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VOLUME SIXTY TWO INTEHNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE GREENCASUL, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1954.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

BEL SIBBITT WINS FILLMORE SENIOR AWARD IBOFfTI IS PRLsrVTRD Bl LIONS CM R FRIDAY EVCNINO Bill Ribbitt, » senior nn Fillmore high 'hool ba^ketba' team ,won thp first I^ions rlub tropliy for attitude, s-holarship and ability presented ai th-» monthly meeting Friday evening Silver medallions 'vere awarded two other seniors, Norman Jones and Virgil Arnold Woody McBride, roach now at Sullivan and formerly of fteelsville was a guest. Philip N. Fske •. superintendent of schools at Sullivan was the speaker He •« as presented by C N. Phillips, president of the Fillmore Club who had pievious ly served as basketball refere-’ in numerous games with Mr Eskew Mr Eskew kept his audience in a good humor with his stories and humorous presentation of some serious thoughts He said younger students in schools look up to the basketball players and he urged them to always keep a good name, get an education, have the desire to wo»k. and be 3 good example to those around you.

James Ruhush Dies In West TVord has b*en received he** of the death of James R Rubush 43 years old. of Wenatchee. Wash Mr Rubush a successful business man In the ’des*. died cf a heart attack on Friday noming A nephe - ” of Mrs W. O Timmons of Ureencastle. Mr. Rubush. who was originally frdm Edinburg. Ind, attended DePauw University and resided in Greencastle and was employed here tor several years In addition to the widow and two children surviving. Mr Ru bush has a sister. Mrs. Josephine Grays of Rockville. Mrs Robert Stoops of Oeencastle is a niece, anti T red F Snively is a cousin of Mr Rubush 4 Will AIM Chemical Mccllng Four DePauw University chemistrv professors, including the department head. Dr Jervis Fulmer, will attend the American Chemical Society's semi-annual meeting in Kansas (^ity next week. Dr and Mrs Fulmer. Dr. John Ricketts, and Dr Edwin Pool leave tomorrow for ihe conclave, which begins Monday' and continues through Thursday. Apr i Dr D. J Cook left for Kansas City earlier this week to attend the organic division meetings and will remain there for next week's sessions

PURDUE ROAD HOOL WILL BK APRIL 19-2-

The 40th annual Road School, accompanied again this year by the Road Show with a half-mil bon dollars worth of highway , equipment on display, will be held at Purdue University April IP to 22 The four-day progi am. replete with all its traditional features for those interested in the problems of highway construction and maintenance, is scheduled during the spring va cation at the university when ample housing facilities will be available on the campus ^20 Years A jo | TRF AVP THEM Mrs Guy Collings. of Barnbridge. was elected president of the Putnam County Federation of Clubs during a convention held in the local Presbyterian church Prof Hans Gruenmger of th< DePauw German department was the speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon. Mrs Wilbur Donner spent the day in Indianapolis.

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GOOD OLD DAYS Tor *' ADO—(On November S. 1»67. Greencastle was hit by a tornado that did considerable damage to town property and faim buildings in the county. The losses shown in the account appearing in the Gieencastle Banner of November 13. 18*57. would have been considerably more if a similar disaster were to occur today )—"Last Friday mght. about eight o'clock, a tenific tornado passed over this city, doing an immense amount of (lai!'.8g a Its direction was from southwest to northeast, and to those who heard it approaching. it sounded like an immense train of cars under full headway. Passing through John F Selleis orchard, which it destroyed, it struck the fence f Col. John R. Mahan, lifting post end all. out of the ground, and overthrowing his b“^ stands, it passed on to G. H Voss's carriage hous». which it completely demolished. together v/ith his cai f iago A litt'e further to tiip west, it st'uck the woodshed of W H Swi*h, whi'di was torn to pieces Passing over the house it descended almost perpendicular!'.' to the ground from ■’hich i* w> inched the fence, and !ift">g ti'» board side' alk. it was hurled with gieat force *0 the opposite side of the street. Mr. Lance, a student, was on the side"'STi- "hen it Was struck, and was carried with it across the street hr kily escaping without seiious iuju'y. H« declares himself le.cidedly opposed to po» faMe siTh“"sttrrm ic ' - Asfni University smashing in ‘ho -WiT’dov’k. tearing the bricks from the walls, and starting the roof, which for a wondei it did not carry off Had the roof gone, two hundred students who vere in the building al the time, would have been buried in the ruins. Simpson Chapel and the Old Seminary were next struck and almost entirely unroofed, and a part of the walls carried away. The uppei room in Simpson Chapel was a complete wreck—furniture. < handeliers and everything broken to pieces. The I’oof was precipitated into the yard of Mr. U estei field .doing considerable dam ige. The Old Seminary is injured beyond repair. A part of it was carried across the stieet and landed in the yaid of J F. Duckworth. The roof on the south end of the house was crushed in. windows and furniture broken, trees and shrubbery torn down, and things smashed generally. His wood shed, containing coal and wood. was carried across the allev. The property of his neighbor, Mr Rogers, was also injured considerably. The Baptist church was then struck and entirely destroyed. It was a brick building. erected only a few years since at a cost of $5,700 It seems almost impossible that a building of that character would be so utterly destroyed The walls were torn down to a few feet of the ground, and will have to be rebuilt from the foundation Much of the rubbish was thrown on the premises of John Barley, crushing the fence and the shrubbery. A part of the timbers were carried a distance of three squares into the yard of hidge Allen, tearing and breaking the trees like a discharge of artillery. A new frame house nearby, not vet covered, belonging to D M Teague, was torn from its foundation and broken to p “ees > Next Saturday we will conclude the story of the tornado of 1867 as it appeared in the Gieencastle Banner.

MARRIAGE LICENSE

Heihert O Wilcox, restaurant owner. Clayton, and Lna Mane Brown, housekeeper, Monrovia.

ARNOLD PRESENTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NET TROPHIES

Lois H Arnold, president of the Greencastle Chambc' of Commerce is shown above at left presenting Don Henson, Cloverdale center, with an individual trophy as the outstanding senior playei in Putnam _\>unty during the past basketball season. The presentation was made Thursday night dining the snn.'a! net banquet at the old Trail Inn Lloyd Hurst. Clorevdale, principal, is holding th c C r> f C plaque bearing Henson’s'name and the names of the previous county winners. The plaque will remain at the Ooverdale school until the next all-county banquet. HIT RIVALS BUT PALS WHIN IT G9MIS TO IATIHQ GHIGVIH

Abo ° left to rigiP are Maurice Stierwalt. Fillmore; Chuck Bieber. Greencastle, and Bob Sibbitt. Fillmore, at the annual county basketball banquet Thursday evening. These boys are rivals on the hardwood comt.but ate real pals when it comes to eating filed chi ken and ail the trimmings.

MANY ATTEND FIFTH DISTRICT FARM MEETING VC HIFVEMEVT DAY PROGRAM FRIDAY NIGHT AT ROACHDALE

The annual Fifth District Farm Bureau Achievement Day • as observed in the Roachdale high school gymnasium Friday evening and approximately 500 men and women from over the listrict attended. 1 lie splendid dinner was ^ened at 6 30 o’clock at long tables spread in the gymnasium. An interesting program of a vards and talks by various state officers and district officers was j at ranged. Eugene Ozment, Fhit- | nam County chairman, welcomed the visitors, following the invoca’ion by the Rev. Richard Hittle. District Rural Church winner. Greetings were also extended the guests from Mrs. Charles Purcell, Putnam County Social and Educational Leader Hassill Schenck. president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation headed the speakers list. He was looking ahead to the year 2.000. he said and unless this nation stops its deficit spending and pays its way as it goes, it will follow other nations of the world into decadence. He urged tiie members to stand fast for the principles of the Farm Bureau. which he termed sound in everyway. Walter Thompson. Montgomery county, district representative. and Mrs. Claud Crooks, Rockville, district S A E leader, had charge of the awards over the district for outstanding work accomplished by the various county units. Among the district representatives appearing on the program included Frank Owens, membership honor; Mrs Russell Cushman. outstanding township units; extension Farm Bureau awards; P.uial Church improvement; insurance success, John Hutchins. Co Op Comments by Frank Hanna , Wool awards and remai ks bv Frank Beall. Gene Middletom greetings and remarks on I be Producers Commission company, and Mrs. Schenck. speaking on ‘Together We Stand.’’ The program, running nearly an Iwur late, closed with Warren 0'Hair. State Rural Youth Director; Bill Holmes. District 5 Consultant and Miss Wilma Anderson, District President, taking ovei The entire evening was an outstanding one for the Fifth District Farm Bureau

CONSERVATION CLUB MET THURSDAY NIGHI

Ihe Russellville Conservation Club met Thursday night at the American Legion home in Russellville. Twenty members were present The club was presided over by vice president Wayne Everman in the absence of Presi-

dent Harold Gorman.

A discussion was held on buying adult quail to release this spring Mr. Gorman is going to buy 10 pair and the club decided to buy 10 pair to match them so there will be 20 pairs released in the area in the near future This will be a great asset to the quail population since many recent tests have shown that new blood is one of the most important facto! s in increasing the si*e and

number of coveys

Hospital Notes Dismissed Friday: Mildred Appleby. Stilesvilie. Jamas Parriott, Michigan. Nedra Morley. Freedom; Mrs. Ralph Thomas and daughter; Ozella Wren. Nevella Parnsh. all of Greencastle; Frank Hays. Danville. Stella Prir*. R 4. He«ry Williams. R 2. Dora Reed Roachdale; infant daughter of M*\ and Mrs. Kenneth Gorham. Lulu Prichard. R

REDS AT AIRSTRIP % HANOI. March 27—(INS) — An authoritative report said today that Communist-led vietminh rebels penetrated to the main airstrip at Dienbienphu in a night raid. The airstrip is vital to the defense of the surrounding French union stronghold, which is supported mainly from the air.

Tiger Cubs Win Three Way Heel Gieencastle's Tiger Cubs opened their track season Friday afternoon by winning a three-way meet with B> idgeton and Cloverdale. The Cubs scored 68 1-2 points while Bridgeton collected 39 1-2 and Cioveidaie got 30 5-S. First place winners for Greencastle were York m t! i “ high jump. Shuee in the shotput, Shaner in the mde; Buckner in the 440. Westfall in the halfmile; Shaner in the pole vault; Pingleton in the broad jump The Cubs also won the mile relay. The four runne> s were Miller. Corbin. Westfall and Buckner. Pingleton also gcabbed a second in the pole vault and York was second in the broad jump. IO MAKE STRONG EFFORT WASHING (INS)—The U. 3. is expected today to make a strong effort at the Asian pea :e conference at Geneva to obtain the release of 32 American prisoners in F-ei China. Informed sources emphasized however, that th c move will have to he mgdA on an informal h a'i? Ha. q, the requea ■ the agenda RA r ’ ar-AIV^T TIME WASHI •* — •INS!—Senate inv^stmatora raced again'* time today in an effort to find a chief counsel for the he a Ml p ' - 1 next ••ee*.^ on Sen Joseph R M Carthy’s dispute with ihe army. Acting Chairman Karl F Mund» R . S. D.. of the Senate Investigators Comniittee. said he hoped to announce a selection by tonight, but other members doubted he would be successful.

Ooverdale Han Called By Death Edward J. Fraizer, age 84 years, died at his home in Cloverdale at 8 o’clock Saturday morning. following an illness of six ■ e e ks. Mr. Fraizer was born Febroav.' 5 1870 the son of Eli and Carolyn Cook Fraizer. in Oven county He was married November 2. 1897 to Hettie Balay. who survvies. The deceased "as a member of the Methodist church of Cloverdale and the K. of P Lodge. Survivors include the wife; five daughters. Mis Faith 3ml! ey of Ooverdale. Mrs Cloud ’ Bandy of Cataract. Mrs. Verne!* Haltom of Poland. Mrs Marjoim Sharp of Richmond. Mrs Vh ginia Hoffa of Ooverdale. three sons. Voshe! of Ooverdale, Woodrow of Fillmoie and Gar "ood of Ooverdale. tluee half-siste* ■liss Mattie Fiaizei of Rock 'ille Mrs. Dovie Chitwood of Bloomington. Hazel F raiser of C loverdale; one brother. Robert. Ooverdale. one step-sister, Mrs. Ora Baldwin of Greencastle; two =*ep-brotherg. Walter Sanders r Poland and Ross Sanders of Texas, one daughter precel- 1 him in death Funeral services will tm an n mi need ’fond 3 .' bv the Whitaker Funeral Home in Ooverdale.

TRIAL IN MAY MARION. Ind M*r I UP • Omei Byers. 34. is s.hrd’iies to go on trial May 10 in connection with the fatal xh , ' , oting of a hunting companion whose death he said was accrdontal. Byers pleaded innocent Fti'G after a grand jury charged him with manslaughter.

Australia Takes Polio Precautions PERTH. Australia, March 27— 1 UP 1—A six-foot ‘‘safety-zone’’ was imposed around Queen Elizabeth II yesterday to protect her from the dangers of infection during her visit to polio-stricken western Australia The precaution was ordered by Prime Minister Robert Menzies during the royal couple's six-day tour of the provine where 315 persons have died of polio since October T he no handshaking” rule also was in effect at a reception ip Kalgoolie. Th c queen solved the problem by holding a fly-wisk in her ' ight hand, but most of the local dignitaries presented to her .didn't seem to know what to do with theii hands

NAVY flame crashes COLUMBUS. Ind March 27— ,T 'Fi—A twin-engined Navy F- ‘ F*ghtei ■ rashed vhile landing '0 ref’’-1 at nearby Atterbury Air Force Base Friday night • ben its landing gear collapse^ Air Forpe (officials s a id the ! vo occupants of *he "ere not hu. ‘ Tim - “ identified °s A. P. Cunningham, the pilot, and G J. Stokes, the rja ugator.

jur to ope:; drive WASHINGTON’. Maroh 27 - PTS) — Fi e =id-p* F's-phower —ill vi-ave a rad>-»a ive wand in m = Vn te Hmise to launch the a me • Fan Cancer Society's fund1 mg drb e April 1 The Presiicrif's wand will activate a • v,• rh transmitting an electrical impulse to New York which will illuminate two 50-fact crusader swords in Times Square.

EXTRA! TOKYO. March 27.—(INS) — A Japanese government report dramatically described today the awesome spectacle and painful effects of America's vast hydrogen test explosion, as witnessed and felt by 23 fishermen in the central Pacific March 1. The document, handed to U. S Ambassador John M. Allison in Tokyo by Vice Foreign Minister Katsuo Okumura, declared that the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru was w’ell outside restricted waters when it was showered with radioactive ash for some five hours The boats were 200 and 730 miles away from the mid-Pacific proving area at the time of the H-bomb blast.

LA PORTE, Ind. March 27— (INS)—Authorities searched today for more dynamite caps taken from a barn in the wake of an explosion which injured seven pupils in a village school classroom near LaPorte. Officials feared another tragedy unless the missing caps are found. The blast occurred Friday when Phillip Sever, a sixth grade student in the Door Village school, jammed a pencil into a dynamite cap while holding it :n his hand under a desk. The explosion tore off several of the youth’s fingers, demolished his desk and sprayed debris on six other boys and girls near him.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. March 27— (INS) — A 34-year-old Evansville, Ind , bank robber today faced execution in the Florida electric chair for the killing of a Jacksonville policeman The condemned bandit. Samuel J. Hornbeck. of Evansville, was sentenced Friday to die for the fatal shooting of Patrolman T. A. Robinson last December. Robinson was slain in a gun battle with Hornbeck and Myron P. Goldman after the two men were arrested for holding up a restaurant. Goldman also was killed in the exchange of shots CHICAGO, March 27.—(INS) —(Rep. Walter Judd, R , Minn., wains that Congress “very probably” will bolt the United Nations if Secretary of State John Foster Dulles consents at the Geneva conference to admit Red China to the world body. Judd made the statement after addressing the Executives Club in Chicago. He said the U. S must not recognize Red China because such action would “lose Asia for the free world ” He said should Dulles approve a plan to allow Red China into the UN, Congress probably would put the United States out of the UN by refusing to vote funds for it.

WASHINGTON, March 27.— (INS)—Mrs Annie Lee Moss, a target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.. Wis., will return to her Pentagon job on Monday with a month’s back pay restored The army said the middle-aged widow is being reinstated as a Signal Corps supply employe “pending final adjudication cf her case.” Mrs Moss was suspended Feb 25 after McCarthy subpoened her to appear before his investigations subcommittee and ansv«er accusations about alleged Communist affiliations Mrs Moss later took the witness stand and denied that she had ever been a Communist or a Red sympathizer. National Guard Starts Program The National Guard unit of this county. Company G, 151st Infantry, is initiating a program of recruiting and better relationship between National Guard activities and the community To begin these activities, a dinner and dance will be sponsored by your local unit of the Indiana Guard on Friday. April 9, at 7;00 p m There will be a member of the armed forces present to give a brief resume of relationship of the National Guard to large and I small bus mess.

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NEW ATTEMPT MADE TO SOLVE BEER PROBLEM GOV. CRAIG REPORTED TO HAVE ADOPTED A NEW MET HOD

INDIANAPOLIS. March 27 — (INS)—Reports circulated today that Governor George N. Craig has adopted the shotgun wedding procedure in an attempt to solve his beer wholesaler problem Under this method, a Democratic or a Jenner-Capehart Republican faction wholesaler la forced to take as a partner a member of the Craig GOP faction. The system first was employed by Democratic Governor* ^ Henry F Schricker who found that it brought a certain degree of peace to the tangled beer patronage problem. The Governor has tried many methods of solving this question, under the terrific pressure of early Craig-for-Governor backers who had leceived indiscrim-, inate promises of appointment to* juicy beer wholesalerships. « A host of these rosy promiaaa were made without approval,of Craig or of his major lieutenant*, during the heat of the pre-con-* vention end election campaign*.Nevertheless, the ambitious wholesalers have howled lonf and loudly. A wholesalership is compare lively easy to obtain, but buying, popular-brand beers—that is another problem. The brevarkprefer to deal with persons who have handled their products well for years. That situation motivated the discriminatory charges brought against a number of brewers and beer wholesalers. The Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission has failed to take action In these cases and that rs one reason the governor discharged Joseph Kyle, of Gary, as Commission chairman. One of the governor's close personal friends, H. DeWltt ^ Owen, forme" Terre Haute Judge,* then was shifted from head of the State Welfare Department to ABC chairman. Gwen to date has been unable, to solve the dilemma He and ABC members conferred with the brewers about taking care of the Craig-factiron wholesalers, but the brewers held their ground and stood by their old-time wholesalers. The situation is complicated by the fact that there are only six Indiana breweries, of which only half produce fast-selling brands of beer Fifty-six breweries of other states sell their suds in Indiana. Spokesmen for the brewer* maintain that they are entitle^ to sell their beer through estal^ lished age ries. just as do man* ufactur rs of atuomobiles, electrical appliances and other products The upshot is that the governor may ha •° taken a leaf froi* shrewd Henry Schricker's b'jofc and espoused the shotgun wede ding procedure.

FLA: DA. CE PROGRAM

A modern dance program bf Delrauw University coeds wiU climax *he annual meeting of th# Mid-West Association for Health, Physical Education and Recred* Non in Indianapolis Mar. 31-Apf, 2. At the final general session l* the Claypo I Hotel on Apr 2., D*» Paw's dance group, Orchesl^ will s’aw » 45-minute period niance, frotur *>g a choreograph!* version of Gordon Jenkin's “Mitthattan Tower.” & e o # • • 6 9 Torlo/’* Weather 0 0 local Temperature 0 & m + m m m 0 • * Increasing cloudiness aai warmer today Cloudy, occaspet a! ligh* ra n LPaly benight in south an I “vt ro'-tio^s da • H gb ‘ oday 43-57. Low night 35-43

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