The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1956 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE NO. 142

COMMITTEE TO AID IN CIVIC IMPROVEMENT

GROUP IS NAMED BY ( HVMBEK OF COMMERCE

PRESIDENT

Recognizing the need for more effort towards civic improvement. E. Gifford Black, president of the Greencastle Chamber of I Commerce, announced today that | he has appointed a committee o f ■ the Chamber to work with the j committee recently appointed oy Mayor Evan Crawley. The function of the Civic Development Committee of the Chamber of Commerce will be community progress and development problems of the city and community. Mr. Black also stated that th*‘ Civic Development Committee will have the function of presenting opportunities for ascertaining facts and making surveys in connection with same. Close cooperation with city officials will be maintained at all times in order that city officers, the Mayor’s committee and the Chamber of Commerce group will be able to work in unison for the betterment of Greencastle and the com-

munity.

Named to serve with Mr. Black on the committee are W. B. Strohm. H. J. Blume, D. W. Smythe, Howard Williams, Robert H. O’Hair. Robert E. McCormick, Hal Hickman, L. II. Dirks, Carroll Hammond, Dr. G. D. Rhea. Marion Wilson, Laurel Corbin, Robert Y. Cooper, Harry E Black, Edward Wood. J. M. Oliver, Dr. Hiram dome, Richard Sunkel. Robert E. Myers, Cloyd Moss, Robert Gould. Joe Y. Todd. Walter Cox, John King, Col. N. Huckleberry and John G. Hill. Fast Time For City On Monday Greencastle will go on daylight saving or ’’fast’’ time Monday as result of recent action by the citv

council.

The moving up the clocks one hour was delayed a day at the request of the Greencastle Ministerial Association so that Easter Sunday services could be held at the regular or Central Stand-

ard Time.

Consequently, local residents are again reminded to turn up their clocks one hour when thev retire Sunday night so as to be in the swing with fast time when they arise Monday morning. Nice Weather In Sight For Easter The Weather Man predicted this morning that Greencastle and Indiana residents will enjoy sunny and warm atmospheric | conditions today and tomorrow,

Easter Sunday.

Some showers were forecast for the western half of the state by , Sunday evening. But from present indications. Milady will be able to wear her Easter finery to church tomorrow morning without the aid of an umbrella or

raincoat.

TWO C 1111.DREN KILLED WASHINGTON. Ind. March 31

IN THE

GOOD OLD DAYS DIFFERENT STORY - "The public debt statement for June shows a reduction during the month of over $12,000,000. The reduction since June dOth, 1880. amounts to §101,573,483.’’ (1881» VERY EXCLUSIVE ( From the Brazil Register, a weekly news paper, published in 1881.1 "The game of our literary women it seems has not penetrated to Terre Haute or Greencastle Since the Ladies’ Literary Society of this place is in the second year of its existence, and since it enrolls among its members the authors of books of deserved popularity and of poems that have been well received by alumnae of well known institutions of learning, this fact must be very humiliating. The Ladies’ Literary Society of Terre Haute and Greencastle united at a basket picnic at this place yesterday; but, strange to say, they sent their sister society here no invitation to join them. The excuse offered was that they had not heard of the Literary Society of Biazil. Now who is to blame for all this inexcusable ignorance? Is it to be supposed that the citizens of Biazil are unlettered and ignorant because Brazil is a coal mining town? If Green cast l - and Terre Haute are of this opinion, they are inexcusably uninformed. Brazil is one of the most thriving little cities ol the west, and she is not behind in intellectual culture because she is foremost in (manufacturing and mining. But the excursionists missed a goo 1 dinner and princely entertainment by not posting up." (18811' ROACHDALE DEATH "S. B Dickerson’s baby died last Friday, being the first death which has occurred in the village."

(July 14. 1881)

BLUE GRASS BELT "Greencastle is situated on somewhat of a rough place, but for all that it is one ol the most delightful little business places in Indiana. The streets were crowded with country folks who flock there from | several miles around to trade. From Greencastle northwest foi ten miles there is some of the finest blue grass country in the State. In fact this is known as the blue grass bell of Indiana. Here innumerable herds of cattle are found." (Terre Haute States-

man 1SS1)

HIGHLY PAID “The superintendent of the Rockville schools receives a salary of §1.400 a year, while Supt. Fry of the Crawfordsville schools had sharp competition to be re-appointed at a salaiy of §1.200. Crawfordsville has a population of 6.000 and Rockville 1.700." (1881)

Two children riding on a tractor operated by their father were crushed to death Friday when it went over an embankment at their grandparents farm near here. Eugene Wilson. 11. and his sister. Marilyn. 8. were pinned under the tractor. Their father. Elmer Wilson, was thrown clear but suffered a shoulder injury.

20 Years Ago HERE AND THERE

SNAKE BITE CURE "(Tale of Sportsman' ‘While out hunt ing a short time since.’ said he T was bitten by a rattlesnake on the back of my left hand, and having heard that if powder was burned or. the bitten part it would bi- an antidote to the poissun. I immediately poured a small quantity of powder on the bitten part, struck a match am set fire to it; the result was that I felt no inconvenience and experienced no pain or trouble whatever from the bite.’ The experiment is certainly worth trying, only be careful and don't blow yourself up." 11881) INGENIOUS HORSE THIEF

The Greencastle Band, organized 22 years previous, held its first rehearsal of the season under the direction of Gerald Handy, who announced that the group would play at the IndianajHilu- Motor Speedway on May 30 for the twelfth consecutive year. Morning Musicale met with Mrs. R W. Pence. Mrs John R Uox was hostess to the Country Reading Club. 1

"Parties who were traversing the Rockville Road near the ford ol Walnut Ciet.k on Monday, might have seen tbm top of a buggy peeping above the weeds and bushes a few rods from the road B< b Black heard of it, and th-* circumstance did not savor of much good to him. Acting or. the ground of his suspicion, he mounted a horse and taking one (Continued cn Page Two)

MANY ATTEND 4-H TRAINING SCHOOL HERE

NEARLY .300 OFFICERS OF CLUBS AND LEADERS IN ATTENDANCE Officers of local 4-H Clubs turned out in large numbers for the annual training school held Wednesday night, March 28, in the Greencastle High School building. Nearly 300 boys anil girls, representing 39 different 4-H clubs in Putnam county, and ad of their adult leaders were in attendance. Nineteen of these 39 clubs had 100 per cent of their officers present and received suitable awards. These 100 per cent clubs were Monroe Township Thrifty Farmers, Russellville Junior Busy Bees, Russellville Senior Busy Bees, Floyd township Busy Daisies. Clinton Township Willing Workers, Russellville Burnt Biscuit Club. Roachdale Peppy Peppers, Jeff’s Hog Her ders. Cloverdale Lucky Clovers, Cloverdale Gay Juniors. Cloverdale Senior Clovers, Greencastle Junior 4-H Boys Club, Greencastle Jolly Bakers, Russellville Boys Club, Greencastle Homemakers of ’56, Monroe Township Winsome Workers. Greencastle Bonnie Bakers, Madison Township Boys Club, Monroe Township Merry Maids. Local civic leaders assisted county office personnel in instruction for the various officers in their divided sessions. Those in charge of these sessions were: Presidents, Gifford Black; Vicepresidents. Tom Hendricks; Sec-retary-Treasurers, Edith Allen: News Reporters, K. W. Harris; Health & Safety, Theoline Bee, Recreation, Sue Caspar, Joe Friend and Doyne Lenhart; Song Leaders, Herbert Nodine; Adult Leaders, M. B. Cassady, K. W. Harris. At the conclusion of the meeting the entire group assembled in the old gymnasium for one half hour of organized recreation under the direction of Doyne Lenhart who will be Putnam county’s assistant county agent as of June 1st. Registration for the event was in charge of the officers of the Junior Leader Organization.

HOG MARKET HIGHEST SINCE OC TOBER 13. 1955 CHICAGO. March 31 A new j 195G high was uncovered in the nog market Friday when the top , price rose to §15.50. the first time that level has been reached since ! Oct. 12. 1955. The $13.50 top represented a gain of 75 cents for the week. A year ago at this time the top was §18.00.

PLANS CJITET EASTER

TAKEN TO PRISON John Clifford McCrary was taken to the state prison at Michigan City Friday to serve a life sentence for the second degree murder of his wife at their farm home near Fincastle last October. McCrary was found guilty by a jury in the Putnam circuit court Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON, March 31 ( UP i Pi esident Eisenhower today began a quiet Easter weekend devoted to office work, relaxation and prayer. The President scheduled a series of early morning appointments including a private meeting with Sen. George W. Malom R-Nev. Mr. Eisenhower also scheduled a meeting with Gov. Walter Gordon of the Virgin Islands and retiring Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay. The President an 1 Mrs. Eisenhower will attend Easter Services Sunday at National Presbyteiian Church.

GETS HIGH FREE THROW AWARD

Marvin Query, star basketball player of Reelsville. is awarded high free throw trophy by Cc ach Charles West at annual recognition dinner for the squads. ■ d is Coach Duane Kluih of Indiana State Teachers Coliege, the speaker.

OFFER SPACES TO EXHIBITORS AT HOME SHOW

82 DISPLAY S»*\( ES AR1 AVAILABLE FOR BIG EVENT IN MAY Starting Monday, display space for the Home Show to be held at the Putnam County Fairgrounds on May 16th and 17th will be for sale. Eighty-two spaces will be available in the two existing buildings on the grounds. The sale of the space will be under tiie direction of the merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the Home Show. According to Robert I McCormick , chairman of the committee, each space is 15 x 15, but exhibitors wishing more space will be able to combine two or more spaces for display and exhibit. The charge for each alloted space is §30, or §2.00 per front foot. Ample electric lighting facilities will be available for the exhibitors, and requests for 220 volt service c in be arranged.. Stanley Spears, general chairman of the 1956 Home Show, is actively working with his committees in the effort to make the Home Show this year an outstanding event. Robert Y. Coopei has been appointed financial | chairman and will assist Mr. Spears and his committees in thL important post. TAKES OWN LIFE EAS T CHICAGO, Ind.. M n i 31. A 35-year-old steelworkkill. ! himself in an Indiana Ha. • bor district restaurant ye ' ore; •' afternoon after shooting and. wounding critically a 20-year-old woman who was visiting the restaurant proprietress. Reuben Colon of East Chicae: > died in St. Catherine's Hospital here about 90 minutes after shooting Mrs. Olga Morales thruogh the left thumb and left ear. He then shot himself through the right ear.

KONOil STUDENTS RECEIVE RECOGNITION

3 Escape Unhurt in Plane Crash

PERU, Ind., March 31 (UP) — Three persons escaped injury Friday night when their light plane clipped power lines and crashed on a county road north of here. The pilot. James H Boyd, 26, Huntsville. Ala., said he tried to land in the darkness in an open field after the carburetor iced up. causing the motor to fail The plane struck utility wires and .bounced into a ditch, landing upright on the road only a few feet from the field. The plane was damaged, but not demolished. Boyd and his ( wife, Patricia, 28, and Donald Riebs, 24. Elkhart, walked away .vithout a scratch. The three were en route from Huntsville to South Bend for a visit with relatives. The utility wires were knocked down, blacking out electric and telephone service in the area until repairs could be made.

Miss Rita Riggs and Miss Judy Miller as they st‘><> Mjss Miller was top honor student of this year’s s *n: ; - honor court.

1 with County School Supt. Gene Hutchins, .’id Miss Riggs stood slightly below her in

THEY LED THE LIST AROUND THE DINNER TABLE

3 AIRMEN KILLED KLAMATH FALLS. Ore March 31. (UPt An Air Force C45 plane slammed into a hill six miles south of here Friday killing three persons and critically injuring two others. Survivors of the crash were Leroy D. Wigglesworth and A2-C Virginia F. Bowman of Portland, Ore. Both were in critical condition at a Klamath Falls hospital. The there victims, as yet un- \ identified, included two office!one reported as a lieutenant colonel. MOTORIST KILLED LIGONIER Ind.. March 31. Ralph Thamerus. 34 years oid South Bend insurance agent, waj killed yesterday when his cai 1 plunged 150 feet from a railroad | overpass to the tracks below. The accident occurred at the U. S 33 Baltimore A- Ohio Rail- . ad overpass at Kimmell, f:v nnles south of Ligonier.

Robert Lewis. Washington township trustee. Charles West, basketball county superintendent anu Couch Duane K*uiit oi State Tea. hers College a at a bountiful taUle.

Gene Hutchins, filled their plates

POPE TO SPEAK VATICAN CITY. March 31 — i UPi Pope Pius XII will renew his appeal for peace in the hydrogen age when he gives his Easter blessing to the world Sunday, it was reported today. Vatican quarters said perhaps a quarter of a million Romans, pilgrims and toift ists will throng cobblestoned St. Peter's Square to hear the 80-year-old Pope's 10-minute speech ;uul receive the blessing he will give to the city and the world. NO INDICTMENT BLOOMINGTON. Ind . March !1 (UP) A grand jury [ailed Friday to indict Elmer Robertson, 76. in the shotgun death of nis son-in-law. Robertson allegedly shot Bart Mitchner. 46. in a March 23 scuttle in Robertson's Monroe County lome. A coroner ruled at the time t was ‘‘justifiable |iomicide." Evidence indicated Robertson fired in self defense. .MOTHER SENTI N< ED GREENSBORO. N C. March 31 (UP) A teenage mother began serving a three to five year prison sentence today for beating her 10-month-old son to death with her fists. Mrs. Naomi Louise Clonch, 19, wife of a young Greensboro textile worker, was found guilty Friday of second degree murder in the death of Harold Eugene, one of her two children. Mrs. Clonch showed no outward emotion during the trial. I SHOT TO DEATH ABERDEEN, Wash. March 31 (UP) Four persons were found shot to death on a small farm seven miles north of here Friday and sheriff's officers said they were baffled by the bizarre ircumstimees surrounding the killings. ‘‘It looks like a triple-murder and a suicide,” .said Police Chief A. M. Gallagher, who assisted county authorities in the case. ‘‘But we have absolutely no idea yet what the motive was.” CURTAIL ADVERTISING ut E . o PAPER .MILL STKJKJ ATLANTA, Mar. 31 (UP) — Atlanta’s two big dailies, the Journal and Constitution, will reduce advertising space by 2< per cent beginning Monday because of a strike at the Bowatei Paper Mill in Newfoundland, it was announced today. The morning, Atlanta Constitution which also puts out the afternoon Journal said in a front page story today that classified display advertising will be limited to a maximum of 10 inches All other classified advertising, it said, will be sold without use of any white space. iackson Farm Bureau Meets The Jackson Township Fan; Bureau met in the Barnard > building Tuesday evening for their annual corn bread and bean supper. In the meeting following. Elz Page gave the devotions -mu ' Parable of the Good Samarit: in from St Luke as his theme. G | Dean, chairman, conducted t!.■ usual business nuieting. The awards mad" at the recent Achievement Banquet of the 5C. District Farm Bureau, at Wells -chool building in Boone Co . to Jackson Township for being Standard Township were <1;. •■! ,■ led. Cash prizes for the F-b I Cherry Pie Contest were a-.vard-jed to Mrs. Wallace Pitcock M; Charles Bourne ami Mm. W'n; Mullen. The program for the < was presented by Mr. Joe Hineoek of the Indianapolis Fire I Dept. He talked at length on fire I prevention and of volunte< . ).•• I fighting pointing out f. re around the house and premises of the average farm, stres-ing th - ! point that the overload on inadequate wiring being the r.ini- ’ ber one cause for fires: sei .,nd or, ihe list, were fumes from clearing fluids ;md confined oil n op His talk.- was very instruc tive and well presented and the dr - eruption of the newer rse of w r. r a of fog and jf : - ie fighting were a revej what science has !*•- tnbuted to fighting y dreaded disaster. A ?r prevented than risked. Guests for the evening were Mr and Mrs Joe Ham oek. M, and Mrs Charles Rhodenberu-r fioin Indianufioli.- and Mr and Mrs. Fi • 1 Lu-ley .md c hildi n.

IKE FAILED TO KEEP PROMISES SAYS WICKARD

DEMOCK XT < VND1D \ 11 I OR 1 . s. sen XTE SPOKE HERE I KID XX Claud Wickrrd. Democratic •andidate for United States Scnitor from Indiana, was the headliner at a Democratic meeting held in the court house Friday evening at which several candidates, including those m the county primary and others were introduced and spoke briefly. Mr. Wick ind said in part Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson appeared before the National Press Club in Washington last Friday. According to the United Press dispatches Benson j predicted that his flexible price pupport program will win votes for Republicans if Democrats make it an issue in the 1956 campaign. In making such a statement, was Benson trying to appear larive? Was lie whistling past the* graveyard? Was he trying to run i silly little bluff ? To begin with, President Eisenhower put the price support question directly into politics in 1952 when he was trying to persuade farmers to vote for him fur PresiI lent. J President Kisenhowc r made a ] lot of farm promises in 1952 which he never kept, but at this time I want to mention three different and distinct pledges which ihe made com -.•ning pre e Mippoi ts. The reason that price supports is still an issue, and a very important one, is that President Eisenhower has broken th • pledges he made as 11 daM • Eisenhower in 1952. lb has not even attempt i ‘.o do any'hir.g effective to c 1.1 . out his pledge When he marie h;s promises, farmers were getting lOJ percent of parity. Today they arc g dting SO percent ot parity on the averige and Indiana fanners have been getting evniy 7u per cent e>f {parity during the past several months. Mr. Benson saal last Friday tb it he was "j • rfectly willing" to sc " price supports made an i sue. Surely he isn’t so naive as to not realize that unJei these conditions that price supports arc goin • to be an i.- -ue in this yeai’s campaign whether he is perfectly willing for them to be. Benson lias d 't e his part iti keeping pic e -uppoits an i no. For instanc.* he* said wh'*n he first took his oflit" that he didn’t believe in. using supports except in cases of "undue” disaster. Apparently he doesn't think that we Indiana farmer.- a: • cxperirn(*!rig undue di -yst -r when we only gel 50 percent of parity foi oui hog You remembi r li .w he* Ind 1*. be

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