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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

WEATHER Clearing; Warmer

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1963.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 44

Four Injured sn Traffic Accidents In This Vicinity

Sinatra Jr., Is Kidnaped From Motel

Rites Held Far Floyd H, Weber

STATELINE, Nev. UPI — Frank Sinatra Jr., a young singing star following in the footsteps of his famed father, was " kidnapped at gunpoint from his motel last night shortly before he was scheduled to make an appearance at a Lake Tahoe ca-

sino.

The Nevada highway patrol

Funeral services for Floyd H. sa1 '' a search for the suspects Weber, 60, were held Monday af- two and possible three men, ternoon at 2:00 o clock from the was being concentrated in the

Three Indiana State students Whitaker Funeral Home in Spooners Summit area between were treated and then released Greencastle. Rev. Maxwell Webb Laku Tahoe and Carson City,

from the hospital. officiated. Interment was in For- Nev.

They were Jerri Roy, 18, Shel- est Hill cemetery. A spokesman for the patrol burn: Donna Call, 19. and Lynn Mr. Weber p issed away Satur- a big car made a fast LWhittle, 21. both of Terre Haute, day afternoon at 2:45 at the turn at a road bIock at the in ' Police said the first accident Putnam County hospital, where tersection of U. S. Highway 395

he was admitted on Friday. and near Carson City He was born August 14, 1903 and beaded back on Highway in Osceola. Iowa, the son of Fred ab toward the 7,200-foot summit.

State police at the Putnamville Post reported Sunday that two personal injury accidents occur-

red Saturday afternoon.

Morris L. VV'alters. Indianapolis, was admitted to the PutnamCounty Hospital as result of one

of the accidents.

was on the Manhattan Road, near the Zaring farm, at 4:08

p.m.

State Trooper Jack Hanlon investigated both accidents. City police also investigated a three-car accident at Washington and Locust streets at 11:58 Sunday morning. Police reported that a 1957 Ford driven by Kenneth E. Templeman stopped in lane of traffic to turn into a service sta-

tion.

A 1961 Pontiac driven by

Johnson Confers With Military On Defense Expense

Jet Falls In Flames 81 Killed

WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson called in his top military planners today to press his campaign to trim defense spending in next year s budget. A major aspect of this effort was a survey, disclosed Saturday by the President, to determine which installations in this country can be consolidated.

ELKTON, Md. UPI — A Pan American World Airways jet

Another was an attempt to decide whether there are mili-

, , tary aid installations abroad I which eyewitnesses said was hit ... , , , :1 „ „ , x which can be closed.

-a by lightning fell in flames last t night. All 81 aboard perished.

Investigators sped to the scene of the disaster, which happened

Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a 10:30 a.m.

and Martha Alvic Park Weber. Mr. Weber had be*, n in business in Greencastle since 1936. He operated the Weber Bike & Toy Store on the south side of

the square.

He was a deacon emeritis of the First Christian church in

Greencastle.

Survivors are: the wife Doris, his mother, Mrs. Alvie Weber; one sister, Vivian McLaughlin

Nikita Explains Grain Purchases MOSCOW’ UPI — Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told a meeting of the Communist party leadership today that two of his predecessors, Josef Stalin and V’. M. Molotov, sold grain abroad while people were starv-

Mitcheltville, Iowa; Eugene, Fort ln S 1° in ' hc Sovlet Union -

VFW OBSERVES PEARL HARBOR DAY

Howard Brown, Commander of VFW Post 1550, second from the left, is shown greeting VFW State Commander George Choltye of Whiting, who was the speaker at the Pearl Harbor Day dinner held Saturday night in the Post Horne. Others shown are Clyde Miller, Past State Commander, Brown, Choltye, Paul Fost, State Jr. V’ice Com-

mander and Orval Holycross. State Quarter master.

at 8:28 p.m. EST—the exact mo- . . ......_. b EST appointment with the Presi-

ment at which the grim metallic voice of the pilot told the Phila-

dent to discuss the fiscal 1965 budget Johnson must send to

Congress by next Jan. 18.

McNamara was praised highly Sunday by Herbert Hoover

Dwight E. Liston, stopped be- Canada; three brothers. Stewart

hind Templeman.

Irwin B. Wallace, Coatesville, Dodge. Iowa and Chaplain Ches- Khrushchev, addressing a

Two Escape From Penal Farm Sun. Two prisoners escaped from the Indiana State Farm Sunday afternoon, state police at the

driving a 1960 Dodge, told police tor Weber, U. S. Navy, Norfolk plenary meeting of the Commu- Putnamville Post, reported Mon- state's 14 weekend traffic fatal- day evening December 8th at

delphia control tower :

“We're going down in flames.’’ What brought fiery death to

the 73 passengers and the cre»v when Johnson paid a 10-minute of eight on the giant Boeing 707, ca u on gg.year-old former which had just left Baltimore p re .sident, a Republican, in New Friendship Airport for Philadel- York,

phla after a flight from San

Juan, P.R., was a mystery. But Following the McNamara-Tay-

on. t, . ^ u, numerous eyewitnesses insisted l° r meeting. Budget Director

Icy roads from Indiana s fust The Putnam County Saddle saw „ ht strike the K ermit Gordon and Deputy Elgeneral snow of the season were Club held their annual dinner and ^ or fla; f h ne J it followed mer Staats were on the calling blamed for at least five of the election of officers meeting Sun- ^ ii m trqT

. , ® by at least one and possibly two ai a m -

14 More Killed In State Traffic

Officers Elected By Saddle Club

The Putnam County

he did not realize traffic had stopped and ran into the rear of Liston's auto. The Liston car then rammed the rear of Temple-

man's Ford.

Damage was estimated at $600 to Wallace s Dodge; $200 to Liston's Pontiac, and $70 to the Templeman car.

Annual Meeting Held By Liens

mst Party Central Committee, day morning,

explained the current Soviet grain purchases in the West, the Tass news agency reported.

The two making the break from the penal institution were Albert Roscoe Shadrick, 23, sent to the farm from Evansville on a third degree burglary charge,

rectors were selected:

Two Members Of Post 58 Honored

Police said the pair were first missed at 2 p.m. and they were still at large early Monday.

Johnson Comments

Western new’smen were not admitted to the meeting, which

The Greencastle Lions Club was called to discuss the dis- and Edgar Lee Beers, 22, Indianheld H.eir annual Charter Night astrous Soviet harvest and the apolis, serving time for vehktle and Ladies Night meeting at the crash program Khrushchev has taking.

DePauw Union Building Satur- demanded to build up the day evening and enjoyed a smor- chemical fertilizer industry to gasbord dinner. remedy farm failures.

Khrushchev again blamed the

President Don Shuee presided weather for the fact that .. the

Action was taken at the 6th and Paul BuC( hler le ^ 016 ^ in «- government was compelled to

diatnet meeting of The Ameti- ™

can Legion recently held in from abroad. Greencastle which resulted in Th e entertainment was provid- He said Soviet people were the unanimous endorsement of e( ] by a group of three university asking how it was possible in Raymond Baldwin as a candidate students. f he Stalin and Molotov eras to for the high office of Depart- ^ , sell grain abroad at times when

ment of Indiana Sergeant-at-arms for the year 64-65. Mr. Baldwin is a former “Post Commander” and a “Past District Commander” as well. He had

ities which raised the year’s toll Torr’s Restaurant,

to at least 1.228 compared with

1.132 a year ago.

The second two-death crash of the weekend happened on snowslick Indiana 9 just south of Albion and fatally injured Mrs. , Katherine Weber. 46 and her daughter. Beverly, 21, Albion. The first double fatality accident killed two small Sheridan,

Mich

mid-air explosions.

According to Pan American

The following officers and di- the jet left San Juan with 143

James Poor was in charge of arrangements for the meeting

and entertainment.

Next Monday night, Dec. 16,

the Lions Club

crash near Columbia City. The Webers were killed when

a car driven by Beverly skidded into the path of a car driven by

WASHINGTON — President Earl Coverstone, 31, Columbia Johnson, explaining the recent City. Seven persons were injured,

reduction in civilian employes of

the Defense Department: Stated Convocation “We don't want to just be a Stated Convocation, Greencas-

harvests were about the same tightwad. . . but we do want to tie Chapter No. 22. Royal Arch as this year’s. see that money is prudently ex- Masons, Wednesday evening,

“If to ensure grain for population one had used

President, H. G. Treible Vice-Pres. Doug, Coppinger Treasurer, Norman Peabody Secretary, Mrs. Cecil Justus

House Chairman, Mrs. Bar-

bara McClaine

Directors: Harry Bee, Morris

girls Saturday night in a Hunter, Frank Boyce and Ma-

jor Bryce McKee.

persons, discharged 71 in Baltimore and then took off for Philadelphia—the final destination it never reached. Banner Guessing Winners Listed

Blanket Of White

Pravda Expresses Russ Viewpoint MOSCOW UPI — The Soviet

Union charged that President Kennedy was “eliminated'* by right-wing extremists to change the balance of political forces in the United States and “stir up anti-Commmunist, ant i-Soviet,

and anti-Cuban hysteria.” The charge was made in a

Winners for the first week of The Daily Banner basketball

guessing contest are Dan Lyon, Communist party statement in

Greencastle and Putnam Coun- Greencastle Route 1, and Howard the official newspaper Pravda. ty received the first heavy snow Conyers, 706 Vale Street, City. Most of the statement w r as de-

of the season Sunday and by Monday morning a white covering of two to three inches blank-

eted the community.

State and county roads were

reported slick in spots and there

was also numerous drifts.

The game of the week was Bainbridge vs. Russellville. Bain-

voted to an appeal to Communist China to cease its propa-

bridge won by a .score of 76 to 54. a 0n wo ' r j , d '

the pended, and if Defense Secretary Dec. 11, 7:30 o'clock. Election the Robert McNamara can effect a and installation of officers. Re-

members will of Stalin and Molotov, reduction of 25,000 employes by freshments. Streets in this city were also

reteiV ed a similar en- £° to the Counl y Home where t h e n this year, too, it would the ceiling he has had, it will be Ivan R. Huxford. High Priest quite slippery during the early doresment from the local Post, they wiU sing Christmas songs. have been p OSS ible to sell grain helpful.” Willard E. Silvey, Secretary morning hours Monday,

which is supporting him for elec- , , Lqw abroad, and in several areas

tion to this office. 9

First place winner, Dan Lyon, ence of guessed the score at 76-57. How- could be

ard Conyers’ guess was 77-56

Commmunist parties summoned in an ap-

parent final attempt to solve the Sino-Soviet ideolgical dis-

pute.

become distended from

people

The low- hunger with lack of bread and f this evcn have died." Tass quoted . the U.S. the U.S. Khrushchev as having said.

Further honors came to “The NEW YORK UPI

Cassell C. Tucker Post" and its est temperature reported

commander in the form of a let- mor ning by

ter received from the “national Weather Bureau, excluding Khrushchevs long speech was Commander Daniel F. Foley ap- Alaska and Hawaii, was 6 de- ^he first policy statement he has pointing Mr. O'Brien to a posi- g recs below zero at Devils Lake, rnadc since the assassination of tion on the “National Security n.D. The highest Sunday was 86 President Kennedy. Besides agriCouncil of The American Le- at Miramari Calif. cultural problems, it was expect-

ed to deal on the international

gion.

Purpose of the council is to ShotQUn Victim situation since the Presidents nrozagate an interest in and a 3 death and on the Sino-Soviet dis-

furtherance of the principles of INDIANAPOLIS UBI T" Nor ' Pute. National Security as advocated ™an Reddie, Id, was killed near

by “The American Legion.” To here Saturday

Resume Probe

WASHINGTON UPI — Senate investigators resume today

when a com- Masonic Notice

serve as a medium of dissemina- P a nion. Charles James, 14, Inditing an understanding of these anapolis, tripped and a shotgun principles through the agencies accidentally discharged, of the Departments and Posts of Reddie, who was hit in a nnH its chest and shoulders, was pro-

“The American Legion and its , r^mrm.nitv bers are urged to be present . •„nounced dead at Community ° * affiliate associations. ^ ”

Commander Foley stated the Hospital appointment is in recognition of _—

service rendered to “The Ameri- — —

can Legion by Commander OBrien and Cassell C. Tucker Post

58 of Greencastle.

In accepting the appointment Mr. O'Brien expressed his grat-

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Stated meeting of Fillmore Applegate Lodge 155 F & A. M. the Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. There will be election of officers, all mem-

jed to be i

Ray Wells, W.M. O.E.S. Notice

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT TUESDAY The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, w hich will present a free public concert here tomorrow at 8:15 p. m. in DePauw’s Bowman gymnasium, ranks with two others in the nation in the number of tour engagements p layed annually. Under the direction of Izlcr Solomon, called by the Los Angeles Daily N cv. s, “One of the greatest conducting talents in the world today.” the symphony will pres ent five works, including selections by Rossini. Respighi, Wagner, Brahms and Donald White, a member of DePauw's School of Music faculty. Tomorrow night's open cone ert, for which 1,500 seats will be available, is being underwritten by a gift from the Li lly Endowment, Inc.

BULLETIN!

DETROIT I'PI —Studehaker Corp. will shut down its auto assembly lines at South Bend. Ind.. Tuesday, ending more than 61 years as an automotive producer, it was learned today.

20 Years Ago

Mrs. Reid Winsey and Frankie

Bundy were dismissed as pat- Mrs. Rosemond Tennis of 602 S. ients from the Putnam County Jackson. Greencastle. Ind.. is be-

Hospital.

Lt. Charles J. Arnold was sta

Stated meeting of Morton O. E. S. Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. Family Christmas party will follow the meeting. Bring a 29c gift for children and 50c gift for adults. Refreshments are your favorite Christmas goodies.

Gail Steele, W.M.

LACKLAND AFB, Tex. Airman Ross E. Tennis, son

tioned somewhere in Australia. W’ord was received here that Harold Reese Brown had been wounded while serving with the American armed forces in the Mediterranean area.

ing reassigned to Sheppard AFB. Tex., for technical training as r United States Air Force base

utilities specialist.

$100,000 Fire MARION UPI — A two-alarm fire swept Emley's Restaurant along Indiana 9 on the outskirts of Marion today, with damage estimated at up to $100,000. Brisk winds whipped the flames for nearly four hours while firemen poured tons of water on them in pre-dawn subfreezing temperatures. NOW YOU KNOW The lighthouse on Oak Island. N. C. can produce a beam of 14

Airman Tennis, who enlisted million eandlepower. the strongin the Air Force a short time est of any such station in the ago has completed his initial United States, according to the

basic military training here.

The winners are asked to come to the Banner Office to receive their checks of $5 and $3. On another page of today's edition is listed the game of the week for Putnam County fans.

The guess on the score of each their probing of the former Senteam, not total points, and only ate Democratic secretary of outone entry by Friday morning side business activities with a are the only requirements. further look at his role in vend-

ing machine company contracts

3 Hospital Notes with defense contractors.

Chairman B. Everett Jordan.

Dismissed Sunday: Nellie d-N.C„ of the Senate Rules ComRamsey, Robert Call, Goldie Gal- miUe plans to hear stanley ^ loway, James Bennett, Robert general manager of Capitol Hirt, Greencastle; Kay Clark, Vending Co. and Aaron Goldman. Roachdale; Mrs. Kenneth Brown president of Macke vending Co. and daughter. Reelsville; Bonnie tegtify during a close d-door hear-

Burdsall, Stilesville; Wilma Grimes, Coatesville; Tarquin

Knox, Spencer.

Dismissed Saturday: Garnet Mugg, Quincy; Katherine Cunningham, Martinsville Mrs. Charles Paris and daughter, Spencer; Curtis Higgins, Bainbridge; John Miesel, Loretta Walker, Cloverdale; Ruth Brown. Mrs. Clyde Eubank and son, Mary Gibson, Annie Heavin, Carlyle Scroggin, Greencastle.

Hoosier Killed

UNION CITY UPI — Richard Hart. 57, Union City, was killed and his wife, Clar, 42, was injured seriously Sunday night when their car collided with an-

other just across the

state line in Ohio.

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IVeather And Local Temperatures

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News Of Boys

USS ATKA (FHTNC)— Randall W. Stover, seaman, USN, son

Cloudy, windy and cold with light snow today. New snow ac-

Indiana cumulation of around an inch.

Winds and snow diminishing early tonight and becoming partly cloudy. Fair and a little

warmer Tuesday.

aboard the icebreaker USS Atka.

World Almanac.

II LIVES ('RUSHED BY TRAIN -Workmen struggle to lift the wreckage of an old station wagon to recover three bodies that still remained in the battered he^p. In all, the lives of eleven persons were snuffed out when the driver failed to heed the freights whistle. State troopers described it as the w orst accident in Alabama history.

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Outlook for Wednesday:

Cloudy and a

little warmer with

rain or snow

likely.

Minimum

23°

6 a. m.

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