Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 170, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 26 August 1949 — Page 1

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'WEATHER CONTINUED WARM Indiana: Generally fair am continued warm tonight and Sat' urday.

VOL, 51 No. 170

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, AUG. 26. 1949.

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Christian Sunday School In Contest

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. (U.R) The U. S. Navy submarine Cochino exploded and sank early today while on training maneuvers in Arctic waters. All except one man were saved from the Cochino before it sank, but six were lost overboard from a sister submarine during the rescue operations in stormy seas. . The rescuing submarine is proceeding with the survivors to the Norwegian port of Hammerfest, nearest port where medical assistance can be given the injured. But the Navy did not say how many were injured or the extent of injuries. Civilian Killed. The, only fatality aboard the Cochino, whose normal complement is 85 officers and men, was a civilian technician whose name was not given. The other six victims were members of the crew of the submarine Tusk which, had pulled alongside the Cochino. They were swept from the deck of the Tusk by heavy seas during rescue operations. First meager details said the explosion aboard the Cochino occurred in the battery room. Fire followed the explosion.The 1,525-ton Cochino was the first U. S. submarine lost since World War II. It was built in

August, 1945. The Cochino and Tusk were sister ships of the Balao class. They were converted to "guppy" snorkel submarines before completion. The Navy said that the Cochino and the Tusk, together with the submarines Toro and Corsair, left the submarine base at New London, Conn., July 18 for a transAtlantic training cruise and an informal visit to Londonderry, Ireland. 1 Lt. Cmdr. Rafael C- BennMz, Ponce, Puerto Rico, commanded tbfi Cochino. Cmdr. Robert K. R. Worthington, Oakmont, Pa., skippered the Tusk. ' . Were Training:. 1 ,

r':The submarines were jengaged

ih com water training, exercises in the Arctic at the't'ime of the accdent. The high seas seriously hampered the rescue attempts, but all of the Cochino's crew .except for the civilian technician were taken aboard the Tusk. The Navy did not give the exact location of the catastrophe but said that Hammerfest is the nearest port where medical assistance can be given the injured.

Sunday is the last day for the attendance contest between the

Sullivan Christian Church and

Christian Churches in Terre Haute and Washington, Harold Campbell, superintendent of the

Sunday School, said today.

At present the local Sunday School has a slight lead in the

contest and it is going all out to have a large attendance this Sunday to stay in L-ont and win the contest. The other churches in th? con

test, hnt.h with muih larser

By Boyd Gill

United Press Staff Correspondent Avenue christian Church Sjr:INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 26.-(UR)iday School Qf TejTe Haute and Six aged Union veterans of tne'the Central christian Ciurch Civil War were squaring away to- Sunday School of Wlshington.

day for a possible, scrap on The contest has been running

whether to disband the urana . th summep months of June.

Iwo

68K

d Vets

4 ft 3 A

GAR Win

Army of the Republic after its JulVj and August and the result E3rd encampment here next here has been a marked jncl.ease week. . tin Sunday School attendance at But their ages, ranging from the church here over the, usual 100 to 108, were agains them and sumrrfr attendance, the sharper minds of their young-1 Mp CampbeU said lhat Washer advisers were expected to ;ngt011i second, in the contut, :s avoid an open squabble ' h, lllpg on a Sunday s,hnol at. Last year, six of tne handful of tercancc of 500 this Sunday in surviving "Boys in Blue voted at ordcr to win the contPst, Grand Rapids, Mich., to make thei 1949 encampment their last. - - .'"tCongress passed a special act fjfSi Mi R3USCll ordering the U. S. Marine band . to play at the final session. The DlfflC 3fnrfMV Post Office Department issued ai,i',3 JwMIUaV special stamp marking the end of Mrs. Marthena Rausch, died the organization. The governor of Thursday morning at the home

Indiana ordered church bells in Terre Haute, tolled and a general suspension l She is survived by a foster of business for an hour during the son, Donald M. Wardell; five "last earthly encampment" of the brothers, Blaine G. Wardell of men. St. Augustine, ,Fla., Donald But two of the six expected to Wardell of Terre Haute, Joseph attend . the "last" encampment A. Wardell and Russell G. Waroutspokenly favored continuing dell, both of Shelburn, and Lothe annual meetings until there gan Wardell of Sullivan, and was only one member left alive, three sisters, Misses Lottie and A third wants a chance to be Flora Wardell, both of Shelburn, GAR commander-in-chief and and Mrs. Kathryn McDermott of might side in with the two. .Terre Haute. "They can't have another en- Funeral services will be held campment," said Miss Cora Gillis, at 1:30 o'clock Saturday aftersecretary of the GAR. "They vot- noon at the residence, 218 Kent ed positively not to meet again. Avenue, ,Terre Haute, with burThey can't change their minds." ial in the K. of P. Csmete 7 at ' Miss Gillis said she thought T

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Three Inured In Accident Hear Carlisle

Farmers Complete Management Tour

Twenty Sullivan County farmers traveled by chartered bus on a two-day' farm management tour to Spencer .and Crawford counties August 24 tnd 25. The

Three , teen-agers were injured bus left Sullivan Wednesday

in an accident three miles south of morning, August 24, and arrived Carlisle Thursday evening about back Thursday evening, August 7 o'clock when an automobile in 25. -which they were riding ran into Wednesday was largely spent the back end of a ton-and-a-half attending the Southwestern Ind-

truck,

The three are Miss Sally Jones,

age 14, of Oaktown, Miss Shirlene Baccus, age 13, of Oaktown, and William Abrams. aee

16, of Carlisle, R. 2. A fourth

person, a youth, was also in the car, but his identity has not

been learned.

According to Sheriff Hubert

iana Grassland Field Day held on the farm of Shelby Wright & Son in Spencer County. On this farm was demonstrated liming, fertilizing, seed bed preparing, and seeding operations in pasture renovation. The renovating operations were demonstrated by various farm implement companies with their tools.

Rev. R. E. Pavy Union Church Service Speaker

Wagner, who investigated, irej In the afternoon, hay making 1949 Chevrolet driven by yoii-gWas the theme. Many machines Abrams, ran into the back end ' Were used in demonstrating balof the truck driven by Arthur ' ing, chopping, and loading hay. Bateman of Oaktown, R, l.1 A crowd of about fifty-three Bateman was not injured. I hundred attended the field day.

Both vehicles were got a? north at the time of the accident, with Bateman on his way to see h'.s son, Duane, a patient at the Mary Sherman Hospital.- ' . The automobile was amost

Wednesday, after the field day, the Sullivan County group visited the farm of Karl Kramer to see the use of strip cropping and the production of hybrid seed corn. Mr. Kramer also showed

completely demolished while .the ' the group, the lay-out of

helburn Scouts

To Dedicate Home The Shelburn Boy Scout Troop No. 52 will dedicate its new Scout building this Sundav wilh a program beginning nt 3 p. in. Jack Taylor, Scoutmaster for the Shelburn trooo, said today that all the Boy Scout troops in the distr'ct would be at the dedication and would takf: pait In the contests and program from 3 p m. until 8 p. m. The new Scout home is located behind the Shelburn mr.er'uan Legion Post.

NOTICE .' The Police Department regrets the defamatory rumors that have been circulated concerning John K. Purcell. These rumors are en

tirely without foundation and

false.

Sullivan Police Dept.

when they get together here.-V .

Fireworks.

uoservers thought there might

be fireworks in a closed business session the last day of the en

campment. But despite different

damage to the truck was slight. Hospital attendants said today that the condition of the three in the hospital was fairly good. Deputy Sheriff Harold Conner assisted Sheriff Wagner in the investigation. w

Jones Infant Dies Thursday Linda Darlene Jones, 6-month-

the and

William H. Fry

Rites Saturday

Beveridge Jones, . former resi

dents of Linton, died Thursday

morning at Indianapolis.Surviving besides the parents are two sisters. Mrs. Violet Cor-

Plinoml SPrVlPPS fOr William i;g nf Tinnar- anil HTor-iluri

ts over tne question, everybody w vrv who died at his home in Tatioc? of Vnma fwn Hr nth Pre

was pretty certain this would be Paxton at 10 o'clock Thursday Wayn'e Arthur jones, at home, the vets last meeting. morning, will be conducted Sat- and Johnny Jones of the u s. Those favoring more encamp-' urday morning at 10:30 o'clock at jy and the grandparents, ments were Robert Barrett, age'Antioch Church. The body was M ' d Mr3i Henry Jones and

102, Princeton, Ky., and James A. Hard, age 108, Rochester, N. Y.

'I'd like to see a joint en- will lie in state until time for the campment of the GAR and the funeral. Bro. Maurice Clymore

remnants of the

armies," said Hard.

"As long as any of the surviving veterans live, there will be an encampment," said Barrett, who added that the decision to disband will be changed once he gets to , Indianapolis. Charles L. Chappell, age 102 Long Beach, Cal., didn't campaign. But he hoped to be commander-in-chief sometime before he died, and his only chance would be if there were more encampments.

Confederate will officiate. Burial will be in

Antioch cemetery.

YOUTH CUT BY MOTOR Duane Bateman, age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bateman of Oaktown, R. 1, was admitted to the Mary Sherman Hospital last evening at 7:15 . p. m. His hand was cut by a motor at the family farm.

emocrafic Editors Gather For

Annual IDEA Summer Outina

FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 26 (UP) Some 500 Hoosier Democratic editors, politicians and state officials gathered today for the annual summer outing of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. Convention preliminaries and golf were the principal items on the agenda today, but the 1950 campaign for the Democratic Senatorial campaign unofficially was scheduled for a good deal of attention. . . Two Fort Wayne men, Assist

ant U. S. Attorney General Alex Campbell and former Senator Samuel D. Jackson were ' the strongest candidates for the nomination- to oppose Sen. Homer E. Capehart's re-election bid. The role of Governor Schricker, whose 1948 gubernatorial cam-

' paign was launched at the IDEA I mnetins two years ago, was slajI ed to be one of the principal r topics of conversation. J Schricker has long been f riendf ly with Jackson, but thus far has

declined to express a preference for either Jackson or Campbell. There was some talk Schricker might step into the race himself, despite his disavowal of furthei political ambition at the state convention of the Young Democrats early in the summer.

The role of the Democratic

editors as a 'power behind thf throne" ; was believed even stronger than usual this yo?i since Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins:

of Bloomfield is IDEA president. Schricker is a former president

of the editorial group. Business at the convention included the traditional editors1 breakfast, banquet and lunch

eon, and a meeting of the party's state committee.

Ohio State Auditor Joseph T.

farm on which dairy,' beef,

swine are the enterprizes. The evening was spent attending a Perry County Farm Bureau meeting as guests of Billy Beach, former assistant Sullivan County agricultural agent and present agricultural agent of that county. The group stayed over night in Cannelton. Thursday morning, permission was granted for the group : to tour a bag factory which processes the gin cotton into print-

old, daughter -of Mr.-.: and .reci seea Dags. Auer ine, tour oi ' liRpwrMffA JnW' '-former" resi-TM plant "ttienmp traveled to

the farm of K."'K. Kennedy & Son, who have been on a farm record , keeping program with Purdue University for eleven years. On, this farm, the group saw many labor saving devices, both mechanical and structural. A' brooder house, capable of starting nine thousand broilers by the use of radium heat, was also observed. Mr. Kennedy, had a pond constructed on his farm, to supply water to all the farm buildings. The group was then taken to observe his beef herd and the field on which he won

McKimmon,

taken from the Newkirk Funeral Ml and john

Home to tne residence wnere aJ1 q Ljnton.

The body was ; taken to the . J. Aikin & Son Funeral

Home in! Linton where it will lie

James McCarter

Rites Saturday

Funeral services for James Mc

Carter, age 45, of Carlisle rural

route, who died, from a selt-m-flicted shotgun wound Thursday morning, will be conducted at the Schulze Funeral Home in

Carlisle Saturday afternoon at 2

o'clock. The Rev. Joe Brumette of the Shaker Prairie Church will officiate. Burial will be in Morris Chapel cemetery.

krea Church Revival Speaker

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in state. Funeral services will be

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By Robert Vermillion United Press Staff Correspondent 5 MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 26. (UP) A hurricane aimed a 120-mile-an-hour punch at Florida's rich Gold Coast today. At noon the storm was 75 miles east cf Miami. The weather bureau said it would hit the 40,000 population resort town of Ft. Lauderdale at 4 p. m. Lake Okeechobee, where 1,800 persons drowned when the lake washed over its banks during a 1928 hurricane, was in the path of the storm. Winds over the whole southern part of the peninsula were stepping up their power to about 35 miles Der hour with higher gusts. . -

of Ft.

The Rev. R. E. Pavy, of the Sullivan Baptist Church, will be the speaker for the Sunday Union Church Services at the City Park at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Pavy was to speak earlier in the series but injuries suffered In an automobile accident forced him to delay his appearance. The Methodist Church . will furnish the music for the program under the direction of Wilfred Perigo. John S. Taylor, of the SuJivan Christian Church, will be in charge of the devotions and Dale C. Billman, of the Presbyterian Church, will be the platform manager.

Methodist Church ; To Beautify Building The First Methodist Church of Sullivan is starting a financial campaign the 12th of September to raise funds to beautify the exterior of their church building. The unsightly tower is to be torn down and rebuilt. There will be a beautiful fourteen foot illuminated cross erected on the the top of the new tower.

New doors will grace the front

Miami. 20 miles south

Lauderdale, will receive winds of bare hurricane force, about 75 miles per hour, the weather bureau said. The storm was moving west, northwest from its position off Miami. If it continued overland on its present course it would strike across the Everglades swamp and race into the Gulf of Mexico between Sarasota and Tampa. The whole southern half of the Florida peninsula the resort Gold Coast and the fertile farmlands south of Lake Okeechobee was buttoned up tight for the storm. Strong Winds "The greatest da'nger is expected from Ft. Lauderdale to Stuart," the advisory said, "where

entrance of the building. The old

conducted Monday morning', Jat mediate orn atnp-vropping part 0f the church erected in

m-50 n m with the Rev.J,,Sam ;-omesx, witn a yieia oi one 18o9 will be cleaned and made

TnttlP officiating. Burial will be hundred seventy-two bushels perjto correspond in looks to the

in Fairview Cemetery at Linton, acre. new part 0f the church

jcrom me ft.enneay iarm, oania Claus, Indiana, was the next stop for lunch. After lunch, the next farm to be visited was the Kaiser farm in Crawford County. Mr. Kaiser has a grass-land farm to which has been given great

Seabury recognition. Mr. Kaiser made his

years back to

Merchants To Play

Seabury Here Sunday

The Merchants and

Markets will meet again Sunday decision a few

afternoon in what promises to be make his farm five times better another thriller for the fans to rather than to expand in acreage.

enjoy.

Last Sunday the Markets

knocked the Pfizer Chemicals out

It is said he raised the carrying capacity of his farm from three to thirty head of cattle. The

or the running for the league group saw an oasis of the county leadership by the score of 7-4. I when they observed this farm

The Merchants will be gunning . which was seeded to a Ladino

for victory number 10 in league clover mixture in contrast to the

play. Manager Taylor will send surrounding less-improved farms. Max ' Cooley, fireball artist, I From the tour, the group re-

against the visitors, with Thewlis ceived many points which can be

doing the catching

Manager Kirby will probably

use young Danny Pestoff, 15-

year-old Tech High athlete, to try and stop the high-flying Merchants. Game time Sunday, 2;30 p.m.

Robert B. Boyd, minister of the Locust Street Church of Christ, Johnson City, Tennessee, is now preaching in a tent revival at the Berea Church of

rerguson, a probable opponent 'Christ on Highway 54. Services conducted Saturday afternoon at

oi rtepuoncan u. b. ben. Robert are conducted each nieht at 7:30 2 o'clock at the funeral chanel

The American Legion will be in

Lucene Humble Dies Thursday Lucene Humble, 61 years old, of Lintbn, died at 9:24 o'clock Thursday morning at the Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis. A native of France, Mr. Humble came to the United States at an early age. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are the widow, Maude; a brother, Albert "Bud

dy" Humble of California, and a sister, Mrs. Tom Kenney of California.

The body was taken to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Linton where it will lie in state. Funeral services will be

A. Taft in the Ohio Senatorial I o'clock and will continue rhroueh

race next year, will be the prin-jSunday, September 4. Mr. Boyd c'pal speaker at the concluding was formerly minister of the

banquet tomorrow night. - Linton Church of Christ.

charge of graveside services and

burial will be in Fairview Ceme

tery at Linton,

applied to their home farms.

will be

church of the

A new erected by the Sunday

bulletin board in front of the Couples class School.. .

The entire church will be lighted at night by flood lights, and the lawn on the north side of the church is to be landscaped with various sizes and kinds of evergreens. The campaign for money is to end the 25th of September.

Robert Pickett Faces Charges

Charges of assault and bat

tery and public intoxication, have been filed in City Court

against Robert Pickett, of Sullivan, as the result of a fight yesterday about noon.

According to police, Pickett and Jess Lay were involved in a fight at the corner of Main and Washington streets. Both men were taken to the Mary Sherman Hospital for treatment and then released. A hearing is scheduled ii City Court Saturday morning. Policeman Eddie Trueblood was the arresting officer. ,

Mrs. Mary Cooksey Dies Thursday ' Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cooksey of Sullivan R. 3 died at her home Thursday morning at 11:40 a.m.,

following an illness of three

montns. Me was Dorn January

11, 1869. Her husband, Elmer, a

son, Clarence uooKsey ana a

daughter, Mrs. Lillian S. Brown preceded her in death. She was

a member of the Bethany Church

of Christ.

Surviving are a son, Raymond

E. Cooksey of Sullivan R. 3; a

daughter, Mrs. Merlie M. Trent of Sandborn; fourteen grand

children; two sisters, Mrs. Cora

Buck of Sullivan and Mrs. Alice

Cox of Dugger and one brother, William B. Stewart.

The body was taken to the

Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleas-

antville and later returned to

the home of the son, Raymond.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Long Chapel church. Burial will be in Mt, Moriah.

Transfer County FHA Supervisor Arthur B. Walker, Sullivan County Supervisor of Farmers Home Administration, has transferred to the Lawrenceburg, Indiana office. Jerome K. Bash has been appointed to succeed Mr. Walker. Mr. Bash was a county supervisor from 1935 to 1941 and during the war was associated with the farm labor recruitment and placement service of the Department of. Agriculture. In starting on his new assignment Mr. Bash announces that the Farmers Home Administration has. just received it's appropriation for the current fiscal year and applications for operating loans for the purchase of livestock, equipment, feed, seed and other farm essentials are

now being accepted. Farm tenants who wish to purchase farms or farm owners who wish to im

prove their farm buildings, or

soil resources may also apply for real estate loans.

Mr. Bash will be in the local

Farmers Home Administration Office second floor of the Court House each Friday morning. At

other times he may be contacted

through the Terre Haute office

Room 218, Federal Building.

Mrs, Mrs,

INJURED AT MINE Paul "Bill" Bonham of Sulli

van suffered injuries to his left

NAMES OMITTED The names of Mr. and Carrol Frakes and Mr. and.

K. W. Dix were omitted from the knee in an accident at the Baker

names of those attending the Mine Wednesday, night. Mr.

25th wedding anniversary party Bonham is confined to the Mary for Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gilmore Sherman Hospital. His room

on Wednesnnv nieht. l

winds will be strongest ... with high tides." The hurricane was moving toward the coast at 18 to 20 miles per hour. - At 7 a. m. (CST) the hurricane was a short distance north of Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, 1 where 75 mile an hour winds, barely hurricane force,, whistled through the city's steep, curving streets. It was moving on the Florida coast at 18 to 20 miles per hour. The whole Gold Coast, hurricane-wise since the "killer" storm of 1926 which took 1C1): lives in Miami alone,' was bui-y toned up. In Miami the first fearful families made their way after breakfast to hurricane shelters set up in public buildings. Householders locked windows, filled tubs with water for drinking and cooking. Business firms stint home their employes. Everjr, movable object was taken ' indoors or securely tied. To Hit Fruit Bait The storm was aimed at, the rich fruit belt along tiie coast and the fertile mucklands . arour d Lake Okeechobee, 60 miles northwest of Miami. The Miami sky took on a -leaden color shortly after dawn. At 8 a. m., a blanket of low, grey clouds moved in from the sea and gusty winds began tugging at the supple palms lining Miami's broad boulevards. The hurricane, born in the Southern Atlantic hurricane belt 1,500 miles southeast of Miami, slammed across El Salvador Is

land and into the Bahamas fore midnight last night.

be-

GOLF QUALIFICATION , BEGINS FRIDAY Qualifications for the " Elks championship of Sullivan County will be held at the Elks Country Club August 26th through August 28th. All Elk members of Sullivan County are welcome to enter and are requested to register at the starter house before playing. Pairings will be made Monday.

noopy, The Heifer, Hid In Silo

To Avoid Romance, Farmer Thinks

rvirv.m.A. Wis.. Aug. 26 (U.R)

Snoopy the Heifer, trapped

12 feet below ground m a suo, mav have dived into the silo to

avoid romance with a bull, Farmer Everett Lampman said to

day. ; T.amnman nreDared to begin

operations late today to get the

650 pound Holstein trom tne suo floor were she has been trapped

for two days.

SnooDv's' owner. Farmer Jett

RidelL had sent her to Lampman's

farm to meet a Holstein bull. "But she just wasn't interest

ed in romance," Lampman said.

"Seems like she might have got

herself in her present predicament deliberately." The heifer trapped herself in the silo on Lampman's farm Wednesday. Lampman and his son were trying to drive her inr to the barn when she suddenly dove through a 26-by-21 inch door into the sflo. Lampman said he "never expected to have a problem like this" when he began farming 18 months ago. He had a "pretty good idea" on how he was going to get her

out but wasn't too positive that

He planned to start filling the

silo with silage and simply let the heifer keep herself on top of the heap until she's level with the silo door. If necessary- he'll grease her and the doorway to slide her through the small opening. "If that doesn't work," he said, "I'll just let the United States Agriculture Department figure out a way to get her out of there." "They solve all the other problerhs we farmers have and they are welcome to this one." ' To keep Snoopy from getting

too fat to go through the door,

she will wear a pail over her muzzle to prevent her from eating while the silo is 5e7hg filled. A hired hand will be at her side to keep her from being buried. Lampman was pretty sure that Snoopy wouldn't have a chance ' to beat the record set la's! February when Hill MaciT famous cow was trapped in a silo at Yukon, Okla., for 93'n?ours. "She brought this all on herself," he said.-ust goes to show that a gal shouldn't be too frisky. She'd be all right now if she

had settled down to marriage