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VOLUME SEVENTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1965 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE NO. 273

NEW ORLEANS BAHERED BY HURRICANE Man Shot As Result Betsy HaS Shown

She Is Not A Lady

Of Family Argument

What apparently had been a family argument resulted in the wounding of Willard Adams, Jr., 28, at 2:10 Thursday afternoon on Roachdale, Route 1. James M. Houck, Putnam County Prosecutor, said that the shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. Wilma Morphew, mother-in-law of Adams. A shot from a 22-caliber rifle passed through Adams’ stomach. entering from the left front. He was brought to the Putnam County Hospital and then transferred to Robert

in Indianapolis, that Adams’ younger sister, Vonme Webb the time of the

Long Hospital Houck said wife, Joan; her Paulette, and were present at shooting. Authorities are conouctlng an investigation and Houck said that the stories of the witnesses were conflicting. State Trooper John Danberry and Deputy Sheriff Paul Mason conducted a preliminary investigation at the Morphew

home.

4 Before Hamilton In Putnam Court

Masonic Session At Fairgrounds

Fighting Fierce In India, Pakistan War

All Master Masons of Putnam County are invited to be the guests of the Scottish Rite Valley of Terre Haute at the Putnam County Fairgrounds, ne y_

Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 6:30 Judge Hamilton

Wilbur S. Donner

Four defendants appeared in Putnam Circuit Court before Judge Francis N. Hamilton on Thursday and two of the group

entered pleats of guilty.

Harlan Marcus Cox. 34, Marion County, and Billy Gene Hartman, 22, Parke County, charged with escaping from the Indiana State Farm, asked time to consult with an attor-

FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR GINGERY FAMILY Pictured above Is Robert Dean. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Gobin Church, as he presented the church’s appreciation gift to Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gingery at the Farewell Reception held in their honor and attended by over 300 persons last Tuesday evening in Charterhouse Lounge. Dr. Gingery has been appointed pastor at First Methodist Church in Bloomington. He will preach there for the first time next Sunday. September 12. and the family will move to Bloomington next week. Photo by Frank Puckett. Jr.

Cong Concentration Is Target Of U. S. Bombs

Cook Chairman Of County Young GOP

SAIGON I PI — r. S. and Vietnamese Special Forces today occupied Phuong Xa Tay hamlet 325 miles northeast of Saigon only hours after B52 bombers from Guam dumped hundreds of tons of bombs there. T'ntil today It had been an impenetrable Communist stronghold. SAIGON UPI — U.S. Air Force B52 bombers from Guam flew^ their 21st mission of the war today, blasting Communist rarkets in South Ciet Nam near the Ho Chi Mmh trail. A. U.S. military spokesman identified the target of the B52 raid as a suspected Viet Cong concentration in Quang Tin Province325 miles northeast of Saigon. This would place it on the northern edge of the Viet Cong s Do Xa base which guards the infiltration route front North Viet Nam. Recent B52 attacks have been followed up with ground sweep by South Vietnamese troops to mop up and assess damage. In other action U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese infantrymen moved into the fourth day of "Operation Piranha.” a search and destroy assault against guerrillas entrenched on Ba Lang An peninsula 20 miles south of the Leatherneck base at Chu Lai. Military spokesmen reported that the offensive has killed 167 guerrillas. Forty-five others were captured and 168 suspects arrested. American and Vietnamese casualties were said to be

"light.”

But four Americans were killed Thursday when Communist small arms fire downed a U. S. helicopter in th eMekong River delta 80 miles solthwest of Saigon. In Saigon, a terrorist tossed a hand greiade at two pohcemen (luring a power blackont Thursday night, injuring a Vietnamese woman and three Vietnamese children. The policemen were not hurt. 20 Years Ago Miss Ftosemary Sourwme left for Fairbault. Minnesota to enter school at St. Mary's Hall. Mrs. Granville Thompson was hostess to the Boston Club. Delta Theta Tau met with Virginia Wheeler. Paul Gould purchased Mark's Circil Inn on South Jackson

Street.

Sauer Successor To Joe McCord INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Governor Branigin has named Dr. Donald H. Sauer. 38. Bloomington, to succeed Joseph McCord, 71, Greencastle, as director of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions. Sauer is chairman of the Department of Banking and Finance in the Indiana University School of Business. McCord had been director of the state department since 1945 and had worked for the department for the past 36 years. McCord announced his retirement effective Oct. 1. A native of Daviess County, McCord formerly w-as assistant cashier of a Loogootee bank and then worked for the Internal Revenue Service before joining the old State Banking Department in 1929. Sauer was formerly president and currently a director of the Midwest Finance Association.

Scout Notice First meeting of Boy Scouts Tuesday, September 14, at the First Christian Church. Eagle Court of Honor is to be held October 12. All advancements must be turned in early. Swims *nd camp-outs are planned. New boys 11 and over are invited to attend. Murary Lewis. Scoutmaster Knightstown Trip Members of Cassell C Tuck*r Post 58 American Legion will go to Knightstown Sunday The group will leave the Post Home at 9 a.m. Anyone needing transportation is asked to call the Post not later than Saturday even-

ing.

Commander Harold Dunn urges members and families to plan on making the tnp.

Charles Cook, Colverdale, has been appointed Chairman of the Putnam Coimty Young Republicans acccording to announcement by County GOP Chairman.. Bob Poor. Mrs. Warren Harlan has also been appointed Vice Chairman of the YR. according to Chairman Poor, Mrs. Harlan is. in addition. Vice Chairman of the 6th District Young Republican organization. Cook, who is an employee of P. R Mallory, us planning a county-wide membership drive. Small groups in various Putnam County Communities will soon be organized to operate within the framework of the Young GOP organization. thereby broadening the base of the organization and increasing the activity and service at the smaller community level. To kick off the Young GOP membership drive. Chairman Cook has announced that the organization will have a booth on the square during Greencastle’s upcoming Roaring Twenties celebrated next Friday and Saturday. September 17 and 18. All ymmg voters and potential voters between the ages of 18 and 35 are invited to visit the booth and join the Young Republicans organization. $923 Robbery At Bloomington BLOOMINGTON UPI — Police here said two men in their 20s Thursday escaped with S923 from the Local Finance Co. office in downtown Bloomington after binding and gagging three employes of the firm. Authorities said the men were both Negroes and one of them was armed. They said the employes told them the other man carried a paper bag from which he got the white surgical tape which the pair used to tie the three persons and gag their

mouths.

Ey United Press International Pakistan said today its army was pressing a "relentless” drive against Indian forces in the Indian state of Punjab. An official Pakistani spokesman claimed the offensive had turned the tide of the widening ground war. In the air, Indian and Pakistani plones crisscrossed the frontier between India and West Pakistan on a series of raids against cities and military bases. Indian air force bombers attacked Karachi, the main Pakistani seaport, Thursday night for the seventh time in the past three days. Noise of exploding bombs echoed from the water-

front.

Well-informed sources in New Delhi said Pakistani jet bombers tried to attack a vital military base outside Ghaziabad Crucial Vote WASHINGTON UPI — The Senate planned a crucial vote today on the cotton section of the 1965 farm bill. It appeared as though the Johnson administration w'ould emerge victorious over Chairman Allen J. Ellender of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

east of the capital today but were driven off by heavy antiaircraft fire. One Pakistani plane was shot down, informed sources said. Pakistani planes were said to have attempted a paratroop drop but apparently were forced away by the intensity of the

flak.

Pakistan launched a threepronged offensive into Punjab state Thursday, apparently to relieve some of the pressure from an earlier Indian drive against the Pakistani city of Lahore. Both sides issued conflicting reports on the battles, but it appeared the fighting (Continued on Page 3) Quarterly Meeting Brick Chapel had their first Quarterly Conference Tuesday. There was a splendid attendance. Plans for the year were discussed with Rev. Ralph Steele presiding. A ballot was taken as to the time for the services on Sunday and the majority vote indicated that the Sunday School would continue at. 9:30 and the Worship service at 10:30. The pastor will be preaching Sunday morning.

p. m.

There will be an hour of oldfashioned Masonic fellowship around the barbecue pit. The food will be served family style with all the trimmings.

The Scottish Rite Valley of Terre Haute has just been

appointed as their

pauped attorney and ordered them to return to court Monday at 9 30 a.m. for arraign-

ment.

Marvin Graham, 20. Waveland, pleaded guilty to malic-

ious trespass.

He was specifically charged

awarded concurrent jurisdiction "'ith breaking off an aerial, in Putnam, Warren, Owen, and breaking a right side window Fountain Counties. ^ damaging the paint on an

auto belonging to Steve Milli-

The Scottish Rite members gan of Russellville on Sept. 5. want the Master Masons to He was fined $100 and costs learn what the organization has and his driver's license was to offer, what it does and what suspended for a period of six

it can do for Masons who are months.

eligible to join.

The court withheld any tentence but Graham is to furnish Mildred Hervey, County Proba-

tion Officer, with a

showing that damages to Milligan’s car had been fully paid. Robert Kirby, 45. Putnam-

A parade of distinguished ^ le : Traded guilty to the de-

speakers and performers off the international and domestic fir-

DePauw Books Many Speakers

ing line has been booked lor DePauw University’* first semester convocation program Back for a repeat lecture on the heels of last year’s standing room only appearance,

ception issuance of check for $127.50 to Carl Slavens on Sept.

4.

He was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to serve 10 days

in the county jail.

The sentence was suspended providing Kirby pays his fine and costs. He was also given

Typhoon Takes Japanese Toll

TOKYO UPI — Powerful Typhoon Sharley carved a path of death and destruction across Japan today with 173 m.p.h. winds — the strongest ever re-

corded here.

It had zeroed in on the populous Tokyo — Yokohama area but veered away to the northwest into the Sea of Japan where it was expected to rap-

idly weaken.

At least 25 persons were reported killed. 164 others injured and 10 persons were missing. Authorities expected the death toll to climb. The fierce storm came out of the sea at a dead run and swept into Aki on southern Shikoko island. Then it swerved northwestward into the area of Osaka on Honshu Island. Heavy rain triggered by the storm fell

in Tokyo.

NEW ORLEANS UPI—Hurricane Betsy, a killer, cut through New Orleans and the lush Louisiana sugar country today with 125 mile-an-hour winds, torrential rains and walls of water and churned inland wreaking more havoc. New Oreans would never be the same. Officials reported injuries too numerous to count but no known deaths in Louisiana from the monster storm that killed seven persons in a sweep across Florida before it curved up "hurricane slot” through New Orleans and Balan Rouge. Hurricane warnings were up on the Gulf Coast from the Louisana-Texas border east to Pensacola, Fla., as the 250-mile-wide storm swung on is erratic

course.

A quarter of a million people fled from their homes to escape

the fury.

Police reported some isolated cases of looting from stores with smashed plate glass windows. but it was not on a wide scale. There were fears that looting would increase when

the storm subsided.

A 4 a.m. EDT weather advisory put the storm at atitude 30.2 north and longitude 91.1 west, right outside Baton Rouge, tile capital. Winds fell from 150 miles an hour to 110. Streets of New Orleans were like a battlefield. Glass and chunks of metal whipped past

receipt like bullets. Theater marquees

lay in the streets. Roofs were blown off. And blinking lights that heralded the storm's approach gave way to total power failure and a nightlong blackout

in most areas.

Officials reported it was worse than Hurricane Hilda that took almost the same path a year ago, killing 40 persons and causing a half-billion dol-

lars in damage.

Gov . John G. McKeithen ^aid in Batan Rouge the sugar cane country was smashed. The storm, frist spotted by Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad during their eight-day Gemini 5 flight, cut into Louisiana Thursday night at 9 p.m.

EDT.

Paul Mesolvaich. a Mississippi river boat pilot, reported by telephone from Pilottown at the river mouth that his wind gauge broke at 120 miles per hour. His voice faded and the line went dead. It churned up river, aimed straight for New Orleans. The Crescent City braced. Levees buckled and broke Water four feet deep spilled into streets. Rain lashed by winds clocked by police at 125 miles an hour ripped horizontally through (Continued on Page 3)

LOVELESS TO SHOW PAINTINGS

Paintings by James K. Loveless will be on display starting Sunday at 7:30 p.m. to September 30 in the DePauw 1 Student

Union Building.

James Loveless graduated from DePauw 7 University in 1957. In 1960 he completed his MFA from Indiana University. After leaving Indiana Mr. Loveless taught at Hope Col-

lege in Holland. Michigan, serving as chairman of the art department from 1961-1964. Last year Mr. Loveless and his family moved to Lexington. Kentucky where he is an assistant professor of art at the University of Kentucky. He is the son of DePauw Athletic Director and Mrs. James C. Loveless.

formed U.N. General Assembly two weeks to repay the S127 . 50

president Charles Malik of Leb- ^ gi avens

anon headlines the 27-date,

twice-a-vveek scheduled.

Government officials, theologians. actors and educators from seven nations comprise the public series. It opens Sunday when President William E. Kerstetter addresses an all-univers-

ity worship chapel.

Former Vietnam ambassador Tranh Van Dinh. Comsat Corp. vice president John Johnson, and Czechosdovakian theologian Milan Opocensky indicate the diversity of backgrounds being brought to the DePauw

platform.

The university - underwritten convocations are held each Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. in Gobin Methodist Church and Meharry Hall, respectively. Funeral Sunday For Lucy Holt Mrs. Lucy H. Holt, who resided at 28 Sunset Drive, passed away in the Putnam County Hospital Thursday night where she had been admitted on Sep-

tember 1.

She was a member of the Sherwood Christian Church, and a devoted wife and mother. Survivors are the husband, William; one daughter, Mrs. Wilma Bryan, Greencastle; two sons Donald. Manhattan and Robert, Olympia, Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Surber, Indianapolis and Mrs. Laura Vaught, California; one brother, Charles Vanhook. Arizona,

and eleven grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held

Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the WEATHER: Partly cloudy, windy and warm today Hopkins-V alton Funeral Home. 3Ca ttered thundershowers this afternoon. Mostly cloudy and Rev. Elgin Smith will officiate. cooler w ^ th rain tonight and Saturday. High today mid 80s. Low Interment will be in Brick tonight low 7 60s. High Saturday 68 to 72. Outlook for Sunday:

Partly cloudy and cool.

VFW Notice

The annual membership drive of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held Sunday, officers of the Post announced today.

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

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Friends may call at the nera! home on Saturday.

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