8 Marion, Indiana, Leader-Tribune March .15, 1963 Blast (Continued From Page One) ations until the damage is ed. Workmen had kept bystanders away from the area before the blast occurred so no injuries resulted. Mrs. Sherman Said, who lives on a farm about a quarter-mile away from the line, said the explosion sounded like a "sonic boom." She said there were "big white puffs of smoke and the fire came out in rolls." Citizens of Upland, first fearing an airplane had crashed, saw the smoke and the sound of the blowup was heard four miles away. Firemen were called to fight the grass fires, which were extinguished within an hour.
Panhandle called in from st surrounding states to help repair the ruined section of pipeline and work was begun before dark Thursday. Officials expected the line. to be functioning again by Saturday. The purpose of the test, according to a spokesman for the company, was to see if the line load to withstand, needs in Detroit. would an additional gas The company runs natural gas lines from Texas to Detroit.
COSTLY MEAT CHAMPAIGN, III. (AP) Flames destroyed a trailer and its load of meat on Interstate 74 near Champaign Thursday after a. tire blew out and started burning. Grant County Deaths John F. Hardin Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday in the Nelson Street Wesleyan Methodist Church for John E. Harden, 77, 1419 Factory Ave. The Rev. H. N.
Robinson will officiate assisted by the Rev. Donald: Ault, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, and the Rev. Milo Bowsman, pastor of the Hillside Wesleyan Methodist Church, Burial will be in Grant Memorial Park. 'Friends may call at 814 S. Adams until one hour before rites when the body will be removed to.
the church. John V. Byglin Services are pending at 2901 S. Washington for John V. Byglin, 80, 3241 S.
Overman who died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Marion General Hospital. Mr. Byglin, a native of Finland, had ill one week. He was a retired superintendent of estates and had resided in Marion 10 years.
Survivors include the widow, Ida; a son, Harry, Marion; a brother, Ovia Byglin of California, and three brothers and a sister in Finland, and a grandson, David, Fort Bliss, Texas. Bankruptcy Petitions None. Debts Secured claims $4,519.00 Assets Cash on hand 13.00 Wearing apparel 10.00 Petitions for bankruptcy have been filed in the federal district court at Fort Wayne by three Grant County residents. The information listed here is contained i in their petitions. Daniel Phillip Glover, 111 First Jonesboro; laborer at Paranite Wire Cable CREDITORS HOLDING SECURITIES Sears Interstate Roebuck Finance City; chattel mortgage on auto.
$410.82 lawn and Marion; conditional sales purchase of G. E. mower and tires. $484.75 Credit Muncie; conditional sales purchase of re-. Broyles frigerator, stove and television.
$230.20 Electric Marion; conditional sales purchase of Taylor's washing machine and record player. $195.50 of furniture. Appliance Store, Marion; conditional sales purchase $250.00 UNSECURED CLAIMS Ohio Bell Telephone Union City, Ohio; bill. 22.00 E. E.
Smith Auto Sales, Union City, Ohio. $126.00 C. E. Wright Sons, Union City, Ohio. 8.00 Decker's Marathon, Gas City.
12.50 Firestone Stores, Marion. $.17.45 Roessler-Kirk Jewelers, Marion. 9.50 Davis Clinic, Marion; bill. 50.00 Karnes Sweeper Marion. 66.00 Paranite Wire Cable Division Essex Wire Corp.
Federal Credit Union, Marion; promissory note. $692.80 Dr. Thurlow R. Jonesboro; loan. 46.00 Thomas Owens, Alexandria; bill.
10.00 Dr. Douglas Bailey, Marion; bill. $174.00 Richard Shoemaker, Gas City; bill. 7.00 Marion -General Hospital, Marion; bill. 51.47 Citizens Telephone Fairmount; bill.
76.29 Indiana Bell Telephone Marion; bill. 3.76 Ohio Power and Light Union City, Ohio; bill. 19.54 J. J. Newberry Marion; suit pending.
$318.44 Cox Ford, Gas City; suit pending. 49.89 Sears, Roebuck and Marion; suit pending. $484.75 Associates Loan Marion; note. 43.74 Eagle Collection collecting, for accounts un-. known to $260.00 Frazier's Dairy, Marion.
45.50 Debts Secured claims $1,571.27 Unsecured claims $2,594.63 $4,165.90 Assets Cash on hand 5.00 Household goods 150.00 155.00 Paul West Reynolds, R. 1, Jonesboro; construction worker with Harris Trenching Service. CREDITORS HOLDING SECURITIES Wright Finance Jonesboro, mortgage on furniture. $345.00 Milford Loan Marion loan on equipment. $500.00 UNSECURED CLAIMS Gas City Lumber Gas City; sewer tile and other material.
$667.46 Interstate Finance Gas City; note. $230.00 Twin City State Bank, Gas City; note. $189.00 Campbell, Gemmill, Browne, Torrence and Sisson, attorneys, Marion; assignee for Case Credit Corp. $322.57 W. P.
Shields, Jonesboro; back rent. $100.001 Circuit Court Clerk, Marion; judgement divorce action. $360.00 Decker's Marathon Service Station, Gas City; gas oil. 22.72 Thomas Standard Service Station, Jonesboro; gas and oil. $.61.13 Twin City State Bank, Gas City; insurance.
$348.86 Jonesboro Grain Lumber Jonesboro; material: 28.62 Lloyd Kelley, justice of the peace, Jonesboro; assignee for Miller's Phillips 66 Service Station, Jonesboro (judgement). $100.00 Medical Dental Service Bureau, Marion; assignee for Ross Supply Marion; Indiana Bell Telephone Marion; David Sewer, Marion, and Superior Sports Center, Marion. $484.90 Gardens of Memory, Marion; burial lots. $104.00 Standard Oil Indianapolis; fuel storage tank. 28.82 Hunt's Furniture Store, Fairmount; television "set.
30.00 Debts Taxes due United States 458.26 due states 353.35, Taxes due counties, districts and municipalities 144.34 Secured: claims 845.00 Unsecured claims $3,078.08 Accommodation paper 500.00 A J. $5,379.03 Assets Cash on hand 15.00 Olson DeWayne Gina, 2713 S. Washington Marion; laborer at Bell Fiber Products Corp. CREDITORS HOLDING SECURITIES Sears Roebuck and Marion; furniture purchased on' conditional sales contract now valued at $100. 257.00 Interstate Finance, Gas City; purchase of 1963 halfton pick truck now valued at $1,800.
$2,180.00 Interstate Finance, Gas City; purchase of washer and dryer now valued at $100. 470.00 North Central Finance Marion; loan secured on household goods now valued at $100. 480.00 General Finance Loan Marion; purchase of 1955 auto now valued at $75. 400.00 William R. Leach, Cincinnati, Ohio; purchase of 1955 auto now valued at $75.
400.00 Investors Finance Marion; sweeper purchased on conditional sales contract now valued at $25. 168.00 Wright Finance Jonesboro; television purchased on conditional sales contract- now valued at $25. 164.00 UNSECURED CLAIMS 2. Alleged Policy Kings Face Tax Fraud Charges Roy D. Jones, 59, Naples, died at 8 a.m.
Thursday a Miami Beach, hospital, following an illness of 10. days. former Marion resident, Mr. Jones was employed on the staff of VA Hospital as, assistant chief of the housekeeping division at the time of his retirement three years ago. He had been connected with the Veterans Administration for 35 years.
Mr. Jones was a past exalted ruler of the Marion Elks Club, and once was affiliated with the Phi. Delta Kappa Fraternity of this city. The widow, Emma; four brothers, John Orley, William and Floyd, all of Marion, and four sisters, Mrs. Roy Pulley, Marion; Miss Odella Jones; Gas City; Mrs.
Arthur Walsh, St. Charles, and Mrs. Iva Turner, Naples, are the survivors. The body taken to Pitman Funeral Home, in Naples. Roy D.
Jones Stella L. Glasco*ck UPLAND Stella L. Glasco*ck, 85, formerly of Upland, died at the home.of a daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rogers, R. 2, Dunkirk, at 1 a.m.
Thursday. She was a member of the Upland Methodist Church. Surviving besides Mrs. Rogers are three sons, Carl, Upland, Preston, Dayton Ohio, and Alvin, Huntington; two other daughters, Mrs. Delores Honeycutt, Montpelier, and Mrs.
Ellen Louck, Hartford City; two brothers, Preston Berry, Petersburg, and Marshall Berry, Flemingsburg, a sister, Mrs. Mattie Speakman, Mont-1 pelier; and 21 grandchildren and 21' great-grandchildren. The body was taken' to Jones Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Elwin Wines, pastor of Upland Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Jefferson Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Saturday. Guy Bartlett GAS CITY Funeral services for Guy M. Bartlett, 78, 200 E. S.
retired painter and paperhanger, will be held at. 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pilgrim Holiness Church. Burial will be in Grant Memorial Park. In charge of the services will be the Rev.
Walter Black. The body was taken to 400 Main St. where friends may call. Rollin Fleenor -The Rev. Lloyd Hall will be in charge of funeral services for Rollin Fleenor, 58, R.
4, Elwood, 'retired factory employe, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday the Copher-Fesler Funeral Home. Burial. will be in Knox Chapel Cemetery. Mr.
Fleenor died suddenly Wednesday at Anderson. Mrs. Clara Shane Funeral services for Mrs. Clara B. Shane, 73, R.
4, Marion, will be' held at 814 S. Adams at 2:30 p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Glen co*ckrell, pastor of the Eighth Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Vincent Cemetery in Summitville.
Council (Continued from Page One) (assessor request of Mill Township Walter Fischer for 38 for properties and for stationary also was approved. for Also approved were requests the county home totaling $500; the Arthur request Osburn of Superior Judge for $300 for special judge fees, and the request of Prosecutor Foust for witness fees of $58.40. I Just before' noon Mrs. Eva Hayde began an explanation of the requests for transfers in the welfare budget form the unused portion of an original budget of $3,480 for the salary of a visor. These include: To account No.
101, salary of director, $180; to account 102B, salary of caseworkers, $3,120, and to account No. 102C, clerical salary, $180. Mrs. Hayde's requests were denied by the council. request by Thomas Riley, auditor, for $750 for a deputy and an additional $160 for a parttime deputy was denied.
Mrs. Dale Weaver, recorder, requested $2370 for salary, for a deputy and her request also was denied. Robert Clouse, Civil Defense director, requested $3,935 for CD equipment but the council, turned down his request. Gottschalk said the council passed a motion to request each counhead submit an I ty department of all equipment on hand in his division. The reports are to be made available to the council for.
its next regular meeting Sept. Gottschalk said the purpose of the reports is. "to permit the council to know what equipment available and is being used and what condition the equipment is in." CRIPPLED PLANE SAFE COPENHAGEN (UPD) A Pan American World Airways a Boeing jetliner, bound from New York to Stockholm with 51 persons aboard, made a successful emergency landing. despite two flat tires Thursday at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport. HAMMOND, Ind.
(AP) Two alleged Lake County policy kings -one a millionaire by government calculations surrendered to federal authorities Thursday on income tax evasion charges. Fred T. Mackey, 54, of Gary posted a $5,000 bond before a U.S. commissioner here on a five-count federal indictment charging he evaded $987,000 in taxes for the years 1956-60. James A.
Peterson, 47, of East Chicago was accused of evading taxes totaling $35,000 in the same five-year A period. He posted bond of $2,000. Both men were charged in Secret indictments handed down late Wednesday by a federal grand Niccum TWO INJURED (Continued From Page One) wishes in this matter but it is not in my power to grant them." He then. sentenced Niccum to "be confined in the Indiana State for the 'remainder of his natural' life." Judge Caine said, "I will receive criticism for giving you a life sentence instead of the electric chair, but I have received criticism before." In less than three hours, the defendant was being whisked to the state prison in the company of Sheriff Ed Riggs and Deputy Harry Weller. The former cab driver said goodbye to his mother at 1:50 p.m.
and was on his way to the upstate prison. He seemed to be in fairly good spirits but still maintained he would rather have had the death penalty. When Judge Caine passed the sentence thought it meant he would never have a chance for parole, but authorities convinced him that this was not true. An official at the prison said he felt Niccum could be paroled in about 18 years. Niccum said he made his dramatic change of plea Wednesday "to spare dragging Karin Harris through all this." He said he is in love with the girl whose parents he killed.
Telling his story of the fateful day exactly one year ago, Niccum said: "I- remember Mrs. Harris and I were having an argument about my wanting Karin to go out west. I remember getting the gun out of my suitcase when Mrs. Harris started to the telephone. The next thing I know I heard a report-1 don't know whether it was a backfire or the gun--and I don't remember what happened after that." said he does vaguely remember George W.
Harris coming home, but he does not remember shooting him. Niccum forced the Harris girl to accompany him on a flight toward California, but he was captured in Winnemucca, after a nationwide alert was issued. "There seemed to be a chance: of getting off with temporary insanity, but even so I'd have had nothing to live for. I've in prison and that's not living," Niccum asserted. Niccum hinted at suicide when he.
talked to Judge Caine alter the: sentence was passed, but after he learned he may be eligible' for parole he began to speak of future possibilities. He carried with him to prison pictures his wife, Carmen, and! his year old son, Robert Allen. Niccum said she wanted to return to the U. S. with him but refused, using a pretense that she had been unfaithful to Foust called in Ted Null, sistant Marion police chief as the; first witness.
Following Null to the stand were Sheriff Riggs, prosecutor's investigator George Hickman; state police ballistics expert 'Sgt. Kenneth Houck and pathologist Dr. P. J. Thompson of Marion General Hospital.
Their testimony was to legally establish that a crime had been committed. 7 Biddinger did not cross-examine any of the witnesses. Foust also introduced 24 exhibits, including pictures of the bodlies, cartridge cases, bullets and the gun. A large crowd was present in the courthouse to view the climax of the case. All 55- courtroom seats were occupied and some persons were standing in the courtroom, with several in the hall outside.
Thus ended one of Marion's! more spectacular criminal cases in. history. One of4the last ments Niccum uttered he entered would serve as a proper epitaph for. the case: "It's all done now, but I'll; never forget the trouble it has. caused." Two persons were treated Thursday in" Marion General: Hospital emergency room minor injuries and released.
Sheri15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles. Sheridan, 1417. W.
10th injured his right elbow at Marion High School north campus: Milton Kling, 8, son of and Mrs. Milford Milton, Royal lacerated his right upper eyelid. NO; PLACE FOR WOMEN NEW YORK, (UPI). Astronaut Walter Schirra said Thursday there is no place in space for women, at least cat present. Schirra, interviewed on a children's television program, admitted he was touching on a subject" and added with chivalry that "we will include one (woman) some day in plans for space flights." jury meeting in South Bend.
The indictments were kept secret until both men surrendered: Thursday afternoon. The government charged Mackley, alleged numbers racket boss of Gary, had income of $1.4 million: over the five years but reported only $195,000 and paid taxes of $50,000. Federal tax lawyers said he. still owes $988,000. The charges against Peterson, reputedly an East Chicago numberts racketeers, were small by comparison.
His income, the government said, was $172,000 in the period. Records show he reported income of $90,779 and paid taxes of $24,114. Internal Revenue Service tax lawyers Justin Rockwell and Charles McNellis, both of ington, handled the government's case in the three-day grand jury session. Mackey and Peterson, both dapper, well groomed Negroes, appeared with their lawyers at the U.S. marshal's office here.
Peterson denied he runs a policy operation. Mackey allegedly bosses the "Black Gold-Tor a do" policy' wheel. Mackey. is generally acknowledged as the successor to Hutchin Upshaw of Gary, who ran the numbers racket until his 1961 conviction for income tax evasion. Edward Stroh of Chicago represented Mackey and Joseph Solon of Chicago represented Peterson.
Both lawyers are former Internal Revenue Service tax lawyers and both, represented recently convicted Lake County political figures at their tax trials. Witnesses at the closed jury session Hammond included and Ralph Frank Colins of Smith Crown Point, accountants linked with the same Lake County politicians. Also called by the government were Fannye Benford- of Gary, Mackey's sister who once played la leading role in Lake County Republican politics; and his brothers, Bruce and William Mackey, both of Gary. Mackey and Peterson will be arraigned next Thursday before Federal Judge George M. Beamer in Hammond.
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