The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 January 1968 — Page 1

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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1968

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Southeast reels under winter's worst storm

LIFE MEMBERSHIPS—-Ralph Klipsch. Life Membership Chairman of the local VFW Post 1550, is pictured above as he presented Wayne L. Jones (center) and L. Wayne Jones (right) with life membership cards to the post. The presentation was made at the groups regular meeting last night and is the only father-son life membership combination in the VFW. Police, anti-war protesters battle as Rusk speaks

SAN FRANCISCO UPI—While police battled hundreds of antiwar protesters outside a posh Nob Hill hotel Thursday night. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was inside speaking of Vietnam peace moves. Red China and America’s goals In 1968. Rusk had arrived before approximately 500 demonstrators massed outside the Fairmont HoteL They carried signs urging an end to the Vietnam war and plastered glass doors of the hotel with balloons filled with a red, blood-like liquid. Blue-helmeted police carrying night sticks and squirting canisters of tear gas formed a wedge and cleared the area. Fifty persons were arrested. Demonstrators hurled bricks and

bottles at the police. Seven policemen suffered minor injuries. Several demonstrators were treated at a hospital and one was admitted. In his speech before 1,500 at a dinner of the Commonwealth Club and World Affairs Council of Northern California, Rusk said the United States would know “shortly” whether latest rumored peace feelers from Hanoi were sincere. “We have drawn no conclusions yet about the precise meaning of any statements from Hanoi,” he said. “But w® will know shortly whether it is a move towards peace or something else.” Regarding Red China, the secretary of state said he was hopeful that future leaders of Red China would be more susceptible to dealing diplomatically with Western nations.

WomeiVs Day service at Fillmore Christian Sunday

Fillmore Christian Church will hold Its annual Women’s Day Service this Sunday in the 9:30 a.m. Worship Service. Mrs. Norman Custis, Christian Women Fellowship President, is in charge of the arrangements for the service. Ladies of the church will lead the congregation in a worship challenge of the world-wide mission of the church. Mrs. Curtis will introduce the guest speaker who will bring the message “Our Path”. She is Mrs. J. L. Stamper, a member of First Christian Church in Greencastle. Mrs. Stamper is a graduate of Wiley High School in Terre Haute and Drake University in Iowa. She has had experience serving as a director of religious education and served one summer in Germany with the World Council of Churches. She and her husband. Dr. J. L. Stamper, also spent some time on the Indian resenation in Yakima, Washington. Besides being an active leader in her own church, she serves as chairman of the Christian Education Commission of the Putnam County Council of Churches. Mrs. William Roady will give the Call

to W’orship and Invocation in this service. The Scripture Reading will be given by Mrs. Leon Arnold, while Mrs. Doyne Priest leads the congregation In the Litany. Mrs. Herbert Sutherlin will give the benediction at the conclusion of the worship. The special women’s day offering will go for the world mission work of the Disciples of Christ Churches. Mrs. Wendall Clark will give the prayer of dedication for this offering. Those collecting the offering will be Mesdames Maurice Bryan, Clark Bryan, Sanford Siddons, James Woods, Cecil Phillips, and Marie Chestnut. Special music in the service will be provided by the women’s quintet: Mesdames Norman Custis, DeLoss Greenlee, Russell Harcourt, Alan Jones, Ray Nichols. Song Leader will be Mrs. Carl Crews, with Mrs. Piercy Horn as Organist. Each year, this Women's Day Service is an opportunity for the congregation to rededicate its witness and participation in the world mission of the church. Everyone in the Fillmore area is invited to this inspiring service.

United Pre*» International The Southeast reeled today under the twin assaults of snow and ice left by the worst storm of the winter. The Northeast froze in subzero temperatures and a new snowstorm swirled through the Midwest.

Hundreds of schools in North Carolina and Virginia were closed today because of deep snow r —as much as 14 inches— and ice which coated trees and power lines with destructive weight. A 60-mile ice belt stretched from

Cong terrorists blow up City Hall at Quang Ngai

SAIGON UPI — Viet Cong guerrillas mined and blew’ up city hall at Quang Ngai today in a daylight terror strike. Government spokesmen said three persons were injured in the blast at the coastal city 330 miles north-northeast of Saigon. In action in the jungles of South Vietnam, U.S. spokesmen said helicopter scouts across the nation spotted various Viet Cong bands and at least 37 guerrillas were killed. In the air war, American officials said the North Vietnamese for the second time in the war managed to fire Surface to Air Missiles (SAMS) at Air Force Annual meeting at Cloverdale bank The annual meeting of the shareholders of the First National Bank of Cloverdale was held Wednesday. O. B. Foster presided and reported a substantial gain in resources and declared the stock dividend approved. Directors elected for the ensuing year are O. B. Foster, E. L. Smiley, William R. Langdon. Glee Truesdel and Robert M. Patten. The directors elected Mr. Foster, president and chairman of the board; Mr. Langdon, vice president; Mr. Smiley, vice president and cashier; Ethel Frazier, asistant cashier, and E. M. Yount, assistant cashier.

B52 Stratofortresses raiding the NorthSouth Vietnam border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Thursday. They said the SAMS missed. U.S. strike planes then destroyed at least three of the SAM sites. The Communists never have been able to hit the eight-engined Stratoforts. The planes rarely fly missions over North Vietnam, because of the SAMS. U.S. military officers said downing a B52 would be a major propaganda coup for the North Vietnamese, equal to sinking a battleship. The B52s, which escaped being hit in their first encounter with SAMS last year, today struck three times at guerrilla positions in the Central Highlands and near the Cambodian border, spokesmen said. Military spokesmen said the North Vietnamese under cover of heavy monsoon rains moved the SAMS as close as 1.8 miles north of the DMZ. Above the DMZ, U.S. jets of smaller size flew 82 missions against North Vietnam Thursday, spokesmen said. Using radar to guide them through heavy monsoon clouds, the pilots hit the Yen Bai rail yard, an army barracks and other targets near Hanoi and the Cam Pha coal mining works 30 miles northwest of the port city of Haiphong. In a delayed report, U.S. spokesmen said an Air Force F4C Phantom jet was shot down over North Vietnam Wednesday. It was the 785th American plane lost over the country. Both its crewonen were reported missing.

Southern Pines to Goldsboro in Kinston in North Carolina, ripping down power lines and leaving residents without light and in some cases, heat. The Carolina Power and Light Co., unable to cope with the avalanche of downed wires, appealed for help from Washington. D.C., Richmond, and Charlottesville, Va., and Columbia, S.C. About 75 per cent of Goldsboro and much of Wayne County went without electricity for more than 24 hours. Subzero cold, a too familiar story’ in much of the country, continued to grind away any semblance of comfort in the Northeast. In upstate New York some residents had lived with 120 hours of below’ zero temperatures. Albany, the state capital, registered 25 degrees below this morning.

The low’ mark of three degrees above zero recorded Thursday in New York City broke a record set in 1893—the third low temperature mark broken in the city in a week. A new’ push of Arctic cold brought snow to the Midwest today. Hazardous driving w’amings and warnings of heavy ice were posted for parts of an eightstate area stretching from Nebraska to Kansas to Kentucky and Tennessee. Snow’ depths this morning, most of it recently fallen, included five inches at Des Moines, low’a; 4 inches at Omaha, Neb.: and three inches at Topeka, Kan., and Sioux Falls, S. D. Eastern Montana and western North Dakota shivered through temperatures dropping to the minus 20s.

Johnson orders overseas spending cut $100 million

Constitutional convention not feasible at present

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Co-chairmen Matthew’ E. Welsh and Harold W. Handley of the Indiana Constitutional Revision Commission Thursday said they do not regard a consitutional convention aa feasible. The two former governors of opposite political faith told newsmen at the close of an organizational meeting they recognize that changes are needed in the 117-year-old constitution and believe much will be accomplished by the new commission they head. Welsh said he favored looking at the constitution “on an item by item basis rather than remodel in one full sw’oop.’* Handley said the commission probably would have time only to consider and make recommendations on amending the constitution’s more archaic provisions. The commission is expected to have a report by September concerning 1969 proposed legislation. The 34-member commission created an 11-member rules and procedures committee which will do much of the prelim-

inary work for the larger group. Reps. William Latz, R-Fort Wayne, w r as named chairman, and Marshall Kizer, Plymouth, rice-chairman, with Feb. 14 set for the next meeting. Other committee members named W’ere Tom Broderick, Anderson: Sen. Patrick E. Chavis, Jr., George Doup. Supreme Court Judge Donald H. Hunter, Dallas Sells, Harold Schuman, and Robert W r yatt, all of Indianapolis; Evansville Mayor Frank McDonald and Dr. Leon Wallace, Bloomington.

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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UPI- President Johnson, moving to bolster the dollar, today had his foreign aid director on orders to slash this year's overseas spending by $100 million. Johnson directed William S. Gaud, administrator for the Agency for International Development (AID), to make the cutback from the $290 million level of cash outlay abroad in 1967. The move was part of his stringent master plan to reduce the balance of payments deficit w’hich he asserts is a threat to the soundness of the dollar. The Chief Executive conferred with Gaud at his presidential office in Austin, Tex., Thursday. They also reriewed Gaud’s impending departure on a 10-day trip to Vietnam and Thailand to check on the progress of the rural development program. Johnson was expected to put in another workday on his State of the Union address at the LBJ Ranch before he heads back to Washington at the end of the week. The groundwork for the message already has been laid by his key aides at the White House. Surprisingly, he has had few cabinet chiefs and Washington officials down to his ranch for conferences during his 18-day stay. But Thursday Atty. Gen. Ramsay Clark flew in to go over anti-crime and safe streets legislation Johnson will seek again from the 90th Congress. In another action, he gave the go-ahead Holding his own PALO ALTO, Calif. UPI—He’s still on the critical list, but ex-steelworker Mike Kasperak was more than holding his own today as he moved into his sixth day of life with another person’s heart beating in his chest.

for a $2.1 million wheat agreement with Jordan under which 30,000 tons of wheat will be shipped to the Arab country. The loan will be repayable over a period of 20 years.

Trial January 18 Harvey Gorham, 47. city, when arraigned in the Putnam Circuit Court Thursday entered pleas of not guilty tq charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Gorham was arrested by city officers at the Double D Tavern during the noon hour Wednesday and lodged In the county jail. Judge Francis N. Hamilton set his trial for January 18 and fixed his bond at $1,000.

Police hopeful of reducing accidents The Greencastle Police Department announced today that an accident prevention program is being conducted in order to reduce property damage and personal injury mishaps within the city. The next 90 days are the w’orst driving days of the year due to hazardous driving weather. Captain William Masten said officer* will use spot radio and newspaper bulletins to keep the public informed regarding conditions of the streets and local areas where they may expect the most danger. Intersections produced nearly all of the city traffic accidents Just because someone failed to stop or did not see an oncoming vehicle. Greencastle police will use a more concentrated patrol and more intensified enforcement in the high accident areas.

Word problem

MADISON, Wis. UPI —Mikios Wass de Czage has a car that can go on land or water. He left it on the shore of Lake Mendota, and a policeman charged him wdth illegal parking. De Czage protested that the car was beached. The judge agreed and dismissed the charge.

Pennsy to cut passenger trains

Greencastle apparently will have only one passenger train each way a day on the Pennsylvania Railroad as result of favorable action by the Interstate Commerce Commission on a petition filed by the railroad. The Pennsy had asked to discontinue the Spirit of St. Louis and the Penn State passenger trains operating between St. Louis and New York City by January 21. / This petition was filed with the ICC over protests of trainmen, DePamv University officials, students and city offi■ialo.

As it now’ stands, Greencastle is just about out of rail passenger service. The New’ York Central has only a onecoach train each way a day through this city between St. Louis and Union, Indiana. The Monon discontinued its last two passenger trains through Greencastle between Louisville and Chicago last fall. The Pennsylvania filed its petition Dec. 20, 1967, asking to discontinue the westbound “Spirit of St. Louis” and the eastbound “Penn-Texas,” both of which travel between New York and St. Louis. One train will etill operate in each

direction between New York and St Louis and it will be renamed “Spirit of St. Louis.” The only other Pennsy passenger train will be a mail and express train operating daily between Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Meanwhile, hearings will begin Monday on a New York Central Railroad petition to drop its last two passenger trains that pass through this city. Monday’s hearing will be at St. Louis. Other hearings include Mattoon, Wednesday; Indianapolis, Thursday, and Muneie. Friday. The two trains travel daily between fit. Louis and Union City, Ind.

PRESENT GH'T—Presenting Putnam County Hospital Administrator Frank C. Baker with a guest book to be used at tile open house for him and his wife, Gail, Sunday are (left to right) Darla Grimes, Linda Bryant, and Beth Briggs. Darla is a Y-Teen Serrice chairman and Beth and Linda are among the more than twenty Candy Striper volunteers who help at the hospital after school and on Saturday mornings. When Baker asked the young ladies about their school plana follow-

ing graduation he was pleased to hear that Beth and Linda aspire to nursing careers. These and many other Candy Stripers will be on hand Sunday to help with the guest register and to greet county guests along with the hospital board and staff, the doctors, the nurses, and hospital guild workers. The open house is scheduled from three until five o’clock, January 14, at DePauw’a Memorial Student Union _ Building.