The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1964 — Page 3

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

THURS., JAN. 2, 1964. Page 3

Hof fa Denies Reported Deal ST. LOUIS UPI — The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said today Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa had denied a Post-Dispatch story that he tried to make a deal with the federal government to drop criminal prosecutions against him. In a Washington aatelined story Monday, the Post-Dis-patch said Hoffa’s associates asked the government to drop

prosecutions against him in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Chicago. In return, the newspaper story said, Hoffa offered to step down from his presidency of the teamsters. The Post-Dispatch said today Hoffa had telephoned the newspaper from Detroit and said the story has “absolutely no basis in fact.” Hoffa charged the story was inspired by the Justice Department, the newspaper said. The newspaper quoted Hoffa as saying: “I’m not quitting and have never had any intention of quit-

ting . . . the story is without foundation . . . it’s a damned outrage.” In its story Monday, the PostDispatch said “Hoffa initiated the feelers last summer through intermediaries, one of whom, it said, was his chief lieutenant, Harold J. Gibbons, of St. Louis, a Teamsters international vice president.”

BRATTON HEAD COACH KOKOMO UPI — Russ Bratton is now officially head basketball coach at Kokomo High School, at least for the remainder of this season.

Ships Collide In Mississippi PILOT TOWN, La. UPI — The 495, foot freighter Brinton Lykes and the Norwegian ore carrier Bauta collided near the mouth of the Mississippi River and fire broke out in the freighter's cargo of cotton bales. The Coast Guard said there

were no casualties.

The 34,000-ton Bauta was not damaged. The collision punched a hole in the side of the 10,000-

ton Brinton Lykes, causing a draft that fanned the blaze among 800 bales of cotton in a

hold.

The Brinton Lykes is owned by the Lykes Steamship Co. The Coast Guard said it was not known whether the collision directly caused the blaze.

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Family Quarrel Fatal To Girl SHOALS, UPI — A family argument over a radio program and a fist lashed out in anger was blamed Wednesday for the death of a teenaged Martin County girl. Oceola Honeycutt, 19, Calo, was knocked unconscious and died, police said, when her brother, Claude, struck her on the chin with his fist. He was jailed here on a manslaughter charge. Authorities said the girl and her mother were arguing over the radio and that Mrs. Honeycutt threw it into the yard. Claude Honeycutt told police his sister kicked him when he tried to intervene and that he hit her. An autopsy was scheduled for today.

NOW YOU KNOW The oldest Greek letter college fraternity in the United States is Phi Beta Kappa, which was organized on Dec. 5, 1776, at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., according to the World Almanac.

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CARACAS UPI — President Romulo Betancourt eulogized the late John F. Kennedy Wednesday as “the first U. S. President who ever took a sincere interest in the problems of Latin America.” In a New Year's speech at the Veneuzuelan “White House,” Betancourt said the memory of the assassinated U. S. Chief Executive “will live on in the hearts and minds of Venezuelans.”

CHARITY CARDS KANSAS CITY (UPI) — Two Christmas cards designed by Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy are being sold across the country this Yule season to help raise funds for the National Cultural Center in Washington. Hallmark Cards, which is donating all proceeds from the cards to the culture center, expects the total to be thousands of dollars.

CLOSENESS IN STARS MOBILE, Ala. (UPI)—Priests at the Spring Hill College observatory here study the stars at the Christmas season especially, believing it brings them closer to Christ.

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POPE’S PLANE—This Is the Alitalia jetplane for Pope Paul’s flight to the Holy Land and back. The two pilots are Mario Zuccrrini (left) and Sergio MosettL The plane is painted in the Vatican colors of yellow and white, and bears the papal emblem. The pope’s air route is Rome to Amman, Jordanian capital. He travels by motorcade from Amman.

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At the beginning of 1864, the Savannah Republican listed the market price of flour at $120 a barrel, of hominy grits at $16 a bushel, when you could find either in supply at established dealers who had to pay some attention to Confederate government attempts to curtail speculation and profiteering in commodities. The going prices in black markets were higher. The prices anywhere reflected the decline in the purchasing power of Confederate currency, as well as the diminishing supplies of foodstuffs reaching the Rebel armies and the city dwellers as a result of the U. S. naval blockade of the Atlantic coast, the capture of most of the Mississippi River by Union forces, and the systematic «

closing of key railways within the Confederacy. The process of beating down the Rebel means of resistance by attrition, was made more stringent steadily by detached striking forces such as referred to here previously. The Confederate Congress had sought to insure bacon and ham for the soldiers by requiring that a tax on smoked pork be paid in kind. At the end of 1863, the Congress had to modify this requirement realistically by allowing the tax to be paid in salt pork. Farmers. with hogs hidden away could no longer take the time to smoke-cure slaughtered meat, to risk having smokehouses filled with bacon and hams for Yankee raiders. Same day the Confederate Congress took this action, it ended exemption from military draft given those who supplied a substitute (usually by purchase). —CLARK KINNAHtD

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