The Daily Reporter from Greenfield, Indiana • Page 1

The Greenfield Daily TER World -Wl Corrf By INTEBNATIONAL NEWS SERYTCt Sln.e copy, 4 cnts; By Carrier 20c per week. By mail in Indiana, 4.50 per year. Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Greenfield, Indiana VOLUME XLV NUMBER 20 GREENFIELD, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1953. WEATHER Partly cloudy, warmer tonight.

Cloudy, possible showers Wed. KEPOR THIRTEEN CHARLOTTESVILLE SENIORS 111 SCHOOL BAND Former Ml. Comfort Teacher Promoled Truck Droltes Are Cause Fire Alarm Voting Assures School Merger Blue River Residents Approve Consolidation Low Casualties Reflect Lull In Korean War Total Dead, Wounded, Missing Reaches 135,155 Allied Bombers Blast At Red Supply Lines UN Fighters Knock Out Rail Bridge Span And Blast Vehicles SEOUL. May 21 (Thursday) INS Allied fichter-h The Greenfield fire department was called at 11 a. Wednesday when the brakes on the trailer of a semi-trailer truck locked.

The truck stopped on W. Main street, between Pennsylvania street and Riley awaiting the arrival of fire fighters. Both brake bands of the trail- i A 1 1 Chalmcr Condon, who was for 15 years a teacher in the Mt. Comfort school of Buck Creek township and a resident of Mohawk, has been elected as Superintendent of Cass County Schools, at an action of the Board of Education of that county earlier this month. Mr.

Condon had been acting as the principal of the Washington Township School, that Citizens of Blue River in a special election Tues day voted in favcr of the con-i solidation of the Blue River and Jackson school townships. The official vote was 197 for and 137 against the merger, according to results filed in the office of WASHINGTON Mnv -n 'tuo I cr were damaged ana me mi The Defense department's I turned cut bearings on one of I the trailer wheels, according to i LA- to i the county recorder. The merger, according to iBlue River Township Trustee casualties in Korea showed an firemen, who were unable increase of 197 today to bring identify the truck, or driver, the total since the start of the I county, for several years. The Wednesday struck hard at Corn-new position has a salary of munist supply lines, knocking $5,700 per year. out four spans of a' main rail The new superintendent was a line bridge and blasting vehi-teacher in the Mt.

Comfort i cles on other highways, school, from 1926 until 1941, On the Allied side of the lines, when he went back to Cass an Imjin River bridge on a county, where he was a native. principal traffic route to the Thomas Sapp, promises to solve most of problems confronting the township on education of its children. The township has been without its own school fac Kivanis Guests At Shelbyville Local Members Attend 11th Division Meeting was to 135.155. The latest casualties including 53 dead, compares with last weeks 153.. low for the year.

Both increases, far below average, reflected the lull in fighting rfter, truce negotiations were resumed. In addition to the 53 dead, today's report showed 154 more Americans wounded, but there was a decrease of 10 in the number of missing. Forty-two men were transferred from the ilities siuch the Westland school burned in 1947. The consolidation will officially, and for tax purposes, go into effect as of Auguct 1, 1953. The combined taxable valuation of the two townships will be Mr.

Condon is a graduate of Indiana Central College and Butler University with a B. S. and M. A. degree, and has also taken work in Indiana University.

He is married and the family includes one daughter, Dores Condon, who was a graduate of Washington high school this yeai. the Eighteen members of i 111111111 i i i ml i.iiii.i. in Greenfield Kiwanis Club were in attendance for the annual I spring meeting of Division 11, Kiwanis International, held at missing to the prisoner of war column. The new total consists cf 24. $6,291,960.

The increased valuation will allow expansion of present Jackson township school facilities at Charlottesville, for the use of Blue River pupils. A new school budget will be prepared based on that figure. Advocates of the consolidation promise much greater benefits and better education under the western front was bombed and strafed by four unidentified panes Wednesday. Nine casualties were inflicted as well as material damage. An Eighth Army spokesman said an investigation is underway to determine whether the unidentified aircraft were Communist or flown by Allied pilots who might have mistaken the bridge for one on the Communist side of the lines.

A first corps officers said the bombs were dropped on a quarter-mile long bridge spanning the river near the 38th parallel. The Red bridge badly damaged by Allied Thunderjets was on the main supply line between the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and the battered east coast port of Wonsan. Other fighter-bombers pounded Communists highways to blast four vehicles off bomb-pocked roads and damaged 20 Tuesday afternoon 206 wounded: 8.967 Shelbyville C63 dead; 98 Photo Bv O. U. WelUT and evening.

Of the Char- missing and unaccounted for; 2 377 missing and known to be Thirteen lottesville Inch first total sion district and seven division State awards (a Masons To Note Memorial Day school band. Approximately 150 Kiwanians graduates of 1953. represent of service and prisoners; and 1.542 men who from Franklin. Columbus, Mar -were missing lor extended per- tinsville, Shelbvville and the lo-lods but now rave returned to cal club were present for a por. years achieve iv.ri-r IV.

new arrangements lor each tax dollar. medals uniforms. The on thcir Vil4lJ- tion or the entire or the entire session. school is espec proud of the The Army has now suffered 104.748 casualties; while the i A golf tourney was held at the Elks Blue River Country group. Four of he seniors are mom- Marine Corps has reported club in tne afternoon with bers of the original band, or 956.

the Navy 1.999 and the Air Annual Breakfast Set Saturday Morning Memorial Day services for the Masons of Hancock County lodges will be observed Saturday morning at 5:30 o'clock, May 30th, in the Masonic Temple of Greenfield. Second row, left to right: Robert O'Kelly, baritone horn, nine years; Betty Carfield, clarinet, five years: Marilyn Simmons, cornet, seven years; Jane Kidwell. saxaphone and drum majorette, nine years; Virginia Newton, six years, cornet; Carole Owens clarinet, eight years; and Harlan Wooten, eight years, mellophone. The group presented band director Austin H. Smith with a monogrammed cuff-links and tie clasp set (the monogram was on the cuff links and the tie clasp and was inscribed "from the 13 seniors of 1953 of 11 first ratings.

Almost all of the 13 seniors shown have entered solo and ensemble contests and won consistently, year after year the medals again tell the story. The band members are: first row, left to right: Gene Bricker, clarinet player, who has been a band member for nine years; Perry Easton. trombone, six years; Richard O'Kelley, clarinet, nine years; Paul Miller, sousaphone. two years; Bill Grubbs. trombone, two years; and Ray Shultz, percussion, eight years.

i more supply trucks. ganized nine years ago "when the band instructor. Austin II Smith, was fust employed at the Jackson Township school. The original 'bend had 23 members. I't has grown to 50 members for the 1952-53 schooi year.

Since organization of the band, it has won four first divi- The $50,000 insurance money leceived by Blue River after the school burned is now held by the new combined school township and work on expansion of the Charlcttesville school could begin at any time. Both townships will now benefit from money that formerly went to Jackson township in the form of transfer fees. A new school board will be formed by the combined school townships. Indiana state law provided that the board will golfers competing from the various clubs. The dinner, business meeting and program followed in the Alcazar at 6:30.

Speakers for the evening were WT. T. (Jackt Sullivan, Indiana District 11 Governor of Kiwanis International and Dwight F. Gallivan, Bluff-ton attorney and past lieutenant governor of Kiwanis. who spoke on his work with the F.

B. I. Another special guest with the Force 1,452. GOP Approves Eisenhower Tax Proposals President Eisenhower's "Age of Peril" tax program won wide GOP approval on capitol hill today, but the sponsor of a proposed tax cut remained unconverted. Administration lieutenants intend to go to work immediat This annual event established 26 years ago is sponsored by the Past Misters Association of Hancock County.

Clarence Bin-ford, Past Master of Hancock Lodge No. 101, as President of the Association for 1953, an Red positions across the bat-tlefront were also dive-bombed by Allied warplanes. Ground warfare simmered down after an assault by 500 Chinese on the scarred ridges of T-Bone Hill on the western front that cost the Reds 245 of their number killed or wounded. No MIGs ventured out of their Manchurian sanctuary Wednesday to challenge patrolling American Sabrejets. High Allied officials worked in British Aulhariiy Endangered Again In Mangrove Swamps, Nigeria In V.

Africa ely and buttonhole intransi- consist of the township trustees ceant Republicans on the tax- speakers included Eugene S. district se- Spencer, of Vevay, Death Claims Mrs. Gornstein Well Known Retired Beautician Dies Tues. nounces the 2nd section of the 3rd Degree will be conferred on a candidate by a selected group of Past Masters of the several lodges of the county affiliated with the association. Immediately following the MAltTIX Director By JOIIX II.

INS Foreign writing House Ways and Means committee to gain their acceptance cf the President's proposals. The chairman. Rep. Reed Rt N. remained adamantly opposed to salient parts of the trocram and equally insistent cretary.

A business session, in charge of T. B. Kroggel, district lieutenant governor, was held with final plans made about each club's delegates to the international convention at Madison Memorial Day Services Set British autho. ed again -day Mangrove swan fy is cnoangcr-this time in the 5s and uplands st Africa. of Nigeria in of both townships and a third member selected by them.

The third member will serve one year and shall be selected from each township alternately. The first member will be selected from Jackson township. The board will vote on disposition of the bus load of Blue River township pupils attending Morristown school before the term starts again next fall, according to Trustee Sapp. While there has been keen interest in the proposed merger by citizens of Blue River, the Scores cf natives ive been Memorial Day services will ritualistic degree work, a short program appropriate for the solemn occasion will be offered for the entire membership and all invited for the memorial portion of the services. A breakfast will be served by the ladies of Miriam Chapter of the Eastern Star.

The charge per plate will be $1.00. Past Master Horace Oldham and Past President of the As Mrs. Jettie Pearl Gornstein, rge 57, of 28 1 '2 S. State street, this city, passed away Tuesday evening at the Hancock County Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for several weeks. She had been suffering from a heart ailment a number of years.

Square Garden June 21 to 25. More than 12.000 from United States. Canada, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Alaska. Hawaii and the Yukon are expected to attend. Five thousand tickets have been reserved for Kiwanians and their families to attend the Yankee-White Sox ball game at Yankee Stadium on June 23 and during this time a Tokyo touay on an armistice proposal which is believed to narrow truce issues down to two disputed points.

Qualified observers predicted that the plan would be a difficult one for the Communist to turn down when it is presented at the resumption of Korean armistice talks next Monday. Details of the plan were closely guarded but it was considered certain the Allies would insist on a specific outline of the rights of Red prisoners refusing repatriation to political asylum in the free world. It is also believed that the United Nations neegotiators killed and hundreds wounded in political rioi that began during the week-end. In contrast so th situation in Kenya Colony, however, this is a fight of Nibcrian against Nigerian and not primarily against the British Colonial p'jwer. The immediate cause of the outbreak is a ccnflict over the speed which Nueria should advance toward homo rule.

start at 10 o'clock (DST on Saturday. May 30. with i parade forming in front of the Me-i morial Building. The line of march will be west on North street to Pennsylvania Street, south to Main street, east to State street and then south to Park cemetery. Music will be I furnished by tne Maxwell Hi2h that the House pass his ten per cent tax reduction bill.

Presenting his blue print last night in a nation-wide radio broadcast, Mr. Eisenhower said be will recommend a "completely revised" tax program next January and made these requests: 1. Extend the excess profits tax, which expires June 30, for six months. 2. Continue the present normal corporation and excise taxes, which expire April 1, 1954.

3. Allow the statutory ten per turn-out at the pools Tuesday was not as heavy as anticipated. A total of 334 persons cast their vote on the question. sociation interested the lodges of Eden, Wilkinson, Shirley, New Palestine and McCordsville in instituting this day of commemoration. Mr.

Oldham usually attends even though he no longer resides in Greenfield. school band and the Greenfield An accurate count of the umber of registered voters in the township was not available Born in Col.mibus. Mrs. Gornstein had lived in Troy and Montgomery, for a number of years and had been a resident of Indianapolis and Greenfield for the past 39 years. A beautician, Mrs.

Gornstein trophy will be presented to Ed "Whitey" Ford. Yankee pitcher who received his basic baseball training of the Queens County, N. Kiwanis League. Greenfield Kiwanians at areas High School Band. People in be! r.ging i' i tion mmp" ie so-c; mt.

wed "ac-1 Rev. Avery W. Miley of the i -govern-j Greenfield Christian Church, will be the guest sneaker for tending the meeting were Char- will continue to oppose admittance of any Communist troops from Poland and Czechoslovakia to South Korea to take custory of balky prisoners for a neutral nation agency. cent cut on individual income tax rates to become effective Dec. 31.

4. Postpone the one-half cf rne per cent increase in old age i survivors insurance taxes, that i would go into effect Jan. 1. Reed objected vehemently to the excess profits and personal i income provisions. His measure Betty Carfield Contest Entrant mcr.t by T'n in the northern.

districts arc opposed to selection of a definite date for political freedom. Their tear is tint they will be dominated by the south since there are an estimated 11 000 000 Moslems compared to th" 13.000,003 Christians an.l of the south. Bu the origins the strug- les E. Perkins, Dr. J.

L. Allen, Berlin Dieter. Walter Hatfield, S. B. Hughes, Bruce Goble, William Dieter, Harvey Green.

Dr. Charles M. Gibbs. Marshall Win-slow, Wayne Crider, J. N.

Mc-Cullers, M. E. Watson, Lewis C. Hardin, Tom Williams, Norman Clifton, Arthur C. Downing and Richard Goble.

Select Jury For owned and operated several beauty shops in this city, the last of these before her retirement was the Mary Jane Beauty Shop cn South State street. She a member of the Englewood Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star in Indianapolis, and was a member and past officer of the Indiana Hairdresser and Cos-mctalogist Associat ion. Surviving are one son, Frank Richey, of Greenfield; a niece, Mrs. L. D.

Buckley, cf Indianapolis, who made her home here C-ville Graduate Competes for 'Miss Indiana' today because of the number of persons who have registered recently in order to vote on the consolidation. However, the record shews that 481 persons in Blue River cast a vote in the last county election. Ballots were counted at voting places at 10 a. m. Central Stanard Time (11:00 DST), in accordance with Indiana law on such special elections.

Results of the election were recorded in the office of the Hancock county recorder at the courthouse in Greenfield, shortly before noon. The Blue River trustee reported the vote at the north precinct (voting place at Landrus store in Westland) as 128 (Yes) and 40 (No). The vote at the south precinct voting place at Lee Dickinson's home) was 69 (Continued On Page 4) l'o go even deper. It is a this occasion, and Rev. Edwin Barker of the Westland Friends Church will give the invocation and benediction.

Representatives from the various patriotic organizations will present wreaths on the mound in memory of those who have given their lives in the service of their country. At the close of the program, the bands will return to the court house lawn where a short concert will be given. Memorial Day comes only once a year and the entire ceremony rquirs only two to three hours on anyone's "time. Considering the months and years the men in service have given, it would seem that most of the citizens of this community could donate this small amount of time to pay tribute to those who have donated so much. with Mrs.

Gornstein for several years; two half-sisters, Mrs. Robert Brown, Mrs. Evelyn Ton Mrs. Crystal Warder Writes Friends An Account Of Her Trip And Life In Arabia A vivid account of a trip to den and England in the group Saudi Arabia has been received and we had a wonderful time, here by friends of Mrc. Crystal Our first club was in the Latin Warder, a former well known quarter cld Paris in a build-resident cf Greenfield, who is ing which was a sixth century the widow of William Warder, prison; next we went to an a local attorney.

Apache club in the underworld Mrs. Warder is in Arabia for a i region I wouldn't have wanted chton; one half-brother, Jack Farrow, all of Jacksonville, and several other nieces and Miss Betty Carfield. of Greenfield, Route 2, has been selected to represent Hancock County in the 1953 "Miss Indiana" contest, to be held in the Indiana Theater, at Indianapolis, on Thursday and Friday nights, June 17 and 18. She will compete with preliminary winners from the other 91 counties in Hoosierdom's first state-wide beauty contest. The winner in the Indiana state contest will compete in the second annual "Miss Universe Pageant" in Long Beach, California July 9 to 19 with entrants from all 48 states and 40 foreign countries.

(Yes i and 97 (No). nephews. Damage Action Personal Injury Suit Begins in Court Selection of a jury for a ven-ued personal injury suit of $15,000, was begun in Hancock Circuit Court Wednesday morning. Half of the original 22 petit jury venire members called for duty were excused by the court, one for reason of ill health and the other for agricultural purposes. The action, venued here from Marion County is George Wright of Grant County, vs.

Charles Cloverdale and Ward Lanning. The Greenfield law firm of Davis and Williams is assisting with the action by the defendant. Greenfield attorney Waldo C. Ging is assisting with the action by the plaintiff. Judge Samuel J.

Offutt is presiding over the action. Funeral services will take place from the Lynam Funeral Home at 2 p. m. Friday with Rev. Thomas Arthur, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, this city, officiating, interment in Park cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon clash not only between political parties but. between racial and religious enn munities. The colonial acimh istration has clamped a state of emergency on the 373 re -mile coL'ny and protectorate. It has sent troop and police reinforcements into the rioting northern district. British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's cabinet in London also has met to consid- er the dangerous situation.

The authorities know that if the fighting is net handled quickly end with firmness it may erupt into disastrous explosions throughout much of the ore-rich territory. The British Colonial authorities under Lieutenant-Governor Sir Bryan Shavwocd Smith already have warned the people that unless they car show more political maturity they risk losing self-government. The British are in the strange position of leading people toward home rule while millions of the negro inhabitants are wary of such a venture. The Moslem-dominated north is made up mostly of people of Hausa blood. They are mixed with Arabized people because of the invasion of Fula, Berber and Miss Carfield, the daughter of Murry Carfield, is a 1953 grad uate of the Charlottesville high school.

During her four high school years, she was very ac tive in all functions of the In Hospital Riley McKown, of North State street, was taken to the Hancock County Memorial Hospital Monday after he became ill at his home. to be there and last to a plush club. The Lido. The next day we went sight-seeing, to Notre Dame, the Louvre, along the banks of the Seine, saw the Place dela Concord. Eiffel Tower, Sorbonne, Madeline Church and numerous other famed places.

We stayed at the Royal Monceau which is beautiful. "The most thrilling part of the air trip was crossing the Alps, far above the clouds where it was difficult to tell where the snow on the peaks stopped and the clouds began. Of course we saw the famous Matterhorn. The next stop was at Rome where we watched the sunset and had dinner in a glassed-in restaurant overlooking the hills of the ancient city. It was night when we continued the trip and the harbour towns school.

She was a member of the junior high and high school band for five years, was crowned Queen of the Halloween Festival in 1952, was eelcted "Daisy Mae" of the Junior Class Jamboree of 1952, and had a prominent part in Nora A Barrett Dies Wednesday Mrs. Nora Alice Barrett, 68 years old, passed away at her home 105 N. State street, this city Wednesday morning the result of a four month's illness. Born December 27. 1885 in Kansas, Mrs.

Barrett was the daughter of J. W. and Martha Franklin Montgomery. A resident of this community for over 25 years, Mrs. Barrett was a member of the Friends Church of Little Sugar Creek.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Artalissa Maloney, of Tus-con, one son, Willard Barrett, of this city; 10 grandchildren. Her husband, James B. Barrett, preceded her in death on March 14, 1937, and one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Bair, of Buffalo, N.

passed away in September, 1943. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, according to an announcement made by the Funeral Home. Eden Kindergarten Will Begin May 25 The summer kindergarten at the Eden school will start Monday, May 25th. This is the fifth summer for the kindergarten in the Eden school. Children four, five and six years of age are eligible to enter.

Classes will start at nine o'clock and close at twelve. The program for the eight weeks will consist of free play, creative art, clay modeling, rhythm games, dramatics, music, stories, oral language, folk dancing, picnics, parties and usually a trip to Cincinnati Zoo, the Children's Museum in Indianapolis or a State park. A lawn festival and graduation exercises will also be held. Instructurs are Veda V. Frost and Linda Jackson.

The kinder- two-year period as an employee of the Arabian-American Oil Company and excerpts from the letter, describing the trip and surroundings and work are presented as follows: "We left Idlewild Airport in New York City on April 26, in a new DC-6B ARMACO plane called 'The It was a fancy plane and we women had berths in which to sleep. There were 31 passengers and six in the crew. Six of us were new tmployees, cne other, a girl, was sent to Abqaiq, another ARMACO town about 50 miles from Crossing the ocean we couldn't see much except the v.hite cottony clouds, just an occasional glimpse of the sea. Paris was wonderful and I feel that I have go back. Cloe, the other girl, and I went shopping on the Champs Elyees, In practically every shop there is at least one clerk who speaks English and she is called immediately Americans are easily spotted.

On Saturday night we took the American Express night club tour of Paris. Here were people from the USA, Swc- Admitted To Hospital Mrs. Clifford Brune, of Foun-taintown, was admitted Thursday night to the Major Hospital, Shelbyville for medical the Senior Class play. Scholas tically, she ranked ninth in the class of 28 members. Miss Carfield was a cheer lea Ground Breeding Rites Set Sunday St.

Michael's church-school ground-breaking ceremonies will take place Sunday, May 24th at 2 p. m. Scola Cantorum Choir, of St. Peters and Paul Cathedral, under the direction of Elmer Stef-fen, who is archdiocese director of music, will sing. Mansignor Dugan and Father Casey, of Indianapolis, will be here for the ceremonies.

All members of the parish and friends are urged to attend. der for the school athletic ev ents for three years. It was dur other pecples from the north. The Hausa are keen traders. They also make excellent soldiers.

Recently the IBO people from eastern Nigeria, just one of ing the leading of cheers for her school's basketball team during the 1953 Regionals that she was spotted by the committee of including Naples and Vesuvius looked so lovely with their twinkling lights reflected lrom the Mediterranean. We had breakfast in Beirut, Lebanon, and en route I watched the sunrise Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bell of Mohawk are the parents of a baby girl born Sunday May 17 at Methodist Hospital. The new arrival weighted 3 pounds 13 V2 ounces and has been named Carolyn Sue.

Mrs. Bell is the former Amelia B'-ooks. scores of groups in Niberia. have garten board of directors is com judges in charge of the forthcoming "Miss Indiana" contest and later was invited to enter the competition as a contestant. posed of Marion Jackson, Ruth O'Neal and Bonnie Smith.

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