The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

Honriy Temperatures Maximum, 42; minimum, 22; 7 a. a. 23; 12 (noon) 23; 2 p. 26. Humidity, 25-24, Wind, Entered as Second Clan Matter Oct.

4,1895, at Post office at Tipton, Under the Act of March 3. 1879- Weather Forecast Partly cloudy today, tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature about 14 degrees. VOL. 103.

TIPTON, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1947. 25 DEAD: NEW COLD WAVE MOVES INTO MIDWEST Income Surtax Studied I Indianapolis, Jan. leaders today considered seriously a surtax on the gross income tax to pay for additional governmental expansion recommended by Gov, Ralph F. Gates. Experts estimate that the sweeping health program and the increase in pay to teachers to plus additional retirement pay, will cost 512,000,000.

The only tangible method suggested so far by the governor to finance these outlays has been a tax of 3 cents on each package of cigarettes. But this levy will raise only $3,000,000. Also, nothing definite has been suggested so far by the administration chiefs to give relief to financially embarrassed cities and towns except introduction of a bill enabling them their own taxing, aside from the property Icvj'. Another bill to levy a "personal service" income tax of'one and a half per cent for school purposes has been proposed. Possible Gasoline Tax The governor likewise has proposed nnthing to finance his road expansion plan except additional taxes on trucks and busses, which are violently opposed by those industries.

However, in the background is a bos- sible rise of 1 cent in the gasoline tax. I One proposal for a surtak is making the present 1 per cent rate apply to income up to a year, setting the rate from $4,000 to $10,000 at 2 per tent and from $10,000 up at 3 cent. Another suggestion is to increase the-present tax ratle to 1.5 per cent, except for persons making less than $2,500, who would pay 1 per cent, as at present. The governor had planned to deliver his financial message to the general assembly today, but he has "bogged down" in figures and wiH hot do so until next week, according to aides. FREAK WEATHER SWEEPS ACROSS KILLS SEVERAL Freak weather, including blizzards such as this one in Milwaukee, dust storms and a tornado, sweeping across the U.

S. have caused 25 death and injuries to hundreds of others and ssnarled transportation. Fourteen persons were killed by tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas and 60 others were Young People Lead Church Service Young People's day will be observed at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Following a period of meditation, Joan Abendroth will give the call to worship and Connie Boyd will give the invocation and the. Lord's prayer.

Beverly Campbell will read the scripture and Fannie Floyd will give Meditations, "Youth Shares." will be given by Betty Harrison, Marilyn Green, Ann Camren and Mary Collins and Joan Riley will deliver the benediction. Spencer to Speck On Radio Program George A. Spencer, vice-president of the Oakes Manufacturing company, will participate in a discussion over Radio Station WLS, Chicago, at 9:45 a. Saturday. Mr.

Spencer will speak on "Furnishing the Brooder House." Mr. Spencer appeared on a similar program five years ago when he discussed the ture of poultry equipment. The Oakes company, manufactures poultry and hog feeding equip. ment. PARTITION ASKED Partition of a 24-acre tract, three miles east of Windfall, was asked in a suit filed today in Tipton circuit court by Mary B.

Goodwin. Defendants are L. E. Goodwin and others. 75 Are Listed On High School Honor Roll Seventy-five students, 11 five- honor and 64 four-honor pupils, are listed on the lionor roll at Tipton high school for the third and final six weeks of the first semester of this school year-, C.

B. Stcmen, principal, reported today. Eighty-five students with four and five honors were listed on the honor roll for the first six weeks of the semester including 17 fivr -honor and 68 four-hohor students. To have honors in any subject, the student must have a grade of or better in the subject and a grade of or lietter in citizenship. Only those with four or more honors are entitled to library privileges and regular curricular requirements do not exceed four subjects, Mr.

Stemen said. Five honor students are Beverl Beck, Dorothy Gordon, Nancy Harting, Jeanette Legg, Marjorie Meier, Donald Pearson, a i Robinson, Elizabeth Spahr, A.llen Stoner and Phyllis Swinney. Four-Honor Students Members of the four-honor group follow: Sara Batts, Walter Bockover, Byllie Book, Joyce Burket, Lita Burris, Ethel Carmichael, Charles Castor, Barbara Cherry, Katherine Cockrill, Patricia Cooper, David Cox and Florence Doversberger. Norma Doversberger, Joe Dunn, Dorine Durham, Mae Eckersley, Peggy Edwards, Norma Ehman, Deloris Fischvogt, Barbara Goar, Nancy Goar, Mary Griffith, Donald Grishaw, Peggy Guilkey and Phillip Harrison. Ann Henderson, Charles Jackson, Eunice Julius, Rebecca Kendell, James Kintner, Walterj Kirkwood, Phyllis Lyke, Verna Mattingly, Carolyn Miller and Larry Maltingly.

Alice Morelock, George Mor- riset, Marilyn Mullikan, Harold Newsom, Carol Ann Overdorf, Patricia Overdorf, Lazaros Paikos, Beverly Parnell, Nedra Phillips, Lester Prifogle, Mary Prifogle, Irene Quade, Carolyn Rayl, Richard Regnier and Ellen Rockwell. Anne Saxton, Bernard Scheerer, Frieda Shupperd, Phyllis Simms, Norma William Smith, Rose Sphar, Marilyn Spradling, Martha Stroup, Donna Thompson, Emma Tidier, John Walker, Barbara Williams and Nancy Williams. School Board Changes Policy Meetings of the Tipton school board will be open to the press, A. R. Marston, board president, announced following a two-hour conference Thursday afternoon with The Tipton Tribune.

The announcement marks a broadening of policy, which has brought the school administration criticism in the past because little publicity was given to its plans. Although pointing out" that meetings are not held at regular times, Mr. Marston said that he would instruct the school superintendent to notify the press of each meeting at the time the meeting is arranged. Agreement on coverage of the meeting was announced after it had been approved by Paul Kutz, secretary of the board. John Mason, treasurer, was out of the city and could not be reached but Mr.

Marston pledg- unanimous co-operation of the board. The school board has nothing to hide, Mr. Marston declared, and because the board is the servant of the public, the public should be informed of the general policies of the board and the school administration. ART ASSOCIATION TO HEAR BOOK REVIEW The Tipton Art association will meet Monday at 2:15 p. m.

at the Tipton-Tipton County library, Mrs. H. V. Morris wUl be charge of the music and Mrs. Paul Sawyer will speak on Judge Edwards Memory Honored The memory of the late Judge James H.

Edwards of Madison superior court, a native of Tipton county, was honored in a resolution adopted today by the Tipton Bar association. The res-, olution follows: "The Tipton Bar associatior learns, with deep regret, that thf Honorable James H. Edwards former judge of the Madison superior court, native of Tiptor county, has answered a summons from the Higher Court terminating his activities in the profession to which we belong. "Jimmie Edwards, as he was familiarly known to the peoplr in the vicinity of Curtisville this county, was held in higl esteem, greatly admired bv those who watched his career and his death is a sadness to al who knew him. "As evidence of the regard In which Judge Edwards was held by the Tipton county bar and by the many friends he had in Tipton county, it is ordered that this inadequate memorial be spread upon the order book of the Tipton circuit court, as permanent record of that esteem." CLEON WADE MOUNT.

FRANK B. RUSSELL. S. A. CULVER.

Rites Set Sunday For W.W. Shook, Once of County Funeral services for Willard W. Shook, former resident of Tipton county who died at his home near Bunker Hill Thursday following a heart attack Wednesday, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Baptist church in Bunker Hill.

Burial will follow in the Bunker Hill cemetery. Shook, who was waif bom near Versailles in Ripley county April 22, 1866, to David W. and Sarah (Jackson) Shook. He'came to Tipton county with his family in the fall of 1890 and lived here several Mr. Shook later moved to Greenwood he resided for about six years and then moved to a farm near Bunker where he had lived for the past 25 years.

In 1894, Mr. Shook married Miss Rachel Huston and they were the parents of three children, one of whom, Roscoe, deceased. Survivors are two children, Mr. J. Franklin Arthur, 457 North Main street, and Mrs.

Carrie Mathis of Bunker Hill; one brother, Albert L. Shook and one sister, Mrs. Ira Melson, both of Tipton county; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Three Dead in Train Collision Alta Vista, la, Jan. 31.

trainmen were dead today and eight were suffering injuries following a collision between a locomotive and caboose of a freight train stalled in a snowdrift. accident occurred on the Chicago Great Western railroad during a blinding snowstorm near Alta Vista yesterday. Engineer "George Klahr of the locomotive said the snow prevented him from seeing the freight.train. The boiler of the locomotive exploded as it ripped into the caboose and two freight cars. The engine had been sent from Rochester, to pull the freiglit from the drift.

Wayne Miler, St. Paul, was killed instantly. Paul Butterfield, Mclntyre, died in a hospital a few hours later. Both Miler. and Butterfield and most of the injured were in the caboose.

The third to die was Clyde Eastman of Mclntyre, freight crew member. In critical condition was Leo Vandewalker, St. Paul. One of Vandewalker's legs was amputated. Kiahr, the locomotive engineer suffered burns.

The caboose was demolished by the engine. Admiral Mitscher Seriously III Norfolk, Jan. Marc A. Mitscher, commander of the Atlantic fleet a4ti leader of famed task force 58, was in' a serious condition today the Norfolk naval hospital as the result of a heart attack. The hospital said the admi- years.

i ral's condition was "serious but not.critical." Mitscher, who is stricken Monday. Capt. Secil Andrews, heart Hill i specialist, will confer today with physicians attending Admiral Mark A. Mitscher who suffered a heart attack five days ago. Mitscher was assigned to command the Atlantic fleet following World War II service which won him the distinguished service medal with gold star for his leadership in the Solomon Islands and central Pacific operations.

Mrs. Charles Downes, North Independence street, entered; St. Joseph hospital, Kokomo, today. Hundreds in Tornodoes By International Newsservice A new cold wave moved into the middle west today in t.le wake of storms across the nation which caused the death of 25 persons and injured hundreds of others. Property damage was estimated at thousands of dollars.

Today's sub-freezing temperatures were expected to turn slush into masses of ice, adding new hazards to already seriously hampered rail and highway travel. Tornadoes ripped communities in three southern states. Thursday after striking earlier in Missouri and Arkansas. An estimated 14 persons were killed by the tornadoes and at least 60 were injured. and store buildings were flattened and some were destroyed by fires caused by the storms.

Power lines were torn down in many communities and in some the residents were compelled to use candles and lanterns for illumination. Tlie hardest hit city in the west was Milwaukee, where traffic was para- ylzed by 17 incnes of drifting s'lov. Four deatli's there were ajcr.t)ed to the storm and two other persons lost their lives elsewhere in Wisconsin. Milwaukee' officials said the blizzard was the most destructive in the city's history. Schools were closed and the industrial life of the city was all but throttled.

Huge drifts virtually cut off the city of more than 500,000 population from outside transportation. Storm relief today for Chicagoans was in the form of another cold speil was expected to transform highways and sidewalks covered with melting slush into sheets of ice. An early death toll of eight frorri tornadoes was increased the destructive winds whipped across two counties in western Tennessee and also struck communities in Alabama and Georgia. Two were dead and 14 injured in the Tallassee area of Ala- gama. Thirty seven houses were wrecked.

In Evergreen, three (Continued on Page 8). Survey indicates Little Likelihood Of Hospital, Airport Conflicting FINED FOR INTOXICATION Howard Lafayette, was fined $1 .50 and costs in justice of the peace courts today the author and his background, following arrest by. city po- A book teview.wltl be giyen by lice. He was charged with in--Mrs. C.W.

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R. Marston, 231 North Indeperidence street, has been pledged to Alpha Theta Michigan State unlvW- sityat East Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Marston ate going to Michigan this wfeek-end ttf viirtt Miss Marston. Results of a survey to determine the advisability of locating the proposed municipal airport within one mile of the proposed Tipton County Memorial hospital were made public today by Jesse Mcintosh, chairman of the city aviation commission.

The survey, based on a questionnaire sent to every Indiana 5lrport operator who is located in a city with a hospital, indicates that a nearby airport for small craft would not interfere with patients in a hospital. Results of the survey are in line with a report by state board of health engineers who surveyed the hospital site and approved it with knowledge that an airport was proposed nearby. In approving the site, the engineers said: "City and county planning propose an airfield to be south of the county infirmary. These plans, if completed, would locate north-south and east-west landing strips at least a half-mile from the hospital. No traffic lanes would be iirecty over the hospital and 'ow flying would and should be controlled by airport regulations." The.aviation commission survey consisted of sending a questionnaire to every airport operator In a city which also had a hospital and asking if complaints had been received from the hospital.

Nearly 100 letters were sent. Replies Received Twenty-one replies were received, of which 13 expressed opinions or reported on the basis experience. All but two expressed an opinion that there would be no interference. Five of the replies came from airports ranging from .4 to 1.25 miles from a hospital. None had received complaints.

In making public-the survey results, Mr. Mcintosh pledged co-operation with the hospital group and the four-man aviation commission agreed to abandon the airport proposal if it could be shown that it would interfere with the hospital project. "We believe the community must have the hospital," Mr. Mcintosh said, "and we pledge our co-operation to the hospital trustees. We have made this survey to ascertain the facts on the basis of the experience of other hospitals.

We find little to indicate that the two.would interfere." Complete results of the survey follow in alphabetical order: airport is two and one-half miles from the hospital and we have had no complaint from the patients or hospital board." Bluff have not received any complaints from our local hospital, which is only one- half mile from our temporary field. can state that we have had no complaints. Our airport is located three miles from the local hospital." Half Complaint Decatur (Hiway My field has been in operation for the past 10 years. 1 have only one and west. The hospital lies directly east within one mile from the runway.

In solo flight I can have an altitude of around 600 feet, in an average wind, right alongside the hospital. So far I have had no complaints from the hospital citizens surrounding my flight area." Fort Wayne (Smith field nearest hospital to Smith field is over four miles distant. We, have had no complaints as a result of genera! airport operation. In your case, I would say thait unless the hospital is in a runway approach zone the nuisance at the hospital would not be great. Fort Wayne (Myers airport) "Myers airport is over three miles from the nearest hospital.

We only one mile from the city limits and partlial- ly surrounded by suburban dc- velopnjents. Although at present we are, flying from the field only on a small scale, we expect no seridus opposition from prop(Continued on 8). Mac Arthur Bans General Strike Tokyo, Jan. MacArthur called an official halt today to plans for a general strike by two and one-half million Japanese government leaders. Strike leaders were at first determined to defy the allied supreme commander, but later capitulated and cancelled the mass walkout.

The strike had been called for midnight tonight as a protest against the Yoshida government. Strike Committee Chairman Yoshiro II was summoned to Allied Occupation headquarters to receive directly the word that MacArthur would not permit the strike. The strike committee had quibbled over whether MacArthur's statement to newsmen the ban constituted an "official" directive. After their leader was summoned by MacArthur, Ivjwever, the strike committee cancelled the walkout. MacArthur's order was issued a scant 10 hours before the mass walkout was to get undorwa.v.

The strike would railways, telegraphic communications, electric power plants and other vital utilities which the government operates. The American general issued a lengthy statement explaining his intervention in the internal labor and political dispute. MacArthur declared: "Under the authority vested in me as supreme commander for the allied powers I' have informed labor leaders whose unions have federated for the purpose of conducting a general strike that I will not permit the use of so deadly a social weapon in the present impoverished and emaciated condition of Japan and have accordingly directed them to desist from furtherance of such action." Buys Cleaners MAURICE THOMPSON Maurice Thompson, Dearborn street, today announced the purchase of the Royal GarJhent Cleaners from Charles Mobley, 209 South West street. The sale will be effective Monday. Mr.

Thompson was employed by Mr. Mobley for a short time last year and previously he was employed at a cleaning estab-. in Frankfort. A veteran of World war II. Mr.

Tliompson will reside in an apprtmeiit in the rear of 'the cleaning establishment. Mrs. Thompson, the former Betty McNew of Tipton, and their two-year-old daughter, are residing temporarily in Frankfort. Mr. Thompson is the son of the late Frank Thompson who was employed here by the Nickel Plate railroad! Mr.

Mobley has operated the business for the past seven yedrs. He di3 not announce his future plans. 36 Bond Students To Attend Clinic Thirty-six Tipton high school band members will attend the band clinic and concert at the! Tipton high gymnasium Saturday in comparison to 17 who attended last year, Paul O. Sawyer, instructor, reported today. "Those students attending' are'volunteers for the clinic and concert which will be guided by Nilo Hovey of Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, Indianapolis; Alonzo Eidson, of Arthur Jordan, and Cliarles Henzie, leader of the Butler university band.

A morning clinic and afternoon rehearsal of participating students will be in preparation for the concert, scheduled at 7:45 p. m. Instruments in the band will include 40 B-flat clarinets, 1 alto clarinet, 4 flutes, 11 alto saxophones, 3 tenor saxophones, 2 baritone saxophones, 2 oboes, 23 comets, 9 horns, 1 baritone horns, 12 tromlrones, 3 basses (sousaphones), and 13 percussion instruments, includ- 1 ing snare drums, bass drums, cymbals, glockenspiel (beii lyre, bells and tympany. Former Arcadia Resident Dies Arcadia, Jan. 31.

Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Frazier, former Arcadia resident, who died at her home in Gary Wednesday, be held Saturday 'at Hobart, according to word received by Miss Nancy Ridge of Arcadia, a cousin. Mrs. Frazier, who was 62, was born in Arcadia to Frank and Mary (Barker) Martin. Survivors are the husband, the mother, one sister, Mrs.

Julia Flemming of Hobart, two brothers, Ersle Martin of Indianapolis, and Verl Martin at the Hlnes veterans hospital in Chicago, 111., the cotoin and Norman Barker and daughter, Mrs. Bertha Smith, all of Arcadia. 42 Junior High Students Listed On Honor Roll Forty-two seventh and eighth grade students are listed on the Tipton junior high school honor roll for the third and final six weeks of the first semester of this school year, J. M. Henderson, principal, announced today.

Two hundred and 16 students complete the' total enrollment for the two grades. On the seventh roll there are seven boys and 12 girls as compared to seven boys and 12 girls the second six weeks and seven boys and 10 girls the first six weeks. Eighth grade honor, students include two boys and 21 girls'- this period compared to two boys and 19 girls the second six weeks and one boy and 13 girls the first six weeks. According to Mr. Henderson, the records show that the girls scholastically are doing belter than the boys, accounting for the fact the girls receive more scholarships than boys.

Maintain Average Citizenship grades may not be lower than a and a average must be maintained in curicular work by honor roll students, Mr. Henderson said. Seventh grade honor students are Robert Burkhardt, Robert Lee, Billy Louis, James Pore, Billy Rice, Richard Slyder, David Stoner, Joan Cage, Joetta Coleman, Lena Corlew, Gretchen Gharrett, JoLee Halns, Shirley Hoover, Anna Mae Mock, Sharon Porter, Pamela Purvis, Reba Ragan, Jane enson and Sandra Purvis. Honor students for the eighth grade are Gerald Reece, Hal Smitson, Beverly Campbell, Joyce Ann Rita Coverdale, Frances June Crist, Esther Eller, Virginia Doris Jackson, Marilyn Ann Marie Jones, Rachel Manlove, Marlene Mason, Jean Meisber, Peggy Morris, Patricia MuUins, Anne Nash, Jean Iris Overdorf, Mary Ellen Ozment, Frances Pearson, Marjorie Porter, Rosamond Sawyer and Maralee Speer. Gerald Rode, route 1, was Admitted to the Mercy hospital la Elwood Thursday for treatment..