The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 June 1963 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1963,

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 205

Atty. Gen. Steers Upholds Niblack Sales Tax Ruling

INDIAN A POUS UPI—Governor Welsh, faced with the possibility of a special legislative session to head off an impending financial crisis, rushed back to his office early today to confer with department heads affected by a court ruling invalidating the state’s new 2 per cent sales tax

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The State of Indiana was come face to face with a financial crisis when a circuit judge ruled unconstitutional the two per cent sales tax scheuled to become effective July 1. Judge John L. Niblack issued the ruling in a suit filed by the Indiana State AFL-CIO chaUenging the validty of a law enacted by the 1963 Legislature in a rec-ord-breaking 101-d a y session from January to late April. Niblack said the law was “conceived in confusion and drawn in desperation and haste” and was illegal because it delegate legislative authority to the executive branch of government. A state appeal or the ruling or move for a new trial could result in long delays well past the time the state was due to start collecting millions of dollars of from the buying public to help finance a record budget for the new fiscal year beginning next month. John Hatchett, commissioner for the State Department of Administration. said if the state is unable to collect the sales tax it could mean a reduction of $94 million in general fund expenditures next fiscal year. He said most of the cut would come in state aid to local schools because that that was where most of the increased taxes were earmarked and local schools have other revenue sources to fall back on. Niblack’s ruling said the legislature has the power to enact a valid sales tax but failed to do so. Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers told Governor Welsh in a conference on the resultant financial crisis that he agree with the decision. Welsh, in New Orleans on a trip, held a round of conference by phone with aides and colleagues in the Statehouse. When he talked with Steers Friday afternoon. Steers told him “in my opinion the court is correct and the state is not in a good position to defend the act further.” ”1 have felt and have pointed out deficiencies in the act passed by the last legislature to the governor on several previous occasions,” Steers said in a prepared statement after talking with Welsh. “I have even suggested that the governor appoint outside attorneys defend the constitutionality of the act. However, at his request I have made the best legal defense of the act before Judge Niblack that I could under the circumstances. "My office did not prepare or draft this act, was not consulted and did not write any question on its constitutionality at the time of passage. I feed . . .that I cannot conscientiously make any further efforts in defense of this act and have given my consent. . to the governor to appoint special counsel to take whatever further legal action he sees fit.” Niblack said the law was “conceived in confusion and drawn in desperation and haste” and w^s illegal because it delegated legisItive authority to the executive branch of government. SON-IN-LAW DIES Mr. and Mrs. Benton Bennett received word Friday morning of the death of their son-in-law, Joseph Johnson, at his home 2545 Shelby Street, Indianapolis. Mr. Johnson was the husband of the former Christine Bennett. Friends may call at the Grinsteiner Mortuary, 1601 East New York Street in Indianapolis, from 2 to 10 p.m. today, Brazil will be in Evansville.

Changes Needed For Swim Classes Due to an error in enrollment all classes in the first learn-to-swim session (June 17-28) have been overfilled. Consequently many students will have to be shifted to a 9:00 a. m. class in the first session or to 9:00 oi 9:45 or 11:15 classes for the second session, July 1-12. These changes will be made Monday, June 17 at the swimming pool. If you are not able to attend the full tw’o-week session, please withdraw now to make room for others who can attend the full session. The cooperation and understanding of the parents in making these changes will be appreciated.

HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissed Friday: Kevin Jarvis, James Bennett, Aubert Meredith, Greencastle; Mrs. Konald Allgood and son. Martha Ann Smith, Roachdale; Dan Sears, Fillmore; Lucinda Sutherlin. Russellville; Kevin Ogles, Coatesville; Chauncey Bryan, Stilesville.

Conference Ends For 4-H Leaders An annual Indiana 4-H Junior Leaders Conference on the DePauw University campus ended Friday for 375 youths. During Thursday sessions, 16 boys and girls were elected to the organization’s council. They are Brenda Hiatt, Star City; Suzanne Moutoux, Evansville; Kristie Ray. Stilesville; Dick McKinnis, Otterbein; Kay Byers, Lafayette; Jo Ann Cope Marshall: Mary Novotney. Terre Haute; Jerry McElwee Veedersburg; Dick Allen, Medarywille; Karen Gillen. Oxford, Danny Jackson. Galveston; Terry Strueh, Evansville; Blair Stephenson. Salem; Ann Wiseheart. Hardinsburg: Henry Burnett, Eminence; Stephen Kirchoff, Freelandville. Council officers are Kirchoff, chairman; Stephenson, vice chairman; Miss Byers, secretary.

Auto Accident Deaths Now 516 A middle-aged Milan couple was killed in an auto accident in Ripley County Friday night to account for Indiana’s first two traffic fatalities of the weekend and raise the state’s 1963 toll to at least 516 compared with 471 this time last year. Police said George W. Carroll, 56. R.R. 2. Milan, and his wife, Eunice Lee. 55, were injured fatally when their car collided headon wdth an auto driven by Ronald Stephenson, 19, Dillsboro. The crash occurred nine miles north of U S. 5 between Versailles and Osgood. Stephenson received minor injuries.

NOW YOU KNOW The average age of World War I veterans is 68.1 years, according to the Veterans Administration.

South Viet Nam Warned By U.S. WASHINGTON UPI — The United States has warned South Viet Nam that failure to halt harsh treatment of Buddhist dem onstrators by the Vietnamese government may result in a public U. S. denouncement of the measures. U. S. officials said Friday American diplomats In Saigon have expressed their concern to Vietnamese officials that strife over the Buddhists’ grievances could jeopardize South Viet Nam’s defenses against Communist guerrillas. Early last May South Vietnamese trrxips broke up a Buddhist demonstration in the town of Hue, firing into a crowd. Nine persons were reportedly killed. PUTNAM COURT NOTES Elsie E. Culley vs. Lloyd E. Culley, suit for divorce and resstoration of former name of Elsie Twigg. Lyon & Boyd are attorneys for the plaintiff.

IN THE! GOOD OLD DAYS From the files of the Banner 1937. From time to time the Banner has featured articles concerning progress in the county. Comparatively few people have known of the development of electric fencing. In September. 1935, Lois A. Zeiner bought the first electric fence installed in the county and became an agent. For the past two years he has effectively fenced hogs, cows, and horses of all size not to mention teaching dogs to stay away from henhouses, flower beds, etc. These sets come in battery, and electric AC, and Lois has certainly given them a tryout. Although he uses the AC controller on his own farm he has a battery set in his car connected to the battery and no one can talk to him very long without being invited to "see how it shocks.” This shock is absolutely harmless to livestock, and humans alike but the animals soon learn to fear it. About six weeks ago people passing the Zeiner farm noticed eight hungry looking shoats in a small dry lot. Two wires marked the line between them and some nice alfalfa. In the alfalfa about a foot from the wires was a pile of corn which was never touched as long as the hogs were there. On the Hurst Dairy Farm one wire is holding the herd off the state highway. The official at the State Farm are very enthusiastic about their new controller. Other u::ers in the county are: Frank Garver. Raymond Wright, Walter Dorsett. and Lee Robinson. This county’s representatives at the 4-H round-up at Purdue University fared well in the distribution of honors. Clifford Crosby, son of Raymond Crosby of Franklin township won the state hog judging contest, scoring 196 points out of a possible 200. Miss Gene Edmondson of Greencastle, placed in the blue ribbon, or top five classification in health judging. Miss Evelyn South graded in the A group in the demonstration contest, being one of the top seven. Miss South, it will be recalled won first place in the county health contest, a year or so ago. The Putnam County livestock judging team, consisting of Clifford Crosby. Truman Hays, and Herschel Nichols, tied for fifth place. In the girls’ judging division Miss Virginia Young of Greencastle, placed fourth in baking judging. Miss Katherine Arnold of Monroe township, and Marguerite Scobee, of Greencastle placed in the canning and room-improvement judging.

The Misses Mary Lou Throop, Dorothy Knudson and Helen McGaughey entertained guests at a luncheon-bridge this afternoon in honor of Miss Pearl Gibson whose " marriage to Harry McCabe will take place Monday. Dr. V. Earle Wiseman, S. R. Rariden of this city. Dr. Russell Sage, Dr. Q. R Sage, and Dr. Glen Pell of Indianapolis and Dr. W. J. Fuson. Coatesville and Dr. Herman Woolery of Bloomington will return Sunday from a fishing trip at Winter W'is.

Brown Is Awarded Canadian Grant Gary H. Brown, who was graduated from DePauw University earlier this month, has won a $2,700 award to continue his studies in art. The cash grant was made to the 21-year-old Evansville student by the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation of Montreal, Canada. His selection was made on the basis of samples of his works submitted to the Foundation. Under the grant. Brown intends to leave for Europe in September to study and travel in Greece and Itdy and a number of west European countries. Following a year abroad during which time he must complete a series of works in various media to be sumbitted periodically to the Greenshields Found ition as a sort of progress report. Brown will return for gradute study at UCLA. Brown's adviser at DePauw, Professor Ray French of the Art department, siid that Brown is a “very sensitive, talented and creative individual. “He certainly has been a most outstanding student at DePauw as an art major,” French noted.

Teachers Enroll For TV Workshop Starting Monday

A workshop to acquaint teachers with educational television will open at DePauw University

Monday.

Approximately 20 second iry ; and elementary teachers are now enrolled in the 12-day session

Miss Diana Margaret Me- that wU1 focus attention on the Clure, daughter of Rev. and television lessons produced and Mrs. Christian M. McClure, has i televised b y '^PATI, Midwest been selected by the Logans- ! Pro -' e( ' t in Airborne Television

port, Ind., Rotary Club and the f Inatru ction.

Special features of the workshop will be a lecture June 19 by Cr. Jane Grill, area co-ordinator

Herbert Hoover Is Seriously III In N.Y. Hotel Suite

Michigan Council of Churches, to participate this summer in the National “Youth For Un-

inspect the agency’s "flying classroom” which beams televi- ' sion lessons to schools in five

states.

According to Dr. Herold Ross, i director of the workshop, all

9 a.mwill be

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Indiana Plants

Get U.S. Contracts

Nikita Withdraws Inspection Offer MOSCOW UPI— Premier Nikita Khrushchev today withdrew his offer of three annual on-site inspections of a nuclear test ban and demand that President Kennedy act as well as tdk about peace. Khrushchev statement, contained in a long interview witn the Communist party newspaper Pravda. wis considered a brusque reply to Kennedy’s speech last Monday to graduates of American University. In that speech, Kennedy announced a U S. moratorium on nuclear tests, said new Anglo-American-Soviet “high level” discussions on a test ban would open here next month and called for new East-West attitudes to ease the cold war. The Communists permitted Kennedy’s speech to be widely circulated here-a rare occurrence. Khrushchev said today it had made a “favorable impression." But the Soviet premier’s statement indicated an abrupt stiffenning of the Kremlin's position on the test ban issue and appeared to bode ill for next month's talks. Khrushchev said he was withdrawing his offer of three on-site inspections because “our proposal was not properly appreciated by the partners in the talks."

derstanding" program. She win , of MPATI, plus a visit to Purdue leave Detroit. Michigan. June 24 University where the group will and will fly to Spain where she ’ visit MPATI headquarters and will spend two months, with an assigned family in Madrid and will return to the United States

August 24th.

Miss McClure, a junior in the ! Logansport High School, is an

English and language major . | ^mer workshop teachers are inShe is a member of the Nation- | Vited to hear Dr ' Gri11 ' who als ° . r* • * 4 • is a professor of radio and Ide-

al Thespian Society, Future? 1

Teachers of America. H i-Tri v ^ on at Indlana State Golle & e ;

and choir. Diana is the grand- i upp ementing the .. , 3 p.m. daily classes

daughter of Dr. and Mrs. I * ^

.. .. ... , | demonstration broadcasts Claude M. McClure. 621 High- I . _ , , ^ Tuesdays and Thursdays from wood Avenue, Greencastle. . .. .

MPATI s transmitting airplane. The workshop, which offers 2'4 hours of graduate credit, will be held in the Roy O. West library, according to the assistant director, Professor Muriel | Holland. Enrollment will remain

WASHINGTON UPI — Sens, j ( ,pp n until June 17. Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh. Putnam County workshop re-D-Ind„ announced the awarding , £i.strants include Marie Ellis, of a $40,352,830 Army contract • Vem i Garl, Joanne Lyon, Helen to Studebaker Corp., South Brown, Mary DeVaney, Edward Bend, Ind., to build 4.159 five-^ p asnHC ht, John and Marcia ton trucks of various body Franklin, Nellie Hurst, Louise types. j Knauer, and Diane Orlosky, all The engines will be supplied of Greencastle; Jerry Lee Masfrom another source. The sena- ; ten. R. 3, Greencastle; Mrs. E. B. tors said the contract will be Goss and Mrs. Mary Zieg, both expanded eventually to cover 1 of R. 2, Greencastle; Aral Gro8,393 trucks. »er, R. 1, Cloverdale, and DoroThe Air F’orce awarded to . thy Miller. Reelsville.

General Motors Corp. at Indianapolis a $1 million contract for engineering services in connection with a contract for light observation helicopters for the j Army, Hartke and Bayh said.

Russians Delay Girl's Space Trip

! MOSCOW UPI — Informed | sources s nd today Russia is delaying the launch of its first « spacewoman to spare her the orj deal of a possible week in orbit. ( An attractive single girl in her 20’s was reported standing by for

WASHINGTON UPI — Atty. ■ pj is t-off in the apparent hope of Gen. Robert F. Kennedy told a rendezvous in space with 28about 2.500 Negro demonstrators : y ear . 0 i c i l,L Valery F. Bykovsky,

Bobby Kennedy Talks To Negroes

Friday that there is no race discrimination in the Justice Del partment, but “I am not going to go out and hire a Negro ju.-,t because he is not white.”

who took off Friday on what is expected to be an eight-day spin around the earth. Reliable sources said the Russians hope to launch the space-

Using a bullhorn and standing woman, whom they described as atop a makeshift platform in , a "personality girl,” and get her front of the Justice Department, back to earth in time for the Kennedy told the demonstrators, nening of an international womthe administration has accom- cn’s convention here a week from plished much in civil rights, but _ Monday.

“we can do better and we will do

better.'

Kennedy Calls Meeting Of Rail Officials, Unions WASHINGTON UPI — President Kennedy summoned railroad labor and management to the White House today to try to prevent a threatened nationwide rail shutdown. The shutdown could start anytime after midnight Monday, when the railroads will be free to put into effect a series of new work rules. The unions said they would strike against the new rules. A Labor Department spokesman said the meeting at the White House “grew out of” Friday night's meeting between labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and the railroad labor and management negotiators. The spokesman refused to disclose any other action taken during the two-hour meeting Friday night at the Labor Department. Wirtz worked all Friday afternoon with the disputing unions and the railroads just to get them to sit down together at a idght session. The union ranks broke earlier because two unions objected to being left out of a television program about the controversial work rules issue Wednesday night. Neil P. Speirs, president of the Switchmen’s Union, had threatened to withdraw his union from the united front which the labor organizations had presented up to this point. Speirs had said his union would negotiate alone. Louis J. Wagner, president of the Railway Conductors and Brakemen, did not actually say he would split with the other unions, but said he was “fed up” with the negotiations. Wirtz and Reynolds met with Speirs and Wagner for about l 1 ^ hours, then huddled with J. E. Wolfe, chief negotiator for the railroads. After a series of secret Labor Department meetings, a source said Wirtz and Reynolds had healed the breach between the unions “at least to the point that they are willing to sit down with each other.”

Tass. the Soviet news agency, announced that at 9:30 a.m. 1:30

His impromptu address, at the a.m. EDT Bykovsky had completend of the Negroes’ two-hour, p d 12 orbits of the earth, peaceful demonstration against During the night, it said. Byprejudice in the capital, produced kovsky had slept for the first some heckling. ' time since he was launched.

Local residents who w f ent to Terre Haute Sunday found it necessary to leave the traction cars at the east edge of the city and find other means of conveyance to continue their trip into town. The Terre Haute city street cars and buses were tied up by a strike of employes. MARRIAGE LICENSE Carroll Douglas Alexander, King Morrison Foster Co., and Mary Louise Malicoat, at home, both of Roachdale Route.

Putnam County’s delegation to the 32nd annual 4-H Junior Leader Conference at DePauw University is shown on its arrival at the four-day session, which ended Friday (June 14). The conference, designed to provide outstanding 4-H'ers with information on the organization and administration of 4-H clubs, was attended by over 375 boys and girls from 46 western Indiana counties. While on the campus the students were housed and fed in four of DePauw’s major dormitories. The event is sponsored annually by the Indiana district of Kiwanis International and Purdue University's Agricultural Extension Service. Pictured are (left to right, back row) Betty Jo Branneman, R. 1, Cloverdale; Lynn Mullis, R. 3. Greencastle; Marilyn O’Hair, R. 1, Greencastle; Janet Lucas, 647 E. Walnut, Greencastle; Ruth Mary New, R. 1, Greencastle; and Becky McFarland, R.. Roachdale. (Front row) Gary Salsman, R. 2. Greencastle; Jonathan Sinclair. R. 2, Cloverdale: Mike Samsel, R. 1, Cloverdale; and John Nees, R. 3. Cloverdale. Stanley Hurst, R. 2, Greencastle is missing in this picture.

Babe Ruth Team Rosters Are Listed Teams for the 1963 Green castle Babe Ruth League were organized Friday with practice games scheduled to get underway next week. Teams are. American Legion: Bob Schimpf Terry Boesen, Ray Churchill, Jerry Patterson, Corky Varvel, Bill Nanovsky, Pete Norris. John Smith. Ralph Ash. Kenny Moore Robert Alexander, Randy Mark. Lisle Kimble. David Frazier, Harold Henry. Moose: Jim Chadd. Steve Mont Bob Branham, Bill Cromer, Jim Covert. Tom Walgamuth, Steve Blades, Dee Monnett, Larry Truesdale, Tom Slaughter, Don Patterson. Calvin Hess, Steve Bonney, Tom Bemis, Steve Leisure. Elks; Stan Hurst. Darrell Brackney. Bruee Brackney. Mike York. Steve Clark. Chuck Evens. John Pielemdier. Terry Ross, Steve Arthur, Ron Smith. Tony Churchill. Dan Bumgardner. Steve Hurst. Gary Goodman. V.F.W.: Steve Brackney, Jim Rolls, DeWayne Wilson, Phil Kidwell. Bill Walbring. Andy Anderson, Kevin See, Larry Coffman. Larry Haltom, Garry Coffman, Lee Shonkwiler, Dave Hill. Jack Hess. All teams will practice Monday at 5:30 at the high school.

NEW YORK UPI — Former President Herbert Clark Hoover lay seriously ill at home today with anemia and intestinal bleeding, but physicians said that for his age, he was in “reasonably satisfactory” condition. Hoover, 88, who underwent an operation for removal of a cancerous tumor last summer, has been in serious condition in his Waldorf Towers Hotel suite “for the past week,” his doctors revealed in a medical bulletin Friday. Hoover, a Republican who served as the 31st president from 1929 to 1933, has lived longer than any other ex-chief executive in U. S. history. He bid an official farewell to the party at the 1960 GOP National Convention in Chicago that brought a loud chorus of "noes” from the delegates. “Unless some miracle comes to me from the good Lord, this is it,” he said at the time. Hoover again referred to his waning years on Aug. 10, 1962, his last birthday. At the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Library in his hometown of West Branch, Iowa, he spoke “as the snadows gather around me.” Ten days later on Aug. 20 he entered the Columbia-Presbyter-ian Medical Center here for what was first described as a routine checkup. Shortly thereafter the tumor operation was performed by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Rudolph N. Schullinger, who later reported the malignant growdh had been removed and “no recurrence is anticipated.” The brief bulletin on his latest illness, issued at a new conference in his suite, said Hooser “has been ill for the past week, due to anemia, secondary to bleeding from a gastro-intest-inal tract. Within the last 24 hours there has been diminished evidence of bleeding. Although his condition is serious, it is. for his age. reasonably satisfactory.” Hoover was reported to b« under the constant care of teams of doctors and nurses at his apartment on the 31st floor of the mid-Manhattan hotel, where he has lived for years.

FLAGLESS DAY WATSONVILLE. Calif. UPI— Watsonville had a flagless Flag Day. Officers were instructed not to raise the Stars and Stripes Friday because the flagstaff had justbee n painted.

Three Arrested Friday Night, Two Jailed Two arrests were reported by city police Saturday morning Ricky Franklin Bird, 19, was arrested for reckless driving on the Cemetery Road at 9:50 Friday night by Officer Russell Rogers. The officer’s report said Bird gave him quite a chase and that he had to drive the police car at a speed of 90 miles an hour to overtake the youth. Gene Myers was arrested on West Washington Street at 2:00 a.m. Saturady by Officer Bill Masten on a public intoxication charge. A third arrest was made by State Trooper Ted Settle who hooked Benjamin Johnson. 34. Indianapolis, for public intoxication at the county jail at 11:40 p.m. Friday. WILL EAT CROW ANNA. hi. UPI — The loser in the national crow shooting singles competition today will get a baked crow dinner. ® & Today’s Weather 0 ^ and ^1 $ Local Temperature 451 Fair and a little cooler today partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with little temperature change. High today upper 70s low tonight low 50s. Minimum _ 50^ 6 a. m 5(p 7 a. m 540 8 a. m go 1 ' 9 a *n. 66 L