Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 235, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 25 November 1946 — Page 1
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County students recently pledged to fraternities at Rose Poly are: LOR EN PITTMAN of Farmersburg, Lamda Chi Alpha; f?UERREL PAGE and ROY SPARKS, Dugger and Merom, respectively, pledged Sigma Nu and RAY OSBURN of Sullivan went Tlieta Xi. Recently brought to our attention, especially, is that due to the number of trains taken off as r result of the current coal strike, mail will be more than just an ordinary Christmas problem this year. Postal officials are getting plenty worried about it and it might be a good suggestion to get that package off to Uncle John or Aunt Agatha right away. . Fate does get in a good lick once in awhile! We hear that big, beautiful refrigerator given away by the Briar Hill Golf Club, went to a pair of newlyweds and who can use house-furnishings better than newlyweds?. The winner was BILL HANKINS. Just a tip to the innocent don't let RALPH YOUNG get away with that story of his r.bout knowing where all kinds of rabbits hang out! We tried him out Saturday and, WELL, we ain't even glimpsed one! Typewriters Go On Sale For Vets In St. Louis v t ST, LOUJS, Nov. 25 Addition-. ..al-hundreds of typewrite have Iv.fn rwrivod by the St. 1 Lonts , Office of War Assets Admiriistra1 tion for immediate sale to Vet- ' erons of World War II, J. C. Jchnson, Chief of the Veterans Division of VAA said that 500 j typewriters are available for immediate delivery. ,. ' "Veterans have been clamoring ' for typewriters all summer", said ' Johnson. "This is the . first time ; that we have been able to fill all the requests and have some left over for those veterans who have wanted typewriters but ' couldn't get them. We are issu- .; ing certifications all this month, and the first 500 veterans who :come in should be able to get their typewriters right away." The typewriters available now 'are located throughout the region . perved by the St. Louis office of VAA. Some needing repairs will be sold for prices ranging from $7 to $28. Others in fair and - good condition sell for $29 to $50. ; A few wide carriage machines are priced slightly higher. . AIARRIAIGE LICENSES ' Earl H. Smith, Shelburn; R. 1, miner and Minnie Herndon, Sullivan,, housekeeper. John William Meng, Carlisle, R. 2. farmer, and Phyllis A'nn Dyer, Sullivan, R. 1, at home. :' James E. Mahan, Cincinnati, Ohio, school teacher and Elizabeth J. Fox, Farmersburg. Corda Dover , Linton, truck ' driver and Rowena Horn, Terre Haute, Waitress.
Band Parents Club To Conduct Bake Sale
A bake sale will be conducted by the Band Parents Club Wednesday, November 27, at the SulJivan Decorating Company, Mrs. ' Jeannette Wernz, treasurer of the organization announced today. Wednesday morning a tur- ' key is to be awarded to the holder of a lucky number announced at that time. ' The bake sale is part of a proi ject now bsing conducted by the Band Parents to raise funds for the purchase of new instruments for the local band and also to finish payment on the new uniforms. ; This organization was inaugurated inJ936 when 40 Sullivan parents of band members banded " together to act as sponsors of the hand. That year they bought . uniforms and raised $950 without solicitation for that purpose. ; The Band Parents Club again purchased uniforms last year
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GUTTED BY FIRE The Lowell Hendricks garage in Dugger was destroyed by fire Friday evening about seven o'clock when an Indiana Stages bus caught fire inside the building. Mr. Hendricks and his brother, Ray, had just completed the installation of a new motor in the bus and were making final adjustments prior to testing it. The fire started near the front of the bus, seemingly from a gasoline explosion, and before the fire department could reach the scene the entire garage was a mass of flames. . - Cause of the fire could not be definitely determined, Mr. Hendricks stated yesterday, but it was presumed to have started from a short in the electrical system of the bus. "We had just installed a booster battery for starting the engine and had walked over to another part of the building when the explosion occurred," the garage owner said. "The gas tank went up immediately and before we hardly knew what had happened the whole garage, was burning." The business was not insured and the loss could not be determined immediately. The only item saved was a valuable set of tools which were encased in a steel cabinet. Among the equipment burned beyond salvage was two acetylene welding outfits, a new drill valued at $75, several new. batteries, and, numerous flfeiei'" tools "5ntL auto parts. Walls of the building, constructed of concrete blocks, still stand and are usable for rebuilding. The building was 30 x 40 feet. LINTON CHILD IS PNEUMONIA VICTIM Billy Lee Calvert, five-year-old son of Mrs. Myrtle Mae Calvert of Linton and William O. Calvert of Worthington, died yesterday morning in the Freeman-Greene County Hospital of Linton after a short illness of pneumonia. Besides the parents he is survived by a half-brother, Benny Joe; and the grandparents, Mrs. Nellie Calvert of Worthington and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gilligan of Sullivan rural route. The body was taken to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Linton where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will be made in the Switz City cemetery. FIRE DEPARTMENT MAKES GRASS FIRE RUNS YESTERDAY The local fire department was called yesterday evening to extinguish two grass fires. The first fire was south of town on the Frank Mason farm. The second was in the Usrey addition along the C. & E. I. Railroad. Little damage was done. costing $2300. The first organization of 40 members was headed by J. Hurley Drake, president with Dr. C. E. Fisher the treasurer. Tolman Gharst was band director for the city v schools at that time. Since the sponsorship of the band was taken over by the Band Parents, several first place awards have been taken by the Sullivan band at state contests. They won a first place award at the state meet last year. The bake sale scheduled for Wednesday will present all the baking specialties usually found on the Thanksgiving table with the turkey award climaxing the event. Officers of ,the Band Parents Club are: Ronald Burdge, president; ., Emory . Thomson, vicepresident; Mrs. Jeanette Wcrnz, treasurer and Earl Allen, secre4 n ytr
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Mrs. DePriest, 52, Dies At Home In Farmersburg
Mrs. Anna DePriest, age 52, died at 6:30 o'clock Friday morning at her residence in Farmersburg. She is survived by the husband, William; two daughters, Mrs. Bryce Dickerson of Farmersburg and Mrs. Ed Gaither Jr., of Rockville, Indiana; one son, Harry DePreist of Terre Haute; two brothers, E. J. Owens , of LaPorte, Indiana and T. A. Owens of Terre Haute; two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Naubauer and Mrs. Charles Patterson, both of Terre Haute and two grand children. The body was taken to the Fidler Funeral Home and return ed to the residence Saturday morning. Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Farmersburg Methodist Church with Rev. J. C. Foutz officiating. Burial was in Westlawn Cemetery. L ill! DIES III FLORIDA Mrs. Gertrude Rogers Ellis, wife of Thomas D. Ellis, died Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Veva E. Hall, of Lakeland, Fla. At the time of her death she was 67 years of age. She had been in ill health for the past year. She had gone to Florida for the winter where she was a guest of Mrs. Hall and Where she wasf receiving treatment at the Morj-ell Memorial Hospital. Born near Jasonville October 10, 1879, Mrs. Ellis was the daughter of the late Mary Jewell and Robert Wesley Rogers. She spent her early years near Jasonville where she attended the public schools. She attended State Normal and was. a teacher in the Brown county schools for one year. Mrs. Ellis became a member of the Baptist church at Midland when very young. She was married in 1899 to Thomas D. Ellis and moved to Sullivan county where they had since resided. A well-known civic leader, Mrs. Ellis was affiliated with the Rebekah lodge, Red, White and Blue lodge, Relief Corps, G.A.R. and Royal Neighbors and until her illness had been active in these organizations. She is survived, besides the husband, by one daughter, Mrs. Veva Hall, Lakeland, Fla.; two sons, Charles E. Ellis, Avon Park, Fla., and Vernal F. Ellis of Vincennes; one brother, Estie Rogers, Farmersburg; three sisters, Mrs. Otto Crosson, Mrs. Isaac McCoy and Mrs. Nancy Maskell, all of Terre Haute; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. The body arrived in Sullivan at 7:00 o'clock this morning and was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. at the Baptist Church. The Rev. Wyman Hull will officiate1 and burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Carlisle. Mrs. Hoban Dies At Hymera Home Mrs. Jeanette Hoban, 81 years bid, died at her home at noon Sunday in Hymera. She is survived by the husband, Patrick; five daughters, Mrs. Mike Croney, Mrs. Alph Bole and Mrs. Ben Trump, all of Hymera, Mrs. Garnet Rilenge of Shelburn, and Mrs. George Fields of Bruceville; 40 grandchildren and . 22 great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon with burial in the K. of P. Cemetery. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Kannewurf of Columbia; Illinois announce the birth of a son, John Eugene, born November 13th. Mrs. Kannewurf is the fdrmer June Masterson of this, city.
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CHALLENGE RUSSIA ON TROOP LOCATIONS LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 25. (UP) The United States and Great Britain today challenged Russia to reveal the size of her armed forces at home and abroad, with the British proposing a system of international inspection to insure accuracy of the military census. " Senator Tom Connally, D., Texas, U. S. delegate, and Philip J. Noel-Baker, British delegate, proposed that members of the United Nations disclose complete figures on the number and location of their armed forces in friendly countries, former enemy nations and on the home soil.
SMALL VESSELS COLLIDE AND SINK MIAMI, Nov. 23. (UP) Two small vessels collided before dawn today about 30 miles off the Florida coast and sank, according to messages received by the Coast Guard here. An estimated 17 crewmen took to lifeboats. The vessels were the Evangelos, outbound for Haiti, and the Marsicee, inbound from the Bahamas.
RADIO ARTISTS TO STRIKE NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (UP) A strike of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFL), which includes many of radio's brightest stars, was scheduled for noon today on four major radio networks, it. was learned today. ' Union negotiators were scheduled to meet with the presidents of the four major networks shortly before noon at wrich time they were expected to reject counter-proposals which had been submitted to the'tinion byrthe management in a collective bargaining session last Frida'y.
Graysville Is Host Of District FFA Meeting
The F.F.A. Leadership Training Meeting for District VII was held November 6, at Graysville high school. The meeting was opened by the official opening ceremony - at 6:00 p.;' m. by the Graysville chapter .officers. The business session was conducted by . Gene Easter, District VII director from Graysville. During the business period the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The district program of work and the rules for the District Pest-killing Contest were given to each chapter secretary. A report on the constitution was given by the Otter Creek chapter. The date was set for the next meeting to be held January 6th at Linton. Each chapter is asked to bring a stunt or entertainment number to this meeting and three awards will be made. Chapter Farmer Degree initiation on a district basis will be conducted by the Linton officers and district officers are planning to conduct the opening and colsing ceremonies at Linton. The business session was ad journed at 6:15 for a bountiful lunch served in the Graysville Cafeteria. The officers training meetings were conducted by the following: Presidents , District Director Gene Easter, Graysville, chair man, and K. W. Kiltz, Purdue, advisor; Vice-Presidents Dis trict Vice-President Hubert Mil ler, Switz City, chairman and Glenn Gates, Switz City, advisor; Secretaries Mahlon Saxon, Otter Creek, chairman, and A. D. Brown, Otter Creek, advisor; Treasurers District Treasurer Kenneth Franklin, Linton, chairman, and C. Creager, Linton, advisor: Reporters District Re porter John Ransford, Graysville, chairman, and J. Wagner, Grays ville, advisor; Sentinels Burl Harris, Graysville, chairman, and L. C. "Mcintosh, Worthington, advisor. After returning from the offi cers' meetings a report on the Prairie Farmer Trip was given by Don Liechty of Clay City and a report on the F.F.A. committee was given by John Ransford of Graysville. A talk by E. J. Wagner, Graysville, related of the chapter work program. K. W. Kiltz, Indiana's Executive Secretary and Treasurer of Purdue, gave a very interesting talk on the National F.F.A. convention and the Indiana F.F.A. activities. Six boys from Worthington were initiated by the Graysville chapter officers to the Greenhand Degree. The examining I committee, after . questioning I pledges on F.F.A., certified all candidates for the official Can- ' dlelight Initiation. Officers 6f the new chapter were installed by the installation ceremony. There were thirty-three officers, seven members, five ad
visors and the State Executive Secretary and Treasurer present. In all there were six chapters represented at the meeting including Graysville, Otter Creek, Clay City, Linton, Switz City, and :' Worthington. Chapters absent were Greencastle and Brazil. . ' ". Plans For Farm Bureau Banquet Now Being Made
Plans are being made for the 25th annual County Farm Bureau banquet' to be held Saturday night, November 30. The meeting will be held at the Methodist Annex and dinner will be served at 6:30 P. M. Reservations must be in the County Office by Friday, November 29th. (Members have received cards on this.) The program will begin at 7:30 P. M., and everyone is welcome to attend this program. Mrs. Jean Campbell and her accordion band will furnish music during dinner as well as on the program. Her -band is well known throughout the state. George Harvey, from the State Farm Bureau Research Department, will be the speaker of the evening. Everyone who has heard Mr. Harvey knows he is an able speaker. Those who have i not heard him can come with confidence, knowing he will bring something worth hearing. Parie Phillips Dies Friday At Rural Residence Parie H. Phillips, 66, died at the residence on Linton rural route three Friday afternoon at 12:30. He was a member of the Olive Branch Baptist Church and of the United Mine Workers of America, Surviving are the 'widow, Ida; two sons, Elmo Phillips of Dugger route one and Carl E. Phillips of Evansville; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Hofeditz of Linton route three; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Roberts of Bloomfield and Mrs. Luella Danner of Quillen, Mo.; a half sister, Mrs. Stella Jordan of Dolphin, Mo., and a half brother, Cecil Phillips, of Dolphine, Mo. The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home at Pleasantville and was returned to the residence Saturday afternoon. ; Funeral service's were cobducted yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the Bethel Church at Gambill, Indiana. Burial was at Dugger.
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TO GO TO CHICAGO LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 25. Twenty-five Indiana 4-H Club members as official delegates and several others who will compete in national contests, will go to Chicago Saturday, Nov. 30, to attend the 25th Anniversary National 4-H Club Congress to be held there, Dec. 1 to 5. In addition, 82 Hoosier club boys and girls will show 121 head of prize winning livestock and grain at the International Livestock and Grain and Hay Shows being held simultaneously at the Chicago Union Stock Yards. Among the selected 25 members are two from Sullivan county Jean Godfrey, clothing, spool cotton and Shirley Ann Greggs, dress revue and American Viscose. ' High spots in the week's entertainment for those attending the silver anniversary of the Club Congress will be educational tours to the Livestock Show and to points of interest in the "loop." The youths are state winners selected on achievement records in agricultural and home economics who receive the trips from the Indiana State Fair Board and various business concerns. They will be a part of the group of more than 1200 club members from every state and Hawaii. The junior agriculturists will be feted at breakfasts, luncheons and dinners as the guests of firms interested in better I rural living. :, -- Among the national agricultural leaders to address the general sessions will be M. L. Wilson, director of extension, U. S. Department .of Agriculture, Mon day morning when pioneers in club work will be presented to the group. John L. Strohm, recently returned from a study of agricultural conditions abroad, has been invited to speak. Seventy-one 4-H Club members from 25 counties will show 101 head of calves; two exhibitors from two counties will have six lambs and nine club boys from five counties will show nine barrows. Dr. C. E. Fisher Speaker At Meet Of Optometrists Dr. C. Earl Fisher of Sullivan was the speaker for the November meeting of the Southwestern Indiana Optometric Society Tuesday night at Tennyson's Cafe, Vincennes. Dr. Fisher spoke on "Old and New Concepts of Eye Measurements." He said that, although the eye seems to be such a delicate instrument, yet the tiny eye muscles are 50 to 100 times as strong as they need to be. He said further that the eye changes position approximately 115 times in the course of one hour's reading. ' . The following attended the meeting: Dr. Meta Zehner, Al Zehner, Dr. Thomas Westfall", Evansville; Dr. and Mrs. Fisher; Dr. Warren Miller, Princeton; Dr. Robert Hoffman, Loogootee; Dr .and Mrs. Roy Hardin, Oakland City; Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Steinkamp, Dr. Virlee Metzger, S. E. Stemle, Jasper; Dr. and Mrs. Eli Hendrix, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Conrad, Dr. Joseph Osterndorf, Dr. J, G. Fitzgerald, Dr. Norman Bastin, Vincennes. The next meeting will be December 16 in Oakland City at the "Ranch" and Dr. Norman Bastin will give the program. bfax Assessor's Snafu ST. LOUIS (UP) Tax Assessor Eugene Guise has asked for two new office telephones to accommodate a rush of inquiries and complaints about recently mailed personal property taxes One came from a father who said his 7-month-old son, though he received a tax bill, "was not a resident of St. Louis at the time this assessment was made.
Goldsborough Orders Lewis To Appear For Trial On Wednesday:
BULLETIN! i WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. (UP) John L. Lewis today defied the government's legal weapons and Federal Judge 'T.Alan Goldbsorough ordered hint to trial Wednesday on contempt charges. Goldsborough ordered the barrel-chested, chief of the AFL United Mine Workers to trial after Lewis' counsel declared the court had no right to issue a restraining order which the union and its president are ignoring.' 'UMW's counsel conceded that neither LeAvis nor the union had done anything to clear themselves of contempt charges because Goldsborough had no legal power to issue the order. The restraining order issued - - SS!idSSght la Mondha.y 'sides announced they were ready cZtuit w?thdrahls to go to trial on Wednesday, cancellation of the mine workers i , ,, . , . . contract with the government. e 8 "ke In the 37 minute hearing, ' lf. da wtriH output was
Lewis and the government, both merelv a nrpliminnrv ririrnw.h Jn merely a preliminary skirmish in an all-out court battle between , TO MEET TRIESTE TIE-UP BULLETIN! NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (UP) Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov will meet with Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes this afternoon in an attempt to clear the way for breaking the Big Four foreign, ministers logjam on Trieste. ' ' It will be the Russian Foreign minister's first private conversa tion with Byrnes since the be ginning of the New York dis cussions. U'. S. officials declined to state reasons for Molotov's visit. However, it was believed that the Soviet foreign minister would seek ways to break the deadlock over the Trieste issue which in turn has blocked progress on peace treaties for Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Finland. Ralph Brown, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown of Sullivan rural route one, was admitted to the Mary Sherman Hospital around eleven o'clock Saturday night and treated for injuries sustained a half hour earlier when he was struck by a car on U. S. Highway 41 south of Sullivan. Reports from the sheriff's of fice today stated that the Brown youth was riding his bicycle south on 41 toward his rural home when he was struck by an automobile driven by Ola Wilson, Sullivan resident of West Johnson Street. The collision occured on the hill in front of the Clarence Keys home. The injured youth suffered a deep laceration of one leg and the loss of several teeth, hospital reports revealed today. His condition though painful was not regarded as serious, attaches said. TEACHERS STRIKE I IN ST. PAUL I $5 BULLETIN! (UP) St. Paul's public (UP) St. Paul's Public school teachers struck for higher wages today shutting down classes for 30,000 grade and high school pupils. The teachers, who also are disputing the city's educational budget, began walking picket lines in front of some of the city's 77 schools. Approximately 1,160 teachers , were on strike and all the public schools fwere affected.
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conservation measures and thouands of persons throughout the country were being laid off. CHICAGO, Nov.1 25 (UP) Railroads cut coal-burning milage by 25 percent and many of the nation's fastest overland ; trains were consolidated or eliminated entirely today. ', The New York Central System discontinued 165 passenger trains reducing service by 27,000 passenger miles daily. The Pennsylvania discontinued two trains operating out of Chicago. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 25 (UP) -Steel production - throughout the nation reeled today under Workers soft' cot 'krifcc1,'--"."'-"-' Cutbacks of steel ingot output ranged up to 50. More than 120 , blast and open hearth furnaces were cooled, and thousands' of steel workers furloughed as their (working scheduled reduced. , Bethlehem Steel Corp. had laid off 8,000 of 14,000 workers at . its Cambria Plant and a further reduction to a mere maintneance level of three thousand workers was expected. ! Blast furnace shutdowns cut pig iron production and thus affects open hearth furnaces which convert iron and scrap to ingot steel. In Pittsburgh alone one hundred thousand workers faced layoff this week. Already 1,200 truckers and 500 barge workers , have been made idle by the walkout of miners. Every industry in the nation that uses coal and hundreds of other allied industries faced . a . crisis that will continue until the coalvstrike is settled.' , The steel industry and -railroads, two of the nation's biggest coal consumers, were the , first to put conservation measures into effect. But a third big user, the power companies, will ; slash production tonight when the dim outs become effective in, 21 states including Indiana and the District of Columbia. The cutback in steel production generally averaged 25 among the bigger firms but the " TriState Industrial Organization Association of Pittsburgh, representing 131 steel fabricators which employ 200,000 men, estimated production must be cut by 50 if the coal strike continues two weeks. Every railroad in the nation was affected by the Office of Defense Transportation order cutting passenger schedules except the Santa Fe roads operating in California where a state law bans coal burning locomotives. Schools and amusement places may be the next to feel the coal famine. The city of Denver aU ready has closed schools because ' of the lack of fuel. A further threat to coal production was the possibility that the nation's 76.000 hard coal miners would walk out if the court's decide to punish mine chief John L. Lewis for cancelling the United Mine Workers contract with the government.1 Some wildcat walkouts hu the hard coal fields last week but union leaders said they expected production to return to normal today.