The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1965 — Page 1
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VOLUME SEVENTY-THREE
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1965
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
NO. 266
NO PROGRESS IN STEEL CONTRACT TALKS
Suspected Concentrations Of Viet Cong Are Bombed
SAIGON CPI — U.S. Air Force B52 jets, flying through heavy monsoon clouds, today bombed suspected Viet Cong concentrations in the Zone D
area north of Saigon.
An American military spokesman said the target of the attack by the big bombers was the Ho Bo Woods. 20 miles north-northwest of Saigon, in
Binh Duong Province.
Final Performances Of 'Inherit The WincT
This week-end. those interested in the theatre will have their last opportunity to see ‘‘Inherit
It was the 17th time that the the Wind.” The Putnam County
B52 has been used against the Viet Cong. The first B52 mission was flown on June 18 from
the Strategic Air Command sp eet .^ Hall
base on Guam, and most of the bombs have been rained on the
Zone D area.
Playhouse will give its final performances on Friday and Saturday nights, at 8'00 p.m. in
Clapp Assumes DePauw Post
The play, based upon the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial.”
Russell Clapp of Greencastle has been named assistant security officer at DePauw Univer-
sity.
Authoritative American mili- takes its title from Proverbs ^ Announced today by Dean oi
tary sources said earlier this 11:29. “He that troubleth his Students Dr. Lawrence Riggs, Tex. week that B52 raids would be own house shall inherit the the a PP oin tment became effec- —
made a daily part of the war wmd.” To see it is a thought- tn e yesterday. < lapp replaces effort. provoking, even stirring, exper- < ^ eor o e Hecko. Details on todays raid were i ence . Many of the speeches. Mr - Clapp formerly was a withheld. Most of the earlier faultlessly delivered by Jerry part-time security officer at the strikes have involved about 30 Thomas in the role of Clarence university. He also has served planes dropping upwards of 200 Tterrov,-. are beautiful; and the as a member of the Greencastle tons of bombs. shorter musings of Gayle Bost- P°^ ce department, the director
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Airman Glen M. Langdon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Langdon of Cloverdale, Ind., has been selected for techmcal training at Chanute AFB, HI., as a U, S. Air Force aircraft
maintenance specialist.
Airman Langdon, a graduate of Cloverdale High School, recently completed basic military training at Lackland AFB,
Betsy Heads For Open Sea MIAMI UPI — Hrrlcane ?! Betsy moved slowly in the Atlantic today on a course that M made it 100 - mile - per - hour M winds less of a threat to the
Bahama Island's.
Moving in a west-northwest line, Betsy was expected to grow in strength but not in size and veer even more to the northwest — and open sea. Betsy turned from due west to west - northwest Wednesday night and forecasters here announced the threat to the eastern Bahama Islands had les-
sened.
The storm, moving at six miles an hour, was pinpointed by radar and Air Force planes at 22.6 north. 68.8 west, or about 750 miles east-southeast of Miami at midnight EDT. The southeastern Bahama Islands. the north shore of His-
Strike Deadline Is September 8
Cooper, Conrad Head For Houston, Wives
WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson personally stepped back into the steel negotiations today, urging negotiators t« "stick right at it” in an dfort
to reach a sc lement.
DeMolay Event Here Saturday
Saturday, at 2 p.m., the DeMolay boys and adult members of the Advisory Council will
meet at the Masonic Temple. uled to leave their spaceport re-
The boys wall put on a DeMolay
- • , ~ ri and initiatory degree plus the ^ w v c siuna unuc, '
pamola and northwest Puerto • Force Base near Houston three warning a strike would be dis-
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WASHINGTON UPI—Union
CA.PE KENNEDY UPI and management negotiators Gemini 5 astronauts Gordon kept up “hard and tough barCooper and Charles Conrad gaining sessions today in an et • head home today for a reunion fort to head off a crippling steel with their families, a “well strike. But there were no re done” by project officials and ports of progress on the key is another week of reporting on sues of wages and pensions, their eight days in space. The talks were scheduled to The space heroes were ached- continue at a morning session
sending the negotiators into
treat by plane at 2 p.m. EDT their fourth full day of discusland arrive at Ellington Air sions under President Johnson a
[levator Falls, Four Men Killed
Rico felt ocean swells churned P resen ^ a ^ on up by Betsy. Talk
Small craft in the Bahamas were advised to stay in port. Betsy's gale force winds
Chapter Dads and Advisory members will be guests of the
HOUSTON UPI — Four plumbers and a carpenter fin-
to other air activity today, oddt as John Scopes ara equally of the Plamfield^chooUor Boy, ^
four American crewmen were injured when a helicopter crashed on the central highlands about 260 miles northeast of Saigon. The crash was believed to be the result of mechanical failure and not Com-
munist groundfire
and as castle.
Mr. Clapp has been well known in Greencastle and Put-
nam County as a businessman They started to descend in an
_ ... from which occupation he re- outside construction elevator.
Jennings Bryan portrayed with ^ to DePauw _
moving.
Besides the speeches, two crowd scenes involve the spirit and emotions of the audience. One is that in which W T illiam
tures to the 22nd floor of the new $8 million luxury Houston House apartment complex.
great
University.
fire by Jack Cook—ar
Two of the injured helicopter rives ln small southern crewmen were seriously hurt. town. The other is a twilight They were flown to the U. S. w^ene, with Jchn McFarland as Army hospital at Nha Trang. ^ ev - Jeremiah Brown leadFour other Americans were big the townsfolk to a fever killed Wednesday in a helicopter pitch at a prayer meeting,
crash northwest of Saigon. Two of the actors became # _ American troops guarding the interested in the play that lr CC#|CC||]f]f P£|
strategic seaport at Qul Nhon they investigated its historical
got a welcome sight Wednesday background. Jerry Thomas went ADEN UPI — Sir Arthur when 39 U .S. Army nurses ar- to the New York Public Li- Charles, speaker of the Oden med to se* up a fie;d hospital brary and found, among a great state Legislative Assembly,
Far below, Jack Barga. 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Clapp have two was operating the winch that sons and a daughter all of drove the elevator. He felt a whom have attended DePauw shudder.
“I heard a snap then and looked up,” Barga said. “The elevator was falling. The cable had broken. It was flapping around and around the winch
*pool.” •
Moments later, four of the workers were dead and the fifth
lay seriously injured.
British Official
reached out 200 miles from the Greencastle DeMolay group
center in all but the southeast quarter of the storm, where gales extended only 100 miles.
Three Injured In Accident
A traffic accident near Eminence Wednesday evening resulted in injuries to three well known Greencastle residents. Injured were Prof, and Mrs. George B. Manhart, 325 Highfall Avenue, and Miss Virginia. Harlow, 717 East Seminary
Street.
Prof. Manhart and Miss Har-
astrous to the War effort in Viet Nam and to current record pro-
sperity.
The sessions were to begin at
9:30 a.m. EDT.
A White House spokesman said there were no signs indicating a break in the deadlock
near the city.
Northeast Gets Welcome Rain
deal of literature on Darrow. a transcript of the Scopes trial. He discovered that much of the courtroom dialogue of the
the court records.
While he was studying at the University of Tennessee this summer, John Franklin—w h o has the role of the feed store owner — visited the site of the
Deep South but the rest of the trial> Da^, Tennessee. He re-
ports that it is little changed
Speed Training
WASHINGTON UPI — The Marine Corps is cutting the
play was taken directly from wirgery _ at a ' military hospital len S th of its basic training from
was assassinated Wednesday night outside a tennis club. The
gunman escaped.
Sir Arthur, 65, died during
after the bold
More rain drenched the drought » stricken Northeast today. Heavy thunderstorms rolled across the Gulf Coast and
nation enjoyed clear skies.
crease available manpower for
the war in Viet Nam.
a few hours
shooting.
He was the second Briton
this week to be fatally wound- The reduction of the duration ed in Aden. Harry F. Barrie, 0 f “boot” training at recruit the superintendent of police, depots at Parris Island, S.C., was shot last Sunday and died and San Diego, Calif., was an-
tion was “good."
Mrs. Manhart. who was reported to have been more se-
12 to 8 weeks in order to in- riously hurt, was taken to an
hours later.
The Roachdale DjMolay boys. ^ exp g Cted to be waitin g
at the airport with their children to see their husbands for the first time since before Gem-
All Master Masons are invited ^ 5 , s blastoff Aug . 2 1. to attend as well as parents The space agency’s rigid pro-
and relatives of the DeMolay _ am a ii 0 tted the astronauts a cauUB a
gram anottea me astronauts a when the ta j kg }n the Executive boys. f ew minutes with their families The Mothers Club will serve at tbe a i r base and the nearby
light refreshments.
Harrison Williams, Governor then Cooper and Conrad were of District 41. will officiate at scheduled to resume work, this meeting. The space pilots planned to Even.’ boy concerned with the spend the next week in the DeMolay ritual is asked to be building housing the Gemini at the Temple at 1:30 p.m. with control center. They will eat
his part memorized. by Gemini flight
during the 120-orbit voyage. Friday, the astronauts will brief project officials on their
historic trip and then on Satur- ports on each session in the dav thev will discuss the mis- drive to beat a strike deadline
OLD WESTBURY, N. Y. slon wi th the astronauts as- of 12:01 a.m. EDI' Wednesday. T’Pl — Three masked gunmen signed to the next two Gemini Officials of the United Steel
low were admitted to the Put- j nva ded the mansion of socially spaceflights. workers union (USW> and nam County Hospital where prominent Howard Phipps ear- Cooper and Conrad will spend industry representatives acceptProf. Manhart s condition was | y today, whipped Phipps in his Sunday identifying the 1,000 ed the deadline last Monday listed as “fairly good this bedroom and forced his wife to pictures they snapped from the when they agreed to Johnson * morning. Miss Harlow s condi- band over more than S40.000 in windows of their Gemini 5 cap- plan for an eight-day postpone-
Gems Stolen By Three Gunmen
Office Building across t h «*
„ . street from the White House re-
Itoaed Bpaexnraft Center, but Wednesdav mght aftrr
morning, afternoon and evening
sessions.
Earlier Wednesday, Whit* House Press Secretary Bill P Moyers said the negotiation
and sleep in the quarters used w ' ere bein ^ characterized bv
controllers “straightforward c.onfron-
tations.”
"Moyers also said that President Johnson was receiving re
Indianapolis hospital. O.E.S. Notice
gems. sule. Monday. Tuesday and A butler, a maid and a chauf- Wednesday next week are set feur slept through the robbery aside for more of the “debriefin the S100.000 mansion on the ings” that got underway at the Phipps estate. cape Monday’. Thursday, the Police said the robbery oc- space pilots will hold a news
curred between 3 and 4 a. m. conference.
Limestone, Maine, was .soaked ™ he smal r^ brick 011 thc Way to a hos P ita1 ' "ounced Wednesday by the
n+t, o , 3mce 192j ’ the sma11 ' red 01 Aden is part of the B
with more than 2 inches of much needed moisture during
courthouse being an inconspicuous building on the main the night. Buffalo, N. Y., was stree , t
ut with a violent storm that others who have roles in “Inproduced a half-inch of hail and herit the win(r are; Hugh H en4o mik-an-hour winds. ^ Bin Alspaugh, Grafton The weather bureau said Ij0n£rden . j r .. Bob Gilliland,
most of the Northeast received
part of the British- corps, which said training would backed federation of South Ara- be intensified during the eightbia. It is the site of a big Brit- week period to keep standards ish military base. at the present level.
They said the gunmen climbed in through an unlocked library window on the first floor of the mansion in this Long Island
It will be “Sideliner’s community’. They’ apparently Refreshments, sand- knew ther way around because
Groveland Chapter O.E.S. 330 will have its stated meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 7 at 7:30
p. m. Night.
Traffic Toll 935 By Unitod Press International
wiches and salad. Visitors are welcome. Clara Everts. W.M.
second
said.
ry. Bill Alspaugh, Longden. Jr., Bob
Henry and Betty’ Pehan. Capt.
from a quarter-inch to one inch Richard * Hall. Don Holley, Nanof rainfall during the night. cv Kindred . Karen Hill. Tom Temperatures over most of Heinlein. Ward Mavhall. and
the country were below normal Ernie Collins,
because of a sprawling high pressure system influencing the weather from the Rockies to
the Appalachins.
The weather bureau, in its 30-day forecast, said most of the nation will have cooler than normal weather during Septem-
ber.
Heavy Fighting Rages In Kashmir
Youngsters' Day At Indiana Fair INDIANAPOLIS UPI — It was Scout and Camp Fire Day
NEW DELHI UPI — Heavyfighting raged today between Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed state of Kashmir.
Full scale fighting erupted The Chamb sector of KashWednesday in the princely mir is at the southern end of state claimed by- both coun- the 1949 cease - fire line, about tries. India and Pakistan have 100 miles southwest of Srinigar.
Prime Minister Lai Badahur been Shastri admitted the loss of since four Indian air force jets attacking U. S. - made Pakistani tanks. He warned the nation of the possibility of “still bigger
Sober On Job LONDON. UPI — Police said that thieves who burglarized a whisky warehouse and escaped with 584.000 in liquor drank milk while performing the job. WWI Notice World War I Barracks No. 114 and Ladies Auxiliary’ will meet Friday at 6:30 p. m. at
the Legion Home for a pitch-in begin at 9 a. m. in the 4-H dinner and regular meeting. Exhibit Hall at the FairFred Pease. Commander grounds, with competitors en-
tered from around the state. 20 Years Ago
at the 113th Indiana State Fair clashes” ahead, today and thousands of the uni- “Our entire military strategy form-clad youngsters moved in- will now have to be reviewed to the Fairgrounds for what and the whole issue considered the weatherman promised in a much wider context.” would be their “day in the sun.” Shastri said in a briefing for The always popular rooster opposition political leaders, crowing contest also was scheduled today, along with judging in gold medal beef and dual purpose cattle, and sheep divi-
sions.
The annual 4-H public speaking contest also was slated to
feuding over Kashmir the capital of the Indian porboth nations received tion of the divided state,
their independence in 1947. Observers said India and Fighting which broke out al- Pakistan appeared closer to most immediately ended on Jan. full - scale war than at any 1, 1949. when the United Na- time since 1947. The use of tions established a cease - fire planes underscored the serious-
in the territory.
ment of the strike, which originally had been set for last.
Tuesday.
The participants in the talks were pledged not to discuss developments. but Moyers said the major topic was wages and
pensions.
The union has demanded a three-year package for wages and fringe benefits the industry
The third death resulting says w’ould amount to 53 7 from an accident last week has ceri ts an hour. It also is seek-
they moved quickly to Phipps raised Indiana's 1965 traffic fa- j ng a pension plan that would floor bedroom, police tality toll to at least 935 com- a n ow steelworkers to retire sf-
pared with 848 a year ago. ter 30 years of service. Michael W. Rentz, 7. R.R. 1. The industry's counter - offer Economy’, died in Ball Memo- going into the Washington talks nal Hospital at Muncie Wednes- would total only 37.1 cents an day night of injuries suffered hour, according to union spokesAug. 27 in a car-truck collision men. The average steelworkers at a rural intersection in Ran- now gets wages and fringe ben-
Pakistan in Kashmir or in the dolph County. efits totaling about $4.40 an recent dispute over the Rann The boy’s parents. Charles, hour,
of Kutch. 35. and Merlyn Jean, 31. were Shastri said Pakistani forces killed in the collision,
sliced “five to six miles” across
Seeking Women
BUDAPEST, Hungary UPI—
Factory owners here have plied to the heads of the chief launched an effort to attract families of Rome, and hence more female employes. Plants the upper council in a govern-
the ceasefire line into Indiana
territory.
Wenesday an Indian defense spokesman said 28 ir force planes attacked a Pakistani force estimated at 4,000 men
Now You Know
The Latin word senate, meaning an assembly of old men, was the name originally ap-
“Heavy fighting is going on in the Chamb sector and there may be still bigger clashes,” Shastri warned the Indiana political leaders.
^ , , “T have begun installing hairdress- mental system, according to th* ness of the situation. India did and knocked out 10 World War . . . . _ . ..
ing and beauty salons. Encyclopedia Bntannica.
not throw its air force into battle when Communist China invaded its northern borders in 1962. Neither were planes used
II Patton tanks supplied to Pakistan by the United States. He said the Pakistani attack was preceded by heavy artillery’
NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
in previous fighting against bombardment.
Don Marketto was the newcity school music supervisor, succeeding Miss Ruth Dixon. Bob Hanneman returned home after serving with the
U. S. Marine Corps.
Today-’s forecast called for temperatures in the 70s and fair skies at the site of the 11day event, much better weather than graced the annual band
contest Wednesday.
The colorful competition had to be held on the cinder track
4tll f
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Miss Rachel Gillen was here around one-mile dirt oval at from Chicago. the Fairgrounds due to a soggy The minimum temperature £urf froni * ful1 day of rain ' was 54 and the maximum 67. More than 80 bands sho ' ve<i U P for the musical and inarching
competition.
The 76-piece outfit from Crown Point High School took ibe top pnz« Wednesday,,
INDIANA WEATHER: Sunny and pleasant today. Fair and , cool tonight. Sunny and warmer Friday. High today mid 70s, Low tonight mid 50s. High Friday around 80 Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy with little temperature f-hange and chanc e of showers in western portion Saturday night. Minimum 4.» 6 AM »
"INHERIT
THE WIND"
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ANNUAL COON HUNT TROPHIES AND AWARDS The Annua! Coon Hunt trophies and awards are now on display in the Public Service window’ on South Jackson Street. The trophies will be awarded to the winners on the last day of the hunt that is scheduled to take place September £, 4, and 5 at thc Putnam County Fairgrounds. Photo by Frank Puckett, Jr.
7 AM .. S AM .. 9 AM .. 10 AM .. tl AM .. 12 Noon 1 PM .
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