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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1967

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New York City teachers absent from schools in pay hike dispute

GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY HELD—The ground breaking ceremony for the new North Putnam Community Junior and Senior High was held on the building site two miles north of Bainbridge Saturday. Exercising the honors were (right to left) School Superintendent Charles Frazee,

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School Board President Andrew Gross, School Board members William Etcheson, Jr., John Crosby, W’illard Clodfelter, Tressman Goode, and Harold Alcorn, Northern School Buildings, Incorporated, financers representative J. W. Voyles, and Kinkscott engineering representative Gordon Gibbs.

Strike continues in Youngstown

NEW YORK UPI — Teachers in the nation's largest school system stayed away from opening day classes today in a militant drive for more money and a greater voice in school policy. Administrators with help from volunteer mothers kept the school doors open for 1.1 million children. The teachers defied a court order restraining their union from “any strike, concerted stoppage of work or concerted resignations.” The city obtained the injunction late Sunday after nearly 15.000 teachers in mass meeting voted to reject the city’s proposal for a $125 million, two-year contract that included

MIAMI UPI — Its 125-mlle-an-hour winds screaming like a thousand voodoo priests, hurricane Beulah barreled toward the Dominican Republic and the black magic kingdom of Haiti today leaving a toll of 16 dead in the lower tropics. The season’s second hurricane was expected to strike the exposed Barahona 3 prisoners escape from State Farm Three inmates at the State Farm escaped from the Putnamville institution at 1:15 Sunday morning, state police reported. They were Larry Edward Sterrat, It, Mooresville; Roger Allen Brown, 23, Morgan County, and William Allen Evans, 21, Richmond. Police said Sterrat was serving time for resisting arrest Brown was at the Farm for vehicle taking and Evans had been sent there for theft. An automobile belonging to Jack Hutcheson, Manhattan, was reported stolen and police believe it was taken by the escapees.

state contest Miss Carol Ann Evens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Evens of Bainbridge, representing District 5 in the “Make it yourself with wool” Fashion Contest, won the state contest, a beau-

wage and benefits improvements averaging $1,700 per teacher. Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), said he held the resignations of nearly 40,000 of the city’s 55,000 teachers and professional employes. They were not submitted immediately to the school board. Teachers boycotted classes and walked picket lines at most of the city’s 900 school buildings, but their union denied it was on strike. A strike would violate a new state law banning strikes by public employes and make the union liable for a $10,000 a day fine. Rather than blaring contract demands,

Peninsula of the Dominican Republic this morning and sweep across southern Haiti later in the day. A hurricane watch was ordered for eastern Cuba, and the huge U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, began battening down preparations. At 3 a.m. EDT, Beulah was located near latitude 17.7 north, longitude 70.8 west, or about 80 miles southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and moving west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. Gales preceding the hurricane lashed the Dominican’s vast sugar fields and coffee and cocoa plantations, which were dealt a $10 million blow last year by hurricane Inez, a killer of 274 persons. Beulah was the only one of three active hurricanes considered any immediate threat to land. Hurricane Doria was 100 miles off the North Carolina coast, moving in a general seaward direction, and hurricane Chloe was far out in the Atlantic, 1,200 miles east of Bermuda. Even if it continued its westward course, Chloe was not expected to threaten the mainland for several days. But forecasters kept a wary eye on Doria. “We certainly aren’t ready to write it off,” said Arnold Suggs, weather forecaster in Miami. “It is paralleling the coastline and Cape Cod sticks out pretty good up there.” He added, however, that west winds in New England may keep Doria “pretty well gut to sea.”

winner tiful silver tray and a trip to Dallas, Texas. The Fashion Show was held Sunday, September 5, in the sheep barn at the State Fair. Carol Ann used a Vogue, Paris Original pattern for her 100 per cent wool yellow dress that she modeled. Her accessories were a brown suede fedora hat, bone color shorty gloves and brown lizagator pumps. Carol Ann will represent Indiana at the National Contest in Dallas, Texas January 29. The prize for the national winner is a trip to Rome, Athens, Greek Isles and Madrid. Mrs. Jane Parker of Stilesville R. R., in Morgan County also representing District 5 in the adult division in the state contest, won a $25.00 Bond. This project is not a sewing contest, it is a fashion contest and the girls are urged to use new fashions and materials when entering the contest. Through participation in the Fashion Show the girl develops more self assurance by practice and adds to her individual confidence. It also gives her an opportunity to exhibit her skill and artistic ability in selecting, making and accessorizing a garment coordinated to herself in color, line, design and texture. Mrs. Glendon Herbert of Cloverdale, District Director of the “Make it yourself with wool” Fashion Show says, “It isn't too early to start making plans now to enter next year’s fashion show.” In selecting material it must be 100 per cent wool, knitted, felted or loomed in the United States. The name of the manufacturer of the wool is also necessary, be sure and get the name when you purchase the material. Garments to be modeled are dresses, two piece suits and coats. They should be made after January 1, 1968 to enter the 1968 contest. The Fashion Contest is sponsored by the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Wool Growers Association, The American Wool Council, The Indiana Wool Growers Association and the Indiana Farm Bureau Women.

the picket signs urged public support for the teachers’ action. They carried such messages as "teachers want what children need” and “join our fight for excellence in education.” Pickets began ringing schoolhouses as early as 6:30 a.m. Schools were open, manned by 1,500 administrative personnel, those teacher* not taking part in the UFT action and parents. The school board urged mothers to help. The telephone at board headquarters responded with a recorded message telling parents, “if you’re calling to offer your services in the schools go to the school nearest your home. The principal is ready to receive your help.” The UFT said it might confront the school board with the mass resignations later today — or possibly Tuesday after a hearing on making the strike-barring injunction permanent. The union called a rally for 2 p.m. EDT where it expected to swell the number of resignations it held. Under the new Taylor law, which superseded the controversial CondonW r adlin law on Sept. 1, unions can be punished by severe fines of up to $10,000 a day for each day of any illegal strike. The previous law provided for dismissal of all strikers and was considered unenforceable. The New York dispute was the latest in a series of confrontations between militant teachers and school boards across the nation. Detroit and nearly 30 other Michigan districts were hit with teachers’ strikes when school opened last week, idling 500,000 students. Other strikes or mass resignations paralyzed schools ill East St. Louis, Ky., and Broward County, Fla. A number of other communities including Baltimore, Md., face possible walkouts this week. Nine hundred schools, ranging from semi-suburban areas of Queens and Staten Island to the ghettoes of Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx, are involved in the school crisis.

SAIGON UPI — For the first time in the war American bombers hit a major North Vietnamese port, U.S. spokesmen said today. They said Navy jets heavily damaged the docks, wharves and coal dumps of Cam Pha, the Communist nation’s third largest port. U.S. strategists long desired a crack at Cam Pha, through which flows 17 per cent of North Vietnam’s war imports. But until Sunday Washington had banned bombing the port that Is outclassed only by Haiphong and Hon Gai. American spokesmen said jets from the 7th Fleet carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea Sunday “heavily cratered the wharf area and had direct hits on a coal Federal funds to finance students INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Federal funds will finance Indiana student loans until at least June 30, 1968, Clarence Deakins, chief of the insured loans branch of the Office of Education, said Friday at a meeting of state officials and representatives of lending agencies and colleges and universities. Eventually, however, the Indiana legislature probably will be asked to use state funds for the project, he added. The next regular session of the Legislature will not take place until January, 1969. Federal officials have taken steps to expedite the loans. Deakins said. The orocedure is for lending agencies to submit loan applications to the Indiana Scholarship Commission for processing and review. Then the state agency on a daily basis will transmit the applications to the Chicago bureau of the Office of Education for final action. Th# Chicago office will notify lending institutions of its actions. Meanwhile. Indiana University will permit students seeking loans to register and other schools were expected to follow suit, officials said. The matter of student loans had become critical because funds for that purpose had been exhausted. Now you know By United Prei* International Roman Emperor Caracalla, who built the huge Baths of Caracalla that are now the scene of Rome’s outdoor opera, reigned from 211 to 217 A.D.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio UPI—Striking police and firemen today rejected by a nearly 5 to 1 margin a “final offer” pay increase proposal by city officials. The dispute appeared headed for a court battle. Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt, who issued a temporary injunction Saturday ordering the men back to work, had scheduled

storage area. Numerous fires sent smoke skyward . . . one crane destroyed and three others damaged . . .” More American bombers stormed past Communist MIG interceptors and struck near the capital of Hanoi. An Air Force F105 Thunderchief pilot poured cannon fire into one MIG and got credit for a “probable kill.” U.S. spokesmen reported no loss in Sunday's raiding. Hanoi radio claimed three American planes shot down, two of them over Hanoi. Hanoi radio did not mention Cam Pha which lies 46 miles east-northeast of Haiphong. U.S. military authorities said Cam Pha is the communist nation’s busiest port except for Haiphong and Hon Gai whose docks are still untouched by American bombs. U.S. bombers earlier attacked a power plant several hundred yards from Haiphong’s sprawling docks. But the only dock facilities hit before were at Port Wallut, slightly north of Cam Pha. Port Wallut is primarily a naval base. Cam Pha on the other hand handles North Vietnam's vital flow of import war goods. Ships of several nations regularly call at Cam Pha. Military spokesmen here said a Russian ship was spotted there last week. Moscow claimed two Russian seamen recently were killed in U.S. raids near Cam Pha. Engineers strike Long Island RR NEW YORK UPI — Locomotive engineers struck the Long Island Railroad today, disrupting travel for nearly half the 90,000 commuters who ride the nation’s largest commuter line daily. Officials of the state-owned railroad termed the stoppage an “illegal strike” and announced they would seek a back-to-work injunction in federal court in Brooklyn. George L. Clark, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, was reported ready to go to court to fight the injunction. The railroad said only 17 of its normal 200 runs were completed during the morning rush hours, leaving an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 riders without train service. The 17 trains were operated by union engineers who apparently did not go along with the strike, the railroad said. The line said it would not call in supervisory personnel to man the trains because of a threat by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen to call a walkout.

a hearing today on making it permanent. The hearing was set for 9 a.m. EDT. City officials said they would proceed, also under Rigelhaupt’s order, to invoke Ohio’s law banning strikes by public employes, the Ferugson act. The law provides for workers to be fired if they strike, but its mechanics involve a delay of about 20 days. The first step is sending letters to striking employes. The safety forces voted down the pay Increase proposal—termed a “final offer” by city officials—which would hav# given them immediate pay hikes of $25 per month. They now earn between $5,700 and $8,040 per year. They would have gotten an addtiional $31 per month, retroactive, if voters approved a 5 mill increase in the ctiy’s one per cent income tax in December. The offer also provided for future negotiations on further increases next year. Many of the safety forces’ negotiators, exhausted after four days of little sleep and long meetings, were inclined to accept it. But they would not make a recommendation to the police and firemen who demanded $1,200 per year pay increases when they walked off the jobs last Thursday. So far this northeast Ohio steel town of 166,000 people has escaped a crisis despite the strike. There has been only one

Six arrests were made in Greencastle and community Saturday and as a result two of the six were lodged in the Putnam County jail. Sheritf Bob Albright reported that city police booked Florence Abrams, 47, Indianapolis, at 10 p.m. for violation of a Circuit Court order. James Alexander, Bainbridge, was slated at 10:40 p. m. by State Trooper John Danberry for public intoxication. Four arrests were made by City Officer Bill Masten. Webster T. Edmans, 21, a DePauw student, was arrested at Locust and Hanna Streets, for riding a motorcycle without a helmet as provided by the new state law. Timothy S. Courser, 20, another student, was arrested at Hanna Street and Involved in accident Mr. and Mrs. Max Myers and son Jimmy, of Manhattan, and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McCullough of Reelsville were involved in a four-car accident at London, Ky. over Labor Day weekend. They were returning from a trip to Pennington Gap, Va., after visiting with Mrs. Myers’ parents. Mrs. Myers is in a cast and is confined to he. home due to a fractured neck The others escaped without serious injuries,

fire of any significance and crime and accident rates are about as usual. Forty policemen, split into two 12-hour shifts, patrol streets that usually are watched over by a force of 296 men. Out of 15 fire stations only one remains open, manned by the six firemen not on strike. The fire department’s usual complement is 256 men. Mayor A. B. Flask Sunday again asked Gov. James A. Rhodes to order in National Guard troops to bolster the handful of police and firemen on duty. An earlier request was turned down. Dog problem still exists in Cloverdale Dog owners were reminded again today by the Cloverdale Town Board of Trustees that they must keep their dogs on their own property. Board members and the Town Marshal are still receiving complaints about dogs being in gardens, upsetting garbag* pails as well as other complaints. The town’s dog ordinance is still In effect and town employes have instructions to pick up any dog that is running loose. Persons being bothered by dogs should fill out a warrant and have the marshal serve it on the dog owner.

College Avenue, for permitting a violation. Lonnie R. Bryant, 17, Greencastle Route 5, was arrested at Vine and Franklin Streets for violation of the muffler law. William A. Lady, 18, 812 Ulinoie Street, was arrested on North Madison Stieet for reckless driving. WWI vets hear Senator from Dixie INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Top American officials who do not support the war in Vietnam are encouraging “communist aggression” there. Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn, D-S. C., charged here today. Dorn told the national convention of Veterans of World War I “it is no longer necessary for the communist aggressor in Hanoi to manufacture propaganda to discredit the United States war effort In Vietnam. Hanoi and Peking only havs to quote highranking U. S. leaders.” Dorn, however, did not specify which officials he meant. Dorn called for Americans “to unite behind our men in South Vietnam” as they did in the two world wars. “They are fighting to keep war 10,000 miles away,” he said. “Demonstrations and riots in America are the hope of thu enemy. They know they cannot win ca the battlefield.”

Killer hurricane aimed at Dominican Republic

Miss Carol Ann Evens

Major North Viet port is hit by U.S. bombers

Six arrested Saturday, two are lodged in jail