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Ten Cents A Copy Volume Four Number 286

Greencastle, Indiana, Saturday, Decembers, 1973

Rep. Against Different Speed Limits

Vehicles Equal: Thomas

“I believe all vehicles authority should be given to should have the same speed the governor to temporarily limits. I don’t think cars drop the limit so it could be should move at 50 miles per rescinded if and when the hour and trucks at 55. I’m not emergency ends. If the laws in favor of changing laws, were changed, nothing could though. I believe the power of be done again until the next

Who’s News William V. Meehan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Meehan, 41 1 East Seminary, Greencastle, recently enlisted in the U. S. Navy’s Cache Program. William a graduate of Greencastle High School, will report for recruit training in January, to Naval Training Command, Orlando, Fla. After 9 weeks recruit training and a 2 week leave at home, he will be assigned to the school of his choice, for training in Electronics. Thersa Danforth, a Vincennes University freshman from Reelsville, is a member of the stage crew : in the University Music Theatre’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof’ playing in the Shircliff Center Theatre December 6 through 9. Playing the lead role of Tevye is Professor Charles Beall, director of VU Music Theatre.- He is ably assisted by Miss Andrea McCall, the reigning Miss VU, of Plainville as Golde. Miss McCall is a senior student in Associate Degree Nursing. Other professional personnel are Professors Richard Ertel, chairman of the Music Department; Gary Dempsey, director of VU Bands. Robert Cagel, director of VU Theatre and Summer Theatre, and Mrs. Deborah Dodson, choreographer. Bryan Chadd, 17, a senior at South Putnam High School, has returned from National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. Bryan was one of 47 Indiana delegates attending the 4-H Congress, and one of 2 representatives in the National Achievement contest. While attending the Congress, Bryan and the other 1600 delegates watched performances by the Chicago Ballet, the New Virginians, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. Celebrities met by the many youths included Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, Colonel Harlan Sanders, and Miss Becky King. 1973 Miss America. The group was also kept busy w ith tours, dances, rap sessions, and banquets during the 7 dav Congress. The delegates included winners from all 50 states and guests from Puerto Rico andCanada.To be a winner, each contestant must compile a book of his or her 4-H project achievements and submit it to the State 4-H Office at Lafayette, Indiana. A panel of State 4-H Leaders and Countv Extension Youth Agents review the books and select the winners in each of the National and State sponsored 4-H projects. John Jackson of 8 Kentwood Drive, Greencastle is one of 87 resident assistants named by Indiana State University to serve on the Student Affairs staff for the 1973-74 school year. Resident assistants serve in 11 of 14 residence halls currently in operation on the ISU campus. Of 11.596 students Please turn to page 2, col. 4

legislature met,” said State Representative John Thomas in his presentation to one of two government classes at South Putnam High School Friday morning. “Regarding the possibility of daylight saving time being legislated for the entire nation, I believe it is the overwhelming opinion of the people I represent that we in Indiana should request an exemption,” Thomas stated. He explained to the students some of the bills he has filed in this legislature. The first he named was one which would clarify support payments--to or for whom and for how long. Thomas also said he has filed a bill to enable the campus police at private colleges and universities to exercise the same powers as do campus police at state colleges and universities. He also explained two bills

he has filed regarding the equality of sex law. One would lower the age for males to marry without parental consent to 18 and the other would allow the civil rights commission to investigate cases of discrimination based on sex. Regarding Watergate, Thomas had this to say: “I am very disappointed that people in high places did get involved in such a thing as this. There was no cause for anyone to get involved. I am confident, however, that this was not the first time such a thing has happened. One of the greatest fallacies was the attempted cover-up’.” Thomas spent the remainder of the time explaining the age of majority laws which have been changed. He said that the legislature amended over 300 this year which became effective August 2.

Ex-Nixon Advisor

Speaks At DePauw

Several hundred students, faculty members and interested Greencastle residents gathered at Gobin Methodist Church Friday at 11 a.m. to hear Clark R. Mollenhoff, the Washington Bureau Chief of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. “Yesterday’s swearing in of Gerald Ford as vice president represents an entirely new era- - an era of peril for Richard Nixon,” opined Mollenhoff, a former special counsel to Nixon. “Up to this time there had been no acceptable alternative to Nixon...It is my prediction that there will be an impeachment in the House in January or early February, and immediately after, Nixon will become ill and decide not to face the Senate,” he said. “It would take a miracle for Nixon to survive; I don’t think he’s going to do it,” he added. Mollenhoff named inexperience as the number one reason for the present troubles of Nixon’s aides and noted that “the burden of proof is on the President now to clearly establish that he was duped for nine months by John Dean, and that the overt acts he has admitted that carried the conspiracy to obstruct justice forward were

acts of innocence even though he was the major beneficiary of the conspiracy to cover-up the deep involvement of the Nixon re-election committee and the White House in the Watergate affair.” “If Mr. Nixon were an ordinary citizen or a government official other than president,” he continued, “he would be indictable on the basis of overwhelming admissible evidence. Some of his own public statements . would provide the evidence for a most grueling cross examination on his claims that he has been trying to get ‘the truth’ out since midMarch.” Mollenhoff noted that “There has been no formal White House reaction to Egil (Bud) Krogh’s plea of guilty to a federal felony involving the burglary of the office of Dr. Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. However, Krogh’s decision to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors is the worst jolt President Nixon and his lawyers have had since last April when they learned John W. Dean was talking to federal prosecutors.” Please turn to page 2, col. 3 Sinclair

“The only one who is not clearly woven into the Watergate picture is Richard Nixon,’’ said Clark R. Mollenhoff, a 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner and current Washington bureau chief for the Des Moines Register and Tribune at the Friday morning convocation in Gobin

Methodist Church. “He denies guilty knowledge, but he admits all of the facts.” Several hundred people turned out to hear the humorous and witty former special counsel to President Nixon. (Banner-Graphic Photo)

Producers President Jerry Sinclair of Cloverdale was elected president of the Putnam County Pork Producers Association which was organized Thursday at a meeting held in the Farm Bureau Insurance building. Other officers of the new organization are: Larry Pickens, Jefferson Township; Vice-President; and Larry Gottschalk, Swine Herdsman for Stark & Wetzel, Secre-tary-Treasurer. Eighteen swine breeders attended the initial session where plans were made for a membership drive. Associate memberships are available to those who are not actively engaged in swine raising. The purpose of the organization is to promote the use of pork through educational programs. Costs will be met through dues governed by the size of the breeders operations. The new swine organizaPlease turn to page 2, col. 3

John Thomas, Representative in the Indiana legislature five bills he is filing, dealing with equality of the sexes, for Putnam, Clay and a portion of Owen counties, spoke on support payments, and private colleges. He also discussed several current issues to two government classes at South the age of majority laws with the students. Putnam High School Friday morning. He explained four of (Banner-Graphic Photo)

Teachers To Bargain

A statement will be presented to the Greencastle School Board next week which will read as follows: To the Board of School Trustees of the Greencastle Community Schools and the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board: “As President of the Greencastle Classroom Association, I hereby certify that the majority of the certificated staff employed in this school corporation desire

to be represented in negotiations by our local association.” The statement is signed byThomas Lee, President of the Greencastle Teachers Association, and Notarized by local Notary Public Judy Cross. The main idea behind the statement is to get the local administrators and the school board to recognize the Greencastle Teachers Association as the sole bargaining agent

for local teachers in salarynegotiations, according to Lee. This early groundwork for negotiations will begin being laid this next week, Lee said, and actual negotiations will begin shortly after the first ofthe new year. Asked for the administra-^ live view on the teachers upcoming action. Superintendent Frank Ross said, “I really have little to say since nothing has been decided yet, except that we’re ready for

negotiations to start.” What will “start” after January 1 will presumably be Please turn to page 2, col. 4 Tonights Gomes County Basketball Tonight's Games Greencastle at Terre Hautt Schulte South Putnam at Danville North Montgomery at North Putnam Cloverdale at Avon

Cattle Breeders From Eight Counties Meet Here For Cow-Calf Days

Cattle breeders from an eight-county area of Western Indiana met yesterday in Greencastle’s Putnam Inn and participated in a Hoosier Cow-Calf Days program sponsored by the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service. Coordinating the farm event was Merrill Jacks, Vermillion County Extension Agent, who was assisted in local arrangements by Paul Jackson, Putnam County Extension Agent. Counties represented at yesterday’s meeting were Vigo, Sullivan, Greene, Clay, Vermillion, Putnam, Parke

and Monroe. In previous years, Cow-Calf Day programs have been held annually at Purdue. This year the meetings have been held in four area centers. First speaker of the morning was D. C. Petritz of the Agricultural Economics department of Purdue, whose topic was “Get More Dollars Out of Your Cow Herd.” L. A. Nelson from the Purdue Animal Sciences department of Purdue spoke on the subject, V ‘A Good Bull is Worth More Than You Think.” “Ways to Use Your Forages” was the subject discussed by V. L. Lechtenberg of Pur-

due’s Agronomy Department and W. H. Smith of the Animal Science departments. W. L. Singleton, another member of the Purdue Animal Science department, Evangelist Here Monday Evangelist Jack Reiss from Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be speaking Dec. 10 through 16 at the Hanna Street Baptist Church, 501 E. Hanna St., at 7 p.m. Brother Reiss and his wife are graduates of the Tennessee Temple Schools and are members of the Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga. Evangelist Reiss came to Christ while hitchhiking home from high school through a personal testimony of a lady. This caused quite a change in his life, since Brother Jack was reared in a Jewish home and received religious instructions in a Synagogue. He had been searching for true peace and happiness which he now had found in the Lord Jesus. Since 1966 he has been used as an Evangelist, winning people to Christ and building Christians in their faith. His sponsors for the week truly feel that Brother Reiss has something to say to this Please turn to page 2, col. 3

opened the afternoon session with a talk on “Shorten Yor Calving Season.’’This was followed by a discussion on herd health problems, conducted by local veterinarians. A panel discussion closed the Cow-Calf Days presentation. Exhibits on breeding, feeding, handling equipment and health products were featured. Bainbridge Board Fills Opening The Town Board of Bainbridge met in regular session Tuesday Dec. 4. Action was taken to fill the vacancy on the Utility Board by the expiration of the term of Jewell Blue. Regret was expressed the Mr. Blue did not feel that he could serve another term. Dwayne Ross was chosen to serve on this Board which manages the service of Electricity, Gas and Water for the community. Discussion of the problem of reaching the Town Marshal while he is on patrol. It was suggested that emergency calls to the Sheriff of Putnam County or to Greencastle Police could be relayed by radio to the Marshal in his car. Since the first Tuesday of January is Jan.I, the Board decided to hold their January meeting on Wed. Jan. 2 at 7:00p.m.

Retha’s Room, featuring terrariums, driftwood, candles, pottery, and other assorted items, opens today at 811 South Locust. The room, run by Retha Brouhard, will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays. (Banner-Graphic Photo)