The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 February 1966 — Page 1

f

WmvtVwr Forecast Fair, Warmor

I '" Dr ' ,,M state library

TKio Daily Banner

o^^iooo Reodtrs Daily

VOLUME SEVENTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1966 Indiana Sasquicantennial Yaar

NO. 100

LONG COUNTDOWN UNDERWAY AT CAPE

TERRY BUIUS WINS JAYCEE CONTEST

Lurry Elam, Essay Contest Chairman, announced today the winner of the Jr. Chamber of Commerce Independence Hall Essay Contest is Terry Bittles. Terry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Bittles of this city. His essay, “What My American Patriotism Means To Me,” has been entered in the state Jr. Chamber of Commerce contest Runners-up in the contest open to all Jr. High students, were Joe Boyd, Lynn Martindale and Hollie Phillips. Students receiving Honor-

able Mention were: Rick Jones, Kenneth Losin, Betty Mishler, Jeffrey Webb and Martha Zeller. Jaycees serving on the committee were Bill Voltmer, Jack Flint Don Tunks and Lou Ehrcke. The committee would like to thank for their cooperation Dr. Clary, Supt. of Schools; Carl Hurst, Jr. High. principal; and Mrs. Jonathan Houck of the Language Arts Dept. Banner Photo—Frank Puckett Jr.

Eastern Half Of Nation

Numbed By Frigid Front

Now You Know By United Frets International

The titular office of Wiaard used fay the Ku Khix KlanJ* derived from the fact that the Klan’s first leader, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was known during the Civil War as the

“Wizard on Horseback.”

Mrs. Thompson's Rites Tuesday Mrs. Halite Hamrick Thompson, a descendant of pioneer Putnam County families, passed away at her home Sunday morning at 9:15. Bom in Martinsville April 18, 1875, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Bryan and Walter Scott Hamrick. Mrs. Thompson attended school in Martinsville and Topeka, Kansas. On December 6, 1909, she was married to Frederick Marion Thompson and lived in California for many years before returning to Greencastle, when she and her husband bought the Hamrick home at Hamrick Station. After Mr. Thompson’s death in 1938, Mrs. Thompson moved to Green-

castle.

A member of the Gobin Memorial Church, Mrs. Thompson was active in the Fortnightly Club, the Country Reading Club, the Priscilla Club, the D.A.R., and the Gobin Memorial Church. Mrs. Thompson is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Nall, a niece, Mrs. Ruth J. Harlan, both at home, a nephew, Glen B. Hamrick, and a niece, Mrs. Ray Adcock, both of Los Angeles, California. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Robert Gingery and will be held from Rector Funeral Home at 4:00 P.M., Tuesday, with burial at Boone-Hutcheson Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. Sikorsky Honored NEW YORK UPI—Igor Sikorsky, developer of the helicopter, will be named “man of the year” tonight at the third annual Air Force Salute. „ win be sremntM with a bronze eagle by the Iron Gate chapter of the Air Force Association. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown is expected to attend the ceremonies.

Moon Rocket Test To Be Wednesday

Local Musicians High In Butler Auditions

Funeral Tuesday For Trah Victim Services for Roland D. Vickrey, 17, Fillmore High School junior, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Rector Funeral Home with Rev. Allen Reynolds and Rev. Malcolm Neier In charge. Burial will be in the Stilesville Cemetery. Roland was fatally injured in a train-car accident at Fillmore Friday afternoon. He is survived by his parents, Merrill and Catherine Dorsett Vickrey, Jr.; a twin brother, Holland, two other twin brothers, Rodger, in Formosa, Roderick, Seattle, Wash., both in the Navy; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Linnie Dorsett, Broadpark; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Vickrey, Sr., Paragon; several aunts, uncles and cousins. Both Rodger and Roderick are here cm leave due to their brother's death. Pall bearers will be Wayne Bright, Steys Clearwaters, Steve Robison, Allen QteKmttWP, Haity Kfrby, Mike Fowler, Arnold Walton and Mike Goodpaster. Friends may call at the funeral home.

By United Pres* IntemeHonel The eastern half of the nation, from the Canadian border to the Deep South, was chilled today by a mass of record-pro-ducing cold air parked over the upper Midwest. International Falls, Minn, suffered through the seventh straight day of below zero temperatures. It was 20 degrees below zero today at Grand Forks, N. D., but the bitter cold appeared to be easing although still maintaining a grip on 13 states from Maine to Montana. The cold brought new fears to Mississippi River communities threatened by floods caused by an eight-mile-long ice jam and triggered snow in the Ozarks, the eastern Great Lakes region and upstate New York. Warm air from off the Gulf of Mexico kept the cold at bay today along the Gulf Coast and in Florida, regions that enjoyed temperatures- in the 50s, as much as 20 degrees higher than Sunday’s low marks. The southwest and California coast saw temperatures in the 70s. Bandy Os Tow WASHINGTON UPI — William P. Bundy, assistant secretary at state for Far Eastern affairs, leaves today for a trip to six Asian nations and a regular conference with U.S. officials in the area. ^ Bundy’s first stop was to be Tokyo Tuesday night. From Japan he goes to Manila; Baguio, in the Philippines, where he win attend a conference at all UJS. chiefs of mission in the Far East Feb. 28Mareh 2; Saigon; Bangkok; Kuala Lumpur, and Taipei. He Is doe back in Washington March

1*

29 Tears Ago Mr. and Mrs. Simpson Stoner

lift for Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Casil Brown was absent from ■te poet office due to illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hurst TWo other persons died of intnd son were here from Bans- juries suffered in wrecks earlier

visiting Mrs. Grace

'Mrs. Edward Wood left for

h Trustee Roc* Mfcrs. Ralph Fosher, of Bainbridge, today announced her candidacy for Monroe Township Trustee, subject to the Democrat May primary. Mrs. Fosher is filling out the term of her husband, who passed away suddenly recently, being appointed by the Putnam County Commissioners. Mr. Fosher’s term expires at the end of this year. Copters Collide Killing 5 Yaoks SAIGON UPI—U.S. mUitary spokesmen today reported heavy bombing of targets in Communist North Viet Nam while tragedy continued to stalk U.S. airmen in the South. Five Americans were killed and 12 injured in the collision of two Army UH-1B “Huey” helicopters near Saigon. Viet Cong guerrillas meanwhile have unleashed heavy mortar attacks against widely scattered American and South Vietnamese targets throughout the South in the last two days. Only light casualties were reported in nine separate mortar barrages reported today. U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division troops participating in operation White Wing-Masher 300 miles northeast of Saigon reported another 34 Viet Cong killed in fierce hand-to-hand, combat. In one battle, Viet Cong disguised as bushes charged up jungle slopes “screaming like crazy men” in frantic efforts to escape a U.S.

ambush.

**• ToMaffS*

/ irovnc ueams Seven persons were killed in

traffic, two of them 16-year-olds in a single wreck, during the 54-hour weekend period in

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Is Dead

SAN FRANCISCO UPI—On Dec. 7, 1941, A dm. Chester W. Nimitz was listening to concert music on the radio in his Washington home when an announcer interrupted to announce the Japanese had bombed Hawaii. Eighteen days later, Nimitz arrived in Honolulu and took command of the Pacific Fleet. Many of his ships lay at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. He went to work quietly and counseled his subordinates, “be patient.” Nimitz rebuilt the bomb-shat-tered fleet into the mightiest naval armada ever assembled—

a force of 5i000 ships, 16,000 aircraft and 2 million men which beat the Japanese back across the Pacific. On Sept. 1, ibio, he stood with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of his flagship, the battleship Missouri, to receive Japan’s unconditional surrender. Sunday, Nimitz, the Navy’s

Masonic Notice Called meeting Temple Lodge 47, Tuesday 7:30 p. m. F. C. Degree. Visitors welcome. Refreshments. R. Bee, W. M.

only five-star fleet admiral, died in his white frame home on the Yerba Buena Island naval reservation. He would have been 81 years old Thursday. He never retired from the Navy. A Navy spokesman said death was caused b y complications from a stroke which Nimitz suffered early in January. He was allowed to return to his home from Oak Knoll Naval Hospital Feb. 1, but remained under the care of naval doctors. His wife, a daughter a n d a grandson were at his bedside when death came.

A graveside service and burial with military honors are scheduled for Thursday afternoon at Golden Gate National Cemetery in nearby San Bruno. The body will lie in state for 1^4 hours at the Treasure Island Naval Base chapel earlier in the day. President Johnson, who served with the Navy in the South Pacific for a time during World War H, said Nimitz’s “quiet courage and resolute leadership” earned him the "undying gratitude of his countrymen and an enduring chapter in the annals of naval history.”

Pupils in file music department of the Greencastle Community Schools participated in the Indiana Music Educators Association music auditions held on the Butler University campus last Saturday. Eleven events were entered and each event received a Division One rating. A Division One rating, the highest possible award, is given for a superior performance to the musicians who have performed music of professional standard. The pupils bad earned the right to participate in the state auditions by receiving a first division in the recently held district auditions. The events entered and the names of the pupils in each event are as follows: Bruce Berg, violin; Linda Fisher, vocal—soprano; Steve Grimes, vocal—baritone; Bill Grubb,, violincello; Steve Hanna, percussion; Marty McIntyre, violin; Jim Shonkwiler, violincello; Phyliss White, flute; string quartet: Bruce Berg, Cathy McFarland, Laurie Knights, Jim Shonkwiler; vocal trio: Linda Fisher, Jan Balay, Brenda Miller; woodwind trio: Vicky Williams^ Carol Gooch, Sidney -toqAiHi

thie year and a Michigan doctor died of injuries he received last year to boost the all-time Indiana traffic record.

The high standard at performance by these young people is a tribute to them and their excellence in achievement. This excellence in achievement Is a reflection of ; the standards established throughout the Greencastle Community Schools. Amputee Trapped BEATRICE, Neb. UPI — An elderly man who recently had both feet amputated died Sunday when flames trapped him in his second floor bedroom. Firemen said Clarence Williams, a veteran of World War I, apparently suffocated. The owner of the house, Mrs. Laura Madows, tried to rush back In to find him but was restrained by onlookers. Two Fire Colls City firemen were called out at 6:17 p. m. Saturday to 314 Ohio Street to extinguish a garage fire at the Ray Gooch residence. A second run during the weekend was made at 10 p. m., Sunday when there was a smell of smoke at the home of Mrs. Margaret Welch, 205 West Franklin Street. The firemen reported no fire.

CAPE KENNEDY UPI—Th# long countdown for the first test flight in America’s Apollo manned lunar landing program got underway early today and aimed at a Wednesday launch for the 23-ton moonship. For the Initial flight, the Apollo will be unmanned and will soar 310 miles high before landing in the South Atlantic Ocean. A success will be a major step in the 21 billion effort to use the same type craft to send three men to the moon by 1969. If the 52% hour string of final checks and preparations proceeds without a hitch, the Saturn IB rocket’s eight first stage engines will burst into life at 7:45 a. m. EST Wednesday before a national television audience. The federal space agency said the weather outlook for launch day at both the Cape and recovery areas was “reasonably good” with broken clouds expected over the launch site and scattered clouds over the landing zone 5,500 miles aWay. The shot will kick off a busy week in the U. S. space program. The world’s largest solid fueled rocket motor will be test fired Wednesday night south of Miami, the first Saturn 5 moon rocket will be tested at Huntsville, Ala,, Friday and a Tiros weather satellite will be launched hero Friday. Ross Revoke Citizenship MOSCOW UPI—Russia today revoked the citizenship of anti-Communist write Valeri Tarsis, who has denounced the Soviet state as “police fascism.” In London, Tarsis announced that he was “not surprised” and would seek political asylum in the West. He did not say whether it would be In Britain or the United States. In a statement released through his publisher, the 59-year-old novelist added that “although I am not a young man, I hope one day to return as a citizen to a free Russia.” Tarsis, whose anti-Soviet writing won him fame in the West, was deprived of his citizenship just 11 days after denouncing the Soviet system as “police fascism.” The announcement was carried here in a brief statement on the back page of Pravda, the party newspaper. Mark Anniversary VERDUN UPI—France was reminded anew Sunday of war, bloodshed and 400,000 Frenchmen killed in the greatest battle in human memory—Verdun. In Paris and Verdun, simple ceremonies were held to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Verdun campaign in World War I.

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

YOUNG DEMOCRATS HOLD PITCH-IN SUPPER

Shown above are the officers of the Putnam County Young Democrats Club at their pitch-in supper Friday. They are (L to r.) Seventh District Co-ordinator of the Teen-Dems Rick Luther; President «f the Young Democrata Chib Frank

Raines; Secretary, Joan Harvey; Vice President, Sue Finchum; Putnam County Chairman and Seventh District CoOrdinator of Democrat Committee Charles E. Sbuee, and Treasurer Leon Herbert. Banner Photo—Frank Puckett, Jr.

INDIANA WEATHER: Fair north, partly cloudy south today with some snow extreme south today through this evening. Clearing tonight and fair Tuesday. A little warmer. High today 25 to 32. Low tonight 8 to 15 above. High Tuesday 25 to 33. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly fair with no major temperature change. Lows 10 to 20. Highs in the 20s north to the 30s south. Minimum - 14° 6 A.M 15® 7 AAL .... - 15® 8 AM. 14® 0 AM. *.....»•• 18 10 JLM. 31 11 AM. 23* 12 Noon 23* 1 PAL 26