The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 July 1956 — Page 2

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THE DAILY BANNER "iT WAVES FOR ALL'

VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 232

CRITICS PRAISE RIOGRAPHY BY GLENN TUCKER NATIVE OF CITY IS A! THOR OF BOOK ON FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF

Critics over the country have acclaimed the biography of O’e Indian Chief Tecumseh, written by Glenn Tucker, as an outstanding contribution to American history and as clearly establishing the Shawnee chief as the greatest of the Indians. Tucker regards him as the greatest of the Indiana residents in statesmanship, military ability and among the greatest in oratorical power. The author, who spent most oi his early life in Greencastle, is the son of Dr. W. W. Tucker and the brother of Dr. C. C. Tucker, who were Greencastle physicians more than fifty years. Glenn Tucker was graduated from DePauw in 1914. The book is dedicated to his mother, Bertha Clark Tucker, who attended DePauw in the 1880s. The Tuckei family lived for many decades at Vine and Walnut streets. The book is entitled “Tecumseh: Vision of Glory.” Tucker’s biography was described this month by the New York Times as ‘‘a brilliantly written, well rounded story of the most fascinating life that fver flashed across the Western fcene.” The Pittsburgh Press was as emphatic in its praise: “This Is the best book on frontier life —with the clashing interests of Indians and settlers crystal clear —that has been published in yea rs.” The Chicago Tribune said: ‘‘Like his first book, ‘Poltroons and Patriots,’ the biography is intelligent, filled with insight, informed with sympathy.” The New York Herald Tribune described the book as “a convincing and attractive account from which the truly amazing character of Tecumseht clearly appears." The Rochester, N. Y.. Democrat-Chronicle said the author has “made a valuable, contribution to American histoj‘-' leal writing" and the Washington Post summed up its eoni|»),t£jt by saying, "It’s a gripping'•story Tucker tells." The author lived for many years in Westchester County, N. Y., where newspapers in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White Plains and other cities published a review calling the book “history as a novelist Would wr.te it” and adding “if more history were written in this fashion we would not have nearly so many young Americans electing other curriculum subjects." The book was published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company of New York and Indianapolis.

TORNADOES HIT THREE STATES FRIDAY NIGHT TWISTERS RIP INTO KEN TUCKY, KANSAS AND COLORADO

W. G. HOWARD DIES Word has been received here of the death of W. G. Howard of Indianapolis. Mr. Howard passed away Thursday evening in Indianapolis. The W. G. Howard family formerly resided in Greencastle. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:00 p. m. from the Flanner-Buchanan Fall Creek mortuary. Friends may contact Mrs. Howard at her home at 2115 N. New Jersey street, Indianapolis. QUERY PROMOTED CHERRY POINT. N. C. (FHTNO- Marine SSgt. Kenneth B. Query, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Query of Route 1, Greencastle. Ind.. was promoted to present rank in May while serving with a unit of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point. N. C.

20 Years Ago

HERE AND THERE

The maximum temperature was 109 degrees. Frank Vaughn was elected to the school board by the city council. Dr. D. W. Killinger left for Colorado on a vacation trip. Clifford Miller was here from LaGrange. 111. Clarence Hollick re‘urned from a two weeks trip in the East and South.

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS KNOW NOTHINGS—"A number of farmers in this county nave recently been swindled by lightening - rod, washing board and clothes-line fiends, who induced them to take the agency for the sale of those articles, and a peculiar circumstance is that few of the victims take any kind of a newspaper. If they did they would know too much to be taken in by oily-tongue rascals." (1877) TRAMP CONVENTION — "Twenty three tramps held a convention around two fires on the Vandalia Road Sunday between the south depot and the Junction, in which blood-curdling speeches were made denouncing the police, and those families that decline to give them a hand-out’. They unanimously resolved that the ‘city is governed too much’.” (1877) GREENCASTLE LOCALS — “Prof. Marquis is covering his house with cedar shingles, the first in Greencastle—Will Ta-l-burt has a fine high-headed horse—Dr. Pitchlynn now rides his son, John’s horse—Tom Alsop did not furnish eggnog at his banquet recently. Tom is a Murphy boy.” (1877) NEW YEAR S CALLERS—‘‘The beautiful weather Tuesday made it pleasant for callers to be out, and the city presented a gala day appearance by the crowds of'niqiiy .iiiep, go mg i from place to place, to wish Iheir friends a Heppv Nay Ye^r. Beautiful ladie^' air all open houses to welcome their guests, and ea-ch seemed to vie with the other in making the occasion a pleasant one. Old and middle-aged men called up their boyhood natures, and laying business affairs aside sallied out with happy hearts to see their friends. People were never more hospitable, and no year ever was received with a warmer greeting than 1878.—In one of Black and Bros, best four-in-hand rigs were Judge Turman, Col. Matson. Harry Mathias, Maj. Birch, John G. Webb. Ed. Black. George Empey. Will Bosson. J. S. McClary, Jim Darnall, J. Buck Scott, Tom Bosson and others.—The ladies called on were Mrs. John Hanna, Mrs. H. H. Mi^Tias, Mrs. Maj. J. Birch, Mrs. Adam Hanna, Mrs. Agnes Sherfey, and Mrs. Mayor Chapin.—All the ladies, individually and collectively, received their vistors most graciously. entert.rining them with music and agreeable conversation. and feasting them on the choicest delicacies of the season. It was a delightful social event to all the participants.” FRENCH LICK—“John Anderson has bought a third interest in the French Lick, Orange County, springs for two years paying SI.500. His brother, Columbus. will represent him there after April 1st.” (1S7S) FORT RED “Fort Red is situated in the Northeast corner of Jackson township, 3 miles West of North Salem, and 5 miles North of New Maysville, on the Waters of what is known as Ryle's branch, and is surrounded by a fine country, thickly settled. At present the town supports one dry goods and grocery store, kept by Benjamin Wilson: one drug store by F. D. Tharp: one blacksmith and wagon shop, by A. G. Rice; has an Odd Fellows Hall, with the Order in good condition, and one physician. Dr. A. C. Rogers.” (1878)

B.v l/nited Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest Friday night, ravishing areas in Kentucky, Colorado ana Kansas, while severe thunderstorms churned the skies over other central states. In Walton, Ky., a twister ripped several houses off their foundations, caused numerous but minor injuries and crippled communications by blowing down power lines all over the region Traffic on U. S. Route 25 was reported hopelessly snarled for over three hours. A small tornado was sighted near Otis, Col., Friday afternoon Authorities said it was moving toward the Nebraska border and gathering force on the way. Nc damage had been reported, but warnings were up over the twostates area. Some tornado activity was reported over the plains of Kansas. Elsewhere, hail and lashing winds raged over west centra] Missouri and north central Oklahoma, while a freak twister pounded across a five-block area in Audubon, N. J., causing heavy property damage and injuring at least seven persons, including a 10-year-old girl who was reported in critical condition.

Mrs. Pierce Gets National Office

Mrs. Russell Pierce, of Greencastle, has been elected national secretary of philanthropy of the Delta Theta Tau sorority at the 48th annual convention oeing held at the Sheraton Hotel in French Lick. One hundred and ninety-eight chapters reported $112,053.12 given to philanthropy during the year and 43,543 hours were also given. The 1957 national convention of Delta Theta Tau will be held in Long Beach, Calif., and the 1958 convention will be in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Local Students Studying At IU Registrar Charles E. Harrell has announced the names of the local persons who are enrolled in the Indiana University Summer Session. Following are local students enrolled on the Bloomington campus and in Indianapolis divisions: Greencastle—Garret J. Boone. Max W. Dixon, Herbert G. Glover, John R. Hammond, Jacob R. Huffman, Ruth J. Hochstetler. Robert D. Loring, Mrs. Helen Brown Luckhardt, Harry D. Maloney, David C. Moore, Alfred V. Nowak, Roderick Rhea, Ronald O. Rush, James H. Smithers, Edwin H. Strain. Reelsville—Kenneth D. Miller. Roa , chdale—Harold M. Garriott, Mrs. Mary Clark Garriott. James E. Rady, John T. Wilson.

Rural Youth To Hold Picnic Mon.

There will be a pitch-in snppei for members of Putnam County Rural Youth this Monday night, July 16 at 8:00 p.m. at the Robe-Ann Park. All members please bring well-filled baskets and your own table service. Soft drinks will be furnished by the Club. j The evening will be spent in games and dancing. All 4-H Junior Leaders are cordially invited to attend as guests of the Club.

GIRL FATALLY INJURED LEBANON (UP) — Marjorie Lou Hawn, 12, was injured fatally Friday when a horse ran awav v:th her and she hit a gate post on her parents’ dairy farm northeast of here.

A A P HEAD RETIRES

DETROIT — Retirement of John M. Tollin. president of A. & P. Food Stores' Central Western Division since its formation in 1925 and dean of food chair, executives in the Middle West, was announced today, effective Ai:g. 1.

ESCAPES DEATH BY A HAIR

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U. S. HAS NEW DISARMAMENT PLAN FOR U. N.

WILL PROBABLY RE PRESENTED FOR CONSIDERATION THIS FALL

YOUTH MEETS DEATH ON ROAD NEAR WARSAW FRI.

TWO PENCILS are used by Jersey City police officer Thomas A. Reading to show two near misses by bullets fired by two bandits he surprised trying to enter the rear of a store just before daybreak. The bandits escaped. (International Soundphotol

Long Bus Strike Likely In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A negotiator for Indiana Railroau and Southeastern Trailways bus lines predicted today that the nine-day-old strike of about 130 drivers ‘‘is likely to be a long one.” Frederic D. Anderson, company attorney, said “there have been no further developments in negotiations” since representatives of drivers and management met with federal mediator Arthur H. Pierson last Wednesday. He said the bus companies could not pay more than their offer of seven cents a mile and “the union does not seem to want to negotiate because of the company’s lawsuit.” The company is suing the union for breach of contrac^. The bus lines are losing money, because of the strike Anderson said, and even before the strike eould not afford the union demand of eight cents a mile.

WILL ENTER MONASTERY SOUTH BEND (UP)—James E. Wagner. 32, a former Methodist, flies to Cambodia this week to enter a Buddhist monastery and study for the priesthood. Wagner, whose parents live here, has been in Hawaii the last five years working as a salesman and studying psychology at the University of Hawaii. He is a veteran of six years in the U. S. Navy.

SECRECY PREVAILS WESTBURY, N. Y. (UP)— Secrecy. and silence today shrouded the hunt for Peter Weinberger and his kidnaper. FBI agents, who entered the investigation Wednesday, were known to be recheekir.g and studying every clue uncovered by Nassau County police since the baby’s July 4th abduction from his carriage on the patio of the Weinberger home.

Read Will Be Closed Tuesday The Stilesville road will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 a. m., Tuesday morning to 5 p. m., Tuesday evening, due to the fact that new 72 foot steel rails are being laid on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad. East bound traffic will be rerouted for the day via of the old Big Four right of way, while west bound traffic will detour via of the airport road from the Stilesville road. The detour will be only for the one day.

Town Marshal Hsd Busy Night A woman, who escaped from the Evansville insane hospital. Y.ns held in the Putnam county jail Thursday night and Friday A*hile arrangements were made ‘o return her to the institution. She was picked tip by Kelly Kilgore, Bainbridge toivn marshal, and brought to the jail Thursday evening. Marshal Kilgore, incidentally had a busy night Thursday, as he brought in an escaped inmate >f the penal farm early Friday morning. Actions of Hubert Burden, 44 Rockport, aroused the suspicions ~>f James Love and Jake Martin, vho saw the man on U. S. 36. They got hold of Kilgore and when they returned from Barnbridge they found Burden heading north on the first gravel road east of Highway 43.

WASHINGTON (UP) — The United States plans to present a broad new disarmament plan to the United Nations—probably this fall. The plan aims at breaking the 10-year old disarmament deadlock between Russia and the West. Presidential disarmament adviser HarolJ E. Stassen told a news conference Friday that a new approach to the disarmament deadlock is under consideration. He said the administration hopes the new approach will lead to “partnership in peace.” Stassen declined to give details. But he said the proposal probably will be presented to the United Nations Disarmament Committee in the fall. High administration sources have said it will be a “brand new” plan that will “go even beyond” Mr. Eisenhower’s 1955 open skies inspection proposal. They indicated the United States may reverse its position on H.bomb tests and suggest a ban. Asked about this report, Stassen said “the whole range of policies have been under review.” But he conceded the H-bomb had been discussed in the “interrelated context of what must be done with nuclear weapons as a whole.”

WARSAW, Ind. (UP)—Two teenage boys, a bicycle and a car added up to death on a county | road northwest of here Friday. William Grubbs. 15, Warsaw, was riding a bicycle and holding onto the door of a car driven by Douglas Copeland. 17, Warsaw, state police said. Grubbs lost control of his bicycle and hit the rear fender of the car. He died of a skull fracture.

RAPS LACK OF ACTION BY AGRICULTURE DEPT.

CHICAGO (UP)—The presi dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation charged in a letter to the Department of Agriculture Friday tha-t the department has failed on two points in administering the soil bank prograin. 1 ' Charles B. Shuman accused thd' department of failing tr carry out a clause written in in the Congress “to encourage producers to underplant their allotrhenfs more than one year.” He also said the department had failed to announce “payments in kind” plans from the stocks of grain held by the Commodity Credit Corp. He said authority for such payments was contained in the Agricultural Act of 1956.

EDINBURG BUYS CHAIRS AFTER COUNCILMAN FALLS

EDINBURG, Ind. (UP)—A chair collapsed at a town board meeting and spilled councilman Charles Nearhouse to the floor The board immediately voted to buy five new chairs for the room. CONFERENCE OF METHODISTS CLOSES TODAY

TAKE FIRST STEP IN INTE GRATING WHITE AND NEGRO CHURCHES

DES MOINES (UP) — The nine-state North-Central Juris dictional Conference of the Metnodist Church prepared to close it j meeting here today after taking the first step in integrating white and Negro Methodisi churches. The 350 delegates to the convention Friday issued an invitation to Negro congregations to join the now all-white group. Negro Methodists have been grouped in a non-geographical centr al jurisdicPon. The action caused a Negro bishop, Edgar A. Love of Ba’timore, Md. to tell the delegates, “I have been hurt—soul wounded—by my church, but my church has healed those wounds and made me whole again.” The bishop said he was sure his church would lead the way to justice and fair play for fdl races in America.

BLACK CAT WAS DEAD ON FRIDAY, 13th, BAD OMEN NORTH VERNON, Ind. (UP) —Motorist Don Brydon of Indianapolis saw a dead black cat on Ind. 7 near here on Friday the 13th.

Soil Bank Signing Deadline July 20 Announcement was made today by the ASC committee that there has been no extension of time for the signing up under the soil bank program and the deadline will be July 20. Those who desire to sign may do so at any time next week in the ASC offices in the court house.

Anti-Trust Suit Has Been Settled

WASHINGTON (UP) — The government settled its anti-trust suit against the Philco Corp. today. The Justice Department announced that Philco agreed to relax its control over distributors and dealers. The consent judgment was filed in Federal Court in Philadelphia, but first made public here. In the judgement, Philco, an appliance manufacturer, is barred from keeping its distributors and dealers from dealing in products not manufactured by Philco. It also is precented under the consent agreement from making dealers and distributors restrict their sales to certain customers within sales territories.

DOES THAT SIDELONG GLANCE MEAN SOMETHING?

TWO SEPARATE PLANE CRASHES CLAIM 49 LIVES

45 KILLED IN CRASH \T FORT DIN; FOUR DIE IN KANSAS DISASTER

FORT DIX, N. J. (UP) — Forty-five persons were instantly killed and 21 others injured several critically, when a fourengine U. S. Air Force transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff late Friday afternoon. The plane had just started on a flight to England. The Air Force said it was the first crash in the eight-year history of the Military Air Transport Services Atlantic Division. The C118 transport, a military version of the DCS airliner, plunged into a wooded area of the Fort Dix reservation thrc“ miles from the end of the McGuire Air Force Base strip from which the plane had taken off during a driving rainstorm. A member of the Browns Mills emergency squad said the plane had to be broken apart to remove the dead and injured. “We put them on portable litters with canvas and blankets and carried them to a pool of 60 amubulances,” he said.

SALINA, Km. (UP)—An Air Force B47 inter continental bomber faltered on takeoff Friday night and crashed in flame* in a field, killing all four airmen aboard. The bomber, assigned to th r ' 40th Bomb Wing, Strategic j Command, was demolishei had just left the runway Smoky Hill Air Force Base. A spokesman for the Air Force said the plane, a six-engine jet capable of delivering the hydrogen bomb any place in the world, had risen only 50 feet when it faltered and crashed.

Mrs. Frank Deer Named To Board noli Mrs. Frank Dedr*has been named a member :of'the Board of Trustees for' the Indiana School for the Deaf fUr a period of four years, it whs* announced today. The appointment was made by Governor Craig. Mrs. Deer has been a precient committeewoman for the past ten years and this is .in a way, the reward for her services in politics. FLEE IRON CURTAIN INGOLSTADT, Germany LUP) Two of seven Hungarians who seized a Communist airliner in a high altitude battle and forced it down in the West said today they did it because, “We wanted to live normal lives.”

Vinson Reports Radford Pledge WASHINGTON (UP) CnairmaTi Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said today he had a pledge from Adm. ! Arthur W. Radford that the country’s military manpower will not be c-ut below 2,850,000 for 5 to 50 years. The Georgia Democrat cited Radford's promise in a statement to the United Press in a N -w York Times report that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wants to cut the armed forces by some 800,000 men by

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A cut of that magnitude “would be dangerous,” Vinson asserted. He said the country’s

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‘will not permit a refrom the 2,850,000

Presbyterians To Hear Merle Jones Merle G. Jones, immediate past president of the National Council of Presbyterian Men will be the principal speaker at the area meeting for Presbyterian Men, Sunday evening, July 22, at the Central church at Lafayette. Mr. Jones, who is president of the Store Kraft Manufacturing Corp. of Beatrice, Neb, will be flown there by chartered plane. Other nationally known speakers will be Rev. John Knox Abemethy, Central Area Secretary of Evangelism: Hal A McNutt, Associate Secretary of the National Council Presbyterian Men, and Leigh M Kagy, attorney. East St. Louis, vice president of N. C P. M. All speakers will address themselves to the various aspects of fulfilling the commission "Go ye therefore and teach all nations.” The men of Lafayette Central Presbyterian church will be the hosts.

HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissals: Delmar Hargis, Bainbridge: Evelyn Goss, Lawrence; Mrs. Herman Wallace and daughter, Greencastle; Mrs. Bobbie Burke and daughter. Bridgeport; Mrs. George Green and son.

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STROLLING IN PARIS with her husband. Prince Rainier m of Monaco, bride Princess Grace (Kelly) gives a baby carriage a sidelong glance in the Buis de Bolog^ie. When the royal couple arrived m Pans earlier in the day, the princess parried reporters’ questions about a possible visit from the stork. She said gently, "I'm afraid we didn’t start the rumors." ^InterTiaiionai Radiopnoto^

aaughter, Brazil; George Roach, Fillmore; Edith Knight, Gieen-

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Births: Mr. and Mrs. Charles [ Morrison, Greencastle, a girl.

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