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VOLUME SEVENTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1966 Indiana Sesquicentennial Year

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LADIES READY FOR SPRING LUNCHEON

Buoy preparing' for the annual spring luncheon Wednesday at Gobin Memorial Church are ladies of the various committees. Shown above are Mrs. E. I. Carriker, general chairman; Mrs. L. A. Riggs, buffet chairman; Mrs. Henry Pehan, ticket-sales chairman; and Mrs. Elton Weston, chairman of decorations with two of her committee members, Mrs. Robert

Farber and Mrs. Terry McCarter. Mrs. James B. Johnson is president of the WSCS which is sponsoring this affair on May 4 from 11:30 to 1:30 o’clock. Left to right: Mrs. Farber, Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Carriker, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Pehan and Mrs. McCarter.

College Students Get 2nd Chance

WASHINGTON UPI — Selective Service is going to give another chance tq those college students who missed signing up for the tests which might help keep them out of the draft. April 23 was the deadline for signing up for the qualification tests scheduled for May 14, May 21 and June 3 at 1,200 locations in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone and the District of Columbia. About 1 million students had applied by the deadline, which fell on a Saturday. But additional thousands failed to sign up until the last moment — and then found their local draft boards closed that day. Selective Service officials said Monday that a fourth test would be given "in the latter part of June” for those who, "for some reason,” were unable to take the exam previously. Details will be announced about the test within the next two weeks. The same eligibility standards will prevail, however. Students who want to take the late June test must be registered for the draft and seeking occupational deferment as students. No student may take the test twice. Dismiss Charges STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. UPI—A police magistrate Mon day dismissed disturbance charges against six Yampa Valley College students, including the son of television performer Steve Allen. Brian Allen, 19, and the other youths were charged with disturbance in a March 23 fight with four area cowboys. The incident occurred in a Steamboat Spring beer tavern. 20 Years Ago David Scroggin was a patient in the county hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Shirley were visitors in Bloomington. Miss Anita Handy was chosen Relay Queen for the South Central track meet at Blackstock Stadium. Local people attending the performance of La Boheme at Indiana University included Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Sam T. Hanna, Miss Lila Hanna, Danny Hanna and Miss Virginia Walbring.

Tokyo Growing ! TOKYO UPI — The population. of Tokyo will reach 11 million persons sometime this month, city officials reported Monday. They said the world’s most populous city had 10,919,345 residents as of March 1. The figures sue for metropolitan Tokyo. There are about nine million persons living within the city limits. Cars Damaged In Local Accident City police reported this morning that a traffic accident occurred at Bloomington Street and Broadway at 4 p.m. Monday. Autos involved were a 1961 Ford driven by Lester E. Skinner, 19, Greencastle, Route 5, and a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Loretta M. Haviland, 19, Brazil. Officer Larry Rogers reported no one was hurt but damage was estimated at $325 to the Skinner car and $250 to the Brazil automobile.

DePauw Seniors Will Hear Myron F. Wicke

Dr. Myron F. Wicke, who heads The Methodist Church’s work in higher education, will deliver the baccalaureate address at DePauw University, May 29. The title of Wicke’s sermon will be “Postscript.” The 10 a. m. service in Bowman Gymnasium precedes commencement exercises later in the day for 400-plus seniors. A one-time college dean at Baldwin-Wallace College and at Southwestern University (Tex.), Wicke was named to his present post last year. His writings range across the

Lost By A Nose LOURENCO MARQUES, Mozambique UPI — Police said Carlos Ghana, a ticket collector, bit the nose off Antonio Pocas, a bus driver, in an argument over their work.

spectrum of higher education, including such works as “Handbook for Trustees,” "On Teaching in a Christian College” and “The Deanship of the Liberal Arts College.” Wicke is a trustee of the Alaska Methodist University and has lectured on the college level at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville (Tenn.) and at the University of California (Berkeley). He earned advanced degrees in English (A.M. and Ph.D.) at Western Reserve University.

Long Life

DU QUOIN, HI. UPI — Mrs. Adeline Jones Drury, who said she became a vegetarian at the age of 23 when doctors told her she didn’t have long to live, celebrated her 100th birthday this week.

Dirksen Hits LBJ's Fair Housing Bill WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson’s proposal for a national fair housing law appeared today to have sounded the death knell for the bipartisan congressional coalition which pushed through the historic civil rights measures of 1964 and 1965. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., a key partner of the White House in the other battles, announced the end of the alliance Monday when he attacked the fair housing provisions of the new civil rights bill as “absolutely unconstitutional.” The proposal, which would ban discrimination in sale and rental of all housing, was drafted by the Justice Department and based on the government’s constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. This is the same argument the department used successfully to underpin the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as well as in desegregation of rail and bus terminals. Dirksen balked at this approach, however. “If you can tell me what in interstate commerce is involved about selling a house fixed on soil or what federal jurisdiction there is, I’ll eat the chimney on the house,” he said. The Senate faced its first skirmish on the bill today in a move by Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., to refer the measure to the judiciary committee with orders to bring it back to the floor by a certain date. Both Dirksen and Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., announced their opposition to Javits’ motion. “If between Mike and myself we don’t have the votes to knock out Javits’ time limitation we’re in a helluva fix,” the GOP leader

said.

As it stands now, the civil rights bill would also end discrimination in state and federal court juries, provide more protection from violence for Negroes and civil rights workers, and permit the Justice Department to initiate school and public facility desegregation suits.

Vote In Spotlight

Warning Is Issued To Army Reservists

WWI Notice

The Veterans of W. W. I of the Greencastle Barrack No. 114 and its Auxiliary will meet at the American Legion Home, Friday, May 6th, at 6:30 p. m. This will be the usual pitch-in dinner and meeting. Ladies please bring in your reports for the year; Hospital and Welfare and V.A.V.S. and please come. Grace Heavin, Auxiliary President

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287 Employed At Voting Polls Today Putnam County hired 287 new employees at a cost of $4,890.00 to the taxpayer. These people were given three free meals costing another $1,076.25. Yes, you guessed it, they awoke before daylight and reported to 39 polling places throughout Putnam County to await your arrival to exercise your privilege of voting. Husbands are babysitting and wives doing farm chores so election boards can operate the polls from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. They signed oaths to uphold the election laws of Indiana. This assures you your vote will count unless your ballot is mutilated, and the candidate is assured that his rights have been protected. The seven member board Is not allowed to leave the premises until all votes are counted, recorded, and results sealed. He cannot engage in conversation that might influence a voter. He is expected to be courteous and helpful at all times. If the vote is light, the day seems long. If the vote is heavy, the night is long. Did you remember to vote? There may still be time. Light Indiana Vote Indicated INDIANAPOLIS UPI —Voters from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River cast ballots today in Indiana’s off-year primary elections with fewer than a million registrants likely to participate. Despite prospects of fair and mild weather and fields too wet from recent downpours to keep the farmers away from the polls, general apathy was expected to hold down the turnout to approximately 40 per cent of some 2.5 million registered voters. Frantic last-minute campaigning continued after the polls opened for voters to decide thousands of races from the congressional level down to township and precinct offices.

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WASHINGTON UPI — The Army is warning Reservists who fail to show up for weekly drills that they can be demoted to private, called to active duty or even drafted. Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor ordered the new enforcement procedures to apply to two types of members of the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard. A man who has had four to 10 months training on active duty and then has gone into a Reserve unit is obliged to attend regular drills. If he has three, unexcused absences, he’ll be considered “inefficient”; after the fourth, he’s warned that any more will get him demoted and called to active duty for 45 days. The other type of Reservist is the man who has not yet had active duty. He is supposed to train with his unit until the Army has room to give him his four to 10 months training If he misses drills, he’ll be reported to his local draft board “for priority induction” into t Army for two years.

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NEW GREENCASTLE MOOSE LODGE OFFICERS

Left to right* Lucky Miller, Outer Guard; Ernie Sutherlin, Past Governor; Ora Turner, Sr., Trustee; Ernie Walls, Sergeant-at-Arms; Karl Neumann, Secretary; Marlin Coy, Treasurer;.^Seated) Robert Friend,, Governor; William

Alspaugh, Prelate; Murray Lewis, Trustee; George Ellis, Trustee; Lloyd Arnold, Inner Guard; Robert Andrews, Junior Governor; Robert Crousore, Moose Member.

Planes Attack Supply Dumps SAIGON UPI — U.S. warplanes taking advantage of the few remaining days before the monsoon rains begin struck in massive strength at Communist supply dumps and routes in both North and South Viet Nam, a U.S. spokesman said today. Streaking closer than usual to populated centers, the pilots blasted caves loaded with war goods only two miles from Vinh, a North Vietnamese city of about 50,000 which has become a major supply center. Other pilots bombed within five miles of Than Hoa and knocked out three radar sites, destroyed bridges and bridge approaches, ripped up 50 yards of railway track, hit 20 supply warehouses and smashed trucks. 2 Hew Members The Greencastle Ministerial Association met on Friday morning, April 29, at the First Christian Church with twelve members present. Welcomed to the Association were Jameson Jones, new pastor at Gobin Methodist Church, and Gordon Chastain, new pastor at St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

By United Pran International The political test by primary began today in six states. But it was Alabama Negroes, with historic voting power at their command, who held national attention. Democrats and Republicans were watching the Negroes, more of whom were registered to vote than at any time in 100 years. They were voting on Gov. George C. Wallace’s bid to retain power. The party leaders were also watching voting in Florida, Indiana, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oklahoma for signs of voter feeling on Viet Nam and the steadily climbing cost of living, both key GOP issues for November. The six primaries were tho first of many which will culminate Nov. 8 in the election of all 435 members of the House of Representatives, 35 U.S. senators and 35 governors. Wallace’s wife, Lurleen, was the candidate on the ballot in the Alabama Democratic primary. But her campaign left no doubt that if elected, she would "let George do it” She is running against nine men. A record turnout of 800,000 voters was expected for the Alabama race. Segregationist Wallace ran his wife when ha was unable to'overcome a constitutional ban against his running again. Pollsters and professional politicians believed Mrs. Wallace would top the primary voting easily and go on to win in November. If she becomes governor, she would be the third woman in U.S. history to do so. Also in Ohio, the scion of thB famed Taft political family is moving again into the spotlight. Robert Taft Jr., who gave up his house seat in 1964 tq campaign unsuccessfully for the Senate, is seeking the Republican nomination for the House against William E. Flax of Cincinnati. Incumbent Rep. John J. Gilligan is unopposed in the Democratic primary. In New Mexico, both parties have two candidates for the governorship being vacated by Democrat Jack M. Campbell. Sen. Clinton M. Anderson, DN.M., is unopposed for renomination. His Republican challenger, Anderson Carter, also faces no opposition. In Indiana, which does not elect a governor or senator this year, the primary fight Involves two Republican House incumbents, Reps. Ralph Harvey and Richard L. Roudebush, in a recently redistricted 10th District One of Mrs. Wallace’s strongest challengers, Atty. Gen. Richmond M. Flowers, has openly courted the Negro vote. Other Democratic contestants include two former governors, James Folsom and John Patterson, and (Continued on Page 5)

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Sunny and mild today, fair and cool tonight with chance of some light frost. Fair and mild Wednesday. High today in mid 60s. Low tonight 36 to 42. High Wednesday 65 to 70. Outlook for Wednesday night and Thursday: Increasing cloudiness and not so cool Wednesday night. Thursday partly cloudy and mild. Minimum 41* 6 A.M 45* 7 A.M 49* 8 A.M 53° 9 A.M. 54° 10 A.M — 55* 11 A.M 56* 12 Noon - 56* 1 P.M, ..Mi,*............M......57