The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 January 1952 — Page 1

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ST MEETING HEW. COUNCIL HELD MONDAY OK EVAN CBAWLAV eoNorcTS reoclab m'SI.VKHS SESSION 2encaatie's new council held . 6t regular meeting Monday ie with Mayor Evan Crawp residing. All councilman , re d the first roll call of Norman Peabody and the ie business of the meeting agen up without delay and netting adjourned before I’clock. trt Dean, chairman of Uv. e committee, read a list ol some of which he sai( n left since last summer, al amounted to $5,474.76 al informal requests had ade to the council mem--win Ensign reported that e comment hud bee 1 the city spreading cind the intersections of tin luring the icy period las was reported a street light needed on west Berry a tree. Jackson. It was referred U oard of Works, made up o jiayor and councilmen Dustewart and Gwin^ Ensign, permit to widen an entrance vay at 5H> east Washington t was also made and grant roviding it is,done according reel supervision, e rock was reported to he >d on Jefferson street, south alnut street. 1 yor Crawley reported that airmen of the various com will work with the othei 3rs of file council so that >ill be informed of what b done or going on. was brought out by Mayot ley that either the old PlanConuuission should be rented or a new one named. | council discussed the plan v and *oiea lo rolmw elic i of the mayor. Furthei sion will l>e had on thi: r and something will come it. was suggestwl that hereall department heads sigi use orders so that the ficonimittec of the council diow who is responsible foi Jes the city buys. ) .was also suggested that the sk for bids on gas, oil, anti5, etc., as it can be purchasbetter advantage by tin jndt-r contract than througl ire-sent method of hit and This will be taken up as jas tiie city attorney gets toV what the old council did last year. *PKE1)EK FINED >rgo W. Appleby pleaded T to speeding when he apI before Justice of the Ola T. Ellis on Mondaj was fined Jl and costs, a of *12.75. Pleby, lift. Clove i dale R. 2, given a ticki-t by city police st Washing ion street Sals’ night. DIES OF IN.IF KIES iDIANAPOLIS, Jan. *. lUP) s. Luella Porter, 70, died in Vincent’s hospital yesterday, j days after slie was injured struck by a car. Her deatn the city’s second traffic fa- ''' of 1952.

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;de Williams accepted a po1 as manager of the meat rtinent of the Oakley' groc- !-■ L. Porter entertained mally In honor of her guest, Joseph DeLorenzl of South

icers installed by Crescent h Lodge included Era ^ N. G.; Kathleen James, J®wel Ashton, recording stary; Olive Brown, financial tary; Maxine Seeley, treas- ' Luc Ule Bock, Cond.; Mary Dollins, O. 0.; Edna Crump, man; Lee McNeely, drill in; Ocie Brown, hostess.

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952.

Hospital Notes Admitted Monday: Ella Summers, Coatesville; Roland MorUy, Spencer R. 4; Mrs. Grace Custis. Greencastle. Dismissed Monday: Mrs. W'aisio Goodpasture, GreencaHtle; Mrs. Martha Hammer, Greencnstle; Mrs. Geraldine Allee, Coatesvillc; Mrs. Sadie Sheehy, Roachdale K. i; Lynn Brown, Greencastle; Mrs. Helen Jones and son. Cloverdale. Mr. and Mrs. James Spear, Janville R. 2, an- the parents of i son born Monday. MASONIC NOTICE Stated meeting Fillmore Apilegate Lodge No. 155 F. At A. M. Ta-sday, January 8th, at 7 p. m. nstallation of officers. F. N. Tobmpson, W. M. Two Local Banks Elect Directors Stockholders of the First-Cit-aens Bank and Trust Company eld their annual meeting at the ank Tuesday morning. The first rder of business was the elecon of directors! which included . B. Crosby, John W. Earnshaw, ,. R. Rariden, C. C. Gillen, Lloyd ouek, N. C. O'Haii and Grafton . Longden. Immediately after the stockolders meeting, tiie directors eld a special meeting and electJ officers for the coming year. .11 officers were re-elected and ne addition was made when ohn \V. Webb, was named asislant cashier. Others elected iclude: Piesident, J. *B. Crosby. Vice President, Lois J. Arnold. Cashier, Howard L. Williams. Assistant Cashiers, Miss Elizaeth Ensign, Theodore Brown, C. 1. Phillips, Estil Meek and John /ebb. Tile annual meeting of the tockholders of the Central Nuional Bank was held this afteroon at the bank for the election f directors. The present list of hectors wen- j>/-*de< t.ed. They iclude Fred L. O'Hair, James Ibin. O. F. Overstreet, D. W. JUinger, Ernest H. Collins and lyile R. Handel. The directors will meet during he late afternoon for the elecion of officers and the trausac,on of any other business.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

.iquor Store Changes Hands In an announcement today, esse Ford, proprietot of the lorner Liquor store, located at 5 West Franklin street, has sold ns interest to Thomas E. Hard/iek, well known GreencastL lan. The transfer of the license as been approved and Mr. Hard/ick has assumed ownership. According to Mr. Hardwick, he vill retain his interest in the ireenc&atle Golf Club and will ontinue to operate it. Walter try an will assist in the running .f the Corner Liquor Store. A omplete line of liquors will b< arried as has been the policy in

he past.

Mr. Hardwick, who is married o the former Juliette Nugent, is t native of Greencastle and is veil known throughout this section. He served in World War II n the U. S. Army field artillery, ind saw action in the India, Jurnia and China theater. He takes over tiie Corner Liquor Jtore after four years of succoss:ul operation by Jesse Ford. Today s Market Hogs 10,000. Burrows and gills toady to 25c lower; 170-240 lbs., »8-*18.75; top *19: 240-275 lbs., J17.25-* 18.25; 275-325 ( !bs., jl6.25-SI7.50; 120-165 lbs., *15*17; top *17.50: sows steady at jl3.50-$16. Cattle 2,300. Calves 300. Steers md mixed yearlings steady; rood to choice $30-*33.50: utiliiy to commercial #26-*30; prime 1125 lbs., steers held around *38: choice to prime yearlings uxu. | jteers held at $35 and above small lots: good to choice heifers i>29.50-$32.50; vealers $1 lower; bulk choice to prime $37-$39; a few $40-*40.50. Sheep 1,000. Steady to weak on lambs; good and choice *30*30.50; utility and good $28-*29; Useable share unsold held above 30 50; slaughtei eV'v- *7-?14.«)J.

POLICE RADIO PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES local department can now HANDLE any disaster messages Mayor Crawley announced at the meeting of the city council Monday evening that the Greencastle police department is in a position to handle radio messages in case of disaster and any other emergency that might arise where there would be no other means of communication available. 1 his new radio equipment has l>een made available through the local Civil Defense authorities and the personnel of the local police radio department and the Putnamville Post of the Indiana State police. t The equipment has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission for the above purposes and for the dispatch of MARS messages. MARS is tiie military amateur radio service , througli which messages can be sent overseas. This communcation can contact any other amateur radio licensed to receive messages. Along wtili the announcement. Mayor Crawlgy reported that in the very near future, Greencastle will have erected a new police radio antenna which in most part has been purchased by the sheriff’s office, so that he may make use of the transmitter by installing a radio and transmitter in his car, thus making it a two-way operation. It is also desired, the Mayor reported, to equip the tire truck:: with radio so that in case oi double disaster where it might b-- necessary to cover more thou one fir*- or call the local headquaiters for constant contact with all men and equipment. This will give the city and township complete protection at nil times, lie reported. Mayor Crawley reported the need of a gasoline powered generator that can be used on civil defense equipment in case of destruction to lighting systems and failure of power facilities. Two Bids For City Garbage Only two bids Were received on the disposal of garbage collected in Greencastle, at the regular council meeting held Monday evening. The bids were from Charles C. Crawley, present holder of the contract and Eugene Hirt, the new bidder. .Mi. Hirt offered a bid of 22 cents per J00 pounds of garbage, delivered at his farm three miles southwest of Greencastle. Mr. Crawley offered a bid of 15.25 per hundred weight for the same garbage delivered to his farm south of the city two miles >n road 43. It was agreed prior to the time tiie bids were opened that the council wiil consider them from all angles, such as distance of haul, etc., and will award the contract at the next meeting. The present contract is for 19 cents per liundred weight. Mayor Presides At City Court Mayor Evan Crawley presided as judge of the city court Monday for the first time since taking office New Year’s Day us the municipality's chief execu-

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Lloyd E Jones, a New Jersey truck driver, charged with overweight violation by Cletis Mil- j let', of the Indiana state police, was fined a total of $192.73 b\ the mayor. June*' had an overweight load of 3,020 pounds at 6 cents i>ei pound which totaled *181.20. plus costs making the total *192.75. JAILED EARLY TODAY City police reported they arrested Lloyd Baj-nard. 29, at 1:25 a. m. Tuesday on charges of public Intoxication and failure to have a driver’s license. Baynard was picked up at the corner of Apple and Illinois streets and taken to the county J<*iL „ .

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ETTER TO GEN. DEAN PASSED Ai-ONC BOARD SETS CO. HIGHWAY WAGE SCALE

TWO CONTRACTS ALSO AWARDED BY COMMISSIONERS MONDAY

A COMMUNIST COURIER (right) ot^Fan Mun Join accepts a letl addressed to Maj. Gen. William V. Iteuii, former U. S. 24th infant division commander who ts now a prDoner. The loUet is being hand over by LL Harold and an unidentified MB. and is part of the ti mall delivered througli this channel. (International ^vuiaipho,

Experts To Hold Panel Discussion At ’Profit From Pasture’ Meeting

One of tiie highlights of this year’s ‘‘Profit Prom Pasture” meeting to be held at the Gubin church this Friday, January 11, will be a panel discussion entitled ‘‘As the Specialist Looks at Profit from Pasture" or '’Farming for Profit.” Appearing on this panel will be Prof. M. O. Pence of the Purdue Agronomy Department; Prof. Paul R. Robbins of the Agricultural Economics Department; Henry Mayo of the Animal Husbandry Department and Hairy Moore, assistant stale conservationist of the Soil Conservation, Service. David L. Grimes, a member of the board of supervisors of the local district, Marion township farmer and former county agricultural agent, will serve as moderator on the panel. In tiiis panel those participating are going to all agree that there is a moral obligation in sou conservation whereby we should conserve our resources for future generations. However, each of these specialists probably will approach the problem of soil conservation and “Profit from Pasture” from different angles. Each of these specialists will present the problem as he se it. then the audience will have an opixirtunity to participate and question the panel with the thought of getting the greatest pi' fit fronj grass land funning, oi- ■ Piotit from Pasture.” These panels have been popular features of these annual meetings which are sponsored by the Central National Bank of Greencastle in cooi>eratioii with the ^ocal Soil Conservation DisIriet and County Extension Office. Lora F. Dorsey Died Tuesday Miss Lora F. Dorsey passed away early Tuesday morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. Sam Hostetler, Bainbridgo, foliowh ; a long illness. Miss Dorsey was born in Jeffersonville, Ind., but spent most of her life in New York City. During the past year she had made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hosteller. Funeral services and buricl will be held in Jeffersonville Friday. Friends may call at the Sands Funeral Home after 4 o'clock Tuesday. •‘GHOST* DOG EL WOOD, Ind., Jan. 8 dNS) Charles Warner, of Elwood, is the object of good-natured kidding these days about the barking dog at his house. Warner heard the dog. which sounded as though he were somewhere in the Warner home, and searched for the animal twice without finding It. Just as he was about to decide a ghost dog was loose. Warner glancud at bis television set, which he had fofgotten about. The TV program was a dog -how.

AIR DEFENSE TEST INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8. (UP) ■f-Civil defense airplane observers in northern Indiana will participate Saturday ju spotting mock air attacks by some 1,000 planes in an air defens*' test for ieVcn states. Death Takes Mrs. Hampton Mrs. Hattie Hampton, age 73 years, passed away at the Putnam county hospital early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hampton had been in failing health for the past several years. She resided on West Elizabeth atreet.. She is survived by two daughters, Mr s. Stanley Dh\ is of this I city and Mrs. Emerson Pan; of (Detroit, Midi.; two brothers. Al1 bert and George Kean of tills city. Mrs. Hampton was a member of the First Christian church and the Rebekah Lodge of tins city. Funeral services will be announced later by the McCurry Funeral Home. Waiter Bailard Elected Director Walter S. Ballard was elected director of the Greencastle Savings and Loan Association at its annual shareholders meeting held last night. Ho is wellknown throughout Greencastle and Putnam county as a distributor of Dodge and Plymouth cars ill this area; his company is Putnam Motor Sales. Mr. Ballard is quite active in civic affairs. He is currently president of Greeneaslle Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Putnam County Red Cross Chapter. He also served as mavor of Greencastle and in other 1 civic and church capacities. Mr. Ballard fills the vacancy I on the board of directors of the I association created through the death of J. C. Brothers. The 'other members of the board who | were re-elected to office are j Perry M. Rush, president; Harry J E. Allan, vice-president; Ernest H. Collins, secretary, and Kexeli A. Boyd, attorney. In his report to the shareholders Ernest H. Collins pointed out. that the association had ••njoyvd |an increase of 30 per cent over t.ho previous year; •an increase ler'lecteil both in growth in savings as well as in home loans. Over *400,000 was loaned during the year to 128 lamilies to assist , them in the purchase, construej Mon or improvement of their homes. Over *20.000 was paid out in dividends and over *10,000 was added to reserves, making a total of *80,000 in this account. Mr. Collins forecast that 1952 would be a good construction year- possibly a little less than this year. There will be some delays In building through possible shortages of steel, copper and aluminum.

A new wage scale for county highway employes was set by the Putnam hoard of commissioners during their regular session Monday at the court house. The new pay rate ts as follows: Caterpillar operator, $1.20 per hour Truck driver, $1.15 Single Hands, $1.05 Single hand foreman, *1.15 Mechanics, *1.30 Private tractor and opeiator, *1.75 Timekeeper, bookkeeper, storekeeper, *1.10 Two contracts were nlio awarded by the commissioners with Robert Dean getting the county farm grocery bid for the period from Jan. 1 to March 31. The Heller Company of Indianapolis will furnish the sanitary supplies for the county farm, court house and county jail. Arrangements were completed by the commissioners to have radiator vents Installed at the county home by Howard James, Terre Haute heat engineer. Tiie commissioners also allowed claims and continued the appointment of Fred Lasley as county service officer. The board met again Tuesday in special session to open bills on gasoline, oil, tires, tubes, bridge timber, grader and maiutainer blades for the highway department. Another special meeting will also bo hold Thursday to complete the opening of bids and awarding contracts.

EXTRA! 8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Jan. 8—(UP)—Counterattacking Communists recaptured two bitterly-contested positions in western Korea today only a few hours after United Nations forces ousted them. The Reds took one objective in a furious hour and 20-minute assault at two-battalion strength and recaptured the second in an hour and 39 minutes with one battalion. Both battles ended almost. simultaneously. Only a few hours earlier UN forces had stormed back into the strategic advanced positions west of Korangpo they trad lost 1 to tire Reds Dec. 28 and Uoa since fought for in see-saw battles. Tiie first objective fell in a 15-minute fight and Uie seconu after 10 minutes. Tiie Reds, beefing up their attacking forces, recaptured both positions after bitter battles supported by two Red tanks or self propelled guns. Allied units along the remainder of Uie 145-mile front reported only light to moderate contacts with Red units up to platoon strength. In Uie air, 17 U. S. Sabrejets tore into a mass of 100 Communists MiG's, damaging one in a 20-minute battle over Sinanju in northwest Korea. It was the third straight day of air war over Korea and boosted Uie three-day bag of Red planes to 20 destroyed or damaged. In another encounter wiUi tile Russian-built jets over "MIG Alley,” Sabrejets exchanged a brief firing pass with 10 MiG’s out of a flight of 50, but no damage was inflicted on eitliei side.

Elmer 0. Young Called By Death Elmer O. Young W well known Roachdale resident, died at the Putnam county hospital Tuesday morning at 10:45 o’clock, following a four months illness. Mr. Young was born June 8, 1891 ,in Roachdale, the son of Americus Samuel and Mary Grantham Young. He was married to Edna Elder on August 19, 1910. He was a prominent north Putnam farmer, a member of the Roachdale Christian church, tiie Roachdale Masonic Lodge and the Fathers Auxiliary of the Vcle> ins of Foreign War of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 of Greencastle. At the time of his death, Mr. Young was connected with the state income tax gross division. He was n close personal friend of Gov. Henry Schrlcker. He is survived by the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Julian Gentry, Waveland; Mrs. Margaret Job, Cloverdale; two sons, John L. of Crawfordsvllle; Dr. E. W. Young, Walla Walla, Washington; four sisters, Mrs. Daisy McHatton, St. Cioud, Fla., Mrs. Ella Carpenter, Chicago, Mrs. Pauline Reese, Waco, Texas, Mrs. Allie Epperson, Jackson, Miss.; two brothers, Jerv,e F. Young. Greencastle, Llge Young, Burbank, Calif.; eight grandchildren. One grandson, Dale Gentry, preceded him hi death. Funeral seivlces will be held Thursday at 2 p. in. from the Ruueiulah Cmistiaii church. The body vill be at Uie church one hour befoi • services. Burial will be hi Roachdale cemetery. Friends may call at the Chastain Funeral Home until noon Thursday. Driver’s Trial On February 27 Russell L. Brown, 41, Roachdale Route 1, charged with drunken driving, pleaded not guilty in tiie Putnam circuit court Tuesday. His bond wut' fixed at *1,000 and trial was set for 9:30 a. m. February 27. Brown was taken into custody by Greencastle officers Saturday at 5:30 p. m. at the corner of Washington and Jackson streets. He was lodged in the county Jail pending ills court appearance

PANMUNJOM, Korea, Jan. 8 (UPt The United Nations rewrote its war prisoner exchange program today in an attempt to meet Communist objections, but the Reds said rt still is "unacceptable.” Communist negotiators in the prisoner subcommittee nevertheless were unusually amicable in contrast to Uiwlc rccak' .rnnt hostility yesterday. The Reds also were less anfagoniatie in the truce supervision subcommittee, but they still stubornly refused to agree to a ban on airfield repair and construction during an armistice. UN circles speculated the Red.were trying to demonstrate by their adamant refusal to compromise that the Allies might just as well accept Russia's demand in Paris that tiie security council take over the truce talks. However, both subcommittees agreed to meet again at 11 a. m. Wednesday (8 p. m. today CST). Rear Admiral R. E. Libby told the Communists that the UN had rewritten its prisoner ex:hange proposal "to eliminate any grounds for your technical opposition,” Tiie proposal, as before, calls for a man-for-man exchange first of UN war prisoners for Communist war prisoners, then of Allied civilian internees for Communist war prisoners, and finally of South Korean displaced persons for Communist war prisoners. <C'onttnu«*d on rit$;r Three) Death Summons Cloverdale Man Aaron Combs. 71, a retired coal miner and farmer, died at his home in Cloverdale at 11:38 o’clock Tuesday morning following k stroke whicli lie suffered ten days ago. The deceased wua born May 15, 1880, in Green county, the son of John and Nancy Blrcham Combs. He was uniled in marriage to Alice Dell Peterson in 1899. He is survived by tiie wife a son, Clyde Combs of Cloverdale; a daughter, Mrs. Chloe Stewart, Indianapolis; a brother, Stariand Combs, Jasonville;. a sister, Ms. Eva McDonald, Linton; five grandcltildi en and 23 nieces and nepiiews. Last rites will be held from tiie Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale at 2 p. m. Thursday with Brother C. O. Barr, Church of Christ, in charge. Interment will be in Uie Cloverdale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home anytime after 10 a. m. Wednesday.

CONGRESSMEN RESUME 82ND SESSION TODAY NATION’S LAM MAKERS RETURN TO CAPITAL \FTEK, LONG RECESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -(UP) — The 82nd Congress returned for its second session today with hot fights already brewing over Universal Military training and Foreign aid. The formalities of convening the election-year session were set for noon EST and were expected to be perfunctory. But even before speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Alben W. Barkley gaveled the Souse and Senate to order, the verbal firing began over UMT, government spending and other major issues. Chairman Carl Vinson ID-Ga.) of the House Armed Services committee, a vigorous UMT advocate, called leaders of his committee, to a closed door session at 1 p. m. CST to lay plans for .he battle. Under a law passed last year Coii*^;ss committed itself to JMT in principle only, and agreed to act on specific plans .'or the military training program early in this session. Many members doubted that Congress will actually put UMT into operation as long as the present draft law is in effect. The first unofficial business if the new session was the elec.ion of a new Senate Republican leader to succeed the late Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebraska. Jen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire appeared certain to get this post. But a contest was promised by backers of Sen. Leverett Saltonstall iR-Mass.). No real legislative business 'un be transacted until PreslJent Truman outlines his program in his state of the union message before a joint meeting of tiie House and Senate tomorrow. The President’s Economic message will follow next week ind ills budget, expected to top 180,000,000,000, will be submitted around Jan. 21. Informed sources reported that the budget for fiscal 1953 will include about *53.200,000,300 for the Armed Forces and Military construction. Congress is not likely to cut that figure very deeply, but members of both parties were brandishing the economy axe for other spending items. Chairman Tom Connully(DTex.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and Walter F. George (D-Ga. I of the Senate Finance committee opened a drive for cuts in Foreign aid spending whicli totaled *7,000,000.000 last year. Connally .said that fond as lie is of Great Britain and her Prime Minister, Winston Churchill now u capital visitor he doesn't “want to promise to continue voting her money every time she gets hard up.” He thought chances wore slim that ills committee would vote Britain any further economic aid. George observed that "the danger of all-out war is more remote now” than a year ago. "We must fare up to tile resjHjnsibility of holding down some of our expeditures at home and abroad,” he said. tten. A. Willis Robertson (DVa.) said Congress could cut $6,000,000,000 from tiie military budget "without hurting any long rang range military programs.”

♦ Today * Weather • ft and 41 ft Local Temperature t) ft + ftftftftft* Cloudy and wanner with occasional ruin today preceded by snow, sleet or freezing rain north this morning. Cloudy tonight witli rain southeast. Wednesday partly cloudy and colder. High today 36 to 42 north. 42 to 48 south

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