Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 262, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1975 — Page 4

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THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNER-GRAPHIC, MONDAY, JANUARY 6,1975

Putnam patter Andrew and Macie Toney: married 66 years Jan . 7

Two isolated news bits in the personal column of a Greencastle paper announced the prelude to a marriage that will be observed on its 66th anniversary tomorrow. Few readers of that Jan. 7, 1909 paper gave more than passing notice to items which read: “Andrew Toney is spending the day in Terre Haute," and “Miss Made Alexander - is visiting friends in Terre Haute." What the paper didn’t say or know tells the story of the well known Putnam county couple, whose length of marriage certainly sets a record for these parts. Andrew and Macie did go to Terre

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Letter to the editor Drive road for thrill

To the editor: Sunday night we were returning home from Indy on Highway 36 in the rain. Have any of you tried to find your way home on any of our state roads this winter? Especially on a rainy or foggy night and wondered where the white lines were that used to be painted on our roads. I’ve been wondering what our State Highway Department was doing when they should have been doing this painting and now I know. They were busy oiling and sanding Highway 43 north of Greencastle. If you want the thrill of your life, try driving on

Today in history

Today is Monday, January sixth, the sixth day of 1975. There are 359 days left in the year. Todays highlight in history: in 1412, the French national heroine, Joan of Arc, was born. On this date— In 1540, King Henry the Eighth of England married his fourth Wife, Anne of Cleves.

Ford Analysis of Ford manner , administration

(C) 1974 New York Times News News Service VAIL, COLO.-Toward the end of last week White House aides began to cringe everytime they saw President Ford on television, which was often, skiing down the slopes or walking through the snow for another party with wealthy vacationers. The reaction was understandable. While much of the nation worried about the recession and inflation, the President was seen day after day on television getting away from it all at an expensive resort that only a small percentage of Americans could afford in the best of times. The fact that Ford worked as well as played during the week he has been here did not stem the concern of some of his assistants because the television media, tuned to the picture story, preferred the outdoor shot with the President in colorful ski clothes in an alpine setting at Christmas time. Whatever the public image of Ford at Vail, this holiday, the first Ford has taken since he became President in Aug. has shown that he was not altered his lifestylehe’s doing what he did in past years at Vail-but is caught up in the institutionalized ways of an office that has undergone enormous stress in recent

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Haute On the date mentioned-but they didn’t stop there. Their ultimate destination was Paris, 111. where they were pronounced man and wife. By careful planning and by keeping even their closest friends in the dark, the newlyweds avoided a shivaree gang that could on occasions get rough and was always noisy. The bridegroom of 66 years ago admits he probably deserved such a reception because he had helped give other couples a rousing welcome. As he now recalls it, the license cost three dollars which made quite a dent in his finances. Part of the immediate wedding expense had been incurred

this road in bad weather and see how well oil and water mix on a highway, also if you take this drive, look carefully and try to find any trace of any white lines anywhere on the road. Bet you won’t find any. Of course the department did take time to put up road construction signs. They aren’t doing any construction on the road but maybe it will keep them from having to pay any lawsuits from the accidents that are going to happen on this road. H.C. Greencastle

In 1759, George Washington was married to the Widow, Martha Dandridge Custis. In 1838, Samuel F.B. Morse made the first public demonstration of his telegraph, at Morristowh, New Jersey. In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state. In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died at his Oyster Bay, New York home.

years. His performance here has also provided some insights into how he makes decisions. As an executive and as a man, Ford offers a sharp contrast to his two immediate predecessors, but some of his friends and supporters believe he is paying for their excesses. When Ford works, he works and when he plays he plays and at Vail he has gotten in a good measure of both, an attitude that students of government have described as healthy for a President. There is no brooding into the night, as Lyndon Johnson used to do during the Vietnam War, never retiring until the American pilots were back from their bombing missions, but never changing his policy. There is none of the sullen seclusion of Richard Nixon at his vacation homes. James David Barber, The Duke University political scientist, wrote in his book, “Presidential character,” that Herbert Hoover was not indifferent to the great depression as he was accused of being, but rather that he worked endlessly over statistics and charts in the White House. But the more he worked the less he could bring himself to accept a drastic change in policy. Ford, in his gregarious manner, opens himself to fresh ideas. Before he left Washington he began having in intellectuals from the universities-Irving Kristol, and a Harvard Sociologist, for example-for discussions. He reads five or six newspapers a day and shows no signs of being upset by editorials and cartoons that are harshly critical of his performance. He accepts this as a legitimate part of the Democratic system and does not take it personally as have some presidents in the past. The Presidency does not seem to have turned his head. On Christmas Eve, he attended services at interfaith chapel and stood with the crowd in the rear because he did not want to make those in the aisles clear a path to the Ford pew. Yet President Ford seems to have difficulty escaping from the past-his own and that of the office. During the Nixon Administration there was widespread skepticism about public decisions being made in artificial settings where the troubles facing most citizens seldom intrude. This was partly due to the

before going to Terre Haute On the interilrban. His driving norse, Old Glenn, was put in a Greencastle livery stable. The Toneys set up housekeeping in the No. 10 school house neighborhood of Madison Township where they lived and farmed until their oldest child was ready for high school. Then they moved to near Greencastle, living for many years on what is today called Sunset Drive Extension. They are members of the Greencastle First Baptist church. When William Andrew Toney was a small boy, an aunt nicknamed him “Jack” and the name stuck. Most of the people with whom he has worked might today be hard put to recall immediately what his real first names are. While farming was the trade he knew best, (his parents, Frank and Mattie Toney, were farm people), he changed jobs upon coming to Greencastle and retired several years ago after 42 years in the shops of the Ohio and Indiana Stone Co. The Toneys have four children: Irene (Mrs. Bill Stephenson of .Jensen Beach. Fla.); Ruth (Mrs. Harold Rowings of Indianapolis); Clara (Mrs. Minor Myers of Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Lee, who lives on Cement Plant road. On their golden wedding anniversary in 1959, Andrew and Macie were honored with a reception at Old Trail Inn and about 100 people came to Congratulate them. The day they went to Paris to be married, the temperature was 10 below and there was snow. The weatherman gave them a similar reception on their 50th date. ' On their 63rd wedding anniversary, they were privileged to take a delayed honeymoon trip to Visit their daughter, Irene, at Jensen Beach. The Delta flight turned into one more pleasant experience of their long married life. Taking them to the Indianapolis airport, son, Lee, mentioned to terminal officials that this was a very special occasion for these folks. As they prepared to leave the plane in Atlanta, Ga., they were told to wait. They did and received a royal reception. Not only were pictures taken but the stewardess came out with an anniversary cake. Macie Toney, daughter of George and Martha Alexander, 'grew up on a farm near Somerset, Ky. before coming to Greencastle, where at a meeting of mutual friends she became acquainted with Andrew Toney. Today the anniversary couple lives on Cement Plant road near the home of their son, who is recuperating from a leg injury received in a tractor mishap. The father helps with much of the farming operation's. Andrew and Macie give their ages as 85 and 84, respectively. However, they could be mistaken for a couple much younger than that. The state of their health and their ability to do things are the envy of many in the 65-year-old bracket. Nothing special has been planned for their 66th Wedding anniversary. It will be just another day to them. However, they will be congratulated by the host of friends they have made through the years.

fact that public funds had been used to enscounce President Nixon in luxury on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. President Johnson, who grew rich on business deals while in public office, was criticized for running the country from his secluded ranch. Vail seems equally as insular. In this setting of Hansel and Gretel houses and Christmas card scenes the rest of the country seems distant. There was a strong feeling, for example, that neither Ford nor his advisers wanted to come to grips with some of the ugly realities that may have to be faced by disclosure of domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency in the Nixon Years. It took several days for Ford to decide how to approach the problem. On Friday, there was the irony of Ford meeting with his advisers on proposals to preserve energy at public sacrifice in a community that consumes energy in vast quantities for luxury. Of the nine major officials attending the meeting with the President, eight had been . appointed originally by Nixon. Although Ford is moving to put in his own Government, this was taken as another bit of evidence that Ford has not yet moved his Presidency out of the past. The past keeps haunting Ford because in his less than five months in office, he has made little change in his own lifestyle and in the troubled institution of the residency he inherited. Like most Presidents since Eisenhower, and other highly placed politicians in Washington, Ford has long associated socially with corporate executives and to others of wealth and means. He has shown no inclination to change this since becoming President. Thus his evening social life here this year has been like it was last, dinners and receptions with old friends such as Richard Bass, owner of vast mine holdings, and James Brown, a group of executive of Thiokool Chemical Corporation in Tremonton, Utah. These associations seem to reinforce and continue the political philosophy he formed for many years as minority leader in the House as a Representative from Michigan. At 61, his friends do not expect him to change much, whatever his exposure to new ideas.

(C) 1974 New York Times News Service NEW YORK-The evidence appears to be growing that the Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter and broke the law by conducting domestic surveillances within the United States. Since that charge was made in the New York Times Dec. 22, President Ford has said that he had some of the same information on which the Times’s story was based, and : -Four C.I.A. counterintelligence officials have resigned, obviously with the concurrence of William E. Colby, director of the agency, and one of them, James Angleton, said of the Times's story, “There’s something to it.” -Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin said on A.B.C.’s “Issues and Anwswers” that he had independent confirmation of the Times's story. -A former C.I.A. agent confided some elaborate details of domestic spying to Seymour Hersh of the Times. -Richard Helms, C.I.A. director at the time of the alleged domestic Spying, issued a “categorical” denial that in fact, appeared to depend heavily on how the word “illegal” might be defined and on whether the spying was aimed specifically at "antiwar activists or dissidents.” - -Watergate fans will remember that these seemingly insignificant semantic usages are not unimportant. A political “dissident” who was also suspected by the C.I.A. of being in touch with a foreign power might be classified as a securitythreat. not a dissident; and “illegal,’ spying might not seem at all illegal to the security mentality - for example, spying on an American “antiwar activist” if it was thought that this might be part of the agency’s need to keep a counterintelligence check on its own agents. Even granting such “gray areas” and the obvious difficulties of knowing precisely who is a “dissident” and who is a paid foreign agent, it may be asked why the C.I.A. would commit -in Rep. Lucien Nedzi’s phrase - “illegalities in terms of exceeding their charter.” Why not, instead, confide the problems to a Congress that has usually been friendly and ask for appropriate legislation? In the national security mania that has prevailed since the opening of the cold war in the late forties, there is not much doubt that congress would have complied. One reason no doubt was the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation regards itself as having the official counterintelligence mission. Especially during the lifetime of the formidable J. Edgar Hoover, and the C.I.A. sought either to cut into the F.8.1.’s turf or to imply that the F. 8.1. was not doing the job, Hoover’s wrath and vengeance would have been terrible to behold certainly not to have been lightly courted. More important, however, is the kind of personal outlook and world view that - understandably enough -- is almost inevitably developed by those who spend

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Tom Wicker Spying for liberty

their lives in the national security field. This security mentality produces, first, a kind of tunnel vision - a narrow andconstant focus on the most frightening and threatening aspect of international relations. Hoover, for example, single ha ndedly obstructed for many years an increase in the number of Soviet consulates in this country; he believed it increased the Soviet intelligence threat, and he seemed to have no sense at all of any need for improving Soviet-American relations. The very nature of the job also tends to exaggerate the threat, hence the response. One who regards himself as responsible for something as cosmic as the national security is likely to assume the worst case. If it is possible that the Soviets will build a hundred missiles rather than ten, better assume the hundred, and build 200; if it is posible that a black radical is being paid by the Algerians, through w'hom the Soviets may control or exploit him, better keep him under surveillance, however “illegal” it might be on paper to do so. Such a world, moreover, especially when most of its activities are carried out in secrecy, is bound to create a heightened sense of power. Who can do “wrong” in protecting an innocent nation from threats it does not recognize? The

60 years agoGreencastle health authorities were taking precautions against the spread of chicken pox in the Schools. In homes where cases were reported, members who had never had the disease were not allowed back in classes until the contagion had passed. Conductor E.H. Bessie was injured when a string of freight cars crashed into a local passenger traih in Coatesville. Fog was given as cause of the mishap. “Passing of Two Gun Hicks,” a western thriller in two reels, was showing at Cook’s Opera House. 20 years agoHeadline: “Growing pains trouble Putnam County hospital Staff. Putnam Circuit Clerk William R. Padgett reported that business in his office had increased more than $20,000.00 over the past year. Pictured as newlyweds were Miss Ella Marie Nicholson and Jack W. Torr, whose marriage had been solemnized in the First

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legitimating of “over”-acting secretlymakes it unlikely that anyone will be caught, anyway. As the Nixon White House all too Well demonstrated, the responsibility for “national security” and the power to act in secret can be a heady and corrupting combination. The national security mentality also seems to believe that the nation can be something different from what it does. Governments can be toppled, foreign officials assassinated or subverted, armies recruited and launched on invasions, all clandestinely and under cover of lies - but none of that has anything to do with what the country is, or what it stands for. These “black” deeds, in fact, permit the United States, in a hostile world, to remain the bastion of freedom, the home of democracy, an open society standing for honor and decency among nations. “There’s a very real need for concern” about foreign intelligence, said one of the C.I.A. officials who retired, “But I don’t think people are going to heed it. I don’t think they want to heed it.” So Big Brother had to do the job for them, through secret find illegal spying. By the curious double standard of the security world, that was not a threat to American liberty, but a means of protecting it.

Turning back the clock

Christian church with Rev. Elmer Harvey as minister. 10 years agoShawn Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold O. Bennett, Was the first Putnam county baby of the year. Grafton Longden, Jr., local U.S. weather observer, reported that 1964 was both hot and cold, with two days of zero or below and 52 days above 90 degrees. Sports Notes: Greencastle Cubs lost to West Lafayette Jeff 77-74; DePauw upset Butler, 90-88. 5 years agoSituations at the Indiana State Farm were termed normal after 60 inmates had been transferred to the Indiana State Reformatory. 0.8. “Pete” Foster had retired as president of First National bank of Clover dale. North Putnam Cougars won the Greencastle Holiday tourney defeating Bedford 56-50.

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