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News, Pages 22-25 Business News, Page 27 Comics, 12-13; TV, 17 Mickey McCarty Says: FELLOW TAXPAYERS: Have you ever stopped to wonder what happens to old telephone directories after their usefulness has expired? Researchers have come forth with interesting acMickey counts. In Indianapolis, the problem is comparatively simple because Indiana Bell no longer collects them, accord. log to John W. Kingsbury, vice-president charge of public relations." The chances are many of the old directories find themselves in grade school paper sale collections. Coded: However, in other places, old telephone directories have served as code books for spies, references for robbers, hiding places for money and armorplating for trucks.

Money, pressed butterflies and tree leaves, wills, music manuscripts and a letter from Mahatma Gandhi have turned up in old New York telephone books. A Bronx man interlarded a directory with his entire month's salary, then forgetfully changed it for a new one. He and his family searched for days through 55,000 discarded books before finding the right one. Keys: A Germany woman did in a West brisk business selling stolen Manhattan phone books to Communist agents for $75 each. It was found the spies used the directories as a coding device by designating specific listings as a key.

A South American banana plantation bullet its trucks with old directories. And a Little League baseball catcher fashioned a chest tector out of his parents' phone book. The Little guer would have found scant protection in the first telephone directory, issued at New Haven, in February, 1878. It contained listing of only 50 customers. An In-Law: The first Washington telephone directory also was published in 1878.

The 188 subscribers ranged from the Adams Express Office to J. E. Zug, coal merchant, and included the Capitol, the Executive Mansion and Supreme Court. Also listed was Gardiner Greene Hubbard, whose son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone. Now that the telephone has spread around the world, directories are published everywhere.

And they tend to flect national characteristics. The Hong Kong phone 1 book captures the flavor of that intriguing city with entries such as Chinese Permanent Cemeteries, Everlasting Incombustible Celluloid Works, Flying Angel Tailor, and Eternity Correspondence School. Arctic Book: The Bell Telephone Co. of Canada publishes a slim volume to cover 1 northern Quebec, the coast of Labrador, and Baffin and Cornwallis Islands in the Canadian Arctic. Instructions are printed in Eskimo syllables as well as English and French because 10 per cent of the customers are Eskimos.

There's no separate section for products and services such as Labrador Motors or Polar Cabs. In the United States alone more than 100 million copies of the section known as the "yellow pages" are printed annually. list about erything from abdominal supports to zippers. Seymour Lions Name Chris Doyle Special te The News SEYMOUR, W. Doyle has been installed as president of the Seymour Lions Club, succeeding Howard Seeds.

Walter Kreinhagen has received an "Old Monarch's" award for his 25 years of membership in the club. Other new officers include: Cecil L. Meere, first vice-prest. dent. Samuel 0.

Sinn, secend vice president. L. Burkhelder, third vice Jack Liens, secretary. Jimmy Gerden, treasurer. Alvin Kieeker, Lien tamer.

Harry E. Reiph, tail twister. Dr. Charles B. Clayton, Charles G.

Beatty, Robert Bell and Ray. G. Wieder were named directors. J. Stewart Riley's Services Wednesday Special to The News BEDFORD, Ind.

Services for J. Stewart Riley, 66, publisher of the Bedford Daily Times-Mail and the Blooming. ton Her Herald-Telephone and former owner of several Midwest newspapers will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Presbyterian Church here. Riley, who had been in failing health since last August and underwent surgery Friday, yesterday at Long Hospital, Indianapolis.

He began his newspaper career in the advertising department of the Davenport (Iowa) Daily Times in 1920. A native of Rockford, he joined the Rockford Morning Star in 1923 and became its advertising director. In 1927 he inherited his father's half-interest in Rockford Newspapers which he sold in 1930. For two years he was a school teacher at Rockford and later was in the commercial printing business there. Riley moved to Bedford in 1942 and purchased the Bedford Daily Mail and the Bedford Daily Times, which he merged to form the TimesMail.

He was the first publisher in the U.S. following World War II to erect a new publishing facility when he built a new plant for the Times-Mail in 1947. He purchased the Harrin, Daily Journal and the Murphysboro, Independent in 1944 and 1945, respectively. He operated these papers until 1947 when he established the Bloomington Daily Herald. Three years later the Herald was merged with the Bloomington World Telephone.

Riley had been past president of the Inland Daily Press Association, a member of the Hoosier State Press Association, American Newspaper Publishers Association, International Press Association, Masonic Lodge, Chamber of Commerce and Bedford First United Presbyterian Church. A graduate of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., Riley served as a trustee of Indiana University from 1957 to 1963 and of Rockford College from 1935 to 1940. He founded Southern Indiana a regional chamber J. Stewart Riley- published two papers. of commerce which promotes conservation, tourism and the establishment of new industry, and was its first president in 1952.

Survivors include the widow, Dagmar, and a daughter, Katherine, sophomore Indiana University. ANDERSON -Ernest E. Witsche, 72, owner of the Tackle Sporting Goods Store and a guard for 18 years at the Indiana Reformatory. Survivors include brother, Denny Witsche, Indianapolis. Rites at 2 p.m, tomorrow at the Brown Butz Funeral Home.

ELWOOD Herman Hocker, 67, who served two terms as an Elwood city councilman and was a school bus driver here for 28 years. Rites at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Methodist Church, LAFAYETTE -Frank E. Jones, 84, 50-year newspaperman who retired in 1951 from his job as assistant telegraph editor of the Lafayette Journal Courier. LEBANON-Mary E.

Gamble, 102, one of Boone County's oldest residents. Rites at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Russell Hitch Funeral Home. LIBERTY--The Rev. Benjamin F.

Bean, 91, retired minister of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and a former missionary in China. He had been pastor of the Greenwood and Franklin EUB churches and had held pastorates in the St. Joseph's and White River conferences for 20 years. Rites at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Greenwood EUB Church.

MARTINSVILLE Elmer Poe, 65, retired Mooresville police chief. Survivors include a sister, Pauline Taylor, Indianapolis. Rites today. PENDLETON Michael J. Conkin, 17, a junior at Pendleton High School and president of the Madison County Horse and Pony Club.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Conkin. Rites today. TERRE HAUTE Kathryn Ukena, 89.

Survivors include two daughters, Violet Bruner, Indianapolis, and Betty Smith, Terre Haute. Rites today Charles S. Estes, 61, Rites pending at the Bedino Chapel of the Valley Maud Von. Eute, 73. Survivors include the husband, Harry VonEute; a son, Harry F.

VonEute, Terre Haute, and four daughters, Beverly Light, Dorothy Fears and Margaret Nash, all of Terre Haute, and Nadine Effinger, Shelburn Arthur L. Taylor, retired employe of the Tumpane Co, Rites at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Callahan Funeral Home. Reading Program Special te The News HARTFORD CITY, Ind.summer reading program for second, third and fourth grade children will begin at the Hartford City Library June 14 and continue until Aug. 7.

Registrations are being accepted this week. WEATHER FORECAST By the U.S. Weather Bureau Date from U.S. Figures Shew Law Temperatures Until Tuesday Morning Iseleted Precipitation Nor Indicated Consul Lecel Forecast FORECAST (Eastern Standard Time) -Temperature (24 Hours to 6 A.M. Today) Actual Predicted Record This 65 (11:55 p.m.) 66 41 (1894) 83 1 p.m.

85 98 (1933) -Barometer (Sea Level)- Weather Atlanta Inches Millibars Bismark 7 a.m. 30.00 1016 Besten Buffalo Charleston, S.C. Sunrise, 5:17 Sunset, 8:11 Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Humidity yesterday: High, Denver Detroit 93; low, 61. El Pose Evansville Precipitation for 24 hours Fairbanks Fert Wayne ending 7:30 a.m., 1.01. Total Fort Worth precipitation since Jan.

1, Kansas Henelulu Jacksonville City Excess, 1.51. London Total degree days below 65 Les Angeles Louisville since July 1, 5,556. Normal, Memphis Miami Beach 5,674. Minneapolis Indianapolis Cloudy with New New York Orleans occasional showers or thunder- Norfolk Omaha showers tonight; partly cloudy Paris and warmer tomorrow; low Phoenix Pittsburg tonight in low 60s, high tomor- Ore. Rome row mid-80s.

St. Louis FIVE-DAY FORECAST Tomorrow through Saturday temperatures are expected to average 3 to 6 degrees above normal high 78 to 86 and normal low 56 to 64; a little warmer Wednesday or Thursday and turning cooler Friday or Saturday; rainfall to total three-fourths of an inch to one inch; a few showers likely Thursday or Friday. TODAY'S INDIANA NEWS Gathered for The Great Hoosier Daily By Its Staff Reporters and 150 Special Correspondents Monday, June 7, 1965 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Page 19 a No Time For Razors School, did and was fined. Brush- faced gents shown with Hodson ORLEANS, Ind. -Beards are the style in Orleans as the town are (seated, left to right) Robert Compton, lumberman: Franklin prepares for its 150th anniversary celebration held Aug.

7 Jones and Dennis Baldwin, employes of the Carpenter Body Works, through 14. Few clean-chaven men roam the streets. But Orville and (back Co." row, left) Ray Clements, manager of the Orleans Farm Hodson, (back row, right) athletic director at Washington Supply Notre Dame Picks 3 Vice Presidents The University of Notre presidents today, among ever to be appointed to the The announcement came end in Indiana's annual round commencements, with these the resignation of the the revelation of large gifts Named vice presidents at Notre Dame were Dr. Francis T. McGuire, former vice-president in charge of research for Deere Moline, and James W.

Frick, executive director of the Notre Dame Foundation since 1961. Also appointed a vice-presi. dent was the Rev. John E. Walsh, who has been Notre Dame's vice-president for public relations since 1963.

McGuire was named vicepresident for special projects, Frick for public relations and development and Father Walsh for academic affairs, succeeding the Rev. Chester A. Soleta. In another appointment, Dr. Thomas E.

Stewart was named associate vice-president1 for academic affairs at Notre Dame. He has been head of the university's mathematics department since 1963. McGuire and Stewart's positions are newly created. BUNDY NOTES U.S. PROBLEMS McGeorge Bundy, President Johnson's special assistant for national security, yesterday told 1,400 Notre Dame graduates the United States faces Robert Hunter's Rites Pending In Anderson Special to The News ANDERSON, Ind.

Rites for Robert E. Hunter, founder and owner of the Hunter Motor Co. here and former member of the State Police Board, are being arranged by the Brown Butz Funeral 1 Home. Hunter, who operated auto agencies at Winchester and Marion before moving Anderson in 1923, died Saturday at Sarasota, where he lived since retiring several years ago. He was on the State Police Board during the administration of Gov.

Ralph Gates. He also served several terms as a member of the Chevrolet Planning Group of Indiana, Richmond Marine Killed In Chopper Special to The News RICHMOND, Ind. Marine Pfc. Curtis L. Foster, 29, Richmond, was killed in a midair collision of two helicopters yesterday off the coast of South Viet Nam, the Defense Department reportedFoster, been in South Viet Nam one month, was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Foster, Richmond. The Defense Department said Foster's helicopter crashed with another during takeoff from the aircraft carrier Iwo Jima. Five other U.S. Marines also died in the accident.

1 Dies In Crash; 1 Critically Hurt Dame named three vicethem the first two laymen posts. after the first big weekof college and university activities being marked by Wabash College president and to DePauw University. four basic problems in Santo Domingo and Saigon: "We are looking at the problems of power and of peace and of the interests of other men, and also of the ambitions of the Communists." The U.S., Bundy said, "is the first example in history of a society which retains its internal freedom while meeting extraordinary responsibilities of world power." At DePauw, it was announced yesterday by President William E. Kerstetter that three persons have donated $2.5 million to help the school in its 10-year, $30 million "design for a decade" development program. One of the gifts is for 000, while the other two are for $1 million each, Dr.

Kerstetter said. The three donors wish to remain anonymous, he said. Dr. Kerstetter told alumni at a luncheon Saturday that he had cash or commitments for $8.5 million in all, but said details regarding some of the gifts could not yet be revealed. Dr.

Warren W. Shearer has been named acting president of Wabash College, replacing Dr. Byron K. Trippet, whose Ulysses S. Lesh Funeral Tomorrow Special te The News HUNTINGTON, Ind.

Services for Ulysses Samuel Lesh, 96, Indiana attorney general from 1922 to 1926 who formerly practiced law here and in Indianapolis, will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Merck Funeral Home. Lesh, who graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, and practiced here with the firm of Lesh, Lesh Matheny, died Saturday at Huntington County Hospital. Survivors include two sons, James E. Lesh and Samuel T.

Lesh, both Indianapolis attorneys and 3 grandchildren. Tectron To Build Plant In Brazil Special te The News BRAZIL, Ind. Tectron an Indianapolis radar and communications firm, has announced it will locate an assembly plant here to work on a $1.3 million government contract. Leonard I. Alton, Tectron president, said the company will lease a building on Brazil's Eastside and produce amplifiers for communications systems of Army ground equipment.

The plant, which will eventually employ 40 to 50 persons may be in operation by mid-August, Alton said. McGuire Stewart Frick Trippett resignation was announced Saturday by the board of trustees. Schearer, chairman of the college ics department and the division of social Father sciences, will Walsh assume his duties Sept. 1 until a new president is named. Trippett, president for the last 10 years, said, "I believe the time is right for a change in the administration of Wabash College The college is in an excellent position to go forward under new and fresh leadership to the attainment of its long-range goals." Youth Held In State In Alleged Ohio Kidnaping AUBURN, Ind.

(UPI) Joseph Patrick Fallon, 17, who escaped from a boys' institution at Loudonville, Ohio, last week, was apprehended yesterday by state police and local authorities at Butler, about 10 miles northeast of here. Authorities said the youth would be returned to Ohio, where he and three other youths were wanted in connection with an alleged kidnaping. Police said the other youths were apprehended in Ohio earlier. Authorities said the youths allegedly abducted a teen-age girl from a state park at Loudonville. Learn-To-Swim Class Is Fatal ELKHART, Ind.

(AP)-The body of Charles Holland, 10, Elkhart, was found floating in the YMCA pool during a learnto-swim class. Dr. George Westfall, Elkhart County coroner, made an autopsy but was unable to determine immediately what caused the boy's death Saturday. A three-car wreck on the far Southwestside took the life of JOHN T. GALLOWAY, 42, Mooresville, last night.

Galloway and Doyle McConnell, 38, 3502 Farnsworth, were thrown from a Thunderbird auto at Kentucky and Mann Road at 8:40 o'clock. McConnell is in critical condition a at General Hospital with head and face injuries. Sheriff's deputies said the car was going northwest when it skidded across the center line and struck an auto driven by Emmitt C. Dingus, 30, Martinsville. Harley J.

Driskell, 47, 1100 Thompson driver of a third car that struck the wreckage, was not hurt. Galloway's death was the 49th in Marion County in 1965. He was one of six persons who lost their lives in Indiana highway accidents over the weekend. Dead after a one-car crash on a Delaware County Road at 10:50 p.m. yesterday was DAVID HIDAY, 29, of near Alexandria.

State police said he was thrown from his car, which landed on top of him after striking a culvert. A two-car collision on Ind. 67, 2 miles west of Portland took the life of FRED COX, 77, Detroit, at 2:45 p.m. terday. months since Indiana had a day free of traffic fatalities.

On April 7, no fatal accident was reported in the state. Other fatality-free days this year were March 17 and Feb. 17. There was a three-day stretch from Jan. 18-20, with no deaths on Indiana streets and highways.

DO YOU It has been exactly two The Jay County sheriff's department said a car driven by John Smith, 17, Ridgeville, collided with the Cox auto at an intersection of the highway and a county road. Two other persons, a 12- year old Westside bicyclist and a 56-year-old Indianapolis man, died in crashes in Indianapolis and Marion County Friday night, LARRY KRAMER, 23, Bloomington, died at 7:40 p.m. Saturday when his car bumper hooked onto a car he was passing and forced him into a bank on Ind. 37, about 5 miles north of Bloomington. WEATHER BUREAU Date Year Ago 64 85 7:30 a.m.

High Low Rain PICidy Clear Cloudy PICidy Rain Cloudy PICidy Clear Rein Cloudy Cloudy PICidy PICidy Clear Rain Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cidy PICidy Cloudy Cleudy Cloudy Clear Rain Clear Clear 75 area: 104 of Blythe, Bank, Mentane. Humidity 64 64 93 65 90 67 ...84 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 0.00 Ohioan Goes To His Own Funeral By LIZ HARDSAW "Give me roses while I live" was the theme of the funeral of GERALD McKINNEY, a Springfield, Ohio, factory worker. McKinney, 42, arranged his own funeral yesterday at the Portsmouth, Ohio, fairgrounds. He got the idea from his great-grandfather, who had such a service in 1896, eight years before he died. McKinney said he was dedicating his service to his father.

"He wanted to have this," he explained, "but he waited too long." That young woman with the silver blonde wig at the Marquette University prom Friday night was she LUCI JOHNSON, the President's 17-yearold daughter? John Dunn, director of student affairs at the school, she was at the event. He said he rode down an elevator with Luci and Patrick J. Nugent, a Marquette student from Waukegan, Ill. Neither Luci nor Nugent was available for comment. Cadet DANIEL W.

CHRISTMAN, 22, of Hudson, Ohio, has been named the No. 1 man in the 596-man graduating class of West Point. Former President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER sought out Christman during a class reunion and praised the cadet for his academic average. Christman's position was 60 notches higher than was Gen.

Eisenhower's a half century earlier. Nebraska state courts have been ordered by the U.S. Court of Appeals to review the murder conviction of CARIL ANN FUGATE who accompanied her boyfriend on a 1958 cross-country killing spree that took the lives of 11 persons. Miss Fugate, now 21, is seeking release from Nebraska Women's Reformatory. She is serving a life sentence for her part in the slaying of one of the victims killed by CHARLES STARKWEATHER who died in the electric chair.

Miss Fugate was 14 when she was arrested. Lake City Antenie Francisco Seattle South Tampa Washingten, D.C. Winnipeg 48-state Calif. Lew: 33 Cut Hourly Temp. 6:00 a.m.

7:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Caril Ann Fugate seeks release..

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