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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1955.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 256

C. OF C. WILL AID PARENTS OF STUDENTS

ASSIST IV FINDING HOUSING FOR OPEN ING DI*U WEEKEND

The Chamber of Commerce will again render assistance to the parents of new students entering DePauw University in September by helping them to find housing for the opening weekend and by furnishing such information as may be needed. Letters were written during the summer by Chamber of Commerce officials to a-11 prospective new students and their parents welcoming them to Oreencastle and inviting them ♦ cr make full use of its facilities to make their stay in the city a

happy one.

For the opening days of the semester the Chamber of Commerce erects a tent just north of Oobin M E. Church where parents may stop, pick up their room assignments, rest n bit, have a free coke, meet their friends or just “chin” with the

OLD AGE RECIPE CHICAGO, Aug. 12—(UP)— | Silas Jenkins, 103, Santa Cruz. Calif., arrived here late Thursday on the first airplane trip of his life to attend a family reunion at Princeton, Ind. Asked the usual question about his formula for a long life, Jenkins re-

plied:

“I never stole a horse, never called a man a liar, never smoked and never drank coffee.”

INJURIES FATAL HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 12— (UP) Injuries suffered while working with a construction crew on the upstate toll road proved fatal Thursday to Donald Ketchum, 24, Wheatfield. Ketchum was burned severely last Friday when a crane against which he was leaning came in contact with high tension wires.

A. A. HARGRAVE, ROCKVILLE, TO BE 99 MONDAY

CONNIE RAISES ANGRY WAVES ON EAST COAST

VETERAN PARKE COUNTY EDITOR STILL WRITES WEEKLY COLUMN

Post Office Is Kiwanis Topic

The Greencastle post office is a larger business than most citizens realize, commented R. R. Neal, Greencastle postmaster, in a 1 most informative talk given before the Kiwanis Club on

Chamber of Commerce members j Thursday at the Student Mem-

orial Union. Mr. Neal had some

v. ho are in charge.

That the service rendered by the Chamber of Commerce is appreciated is attested by the many letters that come from grateful parents whose first visit to Greencastle was inavle easier and more pleasant because they had a friendly contact as soon as they arrived in the city. As in past years Greencast It residents are asked to list available rooms with the Chamber of Commerce so that all parents may be adequately taken care of. Cards for this purpose are available at the Chamber of Commerce office or will ho mailed to anyone who requests them.

P. V. Chivingfon Dies In Florida

Paul V. Chivington, 62. passed

away Thursday at his home in j nla **' 1954,

Sarasota, Fla., where he had lived the past eight years. Mr. Chivington was born in Rockford, O., and was a grad-

uate of Case Institute of Cleve- 1

land, Ohio. He was also a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He was a state agent for Fidelity and Guarantee Insurance Co. After his retirement he came to Greencastle to make his home, where he operated a farm

northeast of the city.

Survivors are the wife, Edna; one son. Dr. Paul Chivington, Jr., Indianapolis, and three grand-

children.

Funeral services will be held from Flanner & Buchanan Fall | Creek Mortuary, Indianapolis, j Monday at 3:00 p. m. Private j entombment will follow in

Crown Hill cemetery.

Friends may call at Planner &- Buchanan Mortuary after 7

o'clock Saturday.

interesting figures to rela'e, which arc indicative of the growth of this community. Mr. Neal was followed on the program with short talks by Lawrence Crump, assistant postmasaer and Frank McKeehan, Supt. of mails. Robert Y. Cooper introduced Mr. Neal, and Cloyd

Moss presided.

"Grefencastle post office receipts increased from $104,000. in 1953 to $117,257. in 1954,” said Mr. Neal in commenting on the growth of the community, which now consists of 1,930 families with an average of four to five persons to the family making a population of approximately 8,200 people within the city limits. The 31 employes of the post office handles on an average of 20,000 pieces of mail a day, and during the past Christmas season, on one day they received and dispatched 50,000 pieces of

money orders

sent through Greencastle totaled $317,201 and registered mail amounted to $490,000, said Mr.

Neal.

Four city routes, one mounted

ROCKVILLE, Ind., Aug. 12.— (UP)—Arthur A. Hargrave, dean of Indiana newspaper pubI lishers, begins his 100th year of life next Monday still alert enough to grind out a weekly column for the Rockville Repub-

lican.

Hargrave has failed in the last 10 months due to a double jolt of bronchial pneumonia. But though his condition keeps him confined to his home, he hasn’t missed his column a single week. In fact, the Republican never has gone to press since Hargrave became publisher 67 years ago without having something in it written by the owner. Hargrave always did his writing on his own typewriter at his office until last October. He usually wrote one or more editorials along with the chatty column titled “Clubman’s Talk.” But shortly after he received an honorary degree at Indian?. University, Hargrave had an attack of illness. Since then, he has dictated his column to a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Henderson. "He does his column every week," said Hargrave’s son, William B., who actively manages the Republican. “He might be able to use the typewriter except that his sight is impaired by cataracts.” But Hargrave is mentally alert, nevertheless, and recently has devoted his columns to reminiscences of his boyhood and youth in and near Rockville. Nothing special was planned for his 99th birthday anniversary. A daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Tyler, Birmingham, Ala., came for a visit. The oldest of the five Hargrave children. Palmer Hargrave, San Gabriel, Cal., will not be here. He is 71. Hargrave was graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1881. He worked more than a year for the Kansas City Star, then went to Persia to take charge of the printing department of a Presbyterian mission. There he met and married Marian Moore, Joliet, 111., a missionary. Their first child was a year

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CHICAGO. Aug. 12 (UP) — The 1955 College All Stars, coached by professional tutors for the first time, were 12 points underdogs today for tonight s 22nd annual battle with the National Football League champions, this year the Cleveland Browns. A crowd of 75.000 was expected for the Soldier F.eld spectack with a gross gate, including television and radio receipts, of about $400,000, equalling the 1954 record.

ANGRY WAVES at Nags Heads, N, C., make such a spray the beach buildings can hardly be seen as

’Hurricane Connie raises havoc with the offshore Atlantic.

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I route and one truck route serve

the citizens of Greencastle, said when the couple returned to

Mr. Neal, and the postmen will ■ t* 16 States.

average 10 miles each day. The four rural routes are from 57 to 66 miles and serve 250 to 473 families on each route. It was related that in order to receive

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County Grocers Have Organized

TWO MEN JAILED

Two men, charged with public intoxication, were lodged in the Putnam county jail at 5 p.

I Home Owned Grocers Assocmj tion has been the name selected I by the new organization composi ed of independent grocers of Putnam county. In its advertisement this week, special inducements are being offered to shoppers made possible by the cooperation of the members of

the Association.

The Putnam County grocers

m. Thursday, Sheriff Joe Roll- j who are members of the Home

ings reported Friday morning. The two. David Mundy, 44. and Charles Mundy, 54. both of Nashville. Indiana, were arrested by

state police.

PI TNAM C OURT NOTES Empire Finance Company, j Inc., vs. Harry Denker Rachel Denker, complaint on contract for deficiency judgment.

20 Years Ago

HERE AND THERE

Dr. and Mrs. \Y. D. Killinger were in Dayton. Ohio. Kenneth West was on vacation from the Central National Bank. Mrs. Eugene Light and son. Amos, were here from New

York.

Mrs. John Rightsell was visiting her parents in northern Wis-

consin.

Delta Theta Tau met with Miss Mary Frances Cooper. Gilhert Hughes spent the day in Springfield, 111.

i Owned Grocers Association are

Gould’s Market, South Jackson St.: Gould’s Market, North Jackson St.: Hedge’s AG Market, 727 S. Main St.; Hatcher’s Grocery, Bloomington St.: Hardman Grocery. North Jackson St.: Campus Market, 602 S. College:

an j Gardner's Food Market, 802 E.

Washington, and N. P. Van Buskirk Grocery, Mason Food Market, Indianapolis Road; Bittles Grocery, Indianapolis Road. Monnett's Grocery, Main St.: Phill's Market, S. Indiana Stall of Greencas.le. Association members in Belle Union are Haines Grocery, Clearwater Regal Stoie and Sanders Market. In Fillmore, the members ar » Fillmore Home Market and Heavin's Grocery, and in Cloverdale the Association members are Langdon Bros., Regal Store and Vaughn and Knoy I. G. A. Store. Boesen's Market in Putnamville is a member, and Russellville Super Market in Russellville. and Stark and Bettis Regal Store in Morton. Hanks Regal Store in Bainbridge is another Association member.

Hargrave bought the Rockville Republican in 1888. He has published it ever since. Although he traveled extensively in all the 48 states, Canada, Mexico and Alaska, Hargrave never failed to meet the Republican's deadline with at least one piece of copy. His wife died in 1938. Hargrave is an elder emeritus in the Memorial Presbyteria.i church here, a 50-year member of the Masonic Order, a member of Phi Psi social fraternity and the oldest member of the Indiana Republican Editorial Asso-

ciation.

In his most recent columns, Hargrave has told about his school days in a one-room building in Putnam county, where he once was ordered to cut a cane from a thicket for his schoolmaster who whittled his old one to bits with a pocket knife. He also wrote of maple sugar making, butchering and the hardy life of Hoosier farmers in the 1860s and 1870s. At the end of his July 28 column. Hargrave quoted a Bible passage which perhaps reflectpart of his philosophy of life formulated over his 99 years: ■’Whe , ‘e envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil

work."

AN F2H-2P BANSHEE plane from Squadron VC62 ac Lhe Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Air Station wings

Seek Removal Dillon Prorated Of Co. Chairman To Po r ce Capri.

Cement Co. Will Heid Picnic Sat.

INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 12— The Indiana Republican State Committee today was faced with a demand for the removal of James G. McDonald of Princeton as Gibson County Republican

chairman.

State GOP Chairman Alvin C. Cast said a petition signed by 46 of the county’s 74 precinct committeemen and vice committeemen was filed late Thursday at state headquarters. The petition accused McDonald, who has been identified with the Jenner-Capehart wig of the party, with “neglect of duty, disloyalty and inefficiency.”

SEEKS DIVORCE

Mrs. Barbara L Smythe, through her attorney, Roy C. Suthrrlin, has filed suit for divorce in the Putnam circuit court from Marion Eugene Smythe. They were married Dec. 20. 1946. and separated June 16. 1355. She asks custody of three minor children.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 12 — (UP)—An Indiana State Police lieutenant was promoted to captain today and made a field supervisor in an expansion program designed to meet a heavier traffic load when the Ohio toll road is completed in October. Supt. Frank Jessup said Lt Robert F. Dillon of Brazil will be promoted effective Sept. 1 in connection with a plan to handle extra traffic coming from the Ohio superhighway and to police Indiana’s east-west toll road when it opens next year. Dillon will assume the field inspection duties of Capt. Alva R. Funk, Indianapolis, who will be assigned to surveys and plans in connection with the toll road expansion program.

Hundreds of employees and ir embers of their families will attend the annual picnic of th» Lone Star Cement Company at the park in Brazil Saturday. The program will open at 10:30 and at thr noon hour a big barbecue lunch will be served. The pro giani will continue well into th .■ afternoon. There will be a proT.nm that will interest both the ■oangsters and others who will itiend.

SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 12 (UP)— The Kennecott Copj ei Corp. and eight unions reached an agreement early today and ended a 42-day strike that had cut off one-third of America’s domestic supply of copper. Company spokesmen said mining and million operations would resume as soon as local unions ratify the agreement. The strike resulted in the loss of an estimated 130 million pounds of copper that would hive been mined since the strike began July 1. This loss, coupled with othei recently settled labor disputes in Western mines of two otlie: American companies and strikes in copper mines in South Africa, has contributed to a world-wide copper shortage, raised coppei prices and forced some processors to substitute other metals and plastics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UP) —President Eisenhower was expected to dispose today of the 55 bills that still remain on his White House desk. All were passed in the final days of Congress. The President signed into law 56 bills Thursday.

GENEVA, Aug. 12 — (UP) Scientists at Oak Ridge have so perfected the art of turning waste products into radioactive isotopes for the treatment of cancer that operations are nearing the big business stage, an American scientist said today. A. F. Rupp, superintendent of the op«nations division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, told the Atoms For Peace conference today that production of the isotopes for use in research centers and hospitals has been an active atoms for peace program since 1946.

BROWNING REUNION

STATE FAIR OPENS A " SPRINGFIELD, ILL., T >T)\Y

SPRINGFIELD. 111., Ar.g. 12 (UP)—The 10-day Illinois State Fair opened here today.

The 55th Reunion of the Browning Family will be held at Robe Ann Park, Greencastle, on Sunday, August 14th, 1955. U:iog well filled baskets, table ervice and your entire family. The report on the progress of the Family Tree and the cost of printing will be presented. In case of rain, go to the Presbyterian Church, corner of r ’lege and Poplar street after 12:00 noon. Dinner will be served at 12.30.

Governors To End Conference

CHECK REPRESENTS $32,000 WORTH OF ADVICE TO GINO

BIKE RIDER KILLED ELWOOD, Ind.. Aug. 12 — (UP)—Leo Bertog Jr.. B. Elwood. was killed late Thursday when his bicycle collided with a truck in an accident witnessed by his mother from their nearby home. Warren Scott Dailey, 29. Elwood. the truck driver, was not held. Authorities said the boy drove his bike into the wheels of the truck.

MARRIAGE LIC ENSE Wendel Lee Sickles, factory worker, and Martha May Haperak. factory worker, both of Terre Haute.

Bronx cobbler Gino Prato, who caught the attention of the nation’s television vieweis by his thorough knowledge of opera, turns over to his wife. Caroline, the cheek for $32,000 given him by ’The $64 000 Quest.on ’ shown when he took his 92-year-old father's cabled advice f.om Ilaiy an i declined to try for the big pot. That’s Gino’s daughter, Loirame, at right.

CHICAGO, Aug. 12. (UP) — The 47th annual Governors’ Conference wound up today looking more than ever like a dress rehearsal of the 1956 political conventions. It also foreshadowed another possible race for the presidency between President Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson. The 46 governors have been meeting since Tuesday, with highways and highway safety the dominant subject on the otficial agenda. But the 1956 presidential ra e consistently held the si>oLlight and Stevenson emerged as the dominating figure of the conference. He kept busy conferring with Democratic governors and his Wednesday night promise to announce his political plans by November was taken by many observers as an indication that he will make the race. Meanwhile, the Republh an governors were almost unanimous in hacking President Eisenhower for a second term. Many of them expressed confidence that he will be a candidate arm score a decisive victory. The Democrats were not so united and at least two Southern governors threatened open red .- lion against a Stevenson ticket in 1956. Texas’ reb*d Gov. Alia,. Shivers announc' d he wo dd - ipport “practically anybody,” regardless of party, in preference to Stevenson. And Gov George B. Timmerman of South Ca - - lina predicted a "strong, definite possibility” of a thud party candidate next year. Stevenson will have to do "a lot of clarifying of his views” ‘ > be acceptable in the South, Timmerman said. On the other hand, Stevenson won continuing support from (Continucrt on i*HXe Tnuj

STORM LASHES NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL AREAS

“CONNIE” HITS AS NEW HURRICANE DIANE IS REPORTED

MOREHEAD CITY. N. C.. Aug. 12. — (UP) — Hurricane Connie battered North Carolina coastal towns today with enormous flooding tides and 100-mile-per-hour winds. Troops were mobilized to help 1,000 lowland residents flee rising waters of the Pamlico River. The huge tempest, its shape gone awry and its ferocity weakened somewhat by a 30-hour standstill offshore, crept closer from the Atlantic for what might be a dying stab at the U. S. mainland. Outer winds of 100 miles per hour knocked out power, felled trees and damaged homes in towns dotting the coast and destructive tides washed over streets, wrecked piers and gutted beaches. » National Guardsmen began trying to move some 1,000 persons from homes along the rising Pamlico River near the historic town of Washington, N, C., 60 miles north of Morehead City. Thousands of other refugees ciammed shelters all along the coast. More than 2,000 refugees were sheltered in Wilmington alone. However Connie’s chief thie.it early today appeared directed at the low tidal river country to the north of here. That course, in a northeasterly direction would carry the center near the teeming Norfolk, Va., metropolitan area. But Connie’s northward jaunt started so slowly and uncertainly that it appeared likely to-blow itself out before moving far inland, momentarily relieving a threat, to 1,000 miles of the eastern seaboard. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Miami at 3 a. m. EDT centered Connie about 95 miles south of Morehead City and said it was moving northward at about five or six miles per hour. Weather observers expected the eye of the hurricane to pass inland near Morehead City before noon, bringing heavy rains as well as high winds into eastern North Carolina and into Virginia. Hurr icane warnings were lowered south of Myrtle Beach, S. C., but the Weather Bureau warned of possible danger as far north as Manasquan, N. J. Red and black hurricane flags remained hoisted from Myrtle Beach northward through the Virginia Capes. Reconnaissance aircraft found Connie’s onetime force of 135 miles per hour near the center had weakened, the 100-milc-per-hour wi.ids raking the coast were the tempest’s highest winds. The top winds raged in squalls 40 to 60 miles from the now misshapened center. Connie was creeping nortirward at about six miles pee hour, the Weather Bureau said. The new tropi al storm named Diane was re[>orted picking up in size and intensity in an area i < nter at 6 a. rn. EDT about 520 miles south-southeast of Bermuda and moving northwestward at about 11 miles per hour. A Miami Weather Bureau advisory predicted highest winds of 60 miles per hour near the cen- ■ > i would increase to hurricane force ol 75 miles per hour during Lhe day. Gales extended 200 miles to the north and east and 100 mil's to the southwest, the advisory said.

^ Toda/'s Weather G O local Temperature 41

Mostly fair and pleasant today, tonight and Saturday.

Minimum 6 a. m. ... 7 a. m. _ 8a. m. ... 9 a. m. .. 10 a. m. ... 11 a. m. 12 noon ... 1 p. m.

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