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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1968

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Unusual art exhibit goes on display at DePauw

The works of one of the nation’s most talked about artists, pop art nun Sister Mary Corita Kent, are on exhibit, beginning today at DePauw University. Featured in Newsweek’s Dec. 25 cover story, the collection of some 1,500 pieces will remain on exhibit in the Methodist Student Foundation building until Feb. 6. Some of the show, because of its massive nature, will spill over into the University Art Center, adjacent to the Foundation building. The opening of the show this evening coincides with the opening of the threeday Indiana State Pastors Conference on the DePauw campus. The exhibition itself is comprised of several dominant pieces, each a collection of block-like boxes stacked and painted or with pasted on scenes. “Come Alive” is a series of 48 boxes; “Guts” includes 64 sections, and “Power Up” stretches .one-third the width of Gobin Church and soars up to 10-feet high. All of the pieces in the new show reveal the 49-year-old originator's sense of social concern. They charge man to

find Christ by helping others. Says Newsweek, “(She) finds It natural to bring her life to one sharp focus, to cut through the murky clouds of modern life like a single ray of sunlight. Her colorful, deceptively witty serigraphs, or silk screen prints, dance with buoyant hope. In them. w r ords, bits of newspaper prints, a grocery list, a philosopher's maxim, or an ad for United Air Lines, flit gaily across abstract patches of orange, red and yellow like chargedup billboards.” Sister Corita is an art teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. The present exhibition w r as designed by Sister Corita and her students as a part of the 1967 International Congress on Religion, Architecture and the Visual Arts in New York. Part of the collection was displayed at the University Christian Movement Conference in Cleveland, O., at Christmas time. The Methodist Board of Missions has brought the smaller box exhibitions. These will be sent from DePauw to Geneva, Switzerland, for showing Feb. 7.

Charge is filed against schoolboys grandmother

Action was taken Monday in a rather unusual case in the Putnam Circuit Court when Mrs. Mary Black, who resides in Owen County, entered a pleaof not guilty to an assault and battery charge filed by Connie Cress, principal of the Cloverdale High School. Cress alleges that Mrs. Black struck him twice January 23 after he had paddled her 14-year-old grandson earlier in the day, for misbehavior on a school bus. When arraigned, the defendant pleaded not guilty and her trial wras set for this Friday at 1:30 p.m. by Judge Francis N. Hamilton. fit other action Monday, Scott James Martin, 35, city, entered a plea of guilty to non-support of minor children. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered and he will return to court next Monday at 9 a.m. for sentencing. Donald L. Frye, Sr., 26, Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to the deceptive issuance of a cheek for $45 to Headley’s Hardware on January 13.

A pre-sentence investigation was ordered in his case and he will return to court when Mrs. Mildred Hervey, Probation Officer, reports. Three Indianapolis men, who had previously entered not guilty pleas to charges of theft January 18, were back in court Monday on second degree burglary charges in connection with the break-in at Sackett’s Tavern in Cloverdale on January 16. John Paxton 26; Jerry Atherton, 27, and William Silcox, 35, all pleaded not guilty to this charge. Prosecutor James Houck filed a motion that the two cases against them be combined on a trial date set for February 29. The three will return to court Friday with their attorneys when Judge Hamilton rules on this motion. All three were placed under $5,000 bonds on the second degree burglary charge.

Worst storm of winter in Northwest United Presi International The worst storm of the winter to hit the Pacific Northwest today slashed Oregon, Washington and northern California as a system of raw weather moved across the country. Heavy snows stalled traffic and closed schools in Oregon. Snow depths ranged to tw r o feet at higher elevations. The snow was spread over the entire state but hit coastal areas hardest. Oregon Gov. Tom McCall urged motorists to limit driving to only necessary travel. The storm in California brought winds gusting to 60 miles an hour Monday in low-lying areas around San Francisco. There was isolated flooding after torrential rains in the area. The rain and snow was expected to spread into central California today. As the storm spread southward it also moved across the mountains toward the Rockies and Plains states, pushing ahead of it rapidly dropping temperatures. Cold wave warnings w r ere in effect today for portions of Minnesota where temperatures were expected to plunge to 22 below zero this morning. At 2 a.m. EST today it was 14 below at Hibbing, Minn. The advancing cold front triggered rain from Texas to New England and fog from Missouri to the northern Applachians. The rain was freezing as it fell in parts of northern New England. Action is renewed along Suez Canal United Pren Intemotionol Israeli planes attacked the town of Ismailia on the west bank of the Suez Canal today and Egyptian and Israeli artillery dueled across the waterway, an Egyptian spokesman in Cairo reported. The clash was triggered by Egypt’s defiance of an Israeli warning not to send ships into the northern section of the canal which has been blocked since the war last June. Israel had agreed to let them begin clearing operations in the South end. Israeli forces on the east bank opened fire when four Egyptian survey launches moved out of Lake Timsah near Ismailia, about midway along the canal. The semiofficial Middle East News Agency said the launches were hit and forced to return to the lake.

Allies face greatest offensive of war by Viet Cong guerrillas

SAIGON UPI—The Viet Cong launched its greatest offensive of the war today and smashed into South Vietnam cities celebrating the Asian Tet new year. U.S. and allied troops cancelled their holiday truce and smashed the guerrillas in the streets and house to house fighting. Allied forces reported killing at least 275 and capturing 231 of the thousands of Viet Cong who stormed into seven cities and lunged at more military bases in an assault U.S. officials said was plotted by Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam. The guerrillas struck at the moment the Buddhist temples rang in Asia’s year of the monkey and joyful civilian crowds paraded and popped firecrackers in the streets. From his map-lined war room in Saigon, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, American commander in Vietnam, ordered his forces to forget their 36-hour cease-fire and get back to war. U.S. spokesmen said the guerrilla attacks centered in central South Vietnam and obviously were designed to strike allied units which had sent much of their manpower north to meet up to 50,000 North Vietnamese troops threatening the border area, where the allied truce had already been called off. Giap, who masterminded the 1953 defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, sent his legions with mortars, rockets, machine guns, grenades and satchels of explosives into Da Nang, Nha Trang, Qui Nhon and Hoi An — all allied coastal bastions. They swarmed into Pleiku, Kontum, Ban Me Thuot and other U.S. and South Vietnamese fortress cities and towns in the Central Highlands. Westmoreland's aides warned "Viet Cong artillery units and Viet Cong suicide squads are infiltrating” into Saigon. They ordered a special alert. Already the guerrillas had done more than $15 million in damage at Da Nang's giant American airfield alone, destroying and damaging planes and helicopters. The Viet Cong hit other airfields. They bombarded the American military hospital at Pleiku. They riddled the walls of U.S. nurses’ quarters at Nha Trang. They blew up ammunition and fuel dumps and tried to free hundreds of their comrades already captured. As they moved, the guerrillas mowed down droves of civilians. UPI correspondents dotted over the northern half of South Vietnam reported carnage in the streets. The reports included:

Pentagon differs on Viet war costs, strategy

By ROBERT TAYLOR WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson’s decision to budget $79.8 billion for defense in fiscal 1969 represents a $21 billion difference of opinion with the Pentagon on Vietnam costs and cold war strategy. Although the sum decided upon by Johnson is second only to the $81.2 billion of 1945 at the climax of World War n, it still is less than 80 per cent of the $101 billion the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted. Johnson’s total, $3.3 billion above the $76.5 billion of the current year, is based on assumptions that the cost of the

Vietnam war has reached a plateau and that now new strategic weapons systems will have to be undertaken in a hurry. More For Vietnam While the specific requests of the Joint Chiefs have not been made public, the military has in the past wanted more money for Vietnam and strategic weapons than the White House has been willing to give them. The disparity this year will form the basis of what observers predict will be turbulent debate in Congress over who is right. The lawmakers will be seeking answers to such questions as how much of a

threat Russia and Red China really are to the nation’s security? What will it take to settle the Vietnam war? How important is the Soviet naval thrust in the Mediterranean? What is needed to insure preparedness for known global commitments as well as unexpected developments like the present North Korea crisis? Is the space race a strategic necessity? Johnson left the door open to ask for more money for the war in fiscal 1969 ii case it turns out the Joint Chiefs are more nearly correct. Johnson’s budget assumes a maximum commitment of 525,000 American GIs in

Vietnam, and a total war cost from July 1 this year to June 30. 1969, of $26.3 billion — $72 million a day. This is $1.3 billion more than the $25 billion total now forecast for fiscal 1968, and $4.4 billion above the original 1968 budget of $21.9 billion. There are indications Johnson may have to ask for a supplemental appropriation during the remainder of fiscal 1968, and the callup of air reserves brought on by the Pueblo crisis last week may make it a certainty. There Is no provision in current funding for the estimated $10 billion monthly cost of keeping these reserves on active duty.

WORK COVTINl ES—Work is continuing to progress on the Greencastle School Corporation s new arts center that will house a 5,500 seat gymnasium, swimming pool, and auditorium even though the weather isn’t ideal. The building is scheduled

to be completed by August 1, 1968 and progress reports are made to the school periodically by the construction engineers. They were forced to stop pouring concrete not too long ago, but the report is that they have enough of the building under roof •e that they can mamtain construction in cold weather.

—In Da Nang, UPI correspondent Alvin B. Webb, Jr., said Marines raced out of their bunkers into an airfield roaring with rocket explosions, flaming fuel and burning planes to push untouched jets out of harm's way. The guerrillas hit at the headquarters directing the anti-invasion campaign and Leatherneck plane crews fought with monkey wrenches in one hand and guns in the other. —In Nha Trang, U.S. Army Special Forces headquarters, UPI correspondent Robert Kaylor said the attack came so

suddenly that allied troops for a time had to plead with celebrants to stop popping firecrackers so they could pinpoint the source of Viet Cong gunfire. Lt. Gen. William B. Rosson, U.S. commander in central South Vietnam, dashed out to direct the battle moments before guerrilla gunfire sprayed his quarters. In these and other cities the Viet Cong barged into civilian homes and killed residents. Only at dusk did Westmoreland’s headquarters announce “the government in control again” in the urban areas under attack.

LBJ softens conditions for stopping of bombing

WASHINGTON UPI — The Johnson administration has softened somewhat the conditions the President set for stopping the bombing of North Vietnam and talking peace. The State Department said Monday that American air raids would stop if Hanoi refrained from increasing beyond present levels its supply and infiltration of South Vietnam. “Yes. indeed,” said State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey, when asked if the administration endorsed a statement by Defense Secretary-desig-nate Clark M. Clifford that the enemy could continue “normal” infiltration and supply while peace talks took place after a halt in U.S. bombing. That w r as the interpretation of the socalled “San Antonio formula” which Clifford gave the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday during its hearing on his nomination to replace Secretary Robert S. McNamara.

It was the first formal administration endorsement of the idea that Hanoi had only to refrain from stepping up military activity to secure a halt of U.S. bombing. While this might be considered an obvious interpretation of the President’s Sept. 29 words that “We assume North Vietnam would not take advantage” of the bombing halt, top administration officials have said that was not necessarily so. Secretary of State Dean Rusk frequently has declared that stopping the U.S. bombing while Hanoi pursues its regular military course would be ending only “half the war.” He implied that this would be unacceptable to the United States. Administration officials offered no immediate explanation for the State Department’s endorsement of Clifford's statement, which appeared to narrow its bargaining room with the Communist*.

Diving saucer will hunt for French submarine

TOULON, France UPI — Undersea explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau and his sophisticated diving saucer today joined the search for the French submarine Minerve in the Mediterranean. At the other end of the Mediterranean the commander of the Israeli navy said the search for their missing submarine Dakar would continue until she is found or evidence is uncovered as to her fate. Commodore Shlomo Erel said he did not consider it likely that Dakar survived. The 1,040-ton Minerve with 52 men aboard failed to return Saturday to It* Toulon home base from a routine twoday mission. The 1,280-ton Dakar vanished Thursday with 69 men aboard on its way to Haifa from a two-year refitting in Britain, where Israel bought the 25-year-old vessel. Both submarines are conventionally powered. Report Radio Signals Hopes for finding both submarines were raised Monday by the detection of an “indecipherable” radio beep in the Dakar search area and the ping of a sonar echo off a metallic object in the Minerve search area. Cousteau was at the controls of the SP300 diving saucer for the dawn lowering from the mother ship Commandant Giraud. The self-propelled two-man saucer ean dive to 1,320 feet and has made 500

undersea missions, many with the famous explorer taking part, in many of the world’s oceans. An armada hovered three miles off the French coast where a destroyer and a submarine picked up the sonar echo from the seabed. Officials said the echo Indicated an object with circumference of Minerve lay on the ocean floor. The navy calculated that Minerve’* air supply would run out about 6 p.m. noon EST Wednesday if her hull has not already been crushed by enormous pressure. In Deep Water* Minerve, 6 years old, was designed to cruise at 1,000 feet and could withstand pressures down to 1,700 feet. But she was operating in waters 8,200 feet deep when she vanished. The U.S. Navy was contributing 440foot pipes that can be attached to a sunken submarine to allow air to be pumped inside for breathing and to fore* the vessel to the surface. The metallic object reflecting the sonar echo was believed 400 to 600 feet below the surface. An Israeli motor vessel and search headquarters at Nicosia, Cyprus, picked up the radio signals Monday. Officials said it was possible the signals were transmitted by Dakar’s emergency buoy, which automatictlly would be released If the submarine ran into trouble under w r ater.

Graves uncovered in prison

CUMMINS PRISON FARM. Ark. UPI—State police began digging at prison farm grounds today for as many as 200 bodies possibly buried this century, while the university professor brought in this month to revamp Arkansas’ antiquated prison system said he was quitting to preserve his sanity. Thomas O. Murton, 39. a professor from Southern Illinois University angered over intolerable conditions in the state’s prisons, said Monday night he was quitting as superintendent of prisons "as soon as they can find someone crazy enough to take the stupid job. ’ “If anyone will have this job I will wait a month before handing in my resignation.” Murton said. “If I stayed here I would end up blowing my brains out.” Three human skeletons in crude wooden coffins were exhumed Monday by a work crew digging a new pig sty. MurIob and th* craw were led to the spot

by an inmate who said he helped bury a man there. The skeletons were crammed into separate boxes. One had been decapitated. Dr. Edwin Barron, Jr., state prison physician, said 213 prisoners were unaccounted for since the turn of the century, and anywhere from “100 to 200 bodies could be buried on the grounds.” Cummins. Arkansas' oldest and largest prison farm, has the reputation of being a place where one inmate could pay to get another killed, and where prisoners were sometimes bludgeoned to death in the fields if they fell behind picking cotton, the prison physician said. Murton said prison officials had heard rumors for some time about the graves. He said he had not acted sooner to Investigate the rumors because he had other problems since taking over a* head of the slate prison this month.

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