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VOLUME SIXTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1958.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 65

KIDDIE LANE IS CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY CLERK

WIDELY KNOW N MON HOE TOWN SHIP FARMER IN OOP PRIMARY

FIRST CANDIDATE

Ri>lan«J Bnldie Lane of Brick C’hapcl is the first candidate to announce for county office. He | will be a candidate for county cteik in the Republican primary election next May. Mr. Lane is widely known over Putnam county as he served two terms as county treasurer, being the first Republican in the county to be re-elected to a county office. He served as treasure! from lk:;9 to 1941 when it wa* a two year office. He also opened the Grecncastle Hardware store in 19;i2. beuig associated with it until 1940, when he took over the treasur-

er's office.

He is also widely known in Monroe Township as a farmer and until his health failed him, was actively engaged in farming.

MRS. MURPHY LEAVES $5,000 TO HOSPITAL

NEW YEAR’S BABY The first baby of 1958 born at the Putnam County Hospital arrived at 12:27 a. m. Wednesday when Mr. and Mrs. Marion Stewart, of Roachdale, became the ! parents of a son.

SEVERAL BEQFESTS LISTED IN WILL OF PROMINENT GREENCASTLE WOMAN

South Bend Team 1st In UP Poll

RXTHER I'NUSCAL DIET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UP) — John’s not a fussy eater,” said the Grand Rapids mother of a 2-year-old boy who just returned from the hospital after a diet of pins, pills and shaving lotion. John E. Doot Jr. gulped down a two-inch corsage pin Dec. 26. The pin lodged in a tube leading to his lung. He followed up the pin with sinus pills and some of his father’s shaving lotion. "John’s not a fussy eater,” said Mrs. Doot. "He doesn’t eat much but just about everything,”

MASONIC NOTICE Called meeting Temple Lodge No. 47. F. & A. M.. Thursday, January 2nd at 7:f!0 p. m. Installation of officers. Ernest Flint, W. M.

HOSPITAL NOTES

Dismissals: Mrs. Herman Walden and son, Clayton; Marian Murphy, Betty Keith, Mm Dale Rvcns and daughter, Joe Tarr, Mona Wilson. Grecncastle; Phillip Evans. Coatesville; Betty Ann Spencer. Indianapolis.

KING-SIZED tax headache

FARGO. N. D. (UPl- W. E. Elliott of Moorhead, iMnn., woke tip today with a king-sized tax headache. Elliott wrote a North Dakota newspaper he already pays a Minnesota income tax and, under a new law, may have to pay a North Dakota tax. Besides, he works for a Delaware corporation. takes orders from a Michigan office, lives in Minnesota, works in Noith Dakota for a firm which also serves South Dakota .and gets his pay check fr«>m Wisconsin. Perhaps, Fill tt suggested, he should quit his job and sock welfare assistance fiom all six states. LOW DOWN DOG AWOL MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UP)— The Coast Guard is searching for an AWOL dachsund. which holds the honorary rank of chief boatswain’s mate, which went over the hill here. The servicemen desciibed their mate as built low to the deck and sporting a tom ear siiffeied in a fight with a landlubber collie. PI.AX Eltx FINED MILAN. Italy (UP* All players of the Fionentina football club were fined 10.000 lire S16 today by the Italian Soccer Federation for hiding the ball toward the end of a championship game against Milan lar*t Sunday. Milan won the game, 2-1.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPl- South lend Central's Indiana high school basketball champions, rough and ready even without heir No. 1 player. Sylvester Coalman, today rolled into Hie New Year in first place in the United Press coaches' poll. The champs recaptured first ilace following their 42-39 vicory over Lafayette the team that climbed to the summit after shattering their 36-game winning streak Dec. 21. South Bend was third last week. There was a general reshuffle among the elite, with only eighth-rated Kokomo occupying lie same berth. Fort Wayne Central, Jeffersonville and Terre Haute Gariold all undefeated and Indianapolis Tech moved up while Lafayette, Fort Wayne South ndianapolis Attucks and Machon were demoted. Fort Wayne Central, winne r •f Elkhart’s holiday tourney .•united from fourth place to scc>nd. Jeffersonville, easy victor n its own holiday shindig, moved ip from fifth to third. Garfield advanced from seventh to fifth and Tech from 10th to ninth. Lafayette dropped to fourth place. South Side, second last week but beaten by Muncie Cen ral last Saturday, skidded to ixth, Attucks from sixth to seventh and Madison from ninth

to 10th.

Garfield, Tech. Attucks and Madison changed positions although all were idle last week. Muncie Central, which won its holiday tourney, impressed the •xperts enough to move from a tie for 21st place to 11th—the gateway to the Big 10.55 Fiist-place honors were \ve!i iivided. South Bend baggeu luce and a total of 134 points. Fort Wayne Central convinced • our coaches ami received 129 points. Jeffersonville got five nods for top honors and 115 points. Lafayette 4 and 114, aou Garfield 1 and 80. The top ten today are: 1. South Bend Central; 2. Fort Wayne Cential; 3. Jeffersonville; 4. Lafayette; 5. Tene Haute Garfield; 6. Fort Wayne South; 7. Indianapolis Attucks, v Kokomo; 9. Indianapolis Tech,

.0. Madison.

The will of Mrs. Julia Murphy, widow of Mat J. Murphy, who died last week, has been filed for probate in the Putnam Circuit Court. Mrs. Murphy left an estate of from $200,000 to $250. 000, according to provisions of the will made May 12, 1954. The will provided for $5,000 to be left the Putnam County Hospital. It also provided for $10,000 for the Riley Hospital for children at Indianapolis; also provided for a $10,000 gift to the Ame:ican Red Cross in Washington.

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Family bequests made included $10,000 for Thomas N. Murphy, $10,000 for Jeanne Murphy Pic.tering and for a number of nieces and nephews, she left $1,000

each.

To Arch Bishop Schulte of Indianapolis, for purposes of education for the priesthood, she left he sum of $10,000. In addition the will provides lhat the income from $10,000 go to the annual support of St. Paul’s Catholic Church of Greencastle. The Central National j Bank was named custodian of j this fund. To the St. Bernard Church ot Crawfordsville, she left $10,000. For the upkeep of the Calvary Cemetery at Crawfordsville she left $5,000, the Central National Bank to administer the same. To the Little Sisters of the Poor at Indianapolis, she willed $5,000; to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd of New York, she left $5,000. and to Father Baker's Home in Lackawana, N. Y., she willed $5,000. To the Central National Bank she left $10,000 for use in edu-

BANANAS PICK HER UP HOLLYWOOD (UP)— Actress Dorothy Malone, whose figure makes ogling male pedestrians clash into each other, is very • aicful about eating just right t< keep her proportions. "I eat a rich, gooey banann split each afternoon as a pick-me-up,” she said.

ISSI Fs NUCLEAR WARNING LONDON (UP) Prof. Cecil V Powell, Nobel prize-winning Puitish physicist and president of the World Federation of Scientifir Workers, warned today that a nuclear war would be the end of civilization. In a New Year's message to scientists, Powell said, "life for any survivors would have little or no relation to life as we know it. It would likely mean a great break with all that has been built up by humanity.”

PUTNAM CO. ©HOT BY H miKHt SNOW

A DRUNK MOTORIST DRIVES IN MIAMI. FLA. MIAMI — An unidentified motorist, apparently drunk, drove through the streets of downtown Miami early today, taking po shots at pedestrians with a pistol or rifle. At least two person '•ere injured. Terrified witnesses told thr Miami homicide bureau the gunman picked his targets at ran lorn as he drove slowly through he darkened streets filled with Jow Year’s revelers. They said he was driving a 1948 dark Buick sedan. They i on Id not tell if the gunman was i man or woman. The victims were not immediately identified by police, but me was a Negro and the other ras white. Police said it was possible othm victims had been ambushed and fallen unnoticed. Patrol cars searched the area for the gunman's car and a citywide nmnunt was ordered.

TRAFFIC TOLL IS CLIMBING

NEW YEAR RETIRES EARLY SLEEPY EYE. Minn. (UP) — How does New Year. 65. a retired ; carpenter, celebrated New Year’s

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IKE “FEELING FINE" AS NEW YEAR ARRIVES

MOST AMERICANS MARK HOLIDAY IN A SAFE, SOBER FASHION

FAIR BUT COLO IS DUE TO STAY FOR REST OF WEEK Snow and 14-degrees above zero temperature Ushered in the New Year of 1958 in Grecncastle and Putnam County Wednesday morning. The snowfall was general over the entire community and flak**s were still coming down at 7:30 a.

m.

The 14-degree minimum was recorded at 6 and 7 a. m. by The Daily Banner thermometer. Driving was reported hazard-

ous in spots on main highways

eating priests at River Fprert. I throughout thn country. State

police at the Putnajnville Post

NORMA TALMADGE WILLS ESTATE TO TWO SISTERS LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP) Silent screen star Norma Talmadge Ail led the bulk of her estate, to 'riling more than a million dollars, to her .sisters. Constance ind Natalie Talmadge. The will of the former film beauty was filed for probate on Tuesday by New York attorney Arthur Moritz who refused to reveal the exact value of the estate Miss Talmadge, who reigned as a silver screen queen during the roaring 20s, died of a heart attack Dec. 24 at her home here. She was 60 years old. Her widower, Dr. Carver M. James, was bequeathed $200,000 in cash and a(home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He also received community property held in Nevadr. The couple was married here in 1946.

JOHN BARRYMORE JR. SPEND WEEKENDS IN

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The year 1958, with its promise as the dawn of the space age, arrived today with most Americans celebrating in a safe and sober

fashion.

The holiday traffic death count climbed slowly, despite a severe snow storm that slicked highways and made driving hazardous throughout the nation's mid-

section.

At 6 a. m„ EST, the United Press counted at least 12 deaths in traffic wrecks, three of them in Illinois and two each in Wis-

consin and Ohio.

The Illinois victims included

an unidentified motorist who was killed when his car was struck by h speeding passenger train at a Chicago crossing during a snowstorm. The conductor of the train

lied moments later of a heart attack blamed on the crash. The National Safety Cou.icil

had predicted 130 traffic deaths j roared by and cut off his hand,

for the New Year holiday period

FORMER MAYOR DIES YONKERS, N. Y.- Mrs. Edith P. Welty, 76, former mayor of Yonkers and a leader in the drive for city-managrr government for some communities, died Tuesday. Mrs. Welty had served on the Yonkers Common Council before becoming mayor briefly on the resignation of Curtis

Frank.

POLICE DISBANDED RABAT. Morocco (UP) France relinquished a little more of its influence in this former protectorate today by disbanding the 50 year old French Legion of Gendarmerie police in Morocco. The 1,200-man unit will be replaced by the Royal Moroccan

Gendarmerie.

WATCHES HAND CUT OFF LILLE, France (UP)—Clement Cousse, 56, fell fiom his bicycle besides a railroad track Tuesday, caught his finger in a closing switch, and then watched helplessly as a passing train

1958 TO BRING HEAVY PRESSURE ON NATION’S CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Illinois.

To Mr. and Mrs. Ben Buscr, she willed one-fourth of the in-

said there had been no aciedent of any connsequence during the

debtedness of Mr. and Mrs. .night and early morning. Bi.ser, and to Mr. and Mrs. War- , Mostly fair and cold weather ren Buser she left the interas*. was the forecast for Indiana for they owe the estate. , today and Thursday. The residue of the estate, she j —

left to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in New York. Th^ Central National Bank and Mr. Buser were named executors of the estate, and Frank G. Stoessel was named

attorney.

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HERE AND THERE

Don'ts' Listed By Auto Editor LOS ANGELES (UP) In connection with the expected slaughter on the nation’s highways over the New Yearn holiday and during the year. Don Werner, editor [of Motor Life magazine offers the following suggestions for motor-

ists.

Don't drink when driving. Even though it is a cliche, the old r.rage about alcohol and gas not mixing except as an antifreeze is

true.

— Resist driving too close to the car in front of you unless you want to memorize the driver’s

hairline.

- Don't drive when you are nleepy. Our hard, concrete high-

j ways were not designed for takNUEYO LAREDO. Mexico >ng naps. l’P» Police took over head- I - Obey all speed laws. If nothquarters of the independent mg else it will save money paid party today following a riot in traffic tickets. A’hieh killed one person and in- —Give appropriate arm signals, lined several others. The riot ,lt helps other drivers and is good broke out Tuesday in front of exercise. the town hall when officials an- j —Resolve not to jump s grialn. bounced the election of official You never know who you will party candidate Luis Trevino ' meet at an intersection. Tena as mayor of this border 1 —Courtesy is the cheapest community. Backers of inde- form of ear insurance, pendent party candidate Tomec- Werner suggests additionally iano Echa , varia started a demon- that drivers post these rules on str’.aicn and then battled Trevino their sunvisort* when they have Tena supporters. finished reading the paper.

Swiss Have A New President

PARTI OFFK’E SEIZED

BERN, Switzerland. (UP) — Dr. Thomas Holstein, 61-year-old corporation lawyer tumed politician, today became Switzerland’s 77th president. Holstein, head of | the Public Economic Department ; since his election to the cabinet I in 1954, was named president last ; Dec. 12 by Parliament to succeed : Dr. Hans Streuli, head of the department for Finances and CusI toms. By tradition, the choice is I made by annual rotation of members of the scven-ma.i federal

i cabinet.

HOLLYWOOD (UP) Actm John Barrymore, Jr., 25, must spend the next tnrcc weekends in city jail on a conviction of being drunk and 'disturbing the peace Municipal Judge Henry Drae ger fined Barrymore $100 a»v' sentenced him to jail after police in nearby Beverly Hills arrested the young actor. Police said Barrymore, son of the fani<xl actor John Barrymore, had been quarreling with his wife and became belligerent with investigating officers.

auto horn Honking WELCOMES NEW YEAR PARIS — Thousands of merry making Parisians welcomed in the New Year today by defying the city’s 3‘/••-year-old ban on ! auto honking. For at least an hour, beginning just before midnight, cars rolled bumper to bumper along the boulevards tooting their horns in an ear-shattering and illegal (:hO» US.

which began at 6 p. m. Tuesday and ends at midnight tonight. The estimate compares with the 80 highway fatalities “norma!” for a non-holiday period at this time of year. The safety council issued a special statement advising that “nature has stacked the cards against drivers on this New Year’s and the best safety device m earth is intelligence.” Most of the early traffic deaths occurred in the nation's heartland where a snow storm and cold wave got the New Year olf to a dismal start. Readings plunged below 2zero through much of the Midwest md there w r as three to seven inches of snow in sections of northern Missouri, northern TUi.iois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Weathermen W'arned of hazH'otitiunrd on I’iikc -1 RECOVER WORKERS BODIES MARACAIBO. Venezuela (UP) — Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 17 oil workem w r ho drowned in Lake Maracaibo last Friday, officials said today. One other worker still was missing and was presumed dead. The workers were thrown into the water w r hcn a 125-ton oil rig collapsed on a barge and capsized it at one of the Shell Oil Company’s concession*! to drill for oil under the bed of the lake.

HANGED DURING FUNERAL WATERTOWN. N. Y. (UP) — Mrs. John petroske returned home from her mother's funeral Tuesday to find her son, Robert, 12, hanging in the garage. The district attorney’s office said a preliminary investigation indicated the boy apparently hanged himself accidentally.

TRADE EXCHANGE TALKS TUNIS, Tunisia (UP)—Two Soviet economic experts began talks today on trade exchanges between Russia and this former French protectorate. The Soviets arrived Tuesday as a followup to the commeicjal agreement signed between the two countries last July.

Noted Comedian Is Better Today SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UP) - ■Comedian Red Skelton greeted the New Year today from his bed at St. John's Hospital where he rallied from the shadow of death following a severe ‘’car-diac-asthmatic” attack. Hospital attendants reported that the famous redhead was in satisfactory condition and said he was able to “joke a little.” He was stricken Monday night at his Bel-Air home. Skelton’s wife. Georgia, visited the comic Tuesday night on the cvc of the New r Year but then w'ent home to he with their children, leaving her husband resting comfortably. Tlie couple’s ninc-ycar-old son, Richard, is suffering from leukemia and Mrs. Skelton said hr needed her care. There w r ere reports that the Skeltons received disturbing new\s about their son’s condition shortly before Skelton’s seizure. The comedian w r as reading a script for a coining program when he was stricken. His 10-year-old daughter, Valentina, found him on the floor gasping for air.

SATELLITE TO VANISH MEETING NOTICE MOSCOW (UP)—The first So- Groveland O E.S. Stated meetviet earth satellite will enter the ing. Tuesday January 7th at 7:30

New Year's Day. 1938, came on earth’s atmosphere and bum it- j p. m. Pas* Matron and Patrons Saturday. , se lf out "in the first days of Jan- .night. Members bring pie or

O. W. Hollowed was here from uary,” Moscow Radio announced

Cleveland. Ohio. today.

DePauw defeated Boston Uni- The first satellite wai? launched

versity in basketball, 34 to 21. Oct. 4.

The County Board of Educa- Moscow Radio said Sputnik I s tion met with Frank Jarrell, sup- orbit was decreasing rapidly and erintendent of the Putnam that the satellite itself was getsrhnnls. ting nearer to the earth.

sandwiches Visitors welcome.

Louise Sulivan W. M.

MASONIC NOTICE

Stated meeting of Morton Lodge 469 F. A M. Friday. January 3rd. 7r30 p. m. Visitors welcome. Rnseoe Oliver W. M. -

Mousenik' Irks Humane Society AUSTIN, Minn. (UP)—Eleven high school boys and a Roman Catholic nun today faced a possible court injunction that would take the mouse out of their "mousenik” rocket project. The Humane Society in Washington said Tuesday it would seek a court injunction to prohibit use of mice and other animals in rockets launched by the group w'hich calls itself the Austin Rocket Society. The young rocketeers, coached by Sister Duns Scotus of the St. Francis Order, Tiesday fired a mousenik successfully 800 f~et in the air but with an artificial mouse. The boys w r ere able to bring their rider back ‘ alive” when a parachute mechanism worked perfectly. They were not as fortunate Sunday when the ‘•mousenik” carrying a live white mouse named “Ulysses” fizzled on its launching pad. The Humane Society said its order w'ould be directed at the boys, their parents .and Sister

GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UPl — President Eisenhower was reported today as "feeling fine” as he began a new year that was certain to bring new and heavy pressures on his physical and emotional stamina. Eiscnhow'er still has another medical examination to undergo before he is grven a clean bill of health for the mild stroke he suffered Nov. 25. The President made what appeared to be a speedy recovery and has maintained a steady, but at times abbreviated work schedule since early December. The "feeling fine" report came from press secretary James C. Hagerty who w r as a New Year s Eve dinner guest at the Eisenhowers’ farm home Tuesday

night.

The President planned a relatively quiet holiday today, devoting part of his time to further work on his State of the Union message which he will deliver to Congress on Jan. 9. Eisenhower put in a olng session Tuesday with budget director Percival F. Brundage and James R. Killian, the President’s new scientific adviser, on the big defense budget. I.t is reported bo total about 40 billion dollars. He also has to put the finishing touches on the overall budget which is expected to hit about 71 billion dollars. Though the budget probably will be the highest in pcacetunc, indications were that it will be a balanced one and not require any new tax

boosts.

The budget and State of the Union message were only part of the exremely busy season ahead of Eisenhower. In addition to the annual economic report to Congress, the President also must work on a number of special messages which will go to the House and Senate in January and February. These cover a broad range of subjects from science eductaion to agriculture. The President also has a politically important speech set for late January. He speaks Jan. 20 in Chicago to a fund-raising rally of the Republican Party. And on the horizon are the late summer and autumn campaigns for congressional and the gubernatorial posts at stake this year. His physical condition permitting, the President was expected to take an active part in the by-election campaign. The New Year’s Eve party at the Eisenhower farm was quiet and small. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower had a small group of friends in for dinner, then sat around the spacious living room until midnight ushered in the New Year. Earlier, the Eisenhowers < clcbraled another event the six‘h birthday of their granddaughter, Susan Elaine. They attended a strictly family birthday party in her honor. The only others present were Maj. John Eisenhower, the President's son, his wife, and their three other children.

JIMENEZ FREES PRISONERS

CARACAS, Venezuela (LT’i President Marcos Perez Jimem-z said Tuesday night that all political prisoners will be freed and exiles living abroad for politic'1 reasons may return to Venezuela. In a New Year's mesage, the President said all political rcl - gees may come home providing they abide by the decision of ticrecent plebiscite which extended his term of office for another six year period, and will not conspire to dinturb the peace.

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