The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 May 1967 — Page 6

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Friday, May 26, 1967

Try and Stop Me

-By BENNETT CERF-

i, A N IMPATIENT lady in Purchase, New York, was flagged if*, for feeding by a motorcycle cop recently, who demanded to see her license and registration card. Noting that che was the wife of a well-known and benevolent big-shot of the town, he let her off with a warning, and handed back her cards along with a batch of trading stamps. •■No, ma’am,'’ he explained with some embarrassment. “We’re not giving out stamps to traffic offenders this season. These were stock to your hcenee.** • • •

.jnrf: pear recalls, tm one of tbs low points in his career, the evening the Duchess of Windsor sought him out at a soiree to demand, “Aren't you that amusing man I see on television when I stay up late enough?" Paar, gratified, admitted he had been identified correctly. “Then you’re the one who can tell me,” nodded tbs Duchess. "Is the Roller Derby fixed?” e e e Barbra TtHuhniwI cites the case of a poor fellow who got so Bred of doing the wash, cleaning the house, and cooking his own dinner every night that he took a deep breath and popped the gasstiOEi. Be ashed his wife ftr a divorce. C 1987, by Bennett Cent XXttribuitd by King Features Syndicate

Speed Belongs At '500' Race, Not On Highways

"Memorial Day weekend the focus is on speed,” said Floyd A. Kline, Sr., Director of the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety, "but that speed belongs at the Indianapolis 500 and not on the Hoosier streets and highways." He reminded Indiana motorists that 19 persons were killed in accidents over the 1966 Memorial Day weekend and estimated that approximately 19 persons may die this year. The figure, he pointed out, is based on past performance and could be lowered if all holiday drivers

Soviets Silent on Peace Effort

Leniency Shown Vietnam Vet MIAMI UPI —Judge Thomas E. Lee was told that the defendant had failed to answer two 1964 traffic citations, but recently had turned himself in voluntarily. Leaning on crutches, one

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trouser leg hanging empty, Fred Lee Jamerson, 21, stood before Lee and pleaded guilty. "How did you lose your leg, son?” Lee asked. "I stepped on a land mine in a Vietnam jungle," the youth replied. Jamerson said he dropped out of high school before entering the Army, but that he planned to be a dental technician and “wanted to come back with a clean slate.” “Son, it’s boys like you that this nation owes so much," Lee said. “I’m going to accept your plea of guilty and I hearby suspend sentence. And there will be no penalty points on your license. You’ve got more than enough points.”

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Speck To Learn Ultimate Fate CHICAGO UPI — Richard Speck, the lanky vagabond convieted of murdering eight nurses, finds out today whether he has a date with a doctor, prison or death. Today was the day set by Judge Herbert D. Paschen for sentencing of the 25-year-old after a jury found him guilty on eight counts of murder and recommended death in the electric chair. In a “13 th hour” appeal, the defense argued for a 30-day delay in sentencing so doctors could determine if Speck suffers from uncontrollable epileptic rages. Paschen said he would rule on that motion before passing sentence, which could be an interminable prison sentence or death in the electric chair. To strengthen their arguments in mitigation and aggravation, defense attorneys Gerald W. Getty and James J. Doherty said they had subpoenaed four doctors who were on the panel that originally ex amined Speck and found him mentally fit to stand triaL Last month in Peoria, a jury found Speck guilty of choking and stabbing to death eight nurses in their dormitoryapartment on Chicago’* South Side last July 14, and said, ‘‘we fix the sentence at death." “We say it is absolutely necessary that we have these tests performed,” Doherty argued Thursday. “We found this out at the 13th hour but we have to do this.” The defense, which did not mention insanity in the twomonth trial, argued that there is evidence that Speck is suffering from “ a chronic brain syndrome."

would take the extra time and effort involved in making certain they and the other users of the highways arrive at their destinations alive and in one piece. Mr. Kline explained that the excitement of the race and the fact that speed is a main point of interest can generate increased speeds on the highway. “The man listening to someone hitting over 200 mph. on the straightaway may subconsciously push his own accelerator just a little harder. This may be the few miles per hour that will erase his margin of safety." With Memorial Day falUng on Tuesday this year, many persons will have a four-day weekend. The longer-than-aver-age holiday will mean more motorists, traveling more miles and spending more hours in their cars. Persons who don’t get a four-day holiday may attempt the poor practice of cramming four days of driving into two or three. “These factors can produce a highway tragedy,” warned Mr. Kline. “Each and everyone of us must do his part by driving safely and sanely. Leave the higher speeds and the resultant higher risks to the professionals who get paid to take them.”

MOSCOW UPI—British Foreign Secretary George Brown today said he had failed to persuade the Kremlin to support a four-power peace offensive in the Middle East at this time. But he said there was still no Soviet decision on the proposal by French President Charles de Gaulle that Russia join with France, the United States and Britain in quenching the conflict. Brown said the proposal had only arrived at the Kremlin Thursday night “and it is too

Man Acquitted In Murder Trial

they are reluctant, for political VALPARAISO, UPI — An reasons, to be seen joining the all-white jury returned a ver“imperialist powers” in a joint diet pf innocent in the first-de-peace move. gree murder trial of Harvey Brown denied reports that Gene Droke, 32, Chesterton, the Soviets were demanding ( charged with shooting a Gary U.S. concessions in Vietnam as Negro in a tavern, the price for Soviet participa-1 The juror: deliberated 10

early to expect a public state-

ment.

“There has been no Soviet decision yet," he added. Brown was flying back to

London after three days of crisis talks, including more than 10 hours of meetings with

Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and tion in a Mideast settlement. hours before rejecting the

Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-

myko.

Both Britain and the United States have endorsed the French proposal. But well-informed sources said the Russians told Brown

Lieutenant Eludes Viet Cong, Then Calls Wife SAIGON UPI —The price of,Saigon last January. On Mt»n-

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a phone call home to Indiana for Air Force 1st Lt. David L. Baldwin was being shot down over North Vietnam. He paid the toll Monday night and made the telephone call today. Baldwin of Dunkirk, Ind., made the special call over a | Strategic Air Command line from Saigon to Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana. “Hi Sandy,” he said to his wife when she came on the

day night he was the back seat pilot aboard an F4C Phantom Jet fighter and it was a raid he is not likely to forget. His target was a railroad line northeast of Hanoi. As the jet approached the target, “the sky was completely red with tracers from 37, 57 and 85 mm antiaircraft fire,” he said. “There was no place we could really

i go.”

“Vietnam is an important state’s plea to convict Droke factor,” he said, “only in that an( j accepting defense attorney the Soviets do not want to see Max Cohen s contention Droke a second war breaking out." killed Martin IVey, 25, last The Kremlin promised in a March 9 at the Tremont Inn statement “resolute” support to nor th of Chesterton in a case of the Arab cause. Brown said of ; justifiable homicide because this: “I can’t usefully add any-1 j ve y “made obscene and vile thing to their own statement remarks” to Droke’s wife,

on the Mideast'

He characterized the pledge as “a firm endorsement of the Nasserite line” in the United

Arab Republic.

“By contrast,” he said, “we

are concentrating on getting the crisis stopped and achieving

a long-term settlement.” Brown said he impressed on

the Soviets the “immense importance” that Britain, as a maritime nation, gives to the

Egyptian blockade of the mouth.”

Aqaba Gulf.

Although Brown’s talks at i the Kremlin also covered Vietnam, troop reductions in Europe and a treaty barring the spread of nuclear weapons, in-

State’s witnesses testified they heard Droke say “get that colored boy out of here and send him back to Gary” and that Droke spent two hours searching for a gun before th# returned to the tavern, found Ivey still there and shot him. Cohen told the jury in his closing arguments that "Ivy brought about his own death by his own vile and obscene

Picasso Abstract

Art Work Stolen ERLANGEN, Germany UPI —Nine works of art including a lithograph by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from a public exhibition, police said Thursday. The masterpieces were valued at about 325,000 and included Picasso’s “The Painter.” They were stolen Tuesday but not reported by police until TTiursday to give authorities a chance to investigate without publicity.

Safety Session Is Scheduled WASHINGTON UPI — The government appeared ready today to trade in controversy for compromise in its fight with the auto industry over safety padding for car interiors. Federal Highway Administrator Lowell K. Bridwell was scheduled to meet with industry representatives to find a way they can work out “their difficulties" over the impact standard—considered by some experts to be the most important of all the government safety rules. Critic Ralph Nader put his view this way: “I don’t think there will be much left of the standard when they finish.” According to Nader, the industry apparently is going “to get its way on virtually every point of contention." The industry, however, argues that it can meet most of the requirements for redesigning the interior, but it claims that the government’s requirements for leg and knee protection would result in a major change in car interiors that could not be accomplished before the Jan. 1 deadline. Under the standard, the industry would have to construct new and safer instrument panels, seat backs, sun visors and arm rests, and recess protruding knobs and handles. The proposed standard, however, already is weaker than the one initially outlined by the government late last year. It included requirements for protecting a child not restrained by a seat belt. TTie government dropped this from its final list of standards, but said it would later car models.

line. “I thought I’d better call I The Phantom suddenly shudyou before you read the dered and Baldwin and his papers.” 1 pilot, who is still missing, realThe 24-year-old Baldwin had ized they had been hit and were flown 57 missions over North losing fuel. They tried to make Vietnam since arriving in the coast, but before they could reach the ocean they had to bail

out.

CHICAGO UPI — About 400 persons attended ground break-

formed sources said he spent, jng ceremonies Thursday for a

most of his time in pressing the

four-power peace plan.

Kentucky GOP Hopes To Unite LOUISVILLE, Ky. UPI — Kentucky Republicans began to put together a united front today after a bitter gubernatorial primary in which conservative Louis B. Nunn eked out a

BRUSSELS UPI — Fire jungle near a North Vietnamese slim 4,000 majority out of near-

Brussels Reports Fire, Bomb Culls

“The next thing I remember was hitting the trees,” Baldwin

said.

He spent the night in the

threats and bomb hoaxes plagn ed Belgium as an aftermath of a department store fire in which more than 300 persons were feared to have died. Police investigated at least two fire threats and three bomb hoaxes in the capital alone. Anonymous telephone calls alerted police in several provincial towns. Sixty-one bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the L’Innovation department store which was swept by fire Monday. Police said 260 persons were still missing and 50 remained hospitalized, of whom 20 were on the danger list. The Belgian radio went off the air momentarily when personnel of the “Third Program” were evacuated following an anonymous bomb report. Similar interruptions occurred in two department stores. A police spokesman said "the nuts and fire raisers are having

a ball."

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Embassy Bombed BONN UPI — A bomb blast early Thursday wrecked the front door of the Spanish Embassy but caused no injuries. Police arrested a young German as a suspect in the explosion. They said a leaflet found near the embassy expressed “solidarity” with Spanish workers at a local bakery who struck recently to underline demands of higher productivity bonuses.

village and could hear North ly 180,000 votes cast. Vietnamese troops searching for | Judge Marlow W. Cook, dehim. A Navy helicopter from feated in his attempt to be the the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Bluegrass State’s first Roman Richard rescued him the next Catholic chief executive, offer-

50-foot sculpture donated to the city by Pablo Picasso. The massive, abstract sculpture, which raised a controversy as to what it portrayed, will stand in front of the Chicago Civic Center. It is designed from tons of steel which intentionally will become rusty.

China, with about one-fourth of the world’s population, occupies a territory in the eastern part of Asia about one-third larger than the continental United States.

day amid heavy ground fire. Baldwin said an Air Force man was never so happy to see a bunch of sailors. “I couldn’t even tell you what color that helicopter was,” he said smiling. “All I know was it was big

and it was beautiful.”

The airman borrowed a sailor’s uniform on board the Hancock and didn’t even wait to change the Navy uniform for

ed to manage Nunn’s fall campaign. “I want it clearly understood that I pledge my support In behalf of the Republican ticket right here and now,” Cook said while conceding the race to Nunn, who also was the 1963 GOP nominee. Democrats were less than cordial about the landslide victory of former Highway Commissioner Henry Ward over

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Air Force togs before he made former baseball Commissioner his call home. He said the line A- B - Happy Chandler, was so good his wife sounded as “It remains to be seen if she were in the next room. whether the total electorate will

approve the policies of the present administration," Chandler said. Ward was backed by Gov. Edward T. Breathitt, who

cannot succeed himself. Chandler seeking a comeback

after a 69,000—vote defeat to Breathitt in 1963, was defeated j

by more than 92,000 votes.

Bombings Save U.S., Allied Lives MARTINSBURG, W. Va. UPI —Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday the steady bombing of North Vietnam Is

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SCARBOROUGH, England

“an integral and indispensable UPI—Some 1,200 policemen inpart of our total effort.” vestigated an e m b a r rassing

“Our airmen over the North theft today.

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are striking at the roots of aggression,” he said. “Despite dangers and provocations, they are striking with unparalleled restraint and precision. "They are making aggression more difficult and costly. They are saving American and Allied lives in the South. Wheeler, in a speech prepared for the Martinsburg Rotary | Club, also called on Americans to “substitute reason for rancor, I and information for emotion” in discussions of the Vietnamese war. “The fundamental issue is the right of men and nations to determine their own destinies,” he said. “The North Vietnamese, with their hard-core adherence in the South, and with massive support from other Communist nations, seek to impose an unwanted rule by force of arms. "We are committed to the support of self-determination. The integrity of this commitment is important to all free Asians, and it is directly related to the integrity of our other commitments to principle in the world."

Someone stole 12 pairs of shoes from policemen attending a national police federation conference Thursday. They were put in hotel corridors for shining.

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