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VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 122
WILLIAMS NEW EXALTED RULER OF LOCAL ELKS
NEW OFFICERS El ECTED BY OHKEM ASTLE LODCE TUESDAY NIGHT Clair Williams was clcrtcd Exalted Ruler of Gieerca.s.le Elks Lodge No. 1077 during the regular meeting held Tuesday evening He will succeed Charles Bridges who has served most efficiently for the past year. Other officers elected were Ben Cannon, Leading Knight: L< e Lewis, Loyal Knight; Robert Y. Cooper, Lecturing Knight; Richard Houck, Esquire; Dr. Charles Finkbinner, Tiler, and George Stewart, Chaplain. C. T. "Speed” Shidcler of Terre Haute, secretary of the Indians State Elks Association, gave a talk on the "Merits of Elkdom." Officers of the Terre Haute Elks Lodge, twelve in number, were present Tuesday night. Exalted Ruler Floyd Bombard, of the visiting delegation, presented Exalted Ruler Bridges with an honorary travelling gavel. Mr. Bridges will in turn present this gavel to the Exalted Ruler of Indianapolis Elks Lodge No. 11 when the local officers pay a visit to the capital city organization on Friday evening. Following the meeting, a banquet was enjoyed by all Elks
present.
Cold Fails To Slow President WASHINGTON March 9 — (UP) President Eisenhower didn’t let a slight cold keep him from conferring with a group or Republican women leaders at a breakfast today. The President left the White House and attended the breakfast meeting at the Sulgrave Club, but otherwise he intended to take tilings easy today. He planned to keep an appointment with President Henry G. Ritter III of the National Association of Manufacturers, but cancelled his scheduled morning news conference. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower curtailed his activities “as a protective measure" because his physician. Dr. Howard McSnyder, detected "slight symptoms of a cold.” Hagerty also disclosed that the President went to Walter Reed General Hospital Tuesday afternoon for a 15-minute heat treatment of bursitis in the right
shoulder.
The President spent most of Tuesday in his White House residential quarters where Mrs. Eisenhower already was confined with the flu. She lias been ill since Sunday but has improved. WRONG "HOTEL” OMAHA, Neb., March 9— (UP) Charles E. Lyon. 44, of Brook, Neb., was fined $15 and costs for drunkeness when he tried to register at a ‘'hotel” in the early hours of the morning. Lyon discovered the ‘hotel was the central police head-
quarters.
\ . F. W . NOTICE Important meeting of Gen Jesse M Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Members aie urged to attend this session.
NEW ELKS HEAD
LiONS HONOR HAWK NET TEAM AT ROACHDALE
School For Nurses Is Established At DePauw; Will Start In September
DPI ATHLETIC DIRECTOR IS SPEAKER AT CLUB'S ANNUAL DINNER
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Jacob Eitel, as president, presided at the closing banquet o! the Indiana State Florists’ Association convention held at Purdue University. His son. Kenneth Eitel, a Purdue student, took part in a style show, during
the convention.
Eugene Akers. 4-H Club Agent, presided at a meeting of Junior leaders held at the cour. house. William Wright was elected piesident. Gerald Clodf< Iter and Eleanor Long were named vice presidents and Robert McVay, secretary.
Beauty Contest Response Good Frank Henter, chairman of th? coming Putnam Grunty Home Show, reported today that he had received mora than three dozen applicants for the Beauty contest which will be one of the features of the show. The Beauty contest, along with the style show will be added attractions each evening during the week the show will run at the Greencastle Armory. The application blanks for the beauty contest are available at all the county schools and many additional entries are expected before the Home Show opens on March 22. Farmers Hear Talk By Marley A1 Marley, assistant county agent of Putnam county, spoke to Floyd Township Farm Bureau members on Monday night, March 7, at Floyd Center. He spoke upon better farming and living and said their aim was to help young farmers to farm more effic iently. His group had met in January and discussed individual plans for a 10 year view. The wives had sat in on the home planning program. Hi* explaine 1 the method of how soil samples should be sent in to Purdue to find out needed soil elements. Devotions were given by Ruth Wilms, her subject being "Character builders for Eternity.” She said many virtues would be included but brotherly love encompassed all. The chairman. Irvin Wallace, spoke upon the achievement meeting at Greencastle and briefly reviewed Lh • high lights of the distiict meeting at Crawfordsville in January. He announced there were 56 standard townships in the district and Floyd township was one of these. There will be a district meeting held at Cayuga on March 31. Anson Thomas or George Harvey will be the speaker. Wilma Wallace gave a brief summary of her S and E conference at Indianapolis. She said there were 2500 lada s and a few men present. It was held on the Indiana Roof for the first time. A style show was put on bv Penney's. The speaking contest was won by a speaker from Dis-
trict 9.
Mrs. King made a motion to invite all 4-H boys and girls of Floyd township and their leaders to the April pitch-in supper. The
motion carried.
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James Loveless, Director of Athletics at DePauw University, j spoke to the basketball team of the Roachdale high school at the annual dinner meeting honoring the team by the Lions Club. Mr. : Loveless mixed humor and good common sense in his talk, which ! was highly appreeiared by every- | one present. The meeting was called to ordei by the club president, William Etcheson, and some business was transacted before the meeting was turned over to Hugh Espey, principal of the Roachdale school, who introducd the speaker. The speaker re'ated an instance of how a youth, naking a trip to South America went hungry, because he didn't know what his passage included Mr. Loveless urged the students to know what their ticket called for. He said he had seen where athletics was the best laboratory possible as an incentive for a student to do his best, and he urged them always to do their best. He said he had seen students fail because their parents sacrificed and sent them to school, only to have them do as littfe as possible and in the end fail: He cited a navy acquaintance, who was taken prisoner in the war with Japan and how the Jap officers were persecuting the enlisted men, when this lad stepped in and stopped it. He said the lad was doing his best. He urged the students to know their own ability, decide what is the most important and to sacrifice personal glory for the common good. In connection with his idea of knowing what is most important, he cited Charles Lindberg, who knew what he was doing and what was important when he made nis historical 1 light to Paris. Norris Hai bison was presentea the Most Valuable player trophy, a beautiful traveling trophy that was started nearly 20 years ago by the Lions Club. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Harbison of Franklin township. Richard Oglesby, coach at Roachdale, introduced each of the boys and his father, as the uads were guests along with the players, the dinner meeting. To Give Play On March 10-12 For the second straight year, the Wesley Players at DePauw University have selected a play by Christopher Fry as their annual offering here March 10-12. Now in their third season of staging a full-length religious drama in Gobin Memorial Church, the Players will present Fry’s "Thor, with Angels” at 8:15 p. m. Thursday through Saturday. Previous productions by the group, operating under the auspices of the Methodist Student Movement, have been T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedlal” and "A Sleep of Prisoners,” also by Fry. Lead roles in “Thor, with Angels” will be played by Lila i Hanna. Greencastle. and David Grogan, West Bend. Wis. Grogan I has appeared in both of the earlier dramas. Director of the DePauw Wes- | ley Players this year is Robert i Currie. Pekin. 111. Noted for its effective use of j dialogue. "Thor, with Angels” is set in 14th Century England | and concerns the influence of St. i Augustine in the British Isles. The local Wesley Players orj gamzation has been a leader in | the recent revival of religious i irama; and last year’s director. ! Jay Buedd, was president of the National Wesley Players in i 1953-54.
A School of Nursing has been I established at DePauw University, President Russell J. Humbert announced today, and will begin operation next September. Under a cooperative arrangement with Methodist Hospital in Indianapois, students in the DePauw School of Nursing will receive their final two years of clinical experience at the hospital. The nuising program will cover four calendar years, with students enrolled in DePauw during the entire period but residing on the campus in Greencastle only during the freshman and sophomore years. Ir^a joint statement. President Humbert and Jack A. L. Hahn, superintendent of Methodist Hospital, said; "We believe that this new School of Nursing will provide prospective nurses with the combined advantages of an excellent liberal arts education and professional training at one of the Midwest’s leading hospitals.” The first class will be limited to 25 students, and the universitys' regular scholarship program will apply.
A director for the school has not been named, but an appointment is expected in the near future. Application for accreditation has been made to the Indiana State Board of Nursing Education and the National Nurs,ng League. During the two-year period on the DePauw campus, students will study basic communication, l.icteriology, chemistry, nutrition, college algebra, human anatomy, human physiology, introductory psychology, philosophy or religion, abnormal psychology, physical education, and elective subjects. The educational experience at the hospital will be integrated with the academic program at DePauw; and the entire curriculum will be on a collegiate level. Each graduate of the fouryear course will receive the I bachelor of science in nursing ' degree and will be eligible to beI come a registered nurse. During the first two years of ! the program a portion of at least ! one summer will be spent at | Methodist Hospital for instrucI lion in nursing fundamentals.
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MUNCIE. Ind., March 9.— (UP) Daniel A Lowe. 7. was killed Tuesday when he dashed into the path of a oar almost in front of his home. Police arrested Avery V. Spear. 31. the driver, on a license charge, but
sa Teeters, j he was not blamed for the acci-
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Any Red Action WASHINGTON, March 9 — (UP) United States forces, backed by a Sunday punch of atomic weapons, stood battle ready today to hit Communist China itself if the Reds attack Formosa or other important Allied defense areas in the Far East. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles unfolded this strategy Tuesday night in a nationwide broadcast which served both as a repoi t to the nation and as an | extraordinary warning to the Chinese Reds. The warning was prompted by a growing feeling that the Commumsts really intend to try to conquer Formosa, a vital defense outpost for the United States in Hie Pacific Ocean area. Dulles was reported convinced that the Reds must be told now that they will run into serious trouble if they try to attack Formosa or commit major aggression elsewhere in Asia. The answer now will be up to the Reds. At the same time Dulles kept the Communist Chinese guessing ibout U. S. intentions to defend Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsu islands located near the Communist mainland. President j Eisenhower, he said, will decide | how the present "flexible de- | fense” system will be carried j out “in the light of ids judg- | ment as to the overall value of certain coastal positions to the j lefense of Formosa.” SEVERAL EVENTS LISTED Cloyd Mass, president of the local Kiwanis, has announced j several events in commemora- j tion of the 40th anniversary of j Kiwanis. Radio Station WORE ; .. ill present a Kiwanis Annivers- i ary Program, on "Greencastle ! Speeks Up!” tonight at 5:30. A : speech given by Dr. Russell Humbert at a recent meeting j ,\*i 11 be broadcast by tape re- j cording. Dr. Humbert was a Lieutenant-Governor of Kiwanis in Ohio and has spoken before many Kiwanis groups. JEST ONE CLICK PASADENA, Cal f., March 9. — (UP) Winslow W. Myers, 39. a uranium prospector, was ariested for drnnkene. s when police found him in his car parked the wrong way on a one-wa> street. When he arrived at the jail Myei got cut his ge : ger counter, and gave the jail a thorougi check for evidence of radioactivity. All he heard was ?. single click —the sound of the closing cell i door.
THE IKK, MARKET The hog market was steady to active today, with pm-es ranging from $15.25 to $16 00. with only a few going at the higher figur-*.
Weary Session INDIANAPOLIS, March 9.— (UP) The Indiana Legislature adjourned about dawn today, accepting toll road limitations hammered out by weary HouseSenate negotiations to the satisfaction of all factions. That erased the threat of a special session. It took hours of political maneuvering and repeated party can euses to define a compromise capable of ending the session, which extended 28 hours past its constitutional deadline. The compromise was a 673.3 million dollar 1955-57 state budget containing a toll road rider which placated both the proturnpike forces of Governor Craig and the anti-turnpike group headed by Lt. Gov. Harold Handley. Each faction claimed victory in the outcome. After Handley and House Speaker Georg. Diener signed the bill, which contained this scs- I sion’s two hottest issues, the | House adjourned at 4:15 a. m and the Senate at 4:10 a. m. Craig insisted the toll road agreement was "no compromise” on grounds “we will be able to go ahead with construction.” He said the toll road program will not be impeded. Handley called it "an important victory” for taxpayers, be- I cause “free” highway funds cannot be used for toll road projects. He said it prevents "distintegration” of public highways. The compromise which a four- i man House-Senate conference j committee sought for six days was a lengthy paragraph inserted in Ihe State Highway Depart- ! ment’s portion of tne budget, it I said: "The State Hignway Depart- | ment shall not enter into any contract, agreement or arrange- | ment committing any funds ap- 1 propriated to the department for 1 widening or construction uf any inlet or outlet road at the ter minus of any toll road project, ii that is necessary to make thu tell road economica’!y feasible oi
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ROl I > I Nil RED Jimmi Campbell, son of M. i .md Mrs. O'.yn Campbell, was • struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Commercial Piace lat. Tuesday afternoon. I He was brought to a local doc- • tor and then taken to the hos- • pital for a further check. The J boy was not seriously injured.
PUTNAM ADULT AND JUNIOR LEADERS HOPE FOR RECORD YEAR This is National 4-H Club Week. Here in Putnam county local adult and junior leaders in the various communities are at work getting enrollment to make 1955 the biggest year yet. The entire community would like to see at lerst 9C0 boys and girls enrolled in 4-H Club this year and the leaders have more jr less set this as their goal. Last year 794 boys and girls enrolled with nearly 650 of them completing one or more projects. These folks enrolled in a total of 1690 different projects and completed 1226 in 1954. A calendar of 4-H activities has been made and approved by 4-H leaders which indicates a busy season ahead for the Putnam County 4-H organizations. High lights of this calendar are the Purdue Round-Up on June 8-10, 4-H Club camp July 10-16, Putnam County Fair August 1-6, the Indiana State Fair August 31-September 9, and the county-wide achievement program on November 14. 4-H'ers learn by doing and their motto is “To make the best better.” With this in mind the eight or nine hundred boys and girls who are embarking into this year’s program will be striving to improve themselves with their various projects. Girls will be participating in clothing, food preparation, baking, room improvement, freezing, electricity, handicraft and other minor projects, while the boys will have pigs, beef calves, dairy cattle, sheep, poultry and rabbits for their livestock projects. Also they will be participating in soil conservation, forestry, wildlife, entomology, tractor maintenance, electricity and other minor projects. There is a place and a project in the 4-H Club program for every boy and girl in Putnam county regardless of where she or he lives. Since the 4-H program is a voluntary one, interested boys and girl: or their parents should contact local leaders or the county extension office for information and details. Mexican Plane Crashes, 26 Die GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Mar. 9. (UP) Twenty-six persona including four American tourists were killed on Tuesday when a Mexican airliner crashed into a 9,000-foot peak of the western Sicrre Madres and exploded wit*i a blast that set the mountain top afire. Rescue brigades set out at dawn from the nearby Rancho el Moseo to reach the wreckage of the twin-engined DC-3 airliner a few miles from the village of Falpa de Allende, 100 miles westsouthwest of Guadalajara. They weie halted on Tuesday night by darkness. A rancher on horseback, who climbed to the scene la‘e Tuesday, reported all aboard "perished horribly.” He was prevented for more than three hours from approaching the a>ea because flaming gasoline touched off a series of brush fires. The Americans aboard were ! tentatively identifie 1 as Ed John- ! -on. Dr. J. Ingler, Dr. Hays and Ft. S. Hall. All were believed to be from California. They boarded the plane at thrustic coastal resort of Puerto 1 Vallarta for the 125-mile flight
Pvt. James F. <’o\ Pvt. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cox, Reelsville, R. 1, is stationed at Foil Riley, Kansas. His address is: Pvt. James F. Cox US55504621. Co. H. 86th Inf. Reg. T. 10th Inf. Div., Fort Riley, Kansas.
EXTRA! WASHINGTON, Marc h 9—The Judiciary Commit tin* of the senate voted 10 to 4 today to eonfirm Judge Harlan as a Justice of the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, March 9 (UP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a long-de-layed voting showdown today on President Eisenhower’s nomination of John Marshall Harlan to be a Supreme Court Justice. Committee members said privately that Harlan’s nomination appeared headed for approval. But friends and foes alik - said there would be several votes —perhaps five or six— against mittee. He is now serving as a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals judge in New York. The committee agreed last week to stay in session today until a vote on the nomination is completed. Harlan was nominated to the Supreme court last November. But opposition developed, an(l no action was taken when the Senate held a special session that month. WASHINGTON, March 9.— (UP)—Sen. Albert Gore, DTenn., said today Civil Defense is setting up an “utterly impossible task” in proposing to evacuate all the nation’s major cities in event of enemy air attack. Gore, a member of the joint congressional Atomic Energy Committee, sharply questioned the practicality of the administration’s mass evacuation plan, “1 wonder if this plan is any more valid than the advice of just a few mon’hs ago to build shelters and dig in,” Gore said in an interview. Civil Defense Director Val Peterson warned an Armed Services Subcommittee Tuesday that in event of enemy attack, all 92 critical target cities in the nation will have to be evacuated. Peterson said, there is no way of teiling which ci'Ds the enemy bombers will hit, and selective evacuation of cities is impossible. WASHINGTON, March 9 • UP)- Responsible individuals here concede that Communist agents more likely than not are employed on sensitive government projects and that one oi more Alger Hisses doubtless remain on the public payroll. It is reasonable to believe that several highly placed Communist agents at or near the Hiss levei are operating actively within the government structure. Belief that the government -till is seriously penetrated by Communist spies is based on deduction drawn from known facts. 11% I nif«*ti Senate Democratic leaders hoped to agree today on a compromise bill for cutting income taxes. If they do. it will be made public by mid-afternoon. A compromise has been sough* since Senate Democrats split over the House-approved measure to give everyone a S20 tax cut. Th.s proposal, strongly opposed by the administration cleared the House <1 spite some little chance of doing so in the more narrowly divid**! Senate.
WORKERS BUSY WITH CAMPAIGN FOR RED CROSS PUTNAM UOl VIA Q| Of \ FOR THIS YEAR IS SET AT $8,100 The 1955 Amcr cnn Red Cp> Fund Campaign solicitations ue now in progress in Putnam County and Greencastle Citv. I: is hoped that tin* goal of xstni). will be r< ached before the end if the month. When the volunteer solicitors come to your home won’t you please give and give generously. Remember a one dollar contribution does not entitle a whole family to membership. Il is for only one member of a family, so lot's give a dollar for each ir labor and have a lOU'r membership family. The different townships and their quotas and the cliainm n &re as follows.
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Russell—$350. George Spencer Warren—$175. Mrs. Allison Bridges and Frank Sutherlin Washington — $250. Robert .Lewis and Mrs. J. W. McElroy Greencastle City's quota i ; $4550, with the following p-s.'on , in charge of their districts; City Schools— Eugene AD '
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NEWS OI ItOVS FORT HARRISON, March 9.—Sorg ■ nt J' r-d Dwight L Lund 30 sc i and Mrs. Dahrl S. L ;nd. R Cloverdale, recen'ly war uated from the A ■, dant al’s School at Fo:!. Han, Lund, who complete I course, has since r tun. Sioux Falls, S. D„ where
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