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Obituary Kenneth Skelton Kenneth 0. Skelton, 63, Plainfield, died this morning at Winona Hospital, Indianapolis. He was bom in Putnam County Oct. 27,1908. He had retired this year after 22 years with William H. Block Co. in the displaydepartment. He was a member of the Church of Christ, Plainfield and Carbon, Masonic Lodge. He is survived by the widow Lucille Ellis:also one son James, Titusville, Fla. and a step daughter Mrs. Lottie Skelton, Plainfield survive. Three step brothers, Gilbert, Plainfield; Everett. Clayton and Clifford of Huston. Dickey, also survive. Services will be Wednesday at 10:30 at Hampton-Gentry Funeral Home Plainfield. The burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery Plainfield. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Funeral Home.

Historical — Continued from Page / Cyril L. Johnson, Russellville 46175 for details as soon as possible. Johnson is Atlas Project Committee chairman for the Putnam County Historical Society. Queen — Continued from Page I keyboard.” Miss Danforth remains petit and, being the smallest queen candidate, stands 4’ 11”. She has brown eyes and brown hair. Theresa has two brothers, Frederic Arthur, Jr. and Bruce Allen-and a sister, Floreen Anita. Miss Danforth’s goals in the contest are to “try to improve myself, to build selfconfidence, and to have fun.” She is currently employed with Schultz’s Family Store, where she has been working since Febmary.

Stone Company Announces Elson As Engineer

C.F. Martig, president of the France Stone Company, which has two plants in Greencastle and one in Cloverdale. has announced that William 1. Elson has been appointed Engineer-Environ-mental Control. Bom in Bloomington, Illinois, Elson joined France Stone May 15, 1972 and served as assistant manager of the company’s Monroe, Michigan plant until his present appointment. Previously, he was employed in engineering and supervisory work on major construction projects throughout the United States and the West Indies and in sales and technical assistance in the field of commercial explosives. Elson was graduated from Buckley-Loda High School in Buckley, Illinois and in

1962 from Wisconsin State University with the degree of bachelor of science in mining and engineering. Mr. Elson and his wife, Imogene, are parents of a son and live at 336 Theodore Drive in Monroe, Michigan. With headquarters in Toledo, France Stone produces crushed limestone products for the road building, construction and railroad industries, for agricultural purposes and for building supplies in 21 plants in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Other Indiana plants are at I.ogansport, Sunset Hill and five in Fort Wayne. Ohio plants are located in: Bloomville, Paulding, Bellevue, North Baltimore, Waterville, Toledo, Sylvania, Woodvilleand Flat Rock. In Michigan, France Stone has plants in Ida and Monroe.

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Two men were sentenced on malicious trespass charges yesterday in Putnam County Circuit Court. Ray Spesard, 20, Bainbridge, and John Raymond Long, Roachdale, both received suspended six month sentences to the Indiana State Farm and were fined S50 and court costs. Each man was ordered to pay $85 tow ard the cost of repairing the state police car which they damaged. They were ordered on probation

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and given 60 days in w hich to pay the money. Connie Shepherd, 21, Greencastle, was found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She received a 6 month suspended sentence at the Indiana Women’s Prison. The charge of allowing dead animals to lie about the premises against Leroy Delp, 70, Route 1, Greencastle, was dismissed. Jake Long, Roachdale, pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault and battery. His trial was scheduled for 10 a.m. today. Terry E. Owens, Martinsville. was fined $432 and costs on a charge of over state weight. H e was also fined $25 and costs on a second charge of having a leaky load. Two men who escaped from the Indiana State Farm June 5 entered guilty pleas. James Roger Underhill, 18, Paoli.and David Lewis Tuttle, 27, Huntington, will return to court for sentencing aftertheirpresentence investigation is filed. John W. Vermillion, 19, Greencastle, was found guilty of driving while under the influence of an intoxicating beverage and sentenced to 30 days in thecounty jail.

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Penn Central Stop Could Mean Nationwide Disaster

Months after the PennCentral Railroad filed bankruptcy, and after Putnam County has been informed that it will be reimbursed for county money lost with this action, the railroad remains in the news. Indiana Senator Vance Hartke, chairman of the Senate Surface Transportation Committee today “formally” notified each member of the United States Senate in a 1,800-word letter that unless Congress “acts this month” the “heart of the nation’s rail transportation system, the Penn Central Railroad, could stop.” He predicted “disaster” Council — Continued from Page I underway soon by a state traffic survey team and suggested that the problems at the corner of Washington and Jackson be pointed out to the survey team. In other matters, the police chief noted that there were 34 arrests in thecity since the last council meeting May 14 and added that there were 27 convictions. He added that there were five personal injury accidents, and 23 property damage accidents in the city for a total of 28 at an estimated damage figure of $19,938. Fire Chief Les Haltom reported eight city calls and fourtownshipcallsduring the period of May 14 through June 11 and said there were seven rescue calls. Included in these rescue calls was one in Montgomery' County when the local department was called in to help out in an emergency there. The fire chief added that eight fire inspections were made in the city for the state fire marshall. Street department superintendent Dale Oler noted that 26 dogs were taken by the department to the dog pound in Morgantown and remarked that 44 pounds of blacktop was layed by the department on city streets. Norton reported that orders have gone out to the water department that painting work on the elevated tank is to start w ithin the next 30 days.

for the nation’s economy. The Committee chairman proposed a five-step $62.5 million method of stop-gap aid and warned: “Congress must take the lead. To my dismay top officials of the U.S. Department of Transportation are unwilling or unable to provide any meaningful leadership. The Secretary of Transportation says he could in 30 days draw a plan for reorganization of bankrupt northeast railroads, but when our subcommittee asked him so to advise Congress within a month, he could not or would not,” Senator Hartke advised his colleagues. “I am shocked to learn, during this period, that both the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administrator are on extended trips to Europe,” Senator Hartke wrote. The committee chairman proposed five steps to stave off what he called a catastrophe which within a month could “bring this nation to its knees, from Illinois to the Atlantic Ocean, from Indiana to Canada,” and spell “disaster” for every sector of the economy for which the 100million northeast population isa market. (1) Fund a $17-million loan under disaster provisions of Hurricane Agnes legislation, already authorized, netting some S13-million to the Penn Central’s dangerously low cash situation. “1 have asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to complete this action on an expedited basis. (2) Under the Emergency Rail Services Act of 1970make loans up to S18-million to the Penn Central and other roads in the Northeast. The law, if necessary, should be amended to allow the Secretary of Transportation to accept subordinated status for the added funding. Senator Hartke noted. (3) Allow the Interstate Commerce Commission to prov ide service by one carrier over the lines of another. This is not allowed under current procedures. The Senator moved to have the new regulation ordered out of Committee. (4) Under AMTRAK legis-

lation loan $17.5-million, to the Penn Central, authorized by the Secretary of Transportation. “1 am of the view such a loan may be appropriate,” Senator Hartke w rote. (5)Expedite ICC action by June 15 on a $10-million claim against AMTRAK by the Penn Central for use of the carrier’s lines in the northeast corridor. “I have written to the Chairman of the Commissionurgingthisissuebe resolved this month, preferably by June 15,” Senator Hartke wrote. All of this, the committee chairman labeled “interim” and “emergency” in character. He said the Penn Central faces a cash deficit of $10million by the end of August and liquidation by a bankruptcy court on July 2, unless Congress evidences will to act. “Failure of the government to act this month leaves the trustees with no real option other than to submit a liquidation plan.” The trustees testified before Hartke earlier this month indicating they would file for liquidation if no action by Congress wasevident. “Since the date of bankruptcy petition was filed,more than $300-million in new claims has been generated, involving $ 175million in priority items,”the Senator wrote his colleagues. “The emergency measures 1 have outlined are obviously of an interim character only. They will not lead to revitalized and reorganized railroads that the Northeast and the nation must have.” By 2,000 AD the U.S. population may approach 300million and the economy more than $3.6-trillion in gross national product, the Senator observed. “Given the strain already evident on our highways and airports, the imperatives of energy and environment, we must turn moreand more to railroads to meet our needs,”! he committee chairmansaid. Jones — Continued from Page ! on a Rector Scholarship in 1938 and graduated from DePauw' with distinction in 1942, majoring in English. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota in 1950 in E nglish. The Butler president married Sara Elizabeth (Betty) Mullins of Greencastle in 1946.

Cloverdde To Establish Truck Routes

The Cloverdale Town Board last Tuesday passed an ordinance establishing truck routes within the town and making it unlawful to operate any vehicle on a residential street when the gross weight exceeds 12 tons. The ordinance also established a penalty for its violation. The ordinance defines truck route as any state or federal highw ay or road within the corporate limits of the Town of Cloverdale and any street within the town designated and posted as a truck route. All municipal streets, alleys, bridges and culverts other than those marked as truck routes will be desGrain Report Grain prices at Greencastle elevators today are: Com -$2.10 Beans - Subject to change Oats-$1.15 Wheat-Noprice New Corn -$1.55 New Beans-$5.66 New Oats-No price New Wheat-$2.36 Livestock Report

Hog prices at the Greencastle Livestock Center today areSOcentshigher with: 180-200-$37.50-$39. 200-230-$39-$39.25 230-250-$38-$39 2 50-300-$36-$38 Sows - 50 cents higher $32.75-$33.50 Boars-$29

ignated as a residential street according to the new ordinance. The ordinance, which goes into effect June 29, states that drivers of trucks or vehicles whose gross weight, withload, exceeds 12 ton may deliver or pick up goods or property at places within the Town of Cloverdale not located on truck routes, provided the trucks or vehicles are operated by the shortest possible route between a truck route and the place of delivery or pickup within the I own, or as otherwise directed by the Town Marshall.

Hospital Notes Dismissed Monday: Lesa Tennant Ira Moore Josephine Cox Albert Collier Bertha Skelton M art hae Myers Flora Nunaley Leo Wilson Glen VonT ress J essie M oon Urban Goss Marie Wright Mrs. Shirley Brickert and son Mrs. JoyceTruebloodand son Mrs. Connie McCullough and son BIRTH: Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts, Gosport. Route I ,a boy.

The ordinance excludes departments of and utilities owned and operated by the Town of Cloverdale and employeesand persons performing repair or construction for such department and utilities under contract w ith the Town of Goverdale. while engaged in the necessary performance of theirduties. Any person violating the ordinance shall, upon conviction. be fined an amount not less than $25 nor more than $100 foreach violation.

Card Of Thanks Wewould liketo thank and express our heartfelt appreciation to the friends, neighborsand relatives who helped us in our time of distress. Especially to the FillmoreCivil Defense for their swift action and long hours of watchfulness, Jack Jones of Roachdale civil defense and Coatesville Fire department and Fillmore Fire department and Greencastle Civil defense and the radio station at Greencastle and everyone who helped. Thankyou. M r. and M rs. Howard Beaman

Fleenor’s Drug Store will be closed all day Tuesday Due to the death of Mr. Fleenor’s brother Clarence Fleenor. Funeral services will be held in Salem, Ind. lues, afternoon.

Conference Resolution Backed By Myers Indiana Congressman John Myers has introduced a resolution calling for a White House Conference on the Handicapped. Myers said there are at least 22 million and perhaps as many as 30 million handicapped persons in the United States. He said a White House Conference would bring the handicapped together with all the different government and private agencies in an effort to determine how this segment of the society can be better served. Myers said, “Millions of handicapped adults who could hold jobs and support themselves if they could receive the training, counseling and understanding, find themselves unable to work because of insufficient or nonexistent programs or because of a lack of understanding of their needs and problems by employersand others.” “Just as we have increased our understanding of the problems and needs of the elderly at a recent White House Conference on Aging, I believe we can achieve the same results at a Conference on the Handicapped. I am hopeful for early Congressional approval of this resolution so that planning can begin,” Myers said. Fish Fry Set For July 13,14 July 13 and 14 will be the dates for the annual fish fry sponsored by the Union Chapel United Methodist Church. A previous report slating the event for this w eek was misleading. Sen ing is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. each evening. The James Family is scheduled to provide the entertainment during one of the evenings. A spokesman said that posters would be printed soon which will indicate which night the family will entertain. It wasalso reported that all are invited to attend, and there will be fun foreverybody. Marriage Licenses Stephen Pal Filicsky, Public Service Indiana. Stilesville. and Jeanette Ellen Johnson, IBM. Route5, Greencastle. Harold Hugh Rumley, construction, Greencastle. and Pamela Nadine Winks, Clerk, Public Service Indiana, Indianapolis.

Tuesday, June 12, 1973 A Little Of: This And That

Here’sa grim reminder: As of Monday morning 54 more persons had been killed on Indiana highways than at the same time in 1972. With nine Hoosier road traffic fatalities recorded during the weekend, the 1973 total so far is 664. This is an average of better than 100a month. So, pleasedrive carefully. 000 I am just wondering how many male readers of this column remember probably the most popular swimming place in Big Walnut Creek a number of years ago. It was called “Blue Hole” and wasjust below the Big Four Railroad over the creek a short distance northwest of Greencastle. Boys in those days would walk or ride their bicycles out West Columbia Street and when they got to the creek there were no bathing suits in evidence. Many is the time that I have spent practically all day swimming in Blue Hole or relaxing on a sandbar and getting a tan as well as sunburn. Some of my cronies in those days were mostly old First Ward School classmates including Shorty Roach, Bud Reeves, Bob Graham, Harry Gray, George Beemer, Bridge Abrams among others. In fact, it was in Blue Hole that 1 learned to swim. Some of the other fellows threw me in the creek one day and let me tell you, I really started kickingand splashing. 1 know now' that they would

not have let me drown but it wasn’t very funny at the time. Well, weall had fun, but if I remember correctly, one or two boys did drown which was indeed tragic. But, after all is said and done, there was nothing like the ole swimminghole. 000 His many friends will be interested in learning that John Liston is touring Spain with the Indiana University basketball team as manager and trainer. John is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Duight Liston. South Indiana Street. 000 Twelve couples had applied for marriage licenses in the office of C ounty Clerk Johnny Masten asof Monday morning. I his averages one a day so far this month. 000 “Class is having the office boy bringyourcoffee ina silver pot.”

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