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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1967

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House coalition turns anticrime bill into riot suppression measure

WASHINGTON UPI — House Republicans and Southern Democrats have turned President Johnson’s key anticrime bill into a riot suppression measure, handing the administration one of its worst legislative defeats of the session. The coalition overwhelmed the House Democratic leadership Tuesday and forced revisions to put control of the $78

million program in the hands of state governors and give the “highest priority” to quelling and preventing riots. The bill would authorize a one-year start on improving local police forces across the nation, and the administration had hoped to maintain a national focus in the program and keep it free of racial overtones. But in a key amendment adopted 256

Faces problems similar to those of Lincoln: Johnson

WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson said Tuesday he is groping with some of the same problems that Abraham Lincoln faced a century ago, and expressed hope he could handle them 229 Cong killed in bitter fighting SAIGON UPI — American and Allied forces today reported killing 229 Communists in bitter fighting in South Vietnam’s northern jungles. In a display of U.S. firepower, Army 4th Infantry Division troops battled 10 hours in rice paddy swamps Tuesday and killed 65 guerrillas while losing only one American killed and four wounded. South Vietnamese civihan militiamen guided by U.S. Army advisors grappled with Communist bands in a dozen fights Tuesday and killed 140 Viet Cong. Six Americans were wounded and the South Vietnamese suffered “light” losses. U. S. Marine scouts, hunting down 700 Communists who escapee' en masse July 15 from a South Vietnamese jail, Tuesday spotted one band 18 miles from the prison eamp. The Leathernecks called in artillery and air strikes that killed 24 Communists. Not an American was Scratched. Auto Workers Union to take strike vote DETROIT UPI — The United Auto Workers Union announced Tuesday its 400,000 General Motors Corp. members will take a strike vote the week of Aug. 20. Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice president and head of the union’s GM department, said the workers will be asked to sanction a strike in order “to bring the GM executives back into the world or reality.** The move was seen as the UAW’s way of flexing its muscles by getting the strike approval so it can put more pressure on the giant of the auto industry. This is the fifth week of contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler. UAW President Walter P. Reuther echoed the get-tough sentiment when he called upon his members Tuesday to be ready to fight if necessary this year for UAW demands.

with Lincoln’s “compassion and wisdom.” Johnson’s reference to Negro unrest in the cities came when he accepted a bronze bust of Lincoln from an Illinois delegation led by Gov. Otto Kemer, chairman of his advisory commission on civil disorders. The bust is the original by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It was bought by a group of Illinois Democrats and Republicans as a gift for the President and is expected to be part of the proposed Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas in Austin. During a ceremony in the White House cabinet room, the President said, “we are going through some of the same problems as Lincoln had 100 years ago. I hope and pray we can handle them with the compassion and wisdom that he did.” During the day, Johnson also briefed 50 to 60 Democratic congressmen on his proposal for a 10 per cent income tax surcharge and explained its need to finance the Vietnam war and meet rising domestic costs. Board of realtors enjoy steak fry The Putnam County Board of Realtors held their annual steak fry at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard Ketchum 'n Cloverdale. Those present, in addition to the hosts, were Mr. and Mrs. Ross Alice, Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Phillips, P. G. Evans, Darwin Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ross, Mrs. Naomi Boesen and Mr. and Mrs. Ferril Ressinger of Indianapolis. Mr. Ressinger is Executive Vice President of the Indiana Real Estate Association.

Official inquiry

BONN UPI — The West German government asked Romania Tuesday for an official inquiry into reports of a plan to assassinate Foreign Minster Willy Brandt during a just-ended visit to Bucharest.

42 overdue

HELSINKE UPI — Forty-two persons in 17 boats were reported overdue today following a weekend storm on the coast during which coast guardsmen rescued about 600 persons.

Donald Bossart is new DePauw campus minister

Dr. Donald E. Bossart has been appointed campus minister of the Methodist Student Foundation at DePauw. He replaces the Rev. Sam Kirk, who resigned as of May 31 to accept a position on the staff of the General Board of Education of The Methodist Church, Nashville, Tenn. In announcing the appointment, Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines also announced that Dr. Bossart had been transferred from ministerial membership in the West Wisconsin Annual Conference to the Northwest Indiana Annual Conference, as of August 1. Since 1963, Dr. Bossart has been a campus minister in the Wesley Foundation at the University of Wisconsin. From 1957 to 1962, he was associate director of the Wesley Foundation at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. In 196263, he was honored by the Danforth Foundation with one of its Campus Ministry Grants. , The 35-year-old minister was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The physician who brought him into the world was Dr. Thomas St. Clair, now a resident of the Green View Apartments in Greencastle. Dr. Bossart holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, with a major economics, a Bachelor of Sacred

Theology degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University. His Ph. D., awarded in 1963, was with a double major: religion in higher education and psychology of religion.

His wife, Gay, is from Deadwood, South Dakota, and is a graduate of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. They have three children: Kent, age 7, Alan, age 6, and Dona Gay, 4. The Bossart family has just moved to Greencastle, and is living at the Foundation parsonage, 103 DePauw Avenue.

to 147, the coalition virtually stripped the U.S. attorney general of control la administering the bill’s wide ranging provisions for the modernization of the nation’s police forces. The amended measure was passed oa a vote of 377 to 23, with 204 Democrats and 173 Republicans voting for it and 22 Democrats and one Republican voting against it. Johnson could still hope for a comeback in the Senate, which has yet to consider the bill. But the same disgust with rioting and desire for local control of crime fighting that motivated the House Tuesday is almost as evident

there.

The House added $25 million specifically for antiriot training and equip-

ment.

This would be in addition to a bill passed by the House last month to make it a federal crime to cross state lines or use interstate facilities, such as a telephone, to incite riots. The antiriot funds were added to $S! million in the bill to finance 60 per cent of the cost of projects for Improving police recruitment, training, equipment and community relations. The bill carries an additional $22.5 million for preparation of comprehensive plans. 425 Hoosiers to be called for service INDIANAPOLIS UPI Col. Robert K. Custer, Indiana Selective Service director, estimated Tuesday that about 425 Hoosiers will be called up for military service in October. The Defense Department’s October call Tuesday was for 17,000 and Custer based his estimate on past quotas for the state. The Indiana quota for September was 565, for August 688, and for July 503. The Defense Department said all October draftees will be inducted into the Army. Now you know The earliest staircases appear to have been built with walls on both sides, similar to Egyptian pylons that date from the Second Millenium, B.C.

Morning earthquake rocks Denver metropolitan area

Kessler is new director Harold D. Kessler, of R. R. 1, Elkhart, has been appointed to the position of Director of the County-Wide Special Education Program in Putnam County. Mr. Kessler received an A.B. Degree from the college of Arts and Science at Indiana University in 1956, an M.S. Degree in Counseling and Guidance from the same university in 1959, and completed requirements for certification as a Director of Special Education in 1966. He served as a Speech and Hearing Therapist in the Elkhart Community Schools for nine years following graduation from Indiana University. During the last two years he has been employed by the Michigan City Area Schools. His first year in this system was spent developing a Speech Improvement Program at the kindergarten level and a therapy program for the high school. Last year he served as teacher - coordinator for the educable mentally handicapped at the high school level and was also responsible for curriculum development. Mr. Kessler has served on the State Advisory Committee in the Area of Speech and Hearing for the Department of Special Education in the State Department of Public Instruction, as a guest lecturer at the Indiana University Regional Campus in Gary, is past President of Elcose Federal Credit Union of Elkhart County, and served as Chief of Military Pay for the 11th Air Borne Division during the Korean War. He is married and has one son. His major area of responsibility, as Director of the County-Wide Special Education Program in Putnam County, (Continued on Page 10)

DENVER UPI — An earthquake rocked the Denver metropolitan area early today, damaging homes, moving refrigerators and cracking driveways as far away as Golden, Colo., some 15 miles west of Denver. There was no report of injuries or serious damage but authorities said the quake was felt as far away as Sterling, Colo., some 135 miles northeast of Denver. The quake, unofficially measured at 5.5 on the Richter Scale, was twice as severe and much more widespread than any that has hit the state in recent history. The quake struck at 7:25 a.m. and

first reports said it apparently was centered in the Derby area, seven miles north of Denver. Police and sheriff departments in the Denver metropolitan area were flooded with calls from startled residents. Telephone poles were reported cracked in the Denver area. Lamps and dishes were knocked off tables and several residents told police they were jarred out of bed by the quake. Seismologists at Colorado School of Mines at Golden said the quake lasted 10 to 15 seconds. Most of the damage apparently was in the Denver suburb of Northglenn, Colo.

Congressional leaders Would step up bombing

WASHINGTON UPI — Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Mass., called today for “increased and expanded” bombing of North Vietnam to hasten the end of the war. House Republican leader Gerald Ford said the attacks should be stepped up even at the risk of a wider war. Opening Senate hearings on the effectiveness of the bombing as part of a broad, new congressional debate over air war policy, Stennis said either a bombing pause or restrictions on bombing could be “a tragic and perhaps fatal mistake.” Ford triggered a new flurry of controversy between “Hawks” and “Doves” Tuesday with an attack on the administration for putting may targets off-limits. He was asked today if he favored in-

Three are sentenced ATHENS UPI — A military court Tuesday sentenced a lawyer to eight years in prison, an army private to a year and a tax collector to six months for “insulting the person of the king.” A government spokesman also said 2,300 persons arrested after the military coup April 21 are still being held and will be released as they sign loyalty oaths.

tensified bombing even if at the risk of bringing Red China or Russia into the war. “Yes, I would,” he replied. Stennis appeared to side with Ford who said Tuesday no more troops should be sent to Vietnam until restrictions are removed from the bombing. Stennis declined to bracket himself formally with Ford when reporters questioned him, but he commented that he felt the air was "should be enlarged.”

State traffic toll 821 By United Press International The death of a Tennessee woman Tuesday raised Indiana’s 1967 traffic fatality toll to at least 821 compared with 904 a year ago. Mrs. Alice O. Epps, 40, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was killed Tuesday when a flatbed tractor-trailer she was driving went out of control on U.S. 41 six miles north of Vincinnes and plunged down an embankment. A passenger in the truck, Robert Beckman, 30, Leona, Tenn., crawled to safety through a window and suffered only minor injuries.

Roachdale community Head Start program for children is ending

This week will mark the closing of the Roachdale community Head Start program for children. The program, designed to create an environment to help children from lower levels develop their full potential and broaden their field of experience for the demands of elementary school, was held in cooperation with the North Putnam School system in the Roachdale High School building for the past eight weeks. There are six summer pre-school programs existing in Owen, Clay and Putnam Counties. Each center adjusts its program to fit the needs of the individual children involved. Because the children’s ages may range from three to six years, the types of learning situations must also differ. Generally, the programs attempt to create a warm and affectionate atmosphere where creative play and art projects are offered to help sharpen the five basic senses. This is the main objective of classes composed of mostly three or four year olds. Centers enrolling children aged five and six emphasize structured learning activities as well as creative art and play for those children who have had little or no experience with kindergarten but will be entering first grade next fall. Roachdale's Head Start Center includes many five and six year olds who have made much progress toward being adequately prepared to enter the first grade. The program has included the following activities: 1. Large group learning sessions during which the days of the week, months and seasons, and the weather are discussed. There is also time for the children to discuss and share their experiences with their classmates. 2. Recess during which relay and other games are introduced to develop muscle coordination and emphasize the necessity to follow directions and to listen. Of course, these are not always routine things and times are frequent wherein the children enjoy doing and playing as they wish. 3. Structured learning situations in which the children are divided into small groups where a great deal of attention is given to each individual child. These groups work on number, shape, and letter concepts, sounds and listening skills, and elementary science. Each group is divided according to how much that particular child has already learned as well as his willingness to learn. But no child is ever placed into a learning situation where he would be made to

feel as though he were failing. (Small groupings can be seen in the picture.) 4. Creative art where the children are given a variety of media to experiment with—finger paints, playdough, collages, stenciles, crayons, clay, and tempera paints. The youngsters have also made paper bag puppets which will be used in a dramatic play where they will act out parts of a story which has been read to them. (The puppet project is in the above picture.) 5. Music, in the form of rhythm songs and finger plays. 6. Daily snacks and hot lunches providing valuable nutritional supplements.

In addition to these activities, Head Start attempts to develop in each child an aivareness of the world surrounding him outside of his home. Frequent field trips have served as a stimulating educational opportunity. The Roachdale Head Start Class has already visited the Greencastle Fire Station, Weir Cook Airport, Indianapolis Zoq, Roachdale Public Library, Aquatic Acres, Raccoon Greenhouse and Flower Shop, and the recent Snow White Play in Greencastle. On Friday, August 11, the children will be taking a train ride to Crawfordsville for a picnic there and they will return home by bus.

Roachdale Head Start teacher Linda Howell praised the work of three DePauw University students for helping in the project this summer. They are Janie Whittaker, Jim Maish, and Anita Lutkus. She commented that their help made the individualized attention the children received possible. Miss Howell also commented that the program ->uld not have been possible without the splendid cooperation of the North Putnam School System and its trustee, Frazee, the Roachdale School principal, Kenneth Miller, and the financing of various establishments in Roachdale.

ROACHDALE HEAD START WORKER — DePauw University student Jim Maish is shown above teaching three children something about science with a pair of

binoculars. The children are enrolled in the Roachdale community's first Head Start program.