The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 May 1964 — Page 7

THE DAILY BANNER

GREENCASTLE f INDIANA

Library Receives Two Prize Books

Two of the books which recently won Pulitzer Prizes in

his death in Rome at age twen-

ty-two.

Professor Bate, who is chairman of the English Department at Harvard University, and has access to the Keats collection at Harvard’s Houghton Library, is a renowned Keats scholar

literature are in the Greencas- and has spent twenty-five years

tle-Putnam County Library.

“John Keats,” by Walter Jackson Bate, won the biography award. It is an account of Keats’ life and works until

studying and checking details of Keats’ life. His work is an

exhaustive study with the elements

Hofstadter, won the award in

general non-fiction.

Dr. Hofstadter is professor of American history at Columbia University. His book traces the origins and development of intellectualism in America and examines the groups who have opposed, feared and hated ideologies advanced by the intellectuals. The book is thoroughly

concerned documented and will be stimu-

of Keats’ i lating reading.

LEAGUE LOOKS At Greencastle, Our Growing City

style and philosophy of poetry. I These books will be on dis“A n t i - Intellectualism i n play for one week at the LiAmerican Life,” by Richard brary.

TRAGIC “JUNK YARD"—Wreckage and disintegrated bodies cover a quarter mile area after a turbo-prop airliner crashed into a hill on a ranch near Danville, Calif., killing all 44 persons aboard. A fireman said, “If you didn't know that was a plane crash, you would think it was a junk yard.”

EVD OF BUSY DAY—President Lyndon Johnson is surrounded by happy New Jersey Democrats as Governor Richard Hughes (left) and Senator Harrison Williams wave to • jam-packed audience in convention hall, the site of the 1964 Democratic convention. The President addressed the fund raising ralley climaxing a busy day of public appearances which began in New York City where he addressed union members and dedicated a cultural center named for President Kennedy.

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The Greencastle League of Women Voters presents this column in order to interest the community in and inform it about local, state, and national governmental issues.

The city is one of the few aspects of modern life which has been allowed to grow without design or plan. This has resulted in annoying street patterns; inadequate utilities, parking facilities, and play areas; the expense of relocating buildings and streets; and many other inconveniences and inadequacies. Greencastle, like other small cities, has grown with little planning or adequate zoning. This becomes apparent when trying to cross town at a rush hour on one of the few main arteries. Or when viewing the unattractive approaches into and out of the city. Or when trying to find a parking space in the downtown Area. Or when sending one’s child to school on streets without sidewalks. Or when competing with the highway traffic to shop downtown. Or when the storm and sanitary sewers become unable to handle the flow during heavy rains. Or when new or resurfaced streets are tom up to lay new or replace water, sewer, and gas mains. If planning is not done now, Greencastle will have an increasing number of problems similar to those cited above. Of course, all of the city’s problems could not have been and cannot now be prevented by planning, but the Greencastle League of Women Voters and other local people feel that effort and money spent now on planning would prevent expense and inconvenience in the future and make an already good place in which to live, a better one.

Greencastle is developing in all four directions, particularly to the north, south, and east. A 1959 city ordinance allows the city to plan and zone a two mile area beyond the city limits. It is for this area that planning is particularly important. But much benefit for the inner city as well could result from planning. Problem areas for which solutions could be proposed are; traffic routes; parking needs; through-ways and the elimination of some of the many dead-end streets; sewerage facilities; re-zonlng of areas for business, industry, and for protection of residential areas; and public building sites.

The local LWV, after discus-

Some of the methods used by other communities to obtain a plan have been: professional assistance from state agencies, voluntary help from qualified local citizens (preceding the hiring of a professional), provision of funds in the city budget to pay for professional service, private donations, and federal aid. The federal government offers two-thirds of the amount needed as an incentive to encourage eligible small communities to develop comprehensive plans. If you are interested in seeing our city grow in an orderly manner you are interested in a comprehensive plan for Greencastle. If Greencastle is to obtain such a plan the City Plan Commission will need the support of citizens in the community and your city councilman will need to be made aw'are of your concern about the subject. The Greencastle

sion, has promoted since 1958 LWV urges you to contact these and is currently promoting a people or write Mayor Fisher at written comprehensive plan for City Hall.

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MARCH OF EVENTS

ONLY BAD BLOOPER CAN STOP JOHNSON

LODGE'S PROSPECTS NOW LOOK BETTER

By HENRY CATHCART

Central Press Washington Writer

WTASHINGTON—Unless he makes some awful bobbles in the W next few months. President Lyndon B. Johnson appears to be a shoo-in to win election to the White House. As things are running now any such untoward event must be considered

an extremely outside chance.

Not only has Johnson grasped the presidential office with both

hands, he is benefitting immeasurably from the obvious disarray in the Republican camp. If Henry Cabot Lodge’s popularity continues to mount, as now seems inevitable, he will be the GOP candidate to face Johnson. And that would face the President with a relatively easy man to beat based on Lodge's lackadaisical run for the vice presidency in 1960. Should Sen. Barry Goldwater succeed ia capturing enough convention votes to win on an early ballot—the only way he can get the GOP presidential nomination-^Johnson. will face an even easier man to beat. Since President Kennedy’s death. Goldwater’s popularity

has slid consistently.

It is extremely doubtful that either Lodge or Goldwater can, if nominated, heal the wide split in their party between GOP convention

time and the elections. Even if either could, Goldwater cannot capture the independent votes he would need to win, and Lodge would be expected to run poorly in the South and West These political realities, and others of a similar nature, are ironic in a way because when Johnson assumed the presidency Washington poliUcians believed he could not run as well as Kennedy would have this year. But that estimate has been changed. Johnson, from all that is visible now, seems headed toward a

record-breaking plurality at the polls. ^

• TWO CONGRESSMEN of opposing political parties happened to sit next to each other at a baseball game. The Republican said, apropos of nothing in particular, I’That President of yours is a master politician.” The Democrat replied, "You didn't have to go to the ball park to find that out, did you?” To which the GOP fellow sadly rejoined, “No. but I thought at

the ball game I might forget if

Henry Cabot

Lodge

Popularity groioing.

• THAT SILVER DOLLAR SHORTAGE—The United States

Treasury has run out of silver dollars and in the face of a heavy demand for them Congress has been, thus far, unwilling to provide money

needed to mint new ones.

However, some resourceful men from the West, where the silver dollar is a common and much

used mpdi»ra of exchange, have found a way to beat it Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana proudly Showed renorters the product of these ingenious men. It was two half-

dollar pieces glued together.

Meet The "Eight-Bit"

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Greencastle. A comprehensive plan is a written document which defines long-range city growth for a future period of about twenty-five years. The document would include maps, charts, and text to describe the proposed developement in streets, public utilities, all public buildings, land use, population growth, health facilities, etc. It would also include maps and written descriptions of what we already have. Such a plan is, in general, an outline to use as a guide for the City Plan Commission in carrying out its responsibilities, and for the City Council, which makes the final decisions on matters concerning community growth and developement. City planning authorities point out that there are three basic interrelated instruments which are required to meet the problems of a growing community: a comprehensive city plan, a zoning ordinance, and a building code or ordinance which establishes minimum standards for construction. Greencastle does have a zoning ordinance and a building code, but it lacks an ordinance to control land use in developments of less than ten acres. The Greencastle City Plan Commission has supported longrange planning since 1961. They have been and are presently exploring methods for obtaining assistance from state agencies. Other cities similar to Greencastle which have developed city plans are being contacted to find out the means used and the success attained in planning.

THE END OF A PERFECT, 16-HOUR DAY—Talking to newsmen in Atlanta, Ga„ before retiring, President Johnson’s face reflects no strain from a 16-hour day in which he attacked poverty in 14 speeches in six states. An estimated 450,000 Americans listened to the President in Appalachia.

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