The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 December 1967 — Page 12

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Pag* 12

Tha Dally Bannar, Graaneastla, Indiana

Monday, Deeambar It, 1967

Try and Stop Me

By BENNETT CERF-

A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL quoted an oceanographer’s estiJA- mate that if the earth was entirely flattened, the sea would be two miles deep over the entire oiohe’s surface* The paragraph caught the eye of an Oklahoma editor who reprinted it in his daily with this addition: “If any varmint is caught flattening the earth, turn him over to the sheriff at once. A whole lot of us fellers here in Oklahoma can’t swim!”

The mother of a family of twelve in Santa Clara dresses all the kids alike. “When we had only four,” she explains, “I dressed ,i -'a them alike so we wouldn’t lose any. Now that we have twelve, I dress them alike so we won’t pick up any that don't belong to us.” • » • PUNSTERS ON PARADE: 1. A publisher who had lost his shirt sponsoring a succession of far-out novels complained, “I’m suffering heavily from new* writers.” 2. The late Dorothy Parker put her finger on one thing wrong with French literature when she remarked, “The Poet Verlaine’s trouble was that he was always chasing Rimbauds.” 3. The great naturalist Luther Burbank’s success came as no surprise to his early teachers. They all predicted he would sack seed. 4. The old lady in the shoe had no trouble keeping her numerous kids in line. She knew which side her brood should be battered on.

Marry now, pay later

TOKYO UPI—Getting married in Japan can be and often is a curious blend of the old and the new. It is not uncommon for parents to set up “arranged marriages” which the bride and groom pay for on the installment plan. Iwao Ozaki, 27, was a carefree bachelor the day he spotted a newspaper advertisement which said: “Marry now, pay later.” That was before his parents had selected his bride, Yoko Honda, a 24-year-old clerk. “The girl my parents selected was all right with me,” said j Iwao, who also is a clerk. Yoko liked the selection too. Although they come from the same perfecture, they had never met until last summer. They planned to marry Nov. 21.

They met in the home of relatives who arranged the marriage. Government sources indicate that of the 1 million marriages in Japan every year at least a third are arranged by parents with the help of go-betweens. Young men are considered marriageable at 25 to 30, women at 20 to 25. When they are ready they ask friends or relatives to find them a prospective mate. The go-betweens do the hunting with the help of photographs, vital statistics and other information. They almost ahvays are non-profes-sionals. They arrange meetings in homes, restaurants or theaters. Final approval of the candidates for marriage is up to the parents.

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By EDWARD J. SHIELDS By United Preis International ! Greece’s military rulers in , Athens and King Constantine in Rome today wrestled over terms , for his return to the throne. In Athens, reliable sources said the military junta Constantine failed to overthrow in a 19hour coup attempt Wednesday j was insisting the king must leave his mother, ex-Queen Frederik, in Rome if he comes back. In Rome, reliable sources said the monarch was insisting Col. George Papadopoulous, mastermind of the junta that seized power April 21 and defeated the king’s ouster move last week, quit as prime minister. The debate appeared deadlocked. Sources in Athens said Constantine, 27, today would be off in permanent exile except for diplomatic pressure by the United States and Britain. The two Western nations, Greece’s partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), were reported anxious to end the crisis in the alliance’s Mediterranean anchor. Prince Henry of Hesse, cousin and Roman host to Constantine, told newsmen Sunday night he did not know if the Greek king would return to the kingdom he

left Thursday in hurried flight. “I wish I knew. If my cousin knew, he would tell you himself but he doesn’t know.” Constantine had made no public statement on his plans since he arrived Thursday in Rome with his wife and two children and his mother, Frederika, a devout monarchist. Sources in Rome said the proud monarch would not accept his mother’s banishment as the price of his return. It would add too much to the humiliation of his failure Wednesday to raise the country against the colonels who took power in the April 21 coup, they said. In Athens, Papadopoulous showed not the slightest sign of bowing out because of demands made by a king whose actions the colonel-premier’s aides have called “stupid.”

Iwao is optimistic about the future. "Yoko is jolly,” he said. “I’m quiet. Different characteristics make a good married life.” He said they will live in a single six-by-12-foot room. “We know it’s too small so we’ll be looking for a larger place early next year,” he said. “We just had no time for careful preparation for everything,” Yoko nodded in agreement. Yoko said her family will buy the furniture, a common practice in an arranged marriage. Iwao, a college graduate, makes $2,000 a year. Yoko makes about half that much. She will continue to work. The rent for that little room is $20 a month. ! Iwao said he could borrow j $500 from the loan company to ' get married but he won't borrow that much. “The loan company charges ; 9 per cent annual interest,” he I said. About $200 of the borrowed | money will go for the wedding ‘ itself. The couple’s parents will pay for a four-day honeymoon on a peninsula near Tokyo. The company that loaned : Iwao the money is Japan Wed- ! ding Center, started by Yutaka Saito last year. “I’m mighty happy that over 200 couples have used our service and are now married,” Saito said. “I got the idea from America. In America you can borrow money for anything — a car, land, a house, even for a funeral.” Saito said 70 to 80 per cent of his clients have no prospective mates when they come to him but expect to find one after they get the money.

Death toll could reach 80 in West Virginia bridge disaster

POINT PLEASANT, W. Va. UPI—Divers and cranemen today scoured the depths of the Ohio River in search for more victims of the collapse of the “silver bridge.” Experts sought the cause of one of West Virginia’s worst disasters. Four cranes equipped with steel claws designed to lift 200 tons dipped into the murky waters. The cranes Sunday dredged up four cars and a tractor-trailer, the first vehicles the river yielded since the 100-foot-high, 1,750-foot-long suspension bridge collapsed at dusk Friday under heavy commuter and Christmas shopper traffic. Workers who used the bridge daily to get to their jobs took detours today. Sixteen bodies have been recovered. eight of them Sunday, and the three early today. The first five victims were recovered within hours of the catastrophe. State Police Sgt. H. E. Parks said another 40 were unaccounted for. State Police Comcissioner T. A. Welty said the eventual death toll could exceed 80. Said Paul Crabtree, executive

assistant to West Virginia Gov. Hulett Smith: “Frankly we do not know the cause of the colcollapse. But we are working on it. “We may never know. But at this time it appears that the slippage started on the Ohio side of the bridge.” Lee Statler, a deep sea diver and underwater demolition expert from Nashville, Tenn., called the twisted wreckage the worst he has seen in 15 years. “This is the worst I’ve ever got into.” he said. “The water’s cold and rough. She’s real swift. The bridge at the river bottom is totally a mess—steel, cables, concrete, and the current is terrific. The six-knot current had made the cranes inoperable Saturday, but the Army Corps of Engineers closed locks at 10 dams in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to cut the current rate in half. Three derrick boats were spaced across the river at the site of the bridge and the fourth was a little further downstream. S o n a r-equipped boats criss-crossed the river in efforts to find wreckage. An-

other derrick was due here today. The river at the scene of the recovery operation was 57 feet deep, two feet over normal pool stage. About 57 vehicles—40 cars and 17 trucks—were sighted in the mass of twisted wreckage. Governor Smith has asked President Johnson for whatever federal aid available to ease the disaster's impact on the area.

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