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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1988 UPI Newt Service 10c Per Copy NO. 87

Five are killed in 18-vehide pileup SELLERSBURG, Ind. UPI — A superhighway in Southern Indiana was reopetn to traffic Wednesday night, although state police and highway department crews continued clearing wreckage of an 18-vehicle pileup which killed five persons and injured 15. The accident occurred in thick fog. Interstate 65, just 10 miles north of Louisville, Ky., was closed for hour* after the fiery chain reaction smashup Wednesday morning which involved mostly trucks. State police identified the dead as: James Lindsey, 38, R.R. 1, Henryville, driver at a pickup truck. Charles Brown, about 50, address unknown, a passenger with Lindsey. Alvin E. Fuhs, 38, Appleton, Wis., a truck driver struck by another vehicle after he got out his rig. Bobby Jack Adams, 41, East Moline, in., a truck driver. David Lee, 27, Central City, Ky., a truck driver. Two Victims Burned Both Lindsey and Brown were burned when their pickup truck, 12th in the line of the chain reaction collision, was crushed by three other trucks and caught fire. Seven other persons were hospitalized and eight more were injured slightly. In all, IS trucks and five cars were Involved in the pileup. State police said the truck driven by Fuhs had been involved in a minor accident in the southbound lane of the highway with another vehicle. A state trooper and a Sellersburg police officer were several hundred feet north of the acciddent scene setting out flares when the chain reaction entanglement erupted. The first truck cleared the flares, the second slowed down, and was struck from the rear by the third, police said. The second truck was pushed into the first and fire broke out in trucks No. t and 8. Officers were able to help the occupants of the burning vehicles out. Meanwhile, a fourth truck slowed down and was struck from behind by Lee’s semi. The chain reaction continued. Adams was in the 10th vehicle. At some point In the confusion, police said, Fuhs tried to flag down oncoming vehicles and was struck. Plane crash kills Air Force officers MINOT, N. D. UPI—Twelve men, Including a major general considered one of the Air Force’s most promising officers, perished Wednesday when a KC135 jet tanker crashed upon takeoff from a foggy, icy runway. Only T. Sgt. William G. Wright, a flight steward from Long Beach, Calif., survived the crash. Investigators said he somehow was thrown clear into snow about one foot deep. The 12 victims included Maj. Gen. Charles M. Eisenhart, 53, vice commander of the 15th Air Force and former chief of staff of the Strategic Air Command. Three colonels also were killed. All were stationed at March Air Force Base, Riverside, Calif., near Los Angeles. Eisenhait was one of the Air Force’s most decorated officers, a World War II veteran with more than 8,000 flying hours. The four-engine jet smashed into the ground and apparently skidded, pieces of engine and fuselage digging trenches 40 yards long and some of them five feet deep. The plane burned for hours. An Air Force investigation team was called in. The crash occurred out of sight of the tower at Minot Air Force Base. At the time of the crash, nearby Minot Municipal Airport was closed by fog which cut visibility to one-quarter of a mile. U.S., Soviet Union draft nuclear pact GENEVA UPI — America and the Soviet Union have completed a draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and will present it to the resuming disarmament conference today, diplomatic sources said. Progress on the treaty was mentioned by President Johnson Wednesday night in his State of the Union address. Highly authoritative sources said negotiators Adrian S. Fisher of the United States and Alexei Roshchin of the Soviet Union agreed on the wording of the complete treaty proposal. The draft includes the disputed article III concerning international safeguards that previously had blocked agreement on a complet* treaty.

Historic high budget presented by LBJ

SNOW BEING REMOVED - State Highway equipment and storm from the west side of the public square Wednesday workers are shown above removing snow from last weekend s afternoon. Superintendent Ed Raines (at right) is keeping close watch on the operation. Parole system for State Farm

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana State Farm, the only institution of the Indiana Department of Correction without a parole system, will soon begin a program of early release of inmates under parole supervision. Commissioner Anthony S. Kuharich of the Department of Correction unveiled the parole plan for the State Farm Wednesday. Kuharich said the plan had been circulated among judges and prosecuting

INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Four potential sites for Indiana’s new law enforcement academy, none of which would require expenditure of state funds, were named Wednesday. The site committee, headed by FrankNine defendants fined by Hamilton Nine defendants w r ere before Judge Francis N. Hamilton In the Putnam Circuit Court Wednesday charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Pleading guilty on arraignment were Eugene Bachert. 25; James Shrout, 20; Price Johnson, 30; David Perkins, 18; Alvin Davis. 25; Hobart Knowling, 23; Teddy Knowling. 19; Alvin Cavaness, 18. and Larry Galloway, 18. Following their guilty pleas, each was fined $25 and costs.

attorneys and that he had received favorable reports from them. The plan has been reviewed and approved by Governor Branigin. It depends heavily upon the governor’s constitutional power to grant reprieves, commutation and pardons. Only inmates received at the farm, near Putnamville, since Nov. 15, 1967, are eligible. Kuharich said the cases of 182 inmates are now being reviewed by the state farm staff. These men arrived

lin College President Dr. Wesley Haines, cut the original 19 possibilities down to these four: A portion of Camp Atterbury, near Edinburg. Eagle Creek Park, near Indianapolis, on land owned by the metropolitan park board and offered to the committee without charge. Land belonging to the Indiana State Farm, Putnamville and not now used by the farm. Land owned by the Indiana Boys School near Plainfield. The committee said none of the properties would require expenditure for land. The 1967 Legislature made training of law enforcement officers mandatory and authorized the academy. However, the appropriation for the academy was small. The project will be studied further at a site committee meeting Jan. 30 and the full academy board will meet Feb. 5 to review the progress.

after the specified time and were sentenced for six-months or more. Kuharich noted that a prisoner would not be released until he had served at least 91 days. State farm parolees will come under preliminary review and after-release supervision which is in effect for inmates paroled from other penal and correctional institutions. The Indiana Parole Boord handles this duty. This first state farm paroles will be granted sometime in March. Kuharich said the purpose of the plan was to: —Provide a systematic approach for early release of State Farm inmates under parole supervision based upon Institutional behavior and adjustment. — Reduce the possibility of further commitment as a misdemeanant or felon. —Provide a more gradual and supervised release from custody to community living. — Provide an opportunity to require a release plan to include proper living arrangement, employment and family support. —Demonstrate to Indiana citizens, courts, prosecutors, and the Legislature that parole from a misdemeanant institution is practical, protecting and profiting in a modem correctional system. —Add variety and flexibility to the correctional program in Indiana. Peace talks urged MOSCOW UPI — The Soviet government tonight urged the United States to accept North Vietnam’s offer for talks and stop air raids against the Communist nation. An article in Izvestia, the government newspaper, said North Vietnam’s offer to talk on relevant questions was “worthy of the most thorough consideration.” It said the Hanoi offer was received “with attention and seriousness in many countries.”

WASHINGTON UPI -President Johnson, promising a “restless” nation both guns and more butter, vowed in his State of the Union address to stand firm in Vietnam while stepping up the drive to rebuild U. S. cities and find Jobs for the slum poor. He told Congress and the American people, however, that the government’s new budget would hit a historic high of S186 billion—$10.4 billion higher than the current spending level—and appealed anew for higher taxes. The President devoted less than a page of his 11-page report to Vietnam Wednesday night. He seemed to hold out no hope that the present peace feelers from Hanoi would lead to talk. While repeating that America’s goal is "peace at the earliest possible moment,” he warned North Vietnam “our patience will match our power.” The bulk of his speech was devoted to problems here at home. To combat the “despair and frustrated hopes” of the urban ghettoes, Johnson challenged Americans to provide new jobs, housing and stronger law enforcement in the nation’s cities. Congressional reaction to Johnson’s speech generally followed party lines. Republicans accused the President of using the address to launch his 1968 re-election campaign. “It was disappointing that the President made the State of the Union sound like the state of the campaign,” Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., said. Johnson was interrupted by applause 42 times as he presented his 52-minute message to a night joint session of ConFB membership drive scheduled Gene Clodfelter. Putnam County Farm Bureau membership chairman, announces that the “kick-off” meeting for the 1968 membership drive will be held on Monday evening, Jan. 22, at 7:00 p.m. at the Fairway Restaurant. The drive will be concluded on Feb. 8 at a report supper. The goal for the year has been set for 1.047 family members. Township chairmen listed to date are: Maurice Fordice, Russell Township; Dale Goodman, Jackson Township; Morris Evens, Clinton Township; Ed Early, Monroe Township; Raymond Ader, Floyd Township; Bill Rowings, Madison Township, and Mrs. Ernest Price. Cloverdale Township.

Three Indianapolis men pleaded not guilty to uttering a forged instrument when they returned to the Putnam Circuit Court Wednesday for arraignment. The three, Robert M. Trader, 35, also known as Eddie Moberly; Robert Wilkins, 45, and Doyle Ford, 46, are specifically charged with cashing forged checks at Coan’s Pharmacy and the Comer Liquor Store for $82.55 each. According to authorities, the checks were stolen from the Oliver implement dealer in Bellmore last week. The three men were arrested here Saturday and lodged in the Putnam County jail. They first appeared before Judge Francis N. Hamilton on Monday and asked time to consult with attorneys.

gress and a nationwide radio and television audience. He also drew cheers at one point when he declared: “The American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness.” The President's prescription for dealing with the problems of the ghettoes w r as not new. Instead, Johnson proposed expanding four existing programs: manpower training, model cities, low and middle-income housing, and the Offica of Economic Oportunity's war on poverty. On two of these, model cities and war on poverty, Johnson merely asked Congress to provide the full amount of money it previously authorized —$1 billion for rebuilding cities and $2.1 billion for the OEO. The President requested a 25 per cent increase in job training funds from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion to train some 500,000 hard-core unemployed from urban slums for private jobs. And he proposed a 10-year campaign to build 6 million new homes for low and middle income families. Though top administration officials say various departments were forced to cut low priority programs so the expanded urban projects w r ould not represent any net spending increase by the government the new budget will nevertheless be $10.4 billion higher than current spending. Officials said the bulk of the increase — $10.1 billion — was built in and would go for defense, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, pay hikes for government employes, and interest on the national debt. The President devoted twro pages of his speech to the problem of crime In the streets and said "There Is no more urgent business before Congress than to pass the safe streets act this year that I proposed last j’ear”. He said the bill W'as so desperately needed he was doubling last year’s request for $50 million to $100 million. The President also called for a “proper gun control law,” a new law to control LSD and other dangerous drugs, and 100 additional FBI agents plus more drug abuse officers. Early dismissal Friday Greencastle School Superintendent Joseph Rammel today announced that students would be released from classes at 11:30 tomorrow 7 , the end of the first grading semester. Teachers will remain in the buildings preparing grades. School w r ill take up as usual January 22.

Their trial w r as set for February 7 19 and bond was fixed at $5,000 each. Three other Indianapolis men are also facing charges in the Putnam Circuit Court as result of break-ins at Sackett’s Tavern and the Cloverdale Hardware Store early Tuesday. Charged wnth theft are John Paxton, 26: Jerry Atherton, 27, and William Silcox, 35. The three were apprehended by Marion County officers and returned to Greencastle Wednesday by State Detective Harold Jackson and State Trooper Jack Hanlon. According to Sheriff Bob Albright, the three had stolen merchandise i* their car when taken into custody.

U.S. paratroopers kill Cong terrorist chieftain

State Farm site considered for new Police Academy

Six Indianapolis men in trouble in this county

Congress cool to tax increase

SAIGON UPI—U.S. paratroopers today killed the Viet Cong chieftain who had daringly raided and burned a village next door to Gen. William C. Westmoreland’s field headquarters. A military communique said an ambush patrol of the 101st Airborne Division—the former outfit of the American Vietnam commander—spotted and shot three guerrillas on a jungle trail on the fringes of War Zone C north of Saigon. Papers on one body identified the dead guerrilla as the leader of the Viet Cong force that Jan. 6 burned 110 homes and terrorized the citizens of Tan Uyen village. adjacent to the field headquarters of all American troops in Vietnam. The raid had been one of the most daring and most successful of the series of Viet Cong attacks in the Saigon area and in the new year. U.S. spokesmen also reported that last week 278 Americans were killed in combat—the fourth highest w 7 eekly toll of the war. They reported another 1.323 Americans suffered wounds and 53 were reported missing. Half the wounded re-

quired hospital treatment, the spokesmen said. In the air w r ar, U.S. jet pilots reported they probably shot down at least one of the MIG21 delta wing interceptors that battled American w 7 arplanes striking North Vietnam Wednesday. U.S. spokesmen said the dogfighting broke out as American planes on 82 missions hit roads, bridges and supply dumps, most in North Vietnam’s southern panhandle. U.S. spokesmen said that last week's count of casualties pushed the American war toll since Jan. 1, 1961. to 16.459 men killed, 102,197 wounded and 968 missing or captured. U.S. casualties last week were higher than those of government troops. South Vietnamese spokesmen said 257 of their troops were killed and 739 wounded. Other allied forces reported four men wounded in action. Military spokesmen said 2.216 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese w r ere killed in South Vietnam last week. The previous week a record 2,868 were killed.

WASHINGTON UPI—The 90th Congress took a cool view today of President Johnson’s promise to keep Americans rolling at home as well as abroad. There w 7 as no sign he had sold the tax boost he said was needed to help pay the bills. Some members thought Johnson, in his State of the Union address to a joint session Wednesday night, was talking over their heads to the people, with an eye to the November election. Pending a meeting of his House V ays & Means Committee Monday. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark.. withheld comment on the President’s urgent new plea for prompt passage of a 10 per cent surcharge on income tax bills. But other members said Johnson still had not met Mills’ price for unlocking the measure. That was a reduction in •pending. What Johnson promised was a

reduced rate of increase in spending, they said. Over-all, the President said, he will spend about $10 billion more to run the government In the new fiscal year than will have been spent at the end of the current 12 months. Johnson noted pointedly that the increased spending included $3 billion for defense, almost $1 billion in higher interest charges, about $4.5 billion for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, veterans and farm programs, and $1.6 billion for “the civilian and military pay increases that were added to the budget” by Congress last year. On taxes, he said that Congress’ continued failure to act would mean soaring prices, a slump in homebuilding. and a continuing erosion of the American dollar. “This would be a tragedy for eevry American family,” Johnson said in his

sternest tones. “And I predict that If It happens, they will all let us know about it.” This w r as the signal for applause, and It came—but it was thin. Congress clearly still was in no mood to approve the tax bill. “If I had to vote right now 7 . I’d vote against it.” said Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La.. chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Recently back from a tour of his state, Long reported: “I did meet one fellow who said we needed a tax increase. But everyone else down there, the rank and file, the guys working in gas stations, they said we don’t need it.” House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford said Johnson still had not made a case for boosting taxes. Rep. Thomas B. Curtis, R-Mo., a Ways & Means member, predicted the committee w 7 ould not b» impressed.