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10 PAGES TODAY! PRICE FIVE CENTS. ir J'L JV 07 713)) 3 Track CrasEi Larry Patrick, New Whiteland, Named Trooper First Candidate Files For School Board Position David C. Naile, of Trafalgar, an 5 ear rob hug" WHITELAND. A 41-year-old Whiteland man was killed late Tuesday night when the car he was driving South on U. S.

31 in the Northbound lane collided with an oncoming semi-trailer truck, two miles South of Edinburg. State Police identified the accident victim as James E. Johnson, 659 Drive For New Members Planned By City Jaycees Plans for an extensive membership campaign to begin next month were made by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the organization's annual family picnic staged Tuesday night at the new shelterhouse in Province Park. Forty Jaycees, their wives and children, attended the picnic and heard reports on the Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up campaign which will continue during the remainder of August. John Hill, Jaycee Region vice-president, of Seymour, attended the meeting and gave a talk on obtaining new members for the A BANG-UP JOB Ever felt like taking your anger out on the amily buggy? One motorist did! Deputy Sheriff Hubert Jones investigated a report at midnight Saturday that an irate motorist had badly damaged his early model car with his hands and feet after it broke down seven miles East of Franklin on Greensburg Road.

DeputyJones said the motorist, who was not arrested, was driving to his brother's home when a front wheel support collapsed. His anger was so great that he kicked and beat in all the windows apparently with a tire jack and tool. Then he almost tore off two doors and jumped on the hood and top of the car and caved them in with his feet. The car was hauled into a local service station for the time being. Looking over the remains of the auto are, left to right, Gary Reece, nine, Mike Armstrong, nine, and James Reece, seven, all of Franklin.

The car is registered in the name of a Franklin man. City School Transportation Poses Problem For Parents interim school board member for the Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson Unit ed School Corporation, became the first candidate to file for a regular board position. The three-township school corporation and two other newly-organized school units, Center Grove Community School and Edinburg Community School Corporation, will elect regular board members in the Nov. 6 general election. Candidates must file in the Johnson Circuit Court clerk's office between now and Sept.

1. Non-Partisan Basis Election of board members for the school district's will be on a non-partisan basis, by popular election. Naile filed his candidacy this week with the required signatures of 10 resident voters in the township where the candidate resides. The school board for Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson United School Corporation will consist of three members, one from each of the townships. Five regular school board members are scheduled to be elected for the Center Grove Community School Corporation, and five for the Edinburg Community School Corporation.

Naile was appointed as an interim school board member representing Hensley township by Circuit Judge Robert B. Lybrook. $50,000 Damage Suit Is Venued To Circuit Court A $50,000 damage suit, filed as a result of a fall on a sidewalk in Indianapolis, has been venued from Marion county to Johnson county. The suit has been filed In John-srjn Circuit Court, Juanita Graves, of the capital city, is seeking the damages from the city of Indianapolis, Meridian Plaza Motor Hotel, and Fred Williams, Jr. The woman alleges in the complaint that she suffered permanent injuries as a result of the faH on a sloping driveway over a sidewalk on Feb.

6. 1961. Constructed Sidewalk The city of Indianapolis was named as a defendant in the suit because it constructed and maintained the sidewalk, the complaint stated. The complaint ftirther alleges that the Meridian Plaza Motor Hotel, Inc. leased and operated the parking lot from Fred Williams, the second and third defendants.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff was walking along the sidewalk when she slipped and fell. The complaint states that snow and ice had accumulated on the public sidewalk and sloping driveway and it had been there for some time. Pearl Street, Whiteland, Johnson reportedly died of a fractured neck, other multiple fractures of the body and internal injuries. State Trooper Robert Smith said Johnson apparently died instantly in the 11:30 p.m. car-truck crash in Bartholomew county.

According to Trooper Smith, Johnson was driving alone at a high rate of speed on the wrong side of the highway. Two oncoming semi-trailer trucks passed him but his auto crashed into the trailer section of another truck. The truck driver involved in the fatal wreck was identified by Trooper Smith as James Harp, 41, Louisville, Ky. lie reportedly escaped injury in the collision. Asked For Directions Johnson had reportedly stopped at a drive in restaurant at the Johnson-Bartholomew County Line on U.

S. 31 to ask for directions to Columbus. The owner of the restaurant said Johnson appeared in a depressed mood and drove eff from the res' taurant headed South on U. S. 31 in the Northbound lane.

Trooper Smith reported that a motorist saw Johnson driving down the highway and tried to catch up with him by driving on the regular side of the highway. However, the motorist told State Police that Johnson was driving at a high rate of speed and before he could stop him the car had rammed into the semi-trailer truck. Witnesses said both the truck and car swerved before the impact and the auto smashed into the wheel of Hie trailer section of the vehicle. Trooper Smith said Johnson traveled nearly two miles on the wrong side of the highway before the accident occurred. Car Demolished The car was demolished in the crash.

Total property damage was estimated at $2,000 to the car and truck. Assisting Trxper Smith in the investigation were State Trooper Forrest Brewer and authorities from the Bartholomew county sheriff's office. Johnson was a former resident of Kentucky. Funeral services for the accident victim will be held Friday at 9 a.m. in the Vail Funeral Home at Madison, Ind.

Burial will be in Dawson Springs, Ky. Other arrangements an? incomplete. PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO LIQUOR CHARGE Dean Brewster, 31, of Edinburg, has pleaded not guilty in Johnson Circuit Court to a charge of furnishing intoxicating liquor to minors, Johnson Circuit Judge Robert B. Lybrook will set a trial by jury for a later date. The arraignment of Brewster on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor was continued for 14 days.

Brewster was arrested on June 2, but was later released after a $250 bond was posted. 1L BULLETINS United Press International. BERLIN The Russians today abolished their Berlin military headquarters in a move apparently aimed at destroying the last remnants of four-powrr control of the city. WASHINGTON An Agriculture Department official testified today 'Uiat he wrote a false report white washing Billte Sol Fstes' disputed cotton allotments on instructions from higher up. The official.

Thomas II. Miller, said he was given the "very definite imnrea. sion" at the time that Undersecretary Charles S. Jurphy, No. 2 man in the department, was among those who wanted him to write the favorable but falsa report.

BERLIN United States militarr police today refused to allow three Soviet armored personnel carrier! 10 enter West Berlin until a U. S. Army escort was provided. Civil Liberties Union Gets Right To Use Center INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indiana War Memorials Commission voted today to adopt a new set of rules which will permit the Civil Liberties Union to use a state- owned auditorium in line with Governor Welsh's wishes. The commission, at the end of a hearing attended by 200 persons, voted first in favor of a rule which suggested repetition of the National Anthem and, or, the Pledge of Allegiance by organizations using the auditorium but not requiring it.

Then the commission voted to adopt the set of proposed rules presented at a previous meeting. Neither vote was unanimous. Rabbi, Priest Speak In the hearing a priest and rabbi said the men who died fighting for principles were dedicated to freedom of speech and assembly. Msgr. Victor L.

Goossens and Rabbi Maurice Davis, Indianapolis, supported the stand of members of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union that they should be permitted to use Indiana War Memorial auditorium, a privilege denied them by Indiana War Memorials Commissions the past nine years. The hearing was on a revision of rules, sought by Governor Welsh over the opposition of veterans or ganizations and resisted by mem bers of the commission itself, which would open the door for the ICLU to use the auditorium. 200 Attend About 200 persons attended the hearing and at one point when commission president Clarence McNabb of Fort Wayne asked for a standing vote on whether the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance should be required of groups meeting in the auditorium, aliout 90 per cent voted yes. Rabbi Davis took the position that "the Pledge of Allegiance and use of the National Anthem are free expressions of a free people." "When their use is demanded, something happens to the words and their meaning," he said. Father Goossens said it is "precisely because an oath is such a sacred thing that it should not be used lightly." Faces Charge Of Phone Harassing An Indianapolis woman was ar rested by Johnson county authorities Tuesday evening on a warrant charging her with harassing by telephone.

The woman, Yvonne Horton, 46, of the capital city, was booked at the Johnson County Jail at 6:35 p.m,, Tuesday by Sheriff William Stillabower and Sheriff's Deputy James Skaggs. $500 Bond Set The unusual charge was filed against the woman in Johnson Superior Court. Her bond was fixed at $500. Sheriff Stillabower said the woman is charged with talking to a Greenwood resident and allegedly calling her abusive names. Kiwanians Plan Dinner, Program Franklin Kiwanians, their wives', and guests will meet at the Nashville House in Brown county for a special Ladies Night dinner on Friday.

The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a performance of "Angel Street" at the Brown County Playhouse. John M. Cutsinger, third-quarter program chairman, is in charge of Friday's program. Advance reservations for the dinner and play are necessary.

TEST SCHEDULED FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) A lie detector test was scheduled at Indianapolis today for Allen County Deputy Sheriff Virgil Coleman, whose pistol was found in a car where a supper club cashier was found dead Monday. i ana do not have bus service for school children. Some children in the city schools have as far as 2.1 miles to go to school every morning. The children in the Camelot Estates have about 1.7 miles to go to school.

Mrs. Ramey has considered transferring the children to the Hopewell School, but she says she does not want to pay the tuition charge since she Is already paying city taxes. She said she would be glad to pay bus fees If the Hopewell School bus which passes by Camelot Estates would pick her children up and take them to the Northwood School. Suggestion Rejected Mrs. Ramey said, however, that Cnntinuer On Pace Slxt Three Persons Killed In Crashes COLUMBUS.

Ind A truck driver from Florida became Bartholomew county's second traffic fatality in about two hours when his truck loaded with fresh meat overturned and burned on U.S. 31, eight miles South of here. State Police said a body found tr apped in the cab was indentified several hours after the accident as that of Oren Isom, 29, Tampa, a driver for the Peninsula Meat Co. At first, police believed two charred bodies were in the cab. The U.S.

31 highway became a ribbon of death in Indiana as three accidents on that highway killed three persons in a matter ot hours. Toll At 719 The accidents near Edinburg, Columbus, and Kokomo raised the state's 1962 toll to at least 719 compared with 623 a year ago this date. The first of the U.S. 31 wrecks happened Tuesday night near Kokomo. Killed was Barney Brant, 40, St.

Joseph, Mich. Police said a car driven by Stanley Le-wandowski. 59. Toledo, apparently went through a stop sign and hit Brant's truck broadside. The truck overturned and Brant was dead when rescuers reached The second fatal accident oe-Tuesday night when a car driven bv the victim, James Johnson, of Whiteland, struck a semi-trailer truck.

TIRE, WHEEL TAKEN FROM AUTOCUE Kenneth Gibson. 245 East Monroe street. Franklim reported to city police early Wednesday morning that someone stole a tire and wheel off of his automobile which was parked at the American Legion, 1200 Park Avenue. He told authorities he parked his 1959 Nash Rambler at the Legion and left at 12:15 a.m. He discovered the tire and wheel missing and his headlights turned on.

END WALKOUT KOKOMO, Ind. (UPI) Some 2.500 members of the United Steel Workers returned to their jobs Tuesday at the Continental Steel Mill here, ending a 60 hour wUd-cat walkout. LARRY B. PATRICK. Larry Burton Patrick, 115 Brook-fcide Drive, New Whiteland, is one of 56 men appointed as Indiana State Police troopers.

The appointment is effective Sept. 1, with Patrick undergoing three months of intensive training before being assigned to regular patrols. Patrick was the youngest of the 70 trainees at the eight-week competitive course. The 22-year-old Patrick is the son oi Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Patrick, R.R. 1, Whiteland. He was born and reared in Clark township and vyas graduated from Clark High School in 1958. While at Clark, Patrick played both varsity basketball and baseball and was president of the Freshman and Sophomore classes. He is married to the former Julia Ann Lindsey, of Franklin, and they have two daughters, Diana Lynn, age four, and Kathleen Ann, age two.

2,006 Apply After graduating from high school, Patrick was employed at Central Rubber and Supply Company in Indianapolis and worked there until he was appointed to the State Police academy at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. in June. A total of 2,006 applied "for appointment to the school at Indiana University in March of this year. and after a series of five tests and an appearance before the State Police Personnel Board the list of applicants was narrowed down to 70 who were appointed to the train ing school beginning June 24 and ending Aug. 18.

While in training, State Police candidates were given extensive training in law, both criminal and traffic laws of Indiana; self de fense; use of firearms; court pro cedure; records and communica tions; rules and regulations of the department; public speaking; safety education; police driving; traffic control, and other subjects. At the close of the eight weeks of training, it was announced that 56 of those taking the course were to be sworn in and appointed to the department as troopers at the State House by Gov. Matthew Welsh on Sept. 1. Eight can buy or rent their texts rim.

The bookstore will be open from 1:30 p.m. until 4 p.m. for pupils in grades' Six to Twelve. Books for grades one to five may be purchased or rented at this time in the pupils' grade room. (1:30 p.m.

to 4 p.m.) Tuesday, Sept. 4 All pupils will report to school from 8:15 a.m. until 11 a.m. (School wilt be dismissed at 11 a.m.) Lunch will not be served in cafeteria. All teachers will meet at the Trafalgar High School at 1:30 p.m.

for teachers' meeting for the Morgantown, Trafalgar and Nineveh schools. Thursday, Sept. 6 First full day of school. School hours will be from 8:15 a.m. until 3:15 p.m.

Lunch will be served. Also Announces Mr. Hynds also announced that all pupils who live in town and will be in grades One or Two should report to Mrs. Smylie and Mrs. Smith's room to register from 1 p.m.

to 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30. Books will not be sold. Mr.

Hynds asked pupils to adhere to the above schedule in buy-( Continued Ob Page Two) The Jaycees will launch their membership drive on Sept. 1. Jay cee officials are hoping to raise the current membership of 20 to 70 before the campaign is completed later in the Fall. A board meeting is planned next week to discuss further plans for the membership drive. The day, time, and place of the meeting will be announced later, a spokesman for the organization said.

Many Brooms Sold It was reported that 21 dozen brooms have been sold thus far by the Jaycees in connection with the Clean-Up campaign presently going on in the city. Proceeds from the sale will be used to remodel a portion of the Franklin Boy's Club. Robert Ellett, former president of the Jaycees, said several re ports have been received from residents who are complaining about the conditions along Roaring Run. Residents say the water is stagnant and there is a bad odor. Complaints have also been receiv ed that there are high weeds in the area.

Mr. Ellett said the Jaycees are planning to clean up several vacant lots in the city during the weekend. Many improvements have occurred during the Clean-Up campaign in Franklin, including work done on streets, buildings, lawns, and vacant lots, Jaycee officials pointed out. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Jaycees will be Tuesday, Sept. 4 at the Franklin Boy's Club at 7:30 p.m.

Any person interested in becoming a member of the Jaycees is invited to attend the program. Two Edinburg Teachers Signed EDINBURG Members of the Edinburg School Board met Tuesday to transact several items of business and sign two teacher contracts. Sarah Ryker of Franklin will be the new elementary teacher for grade One and Ruby Lower of Rushville will teach grade Two. Are Needed A shop teacher, a junior high, math teacher and a math and science teacher are still needed to complete the faculty roster. A contract for coal was awarded to the Mutz Coal Co.

It was voted that no children within the city limits of Edinburg will be furnished transportation. This of course will include the new, annexed area of Green Acres. New Meter Maid Hired For City Mrs. Stanley (Betty) Barnhizer, 81 Martin Place, has been appointed by Mayor Frank Records as the city's new meter maid. Mrs.

Barnhizer. will assume her duties as meter maid on Monday, Aug. 27. She will replace Shirley Rork, one of the city's meter maids for the past four months, who resigned her position to accept a new job in Indianapolis. Other Meter Maid Marlene Peavler is the other meter maid for the city.

The meter maids work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., daily, except Wednesdays and Fridays. No meters are checked after Wednesday noon. On Friday the meter maids work to 9 p.m. Police Chief Lee Sloan warned that the meter maids will strictly enforce the two-hour parking limit on the downtown streets.

By John Carpenter A Franklin mother says she will not send her children Hi school this Fall unless something is worked cut to solve a highway traffic problem. Mrs. Donald Ramey contends it is unsafe for her children, ages 12 and 10, to have to walk to the Northwood Elementary School for classes. The Rameys live in the new Camelot Estates housing development. West of U.S.

31. According to Mrs. Ramey, there are other families in the development who feel the same way as she does. They don't want to run the risk of having their children injured while crossing the highway on their way to school. School officials agree its a bad Mrs.

Mary Moore Dies In Virginia Mrs. Mary Moore, of Alexandria. a sister of Mrs. Carl F. Payne, of Franklin, died Tuesday moming at 7:20 o'clock in a hospital at Alexandria.

Funeral services have b'en set for 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon and will be in the Muti Funeral Home. The Rev. Chester G. Min-ton, vicar of the St. Thomas Episcopal church, will he in charge of the services and burial will take place in Rest Haven cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home at any time after 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and until time for the services to which they are invited. Native of Fdinburg The daughter of the late James 1. and Jennie Cutsinger Thompson. Moore was horn at Edinburg on July 3L 1ST8. She attended Mrs.

Sew all's School For Girls in Indianapolis and studied for a year in Paris. France. She was married to Samuel Moore, ef Lafayette, and a son was born to them. They were residents of Buffalo, N.Y.. for many cars where Mr.

Moore was associated with the American Radiator Company. For the past several years, she had made her home with her son. Jack Moore in Alexandria. Mrs. Moore's survivors are the son, the sister and nieces.

THE WEATHER Data furnished by J. L. Van-Cleave, observer for the Frank-tin co-operative weather station. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 Maximum temperature Minimum temperature 68 Low during night 58 Precipitation .10 FORECAST Fair and mili today. Tartly tloudy and warmer tonight and Thursday.

High today around 90. lew tonight mid 80s. High Thursday low 90s. Outlook for Friday: Tartly cloudy Bed continued warm. situation, but school transportation is a problem which faces other families in many sections of the city.

Highway Hazard Mrs. Ramey says she doesn't mind the children alking to school but it's crossing the highway that is worrying her. Mr. and Mrs. Ramey both work and would be unable to take the children to school in their automobile.

However, it is a state law that the children must attend school. This was brought out last year when an affidavit was filed against a county couple for failure to send their young daughter to school. Franklin has never had a full-time bus service for the city schools. School officials point out that most cities throughout Indi Whiteland Man Has More Woes A Whiteland man had troubles Monday when his car broke down between Austin and Scottsburg, but he later found out he had other woes. Robert Knoy, 39 Front Street.

Whiteland. said he left his disabled automobile parked off the highway betw-een the two towns and left a note on the windshield saying that he would be back to pick up the car the next day. Police notified Knoy Tuesday that thieves had lowed the automobile several miles and had stripped it of Tour tires and wheels, the radio, generator, voltage regulator, battery', and license plate. Teachers' Strike Threat Remains ANDERSON, Ind. tUn The threat of a teacher strike hung over Anderson's public schools again today in the wake of rejec tion of the school board's latest offer.

The question of allowances for teachers who also coach high school athletic teams appeared t.3 be the major stumbling block in the way of a settlement of the wage demands by the local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers AFL CIO. Reject Han At a meeting Tuesday night, the teachers voted not to pecept the school board's proposal "at this time, pending further negotiations, including negotiations concerning allow ances for secondary coaches." Carol D. Helvey, president of the union local, said the teachers would go ahead with their plans for a strike unless a settlement is reached by Aug. 28. Fred Matthews, president of the school board, declined comment when informed of the teachers' action.

TO HOLD PARLEY INDIANAFOLIS (UPI) Democratic lawmakers and legislative nominees will be called to a special meeting on reapportionment by Governor Welsh to consider a counterproposal to one prepared by Indiana Republicans. Morgantown Principal Announces Plans For Opening For Fall Term MORGANTOWN. John Hynds, principal of the Morgantown schools, announced today that pupils from grades Six through Twelve can purchase or rent their books for the Fall term at the school bookstore next week. Pupils in grades Six, Seven and Tuesday. On Wednesday, pupils in grades Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve can rent or buy their books.

The bookstore is located in the school cafeteria and will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. According ro Principal Hynds, pupils were given book lists last Spring. However, if those lists are lost, pupils may pick up new lists at the school office now.

Class schedules will be available and a faculty member will be there to make any changes necessary. Mr. Hynds outlined the school activities for the remainder of the week. Thursday, Aug. 30 Teachers wilt report to the new Franklin Community High School Auditorium for the teachers institute from 8:45 a.m.

to 11:30 a.m. At 1:30 p.m. the Morgantown teachers will report back to the Morgan-town School for a teachers meeting. Friday, Aug. 31 Pupils will report to school from 9 a.m.

until 11 a.m. (Pupils are to report to their home rooms). Buses will.