The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 December 1955 — Page 1

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THE DAILY HANNEK

VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1955. UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 41

MOOSE LODGE TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY

LOCAL GROUP TO MARK 41ST BIRTHDAY ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9

Greencastle’s Moose Lodge will cel firate its 41st anniversary on Friday evening, December 9. A number of candidates, known as the Charles H. McCall Class, will be initiated. The work will be conferred by the Bloomington degree team. Murray Lewis will represent the initiates. Mr. McCall, in whose honor the initiation is scheduled, is President of the Indiana Moose Association. He resides in Indianapolis. Invitations have been sent to various city officials and representatives of the different fraternal and patriotic organizations. Following the meeting, a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, will be served by the Women of the Moose. A dance has been arranged for the remainder of the evening. 12 Killed In State Traffic Indiana chalked up a “normal’ weekend traffic death toll of 12 today, and half the victims were from Gary. The state’s second largest city contributed more than its share to the rapidly growing list of 1955 fatalities, now up near the 1,050 mark. All except one of the weekend fatal ace .ients occurred north of U. S. 40, the dividing line between northern and southern Indiana. But not all the accidents which killed six Gary persons occurred in that city. Jean Robinson, 18, and Ethel Spencer, 16, wer -1 killed in a cartruck crash in Hammond Friday night. Michael Vargo, 38, died in a 4-car crash in U. S. 30 in LaPorte County in a dense fog. Other Gary victims were Lonnie Wilson. 21, killed in the Steel City in a collision while police were chasing him for speeding; Wendy Marshall, 5, who was struck by a car, and Irvin S. Myers, 35, whose car sideswipe ! four parked vehicles and hit a tree. Jane Turfler, 9. South Bend, was killed in a South Bend accident and a few hours later Robert Eaton, 23, a South Bend policeman, was killed when his car crashed into a parked automobile as he drove while off duty. Other victims were: Mrs. Betty Kelier, 30, Fort Wayne, killed in a two-car collision in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Margaret Mastin, • 19. New Castle, killed in a car-truck collision in New Castle. Fred'rick R. Stillabower, 25, Columbus, killed v hen hit by a car while walking along U. S. 31 near Columbus. Virgil Tague, 40. Michigan City,, killed when struck by n car at a street intersection in Michigan City. KILLS BABY SON TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 5 - (UP) Edward Leon Moore, an unemployed laborer who admitted beating his eight-months-old infant because his crying “annoyed him,” faced a seconddegree murder charge today. Chief of Detectives Willard Gantz said the child. Edward, Jr., bore 32 cuts and abrasions and suffered internal injune*Moore said at f.rst his son fell out of bed but changed his statement after a lie test, police sad.

HTRE AND THERE

City firemen were called to the home of Mrs. Tullia Haymer on East Walnut street shortly afternoon when falling sparks started a small roof blaze. Mrs. Bessie Green was elected Worthy Matron and Russell Vermillion. Worthy Patron of Greencastle Chapter No. 255 Order of Eastern Star. Mrs. Lois Arnold was hostess for a luncheon meeting of the Crescent Club.

Moose President

C harles H. McCall

Rites Tuesday For Mrs. Howard Mrs. Bertha May Howard, wife of Albert Howard, merchant policeman, passed away late Saturday morning at the Putnam County hospital following a short illness. Mrs. Howard was born May 19, 1897 in G-eencastle, the daughter of Harry and Minnie Thornburg and had spent all her life in this community. She resided on North Indiana street. She is survived by the husband; one son, Lloyd; one daugn-ter-in-law, Glee; two grandchildren, Karen and Hov/ard Conyers, and other relatives. Last rites will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. from the Rector Funeral Home. Rev Kyle Miller will ne in charge. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Pallbearers will be Nadean Sillery, Lawrence Miller, Ralph Runyan, Roscoe Skimmerhorn, Dave Burnett, and Glendyn Irwin. Bsinbridge Fixes June 20-23 For Fair The Bainbridge Volunteer Fire Department, which sponsors a free street fa-ir each year, has fixed the days of June 20 through 23, as the time for next year’s lair. The early fixing date was used in order to prevent a conflict with any other community, such as occurred last year when dates in two nearby towns conflicted. This will be the fourth annual free street fair by the Bainbridge Volunteer Fire Department and proceeds will be used to further community projects by the department. Death Takes Flying Pioneer BALTIMORE. Md. Dec. 5— • UP! Aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin, one of the nation's larg-e-t airplane builders, died Sunday night of a cerebral hammorhage. He was 69. Martin was stricken at his farm home near Rock Hall. Md., where he had been recuperating from a- heavy cold and virus infection. according to his physician. Dr. \V. Kennedy Waller. He died in University Hospital here where he was admitted for treatment. Martin, former head of the huge Glenn L. Martin. Co., which he founded just outside Baltimore. had largely reliquished active management of the firm. But before his illness he had been working on a secret armament development in conjunction I with the government. I VCTOK1 WORKER KIDNAPED FIVE PERSONS CHICAGO. Dei'. 5—A razor- ! brandishing factory worker was unable to explain today why he ^ kidnaped five persons and forced them to accompany him on a wild terror ride in a stolen taxicab. Patrick Dillon. ?*. was also accused of slashing two persons with his razor, forcing a female captive tos trip, and attacking her. He was arrested at his girl friend's apartment after he had released the last captive Sunday downtown. His only explanation was “J didn't know what I was doing.”

YFW INYiTES MANY GUESTS FOR BANQUET PEARL HARBOR DAY DINNER TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY

A number of special guests have been invited to attend the annual Pearl Harbor Day dinner at the Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 YFW Home on Wednesday evening. Heading this groaip will be j Richard Roudebush, of Indian- j apolis. National Junior Vice Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Other guests are Glendon R. Hinsha*w, Indiana VFW Department Commander; Orval Holycross. Department Quartermaster; Robert Delp, Sixth District Commander; Carl C. Miller, Athletic Director Dept, of Indiana; Clyde L. Miller, Past Department Commander; Norman A. Myers, Commander Roachdale Post 3284; Hubert Scott, Commander Post 459; Raym&nd Baldwin, Commander Legion Post 58; Clair Williams, Elks Exalted Puller; Clifford Norton, Moose Governor; Mayor Evan Crawley; Fire Chief William Lawrence; Police Chief John Vermillion; Walter Feld, Commander World War I Veterans; Carl Myers, Fathers Auxiliary Commander; Sfieriff Joe Rollings; Rev.. Elgin T. Smith and Samuel R. Rariden. The turkey dinner at 6:30 p. m. will be featured by a talk by Wilfred Smith, Sports Editor of the Chicago Tribune. HOSPITAL NOTES

Dismissed: Roy Buchanan, Roachdale; Beverly Nichols, Grace Shank, Greencastle; Mi>. Roy Cline and daughter, Indianapolis; Mrs. Harry Edwards and son, Stilesville; Mrs. Irma Rollings, Cloveidale; Linda Chapman, Plainfield; Lottie Watson, Clayton. Births: Mr. and Mrs. John Hood, Greencastle, a son; Mr. and Mrs. J. Kyle Russell, Danville, a daughter. State Search For Woman, Infant — INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 5—A state wide alert was issued today for a woman parolee missing with an Indianapolis infant. Police said the woman, Miss Ruoth Marie Hillin, disappeared with 13 months old Georgia Carol Waltz, daughter of Mrs. Evelyn McLaughlin, 35. last Thursdaay saying she was taking the infant downtown to “see Santa Clause.” Mrs. McLaughlin said Mrs. Mary Adair, 25, who lives with her, had befriended Miss Hillin and brought her to their apartment last Tuesday. Miss Hillin. 22, had been sentenced to tlr * Indiana Woman’s Prison »for forgery and was free on parole. SENATORS TO STUDY SCHOOL BUILDING COST

A committee of the State Senate will begin a tour this ween to find out why some township officials are building school structures at prohivitive cost. The committee has determined that a standard classroom in Marion County costs $15,900 while in a northern county it

cost $49,000.

The fact is. one senator said, that township trustees are being Talked into erecting “memorials” by sly architects who like the 5 per cent fee they get. The higher the cost, the bigger the fee. WEST GERMAN BARGES TO LOSE THEIR PERMITS BERLIN. Dec. 5—The East German Communists said today West Geiman barges will lose their permits to supply West Berlin Dec. SI. The Reds also set the stage for new interference with highway traffic to the city.

40 XATIYES ARE KILLED IN FURIOUS FIGHTING ALGIERS, Algeria.- Dec. 5 - Forty persons were killed in a I fmious stieet batUe in the village of Lamay between French troops and Algerian rebels, a French official announced today.

IKE GETS BULLET-PROOF WINDOWS

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER passes near the new bullet-proof glass w.ndows that have been installed in his Gettysburg office to shield him fiom any poss ble harm. Installation of the two-inch-thick, specially-processed window panes was desenbed as a “routine precautionary measure.”

Board To Act Ex-Mt. Meridian On Bowl Row Woman is Dead

ATLANTA Dec. 5 —(UP) — The State Board of Regents meets in special session today to act on Gov. Marvin Griffin’s request that Georgia Tech bey barred from piaving against Pittsburg's Negro fullback in the Sugar Bowl. Sources close to the governor predict the board will make ? compromise under which Georgi i Tech will fulfill its engagement in the New Orleans howl Jan. 2 but that Tech and tie University of Georgia would be prohibited from playing non-segregated opponents in the ftilurfc. The belated request by Griffin, a 48-year old champion of segregation, exploded into angry protests by Tech students who burned the governor in effigy at least six times, flooded mto the state capitol early Saturday and then demonstrated in front of the' governor’s mansion. Griffin’s stand touched off a flood of protests fiom throughout the South ard students at Mercer University :n Macon, Ga., a Baptist supported school, also burned Griffin in effigy. MURDERS WIFE CHICAGO. Dec. 5—(UP) Dr. Hobart H. Todd. 43, was held on charges of murdering his wife of 18 months today after he admitted drugging her and beating her into unconsciousness. An inquest was scheduled to determine the exa’ct cause of 37-year-old Hazel Todd’s death Saturday night. Firemen answering Todd’s call for an inhalator found Mrs. Todd’s nightgown-clad body sprawled between the couple's twin beds in their $40,000 suburban Skokie home. T.ie woman thad apparently been dead four hours. Todd, incoherent as the result of drugs and alcohol, was unable to give an immediate explanation, po-

lice said.

Word has been received here of the death late Saturday in Van Nuys, Calif., of Mrs. Walter Rawer, formerly Mrs. T. J. Hurst of Mt. Meridian. The cause • f her death was not known, but she was taken ill early in the week and died Saturday. Funeral services will be held from VanNuys on Tuesday. He' son, Russell Hurst, resides in Van Nuys. She is also survived by another son, Arthur Hurst of Plainfield and two sisters, Mrs. Elmer Howell of Toledo, O., and Mrs. Don McLean of this city. She had been a resident of California for the past several year's. DRIVER ARRESTED Russell E. Gullick, 27, of Wichita, Kansas, was arrested by wmal officers at 2 a. m. Sunday on a drunken driving charge. Gullick. who was driving a trac- | tor for a semi-trailer truck, was ‘aken into custody on State Road >43, north of Greencastle, and lodged in the Putnam county jail : V : — ti-OYEKDALE TOWNSHIP r FARM BUREAU TO MEET The Cloverdale Township Farm Bureau will meet in the American Legion Hall on Thursday evening at six o'clock for their annual Turkey dinner. Members are asked to bring their own table service, either a salad or vegetable dish and pie or sake. There will be a gift drawing if the member whose name is drawn is present. There will be three gifts distributed. Harold Smith will be present to give a talk on Farm Bureap Insurance and there will be other entertainment. There also is some unfinished business to be transacted, which will be of interest to each member. All members and their families are invited.

C3NT SEE EVE TO EVE ON BERGER

MICHAEL J. QUILL deft), president of the CIO-transr>o t work ers union, walks angr.ly past CIO president Walter Reuther during a New York meeting in which the huge labor org inization overwhelmingly ratified merger with the AFL. Ratification followed a sha-p one-hour debate rmrkei by a clash between Reuther Qu ll. who opposed the merger as a “tragic liquidation of the CIO.”

LICENSE PLATES 60 ON SALE JAN. 3RD

SPECIAL PLATE NUMBERS C AN BE RESERVED AT j ANY TIME

Indiana motor vehicle plates will go on sale here Tuesday, January 3, at the Putnam county license branch office on the first floor of the court house. The office has been moved from the second floor of the First- Citizens bank building to the new location which takes in the north half of the old assembly room. Anyone wishing to reserve special number plates may now go to the office, with their application blank. 1955 tax receipts and money. When their special number comes up, the plates will be mailed for a fee of $1 which will be charged for this service, payable at the time of applying for plartes. This procedure has been recommended by Morris Carter, Director of the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

FULL SCHEDULE FOR WEEK FACES MR. EISENHOWER

GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 5.— (UP)—President Eisenhower today started another busy week in his work-and-rest recuperative period at his Gettysburg farm. His work schedule included drafting of a congratulatory message to the newly-merged AFL and CIO. The President was to deliver his good wishes by telephone tc the convention of the two unions in New York this afternoon. He also scheduled a conference with Nelson Rockefeller, a special assistant on international affairs, and the customary staff and paper work in his downtown office. Official appointments and meetings will keep Mr. Eisenhower busy a good part of every day this week. He will drive to Washington Saturday for a monthly physical checkup and will remain in the capital until the following Tuesday. Tuesday, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes will come to Gettysburg to continue their discussions with Mr. Eisen bower on the defense budget to be submitted to Congress next month. On Wednesday, the President will resume his weekly talks with Arthur F. Burns, chairman of his Council of Economic Ad- j visers. and Gabriel Hauge, a member of the council and a White House administrative assistant. They presumably wiii go over the annual economic message to Congress. The President will meet Thursday with the National Security Council and the cabinet at Camp David some 22 miles away. It will be his third meeting with the security council and his second with the cabinet since he came here to recuperate. Mr. Eisenhower will get hsphysical checkup next Saturday at Walter Reed Army Hospital He will meet GOP oongressiomleaders and a bipa'tisan foreign policy gioup the following Monday and Tuesday before returning to Gettysburg. TAKE LIE TESTS CHICAGO. Dec. 5 lUPi Two "sadistic” teen-age gunmen were to take lie detector tests today to determine whether they know anything of the vicious killing of three young Chicago boys. The youths, both aged 17. were it rested Sunday night and ac•used or a string of brutal filling station holdups. Police said the e might also be possible links beween the young bandits and the murders last Oct. 16 of Robert | Peterson. 13, John Schuessler, 13, j and his 11-year-old brother, An- { 'on.

HOG MARKET Receipts 19.000. Under 220 pounds brought a top of $12.25 today at the In liana polls sto kyards.

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Mrs. J. Russell Fair

Delt President Here Wednesday Mrs. J. Russell Fair of Bloomington, Ind., National president of Delta Theta Tau Sorority, Inc., will visit this city December 7, 1955 the guest of Theta chapter. Delta Thetm Tau, a philanthropic sorority founded in 1903 at Muncie, Ind., has 197 active chapters and 87 alumnae associations throughout the United States. Members is more than 15,000. This past year these local chapters spent a total of $110, 793.47 for various charities and their members gave 34,842 service hours to hospitals and other institutions. Also, the members collected $132,125.44 for othei humanitarian agencies such as the Red Criss. Each chapter has its own philanthropy such as aid to hospitals, schools, children’s homes, and other related projects. Dental Program Saving for Hospital Fund, also donations for all charities and Philonthropical work. This year. Delta" Theta Tau completed a $25,000 pledge to the Magnetic Springs Polio Foundation, Magnetic Springs, Ohio, making possible the remodeling of a 28-bed section known as the “Delta Theta Tau Wing.” May Have New Farm Program WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 The Eisenhower administration may present a new farm program to congress in January which would put a ceiling on government aiu to big operators. Authoritative sources sac. today the administration is “actively considering” a major change in farm policy. The change would limit the amount of pi ice support payments to any farmer, informed sources said. This would not affect the man running a family size farm hut would deal with the big, commercial farmer.

TROPEKS TO LEAVE NEW CASTLE, Ind., Dec. 5. (UP 1 Thirty National Guard troopers, here for a second time to put down violence in the now settled Perfect Circle Corp, stiike, will be withdrawn Tuesday. Gen. Harold A. Doherty. Indiana adjutant general, said today in Indianapolis that the troopwoulci be pulled out because there seems to be little likelihooc of any further eruptions of violence.

AWARDED A TURKEY BeChoer Rothholz of Bainbridge, received a turkey last .veek as a present from the A. E. etarley Manufacturing Company >f Decatur, Illinois, the world's largest corn and soybean processor. The award was originally made to Mr. Rothholz at a recent open house for the new Staley Company Feed Research Faim, located north of Decatur. At that time Mr, Rothholz was given a live turkey and then given the choice of the feathered bird or a dressed one. He chose the ready-to-cook variety.

17 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS

PUTNAM CATTLE PLACE HIGH AT INTERNATIONAL

CLODFELTER HERD TXKES CHAMPIONSHIPS AT CHICAGO SHOW

The Glatwyn Farm entries in the Polled Shorthorn Show it t ; • International Livestock Show m Chicago last week made an excellent showing. This Putnam County herd owned and exhibited by Ray art Gerald CloJfelter h id the Senior Champion and Reserve Grand Champion bull on Broadway Hallmark, a senior yearling and the reserve Junior Champion ball on Glatwyn Leader 26th. Th 1 Hallmark bull was Grand Champion at the Indiana State Ei r and the Putnam County Fair. The Clodfelters also showed the reserve senior champion female on the entry of Glatwyn Mina 8th and their get-of-sirc entry placed second among sixteen entries representing the top herds of the nation. Another outstanding accomp lishment of the Clodfelters was winning the group of three bulls class, which indicates the quality of sires being produced on the Glatwyn Farms. In summarizing the winings this herd received four champion ribbons, three blue ribbons, four red ribbons and many other high placing ribbons. Gerald Glodfelter, the junior member of this partnership began his three year term of dutic: as a director of the American Shorthorn Breeders Association, a position to which he was nom ■ inated last summer at the National Polled Shorthorn Congre.->i and Sale at Lexington, Ky. Plan Autopsy On Boy's Body CRANE, Ind. Dec. 5—(UP)An autopsy was scheduled today to determne whether 3-year-old Ronnie Weitkamp was the victim of a sex murderer 53 days ago. The boy's body was discovered late Sunday lying across a small gully about 1 1 j miles away from his home in the village of Crane. It was the same area which had been covered in a shoulder-to-shoulder seach last October. The condition of the body prevented immediate determination of the cause of death. However, the fact that the little boy's overalls were found six feet from his otherwise fully-clothed body indicated he might have been :;lain by a sex deviate. Coroner Delmer Hasler raid the lad might also have died of exposure. There was additional evidence that he had been attacked by wild animals .either before or after his death. Sasler called pathologist I/'on Bloom from Terre Haute. Ind., to conduct the autopsy at nearby Bloomfield, Ind. FBI a nt.s and military and local police also joined the investigation. Ronnie, a fun-loving, te v-hi 1 - ed lad. disappeared from hi.5 home last Oct. 11. EXC ITING \NMVEKS\KY INDIANAPOLIS, D« c. 5 (UP) Sunday wa* the m > t exciting birthday an:, ver ary M Anthony Kiempl ever < !eb: 1 - ed. It was the d y eh tart l to the hospital to give birth to her fourth chi! 1. Enioute, her h •ban 1 ran .1 stop light and -ana-bed in'o fn'ir cars, dlghtly injuring ix pe-. m. Then, the baby v.a-, born in the wreckage. A doctor who happened to b passing by saved th* day 1-y crawl'ng into the car to deliver the child. # Today’s Weather 0 •3* Local Temperature fl Mostly fair and cooler today and tonight. Tuesday fair and continued cold. H:gh today 20, low tonight 10. Minimum 21® 6 a. m 22® 7 a. m — 21 5 8 a. m. . 9 a. m 24® 10 a. m. 25® 11 a. m. . 27 12 noon — 27®

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