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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1 957.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 68

KIWANIS CLUB PUNS SPECIAL AUCTION JAN. 9 PROC EEDS FROM SALE TO COMPLETE CABIN FOR GIRL SCOUTS

HOSPITAL NOTES

Greencastle’s Kiwar.is Club will hold a special public auction Wednesday. Jan. 9, between 2 and 5 p. m. in the court house assembly room, it was announced today. According to President Frank DeVaney, proceeds from the sale will be used to complete construction of the Girl Scout cabin at Ferncliff, current major project of the organizatoin. Auctioneer will be Alton Hurst, and articles offered for sale will be contributed both by members of the Kiwanis Club and by other local-area residents. Donated items may be deliveied to the court house after 1:30 p. m., Wednesday, with pick-up service also available to contributors who call Auction Chairman John Snyder at 1473 before 12 noon Wednesday. Assisting Snyder with plans for the auction is Willard Singleton and chairman of Kiwanis’ fund raising committee is Herbert Heller.

Dismissals December 31: Fred DeHaven, Patricia Steele, Mary Jane Morgan, Irma Ellis, Phil'ip Shuck, Ruby Black, Linda Smith, Mrs. Charles O'Neal and son, Mrs. John Fisher and son, Grec-n-castle; Curt Young, Cloverdale; Mrs. Charles Ingleman and son, Bainbridge; Naomi Lewis, Bainbridge. Dismissals Jan. 1. Margaret Plummer, Mary Bittles, Fishr-r Austin, Inez Davi?, David Webber, Mrs. Charles Bridges and son, Greencastle; Sandra Jean Quinette, Bainbridge; Mrs. A1 bert Sishel and son, Gosport. Born December 3i to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hostetler, Clayton, a daughter.

7 Above Is Registered Today Wednesday morning, January 2, was the coldest morning of the present winter todate. It was 7 degrees above zero. Various other thermometers registered from 10 to four and five above zero, and in isolated spots, some event went lower. However, there was no wind anti the temperature failed to feel as cold as it did on Tuesday when there was a brisk and cold wind blowing. The weather forecasters have missed much of the snow and ice they predicted would cover Indiana around the first of the new year, and .no one is sorry that they missed.

Demos Will Go Along With Ike WASHINGTON (UP)—Democratic congressional leaders today indicated they will go along with President Eisenhower’s proposal to use money and troops if necessary, to stop Russian penetration of the Middle East. But they made clear they will first subject the plan to long, cold study and that it will not clear Congress with the same ease as did the blank-check authority which Congress granted Mr. Eisenhower two years ago for defending Formosa. Democrats also expressed resentment that the new “Eisenhower Doctrine” for shielding the Middle East from Communism was "leaked” to the press before they were consulted about it. They received their first official word of the plan Tuesday during a four-hour conference with the President at the White House. Mr. Eisenhower met with both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to discuss foreign policy matters which he will lay before the new Congress. The President told the congressional leaders, according to a White House statement, that the Middle East is ”a vitally important area.” He asked that "Congress join with him in serving notice to the world that the United States would resist any Communist aggression in that area.”

CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS IS COMPLICATED The Spencer World says: — "Owen county's already-compli-cated school consolidation projects seem to get more complicated almost by the minute. “Another school consolidation election js now in the offing. “A petition calling for an election on a proposed consolidation of Harrison township with the Eminence Schools in Morgan county has been filed with Harrison Township Trustee Renos Haltom. "Mr. Haltcxm said there are 73 names on the petition which was filed with him after he had given public notice that he and Eminence officials had signed a preliminary consolidation agreement. "Already, one election has been held— in Montgomery township where it had been proposed to consolidate with Spencer. That election, with an announced vote of 127 for consolidation and 124 against, is now in court, with opponents of the proposal challenging the legality of the election and charging fraud as part of their grounds for attempting to prevent Trustee James Clark from following up to the vote favoring consolidation. This case comes up in Owen Circuit Court Jan. 4 for further consideration. "In another consolidation, it has been proposed to lop off three more Owen county townships and tie them in with schools of surrounding counties. It has been proposed that Jackson, Jennings and Taylor consolidate with Cloverdale, but there are rumors that this proposal may be thrown into an election also. “A public meeting on this proposal has been set for Wednesday night of this week in the court house auditorium, at w r hich time all those interested are invited to be present to discuss the mat-

ATOMIC TASK FORCES UNDER ARMY STUDY UNITS MAY BE STATIONED AT STRATEGIC GLOBAL POINTS

Firemen Make First 1957 Run

WASHINGTON (UP) — The Army is considering stationing missile-armed atomic task forces at strategic points around the world. The proposed powerful “atomic fire brigades” would be capable of rushing to the scene of any sudden Communist thrust. The proposal, now in an advanced planning stage, is part of an Army reorganization scheduled to start early this year. Under the master plan, the Army will pare about 60,000 men from its 19 combat divisions to give them the added mobility demanded by atomic warfare. Some of these 60,000 men would be put in atomic task forces of about 5,000 men each. The units would be armed with such atomic weapons as the Corporal missile, which has a 50 to 75 mile range, and the Honest John rocket which as a 10 to 20 mile range. They also would have eight-inch artillery guns for which atomic shells now are being developed. The atomic task forces could be stationed at such key points as Hawaii, Korea, and Alaska. Consideration also has been given to using such fire brigades to bolster the vulnerable perimetar of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. Such units, for instance, could be stationed in Scandinavia and Turkey to guard NATO’s northern and southern flanks.

City firemen had their first alarm for 1957 Wednesday morning at 8:15 when tney made a run to the Crawford Hotel annex, j 209 South Indiana street. The firemen reported that occupants became alarmed when a chimney flue burned out scattering hot soot. There was no dam-

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William Arnold Called By Death William B. Arnold, well known farmer in the Fillmore community, passed aw r ay at the home of his son, Herbert Arnold, Tuesday. Mr. Arnold w^as born January 24, 1864, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Arnold. He had spent most of his life in the Fillmore community. He was a member of the Fillmore Christian church and a 50 year member of the I.O.O.F lodge. Survivors are: two daughters, Mrs. I/>la Miller, and Mrs. Earl Cash both of Marion towmship; six sons, Robert, Ezra, Cecil, Recil, Herbert and Cleo, all of Fillmore community; thirty grandchildred; forty-two great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Nichols and Mrs. Nova Dicks, both of Fillmore, and other relatives. Funeral services will be held Friday art 2:00 p. m. DST from the Fillmore Christian church. Rev. James Pifer will be in charge. Interment will be in the Fillmore cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home any time.

Corn Allotment Forms Available

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HERE AND THERE

Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. McNeely md son, Carl, were visiting in iedford. William Ashworth announced hat he had resigned as deputy heriff to accept a position as >rakeman on the Big Four raiload. Miss Eleanore Cammack reumed to her duties in the Purlue University library’ at West -JLfayette.

Any producer who intends to plant corn in 1957 on a famr> where there was no coin acreage during the years 1954, 1955 or 1956. must apply for a com al- ; lotment if he wants to particii pate in any phase of the Soil Bank Program in 1957, Philip B. Hutcheson, chairman of the County A SC Committee, said tc- | day. Marketing quotas do not apply to corn. However, under the present program, the production of corn in 1957 on a farm which has no acreage allocation would make the com produced on such farm ineligible for the maximum price support in 1957 as well as effect his participation in the Soil Bank Program. Application forms for a com alotment are available at the county ASC office. Jan. 31. 1957 is the last day such application may be filed.

Five More Added To Traffic Toll Indiana's infant 1957 traffic death toll already listed five names today, and the toll for the 102-hour New Year's holiday period was at least 14. New Year’s celebrations had hardly died down when four Hoosiers—including two struck down while crossing streets— became the first victims on the 1957 death list. The 1956 toll was more than 1.200. A fifth 1957 fatality was registered this morning. The toll for the holiday period beginning Friday night was relatively light. Just as many persons some tomes are killed in a normal 54-hour weekend. The first 1957 victim, based on Central Standard Time, probably w as either James R. Shepherd, Indianapolis, or Louis D. Rodgers. 64, Evansville. Both were killed about two hours past mid-

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Shepherd w*as killed on Ind. 144 east of Mooresville when a car struck a culvert at a curve. Rodgers was struck by a car while walking across an Evansville street Mrs. Janette Davis. 55. South Bend, was killed when two cars (Summaries on Page 2)

POLES ON TRLAL

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland (UP) — Eighteen Poles w’ent on trial today for destroying a local radio station last month when they’ heard reports it was being used to jam Western broadcasts to Poland. Observers said Titoist Communist party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka may use the trial to show that his own brand of “national Communism” must not be allowed to get out of hand.

NEW YEAR'S TRIPLETS

LANSING, Mich. (UP)—This city has laid claim to having the first set of triplets born this year in Michigan—and perhaps in the United States. The triplets, two girls and a boy, w’ere born within six | minutes of each other Tuesday starting at 3.36 a. m., to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Studt of Lansing. Doctors said all were healthy children and in fine condition.

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BABY' GIRL DIES Carlla Marie Hendrickson, 3 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hendrickson, So. Jackson St., passed away Tuesday morning at the Putnam County hospital. Survivors are the parents, a sister Diana, one brother, Donnie; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Hartsaw, Cloverdale R. R.; the paternal grandfather, Herman Hendrickson, of Sheridian. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Whitaker Funeral Home in Greencastle. Rev. William Duttrell will be in charge. Interment will be in the Cloverdale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Nine Children Perish In Fires

n> I nitrit Pre*M Two tragic fires during the New Year’s holiday killed nine small children when they were trapped in their homes near Santa Barbara, Calif., and Tryon, N. C. A blaze that apparently broke out in the living room of a 20room frame home near Santa Barbara killed the four youngest children of Mr .and Mrs. Jamos L. Free, Jr. The Fiees and two other children escaped the flames after one of the surviving children was awakened by the fh e and alerted her parents. The living room was directly under the bedroom occupied by the four small victims, James L. Free III, 6; Robin, 4; Sara 2 and David, 1. Free suffered minor burns when he sought to f : ght his way through the flames in an effort to rescue the children. Five Negro children burned tc death Tuesday in a blaze that destroyed three homes at Tryon. Firemen wehe not aware the chil dren were inside a basement apartment in one of the buildings until it was too late. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined, but it wras believed caused by a defective oil stove. The children w^ere home alone when the blaze broke out.

County Was 33rd In Vote Turnout

Putnam county tied for 33rd in rank among all Indiana counties in the percentage of its registered voters who turned out at the polls last November to cast ballots for tne office cf President, a survey by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce shows. This county established a SO 7 percentage of voter participation with 11,230 of its 13,970 registered voters balloting for the top national office. On a state-wide basis, Hoosier citizens marked up a new record of 83.4 per cent voter participation. This was on the basis of the 1,974,607 persons who balloted for the office of President from among the to f al of 2,367,459 persons registered to vote. The 83.4 per cent compares with a 79.9 per cent turnout in the previous presidential election year of 1952. The state-wide vote for presidential nominees in 1952 was 1,937,789 as against a registration total of 2,424,469. But registration rolls in 1956 carried names of 57,000 fewer persons than in 1952, indicating that many county election officials probably had done a better job of cleaning out their rolls of obsolete registrations than they had done in earlier years.

BUS SERVICE IS STOPPED IN FLORIDA CITY

GOVERNOR ORDERS RISES TO QUIT RUNNING IN TALLAHASSEE TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (UP) — Bus service w r as stopped here today by order of Gov. Leroy Collins w r ho feared a flareup of racial violence would result from an anti-Jim Crow’ campaign by Negro leaders. Collins issued the order late Tuesday under a law enpow’ering him to halt the buses to “protect public safety." Today’s bus runs were canicelled. No buses ran Tuesday because of the holiday. Violence which has copped up repeatedly at the South's other tw’o bus integration fronts in Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala., spread to Tallahassee Tuesday in the form of shooting and rockth rowing. A shotgun blast damaged a Negro’s grocery store and someone hurled rocks at four Negro homes, including the home of the Rev. C. K. Steele, a leader of the Negro movement to integrate the buses here. In Birmingham, city officials were considering changing the charges against 2i Negro defendants accused of violating law’s requiring segregated buses. The Negroes w r ere expected to press the cases in hopes for a federal court decision ruling the segregation laws unconstitutional. The Montgomery buses w’ere forced to accept integration as a result of a Supreme Court ruling in such a case.

SYMPATHY EXTENDED

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. Calif., (UP)—The Air Force today extended its sympathy’ to the parents of a three-year-old boy w r ho died of exposure in below’-freezing temperatures after becoming lost over night in the desert. Helicopter pilot Maj. Jones Seigler early Tuesday spotted the lightly-clad body of Bill Ray Tyree in a sagebrush and sand area less than tw r o miles from this base's main gate. Standing guard beside the boy's body was his uncle’s pet cocker spaniel.

Heavy Quakes In Gulf Of Alaska

HONOLULU (UP)— A heavy earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska touched off a tidal wave alert in Hawaii Tuesday. The University of California at Berkeley recorded three distinct quakes “which could have done great damages if they occurred in inhabited areas. They began recording here at 9:17 p. m. EST. A spokesman said they were “strong enough to make the tidal wave alarm system clang like mad." The tidal wave alert was called off w’hen reports from Fairbanks. and Sitka, Alaska, and the Philippines indicated no unusual change in tides.

Tito Is Tsrnei Of ksz Papers MOSCOW, (UP)—Tw-o .Soviet publications blasted Yugoslav President Tito today and one said reports he is planning a trip to the United States has aroused “concern.” The war of words between Belgrade and Moscow livened up with separate attacks on Tito and Vice President Edw’ard Kardelj by the weekly New Times and by the Communist Party r ’s top theoretical magazine, Kommunist. The New Times accused Yugoslavia of playing into the hands of imperialists who are using the slogan “national Communism” to split East Europe and Communist parties all over the world from the Soviet Union. “That is precisely why imperialist circles with such joy snatch up the slogan advanced by comrade Tito to “independence” for socialist countries and Communist parties from the Soviet Union 4 f on tin net] on Pace Four)

Cold Wave Hifs In Many Areas

By 1 nitcri Pro vs A cold W'ave gripped northern sections of the nation from the Rockies to New l 'nglf;nd todny and pushed southeastward toward the Gulf Coast and northern Florida. Snow squalls hit'most, of Michigan, the northern sections fof Indiana and Ohio and reached neai blizzard proportions during the night in western portions of Nev. York state. Brisk winds caused some drifting and made driving hazardous. Below’ zero readings were com mon in much of Minnesota, Wis consin and parts of New England, with temperatures plunging to 15 degrees below zero at both International Falls, Minn., and Lebana, N. H. Overnight readings in the low 30s were reported as far south as South Carolina and westward into the northern sections of the Gulf states. Temperatures ir the teens occurred from the midMississippi Valley through the mid-Atlantic coastal states. However, a warming trend edged into the Ciest Basin and western portions of the Dakotas and Nebraska. Weathermen said the warming trend will move into the Great Lakes area during the day. Weathermen sa’J snow flurries will continue during the day from the northern Rockies eastward along the Canadian border to the Plains and in areas just south of the Great Lakes.

10,600 Died In Fires Last Year

BOSTON, Mass., (UP) — An estimated 10.600 persons were killed by fire in the United States during 1956—875 fewer than in 1955. The decrease in deaths was the largest for any year since World War H, the National Fire Protection Assn, reported today. General Manager Percy Bubgee attributed the reduction to a "substantial growth in the general public’s awareness and of adherence to the simple rules of personal fire safety.” Total dollar value of property destroyed by fire in 1956 w r as a record $1,250,000,000. The 1955 total and previous high was $1,140,768,000.

TRAFFIC TOLL OYER HOLIDAY MAY HIT 420

loser" Takes Governor's Post

PROVIDENCE, R. I (UP) For three hours past the oathtaking time Tuesday an Inauguration Day crowd milled around the State House waiting to see who would be sworn in as governor of Rhode Island. The suspense was not broken until 3 p. m. when it was announced tnat the incumbeni, who had been “defeated” in the Nov. 6 election, would remain in office. Thus Gov. Dennis J. Roberts .vas ‘^worn in to rn unprecedented fourth-term as chief executive it 5:30 p. m. as the result of the stat£ Supreme Court’s invalidation of absentee ballots that had given Republican candidate Christophei- Del Sesto a 427 J vote majority. Rhode Island’s highest court ruled that written votes cast by some absentee voters and shutins who were unable to go to the polls were invalid because they were postmarked before Nov. 6. In doing so, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a constitutional amendment adopted by the legislature in 1953 giving absentee voters permission to cast notarized ballots “on or before” Election Day. Roberts had enjoyed a 721vote plurality until the absentee ballots were counted. Del Sesto said he would not challenge the court’s ruling and his campaign manager called him “a good loser.” But he showed some b.tterne.ss in his comment on the court’s decision. “Democracy received another setback in Rhode Island today,” Del Sesto, a 49-year-old ;-on of Italian immigrants, said.

MINORITY LEADERS CONFER WITH IKE ON POLICY

MINORITY LEADERS of Congress arrive at the White House to confer with President Eisenhower on upcoming legislation and the new Middle East policy called the •’Eisenhower Doctrine.” Left: Rep. Joseph Martin; middle; Senator William Knowland of California; right: Rep. Leslie Arends of Illinois, minority whip. I International Soundphotot^

Two Killed In Marital Tragedy NORTH VERNON, Ind. (UP) William Thoma., Stagman, 4*\ apparently shot hi.s wife to death, critically wounded a teenage daughter, then killed himself, State police said today. Mrs. Gladys Stugman, 37. was! found shot just outside the door j of her home New Year’.-* night ' Inside, police found Stagn.ar i dead with a rifle nearby and hidaughter, Kay, 13, lying critically wounded. Mrs. Stagman died about an hour later in Schneck Memorial Hospital, Seymour. Police said the shootings apparently climaxed a family argument. They said it was “definitely established’’ tiiat Stagman’s fatal temple wound was self-in-flicted. The gill was shot in the abdomen with the same rifle that killed her parents.

TOTAL WILL BE WELL BELOW PREDICTION BY SAFETY COUNCIL By I nitcd I’re** The nation wound up the long New Y’ear's holiday with a lie saving display of careful driving that held the traffic death toll well below the level estimated by the National Safety Council. The final traffic death tally was expected to reach about 420. falling short of pre-holiday predictions by about 7v) lives. “It seems certain now that our pre-holiday estimate of 490 traffic deaths was too high,” said Ned H. Dearborn, council president, “and we are delighted. We only wish we could have missed it by more. “It also seems likely that the final holiday toll will he little, if any, higher than the toll for a non-holiday period of the same length at this time of year.” The average traffic toll for a fourday period in early January is 420 deaths. The United Press count at 4 a .m., EST, showed 390 persons killed in highway accidents since the holiday began at G p. m. Friday. Another 54 persons were killed in fires, 5 in plane crashes and 101 in miscellaneous mishaps for an overall toll of 550. California, which had the nation’s worst Christmas holiday record with 73 deaths, again led the states wdh 35 fatalities. Texas was second with 32. followed by Pennsylvania with 22. Illinois 20, Ohio 18, North Carolina 16 and New Yoik 15. Dearborn credited the low New Year’s holiday traffic count in part to the record Christman weekend slaughter of 712 persons which helped shock the ration’s motorists back into highway sanity. Other, factors listed by D-ir-born were: "Magnificent law enforcement” across the naiion whi'-h saw police give up their holiday leaves to stop traffic deaths before they happened. Fewer curs on the highway.! than during Christmas and the lack of long, tiring home for Christmas” trips. Generally faT we.ilher and clear roads over much of tne nation throughout the holiday, in contrast to the fog, snow and sleet during the early part of the Christmas weekend. Seeks End To Cuban Violence HAVANA (UP) PresidontFulgencia Batista h;ui called for an end to the “menacing quarrels and violence” among various political elements that plagued Cuba in the closing months of 1956. A least 66 persons died in the eruption of political temper during December alone, 27, of th< in between Christmas and New Years. Batista made hi.s appeal for a “ballots not bullets’’ solution in ft New Years message to the nation. He said: “We proclaim on< e more than the best arms for the exercises of right and peace are ballots.”

NEW 1 EAR’S TWINS CHICAGO (UP) - A Columbus, Ind., couple are parents of one of 11 sets of twins known to be born across the nation during the first 12 hours of 1957. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Seitz were among couples to win $500 in g fts from the Toni Co. in the 9th annual Twin Baby Derby. % Q Today’s Weather fit & Local Temperature *51 Sunny but cold today. Clear and cold tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and a little warmer. High today 22„ low tonight 13. Minimum 7* 6 a. m 7® 7 a. m 7° 8 a. m 7’ 9 a. m 8® 10 a. m. 11® 11 a. m. 15® 12 noon 19® 1 p. m. 22®