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Milk Goes Down The Drain

“Down the drain,” nays Frank J. Vermillion, Clinton Township farmer, as he opens the valve on his milk storage tank. In the process goes approximately one ton of milk a day. Since last Wednesday, Vermillion has been protesting the low price being paid to farmers by the milk processors. The action is part of the national NFO boycott in 25 states across the nation. Banner Photo—Don Whitehead

Rev. Kyle Haselden To Speak At First Christian

Rev. Kyle Haselden, editor of The Christian Century, outstanding Protestant weekly magazine, will be guest preacher during the Good Friday service at 8:15 p.m. in the sanctuary of the First Christian Church. The service is planned by the Greencastle Ministerial Association, and in recent years has featurer a prominent churchman from various denominations. Serving pastorates for 23 years, Dr. Haselden was minister of Warburton Ave. Baptist Church, Yonkers, N. Y.; Trin ity Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn.; The Baptist Temple, Rochester, N. Y.; and The Baptist Temple, Charleston, W. Va. He has been a trustee of Colgate Rochester Divinity School since 1952 and has lectured on uni' versity, college and seminary campuses across the United States. He was the Rauschenbusch Lecturer at Colgate Rochester in 1958, Professor of Homiletics at University of Chicago Divinity School from 1960-63, and Professor of Homiletics at Garrett Theological Seminary in 1960, 1962 and

1964.

In addition to his editorship, Dr. Haselden has contributed articles to various journals and is the author of four books, his latest “Mandate for White Christians,” published last year. His sermon theme Good Friday evening will be “Christ’s King-

dom.”

Local ministers assisting in this ecumenical worship servicp will include: the Reverends Thomas Heinlein, Elgin Smith, Gordon Chastain, Stanley Nicol, William Patterson and Maxwell James Webb. Dr. Jameson Jones and Dr. Frank G. Helme will also take part in special areas of the service. (Continued on Page 2) 20 Years Ago Miss Betty Anne Trippett Was pledged by Pi Beta Phi at Purdue University. Mrs. C. C. Gillen was hostess to the Associate Chapter of Tri Kappa. David Grimes attended a state Shorthorn sale at Lafay-

Senate Group Hears Selective Service Head

WASHINGTON UPI—Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey testifies today as the Senate opens hearings on the inequities of the draft. Hershey was called to appear before a Senate labor subcommittee to discuss the impact of the draft on youth careers, poverty, manpower training and development. In remarks prepared for the opening session, Chairman Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., said he was looking forward to the day when the nation no longer needs the draft. “I hope the day comes, and without too much delay, that we can get rid of the draft because the draft, among other faults, is inconsistent with our aims for peace throughout the world,” Clark said. He added, however, that he had no ready alternative to propose. Clark also said he favored President Johnson’s proposal to select Inductees by a draft lottery. But Rep. F. Edward Hebert, D-La., predicted Sunday Con-

Stated meeting Bainbridge O.E.S. No. 440 tonight. All officers bring rituals and constitu-

ette. A heifer calf he consigned I tiona. Visitors welcome. placed fourth in its class, I Vera Dearinger, W.M.

Swallows Return SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. UP — For the 190th recorded year, the swallows returned Sunday to this tiny Franciscan mission town south of Los Angeles. Braving cold, gutsy winds which swept in off the Pacific Ocean, the swallows delighted 4,500 spectators who had arrived early for the annual St. Joseph’s Day spectacle. Mission swallow expert Bill Smith said “scout” swallows began arriving about a week before the main body came in Sunday.

OES Notice

gress would reject the idea of a lottery when it renews the draft law, which expires June 30. Hebert, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he would offer “remedial legislation to keep the President from putting a lottery into effect.” Congress will write any new draft law “not the President,” Hebert said in a television show taped for broadcast in New Orleans. The President is empowered to make changes in the Selective Service System by executive order. Hebert proposes to strip him of much of that authority in enacting a new draft law. The House Armed Services Committee will start holding its hearings on the draft in April. NOW YOU KNOW By United Pre** International “Geisha,” the name of a professional class of women in Japan whose occupation is to entertain men with conversation and dancing or singing, usually at business parties in public restaurants, literally means “art-person.”

Mental Health Workers Report By Mrs. Hedrick INDIANAPOLIS — Gold Ladies, Gold Men Gold Teens and hospital volunteers of the Mental Health Association in Indiana provided services last year equivalent to one full time employee working continuously for fifty years. That was one of the amazing facts included in the report to the membership by Mrs. Donald Hedrick, Greencastle, chairman of the hospital volunteer committee of the Mental Health Association. Approximately 500 mental health leaders from 92 county chapters attended the meeting at the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel in Indianapolis. Mrs. Hedrick also reported there are 2,548 Mental Health Association volunteers serving the mentally ill through specific assignments on a regular basis. In addition thousands of others volunteered on an irregular

basis.

The volunteers, who contributed 97,952% hours dining 1966 traveled a total of 209,691 miles going to and from the hospitals, which is equivalent to over eight trips around the world. Expenditures by hospital volunteers totaled $26,190.41 which included costs of parties for patients, off-ground trips and activities for the mentally ill and retarded and special ward gifts for the patients’ enjoyment. In addition to serving patients in Indiana state hospitals the Gold Ladies, Gold Men and Gold Teens provided entertainment, recreation and friendship to those patients in county nursing homes, private nursing homes, local schools for the retarded, community hospital security rooms, psychiatric units of general hospitals and community psychiatric clinics. Cloverdale Will HaveJaycees The young men in Cloverdale will meet Wednesday, at 7:30 p. m. in the Cloverdale Community Building to nominate and elect the charter • officers of the Cloverdale Jaycees. All young men of age 21 through 35 inclusive are urged to attend this important session. Twenty-five members are needed to gain a charter and the first two information meetings held recently resulted in nineteen prospects signing applications. It should be noted that men over age 35 may join as associate members with all rights and privileges except voting power. The Extension committee of the Greencastle Jaycees is headed by Chairman Wyatt Brummett and President Jim McCarter.

County NFO Members Join In Milk Boycott

Armed Convoys For Milk

Outnumbered Yanks Smash Cong Attack

Trial Of Speck In Fifth Week

PEORIA, HI. UPI fifth week of the

SAIGON UPI — U.S. troops, outnumbered 20 to 1, today smashed a 2,500-man Viet Cong regiment that surrounded and pushed to within 15 yards of them. American spokesmen said they killed 224 Commu-

nists.

Using their 50-caliber ma-chinegun-equipped armored vehicles like a wagon train circle in the wild West, the Americans battled for six hours against the Communists, who vainly fought for a propaganda victory to coincide with President Johnson’s Guam conference. American air and artillery fire finally drove

off the Communists.

The combat 30 miles north of Saigon climaxed fighting stretching from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), dividing South from North Vietnam, to the Mekong Delta. U.S. spokesmen said a total of 325 Com-

munists was killed.

American losses totaled 29 killed and about 130 wounded, spokesmen said, in the fighting

Sunday and today.

The battling erupted near the

HONG KONG UPI — Label- Cambodian border where guering President Johnson's Guam mMM P lanted *rtm«y shdls as

booby traps in a landing zone and destroyed three U.S. Army helicopters and damaged 13 others whirling in assault

troops.

Three Arrested, Lodged In Jail Three men were arrested and

lodged in the Putnam County jail Saturday night and Sunday

morning.

Ardon D. Davis, Roachdale, was slated for public intoxication by state police at 10:50

Saturday night.

Donald L. Calhoun, 22, city, was booked at 2:45 Sunday morning for public intoxication after being taken into custody on North Indiana Street by Officers Alva Hubble and James

Grimes.

At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, William Irwin, 38, city, was arrested at Franklin and Durham Streets by Officer John Vermillion. Irwin was charged with driving while under the influence of

intoxicants.

Warning Issued By Chinese Reds

conference “a sabre-rattling council of war,” Communist China warned today it will not stand idly by if the United States escalates the Vietnam

war.

Hanoi said the North Vietnamese would “reply with guns” to any new American moves bom at the Guam strategy conference. The Peking People’s Daily vented a barrage of bitter criticism against the “U.S. gangster chief Lyndon Johnson” and predicted the Guam meeting would hasten the “doomsday” for his administration. It warned in a lengthy commentary that Red China was ready to make the “highest national sacrifice” tq help the North Vietnamese.

The commentary quoted Red Guard leaders as saying: “Whenever needed by the Vietnamese people and the moment Chairman Mao Tse-tung gives the order, the Chinese Red

The ? Guards will immediately march trial of to the battlefield in Vietnam

Richard Speck on charges of killing eight nurses began today with four jurors and two alternates needed to complete the panel. Five men and three women have been seated as jurors and sequestered at Peoria’s Hotel Pere Marquette. The second panel of four jurors was completed just five minutes before the close of the fourth full week of the trial of the 25-year-old wanderer from Dallas. In selecting the eight jurors, attorneys questioned 439 persons.

and fight shoulder to shoulder with the Vietnamese people to drive out the U.S. imperialists.” Hello Limited CARMEL, Calif. UPI —Girls wearing high heels better watch their step in CarmeL City officials are enforcing a statute prohibiting heels higher than two inches. They want to be protected if girls in spiked heels fall on the city streets. For those who insist on wearing extra high heels, there’s an out. They can apply for a city permit

Gen. Moody Dies Of Heart Attack SAIGON UPI — Brig. Gen. Alfred Judson Force Moody, assistant commander of the U.S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division, died Sunday of a heart attack a week after arriving in Vietnam, aides said today. He was 49. The general, military assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for three years before coming here, died at his quarters at the division headquarters at An Khe, 260 miles northeast of Saigon. , Division spokesmen said Moody "was apparently feeling well most of Sunday.” After working well into the evening, he complained of “not feeling well” and asked that a physician be sent to his quarters a spokesman said. The general died just after the doctor arrived, he said. A native of New Haven, Conn., Moody was survived by his widow, Mrs. Jean Enwright Moody of Fairfax, Va., his father, Wilfred Hamilton Moody of Hamden, Conn., and four daughters, Judith, Jean, Joan and Joy, all of Fairfax. Something Borrowed PORTAGE, Wis. UPI — Thieves burned open a safe and stole $100 from an implement company over the weekend. They used the firm’s acetylene torch.

LBJ Confers With S. Viet Leaders

NIMITZ HILL, Guam UPI— President Johnson today held daylong conferences with South Vietnamese leaders who pressed for escalating the war against the Communists. Aides said Johnson avoided that topic and stuck to his plan of discussing chances of an “honorable settlement” of the Southeast Asian conflict Secretary of State Dean Rusk said South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky raised a number of military questions

in the second of the lunch, afternoon and evening sessions. Rusk said the questions were not answered and the meeting stuck to Johnson’s course of review ing pacification programs and efforts to set peace negotiations in motion. Johnson emphasized the peaceful purposes of the Guam meeting and the allies ended convinced the war has reached a turning point favorable to them. But Ky raised hia questions

on escalation on the theory the North Vietnamese must be hit much harder before their Communist leaders will be willing to talk peace. Ky clearly wanted heavier blows against Hanio to convince his enemies the Communist cause is hopeless. “Only then will Hanoi be ready to negotiate,” he said. Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, agreed that matters of

tactics and specific future military moves such as increasing armed manpower did not figure in today’s discussions. Ky and other Saigon leaders were scheduled to return home Tuesday morning. Johnson planned to continue his talks with U.S. officials during part of Tuesday, leaving Guam late in the day. Meanwhile, Johnson announced Henry Cabot Lodge, outgoing U.S. envoy to Saigon, has agreed to remain in diplomatic service as ambassador at large.

By Unitad Prats International Milk trucks moved to market today in armed convoys for protection against violence from sympathizers of the National Farmers Organization’s 25-state effort to force the price of milk up. Oren Lee Staley, president of the NFO, expressed confidence that his group’s militant efforts would pay off in shortages and higher prices this week. NFO members and sympathizers, trying to get a two cent boost in the price per quart of milk paid dairy fanners, continued to dump their milk, use it for fertilizer or hog feed or tried to store it In some areas they sought to curtail existing supplies by buying up all the milk displayed in groceries and destroying it. In at least one area, retail prices went up. Stores in Omaha, Neb., reportedly raised milk prices as much as four cents a half gallon. However, L. K. Muller, vice president of the Alameto Dairies in Omaha, said the famers were not getting any more money and the price increases were not connected with the NFO campaign. Staley said the holding action is “riding high” at present and milk supplies “in most areas” are “off 30-50 per cent.” He said he had no idea how many fanners actually are participating. “All the heavy dairy areas are doing a good job of withholding,” he said. The nation’s dairy state, Wisconsin, was apparently hardest hit by violence. The milk house of Howard Stem, an NFO member at Ixonia, Wis., was dynamited. Extensive damage was reported. At least 22 arrests were made, most of them at Darlington where NFO members tried to blockade a bulk tank truck. Dairy industry groups said the market holding action was curtailing supplies as much as 15 per cent but insisted normal surpluses in spring production would make up the loss and there would be no milk shortage. Inconvenience ST. GILES, England UPI — George Clark will ride the bus to work for the next two weeks. Two robins built a nest under his motorcycle seat. “I must give them a chance to lay their eggs,” he said. “Spring will be over shortly anyway, and they’ll all leave. Masonic Notice Called meeting of Temple Lodge No. 47 Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 p. m. Work on F. C. Degree. Visiting Brothers Welcome. Refreshments will be served. J. W. Schmitt, W. M.

Putnam County’s National Farmers Organization (NFO) is participating in the national NFO’s holding attempt to fores milk prices the farmers receive for their milk up 2 cents a quart. The milk holding action began from New York to the Rocky Mountains Wednesday, March 13, and will continue indefinitely. In Putnam County, there are approximately 40 dairymen with about 23 joining the holding action, and these 23 produce approximately 60 per cent of the total milk in Putnam County, according to Frank J. Vermillion, a member of the dairy committee of the local NFO. Estle Cantonwine, secretary of the local organization said today, “we are not attempting to force the price of milk to the consumers up two cents a quart, only to raise the price that the milk processers pay us.” And Frank Vermillion added, “last year the price of milk raised three cents a quart to the housewife, but the fanners received only one cent and gradually that is being taken away in the lower prices being paid us by the milk processors.’* Another objective is to get the processors to guarantee us a year’s contract in advance.” Vermillion commented, “ws don’t expect all milk producers in the county to join us. None of us can afford to pour money down the drain, and to the one’s that it will create a major hardship, we don’t expect them to take an active part.” Since last Wednesday, Vermillion has been pouring approximately one ton of milk a day down a drain. Unlike the pork boycott of a year ago, where the farmer just delayed sending their hogs to market, when the dairymen dump their milk, it is money that cannot be replaced. No Trace Of Missing Plane INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Civil Air Patrol today resumed a search for a plane with three persons aboard missing since Friday and believed to be down somewhere between Lafayette and Crossville, Tenn. A search in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee Sunday turned up no trace of the blue and white Cessna carrying David F. Friders, 27, Aurora, HI., his wife, Vedlane, 25, and their daughter, Christine, 5. The plane left Aurora Friday morning on a flight to Fort Pierce, Fla., where Mrs. Fridters’ father is ill. Friders did not file a flight plan but was expected to stop at Crossville for fuel. The last contact with the plane was Friday afternoon when Friders radioed the airport tower at Lafayette to ask for a weather report.

NAH0NAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Rain today mixed with snow north ending tonight and becoming mostly sunny and cooler Tuesday. High today 45 to 50. Low tonight 35 to 40. High Tuesday in the 40s. Precipitation probability percentages more than 90 today and tonight, 10 Tuesday. Outlook for Tuesday night and Wednesday: Fair and mild.

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