —A huge flood crest * roiled down the Columbia River' toward the Pacific Ocean today but only a few communities remained in its path and the worst appeared to be aver for flood-ravaged Oregon. Some anxiety remained, however, that waterlogged dikes behind the. fkxKl crest could give 5 way under the pressure of high water and debris. 1 About 1,200 people were, warned to leave their homes between Portland and the Co- ' lumbia River Friday night, but only 600 responded. A few families showed up at a, grade i- . ■

! Roscoe Glendening, 74, Retired Banker, Dies

| Roscoe E. Glendening, 74, of 3(54 Limberlost Trail, well-known DeI catur 'banker, died,,. suddenly of a ! massive heart attack at~lo p, m. | Thursday, Christmas eve as he i was planning to attend the 11 p.m. ii service at the Presbyterian jchurch. Glendening retired in Januaiy K 4 w 5-~/ Roscoe Glendening

i Larry Smith Home; 16 Weeks In Hospital Lawrence “Larry” Smith, pccatur resident who was seriously burned about the face by electric wires while working on a- job Yost Construction Co., was dismissed from the Clinic hospital in Bluffton after 16 weeks there.

school relief center set up after the warning was broadcast. “The danger- lessens by the hour,” a Multnomah County sheriff's office spokesman said today. A state police announcement said “all the waters are receding” in Oregon streams except near the mouth of the Columbia, and no serious flooding was expected in that area. Streams Were dropping at the ,rate of one-tenth of a foot an hour. The weather bureau predicted showers and strong winds through Sunday in western Oregon. but heavy rain was falling this morning 1 .

of this year from a 52-year career in banking during which he reached the rank of clerk at the First State Bank of Decatur. A native of Geneva, he was born Oct. 4, 1890, the son of Clayton and Emma Glendening. He started his banking career at the Farmers State bank of Geneva m 1912. He was married June 1, 1913 to Miss Mary Bliss, and they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with an open house at the Decatur Community Center in 1963. Mrs. Glendening survives. „ To Decatur in 1919 Mr. Glendening joined the First State Bank in 1919. moving th Decatur at that time. He was employed there 45 years. An elder of the First Presbyterian church, he had served as clerk of the session, as trustee, financial secretary, and deacon. For more than 30 years he had been an active member of the Decatur Rotary club. Surviving in addition to the wife are a sister, Mrs, Wendel 'Gladys' Hearn, of Fort Wayne, and several nieces and nephews. Two brothers are deceased. Friends may call after 7 p. m. this evening, .until noon Monday, at the Winteregg-Linn Funeral Home. At that time the body will be taken to the church to lie in state until the time of the service. Funeral Monday The funeral will be held at the First Presbyterian church at 2 p. m. Monday, the Rev. Elbert Smith. Jr., officiating, and the Rev, Ray J, Walther, former pastor here, assisting. Burial will be in the Westlawn cemetery, Geneva. ;