The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 August 1965 — Page 1
Weather Forecast Fair, Pleasant
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VOLUME SEVENTY-THREE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1965 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE NO. 246
DISASTER HITS ARKANSAS MISSILE SILO
NORRIS WILL RETIRE
C. M.
from the
Norris, local Ward manager, plans to retire company September 1. He has been with Montgomery' Ward for the past 37 years, starting his career at the Saginaw. Michigan store in 192S. He managed stores at Huntington and Goshen, Manistee and Alpena. Michigan. Mt. Vernon, Taylorville and Kankakee, Illinois prior to coming to Greencastle, in October, 1958. Since coming here, the local Ward store has been completely remodeled, air conditioned, and a new tire and service center installed. At the present time his future plans are uncertain but he plans to take it easy for a few months and rest. Mr. Norris and his family presently reside at 1102 South Indiana Street.
Medicare Enrollment Begins Next Week
WASHINGTON UPI — Enrollment for the voluntary medical insurance portion of the medicare program will begin next week, officails said today. The Social Security Administration will begin the massive enrollment process by mailing information kits and sign-up cards to persons over 65 who are already on the Social Security benefit rolls. About 14 million such persons will receive the cards between mid-August and early December. Social Security officials origmally planned to do all of the mailing in one big batch during September. But the Post Office Department was appalled at the prospect of 14 million extra pieces of mail in one month, and persuaded the Social Security Administration to stretch out the mailing. The new plan calls for mailing about one million enrollment cards a week, beginning next week. The Post Office hopes that the job will be substantially completed before the Christmas mail rush begins in December. The medicare program eon■ii^ts of (1) basic hospital insurance which is provided for all persons over 65 without payment of premiums, and (2) supplemental medical insurance, which covers doctors' bills and c ertain other medical expenses not included in the basic plan. Participtaion In the supplemental program is voluntary', and requires a premium payment of S3 a month. This is half the actual cost. The government will be paying the other half Social Security officials estimate that 90 to 95 per cent of the Americans over 63 will take advantage of the bargain. 20 Years Ago Miss Edith Browning was on vacation from the Central Bank and was visiting in New Market. Ralph Segebarth, son-in-law Dr. J. A. Troop, was promoted to the rank of Major in the U. S. Army in Germany. Pvt. Charles L. Aker, Jr. was here from Camp Maxey, Texas, •nroute to Camp Gordon, Ge.
U.S. Unit Under Siege By Reds SAIGON UPI — Armor-sup-ported government forces battled Communist guerrillas entrenched in the central highlands today in a bid to break the Communist siege of an American Special Forces Camp west of Pleiku. At least 70 Reds were killed and six captured. The government forces pressed in from the east along strategic Highway 19 seeking to link up with the besieged garrison at Due Co. five miles from the Cambodian border. A military' spokesman said sizeable government forces clashed with the guerrillas Monday night and the battle continued today. Government losses were "moderate.” The armored column moved toward Due Co after more than 1.000 government paratroopers — taken into the area 10 day's ago — were unable to break through the guerrilla encirclement and quickly found themselves under siege. At last report, the armored troops were within six or seven miles of Due Co. The major east-west highway from Pleiku. 240 miles northeast of Saigon, has been cut with trenches and blocked by felled trees in almost 100 places between the junction with north-south Highway 15 and the American camp. Roachdale Rites For Miss Hanna Miss Elizabeth May' Hanna, 81. a teacher most of her life, died Monday afternoon on the way to the Putnam County
Hospital.
She was a graduate of Indiana University and taught at LaFollette and at Lafayette.
She was a member of the Pres-
^ „ byterian Church at Roachdale.
Accident On 36
She was bom July 25, 1884.
The Putnaimille State Police ne ar Carpentersville to James Post reported this morning that and Dulcena Hanna.
Trooper Don Collins investi-
'Drive Too Fast #
Heads Task Force
LA MESA. Calif. UPI—Rob- WASHINGTON UPI — Army ert C. Gustafson. 82, who drove Brig. Gen. Hal D. McCown, a an automobile for 50 years with- combat veteran of tw r o wars, out an accident or a traffic will head a special Pentagon ticket, has quit voluntarily. task force formed to prevent Gustafson said Monday that supply bottlenecks and shorthe handed in his driver’s license ages in Viet Nam. to the State Department of Mo- Defense Secretary Robert S. tor Vehicles. McNamara Monday named Mc"People drive too fast now-a- Cown. a former senior adviser in
57 Feared Killed After Blast. Fire
days,” he said. Freighter Held NAPLES, Italy UPI — The Soviet freighter Ilichevsk. allegedly carrying a load of arms to Cuba, was held here Monday after the captain refused to allow port authorities aboard to seal the ship’s hold.
Viet Nam, panel.
to head the 10-man
Author Dies BENNINGTON, Vt. UPI — Shirley’ Jackson, a black magic disciple who wrote science fiction, died Monday from an apparent heart attack at the age of 56.
Present Reading
Prizes At Club Party
City Council Meets
The Common Council of the city of Greencastle met in regular session last night with Couneilmen Grimes. Eppelheinier and Collins present. Also present was City Attorney Rex-
ell Boy'd.
Claims presented to the Council by Councilman Collins totaled $9,703.72. Collins asked the Council to allow the claims.
Old settlers and friends gath- Police Chief Roy Newgent rear in this Owen County town ported to the Council that dureach year to renew old acquaint- ing a period covering July 1 ances and have a general good through 31 the police departti me ment paid out a total salary of
$5,610 for a regular sixteen em-
Free acts from Indianapolis pioyees. Maintenance for the radio stations and the Stafford per iod totaled $158,43, 2500 Rides will be held nightly' in miles were covered with 698.2
Quincy Picnic Starts Thursday Tlie 97th edition of the fam-
ous Quincy Picnic will be held Thursday. Friday and Saturday
of this week.
Carrie C. Perkins Rites Thursday Mrs. Carrie Gough Perkins, 52, passed away Monday in St. Vincent’s Hospital at Indian-
apolis.
Mrs. Perkins, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gough, was bom and reared near Roachdale.
She is survived by her band. Jack Perkins: her ents; two daughters, Julian Smith. Pittsboro.
parMrs. Mrs.
addition to the
food stands.
concession and
This year. Lions Club is
picnic.
the. Cloverdale presenting the
gallons of gasoline being purchased. There w T ere 90 complaints recorded with 54 being cleared, and a total of 13 accidents reported. Newgent also added that of the 2.036 parking tickets issued only 1.456 were
returned.
Howard Brackney. Superintendent of the Water Works Commission, issued a written
WASHINGTON UPI-About request to the council in refei "
to the completion of the
350 Pacifists Face Hearings
The Summer Reading Club, sponsored by the GreencastlePutnam County Library, was completed on Saturday morning with a party at the Public Library for those who had completed the project. Fifty’-one boys and girls received their reading diplomas. The following prizes were awarded: First prize to the girl in the city' schools for the most varied list of books read was given to Leota Boesen; first prize to the boy in the city schools to Paul Walters; second prize to the girl in the city to Melinda Reels: and second prize to the boy in the city to Mark
York.
The first prize to the girl in the county schools was given to
both of Greencastle; four Miki Douglas; the first prize to grandchildren and several the boy in the county to Mike nieces and nephews. Grimes; the second prize to the
girl in the county to Deanna
She was preceded in death by Grimes; and the second prize to one daughter and a brother, boy in the county' to Johnny
Sears.
The following boys and girls
were present:
Debby Clover, Laura Huckleberry. Melinda Reel, Philip Archer, Paul Sanders, Laura Bitzer, Dana Whitehead. James Perry, Cindy Wright. Diana Whitehead, Timothy Turner, Vicki Proctor, Judith Chew, Russell Sanders, Barbara Arch-
Alfred Broadstreet, Poland; three brothers. Howard of Roachdale. John W. and George
gated a property damage accident at 6 p. m. Monday. Police said two cars were involved in the mishap which occurred two miles east of Bainbridge on U. S. 36. The Post said Collins reported no one was injured in the accident. Know You Know The petroleum industry', with about $110,700 invested for each of its production workers, for outranks all other manufacturing enterprises in the amount of capital invested per worker, according to the National Industrial Conference Board.
Survivors include two sisters.
Mrs. Margaret Bogan and Mrs. George Wendling, both of North Salem: a brother. Frank Hanna of Selma, Ala., and sev-
eral nieces and nephews. Services will be at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Perkins Funeral Home in Roachdale. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Brick Chapel
Cemetery'.
Marriage Increase LONDON UPI — The registrar's officer reported Monday a nine per cent increase in the number of teen-age marriages last year compared to 1962.
350 pacifist demonstrators faced hearings today on disorderly conduct charges stemming from a meeting on the Capitol grounds to protest U.S.
policy in Vita Nam.
The demonstrators were part of a group of 800 who staged a march Monday from the grounds of the Washington Momument to the Capitol, where they ignored police de-
mands to leave.
After allowing the singing of hymns and the reading of statements to go on for more than an hour, an army of uniformed and plainclothes police moved in and dragged the demonstrators to waiting vans.
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painting of the city's water tanks. Brackney asked that the Council release the $9,379.67 (funds) for the completion of payment for the work on the tanks. After consideration and discussion of the matter, Councilman Eppelheimer recommended that the Council move that the funds be released for payment of the w T ork completed on the water tanks. Councilman Grimes seconded the motion. Three yes votes were received from the roll call and the motion was so ordered. Under new' business Mayor Raymond Fisher recommended that the Council consider the
Max Gough, who was killed in France during World War II. Services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday at the Jones and Matthew Funeral Home in Brownsburg with burial in the
Roachdale Cemetery. Housing Bill Signed By LBJ
WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson signed the $7 billion housing bill into law today, thus launching a contro-
versial new subsidy plan to help Douglas, Karla Adams, Holly some of the nation's needy Knights. Leota Boesen, Stephwith their rent. anie Tzouanakis. Terri HartThe Chief Executive signed saw, Susan Robertson, Heidi the measure at ceremonies in Knights, Trent Boesen, Susan the White House Hose Garden. Morlan, Teresa Aker, Kenda In addition to the rent sub- Adams. Electa Cancilla, Judy sidy plan, the new' law' also ex- Thurman. Jennifer Stevens, panded all current housing pro- Kathy O'Neal. Jimmy Bemis, grams and. in one instance, Mark Carr. Cathy Morrison, provided for a new departure Honda Evans. Mark Wager, in federallv aided public hous- Johnny Sears, Faith Long. Kat-
ing.
SEARCY, Ark. UPI — Rescue workers today groped to th« bottom of a gas-filled, 170-foot deep Titan II missile silo to recover the remaining bodies of a big construction crew w hich was virtually wiped out by an underground explosion and fire. The death toll may reach 57. Tw o workmen escaped the holocaust but the others were sealed in the fire-filled silo by an Air Force control crew who closed hatches to smother the fire and prevent it from exploding the mighty Titan. The cause of the blast and fire was not known. The Air Force said “about 30 or so" men — all civilian construction workers — were trapped and apparently dead m the silo. An Army chaplain, Capt. Michael Romano, who was giving last rites to the dead said the construction contractor reported 57 men killed. By early today, 20 bodies were removed from the silo. The silo is 56 feet in diameter. The huge missile almost fills it. There was a nuclear warhead on the missile until July 1 when it was removed and taken away for the modification work A narrow' ladder leads up th# side of the silo from the bottom to the tunnel that leads to thdv escape hatch. The survivors toldj how the desperate workmen all made a dash for the ladder, making it impossible to climb
up.
Capt. Douglas E. Wood. Information director of Little Rock Air Force Base, disclosed that the Air Force control c^ew —probably two officers and twn enlisted men — shut off the last
er. Kelly Sanders. Bobby psoape route from the silo to Phipps, Monta O Hair, Jane keep the fuel in the huge rocket
from overheating and exploding. The control room is 100 feet to one side of the silo. An escape hatch goes up vertically to the surface and tunnels lead to it from the silo and the con-
trol room.
Minar, Jean Robertson, Gina Reel, Michael Cooper, Melissa Cooper, Jane Torr, Deanna Grimes. Jeffry Carr, Micki
Under a provision of the measure, funds would be provided to rent or lease some public
street lights in badly needed
Stated meeting Morton districts. Along with the same O.E.S. No. 356, August 11th at line Councilman Eppelheimer 7:30 p.m. No refreshments. suggested a discussion on inBarbara Clodfelter, W.M. (Continued on Page 2)
addition in the ctiy of some new housing units. The effect of the
new law w'ould bf to scatter public housing units throughout a community, rather than to
concentrate them in one spot as is now the rule.
rina Priest, John Stevens, and Ethel Sears. Luvonne Stafford. Ruth Thurman, Doug Bryan and Sylvia Taylor, of the li-
brary staff.
Talks Continue WASHINGTON UPI—Negotiations between labor and management in the 55-day-old East and Gulf port shipping strike continued today under the direction of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz. The talks continued into the night Monday, but sources said they expected no break in the deadlock between the major shipping lines, represented by the American Merchant Marine Institute, and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association.
Indiana Traffic Dead Now 838
By United Press International An overnight absence of deaths on Indiana highways and streets enabled the state to make some headway in its efforts to keep the 1965 traffic fatality toll from running away from the comparative 1964 figures. Three deaths Monday raised the toll to 838 compared with 720 a year earlier. However, the toll a year ago today was 731, so the increase over last year was reduced from 114 to 107 in the 24-hour period. Visit Sardinia ALB1A, Sardinia UPI—Britain's Princess Margaret and her husband. Lord Snowdon, arm ed by plane Monday for a holiday at the Aga Khan's luxury resort, development.
NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
SUMMER READING CLUB MEMBERS
INDIANA WEATHER: Mostly sunny and not so cool today. Fair and cool tonight. Wednesday fair and pleasant. High today 76 to 80. Low tonight 57 to 62. High Wednesady in lower SOs Outlook for Thursday: Fair and mild. Minimum 1 ' 6 A.M 58° 7 A.M 61 ° 8 A.M 64* 9 A.M 67* 10 a.m x es* 11 A.M 72* 12 Noon — — - - 73* A P34, <4
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