The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

ilf TT1EI Annual Christmas greetings edition Wemiheri Cloudy nd cold with occasional snow flurries tonight and Sunday. 3RD-YEAR-NO. -302 SEYMOUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1962 522-4871 PRICE SEVEN CENTS DAIL EUME Castro Marees bo Release Prisoners ii i i in rospects Of liite Christmas Brighten Here HAVANA (AP) A Christmaa.ls?ter of credit on the Royal gift of today awaited 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners after 20 months of captivity. The Castro government agreed Friday to release them in exchange for medicine and food.

BanlcofCanada In favor of the Cuban National Bank, for the total amount. The Red Cross said in Washington arrangements to guarantee the shipment were made through American as well as Canadian' banks. Three members of the Cuban Red Cross, are going promptly to Turn to page 8, column 6 Prospects' of a White Christmas days, was moving slowly north- The men will be freed on or tightened here today after eastward, setting the stage for a Weather Bureau officials forecast sweep of cold air from the Plains. before Christmas, attorney James B. Donovan of New York, chief negotiator for the.

prisoners' fami Cine, to three inches of new snow Sunday's highs were expected across the southern two-thirds of to be near 20 oyer most of the the state by Sunday morning. state. snow flurries were fore- A low tmpaf cast for Sunday along with a turn f8 Sf'i L. area this morning and nothing lies, announced. Donovan broke the news himself to Some prisoners held in Havana's Principe Castle, and word of their long- kino 1 i lr -r I Si f- if 1 i 5 I 'I 1 1 St it 5 i 13 ii IS a i vMU 9 SI si i jfS Fast- warmer than 30 degrees was reg should bring a snowless, but crisp, waited freedom also was relayed to other captives held on the Isle of Pines off southwest Cuba.

Coed Trips Up In Washington, Red Cross offi Christmas Eve Snow was falling this morning finly in the Fort Wayne area and the southeast corner of the state, but forecasters said, it should istered here Friday. Major U. S. and state highways in the local area were in good driving" condition this morning but some 'Seymour city' streets were still hazardous in spotsjln cials reported the first prisoners. are expected to arrive in Miami Fleeing Bandit Sunday.

But Havana Radio said Spread over the state by tonight they would not- be freed until Monday. Red Cross officials said FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) The they are highly optimistte that the entire prisoner group will be back among their friends and relatives by Christmas. Some 20,000 rela man was running witn a money bag and another man was chasing him and yelling, "Stop that man!" State police reported roads resiaemiw ranging frotfehyand slick in Lawrence A. Schaal, Weather the north to slick in spots in the Bureau state cllmatologist at Pur- south, with most highways across due University, also agrees that the central belt snow-covered and 'nt of Indiana will probably extremely hazardous.

kave a white Christmas this year. Tonight's low temperatures Schaal says past weather rec- were forecast for a range from 10 ords indicate this probability in In the extreme north to 25 in the about four out of 10 years in tax south, with the average near central sections of the state. 1 aornt. mnst ths state. Chances drop rapidly in the tives of the captives live in and so 19-year-old Edwin a Eves put out her foot and tripped him.

Miami. A mother of one of the prisoners TV AH.IMU4 said the men in Principe Prison had a. feast of homemade delica gitive as he lay on the sidewalk Friday and recovered a sack containing $724 taken from a hotel Tha inr nrBeeiir Mntpr located southern areas, becoming less cies Friday. She said it was the first time in more than six months in the Ohio Vallev and which had than one in five years. auditor, Luther Ogg.

The man. that parcels had been allowed to Charles R. Perry, 37, an escaped brought a lethal combination of In northern Indiana, which is freezing rain and snow for two still digging out from a record go through to the prisoners I 1 Harry T. Bennett Harvey E. Dixon fl 1 tt Man I.

McKain breaking snow, tee cnances or a white Christmas are about five freighter S. S. African Pilot was expected to sail for Havana from Port today with some of the supplies convict from' Tennessee, went to jail on a preliminary grand larceny charge. Edwina caught her breath and went on to her classes at Interna tional Business College, where she c. tsuzara mjrea ajjney out of 10 years.

What about sunshine on Christ a Lharlet X. LSrovrn inurman uiu I www rinifi rr 1 requested by Prime Minister Fl Wayne r. Bromtng William L. tlammcll mas day? Well, Schaal points to the record about half have been I ft del Castro as the price for the release of the prisoners. The medicines were donated by U.S.

Inatirm of AAnmrfi minlltjl Ht3w sunny and half cloudy. William Robinson Alan S. Ross Genevieve N. Ruddick Thelma J. Sargeaht Lynn D.

Sutherland Harry C. B. Thias CleUs V. Torpey Alonzo L. Tutlle Frank E.

Whilselt Norman R. Wilde Youth Hurt In One Of Crashes On Icy Roads In one of a series of accidents continuing to occur on icy roads in this area, Roger L. Martin, 17, Snow was a few inches deep in Fletcher R. McKinney Geraldine McNeely Leld Minneman Howard E. Miskell Nellie J.

Miskell Priscilla Pfaffenberger Martin J. Plump M. R. Purlee Harold D. Reichenba Clifford H.

Righlhouse drug manufacturers. out an error. Then she left to spend the Christmas holiday with her parents at their home near northern Indiana in 1961, while a little lay on the ground in central and southern areas; I860 was Robert E. Hinlon Avis J. Hocvcner Louis J.

Kiefer Inez P. Knoke D. Marie Lahne Helen E. Levis Sarah Long Charlet T. Carter Norbert D.

Chud John H. Conner Thomas W. Conner Sara Ki Cordes Esther W. Coryea Lavrence Croucher The Cuban government originally demanded $62 million as a ransom. The value of the food and medicine agreed on is estimated a white cnristmas in most oi me state, but 1959 was snowless.

at $53 million. The pact specifies Schaal added that Christmas the prisoners will be freed when 20 per cent of the supplies are in "I felt so sorry for him after I did she "said. "He fell so hard. wrecked himself going that fast and hitting cement" The secretarial student, a 5-foot-5, 110-pound brunette, was walking with her twin sister, Edith, and a Sandra has seldom been raw and stormy in past years. Cuban hands.

With large sneets or ice sun THE CARRIERS JOIN, TOO stuck tightly to most residents' The Red cross said it is expected to take a few months to get the full amount of the sup Seymour Carriers autos here again today, Mrs. Ruth Ey erhart, a J.overnment County Carriers CROTHERSVILLE FREETOWN- plies that Castro wants. SommerSr-r 19. Monticello- vwhen they saw Perry being chased A Joint announcement in Washington by Gen. Luslus Clay, chair weather observer at Rockford, was" unable take a 'reading of White River this morning as she was unable to get the metal door open to" the concrete house through an They circled tha block to a point where they expected him to appear.

"He was running toward us with about six guys after him," Ed Mike Craf Jon Carter David Runge Dennis Higginbolham Roger Jones Robirt Harm Bob Ellis Danny Polled Tim Willman Kenneth Meyer Kenneth Green John Haley Mitchell Mcintosh Arthur Cathead, Jr. Michael Calhcart BROWNSTOWN Joe Tormoehlen Ronald Terkhorn LJCary Jackson Sfeven Sterling man of the Cuban Families Advisory Committee, and E. Roland Harriman, chairman of the American Red Cross, said the prisoners will be flown to Miami in a four-plane shuttle. The first Pan-Amer near her residence which houses the river measuring instruments. wina saiil.

"I slowed down and I started Donald Sullivan MOTOR CARRIERS Ivan Foreman Virgil Palmer Archie Whitsell Charles Hagen Margaret Robson Mrs. Cart Phillips Mrs. Marvin Doerr Ben Steinkamp ican World Airways plane is Two Barns Burn, scheduled to leave Miami for ziHen Harvn Havana at 8 a.m. Sunday. The shuttle planes will be load Ronald Range Johnny Lanier -Pal Shade- William Siefker Max Ellis 709 West McDonald street, was injured early today and his condition was reported to be "fair" in Memorial Hospital.

Martin, who state police said sustained lacerations on the face end internal injuries, was riding jn a 1955 model sedan- driven- west on the Farmington Road about two miles south and one mile east of Seymour, by Daniel E. iLinne, 17i 409 Bush street. linne lost control of the car on the ice and it skidded into a ditch on the right side of road and struck a tree. Trooper Richard L. Bumps, of the Seymour state police post, investigated.

After 21 accidents were investigated by state police in the immediate four-county area of the Seymour post during the 24-hour period of Thursday and the same number again Friday, accidents were continuing to be reported in tills area today. At 11:50 p. m. Friday on Interstate 65 one mile north and 2.5 miles east of Seymour, a 1950 model automobile driven north by Raymond L. Tuck, of Lafayette, passed a 1958 model truck driven north by Charles E.

Un-dorwood, owned by Underwood Transfer Company and cut in front, with the right side of the car striking the left front of the truck. About $100 damage was caused to the riaht rear of the auto and Robert Brorn Donald Polly Toney Pyle Michael Schroder Donald Runge VALLON1A Mae Hartley MEDORA Marvin Reynolds Jewel Fleetwood ed with drugs and food on their runs to Havana. Red Cross officials called the project the largest operation ever undertaken by the organization in the handling of relief supplies to meet human Four Citetl suffering. More than 100 U.S. Salem Co.

manufacturers contributed or I wondered whether I should trip was afraid he. might have a gun, you never can telL "So I decided to trip him, I just stuck out my leg and tripped him. "Then I was afraid. I thought he might get up and. run after me.

I was just plain scared. I ran into a store." Sue men and boys who had been pursuing Perry through crowds of shoppers caught up and pinned him to the sidewalk. Police said Perry was registered at the Indiana Hotel and followed Ogg from the hotel when the auditor started to take the money to bank. They said Perry had been driving a car stolen in Oklahoma City, Police said Perry escaped from the Tennessee State Penitentiary pledged food and drugs to the program. Havana Radio said the ex After Four Mishaps Here Bids Low For Dam Project Annual Greeting Edition The Seymour Daily Tribune today issues its annual Greeting Edition.

Special attention is called to the artistic and unusual illustrations carried in the. advertisements. These were purchased from several sources and are the work of some of the most outstanding Artists in the world. The warm, friendly greetings come from the folks with whom "you have done business or with whom you have been associated during the year. The' messages are personal expressions of appreciation of your courtesies and patronage and are another way of again saying "Thank and to wish for each one of you a Merry Christmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year.

change will be completed "within sue months and toe first shipment will probably' reach Cuba tonight" The referred to the exchange as "partial compensation for the damage suffered by Hay, Livestock Lost Friday Loss estimated at about $7,000 was caused about 5 a. m. Friday when two largd barns were destroyed by fixe, on the Donald H. Ernest farm of 385 acres In Marion township, Jennings County, about a mile west of the Marion Church. Destroyed in the barns were 4,000 bales of hay, 18 sows, 21 pigs and one cow.

Some of the livestock was saved from the barnS, Ernest, 130 East Freeman avenue, Seymour, said. The Paris Crossing and Lovett volunteer fire departments responded and saved a nearby corn crib containing 2,500 bushels of corn, and an implement shed with combines and other farm implements in i Ice had formed on a power line running from a pole to one of the barns, breaking the line, and a resulting short circuit may have caused the fire, which apparently started in the loft in one of the barns, located on a former Aetna Life insurance farm. The other Four persons were cited on Presuming a low-bid submitted by a Salem firm is approved the Cuban people during the April 1961 Imperialist invasion of next week, construction of a dam at the Monroe charges stemming from traffic mishaps as city police investigated a total of four accidents during a period extending from Friday afternoon until early this morning. Cuba." Reservoir could begin within The radio said the shipments to April 10, 1960, while serving a 60-year sentence for armed robbery. about $100 damage was caused to the front of the truck.

Tuck was cited to appear in justice of the court on a charge of im- Cuba have been guaranteed by a First of the mishaps occurred Turn to page 8, column 3 Motorists at 3:45 p.m. Friday on Tipton street, 50 feet west of Broadway, three weeks. A bid of $1,952,694 by the Ralph Myers Contracting -Corporation, Salem, 'was the lowest of 12 submitted for the construction project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday. Christmas Basket Fund Officer A.

Rose, who investigated, said a 1956 Blaydr Suffers Injured Shoulder, Hospitalized Other bids submitted for the Soars Over $900 Today More For 63 Tags project ranged up to $2,509,143, according to'tk-JH. Knosp, chief Seymour Mayor John C. Isaacs suffered a dislocated shoulder and Was admitted to Schneck Memorial foreign model coach, owned and operated by Jack Don Wieneke, 30, 447 Lee Boulevard, had stopped in the left turn, lane on Tipton street and was waiting for the light to change so he could proceed north on Broadway when procurement officer. The dam isl raviously Reported $778.20 sponded to help it fulfill its needs Hospital at 12:30 a. m.

today af expected to be completed in 660 as the deadline neared today. Paul, Ruhr. Kartn and Most Jackson County, automo- Christmas holiday and reopen as ter he reportedly fell on a down barn, 50 feet away, ignited from Gary Selfridge It is estimated that by early in town street. a car being driven east on Tipton the blaze in the first structure. Icy roads prevented speedy ar bile owners will pay more to usual at 8:30 a.

m. Thursday. The drive on Indiana streets and high- bureau is regularly closed on ways in 1963 as the result of only Wednesdays. two prices which will be charged For the New Year holidav. the 1965, water will be impounded in the 18,000.

acre flood-control and street by Emily Gass Weaver, 47, In Memory of Frad Korta Huber'i Shoe Store James and Hazel Richard L. rRiclcy" Wright. Mayor Isaacs was scheduled to fcave X-rays this morning and was reportedly to be released from the Columbus, reportedly failed to rival of help after the fire alarm was sent out The loss is partially water resources lake that touches parts of northwestern Jackson stop in time. The front of the Columbus Woman's car struck the covered by insurance, Ernest said. hospital around noon today.

County. rear of Wieneke's auto. In Memory of HU Grandfather. Lbert Wright Bridgewaler and Family, Wallon Holel A. week ago, Roy Ryan Sons, vansville, won a $1,443,413 for the new gold and blue state iocal branch wiU be closed Mon.

fSr" i day before New Year's but will With prices ranging from $7 to be reopened at 1 p. m. New Year's $12 last year, the only two prices Day in order' that persons "who which will be charged for new reserved special plates may pick 1963 tags will be $8 to $12. therrT up before the 1963 tags No damages were reported to the 1957 station wagon driven by contract? to construct a causeway 5.00 The annual Kiddie Show will 2.00 be at 10 a. m.

Monday at the 5.00 Majestic Theater. Santa" Claus 2.00 will be present and treats will be given the children. 1 A. total of $130.25 was reported 1.00 contributed today by LeRoy Pol-lert, fund treasurer, lifting the 10.00 total for the drive to $906.45, well 5.00 over the 1961 final total of $878. -Members of the American Lev gion auxiliary will gather at the S.00 Legion Post home at 1 o'clock 3.00 Sunday afternoon to prepare the 2.00 baskets.

They will be distributed 2.00 early Monday morning by teers. 2.10 Thomas- A. Plunkett, chairman 1.00 of the 44th annual basket fund A Friend the Columbus woman, owned by road across the midsection of the Christmas Eve Union Service Planned At Trinity Methodist John H. Weaver, but repair costs reservoir. pnea Rang Givan regularly go on sale across the According to Mrs.

Norma Fet- counter-at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday, In Memory of Daddy, Mother and fitter, Evelyn Nichols In Memory of Bertha Rots to the rear bumper and rear deck lid were estimated at $100 to the Jseymour license branch man- January 2, The Myers firm was also low bidder for that project by nearly $37,000 but was disqualified because federal regulations confined Seymour driver's vehicle. The local license branch has Program for the annual Christ-, Robert A. Gehlbach, pastor of the pf ficer Rose cited the woman A Friend A Friend eligible firms to "small busi- vi wigs wui pay 800 passenger car plates to be $8 for their 1963 plates, whileow 1963 and approximately on a charge of reckless into the property of another.

mas EveTrommunity worship First Evangelical United Bretn-service, sponsored by the Sey ren Church, and the Mr. mour ministerial association, has Jenkins. nesses" doing less than $7,500,000 1,670 trucK Dlates. Turn, to page B. column in three years.

uyrir wgs wiu pay it icr However, Mrs. Fettig pointed been announced. Opening the service will be an A Friend Margaret Bennett Mrs. Edward Millar Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Young Graeiile Mercer Cc Emplbyes Fund Friends at the Tribune piji year. out she will have to order la order to obtain the new more passenger Car plates for plates, motorists must take to the 1963 as ghe has alread exceeded I.OU urive, wmcn nas Deen sponsored by the Legion and Seymour Daily 75.00 Tribune, ha-asked that perrons Three Arrested During Night By Gty Police Weather Records ic.wc uiu witu uicm uicur the.6,800 figure this year, 9 Iha Ait Three persons were arrested, two AU. Tmc tamo "Angels from the Realms'. of Richard G. Gates, host pastor for minislttr paia-up property lax recejpi ana.

also their auto'3 new registrations on charges of public Intoxication A STACK BoT Total S.25 having trucks station wagons who wish to help di tribute the baskets should contact him at 522- 5620 immediately. responded Contributions for the bask 4 plea by fund are to be received yet to (SOT AU. give the invocation. and one on a charge of having no valid operator's license, "by cify ACTOR Another hymn. "There's a Song the service, hasjjypounced.

A cordlarjnidtatlon is extended to the general public to attend the service and a large congregation 1 Seymour residents wholeheartedly to a police during the night Friday. in the Air." will be followed by 4Kn Cir1r.tiir rAaHlntf talrnn frnm Charged with public intoxicatfon v-- Her art th weather recordi tut Seymour. Tht flowntown Seymoui record! and the 1 p. m. tcmperaturt unofficial.

Othei reading! art fron tha rccurdi of Mrs Ruth Everhart, gov ttnmcnt wtatbei obterver at Rock ford and ara-oniclal romue, Bv.v Isaiah, Chapter 9, Verses art expected to "attend uie spec- hlQaah.7m prayer. were Quitman Blocker, 33, of Campbellsburg Rl, arrested at 3:50 a. m. today in the 300 block of Bruce street by Officer Calvin W. lal Afterf a choral response.

The Rev. A. O. Jenkins, pastor congregation will sing the hymn; of the Seeymour -Church of God, to the followed by Thoele, and Jay K. Milroy, 44, of 'Seymour, arrested at Oak and Pine iorm maued in em Dy ine Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Special Raquttts Cited Mrs. Fettig also called attention to the need of persons seeking special numbers to get their requests in early -By calling at the branch in person or "by phone, a motorist may get a number to match his house numberrsreet address, or phone number, bttfc-his request must be made early. Esttigpinted out that she has already begun reserving special1 plates. Hours Listed Mrs Jettig also asserted that ihe Seymour license branch will close at 1 m.i Monday for the East Fourth and Bush streets, the offertory and special music. streets by Officer Larry Langley, Thomas Pl.unkett, chairman of day at either the' Tribune offlca the 44th annual Christmas Basket or the Seymour National Bank Fund, to' help the, drive secure where Pollert is accepting dona-enough funds to supply the baa- tions for the drive, kets necessary to Insure -a merry Members of the Seymour Boys' Christmas for Seymour's needy Club, undertaktn a projsct that families by contributing a total of has become an annual affair, rt $906.45.

baired toys for the basket fund A check, for $75 from Graessle ahd Harry Cherry, Boys Mercer Company Employes Fund Club announced on Wed was largely responsible for the oesday, the deadline for donation surge in the fund total, but a total of toy's, the club had received. of .19 other donations of various large supply pf toys for the Dai-smaller amounts were turned In kets this year. They have been by local pesldenU who' fcaw the painted and repaired and 'are to dire need of the fund an4'r-be. Included la the food baikeij. will deliver tbasermon for the closing, hymn, "Silent Night," rule service.

It wlbe entitled will follow the message by the Milroy also was. charged with dis Downtown Sayrootir Iiove Transcending," "Rev. Mr. Jenkins. orderly conduct.

Maximum Friday SHOPPING DAY TO CHRISTMAS A. committee of. three minister- In past years, the Christmas Minimum Friday Stlgdon. 49, of Seymour, was cited on a charge of having no valid operator's license Jby Officers 31 association members has been Eve services have drawn, hun ni.nnlmr the service. Serving on dreds of Seymour residents tak 10, a.

m. today Official Record Robert Gill and Maurice A. Rose, the committee are the Rv. J. T.

tog time' out from their busy eve- at 11:05 pnv Friday, at Wal pastor, of Central Chris- ryday schedules to coirmernorate Maximum Friday Minimum Friday nut, street and South Park Drive, tlaa Cttirch, "chairman the liev. me ditiq oi uirjsi..