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4 A MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1955 Deaths and Funerals Narcotic Traffic Major Problem Washington (UE Senate investigators report narcotic addicts and traffic in illegal drugs constitute one of the most serious problems facing the nation. Nor was a blueprint from a factory worker who thought he had the answer to making driving on hills safer. The blueprint, laid out to scale and in proper engineering form, called ior a periscope to be mounted on the roof of the car. When the car approached a hill, FBI Seeks Boston Man as Hammond Bank Robber Indianapolis (5 The FBI said here a warrant had been issued charging a Boston man with being one of two armed robbers who took 512,612 from a Hammond Mrs. Lottie Wilson Dies; Rites Monday Mrs.

Lottie Pearl Wilson, lifelong Delaware County resident, died Saturday morning at her home, 625 S. Council following a short illness. Mrs. Wilson was the widow of Jess Wilson, who died in 1947. She was employed at the Don Clark Restaurant, corner of Council and Powers streets.

Survivors include two sisters. Retired Mooreland Garage Owner Dies Mooreland, Ind. Word was received here Saturday of the death Friday night in Bradenton. of George Brown, 73, well-known Mooreland resident. He operated Mrs.

Leni L. Marks, Albany Resident, Dies Mrs. Leni L. Marks, lifelong resident of the Albany community, died Saturday morning in the Jay County Hospital at Port-Mrs. Marks was the widow of W.

W. Marks. She was a member of the Albany Methodist Church, the Twentieth Century Club, and the San Pareil Club at Albany. Surviving are a son, Forrest Marks, Albany, and one granddaughter. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

Monday at the Rust Funeral A senate Judiciary Committ-se the motorist would raise the periscope like a submarine captain I branch bank Nov. 23. Tips Available to Improve Automobile Detroit (U.P.) The automobile industry has two ready sources for tips on how to improve its products the people who make the cars and those who drive them. Each year the industry pays out thousands of dollars to men and women in the factory who come up ideas on how to improve cars. A good share of the "suggestion plan" money goes to workers who figure out better production methods.

The other source, people who buy and drive cars, provides an average of 1,000 suggestions a subcommittee, which investigated the narcotics traffic, said it will present its findings in a formal report Monday. The report will show that narcotic addiction has tripled since a garage here for some 30 years prior to his retirement several years ago. Survivors include his wife, Myr- Leonard Blaylock, agent-in-charge of the Indianapolis FBI offices, identified the man sought as James Bulger 26. Blaylock said the FBI conducted an extensive investigation before filing a complaint against tel: two daughters, Mrs. Cleon Mrs.

H. S. DeVoe and Mrs. Lucy McAuley, both of Muncie, and a brother, Calvin Gibson, also of World War II and is responsible for a large percentage of all crimes committed in the United Muncie. Services will be held at 2 p.m I Bulger but declined to say what Home in Albany, the Rev.

Leo McKinley officiating. Burial will be in Strong Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Sunday. and be able to tell at a glance if any cars were coming his way from the other side of the hill.

The special staff members keep a sharp eye out for all ideas dealing vvith windshield wipers. But so far nobody has come up with anything to replace the back-and-forth wipers on the outside of the glass. Present-day windshield wipers operate on the same basic principle as those on the earliest horseless carriages. The big difference lines the investigation had taken. States.

It also is expected to declare that present laws and enforcement personnel cannot cope Four employes and six customers of the Woodmar branch of the Hoosier State Bank at Hammond were held at gunpoint by two young men wearing hunting. The subcommittee, headed byiieiireU LaiaSSWOrKCr Sen. Price Daniel (D-Tex.) 1 tr testimony from 345 witnesses allies at Dunkirk IlOlllC hearings in 11 cities last year. I Dunkirk, Ind. Charles V.

Al- clothes during the November Daniel said the group was S4, died Saturday at the is that earlier motorists had to residence in Dunkirk. He was a turn their wipers by a hand crank. fT i "shocked at the extent and dangers of the narcotics traffic." Services Monday for Mrs. Wilson Funeral services for Mrs. Leora M.

Wilson, 73, who was the wife of Muncie attorney Frank R. Wilson, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Meeks Mortuary. Mrs. Wilson died Friday at her home.

310 S. Council after an extended "illness. Dr. Harold Neel, r-astor of the High Street Methodist Church, will officiate and the services and burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 2 p.m.

Sunday, or before services Monday. Mrs. Wilson, who was from Omaha, moved to Muncie 1911 and had resided here since then. She belonged to High Street Methodist Church and was active in such church work as pageantry, special programs and Sunday school activities with children. She taught the Dearth-Alathian Class several years.

Mrs. Wilson also was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was Indiana state vice president of the organization for five years. She was the daughter of the late William and" Matilda Stevens Heaton. who came to Indiana from New England during the early part of the century. Survivors include the husband; a son: Robert C.

Wilson of San Antonio, a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie L. West of Ft. Wayne, and three grandchildren, -Karen and Linda Lee West and Bobbie Wilson. A'son, Capt.

Herschel C. Wilson of the U.S. Field Artillery, died while on military duty in 1943. Monday at the Parson Mortuary, Dr. Arthur officiating.

Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 3 p.m. Sunday. Graveside Rites Here for Mrs. Rebecca Smith Graveside services for Mrs-Rebecca Smith, 90, Muncie native who died Friday at the home of a daughter in Pontiac, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at Beech Grove Cemetery here. The Rev. E. F. Daugherty will officiate.

Funeral services will be at Sparks and Griffin Funeral Home in Pontiac at 11 a.m. Monday. month. Most of these suggestions pour into Detroit by mail and the auto companies have special staffs who sift through them. Whenever somebody submits a useable idea, the automobile firms gladly enter into royalty agreements and even make gifts to folks to offer ideas free.

The percentage of worthwhile ideas from the rank-and-file motorists is relatively small. The special staffs report they're able For Funeral Designs-Phone 2-E585 FLOWER SHOP I6th nd Madison SU. UUItll. LWA K11J V. ILi 1111.11 lULU free, but other want to be paid.

One man wrote in and said he had a revolutionary idea. He offered it for the price of S3 million plus a used car and a new wooden leg. Jordan, Detroit, and Mrs. Maxine Pasco, a granddaughter; three great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Flora Ulrich and Mrs.

Leta Rudrith. both of Detroit, and Mrs. Nettie Summers, Chicago; and two brothers, Archie Brown of near Mooreland and Charles Brown of Greensfork. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Main and Sons Funeral Home, with burial in the Mooreland Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. Former Muncie Woman Dead at Fairmount Fairmount, Ind. Mrs. Almira Bowman Young, 86, died Saturday in a nursing home here. She had been in poor health for several months.

Until returning here in 1955 to live with her son, she lived at 612 W. Adams Muncie. Mrs. Young was the widow of W. H.

Young, teacher in various Grant County schools. He died native of Dunkirk and a retired window glassworker. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Dunkirk and of the F. and A.M., Licking Lodge, Utica, O. Surviving are the window, Maude; a daughter, Miss Perlina Albright, at home, and a sister, Mrs.

Lulu McDonald, Dunkirk. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Martin Funeral Home in Dunkirk, the Mrs. Linnie Belcher Dies; Funeral Monday Mrs. Linnie Belcher, S2, died Saturday morning at her home, 2329 S.

Jefferson after a long illness. She had been a Muncie resident 50 years. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. R. A.

Fenstermacher In Laura Douthitt of Muncie; three; Rev. Burial will be in the sons. Lee and John Eelcher and charge Meeks Mortuary is in charge of Ralph Moistner. all of Muncie; Dunkirk IOOF Cemetery. Friends two brothers, Ronzzo Derben of may call at the funeral home aft-Huntsville and Purse Derben of er 10:30 a.m.

Sunday. Winchester; a sister, Louie Han cock of Huntsville; nine grand children, and eight great-grand Barber Formerly of S. Madison Street Barbershop Now Located at S1G WRIGHT'S BARBERSHOP Just south of In-and-Out Service Station Corner YVillard and Madison. arrangements here. Mrs.

Smith died at the home of Mrs. Homer Hancock. She moved to Pontiac in 1935 following the death of her husband, William M. Smith. Surviving besides the daughter, Mrs.

Hancock, are two grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. he got ins MAX Washington (UPJ A filling station attendant, who took unkind- to use only about one idea out of every 30,000. That's about one useable idea every 30 months. The biggest fault with many of the suggestions is that they are of the "why don't you?" variety. They consist of mere statements of known problems but offer no solution.

One man recently came up with what he thought was a solution to the parking problem. His idea was to mount a platform fitted with casters on the rear of the car. To park, a person would tip his car back, with front bumper pointing skyward, and roll the car into the parking space. The Idea wasn't snapped up. children.

Funeral services will be at 2:30, to being robbed bv a husband p.m. Monday at Richman andian(i wife holdup team, whipped Kruiaman unerai nome in of his money changer and Yorktown. Burial will be in the jt took 13 Ridge Cemetery. 'stitches to close the wound, in 1945. She was a native of the county, the daughter of Daniel W.

and Patsy (Howell) Bowman. Surviving is the son. Earl B. Young, operator of the Fairmount Auto License Branch. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Monday at the Harden Funeral Home, with the Rev. Xen Friends may call at the lunerai Open 8:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M. Cliff Monroe Welcoming All My Friends and Customers Your Patronage Appreciated Come In! home between 2 and 5 p.m. and Origin of the name Oklahoma is a Choctaw word meaning "red 7 and 9 p.m.

Sunday, and before services Monday. people." DEPENDABLE '4 Harvey officiating. Burial will be in Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday. mamm Indicate Haney Died From Exposure An autopsy performed Saturday on the body of Wilson Shannon Haney, 59, found dead in an old auto body at 1300 E.

Gilbert St." Friday afternoon, indicated that Haney died from "exposure and acute alcoholicism," a coroner's report said. The body was removed to the Meeks Mortuary. Police investigating the death said they notified a brother, Millard, 215'" Hoyt an employe at the Muncie City Barns. Haney was discovered by Fox Evans, 800 E. 13th who was taking him some food.

Coroner Eugene Eiss-man said he probably died at about 1 a.m. Friday. :1 Former Acme-Lees Employe Is Dead Hartford City, Ind. Kenneth Fair, 55, died at his home here at 3:15 p.m. Saturday of a heart ailment.

A former Acme-Lees employe at Muncie, he had been ill since last February. He was a member of the EUB Church and the Masonic Lodge at Hartford City. Surviving are his wife, Thelma, and a brother. Charles, Mt. Vernon, O.

Funeral arrangements will be completed at Baxter and Markin Mortuary. Double Filtered For Extra Cleanliness Metered To Insure Exact Measure It Better A Tank Full Will Prove It MAGIC CITY OIL COMPANY Phone 3-1461 18th and Madison Streets Jay County Widow Dies at Portland Portland. Ind. Mrs. Clara J.

Slack, 7S, widow of Harry Slack, of three miles west of Portland, died Saturday at the Jay County Hospital. Funeral services will be V'. 'A usf T'" opened Han si years ideal drS bring and conducted at. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Baird Funeral Home by COUNTY TREASURER DIES Terre Haute, Ind.

(TIB Vigo! County Treasurer Howard rvT ano-Min R7 a Dpmncrat. suf-l the Rev. Floyd Everly. Burial fered a fatal heart attack at his' CLASSIFIED SERVICE 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.

DIAL 6631 will oe in union vnapei cemetery near Portland. Surviving are four sons, Earl, Harold. Harry and Glen, all of home Saturday. and prosper hs'p approval of IW new near Portland: four ARTHRITIS RHEUMATISM VITAL FACTS EXPLAINED FREE BOOK TO ALL READERS OF THIS NEWSPAPER 'ncreaZT' '5 Excelsior Springs, Mo. (SPECIAL) Available statistics disclose that thousands of sufferers 6d but eve on 7 service "Tnd 5 P'amed your cS beCS Mrs.

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Monday in Elm Ridge Cemetery for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fruitt. 504 N. Delawanda Ave.

The child was stillborn Friday nisht at Ball Hospital. Dr. Randall Corkern will officiate at the services. Friends may call at the Parson Mortuary any time before the time set for the service. Surviving besides the parents are three sisters.

Connie Jo, Caren Joan, and Starlett Sue. all at home; the grandparents, William B. Fruitt and Mrs. Margaret K. Fruitt, Muncie; and Mrs.

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No obligation. Address THE BALL CLINIC, Dept. 1329, Excelsior Springs, Mo. DAVID President. Early Stagt Destroyed Joint TOTAL RESOURCES Si Dicimler 31, December 30, 1950 $3,353,982.72 December 31, 1S51 $4,987,553.44 December 31, 1952 $6,159,366.98 ecember 31; 1953 19,280.7 DIES WHILE WATCHING TV Evansville, Ind.

iJP) J. Edgar Sachs, 63, Evansville postmaster, died of a heart attack while watching television at his home. City and County Statistics Marriage Licences Edgar P. Hiatt. 22, factory, Muncie, and Winifred M.

Demmlck, 21, home, Muncie. William G. Prazier. 19, U.S. Army.

Albany, and Joann Ellen Cassell, 18, at home. Dunkirk. Charles R. Rider, 25. factory.

Knisrhts-town, and JoAnn Morgan, 23, hospital employe, Anderson. William A. Barley, 17, TJ.S. Navy, Piqua, and Betty Rose Ann Thiebeau. at home, Piqua.

Divorce Granted Frnest IE. Wise from Edith Wise. Superior Court. Mary Elizabeth Clay from Wilmer Clay: maiden name of Mary Elizabeth Smith restored. Superior Court.

Marilyn Tuttie from Kent Tuttle; custody of minor child to mother. ith defendant to pay doctor bills. Suoerlor Court. Louis Utsler from Mary K. Utsler.

Superior Court. Louise Widner from Samuel Winner: custody of two minor children to father Superior Court. Mae'R. Crabtree from Levy L. Crab-tree.

Superior Court. Edna Pauline Hayden from Joseph L. Harden. Superior Court. Otto D.

Hall from Barbara Kali. Superior Court. 1 0 X'i ecember 31, ivt UAiSV UU5 war to sm I ggscq $199.95 I 't om cember 31, 5 -i ri I Si. 1 Lf3535! Stop In Soon and Join the Thousands Who Bank at "Muncie's Fastest Growing Bank" i i mm- Fire Alarmi 11:51 a m. McGalliard Road, east of the grsvel pit, garage owned by "Howard, Bxx.

oil stove explosion, fire confined to floor, out on arrival of fire Noon 401 E. Adams trash fire. 2:21 p.m. Ind. 3 and railroad near Ind.j 67 north junction, grass fire.

Funerals BROWNKWELL Funeral services for Charles Samuel Brownewell. 77. retired Durham Manufacturing Corporation em-; ploye who died Friday at his East Jack-1 son Street Pike home, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Plepho Funeral Home. I The Rev.

Earl Clark will officiate. Burial 1 will be In Beech Grove Cemetery. HAYES Gravesidij services for John; Thomas Hayes, day-old son of Mr. andi Mrs. John O.

Hayes of 1507 Highland will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Beech i Grove Cemetery. The Rev. J. K.

LoveJ will officiate. Faulkner Mortuary is in charge. The baDy died Friday at Bal Hospital. HAMILTON Services for Mrs. Martha Alice Hamilton, 76.

of 1500 W. Eighth: i II 1 i Your Bank Savings Earn More at Industrial Trust Your bank savings earn more at Industrial Trust because interest is added to ycur account fcur times each year. Deposits made by January 10 earn interest from January 1. Open your account tomorrow. Uibmii iftrtfci t1nifliiii jri a savin GI-a'-fiXfit' were held Saturoay at Pieafio Fu neral Home.

Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Mrs. Hamilton died Thursday at a Richmond hospital. DAVIS Services for Mrs.

Bertha Eliza 117 IAST ADAMS III (It TILirHONI IIM beth Davis. 7-V former hotel hostess in Phone 9937 115 N. High Sf MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION several Inaiana communities who aied Wednesday at her home, 623 W. Howard were held Saturday at the resi dence. Burial was in Buena Vista Cem-tery In Randolph County.

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