Remarkable Delphian talents and town notes light up Delphi
The column highlights Marjorie Deardorff a 16 year old singer who can sing nine notes above high C and draws Ripley magazine attention. It also tells of Dr. A C Clauser's bulldog Peggy returning home after a long search. Pfc Margaret Rusk Delphi is commended for her wartime unit work in France. Globe Valve faces potential relocation if Delphi fails to secure building authorization. Local attendees report at the Chicago Music Festival and the match lit ceremony before Soldiers Field's 90,000 spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Deardorff
Pittsburg
Deardorff
Ripley
Chicago
Marjorie
Jenny Lind
Kuni G. Corwin
A. C. Clauser
Delphi
Lafayette
Peggy
U. S. Army
Pfc
Margaret Rusk
Rusk
France
Globe Valve
Globe
Ida and
Emma Frushour
Mary Clawson
Soldiers Field
Man Arrested on Public Indecency Charge
Lloyd Clifton a 33 year old resident of N Washington street near Pittsburg was arrested Wednesday evening by local officers and jailed on a public indecency charge He will be arraigned in the justice of peace court of Rosie Dern today Clifton moved here from Brookston with wife and five children and works for Stuntz Yeoman Construction at the quarry near Pittsburg Local officers had been seeking him after a window peeper report Tuesday night and he admitted the incident while denying prior attempts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Clifton
N. Washington Street
Pittsburg
Justice of Peace Court
Rossie L. Dern
Watson McCormick
Loren Ayres
Pauline Moore
Lewis Nunnally
Clifton
Delphi Hosts Rotarians From Nine Cities August 30
Delphi Rotary club hosts Rotarians from nine Indiana cities for district meeting on Wednesday evening August 30. Dinner at 7 in the Presbyterian church dining room. Speakers include Arthur Raabe Warsaw Howard Moody Valparaiso and Paul Chalfant Peru. Led by Galen Frye Michigan City. Part of a five session state tour on Rotary international service. Attending towns: North Manchester Peru Wabash Logansport South Bend Plymouth Warsaw Elkhart Goshen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi Rotary Club
Indiana
Presbyterian Church
Arthur Raabe
Warsaw
Howard Moody
Valparaiso
Paul Chalfant
Peru
Galen Frye
Michigan City
Rotary
North Manchester
Wabash
Logansport
South Bend
Plymouth
Warsaw Elkhart
Goshen
Placings at Annual 4-H Club Fair Listed
Hundreds of Carroll county youths exhibited livestock foods canning and home economics projects at Flora over the weekend. Rob ert Van Slyke announced group placings with groups A through D listing many participants from Monroe Deer Creek Jefferson Madison and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Flora
Robert van Slyke
Jane Bronson
Burlington
Linda Dyson
Monroe
Sue Ann Landis
Opal Gingrich
Madison
Mary Imis
Jefferson
Joy Calvert
Lily Johnson
Wilma Thompson
Magdalene O’farrell
Rita Banes
Lois Gates
Adams
Betty Sylvester
Liberty
Helen Kammer
Clay
Sharon Bansum
Carolyn Coble
Deer Creek
Mary Kemmer
Donna Timmons
Ruth Davis
Rosemary Cowger
Donna Brubaker
Nadine Austin
Rita Dietz
Washington
Doris Fife
Joan Ray
Gertrude Johns
Shirley Shoff
Carolyn Mann
Patricia Hobensack
Nancy Hay
Mary Pritts
Rebecca Quinn
Ruthann Gangner
Democrat
Joy Redman
Jane Bush
Ellen Clawson
Lucille Gross
Tippecanoe
Margaret Plank
Missing in Yugoslavia Safer Now Says Airman Baum
Staff Sergeant Robert E. Baum 21 a B 17 armorer gunner with the 15th U S Army Air Force in Italy reports to his parents he is safe after bailing out on July 9 during a mission over Yugoslavia He is due to complete 50 missions before a furlough Baum is a Delphi High School 1942 graduate and trained at Miami Beach Buckley Kingman MacDill Lowery Field and more He and fellow Delphi youth James R Clifford 21 were part of the June shuttle mission to Russia from the 15th Air Force
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Baum
Yugoslavia
Air Force Base
Italy
Robert Baum
Delphi
Delphi High School
Baum
RAF
Miami Beach
Fla
Buckley Field
Colo
Armorer’s School
Kingman
Ariz
MacDillfield
Tampa
Lowery Field
Denver
Arizona
James R. Clifford
15Th American Air Force
Russia
Purdue Honors 245 Students as Distinguished for Scholastic Excellence
Dick Balser of Delphi among 245 Purdue students named Distinguished Student for the term ending late June. The honor requires a 5.00 index or higher, about a 90 average, and carries a $30 tuition remission for the following term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
School of Agriculture
Purdue University
Pres
Myers seeks separation and child support in Carroll suit
Mary Jane Myers files for separation from bed and board from Clyde E. Myers in Carroll circuit court. They married July 26 1934 and separated February 20 1944. She asks 35 dollars weekly support for five children aged four weeks to eight years. Attorney Joseph T Ives represents the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Myers
Carroll Circuit
Clyde E. Myers
Joseph T. Ives
Semi Truck Struck By Train Near Flora
A 41 International semi truck driven by Irwin Bernard James of Athens Ohio was struck by the Pennsylvania train about a mile north of Flora. The load of tires was a total loss but the driver was uninjured. Investigating officers were J Ray Miller Bill Sayler state police and deputy sheriff Pauline Moore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin Bernard James
Columbia Street
Athens
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Flora
C. C. Chute
Logan
City Creates New Park Department to Boost Funds
Delphi forms its first Park Department by city council act to increase funds for Deer Creek and city parks. Former park board members remain, including Mayor Charles A. Wood and Dr. Walter Godhenour, as council plans expanded recreational facilities and a supervised Deer Creek playground program in summer 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Parks
Delphi
Deer Creek
Wood
Deer Creek Park
Memorial services for Edgar Ainslie Jr held at Delphi Baptist
Memorial services were held Sunday evening at 7:30 at Delphi Baptist Church for Edgar Ainslie Jr son of Rev and Mrs Edgar Ainslie of Lafayette. His son was killed in action on April 11 in New Guinea. Rev Earl Lashley from Chicago preached. Six stars were added to the service flag bringing total to 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi Baptist Church
Edgar Ainslie, Jr
Edgar Ainslie
Lafayette
Ainslie
Delphi Church
New Guinea
Earl Lashley
Chicago
Peru Man Arrested for Drunken Driving
Darrell Sidden of Peru was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Sanford Allen on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was arraigned and fined 25 dollars plus costs 34.50, license suspended 90 days, and assessed damages to the Allen car after backing into it. Sidden, manager of Sidden Auto Parts, was held in Carroll county jail after the incident near Delphi. Also reported, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Flora bought property on South Division street in Flora previously owned by the Henry Eikenberry heirs, now occupied by W. H. Edmonson and son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darrell Sidden
Peru
Sanford Allen
Rossie Dern
Sidden
Allen
the Lakes
Delphi
Sidden Auto Parts Company
Carroll County
Emmett Flora
Camden
South Division Street
Flora
Henry Eikenberry
W. H. Edmonson
County City School Book Lists For 44 45 Announced
Complete grade by grade lists of required books for Carroll county and Delphi Deer Creek Township schools are released by Lee L Eve and Harry Hatton. Prices for the 44 45 year are shown and sales begin next week at Goff store in Delphi per Lavern Goff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Delphi-Deer Creek Township
Lee L. Eve
Harry Hatton
Goff
Delphi
Lavern Goff
First Grade 1944 45 Book List and Supplies It Includes
A scanned list shows first grade reading readiness titles from Scott Foresman and other publishers. It names primers, reading books, and materials such as yellow tablets color Crayolas Eagle pencils scissors and similar supplies. The document also references Our New Friend Book I and Think and Do For Primer 1 along with second grade items Round About You Book II and related workbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Am. Ed
Scott, For. Co
Jane
Meott
Worloi
Silver Burdett Co
Columbia Press Inc
McCormick Musher
Adnan
Lyons &Tarn
County Schools Open Sept 4 Name Teachers
Pvt. Charles Hildebrandt of Delphi reports from a hospital in England that his leg wound from the Normandy invasion is not serious. He is a Delphi High School class of 1943 graduate and has served since last November after being sent overseas in May 1944 from Fort Meade Maryland. County schools will open September 4 and teachers are named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hildebrandt
Earl Hildebrandt
Delphi
Normandy
Hildebrandts
England
Hildebrandt
Delphi High School
Vember
Fort Meade, Md
Youth Pleads Guilty To Petit Larceny Charge
Bill Little, 19, of Delphi route 4, pleaded guilty in Carroll circuit court to petit larceny for stealing 20 gallons of gasoline from Howard Ginn near Pittsburg on July 23. He was sentenced to 60 days at the penal farm with sentence suspended, fined 50 dollars plus costs, and had his driver's license suspended for one year. He was ordered to make restitution to Ginn. Police arrested him after a night watchman heard youths recount the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Little
Glen W. Little
Delphi
Carroll
William B. Smith
Little
Howard Ginn
Pittsburg
Mr. Ginn
Lewis Nunnally
Captain Lucas Heads Station Dental Officer At P47 Training
Capt Luther C Lucas, Delphi, is station dental officer at an eighth RAF composite station in England. A 1927 Indiana University School of Dentistry graduate, he enlisted in the U S Army Dental Corps in 1943 and rose to captain. He oversees dental health for fighter pilots during training before they join operational units. Mrs Lucas and their seven year old son Ronald Gene live in Delphi while he serves overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Luther C. Luatcas
Delphi
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Bloomington
Ind
U. S. Dental Corps
Indiana National Guard
113Th Medical Regiment
Lucas
U. S. Army Dental Corps
Sgt Dick Clifford completes 50th mission in Shadrac
Sgt Dick Clifford waist gunner on the B17 Shadrac completes his 50th mission over enemy territory and expects to return home soon. In a letter to his parents he notes August 13 as the date of the milestone and mentions earning the Air Medal. His brothers, Ensign Jack Clifford and Maurice Clifford, also serve in the Navy and Marines respectively in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Clifford
Sgt. Clifford
Jack Clifford
U. S. Naval Air Corps
Navy
Pacific
Maurice Clifford
U. S. Marine Corps
South Pacific
Red Cross Special Meeting Notice
A special meeting of the Red Cross committee is set for Monday at 2 30 p m in the Red Cross room of the Carroll County Court House Del.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Committee
Red Cross
Carroll County Court House
Del
Carroll County Sets September School Opening and 76th Teachers Institute
Carroll County schools begin September 1 with Harry Hatton announcing 102 contracted teachers for the year and the 76th county teachers institute on August 30 in the county courthouse. Principal training by J Fred Hull anchors a 10 am session followed by a 1 pm general meeting. enrollment is 1.50 and teachers will be paid for institute attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Harry Hatton
County Teachers’ Institute
J. Fred Hull
Hatton
Adams Township
Frank Hoehne
Prin
Sec. St
P. E
Margaret Tobias
Eng
H. Ec
Gwyneth Webster
Evelyn Helder
Clara Hoehne
Laura Temple
Burlington
Charles E. Marshall
Sci
Hiram J. Eastman
V. Agr
Raynes Wyatt
Frank Heed
Lee, Sr
Owasco
J. J. Hufford
Onpha Hufford
Liberty Township
Burrows
Jesse McCain
Dorotha Maggart
Alice Barnsdale
Adaline Waller
Art. Cutler
J. Garl Minniear
Arthur Kingery
Commerce
Harvey G. Lee
Soc. St
Agr
Adeline Lee
Elizabeth Snyder
Legion Auxiliary Second in State for Rehabilitation Work
Harry Bohannon Unit No. 75 of the American Legion Auxiliary in Delphi earned state second place in rehabilitation work at the Indianapolis department convention. The award reflected their blood donor mobile unit efforts with the Carroll county Red Cross, and Blanche Balser was praised for leading the effort. The Auxiliary and Post cooperative picnic is set for Tuesday evening August 29 at the Davidson camp on Lake Freeman with Eva Davidson Lillian Thompson and Mabel Fraser on the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bohannon
American Legion Auxiliary of
Delphi
Department
Indianapolis
Carroll County
The
American Red
Blanche Balser
Davidson Camp
Lake Freeman
Eva Davidson
Lillian Thompson
Mabel Fraser
Democratic precinct vice-chairmen meet in Flora August 28
A meeting of Democratic precinct vice-chairmen will be held Monday afternoon August 28 at 2 p m at the home of Mrs. Mildred Brim in Flora. Speakers include Mrs. Margaret Afflis Delphi second district vice-chairman and Mrs. Edna Bingham Indianapolis state vice chairman. All precinct vice-chairmen are urged to attend with a cordial invitation to the public. Mrs. Bert Pullen and infant son Carol B have been moved from Clinton County Hospital Frankfort to their home in Cutler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Brim
Flora
Margaret Afflis
Delphi
Edna Bingham
Indianapolis
Bert Pullen
Carol B
Clinton County Hospital
Frankfort
Cutler
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Charles O. Thrasher
Globe Valve Corporation
Brookston
Stuntz-Yeoman Construction Company
Annette Hinkle
Kay Black
Jean Bowman
Joy Metzger
Shirley Metzger
Sue van Meter
Ben Shedron
Jo Ann Rockhill
Shirley J. Jones
Joyce Norris
Marjorie Norris
Mary Rockhill
Gloria Zeimer
Jackson
Sgt. Baum
United States
Merlin Schwein
Delphi Methodist Church
Sgt
Dick Balser
E. C. Elliott
C. A. Wood
Baptist Service
English
L. C. Lucas
Thunderbolt” Pilots
Bolt
Laneas
John Hanna
Robert Hanna
Mich
Roger Hanna
Dick Clifford
Court House
Gram
Legion Auxiliary
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