Linton Daily Citizen from Linton, Indiana • Page 1

CITIZEN WANT-ADS GET RESULTS THE LINTON DAILY CITIZEN Printed in an area blessed by natural resources, ideal for manufacturing enterprises finest farm belt a place proud to call home. WEATHER Scattered showers, windy tonight, Friday; colder Friday night. Low tonight 38-45, ugh Friday in 40s. Saturday outlook: cloudy, colder. EIGHT PAGES LINTON, INDIANA.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1938 VOLUME LVIII NUMBER 258 Mine Run Run Unassorted Product ol a an anembly ol like kind not specifically classified; a medley of thought 01 FCC Head Denies Friends influenced Vote on TV An informal (and probably not too accurate survey made in Linton yesterday, two days before the final day for having 1957 vehicle plates on cars and truoks, shows that about three out of five cars and trucks are wearing the new 1958 tags. Mine Run picked up some ornithological information thai somehow had escaped him in a telephone conversation with Mrs. Sarah Bolt of Linton yesterday Mrs. Bolt called to report that a wren had lateen up residence again in one of her wren-boxes, as an indication uf the imminence of Spring. She says that there are wrens ol both the and variety.

A resident of near Linton reports that concerned about some water killing the fish (or chasing them out) in Latlas erees. lie says that the water is so hitt.r his cattle will no longer drink it. A Fort Worih, gioccr who was by a fraudulent check artist, comments that he feels "like a The grocer, Hoy Ford, said that aitc; he cashed the check, and after the man who passed it had left the store, he saw that the check was signed C. A member of the Linton- Stockton Organization is wondering why more school patrons of the city and township aren't attending the meetings of the P-TO. She says that a at the meeting this week showed that there were 15 teachers and 30 P-TO members present.

This type of an attendance be exactly encouraging to the teachers who made the eifort to attend the meeting. The peculiar fact about the Parent-Teachcrs group here is that before the new school building was built, some of the P-TOs had monthly attendances that ran from 50 to even higher. Bid the parents of our boys and girls lose their sense of individuality when the smaller Parent-Teacher Organizations were absorbed into one large one? The smaller schools had good attendances even betore the consolidation and the new school building were brought up for consideration. The individual parent IS important to the P-TO, no mattei how large it is or how many pupils it represents. and school administrators wish to have as large a representation as possible of patrons present when they talk over matters affecting the they get a of opinion from an attendance ol only 30.

The parents of our pupils are NOT disinterested in the welfare of Iheir boys and girls this we know. But if our school leaders are going to have the benefits of their beliefs and opinions, more parents must attend these meetings. The conservatively-worded announcement from ton General Electric plant, appearing in edition of the Daily Citizen, is good news to this community, as well as to the local plant. John H. Flickinger, plant manager, announced that the company planned to return its production rate to the level ot September, 1957, when a cutback necessary because the plant was manufacturing more motors than could be solo, at that particular time.

Mr. Flickinger said that one of the reasons for the forthcoming step-up in production was that a motor was being Introduced for use with furnaces. When the Linton plant started qpe ration, its principal outlet for its motors was for use in air- conditioning systems, fans, etc. Later, a line of motors for sump- pumps was added, and has been met with wide acceptance. The air-conditioning systems represented a large market for the motors, but this market was subject to seasonal fluctuations.

The fact that the furnace molois are being accepted, therefore, causes the local plant to hope it will have a major outlet for its products practically the year- arouiid. WASHINGTON Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack denied under oath today charges that his vote in a Miami television award was influenced by money and friends. He also declared that certainly have no intention of Mack testified before a House Commerce subcommittee which has heard charges that he received $2,650 from a Florida attorney, Thurman A. Whiteside, who supported the successful applicant for the TV channel.

Appearing before the subcommittee for the first time since it started delving into FCC operations, Mack declared he not swayed or by anybody who approached him abou the Miami Channel 10 case. Mack said if he had felt that he was swayed or pressured into a vote against my he w'ould not have voted at all in the case. No Flan to Resign He said he listened to all sides and voted his convictions based on record before In the course of subcommittee session, a member. Rep. John B.

Bennett (R-Mich.) said President Eisenhower should fire Mack. If the President does not do so, Bennett said, Congress should impeach the commissioner. Before his appearance today a reporter asked Mack if he intended to fprestall any such action and resign. course he said. certainly have no intention of Whiteside has told the subcommittee the money he gave Mack was in the form of loans and that Mack had paid back most of it.

Whiteside also testified that Mack owned a one-sixth interest in a Miami insurance agency from which the commissioner has received $13,000 in the past five years. Ice Collapses, Boy, Four, Is Drowned A small boy who had watched others skating last weekend walked out on soft ice and was drowned Wednesday in a pond near his home, three quarters ot a mile south of Hymera. Four year-old Paul Earl Carpenter fell through the ice Wednesday morning, between 11:00 a.m. and noon. His mother, Mrs.

Ralph Carpenter, raced to the pond when she missed her son and seeing his body, waded waist-deep into the cnilly water to carry it to the bank. The drowning occurred in pond, which was not deep and had been the scene of ice skating during the cold weather of the past few weeks. Officials said the boy drowned in water not much over his head. The boy is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Carpenter; two brothers, Ralph, and Randall; a sister, Shirley; aid the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Paul Carpenter of Hymera, and Earl Havila id of Hastings, and Mrs. Esther Wagner of Clay City. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral home and was later returned to the residence. It will be taken to the Hymera Baptist church a.i hour before services, which will be conducted by the Rev.

Lincoln Stafford at o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in the K. ol P. cemetery. Sullivan Teacher May Get New Hearing TERRE HAUTE A justice of the peace studied today whether to permit a rehearing of the case of a school teacher who pleaded guilty to a drunk driving charge.

Kenneth L. Merder, 44, Sullivan, was fined $25 and lost his driving license for a year last weekend when he pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace Lee Easton, Attorney James F. Gallagher filed in Easton's court Wednes- lay a motion for permission to plea to not guilty o.i the grounds Merder did not understand the charge and had no chance to engage an attorney. 2 MUNCIE MEN GET SENTENCES TODAY MUNCIE Stiff terms were given Wednesday to two Muncie men charged with robbing the owners of a supermarket of $2,200 last November. Judge Paul Lefiler sentenced L.

Ogle, 23, to 12 years and Elmer L. Ridge, 25, to 10 years when they changed innocent pleas to guilty. 34 in British Plans Believed Victims Ot Accident Today BOLTON. England A chartered British airliner crashed i ito a fog-shrouded foothill of the Pennie Mountains of northern England early today with a heavy loss of life. Rescue officials estimated 34 of the 42 persons aboard were killed.

The accident occurred in a snow-isolated region only 15 miles from Manchester, fourth largest city. The scene is about 175 miles northwest of London in the heavily populated Midlands. The plane was a British-built, two-engine owned by the Silver City Airways, an independent airline specializing in overwater ferry flights within the British Isles. When' it crashed, it wasf carrying a group of auto dealers from the Isle of Man, an out-of-the- way resort island which lies between England and Ireland, on a visit to an auto supply factory in Manchester. The plane hit "Winter not far from Bolton.

Men Are Marooned No one knew about the crash until one of the survivors strug- ged into a television transmitter station atop the peak, where six engineers had been marooned for three days by snowdrifts left by last Tuesday's blizzard. The engineers immediately sent out a call for help, and a vast rescue effort got underway. But neither ambulance, fire trucks, police nor helicopters could the scene at once because the roads were choked with snow for miles even though it was such a short distance from the industrial hub of Manchester. The TV engineers used a bulldozer to help open a path to the wreckage. Other bulldozers and emergency equipment went into action.

Nearly throe hours aftei the disaster, snowplows made their way up winter hill. Seven ambulances and their crews followed. Senate Increases JomadoeS CaUSe Fees for Letters From 4 to 5 Cents 10 DeatllS 111 Deep SOUtH KILLED A Wallace Cordry HI, 19-year-old Stanford university student, is shown with plainclothesmen in Palo Alto, police headquarters, where ha walked in and said, killed a out in the car." And she Deena Bond, a Cordry neighbor. The lad said he took her to the R.O.T.C. rifle range and shot her because of an (International SoundphotoJ HANDLEY GETS REPORT Indiana Unemployment Above U.

S. Average BLOOM FIELD YOUTH IS ARRESTED BY FBI Lawrence E. Ferguson, 19 years old. of Bloomfield, was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday, on a charge of failure to report foi induction into the U.S. Army.

According to a United Press dispatch, the FB'I said that Fer- Methodist Churches Raise Total of $55,000 INDIANAPOLIS Method churches in Indiana contributed more than $55,000 in a spccul Christmas offering for missions work, according to compilations completed this week. Bishop Richard C. Raines episcopal head of Indiana Methodism, announced that $55,167 was raised in the special offering an annual project of Hoosier Methodist churches. The money will be administered through the Methodist Board of office in New York for missions work in Africa, Korea, India, Bolivia and American Indian reservatioss. It will be used providing scholarships, assisting in the maintenance of missions schools, buying medieval supplies and foodstuffs and helping to finance missions, hospitals and medical facilities in these areas.

Churches in the Fort Wayne District led in gifts with con tributions totaling $7,304, fol lowed by the South Bend Du- trict with gifts of $6,669. Other district totals included Bloomington, Columbus, Evansville, Indianapolis, New Albany, Rushville, Vincennes, $2,093. DRIVER IS CONVICTED INDIANAPOLIS Charles E. Locke, 22, Indianapolis, was convicted Wesdnesday night on a charge of reckless homicide in the traffic death last October of Rita Jeanne nor, 17, daughter of the sec re INDIANAPOLIS Governor Handley received an official report today placing unemployment situation as worse than the national rate. The report from the Indiana Employment Security Division chief was made public by office, along with a 10-duy- old specific report on the Fo: Wayne area, after the governor went to Washington for confer-, ences on how to bring more uc- fense contracts to Hoosierland to ease the situation.

Before he left( Handley urged township trustees to distribute federal surplus food to needy families hard-hit by a wave oi joblessness, chiefly from (CoutUiut-U ou Tnui guson had been ordered twice to jtary of the Marion County Alco- report for induction by the Tip- holic Beverage Board. The Jury pecanoe county Selective Service recommended a 1 to 5 year pri- Board. term. Linton Woman Dies; Services Pending Mrs. Isabele Evans, 69 years old, of Linton, formerly of mera, died at 5:00 this morning in the Freeman-Greene county hospital.

She had been a patient at the hospital for the past six weeks. Mrs. Evans had resided in Linton, making her home on East Vincennes street, for a lew months, having moved here from Hymera. Her surviviors include two brothers, Bill Faulds of Hymera and Tom Faulds of Michigan. The body of the deceased taken to the McHugh Funeial home at Hymera for the completion of funeral arangements.

EX-MAYOR SUCCUMBS COLUMBUS Wilbur Banister, 57, former mayor of North Vernon and former 9th District Republican organization chairman, died Wednesday in Bartholomew County Hospital here. Banister was Jennings County GOP chairman at the time of his death. trial plant layoffs in the face of buyer resistance. Director William C. Stalnakcr of the IESD, who accompanied Handley to Washington, reported to the chief executive that 143,000 Hoosiers were idle in January, representing nearly 8.1 per cent of the state's work force.

Hard Goods Center has increased more rapidly in Indiana than in the Stalnaker reported, citing figures showing a 6.7 per cent national unemployment rate for the same month. Stalnaker blamed this on concentration of Indiana industry in the hard goods or mass production type of industry which is more senstive to the expansions and contractions of the A separate report by the State Labor Division to Handley showed 7,300 unemployed at Fort Wayne, about 8 per cent of the 93,000 work force, or about the same rate as for all of Indiana. Stalnaker reported that the present unemployment trend very to the trend in 1953-54 the total is running a little He said normally there is an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 in unemployment between October and January, but this year the increase was 75.000. FAILS TO FOOL HOOSIER INDIANAPOLIS INS Walter Pennycuff, 57, was not fooled by the old wnile driving along Riverbottom road Wednesday night. Pennycuff drove around the which quickly jumped to its feet, waved a gun and shouted for the car to stop.

The man then entered a car containing two other men and pursued Pennycuff for about a mile before giving up the chase. WASHINGTON The Senate was expected to approve today a 747 million dollar postal rate increase bill featuring a stamp for out-of-town letters. The Senate was likely to tack on a 7per cent pay increase for about 500,000 postal ployes. The rate hike is designed to cover the pay boost. The bill then will go back to the House, which has voted for only a fourt-ceitt out-of-town letter rate.

The Senate late Wednesday defeated a move to knock out the five-cent stamp. It was a victory for President Eisenhower who sought the increase. The action came on a 49 to 42 roll call vote which generally followed party lines. Under the administration proposal, out of town letters would cost five cents and local letters four cents. Both now go for three cents.

The five-cent stamp was written into the bill by the Senate Post Office Committee over the protest of its Democratic leaders. Only two Republicans deserted the administration when they sought to substitute a four- cent stamp for both local and out-of-town mail. The four-cent stamp amendment was offered by Sen. A. S.

Mike Monroney Five Democrats joined 44 Republicans in voting against the amendment, Two Republicans and 40 Democrats supported it. Plans Improvements Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield meantime told Congress his department is planning great many new postal facilities throughout the In testimony made public today by a House Appropriations subcommittee. Summerfield said the new projects are part of a program now underway to modernize the post office system. In addition to raising first class letter rates, the Senate bill would increase air mail stamps from six cents to eight, and also boost second and third class rates.

Most postcards would cost three cents, a penny increase. Second class, mostly newspapers and periodicals, would be raised 30 per cent for editorial portions and 60 per cent for advertising matter in three annual steps. Third clas, mostly circulars, would go up 66 2-3 per cent in twm years. Monroney, a members of the Senate Post Office Committee, called the five-cent stamp unfair and Terre Haute Gl Is Shot by Police INDIANAPOLiS INS Pvt. Terry W.

Weatherman, 18, of Terre Haute, an escaped prisoner from Fort Benjamin Harrison, was wounded critically Wednesday night after an unsuccessful attempt to run dowm Police Detective Sergeant Christopher Greenwood. Weatherman was shot by police. Two companions, also prisoners from the Army stockade, escaped. They had fled from a stolen car. The other prisoners are Pvt.

Robert E. Parvis, 25, of Terre Haute, and Pvt. Jerry Morton, 18, of 204 S. Emerson Indianapolis. Weatherman was shot by Detective Sergeants Greenwood and James J.

Fox after the car of the fugitives crashed into an automobile owned by Mrs. Vernia O. Campbell, parked in front of her home at 5252 English Avenue. One of the police bullets struck Weatherman in the back and emerged from his chest after puncturing a lung. TWO CHARGES FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT Two new criminal cases have been placed on file in the Greene circuit court at Bloomfield.

They are: State vs. Dennis Hancock, failure to provide. State vs. Asa William Close, assault and battery. Car Mufflers Cause 13 Cases In J.

P. Court Five young people have paid fines and nine other are to face court hearings as the result of crackdown by Bloomfield police officers on autos improper mufflers. The thirteen young people were named in the charges in an intensive one-day campaign by the Bloomfield police Sunday. All were charged with a motor vehicle not equipped with a proper Each of the five was fined $1 and costs, or $16.75, in hearings in the court of Frank C. Dean, Bloomfield justice of the peace.

They are: Earl White, 22, Jerry J. Eaton, 19 and Miss Linda Jenkins, 17 all of Bioomfielo; Robert Wayne Patterson, 20, Lyons, and Leonard Calvert, 27, Worthington. The nine others are scheduled to appear in Mr. court on or before Saturday, March 1. They are: Robert Jerrells, 2J, Linton; Kenneth Vandeventer, 22, Bloomfield; Arnold L.

Graves, 17, Ronnie Heaton, 21, Terry J. Feutz, 17 and James H. Corwin, 22, all of Bloomfield rural route; Billy L. Hunter, 21, Solsberry route one; Niland Dean Raper, 21, Lyons and Gaiy R. Gillmore, 18, Koleen.

SHOWERS FALL IN MOST AREAS Rain Takes Edge Off Drought in Indiana By UNITED PRESS Rain today took the edge off a winter drought which threw a fire scare into wide areas of Indiana. Showers fell over most of the state during the night or after dawn, and forecasts indicated they be in the southern Two-thirds oi Hoosierland. where they were needed the most. -By daylight, Evansville had more than half an inch of precipitation. Central and northern points reported much less but the totals were expected to increase as the day wore on.

W'oods and brush areas over Southern Indiana were ed for the first time this month, eliminating at least temporarily the forest fire danger which existed the last days and paved the way for many minor fires. Temperatures, meanwhile, continued mild but were due to cool off and bring snow' mixed w'ilh rain and later snow flurries to the north portion. Highs Wednesday ranged from 47 at Fort Wayne to at Evansville. Overnight lows ranged from 36 at Fort Wayne to 51 at Evansville. highs were due to range from the 50s to the 60s, lows from 40 to 45, and highs from 40 to 50.

Saturday will be cloudy and colder. Blimp Plays Hookey; Two Men Uninjured LAKIFHURST, N.J A Navy blimp tore loose from its moorings at the naval air station here early today but was found five hours later, lying in the New Jersey pine barrens still on air station property. The runaway blimp caused the Civil Aeronautics Board to warn all commercial pilots to stay from the Lakehurst area until the blimp was found. Two sailors aboard the airship when high winds caused to set the ship free. The sailors were reported injured and taken to the U.S.

Army hospital at Ft. Dix. INDIANAPOLIS FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS INDIANAPOLIS tk Fire caused damage estimated at $50.000 to $200,000 to the Fairmount Glass Works today. A two-alarm blaze swept through thjree1 installations of the bottle manufacturing firm. Eight fire companies responded.

The fire started in a room where high temperature furnaces meit glass. Student Quizzed About 3 Slayings CHICAGO A part-time student at Northwestern University, wounded Wednesday in a police chase, today faced questioning in the bizarre murders of three teen-age girls. Authorities said Barry Z. Cook, 23, a construction worker, confessed to police that he was responsible for and assaults on women. Cook was hospitalized at Edgewater Hospital with three bullet wounds suffered when he tried to outrun four detectives.

Two of the four detectives who seized Cook, Joseph Ponicki and John Tyndall, have been conducting a full-time investigation into the torso slaying August of 15-year-old Judith Mae Anderson. Judith body was hacked apart and put in two oil drums which later wore found floating in Lake Michigan Cook also faced questioning in the Grimes sisters murders in December, 1 956. The nude bodies of Barbara 15, and Patricia, 13, were found dumped on a lonely road on the outskirts of Chicago almost a month later. Cook, who takes art and psychology courses at North western twice a week, was working on a construction job Wednesday when the four detectives approached and told the husky, crew-culled young man he was being arrested. One of the detectives explained it was in connection with a series of knifings, assaults and robberies on young women.

guess you got the right guy, the detectives quoted him as saying, did about six of Heart Fund Drive To End This Week Heart Sunday was conducted last Sunday and the committee in charge of the drive for funds in Gree.ie county is working toward the completion of the drive this week. Residents of the community, who not at home Sunday, or who have not been contacted about a contribution, are asked to please place contribution i i envelope left at their door and mail to the address on the back, or call Mrs. Earl Aikin or Mrs Henry Taylor and someone will collect the offering. In the world today heart disease strikes young and old and takes the highest toll of all diseases. Heart research has brought new methods and new medicines to control these diseases and in some cases effect a cure, it was said.

are solicited to continue this research, association officers said. JACKSON, Miss. Ugly black tornadoes struck sections of Mississippi and Louisiana Wednesday night, killing at least ten persons and flattening scores of buildings. Authorities feared more dead would be found in the scattered wreckage today. More than 100 persons were injured.

More than a dozen funneU dipped down throughout south and central Mississippi during a two-hour period shortly after dusk. Earlier in the day a twister had left two injured near Hosston, La. Walnut Grove, a community of about 600 northwest oi Jackso it probably was the largest settlement crippled by the winds. Half its homes were damaged, 28 persons were injured and a 60-year- old woman was killed by Hying timber which crashed through her window. A few miles to the west of Walnut Grove, in the hamlet of Farmhaven, three died and 20 were injured.

A mother and her 12-year-old son died in the Brewer community in Perry County in southeast Mississippi. The first highway patrolman to reach the scene of that twister radioed back: some help out here. This place has been Another Area Hit Another community in the same area, was hit by possibly the same twister minutes later and another death was the result. Perry injured totaled more than 20. Ninety minutes later twisters hit three communities in nearby Wayne County, killing one woman at the Winchester community.

The highway patrol said house blew The first twister reported hit the Fannin Road village about 13 miles northeast of Jackson. One rescue worker said sounded like a train goi lg through, then the lights went A Fannin girl, three-year-old Kathy Jones, was killed when 'the twister carried her home 100 yards Her father, mother and one-year-old brother, who was in a high chair at the time, were injured. Matthew Bozic, 93, Dies Wednesday Matthew Bozic, 93 years old, resident of Linton since 1905, passed away at 11:35 Wednesday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Apalonia Slapar, Seventh and streets northwest. He had been in failing health for two months but had been seriously ill only one week.

Mr. Bozic was a retired coal miner. He was born in Austria on Aug. 3, 1864. He moved from Austria to Westphalia, Germany, and was employed in the mines there for a time before moving to Linton in September, 1905.

He had been employed in a number of coal mines in this area, including the old Cherry Hill, Little Giant, Twin and North Linton operations. He was last employed at a mine in Westphalia. Mr. Bozic was a member of the S.N.P.J. lodge and the United Mine Workers of America.

He is survived by the daughter, Mrs. Slapar; one grandson, two great-grandchildren, all of Linton, and one niece and one grand-niece, both of Chicago, 111 The body of the deceased was taken to the Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel, where, it was announced, friends may call after 7:00 this evening. Funeral services will bhe held at the Memory Chapel at 2:00 Saturday afternoon, with Deaconess Nola D. Yoder officiating. and burial will be made in cemetery.

3 COUNTY YOUNG MEN INDUCTED INTO ARMY Charles Arthur Donie and Lloyd Douglas Corbin, of Linton, and Charles Wesley Ausmart of Lyons, selectees, were inducted into the U3S. Army Feb. 18 and sent to Indianapolis. Donie and Corbin were both assigned to Fort Knox, for their basic training. They were inducted through the Gieerie County Selective Service Board.

MONOTONOUS PRINCTON Haubstadt clobbered winless Hazelton 6920 Wednesday night in the sectional tourney here. It was the 39th straight loss for Hazleton which has not won since the opener of the 1956-57 seaso i. PATIENT AT HOSPITAL Cieve Anderson of Lyons been admitted to the Good Samaritan hospital at Vincennes for observation and treatment..