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The News Palladium Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser MICH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1961 MEN Riverside Pair Die Near Homes Grocer Steinke Is One Victim By RAY DANGEL N-P Staff Writer 28 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS WEATHER FORECAST Flurries or light drizzle tonight; a bit colder Tuesday. TEMPERATURES Readings from Sun. noon to Mon. noon: 12 32 p.

32 p. 31 12 m. 30 12 FINAL EDITION KILLS the crash. (News-Palladium PROGRESS THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT: This smashed truck looks tiny against the front of the diesel locomotive that struck it in Riverside Sunday evening, killing local grocer William Steinke, 50, the driver, and farm laborer William Rhodes, 42. Both were thrown out as wreckage was dragged 855 feet down the track.

Engineer Ray Beenen, 65, of Grand Rapids said no one saw the truck until just before West India Troops Attack Reds Hail By Associated Press LONDON, (AP) India's invasion of Portuguese Goa was strongly denounced in Western countries today and applauded by commentators in Communist nations. The neutralist nations, which usually look to India for leadership, mostly remained noncommital. Indonesia, itself involved in a bitter quarrel with the Netherlands over Dutch New Quinea, gave strong support to India's invasion of Goa and the other enclaves of Damao and Diu. India claimed capture of two Portuguese enclaves- -Damao and Diu and gains on all sectors in a lightning campaign against Goa, the third and largest of Portugal's possessions on the subcontinent. Portugal asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N.

N. Security Council and a denunciation of India "for an unprovoked military WORLD REACTION In the West, Prime Minister Nehru was accused of betraying his role 'as peacemaker. In London, the British commonwealth relations office said Britain's high commissioner in New INDEX TO Inside Pages SECTION ONE Editorials Page 02 St. Joseph News Page 3 Women's Section Pages 4, 5, 6 Landers Page 6 Obituaries Page 14 SECTION TWO Area Highlights Page Sports Pages 2, 1 Comics, TV, Radio Page 10 Markets Page 11 Classified Ads Pages 12, 13 HARBOR, TRUCK-TRAIN 2 A train-truck crash killed Riverside grocer and a local farm laborer in Riverside at about 7:15 Sunday evening. Berrien County sheriff's deputies said the laborer, William Rhodes, 42, Was killed scene.

He was a passenger in a half-ton truck driven by William Steinke, 50, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy hospital, Benton Harbor. Mr. Steinke operated the Riverside grocery store. BOTH LIVE NEAR-BY Both men lived within quarter-mile north of the Chesapeake Ohio crossing on Riverside road where the accident happened. The truck was struck on the right side as the men were apparently headed home.

Train Engineer Roy Beenen, 65, of Grand Rapids, told Sgt. Murvin Merrill and Deputy Dick Layne that the train was moving west at 30 miles an hour at the crossing. Beenen said the train's bell was ringing, its horn was blowing and its headlight was on. The crossing has no electric flasher, but it is guarded by a wooden warning marker. SHOUTS WARNING Merrill said train Fireman Ben 1 Lucht, 44, of Sparta, was the one who saw the truck in danger, and just as he shouted to the engineer, the impact came.

The truck was shoved 855 feet down the track, Merrill said, and was completely caved in on the right side. Rhodes' body was thrown out 93 feet down the track. Steinke, still breathing, was found 78 feet further along. Deputies said the diesel-powered passenger train was delayed about an hour until the wreckage was 44 its cleared, continued way. then The on train was Auto Deaths headed from in Berrien Grand Rapids to Chicago.

County in Rhodes re1961 cently moved into cabin on the Bob Fikes farm at the corner of Coloma road and Fikes road. He has been employed on various area farms and was planning to spend the winter at Riverside. The tragedy boosted the number of traffic fatalities in Berrien county this year to 44, with another 14 days left in 1961. Steinke was born Nov. 28, 1910, Dowagiac, and had resided in the Benton Harbor area most of his life.

Survivors include his widow, the former Mary Litchford Kimbro; his mother, Mrs. Her(See back page, sec, 1, 7) SECOND IN 3 WEEKS Liquor Thieves Hit Country Club Again Boy Finds Fascination In Flames Five-Year-Old In Second Fire Benton Harbor firemen have Aled a juvenile complaint against a five-year-old boy who admitted setting fire to a pile of clothes in his home Saturday. Firemen who questioned the boy found he is same one who set fire to the clothing of five -year-old girl who later died from the burns in April, 1960. boy is a grandson of the parents of four other children who had been left alone in the house when the clothes were ignited Saturday, firemen said. A neighbor put out the fire by pouring water on the clothing.

in three weeks. And Sheriff's Det. Arthur Johnson said it looked like the job was done by the same thieves. A tire mark found outside the clubhouse was the same type as the one left by burglars who took about $500 worth of liquor from the club's storeroom last month. Club manager James Ford estimated that roughly six to eight cases of liquor were taken this time.

The actual loss will be determined by an inventory. Det. Johnson said there was no visible means of entry into the clubhouse, although three interior doors were broken. The loot WAS carried out side door Berrien Hills Country Club's liquor supply was tapped by burglars again last night for the second time to a patio and waiting car. A laundryman discovered the break-in at 7:30 a.

m. today when he found laundry bins filled with beer bottles. Johnson said whoever stole the liquor emptied beer cases in basement and filled them with bottles of liquor from the storeroom of the cocktail lounge. Locks on the -bar downstairs were also broken in an apparent attempt by the liquor. thieves to And money.

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Firm Greetings, Wherever You Are! Here's A Real Holiday Puzzle By JOHN CHRISTENSEN N-P "taff Writer There's a little boy named Kevin in St. Joseph who has sent Christmas greetings to a person in Benton Harbor named Chris. The card, addressed merely to "Chris Someone, Benton Harbor," carried a one-cent stamp. The postoffice stamped it unknown. It made its way to my desk today, perhaps because some of the postoffice personnel know me as "Chris." Kevin signed the letter himself in the large, carefully formed letters of a child just learning to make them.

There's no sure clue to the addressee's sex, but I I'd bet it was a girl. It's hard to walk a fence or run as fast as the wind in a coldly impersonal envelope, so how could a little boy show off to a little girl. Well, let's see? How about showing her how well we can write. So, I can almost picture the little fellow pridefully stuffing an enclosure in with the Christmas card. The enclosure has an alphabet of capital letters, with each line of it obviously calling for prodigious effort on the part of writer.

The relationship of the two also leads to some speculation. Perhaps they met as their mothers bumped into one another in a chance meeting. You can almost see the youngsters peering at one another from a safe distance. Kevin may have heard the name "Chris" dropped in the conversation. But then, how do we explain the envelope? It's addressed in an adult hand, but the one-cent stamp presents another puzzle.

Clare Will Come Home For Holiday Leaves Better WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Clare E. Hoffman, prepared today to return to Michigan for Christmas. He had been confined to a hospital here because of a stroke. Hoffman, 86, was discharged from the Naval Hospital in suburban Bethesda, Saturday resting in his apartment, awaiting flight arrangements to Michigan.

His son, Leo, a lawyer, said the veteran legislator is feeling much better. "He has improved rapidly," the son sald, "although he still has to have some help when he walks. We're very much encouraged." STRICKEN IN ALLEGAN Hoffman entered the hospital less than two weeks ago. He suffered a stroke Nov. 9 while driving in his home town of Allegan, Mich.

When hospitalized in Bethesda, was expected to be cofined from one to two months, his son said. "But he really wanted to get out of the younger Hoffman said. "He didn't like being there at all." Leo Hoffman said he didn't know when his father would return to Washington. "But he has no intention of retiring." he said. 916 Terr.

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He And Boss Don't Agree On Reasons Employer Says WILLIAM STEINKE Grocer Killed Santa's Only 267 Pennies From Goal Thirteen More Donate Today GOAL: $8,500 Two hundred sixty-seven pennies! That's all that separated Santa Claus from his goal of $8,500 this morning. Thirteen more Good Fellows pumped $147.26 into the pot this morning, boosting the total to an ever-so-close $8,497.33. Santa has a big and jolly "Ho-Ho-Ho" ready and waiting when those last few coppers roll in. "It's been long and hard struggle, but with success almost in the bag, it's time to give heartfelt a thanks to each and every Good Fellow. They come in all sizes and shapes.

But they turn out regularly at this time of the year," Santa enthused this morning. Today's mail included contributions from J. C. Penney Co. Associates, $60, and from The Enders $25.

Others included were: Richard Pearson, Coloma Township Building Inspector, Alice Hanna Child Study Club, Fruit Belt Auxiliary No. 1137, V.F.W., Carl, Margaret, and Steve Warner, Peter Pan Child Study club, Personnel of Whirlpool's Ad. Bldg's. first floor, Friends, Emblem Club No. 122, Alpha Theta Sorority, Carpenter's Local Union No.

898, and Robert Teske, $5. Santa doffs his cap to all of them. ALMOST FORGOT "And by the way," Santa said, (See back page, sec. 1, col, 6) days to Christmas SHOP FOR GIFTS IN OUR AD PAGES Business Suffers Denounces Aggression Tiny Enclaves; 'Liberation' INDIA BATTLE MAP Shows invaded areas Delhi, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, had protested to Nehru against the military action. In Washington, State Department officials said the United States has decided against immediate steps in the United Nations to oppose India's invasion.

But these officials made it clear that the United States strongly disapproves India's action. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry received the news of the attack with "astonishment and regret." SOVIET VIEW In Communist countries, the invaders were hailed as liberators. Premier Khrushchev said in a recent speech the Portuguese (See back page, sec. 1, col. 1) B.H.

Elks Ham Stag, Dec. 19. Free dinner -at 10 p.m. Adv. MAYOR TOM SPARKS Looking for work 'Theresa Of Old St.

Joe' Dies At 87 Her Verses Were Widely Quoted ELLA BARTLETT DIXON Mrs. Ella Bartlett Dixon, former twin cities resident and nationally known pen woman, died at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Mound's Park hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla. at the age of 87.

She had been in ill health for the past year and hospitalized for three days. Mrs. Dixon was born May 30, 1874, in Chicago, and resided in this community most of her life. In 1956, she moved to Milwaukee, Wis. to reside with a daughter, Mrs.

Thomas Quiery. They had resided in Clearwater, Fla. for the past year. VERSES PUBLISHED Mrs. Dixon, known by her pen name as "Theresa of.

Old St. had won considerable distinction as a poet. She had had several small volumes of verse published and frequently had been quoted the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and by Dr. Preston Bradley, famed radio pastor of Chicago. She was a member of the Chicago chapter of the National League of American Pen Women.

Mrs. Dixon Was a regular contributor to Arch Ward's Chicago Tribune "In The Wake of The News," and to the Tribune's other (See back page, sec. 1, col. 4) St. Joseph's mayor, Tom R.

Sparks, is losing or giving up his job as foreman of a Benton Harbor auto parts store, apparently because of conflicts between his public and private positions. He's leaving the Ridge Kramer Motor Supply, 221 West Main street, where he has been a working foreman in the machine shop for 16 years. The departure is effective Jan. 6. The reason given for the severance differs sharply between Sparks and his employer, Rheinhold C.

Neuser, owner of the business. According to Sparks, Neuser has pressured him to quit because the mayor's activities in politics and veterans affairs has irritated some customers, BOSS' STAND Neuser said this morning that Sparks has offended a number of clients and has allowed his outside activities to interfere detrimentally the mayor's machine shop department in the store. Ridge Kramer originally was a chain outlet for auto parts, having its headquarters at Manitowoc, Wis. On the death of the founder, the Ridge estate started to sell the individual stores. Neuser, who came to Benton Harbor as manager in the late 1930s, acquired the local unit in 1956.

The only point on which the two men agree is that not quite two weeks ago Neuser called for Sparks' resignation. SEES "ULTIMATUM" Sparks calls it "an ultimatum. That to continue holding my job I would have to resign as mayor." The Mayor claims Neuser told him that Sparks' comments on the controversial river route penetrator, the sewer connections in the Nowlen subdivision in Fairplain, and the Indiana Michigan tax assessment appeal were hurting the business. Replies the auto parts dealer; "That's not it at all. It's Tom's disrespect to our customers.

If he would treat them like he does his constituents, there would be no complaint. "We've had employes in other Ridge stores active in local politics and they've helped thosestores." Neuser added that "the trouble" started six years ago when the St. Joseph postmastership became open for appointment upon the retirement of Mrs. Evelyn Evans. FEWER EMPLOYERS Since that time, he continued, the machine shop has dropped from seven to two employes Sparks) and its relative ratio of the store's total business from eight to three per cent of the gross volume.

Sparks said he has no immediate prospects in mind at this time, but "I'm not worried at finding something." Sparks lost his 1955 bid for the postoffice (the same year he became mayor) to Irwin Kubath who quit the sheriff's post to take the federal job under a temporary ap- (See back page, sec. 1, col. .1) Santa's CHRISTMAS CORNER Largest variety of Christmas cookies, Karsh's Bakery, 132 Pipestone. -Adv. Johanna's Hat Shop open every nite til Xmas.

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