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GRFENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1964.

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NO. 109

Meeting Is Held By City Council Monday Night

The regular bi-monthly meeting of the Greenca.stle Common Council was held Monday evening with all members of the city’s official family in attendance. Those present were Mayor Ray Fisher: City Attorney Rex Boyd; Clerk-Treasurer Clifford Frazier; City Engineer Cliff Norton; Councilmen Ernest Collins, Robert Poor. Chester Grimes, Robert Jackson and Robert Eppleheimer. Claims against the city, amounting to $2,700.37, were allowed by unanimous vote. The Finance Committee of the council has changed the method of introducing claims for approval. The claims are now being itemized by accounts and show the amounts presented to each claimant. This gives each councilman an opportunity to review' the claims on an individual basis. The Finance Committee is also presenting monthly summaries of the expenses of the various departments for review. Comparison of running totals is made to the total appropriation so that a review is readily available of the operation of each department. Engineer Norton made his report for the month of January. This included the granting of the building permits at an estimated cost of $3,500. and also consultation with the Indiana State Highway department in regards to widening of Ind. 240 at the east edge of the city including utility locations, elevations and ease - ments Clyde Miller also presented his report for the Street Department for January. There were eight regular employes, two extra employes, and the payroll was $2,453.19. Gasoline bought. 700 gallons. Gasoline used. 627.6 gallons. New Parts, $34.25. Miscellaneous expense, $102.88. Stone bought, 26 tons. Sand bought, 8.3 tons. Salt bought. 1 ton. $34. Two trees cut. $95. Hauled snow from public square, one truck and driver, and two extra men, $69.50. A marquee and a new front for The Daily Banner’s new' plant was approved on a motion by Councilman Collins and a second by Councilman Poor. Contractor Eldon Wells explained to the council that the marquee will be 25 feet long and extend three feet over the sidewalk. All details met with the approval of City Engineer Norton. Fire Chief Cassell Balay reported to the council that Herman Wallace. Jr., had been elected as a four-year member of the Fire Department Pension Board. Councilman Collins made a motion that the Board of Works advertise for a new' police car and also for gasoline and oil for the police department. The motion passed after a second by Councilman Eppleheimer. Councilman Poor also made a motion that the clerk compile a list of all city boards so that the council could keep posted on the various members and their terms of office. Councilman Grimes seconded this motion which passed unanimously. News Of Boys DAUGHLIN AFB, Tex. Steven G. Lasley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Lasley of R. R. 3, Cloverdale, Ind.. has been promoted to airman second class in the United States Air Force. Airman Lasley, a chaplain assistant, is assigned to the 3646th Air Base Group here. The airman is a graduate of Cloverdale High School. 20 Years 4go Mrs. Ivan Ruark was hostess to the West Madison Home Ec Club. Greencastle sectional scores: Cloverdale 45, Reelsville 40; Eninbridge 43, Belle Union 28.

PCA To Have A New Emblem The Greencastle Production Credit Association w'ill adopt a new corporate identification emblem on March 1, according to an announcement today by Charles T. Mays. Secretary-Treasurer. On the same day, other organizations of the Farm Credit System Federal land banks and Federal land bank associations and banks for cooperatives--also will put the corporate identification program into effect. Farmers and their cooperatives borrow $5.6 billion a year through the System. The new Production Credit Association emblem is a brilliant red oval. . .one of a family of brightly colored ovals that will identify each of the three organizations. The Federal land bank associations emblem is a deep blue oval, and the banks for cooperatives will be identified by a metallic gold oval. “Up to the present," said Mr. Mays, “all banks and associations of the System have used a variety of emblems. As a result, there was little indication that our institutions are related and have closely correlated purposes, objectives, and goals. Actually, this close relationship is the source of much of our strength " Behind the new Production Credit Association is a remarkable credit institution, deeply rooted in the history of American agriculture. In 1923, the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks w'ere established to provide farmers a source of short and intermediate term operating capital. These banks supply loan funds and act as credit wholesalers for local farmer-owned production ere lit associations which in turn lend the money to farmers. The Greencastle Production Credit Association was established in 1934. Today, it has 1,697 members and has $6,153,562.00 in loans outstanding. A.rea farmers borrowed $10,000,000.00 from the association in 1963. Funds loaned are obtained by the Federal intermediate credit banks by selling debentures on the public market. There are no appropriated Federal funds loaned by the system, nor does the Government guarantee the debentures, either as to principle or interest rate. Delbert Hobson Is Club Speaker President Don Shuee presided at the regular dinner meeting of die Greencastle Lions Club Monday evening. Lions Homer Warmon and Ivor McMains announced that the brooms were ready and would be sold Tuesday and Wednesday, February 25 and 26, evenings dO]pr to door. President Shuee introduced the speaker, Lion Delbert Hobson, who is a member of the Martinsville Lions Club. He is employed by the State Highway Department as a maintenance engineer of the Crawfordsville area. The speaker talked on the many problems confronting highway construction and maintenance departments in modernday operations. It is planned to resurface 4.5 miles of highway 231 from Cloverdale to Carp this summer and to rebuild 231 from highway 40 to Cloverdale. Superintendent Edward Raines of the Greencastle Sub-district Highway Department quoted briefly some figures of operating costs and later conducted the group on a tour of the highway garage. Stated Conclave Commandery stated conclave Wednesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m. Fiank Dicks, E.C.

Cloyd Moss Heads City Park Board

At a recent meeting of the Greencastle Park Board, Cloyd Moss was elected president; Chester Grimes, secretary-trea-surer; Robert Dean, supervisor ot all park maintenance, and John Jxmg, supervisor of the swimming pool. Mr. Moss and Mr. Dean were named to their particular positions because of their past affiliation with the park board. It w r as also the feeling of the park board members that since John Long was a member of the Greencastle Jr. Chamber of Commerce at the time the swimming pool was being built, and that he had denoted a great amount of his time to build the pool, and had quite a lot of knowledge of the physical operation of the pool, that he be elected to supervise the swimming pool activity. Mr. Long was also named to the planning board. It W'as agreed that since Chester Grimes w'as a member of the City Council and would be present at the City Council meetings to present park board activity, that he be elected Secretary-Treasurer. There w'as quite a lot of discussion on the supervision and operation of the swimming pool and the concession stands. The majority of the park board agreed that Dave McCracken, local high school basketball coach and teacher is a person that demands and receives respect from our kids of all ages, be named swimming oool manager. It was also agreed that Russell Cagle remain as park superintendent. No one to this date had been named to direct the softball league. Guy A. Ferguson Funeral Tuesday Guy A. Ferguson. 76. Russellville, died Sunday evening at the Rest Haven home in Crawfordsville after a long illness. Mr. Ferguson was a long-time resident of Russellville and was a retired farmer in the community. He was a member of the Old Methodist Church of Russellville. Born Jan. 19, 1888. Mr. Ferguson was the son of Samuel Lewis and Sarah Boiler Fergu-

son.

Survivors include the widow; three sons, Lloyd at home, Roy of Fowler and Woodrow of Waveland, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Russellville Federated Church. Rev. Paul Bingham will officiate. The body will lie in state in the church for one hour preceding the services. Burial will be in Hebron Cemetery in Russellville. Friends may call at the McGaughey & Son Funeral Home in Russellville. Ex-Russellville Resident Dies Mrs. Marian Garrison, 59-year-old former resident of Russellville community, died early Monday morning in a New York City hospital. Mrs. Garrison, the former Marian Heloise Simpson. had been in a coma since Dec. 4 when she suffered a stroke. A resident of Bronxville, N Y„ she w'as a member of the Parke Avenue Christian Church and was active in church work. Survivors include her husband. Robert; a son, Robert Garrison III of Princeton. N. J.; a daughter, Mrs. Hiram Moore of Dallas. Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Cloyn Herd of Peru: an uncle, Olva Carrington of Russellville; and a granddaughter, Miss Adele Moore of Dallas. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at McGaughey & Son Funeral Home in Russellville. Interment will be in Hebron Cemetery near here. Friends may pay their respects at the funeral home Thursday evening.

Three Hurt Crash Of Jetliner JrP' At New Orleans 4 “ ,de ” 1 Kills 56 Aboard

HOTEL GUTTED BY FLAMES KANKAKEE. HI.—Front view' of the Alamo Hotel in which many persons are feared dead following a fire which gut ted the building here early Monday. All of those still missing are believed to have been sleeping on the third floor of the hotel which crashed into the basement. Authorities are searching for victims.

Religious Views Cloverdale Rites To Be Discussed For Elmer Norris

An avowed agnostic and a professor of religion will be verbal combatants in the opening salvo of DePiiuw University's annual Religious Venture Series Wed-

nesday.

Slated to present opposite views on religion are Dr. John DyerBtnnett. professor of mathematics at Carleton College, and Dr. William A. Johnson, religion professor at Drew University. Underlying theme for Wedne}*day’s session at 10 a.m. in Ate? harry Hall and for the remainder of the three-week series is “Faith and Doubt.” After Johnson and Dyer- Bennett appeared at Wednesday's convocation they will hook up in a debate at 4 p.m. The session in Minshall Hall will be moderated by Dr. John Foxen. Although Dyer-Bennett was born in England, he received advanced degrees from the University of California and Harvard. Before becoming a specialist in abstract algebra at Carleton he taught at California, Vanderbilt and Purdue. Johnson is a former Fulbright Fellow and has earned degrees from Queens College, Drew' Seminary and Columbia. He is a Kent Fellow of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education and has served as a Methodist

minister.

Hospital Notes Dismissed Monday: Mrs. Billy Fiscus and daughter, Gosport; Ruth E. Gentry, Spencer; Charles Hendrich. Bainbridge; Cora Biown. Coatesville; James Gorham, Fillmore: Rose Hinsching, Olive Brown, Vinnie Grimes, John Klebusch, Greencastle.

Funeral services for Elmer L. Norris of Spencer, retired school teacher, will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. from the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale. Mr. Norris was a graduate of DePauw University, and held a Master’s Degree from Indiana University. He had taught in several Indianapolis schools and other high schools throughout the state. He w f as a member of the All Souls Unitarian Church of

Indianapolis.

Survivors arc: the wife, Faye Hammond Norris, one daughter, Mrs. Frances Streit, N. Y.; one son, Charles B. Norris, Calif.; tw'o sisters, Mrs. Cleo Ford. Claypool, Ind., and Mrs. Lola Ewer, Indianapolis and four grandchild-

Former Madison Twp, Man Dies John A. Johnston. 62, Indianapolis, former resident of Madison Township, died Monday in General Hospital in Indianapolis. He w r as the son of Samuel and

Eliza Rule Johnston.

Survivors are: the wife, Lovie Johnston; one daughter. Mrs. Mary Belle Alspaugh, Greencastle; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Kowitz, Kansas City. Mo; and Mrs. Clara Main, Detroit; tw'o brothers, Sam of Tennessee and Robert of Indianapolis; three grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. from Shirley Brothers Central Chapel, 946 Illinois St. Indianapolis. Interment will be in Forest Hill

cemetery.

Three persons w'ere reported hurt by city police and two automobiles were damaged in a traffic accident at the intersection of Washington Street and College Avenue at 5 p.m. Mon-

day.

Police said Velda N. Wildey, 24, West Lafayette, w'as driving west on Washington in a 1959 Pontiac. Ray Brewer 66, Greencastle Route 4, was driving north on College in a 1962 Oldsmobile, accompanied by Diane Morrison, 7, and Debra Morrison, 10, also of Route 4. Police reported that Brewer stopped for the Washington Street intersection. He said he did not see any cars and then pulled out into the path of the Pontiac. According to the police report, Velda Wildey complained of her right ankle hurting after the accident. Both Diane and Debra Morrison received bumps on the head. City Officer Donald Twomey estimated the damage at $500 to each auto. Private Service For Mrs. Arnold Private funeral services for Mrs. Charles Arnold will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. from the Hopkins-Walton Funeral Home. Rev. Robert Gingery will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Mrs. Arnold passed away Monday at her home on Ridge Ave. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this even-

ing.

Queen Gibson, 89, Dies In Ladoga Mrs. Queen Gibson. 89, resident of Russellville for many years, died Sunday night at the Friendship Home in Ladoga. She lived in the Russellville community most of her life. Born Nov. 25, 1874, she was the daughter of John and Isabel Slavens Gilkey. Mrs. Gibson belonged to the Pythian Sisters and the Federated Church in Russellville. Survivors include two nephew. Paul Robbins of Russellville ews. Paul Robbins of Crawfordsville. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Russellville Federated Church, with Rev. Paul Bingham in charge. The body will lie in state for an hour preceding the services. Burial will be in the Russellville Cemetery. Friends may call at the McGaughey Funeral Home in Russellville after 5 p.m. Tues-

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CONCERT SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY Performers in DePauw’s Aeolian Trio, which will present a concert Wednesday night in Meharry Hall, are (left to righti Professors Herman Berg, violin; Henry Rolling, pi.iUw, ami Cassel Grubb, echo. The public concert begins at 8:15 p.m.

Rev. Samuel F. Pugh, D.D., Minister of the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), and editor of "World Call,” international magazine of the Christian Churches, will be guest leader of “Operation Good News” in The First Christian Church Wednesday through Friday, February 26-28 and Sunday, March 1. “Operation Good News” is the theme given to special spiritual life enrichment and evangelism programs of the Christian Churches. State and national staff persons are available to local congregations during the pre-Easter season, and specific projects are scheduled within the life and witness of the community church. The Christian Men’s Fellowship of The First Christian Church is undergirding "Operation Good News” in Greencastle. The special committee plann i n g the program includes Wayne Hopkins, chairman, Earle Boyd, Richard Andis and Ted Glidewell. Minister of the church. Rev. Maxwell James Webb, and president of the CMF. Frank McKeehan, have served with the

committee.

Dr. Pugh became editor of World Call in July, 1961, after serving many years as Director of I.iocal Church Life of The United Christian Missionary Society of the Christian Churches. His last pastorate was with First Christian Church, Sacramento, California, where he was succeed by Rev. Cecil Fellers, a former minister at First Christian Church. Greencastle. Dr. Pugh has written numerous articles and brochures for interpreting the Christian faith and life, and his latest book, "Primer for New Disciples,” is a volume for orientation of new church members. Services for the community will be held in the sanctuary of First Christian Church Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights at 7:29 o’clock, and Sunday morning at the usual worship hour of 10:30 a.m. Special meetings have been arranged for all groups and organizations of the church throughout the days of “Operation Good News.” Public Lecture At Art Center A former key member in the Pennsylvania state government arrived at DePauw University Monday to launch a four-day ’.ecture-discussion program. Dr. John H. Ferguson is appearing under the auspices of the Murray Seasongood Good Government Fund, a Cincinnati-bas-ed organization which underwrites college visitations by prominent spokesmen on the subject of local government. Ferguson’s only public lecture will be given Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Art Center. His topic will be local

government.

Ferguson’s campus schedule includes participation in a number of undergraduate classes in political science, economics and sociology and informal student conferences Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS UPI ~ An Eastern Air Lines DCS jetliner with 56 persons aboard crashed into 16 feet of water in Lake Pontchartrain early today, minutes after takeoff from New Or-

leans'.

There was no sign of survivors and an Eastern Air Lines pilot said chances for anyone aboard to be alive were "nega-

tive.”

The Coast Guard reported finding “part of a body." An uninflated raft was found. A Coast Guard cutter started dragging the crash site. Chunks of wing structure known as “honeycombs” were sighted in the lake along with oxygen bottles and other debris. The wreckage was sighted roughly five miles east of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain causeway, longest in the world. The site was between five and seven miles south of Mandeville, La., on the north side of the lake. “That thing is completely underwater and probably all torn apart,” said Eastern Capt. L.E. Clark, a veteran pilot. He flew over the site as a representative of the Airline Pilots Association. Bomb Exploded In Negro Yard A bomb exploded in the yard of a Negro family at Princess Anne, Md., late Monday night and a burning ci'oss blazed in the darkness near the predominately Negro college town bestirred earlier by its second wave of racial demonstrations in 48

hours.

No one was injured in the explosion in the front yard of the home of Leon Gates, a clerk at Maryland State College. Negro students had earlier agreed to a 48-hour truce in demonstrations and the incidents threatened to tear the agreement

apart.

The flaming cross was extinguished and police took it to Baltimore to run tests on it. Funeral Thursday Funeral services of Mrs. Dorothy Brown Berrier. of Franklin, will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. from the Flinn-Mc-Guire Funeral Home in Franklin. Time of the funeral was changed due to the arrival of Mrs. Berrier’s brother from Nebraska. $7,840 For DPU WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Science and Astronautics announced today that the National Science Foundation has awarded a $7,840 grant to DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., for use in its undergraduate science education program.

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