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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

bodies not to be misled by "the
rapid rise in Americas church
and Sunday School member
ships"
"The truly phenomenal up
surges." he said. "have taken
place not in the bodies Of this
council, nor in the other So
called conservative Protestant
bodies. Incontestably. the leaders
of the advance. proportionately
considered. are the Pentecostal
and kindred groups"
DR.. Reinartz, who also is
secretary of the United Lutheran
Church in America. spoke at the
opening of the councils seth
annual four-day meeting at the
Cotton Manor Hotel. The coun-
Gil represents eight church bodies
having nearly S million mem
bers, or about two-thirdS of
American Lutheranism.
Churches in the council are
the United Lutheran Church,
2.27 million members: Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, / mil
lion members; American Lu-
theran Church, 100000; Angus
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Reinartz called for organic
union Of the Nations Lutheran
church bodies as a means OF
making a greater impact upon
the country.
DR.. Reinartz probably will be
reelected. following tradition, to
his second term as president to-
day. Other officers are DR.. Nor
man A. Menter of Berkeley, Mich,
American Lutheran Church, vice
president; DR.. Raymond M. Oh
son of Minneapolis. Mimi,
Evangelical Lutheran Church,
secretary. and Fred c. Egger-
Istedt of Richmond Hill, N. Y,
treasurer.
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tana Lutheran Church, 537, 900;
Lutheran Free Church, $4,000;
United Evangelical Lutheran
Church, 10000; Suomi Synod,
$4,000, and the American Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, 22,500
The council was organized
during World War I, in 1918
as a cooperative agency to fur
ther the interests and activities
OF Lutheran churches in Amer
lea. Its headquarters are in
New York, with Offices in Chi
cago and Washington.
In his address today DR..
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Smaller Churches RISING
Rapidly, Lutherons Told
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star St.R Correspondent

ATLANTIC CITY, N j.. JAN ga leading Lutheran clergy
man today declared smaller denominations understanding
major Protestant churches in the drive for members.
DR. F. Epplng Reinartz Of New York. president Of the
National Lutheran Council od Protestant church
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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Two Men Injured
In Train Crash
Friday Afternoon

Two Madison County men had
narrow escapes with death Friday
afternoon when their automobile
was struck by a New York Cen
tral train at the Main Street cross
ing in London. The accident occur
red shortly after noon in a drizzl-
ing rain mixed with fog.
In satisfactory condition in Mt.
Carmel Hospital, Columbus, were
Eugene Sexton, %, of London. the
driver, and Charles Allen, "a, of
Lafayette. Sexton had fracture
Of the left leg and chest injuries
and Allen sustained chest injuries
and cuts and bruises.
The impact carried the automo-
bile $50 feet east of the crossing,
but neither man was thrown from
the vehicle.
Witnesses told Police Chief Cor
man Clark that the crossings
warning flashers were working
and the signal bells ringing at the
time of the crash.
No one on the train was hurt.
The conductor was c. E. Wiley Of
Cincinnati and the engineer r. p.
Ferris of Columbus.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Legion Post los
Sets Initiation
Here Wednesday

Madison Post No. los of The
American Legion will initiate one
of the largest classes of new men,
bers in the history of the local
Post, Wednesday, February 6, 1857
at the Legion Home. The uniformed
degree team of Southway Post of
Columbus will conduct the initia-
ton.
Preceding the initiation, all
Legionaires are invited to meet the
new members at a FREE dinner,
prepared and served by VIM. Dali
ley and his committee. All Legion
naires are urged to attend this
gala affair.
The free dinner will be served
promptly at $50 pm. with the in
itiation scheduled for 800 pm.
New members TO be feted and in
itiated this night are: Ed Alton,
Lloyd Ames, w. Balderson, Jas.
Ballenger, Marvin Flanagan, H.
L. Geyer, Paul Hudson, K. o. Kull-
berg, Sam Landes, Richard Mann
ing, Herb c. Markley, Don M.
Oren, Jack Phillips, Marvin Puck
EFT, Robt. Puckett, Robt. Redman,
George Shoemaker, Lawrence A.
Smith, VIM. M. Stidham and Lloyd
Whitman
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Little Action From Talks
OF Council Meeting In
West jefferson Monday
Two From London
Named To Attend
Telephone School

Two employees of the London
plant of the Ohio Bell Telephone
Company have been assigned to a
four month training program by
the company. They are Peyton
Garrison and Donald Laird.
According to r. d. Redman,
commercial manager, the two will
get advanced training in the main
tenance and repair of the new CEN
trail office equipment recently in
stalled here The classes are being
conducted at Lancaster.
Prior to the conversion to dial,
Marion Trees, Lyle McCracken,
Major Merrick and Wire Chief G.
7. Eichnan received similar train
ing.
According to Redman, the con-
tinuing training program gives the
plant a more flexible force of well
trained men who are able to give
prompt service when needed.
The London switch to dial came
October 7, 1856. after many
months of construction and plan
ming.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
City Police Say
Man Caught While
Trying Burglary

Marion Smith, 26, Big Plain Rd.,
London, has been bound over to
the Grand Jury under a $1,000
bond after being charged with at
tempted burglary.
London Police Chief German
Clark said Smith was apprehend-
ed Friday night by City Patrolmen
Wayne Henry and John Louden.
The officers said they discovered
Smith about Ills Friday night
when he was seen in a window
eight feet above the ground.
In other City Police activity,
Chief Clark reported two cases of
drunken driving.
Howard HamnonS, East Center
Street, was released on a $4,000
bond after being apprehended by
city officers. Francis Fielding of
London and Springfield, will be
charged with driving while intoxi-
Gated after he is released from Un-
iversity Hospital where he was
taken after an accident. Chief
Clark said Fielding was discovered
Monday morning after he crashed
into signal standard of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on South Main
Street.
He was hospitalized for treat
ment and examination.
State Patrolmen here reported
only one arrest over the weekend
and no accidents for the period
Reported released on 500 bond ir
London Mayors Court was Ernest
Mossbarger. 46. West High Street
His trial is set for later in the
Mayors Court.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Council Plans
Increase In Pay
For Policemen

West JeffersonS Village held
their first meeting in their new To-
cation Monday night, and in the
three hour session listened to sew
eraI discussions, but reached no
positive decisions on any in par
ticular.
During the early part Of the
meeting council discussed changing
the specifications of the bid pro-
posals on the new police cruiser
which they plan to buy. According
to the discussion, the required
equipment may be changed from
that specified in the advertisement
for bids.
Solicitor w. b. Cup informed
council that such action should be
taken at once, if at all, so that all
prospective bidders would have a
chance to study the new specifica-
tions and comply with them in
their bids.
Council also discussed the possi-
bility of a contract with the Volun-
teer Fire Department so that the
firemen could care for the villages
street and traffic light repair and
maintenance.
In the councils other action, the
ordinance committee reported that
as many as 20 very important"
ordinances are ready for drafting.
One of those at the council table,
expressing shock at the large num-
Der of proposed ordinances, said it
sounded as if a completely new set
Of REGULATIONS were in the offing.
Solicitor Culp, in compliance
with earlier Instructions. had the
first drafts of two ordinances rea-
dy for perusal At the rneeting. The
combined ordinances would permit
the Police Chief-Street Commits
sioner to make minimum salary
of $4,000 per wear with added
yearly increments.
Generally, council voiced ap-
proval of the rate hike for the Po-
lice Chief and the other patrol
men Of the Police Department. The
Continued on Page Two)
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Madison Younger
Farmers Busy In
Education Work

The Madison Young Farmers
Group was host to fifteen members
of the Jonathan Alder District on
Wednesday evening, January 30.
Topic for the evening was Live
stock Marketing from the Farm
ers' Standpoint led by c. F. Flick
enger and Jim Smith. representa-
tives from the Producers Livestock
Association.
On Thursday. January 81, the
Madison group went to Coldwater.
Ohio to tour the New Idea plant
It proved to be quite interesting,
especially to see molten metal
shaped into modern far machinery.
Manure spreaders and moving
machines were on the production
and assembly lines at the time they
toured the plant.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Progress Show To Be Presented At
High School Here On February 13

'Previews of Progress" the
General Motors stage show that
spotlights science in action will ap-
pear at London Hig h school on
Wednesday February 13.
The 40-minute show features for
the first time the GIN Sunmobile-
the miniature car that actually
runs on the power of the sun.
Presented by a two-man team
and narrated in non-technical Ian
guage, the show illustrates science
at work in daily life. More than
three million students and adults
view it each year; many more see
it on television.
1--WE SEEK through previews to
inspire more young people to make
science and engineering their car
GERS and provide the trained tai
ent America must have to keep
pace with the promise of the fut-
ure, according to Harlow H. Cur
tice, General Motors president.
The show also features:
A visual history Of jet propul-
sion, beginning with working
model of the first jet engine in
200 B. G., and clinaxing with the
running of a miniature gas turb-
inc engine with non-miniature
roar.
A stove which fries an egg but
stays cold.
Production of synthetic rubber
in only so seconds.
A BOTTLE which is hard
enough to pound a nail but which
skaters when its inside is scratch
ed by small stone.
A demonstration of the micro
wave relay which sends television
programs and long distance tele-
phone calls across the country.
The show already has been pre-
sented to 13 million persons in the
United States. The unit in London
is one of II touring the country;
II other units are touring Canada.
Europe, South Africa, Australia,
and New Zealand.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
South Charleston
Police Station
Is BurgIarized

South Charlestons Police stat
ion was burglarized of more than
S1200 early Monday morning ac-
cording to Mayor Lowell Rice.
About 1886 of the amount taken
was in cash and the remaining 1854
was checks.
Mayor Rice said the building
was checked last at 2:30 am. Mon
day by the policeman on duty, and
nothing was out of order. The pol
iceman finished his shift at 400
a. m.
Rice said Village manager Elton
Tindall reported the incident at
about GAS Monday morning after
he went to work According to Tin
dali, both front doors of the build
ing were open, the safe had been
pried open and a drawer in the
safe containing the money, collect
ed from fines in Mayors Court,
was pried open and the money
was missing.
South Charleston officers. Clark
County Sheriff's Deputies and the
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
are working on the case.
There has been no connection es-
tablished with the fact that a 1855
Chevrolet Station Wagon was
stolen from the village during the
night. The two tone station wagon
had license number 87-SY.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
New Car For Ohio
Patrol Wrecked
In Delivery Run

A new 1857 automobile, destin-
ed to become a patrol vehicle for
the Ohio State Highway Patrol,
was wrecked Monday afternoon
when the vehicle went out of con-
troll on 142 east Of London.
The Patrolmen said the vehicle
was being delivered to Columbus
where it was to be marked for
patrol use, when it wrecked. The
driver said tire blew, throwing
him off the road on the right hand
side, and in trying to avoid an ac-
cident, he swerved back to the
left, crashing into a ditch, and
making a total wreck of the We
hicle.
The driver was not injured, and
no other vehicles were involved.
Patrolmen said the car was be-
ing delivered from a Cincinnati
dealer who had received the bid on
the pursuit type vehicles
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Charles PheIIis,
Former Resident
Dies In Florida

Charles w. Phellis, age 81, a
former resident of Madison Coun-
ty died Friday at his residence in
Winter Park. Florida.
A son of the late Charles and
Clara Guy Phellis, he was born on
the family farm near Rosedale, in
northern Madison County on July
Is, 1875.
lit attended Mechanicsburg High
School, Kenyon College and Yale
University. For approximately 30
years he was with the Dupont
Corporation, serving as vice presi-
dent for Dupont Rayon and Cello
phane Companies and president of
Ccmpania Mexicana de Explosives.
He was also prominent in har-
ness racing circles serving as pres
ident Of the Grand Circuit. trea-
surer and steward of the Trotting
Horse Club Of America and stew
ard of the Harnbletonian Society
ITis trotters Spencer Scott and
Miss Tily won the Hambletoniar
stake in the years 1910 and-1951
and he bred and raised Hoot Nor
who won the same stake in 1947
He was also at one time president
of the American Trap Shooting AS
sociation.
He was a member of the Epis.
copal Church in Greenwich, Conn,
where he resided at Deer Park"
a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite
and Shrine.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy
Tullis Phellis of Greenwich; two
brothers. Verne H. Phellis of Ir-
win, F. Guy Phellis of Mechanics
burg and sister, Mrs. Ethel Phel-
lis Keller, Mechanicsburg; three
nieces. including Mrs. Ruth K
Slaughter of Elm Street, London
and two nephews.
Funeral arrangements tentative
ly set for the last of this week in
MechanicSburg are incomplete.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Dell" Fauver.p So.
Dies In Hospital.
Had Long Illness

Harry O'Dell (DelD Fauver, So,
prominent and lifelong resident
of Somerford Township, died in
White Cross Hospital Saturday.
He had been in i'll heath for more
than a year following stroke and
had been in the hospital for the
past month
Mr.. Fauver was born July %,
1898. the son of the late Harry and
Alice Mitchell Fauver, pioneer
families of the township. His faith
er, Harry Fauver, was commission
er of Madison County for some
years.
Engaged in farming all his life,
Mr.. Fauver was member OF
Summerford Christian Church, the
Masonic Lodge and its branches.
of London.
Surviving are his wife. Lillian:
three daughters, Alice and Frances
Fauver at home, Mrs. Kathryn
Schmittauer of London and one
granddaughter. One brother, Nit
chell Fauver also survives and OPP
crates the farm adjoining his
brothers.
Funeral services will be conduc-
ted by the Reverend Mr.. Dawson,
of Columbus at the Lukens Funer-
al Home at two o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. A Masonic service will
be conducted at the funeral. Inter-
ment will be in Somerford Town
chin Tay,oafoY,u
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Only IA Needed
Doctors Care In
investigations

London's State Highway Patrol
Post averaged an accident investi-
cation per day during January ac-
cording to reports this week by
Cpl. Paul Peterson, Post Conlman-
der.
Cpl Peterson also listed other
figures for the months work. in
Guiding As traffic arrests in tran
sit, Is arrests at accident scenes,
56 arrests for misdemeanors and
three for felonies.
In comparison to the compare
lively low number of arrests, the
men Of the post issued 841 warn
ings of all types. They investigated
81 non-fatal accidents, and assist
ed the Madison County Sheriff S
Department with the county's only
fatal accident of the year.
In the report of accidents, Pat
rolmen reported that nine were
classed as serious with IA persons
injured seriously enough to de-
mand treatment either by local
physician or in a hospital.
In breaking down the misde-
meanor arrests, Cpl. Peterson said
they included incidents such as
overloads, drivers licenses viola
ton and other minor violations.
The felonies, three of which were
included in the monthly summary,
were for auto theft
During one period of January,
while snow was falling heavily,
the officers were called upon to
investigate five accidents within a
one hour period. All the, accidents
were minor in the particular cases
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
DR.. Fawce++ Gets
High Physics Job
At Ba++ene Firm

DR.. Sherwood L. Fawcett has
been appointed assistant manager
of the Department of Physics at
Battelle Institute. In announcing
the appointment. Dr. II. r. Mel
son, manager of the Physics De-
partment, stated that Fawcett. a
specialist in nuclear engineering
and heat transfer, will direct much
of his time to expanding the acti-
vities of the Department
Prior to assuming his present
post DR. Fawcett served as chief
of Battelle's Engineering Mechan-
les Division. He is coauthor of
numerous articles and reports
dealing with such nuclear physics
subjects as heating methods for
thermal-rupture tests of ceramic
fuel elements and measurement of
nuclear reactor heat-transfer coef-
ficientS.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
Two Named School
Aomemakers This
Week After Test

Patsy Flannery of London High
School and Bonnie Ingles of Fair
field High School have been man,
ed Homemakers of Tomorrow in
their respective schools according
to an announcement made this
week.
They received the highest scores
in written examinations on home
making knowledge and attitudes,
administered Dec. 4, to senior
girls in the graduating classes. The
examination papers will be enter
ed in competition to name this
states candidate for the title of
All-American Homemaker of Tom
orroW and will also be considered
for the runnerup award in the
state. For their achievement, they
will receive award pins designed
by Trifari of New York.
The national winner in the third
annual Search conducted among
300,526 young women in II, ,636 of
the nations public, private and
parochial high schools will be NAM
ed May 2 at the American Table
banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, New York City.
General Mills is sponsor of the
program designed to assist schools
in education for home and family
living and to emphasize through
a scound scholarship award pro-
gram the personal qualities and
sense of values necessary to succ-
essful homemaking. A total of
S106,000 in scholarships will be
awarded.
Each State Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow will re-
ceive a S1,500 scholarship and an
educational trip with her school
advisor to Washington D. c.. col
onial Williamsburg, Va, and New
York City. A $500 scholarship will
be awarded the runnerup girls in
each state The school of the state
winner will receive a set of the
Encyclopedia Britannica
The scholarship of the young
woman named ALA m e ic n
Hcmemaker of Tomorrow will be
increased to S5. 900. This year for
the first time girls who rank Sec
ond, third and fourth in the nat
ional finals will receive $4,000,
$4,000 and $1,000 scholarships, re-
sDnctiyely
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
County Oranges
To Meet Monday
In Exchange Fest

The second County Grange Ex-
change meeting will be held with
Fairfield Grange at the Fairfield
School on Monday evening, Feb
ruary II, at s p. m.
Fairfield Grange will be in
charge of the evenings activities.
The Third degree will be conferr-
ed by Spring Fork Grange; the
Fourth degree by Plain City
grange; Lecturers program will
be conducted by Oak Run Grange.
Each grange is requested to
bring cookies for refreshments.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-02-05
NAME MUST ACCOMPANY
MAILED IN NEWS COPY

During the past few weeks
several people have mailed
news stories to the Madison
Press Company without giving
any Identification as to who
mailed the stories.
The name of the sender
should accompany all releases,
but it will not be used if the
sender requests that it be omit
ted. The request for all signed
articles will prevent many Stor-
les from being missed, and will
permit checking for more de-
tails.