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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1957,

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 209

ALAN CHILDS IS INSTALLED AS LIONS HEAD

INSTALLATION PROORA.M HELD AT CLEARVIEW ON MONDAY EVENING

PICNIC TO BE WEDNESDAY The Christian Men's Fellowship barbecue picnic will be held Wednesday’ evening at 6:30 o'clock at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Albin.

The Greencastle Lions Club, probably the most active Lions club in Indiana, held installation and hoard Governor Fay Branham of Crawfordsville speak at a ladies night meeting held at Clearview club Monday evening More than 40 couples were in attendance and the program followed a splendid fried chicken

dinner.

Paul Evans, a member of the club, played the electric organ during the dinner meeting. Mr. Branham spoke on “What Do You Want Out of Life and How to Get it.” It was an interesting and thoughtful study of the every day trials of men

and women.

Several door prizes were awarded during the evening. Two master key awards members were present for having achieved this distinction. They were Sidney Mandleblatt and Charles Shuee. Guests included Zone Chainnan and Mrs. Charles

Thompson and

Hock Assumes His Duties At Farm

Walter C. Hock, the new’ superintendent of the Indiana State Farm arrived at the Farm Monday afternoon to assume his new and official duties. His commission was dated Monday, it w r as said. Morris Carter, who has been acting as superintendent for a month, will remain until Mr. Hock is familiar with the work. Efforts to find out who the assistant superintendent will be, failed.

DEATH TOLL HITS 134 AS FLOODS, HEAT PLAGUE U.S.

ILLINOIS,MISSOURI MAYORS ASK FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE

BILLY HARRIS IN COURT

Arrested and charged with I public indecency nearly a year ! ago, Billy Harris, Greencastle,

REELSVILLE 4-HER ON JR. LEADER COUNCIL Jerry Lewis, Reelsville High

School senior was elected to the ! 4-H Junior Leader Council at De- i Pamv last week. He was one of i

Five-Inch Rain At County Line A rainstorm, of cloudburst

proportion, dumped five inches of water along the Putnam-Hen-dricks county line Monday after-

noon shortly after 4:30 o’clock. The heavy downpour sent sma , ll

streams out of their banks and

District Deputy the road from Stilesville to Amo

Governor, Charles and Mrs. Rady w’as closed due to high w’ater.

was fined $25 and costs in circuit

court Monday then remanded in- the nine Council members selectto the custody of the sheriff until ed. They will be back at the payment of the fine. conference next year to serve as Harris, w’ho was arrested for ! advisors. They will also operate indecent exposure on South Col- a stand at the State Fair

lege Avenue, July 3, 1956, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty after his case had been continued four times and following the withdrawal of his attorney Judson F. Haggerty.

ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE

this fall.

Jerry has been in 4-H w r ork for eight years and in Junior leader organization for four years. He w^as one of five delegates from j this county to the convention. | Others attending the convention , were: Lloyd Broadstreet, Cloverdale; Sharon Sinclair, Belle ’ Union; John Aker, Greencastle; ; and Judy McNary, Fillmore.

of Roachdale. Mr. Thompson succeeds Mr. Rady as District Deputy Governor on July 1 and Mr. Shuee becomes Zone Chair-

man.

Paul Buechler, retiring president of the club presided. He offered his sincere thanks to members of the club who had helped make the year a successful one. He was presented the “Lion" for use of the Lion Tamer by Gov. Branham. During the evening a trophy was awarded Norvel Colbert for being the “Lion of the Year” from the local club. It came as a complete surprise to Mr. Col-

bert.

Gov. Branham who also retires July 1, made the following installation for Greencastle Lions for the coming year: President Alan Childs; 1st

State police said the road was still closed Tuesday morning. The same storm accompanied by high winds reportedly blew down 10 trees and overturned a crib and feeder on the Frank Hunter farm near Coates'ville. Also near Coatesville the wind completely destroyed a tool shed and adjoining tw r o room block building on the Herschel C. Knetzer farm and partially unroofed a barn owned by Wendell Elrod.

A record* heat wave blanketed most of the nation for the third day today, broken only by scattered storms that touched off damaging flash floods in the great plains and Ohio River Val-

ley.

The death rate, mostly from

drowmings, soared with the ternperatures across the eastern half SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UP)

of the nation. —Actress Terry Moore today | The intense heat also caused s °ught a divoice from w’ealthy TODAY’S HOG MARKET power shortages in New York Panama broker Eugene M c - Hogs 7 500; fully 50c lower ex , and Chicago, buckled streets and Grat h on the ground that he was treme 75 off . 190 _ 2 4o jp. 19.50 to

highways and disrupted work in ^ 0o frioodly with other women offices and plants. ; and gambled heavily.

The United Press counted at least 134 persons dead in disasters blamed on the heat and a succession of floods since the

weekend.

At least 100 of the victims drowned, 34 of them in nine southern states, 20 in New England, 10 in Ohio, 8 each in Wis-

consin and Illinois, 6 each in New injured Monday when lightning York, Indiana and Michigan and struck a tree under which they 2 in New’ Jersey. were sitting at Denny’s Camp on Flood waters killed 26 persons, Blue River in Crawford County, including 19 in the disastrous ’ Th e victims were Jeff Jacobi.

10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jacobi of New Albany; Steve

EX-GOV. CRAIG QUESTIONED IN HIGHWAY PROBE

MOOSE LODGE WILL HONOR ONE OF STATE DIHEITORS

VOLUNTEERED TO APPEAR BEFORE GRAND JURY SESSION

All members of the Moose lodge in Indiana are holding class enrollments during the month of June in honor of State Director

Crawford Barker.

The Greencastle Moose lodge JOHN

JC CHAPTER

INSTALLED HERE MONDAV NIGHT

LONG NEW HEAD OF

Lightning Kills 3, Injures 3 Boys

19.75, some to 20.25;

General Telephone Looking Forward

Emloyes of the General TeleNEW ALBANY, UP Three phone Company of Indiana will

boys were killed and two others fj e j n Greencastle knocking on

doors beginning late this month. Their purpose will be to talk over complete service planning with local business and residence customers in an effort to re-ar-

floods that hit the St. Louis area ^ s ” ri iVir - rtl,u range the telephone equipment in during the weekend. Flash floods ^ ac °bi of N>u Alban\, Stc\ accordance with modern day us-

killed three others in South Da- Jacobi ’ 9 ’ son of Victor Jacobi of age.

kota and one each in Kansas, ’ and J am es^Eber j this is being done to

Exemption Left Up To Congress WASHINGTON (UP) — The Justice Department said today that basebirll’s exemption from anti-trust laws should be extend-

Vice President. Arthur Zaring; j ed tQ other rfofessional sports 2nd. Vice President. Wayne Hop- onIy if it is clearlv shown that kins; 3rd Vice President, Norvel thev conld n0t sUr vive otherwise. Colbert; Norman Hammer, Sec-j Thf , department left it up to retary, Harold Reynolds, Treas- Congress to determine whether urer, George Anthony, Tail baseball’s exemption—set forth Twister; Bob Henderson. Lion in a 19 22 Supreme Court deeis-

Tamer; and directors, Eddie i on —should be continued.

Hammond, Bob Harvey, Ray- j The department made its view mond Reeves and Rodney God- known to a House Judiciary subfre y- committee which opened hear-

ings on government regulation TO PICKET AEC OFFICE of professional team sports.

The Supreme Court ruled last j Texas and east to the coast.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP)—Am- February that professional footmen Hennacy, associate editor of ball is subject to the antitrust a New York Catholic newspaper, laws and invited Congress to paid today he planned to picket take another look at baseball’s

the Atomic Energy Commis- exempt status,

sion’s office here and fast until Among bills before the subJune 28 in protest against the committee is one to extend basesummer series of nuclear bomb ball’s immunity to football,

tests near here. ; hockey and basketball. ———-— Victor R| Hansen, assistant atMASONIC NOTICE torney general in charge of the

Stated meeting of Cloverdale Justice Department’s antitrust Lodge No. 132 F. & A. M. Thurs- division, said in a statement subday, June 20, 8 00 p. m. Imitted to the subcommittee that

Glen Furr, W. M. “exemptions from antitrust should not lightly be prof erred.”

Hansen said the Justice De-

Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. Among record high temperatures Monday were New York’s 93 degrees, Cleveland’s 92.4, and Buffalo, N. Y., with 91. Chicago tied its record high for the date

with a top of 96.

A storm-producing cool air mass promised to bring some relief today to the Plains states and portions of the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley on its slow advance eastward. In New York City, and Chicago, the drain on electricity from air conditioners, electric fans and refrigerators caused a power

shortage Monday.

In northwestern Indiana, traffic was snarled when the pavement cracked on U. S. 20 west of Michigan City and on Ind. 55

near Gary.

The mayors of East St. Louis, 111., and Valley Park, Mo., sought

federal disaster assistance. Dam-

age in the weekend floods in the St. Louis area was estimated at about five million dollars. Weathermen said scattered , thundershowers and hot and humid weather were expected to-

day from the Great Lakes to

|hardt, 12, son of Mrs’. Mildred

'Napier of Louisville,

i Injured were Michael Phillips, 10, New Albany, and Phillip Eberhardt, 11, brother of James.

Final Passage Of Civil Rights Seen

prepare the Greencastle telephone exchange for conversion to dial operation next year. A group of six men and women will start the canvass project which will take them into every home and business office in Greencastle during the next

few weeks.

The company conducted its original survey regarding dial conversion plans for Greencastle during November and December, 1955. The result of this survey

company engineers in developing the dial service equipment to be

installed in Greencastle.

Customers are urged to give advance consideration to their anticipated telephone usage and be prepared to discuss their requirements with the service

planning representative.

MASONIC NOTICE

Stated meeting. Temple Lodge

No. 47 F. & A. M., June 19th. 7:30 p. m Ernest Flint. W. M.

MASONIC NOTICE

Called meeting of Roachdale Lodge No. 602 F. & A. M.. Thursday, June 20, 1957 at 8:00 p. m. M M - degree to be conferred. Members and visitors welcome. Members* to bring covered dish.

Don W. Corbin W. M.

Tranquilizing Drugs Harmful

WASHINGTON UP — Americans who have turned by the millions to tranquilizing drugs to ease the pressures of life are lowering their own efficiency, a government mental health expert

warned today.

Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in a copyrighted in-

partment's view iss that baseball teniew with U. S. News and exemption should be extended to w °rld Report that normal, healWedncsctay, . other sports „ only upon a very thy persons should lea-ve the

strong and clear showing that ^ iu ?s alone,

team sports cannot survive un- ^ he had heard reports der the present status of anti- i that 30 Percent of all U. S. doctrust's application.” tors ' prescriptions now contain

some tranquilizers.

WASHINGTON UP — The House today drove toward final

passage of the civil rights bill in , . . . , , 1 t 4>.was the basic material used

the face of a rearguard fight by*

Southerners.

The civil rights bloc pushed through tentative approval of the bill Monday. But final passage was put off over night because of a southern maneuver. The Southerners still planned to make a last try at blocking passage by demanding the bill be sent back to the committee with instructions to add the muchdefeated “jury trial” amendment. But the House already has rejected four versions of the «- mendment that would guarantee jury trials in federal civil rights

contempt cases.

Backers,of the bill could look forward to only rougher days

ahead in the Senate.

The Senate appeared virtually certain to bring the bill directly to the Senate floor for debate. That would mean bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Sen. James O. East-

land D-Miss., a

Tom Shepard Died On Tuesday Tom Shepard, husband of Mrs. Tye Shepard passed away at his home on Greencastle R. 4. Tuesday morning, following an ex-

tended illness.

Mr. Shepard had been a resident of Putnam County for the

past ten years.

He is survived by: the wife, and other relatives.

INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Former Gov. George N. Craig, whose I administration spawned an Indi- j ana highway scandal unpleasant to the Republican party, today becomes the most distinguished i witness to appear before a Marion County grand jury investigating reports of irregularities. Craig, who may have suffered a serious blow to any political ambitions when the highway scandals broke early in April, volunteered to appear before the jury without a subpena when he learned the jurors wished to question him. Thus far, in about nine weeks of intermittent sessions—usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays— the jury has heard dozens of witnesses and has indicted four

men.

One of the men was Virgil VV. Red Smith, with whom Craig entrusted the chairmanship of the important State Highway Commission in 1955. The other three were subordinates or

friends of Smith.

Craig has been quoted only band, sparsely on his reaction to the scandal stories. He has been pictured by friends, however, as a man "heartsick” over the way persons he trusted betrayed his

administration.

Craig is a political foe of Gov. Handley, whose new administration dug up some dirt against the Craig administration. Craig has been mentioned for years as a possible rival of Sen. William E. Jenncr R.-Ind. for the 1958 senatorial nomination, and as a pos- I siblc appointee to a top post in } the Eisenhower administration. Prosecutor John G. Tinder did not disclose what questions ! would be fired a. Craig in the Jury rooms. However, it appeared some would center on profiteering in the highway purchasing set-up. For the jury has spent most of its time in the recent second phase of its investigation in studying the purchase

will hold their class enrollment on Wednesay evening at eight o’clock. A class of 35 will be enrolled at that time. It will also be the first appearance of the local Moose Degree team before the membership of

the lodge.

LOCAL CLUB FOR THIS CITY

Made Fire Run To Fox Ridge A fire in a frame garage at the Dominick Calidonio home on Fox Ridge resulted in the city firemen being called out at 6:20 p. m. Monday. # The firemen reported that the fire started in a one-half ton trailer in the building and that there was damage of several hun-

dred dollars.

CAN’T TALK ROUGH

BRAZIL (UP) — Raymond Burdine was under sentence 1°* day to spend six months at the Indiana State Farm for using vicious language in telephone calls to his ex-wife and her hus-

BOMIt IS EXPLODED

ATOP ANGELS’ PEAK, Nev. (UP)—The Atomic Energy Commission detonated the fourth atomic blast of the spring-sum-mer test series today—a predawn explosion designed in part to study the effects of the blinding atomic flash on the eyes.

Ziegelmans Buy

Cantrell Cleaners

of $133,000 worth of an engine

additive called “Glo”

Robert and Billy Zcigleman |have purchased the Cantrell Cleaning establishment in Clover-da-le and will operate it under the trade name of B. & B. Cleaners. Robert has been employed at Allison’s for the past seven years and also received a diploma from an auctioneering training school. Billy has just completed two iyears military service, 14 months

_ of which were spent in England

The -Glo- was bought for $8 a Europe .

gallon in Smith’s reign as high- j vay chairman. Evidence has in- J dicaied that Arthur J. Mogilner, j a salesman for “Glo", got a $108,000 commission on the deal by buying "Glo" for $1.50 a gallon ! and selling it to the state for

huge mark-up.”

Grand Jury Fails To Find Evidence

CIGARETTES GOING UP Ic

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. - A Montgomery County grand jury investigating alleged timber

leader. But the fight on the Sen- ' ate floor was expected to be

sharp and long.

NEW YORK UP- Americans thefts a t Shades State Park rewill pay a cent a pack more for ported Monday it had been un-non-filter tip cigarettes. able to dig up sufficient evidence I ivc major tobacco companies f 0 re tum amy indictments, raised wholesale prices 35 cents However, the jury, which be-

Funeral services will be held a thousand Monday, which works gan its probe April 24 and heard segregationist Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. from j out to around 1 cent a pack at about 30 witnesses, recommended

The Greenca-stle Junior Chamber of Commerce received it* Charter as the 110th Jaycee Club in Indiana last night at an impressive banquet held in the ballroom of the DePauw Memorial Union Building. Charles Smock, President of the Lebanon Jaycees, served as toastmaster and introduced the President of the Indiana State Jaycees, Ralph Ross, Jr. Mr. Ross in turn presented the Charter for the local group to their new president, John R. Long. Following this, James Wagoner, District Vice-President, presented Mr, Long with the pin of his office. In a short acceptance speech Mr. Long pointed out the objectives of a Jaycee Club and expressed his confidence that the new Greencastle group will soon be one of the most active in the

State.

Earlier in the proceedings. Mayor Evan Crawley welcomed the new club to Greencastle ns did Joe Y. Todd, President of the local Chamber of Commerce. Several honored guests were then introduced and included visiting Jaycees from the Indianapolis and Lebanon clubs. In the principal address of the evening, Mr. Ross emphasized that the Junior Chamber of Commerce is an organization distinct from the Chamber of Commerce, and that the reason for the existence of a Jaycee Club is to give young men an opportunity to fulfill their responsibilities in the community. Ha enumerated the objectives of the Jaycees as being to improve the community, develop attitudes, provide an opportunity for young men to voice their opinions and ideas on government, and give leadership training. Mr. Ross concluded his talk by describing the Jaycees as "Young Men of Action" and challenged them to begin their activities with “A head full of ideas, a heart full of love” and hands ready to go to work.” Other officers of the local group who were installed during the evening were Richard Conrad, First Vice-President; James Gram, Second Vice-President; j William Reynolds, Secretary; j Robert Gardner, Treasurer; and | Larry Brant, Warren Harlan, and Bill McDonald, members of th*} Board of Directors.

Wreck Blamed On Intense Heat

the Rector Funeral Home. Friends may call at Funeral Home.

the will be passed along to consum-

ers.

NEW MACHINE LAYS CABLE FOR BRICK CHAPLL TELEPHONE

Backing Bill To Hike Allotments

Attend Midwest Organ Sessions

Arthur D. Carkeek, asfristant

20 Years A|j(i HERE AND THERE

TERRE HAl”TE (UP) — Joseph Burke, national commander

of the Dibbled American Veter- Professor of organ and theory at

DePauw University, currently is participating in the midwest regional convention of the Ameri-

ans. charges the monthly government allotment of $181 for service-handicapped personnel is

be boost- can Guild of Organists in Mil-

inadequate and should

ed to at least $225 a month.

.Jerome Hixson was named as a district vice president of tlu Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference. Alex Bryan and Ivan Ruark were among a greup of Putnam county men who spent the day at the Pm due University experimental farm near Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. Willard E. Umbreit went to Ixike Winona to spend the summer. Mr. Umbreit waa operating the Petrie Band

waukee. Wis.

During the conference, which Burke. Bayonne. N. J.. made will continue through Thursday, the charge in a talk before the Carkeek will perform a special DAV Department of Indiana con- service of music designed for

vention here. “It is quite apparent that a totally disabled veteran can just

weddings. He ii* the official

organist at DePauw.

Also performing will be M:rs Sachiko Mori of Tokyo. Japan, a

manage to feed, clothe and house _

hi5 family let alone try to put ' DePauw Erad " !lte sludent - She 13

aside any money for educational

purposes.” he said.

entered in the regional competition for student organists. Miss Mori earned the right to

Burke told the convention the compete against representatives DAV is backing a bill in Con- of other Midwestern guild chapgress which would raise the dis- ters by winning a campus organ .a-bility compensation to $225. ' contest here earlier this year.

retail. The increases probably that Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers try LONDON UP — A we^k-old

to recover through civil action heat wave with temperatures in $600 to $900 for timber taken the 90s was blamed today for the from park property. j wreck of a speeding LondonSteers said he would take Glasgow express train in which what ever action was necewsary 'one person was killed and 80 perto recover the losses for the sons injured, five seriously. ^The jury's report indicated 1 authoritieg said they that there was no marked boun- the heat buckled the dary line separating the park tracks - M™ da .V causing the train.

the MidDay Scot, to break in two at Uddingston, seven miles

south of Glasgow.

The center roaches of the train left the tracks, slewed sideways and Crumpled together. A woman was killed when she

INTMANAPOLIS* (UP) -lohu “ as flt,n ? " earl >- 100 J' ard ’ ,r '>™

the wreckage.

from adjacent properties. Handley Wants New State House

A. Whitehead, executive director

of the Indiana State Office

Building Commission, said over

the weekend that Governor

Handley is determined a new

Statehou.se be built or started during his administration. Whitehead told a meeting of the Indiana Society of Architects

some state employes are work-

ing in buildings so run down, the

State Board of Health and State

Fire Marshal would not tolerate them in private enterprise. The state government “is

housed in about 18 different thundershowers buildings with facilities that no and Wednesday.

HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissals: William W’iggs Rhema Covert, Greencastle; Mr*. Oakley Carlton and daughter.

Fillmore.

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Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered showers and

today, tonight

$ $ $

This machine has completed laying the ca le fore the Brick Chapel telephone subscribers, some 25 inches underground instead of stringing the wires on poles as has been the custom for rears. The machine lays the cab^e along side the macadam or pavement and in s>me instances where the customer desires it. they go into the yards and there is no poles connecting the wires to the residence. The operators said the ground was the hardest th?y had encountered in their work.

business would dare subject their

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nized the need for a state office

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building, bat “faulty legislation

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ally blocked the project.

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