Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 77, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 December 1981 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 7,1981

Hoosier watched 40 years ago as Japanese planes hit Pearl Harbor

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Orville C. Jinks was on the signal bridge of the USS San Francisco preparing to tour Hawaii with a friend when the first planes came over the horizon that clear December morning 40 years ago. “There was a lot of sightseeing that day,” says Jinks. “But not the way we had planned." Jinks, at the time an 18-year-old sailor from Effingham, 111., saw perhaps the first bomb that exploded in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 the “day of infamy” that plunged the United States into World War 11. A brief service was held at the Indiana War Memorial on Sunday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the attack. Jinks is a former two-term president of the Indiana Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, which counts about 120 mem-

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Exclusion y of carols protested INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - IParents of several first graders ■pt Public School 79 in Indianapolis are angry because .religous songs were dropped from an eight-minute Christmas play. One parent said Sunday he might organize a boycott of the program or seek signatures on a petition requesting religious Christmas carols. One mother said she has gained unanimous support from parents of 15 of the school’s 50 first graders. Phillip Giddens said, “My point is pursuing this is that Christmas is a Christian holiday.” Without religious songs, Christmas loses its meaning, he added. The furor was news to school officials. Superintendent Karl R. Kalp said the district has “a long-standing policy” of using religious songs as an “exercise in music or as a cultural experience, but not as an expression of religion.” School 79 Principal Betty R. Beene said she understood one song was dropped to shorten the play “Christmas Around The World.” Mrs. Beene said she would be “flexible if something is wrong with a decision.” Teacher Nettie Dixon said she and two other first grade teachers dropped the songs because “we didn’t want the program to be too long, and we wanted it to be enjoyable for all parents.” She added it was a matter of retaining the traditions of the Christmas season but not at the expense of non-Christians.

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Hoosier "pioneer" Sue Cain, who portrays the blacksmith's wife at Conner Prairie Poineer Settlement, displays a stocking she is knitting to Karen Dashiell, 6, Noblesville, and Andrew Stearns, 4, Zionsville. Mrs. Cain is one of several Conner Prairie employees who recreate the

Ski bus crash kills 2 students

MURRAY, Utah (AP) - The driver of a ski-club bus that went out of control and wrecked, killing two students and seriously injuring two others, says she had to pumpthe brakes to stop earlier in the day but thought nothing of it at the time. “When I stopped, going out of town this morning at the railroad tracks, I had to pump hard and it lurched a little,” said Julie Ann Nishi, 25, of Kemmerer, Wyo. The school bus was traveling

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bers. “There are probably 200 survivors in Indiana,” Jinks estimates. He currently works in the appliance department of an Indianapolis department store, selling American and Japanese television sets and stereos. Because of the attack, Jinks missed his appointment with Jim Lattic, his former high school teacher from Effingham. He has not seen nor heard from Lattic since. “He was at Hickham Field and had gotten a car and was to come over and pick me up and we were going to go sightseeing around the islands,” says Jinks. “I was on the signal bridge waiting for him when I saw a large flight of airplanes approaching,” he said. “I stood there and watched and the first plane pealed off and went toward Hickham Field.

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lifestyles of Indiana residents in 1836. The settlement, located six miles northeast of Indianapolis on Allisonville Road, is presenting its traditional "Christmas at Conner Prairie" Dec. 9-13. An admission fee is charged.

down a steep mountain road near Murray Sunday when the brakes went out, and Mrs. Nishi tried desperately to slow it by downshifting and running its side against a canyon wall. But the bus flipped, rocks peeled off its roof, and some of the 38 students inside were tossed out. The students and their adviser were on an excursion of the Kemmerer High School Ski Club. Salt Lake County deputies said the bus was going down Little Cottonwood Canyon on its way back from the Alta ski resort. The adviser, Zem Hopkins, said he told the students to grab their ankles and brace themselves. The bus then “hit the side of the wall, spun and rolled,” he said.

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Karyn Walker, 16, who received minor head and neck injuries, said that after Hopkins’ warning, “everybody started screaming and we were going around...really fast. ” Speculating on what caused the brakes to fail, Mrs. Nishi said: “Poor maintenance, I don’t know...don’t put down poor maintenance because I just don’t know.” She has been a school bus driver at Kemmerer for about three years. Sheriff’s Lt. Bruce Thayne said the bus came to rest on its left side across the two-lane road, about IV 2 miles from the canyon’s mouth. He said no snow or ice was on the road, which is cut into the steep north wall of the canyon and descends about 3,500 feet in 10 miles.

“I saw the first bomb drop, and I though it was an awful large sandbag (used in training exercises). “Then a second plane came over, dropped a bomb and hit a hanger and there was a lot of flame. This made me believe that there was something wrong bad wrong. By the time the third plane came around, I could see the rising sun on the wing. “I knew something was seriously wrong. I called the officer of the deck and said we were being attacked. He said i don’t believe you,’ and hung up the phone.” That officer got a shock when the next wave of planes strafed the San Francisco and began dropping bombs on battleship row, 200 feet away. Jinks watched as the pride of the fleet battleships Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia took direct hits.

Khadafy denies plan for U. S. assassinations

c. 1981 N.Y. Times NEW YORK - Libya’s ruler, Col. Moammar Khadafy, denied Sunday that he had plotted to assassinate President Reagan or anyone else. However, the State Department said that it had evidence of such plans. “We are sure we havem’t sent any people to kill Reagan or any other people in the world,” Khadafy said. After he spoke in an interview televisted from his Tripoli office, the State Department issued a statement in Washington that said, “We have strong evidence that Khadafy has been planning the murder of American officials both here and overseas.” * The statement went on: “We certainly hope that Khadafy’s denial means that he will abandon the use of terrorism and asssassination as a part of his foreign policy. “When he has stopped, we will know it.” A department spokesman, Sue Pittman, declined further comment. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service are reported to have been put on the alert after reports that five terrorists trained in Libya had come to the the United States with plans to murder high-ranking officials. On Friday, President Reagan said he was “concerned” about

Puerto Ricans hijack 3 jets

BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (AP) Heavily armed Puerto Rican nationalists hijacked three Venezuelan commercial airliners today with about 310 people aboard and forced the pilots to fly from Caracas to this Atlantic port city, said Ramon Pacheco, administrator of the airport. A spokesman from the airport control tower said two of the planes landed at 7 a.m. EST with about 230 passengers aboard. The third plane, which arrived arrived at 7:50 a.m., had about 80 aboard, the spokesman said. Pacheco said one of the planes made a stop in Aruba and let 18 people—women and children off the plane.

Whereabouts of Sakharov unknown

Daily Telegraph, London MOSCOW The condition and whereabouts of Dr. Andrei Sakharov, the leading Soviet human rights campaigner, and his wife remained unknown Sunday, two days after they were taken to hosptial while on joint hunger strike. KGB secret police detained Liza Alexeyeva,26, the wife of Sakharov’s stepson, for about three hours on Saturday to prevent her from catching a train to the city of Gorky in search of the couple.

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such intelligence information and was taking the reports seriously. Sunday’s statement by the State Department was the first official report from a government agency saying it had strong evidence of a murder plot, although intelligence officials also said last week that information supplied by an informer had “made believers” of high-ranking lawenforcement officials. Following Khadafy on the ABC News program, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declared tha t “ tha t man was lying to us. ” The New York Democrat said the United States had firm evidence that Khadafy had been planning terrorist actions for years. Khadafy said Reagan was “silly, and he is not qualified to

Rape suspect spotted in

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A suspect in the abduction and rape of a 20-year-old Indianapolis woman was arrested less than seven hours after the attack when he walked into a restaurant were the victim was eating dinner, police said. The victim was dining with her parents about 6 p.m. Sunday when the suspect appeared. She pointed out the suspect to her father who scuffled with him. An off-duty policeman intervened and summoned

Large men hustled her into a black car as she arrived at Moscow’s Yaroslavsky station and then dumped her 15 miles outside Moscow with a warning not to try contacting Sakharov. Friends of the family believe Sakharov, 60, and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 58, were taken to hsopital aoainst their will and are probably being force-fed. Sakharov was exiled from Moscow to Gorky, 240 miles east of the capital, without charge or trial in January, 1981,

Since his ship was in the harbor for repairs, there was no more ammunition for the big guns aboard. “So we went below deck and got rifles and began shooting at the planes,” said Jinks, who was not hurt in the attack. “It had little effect, but it gave us a little more confidence. “I was only 18 looking for adventure out of high school. When the bomb went off, I said ‘What have I gotten into?’ It was like a complete stranger walking up to you on the street and hitting you in the face. I was stunned and couldn’t understand why it was happening. “It was like you’re seeing it, but you don’t believe what you’ve seen. “I hop the same thing doesn’t happen again,” said Jinks. “I think we’re vulnerable to another Pearl Harbor right now.”

lead America as a superpower.” The Libyan leader added, “America must get rid of this administ ation, and fell it down, as they did with Nixon, and elect another respectful president to get respect for America.” He went on: “We refuse to asassinate any person. On the other side, we are ready to fioht against America in the Mediterranean Sea, in ou borders, because America is attacking us.“ He charged that the United States had tried “to assassinate me, to poison my food, and they tried many things to do this.” He challenged the United States to make an investigation to “let the American people and the Libyan people and the Congress of America to know the truth, who is lia : Reagan or

sheriff’s deputies. Authorities say Kevin Kubiak, 22, of Indianapolis, was arrested and charged with rape, confinement and robbery with a deadly weapon. He was jailed on $25,000 bond. Investigators said the victim was accosted in a shopping center parking lot. They said the assailant, brandishing a 10-inch-long knife, pushed her back into her car and drove her to a secluded area. He later drove her back to the shopping

He said the men, armed with machine guns and hand grenades, were demanding fuel to fly to another country, but the administrator did not know where. Two of the planes belong to Aeropostal airline and the third is an Avensa plane. Both are Venezuelan airlines. The spokesman said the hijackers claim to belong to the nationalist group Ramon E. Betances of Puerto Rico. The group, virtually unknown in Puerto Rico, is named for a Puerto Rican educator and politician. On Sept. 23, 1867, Batances led an insurrection against the Spanish in a westcentral town called Lares. The failed insurrection is known as Grito de Lares, “the cry from Lares.”

because of his dissident activities. His wife, a leading member of the Moscow “Helsinki Group’’ campaigning for human rights, was permitted to move freely between both cities until the double hunger strike began in Gorky on Nov. 22. There has been no official word on the couple’s state of health or even what city they are in since Friday’s Soviet news announcement that they had been hospitalized. Friends fear that they could be in-

Plane hits top floor of Canadian hospital

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) A twin-engined plane believed to be carrying two persons crashed into the top floor of Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital Sunday night, authorities reported. The occupants of the plane, a Mitsubishi MU-2, were believed trapped in the wreckage as hospital officials rushed to evacuate 120 patients from the sixth floor, said E. L. Casey, executive director of the

Libya.” Khadafy contended that the Exxon Corp. had decided to end operations in Libya “under the pressure of Reagan administration to oet out.” He asserted that Reagan’s policy was “going to destroy the interests of the other American companies.” “Of course we need them, but if they go, we have to do without them,” he added. “America wants to dominate all the world, and divide the world into enemies or slaves to America,” Khadafy asserted. He said that “Zionist propaganda is behind the many accusations and negations against us in America,” but he insisted, “We are eady to establish normal relations with America like other countries in the world.”

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center and ordered her to obtain money from the store where she works. Instead, she notified a security guard. The suspect fled. Detective Sgt. Steven R. Sims of the sheriff’s office said, “The mathematical probability of them being in the same restaurant on the same day that the crime occurred is just incomprehensible. His girlfriend told me in the parking lot they almost changed their minds and went to another restaurant. ”

carcertated in one of the KGB’s notorious “psychiatric” ctinics, where mind-warping drugs are used against enemies of the state. Sakharov, one of the Soviet Union’s leading nuclear physicists and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his support of human rights, has a heart problem and is understood to have shunned his usual heart medicine since the hunger strike began 15 days agao.

hospital. Airport officials said the crash occurred shortly after 6 p.m. MST as the aircraft was approaching the airfield on a flight from the northeastern Alberta city of Fort McMurray. Casey said leaking fuel from the plane forced the evacuation of patients from the sixth floor, and 300 extra staff members were called in to help transfer the patients.