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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1955.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 260
M. M. ALSPAUGH DIES SUDDENLY, RITES FRIDAY
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DIES AT HOSPITAL
PASSED AWAY I'NEXPECTEDLY TI ESDAY AFTERNOON' AT HOSPITAL
Maynard Mill< r Alspaugh, 46. died suddenly and quite unexpectedly shor’y before 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at • Putnam county hospital. He had been admitted to the hospital at 12:45 p.
m.
The well known local man had not been feeling too well for a day or so but his condition was not considered serious by a y means. Consequently, news of nis passing came as a great shock to members of his family and his many friends. Mr. A!?paugh resided at 208 N. Indiana. He was born in Greencastle on July 28, 1000, the son of William and Nora Miller Alspaugh. The deceased was an active member of the local Moose Lodge and was a member of the 25-year Club at the Lone Star Germ nt plant. He had completed 26 years with the organization on Monday. He is survived by the widow, the former Mary Lou Brown; one daughter, Katherine Audere Dorsett, Terre Haute; five sisters, Mrs. Clifford Thomas, Mrs. Mildred Quinton, Mrs. Robert King, Mrs. Glen Deem, Mis. Eldena McCarson; three broers, Donald, Ralph and William Alspaugh, Jr., and one granddaughter, Lyla Katherine Dorsett. His parents and one sister, Edna Bachert, preceded him in death. Lust rites will be held from the Hopkins - Wa-lton Funeral Home at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon with burial in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 this evening.
Will Alverson, a retired Ow'm county farmer, died Tuesday morning at the Putnam county hospital where he had been a patient since last Friday. H’s body was released to a Spencer undertaker.
SIDEWALK CROWDED
The Greencastle post office has placed one of the new “snorkle” mail boxes on the north side of the post office building. It, along with some more parking meters and electric light poles in the middle of the sidewalks, will force pedestrians into the street, unless the practice is stopped.
DEATH TAKES EX-CLOVERDALE WOMAN TODAY
RITES TO BE HELD FRIDAY \» M i;\oo\ FOR MBS. EDNA JOYCE KELLER
SMILE WAS NEVER BRIGHTER
AMA Head Blasts Social Security
Russell School Opening Sept. 9 Announcement has been made
by Embert Gardner, trustee of Russell Township that the Russellville schools will not open j until September ft, due to illness :
of some of the teaching staff.
Plans had been made to open | the Russellville schools on August 26th, along with other schools of the county, but these
have been changed.
Mr. Gardner also reports that if there are sufficient people in Russellville who want to take the bus to the State Fair, that it will make the trip or trips. Reservations should be made by
contacting-the trustee.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 17 — j The nation’s Social Security j program is a burgeoning “mon- j ster” which may be gobbling up 35 percent of the Federal government’s "annual payroll” by 1975, the president of the American Medical Association warned here yesterday. Dr. Elmer Hess of Erie, Pa., told a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis. “Americans must re-evaluate the Social Security programs set up by the last session of Congress. The system must be made a sound proposition, not
a giveaway.”
Dr. Hess said there is $9,000000,000 in the reserve fund of the Social Security System now. “But it will take $900,000000,000 within 20 years if Congress doesn’t do something about this new Social Security
iaw”, he said.
Dr. Hess blasted the new setup as “out and out charity.” No one, he said, had paid more than $1,000 into Social Security, yet many recipients are now getting more than that each
year.
He said the only sound basis for financing Social Security would be to set up a graduated payment scale by which older persons “more likely to qualify for benefits” would pay more than younger participants. “Older people don’t want charity,” Dr. Hess said. “They would not be happy at all to know the younger generation i;
Mrs. Edna Joyce Keller, for many years a resident of Cloverdale, died early Wednesday morning at the home of her son. Albert Keller, in Indianapolis Death followed a cerebral hemorrhage which she sufferea Sunday. —' The deccasea was a member of the Baptist church and the American Legion Auxiliary of Hurst-Collins Post. She had been making he: home with her son for the past year. She was born in Indianapolis and was the daughter of William and Laura Arnold
Joyce.
The son is the only immediate survivor. Her husband, Tom Keller, passed away in 1950. Services will be held from the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale at 2 p. m. Friday with burial in the Cloverdale ceme-
tery. Rev. Clarence
have charge.
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ADMIRAL BURKE ASSUMES DUTIES OF NAVAL CHIEF
SUCCEEDS ADM. CARNEY AS COMMANDER OF u. S. FLEETS
THAT FAMOUS Eisenhower smile never shone brighter tlian here on the Cherry Hills golf course, Denver, Colo. Ike wears Cherry Hills golf cap, (International Soundphoto^
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Richard Neese, Navy, Reelsville Route 1, and Shirley Sutherlin, waitress, Greencastle.
DRIVER IN COURT
Richard Neese, 20, Reelsville, was arrested on a drunken driving charge by state police Tuesday. He was booked at the Putnam county jail at 6 p. m. When arraigned before Justice of the Peace Ola T. Ellis Wednesday morning, Neese pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs. His driver’s license was also suspended for one year. Warm Weather Forecast Issued
Rifle Wound Fatal To Boy SEYMOUR, Ind., Aug. 17 — (UP) Rcb^rt Baker, 15, of near Seymour, was killed late Tuesday when a rifle he was working on in preparation for a squirrel hunting trip with his father accidentally discharged. Physicians at Schneck Memorial Hospital said the boy died of a 22 caliber bullet wound above his right eye. The youth was home alone at the time of the accident waiting for his father, Wilmer, to return from from work. Robert’s mother found him and called authorities. The boy was the state’s second accidental shooting victim since the squirrel season started
last Saturday.
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Auxiliary Plans Blood Type File
The American Legion Auxiliary No. 2S1, Cloverdale, is trying to set up a file on Blood Types in this community in case of an emergency. Anyone willing
to donate blood if its needed j Manor Decorators to play
should contact Mrs. Tom Sandy, | Greencastle.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — (UP)—The Weather Bureau today advised perspiring residents of northern states to brace themselves for another 30 days of
paying for their retirement right j unusually warm weather. now /> The outlook for mid-August
to mid-September, it said, is for temperatures to average above normal in the northeast. Great Lakes region, and northern and
central plains states.
Temperatures are expected to average below normal in the Pacific Northwest, far Southwest, and lower Mississippi Valley. Elsewhere, they should run
“not far from normal ”
Rainfall is expected to exceed normal in the eastern quarter of the country from Georgia northward and along the west Gulf
coast.
Diier-than-usual weather is forecast for the central plains, western Great Lakes region, and west of the Continental Divide except for the northern and southern borders. There, and in other areas not specified, nea v normal amounts are expected.
Special Game At Park Friday
One of the best softball teams that has ever appeared in this city will play the Greencastle All-Stars Friday night at Robe- ! Ann Park. This visiting aggregaj tion, the Forest Manor Decora- , tors, boast two of the fastest j pitchers in the entire state in ! Jack Allen and Jack Wagner.* For the locals it will be the popular Ernie "Snooks” Hill or big Gene Clodfelter starting on
the mound.
This contest has been arranged due to many requests of local softball fans to get the Forest
in
R. R. 1. Cloverdale, Ind. Phone 85N and. give your name, address, phone number and type
of blood if its known.
Also anyone needing blood |
be a preliminary tilt starting at 7:15 between the Greencastle and Crawfordsville
girls.
The big game will be in charge
to contact Mrs. Tom Sandy to t a f “Crow” Hill, announcer and find donors. Your cooperation in [ official scorer during the season helping us with the information | j Us ^ completed. He urges all
Check Forger Goes To Prison
SOUTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 17 —(UP) —James E. McCulloch, 46, Nashville, Tenn., began a 2-14 year sentence at Indiana State Prison today following his plea of guilty on a charge of check forgery. M Culloch was sentenced Tuesday in St. Joseph Superior Court here for giving a $50 forged check to Mrs. Carrie B. Rodgers. South Bend, from whom he rented* an apartment. < Deputy Prosecutor Theodore E. Prek..\vitz said McCulllough had been convicted twice before on bad check charges, and recently had been released from Ohio State Prison.
Scientists Haii Ike's Suggestion GENEVA, Aug. 17 —(UP) — Scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain welcomed today a suggestion by President Eisenhower that another international atoms for peace conference bq held within two or three years. The Soviet delegation headed by D. V. Skobeltsyn was one of tlld first to express K.; favorable reaction. A spokesman said the Soviets welcomed the idea but could not speak ac length without fresh instruct ions from Moscow expeeteu by the end of the week. Heals of the delegations from Britian, France, Italy and India said they were gratified at the Presi dent’s suggestions. A number of scientists recommended the next meeting be held in the United States but there were bids from both France and Italy. The President’s proposal was put forward iirformally Tuesday by Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, in a talk before th.American Club of Geneva. He noted that it was President Eisenhower who suggested this meeting and hoped another would follow.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. * Aug. 18— (UP)—Adm. Robert B. Carney turned over command of America’s mighty fleets to Adm. Arleigh A. Burke today in a colorful ceremony unmatched in modern naval annals. Burke, 53, who was promoted to the post over 90 more senior line admirals, was scheduled to take the oath as 15th chief of naval operations on the historic grounds of the U. S. Naval Acadsmy. Threatening weather made it touch and go weather today’s ceremony would be held out of doors on Tecumsen Court in front of Bancroft Hall with bombing guns and parading midshipmen or indoors in Dahlgren Hall. The outdoor plan called for Carney to haul down his four star flag and turn over command to Burke, combat leader in World War 11 and Korea, and a leader in the 1949 “revolt of the admirals” against dependence on the Air Force’s B36 as the nation’s principal strategic weapon. Each admiral was to receive a 17-gun salute, and 19 guns were to mark both the arrival and departure of Navy Secretary Chas. S. Thomas the principal speaker and man who personally nominated Burke to the top uniformed Navy post. President Eisenhower named Burke to succeed Carney last May 25. Burke is the second youngest naval officer to hgld the post of chief of naval operations. The late Adm. Forrest P. Sherman was a few months younger when he was sworn info his office.
EXTRA! State police at the Putnain\ille Post reported today thai two men believed involved in the attempted safe robbery ai the O. A I. stone quarry offiee Sunday night had been taken into custody at Indiana|Ht|is.
NEW BEDFORD, Pa., Aug. 17 (UP)—FBI agents and state police nabbed one of the nation’s 10 most wanted fugitives as he !ay sleeping in his home here early today after the man’s wife tipped them to his identity. The FBI said the fugitive, Falzone, 42, offered no resistance to his arrest, although he had 15 pistols, seven rifles and one shotgun cached in the home he had occupied for the past eight years as James LaValle.
NORTH CAROUNA FEELS FURY OF TROPICAL STORM
ill rich \\i: D1 \\i D1 i KO HIT IN WILMINGTON AREA
LA CROSSE. Wic., Aug. 17— (UP) — CIO United Auto Workers at the Allis-Chalmers Co., plant here have voted 783-38 in tavor of a strike.
WILMINGTON, N. <\ Aug. 17 (FI*)—Hurricane Diane, losing sonic of its |miwit, surged inland at 11 miles an hour today towards the tieavily-|M>pulat<'d interior of North Carolina.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — (UP) — President Eiscnhowet will proclaim a new code of conduct tonight to govern American military men who may become future war prisoners and face Communist tortures. The President will put the new code into effect by executive order issued at the Denver summer White House. The Defense Department will make public immediately afterward an 80page report by top civilian and military men who devised the code. The code is an outgrowth of the notirious Red brainwashing and torture tactics disclosed in the Korean War. 4 U. S. military men were unprepared for the treatment meted out to them as Communist war prisoners and their reactions ranged from succesful resistance to collaboration and forced germ war “confessions.”
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Mesia G. Frank, through h v attorneys, Lyon and Boyd, fir 1 suit Wednesday for divor c fro Leslie Frank. The compiabi states the parties were marrit 1 on April 20. 1955 and separated August 14, 1955.
“DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN”
we want will be greatly appreci-
ated.
PUTNAM C OURT NOTES John C. Rader vs. Donald Miller et al, complaint in ejectment { ami affidavit for possession.
sports enthusiasts to turn out for Friday’s special event.
YOUTH CENTER WORK NIGHT ON THCRSDAY
Marry Flo Hecko. presidennt of the Greencastle Youth Centei Council annemneed today that final plans have been completed for the work-night at the Youth Center scheduled for Thursday evening from 4:00-10:00 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Brown Young people and their fathers
were enjoying a two weeks vacation in northern Michigan. New teachers announced f »r the Greencastle public schools included Leah Curnutt, Geneva Vaughn and Miriam Peek. K..y Francis and George Brej t were starring in •Stranded” at the Yoacastle theater.
h;-.ve been contacted for the evening of fellowship and work, inlcluding carpentry*, painting ,and yard improvement. A final appeal was issued today by Miss Hecko and the Rev. Elmer L. Harvey, president of the Board of Directors, to par ents and young people.
Two Teen-Agers To Face Charges KNOX. Ind., Aug. 17—(UP) —Two 15-year-old escapees from Michigan detention homes were scheduled to be returned to Detroit today to face possible charges stemming from fatal traffic accident and car theft. The two. Warren Roberts and Dennis McDonald, were arreste ’ Monday following a chase by a 30-man posse in which Roberts suffered a bullet wound in the leg. Physicians said Roberts would be able to leave the hospital here today. McDonald has been held in Starke County jail since their arrest in a cornfield near here The youths were discovered by a town marrhall at nearby Hamlet who saw them stealing food from a delivery truck. Michigan authorities said they are wanted for questioning in a two-car collision that killed two persons in Detroit,
7-YEAR-OLD Joyce L^e Pike listens solemnly in Compton. Calif., as her mother cautions her never, never to get into an automi bile with a strange man again. Joyce was found in parked auto of Everado Martinez. 29. six hours after she got into a strange car driven by a man a .block and a : tn her home. Mai \ ■ with hei when she was found, and she was believed unbanned. H was arrested.
Shotguns Stop Rioting Convicts LINCOLN, Nob. Aug. 17 — (UP) More than 200 Nebraska penitentiary convicts ended a 13hour riot today when armed guards invaded their cell block stronghold with orders to “shoot on sight.” The rioters, who had set fire to nearly half the penitentiary buildings, scurried meekly to their cells in the face of the shotguns. The riot broke out without warning Tuesday night annd ’tested about 13 hours. No hostages were taken, hut three convicts were injured by their fellow prisoners. One of the injured men was found today in his cell in the est ceil block. He had been badly beaten and his mattress and clothing had been burned. Tire other two were hit cm the head Tuesday night. Gov. Victor Anderson and other state officials issued the order to put down the riot with shotguns. The governor believed that Via rioter s w re led by some 30 r ingleaders. They issued no term.-, but prison officials frit sure the leaders were angling for the release of two men held in the prison’s maximum security building. The rebellion was the nation’s second big prison riot in three Jays and the second at Nebraska penitentiary in less than five months. Convicts at the Washington dat.; penitentiary rioted Sunday right, but surrendered the next morning. Last March 27 eight Nebraska convicts held two prnrcLs and a fellow prisoner for r> hours until watch-and-wait actirs ordered by Anderson -tai ved them out. Every sta e policeman in outheast Nob:>isk-i was rushed o the penitentiary area to help out down the latest uprising, la: ly today, 30 state police ne. •nd 30 to 40 National Guardsnen paced the vails s trrounbng the prison yard and embatled ’cell block. Tire rebels had cut the prison’s over lines, plunging it into larkness. They also set fire t > he prison furniture factory (Continued on i’utie Two)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UP) — The government soon will begin tracing shipments ot Salk polio shots to guard against any possible black marketing of the vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday night it will hire 48 temporary investigators to track each lot of vaccine released under the government’s voluntary distribution program. Purpose of the checkup is to make sure the vaccine goes through author ized channels.
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 —(UP) — An International Harvester Co., offer of a “guaranteed annuai wage” plan, a 10-cent hourly pay increase, and a union shop today led the CIO United Auto Workers to hope agreement on a new contract was near. Lenoard Woodcock, UAW vice president in charge of negotiations, said the union is “encouraged by the over-all situation.” He said that while the proposed five-year contract was “not yet acceptable in its present form” negotiations will continue. With similar progress “there is no reason why we can't complete tha job by Aug. 23,” he said. The present contract expires at midnight on that date. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UP) Korean Ambassador You Chan Yang called on the Unite ! States today to declare the Kor< an armistice “null and void” and to build free Korea’s military strength to meet a “sneak attack” by the Communists. NEW YORK, Aug. 17—(UP) —A 12-year-old Negro school girl who competed in the national spelling bee for free won $8,000 for her efforts Tues/iay night on a televisnion program. Gloria Lockermap of Baltimore. Md.. rattled off the spelling of a 18-letter word, antidisestabiishmentarianism, to reach the 5S.OOO mark on the Columbia Broadcasting System program, “the $64,000 question.” She returns next week tc decide whether she'll take the money or try for $16,000. (( oiitinunl on I'aer Tkrrr)
WILMINGTON, N. C. Aug. 17 (UP)—Hurricane Diane slashed the Caroline coast today with 90 - mile - an-hour winds and thousands of tourists fled from 12-foot waves which smashed down hastily-erected sea-walls. Hurricane strength winds were first reported in the Oak Island area at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, little more than 20 miles south of Wilmington. In a special 3 a. m, EDT Bulletin, the Miami Weather Bureau located the “eye” of Diane, the second full-fledged howler of the year, about 100 miles east-south-east of Myrtle Beach, S. C. But the Wilmington Weather Bureau said at 4:15 a. m. EDT, that it believed the stationary lightship at Frying Pan Shoals, about 60 miles southeast of this port city, was in the center of the hurricane. The lightship reported winds dropped suddenly to 25 miles per hour a.id the barometer was down to 29.15 and “dropping very rapidly.” Nearby substations also reported falling winds. The storm was moving in a north to northwest direction at about 10 miles an hour, the advisory said. The hurricane was expected to teach the coast “in the vicinity of or to the east of Wilmington this morning,” according to the Weather Bureau.« Storm warnings were hoisted as far north us Atlantic City, N. J., including, Chesapeake and Delaware bays, while the red and black hurricane flag flew from Cape Romain near Georgetown, S. C., to Cape Hatteras,,
N. C.
Hurricane force winds extended 125 miles northeast and east of the center and 72 miles to the northwest while squall winds of up to 100 miles perhour radiated for 100 miles from the “eye”. Twelve-foot waves pounded parts of Carolina Beach off Wilmington, breaking over some lowlying highways. ‘‘Dangerously high” tides of five to seven feet above normal were expected along the hurricane-alerted area. At Atlantic Beach, some 70 miles to the north, civilian and Marine crews manned bulldoze: s for the third time to push up sand barriers against the crashing seas. High morning and evening tides washed away the seawalls first damaged by Diane’s predecessor, Hurricane Connie, a week ago. Other sanbreak. at Surf City and New Topsail Beach, about 20 miles up the coast, were swept away Tue. lay after they had been r built a second time. The hurrican’ roared in on an almost desolate coastline as virtually all persons except Re I Cross and mili ary emergency crews moved inland to escape Diane’s fury.
\\ ILL IS 1‘ROIi M I D The will of the late Bruce Shannon has been fil> d for probate in the I“utn .m Cip mt court by attorneys Lyon a; 1 Boyd.
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