The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 August 1955 — Page 1
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VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 258
STONE QUARRY OFFICE SCENE OF BREAK-IN
ROBBERS SCARED AWAY AFTER MOVING SAFE OUTSIDE SUNDAY
FIRE DESTROYS CRIB ON LEONARD MANN FARM
State police and Putnam coun-
ty authorities were hunting for | th' ir tank was refilled from
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a double crib and about 700 bushels of corn on the j Leonard Mann farm east of I Clove; dale Saturday about noon. The Cloverdale fire department was called and made its first tun, but about the time they had ‘.he fire under good control, they -an out of water and by the time
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clues Monday n. -ruing as result of an attempted - ,bbcry at the O. & I. stone quarry, just southwest of the city, Sunday night.
nearby pond, the crib had start-
ed burning again.
The corn was scattered by the use of a bull dozer, but it
MANY ENJOYED BOATING EVENT AT YACHT CLUB
SECOND ANNUAL REGATTA HELD SUNDAY AT CATARACT LAKE
The would-be robbers had 1 still burned and wau continuing managed to get the office safe, | to burn Monday. Only a smali weighing some 500 or 600 pounds out of the building, before they were frightened away
from the scene.
Keith Humphrey, who lives in the house on the hill above the office, returned home at 11:30 p. m. He noticed a car beside the .office but did not become suspicious until after he had put
Several hundred aquatic enthusiasts, consisting of members and guests, witnessed the second annual regatta at the Cataract Yacht Club on Sunday. Robert H. O'Hair, vice commodore, was the general chairman of the interesting event held during the morning and afternoon on the upper lake. Following the regatta, in the late afternoon a social hour was held at the club house with Ha! Hickman of Greencastle acting as announcer and master o£ ceremonies. Mr. Hickman was
assisted by Fred W. Keuthan, Mrs. Mattie Cline, 79, passed ! fleet ca P tain > in awarding the
amount of insurance was carried on the building and contents.
Mattie L. Cline Bites Wednesday
his own car in the garage. The away at the Methodist hos p ita i I trophies to the winners of eac.i
continued barking of his dog and a pounding noise caused him to get the auto out of the garage and he started down the hill toward the office. This action scared off the nocturnal visitoi s who jumped in the parked automobile and sped away in the
darkness.
Humphrey discovered the safe outside the office and immediately notilied the authorities. The robbers forced a basement window in order to gain entrance to the building. They went upstairs to a storeroom where they broke another window to get into the main office. Desks in the office had been ransacked apparently in search of the safe's combination and for possible money. State police said later Monday morning that the combination of the safe had been ruined but that the robbers failed to get it
open.
Nothing was reported missing by stone quarry officials who remarked that it required five cr six men to move the safe info the office when it was first put in use. It was believed that a" least two and perhaps more men were in Sunday night’s robbery
gang.
3 From County At Tax School Mrs. Clara L. Reeves, Walter L. Bryan and David Grimes, ail of Putnam County, are among 152 city, township, county and state government officials who received certificates at the conclusion of the first Indiana Property Tax School at Indiana
University.
Purposes of the school mainly were to discover ways to make property taxes more equitable and to prevent evasion j ol payment of personal property
in Indianapolis Sunday evening. ! even t-
She had been a patient in the hospital for the past two weeks. Mrs. Cline was born September 25,1875 near Roachdale. She had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Donald Cox in this city since the death of her husband in 1918, and was well known in this city. She was s member of the Roachdale Christian church. Survivors are: two daughters, Mrs. Donald Cox, Greencastie, Mrs. Mabelle Underwood, Crawfordsville, two sons, Frank and Joseph Melvin Cline, both ot Nashville, Tenn, five grandchildren and one great grandchild, one sister, Mrs. Bain and other relatives. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. from the Rector Funeral Home. Interment will be in Roachdale cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home.
Mother, Three Children Killed
HAVANA, 111., Aug. 15 (UP) —A Terre Haute, Ind., mother and three of her children, enroute home after winning blue ribbons at the Illinois State Fair, were among five persons killed Sunday in a head-on collision
south of here.
Dead were Mrs. Bernice Painter, 39, of Terre Haute, and her children, Charles. 14, May 12, and John 11, and Howard E. Watkins, Chandlerville, III. The Painter children had won an A-rating and a blue ribbon as a musical trio at the fair Saturday where they were adjudged the best group in a 4-H share-
the-fun contest
Roy Painter, husband of the de .d woman, was injured
There was only one accident during the afternoon. Young Freddie Keuthan, an entrant in the “free for all”, capsized ms boat on a turn, and was thrown into the water. He was rescued and suffered no ill effects. His boat was later recovered. I Bernie Schulton came from Louisville to win the sail boat race held during the morning. Billy Keuthan of Indianapolis was the happy youngster to receive the trophy for the junior race involving outboard up to 10 H. P. The outboard speedboat of 40 H. P. race was won bj Eudwin Burris of Terre Haute, and another Terre Haute man, Richard Davis, was the recipient of the trophy in the 12 V*. to 16 ft. outboard speedboats classification. Several persons from Danville were winners; Dick Kendall took the trophy for the inboard speedboats up to 100 H. P., and Major Franklin carried away the outboard open speedboat, up to and including 12 ft. LOA, trophy. Dr. O. E. Crawley of Danville won the outboard open “Free for all”, and his two sons, Jake and Jere Crawley, won botn water skiing events. Roy Sutherlin served as one of the judges, and Rex Haines was on the Safety Patrol, Rescue and First Aid committee.
Ike in Denver For Rest, Work
DENVER, Aug. 15 —(UP) — President Eisenhower, obviously glad to have Washington problems temporarily behind, today began a work-and-play vacation with enthusiastic plans for an early bout with mountain trout. The Chief Executive, rested from a quiet night at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John
SCT ‘ Sheldon Doud, scheduled an
early morning visit to his tern-
taxes' The school was sponsored | iousIv and taken to Graham Hos-
by the I. U. Department of j l' il<tl in Canton, 111. Donald p orar y headquarters at Lowry Government’s Bureau of Govern- | ' <lu S ,in - Greenville, 111., a pas- ( Ajr p orce Base and then a golf
the National sen ^ er in thc Watkin s car - was j match with Dan Thornton, form-
ment Research,
Associatiop of Assessing Officials and state associations of county auditors, treasurers and assessors and township assessors
and trustees.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Dismissed: Ruby Singleton, Geneva Murphy, Stilesville; \ Mary Watt. Indianapolis; George Priest, Bainbridge; Sam Dickey, Greencastle; Mrs. Leland Brown and son. Greencastle; Mrs. Marjorie Bowman and son. Clov-
erdale..
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott, Cloverdale are the parents of a
son.
injured critically.
Coroner Richard Hurley of Mason County s ikl witnesses told him the car driven by Watkins was weaving on highway just before the crash, the worst
in the county’s history.
The Painters' two other ch IdI ren. who accompanied the family to the fair, were not in thc car. Police said the other children had been left with friends at
Monmouth. 1,11.
Will Rogers, America’s cowboy humorist, and Wiley Post, famous flier, were killed when their plane crashed in a dense fog near Point Barrow, Alaska. Rex Boyd and Jerry Masten underwent tonsil operations at the Putram county hospital. Lloyd Messersmith gave a talk on baseball at the Kiwanis Club luncheon in the Christian church.
12 CONVICTS SURRENDER: HOSTAGES ARE RELEASED WALLA WALLA. Wash. Aug. 15—(UP)—Twelve rioting convicts at teh state prison surrendered and released ten hostages today after Warden Lawrence Delmore Jr., backed by armed guards, told them they were “damned fools.” The convicts had barricaded ttemselves in the mood manager's office of the prison, where they were dirven by tear gas and a warning shot fired by the tough-talking warden. Delmore said the rioting inmates captured 11 guards at 10:15 p. m. EDT during the evening meal and released one of them. Geiald Lehan. with the convicts' demands. For a short
er Republican governor of Colorado, at the Cherry Hills Country Club. Mr. Eisenhower landed at Lowry at 8:59 p. m. EDT Sunday, after a five-hour, 34-min-ute flight from Washington i.i his Constellation, the Columbine III. He was in no hurry and detoured for a low-level look en route at his old hometown of Abilene, Kansas. The President, his desk and calendar relatively clear, is expected to head for the upper reaches of the Rockies Tuesday or Wednesday for several days of trout fishing at the Eraser. Colo., ranch of his pal, Aksel Nielsen of Denver.
Mrs. Mattie Lee Goodwine was j time the rioters held partial convisiting her son. James, in La c- I trol of the prison, but guards ton, Okla. went into action with tear gas.
BOY’S BODY FOUND MUSKEGON. Aug. 15 —(UP) -Authorities planned to ques- | tion employes of a Boy Scout camp today in their search for the sex pervert who shot and killed a 12-year-old scout. The mutilated body of Peter Gorman, missing from Camp Wabanigo since July 5, was found Sunday in a swampy area 10 miles north of here and six miles from the camp. Shenff Axel E. Pederson said 10 employes of the camp would be questiemed about the slaying. The sheriff said at least two of them could be considered “suspects ‘
MARRIAGE LIC ENSES Ed\va:d Hubbard, IBM, Stilesville, and Charlotte Combs, at home, Martinsville Route 5. Lelanl David Plessinger, Allison’s, Greencastle, and Josephine Joan Polifroni, clerk, Terre Haute. Charles William Cooper. Omar. Putnmaville, and Barbara Ann Jones, clerk, Reelsville Route 2.
TWO GARY MEN DIE IN ILLINOIS ACCIDENT
MONEE, 111., Aug. 15 —(UP) Two Gary. Ind., men were killed in a collision of four cars on I Route 54 east of here. Dead were Nicholas PolakL, 62. and John Sarandy, 61. Seven persons were hurt in the wreck.
TROPHY FOR SAFETY WORK
CHANGES ARE DUE IN CITY POLICE DEPT.
PRESENT CHIEF WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY JOHN VERMILLION Several changes will be made in the city police department within the next two or three weeks, it was announced today. The first change to be made will take Grover Vaughan, serving as chief for the past month, to DePauw University, there he will succeed R. N. Reinstedt Security Officer, who is leaving to serve as dean of students and director of admissions at California’s Wittier College. Reinstedt succeed Russell Clapp when the latter went to Plainfield as head of the Bay's School. John Vermillion will succeed Grover Vaughn as head of the city pol ce department wh n the change is made. Mr. Ve. million is the oldest member of t e city police department in point of ser vice and should make an ideal head for the city police depart-
ment.
EXTRA! SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 15 — (UP) U. S. Far East Commander Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer hurried back to riottorn South Korea today after President Syngman Rhee reaffirmed his determination to force U. S. guarded Communistt ruce inspectors
out of Korea.
Lemnitzer, teh top American military officer in the Far East, flew in from his Japan headquarters. It was his third trip to the uneasy peninsula since Korean mobs 10 days ago started demanding that Polish and Czech truce inspectors leave the country. The general’s mission today was not disclosed.
STATE TRAFFIC TOLL IS NINE OVER SUNDAY FOUR OF VICTIMS DIE IN ONE ACC IDEV 4 SI NDAY NIGHT
This trophy was awarded the Lone »3tar Cement c,, ,-v Greencastle plant away back in 1936 for no lost time accident war! It has been re-awarded many times since and was 1 cawaroed Saturday at the annual picnic .by J. R. D. Brown, representing the Portland Cement Association. The plant now has a total of 1497 no lost time accident days for a record of safety. Earl Bemis of the plant force, accepted the trophy on behalf of the employes. He outlined what safety means to the workman and asked that 1955 be another no acchlont year. Close to 1 .J00 attended the picnic. The plant worked until about 10 o’clr- k and then everyihing was shut down and all went to the picnic gathering.
BEDS WIN ELECTION REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO Aug 15—(UP)—The Communists imported some 1,600 voters j Sunday to beat the Democrats in | a showdown election and retain ! control of the only Red-domin-ated state in Western Europe. By winning, the Reds thwarted a conceited drive by an American delegation and the tiny republic’s non-voting women to replace Communism witn
democracy.
Semi-official final returns showed the Communists gained three seats from their opponents in the 60-man Grand and General Council, which controls all life in the 38-square-mile enclave of 15.000 people in the Italian Apennines. For the past fo - if, years the Reds have held a
31-2C edge.
THE LiNEiJP FOR LUHCH AT LONE ST AH PiGSiC
PANGIM, Goa Aug. 15—(UP)—One Indian demonstrator was killed and two others were injured today when Portuguese ' police stood firm against a “non ! violent invasiem” of this Portuguese colony by thousands of Inoian nationalists. Reports reaching Bombay from ahe bolder said throe liberation volunteers were killed and 13 wounded as Portuguese police opened fire on 300 volunteers who broke through into Goa at Banda. The shootings occurred as the first 197 marchers moved along muddy jungle roads into Goa in the face of heavily reinforced Portuguese police patrols. LONDON, Aug. 16 (UP) — The outlawed Irish Republican Army struck again today with a raid on a British armory in Wales, but new war-like security measures in effect throughout Britain foiled the attackers. Five members of the IRA .swooped, .down on (the KJnnel Park Garrison at Rhyl in north Wales in a pre-dawn attack aimed at building up the army’s arsenal in its avowed campaign to drive the British out of North-
ern Ireland.
They tied up one British soldier but he was able to free himself and sound the alarm. First reports said the raiders fled without taking anything, pursued by police and members of the 31st and 38th Royal Artillery training regiments stationed at the camp on the Irish Sea. < <'on f i n ihmI 011 i*;ij»«» I'our)
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Long ques of hungry folks lined up at the tw o cafeteria tables at the Lone Star Co., picnic hel 1 in Forrest Paik Brazil, Saturday. This picture shows only u small portion of the crowd wh ch was waiting to be seved some of the 600 pounds of bee f barbecued and a lot of other things that go to make up a good dinner. TOP BRASS OF LONE STAR AT ANNUAL PiCNIi)
L. D. Brown, representing Portland Cem nt Association, presented the trophy to the piam; O. L. Staggs of the New York office labor relations manager of the Lone Star Co., spoke on behalf of the plant management; John VanAlstyne, pLnt superintendent, J. G. West, vice pjesident, in charge of Indiana operations; and William Sutherlin, who offered the openmg convocation.
New Hurricane Aimed At Coast MIAMI, Aug. 15—(UP) — Hurricane Diane, the second mighty howler in less than a week, aimed its 115-mile-per-hour winds at Georgia and thc Carolinas today. Coastal residents were advised to prepare for a hurricane warning, possibly within hours. Diane, picking up speed as it rumbled across open south Atlantic seas, posed a definite threat to the Carolinas, still mopping up after hurricane Connie, the first full-fledged blow of the year, and the Miami Weather Bureau, in a 5 a. m. advisory, also extended the alert to the
Georgia coast.
Weather officials said the killer hurricane, which has already claimed one life, could outdo Connie in its destructive power. Connie’s 135-milc-per hour wind.: lost some strength when the hurricane hovered aimlessly off the coast for several days but the storm still accounted for 42 deaths as it finally smashed inland and caused an estimated 15 million dollars damage - . In its early morning advisory, ihe Weather Bureau locat'd Diane some 670 miles easisoutheast of Jacksonville, Fla. Savings Bond Sales Are Up Loins H. Dirks, chairman of the Putnam County U. S. Sav- ! mgs Bonds Committee, has received a report showing that the j County's Savings Bonds sales 1 for July were $60,844 compared with $40,334 for the like period
of last year.
Indiana's percenLiges of 1 monthly sales increases over the corresponding sales of 1954 have , topped the national average for every month this year.
Four persons killed in the state's second major traffic crush in less than a week sent Indiana's weekend traffic toll to at least nine dead. Two of the victim., in the Sunday night collision on Ind. 3 north of Markle were Munoic youths homeward bound from a church outing and teh other two were Evansville motorists. Five persons were severely injured in the wreck. Dead wr Knt Moor, 19, and Linda Etchison, 20, both of Munci, and George Sugg, 62, and Roy Berry, 55, of Evansville. In critical condition at Huntington County Hospital were Rebecca Shear, 20, Barbara Hanson, 19, and Linda Lester, 20, all of Muncie. Seriously hurt were Betty Evans. 47, and Mis. Edna Berry, 45, both of Evansville. Mrs. Berry was the wife of one of the victims. State police said there were no skidmarks at the crash scene, indicating both cars rammed together at full speed. Authorities said the car containing the Muncie group, and driven by Moore, apparently drifted into the left lane. Sugg, driver of the other car, swerved partially off the road onto the shoulder in an effort to avoid the collision. Last Wednesday night, five Ohioans were killed in a twocar collision near Seymour. In other weekend accidents, John Fenton Seagly, 71, a Ligonier hardware store owner, was killed Saturday while crossing U. S. 6 west of Ligonier. He was struck by a car driven by Floyd Halterman of Fort Wayne. Evelyn Melton, 38 of near Chandler was killed Saturday in at wo-car collision near Rockport.. Four other persons suffered serious injuries in the crash. Three of the fatalities were from Indianapolis. Thomts Brown, 3 son of the Albert J. Browns of Indianapolis, was killed Friday night in u traffic accident on U. S. 31 near Westfield as ha returned home with his family from a Michigan vae.rtion. Barbara Cummings, 28, was injured fatally Saturday when a car in which she ro Ic went out of control ami struck ;r telephine pole on Indiana 9 south of Huntington. James Amos, 72, was killed when he was struck by a car while crossing a street near his home in Indianapolis. Police questioned John William Long, 54, Indianapolis, driver of the
car.
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