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Crew of USS Pueblo branded as war criminals by North Koreans

Public School financial problem sessions urged

A South Korean military spokesman said the planes, said to number up to 100. are F4 Phantoms and F105 Thunderchiefs. The Phantom is the fastest U.S. warplane used in Vietnam and the Thunderchief is the basic bomber hitting North Vietnam. South Korean officials reported increased flights of Soviet-built North Korean MIG jets. They said 40 MIGs—an

unusually large number—had been spotted within the past 24 hours. The call for punishment of the Pueblo crewmen followed Communist demands at the Panmunjom truce line, between North Korean and U.S. officers, for punishment of the American “criminals” who put the Pueblo to sea. Today Rodong Shinmoon directed the demands at the Pueblo crewmen.

William F. Long will head Putnam Co. United Fund

At a meeting held Tuesday evening the Board of Directors of the Putnam County United Fund elected William F. Long as their president for the ensuing year. Mr. Long, Plant Manager of the local I.B.M. card production facilities, actively participated in the organization of the local United Fund in mid-1967 and has

Macmillan visit on TV this evening Thirty minutes of the highlights of Harold Macmillan's visit to Indiana will be telecast as a color documentary tonight at 7 by WTHI-TV (channel 10) Terre Haute. The telecast picks up the former British Prime Minister as he departs from Greencastle Tuesday morning for Spencer and continues through to the standing ovation he received from 2.500 persons who jammed Bowman Gymnasium Tuesday night to hear and applaud his address. In between, the telecast records Macmillan’s sentimental trip through his mother’s hometown as a young woman and his “fireside chat’’ and autograph party Tuesday afternoon with some 200 well wishers in the DePauw Union. It picks up his itinerary again at a dinner in his honor at the Kerstetter home in Greencastle and some 11 minutes of his humor-punctuated address.

remained one of its most staunch supporters. In addition, he has been active in United Fund work in several other communities and thus brings a wealth of experience to his new position. As President, Mr. Long succeeds James Poor who directed the organization during its year of inception. Other United Fund officers elected at the Tuesday meeting are Richard Sunkel, Vice President; Mary Evelyn Goodhue, Secretary; and Ben Cannon. Treasurer. Under direction of Mr. Long and these officers, the board will be meeting soon to complete their organizational plans for 1968. At the annual membership meeting, which immediately preceded the directors’ meeting, the following persons were elected to serve on the United Fund Board for one year: Miss Norma Hill, Mrs. Ernest Roth, Will Burt, James N. Cook, Kenneth Eitel, Sr., Ben Hoover, Dr. William Kerstetter, Mayor N. W. Peabody. Simpson Stoner and Gilbert Wiseman. Directors elected for two years are; Ben Cannon. Rev. Gordon Chastain, Chester Grabowski, Robert Hamontre, George Messinger. Robert O’Hair, Dr. Joseph Rammel, Byron Snyder, Dick Sunkel and Dale Teaford. Directors who will begin three-year terms are: Mrs. Evelyn Snodgrass, Mrs. Mary Evelyn Goodhue, C. L. Hamilton, Arthur Hansen, Morris Hunter, William F. Long. Harry D. Moore. Robert Morris, James Poor and George Spencer.

Bobby taking closer look at presidential possibilities

to compete Nineteen high schools and junior high schools in west central Indiana will send musicians to DePauw University for tw’o consecutive weekends, beginning Saturday, to compete for blue ribbons and a trip to the state music finals in Indianapolis. Nearly 500 students are expected to participate in the two sessions coordinated by Professor Dan Hanna, director of bands at DePauw\ The youthful artists in the top bracket of competition—Group I—will be seeking Division I ratings in several of the over 500 events during the two rounds of keen competition on the DePauw campus. Entrants in this Saturday's all-day mu*ic making will compete in woodwinds, $350 gift to DePauw The John Deere Foundation has made a gift of $350 to DePauw University's Design for a Decade fund. The gift was presented this week on the campus by T. L. Canada, Division Sales Manager for John Deere Company in Indianapolis, and by Boyce Bailey, John Deere Territory Manager. The announcement of the Foundation's gift was made by DePauw President Dr. William E. Kerstetter.

THULE, Greenland UPI _ Searchers working on nuclear contaminated ice found parts of the hydrogen bombs lost in the crash of a B52 bomber, U.S. Air Force officials said today. Maj. Gen. Richard O. Hunziker said his 40-man search team found bomb New England gets seven-inch snowfall United Preti Intemotienel A storm over the Atlantic blanketed New England with up to seven inches of snow today. A cold front chilled the Great Plains and the Rockies. The Atlantic storm, centered about 150 miles east of Nantucket, Mass., produced snow from Rhode Island to eastern Maine. Boston was hit hardest, getting an inch of snow an hour during a sixhour period that ended at 1 a.m. EST. Boston had a total of seven inches of snow on the ground. Three inches of new’ snow fell Thursday night across part of New Hampshire and southern Maine. Light snow fell today from western South Dakota across the northern Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. The cold that speared through the Plains and Rockies came in the wake of unseasonably mild weather that sent temperatures into the 60s and 70s in the Central Plains Thursday. The mercury was in the 40s and 50s as far north as Iowa and South Dakota Thursday. The picture of cold and snow was a big contrast to the w-eather in the southern half of the nation where it was mostly clear and dry. There was some cold in the Southeast w’here early morning temperatures in the 20s and 30s brought some frost. State Police, FBI linked by computer INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana State Police Department has become a part of a computerized crime information system operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Supt. Robert A. O’Neal and special agent James T. Nealle of the FBI hers announced a direct communication lins has been installed between the ISP headquarters and the computer center in Washington. The announcement said the National Crime Information Center “represents a revolutionary development in law enforcement and a unique weapon in the war on crime.” "By furnishing continuous service to local, state and federal law’ enforcement agencies across the country, It seeks to substantially improve the solution rate of criminal offenses. Within seconds, this nationwide index of data on crime and criminals provides information to the police officer on his beat by which he can take immediate action.”

at DPU brass and percussion categories. A duplicate all-day round Saturday, February 3, is to determine who will advance to the State in voice, piano and strings. The auditions will be held in the Memorial Student Union Building on the campus and at the Greencastle Junior High School. Schools to be represented in the competition include high schools and/or junior high schools at Bainbridge, Cascade, Cloverdale, Crawfordsville, Danville, Eminence, Fillmore, Greencastle, Ladoga, Martinsville, Monrovia, New’ Market, New Ross, North Salem, Roachdale, Russellville, Switz City and Waveland. Judges for the January 27 competition will be Roy Barnhart, Lafayette; Harry Gee, Terre Haute; William Hawthorne, Kokomo; Clarence Hendrickson, LaPorte; Richard Jones, Connersville; John Colbert, Indianapolis; Garrett Grant, Beech Grove; and John McMahan, Richmond. February 3 judges will be Joseph Flummerfelt and Fred Gersten, Greencastle; Margaret Howell, Indianapolis; Lillie Danek, Terre Haute; and Genevieve Erickson, Evansville. One of a dozen such meets scheduled for the next two weekends around Indiana, the solo and ensemble auditions are sponsored by the Indiana School Music Association.

parts on top of the 6- to 9-foot ice that covers the sea off this Danish island Hunziker said the area around the crash site was contaminated by nuclear radiation. He stressed that all of the contamination was fixed and not blowing in the air. Hunziker said there was wind in the area and it had blown snow on his clothing and face "but I was not contaminated.” A nuclear physicist, Dr. Wright Langam of the Los Alamos, N.M., scientific laboratory, agreed that “The radition is fixed, that it is staying in one position.” He added, however, that alpha radiation from a plutonium triggering device could cause harm if spread by the wind. The eight-engine jet carried four Hbombs when it crashed near the U.S. Air Force base at Thule. U.S. officials said the bombs were not armed and there was no danger of nuclear explosion. Officials said the eight-man crew was ordered to bail out over Greenland after the pilot radioed, “I am in trouble. I got a cabin fire.” Seven men bailed out safely and were rescued. The eighth man, the co-pilot, was killed. One crewman, suffering a broken shoulder and frostbite, was found after spending the night on the ice. Hunziker, deputy chief of staff for material at Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Froce Base, Neb., was dispatched with his search team to find the bombs. His announcement indicated some of the bombs may have broken up in the crash and scattered. Earlier there had been speculation all the bombs went through the ice. \

U.S. bombers attack massed North Viets SAIGON UPI—U.S. bombers cancelled missions against North Vietnam and joined a record pounding today of Communist troops threatening the key American border fort of Khe Sanh, military spokesmen said. American pilots flew a relatively few 69 missions against the Hanoi regime Thursday but a record 480 sorties against the estimated 20,000 North Vietnamese massing against the fort in northwestern South Vietnam, the spokesmen said. U.S. commanders ordered Navy jet pilots, who usually bomb only North Vietnam, to join the strikes against the North Vietnamese in the fog-shroud-ed mountains around the Marine fort. They even pulled planes off transport duty and sent them into the campaign to protect the bastion that is the eastern anchor of the allied defense line below the North Vietnam border. Leathernecks manning the fort’s complex of bunkers and exposed air strip reported such heavy Communist mortar and machinegun fire that many supply planes had to parachute their cargo to the Marines. U.S. intelligence reported at least two North Vietnam divisions—about 20.000 troops—poised around Khe Sanh. From neighboring Laos came diplomatic reports of North Vietnamese troops moving to flank Khe Sanh from that direction. Khe Sanh is seven miles below the North Vietnam border, along which four to five North Vietnamese divisions were reported massed for their largest invasion attempt of the war. Just to the west Is the Laos border. In Vientiane, the Laos capital, diplomatic and military reports said North Vietnamese troops Thursday overran a Laotian anti-guerrilla post just eight miles west of Khe Sanh. They said about 1,200 North Vietnamese routed about 350 Laotian troops in action that appeared to be connected with the threat to Khe Sanh.

KOKOMO UPI—Robert L. Thomberry, executive director of the Indiana Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO, haa suggested to Governor Branigin that he call a meeting of representatives of education related groups to decide a course of action on public school financial problems. Thomberry wrote the governor after he and three other leaders of the IFT met with Branigin last Saturday in conTwo before Hamilton In Putnam Circuit Court action Wednesday, William Durham, 24, Cedar Lake, pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and w’as fined $100 and costs by Judge Francis N. Hamilton. Donald Dixie, 21, city, pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed w r eapon and was sentenced to serve six months at the State Farm and fined $25 and costs. The farm sentence was suspended on strict conditions including an order to stay out of places where alcoholic beverages are sold. Both were arrested by city officers on the north side of the public square early Wednesday morning.

SEOUL UPI — North Korea’s propaganda organs today demanded the 83man crew of the captured USS Pueblo be punished as criminals. The Communist newspaper and radio demands came as allied officials reported a powerful U.S. Navy task force poised off North Korea and heavy reinforcements of American jet fighter-bombers taking up positions in South Korea. They also reported North Korea bolstering MIG jet fighter forces. “Criminals who encroach upon others’ sovereignty and commit provocative acts must receive deserving punishment,” said the official newspaper Rodong Shinmoon in an editorial broadcast from North Korea. “These criminals must be punished by law,” it said. In Seoul, military spokesmen said the U.S. Navy task force led by the nuclear powered carrier Enterprise today w’as poised in a “ready and handy” position off the North Korean port holding the Pueblo. A U.S. spokesman here declined to pinpoint the exact location in the Sea of Japan of the 100-plane Enterprise and its force of missile-armed destroyers. But he told newsmen it is “reasonable” to say the w’orld’s largest warship is 80 to 100 miles off Wonsan, where the North Koreans took the Pueblo after seizing the intelligence ship Tuesday. “It is a pretty good position. The idea is to have our forces ready and handy and this has been done,” the spokesman said. He also said “additional” U.S. jets have been flown into South Korea to bolster allied forces in the wake of the Pueblo incident which has raised fears of a new Korean w’ar.

nection with the union’s request a special session of the legislature be called to solve a “financial crisis.” Thomberry wrote that the meeting he suggested should "make two basic determinations: The means to be taken to allow school corporations such as South Bend, East Gary and Hobart Twp. to operate a full educational program with restored budgets in 1968, and the means to be taken to assure many other Indiana school corporations that they will be able to operate full educational programs in 1969 with budgets based on actual need, and with positive assurances that reviewing tax officials will not make budget cuts until the 1969 Legisuature has resolved the problem.” Thomberry told Branigin the IFT believes a special session “offers the only real solution” to the problem and the organization “has difficulty seeing how it can be solved administratively within the framework of present law’.” But he said “we are anxious to explore any possible alternatives.” He suggested the meeting include representatives of his organization, Branigin's office, the office of the state superintendent of public instruction and school boards and school superintendents’ associations.

WASHINGTON UPI—Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., is taking a closer look at the possibility of challenging President Johnson this year for the Democratic nomination. At least, aides say, he is looking a lot closer than he did last year, when he routinely replied that he expected to support a Johnson-Humphrey ticket in 1968. These days he restricts his reply to a statement that he plans to support the party’s choice. But there is no question that the late President’s brother has been having some second thoughts about the matter since the start of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's campaign against Johnson in the Democratic primaries.

It is not that McCarthy Is blazing any trails for Kennedy despite President Johnson's view of the “KennedyMcCarthy movement." But some pressure for Kennedy to move has built up as McCarthy’s drive has failed to strike sparks among dissident Democrats. It is no secret in Washington that Johnson’s top political strategist was predicting that the Minnesota Democrat would win nothing in the primaries. As a result, some Democrats, though they admire McCarthy’s courage, are turning to Kennedy. How many and how influential they are is unknown. But the recent wave of speculation In the press and elsew’here about Kennedy’* Indecision may increase the groundswell. Some of the signs: —There is always the far-out chance the President may choose at the last minute not to run for reelection. This is not likely, but the thinking among some Democrats is that Kennedy should be ready. —McCarthy may be affecting Kennedy's cherished popularity with youth. The New York senator’s silence on McCarthy’s antiwar campaign has led youthful audiences to ask just where Kennedy stands on the McCarthy-John-son issue. But, there is more weight against a move now and the Kennedy camp knows It. It is an uphill battle to unseat an incumbent president and his organization, a battle that could weaken the chances of any Democratic candidate in November. According to aides, the betting now is still against any Kennedy drive this year. But. as one put it: “He s a day-to-day politician.” Agreement announced DAKAR, Senegal UPI—Senegal and Hungary agreed today to establish diplomatic relations, the Senegalese government announced.

Searchers find parts of 4 H-bombs lost in crash