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VOLUME SEVENTY-FOUR

GRMKASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1966 Indiana S«qui«nt*nnial Year

NO. 79

ANNUAL CONSERVATION MEETING HELD

Russell Mahan Is Cited By Kiwanis

L6J Puts Possible Higher Taxes Up To Big Business And Labor

WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson warned business and labor today that he might have to ask for higher taxes to head off inflation unless they hold down prices and wages. Johnson raised the go-slow signal in his anmud economic report to Congress, which also disclosed that the administration had abandoned its normal way of figuring wage-price guideposts in a bid to keep the economy from overheating. The latter move risked the open wrath of organized labor, which was an important factor in Johnson’s 1964 presidential election victory. But he said the "most serious economic challenge” facing the nation today is how to prevent inflation in face of the Viet Nam buildup. In support of his analysis, he predicted that unemployment will drop below 4 per cent this year, lowest since 1953, while the nation’s shops, farms and factories will turn out a record 6722 billion worth of goods and

services.

He went on to say that the unprecedented five-year business boom had brought Americans prosperity “far beyond the dreams of any people, anywhere, anytime.” But now with the war in Viet Nam hanging ominously on the horizon, he said, it is time for restraint For the third time in recent weeks, he called for passage of Us plan to curb private spending by speeding up Individual

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porate tax collection and postponing excise tax cuts on new

cars and telephone service.

Then he added:

“If it should turn out that additional insurance is needed, then I am convinced that We should levy higher taxes rather than accept inflation.” To prepare for that possibility, and he made dear he hoped it wouldn’t come to that, Johnson urged Congress to undertake “background tax studies” that would enable it to act quickly if the need arose. With that, the chief executive put it squarely up to the leaders of big labor and big busi-

ness.

Johnson said in effect that if labor and management cause a wage-price spiral, the government will have to bring the economy back to earth with higher taxes and-or higher interest rates. Johnson said surplus federal stockpiles would be used to prevent “unnecessary shortages.” The government already has unloaded aluminum, copper and wheat from its stockpiles in order to hold down prices of (Continned on Page 2)

Dover Is Host To District Farm Bureau

Two An Jailed By City Police Two local men were arrested and lodged in the Putnam County Jail by city police Wednesday. Keith Allen Gorham, 29, was taken into custody at 8:12 p. m. on East Berry Street by Officer John Stevens for public intoxication. Gary Rominger, 25, Avenue E, was picked up on Bloomington Street at 3:28 Wednesday afternoon. Rominger was arrested on a Putnam Circuit Court warrant charging desertion. Meeting Held By Roachdale Lions

The Roachdale Lions Club held their meeting Tuesday at 7:00 p. m. Robert Wilder pre-

sided.

Lion Howard Wilson had as his guest Sigmund Ablam. A1 Jones from Plainfield, and George Wildman of Indian-

•rttidvhita* aud corr apoUs, connected with United

Amusements, were also guests. Lions Cooper adFbBer'Wete in charge of the program and presented Paul Jackson, the new County Agent, who gave a

talk.

Bill Wiley, of the Dale Carnegie Course, gave a talk about the explanation meeting which

(Continued on Page 2) Indiana Traffic Toll Mounting The death of a trucker this morning near Indianapolis raised Indiana’s 1966 traffic fatality toll to at least 109 compared with 82 a year ago. Donald Schuh, 42, Remington, was killed when the tractortrailer on which he was the relief driver, rammed the rear of another tractor-trailer on Interstate 465 just west of Indianapolis. The driver, William A. Dowell, 36, Remington, was injured critically. The driver of the second vehicle escaped injury. Four deaths Wednesday ended a 70-hour fatality-free period on Hoosier highways.

Mary Walgamuth Wins Speech Contest

’Women in Today's World” was the subject used by Mrs. Mary Walgamuth to win the 5th district Farm Bureau public speaking contest held Monday at Dover. The women’s public speaking contest is held annually by the FBW and is open to any woman who holds a family membership in Indiana Farm Bureau. 20 Yours Ago ■ The mHnlwmiw was 2 degrees above aero. Bob and Dick Huffman were home from Purdue University where they were freshmen. Joan Sutherlin was home from Indiana State Teachere College in Terre Haute. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lear were here from Indianapolis. Mn. Ida Sfmmennan was dismissed from the county hospital.

Representing Putnam County and District 5FB, Mrs. Walgamuth will participate in the state contest held in connection with file 1966 FB Women’s Conference to be held in Indianapolis Feb. 15-16. 1st alternate was Mrs. Justus Saalwaechter of Vermillion Co., 2nd alternate was Mrs. Esther Artman, of Boone Co. Mrs. Walgamuth lives on Greeneaetle R. 3 and is the mother of eight children. Mrs. Keith Shearer, who is an instructor in the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing; Diane lives in Bloomington and works at RCA; Linda is a junior at Indiana State University at Tarre Haute; Tom, Neil, Beth, and Idea an aH students in the Greeneastle schools end Debbie is still at home. Mrs. Walgamuth is the wife of Charles Walgamuth CO. F3. Insuranca a jn»f.

"Foods for Freedom” program was explained by George R. Harvey, Sec. A Treas. of Indiana Farm Bureau as he spoke to about one hundred men and women representing the nine counties in district 5 Farm Bureau, held at Dover Monday. He stated Farm Bureau favors the use of food to assist less developed nations seeking to move toward goals of economic growth, prosperity and peace. Farm Bureau recommends a program to offer assistance in a manner that will provide for constructive changes in existing programs. The general goals of this approach would be maximum freedom for U. S. producers of commodities affected, minimum government involvement, market determination of prices, and expanding use of our productive resources Also heard was Harold D. “Pete” Gay, state assistant in Commodity Department, as he spoke on “Tour Place in Marketing," explaining the characteristics of a desirable food industry. One of the primary objectives of FB is to help farmers increase their net Income by providing them with marketing organizations and marketfiig tnfbrmation. ~ He urged farmers to become more educated* about marketing and show real Interest in selling farm products. District membership report showed a total of 9,709 members for ’66. Morgan County received the banner for attendance, also the traveling trophy for membership. Mrs. Glendon Herbert, Dist FBW leader, conducted the public speaking contest in the afternoon which was won by Mrs. Mary Walgamuth of Putnam

Co.

Workshops were held for chairman of policy action committees also for commodity committees. Representatives from Putnam County attending were: Raymond Ader, Wayne Thompson, Morris Evens, Maurine Aker, Mabel Herbert and Mr. and Mrs. Noble C. Fry.

HoosierPilot Killed In Viet SHELBYVILLE UPI _ His widow and parents received word of the plane crash death in Viet Nam of Air Force Capt. Edward C. Handly, 30, Shelbyville. No information was contained in telegrams from Washington that Handly was the pilot of a C-123 transport which crashed in Viet Nam Tuesday, MiHng all 47 Americans aboard. But relatives believed that was the crash in which he lost his life because he was a C-123 pilot. Handly was a graduate of Morristown High School and Purdue University with an aeronautical engineering degree. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Handly and his wife the former Elsie Kimery. All live in Shelbyville, along with Handly’s two children, Deborah, 10, and Steven, 9. lasts Forearm MOUNT VERNON, UPI— P. K. Jones, 39, Summer, HL, was listed in fair condition at an Evansville hospital today after losing his right forearm in an industrial accident Jones was employed as a pipefitter at Babcock A Wilcox Co., where his right hand was crushed under a 100-ton crane at a construction site Monday.

Preaching on the topic, “When the Dead God Speaks,” 1 Rev. O. Gerald Trigg, Pastor of Brightwood Methodist Church of Indianapolis, will be guest minister at Gobin Memorial Methodist Church Sunday at

10:30.

A graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School of Nashville, Tennessee, Mir. Trigg was for five years a member of the Mississippi Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. Since transferring to the Indiana Annual Conference, he has been serving on the Conference Board of Christian Vocations, the Conference Board of Evangelism, and the Conference Committee on Urban Life. In addition to being District Director of Evangelism, Mr. Trigg has' authored five series of church school lessons for the Methodist Church.

Now You Know By United Press International The Virgin Islands was purchased from Denmark for $25 million, and proclaimed a possession of the United States in January, 1917.

Roudebush Asks Job Corps Records WASHINGTON UPI — Rep. Richard L. Roudebush, R-Ind., Wednesday demanded that records of the federal job corps installation at Camp Atterbury, Ind., be made public and told backers of an extended term for House members, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Roudebush moved in with a growing number of other Republican lawmakers who have voiced disapproval of a proposal by President Johnson to increase the term of House members from two to four years. “Campaigning ... is nothing more than keeping in contact with the people and this is good,” he said, in response to complaints that with a twoyear term most congressmen have to spend their entire term campaigning. The Hoosier Republican also released copies of a letter he wrote to Sargent Shriver, head of the job corps training program, asking that the records of the top officials at Camp Atterbury be made public. “A total of $10,428,441 is being spent at Camp Atterbury this year on the job corps and every dime of that money comes from the taxpayers,” he wrote. “If the taxpayers must foot the bill for this program, they have a right to know who is drawing the money and how much they are making.” “I see no reason why this information should not be available to the public,” the letter

said.

Bit Of Bad Luck --■' iii> — — MOUNT VERNON, Lid. UPI — Hie clergy ran into a bit of bad luck in traffic. Over a fiveday period last week and this week in this small community of 6,000 population, cars driven by the Revs. M. A. McClure of St. John’s Episcopal, Kenneth P. Bentley of General Baptist, and E. David Frazier of First Methodist were involved in separate accidents Nobody was

hurt

Objects May Be A-Bomb Parts

Youth Sentenced To Reformatory Jack Willoughby, 18, Danville, was sentenced to serve 2-14 years in the State Reformatory for forgery by Judge Francis N. Hamilton in the Putnam Circuit Court Wednesday. Willoughby, a parolee, will also have his probation revoked by the Danville Court and will then have to serve additional time. The sentence on a theft charge was suspended by Judge Hamilton due to the revocation of Willoughby’s probation. Plane Report Is Erroneous

Prime Minister Wilson Confronted By Crisis

LONDON UPI — Prime Minister Harold Wilson today faced the most critical hours of his 15-month administration. The Labor government was being tested on two fronts and a loss one either could write the beginning of the end of Wilson’s administration. The situation

was this:

— In Parliament, where Wilson has an overall majority of two votes, members were debating a Conservative Party motion criticizing Labor for its economic policy. Liberal members said thew would side with the Conservatives when a vote was taken late tonight. — In the port city of Mull, 180 miles north of London, voters were filling a Parliament

vacancy today. The Labor Party appeared in grave danger of losing a vital seat it won from the Conservatives in the 1964 general election. Results of both issues were expected to be in by early Friday. The nine Liberal members of Parliament, who normally have voted with the government, are backing the opposition with the charge that Britain’s cost-of-living index rose by 5.3 per cent in the first 13 months of Wilson’s tenure. The chances Wilson would be forced to call a new general election rested more on the outcome of the Hull North by-elec-tion, political observers believe.

NEW ORLEANS UPI — The U. S. Coast Guard said Thursday that a report of a missing plane with 40 persons aboard off the Yucatan Coast of Mexi co apparently was erroneous. A mysterious distress mes sage had been received Wednesday night t>y a Mexican naval station at Progresso, Mex., setting off a flurry of activity. The message identified the plane as a DCS carrying 40 persons and having a registration No. WAOK-36. “Those numbers are unauthorized for any country,” the New Orleans Coast Guard re-

ported.

The Coast Guard said Its initial report was received from Brownwood, Tex., where a citizen told the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) he heard the distress signal on a citizen’s band radio. The FAA notified the Coast

Guard.

“An airliner would not carry citizens’ band radio,” the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard also said 40 persons could not get aboard a commercial DCS.

PALOMARES, Spain UPI — U. S. and Spanish officials today waited near here for the arrival of a bathysphere to assist in operations to raise two objects believed to be parts of a missing nuclear bomb. Reliable sources said two mysterious objects were detected by sonar detection devices on U. S. warships about 200 fathoms off the coast here. The objects were believed to be parts of the nuclear bomb that was lost in the crash of an American B52 bomber and KC135 jet tanker that collided near here Jan. 17. Unconfirmed press reports said the objects have emitted radiation, and officials were almost certain they are parts of the missing bomb. The crash of the Strategic Air Command bomber and the KC135 resulted in the U. S. government ordering temporary suspension of all American nuclear bomber flights over

Spain.

The nuclear flight ban was put into effect the same day the two planes crashed and was made on the' initiative of the U. S. government and not at Spain’s request.

Worst Storm In 33 Years

Kill 35 Cong SAIGON UPI—South Korean troops killed at least half of a Viet Cong force they found sneaking up behind U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division units on a sweep 275 miles northeast of Saigon, a U.S. military spokesman said today. The ROK forces, outnumbered two-to-one, killed at least 35 Viet Cong with machinegun and small arms fire in a region about 25 miles south of Bong Son, where a multi-battalion element of the 1st Cavalry is sweeping the coastal highlands.

Cong Taking Advantage Of Pause In Air Attacks

WASHINGTON UPI — The administration continues to build its case for resumption of U. S. air attacks on North Viet Nam, which congressional and diplomatic circles are convinced will come within a few days. 'TCiese circles saw virtually no alternative to an end to the 35-day-old pause in the attacks, barring a miraculous change in the Communist attitude toward President Johnson’s peace offers. Officials said today the Communists were still taking advantage of the pause to repair ■battered oommwikratinw tn

the North and send reinforcements and supplies southward. They added that this was a situation that could not be tolerated because of the mounting danger to U. S. forces. The administration was receiving support from overseas in its view there was no purpose in extending the pause further. British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said Wednesday night in New York he thought the United States had amply demonstrated its sincere desire to make peace on “honorable” terms.

Rusk made the admin is trattion’s view clear Wednesday as to the feasibility of holding off the attacks any longer. He said the administration “started at ‘A’ and we’re almost to *Z’ ” in our peace efforts, but had received no encouragement from the Communists. The secretary gave no indication of when the raids might resume, however. He told newsmen after testifying on Capitol Hill that Johnson had the question under advisement “and I’m not going to predict what his decision will be.’*

RICHMOND, Va. UPI—The biggest snow storm in years crippled the Middle Atlantic states today under more than a foot of snow. Roads were impassable, schools closed down and gale winds whipped the snow into deep drifts along the

coast.

At least four deaths were blamed on the storm, which veered uneasily up the East Coast today toward New Eng-

land.

In North Carolina, officials said the storm was the worst in 33 years. Richmond, Va., lay under a 13-inch snow blanket for the first time since 1940. Bred along the Atlantic Coast Wednesday, the storm afflicted parts of 14 states. An armada of 2,000 snow plows attacked drifted highways in Virginia. Snow was reported as far south as Savannah, Ga., and as far north as Southern New England. Richmond was one of the cities hardest hit. City buses in Richmond in many instances ran eight hours late, and flights into and from Richmond’s Byrd Field were halted Wednesday evening.

The annual meeting of the Putnam County Soil A Water Conservation District was held Tuesday afternoon at the Community Building on the county fairgrounds. David Grimes, vicechairman of the Board of Supervisors presided. Harold Scholl, SCS Area Conservationist announced that the Greeneastle Kiwanis Club had selected Russell Mahan to receive the Kiwanis certificate for outstanding leadership in soil and water conservation. The certificates will be presented at a Kiwanis meeting. Charles Bruner, Jr. had his farm officially designated as a ■TREE FARM” by district forester, Forrest Miller. In making the official presentation of the TREE FARM sign Miller announced that Bruner was the seventh person in Putnam County to receive the recognition for good forest management. In the United States 29,000 Tree Farms are now in operation managing 65 million acres of trees. About 78,000 acres of these trees are in Indiana and 1300 acres in this county. Bruner manages 406 acres of trees from which he conducts a continuous harvest of saw logs and pulpwood. Harry Moore, assistant state conservationist with SCS told the forty people attending that 85 small watersheds have now been approved by the stats Department of Natural Resources, affecting 35 per cent of the land in Indiana. Four of those approved are partly In Putnam County, while the Croys Creek application is still await, ing approval by the Natural Resources Department. Moore stated that the Mill Creek work plan has been com. pleted but nothing can be don* until land owners within the watershed form a conservancy district. The work plan calls for 12 single purpose flood control structures; two multiple purpose retention structures foe flood control and recreation, and 53.3 miles of channel improvement. The plan also calls for speeded up conservation practices on 63,400 acres of cropland, 3300 acres of pasture, and 9000 acres of woods. Moore reported that work could start by late 1966 or early 1967 on the Little Raccoon. This program will include 15 single purpose flood retention structures and two flood and recreation structures. None of these will be in Putnam County. Preliminary Investigation reports are completed on Big Raccoon and a court hearing on the establishment of a conservancy district is set for February 18. The Preliminary Investigation completed on Little Walnut last July calls for 2 flood retention and one multiple purpose structures. The multiple purpose on® for flood control and recreation is scheduled for Putnam (Continued on Page 2)

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Mostly cloudy, becoming windy and turning colder today with snow flurries possible. Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Friday. High today low 20s. Low tonight 5 to 10 above. High Friday near 15. Outlook for Saturday: Chance of a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan, otherwise partly cloudy and continued cold. Minimum 16* 6 A.M 24° 7 A.M 24* 8 A.M 24® 9 A.M 23° 10 A.M 20® • 11 A.M 19® 12 Noon 18® 1 P,A4. ,......................m...................18®