Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 154, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 August 1946 — Page 1
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Fireman 1-C Robert E. Norris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Norris - ,has arrived in the states and is expected to be home soon. He V has served for the last year on ?hore patrol in China.
V Carlisle Schools
Are Consolidated The members of the Carlisle Board of Education, and the Township Trustee and his Advisory Board met in public session r Thursday night of last week in the high school auditorium and each body by unanimous vote deC cided on the consolidation of the two school corporations the Haddon Township School Town l and the Carlisle School Town and by that action the Carlisle 1 Board of education and the Haddon School Township is abandon- ... ed as .of August 1st,, and in their place is the creation of a new school corporation, which will probably "be known as the Carlisle
!and Haddon Township School Corporation. Several citizens attended this meeting but no remonstrance was filed and all present were heartily in favor of the merger. . I V 'Under the' law creating such V achool corporation it wasnec-
of the Town of Carlisle to ap-' C point two members of the newly created board of trustees of the new corporation, the third memr ber of the board being the town ship trustee, who will hold the v office by virtue of his office of Township Trustee. fc The law made necessary the appointment of the two' members bv the Carlisle Town Board bef fore August 1st,, and on Monday ( afternoon of the present week
i . the Town Trustees met in special I . session and appointed Byron V. ' Hoover representing the town and Charles Collins, representing the it-township and with Township Trustee L. W. . Stafford, these three, will constitute the new school board. Mr. Hoover was d named as the two year member and Mr. Collins was named as the V one year member. Mr. Stafford will serve during the term of his office. . It is now necessary that the newly created board meet im- , mediately and organize and from that time on the school affairs of the town and township will be .i; under one board of control. 3 The retiring members of the Carlisle Board of Education are Z. Dr.' J. S. Brown and Everett L. '' . Jones. Carlisle News. ,
PICNIC FOR DAIRYMEN K AT TRIMBLE, ILL. Announcement is made of a Dairy Cow picnic to be held at the Trimble Brothers Farms at Trimble, Illinois Tuesday, August Cth. Dairymen from southeastern Illinois and Western Indiana are invited, A number of notables in the dairy world will appear on the program including Arnold V. Benson, Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture and W. W. Yapp, acting head" of the College of Agriculture, Department of Dairy Husbandry, Uni versity of Illinois. A number of i demonstrations of interest to V dairymen are also planned. t The picnic is made possible by ik a number of firms and clubs, in- . eluding the Kraft Foods Comii pany of this city. I LIGHTNING DESTROYS V FARM CRIB, CONTENTS k A large crib on the Phillips j, farm, east of New Lebanon, ownk ed by Wallace Springer. was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon L along with its contents of farming implements and a large amount of new-mown hay. The fire is supposed to have been t caused by lightning.
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MM ENDED Many Wounded In Siege; Victory For Former GPs. ATHENS, Tenn., Aug. 2 (UP) A gory, six-hour election battle ended today in victory for 1,000 former GI's and their followers when they forced the surrender of 75 special deputies who had barricaded themselves in the city jail through a wild night of gun fire. More than a score of men had been wounded, some critically, as the shooting died down and a regiment of state militia equipped with machine guns, marched on the city to restore complete order. TROOPS RETURN HOME NASHVILLE, TENN., Aug 2 (UP) Governor Jim McCord announced today that orders for state guard troops to go into Ath ens have been rescinded and that the troops have returned to their homes. The . fighting ended when a force of special deputies hired by the long entrenched machine surrendered the city jail after a wild night siege. 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UP) Hotise speaker Sam Rayburn said today there was a good possibility that the 79th congress would wind . up its business by midnight and head for home and the longest congressional vacation in more than seven years. Senate democratic leader Alben W. Barkley also was hopeful, of reaching fidjournment tonight He said it would be "unfortunate" i congress went home without acting on the pending world court resolution but said, that there might be "some circumstances" which would make it necessary. HTTf T AntlT XTT1T WIJL1L1 Ur,fcl iEiW 1 FOOD MARKET HERE The Cherry Street Market, Sullivan's newest retail food establishment will open Monday August 5th, in newly erected quarters on the corner of Cherry and Sylvan Dell Streets, Mrs. Blanche Alumbaugh, proprietor announced today. Mrs. Alumbaugh has been associated in the grocery business at various times for Several years and recently purchased the stock of the Harding Grocery on Johnson Street which she has added to the stock in the new market. CROWD ENJOYS FINAL CONCERT The largest crowd of the season last night enjoyed the final program in a series presented by the Summer Concert Band of Sullivan at the city park. The band has been composed of both students and adults and was directed by Wilfred Perigo of the high school faculty. The free concerts have been greatly appreciated by local music lovers. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Aug. 2: Mrs. Cora Smith of Jasonville, R. R. 1, for treatment; Robert Hostettler of Shelburn, R. R. 1, for tonsillectomy. . Dismissed Aug. 1: Mrs. Mitchell Hoesman and daughter of New Lebanon; Mrs. Steve Takash, Jr., and son of Oaktown; Mrs. Joe Palinca and daughter of Hymera, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Captain and Mrs. Noble Sevier of East Washington Street are the parents of a son born at the Mary Sherman hospital July 31, He has been named Noble Holland.
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Fair Next Week' Plans are well under way for the annual Sullivan County 4-H Club Fair to be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 8, 9, and 10, at the 4-H Club Fair grounds, located north of the Sullivan High School. Exhibits for all 4-H Club projects will be set up and judged with premium ribbons being given on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placing classes. There will be no open classes at the fair this year. 4-H girls' exhibits are due as follows: clothing, canning, room improvement, and handicraft, by 4:00 P. M., August 6, baking by 12:00 noon, August 8; and there will be no exhibits in food preparation. 4-H boys exhibits are due .as follows: garden, , poultry, potato, soybean, wheat, forestry, rabbits, wild life conservation, soil conservation, and swine, by 12:00 noon, August 8, and beef, dairy and sheep by 8:30 A. M., August 9The Sullivan County Home Economics Clubs will have exhibit booths in the Trade School Building at the entrance of the fair grounds. These exhibits are to be set up by 4:00 P. M., Aug--ust 7. Home Economics projects including 4-H and adult work, will be judged by Miss Mary E. Jones, Knox County Home Demonstration Agent; Miss Marie Byers, Greene County Home Demonstration Agent, and Miss Martha McCoy, Knox County Vocational Home Economics Teacher. Judges in agricultural projects will be Walter. Weber, Indianapolis; Blaine Crowl, . Dairy Extension Specialist, and Halsey Miles, Farm Advisor of Robinson, Illinois.. ;( The annual 4-H Club I Dress Revue and program will bp presented t6 the public Fridays "eve-, ning, August 9 at 8:00 P. M. (CST). The revue and program will be held in the Sullivan High School Auditorium. Miss Mona Stull, Hamilton Township 4-H Club leader, will be in charge of the Dress Revue and assisted by the other county 4-H Adult leaders. The public Is cordially invited to attend the fair, view the ex hibits and attend the evening program on Friday. , DEED RECORDED 106 YEARS AGO IS FOUND HERE Mrs. Lorella Hallbeck, county recorder, unearthed a deed more than 100 years old recently, the instrument, written with pen and yellowed by age, being dated August 17, 1840 and recorded on November 21, 1840, making it 106 years old this month. The deed is for 80 acres of land in Haddon township south of Carlisle which was transferred to Bailey Johnson by Abraham M. Johnson for a consideration- of $50. B. Wade siged the deed as recorder and Robert M. Griffith was auditor. The fee for recording the deed was fifty cents. Mrs. Hallbeck discovered the old deed while looking throughsome old papers which are on file in her office. WILL REORGANIZE YOUNG DEMOCRATS ! Pleas E. Greenlee, Democratic state chairman, announced yesterday that James A. Eldridge, executive secretary of the Young Democrats of Indiana, will start an organization tour next week that will extend to every congressional district of the state. The purpose of the tour, Eldridge said, is to revive the organization of young Democrats that has been more or less inactive since war years. " " 7 LOWDERMILK ON ' REPUBLICAN TICKET Joe.- W. Lowdermilk, present prosecuting attorney, at a recent meeting of the Republican county committee was drafted as a candidate for prosecuting attorney for another term and has been placed on the ticket. Leland Ferguson was placed on the G. O. P. ticket as a candidate for assessor of Hamilton township.
LATE NEWS
NEW VIOLENCE IN TEL AVIV
JERUSALEM, Aug. 2. (UP) Two bombs exploded today outside Tel Aviv where the British were winding up an intense search for extremists, and a military cordon was
thrown around the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem. All of Palestine seethed with unrest. Sporadic outcroppings of violence were matched by the tightening of British counter measures. .' .
SIGNS CONGRESS REORGANIZATION BILL WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (UP) President Truman today signed the congressional reorganization bill raising salaries of the nation's lawmakers', overhauling Congress' committee system and otherwise streamlining its operation. The changes go into effect when the 80th Congress convenes in January. 1 The bill raises the salaries bt congressmen from $10,000 a year to $12,500 plus a $2,500 tax free expense allowance. Legislators who have served six years and reached the age of 62 would be entitled to retirement benefits on the same basis of federal employes. t '
CHINESE NATIONALISTS TAKE STRATEGIC CITY NANKING, China, Aug.-; 2. (UP) Nationalist forces today reported capture of Hsuyi, strategic center sixty-five miles northeast of Nanking, and Communist sources admitted the loss of half a dozen villages on the approaches to Hsuyi. The Communist news agency said government forces had reached the Nansan River, indicating progress in the efforts of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's men to clean out pockets in the Kaoyu lake area, j
JACKSON RETURNS FROM GERMANY WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, (UP) Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson returned here by plane today from Nuernberg where he has been chief American prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials. Jackson maintained a cheerful silence about his future on the U. S. Supreme Court, refusing to comment on the furore which he raised with a recent public statement concerning Justice Hugo H. Black. .
McKELLAR WINS IN TENNESSEE PRIMARY . NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 2. (UP) Senator Kenneth B. McKellar, D., Tenn., victorious in a Tennessee primary marked by election violence, today became the seventh U. S. Senator to win a sixth term in office. , , The 77-year-old McKellar's lead over ; Cl.O.-supported Edward Carmack had-piled up U'sverOOO.voteby non. MAP NEW WAR PROFITS PROBES WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UP) The Senate Meade committee mapped out a series of new war profits inquiries today after hearing a New York financier say he still was trying to collect a $5,000 loan made to Munitions Maker Murray Garsson more than five years ago through Representative Andrew J. May, D., Kentucky. SPEED SECURITY MEASURE TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (UP) The Senate today gave unanimous approval to a compromise Social Security bill freezing the old age insurance tax at one per cent and boosting federal grants to all states for helping needy persons. J he House was expected to follow suit promptly and the measure to the White House for President Truman's signature.
H. C. Hays New President City School Board All members of the Board of School Trustees of the Sullivan j UV.11UU1 v J-L .011 , b Ir&At; j regular August meeting held yes terday. Dr. J. Harve Crowder is the new member selected by the Sullivan Common Council to succeed himself and thus begin his fourth term on the School Board. Reorganization of the Board as provided by statute resulted in the election of the following' officers for the 1946-1947 school term. W. Branstetter, treasurer; J. Harve Crowder, secretary. The board granted to- Harry Wey, at his request, a year's leave -of absence for graduate study at Indiana University. I ' The board adopted the budget for the 1947 calendar year and prepared the levy proposal for proper legal advertisement. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Carroll of Bicknell announce the birth of a son, Joseph William, born at the Mary Sherman hospital July 31. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris of Carlisle are the parents of . a daughter, Barbara Jane, born at the Mary Sherman hospital July 31. j Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Hoesman I of New Lebanon are the parents of a daughter born at the Mary ( Sherman hospital August 1. She ' has been named Kathey Alieen.
Tri-County 4-H , Camp Is Set For August 19 To 25
The annual Tri-County (Clay, Putnam, and Sullivan) 4-H Club camp will be held August 19 to 25 at Shakamak State Park. The younger 4-H group, ages 10, 11, and 12, will camp from noon ; Monday, August 19 to Thursday morning, August 22. The older j 4-H group, ages 13 and up, will camp from Thursday afternoon, August 22 to Sunday morning August 25. A full camp program, including classes, sports, recreation, vespers 1 and camp fire programs has been planned. The group will be adequately supervised with Adult 4-H club leaders and agricultural extension agents from all' three counties. Camp fee is $4.00 plus park ad- , mission. Reservations and a ?1.UU reservation fee must be in the County Agent's office in the court house Monday August 5. Only 4-H club members who have completed their projects and who have exhibited at the County 4-H Club show on August 8, 9, j ! and 10, are eligible to attend the ( ,camp. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT I j Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Huff of South Sinclair Street, Sullivan, announce the birth of a son, William Russell, born August 1st at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Huff was formerly Miss 5 Alice Bedwell.
SIX INJURED IN T. HAUTE BLAST
TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Aug. 2 (UP) Five employees and a fireman were injured today in an explosion that shattered the derivitives plant of the Commercial Solvents Corporation and set the wreckage on fire. Fire Chief Albert Roe blamed the blast on a bursting ammonia tank. The fire and explosion which Roe said was heard ten miles away occurred in the same building where a man was killed in a $180,000 fire and explosion on October 4, 1940. Construct New Sullivan Airport South Of Town Ralph Bedwell And Emil Richards Convert 200-Acre Tract Into Aviation Center; Plan 8-Plane Hangar. A new era of air-minded Sull ivan county citizenry was envis ioned today with 'the announce-1 ment of a new Sullivan airport being constructed south of Sullivan on a 200-acre tract of prairie Iand- - Ralph Bedwell of. 230 North Section Street, formerly of fieasanwuie, ana j&mu xvicuaius
oi union nave juuieu m UCvClu- Luxton Linton. Luxton was enping the city's newest airport. route gouth The wreck occur. The first "full-fledged" air- rfid Qn n g highway 4i north
port was xounaea nere in me .earlv '30's chiefly through the efly '30's chiefly through forts ot the late ur. ri. &. i,eacn, who lost his life in a plane, crash at French Lick in 1938. It was due to his enthusiastic support that about fifty persons of this city banded together in a flying club This airfield was located at the. north edge of the city.
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group instigated an airfield in a J . . I A 1 T ! " T" .1. pasture of the Lexie O bins farm south of town. Dnnnwini TT C TJTi r 1-t it?? r 41 nn thZ Z .in 7tP mZav V4 the east and State Highway 54 on the south, the new airport will and east to the C.&E.I. Railroad with its hangars, lunch rooms and offices located near the national thoroughfare, according to present plans. ' Mr. Bedwell and Mr. Richards at Dresent have three Dlanes for LTl! r ?Sr use in passenger flying and stu dent instructing ... a Cub trainer, a Taylorcraft and a Piper Cruiser. To these will be added numerous other aircraft to be housed in an eight-ship hangar, they said. Mr. Bedwell, agent for the Kaiser-Frazer automobiles here, and Mr. Richards will also sell late model airplanes, it was stated. These will be on display in a modern building now being erected on South Section St. A novel lunch room at the airport will be converted from the salvaged fuselage of an Army bomber. At the present, the new airport owners have employed Wm. Smedley, former Army Air Corps flying instructor to pilot passen gers each evening on a cleared field adioinine the air field site. I Mr. Smedley, formerly of Dugger, lives on Sullivan rural route and , is Pmnlnved at the Terre Haute Paul Cox Field during the day in the same capacity. Although, part of the land is level and suitable for immediate use a small portion remains to be cleared, filled in and leveled off. This and the building construction will be completed by the latter part of October or early November, the owners stated today. BAPTIST YOUTH ASSEMBLY NEXT WEEK AT MEROM The Baptist "South Fellowship of Indiana will have their yearly ' Merom Youth Assembly for Southwestern Indiana at Merom i Institute from Sunday evening through Saturday noon. Classes chapel services, popular evening services, vespers as well as recreational activities will make up the program of the week. Pastors and Youth Leaders of this section of the state will be a part of the faculty. The director is Rev. Thomas Bush of Vincennes. Rev. Joseph Humrickhouse of Dugger and Rev. W. A. Hull of Sullivan are teachers.
Molotov Makes New Attack At Peace Meetin
Challenges Right Of Other Big 4 Members To Change Minds On Procedure; Small Nations Urged To End Ficrht On ChnnrmnnRhin.
Wrecks 2 Cars, Given 3 Fines Norman Cruikshank, 23, of Jasonville was fined ten dollars and costs in city court this morning on charges of leaving the scene of an accident, also ten dollars and costs for driving while intoxlicated, and $1 and costs for intoxication. His license was re yoked for 90 days. j officers rep0rted that Cruikghank wag involved in a wreck at 5:15 o'clock Thursday afternnnn ihp 1Qo4 Knrfi he wa9 yg sideswiped a 1936 Plymouth coach operated by Gerald of shelburn about 500 feet north . M,n . a T ,.Ytn.fi rar cruikshank went north one mile and turned not nn a ----..i rnad where he traveled about a mne before crashing into a tree. Hs sustained a cut over tne right eye and Frank Copelandi 22, Hymera, a passeneeC. in the car received a Claude Hill 25, another passen 7 ger, was uninjured. Luxton's car was damaged to he extent of approximately fifty r..,5iv,i,- , dollars and Cruikshank's car was damaged somewhat in each crash. Cruikshank Copelandand Hill were arrested by Mate Jfonce Officer Ned Woodward, County Sheriff Harold Reynolds and
Town Marshall Crosby of Shel- retary of Labor Lewis B. Schwel-burn.- ' Hill' and- Copeland were lenbach and secretarv of Aaricul-
ilucu A ollu ,'"I"'a 1,1 " lhis morning when arraigned on charges of public intoxication, Two Others Fined William Pirtle and Dennis Burris, arrested by city police here drew fines of $1 and costs for public intoxication today.
" 1 Plans have been made for the . annual Briar Hill Golf Tourney Clarence Anderson here and qualifying rounds wm , , oil 1 begin Sunday, August 4th, conDieS Suddenly tinuing through Thursday of next ' Week according to an announce- ' ' . ment made today.
Clarence Anderson, age 33, well known farmer of Merom Station died at the Mary Sherman hospital about two o'clock this afternoon, following a brief illness. He died within a short time after being admitted to the , hospital today. He had complained of a stomach ailment for the last few days, it was learned. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements. He is survived by his wife, Thelma; a one-year-old son, Roy Milburn; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Anderson, of Merom R. R. 1; three sisters, Miss Ruth Anderson of Sullivan, Mrs. William Bohanon, Westfield, N. J.; Mrs. Willard Hansen, Washington, D. C.'; and two brothers, Carl of Chicago and Robert of Sandborn, R. R. 1.' ' NEW SUITS State of Indiana on the relation of. Joe W. Lowdermilk, prosecuting attorney for the 14th Judicial Circuit vs. Diogenes Club, Inc. et al. Affidavit for injunction. MARRIAGE LICENSES Perry Wilson, Jr., 443 East Jackson Street, discharged veteran and 'Mary M. McCammon, Cass, at home. William T. Dodge, Carlisle, discharged soldier and Gladys Witte, Sullivan, waitress.
PARIS, Aug. 2 (UP) Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov challenged the right of other members of the Big Four today to chanae their mind on the
rules of procedure submitted to the peace conference by the council of foreign ministers, Molotov launched his attack-in the midst of a fight by the small powers to make French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault the permanent chairman of me peace conference instead of rotating the chairmanship among the Big Four as the foreign ministers proposed. . The Soviet foreign minister apnealed for unanimity on ths chairmanship issue. France then expressed tne view mat u wuuiu be most regrettable if the decis ion on the chairmanship was reached by anything except an unanimous vote and urged the small 'nations to end their fight and accept the Big Four formula. - Case Officials Refuse To Confer With Government ' RACINE, Wisconsin, Aug. . 1 . (UP) Officials of the J. I. Case Farm Equipment Co., refused today to confer with top govern ment, DUll'lcUS, I'UIUlUUUlg a deadlock in one of the nation's few major strikes. The conference proposal was rejected by company president L. R. Clausen in a message to seclure "unlon naerson. ciausen said he believed the conference could serve' no useful purpose. QUALIFYING ROUNDS 1 FOR GOLF TOURNEY , wtt t rmpivT cjitxttiav The sixteen low qualifiers will make up the championship flight and lesser flights will be arranged for other participants. Leslie "Crip" Smith of Sullivan is the defending champ of Briar Hill. PROGRAM READY FOR DEMO. NIGHT AT FARMERSBURG Plans are in final readiness for "Democratic Night" at the annual Old Settler's Reunion at Farmersburg Saturday evening. James E. Noland, democratic candidate for congress will be the principal speaker and will be introduced by John Knox Purcell of Sullivan. A program by the Hymera Band will open at 7:00 o'clock CST. The Old Settler's meeting has been in progress since Wednesday. TRUMANS GOING HOME TO VOTE WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UP) . President and Mrs. Truman will leave here by plane tomorrow morning for their home in Independence, Mo., where they will vote Tuesday in the state democratic primary. CO. COONHUNTERS The Sullivan County Coonhunters Association will hold their regular meeting at the City Hall Saturday, Aug. 3 at 8:00 p. m. , A special order of . business includes coon release and plans for the field trial. All members are urged to attend.