The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1948 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948.
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ALLEE UNUSUAL ASE FRIDAY |N ,ng witness is 5 HEU> FOR BIGiSVESTUiATION lohn H Alice presided ihor unusual case in the ircuit court Friday In j„n pleaded Ruilty to a conduct charge, alwas asleep In his car ,stcd ami the complaina south Putnam rt, found to be guilty of the state of Kentucky | in Marion county, Indi-j
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jcooper, of Indianapolis, before Judge Alice on jerly conduct charge taken into custody police and deputy Rollings Wednesday ustin Williamson home 3overdale. The affidavt him was signed by jred Louise Williamson, the interrogation by it developed that the ant had married Austin m in February of ISM*! tn county. In July, 11*48 led Mr. Cooper in Newotucky, without having her first husband, imed that she was forchij second marriage and ied in Indianapolis until weeks ago when she to the home of her first west of Cloverdale. said that he went to lanison home to talk to He said that he hail ned that if he evpr went would be Injured, so he pared, taking a shotgun in# knife with him. Pofound u bottle of whise car with him when he
estod.
his plea of guilty. Judg • led Cooper and. cos! s isorderly conduct charge, remarks, Judge Alle' 1 ,t no affidavit could be Isinst Mrs. Williamson in tity but that an affidavit bigamy could bo filed in county and also In Kcn- ! William son is being hel 1 lending further investlgaher case and disposition on county authorities.
eCorn Is
ing Damaged r VETTE, Nov. 27— Inbumper crop is beginshow serious mold damA. J. Allstrup, Purdue ^ty corn specialist, said
Lions To Mark First Anniversary
RUSSELL TWP. 4-H MEMBERS ARE HONORED I AUM ItritEAl' PRERENTED \\\ \itns for orrsT VN'^ING WORK On the night of November 15, ] 11*48 the Russell Twp. Farm Bur- J I i an sponsored a pitch-in sup>pcr| nd an Achievement program for i the c.Jtstanding 4-H Club mem-! bent of the 1948 Russell Twp. I
club year.
Willis Clodfelter, president of !hf Russell Twp. Farm Bureau I called the meeting to order fol-1 j lowed by a few selections from ] | the Russellville High School I Chorus and directed by Mrs. I 11 rothy Moore. Everyone enjoy- | od this along with a few moving I pictures shown by the county I agricultural agent Mr. K. W. Harris ami a short talk given by Ji;n Myers, past president of the
ItKAI, I ST VI ! TRANSFERS Sigma Chi Chapter, DcPau.v University, to Genevieve l) dun. lam' in Grceneastle Cent-
al Survey, $1
James H. Pittman, et ux. to' ilas Corbin, land in Jackson I wp.. $1. | Theodore T. Harris to Ira J.*
The Grceneastle Lions Club
will hold it Mst annual chaitei Putnam County Farm Bureau,
night dinner Tuesday, November! 30th, at 7:15 p. m at the Sky-j land Lodge north of Spencer. Clyde B. Gentry. District Gov-
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Earl (*arter, pre ident of Cloverdale Township Farm Bureau, left; Glendon Herbert, Sutherlin and Robert Coffman are active in farm leadership work in Cloverdale.
FIVE FINALISTS SELECTED FOR BEAUTY QUEEN .lAVCEES TO < ROWS ONE OF THESE GIRLS THIS
EVENING
Five finalists for the honor of being Queen of the beauty contest sponsored by the Grceneastle
Ralph P. Harbison. et ux, to! | UMU)r chamber of Commerce
pstein McClellan, et ux, land)
i Grceneastle twp., $1.
Harold Johnston, et ux, to! I Walter E. Penn, et ux, land
Greencastle twp, $1
Frank Coble, et ux. to Oscar]
King, land in Greencastle E. J., , , , , , .
| .f the local talent production. The girls rc naming in the race
Moore, et ux. land in Greencas-
le Original Plat, $1.
John H. Aker, et ux, to Eli B. Ak r, et ux. land in Madison
twp., $1.
were selected Friday night in connection with the play, "Hero Comes Maisie,” presented in the | high school auditorium. The Queen will be crowned this evening at 8:30 as the main feature
Pick's Enlargement, $1.
Oscar King, et ux. to Edward K Schulz, et ux. land in Green-
■ | castle E. J. Peck’s Enlargement.
$ 1.
Harmon H. Hathaway to Frank Walters, et ux, land in Marion twp., $1.
Victor
A LINE-UP THAT IS HARD TO STOP JUST BEFORE DINNER BELL TIME
Pins irf bronze, silver and gold wer > given to the members completing 1, 3 and 5 years. Fins
ernoi of 25C Liom hiternationar verc also awarded to the leadwill be the guest .speaker. Fol-j it s of both the boys and girls
lowing the dinner and a short talk by Mr. Gentry the leniaind-
ibs and to the Russell Twp. Junior Leaders. Ribbons were given for the local and county judging contests. Kathryn Cook received a sweepstakes ribbon i r winning first in the Senior F ud Preparation division. Louis* Wuod also received a sweep-
er of the evening will be spent in
dancing.
Mr. Gentry is also a member of the Executive Board of the Indiana State Teachers Association from the Sixth District and
is active in Boy Scout work. ^ stakes ribbon for wianing fi^t
I in • the Junior Baking division. . both in tire county. Betty Fordico was awarded the award for be-
v ACsi itig tin most outstanding junior
i u ' aii ’ r n thc county - Roy Knff * ; laml m ' eivvJ nrat tor hls Trac * ,1>l Maintenance Work Sheet.
/ | ■ ; My McGaughey reo ived th« r4', award for his outstanding Field ' * * i Crops and his Meat Animal Pro-
| ject Kathryn Cook also roceiv- ] ed the county girl's record, the county Food Ih-oparatiori Achievement Award and second in the county on her secretary
book.
The presidents of both clubs presented the extension agents Mr. Harris and Miss Smith with a little token of their appreciation for thc past year. We want to thank everyone that participated in the program and every-
NO GAS "At a fmai nu' 'i b ore that came We hopp you of the stockholders of the gas ! pn j oyed yoursc i ves , well n was decided to etop the
drill. The depth at the well is j
2,750 Let and the t ap t \A/I|I A HOflH 'has been alamt '■ Manager j ff ||| AIICIIU
IN THE
GOOD OLD DAYS
FILE 5100,000 DAMAGE SUIT AT DANVILLE
A damage suit for $100,000 was filed in thc Hendricks County circuit court at Danville Friday by Hughes and Hughes against Mr. an I Mrs. Oral Mc-
for Queen are: Mary Pettit. Suaanne Rowland, both of Greencastle; Doris Sinclair, Cloverdale; Mary Love, Hainbridgc; and Jean Wilson, Roachdale The Queen will nde in the parade on Monday, Dec. 6, when Santa Claus arrives to officially open the Christmas shopping season in Groencaatlp. The young lady chosen tonight will also
| compete in the state Jaycee con-
| n st next Spring in Terre Haute j ‘or the title of Miss Indiana. A good-sized audience enjoyed “Here Comes Maisie" Friday evening. The play was written by James Lynch and members of the cast portrayed their respective roles in a spflendid
Cammack of Coatcsville by Ro-J manner.
to everything.
belt Stanley Terrell by his next friend, Ottie Terrell, his father. Mr. MeCainmaeU is one of the largest land owners in Hendricks and Putnam Counties. The complaint sets out that the plaintiff, a 11 yoar old boy, was doing) I some work for the defendant, j working froni a flat top wagon without any side protection. A | trnctnr was hitched to the wai gmi a id when it. started suddenly, the boy was pitched off onto
some tile.
One of his legs was injuria! and Intel had to tic ampufated. The boy's condition is said U still be .serious.
Blake has been an untiring work-1 er in the cause from the start I and has held out to the last. Jaimes Bridges says he never hated to give up an i nterprise as bad as he does this. He wanted to go at least 3,300 feet but it Is impossible owing to lack ot funds. It is not at all probable that the work will he pushed any further." (1890)-and so Greencastle doesn’t have natural gas. NARROW ESCAPE ‘ As the westbound passenger train on the Big Four, »i 6:30 Monday evening, was passing a Height
Hthe r would check its train In the side track east of th|>
j depot, a projecting rod struck
While, he recommends j the side r! one
to be dried artificially ir
'timated that as much as |omt of the crop will be bl and added that the sitis more serious than anyor other disease damage
crop this year.
Allstrup attributes the * the unseasonably warm ther and sa ys aome crisp.
4-H Congress
Mary Francis Torr of Grcencastle and a freshman in the School of Home Economics at Purdue will attend the 4-H Club Congress at Chicago November 27th to December 3rd. Mary Francis Is to join other 4-H’ers at Indianapolis Saturday and is one of the Indiana 27 trip award winners to 4-H Club Congress. Mary Francis' outstanding record according to Lucile Smith home demonstration agent, includes 14 project years of club work in clothing, baking
Santa Is King In Koosierdom INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 27 - (UPl Santa Claus has taken over as king of Indiana ns the j Thanksgiving turkey abdicate 1
| thc throne.
Thc official Christmas shopping season was ushered in as the kiddies started counting the hours and the parents the shopping days before Dec. 25. Mother found she had only ?t harried days in which to buy the family's gifts and h.'e them i:
the attic.
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Predicts Big Road Program
Substitute For Radium Found
Miss Smith At Chicago Meeting
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Nov. 27 (INS) When shortages of naterials and labor are relieved Indiana will have its greatest iD-id building piogram in his
tory.
That is thc prediction of I-e-ind K F.shback, ox rutive see i tary of (he Indiana Petroleum
Industries committee.
Fishback today re inded that
Radioactive cobalt,
lured in the atomic ovens at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be availabli as a substitute for radium sum 1 time during 1949. a report to Hi American Cancer Society dis
closed.
Minute quantities of the sub-
stance already have been produced for experimental purpose.-:,
h nr tapes in the highway field 1 >'iit the chain reacting pile soon
will be turning it out in “appieciabl: 1 amounts,” Dr. Shields
f f on t i fin »‘<t nn f’nuo Twoi
1 Mi-s Lucile Smith, Putnam
NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UPI j C° UI ’' L >' Home Demonstration
nianufac-' Agent, .s attending the National
held
"so impeded thc road program of Indiana" that it has
»* t net
r^rc drying equipment is " c An alernativc, he said
the corn in the field
hi; corn stalk rot, prevalyear, i s not too severe, dhona that where stalk prevalent .the stalks are to break, allowing the
Dll to the ground. J "< K.E MEETING
,f the coaches,
bi'caking a window and s-atter- j
of glass all over thc .
food preparation. Having served as a 4-H junior leader for fom years she has assisted approxi
ing pieces of gnus .u. 1 "* j' n)atr |y too other girls in coin-
car There was a scene >f cimln- j ^^,,1,,^ ti-, ( .i, club work,
sicn for a few ' mut. *, al! th" clothing project work has be“P women in the car sciearning ul J ,,. ir tj,. u i ar iy interesting to Mary the i p bu * ^ I Francis alnci she ha* been a 4-H was finally asret t ui.rd that no-1 Dn , SH R 0V ue winner of Putnam j body was hurt although 'me wo- | eo „ n ty, « consistent exhibitor | man's dr ss ,vis cut t pen by thc \ and r ibbon winner at the ' flying glass." j 4-H State Fair, a state winner in
I>\1M Its "W H I 4-H clothing judging work which
p h „ lo . | won for her this Club Congress
riginal manu- trip.
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Demount ration Convention it thc Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Novel,ib u- 27 through Dcccinher
! 1st, along with twelve other
demonstration agents from Indi
ana.
Outstanding speakers and the i si hjeetH scheduled are: Dr. Lydia Huberts, "Patterns of Family Living"; Dr. Thclnu I Poll i. “Stri ngth and WeaknesiI es of American Family Life ToI lay”: Dr. Esther McGinnis, j "N, w Findings in the Nutrition a . I Field" and “Home Demonstra ) j tio : Work Builds Tomorrow World" by Madge Reese of the
of
Proceeds from the production will be used for thc Youth Activity Movement of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Truman Goes To Grid Tilt PHILA1PELPHIA, Nov. 27 - (INS I President Truman left official cares behind* him for a few hours today to journey to Mlulsdelphia for the annual army -navy gridiron classic. The presidential special loft Washington at 7:4,0 A. M <1ST, and arrived in Philadelphia at 10:30 o’clock. Mr. Truman was accompanied not only by the first lady and their daughter Margaret but by the chief Justice of the United States Mr. Vinson and Mrs. Vin-
son.
In addition some 175 members of the I resident’s official family friends, members of his staff, and news correspondents will accompany Mr Truman on thc oneday f otball excursion.
I
VALUABLE
I Lyon has been making
*'61 be a Jaycee meeting j graphs of l " 11 y n *Kht, November 29th !L ' ri l u » ,f Ahiahum Lincoln ' clf “-k at Public Service Jesse Weik to he used m
| lectures The originals are
my.
Years A^o ^ GREENCASTLE
for his too
' valuable and too frail to handle. 1 One is a copy of a table which Lincoln copied out of an arithmetic, he being too poor to own one. Mr. Weik has refused $'.!50. for it from a Chicago relic coUector The other is a letter .vritten to a friend in which he sets forth the wrong of the illegitimate use of money
in a campaign." (1890)
(From The
, IU " 1 Donald Conncrly oni '' from Gary for the
*S lv 'ng holiday.
j** Sonias was pledged by ... _ .
'P"& Chi fraternity at De-1 THEN AND NOW
BANNER, July. 1890) — "Far-
n ^ Ur *t reported killing a* mers of the piesent day complain ^ f, ix near Putnamville. I that their business is unprofit-
H. Smith was hostess able. There mal be cause for this ^ ^ ^ ^
orning Musicalc. ln their more expensive style of Georgo Lloyd of Rock-
orgaret Matkins Vvas living than formerly—less work v , ]]p S ln Clinton. ' ,roii»l«.ieil on I-as Two >
Othei awards received by Mary Francis which are equally important and recognize h . ability are 1948 State Fair Girls School and a Purdue scholarship.
MRS. OBENCHAIN’S RITES ON SUNDAY Funeral services for Mrs.
Elizabeth Obctichain will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock athe Rector Funeral Home. Friends may call at the Funeral Home. Mrs. Obenchain passed away Friday morning at her
home on Seminary street. Survivors, besides the daugh-
ter. Mrs. Cleve Thomas, are one
. - United Slates Department
! 1 Agriculture and M L Wilson.
Dii etor of Extension U. S. D. A The most interesting features of the convention are the lovely teas, luncheons and dinners arranged for the demonstration agents by outstanding odueaUo'ial and commercial concerns.
Williams Rites Held Saturday
* The pig in the fore-ground. :■ cross purebred Tamworth and Duroc was farrowed on Frank Bridges farm on Road 136 north of Grceneastle. This picture, taken November 21 was one day before the pig’s sixth month birthday. It was weighed by us that morning and tippied i the scales at 325 lbs. One of the
ows behind the fast growing juligater is its mother. Mr Bridges is breeding pureied Tams and Durocs and has me especially fine looking . a nworth breeding stock. They lave a long head, compared tn Hher types arid can fool one -caddy on their heavy weight It is unusual to have a Hog veigh 325 pounds at any way
Impressive rites were held, from the Rector Funeral Homo! at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon! for Pfc. Claude S. Williams, j United States Marine Corps, who died of Injuries sustained aboard the U. S. S. Kearsarge, November 19, when struck by an airplane propcllor. He was n son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Williams, redding west of Brick Chapel. Organ music was played nv William Lift kwood. Prayer was
near six months of agv. is many j (>n, poi by Chaplain Hansel M feeders hope t get their herd', Tow,u . linlted States Navy. Rev to or beyond the 200 pound mars Harry P. Walrond, pastor of thc by the time they are six month | Presbytnan church, officiated et old which is said to bo a prof! | the service. table marketing age Mr. Bridges j Interment was in the Dunkard went this mark 100 pounds bet- cemetery at Clinton Falls. !
Sounding of taps and the firing of a salute were in charge of
Tojo's Hanging Monday, Belief TOKYO, Nov. 27 (INS) Gen. Douglas MacArthur rejected today forceful press pettitions that correspondents be allowed to witness the executions of wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and his .six doomed co-defendants. A MacArthur spokesman -Col. Marion Echols appeared aware of the bitter press eritieisin of M ieArlhur's directive that th • hangings beheld m secret. t is believed that they vill
take place Monday.
PH Kl IS AKKKSI'ED COLUMBUS, O. Nov. 27 (UP) Sheriff Ralph J. Paul reported that violence broke out on the picket line at the strikebound American Zme oxide plant hero today and that 25 persons
had been arrested.
N Cl ION \L <>I \KI* There will hi- drilluig on Monday evening. November 29th. 7:15 p. in. instead of Tuesdav. All members are urged to be
present.
& Todays Weather ® © and <6> $ Local Temperature tit Fair today. Slightly colder north. Increasing cloudincs» tonight, followed by rain Sunday.
ter in his allotted time. A litter mate to this heavy- weight was near 300 poun is at the six
month mark.
Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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