The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1967 — Page 1

Small plane collides with jet airliner.

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HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. UPI— National Guardsmen kept watch early today over the roped off, floodlighted wreckage of a Piedmont airliner that collided with a small plane, spewing 82 bodies over wooded countryside. The victims included new Navy Secretary John T. McNaughton, 45, his wife and young son, and an aeronautical space techncian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The FBI rushed a team of agents to

the wreckage shortly after the collision Wednesday, but a spokesman said their purpose was “to help out with identification” of the victims. Spectators were kept away from the twisted and scattered remains of the jetliner and the Cessna 310 which collided around 4,000 feet above this resort city in the western North Carolina mountains. Three persons were in the small plane, owned by Lanseair Inc., of Springfield, Mo., and the airliner, Piedmont’s morning flight from Atlanta to Washington,

carried 74 passengers and a crew of five. It was the fifth air crash of the day over the southeast. Two Army reconnaissance helicopters collided in Alabama, killing four men; a Navy pilot died in a crash off the Florida Coast; a mosquito spraying plane crashed in Georgia and killed the pilot, and a helicopter plunged into a Florida swamp, but its two occupants were not hurt. The collision occurred shortly after the airliner had taken off from the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport and witnesses said the Cessna plowed into

the underside of the larger plane with a “big boom and a big flash of fire.” One witness said the Cessna seemed to disintegrate and “bodies fell like confetti” from the jetliner. The plunging airliner screamed low over the town and two summer camps for boys and girls before slamming into a wooded area near the intersection of interstate highway 26 to U.S. highway 64. Horrified observers saw bodies drop from the sky around them. A child’s body fell at a filling station, that of a

stewardess dropped on the median strip of a highway, and one body crashed through the roof of a house. “Oh, my God, tell me it’s not true,” exclaimed the owner of the house. Twenty bodies were found in the wreckage, most of them burned beyond recognition. Fifteen others were recovered from woods within a half-mile of the crash site. McNaughton, newly appointed Secretary of the Navy, had boarded the plane, flight 22, in Asheville. He and his wife, Sally, had come to the lush mountain set-

ting to pick up their son, Theodore, 11, at a summer camp. The NASA technician, Thomas R. Bolton, 49, of the Marshall Space Center at Huntsville, Ala., was en route to the Bendix Corp. in New Jersey. Thirty of the victims were southeastsouthwest broker-dealers of Stokely Van Camp, Inc., bound for a national sales convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Two Stokely employes, including vice president Ennis Parker, 61, of Griffin, Ga., also were killed. The convention was cancelled.

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Race violence breaks out in North Minneapolis

Navy Secretary dies in jetliner crash; was DePauw graduate

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UPI — Negroes apparently disgruntled because a white policeman intervened in a fight between two Negro girls over a wig. today turned a near North Side neighborhood into a battle ground. At least 10 persons were injured, including a fireman hit in the face with a brick while answering one of the numerous calls in the Plymouth Avenue area. Six persons were arrested after more than 80 policemen, armed with shotguns and four-foot-long riot sticks, swept into Loan is approved WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Birch Bayh and Vance Hartke announced today that the Rural Electrification Administration has approved a loan in the amount of $505,000 to the Parke County REMC. This loan will be used to finance 23 miles of new distribution line which will service 320 new consumers. It will also finance extensive system Improvements including 8 miles of new tie-line and conversion of 28 miles of existing line and related facilities and reimburse the borrower for general fund expenses on previous approved construction.

Postmaster C. T. Albin today announced that parcel post deliveries in Greencastle were expanded from five to six days a week as of Wednesday, July 19. This is in line with a recent directive from Postmaster General Lawrence F. Monon train wrecked LAPORTE UPI — A Monon Railroad freight train derailed at Wanatah southwest of here early today and one crewman was slightly injured. Officials said 12 to 15 cars of the 80unit train were derailed, near the center of the train. All but one of the derailed cars was loaded with new automobiles. W. D. Baker, who was riding in the caboose, suffered a minor leg injury.

the area to be faced by hundreds of belligerent Negroes. Bottles, bricks and rocks sailed down from rooftops, smashing windows and the windshield of a police cruiser. Flames from scattered fires, many of them apparently set by Molotov cocktails, lit the area with an eerie glow. Police inspector Donald Dwyer said the disturbance had its beginnings in downtown Minneapolis where the annual Aquatennial torch lit parade was being held. “At about the end of the parade," Dwyer said, “two girls started fighting over the possession of a wig.” He said a white policeman intervened, angering the watching Negroes. Dwyer and police Chief Calvin Hawkinson said the Negroes left the downtown area and soon after reports came in from the Plymouth Avenue area of Molotov cocktails burning, windows smashed and bricks and bottles thrown. Minneapolis, a city of nearly half a million residents, has a Negro population of more than 30,000. Firemen answering a call at a grocery on Plymouth Avenue were pelted with rocks, bricks and bottles. They abandoned their equipment for nearly two hours until police had restored order. The fire burned itself out.

O’Brien following the signing of the Post Office Department appropriation bill by President Johnson. The legislation contains an $8.5 million item for restoration of the six-day a week delivery which had been cut back in May, 1964, as an economy measure. Nearly 5,000 cities are affected, Postmaster Albin said. The Greencastle postal official noted the improved service will remove an inequity for many business and residential routes. Postal customers served by “motorized” letter carriers have been receiving six-day deliveries all along. They were not covered by the 1964 cutback inasmuch as carriers on vehicles can deliver parcels of any size. Customers living on routes serviced by foot carriers have received larger parcels from a five-day week parcel post route covered by a truck. Carriers on foot only deliver small packages.

New Director

Howard L. Williams, a long-time officer of the First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company, has been named Senior Vice President and a director of the bank, according to an announcement by Simpson Stoner, president. On the Board of Directors of the FirstCitizens, Williams succeeds Grafton Longden, who resigned from the board for reasons of health. Williams, who is serving his 37th year on the staff of the bank, joined the First-Citizens on April 28, 1930, as a member of the bookkeeping department. Before being named Senior Vice President and director he was Vice President and Trust Officer of the bank. A native of Putnam County and a graduate of Greencastle High School, Williams married the former Rozelle Rutter in 1941. They reside at 516 East Washington Street. Active in civic affairs over the past quarter-century, Williams is a pastpresident of Rotary and currently treasurer of that organization. He is a member of the Official Board of Gobin Memorial Methodist Church, a past master of the Masonic Lodge, and has served as both vice president and treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce.

Drowns in Wabash C A R M I, HI. UPI — Larry Joseph Spaulding, 16, Evansville, Ind., drowned Wednesday while attempting to swim across the Wabash River about 15 miles northeast of here near New Harmony, Ind. Authorities said young Spaulding, who was swimming with three other boys, apparently became exhausted in the middle of the river. His body was recovered about three hours later and he was pronounced dead at Carmi Township Hospital.

BICKNELL UPI — Navy Secretary John T. McNaughton, killed with his wife and one of their sons in a plane crash Wednesday at Hendersonville, N.C., maintained close ties with his native Indiana. McNaughton was born here in 1921 while his father, F. F. McNaughton, owned the Bicknell Daily News. The family moved to Pekin, HI., when McNaughton was a young boy but he had been a frequent visitor here over the years and had several close friends here. McNaughton was also a frequent visitor to his parents’ summer home at Clear Lake in Steuben County. The parents were at Clear Lake Wednesday

CAIRO, HI. UPI — Squads of armed National Guardsmen enforced an uneasy racial peace today. City officials headed cff further violence with early curfews and a promise to talk. Gov. Otto Kemer doubled the strength of the National Guard unit here late Wednesday, moving 113 men into the town of 10,000 persons after three nights of sporadic fire bombings and stonings in a racially mixed area surrounding a housing project. Anti-violence measure is passed by House WASHINGTON UPI—The House has given its answer to the new American phenomenon of summertime riots: Throw the men responsible in jail. By an overwhelming vote of 347 to 70, the House voted late Wednesday to outlaw travel between states or use of interstate facilities—such as the mails or telephones—with the intent to foment violence. The penalties could be up to five years in prison, $10,000 fine or both. The Senate was expected to pass the bill without too much delay. House members swept aside objections that the anti-riot bill would not stop ghetto violence and might even make things worse in the tense crowded cities. Instead, they told each other that Congress was being called up to take a stand for law and order, and that passage of the anti-riot bill was the way to do it. Opponents, clearly outnumbered from the beginning, also claimed that the bill was unconstitutional and unenforceable; they noted that no state or local authorities had asked for it. But the House was in no mood to listen to arguments. Shed, contents, car damaged by flames City firemen were called to 1033 Avenue E at 3:30 this morning when a shed was reported on fire behind a house occupied by Lois Thomas. Firemen estimated the damage at $500 to the building. $500 to the contents and $25 to a 1960 Plymouth parked in the driveway. At 9:18 last night, the rescue truck made a run to the Robert Stinson home on U.S. 40, two and one-half miles east of the junction with Ind. 43. They reported that Shane Stinson had swallowed a pin and the child’s grandfather, Paul Henderson, called and also requested an ambulance. When the firemen arrived at the Stinson home, on the William Hurst farm, they were informed that the child had been taken to the Putnam County Hospital.

when they learned of their son’s death. The family originally was from the Ray area of Steuben County and has numerous relatives in the county. McNaughton had a long and distinguished government service record and was to have assumed his new duties as secretary of the Navy Aug. 1. President Johnson nominated him for the post June 10 and the Senate confirmed the appointment June 29. For the past three years, he had been assistant secretary of defense. He had served previously as deputy assistant secretary of defense and general counsel for the Defense Department. McNaughton was graduated from

Platoons of 33 men carrying bayonettipped rifles patrolled the Pyramid Courts housing project today while Cairo’s 15-man city police force, enforced a city-wide curfew. The streets were cleared at 8 p.m. Wednesday, three hours after the closing of every tavern and liquor store in the town, known as the capital of Little Egypt, Illinois cotton-growing district. Two men were picked up for curfew violation and jailed, one of them being released after posting $25 bond. There were no incidents. Tempers first were aroused earlier this week when a Negro soldier being held for the Army on charges of being AWOL was found dead in his city jail cell. The tension cooled Wednesday when city officials agreed to negotiate Negro grievances. Young Negro residents of the Pyramid Courts promised to try to head off further violence pending a meeting this afternoon between local officials and Negro leaders. Three young men were delegated Negro spokesmen at the meeting, to be attended by Mayor Lee Stenzel and city commissioners. “The older people have gone beyond their capabilities,” said one of the Negro spokesmen, Willie Bingham, 27. “It’s up to the youth to carry it from here.” Priacess 'satisfactory' after aiiscarriage MONTREAL UPI — Princess Grace of Monaco suffered a miscarriage and was reported in “satisfactory’’ condition today. Doctors said the former American movie actress Grace Kelly fell ill Tuesday night and suffered the miscarriage Wednesday night. There was no indication of what caused the miscarriage, they said. The princess was expecting her fourth child in January. Her husband Prince Rainier and their three children came with the princess to attend Monaco Day at Expo ‘67 and tour Canada. Doctors said the princess will spend the next few days recuperating at Royal Victoria Hospital. Rainier, sovereign of the Riviera principality famed for its Monte Carlo gambling casino and the princess, cancelled all immediate travel plans. The royal couple had been scheduled to travel to Victoria, B.C., by train. Princess Grace was being attended by Dr. George Maughan and Dr. Newell Philpott of the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Pekin High School in 1939 and from DePauw University in 1942 and received a bachelor of letters degree in 1951 from Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar.

He manied Sarah Elizabeth Fulkman in 1945. They had two sons, Alex, 18, and Theodore, who would have been 12 Sunday. The older son was in Europe Wednesday when his parents and brother were killed. McNaughton was a special representative of the Marshall Plan in Paris from 1949 until 1951. He returned to the United States in 1951 and served for two years as editor of the family-owned Pekin Daily Times. In 1952, he was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress. In 1953, McNaugton became a member of the Harvard Law School faculty. While at Harvard, he served as assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, Mass. He was the author of several law books. He served with the Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II. The Russians awarded him a medal for saving a ship from German submarines. 22 starviag Viets freed by paratroopers SAIGON UPI—American paratroopers leaped across poisoned stakes, smashed through a 10-foot bamboo wall and freed 22 starving Vietnamese from a Communist jungle jail, U.S. spokesmen said today. “Thank you, GI, thank you ..." one inmate kept repeating to the Americans who staged the dramatic rescue in a raid into a Viet Cong sanctuary under Communist control for years. It is 325 miles north of Saigon. The Communist jungle prison was found by about 200 of the Americans, paratroopers of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and commanded by Capt. Dennis Anderson of Crookston, Minn., near the village of Due Pho Wednesday. The GIs fired and charged. The Viet Cong guards ran. The Americans found some inmates in leg stocks. All were “emaciated and suffering from disease and various stages of severe malnutrition,” said a report. The Viet Cong had planted thousands of bomboo stakes with the points smeared with poisonous matter around the prison fence.

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ILL \ IE FOR QUEEN—These seven lovely ladies will vie for Miss Putnam County honors at the Putnam County Fair *oon and to prepare themselves for the judging are undergoing several sessions with consultants Mrs. Lois Alice and

Mrs. John Robertson from whom they hope to pick up some pointers. The girls are (left to right) Diana Stringer, Fayette Staley, Vicki Judy, Karen Spencer, Nancy Perkins, Cheryl Moriah, and Cindy Greves.

Parcel Post deliveries expanded to six days

Guardsmen enforce racial peace in Cairo, Illinois