The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1957 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1957.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
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LABOR DAY IS OBSERVED IN CITY, COUNTY MONDAY WAS LAST DAY OF VACATION FOR LOCAL TEACHERS
Greencastle and Putnam county residents enjoyed their last holiday of the summer Monday with the observance of Laboi
Day.
Children in the county schools were dismissed for the day and business generally was at a standstill. Many took advantage of the Sunday and Monday closing to attend the Indiana Stale Fair oi visit friends and relatives in other towns and cities. No major accidents were reported by the state police at the Putnamville Post Monday morning which made Putnam county one of the safer places in the nation as the traffic toll mounted steadily over the country. Labor Day also marked the last day of summer vacation for teachers in the Greencastle public schools as they will assemble at their respective buildings Tuesday to prepare for the opening Of another academic year on Wednesday. In Greencastle, practically all places of business as well as public and county offices were closed Monday. The county commissioners, who meet on the first Monday of each month, will hold their regular session Tues-
day.
Police Study Harbor Objects
SOMEONE PINCHES PILOT CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa (UP) i —The VVathan Flying Service said someone took a $1,060 automatic pilot Saturday while employes of the service were “gassing.” The workers were outside the building, putting gasoline into a plane. SHE SHAVES AT 19 RACINE. Wis. (UP)—Karen Martin. 19. whose father is a barber, is just learning how to shave. She is an apprentice barber.
MOOSE ERECT FIVE SIGNS ON FIVE HIGHWAVS
CLOSING THE HOUSE
LOCAL TO
LODGE IS TRYING PROTECT THE CHILDREN
Truman Favors Use Of Switch
CHICAGO (UP)—Authorities today studied a giowing mound of objects dredged from a Lake Michigan harbor by 100 skin div- | era in hopes of finding clues to the torso murder of 15-year-old Judith Mae Andersen. Some 3.000 persons watched as the divers, equipped wuth oxygen masks, made an inch-by-inch aearch of the l2-to-76-foot deep Montrose Harbor where the victim's body was found floating in tsvo oil drums. Among the items brought up from the harbor bottom were a 12-inch U. S. Marine bolo knife, a sledge hammer, a “zip gun” containing a .22 caliber bullet, a rail spike, a brown-stained rubber mat and a pair of men's
Bhoes.
Police began scientific tests of the objects in an effort to determine if any of them were used in connection with the gruesome
killing.
A special police task force searching Chicago’s Norwest side reported several persons in a neighborhood about four miles from Judith Mae's home heard a woman screaming early in the morning of Aug. 17. They told authorities the woman screamed: “You’re going to kill me. You might as well kill me anyway.” Judith Mae had disappeared hours earlier while en route from the home of a girl
friend.
The victim's torso was found stuffed in an oil drum in the harbor. Aug. 22. Her head and hands were found two days later in another oil can in the harbor.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP — Former President Harry S. Truman advocated a return to the old-fashioned switch as a means >t making children behave in
school.
Speaking to Jackson County, Mo., school teachers, the former chief executive sympathized with
their problems.
“Lazy parents, babysitters and a shortage of switches have made the teacher’s role a hard one and has made our educational system a coddling process,” he said. “The modern teacher is confronted with many problems—a lack of discipline at home, no switch in the corner and a par-ent-teacher association to harass her,” Truman said. Recalling his boynood days, Truman said his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner and if a smart alec did not behave, he felt that switch where it would
do the most good.”
Truman also questioned the value of new buildings, playgrounds, and gymnasiums for making better citizens. “The buildings and the gyms and the trimmings make no difference—they are nice to have but learmng comes from study and hard work,” he said.
The Loyal Order of Moose have erected five signs, one each on the roads leading into Greencastle. They are a warning for the motorists to be on the lookout for children. They are to be ‘seen and not hurt.” The city police, along with Ernest Wall of the Moose, erected some of the signs on Saturday, while the others were placed before and after. The action was taken at this time because of the opening of school and the predominance of youngsters on the streets.
HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissed Sunday: Harry Nicely, Sr., Danville; Mary Ellen Whitaker. Paragon; Halis Duncan, William E. Thrasher, Greencastle. Dismissed Saturday: Mrs. Leon Arnold and daughter, Marlene Bitzer, Greencastle; Mrs. Herschel Cummings and daughter, Fillmore; Alice Sheppard, Mary Stevens, Spencer; Alberta Hacker, Cloverdale; Edward Hubbard, Stilesville.
Mrs. J. H. Nichols Died On Sunday
STASSEN IS STILL HOPEFUL OF AGREEMENT
started on vacations, tours or fence-mending trips back home.
Conferedafe Local Horses At Veteran Dies Fair Win Places CRESTVIEW, Fla. (UP) James Coffman won second William Allen Lundy, one of the j place in the four horse heavy three surviving veterans of the draft class at the Indiana State Civil War. died Sunday night at Fair Sunday evening. The aniOkaloosa Memorial Hospital. He mals were driven by Earl Allen
HEADS BACK TO LONDON FOR DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (UP)—Presidential disarmament adviser Harcld E. Stassen headed bac)r to the London disarmament talks today expressing last-ditch hopes of some agreement with Russia. But reports from Lon Jon said for all practical purposes serious East-West disarmament negotiations there have ended. Stassen planned to meet with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles this morning for a final conference befoie leaving. He was scheduled to leave th s afternoon for New York en route to London. The disarmament talks resume Tuesday. U. S. officials said Stassen believes theie is a chance the Russians have second thoughts about their rejection of the United States’ latest disarmament proposals and may accept some
of them.
They said Stassen realizes the prospect for continued disarmament negotiations in London is unpromising. But he contends that no one really knows what the Russians have in mind until they give their “final word.”
TRAFFIC Twi IS MOUNTING OVER NATION LONG LABOR D.VV WEEKEND MAY PROVE “KILLER HOLIDAY”
Ilv I A United Press count at 8 a. m. CDT. showed at least 288 persons killed in traffic. In addition. 39 persons drowned and 29 persons died in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 356.
pasquale capita nflli (above), father of three children, was fatally stabbed in his Lombard, 111., home. Pinned under his fallen body was Clyde Walker, 14, who told police he “suddenly had an urge to kill.”
O. E. S. NOTICE
The Gieencastle Chapter No. 255 O. E. S. will meet in their regular stated meeting Wednesday. Sept. 4. at 7:30 p. m. Past Matrons and Past Patrons will be honored. This meeting will be of special interest to the newer members. Visiting members wel- j
come.
Youngsters Hurt In Cycle Mishap A motorcycle going north on Locust and a dog got together near the intersection of Olive street Saturday at 7:37 p. m., and a man and two youngsters were thrown to the pavement and injured. City police said William Fowler. 24. Indianapolis, was operating the motorcycle with his son, Cloyd, 4. and Linda Moore, 9, 515 Sycamore street, as passengers. Linda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Moore, and Cloyd were taken to the Putnam County Hospital. The little boy was cut and bruised in the accident and it was feared the girl had suffered a possible skull frac-
ture.
Linda’s condition was reported as “fairly good” at the hospital Monday morning. Rites Held For Burns J. Currie
Nancy Catherine Arnold Nichols passed away at the Putnam County Hospital Sunday night. She was bdrn Oct. 13, 1865 the daughter of James Henry and Sally Ann Purscell Arnold. Her entire life was spent m Putnam County. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Della Zeiner and Mrs. Ada Robinson; two sons, Ira U. Nichols and Harvey C. Nichols; one sister, Mrs. Nova j Dicks of Plainfield; nineteen grandchildren, forty-eight greatgrandchildren and one great-
great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Henry Nichols, and one son, James Russell Nichols. She held the record of longest membership of the Fillmore Christian Church, having made her confession at the age
of thirteen.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 from the Fillmore Christian Church. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home.
| was 109 years old.
i Death came to the doughty old warrior at 12:30 p. m. EDT. He had not been ill recently and
death was unexpected.
Lundy was admitted to the hospital at little after 10 p. m. with a high fever, according to Dr. Maurice Cohen, who w'ould not say immediately what was
the cause of death.
Lundy first came under a doctor’s care in early spring of 1957 when he was admitted to the Crest view Hospital for rmnov surgery. Hospital officials said there was no connection between the surgery and his death.
of Brick Chapel. Miss Elizabeth Rariden placed second in the yearling stake class and fourth in the weanling futurity division.
Two Arrested During Weekend
GUARD SWOLLEN RIVERS TOKYO (UP)—An army of more than 170.000 civilians and soldiers are working round the clock to guard the banks of the swollen Sugari and Nunkiang Rivers which threaten the key Manchurian city of Harbin, the New China News Agency reported today.
Ralph E. Nichols, of Plainfield, was arrested during the weekend by State Trooper John Danberry and charged with reckless driving on U. S. 231 in Greencastle
Township.
Raymond Morlan, 39, city, was ai rested and lodged in the Putnam County jail at 10 o’clock Sunday night on a public intoxication charge. Morlan was also charged with violation of a suspended sentence on a previous similar charge.
Rejected Suitor Jumps To Death SAN FRANCISCO UP —A rejected suitor jumped to his death ffom the'fourth floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel Sunday because the woman he loved convinced him she would never marry him. Edmond M. Bowman, 31, of Chicago, a traffic manager for Babson Brothers Sales Co., a Chicago dairy equipment firm, was the suicide. The woman who icfused to marry him was Lois B. Brown, a practical nurse from Springfield, 111. Police said Bowman and Miss Biown checked into separate fourth-floor rooms of the Mark Friday night. They came here for a vacation which began when she passed her state nurse examinations. She said she had repeatedly refused his pleas of marriage because of a religious conflict. At 8 a. m.. Sunday, she said, he telephoned to her room and begged for a chance to discuss the matter again. She replied: “There nothing more to talk |
about.”
Proxmire Plans 1958 Campaign
MADISON, Wis. (UPI—Wisconsin’s newly-elected Democratic Sen. William Proxmire arrived home from Washington Sunday night and announced plans to begin an immediate campaign for re-election in 1958. Proxmire and his pretty wife, Ellen, have been on a whirlwind schedule since his election Tuesday as the first Democrat to represent Wisconsin in the \J. S. Senate in 25 years. Pjoxmire was sworn in as a senator Thursday, in time to vote in favor of the civil rights bill.
NATO FORCES ARE WATCHING SOVIET SHIPS
SQUADRON OF RED WARSHIPS IN THE MED-
ITERRANEAN
LONDON (UP)— Nato naval forces today were reported maintaining a close watch on a squadron of Soviet warships moving down the coast of Europe toward the Mediterranean Sea. The Soviet warships— the heavy cruiser Zhdanov and four destroyers steamed out of the Baltic Sea Sunday, tallied by a Danish naval patrol. It was another in the series of Soviet naval movements which has led W’estern Naval observers to suspect a Russian fleet buildup in the Mediterranean, poswibly to attempt to balance the influence of the U. S. 6th Fleet in the waters west of the simmering Mid-
dle East area.
Radio Moscow and the official Yugoslav ~nerrs agency saki the Soviet warships were heading for Yugoslavia on a courtesy call. Naval sources here said British or Norwegian units of the
and adjourned with Congress the
following day. He appeared on I NAT V "' >rth ' Bea comma " d wn,lld
“Open i * ie, P shadow the Soviet warships.
Other NATO naval units will keep close watch when the So-
a television program.
Hearing,” and then left for Madi-
son by plane.
„ . . viet squadron steams past Gi-
Proxmire was met at Truax H
, , , , . , „ bra-ltar and into the Mediter-
Field by about 1,500 persons. !
TT . , , , . . . . ranean, the source said.
He told them he owed his recent
victory over Republican Walter Kohler mainly to the support of his Dane County followers. “My election is only the first step for Wisconsin Democrats,” Proxmire said, “and I plan to start now to campaign for the 1958 election that will make this
a Democratic state.”
At least five more Soviet warships, including two heavy cruisers, are in the Mediterranean, heading toward Albania. The Soviets are believed to have a major naval base at Albania’s
Saseno Island.
ATTENDANCE DROPS DES MOINES (UP)—Attendance at the Iowa State Fair was 431, 000 or 25,000 persons less than last year’s event, figures showed.
MUSICIAN KILLED HATFIELD, England Dennis Brain, principal horn player with the London Philharmonic and considered one of the world’s foremost musicians, died Sunday in the crash of his sports car. He was 36.
Management, Labor, Science Team to Produce Modem Miracles
The long Labor Day weekend threatened to become the worst killer holiday of the year today with the traffic death toll climbing at an "alarming" pace and the worst is yet to come. Safety officials blamed hot, humid weather, which prompted an apparent record number of motorists to seek heat relief, and carelessness on the highways for the disappointing traffic toll. A United Press,count at 5 a m. EDT. showed at least 279 killed in traffic. In addition, 36 persc-s drowned, and 27 djed in miscellaneous accidents for a total of
342.
California had the worst record with 37 killed, or an average of about one highway death an hour. Ohio was next with 20 deaths, followed by Texas with 18 and New York with 17. The National Safety Council had estimated that 420 persons would be killed in traffic during the three-day holiday, but hoped the count could be held to about 375—the average number of fatalities for a non-holiday period at this time of year. But Ned Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said it now appeared the council’s original estimate may have been “too low.” Dearborn said it was “generally feared” b- traffic officials that t’v life-saving records ip by motorists over the -noiiai D.c aj ,A yuxU) of July holiday nien. D'Affic deaths were htid to a non-holi-day average, would be shattered. The Labor Day weekend period, traditionally the last big fling of summer, began at.,6 p. m., Friday and ends at midnight tonight. Dearb-- urged motorists to cooperat cith : il^ enforcement officers who have ven up their holidays to “help you save your lives.” “The least we cv. i do is give them an assist by driving carefully, courteously and sensibly,’’ Dearborn said. One of the worst accidents of the holiday occurred Sunday near Effingham, 111., where five persons died in t) i uning crash of their car. All but one of the victims were from Chicago. Another severe crash killed three young motorists Sunday when their car slammed into a railroad abutment near Belsana, Pa., and burst into flames.
Last rites for Burns J. Currie, who passed away Friday, were held from the Rector Funeral Home at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon with burial in the Brick Chapel Cemetery. Rev. Samuel Carruth was in charge of the ser-
vices.
Pall bearers were Howard Moore. Robert Gould. Paul Gould. Lee Zieg. Art Kromme. Joe Crosby. Don Hendricks and Paul
Black.
MAGLIE CANNOT PITCH
Jocie Kircher. Worthy Matron j IN SERIES FOR YANKS
20 Years Ajjo HERE AND THERE
NEW YORK (UP)—Sal MagI lie. newest member of the pennant bound New York Yankees, regrets very much that he is ineligible to pitch in Die World
Series.
Carol Shirley underwent a ton-1 But the reason for that situa .
ail operation at the Putnam . tion ^ a tribute to the the County Hospital. National League has for this 40-
Miss i arrie Pierce went to year-old curve ball artist.
East Gary where she w-as super- j Maglie, acquired by the Yanviaor oi music in the city schools, Sunday for an etitimated
Nelson Hardy was visiting in $30,000 and two minor league
Youngstown. Ohio. players to be delivered next
Mr. and Mis. C. W. Hymer spring, cannot pitch in the series from Wilmington, —if the Yankees make it- be-
were here
Delaware.
Ola Ellis spent the day in Indi
ftnapolis.
cause the deal was completed after the midnight Aug. 31 deadline.
Services Held For Earl Toney rites for Earl H. Tonay w'ere held Monday afternoon from the Hopkins-Walton FJnera] Home in Bainbridge. The Rev. Verl Winslow was in charge Mr. Toney passed away early Saturday morning at the Veterans hospital in Indianapolis. He was born Nov. 5, 1884 in Putnam County, the son of Charles and Mary Gardner Toney. Survivors are the wife, Helen, one son, Earl Jr.. Danville; three granddaughters, Karen. Karla and Kathy, three brothers, Gilbert. Indianapoh* H*rr, Coatesville., Omar, White Plarins. N. Y.; a sister, Mrs. Goldie Parrott, Chicago, and other relatives.
Today’s Weather O 'Z Local Temperature O O £■ O O O £• O £■ a Partly eloudv, warm and humid today. Showers and cooler tonight.
Minimum 6 a. m. .. 7 a. m. . H a. rn. . 9 a. m. _ 1C a. m. .
71' 71 72 5 74 74
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