The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 May 1964 — Page 1

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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1964 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE . NO. 190

Commencements Are Scheduled By Indiana Colleges

By United Press International Indiana’s annual round of college and university conunencements begins this weeeknd. wit h more than 30 educational institutions scheduled to present degrees to nearly 20.000 graduates in a series extending to mid-June. St. Francis College at Fort Wayne hold its exercises today on the Memorial Day holiday with Dr. Peter S. Mousolite, regional representative of the Commission of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as speaker.

Schools having commencement on Sunday, May 31, include Purdue, where 4.070 degrees will be presented plus eight honorary degrees to alumni and staff members: Indiana State, where 1,441 degrees will be presented and honoraries will be given Governor Welsh and Indiana University Chancellor Herman B. Wells; Hanover, where Prof. Robert W. Austin of Harvard is the speaker, and Marian of Indianapolis, where 123 seniors will be gradutaed. The schedule for Monday, June 1, includes Evansville, Marion, Manchester and Fort Wayne Bible College. Evansville has 340 graduates, Marion 70, Manchester 266, and Fort Wayne 53. Saturday. Tune 6, is commencement day for 235 seniors at Tri-State College at Angola, and Monday, June 8, marks the commencement date of Indiana University, where 5,350 degrees will be presented and recipients of honoraries include Gen. David M. Shoup, retired commandant of the U. S. Marines, and Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches. , The biggest commencement day of the season is Sunday, June 7. DePauw, Ball State, Butler, Notre Dame, Indiana Central, Wabash. St. Joseph, Valparaiso, Earlham and Franklin will present a total of more than 4.500 degrees. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann is the commencement speaker for Notre Dame’s 1.430 graduates. DePauw’s 500 seniors will hear Dr. John W. Oswald, an alumnus now president of the University of Kentucky. Ball State’s 1,150 grads will be addressed by Dr. William S. Carlson, president of the University of Toledo. Wabash has 166 seniors, Valparaiso 500. and Franklin 110. The Butler speaker for 380 grads is Prof. Douglas Bash of Harvard. As usual, Anderson College has the final commencement in the series. On Monday, June 15, at the opening session of the annual International Convention of the Church of God. which sponsors the school, diplomas will be given 135 seniors. News Of Boys Airman 1st Class John P. Bams Jr. is leaving Athens, Greece, today by plane for New York, where he will get his discharge from McQuire Air Force Base. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bams. 4 Paradise Lane. Greencastle. 20 Years Ago Thomas A. Nelson was here from Chicago. Lt. Robert Cook was here from the Altus Army Air Field, Altus, Oklahoma, visiting his father, Fred Cock. F. Dean Bechtol, of Garrett, State Commander of the American iegion, was the Memorial Day speaker at Forest Hill Cemetery.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS Taken from files of 1908. Mrs. Fred Good wine entertained about thirty friends yesterday afternoon at five hundred. The house was tastefully decorated for the occasion, yellow chrysanthemums being the center of the decorative scheme. There were seven tables making places fon twenty-eight guests. Elaborate refreshments were served at the close of the afternoon’s pleasure. It was a most delightful social event.

Superintendent Cosner is mounting four fire gongs for use in the dorm and in Florence Hall. Two wall be placed in each building, one in the upper hall and one in the bell boy’s office. The gongs are so arranged that if either is sounded at any time the second will give alarms in the other parts of the building, affording instant notice of fire throughout the entire three stories as the gong in the upper hall can be heard in the halls in both the second and third stories. The gongs will be always ready for use as there is no electrical connection which can get out of repair.

The doctors of Lawrence County, Bedford, Indiana, according to the Bedford Mail, met and adopted the following scale of prices to be in force in that county from this time onward: Visit in the city if pay is good, $2.00. Visit in the country on pike, $1.00 per mile extra. Produce, poultry, quilts or socks accepted in payment. Operation for Liveritis, a la Abe Martin, $50.00. Open gum boil, $1.00. Pulling teeth each 50 cents. For bleeding the patient in the "nachual way,” $3.00. For pulling the patient’s leg, $5.00 to $10.00. For attending all injuries due to being run over by automobiles, 50 cents extra. Treatment of automania. $50.00 to $100.00. For straightening automobile faces, $50.00 to $100.00. When expensive medicine like Karagon Compound and Malena Salve are furnished extra charge shall be made.

Donald McLean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ewing McLean was accidently shot through the right leg just above the knee with a .38-calibre revolver, at his home last night (Dec. 4. 19081. The bone of his leg was splintered by the bullet and the boy will be confined to his home for several weeks. A coincidence is that three similar accidents have happened in the McLean home in the past eight years. About eight years ago Raymond Duncan started out of the McLean home with Mr. McLean’s gun w'hen it was accidently discharged. The bullet passed through Duncan’s foot. Three years ago Donald was accidently (Continued on Page 2)

Bainbridge Girls Receive Awards Junior Girl Scout Troop 282 and Brownie Troop 207 of Bainbridge held Court of Awards and Fly-up ceremony at the Bainbridge Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon. May 20. The junior girls earned the Sign of the Arrow which included backyard fun songster and cook badges. They also earned extra badges. Aside from badge work they had an all day outing it Camp NaW&Kwa, attended the girl scout birthday party at the Armory, selling girl scout cookies. a cookout with the Roachdale junior scouts, a service project of making candy for shut-ins, and a workshop at Brazil. Ind., was attended by Pam Barton. Judy Roth and Denise Hess. The junior scouts are Jeretta Baker, Darla Goode, Denise Hess, Donna Gould, Diana Dozier, Carla Evans, Diana Edwards, Judy Roth, Pam Barton, Marsha Nichels, Deena Dearinger. Joanna Hendrick, Mary Cochron. Beverly McFarland. Debbie Scobee, Teri Shonkwiler, Marsha Soloman, Gail Woodal, Rita Corllet. Troop leaders are Mrs. Joe Hess and Mrs. Ernest Roth. The junior Girls welcomed the Fly-Ups after they repeated the laws and Girl Scout Promise. Each Fly-Up lit a,candle as they said the laws. They received their wings from their leader and the pins from the junior leaders. The girls are as follows: CarlA Miles, Cindy O’Hair, Jerretta Summers, Jenifer Summers, Russ Lo Roaker, Becky Cox. Donna Huffman, Gail

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The troop leaders are Mrs. Oh ■>» Steele, >'rs. Don Evans, and Mrs. Robert Miles. Refreshments were served. Confirm Nominations WASHINGTON UPI — The Senate confirmed the nomination of William McCormick Biair Jr. to be ambassador to the Phillippines. Blair, a Chicago attorney and longtime associate of U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, has been serving as ambassador to Denmark.

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Memorial Day is more than a time to pay tribute to our honored dead. It is a time of rededication ... to our country, our ideals, our hopes for a future assured of peace. The men who died for our country upheld these ideals ... it is up to us to draw full meaning from their sacrifices, so they will not have died in vain.

Russia Has Outer Space Pictures Of U.S. Military Bases: Nikita

PARIS UPI—Premier Nikita S Khrushchev claims the Soviet Union has photographed United States military installations from “outer space.” according to former Sen. William Benton of Connecticut. Benton said Khrushchev made the assertion during an interview in the Soviet leader’s

Kremlin office.

Benton, presently chairman of the board of Encyclopaedia Britannica, flew to Paris

from Moscow.

Benton said Khrushchev urged that the United States

abandon reconnaissance flights over Cuba and stick to “offshore flights in neutral waters” or reconnaissance by space satellites. Benton quoted the Soviet premier as saying the United States did not need the flights. Khurshchev said they were “of international concern” and that “neither President Johnson nor I want another crisis over Cuba.” “These flights concern international law.” Benton said the premier told him. “Do you need (Continued on Page 2)

State Police To Ask For Funds

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana State Police Department revealed today it will ask the 1965 Indiana Legislature for $891,050 for new construction and repairs of installations for

the 1965-67 biennium.

Supt. George A. Everett said $646,000 of the amount was sought for construction of a headquarters service building at Indianapolis, garages at Connersville and Seymour, and storage buildings at South Bend, Schererville. Fort Wayne. Peru, Kentland, Redkey, Terre Haute,

Versailles and Bloomington.

Police Issue Dog Warning Numerous complaints are reported by the city police department regarding dogs digging and tearing tip gardens in

Greencastle.

There is an ordinance that requires dog owners to keep their pets confined to their premises. Unless this is heeded, the police will be forced to destroy canines found running at large. Priest Honored By Radio Award David Priest of Bainbridge was the recipient of the WFBM radio sportcasting award at the recent Honor Day program in Clowes Hall at Butler. Upon completion of semester finals he will leave for Harrodsburg, Ky., where he has accepted a role in the rugged outdoor drama, “Home Is the Hunter.” This summer stock theater at Pioneer Memorial State Park opens for nightly presentations June 27 and closes Sept. 6. Three weeks prior to the opening date will be spent in rehearsals, promotion, etc., and David will be active as theater techician during that time. He plans to return to Butler

in the fall.

GOP Candidate Indianapolis upi — l. Russell Scott, Edinburg, paid his Indiana Republican state convention assessment and qualified to be a candidate for lieutenant governor at the June 9 nominating convention. Scott was the second to pay his fee as a candidate for that nomination. The first was John R. Ryan, Indianapolis.

Camp Voyageur Personnel Meet In Greencastle Anticipating a summer at Camp Voyageur, Ely, Minnesota brings smiles to the faces of these men as they assemble for a staff orientation dinner and meeting with the Charles Erdmanns on Sunday, May 24th, in Greencastle. They are: (back row, left to right): Rick Ferrell, John Thomas. Ron Kauffman, John Vidal, Bucky Walters, Schyler Huck and John Repp. All of these men, with the exception of Mr. Kauffman, who attends Indiana State, are students and members of varsity athletic squads at DePauw. Front row, left to right: Dave Sturges, (Law School, Michigan University); Dave Cserep, teacher in South Bend Schools, and Mr. Erdmann, swimming and tennis coach, who owns and directs Voyageur. Other members of the staff, who were unable to be at this meeting are: Andy Thomas (OberliiTCollege), son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Thomas; David Burkett (Wooster College), son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burkett; John Alden (Duke University) Rockville, Indiana; Harold Wheeler, Athletic Director, Brazil; John Griffin (Dartmouth) and George Olson, wrestling coach at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Camp Voyageur maintains a ratio of one man to every four campers and offers a complete athletic program as well as one which specializes in all aquatic sports—with particular emphasis upon canoeing and fishing. The camp attracts boys from all over the country. A large group of Greencastle boys will be among these opening the season there on June nineteenth. Among them will be several boys who are veterans of three camping summers and quite a number who will be second-year Voyageurs.

Memorial Day, 1964. was generally observed in Greencastle and Putnam County today with most places of business being closed m observance of the holi-

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Short but appropriate rites iii honor of the American dead of all wars were conducted in Forest Hill Cemetery at 10 a.m. Members of Cassell C. Tucker Post 58 American Legion, Gen. Jesse M Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars, and World War I Barracks 114 participated in the ceremony. Rev. Francis Kull, of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, offered prayer at the Civil War Monument. A combined color guard and firing squad of Legion and VFW members were in attendance. The sounding of Taps was preceded by a three-volley salute. Several residents of the community were at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the annual 500-mile auto race. Many spent the day at nearby lakes and streams. Still others had family gatherings at home or elsewhere and listened to the race by radio while enjoying pitch-in dinners. A number of local people took advantage, in a number of instances of a Friday. Saturday and Sunday vacation, to travel some distances to see relatives or friends. Drivers Urged To Use Caution Now that school is out, city police ask that drivers of automobiles, trucks and other motorized vehicles to be on tha alert for youngsters playing in the street. Some children, at one time or or another, will dart out from behind or between parked cars and dash across a street. The traveling public is urged to be on the watch to prevent serious injuries or possible fatal consequences to Greencastle’s younger generation. Board Of Review Convenes Monday Monday morning, the Putnam Coimty Board ofj^Review will convene in the court house to scan the tax assessments as compiled this Spring. Members of the board are Auditor Carl Arnold. Treasurer Roland Lane, Assessor Frank Sutherlin, by virtue of their offices. Appointed by Judge Francis N. Hamilton to serve on the board ^ rc Eston Cooper, Roachdale: O B. Foster, Cloverdale, and Estil Meek. Greencastle. Plant Workers Vote For Strike LAFAYETTE UPI — Majority of voting members of Local 115 of the Aluminum Company of America here voted in favor of a strike, but the percentage ol affirmative votes was not great enough to approve such a move. The workers voted on whether the union would authorize a sympathy walkout in support of a strike by Local 240 of the Aluminum Workers of America, AFL-CIO, at the Massena, N.Y., plant of Alcoa. The vote was 57 per cent for and 43 against a strike, but union bylaws required that twothirds of those voting approve such a move, so the percentage was insufficient.