The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 September 1965 — Page 1
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PUTNAM COUNTY SAR CHAPTER FORMED 1,400MoreU.S.Marines, Group Selects Copters Land In Viet Nam i Acting Officers
SAIGON LTPI—Another combat team of American Marines —1,400 men equipped with helicopters — began landing in South Viet Nam today. The new arrivals put ashore at Chu Lai more than double Marine helicopter strength at the coastal air base 350 miles northeast of Saigon. “We brought all we need to stay and fight,” said Col. William G. Johnson of Tyler, Tex., commander of Marine Aircraft Group 36. The unit includes three medium helicopter squadrons, one heavy helicopter squadron and an observation squadron. A U.S. Marine patrol looking for the Viet Cong near Da Nang, 60 miles north of Chu Lai. found their prey just before midnight and killed one guerrilla, an American military spokesman reported today. The skirmish was fought on a trail five miles southeast of Da Nang. The spokesman said three of four wounded Viet Cong were captured along with a quantity of hand grenades and documents. In Saigon Thursday night, an American sentry was wounded when terrorist tossed a fragmentation grenade into a U.S. Army compound. The terrorist apparently escaped into the darkness. The American guard was hit in the arms, legs and chest. He was reported in satisfactory condition today at a military hospital. In air action, military spokesmen reported that U. S. and South Vietnamese planes gave the Viet Cong the heaviest pounding of the war in the 24hour period ending at 6 a m. to-
day.
A total of 645 aorties were flown! 105 by the U. S. Air Force, 278 by the U, S. Navy. 97 by the U.S. Marine Corps and 65 by the South Vietnamese air force. Pilots reported destruction or damage to 569 buildings and a number of sampans. Man Held For Bank Robbery FORT WAYNE UPI — Paul Szekula. 51. South Bend, today was being held on two S25.000 bonds In the Allen County jail on charges stemming from the $4,431 robbery of a Fort Wayne branch bank Thursday. Authorities said state, city, county and federal police tracked Szekula. who they said used the alias Paul Kish, to a wooded section northwest of the city Thursday where a State Police trooper arrested him. Police said Szekula was perched in a tree when arrested and had a .32-caliber revolver and $4,431 in his possession. Federal authorities charged Szekula with bank robbery after the holdup of a city branch of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co., before U. S. Commissioner Dan Peebles at Fort Wayne.
Vacation Dates For City Schools Listed
Marines Depart
SAN DIEGO. Calif. UPI — About 1.100 Marines from Camp Pendleton boarded Navy transports Thursday for “transplacement in the Far East.” a Marine spokesman reported. No additional details on the
sailing were provided. 20 Years Ago
The Country Reading Club met with Mrs. Fred Thompson. Mrs. George Parker was hostess to the Tri Kappa sorority. Capt. Charles B. Edmondson, former Greencastle teacher and basketball coach, returned to his home in Clayton after more than two years in England with
the U. S. Air Force.
Major Marshall Abrams arrived in Manila as chief of the legal action of the General
Headquarter* Staff.
Mine Workers Hike Pensions WASHINGTON UPI — The United Mine Workers of America increased pensions for the nation’s 69.000 retired soft coal miners Thursday from $85 to $100 per month. Trustees of the Union’s welfare and retirement fund, headed by John L. Lemis authorized the increase, effective Oct. 1, following an annual rise in the fund’s balance from $114 million. A 40-cent royalty is collected by the fund on every ton of union coal mined. Queen Blanks Still Available Girls who want to become contestants in the Putnam County Ses<pncentennial Queen Contest may still obtain entry blanks at The Daily Banner of-
fico.
To be eligible, a contestant should be at least nineteen and no older than twenty-five years of age. She and her parents must be natives cf Putnam County. The contestants will ride in the Fair on the Square parade on September 18. have dinner with the judges that evening, and appear in the contest at 7:30 on Saturday night. Entry blanks may be returned to The Daily Banner office or sent to Mrs. Robert Girton, Reelsville. September 6 is the closing date for entries Weather Mostly Clear And Dry By United Pren International Clear and dry weather dominated most of the nation today. Thunderstorms struck in widely separated areas Thursday mght. hitting Topeka, Kan., with half-inch hail and drenching Tampa. Fla., with nearly an inch of rain in six hours. Montgomery, Ala., reported 1 inch of rain, while Columbus, Ga., received 2.8 inches Thursday. The coastal naval air station at Glynco, Ga., reported 2.09 inches of rain. The weather bureau said scattered showers would break out later today in the western mountains, the lower Missouri Valley and along the gulf and South Atlantic coasts. Premier Re-elected BEIRUT, Lebanon UPI — Lt. Gen. Amin Hafez, premier of Syria, Thursday night was reelected chairman of the five-„ man Syrian presidency council, Radio Damascus reported. Entertainer Dead EAST ISLIP, N. Y. UPI — Pat Harrington Sr., broadway musical comedy star, nightclub comic, vaudevillian and movie actor, died in a nursing home here Thursday. He was 64.
Students in the Greencastle Community Schools will be in school a total of 176 days during the 65-66 school year which begins Tuesday, September 7, and extends through Friday, June 3, 1966. Students get their first vacation on October 21 and 22 when teachers will attend the state meeting of the Indiana Stats Teachers Association. Veterans Day, November 11, will be a holiday. Thanksgiving vacation will be Thursday and Friday, November 25 and 26. Christmas vacation begins at the close of the school day on December 17 and school will reconvene on Monday, January 3, 1966. Spring vacation wall begin at the close of day on April 7 and school reopens on April 12. The schools wall observe a holiday on Memorial Day, Monday. May 30. The last day of school in the 65-66 year wall be Friday, June 3, 1966. Austin Andrew Rites Saturday Austin Andrew, 63, Cloverdale Rural Route, passed away in the Putnam County Hospital at 12:30 Thursday afternoon where he had been a patient since August 28. The deceased was born near Patricks burg, May 22, 1902, the son of James and Susie Rea Andrew. Mr. Andrew' was a former employee of American Zinc Products Co.. Greencastle and Bridgeport Brass of Indianapo-
lis.
He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Grace Reeder, in 1961. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Edna Long and Mrs. Jennie Greenwood, both of Terre Haute. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Rector Funeral Home. Graveside services will also be held at the Lutheran Cemetery at Patricksburg. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening. Normal, Except HASTINGS, England UPI— A notice posted at the railroad station here this week reads: ‘‘Normal Sunday service except for alterations, additions and cancellations.”
LBJ Awaiting Report On Steel Wage Talks
TALENT SHOW ENTRANT Miss Rhonda Sutherlin of Cloverdale will appear on the District 5 Farm Bureau Talent Program at the State Fair. Monday, Labor Day, September 6, at 2:30 P.M. in the Farmers Building, with a Tap Dane* Number. Rhonda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Sutherlin. Miss Carolyn Torr of Madison Township will also appear in the Talent Program the same time and same day with a Tap Dance Number. Carolyn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Torr. Carolyn and Rhonda are both students in Jonie's dance
school.
Watches Jail Bird NEW YORK UPI — George Varnusha, 43, was arrested in Central Park and charged with theft of a purse and a woman s wig from a parked car. Police were notified by Ruby Cooley, a bird watcher who said she witnessed the theft through binoculars. Harold Harney To Reformatory Harold Harney, 22, city, was sentenced by Judge Francis Hamilton Thursday, in the Putnam Circuit Court, to serve 1-10 years in the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton. The defendant had previously entered a plea of guilty to a charge of theft. Judge Hamilton, in passing sentence, also recommended before any parole that the Parole Board see that Harney refunds to Clark’s Service Station the
sum of $800.
DePauw Dinner This Evening DePauw University personnel will get a head start on students in officially kicking off the approaching academic year this evening when the fourteenth annual All-University dinner is held in the Memorial Student Union building. Over 500 university faculty, administrative and service staff members have been invited to attend the 6:15 p.m. dinner which will be addressed by President William E. Kerstetter. In addition to the President’s remarks on the eve of the opening of the school's 129th year, new appointments to the university's departments will be introduced along with those who have served DePauw 25 years
or more.
Special guests at the dinner will be a number of Greencastle’s civic leaders.
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Who Dunnit
LONDON UPI — Members of a pop singing group known at the “WHO” drove to a kennel Thursday to buy a watchdog to protect their van and musical equipment. While inside to make the purchase, ■omeone stole the vehicle.
LIGHTS ON FOR SAFE DRIVING
Sheriff Kenneth Knauer has issued an appeal to Putnam County motorists to take part in the state-wide “Lights On For Safety” program set for the Labor Day weekend. Courtesy on the highways with regard to bright and dim lights could mean the difference between life and death. Motorists are asked to drive with dim lights during the daylight hours and are asked to practice highway courtesy. Photos by Frank Puckett, Jr.
20 Deaths In Traffic Predicted INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Traffic safety officials estimated today that "as many as 20” persons would be killed in Indiana accidents during the 78-hour Labor Day weekend. Floyd A. Kline, Sr., director of the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety, made the estimate on the basis of “the traffic trend of the first eight months of this year.” The weekend counting period begins at 6 p.m. today and continues to midnight Monday. Kline urged motorists once again to keep headlights on, day or night, throughout the period "as a sign of your intention to cooperate in this safety effort.” State Police Supt. Robert A. O’Neal cancelled all leaves of his department’s personnel and said police would be out in full force during the weekend. Indiana National Guard patrols also will work the highways, sending reports by radio to state police of traffic law violations they observe. Betsy Aimed At Missile Stations MIAMI UPI — Hurricane Betsy, boasting peak winds of 150 miles an hour, meandered dangeroiisly near a string of U. S. missile tracking stations in the Bahamas today on a course aimed at the eastern seaboard. Weathermen said the storm, if it maintained its present course, would take three days to reach the United States at its slow forward pace. At midnight EDT Betsy was centered about 165 miles east of the shuttered San Salvador Island tracking station, near 24.4 north, 71.7 west. This was about 540 miles south and east from Miami. The hurricane was crawling at 8 miles an hour on a northwesterly course. The Air Force scheduled early evacuation of a handful of men from a missile site on tiny Allen Clay, near Grand Bahama, northwest of the hurricane center. Three island tracking stations, on Grand Turk. San Salvador and Mayaguana, were buttoned up Thursday as the storm plodded forward. Similar battening down began at daybreak at the Eleuthera tracking station. Woman Jailed In Boy's Death CLEVELAND. Ohio UPI — A suburban mother, who originally blamed her retarded son for the pistol death of a neighbor boy, was held in jail today on a murder charge. She said she fired the gun accidentally when she dropped a handful of laundry. Shaker Heights Police Chief Carl Longstreet said Mrs. Mariann Colby, 40, admitted she held the gun that killed John Cremer Young Jr., 8, the son of a socially prominent family, in her home Aug. 24. She insisted the shooting was an accident. The chief said Mrs. Colby signed a statement Thursday refuting an earlier one in which she had contended her retarded son. Dane, 9, accidentally killed the Young boy and she hid the body in an effort to protect
him.
WASHINGTON UPI — Steel negotiators, under pressure from President Johnson for a settlement before Labor Day, meet again today in an attempt to “whittle down” the issues that divide them. Representatives of the industry and the United Steelworkers union (USW) scheduled bargaining session in the Executive Offiee Building, across the street from the White House. They were to report to the President on their efforts after three hours. The bargaining session was to begin at 8 a.m. EDT. Johnson placed the emergency contract talks on virtually a “lock-in” footing Thursday when he appealed personally to both sides for a quick settlement to avert an economycrippling strike, then asked for continuous sessions. The negotiators met for almost 141a hours before recessing shortly after midnight. No one at the White House would say. but there appeared to be an air of optimism that a settlement was near. The President was said to feel that there is no reason why the two sides cannot reach agreement. "What is important is that the negotiators concentrate on these few remaining issues and reach agreement, as the President believes they can." said White House Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers. Moyers, who in effect has become the sole spokesman for the talks, said it was “fair to say they’ve gotten to the nub of several remaining issues and they’re trying to whittle them
down.”
He said Johnson’s appeal to both sides was an attempt “to speak for the people’s needs. He was trying to keep the negotiators’ eyes trr' .ed on the larger national issues ... to remind these men of the higher obligations they must meet in terms of the national need.” The President told the negotiators he saw no reason why the dispute should not be settled in time for them to join their families for the holiday weekend. He himself wants to join Mrs. Johnson at their Texas ranch, but will not do so if the threat of a strike still hangs over the nation. The drive for a pre-Labor Day settlement was not merely presidential window - dressing. The eight-day strike postponement Johnson obtained expires at 12:01 a.m. EDT Thursday. If there is no settlement by Labor Day, and there appears (Continued on Page 3)
George A. Leist, President of the Indiana Society, Sons American Revolution from Columbus, Indiana was in Greencastle Wednesday and effected the organization of a new SAR Chapter in Putnam Conuty. Mr. Leist stated that the immediate success is securing the required names on a Chapter was due to the "Eligibility List” of more than 50 individuals with Proven Ancestors of said indi-
viduals.
Furthermore the interest evidenced by members at large of William J. Boatright, Elba A. Myers and Stanley Francis Sears, also those on the list of eligibles that are happy to be identified with such an organi-
zation.
Mrs. William J. Boatright should be given the credit for such outstanding success toward the initial work in this organization. A continuing effort will be made to reach a membership of 35 or 40 mem-
bers.
President Leist stated that he is calling a State Meeting here October 16th, 11:00 A.M for the day with a dinner that evening and that members and their wives from the local chapter as well as guests from the local DAR organization — the state officers and wives and guests will be invited. Some will stay over for a proposed patriotic program to be announced later under the auspices of the Washburn Chapter.
DAR.
The Organization will be known as the William Knight Chapter-SAR The Acting Officers are Marion E. Sears. Acting President: Charles H. Rector. Jr., Acting Vice President; Gordon A. Sayers. Acting Sec.-Treas.; William J. Boatright. Acting Registrar; Ira Jack Moore. Acting Chaplain; Joe A. Moore, Acting Historian. Other Charter members signed :Ellis A. Myers, Stanley F. Sears. Charles H. Rector. Sr. John C. Sears, and Robert H. O’Hair. Any individual interested - please call William J. Boatright. OL 3-6739. Plans are being made to further the success of the William Knight Chapter Grant For Purdue WASHINGTON UPI- Public Health Service officials Thursday announced the service had awarded a $19,687 grant to Purdue University for training in the biochemistry of retardation under the directorship of Dr Edwin Mortz. Now You Know Texas is the only state In the union over which six flags have flown: those of Spain, France. Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America, according to the World Almanac.
NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
INDIANA WEATHER: Sunny and pleasant today. Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Saturday. High today and Saturday in low' 80s. Low tonight around 60. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudv and mild with scattered showers or thundershowers. Minimum . - is’ 6 AM 48 J 7 AM 49 a 8 AM 56* 9 AM 61° 10 AM 67 ^ 11 AM 71* 12 Noon 74*