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THE DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1955. UNITED PRESS SERVICE

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NO. 271

CITY COUNCIL SETS TAX RATE AT $1.79 FOR '56 NEW BITMiET CALLS FOR 11-C'ENT HIKE OVER

PRESENT LEW

ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY I Claude Carmichael has announced he will be a candidate | for Councilman of First Ward on the Democratic ticket.

For tne first time in many years, only a representative of The Daily Banner attended the council meeting Monday evening at which the tax rate for 195fi was fixed at $1.79 cents, a hike i of 11 cents over the current 1935

rate.

The council fixed the following j rates: Gen. Fund $1.63 Bond Fund 02 Park Fund — -12 Pension Fund 02 Total $1.79 This increase is made despite

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY Last rites for William C. Morgan will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Rector Funeral Home. Interment will be in Forest Hill ceme-

tery.

Mr. Morgan passed away Monday morning at the Putnam

County hospital.

Friends may call at the Harve J Gorham residence, 612 Apple St.

Couple To Tour Europe By Auto

WILL FURNISH PATIENT ROOM IN NEW WING

PROJECT ANNOUNCED BY COUNTY FEDERATED CLUB WOMEN

Mr. and Mrs. E. Cleve Thomas

he fact that additional improve- | will leave today for a two months nents and new housing have | tour of K Ur0 p e . The i r tri p will be

J unusual in that they will have j the service of an experienced tour |

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been added to the city tax duplicate since the last budget. It was estimated that at least a $300,000 additional proper! / value would be added to the city valuation. The additional taxes tvill go for about $2,000 increase n salaries and wages; $1,000 for social security; $2800 for additional electric lights; $1400 for additional water plugs; $300 for Additional gas, city garage for $2100; $3500 tor sewers and

ather miscellaneous items. The expenses of the city will

run more than $143,000, bonds ind interest, $1556.34; cemetery. $13,350; park fund $10,045 and

the clerk-treasurer $3160. The salary ordinance which

ivas unanimously passed called

tor a $10 additional pay

icress the board for all employees. The parking meters ire expected to yield a total of | ibout $20,000 during the next ' fear, if not more. This fund is ncluded in the budget to pay for ?xtra police, etc. The airport ,vdl get an appropriation of

$2300.

The council at its special Mon-

lay night meeting accepted byaws of the Volunteer Fire Department as read by Bob Fuson. It will call for an insurance premium of some 3 to 4 thousand dollars when finally adopted some time early next year. It j Aill also call for a clothing al- I lotment for the 20 volunteer firemen and will afford them j other gratuities, such as $500 | exemption for tax purposes. Nv> j provision for these expenses have been provided for in the ' budget and they will not be | available until after the first of |

the year at which time

might be a possibility of an additional appropriation for this

purpose.

The volunteer firemen arc to replace five additional firemen said to be needed by the city under the existing fire appraisal by the state insuarnec organizations. Unless this is carried out, it is said there will bo an increase in fire insurance rates within the

city.

Putnam County Hospital officials have received word that the Putnam County Federation of Women’s Clubs plan to furnish a patient room in the nev wing ot the hospital when it is completed. The F ederation started this project in 1954 under Mrs. A. F. Higgins as president and will continue it this year with Mrs. Fred Starr as the new president. Many of the clubs of the Federation have completed their portion of the campaign and they now have well over $300.00 in this fund and it is planned to increase this amount to $500.00 to completely furnish the room by the time

is ready for

J cornductor through the British Isles and on the continent, but j they will be the only persons

on the tour.

Mr. Thomas is president of the Terre Haute Casket Company and divides his time between that i city and his home town. In ! Greencastle he made the ac- ! quaintance of a young German exch;mge student, Othmar GruniI ger, who graduated from De- ; Pauw University and then taught at Northwestern University last I year. The Thomases and young I Gruniger became very good j friends. Gruniger returned to j Europe this summer and has j been conducting large student : tours. His family has a travel agency and a chain of hotels. With the height of the travel season over in Europe, Mr. Gruniger decided that he would like a vacation himself in company with his American friends. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas will leave on the Cunard liner Saxcmia from 1 Montreal, arriving in Greenock, j Scotland. They will be met by Mr. Gruniger in a new Mercedes | car, and the three will travel by | motor through Scotland, Iro- ; land, Wales, England, Belgium, | the Netherlands, West-Germany, Austria, Fiance, Switzerland and, Italy. They will return November ! 1 on the liner Queen Mary.

use.

This is the third definite notice of contributions for this purpose that the hospital has received and it is understood that other groups and individuals arcplanning to make contribution..-, for furnishings and equipment. It is gratifying for the hospital to know that the people of the community want to help in this way to provide better hospital facilities. The hospital plans were approved several weeks ago by the Board of Trustees and are now in the hands of the architects for completion of the engineering specifications and detailed drawings. Exempting unforeseen delay, construction of the addition is expected to be started yet this year and should be ready for use late next summer.

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BOOKS DEL WED

Supt. O L. Johnson has an- . mneed that due to the flood i id truck strike all arithmetic | xiks have been delayed. Grade > | ur through eight will be avail- j >le in about a week, grade , iroe will arrive about the thiiJ j eek in September. Announce- i ents will be made in the class |

>oms.

Two Held By Brazil Police

Paul C. Vogel, 28, R. 3. Brazil,

thei-.- being sought on a warrant for

non-support of his five children, was arrested Saturday evening on at least three other charges. He was arrested on West National Avenue by Patrolman Joe Harris and Guy Murphy who had received an alert from Putnam County authorities Vogel was

armed.

Police have charged him with carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, driving without an operator’s license and improper vehicle registration. His arrest here followed a report that Vogel and a woman an argument with others in the Rocky Fork area over clothing ownership. Vogel is reported to have drawn a gun there. He was carrying a .38 calibre revolver when arrested. Arrested with him was Anna Marie Hall Undenvood, 31, Greencastle. She is being held in the Clay County Jail on a vagrancy charge. Both she and Vogel were to be arraigned in Clay Circuit Court Tuesday morning.—Brazil Times.

GETS PURDUE DEGREE John Joseph Morton Jr., 620 E. Washington St., Greencastle, is one of the 335 students completing requirements for degrees dining the 1955 summer session a Purdue University, according to the list of August graduates released by the office of the registrar. He is the recipient of the degree of master of physical education. The August graduates are counted as members of the graduating class to be honored at the annual commencement exercises on June 3, 1956, and may return at that time, if they desire, for the public conferring of their degrees. Diplomas and certificates of the degree earned, however, are mailed to them upon the completion of their work. Several of the summer students were given a two-weeks extension oY time following the end of the regular term on Aug. 6 in which to fullfil degree requirements.

ROTARY TO MEET

The Greencastle Rotary Club , fl meet Windy Hill County ub for the noon luncheon on ; ednesday. Aug. 31st. Ben Can- j )n has charge of the program. : owasd Williams will give a |

20 Years Ago HERE AND THERE

Zol McIntyre. Ray Herbert, liner Seller. Harold Flint and loyd Treasicr attended a picnic eeting of the Brazil Elks twige. Miss Minna Mae Bartley was isiting in Rockville. Ben Jaivis announced that he ■ould manage the bowling alley n the west side of the public juare.

GOES TO TOP BRASS WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.— (UP i Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu took dii. etly to top U. S. military leaders today his campaign to let Japan assume a larger share , : her own defense. Shigemitsu apparently wants a sharp reduction in American forces as Japan builds hestrength. American officials have be^n leluctant to draw up any firm timetable for withdrawal of U S. troops from Japan for fear ihe Japanese will not build up their own forces rapidly enough. The United States is determined not to leave a power vacuum ir the vital Japanese islands.

Couple Wounded In Love Triangle

HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 30— (UP)—A Hammond steel worker and his young wife were in critical condition today in what police said apparently was an accidental shooting and attempted suicide over a love triangle. Suffering from shotgun wounds at St. Margaret’s Hospital here were Wayne Hunley, 30, and his wife, Margie, 24. Hunley told police he was suspicious of his wife so instead of going to work Sunday night he hid in bushes near his home. About midnight he said he saw an unidentified man moving about in the house with his wife. Hunley. armed with a shotgun, forced his way into the house, but the stranger fled out the back door. Police said Mrs. Hunley was shot during a struggle for the gun, and Hunley then turned the weapon on himself.

EXAM REPORTS RECEIYED

The reports of the “civil service’’ examination taken here several weeks ago by candidates for postmaster, were received Monday. It is unknown when the appointment of a permanen postmaster will be made by Congresswoman Cecil Harden o Covington, but it will probably be within the next several weeks.

FACES CHARGES JASPER, Ind., Aug. 30. (UP) —A 75-year-old motorist faced charges today in a three-vehicle accident that killed Ray Scherle, 18, Jasper, and injured five other persons. Arrested by State Police on charges of failure to yield right of way was Jacob Frick of Huntingburg. Authorities said Frick drove a light truck out of a side road onto Ind. 231 south of here and into the path of the Scherle car. Scherle struck the truck and then swerved head-on into an approaching car driven by Mrs. Rosemary Holst, 24, Huntingburg. Mrs. Holst, her three young children and John Lichlyter, 17, Huntingburg, were injured. Teenagers Try To Wreck Train The Knickerbocker Limited, due through Greencastle at 7:10 p. m. CST on the New York Central, had a close call from being wrecked north-east of Terre Haute Monday night as it roared east on its fast trip from St. Louis to New York City, when some teenager boys placed a big bridge timber on the tracks Fortunately the train crushed the board as it passed over. A west bound fast freight train met the passenger a few minutes after the incident because the same boys had wired the block signal in such a manner that it would not work. Had the passenger train been wrecked, it was believed the freight would have plowed into the wreckage of the passenger train due to the closeness of the time the two met on parallel tracks. Rain Puts End To Fire Hazard WHITING, Ind. Aug. 30 — (UP) Long-awaited rains today cooled off flareups between National Guardsmen and residents anxious to return to homes they evacuated in the mammoth fire at the Standard Oil Co. refinery. A steady downpour, which began Monday night, ended what threatened to be a serious situation when many of 800 homeless persons demanded that the guardsmen let them re-enter their houses in the inner “danger” area. The Guardsmen had orders to blockade the innermost points of of a two-square-mile area until sewers were cleared of gasoline fumes and there was no further danger of the flames spreading.

HAS CHANGE OF HEART CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—(UP) — Strike-hater Mrs. Esther Quigley offered breakfast instead of a cold shoulder to her strikeleader husband today. It was the first time the Quigleys had faced each other across the breakfast table in two weeks and both said they wanted to forget all about wife Esther’s lockout of husband Andrew.

MAY “ADOPT” CITY

SEYMOUR! Ind. Aug. 30 — (UP)—Residents of this city were urged today to “adopt” its namesake of Seymour, Conn., by donating funds for the re habilitation of the flood ravaged city. A campaign for funds was opened Monday by the Seymour, Ind., Daily Tribune in cooperation with the Jackson County chapter of the American Red Cross.

Says Girl Will Try For $32,000 BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 — (UP)— Twelve-year-old Gloria Lockerman, who has spelled her way to $16,000 on a television quiz program, will go for the $32,000 question tonight, a friend of the family said. The friend is Mrs. L. D. Heavener, who lives on a farm adjoining the family home of Gloria’s grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. Vivian T. Keys, at Gap Mills, W. Va. Gloria and her grandparents spent the weekend at Gap Mills, returning to Baltimore Monday. Clubs To Receive Trips To Chicago LAFAYETTE, Ind. Aug. 30 (UP)—The state 4-H club office at Purdue University announces that eight Hoosier 4-H dairy club members will receive trips to the first International Dairy Conference in Chicago, October 7-11. The purpose of this conference is to recognize older 4-H members for outstanding achievement in 4-H dairy projects, and to serve as an opportunity for further education in the production, processing, marketing, and use of dairy products. Conference delegates from for-ty-eight states will take part in a five day program which includes attending events at the International Dairy Show, talks by outstanding leaders in the dairy industry, tours to dairy processing plants in the Chicago area, group discussions, and lots of entertainment. Indiana’s delegation, will be sponsored by several of the dairy and dual purpose breed associations and commercial dairy products firms in the state. Winners of the trips will be announced September 20.

RUNAWAY PLANE

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 30. — (UP)—A pilotless runaway plane terrorized the heavily populated seaside resorts north of Sydney for two hours and 45 minutes today before an Aus tralian navy pilot shot it down 6 >4 miles at sea. The runaway, a single engine four passenger Austcr similar to U. S. Air Force spotter planes, took off from Bankstown Airport 20 miles south of Sydney when its pilot stepped out to start the engine by swinging the propeller.

TINDER PLOT SUSPECT FREE ON HUGE BOND $50,000 IN CASH IS PIT UP FOR RELEASE OF EX-CONVICT

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30 — (UP)—Chett A. Fowler, 60, Indiamapolis ex-convict accused in a “murder for hire” plot to assassinate Prosecutor John G Tinder, was free on $50,000 cash bond today. Fowler, charged with conspiracy to commit murder, was released late Monday when William T. Allison, 44, a real estate dealer, dumped the money from a canvass bag onto the desk of a deputy sheriff. Meanwhile, Tinder gave police a confidential report on the suspected “brains” of the plot so that “if any thing happens to me they’ll know where to start.” Tinder said he now believes the conspiracy was dictated by “a psychopathic individual who has a personal grudge-hate for me. . . . but I can’t prove it yet.” Fowler was implicated in the plot by Richard G. Marks, the admitted “contact” man in the bungled slaying attempt. Homicide Capt. Robert E. Reilly said a lie detector test given Marks Monday indicated he was telling the truth in his confession. Marks said he was to have received $4,000 for the assissination and Fowler was to have picked up $1,000 for arranging the job. Schools Delay Tuition Increase INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30 — (UP)—Indiana and Purdue Universities will postpone until next fall a plan to increase tuition fees for out-of-stale students. A spokesman for the colleges said bulletins for the 1955-56 school year were published last January and February a month before trustees suggested boosting “foreign” fees. He said the higher fees probably will go into effect during the fall of 1956. Earlier, I. U. considered increasing out-ofstate fees from $411. a year to $500 and Purdue talked about jumping from $470 to $520. Indiana University did adopt a new rule governing out-of-stat*' students. It requires that undergraduates must be in the upper one-fourth of their class, instead of the upper third, to win admittance. PAYS RECORD PRICE COLUMBUS, Ohio. Aug. 30.— (UP)—A record price of $500,000 was paid today for Adios, 15-year-old stallion who set several world records during tne early 1940’s and then sired many notable offspring. Lawrence B. Seppard, president of the U. S. Trotting Assn, with headquarters here and owner of the Hanover Shoe Farms of Hanover, Pa., purchased Adois from Delvin Miller of the Meadowlands Farm of Meadowlands, Pa., Washington county.

AUTOMOBILE PANCAKED IN REFINERY EXPLOSION

THAT'S AN AUTO under the two-inch thick steel plate In Whiting. Ind. The plate, tom loose In the Standard Oil refinery explosion, flattened the car to about two feet thick, {Internationals

EXTRA! A tornado threat in western Indiana failed to materialize, but heavy rains drenched northern areas and ushered in cooler weather that may last through the next five days. The rainfall, which splashed up to nearly 2.25 inches at South Bend, made up for a period of many days without appreciable precipitation. The Weather Bureau reported 1.06 inches at Monticello, .83 at Warsaw, ,75 at Rochester. .43 at Lafayette and .04 at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. Violent thunderstorms cracked through a heat wave and brought cool weather to the nation’s mid-section today. The cold fronts stirred up a tornado in Oklahoma, destructive windstorms in Illinois and Indiana, and flooding rains in Chicago.

TOKYO, Aug. 30—(UP)—Two U. S. F86 Sabrejets collided in flight yesterday but both pilots escaped serious injury even though one plane was completely wrecked in a crash landing, the Air Force reported today. The jets sideswiped each other about 25 miles east of Niigata, Japan. TEL AVIV. Aug. 30 —(UP)— The Israel government accused Egyptian armed forces of killing four laborers in a predawn attack today and said the Egyptians had resumed round-the-clock shelling of Israeli border posts.

LONDON, Aug. 30—(UP)— The British Broadcasting Corp. staked an extra one million pounds $2,800,000 today against the pull of commercial television. Cecil McGivcm, program chief of BBC, announced a list of atorite sports aimed at holding tractions topped by Britain's favthe islands’ 12 million viewers faithful to the public-owned corporation. The BBC’s monopoly on television ends late in September when commercial TV goes on the air. Higher salaries from revenues provided by eager advertisers— who will not be able to stipulate what programs they pay for— have attracted many of the BBC’s toplinners and technicians to its commercial rival.

VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 30.— (UP)—Communist Romania will reduce its armed forces by 10,000 by the end of the year, it was announced today. Focuses Attention On Arms Talks DENVER, Aug. 30.—(UP)— President Eisenhower appeard more concerned over United Nations disarmament talks in New York today than “give-em-hell” attacks on his person by former President Truman. The President kept in close contact with the U. N. subcommittee session in New York. He voiced hopes Monday that Lie big power disarmament talks could produce practical results toward “an easing of tensions and the heavy burdens of armament.” “I sincerely trust that the subcommittee meeting will be marked by the same spirit of frankness and cooperation whicn typified the meeting at Geneva,' Mr. Eisenhower said.

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y, Aug. 30.— (UP) —American disarmament expert Harold E. Stassen today took over the job of persuading the Soviets to approve President Eisenhower's military inspection plan. The five-nation U. N. disarmament subcommittee was to op ft n the second session of its current talks this afternoon. Thus far, there was no indication of Soviet reaction to Mi Eisenhower’s plan for an exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection of each other's territory by the United States and Russia. Ambassador Henry Cabor Ivxlge Jr. told a closed session ol the disarmament subcommittee Monday that the United States was “prepared to put the plan immediately into effect as between ourselves and the Soviet Union.”

ACCUSATIONS ARE MADE BY EX-PRESIDENT

CHARGES “STEALTH” AND "CUNNING” IN “GIVE ’EM HELL” SPEECH

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.. Aug. 30.—(UP) Former President Truman accused the Eisenhower administration of "stealth” and "cunning” last night in his second "give ’em hell" speech in three days. Mr. Truman, speaking before a Michigan Democratic rallv, predicted a Democratic victory in next year’s presidential election. He drew a cheer when he made a veiled reference to Michigan Governor G. Mennen VVii hams as a presidential possibility. The former President spoke under auspices of the Democratic National Committee nml his appearances here and at French Lick, Ind., Saturday were considered the kickoff in the 1956 campaign. Mr. Truman centered his fire on the “big business" connections he said were representative of the Eisenhower administration. "The outstanding characteristic of this administration in domestic matters is its domination by and its dedication to Lie viewpoint of big business," M •. Truman said. “The makeup of the Cabinet and the background of other appointees brings this out very clearly. "Some of them cut their existing business ties; some do not. But they come to advance the views of the business world from whence they came and to which they hope to return. “We have seen many examples in the past two and a half years of the government’s subservience Id special interests. Those who fought the New Deal and Fair Deal for so long are now reaping their reward. “I am not talking about the occasional cases of individual misconduct or corruption," M*\ Truman continued. “I know from personal experience that in any large group some people are likely to go wrong, no matter how carefully they arc screened. But I think the record will show that this sanctimonious administration is having its own troubles with corruption. “But the kind of misuse of power call it corruption if you will with which I am primarily concerned . . . is the deliberate use of the power of the executive branch to undermine the laws it is sworn to execute faithfully - to subvert those laws so that their benefits flow to the pimleged few instead of to all our citizens. “One glaring example of this is the Dixon-Yates mess ... It was pursued in stealth and secrecy.” SINGER STILL 1*1 /./LED HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30. (UR) Dick Haymes, crying unashamedly, insisted today he still doesn't know why Rita Haywor.h left home but “if she doesn't come back I can’t go on.” The much-troubled singer has survived battles with the immigration service, income tax department, creditors, three exwives and alimony courts. But today he sat alone and forlorn i.i the couple’s Malibu Beach home and indicated this latest blow has done him in.

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