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Upper Midwest Shivers From Frigid Wove By United Pratt Internationa? Arctic cold replaced the fury of the first blizzard of 1967 today in the upper Midwest. •Hie blizzard, born in the Rocky Mountains, traveled across the upper tier of states, leaving death and two-foot snowfalls in its wake.

PRR, NYC Rail Merger Before Supreme Court

Park Fund Gets Boost

Jaycee President Jim McCarter is shown accepting a $250 check for the Jaycee Community Park Fund, from Jaycee Wives President Anne Asbell, and Treasurer Nancy Sutherlin.

Teacher Strike Is Averted

CHICAGO UPI — A public school teachers strike affecting 570,000 students was averted late Sunday night when the Chicago School Board promised dissident teachers $17 million it doesn’t have. Mayor Richard J. Daley stepped into the dispute and conducted a 4% hour meeting which resulted in the agreement, subject to ratification by the teachers tonight at a rank-and-file meeting. The strike was to have begun this morning—the first such strike in Chicago history. The Chicago public school system, with 22,000 kindergarten, grade and high school teachers, is tne third largest in the nation. About 17,500 teachers were expected to have stayed away from their classrooms. John Desmond, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, hailed the agreement calling for $500 across-the-board pay raises as a “very, very big victory.” A second teachers strike, this one involving 34,000 students at Chicago’s junior colleges, was ended early today. The members of the Cook County College Teachers’ Union who went on strike Friday for the second time in six weeks, agreed to a settlement calling for $20 a month raises now and $30 a month Sept 1, reduced class loads, and grievance pro-

cedures.

Dr. James Redmond, in his first year as superintendent of the Chicago public school system, said the $17 million agreement with the teachers would have to be financed by the state. Daley would say only that the parties to the dispute had a “meeting of the minds.” He also said that he had talked to Gov. Otto Kerner earlier and that Kerner had promised all possible state help. Masonic Notice Called meeting Temple Lodge No. 47 F. & A.M. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7 p.m. F.C. Degree. Visitors

welcome.

R. Bee, W.M.

Legion Notice American Legion Post 58 will hold its first meeting of 1967 at 8 o’clock tonight Make your New Year’s resolution one to take an active part in your Legion activities. Refreshments will be served. W. Jones, Commander 20 Years Ago Mrs. Walter Williams entered Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis to undergo an operation. The Woman’s Auxiliary of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church met with Mrs. John Forbes. Mrs. Glendyn Irwin was a

SAR Sponsoring Oratory Contest The William Knight Chapter of the S.A.R. decided to sponsor the local Douglass G. High Oration Contest at their last regular meeting. All county high schools will be contacted for entries of junior and senior high boys, and the rules will be on file at the principal’s office. Anyone seeking more information may contact Marion Sears, Chapter President, Fillmore or Cyril Johnson, Chapter Chaplain and State Contest Chairman. The local contest will be held on February 7 at the American Legion Home. The State Finals will be held in Muncie on Feb

26.

Treasurer Gordon Sayers requests all members pay their dues before the March meeting. All regular monthly meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month. Adult Courses Start Tonight Greeneastle High School offers adults, who have not completed high school, a program of classes for them to achieve this goal. Each year through this program, about five adults secure a high school diploma. Many find new job opportunities opening for them with an earned diploma. Some industries are encouraging their employes to take these courses by paying the costs of the course. The course for this semester will be in English. The high school credit class will start this evening with Mr. Brooks in charge. Anti-Rabies Drive Set By Jaycees Jaycee chairman Steve Dickson announces plans to stage another anti-rabies clinic, again for the-City of Greeneastle and Putnam County. Due to the tremendous response of last year’s clinic the Jaycees will hold their clinic with local veterinarian Boyd Knuppel’s assistance again during the last part of March and during the first of April. Last year many cases of rabies were reported in the county, but due to the Jaycee community action the threat seems to be held in check. In order to continue to keep the threat of rabies at a minimum a pet must be vaccinated each year, reports Knuppel. Last year around 400 dogs and cats were vaccinated. This year the Jay-

O.E.S. Notice

Stated meeting Morton O.E.S. No. 356, Jan. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Grand Chaplain and Grand Warder will be present Formal. No work, carry-in refreshments.

Lyda Mae Oliver, W.M.

York Rite Notice Wednesday Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m. Installation of new oficers in Royal Arch, Council and Commandery. Refreshments served.

The monster dissipated over New England and eastern Canada Sunday but not before the deaths linked to its snarling snows—often whipped by .0-50 mile an hour winds—climbed to at least 21. Freezing temperatures held sway from the Rockies to the Appalachians today. The mercury slid to near or below zero from the upper Great Lakes to the central and southern rookies. Winds continued to whip deep snows into mountainous drifts. Snow flurries were reported today over the upper Rockies and western plains and the Great Lakes area. The weather-linked toll for the three days the storm took to move from infancy to death had climbed to 21 today. Texas reported six deaths, Minnesota five, Wisconsin three, Iowa two, and Illinois, Michigan, Montana, Oregon and Utah had one each. Four persons burned to death Sunday when high winds whipped flames out of control at their frame house in Richmond, (Continued on Page 7) BULLETIN WASHINGTON UPI — The Supreme Court today rejected a three-judge federal panel’s decision nearly a year ago affirming the 1965 Indiana Legislature’s reapportionment of the state’s 11 congresisonal districts.

State Of Union Message By Johnson On Tuesday

patient in the Putnam County j cees plan to vaccinate over 500

Hospital. I pets.

The high court vacated the

_ opinion issued last Feb. 17 Murray Lewis, High Priest whfeh upheld ^ Robert Ziegelman, Illustrious redictricting and sent the case Master ) back to the panel for further Robert Alexander, Commander I action.

Senator Would Reduce U. S. Troops In Europe

Officer Reports Local Break-In City Officer John Stevens discovered a break-in at the Brookshire Service Station, on the Indianapolis Road, at 11:52 Sunday night. Entrance was gained by breaking a glass in a rear door. Evidently the Intruder was looking for money as nothing in the way of merchandise was reported missing. Earlier, at 11:12 Sunday night, Officer Stevens found a coke machine outside Mac’s Texaco Station, corner of Jackson and Columbia Streets, had been broken into. Nothing was reported missing in this incident, either. Stated Convocation Stated Convocation, Greencastle Chapter No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m. Installation of officers. Refreshments. Willard E. Silvey, Secy. Charles A. Lyon, High Priest

WASHINGTON UPI—Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield plans to press again this year for Senate approval of his resolution for a “substantial reduction” of U.S. troop strength in Europe, despite Johnson administration misgivings. The resolution was introduced last year, but never called up for action; this year’s version seemed certain to touch off a major foreign policy debate in the Senate. At the time he introduced the resolution last year, Mansfield said, President Johnson indicated he was on his own. Subsequently, other top administration leaders indicated they would rather not see it pass because it would send new tremors through the already shaky NATO alliance. The resolution does not spell out how many American troops should be withdrawn, but Mansfield said today he was talking in terms of pulling out four of the six U.S. divisions in Western Europe. He said introduction of the resolution had nothing to do with the Vietnam war or with the nation’s balance of payments deficit.

Bobby Baker Goes On Trial Today

WASHINGTON UPI — Former Senate Democratic Secretary Robert G. (Bobby) Baker goes to trial today, launching Washington’s most explosive political courtroom drama in decades. Baker, a onetime Capitol page boy from Pickens, S.C., who became a cloakroom kingpin before scandal struck, was charged with nine criminal counts ranging from income tax evasion to larceny and fraud in his private business operations. Conviction of all nine indictments, returned by a federal grand jury a year ago, carries a maximum penalty of 48 years in jail and fines totaling $47,000. Proceedings were to begin in

the courtroom of Federal District Judge Oliver Gasch, only a quick bus hop away from the Senate side of the Capitol where a few years ago Baker hobnobbed with such powerful figures as Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson and the late Sen. Robert S. Kerr, DOkla. The Baker case was expected to start off on a low-keyed legalistic note with the 37-year-old defendant’s attorney, Edward Bennet Williams, making a last-minute bid for dismissal of the charges. Williams—one of the nation’s most successful defense counsels—is expected to urge Gasch to throw out the case on grounds

that much of the government’s case is based on conversations involving Baker that federal agents overheard by bugging devices. Previous pre-trial moves on Baker’s behalf along these lines were unsuccessful. Both Williams and his courtroom foe, Justice Department attorney William O. Bittman, anticipated a prolonged trial which might stretch out as long as three months. Selection of a jury could well take up most of the first week. The Baker affair has been a boiling political issue in Washington since 1963 when the sideline financial dealings of the admired and affable Senate cloak-

room figure began coming to light. It turned out that Baker — once praised by Johnson as “most trusted, most loyal and most competent” — was partowner of a Maryland motel, part-owner of a lucrative vending machine firm, a partner in a meat business in Haiti, a successful player of the stock market and a companion of Las Vegas gambling figures. A subsequent investigation by the Senate Rules Committee showed that while his top salary as Senate Democratic secretary was never over $19,600 a year, the young intimate of the Senate hierarchy had built up a fortune of about $2 million on paper from his private operations.

WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson is expected to disclose whether he will ask for a tax increase when he delivers his State of the Union address to Congress and the nation Tuesday night. In typical fashion the Chief Executive has played his fiscal cards so close to his vest that few in his administration will know what he has decided in advance of his nationally televised and broadcast speech before a joint session of the House and Senate at 9:30 p.m. (EST). Until he himself discloses his plans, Johnson will have all the options open—and that, too, is very much to the President’s liking. Key members of the House and Senate, those who carry the ball for the administration in committee and on the floor, gave conflicting views on the question on the eve of the President’s address. One version is that Johnson will not ask for an increase now to finance the new budget, ranging from $135-$137 billion, but may push for a modest hike later this year after it has been determined whether the economy is in a downturn or is merely moderating froih an inflationary level. Another is that the President’s top advisers are pushing for an immediate and substantial general tax increase to offset the new budget’s expected deficit of perhaps as much as $13 billion. Proponents of this view recall Senate Democratic, leader Lyndon B. Johnson’s attack on the $12 billion deficit the Eisenhower administration ran in 1959. Indications are strong' that the President is concerned over the large deficit fiscal 1968 may produce. White House visitors come away warnings, not of $13 billion, but of red ink figures of $20 billion. Knauer Names YFW Committee Commander Felix Knauer, of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars, has appointed a building committee consisting of the Post’s three trustees, Robert Michael, Otis Mathews and L. Wayne Jones. Also on the committee are two Past Commanders, Tom Roach and Ralph Klipsch, present Post Adjutant Knauer announced that Dave Thomas was the winner of a colored television set given away by the Post and Francis P. O’Brien was the winner of a life membership.

WASHINGTON UPI — Th* Supreme Court opens arguments today on the biggest merger in the history of American business the multi-billion-dollar union of t h • Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads. The six-hour session was to start at 11 a.m. EST. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) approved the consolidation last April 27, but a lawsuit filed by competing railroads has kept the deal hanging fire. The merger originally was scheduled for completion in September. The big problem is how and when the ICC is going to act to protect other Eastern railroads from the massive competitive power of the new giant carrier. The high court has been asked to decide whether the ICC may properly approve the merger while, at the same time, leaving the protection issue pending it is now under ICC study. Two combinations of competitors plus other interested parties took the case to a special three-judge federal court in New York, which ruled against them last Oct. 4. Fourteen attorneys were to argue the case before the nine Supreme Court justices. The court set aside six'hours for the arguments. The merger has set the ICC and the Justice Department at loggerheads, with the department urging the court to “hold the case” for a reasonable time in the hope that objections to merger can be ironed out by the commission. But in its appeal from the New York decision, the ICC argued that a delay could stretch into years. During this length of time, the commission said, a merger could fall apart Air Force C47 Downed By Cong SAIGON UPI — A U.S. Air Force C47 “gunship” was shot down by Communist groundfire today and all seven Americans aboard were reported killed. Viet Cong guerrillas also staged several bold new raids against allied shipping and or U.S. and Vietnamese troops. The twin-engined C47 was downed by gunfire in +he Centran Highlands about 25 miles southwest of coastal Quang Ngai. Known to GIs as “Puff the Magic Dragon,” the plane was capable of firing 6,000 rounds per minute from a battery of automatic gatlin guns studded throughout the belly of its fuselage. Diplomatic Triumph BELPER, England UPI — Showing a profit today after his first gamble of 1967 was Foreign Secretary George Brown. He won six pence (7 cents) after trying a Labor party club’s slqt machine. “We are ahead,” said Brown — and quit.

NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. Mostly cloudy Tuesday with some light snow flurries. Continued cold. Winds southwest 8 to 18 m.p.h. today and westerly 8 to 15 tonight. High today 30 to 35. Low tonight 20 to 25. High Tuesday around 30. Probability of measurable precipitation near zero today, 10 per cent tonight, 20 Tuesday.

Local Landmark Being Dismantled

A Greeneastle landmark, at the corner of Washington Street and Spring Avenue, is being dismantled to make way for a parking area. The above picture shows what was originaUy a Catholic school rated by the Sisters of Provi-

dence, Terre Haute, years ago. In later years, the building has been used as funeral homes by Otto F. Lakin, Charles McCurry and John Whitaker. Banner Photo—Don Whitehead

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