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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

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Distinguished Service Award by Jaycees presented Keith Monnett

Keith Monnett, local banker and City Councilman, was presented the Distinquished Service Award by the Greencastle Jaycees at their annual DSA and Bosses’ Night Banquet held in DePauw University’s Union Building last night. The award, presented by Jaycee President Don Barnes, is made each year to the individual between the ages of 21 and 35 who the Jaycees feel has contributed the most during the past year to the betterment and development of the Greencastle community. Monnett is a life-long resident of Greencastle and resides at 7 Park Street with his wife Mary Jane and three children. He is assistant vice-president of the Central National Bank where he has been employed for the past eight years, is a member of the Greencastle City Council, an active committee chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Board of Directors of

BENTON, HI. UPI—Two “extremely dangerous’’ federal prisoners, one a husky part Indian serving a life sentence term for murder, escaped from the Franklin County jail here late Monday night. Authorities said the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a nationwide alert for the two. The escapees were identified as John Boles, 38, of Washington state, and Harrington Lima, 24, a 5-foot-ll, 195pound part Indian from Chandler, Ariz. The two had been brought here Sunday by a U.S. marshal In St. Louis, Mo., authoritiee said, to testify in a case involving two other federal prisoners who were charged with attacking a prison guard. Jailer Bill Rice, 49, who discovered the escape when he came on his shift just before midnight Monday, said county authoritiee did not know where Bolea and Luna had been imprisoned. ‘•We don’t know much about them,'* he said. “We were just holding them for federal authorities pending a federal court hearing here.”

CAPE KENNEDY UPI —The engine built to land men on the moon failed its first space test Monday night, but passed a second to salvage a puzzling windup to the maiden flight of the Apollo moonship. Not only did the critical landing engine fire twice 90 minutes after Its opening misfire, but the 16-ton Lunar Module's takeoff section separated as planned in a complex maneuver and the ship s takeoff engine fired properly. The Lunar Module is the type ship that will ferry two men from an orbit around the moon to the lunar surface and back as early as mid-1969. For Its surprising unmanned space debut, the spacecraft was in an orbit around the earth with a robot pilot at the controls. Monday’s six and a half hour test was designed to help prove that both the landing and the takeoff engines would work in space. It accomplished this objective, apparently, according to preliminary reports from the mission control center in Houston. The opening misfire, however, limited the flight to achieving what officials Ruark is speaker at Optimist Club The Greencastle Optimist Club held their regular semi-monthly meeting last Thursday night at the Fairway Restaurant. Optimist James Hayes, program chairman for the night, presented Tim Ruark as guest speaker. Mr. Ruark, chairman of the Putnam County Fair Board, presented a very interesting discussion on the County Fair. He pointed out that the Fair was oriented toward working with the young people in the county. He also noted that the Fair was a non-profit organization needing the service of volunteer organizations and individuals. The evening was highlighted by the presence of the wives of local Optimists. Also present as guests of the Optimist Club were Mr. and Mrs. David Bodkin. Club President Harold Sutherlin closed the meeting by announcing that the next meeting would be on Feb. 1.

the Kiwanis Club, and a Jaycee. Approximately one hundred people were present at the banquet held in the ballroom of the building including local elide leaders Mayor Norman Peabody, Putnam County Sheriff Bob Albright, City Attorney Jerry Calbert, and City Councilman Ernest Collins, and Robert Poor, along with featured speaker Congressman John T. Myers. Among the many awards presented were Press and Radio Awards to Robert Hamontre of the Graphic, Will Burt of WXTA, Frank Puckett, Jr. of the Greencastle Daily Banner and a special award made to the Banner in recognition for their outstanding community efforts in the journalism field. Tony Manuel, General Manager of the paper, made the acceptance. L. Tucker Gray, chairman of the event, presented the awards. The Good Government Award, presented by James Alexander, was made

He said the two appeared on the first day of the trial Monday, but did not testify. They were to be taken to court again today. Rice said he did not know the identity of the two prisoners on trial, only that “they beat up some guard at some fedoral prison.” Rice said he discovered the escape during a routine bedcheck of cells in the two-story jail and that the man on duty before him was not aware of the break. “They were in a cell together,” Rico said, “strongarmed the steel door down, used it to break a hole in the roof and went out through the attic.” “They’re mean,” Rice said of the pair. “They say this Indian can pinch a log In two.” The 6-foot-l, 170-pound Boles was Imprisoned on a conviction of transporting a stolen car across the state line, Rice said. Benton is in southern Illinois, about 300 miles south of Chicago and about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

had described as “minimum flight objectives.” The Lunar Module was launched by a Saturn 1 rocket at sunset and worked perfectly for the first four hours of its complex 6^ hour mission. On the first firing of the landing engine—at 9:58 p.m. EST—it shut down after only a 4-second burst instead of the planned 38 second firing. The maneuver was designed to simulate the start of a descent to the moon. If the spacecraft had been manned, however, a space agency spokesman said a real lunar landing would have been called off. But he said the two pilots would have been able to get safely back to their mother ship in orbit around the moon. The second attempt to fire the 10.000pound thrust landing engine came shortly after midnight EST. The engine fired U.S. ship seized by North Koreans WASHINGTON UPI—A U.S. Navy Intelligence-gathering ship carrying 83 men was boarded by armed sailors and forced into a North Korean port early today, the Pentagon announced. The Defense Department announcement said the U.S.S. Pueblo, described as a modified auxiliary light cargo ship, was surrounded by four North Korean patrol boats in international waters. The vessel’s last report was that it was being forced into Wonsan, North Korea. The Pentagon said the final message from the ship at 12:32 a.m. EST, reported the ship had come to “all stop” and was “going off the air.” The Pueblo reported it was first challenged by a single North Korean patrol boat at about 10 p.m. EST Monday, the Pentagon said. The Communist vessel messaged in international signals ^questing the Pueblo's identity. The Pueblo replied it was an American ship. The Communist ship then demanded: “Heave to or I will open fire on you.” The Pueblo replied: “I am in internaitonal waters ’ and refused.

to Sheriff Bob Albright for his contribution to the welfare of Putnam County’s youth. Fred Silander, Associate Professor of Economics at DePauw, and Lloyd Cooper. Athletic Director and Assistant Principal at Greencastle High School, were both presented the Oustanding Educator Awards. Jaycee Thomas Lee made the presentations. John Akers, a young Putnam County farmer, was presented the Outstanding Young Farmer Award by Jaycee Lelan Barlow for his outstanding accomplishments in farming. The Outstanding Boss Award, made by Larry Elam, was presented to Loyd Hurst. Hurst is principal of the Ridpath Elementary School and was voted the award on the basis of his relationship to the many Jaycees and his contribution to the Jaycee ideals. A special award was made to the P. R. Mallory Company for their contribution* to the Jaycee’s work in the community and accepted by Ray Hammond, local plant comptroller. Congressman John T. Meyers was th* speaker for the evening and the benediction was given by Reverend Gordon Chastain. Farm escapee is held in Michigan JACKSON, Mich UPI — A prisoner who escaped from the Indiana State Farm was arrested Sunday when he wa* recognized by an off-duty deputy sheriff. Robert C. Marr, 40, Grass Lake, Mich., was wanted in Indiana for escaping from the Putnamville, Ind., institution, sheriff’s officers said. Marr was recognized by Sgt. Tom Corwin in a store near Gregory, Mich. He was arrested later at his trailer home east of Gregory in Livingston County, officers said. He was held in the Jackson County Jail. Marr had been serving time In Indiana for burglary and carrying a concealed weapon, officers said. They said he was wanted in Michigan on charges of parole violation.

once as planned, shut down as planned and fired a second time. “We’re go,” a flight controller reported. “We’ve had a good bum here.” The reason for the first shut-down was not known. Officials said only that they were studying the data radioed back. But the later firings indicated the engine would work in space—a feat in itself. The successful firing of the takeoff engine also was a major achievement.

Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived in Greencastle at 7:45 Monday evening as the guest of Dr. William Kerstetter, president of DePauw University. Macmillan was accompanied by his grandson, Alexander Macmillan. Macmillan arrived at the Weir Cook Airport in Indianapolis in a Hoosier peasoup fog, London style, shortly after 6 p.m. In a news conference at the airport, he said he has the “greatest possible sympathy for the United States” in regard to the Vietnam conflict and expressed confidence that the U.S. would find a solution. He declined to comment about the differences over Vietnam between his country and the United States. However, the statesman indicated that the “British people would be ready if called upon by the United States.” Macmillan was expected to elaborate on the Vietnam question and other world problems in a speech tonight at DePauw University. In the interlude, Macmillan planned a trip to Spencer, the Owen County birth-

SAIGON UPI—A handful of GIs led a part-time government force to a crushing victory over a North Veitnamese battalion today in the battle raging along South Vietnam’s 40-mile-long northern frontier, military spokesmen said. The government militia—regional and popular force—troops with their American advisers reported killing at least 250 of about 500 North Vietnamese who tried for two days to grab a strategic position near Khe Sanh, the Marine bastion anchoring the western end of the Allied border defense line. At the other end of the McNamara line, in the sand dunes of the South China Sea coast, South Vietnamese regular army troops killed at least another 159 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong they trapped Monday, spokesmen said. Today U.S. Air Force B52 Stratofortresses, the massed artillery of the American army and Marines and 7th Fleet warships offshore joined in what military spokesmen termed a massive bombardment of the three North Vietnamese divisions poised at the border's Demilitarized Zone DMZ). In the border battle that has raged for four days, military spokesmen said at least 750 North Vietnamese have been killed. They said incomplete reports showed 28 Americans killed with another 211 wounded, 151 seriously enough to need helicopter evacuation. South Vietnamese troops losses were put at about 40 men killed and 150 wounded. The bitter fighting stretched along the line of Allied bastions—Khe Sanh, Camp Carroll, Con Thien, Gio Linh—

stretching from the cloud-shrouded mountains around Khe Sanh to the sunny coastal dunes. Khe Sanh was the key. Last May about 1.000 North Vietnamese were killed in a vain attempt to seize the Marine bastion in hopes of then rolling up the defense line to the sea. As predicted by U.S. intelligence, they came again this weekend. Four arrests are reported by police Three arrests were reported by city police early this morning and one arrest was made by Deputy Sheriff Bob Ziegelman Monday evening. At 3:20 this morning, Charles W. Ash, 25, 306 Sycamore Street, was lodged in the Putnam County jail on a public intoxication charge. He was taken into custody on North Jackson Street by Officer James Baugh. Thomas E. Warner, 20, Aurora, 111., and Allen K. Kaste, 21, were arrested on Bloomington Street at 1:10 this morning by Officers Baugh and James Grimes. Warner was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol. Kaste was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. James L. Roe, 38, Bainbridge. Route 1, was jailed at 7:35 p.m. Monday by Deputy Ziegelman on a charge of uttering a forged instrument.

MACMILLAN GREETED BY KERSTETTERS — Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived in Greencastle Monday evening and is pictured above being greeted by DePauw University President William E. Kerstetter and

his wife. Accompanying him on his third trip to his mother’a birth state is grandson Alexander Macmillan. Mrs. Kerstetter is shown above welcoming Macmillan into their home where he spent the night.

Macmillan in Greencastle for major address at university

place of his mother, Helen Artis Belles, where he also planned to place a wreath on the grave of his grandfather. Dr. Joshua Tarleton Belles. Also on the Macmillan itinerary was a luncheon today on the DePauw campus and a dinner at the home of Dr. Kerstetter. At the airport conference, Macmillan said the appearance of Communist China as a major power has changed the whole world situation. However, he termed the United States and Russia the two greatest powers in the world. Macmillan added that there have been other great changes in the Communist bloc, including “the situation in Russia in which the communist society is not as violent as the rise in power of the other major communist power—China.” When asked about the withdrawal of Great Britain in the Far East, Macmillan said, “1 think it would be very bad If we pull out.”

Macmillan was joined In the new* conference by his grandson. Macmillan said that his grandson should be on the opposite side of the table where the news media are concerned. because “he is a journalist, which he considers a more reputable side than a politician.” Macmillan said that by his grandson's definition, government officials are politicians when alive and statesmen when dead. He added that he was moving irom a politician to a statesman. How'ever, during his tenure as prime minister from 1957 to 1961, the statesman Macmillan was instrumental In obtaining the so-called “partial nuclear test and treaty” which was finally signed in 1963. Macmillan’s now-famous “Wind of Change” speech in 1960, in which he acknowledged the awakening national consciousness of the African continent, W'as also a land mark of statesmanship.

North Vietnamese battalion crushed by allied force

DSA AWARD WINNER—Keith Monnett (right) is pictured as he accepted the Distinguished Service Award presented to him by Jaycee President Don Barnes (left) at the club's annual banquet held last night. Taking part in the ceremonie* k> Congressman John T. Myeri.

Two dangerous federal prisoners in jail break

Moonship s performance studied