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VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1964

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

NO. 269

DePauw Expects 703 Freshmen For Fall Semester

Headed for a near record enrollment in its freshman class, DePauw University commences its 12Sth academic year Sunday, September 13. The 703 first-year students represents the University’s big-ge-t freshman class since a record 726 entered the fall of 1960. Thirty-five states will be represented by the incoming group. Combined figures for all four classes will shove the total 1964-65 enrollment mark to over 2.300. only a shade below the record year of 1962 when 2.331 students entered the private liberal arts college. Orientation week activities, stretching from next Sunday to the beginning of classes September 21. will be launched with traditional student-parent-faculty conferences the opening day at 2 p. m.. followed two hours later by a Student Senate reception. Dean of the University Dr. Robert Farber will extend the college’s welcome to the expected throng of 2.000 parents and students and introduce members of the University community. The President of the University. Dr. William E. Kerstetter, will address new students at an all-campus convocation Sunday, Sept. 20 The remainder of the week will be devoted to placement examinations, auditions for undergraduate musical groups, orientation meetings and Greek

rush.

Though not directly involved, new students join the college generation at DePauw which will for the first time find successful completion of comprehensive examinations a requirement for graduation. Inaugurated on a trial oa^is in 1961. the oral and written comprehensives become mandatory next spring for all B.A. degree candidates. Throughout the year faculty and staff members will further define and develop a new academic program and calendar that was approved last spring. Featuring two 16-week semesters terminated by one-week reading periods and examinations. the streamlined program will emphasize courses rather than semester hours and move in the direction of increased independent study. The program, to become effective for the 1965-66 academic vear, will advance the opening of school to the first week of September, 1965. DePauw University's international ties, already solid with a -emester abroad program at the University of Friedburg. (Continued on Page 2)

Jewelry Store Entered, Looted City police Saturday investigated a break-in and robbery at the Drake Jewelry Store. 109 East Seminary Street. An estimated $1,900 in watches. rings and other jewelry items were reported as stolen. The thief or thieves first tried to pry open the door to the store and then tried to pry open a window. Entrance was gained by removing an air conditioning unit from a window. The robbery was not discovered until the store was opened for business Saturday morning. Dallas Runyan is owner and manager of the firm. Clara R. Collins Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Clara R. Collins, So. well known resident of Greencastle. Route 1, died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Saylor, 5921 Cadillac Drive, Speedway. She was bom in Indiana on December 7. 1878. the daughter of John \V. and Katherine Crosby Radford. In addition to Mrs. Saylor, she is also survived by another daughter. Miss Helen Collins. Greencastle, Route 1 and one brother, Frank Radford. She was preceded in death by her husband. Harry Collins,

in 1948.

Services will be • held at the Rector Funeral Home at 3:30 p m. Tuesday with interment in Brick Chapel Cemetery. GOP Schedules Barbecue Sept. 15 Sixth District Congressman Richard L. Roudebush <R-Ind.>, will be the main speaker here for the Putnam County Republican Barbecue, <*n Tuesday, September 15. Putnam County GOP Chairman Donus E. Masten announced that barbecue serving will start at 5 p.m., followed by Congressman Roudebush's address about 8 p.m. The barbecue will be held at the Putnam County 4-H Fair-

grounds.

Congressman Roudebush is serving his second term as a L'.S. Representative from the 6th Indiana Congressional District, and is a candidate for reelection on November 3.

Teen-Age Hoodlums Riot In Two States

By United Pres» International State police and national guardsmen used dogs-, tear gas, shotgun-fired rocksalt and billy dubs today to chase thousands of teen-aged rioters out of Hampton Beach. N.H. The state militia and troopers brandishing axe handles broke up a similar disorder in an Oregon •easide resort. A hastily mobilized force of troopers from three states backed by New Hampshire guardsmen chased "an army 20 Years Ago Mrs Willard Umbreit was hostess to Active Chapter of Tn Kappa. The Fortnightly Club met with Mrs. Ray Trembly. The city schools opened with a total enrollment of 1,276 students the first day. This was an increase of 36 pupils over the previous year. Scott Kirkham was promoted to technical sergeant. He was stationed on Guam.

of hoodlums’ numbering as many as 10.000 from Hampton Beach after a night of frenzied rioting that ravaged the town and caused dozens of injuries The combined police-military force fired tear gas and rock salt to disorganize the young marauders and then ran them out of town on foot—rapping the laggards on the buttocks with clubs to speed their departure. Left behind were 100 rioters in jail and countless propetlj damage, including burned cottages. smashed windows and dented automobiles In Seaside, Ore., on the Pa citic Coast, state troopers and the National Guard maintained an uneasy peace today after the second straight night of teen-aged rioting. Helmeted troopers swinging bine-painted axe handles charged in a flying wedge into a mob of 2.000 sweat-shirted youths to break up wild disorder in the heart of town Sunday night.

_ LIONS BRING IN ANOTHER WELL Warren Township Lions Club Past President Doyle Clover expresses his feeling of gratitude as he grasps a heavy iron cable operating a drilling bit weighing some nineteen hundred pounds. The rig of Lion member Kenneth Ashworth has just brought in anothci well of water, on the grounds being developed by the Lions Club members at Putnamville. Lion Ashworth gave his bit by donating his labors and services of his driller. Tins is just another expression of the Lions Club services for community betterment.

Five Runs A/iade By City Firemen City firemen made five runs during the weekend, four on Saturday and one on Sunday. At 10:10 Saturday morning, the firemen were called to the Big Four depot where railroad ties were on fire on three freight cars. A return run was necessary at 10:30 when the fire broke out again. At 1:23 Saturday afternoon the firemen were called to extinguish a trash and weed blaze at 704 So u t h Illinois Street. A grass fire sent the firemen to the Julia Albin home, 312 Elm Street, at 2:35 p.m. Sunday morning at 10:20, the firemen made a run to a vacant lot between Avenue D and Avenue B to put out a grass

fire.

BULLETIN Word wa* received this morning that -James KeynolUs. brother ot George IJi'.iholds, city, was killed when hit h\ an automobile in llarlingten, Texas, llis IhkIx tv ill be sent to (he Rector f uneral Home here tor burial.

Dora Kicks Up Heels

MIAMI UP1 Giant and dangerous hurricane Dora churned the Atlantic on a threatening course with 130 miles an hour winds today. Weathermen warned Georgia and the Carohnas to w itch all advisories. Rough swells from Dora began licking exposed points of the Sou Ui Atlantic seaboard late Sunday night as the storm took a more westward turn from its west-northwest course at 10 m.p.h. "Fringe effects of the hurricane could reach the coas’. by late Tuesday." the Miami Weather Bureau warned. But it added that there was no • immediate'' danger to the in;.inland. At midnight EDT. the hurricane was located 750 miles east of the nation's space center at Cape Kennedy. Fla. and 360 miles south - southwest of Bermuda Highest winds were 130 m.p.h. over a small area near the center, but hurricane force winds of 75 m.p.h. or more skirted 115 miles to the northeast and 50 miles to the southwest. Gales fanned 300 miles to the northeast and 150 miles to the southwest of Dora's center. The storm was so big and sucking up so much heat from the warm Atlantic waters to

generate power, that weathermen said tropical storm Ethel to the southeast would probably be absorbed by Dora today. Ethel was located at midnight EDT 740 miles southeast of Bermuda moving west-north-westward with highest winds of 50 m.p.h. in spots near the center. Mary Hathaway Dies In Hospital Mrs. Mary Hathaway, 56, of Reelsville. Route 1, passed away at 11:15 Sunday morning in the Putnam County Hospital where she had been a patient since August 19. She was the wife of Samuel Hathaway. Arrangements are in charge of the Lawson Funeral Home in Brazil. Mrs. Barkley Dies WASHINGTON UPI Mrs. AI ben W. Barkley, widow of the former vice president, died at her home here Sunday of an apparent heart attack She was

54.

The former Jane Hadley was a 38-year-old widow when she married the 72-year-old vice president in 1949.

Barry Ready For Active Campaign PHOENIX. Ariz. UPI -Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater made final preparations today for the start of his intensive day-to-day campaigning. The senator planned to spend a quiet Labor Day at his hilltop home here. Tuesday he begins the campaign grind in

California.

Los Angeles GOP officials hope to fill 56.0U0-seat Dodger Stadium m Chavez Ravine for the first major speech of the week Tuesday. Goldwater planned to elaborate there on his proposal for automatic annual income tax cuts. Sunday Goldwater tossed a few barb-- at the Defense Deartment and expressed shock uul surprise at statements attributed to Rep. Carl Vinson, D-Ga.. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and retiring “dean" of the House. Vinson had been quoted astating that Goldwater’s election would hang crepe on the Warner Robins Air Force Base near Macon. Ga. Goldwater sent a telegram to a Macon GOP worker stating his desire to keep the Air Force strong. Goldwater said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has closed more bases in four years than were closed in the eight years of the Eisenhower administration. He added that, as a major general in the Air Force Reserve who lias devoted more than half of his life to active and reserve service, he feels he understands the need for a strong Air Force as well as Vinson' should. The senator took the occasion to renew his charge that McNamara and President Johnson are reducing Air Force strength with no new bombers presently on order.

County Council To Study 1965 County Budget

O.E.S. Notice Stated meeting of Morton Chapter 356. O.E.S.. Wednesday night. Sept. 9. at 7:30. Visiting members welcome.

Funeral Tuesday For Thos. Harmon Services for Thomas B. Harmon. 68. Limedale. will be held at the Rector Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Tuesday with burial in the Boone-Hutcheson Cemetery. Mr. Harmon passed away Saturday morning in the Putnam County Hospital where he had been a patient for several weeks. He was born in Kentucky on Nov. 20. 1895, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Howard Har-

mon.

He was a member of Temple Lodge No. t7, F. & A. M., the Fairview, Ky., Methodist Church and had been employed by DePauw University for eight years before retiring. The deceased is survived by a sister. Mrs. Kathryn VonTress; two nephews. Clarence and Robert VonTress, all of Limedale. and a niece, Faye Garmon of Charlotte, North Carolina. He was preceded in death by a sister. Ethel VonTress. in 1939. and a brother. Stephen D. Harmon, in 1950. Friends may call at the funeral home. Now You Know The republic of Chile lies on the west coast of South America between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean and has an extreme length of about 2.620 miles, with a coast line of 2.900 miles, according to t he World Almanac.

Traffic Toll Mounting

Visits Louisiana NEW ORLEANS UP! — Luci Baines Johnson, the President's teen-aged daughter, wound up her weekend stay in Louisiana with a visit Sunday to the blessing of the Morgan City, La., shrimping fleet. After the traditional ceremony she headed for Morgan City's new municipal auditorium for a shrimp feast. Surrounded by Secret Service men and her official party, she shook hands and signed autographs for more than an hour.

By United Press International The nation's Labor Day weekend traffic death toll edged above 350 today. The National Safety Council said the final total could be the worst on record for a summer holiday. A United Press International count at 4:30 a. m. EDT showed at least 352 persons dead in traffic accidents since the holiday started at 6 p. m. local time Friday. Fhe breakdown:

Traffic 352

Drowning 37

Planes 10

Miseelanneous 44

Total 143

Members of the Putnam County Council will convene in the court house Tuesday morning to go over the proposed county budget for the coming

year.

They will study the proposed budgets and levies of the various departments in order to establish what they will consider a reasonable tax rate. The County Council is composed of Eddie Buis, chairman; Paul Whitman, vice chairman; Paul Murphy, Kenneth Shannon, Charles Rady, Norman Knights and William Mullinix. Members of the Putnam County Tax Adjustment Board will convene next Monday, Sept. 14. to scan the proposed 1965 budgets of all the taxing units in the county. This board will determine the various levies and total rates which will then go to the Indiana State Tax Board for final consideration. Tax Adjustment Board members are Eugene Hutchins, Franklin Township, Ward D Mayhall, Greencastle, Eugene M. Young, Cloverdale, Embert Gardner, Russell Township, appointed by Judge Francis N. Hamilton: Eddie Buis, who will represent the County Council; Franklin Ford, representing the Board of Education, and Ray Fisher, Mayor of Greencastle, by virtue of his office. Auditor Carl Arnold vnll serve as secretary for the Tax Board. Meeting at the same time as the County Council tomorrow morning will be the Putnam County Commissioners. This is a regular monthly session and routine business will be transacted including the allowing of claims against the county. Bryle Baldwin Rites Wednesday Mrs. Bryle Baldwin, 77. died Sunday at her residence on Cloverdale R.R. 3. She was born March 31. 1887 in Owen Co. and had spent most all her life in the Millgrove community whei-e she was a member of the Millgrove Methodist church. She van married to Gilbert Baldwin in

1905.

Survivors are: the husband; one son, Richard Baldwin, Quincy; one grandson; three half sisters, Winnie Williams, Quincy, Mary Snider. Terre Haute and Dorothy McCullough, Terre Haute. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Millgrove Methodist church. Rev. June Evans will officiate. Interment will be in the Mannan Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in Cloverdale. 2 Killed, 5 Hurt ATLANTA UPI - A Uinengine airplane zoomed down over a busy expressway Sunday, tangled in a wire, plunged nose-first into a bridge abutment and flipped back onto the pavement. Two of the plane s seven passengers were killed. The other five were seriously injured. None of the hundreds of cars traveling along the thoroughfare was hit.

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COMMISSION'S EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR The Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission today released for public view ing the above photograph of its State Fair exhibit located in the Manufacturers’ Building at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Seen in front of the display are Heft to rightl Bobbie Haggard. Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission staff secretary; Larry Minnick of the Hamilton Display Manufacturing Co. which built the exhibit; Carolyn Stinnett. Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission staff member; and Carl A. Zenor, Executive Director. Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission. The exhibit summarizes 150 years of Indiana's statehood development, presents Indiana as the "Crossroads of America,” and illustrates the many reasons why Indiana is a good place m which to "Live, Work, and Learn.”

Mostly sunny and warm today. Partly cloudy and continued quite warm tomorrow. High Tuesday. 90; Low tonight. 60.

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