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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1967 UPI N«w» Swyif IQe Per Copy NO. 25»

Vice President visits City;

eulogizes Bishop Richard C. Raines

VICE PRESIDENT GREETED—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey is shown being greeted by Mayor Raymond Fisher and Ben Cannon, President of the Greencastle Chamber of

Commerce, upon his arrival in this city today to pay tribute to Indiana Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines at Gobin Memorial Church.

U.S. cancels ice breakers' Arctic Ocean voyage

WASHINGTON UPI — The United States, accusing the Russians of blocking scientific endeavor, announced TTiursday that two American icebreaker* have given up about a third of the way on their attempt to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean. The State Department said the Soviet Union frustrated the effort by refusing to let the U.S. Coast Guard vessels Eastwind and Edisto, encountering massive ice floes on their planned route, take an easier passage just south of the Soviet island of Severnaya Zemlya, The State Department said the Soviet action had served to block “a useful scientific endeavor and thus to deprive the international community of research data of considerable significance.” The Coast Guard said the Elisto will return to Thule, Greenland, where the scheduled 8,000-mile voyage began about Aug. 8, and return to Its home port of Boston in late October after making ice observations. The Eastwind, commanded by Capt William K. Benkert, will remain in the Kara and Barents seas for about a month for oceanographic studies.

Four Clay County teenagers, who entered pleas of guilty to being minors in possession of alcohol on Monday, returned to the Putnam Juvenile Court Thursday. The four were: Jim Haggert, 17, Jerry Ward, 17, both of Brazil; Jim Wright, 17. Knightsville, and Charles Tipton. 19, Brazil, Route 3. They were taken into custody last Sunday afternoon on the Manhattan Road by Sheriff Bob Albright. Judge Francis N. Hamilton suspended their driver’s licenses and placed them on strict probation. They were ordered to be off the streets after 9 p. m. and not to associate with each other. They were also

The Coast Guard quoted Capt. William K. Earle, commander of the Edisto, as saying the vessels encountered some of the most difficult ice conditions in recent history. "Often the ships had to back up, race forward and ram up onto the ice to break through the 8-to-12-foot solid ridges that crisscross the polar floes,” a Coast Guard statement said. State Department spokesman Carl Bartch said the dispute with the Russians arose when the vessels asked permission to proceed through a strait, 22 nautical miles wide, between the Severnaya Zemlya islands and the Taymyr Peninsula, northernmost extension of Siberia. The Coast Guard abandoned the attempt at the first-ever feat on Monday when the Soviets refused permission for the route change. The voyage was to have ended at the Lancaster Sound exit into Baffin Bay, off northern Canada. The new route would have taken the ships along the Soviet mainland coast along the Chelyuskin Peninsula.

ordered to attend school and Sunday School regularly and report to Mrs. Mildred Hervey, Putnam County Probation Officer, when so directed. In Circuit Court preceedings, Paul H. Alward, city, and Gene Ewing, 18, Danville, pleaded guilty upon arraignment to a charge of the theft of corn from Joe Stultz at Russellville. Judge Hamilton ordered a pre-sentence investigation. Harley Lepper, 24, Indianapolis, whd escaped from the Indiana State Farm Tuesday while serving a term for assault and battery, appeared in court and asked time to consult an attorney. His request was granted and he was scheduled to return for arraignment this afternoon.

Law in Milwaukee is defied by priest MILWAUKEE, Wis. UPI — A firebrand white priest vowed today to hold another open housing rally and "possibly” a march, despite an aborted march Thursday night which sparked arson, rock throwing and mass arrests. It was the fifth straight night of racial strife on Milwaukee’s north side. "We’ll never stop,” said the Rev. James E. Groppi after he was released on $1,000 bond on charges of resisting arrest, battery of a policeman, profanity, disorderly conduct and violation of the mayor’s proclamation against nighttime marches. The 36-year-old priest, who was ordered to appear in court today, said another church rally would be held again tonight. Asked if another march would follow, he answered, “Possibly . . . possibly.” The rally was planned for 6 p.m. EDT. Father Groppi, alderman (mrs.) Vel Phillips and 136 others were arrested during the Thursday night march, most for violating the edict of Mayor Henry Maier who banned demonstrations, marches and picketing between 4 p.m. and 9 a.m. daily. Twice an officer read aloud the emergency proclamation. But Groppi and his followers, who had progressed only four blocks on their way to city hall, would not break stride. The order to start making arrests was given and Groppi was the frist to be seized. He was carried off bodily to a police van. During the fracas, at the intersection of 10th Street and North Avenue in the area where racial rioting erupted early in August, a squad car was set afire. More arrests followed when police tried to clear the area. County Judge Christ T. Seraphim, sitting as magistrate, set bail for Groppi and told him he had persisted in ‘Violating the law day after day. week after week. The public has a right to be protected from a repeater.” Stopped in time TOKYO UPI—A Cathay Pacific Airlines Convair jetliner, with 50 persons aboard, stopped just short of plunging into the sea at the end of the Tokyo International Airport runway Thursday when one of its engines exploded during takeoff. There were no injuries. Th# plane was bound for Taipei.

Clay County teenagers put on strict probation

Recent stock speculation causes concern

WASHINGTON UPI — Recent stock speculation is a cause of "considerable concern” to the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman Manuel F. Cohen said Thursday. He said “a number of investigations” are in progress. Cohen made the statements in reply to a key lawmaker’s inquiry on factors involved in recent record turnover in major security markets, and on what steps SEC is taking to avert dangerous speculative activity. "Recent activity in both the Exchange and the over-the-counter markets is of considerable concern to the commission,” Cohen told chairman Harley O.

Staggers. D-W. Va., of the House Commerce Committee. "A prime characteristic of this activity has been a great increase in trading volume, often accompanied by sharply rising prices in medium and lower-priced issues.” Cohen noted that the commission, which polices securities trading, seeks to prevent manipulation and unfair practices but its responsibility does not go so far els to prevent speculation. Nevertheless, said Cohen, "'We have viewed with some apprehension price fluctuations in certain securities which do not appear to reflect any significant

developments in the prospects or operations of the issuers.” Stock Exchange officials, also queried by Staggers, outlined numerous steps taken in recent years to avert trading abuse and to assure the existence of a fair and orderly marketplace for securities. G. Keith Funston, outgoing president of the New York Stock Exchange, said that while the number of shareowners has risen 42 per cent since 1961—to about 22 million persons—financial institutions such as mutal funds have been mainly responsible for the big upswing in trading.

Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was a distinguished visitor in Greencastle this morning and paid tribute to Indiana Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines in a ceremony held in Gobin Memorial Methodist Church on the DePauw University campus. Bishop Raines was pastor of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis, Minn., from 1930-1948, and the Vice President was a lay member and also mayor of that city during this period. The 68-yearold Raines, a bishop since 1948, is scheduled to retire next July. Mr. Humphrey’s tribute to Bishop Raines follows: “We meet today to honor a servant of God for a life well spent in the service of his church and of his fellow men. Indeed, if his prayer is that of John Wesley: “O Lord, let us not live to be useless” — and I suspect it is — it has been abundantly answered. Inspired pastor, great-hearted shepherd of souls, gifted administrator, recognized leader of his church at home and abroad — Bishop Raines has been all of these. As a persistent practitioner of the art of speaking, I want to pay a particular and personal tribute to his gifts as a preacher. He preaches with eloquence and passion. What he says goes straight to the heart of the matter — and to the hearts of the men and women privileged to hear him. Moreover, he always has something to say — and the best sermon is always preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach, not by the man whq has to preach a sermon. What he preaches, he Is. He is a splended example of the truth of the old saying: "He preaches well who lives well.” In the service of the Lord, Bishop Raines has traveled widely throughout the world — seven times to Asia, alone. As a delegate to the world council of churches, he has played an active part in that great and promising effort to bring the religious forces of the world together. As Vice Chairman of the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, he has been in the forefront of the Churches’ confrontation with our gravest and most urgent challenge as a nation — the assurance of equal rights and opportunities to all Americans. And what a mighty difference the churches’ participation in this struggle has made! When history is written, I Sets fire in embassy TOKYO UPI—A Japanese man entered the U.S. embassy compound in Tokyo Thursday and set fire to a bucket of kerosene, damaging two automobiles. The man escaped. Wed second time MILAN, Italy UPI—Pop singer Dionne Warwick and actor-musician William David Elliott remarried Thursday, three months after they were divorced. The couple was first married in 1966.

believe their role will be put down as crucial and decisive. In paying tribute to Bishop Raines, I should like also to pay tribute to the church he has served all his life. Founded in 18th Century England, it took firm roots almost immediately in our New World. Its doctrines of free grace and individual responsibilitiy commended it to our pioneer and democratic society. Its circuit riders kept pace with the movement of our people westward into the wilderness, preaching the gospel as they went. Moreover, they preached to everyone who would hear the message — whatever their social or economic status or their race. It has always been a faith to be practiced in everyday life as well as professed in church on Sunday — as set forth in John Wesley’s well known words: "Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.” We rightly judge religious movements by the men they make as well as the men who make them. By these standards, Methodism stands tall. From our first beginnings as a nation, men and women of the Methodist faith have had a great part in building this country and making it what it is. How many men and women have found, in the Sunday School and the Epworth League, the solid foundation on which to build lives of service to their country and their fellow men! I know f'ere are some self-styled sophisticates nowadays who say that the pieties of our pioneer past are no longer relevant to the vastly changed circumstances of today’s America. They say that these pieties belong to a vanished past — like the horse and buggy, the crinoline and the cigar store Indian. I must emphatically disagree. The programs may have changed, but the principles we must apply in solving them have not. Science has devised all kinds of synthetics — but it has developed no substitute for integrity, for conscience, for love of one’s fellow men and dedication to their service. Time was when a Daniel Boone, feeling crowded because he could see the smoke from another cabin, could pull up stakes and move further out into the virgin wilderness. But the fact that most of us live willy nilly as close neighbors in crowded metropolitan areas makes it all the more important that we live together as good neighbors. Neighborliness — that good old Methodist virtue — is more necessary than ever today. To the biblical challenge: "Am I my brother's keeper?”, we must answer with a resounding "Yea!” And we must act on the principle that the ties and obligations of brotherhood transcend all bounds of race, color, ethnic origin or creed. Indeed, they embrace the whole family of man. In this day and age, we are more than ever — as St. Paul told the Ephesians at

the dawn of the Christian era — “Members one of another.” There is a story that, when Adam and Eve w r ere expelled from Eden, he turned to her apologetically and said: "Well, my dear, we are living in an age of transition.” ‘So have all their descendants. John and Charles Wesley lived in an age of transition in England. All of American History is, in a very real sense, an age of transition. What counts is not whether we are on the move, but where w r e are going. And, in these troubled times, it is all the more vital that we steer our course by the fixed star of faith. Bishop Raines has been one of those who throughout his life has ever pointed the way to a brighter and better tomorrow for America and for the world. I know that he will never slacken In the effort — that he will never really retire. (Indeed. I understand that he has taken up water skiing.) So, it is not so much the closing of one chapter in Bishop Raines’ career that we commemorate today, but the opening of a new one. Being here at this School of Prophets inspires me to prophesy myself. And I predict that Bishop Raines will continue to give great service to his church and his country for all his remaining years on this earth, and may they be many and full!” Raines, a former athlete, w r as born in Independence, Iow r a, and earned degrees from Cornell College and Boston University in addition to receiving six honorary degrees. He served churches in Newton and Scituate, Mass., between 19231927, and at Providence, R.I., before assignment to the Minneapolis church attended by Humphrey. All three sons of Bishop and Mrs. Raines also are ministers. They are Robert, Germantown, Pa., Richard, Berkley, Calif., and John, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. Their only daughter, Mrs. Robert K. Allen, lives in Indianapolis and is the wife of a physician. Although Raines’ retirement is still 10 months away, the 26th annual School of the Prophets at DePauw marks the only time all Methodist ministers of Indiana will be together between now r and July 1, 1968. The school—a refresher course for the ministers—opened Monday and will end today. Not only Methodist church leaders, such as E. Stanley Jones but those of other faiths have taken part In the week-long school. Following his appearance here, Mr. Humphrey returned to Indianapolis where he addressed a luncheon session of some 500 Indiana leaders including politicians and representatives of professions, business, labor, education and religion. Additional pictures of Mr. Humphrey’s visit here w r ill appear in Saturday’s Banner. Transfers control JAKARTA UPI — Military commander Maj, Gen. Amir Machmud Thursday transferred control of Jakarta to a civilian, governor Ali Sadikin. The city had been under military rule for 10 years.

HEAD START CHILDREN THRILLED—Youngsters in the Indiana Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines outside Gobin Head Start program were thrilled this morning to have a Memorial Church following a ceremony honoring Bishop chance to talk with Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Raines.