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PUTNAM COUNTY'S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER

VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1968

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NO. 78

SMOKING AND HE.ALTH—Pictured above are three of a team of four persons, representing four county-state organizations, who will present to teacher* of all school corporations in Putnam County a program. Saturday, February 3, on the relationship between smoking and health. Eighteen state organizations have joined forces, through the Indiana Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, to inform the public of facts about health hazards to smokers. The teachers will be given comprehensive kits of factual material to be

used in the classroom. One purpose of the Interagency Council is to make children, before they begin to smoke, aware of the potential, handicapping diseases related to the circulatory and respiratory systems of the body. Pictured from left to right are Mrs. Charles Rector, Jr. (American Cancer Society), Mrs. J. L. Stamper (Congress of Parents and Teachers!, and Mrs. Ted Glidewell (Tuberculosis Association). Richard Crawley (American Heart Association), not pictured, is also a member of the team.

Methodist pastors hear church critic

Saigon, city of two million, is battlefield for Allies, Viet Cong

Over 200 Protestant churchmen were told last night at DePauw University that what they do on Sunday morninga la “sentimentally significant . . . but otherwise irrelevant, superfluous and ineffectual.” Making the chargo to the men who preside over “sanctuary activities - ’ wa* attorney-author William Stringfellow, an Episcopal layman from New York City. Stringfellow** characterization w a * included in a foreword to his address to the clerics on the subject "The Mystery of Idolatry.” He delivered his second address this morning. His third is set for 8 p.m. tonight and his fourth Thursday at 10 a.m. All are under the auspices of DePauw s Mendenhall Lecture series and are keynotes for the Indiana State Pastors’ Conference that opened yesterday. Those outside the church, Stringfellow •aid, are “bewildered” by the “contrast

The Greencastle-Putnam County Public Library circulated 228,425 books during 1967, according to the annual report- released today by Sylvia Taylor, librarian. Of these books, 78.167 were borrowed from the main library and 150,258 were circulated through the Bookmobile during the visits of twoweek intervals to the seven county schools and the twelve book stations located throughout the county. Two thousand six hundred and fortyseven new books were purchased and sixty-one books were received as gifts. These gifts were all excellent new books, many of them presented as memorials to friends or relatives. The library now has a bookstock of 72,837 books. This averFour children die in residence fire PORTLAND UPI—Four children were killed Tuesday night when fire apparently started by an explosion swept their two-story frame home. The dead were identified as John Vance, 15, and his brothers and sister, Rex. 11, Jesse, 10, and Louann, 9, who were sleeping upstairs. The blaze broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Straley. near the Portland business district, about 10:15 p.m. Three other children were saved, Ronald Vance, 5, and Alice Dianne Straley, 18 months, by Straley and 12-year-old Barbara Vance when she climbed out of a aecond-floor window to a porch roof and Jumped into the bed of a truck her stepfather backed up to the house. Barbara suffered chest burns and was taken to Jay County Hospital in satisfactorjr eonditioa.

between how Christian* behave in society and what Christians do in the sanctuary.” Outsiders, he argued, see this contrast as more than simply hypocrisy on th* part of professed Christians. “. . . The non-church-man is, I suggest, much more bemused by the difficulty in discerning either consistency or connection between social action and liturgical •vent.” According to the Phi Beta Kappa scholar, what the church preaches and what it practices are “not only distinguishable but separate realms.” “(Social action) deals wtih ethics, (liturgical event) with aesthetics; the first is empirical, the second theatrical; the one is mundane, the other quaint,” Stringfellow stated. “For the stranger to the church, t® whom the churchman appears to act ui

ages three books per capita which is not sufficient for excellent library service. There were 1528 borrowers registered in the library during the year. Library sen-ice included the answering of 5368 reference questions, organizing 79 special book exhibits on current affairs, holiday material and special programs. The library had 61 exhibits of new books during the year. This average of five exhibits of new books each month gives the readers an opportunity to see the new titles before they are put into circulation. Forty-five teachers came to the library to borrow book collections for their class rooms and to receive instruction in the use of library and the card catalog. Th# children are improving in their non-fiction reading each year, which is an excellent trend. They need a wide variety of factual books from which to choose their reading so that they may develop good reading habits. 1566 overdue n o t i c e ■ were mailed out to speed up the return of books. Patrons can help the library in making books more quickly available to more people, by prompt return of books as soon as they have been read. A charge of five cents is added to the overdue fines on all books for which overdue notices are mailed. The library subscribes to 106 current magazines. 3007 magazines were borrowed for home reading during the year. These magazines furnish information on current affairs, history, science, education as well as recreation. The current confusion in domestic and world affairs challenges the deep thinking of even.' citizen. The Public Library endeavors to furnish as broad a variety as possible in resources of in* formation.

the marketplace much the same as everybody else, the straight-fonvard and cogent explanation is that these peculiar sanctuary activities are sentimentally significant—as habit, tradition or superstition—but otherwise irrelevant, superfluous and ineffectual.” Stringfellow estimated that “more than 1,000 clergy have been deprived of their pulpits in the past few years or suffered ecclesiastical discipline or endured abuse at the hands of the laity because they (ministers) spoke out on social issues.” “On occasion, when a priest or preacher goes forth from the sancutary to affirm in the world what is celebrated at the altar he is usually ridiculed for meddling in afairs outside his vocation. “Or when in the midst of worship a pastor ventures to be articulate about the meaning of ethics and sacraments for one another, his effort is most apt to be regarded as an intrusion defiling the congregation's ears.” Stringfellow contended that “more or less secretly, or at least quietly, legion* of church people share this same sort of bemusement” with what the church say* and what it does. And those inside the church. Stringfellow added, are generally as perplexed as those outside when they see effort* at social action thwarted. The contemporary movement of ecumenical renewal. Stringfellow claimed, has not. as yet, “enjoyed a comprehension among the laity in either Protestant congregations or Roman Catholic parishes to dispell such confusion. . . it should not be taken as too disheartening when one recalls that from the early days of the church, the issue of the integrity of the ethical vis a vis the sacramental has bedeviled believers and non-believers alike,” said Stringfellow. Stringfellow obviously has been a strong advocate of the application of Christian principles to society's pressing social problems. He spent seven years as an attorney to the poor in East Harlem and has written extensively on that a* well as the polarization occurring between Black and White persons. Time magazine recently called him the most persuasive critic of the church from within. Trial date changed The trial date for Mrs. Mary Black, of Owen County, charged with assault and battery by Connie Cress, Cloverdale High School principal, has been changed to Thursday, February 8, at 9 am. That trial date was changed by Judg* Francis N. Hamilton in the Putnam Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon at the request of Mrs. Black's attorney. She had pleaded not guilty when arraigned Monday and her trial had been set for this Friday. Principal Cress alleges that Mrs. Black struck him twice on January 23 after he had paddled her 14-year-old grandson earlier in the day for misbehavior on * school bus.

SAIGON UPI — Invading guerrillas turned Saigon into a battlefield today, fighting U.S. and South Vietnam troops In the streets and alleys of a city of two million frightened residents. The government ordered sections evacuated to permit bombing of Viet Cong strongholds. In their greatest attack upon Saigon In the war, hundreds of Viet Cong smashed into the American Embassy compound, broke through tank defenses to within 300 yards of Gen. William C. Westmoreland's headquarters, hit President Nguyen Van Thieu's $6 million marble palace and stormed at U.S. billet hotels, hospitals and government buildings. Thieu broadcast orders for a 24-hour nationwide curfew because of Viet Cong strikes against virtually all major cities

Twenty Farm Bureau leaders from Putnam County met with Farm Bureau Leaders from Boone, Hendricks and Morgan counties Friday evening at Avon and heard Hollys E. Moon, director of organization of the Indiana Farm Bureau, discuss the farm program outlook for the years ahead. Moon said, “Now is the time to end government farm commodity control* which have been used to hold farm prices down and to force farmers to accept government payments in lieu of the full market price. He discussed the three major objectives of Farm Bureau's proposal for improving the market system. It would, he said: (1) repeal the present government wheat and feed grain program; (2) prevent the disposal of the Commodity Credit Corporation's grain stocks in a manner which depresses market prices; and (3) make available at harvest tim® insured recourse loans to grain producers. “The proposed system,” Moon said, “would in no way interfere with government’s ability to buy and use commodities for domestic and foreign food aid programs. These supplies could be purchased by the government in the open market with money saved from the termination of the present support program. Another Important issue discussed by the farmers was reformation of Indiana’s tax structures which heaps heavy Teachers continue Cincinnati strike CINCINNATI UPI—A teachers’ strike which closed classrooms for 23,000 of the city's 88,000 public school students entered its third day today. An election was scheduled to choose between two rival teachers’ unions as bargaining agent but the smaller union urged its members to boycott the voting, charging it was rigged. Members of the Cincinnati Teachers Union, (CTU), continued to walk picket lines at schools Tuesday despite a court order banning picketing and striking. Their demands included higher salaries and “fair” representation in bargaining. The rival Cincinnati Teachers Association (CTA), which had accepted a salary offer from the school board, remained in the classrooms. An election to determine which group will bargain for the teachers was planned late today. The CTU, which originally called for the election, Tuesday called on its members to ignore it on the grounds it was rigged in favor of the larger 2,500member CTA. The CTU Is seeking a pay raise higher than the 1.28 per cent offered by the board of education. It also wants a free period for all elementary school teachers. The CTA accepted the 1.28 per cent hike. The strike closed 20 of the city’s 103 schools Monday and Tuesday. The school administration said they did not know how many teachers failed to report. Rome strikes ROME UPI—Half a million municipal employes struck today for higher wages and larger staffs and halted such services as garbage collection, street-sweep-ing and transportation throughout Italy. Unions representing bakers, telephone workers and railroadmen continued their ■triiia*.

and urged his citizens to get out of Viet Cong infested areas. Near Saigon’s embattled Tan Son Nhut Airbase, the government ordered citizens to flee their homes before nightfall so positions the guerrillas seized during the day could be bombed after dark. Military spokesmen reported more than 1.700 Viet Cong killed in the past two days of guerrilla attacks across the nation. They reported more than 100 slain in Saigon street fighting. American losses today were put at 40 soldiers killed and at least 100 wounded. The Viet Cong radio gloated that its attacks had thrown American and South Vietnamese officials into "panic.” In Moscow, the Soviet press hailed the raids as proof Communist power in Vietnam

property tax cost on farm operators anfl other property owners. Vance Denny, tax and legislative director for Indiana Farm Bureau, explained the present Indiana tax situation, and reviewed several studies being made of the problem. Putnam County leaders were Mr. and Mrs. Noble C. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Clodfelter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rovings, Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. Durbin O’Hair, Mr. and Mr*. Ed Early, Raymond Hopkins, Morris Evens, Carroll Fordice, Embert Gardner, Raymond Ader, John E. Aker, Thelma John* and Maurine Aker.

A storm too fierce for search parties continued to batter the Pacific Northwest today, pushing its wrath across the high Sierras into Nevada, Idaho and Montana. The storm, which packed heavy snow and rain, plus galeforce winds, was expected to diminish somewhat today, although spreading out from Its souther* Oregon-northern California center. In Ohio, residents battled rising rivers, some of which already have overflowed their banks. At least 16 persons were missing or marooned today In the high Sierras. Dozens of others were rescued Tuesday by search parties who trudged through drifts as high as 10 feet deep to free stranded travelers and residents. Eight feared dead in gas explosion PITTSBURGH UPI—Police and firemen today recovered a seventh victim in the debris of an explosion-shattered building in suburban Ingram. Six bodies were recovered Tuesday and two persons were missing and feared dead. Twenty persons were injured in the blast, 14 of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. Five of the known dead were members of a 15-man Equitable Gas Co. crew boring holes in Ingram Avenue searching for a gas leak when the blast occurred. “We have no idea what caused the explosion,” a gas company spokesman said. All the lines had been shut off in the area while the crew searched for the leak. The company began an investigation. Two state inspectors also were dispatched to the scene. The explosion leveled a half-block long, two-story frame building housing two insurance offices, a beauty shop, a real estate office, a cleaning shop, and three apartments. The force of the blast was so great it threw Mrs. Rosella Gensler, 66, at least 60 feet from the building into the street and shattered windows three blocks •way. Mrs. Gensler was seriously hurt. Herbert Wolstroncroft operated one of the insurance offices. When the walls and ceilings collapsed, he ran out. “When I got to the street, a crew of workers from the company were there,” Wolstroncroft said. “Their faces and ha nds were covered with blood. A woman was being dragged from one of the buildings. Bulldozers were used to dear away Hie nibble.

was booming. In Saigon, Westmoreland, the U.S. military commander, said the nationwide attacks were “diversionary efforts” to draw attention from the northern frontier where up to 50.000 North Vietnamese troops were reported poised for a massive invasion. Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. ambassador, Inspected the damage at his new $3 million embassy where 19 Viet Cong; died trying to seize the building and told newsmen non# of th# guerrilla attacks in the city had succeeded. “Saigon is secure now,” he said. Down broad Unity Street in front of the embassy, machinegun bullets streaked across the lawn of the presidential palace. A half mile away, in the main Saigon square, GIs and South Vietnamese troops routed snipers from rooftops. On the outskirts of Saigon, at Tan Son Nhut airbase, Allied troops chased about 100 guerrillas who fought to within pistol range of Westmoreland's Pentagon East headquarters. Allied troops braced for more attack* during the coming night. Near the airport they smashed at guerrillas holed up with rockets in a bowling alley under an American officers’ hotel and at more Viet Cong defying a siege of U.S. Army MPs at the deadend of an alley. Possible star ROME UPI—Dr. Christian Barnard, the South African pioneer heart transplant surgeon, declined to comment to* day on a report he would star in a film of his life. He reportedly was to have lunch with Sophia Loren and her producer husband. Carlo Ponti, before flying to London tonight.

A 180-passenger California Zephyr train of the Western Pacific Railroad was freed after being stalled overnight by a snow elide in the area. Nine inches of enow fell on Reno, Nev., Tuesday as the effects of the storm spread as far east as Yellowstone National Park. Heavy snow and predictions of more of the same closed schools in Oregon where half-foot-deep snowfall* were common. Rain fell in other parts of northern California, leading to flood threats and power failures. Nearly four inches fell on San Jose, Calif., In a 24-hour period. Travelers warnings were still up in th# Sierra Nevada mountains today and gail warnings were displayed along the Washington coastline. Light rain or fog and drizzle spread from the Southern Plains to the midAtlantic states today, but clear weather prevailed over much of the rest of th# country. About 400 persons were evacuated from their homes along the flooding Chagrin River at Eastlake, Ohio, and along the Vermillion, Huron and Maumee Rivers in northern Ohio. Richard Bodine in race for Governor INDIANAPOLIS UPI — State Rep. Richard C. Bodine of Mishawaka announced for the Indiana Democrati* gubernatorial nomination today, creating a contest with Lt. Gov. Robert L. Rock for the top spot on the party’* state ticket in the November election. Bodine formally entered his bid at a news conference. He was speaker of the House in the 1965 Legislature and minority leader In the 1967 session. Rock, 40, who announced previously, was considered to have the edge at thi* stage of the campaign for the nomination at the party’s state convention next June. But Bodine, a 39-year-old lawyer, may have more going for him than it first appears, including possible support from influential party leaders. Former Gov. Matthew E. Welsh and Indiana Atty. Gen. John J. Dillon are being urged by friends to enter the 1968 gubernatorial race but they have not made a final decision. If the battle continues as a RoekBodine contest, Welsh and Dillon could have a lot to say about the party’s best hope for victory in November, as could

Many books circulated by City-County Library in '67

Farm program subject at meeting of FB leaders

Pacific NortFiwest battered by fierce winter storm