The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 July 1964 — Page 1
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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO
Pres. Johnson
Signs Civil Rights
Bill Into Effect
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1964
Heat Wave
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE NO. 216
Negroes Test
Civil Rights Law Continued Today
WASHINGTON UPI — The strongest civil rights law since Reconstruction was in force today with Negro leaders promising early tests of its anti-dis-cnmination provisions and op-
ponents preparing to challenge ed in procurring
its legality in court.
ATLANTA UPI — Negroes tested the new civil rights law without incident in a number of southern restaurants Thursday night, but their leaders urged them to proceed with
caution in some areas.
In one of these areas, Mississippi. Gov. Paul Johnson warned “there are tremendous dangers in the enforcement of this legislation.” He advised Negroes to make their tests slowly “or we're going to have some chao-
The Daily Banner is interest- tic days."
But southern restauranteurs.
By United Press International
treated and released at a local
hospital.
Thunderstorms dumped 1.23 inches of rain at Concord, N.H., in six hours during the night and more than an inch at Bris-
Will Hold Line On Further Cuts WASHINGTON UPI — Sen-
A summer heat wave contin- Term. A waterspout was a ^ e Foreign Relations Commit-
ued to scorch wide areas of the sighted about 40 miles southnation today but potent thun- east of Miami, Fla. derstorms and high winds Heavier rain hit wide areas
tee Chairman J. William Fulbright voiced guarded hopes today that the Senate will hold
brought relief to some sections. ear her in the evening, with the ^ ne a g a > n ''t further cuts in
New Orleans, La. Naval Air th® 53.467 billion foreign aid au-
Station getting hit with 2.35 thorization biU.
Banner Seeks Photographs
inches of rain. Fulbright’s committee ap-
proved the amount Thursday,
Guards Are Wounded cuttin g only $50 million from
AVIV, Israel UPI
the S3.517 billion President Johnson.
asked by But, said
old photo-
Tests were made in the South
graphs of Greencastle and Put- for the most part, reluctantly nam County. The photographs agreed to comply with the new
without incident.
President Johnson signed the
measure
“We have no alternative.” the Georgia Restaurant
Association.
Negroes were served in seven
will be published in conjunction law.
by _ ind ? V ! dU ff fl _ ThUrSday the the weekly “Good Old Days” said
column.
Photographs should not ex-
historic measure Thursday ceed 4 inches wide or five inches restaurants in Albany, Ga., long night only five hours after the deep. Only photographs of great a segregation stronghold, and house, on a 289 to 126 vote, interest will be accepted in large several eating places in Savani ompleted final congressional form. nah. Ga.. admitted Negores approval one year and two Information concerning the Thursday night, weeks after the legislation was subject of the photograph Shortly after President Johnintroduced. should be supplied along with *o n signed the bill. Negroes “This act is a challenge to the name and address of the Robert Ingram and Prince Meal! of us to go to work in our donor. All donations will be Intosh entered Morrison s Cafestates and communities, in our appreciated and will be return- te n a in Jacksonville, Fla., and homes and in our hearts, to ed. a tvhite woman in the serving eliminate the last vestiges of Photographs that are mailed ^n® asked, “may I help you? ’ injustice in America,” Johnson to the Banner Office should be ' " € decided just to go along said. enforced with a strong card- and obe y la ' v of the land ” “We must not approach the board backing to prevent dam- said Manager Bert Graham, enforcement of this law in a age. Do not glue photograph to “ There w-ere no incidents, vengeful spirit Its purpose is the backing. The Banner will ° ne restaurant owner, hownot to punish. Its purpose is not accept no responsibility for ever - decided to close down. 4 1 to divide but to end divisions— photographs damaged in mail- auit - ’ said Budd y Glover, who
has operated a restaurant for 27 years in Richmond, Va. “It’s going to be a financial
An 80 mile an hour windstorm hit Dumas, Tex., late Thursday night, smashing windows and collapsing a big frame warehouse. An electrical
storm knocked out power and TEL
phone lines in Laredo while Syrians firing across the bor- FulbHgM “I‘m7ure there will showers, wind and billowing der wounded two Israel border stm be efforts to cut it ” dust buffeted West Texas along guards and a tractor driver eIt0rtS CUt lt ‘
a line from Lubbock to the Ok-
lahoma border.
Winds gusting up to 60 m.p.h. ended a movie at a drive-in theater near Norfolk, Neb., when the screen was blown down on top of an automobile. Occupants of the car were
Attorney General Concludes Tour Of Red Bloc
Iowa "Badman"
Is Extradited
Fulbright said he saw little Ronald Harris Brown, alais
near the settlement of Ashmora chance of Senate action on the Jimmy Bryant, the Iowa “BadThursday, an Israeli military measure until after the Repub- man” who was apprehended
spokesman said.
By United Press International
Despite years of cold war, the popular acclaim accorded Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy in Poland is evidence of a great reservior of good will towarl the United States existing not only in Poland but among
lican cenvention beginning July June 22 in a stolen car, has been others of the European Commu-
He said Sprians also fired on 13. But the S3.467 billion figure extradited by Iowa authorities. bloc as well.
Israeli border patrol near approved by the Senate com-
mittee gave President Johnson F ranc i s
his second foreign aid victory Brcm -n- s sentence in a special and Hungary and also, some-
in two days.
an
Darbashia Wednesday until a United Nations truce team ap-
peared on the scene.
Putnam Circuit Court Judge
Hamilton suspended
American visitors have noted it especially in Czechoslovakia
, x - $j» ■
divisions which have lasted too ing. long. Its purpose is national,
not regional.’’
Martin Luther Kmg. one of more than 200 persons invited to attend the White House ceremony, which also was wit-
School Board Elects New Officers For Year The first meeting of the newly formed Greencastle Commun-
nessed by a nationwide radio ity Schools was held Wednesday and television audience, said night. July 1, 1964. his Southern Christian Leader- At this meeting Charles A. ship Conference planned to test Poe was elected President; Dale
the new law immediately.
L. Shoup. secretary: and
He said the first strategy he Beverly Wagoner, treasurer. Wallace and his colleagues would follow Other members of the Board are would be “operation dialogue.” Allan E. Feld, and Jack W.
an effort to have southern lead- Torr.
ers, partlculsirly businessmen, This Board will continue to issue statements of intention to hold regular meetings on the
loss, but dollars and cents can’t take the place of principles. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama termed the new law unconstitutional and said he would not participate in a series of conferences with Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges to discuss the law. “It should and will be tested in the courts .. said
comply with the new law. After a relatively short period, King said “operation implementation” would begin in 35 or more southern towns and cities. Where resistance or recalcitrance was encountered, the Negro leader promised his followers would make "dramatic
moves.”
Bitter And Painful Says Fidel Castro HAVANA UPI —Cuban Pre-
second Monday of each month.
Ready To Discount
Testimony
WASHINGTON UPI —Angry
School Board meetings are members of the Warren Corn-
open to the public.
Port Commission
In A Squeeze
INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana Port Commission is
mission appear ready to discount testimony of a witness who claims to have information about a meeting of key figures in events surrounding John F.
Kennedy’s assassination. “Until you can give us cor-
roboration of what you have
finding itself in a squeeze be- said - then we ' vil] have every tween diminishing funds and reason to doubt what you say,” the rising cost of land in the Chief Justice Earl Warren, vicinity of the proposed Bums head of the commission, told
New York attorney Mark Lane
Thursday.
Lane appeared before the
WINNERS OF 4-H CONTEST
Ditch port on Lake Michigan. Lewis Grafft. new secretary-
mier Fidel Castro said Wednes- treasurer, told the commission
day night the defection of his Thursday that an estimated commission for the second time sister, Juana, to Mexico was S241.000 is left from the 5700,- tor questioning about the source “very bitter and profoundly 000 the 1961 and 1963 legisla- of information he says he has
tures appropriated for the com
Winners of the Putnam County 4-H Junior Demonstration Contest held June 29 in the Junior High School Auditorium are shown above. First row (left to right) Ruthie Miller. Teri Shonkwiler and Beekv McFarland. Second row (left to right) Debbie Donelson, Carolyn Torr and Janet Crosby. Photo by Martin Kruse
painful” to him.
It was Castro’s first comment mission, on his sister’s flight from the island which she described as
“an immense prison.”
At a reception in the Canadian Embassy, Castro said Miss
New Cloverdale School Board In cognizance of the
about a meeting among Jack Ruby, Dallas police officer J.D.
Tippitt and another man in Ruby's Dallas night club. Ruby shot and killed Lee
Harvey Oswald before a startled nationwide television audinew ence Nov. 24, two days after
Castro’s charges against the
Cuban government were “ed- school reorganization plan Os\v a ki allegedly assassinated ited in the United States Em- which became effective July 1, K enn ®dy and Tippitt. Lane was
bassy m Mexico.’
1964. the Cloverdale Commun- once retained by Oswald’s
They contam all the infamy ity School Board officially took mother to defend her son's
which imperialism has con- office Thursday night.
name before the panel investi-
ceived against tne Cuban revo- The new board, which is an grating Kennedy’s death.
lution.” Castro said in a writ- interim board, will have control
ten statement.
As he did in his first appear-
Fined For
Spanking Girl
over matters in Cloverdale, a 00 ® before the commission Jackson, Jennings and Taylor March 4. Lane refused to anTownships until July 1st. 1965. srwer commission questions Owen County members in- about the source of his inforclude Woodrow Sharp, presi- mation. He also refused to prodent, Jerry B. Orman, and Mrs. duce a tape recording he Zerelda John, treasurer. Those claims was made during an in-
TRURO, England UPI — A representing Cloverdale Town- terview between himself and 60-year-old headmaster was ship are Leonard Mann, Wayne Mrs. Helen Markham, an eyefined $150 today for spanking Branneman. Elvin Smith, vice- witness to the shooting of Tiptwo 18-year-old girl students president, and Mrs. Charles pitt.
with a clothes brush. Whitaker, secretary. The headmaster was John The new members were sworn Lindsay Guise of Helstonin Thursday evening by Robert School in Cornwall. Wallace. Justice of the Peace of The students were Gilliam Cloverdale. Arthur Johnson of Mary Wells and Mary Angela Cloverdale is the superinten-
dent.
John Skelton Died Friday
John E. Skelton, 79, well known Greencastle resident passed away Friday morning
Smith, 58, senior headmistress Former Resident Dies at the Putnam County Hospital,
where he had been a patient the
Robert W. Walker, former past few days, resident of this city, died Mr. Skelton was born in PutThursday evening in Blooming- nam County'. October 1, 1884,
Hale Guise
and Mrs. Marjone
to the school, pleaded guilty to assaulting the two girls b>
spanking them last April 27. 20 Years Ago
ton.
Survivors are his
Lettie; two sons, Arthur,
and had spent most all his life wife, in this community. Survivors are: the wife. Ber-
Sgt. John McAnally was Bloomington and H. F. Walker, tha Sears Skelton; one daugh-
home on leave Stewart, Georgia.
from Camp Kokomo.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion P. Seiler Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the and son, of St. Paul, Minn., Greene-Harrell Funeral Home
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. in Bloomington.
Elmer Seller.
ter. Hazel, at home; several
Funeral services will be held nieces and nephews and other
relatives.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the
Graveside services will be Rector Funeral Home. Inter-
hearing yesterday afternoon to what to theu ' surprise, in the permit officials from the Iowa ^ ovie * 1 n ‘ on itself.
former Presiwas received with somewhat more restraint by a government which would have preferred less of a grassto the Polish
Men’s Reformatory to depart Officially the with Brown as soon as possible, dent’s brother Hamilton ajourned the trial between Albert Kellett and the Lone Star Cement Corp. to permit the sentencing and the roots approach signing of the extradition pap- people. ers - As for the attorney general s Roy Smith, assistant warden, visit to Stefan Cardinal Wysand Lloyd Hoyle. Business man- zynski, the government would ager, of the Reformatory at have preferred that it not take Anamosa, Iowa left Greencastle place at all.
The cardinal is regarded as the Communist regime's great-
this morning with Brown in cus-
tody'.
Brown faces a 29 year jail est political enemy, sentence upon return to Iowa. Since it would be impossible
for Kennedy to disassociate himself from his own official capacity in the United States government, his visit took on the expression of a “show the flag” mission m which the U.S.
, , _ , _. . ^ expressed its good will toward dais reported thts mornmg that the polish ami llt
Two Arrests
Made Last Night City and county police offi-
two arrests
night.
Robert Martz.
were made last
port of the church in its battle
for independence.
As a matter of U.S. policy it
polis. was arrested last night by ^ ^ wjth U-S _ efforts to tak .
29. Indiana-
Sheriff Kenneth Knauer and lodged in the Putnam County jail. He was charged with “deceptive issuance of a check.”
Lee Patrick Sisson, 17, 1218 friendship tics-
N. Park, Casa Grande, Arizona, was arrested at 12:06 last night by Officer Bill Masten. Sisson was cited for speeding on North
Jackson Street.
advantage of the current relaxation among the satellites to loosen the bonds to Moscow and to re-establish old cultural and
Polish peopl*, on particularly
First Weekend Traffic Death
Among the Kennedy was solid ground.
In an Impromptu address to one of the throngs which surged around his party, Kennedy asked how many had relatives in the United States. About one in three raised a
hand.
8y United Press International
Indiana chalked up its first holiday weekend traffic death Thursday night slightly less
than two hours after the long Veterans of Barracks 1994 will
WWI Notice
Cloverdale Barrack W. W.
Safety officials meet Tuesday, July 7, 7:00
at least 15 P- m - Carry in dinner.
Ralph F. Fry, Commander
Continue Investigation NEW YORK UPI — The Coast Guard today continued the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of marathon swimmer Britt Sullivan, 29, for-
merly of Sellersburg, Ind. Masonic Notice
Stated meeting of Cloverdale Chapter No. 369 Wednesday evening, July 8. at 7:30 p.m.
Visitors are welcome. Jean Stallcap, W. M.
O.E.S. Notice
330
8:30
Groveland O.E.S. No. stated meeting July 7th, p.m. honoring officers.
Eva Day, W.M
period began, have predicted
deaths on Hoosier Highways by the time the holiday ends at
midnight Sunday.
The death brough the state’s toll for the year to at least 566 compared with 575 on this date
last year.
The first holiday victim was
George W. Grant Jr., a sailor attached to the Great Lakes, 111., Naval Training Center. Grant was killed Thursday night when his car went out of control on U.S. 41 near Kentland, crossed the centerline and col-
lided with a tractor-trailer. The driver of the truck,
James N. Akins, 38. Chattanooga, Tenn., was not injured.
Rose Hinsching Died Thursday
Rose Hinsching, 92, Green- Stated meeting of Morton castle, died Thursday evening Chapter 356. O.E.S. \\ ednesday at the Eventide Rest Home evening. July 8, at 7:30. Followafter an extended illness. i n 8" a short business meeting, She was born October 12, there will be a program and 1871 in Greencastle. the daugh- social hour honoring Mrs. Ott ter of Gerhardt and Wilhelmina Thomas. Mrs. Thomas has reHinsching. tired as organist after serving She had been a member of the chapter faithfully for thirthe Presbyterian Church smee ty-six years. Visiting members 1896. She made her home with welcome. her niece, Mrs. William Kocher Kathleen Sutherhn, W.M.
for the past forty years. Survivors are the niece, Mrs.
Kocher; five grand nieces and nephews and eleven great-
grandnieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Green castle. Rev. Thomas
Heinlein will officiate. Inter- through ment will be in Forest Hill pleasant
Cemetery.
Friends may call at the fun- 60's. High Saturday around 90.
Mostly sunny and quite warm
Saturday, fair and tonight. High today
around 90. Low tonight upper
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence held at Brick Chapel Cemetery ment will be in Forest Hill
Crump announced the engage- Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ment of their daughter. Evelyn Hopkins-Walton Funeral Vlarie, to Pfc, Thomas L. Rob- Home is in charge of local arfen* tangements.
Cemetery. Friends may call at the family residence at 319 Gillespie Street.
SENIOR DIVISION WINNERS OF 4-H CONTEST The winner of the Senior Division of the Putnam County 4-H Demonstration Contest held in the Junior High School Auditorium are: Seated (left to right) Wanda Ellis and Debby Smith. Standing (left to right) Patty Mitchell and Janet Lucas. Photo by Martin Krusa
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