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BE A SAFETY HOUND DRIVE SAFELY WALK SAFELY 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 possible, cornier tonight; fair, cooler Thursday. Low tonight 54-62, high Thursday to 82 Friday: cloudy, mild. EIGHT PAGES UNTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1962 VOLUME LXIII NUMBER 62 Mine Run Run" Unaiioiiad product an ommblr kind not classified; a msdlsy of thought ct ideas." Department of something new every day a twist shirt? Well a pullover with either a pointed tail, fore or aft or a modified jester. The latter has three pointed tails.

That's what a news release says. And we hope properly edified. Folks sometimes get into arguments whether to call this the 'Si a a the the age," the of or any of many similar designations. one thing for certain, though Nobody can say that it correctly be termel age of For example, the U. S.

Commerce department says that individuals, firms and government agrencles at all levels ran up $53 hilVion of debts in 1961. Of course, a billion dollars is difficult to visualize, but the additions to the debts made in 1961 push the total of what they owf to a new all-time high of $937 billion. The debt Incrvse year was $16 billion higher than the $37 billion of 1960 hut than the inerease of $65 bUUon in 1959. when business was expanding briskly. Mine Run appreciated a rare bouquet that came in the mail yesterday, along with a mild brick-bat or two.

It was a blossom from a Christmas cactus and it came from Mrs. Bessie Sparks of Jasonville route one. Quite beautiful, too, as well as unusual. Also speaking personally Mine-Runner has a date, one of these months, to eat some with Tom Ay- dHotte. ex-Lyons barber and dog fancier and Tom.

himself, must have developed the brizziing" process, for Mine Runner can think of no place else where its delights were sampled. This w-as more than a couple of derades ago, and the barber shop was heated hy one of those old cast-iron pot-bellied Tom had fabricated a net like holder from heavy wire. The coals in the stove were a'lowed to burn down so they gave off no smoke they did if the were in a hurry), and the was placed in the open holder and held over the corals. The results were delirious. One time, one of the found the remains of an old whisky keg and the staves were chopped up and placed in the stove.

The coals from the keg imbued the beef with a flavor that was quite different from the usual bouquet from the coal embers. This, of course, was back in the when you could purchase enough beef for a dinner for four for less than a couple of hits, and still get all the you wanted for free. And what brought up this business of in the first place was a talk with Tom. who said he found the improvised metal grill a few days ago. He said he first thought throw it away but later decided to hang onto it for a while, just in case someone wanted to do some more Got to talking to Earl Winters a day or so ago and he had one to tell about how he was able to pass off some young ground-hog meat for a but this is entirely a different story.

Work here tomorrow. Freak Mishap Kills Hillsdale Man, 30 (I nltrd rrrss Internntlonal) 1962 highway toll today stood at 389, 42 more than the nirm'ber of deaths reported on Hoosier highways at this time last year. The latest victim reported was George Keller, 30, R.R. 1, Hillsdale, 'who was killed Tuesday afternoon in a freak accident on U.S. 36 in Parke County.

Keller was killed when a spare tie fell off a tractor-trailer he was following and crushed the top of his car. Earlier Tuesday, Kelsie Tetrick, 65. Vick'burg, was injured fatally when a pickup truck hit him as he worked with a State Highway Department crew near Linton. Diane Thompson, 6, 2, Columbus, was killed Tuesday morning when a car struck her as ihe crossed the road to board a school bus near Australia to Send Units To Defense of Thailand By EUGENE McLOUGHLIN (I nilrd IniernHt lonnl Australia announced today it was sending a contingent of armed forces to help defend the threatened borders of Thailand. The announcement, anticipated for several days, coincided with a massive propaganda blast by three Communist nations of Asia against the landing of American troops in Thailand.

Red China said the S. action posed a North Viet Nam said it may lead to dangerous North Korea recalled the fiasco of the Korean Australian Defense Minister Sir Garfield Barwiek said in Canberra that his country was taking action pursuance of its under the Southeast Asia Treaty Organizatioin (SEATO). Ini or ms U. N. He said Thant, acting secretary general of the United Nations.

was being informed. Composition of the contingent still is being worked out. he said A similar announcement is expected shortly from Auckland New Zealand Prime Minister Keith said Tuesday his government had offered a token force. -They will join 5.000 American soldiers, Marines and airmen being worked into a small but powerful combined task force to defend the borders of Thailand against encroachment by pro- Communist rebels in in'? Laos. U.

S. Army Lt. Gen James L. Richardson settled into his new headquarters at the Thai staging center of Korat, north of Bangkok. and drew up plans for exercises and operations to maintain and improve the sharp edge of his command.

Has Best Chance The man who apparently has the best chance of cooling off the Southeast Asian Prince Souvanna was acting something like a mystery figure. For the third day in a row he postponed his return to Laos from Burma while conferring with the information minister of the Laotian rebels, Quinim Phol- sena, who flew to Rangoon Tuesday. Neither man could be reached for comment in Rangoon but it was assumed they were making plans for a new meeting of three rival princes. PRINT ETON MINER IS HURT FATALLY PRINCETON, Ind. William Frank Singleton, 58, R.R.

2, Princeton, was killed Tuesday when a train-like device used to haul coal and equipment ran over him in the mine of the Princeton Mining Co. It was the first mine fatality here in eight years. 175 BLIND WORKERS ESCAPE FROM FLAMES NEW YORK dred-seventy blind workers used overhead guide lines to escape safely Tuesday when fire broke out on the top floor of the five- story Lighthouse Industries building The fire started in a stack of cartons in the factory, which produces brooms, mops and brushes. The blind workers returned to their jobs later. Dugger Han Seeks $175,000 Damages As Result of Blast i TEH RE of are being sought today I in a suit filed at Terre Haute by Wesley Leigh, of Dugger, who was injured seriously Nov.

14, I960 in a gas that destroyed his home in the White Rose community, five miles wesi jof Linton Mr wife, Mrs Joanna Leigh. 34. was injured fatally in the explosion and their two sons. Junior and Michael, were injured seriously. Named as defendant in the suit i are the Ohio Valley Gas Corporation, Ohio Valley Sales Corporation and the Texas Gas Transmission Corporation.

The suit w-as filed in Vigo Superior court No. 2 at Terre Haute. Mr. Leigh contends in his complaint that he received permanent injuries, including second- degree burns on the face, hands and wrists and third degree burns on the right leg. The complaint declares that an accumulation of natural gas piped into his home for a space heater and water beater ignited, causing the explosion.

The complaint charges five counts of negligence that the defendants: 1. failed to odorize the gas; 2. maintained high and dangerous pressures in the mains; 3. carelessly installed meter, pipes and appliances; 4. failed to inspect, maintain and service the equipment, and 5.

used defective and inferior materials to convey the gas to his home. The plaintiff charges that because of the injuries he received in the explosion he has been unable to work for six months and that the use of his hands has been impaired because of scar tissue from the burns. The suit also alleges that a large gas line ran south of his property and that a lateral pipe of a plastic material carried the fuel to his home. The suit was filed by Charles MeCrory, Terre Haute attorney. It requests a trial by jury.

'Mild' Han Kills 3 In Holdup at Bank; Is Slain by Police OZAPK, Ala. A mild- mannered chiropractor turned bank robber shot and killed two bank employes and a policeman in a holdup attempt Tuesday before he was cornered by police in a church graveyard and shot to death. Eugene S. Gault, 43, of Prattville, was described by a friend as a soft-speken man who never seemed to fit the He killed a bank vice president, a teller and a veteran police officer and wounded another officer in a daylight robbery attempt at the Bank of Ozark. The shootings occurred shortly after Gault had hung a sign on his office door which read: called out.

Please call for appointment Gault killed Fred Flowers, executive vice president of the bank and then fatally wounded teller David Jackson with a 45-caliber pistol. In the chase that followed he killed Troy Policemtn J. H. Youngblood and wounded another officer. Describes Shooting man Gault) just walked in the dcor and went straight to the loan cage where Mr.

Flowers was said Mrs. Wood Osenby, a bank employe. hear him ask any questions, but the next think I knew the man was climbing up on the loan cage and firing a phot. then came across the room and we all started running for the back door. It was the thing ever seen in my life.

It was horrible. plain Police said Jackson apparently had stood between Gault and the vault, located behind where Flowes was standing when he was shot in the back. Bank officers said Gault did net get any After the shooting, Gault fled this small southeast Aabama town of 7,000 population in a late model Cadillac and headed north about 20 miles to Clio where he Policeman Bill Roberts. Roberts, who said he was shot and through one had tried to halt car. Shot During Chase Youngblood, who had worked 11 years as a Troy city policeman, was fatally wounded by Gault's bullets during the Chase.

Highway patrolmen and police from Troy and Clio finally cornered Gault in a small country churchyard. Officers said Gault was first wounded when he drove through Clio and was struck a second time by a bullet from gun during tfne chase. He was wounded twice more, the fatal Fhot hitting him in the face and causing him to fall across a grave in the churchyard. Prattvif le reidents said they thought Gault was divorced and originally came there from the North. He moved to Prattville about throe years ago from Tuskeegee.

Authorities said a check of their files showed had no police record. Jet Crash In Iowa Kills 45 Persons CENTERVILLE, Continental Airlines jet liner crashed in a violent electrical storm Tuesday night and all but one of the 45 persons aboard were killed instantly. The lone survivor lived for about 10 hours but died in a hospital here this morning. He was Nakano Takehiko, 27, a native of Japan. Takehiko, who was pulled alive from the fuselage of the huge Boeing 707 nearly eight hours after it crashed was rushed here from the tiny valley north of nearby Unionville, where the fuselage was found, but died within two hours.

Officials said the bodies of the other 44 victims had been found 41 of them trapped in the fuselage from which Takehiko was rescued and three from 1 to miles away from the wreckage. Takehiko at first was believed miraculously spared in the crash of the plane carrying 37 other passengers and eight crewmemhers. He was identified as a Northwestern University stu- tdent, but officials at the school said there they had no records on German firemen spray chemicals on wreckage of a U.S. Navy WV2 reconnaissance plane which ripped apart in flight near Munich, Germany. Five Navy officers, 17 enlisted men.

and 4 Army enlisted men died as the plane, equipped with secret radar detection devices, exploded at 10,000 feet enroute from Rhine-Main air base to Its home base at Rota, Spain. NEW SANITATION TRUCK ARRIVES W. N. South, chief sales engineer of the J. L.

Burks company, Indianapolis receives a receipt for a new sanitation truck from Linton Mayor P. H. as Sanitation Department Superintendent Victor Wright looks on. The truck, to be used in garbage collection program, arrived here this week. The Linton Sanitation department is putting to use a new sanitary collecting truck Which arrived Monday from a plant in Wisconsin.

The King packer was installed on a two-ton truck for use by employes of the local Sanitation department. The truck and body were accepted this week by Victor Wright, Sanitation department superintendent, and Linton Mayor from W. N. South of Bloomington, engineer for the J. L.

Burks company of Indianapolis The Linton City Council agreed to purchase the equipment for $9,623.80, including the truck. According to Mr. South, the equipment that is a part of the truck allows it to load 14 cubic yards of garbage. He said that the in a manner similar to a hay- baler, compressing Lie material t.nat is co'lcitcd bain In addition, the truck has a sump tank that can be easily emptied after it becomes filled with liquid freer, the garbage. Mr.

South said that the one truck and truck body, with the three workmen, will do the work work of six average dump trucks 'with 18 men. When the capacity of the truck body is reached, the vehicle is to be driven to the City dump and unloaded like a dump truck, by using a hydraulic lift. The cost of the truck and bedy arc to be paid on a basis, over a two-year period. The truck was purchased from the MoCammon Chevrolet company here. ALL-TIME MARKS MAY BE BROKEN Cooloff Will End Indiana Heat Wave (i nitnt internntUsnai spread damage in Freeborn A cooloff of about 10 degrees County, Minnesota.

was expected to end Indiana's 12- The tornado and high winds marked an encore of severe day warm spell late today or to- westher which -ruck the night, but it may come too late west Monday night when twist- to spare the state from recording ers injured at least 38 persons its hottest May in the 20th Cen- and caused millions of dollars tury. of property damage. Temperature prospects were for The storms caused one death, lows tonight in the 50s and highs tinned on Thursday in the 70s. If the predictions are fulfilled, tonight will be the coolest night since May 10 and Thursday will be the coolest day since May 11. The average temperature at Indianapolis for the first 22 days of May was 68.68 degrees, only 2.12 degrees below the record high average for an entire month of May established in 1895.

The warmest Mays since 1900 were in 1911 when the average was 68.6, and 1918, when it was 68.8. The five-day outlook also had long range pleasant news for those Hoosiers who are ready for a little spring weather instead of the mid-summer type. To Last To Monday A gradual cooling trend was expected through Monday in central and south portions, with temperatures averaging 2 to 6 degrees above normal south and near normal central. Normal highs are 75 to 80 and normal lows 53 to 57. Cooler Thursday in the northern third of the state will be fol'owed by little temperature change Friday, warmer Saturday and turning cooler again Sunday and Monday.

The temperatures during the period will average near normal highs of 71 to 76 and normal lows of 51 to 54. Precipitation during the five- day period will total near an inch in showers about Saturday in the north portion. Downstate, the average will be around three- fourths of an inch with spots up to three inches in scattered thundershowers mainly late Friday and Highs Tuesday ranged from 81 at South Bend to 91 at Evansville and overnight lows this morning from 68 at Indianapolis to 76 at Evansville. Highs today will range from the 80s to 90, lows tonight from the 50s to 62, and highs Thursday from the '70s to 82. Scattered thundershowers in the north this morning, central this afternoon and south tonight were expected to be followed by at least two days of fair skies.

It nlted Internatlonul Fair weather returned to the Midwest today after another batch of severe storms, including tornadoes, struck the area. A squall line at the Iowa-Missouri border may have caused the crash of a jet airliner, with 45 persons aboard. A tornado swirled through the Albert Lea, area Tuesday night. It rearranged rooftops, uprooted trees, damaged farm buildings and downed power lines. However, no injuries were reported.

win4f iLo caused wide- Tetrick Funeral Set for Saturday Funeral arrangements for Kelsie Tetrick, 65 years old, of Vicksburg, who was injured ia- tally Tuesday when he was struck by a pickup truck, were completed here today. The funeral will be held at 2:00 Saturday afternoon at the Welch and Cornett Funeral home here. Rev. Don Phillips will officiate and burial will be made in Fairview cemetery. was announced that friends may call at the Funeral home after noon Thursday.

Mr. Tetrick died at 12:50 Tuesday afternoon at the Freeman-Greene hospital, after he was struck by a truck driven by Hezzie Turpin, 68, of Dugger, at 9:00 a. m. Tuesday. He was working as a flagman for a State Highway department repair crew, at the junction of roads 54 and 59.

northwest of Linton, at the time. Today, state police and Greene County Sheriff Jack Blakely were continuing an investigation and Delmar Hasler, county coroner was conducting an inquest into the accident. Mr. Tetrick had spent practically all of his life in and near the Vicjcsburg community. He formerly was employed as a coal miner but after his retirement had worked with the Greene county Highway department ana for about a year with the State department.

He was a veteran of World War I arid a member of the Clarence Vest Barracks of the Veterans of War I. He also was a member of the United Mine Workers of America. He attended the Vicksburg Baptist church. Mr. Tetrick was born in the Robinson community, in Eastern Greene county, on April 26, 1897, the son of Francis M.

and Frances I. McKenzie Tetrick. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Lillian Mae Tetrick, to whom he was married Nov. 25, 1954; one daughter, Mrs.

Evelyn Sexton of Indianapolis; a grandson he reared, James Robert Hays of Linton; two step daughters, Mrs. Janet Reintjes of Linton and Mrs. Jessie Myers of Riverside, a stepson, Albert J. Harrel, with the U. S.

Air Force in Norway; a twin brother, Tetrick of Vicksburg; three sisters Mrs. Agnes Haney of Linton and Mrs. Fannie Pope and Mrs. Jennie Britton of Vicksburg two other grandchildren, Richard Dean Hays and and Marilyn Sextton, both of In- Board Picks Three Teachers; Accepts One Resignation The Linton-Stockton Board of Education employed three teachers, accepted the resignation of another and considered other business items at a meeting held in the office at the High school Tuesday evening. Mrs.

Jamie Wright and Mrs. Janice Catohem of Linton and Mrs. Virginia Apple of Sandborn were added to the faculty by the board upon the recommendation of Jere O. Goodman and the principals of the Elementary and High school. Mrs.

Wright and Mrs. Catehem will be teaching in the Elementary school and Mrs. Apple will teach Home Economics, succeeding Mrs. Mary Ellen Powell. The resignation of Joel Lucas, Mathematics teacher, who has accepted a position with an electronic company, was accepted.

Plans for installing a partition in the library to provide an additional classroom were discussed. Approval was voted to a plan to tile the floor of the mechanical drawing room. Mrs. Eileen Yaw of Linton employed to serve as bookkeeper for the lunch programs in both the Elementary and High school. Mr.

Goodman reported that the athletic department had purchased eight poles for lighting the track and football field and said the poles will be put in place behind the track so it will be lighted and in order to provide better lighting for the football field. The lighting towers now in place on the football field, now in 'bad repair, will be removed, he said. The eight poles that will support the lights will have a cost of $130 each. It also was reported that lights may be installed around the tennis courts but no motions were passed on this matter. The resignations of Mrs.

Mildred Rupert and Mrs. Fern Peterson, elementary cafeteria personnel, were accepted and the applications of Mrs. Kate Franklin and Mrs. Lawson were accepted to be placed on file until there is an opening. It was reported that the Township Advisory board re-appointed Hurshel Withycontbe to the board of education for a four-year term at a meeting on May 2 and the Linton City Council re-appointed Dr.

M. E. Tomak to the board for a four-year term on 8. Those present for the meeting were Hubert Lynch, president; Dr. William Witherspoon, secretary; Aden Benham, treasurer; Mr.

Withycombe and Mr. Goodman. IMPERSONATOR HELD INDIANAPOLIS Louis Sanders, 30, Indianapolis, was to appear before a U. S. commissioner here today on charges of impersonating a Marine Corps lieutenant.

FBI agents arrested him Tuesday on a charge of impersonating the officer in order to make about $200 worth of credit purchases at a local store. Bulletins GENEVA PI Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin said today the dispatch of American troops to lead to war not a small war WASHINGTON The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approved a bib today that woold repeal the 10 per cent tax on railroad and bus travel and lower the tax bn airline effective mxt Jan. I. him. Near State Line Discovery of the fuselage climaxed a search by more than 700 persons which ranged from a point near here across the state line and into Missouri, an area scattered with fragments of wreckage.

The search for bodies and wreckage was hampered by the roughness of the terrain of forests, brush fields and farmland. The fuselage fthe plane, bound from Chicago for Los Angeles with a stop at Kansas City, Mo, was discovered by a farmer in a small muddy valley. The tiny valley was a scene of death littered with luggage, colorful vacation-type clothing, seats and other debris. The fuselage, with wings and tail stripped off and its nose crushed in, appeared to have plummeted almost straight down. There were not more than five feet of skid marks, witnesses said.

Bodies Scattered over Area iowa Highway Patrol Sgt. Dan Foster and patrolman John Heaps, wno flew over the area in separate planes, said they couia see boaies scattered miles Irom the fuselage. Autnoi ities took over an empty garage at Unionville, about six miles south of the spot where tne Luseiage was touna, tor as a morgue. it appeared the plane had disintegrated in flight, witn wrecK- age tound all tne way from live miles south of Centerville to the point wnere the luseiage was iound, about 17 miles south of this iowa community. Terry Burnell, who lives on the farm where the fuselage was lounu, said he heard a moan from the front part of the wreckage and pulled Takehiko out.

Chrysler Executives Aboard Three Chrysler Corp. executives, attacned to tne firm's Uoage Division, were aboard the tlignt. They were ldenuiiea by Chrysler otficials in Detroit as virgn W. Mourning, 45, Birmingham, manager of dealer finance lor Doage; Roger Welsh, 45, Grosse Pointe, assistant Dodge general sales manager, and Fred P. Herman, 4o, Dear- bcrn, a Dodge business manager.

The plane took off from Airport at p.m. CDT Tuesday. It was due to make a stop in Kansas City before proceeding to Los Angeles Heavy squalls, lightning and thunderstorms were reported in the vicinity of Kirksvillc, and farmers reported seeing a bright orange burst of light about 9:30 p.m. More than 700 searchers joined in the night-long hunt tor the wreckage in an area of thick underbrush and timber between Centerville and Unionville, Mo. Centerville is about 66 miles southeast of Des Moines, Radar contact was made with the plane at about 9:15 p.m.

Then there was nothing, until some bits of mysterious metal fragments were found along roads and in fields near Centerville. Officials at Scene The Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Agency dispatched officials to the site with orders to guard the wreckage. Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby was reported on the way to the Centerville area from San Francisco. Among the wreckage found in Iowa was a door bearing symbol, a golden eagle. Next to the fuselage the largest piece found was a 30-foot section of wing, near Cincinnati, Iowa, on the Missouri border.

Continental a uarters in Denver said the crash was the first in the 28-year history. None of the passengers or members bad lad Use.