The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 January 1964 — Page 1

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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1964.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 64

Draw Jurors For January Sessions Of Circuit Court

Members of the grand jury and petit jury for the January term of the Putnam Circuit Court have been drawn by County Clerk Jack Hinkle. The jurors were drawn in the presence of Moss Conner and Osborn Hutchins, jury commissioners. The new term of court will start on Monday. January 6. Jury members are: Grand Jury John J. Jordon, Russell Tp. Frank D. Boyce, Greencastle Tp. Harold Earl Davis, 800 Crescent Drive Milbert W. Leaton, Franklin Tp. David G. Sublett, Warren Tp. Raymond H. Butler, 703 S. Indiana Robert Girton, Washington Tp. Alva Ray Brattain, Madison Tp. Petit Jury Howard E. Cooper, Floyd Tp. Joseph P. Allen HI, Greencastle Tp. Walter H. Keck. Franklin Tp. Richard T. Gould, Bainbridge James C. Osborn, Marion Tp. Walter P. Todd, Sr., Franklin Tp. Virgil Deem, 20 E. Berry St. Frank W. O'Hair, Bainbridge Holla B. Cooksey, Cloverdale Tp. Ned I. Burkhardt, 831 E. Washington Herman Leichty, Washington Tp. Clyde E. Ash, Greencastle Tp. Lois McGrannahan, Washington Tp. Harold Alcorn. Floyd Tp. Thomas W. Brothers, Clinton Tp. Lawrence V. Clark, 1201 S. Indiana Wendell E. Christy, 302 W. Franklin David L. Shew, Washington Tp. Asa Duncan, 210 S. Indiana Howard A. Brackney, 517 E. Washington Omer Boswell, Madison Tp. Charles K. Phillips, Marion Tp. Robert C. Miles, Bainbridge Howard W. Davis, Clinton Tp. Harold Barker, Clinton Tp. Herman Hedge, Roachdale Mona H. Harlan, Warren Tp. Keith O. Goff. Russell Tp. Chester L. Davis, Cloverdale Tp. Donald W. Alspaugh, Madison Tp. O. A. Eggers, Cloverdale Tp. Wm. R. Harlan, Bainbridge Thomas H. Fisher, Warren Tp. Elmer I. Carriker, 700 High wood Lois Luther, Floyd Tp. Marcus Wade Carter, 101 Locust St. Earl Arnold, Cloverdale Tp. Roy W. Neese, Washington Tp. Richard T. Johnson, Russell Tp. Lyle Call, 405 Hanna Willis L. Clodfelter, 217 Shadowlawn Marjorie Peeler, Washington Tp. Raymond Hart, Bainbridge Thelma I. Dwigans, Cloverdale Tp. Melvin H. Alexander, Madison Tp. Rex C. Hammond, Washington T P . Russell Mahan, Franklin Tp. Robert V. Perry, Russell Tp.

20 Years Ago Tech. Sgt. and Mrs. Ralph Runyan were here from Pocatello, Idaho. Rebecca Longden was the Greencastle High School winner of the “Good Citizenship" essay contest sponsored by Washburn Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Other winners in the Putnam County schools were Adalene Ross. Fillmore: Peggy Etcheson. Roachdale: Betty Jean Grove. Cloverdale: Dorothy Hostetter, Bainbridge; Bernice Thrall. Belle Union, and Zella Taber, Reels-

ville.

Carl E. Nichols, Marion Tp. Lewn M. Dunn, 513 Illinois Oka Hymer, Roachdale Herbert Brattain, Washington

Tp.

Lowell Edward MeCammack, Bainbridge James B Routt, Cloverdale Tp. Loyd M. Ellis, Washington Tp. Olin Ader, Floyd Tp. Ge.rge S. Anthony, Greencastle

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Virgil Anderson, Clinton Tp. Glen R. Casida. Cloverdale Tp. Malcolm L. Berry, Clinton Tp. Edwin Gifford Black, Greencastle Tp. Wayne Cunningham, Floyd Tp. Charles Bruner, Jr., Madison Tp. Richard L. Borer. Warren Tp. Lawrence Dickerson, Washington Tp. Dewey A. Hood, Cloverdale Tp. Cecil Robertson. Washington Tp. Frank Bridges, Monroe Tp. James L. McCammon, Marion

Tp.

James C. VanNess, Washington

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George R. Bundy, 306 N. Arlington Lyle S. Clodfelter, Clinton Tp. Morris A. Evens, Clinton Tp. Charles E. Michael, Marion Tp. Wm. E. Leonard, Warren Tp. Elmer Smiley, Cloverdale Tp. Lon M. Jenkins, Bainbridge Curtis C. Higgins. Bainbridge Robert Earl Clark, 923 E. Washington Noble A. Costin, Warren Tp. Brief Meeting Held By Board INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The last meeting of the year for the Indiana Board of Finance lasted 10 minutes Tuesday and resulted in the following unanimous action by Governor Welsh, State Auditor Dorothy Gardner and Deputy State Treasurer William Owen: Approval of the Portage National Bank as a depository for $50,000 of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ funds. This was the result of a controversial shift of a license branch recently from Chesterton to Portage, but no mention of the dispute was made at the meeting. Approval of a $16,600 loan to Shoals for planning a sewage system, for $3,000. Mrs. Gardner said the balance remaining in the Postwar Planning Revolving Fund from which these two loans were taken is $93,001. City And County Observe Holiday It was quiet today in Greencastle and Putnam County as residents of the community observed the New Year's Day. Practically all offices and business firms were closed for the holiday. Various fraternal and patriotic organizations held New Year's Eve parties last night. Members in attendance welcomed the arrival of 1964 at midnight. Watch parties were also held by several churches. Local offices, banks, stores and shops closed at the usual time Tuesday. They will reopen at the regular time tomorrow morn-

ing.

New Tax Forms Not Too Complex Courtney States

Rady Is First Year's Report Is Made On Putnam 1964 Candidate Soil, Water Conservation Progress

Tractor Mishap

JASPER UPI Michael We hr, 13. was strangled when a farm tractor rolled backward and pinned him against a manure spreader on which he was making an adjustment on the family

farm southwest of Ireland.

With the arrival of the new year. James E Rady, uLRi ai hdale, became the first avowed political candidate in Putnam County for 1964. Mr. Rady announced today that he will be a candidate for joint representative of Putnam and Owen counties, subject to the Democrat May primary. Mr. Rady is a member of the Advisory Board of Franklin Township and is also assistant principal of Tuttle Junior High School in Crawfordsville. He was engaged in the grocery business in Roachdale for 10 years and started his teac hing at Clinton Center in 1955. He is married to the former Patty Ryan of Roachdale, and is the father of a daughter, Beverly Ann, age 10. Charles Edwards, of Spencer, a Republican, is the present joint representative for Putnam and Owen counties. Record Is Set For Cigarettes WASHINGTON UPI —Americans smoked a record 523 billion cigarettes in 1963-despite recurring reports blaming smoking as a cause of lung cancer and other ailments. The 1963 cigarette total was almost 3 per cent more than the total for 1962-508.2 billion cigarettes and marked the seventh consecutive year that smoking has increased in the United States. The Agriculture Department noted that the increase between the 1962 and 1963 total was significantly more than the 1 pir cent increase between 1962 and 1961. From 1955 to 1960 the rate of increase in cigarette consumption average 4 per cent a

year.

Masonic Notice Cloverdale Lodge No. 132 F. & A. M. will hold public installation of their officers Friday, January 3, 1964, 7:30 p.m. The following officers will be installed. Hubert Powell—W. M. Robert Blue—S. W. Larry Hughes—J. W. O. B. Foster- Treasurer Ralph F. Fry -Secretary Carl Gerlach S. D. Paul Dean —J. D. Keith Young -S. S. Edwin Branneman J. S. Truman Mannan -Chaplain Bert C. Gross—Tyler

George Murphey of the U. S. Soil Cou.wicvaUoxi.lifiB'Viix. ^yy ’ 9 ed this week concerning soil ant] water conservation programs in Putnam County during 1963. The Soil Conservation Service is the technical agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance to landowners and groups of landowners in planning and carrying out a conservation program for their farms. Highlights of this report included completion of the final plan for the Mill Creek Watershed. preliminary investigation reports for the Big Raccoon Creek and the Little Raccoon Creek Watersheds, and the preliminary investigation survey for the Little Walnut Creek Water-

shed

There were also 22 conservation plans completed, 6 conservation plans revised, 10 farm ponds constructed, 893 acres of woodland protected from livestock grazing, 6076 feet of diversion terraces constructed, and 300,000 feet of field tile installed. On" of the farm ponds constructed

1 >*-*»>**■ <*l 11 ■ MUUto aBd another has a surface area of 2 acres. Approximately 200 landowners were assisted as cooperators with the Putnam County Soil and Water Conservation District. These cooperators have indicated a desire to work out a complete conservation plan for their acreage in line with the objectives of the district. Donald Hazlett is Chairman of t^ie Board of Supervisors w ho govern the Putnam County District. Approximately 160 landowners weTc also provided technical assistance as cooperators of the Agricultural Conservation Program wdiich is administered by the local Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Zannie Garriott is Chairman of this Committee and Ruth Wright is Office Manager. Landowners cooperating iM this program received both technical and financial assistance. Plans for 1964 include approval by the U.S. Congress of the Mill (Continued on Page 2)

Gov. Connolly Faces Surgery AUSTIN TEX. UPI— Texas Gov. John Connally may lose some of the mobility of his right wrist unless he undergoes surgery this spring to correct a slippage of bones, doctors said. Connally's wrist was shattered Nov. 22 by a bullet fired by the sniper w'ho killed President Kennedy. A Connally spokesman 5 said, “the governor is continuing to regain more strength each day and is feeling well.” Driver's Bond Set At $4,500 Ernest Ward, 36, Brazil, appeared in the Putnam Circuit — Court Tuesday and was ordered back to the county jail by Judge Francis N. Hamilton. He will return to court on February 2. His bond was set

at $4,500.

Ward was arrested by City

1- ry BosweH, well known officer William Masten early away at his home on W. Jacob n , je and charged ^ drunken St nit Tuesday at 11.30 a.m. driving, public intoxication and Mr. Boswell was born March driving while his license was

23, 1892, and had spent most all suspended.

his life in Putnam County. He In other court action, Henry was a contractor by trade. Parker, 38, Roachdale, pleaded

not guilty to a petit larceny'

He was a veteran of World charge. His trial w r as set for FebWar I, Odd Fellows Lodge and 3 and bond fixed at $1,000.. the American Legion. Fred Clodfelter, 45, city, plead- ‘ Survivors are: the wife. Nicy; ed S uilt y to is * uin X * • fraudutwo sons. Russell Boswell, Roach- lent check * Jud S e sus - dale and Eldon of this city; one P ended a onc to five y ear state half-sister, Mrs. Stella Crodian, P rison sentence on certain con - Greencastle; six grand children ditiens.^ j,

and two great grandchildren.

Perry Boswell Dies At Home

WILL VISIT LOCAL GUARD Major General John S. Anderson^the adjutant gem eral of Indiana, will visit the local National Guard Armory here at 10:00 a.m., Thursday^ January 9. The purpose of the generate visit will be to meet with the local commander and unit personnel to discuss any management. or training problems the unit might Tiave. He will also meet local civic leaders to discuss with them National Guard relations with the community and how the Natioual .Guard etui better .serve the community in general.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. from the Rector Funeral Home. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. Pope Will Get Hero's Sendoff VATICAN CITY UPI — The city of Rome will give Pope Paul VI a hero's sendoff Saturday when he leaves for his Holy Land pilgrimage and historic meeting with the Orthodox patriarch cf Constantinople. The spirit^l head of 500-mil-lion Romhn Catholics will be the first Pope to visit Palestine and the first in 525 years to meet a supreme leader of the Eastern church. His meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople comes Sunday on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, where Christ prayed on the eve of His crucifixion. Clemente Cardinal Micara, papap vicar general for the city of Rome, ordered the bells of Rome's 500 churches to ring for 10 minutes when the Pope ’eaves the city and again when he returns on Monday. He asked Romans* to turn out in force for the Pope’s departure and especially for his return. The response was expected to be enthusiastic. Pope Paul, the austere north Italian intellectual who was more admired than loved when he was elected to the papal throne six months ago. appears to have captured the hearts of Romans with his pilgrimage plan. He was almost mobbed during recent public appearances, including a Christmas Day visit to a bleak working class suburb.

Garrett Mayor Served 30 Years INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Fred Feick, picturesque Democratic leader, retired last night after sei ving as mayor of Garrett for 30 years, the oldest tenure of any retiring mayor in Indiana. Feick, who admits to being “past 80," said he’s “just going to take it easy,” adding that it’s time to retire after so many

years in office.

He almost had to battle his way out of the mayor’s office because many hundreds of fellow citizens pleaded with him to stay at his post. Feick's long career as a civic leader brought him in close contact with Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Postmaster General James Farley and all of the Hoosier party leaders during the past four decades. Among his achievements as mayor have been paving of many streets, establishment of four parks, building of a fine swimming pool, construction of a municipal electric plant and welfare and feeding activities for hundred of citizens during the

depression.

Feick falsified his age a bit to become a conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad before he was 21 years old. He had been forced by family circumstances to quit school when he was 12

years old.

Hospital Notes Dismissed Tuesday: Frenda Abrams, Greencastle; Mrs. Maynard Arnold and daughter. Crystal Diel, Carla Diel, Rita Liechty. Fillmore; Marie Rady, Roachdale; Mrs. Larry Stroud and son, Coatesvili” Mrs. John Walls and son, Meoresville; Martha Pursell. Spencer: Candace Randolph. Terre Haute.

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — State Revenue Commissioner James C. Courtney assures Hoosier taxpayers that the new income tax forms they are receiving in the mail are not as complicated as

they look.

“Don’t be frightened by the size of this booklet which includes both the instructions and the forms,” Courtney said. “The booklet contains most of the an- ’ swers to your questions.” The commissioner estimated that more than two-thirds of Indiana's t w o-milUon individual taxpayers can use the short form. Despite gloomy predictions as to the complexity of the return, the short form consists of one page to be filled out on one side only,” he said. Those who may use the short form are persons whose sole income is from wages and salaries, interest or other personal service income in which no business expenses are involved. Courtney said that “all other taxpayers should file on the long from in order to take advantage of business expenses and deductfbffe incurred in connection with the production of income.” He said this was the first time in 30 years that the Revenue Department has undertaken to provide Hoosiers with a detailed instruction booklet. The returns for 1963 income, due by April 15, cover both old and new taxing

methods.

The first six months of 1963 are to be taxed on the old flat income and Courtney suggested this be figured first. On July 1, the new adjustment income tax of 2$/, became effective. However, the forms call for the taxpayer to figure his entire 12 months income at 1 per cent instead of 2 per cent, for this one

year only.

Courtney said that many persons who need a short form may get a long form, and those needing a long form, will get the other instead. Some will get none. He said that after Jan. 10 these persons may go to the nearest motor veliicle license branch, .or . the main‘office. The address for the main .State Revenue Department is P. O. Box 1928, Indianapolis 46206. Lawmakers Vote Expense Money WASHINGTON UPI — Congress wrangled to the bitter end over foreign aid spending, but there was no dispute over $3.3 million in the same overall bill for expenses of the legislators themselves. The expense money was tacked on the compromise $3 billion foreign aid appropriations bill by the House and Senate "appropriations committees. Among other things, members 1 voted themselves large allowances for postage, stationery and long-distance telephone calls. House additions for these purposes totaled $2,838,275. Senate additions totaled $488,100. Whitaker Re-Elected Charles Whitaker, of Cloverdale, has been re-elected as a member of the Putnam County Hospital Board of Trustees by the county commissioners. Mr. Whitaker served as president of the board during 1963. Fire Toll 22 JACKSONVILLE. Fla. UPI —An Atlanta woman died today, raising to 22 the toll in the Roosevelt llptej fire.