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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANURAY 16, 1968 UPI New. Service 10c Per Copy NO. 65

IBM plant manager announces three changes

New City Council holds session; Mayor announces appointments

By FRANK PUCKETT, JR.

Banner Staff Reporter

A number of recent changes are announced at the Greencastle plant of the IBM Corporation. Franklin E. Livernoche has transferred to the Information Records Division plant at Dayton, New Jersey. Mr. Livernoche will assume the responsibilities of Manager of Type Manufacturing and Control. He joined IBM in 1940 in Time Card Production In the Endicott, New York plant.

Noble E. Sutherlin

Mr. Livernoche was promoted to Manager of Standard Card Order in 1961 and has, since then, held a variety of managerial assignments. Franklin F. York has been promoted to Manager of IBM’s Atlanta, Georgia Field Card Plant. Mr York joined IBM at Greencastle as a clerk in 1954. He became a department manager in 1956 and subsequently managed production and administrative departments. His most recent assignment at Greencastle was Manager of Special Feature Order Services. Noble E. Sutherlin has been promoted to Manager of Order Operations and shipping. Noble has held a variety of assignments in the order operations department at Greencastle. His most recent assignment was as Systems Analyst in the Data Processing department. Mr. Sutherlin, in his new assignment will report to D. C. Rattray. These changes were announced by W. F. Long, Greencastle Plant Manager. Trio will return to court on Thursday Three Indianapolis men, charged with uttering a forged instrument, appeared before Judge Francis N. Hamilton In the Putnam Circuit Court Monday and asked for an opportunity to consult with attorneys. Their request was granted and they will return to court Thursday at 11 a.m. for arraignment. The three, Robert M. Trader, 35, also known as Eddie Moberly; Robert Wilkins, 45, and Doyle Ford, 46, were taken into custody here Saturday and lodged In the Putnam County jail. According to Sheriff Bob Albright, checks on the Oliver implement dealer at Bellmore for $82.55 each, were passed at Coan’s Pharmacy and the Northaide Liquor Store. Sheriff Albright said the checks were stolen on January 8. City police have commended Chester Coan, Sharon Lord and Nancy Fletcher for their excellent description and cooperation with the local officers resulting in the apprehension of the three men.

PHNOM PENH UPI — Cambodian authorities today reported finding a huge Communist arms cache intended for use in assassination attempts against Prince Norodom Sihanouk and President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia. Police said the arms were found among the ancient ruins of Angkor visited in November by Jacqueline Kennedy during her “dream’’ trip to Cambodia. Tito, the Yugoslavian Communist leader probably most hated by the Chinese Communist regime, arrives Wednesday and was scheduled to visit the ruins later this week. An official police announcement said the arms included about 1,000 hand grenades and were to be used by pro-Chi-nese Communists. Sihanouk charged in a radio speech

Assistant Supt. Dr. Joseph A. Rammel, Superintendent of the Greencastle Community Schools, announced today the appointment of Dr. Paul A. Mendenhall as Assistant Superintendent of Business Affairs. Dr. Mendenhall comes from the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township in Indianapolis where he served as Director of Research and Information. Dr. Mendenhall was born in Beech Grove and graduated from the Beech Grove High School. His educational background includes a Bachelor’s Degree from Indiana Central College; Master’s Degree from Butler University; and a Doctorate in Administration, Guidance and Psychology from Purdue University. Prior to his association with MSD of Washington Township he was a teacher and coach in Boone County, and a teacher of science in the Noblesville Schools. Dr. Mendenhall will assume his position with the Greencastle Community Schools on January 22. Dr. and Mrs. Mendenhall are the parents of one son, Paul, who is a seventh grader. The Mendenhalls will be moving to the Greencastle community in the near future. Large protest LONDON UPI — Miss Raymonde Hawkins, 65, was to deliver a protest to the American Embassy here today against parachuting elephants into Vietnam. Miss Hawkins is the founder of an animals welfare center in Sussex county.

Friday that Cambodian Communists planned to “blow Phnom Penh sky high" in an effort to kill the Yugoslav leader but he did not mention himself as being a target of assassins. He said police and army troops had uncovered about four crates of hand grenades and had arrested a group of Conununists who he charged were backed by Red China. The Cambodian chief of state last week twice met Chester Bowles, the U.S. ambassador to India who was dispatched by President Johnson to Phnom Penh for talks aimed at preventing the spread of the Vietnam war. They agreed to a plan for strengthening the International Control Commission to patrol the Cambodian-Vietnam border.

Greencastle’s new city council, labeled as the Republican’s “Action Team" during the political campaign last November, met in regular sesssion in city hall last night and heard Mayor Norman Peabody list appointments to the Board of Works, Planning and Zoning Commission, Park Board and Finance Committee. Peabody appointed Councilman Robert Poor, City Attorney Jerry Calbert, and himself, to the Board of Works with Mrs. Jane Harlan serving as secretary; Royce Cavin was appointed to serve on the Park Board; Keith Monnett and Ezra McMains were given the nod to serve on the Finance Committee, and Councilor Ernest Collins was appointed to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The 'Mayor also had the appointments of John Stevens as Police Chief; Charles Watkins, Fire Chief; Howard Frederick, Street Commissioner; and Jerry Calbert, City Attorney, incorporated into the minutes of the meeting. Along the same line the Council voted to authorize the signing of a new contract with Consoer-Townsend and Associates for engineering services during the next four years. The contract corresponded with the same terms listed in the previous contract between the city and firm during the last four year political term. The Council also authorized the Board of Works to advertise for bids for construction of the proposed North Jackson Street municipal parking lot. The motion, passed unanimously by the group, Included that the City Attorney is instructed to start proceedings to vacate the alley that runs through the proposed site and make sure the utility easements are reserved. Police Chief John Stevens, along with his monthly report, asked the Council to approve plans for a sign to be constructed on the Police station building. Stevens told the group that the sign is needed since there is no way of telling where the Police station is and that the sign is suggested by the recent State Traffic Safety Survey taken in the city. The Council aproved the sign with the stipulation construction has to pass the final approval of the City Engineer. Stevens also approached the Councilors about a new police car. He commented the older car was accumulating miles and they should advertise for a new one soon. After short discussion Councilman Ernest Collins made a motion that the Board of Works be authorized to advertise for bids and the Council voted likewise. Other reports from various departments included the Fire Department, Street and Sanitation Department, Water Works, City Engineer, and Sewer Report. Fire Chief Charles Watkins comExplosions, {ire in Houston HOUSTON UPI—A collision between a ship and a string of gasoline-filled barges today turned the Houston ship channel into an inferno shortly after an explosion and fire swept through a quar-ter-block area of nearby Shell Oil Co. refinery.

mented that his department has answered nine alarms and six rescue calls. Street and Sanitation head Howard Frederick said his department had been real busy with the snow situation and the overtime hours were piling up, Howard Brackney told the group the Wa-

JACKSON, Miss. UPI-John Bell Williams, the rebel congressman who lost his seniority for supporting a Republican presidential nominee, today becomes Mississippi's 55th governor. Williams, 49, leaves Congress after 21 years in which he became known as a staunch conservative, fiery segregationist and outspoken critic of President Johnson’s administration to take over the governor’s chair. While stamped as a conservative and segregationist, Williams more recently has advocated a position of moderation.

The Board of Directors of the Putnam County Tuberculosis Association met in regular session last week. Report was made by the Executive Secretary that $3,803 has been received to date in the annual Christmas Seal Campaign. This figure is below last year s total of $4,303 but all reports were not in and it is hoped that anyone not having made their contribution will still do so. The campaign is open until March 15. The Board welcomed Mrs. Marvin Clark as a member in the capacity of Executive Christmas Seal Campaign Director for the year 1968-69. The Board has also added two new

WASHINGTON UPI—The newly convened second session of the 90th Congress, embroiled in controversy from the opening gavel, has served notice on President Johnson that his policies and programs are in for a rough time this election year. Minor committee meetings and n routine House session were the order of the day today. The lawmakers were marking time, awaiting Johnson’s legislative shopping list in Wednesday night’s nationally televised and broadcast State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. But the Chief Executive got a foretaste of things to come on opening day

Monday.

ter Works annual report would be forth coming at the next meeting along with the Airport Board. City Engineer Norton's department issued two building permits, and the Council authorized the investment of $150,000 in government bonds after the Sewer report was given.

Mississippi can never move forward he warned in a recent speech, by “following prophets of doom and despair and by clinging blindly to the past.” The motto of Ideal Mississippi leadership, he said, should be: “We must be firm, but not unreasonable; resolute, but not foolish." Four Southern governors and about 20 congressmen were to attend the inaugural ceremonies for the World War II veteran who lost part of his left arm in a plane crash.

members, Robert Harbison and Mrs. Vera Blanchard. During their meeting an evaluation of the past year’s work was made and plans for some new program projects were projected. In the near future they hope to have plans underway to initiate a new program replacing the mobile 70mm X-ray program which has just recently been abandoned by the State Board of Health. Mrs. Carroll Hammond is president of the Board with Mrs. Ted Glidewell seizing as executive secretary and Ward Mayhall as Christmas Seal Campaign General Chairman.

successfully to break the Senate prece^ dent of not doing business before the State of the Union address by attempting to put in the record a peace petition calling for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. The petition came from the nation's first congresswoman, 81-year-old Jeannette Rankin, who led an estimated 5.000 women antiwar demonstrators on snowy Washington. A onetime House member from Montana, the pacifist Miss Rankin voted against U.S. entry into both world wars.

Cambodian police find Communist arms cache

John Bell Williams is Governor of Mississippi

Business transacted by TB Board of Directors

Rough time ahead seen for President Johnson

Senators Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore„ and Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, sought un-

Open house honors Bakers

Despite banks of snow, blocked drives, and slippery walks, a group of one hundred and fifty greeted the Frank C. Bakers at their Open House on Sunday afternoon. Janaury 14, at the Memorial Student Union Building. The ballroom where the reception was held, looked festive and friendly with two of each coffee tables and punch tables on which spring bouquets, gifts of well-wishers, were placed. At each end of the room were huge pedestals of flowers to add a gay note to the affair. A bouquet of red roses was on the table beside the guest register which the candy stripers served. There were not the hundreds of guests who had indicated they would attend until prevented by the huge snow, but they came steadily for two hours and visited with the Bakers and one another. A few came from Roachdale, Cloverdale, Bainbridge, Coatesville, and Mt Meridian. Others within only a few blocks called to lament that they could not get out of their own drives. Frequently it seemed to depend on whether one’s neighbor owned a snow plow. A few started and could not continue. Many who were close enough walked. And those w r ho could come enjoyed themselves. From time to time football enthusiasts slipped into the side loungo

to check on the Super Bowl game and first one business executive and then another reported on the progress as he came down the line. Those in the receiving line included: Sam Hostetter, president of the Putnam County Hospital Board; Mrs. Forst Fuller, guild president; Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Frank Toney, Director of Nurses; and Dr. James Lett, president of the Putnam County Medical Association. During the second hour Wilbur Donner, hospital board member and Dr. James Johnson, medical staff president, received with the Bakers, Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Toney. Marion Wilson, board member, greeted guests as they entered the lobby and the doctors and nurses with staff members and guild members served as receptionists and hostesses. Mrs. Evan Crawley played the electric organ during the two-hour social. Mr. Baker, originally from Oklahoma, and Mrs. Baker, an Alabamian, could not believe the beauty of Greencastle in its winter wonderland and Mrs. Baker was pleased with her corsage of cimbidium orchids grown locally. As one board member observed. “It was a gracious gesture which worked out very well.” And that is what we mean by a “Hoosier Open House."

DRIFTS GET DEEP—Drifting snow piled up as high as three feet in some spot* The picture above shows snow at 4.00 yesterday afternoon on -10 eaat of Greenaxound the county yesterday afternoon and evening forcing traffic into one lane. castle.