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I MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER Deaths and Funerals Mrs. Louis Gable Dies, Lewis A. Funeral at Farmland Rites at Farmland, Ind. -Mrs. Lucille Gable, 64, widow of Louis Gable, died Saturday morning at Randolph County Hospital at Winchester.

In ill health for some time, her condition became serious two weeks ago. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Thornburg Funeral Home, Farmland, by the Rev. Richard West. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Sunday. Mrs Gable was born in Ohio but lived in this community nearly all her life She was a member of the Christian Church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Herriford of Farmland; a son, Roderick Gable of Muncie; a brother, Fred Oswald of Califonia: a stepdughte, Ms.

Glen Riffe of Windfll, and two gandchildren. Mrs. Frank Hunt Dies at Winchester Hospital Winchester, -Funeral services for Meda Johnson Hunt, 78, who died Friday at the Randolph County Hospital after nine weeks' illness, will be held at the Maynard and Walker Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Friends may call at the residence, 203 S.

East St. from 3 p.m. Sunday until noon Monday and at the funeral home one hour before the services. A native of Wayne County, Mrs. Johnson came to Winchester in 1900.

Survivors are the husband, Frank, a daughter, Mrs. David Kabel and a brother Charles Johnson, all of Winchester; a sister Mrs. Cassie Myers of Cassopolis, Mich. The Revs. Zelma Mills and Peter Macko will have charge of services with burial in Fountain Park Cemetery.

Cox Funeral Monday Funeral services for W. W. Cox, 86, of Daleville, who died Friday, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the Daleville EUB Church by the Rev. Vernon Goss, with burial in Saunders Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Polhemus and Shirey Funeral Home, Daleville. 13, 1953 COOL HIGH 30.53 73 40 70 1 LOW COLD Expected 70 Weather 99 100 As Of 90 Sept. FORECAST Scattered light showers are forecast Sunday for Washington, Oregon and California while scattered thunderstorms will prevail in most of the Rocky Mountain area. Scattered showers are expected in Pennsylvania, New York and New England and a few storms are predicted in Southern Florida. A cooler trend is expected over the Eastern half of the nation and in Northwest states.

The Western Plains and Southern Rockies will be warmer. (AP Wirephoto Map). Sale of the Continued from page one, section rather than to overplay at all times. 43. We will maintain and, if posincrease the high merchandise of the company.

standards, propose, by numerous physical changes, to make these stores cheerful and pleasurable places in which to shop. "5. We propose, by far-sighted, progressive and humanitarian relations, to make our stores truly happy places in which work. "6. We propose, above all, to take advantage of the extraordinary good will built up over the decades our founder, C.

E. Whitehill, employe-wise, customer-wise, industry-wise and community-wise, to do our utmost constantly to improve on it. 47. Finally, we pledge that we help, as far as lies within our power, every worthwhile civic project and charitable purpose, and that we will stand shoulder shoulder with all other good and loyal citizens to help make our city state one of the finest and most progressive in the country." Mr. Schacter took over the presidency of the Kaufman-Straus Company on March 1, 1932, and years later, the business had grown such a point that over two million dollars was spent on a complete modernization program for the store, which today is one of the finest in the Mid-west.

Early this year, the KaufmanStraus Company won the national award as "Brand Names Retailer the Year" for department stores class, from some 20,000 entries submitted. Mr. Schacter has been prominent both in civic affairs as well as the business world. He was president of the Louisville Retail Merchants Association, as well as president and chairman of the board the Kentucky Merchants Association. He was permanent chairman the Louisville Retailers' War Bond Committee, which sold over million dollars worth of bonds during World War IL.

Conceived 'Louisville Day' In 1932, Mr. Schacter conceived and headed program called "Louisville Day," a citywide retail promotion which was widely publicized and copied throughout country. In 1935, he developed a program for "Merchant Co-operation" that was broadcast and used throughout the country. It took five pages national newspaper, "Retailing," to tell the story. 1930, Harper Bro.

published his book, "Profitable Department Store Management," with a forward by Philip Le Boutillier, then now, president of Best Company of New York. In 1936, he taught a class business administration at University of Louisville. He written numerous articles on business and social problems in many newspapers and magazines. For the past 17 years, he been a director of City Stores Comthe parent company of pany, Kaufman-Straus Company, In 1943, he was a member the National Industrial Information Program Committee of the tional Association of Manufacturers. In 1951-53 he was a director the National Retail Dry Goods sociation, the Department Store sociation of America.

Active in Civio Affairs In the civic field, Mr. Schacter has been equally active. He is director of the Louisville Chapter the American Red Cross and member of the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. was a member of Governor Willis' post-war advisory commission, chairman of the mayor's Honest Election Committee for Louisville, both in 1933 and 1941. He conceived the idea of "Committee for Kentucky," which he was president throughout the seven years of its existence, and which won international fame.

The program of "The Committee" helped to turn Kentucky from backward state to one of progressive states in the nation. He wrote U.S. WEATHER BUREAU MAP al LOW 29.35 Temperature Average for Area Conditions Arrows Denote Wind Few 1:20 P.M. EST 12,1953 Nichs and Lows in laches THE WEATHER INDIANA-Mostly fair and cool Sunday. Monday partly cloudy and warmer.

High Sunday 64-70 northeast, 70-78 southwest. Low Sunday night 44-50. OHIO-Partly cloudy and cool but not as 608 Sunday, highest temperature in middle north and 68-73 south portion, Sunday night. Monday fair with slowly rising temperature. cool LOWER MICHIGAN-Partly cloudy and Sunday with a few showers near Lake Huron Sunday morning, ILLINOIS -Mostly fair Sunday, not quite 50 cool northwest.

Fair and warmer day. Hourly Temperatures Courtesy Indiana-Michigan Electrie Co, 9 00 7 did p. 4 .63. p. ..74 9 56 00 p.

p. p. p. .52 8 10. 4 p.

High Yesterday 74, Low 51 Temperatures in Other Cities Chicago 67 Cincinnati 66 Cleveland 53 Memphis Milwaukee 52 St. Ste. Marie Moines Dubuque 52 Fargo 49 Kansas City 60 Paul 60 49 Rapid City 40 Omaha Sioux City Williston Atlanta Boston New York' 75 Washington Ft. Worth New Orie'ns 90 Denver 87 Phoenix Los Angeles 90 San Francisco 90 Seattle Winnipeg 50 portant service to first place in the nation in one year. In 1946, Mr.

Schacter received the Sullivan Award from the University of Kentucky as the outstanding citizen of the state for his work on the "Committee for Kentucky." In 1952, he received the Community Development Award from the Mid-American Foundation at Parsons College in Fairfield, la. No Personnel Changes Mr. Schacter announced that A. K. Scheidenhelm would continue with the company as executive vice president and treasurer, and that Eugene Duvall would continue as vice president and general merchandise manager.

He also said that the entire executive and buying staff would remain intact, and that he hoped that every member of the organization would continue to grow with the company. Mr. Schacter said, in closing: "I look forward, with the greatest of eagerness to my coming to Indiana. I will try my utmost to be a good citizen first, and then a a book called "Kentucky on the a foreword by Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, which told the story of "The Committee," and which was published by Harper Bros. in 1949.

The book was used by the Army in 1949 in working with the people in Japan; by UNESCO in Paris; and was conto densed and translated into Spanish and used by the Pan-American Union throughout Latin America. In October, 1949, Reader's Digest published an article called "Kentucky on the told in brief the same story, which had 15 previously been published in Collier's in an article titled "Weep No More Kentucky." Housing Chairman Mr. Schacter has been a member of the Louisville Municipal Housing Commission since its inception in 1937, and has been its chairman since 1944. The Housing Commisof sion has rehoused some 5,000 Louisin ville families. He is a member of the Kentucky Hospital Advisory Commission, end the Louisville Mayor's Legislative in Committee.

For the past year, he was moderator of a radio program called "The Moral Side of the News," which won two national of awards. Last January his contribution to Edward R. Murrow's. "This I Believe" program was broadcast by CBS over a coast-to-coast hook-up. Last year, he conceived the idea of the Kentucky Bookmobile project, which was designed to bring books to the 80 per cent of the rural people of Kentucky who have no access to free library service of any kind.

On Aug. 17, Time magthe azine published the story of this project, which aims to raise Kentucky from 47th place in this im- good retailer. I earnestly hope that I shall have some measure of success in both." Two Men Jailed for Drunken Driving Two men were arrested at 11 p.m. Saturday by city police, charged with drunken driving and jailed. Police.

said they apprehended Conwell Grimm, 35, of 1370 E. Kirk at Elm and First streets. He was also charged with driving without an operator's license and disregarding the stop sign at Jefferson and Willard streets. Joseph Hugh Kendrick, 53, of Mooreland, was arrested at Elm and Willard streets, police said. CASH for Fall Expenses Get cash quickly at State to $500 on your signature and security -for car repairs, medical bills, or any worthy purpose.

QUICK SERVICE NEEDS, SMALL PAYMENTS STATE STATE FINANCE CORPORATION 209 U. Phone WYSOR BLDG. 8859 MUNCIE Branches: LePerte, Rochester, Plymouth, Valparaiso Secretary at Ball State Dies Suddenly Mrs. Delores June (Caldwell) Mueller, 23, a secretary in the Ball State College film library and wife of a college student, died early Friday at Ball, Hospital, Authorities in Plainfield, where funeral services are to be held, said she WAS taken ill at about 5 p.m. Thursday and was hospitalized at about midnight.

She died of a spinal infection following influenza. She was the wife of Erwin C. Mueller, a senior music education student. She was a graduate of Arthur Jordan School of Music, Indianapolis and Ball State College. Mrs.

Mueller had worked in the library since June; before that she taught music in public schools at Alexandria and at Shoals and Ft. Wayne. She did not teach this year because she and her husband had planned to enter Northwestern University as graduate students when he completed his work here in December. The Muellers lived at 1708 W. Main St.

Mrs. Mueller was a member of a Lutheran church in Ft. Wayne and had attended the Friends Church at Fairmount, where her father was principal of the high school, from which she graduated. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Hampton Funeral Home in Plainfield, the home of her father, Forest B.

Caldwell and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary E. Cladwell, who survives. Her mother is a teacher in Morgan County. Miss Marie Castle of the West Newton Friends Church and the Rev.

Robert Fife of the Christian Church at Plainfield will officiate. The body will then be taken to Ft. Wayne to the Rodenbeck and Pook Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted in Ft. Wayne at 2 p.m.

Monday, in the Lutheran Church in which the Muellers were married three years ago. Burial will be at Concordia Lutherrn Cemetery. James E. Stewart, Former Union City Druggist, Is Dead Union City, E. Stewart, 79, former owner of the Stewart Drug Store, died Saturday afternoon at the home of a nephew in Royal Oak, where he made his home the past three months.

A resident of N. Columbia Mr. Stewart operated the drug store for a number of years by himself, then went into partnership with Thomas Wooters eight years ago after the death of Mrs. Stewart. The store, known as the Stewart-Wooters Drug Store, became the Wooters Store upon Mr.

Stewart's retirement when he became ill. He was member of First Christian Church of Union City. Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Fletcher Raulston, Mrs. Ray Kramer and Miss Nell Stewart, all of Detroit, and Mrs.

Merle Smith of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Brooks and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Charles G. McCallister.

Burial will be in Union City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday. Ford Funeral Monday Funeral services for Cecil E. Ford, 49, of 1908 Biltmore who died Friday, will be conducted at 3 p.m.

Monday in the Walnut Street Baptist Church by the Rev. Harvey Thornburg of Randolph County and the Rev. Randall Corkern, pastor, with burial in Hopewell Cemetery north of Farmland. Friends call at the residence after noon Sunday. The Parson Mortuary is in charge.

City and County Statistics Marriage Licenses Tim Richie, 19, of 1634 S. Penn St. 0.8. Air Force, and Janet Orr, 17, of 702 W. 10th at home.

Don Goodman, 23. of 602 E. Sixth factory, and Mary Goodman, 21, of 2115 E. 29th telephone operator. Delos H.

Carpenter, 36, of 608 W. Ninth factory, and Esther M. Cooper, 40, of 608 W. Ninth at home. William J.

R. Longworth, 43, of 608 E. Jackson mechanic, and Pearl A. Rogers, 31. 608 E.

Jackson painter. Joseph Hobberchalk, 37, Laurel, laborer, and Rhoda Banks, 37. Laurel, at home. Fire Alarms 7:12 a.m. -3208 8.

Madison Kirby Tussey Cafe, no loss. 3:45 p.m.-119 W. Howard service call. 4:11 p.m.-700 E. Fifth vacant buildins.

$1,500 loss. 7:55 p.m.-700 Fifth wet down embers. 8:04 p.m.-607 W. Adams $10 loss. Funerals LEWELLEN-Services for Albert R.

Lewellen, 74, formerly of Muncie and Dunkirk, who died Friday, will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Meeks Mortuary by the Rev. Russell Fenstermacher, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 2 p.m. Monday.

SNIDER- Services for Clark Snider, 70, of R.R. at 1, who died Friday, will be conducted 3 p.m. Monday at the Meeks Mortuary by the Rev. Ralph Cummings, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the residence Or at the mortuary an hour before services.

WHALEY- Services for Jacob Walter Whales, 81, of 403 W. North who died Thursday, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday at the Parson Mortuary by the Rev. H. Orval Moore with burial in Elm Ridge Cemetery.

Friends may call at the mortuary. HOBAN-Services for William Joseph (Pat) Hoban, 76, of 406 W. Howard who died Friday, will be conducted at 8 a.m. Monday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church by the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. Felix Serocaynski, with burial in the Marion IO0F Cemetery. Friends may call at the Parson Mortuary. HORLACHER- Services for Mrs.

Julia S. Horlacher, 84, of 115 S. Monroe who died Thursday, will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church by the Rev.

Msgr. Felix Seroczynski with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the residence. The Meeks Mortuary is in charge. MILLER- Services for Ernest M.

Miller, 52, of R.R. 2, who died Thursday, were conducted Saturday at the Plepho Funeral Home by the Rev. Dewey Hole, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, HOUK-Services for Stephen Houk, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Houk.

of R.R. 5, who died Thursday, were conducted Thursday at Sunderland Cemetery. The Parson Mortuary was in charge. HUMBARGER- Services for Allen S. Humbarger, 60, of R.R.

2, who died Wednesday, were conducted Saturday at the Meeks Mortuary by the Rev. J. Walter Gibson, with burial in Tomlinson Cemetery. CHENOWETH Services for Earl H. Chenoweth, 67, Tipton, former resident who died Wednesday, were conducted Saturday at the residence there by the Rev.

John V. Beams, with services also at the Meeks Mortuary by the Rev. Mr. Beams and the Rev. L.

Gishler, and burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Filling Station Proprietor Dies erans Administration Hospital in Indianapolis after a two weeks' illness there. He resided near the filling station and came to Delaware County 15 years ago from Morehead, Ky. He worked at the Warner Machine Products plant before opening the station two years ago. Surviving are the wife, Anna; two daughters, Glenna and Carolyn, at home; five brothers, George and Addlee, Muncie, Luther, Fairborne, William Wheelersburg, and a brother, Andy Baker, of Cincinnati, four sisters, Mrs.

E. D. Mayes, Louisville, Mrs. Dollie McVey, Loveland, Mrs. Boone Adkins, Clearfield, and Mrs.

J. W. Smith, Salyersville, Green (Buck) Baldridge, 44, proprietor of the Hoosier Pete filling station on Ind. 32 west of Muncie, died at 7 p.m. Saturday at Kentucky.

The body was taken to the Richman and Prillaman Funeral Home in Yorktown. Orville Anderson, Former Resident, Dies Orville Anderson, 53, former resident, died Friday evening in LaGrange, Ill. He had lived in LeGrange 25 years. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Meeks Mortuary by Dr.

Ray C. Johnson, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, may call at the mortuary Friends, p.m. Monday. He is survived by his, wife, Inga; two sons, Leland LaGrange and Charles of Muncie; four grandchildren and sisters, Mrs. Ed Welch and Miss, Clara Anderson, all of Muncie.

He was in the maintenance department of Our Lady of Bethlehem Academy, LaGrange. Koger Rites in South Funeral services for Lonzie Koger, 39, of 2403 S. Elm who died Friday, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Frogs Chapel Church, Wolf River, with burial in Frogs Chapel Cemetery. The body was taken Saturday evening from the Stephens Funeral Home here to the Sewell Funeral Home at Albany, Ky.

Bank Robber Continued from page one, section pounds, and has nazel eyes end hair. He is a barber. State Police Det. Sgt. Charles Epperson described Samuel Stanley as "an experienced and able safeopener" committed as many as five or six robberies in a night.

Epperson said Stanley's specialty in robbing safes was confined to small towns having little or no police protection. The 140 robberies confessed by Stanley included oue at a bank in Commiskey, three months ago in which loot was $2,000. Stanley admitted taking $1,100 from school safe at Frankton, north of Anderson, after a basketball tournament two years ago. He said, he returned a year after second tournament latera took $700 more. Stanley told Epperson his biggest job was at a dairy in Wisconsin where he got $37,000.

The detective said state police had not yet verified the Wisconsin robbery. The Muncie burglar was taken into custody July 22 at his home after a billfold bearing his name was found in an abandoned car east of Greenfield the night of the attempted robbery at Willow Branch. Shaffer was caught by a state trooper four miles east of Greenfield after a short chase. The two fled from their car through cornfields and woods when the car went into a ditch. Police were alerted by a report that noises were heard in the bank at 2 a.m.

July 22. Bank officials said then that if the burglars had succeeded they would have made "a haul." The two had gained entrance to the bank through a side window, knocked a six-inch hole in the 18- inch cement wall of the vault. Stanley began his felonious career, according to police records, as a chicken thief in 1932. He graduated two and a half months later to a box car robbery and was convicted in 1939 for stealing liquor from a parked truck. The remainder of his known violations reads: In Louisiana in 1939 for second degree burglary; in for burglary of the Silver1941 fleet Trucking Company, and in May, 1941, he received a sentence of five years on a second degree charge.

Five persons entered not guilty Saturday in City Court. Trial pleas dates were set by Harry Redkey, prosecutor. The following deputy pleaded not guilty: V. Graham, 34, of 708 E. Junior Seymour failure to yield right of way; trial date, Sept.

26. Rosedale Blake, 28, of 1314 E. First leaving the scene of an accident; trial date, Sept. 29. Blake was arrested Friday.

Oscar W. Day, 56, of 2100 Broadway, driving while under the influence of intoxicants, and operata vehicle with improper plates; trial date, Sept. 21. Leo L. Dobbs, 23, of 214 W.

Fifth failure to yield right of way; trial date, Sept. 24. Harold E. Neel, 21, Northview Trailer Park, speeding; trial date, Sept. 21.

'Trip to Redkey' Costly for Man, 78 Five Plead Not Guilty; Trial Dates Are Set Moomaw Union Grove Lewis A. Moomaw, 86, of died Saturday morning at Mexico (Ind.) Brethren Home after an illness of months. He and his wife had to the home about two weeks He was born near Gaston, and a farmer until about 20 years when he retired. He was a ber of the Muncie Church of Brethren. He is survived by his wife, Jane; two daughters, Mrs.

Rearick, Mexico, and Mrs. Fields, Beach, sons, Ethan and Leland of Dwight of Long Beach and Ben of Chattanooga, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Samuel Flory, North Manchester, and two brothers, D. Moomow, Miami, and Howard, North Manchester. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m.

Tuesday at Union Grove Church of the Brethren, with burial in Union Cemetery near Eaton. Friends may call at the Meeks Mortuary after 4 p.m. Monday. Mrs. David Yount Dies at Hartford City Home Hartford City, Edith Yount, 57, wife of David Yount, died at 7:10 p.m.

Saturday at her home on East Commercial after: an illness of two years. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Keplinger Funeral Chapel by Dr. H. M.

Cobb of the First EUB Church. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday. Also surviving are two sons, Lowell R.

of Muncie, and Benjamin of Hartford City; two daughters, Miss Marian Yount of Gas City, and Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Schwartzkopf of R.R. 1, Montpelier; a brother, Ben Tooler of Logansport, and two sisters, Mrs. Worley, Bowdell of this city, and Warren Miller of Muncie. Dies; 3 COLO Muncie, the Welfare three moved ago.

was ago memthe Nancy Mark Ellis four Muncie, Henry Maddis, 78, of Muncie, was found Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff Knight at Ind. 67 and the Royerton Road. Maddis told the officer he had made some friends in a Muncie tavern and they offered to drive him to Redkey. Instead, he said, they took to a lonely spot and relieved him of his watch, his ring and his money. $75 Fence Damage by Hit-Skip Auto sible, to by and will and to its of 50 as Deputy Sheriff Delbert Knight Saturday afternoon investigated a hit-skip accident at the Leonard Sherry farm, Middletown Pike and Hines Road, where about $75 worth of fence was damaged.

The deputy said the car went into the citch, tore up the fence and continued Two Violations Noted Everett E. Harter, 3213 Mock was arrested by city police Saturday for speeding 60 miles an hour on Madison Street between Street, and the city limits. Officers, light said at he also Madison and disregarded 21st streets. He is to appear in City 1 Court Thursday. BE HERE at ROGERS JEWELERS ERS MONDAY MORNING! SENSATIONAL MIXER--GRINDER--JUICER ICER SPECIAL! ale NEW 16-Pc.

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