The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1963 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER

VOLUME SEVENTY-ONE

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1963.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 272

New Demands Are Issued For Work Equality

WASHINGTON UPI — Union leaders and government officials today observed Labor Day with new demands for equal job opportunity for Negroes and action to comb t chronic unemployment. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz appealed to organized labor to help linish by next Labor Day "this matching of what we are doing with what we have been saying” about equ-d job opportunities. AKL-CIO President George Meany urged the administration and Congress to take more action to create jobs for the unemployed. He said "joblessness aggravates race discrimination and race discrimination weakens the economy.” Wirtz made his remarks in a special Labor Day message and in a television interview. Meany issued a statement over the weekend. In nother Labor Day statement, James B. Carey, an AFLCIO vice president and head of the International Union of Electrical Workers, said white southern workers, competing for too few jobs, are barring Negroes from union activities. He called this "just as immoral as the Berlin w 11.” Meany said he was shocked by “the lack of any meaningful action or any visible sense of urgency” in Washington about the nation’s steady unemployment rate of more than 5 per cent of the labor force. "Unless there are jobs available,” he said, "equality of opportunity is meaningless.” The AFL-CIO leader pressed for a basic 35-hour work week, a tax cut, pay increases and broader social security benefits. Wirtz sad in the television interview that education was the key to job opportunities for all. He said the federal manpower training program should be broadened to cover “a good many more” than the 50,000 persons who already have benefited from its provisions.

Accident Hurts Two Servicemen Two young servicemen, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, were admitted to the Putnam County Hospital Saturday night as a result of a traffic accident. Carl Johnston, 24, and Frederick Hamilton, 21, were listed in "fairly good” condition at the hospital Sunday morning. According to reports, the accident occurred south of Cloverdale on Ind. 43 about 10 p. m. The two young soldiers were dismissed from the hospital later Sunday. The Indiana State Police Post at Putnamville also said that a one-car accident occurred at the Cecil Brown home in Chadd Vally, east of Greencastle on Ind. 240. early Sunday morning. No injuries were reported in this mishap.

Jail Break Attempted By Bank Suspects INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Four men held as suspects in a holdup at the Lodoga State Bank were listed as suspects today in a Marion County jailbreak attempt. Maj. Dushan Stiko of the sheiff's office said broken spoon handles were used to pick a hole through a concrete floor in a jail section holding 69 prisoners. Stiko said suspects are Robert C. Dooley, Jr., 25, Indianapolis; Robert E. Scott. Jr. 34. Roachdale, and George Dooley, 35, India napolis. He said the hole was three inches wide and it would have taken 2 or 3 weeks for it to be big enough for a man to pass through.

Luncheon Honors 12 New Teachers Twelve new' teachers in the Greencastle Consolidated Schools were guests of the G. C. T. A. at a luncheon on August 30 when all teachers participated in the First Semester Teachers Conference. Dr. Robert Farber, Dean of DePauw University, addressed the group. His topic was, "The Teacher and The Search for Excellence." More than one hundred teachers serving in the Greencastle Consolidated Schools will welcome approximately 2500 pupils on September 3rd. New teachers in the Greencastle Consolidated Schools are: Senior High School. Jerry Chance,, football and Biology; Lee Dillon, Industrial Education; David McCracken, basketball and physical education; Donald Reed, business education and English. Jones Elementary School: Evelyn Murdock, Grade Three; Marion Earle, Grade Four; Nell Kersey, Special Education. Miller Elementary Schools: Nancy Schramm, Grade Five; Karen VanArsdall, Grade Four. Ridpath Elementary Schools: Nancy Petro, Grade Four; Alene Burks, Grade Five. Elementary Music: Kaye O. Ames.

13 Negroes Integrate Ala. School TUSKEGEE. Ala. UPI—Thirteen young Negroes set out today to integrate Tuskegee's lone white shool, marking the beginning of the end of public grade school segregation in Alabama—the cradle of the old Confederacy. The Negroes, entering the school in Alagama’s black belt, were to meet in School Supt. C. A. Pruitt’s office at about 10 a. m. EDT, then walk across the grass lawn and into the sprayling red brick school to join 550 w'hite students in grades 1 to

12.

No massive police guard was planned. No violence w'as expected. Local law enforcement agencies said they would “stand by, just in case.” But there was some suspence about what Gov. George C. Wallace, an unyielding segregationist, might do. Wallace has sworn to “re segregate” any school forcibly integrated. To all queries about speculation of another stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace has replied cryptically: “I am aware of the situation.” According to his Labor Day agenda, Wallace w’as scheduled to be 200 miles north for a speech-making date in Tuscumbia, Ala. Forty-eight Negro students applied for transfer to white schools in Macon County under an order by U. S. Middle District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. Of that group the 13 entering the school were unanimously accepted by the school board. The Tuskegee public school begins classes on Labor Day as had been the custom for the past 50 years. Integration of the Tuskegee school leaves only Mississippi as the last deep South state with no integration in public grade schools.

OLD SOLDIER GOES HOME AGAIN

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Death Stalks Highways With Holiday Toll Near 400 Mark; State Counts 15

State Police Use Tear Gas, Fire Hoses To Stop Negro Rioters

With his wife at his side, Sgt. Alvin C. York, World War I hero, leaves the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., after the longest of several confinements there—seven weeks. Doctors said the condition of York, 75, was “very good.”

Joseph Pierson Dies At Hospital Joseph Pierson, 89, Coatesville

Route 2, passed away at midnight Sunday in the Putnam County Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital on August 20.

Mr. Pierson was born August

19, 1874, the son of George and

Eliza Underwood Pierson. He is survived by a son, Bennie Pierson, of Danville Route 3.

Composers Of Two School Songs Die The composers of well-known school songs at Purdue and Indiana Universities died within hours of each other in retirement homes in Florida and California last ueek. Indiana University’s alumni office revealed Friday it had been informed of the death Aug. 19 in St. Petersburg, Fla., of Joe Thomas Giles, 91. who wrote the words "Hail to Old I. U.” and set it to the music of an old Sco-

ch folk tune.

Two days after Giles death, the body of Edward J. Wotawa,

Ex-Queen Takes Drug Overdose VENICE, Italy UPI—Ex-Queen Alexandria of Yugoslavia, hospitalized for an apparent overdose of babiturates, took a turn for the worse today. It appeared to be the second suicide attempt in 10 years for the dark-haired 42-year-old former queen whose royal marriage has been a stormy one. A Greek Orthodox priest was summoned hurriedly to the hospital where Alexandra was rushed last night after her son Alexander, 18, found her unconscious in her bedroom at the Venice home of her mother. Princess Aspasia of Greece. Officials said she took 16 nembutal sleeping pills.

City Police Arrest Two Saturday Night Two men were arrested by city piolice and lodged in the Putnam County jail Saturday night. Sam Wilson. 73, was taken into custody on Liberty Street by Officers Cronkhite and Twomey at 10:10 p. m. Wilson was booked for public intoxication. Ralph Neeley, 33, Avenue F, was picked up at 10:45 p.m. on Bloomington Street. He was

PLAQUEMINE, La. UPI — State police using tear gas and fire hoses dispersed an angry crowd of 1,000 Negroes Sunday night and flushed 700 Negroes from a. church with a barrage

of gas and water.

Twenty state troopers were treated for cuts from flying rocks. Scores of demonstrators were injured and 68 arrested, one of them a 22-year-old white girl in the second consecutive night of racial violence in this Missis-

sippi riverfront town.

Most of the injures suffered by

charged with public intoxication the demonstrators were from tear

and drunken driving.

Fever Strikes In State This Year

INDIANAPOLIS UPI—State Labor Commisioner Hobert P. Butler reported today that 52 strikes occurred in Indiana the past year, less than one-third the number which happened in the previous year. Butler said it was “a matter for our general gratification on

gas burns and flying glass. Police searched house-to-house for James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality and leader of the Negrro civil rights drive in Plaquemine. They kicked in the doors of threa Negro homes and a Negro funeral parlor was searched for

Farmer.

Negroes surveying the litter in the streets and the shambles inside the Freedom Rock Baptist Church muttered “this is it.” A court order, abruptly issued by Federal Judge E. Gordon West in Baton Rouge Sunday

Labor Day” that there had been

a “great advance during the past night tWO hours before the street

Importance Uncertain WASHINGTON UPI — Rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun says it is “a little premature” to attach special military importance to landing a man on the moon. “It would be something like saying the South Pole or Antarc-

74. who wrote the music to “Hail tica has great military import-

year in peaceful labor-manage-ment relations in this state." He said the number of workers involved in strikes dropped from 73.683 to 41.292 the number of man days of work lost dropped from 1.147.088 to 543.787. He said this meant a savings of $12 million to the state's economy and $180,981 in gross income taxes. Butler said the improvement in labor conditions was due to a

demonstrators started failed to R stop the Negroes. The order tern- .

porarily banned demonstrations, but moments after the order was served by U.S. marshals, the Negroes filed into the streets.

NFO May Store Grain, Sorghum ST. PAUL. Minn. UPI— The

The long Labor Day weekend moved into its final day today and millions of Americans raced death home across the nation's highways. The traffic toll pushed toward the 400 mark and a new record. The National Safety Council said the highway death rate increased during the night and the toll may reach 584 by the end of the holiday at midnight tonight. The old Labor Day record of 501 deaths was set last year. The holiday weekend spelled the end of beach parties and vacations for many Americans and the start of a new senool year for others. Thousands of families braved the crowded highways for a last, brief visit with sum-

mer.

The Safety Council warned that the miles nearest to home, when tiredness and impatience catch up with holiday drivers, are the most dangerous. A United Press International count at 4:30 a.m. EDT showed at least 373 persons dead in traffic accidents since the holiday started at 6 p.m. local time

Friday.

The toll from all types of holiday-connected accidents rose

to 451.

The breakdown:

Traffic 373 Drownings 36

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Planes .*. 3 Miscellaneous 37 Total 451 California led the nation with 48 traffic deaths. There were 23 fatalities in Texas, 19 in Illinios and 18 in North Carolina. New York had 17, Michigan and Indiana 15 each and Georgia 14.

JFK Relaxes At Seaside Resort

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“It undoubtedly has, but we don't feel it very strongly yet.”

mented by the Indiana Division

of Labor in 1961.

O. E. S. MEETING O.E.S. Eastern Star No. 255 will meet Wednesday at 7:30 All members are welcomed.

Hospital Notes Dismissed Saturday: Martha Seabolt, Mrs. Max Smith and daughter, Greencastle: Mrs. John Funk and son, Coatesville; Jolly Sheets, Roachdale; Mrs. Earl Clodfelter and son. Russellville; Dorothy Atterburg, Mrs. Leonard Bean and son, Cloverdale; Omer Shaw, Poland. Dismissed Sunday: Mrs. John Johnson and son, Putnamville; Pearl Jeffries, James Hartsaw, Marilyn Buis. Greencastle.

Mrs. Harley Miller was hostess to the K.J.U. Class of the First Christian Church. Sgt. Ray Skimmerhom w*as here from Fort Sam Houston. Texas. Madonna Goodman returned home from the county hospital. Dave Grimes, county agent, was vacationing in Iowa.

HYANNIS PORT. Mass. UPI — President Kennedy, in a relaxed vacation mood, reserved part of his holiday today for more seagoing recreation with his family and friends. He also set aside time to be interviewed by newsmen Walter Cronk ; *e for a 6:30 p.m. EDT program inaugurating a daily 30minute news show on the CBS network. Next Monday, Kennedy will do the same for the rival NBC network, when its Chet HuntleyDavid Brinkley news program goes from its present 15 minutes to a half hour at 7 p.m. EDT. Kennedy was favored Sunday by weather as pleasant as any he has seen in 10 summer weekends at Cape Cod. He made good use of the afternoon by cruising across Nantucket Sound to the picturesque island of Martha’s Vineyard. The journey of 20 miles or so was on glassy smooth water glistening with reflected sunlight of the 77-degree.s afternoon. Kennedy’s yacht. Honey Fitz, was anchored off Edgartown while the presidential party swam and had lunch-and attracted the curiosity of dozens of other boatmen who circled the President’s cratt.

ance.” Von Braun said Sunday, new policy and program imple- National Farmers Organization

may start Tuesday to withhold marketing corn, soybeans and sorghum in 19 states, the group’s

president has warned.

Oren Lee Stanley Friday told about 200 farmers at the Minnesota State Fair they will be ask-

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Final Talks Held By Nikita, Tito BELGRADE, Yugoslavia UPI

— Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev headed back to Belgrade from a provincial tour of Yugo-

od to store the grain during the slavia today for final “friendship”

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A 75-mile-an-hour wind, accompanied by rain and hail, whipped this light plane against its hangar at the airport in alnut Ridge, Ark.

THIS WAS “HOME" FOR TWO TRAPPED MIHERS FOR 2 WEEKS

action

Several test holding action in Illinois which caused the price of soybeans to raise from 7 to 12 cents over the market price w'ere behind the scheduled action, Staley said. Meanwhile, NFO officials in Indiana said 300 Indiana and Kentucky dairymen w'ere urged to boycott the Kyana milk shed in Evansville, Ind., if the cooperative fails to consider NFO con-

tracts.

The farmers, represent 36 Indiana and Kentucky counties, voted unanimously to sell their products directly to bottlers and handlers if Kyana doesn’t take definite steps toward the contract proposals.

Spoofs ‘Hot Line’ LONDON UPI — The London Observer carried this headline on its story about the new "hot line” linking Moscow and Washington: “Daddy’s Just Coming, Mr. Khrushchev.” The dispatch did not mention President Kennedy’s 5-year-old daughter, Caroline.

Ray Vaughan of Greencastle, received his 55 year pin from the L.O.O.F. of Fillmore. Wednesday evening. Three other members received 50 year pins.

NOW YOU KNOW A total of 7,800,000 World War II veterans, more than half the total of 15 million who served in that war, received education and training under the Gi bill, according to the Veterans Administration,

Two Birmingham Men Are Jailed BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UPI — Authorities today held two white men who w'ere arrested trying to hang an effigy of a Negro at a school scheduled to be integrated Wednesday. The susupects w'ere identified as Lloyd Colvin, 22, and Paul Breasseale, 21, of Birmingham. They were arrested at West End High School Saturday night. Charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct w'ere field against them.

talks with President Tito. The two Communist leaders scheduled discussions for the afternoon after their arrival by train from Zagreb, w'here Tito showed Khrushchev a new $40 million American-supplied plastics factory Sunday. A farewell banquet was set for tonight. Khrushchev concludes his 15day visit to Yugoslavia Tuesday, returning to Moscow with a new “collaboration’ understanding with Tito, once an outcast from the Communist camp. During his stop at Zagreb Sunday, Khrushchev took a dig at former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. the man who expelled Tito from the international Communist movement in 1948. The Russians now have downgraded Stalin from his former high pinnacle. Visiting a Zagreb school, the Russian premier told school officials Stalin “crippled” Soviet youth by omitting vocational teachnical education from their school work. uimmiimiiiiiiiiimimiimimmir = WEATHER

The photo above made by a Bureau of Min cs camera lowered into the chamber shows where rescued miners Bavid Fellin and He nry Thorne were entombed for two weeks by a cave-in at a Sheppton. Pa., coal mine. A miner’s belt is hanging from a timber (ieft) and sleeping bags, coveralls and thermos jugs can be seen on the floor.

Undergoes Tests HOLLYWOOD UPI — Actor Spencer Tracy continued a series of tests today at St. Vincent’s Hospital in conjunction with what a spokesman said was a “good rest.” The 63-year-old actor was hospitalized for two weeks in July and treated for a respiratory ailment that struck him as he and actress Katharina Hepburn were preparing to go on picnic.

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