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VOLUME SIXTY-TWO
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1954.
UNITED PRESS SERVCE
NO. 307
60Y. CRAIG TO SPEAK OCT. 30 AT IBM PLANT WILL DELIVER PRINCIPAL ADDRESS ON DEDICATION PROORAM
JACKSON DIES
Governor George N. Craig of Indiana has been announred as the main speaker for the dedication program at International Business Machines’ new Plant Five here Oct. 30. Between six and eight thousand guests are expected to hear Governor Craig's address at the morning ceremony in front of the multi-million dollar building on the edge of Greencastle. Other Hoosier government officials expected to attend include Senators Homer Capehart and William Jenner, and Congresswomen Cecil Harden of the Sixth District. Announced earlier as participants in the formal dedication were Thomas J. W'atson, chairman of the board of IBM. and the Purdue University glee club. Pre-dedication proceedings will open at 10 a. m., with the actual program scheduled to begin one hour later. Plans have been completed for an open house at the plant and tours of .the building. Members of Governor Craig’s staff who will accompany him to Greencastle are Horace M. Coats, executive secretary, and Poxie Moore, administrative assistant. At 1 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Watson will be guests of honor at a luncheon in the DePauw Student Union. Both the dedication and the luncheon are b^ing sponsored by the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce. Larry Doubleday Died Suddenly
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson died in Washington of a heart att ick .Saturday on hi.; way to the court. The 62-year-old jurist, who served as Chief Counsel for the United States at the Nuerenberg trials of Nazi war criminals, had recently returned to h.s duties after recovering from his first slight attack which he suffered about six months ago. Jackson was appointed to the court in 1954 by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Officials of the new IBM plant in Greencastle and local business men who had cpme in contact with I^arry Doubleday since the plant was located here, were shocked Sunday to hear that he d:ed suddenly in Endicott, N. Y„ Saturday night. Mr. Doubleday was in Greencastle early last week and was due here again during the middle of this week, officials of the new plant reported today. The many friends in. this city who had come in contact with Mr. Doubleday during the past year and a half, regret to learn of his untimely death. Community Gets 1.35-Inch Of Rain The Daily Banner rain gauge registered 1.35 inches of rainfall Sunday night up to about seven o'clock Monday morning. The government gauge of Grafton Longden. Jr„ registered 1.31 inches. Heavy downpemrs occured at intervals after seven o'clock, which would raise the total. .An additional .53 of an inch of water fell Monday morning from 7 until noon, making the total 1 88 inches since Sunday night.
IBM Dedicates New Laboratory POUGHKEEPSIE, Oct. 11.— The vigor of national industrial technology can only be maintained by adopting and executing a four-point program to provide human resource. Dr. James R. Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, declared here today as the International Business Machines Corporation dedicated a new expansive laboratory for research and engineering. Thomas J. Watson. board chairman, laid the cornerstone, as members of the board and several thousands of employees and members of their families participated in a program sperked by
Today s Market Hogs were steady to 25c lower »t Indianapolis today on receipts 5f 15.000. Top $19 25 for choice barrows and gilts 180-220 lbs.
Prof. W. W Carson was the speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Kiwams Club. He discussed the Constitution of the United States. Clifford Monnett attended a meeting of the state fox hunters at Rockville. Ml*, and Mrs. Guy Pickens also attended the meet-
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Mrs. R W. Pence was hostess to the Greencastle Morning Musicale Section Four of the Christian etvrrrj* me* with Mrs. Vernon Akale^’.
solos and duets by Miss Patrice Munsel and James Melton of the
Metropolitan Op ra.
Following luncheon in the new building, the assembly moved outside where Mr. Watson was presented with a resolution in connection with Poughkeepsie’s celebration of its centennial and naming him as an honorary citizen for the contributions he has made to the economic growth of the mid-Hudson area. The presentation was made by Mayor Robert E. Stevens. James F. Brehm. president of the local Chamber of Commerce, presented Mr. Watson with a bronze plaque
fittingly enscribed.
In expanding on his four-point program to give new life to industrial technology. Dr. Killian emphasized the fact that human resources must be provided through the cooperation of industry, government and the American people at large. He cited the present scarcity of scientists and engineers and the impending shortage of secondary school teachers who are able to spot, teach and inspire young people j qualified for these exacting pro-
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In making his sreond point, the | speaker urged the protection and | extension of our basic research as the seed-bed of new advances in the furtherance of a proper balance between basic and applied science. This responsibility. he pointed out. rests not only ! on our basic research institutions but also upon our industries and government. His program for technological advance. Dr. Killian said, has to do with maintaining a favorable climate for scientific and technological progress while not minimizing the importance of security and maintaining proper secrecy of our weapons He observed that in the management of our national security system, we not forget that the one race the American people dare not lose is the race to keep abreast in weapon 1 development, our technology and our science. This, he said, requires the fewest possible barriers for creative
workers.
In his fourth point. Dr. Killian emphasized the beneficial and human uses of science and industrial technology- as liberalizing, humanizing forces. To achieve this, he disclosed, we must rely on teamwork and coalition of ef-
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THREE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN THIS VICINITY
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN HOSPITAL .AFTER MONDAY MISHAP
Three separate traffic accidents occurred in this vicinity over the weekend and a mother and daughter remained in the Putnam county hospital Monday as result of the last mishap earlier in the morning. A 1953 Dodge autgmobile ariven by Mrs. Esta B. Faster. 38. of Quincy Route One, skidded on the wet pavement at the in tersection of Roads 43 and 42 just south of Cloverdale at 7:10 a. m. Monday. The car careened into the Frosty Burk filling station and knocked over two gasoline pumps. Bath Mrs. Foster and her daughter, Wilma Lou, 18, were admitted to the hospital. A son. Randy, 4. escaped injury. At 6:25 p. m. Sunday, a 1949 Lincoln driven by Cecil E. Spear, 45, Indianapolis, came out on the U. S. 40 pavement at Pleasant Gardens and was hit by a 1950 Chevrolet coach driven by James W. Bird, 20 Terre Haute Route Four. There were no injuries but damage to the Chevrolet was estimated at $200 and about $30 ta the Lincoln. Another accident occurred at 6 p. m. Sunday, west of Pleasant Gardens when a 1949 Dodge dump truck driven by Rodney Little, 31, Indianapolis, hit the rear of a 1931 Ford coach driven by Jesse Alderson, 54, Greencaslle Route Four. State police said Alderson was in the process of making a left turn at the time his car was hit. Five tons of coal in Alderson’s truck was spilled on the pavement when the vehicle flipped over. Mrs. Alderson was brought to the hospital in the Rector ambulance where she was treated for injuries and released. A reckless driving charge was filed against Alderson by State Trooper George Hecko. The other two accidents were # investigated b\T Trooper Richard Raub of the Putnamville Post.
IKE VETOES GOP BARNSTORMING
Aeolian Trio To Give Concert
The Aeolian Trio of DePauw University, Herman Berg, violin. Cassel Grubb, cello, and Franz Bodfors, piano will present the first School of Music concert this Wednesday night in the Memorial Union Ballroom at 8:15 p. ni These artists will present trios by Beethoven and Brahms. Featured will be a trio by Walter Piston, a contemporary American composer. The trio is being honored by having received requests to play this trio and other American compositions on programs sponsored by the American Association for American composers and conductors. The first concert of this series will be at Indiana University next month. The Aeolian Trio has traveled extensively through some twen-ty-five states in the past few years giving concerts. The public is cordially invited to attend. Admission is free as a service to the public by the School of Music.
NOTICE
The Auto License Branch will be closed all day Tuesday.
NOTICE
Morton O E S. stated meeting Wednesday evening. October 13. at 8:00 p. m. Visitors welcome. Jene Frank. W. M. MARRIAGE LICENSES
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER and vice-president Richard Nixon seem to be holding a serious discussion outside the chief executive’s office at Lowry Air Force base in Denver. Shortly afterward, they played golf at the Cherry Hills country club. Nixon told newsmen later that the president will not do more barnstorming for Republican candidates but will make a nationally-telgyised address later this month.
ATTEND C ONFERENCE TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 11.— Five Greencastle High School journalists were among the nearly 300 students from 24 different high schools that attended the annual Wabash Valley Press Conference at Indiana State Teachers College last Fr iday. The Greencastle conference delegation included Enimett Clark, Sandra Johnson. Marilyn McElroy, Susan Stanger. Steva Sutherlin and Jean Procaskey.
Need For Hospital Addition Grows
The need for an addition to the Putnam County Hospital is becoming more acute each day. New industry, rapid population increase, and greater- use of the hospital by people of the community have increased the demands so much that the facilities are now inadequate to provide the necessary services to meet these urgent needs. Considerable work has been done on the matter. With the assistance of a hospital consultant and an architect, preliminary plans have been made so that an estimated cost of such a project could be had. The most accurate available cost figure on the project, as now planned, is $525,000 The plans would give the hospital an additional 25 to 30 beds, new and adequate operating and emergency rooms. laboratory space, central supply and storage space as well as increased waiting room and office space. The Board of Trustees will request the County Commissioners and the County Council for a bond issue of $450,000.00 to be added to the cumulative building fund to cover the cost of the project. Petitions to this effect aro now being circulated throughout the county. Copies are in all of the banks of the county, with any of the hospital board, and with many other individuals.
MRS. EVERSON'S FUNERAL TO BE HELD TUESDAY
P U T N AM NATIVE W A S FORMER TREASURER OF ■MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Last rites for Mrs. Nellie G. Everson. 69, a native of Putnam county who passed away Saturday, will be held from the Bright Funeral Home in Crawfordsville at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday. Qurial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs. Everson was born April 18, 1885, near Roachdale. Her parents were George and Mary McClure Barnes. She was married in 1904 to Wallace O. Everson. Mrs Everson was elected Montgomery county treasurer in the general election in 1934. Her .husband, Wallace O. Everson, had been elected to the same office in yie November, 1932 election, but died Jan. 8, 1933. Both were Democrats. A pioneer in Girl Scout work in the county, Mrs. Everson had always retained an interest in the movement. She also was active in many other organizations. Survivors include a. daughter, Mrs. Ora A. Harvey of Indianapolis; a granddaughter, Marilyn Ann Harvey of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Aletha Steffey of Logansport.
2 Escape From Ind. State Farm
State police reported Monday that two inmates escaped from the penal farm Sunday afternoon. The escapees were Cecil Hamlin, 18. of Dallonia, and Clifton McIntosh, 26. of Jackson, Ky. Police said they had no details on the break of two men from the Putnamville institution.
RED NEWSMEN QUIZZED ON SECRETS
Doyle Burnell York. DePauw employee. Greencastle. and Patty Lorene Nelson, at home. Danville. Robert Louis Gray. IBM employee. and Carol Yvonne Mitchell. at home, both of Reelsville Route Two. Howard Broussard. janitor, and Lucy Sligh. maid, both ot Greencastle. Richard Lee Newkirk, sealer. Chicago, and Rose Ellen Huller. at home, Fillmore.
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IN A JOVIAL MOOD. Andre Baranes (center i. a French Communist newsman, waves to photographers from a van taking him back to prison after questioning by a military tribunal in Paris. Baranes is held n Connection with leakage of Frencii national defense reto W the Reds.
MORE ELIGIBLE VOTERS DUE TO CHANGE IN LAW ABSENT VOTER’S LAW HAS BEEN CHANGED SINCE LAST ELECTION
The "absent voter's” law has been changed slightly since the last election and a few more voters will be eligible to cast an absent voters ballot this year, over former elections. The new part of the law permitting one to vote by absent ballot calls for them to be ill at home or in a hospital. In either case, providing the attending physician writes a certificate that they are ill, they may be allowed to vote. Other reasons for absent voting are as follows: Gainful employment or business, causing a voter to be away from home on election day. Membership in the military, naval force, armed services or merchant marine of the United States. Attendance at school, college, university or other institutions of learning. Wife or dependent of one described in two or three above, and wife or dependent of a person by reason of their employment by the state or federal government. A voter may also vote by absent voter’s method if he expects to be absent from his precinct on election day because of service as a member of a precinct election board. William Padgett, county clerk, reports that people may vote in person at his office from the week, beginning October 23, and continuing through October 30, provided they find they will be away from home on election day.
Takes Over Trieste
CHICAGO, AREA INUNDATED BY. RECORD DELUGE CITY REPORTS NEARLY TEN INCHES OF RAIN IN S0-HOUR PERIOD
State Accidents Claim Six Lives
By l ulted I’rex* Indiana traffic crashes claimed a relatively light toll of at least six victims during the weekend, including a Laurel youth crushed to death when a car rolled over him. James Dickson, 18, was killed instantly Sunday and four other persons in the auto were injured when* the vehicle veered out of control on a curve along Ind. I near Milton and overturned several times. The injured, all thrown from the car, were Tish Dickson, 17, Laurel, and Delmar Davis, 31, the driver; Hazel Frye, 16. and Preston Frye, 22,'all of Cincinnati. A car-pedestrian accident Saturday night claimed the life of Hubert Kempe, 53, Indianapolis. Authorities said Kempe was struck by a car wdiile crossing a city street. John Freeman, Sr., Indianapolis, driver of the auto, said Kempe stepped into his path. Claude Smith, 29, Huntington, w r as killed early Sunday when he lost control of his car on U. S. 24 just west of Huntington. Police said the car hit two trees, glanced off a tractor and then slammed into a third tree. William Cherepkai, 23, Terre Haute, was injured fatally Saturday when his car left a Vigo county road and hit a utility pole. He died about two hours later. Fred Peterson. 29. Lafayette, was crushed to death in Lafayette under the w-heels of a borrowed pickup truck when he fell as he tried to climb from the cab to the bed while the truck was moving. MORE WILL BE FIRED
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 — <L'Pl—Sen. Homer E Capehart has notified President Eisenhower that a "large” number of employes probably will have to be fired to clear up the ‘‘mess’’ in the scandal-rocked Federal Housing Administration. In a letter to the chief executive. made public today. Capehart said his Banking Committee has finished its scheduled hear ings on “the biggest scandal in the history of the United States ” After all that was brough’ out during the inquiry, he said he was "shocked” to read a newspaper interview in which FHA employes still defended Clyde L Powell, ousted FHA assistant commissioner who has been accused of accepting payoffs and banking $138,000 more than his income in a 10-year period.
GENERAL EDMONDO DE RENZI became the first Italian officer to get foot into Trieste since the end of World War II when he crossed into the free territory to a hero’s welcome The general, as governor extraordinary, will take over the administration of Trieste from the allied military government. EXTRA! CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 11.—(UP)—Wilbur Cox, 18, Milton, a Connersville High Schoo 1 basketball player, was fatally wounded Saturday by a self-in-flicted rifle shot, state police re ported. His father, Charles Cox, found him slumped in a packed car along Ind. 1 north of here. He died several hours later. Police quoted the youth’s parents as saying he had been depressed for several weeks.
HARTF’ORD CITY. Ind., Oct. 11 (UP)—A 19-yead-old girl who "just wanted a child tia hold on her lap” was responsible for the mysterious disappearance of a 4-yeai’-old boy from his home, police said today, authorities said the girl returned the youngster. Tony Helm, to his home late Saturday, saying she found him wandering in a street. The boy’s disappearance had touched off a wide-spread search. Plcylice said the girl admitted luring the boy into her car near the home of his parents. HUNTINGTON, Ind., Oct. 11— (UP)—A “skinny man’’ wearing workclothes robbed grocer Henry Aufdenkampe Of $425 Saturday night. Aufdenkampe -said the armed bandit entered his store, demanded cash from the drawer and then fled. Last January, the Huntington grocer also was held up and robbed of $600 cash and several large checks.
MADISON. Ind.. Oct. 11 (UP) —Jerry Reed, a river boat captain from Lexington, Ind., suffocated to death Saturday when his diving equipment failed, a coroner’s autopsy showed today. Jerry Hobbs % Jefferaon County coroner, said the examination indicated Reed, an experienced diver, died from lack of air due to a faulty compressor as he worked in the Ohio River. Reed was taken from 14 feet of water at the Indiana-Ken-tucky Electric Co. plant at Clifty Falls. He was helping workmen install equipment under water on his day off from piloting the (< ontlnurd on I’nn** Four) Open Probe Into Sinking Of Ship NORFOLK. Va.. Oct. 11—(UP) —A three-man naval board of inquiry opens preliminary hearings today on the sudden sinking of the ore freighter Mormackite The disaster caused the death? of 37 of the ship’s 48-man crew. The 6.213-ton ship sank so suddenly last Thursday after gales from a nor’easter shifted its ore cargo that crewmen didn’t have time to send an SOS or lowe rlife boats. Eleven survivors and 12 bodies of crewmen were brought here early Sunday by the destroyer escorts U. S. S. Barhe and U. S S. Eaton. The survivors were reported in satisfactory condition after fighting exhaustion, sunburn and sharks for more than 50 hours while clinging to makeshift rafts fashioned from floating debri.*.
CHICAGO, Oct. 11—The heaviest rainfall in Chicago's history sent the sluggish Chicago River flooding into downtown skyscrapers an Sunday night and forced thousands of persons from their homes. The downpour caused at least 20 deaths, most of them in traffic crashes throughout the vast flood area, before it ended shortly before midnight. Damage in Chicago alone was estimated at more than 10 million dollars. Health officials took emergency measures to safeguard the city's water plyAt least 62 towns around Chicago were seriously affected by flooding. The torrent, which started early Saturday night hit hardest in a belt 75 miles wide and 300 miles long that included parts of Indiana, and Wisconsin. Chicago's officials rainfall was 6 21 inches after 30 hours but an area on the far South Side was soaked with 9.75 inchse. Rainfalls of well over seven Inches were reported elsewhere in the city. The Chicago River, running five feet over the tracks at the Union and Dearborn stations, halting trains, and spilled in sky* scraper basements. The flood waters plied up 40 feet deep in the sub-basements of the Chicago Daily News Building ruining between 250 and 300 rolls of newsprint. The newspaper announced plans to publish today's edition with the aid of other newspapers. Damage to newsprint and a water shortage in the building forced the News to use the engraving plant of the Chicago American for preparing picture plates and the Chicago Tribune presess for printing Outside the metropolis, the rains combined with high winds to create more havoc. The Red Crass set up 14 shelters in and around Chicago and Coast Guardsmen, state police. National Guardsmen and volunteers searched for marooned householders today. The worst single rain-caused accident occurred in Oconta County, Wise., where five persons were killed in a smashup. Auto accidents killed nine and storm-caused heart attacks two in Cook coimty, and three persons were killed in an auto era. h near Joliet and one in Lake County, 111. United States and County enggineers saved Chicago's Loop from worse damage whan they threw open giant lock gates at the Chicago River’s mouth and reversed the stream’s flow. It was the first time the river has run into the lake since an engineering feat in 1900 sent it flowing inland. It was also th^ first time in the memo^- of most Chicagoans that the normally placid stream has gone over its banks in the downtown are i Donald R Brown, the engineer who ordered the locks or-cned. said "every skyscraper along the river would have been filled with water up to the ground level," if he hadn’t acted. He estimated flood damage in the Chicago area at “least 10 million dollars."
PUTNAM COURT NOTES
Margaret F. Priest vs. William E Priest, suit for divon e. Hughes & Hughes are the plaintiff’s attorneys. & Today's Weather £> ® Local Temperature a $ a a e & $ Partly cloudy with possible showers and little change i” temperature today and Tuesday.
Minimum 6 a. m. ... 7 a. m. 8 a. m. ... 9 a. m. . 10 a. m. 11 a. m. 12 noon 1 p. m.
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