Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 221, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 5 November 1946 — Page 1

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THE SNOOPER

KENNETH ALS,MAN, formerly of Sullivan, recently finished an undefeated season in outboard motor boat racing when he piloted his Daisy Mae in the Wissinoming Yacht Club's final Deleware River regatta. He won both the speed race and the consistency race in the event- KEN.NETH graduated from the Sullivan high school in the class of '27 and now lives in Haddon Heights, N. J. He is married and the father of two sons. DR. A: B. LIBKE, "GIB" SNYDER. BOB BILLMAN, HERMAN MoKINLEY and L. M. MANSELL are back in town again after a jaunt up to South Dakota on a pheasant hunt. A fine time was reported with the limit of 45 nice pheasants bagged before leaving. ' - CHARLES T. BROWN, a senior at Indiana University, has been elected governor of North Hall, Unit C, which is a unit of the Men's Residence Center Association on the campusSullivan ran now bonst nnnthpr real celebrity! HUBERT TRIN-1 ;KLE, until recently a resident of S Linton,' is now engaged in a ; business here and back in 1937, jj1 '38 and '39 was the United States 5 horse shoe champion in both I t doubles and singles. 4 Blessed events come in pairs at the farm home of BILLY and HARRY PIERCE. ' BILLY, , a .Tiriies carrier, reported lastjveek X their farm oil Sullivan R. Tbday, tho, he was a little sad one I mere was ai leasi one person o.-lli 1 i P ' i i r rr-i i i . in omuvan wno Deneiuea irom Halloween antics COACH BILL JONES. BILL heard a big ; thump on his porch the other j night and on investigation found , a big 'nunkin had been thrown on it. The 'punkin didn't smash and BILL lugged it into the house and presented it to MRS. JONES who made a delicious 'punkin pie out of it the next :day. s Hi j; ' j City-' WILLIS, '24 North Section Street, called us today to let us know that he was quite a bit 4ahead of JAMES J. (JERD) McCAMMON as far as continuous voting was concerned. MR. WILLIS says he cast his first vote 62 years ago and claims it's the bnly one he ever lost he voted against GROVER CLEVELAND, democratic candidate for president, and MR. CLEVELAND "won. That was in 1884. MR. WILLIS did have one thing in common with MR. McCAMMON they both cast their first vote ,jin Paxton. MR. WILLIS, at that time was living with SAM . CREAGER, father of FRANK CREAGER who is a well-known Sullivan resident.

Year's 4-H Activities End In County-Wide Achievement Event

. ' Approximately three hundred 4-H Club boys and girls, their Jjparents and friends, attended the annual Sullivan County 4-H Achievement program last night, November 4, in the Court House auditorium. This program cli.rntxed the 1946 4-H Club year for the county. . John Ransford, Turman Township 4-H Club member and County president of the Junior Leadership Organization, presided at .the meeting and announced the various numbers on the program fc which were as follows: Monte Riggs of Fairbanks Township and Estella Crowder of Jackson Township, led the audience in the 4-H Club pledge jf and the pledge to the flag. ; Shirley Ann Greggs of Curry I Township, acted as song leader and gave a report on her 4-H .trip-to Chicago last March.

VOTING 1 CITY FAIRLY LIGHT IIP ;

TO NOON TODAY

Voting in the city, this morning was light in precincts one and four as determined by a survey j made during the noon hour. Precinct three showed the heaviest balloting with 400 persons listed as already casting their vote out of some 900 registered in the precinct. In precincts one and four only 230 votes had been cast in. each by noon today. Precinct two listed 460 votes cast along with 68 absentee ballots, out of approximately 1,100 registered there. All of the precincts are expecting at least a 65 percent vote , before the polls close this evening.' ' ' This vote, compared with that of the primary election here in May, is much heavier. Clear, crisp weather prevailed thrqughout the morning and is forecast to continue throughout the day and evening. The ballots will be canvassed in the circuit court room of the court house as has been the custom in. the past. Former Resident Of This County Dies At Oaktown Mrs. Rachael Hale VanPatten, native and former resident of Sullivan county, died this morning at 7:45 o'clock at the residence in Knox county, five miles east of Oaktown. Mrs. VanPatten was born August J6, i869 in- Haddon , townshipi where a great portion of her life was spent and where she was well known. At the time of her death she was 77 years old. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs: Mary Livingston of Sunnyvale, California, Mrs. Lula Murphy ol San Francisco, California, and Mrs Dolly Archer of Odon rural route two; three sons, John VanPatten of Oak town, William VanPatten of West Terre Haute, and Richard VanPatten of Hazelton, Indiana; one brother, John Hale of Shelburn; twenty-four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Schulze Funeral Home in Carlisle, where funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at two o'clock with Rev. Wilson of the Bicknell Pilgrim Holiness Church officiating. Interment will be made in the Oaktown Cemetery. LOCAL CHURCH TO HOLD SERVICES The Sullivan Pilgrim Holiness Church will hold special weekend services beginning Thursday and continuing through Sunday, November 10th- Rev. Wm. S. Dean of Scott City will deliver evangelistic massages each even ing and Miss Pauline Watson will conduct special song services. The public is invited to attend these services. Joe Elliott and Ruth Ann Hall, 4-H Club members of Fairbanks Township, sang two numbers. Gene Easter of Turman Township gave a report of the State Junior Leadership Conference at Indianapolis which was sponsored in this county by the local Rotary Club. . - Jane Barnett, Jackson Township 4-H Club member, gave a clever reading. Eleanor Ruth Meurer, Cass Township 4-H Club member, reported on the 1946 4-H Club Round-Up. Tommy Taylor, Curry Township, reported on the Soil Conservation Camp held last summer at Hassmer Hill Park, Varsailles, Indiana. Norma Lee Thomson and Rosalie Goodman, Hamilton Township (Continued on page 3, Col. 5).

Mrs. E. Kennedy, Board Members To Attend Meeting Mrs. Emma Kennedy, libarian of the Sullivan Public Library, will attend the 55th annual conference of the Indiana Library Association, to be held Nov. 6-8 at the Lincoln Hotel in Indianapolis.. Also planning to attend the convention from Sullivan are four members of the library board, namely: Mrs. Malcolm Campbell, president of the board, Mrs. S. E. Lindley, Mrs. George A. Scott and Mrs. J. B. Maple. Approximately 500 librarians from throughout Indiana will attend the parley. Plans' to develop more adequate libraryservice will be discussed. Proposed modification of existing state library laws also will be studiedLouis Bromfield, noted Ohio author and assayist,.will speak at the association's annual dinner November 7. . His topic will ' be "The Responsibilities Ahead of Us." Among library authorities who will speak are Andrew B. Lemke, Chicago, assistant to the president of the American Library ' Association; Harold F. Brigham, director of the Indiana State Library. Forums will be devoted to public relations, attaining greater public realization of the value of libraries to the ' community, library administration, exchange of ideas for service improvement and planning future libraries. A tea also will be given in honor of outstanding Indiana authors who have been invited.

Officers of the Indiana Library Association are Miss Mary A. Holmes of Logansport, president; Richard B. Sealock of Gary, president elect; Mrs. Evelyn H Dick .of Muncie, secretary; Alma D.' Zanger, Winimac,. treasurer; Harold F- Brigham of Indianapolis, director of the Indiana State Library and Miss Elsa Strassweg of New Albany, immediate past president The Indiana Library Trustees Association of which Mrs. Ralph Burris of Washington is president, will hold .several meetings in conjunction with the Indiana Library Association. Allen Pinkston, 72, Dies In Merom Monday, 6 P.M. Allen Pinkston, 72-year-old resident of Merom, died at his home there Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock. He is survived by three sons, Roy and Rollie Pinkston, both of Sullivan and Floyd Pinkston of Fairbanks; one foster daughter, Mrs. Grace Adams of Terre Haute; three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Woodward of Anderson, Mrs. Clark Harden of Sullivan and Mrs. Saran Reid of Merom; one brother, Milton Pinkston of Me rom and eight grandchildren. The body was taken to the DeBaun Funeral Home in Prairie Creek and later returned to the residence in Merom where it now lies in state. Brief rites will be conducted at the residence Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock with continued services at the Union Chapel Church at two o'clock. Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery. VET MTTST FILE REPORT OF EARNINGS OR BE CUT OFF .Thousands of Indiana veterans, face being cut off from subsistence rolls November 6 as the result of their failure to file a report of earnings as required by Public Law 679, Veterans Administration officials announced today. Approximately one ' thousand veterans have complied with the regulations to date, which is 10 of those estimated who must file. Veterans who have enrolled in schools or on-the-job training programs since mid - August should have filed reports of estimated earnings at the : time of enrollment. If not they should file at once. The VA urged all veterans who have received notices with their subsistence checks to act im mediately if they wish to receive checks without an interruption,

LATE NEWS ! - ; i

HARRIS TO PILOT NVY. YANKEES NEW YORK, Nov. 5. (UP)-Stanley "Bucky" Harris, an 18-year veteran as a major league manager, was named today by President Larry S. MacPhail to direct the New York Yankees for the 1947 season.

GEN. CLAY WARNS GERMAN OFFICIALS STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 5. (UP) Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay charged German officials today with failing in their deNazification program and delivered a blunt ultimatum that if they did not do the job, the American Military Government would. f Clay gave the Germans 60 days in which to get the deNazification program going again. - UN MAY GET PACIFIC ISLANDS CASE WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. (UP) President Truman is expected soon to offer to place Pacific islands captured from Japan under United Nations trusteeship, but with the provision that the United States be 'made sole trustee of bases vital to her security, a reliable diplomatic source said today.

FLOOD THREATENS BEAUMONT, TEXAS BEAUMONT, Texas, Nov; 5. (UP) Flood waters which swirled through half of Beaumont and destroyed the surrounding area's rich rice crop receded today, but author-

! ities warned that more rain would ruin this city of one hun

dred thousand. Damage estimated from yesterday's flash flood amounted to four million dollars.

COAL WALKOUTS SPREADING (By United Press) Wildcat walkouts in the nation's soft coal mines were reported spreading. Coal negotiations were in recess because of the elections as miners took the day off to vote. Discussions between the government and the United Mine Workers (AFL) will resume tomorrow.

Fortieth Quarter Passed On Social Security Act If you have worked steadily since 1936 on a job covered by Socal Security, you-now hayeja fully insured status for life, according to James E. Snider, Manager of the Terre Haute field office. "This is the fortieth calendar quarter since Old-Age and Survivors Insurance became effective," Snider explained. "Once a worker has been credited with having been paid wages of $50 or more, in 40 different quarters, on jobs covered by the Social Security Act, he is insured for keeps. "That does not mean," he warned, "that every wage earner must have 40 quarters before he can qualify for benefits. The man who reaches age 65 this month needs only 19 such credits; one who attains 65 in the first half of 1947 will need only 20. 'Fully insured' under Social Security means that an individual- has been paid at least $50 in wages for work covered by the law in half the quarters elapsed between 1936 and the quarter in which he becomes 65 or dies. "But once a workingman has 40 quarters to his credit, he is free to enter another line of work where no Social Security credit is given, such as opening his own business, without losing his right to retirement or death benefits. It permits the working woman, with 40 such quarters, to withdraw from employment and still retain her insured status. "Of course, since the benefit is based upon the average monthly wage of the insured, dropping ut of covered employment will reduce the amount of the eventual benefit. That in because the average monthly wage must include all months, whether 'wages' were paid or not. Every month lost, from illness, noncovered work, or other reason, lowers the average and cuts the monthly benefit. "In the event, however, that the Act is changed to meet the recommendations of the Social Security Administration, and all work,, including self-employment, becomes covered, all earned income can be credited to the worker's account." Old Lady Shows Her Blackjack . LYNN, Mass. (UP) When a man climbed through a bedroom window and tried to assault 63-year-old Mrs. Floretta Cummings, she was prepared for him. Mrs. Cummings whipped out a blackjack she kept under her pillow for just such an emergency and frightened the intruder away.

Ind. Small Loan Co.'s To Meet The 31st annual convention of the Indiana Association of Small Loan Companies, the state trde ajcvation of - consumer, lenders operating under the Indiana Small Loan Act, will be held at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis November 12th and 13th, according to an announcement by Robert C. Hamilton, executive secretary of the organization. H. E. Arnett, Marion, president of the Association, will preside at the business sessions of the convention and L. S. Henderson, Indianapolis, is chairman of the program committee for the twoday session. The annual banquet will be held on Wednesday evening, November 13th in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. The Fidelity Loan Company and the Security Loan Company of Sullivan are both members of the Indiana Association of Small Loan Companies and Joe P. Stratton and Arthur W. Snavely of the Fidelity Loan Co. and Russell F. Inbody of the Security Loan Co. will attend this convention. ELKS INITIATE 17 NEW MEMBERS HERE LAST NIGHT Initiation was held at the Sullivan Elks Home last night with 17 new members participating. Those initiated were: James W- Hankins, Orville W. Milburn, Lewis Brooks Jr., William O. Padgett, William C. Borders Jr., Harlan D. Wilkey, James B. McKee, Lowell W. Bedwell, Paul E. LaFollette, James C. Gillespie, Charles E. Dudley, Lawrence R. Conway, Clayton Rumple, Clarence McCrocklin, Tom Sevier, John Knox Purcell and William N. Dickerson. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR TARRH INFANT ARE HELD TODAY Brief funeral services were held at the graveside this afternoon in the West Lawn Cemetery of Farmersburg for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernor Tarrh who died Monday afternoon at three o'clockSurviving are the parents of Farmersburg; one brother,. Ver nor, Jr.; and two sisters, Caroline and Judy Tarrh. The Wood Funeral Home of Farmersburg were in charge of funeral arrangements.

Clear Weather

Heavy NEW YORK, Nov. 5. (UP) American voters streamed to the polls today to decide whether Democrats or Republicans will control the next Congress and reports from all parts of the country showed a smashing turnout for the first peacetime general election in six years. In the nationally important New York ' balloting, observers estimated that approximately 30 of the more than two and one-half million eligible voters in New York City had cast their ballots by noon. The turn-out at the polls for this most crucial election since 1930 was increased by good weather in all but a handful of states. The earliest, scattered returns favored the Republican drive to wrest control of Congress from the Democratic party, but they were entirely inconclusive. A partial count in 23 Kansas precincts put Republican candidates in front by a ratio of about 5 to 3. The very first returns tabulated by the United Press came from a tiny Michigan precinct which gave Republican candidates twelve votes to one for the Democrats. Appoints Persons To Head Seal Sales In County Announcement of the appointI ment of local chairmen to head Seal bale committees in eacn municipality of Sullivan County was made yesterday by MrsCarl Engle, county chairman. Mrs. Engle said that the Seal Sale in each community would be directed by a local committee working in cooperation with the county committee. Funds raised from the sale of seals will be used to support the 1947 Tuberculosis Control Program of the Sullivan County Tuberculosis Association. The county-wide campaign will coincide with the nation-wide 40th Annual Seal Sale which will extend from Nov. 25 to Dec. 25. Chairmen of the township committees are: Jack Smith, Sullivan; Mrs. Grover Hendricks,. Dugger; Vlrs. F. F. Ward, Shelburn; Mrs. Mable Sargent, Farmersburg; Mrs- Mary Blubaugh, Hymera; 1 Mrs. . Dennis Pittman, Fairbanks; Mrs. Fred Ogle, Carlisle; Mrs. Dewey Benefiel, Pleasantville; Mrs. Herman Jones, Merom and Mrs. Frances Burton, Graysville. Teen Canteen In Fourth Week Of New Operation The Sullivan teen canteen is now in its fourth week and enthusiasm is running high. Membership is increasing every week. A membership drive is now in action at the High School. Plans for activities are being made and carried out continually. The Girl Scout carnival was a huge success. Wednesday night the regular thirty minutes set aside for a program was filled by a command performance with Joe Scully as master of ceremonies. Members of the audience were requested to perform- Patsy Gallagher, Connie Campbell, Ann Briggs, Jinny Jones, Marilyn Anstead and Jinnny Robinson were among those on the program. Planned for the following week are a musical program for Wednesday, November 6th in which is open house night and a dance for the teen agers on November 9th. Admission for the dance will be 25 cents.

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Hundreds Of Thousands In Indiana Go To Polls For One Of Most Crucial Elections To Be Held In Past Four

teen Years.

(By Boyd Gill, UP Stkff Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5. (UP) Hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers went to the polls to elect a new senator and decide how many of ten incumbent congressmen would go

back to Washington next January. Polls in 4,059 precincts opened at six a. m. when the vanguard of an estimated 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 voters moved in on voting places set up in garages, private homes, schools, community buildings and commercial establish

ments. William H. Cunningham, 67-year-old general superintendent of the Linton Summit Coal Company mines of the eleventh mining district, died Monday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock of a heart attack at the residence, 309 B Street Northeast, Linton. Mr. Cunningham, reports stated today, had made a trip to the New Hope Mine yesterday morning, returning to his home at noon where he was fatally stricken. For thirty years, the deceased had been associated withj the Linton Summit Coal Company and for the past ten years had been general superintendent of the company mines of this area, namely, Baker, New Hope, John Ay and Regent. He was born July 8th, 1879 in Nelsonville, Ohio moving his residence to Linton in 1902 l where he had since resided. He iwas a member of the Greater j Linton Club being one of the most prominent citizens of that city. Mr. Cunningham was very well known and highly esteemed, be ing a member of the Linton First Christian Church and president of the church board. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jennie Cunningham; one son, Earl Cunningham of Detroit, Michigan; four sisters of Nelson ville, Ohio; and one grandson. The body was taken to the Welch and Cornett Funeral Home in Linton where funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock with Rev. Grady Spiegal and his assistant, Rev. Lozier Ziegler, of the Linton First Christian Church officiating. Burial will be made in the Fairview Cemetery Pof Linton. NEW SUITS Jacob A. Rooksberry vs. Clem Thomas, Complaint for immed iate possession of real estate.

MINE OFFICIAL j DIES SUDDENLY IN UNION MONDAY

Heavy Voting Over Indiana Reported At Noon, Surveys Show

(By Boyd Gill, U.P. Staff Cor-1 respondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5 (UP) Record off-year election bal loting was indicated today in early returns from much of Indiana as Hoosiers went to the polls to name a new U. S. Senator, 11 Congressmen and hundreds of local and state office holders. The heaviest vote was reported in the city areas normallyconsidered Democratic, while sunny November skies apparently found many farmers preferring to spend the day in the fieldsRepublican observers said the heavy city vote could not be considered a Democratic trend and they continued to forecast a GOP landslide. They predicted that voting In rural sections re

Brings

Today , u 9 f IS The new senator Republican William E. Jenner of Bedford or Democratic Cliff Townsend of Hartford City will succeed Sen. Raymond E. Willis, Republican, of Angola, who failed last sum mer in a bid for renomination at the Indiana GOP state convention. r . . Jenner is a 38-year-old former senator who served a short twomonths term in 1944. He also is a World War II veteran and an exchairman of the GOP state' com mittee, xownsena is a lormer Indiana governor, a 62-year-old farmer, who was with the U. S, Denart.ment of Agriculture dur ing the war. ' While national body leaders talked of the possibility of Republicans gaining control of both houses of Congress, Indiana political observers thought in terms of a change in party ratio among the eleven Hoosier congressional districts. ' -.;' .' At,-present nine of the eleven House seats are held by Republicans. The GOP held hopes of retaining the nine and capturing the others for a clean sweep. The democrats talked of improving their national stature by keeping the two they have and adding a few more. GOOD WEATHER TODAY ikTTMir vnutr ' vr.r r riro American voters, with good weather over most of the nation, l . u n u.. . u 1 airecijiieu iu me puna uy uic millions today to decide whether Democrats or Republicans would control the 80th Congress. Election day dawned bright and clear in most sections of the country, bolstering prerelection estimates that the number of ballots cast would range from 34 million to 40 million. Voters in 47 states were participating in the crucial election in that 33 governorships anda host of other state offices were also at stake. The non-participating state was Maine, which did its balloting in September.-2 REVIVAL AT CASS BEGINS NOVEMBER 10 1 - A revival meeting will begin November 10th at the Cass Methodist Church with the Rev. Drew Rosier, pastor of the church bringing the messagesThe services are scheduled to start at 7:00 o'clock each evening. garded as GOP strongholds would pick up later in the day. TT 1 A . raeciv y eany vuung was re nnrtpfl in tho otatp'o Inroor ritina t' - - - - - - - o - - such as Evansville, Gary, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and South Bend, while from smaller county seats like Greensburg and Noblesville came reports that voting was relatively light. Plymouth and Bedford reported "exceptionally heavy" balloting and many urban communities said the total vote was running near double that in the primary at noontime. . '. At Fort Wayne the Republican city organization said 25 percent of the vote already was in at 10:00 a. m., an all time high for off-year elections.