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9 lie mi ESTABLISHED 1875 LXXXI EDINBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1957 NO. 158 County Clerk And Recorder Report On 1956 Business President's State Of-The Union Speech Today WASHINGTON' (UP) President Eisenhower will urge Congress in his State of the Union Message today to give speedy approv- al to his Middle East doctrine and enact those portions of his domestic progTam which failed to clear the last Congress. Mr. Eisenhower will go before a joint session of the Senate and House to personally deliver his message. It will be broadcast to the nation by radio and television net -fa i Vi 1 AW QU Real Estate Transfers In Johnson County Nineteen real estate sales were recorded in Johnson County during the past seveji days, Oma E.

Piper to Max Neusehae-fer, lot in Piper Sub-div. Julia Jean Nelson Rudd to Trustees, Indiana University, 48 acres Pleasant Twp. Hazel Gilmore to Blue River Building Loan Association, lot 42 Nathan Kyle's Add. Edinburg. Ella Edwards to Raymond E.

Edwards, part lots in Princes Lake Add. Dorothy E. Briggs to John Robert Briggs, 42.04 acres, White River Twp. George M. Runyon, et al to Emily Jane Wilham, acres in White River Twp.

George M. Runyon to Marvin Lawrence Runyon, 28.17 acres. River Twp. Emily Jane Wilham to Marvin Lawrence Runyon 28.17 acres, White River Twp. Claude E.

Stanley to Neles E. Kincaid, 1 acre White River Twp. E. E. Clore to Robert Q.

Thompson, lot in Greenwood. Lena D. Boone to A. K. McClain, .271 acre, White River Twp.

Irvin Fisher to William H. Stewart, lot in Greenwood. Frederick E. Schorkopf to John M. Smart, lot in Greenwood.

Everett I. Jones et al to Jackie E. Swartz, 46.40 acres, White River Twp. Loring L. Hinshaw to George Earl Hamilton, part lots 58 and 51, Lewis Bishop's Edinburg, $4000.

Fay F. Pitcher, et al to Gladys M. Greer, 4.81 acres, Hensley Twp. Kenneth White to Ed G. Park-hurst, lot in Trafalgar.

Leo Nance to Howard D. Hester, 5 acres, White River Twp. Maurice McCarty et al to Basil McCarty, 5 acres, White River Twp. MIGHTY RARE The wistful cocker spaniel on the right would love to join those rare Ibizan hounds which are eating lunch at a New York airport upon their arrival from London. Cargo clerk Viola Kelly is treating what is s-'d to be the world's oldest breed of dog.

rf" Loan Association Report Shows Increase For 1956 As reflected by the annual statement of the condition of the Blue River Building and Loan Associa-tion, appearing on page 2 of today's edition of the Edinburg Courier, the Association continued to increase its mortgage loans and share capital during 1956. During the year 1956 the local Association, as reported by Secretary Arthur G. Pruitt, made first mortgage loans in the amount of $123,900.00 to locai residents for the purchase and improvements of homes. Local citizens invested new savings with, the Association to the extent of $104,977.95. Dividends at the rate of 3V2 per annum in the amount of were paid or credited to shareholders during 1956.

The members of the Board of Directors of the Association are: B. G. Breeding, president, Preston Sehaffer, vice-president, Clarence Mason, vice-president, James F. Miller, attorney; Mitchell Click, Gene Kellams and Robert Stine. Mrs.

Edward Joseph had as her guests for bridge last night Mrs. Wayne Hamilton, Mrs. Roscoe Cut-singer, and Mrs. Roscoe Talbert, Jr. Johnson County Clerk, Miss Frances Melton, and County Recorder, W.

Russell Poe, today released figures on business in 1956 in their respective offices. With regard to money, receipts in the Clerk's office totalled $188," 304.74. With the exception of 1954 when receipts were $206,789.47 the 1956 figure was the greatest collected in the past seven years. More Civil cases were filed in Johnson Circuit Court, 509, than were filed in any years for the past nine years. Criminal cases were down but Juvenile cases jumped.

Count of Juvenile cases started in 1953 when there were 65; in 1954, 31; in 1955, 70; and in 1956, 93. Fee collections were at a record $11,820.80. Resident Fish and Game licenses jumped from 4,836 the previous year to 5,719. In 1956 there were 103 deer licenses issued as compared to 61 in 1955. Greatest year for deer licenses was 1952 when 250 were issued.

Recorder Instruments recorded in the Recorder's office in 1956 totalled Largest figures were deeds, mortgages, chattels, marginal releases, 2,233. Fees collected and turned to County Treasurer by Recorder's office totalled $13,479.58. Expenses, salaries and supplies amounted to $11,406.83. Mrs. Prichard Hostess To Christian Circle The evening- circle of the Chris tian Women's Fellowship met last 'night at the home of Mrs.

Clar ence Prichard with 19 members present. Mrs. David Patterson gave devotions and reviewed an article by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The new study Southeastern Asia, was begun last night as Mrs.

Clarence Breeding gave the history and growth of Christianity in certain sections of Asia. Following the program refresh ments were served by the hostess who was assisted by her daughter, Miss Phyllis Prichard, and Mrs. Ray Lain. This Week Monday, January 7 Study Club with Mrs. L.

C. Bice at 2:30 Tri Kappa at school cafeteria at 7:30 VFW at post hall at 7:30 Tuesday, Jan. 8 PAR with Miss Mary Bowman at 2:30 Edinburg Exchange Club dinner at Lions Club house at 6:30 Legion Auxiliary at Home at 7:30 Rainbow for Girls at Masonic Temple at 7:30 Wednesday, January 9 Methodist WTSCS Circle one with Mrs. Lawrence Stila- bower at 2:00 Blue River Home Ec Club with Mrs. Lawrence Wertz at 1:30 Christian Women's Fellowship Night Circle with Mrs.

Clarence Prichard at 7:30 Masonic Lodge at Temple at 7:30 Thursday, Jan. 10 Women's Republican Club with Mrs. Preston SchatTer at 2:00 Rural Social Club with Mrs. Ed Hickey at "2:30 (fast time) Lions Club at 6:45 Jr. Home Ec Club with Mrs.

Donivan Runshe at 7:30 VFW Auxiliary with Mrs. H. Grant Lind at 7:30 Saturday, Jan. 2 Howdy Club at Conservation Club at Saunders Lake, 8:00 to 12:00 RepnpseniathV'fndiana 7zDisirict The Seriate has again refused to adopt new rules, thereby continuing the rules under which it operated in the last Congress. Actually, that was the substance of the vote at 6:00 P.M.

on Friday, Jan-nary 4, although the ramifications of the vote will extend throughout the next two years. Tht real subject of controversy is Senate Rule 22, which provides that debate on an issue may be closed only by a vote of two-thirds of the entire Senate membership (64 of the 06 Senators.) This means that a relatively small group of Senators can continue talking- about a bill until its supporters are forced to give upon it. This, of course, is known as the "filibuster." Although filibusters can be used as a parliamentary technique to stop any legislation, it is considered primarily a threat to civil rights legislation. The Southern bloc of Demo crat Senators is large enough in number to prevent Senate passage of legislation of which they disapprove. As a consequence the vote on the rule was considered proced ural matter by some Senators; to others it was actually a civil rights vote.

Opponents of Rule 22 maintain that it prevents the will of the majority from being fuliy effective in the Senate. Of course, we have always tried to preserve the rights of minorities, so that a simple ma jority cannot rule without regard to the rights of miorities. Amend ing the Constitution, for instance, requires a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress, and ratification by three-fourths of the States. The Founding Fathers did not make amendment rest on the will of a simple majority, but rather required an overwhelming majority to enact a constitutional change. It is the explosive nature of the civil rights issue which has made Senate Rule 22 the subject of such controversy, for the filibuster is rarely used and, with the exception of this field, noses no great legislative barrier in the Senate.

Although the Senate considers itself a continuing body, the House of Representatives starts each new Congress by adopting its rules and making a fresh beginning. With 435 members, the House would never complete any busines if it allowed unlimited debate. Although it is four times the size of the Senate, it has managed to meet this problem very well, and usually concludes consideration of a bill in less time than the Senate reqr.i res. After a House Committee reports a bill, the House Rules Committee grants a rule under which the bill comes to the Floor of the House. This normally contains a time limit on debate, ranging from one to several hours, and with the proviso that the time be equally di vided between the majority and mi nority spokesmen.

Occasionally the majority and minority members of a committee- are in aereement, but there are usualv a few members who have objections and criticisms, and they are recognized. From my experience in the House I have found that the distribution of such time, has been very fair, and for a body so large I believe the opportunity to talk has been very wcll preserved. The Rules Committee itself has often been the target of criticism for holding up action op a bill. The House can suspend the rules and take up a measure, but a two-thirds vote is required to do so. In the 81st Congress the House adopted a rule which was designed to make it (a-ior to circumvent the Rules Committee.

When I entered the House as a member of the S2nd Congress, there was a bitter fight on this section of the rules, and it was changed back to the way it had been prior to the 81st Congress. It is not for a member of the House to tell the Senate what rules (Continued on Page 4) 9 4 ZZZ- 1 Elmer Frccsc Dies Last Night At Hospital i Elmer Freese, 85, a lifelong- resident of Edinburg, died at 11:00 P. M. last night at the Johnson County Hospital. Funeral services Saturday at 2:00 P.M.

at the Mutz Funeral Home will be in charge of Dr. Ralph Rec I ords. Burial will be at Rest Haven Cemetery where there will be Ma- enn ip enrvinne nt (rrnv0 I Friends may call -t the Funeral Home after 2 :00 P.M. Friday. Mr.

Freese was in the plumbing business here all of his adult life, having started in that business with his father. Jle was born in Edinburg August 2 1871, the son of Joseph and Su san Johnson Freese. In February 1905 he married Stella Miller. Just last year the couple observed their Golden Wed ding anniversary with friends call ing on them. Mrs.

Freese survives with seven children; Mrs. Irene Coy of Colum bus, Mrs. Josephine Cox, Edinburg: Mrs. Elizabethh Taggart, Franklin; Louis Freese and Mrs. Rosemary Ash of Shelbyville, Mrs.

Hilda Abbott, Indianapolis and Thomas I. Freese, Edinburg. There are 18 grandchildren, four i great grandchildren and a brother, Gilford I reese of San Diego, California. Mr. Freese was a member of the Methodist Church.

He was a Mason for 60 years and a member of the Royal Arch and F. and A.M. He was a charter member of the Edinburg Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Home Nursing Is Lesson At Blue River Home Ec Club Mrs. John Williard assisted by Mrs.

Wayne Johnston gave an informative lesson on "Home Nursing" yesterday afternoon at the Blue River Home Ec Club with Mrs. Lawrence Wertz. Members answered roll call at the first meeting of the year with "My Goals for the New Year" after the president, Mrs. James Burgett, opened the meeting. Following the program dainty refreshments were served by the hostess and a social hour was enjoyed bv all.

BOWLING NEWS In the Wednesday night league at the Edinburg Bowling Center Gallon Grocery won six points from Webb Veneer and Curly Dog 1 won eight from the Legion. Best individual series were bowled by Walter Fulford, 638; Ivan Miller, 555; C. Ferguson, 524; R. Sadler, 517; J. Meier, tflO; and G.

Tottcn, 506. Miss Sharon Gundrum has begun a new position in the office at the Indiana Bell in Columbus. Edinburg And Whiteland Game At Franklin Edinburg High School's Lan cers basketball game vs Whiteland tomorrow night has been shifted to the Franklin High School gym. Doors will open there at 6:15 P. First game at 6:45, second at 8:00.

Admission will be 60c. Students will buy their tickets in ad vance at school and only adult tickets will be available at the door. burg and season tickets will be honored. Whiteland got off to a mediocre start this season but has been stronger in recent games. County Auditor Will Speak At Meeting Here Tonight Robert Burgett, Johnson County Auditor, will be the speaker for the Civil Defense meeting to be held at the Edinburg Town Hall tonight starting at 7:30 P.M.

Also tonight installation of offi cers will be held. Workers and all interested are in vited to attend. -v- works and to the world by the Voice of America. This j'ear's report on the state of the nation, which the" Constitution requires the President to send Congress each year, will be shorter than previous ones Mr. Eisenhower has made.

It will contain about 3,500 words and will deal only generally with the President's legislative recommendations. Details of his legislative proposals will be saved for later special messages. Sound Familiar Theme The President was expected to sound the same theme in today's message that he did in 1956. Namely, that the state of the nation is good because the United States is at peace and enjoying high-level prosperity, but that it must continue to carry heavy burdens of taxes, defense and foreign aid spending because of the challenge of world Comunism. One highly placed Republican who had been briefed in advance on today's message said it contained "no surprises." On domestic matters, i he said, the President would ask from the new Congress what he failed to get from the last one.

That would include, in the main, his proposals for expanded civil rights legislation, federal aid to schools and liberatlization of the immigration and Taft-Hartley labor laws. Mr. Eisenhower also was expected to promise a balanced budget but rule out any chances for a tax cut because of expected increases in defense and foreign aid spending. State of World Report The President's State of the Union Message is also a report on the state of the world. Mr.

Eisenhower was certain to review and to hail evidences that all is not well in the Russian empire, as evidenced by the Polish and Hungarian uprisings, but to warn that the Soviet still seeks world domination and is threatening a new area the Middle East. Commitments Made By Junior Red Cross Eight County and City Schools were represented at the Johnson County Junior Red Cross meeting at the City Building, Franklin this week when the chapter members made commitments of 350 Valentine tray servers for Muscatatuck State School and 250 gift boxes by time for the April meeting. Allen Winslow, President, presided at the meeting and Mrs. Curtis Wiesman outlined services to the Armed Forces. Junior Red Cross will meet again on the first Thursday in February.

Mrs. Preston Schaffer and Mrs. Wayne Kellams attended the opening session of the Indiana House of Representatives today at the State House. Mr. Schaffer took oath of office as joint representative from Johnson and Marion Counties.

Mrs. Jo Redmond and Miss Ruth Hutchison were in Indianapolis this morning. Miss Jackie Amos became ill with a middle ear infection at Pinebrook School in Glen Arbor, Michigan, yesterday and is in Traverse City. Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Gosney visited Mrs. Shelby Lewis in Indianapolis yesterday. Mrs. Bert Cranmer remains about the same at the Johnson County Hospital. MEMORIAL Hospital Notes JANUARY 9 Admissions Bertha Agnes Smith, R.R., Mor- gantown; Evelyn Irene Gill, Edin burg; Carol Virginia Sumner, Whiteland; Vernie Vaughn, R.R., Bargersville; William Winston Tac kitt, R.R., Martinsville, Irene Davis, Whiteland; Opal Ethel Merriman, Greenwood; Anna Mary Clouse, Greenwood; Betty Jo White, MAigantown; Elsie Eleanor Reed, R.R., Greenwood; Willie Clements, Franklin; Lula Jane McGaha, Edin burg-.

Births Tiiplet girls, born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sumner, Whiteland; baby boy, born to Mr. and Mrs Harold Gill, Edinburg; boy, born to Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Foster, R.R. Franklin. Dismissals Lela M. Barnes, Greenwood; Ethel Mae Cooper, Edinburg; Ther- on Straley, Franklin; Vicki Ryner- son, Franklin; Mary Pearl McKin ney and baby, Greenwood; Russel Mitchner, Franklin; Deanna Kay Wilhite, Franklin; Carl Lemons Franklin; Carolvn J. Robertson am baby, R.R., Shelbyville; Frances Means and baby, R.R., White- land; Beulah Bernice Peavler and baby, R.R., Greenwood; Dawn El rod, R.R., Franklin; Mate Chester Whiteland; Frank Floyd Andrews Edinburg; Karen Mithchell, R.R Greenwood; Joanne P.

Ennis, Mar tinsville. Deaths Lillie Daugherty, Franklin; Elme Freeze, Edinburg. Neighbor children are ill with chicken pox, Tina Fox, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox, Lisa Tal bert, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ros coe Talbert, and Kathy Talbert daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Talbert. Evan Pruitt, brother of Mrs.

Vir gil Wheeler, underwent surgery Tuesday at the Methodist Hospita in Indianapolis. tV 7 I Ralph Broughman, left, Chairman of the Johnson County Chapter for Infantile Paralysis and Ivan Byers, Chapter Treasurer, launch the Mfrch of Dimes drive in the County. Durinij the campaign teenage groups throughout the County will hold a one day sale of Potato chips to help the drive..