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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1968

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California abortion law faces test by two prominent physicians

BOAR OF THE YEAR TROPHY—Joe C. Hinote, Route 1, Reelsville, second from left, eagerly awaits presentation of trophy by Ralph and Dora Bishop, Route 4, Tipton, at Indiana Livestock Breeders Association dinner held at Purdue

University during Farm Science Days. With Hinote, at far left, is his assistant, Dick Amers, also of Reelsville. Hinote'a Duroc herd sire. Proven ED 1CL, was designated “boar of the year.”

sent peace feelers

Communists. Other officials said it waa possible to read it that way. Johnson said in San Antonio last Sept. 29 that he would “of course assume” that North Vietnam would not take advantage of a U.S. bombing pause. Wednesday night he said flatly "the other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past.” Administration officials said the President purposely refrained from specify-

ing any methods of techniques by which this assurance of Communist “restraint” could be made clear. They left open the possibility that it need not be a specific pledge but might come about simply through a “de facto” acceptance via a lowering of their seal* of military operations. By and large, however, the atmosphere here was still one of considerable suspicion concerning Hanoi's motives.

Heart patient undergoes internal bleeding surgery

SAN FRANCISCO UPI— Open defiance of the California abortion law by a large number of respected physicians will be tested Monday when two prominent physicians go on trial before the state board of medical examiners. The defendants are among nine San Francisco doctors against whom accusations have been filed by the board's investigators. The Citizens Defense Fund for Thera-

SAIGON UPI—U.S. Marines battling through heavy artillery fire trapped and virtually wiped out a reinforced North Vietnamese company on South Vietnam * dangerous northern frontier. American spokesmen said today. The Leathernecks reported killing 162 North Vietnamese. American pilots took advantage of clearing skies to smash targets near Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam Thursday and shot down one of the MIG jets that tried to stop them, the U.S. spokesman said. But they reported two U.S. planes shot down in the raids and a third lost over North Vietnam Tuesday with five airmen missing. The Marines reported eight Leathernecks killed and 39 wounded in the sixhour battle in the rain just below th« border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and two miles from the American bastion of Con Thien that the North Vietnamese have been trying to knock out for six months. A company of the 4th Marines, moving out on patrol after intelligence officer* reported North Vietnamese building Harold Wilson gets vote of confidence LONDON UPI—Prime Minister Harold Wilson emerged successful today in pushing through the House of Commons his $2.4 billion austerity program that shrank the nation's world role. The Commons Thursday night passed 304-9 a confidence measure approving the spending cuts that included cancellation of an order of 50 U.S. Fill swing wing jets, withdrawing British troops from east of Suez and cutting back the Labor party's cherished cradle-to-grav* social services. But 25 left-wing Laborites defied Wilson s strongest orders and refused to vote for the program because of their opposition to the social service cutbacks. Conservative party members also abstained on the vote. All nine of the nays were Liberal party votes. The Conservative party offered an amendment opposing the Wilson decision to shrink Britain’s world role to only European defense commitments except for a token force in Hong Kong. The amendment was defeated 334-229 but the 25 Labor rebels refused even to participate in the voting procedure. More slashes in the economy were expected to be announced March 19 when Roy Jenkins, chancellor of the exchequer and watchdog of spending, presents his new budget. He warned the budget will be “nothing but harsh."

INDIANAPOLIS UPI-A bold bandit held up a branch bank today in the Indiana State Office Building where state police headquarters are located and escaped with an estimated $10,000 and a policeman’s gun. The bandit robbed the branch on the busiest day of the week when thousands of dollars in payroll checks for hundreds of state employes are cashed. He fled with a gnn snatched from a state police sergeant he threatened to kill. The gunman, described as a short Negro writh a “pock-marked chin,” fled through an underground tunnel between the office building and the Indiana Statehouse across the street. Many police concentrated on the area, searching the office building, the StateKwse, parking lots nearby and the Grey-

peutic Abortions maintains the defendants did only “what the overwhelming majority of obstetricians and g3 r necologists in California have openly stated they have done and would do.” The board will hear the cases of Dr. J. Paul Shively, chief of obstetrics at St. Luke’s Hospital, and Dr. Seymour Smith, a staff member at St. Francis Hosptial. They admitted performing abortions,

up for another major offensive, ran into sheets of fire coming from holes blasted out by the artillery duel that has ripped the border for more than a year. At first the Leathernecks figured they faced only a platoon. The Marines replied in kind to the rifle and machine gun fire. A second Leatherneck company swung in to block the North Vietnamese retreat. A third Marine company — about 600 Leathernecks all together — joined the fight and discovered the North Vietnamese were out in force. The Leathernecks swung around and began pressing in. Apparently the North Vietnamese radioed for help. From the North Vietnam side of the border, big guns boomed. U.S. spokesmen said 67 rounds slammed into Marine positions. The Leathernecks fought forward and smashed the North Vietnamese force. At dusk the Marines pulled back into a defensive position for the night. In the air, American pilots flew 112 missions against North Vietnam’s war machine center Thursday, spokesmen said. They enjoyed for the first tim« since Jan. 6 weather clear enough to use visual sighting—instead of radar guiding —to hit targets in the Hanoi area. An Air Force F4C Phantom two-man crew reported slamming a missile up th* tail pipe of a MIG17. The North Vietnamese jet plummeted to earth. It was the 10th confirmed kill of a MIG by American pilots dogfighting over North Vietnam. The MIGs have downed 38 U.S. jets. Warren speaks at Rotary luncheon The Greencastle Rotary Club met Wednesday noon at the DePauw Union Building. Vice President Norman Knights presided at the meeting. Guests present Included Carlyle Mason of Frankfort, J. R. Spung, HI., and guest of Richard Sunkel, Bud Kennedy of Martinsville and guest of Ray Brush. Program chairman Forst Fuller introduced Dr. Gerald Warren of the DePauw Economics Department. Dr. Warren gave an economic review of 1967 and made a forecast of the 1968 economic year. He predicted that 1968 would be a “period of testing.’’ One factor would be the position of the American dollar. He also explained how the gold standard operates in world trade. Next week’s program will be Wednesday, Jan. 24. at 12:00 noon at the DePauw Union Building. The program will be given by Rotarian Will Eddingten, on ‘The International Aspects of Rotary.”

hound Bus Depot across the street from the capitol building. Four employes were on duty in the bank, operated by the American Fletcher National Bank & Trust Co. for the convenience of hundreds of state employes who work in the office building and Statehouse, when the man walked in and brandished a gun. One of the employes pressed a button which sounded an alarm in state police operations headquarters upstairs, the nerve center of the ISP force. Capt. Robert Konkle and Sgt. Harold Archer ran out of the operations office toward the basement bank location. Just as they turned a comer, the bandit was starting to leave. He held the gun on Archer, threatened to kill him if he resisted, and grabbed Archer's service revolver from its holster. Then h* darted into the tunnel and vanished.

approved by medical committees of their hospitals, on women who had been exposed to German measles during pregnancy. Contacts with German measles frequently result in deformed babies. California law makes no provision for abortions in such cases. ■When the legislature passed a bill last year somewhat liberalizing the law, Gov. Ronald Reagan insisted on removal of deformed babies provision as the price of his signature. Reagan said such operations are “only a step away from what Hitler tried to do” in executing mentally and physically defective persons. As signed by the governor, the measure permits abortions in cases of rape or incest and in cases of “substantial risk” that pregnancy “would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother.” This law. while drawing heavy support in public opinion polls, was strongly opposed by leading Roman Catholics. Among them was James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, who called the law “tantamount to murder.” In the Shively and Smith cases, the board of medical examiners has the power, if the defendants are found guilty, to revoke or suspend the licenses of the doctors for unprofessional conduct. The charges were filed by the board’s staff after widespread publicity had been given to similar abortions by other doctors. The defense maintains Shively and Smith acted in accord with standard medical practice in the state. At the time of their abortions, the law allowed such operations only to preserve the life of the mother. The defense contends that the word “preserve” means to keep the mother’s life intact. Nine months of wmrry about whether an infant will be deformed, the defense says, constitutes a grave threat to the physical and mental health of the mother. This position drew strong support last year in a poll of 748 California obstetricians and gynecologists. Seventy-nine per cent said they had performed therapeutic abortions, 77 per cent favored abortions if there is “material” risk of abnormal birth, 72 per cent if the woman's health is involved and 49 per cent have performed them for these reasons. Although the California Medical Association has three times asked for a law to specifically allow such abortions as those performed by Shively and Smith, the state government has refused. The 12 members of the board of medical examiners are known to reflect the same emotional split on the issue that divides politicians and voters.

SASEBO, Japan UPI—The U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier Enterprise today dropped anchor and sent its crewmen on liberty to town where police lines held back leftwing demonstrator* screaming, “Yankee go home.” About 400 demonstrators tried to storm into the “sailor town” section of Sasebo where crewmen from the giant carrier were on shore leave. They crashed into the police lines while shopkeepers slammed down their steel shutters. But the lines held and American sailors drifted out of sight into bars. After about 10 minutes the students snakedanced tow’ard another comer of the four-block square district of brassy bars and neon lights. Police quickly reinforced the comer, and kept moving to block new incursions by the demonstrators. In the district most of the sailors kept Inside bars and cabarets that bore such names as “100 proof” and “Blondie Bar.” Some of the sailors were approached by pacifists passing out antiwar handbills. “I don’t want that,” snapped a young sailor who then headed for the “Happy Bar.” The Enterprise skipper, Capt. Kent Liston Lee, earlier said he had “every confidence” his 5,250 crewmen would Boy, 7, drowns WARSAW UPI—Kim Lee Jones, 7, Warsaw, drowned Thursday afternoon when he fell through thin ice on Center Lake here. The body was recovered by Warsaw police and fire units.. Authorities said the boy had been playing along the shore with other youths, but walked onto the ice and fell through.

Hanoi has WASHINGTON UPI—Hanoi appear* to have met some—but not all—of President Johnson’s conditions for halting the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, in the view of administration officials. They reported Thursday that there was some evidence that North Vietnam was willing to accept the President’s stipulation that peace talks must “take place promptly” if American raids are

to stop.

But there was no evidence that Hanoi was yet willing to agree to the President’s demand for some reduction in the Communist military effort in return for an end to U.S. bombing, they said. Administration officials for the first time acknowledged that they have received private information from Hanoi concerning its offer to talk peace if the

attacks stop.

But they indicated that information through diplomatic channels was about the same as that being broadcast publicly by Hanoi. These public statements have said simply the Communists will talk if the bombing stops, but have declared the United States has no right to insist on any specific conditions. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, meantime, told newsmen Thursday that Johnson, in his State of the Union message, had not changed the “San Antonio for-

mula” for peace talks.

But Rusk declined to say whether the

President had stiffened his emphasis on reciprocal military reduction by the

in Sasebo go home ,,

spurn efforts to get them to desert. Japanese pacifists vowed they would convince sailors to leave the Enterprise as did four crewmen from the USS Intrepid who have reached political asylum in

Sweden.

The sailors first were told they w T ould not be permitted to leave the big U.S. Naval Base at Sasebo. But later authorities relented and let the liberty hungry men into the “sailor town” area just outside the base. With them were men from another nuclear powered surface ship, the 8.200ton frigate Truxton, and from the conventional frigate Halsey. The two smaller ships carried a total of 900 men. French Lick hosts Democrat sessions FRENCH LICK UPI-The Democratic State Central Committee and many other party organization officials have turned this resort town into Democratic state heaoquarters for the next four days. Also attending are Sen. Vance Hartke, all five Indiana Democratic congressmen and Robert Boxell, as stand-in for Sen. Birch Bayh. Much of the four-day program will consist of workshops airhed at ways to win the 1968 elections. A regular meeting of the state committee is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. A film of street interviews entitled “Tne People Speak.” produced in Centralia. HI., will be shown and discussed. A series of interviews videotaped in Indianapolis by the Democratic head* quarters aiaif is also on til* agenda.

PALO ALTO, Calif. UPI—Mike Kasperak’s condition was “better” today following his second emergency operation in five days and doctors marveled at the performance of the heart transplanted into his chest two weeks ago. The retired Cleveland steelworker underwent two hours of surgery Thursday night to halt gastro-intestinal bleeding caused by a severe ulcer condition. Kasperak, 54, was awake soon after the operation but his condition remained critical. Surgeons transplanted the smaller heart of a housewife into his chest 14 days ago. “His heart withstood the surgery in an excellent manner,” said Dr. Harry Oberhelman, Jr., professof of surgery at Stanford Medical Center who performed the operation. “His condition is better now than before the bleeding arose. His heart is functioning excellently. But he has a number of other problems such as liver disease and kidney function.” Heavy snow in Texas panhandle Ry United Press International Snow, rain floods and at least one tornado provided a patchwork of weather in Texas Thursday while the rest of the nation took advantage of relative calm. Most of the Texas panhandle and the area west of the Pecos were under travelers warnings today as two to eight inches of snow piled up, heaviest in the Lubbock area. Two- to three-foot drifts piled up at Tahoka, 30 miles south of Lubbock during an eight-inch snowfall. But Lubbock itself, reported only a trace of snow. On the other side of the state showers and thundershowers continued falling today all the way into Oklahoma, adding to the seven inches that fell Thursday, turning placid streams into torrents. At least three persons died in San Antonio flooding and residents in lowlying areas of the city took to the roofs to avoid the rising San Antonio River. During the Thursday storms, a tornado struck at Lometa, in central Texas, uprooting a tree and damaging a home. No injuries were reported. Two other tornadoes were reported northwest of San Antonio by the highway patrol. A cold front stretched from Texas to Lake Huron, touching off the rain in the prevailing temperatures of the 30s and 40s along the line. Rain was falling today across Indiana and southeastern Mirhigaa,

Oberhelman said the surgery waa “more taxing” on Kasperak * new heart than on his liver which caused his first major setback last weekend. A liver biopsy performed during the surgery showed the condition of dying cells in the liver was improved. “All bleeding ha* stopped,” said the surgeon. Kasperak’s liver function began slowly returning to normal following removal of his gall bladder in an hour-long operation Sunday. A T-shaped tube waa inserted in the common bile duct to faucilitate drainage of the liver and halt liver deterioration which forced him into periods of semiconsciousness. Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 68, a retired dentist from South Africa, and Kasperak ar* the world’s only surviving heart transplant recipients. Blaiberg was reported to have made "wonderful" progress since undergoing the world’s third cardiac transfer Jan. 2. Three other heart recipients have died. Oberhelman said bleeding from stress ulcerations was common after major surgery. Still facing the doctors are signs of rejection of Kasperak’s foreign organ. They have been giving him small doses of drugs to ward off the rejection. Three arraigned; plead not guilty John Paxton, 26; Jerry Atherton, 27, and William Silcox, 35, all of Indianapolis, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Putnam Circuit Court to charges of theft. The three appeared before Judg* Francis N. Hamilton in connection with break-ins at Cloverdale early Tuesday morning at Sackett’s Tavern and th* Cloverdale Hardware Store. According to authorities, the thre* were taken into custody by police in Marion County with stolen merchandise in their car. The three were returned to Greencastle and lodged in the Putnam County jail by state officers Harold Jackson and Jack Hanlon on Wednesday. Bond for each was set at $5,000 and their trial will be held Thursday, February 29. In another court case Thursday afternoon, Harvey Gorham, 47, city, was found guilty on a public intoxication charge. Judge Hamilton sentenced him to *erve six months at the State Farm and fined him $25 and costs. The farm term was suspended on certain conditions and Gorham was given 30 days in which to pay th* fine and •osta.

U.S. Marines wipe out North Viet company

Branch bank is robbed in State Office Building

Demonstrators shout "Yankee