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THE DAILY BANNER

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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

WEATHER— Partly Cloudy; Cool

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1963

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 12

Music Is Order Of The Day Saturday For DePauw Band

Nobody can much blame DePauw's bandsmen if they adopt as their theme song this weekend some parodied version of a ditty like “Cruising Down the Gridiron," "Toot-Toot Tootsie," or "Down by the Stadium."

Air Force Review Scheduled Saturday

Saturday, the 235th Cadet | Group of the Air Force ROTC | will pass in review at Blackstock {

Apparently trying to prove stadium to campus visitors that there s g rou p unc jer the command Music, Music, Music anywhere c a( j e t q 0 i Roger L. Merethey go, the band members will dith win form at 950 A M at hit the practice field tomorrow Bowman Gym and from there morning at nine for a dress re- to Blackstock. At 10:15. hearsal for the Indiana State-De- Ad j uan ts call will be sounded Pauvv football game. and Q rou p win perform the Marching from East College, rev j evv Dads, Moms, students, they 11 be back at 1 05 p.m. to and f r t enc j s are cordially invited join with the 96-piece Indiana a ttend State College band in the Star

Spangled Banner.

At halftime, after the Sycamore band presents its show, the 56-member DePauw band will swing through a preview of tunes from Sigma Delta Chi’s upcoming show, Bye Bve Birdie, featur-

ing the show’s'chorus and the local resioent. ^passed away at

band’s twirlers.

After a brief respite to wipe

Funeral Sunday For Mrs. Records Mayme L. Records, well known

the Putnam County Hospital early Friday morning, shortly

the dust from their horns and after being admitted - maybe say a brief "hello" to their She was born in Bartholomew dads, the band will perform a Count y- June 3 ’ 1892 and was a concert of light compositions in member of the Christian Church Meharrv Hall at 7:45 p.m. at Edinburg, Indiana. On JanA pair of Daytonians from uar >\ 3 ’ 1914 she was “ nited * Ohio will be featured with the marna & e to Sumner E. Records^ band during its 45-minute Me- Survivors are the husband, harry program. The soloists in- Sumner; three children ’ two ^ elude Nancy Nicoll, piccolo, and L Records and Max ^

Man Killed In Accident OnU.S.36 The second fatal traffic accident on U S. 36 in Putnam County this week, occurred at 3:30 Friday morning w-est of Morton. State police at the Putnamville Post reported that Henry L. Martin, 23, Route 1, Philo, Illinois, w r as instantly killed w r hen his automobille hit the rear of a stalled semi, one and threequarter miles west of Morton..

Scores Perish In Coliseum Blast At Indianapolis

Mayor Losche Describes Blast

BULLETIN

Mrs. Jane Worland Atkinson, a DePauw junior in the DePauw School of Nursing, was injured in the coliseum explosion last night. Her two sisters, age 14 and

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s

Police said the semi, which the worst tragedy in the history

w'as headed west, was stopped on °t Indianapolis.

the highway but that the driver It must have been some sort 15, were both killed,

had flares lighted. of gas explosion, but I don’t know Martin, police said, drove his ^ or sure - Ordinarily, I would have

1957 Chevrolet into and under been sittin S in the section that a P® hs * of Mrs-Rolhe Staten, the rear of the semi. blew U P- 1 alwa y« £<* 10 Shrine brother of Mrs. Mildred Driver of the truck was Ran- Night tickets on the south side rm -strong, both of Greencastle,

dall Walter Clayton of Louisville, 4be c °b £eum . but this year 1

was late buying my tickets and

Dr. Jesse Staten, 50, Indian-

also died in the blast.

Kentucky. He was not injured. The accident was investigat- ended

3d by State Trooper Jack Han- side-

up on the extreme north INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. UPI —

An explosion blasted the vast In-

Ion and John Whitaker, Putnam

County Coroner.

Two men were fatally injured n a headon crash on U.S. 36 Monday night near Bainbridge.

James Rex Shoaf, 22, Bainbridge, 39 ^ be a * r-

died in the accident and Robert Slavens, 36, Greencastle sue

Everybody was enjoying the d ' ana Fair Grounds coliseum show, but all of a sudden there Thursday night just as a Hallowas a terrific explosion and " een audience of 4,327 cheered bodies started flying onto the tbe c ' os i n £ moments of a glit-. ice. Flames were shooting 25 to I er * n S Holliday on Ice pag-

eant. At least 63 present were

Fumes started building up and ^ d ' ed and 371 were willed, people were screaming and try- Coroner Dennis Nicholas said

cumbed to injuries early W’ednes- in = to get out - ais l es were dea th toll might be 68 or

day morning.

two children.

Work was started Thursday to remove the last tree in the Greencastle business district. This stately elm, some sixty feet high, was struck by lightning a few years ago but was saved by tree surgeons. But time and progress has made it necessary for the tree to be removed.

Cloverdale Man Died Thursday

Bob Stross, drums.

Records, both of Greencastle and

Professor Dan Hanna is direc- one dau S bter - Mrs - Mot *’

Algeria Receives Aid From Arabs

it too was sending arms to Algeria.

Funeral Saturday

tor of the DePauw bands.

Rites Saturday For Russell Bock

North Vernon. Ind.; three grandsons and one granddaughter; one sister, Mrs. Alta Medsker, of

Franklin, Ind.

Funeral services will be con-

Dies In Florida

Elijah Halloway, age 89 passed away at 6:15 Thursday evening at the Donna Nursing Home on

Hunter. Coatesville, will be held Road 67 Mr Hollaway had been

Funeral services for Frank

all jammed and it was very dif- higher Included 32 worflen and

ficult to get out of the build-

ings.

Just about the time I got my Civil Defense Director Charles guests outside the first fireman Broderick said the death total showed up to put out the fire, was 70. Broderick said there

were 56 bodies in the temporary morgue at the coliseum and that 14 more persons were dead on arrival at hospitals or had died

later.

CAIRO, U. A. R. UPI — The BLOOMINGTON UPI — The United Arab Republic has sent body of Norman J. Neely, 58, Rean “armored force” and warships publican majority leader in the to help Algeria in its border House of the 1953 Indiana Leg-

Saturday at 2:00 p. m. from the Powell Funeral Home in Coatesville. Interment will be in Fill-

more cemetery.

Store Explosion Takes 7 Lives

ducted Sunday at 2:00 p. m. from fi&bl "‘lb Morocco, the govern- isiature, will be returned here for# Iwi C_ ar _ VpKJrlp Rector Funeral Home by Rev. ment newspaper A1 Ahram said funeral and burial. new opace vemcie

Max Webb. Interment will be in today.

Russell Bock, 111 W. Walnut p orres t Hill Cemetery. It was the $irst authoritative

Friends may call at the Rec- disclosure of U. A. R. military

Early today, hours after fhe blast, there were fears that an-

MARIETTA, Ga. UPI — An other explosion would rip the

explosion shattered a neighbor- mammoth coliseum where basHe was born April 1st, 1874 in h ? 0 *. dn i g . S ^° re J hur ^ da 1 ^ night ketball games and ice shows are Indiana, the son of James and ° a tradition. Emergency inspection

rescue crews

probing for more dead.

ill and a patient in the home since July 26th, 1963. He had resided in Cloverdale where he

was a retired farmer

. lu costume judging contest killing . . '

Martha Ann Holloway. He mar- seven persons and injuring scores teams mmgled Wlth

street, died Thursday morning

Neely died of a heart condition Wednesday at his home in

MOSCOW UPI — The Soviet ried Mary Linsville - who preceded 0 f others.

Union today launched a new un- him 111 death ’ He then married workers pulled the sev-

Maude Haltom who survives. enth victim from the rubble of

at St. Anthony’s hospital in Terre t Funeral Home after 7:00 to- aid for Algeria and it was ex- * NapU s - F la " " h ° n ™ ved a

ior runeiai nuiuc ci.ii.ci . .wv. ^ t ^ _ ^ ^ lo year ago from Bloomington. He

night.

Death Takes

Ethel Humphrey Mrs. Ethel Humphrey, 83,

ly evening at Home after

Haute.

Mr. Bock was born February 13, 1905, the son of Sanford and Eva Bock. He was married to

Naomi Carpenter.

He was formerly employed as a crane operator at the Lone Star Cement Co., and retired in

April of this year.

Survivors are: the wife, two passed away Thursday evening at daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Bryan, ! be Eventide Rest Fillmore: Connie, and one son an extended illness.

Ronnie, at home; one grandson, She was born May 22, 1880, in Troy Alexander Bryan; two bro- Putnam County near Belle Union, thers, Theodore. Greencastle R. the daughter of William and 1, and George of Hawthorne, Cal., Laura Leonard Dorsett. She was one sister, Mrs. Glen Flint. R. 1. married to Chester Humphrey, Greencastle; one uncle, Ed who preceded her in death in

Shields and other relatives. 1961.

Funeral services will be held Survivors are: one daughter, Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the Hop- Mrs. Myrtle Costin, Greencastle, kins-Walton Funeral Home. In- R- 2; four grandchildren. Noble, terment will be in Fillmore ceme- Robert and Jim Costin, and Mrs

Ann Jones; two cousins,

pected to further worsen relations between the U. A. R. and Morocco, which Thursday re-

served in the House in 1951 and 1953, was the first state director

manned "space vehicle" to carry out further research in the cos-

mos.

Radio Moscow’ said the vehicle

Bodies of the victims were hurled 40 to 50 feet through the air onto the shimmering ice

Other survivors, besides his Atherton’s Drug Store early to-

severa^nieces a'nd neph^^”’ ^rteTl^He haTla^ZJZZ ^ seconds before the spangl-

Funeral services will be held enteran £

the store with

b i S ed skaters had spun

their grand finale.

hands

through

erdale. The Rev. Gilbert McCam- youngster's uncle, John Carter. dead la y underneath the shred-

ro. Morocco also severed rela-

tions with Cuba, charging that

the Indiana Senate.

craft only as "Flight One.’

mick will officiate. Burial wall They were going to buy Terry ed steel of the south stands of

tery.

home.

Mrs.

Friends may call at the funeral Mary Nutter, Terre Haute and

Mrs. Oda Hoadley, Indianapolis; and six great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held

Has No Illusions Sunday at 2:00 p.m. from the *y c. Whitaker Funeral Home in LOS ANGELES UPI — Sandy ^ _ _,... . ,, .. . ,, xt * „ , t Greencastle. Rev’. Gilbert McCamKoufax, the National League s , T , . most valuable player for 1963, mack will officiate. Interment made it clear today he had no will be in New Providence ceme-

illusions about this season’s glory tery.

carrying over into 1964. Friends may call at the WhitThe star Los Angeles Dodger a ker Funeral Home after 7:00 p. pitcher, deluged with letters and m this evening. messages of congratulations since he was named MVP Wednesday, . says simply “It’s a great thrill Slow Development and the greatest honor I've ever rmr rru„ had „ WASHINGTON UPI — The corps of army engineers has ap-

plied the brakes to development of water resources in the Wabash River Valiev, according to Sen.

Dismissed 'Thursday: Ramona Birch F Bayh Jr D _ Ind Williams, Charles W’ood, Terry Clark, Stella Chrisenberry, Lois r . Steele, Mrs. Frank Schafer and Military Exempt daughter, Debra Wieckert, INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Greencastle; Mrs. William Chadd i nd i a na Department of Revenue and daughter, Plainfield; Mrs. has given up its idea of collectMelvin Lanham and daughter, i n g the state’s 2 per cent tax on Roachdale; Ida Goins, Moores- sa ies made on federal military ville; Mary Cox, Cloverdale; C. reservations.

be in the Cloverdale Cemetery. Friends may call any time af-

ter Saturday noon.

Fortune In Cotton Destroyed By Fire

a mask.” the coliseum, where the blast The boy’s 33-year-old father had shattered the concrete floor, also w'as killed by the blast. Some of the dead lay huddled The explosion believed caused by between t bft€r cartons and

gas leaking from a heater lo- , ,

cated in a shallow basement P°P corn boxes ’ They were char *

near the front of the store, sent red ’ broken, torn.

splintered glass, chunks of con- patrolman guard Jack

crete and other debris hurtling ... f

HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., UPI across the street tow’ard the unrDur B said. its tne nrst

— Fire destroyed $1 million square, worth of cotton on a train Thursday and then was swept by

strong winds into the Holly . . .. _ .. Springs National Forest. LIVCS Up 1 O Name

time I’ve ever had a 3-year-old girl die in my arms, crying ‘dad-

dy,, daddy.”

A young women pointed at a body lying on the floor and

The flames leaped to the 500 STOCKBURY, England UPI scre amed “It’s my husband."

cotton bales on five flat cars — William Reed said today his

from grass fires along the rail- mongrel puppy has returned to Tbe tra & ed y mounted in the road tracks. Fires also destroy- his home here three times after s i x hospitals where cabs, pried an old church building and being sold. vate cars, ambulances—anything one under construction at the The dog’s name is “Boomer- that could be pressed into service

Pictured above are the members of the new’ Brownie Troop 168 at Jones School.

community of Hickory Flat.

ang.’

-brought the victims.

Hospital Notes

O. Abrell, Freedom.

Rites Sunday

Funeral services for Mrs. Jerome Griffin, who passed away Thursday at her home north of Greencastle, will be held Sunday at 1:30 (CST) from the Frist Funeral Home in Clinton.

And local

The fourth and fifth

close their

20 Years Aj>#

The department, which origi-

nally held that such sales w'ere ,

decision £ irls at Jones School, held their and asking the guests to join Girl Scouts sang

uus

grade the girls giving a flag ceremony

taxable, revised its

Thursday after receiving an informal opinion from Atty. Gen.

Edwin K. Steers.

diff, Catherine Davis,

The guests and girls then en- Dun can, Elaine Earle,

Over-the-Teacups Club met — - - - ^ - freshments * COOkto ^ friend.,

with Mrs. Charles Arnold.

Mrs. Will Glidewell was hostess to the Maple Heights Home

Ec Club.

Mrs. Helen Eiteljorge was vis- whiskey *Ls°50 per cent" al- as they received their Girl Scout gills and guests ’ The girls were Lisa

iting her son, Wayne, at White cobo l, according to the Licensed P ins - then awarded their P ins Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Beverage Industries, Inc. The program was opened with leaders.

Partly cloudy, windy and cooler

program the rington, Debra Clodfelter, Debra Rowings, Kathy Ruark, Natashia today. Fair and colder tonight.

Terry Schied, Jean Ann Sears, Cindy Partly cloudy and cool Saturday.

Outlook for Sunday: Partly

esa Turner. Leesa walker, Mary „i —,

Pamela

’When’er You Cook, LuAnn Cooper.

Girl Scout re-dedication program them in the Pledge of Allegiance Make a Promise" and adjourned Cooper Cooksey,, Sue Cun- Temp,eman ' Kathy Thomas Ter-

Wednesday afternoon, October and singing "America The Beau- with Taps.

30th. These girls held their tiful.” The girls then recited the “Brownie Fly-Up” last spring Promise and Laws as they light-

and were awarded their wings ed a candle for each law. , , , , .

aim v%e.e a f * and punch served by the scouts. Fr i e nd, Joann Fuller,

and membership pins at that r

time. At Wednesday’s meeting Fallowing the candle lighting. The Qirl Scouts receiving Gick. Sherri Hartsaw,

The stated “proof’ of a liquor the . lg reded i ca t e d themselves Mrs - Proctor explained the mean- their p ins are; Deanne Albin, Jefferies,

to becoming better Girl Scouts ing of the Girl Scout pin to the Sara Albright, Randa Baldwin, Krystal

Bitzer, Connie Boswell, Jonnan Kieuuscu, ircai^.., the Donna Braden, Judith Brant. Pamela Poynter, Darla Proctor,

esa Turner. Leesa Walker, Mary c j oudy and continued quite cool.

Adamson. Leanna Coy, Marla

NOW YOU KNOW

is twice the percentage of al cohol it contains. Thus a 100-

Janice

Jeanette

Keller, Lori

Stanley, Sheryle Parsons, Lynn

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Pielemeier, Debbie Simpson and

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Sandra McGown.

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The leaders, Mrs. Robert

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Friend, Mrs. Leo Proctor and

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Mrs. Richard Albright were as-

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sisted by their college helpers.

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Miss Gay Morgan and Miss

noon

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Marsha Davis.

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