The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 October 1963 — Page 1
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Reelsville Lions Have Been Active Past Five Years
President To Get Viet Nam Data WASHINGTON UPI—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara flew back to Washington today to report to President Kennedy on his fact-finding mission to
South Viet Nam.
McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were scheduled to land at nearby Andrews A i r Force Base, Md., early this morn-
putting Evergreens around their p u tn;im County have been sub- a flight from H^olulu.
J They had an 11 a.m. EDT ap-
Guest Speaker
The Reelsville Lions Club has just finished five years as a Club which serves it's Community well, and has gone all out to do
so.
In 1958 the Club was chartered and the first project began by
Plans Submitted For Highway 70 Right-of-way plans for a threemile section of Interstate 70 in
First Class Rating For H. S. Minaret A “First Class Honor Rating'' has just been awarded to the 1963 "Minaret,” the Greencastie High School yearbook, by the National Scholastic Press Assocication, located at the University of Minnesota. Responsible for the editing of the yearbook were Candy Balay, editor; Jim Riggs, business manager; and Mrs. Madge Lynch, sponsor. This is the fifth year the "Minaret” has received this honor rating.
new and somewhat bare school rnitted to the land acquisition p ointment white House to
held by Lions. Then the need for wa y Commission said today,
a fire house was decided upon
The Township furnished the The scction extends from Deer
present to the President a report on which future U. S. action in the Southeast Asian country may
ground adjoining the School Creek south of Manhattan east- hinge.
Grounds. The Lions Club started ward to a P oint about one-ha’.f their “Reelsville Volunteer Fire n^e east of Indiana 243. Department Fund Raising Cam-
paign” first through donations by residents of Reelsville and Washington Township, then by working together on projects at the Reelsville Homecoming. The building was then started. It was to be large enough to house the fire truck and water
Kennedy Signs Gl Pay Increase WASHINGTON UPI — President Kennedy signs into law today a $1.2 billion military pay
On their departure from Saigon Tuesday, McNamara issued a statement saying he and Taylor had traveled the “legnth and breadth of this land” and had spoken with several hundred per-
sons during their visit.
Kennedy sent McNamara and Taylor to South Viet Nam Sept. 23 to make a first hand assessment of the progress of that country's war against the Corn-
tank truck, with ample room for rrc^es' r• inraom ^ for re" munist guerrillas, a war in which
community functions.
Most recently the Club built Teter Boards for the School and installed new play ground equipment. Their main projects are donations to leader dogs for the
cruits with two year's service to 8110 for some officers. The President arranged to sign the measure at a 9:30 a.m. EDT ceremony at the White House so
12.000 to 15.000 U.S. servicemen
are involved.
blind cancer, and baskets of food the benefits could start immedidunng Christmas Time. The Club ately for nearly two million ofhas reasons to be proud. Rather ficers and enlisted men.
than just a celebration for them-
selves, they are once more at work obtaining finances for their projects by having a Fish Fry which will be held Saturday, October 5th at 6:00 p.m. So Reelsville, lets get out and join in the fun. We'd like to see you all out to help make our fifth year one we will all remember. We would like to invite everyone to see our community which each and everyone of us are very proud.
Congressional action was com-
pleted Monday when the House approved the Senate-passed bill, 332 to 5. It covers all members of the armed forces except 742,000 draftees amd enlistees in their
first two years of service.
Baptist Church Holding Revival
East Side Has New Mercurys East Side Motors extends a cordial invitation to the motoring public to see the new 1964 Mercurys which will be on display this weekend.
Find Bodies Of Kidnaped Girls MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UPI — A pathologist with an FBI agent at his side will examine the torn bodies today of two little girls who were kidnaped three weeks ago, stripped and left dead under an elm tree. The bodies of Melissa Ann Lee. 5, and Barbara Foshaug, 4, were found 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis near Medicine Lake in a woods across from Mission Farms, a rehabilitation home for
alcoholics.
Since they were last seen getting into the car of a black-hair-ed stranger Sept. 7, dozens of officers and volunteers had probed nearly every square foot of the south Minneapolis tenement dis-
trict where the girls lived.
“I had a feeling it would be
said Barbara’s moth-
er. She said an older son had been praying that his little sister
would come back safe.
Dr. Arthur W. Shumaker will be the guest speaker of the evening at the public meeting of The Friends of the GreencastiePutnam County Public Library organization to be held October 9th, at the Public Library from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Dr. Shumaker, a long time resident of Greencastie and an eminent professor of English at DePauw University, has written, entirely from his own research, a volume entitled, "A History of Indiana Literature.” This was published by the Indiana Historical Society in 1962. His lecture will cover a general discussion of Indiana literature and the significance of certain writers to our state’s literary
heritage.
All members, as well as any persons interested in membership. are urged to attend this
meeting.
Seven From County Complete Degree Work Seven Putnam County students
The 1964 Mercury extends its
The residents of Greencastie coverage of the medium-priced j^g ^^is and Putnam County have been market by offering two new enjoying the Gospel preaching series and a choice of distinctive
and Gospel singing at the meet- roof designs,
ings now being held at the First
Baptist Church in Greencast- ‘ Emphasis in the new Merle. The Rev. Conley Bowman. CUI T “ on lurur y and P erfor - pastor of the Plainfield Baptist ™ance.” Mr. Millis said. "We church is the evangelist. The Rev. have made significant improv,Bowman has a simple vet power- ment3 in Passenger comfort and ful message that rings in your spaciousness while continuing to
heart for days after vou have offer the functional breezeway «ere among 1,498 comp ctmg reheard it. IPs the gospel of Jesus roof plus a sleek new fastback quirements for degrees this sumChrist that makes the message roof design.” mer at Hidiaiia L niversity^ I. L.
, Registrar Charles E. Harrell an-
each evening so wonderful. Mercury’s two new series are nounced Summer deRree winners
Gospel singing that tingles the luxurious top-of-the-line Park your soul long after you have Lane and the Montclair, which is
heard the Rev. Vernon C. Taylor placed between the basic Mon- service
bring the full house to high cres- terey and the Park Lane. A new
cendo. The song leader is from four-door fastback hardtop „ . _
Valley Station, Kentucky and will Marauder model is offered in all endear himself to your hearts as three series, and a Commuter he leads the children in an un- fou r - d oor station wagon is added
from this region are: Bainbridge Elizabeth
State May Be Forced Into Red INDIANAPOLIS UPI — State Auditor Dorothy Gardner suggested Tuesday night it would be belter for the state to go into the red than to postpone the October distribution of public school aid. Commissioner John Hatchett of ! the Indiana Department of Administration said recently that such a step might be necessary because of the state's financial bind caused by the failure of the sales tax to go into ooeration. In a speech to a Republican women's group, Mrs. Gardner said such a step would mean “many school districts might be obliged to borrow from banks which would make a further drain on local communities.” She said the October school distribution will amount to about $30 5 million and that the state’s cash balance for the end of September was slightly more than $23 million. “Wouldn't it be better to overd r a w the general fund by the amount needed ? This action could be authorized by the State Board of Finance against the October and November receipts,”
she said.
Killer Hurricane Aimed At Jamaica SAN JUAN, P. R. UPI — Killer Hurricane Flora fumed across open water toward the northwestern Caribbean today, building in size along the way. The season’s sixth and fiercest tropical twister, carrying top winds of 125 miles an hour, was expected to pass 250 miles south of Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic, by mid-day. Flora left six persons dead when it roared across Tobago Monday, increased in size during the night, and was expected to spread out even more today. “The older most hurricanes get, the more they spread out,” forecasters explained. Gordon E. Dunn, the nation's chief hurricane forecaster at the Miami Weather Bureau, said the storm posed a threat to the resort island of Jamaica. “There is a definite threat that Flora will endanger Jamaica late tonight or early Thursday,”
Dunn said.
Luther,
Cloverdale Lenora Mann, M.
usual way. Meetings will a running mate to the highlythrough Sunday. Oct. 6th. And s t y ied Colony Park,
they start promptly at 7 p.m.
You are cordially invited. Greencastie Police Report Two Arrests
Two arrests by city police were reported Wednesday morning. Gerald Lee York, 16, was arrested at 5 p.m. Tuesday by Officer John Pursell on a charge of operating an unsafe automobile. Roy W. Flora, 67, Reelsville, was arrested at 4 a.m. Wednes-
Greencastle Jane Hughes, M. S„ education, and Marilynn Reasor. B. S., general nursing. Putnamville — David Sublette, master of music, with distinc-
tion.
Reelsville— Mary Richardson. A. B., English. Roachdale—Don Hanna. B. S.
business.
In addition to the new fourdoor Marauder, Mercury will offer in all three series the unique Bieezeway roof with retracting rear w indow r and the sporty twodoor fastback hardtop Marauder first introduced last spring. The
two-door Marauder has repre- Vet Killed
sented the Mercury in stock car auto races and set a new record in winning the Pike's Auto Hill
Climb on July 4.
The exclusive Breezeway design. introduced last year, offers
Time To Register For the convenience of late registration voters. Republican Headquarters will be open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights this week until 9 o'clock. Deadline for registration for November 5 is Saturday, October 5, and all those who did not vote in the last general election must re-registcr in order to the eligible to vote this fall.
Fletcher Speaks At Rotary Club This week fellow Rotarian Bob Fletcher, assistant Professor of Bacteriology, DePauw University. gave an outstanding talk on the “Mighty Microbes." He pointed out the vital factors to our bodies and plant life and all forms of life as a matter of fact without microbes and bacteria we would have nobody or functions therefrom. All life is dependent upon cell make-up and we as individuals really are quite ensignificant. Bob also brought the reverse working of bacteria and microbes in the course of desease — of spoilage of foods— fermentation etc. He further discussed- beginning in Old Testament days- the early study and use of magnifying minute articles the forerunner of the Microscope. A real enlightening if not somewhat “scarey" discourse. Visitors included Major Bryce McGee, Paul Maskus, Dan Zachary and A1 Teppett. Rotarians will join with the Kiwanians this week at the Student Union on Thursday at noon. NOW YOU KNOW The world's leading producer of potatoes during the 1961-62 harvest was the Soviet Union, with 84,310.000 metric tons, according to the Statesman’s Year Book.
Narcotics Info Given By Stool ie WASHINGTON UPI —Underworld informer Joseph Valachi, hoarse from hours of talking, tells today of the sordid narcotics traffic which reaps millions in profits for the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. The stocky ex-hoodlum, who violated an oath of loyalty and silence sworn in blood and fire, was scheduled for the third day of televised testimony before the Senate investigations subcommittee. Chairman John D. McClellan, D-Ark., said the subcommittee wanted Valachi to tell of “the mob s later operations" and about its nationwide narcotics traffic. He said that Valachi, currently serving 15-year and 20-year federal prison terms for narcotics conspirarcy, should have inside information on the subject. Valachi came on like gangbusters for the senators Tuesday, giving a murder-by-murder account of the struggle for controls of the New York Branch of Cosa Nostra in the early 1930s. He also described in lurid detail his own secret initiation into the crime clan. At one point during his recital of the initiation ceremony, he told the listening senators and paneled hearing room: “Senators, I need to go no further than what I’m doing — exposing this to you, the press, everybody—this is my doom!” Subcommittee aides said today Valachi would push ahead witn his story of the struggle for control of Cosa Nostra. This includes accounts of the murder April 20. 1931 of Giuseppe Masseria by a rival faction headed by Salvatore Maranzano, and the subsequent doublecross and rubout of Maranzano by killers hired by the late vice lord, Charles (Lucky) Luciano, and Vito Genovese, said by Valachi to be "the boss of all bosses” i* Cosa Nostra today.
Civil Rights May Delay Tax Cut WASHINGTON UPI — A decision by Senate Democratic leaders to give priority to civil rights legislation left prospects bleak today for enactment of a big tax cut. this year. Despite insistence by the White House that President Kennedy wants both bills this year, time appeared to be running out and some lawmakers said it was possible neither measure would be enacted in 1963. Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., who said Tuesday that civil rights much come first, conceded that this could result in delaying the tax cut action until early next year.
Pumping Is Normal Pumping operations at the Greencastie Water Works Station are reported normal despite the long dry spell in Indiana. In fact, pumping at the plant has been normal for the past two years.
day on North Jackson Street by several functional advantages in
Officer John Stevens. Flora was booked at the Putram County jail on a public intoxication charge.
addition to distinctive appear-
INDIANAPOLIS UPI — William Robinson, 73, Brazil, was killed Tuesday in a plunge fro. i the third floor of the U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital
here.
An autopsy was scheduled to
ance. In winter, the overhang determine the cause of death and keeps the rear window free of ice, an investigation was underway snow, and rain. In summer, it to learn the reason for the
shades rear seat passengers. The plunge.
retractable window provides Robinson was being treated for quieter, controlled ventilation for a heart ailment. The window of every season. his room was open and the window screen was found on tiie
Stanley Young was the author f a radio play, “Continue Unjading," starring John Garfield. Led by All-American halfback lob Steuber, the DePauw Tigers efcated the Illinois Normal footiall team, 50 to 0. The former Jniversity of Wisconsin grid ace, cored four touchdowns and pass'd for another t.d.
Rites For Composer PALMDALE. Calif., UPI Funeral services will be held today for musical composer J. Russel Robinson, 71, who died
Monday.
Robinson was the composer of such hit songs as "Margie,” “Portrait of Jennie," “Mary Lou” and “What Are Little Girls Made Of." He was known in the 1920s as a pianut and playerroll recording artist.
ground below.
Hospital Notes
Dismissed Tuesday: John Allen Baxter, Bertha McCurry, Mary L. Sutherlin, Lawrence Burk, Mrs. Darrell Toney and daughter. Greencastie; Mrs. Michael Stephenson and son, Mrs Ted Brock and daughter, Coatesville; Robert Burks, Reelsville; Raymond McCnrnmack, Cloverdale; Eleanor Holbrook, Poland.
gH_L SPLIT—Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee aren t getting along too harmoniously with regard to the House-passed big tax cut bill. Vance Hartke (left), Indiana, said he wanted hearings at once, and limited to 30 days. Albert Gore (middle), Tennessee, said he would resist “administration pressures tor a rush job.” He said the bill was riddled with loopholes favorable to big taxpayers. Paul Douglas (right), Illinois, said he did not want “undue delay used as a means of defeating this bill.”
Rusk Will Press Gromyko To Talk Cuban Problems
3 White Men Facing Charges BIRMINGHAM Ala. UPI — Three white men arrested during an investigation of racial bombings here were to be tried today on misdemeanor charges of illegally possessing dynamite. A Negro leader accused authorities of staging "dramatics” to soothe Negroes. The men were to appear in Recorder’s Court this afternoon to answer the charges whic.i carry up to $100 in fin's* and 80 days in jail upon conviction. All were released under $300 bonds. The misdemeanor charges were filed Tuesday against R. E. Chambliss, 59. and Charles Cagle, 22, both of whom have been held in city jail on open charges since Sunday night, and John W. Hall, who was arrested Tuesday. Cagle and Chambliss have Ku Klux Klan backgrounds and Hall has several arrests for vagrancy and federal conviction on charges of theft from an interstate shipment. The arrests of Cagle and Chambliss followed an announcemet by the office of Gov. George Wallace in Montgomery Sunday night that arrests were “imminent.” The men underwent intensive questioning by state investigators.
Recluse Killed In $600 Robbery INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Police today investigated the slaying of John E. Kesler, 83, Indianapolis, termed a recluse by author-
ities.
Kesler was found dead in his littered three-room home Tuesday. Deputy Corner Frederick A. Rice Jr., said he apparently was struck over the head with a twofoot wooden club sometime Sun-
day.
Police speculated the killer attacked Kesler, who lived alone, while trying to get $600 missing from his home. They found an unposted letter addressed to a nephew of Kesler which said “I have $600 in $20 bills.'’ Yanks Favored To Win Series NEW YORK UPI — Ideal baseball weather should prevail for today’s first game of the World Series. The official forecast was: “Sunny and warm, with a high temperature in the mid 70 s, vaiiable south to southwest winds from 10 to 15 miles per hour.” The oddsmakers, as usual, are stringing along with the New York Yankees in the World Series. They quoted the Yankees as 65 favorites to whip the Dodgers in today's opening game and as 3-2 picks to win the champion-
ship.
Polio Victim, 8, Burned By Boys SAN FRANCISO UPI — An eight-year-old girl, crippled by polio, was hospitalized Tuesday with painful burns over 40 per cent of her body — the victim of malicious teasing by two schoolmates because she wore braces on her legs. The victim, Cathryn Reeves, had been the target of taunts from two young boys for several weeks because of the braces. The taunts reached a climax Tuesday when one of the boys tossed a book of flaming matohes at her and reduced her flower-print dress to ashes. “She couldn't do anything but stand there and burn,” said an ambulance attendant who rushed her to Mission Emergency Hos-
pital.
NEW YORK UPI — Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans at a dinner meeting tonight with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to hammer at the urgent need for a settlement of the Cuban problems to ease world tension. Officials said Rusk wants to emphasize the view that there can be no real improvement in East-West relations until Russia pulls the rest of her troops out of Cuba and persuades or forces Fidel Castro to stop trying to Communize his neighbors. There is little expectation In diplomatic quarters that Rusk will make any headway on the issue at this time. However, American officials believe Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev may be growing somev/hat weary of his Cuban burden and inclined to diminish support of the Havana regime. Rusk wants to keep the pressure on the Kremlin. The U. S. secretary apparently hopes to keep tonight's meeting confined principally to SovietAmerican matters, leaving questions of European security and disarmament for discussion at three-power sessions attended by British Foreign Secretary Lord
Home.
Rusk may be able to tell Gromyko that the Kennedy administration is inclined to approve Soviet purchases of grain from U.S. suppliers under certain conditions. There also is a possiblity he and Gromyko will be able to make progress on some strictly bilateral matters such as a commercial aviation agreement between the two countries and improvement of diplomatic communications. Roachdale Bank Motion Is Denied IDIA NAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana Public Service Commission today authorized Indiana Bell Telephone Co. to carry out a $7 million expansion program in the Kokomo and Peru areas. In other action the PSC denied the motion of Roachdale Bank & Trust Co. that it rescind a 1961 order authorizing Coatesville Telephone Co., Inc., to issue 300 additional shares of common
stock.
Really Drunk HITCHIN, England UPI — A traffic cop stopped Thomas Spencer's car and asked him if he was the driver. “Don't be foolish,” Spencer said. “The dog is driving.” A magistrate fined Spencer $70 Tuesday for drunk driving.
lA eatltesi And Local 'le+nneSiatu % ed
Mostly sunny and a little warmer today, fair to partly cloudy and mild tmiight and Thursday. Sunset today 6:26 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:43 a. m. Outlook for Friday; Mostly fair and not much temperature change.
Minimum - - 49° 6 a. m. - — f>3 0 7 a. m. S2° 8 a. m. * r >4° 9 a. m. 60° 10 a. m. 69° 11 a. m. 74° 12 noon - — 78° I p. m 80°