The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 November 1964 — Page 1

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VOLUME SEVENTY-THREE

GREENCASLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1964

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 25

Meeting Is Held By City Council Monday Night

The Common Council of Greencastle met in regular session last night with Councilman Eppelheimer, Jackson, Grimes, Poor and Collins present. Street Commissioner Clyde Miller gave his report for the month of October. Seven regular employees and one employee at the city dump was paid a total salary of $2,329.63. New parts amounted to S23.36. Cost of new furnace for garage $720.00. Miscellaneous expense, $47.07. Stone purchased during month. 266 7/10 tons. Fuel oil bought, 23 gallons. Road oil bought, 4200 gallons. Motor oil bought 101 gallons. Gasoline bought, 638 gallons. Gasoline used, 566.2 gallons. Three trees cut on East Washington, $20.00; one tree cut on East Columbia, $37.50. Finished C Street (oil), 2500 galons. Scarified and oiled Johnson and Apple Streets, 1100 gallons. Six building permits were issued during the month of October covering a cost of $62,300 according to C. R. Norton, City Engineer in his report. Two building and one sign permit referred to the board of zoning appeals. One street cutting permit and one sign permit issued. Consultation and investigation reference proposed sidewalk, curb and gutter on Maple Avenue. Consultation in reference to sign permit applications and approval letter to city. Investigation reference violation at 1003 Indianapolis Road. Consultation in reference to setback requirements Shadowlawn Avenue. also consultation reference to zoning on Bloomington Street. Total budget appropriation for October. $150. Amount earned by the Engineers charged to the city on the basis of terms set forth in the aforementioned Miscellaneous Contract amounts to $147.00. Claims totaling $36,198.63 were allowed. City Attorney Rex Boyd reported to the Council members concerning the meeting held in Indianapolis on the Pennsylvania Railroad and the proposed cancellation of trains 30 and 31. Mayor Fisher brought a letter from DePauw University before the Council in which the University asked the city to accept and maintain sewers in Haskill Addition. Previously the city had never accepted the sewers. The Council voted unanimously to accept the University's proposal. An informal discussion on the newly formed downtown parking ordinance was held and views concerning January 1. 1965. as the scheduled effective date of the ordinance was discussed. No formal action was taken and the meeting was adjourned.

Elect Directors At Annual Meeting The 36th annual meeting of the Putnam County Farm Bureau Co-Op was held in the Community Building at the Fairg >unds last evening with 136 present. Francis Lane, chairman of the board of directors,

presided.

William McElroy general manager stated in the business report that the Co-Op had over $l l 2 million dollars in sales during the fiscal year which ended August 31st. Glendon Herbert, secretary of the board, gave the minutes of the last

meeting.

Entertainment was furnished by the “Men of Note” Glee Club of DePauw University with Frank Jacobs director. Paul Mitchell from Purdue Agricultural Economics Department, spoke and showed slides of his recent trip to a countries. Six directors were elected as Gerald Clodfelter, Glendon Herbert, Robert Lewis. Ira Price, Wayne Sinclair, Irvin

Wallace.

Recipients of ten hams which were given as door prizes were: Jack Torr, Mrs. Tom Hendricks. Gerald Clodfelter. Dewey Smith. Roscoe Hillis, Ronald Wells, Raymond Wright, Max Watts. Linda Gentry, and Tim Ruark. Refreshments were >erved at the conclusion of the

meeting.

Glenna Lewis Expired Today Mrs. Glenna Lewis, 1019 S. Indiana Street resident, passed away at the Eventide Nursing Home Tuesday morning after an extended illness. She was a member of the Central Christian Church in Huntington. Survivors are: one daughter. Mrs. Mabel Hollis, Greencastle. and one son, James Lewis. Fort

Wayne.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a. m. at the Robbins Funeral Home in Huntington. Now You Know The yearly worldwide harvest of fish and fish products reached at least 35 billion pounds, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

John B. Williams Rites Wednesday John B. Williams. 69. died at Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville at 1:30 p. m. Monday. He had been ill two months. He was born June 4, 1895, in Putnam County to Grant and Rachel Bridges Williams. He was married to Wilhelmine Stokes in Newport Feb. 18, 1915. Mr. Williams was a member of the Roachdale Presbyterian Church and was a deacon at the time of his death. He was a member of the Roachdale Masonic Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America Club. He had been Franklin Township trustee for two years and worked for the State highway department for 23 years. He is survived by his wife, one son, Robert G. Williams of Crawfordsville; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia McCullough of Rockville and Mrs. Juanita Huston of Brownsburg; one sister. Mrs. Luther Steele of Greencastle: seven grandchildren; six great - grandchildren and nieces and nephews. Services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p. m. at the Roachdale Presbyterian Church. Rev. Leo Schmidt will officiate. Burial wall be in Brick Chapel Cemetery near Greencastle. Fi-iends may call at the Perkins Funeral Home in Roachdale. The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be given to the Putnam County Cancer Society at Greencastle. Truck Is Stolen, Young Man Held A Volkswagen panel truck, owned by James R. McMillan, was stolen from a parkng place on the south side of the public square around midnight, city police reported this morn-

ing.

At 1.12 a. m.. Brazil police found the truck and took James Santonelli. 20. in custody. Local police said Santonelli had been living on South Bloomington Street in Greencastle. Vaughan Funeral Funeral services for Ray Vaughan will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Rector Funeral Home. Rev. Elgin Smith will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Several Objectors To Consolidation Of Pennsy Trains

Captives Slain In Stanleyville

DEPAUW RECEIVES STANDARD OIL GRANT DePauw President William E. Kerstetter is shown above receiving a check for $5,000 from B. E. Stevens, District Manager of the Standard Oil Division of the American Oil Company, Indianapolis. The money is in the form of an unrestricted grant for the university.

DePauw Recipient Of Standard Oil Grant

DePauw University today received an unrestricted gift of $5,000 from the Standard Oil Foundation, Dr. William E. Kerstetter, president of the University, announced. Standard Oil Foundation representative B. E. Stevens of Indianapolis presented the $5.000 gift which he said was made to DePauw “because of the general. excellence of it* educational program.'’ J. E. Swearingen of Chicago, president of the Standard Oil Foundation, in transmitting the

grant said:

“We are placing no restrictions on the use of the funds granted as long as they are spent currently to improve education and are not used for endowment purposes. They may be applied wholly or in part toward research, faculty salaries, librairies. training teachers, operating costs, building

programs, or any other purposes desired.” The gift to DePauw is one of 65 • grants totaling $593,000 made in 1964. Standard said, to outstanding private universities and colleges by three foundations. The foundations are Standard Oil Foundation, financially supported by the parent Standard Oil Company (Indiana •: American Oil Foundation, supported by American Oil Company, Indiana Standard's principal domestic marketing-refining subsidiary: and Pan American Petroleum Foundation, financed by Pan American Petroleum Corporation. North American exploration - production subsidiary. The three foundations have contributed more than $6.3 million in support of higher education since 1952.

Bulletin JOHNSON CITY, Tex. t PI— President Johnson takes “full responsibility” for I . S. participation in the Belgian-Ameriean air drop designed to rescue white hostages from Congo rel>el forces, the White House said today. Rites Tomorrow For Jas. Abbott Last rites for James H. Abbott. 84, will be held Wednesday’ at 2 p. m. at the Hopkins-Wal-ton Funeral Home with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. Mr. Abbott, who resided on West Berry Street, passed away shortly before noon Monday. He was born in Kentucky on Januaiw 21. 1880. the son of Hiram and Amanda Abbott. He was married to Rebecca Ellen Alexander, in Pulaski County’. Kentucky, August 9. 1905. The deceased was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife; three daughters. Lucille Cook, Letha Bonifacius, Lortne Cope: five sons. Elmer. Earl Charles L. Ralph. Ray: two sisters. Bertha Alexander. Somerset. Ky.. Mary E. Cope Crawfordsville: a brother Charles P. Abbott Somerset. Ky.: 35 grandchildren and 59 great-grand-children. Two sons. Wilson and Vernon, preceded him in death. GOP Meeting WASHINGTON UPI - The Republican National Committee will meet Jan. 22-23 in Chicago where the future of GOP Chairman Dean Burch may be set-

tled

Apartment Building Destroyed By Blast

KANSAS CITY. Mo. UPIAn explosion cut 'hrough a three-story apartment building near the downtown hub today, injuring at least 15 persons. Three others were missing. The three, two children and an elderly man, were in first floor apartments of the old brick structure. The top stories caved in upon them Only one of the 15. Lawrence Pecard, was hospitalized. The others were t reated at hospitals and released. Police first said 40 persons lived in the building and only 24 had been accounted for, but 20 Years Ago Miss Carolyn Wren was home from Indiana University at Bloomington. Cpl. Howard Brackney was home on leave from Laredo, Texas. Miss Wanda Oler attended the Sonja Henie Ice Revue in Indianapolis.

it appeared that about 30 were in the structure and only the three were missing. The blast reduced half of the old building to rubble. Police said a gas leak apparently was ignited when a tenant lit a cigarette. Russell Brown, the father of the two missing children, said he was sitting on a bed with another child while Debxa, 3. and 22-month-old Cameron lay on a bed across the room. He said the ceiling caved in and the other half of the room sank from sight into the basement. He took the child he was holding and ran from the room. He sat and watched as firemen and police, aided by a crane, poked into the ruin for his children. Arrested Monday Robert Bittles, 37, city, was jailed by Deputy Sheriff Paul Mason at 1:25 Monday afternoon for deceptive issuance of a check.

FOOD FOR GREENCASTLE FAMILIES

Offering a new twist in charity, over 150 DePauw University students contributed 200 cans of food and over $60 for needy Greencastle families’ Thanksgiving meal. The money, later converted to turkeys, and groceries were collected at a T.G.I.F. (thank goodness it’s Friday) dance in lieu of admission. In the foreground members of the sponsoring organization, the Student Union board, celebrate the uniquely successful project with their own version of the can-can frog.

LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo UPI Belgian paratroopers today rescued at least 100 foreign hostages from rebel-held Stanleyville. But the first group of refugees said "many American and Belgian" captives were murdered in the street by fanatical rebels. Dr. Paul Carlson, the American missionary, is dead, the returnees said when they stepped off a U. S. Air Force plane at Leopoldville airport. He had been condenmed to death by a rebel court as a mercenary spy. At least 20 members of the first group of 100 hostages were wounded. They staggered off the plane shocked and dazed. The Americans and Belgians cut down by rebels never had a chance, the returnees said. They were unable to state the exact number of dead. The returning hostages said the slain captives were herded into the street just as the Belgian troops marched in to the city to save them. When the troops came into sight, young rebels ordered the hostages to sit down in the street. The rebels fired pointblank into the midst of the sit ting captives, the returnees said, adding that Americans and Belgians were among those slain. The rescue operation was a joint project by Belgian and the United States. Twelve U.S. Air Force C130 transport planes ,vere used to save the more than 1.000 hostages in rebel hands.

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Roachdale Rites For Earl Skelton Earl Ellis Skelton. 72. died at 2:40 p.m. Monday in Culver Hospital at Crawfordsville. He had been ill 5 1 - years since a stroke. He was born Feb. 5. 1892. in Putnam County to Joseph and Susan Howard Skelton. He was married to Stella Mae Perkins Aug. 13. 1914 in Danville. Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Skelton lived in Roachdale until 1940 when they moved to Ft. Wayne. He woi’ked at the Zollner Piston plant there. He is survived by his wife: two daughters. Mrs. Lee Miller of New Ross and Mrs. Joe Adams of Ft. Wayne: two sisters. Mrs. Perle Riggle and Mrs. Ina Myers, both of Roachdale: one brother, Fred Skelton of Roachdale and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. W ednesday at Perkins Funeral Home in Roachdale. Burial will be in Roachdale Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. Elbert Whitaker Rites Wednesday Elbert Whitaker, 1910 S. High School Road. Indianapolis, died suddenly at the home of his daughter in Bradford. Penn, Saturday. Survivors are: the wife. Ruth: one daughter. Vera Collins. Bradford. Penn . one son. Jerry and daughters Carol and Shirley at home. His wife is the former Ruth Zeiner of Fillmore. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p. m. at the Flemings Gardens Church In Indianapolis. Friends may cal! at the Moore & Kirk Mortuary in Indianapolis, West Washington Street.

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Two Indiana mayors and several ether objectors to a proposed consolidation ol two Pennsylvania Railroad trains, one of thm the famed “Spirit of St. Louis,” Monday urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to turn down the plan. An ICC hearing opened in Indianapolis on the consolidation of two trains running between St. Louis and New York City. A little wind was taken out of the sails of the objectors when Donald A. Brinkworth, Pennsylvania attorney, announced that the “Spirit of St. Louis” name would be retained for its consolidation with the PennTexas. Indianapolis Mayor John Barton told the hearing that he was opposed to discontinuance of any transportation serving the Hoosier capital. Richmond Mayor Edward Cordell also testified against the change. Cordell said that the present “Spirit” schedule permits persons living in east central Indiana to come to the capital for nearly a full day and return home the same day. The “Spirit” on its westbound run leaves Indianapolis at 9:03 a. m. while the eastbound run leavese at 5:25 p. m. The rescheduled and renamed “Spirit” after consolidation would leave Indianapolis eastbound at 3.55 p. m. and westbound at 11:13 a. m. Gerald L. Walker, head of travel service for Ell Lilly ACo.. Indianapolis pharmaceutical firm serving national and international clients, was one of several officials objecting to th« change. “I can name two people who have never been on an airplane — and their names are Lilly,” Walker said, referring to the chairman and honorary chairman of the firm's board, and members of the founding fam-

ily.

Walker said many other Lilly officials use the train and prefer train to plane travel. The hearing is one of a senes being held in the affected states. Governor Welsh had instructed the Indiana Attorney General's office to oppose the consolidation plan. Violated Probation Rodney Terry. 17, and David Crabtree. 15. were picked up by Officers Russ Rogers and John Pursell Monday on a Putnam Circuit Court warrant charging them with violation of probation.

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