The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 January 1968 — Page 1

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Big increase in assets at Federal Savings & Loan

The assets of the Greencastle Federal Savings and Loan Association increased nearly one and half million dollars in 1967, according to the report given by Ernest H. Collins, its President at the annual Shareholders Meeting held Monday night. Mr. Collins said, “The gain of nearly a million and half dollars, or 13.5%, was the biggest gain ever experienced by this Association in any year. Such activities not only expresses the high level of prosperity being enjoyed but it also indicates the Association is serving the public in an increasingly satisfactory manner.” In his report to the membership, Mr. Collins showed that not only was 1967 an exceptional year for the local Savings and Loan in its growth pattern, but the year was also distinguished by an equal growth in the savings deposits. The reserves and loan portfolia also reflected a satisfactory gain. The membership also heard a detailed discussion of the new 5% savings certificate the Association had been issuing this year, and an explanation of the new rules governing the insurance of accounts. In looking ahead to 1968, the annual report indicated that there was a possibihty that next year might see another round of tight money. This would, of

CANBERRA UPI — Former fighter pilot John G. Gorton won the prime ministership of Australia today and vowed to keep his nation with America in the fighting against the Communists in Vietnam. “We must show them aggression doesn’t pay. We lived through an era some years back where we let it exist and look what happened,” said the tall, No rote established for tax payments Roland Lane, Putnam County Treasurer, and Elston C. Cooper, County Auditor, today asked The Daily Banner to inform county residents that they cannot pay their taxes at this time. This situation is due to the fact that the Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners has not made a decision as yet on state surplus money to be applied for property tax relief. Until a new rate is established, it will be impossible for any payments to be made at Lane’s office. Several people have tried to pay their taxes at the same time they bought their new motor vehicle license plates as they have done in former years. At present, all the treasurer and auditor can do is mark time until the state board officially sets the rate.

course, present challenges for the savings and loan business and the real estate and housing industry. Mr. Collins said: “The savings and loan business profited very much from the lessons it learned during the tight money year of 1966. I predict that even with a return to tight money next year that the business will be able to weather whatever economic storm might come along. “From the way things look now, I think that savings inflows will continue to be adequate to meet the demands for mortgages in this area. There is already some evidence that the demand for both sin-gle-family homes and new apartments is picking up. We anticipate that mortgage interest rates will be somewhat higher than those prevailing during 1967. “All In all I think 1968 Is going to be another year of development and progress for the Greencastle Federal Savings and Loan Association.” The officers of the Association for the coming year are: Ernest H. Collins, President, Rexell A. Boyd, Vice-President, and Harriet Sutton, Secretary-Treas-urer. The directors of the Association are: Walter S. Ballard, Rexell A. Boyd. Chester C. Coan, Ernest H. Collins, and Norman Knights.

ruggedly handsome orange grower chosen by the governing Liberal party to replace Harold Holt, who was lost while swimming last month. His election came on the second ballot and put an American into the prime minister’s residence. His petite wife, the former Bettina Brown of Bangor, Me., who has never taken Australian citizenship, said, “When I go to the U.S., I'm always happy to be back home.” Mrs. Gorton said, however, she considers herself a “de facto Australian.” Gorton, 56, quickly moved to assure his countrymen that although he fully supports his nation’s growing alliance with America he is Australian first and last. He mentioned Holt’s triumphant election slogan, “All the way with LBJ." “I don’t believe Holt ever said Australia would automatically follow anything the Americans did ... I wouldn't say that myself ... we can’t give a blank check to the future,” he said. But clearly, Gorton was a man in the Holt mold. He stands to right of many younger members of his party but to the left of fellow Liberals his own age. Like Holt, he has a reputation for wading into political fights and loving it. He is a dawn-to-midnight worker. He is more respected than loved in parliament, where he transfers from his senate majority leader's seat to the lower, more powerful federal house.

Allies kill record 2,868 Communists SAIGON UPI—American and allied troops killed a record 2,868 Communists in combat in South Vietnam last week, military spokesmen said today. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese perished in unprecedented numbers in a vain New Year’s offensive that included a bloody 36-hour truce that opened 1968. Government spokesmen credited U.S. soldiers with killing most of the Communists in battles northwest of Saigon, near the Cambodian border and in the Que Son valley, a hideout for the North Vietnam 2nd division 360 miles up the coast from Saigon. The Communists offensive sputtered on. Today, 19 miles south of Saigon, GIs routed the third major Viet Cong strike at the capital area in four days. American casualties, expected to be as usual far lighter than the Communists last week, were not scheduled for release until Thursday when weekly losses are regularly reported. According to U.S. officials, the highest previous Communist toll in one week was 2,783 men killed. That was in the week ending March 25, 1967. Government spokesmen said that last week 263 South Vietnamese troops were killed. That was higher than the previous week but below the 380 government soldiers killed the week ending Dec. 9. In Saigon’s southern backyard, troops of the U.S. Army 9th Infantry Division swept through mangrove trees and rice paddies on foot and in helicopters in search of the 600-man Viet Cong force they battled during the night. The Americans suffered 17 men killed and 27 wounded. The Communists fled, leaving at least 26 bodies behind. U.S. officers said the Communists apparently were within hours of springing a major attack when a 9th Division platoon ran into a guerrilla force. “What started out as platoon against and enemy platoon skirmish wound up during the night as a near full scale brigade battle,” a U.S. spogesman said. The Viet Cong fell back, avoiding being trapped by American reinforcements pouring in. The Communists shot down three American helicopters, one of them carrying wounded GTs, a spokesman said. Dr. Turk honored by national group DePauw University’s Dr. Laurel Turk Sunday was honored at the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Head of DePauw’s Romance Language department, Dr. Turk was recognized as “the one who has contributed most to further the activities of the Indiana Chapter of the AATSP during the years.” The announcement was made at the organization’s Dec. 27-30 national meeting in Chicago. Dr. Turk, a member of DePauw’s faculty since 1928. was secretary-treasurer of the AATSP from 1951 to 1964 and has just retired from the Executive Council of the Association.

Ex-fighter pilot new Australia Prime Minister

The story of Emil Plan special work-study program

Putnam County is initiating a workstudy program at the high school level in Greencastle for students with special learning difficulties. The story of Emil, which follows, illustrates the need for this kind of program. Emil is like any other junior high boy. His appearance is neat. He is pleasant and polite. He gets along well with others students and teachers. In all respects he appears to be like any normal youngster his age. But Emil is different. He is handicapped. It is not a handicap you can see like the loss of a limb or a deformed body. Due to circumstances surrounding his birth, severe illness, an accident early in life, cultural or environmental factors, Emil does not have the ability to learn school work at the same rate his regular classmates can. Through no fault of his own, he faces constant failure and sometimes the ridicule of less tolerant, less understanding students. Even teachers who may not know Emil’s situation may think he’s is lazy or not applying himself. So Emil begins to think he is not worth much. He strikes back with aggressive or clownish behavior. There are a number of Emils in our schools. They are normal in all respects except they have a slower learning rate. Their future employment will therefore have to be consistent with their learning ability.

The schools in Putnam County have decided to do something about Emil. Up to the present there have been special sendees for Emil from primary to junior high. When Emil becomes 16 he will be dropped from school because there is no further program for him. One Emil just sits at home day in and day out depending solely on his parents. Another Emil is confined to menial tasks about the home with the health of his parents the only security. Still another is fortunate to be reared on a farm and has learned farm work or a fourth who was skillful enough with his hands to learn carpenters work. The last two “Emils” are exceptions rather than the rule. Putnam County is now developing a program to meet the need of Emil. The first step is to find all “Emils” in the county by a survey which is now in progress. Those in lower classes will come into the program as they reach high school. Those, old enough, already in junior or senior high will be given the opportunity, with the parents consent, to join the work-study program in school and be placed on a work assignment when adequately prepared. The school part of the day will offer orientation in various kinds of work including visitations of some employing places, training in tool subjects (directed at knowledge in arithmetic and communi-

cating skills needed in the kind of work they are training to do.) There may be those who can be placed in the work program immediately because of some skill or knowledge already possessed which fits in. Students so placed will be evaluated by the employer on attitudes, work habits, getting along writh others. The coordinator of the program will make regular visits to each placement and work closely with the employer to develop a good employee and a useful citizen who will one day become socially and economically independent. The program will be initiated starting with the second semester of the current school year and will emphasize the dissemination of occupational information that will help prepare them for work placement in the coming school year. How r can the community help with the work-study program. Business and industry having jobs students could do satisfactorily can be of assistance by meeting with the coordinator and discussing potential placement of these students. Service organizations and clubs can be informed of this program by inviting the Director or coordinator to explain the work-study program. The success of the work-study program for Emil will depend on a close working relationship between the school and the community.

At least 35 deaths attributed to winter's most bitter foray

Winter’s most bitter foray Into the Northeast continued unslackened today, plummeting temperatures to record lows. The mercury plunged to 34 degrees below zero at Watertown and Massena N.Y., coldest spots in the 48 adjacent states. Record lows were recorded at Bridgeport, Conn., 1 above; Albany, N.-

WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson is losing another of his key economic advisers. Budget Director Charles L. Schultze, who is returning to academic life as soon as work on the fiscal 1969 budget is completed late this month or early next. The Chief Executive announced Schultze’s impending departure at his Texas ranch Monday night. He said Schultze would be replaced by Charles J. Zwick, a Harvard-trained economist Trial next Monday Naomi Carson, 38. Roachdale, has pleaded not guilty in the Putnam Circuit Court to a charge of abandonment of her three children. Judge Francis N. Hamilton set her trial for 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 15, and fixed her bond at $1,000. Three teenage boys enter guilty pleas Three teenage boys entered pleas of guilty when arraigned Monday in the Putnam Circuit Court before Judge Francis N. Hamilton. Each was charged with being minors In illegal possession of alcohol. They were Gary Abney, 17, Crawfordsville; Larry Abney, 18, Ladoga, and Allen Cavaness, 19, Roachdale. All three were fined S25 and costs and their driver’s licenses were turned over to Mrs. Mildred Hervey, Putnam County Probation Officer, for a period of 30 days. They were also ordered to stay away from each other and not to drive during their probation. The youths were taken into custody in Roachdale Friday night by Sheriff Bob Albright and lodged in the county jail.

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Legislative leaders of both parties were being summoned today for caucuses here on Congressional re-districting, probably to be scheduled for this weekend. The party caucuses will be called by party leaders at the request of Governor Branigin, who Monday asked that the skull-sessions be called because of a question as to the validity of two remapping plans now under consideration by the General Asembly.

Fall injuries fatal FORT WAYNE UPI—Fayette Jacobs, 40. Fort Wayne, was dead on arrival at St. Joseph Hospital Monday after he fell 40 feet from a crane while working on an industrial plant construction project. Jacobs was a foreman at Joslyn Stainless Steel Co. where the accident occurred.

Heavy fire damage GOSHEN UPI—A damage estimate of $500,000 was set on a shopping center blaze here Monday which resulted in the injury of three firemen. Goshen fire chief Robert Moriarty estimated the loss to the G. L. Perry Variety Store and the Judd Drug Store. Both were destroyed. The injured firemen were John Vander Reyden, 42, and Richard Lamb, 40, who suffered broken arms. Thurson Perrin, 39, suffered frostbite of the toes. The cause of the blaze in 11 below zero temperatures has not been determined.

Y., 14 below and Scranton, Pa., minus 4. At least eight persons died when fire roared through a four story brick tenement in a Brooklyn slum. More were feared trapped in the flaming debris as the thermometer registered zero—coldest day of winter in New York City and the coldest Jan. 9 in the city’s history. A farm family of eight was found

who has been serving as assistant director of the budget bureau. It was the second resignation of a top economic adviser in less than two weeks. On New Year’s Day, Johnson announced that Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, would be nominated as U.S. ambassador to Italy. Ackley, too, was succeeded by a man from within the organization he headed. In his case, it was Arthur M. Okun, a member of the council. Schultze, who will become a fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington and teach economics at the University of Marjiand, said there were no policy differences that led him to resign the post he has held since June 1965. “It’s a very wearving job,” he told UPI. “I asked the President last summer if I might be relieved ... he asked me to stay on during the preparation of next year’s budget. That budget is now pretty well prepared and it w r as an appropriate time to resign.” Zwick brings impressive credentials to the job, most notably a first hand look at the place on which a good deal of the government’s defense budget is spent, Vietnam.

Galen S. Irwin w r as elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roachdale Bank and Trust Company at the annual reorganization meeting of that institution. Mr. Irwin has been associated with the Roachdale Bank and Trust Company for 45 years and is the first person to serve as chairman of the board

Branigin advised the legislative leaders Monday that “doubt has been cast upon the validity of the two plans currently being considered by the General Assembly because of a decision of a three-judge federal district court panel in Missouri disapproving of a redistricting which had a population variance of 5.96 per cent.” The governor had been nearing the end of a telephone poll among the lawmakers when he learned of a Dec. 29 ruling w'hich invalidated a Missouri congressional redistricting plan apparently which has application to Indiana. House Speaker Otis Bow en, R-Brem-en, said late Monday, “I don’t see how we can do it. I don’t see how w r e can get below the precentage variance we have.” “I half-way resent the federal government setting such standards.” Bow-en added. “I’m not optimistic.” The so-called Indiana basic-map shows a variance of 6.2 per cent, and the average variance from ideal population was 1.7 per cent. The Republican-controlled House espoused the basic plan in a recent poll by the Legislative Council. The Democratic-controlled Senate failed to agree on either the basic plan or the other plan under consideration, which was developed by 8 of 11 Indiana congressmen. The congressmen's map has a maximum variance from ideal of 7.7 per cent. On the basic map. the greatest variances are 3.5 per cent below ideal in the 6th District and 2.7 per cent over in the 1st. The congressmen’s map shows 3.4 per cent below in the 19th and 3.4 per cent above in the 2nd. A three-judge federal district panel a year ago ruled Indiana’s congressional law unconstitutional and lawmakers have been trying ever since then to reach agreement and finally developed the two plans.

dead In their home near Ossian, Iowa, apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Fires Claim Victims In Houston, Tex., three persons died Monday in an apartment house blaze. Two children perished and six persons were hurt when flames swept a tenement in Beacon, N.Y. The bitter cold was blamed for at least 35 deaths. Warming breezes spawned In the Gulf of Mexico reached into portions of the western two-thirds of the nation and brought relative relief to some areas gripped by days of subzero weather. But even in the areas where the mercury finally climbed to a plus reading, hazardous driving warnings were raised. The warm air, traveling largely in upper atmosphere currents, mixed with colder air hugging the ground to produce snow, sleet and freezing rain from the mid-Mississippi and lower Ohio Valley to the upper Midwest, and east to Pennsylvania and west to the Plains states. Driving Hazardous In the Midwest, snow and sleet made roads hazardous. In Texas, ice and cold temperatures threatened citrus crops. Farther west, the Pacific Northwest felt the fingers of a new storm, packing lowland rains and mountain snows. In New York, which always reels under severe winter conditions, the situation was normal but unbearable. The Automobile Club of New York was swamped with emergency calls from persons whose cars balked in the record low zero temperature. A spokesmen said the club was fielding 500 calls an hour. Commuter trains were running up to 30 minutes late Monday because the cold froze switches. Subway trains were delayed because it was so cold doors would not shut.

for this organization. Mr. Irwin will continue to be active in an advisory capacity when he retires as president. At the same meeting, Sam Hostetter was elected President of the Roachdale Bnak and Trust Company. Mr. Kostetter has been associated with the bank since 1951. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin School of Banking. He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, national business honorary fraternity, as well a* many other civic and professional organizations. Other officers elected at this meeting are William E. Etcheson, Jr., Vice President and Trust Officer; James M. Reed, Cashier; and Lucille Curran, Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust Officer. Preceding this meeting, the stockholders. at their annual meeting, elected the following directors: Nathan Call. William E. Etcheson. Jr., Sam Hostetter, Eugene D. Hutchins, Galen S. Irwin, Paul H. Sutherlin and Jack Young. During the meeting, Mr. Irwin pointed out that the Roachdale Bank and Trust Company had doubled in size during the last seven years and predicted that a similar growth would continue. He expressed his appreciation to the many loyal customers who have made the Roachdale Bank and Trust Company their banking home and to the employees who have given their devoted service. Bus driver killed HENDERSON, Tex. UPI - A Continental Trailways bus skidded on icy State Highway 43 some 10 miles east of Henderson today, went down an embankment at a bridge and smashed into a tree. The driver was reported dead and six persons were injured. Five of the injured were taken to Henderson Memorial Hospital and one to Good Shepherd Hospital in Longview. The whole country side around Henderson was icebound, with the temperature below freezing and a light rain falling. 100 on Thursday BICKNELL UPI—Miss Hulda Villwock will be honored on her 100th birthday anniversary Thursday with a party and open house at the Moore Nursing Home where she lives. Miss Villwock was bom Edwardsport.

Another key economic adviser to quit post

Irwin is chairman of Roachdale Bank Directors

Legislative leaders will conduct remap caucuses