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NO. 262

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ENJOYING THEIR ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE Mr. and Mra. Jesse R. Stanley, authentically costumed, are shown in their 1926 Model T Ford Touring car. This auto, originally owned by Mr. Stanley’s father, has been fully restored piece by piece. It will be among several on display by the Kickapoo Antique Auto Club during Saturday morning, September 10, for the Fair-on-the-Square celebration. Dotty and Jesse have won first place trophies in auto shows throughout Indiana and neighboring states. Included in these tours was the 1962 Glidden Tour held in French Lick in which the Stanleys also copped high honors. Following Saturday’s showing, the Kickapoo gang will travel to Turkey Run where they will picnic and display their treasured vehicles. Co-hosting with the Stanleys in this event are Mr. and Mrs. Ira Moore.

National Safety Council Fears 630 Will Be Killed In Traffic During Weekend

By United Pr«u International Hard on tht heels of another unsettling traffic death record, Americana tonight begin the last holiday weekend of summer. The National Safety Council said up to 630 persons could die in traffic accidents. Fair weather was forecast for most of the nation during the Labor Day holiday period, which begins at 6 p.m., local time today and ends at midnight Monday. Howard Pyle, president of the safety council, estimated between 530 and 630 persons would die during the holiday and up to 25,000 persons would suffer disabling injuries in automobile accidents. The estimates were made following Thursday’s announcement that more Americans died in traffic mishaps during July than in any previous month on record—5,130. The figure represented a giant 21 per cent over the death toll for July 1965. The worst Labor Day death toll was set during the holiday last year, when 575 persons were killed. State police and highway patrolmen across the land were ready for the surge of holiday traffic, and planned to pay special attention to one of the major causes of highway accidents—the drinking driver. Auto Hits Hog A hog on the Ind. 43 pavement, a short distance north of the Hedge Motel, north of this city, was struck and killed by a Chicago motorist early this morning. State Trooper John Danberry investigated and reported the motorist was not hurt but his car sustained some damage. 20 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pickens were visiting in Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Messersmith and children were here from Dallas, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Myers spent the day in Huntington. Miss Mary Ellen West returned home from Cedar Point, Ohio, where she spent the summer.

Traffic Toll 1,025 By United Prats International Indiana’s 1966 traffic fatality toll has climbed to at least 1,025 compared with 934 a year ago. Carolyn Feldhaus, 62, Cincinnati, died in a South Bend hospital Wednesday from injuries suffered Aug. 19 in an auto crash near Rochester on U. S. 31. TV Personality Dies In Crash WASHINGTON UPI —Marie McDonald, a glamorous blonde television personality who gave up fashion modeling to cast traffic reports from a helicopter to local radio listeners, was killed Thursday when her airborne studio crashed and burned. She would have been 29 today. The helicopter pilot, 43-year-old Lesco (Les) Kaufman, also was killed in the crash, which occurred in suburban Marjiand just across the District of Columbia line.

Illational Guard Patrols Dayton By United Pren International

With President Johnson’s scheduled visit only three days away, 1,000 combat-equipped National Guardsmen enforced a calm in strife-torn Dayton,

Ohio, today.

Putnam County Is Declared Disaster Area Putnam County has been officially declared a disaster area by the United States Secretary of Agriculture. As a result the following letter has been sent to Putnam County farm operators by the local ASC Office: “The Secretary of Agriculture has authorized grazing and harvesting forage for a limited time on Soil Bank, Cropland Adjustment, Wheat, Cotton and Feed Grain Diverted Acres program lands. This authorization is subject to approval by the ASC county committee. Regardless of reports you may have read or heard, grazing or harvesting this acreage without prior approval of the ASC county committee is a violation of program regulations. If prior approval is not obtained, the regular program penalties apply. If you believe you or some other person should be permitted to graze or harvest forage on this land on your farm because of local unfavorable weather conditions, please notify us immediately. If this permission is granted, a charge for the value of the grazing or forage harvested will be collected or deducted from your program payments.” Branigin Given Drainage Map LAFAYETTE UPI—Governor Branigin recently was presented a six-by-four-foot drainage map of Indiana described by Purdue University civil engineers as the first of its kind in the United

States.

The map, fulfilment of a 23year cooperative effort by engineers and the Indiana State Highway Commission, shows every lake, river, stream, creek,

Johnson is supposed to speak BTully* basin and sinkhole in the

at the Montgomery County Fair, about a mile and a half from the predominantly Negro west side where 15 persons were injured and 100 were arrested in a day of racial violence Thursday. Officials hoped that the death of a Negro man who had been shot down by white men several hours earlier would not trigger a return of the violence. Tragic Incident SAIGON UPI—Police reported that Pham Van Ho, 51, was killed when the water buffalo he was riding stepped on a Viet Cong mine. The beast also was killed. Director Resigns

Eyewitnesses said the cop- FOR WAYNE UPI — Igor

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ter’s engine faltered a few seconds after takeoff and the craft plunged to the ground, striking a 4,000 volt powerline in its descent. 10 Escape From Winnipeg Prison WINNIPEG UPI—Two convicts armed with kitchen knives overpowered a guard Thursday night, threw open a cellblock and led eight other prisoners to freedom. They were armed and considered “extremely dangerous.” Authorities said Kenneth Leishman, held in Headingly Provincial Prison as a suspect in a $382,000 gold robbery at Winninpeg International Airport, and an undientified prisoner jumped the guard who walked alone into their cell section. They ran down the corridor to another cell block where 40 men were being held for minor offenses and opened the doors. Only 8 of the 40 joined the two desperadoes. The 10 went to the empty administrtaion office and took six rifles and two pistols and civilian clothes. They stole three ! prison automobiles and drove | off.

Buketoff resigned Thursday after 18 years of director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Or-

chestra.

Buketoff said he has received an increasing number of requests for performances in America and Europe. Buektoff also is founder of the World Music Bank, which provides for an exchange of contemporary music between

countries.

state.

It contains information needed for proper planning of highways, bridges, culverts, drainage ways and reservoirs for flood control and recreation purposes. Women's Prison Term Suspended Madge Austin, city, who had been charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, was arraigned in the Putnam

Gen. John J. Dillon, who has recommended that Indiana’s peace courts be abolished, learned today that he would put 390 justices out of business. Dillon was asked by the Judicial Study Commission to prepare proposed legislation and background information to implement a program which Dillon earlier presented to the commission. Dillon’s plan calls for substituting peace courts with common pleas courts—a procedure requiring an amendment to the Indiana Constitu-

tion.

The attorney general said that in the course of his research he discovered there was “no record anywhere” of the number and location of all peace courts presently functioning in Indiana. He said that in order to get this information, it was necessary for a member of his staff to check with each county and learn where the courts are. Lake County turned out to be the champion with 21 courts, and LaPorte was next with 16. Porter was third with 12, followed by Delaware and St. Joseph, each with 10. Marion County, the most heavily populated, has 9 and Ohio, the least populated, 1. Eight counties have town, city, juvenile, criminal probate, municipal or magistrate courts, in addition to having circuit and superior courts and peace courts. These are Boone, Franklin, Lake, Marion, Porter, St. Joseph, Vanderburgh, and White counties. Dillon’s plan — not all of which has been backed by the Judicial Study Commission — calls for elimination of city, town, magistrate and municipal courts. His plan calls for the common pleas courts to be patterned in general after the Marion Coun(Continued on Page 2) Heavy Rainfall, Hail Reported By Unitad Prtit International Heavy storms developed along the eastern slopes of the Rockies Thursday night and punched out across the Great Plains. There was a lot of sound and some fury. Most of the fury was concentrated along a line from Marion to Crooks, S. D., where wind - whipped thunderstorms dumped up to 4 inches of rain in the space of a few hours during the evening. Some of the sound was provided by inch-thick hailstones which hammered the streets of Denver, Colo., during a thunderstorm. More than an inch

Patience Essential In Freeing S. Viet Nam

Three Arrested, Two Are Jailed Richard L. Snider, 25, Greencastle, Route 4, was arrested at 11 p.m. Thursday by City Officer John Pursell and booked at the Putnam County jail for

public intoxication.

WASHINGTON UPI — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, warned Thursday that the battle for a free South Viet Nam will be “long and arduous.” Wheeler told the final session of the American Legion national convention the United States

HONG KONG UPI — Young Communist Chinese sealots calling themselves “grave-dig-gers of the old world,” voted tc day to undergo combat training for a fight to the end againsl Americans in Viet Nam anci “traitorous Soviet Leaders.” The pledge from China’s Red Guard youths came as Peking assured the North Vietnamese Thursday it has “made every preparation” to join them in struggle against the United States “until final victory is

achieved.”

In an article published in the People’s Daily, the official or-

The Vietnamese conflict occu-

Carl R. Hodge, 26, of 1018! pied all of the major speeches

Circuit Court Thursday after- of rain fell at Wy0 _ t noon * and Midland, Tex., marked 1.14

Judge Francis N. Hamilton sentenced her to serve six months at the Indiana Women’s

inches. The U. S. Weather Bureau said a combination of haze, in-

Prison and fined her $100 and dustrial smoke and ground fog cos t s< was hampering air travel early

today in some sections of the The sentence was suspended East,

providing she stay out of a large, sluggish high pres-

taverns.

Contrite Prisoner BIRMINGHAM, England UPI —A prison guard answered the front gate bell at the Winson Green jail only to discover that the caller was Thomas Cattell. Cattell had escaped from the jail two days before.

sure area centered over eastern Kentucky was largely responsible, the weather bureau said. Hurricane Faith continued to reel out to sea off the Atlantic Coast, although tides were reported running high at some beaches. Elsewhere in the nation, temperatures were normal for the start of the Labor Day

> weekend.

Avenue D, was arrested on South Bloomington Street, at 5:25 Thursday afternoon, by Officer Russell Rogers on a false registration charge. At 4 p.m. Thursday, Martin Puckett, 66, no permanent address, was jailed by State Detective Kenneth Wolfe on a circuit court warrant charging uttering a forged instrument. Puckett was returned to Greencastle from Sullivan by Wolfe. John E. Davis Heads Legion WASHINGTON UPI — The American Legion elected John E. Davis, former governor of North Dakota, as its new national commander. Davis, a decorated combat veteran of World War II, served as governor of North Dakota from 1956 to 1960. He is a winner of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and a

Purple Heart.

Davis, 53, was bom in Minneapolis, Minn., and now lives in Bismarck, N.D. He is a farmer, cattleman and banker. A 1935 graduate of the University of North Dakota, he is married and has three children. Eight Mexicans To Be Deported INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Eight Mexicans were in Marion County Jail today awaiting deportation following their arrests at Brazil and Milroy this week. Two teen-age boys were apprehended by immigration authorities Wednesday at Brazil, and six men and women were arrested at Milroy Tuesday, all charged with failure to register with immigration officials. Federal authorities said the cases would not be prosecuted but the Mexicans would be held for deportation. They came to Indiana for employment in the crop harvest this summer. Biting Evidence COMBONDE, France UPI— Police said today Albert Vasset was arrested on a burglar charge after they matched his teeth prints with those on an apple core found at the scene

of the crime.

must show patience and endur- g an 0 f the Chinese Communist ance in Viet Nam. party, the Red Guards said

they were ready to extend their anti-Western campaign in China “into the international areaa” for a two-pronged attack against America and Rus-

sia.

But they stopped short of actually saying they would take

made during the four days to the Legionnaires, starting with President Johnson on Tuesday. The convention, which atrtacted 50,000 Legionnaires and their j families, started Monday.

The last official acUon before j u P arms against u ‘ s> troops in the end of the 48th annual na- i Nam.

tional meeting of the largest veterans organization in America was to be election of na-

tional officers.

DeGaulle Sees World Catastrophe

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia UPI — President Charles de Gaulle, fearful of “the world rolling toward catastrophe” over Viet Nam, concludes a threeday visit to Cambodia today with a private talk about, the war with Cambodian chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk. After the final conference with Sihanouk, whose Missourisized nation is an uneasy neighbor of South Viet Nam, the French leader was to fly to Noumea in New Caledonia on the next leg of his round-the-world tour. The highlight of the 75-year-old general’s tour came in a speech Thursday in which he warned no military solution t&

the war was possible and ap-1 speech, saying President John- j The speculation was that the

pealed for a withdrawal American troops. "France believes that no military solution is possible and that to think so is to see the world rolling toward a catastrophe. Only a political accord can re-establish peace,” De Gaulle told 80,000 cheering Cam-

bodians.

son would have to read the full ' personal message North Viet-

transcript first.

Observers maintained nevertheless the address, which De Gallue said he made “in the name of two centuries of (Franco-American) friendship," was the harshest attack on U.S.

policy he has yet made. De . . _ , ..

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Gaulle conceded there seemed r

namese President Ho Chi Minh sent De Gaulle through the Communist envoy might have agreed to a peace conference if the U.S. troops w r ere first

withdrawn.

Wheeler said the process of establishing a free, stable South Viet Nam “may take years and it will take great patience. But there is every reason to have hope that it will be done.” Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon tol dthe Legionnaires Wednesday the United States shoul dincrease its military strength In Viet Nam by 25 per cent and at least quarantine, if not mine, Haiphong harbor in North Viet Nam. Nixon noted unofficial reports that U.S. forces in Viet Nam would be doubled, but he said only a 25 per cent increase is needed because “we must help South Viet Nam fight the enemy, not fight the war for them.” To Stump Indiana WASHINGTON UPI — Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey plans at least four stops in Indiana this fall during the coming congressional campaign. Humphrey’s itinerary includes visits to Indiana Sept. 23 and Oct. 4. Decision Near WASHINGTON UPI—It appears that Congress—possibly with President Johnson’s help— would be able to soothe inflation—hit voters in November with a token corporate tax hike designed to damp down the economy. Sources indicated that the President was nearing a decision to support legislation that would supend the corporate investment tax credit—generally considered one of the most inflation aspects of the economy.

The leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States "have committed monstrous, unpardonable crimes and should be punished and executed by the revolutionary people of the world,” the Red Guard article

said.

The teen-agers who have terrorized China for two weeks in their bid to wipe out all foreign influences “expressed their determination to learn from the liberation Chinese army for training themselves to become combat troops like the army it-

self.”

The Red Guards also announced that they had decided to “strengthen their organization for putting it on a combat basis . . . they are unafx’aid of sacrifices and unafraid of death.” The Chinese Government message of support for Hanoi came in a cable sent to President Ho Chi Minh on the 21st anniversary of North Viet Nam’s existence as a nation. It was signed by party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other Chinese leaders. It said China's 700-million people have “made every preparation to fight the U. S. aggressors anywhere at any-time and give them point blows together with the North Vietenamese people until final victory is achieved.” The struggle of Hanoi against the United States “has proved U. S. imperialism is a paper tiger,” the cable said. NOW YOU KNOW By United Press International Hawks are sensible, full of wisdom and non - ferocious, whereas doves are cruel, insenate and bloodthirsty, according to ornithologist S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

There was no official support

De Gaulle asserted the only ; little immediate hope the Unit-

ed States would heed his plea. There was some speculation the French president’s call for an American withdrawal before negotiations might bear some relationship to the meeting De Gaulle had Wednesday with a

way negotiations could begin would be for the United States to withdraw all its troops from South Viet Nam — a preconference provision also demanded by the North Vietnam-

ese.

Officials In Washington had ■ Communist North Vietnamese 40 immediate comment on Uxe[r§pr^ent&tivc here. ^

De Gaulle planned a two-day stop-over in New Caledonia before continuing to Tahiti and the islands of the French Pacific where he planned to watch the detonation of a French atomic bomb — the final blast of a series preparatory to the detonation of the first French H-boml»» -

INDIANA WEATHER: Fair today and tonight. Partly cloudy Saturday with a chance of thundershowers by afternoon. Continued warm and humid. High today low 90s. Low tonight mid 60s. High Saturday low 90s. Precipitation probability percentages 5 today, 10 tonight and 20 Saturday. Outlook for Saturday night and Sunday: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and possibly a little cooler Sunday. Minimum 63* 6 A.M 63® 7 A.M 64® 8 A.M 71® 9 A.M 77» 10 A.M 82® 11 A.M 87® 12 Noon 89* - 1 P.AL .•I,**,,.,,*11,,,,,,,j,§ Ma |,,91 ’