The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 August 1955 — Page 1
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VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1955.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 265
VOLUNTEER FIRE FORCE WILL BE ORGANIZED HERE
MEETING IS SC IIEM LEI) AT CITY HALL ON WEDNESDAY EVENING
Mayor Evan Crawley announced today that the initial organizational m eting of th 1 Greencaatle Vol nteer Fire Department will bo held in the Council room of City Hall a. 8:00 p. m. Wednesday evening. Present at the meeting will be Deputy State Fire Marshal Daniel Welch of Terre Haute. Mayor Evan Crawley will preside at the meeting and will explain the objects of the new organization. There will be a formal adoption of by-laws by the volunteers for the government of their organization as well as an election of officers. All members are urged to be present for this very im-
portant meeting.
The Volunteer Fire Department will be chartered by the Indiana Fireman’s Association and it will be a non-profit organization. The volunteers will assist the regular city fire department in all emergency calls. By forming a volunteer fire department to supplement the regular firemen. the city will be permitted to retain its present fire rating without going to the considerable expense of hiring additional men which would mean raising taxes. The volunteer group will meet the requirements made of the city by the National Bureau of Fire Underwriters when they completed their inspection of the city last Spring. At that time they advised city officials additional man power would be required if the present fire rating classification is to be maintain-
ed.
WALKOUT IDLES PLANT TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 23 — j fUP)—The Allis-Chalmers plant j here remained idle today because of a walkout by about 900 CIO United Auto Workers. Workers walked out at noon Monday and set up picket lines | The company and union are conducting negotiations in Milwaukee, and workers voted for a company-wide strike recently if no settlement is reached. But no
strike date was set.
LAMBDA CHIS HEAR TALK BV GLENN NYGREEN
COOLING OFF AT CAMP VOTAGEUR, MINN.
GIVES KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF TRAINING SEMINAR UNDERWAY HERE
STRIKE THREATENED INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23.— (UP) More than 16,000 Chrysler Corp. workers in Indiana may be on strike Sept. 1 unless contract talks in Detioit are suc-
cessful.
The CIO United Auto Workers union resumed talks Monday after Die nation’s 139,000 Chrysler UAW members voted overwhelmingly for a strike if necessary. The current contract expires at midnight Aug. 31.
Mrs. While Dies, Riles Thursday
Russians Visit Research Center
WASHINGTON, Aug. (UP)—Visiting Russian
experts journeyed today to nearby Beltsville, Md., for a long look at the Agriculture Department’s big research center where most of this country’s better farming techniques originated. The dozen Russians, who have spent 45 days studying U. S. farming methods in the field, were scheduled to see better
farming in the laboratory.
The Beltsville visit started early shortly after 7 a. m. EDT —so that the Russians could attend a National Press Club lunch and then start back to the Soviet Union via New York. The Beltsville program included observations anil demonstrations of the latest research on live-
Mrs. Margaret Ann White, 75. a native of Wales, passed away Tuesday morning at the Graver Nursing Home. Death followed an extended illness. Mrs. White was born in Wales on November 13, 1879, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Williams Jones. She was united in marriage to Hugh White in
1897.
A resident of Limedale, Mrs. White was active in churcn work, the Rebekah Lodge, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Royal Neighbors until her health began to fail about ten
years ago.
She is survived by the husband; one daughter, Mrs. Fred Pease, Greencastle; two granddaughters, Mrs. Charles Newgent, Barrington, 111., and M-s. Arthur Roberts, Los Angeles, Calif.; two great granddaughters, Nancy and Susan Newgent; j two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Kirk-
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More than 20 undergraduate members of Lambda Chi Alpha j fraternity heard Dr. Glen j Nygreen comment here yesterday that fraternities have persisted because they have been
"flexible and adaptable.”
The dean of students at Kent (O.) State University, Dr. Nygreen delivered the keynote address at the opening session of Lambda Chi Alphas biennial Management Training Seminar
on the DePauw campus.
In the past, he said, fraternities have been primarily social 1 institutions; and many w r ere J founded during periods when j colleges and universities paid j little or no attention to the
student’s social needs.
But our educational institutions today, the speaker continued, are becoming more conscious of the student as an individual and are providing additional facilities and personnel for
non-academic experiences.
A long-time leader in the Sigma Epsilon fraternity, Dr. Nygreen insisted that fraternities have a definite place on the campus but warned that they must increase their contributions to maintain that posi-
tion.
W T e as fraternity members must establish the direction in which we are going, he said; and we must show that fraternity living is assisting the university in its effort to educate. Prior to Dr. Nygreen’s address, President Russell J. Humbert of DePauw welcomed the seminar delegates to the campus. Dr. Houston Karnes, of Baton Rouge, La., past national president of Lambda Chi Alpha, presided.
JUDGE ALLEE SELECTS FOUR FOR TAX BOARD
EXTRA!
A STRONG BOARD NAMED BY JUDGE TO SCRUTINIZE TAX LEVIES
Judge John H. Alice has named four appointive members of the Putnam County Tax Adjustment Board which will review the tax budgets and will pass on the various tax rates nam-
CHARLESTON, N. C., Aug. -S.—(IT*)—An Air Force 0119 crashed with 11 men aboard in a residential area here today.
HARTFORD. Conn.. Aug. 23 —(IT*)—President Eisenhower said today he may call a special S'-ssion of C ongress to get disaster relief funds for flood-strick-en states.
GENEVA, Aug. 23—(UP) — Envoys of the United States and Communist China met for 27
ed by the schools, the city, the j '^utes today to d'seuss release
county and the townships.
PUTMAM COUNTY 4-H EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR
LIST OF ENTRIES ANNOUNCED BY COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE
Charles Erdman, left rear, is operating his Minnesota boys’ Camp Voyageur this summer and is shown with a group cooling off in the w^ater near Ely,, Minn. Left to light, Mr. Erdman, Henb Glover, Clyde Compton. Johnny Erdman, John Compton. Reed Williams and John Gove. They will all return in time for the opening of school next week.
Judge Alice named Kenneth E. West, W. O. Foster, Cloverdale banker; James W. Wright, Jackson township and a former auditor of Putnam county; and James E. Hood, former county treasurer.
of 41 American civilians detained
by the Reds.
FACES AWOL CHARGE
Hicklen A. Gurney, Jr., 23 charged with being obsent without leave from Laughlin Air Force Base, Del Rio, Texas, wars taken into custody at Cloverdale Monday afternoon by Sheriff Joe Rollings. Gurney is being held at the Putnam county jail for military authorities.
of Terre Haute. One daughter, Janet, preceded her in death. Services wil be held at 2 p. m. Thursday from the HopkinsWalton Funeral Home with burial in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute. Friends may call at the funer-
al home.
Picnic Meeting Held By Lions
County Service Officer Resigns
Ceil Hoi Locked, Youth Flees Jail
Others w r ho will serve on the board will include Mayor Evan Crawley, a representative of the township trustees, which will be the Board of Education and a member of the county council, who last year was Forest Hurst of Cloverdale.
Herschel Hammond, Putnam county service officer, announced Tuesday that he is resigning this post, effective Monday,
August 29th.
Mr. Hammond has accepted a position with the Prudential Life Insurance Company. The appointment of his’successor as service officer will be up to the county commissioners w’ho may take a-ction at their next regular meeting in September.
When a state trooper failed to check the door of the drunk cell at the Putnam county jail Monday, a 16-year-old Kentucky youth made his escape through the unlocked portal after the officer left. Sheriff Joe Rollings reported that the young man, Ronald Laxton, of Greendale, Ky., was brought In after he had wrecked a stolen car. The sheriff said that when he took a tray of food to the jail basement Monday noon lie discovered the cell door wide open and the youth gone.
Waller Cox Buys Insurance Agency
SCHOOL OPENS FRIDAY
Walter Cox announced today that he had purchased the interest of Gene Matthews in the Cox Mathew r s Insurance Agency r-nd the entire business has been turned over to Mr. Cox. The transfer was completed Tuesday morning. The firm of Cox and Mathews was formed in 1947 and has had a wonderful growth in the intervening years.
TORONTO, Aug. 23—(UP) — The U. S. Air Force has taken over research and development of a super-secret "flying saucer’ fighter plane designed in Canada but abandoned by the Canadian government, the Globe and Mail reported today.
HAYWARD, Calif. Aug. 23 (UP) — Some 200 passengers escaped injury w'hen the Western Pacific’s streamlined California Zephyr was derailed within the city limits here near the end of its trip from Chicago. Nine cars of the glass-domed luxury train jumped the track, but all remained upright and on the right-of-way.
DIES AT BRAZIL
Principal W. G. Guthrie an- O. L. Johnson, superintendent nounced today that the Reels- of schools, received word this ville school will rpen Friday, morning of the sudden death of August 26, at 8 a. m. Daylight his brother-in-law, Ralph Currie, Saving Time I well known druggist in Brazil.
FOOD KITCHEN SET UP IN CONNECTICUT TOWN
G-M Unveils New Passenger Coach
CHICAGO. Aug. 23.—(UP) — General Motors Monday unveiled an experimental, lightweignt 40-passenger railroad coach which rides on shock-absorbing
stock, crops and home economics j rubber bellows.
! The new coach
and home nutrition.
capaeity of a
with half the normal railroad
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
The Greencastle Lions club held a picnic meeting in RobeAnn park Moday evening, at j which they ate a splendid pitch- ! in dinner and afterwards ate watermelon to their hearts content. Included in the dinner u r erc roasting ears, cooked to a turn by the Lion Chefs and buttered by Lion Evans, and many ate three or four ears of corn before tackling the watermelon and in a few r rare cases, some ate corn after the melon feast, because they said they w'eren’c
filled to capacity.
Following the extra heavy meal, a feeble attempt was made to singing, but they were too full to sing and the attempt was
j car, will have a low original cost
j and low maintenance expenses, SO om given up for a visiting hour.
Last rites for Mrs. Mattie Black will be bold Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from th.Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale. The Rev. Arthur Daos will be in charge. Interment will be in the Gosport cemetery. Mrs. Black passed away Monday morning in Terre Haute. J She is a former resident of the
Cataract comm inity.
Friends may call at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Clovei-
tiale.
the company said. Two of the new cars weigh only 30 tone, compared with 65 tons for a conventional SO-passenger coach. X. C. Bezendorf, general manager of GM s Electromotive Division. said the cars were designed to cut down a national rail
j deficit of 700 million dollars a
year for passenger travel. He said experimental trains, featuring a new type of diesel locomotive, will be delivered to both the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads about
Nov. 1 for test runs.
Charles Shuee, president, was in charge of the meeting and said this probably wmuld be the last open air picnic meeting of the
summer season.
ROME, Aug. 23.—(UP)—Italian police said today they had cracked a dangerous spy ring involving "high personalities and officials on the other side of the Iron Curtain.” Three men under arrest were described as leaders of the espionage network for "not less than three years.” police said more arrests might be made. The three, apprehended late Monday, were found to be in possession of documentary evidence of espionage, including letters linking the plot to officials of an unidentified Cummunist country.
The County Extension office has listed the following 4-H Putnam county boys and girls wdio have entered exhibits at the Indiana State Fair this week: Sheep—John Hazlett. Tom O’Hair, Carroll Fordice, Charles Leonard, Daretha Nicholson. Larry Ray, Carol Earley, Doretta Harris and Thomas C. Hendricks. Swine Larry Clodfelter, John Whitley, Larry Harris, Dallas Sutherlin, Norman Sutherlin, John Eddie Aker, Neil Irwin. Thomas Hendricks, Richard Branneman and Kenneth Johnson. Beef—Gerald Beck, David Lane, Byron Gough, Bowen and Stephen Akers, Tom McCabe, Larry Clodfelter, Don Kelly. Franklin Hartman, K e r m i t Hartman, Larry Grimes. Dairy — Thomas Hendricks, Doretha Nicholson. Poultry—Thomas Hendricks. Miscellaneous John Hazlett, Bill Hatfield, Jimmy Woods, Paul Evens, Wallace Estes, Ronnie Cook, Maxine Herriott, Donald Harney, Joe Zeiner, James Sweet, Karon Harney.
Ike Gets Aerial View Of Disaster
CROYDON, Ind., Aug. 23.— (Ur*)—Phillip Moll, Louisville, Ky., was injured early today in a fall from a high cliff while squirrel hunting on a Harrison county farm. Moll was taken to Harrison County Hospital wuth a broken
leg and arm and internal inju* I ies.
JERUSALEM, Israel, Aug. 23. — Syria today freed four American theological students who were seized by Syrian soldiers while they swam in the Sea of Galilee but refused to let them return to Israel. The four were identified as Paul Mayer, Arthur Rithingcr, and Fied and Tom Freudenhauer, all naturalized Americans who were born in Canada of German extraction. Their home towns were not given.
VICTIMS OF FLOOD In Winsted, Conn., receive food at a guarded emergency kitchen. The town is under martial law, and was so flooded it wall have to be almost rebuilt. (International Soundphoto)
HOSPITAL NOTES
Dismissel Monday: Ward Rollings. Coatesville; M irie Brown. Greencastle R. 2.
Medicine Sen! To Flood Areas
20 Years Ago
HERE AND THERE
Fire destroyed a large barn and contents at 9 p. m. on the Fred Loi kridge farm just north of Roachdale. Mrs. Roy Newgent entertained with five tables of bridge in honor of Mrs. A. A. Abbott. Mrs. Murel Davis and children were visiting relatives in Terie Haute. Herschel Gross accepted a teaching position in the Carlyle school.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 23 — • UP)—Eli Lilly & Co. rushed air shipments of medicine Monday to flood-stricken eastern states to combat threatened outbreaks of disease. The Indianapolis firm, also the nations largest Sa’.k polio vaccine manufacturer, sent immunizations against typhoid and tetanus, primarily to Connecticut. Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A spokesman said by nightfall 60.000 doses were sent. Most of them will go to wholesale druggists whose stocks were wiped ouL
Millis To Enler Governor's Race
STREET WRECKED, NO WATER, NO SEWAGE DISPOSAL
INDIANAPOLIS Aug. 23— (UP^— Indiana Revenue Commissioner Frank T Millis, who tested the political waters and found them inviting, dives headfirst into the 1956 Republican race for governor next month. "I don’t think there’s doubt in many people's mind that I’m in the running.” he said, “but I don’t think a formal announcement should be made until the mayoralty elections are over.” That formal declaration near the end of the year probably will make Millis the first official candidate for the nomination Since March, the jovial, veteran state official has been in the front ranks of a dozen potential nominees. He was the first and one of the few, to launch a personal tub-thumping drive. He went into all 92 counties, chatted with GOP couniy and district chairmen, and found a "very good” reception.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23 — (UP)— A juvenile delinquency investigator says "one of every 13 children in the country" 3 in trouble with the law. Peter N. Chumbris, associate counsel for a Senate subcommittee on delinquency, said Monday the rapid rise in juvenile crime reached a peak last year.
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Housewife Defies Husband, Strikers
CHICAGO. Aug. 23.—(UP) — Mrs. Esther Quigley, a housewife with her eye on the weekly paycheck, today defied her husband and the CIO United Auto Workers to keep up their strik : against the Harrison Sheet Steel Co.
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 23. (UP) President Eisenhowe* flew here today on a mission of mercy to speed aid to a six-state area stricken by the most damaging flood in U. S. history. The Chief Executive, reported deeply concerned by suffering, grief, and destruction in the northeastern states, said he was making the trip to assure that the Red Cross, the federal government and tlie states were cooperating in disaster relief. He interrupted his Colorado vacation to make the Eastern jmercy flight. The President planned to fly ever flood damaged areas of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut before landing here. He will confer with Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut and five other governors of disaster stricken states during his stopover here. They were Gov. Averill Harrinian of New Yoik, Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania, Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, Gov. Christian I). Herter of Massachusetts, and Gov. Dennis J. Roberts of Rhode Island. Sections of all of these states have been declared federal disaster areas. All of them too have counted flood fatalities, damage in the millions of dollars, crippled industries, unemployment, homeless and extreme suffering. Two other states, Virginia and Delaware, also had fatalities from the vicious floods spawned by Hurricane Diane, the second hurricane and the fourth major storm of the season along the Atlantic seaboard. Ribicoff said before the President’s arrival that his visit would provide a “terrific boost to morale." "The people of Connecticut and the nation are grateful to the President for taking this deep humanitarian interest in the suffering of the people in th<s flooded aita.s.”
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LOOKING DOWN main street of Winsted, Conn., gives this view of the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Diane floods. The city is under martial law. A preliminary estimate lists sewage disposal loss at $3,000,000 and water system loss at $3,500,000, Private losses in the town of nearly 8.000 multiply these totals, (International Sounduhoto)
Mrs. Quigley's husband, Andrew, is a .shop steward and one of the UAW leaders who call'd out 400 employes on strike last Aug. 16. Right there he ran into trouble on the home front. Mrs. Quigley told him the men should have stayed on the job while negotiations continued. She began calling other housewives and organized a march on the union hall. On a later visit to the hall, the 135-pound housewife told burly union leaders "If you think any of you guys are big enough to throw me out, you try.”
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