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The Greemeld Daily EPORTEE PHONE IN Phone H0 2-552b Member of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Carrier, 2b Cents Per Week; By Mall In Indiana, 16.00 Par Yaar SINGLE COPY, FIVE CENTS Entered aa Second -Claaa Matter At the Poet Office, Greenfield, Indiana VOLUME Lll NUMBER 279 GREENFIELD, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1961. Steers Advises Appeal Not Best Hassle Undecided General Assembly 'State Aid' to County listed Per Capita Less Than in Some Areas f. Embezzlement of Bank Funds Charged I INDIANAPOLIS AP A troubled jriird a.nd a 19C0 Pontiac I convertible were the only things i left today of c.n alleged $80 em-j bezzlemen: rpetrated by an at-j tractive blonde bank teller to satisfy her crippled hi sband's "compulsive gambling habit." Mrs. Patnci-a Ann Jones was free on band after an appearance before tile U.S. Commis-icner here cn a charge of misapplication of funds.

The jfomur Indiana National Bank tel-' ler was arrested by federal -agents -4t syYsactTffl y-s cm Little Joe VI Launch Success Tcsr for Capsule And Escape System WASHINGTON (AP) An unmanned Mercury space capsule was sent aloft from Wallops Island. today in an apparently successful test of the space program's escape and parachute latmching system. The test, one of a series leading to manned space flight, was designed to give the space capsule and its auxiliray systems their toughest structural test yet. Complete results of the test will 4b -ls V'' "iv 7S Freezing Rain-Snow Ushers Out Winter Uv Mill SSO( I ATF.l) PKKSS Winter's dying gasp scattered freezing rain over Indiana today along with threats of a little snow and sleet before a weekend warming trend starts tonight. State police reported roads glazed with ice around Lafayette shortly after daybreak.

Freezing rain fell at Lafayette. Indianapolis and Cincinnati as leaky skies coincided with temperatures hovering near tlu freezing mark. The northern third of the state is expected to gtt the biggest variety of wintry woes tonight and Sunday a mixture of freezing rain. jleet and snow a.s the final winter pushed northeastward across the state. Forecasts of temperatures in the 30s and lower 40s tonight indicated icing might be brief.

Temperatures in the 4as were forecast for a rainy Sunday The Weather Bureau expected little chang in temperatures at the change of seasons Monday. Spring arrives at pm. CDT. Slight amounts of overnight rain didn't affect Hoosier floods, near crests in the lower reaches of the Wabash and White rivers in southwestern Indiana. Small rises were reported in the lower White near Petersburg and in the middle Wabash at Terre Haute and Graysville.

Floods peaks are due generally highway crash kills five airmen A tov. ti.icis one half of the twisted wiCckeKiV of cut automobile in which five oil me. i t. om Duluth (Minn.) Air Force Fuse d.ea v. hen they crashed at high road.

Identified dead were airmen Anthony Schofield, of Brimley, William Mathis, Ft. Meade, James Morton, Seattle, Wash-, Stanley Garbac, Philadelphia, and Jerry Graves, Monte Vista, Colo. onciete abutment. The car cottering bodies along the ioio in istor fit mw 4 Rev. Sheldon Duecker At Bradley Sunday The Rev.

Sheldon Duecker. 'paster of Gethsemane Methodist Church in Muncie. Indiana, be the speaker this Sunday evening; at Bradley Methodist Church for the Lenten Service. Rev. Duecker organized the Gethsemane congregation in 1954 and under his leadership the people have erected a new church on the north side of Muncie.

Rev. Duecker is a graduate of Christian Theology Seminary in Indianapolis and has done graduate work at Garrett Biblical Institute in Chicago. He has been conference director of Intermediate work in the North Indiana Conference. He has served as speaker at numerous youth camps. The Chancel Choir of the South Street Church will provide special music for the Lenten Kivanis Sponsored Movie Date Changed A last-minute switch has been int.de in the scheduling of a timely color film depicting the last three years in the life of Christ which is being sponsored here next week by the Greenfield Kiwanis Club.

Kiwanis president Keith McClar-non said because of conflicts with county and city Easter communion services the film. "Day of will be shown at the Weil Theater on March 28 instead of March 30 as was previously announced. Tickets for the religious presentation are being sold by all Ki-wanians and five showings have been scheduled for the Hollywood-made movie 9 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Proceeds derived from the showing will be used by the Kiwanis Club for the benefit of youth work.

DEATH RI LED ACCIDENT EVANSVILLE, Eld. MP) The death of Mrs. Mary Jo Slinker, 21. Evansville, was ruled an accidental drowning Friday. She died Sunday when her auto sank in" 42 feet of backwater off an Ohio River levee road.

Her husband escaped as the car sank. INDIANAPOLIS 'AP State A'ty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers advised 23 defendant state senators Friday it would be best to appeal a Marion County Si perior Court, ruling which declared the General Assembly illegal and powerless because of failure to reapportion itself.

Steers said if they appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court and lose, "the General Assemibly is no more and we will have a constitutional convention or no government at all in a short tme." The warning came after J.dgc John F. held the legislature's failure to reapportion in violation of both the Indiana and U.S. Constitutions. He said members attempting to serve after the date of his judgment are without de facto authority to act. The decision was a victory for State Si en.

Nelson G. Grills, the assembly's stubbornest fighter for reapportionment. The Indianapolis Democrat filed the suit, which Linder upheld, in 1938. It attacked the election of 23 senators, including himself. After the ruling.

Grills called Linder "a great judge" and said. "He is the first judge in the United Stales, to do more than threaten a In advising the principals to sit tigl.t. Steers said. "II you da not appeal. then the Question can only come up by way of judicial at- I tack on validity of the risla- lion which is hereafter enacted.

He pointed out he had asked th state supreme court for a wait to prevent Linder court from tak ing jurisdiction in the qu; stion but was ref sed. The ruling that the legislature has no power from now on actually would prevent it from carrying out Grills' desire thai it reapportion. Declaring the legislature uncon- stititional raised questions about! the proposed one-clay s.sion to reenact the "lost" Indianapolis! thoroughfare bill. Gov. Matthew E.

Welsh indicated he still would be willing to call such a session. I Welsh said. "It would be no more uncorsutirttonai than previous ses-1 sions which have been held since i time for reapportionment was re- quired by statite." Senate Majority Leader S. Hugh Dillln Petersburg Democrat, said he hoped the decision would b-: appealed and added. "Judge Lin-i er uas about as much power to dissolve the General Assembly as I have to dissolve Superior Court 5." Superior 5 is Linder court, 3 Killed in Farm Tracfor AccidenSs By HIE ASSOCIATED PRESS Trree Ilccsiers were killed in separate accidents Friday when their farm tractors overturned.

Eldcn Cccp-. r. 47. was injured fatally when his vehicle Hipped over while he was filling a dam at a pond 10 miles east of Mrs. Laira Cooper, the victim's mother, discovered the body.

Joel H. Minton, 20. Rt. 1. Memphis, died whrn his tractor went out of control on a Clark County road three miles west of Memphis and went into a ditch.

Henry Otto. 72. Rt. 5. Kckomo.

was killed when his vehicle overturned as he was attempting to pull out. a tree stump. DAJO'S LITTLE FOLKS JENNIFER HARLAN Daughter of Steve and Virginia Harlan, R. 1, Markle-ville. DaJo Studio photo.

v-l. I fk -I ST4 7 1 i I I i i i Hancock County in 1950 (which is the last year upon' i which figures are complete i re-j i ceived a total of Sl.070.169 in aid" according to a sur- vey by the Taxation department of the Indiana State Chamber; of Commerce. Of this total somewhat over half, or S567.822 was for the use of schools in the county. High- ways and streets were allocated $406,132. Public Welfare got S59.625.

Alcohol taxes disirib-j uted to civil units accounted for $17,700 and the local sh.tre of the intangibles tax amounted to i S8.8S9. I The per capita distribution! tor Hancock county was $40. i2 I for every resident, which is somewhat less than the state; average of $41. C2. i There is great variation in this per capita figure between coun- ties.

Poorer and less populous counties receive much greater i per capita distributions, large-1 ly because of the larger amounts I of state school aid. The per capita of Brown county, for instance, is more than double Hancock's at $32.88. Other counties receiving large per capital allocations include: Crawford. Martin, $71.41: Pike, $79.09: Spencer, Switzerland. $87.93.

Use ol Easter Seals Is Urged Interest in Crippled Shown on Mai! Help fight crippling by using the Easter Seals you received from the Indiana Easter Seal Societies. "Tony" Hulman. general chairman of the liMl Easter Seal Campaign, urged today. "While the most important ob-J of Easier Seals is raising funds for treating the physically handicapped, the annual messen-j gers also tell a story of aid and hope for the handicapped. "Use of Easter Seals, regardless! of the contribution made in their behalf, is a definite means of ex-1 pressing interest in the he said.

Easter Seals reached 900.000 Indiana homes in the mail this month. The appeal finances care and treatment, education and research programs mat aiu an crippieci persons regardless of race, creed oi handicapping condinon. Pagan Fanatics Run Wild in the Congo LEOPOLDVXLLE. the Congo APi Hundreds of pagan fa-, natics are running wild through i the Congo's Kivu Province in a I new terror campaign against white people, the United Nations reported today. A joint force of U.N.

Malay troops and Congolese soldiers is preparing to set out from the U.N. base at Kindu in a bid to end the outbreak of lawlessness. A U.N. spokesman described the fanatics as a "terrorist group several hundred strong." They are concentrated around the Kivu town of Kasongo and are known as "kartelites." According to reports brought back to Kindu by missionaries recently in Kasongo the Kartelites are armed with bows and arrows and wear a band of leopard-skin around their heads. Their avowed intent is to "kill all whites." A UuV.

spokesman told newsmen. So far no reports of any killings by them have reached the United Nations. The spokesman said the Congolese population around Kasongo also was in fear of the fanatic terrorists and the authorities in rebel-held Kivu had agreed to help United Nations forces to bring back law and order to the area. They were providing men for a joint police action to be launched as soon as possible from Kindu. Kasongo is nearly 200 miles from Kindu and it may take several days before the column can reach the town.

The UJST. spokesman said it was not known exactly how many white people still remained in Kasongo but there were thought to be about 30. PLANTINGS INCREASE INDIANA POLTS (APt Larger Indiana plantings of tobacco and soybeans are planned, the U. S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.

But small cuts were reported for corn and oats. Friday. Asst. U.S. Any.

Philip L. Jr. said Mrs. Jones was chained specifically with a single misapplication. He said the defendant placed the u.tal at "about $80,000" and (s-aid.

"I've ben waiting for the ax to fall." She was discharged from her job Feb. 24 for other reasons. Melangton said the swindle occurred between July, 1938 and the date of her dismissal. Mrs. Jones' attorney.

Owen W. Mallm. described her 40-year-old husband. Gerald, as a part-time janitor who spent most of the last two years trying "to break the bank in La Vegas. New.

gambling casinos." Join-i iUUles 'vears s.ffered serious 1 in- an auto accident several tgo. thought he'd eventually a killing at the 21 game as." Mullen said. The at- explained Mrs. Jones fi-her husband's ventures lan a ycar before revealing he was gelling the cash "He make in Veg toriu-v nanced more i He left rig jvegas. taking away for Las SI .500 and didn't ccme back until Octcber." a it! "A troubled mind and 1960 Pontiac convertible." Mullin said, "was about all Mrs.

Jones realized from her misdeeds. She had been preparing to turn herself in for some time." A small shortage discovered after Mrs. Jones was fired brought a request far FEI study. Special Agent Allan Gillies said a preliminary check of records disclosed a 540.00!) shortage. Melangion said the twice-married Mrs.

Jones covered up thefts by transferring funds from inactive savings accounts to three fake accounts, which she would withdraw "whenever her husband needed money." Mrs. Jones, a native of Water- ford. has been living here 'some time, and Marion. aer parents re- sic Harvey on Small Business Committee Congressman Ralph Harvey ol Indiana's Tenth District, who was recently appointed to the House Seloct Committee on Small Business, has been appointed to twe subcommittees: Taxation, and Foreign Trade and Foreign Aid. Mr.

Harvey has introduced a bill H.R. 52C9' winch he feels will prove of great benefit to small businessmen, not only in Indiana but over the entire country. During the recent election campaign he iften discussed the plight of the nation's small businessmen and the effects on the total economy in such a situation. In a Small Business Committee meeting on the 13th of March. Congressman Harvey proposed and urged that hearings be held in Indiana as soon as possible to heai the problems of small businessmen in his slate.

He hopes that such hearings will not be unduly delayed by the committee chairman. Harvey has said that careful consideration of the problem has been delayed far too long. Woman Is Fatally Beaten Near Home MUNCIE, Ind. APt A 59-year-old woman returning from work was fatally beaten Friday night at the entrance to an apartment building. Helen Knokes died in Long Hospital at Indianapolis early this morning of severe head lacerations.

Police sad an occupant of the apartment building discovered her by the door. Anna L. Jones said Miss Knokes tsually arrived home from the piano shop where she abcut 9:15 p.m. She said she began to worry when Miss Knokes didn't arrive and found her near the entrance. Police said several break-in attempts in the area had been reported in the last week.

Upon questioring other tenants in the apartment house, officers said several women reported they had been molested in past weeks. not be determined until radio and other technical data are analyzed, but officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the test appeared successful in every respect. A powerful Little Joe rocket sent the capsule skyward. The space craft was seen to separate from the launching rocket at about 35.000 feet, as planned. The craft then continued its climb to about feet, where the main parachute opened.

The capsule was believed to have landed in the water about 8 minutes after the launching. The rocket carried radio telemetry equipment to send back flight data, and aLso carried tape recorders on board. It was tracked by radar and by cameras on the ground and in aircraft. The shot may be the last in the Mercury astronaut program before a similar capsule carries a man on a 125-mile high, 200-mile long ballistic Right from Cape Canaveral, Fla. That, flight, tentatively scheduled for next month, will be one of a series designed to train astronauts for the much more ambitious attempt, perhaps late this year, to orbit two or three times around the earth.

The 25-foot-tall rocket, 6.5. feet in diameter and weighing 40.000 pcTinds with its one-ton space craft, blasted off at 11:48 a.m. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said there were no animals or biological specimens aboard. The launching vehicle was called Little Joe VI. NASA said the shot was designed to test the Mercury caj-sule and its escape system under the most severe conditions that can be expected during launch for an orbital flight.

These conditions exist at an altitude of about 35,000 feet, where the combined forces of velocity and atmosphere density exert th greatest pressure on the space craft. George R. Foster Completes Course George R. Foster, a resident of Greenfield and assistant director of the Indiana Department of Civil Defense, recently completed a weeks' training course in radiological defense at the regional office of Civil Defense and Mobilization at Battle Creek, Mich. Following the radiological session, which began March 6th, he ilso attended an orientation course at OCDM, along with a number of other state CD officials, the following week.

Among the topics taught by regional specialists in various aspects of Civil Defense were the fallout shelter program, rural Civil Defense, communications warning systems, public emergency information programs, surplus property and matching funds and Operations Alert for 1961. FUNERAL RITES SET ROCHESTER, Ind. CAP) Funeral services will be in Rochester Monday for Levi P. Moore, 71-year-old former president of the Indiana State Fair Board, who died Friday. Moore served on the board from 1923 to 1947 and was president two terms.

The widow and a daughter survive. LOCAL WEATHER Occasional rain, windy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight mid 30s. High Sunday mid 40s. Monday Outlook: Partly cloudy with little temperature chance.

jjjjjgj Spelling Bee Is Set Wednesday Entries Made From Various Schools Final preparations have been made for the annual Hancock County spelling bee scheduled for March 22nd with spelling champions from 11 Greenfield and county schools participating. County Supt. Cecil E. Elliott is coordinating the activities in the event sponsored each year by The Indianapolis Times. Mr.

Elliott said the contest will get underway at 1:30 p. m. in the auditorium of the Memorial Building. It is the second year The Times has sponsored the spelldown here and the public is invited to attend. Mr.

Elliott has named Mrs. Marjorie Walker as pronouncer and Mrs. Ruth Hea-vin, Ralph Blodgett and Max Hendryx as judges. Champion school spellers in Grades 5 6, 7 and 8 are eligible to participate. Each school is to send its champion and the runner up as alternate.

Spelling this year (champion listed first and alternate second) will be: Brandywine 1. Linda Davis, Grade 7. 2. Joyce Blackford, Grade 6. Charlottesville 1.

Kenneth Jessup, Grade 8. 2. Janice Todd, Grade 8. Greenfield Jr. High 1.

Richard Aloore, Grade 8. 2. Danny Buechler, Grade 8. Hancock Centrl. Elera School 1.

Mary Spreen, Grade 7. 2. Joyce Cox, Grade 6. Harris, Greenfield 1. Kathleen Murphy, Grade 5.

2. Sally Draper, Grade 5. Riley, Greentield 1. James Davis, Grade 6. 2.

Martha Holt, Grade 5. St. Michael's, Greenfield 1. Karen Kay Cecil, Grade 8. 2.

Jackie Stevens, Grade 8. Vernon Twp. Jr. High School 1. Patricia Cook, Grade 8.

2. James Halliburton, Grade 6. Weston Greenfield 1. Nina Bridgewater, Grade 6. 2.

James Chandler, Grade 6. Wilkinson 1. Susie Wheeler, Grade 8. 2. Doris Cecil, Grade 8.

Zion Lutheran 1. Larry Kleiman, Grade 8. 2. Sandra Kleiman, Grade 8. Top spellers will be invited to participate in the state semifinals and finals in Indianapolis.

The semi-final is set for April 22 and the finals April 29th. State Champions will be invited to the national contest May 29th at Washington, D. C. Penn. Railroad Crews Restore 500 Ff.

Track RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) Pennsylvania Railroad crews worked today to restore 500 feet of track torn up at Straughn when 12 cars of an eastbound freight train were derailed. The pileup Friday blocked both tracks of the mai line between St. Louis and New York. Several utility lines were knocked down when the cars jumlped the track.

There were no injuries. A spokesman said a thrown wheel may have caused the over the weekend without danger of any appreciable damage State police reported the White River bridge on Ind. 144 damaged at Waverly. Bridges are out on Ind, 234 east of Kennard and Ind. 258 west of Austin.

Some Jackson County secondary highways remained closed, although a rapid drop sent the east fork of the White more than three feet below banktop near Seymour. Former County Resident Dies illness Fatal fo Marshall Crider, 83 Marshall Crider, age 83 years, of New Castle, a well known former resident of Hancock County, died Friday in the Henry County Hospital following a long period of ill health. Surviving is the widow, Mrs. Myrtle Crider. Also surviving are one sister, Mrs.

Margaret Kelt-ner of Greenfield: one brother. Rev. Mack Crider of Charlottesville; several nieces; and nephews, a number of whom are residents of the Greenfield community. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m.

Monday from the First Christian Church in New Castle with interment in Mounds Cemetery. Friends may call at the Stanley Funeral Home in New Castle after 7 p. m. Saturday. Cause of Death Not Remembered by Dr.

NEW CASTLE. Ind. (AP) vVhile authorities made preparations today to exhume the body of Warren Byrd's first wife, her physician said he didn't remember what caused her death. Byrd, 36-year-old barber, has been charged with firsts-degree murder in the fatal poisoning of his second wife, Lois, 33. The first Mrs.

Byrd, Loretta, 40, died at Richmond State Hospital Dec. 10, 1959 and hospital records show she suffered a stroke. Her doctor, Robert McGee, said he was unable to recall what caused the death and added, "She aad been ill for a long time, and had been to several doctors before we saw her." Lois Byrd died last Sunday in Henry County Hospital, an autopsy was ordered, and acute arsenic poisoning was found. Byrd was arrested Wednesday shortly after the funeral. The body of the first wife is scheduled for disinterment early next week for a pathological examination to determine if she, too, died of arsenic poisoning.

Asked whether symptoms of the two women's deaths were similar, Dr. McGee said they were not, "in some ways." He added he had been "too busy" to look up the death certificate of Loretta Byrd. She died an hour after returning to the Richmond hospital following a furlough home. Ironically, the graves of the two Mrs. Byrds in the New Castle cemetery are separated by a plot reserved for Warren Byrd.

Photo ByDaJo. OLD MONARCH HONOR RECIPIENTS Lion President Charles E. Blue presents 25-year Old Monarch honor certificates to two charter members of the Greenfield Lions Club, Charles Dailey and Darold T. Fleming, on the occasion of the club's 25th anniversary celebration Friday night at the Greenfield Armory. Lions Celebrate 25fh Birthday Active and charter members cf the Greenfield Lions Club, past club presidents, their wives and guests, numbering 150, participated Friday night in the culstanding celebration of the Club's 25th anniversary at the Greenfield Armory.

The evening's program began at 7 p. m. with a swiss steak, dinner catered by the ladies of the Eden Methodist Church. Noteworthy decorations in the large Armory's interior caught the attention of the guests as they arrived. Transformed with a solid ceiling of blue and yellow baloons and tables grouped in a curved arrangement with floral pieces made of daffodils, yellow pompons in purple containers adorned with purple satin bows, the building was made most attractive.

The floral arrangements were later presented to the ladies as door prizes. Acting as toastmaster, Ronald Smitherman, in his welcome pointed to the enviable community service record of the Greenfield Lions Club during its 25 years of existence. He ex- (Contlnued on Page 6).