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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1967

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NO. 224

Myers wants action now on Social Security increase

Suez Canal peace is threatened by Israeli-Egyptian disagreement

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman John Myers (R. Ind.) today announced plans to introduce legislation which would provide for immediate action regarding an increase in Social Security benefits. Congressman Myers’ bill calls for an across-the-board increase of 8 per cent retroactive to January 1, 1967. He said the increase would remain in effect until such time as a more comprehensive SoSentence is revoked A “non-paying pappy” appeared before Judge Francis N. Hamilton in the Putnam Circuit Court Thursday and was sentenced to serve 1-7 years in the Indiana State Prison. Paul Boiler, 30, Cloverdale, was arrested and lodged in the county jail Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Bob Ziegelman on a petition to revoke sentence. Boiler had been released previously with a suspended sentence on a charge of non-support of family.

MEXICO CITY UPI—Mexican agents smashed a Communist revolution plot financed by Red China and based on the teachings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the Mexican government reported. The attorney general’s office announced the arrest of 13 Communists accused of subversion aimed at overthrowing the republic and establishing a “popular socialist” regime. Spokesmen said the mastermind, a former leader of the Mexican Communist Party, had escaped to Peking but claimed all 13 apprehended had confessed their roles in the plot. Asst. Atty. Gen. Julio Sanchez said the gang “planned to form guerrillas . . . and recruit youths to take to a training camp in the state of Chiapas

WASHINGTON UPI—Luci and Patrick Nugent are planning to leave their one-month-old son with his grandparents at the White House next month while they take a second honeymoon at a posh villa near Nassau in the Bahamas. The Nugents plan to bring their baby, Patrick Lyndon, to the Executive Mansion for the first time in August for a two-week stay, it was learned today. The young couple plan to vacation a week or so at Capricon, an oceanside villa owned by Rebekah Harkness, patron of the arts and millionairess widow of a Standard Oil heir. The President’s daughter and her husband spent their honeymoon in the Bahamas following their spectacular wedding on Aug. 6 last year. While they are on their second honeymoon, the special nurse hired by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson as a gift to Luci is expected to take care of the baby. She is Mary Feller, the same nurse U.S. Navy pilots down three MIGs SAIGON UPI—U.S. Navy jet pilots today shot down three Communist MIG interceptors and damaged a fourth in the greatest air battle in two months. No American planes were reported lost in the dogfighting over the Ta Xa oil dump 20 miles northeast of the major North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. The three kills, the greatest since U.S. pilots shot down four of the Sonetdesigned jets May 20 near Hanoi, raised to 80 the number of MIGs lost in dogfights with American planes. The MIGs have shot down 20 U.S. planes, spokesmen said. The MIGs gave battle today for the first time since June 5. Eight MIGs made a feint toward U.S. Air Force bombers Thursday but two missiles sent them scurrying. Today, with the F8 Crusaders from the 7th Fleet aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard continuing a two-week campaign against North Vietnam’s precious oil supplies, the MIGs fought.

cial Security bill is passed by the Congress and takes effect. “The head actuary of the Social Security Administration has assured us that there is now existing in the Social Security fund a sufficient surplus to cover this increase—and the legislation would be financed from this surplus,” Myers explained. “It has been almost a year since the President promised an increase in Social Security benefits. We are still awaiting action by the Administration controlled Ways and Means Committee which is conducting hearings on the Social Security package.” Myers said he has received considerable mail from residents of the Seventh District expresing concern about the need for increased benefits to offset the spiraling cost of living. “The Social Security proposal has received the ‘back-burner’ treatment from the Administration. The purpose of my proposal is to immediately restore the buying power of citizens on Social Security that has been lost due to inflation,” Myers said.

w'here they would be taught guerrilla tactics along the lines of Mao Tse-tung.” He said the movement was financed by 31,680 a month sent through the Mexico City bureau of Peking’s official New China News Agency. Sanchez said the group used a Rus-sian-made Moskvitch automobile for their travels but it broke down and helped Mexican agents locate them. Chiapas is a primitive jungle state in southern Mexico, bordering on Guatamala. There are few roads and little communications. Sanchez said the group’s aim was to "create centers of insurrection in several states of the republic which would coincide with acts of sabotage and terrorism, principally in Mexico City.”

who took care of Luci when she was an infant, and who is currently in Austin, Tex., looking after Lyn. Friends said that President Johnson is footing the bill for the second trip to Nassau as a birthday gift to his son-in-law, who became 24 on July 9. The Johnsons gave a small birthday gathering for Nugent at the LBJ ranch in Texas. Before their Caribbean trip, the Nugents are expected to first visit the baby’s other grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard P. Nugent, in Waukegan, HI. They have not seen the infant yet. Drop retirement plan INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Director Richard F. McElheney of the Indiana Personnel Division said today a plan to establish a mandatory retirement age of 65 for all state employes has been dropped, at least temporarily. McElheney said the State Personnel Board “has been kicking this idea around” for about a year and included It in proposed personnel regulations. “But Atty. Gen. John Dillon said it was not legal, that the board had no authority to do this, so it was deleted,”

WASHINGTON UPI—House hearings next week on aviation safety are expected to help explain why the light plane that collided with a jetliner Wednesday was south of the Asheville-Henderson-ville airport when it was supposed to be north of it. Chairman Harley O. Staggers, D-W. Va., of the House Commerce Committee said witnesses to the North Carolina tragedy in which 82 died would be called during the hearings, which start Monday. He said they would provide new details on the crash, but would not speculate on its cause since an investigation by federal aviation authorities will still be underway.

Queen candidate

Bainbridge High School is well represented in the coming Putnam County Fair this year by a lovely little 5’ 8” dark-haired lady named Vicki Judy in the Putnam County Fair Queen Contest. Vicki, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Judy of rural Greencastle, was chosen by her classmates not only because of her good looks and personality, but because she carries the credentials of a fair queen. She was chosen as the Bainbridge High School Prom Queen, Junior Classical League Queen, was a member of the Honor Society for high scholarship for two years, a cheerleader for three years, a majorette for three years, and a featured twirler for a year. She is also a member of the Future Homemakers of America and the Thespian Club. Enrolled at Indiana State University she plans to major in Elementary Education and Physical Education. Her 4-H work includes a position on the State Junior Leader Conference and an active Junior Leader in Putnanl County for five years. Vicki has been a 4-H’er for over nine years. Minneapolis fires keep firemen busy MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. UPI — Firemen battled fire after fire, several of them apparently set by Molotov cocktails, in a predominantly Negro neighborhood on the city’s North Side today. A new car belonging to St. Paul radio station KDWK was overturned and burned but no injuries were reported. Fire officials said they could not even give an estimate of the number of fires, which destroyed two supermarkets and damaged numerous buildings. “We’re too damn busy to count them,” a harried official said. There were only “four to five” arrests reported — youngsters charged with breach of peace according to police who 24 hours earlier stopped a wave of fire bombings and rock throwing in the same area. Police worked up and down Plymouth Avenue, the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare, trying to move crowds of hundreds of Negroes who, for the most part, Just stood and watched as firemen battled the blazes. There were no clashes between the residents and police, some of whom carried shotguns, and only scattered rock-throwing incidents. Police said they were hampered in their work by hundreds of curious white persons who stood around on sidewalks and drove through streets in their cars. False alarms complicated the fire department’s job.

Now you know By United Press International The deepest places in the oceans are in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, where scientists have reported a depth of 36,198 feet.

It was learned Thursday that the airport control tower and apparently the pilot of the twin-engine Cessna as well believed the plane was north of the airfield just prior to the collision. The Piedmont airlines jet took off from the airport on a southeast runway. It reported two minutes later it was leaving its 5,000-altitude to climb to 21,000 feet. At that time, the collision occuned. Just prior to that, the Cessna 310 reported it was over the Asheville omnidirectional signal—a navigation device located about 16 miles east of the airport. When the Cessna pilot reported his po>

By United Press International Signs of hardening Israeli-Egyptian disagreement over the precise site of their cease-fire line today threatened peace along the Suez Canal. Israeli officials said Egypt told the head of the U.N. truce observation team it would not recognize any cease-fire line based on Israeli positions on the bank of the waterway. Gen. Odd Bull of Norway postponed his Thursday return from Cairo to Jerusalem because of snags in talks with the Egyptians over terms of U.N. maintenance of the truce. A source close to Bull emphasized “it will prove difficult to avoid serious altercations in the next few days” if both sides hold fast to their positions regarding navigation on the canal. A U.N. spokesman earlier this week said there was no physical cease-fire line but only cease-fire “positions” along the banks. Israel claims the middle of the canal is the dividing line and contends it can navigate the eastern half. Egypt maintains the eastern shore is the dividing line and has threatened to attack any Israeli vessels on the waterway for alleged violation of the cease-fire. Egypt fired on two Israeli patrol dinghies last Friday and captured two Israeli sailors. Since then the tense truce has preMajor Red arrested in Hong Kong raid HONG KONG UPI — Police swooped down into luxurious McDonnel Road before dawn today and arrested a major leader in the Communist campaign to humble British authority in this crown colony. Police did not disclose the charges against Tong Ping-tat, treasurer of the Communist-led Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and a chieftain hi the “Anti-Suppression Fighting Committee of Hong Kong and Kowloon Compatriots,” the group which directed mass mob violence the past month. A government spokesman described Tong as one of the loudest and most militant of the leftists. But he lived in comfort. The importer lived in the silken luxury of McDonnel Road on Hong Kong island on the profits of his trade with Communist China and at the same time moved with the anti-British forces. His arrest capped a week of raids against Communist centers. Some Communists, especially the goon squad headquarters, used acid, Molotov cocktails and rocks against police. Today the Communists used only words. Mother, 5 children killed in Florida BOCA RATON, Fla. UPI—A mother and five children were killed today when a tank truck slammed into the rear of an automobile on the Florida Turnpike, driving the car into a canal. The driver of the car, father of four of the children, escaped, as did the truck driver who broke down when he learned of the six deaths. Officers were unable to determine immediately whether the car was moving or stopped when struck from behind in the southbound lane of the toll road. Trooper Frank Poston identified the driver of the car as Dock King of South Miami. The victims were his wife, Magoaline, 36, sons Dock Demetrius, 8, and Joseph, 4, a daughter, Helen, 18, and step-daughter, Brenda Diane Bell, 13, and a fifth child who was a friend of the family, Queennie Mae Belmont. The truck driver was identified as Harold Henderson.

sition, the tower told him to fly to the Asheville radio beacon, which was northwest of the omni—and in the opposite direction from the jet’s course. The collision took place southeast of the airfield, but investigators so far have not been able to determine what caused the smaller plane to wander so far off course. Staggers, who called the hearings after receiving requests from a number of Congressmen, said the committee had summoned Brig. Gen. William McKee, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), chairman Joseph O'Connell of the National Transportation Safety Board and Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), officials to testify.

vailed. A U.N. spokesman said, “We’ve received no reports from observers of any boat movements in the canal so far.” The observers took up their stations Sunday. Israeli intelligence reports said Russia has already replaced more than half the 400 planes lost by Egypt in the six-day Middle East war. Unofficial reports said

ALGIERS UPI — Moise Tshombe sat alone in El Harrach prison awaiting an announcement today by the Algerian Supreme Court which could send him back to the Congo to face the scaffold. The court scheduled a 15-minute session for 9 a.m. (4 am. EDT) to anCooper speaker at Kiwanis luncheon Kiwanian Lloyd Cooper was the speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club Thursday noon. Due to his experience with recreation in local programs, he gave an interesting and informative talk and evaluation of the recent recreation survey made for Greencastle and the community. Members of the club paid reverent and silent tribute to the late Dean Louis H. Dirks, a faithful and valued member of the club for over 40 years. Dr. Dale W. Oliver was inducted into Kiwanis membership by Kiwanians Bob Loring and Keith Monnett. President Darrell Gooch announced that the club would meet again next Thursday at the Presbyterian Church and on the following Thursday at the Putnam County Fairgrounds.

r. By United Preti International Five deaths Thursday, including one resulting from an earlier accident, and one early today raised Indiana’s 1967 traffic- fatality toll to at least 750 compared with 818 a year ago today. Michael D. Streeval, 17, R. R. 2, Edinburg, was killed early today when a car in which he was riding collided with a semi-truck on U.S. 31 a mile south of Edinburg in Bartholomew County. Police said a car driven by Joan Brown, 20, R. R. 2, Edinburg, attempted a left turn in front of a truck driven by Charles Buchanan, 36, Louisville. The woman was hurt. Joella Bunch, 17, Bloomington, was Thunderstorms swell rivers and streams By United Pres« International Thunderstorms which swelled rivers and streams in Texas, Iowa and Michigan tapered off into showers across much of the nation today. Light rain fell from Mississippi to Texas, where an 8-inch rain Thursday flooded the Frio River along a 45-mile stretch. Driving rain continued to hammer southeastern Iowa, where four inches were reported at Keosaqua around midnight. More than an inch fell in six hours at Ottumwa, 30 miles southeast of Keosaqua. Richmond, Va., was soaked with two inches of rain. Three inches hit western Rockingham County in western Virginia Thursday, and more than an inch fell in New Mexico’s McKittrick Canyon. A thunderstorm packing strong winds hit northwest Ohio and pounded the Green Springs area with heavy hail and 2^2 inches of rain. Southerly winds spread s u m m er warmth from the Rockies to the Appalachions. The mercury zipped to 100 at Blythe, Calif., by 3 a.m. EDT today, and at the same time registered 51 at Sexton Summit, Ore. Mayor Ted Bates of Warren, Mich., said he would ask Gov. George Romney to declare the northern Detroit suburb a disaster area in the wake of a storm that took two lives and knocked out telephone service in nearly 5,000 homes.

some replacements were the Soviets* newest supersonic fighter, the MIG23. Egypt was increasing its civil defense measures. New trenches were dug in strategic locations around Cairo and sandbags appeared around buildings not previously protected. Press reports said new air raid shelters were under construction.

nounce its decision on a Congo extradition request. Informed sources said the Court undoubtedly would grant the extradition request. Final approval must come from Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. But the sources considered that a formality. The Congo government of President Joseph D. Mobutu convicted Tshombe of treason earlier this year and sentenced him to death while the former premier lived in exile in Spain. Congolese chief prosecutor Joseph Alidon Kabeya, who flew to Algiers to argue for Tshombe’s extradition, expressed confidence Thursday night that Tshombe would be extradited and executed. Kabeya said Tshombe had no recourse for appeal in The Congo. The Supreme Court held a hearing Wednesday on the extradition request. The request became bogged down in diplomatic red tape because The Congo and Algeria do not have diplomatic relations. According to Algerian law, the Supreme Court had to rule on the request to decide whether the crimes Tshombe was convicted of committing were of a political or criminal nature. Algerian law forbids extradition of political prisoners.

killed Thursday night when a car driven by Randy Paynter, 20, Bloomington, went out of control on Old Indiana 37 north of Bloomington and struck a tree. Paynter and another passenger, Terry Berkshire, 18, Bloomington, were injured. Albert Junior Albertson, 13, R. R. 1, Orleans, was killed early Thursday night when a motorcycle operated by his brother, Anthony, 14, ran off an Orange County road near Leipsic. The older boy said he ran off the road to avoid two cars he said were drag racing. He said his brother was thrown from the cycle and struck his head on a culvert. Thomas Weyer, 17, rural Jasper, was killed and four other persons were injured Thursday afternoon in a two-car collision on a rural Dubois County road near Hayesville. Karen Scarbrough, 14, Indianapolis, was killed early Thursday when the stolen car in which she was a passenger crashed into a clump of trees on the city’s east side. Dora Ross, 7, Hamlet, died in a South Bend hospital early Thursday of injuries suffered July 15 when she fell from her father's pickup truck on a Starke County road near Hamlet. Fair at Russellville will end Saturday Two days of the Russellville Tri-Coun-ty Fair have slipped by and a Little League Baseball Tourney has been held, a children’s contest and pet parade staged, a band concert given, a dairy show climaxed, a baton twirling contest and the first phase of an amateur contest over, but there’s still lots more to come. Tonight will find the crowd gathering for a Public Dress Revue at 7:00 p.m. and the second phase of the ever-popular amateur contest starting at 9:00 p.m. Then Saturday, the final day of the Fair a Beef Heifer Show will kick off at 10:00 a.m. followed by a Beef Steer Show at 1:00 p.m. Saturday night the finals of the amateur contest will start at 8:00 p.m. and at 12:00 midnight some lucky person will drive home a new 1967 Mustang, compliments of the Booster Club and American Legion of Russellville.

Red revolution plot is smashed by Mexicans

Young Lynn Nugent will be guest at White House

Tshombe awaits action of Algerian Supreme Court

5 more traffic deaths are recorded in Indiana