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THE DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL

VOLUME SIXTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NC. 141

QUASH MOTION IS FILED HERE IN CIVIL SUIT

A YEARLING

ACTION TAKEN BY ZONIN' BOARD OF’ A PI'E AES IN CHI'KOI LITIGATION

A moti Putnani ( the servu endorsed

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Board of Zoning Appeals City of Greencastle by semDlies of God Church. This action follows Uv appeal litigation b\ the from the ruling of the

which turned down a request for the erection of a church building

on South Jackson street.

The motion w rs filed by Frank G. Stoessel. attorney for the Zoning Board of Appeals, who sets out two reasons for same as fol-

lows:

“1. Return on the summons ia not according to law and is not a valid and legal return. ‘•2. That said return fails to show a legal service of said

writ.”

A memorandum states'. “The return shows servic > of summons on Gifford Black, member of the Zoning Board, whereas the return of said summons should show service of the writ of certiorari by the s'n riff upon the chairman or secretary of tne Board of Zoning Appeals of saiu

City.”

Fillmore Cast To Give Comedy

A hillbilly play. “Headin’ for a Weddin’,” will be presented by the Fillmore Junior Class in the Fillmore gymnasium March 31 7:45 p. m. The hero, Homer, and his family live in a three room shack in Virginia. Due to Homer’s correspondence with a wealthy debutante trouble arises when she appears v.nexnectedly at his home. Having believed him to be wealthy and well-educated she decides to take revenge on the discovery of his deceit. A feud ami Paw’s pet skunk make a thoroughly hilarious situation. Characters are as follows: Homer Hollowbone Jim Munch Maw Hollowbone Lutlla Phillips Paw Hollowbone Donald Tharp Sarah Jo Hollowbone Peggy Wells Gracie May Hollowbone Joan Roach Fannie Jane Hollowbone Evelyn Arnold Pepper Hollowbone . ... Jack Underwood Sis Hollowbone Darlene Cash Grandpappy Hankley ... DeLoss Greenlee Widow Blairhouse -iAnn Ellen Sears Bertha Blairhouse Peggy Broadstreet Slim Blairhouse Bob Sibbitt Melissa Dugan - Gail Irwin Hortense Todd Shaion Maxwell Isabel Todd Charlotte Miller

CALLED Mill TING

PI TN AM CO! RT NOTES

20 CADETS WILL TAKE AIR TRIP TO WEST COAST

FLYING JUNKET PLANNED DI KING UNIVERSITY SPRING VACATION

e Newgent, R. 1. jF*GGJiC3stlG t observed nis birthday on Friday, March 25lh. H<‘ is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max A. Newgent, and grandson of Mr. an 1 Mrs. Roy Livesay and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Newgent.

Warren R. Spencer Dies In Arkansas

Warren Russell Spencer, 65. formerly of Russellville, who taught at the University of Arkansas from 1919 through 1952 when he retired, di d early Wednesday morning at Fayetteville, Ark. He had been in failing health for several years. Previous to going to Arkansas, he taught, in the Russellville grade schools and was superintendent of schools at New Mays ville and Mooreland. He taught thr e years at Rose Poly after receiving his B. S. ■ nd B. S. C. from that school. Ear lier he was graduated from Russellville High School. He attended old Centra! Normal College. He received A. B. from Indiana University and his M. S. at lovj State. , i Born near Russellville on Aug. 15, 1889, he was the son of Charles and Mary Jane Spencer On June 22. 1915. he married Ilallie LaFollette who survives. Surviving besides the widow are a son, Charles of Alexandria Va ; one daughter, Mrs, Margaret Trimble of Little Rock, Ark.; three brothers, Mort of Indianapolis. Fred of Russellville and Siegel of Thorntown anti three grandsons. The funeral wil be at Russellville. Arrangemenls are incomplete. . The McQaughey Funeral Home will be in charge.

A week-long trip to the West Coast is in store for 20 Air Force ROTC cadets at DePauw University April 2-8 during Spring Vacation. On the flying junket DePauw’s cadets will stop at Biggs Air Force Base. El Paso, Tex.; Long Beach, Calif.; Mather AFB. Sacramento, Calif.; and Lowry AFB. Denver, Colo. The tour will provide practical 1 instruction in navigation and meterology for students who have completed courses in those fields as part of their AFROTC t raining. Hoosiers in the group are Frederick Cravens, Indianapolis; Jose Ribares. Lafayette; Fritz Sperling, Michigan City; Stephen Cline. Columbus; Gerald Wingate, Gary; and Durward Ritter, Dunkirk. Others are Ray Wachter, Downers Grove, 111.; Richard Brant, Elgin 111.; Joseph Chope, Bay Village, O.; Lee Dirks, Needham. Mass.; Paul Driscol, Jr., and William Hoenig, both of Lorain, O.; Raymond Dix, Wooster, O. John Foust, Jr., Youngstown. O.; C. Bennett Johnson, Jr., Western Springs, 111.; John Kc/ppin, Jr., and Joseph McDade, both of Chicago; Norman Miller, St. Louis; Lott Thomas. Champaign, 111.; Frederick Williams, Monticello, 111. Accompanying the cadets will be Capts. Robert Rush and Oscar Hurt, both members of the AFROTC staff at DePauw.

RICHARD F’RIEND HONORED Richard Friend was flown to Chicago Thursday morning as a representative from Indiana for the Isaac Walton League o: America for a three day conference on "Young Outdoor American Conference.” He will be flown to Cincinnati. O., Saturdav morning and will aopear on the WLW “Every Body's Earn: Hour" program. He was chosen for this trip on the basis of his 4-H record. He is one of two chosen from Indiana.

OSCARS AW YRDED

DIES AT PLAINFIELD Mrs. Clova York has received word of the death of Berley McG!oth n, of Plainfield. Wednesday He had been in ill health for some time. Mr. McGlcrthin has many friends and relatives in Greenc astle and Putnam County. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Hampton Funeral Home, in Plainfield. Burial will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

HOLLY WOOD, March 31.— • UP)—Marlon Brando, a threetime loser in the annual battle for Oscars, won the motion picture Academy Award Thursday i night for the best male perform- | ance in 1954. Grace Kelly, a fellow New j Yerker who has been in the movies only a y^ar, was given j the nod over veretan Judy Garj land as the best actress. It was a great night for theiv city, too. “On The Waterfront.” a film about watei front crime and violence which was made in New York, won eight Oscars, tying the record set by "Gone With The Wind” in 1939.

BELLS TO TOLL START OF CANCER FUND CAMPAIGN

DRIVE IN PUTNAM COUNTY WILL OPEN A F 1 P. M. ON FRIDAY

Tractor Classes For 4-H Boys

Ladies Will Be Rotary Guests

Appeals Board Grants Variance

The American Cancer Society’s nationwide 1955 crusade fo: ?24.000.000 will start tomorrow in Putnam county with tolling of church bells at 1 p. m. Mrs. James Houck, ACS campaign chairman, announced that the drive will swing into action here with the release of more than 4.000 letters outlining the ’ocal work and containing informative literature.

HOMEWARD BOUND

Ratary Ladies’ Night will be held on Wednesday, April 20th, in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Union was the announcement made by Marion Wilson, president, at the weekly meeting of the Greencaste Rotary Club on Wednesday. Serving on the committee will be Kenneth Eitel, chairman, Dr. W. Russell McIntyre, Dr. C. N. Schauwecker and Dr. Wallace B. Graves. Dr. McIntyre was in charge of the program and called on several members ta tell how they received their classifications in becoming members of Rotary.

There were no objections and uo remonstrators present for the Zoning Appeal Board hearing of Carl Stevens for a variance from the original zoning b aid hearing Wednesday evening. The board granted the variance and Mr. Stevens is expected to build his super-market grocery where the old Cook residence at Locust and Franklin street now stands. The old brick building will be wrecked and a portio.. of the lot to the west will be filled in for narking space. The lot, one acre in size, is the only oi ginal lot o< that size left in the city. All the others have been divided many times.

PULITZER DIES

Minister Gives Chapel Address

Ex-Con Admits Brutal Attack

CHICAGO. March 31. —(UP) Paul W. Saverv, 33 who walked into a police trap and promptly admitted a brutal attack on an Indianapolis housewife, will be removed to Indiana to face charges and answer more ques-

Called meeting of Cloverdale Lodge F A A M tonight at 7:00 o’cloek. Work in EA degree. Visitors welcome. Charles Whitaker, W. M

ias Robert Dennison onovan. was capturiy night by two Initectives who waited he apart nent of his Dorotny Messer, on irth side. 1 he “re tuily admitig Mis. Elizabeth in her home March

Im Re

Roland Ruark vs. Mitchell Kelley et al, complaint to foreclose mechanic's lien. Frank Stoessel is attorney for the plaintiff.

apolis. Det. Capt. Rosaid it may be some I » Savory is question- |

ed an other i Mines. Some po j lie- speculated he may have been connected with six slayings at Evansville and Mount Vernon. . Ind.. and near Henae son, Ky. Savery surrendeied meekly j and told detectives he had beei living in Chicago "off and on.

One of the most popular 4-H Club projects among farm boys, Tractor Maintenance classes, will start next week as announced today jay Tom Hendricks, 4-H Club

leader.

4-H Tractor Maintenance was started in 1944 and is sponsored by the Standard Oil Foundation. Inc. This project gives the boys an opportunity to learn by doing and they also learn that better care results in longer tractor life, more power and lower opera-

ting costs.

Any 4-H Club boy who is starting his first year of tractor maintenance will meet at the Weesnor Implement Company next Tuesday night at 7:30 P. M. The second year classes will meet at the Farmers Supply Company, John Deere Dealers place on Monday evening at 7:30 P. M. Boys who have completed their first and second year and will be enrolled in the third year class will meet each week at Sherm's Allis Chalmers place of business on Tuesday evening and Mr. McKee will have charge

of the entiie classes.

This year all boys who complete the required number of classes will prepare an exhibit of used tractor parts which will be exhibited at the county 4-H Fair and will be paid premiums similar to other 4-H projects. Trips are being planned again 1 this year for all the boys and a tractor operators contest will be held during the county fair.

ST LOUIS, Mar. 31. Joseph Pulitzer of the Post Dispatcn, died in his honm here last night of a heart attack. He worked all day yesterday.

Bainbridge Sets Street Fair Dates

The annual street fair and carnival, sponsored by the Bainbridge Volunteer Fir» Department, will be held this year on June 15 through June 18, it is announced. Vic Walters is president of the \ olunteer Firemen and reports they are expecting a bigger street fair than has ever been held.

VOTE FAVORABLY

WASHINGTON. Mar. 31.— The Foreign Relations Commit tee voted 13 to 1 today for the NATO pact. Sen. Danger cast the negative vote.

“The Christian is best able to stand his ground when he knows the ground on which he stands.” Those were the words of the Rev. Allan McLachLan Frew in his address, “I Believe —God Is,” at yesterday DePauw chapel in Gobin Church. The Reverend Frew pastor of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, reaffirmed his belief in Christianity as a religion which j has done more good and elevated I more of mankind than any other

! religion.

It is a Church, he said, which | is founded on the personal exper- : lences of God and Jesus Christ, i a Church which has behind it the i testimony of believers for 20

| centuries.

With such evidence, the Rever- | end Frew added, it is impossible ! to believe that such a religion I could have been founded on j hypocrisy or could have come

from a lie.

As we come to the Easter sea- | son, he commented, may you gain fresh insight and fresh con- ! victions into the strength of your

! faith.

Chairman of the Putnam County Unit of the ACS, Mis. Rex Haines, calle! attention tc an error in cancer statistics which appears in the campaign letter. According to Mrs. Haines, this letter roads. "One cleath out of four is a result of cancer.” This is not factual. One out ot four persons in the United States will at some time in their lives have cancer; however, one out of seven deaths will result. Modern methods of treatment, early detection, and modern surgery keep the cancer death rate lower than the incidence figure. Mrs. Haines regrets this misinterpretation and arics that the many readers of this paper help to correct the mistake when it is mentioned in converstaion. One out of four will have cancer, but only one out of seven cases will lesult in death from that cause. Throughout the county in public places there is informative literature placed for the use of those who wish to enlighten themselves further concerning this killer of young and old. Although this program of Research, Education and Patient ServiceJsjrtfressed at fund drive time, itfMs acti\ v l| | .12 months a year. The Putnam county quota for the cancer work is $2400.

BAD KREUZLACH Germany — Army Pfc. Bobby D. McCu' lough, whose wife Hazel, lives on Route 2. Rerisville, Ind.. cently left Germany for the U. S. after serving in Germany v th the 264th Field Artillery Bat-

talion.

McCullough r-rived in Europe during March 1954 and was a survey specialist with Battery B of the battalion. A former stu- I dent at Ashboro High School, he was a farina bef.• e entering the Army in Apri’ 1953. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie McCullough, Route 2. Cen-

ter Point.

SUSS INTERNAL TROUSl E SEEN IN til'd MODE

UNRF^T BI HU l> IRON • TAIN ' ’ s. I RI M I TO OR PARLEY

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CHICAGO, March 31—'TJ1 —The "serious” condition ol I Robert R. McCormick, ed i - and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, remained unhanged today. McCormick. 74, has been suffering from ill health since an attack of pneumonia in 1953. H physician revealed Tuesday * in his condition is serious. The publisher, who underwent an abdominal operation in January, is now at his farm home near suburban Wheaton.

Collegians Will Sing At Chapel

BERLIN, Harch 31.—(UP)— Allied High Commission officials met West German government leaders today in a search for urgent measures to smash circumvent a Communist “cold blockade” that threatens Berlin’s lifelines. Senior Western Allied High Commission officials met at the West German capital in Bonn to decide what action to take to combat the 15-million dollar-a-year tolls demanded by the Communists for trucks supplying food to West Benin. It was rafVirted they might draft a stiff protest note to the Russians charging them with violating the 1949 four-power agreement guaranteeing free access to U.is cold war hit tieground MO mil* j inside EaJ. Germany.

LON DON, Marc DiplomatK source th t Russian ml .>nd the growing si \\( t bad led th favor a four-pow

row.

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HOSPITAL NOTES

HOG MARKET

i Dismissed: Edna Chadd, Filli more. Basil Wilbur, Carlisle, Vera

Hog receipts 10.000. The mar- J Conway, Cloverdale, Ann Pearket was fairly active with prices son. Mrs. James Kendall and son, steady. > Greencastle.

DePauw University’s popular vocal group, the Collegians, will be heard in a program of modern music tomorrow at a 10 a. m. convocation in Meharry Hall. Under the direction of James Mitchell, a senior from Willoughby. O., the ensemble will feature selections from the recent Broadway musical success, “Wonderful Town.” An independent organization, sponsored entirely by students, the group has appeared in formal concerts on the campus, at midwestern high schools, and before various civic and social groups. Most recent performance by the Collegians was at a joint concert with Orchesis, modern dance group, last Saturday night during the university’s Scholarship Weekend.

WASHINGTON, Marcl 31(UP) President Kr mhnwer picked up some Dormcratm support today for th' idea of leHing the Communis's guess when we’ll begin to fig’ l In the F'.r East. He stood a goo.i d unce of getting even more at a White House lunch with the most powc- ful members of the Senate. Chairman Walter F C 'crge, D-Ga., of the S at 0 Foreign Relations Committee said Mr Eisenhower was right in making nr commitments about the defense of Quemoy ant Matsu off th.o Red China coa.-.t.

Jeniec Predii Victory Fcr GO

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John Fostei Dulles, and Manilo Brosio, ItqJian ambassador in Washington.

election, the Communists have lost control of the workers of th' Fiat Motor Company in Tut They may not sound like n. r > but Fiat is Italy’s biggest irdustrial enterprise. Fiat mechanics are regarded as the cream of iian industrial workers. But Reds had controlled them

lor years.

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r.ual election, they lost better than a two-to-om ny; itv. The defeat is expected have its effect all over Italy. The Red defeat is a victor;.Scelba. now visiting in Ameri ause he is Communist tne

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Mrs. Luce cannot, of com nterfere in Italy's domestic What she has don-- is tc it be known that fac< tiles which the Communists have union control will get no contracts fur American military

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