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Thursday, May 10, 1S56. Firms Reject Health Insurance Plan Continued From Page One. insurance industry, he again would urge Congress to enact the federal health re-insurance program which he proposed in 1953 and which Congress subsequently rejected. Marion Folsom, secretary of health and a hard campaigner for more health benefits, has been discussing the pool idea with the insurance industry tor months. Informed sources said that the big companies, which write the bulk of the nation's insurance business.

gave the proposal a great deal of consideration. In the end, however, they generally decided they couldn't go along because: They already are expanding their policies to cover such things as catastrophic illness. The anti-trust if the administration could obtain a congressional too great. The pool inevitably would involve some federal regulation which yiGORO Quality LAWN FOOD Wholesale Distributors H. P.

SHIRLEY Company, Inc. 534 4th St. Phone C-1660 SOMEONE GOOFED VEVAY. May The hullabaloo over presidential primary Tuesday didn't mean a thing in Switzerland County. County Clerk Cecil Duvall did not put the names of any of the presidential candidates on the ballot because told me LONG ILLNESS FATAL TO MRS.

McGRAW would be repugnant to some firms. They already have substantial resources so they do not need a pool, even though it might speed expansion of benefits MRS. ANNA LOVE DIES IN FLORIDA Word has been received here of the death Wednesday of Mrs. Anna Love. 84.

former resident of Terre Haute, which occurred in Lakeland. where she had been making her home. She was the 1 widow of Dr. John Love, former Terre Haute physician, who died two months ago in Florida She was a member of the Central Christian Church and Terre Haute Chapter No. 43, Order of Eastern Star.

Mrs, Love is survived by one daughter. Mrs. Mary Armstrong, Detroit Mich one son, Lehman Holzhause of Lakeland; five sisters, Mrs. Olive Hobdiause and Mrs. Ellen Fenton, both of Terre Haute; Mrs.

Ethel Miller. Greensburg, Ind Mrs. Florence Eaton, Versailles Ind and Mrs Leona Cramer. Van Wert. Ohio The body will arrive in Terre Haute Sunday evening and will be taken to the Cross Funeral Home where friends may call alter 7:30 clock Sunday evening Services will be held at the funeral ome at 1:30 Monday afternoon.

Rev. R. Powell Mead will officiate. Burial will be Highland Lawn cemetery. ambulance c-un Mrs, Iris Irene McGraw, wife of Archie McGraw.

proprietor of McGraw Drug Store, 2226 Wabash avenue, died at the residence. 4725 Wabash avenue, at 6 o'clock Thursday morning, following an illness of several months. She was 55. Mrs. McGraw had assisted her husband at the store for several years She was a member of the Westminister Presbyterian Church and the Daughters of the Nile I Badoura Temple.

Besides the husband, she is sur- vived by the mother, Mrs. Clara Churchiil of Martinsville, two sisters, Mrs. Myrl Howell, Martinsville, and Mrs. Hazel Chopson, Terre Haute; three brothers, Glenn and Kenneth Churchill, both of Terre Haute, and Winston Churchill of Martinsville, and several nieces and nephews The body was taken to the han Funeral Home, han Funeral Home where friends m8y call after 5 Thursday afternoon. Services will be held at the Callahan Chapel at 2 clock Saturday afternoon.

Rev. John W. Constant will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Lawn cemetery PEARL YORK GIBSON TO BARNES HOSPITAL Mrs. Pearl York Gibson.

1324 South Center street, who has been I ill at her home for several months I left Thursday morning for St. Louis I where she will enter Barnes Hospital for observation. Mrs. Gibson is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Cite Churchili For Effort On European Unity AACHEN, Germany, May 10 Winston Churchill said today if the Down-with-Stalin movement is sincere he sees no reason why Russia cannot eventually in the of the Atlantic pact. The 81-year-old former prime minister, here to receive a $1,190 dence here may can service prize for his own aid to European vwii be held there at 8.30 unity, said the Wests best hope Saturday iies in the pacts DEATHS (Dajrliffht Time a ale si atherwlaa MRS.

OM.4 EWING Oma Ewing. 74 old. 3, West Terre Haute, died at 10 Wednesday night at St. Anthony Hospital. Surviving are one daughter.

Mrs. Daisy Sec or of R. 3, West Terre Haute; two sons. Albert of Loa Angeles, and Henry of PlaUsburg, one brother, Bert Ear la of 3. West Terre Haute, on half brother.

Joney Earls of Terre Haute: one stepbrother. Luther Atterson of R. 7, Terre Haute: three half sisters. Mrs Dovey Mat her! of t. 3, West Terre Haute; Mrs Sarah Puller of 2, West Terre Haute: Mrs.

Nervie Pine of 2. West Terre Haute: five grandchildren eight great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Bedino Chapel of the Valley and at 8 evening will be returned to the residence here friends may call. Services $100,000 Loss As Fire Razes Northside Plant Continued From Page One. North Seventh street, ensrged with second degree burglary.

Leggett is charged with burglarizing the Culligan Soft Water Service Company office. 723 North Set enth street, on April 23. Taken at the time were a typewriter, an adding machine and one of the company trucks. The truck later was recovered in Indianapolis. Leggett was taken into custody on May 3 at Lexington, Mo.

The case was set for hearing May 17. In other court action Judge Lriss continued until May 11 the case of Denver Lawson of Brazil, who faces a grand larceny charge. He was arrested April 8 at the bus station only minutes after police received a report of a young at 9 at St ----The rosarv wil be recited it the res. dence at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening Burial will be In Mt Pleasant ceme- 1 Of achieving il lies in Ihe pacts' ROSE GRAD MOVING IP- C.ivnnAnn Ifieklin (ahflVP). son Oi alliance of the European powers, linked with Canada-and the United He added that, although the MARGARET ook United States has so far taken the IhP hislnrirallv- died at the residence at clock Thursday morning She one son Hugh, of of Haute; two Tom fe, of Clinton and John Fyfe.

Detroit Mjch four grandchildren, Lexington Ky Mrs Margaret Griffith. Indianaoolis, and Ruth Short and Rev William Waugh, both of Terre Haute, and several and She was member of Tonawanda Council No. -24. Degree of Pocahontas, and the West Terre Haute Methodist Chur civ The bodv taken to the Bedino Chapel of the Valley where may call after noon Friday and until noon Saturday when the body will be taken to the church. will be held at the church at 2:30 Saturday afternoon Rev MrCurry will officiate Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park CARL CAMPBELL Services for Carl Campbell.

37 vears old. formerly of Weit Terre Haute, who died early Sunday at his home in Superior, will be held at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the dine Chapel of Valley. The Rev. James Wilson will officiate and buri il will be in Bethesda cemetery Surviving are the widow. Anna; four sons.

Hubert, John. Vernon and Charles: two Ruth Campbell and Ruby Campbell, all of Superior: the father. Hugh Campbell of Muncie, and two aia- and one brother. The body arrive in Terre Haute Saturday afternoon and will be taken to the Bedino Chapel where friends may call after 6 Saturday evening. rot rainbolt Rov Cecil Rainbolt, 1130 South Eleventh st eet.

died at 10:45 clock lead in cementing the historically divided nations of Europe, Russia also have per in a real unification of the continent. Churchill told a blue-ribbon audience that Europe's problems can be solved more easily by united East-West action than rival blocs confronting each other with suspicion and The British unofficial proposal amounted to indorsement of the Russian idea-rejected by the West at East and West should seek means of joining forces before they deal with the reunification of Germany. However, Churchill said. would be fatal for NATO now to relax and let apathy overtake what has been achieved by the planning and financial sacrifices made in the last eight He warned also that it would be and to try to unite Europe, or to reunite Germany. by any SPARKS BOOSTERS WILL VISIT CITY Or.

Frank Hugh Sparks, the Co- rffiiy lumbus. Ind industrialisl who be- his daughter, Leona Breneman, came president Of Wabash College "irZe and now seeks the Republican nomination for governor, will speak tonight at a dinner meeting for newly elected Republican delegates in Room M-D at the Terre Haute House. Invited to the dinner are the 40 Gene P. Hieklin (above), son of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert D. Hieklin, R. 7, Terre Haute, and a graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, has been assigned to the staff engineering department of the Bailey Meter Company, Cleveland, Ohio. He has been promoted to assistant staff engineer. Hieklin graduated from Rose Poly in 1953 and joined the company at that time.

Called into military service two months later, he returned to the company after his discharge last August. clogged the area and parked cars tangled traffic on Lafayette avenue S. 41) until Indiana State Police arrived. Police officers diverted traffic for about an hour while the blaze was at its height. Two adiacent houses were ----------aged from the searing heat.

The knife wielder Iwldmg up a waiiress fire blistered the paint on the resi-1 at the Hill Snappy Service, 1. dence at 2203 Lafayette avenue and on a house in the rear of the blazing building. A window in the latter house, the residence of one of the owners of the lumber firm, also was broken from the heat. Utility poles carrying high tension wires were badly scorched. Pumpers 5.

7 and 10 and Truck 2 from the Terre Haute Fire Department and the North Terre Haute and Sandcut companies from Otter Creek township made the run. delegates elected from Vigo County to the state convention at G.O.P. primary, John Church, chairman of the central committee; Mrs. Margaret Barnes, vice chairman; Attorney Buena Chaney, secretary, and Warren Boy 11, treasurer. BREAK CAR WINDOW Augustus Lemay, 126 Walnut street, reported that he had parked his car last night near Tenth and Eagle streets, and that when he returned, he found the rear glass window broken out; valued at $25.

NAME ATTORNEY TO DEFEND LEGGETT Circuit Court Judge Herbert R. Criss Thursday appointed Attorney Warren Everett as public defender for Robert G. Leggett, 28. 725 Ohio street. Taken in the burglary was proximately HIGH TWELVE CLUB TO HEAR BRUCE CONNATSER Bruce Connatser, Philadelphia Phillies scout, will talk baseball to members of the High Twelve Club next Wednesday.

He will address the weekly luncheon meeting in the Wabash Room of the Terre Haute House and will show a film on the 1955 World Series. Keg. 120.00 "Rese" $12.50 KALEEL'S Beauty Salon 1704 $. 8th L-0464 HARVEY CLARK Personal Loans to $500.00 CO. WEST TERRE HAUTE National A TERRE HAUTE St.

she'll I be Practical Wrapped from BEN BECKER "The Westy A straw Cuban straw cushioned for walking ease. You hardly know you have shoes on. old. beige straw 10 95 to 3 us. TNI MASNAfU CASUAL Mother's be thinking of you for months to come Washable, soft and easy, in colors to please her.

of Plainfield; Ham S. of Fort Worth, Tex and Ernest one Mrs Ethel Rborer of Linton; one brother Luther B. of Fort Worth; eight and several nieces and. nephews He was painter for 43 errs and a member of Painters Loral 197 The txxiy was taken tc Rvan and Funeral Home funernl arransementa are pending LT. MARLIN H.

ELDRED JR. Services for Lt. Marlin FJdred Jr 22 vears old. St. Petersburg, and formerly of Terra Haute, were held at 3.30 Thursday afternoon at St Petersburg.

He waa killed in an accident at Ft. Monday. The body returned to St. Petersburg, accompanied by an bonor guard, and will be buried with full military honors He was a member of the Parachute Infantry. Regiment of the Eighty-second Airborne Division.

FARL PIKFR Services for Earl Haute, who died wili held at 1 Saturday rtternoon at the Thomas Funeral Hone The Rev. Clyde officiale and burial will be in Memorial Park Friends mav caU the funeral home after Thursday evening HARRY A. KING Services for Harry A King. 74 2316 Arleth street, who died Wednesday, will be held at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning at the Ball Funeral Home. The Rev.

Mark Myera will officiate and burial will be in Roaelawn Memorial Park MRS. WILLIAM DUST EFFINGHAM. 111 Max 10 Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 A. at St. Aloysius Church, in nearby Bishop for William oldest resident of the Bishop Creek community.

diedI Tuesday at the age of 90 years in the home of her daughter. Mrs Ferd Goeckner, with whom she made her home. She 132 directed descendants. Included in the descendants are six children, fifty-bix grandchihiren, sixty- six great-grandchildren and four great great-grandchildren Mrs Dust was bom in the Bishop Creek community where she had spent her entire life, the daughter of the late George Carolyn Riemann Westendorf. Children 'surviving are WilHam of Valparaiso.

and Frank of Ariiona, Mrs. Oregon; two stepsons. Ben Dust Hammond. and John Dust, at hime twi sisters. Mrs Barney Prue- iT of F.tftngh.m of Gary, Ind and a Gust Westendorf of tt'ashington Funeral will be conducted by the Pastor of St.

Aloysius Church with burial the parish cemetery. MRS. ETHEL STEPHENS BOWLING GREEN, Ind May 10 Ethel of near Bowling Green died at i.15 Wednesday evening at the Clay Hospital. Surviving are the husband, Sherman: two daughters. Mrs Frances Greenmore of Indianapolis andI Mrs.

Kathryn Bryant of BowlingGreen. son. James of Michigan City, one brother. John Clark of Bowling Gneen; one sister. Mrs.

Myrna Houk. of Bowling Green, and five grandchildren. The tiody was taken to the Rentchier Funeral Home in Centerpoint where friends may call after noon Friday. Services wit! be hold at 10:30 clock Saturday morning at Mt. Zion Methodist Church, with burial in the ad- ioinmg cemetery.

The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to service time. MRS. BERTHA MAE NELSON CLAY CITY, May 10 Mrs Bertha Mae Nelson, 3.e> old died at 3:10 Wednesday afternoon at the residence of her daughter. Mrs Ruth Giek. R.

R. Jk GreencasMe Also surviving are two additional daughters, Mrs Waltman of San Antonio. Mrs Joan Garlit of Clay City: stepdaughter. Mrs Evelyn Rehmel of Shelburn. 5 three sons, Robert.

Norman ind RMph. all of Mishawauka two stepsons, Nelaon of and Lloyd Nelson a-ClayCi one sister. Mrs. DeLong of favette; one brother. Valley Jasonvilie.

one half brother Andrew Prichard of Lmton; 20 and two The body as taken to the ru neral Home MRS. OR PR A M. STEWART NEWPORT Ind. May 10 Mrs Orpha Stewart gt old. Newport, died at 4 31 mnrmn, at the Lakeview Hospital.

DanviTle 111. She had resided here for more then 43 She w.s a member of the Rebeccah Lodge, million County Home Economics Chorus Newport Club, the Methodist Church SC.S. Surivivmg are tbr busband Lee Roy; two daughters Mrs. Mary Jane Kav. Terre Haute, and Mrs.

a DunivanJ Texas; sister. Mrr Alberta Indianapolis, three brothers. James Reed. min Reed, St Bernice, and Ollie Reed. Kokomo; three grandchildren Tne Kiv was taken to the Watson Funeral Home at Cayuga at his home three miles east of Shelburn Wednesday.

Surviving are the widow. Era; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Gaskin of Pimento and Ruth Vetter of Louisville; two sons. Martin and Oscar. Shelburn, R.

two orothers, John and Oscar, both of Shelburn R. 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home and will be taken to the residence Thursday morning. Services will be held at 2 Friday afternoon at the Oak Grove Church. The Rev.

J. Byrum will officiate and burial will be in West Lawn cemetery at Farmersburg. ft SueK as aw Every funeral is of supreme importance to the family served. Whether that family spends little or much, our organization does everything possible to be heipful. MRS.

MARY GRAY SHELBURN. May Mary Gray, 78 old. died Wednesday at St Anthony Hospital in Terre Haute, Surviving are one sister Mrs. Ida Ratcliff of Terre Haute, and two brothers, Clarence Leonard of Tei re Haute and John of Indianapolis and two nephews The body was hriill ffht to the McHugh Funeral Home SILVERSTEIN BROS. LOW COST 1956 WESTINGHOUSE REFRIGERATOR GOOD FAMILY-SIZE Bonus Refrigeration In a 24-inch Cabinet Full Width Shelves in Door Bonus Bottle Space Five-Year Protection Plan on Mechanism I 95 199 NO MONEY DOWN- NEW WESTINGHOUSE TWIN BROILER RANGE 2 Master Size Burners Two Standard Size Burners Adjustable Oven Control Clock and Timer New Copper Styling Installed Without Charge Reg.

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R. 2, Rockville: two sisters, Mrs. Lucy James. St Bernice, and Dixon, Osceola: seven and four The bodv was taken to the Frist Funeral Home will be held at 1 Friday afternoon. Ray Crawl will officiate with burial in Walnut Grove cemetery.

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