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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1967

UPI Newt Service

NO. 171

Kenneth J. Eitel Elected DePauw Alumni Director

Two Hoosiers are among seven newly elected directors assuming posts in DePauw University’s national alumni association later this month. Elected from 14 candidates in national balloting completed May 12 were: Albert C. Rosencranz, Evansville, class of 1941, an engineer with the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co.; Kenneth J. Eitel, 231 Hillsdale, Greencastle, 1937, florist; Joseph H. Manhart, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1952, research chemist with Aluminum Company of America. Also Ray F. Myers, Chicago, 111., 1941, vice president, The Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago; Mrs. Cornelia A- Hester, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1925, homemaker; Robert J. Lavidge, Western Springs, 111., 1943, president Elrick and Lavidge, Inc., marketing counsel and research; and Alvin H. Barrows, Cincinnati, O., 1944, manager of sales, U. S. Steel Co., Cincinnati district. The alumni directors will start their three-year terms May 27. Their election by the 15,000-member organization was announced today by James N. Cook, executive secretary of alumni affairs. Mrs. Hester, Eitel, Lavidge, Barrows and Manhart will be starting their second three-year terms as directors. Fred C. Tucker, Jr., 1940 alumnus and Indianapolis realtor, was unopposed for election as an alumni representative on the university’s Joint Board of Trustees and Visitors. He will serve for four years. $59,237 Token By Bonk Bandits INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Authorities today studied pictures taken during a $59,237 bank robbery here Wednesday afternoon in hope of finding clues to the Identities of the two gunmen and their getaway car

driver.

The bandits cleaned out the Eagledale Branch of the American Fletcher National Bank in what authorities said was the largest bank robbery in the history of Marion County. Until Wednesday, the biggest single

Nelson Parliament Dies, Rites Friday

Nelson Parliament, distinguished resident of Greencastle for 20 years, passed away at his residence in the Commercial Hotel last evening, following an illness of many months. Known to many of the community as “Uncle” because of his relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Earle C. Boyd, with whom he lived and worked. Mr. Parliament celebrated his 90th birthday last March 11th. A native of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, Mr. Parliament was graduated from Albert College in Belleville, Ontario. He had an outstanding career in Canadian government, and was sent a special citation from the Provincial Government of Ontario, at the time of nis birthday last winter. Elected to serve as member of the Toronto Legislature from 1914-1920, he was also elected

as Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1920-23. In 1936, Mr. Parliament was chosen as organizer for the Liberal Party of Ontario. A member of the Presbyterian Church of Greencastle, Mr. Parliament retained his membership i n the F. A A. M. lodge of Ameliasburg, Ontario. Survivors include a nephew, Earle C. Boyd, and Mrs. Boyd, of Greencastle. Memorial services will be Friday at 2 p. m. at Whitaker Funeral Home, Greencastle. Rev. Thomas Heinlein and Rev. Maxwell James Webb will officiate. Calling hours at the funeral home after 4 p. m. today. Burial will be Tuesday hi Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain View Ontario, following special services at the Bush Funeral Home, Belleville, Ontario.

Hospital Guild Reports A Successful Tag Sale

The Putnam County Hospital Guild wishes to announce the success of their Tag Day held recently. Thanks are extended to all who so generously donated to this worthy cause. Money collected amounted to approximately $898.82. This sum will be used for grants-in-aid for nurses who upon completing their education must serve at least one year as a professional staff member at the Putnam County Hospital. Greencastle collected $561.91; the county towns - $31.91; and Industries and Businesses of Greencastle - $305.00. The following are the industries, businesses and sororities who contributed and helped make this drive successful: American Zinc, International

haul was $46,000 in a robbery Brotherhood of Electrical 10 years ago. workers Local No. 203, Inter-

national Business Machines,

The gunmen, one armed with p R Mallory, Lone Star Cean automatic pistol and the p au j Harris Chevrolet,

other with a snub-nosed revolver, wore white masks and stocking caps, witnesses said. They entered the bank about 20 minutes before closing time and held five employes and three customers at gunpoint during the robbery. One bandit kept an eye on the employes and customers while the other scooped up the loot, mostly cash. After taking cash from three tellers’ cages, the bandits forced branch manager Scott Wilson, 27, Carmel, to open the

vault.

The robbers filled white nylon bags which they had brought with them and made their getaway in a 1964 light blue Cadillac which waited nearby with a third man at the wheel. Wilson estimated they carried six to eight bags of money from the bank. FBI agent in charge, James T. Neagle, said pictures taken by stationary cameras in the bank were being studied in hopes of finding clues into the robbery. The bandits, whom FBI agents said apparently were “professionals,” were described as five feet, seven inches tall and about 45 years of age. Authorities said the burglar alarm was not sounded until after the bandits left the bank. 20 Years Ago Jack Newgent was home from West Lafayette where he was attending Purdue Univer-

sity.

Mrs. Edward Wood was hostess to the Active Chapter of

Tri Kappa.

Indiana Traffic Deaths Hit 432 By United Pret* International

The 1967 Indiana traffic fatality toll today stood at 432, com-

pared with 529 a year ago.

Shirley L. Frazier, 32, Evansville, was killed Wednesday in a one-car crash at Evansville. Authorities said his car smashed into a flood wall along the Ohio

River.

Everett Townsend, 77, Dan-

ville, HI., was killed Wednesday night in a car-truck collision at Indiana 63 and 234 near Cayuga in Vermillion County. Authorities said his car collided with a truck driven by James E.

McUendon, Temple, Ga. Memento For Popo LISBON UPI—Thousands of

ill and poor persons in Oporto have grouped together to offer Pope Paul VI a valuable silver reliquary as a memento of his

Saturday visit to Fatima. The ornate relinquary is stud-

ded with lapis lazuli and other precious stones. It holds a foothigh crucifix and a fragment of the oak tree above which the Virgin Mary is said to have ap-

peared.

American Legion Post No. 58, American Legion Auxiliary, King Morrison Foster, Public Service Company, Black Lumber Company, Paul Blue, Paul Gould Grocery, First-Citizens Bank of Greencastle, Elks, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Delta Theta Tau Sorority. Mrs. Walter Frye, Jr. gave of her time to solicit from these industries and groups. Mrs. Laurel Corbin and Mrs. Robert McCormick, Co-chair-men of the drive wish also to thank all the captains and workers for their time. Threat Of Rail Strike Is Over CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa UPI — The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Wednesday announced settlement of a dispute that had threatened a strike against 90 per cent of the nation’s major railroads. Union President Clyde Lane said the ORCB signed an interim agreement for a health and welfare benefits plan with representatives of the National Railway Labor Conference, the negotiators for the railroads. The union ordered an April 1 strike when the railroads terminated the existing health and welfare plan with plans to substitute a new one. The strike was headed off by a federal injunction, pending further negotiations.

University Art instructor Is Prize Winner Professor William Meehan of DePauw University has been awarded one of the four top prizes in the sixtieth annual Indiana Artists Exhibition at the Herron Museum of Art In Indianapolis. Meehan’s landscape gouache (watercolor) was awarded the $250 Caroline M. Fesler Memorial Prize by the show’s three-judge panel. The prize goes each year to the best painting in watercolor or pastel. The award was for the third consecutive honor he had taken in the annual exhibition that this year drew over 400 entries. Last year he was awarded the $100 Catherine Mattison Memorial Prize in the same division. An assistant professor of art, Meehan joined the Depauw faculty in 1963. He has degrees from Bradley University and the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Principal Dixon Will Be Honored The Parent-Teacher Club of Ridpath Elementary School will hold a retirement program-re-ception in honor of the principal, N. Dixon, on Tuesday, May 28, from 7:30 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. The sixth grade students will present the program, “Some Flag Waving,” which will be followed by refreshments. The evening is open to the public. All friends of Mr. Dixon and patrons of the school are encouraged to attend this pro-gram-reception and pay tribute to a dedicated educator, who has been principal of Ridpath Elementary School since 1949. Sabres Rattle In Middle East CAIRO UPI — The United Arab Republic has called on U.N. Secretary General Thant to withdraw the world body’s peace - keeping forcesfrom Egypt and the Gaza strip on the tense Israeli border, Cairo radio said today. The broadcast came as sabres rattled across the Middle East with rival Arab and Israeli armies rushing troops into frontline positions. The radio said U.A.R. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riyad sent a cable to Thant Wednesday night telling him the government had decided to terminate the presence of the U.N. emergency forces in the United Arab Republic and the Gaza strip.” “Please take necessary steps to withdraw these troops as quickly as possible,” Cairo radio quoted the note to Thant as saying. It quoted Riyad as saying the 3,400 - man, seven - nation U.N. force in Egypt along the bristling 117-mile Egypt-Israeli border was there only at the approval of President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s government. Riyad said its continued presence depended entirely on U.A.R. approval.

Yankee Death Toll In Viet Now Over 10.000

Cloverdale High School Closing Exercises Sunday

DePauw Recipient Of $12,000 Memorial Gift

Two Hurt In Local Accident City police reported this morning that a personal injury and property damage traffic accident occurred at midnight at the intersection of Franklin and Locust Streets. Police said Robert E. Oney, 51, Greencastle, Route 4, suffered a bruised chest arid right arm abrasions. Shirley L. King, 26, 1008 Crown Street, suffered a cut on the left eye, a puncture of the right leg, cuts on both legs and a bruised elbow. Both were taken to the Putnam County Hospital for treatment. According to the police report, Oney was driving west on Franklin in a 1964 Ford station wagon and Shirley King was going south on Locust in a 1957 Chevrolet. Oney was arrested for failure to yield right-of-way by Officer Alva Hubble. Damage was estimated at $1,000 to the station wagon and $800 to the Chevrolet sedan. Japan May Get Hiroshima Films WASHINGTON UPI — The United States may turn over a motion picture of the horrors of Hiroshima to Japan if it submits another request for the film. The 46-minute film of the dead and maimed, confiscated after the war was taken by Tokyo University scientists immediately following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. It has been suppressed because of U.S. objections that it was too ghastly. Informed sources said Wednesday that both the Atomic Energy Commission and the State Department last year withdrew objections to returning the film to Japan. The question is still under consideration in the Defense Department.

A gift of $12,000 has been given to DePauw University by the family of an Akron, O., youth killed last summer while a student at the university. Establishment of the Randal L. Wilson Memorial Fund was announced jointly today by Dr. William E. Kerstetter, president of DePauw, and the Robert B. Wilson family of Akron. Fatally Injured in an automobile accident last year in California, Wilson would have been a senior this year at DePauw. He planned to major in economics. Under terms of the Fund interest from the $12,000 gift will be used for four awards, three of them providing prizes to outstanding students. Two awards, comprising forty per cent of the interest, will be earmarked for two students In the department of economics. One will go to a junior who shows a sincere dedication to the field of economics and is most likely to make a positive and worthwhile contribution to that field in the future. A senior will receive the second economics award. It is to be given to the student who has contributed most to the department, has a “B” average in economics, and shows future promise. The university’s p.oy O. West library benefits from onc-quar-ter of the fund. This income will be used for the purchase of educational materials in the field of economics. The fourth stipulation of the Wilson Fund sets aside twenty per cent for an award to be made to a junior man who has (Continued on Page 2) Open Bond Bids For New School Bids were opened yesterday at 11:00 a.m. by the Greencastle Community School Building Corporation in the Junior High Building for the sale of $2,500-

Graduation exercises for the members of the senior class of Cloverdale High School will be held on Sunday, May 21, in the school gymnasium. Baccalaureate services will be held at 2:00 p. m. with Rev. Kyle Miller, pastor of the Amity Baptist Church, delivering the address. Then at 8:00 p. m., Dr. Thomas Venable of Indiana State University will deliver the Commencement address. Members of the graduating class are: Allegree, George; Allen, Jerry; Anderson, Becky; Barnhart, Stephen; Beaman, Jerry; Beckley, Dale; Casida, Alicia; Coffin, Fanchon; Coon, Jim; Cradick, Nancy; Cromwell, Sharon; Cross, Ronnie; Curtis, Shirley; Davis, Eva J.; Dugan, Dixie; Dunagan, Diana; Furr, Glen; Hankins, Carol; Hester, John; Highsmith, Rowena; Huber, Carroll; Hunsicker, Maria; Jordan, Kaye; Kay, Donna; Kelly, Janet; Kirton, Nancy; Knoy, Vickie; Lasley, Sheryl; Lewis, Diana; Linley, Jackie; Minkler, Robert; Napier, Glen; Powell, Judy; Routt, Marcia; Rubeck, Sharon; Sims, Marjorie; Sinclair, Jerry; Spires, Steven; Staley, Fayette; Sutherlln, Marsha; Sutherlin, Steve; Tague, Sharon; Terry, Richard; Truax, John; Williams, Joe; Williams, Larry; Winings, Anna. Teachers Strike At South Bend SOUTH BEND UPI - AFLCIO teachers went on strike today against the South Bend public school system in a dispute over salary schedules for

1968.

The South Bend Federation of Teachers, a union which recently won exclusive bargaining rights over a non-union association in a close election, followed through with plans to strike at 7 a.m. EST when negotiations for settlement of a contract controversy remained bogged down at the zero hour. Pickets marched at the entrances to 49 buildings. Strikers included about half the 500 high school teachers and more than 1,000 elementary and junior

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JERUSALEM UPI — Nobel Uterature prize winner Samuel Yosef Agnon leaves Thursday for a month’s visit in the United States at the invitation of

An assortment of 24 beauti-1 Hebrew University friends. He ful potted plants was presented! will receive honorary degrees to the Fire Department by from two American univerMiltoa Klebusch. j si ties.

000. first mortgage bonds for high school instructors, the financing of the new Senior

High Addition.

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Shearson, Hammill and Com-1 VIENNA UPI—Karl Radinpany of Indianapolis have the ger, a 53-year-old former mem-

ber of Adolf Hitler’s secret police, hanged himself in woods near here Monday, police re-

ported Wednesday.

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Washburn Chapter Hosts DAR Officers

Washburn Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was the host for the First Section, Central District of Indiana meeting held Tuesday at the DePauw Union Building. Delegates from eleven chapters plus several national officers were present. Left to right, Mrs. John Garlen Biel, N&DAR Past Vice President General, Terrs Haute; Mrs.

Wayne Cory, Honorary State Regent, Veedersburg; Mrs. Maxwell Chapman, NSDAR First Vice President, Rockville; Mrs. Glen Wheeler, Indiana State Regent, Vincennes; Mrs. Irving Geib, Central Director, Lafayette; and Mrs. Hugh Henry, Hostess Regent, Washburn Chapter. Story on Page 2) Banner Photo—Don Whitehead

SAIGON UPI — Communist forces assaulted key American fortresses on the North-South Vietnam border today with one of their greatest rocket and mortar barrages of the war. It pushed American deaths in the Vietnam war to more than 10,000. U. S. spokesmen said a record rocket and mortar assault on Dong Ha, Marine headquarters base in the battle for the border, alone killed at least 11 Leathernecks and wounded 41. From Jan. 1, 1961, through Saturday, a total of 9.916 Americans died in combat, American spokesmen said. Reported losses in the fight against five North Vietnamese divisions’ units on the border and other action this week pushed the total killed over the 10,000 mark. American commanders sent flights of jet fighter-bombers streaking over the border’s demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the North Vietnamese territory beyond, striking the Communist artillery units that bloodied the Leatherneck defense line. Spokesmen said Dong Ha, seven miles south of the border, took at least 150 rocket rounds plus mortar shells. At the same time Communist gunners hit the Marine bastions of Gio Linh, Camp Carrol and Cam Lo, strung out only two miles below the DMZ. It was the third attempt by the Communists since April 28 to knock out the Leatherneck fortress chain. Spokesmen said the U. S. jets dealt a severe blow to the Communist border buildup of artillery In Wednesday’s raiding. Air Force and Marine F4 Phantoms and F105 Thunderchiefs slammed 500 pound bombs onto the Red Game. They reported destroying or damaging 11 artillery positions and wiping out 17 anti-aircraft sites. F105 pilots reported finding one artillery battery hidden in a grove of trees just inside the DMZ’s northern boundary. Their fire touched off a massive orange fireball that rose 300 feet, spokesmen said. Despite the pre-dawn barrage, U. S. Marines and Army Special Forces Green Beret troops held their posts. The 4.000 North Vietnamese swarming around the U. S. bastion at Con Thien, farther west along the frontier, failed for the fifth straight day to conquer the beleaguered outpost. American reinforcements battered the siege forces’ flanks. At Saigon, spokesmen said that U. S. casualties in the war through the end of last week totaled 69,644—9,916 killed, 59,143 wounded and 585 missing. They said American forces last week suffered 253 men killed, 1,319 wounded and 8 missing. Most fell in the northern provinces. The previous week, 274 Americans were killed and 1,748 wounded. Other Allied casualties last week included 257 Vietnamese and nine Free World forces (Continued on Page 2)

NATI0NA1 WEATHER OUTLOOK

INDIANA WEATHER: Mostly sunny, windy and warmer today. Partly cloudy and windy tonight with chance of showers tonight and Friday. Southwesterly winds 12-22 mph through tonight. High today middle to upper 70s. Low tonight mid 50s. High Friday low to mid 70s. Precipitation probability 20 per cent today, 50 tonight and Friday. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly fair and cooler. Minimum 53* 6 A.M 66® 7 A.M. 68® 8 A.M 72® 9 A.M 70® 10 A.M 72* 12 Noon 75* 1 P.M 75®