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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1967

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NO. 236

DPU gets $75,000 Kresge grant for new School of Music building

facing doubtful future

Cave explorer rescued from Tennessee shaft

Kerstetter said the grant will be applied to the construction of a new $1,000,000 building which will be one of three structures comprising a performing arts center. When completed the $5,000,000 center wall include — in addition to the new music building — a large auditorium

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chairman of the panel and a vital figure In any tax battle, was noncommital but willing to hear the arguments of Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowier and Budget Director Charles L. Schultze when hearings open Aug. 14. The President said he needed the additional revenue to finance rising war costs — including the dispatch of 45,000 to 50,000 more U.S. troops to Vietnam — ease domestic unrest and hold down the biggest budget deficit since World War H. If Congress approves the President’s plan, it will mean bigger income tax bills for 82 million individual taxpayers, effective Oct. 1, and for 700,000 corporations, retroactive to last July 1. The increases, in the form of a surcharge amounting to a 10 per cent tax on each tax bill, would expire June 30, 1969. “or continue for so long as the unusual expenditures associated with our efforts in Vietnam require higher revenues,” Johnson said Thursday. He also proposed accelerating tax collections from business firms and delaying scheduled cuts in federal excise taxes on automobiles and telephone calls, all in an effort to raise $7.4 billion in revenues the first year.

PIE EATERS—The Young America Fair, making its debut w'ere crowned as champion pie eaters and are eligable to at the Putnam County Fair this year, brings many surprises compete in the State Fair. The boys were eating chocolate and this was one. Allan Bryan (right) and John Wood (left) cream pies with their hands behind their backs. State-wide rally slated by Ku Klux Klan

DePauw University today announced a $75,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation to aid in the construction of a new School of Music building. Announcement of the gift from the Detroit-based foundation was made by Dr. William E. Kerstetter, president of DePauw. Proposed tax

■WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson’s proposed 10 per cent tax increase faced a doubtful future today in a congress skeptical of his “cut, tax and borrow'” system for financing Great Society programs and the Vietnam W'ar. Asked about the measure’s chances of getting through the key House Ways A Means Committee, a highly placed member of the tax-writing panel said, “can’t bet on it.” A* usual, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, Ark., Teen dance Saturday The Putnam County Fair, in keeping with the tradition of “entertainment for all,” will be having its annual teen dance Saturday night in the Community Building at the fairgrounds. This year, a big crowd is expected to be present as “Me And Them Guys,” one of the midwest’s most popular groups, entertain. This will be the third straight year that these local musicians have performed for the annual event. The dance is scheduled for 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. and everyone is welcome as long as they are teenagers, either literally or at heart.

POWELL, Tenn. UPI—Rescue workers hoisted a mudcaked, semi-conscious young cave explorer to safety early today 11 hours after the youth fell to the bottom of a 70-foot shaft. His right leg broken and his face battered by the fall, 17-year-old John Cheka was rushed to a hospital after being pulled from the cave aboard a wire basket that had been lowered to him by rope. Two companions, Vernon Bruner, 20, and John Connell, 20, helped rescue workers save Cheka. Bruner left the cave to summon authorities and Connell stayed with Cheka, putting a splint on his leg and trying to keep him warm in the 40-degree shaft. The youths entered Carpenter's cave, which slices a quarter of a mile deep into copper ridge in the foothills of the great

Smoky Mountains, about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. “John was rappelling down the side of the shaft when his rope broke,” said Bruner, a junior at the University of Tennessee. “He was using a quarter-inch nylon rope. We told him it was too small.” Bruner said when Cheka fell he struggled out of the cave and walked a mile through dense woods tq summon aid. Connell, a junior at Illinois Wesleyan College, remained with Cheka at the bottom of the rock shaft about 25 feet In diameter. “He was delirious,” said Connell. "I splinted his leg and tried to keep him warm. He kept asking, five thousand times, ‘Is my leg broken?’ ”

plus a building for speech, radio and Little Theatre. Kerstetter said it is likely the university will break ground for the music building within two years. In addition to university committees and the university’s architects — Holabird and Root of Chicago, counsel for the building is being provided by DePauw alumnus Edgar B. Young, until recently vice president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. DePauw’s present music building was constructed in 1884 for the anticipated purpose of accommodating theology and law departments. The School of Music was founded in 1885 and shared space with the theology and law departments which were discontinued. The building was moved in 1927 to its present spot on Locust and Hanna streets. The recent Kresge grant is the third and largest the foundation has made to DePauw. The Kresge grant, Dr. Kerstetter pointed out, will apply to DePauw’s current special effort to raise $6,000,000 by June, 1969, to qualify for a Ford Foundation challenge grant of $2,000,000. Two teenage boys placed on probation Two teenagers, who had entered pleas of guilty Tuesday afternoon to second degree burglary at the grain elevator in Roachdale last May 30, were placed on probation by Judge Francis N. Hamilton in the Putnam Circuit Court Thursday. The boys are Jack Spears, 16, Roachdale, and Earl Falconbury, 16, North Salem. The court ordered Falconbury to surrender his driver’s license, auto plate, and to sell his 1956 Chevrolet. In other court action Thursday afternoon, Mack Minor, 45, Mt. Meridian, pleaded guilty to failure to provide fdt wife and minor children. He was sentenced to the Indiana State Farm for six months. Judge Hamilton suspended the last four months on certain conditions, among them that he seek steady employment and provide for his family. Thomas Terrell, 67, city, also pleaded guilty when arraigned to a charge of resisting an officer. He will return to court following a pre-sentence investigation. Drowns in gravel pit BERNE UPI — Noah H. Schwartz, 17, R. R. 2, Geneva, drowned Thursday night while swimming with four other teen-agers in a gravel pit on the Joe Schwartz farm southeast of here. Authorities said a companion, John Graber, attempted to rescue Schwartz but couldn’t hold onto him. The body was recovered from about 15 feet of water 30 feet qff shore.

GREENWOOD UPI — The Ku Klux Klan will stage a state-wide rally Aug. 12 in Northwestern Johnson County featuring the burning of a 75-foot cross and a speech by imperial wizard Robert M. American jets fly 197 bombing missions SAIGON UPI — American jets flew a record 197 bombing missions against North Vietnam Thursday, U.S. military spokesmen announced today. The record raiding involved strikes by as many as 800 to 900 fighter-bombers. U.S. spokesmen reported the loss of a single jet, the 635th American warplane lost in action against the Communist country. The lost Air Force F105 Thunderchief was the 14th American plane downed over North Vietnam in 14 days. The pilot was reported missing in action. Hanoi Radio claimed he was captured. It was the sole note of cheer on the Communist side. The massive raiding struck military targets up and down and across North Vietnam. U.S. pilots divebombed and destroyed one of the Communists’ prized 155mm guns used to fire across the North-South Vietnam border at American Marine positions. More jets dumped 3,000 pound bombs on the big Bac Giang rail and highway bridge 27 miles northeast of Hanoi. It carried the main train traffic between North Vietnam’s two main industrial centers, the capital of Hanoi and the port qf Haiphong.

Shelton, the Indiana chief of the KKK announced Thursday. William M. Chaney of Greenwood, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, said the rally will be held about five miles south of Glenns Valley. He said he expects 1,000 to 2,500 persons to attend from all parts of the state. “The purpose of this rally is to acquaint the white public or white America with the program of the United Klans of America and to rededicate ourselves to our unfinished work,” Chaney said. He said there would “possibly be a minister on the program — I’m not sure yet.” The assembly will begin at 1 p.m., Chaney said, an a program at 2 p.m. A movie, “Anarchy U.SA..,” will be shown at dusk, followed by the cross burning Girl traffic victim By United Press International Indiana’s first traffic death since Tuesday night raised the state’s 1967 highway toll to at least 799 today compared with 876 a year ago. Susan Godby, 16, Lafayette, was killed early Thursday night in a two-car collision 10 miles east of Lafayette on Indiana 38. She was a passenger in a car driven by Clarence Glass, 83, Lafayette. Police said Glass attempted to pass a truck and collided with a car driven by Miriam Reese, 19, Lafayette. Four persons were injured in the crash, three of them seriously.

on a nearby hill which will make it visible for “several miles,” Chaney said. Chaney said the rally site would be reached by going "five miles south of Glenns Valley on Indiana 37 at Johnson County Road 700, go west 200 yards to the edge of Sutton’s Trailer Court, turn right and follow road to rally sign.” Pennsy passenger train is derailed WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio UPI — A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train en route from New York to Cincinnati derailed today in this southwestern Ohio community. Nobody was hurt serious#. A spokesman for Doctors Hospital at Columbus said four persons were admitted but none was in serious condition. At least six cars of the 10-car train derailed, railroad officials said. There were about 70 passengers aboard. Cause of the derailment was not determined immediately. The train had stopped at Columbus at 6 a.m. EDT and was scheduled to stop again at Xenia before reaching Cincinnati.

Now you know By United Press International Jack (Manassa Mauler) Dempsey was heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926. Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey reigned as middleweight boxing champion from 1884 to 1891.

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GRAND CHAMPION STEER BUYER—Greencastle Foods Incorporated (IGA) manipulated through the bidding and came out buyer of the Grand Champion Steer at the annual 4-H Fat Livestock Auction held at ths Putnam County Fair

Thursday night. Shown above are (left to right) Dick Edwards, owner of IGA and uyer, Russell Chastain, Fair Queen Vicki Judy, and owner of the steer Sara Britton. Ths steer brought S934 cents per pound.

Part two of a series Greencastle City traffic safety survey report »

By Frank Puckett, Jr. Banner Staff Reporter Greencastle City Police Department received fourteen recommendations for betterment from the Indiana Traffic Survey Team that made a comprehensive report to the City Council, Mayor, and civic leaders at an open meeting Tuesday, July 25. The first recommendation proposed that special consideration should be given to a general salary increase for all members of the Police Department. The survey said that the officers should receive a salary large enough to provide a decent living for their families without having to work at outside employment The base monthly pay for the Department is $450.00 for the Chief, $390.00 for the Captain, $379.85 for the three Sergeants, and $374.50 for the seven Patrolmen. They receive a longevity pay increase of $5.00 per month for every three years of service up to fifteen years and a clothing allowance of $125.00 per year is provided along with side-arms supplied by the city. At present nine of the twelve officers hold down two or more jobs. They maintain that they have to provide a living for their families. In comparison to salaries of other cities in this area approximately the aazna size «• Greencastle, the officer!

are underpaid as much as $2,000 per year. Recommendation number two suggests a daily system of reports be inaugurated. This daily report, with its accompanying monthly report, would allow the Chief to keep in constant contact with the activity of the Department both individually and collectively. The number of arrests, accidents investigated, and other assignments, as well as the number of hours spent on duty, could be reported. This information would be available for periodic reports to the Mayor and would be of great value for annual reporting to the National Safety Council as well as local news publication. A daily report is utilized by the Department at present, but it does not cover all the necessary factions of a good report system. With the present system, all officers on a given shift report their activity on the same form. This form does not go into enough detail as to how the officers are spending their time or how much time is spent on a detail, such as accident investigation, etc. Recommendation number three suggested that in the next Police Department budget, an amount be allocated for training purposes so that individual members of the Department may be sent to training schools such as those at Northwestern Traffi# Institute ait

Evanston, Illinois; the Police Adminiitration School at Indiana University; and Southern Police Institute at the Universtiy of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. These individual officers receiving such training would, of course, be expected to serve as instructors for the Department. There is no formal training program that exists now, only on-the-job training. Three members of the Department attended the Indianapolis Police Academy last year at their own expense and on their own time. Another recommendation made was that consideration should be given to furnishing some mode of transportation, such as a three-wheel Cushman Scooter, for parking meter enforcement. There is little doubt, but that one officer could enforce the parking regulation, therefore freeing the other officer now working the detail to regular police duties. Other recommendations included: the addition of a large up-to-date map of the city used as a “spot map?’ for better selective enforcement in areas where accidents more frequently happen; the filing system of the Department should be completely revised; a civilian clerk be hired to do all filing and typing of reports; written rules and regulations be formulated in order that a clear-cut policy of operation and behavior be (Continued on Page S)

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