Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 176, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 4 September 1946 — Page 1

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by Snoouer MR. and MRS. RALPH YOUNG have a novelty in dogs. J. B., their 5ia::-Spitz, halfPomeranian sent to them by one of their "boys", JOHNNY WEES, while he was in the Army never sleeps on her side . . she always lies flat on her back and consequently snores most audibly. At the Quarterbacks Club meeting last night, BOB HERR and "BUSTER" ' MAYFIELD went to great pains in riding "TUFFY" TURNER but amiabls "TUFFY" usually more than held his own with a few scorching counter-remarks. ; JANICE PIRTLE is riding pretty high now that she has an pt extra "jingle" resulting from a successful Daily Double at Dade Park Monday.. When there's golfing to be done, JACK BROWN will be found. Recently, when JACK had no one to care for his daughter, he - "killed two birds with one stone." While making the rounds of the golf course, he pushed the Jbfiby carriage from tee to tee, giving her daily fresh air and i sunshine along with his divotdigging. . With the opening of football reason Friday night, Coaches , BILL JONES -and GABE TAKATS come into their own as the general topic of conversation along with their Golden ;: Arrow charges. GABE is the i r. long-awaited assistant to BILL '; and is starting his first year here a backfield coach. Quarterbacks --Club Meets In Season Opener The Quarterbacks ' Club met . lact night in the initial session of their eighth season. Composed of loyal fans of Sullivan's Golden Arrows, the club was started in 2938 when a gioup of ' local fans lnet with high , school football roaches to discuss prospects and opponents for the coming year. John S. Taylor presided at the meeting, preceded 'by dinner at the Davis Hotel dining room, and opened the session with a resume of past meetings. New faces were introduced and the four members,' now deceased, John N, Taylor. J. R. Crowder, ' Jr., Rev. E. C. Corts, and ,Flaud Lloyd were honored. Coaches Bill Jones and Gabe Takats were called upon for a ?re-season description of local gridsters and how thsy appear ' so far in practice. Coach Jones : also reviewed the All-Star game plrtyed in Chicago recently. Meetings are held each Tuesday evening . starting at 6:30 o'clock and those attending are requested to make reservations with Bob Herr by 11:00 o'clock Tuesday morning. ' Retired Farmer t Dies At Carlisle Residence Today l Daniel Hart, 85, well-known f Haddon township farmer, died at ' his residence in Carlisle this t morning at 4:45 o'clock. Mr. Hart, a Jefferson township r farmer for many years, retired three years ago and had been living at his Carlisle residence ince that time. He is survived by the widow, ..Ellen; one stepdaughter, Mrs. V Nellie Hart; Terre Haute; one sister, Miss Belle Hart, Carlisle, 4. and several nieces and nephews. ' The body was taken to the j, Schulze Funeral Home in Carlisle where it now lies in state. Funeral services will be held at' the funera.1 home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. John Sutch, Carlisle Methodist pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem cemetery. t " " BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bogard ' . of Merom are the parents of 5 twin boys born September 2nd , at, Merom. They have been nam- , ed Terry Dale and Jerry Gail.

SULLIVAN SADDLE CLUB HAS SHOW , HERE MONDAY PJN.

, Sullivan's Saddle Club held a Labor Day Horse Show here Monday, at the 4-H . Club fair grounds with 127 horses entered from 14 Indiana clubs and a club jfrom Marshall, Illinois. Opening the , show a grand parade entered the arena with John ,. Springer carrying the Sullivan Club banner and Med Anderson bearing the United States flag. Other clubs entered in the show followed with their respective banners., Forming a line in front of the grand stand the group stood at ease while the national anthem was played. Judge for the occasion was T. J. Miller, Tuscola, Illinois, Ivan Pinkston was ringmaster with Bob Wilson doing the announcing. One of the features of the day was an exhibition of trick roping performed by Jack Schaffer of Robinson, Illinois. Obrey Umberger, Oaktown, won the beautiful Navajo saddle blanket awarded for holding a lucky number. Exhibition Winners Winners in events Monday were: Event No. 1. Pony class: 46 (Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) Petition Denied To Condemn Old Grade School The Sullivan County Commissioners and the County Council, in a joint meeting yesterday at the court house, denied a petition to condemn the old Central Grade School Building. Carter Bowser, State Fire Marshal, and Bert J. WestOver, Director of the Administrative Building Council, appeared for the hearing on the State Fire Marshal's petition to comdemn the building. James R. Riggs, Sullivan, appeared in opposition to the petition. Dr. Garland Scott entered a 1 motion that the building be con-, demned for school purposes in its present condition with John : Howard seconding the motion ' and in the ensuing vote the petition to condemn the building was denied by a vote of five to three. Yugoslav Case To Be Closed If Payment Is Made BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UP) Acting Secretary of State Wm. S. Clayton said today the United States will consider the case closed if Yugoslavia pays compensation for the property dam aged and five lives lost when Yugoslav, fighters shot down two U S. Army transports. Clayton said the indemnity bill would be presented to Yugoslavia in the near future. He expressed hope that it could be settled amicably and that it would not be necessary to call in any third party to settle it. CONSERVATION CLUB The SuUivan Conservation Club will hold its regular meeting Thursday, September 5th at the city hall, 7:30 p. m. A program for reorganization of activities in the county, will be given by club officers, and all members are requested to attend this meeting. HEIRENS PLEADS GUILTY TO THREE MURDERS TODAY CHICAGO, Sept 4. (UP) William Heirens, 17-year-r old University of Chicago sophomore, pleaded guilty today to the murder of 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan and two women. The youth also pleaded guilty to 21 burglaries and two assaults. Three other charges of assault were dropped by the state.

Commissioners Grant Haddon Tp. Right Of Way

The Sullivan County Commissioners met yesterday in their, office at the court house and disposed of current business matters. In the matter of a right of way for the public highway Scott Willis appeared and proposed to" fumish the necessary right of way next to the Willis farm in VV tt J , IU TT 11.LXO XCil III Jill Haddon township if the county

would place a fence across the en peace in tne miKans. , ; north side of the right of way. ) ' The Ukrainian complaint charges that the Greek monThe county commissioners ae- archy threatens peace in the Balkans by suppressing minoricepted the proposition and ties within Greece and infringing the sovereignty of neigh-; agreed to furnish the fence, for ( boring countries, especially Albania.

the right of way, In the matter of the transfer of unloaned money in the Common School Fund in Sullivan county the petition of the auditor to transfer $15,000 of the unloaned common School Funds of Sullivan county to the state Treasurer was approved and the transfer ordered. The county auditor was or - dered to advertise for bids for the requisiuun oi suyyues lor the county infirmary for the fourth quarter beginning October 1. Hosea Stewart filed a contractors bond in the amount of $1,000.00 with Herbert Lathrop as surety and the Indiana Equipment Co. Inc. filed a $l,000.Cd contractors bond with the Standard Accident Insurance Company as surety. Both bonds were approved nd filed. In a vote on fire insurance on the County Highway garage and contents, the county commissioners ordered fire insurance of $1,500.00 on the County Highway garage and $1,800.00 on the contents. .Bids were awarded to Leo E, Followell and Cletus Folowell ' for the furnishing of coil to j county buildings except thei hospital. Moslem-Hindu . , Riots Continue In Bombay; 132 Dead BOMBAY, Sept. 4. (UP) The official death toll in four days of Moslem-Hindu rioting rose to 132 today with 484 reported injured in bloody hand-to-hand street fighting. Police said more than 1,000 persons had been rounded up in connection with the disorders. A round-the-clock curfew was lifted in order to allow residents of the affected areas to ,buy food. The situation still was described as "very tense."

New Adam Sajko Living Memorial Will Be Seen Friday Night At Sportland Field Inside Of Main Gate

' 1 . Persons who attend the foot- bronze tablet with the inscripball game with Dugger here tion was decided upon and they Friday evening and other home were secured. A senior player is

games played on Sportland Field by Sullivan High School teams, on entering the gate directly in front of them will see the Adam Sajko Living Memorial boulder, a ; permanent memorial to that stalwart young man, bearing the following inscription on a bronze tablet: "Adam Sajko, a senior of Sullivan High School, 1945 fullback, died October 22, 1945. Prepared, loyal, courageous, he gave his best. Inscribed hereon as a living memorial is the name of the senior football player of each succeeding team who best exemplified those virtues." Soon after Adam died, following his last game the victory over Wiley, October 19, 1945 at an "S" period, members of the football ' squad expressed a desire that a living memorial be created. Superintendent J. A. Campbell and Principal Harry Gilmore for the faculty and Robert Clarkson and John S. Taylor for the Quarterbacks Club were made a committee and plans were effected to create the Adam Sajko Living Memorial Foundation. At the last home game on November 12, with Linton, gifts were taken payable to that fund amounting tp something over $300. Appropriately engraved tokens were given the donors at that time. Through the efforts of that I same pmmittee the -boulder and

CHINA NATIONALISTS NANKING, China, Sept.

moved into the suburbs of Chchfeng, last tommunist-hela stronghold in Jehol province, and the capture of the vital

communications hub was believed to be a matter of hours,

WESTERN POWERS TO PRESENT UNITED FRONT UN HEADQUARTERS, LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y Sept. 4. (UP) The western powers were expected to present a united front in the United Nations Securitv Council today

t against the Ukraine's charge

I, U. HOUSING CONSTRUCTION STOPPED BY STRIKE BLOOMINGTON, Sent. "4. (IIP) A walkout of 250 AFL union workers halted construction of 280 housing units at Indiana University today and threatened to delay the start

of the fall semester. .

! Robert Millsap of Terre Haute, an AFL representative, said that the construction workers, would not return to their jobs until university officials agreed to allow only union embers to transport materials and supplies to the campus , project. '

TRUMAN NOT TO "BARN STORM" THIS FALL WASHINGTON. Sept. 4. (UP) President Truman probably will make "a couple" of speeches during the political campaign this fall but will make no "barn storming trip " White House Secretary Charles G. Ross said today. Robert P. O'Bannon. president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, and Pleas E. Greenlee. Indiana State Democrat.'c Chairman, were scheduled to call on' Mr, Truman at noon to invite him to sneak at the editorial association meeting at French Lick, Indiana, SeDt. 14 and 15. Ross told reporters that Mr. Truman had indicated previously he could not go.

OPA ANNOUNCES INCREASE IN TUNA PRICES WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) The OPA announced today that the price of fresh and frozen tuna fish will go up about three cents a pound fn the next few days. The increase will be caused by a one to two cent a pound increase in ceil

ing prices paid by tuna fishermen.

Asks Investigation Of Mo. Election BULLETIN , WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UP) Chairman J. Percy Priest, D., Tenn., revealed today that the House campaign expenditures committee has been asked to investigate the Missouri Demo cratic Primay Campaign in which Rep. Roger C. Slaughter was defeated with the personal opposition of President Truman. Priest said that the request came from Jerome Walsh who was a primary candidate for Slaughter's seat. to be chosen from the 1946 foot ball team, and from each team thereafter, who best exemplifies the virtues of Adam Sajko, to be selected annually by a committee conristing of the high school principal, the football coach, an unrelated football alumnus who shall be appointed by the ' superintendent, and the sports editor of the Sullivan Daily Times or other daily newspaper of Sullivan, assisted by the vote of the football let termen. The name of such player will be attached permanently to the tablet on the boulder and a certificate suitable for framing will be given the player, reciting his selecting from the team of the particular year as the one who best exemplifies the virtues of preparedness, loyalty, courage and conscientious endeavor of Adam Sajko. As a guarantee of the perpetuation of the annual selection of a senior football player for the purposes of this living memorial, the Board of School Trustees of Sullivan, Indiana, passed a resolution prescribing that the superintendent of the Sullivan Public Schools and the principal of the Sullivan High School shall cause the Adam Sajko "Living Memorial to be instituted they and their successors and shall faithfully execute and perpetuate the same from year to year.

MOVE INTO CHEHFENG 4. (UP) Nationalist troops

, . , . that .Greece and Britain threat- ' The long-awaited sound of the football referee's whistle will be heard Friday night at 8:00 o'clock when the Sullivan high school Golden Arrows tackle the Dugger Bulldogs to open the season for both schools. Coaches Bill Jones and Gabe Takats have been working for the past two weeks getting the local gridders whipped into final physical trim and ironing out rough spots common to early season play. Forty-two men have been going through the- paces vwith eight lettermen returning from last season. A complete new ! varsity will take the field Friday night as most of last year's first string was lost through graduation. Lack of experience, though, will be offset to a great degree by the fighting spirit being exhibited by the Arrows in daily practice sessions. Starting line-up for Sullivan will be: Name . Pos. Lee Russell RE Jack Sevier RT Dick Grable RG 'Bob Kaiser ....... C Bob Sauthwood ...... LG Bill McCrocklin LT Byron Thrasher LE Dean Brodie PB Wt. 176 175 150 155 160 180 165 145 '155 145 165 Dick Turpin LH , Billy Pinkston RH Johnny Walters ...... FB Dugger will place on the field a big team this year, most of them returning from last year's line-up. Last year the Golden Arrow "B" team tied Dugger 6-6 and the game Friday promises to be a real test for both teams. Coach Jones said today. "The boys have really been working hard an their spirits are high so with any luck Friday night we should be in for our part." WAR MEANS MORE DOCTORS CHICAGO (UP) The war will have produced a bonus of 7,214 extra doctors by 1947, the American Medical Association says. By that time all the scheduled extra graduations resulting from wartime speed-up training will have been completed.

FOOTBALL FANSV WILLGREETNEW SEASON FRIDAY

COUNTY AGENT RESIGNS; ACCEPTS PURDUE POSITION

15 ft tl ' - p I IT. It 4 J. HOWARD TELFER Sullivan County Agriculture Extension Agent J. Howard Telfer announced his resignation from that position today. Mr. Telfer is leaving Sullivan County to accept the position as assistant Soil Conservation for the State. The resignation is effective as of September 15 and Mr. Telfer will report at Purdue University to start his work on the State Extension Staff on September 13. The resignation was announced at a meeting of 'the County Extension Commit tee, Tuesday evening, Sept. 3. Succeeding Mr. Telfer as County Agriculture Extension Ageni will be O. K. Anderson, now assistant agent in Parke County. Mr. Anderson appeared before the extension committee Tuesday evening and was un animously accepted ' ag the new County Agriculture Agent. Mr. Anderson was County Agent in Spencer County,- Indiana from January 1944 to September 1944 when he entered military service. He served in the U. S. Army in the Pacific theater and returned to civilian work in March, 1946. Prior to becoming Spencer County Agent, Mr. Anderson was a vocational agriculture teacher at Grandview High School in Spencer County and assistant county agent inBartholemew County, Indiana. Mr. Anderson graduated from Purdue University in 1940. He is a native of Clay County, Indiana. He will j enter on his duties in Sullivan County to make the fullest use of the extension office and the facilities of agriculture educational and information offered. "It is with regret that Ij;leave Sullivan County and its fine people," said Mr. Telfer. He further said,. "The co-operation I received in the county could not be excelled. I am sure hat this co-operative attitude will continue with the new Agriculture Extension Agent, O. K. Anderson." Mr. Telfer intends to continue with his graduate studies after he gats started in his new work. He was active in soil conservation work in the county as well as all other phases of the agriwas particularly interested in the 4-H Club work and youth programs of the county. PFC. SYESTER OF SHELBURN LEAVES FOR NCO SCHOOL FORT LEWIS, Wash., Sept. 4 Pfc. Charles E. Syester, son of Mr. and Mrs.' B. M. Syester of Shelburn, Indiana, left this week for the Infantry Non-Commis-sioned Officer's School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Pfc. Syester has been in the Army seven months and joined the Second Infantry Division in May at Fort Lewis, Washington. He attended the Shelburn High School from 1942-45. BORROWING IS UNLUCKY HOLYOKE, Mass. (UP) Driving a borrowed automobile without a driver's license, John Dowd found that luck was not smiling on him. Losing his bearings in the dark, he crashed head-on into a police cruiser.

N. Y. Threatenei

iWith Famine In

Trucking Strike ikl.

Food Supplies Dwindling In City; Seamen Striking On Both Coasts In Protests And Wage Battles. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. (UP) Food supplies to the New York metropolitan area dwindled rapidly today despite Mayor William O'Dwyer's assurances to the public that the four-day-old trucking strike would not cause a famine.

Warns Housing Will Get Worse During Winter WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) Housing Expediter Wilson W. i Wyatt warned today the housing shortage will get worse, not better, this winter. Wyatt said 287,000 homes of all kinds have been needed so far this year. In a monthly report he said, "Constantly rising demands at present more than offset the additional accommodations and not until after the turn of the year will the demand begin to level off." WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (UP) The OPA today suspended from price control 22 construction and industrial materials not considered essential to the Veterans' Housing Program. I The action involved annual production of $110,000,000 worth of materials such as floor hardeners, putty and caulking compounds and metallic soap. ( Navy Surveyors Open Study Of Hoosier Mining TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 4. (UP) A Navy survey unit today opened a study of welfare conditions in Hoosier mining communities. Seven state mines will be surveyed as a part of a national movement to gather information on which future allocation - of miners' welfare and retirement funds will be based. Mailman Hard On Vehicles SHIRLEY, 111. (UP) In a 33-year career of lugging mail on a 26-mile rural route, John Muff ley, 57, has worn out one buggy, two Eureka hammock carts, two mail wagons and 17 automobiles.

County 4-H'ers Win State Fair Honors In Opening Days Of Exhibiting At Indianapolis Grounds . Sullivan County 4-H Club exhibitors came away from showings at the State Fair during the first three davs with; one first place ribbon and numerous seconds and thirds. The State Fair, is the climax of 4-H exhibits from all corners of the state and Sullivan county was well represented.

Dicky Lee Monk, of Turman Township, was the blue ribbon winner and received the award for his white sweet corn exhibit. Placings received by Sullivan county exhibitors are as follows: ' Girls' Projects In second year baking, Sharon Reid, Hamilton Township, received third place on her coffee cake and in baking four, Gloria Frye, Jefferson Township, re'ceived a third placing on her rolls. In the canning project, Ann Osborn and Jean Godfrey, both j of Turman Township, each received a second placing on their canning display in fifth year canning. In fifth year clothing, Lois Jennings, Gill Township, received a second and Mary Lou Gettinger of Turman Township, received a third placing. Boys Projects Shirley Chowning, Hamilton Township and Lloyd Wade of Turman Township received a third placing on the same exhibit. Dicky Lee Monk and , Billy Burnett, both of Turman I Township, received first and

Operators and union , leaders stubbornly resisted efforts to bring them into negotiation and it was freely predicted that the

I strike would last a week or ' longer. The strike already had idled 100.000 workers and 1 threatened unemployment of millions. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UP) The Maritime Commission, and Shipping owners today reported that members of AFL Seamen's Unions are already refusing to man vessels on all posls in preparation for tomorrow's 1 strike in A commission official said only a few of the lOu ships it operates had been affected s far because "very few' are scheduled to sail today." , BULLETIN ' PORTLAND, Oregon. Sept. 4 (UP)--One thousand members of the Sailors Union of thQ Pacific (AFL) began walking off of ships in Oregon hrrbors today, deserting 35 vessels in protest against a stabilization board's denial of a "22.50 ihorithty . "T.iincrease. Big Four Meet With Vishinsky In Second Parley PARIS, Sept. ,4. (UP) The Big Four convened their second meeting of the Paris Peace Conference today with Andri Vishinsky representing Russia in place of the absent foreign minister, V. M. Molotov. The Big Four meeting, it was understood, was summoned at the suggestion of Vishinsky. There j was no indication why he sought the Big Four meeting but it was I believed possible he wished to renew Soviet objections to holding the United Nations General t Assembly Sept. 23rd as scheduled, concurrent with the continuing Paris Peace Conference. third placings, .respectively on their white sweet corn, and Dicky Lee Monk also received second placing on his yellow sweet corn. Dicky Lee Monk also received third placing in a pepper exhibit and a green pole bean exhibit. Bill Pethtel, Turman Township, received a second . placing on a dill pickle exhibit and 'a first placing on his flathead cabbage exhibit. Floyd Wade of Turman Township, received a fourth placing on his garden display. In the 4-H poultry exhibit, Eugene Johanningsmeier of Jefferson Township, received a fourth place on his Barred Rock pullets. Gene Easter, Turman Township, Sullivan County's only beef exhibit, received fourteenth place on his Aberdeen , Angus heifer. Dale" Phillips of Turman Town-v ship, was in the honor group on' his 4-H Duroc Jersey gilt, however, he did not place in tha first ten. '

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