The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 March 1965 — Page 5

Indiana Traffic Toll Now 255 By United Press International Four weekend deaths, two in separate accidents in the closing hours of the 54-hour period, ran Indiana’s 1965 traffic fatality toll to at least 255 compared

with 210 a year ago today. It was the lowest weekend toll since the last big snow which held traffic to a minimum. Walter Mose. 27, Griffith, was killed late Sunday when he lost control of his car on Indiana 141 in Munster. The car slid sideways into a utility pole and was split in two. Mose was thrown out.

HE’S LEAVING—One of demonstrators who “camped” outside U. S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach’s office in Washington for four hours is dragged away by police. The Negro and white demonstrators demanding federal intervention in Alabama ignored Katzenbach's pleas to leave. jniuSe WASHINGTON^ MARCH OF EVENTS

PLEASE OMIT FLOWERS! ALONG ROADS, THAT IS

By HENRY CATHCART Central Press Washington Writer TCTASHTVGTOX — Despite the enthusiasm of Mrs. Lyndon \Y Johnson, some officials in the government don’t want the ladies to help beautify the nation’s roads by planting

flowers.

Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton used some pretty strong words in opposing the idea, particularly since the parent of the over-all beautifying proposal was a fellow named Lyndon B. Johnson. ■Whitton says he’d be delighted to get the help of the ladies in landscaping federal roadside overlooks and picnic areas, but he frowns on their planting posies in the center strips of the new superhighways. “They might get killed,” he observes in serious tones, but with

a glint in his eye.

And even If they should survive, ’Whitton feels the ladies have a tendency to over-do— “They sometimes get a little too fancy.” In a more serious way, Whitton believes highways should be beautified with shrubs, trees and ■slow-growing grasses, instead of having miles of flowers beds that bloom beautifully for a short period and then leave dark brown patches that require a lot of care.

Mrs. Johnson Beautification

enthusiast

• CAPITOL SANCTUM—There is nothing to indicate anything special about room H-234 located near the dome of the Capitol building in Washington. It is locked and a guard sits nearby. He ©pens the room only for members of Congress or their special

guests.

Once inside the room, a visitor finds it relatively small. The walls are painted a soft blue. Two rows of five chairs each face a simple altar flanked by two candelabra and kneeling benches. A Bible is open to the Twenty-Third Psalm. Behind the altar is a stained glass window showing the kneeling figure of George

Washington.

H-234 is the special prayer room for the use of legislators and their guests. No records are kept of those who enter it. The guard says, however, that some members of Congress are regular visitors—others come only occasionally.

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• THAT LOCAL TOUCH—Democrats have developed a new electronic gimmick to keep their newly-elected congressmen in touch with the home folks. It’s called ‘‘Public Affairs News” and is an operation of the Democratic National Committee. Here’s how it works. A Democratic congressman picks up a telephone in his office and speaks some well-rounded phrases on a matter of interest to his district voters into a tape recorder in PAN’s downtown Washington office. He then requests that these taped comments be sent to radio stations and newspapers

in his district.

PAN takes over from there. An employe calls each designated station or paper and asks if the congressman’s comments are

wanted. They’re free and the answer usually is “yes."

The employe then has his customer switch the call to a tape recorder in the local office and plays the congressman's message

over the telephone. A few minutes or a few hours later, the congressman can be heard or

read over his local news outlets.

The system was begun early this year because of the large number of freshmen Democratic congressmen. Many of these newly-elected

representatives come from Republican or marginal districts and they face heavy going for re-election late next year. The idea is

to keep them in touch with their voters.

Now It's "Instant Opinion!”

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Little more than an hour earlier, Jesse Beebe, TO, R. R. 1, Frankfort, was killed while standing in the center of Indiana 29 north of Middleford in Clinton County. Kenneth Houghton, 35. Indianapolis, told police due to Beebe’s dark clothing he did not see him until too late to swerve or stop. I Mrs. Melinda Vollmer, 61, Monon, was thrown from a car driven by Richard Seward, 36. Monon, Sunday on Indiana 43, eight miles north of Lafayette. Seward said another car forced his off the road into a tree, two mail boxes and across two culverts. Larry Bauer, 16. Peru, was killed in a collision on U.S. 24 about three miles west of Wabash Saturday. He was riding in a car driven by Victor Zelinsky, 16, Peru, when it went out of control on a curve and smashed into one driven by Gladys Madire. 52, Logansport. Ralph Billingsley, 65, Anderson. died in an Anderson hospital Saturday night of injuries received in a crash last March 11.

Marjorie May, director of the home and education division of the Greater New York Safety

mouth. Train the children not to chew on anything other than known foods, no matter how

HIGHWAY CHIEF SAYS SHRUBS, TREES BETTER

Council, mentioned these and familiar it is.” others as she issued a plea for The flowers of the narcissus, parents to watch what their hyacinth and daffodil are lovechildren nibble, especially with ly . B ut poison from the bulbs the green season coming in. Let causes nausea, vomiting and the adults be on guard, too. diarrhea, and can be fatal. Eating the daisies may be all j 0 ne leaf from the flamboyant right, said Miss May, but there poinsettia can kill a child. Miss are more than 700 species of May said there is enough poiplants that are known to have son in a dime packet of castor caused illness or death some bean seeds to kill five children. of the plants so common they’re .. . . ’ . F , She said larkspur, lily of the in home gardens, at the play- .. x . , . * ’ . valley, Irish, sweet p e e a s, ground, the golf course or pic- . , . . . r monkshood, autumn crocus and nic area. bleeding heart are a few of the The U. S. Public Health Serv- : familiar plants which have toxice estimates that 12,000 cihl- ic part g _ fleers, stems, dren each year are poisoned by jgaves, seeds, berries, roots or plants, she said. j bulbs. ‘‘There Is no need to stop: Don’t nibble on a laurel, rho-! growing beautiful flowers and dod endron. azalea, daphne, oleplants just because they con-j ander and wistera. People have tain poison,” said Miss May. j died merely f rom eating steaks “Just keep them out of your; that were speared with ole-

ander sticks and roasted over a fire, Miss May said. Berries attract little fingers — but berries from Daphne, night-shade and moonseed which resembles wild grape can kill. Jimson weed also called stink-weed or thorn apple grows in abundance and is considered responsible for more poisonings than any other

plant.

Ordinary lawn grass is safe, unless it is heavily coated with insecticides. But l«ave the wild mushrooms to experts.

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Monday, March 22, 1965

rick’s Day is the only national holiday that is celebrated in Ireland, says the Book of Knowledge. The day marks the death of St. Patrick on March 17, with the year believed to be 460.

enng a single traffic light. This is more than 1.000 miles.

ST. PAT AT HOME NEW YORK UPI — St. Pat-

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BOSTON UPI — With the opening of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, it’s now possible to drive from downtown Boston to the Misi sissippi River without encount-

To bring out the pattern of a textured knit — lace, popcorn, needlepoint, ottoman, honeycomb — tap it with a sponge or folded washcloth during drying, home economists suggest.

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Peach Leafs Are Poisonous NEW YORK UPI — The leaf of the peach tree looks harmless. Yet it contains one of the most dangerous poisons known, hj’drocyanic acid. Deadly cyanide is packaged in twigs of the cherry tree. And the leaf blades of rhubarb contain oxalic acid which causes severe kidney damage.

THESE RUMPLED HEAPS are not soiled laundry. They are some of India’s homeless millions. It may sound romantic to say that the stars are their blanket, but there’s nothing exotic about a stone sidewalk on a chilly night. You can help free these suffering fellow humans from malnutrition, disease and despair by donating to the 1965 CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ FUND FOR THE NEEDY OVERSEAS, Empire State Bldg., New York 1, N.Y. (Or the nearest Catholic church.)

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