The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 August 1955 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 261
COUNTY FACES AN INCREASE IN TAX RATE NEARLY TWO MILLION IM)I*LAR BOOST IN PUTNAM ASSESSMENT
COMING TO DPU
With an increased assessment in Putnam county of almost two million dollars, the county is facing a rather drastic increase in the tax rate unless some governing body makes reductions when the time comes. One of the heavy expenses is the $450,000 bond issue and interest charges for the proposed wing at the county hospital. Todate so far as has been reported, the plans for the new wing have not been ardopted, but the bonds were sold several months ago and are now bearing interest at the rate of about $9,000 annually. The bond fund, it is said, will cost no more than the accumulative building now being raised for the hospitirl. Another heavy expense for next year is due to the fact that an election will be held. This will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. The Welfare Department is also seeking an increase in total funds, it being now above $.'100,000 annually, while each of the townships is also levying a ’’poor ’ levy. Five of the townships owe the county, due to past
deficits.
It looks as though the county levy will be at least a dollar, unless the council, the tax adjustment board or the state board r | duces the levy. This is in- j crease of about six cents over the j
DAVIS TALKS ABOUT INDIA AT LUNCHEON SPEAKS AT MEETING OF LOCAL KIWANIS CLUB ON THURSDAY
PLENTY OF SERUM
Josef Wacha Josef Wacha shown on his ar- j rival August 16th on board the j superliner United States. Mr. j Wacha is an exchange teacher from Vienna, Austria, who is going to teach at DePauw Uni-
versity.
Lions To Hold Family Picnic
current levy. The County Council and the local Lax adjustment board will scrutinize very closely, the proposed budgets when presented to them and some drastic reductions ar# still possible before they go to the state authorities who have final say on the tax
matters.
The proposed township poor rate ft>r Grecncastle has been fixed at 12 cents, while the welfare rate is up about three cents.
The Warren Twp. Lions Club will hold its annual family picnic at Forest Park in Brazil, Sunday, August 21st. All children of the Putnamville community are invited to be the Lion’s guests on this occasion and any child desiring transportation is requested to be at Boesen’s Store at 11:00
Sunday.
The basket dinner will be serv- | ed at 12:30. A committee is arI ranging games and contests, so there should be plenty of food and fun for all.
Rioting Flares In Casablanca
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aug. 18 (UP) — Rioting flared in Casablanca today in a bloody prelude to the countrywide demonstrations called for Saturday to force the return of exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben
Yousef.
French Premier Edgar Faure j met urgently with his cabinet in Paris to study the situation, but critics said the fresh blood being spilled in the protectorate meant a compromise offer had come
too late.
Resident General Gilbert Grandval was reported summoned Paris to meet with Faure Friday afternoon in a last minute effort to avert the expected street fighting between terror- | ists and French troops who have t poured : nto the protectorate all
j week.
In Casabalnca, focal point for
Books On Sale August 23-24
Principal Louis Overton announced today that new text books will be sold at the Roachdale School Cafeteria on Tuesday and Wednesday, Auguist 23 and 24. The sale hours will be from 10 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. on
each of the above days.
Used textbooks, in good condition. may be brought to the school for resale, if owners desire. Used books may be bought directly from former students, as there arc no change in the
state adopted list this year.
The principal and several teachers, will be at the school
to receive used books, and to j anti-French terrorism, "exassist in the selection of new t re mely violent” tracts were be- j
text and workbooks. The used books may be brought to school after 1:00 p. m. Monday. August
22.
The opening day of school will be August 26th. Pupils will meet for enrollment only on that day and will return for a full school day on August 29th. Book lists may bo had in advance either by calling at the school or at the principal's home.
Dr. Orville Davis, who spent a number of years in India, and a founder of a Rotary Club there, gave an interesting talk entitled "Why Indians Behave As They Do" before the Greencastle Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon meeting on Wednesday at the Student Memorial Union. Kenneth Eitel presided in the obsence of Dr. W. R. McIntyre. Before the talk by Dr. Davis. Mr. Eitel expressed the regrets of the Grcencastle Rotarians in the loss of Lt. Col. Frederick A. Sanders, who is being transferred to Montgomery, Ala. Dr. O. L. Davis in his discourse stressed, the importance of v understanding the background of the people of India before judging their actions. In this connection, he mentioned that with a population of 442 millions, 80 percent are illiterate and two-third are half-strved. Crowded into an area of less than half the size of the Unite! States, the people of India are of four of five religions—each drastically different and which have tremendous influence on their cultural backgrounds, said the speaker, in intimating that these factors also have a considerable tendency to effect political thinking. Dr. Davis made several interesting comments on the influence of the United States on India, and said that the Indians’ impression of America is not too favorable. This has been due to the movies, radio programs, and publications which are available to them, and which do not reflect the true character of the people of the United State, said Dr. Davis. Guests of the Rotarians were Harold Bell Wright, Methodist minister of Michigan City, Orin A. Scoughton, registrar of Hines Veterans Hospital of Chicago, Glenn Skelton of the Grcencastle high school, and Dorothy Taylor, guest of her father, Ralph Tay-
lor.
ing circulated by “The Black Crescent" terror organization calling for a 24-hour general strike and uprisings on Satur-
day.
The rioting began about midnight when Moroccans attacked I a car driven by a European, J Seraphim Zimmermann, and tried to lynch him. They overturned his car and set it afire but a grenade-throwing French patrol saved him and took him
to a hospital.
The mob surged on and attacked the police station at Derb
7 From County To Enter Purdue
Seven students from Putnam County were among those enrolled for the Fall semester at Purdue Univerrsity under the advance registration plan for freshmen during the period from July 18 to Aug. 5, according to an announcement from the registrar’s office. They are in addition tot hose previously announced as registering under this plan in the period from June 13 to July 18. Those freshmen students are: Joseph H. Sutherlin, Bainbridge: Shirley Ruth Wiegand, Cloverdale; Jack A. Anderson, FiJmore; Charles R. Bieber, Greencastle: Roy L. Sillery, Roachdale; and J. Carroll Fordice ana Janet Ann Houska, Russellville.
NOTICE
Effective August 22nd. The
offue of the Draft board will j p ac hko. a village just southeast
of Casablanca and joined to the
operate on the following schedule: 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 Monday through Thursday. Friday until
noon.
20 Years Ago
HERE AND THERE
Workmen employed on the improvement of State Road 43 on south Bloomington street started pouring concrete for curbs and gutters. Dr. and Mrs. Russell Vermillion were visiting relatives in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Donne: were vacationing at Curtis. Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sourwine were in Linton.
New Medina Arab quarter by the Bouskour Road. They cut telephone wires at the station and then closed in. The French policeman in charge escaped on a motorcya.e and returned with troops and gendarmerie who surrounded the village and forced the rioters to retreat. The sounds of gunfire and mortar explosions and the cries of Arab women urging their men to fight rang through the night. The battle was fought by the light of searchlights after rioters broke the street lights in the area. The number of casualties was j not disclosed immediately. I Other French troops seal el off the New Medina in Casa(I'onliuuetl ua 1’ase Two)
PTA Meeting Set For August 25 An information meeting for all PTA officers and leaders for both the city and county organizations, school principals, school superintendents and other interested persons will be held Thursday August 25. The meeting will be held at the DePauw Union Building and will start at 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Cumminns of Danville. Ind., our new r District Director, will speak and help solve problems pertaining to the coming year. Dessert will be served, please send reservations to Mrs. Lloyd Conyers, 20 Gillespie St. oi phone 522-MX. by August 23
“COMPANY UNION” FORT WAYNE, Aug. 18 (UP)—The National Education Association has been charged with being a “company union” by the AFL American Federation of Teachers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 18 — (UP)—Eli Lilly & Co., the country’s foremost manufacturer of Salk polio vaccine, has a large I quantity of the serum on hand, | ready for shipment for commercial and institutional use. A company spokesman said the vaccine includes 800,000 doses left over from the last shipment under the free vaccination program of the National Foundation for Infantile paralysis The stockpile, amounting to several million shots, now awaits clearance by the National Institute of Health. Stale Health Commissioner Dr. Andrew Offutt, meanwhile, said indigent Hoosier children will get priority on 18,000 doses, Indiana’s first allocation of commercial vaccine.
FREIGHT WRECK PERU, Ind., Aug. 18 —(UP) —Six cars and the caboose of an east-bound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train were derailed near Bunker Hill Wednesday. No injuries were reported. Officials said equipment failure may have caused the wreck. About 300 yards of track was torn up but repair crews replaced the rails overnight. The train, loaded with grain, was enroute from Logansport to Columbus, Ohio.
Two Robbery Suspects Held Two suspects in the attempted safe robbery at the O. & I. stone quarry office Sunday night are being held in the Marion county jail at Indianapolis, the Putnamville State Police Post reported Thursday morning. They are being held on burglary charges filed against them in the capital city, according tx state officers. As yet, detectives from the Putnamville Post, have not questioned the two men regarding their possible connection with the stone quarry office breakin. U. S. Will Store Grain In State
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — (UP)—The Agriculture Department has purchased 13,300 steei bins to store 43 million bushels of government-owned grain in Indiana and three other rrvdwestern states. The bins, costing about $10,300.000, will be used chiefly to store 1954 corn that will be taken over by the government during this month and September under price support operations. The department said purchase of the bins, a circular variety, did not lessen the need for farmers to provide their own storage facilities for this year’s anticipated near-record production. The storage bins also w r ill be used in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.
MARRIAGE LICENSE Dorwin Duncan, IBM, and Norma Jayne Moore, bookkeeper, both of Greencastle.
ROK Government Bans Jap Trade SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 18 (UP)—The Republic of Korea severed all trade relations with Japan today, plunging diplomatic relations (between the two hations into deeper crisis. There was no official announcement, but officials of four separate government offices in Seoul said a blanket ban on Japanese trade became effective today. The word spread rapidly through Korean and foreign business circles this afternoon, but no government official would say exactly when the order was handed down or how long the ban would last. The trade ban came only a few hours after government spokesman Hong Kee Karl issued a formal statement declaring that relations between South Korea and Japan were “reaching the breaking point.” Karl announced a ban on all travel by Koreans between the two nations. He explained the action by saying “The Japanese continue to seek to tie up with Communism and at the same time they refuse to withdraw their illegal claims to 85 perecent of Korean property.” Korea, long under Japanese domination, achieved its freedom at the end of World War II though it was soon to be cl* vided into a free south and -a Communist north. The Koreans have disliked and feared the Jepanese almost as much as they have the Communists and there has been a long series of incidents invol.'ing Japanese fishing boats and Korean naval vessels. FATAL ACCIDENT LAGRANGE. Ind., Aug. 18 (UP)—A horse bolted fior.i it carriage near here Wednosdr.y. throwing its only occupant tr> her death. State police said Mrs. Su n i Wickey, 55, LaGrange, suf.dv 1 a fatal skull fracture when hei horse suddenly broke for about 300 yards and she was tossed onto the pavement.
NEW COUNSELOR IS APPOINTED BY UNIVERSITY
WILLIAM STAFFORD WILL BE MEN’S RESIDENT COUNSELOR
antidisestab- f lishmentarianism.... •
DePauw University’s appointment of a new men’s resident counselor, William Stafford of Carrollton, O., was announced today by President Russell J. Humbert. Stafford succeeds Kent T. Hawley, who resigned after three years here to join the student affairs staff at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. A 1951 graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Stafford received the master of arts degree there last June. During 1954-55 he held a graduate assistantship and served as a men’s dormitory counselor. At DePauw he will assume counseling responsibility for residents of the men’s dormitory, Longden Hall, and for all unaffiliated men living in off-campus housing. Also announced today we*e three new dormitory housemothers, including Mrs. Miriam Fouts, Peoria, 111., Locust Manor; Mrs. Imogene Austin, Burlington, la., Florence; and Mrs. Ruth Sachs, Bloomington, Longden Hall.
New Code For America's GIs WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — (UP)—The United States set out today to arm its fighting men with the tough mental weapons demanded by its new code of conduct for prisoners of war. An Armed Forces training program which eventually could reach into schools, the home and church was ordered for all men in uniform by President Eisenhower Wednesday night in laying down the historic six-point code for men in combat and captivity. But the men who drew the code made it clear the military :lo::e cannot arm young Americans with the mental weapons they will need if they fall captive n future wars. “Moral character and basic o lief.i” must be installed at ' one, in church, and in the ■l.nsroom long before a young nan enters military service, the a de of Conduct Committee lid.
HOG MARKET Hogs 12,300; active, generally 25 higher; bulk U. S. 1-3 180-250 lb. S17.00-S17.36; few S17.50; 250290 b.$16.50-$16.75, few $17.00; 160-180 jjb. S15.25-S 17.00, few $17.25; 120-160 lb. S12.75-S15.00-
PRINCESS 25 AUG. 21—WILL SHE WED TOWNSEND?
THAT'S a $16,000 wowee! look from Gloria Lockerman, 12-year-old Baltimore schoolgirl. That’s the amount she can win on her next $64,000 Question TV appearance. She has already spelled her way to the $8,000 mark, hitting with correct spelling of antidisestablishmentarianism. (International J
Accuse Reds Of Plane Attacks
MUSAN, Korea, Aug 18 — (UP)—American officers accused the Communists today of unprovoked attacks on two unarmed American planes, one of which crashed in Communist territory with two U. S. officers aboard. The other returned safely to its home base. The United Nations command said “trigger happy” Communist antiaircraft gunners shot down a T6 training plane Wednesday near the Korean truce line and the Air Force said the Red gunners fired on and damaged a C47 cargo search plane today. A T6 crashed in Communist territory and it was not known whether the pilot and passenger, a captain and a lieutenant, were killed, injured or captured. The U. N. command demanded the return of the two men and the plane. The U. N. protest against the “barbarous” Communist attack said the small American aircraft was subjected to “continuous murderous and devastating ground fire” until it crashed in Red North Korean territory. No parachutes were seen. The U. N. protest said there had been nine instances during the past ten months of the Communists firing on unarmed aircraft and said the “trigger happy” Red gunners “seem to derive a fiendish delight” in the action. The Air Force said an unarmed C47 transport plane searching for the wreckage “was fired upon this morning approximately 50 miles northeast of Seoul.”
Chief Executive Lands Nice Trout
FRASER, Colo. Aug. 18 — (UP)—Delighted with the success of his first trout venture, President Eisenhowei hope! for bigger and better catches today in the chill waters of St. Louis Creek. The Chief Executive landed a 17-inch two-pound rainbow on one of his first casts in the stream Wednesday He hoped to top it today if the weather re* mained favorable for fishing * cool and cloudy. The two-pound-er was as big as any trout h* has caught here in summers past. Cool weather and overcast skies that occasionally drizzled, aided the presidential angling Wednesday on the Byers Peak Ranch of Aksel Nielsen, the Denver financier who is his host and fishing companion for the fiveday sojourn. Mr. Eisenhower and Nielsen icturned after three hcrurs on St. Louis Creek with a total of 16 fish between them Wednesday. The legal limit is 10 a day for each fisherman.
HEAVY DAMAGE COUNTED AFTER DIANE DEPARTS
HURRICANE LOSS ESTIMATED IN MILLIONS IN THE CAKOLINAS RALEIGH. N. C. Aug. 18 — (UP)—The storm battered coast of the Carolinas today counted millions of dollars in damage from Hurricane Diane, the second great storm to pass over the area within two weeks. The howler, the second with hurricane force winds to materialize in the Atlantic this season, dissipated into heavy rains and weak winds of 20 to 35 miles an hour over Virginia Wednesday night after smashing into the North Carolina coast. Gov. Luther H. Hodges and a hurricane “task force” of top state officcrils met today to survey damage caused by I >iane and its predecessor Connie. The oncepowerful Diane lost its killing punch by the time it hit heavily populated areas along the coast Wednesday. Only one death was attributed directly to Diane. A second was caused indirectly by the storm. Hurric ane Connie took a toll of 42 lives. Diane’s damage toll was expected to rise to a high figure. The storm ripped up highways well inla-nd in North Carolina, smashed beach cottages, amusement centers and piers, and tore through tobacco, corn and cotton acreage. Another potential hurricane built up in the Atlantic as damage from Diane was being assessed. A hurricane hunter plane was dispatched to investigate the “moderate easterly wave” — a band of showers located some 1,500 miles east of Puerto Rico. Authorities said Diane added millions of dollars in damage to the 30 million dollars in destruction wreaked along the south Atlantic seaboard by Hurricane Connie.
Special Judge Will Hear Plea
RICHMOND, Ind. Aug. 118 — (UP)—A special judge will .sit in Wayne Superior Court Aug. 29 to hear a plea in abatement to (prevent restraining action against the CIO United Auto Workers in a violertre-marked strike against the Perfect Circle Corp. Judge Wesley Ratcliff was named Wednesday to hear the plea, which states that unions are “voluntary unincorporated associations” and as such cannot be sued. Members of th< union struck lour Perfect Circle plants here and in New Castle and Hagerstown July 25 demanding a closed shop and a wake inrccasc. Scveral picket line flare-ups resulted in state police troopers being rushed to the plants. Officials said the closed shop dispute held up a contract agreement.
ATOM DISC USM I) LAFAYETTE, I; . Aug (UP) Atomic bomb -'o i to be diverted to products peacetime power at econo rates were p/edic’i-d W'din at a forum on peaceful us atomic energy. George Glashi-en, edit it
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All BRITAIN Is (^waiting news of Princess Margaret's romance with Capt. Peter Townsend, the 40-year-old divorced commoner she reportedly loves. Aug. 21 marks freedom day for Margaret — her 25th birthday. From then on she has the right to marry without the queen s consent Townsend, a diplomatic attache in Brussels, was a palace equerry, a reward for P^VF heroism. (International j
TRAITOR VKTI.M MUXCIE, Ind., Aug. 18 i UP i David Stults, 15, Muncie. was killed Wednesday when his farm tractor overturned into a ditch while loading trash on a county road west of here.
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