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1 PAGE 16- -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1964 Reunions Scheduled Bv Wabash Classes Suits Seek To Prevent School Merger Plans Purdue Coed Wins State Queen Crown Greenwood Faces 2 Legal Actions fcmAmMm STAR STATE REPORT Noblesville, Ind. Suits were filed yesterday in Hamilton Circuit Court seeking injunctions against the takeover of two recently reorganized school districts by school boards. One suit, filed by a group of Fall Creek Township residents, seeks an injunction and a declaratory judgment against 42 defendants, including members of the State School Reorganization Commission. South pmri 5TR STATE REPORT Crawfordsville. Ind.

Wabash College classes ending in and 9 will convene for reunions to begin the 126th Commencement Weekend at ihe college. Class dinners will be at different locations at 6 p.m. At 3:30 p.m. the Wabash drama The Scarlet Masque, will present the play, "J.B.," in the tent theater on the athletic field. TOMORR OW'S activities will begin with the President's Breakfast for seniors at 7:30 a.m.

At 10 a.m. the National Association of Wabash Men will hold a Board meeting in the reception room of new Baxter Hall while the trustees are convening in the Goodrich Room of Lilly Library. Reunion luncheons will be from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the trustee-faculty luncheon at I p.m. will be served in the Campus Center dining room.

The. Wabash College Glee Club will give a concert at 8 p.m. in the Chapel and the last performance of "J.B." will follow at 8:45 p.m. BACCALAUREATE service at which The Rev. Krister Stendahl will deliver the address, "The Law of Safety and the Gospel of Risk," will be at II a.m.

Sunday. A commencement luncheon for parents and visitors from noon until 1:30 will be on the terrace west of the Campus Center. The commencement exercises will begin at 2:30 on the campus mall. Seniors James E. Bond and Jerry P.

Dennerline will deliver the valedictorian addresses. STAR STATE REPORT Greenwood, Ind. The City of Greenwood has been notified it faces two possible legal actions, a Greenwood attorney said yesterday. Greenwood attorneys Clifford G. Antcliff and James Sargent have notified Mayor Winfrey B.

Myers of a pending suit and a pending claim for damages. In the damage action, which Antcliff said would be filed soon, damages are being sought by William F. McClel-lan, 705 Howard Road, who alleges his home suffered serious damage because of a "seriously overloaded sewer system in the Suburban Acres and Lawndale subdivisions." HE CONTENDS his property has been "decreased and Date Change Kills Value Of Nickel STAR STATE REPORT Greenfield, Ind. A Liberty head nickel, at first thought to be worth a fortune, is worth only five cents because the date on it had been altered, a Greenfield coin collector and a Secret Service agent said yesterday. The coin at first was believed to have been one of only five 1913 Liberty head nickels struck on a test die before it was destroyed.

THE COIN expert, Harold B. Metcalf who was asked to appraise the coin owned by an Indianapolis tavern owner, and Kenneth B. Hale, head of the Indianapolis Secret Service office, easily discovered the nickel had been minted in 1910. They said the date since had been altered to make it appear as it were a 1913 date, they said. Hale, who just stopped at Metcalf's office, said altering a coin is in violation of Federal law.

The coin's owner was not identified and is not suspected of having altered the nickel. iff Amo Alumni To Mark High School's End house and causing other damage. The firm also represents John York and his 15-year-old daughter Linda Ann. The girl suffered injuries May 26 when she was allegedly attacked by a dog. Antcliff said suit in this case probably would be filed today.

In a letter to city officials it was alleged the teen-ager "suffered a gash and injury to her right arm and elbow and has remained incapacitated THE OTHER names trustees and advisory board members in Jackson and White River townships as defendants, and asks that they be restrained from appointing a five-member school board for the Hamilton Heights school district. Fortville attorney Thaddeus Spurgeon filed the suit for the Fall Creek Township group and Indianapolis attorney Nelson Grills filed suit on behalf of White River Township residents. Both suits declare the 1959 school reorganization law as it was amended in 1961 is un- constitutional. The majority of residents in both Fall Creek and White River townships voted against the plan as it affected them but highly populated Jackson Township produced sufficient votes to carry the plan. Delaware Township carried the other plan.

TRUSTEES already have announced school board members for the Hamilton Southeastern School District, a merger of Fall Creek, Delaware and Wayne townships. Board members for the Hamilton Heights district have not been announced yet. A meeting is scheduled for tonight to certify members of the new board to the county school superintendent. Opposition to the merger plans originally was expressed by persons who did not feel their areas would have sufficient representation on the school boards. KATHLEEN MILLER Honor Student STAR STATE REPORT West Lafayette, Ind.

A pretty Purdue University coed who has never been a queen damaged to a minimum extent of $7,500" when heavy March rains overloaded the sewer system which exploded the six-inch concrete basement floor in his home, raising the load-bearin? beam of the Presbyterians To Discuss Taxes Human Relations through shock and nausea since." THE GIRL reportedly was attacked by the dog in front of 516 North Madison Avenue. The letter said "the city has been repeatedly warned by notice to the mayor, police and other parties that the dog was vicious, has repeatedly bitten children and the city has failed and refused to act to protect its citizens in making the streets safe for its children." Antcliff said the dog's owner also will be a party in the suit. STAR STATE REPORT Amo, Ind. Amo High School, which held its last graduation exercises this month, will have an alumni banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the school.

This September, Amo High School, which opened in 1903, and the Mill Creek School, will be consolidated in the new $2,500,000 Cascade School in Hendricks County. THE AMO BANQUET will bring back nearly 12 former pupils who were graduated 50 years ago, and invitations were mailed to nearly 900 alumni. The school's first graduating class had three pupils. The late Arthur Trester, commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association for 31 years, had attended the Amo school. Elston Estate To Benefit College Most STAR STATE REPORT Crawfordsville, lnd.

Wabash College eventually will become the principal bene STAR STATE REPORT Hanover, lnd. More than 200 commissioners, representing 113,000 Indiana members of the United Presbyterian Church, will meet Tuesday through Thursday at Hanover College for the 139th annual session of the Indiana Synod. The church's continuing responsibility in human relations and its stand on voluntary payment of certain taxes as a matter of principle will be considered. THE SYNOD'S Council earlier this year approved payment of the Indiana sales tax by Synod office and agencies in Indianapolis on a temporary basis pending final decision at the coming meeting: A SEMINAR on race and religion will be conducted by Howard Maxwell. Speakers will include Dr.

L. K. Anderson of the Presbyterian Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, and Dr. Julian Price Love of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Albania Gtts Cobalt Ottawa (AP) Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

is delivering an $18,000 cobalt bomb to the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in Red-ruled Albania, Industry Minister Charles Drury told House of Commons. He added that orders are being filled for other therapy equipment on requests from Red China and Yugoslavia. ficiary of the large estate of Recover lost articles through Quick-Action Want Ads. before will go to New York June 12 as Indiana's representative in a national college queen contest. Brown haired, green eyed Kathleen J.

Miller of South Bend said she and her sorority sisters in Pi Beta Phi were "very excited" when she learned she had been chosen queen of Indiana college coeds. Judging in the 10th annual national competition is to be based on knowledge, academic achievement, personality, poise and attractiveness. THE NATIONAL winner, to be crowned June 21 on the Ed Sullivan television show, will be given a trip to Europe and more than $5,000 in prizes. Miss Miller, who has never been in either Europe or New York, has studied French at Purdue for three years and plans to become a high school teacher. Her grades average 5.35 out of a possible 6.00, but she finds time for water skiing and bowling.

She is social chairman of her sorority and president of Purdue's Panhellenic Council. She also is a member of Mortar Board, Gold Peppers and Delta Rho Kappa, honorary organizations. She was a member of the National Honor Society in John Adams High School in South Bend. She is the only child of James M. Miller, a South Bend insurance adjuster.

nn fin EM mm Tw Men Hurt As Cars Collide On Bridge Marvin L. Knoop, 29 years old, Arlington, basketball coach at Franklin Central High School and an Indianapolis man were injured shortly after noon yesterday in a head-on automobile crash on a narrow bridge east of the Marion-Hancock County line. State police said the car driven by Knoop and one driven by Richard M. Small, 39, 7990 Bluff Road, collided on the bridge over Sugar Creek on the County Line Road south of New Palestine. The bridge is narrow and higher than the approaches to it, police said, and it is difficult to see cars approaching from opposite ends.

Both cars were left of the center line on the 195-foot long bridge when they hit, state police added. Knoop suffered a fractured jaw and Small a broken nose. Both were taken to Community Hospital for treatment and when you use Isaac C. Elston Jr. under the terms of a will probated in Montgomery Circuit Court.

Mr. Elston, Crawfordsville and Chicago businessman, died in April at Delray Beach, Fla. He bequeathed to the college the Elston homestead here and also arranged for the college to be the recipient of his entire residual trust estate after the death of two other beneficiaries. SOURCES SAID that El-ston's estate amounts to more than $1 million. The college eventually will receive the bulk of the estate.

The college received the homestead in connection with an agreement Mr. Elston had with the college whereby it would care for and maintain the house and the grounds in its present position for 25 years. The house, a three-story frame structure, is one of the largest in Crawfordsville. Mr. Elston also bequeathed $5,000 to the Wabash chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, of which he was a member during his undergraduate days at the college.

Mr. Elston had given Wabash more than $1,250,000 while he was a member of its board of trustees. In the other personal bequests Mr. Elston bequeathed his personal estate of $100,000 to his wife, Mrs. Florence Elston, and $25,000 to a nephew, Edwin Elston Tullis.

He also bequeathed $10,000 to the Oak Hill Cemetery Association for perpetual care of the Elston family lots. an IT LfU School Unit Sets Stock Share Sale STAR STATE REPORT Brownsburg, Ind. The Brownsburg School Building Corporation will offer shares of stock today at $10 each to residents of Brown and Lincoln townships. The holding company, which already has been organized, is selling the shares to give residents an opportunity to express support for the project. A $1,500,000 bond issue will be sold later to raise funds for construction of a new junior high school here.

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