The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 April 1964 — Page 1

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The Daily Banner We can not but speak the things which we have seen or heard. Acts 4:20

VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1964

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE NO. 148

Hospital Guild Is Financed By Tag Day Funds

The Putnam County Hospital Guild has a total membership of 487 as of this date. Out of this membership some 200 function as active members, helping with the many services provided by the Guild. These include Books and Gifts Cart, Mail Delivery, Information Desk, Tray Service, and Sewing Service. The remainder of the membership is supporting, having paid their $1.00 membership fee. 1964 officers of the Guild are Mrs. R. W. Vermillion, president; Mrs. Cecil Perkins, 1st vice president; Mrs. D. W. Killinger, 2nd vice president; Mrs. J. B. Crosby, recording secretary; Mrs. Harvey Owens, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Edward Wood, treasurer. On April 24 and 25 members of the Guild will participate in the annual Tag Dag. This is the only money making project of the Guild. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Robert McCormick and Mrs. Howard Harmless. Proceds from this event are used to buy needed equipment for the hospital and in 1963 the following equipment was given by the Guild: an Intermittant Positive Pressure Machine; Alternating Pressure Pads; Drawers for bassinets in the Nursery. The Guild also provided the money needed to screen the sun porch on the second floor. A total of $1535.00 was spent by the Guild for these improvements and equipment. In 1964 the Guild plans to buy an Explosion-proof Incubator for the Nursery, 3 perinial Heaters, and 2 Pressure Mattresses. The cost will be approximately $1,000.00. By your generous contributions you can play a part in helping the Guild provide this equipment. FTA Hosts Tea At High School The Greencastle High School branch of Future Teachers Association has about forty members. Kathy Carriker is President, Linda Baumunk, VicePresident, and Bill Clary, Treas-

urer.

Today, the group enjoyed an informal tea after school with the high school teachers as their guests. There is a display in the lower hall of the school building designed to emphasize the Futures Teachers program. One of the most interesting functions of the F.T.A. is its plan for high school seniors to have an opportunity to assist an experienced teacher. This program of Cadet Teaching may be in the elementary schools or in the junior high school for a period of two weeks, an hour or two per day. The Exploratory Teachers Program is to help the student decide whether or not he is really interested in teaching as a career. Sponsors of the local Future Teachers Association are Mrs. Nancy Walters and Tom Swope.

Vote Tomorrow CHICAGO UPI — Illinois voters go to the polls Tuesday in the nation’s third presidential election of the year. Sen. Barry Goldwater is the odds on favorite to win the Republican vote. Goldwater faces Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine. Both have put in little more than token appearances on the state's campaign trail.

Five Arrested During Weekend Five arrests were reported by state and city police during the weekend. Willie Alexander, 43. Roachdale Route 2, and his brother, James Alexander, 50, Greencastle, were arrested by State Trooper John Danberry. They were booked at the Putnam County jail at 9:30 Saturday night. Each was charged with public intoxication. At 12:10 Sunday morning, Danberry jailed Jess Cavaness, Roachdale Route 1, for drunken driving and public intoxication. Clyde Combs, 59, city, was jailed at 5:15 Sunday morning by City Officer John Stevens for public intoxication. William Ward, 21, Hess Trailer Court, was arrested by Officer Russell Rogers at 8:38 Saturday night on East Franklin Street. Ward was charged with a muffler violation. John R. Callender, 18, Greencastle Route 3, was arrested at 4:14 Sunday afternoon by City Officer John Pursell. Callender Was charged with driving 60 miles an hour in a 30-mile posted zone on East Washington

Street.

Library Marks National Week “Reading is the Key” is the theme for National Library Week, which is being observed through the country this week, April 13-18. National Library Week is primarily a public information program to encourage lifetime reading habits, increase the use of libraries, and expand the growth of libraries and the reading resources of the nation. The Greencastle-Putnam County Library has a number of displays to inform the readers of the various types of books available in the library. There is a good collection of books on gardening, an extensive exhibit of books on the various vocations for graduating students, and another on new ideas for home decoration, and new furnishings. There will also be two exhibits of new books just recently added to the library. Bookmarks, booklists of careers, and of new books will be available all week. Visit your library during National Library Week, and form the habit of making every week, “Library Week." FHS Musicians Win Top Ratings The Fillmore High School Band and Mixed Chorus entered the State Band and Chorus Contest held at Terre Haute Saturday on the Indiana State Campus. Both groups won Division I ratings. The Chorus sang: “Praise Be To Thee,” “Born To Be Free,” “Sing Out, O Youth, A Song." The Band performed: “Progress,” “Four Winds Overture," “Black Knight Overture.” Winning groups are presented walnut and bronze plaques and each student received a gold medal and blue ribbon. James Miller is the band and chorus director.

Filling Station Operator Robbed A local filling station attendant was robbed and then knocked unconscious by a lone bandit shortly after 4 o’clock this morning, city police reported. The robbery took place at the United Oil Station, on Ind. 240, at the Marsh Supermarket

Larry Neely, who was on duty, told officers that a white man with his hand in his pocket ordered him to hand over the money. After taking $139, the man then hit Neely in the back of the head. Neely, according to the police, believed he was “out” for possibly 10 or 15 minutes. The robber was described as about 30 years of age, standing 5-10, and having black hair. City Officers John Stevens and Larry Rogers investigated. Johnson Plays Politics: Romney WASHINGTON UPI — Republican Gov. George Romney of Michigan says President Johnson is pulling the wool over the eyes of American voters by being more skillful at politics than at solving the nation’s

problems.

The Michigan leader, a GOP presidential possibility, said Sunday that Johnson was adept at convincing opposing groups he supports each of their positions “whereas their positions are in great conflict.” Romney said the Johnson administration has ignored “economic concentration of power” which he called a fundamental problem confronting the country. He cited the five-year-old dispute between railroad management and labor that threatens a nationwide rail strike April 24 as an important economic problem he said the nation is “ducking.” Hear Testimony WASHINGTON UPI — A House education and labor subcommittee called representatives of farm organizations to testify on President Johnson’s war on poverty program. Included were officials of the National Farmers’ Union American Farm Bureau and National Grange. NOW YOU KNOW The first complete map of the moon as seen from earth was done in the 17th century by Hevelius in his Selenographia, a folio volume of elaborate drawings and maps, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Twisters Strike

In Three States, 19 Persons Dead

CAPITOL FLAG PRESENTED ELKS An American Flag that has flowm above the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was presented to the Greencastle Elks Club Saturday by Richard L. Roudebush, Sixth District Congressman. Participating in the ceremony were Exalted Ruler John Whitaker, Roudebush and Mayor Raymond Fisher. The presentation was attended by a large crowd. Photo by John Adams.

Clara Albrecht Cloverdale Rites Crystal M. Huff Died On Sunday For C. A. Knoy Funeral Tuesday

Mrs. Clara Gertrude Albrecht, 88, died Sunday in the Clay County Nursing Home. She was born June 22, 1880, in Putnam County, the daughter of Robert and Sarah Crowmer. Williamson. She was married to Harley Nichols, who preceded her in death in 1928. Later she was married to David Albrecht, who preceded her in death in 1943. She was a member of the Methodist

Church.

Survivors are: three daughters, Bertha Pickens, Cloverdale; Freda Green, Brazil; and Mildred McCarty, Cloverdale, California; thirteen grandchildren and fifteen great grand-

children.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Whitaker Funeral Home, Cloverdale. Rev. John Berry will officiate. Interment will be in Cunot Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in Cloverdale. Masonic Notice Fillmore Applegate Lodge, No. 155 F & A. M. Work in fellowcraft degree. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Visitors welcomed. There will be a short business meeting at 7:00 o’clock.

Funeral services for Curtis A. Knoy, 77, were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale. Interment was in Little Mount Cemetery. Mr. Knoy died Wednesday in Reno, Nevada. He was a former resident of the Millgrove and Gosport communities. Survivors are two sons, George Knoy, Okla.; and Howard, of San Jose, California; one daughter, Julia Nunn, Kentucky; one brother, Jennings, Indianapolis. Release Newsman JAKARTA, Indonesia UPI — American news magazine correspondent Robert McCabe was released from “protective custody" by Indonesian authorities today after intercession from U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones. Rusk In Manila MANILA UPI —Secretary of State Dean Rusk re-dedicated the United States today to leading the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in fighting Communist aggression.

Mrs. Crystal M. Huff, 77, passed away Sunday at the Eventide Nursing Home after an extended illness. She was born July 26, 1886, in Coatesville, the daughter of Frank and Eva Stanley Roberts. She is survived by four brothers, Keith Roberts of Greencastle, Donald J. and Ward of Indianapolis, and Frank of Californta; three sisters, Mrs. Pauline Feary, Mrs. Vera Friend and Mrs. Vivian Howard all of California, and other relatives. Services will be held Tuesday 2:00 p.m. at the Rector Funeral Home, Rev. Elgin Smith will be charge of the service. Interment will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 7:00 p.m. this evening. Medics On Job BRUSSELS UPI —The government claimed victory today over 10,000 striking doctors and said a mobilization order has restored the situation in the nation’s hospitals to “near perfect.” Despite the angry statement of the doctors’ leader that “the government cannot mobilize brains," more than 4,000 of the doctors were estimated to be on the job today.

Quake Reported BELGRADE UPI — An earthquake of “considerable intensity” rumbled across about 100 miles of Yugoslavia today from Belgrade to the Hungarian border Radio Belgrade reported. Hungary’s Budapest Radio said a “heavy earthquake" hit the Hungarian town of Szekszard w’hich is near the Yugoslav frontier. It said buildings trembled and the population was seized by panic but made no mention of casualties. Donald Kiger Painfully Hurt Don Kiger, popular operator of the Marathon Service Station, corner of Washington and Locust Streets, was painfully injured about 8:30 Saturday night. An automobile he was working on suddenly lunged forward and caught him between the car and a cabinet in the garage breaking both his legs. He was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis where he will remain for at least two weeks, his w’ife, Mrs. Mabel Kiger, reported Sunday morning. Mr. Kiger’s left leg was hurt worse than his right leg. How r - ever, Mrs. Kiger said he was in good spirits. His room number in St. Vincent’s is 215. Talks Continue In Rail Crisis WASHINGTON UPI —Under constant presidential pressure, railroad union and management negotiators pressed efforts today to settle their rules dispute and avoid a nationwide strike. The carrier and union representatives, meeting together for the first time since President Johnson revived negotiations last week, ware in session until 11 p.m. EST Sunday. They planned to return to the bargaining table today. White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy said that the negotiators, aided by government mediators, had been making a “very sincere, earnest, genuine try" over the weekend to reach agreement.

20 Years AcjO Escapee Caught

drs. Lee Reeves w’as hostess the Keystone Bible Class of bin Church. :iaude Webb was confined to home by illness. Jrs. T. G. Yuncker want to w York City to visit her ighter. Barbara. Irs. Verner Houck was hoss to the Four Leaf Clover

Gene Perry, 24, who escaped from the Indiana State Farm on Friday, was captured by the Mellott town marshall, state police at the Putnamville post reported Sunday morning. Perry was sentenced from Fountain County on a petit larcency charge. He was being held in the Attica jail for penal farm authorities.

Hop-scotching tornadoes played a game of death and destruction across the Southern Plains Sunday, stirred up some of the worst sand storms in years and left at least 19 persons dead. Scores of persons were injured and hundreds of homes were wrecked or damaged. One of the hardest hit areas in the tornado belt was the southwestern Iowa hamlet of Yorktown. A tw’ister tore a twomile sw’ath of destruction down the main street, left an elderly w r oman dying in the rubble of her home and damaged nearly every other building in town. Twenty eight persons were injured. A dozen other tornadoes In low’a, Kansas and Missouri killed five more persons and wTought widespread destruction. Sky-scraping sand and dust storms blotted out the sun in Oklahoma and rasped across the Texas Panhandle. At least eight persons died in traffic aecidents blamed on the swirling sand. Screaming winds and hail storms thundered over the Plains until late in the day. Three persons drowned and two others were missing and presumed dead when high winds capsized their small boat at Lake Tawakoni, Tex. O. G. Smith, editor of the Higgins Tex. News, said the dust storm there was “one of the worst storms since the dust bowl days of the 1930’e, . “Residents at Wichita Falls, Tex, said the billowing dust looked like a giant wall as it bore down on the city. Ruby Gets New Trial Hearing DALLAS UPI —Jack Ruby today was scheduled to appear at a hearing on his request for a new trial in the fight to save him from a jury-decreed death in the electric chair. The only change in the cast W’as the substitution of a quiet law scholar. Dr. Hubert Winston Smith, for flamboyant former chief defense attorney Melvin Belli. Smith planned to take the case to the state court of criminal appeals if the request for a new trial was turned down. Ruby, a pudgy former striptease club manager, was convicted March 14 of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, in the basement of the Dallas city hall.

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The Weather And Local Temperatures

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Cloudy, windy and warm with scattered showers and occasional thunderstorms this morning and chance of local two-inch rains. Gusty west winds 15 to 30 miles per hour this afternoon with clearing and turning cooler. Fair and cooler tonight. Tuesday mostly fair and a little cooler. High today mid 60s. Low tonight low 40s. High Tuesday

near 60.

Driver Education Class At Bainbridge

Jim Sharp accepts a set of driver education films that will be used by students at Bainbridge High School from Standard Oil dealer Bob Farlow W’hose station is in Bainbridge. The films were produced by American Oil Company with approval of a committee named by the National Commission on Safety Education of the National Education Association. They are bei ng presented by Standard Oil division dealers of American Oil Company as a public service. Also attending the presentation in the high school driver education classroom were Principal Glen Steele and the class members.

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