MONTICELLO Herald Journal Herald Conservation Officer Found Shot To Death James E. Pitzer, 54, Of Portland, Found Dead Monday PORTLAND. Ind. UPI A posse of 50 officers, including at least one FBI agent, today found a warning ticket book belonging to a state conservation officer slain under mysterious circ*mstances. Authorities said the book belonging to James E.
Pitzer, 54, Portland was found in a culvert, about half a' mile from the murder scene. The body of Pitzer, his face blasted with a shotgun charge, was along a remote Jay County found. Monday afternoon. Police believed he may have been shot by hunters he stopped to question. The book contained the name of a person who received a warning ticket from Pitzer, police said, but identification was withheld pending additional investigation.
Stll missing were Pitzer's arrest book and his service revolver. "We have a lot of hot leads, but nothing conclusive yet." said police chief Fred Pensinger. Police said they were checking all panel trucks made between 1950 and 1953 and all persons known to have hunted in the area. Authorities Pitzer may have been the first state conservation officer in history to be slain in line of duty, although there are records of other officers being wounded. Three or four Indiana State Police troopers, the Jay County sheriff, several of his deputies and 10 conservation officers planned to go over slaying scene inch by inch in a concerted search for anything which might give them a clue as to the slayer's identity.
Authodities assumed Pitzer have been shot when he may stopped a motor vehicle to question the' occupants about illegal hunting. Police said they were told by several motorists who passed the area earlier in the day that they saw a panel truck with Indiana license plates parked road. One motorist said along the he saw a conservation officer talking to some men in the truck. One report said a vehicle contwo men, one appearing tainine, (Continued on Page 6) Negro President: of I.U. Student Body Marries White Former I.
U. Coed SOUTH BEND, Ind. UPI-The Negro president of the Indiana University student body as married Friday to a white former coed at the school at nearby Cassopolis, Michigan. Tom Atkins Elkhart, and Miss Sharon Soash, Indianapolis, were married by Justice the Peace Frank McCormick in the Cass County Courthouse at 3 p.m. The couple had applied for a marriage license at Cassopolis on December 23.
Miss Soash gave her address as 2207 N. Pennsylvania Indianapolis. the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Howard Soash of South Bend.
She was graduated from I. U. last spring. Witnesses at the ceremony were Ronald Warnicke, Des Plaines, and Ritha Biggs, Evansville, an Indiana University student. Public Invited To View Civil Air Patrol Film At Armory Tomorrow The Monticello Civil Air Patrol unit will present a movie to which the public is cordially invited to attend at the National Guard Armory here Wednesday, January 4th at 7:30 p.m.
The title of the movie, is "The Last Its theme is the bombing of Japan by the U.S. Air Force in World War IL. The doors at the armory will open at seven o'clock tomorrow evening with the show due to start at 7:30. The movie will be a 40-minute feature. Major Jerry Eastburn from Warsaw will be present to a talk on the duties of the Civil Air Patrol and how it affects our community.
The general public is urged to attend this meeting at the National Guard Armory. Your newspaper, along with food and utilities, remains an indispensible daily service in the American home. STATE LIBRARY DUILDING DUILDING INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA DAILY White County's Only Daily Newspaper 98 TH YEAR NO. 1 Indiana Racks Up Heavy Death Toll On Hiways At Least 17 Persons Were Killed Over 78-Hour Holiday By United Press International Indiana racked up a traffic death toll of at least 17 for the hour New Year's holiday, including at least five on the first day of 1961. The 1960 death toll climbed to 1,116, two higher than the number killed when 1959 came to an end.
Indiana's weekend toll appeared to be the fifth highest among the states, topped only by California, Texas, Illinois and Wisconsin with totals ranging from 18 to 42. Charles Bowersock, 75, R.R. 1, Yoder, died Monday night at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, a day after he was injured in a two-car accident near Fort Wayne. His wife, Ada, 73, Richard Penna, 34,1 Fort Wayne, driver of the other car, and Penna's wife and two children were injured. Harvey S.
Chupp, 40, Goshen. was killed late Sunday when he turned his car into the path of a truck on the Northern Indiana Toll Road about four miles west of Angola. Two Terre Haute youths, Roy Pruett. 20. and Pamela J.
Clinkenbeard, 16, were killed Sunday when a car driven by Pruett crashed into a New York Central Railroad train alt a crossing in Terre Haute. The first traffice fatality of the new year in Indiana apparently James Lloyd Rader, 27, was Delphi. Rader was killed when his car collided with another on icy Indiana 25 near Delphi early Sunday. 3 Die In Finale A one-car crash just northwest of Gary Saturday night killed three persons to close out. 1960 on final, somber note.
Donald Kirk, a 33. Gary, the driver, and two Michigan women. Aline Dodero. '29, and Laura M. Farrar, 23, both of Alpena, were killed when their auto crashed into a steel bridge abutment.
Richard E. Goff, 30, Walkerton, (Continued on page 3) Wayne President Shoop Of Elected. Commissioners Today WAYNE SHOOP Wayne Shoop of Round Grove, who the first of the year, started his third year as a member of the board of commissioners, on Tuesday, the first day of the January term, was elected president of the board. Dean Miller, starting his second year of his three year term, was named chairman of the finance board. Harold Alkire is the third member of the board.
The commisioners adjourned this afternoon owning to the death of Mr. Millers aunt, at Burnettsville. and will convene again Wednesday for appointments. Fire Department Call The Monticello Fire Depart ment answered a call to the home of Henry Hughes on West Broadway Sunday afternoon at 1:45 when sparks from a chimney caused a fire on the roof: Damages amounted to about $100 when the east gable of the roof was burned. A short in the wiring caused damage to the home of minor Agnes Cox in East Monticello, Sunday about.
7:55 p.m. 'The Monticello Fire Department answered the call and quickly extinguished the flames, SLEEPING MAN ROBBED INDIANAPOLIS, UPI Police are searching today for two, men who robbed Orville Jones, 30. a partner in a car sales company here of approximately $4,000 by breaking into the room in which he was sleeping late Sunday. Nation's Motorists Start Off 1961 With Disheartening Toll 01 340 Traffic Deaths Over 78-Hr. Holiday U.
P. International The National Safety Council said today the New Year's holiday the "safest on record" for the was nation's drivers. and death pedestrians although the traffic equalled the council's predictions. A United Press International count showed that 340 persons died on the highways, and the safety council estimated that 14.000 others suffered injuries. But the council said that, based the number of deaths per 100.
on million miles driven, "it was the safest three-day New Year's weekend since the National Safety Council began keeping holiday traffic records in 1946." The council had estimated that 340 persons would. die in traffic accidents between 6 p. m. Friday, start of the holiday weekend, and last midnight. The United Press International breakdown of holiday fatalities showed: Traffic 340 Fire 57 Miscellaneous 98 Total 495 California paced the highway carnage with 42 deaths.
Texas reported 28, Illinois 20, Wisconsin 18, Indiana 17, New York 16, Ohio 14, and Florida, Louisiana and Missouri 11 each. Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, North Dakota, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia escaped traffic death over the holiday. SEARCH POSTPONED LACONIA, UPI-Volunteer skindivers the have search given for the temporarily bodies of five teen-age duck huntbelieved to have drowned in ers the Ohio River near here Dec. 17. The volunteer divers from LouisGuard officials and ville, Coast local authorities have searched the river since the boys' disapIncluded with the five pearance.
mising youths is Russell Lannon, 17, Jeffersonville. United Press Daily Teletype Service Delivered by Carrier 35e per de Single copy at newsstands, MONTICELLO, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1961 White County Treasurer Walter McColly Begins Second Four-Year Term BEGINS SECOND Mrs. Rosalind McColly Elna Miller, deputy, Treasurer's office and urer Walter D. McColly the latter was inducted year term by, White Mr. Timmons Friday.
fifth vear in that office Mr. McColly resides Parse's Forest Lodge the "Big The the past year from merly owned and operated Hotel for several years. Due to the concellation road passenger trains hotel which, still remains Before locating in 10 FOUR-YEAR TERM(left) deputy, Mrs. in the White County White County Treasare shown above as for his second fourCounty Clerk Wayne McColly assumed his January 1, 1961. in Monon township at north of Monticello on McCollys moved there Monon where they forthe Monon House of the Monon Railthey closed the 35-room empty.
Monon the McColly's formerly resided in. McColly was connected Company in the real is active in community McColly is an all-time great, starring in three high school. The McCollys have or at Indiana University County Clerk Timmons ministered the oath (center) who now has vear term of office. Mrs. McColly is the and Mrs.
Miller is the missioner Dean Miller (Kiser Studio Photo nal Engraving) Rensselaer where Mr. with the Standard Oil estate department. He and civic Mr. Rensselaer athletic major sports while in one son, Pat, 20, a juniat Bloomington. (right, above) adto Treasurer McColly begun his second fourwife of the treasurer, wife of County Comof Monon Township.
Daily Herald-Jour- and Senate Expected To Follow Kennedy's Ideas Both House Demos Talk Party Harmony And Gird For Mayhem Today As 87th Congress Buckles to deal with Kennedy Preston Williams Dies At Scott Nursing Home, Funeral Wednesday 15 Preston Williams, 77, died in Scott nursing home, Lafayette, at 6:10 a.m. Monday after an illness of several weeks. He was a patient there one month. Born in White County Sept. 27, 1883, he resided in Monticello and Buffalo many years.
In 1904 he married Myrtle Burroughs who' died in 1917. Surviving are three sons, Darl of Grand Rapids, Paul of Logansport and Raymond, of Rossville; two daughters, Dale Hunt Monticello and Mrs. Ira Fisher of Delphi; and one sister. Mrs. Bernice Lowe of Goodland.
Also 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Friends may call at Miller funeral home, Monticello. ices there 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rev. Larry Richmond officiating; interment Buffalo cemetery, Marion Levi Griffin Of Near Rensselaer Dies, Rites Monday Marion Levi Griffin, 38, of near Rensselaer, died at 7:15 p.m.
Friday in George Ade Memorial hospital (Brook), from injuries suffered in an automobile accident Christmas Eve. The car Mr. Griffin was driving struck a bridge on Ind. 55 just north of nd. 16, causing the bridge to.
collapse and he was pinned beneath It. two hours. A leg was amputated. Born at Rensselaer, he was married to Sue Wilson in 1959. Mr.
Griffin was a mill and construction worker. at Gary. He was a member of Rensselaer Eagles lodge. Surviving with the widow are two sons, Billy and Gary, at at home; his father, Bert Griffin; a sister, Mrs. Iona Clemans of Rensselaer; and four brothers, Conrad and Albert of Rensselaer, Lolyd of Reynolds, and Leland of Brook.
Friends called at Herchman and Weston funeral home, Brook. Services in Brook Methodist church at 2 p.m. Monday, Rev. Sam Robertson officiating; burial in Riverside cemetery, Brook. Monticello Library To Reopen Wednesday The installation of the new ceiling has been completed at the Monticello Library and the Library will open Wednesday, January 4.
Any books due January 3rd will be due January 4th. Phoebe Nickels, librarian Shop In Monticello And Save Three- Girl Locked In Room With Dead Mother Six Days NEW YORK UPI Threeyear-old Patricia McKiernan struggled today for the life that started ebbing from her when she was locked in a bedroom for six days with her dead mother. A policeman who broke into Mrs. Jennie McKiernan's apartment Monday found the little blonde girl huddled near her mother's body. She had had no food or water and was nearly dead from starvation.
She could hardly utter a word. Her lips were parched, she was shivering and she had no strength to get on her knees. Patricia was taken to Misericordia Hospital where she was reported in critical condition. Police said Patricia was trapped in the bedroom after Mrs. McKiernan locked the door with a chain too high for the child to reach and lay down for a nap seven days ago.
The 33- year-old mother, a widow living cn Social Security payments, had a history of heart trouble and apparently died shortly after lying down, the coroner reported. Police were alerted when Matthews Mahoney, Mrs. McKiernan's brother-in-law, asked them been investigate unable to reach her for because he had two days. Mrs. McKiernan's husband died two years ago, police said, and since then the mother has kept a very careful watch on the child.
That is why she locked the bedroom door Patricia had a habit of wandering off and Mrs. McKiernan didn't want the little girl to hurt herself in the hallway. Accidents Reported In And Near Monticello The 1955 Oldsmobile, driven by Kenneth Jay Austin of Monticello rt. 3, was damaged in the amount of $575 at 2:45 o'clock New Year's morning when it struck a parked I truck and trailer on East Washington Street, just west of the Washington Street bridge. The Austin car was going west on U.
S. 24 when the driver either lost control on the icy pavement or went to sleep and ran into the rear of a semi-trailer and truck owned by Daily Express which was parked on East Washington Street. Damage to the trailer amounted to about $225. Monticello Police officer Robert Musall investigated the accident. A utility pole was broken and a fence damaged in front of the Mary Delzell farm about a mile west of Monticello at 5:45 a.
m. January 1, when icy pavement caused a car driven by John Richard Cooper of 480 Park Kokomo to leave the road. The 1960 Chevrolet owned by Paul Phillip Guy of 1314. Styer Kokomo and driven by Cooper, age 26, skidded on the icy pavement and slid into the ditch then the car turned around and slid into the utility pole. Damage to the car amounted to $450, and the driver received a bruised chest and arms.
Monticello Police officer Robert Musall investigated. Patricia Joan Dowd, 28, N. Main, Monticello, driving a 1955 Oldsmobile owned by Michael Fred Horney of route 1, Monticello, who was a passenger in the car, skidded off the road at 1:30 a. m. Sunday immediately west of the entrance to the Tippecanoe Country Club.
The car was a total wreck. Horney received lacerations of the forehead and contussion on the right forearm, and was taken to the White County Memorial Hospital in. the Autenburg and White ambulance. He remains a patient at the hospital, listed in fair condition. Miss Dowd received a severely bruised knee and lacerations on the chest.
She was treated at the hospital and released. Driving west on the Country Club Road, the car driven by Miss Dowd, skidded on the icy pavement and hit a cement abutment, after which the car caught fire. The Monticello Fire Department was called to the scene and extinguished the blaze. White County Sheriff Charles Miller investigated the accident. On Saturday, December 31, at 12:30 p.
m. a 1955 Chrysler driven by Verna Kae Martin and owned by her mother Eleanor Martin of Burnettsville overturned and was a total wreck. Driving north on a county gravel road about five miles north of Burnettsville, Miss Martin lost control of the car and ran up an embankment which caused the car to overturn in the middle of the road. The drivers mouth was cut on the inside and her teeth were damaged. White County Sheriff Charles Miller and Deputy Leroy Farney investigated.
Gunman Killed By Teenager who Aided Policeman 29 17-Year-Old Youth Fires Fatal Shot After Officer Falls INDIANAPOLIS UPI-A gunwas killed and a policeman wounded Monday night in dramie battle in which a 17- year-old schoolboy fired a possifatal shot with the fallen officer's revolver. The dead man was identified as James P. Rayborn, 21, Gary. The policeman is Patrolman Elmer W. Cliburn, 27.
The 17-year-old is Gerald Watson, Indianapolis. Police said Watson saw two suspicious men near a supermar- Cliburn and called police. answered the call caught Rayborn. Shots fired by another man believed to be Rayborn's companion felled Cliburn, who in shot at Rayborn as the offfturn lay on the ground. Watson picked up Cliburn's gun and fired one shot but said he isn't certain whether hit Rayborn.
Authorities said Rayborn could have been killed either by Watson's shot or Cliburn's shots. Police later arrested another man identified as Carl W. Kinchlow, 18, Indianapolis. is. They charged him with assault and battery with intent to kill.
But Kinchlow denied being involved the shooting of Cliburn. "I just closed my eyes and pulled the trigger," said Watson, was plenty scared." Watson, a former YMCA marksmanship instructor, said he first noticed the two men acting suspiciously in front of a drug store and called police to investigate. "I knew they were up to something," he said, "especially when saw one of them signal to third man in a car across the street while the other man was in the store." When Cliburn arrived, the two men in front of the store fled. However, the officer managed collar one of them and bring him back to the police car where he began searching the suspect. Watson said while the officer was searching the man, the secend suspect suddenly appeared between two buildings across the street.
"He started shooting at us," said the youth. "I just closed my and ducked when a bullet hit eyes the car just above my head." Watson said he saw Cliburn shoot three times at the gunman before the policeman fell to the ground with two bullet wounds in his back. "He told me to grab his gun," Watson said. "I pointed it at the and pulled the trigger and man he fell. I didn't have time think." Police said the gunman was shot only once through the heart.
They said a bullet had broken nearby window, but they could not say definitely whether it was Watson or Cliburn who killed gunman. "He fell when the officer shot him first," Watson said. "But after I shot, he didn't get again." Cliburn was taken to Indianapolis General Hospital where immediately went into He was reported in satisfactory condition today. Scattering Of Snow Flurries, Sub- Freezing Temperatures Forecast U. P.
International A scattering of snow flurries and below-freezing temperatures featured the weather in Indiana today. Flurries were expected over most of the state through Thursday. But no accumulation of new snow was expected to add to a blanket up to five inches deep which spread across parts of the state on New Year's Day. On the ground this morning were 5 inches of snow at Cincinnati, 2 at South Bend, Fort Wayne and Lafayette and 1 at Chicago. Most of it came Sunday, including a five-inch fall in the Seymour area.
Highs today will range from the 20s to the low 30s, lows tonight. from 10 to 25, and highs Wednesday from the 20s to 32. The outlook for Thursday was warmer in the central and south portions. The five-day outlook issued Monday for the period ending Saturday called for near normal temperatures in the northern. third of the state and temperatures 2 to 5 degrees below normal in the central and south, with snow likely in the south more portion about Thursday and on an intermittent basis in the north.
a Mrs. Maude B. Shoop, formerly of Burnettsville, Dies At Rockfield Mrs. Maude B. Shoop, 83, of.
Burnettsville, formerly of Cass county, died at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Rockfield at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Fern Knight. She had been visiting there since vember 12. Born May 11, 1877, in West Point township, White county, she was the daughter of Lewis D.
and Mary Irion Dellinger, both pioneer residents of White county. Her marriage on February 28, 1900, was to Charles B. Shoop. The couple -lived in Jefferson township, Cass county, for many years. After her husband's death Dec.
13, 1936, Mrs. Shoop moved to Burnettsville. She was a the Burnettsville Baptist church. Survivors are two sons and a daughter: Henry C. $hoop, 2410 Broadway, Logansport; Robin D.
Shoop, Mason Iowa; Mrs. Fern Knight, Rockfield; five childfen, one sister, Mrs. Charles grandchildren; six great-grandMoore? Chalmers; two brothers, Charles Dellinger, St. Joseph, David Dellinger, Rochester. Fridends called at the Miller funeral home in Monticello.
services were at the funFinal eral home at one o'clock (CST) Tuesday. Burial was in West Point cemetery, in West Point township. James Burtis Of Logansport Succumbs James Burtis of Logansport, brother-in-law of Mrs. Lee Miller of West Harrison street, passed away there Monday, and funeral services will Wednesday at 1 o'clock at the Fisher Funeral Home. Burial will be made in the Davis cemetery at Burnettsville.
STAY ALERT-STAY ALIVE By Frank Eleazer WASHINGTON, UPI Demotalked party harmony and crats girded for intra-mural mayhem today as the 87th Congress butckled down to deal with Presidentelect John F. Kennedy's liberal A legislative Even before the 'opening gavels fell in the Senate and House at noon, Democrats were embattled. over efforts to change congressional rules to smooth the way for some of Kennedy's more controversial proposals. For the first time in years, there was a serious move in the House to, "purge" from a key committee one or more Demo members who bolted the cratic party's presidential ticket in the November election. All indications were that once the ceremony and the blood-letting were over, the House and -both firmly under Democratic control would proceed to enact a good bit of what Kennedy promised, including aid to schools, housing, and distressed areas, an increase in the miniand.
maybe next mum wage, year, medical care of the 'aged under the Social Security program. Democratic Majority Cut In the House, Democrats had 262 members to 175 on the publican side of the aisle. This was a net. Democratic loss of 21 seats from last. year.
The Senate breakdown was 65 Democrats to 35 Republicans, a net Democratic loss of one seat. As the new Congress assembled, the House scene was familiar with leaders. unchanged and no more than the usual parade of new faces. The Senate, however, was under new management. Sen.
Lyndon B. Jonhson of Texas had resigned as Democratic leader and was about to give up his seat to take over his upcoming job as vice president. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana was assuming the Democratic leadership job. Among the notable absentees in the new Senate lineup was Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, who retired at the record age 93.
Kennedy, until last month (Continued on Page 6) License Plates Go On Sale Here Today Over 1,000 automobile license plates were scheduled for sale today, the first day the 1961 numbers were placed on sale. Many numbers had been paid for and the license plates chosen for 1961, and laid away before the first bureau day office of in sale the at the court license. MG 1 went Vernon Klepinger of Brookston and MH 1 to Wilbur Wright of Idaville. They had been the lucky 1960 number winners at a recent Republican county meeting. Three Break-Ins Are Reported In Chalmers, Occurred Monday Nite Three break-ins in the town of Chalmers were investigated this morning by White County Sheriff.
Charles Miller, assisted by State Police Detective I. Dale McCurdy and State Trooper Earl Keller. All were discovered this morning when the establishments were opened for business after the New Year's weekend. At the Harlan Grain owned by Chester Harlan, employes Orland Riddle and Gene Strantz discovered that entry had been "made when they arrived for work at 7:30 a. m.
this morning. Entry had been made by prying open the front door to the office building, sometime between 3 p. m. Monday and opening hour this morning. The entire office had been ransacked and $2.00 to $3.00 was taken from a cigarette machine.
The safe combination had been dialed but intruders were unable to open the inner door of the safe. Ray Werner, employee of the White County Farm Bureau Coop Elevator in Chalmers, discovered that entry had been made when he opened the place this morning at 7:30 a. m. Robert Sterrett is manager of the elevator. Entry was made by breaking a large window on the north side of the building.
Offices, both upstairs and down had been ransacked and $25 was taken out of the cigarette and co*ke machines and $25 from petty cash, totaling $50. The place was entered sometime between 1:30 a. m. January 1, and 7:30 a. m.
this morning. The safe combination was worked and $17 removed at the Victor N. Sheek Sons Feed sometime between 1 p. m. Saturday, December 31, and 5 p.
m. Monday, January 2. The break-in was discovered by Charles Sheek, son of Victor Sheek. Entry was gained by prying open a front door. Betty Jean Hughes Is Bride, December 28 Of Gene Rockhill Announcement is made of the marriage 'on December 28, of Betty Jean Hughes of Monticello to Gene Rockhill, son' of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Rockhill of Yeoman. The ceremony took place at the Methodist Parsonage, with Rev. Phillip. Watts officiating.
Mrs. Rockhill is a teacher in the Yeoman Schools and Mr. Rockhill is a carpenter. After a short wedding trip, the couple plan to temporarily make their home in Monticello. to to a the up he.
