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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

WEATHER — Slightly Warmer

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1964.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 97

Council Selects New Members Of City Park Board

Four members of the City Park Board were selected and approved by the Greencastle Common Council, meeting in regular session Monday night. This action followed the passage of the new Park Ordinance at the last meeting of the city officials in January, namely Ordinance No. 1 for 1964. Cloyd Moss was elected for one year; John R. Long will serve for two years; Robert Dean for three years, and Councilman Chester Grimes for four years. In making their selections, the council noted that Mr. Moss has served as a Park Trustee since 1947. Mr. Long was one of the most active Jaycees who worked on building the new swimming pool. During the time Mr. Dean served on the City Council, he served very effectively on the Park Board. Councilman Grimes is well known for his work in Little League Baseball and PeeWee Football.

farm Prisoner Coes On Trial A penal farm prisoner, who is charged with escaping from the Putnamville institution, went on trial this morning in the Putnam Circuit Court with a jury being selected to hear his case. Robert G. Stith. 19, of Selma, according to farm officials left the farm on the night of the riot last August 11th. He was found to be among those missing the

next day.

Stith was sent to the farm from Muncie Superior Court for 12 months on a malicious trespass charge. He had served about six months of his sentence when the riot occured. Junior Leaders Meet Thursday

Present for Monday’s meeting were Mayor Ray Fisher; Councilmen Ernest Collins, Robert Poor, Chester Grimes, Robert Jackson. Robert Eppleheimer; City At-

torney Rex Boyd; City Engineer county meeting is Cliff Norton and Clerk-Treasurer Thursday evening,

Clifford Frazier. Councilman Poor presented the claims against the city for $3.859.80 and moved they be paid. Councilman Collins seconded this motion and the vote was

unanimous.

As requested at the last session, C. M. Norris returned Monday night with detailed plans and specifications for a marquee in front of the Montgomery Ward Store on South Indiana Street. The marquee will be 48 feet long and extend eight feet over

the sidewalks.

After some discussion in regards to the safety element with the city engineer and as to lighting, Councilman Collins moved that pjermission be granted for the erection of the marquee. On a second by Councilman Jackson, the council voted that the

work be done.

Another resolution was presented by Miss Elizabeth Rariden for the erection of a marquee in front of the new Daily Banner location on South Jackson St. Eldon Wells, contractor for the work being done at the new plant for the newspapjer. said tl*it the marquee is to be 25 feet

long and extend three

the sidewalk.

The council asked Mr. Wells to go over the proposed marquee plans with the city engineer and then present the detailed plans and specifications at the Febru-

ary 24 th meeting.

Councilman Poor introduced a resolution that the city clerktreasurer be allowed to use, at his own risk, a facsimile signature stamp for his office. Mr. Poor then made the resolution in form of a motion and it was passed after a second by

Councilman Jackson.

The council then adjourned to meet with the League of Women Voters to discuss problems associated with city planning. This meeting fitted in with the program the new council has been following of having weekly meetings to study the various departments of the city. So far, the council men have met with the Fire Chief, Clerk-Treasurer, and head of the Sanitation Department. Future meetings are planned with the Street Commissioner, Police Chief, Water Works, and the other city de-

partments.

The 4-H Club Junior Leaders, the boys and girls that do the work for the adult leaders, are on their way again. Their first

scheduled for February 13.

in the Community Building on

the fairgrounds.

Jim New, from Greencastle and Becky McFarland from Roachdale, the organization's co-presi-dents, have made up a busy agenda including a little fun, election of officers, some meat and potatoes, and a very good film,

“Mechanics of Death”.

Junior leaders, their leaders, and parents from all over the county will be seeing that the 4-H Club program in Putnam County will get off to a flying

start in 1964.

Feeder Pig Meet Set For Wednesday The Putnam Feeder Auction Association cooperation with the County Extension Office is sponsoring an educational meeting on this growing enterprist of “Pro-

ducing Feeder Pigs.”

K. W. Harris, County Extension Agent- Agriculture, says that the demand for top quality far exceeds the supply. Efficiency greater affects profits. Top efficiency depends upon good

feet over breeding, feeding, management,

disease control and marketing practices which aid in improved

feeder pig production.

Everyone interested in hogs should plan to attend this meeting and discuss with Richard Hollandbeck and/or J. R. Foster on Wednesday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds, the latest “dope” on breeding, feeding, management. and marketing

feeder pigs.

Ends On Sour Note ST. LOUIS, Mo. UPI—The Rev. Harry P. Phillips Jr. ended his last Sunday sermon by telling the congregation at West Presbyterian Church that a thief had made off with several overcoats from a vestibule clothes rack. Stated Convocation Stated Convocation, Greencastle Chapter No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, Wednesday evening, Feb. 12, 7:30 o’clock. John W. Schmitt, High Priest. Willard E. Silvey, Secretary. Hospital Notes

Kennedy Half Dollars Minted DENVER UPI — The Denver and Philadelphia mints today will strike the first half dollars bearing the portrait of the late President Kennedy. Treasury Department officials said the simultaneous ceremony, which signals the start of production of 90 million half dollars this year, will be conducted over a telephone line between Denver and Philadelphia. Miss Eva Adums, director of the mint, will attend the ceremony in Philadelphia, and Fredrick W. Tate, assistant director of the mint, will be at the Den-

ver mint.

President Johnson approved an act of Congress Dec. 30 which provided for minting of the Kennedy half dollar. The coin will replace the Franklin half dollar, which was put into cirtulation

in 1948.

The law provides that the basic design of coins must remain in production 25 years, unless changed by an act of Congress. Carl Arnold To Seek Re-Election Card Arnold, incumbent, announced today that he will be a candidate for re-election to the office of Putnam County Auditor, subject to the Democratic primary in May. Mr. Arnold is on the fourth year of his first term as auditor and served most efficiently in this office. Cuban Workers Fired At Base WASHINGTON UPI — The United States has begun firing Cuban workers at Guantanamo because of the “irresponsible action" of Fidel Castro in shutting off the naval base water supply, the Defense Department announced. The department also announced that a permanent plant will be built to supply the base with fresh water converted from sea water. It is expected to cost about $5 million.

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department’s statement

,™:r Civil Rights Bill

Passed In House By 290-130 Vote

BISHOP WILL SPEAK

Bishop James K. Mathews launches the observance of Lenten season tomorrow at 10 am. when he delivers a sermon in Gobin Methodist Church. Bishop of the Boston Area of The Methodist Church, Mathews served briefly as a pastor in New York City, then was commissioned a missionary in 1938 and assigned to India. In 1946, after serving as a major in the Army during the Second World War, Mathews was named to head the church's 40-country missionary program. Ten years later he was elected a bishop by the Indian Church but refused it because he believed the post should be filled by an Indian. He subsequently was elected a bishop in the United States in 1960 and was assigned responsibilities in the Boston Area. Dr. Mathews is a trustee of Boston University and recen ly finished a two-year term as president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. He holds the Ph D. from Columbia University. After his Ash Wednesday appearance as a part of DePauw's weekly worship chapel. Bishop Mathews will be hosted at an informal session in Charterhouse.

House-Senate Group Confers On New Tax Cut Withholding Rate

“As a follow-up on the President’s announced intention to move the naval base at Guantanamo toward greater selfsufficiency, the services of a number of Cuban workers are being terminated. “The secretary of defense regrets that the irresponsibile action of Fidel Castro necessitated

this action.”

Natives Wary Of 'Gold Strike' SMYRNA. S. C., UPI—Residents of this tiny town in the South Carolina hill country today were hopeful, but wary, about a reported rich gold strike that sparkle a “curiosity rush,

into the area.

“There’s been a good many times when folks insisted they found the real thing, but the big strike hasn't been found in 100 years of mining,” said Mayor W. M. Faulkner Jr. Canadian prospectors Frank Mills and Frank Cockbum, working for Natto Corp., of Toronto, claimed Monday they had found an "extremely rich” gold vein in an old mine near here. Mills said his discovery “has the potential to be one of the biggest gold mining ventures in the country.”

WASHINGTON UPI Quick agreement by House-Senate conferees on a withholding rate in the new tax cut bill could mean more take-home pay for most Americans as early as the first week of March. The negotiators agreed Monday to include in the final measure a Senate-passed provision to drop the present 18 per cent federal withholding rate to 14 per cent

this year.

The House-passed bill would have lowered the rate to 15 per cent this year to 14 per cent next Jan. '1 but President Johnson asked for the 14 per cent rate immediately to pump a quick $800 million a month into the U. S. economy in higher take-home pay.

The quick agreement on withholding put industry on notice to get ready to translate the tax cut into fatter paychecks. The bill's supporters hope to get the final measure on the President’s desk by Feb. 22, with the new withholding rate effective on March paychecks. The action Monday came at the first meeting of 14 conferees reeking to work out the differences between the Senate and House tax bills. They will meet again next Monday to start voting on the compromise bilL Congressional aides, issuing revised estimates, said the House bill would cut taxes by $11.2 billion, and the Senate bill by $11.8

billion.

SYDNEY UPI — Australia’s navy minister announced today that 85 crewmen are missing from the destroyer Voyager, which was split in two and sunk Monday night in a collision with the aircraft carrier Melbourne 20 miles off the southeast coast. The Voyager, blacked out except for its mast lights, apparently cut across the larger ship’s path during night maneuvers. Its captain, Duncan Stevens, was feared dead. Both ships were reported moving at 30 knots—about 34 miles per hour. No death toll was given because sec. and air searchers were still in progress, but one rescued crewman said he feared all the men in the sliced-off forward section of the destroyer were

dead.

Up to 100 of the Voyager’s 324man crew had been in that section, which turned over and sank 15 minutes after the Melbourne's prow battered it free of the rest of the ship. The other section stayed afloat three hours. There were no casualties on the Melbourne, which is more than six times larger that the destroyer, and the carrier. although damaged, took part in the rescue and search work. The Melbourne, flagship of the Australian navy, had about 1,000 men aboard. Library Exhibit Is Of Interest The Greencastl e-Putnam County Library has set up a number of exhibits in the observance of the February holidays. For books on Abraham Lincoln, the newest titles are: Horgan, Citizen of New Salem; Cavanah, Abe Lincoln gets his chance; Foster, Abraham Lincoln’s world; Bragdon, Abanham Lincoln, courageous leader; Hays, Abe Lincoln's birthday; Commanger. The Great Proclamation: Nathan. Lincoln's America. For observance of Valentine day. Sechrist, Red Letter Days; McSpadden The Book of Holidays; Bianco, The Valentine Party; Lee, A History of Valentines: Hays, Story of Valentine and My Valentine; by the Ideals Publishing Company, describe the spirit of the day. Books on the life and times of George Washington include: Foster. George Washington's World; Hays, George Washington’s Birthdays, Eaton, George Washington. Judson, George Washington, Meadowcroft, The story of George Washington and several other excellent titles.

WGRF To Give U. S. Jury Indicts News Broadcasts Six Steel Firms

Play To Open In Speech Hall

An anonymous donor has given DePauw University’s educational radio station WGRE $570 to underwrite teletype (Associated Press) news service. The gift from a DePauw alumnus will enable the 250-watt FM station to broadcast four news shows daily to its listening area which covers a radius estimated at 35-40 miles. Major news broadcasts now scheduled for 7:30 a.m. and 6-8 and 10 p.m. The station, according to its news director Ray Williamson, discontinued all but local news last fall because of a lack of funding. The Associated Press service, which offers state, national and international news coverage, was installed at the station February

1.

An open house, marking the installation of the wire service, was held at the station last night.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UPI — U. S. Steel Corp. and five other steel firms have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of rigging bids in violation of

antitrust laws.

The indictments, returned here Monday, charged the steel fabricating forms with conspiring from 1949 to 1961 to divide the structural steel market among themselves to set prices and exclude other competition. The five other firms are located in Min-

neapolis-St. Paul.

20 Years Ago

Edgar Prevo spent the day at his farm near West Union, Illi-

nois.

The Woman’s Study Club met with Mrs. John Cook. Mrs. Ray

Herbert had the program.

Mrs. Josef Sharp was hostess

to Section Two of the

Church.

Dismissed Monday: Mrs. Ernest Wells and daughter, Mrs. Abraham Lewis and son, Dora Batman, Clara Flint, Mabel Starr, Greencastle; Mrs. Frank Sweeney and daughter, Audrey Allen. Clara Prichard, Cloverdale; Mrs. Joe Mosteller and son, Crawfordsville; Mrs. Raymond Campbell and son, Fillmore; Dorothy Fiscus, Gosport; Alta Buchanan,

Christian Coatesville; Willie Taylor, Po-

land.

Only hours after the announce-

ment, cars began rolling into the Python At LarC)6

area to view the mineshaft. By nightfall, Faulkned estimated that more than 100 cars, from as far as Tennessee and Virginia, had traveled through the town.

SANTA BARBARA. Calif., UPI—A 15-foot python described as “potentially dangerous" was

being hunted today.

Persistant German VIENNA UPI —An East German escaped from behind the Iron Curtain by riding on the differential of a tourist bus in his fifth attempt to reach the West, Austrian authorities said Monday.

Peter Batten. 45, keeper of the Child Estate Zoo at Carbrillo Beach here, reported the snake missing Monday from its heated glass enclosure. The zoo keeper said the snake was not poisonous, but that it could inflict injury from biting or wwtion.

Returns Home MOSCOW UPI — Valentina Nikolayev-Tereshkova, the Soviet Union's pioneer space woman, returned home Monday from a visit to Britain. During her week-long visit, the cosmonette met with Queen Elizabeth. Both women are expecting. He Gets Letters MADISON, Wis.. UPI — Jack Olson said he has been flooded with letters—some anti-Negro, some anti-Semitic and some antiCatholic since President Johnson’s 16-year-old daughter, Lucy Baines, visited him last month. The University of Wisconsin student also said many of the letters urged him to use his "contacts” for favors in Washington. “Our course, I don't believe any of the writers," he said. "In any event, they are troubling themselves for nothing.”

The operatic adaptation of Bret Harte’s famous story. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” will be presented at DePauw University Feb. 13-14-15 at 8:15 p. m. in Speech Hall. Charles Simons of Kentland and Kay Harrer of LaPorte will sing the leads in the opera which was adapted in 1960 from Harte's story about the California gold rush years. The familiar story concerns four people who are expelled from the self-righteous little town of Poker Flat—a gambler, a sluice robber, and two women of ill re-

pute.

As the group camps in the mountains enroute to the next town, they are joined by two teenagers running away to get married. The sluice robber, tired of being ordered about, steals the horses during the night while a heavy snow is falling, thus abandoning the oddly-assorted

group to the laments.

Appearing in the cast with Simons and Miss Harrer will be Tim Grodrian of Fort Wayne, Jeannie Buchanan of Milford, Iowa, Judie Beyer of Chicago Heights, 111., Dave Baxter of LaGrange, 111., and Professor Thom-

Heavy Snowfall In Dixie States A storm churned northeastward through the Virginias today, dumping heavy snow in the Middle Atlantic states and leaving a 6-inch blanket of snow in northern Kentucky and West Vir-

ginia.

Heavy snow warnings were in effect for West Virginia through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southeastern New York State. Field Small But Jet Lands Safely JACKSON, Miss. UPI — Employes of the small, private airport gazed in astonishment as the big jet airliner gracefully landed and then screeched to a halt with a frantic grinding of brakes. They knew what the co-pilot of the Delta Airlines Convair 88C, enroute from Dallas to New York with 58 persons aboard, learned the second he saw the narrow runway-somebody had goofed. While pilot B. B. Barclay, 46, was busily engaged in monitoring instruments, Woeber had landed at Hawkins Field, eight miles away from the new municipal airport. Hawkins Field had served as the Jackson Airport until it was closed last year as too small for jet traffic. Woeber was able to stop the airliner 150 feet from the end of the rumvay. Reapportion Law Parley Scheduled INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Governor Welsh planned a conference today on what to do about a legislative ghost which was brought back from the dead by the Indiana Supreme Court. Several leaders of the 1963 Legislature who had worked for weeks on a reapportionment plan Welsh vetoed last spring hailed the return to life of the plan as “gratifying,” “Beneficial,” and “an honest attempt to reappor-

tion.”

The high court’s ruling held that a special session of the legislature which immediately followed a regular session should be considered as the continuation of the same session, and not a new r one. It had the effect of giving new life at least four bills which Welsh had vetoed after a lapse of more than three days. Welsh scheduled a meeting with the reapportionment specialists on the staff of Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers to decide his next move in the reapportionment tangle. At the time he vetoed the plan he said it “does little or nothing to accomplish equitable representation among the citizens of Indiana."

Rex Is Supreme At Mardi Gras

NEW ORLEANS UPI — Rex, monarch of Mardi Gras, leads a rebellion against care and worry today that will turn this old city into one of make-believe and madness. His several hundred thousand subjects celebrated the overthrow by parading, dancing, singing and drinking in the streets. Mild temperatures, and invasion by college students and sailors and a heavy turnout of na-

WASHINGTON UPI— Overwhelming House approval of sweeping civil rights bill gave its backers new confidence today that they could get the measure safely past a certain Senate fili-

buster.

After nine days of debate and action on 138 amendments, the House passed the bill Monday night by a vote of 200 to 130. It is designed to wipe out discrimination in voting, public accommodations, employment, education and use of federal funds. The bill now goes to the Senate where it faces a determined Southern effort to talk it to death. No attempt to start debate is expected until late this month, however. President Johnson hailed the House vote as “an historic step forward for the cause of human dignity in America.” In a White House statement he added: “Now the task is for the Senate. I hope the same spirit of nonpartisanship will prevail there to assure passage of this bill, guaranteeing the fundamental rights of all Americans.” Voting for the bill were 152 Democrats and 138 Republicans. Opposed were 96 Democrats and 34 Republicans. Before the last House member answered the showdown rollcall, civil rights leaders were getting ready for the Senate struggle. And they plainly did not expect

to lose.

Coy Qilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, had this to say: “We are aware of the dire predictions that have been made about what the Senate will do to the bill when it gets there. We do not believe them. The same voices, we remember, prophesied last year that only a very weak bill could win House approval.” The House-passed bill could not be described as weak in any respect. With the possible exception of housing, the measureing attempts to meet Negro demands for equality in nearly every field of national life. Coed Smothers Own Daughter BLOOMINGTON UPI — An Indiana University coed was being held today in the Monroe County Jail on a homicide warrant charging she smothered her 2 *4 -year-old daughter. Dr. Neal E. Baxter, coroner, said late Monday that Mrs. Frances McCallister, 27, apparently smothered the child in bed with pillows and blankets. Ex-Governor Dies DENVER, Colo. UPI —John C. Vivian, 76. who served as governor of Colorado from 1943 to 1947 died Monday of cancer.

Hltilllill Fhe 1 Feather And Local Temperatures

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as Fitzpatrick, instructor in voice tives and touri s^ pointed to a

at DePauw. NOW YOU KNOW The U.S. one-dollar bill is supposed to have an average life of 13 months, and when retired is burned by the federal reserve banks, according to the World Alamanac.

record-smashing Mardi Gras cele-

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