The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 October 1956 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1956.

UNITED PRESS SERVCE

NO. 300

WM. R. TIPTON IS RESIGNING HEALTH POSTS

TELLS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HIS REASON FOR RESIGNATION Dr. William R. Tipton who has served as city and county health officer far several years, has tendered his resignation to the county commissioners and Monday afternoon told the officials why he was. resigning. It developed that recently he received word from the State Board of Health to the effect that additional detail work which the State Board has been doing is now passed along to the county health officials. They also have to inspect every new house that is being built by FHA or a Veterans Loan to see if the plumbing is proper. Dr. Tipton said he knew nothing about plumbing, but still that is one of his jobs. To do this, he must drive to all sections of the county several times on these inspection trips. The amount of detail and secretarial work that has been passed along to the local health official has increased probably ten fold and apparently is ♦till on the increase, due to the State Board sending out additional detail work for the county officials to do. Locally, the salary of a county health officer is $960 per year. In addition to ttiis sum, he gets small fees for birth and health records and other detail duties. The city and county health office here has been combined because the records in this manner are kept together, so far as the books are concerned. Dr. Tipton said the only solution is to find some young graduate of medical school who will , take the job. He must be a grad- | uate of a medical school, it was 1 said. The solution may come J from the health departments of several counties going together, or if the commissioners were in a frame of mind to jrsk the State Board of Health officials to come here and find their own health otficial.

FOR HER FRIEND

UNIVERSITY TO DEDICATE NEW LIBRARY

FROM SUEZ TO POLITICS

TWO-DAY PROGRAM IS SCHEDULED STARTING OCTOBER 19TH

ZITA BAKER, 59, leaves an apartment building in Washington for a hospital after it was learned that for 18 months she shared a one-bedroom apartment with seven cats and the tenderly-cared-for body of Lisle Thomas, her oldest friend. Police said she told them she was praying for her sick friend. The mummified remains of her friend were found on a bed in the apart-

ment.

Police Arrest Two More Drivers Two more youthful drivers were arrested Monday night as city police continued their crackdown on violators of traffic reg-

ulations.

Charles Higgins, 17, was arrested at 9:25 p. m. for reckless driving on the Zinc Mil! Road. Larry Parrish, 19, was arrested at 9:35 p. m. for reckless driving on Avenue D. Both will appear in city couit before Mayor Evan Crawley.

Seniors Hear City Officials Greencastle high school seniors heard the latest ideas on “safety" on Monday when they were visited in their class rooms by Mayor Evan Crawley, Fire Chief William Lawrence, Police Chief John Vermillion and Russell Coleman, police force veteran. Mayor Crawley and the others briefed them on the services rendered by the city government, and the necessity for the cooperation of all citizens to make this community a better place in which to live. The seniors showed considerable interest, and asked many questions of the visitors. HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissals Monday: Mrs. Jessie Masten. James Birt ana Mrs. Von York and daughter. Greencastle; Mrs. Minnie Masten. Coatesville; Mrs. Gifford Odom and son. Stilesville; John Danberry, Putnamville; Mrs. Morris Williamson and son. Clcverdale. Born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mayo, Fillmore, a son. DIVORCE SUIT FILED Mrs. Cora Chrisenberry has filed suit for divorce in circuit court from Gilbert Chrisenberry. They were married Dec. 17. 1955 and separated Oct. 1. 1956. She asks that her former name of Cora Skimmerhom be restored. Hamilton A- Hamilton are her at-

torneys.

A full two-day program has been planned for the dedication of DePauw University’s new million-dollar library here Oct. 19-20, President Russell J. Humbert announced today. Formal dedication of the Roy O. West Library will take place Saturday morning, Oct. 20, as a major part of the university’s annual homecoming celebration, Old Gold Day. Located on the west campus, the brick structure is the first building constructed with proceeds from the Greater DePauw Program, a $10,000,000 development campaign now in progress. The library is being named in honor of Dr. Roy O. West, Chicago attorney, former U. S. secretary of the interior ,and one of the outstanding men in DePauw’s history. An alumnus of DePauw and trustee president from 1924 to 1950, Dr. West has brought to the university more than $10,000,000, including the Edward Rector and John H. Harrison grants. On Friday, Oct. 19, the gale weekend will get underway with a prededication program for librarians from throughout the country, college presidents, library school deans, and other guests. First pre-dedication event will be a special student convocation at 10 a. m., when the main address will be delivered by Dr. Stanley Pargellis, librarian ot Chicago’s Newberry Library. Tours of the new DePauw library will be conducted Friday afternoon, and Dr. Robert Vesper, University of Kansas library director, will speak following a dinner for pre-dedication guests and DePauw staff members at 6 p. m. Also scheduled for Friday is DePauw's second annual Alumni Workshop, a seminar for alumm club presidents, class secretaries and alumni funds agents, beginning at 11 a. m. and continuing until 4 p. m.. Saturday’s celebration will officially open with the Old Gold Day chapel in Meharry Hall at 10:45, although trustees will hold a breakfast meeting at 8:30. Principal speaker at the chapel, a long-established homecoming tradition, will be J. Stanford Smith, general public relations manager for the General Electric Company and a DePauw alum-

nus.

Folowing the formal library

dedication at 11:30 in front of the new building, alumni and guests will move to Bowman Gymnasium for the Pre-Game Luncheon, and event honoring past and

present varsity lettermen. In this year’s homecoming

football game DePauw will meet Valparaiso at 2 p. m. in Blackstock Stadium, with halftime

| features including a program by A comunity-wide invitation for ! the p) e p auw Marching Band and

Threat Of Fire May Get Serious INDIANAPOLIS (UP—Below average rains in September may create & “critical” situation for l forest fires in Indiana, a State i Conservation Department offici- | al said Monday. Assistant State Forrester H. A. Beadall said the situation is not serious yet, but it would be with “another 10 days without

much rain.”

Beadell warned Hoosiers to be especially careful in the next few weeks of “camp and picnic fires

and smokes.”

“We’re keeping our fingers crossed,” he said. “Last year we had plenty of rain in the fall. We’ve only had half a dozen or so small fires this year. It is not unusual to have light rain in September and early October, but once the learves start to fall

it will be critical.”

THIRTY ATTEND MEETING HELD MONDAY NIGHT “LIVE BETTER ELECTRICALLY” WAS GENERAL THEME OF SESSION

SIX CHILDREN FOUND DEAD IN NORT CAROLINA

THEiSE PHOTOS of President Eisenhower’s expressive face show him answering news conference questions on everything’ from the Suez crisis to his stepped-up campaign activity. Ike said the hope of settling that crisis is that Egypt will see that her best interests lie in cooperating with the users association. He also said he is upping his drive for reelection at the request of his friends.

Wards To Have Courtesy Night

Soil Bank Money Pittsburgh Star Paid To Fanners Fined At Brazil

WASHINGTON (UP) — The Agriculture Department announced today it has made $„’ - 484.906 in soil bank payments to farmers in 29 states through Sept. 21. The department said that the report, while incomplete, was made public at this time “because of a number of inquiries concerning conflicting reports of payments made to date under the program.” The soil bank program, an issue in the political campaign, took effect last summer. It provides payments to farmers who reduce acreage of surplus crops. The department said it now appears that farmers will get “somewhat” less than the 261 million dollars it estimated they could earn under the soil bank program this year. Since making the estimate, the department has allowed farmers who violated 1956 soil bank contracts through “misunderstanding” to cancel or revise their agreements.

Ray L. Walls, left fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirate baseball team, appeared in a JP court in Brazil yesterday, charged by Officer Francis L. Hamilton with going 85 miles per hour over the state highways. He paid a fine of $15 25. On Sunday in the final game with Brooklyn, Walls hit a home run, a triple and a double.

“Live Better Electrically" was the theme of the meeting in the Public Service room on Monday evening and attended by about thirty interested persons in the manner in whicn this commodity is playing an increasingly important part in the betterment of living standards. Allen M. Ellison, sales representative of the Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc., was the host on this occasion, and commented “Gone aie the days when the utility company sold | not only the power, but the appliances, wiring and financea everything on the electric bill.” In this connection, he stressed the important part the appliance store, the electrician, the banker and others played in increasing the standard of living of all America. An interesting motion picture was shown on the kick-off of the “Live Better Electrically” program, and which was shown on a closed circuit television to meetings all over the country. It brought cut the importance of breaking the home wiring bott’eneck, and that sufficient wiring will give the consumer “Full ‘Housepower’ ” so he can live better electrically. Bob Etter commented that the electrician should put forth more sales effort to sell better and safer wiring. Robert H. O’Hair, local banker, stated that home owmers should be able to finance the installation of more adequate wiring, and Jack Doyle said that adequate wiring means moi*c satisfied usage of electrical appliances. Hal Hickman observed that persons buying a home should be more conscious of wiring than they have a tendency to be. “This is especially true of women who are apt to overlook the adequacy of the wiring in purchasing older homes,” commented Mr. Hickman.

CLINTON, N. C. (UP) Six children were found dead in a rural section near here today, and the North Carolina Highway Patrol said they were apparently killed by their father. Few details of the tragedy were available immediately. Patrolmen and sheriff’s deputies organized a search through a wmoded area near the home. The body of the father, Rufus A. King, 34, was found at 11:55 a. m., four hours after the bodies of the children, ranging in age from 2Yj to 12, were found sprawled in King's five-room terant house in the Keener community seven miles north of here.

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HERE AND THERE

residents of this area to join in courtesy night at Montgomery Ward & Co., on Tuesday, Oct. 9th. was issued toaay by Jack Doyle, store manager. The event, has been planned as a preview’ of Ward Week, which opens the next day and continues until

Monday. Oct. 22.

Special features for men, women, children have been planned for the preview, Doyle said. Of interest to women will be demonstrations of household equipment. including small appliances. For men. there w ill be special displays of interest. Toy balloons will be on hand for the children. Door prize awards will be held throughout the evening, with the Grand Prize of 21” Console TV to be announced at 8.30 p. m.

the crowning of the Old Gold Day queen. An all-university mixer will be held in the Union lounge follow ing the game, and the campus radio station, WGRE, will stage a special variety show at 4:45. Rounding out the day’s schedule will be dinners in the livin; units at 6 p. m., the Little Theater’s production of “Southwes Coi ner” at 8:30. and the Old Gold Day dance in the Union ballroom at 9.

Voters Will Cast Ballet On Time

Mrs. Ethel Davis was here from Terre Haute. Mrs. A. O. N-whouse, of San Antonio, Texas, was visiting her sister. Mrs. Mabel Stoner. Mrs. Lawrence Snider returned home from the county hospital. Marriage license: Robert P Anderson, Lexington, Va., and Jane Durham, Greencastle.

NEW RECORD SET INDIANAPOLIS (UP1 — Indiana State Revenue Commissioner Frank T. Millis reported today that revenue from the state gross income tax set a newrecord of $20,520,365 during the July 1. -Sept.. 30 quarter. Millis said the tot»l was nearly two million dollars higher

Famous Soprano To Give Lecture

Soprano Helen Jepson w-ill make a temporary switch from vocalizing to lecturing for an appearance at DePauw University here Friday, Oct. 5. An established star of concert stage and opera. Miss Jepson is scheduled to speak during a special convocation in Gobin Memorial Church at 10 a. m. Topic of her address will be “Singing to Stardom,” an auto-

When the voters of Putnam j county go to the polis on Novem- j ber 6, they will be handed four i ballots, headed by die National i ballot, and including the state ballot, the county ballot and a special ballot for time voting. This is the only time that the people have had to vote on the question of fast or slow Lime. The county ballot will be headed by the candidates for congress, and there will be a chance to vote for four different questions on the matter of fast or slow time. T t is expected that this issue will he settled permanently by the vot ers when they go to the polis next November.

GOP Rally Held At Indianapolis — INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A day-long Republican rally, including a parade wunding through ; Indianapolis, will be climaxed tonight by a program on the World War Memorial Plaza. On the program agenda were Sen. Homer Capehart, Rep. Charles Brownson, Lionel Hampton and his orchestra, and square dance teams. Plans included showing of a film of President Eisenhower’s private, military and political live at intervals during the day, as the Republicans attempt to drum up votes for Mr. Eisenhow r er and Vice President Richard Nixon.

SETS WOOL PRICE

WASHINGTON (UP) — The Agriculture Department today set the 1957 support price for wool at €2 cents a pound, the same level set for 1955 and 1956.

Gun Blast On Ship Kills Two LANDSTUHL, Germany — (UP)—Officials reported today the death of a second sailor in the gun explosion aboard the U. S. Navy destroyed J. R. Pierce Monday. One crewman was killed instantly and 12 others injured v.h^n the anti-aircraft gun exploded during target practice in the ?.Iediterraean off the French Riviera. The second mar died while being flown to the Army hospital here Monday night. Officials withheld the identity of the dead men until their next of kin are notified.

Red Cross Aided 68 During Show In the largest operation ever attended by the Putnam County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the three emergency First. Aid stations at the Farm Progress Show and at Greencastle Airport serviced a total of 68 emergency cases, made 14 ambulance runs and pickup during tiie two days of the Farm Progress Show. All but one of the emergency cases were treated at the show grounds. Only one case was reported from the airport. At the Lane faarm two first aid stations were maintained under the direction of Mrs. Theoline Bee, Putnam County Health Nurse. The following doctors of the Putnam County Medical Association were on duty in two hour shifts during both days of the show; Dr. James B. Johnson, Dr. W. J. Fuson, Dr. Richard Veach, Dr. D. J. Steele, Dr. Anne Nichols; Dr. \V. R. Tipton, Dr. F. R. Detloff and Dr. G. T. Tennis. Registered nurses from the Putnam County hospital under the direction of Miss Bemis who (( outlnurri on I'liur Six>

Niece Arrives From Yugoslavia After many delays in getting credentials for her greatly-anti-cipated voyage, Miss Ljudica Vojnovich arrived in Greencastle at 3:00 a. m. Monday morning to be the guest of her uncle, Roj Veselinovich. Ljudica, "Violet” in English, left Novi Sad, Yugoslavia on Saturday, flew by Yugoslavian Airlines from Belgrade to Frankfurt, Germany, and then was a TWA passenger for the long air journey to Idlewild airport at New York. Met at the airport by Mr. Veselinovich, the two took in the sights of the metropolis, and left from LaGuardia air field for Indianapolis; arriving in Greencastle in the early morning hours on Monday. Born in St. Louis, Ljudica's parents took her back to their home in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia when she was only one year old. After her schooling, she became a school teacher, and for many years has been an instructor in the primary grades of the schools of Novi Sad. Over the years she has dreamed of her native America, and has waited patiently for the day when she could return for a visit to the v United States. This dream has now been fulfilled. According to Mr. Veselinovich, his niece is still in a daze over the sights in New York, the broad expanse of the rich plains, and the mode of living in the United States. And not the leas; of the wonders is the television set, which is amazing tc this visitor from far off Yugoslavia.

MINERS ASKED TO BE ACTIVE IN ELECTIONS

RECEIVE FUQUEST FROM HEAD OF UNION, JOHN L. LEWIS

CINCINNATI. Ohio (UP) — limited Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis has asked his 600,000 miners to work hard for the election of congressional candidates and skip the presidential race. Lewis is reported to be opposed to any endorsement of ar national presidential ticket because it might detract from union efforts to elect congressmen friendly to labor. The UMW endorsed Adlal Stevenson in 1952 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Lewis made a personal endorsement of Wendell Wilkie in 1940 but the UMW itself took no stand. The 76-year-old chief of the mine workers has passed the word that he would like to see the union concentrate on Congress. He feels most UMW members will vote for the national Democratic ticket anyway. The big independent union has endorsed 31 Democrats and seven Republicans for the House of Representatives and seven Democrats for the Senate. The candidates are in 17 coal-produc-ing states.

WEATHER FORECAST

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O. E. S. NOTICE Greencastle chapter No. 255 O. E. S. regular stated meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Friends night will be observed. Friendwill give the initiatory work to two candidates. Visiting members welcome. Waneta McMains, W. M

Weather Bureau predicted today that October temperatures will average “below seasonal normals” in all sections east of

the Mississippi River.

Wast of the Mississippi, above normal temperatures are forecast “with warmest weather in is:

News Men Will Be Elks Guests

For many years, the Greencastle B. P. O. Elks has joined with this benevolent o. ganization in the recognition of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 1-9. Invitations have been extended to the newspaper men of Greencastle to be the guests of the local Elks

at dinner this evening.

Because a free press is the best protection of all our freedoms, the Order of Elks, since 1949, has joined in the observance of National Newspaper Week. Again this year, at the request of Grand Exalted Ruler Fred L. Bohn, Elks lodges from coast to coast will honor their home town newspapers. The slogan for this year's observance “Your Newspaper — Free-

Charges Truman In Peron Regime WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles charged today that the Democratic Truman administration was responsible for bringing dictator Juan Peron to power in Argentina. Dulles made the charge at a news conference in reply to Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson’s recent assertion that the Eisenhower administration sought to “appease” Person before his ouster. Dulles said there is always disagreement about how to get results and that some people believe that Peron’s downfall mig'il have come about quicker if the United States had intervened in Argentine affairs. But, Dulles said, U. S. intervention in Argintine affairs h d been attempted once by the Truman administration with bad results. This intervention, he said, was a principal factor in bringing Peron to power. Dulles said intervention by the Truman administration was resented by Aigintine citizens. Asked whether the Eisenhov’er administration takes credit frr Peron’s ouster, Dulles said tne present administration allowed natural forces to work and these forces took Peron out of power.

the Southwest.’

NORTON KITES {fftl KSDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Della Norton, Poland, fL 2, will be held ^ Thursday at 2:0b p. m. from the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale. Interment will be in the Cloverdale cemetery. Rev. C. O. Barr will be in charge of the ser-

vice.

Friends may call at the Fun- (

dom’s Key To Better Living.” I eral Home. Please omit flowers.

Man is Slain In Street Brawl INDIANAPOLIS (UP)--Wills Burks, 35, Indianapolis, was shot fatally today in what police said was a street corner brawl. Burks’ slayer disappeared. Witnesses said an automobile occupied by two men and a woman stalled at a street intersection. They said the men got out and started fighting. One of them ran and the other drew a gun and began firing. Shortly afterward, Burks’ body was found in an empty lot near the intersection. He had been shot five times. By that time, the car had disappeared. Somoza Given Hero's Funeral MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UP) — Nicaragua gives a hero’s funeral today to assassinated President Anas' - ’ : o Somoza. The man wno controlled Nicargua for 20 years will be buried in the army officers mausoleum at the Managua Cemetery. Thousands of Nicaraguans Monday paid homage to their president, who died Saturday of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. HI SS HAVE TROUBLES WASHINGTON (UPi Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that Yugoslav Marshal Tito’s dramatic trip to Russia shows there i.s a very real and serious problem between the Soviet Union and its satellites. Dulles told a news conference the problem involves Russia's relations with the satellites and also the relationship of Soviet Communist party to satellite countries and parties. The outcome of the current talks at Yalta between Tito and high Kremlin leaders will be taken into aecount when the Eisenhower administrtaion decides whether to continue aid to Yugoslavia. Dulles said 1 President Eisenhower will have to make that decision this month. Q O ® ® ® O O Q « ft Today’s Weather ® O Local Temperature & Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers today and tonight. Cooler tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and warm. High today 81, low tonight 48. Minimum 64’ 6 a. in 64* 7 a. m 65* 8 a. m. 65* 9 a. m 68* 10 a. m 70* 11 a. m 73* 12 noon 76* 1 p. m. 79®