The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1958 — Page 1
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THE
DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
STATE
XD,
VOLUME SIXTY-SIX
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1958.
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
NO. 66
DEATH TAKES FORMER HEAD OF PENAL FARM THOMAS E. TIFFEE PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY AT HOME IN BRAZIL Thomas fv Tiffec. 71. who retire'! last May as .s\jperintcnd''nt of th<- Indiana Slat'- Penal Farm at Putnamville. died Wednesday n g • at his home in Brazil aftei six months illness. Tiff»e also was a former mayot of Binzd, a township trustee, a ('lay Oiunty sheriff, and a travelling representative of the In liana Alcoholic Beverage Comm. > on during the administration <<1 rx-(!ov. Ralph F. Gates. T.ife- was appointed supehn t i. nt of the state farm by foim» i Gov. George Craig. Mr Tdfec did an outstanding job a supn intendent <»f the Indiana State Farm and loft only because of the condition of his he alth.
A NEW FIREMAN Lester Haltom began his duties Thursday morning as a new city fireman. He has been employed by Ralph Randel Trucking firm for some time.
nan nelson dies IN TKRKK HAFTE I 'd Nelson, Terre Haute, died Ti day at the Union Hospital in T t i e Haute. He was the fathe> of Mrs. Willis Nee.se, Gre^ncastlc Route t. and the brother d the late Walter Nelson of this
city.
Last ute.s will be hold Friday at 1 p m. from the Thomas Funeral Home at Twelve Points, Terre Haute. Cataract Lake At All-Time Peak
C ALLS FROM SIC K BED SANTA MONICA. Calif. - Georgia. Mrs. Red Skelton, cn ;he New Year's telephone call • he received from her husband from the comedian's hosptal bed: “Sick as he is. he talked his doctor into letting him call rn? t midnight.” FORMER BANKER DIES BALTIMORE, Md. Thomas B. McAdams, 78. former president of the American Bankers Assn., died here after a long ill ness. A native of Richmond, Va McAdams was president and board chairman of the Union Trust Co. of Baltimore until hif ictirement in 1953. Mrs. J. B. Williams To Be Candidate
VENEZUELAN FORCES STAGE REVOLUTION
MILITARY GROUP REVOLTS AT BIG BASE NEAR CAPITAL CITY
CARACAS. Venezuela (UPtTho government announced loya troops crushed a revolution by army aud air force units today and captured the rebels or sent hem fleeing in all directions. Gen. Romulo Fernandez, armed forces chief of staff, made the announcement on television and rL.dio. He said all organized resist.ncc had crumbled.
The Spencer World reports Cataract lake at the highest point ! it has ever been and is still filling I
up. The paper reported:
Cataract Lake, which reached a stage about 28.5 feet above its j normal pool stage last Spring, | had rioen to .'M «8 feet above pool j stage at 7 o’clock this morning j and was still rising slowly. j At 7 a. m. Saturday it was 91 1 t feet above normal, and at 7 o’clock Sunday morning it was
31 H2 feet above normal.
Attendants at Cagles Mill Dam. where the outlet controls are located, had no indication this morning as to when they will receive word to start letting the lake down. That word will not come until all stream** fed by the water from the lake have re-
turned to below flood stage. With this having been one of
the wettest vears in all recorded history, the lake still has a huge amount of water-holding ability. The normal pool stage of the lake is tvlfi feet above sea level It was <t a stage of 667.88 feet above se,ilevcl at 7 o’clock this morning The water would have t" get to 7<>1 feet above nealevel before it would begin running
over the spillway.
In other words, the lake could rise more than 30 feet above whoiv it now is. and still not
overflow the t*pillway.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Williams, wife of John B. Williams of Franklin Township, today announced that she will be a candidate for county assesor on the Republican ticket in the May
primary election.
Mrs. Williams, known to her many friends as “Willie,” served for eight years as deputy assessor of Franklin Township; has served twice on the County Board of 'Review, and at present i is deputy in the office of the
j county assessor.
Mrs. Williams is widely known j over Putnam County as she has been associated with Republican politics for a number of years and has been quite active in the party through the years.
Three Mothers To Visit Sons
BOY'S FI NEKAL SATURDAY Gary I'oWayne Starr, age 5 of Belleville, pasned away Tuesday rt an Indianapolis hospital. He v is tbe son of Mr. and Mrs. Morns Starr. Belleville, the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gibbons. Stilesville. Other survivors arc two brothers, one his twin brother, Larry, and Jimmy: one sister. K tren. He was the nephew of Charles Starr of Greencastle Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:00 p. m. from the Harvey Funeral Home in Mooresville. Interment will be in Stilcsville cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home m Mooresville.
S FI FE FAST BERLIN BERLIN i UPt Armed Soviet tloops .mi armored cars patrolled East Berlin today after three Soviet soldiers fled to the West.
I
20 Years Ago
HERE AND THERE
NEW YORK (UP) Three middle aged mothers, carrying handknit wool socks and pictures of the family are enroute today to Communist China to visit their three imprisoned sons. ‘I feel wonderful.” said Mrs. Hugh F. Redmond of Yonkers, N. Y. "It will be a happy new year
for me.”
Mrs. Redmond. Mrs. Mary V. Downey, of New Britain, Conn., her son, William Downey, and Jrs. Phillip G. Feetcau of Lynn, Mass., left Idlewild Airport, iboaid an American Airlines >iane for Los Angeles. There they ! a ill boaid a Pan Ameiican World Virways flight for Honolulu and long Kong, arriving in the Chiu--e border port on Monday. Hong •Cong lime, to begin a two weeks
visit.
Mis. Redmond has not seen her •nly son. Hugh F. Redmond Jr.. 18, since 1946 when, a wounded tnd decorated veteran of World Aar II. he went to China to work or an export-import firm. He vas sentenced to life impriseni.ent in 1954 as an American spy ind is now under house arrest, vith two Roman Catholic priests, ilso Americans, in Shanghai. Mrs. Redmond said her son was named in Shanghai to an Amerian girl in 1949. His wife came o the United States in 1950 'when the trouble started” and is iow living in Wisconsin, “eagery waiting” for her husband who vas refused visa to follow her home. Mrs. Redmond said. She •aid Mrs. Lily Redmond had dcided against making the trip to •ee her husband at this time, but he declined to say why. John Thomas Downey. 27. and iichard George Fecteau. 30. disippearod in 1952 on a flight beween Japan and Korea, where hey were serving as civilians • ith the U. S. Army. They late 1 cere found to have been captur'd and were also sentenced as pies. Downey to life imprison- | lent and Fectcau to 20 years in prison.
CARACAS. Venezuela (UP)--President Marcos Perez Jimene? announced four powerful units were marching on Maracay today to crush a revolution by a military group that sent plane? to bomb and strafe the capital He expected a victory in a matter of hours. But there wc.s no word yet of a major clash. The revolt was led by air force units and army troops at the big military base in Maracay. 5( miles west of Caracas. Venezuelan sources in New York said the Navy had joined the uprising against what they called Perez Jimenez' dictatorship. The U. S. Embassy reported all 30,000 Americans in the capital, mostly oil workers and their families, were safe. The city was at a standstill with residents fearful of now air raids. The government admitted rebel plane attacks on the capital, but Perez Jimenez said the flights were “disorganized” and did no damage. He said one rebel aircraft buzzed the presidential palace but was shot down by mti-aircraft fire. Authoratitive sources in V/’ashington said rebel jet and propeller planes strafed the capital on Wednesday and one dropped a bomb but caused no casualties. Caracas Radio broadcast uninterrupted classical music from 11 o’clock, e. s. t. Wednesday night. No telephone calls from New York were being accepted
EISENHOWER
RETURNS TO W.H. FROM HIS FARM
MAY REJECT
PLEA FOR A TOP
RED MEETING
OWEN LODGE NO. 655 WILL INSTALL OFFICERS
Wilbut C. Scuddcr will be in- ; .stalled as Worshipful Master of ; Owen Lodge No. 655 at 8 p. ni
I on Saturday at Quincy.
Other officers to be installed are John Archie Alice, Senoi
BULGANIN’S Warden; Marquis Floyd Jones.
Junior Warden; William Joshua McCullough, Treasurer and Ot s
Murphy, secretary.
Captain W. Dichey, U. S. N., confers with "Flipper,” a penguin who has abandoned his customary formal attire for bell-bottom trousers. The penguin has become the traditional mascot of U. S. naval personnel serving with Task Force 43 supporting the United States’ scientific participation in the international geophysical year in the Antarctic.
Congress Ready To Investigate WASHINGTON (UP) Their
coming congress will leap back into the investigating business with up to seven separate House and Senate inquiries slated for
hearings in the opening week. The House has five hearings
starting after congress convenes Tuesday, and-the .Semite w-ilM- i gin at least one and perhaps two |
Two House subcommittees an-| Uan Church, she had lived in iiouriced Wcdnes iay they will be- | Boone and Putnam Counties most
trin public hearings next Wed-J of her life,
nesday. the day after congress convenes. Three others scheduled
Mrs. Adda Young Died On Tuesday Mrs. Adda May Young, 91, died ! at the Ruark Nursing Home in !
Fillmore, Tuesday.
She was born in Kansas, Oct. 23, 1866 and wa** the daughter of Janies and Hulda Martin Cannine Mrs. Young was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter
and two sons.
A member of the Ladoga Chris-
Caraeas. Cables were getting hcar ing S earlier.
through from Caracas but the Venezuelan government censors .utgoing cables. Military police, security police and national guardsmen in battle liess guarded the presidential palace and the main public buildings in Caracas, capital of one of the richest oil producing na tions of the world. Vehicular traffic in the city of 70.000 automobiles came almost to a standstill. Residents stayed off the streets but maintained constant watches at windows and on balconies for possible air raids. State Department officials in Washington said the situation was "serious” but they declined to evaluate the full impact of it until they received further re-
ports.
Perez Jimenez insisted the revolt was confined to only a few units at the big Maracay base dong the Pan-American Highway. At 9 o'clock Wednesday night he called on them to suirender or face annihilation. DEMAND PLANE, CREW LONDON (UP i Britain demanded today that Albania release a British freight plane and >ix crew members forced down by jet fighters, but the tiny Communist nation did not reply. The four engine DC-4 Skymaster, flying to the Far Eas' vith freight, was forced down b} - Soviet built jet fighters Tuesday near the Albanian coast on a route over the Auratics. Britain was handicapped ii that it has not diplomatic relations with Albania, but tru French legation leported the sixcrew members, one of them r stewardess, were "safe and well.”
In the Senate the preparedness subcommittee is expected to con-
Survivors are two daughters. (Mrs. Blanche Jackson of North I Salem and Mrs. Mamie Tate of Cortez. Fla.; a son. Paul Airhard of Union, N. J.; eight grand-
17 great- great- grandchildren; and a lister. Mrs. Minerva Walk- j
tinue hearings next week on the | children, 15 great-grandchildren,
nation’s missile program and tee Rackets Committee may also re-
sume sessions during the week, j or of Indianapolis. Latest House hearings schodul-i Funeral services will he held ed deal with the Defense Dcpait- Saturday at J :30 at the Chastain merit's airlift operations and the Funeral Home with Rev. Howard nation's sum clearance and ur- Ray of Ladoga afficiating. Burial h ui housing programs. ! will be in the Old Union CemeThe Ways and M< ans Commit- tery near Waveland. ne starts a review of tax laws
GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UP) — President Eisenhower heads back to Washington today to decide America's reply to Russia’s proposal for top level East-West “peace” talks. Administration officials have indicated the President will reject the proposal of Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, despite strong allied pressure to use such talks to find now avenues to ease cold war tensions. U. S. officials believe a “summit” parley with Russia would be useless and only provide another Soviet piopaganda springboard. However, the final decision on contents of the formal reply won't be made until the President confers with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The President was scheduled to leave his farm about It) a. m. EST and arrive by car at the White House about noon. He will spend only about 24 hours in the capital, returning to his farm tomorrow for the week-end and more work on his State of the Union message to be delivered to Congress Thursday. In Washington, beside meeting with Dulles, he planned to make some final decisions on his mis-sile-larded 1958 defense budget and launch the work of the new Civil Rights Commission. He was scheduled to attend a cabinet meeting Friday. During the holidays the Stale Department was drafting the reply to Bulganin. Bulganin proposed the East-West talks before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies agreed in mid-December on a foreign ministers conference to explore ways to ease tensions. Over New Year’s Eisenhower exchanged cordial greetings with Russian leaders. The President pledged “every effort” towatd world peace and better understanding between Americans and the Soviet Union.
FIGHT ABOVE ZFRO Temperatures in Greencastl* hopped to a low of eight degree, ■hove zero at midnight Wcdn-.-s lay and remained on the marl until 5 o’clock Thursday morn ing. At that time, The Daily Bat. aer thermomter icg. n n... ibove. It was also nine at 6 and r a. in.
TO BURN TREES I \ N. 6
Monday. Other opening week house hearings: An apprnpi ;atinn subcommittee star's looking Wednesday in- :<» the Defense Department’s re'pir. t f'ir an extia $1 200.000.Odd mostly for missiles, dining the prrs< nt fix! al year ending June 30. The Armed Services Committee will b' gin Jan. 10 an investigation of missile end other defense programs. The last two hearings will be closed to the press and public.
I \ RESIDENT DIES
Word has been received here of the death of Lclaml Guy Sharp on Dec. 30 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a former Greencastle resident and sign painter for a number of years. He wax tlie son of Benton and i Viola Hamm Sh-*rp <>f Washing \ ton Township, near Rcelsville j Mr. Sharp has many relative? | here. Funeral services and burial j were held in Atlanta.
Christmas trees for the Twelfth Night burning Monday even ing, January 6, should be placed in front of homes and near the street for pickup by city trucks. David Barr, executive secretary of the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce has announced. While the pick up may not be made before Monday, householders may place their trees near the front curb at any time. The trees will be taken to the city park and burned at 7 p. in. Mon-
day.
Young people from the various churches will be present to | sing carols.
1958 License Plates On Sale Indiana’s gold-on-blue 1958 auto licence plates went on sale today throughout the state in 190
branches.
The branches are scattered over the state with at least one in every county. Car owners can buy plates b\ mail this year for the first time State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Robert McMahan believed there will be 1V0.000 more plates sold this year than ever before. The predicted increase would boost state motor vehicle registrations to about 2,200,000. EX-KOKOMO OFFICIAL DIES KOKOMO William H. Arnett, who served as mayor of Kokomo from 1906 to 1910 anu Kokomo postmaster from 1910 lo 1914, died Wednesday six days sfter celebrating his 90th birth-
day.
WOMAN SHOT FATALLY; III SRAM) IS WOUNDED ( INDIANAPOLIS A young .vife was shot fatally and her es ranged husband wounded today • ii a doctor's office on the sixth i'looi of a downtown building. Mis. Aljean Eisner, 21, an of acc assistant for Dr. Marlow VV Ylanion, died in an ambulance v.u ■ oute to General Hospital. Sht
vas shot, in the head.
Her husband, Richard Eisner 21, also v.a-i shot in the head ao-. was taken to a hospital in ser
oils condition.
TRAFFIC TOLL OVER NATION REACHES 175 HIGHWAY DEATHS HAVE PASSED SAFETY COUNCIL’S ISO ESTIMATE
At 11 a m. c. s. t . the United Press count showed 175 dead m traffic from 6 p. m Tuesday and midnight Wednesday. A plane crash killed 1 person, 17 died in fires and 20 in other accidents for an overall toll of 213. The nation's motorists opened he new year with a "distressng" traffic death toll, and safety experts said their estimates of he holiday highway slaughter •robably would be “far exceeded.”
Local Teacher Asks Damages
TODAY’S HOf. MARKET Hogs 14.000: 50 1 00 Inwr:
'80-240 lb 18.25-19 00, some to 19 50; 210-270 lb 17.50-18.50; 270-300 lb 17.00-17 50; 130-160!
lb 17.00-17.75, few 18.00.
FIRST BABY BORN AT HOSPITAL IN 1958
Wilbut Grimes and Jake Hirt uoie h gh si oners at a trap shoot tu-ld at Higby's Camp on State Road 6. east ot Hnllandsburg A 1937 Buick bekmging to Einu r Yam leave, which was stolen irom its parking place at the p.»»i office, was lound abandonee, police in Marion.
NEW YEAR GRANDSONS ALEXANDRIA. Va (UP) — New Year's Day brought two grandsons to retired Bug. Gen. R. S. Ramey of Nashville. Term.. me at the stroke of midnight j md the second four minutes lat- I ?r. Daniel, born at the birth of ; the New Year, weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and brother William j ::pped the scales at 5 pounds 3
KITES HELD FOR BOY KOKOMO UP Funeral services were scheduled today for a four-year-old boy who went to sleep Christmas Eve and never awakened. Relatives said John Cox went to sleep feeling fine on Christmas Eve but he never i-egamed consciousness and died five days later. Doctors said the death was aused by a meningitis-type of brain infection.
Charges that tbe State Prison at Michigan City violated minimum pay provisions of the Leaeheis’ salary law were the basis yesterday for a suit filed by Lloyd S. Vaughn against th»
state.
Vaughn seeks $1,500 in "salary earned but not pint.” The action, filed in Superior
Court, Room 5, states tha f he was hned 0<'t. 28, 1953, as a secondary general teacher at the
prison.
He was paid .?39b monthly plus a $25 cost of living increase, less $5 for maintenance, where.') ; the legal minimum pay for | teachers was $479 monthly
j complaint states,
i Vaughn had five years professional training and 22 years credit as a teacher and was entitled to the $479, because the law piovides for the payment of such teachers at the general
scale, he asserted.
On Dec. 7, 1955, Warden J
’Sllis Overlade requested the Department of Corrections to abolsh the position and a week later
it was done, according Lo the| futui
harges. Ii;in The folic wing month the State Personnel Board luled the action was legal. A new man was
hired on March 16, 1956.
Vaughn alleged that the action was a ‘temporary abandonment” of the program establ.sh-
ed by law.
The National Safety Council bad estimated that 130 person-* could be killed in traffic during tic 30-honr mid-week New Year’s holiday period. However, boosted hy late re’>ort.s today, the fatality toll apnea red headed toward the 150
mark.
At 5 a m , c. g. ( , today, the United Press counted at least 125 irrsons killed in traffic from 6 >. in. New Year’s Eve through midnight Wednesday. Fires took 14 lives, 17 died in miscellaneous accidents and 1 was killed in a plane crash for an overall total
of 157.
New York had (he highe.t state traffic toll with 19 killed, followed by New Jersey and California with 13 fatalities eacn,
Ohio, 8, and Illinois, 7.
Ned H. Dearborn, council president. said all signs point to another tragic holiday on the highways. Only last week, at lead 223 tiatfic fatalities marred the Christmas holiday, a figure well ur excess of the 180 highway d*aths estimated by the council. “It’s sad,” Dearborn said, “but. judging from past experience the really h< avy death reports will probably start coming in fa-d
during the morning hours.”
Dearborn anticipated a h'nvy traffic count New Year's night because “that’s when the Amer can motorist is on his way ba< k from visiting relatives or friends
at holiday gatherings."
The final count will not be known until all reports are in later today, but Dearborn sei 1 figures so far show the toll m j tunning at a rate 25 per c it
1 greatei than last year.
He said the holiday toll coul ! double (he “average” of 80 traffic deaths for a similar non-holi-
day period in early winter.
A New Year's Eve snowstorm Uiat dumped 3 to 18 inches ••l snow across the nation's Midlands was blamed in part Ini thj
high traffic death rate.
( It ASH KILLS SIX WARSAW, Poind Six persons were killed and t .vn iriju I ;eriousiy when a fast, moving •!e< trie passenger train hit. the rear of i slow freight sonthca.* d Warsaw Tuesday, it v i learned today. Uau.,c of r la.Ji was believed to be a fau.ty
signal system.
A.VNOI'M L ( ENTERS
The Indiana High School Aththe I letic Association was expeeteei t,, |announce the centers for the coming high school sec tional and re-
gional tourneys late today.
( ON'.lil SSMAN (>\ MI^SH I ■*
WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.
Richard B. Russell D-Ga said today the primary concern of the reconvening 85th Congress will
be missiles.
‘‘I can't wee anything that i; more important than that for the i of our country," the chairman of the Senate Armed Ser-
vices Committee said.
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Donald Louis Stewart, son of Mr and Mrs. Marion Stewart of Roachdale, was bom in the New Year at the Putnam County Hospital.
first baby
REDS PROBE TIBET
KATMANDU, Nepal RrporU from Lhasa, capital of Tibet, said today Communist China may be having second thoughts about its cut back m. the drive to bring Communism to Tibet The reports said a top level committee of Chinese leaders arrived m the capital to investigate C >rnmunist penetration and suggest ways of fighting anti-Commurust
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Mostly fair and not quite so cold today, tonight and Friday. High today in mid 20s. I/»w tonight near 10 above. High Friday
in upper 20s.
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