The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 February 1964 — Page 1

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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1964.

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NO. 92

Rev. Ziegler New Administrator Of Christian Home

The Greencastle Christian Home announces the appointment of Rev. Li. C. Ziegler, North Salem, as administrator of the Home, which is now rapidly nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy on the first

of July.

Mr. Ziegler comes to this position with a wide background of experience that particularly fits him for this post. He is currently the minister of the North Salem Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), having served in the ministry in the State of Indiana for over twenty-five years. Educated at Huntington College and Butler University School of Religion (now Christian Theological Seminary), he has in addition had a varied background in other fields. For eight years he was involved in the management of the J.C. Penny stores, owned and operated his own busines for several years, and for a period of time was sales manager for the Bethany Press of the Christian Board of Publication of St. Louis, Missouri, publishing house for Disciples of Christ churches. Enriching his practical experience in business administration and sales promotion, he has dealt directly with problems of personnel, public relations, and is much sought out for personal counseling. Through the years he has addressed hundreds of organizations and graduating classes throughout Indiana and the Middle West, and is well-known through his work in this field. Civic matters have been of interest to him and he has served as president of the Winslow Kiwanis Club, being largely instrumental in the organization of that group and its first president. He is now a member of the Crawfordsville Kiwanis Club. He was also president of the Linton Chamber of Commerce and has filled other offices of civic need. He is married and has three daughters, a junior at DePauw, a freshman at Purdue, and the third in North Salem High

School.

He is pi jsident of Management Engineers, Inc., a corporation which offers business counsel in fields of investment and building development. He is Director and promoter of Cardinal Manor, Inc., a retirement home to be built in North Salem and to be opened in 1967, which will serve approximately four hundred people with either retirement or nursing facilities. For the past six months he has directed the development of Linda Lane Homes, Inc., in Pike County, which at its completion will render nursing care to approximately one hundred people. Seeks Senate Seat OKLAHOMA CITY UPI — Former Oklahoma football Coach Charles (Bud) Wilkinson was expected to announce today that he would seek the Republican nomination for U. S. Sen-

Administrator

lasonic Notice Vforton Lodge, No 469 F. &- M. Friday, February 7th at [0. Visitors welcomed. Oscar Martin Jr. W.M.

emo Candidate

Claude Malayer. R. R. 2. jachdale, has announced that he 11 be a candidate for commis>ner of the first district on the ■mocrat ticket in the May elec-

20 Years Ago Dr. Claude M. McClure, superintendent of the Greencastle District of the Methodist Church, was named a trustee of the Methodist Hospital by the Board of Directors during their annual meeting in Indianapolis. Mrs. W. M. McGaughey was hostess to the Fortnightly Club.

Rev L. C. Ziegler U. S. Takes Safety Steps In Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus UPI — The United States began removing American women and children from Cyprus today because of civil strife and growing antiAmerican feeling that brought bomb attacks on the U.S. Em-

bassy.

A chartered airplane left Nicosia for Beirut, Lebanon, this morning with 55 Americans, including 10 children, aboard. At least five more chartered planes stood by to carry others of the 800 American dependents off the embattled Mediterranean island. The airlift was authorized Tuesday night by U.S. Ambasador Fraser Wilkins after two bombings at the U.S. Embassy here capped more than a month of inter-cummunal conflict and mounting anti-American feeling. Slaying Trial Defense Starts JACKSON, Miss. UPI — Lawyers for Byron De La Beckwith present their first evidence today in an effort to show he was not the sniper slayer of Negro leader Medgar Evers. Beckwith’s defenders, playing the case close to their brief cases, refused to say whether the defendant will be put on the stand. They do not expect to wind up the defense before Thursday. The prosecution finished its presentation in such a whirlwind Tuesday that police officers were up first witnesses for the de-

fense.

Hardy Lott, who has carried much of the defense burden in court, said the state's introduction of evidence seeking to show Beckwith received a forehead wound from the gunsight of a back-kicking rifle would slow down completion of the case. “This means we have to get witnesses for our side of this evidence,'’ Lott said. “It may take some time.” Beckw/.h turned serious as the case drew toward its end. His fingers drummed the defense table and he lost much of his bounce.

SIGNS HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION Mrs. Alfred Jeffers and Mrs. Floyd Y< chum look on as Mayor Raymond Fisher signs the proclamation making February American History Month. The proclamation was also signed by Governor Matthew Welsh. Mrs. Jeffers is the historian and Mrs. Yochum is regent of the local Washburn Chapter. D.A.R.

Alabama Towns Face Race Crisis Two rural Alabama communities faced integration crises today. A northern city apparently averted similar trouble Tuesday night. Twelve Negroes were scheduled to enter segregated high schools at Notasulga and Shorter in eastern Alabama on orders of a federal judge. The Negroes were transferred from integrated Tuskegee High School which closed down Monday after a boycott by white students left only the Negroes in the school. WWI Notice World War I Barracks No. 114 and Ladies Auxiliary will meet Friday, February 7th at 6:80 p.m. for a carry-in dinner at the American Legion Home. Bring covered dish and table ser-

vice.

Cloyd Trisler, Adj.

Man Laying In Street Is Killed Indiana's 1964 traffic fatality toll reached at least 86 today with the death of an Indianapolis man run over by two cars as he lay in the middle of a street. A year ago the toll was 82. Elmer Evers, 39, apparently collapsed in a street near his home shortly after attendants at a filling station nearby had advised him to go home to bed. Cecil Coply, 23, Indianapolis, said he was driving along the street and saw what he believed to be a bundle of rags in the street. He stopped to remove it but before he could do so two cars ran over Evers. , Putnam Court Note* William T. Flint vs Nancy Ann Flint: complaint for absolute divorce. Rexell A. Boyd is the attorney for the plaintiff.

Man Sentenced To State Farm Henry Parker, 38, who resides in the Roachdale community, was sentenced to serve 60 days at the Indiana State Farm by Judge Francis N. Hamilton in Putnam Circuit Court Tuesday. Parker was also fined $25 and costs. The defendant had entered a plea of guilty last week to a charge of petit larceny. Parker was returned to the county jail following his arraignment pending a pre-sentence investigation. Marriage License Junior Dee Scaggs, restaurant worker, Greencastle, and Elizabeth Carol Paris, restaurant worker, also of Greencastle. Hospital Notes Dismissed Tuesday: Nina Westfall, Eugene Snider, Malcolm Suggs, Edna Love, Greencastle; Lula Calhoun, Cloverdale.

LBJAsks / Consumer Protection

WASHINGTON UPI President Johnson today pledged his administration to protect consumers and give the American housewife the best value for “her hard earned dollar.” * In a special message to Congress Johnson recommended a 10-point program of legislation and federal action aimed at safeguarding consumers in their spending for products and services. Among them were recommendations for enactment of bills to insure truth-in-packaging, truth-in-lending, and truth in the sale of over-the-counter securi-

ties.

Most of the bills Johnson endorsed were recommended by the late President John F. Kennedy. One new Johnson proposal was a request for legislation to require that all meat and poultry sold in the United States — intrastate as well as interstate — be inspected for safety and wholesomeness, either by the Agriculture Department or in cooperation with state authorities. White House officials emphasized the importance of Johnson’s proposals to inform and educate more families, particularly in the low-income bracket, “to help them get the most for their money.” ) The President said he had directed his committee on consumer interests to hold a series of Regional consumer conferences and report to him. Blanche Scroggin Funeral Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche Scroggin, 92, will be held Friday at 2 00 p.m. from the Rector Funeral Home. Rev. Kyle Miller will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Hill ceme-

tary.

Mrs. Scroggin passed away Tuesday at the Graver Nursing Home, where she had been a patient for three years. She was a member of the First Baptist church of this city. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home after 2:00 p.m. Thursday.

LBJ To Speak WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson flies to New York today to fill a speaking date close to the heart of his predecessor — the annual awards dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. foundation for mental retardation. Gildy To Marry VENTURA, Calif., UPI — Harold J. Peary, the “Great Gildersleeve” of radio and movie fame, is planing to marry electronics engineer Callie J. Lawson.

Southwest Reels From Impact Of Severe Weather

UNLOAD NEW ROTARY PRESS FOR DAILY BANNER One of the workmen helps to unload the roller unit of t .ie new 7 Daily Banner rotary press. The press was transported frmri Pennsylvania oq two large tractor-trailer unita,

Sockman Opens Pastors' Sessions One of America’s best known ministers, Dr. Ralph Sockman, told Hoosier pastors here yesterday that there should be a revival of Biblical preaching and that ministers should cease being pulpit orators. Appearing as keynoter for yesterday's opening session of the inter-denominational Indiana Pastors Conference at DePauw, Sockman made the remarks in his address "The Future of Parish Preaching” to over 250 pas-

tors.

Sockman has been minister in pulpit and radio at Christ Church (Methodist) in New York city for over 30 years. He cited five problem areas confronting today's ministers. (1.) Ministers, people believe, have least status in the church hierarchy (2.) the minister finds increased competition from voices outside the pulpit (3.) the seemingly futility of the ministry (4.) outside pressure groups (5.) the parish “chores”. Sockman said the population has received a bad image of preachers so that they think of a preacher now as “a man with a smile who tried to please all the . . . groups and is a jack of all trades and master of none.” He urged ministers quickly to find their goals and emphasize the meaning of life through a teaching ministry. Sockman told the ministers he felt there was a need for more stimulating, provocative sermons. “I don’t think there are many preachers today who are too profound.” He suggested the establishment of a radio ministry that would reach the intellectuals. "It would be a small audience,” he conceded, “but we must try to reach the really thoughtful people.” Dr. Joseph Sittler, professor of theology in the Divinty School, University of Chicago, presents his third Mendenhall Lecture today at 8 p.m. in Gobin Church. His subject is “Grace and the Ethical.” A pre-lecture concert by the Franklin College concert choir is set for 7:15 p.m. Annual Heart Fund Campaign It is important for everyone to realize that the Heart Fund., conducted here and throughout the United States during February, is something more than “just another health drive.” The Heart Fund is uniquely important. Essentially, it is a combined appeal supporting the nationwide fight against a great complex of diseases and disorders —heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, rheumatic fever and inborn heart defects, to mention only a few 7 . Diseases of the heart and circulation, which your Heart Fund dollars help to fight, are responsible for more than 925,000 deaths in the United States each year. That is more than the combined total resulting from cancer, accidents, tuberculosis, diabetes, pneumonia, and all other diseases and causes of death. In fact, these cardiovascular diseases account for over 54 percent of all deaths. The heart problem is no distant abstraction. Although national and international in scope, it exists as a painful and costly reality right here in this city. There is only one practical w 7 ay to fight the heart diseases, namely. by supporting your Heart Association’s balanced programs of research, education and community service. You can do this by contributing volunteer service or Heart Fund dollars. Truly, the Heart Fund deserves a place at the very top of your “giving for health" list.

Wind-driven snow today banked drifts 10 feet high, isolated cities, froze traffic and stranded thousands across the traditional dust bowl area of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. As the Southwest’s worst storm of the winter drifted eastward, heavy rains started to move across Dixie. Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, La., reported nearly one inch of rain in six hours during the night. Another disturbance dumped 1.21 inches of rain in six hours at West Palm Beach, Fla. Hazardous driving warnings remained in effect today for western Oklahoma. The weather bureau said snow would diminish elsewhere during the day. Stiff winds and lingering snow continued to torment Texas and New Mexico. Oilfield workers were trapped at w 7 ells and cattle were lost in snow drifts. Public transportation was curtailed at major area cities and motels and hotels were full. Schools were closed by the scores. Snow, measuring 25 inches at Borger, Tex., 16 inches at Ruidoso, N. M., 15 inches at Armarillo and 12 inches at Tucumcari, N. M., covered an area roughley equivalent to the heart of the dust bowl of the 1930s. There were unofficial reports of three feet of snow in parts of New Mexico. A “cold low aloft” whipped down from the Rocky Mountains and triggered the snowfall Monday from “moisture we already had,” the weather bureau said. The snow continued through early hours today. City Manager Harold Smitzer of Pampa, Tex., said he may ask the state today to proclaim a state of emergency. National Guardsmen, using powerful Army trucks, worked actively to pull transcontinental buses and hundreds of stranded cars to safety.

Pupils Perform

Piano pupils of Betty Mann who participated in the District Music Audition last Saturday were: Class C— Div. 1—Wanda Mor* lan, Ruth Hinote, and Sandra Bain. All of Reelsville High School. Class D- Div. 1 Ann Carmichael and Sally Eppelheimer, of Greencastle Jr. High. Class G—Div. 2—Bonnie Moore of Cascade High School.

WGRE News

WGRE will present a special program on the March of Dimes fund drive in Putnam County tonight at 7:30. WGRE will broadcast the basketball game between the Valporaiso Crusaders and the Tigers of DePauw tonight at 7:45.

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The J Feather And Local "Temperatures

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Mostly sunny and warmer today. Cloudy and not so cold tonight. Cloudy and cooler Thursday with occasional rain. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy and cooler with chance of a few snow flurries

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20 21 20 20 25 35 35 44 48