The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 April 1967 — Page 5

Monday, April 3, 1967

Tho Daily Banntr, Grooneastlo, Indiana

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Try and Stop Me

By BENNETT CIRF-

rpwo KIDS with roller skates strapped over their shotG* A ders paused on their way to Central Park to gaze in* tently at the window display of an interior decorator’s shop on Third Avenue. A pass-er-by, wondering at their interest, stopped to listen to their comments. One lad was saying, “What IS an antique, anyhow?’* Hie other answered vaguely, “Something older than our mothers and

lathers, I guess.”

JL notably hard-hearted New York drama critic was even more hard-hearted than usual when he began his review of a new spec* tacle: “Mr. So-and-so wrote his latest offering so his friends wouldn’t stop talking to him. This morning he has a new problem . . • • • When it came to making important decisions, states Joseph Wechsberg in his new book, "The Merchant Bankers,” the astute Philip Lehman, of Lehman Brothers, often relied on instinct— and seldom in vain. One day in 1932, for instance, Match King Ivar Kreuger sought to win his hacking in a grandiose and complicated new financial set-up. While Kreuger made his fervent pitch, Lehman jotted down a brief note from time to time. Finally, Mr. Lehman bowed out of the deal. “I have a rule, Mr. Kreuger,** he explained. “If I can’t understand something by residing my own notes, I won’t buy it. You are too complex for me by far.” Not long thereafter the Kreuger empire collapsed, and Ivar Kreuger committed suicide. Q 1967, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate

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The Merry Maids had their first meeting Feb. 14. Officers were elected as follows: Gail South, President; Ann Sutherlin, Vice President; Robin Rooker, Secretary; Loretta Miles, Treasurer; Janet Roe, News Reporter; Janice White, Health and Safety; Cathy Procter, Rosalynda Rooker, Recrea-

tion Leaders; Beth Ann Bunn, Song Leader. On March 22, the Merry Maids had their second meeting. The meeting was called to order by President Gail South. The Pledge to the American Flag was led by Janet Roe, and the 4-H Pledge was led by Elaine Harris. The Roll Call was answered by "your favorite boy in your class.” Then the songs were led by Beth Ann Bunn. There was no old business. Our Health & Safety Report was on measles. We had recreation outside. We also passed out our project material and discussed , what we plan to make. ' Janet Roe, News Reporter

On The Farm Front

By Larry D. Hatfield WASHINGTON UPI — The gloomy farm income picture is even darker with the latest government statistics showing that farmers continue to get less for what they sell and pay more for what they buy. The Agriculture Department’s monthly report on agricultural prices showed Thursday that farm prices for the month ending March 15 dropped for the seventh consecutive month, while farm costs hit a record high for the second month in a row. Farm prices now are 8.1 per cent lower than a peak reached

in mid-August of last year and are 7 per cent below a year ago. From mid-February to mid-March this year, prices dropped 1 per cent. In the meantime, the cost of production and living supplies purchased by farmers rose onethird of 1 per cent during the month. The record high costs are 3 per cent higher than the same time a year ago.

The department blamed the latest decline on falling prices for hogs and wholesale milk. Hog prices dropped an average of 90 cents a hunderweight and are now a whopping $6.10 below

Willie Long Is Mr. Basketball

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Fort Wayne South’s Willie Long, who led Southside into the finals of the 1967 Indiana high school basketball tourney, Saturday night was named “Mr. Basketball” for the annual benefit series against Kentucky. Long is the second Southside player to be chosen No. 1 for the mid-summer games. Mike McCoy, a 7-foot member of the 1958 state champion Archers, also won the honor. Long was voted the top graduating high school player by Indiana sportswriters and broadcasters after setting a school scoring record of 1,606 points in three seasons. In his senior year, he averaged 24 points and 16 rebounds a game and shot 49 per cent from the field and 68 in free throws. Other members of the Indiana squad, which faces Kentucky here June 17 and again at Louisville a week later, will be announced later this week.

Cleon Reynolds, Marian College coach and athletic director, will again coach the All-Stars from Indiana.

News of Servicemen

GREAT LAKES, m., — Seaman Recruit Clinton R. Phillips, 19, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ray Philips of Greencastle Indiana has been graduated from nine weeks of Navy basic training at the Naval Training Center here. In the first of his naval service he studied military subjects and lived and worked under conditions similar to those he will encounter on his first ship or at his first shore station. In making the transition from civilian life to Naval Service, he received instruction under veteran Navy officers. He studied seamanship, as well as survival techniques, military drill and other subjects.

the market level a year ago. Seasonally lower prices received by farmers for fluid and manufacturing-grade milk were still higher than last year’s level, but showed a big drop from February prices. Gains in wheat and egg prices partially offset the lower prices for milk and hogs. The report also showed another decline in the “fair earning power” parity level to 73.5 per cent This compared to 74.3 per cent a month ago and is more than 7 per cent lower than last year’s mid-March level. Parity is the price calculated to give a farmer a theoretically fair return for what he sells compared to the cost of what he buys. The parity figure, however,, does not take into account payments to farmers by the government

Beef prices continued a slow downward trend, dropping from an average of 321.60 per hundredweight in mid-February to 821.50 this month. Last year’s mid-March price was 324.00. Prices of calves were off 40 cents to 826.20 per hundredweight Lamb prices were up an average of 50 cents a hundredweight and sheep prices were steady. The report showed that receipts of hogs at 12 key public stockyards was fairly steady during the month, but were 10 per cent from the previous four weeks, but down 8 per cent from a year ago. The mid - March index of prices received by farmers for crops and livestock stood at 250 per cent of the 1910-14 base period, compared with 252 per cent last month and 269 a year ago. The peak was reached in mid-August last year when the figure stod at 272.

Library Adds Two New Books The Greencastle Putnam County Public Library has recently added the medal award books: “Up a Road Slowly,” by Irene Hunt and “Sam, Bangs and Moonshine,” by Eveline Ness. The title, “Up a Road Slowly,” won the Newberry medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It is the story of a young girl’s growth through adolescence to maturity and of the people who influenced her life along the way. “Sam, Bangs and M o o nshine,” is the story of a fisherman’s imaginative daughter who was too imaginative for everybody else’s good. Samantha (everyone calls her Sam) sits in her dragon-drawn chariot and dreams lovely dreams which her father calls moonshine. Miss Ness has traveled widely to acquire the inventiveness, sensitivity and wit which characterize her books. This book won the Caldecott medal. These two medal award books will be on display at the Greencastle Public Library until April 12th, so that Interested readers may see them before they are placed in circulation.

Yarborough Wins ATLANTA UPI — Husky Cale Yarborough didn’t set any record in winning the Atlanta 500 stock car race Sunday. He didn’t have to. The Timmonsville-, S.C., racer throttled his 1967 Ford Fairlane around the Atlanta Internation Raceway at an average speed of 131.078 miles per hour, about 5 m.pJi. under the Atlanta 500 record. But he crossed the finish line two laps ahead of his closest challenger, Dick Hutcherson of Camden, S.C.

^ Woman's Fiew

By Gay Pauley UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK UPI—The mod and the mini-skirts proved minimal, but so did the great elegance and chic traditional of other Easter parades along storied Fifth Avenue. "Dullesville,” said a policeman, as he watched the Sunday showoff of spring finely. The parade, which traditionally draws thousands to see and be seen, provided a melange of hat, coat and suit styles and colors, numbers of hatless women and men too, only a few celebrities anxious to catch the television camera eye, a beatnik here and there, and a mass of tourists who kept asking policemen, “Where’s the parade?’ Policemen patiently explained, “This is it There’s nothing formal about an Easter parade. People just walk back and forth. The best vantage point for people-watching is either the steps of St Patrick’s Cathedral or of St Thomas Episcopal Church nearby. From either, it was easy to see that the event had returned to its former dignity with commercialism eliminated, but that no aingle feminine style had taken over. Plenty of yellow showed in hats, suits and coats. Whether that was because yellow is Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson’* favorite color or whether yellow is just a spring natural could be debated. Sharp pinks and greens were plentiful too. It was commonplace to see hatless women emerging from the cathedral, although many without hats wore white or black mantillas, or made do with veils or ribbon bows. Martha Raye’s Easter bonnet was the green beret of the U. S.

Special Forces on duty in Vietnam. The singer-actress attended the first Mass of St Patrick’s wearing Army fatigues and the beret Miss Raye, back from 18 months of entertaining troops in Vietnam, is the only person other than the Special Forces permitted to wear the cap. There were fewer showoff hats than in other Easter parades but no one could miss the headgear of a woman who was on her own peace mission. Miss Rose Harwell, a New Yorker, put a live dove in the cage which topped a white silk hat, across the front of which beading proclaimed, “Jesus is risen.” A second dove stood in a white Bible. Pink lace dress and an American flag completed her outfit

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