The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 February 1967 — Page 3

ARMONK, N. Y.—In its annual report to stockholders, International Business Machines Corporation indicated that the worldwide rate of production in Its System/360 computers was over 1,000 a month. Upon completion of two recently announced plants abroad, 22 manufacturing locations and 13 laboratories around the world will be engaged in the production and development of

System/360 equipment and components. The photograph shows some of last week’s shipments to customers from IBM’s Endicott, New York plant. Endicott has manufactured more computers than any location in the world. Among the machines shown on the Endicott loading dock are printers, magnetic tape units and central processing units for the System/360, Model 30.

North Putnam School News

The North Putnam Community School Board received bids on a bond issue designated as “School Building Bonds of 1967’’ on the evening of January 26. The bids were opened and read at an opening meeting as follows: Raffensperger, Names of Int. Bidders Rate Prem. Hughes A Co _....3%% $227.79 First National of Crawfordsville 75.00 Roachdale Bank & Trust Co. 3 V2 % After considering the bids, the board determined that the bid of Roachdale Bank and Trust Co., was the best bid received for the bonds. Because of rapidly changing Interest rates for the past several months, the school board was pleased to hit the break of the declining market. At a special meeting of the school board on January 20, bids were received on the proposed new junior-senior high schooL The School architect and Northern, School Buildings, Inc. will study the bids and make proper recommendations to the school board at a later date. The general opinion of the results of the bids on the new high school were favorable with many schools experiencing as high as 25 per cent higher bids than architect estimates. The North Putnam Community ^School Corporation experienced the low bidders estimates to be less by approximately $100,000 than the architect’s estimate. Also, while many schools are experiencing very few bidders, this school corporation had several in each category except mechanical. At a special meeting on Janu-

ary 10, the school board received bids on 8 new school buses of 66 passenger capacity. Several body and chassis bids were received. The basic bus body bids are as follows: Carpenter Sales and Services $4040.00 Superior 3975.00 Kerlin Bus Sales (Thomas Body) 3898.00 School Craft, Inc. (Wayne) 4289.00 The basic bus chassis, without alternate, are as follows: Russellville Implement $3466.18 McMains 3407.70 Greencastle Tractor Sales 3337.12 Willard Hole Garage 3285.00 Jim Harris Chev 3097.32 Jim Harris Chev. 3316.65 King Morrison Foster ... 3165.00 The architect reported that the new elementaries were at a percentage completion as follows: Gen. Const. Bainbridge 28% Russellville 63% Mech. Const. Bainbridge 13% Russellville 42% Elec. Const. Bainbridge 7% Russellville 47% At the January 17th school board meeting, the superintendent gave a report from the Division of Inspection, State Dept, of Public Instruction on all schools in the corporation made December 14, 1966. Supt. first reported that the rental facilities for the 1966-67 school year of the Roachdale Baptist Church and Lions Club Building in the Town of Bainbridge could be used for Kindergarten classrooms and approved by the General Commission on January 13, 1967. The Supt. further reported that the Roachdale School and the Bainbridge School received a Continuous Commission in grades 1-12 by the General

Commission of the Indiana State Board of Education. Roachdale and Bainbridge Schools previously were Certified Commission Schools. The Clinton Center School received a Certified Commission in grades 1-6 and Special Education by the General Commission as Mowing provisions: Since this school will be closed at the end of the present year, it is recommended that it be Certified for the remainder of the school year 1966-67. The General Commission approved a Continuous Commission in grades 1-6 and a Certified Commission for grades 7-12 for the Russellville School. Previous commission of the grade school was a Certified Commission. The following provisions and recommendations were stated on the Russellville

School. A) The older structure should be abandoned for school use as soon as possible due to the size of the school. (49 in grades 912) The curriculum must be limited. (B) It is recommended that grades 7-12 be transported to a larger school where better educational opportunities are available. President of the Board requested a further report from the Supt. on the curriculum offer in each of the Junior-Senior High Schools. la was further pointed out that Bainbridge High School offers 40.5 units, Roachdale High School offers 39.5 units and Russellville High School offers 29.5 units, but 24.5 are being taught, all of which was stated in the inspection.

Fincastle News

By Mrs. Maude Brothers, Correspondent

The Fincastle Country Club entertained their families Wed., with a dinner which is an annual affair. The dinner was held in the community house with Mrs. Carolyn Reed Hostess. After partaking of a delicious dinner, games and contests were enjoyed. There were sixteen members, four children and fourteen guests present. The guests were; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nickles, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brothers, Mrs. Dorthy Wright and daughter, Randel Wilson, Clinton Asher, Jim Mandleco, Lloyd Passwater, Paul Grider, Leonard Boiler and Dick Reed. Mrs. Sally Shannon entertained the girls in her school

class Sunday afternoon, Jan., 22nd, in honor of her birthday. On Sunday afternoon, Jan., 29th. Miss Gloria Shannon entertained the girls of her class in honor

of her birthday.

Mr. and Mrs. Dick 1 and family visited Mr. and Mrs.

Ninety first birthday. Mrs. Mary Virginia Clodf attended the funeral of Olive Vermillion, Tuesday

in Greencastle.

head-line news the past week.

Medal Of Honor To Dead Marine WASHINGTON UPI — The Medal of Honor was presented posthumously Tuesday to Marine 1st Lt. Frank S. Reasoner who died in Vietnam on July 12, 1965, while trying to aid a wounded comrade during a Viet Cong attack near Da Nang. Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze presented the medal to Reasoner’s widow and his 3-year-old

son, Michael.

The dead Marine was the 10th American to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor in the Vietnamese war. Reasoner, a native of Spokane, Wash., grew up in Kingston and Kellogg, Idaho, and enlisted in the Marines in 1955. He was graduated from West Point in 1962 and returned as an officer to the corps. He was leading a patrol on July 12, 1965, when 50 to 100 Viet Cong attacked. When his radio operator was wounded, Reasoner ran to his aid “through the grazing machine gun fire,” according to the citation, and was killed. But before he died, he killed at least two Viet Cong and silenced an automatic weapon position in his attempt to evacuate the

wounded man.

Reasoner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Curry live in Kellogg. His widow and son live

in Kingston.

LBJ Calls For Viet Gl Bill WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson Tuesday asked Congress for a “Vietnam GI Bill” to substantially expand federal benefits for servicemen, veterans and civilian employes on hazardous duty. For one thing, he proposed legislation to set a minimum of $12,000 on GI life insurance policies, and new maximums, scaled to the serviceman’s pay, ranging up to $3,000. Currently, there is a $10,000 ceiling on the GI coverage. Another section of the Preident’s special message called for a 5.4 per cent increase in the pensions of 1.4 million veterans, widows and dependents. He also recommended broadening of educational benefits under the GI bill, cpverng both subsistence payments and eligibility. For the single veteran, the President called for increasing from $100 to $130 the monthly educational allowance. To the $150 a month received 1 by married veterans, he requested that $10 be added for a second child and for each additional child. He also urged a change in the eligibility requirements so that a veteran can finish high school after service without losing any of his benefits for college education. Currently, for each month spent on high school courses, a veteran loses a month of college eligibility.

Tht Dally Banntr, Oraancastla, Indiana Wadnaaday, Fabruary 1, 1967

Is Break Near In Viet War?

Long Distance Walker Going Back To Russia LONDON UPI — Dr. Barbara Moore, the long distance walker who once hiked across Indiana and the United States, is return, ing to her native Russia after nearly 35 years in England. The 63-year-old biologist said she discussed her return with officials at the Soviet Embassy and they indicated it would present no difficulties. Dr. Moore, who has been described as eccentric not only for her long distance hikes but for her legal battles over right of way on her property in Frimley, said she would be going without her 64-year-old husband, Harry. “He is an Englishman and loyal to his own country,” she said. “I hope that he may join me later.” Dr. Moore said she was returning to Russia because she would be able to carry on with her research on longevity — prolonging life — there without being troubled by law suits. “A bankruptcy petition has been brought against me and this is the end,” she said. "I cannot concentrate when I am concerned in litigation all the

WASHINGTON UPI _ The feeling in Washington and Saigon that “something is starting to move” in the Vietnam conflict appeared today to stem from several factors, military as well as diplomatic. Though none was conclusive in itself, taken together these factors could lead to some kind of tacit agreement with Hanoi on de-escalation—a reciprocal lowering of military activities —by both sides. They could result in a development a good deal more dramatic such as an agreement on the part of the Communists to talk peace. U.S. officials here did not regard this as very likely, however. Johnson administration officials, always mindful of raising false hopes, denied they had any “hard” evidence that the Reds were preparing to alter their tactics or attitude. But they did acknowledge that a number of signs pointed to the possibility of a turn in the nature of the Vietnam struggle. Among these: —Increasing evidence that Hanoi is coming to realize it cannot secure a halt in the U.S. bombing without making some significant concessions. —The diminishing ability of Peking to supply North Vietnam because of continuing chaos in Red China. This increases Russia’s power to influence Hanoi toward moderation, if and when the Kremlin chooses to do so. —Evidence that U.S. forces are beginning to damage the main Communist military structure in South Vietnam instead of simply chasing the Reds around the countryside. On this last point, Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, told Congress Tuesday that a Viet Cong military vic-

tory now was Impossible. In addition to these factor* there has been a notable increase in recent days of discussions between the North Vietnamese and officials of other countries about the possibilities of getting the U.S. bombing stopped or talking peace.

Drug Survey

WASHINGTON UPI —More than half the 246 drug manufacturers checked in a survey last year had products with unacceptable potency levels, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Of 4,573 samples collected, 376, or 8.2 per cent were above or below acceptable potency levels. The unacceptable samples came from 127 different companies, the FD* said in a report Tuesday. The survey, which began last spring, was limited to samplings of 20 types of drugs in which potency variations are of medical significEince.

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New Telescope LONDON UPI — Britain’s Science Research Council Tuesday authorized a grant of $126,000 for the construction of a new radio telescope by Manchester University. The university already operates three radio telescopes at the Judrell Bank Observatory.

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