Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1950 — Page 9

for 25 sq. yds,

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Noble Hollister, secretary of the Indianapolis Zoning Board, believes the section north of the eanal almost. to 86th St. and east of College Ave. to: the Monon! Railroad tracks will eventually vide relief for choked-up con-| tions. “Several big-money groups have| _showen interest in Qeveloving it.” | says, “That's the only

fe ‘scale and provide parking gpace, all at the same time.” Favors Foot Bridges :

the canal, Mr. Holliste: erecting several foot ! he sides with other city

gdvanced | Indianapolis funnel it through a conduit, “Not all Broad

gary, or even desirable. Some| tradesmen want to maintain

t state. They don’ t want Shmaeition. however, look on com-

de. They point to the rich ult profits waiting to be ped in Hamilton County, just bred of Marion County. an Broad Ripple business fo is unlimited. according to ick Higgins, manager of the rantee Auto Supply Co. and uficontested - candidate for - 1950: = of the Broad Ripple | inessmen and Civic Assocla-|

Ja en don’t think we've more faa stratched the surface here,” he says. 1308 DP’S TO ARRIVE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP)— Some 1303 displaced persons are

of 10

Ripple business- bust, men believe expansion is neces- hotel signs as epitaphs. '

- their pron ie. community in|

tion as a stimulant to all!

sie ue repeal bill b;

Friday.

ASH (GTO, Jan. 7 (UP)— gators from dairy

i. office of Sen.

jt forbid ship- two million above d oleo in in-| average.

‘PRESIDENT State of Unlon-—As usual,

of wartime Metis messages dominated the 2 pening. President Truman apwould not try| peared before a joint session

ll to death, the Wednesday to procl th Senators also announced after a found ey ot ain that he

{made before. He paid tribute to “bi-partisan co-operation on forAR. Wis.), one sign affairs” and sald he would

ators fight- ask for changes in the tax sys- | approval of tem. »

By SORIPPS-HOWARD NEWSP, a Sy WASHINGTON, Jan. The second session of of the ht y | gress got off to a fast start week: the oleo tax 80 a . it down with|

“state of the Union| conference that they continues to be good.”

His re lon on the quests for legislation had all been

an federal taxes and license foes

ne. Members of the

margari Patan bloc are fighting the bill and a long debate is in ' China — The President's « announcement of & hands-off : |on the Nationalist-held island of {Formosa sparked a hot Senate.dete. on our government's bane dling of the China problem, ,,,

Republicans charged that bho.

ing nothing to keep Formosa from falling into Communist hands. we

| Feonomic Report—In his eco. Were seriously weakening our Pa-

last

, Guy M. Gil! nomic message, sent to Congress cific defenses. Many Republicans, Pho also was yesterdaythe sald the administra. Including fen. Robert Taft, said ng a substi- tion's prosperity goal this year that the bipartisan foreign policy i federal taxes was 61 million jobs, more than| Was now dead. year 8 He sald he wanted the [volvement in Formosa would lead {national output to be hiked from/to war,

.Pemocrats answered that. in-

“Do you want to go to

8 Of the dairy|the predent $255 billion to $300 war for China, or don't you?’

taxes,”

Here is Dickeyville, Ind., in Warrick County, as it looks today—aiready a ghost town. ; ture of the life that died with

Sunlight Coal Co. Intends to Tap Rich Coal Deposits in Dickeyville Area : By WILLIAM MITOHELL, Times Special Writer DICKEYVILLE, Ind. Jan, 7-—8agging doors and heavy silence mark this husk of a community in Warrick County as a ghost town. Spooks moved in when the last resident, storekeeper Ray!

Martin, moved out last February.

Now even the ghosts are packing up, looking for new haunts. | | Dickeyville—the entire village—is to | be buried. Burial awaits only the expira. |

on of one lease.

for Owen Township.

shop,

its western

leaving opera house

Construction here never seemed part, they sold their

ito catch up with trade.

pended on a nearby bonanza. Coal Mine to Blame

Geological Sunlight Coal Company offife

in the center -of 6000-Tecumseh Sunlight's appraisal.

of surface soil at a bite. Since 1940, when the compan

taken out.

scheduled to arrive in New York Monday - aboard the Transport! neral Heintzelman. They will | the first refugees to arrive this

year,

of Dickeyville. southeast,

One -

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It once contained “a grist mill, two saloons, two stores, blackpost office and But school,” says Mrs. William in/80, who was born here and 1abeling "100 exXpensios an oft just before the town began to to cover the decay. : ater Co. canal, or| Unlike counterparts, Dickeyville didn't boom and tombstones and |aren’t concerned about the fate

Sunlight digs its coal with stripping shovels that grab 40 cubic

Today, spoil banks ring the crossroads that were the heart

Ca wR HPEoY. (trading otnter and assembly point. ‘Rocky Mountatn-

To promote foot traffic across ts smith

Also, as opposed to ghost town land agents first came calling. tradition, Dickeyville wasn’t mid-| wifed by a mine, as were west-/give no mention of Dickeyville. ern derelicts whose growth de-

Rather, it- was a mine—a big strike—that - de-populated this town, and eventually will bury it. 1 maps in Boonville's tell the tale. Dickeyville sits squarely

Coal Field—‘“one of the richest pieces of coal left in Indiana,” by!

|40 years ago.”

tore into the Tecumseh Field, 10/S¢attered ex-populace knows) million tons of coal have been nothing about its founding.

Dickey¥ille:

| Camp, Six or Eight Houses

{called Mrs.

| munity suppers.”

SE overlooking sheer,

for dead Dickeyville.

town will be entombed beneath alarm in Dickeyville. another peak. Sunlight estimates

still buried in the area. Much of [the own's 50 ‘residents. it les under Dickeyville, who Descendants of those buried in|after the epidemic's Dickeyville Cemetery, assured the won't . be touched,

to the Erdund Tales

Mg stove

{of their home town. For the most | R land and easor’

Sunlight’s | built a

moved away . when | Dickeyville in 1939.

Sunlight's giant

An 1880 atlas likewise ignored the town. But a subsequent atlas lists Dickeyville and credits it with a population of 286. . “That sounds about right" judged’ Mrs. John B. Boardman, a former resident who now lives some eight miles away, on Highway 61.

Dickeyville.”

town.

Smallpox was the assassin. there are 10 miilion tons of coal killed practically every one of lease expires. The few| Actually, however, they don't ho survived fled. Several days have a neighborhood.

peak,

the epidemic staples 8 Store when the Big Four rail spur from Buckskin to the scarcity of customers and for, |damage to goods he says was|

excavating ing both charges:

|over ‘the township,” said Virgil and remodeled. 47-year-old ex-resident.

“We had a good school,” re-| Camp, his mother. years old, was purchased by Sun-| “All my children went there. We light and stuffed with mining {used the school building for com- equipment. The school bell now| signals switching engines In the “I guess there were six or comnany’s yards near Boonville.

" said Mrs i Md

fn off the map about 50 years| Within two years, however, the ago fell close enough to cause storekeeper, joperate It Store” until September, when their

the

town was mystejlously burned feet of the store on the south. Old Crowville Road plunges into an still 80-foot abyss almost. directly in at front of the store. |

Tracks were laid to permit in- {caused by company Warrick County history books \vasion of the Tecumseh Field by near the store. Sunlight is Routest-;

shovels. The curious at Reasor’s| Store wondered simply “who in {locked since February, it wiil con. Buckskin wants to visit who in tinue to bar efforts to unearth ti coal beneath it— -until expiration; A vanguard of land agents ex-lof the lease. * plained Dickeyville’s coal value. Every sale brought the strippers’ Sunlight, gorges nearer the outskirts of the world will complete the burial lof Dickeyville.

| Baptist Church, |a large congregation,

Dickeyville Baptist Church Was lished during the wartime and cas kept his promise to bring up| the first public building to evacu- which have plagued American the margarine bill as the No. 1| “J. R. Reasor's store used to ate. It was dismantled, trucked consungers.”

be a loafing spot for men all two miles east

of here, rebuilt

there be at- billion by 1954.

mpletely un‘for the fed-| repealed un-|

Iwell as authority over ment buying. SENATE

install-

Senators were sworn Margarine—Within 20 minutes opening session: Herbert Lehman leas simultaneously there were re- after President Truman finished (D. N. Y.) pealad the host of nuisance war-| his State of the Union message, Conn.)

He thought most shouted Sen. Brien McMahon (D.* part of the of the inflation scare was over Conn.) at the Republicans. Fstitute an [but he asked Congress to give retary of 1 of the nul-'the Federal Reserve Board great- testify or the China situation. betheyier control over bank credits as/fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday.

Sec-

New Senators — Three pew in at, the

, Wililam Benton (D. and ‘Harry Darby ~(R,

time levies which were estab- Senate Majority Leader Scott Lu- Kan.).

item of business.

HOUSE It held only brief and routine

It would repeal sessions,

Re-named Shiloh] it -still attracts

Dickeyville School, about 70)

i however, Ashpy. “Mr. wAshby and Bis! Mr. Martin, . could) , aru, oud

Legally, “Ashby’s

Shovels have cut to within 200

Mr. Ashby is suing Sunlight for “shooting” |

Though the store has veen|

Then, ‘very probably,” says

the largest’ shovelf in

“Most of the people here were! _ farmers,

Jams; or Withers 9000 Mummers Dance Down Windy Broad Street

Colorful Costumes Mark Golden Jubilee; Rita-Aly Nuptials Come In for Ribbing

PHILADELPHIA, Jan, T (UP)—A gay band of 8000 Mummers around . 80./ danced their merry way up Broad St. today against a 30-mile-an-Other guesses range well above hour wind that whipped their long, half mile] 100 years. Dickeyville Cemetery |

Except for conviction that rte} town was named after a named Dickey, Dickeyvilles s|

Conservative the town’s age at

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| headgear. Reflections of these residents

Cold gusts of wind bowled over many of the heavily-laden'

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The golden jubilee parade, postfrom last Monday by wound its

'a half miles of city streets, lined with . hundreds of thousands of| cheering spectators. Dozens of brilliantly garbed | string bands tinkled out Golden Slippers” and other tra-

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The wedding of Aly Kahn and | Rita Hayworth and Vice President Barkley’'s nuptials came in for their share of attention in the ! comic division. Guests at the Aly-Rita wedin lieu of

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