Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1956 — Page 6

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16 Regional Champs To Be Named Tonight INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — SixtyTour Indiana high school basketball teams stocked tbelr ability against the law of diminishing returns today for 16 regional crowns in the iHSAA’s 45th annual toursament. Only 16 of the original field of *42 teams will be left when the final whistle is blown this evening in fieldhouses throughout Indiana. Not many years ago. these teams would have journed to Indianapolis for a 16-team wrap-up. Now they will go to four eemi-final stope next week and to the finals, March 17. Six of the 64 hopefuls, including mighty mite Milan’s 1954 state champs, are representing schools with less than 160 students per school. Clear Creek, the smallest has 57. Only Milan is considered a serious regional threat although Eastern, which upset powerful Kokomo. might take that regional. Milan’s Indians figure to benefit from a Connersville - Rushville struggle in the afternoon at Rushville. if the Indians keep the sign on Vevay as they did (54-50) in the regular season. New Ross, with less than 70. students, isn’t expected to stay unbeaten after it gets its 25th in a row from Covington in the afternoon and then meets Greencastle at night. Ambia, Jefferson township and Clear Creek aren’t really counting on playing basketball after tonight. Morgantown could pull a Milan and take a title game from the Terre Haute Gerstmeyer • Swlts City survivor and Middletown, with 22 wins in 23 starts, could do the same at Muncie, where Central tangles with Richmond in the afternoon. Either Danville or Hancock Cenral (a large consolidated school) could do the same thing at Indianapolis where Crispns Attacks' unbeaten defending slate champs tie into Anderson in a stemwinder this afternoon. All these could turn the trick but aside from Milan at Rushville, the others would all be upsets. It appears to be a day tor big teams again— now that the little fellers have had their fun punching down Evansville Central, komo and Jeffersonville. Greencastle ought to repeat over Clinton and take that title and Jasper should duplicate its season wins over Vincennes and take the Huntingburg crown., Hammond, New Albany, Seymour. Fort Wayne South, Princeton. South Bend Central, Elkhart,

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Lafayette. Monticello. Logansport. Marion. Richmond, all are strongly supported. A wise parlay er will stick with these big team favorites but every blue moon or so along comes a Milan with 10 little Indiana and the first thing you know all the parlay cards are out the window. . Indiana basketball tourney play, like a woman's mind, changes quickly, often and capriciously. Intramural Titles To Skunks, Warriors The Skunks and Warriors won championships of the intramural league at the Decatur high school gym. The Skunks defeated the Bears. 27-17, for the fifth and sixth grade championship. Bollenbacber tallied 11 points for the winners but Townsend, of the losers, topped all scorers with 13. The Warriors downed the Bears, 26-15, in the final game for the seventh and eighth grade title. Reidenbach counted 12 to lead the winners and Butcher scored 10 for the losers. Skunks FG FT TP Fulton 1 0 2 Nicodemus 3 o‘6 Magley-- 1 0 2 Bollenbacher 5 1 11 Ross 0 0 0 Mitchell ——l 0 2 TOTALS 11 1 23 Bears FG FT TP Conrad 0 0 0 Custer 0 0 0 Shaffer 1 0 2 Suttles 0 0 0 Carpenter 0 0 0 Townsend 6 1 13 Bedwell 0 0 0 Frauhiger I—. 1 0 2 TOTALS 8 1 17 Warriors FG FT TP Krick 0 0 0 Cowans 2 0.4 Hill —3 0 6 Carpenter 2 0 4 Reidenbach —6 0 12 Miller 0 0 0 TOTALS 13 0 26 Bears FG FT TP Snyder —1 0 2 Butcher 3 4 10 Morris .62 2 Nelson * 0 0 0 Highland —. 6 11 TOTALS 4 7 15 College Basketball San Francisco 68, Pepperdine 40. UCLA 85, California 80. Alabama 93, Auburn 82. West Virginia 77, Furman 74. Richmond 65, Washington and Lee 56. North Carolina State 91, Duke 79. Wake Forest 77, North Carolina 66. Kansas 54, Colorado 44. Villanova 72, St. Bonaventure 54. John Carroll 69, Loyola (Chicago) 68. Fremont Eagles Lose Star With Injury The Fremont Eagles, opponents of Monmouth in the first regional game at Fort Wayne this afternoon, suffered a severe loss when Rodney Wells, Fremont's second leading scorer, suffered a fractured ankle In practice Thursday. If you have sometnmg ro sell oi rogms for rent, try a Democrai Want Ad. ft brings results

San Francisco Runs Winning Streak To 49 By International News Service The San Francisco Dons, toprated major college basketball team in the country, extended their unbeaten string to 49 games Friday night by subduing Pepperdine, 68 to 40. The Dons have only two games remaining to complete an undefeated regular season. San Francisco. now- 23-0 for the season, gained a 23-0 lead before Pepperdine scored its first point at 11:41 of the first half. USF, the NCAA champs, already have won an NCAA spot by winning the California Basketball Association crown. Alabama’s Crimson Tide, rated seventh this week by International News Service, won the Southeastern conference title with a 93 to 82 victory over Auburn. It was the first SEC basketball crown in 22 years for the Crimson Tide and it brought them an NCAA tournament berth. The 19th ranked UCLA Bruins, with Willie Naulls scoring 39 points for a new school record, edged California. 85* to 80, to clinch at least a tie for the Pacific Coast conference title. It was UCLA’s 14th consecutive triumph. In the Southern conference tourney, West Virginia tripped Furman, 77 to 74, and Richmond won over Washington and Lee, 65 to 56. The victors meet tonight for the title and an NCAA spot. Noyth Carolina State and Wake Forest clash tonight for the Atlantic Coast conference basketball tourney championship. North Carolina State, rated 6th, mowed down 15th-ranked Duke, 91 to 79, and under dog Wake Forest routed 9th rated North Carolina, 77 to 56. Kansas kept its Big Seven title hopes alive by defeating Colorado, 54 to 44. Dartmouth moved a game and a half ahead of second-place Columbia in the Ivy league by trouncing Harvard, 86 to 71. Villanova'romped over St. Bonaventure, 72 to 54, and Cornell beat Penn, 83 to 78. Illinois and lowa battle today to break their first-place deadlock in the Big Ten. A victory in the showdown battle means not only an almost assured Western conference title but also an NCAA berth. American Bowling Congress Underway ROCHESTER, N.Y, (INS)—More than 31,000 pinmen from 40 states. Alaska, Finland, Saudi Arabia and Canada begin rolling for 5403,613 in prise money today in the 53rd annual American Bowling Congress tournament at Rochester. Bowling Alleys Open Today And Sunday “Molly’’ Mies, proprietor of Mies Recreation, announced today that the bowling alley would be open all day today and Sunday evening until 11 o’clock, as there is no tournament scheduled for this week-end. WEST POSITION (Continued From Page One) most rapturously throughout the Arab world. But the action by Jordan’s King Hussein drew an almost violent reaction from the British press. Informed sources said Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Saud of Saudi Arabia and Syrian premier El Ghazzy were planning to meet next week in a conference which would produce a formal bid to Jordan to in the unified Arab military command. Britain had been trying to persuade Jordan -to -lei n her 4n the' Baghdad pact defense organization which tNasser and Saud bitterly oppose. — ARAB CROWDS (Continued From Page One) tense and who whipped up sentiment against alleged injustices of the island’a\ penal system. / INDIA SEEKING (Continued from ?aye On#, against all nuclear tests, charged that the U. S. had “no right’’ to use the islands .as a proving grounds. / He insisted the territories, which the U. S. holds under a trusteeship agreement with the UN» “belonged to mankind.” UNITEDSTATES. (Continued From Page One) Egypt already has Russian-built jet fighters and bombers and the Israeli claim Egypt will get Soviet submarines later. Dulles believes, however, that Israel must depend upon the United Nations or on the policies of Britain, France and the U. S. for her security. The Israeli answer is that Egypt might get enough air striking power to erush Israel before the Western powers would be able to Intervene.

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Wiltshire Defeats Rockford, 86 To 50 The undefeated Willshire Bearcats whipped Rockford, 86-50, in the annual Ohio class B district tourney Friday night In other games. Van Del ousted New Knoxville, 71-53, and Marion township defeated New Bremen, 44-43. Tonight's schedule at Celina pits Marion against Coldwater* at 7 p.m., with Willshire meeting Van Del at 8:15. Both winners will advance to the Lima district finals next week.

Survey Requested On Housing Trend Congress Is Asked , For Appropriation WASHINGTON (INS) —The goveminent has asked congress for 1175,000‘ th find out whether you plan to move. It’s all part of a dead serious project that could help prevent a depression by providing Washington with Some “sorely needed" guides to future housing markets The Idea is that the proposed survey would give the government a warning on prospective housing downturns that could be countermanded by federal action in time to avert any general economic slump.. Under the proposal, the census bureau twice yearly would check a group of families who had changed their residence in the previous -six month# and another group who had not. Persons in both categories would be asked a series of questions on their financial status. The. main object would be to learn whether those who had not moved might change their quarters and what kind of homes they might buy or rent. Money forth esurvey was re quested by housing administrator Albert M. Cole. Cole told the house appropriations committee that the results would be projected on a nationwide basis Ao provide an im-* portant new todl to future housing trends. Acting assistant housing administrator M. Carter McFarland put it this way: “The housing rnarke!, today and the economy ia general are teetering just ia balance. “It is much more critical to know what is happening and what is likely to happen than it was in the postwar years when you knew that your housing demand was so intensive that yqu could just as-| sume that any volume of housing which was built could be sold ” McFarland added: ‘One of the critical considerations in deter* mining whether or-not we can sustain the present levels of housing production within the next four or five years in what the potential demand is and what the liquid assets are of families who plan to buy houses." - “Many people,” he said, “believe that we are getting a little thin in the basic demand for houses ” If this is true, the official declared it is “a relevant consideration” in government planning. The survey might also clear up some of the guessing and confusion suroi|’M7lng yearly forecasts on prospective home building. This point was underlined during Cole’s testimony. Offfcilally, the government has predicted builders would start about 1.200,000 new homes this year. Cole testified he thought the Industry could achieve 1,300,000 dwellingsBut Walter W. McAllister, federal home loin bank board chairman, said he didn’t think “it would

be good for our economy if we build 1,330,000 houses” as the nation did in 1955. McAllister predicted 1956 output would -total about 1,190,000 units. House appropriations subcommittee chairman Albert Thomas (D Tex.), said he doubted it “you will reach more than one (billion starts”

Champion Carcass To Purdue Entrant Same Hog Winner Os On-Foot Show INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—For the first time in history judges today selected as grand champion carcass the same hog that won the on-foot show. A Purdue-bred Hampshire won the grand champion on-hoof show Tuesday and today was awarded the carcass grand championship, It was entered by William Nash and Son, of Sarpsville. Reserve carcass award went to a purebred Yorkshire, which won first place in breed award, Tuesday. It was entered by 12-year-old Nancy Murphy, daughter of assistant Marion county agent, Pat Murphy, of IndianapolisThird place went to a pure-bred Hampshire hog entered without recommendation by George Hartwick, of Tipton. Although it failed to win recognition among the 633 hogs entered Tuesday, Hartwick personally entered his animal in the carcass judging. Hogs were entered from 44 counties in this seventh show sponsored by Kingan, the Indiana swine breeders association and Purdue University. Airport Manager Bans Drag Races Nighttime Racing Banned At Bedford BEDFORD, Ind. (INS) — Bedford airport manager Kenneth Kern has banned nighttime drag racing by the flaming youth of the city ____± Kern said that drag racing includes not only fast driving but hard braking at the end of the runway, which damages the airstrip. Kern also cited .the possibility of a serious injury or death occurring as a result of an accident on the airport property, adding: “The city would not be liable, but the situation could result in much 111-filing." He cited as an example the case of an airport owner in Orangeburg, S.C.. who was named defendant in a lawsuit for damages after a youth died while drag-racing on his flying field. The suit was unsuccessful. but it served to end drag-racing. Kern added that the airport manager had to protect his airport nightly with an armed

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Releases Report On El Conference ■ Loren S. Jones, Monmouth high school principal and secretary of the Eastern Indiana conference, has released his final report on the basketbail season. The Monmouth Eagles, in addition to sweeping county and sectional honors, also won tb* EIC championship, scoring six victories and losing only on loop contest Montpelier finished second with a 7-2 record, and Berne and Albany tied for third at 5-2. Montpelier has a scant lead In the battle for the all-sports trophy, closely trailed by BerneThe next meeting of the league will be held Monday night at Geneva, with baseball, track and cross country schedules to be discussed. Final Standings W L Pct. Monmouth... 6 1 .975 Montpelier 7 2 .778 Berne 5 2 .714 Albany 5 2 .714 Hartford ...—. 4 3 .571 Redkey , 3 3 .600 Lancaster 3 3 -500 (Geneva 4 5 .444 Adams Central 2 4 -333 Roll 2 4 .333 Bryant 2 7 .222 Pennville 0 7 .000 Points toward all-sports trophy: School Bsb Bktb C-C Total Montpelier 28% 33 7 68% Berne .... 36 28% 3 68% Monmouth 10% 36 5% 52 Lancaster 2»% 19% 0 48 Roll 33 10% 1. 44% Albany .. 15 88% 0 -54% Geneva .. 15 28 % 0 43% Ad. Central 22% 10% 4 37 Bryant .. 22% 6 2 30% Hartford .. 4% 24 0 28% Redkey .. 4% 19% 0 24 Pennville .. 10% 3 0 13%

One Os Most Wanted Criminals Captured Palmer J. Morset Arrested Friday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Federal bureau of investigation agents Friday night arrested Palmer Julius Morset, 49, one of the nation's “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives, in Indianapolis. \. Morset, whose 30-year criminal career began when he was 10, was arraigned today before the V S. commissioner in Indianapolis. He was arrested at his home where he lived with his wife under the name of “Thomas F. Rooney.” The FBI said he had been living undetected in Indianapolis for three years. Morset had been sought on charges of unlawful interstate flight to avoid prosecution. The charges stemmed from the 3312 robbery of the Personal Fi-_ nance company of Chicago for which Morset and William Schults were arrested March 21, 1950. Morset jumped a bond of 315,000 while charged with the robbery and two other holdups. Indianapolis FBI chief Leonard Blaylock said Morset got a job as a water softener salesman after coming to Indianapolis. He was placed on the Ten Most Wanted list Feb. 7, 1955. Morset previously had been sentenced for armed robbery to a term of one year to life in Illinois state prison in 1928 and was released on parole May 30, 1940. His first criminal offense was horse stealing for which he was sent to the Lincoln, Neb.. Reformatory. Des Moines — Common beeswax is used in the manufacture of 400 or more articles. EISENHOWER TO (Continued From Page One) The President previously has for action on German unification, nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and closer East-West cooperation. RESUME PUBLIC (Continued trom FtKe One) committee decided to hold a public hearing Monday to take testimony from Edson and Mrs. Robert K. Goodwin. He said Neff, Goodwin and Neffs lawyer, Ivan D. Evans, would be available for testimony.

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DR. ARTHUR SCHUCK (right), chief Boy Scout executive of New Brunswick, N. J„ receives a Freedoms foundation award, presented by Adm. Arthur Radford. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, at ceremony in Valley Forge, Pa. (International Sound photo}

Fred Merkle Dies Al Florida Home DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (INS) —Funeral services were planned today for Fred Merkle, former major leaguer best remembered for a boner which cost the New York Giants the National League penant in 1908. Merkle died Friday at his home in Daytona Beach of natural causes. He was 67. Though Merkle was in the majors as a first baseman from 1907 to 1926, it was the famous “boner play” for which he was best known. In the last month of the season, the Giants and the Chicago Cubs met at the Polo Grounds in a crucial game. Harry (Moose) McCormick was on third base for the Giants and Merkle on first with two out and the score tied. Al Bridwell singled home what appeared to be the winning run. But Merkle failed to run to second as McCormick crossed the plate, heading for the clubhouse instead. Cubs second baseman Johnny Evers called for the ball and stepped on second to force Merkle out. The run failed to register, the victory was ruled out, and the season ended in a tie. The Cubs won the playoff game. Werst, Flora Are Named Co-Captains Rex Werst and Wayne Flora, both seniors, were elected honorary co-captains of the Decatur Yellow Jackets basketball team for the 1955-56 seasoh at a meeting of the squad Friday. Letters were also awarded by Coach Bob Worthman to Werst. Flora and Terry Murphy, all seniors: Gene Baxter, Tony KeMy. Stanley Kirkpatrick, John Dorwln and Ted Schrock, ( juniors; and Larry Moses and Bob Banka, sophomores.

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