The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 October 1954 — Page 1

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VOLUME SIXTY-TWO

THE DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954. UNITED PRESS SERVCE NO. 310

DEATH TAKES WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN

MRS. VAN DENMAN THOMPSON PASSED AWAY EARLY THI KSDAY

Mrs Eula Bogle Thompson, wife of Dr. Van Denman Thompson, passed away at th** family residence on South Locust street early Thursday morning. Mrs Thompson had been in failing health for some time and had be^n seriously ill for the past six months. Mrs. Thompson was born in Nashville, T^nn, and received her education in the Tennessee School for the Blind. She receiv- . ed her A B Degree in 1910 from the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, Mass. She taught one year in the Jonesboro, Arkansas, school. It was while she was teaching that she met her husband who was one of her students. They were married in 1911 and came to Greencastle to make their

home.

As a young woman, despite the handicap of blindness, Mrs. Thompson was an accomplished organist and pianist. She gave many recitals after coming here and a number of her piano compositions were published. Survivors are the husband; three daughters, Mrs. Evan Crawley and Mrs. Herman Berg. Greencastle, Mrs. Ted Bartley. Mooresville; three sons. Van Denman. Jr., Indianapolis, Lynwood, Washington, N. J., and Winston. Greencastle; two sisters. Mrs. Maurice Chandler, Santa Monica, Calif., and Mrs. David Greene. Oakland, Calif., and thirteen grandchildren. One daughter. Constance, preceded her in death. Last rites will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the Rector Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Rev. Elmer Harvey and Rev. F. F. Travis will be in charge of the services. Friends may call at the family residence.

HONDEZVOrs SOLD Mr and Mrs. Paul Grimes today announced the sale the Rendezvous. to Bernard and Stanley Jarema, of Ch.cago. The new owner* plan to feature Italian foods.

COFFMANS Bl Y NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. James Coffman have purchased the B. B. Weaver home on State Road 43 just south of Greencastle. It was formerly owned by the Ray Haines.

SIX ARRESTED BY CITY AND STATE POLICE

City police reported Thursday morning that they had arrested four men within the past twentyfour hours and that each was placed in the county jail pending court appearances. The officers picked up Robert Stanley Rollings, 27. a local bartender, on Berry street at 1:10 a. m. on a drunken driving charg“ Harry Glenn Jones, 42, a Vincennes painter, was taken into custody at 12:45 a. m. on Columbia street, also charged with driving under the influence. Herbert H. Frazier, 26, Greenca.stle Route Three, was arrested Wednesday for failure to appear in city court to answer to a speeding charge. Donald Leslie, 34, was arrested Wednesday for failure to make a court appearance on a charge of driving while his license was suspended. Two out-of-state men were lodged in the Putnam county jail at 9:30 p. m. Wednesday, both being booked for public intoxication and investigation by Trooper Morgan of the Putnamville po

lice post.

The two were Roy Becker, 42 of Ohio, and Elmer Higginbottom, 52, of Alabama. Leo Custis Hurt In 43 Accident

Scientists Will Meet At Purdue A large contingent of DePauw University professors will attend the 70th annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science at Purdue University this weekend. Eighteen faculty members from DePauw have registered for the event, which will begin Thursday evening and continue through Saturday. They include Truman G. Yuncker. Winona H. Welch, and Howard R. Youse, botany and bacteriology; Jervis P. Fulmer. Donald J. Cook, and John A. Ricketts, chemistry. Charles L. Bieber. Robert D. Loring. and James A. Madison, geology and geography; Cleveland P. Hickman. Albert E. Reynolds. and Forst Fuller, zoology. Will E. Edington and Clinton R Gass, mathematics; Malcolm Correll and Austin D. Sprague, physics; and Barron B. Scarborough and Felix E. Goodson, psychology. At the various sectional meetings Friday, papers will be read by three DePauw professors— Drs. Edington and Welch, both past presidents of the Indiana Academy, and by Dr. Bieber. Dr. \ uncker also is a former Academy president. The History of Science section will hear another paper by Dr. Edington on the subject. “David Starr Jordan and John P. D..’ John in the Development of th^ Science Major m Indiana. - ’

20 Years A^o HERE AND THERE

DePauw defeated Ball State. 13 to 0. It was the tenth straight shutout victory for the Tiger football team. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. DePauw president, who had only recently returned from a three months tour of Europe with Sherwood Eddy, told a university vespers audience that Europe was apparently getting ready for more war.

I ee Custis. 41. Greencastle. suffered serious leg injuries and other cuts and bruises, when his motorcycle was sideswiped by an automobile near the Francis Lane home on State Road 43. norUi of Brick Chapel at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. Custis, who was enroute home from a drive-in theater, was taken to the Putnam County hispital in the Hopkins-Walton ambulance. H;s left leg was reported badly mangled. The accident was investigated by State Trooper Moigan of the Putnamville Post. Morgan reported that the Custis motorcycle was struck by the left rear bumper of a car driven by Charles Richard Green, 19. Greencastle Route One. Green, the officer said, was going north and was attempting to pass an auto driven by Estel (Pete) Rowings as the latter was meeting

Custis.

Charles Phillips, 29, of Crawfordsville, riding with Custis, suffered an injured left hand. Green was arrested on a reckless driving charge. Trooper Morgan also investigated a second accident on Highway 43. four miles south of Greencastle. which occurred about 1 a. m. Thursday. A car driven by Robert Lee Andrews, 19. of Putnamville. skidded on the wet pavement, going out of control and turning over. Andrews escaped uninjured but Larry Shaughnessy, 20. also of Putnamville. went to the county hospital for a medica! check following the accident.

>.*5.000 FIRE LOSS KENDALLYILLE. Ind.. Oct. 14 t UP' — A $25,000 fire Wednesday destroyed a frame bam near Albion owned by Ben Edwell. Burned were 6.000 bales of hay and straw, farm equipment, eight calves and a cow and calf. Cause of the blaze was not known.

Today s Market Butcher hog prices were about steady today on the Indianapolis market with receipts of 12.000 A few hundred head under 220 pounds went for $19 Early sales of 180-240-pound barrows and irilt> were largely $18.50 to $18.75.

BOB COOK IS GUEST SPEAKER AT Q-B DINNER

LOCAL CLUB HEARS TALK BY WELL KNOWN SPORTS AUTHORITY

A goodly number of Greencastle “Quarterbacks” were present to enjoy a turkey dinner and hear Bob Cook, of Indiana University, at the club's meeting in the DePauw Union building Wednesday evening. Reports on their respective team’s progress were made by Coach A1 Nowak of the high school and Edwin (Mike) Snavely of the university. Bill Unsworth presented Mr. Cook, who for several years was publicity director of the I. U. athletic department and is currently associated with the staff of Station WTTV at Bloomington. In his talk, Mr. Cook said he believed the “quickest salvation" for Indiana colleges and universities in securing football talent was from the Hoosier high schools. He pointed out that in 1944 there were only 105 state high schools having 11-man teams. Today, there are 174 Indiana schools fielding 11-man teams. He said there are also eight schools playing 8-man football and 12 schools with 6-man teams. By w r ay of comparison, he stated that Ohio has 652 high school grid teams; Nebraska has 312. and Illinois has 435. The speaker assured Coach Suavely that he w r as "very sympathetic” regarding the DePauw squad's winless record as the Indiana team has also been having trouble winning games during *ecent years. Mr. Cook gave Nowak a verbal pat on the back for his good work with the Tiger Cubs the past tw r o seasons. Mr. Cook said he was impressed by the interest in the game as displayed by members of the local Quarterback Club and that such an organization was good for the entire community as well as the Greencastle high school players. His talk was in a humorous vein at times and was thoroughly enjoyed by all in attendance. Films of the Notre Dame-Pur-due grid contest failed to arrive as scheduled and highlights of the 1952 season of the Cleveland Browns wen? shown instead. State Stream On Flood Rampage KNOX, Ind., Oct. 14 (UPi — Chief attention in the northwestern Indiana flwd battle was centered on the rampaging Yellow River today as the crest tumbled downstream, threatening hundreds of thousands of dollars loss to farm crops. The flood situation, aftermath of torrential weekend rains, swelled the normally sluggish 3-foot-deep river to high of 12 feet and experts said it would rise three more feet by Friday morning. Flood stage is nine and onehalf feet. Farmers, civil defense workers and National Guardsmen w'orked to erect dikes along the river in an effort to save valuable soybean and com fields. About 24 families were evacuated in the Knox vicinity, but it was believed most homes would escape flood damage. In Lake County, where the Little Calumet River spilled over its banks forcing some 2.000 persons to flee, mop up operations were underway as the river receded. Families began moving .bark into flood damaged homes in Hammond, which was particularly hard hit. while guardsmen continued their patrol of sandbag dikes and the policing of still flooded residential sections. The situation at Plymouth, swamped by the flooded Yellow River, also eased and it was expected many of the 300 made homeless would be able to return today. The fkood caused major lamage to both residential and business sections in Plymouth.

PFTNAM COURT NOTES

Albert Lee vs. Lottie June Jones, suit for damages; venue J from Hendricks county.

BLAMES SHORTAGE FOR HIGH PRICES

GUSTAVO LOBO, president of the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, reads off some figures as he tells a Senate subcommittee that a shortage and not market manipulation were to blame for zooming coffee prices this year. Lobo said a Federal Tra le commission .report blam.ng the exchange, through unlawful restraint of trade, was “biased and inaccurate.”

Local Rainfall Exceeds 3 inches < The Greencastle section Putnam county has enjoyed more than three and one-third inches of rainfall since Sunday evening. Other sections of the county, are believed to have received more and some less in the same period of time. A total of .38 of an inch of water fell Wednesday night during the rainstorm and an overcast sky Thursday indicated more rain was likely. Better than one and one third Inches fell Sunday night and Monday another half inch fell, while Tuesday night a total to run the grand total of 2.99 inches fell. This total added to the one third inch which fell last night makes the grand total 3.37 inches.

Joint Concert Is Set For Nov. 12

An innovation for the DePauw University choir this year will be a joint concert with the Wabash College glee club Friday, Nov. 12, in the Wabash chapel. The program is scheduled for the eve of the traditional De-Pauw-Wabash football game and will feature each of the musical organizations in two groups of concert selections. Although the schools have been meeting on the gridiron since 1890 in the oldest football rivalry west of the Alleghenies, the concert will mark the first joint effort by the two choral groups. George W. Gove is director of the DePauw choir, and Robert Mitchum directs the Wabash glee club.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Hubert A. Crodian, farmer, and Amelia Stambaugh, at home, both of Gieencastle Route One. Robert Joseph Coughenour, laborer, and Nannie Mary Mullenix. both of Reelsville.

Oil Industry Is Topic At Rotary Moscow, Russia with its five filling stations was compared to Greencastle with its 24 stations in the interesting talk by Robert Lollar of the Standard Oil Co. before the Greencastle Rotary Club at the Memorial Student Union on Wednesday. Mr. Lollar was asked to address the Rotarians in observance of National Oil Week. The program was arranged by Herbert Graver, who introduced the speaker. “The oil industry with 43 billions in assets, employs over 1,700.000, and exceeds all other minerals in production,” said Mr. Lollar, w'ho commented further that the U. S. out-produces Russian seven times, although known oil reserves in Russia and satellites are two and one half times larger than those in this country. The speaker said that his was due to competition and the millions poured into research with the result that gasoline sells for less than 30c a gallon in the U. 5., while retailing for over $2.00 a gallon in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. “There is no progress without competition,” said Mr. Lollar. Interesting was the statement by Mr. Lollar that oil reserves in the U. S. are greater than they have ever been. There are 34 billion barrels of known oil reserves—enough for 12 years at the present rate of consumption. Guests of the Rotarians were L. Dalegall of South Bend, Charles W. McFetridge of Princeton, and William R. Ehrich of Indianapolis.

HOSPITAL NOTES

Dismissed: Larry Parker. Fillmore; Mrs. Don Clevenger and son, Spencer; Lysle Green, Olhe Surber, Blanche Moore, Kenneth Lafarey, Norma O'Connor, Mary Smith, Mary Hall, all of Greencastle; Basil Sanford, R. 4; Ur sula Hale, Roachdale. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Richardson, R. 4, are the parents of a son born Wednesday.

PIKE STRESSES PERSPECTIVES IN CHAPEL SPEECH

NEW YORK DEAN DELIVERS SPLENDID ADDRESS AT DEPAUW

Speaking on the subject, “Religion as Perspective,” Dean James A. Pike of New York said at a DePauw University chapel yesterday that there is no neutral way of looking at anything. This impossibility of neutral viewing, commented the dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, directly affects the relation of religion to life generally, for everything depends on perspective. Each individual has a religion of some sort, good or bad. Dean Pike added, and since life itself does not change the variety of viewpoints must be caused by different perspectives. The test of an individual’s perspective, according to the speaker, is whether or not it gives that individual an adequate mearfing for life and a view of life as a whole. In the opinion of Dean Pike, the secular world-view is narrow and confining, despite the paredoxical belief held by many that atheists and agnostics actually are broad-minded. A belief in secularism, Dean Pike continued, can no more be explained scientifically than a belief in Christianity, for both the secularist and the Christian must arrive at a decision through faith. “God constantly respects our freedom to choose,” he said, “although he is constantly seeking us,” and therefore if we are going to see the bigger meaning in life w'e must explore all perspectives. Using the perspective of Christianity, the dean added, we presume that in addition to man and things, there is God, and that in addition to history and flesh, there is eternity and spirit. Referring again to the freedom granted the individual by God, he said in his only political comment: “We do ill if we be more cautious than God and decide not to leave people free.” We cannot reject the narrow, secular view only with the intellect, Dean Pike concluded; we must reject it through prayer and worship in an attitude of thankfulness and gratitude. Five Yearbook Queens Chosen Three sophomore and two freshman coeds at DePauw University make up the group of five yearbook queens chosen for the school’s 1955 Mirage. The sophomores are Judith Shafer, Evansville; Carol Rudolph, Glen Ellyn, Hi; and Kathleen Anderson, Cleveland Heights, O. Mirage queens from the freshman class are Michael Jean Merson. Canton. O, and Cathleen Goebel, Fort Mitchell. Ky. Selection of the five from a field of 56 coeds was made by a panel of three Indianapolis judges—Mi^s Elizabeth Fitzpatrick. Noble Bretzman, and Earl Beyer.

FLAMING JET CRASHES, KILLS PILOT, THREE OTHERS

BYSTANDERS (lefti look at the covered bedies of two young children who were killed along with their mother when a flam.ng. rocket-laden pet fig hter craifhed in their backyard at Clihton Md. The pilot. Lt. Robert Sandberg, perished when his chute failed to open. The chiMren, killed instantly. were two-year-old John Vaughn III and hi s sister. Dorothy., 4. Fireman Carl Hanson < right > j holds a broken, smoke-blackened toy red fue tru ck, ironic symbol of the happy play which ended , j in death for the children. j

CUB PACK FORMED ON WEDNESDAY EVENING

A Cub Pack organization meeting was held Wednesday evening at the Presbyterian church. Several boys of Cub Scout age were present with their parents. Art Frudenberg, chief Scout executive from Terre Haute, was present and showed film strips of Cub and Scout activities. The meeting was successful and Herbert N. Johnson of 306 E. Hanna street agreed to bo cubmaster and Faye Slavens of 301 South Main street, accepted the job of assistant cubmaster. Both of these men are employees at IBM. Another meeting is planned for Oct. 27th at which time it is hoped that more boys of Cub Scout age and Den Mothers can be added to the Pack. Simple Birthday Dinner For Ike DENVER, Oct. 14—(UP) — President Eisenhower, in glowing good health celebrates his 64th birthday tonight at a small steak dinner with his family and close friends. Mrs. Eisenhower told the chef at the Brown Palace Hotel to bake a small cake, adorned with a single candle, for the presidential dinner party. Sixteen persons, including Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, will toast the President while he savors a charcoal broiled steak. A hotel spokesman said "nothing pretentious has been planned.” But stacks of cakes, books and other birthday gifts for the President deluged the Denver White House. Mrs. Eisenhower kept secret the gift she would give her husband for his 64 th birthday. “Mamie likes to buy him something simple and sentimental and she doesn’t like to make it public,” a source close to the First Lady explained. The President scheduled only one appointment at his executive office on Lowry Air Force Base today. But he planned to put in a full day of work on his birthday, most of its devoted to polishing the text of his farm policy speech to be delivered Friday at Indianapolis. Mr. Eisenhower is winding up an eight-week Colorado vacation that provided only one week of real rest. The President's birthday party will be one of his final activities in Denver. Friday he will fly with most of the White House staff to Indianapolis. His farm address will be delivered at 9 p. m. EST at the Butler University Fieldhouse. Immediately afterward the chief executive will fly to Washington. Mrs. Ida Knight Called By Death Mrs. Ida L. Knight, age 86 years, one of the older residents of Clay county, died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Slack, south of Brazil R R. 2. She has been il! for the past few weeks. Mis. Knight was bom July 5, 1860, daughter of Henry and Margaret Shults, north of Poland. She was married in 1894 to Chauncy R. Knight, who preceded her in death in 1941. For many years she lived in Jackson township near Poland and was an active member of the Presbyterian church, where she had been a member since childhood. She was also a member of Wesley Chapel W. S. C. S. The family survivors are a daughter. Mrs. Mary E. Slack Brazil, R R 2; two sons, Clarence E Knight of Reelsville, R R. 2, and Joe S. Knight, of Phoenix, Anz. A brother, D I Shults. of Dearborn, Mich., also survives.

EXECUTIVES VISIT Edmund F Ball, president, and W. C. Schade, executive vice president and general manager of Ball Brothers Company, Inc., of Muncie, were visitors at the American Zinc Products Division plant in Greencastle on Wednesday.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BE ON CAMPUS

625 YOUNG PEOPLE WI L . GUESTS OF UNIVERSITY SATURDAY

Campus clothes and multi-col-ored uniforms, souvenirs and sousapohones—all will be intermingled at DePauw University this Saturday when 625 high school students converge on Greencastle. Causes of the mass invasion are two annual events, High School Day and Band Day, which this year are being held on the same weekend. An estimated 225 students, primarily'from Indiana, will be attending the former event, which features tours of the campus and informal meetings with DePauw professors. The remaining 400 will represent the eight different high school bands from Central Indiana which have been selected to participate in the university’s Band Day ceremonies. During (|he DePauw-Valpar-aiso football game Saturday afternoon, the 225 will sit in the stands at Blackstock Stadium while their fellow high schoolei ■ parade and perform in mass-for-mation band numbers. High School Day is scheduled to begin at 9:30 with registration in the Union, followed by escorted tours, educational-vocational chats with faculty members, and lunch at the DePauw living units. Simultaneously the 400 student musicians will be rehearsing at the stadium fen- their parts in the afternoon program, breaking in time to lunch at the Union as guests of the DePauw marching band. At 1 p. m. the first group will from DePauw President Ru 11 J. Humbert on the Union step, while the high school bands move into formation for the pre-game exhibition. Also scheduled for the bands from Amo, Bainbridge, Brazil, Cloverdale, Ladoga, Reelsvillr, Roachdale, and Spencer liivh schools is a half-time program with the DePauw band. 3 Putnam Herds To Be Represented Three Putnam county h o will be represented at the annual Fall show and sale por ed by the Indiana Polled Sho; /horn Breeders Association at Lafayette Oct. 23 at Tippoc . County Fairgrounds. Glatwyn Leader 2d x, first prize senior yearling bull at u. • 1954 Ohio State Fair, is heir -, offered by Ray and Gerald Clo !- felter, Greencastle, ‘ along with two heifers bred to Glat yn Leader x, an open heifer and a steer for next year's club projects. Tara Hill Farm, Grenra ‘le, is offering three daughter cl Lynwood Compact x, all bi d C < Tara Hill Regent x. J. E. Brattain & Son, ' o of Greencastle, are selling Bi attain’s Payroll x, a red son of Lynwood Assurance x, sire of the 5th prize get of . ,ie it tee Indiana State Fair tin : y< ir. OPEN HOUSE OCT. 16 Open house will be held at th'* building of the Russellville .md Community Volunteer Fi i> - partment, on Saturday, O f. 15. Free bean dinner served from 6.00 to 8:00 p. m. Enterlairme nt and picture show. Everybody interested in th>' Russellville and O mnium* . Fi e Department is invited.

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