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FREE PARKING IN MERCHANTS' LOT 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. RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED LINTON, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JIA't 25, 19G0 'WEATHER Scattered showers tonight and Friday; low' tonight 57-64, high Thursday in 80s. Friday: showers, low 55-65, high 70-80, VOLUME LXl NUMBER 62 Mine Run UnasaorteJ Product of a roino; an aasembly of kind not specifically classified; a medley of thought or 'Spy Missile Opens Skies Far Ahead of Diplomats Schools are closing their 1959'60 terms, and any day now, school be getting more and more fathers and mothers. gotta admire the attiude of a basketball player of the North Central High school team In Harrison county, comments of the Indiana Motor Truck association.

This player, Benny Brewster, wrote a composition for his English class on the subject of He wrote that as a substitute who spent most of the games on the sideline he found out: thing a bench- warmer ran brag on is the fact that he can plav center, forward cr guard. That is, he ran lean forward, sit in the renter of the bench, and guard the water Mine Run would like to wish of to Father John Foster, leaving the Linton St. Catholic church Friday to go to St church at Montgomery. The Linton church and the local parish school have made some significant progress since Father John came to Linton in July, 1955, and he has earned many friends here. Fidel Castro and his sycophants are starting to talk entirely too In this space's are getting more and more due for a spanking.

Yesterday, the Cuban government dissolved exclusive distribution contracts between American oil companies and Cuban filling stations and fuel dealers and notified American companies they will have to refine Russian oil in large amounts. Cuban Minister Raul Bonilla, who issued the decree, said that the step was taken to break American monopoly in oil There must be something that I'nole Sam can do to show Fidel and the other Latin American nations, once and for all, that Communist-like leanings and actions just he tolerated in the Americas. And if it takes a show of force to do it. far better than some actual force later, The on this day in history, in 1935, Babe Ruth swatted his last home run at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh in 1878, London theatergoers turned out for the world premiere of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta M.S. Pinafore.

And speaking of almanacs, Minc-Runner wishes to thank Roy A. Brannon for the gift of a new one. To keep you abreast of upcoming events May-22 is Cream Cone in Indiana and July is Iced Tea reports that he was talking to the father of a youth who was allergic to almost anything, including milk, water, hot air. cold air, soap, any food containing flour and many other items. says he was trying to tell this father that all of this business of allergies was nothing but a fad.

what happened: (Mat speaking) your grandfather grew up without knowing the difference between an allergy and Sarah I told him. bet he lived to a ripe old Replied the father: allergy caused him to he hung when he was the father said. was hiding in the hay with the horse when he for tomorrow. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. first satellite whirled around earth in a near-perfect orbit today, poised for a crucial test of its missile-detecting U.S.

scientists plotted the path of the moonlet, named Midas II, as accurately as possible, to work out a tight series real and simulated missile firings during its operating life of about a month. The tests were delayed somewhat Tuesday when, shortly after the satellite had gone into orbit, i key computer malfunctioned and scientists were forced to spend 55 minutes making rough calculations by hand. The- Air Force hopes to prove that Midas II can detect rockets by heat radiations the minute they are launched. This would pave the way for a system of -atellites that would patrol the around-the-clock within two years, to warn against sneak attacks by an aggressor. The launching of Midas II aboard an Atlas-Agena rocket irre indicated the U.S.

is looking to space for security against surprise attacks particularly now that it has pledged not to use U-2 planes for air reconnaissance over foreign territory. By CHARLESCORDDRY WASHINGTON The world could well and truly meas-. ure today from events at the United Nations and at Cape Canaveral, how far its diplomats lagged behind its scientists. A Midas satellite launched from Cape Canveral was circling the globe every 94.34 minutes, beeping out its taunt that U.N. debate on spy planes may be academic.

are at hand, the satellite seemed to be saying, whether N. diplomats ever get around to agreeing on them or not. Midas, meaning missile detection alarm system, was lofted into a near-perfect circular orbit just before the U.N. resumed debate Tuesday on Russia's doomed to condemn America for U-2 flights. UNITED NATIONS, NY.

A majority of the Security Council was reported agreed today that Soviet complaints about U.S. spy planes were trivial in the light of the new American Midas II satellite. U.N. sources predicted a 7 2 vote against Russia in its demand that the United States be condemned for the of its air reconnaissance teams, with Ceylon and Tunisia abstaining. U.S.

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge pushed for a verdict by late this evening so the 11 nation council could take up President new plan for an inspection system under U.N. control. The Midas satellite, hurled into orbit from Cape Canaveral Tuesday, was known to have a key role in the plan, which would subject strategic areas of the world to constant surveillance, thus guaranteeing all nations against surprise attack. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was expected to make one more speech in the council before allowing a vote, in which case it was likely Lodge would present a rebuttal. OVVFN HOLDS RECORD BROOKLYN.

Y. (UPI) Mickey Owen, Brooklyn Dodger goat of the 1941 World Series, holds the National League record for most errorless chances accepted in one season by a catcher. TRACTOR OVERTURNS; HOOSIER IS KILLED PERU, Ind. Larry Slichenmeyer, 25, Macy, was killed Tuesday when a small tract overturned and crushed him at the Mississinewa Country Club here where he worked part-time as a greens keeper. Slichenmeyer.

a telegrapher for the Nickel Plate Railroad, was driving the tractor up an incline on the golf course when it overturned. He was dead when help arrived. Ike to Give Report On Summit Confab WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower is expected to tell the American people tonight that the United States must stand firm against new Soviet threats but leave the way open for future negotiations with Russia. The report on the summit conference collapse and its meaning to the free world will be carried on major radio and television networks at 7:00 p.m. CDT.

He will speak from the vVhite House. Eisenhower was reported planning to outline a for the free world to take in the new phase of the cold war, including another appeal for his inspection plan. He is expected to go over the U-2 spy plane incident and other events leading to the collapse of the summit conference in Paris last week, but also to emphasize a need for calmness in the trying period ahead. Broad Topic Indicated The broad nature of the speech was indicated when White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty said it would deal with future aims and goals of the United States and, indeed with future aims and goals of the United States and, deed, of its Allies in the free as well as with the summit blow-up.

Hagerty also challenged the Soviet government Tuesday to permit the Russian peope to hear address, which will be broadcast in a Russian translation by the Voice of America. The Russians have been jamming U.S. broadcasts. Kentucky Ridge Church Plans Homecoming The Kentucky Ridge Baptit church southeast of Bloomfield will hold its annual homecoming serviice Sunday, officers said today. Services will s'art at 10:00 Sunday morning and a basket dinner will be served at noon.

Visiting ministers will speak during the program in the afternoon and' special music will be presented. An invitation was extended to all members, former members and friends of the church to attend. WILL BE INSTALLED Miss Susan McCammon will be installed as Worthy Advisor of the Dugger Assembly of the Order of Rainbow for Girls in a ceremony at the Masonic hall at Dugger at 7:30 Friday evening, June 10 JASONVILLE GIRL IS EDITOR Is Unique In Newspaper Field i Louis Firm Registers As Foreign Agents WASHINGTON (UPI) Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis and his public relations firm have registered as foreign agents to promote Cuba as a mecca for tourists, Justice Department record's showed today. Louis and his business partners in the New York firm of Louis- Rowe sher Lockhard Enterprises Inc. filed a regi-tration statement with the Justice Department to act as public relations agents for the government of Fidel Crstro.

Louis, 46. has made several trips to Cuba. He participated in the big New celebration observing the first anniversary of the Castro revolution last January, The a monthly newspaper published at Jasonville, is probably unique in Indiana journalistic circles. The newspaper has a circulation that varies from 30 to 70 readers, by means of an electric typewriter and a gelatin-printing process. The editor is Miss Doris Louise Neal, home-bound because she has suffered from cerebral palsy all of her life.

She was born Oct. 27, 1931, to Mr. and Mrs. Ruel M. Neal of Jasonville.

After receiving schooling at Indianapolis and from a 4. bound and completing articles for the JasorviUe Leader 1-TifrK ca aa In 311(1 the LifltOn the 1" Irascible Ex-clown Is Shot to Death By Town Marshal MONROEVILLE, Ind. A former circus clown, described by a neighbor as at the in his old age, was shot and killed Tuesday in a gun battle with the town marshal. Louis Rella Brown, who Was born in a circus wagon at Philadelphia 86 years ago, fired two blasts at Marshal Herbert Renier with an ancient shotgun, and was felled by four shots from Renters service revolver. The marshal owed his life to the fact he was left handed.

first shot struck Renier in the right arm. The marshal arcw his gun with his left hand and fired four times. Brown, who performed under the name Lou Jack" Nelson and was known locally as Happy Jack the Clown, fired a second shotgun blast as he fell, but he apparently already was dead. Renier was taken to Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, where doctors said he was in good condition. The gunfight erupted after years of feuding between Brown and a neighbor, Donald Hart, over the dividing line between their property, authorities said.

Renier was summoned by Hart who complained that Brown was interfering with a court-appointed survey crew which was checking the line. When Renier arrived, Brown argued with him for awhile and then got his shotgun. Neighbors said Brown once performed for one of the leading circuses. Since his retirement, he still played the clown for local fairs and civic events and entertained thousands of children. He was survived by his wife.

'Host Wanted' Man Nabbed in Illinois ROCKFORD. Edward Reiley, 38, who made the 10 most wanted men list after an Indiana bank holdup four months ago, was captuved in a Rockford suburb Tuesday, with a girl and a full of in his car. Reiley was placed on the FBI selected list two weeks ago after he had eluded arrest as a suspect in the $19,827 holdup of the Eastgate Branch of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank at Logansport, last Jan. 29. Reiley, known as a braggart and self-styled man, was arrested on a tip supplied by a used car dealer.

He offered no resistance when police stopped his car in suburban Park. Winnebago County chief deputy Duncan Graham said a Rockford car dealer claimed to have seen Reiley several weeks ago when the fugitive priced cars at his lot. The deaer telephoned police at that time, saying he recognized Reiley from a photograph on a poster and a partially amputated left thumb. He called police again Tuesday when he saw the man he thought was Reiley. Graham said police intercepted Reiley in his car at U.S.

51 and 111. 173 at the southern edge of the suburb a few minutes after the dealer called. Reiley was identified positively through fingerprints, Graham said. Graham said Reiley readily admitted his identity but police cautiously waited until the print check to announce positively they had the man who was placed on the FBI list May 10. The woman in the car was not identified.

The FBI was said to have ordered the identity of the woman and the used car dealer who furnished the tip kept secret temporarily. and camp paper, and had written her High school education in 1954, Miss Neal enrolled in correspondence courses university. GROSSINGER. NY. (UPI) Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis denied may that he worked for Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, but said a public relations firm he is connected with did business with the Cuban Tourist Bur au.

had its beginning as a sort of with Indiana a joke- between one of my friend. and myself. Marie, the friend, and I see each other very She pubishes the newspaper Qften (Usually once a year at with the assistance of Helen camp) ancj g0 we correspond quite lone and said, a.though I do most rCgUiariy When I write to Marie of the writing and re-wrifjng and usually include as much news CLEANUP AS NEW QUAKES STRIKE 'Dead' Volcanoes in Chile Erupt; Damage Increases im While citizens Chile of The island, hard hit by quake, tidal the coast about 800 miles south of earthquake-wrecked Concepcion, (above) work feverishly to clear awav debris, a new series of temblors is reported to have sent parts of (. hiloe slidini; toward the sea on Tuesday wave and flood, is oft Santiago. High Winds Hit Evansville; More Storms Are on Menu The I I nltt-il Press liitcriiiiHiiiiiil 1 Warm temperatures and thunderstorms were on the Indiana weather menu for the next three days as a follow-up to a howling storm which swept through the Evansville are Tuegday afternoon.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms were predicted for today, tonight, Thursday and Friday. Evidence Mounts Against Eichmann TEL AVIV, (UPI) Justice Minister Pmhas Rosen said today a former U.S. war crimes prosecutor has offered new documents of Nazi atrocities for possible use in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, 54-year-old former head of Jewish Resettlement Bureau, was charged Monday with the murders of millions of Jews. He denied the charge.

The Israeli Secret Service captured Eichmann, a fugitive since the end of World War II, and he now is under 24-hour a awaiting trial. But no other details of his capture were made public and Israeli Police Inspector General Yosef Nahmias said Tuesday night they would remain secret. Rosen said Robert Kempner, New York attorney who served as deputy chief prosecutor at the Allied war crimes trials in Ncurn- berg, cabled him offering the hitherto unpublished documents. Offers of help in the ease against Eichmann poured in from all over the world. Several Israeli concentration camp survivors volunteered to serve as executioners if Eichmann is convicted.

Others offered to testify. West Germany said il would cooperate in supplying evidence and aid to the prosecution, but would not help defense. Israel said any Nazi witnesses railed by Eiehmann would not be given immunity from prosecution here. all of the typing, it is job to prim the paper, staple it together. and trace an occasional picture.

Helen is much a part of the as I am, and it certainly could not exist without her as possible and frequently these letters stretch into five written pages. day, after receiving an unusually long letter (even for me) from me, Marie wrote back and thanked me for the Miss article telling about I had sent her. the newspaper, says, in part: next letter I sent her was Begins as Joke in the form of a newspaper and I U.S. Cost of Living Hits New Peak Today WASHINGTON living costs shot up to a new high and showed ihe largest monthly increase in nearly a year, the government reported today. The sharp rise will mean wage increases of two rents an hour for 975,000 workers in auto and equipment industries whose pay rate is tied to the consumer price index.

The Department said the index rose four-tenths of one per cent in April! It was the largest increase since last June. An unusually large Increase in food in more than two Jhe Index to its new all time peak. All foods except dairy products and some vegetables cost more in April, the department said. Food prices rose by an average of I Vt per cent. TROOP TO HOLD HONOR COURT TOMOHT Linton Boy Scout Troop No.

52 will hold fi Court of Honor at Humphreys park thi? evening Sam Cox, Scoutmaster, reported today. A will be rved at 6:30 p.m. and the Court of Honor will be held at 7:30 Mr Cox said that several Scouts will receive advancements and several merit badges will be awarded. BULLETIN WIESBADEN, Germany Ratn, fog and wind today forcia today forced postponement of plans to Bureau fly nine stranded Americans out Torn a of Fast Germany today and the Furthermore, the five-day outlook indicated precipitation will total oik to two inches and the shower activity will be resumed Sunday or Monday, in the midst of the first holiday weekend of the I960 warm season. Wind gusts up to 83 mules an hour were recorded at Evansville during a storm which dumped 1,15 inches of rain on that city and caused damage including electrical power disruptions, A treport Iroin the Weather Bureau said that tail oi a possible embryo tornado ennui was spotted near Sandborn.

No excessively high winds at least at ground reported in this part of Indiana, however. The wind ripped a porch from a house, broke a display window in a furniture store, tore down a few trees and power lines, ripped shingles from roofs and crumpled a billboard. No one was injured, but part of Evansville was without power for a time. ut Off St. Hospital was cut off its normal power supply but switched to an auxiliary generating unit.

Except for the southwestern tip of Indiana, little ruin was recorded in the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne had immeasurable traces and Lafayette of an inch. Temperatures ranged at high points Tuesday from 67 at South Bend to 89 in the Louisville area. Evansville recorded 87 before the storm broke and sent the mercury plunging about 20 degiees. At Cincinnati, it was 82. Overnight lows ranged from 18 at South Bend to 62 at Evansville.

Today highs will range from the low 70s to the 80s, tonight's lows from the 50s to the 60s, and highs from the miu 70s to the low 80s The outlook for Friday was a little warmer. The five-day outlook said temperatures will average near normal south to about four d'eglWs above normal north. Normal highs are 71 to 81, normal ws 51 to 62 It too far in the future to predict the weather for Memorial Day next Monday, the day of the 509-mile Indianapolis auto race. But the outlook showers arid thunderstorms could be expected or It iillril I'rriM I o-r ii it Ion ii I Thunderstorms, tornadoes and hail battered sections of the Plains states and Midwest Tuesday. Low pressure systems over Oklahoma and Nebraska were responsible for the violent weather.

More thunderstorm activity was by the Weather SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) Volcanoes that had been silent for as long as 40 years belched smoke, ash and iava today over southern Chile, in what may be the worst earthquake in history. Official figures compiled by UPI placed the ill at 3,625 persons dead or missing. Two new volcanoes on the shores of Lake Rinihue, born in the travail that made itself felt all around the Pacifiic basin this week, added their smoke to that of at least seven known volcanoes Florida Race Won By Segregationist MIAMI, Florida to- day acclaimed Farris Bryant as its governor-to-be and furnished solid endorsment of his deep! approach to any racial problems that may arise in the next four years. Bryant rolled to victory over state Sen. Doyle Carlton in decisive second Democratic primary with a margin of better than 85,000 votes.

Bryant carried 55 oi the state's 67 counties. Unofficial United Press International returns from 1.940 of the 1,971 precincts gave Bryant 492,171 votes and Carlton 406,909. In so doing, Bryant not only turned back tirst bid for the governorship, he also overcame the editorial endorsements of most of the major newspapers and the powerful backing of outgoing Gov. Leroy Collins which were given the 37-year-old son of a former chief executive. One of the last statements made by the Ocala-born, Harvard-educated victor on election eve was i the promise, if he won, to answering these race questions of the newspapers" He also issued a plea for unity Although pledging to keep schools open, the 45- year-old Bryant took a firm stand throughout the campaign to maintain segregation and the state's rights under the federal constitution.

Three Are Killed Near Bloomington sighted or touched ground Tuesday in Tex us Oklahoma, a a Nebraska, United States asked Soviet per- and Kentucky. No injuries mission to bring out five of them were reported by road. The other four were to Orte twistet caused damage to farms near Glenn, Tex Twr other funnel clouds hit near Paducah. Tex but did little damage SUFFERS FRACTURED ANKLE Mrs. Dieie Sharp of Linton is being treated in the Freeman- Grcene county hospital for a ankle she received in a stay to handle the flight when weather conditions permit.

SANTIAGO, Chile (I Four new earthquakes. Bloomington, Ind. (UPI) Three persons were killed Tuesday when three cars collided six miles south of here on the swept surface of Ind. 37. Mrs Thelma Jean Crouch, 25, speculation for and Anthony Trenta.

17, Mitchell, the GOP ticket, were killed and Donald Rex Tanksle.v, 19, Mitchell, died later in Bloomington Hospital. Mrs. Crouch's husband, Dwight. 25, wra.s in fair condition at the same hospital from injuries suffered in the wreck. State Police said a northbound car driven either by Tanksley or Trenta crossed the centerline, side.swiped a car driven by Wallace Adams.

Bedford, spun 180 degrees and struck the Crouch car with its rear end. The formation of the new already more than 300 feet high-displaced the lake bed and sent masses of water surging into the landslide-dammed San Pedro River, creating a new threat to quake devastated Valdivia. The rumbling peaks jetted smoke as much as 23.000 feet in the air, and some of them also belched glowing streams of lava. Fortunately, few Chilean towns are located near the volcanoes that were in action today. Looting Reported New reports of looting came from the disaster zone.

In the Puerto Saavedra region, drowned by this tidal waves, tmops were ordered to take to put a stop to of by A new tidal wave lashen Chile's southern coast Tuesday, and a major earthquake was reported in the offshore Chiloe Islands. Observers at the University of Chile said this earthquake? were most intense ever Seismologists in the Canary Islands said they were worse than which devastated southern Peru or the earlier this year. A resident of devastated Puerto Montt, looking sadly at the crazily tilted walls of his home, agreed with the experts think it is the beginning of the end of the world," he said, Nixon Appears In As GOP Nominee WASHINGTON Vice President Richard Nixon apparently has cinched the Republican presidential nomination unless a lot of delegates to the GOP convention change their minds, Nixon gained 26 Florida and 28 Tennessee votes Tuesday which gave him a total of 722 delegate votes definitely committed or expressing a preference for him. He needs only 666 votes at the convention to win the nomination. Sen.

Barry Gold water (R-Ariz is runner-up to Nixon with 29 pledged votes. Many delegates have yet to be chosen but most are expected to go to Nixon barring some dramatic political upset. Goldwater, not regarded as a serious presidential contender, frequently has been mentioned as a possible running-mate for Nixon. However, many others figure in second place on Nixon long has been regarded in Republican circles as the logical presidential nominee- in view of his widespread activities on behalf of the administration during his 7 years as vice president. President Eisenhower has en- truted hi ini with mision abroad and has given him domestiic assignments never before tendered a vice president.

Unlike many of his predecessors, he never was absent for long from public attention. CLASS LEADERS GIVE ADDRESSES 70 Graduates Receive Diplomas In Exercises Miss Rose Marie Lynch, valedictorian of the I960 graduating glass of Linton-Stockton High school, said that High school not only educates the pupil but prepares him for his place in the competitive society of the world he is entering, in an address at the commencement exercises at the local auditorium Tuesday night. Rainy weather moved the graduation exercises indoors from the tradition il location on the school lawn. The valedictorian opened her talk by saying that this day, which the class has anticipated so long, is both sad and joyful. Sad, because it means the parting of the ways fbr group of pupils who have been together through so many years and experiences.

Joyful because it represents achievements of the goals set forth by parents, teachers and the community as they encouraged the pupils their studies and amors. I GUTS ELECTION VS PRESIDING JUDGE Judge John Ax, of Linton, Jeffrey Kennedy, salutatorian, the other Commencement speaker, said the problems challenging the graduates of I960 are much the same as graduates of years past have faced, the conquering of disease and suffering and achieving world peace, and each class moves forward some distance in a i i n.g this goal Members of the class will take their places in many ways, some the trades and some in professions and each will make his contribution. The mark he makes has in part been guided by his High school experiences, the speaker concluded. The High school band played the processional for the graduates, who were seated on the stage of the auditorium. Rev.

Harold zat gave the invocation prayer and the glee club sang Our and You'll Never Walk The special number was the Apple Valley A Allen, principal, congratulated the class and expressed his satisfaction, as a friend, oi the individual pupiL, at their was elected presiding justice of the achievements. He presented the Indiana Appellate court at a reor-j class of graduates to Isaac ganizntion meeting of the Court Hugg, superintendent, saying that Mondav. each pupil had satisfactorily com- Judge Ax was elected to the Court in November, 1958 As presiding justice, pleted the requirements for school graduation. Mr. Hogg nne I had done a little entitled it The Neal News.

Marie fajj Tuesday. She is reported work for mv High school paper (Continued on Two) be recovering satisfactorily. in the open ranch country I As presiding justice, he will sented the diplomas to the pu, A tornado destroyed several preside over all court hearings and with his congratulations of I buildings and uprooted trees near c-nference of the First Juhtiea! District which eoniprises ciotu I ch I the i in transit the southern half of Indiana, and of tassels on their graduation caps will serve as such until Nov. 28 and Mr. Allen pronounced them I960, when he will be elevated to July graduated.

the position of Chief Justice of Rev Hoyden Rea dismissed the the Appellate court. prayer, cataclysmic proportions, hit south- Victoria Kan while cm (bile today and brooubt Bunker tidal waves and volcano erup-j hard-hit thunder( 0 The death toll was expect- storms gusty winds and ha 1 'stones rd to reach 5 009 or more. thi -on of wdnuh..