Rushville Republican from Rushville, Indiana • Page 1

Vol. 60- -No. 242 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Thursday, December 26,1963 Ten Pages Seven Cents Heavy Traffic student Toll Is Taken For On Christmas By The Associated Press A Richmond woman struck by a car today on her way to church became traffic victim of the year, making the 1963 toll the third worst in the history. The death of Mrs. Florence Petrik, 68, followed nine traffic fatalities in the state over the Christmas holiday.

Mrs. Petrik, who went to Catholic mass every morning, was hit in an intersection by a car driven by Donald Day of Richmond, who told officers he saw her too late. Charles Gunter, 21, Holton, and Mrs. Sally Adams, 28, Batesville, were killed Wednesday night as two cars met head- on at the top of a hill on the Old Michigan Road 6 miles southwest of Versailes. Seven other persons were injured, and one of them, brother, Daniel Gunter, 18, was reported in critical condition in a hospital at Louisville, Ky.

State police said both cars, driven by Mrs. Adams and Evelyn Gunter, 19, had edged across the center of the road when they collided. Also injured were Robert Moore, 22, Holton, a passenger in the Gunter car; Mrs. husband, William C. Adams, 31, and their children, Patricial, 9, Faye, 8, and Alfred, 6.

Clara Ann Wilson, 13, and her brother, David, 7, who were on their way home after a church service, were injured fatally in a two-car collision near Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Peru. Six other persons were injured, one of them critically. The victims were the children of M. Sgt. Eugene L.

Wilson, 38 stationed at Bunker Hill Air Force Base near Peru. Police said a car driven by Airma 2.C. Michael F. Schraner, 21, collided with Wilson. A passenger in car, Mrs.

Fred Hartisch, 62, Peru, was reported in critical condition. Wilson and three other children, Joseph, 11 10, and James, 4, were in fair condition. Mrs. Yvonne Clegg, 24, wife of another Bunker HOI airman, suffered minor injuries. Mrs.

Wilson and the four occu pants of the Schraner car were not hurt. A collision at the crest of a hill on a Noble County road near Wawaka killed Mrs. Helen Stanger, 45, Stevensville, Mich. Injured and listed in fair condition were her husband, Otis Stanger, 50, their daughter, Susan, 11, and Ruth Ann Danner, 18, Wawaka, whose car collided with the Stanger vehicle. Elizabeth Rose Meyer, 22, Lafayette, was killed when she drove her car into the path of a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a crossing near Burnettsville, 8 miles west of Monticello.

Her sisters, Mary Jo, 19, and Dorothy, 16, were injured and were taken to a Monticello hospital. Carleton D. Lewis, 32, Indianapolis, died Wednesday of injuries suffered Christmas Eve when he got out of his car on Ind. 431 south of Indianapolis and walked into the path of another car. deputies said car either stopped or stalled.

Other Christmas Eve victims were Dolores M. Carpender, 32, Continued on Page Three IFYE Program David Bills, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bills of Washington Township, has been named an International Farm Youth Exchange student to go abroad in 1964, according to word received by the County Extension Office. He is the first student selected to go abroad from Rush County under the above program.

It is not known definitely whether he will leave in April or September of the country in which he will spend six months. He is one of eight selected to M. 0. Johnston, Retired Church Minister, Dies The Rev. M.

O. Johnston, 88, a retired Christian Church minister, died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in Rush Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted Saturday morning. Rev. Johnston, whose home was at 305 East Sixth, came to Rushville 13 years ago upon his retirement after 50 years in the ministry.

He was born in Findlay, on December 8, 1875, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Johnston, and was married December 25, 1902, to Carrie E. Zimmer, who survives. A graduate of Tri-State College at Angola in 1898, Rev.

Johnston also spent a year at the Lexington, Theological College and three years at the Hiram, Theological Seminary. His first pastorate was at the Christian Church in Stroh, and he later served churches at Edgerton, New Philadelphia, and Chillicothe, O. Rev. Johnston also spent three years as a Christian minister in Wellington, New Zealand. Following his retirement and during his residence in Rushville, he served as a supply pastor in several local churches.

He was a member of Main Check Forger Sentenced Prior To Court Vacation A number of civil and criminal cases were concluded in Rush Circuit Court as the October term closed Tuesday. Court will be in vacation until the January term opens on Monday, January 6. The January term will run until March 7. Edward Ray Shaffer, 38, of West Virginia, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge William F. Marshall to serve a one to five year term at the Indiana State Prison and also wds fined $100.

Shaffer had entered a guilty plea to a fraudulent check charge on December 11 and his sentencing was delayed pending the filing of a pre-sentence investigation and report by Jules Tavern, and they are to deduct a specified sum each week to apply on the judgment. Judgment of $2,335.10 plus interest from July 12, 1963 and plus court costs from a judgment obtained in Shelby Circuit Court was awarded to John Alexander in his suit against Mervin Alexander and Busard Oldsmobile, his employer. Lane Finance Inc. received judgment of $467.34 in its suit against Robert and Marjorie Dye, with the Farthing Trucking Co, employer, directed to deduct from his wages until the judgment is paid. The estate of Wayne White has been admitted to probate.

Kiplinger, county probation of- July 13, represent Indiana and the Street Christian Church here United States in 1964. The selec- and the Masonic Lodge in Hud- tion was made under the joint I son (Steuben County). auspices of the State 4-H Club Surviving with the widow are Office and the Club at Purdue University He is a junior at DePauw this I near that city, and a sister, ficer. Shaffer had been charged with giving the bad check to the Wear store here. William Griffin was awarded a divorce decree from Ollie Griffin and the plaintiff also received custody of the minor child.

Judgment has been given in three suits involving money matters. The court found for Lane Finance, in its suit against Forrest Alley, with the defend- ent ordered to pay $234.20 plus interest at six per cent from Jan. 27, 1958 and court costs. Also named in the suit as employers of the defendant are John T. and Elnora M.

Moore, doing business as the Arcade rects that his widow, Mable, receive all personal property. Real estate is to go to a son, Joseph White, Route 2, Carthage, as trustee with the income from the trust to be paid to the widow throughout her life. The widow was named as executrix with bond of $40,000. Application for letters of administration has been filed in the estate of Blanche J. Scull, who died intestate.

Sole heirs are listed as a son, Paul R. Scull, Needham, and a grandson, Thomas E. Joyce, West Lafayette. The court has appointed the Rushville National Bank as administrator. Estimated value of the estate is listed as $21,000 in personal property and $7,000 in real estate.

year. He has completed eleven years of 4-H club work in Rush County and was a junior leader for five years. He received a trip to National 4-H Club Congress in 1961 for his outstanding accomplishments in 4-H Citizenship work. Collegiate 4-H tw0 brothers, Ray Johnston of StlldeiltS See To It That University. I pjndlay, and Ralph Johnston I)o Have Christmas In Mrs.

Efa Cole near Findlay. Services will be held at Moster and Sons Mortuary at 2 p.m. have Christmas in Ken Saturday with the Revs. Rich -1 tucky. HAZARD, Ky.

(AP) their campuses. They came from ard T. Merriman and Ray Crawl officiating. Cremation will follow with burial later in South Scott Cemetery near Angola. Friends may call at the mortuary after 4 p.m.

Friday. 117 Days Of Work To Pay Farmer Shoots 1964 Taxes no holly on a West Virginia door. the trees twinkle when hungry. the jingle bells don't jingle when Some heard that carol on the sidewalks of New York, and other cities, and it brought them to the snowy mountains of Eastern Kentucky bearing gifts. The gifts went to impoverished families of miners.

The decline of the coal business has made this area one of the most economically depressed in the United States. just needed help des, said Diane Glasser, wooded area. 17 jamaica, a student at Sheriff F. J. Heinzelman said Hunter College in New York the wounded man, now in Chilli- city.

cothe hospital, is James Shaw, Forty students distributed 24, who had been held for grand food, clothing, money and toys. Jail Escapee CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) A 70-year-old farmer shot and COOL Partly cloudy and turning colder tonight with low near 25. Partly cloudy and cool Friday with high in mid 30s. Sunset Today ..............5:24 p.m. Sunrise Friday ............8:02 a.m.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8 a.m. today ................................34 1 p.m. today ................................42 Wednesday, December 25 Highest ..........................................35 Lowest 7 Precipitation None Tuesday High 26, low 7, no precipitation. The average Hoosier taxpayer will work the equivalent of 117 days in 1964 for the tax collec- wounded one of three Chtllico- tor, or for six days more than escapees early today he did in 1963 but two Ded into a That was the estimate of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce as it issued its new, 1964 Tax with reminder dates on federal, state and local taxes. The calendar reflects some unfamiliar deadlines those of the new Indiana adjusted gross income tax and the sales tax.

It will be April 26 before the average Indiana taxpayer for himself, according to the chamber computations which included estimates on the new state taxes. The April 26 date was set out on the tax calendar with this notation: 32.0 per cent the total personal larceny and parole violation. Shaw was wounded in the face when the farmer, Lamar DePugh, fired through the windshield of a pickup truck the escapees were trying to take from the farm. The other men are Wayne Smith, 36, and Roland Wallace, 35, both of Pikeville, Ky. They were being held on charges of carrying concealed weapons, and Kentucky wants them on charges of jail breaking.

The sheriff said in a come of individuals goes to cell by himself, picked the lock The students collected funds at meet the total federal, state and local tax bills in Indiana. On this basis, on the average, income for 117 days of the year is required to meet tax costs. The breakdown on tax-earning days is: federal taxes, 78-Vfc days; state taxes, 20 days, and local taxes 18 -Vz days. on the cell door and gained an outer corridor. He then freed the other men.

The three then slipped out a door. Things Going On In Rushville Tonight Young Meeting, Rushville Church of Christ, First Pentecostal Church. Prayer Meeting, EUB, First Baptist, Church of God, Church of Christ, First Assembly of God and Salvation Army churches. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Moose Lodge.

V. F. W. Ladies Auxiliary, VFW Hall. Princess Theatre.

New York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. With them was 23-year-old Phil Ochs, a folksinger from New Greenwich Village and composer of the carol which inspired the mission of mercy. of us never had come into contact with a situation like this said Alma Moy, 19, New York City, a Barnard College student. The students used such terms as depressed and saddened. But they reported gladness at their visits.

have been amazed and gratified by the warmth with which we have been said Joel Fredericson, 19, Cleveland, a Columbia College student. The students ate simple Christmas dinners with the families. At one gathering, eggs, cake and coffee were among the main items, and then there was a hootennanny. The federal government announced Monday it would spend $8.7 million to give the coalfield people vocational training. Law Officers Report Rather Quiet Holiday City police and county officers reported a quiet holiday in Rushville and Rush County with little activity being logged by either department.

A minor mishap occurred at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of West Seventh Street. Cars involved were driven by Lounetta Hutchinson, 64, 633 West Seventh, and James L. Adams, Route 5. A door on the Hutchinson vehicle was struck when it was opened as the other car passed.

Damage was listed at $150 to the Hutchinson car and $125 to that of Adams. Sheriff Bert George reported two one-car crashes on State Road 3 near here. Steering mechanism on a car driven by William Robert Ratekin, 27, 827 West Eleventh Street, failed as he was rounding a curve about three miles south at 9:45 a.m. today. car went down a lane at the Howell Pond and crashed into a tree head-on.

The driver was brought to Rush Memorial Hospital for a check of possible chest and back injuries. Damage to the car was estimated at $500. At 6:30 p.m. Sunday a car driven by Lawrence Watson, 21, 320 West Fifth, slid on an icy spot about two miles south and ran through a fence on the William Matlock farm. Damage to car was listed at $100.

Sheriff George reported the arrest of John R. Brooks, 44, Indianapolis, on a warrant issued in this county charging him with failure to provide. Brooks was released after posting $2,000 bond. The sheriff said that county jail had five for a Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings. Open War On Cyprus Looms Between Turks, Greeks; NATO Menaced NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Britain ordered more troops to Cyprus today as a conflict between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish minority threatened to embroil NATO allies Greece and Turkey in open conflict.

Greece asked for an extraordinary session in Paris of the North Atlantic Treaty permanent council to discuss the crisis. Informed and other world leaders to intervene. The situation was being watched closely in both London and Washington. Greece and Turkey, long at odds over Cyprus, guard the Far Eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance. Johnson was watching developments from his Texas ranch.

Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home of Britain sources in Paris said the coun -1 rupted a Christmas vacation to cil met secretly Wednesday, to London. The Cyprus government at- prompted Makarios to ready has sent a complaint to sen(j a complaint to the U. N. I Security Council was the flight the United Nations. The Turkish government ordered two jet fighters to make warning flights over Cyprus Christmas Day after accusing Greek Cypriots of massacring Turkish Cypriots in communal of the Turkish jets and the movement of some of 650-man garrison on Cyprus into the Turkish Cypriot quarter of this capital.

The Greeks promptly moved fighting that has been raging part of their 850 soldiers sta- since last Saturday. tioned on Cyprus into the Greek Then as the fighting died Cypriot section, thus setting the down to sporadic firing, the of- stage for a possible confronta- fice of President Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot tion. In an attempt to head off community, asserted six Turk-1 trouble, the diplomats of British navy vessels had taken up ain, Greece and Turkey met positions off Cyprus. with Makarios and decided to President Cemal Gursel of put British, Greek and Turkish Turkey also expressed grave concern, accused the Greek Cypriots of a massacre, and appealed to President Johnson Prize Winners Are Listed In Lighting Event Old Horseman Dies With Boots On DENVER Bobbitt, who rode horses until he was 98, died with is boots on Christmas Day as he sat rocking on a porch. He was 101.

Bobbitt served as a deputy U.S. marshal in the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma before the I land rush. He later was a rodeo I performer. Deadly Derailed Car Of Chemical Finally Righted TERRE HAUTE, Ind. The touchy job of righting a carload of explosive chemical was completed early today and traffic began moving on the New York Central Railroad by use of a siding.

Traffic had been rerouted over Pennsylvania Railroad tracks after derailment of 31-cars of a 90-car freight train Wednesday. One of the tank cars contained methyl chloride, considered volatile and dangerous. The derailed cars also included one loaded with nitro-starch, considered flammable but not highly explosive. The accident occurred east of Fontanet, about 13 miles northeast of Terre Haute. Damage was estimated unofficially at more than half a million dollars.

The cause was believed to have been a broken front truck on one car. While the explosion threat existed, deputies blocked roads leading to the scene to keep spectators out of the area. They said there were no residences nearby. Firemen from Fontanet stood by during the night. Omer Cordray, Taken By Death Omer Cordray, 58, 335 West Third, a resident of Rushville for many years, died early today in Rush Memorial Hospital.

For the last 30 years Mr. Cordray had been employed in the shipping department at the International Furniture factory here. He was born near Mooresville on July 8, 1905, a son of Thomas and Daisy Campbell Cordray. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Cora Sellers Cordray; a daughter, Mrs.

Wilma Smiley of Rushville; two granddaughters, Debra Ann and Karen Sue Smiley, five brothers and eight sisters. Services will be held in the Carlisle and Son Funeral Chapel at Mooresville at 2 p.m. Saturday with burial in the Mooresville Cemetery. Prizes have been awarded to 20 winners in the annual Christmas Lighting Contest here, conducted by the Jaycees and sponsored by City Utilities. Top prize winners of $25 in the two categories were Don Howell, 1112 North Washington Street, religious, and Dorothy DeArmond, Route 4, novelty.

Second prize of $5 was awarded to Harold Dick, 840 North Harrison Street, in the religious division. Other winners in the novelty group were as follows: $10 Shell, Route Leslie Kirk, Route 1. $8 Gibson Ross, Route Russell VonOhlen, 750 West Eleventh Street; Rachel Armstrong, 324 North Perkins Street; Mrs. Raymond Biehl, Route 7. $6 Tom Mattox, 555 High School Road; Bill Smith, Route 4.

$5 Steve Earnest, 1301 North Main Street. $4 Irvin Miller, 538 North Perkins Street; Beauty Salon, 335 North Main Street. $3 Norman Copple, 833 North Harrison Street; Harold Brecheisen, 1310 Park Boulevard; Glen M. Colvin, 526 North Sexton Street; John Stewart, 519 North Sexton Street; Charles Colvin, Route and Wayne Newman, Route 7. forces in Cyprus under a unified command headed by a Briton, a communique announced.

There are about 10,000 British servicemen on Cyprus, stationed here as in the case of the Greek and Turkish garrisons under the treaty of 1960 making Cyprus an independent member of the British Commonwealth. Johnson told newsmen at his Texas ranch he had conferred by telephone with Secretary of State Dean Rusk two or three times on the situation. have a situation developing there and we are watching it very Johnson said. have 1,700 citizens on that State Department sources said in Washington no evacuation orders have been issued to U.S. citizens, but Americans in outlying areas have been advised to move to more centrally located points in case evacuation is deemed advisable.

The fighting arose from Turkish opposition to proposals to amend the Cyprus constitution. The Turks claim the amendments would weaken their rights. Yuletide Fires Take Heavy Toll By The Associated Press Fire killed 12 children in the Walter Johnson family in Charleston, S.C.—the worst of the Christmas fires A family of six died in a house fire in Spring Lake, Mich. A Christmas tree caught fire in a Muncie, home, killing two sisters, Michelle Johnson, 5, and Joretta, 3. An exploding oil heater was blamed for the deaths of the 12 Myrtle Graham Services Friday Mrs.

Myrtle A. Graham, 79, of Circleville died at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday in Rush Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for two days. Mrs. Graham, who had been in failing health for several years, suffered a broken hip Sunday in a fall at her home.

A resident of the Rushville community since 1944, Mrs. Graham formerly lived in Conner sville, Knightstown and Indianapolis. She was a member of the Church of Christ here. She was born in Winchester on September 17, 1884, the daughter of Joseph and Olive Ball Abernathy, and was married on November 24, 1901, to Orville Graham, who survives. Surviving with the husband are two sons, Clayton of Knightstown and Emery Graham of Fortville; a daughter, Mrs.

Bernard Jeffries of Denver, a brother, William Abernathy of Richmond; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Gordon of Rushville and Mrs. Edith Gasset of Indianapolis, 14 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren. The Revs. William Nangle CRUISE LINER BURNS The Greek cruise liner Lakonia burns in the Atlantic Ocean Monday off the northwest coast of Africa.

The ship caught fire shortly before midnight, with over 1,000 persons aboard. The shipping line and British Admiralty announced that over 800 had been rescued. Others are dead or missing. in Charleston, eight boys and four girls, aged 8 months to 20 and S. L.

Dawes will conduct years and all Negroes. services at 2 p.m. Friday at The victims were all in one i Mosher and Sons Mor- bedroom at the top of the stairs. tuary, where friends may call Johnson, 51, was ritically at any time, with burial in God- burned trying to save them. Mrs.

Johnson, 47, and a son, Nathaniel, 16, escaped. Nine of the victims were her children, three her grandchildren. Authorities said Johnson and a friend were brightening the frame house for the holiday with a new linoleum floor and apparently spilled oil from the heater by accidentally tipping it. The explosion followed. dard here.

southwest of Australia Has Hot Christmas SYDNEY, Australia (AP) summer Down Under and Sydney recorded its hottest Christmas Day since to 98 in the city and 100 in the suburbs..