The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 May 1957 — Page 1

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VOLUME SIXTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957. UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 189

DtiTH TAKES WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN

MRS. SARA PEASE PASSED AWAY AT HOSPITAL EARLY TODAY

Mrs. Sara E. Pease, age 58 years, well known Greencastle resident, passed away early Saturday at the Putnam County Hospital where she had been a patient only a few days. News of her unexpected death came as a great shock to her many friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Pease was an active member of the Gobin Memorial Church and the Needlecraft Club. She was also active for a number of years in the Eastern Star and was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary of Cassell C. Tucker Post 58. She is survived by the husband, Fred Pease; two daughters, Mrs. Willametta Newgent, of Barrington, Illinois, and Mrs. Ruth Ann Roberts, of Los Angeles, Calif.;, her father, Hugh White, Greencastle Route 4, and two granddaughters, Nancy and Susan Newgent. Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ann White proceeded her in death August 25, 1955. Last rites will be held from the Hopkins-Walton Funeral Home at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery at Terre Haute. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 this evening.

AUXILIARY NOTICE Members of the American Legion Auxiliary are requested to meet at the Post 58 Home this evening at 7:30. From there they will go to the Hopkins-Wal-ton Funeral Home to pay last respects to Mrs. Sara Pease. Wife Slayer To Die On Sept. 27 FORT WAYNE. (UP)—Richard Kiefer, 36, Fort Wayne, Friday night was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Indiana State Prison "before sunrise on Sept. 27” for the brutal slaying of his wife last Jan. 15. The sentence was imposed by Allen Circuit Judge William Shannen after a jury of nine men and three women deliberated for more than 30 hours before returning- a verdict of guilty of first-degree murder. Keifer earlier signed a threepage statement in which he confessed the brutal murder of his wife. Pearl, 36. and daughter, Dorothy, 5, in the basement of their home. He said he beat both to death with a small hammer and slashed their bodies with a kitchen knife. The little girl's body was half stuffed down a laundry drain. Asked by Shannen if there were any legal reason why his punshment should not be carried out, Kiefer replied “the only thing I can say is that I did not premeditate it.”

WILL CHANGE JOBS Indianapolis (up)—Former Indiana State Police Supt. Frank A. Jessup will retire from the police force July 2 and join the U. S. Department’s foreign service as an expert on police work. Jessup has been a detective sergeant at the Pendleton Post of ISP since he was replaced last January’ as superintendent in a charge of administrations.

20 Years A|jo HERE AND THERE

Eldon C.Hill was appointed to the 1937-38 Fellowship in English literature by Ohio State University. He was teaching at Lake Forst college. Poppy Poster art contest winners were James Pingleton, Joe Bamberger, Robert Pierson and Betty Owen. Harry Crawford was confined to his home by illness. Fay Hamilton was a visitor in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sutherlin were the parents of a son.

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

PATRIOT HONORED—Michael O’Hair, Soldier of the American Revolution and father of James E. M. O’Hair who settled in Putnam County, just north of Brick Chapel in the late fall of 1829, will be honored by the unveiling and dedication of a memorial granite marker and bronze tablet in his memory, at Hazel Green Cemetery, Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Kentucky on Sunday, May 26th at 2:00 p. m. CST. Michael O’Hair was born in County Down, Ireland, September 11, 1749 and died in 1813 at Hazel Green, Kentucky. He left County Down about 1775 and his name appears on the pay roll of Captain John Hay’s Company, the Ninth Virginia Regiment. He was with both the Virginia and Pennsylvania recruits, fighting in the southern campaign under Generals Morgan and Green, and participating in the battles of Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, Guilford Court House and other battles and skirmishes. UNVEILING—Breathitt County, Kentucky Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will have charge of the unveiling and dedication of the memorial granite marker and bronze tablet. The following program has been arranged: March to the Grave will be led by two members of the Philip Hammon Society, Children of the American Revolution: Jackson, Kentucky. Color Bearers: Anita Louise Frazier and James David Sewell. Salute to the Colors: By Bugler. Invocation: By Mrs. Robert Hume, Dry Ridge, Ky., State Chaplain of the Kentucky Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States: By Harold C. Rose, Commander of the American Legion, Post 305. National Anthem: Led by Quartet from Hazel Green Academy. Welcome: By Mrs. John Coldiron. president of the Hazel Green Cemetery Association. Aims of Gravemarking Project: By Mrs. F. Clagett Hoke, State Regent, Kentucky Society, D. A. R., Louisville, Kentucky. Identification of the Grave: By Adin Baber, Kansas, Illinois, great, great grandson of Michael O’Hair. Faith of Our Father: By Quartet. D. A. R. Ritual: fey Mrs. J Everett Bach, Organizing Regent of the Breathitt County, Kentucky, Chapter, DAR. Short Sketch of the Life of ’’Michael O’Hair” by Mrs. Gerald Brann, Bloomington, Ind., great, great, great granddaughter of Michael O'Hair. Unveiling of the Marker: By descendant Diana O'Hair, Compton. Kentucky. Unveiling of Tablet: By Karl R. O'Hair, Paris, Illinois, great, great grandson of Michael O'Hair. Wreath: Placed by Descendants: Nancy Gumm, C. A. R. and Richard F. O'Hair, Paris. Illinois. Dedication of Marker by the Regent of the Breathitt County Chapter, DAR. Last Verse of “My Countri’ 'TLs of Thee” by Quartet from Hazel Green Academy. Closing Prayer: Mrs. Robert Tume, Kentucky State Chaplain, DAR. Taps: By Bugler. Retiring of Colors. The voluntary committee for the location and relation of the Michael O'Hair grave were Adin (CoBtlmHwl OB rase Two)

DR. CARL ELL SPEAKS, GETS OLD GOLD CU?

PICKED AS ALUM-OF-THE-YEAR BY DPU SENIOR CLASS

The annual Senior Dinner by the graduating class of DePauw University, established in 1941, was held Friday evening for members of the class and faculty, with more than three hundred at-

tending.

The Old Gold Goblet, given by the senior class to the outstanding DePauw Alumnus for work accomplished for DePauw during the past year, went to Dr. Carl Ell, president of Northeastern University in Boston, who was graduated from DePauw with the class of 1909. He said he came to the campus as a student in the Academy in 1903 and went from there to they university. He said in speaking to the class that he was delighted to receive thb honor of getting the Old Gold Goblet. He then went on to tell of the campus when he arrived, there being four buildings, which he named. He said it was in the days of the surrey with the fringe on top. He recalled the walks to McLean Springs, to Sunset Hill and the huggy rides to the Halfway House on U. S. 40. He named old time teachers, such as Dr. Gobin, Dr. Brown, Dr. Naylor, Dr. Swahlen, Dr. Weaver and others. He said the students have “grown up” since his day, and don’t do the things they did in those days. He mentioned one

or two.

Dr. Ell told the class they must work, and if they work, they can accomplish anything they desire. He told of the billions spent in research and said this will open the future. He said the degree does not make the students uncommon, but he said the graduates can make the degree amount to something. He said this community as well as every community, needs the best brains and the graduates can become uncommon, only if they work

enough.

Robert Crouch, Alumni Secretary, was toastmaster. He presented several speakers, including Dr. Humbert, John Jewett, National Alumni President. Mr. Crouch named the eight graduates of the class of 1857, saying that someone else will name the 2057 graduates, and he also tolu of the work accomplished by the eight, all men, because it was the days before co-education. Dr. C. L. Bieber, professor of geology at DePauw, was chosen by the seniors, as the speaker they wanted to hear. His subject was “The Double Pitchout.” He said it was like putting one foot m the past and one in the future. He asked the seniors to make a record of accomplishment so that Historians some 300 million years hence can have something definite to record, as he said the cans and other things thrown away now form the data for the future to judge the past. He called this the junk pile and he said if we want a true record and a good record, these things must go into the junk pile instead of being scattered. Those at the speakers table included John Bruhn. elected senior class secretary; James Cook, Mrs. Crouch, Dr. Bieber, Mrs. Jewett, Dr. Ell, Mrs. Humbert, Mrs. Ell, Dr. Humbert, Mrs. Bieber, Mr. Jewett, Mrs. Cook, Charles Williams, president of the class and Dave Meid.

LOCAL GIRL HONORED

It has been announced that Mrs. Hilda Fay Anderson, formerly a resident of Greencastle and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Boatright, was one of six students chosen to be initiated as members of the Indiana State Teachers College chapter of Kappa Pi. Kappa Pi is a national fraternity organized to honor pupils who have achieved recognition for their art studies and who have a higher than average rating in other scholastic studies. Mrs. Anderson is also majoring in music and is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, national music honorary, and Kappa Delta Pi, national Education honorary.

HAPPY ENDING FOR BENNY

His arm in a sling the only mark of his harrowing experience, little Benny Hooper, who one week ago was buried in a well-shaft precipitating heioic efforts to save his life, leaves Bayview Hospital in his home town of Mastic Beach, N. Y. With him are his dad, Benjamin Sr., his mother and sister and a new member of the family, a dbg given Benny by an admirer.

Mamie Elmore Lions Install Called By Dealh Hew Officers

Mrs. Mamie Elmore, age 77 years, who resided on Avenue B, died at the Putnam County Hospital Friday afternoon, where she had been a patient for the past three weeks. Mrs. Elmore was born in Indiana January 17, 1880, the daughter of Jabez and Sarah Robinson Coffin. She had resided in Greencastle for the past several years and was a member of the Christian church. Survivors are four children, Everett and Russell of Greencastle, Alfred, Brazil and ’Mrs. Mamie Keller of Indianapolis; one brother, James Coffin, Greencastle; eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren and other relatives. Her husband preceded her in death in 1912. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 p. m. from the Rector Funeral Home. Rev. Elgin Smith will be in charge. Interment will be in Stilesville cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home.

Four In Family Die On Crossing GAYLORD, Mich. (UP)-Four members of a Gaylord family were killed and a fifth was injured critically Friday night when their car was struck by a train at a country crossing five

miles north of here.

The victims were Ernest D. Ostrander, 36, a sawmill v/orker; his wife, Loraine; their children, David, 9, and Patricia, 7. Only survivor was another child, Michael Ernest Ostrander, 5. He was hospitalized here in

critical condition.

During a combined Charter Night and 10th anniversary observance, new officers of the Warren Township Lions Club were installed Friday night at Old Trail Inn. Arthur Crawley, the retiring president, conducted the business session following a banquet. He intxoduced Keith Showalter, of Logansport, the new District Governor who will be installed on June 29. Mr. Showalter then installed the following officers: President, Marvin E. Jenkins. First Vice, Lee R. Lewis. Second Vice, Gerald D. Sublett. Third Vice, Robert Scobee. Secretary, O. D. Williams. Treasurer, Herbert J. Heeke. Directors: Doyle Glover, Earl T. Whitten, Glenn L. Sublett. Tail Twister, Robert Stallcop. Lion Tamer, Charles Thompson. Fay F. Branham, of Crawfordsville, the retiring dis'.ri’t governor, gave a short but interesting talk on “Lionism.” Mr. Branham also presented Charles Thompson a medal for his outstanding service as zone chairman during the past year. Entertainment was furnished by Bill Hatfield, 14-year-old Bainbridge magician.

SERVING IN GERMANY

2D ARMORED DIV., GER-

MANY (AHTNC)—Army Pvt. (Gerald D. Anderson, son of Virgil Anderson, Route 4, Greencastle Ind., recently arrived in Germany and is now a member of

the 2d Armored Division. Anderson is assigned to the di-

vision's 12th Infantry Battalion. He entered the Army last June and completed btojic training at

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

ADENAUER iH U. S.

EUROPE TRIP ARRANGED FOR D'PAUW GROUP

HOSPITAL NOTES

W STUDENTS TO SPEND 63 DAYS ABROAD THIS SUMMER

Combining study, travel and work in a seminar sponsored by DePauw University’s Methodist Student Movement, 16 DePauw students will spend 63 days in Europe this Summer. Leaders of the group, which will leave New York City June 11 and return to Montreal Aug. 23, will be the Rev. Kermit Morrison, MSM director at DePauw, and his wife, Marilyn. Among the students will be Sue Egbert, Indianapolis; James Spindler, Shelby ville; Carole Kelly, Cleveland, O.; Ellaire Shaw, Woodstock, 111.; Marilyn Kuhn, Ft. Thomas, Ky.; Margaret Gantz, De Land, 111.; and Sue Scherr, Louisville, Ky. Also Jean Ebsen, Park Ridge, HI.; Donna Cunningham, Lansing, 111.; Duane Dowell, Pekin, 111.; George Williams, Denver, Colo.; George Dodd, Wheaton, 111.; James Current, Baltimore, Md.; Richard Gethin, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.; David Crocker, Champaign, 111.; and James Goulding, Medina, O. One feature of the European seminar will be participaiton in a work camp at Linz, Austria, where the DePauw students will live and work with Austrian and Hungarian youth. During the same period, DePauw’s representatives will take a four-day steamer trip down the Danube River to attend international youth rallies for work campers in Vienna. The group will leave Linz July 7, travel for eight days, and then spend two weeks as American delegates to the West Germansponsored International Youth Conference in Dusseldorf. With arrangements by Dr. HanS Grueninger, head of DePauw’s German department, the Americans will join with stuIcnts from Europe and Africa in liscussions, excursions, and receational events. The remainder of the workitudy seminar will include an eight-day cycling trip through Holland, with accommodations in youth hostels, and a week of ight-seeing in Paris and environs. During the first part of the European venture the travelers will visit Ireland and England, living with Methodist families in London. Although the eastbound transAtlantic trip will be made by air from New York to Shannon, Ireland, passage has been booked on the ocean liner, Arosa Star, for the return from Le Havre to Montreal.

Dismissals Friday: Claire Lewis and Bruce Donner, Greencastle; Mrs. James Gorham and son, Fillmore; Mrs. Norman Cox and daughter, Fillmore; Paul Arbuckle, Coatesvillc; Donna South, Bainbridge; Cynthia and Warren Dunn, Clayton; Gene Hostetter, Roachdale; Mrs. Carlisle Hurst and son, Plainfield; Carol Plessinger, Reclsville; Ju-

dith Dyar, Spencer.

Two Injured In Ind. 43 Mishap State police reported that a Brazil girl and her boy friend were hurt in a one-car accident just north of the U. S. 40 intersection on Ind. 43 at 1:30 a. m. Saturday. Dixie Reffert, 14, was reported in “good” condition at the Putnam county hospital following the mishap. Police said she was thrown from the automobile. The boy friend, whose name was not obtainable at the hospital, was treated and released. State Trooper George Hecko. of the Putnamville Post, was the investigating officer.

MORTON TAKES NORMAN BEATTY HOSPITAL POST

YA OFFICIAL APPOINTED BY MENTAL HEALTH DIRfrX TOR

Plan Summer Reading Club The summer reading club, with the theme “Growing with Books,” will be sponsored by the Greon-ca«tle-Putnam County Library again this summer, for the boys and girls of the city and county in the first six grades. Registration for the club will begin on Monday, Ma-y 27th and will continue until July 16th. Each reader who joins the club must be registered in the Green-castle-Putnam County Library and must read in his or her own grade level or higher. Awards will be given ;rt the close of the club for the child in the city schools who has read the most books, to the boy or girl in the county school who has read the most, to the boy or girl who presents the most varied selection of books read. Thee lub will close on August 15th at 11:00 o’clock, the reading diplomas will be awarded to all boys and girls who have read 20 or more bboks, five of which are non-fiction. These diplomas will be awarded at the Greencastle Public Library.

Dave Beck Jr. Under Subpoena SEATTLE (UP)—Dave Beck Jr. and two other long-sought witnesses were under subpena today to appear “forthwith” before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. Becks father is under investigation by a Senate racket committee for his conduct as head of the Teamsters Union. The son of the Teamsters boss was the first of three longsought witnesses to be subpenaed Friday. TO APPEAR ON TV DePauw’ University students will present a program of Memorial Day poetry on Station i VVTTV (Chanel 4) at 1:30 p. m. Monday during the weekly telecast, Panorama of Faith.

Curt Way Dies, Funeral Monday Curt Way, 78, of Quincy, passed away before noon Friday at the Jones Nursing Home in Spencer. Mr. Way was born April 13, 1879 in Owen county, the son of John and Tamer Gillispie Way. He was married to Mela Reno, who preceded him in death in 1953. Mr. Way was a well known farmer in the Quincy community, and was a member of the Quincy Bapti«t church. Survivors are: three daughters, DoMoine May, Quincy, Mrs. Pauline Huber, Cloverda-le; Mrs Glenn Flad, Indianapolis; one son, Russell. of Indianapolis: seven grandchildren an f l one great grandson. Funeral services will be held Monday al 10:30 a. m. from the Quincy Baptist church. Rev. H S. Bunw will be in charge of the service. Interment will be in the Combs cemetery. Friends may call at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale.

ENDS FAR EAST C RUISE

Arriving at Idlewild Airport in New York enroute to Washington. Dr. Konrad Adenauer (lefti. Chancellor of West Germany is greeted by U. S. State Department Chief of Protocol Wiley T. Buchanan. Dr. Adenaruer is headed for talks with President Eisenhower and other officials. His daughter, Mrs. Libeth Werhahn (rear) accompanied him.

VISIT AIR RASE Cub Pack 92 Scouts of Bain- : bridge enjoyed a trip to Bunker Hill Air Base on Armed Forces Day, May 18th. The scouts saw many interesting planes on display, such as, Jets; Helicopters and other types of planes. They were accompanied by Roland Davies, Scout Master. Den Mothers and the bus driver. NOTICE There will be 3 meeting May 30th at 10:30 at Little Walnut cemetery. There will be election of officers for the upkeep of the cemetery. ,

LONG BEACH. Calif. (FIITNC) ( — Richard D. Neese, pipe fitter third clans. USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Neese of Route 1, Reelsville, Ind. returned to Long Beach, Calif.. May 21 after completing a seven-month cruise in the Far F'ast aboard the heavy cruiser USS Toledo. While in the Pacific the Toledo eonducted operational training in gunnery, damage control and engineering. During operations with the U. S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East, the heavy cruiser became the first Navy ship to enter the harbor at Shimizu, Japan.

INDIANAPOLIS (UP) _ Dr. Stewart Ginsberg, state mental health commissioner, announced Friday the appointment of Dr. David Morton of the Veterans Administration as superintendent of Norman Beatty Hospital at West ville. Ginsberg also told newsmen there would be more thorough “screening’’ of patients in an effort to prevent future escapes. Fugitives from the hospital’s criminally insane section have been charged with killing three women in recent weeks. Morton is director of professional services at a St. Louis VA hospital. He will take the new post July 1. Dr. Clifford L. Williams, acting superintendent, will be relieved June 1 by Dr. John Southworth until Morton takes over. The job pays $15,000 a year plus maintenance. The hospital has boon without a permanent superintendent •ince Dr. Wallace Van Den Bosch tesigned in a dispute over hospital security measures. Ginsberg said henceforth Beatty patients will be “thoroughly screened” before they enter the hospital and before they are released. He said in th past some inmates of the State Prison have gained admission to the hospital by pretending to be insane and “I wouldn’t be surprised” if there were still such cases being treat-

ed.

Another security measure will be to notify state and local police whenever a patient is released, Ginsberg said. He said the permanent way to prevent escapes was to build a separate maximum security building. Governor Handley said the million dollars the 1957 General Ass* mbly gave the hospital to build a wall if needed would not be used for that purpose. Handley said the* hospital was so constructed that it might be a “waste” to build a wall. Youth Held For Woman's Murder ST. PAUL, Minn. (UP)— A West St. Paul teen-ager was in Ramsey County jail today after critically wounding a police officer who jrttemptod to arrest him for the strangulation slaying of his 90-year-old great-grand-mother. Dennis WeVs. 17, admitted to authorities that lie had beaten ;md strangled his aged greatgrandmother, Mrs’. Ane Pedersen, when she discovered him trying to sneak a gun out of the houoe where they lived. Weiss said hr; intended to use the gun to shoot his father and was afraid that his great-grand-mother would tell his mother that he had the weapon. The elderly woman’s daughter, Mrs. James Opatrny, found her mother’*) body in the attic room where the youth slept. A belt was twisted around the dead women’s neek, according to police. \ ISIJ DEPAUW < \MP1 S A group of .d.ii'ii nt from Ohio’s Baldwin-Wallaee College visited the DePauw r arnpu.s ye.st-Tday to inspect faeilitie of the local FM radio Station, WORK. According ‘o Miss Elizabeth T irnell, D<s Pauw spe -ch profc - or and hostess for the visitors, BaldwinWallce plans to begin operation of a campus station later this year. .*■•. .*■*. /*♦. •«+ •, * *,* •,» •, * ♦, * • O Today’s Weather O O Local Temperature O

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Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer today with chance of showers or thunderstorms beginning by late afternoon or evening. M ».')tly cloudy and continuerd warm.

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