The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

Cloudy this afternoon and tonight, chance of rain slight. Wednesday partly cloudy and mild, ccoler tonight. High today 66, low tonight in mid 40's, high Wednesday in 70's. VOL. 63 NO.

166 Jo BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Indiana MAY LOSE SIGHT MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (INS)- Physicians at the Indiana Prison at Michigan City said today that convict James Utley. 49, of Indianapolis, who was stabbed and slashed by a fellow prisoner. may lose his sight following a ing incident. Utley, serving a life sentence for kidnaping.

was described in "serious condition," and Alfred Dowd, who is conducting an investigation to determine the identity of Utley's assailant, said the prisoner may lost his sight because of the assault. Monday. Utley was sentenced in 1948. RENT GOUGING INDIANAPOLIS (INS) Brig. Gen.

Paul A. Mayo, commander of Fort Benjamin Harrison, today denounced rent gouging in a "low barracks-type housing de-, velopment at the Army post. The Benjamin Harrison Village Corporation, a private corporation with. home at Berkeley Hills. has informed soldier tehants rental on the rarious units will be increased May 1 by amounts ranging from $12.67 to: $20.30 a month.

Small one-bedroom unfurnished apartments will increase from $78.40 to $91.07, two room apartments from $88.40 to $104.69, and three bedroom apartments from $98.40 to $118.30. CHECK STOLEN INDIANAPOLIS (INS) -Edward Hill, 36. of Muncie. is held today charged with the theft of a $121.04 tax refund check. Hill admitted taking the' check from a home mail box in order to buy an automobile, according to Assistant U.

S. Attorney James L. Miller. DELINQUENCY INDIANAPOLIS (INS) A for- mer. U.

S. Senate investigator into the nation's juvenile delinquency problems today appealed to Indiana. youth leaders to cooperate in solving the problems of the threepercenters. ciate professor of social adminis. Richard Clendenen, now tration at Ohio State University, told the Governor's Youth Conference today at Indianapolis Manual Training High School: "I am speaking today in behalf of three per cent of this state's and the nation's youth--the approximately three out of each 100 young people who become involved in serious delinquency and crime." ACCIDENT RECORD INDIANAPOLIS (INS)--Indiana entered its seventh consecutive day without a fatal traffic accident today while State Police almost prayed for continuance of the longest death-free period in department records.

John E. Cardwell Dies In Tennessee Word has been received in Tipton of the sudden death of John E. Cardwell in Persia, Tennessee, He -was a former resident of Normanda. Funeral arrangements not yet completed, are being handled by Colback and Price Funeral home in Rodgerville, Tennessee, where burial will take place. was born April 7, 1882, a son of Pleasant and Julie (Regan) Cardwell.

He was married in 1904 to the former Goldie Hankins, and they had six children, five of whom survive. They are Harold Mrs. Paul Eldridge and Mrs. Grace Carpenter, all of Kokomo; Mrs. Ted Baker, Frankfort, and Basil, Cardwell was married in 1947 to Mrs.

Louella Smith, who also survives. Divorce Granted To Harold Monroe One absolute divorce was granted in- Tipton circuit court Monday to Harold Monroe. He received an absolute divorce from Louise J. Monroe. He was also awarded the care and custody of two minor children of the marriage.

The couple were. married in May 1952 and separated in Sept. 1951. Tipton Entered as RIOTING PRISONERS SET $215,000 FIRE Penney's Staff Decks Out Second Class Matter Oct. 4, 1895, TIPTON, (IND.) ANNIVERSARY DAYS at Tipton's Penney store were observed with the wearing of the costumes of 1902 and oldtime decorations throughout the store.

Members of the store staff shown here with their 1900 attire are; Charlotte McWhirt, Darrell and store manager Ral Hupp. ITRIBUNE PREFS $20,000 Damages Asked in Case Venued To Tipton A complaint for $20,000 damages has been venued from Madison county to Tipton according to pers filed in the county clerks office. Mary Palmer is seeking the damages from 'Lester D. Keniepp as a result of a two car accident in Madison on July 22, 1957. The complaint charges that Keniepp struck the Palmer car as it was attempting to make a turn from county road 300 to county roal 950, both in Madison county.

The papers charge that Keniepp failed to apply his brakes and was guilty of exessive speeds. Mrs. Palmer suffered a fractured leg and severe head and face cuts In the mishap. Project 'Green Thumb' Fights Nuclear Fallout SAN FRANCISCO (INS) One of the nation's leading bacteriologists reported today that Project Green Thumb in New Mexico has produced a way to combat radioactive fallout from bombs. Dr.

Eric B. Fowler, chief chemist of the 'Los Alamos scientific laboratory of the University of California, announced the discovery to 6,000 chemists attending the 13th national meeting of the Chemical Society in San Francisco. Fowler described how Green Thumb research on lettuce, alfalfa and grass showed that contamination of food crops by radioactive fallout may be reduced by adding lime to the soil. This, said Fowler, is because lime is high in calcium, which appears to aid the green things in purging them selves of Strontium-90 the killer radioactive substance discharged by nuclear bombs. "This is of importance to man," Fowler explained, "since the calcium from the food he eats becomes a part of his bone structure: Strontium will also built into man's bones (as the result of continued nuclear weapons but the higher amount of calcium in proportion to Strontium in his food, the lower will be the amount of strontium in his af.

The Ike May Veto Legislation On Rivers, Roads President Debating; Has Until Midnight Tomorrow To Sign about others. Knowland said that the Presi-1 Ident's concern stems from a feelding that "Congress violated its own criteria" in approving 3 number of projects in the one billion, 600; million dollar rivers and har. bors measure. New Bill Possible The GOP leader said he intends to sound out sentiment among; members of both political parties to see whether Congress would pass a new rivers and harbors bill without the items unacceptable to the administration if Mr. Eisenhower vetoes the pending measure.

As for the one billion, 800, million dollar highway bill, Knowland said the President favors many. major aspects of the legislation but is "concerned about" a provision to change the federal-state bution on primary, secondary and urban roads from the current 50-50 ratio to two to one. Regardless of whether the Pres. ident signs or vetoes eitheri bill, Knowland said he believes there will be both highway legislation and public works legislation acted at this session of Congress. Knowland reported that the with the Republican leaders the Chief Executive also discussed Defense Department reorganization he has submitted.

meeting with President Eisenbower today that the big rivers and harbors, and highway bills are "in jeopardy" of being vetoed. However, they said Mr. Eisenhower still hasn't definitely made up his mind whether to reject the measures. He has until midnight to act on the rivers and barbors bill and until midnight Wednesday on the roads bill. Senate GOP Leader William 'F.

Knowland told newsmen that a decision on the rivers and harbors bill still is "an. open question the present time" because eren though Mr. Eisenhower favors many projects involved ne is Lewis Hankins Named Estate Administrator Lewis S. Hankins was appointed administrator for the estates of both Hayden H. Hankins and Dennis W.

Hankins in Tipton circuit court action Monday. Heirs to the Dennis W. Hankins estate include; Dennis R. Hankins, Windfall, a son and Lewis S. Hankins, 450 North Maple, a grandson.

Lewis Hankins is. sole heir to the Hayden Hankins estate. Estate values are $7,500 in real property and $100 in personal property in the Dennis W. Hankins estate and $50 personal property in the Hayden Hankins estate. Tribune 5 CENTS PER COPY, 30 CENTS PER WEEK Prison Employee Seriously Injured CONCORD, Mass.

(INS) mates ran amoke Monday, set formatory and injured five Candidate FORMER city judge, Loren Joe Heatori, 33, 432 North West, is 'candidate for Tipton county prosecutor. Heaton is a 1954 graduate of Indiana University and attendad DePauw college and Kokema high school. He is married to the former JoAnni Spencer of South Bend and the couple have two children, Kathy Jo, 4 and Jimmy, 2. Heaton is 'a decorated veteran of World War Two served 3 years with the Army in the Pacific heatre. (TRIBUNE Photo.) Tipton-Cicero Teachers' Annual Dinner Thursday The annual Spring dinner meetEng of the Tipton-Cicero township classroom teachers.

school board members, principals and guests will be held at Farm Bureau hall Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The program calls for a quick trip around the world through the eyes and oratory of foreign exchange students: An insight into the of France, Hawai, Ireland, Holland, Japan, Greece and Austria will be given by- the students travelers. The trip will start with a smorgasbord by the Double Dozen Home Demonstration club. Special musical skits and selecwill also be on the program. Reservations may be made by contacting Mrs.

Carleton Hull. Little Leaguers Sign Up MAJOR LEAGUE baseball started today but the main attraction for' season just ahead. Shown signing up to White, Tim O'Connor, -4. at Post; Office at Tipton, Indiana, TRIBUNE, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1958 Decision On Summit Talks Being Readied Western Decision To Be Given Moscow Sometime Wednesday Under the Act of March 3, 1879.. Park Work Report Given Tipton Council Tennis Courts and Golf Course In Service Now; Cement Needed In Pool By ROBERT C.

NIXON WASHINGTON (INS) State Department officials said today the U.S. is ready to. open diplomatic talks with Russia in preparation' for a new "summit" meetTing, only on condition that there be no limitation on the discussions. The U.S. and its NATO partners will make the western decision known to the Kremlin by Wednesday.

-Secretary of State John Fostering Dulles holds a news conference at 1.1i a.m. (EST), and is expected to discuss western position. Dulles said Monday that any summit meeting without proper prior preparation would "be quite illusory" in its results. partite note The new tri which was approved in principle Monday by the NATO Permanent Council in Paris is scheduled! for delivery before the Thursday deadline set by the Soviets for talks. to get under way.

Officials said the U. S. is still consulting with the British and Trench over whether to meet. Thursday with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko before a new response is received from the Kremlin on western conditions for the series of talks. Officials said that if the western ambassadors should open talks on Thursday in Moscow, it will first be made amply clear to leaders that, in doing so, the west is not accepting conditions laid down in the last Soviet note.

Mid-May The Kremlin is insisting that diplomatic talks be held only to pick the place and composition for a foreign ministers meeting that would be held by mid May. Even at the foreign ministers conference, the Russians insist that nothing in substar.ce be negotiated to ease cold war tensions, and that the foreign would simply determine the time, place and participants of: a summit meeting. The Kremlin also wants the West to agree that Russia could exercise a veto power on any jor problem the west wished to discuss at the summit. Garland Mundell Is Stricken Suddenly Garland Mundell, 68, 221 South Main street, died at 4:45 Monday afternoon of a heart attack at his home. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from the LeathermanMorris Funeral home, with Rev.

Donald Sharp officiating. Burial will be in Arcadia cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home anytime. Mundell was born Dec. 3, 1889 in Atlanta, a son of John and Etta (Ramsey) Mundell.

A member of the Tipton Moose, the American Legion and the Atlanta Macabees, he had resided in Tipton the last twelve years. He attended school in Atlanta, and had been an employee of Inland Steel company, Indianapolis, and was last employed by the Oakes manufacturing company. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Clara Snyder, and several nieces and nephews. Two Windfall Men Attend Conference Two representatives of the Solar Petroleum Co.

in Windfall, Richard Barker and James Fennell, took part in the third annual Petroleum Jobbers Management Conference held April 8-10 on the Indiana University campus. The three-day education meetine was sponsored jointly by the Indiana Independent Petroleum Association and School of Bus. iness. The program consisted of a series of lectures on such topics as petroleum jobbers questionnaire, tax problems, management planning. labor relations, price discrimination in the petroleum industry and economic outlook for the balance of 1958.

Conference certificates were presented the 54 participants during the final banquet April 10. Tipton city council last night re. ceived a lengthy report from ordinator Don Coffin on progress made in all departments. Brush and leaves are being cleaned from the park and tables will be placed in service during May. Painting has started, with the fence around the pool to get a coat of aluminum paint.

Three new doors have. been installed at the pool but its flooring will have to get a four inch. coverof cement, and council authorired the advertising of bids for the needed cement, which will cover spots where it has started to shale and where expansion joints have bulged. tue tennis courts. are now lined, the work having been undertaken by Tipton high school tennis coach, James Ertel, on his own time.

A report on the golf course reveals unusual activity with clubpro Floyd Hamblen having sold 50 season tickets and two children's tickets. Greens fees have been good with the heavy playing. and- Hamblen bas turned over $1,323.00 re. ceived at the course. Tee have all I been rosteded, the greens are in perfect shape, and new mowers are how in use on the fairways.

In the sewer department, the new digester is poured, the cistern finished, down to the installation of machinery and pumps. Plugs will be removed from the overflows. Council also 'authorized the ad-. vertising of bids for furniture for the radio room and city court room. Bids were accepted from the Mohr construction company of Kokomo and Ted McKinney and Sons, Tipton, for material to be used py.

the street department during, the year. The fire department repeated its invitation to all Tipton residents to drop in and inspect their equipment, particularly the hook and ladder truck which has been completely repainted. Members of the fire department will be glad to plain the uses of the equipment to all stopping in. Claims in the amount of 72 were allowed, approximately $61,000 of this going on the sewage construction project. Utilities manager William Hiatt read the State Board of -Accounts Field Examiners' Report on the ers office for the period January examination of the Clerk 1, 1954 through Dec, 31, 1956.

Attending were Mayor Frederick Surber, Hiatt, Clerk Treasurer Mrs. Charles Hamsay, Fire Chief Lowell Kinder, and councilmen Floyd Collins, Carl B. Miller, Ray Cox and Harold Planck. Eighteen psychopathic ina $215,000 fire at Concord reprison employees, one critically. The apparently senseless rebellion occurred in the prison's furniture shop and touched off, mass confusion among the 465 inmates of the sprawling old reformatory.

Corrections Commissioner thur T. Lyman described the volt as 'a "spur of the moment action." He said the men involved were "correctional psychopaths." Most seriously injured was Fredson Kelly, 40, of Lexington, who was clubbed on the head with hammer. He suffered a skull fracture and underwent a brain operation at Massachusetts General hospital in Boston. His condition was described as "fair." The fire, fed by shavings' and furniture laquer, mushroomed through the two-story, east wing building out of until firefighters from Acton, Sudbury, Wayland, Lexington and the Air Force Base at Hanscom Field, Bedford, joined Concord and pri: son firemen. A detail of 75 specially trained state troopers, under command.

public safety commissioner Otis M. Whitney, armed with shotguns and tear gas, ringed the prison during the fire. A reduced force remained on hand when the flames were brought under. control. supt.

Edward Grennan said the fire alarm sounded 15 minutes af'ter the night shift went on duty in finishing room of the furniture shop. He said the flames touched off explosions when reached the aquer in the building. The explosions continued as firefighters tought the blaze with turret and high pressure guns from ladders erected against the (Continusa on Page i Windfall Honor Roll Announced John Davison, principal has announced the honor roll for the 5th grading period. Thirty four high students and 16 junior high pupits are on the List. Seniors--Martha Arnold, Carol Ann Mitchell, Janie Cain, Neal Paul Dale Cunningham, Suellen Sloan, Joanne Justice, Darsel Tolle, Trudy Land, Mary Evelyn Tolle Nancy Martin, Bonnie Victory, Judy Wright.

Juniors--Sharon Bovd, Shirley 3rankle Sue Davis, Billy Henderson, Mack Miner, David Osborn, Tohn Tolle, Karen Sue Tolle, Jean Smith. Sophomores--Etta Bell, Abbey Ericson, Barbara Hinds, Judith Katherine McCorkle, Vernon Stevenson, Joan Heembrock. Freshmen Steven Alexander, Kathryn Anthony. Michael Davis, Annette Mitchell, Jerry Jo Voris. Eighth grade--Mary Ellen Bolinger.

Seventh grade Helen Barnes. Candy Brown, Rickie Christie. Sue Heflin, Jerry Hiatt, Gavle Keisling, Ann, McCorkle, Paula McNaw, Linda Osborn, Douglas Patterson, Chrales Shockney. Jon Sloan. Carolyn Sue Sottong, Sandra Summers, Teffery Yundt.

St. Joseph's Hold Piano Concert The St. Joseph Academy faculty and student body tried out their newly installed public address system by holding a piano concert at the academy, Monday. Concert pianist and orchestra conductor Zenon Tuczynski, of Chicago, presented classical and semi-classical selections which. were broadcast to the infirmary and to the Motherhouse for the hennfit sisters and students who could not attend the concert.

Tuczynski, 23. has' studied under Paderewski, Hofmann, Kipnis, and Horowitz and has attended the Curtis Institute. Juilliard and East. man schools of music. FUNDS FOR CITY Mrs.

Charles Ramsey, Tipton clerk-treasurer, today was awaiting a check in the amount of 329.05 as the city's share of a $628,726.07 disbursement to the state from Alcoholic Beverage Commission gallonage revenue for the first quarter of 1958. The tribution was announced this mornling by the State Auditor's office. Arre- a of 6 School Board Gets Teacher Request For $500 Raise A request for a $500 a year increase for all teachers was presented at the regular' meeting of the Tipton-Cicero township school board; Monday by the Welfare committee of the Tipton classroom teachers association. raise is being sought to compensate for increased living penses and to adjust teachers salaries in Tipton to those in surrounding areas. School superintendent C.

B. Stemen announced that the request has been taken under advisement for study by the board and promised the committee that a special meeting for action on the request will be held next Tuesday. In other action at the Monday (Continued on Page 6) Pair Sentenced In Court Action Other developments reported to the convention included: -Amechanical super chemist Other mechanica super chemist with a store of knowledge far greater than any human. scientist could hope to develop is proving itself the answer for harassed chemists have to cope with nearly one million chemical compounds developed in the 20th Century. Dr.

Richard A. Carpenter, sistant manager of the Chemistry and chemical engineering division of the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, gave his fellow scientists hope for.a way. out of trying to find out which of the many compounds to use at what times. "We have developed coding procedures so that these relationship patterns (between the thousands of chemical compounds) may be examined and electronicdata-handling machines." This does not mean, Carpenter assured the chemists, that human scientists will be replaced by the machines. It only means that the machines will be able to tell scientists which of the many chemical compounds are best suited to do specific jobs, in some cases (Continued ole page 6) Two persons received fines and one was given a jail sentence in Tipton city court action Monday.

Robert Norris, 31, of Atlanta, was given a 60 day term at the penal farm and was ordered to pay a fine of $5 and court costs of $15.. He was found guilty of public toxication. William A. Kendall; 52, 519 North West, was fined $5 and ordered to pay court. costs of $16.75 after being found guilty of a charge of leav.

ing the scene of a property dam. age accident. The accident occurred Friday night. 1958 AREA TRAFFIC RECORD Deaths Accidents 54 Injuries 24 Total Damages $26,535 mast Monday and really got underway these youngsters is the little league with Ed Neary Saturday are, left Mac, O'Conner and Denis (TRIBUNE Photo.).