The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 August 1955 — Page 1

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VOLUME SIXTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1955.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 264

ANNA SPENCER, CLINTON FALLS RESIDENT, DIES

LIONS ('LI B WILL HOLD MEETING AT CITY PARK j

The Greencastle Lions Club will hold a watermelon feed and pitch-in supper at the Park this evening at 6:30 o’clock.

FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY FOR WELL KNOWN COUNTY WOMAN

Mrs. Anna Berry Spencer, age 78 years, well known Putnam county woman, passed away Sunday morning at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Margaret Farrow in Clinton I* alls. She had been in poor health for a number of months. The deceased was born in Parrke county on October 3, 1876, the daughter of Steven and Elizabeth Harmon Berry. She is survived by the husband, Robert; tvyo daughters. Mrs. Farrow and Mrs. Jaunita Rasmussen, of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Rachel Spencer, of Bellmore; three brothers, James Berry, of Bellmore, Roy of Morton and Benjamin of Union Mills; a grandson, Robert Earl Farrow and other relatives.. Last rites will be held from the Rector Funeral Home at « o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. F. F. Travis will have charge. Burial will be in the Portland Mills cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

C HILD DROWNS

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 22. —James Roemer, 2 years old. South Bend, drowned yesterday in Mjgicion Lake, near Dowagiac, Mich. Authorities said the chiid waded into four feet of water when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Roemer, turned their backs momentarily.

FOUR HOOSIERS ARE KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

DEATH RIDES THE HIGHWAY’S OVER SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Missing Child Caused Alarm

Four Indiana residents died as a result of traffic accidents in i the state over the weekend. William G. Roop, 19, of Salem, was killed Saturday night when the car he was driving left Ind. 37 about five miles south of Paoli, struck a tree and overturned. Alexander Wood, 22, Salem, a passenger, was treated for minor injuries. Harry J. Clemons, 60, Mitchell, was injured fatally Saturday on Ind. 37 three miles south of Bedford when his auto and a

HOME CRASHES INTO RAMPAGING RIVER

PLEADS FIRST, FIFTH

truck collided. Leon Pridemore,

A report Sunday afternoon ! Mitchell, the driver of the

that a little girl had drowned in j ^nick, was injured

I Austin Coleman, 18,

FILLMORE SCHOOL WILL OPEN ON FRIDAY

Trustee Alfred Tleavin announces that Fillmore school will begin August 26 on daylight savings time. The school bookstore will be open Thursday, April 25 from 9 untill 5, on Friday, August 26 from 1 until 5 and on Saturday, April 27, from 9 until 12. Principal Arthur Johnson statca^that he will be at school Wednesday and Thursday to confer with any new high school students about their program for the coming year.

seriously.

Cataract Lake was erroneous as ! • rvu;,ui1 ^uieman, is, also of

j Mitchell, a passenger with Clemons, suffered cuts and bruises.

the child, who had been missing from the beach, showed up safe and sound shortly after an alarm

had gone out.

Sherilf Joe Rollings and City Firemen Chari s Pettit and O. W\ Hill made a quick run to the lake with the fire department resuscitator. However, upon ai’~ rival they learned that youngster had been found.

Torr ential rains have put the entire central and w estern pans of Masstchusetts under water. Aerial view shows home crashing into rampaging river- here as rushing turrent hurls masses of debr is against walls of nearby buildings. 13 lives were lost in this flood which was claimea to be the worst in state’s history.

Court Of Honor Held By Scouts

APPLETON IS HARD HIT

APPLETON. Wise., Aug. 22— A new polio case was reported in Outagamie county Sunday, raising the total for that hard hit county to 204 cases. The latest patient is a 19 year old Bear Creek girl who was hospitalized at Appleton. Outgamie County recently was listed by the U. S. Public Health Service as the hardest hit area in the nation on a basis of population.

Richard Fulmer Receives Ph.D.

Twenty Scouts and their Scoutmaster from Troop 99 spent Friday night, Saturday and Sunday at Camp Krietenstein on the fifth annual Troop Camporee this past week end. The time was spent in practice on Scoutcraft skills, cooking, swimming and wide games. A Sunday school service was held Sunday morning. Scouts attending the full camporee were: Phil Ballard, Art Nevins, Bowen Akers, Melvin Eastham,

Richard L. Primmer, 18, La* fayette, was killed Saturday when his car struck a bridge support on the U. S. 52 bypass

near Lafayette.

Leonard Sehnueller, 19, of Chicago, w'as killed Saturday the when his car went out of control and crashed on the U. S. 30 bridge over Flat Rock Creek about 16 miles east of Fort

Wayne.

Athaniel Nickolson, 44, Anderson, died Saturday of injuries suffered Friday when he was struck by a car on the U. S. 31 bypass at Westfield. Don Johnson, Carmel, succumbed to injuries suffered Aug. 11 in a two-car crash on a country road west of Carmel in Hamilton county.

Mrs. Black Dies Russ Radio Lauds Princess Marks At Terre Haute U. S. Farm Group 25th Birthday

Mercury Soared Into High 90's

Scout: Tommy

Richard Fulmer has completed three years of graduate study at the University of Illinois at Urbana, and has received his Ph.D in organic chemistry. He will begin work August 23rd ;rs senior research chemist for General Mills in Minneapolis. Minn. Graduating from the Greencastle Public Schools, he entered DePauw University as a Rector scholar. He graduated first in his class in 1952. Granted a two-year scholarship, he enrolled at the University of Illinois. During I

Scout: Larry Hecko, Dav.d Finchum, Jerry

Bronze

the 1954-1953 academic year he , was a National Science Foundation Fellow and Illinois’ top graduate in organic chemistry. Dr. Fulmer is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jervis Fulmer; and his wife. Jean, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don M.irketto. The couple has two sons, Stephen 7 years, and Brian 7 months.

20 Years Ajjn

HERE AND THERE

Harold ' NV a m :.: WM the new physical director and basketball coach at Greensburg high school succeeding Frank Pruitt. Shtuiff John Sutherlin attended the annual bean dinner at Parkersburg. Warren Tucker was home from Camp Eberhardt, Mich-

igan.

Susan Moffett was \isiting relatives in Newport while her

and Mrs. Donovan

Stephen Akers, Larry Crawley, Roy Mosteller, David Haines, David Butkett, Dean Finchum, I'ommy Alexander, Jerry Hecko, Paul Patterson, Philip Miller, Billy Lewis, Fredric Wilbur, Gerald Nelson, Stephen Jones and Keith Erwin. Sunday noon, parents of the Scouts provided a picnic dinner. Troop 99 parents were joined by Cub Scouts and parents from Cub Pack 99, which is also sponsored by the Christian church. Following the dinner, a Court of Honor was held, at which time the following awards were

made:

Second Class Alexander. First Class

Crawley, Mike Burkett, Dean

Hecko, John Hammond. Eagle Scout with Palm: Bowen Akers.

Merit Badges:

Stephen Akers: Public Healtn, Safety, Camping, Firemanship, Citizenship in the Nation. David Burkett: Reading, Gardening, Swimming. Mike Hecko: Marksmanship. Bowen Akers: Gardening, Dairying, Canoeing. John Hammond: Cooking. David Haines: Cooking, Swim-

ming.

Dean Finchum: Swimming. Art Nevins: Marksmanship. Personal Fitness, Public Health. Citizenship in the Community. Canoeing. Camping. Stephen Akers and Art Nevins were commended for having completed the required badges for the rank of Eagle Scout. This rank is conferred only by the National Court of Honor, and these Scouts’ applications have been submitted for approval. Following the Court of Honor, some of the Seouts and guests vent for a swim. Others took tours of the camp area, before leaving for home.

Residents of Greencastle and Putnam county sweltered in a blistering heat wave over the weekend with temperature soaring into the high 90’s both Saturday and Sunday. The maximum Saturday was 97 degrees and Sunday’s high was 96. The mercury hovered around the 77-mark Sunday night until 5 o'clock Monday morning when a drizzle resulted in the temperature dropping to 71, bringing welcome relief. At 8 a. m., The Daily Banner thermometer registered 72 degrees. A good rain at 8:30 Monday morning also aided in keeping the temperature at a comfortable level.

Mrs. Thompson's Rites Wednesday

Mrs. Flora B. Thompson, 90, formerly of Roachdale, died Sunday morning at the Hymanor Nursing Home of Columbus, Ohio. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Edna Webb and Mrs. Ina Rose, both of Columbus; a son, W. K., also of Columbus: one sister, Mrs. Ina Barnes of Roachdale: two brothers, Harry Call of Indianapolis and Nathan Call of Roachdale, four grandchildren and eight great-grand-children. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. at th ■ Chastain Funeral Home i i Roachdale, with burial in RoachJale Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Mrs. Mattie Black, age 90, passed away early Monday morning at the St. Anthony hospital in Terre Haute, following a serious illness of seven weeks. She was born in Owen county on April 15, 1865 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith. Most of her life was spent in the Cataract community until four years ago when she moved to Terre Haute to make her home with Ik r daughter. The deceased was a member of the Methodist church of Cataract. Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Nora Sutherlin, Terre Haute; two sons, Ernest and Ray, of Spencer R. 2. Her husband, John S. Black, preceded her in death. Funeral arrangements, will- be announced later. Friends may call at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale.

DIES OF INJURIES NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 22 — (UP)— Dcm Johnson, Carmel, died Saturday of injuries suffered Aug. 11 when two cars collided at an intersection west of Carmel.

LONDON, Aug. 22 (UP) — Radio Moscow said today the American farm delegation that recently visited the Soviet Union showed “good will" and “friendly criticism." “The true friend is not he who praises all the time, but he who speaks the truth,” said the broadcast which was monitored here. Radio Moscow said “the characteristic of the U. S. fanners’ visit was good will. “After their trip, the American farm delegates spoke of the things they had seen, and they also offered some criticism of certain shortcomings they had noticed. “We are aware of these shortcomings and don’t try to hide ■them and we want to overcome them. “The friendly criticism made by the American delegates will | help us. And the very fact that

this criticism was offered is an-

other sign of the cordial healthy atmosphere in which the American farmers made their tour of the Soviet Union.”

BALMORAL, Scotland, Aug. 22 (UP)—Princess Margaret, attended by the handsome son of a Scottish nobleman, had a birthday barbecue today on the lawn of ancient Balmoral Castle. Margaret turned 25 Sunday and became free to marry wham she chooses. But the royal family, deferring to Presbyterian Scotland’s strict ideas about the observance of Sunday, contented itself with a visit to Grathie Church, a picnic on the moors and a sail on Lock Muick. The "real" birthday party was the barbecue today on the lush green lawns of the Gothic castle where the royal family, besieged by thousands of tourists and and newspapermen, is vacationing. The only non-royal guest was tall, handsome Dominic Elliott, son of the Scottish Earl of Minto, a graduate of Eaton and a member of the swank Scots Guards.

FACES MURDER CHARGE BEDFORD, Ind., Aug. 22 — (UP)—Authorities today held Bloomington tavern owner William Covington, 40, on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of a waitress during a fracas in a moving car. Covington, owner of the Shan-gra-La tavern, was accused of striking Gladys Stogsdill, 38, Bloomington, as she andt wo other persons rode with him from Bloomington to Bedford early Sunday morning after the tavern was closed. The woman was dead on arrival at a Bedford hospital

RUSSIAN FARM HEAD ’ GUEST OF SECY. BENSON

Ba abridge Fire Tracks Make Run

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 The 1 No. 1 farmers of the Unite I States and Russia sat down t >- gether today for the first lir.e in history to swap yarns ab >a surpluses, shortages, and the.r other troubles. The occasion was an unprecr- • dented meeting today betwe ■ 1 Secretary of Agriculture Cz ■; T. Benson and Vladimir Vladi ni - voch Matskevich, first u > ir • minister of Soviet agricul. A get-together like thD w f , have been unthinkable in the ok; days of the cold war.

The .r w fij-e truck for Monroe L >wn Lip made a run to the farm of Ivon Harbison in Clinton ‘owrship, about two miles west of Somerset church Saturday roorrhog when a grass fire was honing a barn on the Haroi fin farm. Loth trucks made the run in hsponro to a call from Mr. Harhi: m and between them there : sufficient water to extin;h tne grass blaze and no . inage resulted. Cone Haugh, Assistant Fire Chief for Bainbridge, was in o’ arge of the trucks.

PASTOR AND FAMILY GIVEN A GCIKG AWAY DiNNER

DUMMIES TO FOCI’S BIG GUNS ON VEEP NIXON

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 22 Democn.lic National Chairman Paul M Butler, calling Richard M. Nixon “"perhaps the least popular vice president we have had for many years." says his

will "focus our

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donovan j party will "focus our big guns” C. Moffett, were on a vacation on the young Californian in th.?

trip in northern Michigan. 1956 election.

ATOMIC CONFERENCE GENEVA, Aug 22-(UP)— The United States met today > with Soviet Russia and four other atomic powers in a secret and urgently called conference to study the technical aspects of making the atomic age safe for manuind. The nations meeting were the United Stages. Britain. France and Russia who are teh world's most advanced atomic powers, and Canacte and Czechoslovakia, two of the largest suppliers of uranium to both sides of the Iron Curtain. Unusual secrecy surrounded the meeting, called by the United States.

Members of the Gobin Church congregation g • m K v. E mer na ey and family a great going away dinner at the church Friday e»eni4ig. They were presented with g.fts shown on the table above. Shown after the meeting are Mrs. Harvey, Sally Harvey, Rev. Elmer Harvey and Miss u.~>ie Harvey with the gifts presented during the evening. They expect to make their Ik me ;p. Ir d*«napolis after September 11.

Ike Returning To Capital Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles are expected to tackle the problem of American prisoners in Red China when they meet here Tuesday to review the wmrld situation.

Mr. Eisenhower is interrupting his Colorado vacation to make a speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday. He will confer with Dulles during a brief stopover here. American officials are hoping Russia’s decision to free three U. S. prisoners will inspire Red China to do the same in the case of the 41 American civilians it holds. But they are not optimistic about any quick action. The negotiations with the Chinese Reds in Geneva are still very much deadlocked over Communist demands for control over Chinese students in this country.

Guard Is Alerted For Strike Duty

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22 — (UP)—The Indiana National Guard stood ready today in the faec of continuing violence at four strike-bound Perfect Circle Crop, plants in Indiana. Not long after Governor Craig alerted the guard for possible duty in quelling new outbreak Saturday, two more non-strigers reported acts of violence at their homes. Haiold L. Oler, employe of the Hagerstown plant, said the north and east sides of hw home were uamaged by shotgun blasts as he watched television. Robert H. Payne, Perfect Circle worker at New Castle, said someone in a car threw a rock at a floodlight in his front year. Craig ordered state police troopers removed from the plants and alerted guard units in their place. Walkouts at two plants in Richmond and one each in Hagerstown and New Castle begin July 25 in a dispute over the union shop and other provisions.

TRANSIT STRIKE ENDS WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP)—Trolleys and buses rolled out of moth balls an ! onto their regular schedules today providing thousands of government workers and capital residents with public transportation for the first time in almost two months. A company spokesman said "everything’s going smoothly” shortly after service was resumed about 4 a. m. The 53-day-old strike was the second longest transit walkout in any major American city. It was topped only by a 56-day strike in Detroit in 1952. (UP)—Othaniel Nickolson, 44,

A one-time program director of the Dumont television network and a former assistant special events director for the Columbia Broadcasting system, Tony Kraber, 50, pleads the First and Fifth amendments as he refuses to answer questions of the House un-American activities committee investigating Red influence in show business in New York. He was questioned conceming his alleged activities in a New York Communist cell during the 1930s.

EASTERN FLOOD TOLL OVER 200, MAY REACH 300

206 KNOWN DEAD IN EIGHTSTATE AREA RAVAGED BY FLOOD WATERS

NEW YORK, Aug. 22—(UP) —Rescue workers bulldozed through mountains of sludge and debris today in a search for still missing victims of one of the nation’s worst floods which has claimed at least 20o and perhaps 300 lives. The death toll stood at 206 dead in an eight-state area and more than 100 still missing and presumed dead. Some of the bodies probably never will be found in what threatened to be the second worst flood in the nation’s history in terms of lives lost and the worst in terms erf property damage. Pennsylvania; reported 107 dead and “scores” missing and presumed dead. Connecticut officials said 66 bodies had been found and 70 persons were missing and presumed dead. Massachusetts had 19 dead and “scores” missing and presumed dead. New Jersey reported six dead, New York, four dead, Virginia two dead, and Delaware f-nd Rhode Island, one death each.

Relief agencies rushed water purification equipment to towns whose water systems were ripped out by the raging floods and warned residents to boil all their drinking water. The equipment was sent to Scranton, Pa., and Hartford, Conn., for distribution to stricken areas. Anti-typhoid serum also was rushed to the flood areas and an Army plane sprayed parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey with DDT in an effort to prevent an outbreak of the dread typhoid. National Guard troops patrolled the debris-strewn areas to guard against looting, reported to be rampant in some areas. Ninneteen persons were arrested for looting in Waterbary, Conn. At Stroudsburg, Pa., the hardest hit town in the broad flood area, the hush of death hung over rescue operations which already have recovered 65 bodies. Joint church services were held by radio Sunday at Stroudsburg. Ministers, priests and rabbis prayed for the dead and gave thanks for the living by radio because the town’s churches were either ruined by flood waters or filled with evacuees. Many of the Stroudsbur casualties occurred at Camp Davis where 35 of 46 campers died in the muddy waters. Fourteen bodies still were missing. A rainstorm hit the New York area Sunday night but weather officials said the rainfall was not heavy and did not expect it to contribute to the flood threat. Connecticut Gov. A graham Ribk.off said the doath toll in Waterbury threatened to exceed 100. Reports from Waterbury said 19 to 24 bodies had been found and the estimate of the missing ranged from 50 to 70.

INJURIES ARE FATAL WESTFIELD, Ind., Aug. 22— Anderson, died Saturday of injuries suffered the day before when an auto struck him as he worked on new U. S. 31 bypass here.

MARRIAGE LICENSES John Robert Zeiner, Purdue student, Fillmore, and Rea Jean S therlin, IBM secretary, Greencastle. Charles W. Brown, engineer, Greencastle Route 4 .and Carolyn Sue Cooper, secretary, Putnomville.

& ® $ 6 # • 41 O Today’s Weather 4* > Local Temperature 41 £»4t«4l4» + 4t4l

Partly cloudy, scattered shmv- • is an 1 thunderstorms today. Fur and a little cooler tonignt an! Tue day. High today 90, low tonight 07, high Tuesday 85.

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

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