The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 February 1964 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER

GkccNCASTLc, INDIANA

SAT., FEB. 29, 1964. Parje 4

Mrs. Donna Houston Host to Club Meeting The Cloverdale Craft Club met at the home of Donna Houston on February 26. A short business meeting was held, with LaVaughn Patten presiding. Roll call was answered by ten members telling their favorite month and why. Velda Nees was welcomed into the club as a new member. Gertrude Routt was a guest. New craft projects were shown by Barbara Mann, Edith Gerlach, Ruth Nickerson and LaVaughn Patten. Vivian Mugg was appointed to make copies of the club constitution for all the members. The craft project for this meeting was coat hanger plaques and hanging baskets. Evelyn Yanders will be hostess

to the club on March 25. The lesson will be making footstools.

Rene Cortrecht Sorority Hostess The Exemplar Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met for their monthly social meeting Tuesday, February 24, at the home of Rene Cortrecht. This was a “Come As You Are Party.” This proved very funny, as the members appeared in strange attire for party attending. A Dutch Auction and a ‘white elephant' sale was held. All articles were purchased through bidding by the members. The hostess served lovely refreshments of cake, punch and mint cups. The regular business meeting will be held March 10, with Doris Ratcliff as hostess.

—GOOD OLD DAYS ond floor cell block, the men having access to two blocks and were passing their implements between the blocks through tiny openings in a steel wall. All w r as progressing “merrily,” Mrs. Sutherlin aside from annoying creaks and groanings, was not bothered by the inmate’s apparently harmless activities until noon when a loud crash, punctuated with gurglings, disrupted the quiet. The deputy sheriff called from the office in the court house, investigated and found that one of the men had overstepped caution and had jerked the shower from his cell block and water w r as flooding the floor. Surprised and chagrined by this “deluge” to their plans, the two men were removed to isolated cells, the “implements” taken, the plumbing re-

Among many other new facilities. The D ilv Ftannor Buildir 0 '' will snort an entirely air-conditioned office as well as shop. Above the Maurice Broaastreet crane hoists the condenser unit to the roof where it will rest.—Photo by John Adams

DEPAUW PRESENTED S700 CHECK

Shown passing the buck(s)—a $700 unrestricted grant from the Gulf Oil Corporation —are L. A. Pelletier, right, Charles Poe, center, and Norman Knights, who accepted the award for DePauw University. Pelletier, Ind anapolis, is area sales manager for Gulf; Poe is Greencastle distributor for the firm. The grant is one of nearly 700 totaling $500,000 being made this year by Gulf in its comprehensive program of support to privately operated and controlled colleges and universities.

WASHINGTON-—The purchase of Studebaker Corporation's Chipewa plant at South Bend by the Kaiser Jeep Corporation was announced Monday by Sen. Birch Bayh <DInd.) (left), Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.) (center) and Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Ind.). The three are shown looking over an aerial photo of the facilities.—UPI Telephoto

paired and the breach of eti- where the Morton - Russellville ings in the county this season, quette forgiven. The men were load cros.ses on the old covered The occasion for this one, in parnow apparently happy to wash timber bi idge. It is a fine place ticular, was the visit back here their teeth in the wash bowl. for a summer out-door gathering, on Mr. and Mrs. Clay Ratcliff of There are maple trees in the yard Belle Plaines, Kansas. She is a “All these are mine ” exclaim- vvhich have 80 £ reat a girth that daughter of the late Wash Cloded ”Unc^ Jack” Clodfelter of they must be believed to be no fe iter. a half brother of Uncle Portland Mills, as he w-aved his y° un £ er than Cncle Jack himself j a ek. Wash w^ent when he was arm out over the assembly at the ~ and he 15 88 years old ' a y° un S man and established Clodfelter family gathering One estimates of the number Quite a sizeable colony of ClodAug. 7, 1938) at the summer of Clodfelters of “in laws" pres- tellers, of which he w r as the sire home of Clyde and Elmer Clod- ent, was “one hundred.” It was grandsire or great grandsire. Mr. feiter on Big Raccoon Creek, one of the largest family gather- Radcliff, also, is tied to Putnam

INSPECTION, NEAR AND FAR—Turkish Cypriot children “inspect" trom a distance as M:>). Gen Richard Carver (middle), British trine force commander, inspects the barbed wuo “green line” dividing Turkish and Greek sections ot Nicosia. Cyprus capital (

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Lt. C<»1. John H. Glenn and Mrs. Glenn are presented with the eleventh annual Patriotism Award at the University of Notre Dame. The award is shown to the happy Glenns by Bruce S. Tuthill, Prcsi lent of the class of 1964. Glenn addressed the annual Washington Day Exercises.—UPI Telephoto

INDIANAPOLIS Barry Goldwater, Jr., 25, currently stumping college campuses as the head of the National Youth for Goldw r ater Committee, met with young backers of his father's nomination for president here late February 25th. The girls (from left) are Sally Howard, Karen Anderson and Madjjie Hinds, all members of the Indiana University Youth for Goldwater Committee.—UPI Telephoto

WASHINGTON—In a White House ceremony February 26th, President Johnson signs into law- a landmark $11.5 billion tax cut bill that means an average $4-to-$5 weekly payo*»ec’- boost for millions, Looking on, (L to R) are: Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.); Rep. A1 Ullman (D-Ore.); Sen. George Smathers (D-Fla ); Rep. W. Pat Jennings (D-Va.); Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.); House Speaker John McCormack (D-Mass.); and Rep. Carl Albert (D-Okla.)—UPI Telephoto

County in that he is a son of the ant } one of t h e late owners was a late J. Wes Ratcliff of Clinton ma n named Fleshour. The road, towmship and a brother of Mrs. a t that time, swung quite a way Alva Brothers of Greencastle. d ovv n stream, to a ford. From Gary, for the reunion, came Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walter and three children; and Mr. and . r\ |«.| Mrs. D. P. Alexander, and Mr. U. S. TOUriStS UOUbl© and Mrs. Yochum, all close rela- LONDON UPI — The num- ^ ves ’ ber of Americans traveling to It w T as quite fitting that the Europe had more than doubled family-group should assemble at since 1958, according to the ofthat place. Nearby is, the site of fi c i a l British Travel and Holithe old pioneer water-pow’er days Association, grist mill which w’as built and operated by Richard Rambo, of ^ saad Friday that there were near this city, and also of 1.132,000 American \isitors to Samuel Lloyd now r living on West Europe in 1963. The total inWalnut street road. cludcd both business and pleasure travelers, the association Near, also, u^as the Hathaway mill, on the bank of Big Raccoon said -

GARY, Ind. Stephen S. Parfenoff rests an arm on a birch log from which he produces such sculpture work as this one of a young Mrs. John F. Kennedy. He used a picture as a model.—UPI Telephoto

FORT WAYNE. Ind.—Carl J. Pequignot, 37, Fort Wayne, is held under $25,000 bond for suspected accomplice in the attempted $61,000 robbery February 21st of the Indiana Bank and Trust Company Branch. Pequignot was dishonorably discharged from the Ft. Wayne police dept, five and a half years ago for his part in the 1958 police burglary ring. In 1958 he was sentenced two to five years in the Indiana State Prison.—UPI Telephoto

“FLOATING"—Cassius Clay's fancy footwork is given a good deal of credit for his heavyweight title victory over Sonny Liston, and here is a sample of It The surprise winner seems to be floating ovdz; the Miami Beach ring.