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Teenage Driving Roadeo Is Sponsored By Jaycees

The Grcencaatle Jaycees will •gain sponsor the Teenage Driving Roadeo Sat. May 20th. Dick Hatcher will serve as chairman for the worthwhile project The project is for any licensed teenage driver that is not married and has not reached his 19th birthday. Their will be a boys class and a girls class. The contest is open to all teenagers in Putnam County. Applications can be obtained now from either your driver’s education instructor or your principal. These applications must be signed by the applicants parents. The applicant will be then given a simple written test on safe driving. After the written test the applicants will then take a driving skill test. The driving skill test will be given at the east I.B.M. parking lot Saturday, May 20th. Local Mercury dealer. East Side Motors, will furnish two new Cougars and a Comet for the contestants to drive. The driving competition will test driving skill, reaction time, and judgement. The local winners will receive Trophies and will represent Putnam County in the State Driving Roadeo Contest at Michigan City. The contestants school will receive the Memorial Guy Williams traveling trophy for one year. State winners receive UJS. Savings Bonds, trophies, and a chance to represent Indiana at the National Safe Driving Roadeo Contest. This is a real opportunity for teenagers to show that they are good driven. Also, it lets the teenager know just how good Ms or her driving habits are. So see all you teenagers at the Jaycee Roadeo Saturday, May 20th. Prof. Dolan Will Study In Mexico DePauw University’s Professor Edward M. Dolan is among 25 educators In the United States who have been chosen to participate in a summer seminar in Mexico. Dolan has received a Fulbright grant to spend most of July and August in Mexico to acquire first hand experience and knowledge in Mexican cul-

ture.

An assistant professor of anthropology, Dolan will spend the first two weeks in southern Mexico visiting archaeological sites and points of historic in-

terest.

During the next month he will attend classes in Mexican history, Mexican social and economic systems and in Spanish and/or Latin American area studies. The courses will be supplemented by guided field trips and individual travel. Professor Dolan joined the DePauw University faculty in 1963 after serving as assistant to the state archaeologist of North Carolina. Personal Injury Accident Occurs Automobiles driven by James Collins and James Heller were) involved in an accident this morning in the intersection of Washington and Jackson

Streets.

Rodney Elwood Trout, a passenger in the Collins car, suffered lacerations of the chin and knee abrasions in the mishap and was taken to the coun-

ty hospital for treatment.

Both autos were damaged but no estimate was listed immediately following the accident.

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Mrs Cassell C. Tucker left

for Cambridge, Mass.

Kenneth Bryan was in St

Louis, Mo. on business.

Mrs. Judy (Friend) Albin Was a member of the graduating class of the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital School

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Cadette Troop Clears Proposed Picnic Area

Girl Scouts from Cadette Troop 374 completed their community service project by helping to clear underbrush from the proposed picnic area at the new Jaycee FarK. The girls met early on Saturday morning and worked in teams in the assigned areas where brush had been cut and needed to be stacked for later burning or removal. By doing this service, the girls were able to earn their Active Citizenship challenge pins. They will receive their

awards at the final Scout meeting of the school year on May 29th. The remaining girls in the troop, who did not work at the Jaycee Park, will do a service on their own to complete their citizenship challenge and receive their awards. The girls who worked at the new park were: Cindy Smith, Barbara Archer, Deanne Albin, Judy Rowings, Sheryl Cook, Cathy Ryans, and Darla Proctor. Working with the girls was their leader, Mrs. Robert Eppelheimer.

Border Arrest BERLIN UPI — Communist border guards arrested a blind couple on a bus returning to West Berlin from a sightseeing tour of the Communist sector, West Berlin police reported Monday night. TTie couple was not identified but were said to be about 60 years old. The police said the couple tried to hide on the bus when it stopped in East Berlin to let tourists take pictures. 4 Damage Suits Total $135,600 Four damage suits, totaling $135,600, have been filed in the Putnam Circuit Court with Denver M. Smiley as defendant in each action. Floyd E. Pope is asking $110,000 for permanent injuries as a result of a traffic accident at U.S. 36 and U.S. 231, north of Greencastle on May 16, 1965. His wife, Nellie F. Pope, is asking $18,500 for injuries. Pope also asks $6,500 for medical expense and $600 for damage to his automobile.

Trial Of Couple Set For May 25 Junior Guy and his wife, Helen Guy, pleaded not guilty when arraigned Monday in the Putnam Circuit Court on a charge of abanconment of children. Judge Francis N. Hamilton set their trial for May 25. Robert Fisher, 23, Reelsville, Route 1, pleaded guilty to a public intoxication charge. He was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to serve six months at the Indiana State Farm. The sentence was suspended on certain conditions. Wayne Hoskins, charged with violation of parole on a second degree burglary charge, was also in court Monday. He was retained on probation but ordered to pay $10 a week to Mrs. Mildred Hervey, County Probation Officer, which will be turned over to the Barnett Lumber Company in Roachdale, until the sum of $580 is paid.

Mrs. Jones To Be Speaker At First Christian Mirs. Alexander E. Jones, the former Betty Mullins, and wife of the president of Butler University, will be the guest speaker at the annual Mother-and-Daughter banquet in First Christian Church this Thursday at 6:30 p. m. Hie dinner will be sponsored by the Christian Women’s Fellowship of the congregation, but is for all women and girls of the church and community. Bom and reared in Greencastle, Mrs. Jones is a graduate of William Woods College and DePauw University. She taught English composition and literature at the University of Minnesota and MacMurray College. Currently Mrs. Jones is a member of the Board of Directors of Flanner House, the PTA of Shortridge High School, and has just completed a six-year term on the board of the Hoosier Capital Girl Scout Council, where she served as vice president. The subject of Mrs. Jones’ | talk will be entitled “A Goodly Heritage.” Reservations for the dinnerprogram are still being made through the church office. Men of the congregation are preparing and serving the dinner. | Mrs. Maxwell James Webb is chairman for the program, and | Mrs. Homer Leucus is president of the Christian Women s Fellowship. Bulletin Six Killed AURORA, Ind. UPI—A twinengine Cessna plane owned by a casket manufacturing firm crashed and burned while approaching a private air strip today, and police reported six persons were killed. The plane plunged into a wooded area near the west end of a runway owned by the Aurora Casket Co., a nationally; known firm which uses a fleet 1 of aircraft to deliver its prod- 1 ucts to funeral home suppliers throughout the country. State police said at first the number of dead totaled at least four and “possibly more.” Later, the toll was revised to five, and then to six. Police identified one of the dead as Ray Kern/87, the pilot, who also is sales manager for; the casket firm. i Other sources said the occu-; pants were believed to include either officials of the casket; company or persons f r o m | Pittsburgh flying to the manufacturing plant on a sales visit. The crash occurred at a paved strip located parallel to busy U.S. 50 about three miles | west of Aurora.

State Of Virginia Is Raked By 7 Twisters

Bainbridge School Bands To Give Formal Concert

County Playhouse To Hold Tryouts May 21

Rural Mail Box Week Underway The Post Office Department has designated the week of May 15 to May 20, 1967, as “Rural Mail Box Improvement Week.” Postmaster C. T. Albin stated that rural mail boxes that are not in good condition should be replaced. He also stated that those in need of paint should be repainted, with the owner’s name and box number placed on the box. The tidying up of rural mall boxes will not only make our roadsides more attractive but will also aid the mail carriers in giving better service. This is the responsibility of all patrons living on a rural or mounted route. Where boxes are grouped together, the name and box number should be on the front of the box. For those boxes not grouped, the name and box number should be placed on the side of the box. Lisby Winner In Baton Contest Dale Lisby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lisby, Route 1, Fillmore, won the Indiana State Baton Contest held May 6 at Anderson. Being the top twirler Is nothing new for the Fillmore High School sophomore. Last year he was first in the National Twirlers Contest held at Holland, Mich. He is also feature twirler for the South Putnam Band and conducts his own classes in baton. MASONIC NOTICE Stated meeting Temple Lodge No. 47, F. & A. M., tonight. Visiting brothers welcome. Refreshments will be served. John Schmitt, W.M.

Tryouts will be held Sunday, May 21, for the Putnam County Playhouse’s second show of the summer season — a talent revue. The show, being presented June 30 through July 2 under the direction of Dr. James Elrod and Peter Hill, who will be at Speech Hall from one to five May 21, to hold auditions. “We are trying to include as many different kinds of acts as possible,” said Dr. Elrod. A partial list of people the directors would like to see at tryouts includes singers (singly or in groups), acrobats and tumblers, square dancers, instrumentalists (for the stage or the pit orchestra), comedy writers and actors, magicians, pantomimists, rope twirlers, saw players — any unique entertainment. One set planned for the show is a montage of dances through the years. Dances and dancers for 1910 till 1967 will be featured. The directors are well known in the county. Dr. Elrod is a professor in the speech department at DePauw University who has recently directed “The Importance of Being Ernest,” DePauw’s final production of the season. Mr. Hill, band and choir director for Greencastle High School and Junior High, is the director of the annual Red and Blue Review, presented this year by the Senior High School, John Franklin, guidance counselor and technical director for all High School shows, will be in charge of sets and lighting.

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CHICAGO UPI — A baggage handler picked up a suitcase at O’Hare International Airport Monday and was sent running for police and firemen. Smoke was pouring from the suitcase. The area was sealed off, an incoming flight was delayed and the police bomb squad gingerly inspected and then opened the bag. A pack of matches had caught fire.

Mallory Personnel Receive Special Certificates

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Forty supervisory and management personnel of the Greencastle and Crawfordsville plants of the Mallory Capacitor Company, a division of P. R. Mallory & Co., received special certificates from Purdue University at a dinner last Thursday honoring their completion of a special series of training courses. Front row, left to right, Lloyd Cox, Mrs. Fayma Skinner, Mrs. Doris O’Hair, Eugene Lewis, John Beckley, Eugene Fredrick, Jerry Winkler. Back row, left to right, Victor Inman. Larry Lawson, George Hoshaw, Kieth Green, Jerry Voyles, Morris Winn, Mrs. Betty Hartsaw, Warren Harlan, jack Blaugrund,

Paul Deak, Robert Greene, Jim Steele, William Cook, Leonard Bean, Hobart Buchanan, Ernest Lich, William Schuck, Morrie Unversaw, Charles Carmichael. Arthur G. Hansen, manager of the local plant, said the course was designated “to provide the individual participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to help him better understand and practice his management role within his own organization.” The course was taught by Professor Owen Paul, of Purdue's School of Technology, and consisted of nearly 50 class hours of inetruction. Banner Photo—Don Whitehead

The Bainbridge High School Senior Band and Intermediate and Beginning Bands will present a formal concert on Thursday, May 18, at 8:00 in the Bainbridge High School Gym. The Bainbridge Band received a rating of Superior in the Spring I.S.M.E.A. Music Auditions at Terre Haute on April 15. A feature of the program will be the performance of Tom Guston, trombone soloist from Peru, Ind. Mr. Guston toured •with the Si Zenter Dance Band as a member of the trombone section in 1965-66. He will offer his abilities on the popular ballad “More.” “Music to Watch Girls By” will be his next number, and he will close his part of the program with a swinging version of “Joshua.” “Mayflower Overture,” a composition by Ron Nelson dedicated to Dr. Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, will close the program. Francis McClure, Greencastle, will read the text of three Pilgrim hymns from the Ainsworth Psalter of the year 1612. The "Mayflower Overture” Is In three general parts — Departure, Storm, and Arrival in the New World. The themes of Psalm 3, Psalm 136 and Psalm 100 (Old Hundredth) are the basis for the Overture. Mr. Nelson is at present Professor of Theory and Composition at Brown University. The concert is free and there will be a reception sponsored by the Bainbridge Band Parents for the young musicians and all attending the concert. Arab Republic On Armed Alert CAIRO UPI — The United Arab Republic put its armed forces on emergency alert Monday because of increased tension along the Israeli-Syrian frontier, informed sources said. Combat units and artillery vehicles rumbled through the streets of the Egyptian capital. Scores of trucks, some towing field guns, and troop carriers laden with combat - equipped soldiers rolled past the U. S. Embassy. Jeeps and ambu'ances also were seen. U. S. -military police ordered the embassy compound sealed off and key staff members were alerted. Egyptian police blocked Cairo's main north-south thoroughfare along the Nile, hopelessly snarling traffic, so the military convoy could pass. In Washington, State Department Robert J. McCloskey expressed U. S. government concern over the tension between Israel and Syria.

By United Pr»n International A turbulent system of thunderstorm deviled the mid-At-lantic states oarly today. At least seven tornadoes raked Virginia from border to border Monday night Eleven persons were injured in Monday’s tornadoes which destroyed homes, farm buildings and utility lines. Danville, Va., apparently was hardest hit “I just stood there screaming and crying,” said Mrs. Loretta Weatherford who was caught out In the open when the twister struck her mobile home park In Danville. Bikinis blossomed In profusion on southern California beaches while overcoats and mufflers were necessary Inland on the Great Plains. Los Angeles recorded its warmest day in history for May 15 with the mercury climbing to 95 degrees. Nearby Santa Ana recorded a 98 and usually mild San Diego had a relatively hot 88. ■Die dry, desert winds which brought the heat to southern California, fanned a brush firs through the Universal Studios at Hollywood, destroying movie sets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The temperature inland dipped to a record low of 35 degrees at St. Joseph, Mo., Monday, and 40 at Midland, Tex. Flagstaff, Ariz., had • low of 23 degrees. Lows elsewhere were recorded In the 30s from Wisconsin to Texas and west to the Rocky mountains. The Weather Bureau in Washington issued its 30-day forecast Monday, calling for temperatures averaging" below seasonal norms for the next month over the mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast; near normal over the northern and central Pacific Coast, the northern border states, upper Great Lakes and south Atlantic coast; and above normal temperatures elsewhere. Catch 'Em Ketchum SACRAMENTO, Calif. UPI —The assembly Monday passed and sent to the senate a bill permitting the California Highway Patrol to use camouflaged cars to catch highway speeders. The bill was sponsored by Assemblyman William M. Ketchum.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. UPI — The local post office today reluctantly became Uncle Sam’s bee keeper. A carton containing 50 boxes of queen bees arrived with no mailing address. Postal officials put them up for sale at $1.50 a box. Moose Notice Members of the Moose Lodge will meet tonight at 7:30 to go to Whitaker’s Funeral Home to pay respects to Sam Caruso.

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Mostly sunny today. Mostly cloudy tonight with chance of showers. Partly cloudy and rather cool Wednesday. High today mid to upper 60s. Low tonight mid 40s. High Wednesday low to mid 60s. Precipitation probability percentages 5 today, 40 tonight, 20 Wednesday. Outlook for Wednesday night and Thursday: Generally fair with little temperature change. Minimum 38* 6 A.M 38* 7 50 8 A.M. - - 57* 9 A.M. 60* 10 A.M 63* 11 A.M 65* 12 Noon 66* 1 P.^4. ..m..,.*.......66