The Independent-News, Volume 88, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 January 1964 — Page 14

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Ml ..t; iMt (;Vet khl have gun« t Anna Mam Florida, to spend a few months Mt and Mi Richard Orcutt c d family of Fort Wayne, spent tlx. <ek end with his parent* M* and Mi> Stanley Orcut: I".h p and Roger. Mi and Mrs 1^ ’in i Frailey and Ja ighters had as guest- on S : day Mr and Mrs Tcrrv Ka . i and Brad of Rix mouth B • Ruff and Mi and M— F: a c Ran- and family of Bi*m. n Mt and Mi- Sam Jone o • • tv daughter- of Ehin I r x .!<-! last Saturday with M: - J -nes s aunt. Mrs Jai l Hanra^•n and Mr Hannag. n They a’so . uled on Mi- Jones giandmotiivr. .Mrs. Carrie Crex- al the using home. n——— — - □ HOSPITAL news Lewis Mahler v is dismiss. d January 9 from Pmkv.vxx hospital. Plymouth Mi- Mabel Traxis w »’ admitted to Community ho-phal !-»■ Porte Mi Jam. s retci - is a pal • ri' in Holy Family hospital Mrs. Myrtle Barney is a gx al patient in Holy Family h<pital. Master Daxld Erdelyi was admitted to Holy Family hospital W. ham B ilia < f North Libert xwas a in.itted to Holy Family hospital. Mi- Veima Stahiy aas a miigk al patient in St Joseph - hospital in South Bend and is now convalex mg in her home Henry Cavin was admitted to Holy Family hospital KLONDIKE DERB^ Walkerton Boy Scout Troop 293 entered the Menominee District Klondike Derby at Centennial Park i Plymouth Sun lay. January 12. Since this was the first s u h event under our new scout master. Alb* rt Cassel, exp 1 ; tenre wa- the main goal All of the b .ys worked hard, had fun and learned quite a lot P-ad rhe (Tr«^'Val Ada

Missionary To Speak Sunday At K. Lake Aflei living tor the past fn. yvam in Brazil, which has been . ailed the worlds last great frontier, tiie Rex Paul Must has rr turned to the United States with enthusiasm a . well a concern foi hr adopted country The mtcie t of Mi Mast however, is prlmaiily in the people of Brazil and their need to know Christ. To preaih the gospel of Christ in Brazil, he left a successful pastoiatc in LiPorte, Indiana, in 19">S and became a missionary under th.- l T nited Missionary So Ciety. For three years he has served as field superintendent of the i’nited Missionary S<Miety' work in Brazil He mipervi < d the construction of the mission’s headquarters in Maxingn, a city of more than kO.OOO, and the con -trillion and ojx-mng of the MnHxga Bibo Institute m the same < 'v I’hr Bible school began op- • ration in March of 1962 Mt Majit al o helped to open a Christian Ixiokstore in the city, the only such store in existence to -erx । an area of 200 o^o population ।'nt il he left Brazil last June foi furlough he sened as manager of the store With his wife and three children Rex- Paul Mast live*- at G« shen Indiana During his year of furlough he is representing the I’nited Missionary Society in . hurclu acros • the I’nited States and Canada He will speak m the K.smtz Lake I’nited Missionni v Onirch on Sunday morning Tan uary 19 at 9 30 .and 10 ifi A man « actions are the best interpreters of his thoughts

March of Dimes Aid Frees Joan To Devote Self to Heloina Others

For 13 years. Joan Keeler has been jousting with a formidable antagonist. Sometimes this attractive young woman, who live, and follows her profession of occunational therapy in Summit. N. J, makes some headway and seems to be winning Then in a counteroffensive, her old ■ ! foe will deliver a succe -ion of cruel blows The old foe. the formidable antagonist, is rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis tortures, cuppies and deforms more people in the United States than any < other disorder. Emphasizing that she neither wants not needs anyones sympathy. Joan agreed to tell something about her encoun- ' tors with this excruciating disease since her teens She spoke during one of her monthly visits to the March of Dimes financed Aithntis Center at Columbia Ihesbytenan Medical Center, New York City. At the age of 17. Joan could look forward to what should be a reasonably happy lift She was attiactive, athletic and a goixi student Then without uanung Joan says, ’the roof of my little dream house caved in ’’ First, there wdre unaccountable oams during the summer just nef. re college and that meant the end of athletics because pain wracked hci body Next, fever and loss of weight. Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, never simple to make, was even more ddfu alt 13 yeai s ago Specialists shook then heads in puzzlement oxvi xx hu h disease had robl <d t> * young woman of perfect health Despite the increaung severity of the pains. Joan was determined to start college. The first, ulrm t m.a m mn'.a! k problem xx as get! ng from dormitory to . las room The next •i.duulty \x as com cr.t ration II >w i.m a student apply her*e!f elo ely to lectures and h ? n.c". ■ ik when ‘he sat^ers inrojant ij.anx of p. n m her I ack, arm and hands, leg* and even her toes' ’ll Im rn a th. co," she says The plain fact was I cuuldnt keep up I had to di p out.’ Then duung the following' rum: er, Joan’s old fi>e seemed ■ to relent She improved and relumed to school B • the ihc.:mat<d nrthritH • returned to the attack—morel

N. L. Jr. High U)ses Game To New Carlisle On January 9. the Liberty Jr High teams traveled to Nee. Cnrhale, only to come home with a double setback The 7th grade team, battled New Carlisle on even terms throughout the first hah and led at halftime 2-1-22 New Carlisle failed to score in the 3rd quarter while the Llhrrtx’ five could score only six ]>oint In the 4th quarter. New Carlisle came through xvith 14 points while North I/berty could garner a ir.ei< tw« । infs for 'he xictory In the hth grade game, the Liberty Eighth grade team lost by a a-ore of 42 31 Darwin Hoatetler led the Liberty scoring with 10 points on five baskets The next North Liberty Junior High games are to be played on Monday. January 20. whin the teams travel to Walkerton so» two games beginning at 6 0C The Liberty sth grade team will plix’ in the annual laikeville sth Grade Tourney on Saturday January 2">, beginning at 906 am SWIMMING I.ESSDNS The Boy Scouts us Walkerton are now taking swimming lessons at the Culvei Military Academy They go every Monday night for ten weeks. While there Explorers explain the fumlanientals of swimming beginners lessons, intermediate .uid lifesaving. lessors JI ST HUMAN Bragging may be in pour task, but who expects a fellow who hs« • aught a big fish to go home through the alley |

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savagely than it Lad before. The second noinecoming from coliege was no less discouraging than the fir t But it dal lesull in hci applying to the Arthritis Clinic nf Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. which had I een studying the problem of rheumatoid arthritis since 192 nd to which The National FoundationMarch of lhm< h.cs contrib- ; Uted SIUS,IO(S s i re IHSM Alter exhau ti.e tests, the upshot was a dvimitr diagnosis of i hvumatc .J . thutr Now, at last, the «.. ly was identi I fled she fir-t nt objective was to idw ■ Joan’s pain so thut she euuhi >e moved, and ( move henclf. without unendurable suH«r: ig This was accomplished in part through administration of cortisone । which she • mlmue to take hut m n . ■ 1 dosages). A sesond goal v <, by means of surgeiy. to “unclench’' her hands so b ’ she could regain the use of i. i fingers A thrd aim was iu minimize ’he weight-beat mg picture on her feet by dc-.gmng special moccasins. The fmi’*h r m u.. to begin physical thciapy as soon as cortisone had reduced the mflammation of joints and coni nectise tissues to a point where i

MTHTIODIST MEN S MEETING The Methodist Men s Oi gaiuxatiun of the Walkerton Methodist Church xvlll meet next Monday evening. January 20th at 7:30 p.m Their guest for the evening will be Wilmer Burrous ol Plymouth, xx-ho is field man foi the Indiana Farm Bureau. Mr Burrous will present a film entitled "Communism on the Map " This is a very interesting and informative film on activities of the communistic xi’orld There will also be other enjoyable features for the evening. A cordial invitation is extended to the men of the church and community to share in this hum us fun and fellowship The meeting xvlll be held in the church dinmg hall. SERVICE NOTES AVIANO AB Italy Airman Second class Daniel C. Morris of North liberty, Ind., is now on duty at this base in northern Italy with his Tactical Air Command fighter unit which is providing part of the punch for NATO in southern Europe Airman Morris, an Air Forc< xv capons mechanic came here with the 43Oth Tacticnl Fighter Squadron following the unlt’a participation in Operation Big Lift He ia permanently assigned to Cannon APB. N. M., and will return there when the 430th completes its alert duty in support of NATO The airman, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph A Morris of Rt. 1. North Liberty, la a graduate of James Whitcomb Riley High School. South Bend, Ind

rehabilitative exercise was possible. "The simple truth u. that the March of Dimes put me on my feet she explains This feeling of thankfulness set her to thinking of doing something within ner cap®bjhties which would also be iwlpful to olhei'. She liad had intimate expri ienev. during bei own ordeal, with many kinds of therapy. Aimed with this familiarity, she began to study occupational therapy which is the teaching of arts and trades as a means of i eiiabilitatwm of patient- handicapixd phy.Mcallv or mentally. ' 1 wag lucky to git a portion as an occupational therapist at Fair Oaks Hospital in my home town,” Joan ielate*. "I M<>n learned that I underxtocxl the attitudes of these patunt- toward bfe—their fears and hostilities—-and that they understood my attitude, be- <. use ali of us had experienced what it is to be handicaoped. And 1 am better adjusted and happier than I was because 1 am helping others ” Pei hap* the uld foe, the for- , midable antagonist, has not been altogether vanquished But by helping others. Joan Keeler । has found that at least she now keeps her enemy on the uuI tensive, mutt of the Ume.