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OREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1968 UPI News Service 10c Per Copy No. 106

Commission blames white racism' for racial problems in America

FUNDS FOR SHRINE CIRCUS — The Putnam County Shrine Club held a kick-off breakfast recently to raise funds to send children to the Shrine Circus. It will be held in Indianapolis April 18-24 and in Terre Haute May 3-4. Receiving the first donations from past president Herbert Flint, (right center! is Dick Edwards, Circus Chairman for the local

Shriners. Watching the presentation are Ed Schulz (left) president of the group, and Ed Raines, (right) past president. In 1967 the club sent over 2.000 children from Putnam County to the Shrine Circus through donations from individuals, businesses and Shriners.

Reds launch nationwide attacks

SAIGON UPI—Communist forces today attacked 12 American bases and four provincial capitals in the third coordinated nationwide attack in 33 days, according to military reports. Military reports said the predawn attacks packed less punch than the Jan. 31 and Feb. 18 urban offensives but included the destruction of a village, the harassing of U.S. bases from the northern border to the Mekong Delta In the south and the shelling of the American Navy hospital near Da Nang, where five patients and two other persons were injured. Shortly before the guerrillas lunged after midnight, U.S. Marines scored one of their greatest recent triumphs under the North Vietnam border where they estimate 50,00 Communists are poised for a record offensive. The Leathernecks reported killing at least 157 Communists in battle near their border bastion of Con Thien, at a cost of two Marines killed and eight wounded. Con Thien forms the center of the allied defense line with surrounded Khe Sanh at the western end. U.S. Air Force B52 Stratofortresses — the heaviest bombers of the type President Johnson inspected Sunday in Puerto Rico—continued their round-the-clock pounding of the North Vietnamese ring at Khe Sanh. Allied spokesmen said smaller American jets for the third day in a row bombed the Red River harbor facilities near the North Vietnam capital of Hanoi Sunday. Navy pilots reported hitting only 1.8 miles from Hanoi’s center, blasting a convoy of 20 trucks. “When our first bombs hit there was a great red flash,” said Lt. (j.g.) Harry M. Lane. 23, of Navato, Calif., after returning to his carrier. Nixon addresses Wisconsin editors DELEVAN, Wis. UPI _ Richard Nixon said Sunday the United States’ revolutionary heritage is no justification for another summer of racial rioting. America was “born in revolution but our forefathers set up a mechanism for evolutionary change,” said the former vice president. He said he was “sympathetic with their (Negroes') problems. We will go forward with their programs. But there will be no toleration of violence. “There can be no protests that can justify use of violence or lawlessness.” Nixon's remarks to a group of weekly newspaper editors came in response to a question about his position on the report by the President’s Commission on Civil Disorders. He declined to discuss specifics of the report, saying he would make his views known Thursday in a national television address. Nixon, who directed much of the fire during his two-day Wisconsin trip at President Johnson, touched on Vietnam Sunday. He said he had no easy solutions for the war. “Believe me, if we had some simple solution. some push button solution, I'd be talking about it in this campaign,” he said. ‘Td going down to Washington and telling Mr. Johnson.” Nixon said the United States must “search for a solution that will end the war and then win the peace.” Nixon also was asked how he stood in Wisconsin before the withdrawal of Michigan Gov. George Romney from the presidential race last week.

In South Vietnam, where allied troops reported killing more than 4,600 Communists in a month of repulsing urban attacks, manpower losses plus chopped up supply lines apparently forced today's assault to make do with mostly mortar and rocket attacks—few troop charges. But the timing was stopwatched. Across the nation, the attacks came together. Four targets lay within 20 miles of Saigon. The guerrillas pumped 10 mortar rounds into Bien Hoa, the busiest U.S, airbase that lies 15 miles north of Sai-

The first teachers’ strike in San Francisco was suspended today pending study of demands for educational reforms, but in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Florida talks aimed at ending strikes staggered and stuttered. The San Francisco teachers, who struck and closed the system Friday, agreed late Sunday night to allow special mediators to consider their demands involving curriculum improvement and class size. The agreement ending In suspension of the strike came at a meeting with Mayor Joseph Alioto, who bluntly told California Supt. of Public Instruction Max Rafferty to keep out of the dispute. Rafferty had said he would consider revoking the striking teachers* credentials. Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Secretary John Tabor presided over talks in Pittsburgh Sunday—the first talks since 1.000 members of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers walked off the job last Thursday. The talks broke down Sunday night but the school board said schools would be open as usual this morning. A decision was due today in Common Pleas Court on whether a $200,000 fine would be levied against the Pittsburgh strikers, who number about one-third of the city’s 3,100 teachers. Pittsburgh schools have an enrollment of about 75,000. The oldest and largest of the current teachers’ strikes, affecting all of Florida and about 22.000 members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the national education association, continued today.

WASHINGTON UPI — The Supreme Court refused today to block the effect of a congressional redistricting plan for Indiana fashioned by two of the three members of a panel of federal judges at Indianapolis. The court acted in a brief order. State Atty. Gen. John J. Dillon had asked the high court to prevent the plan from being carried out until he could appeal the decision in lower federal courts. Democrats have contended the plan would favor the Republicans and virtually give the GOP 9 of the state’s 11 seats in the House. The Republicans now hold 6 seats. Dillon s request initially went to Jus-

gon. U.S. spokesmen reported “light’* damage. The heaviest casualties came in northern Quang Nam Province where the Viet Cong shelled the district headquarters of Due Due. Viet Cong troops then swarmed into the village. But 300 South Vietnamese Popular Force militiamen charged out and battled the invaders. Government spokesmen said the Viet Cong killed 20 civilians and wounded 80 and burned down about 150 houses. They also killed four Popular Forces soldiers and wounded four others—but fled.

There was no major progress to report in negotiations between the FEA and school boards over wages and working conditions. In teachers’ strikes elsewhere, strikers at the St. Louis suburb of Wellston, Mo., planned them of the need for a tax hike to support schools. The city's 100 teachers, serving 2,300 students, declared a four-day holiday Thursday after voters turned down a proposed boost in school taxes. Four men jailed here over weekend Otto Powell, 64, city, was jailed at 1:55 Friday afternoon by Officer Bill Masten and charged with being a drunken pedestrian. Clarence Sligh, 46. city, was arrested in the courthouse by Officer John Pursell at 5:05 p.m. and slated for public intoxication. John A. Clary, 21, Montezuma, was arrested by Officer James Grimes at 11:55 Friday night and booked for drunken driving. Clary was taken into custody at Locust and Seminary Streets. Millard Gibson. 33, Romney, Route 1, was jailed by Sheriff Bob Albright at 12:42 this morning. Gibson was turned over to Albright in Lafayette for revoke of a suspended sentence.

tice Thurgood Marshall, who referred it to the full court. The action by the nation's highest court left in effect the congressional district map Republican Judges Win G. Knoch of Chicago and Gale J. Holder of Indianapolis fashioned for use during the May 7 primaries and the November elections. The third judge. Democrat S. Hugh Dillin, did not join his colleagues in preparing the map. The primary is scheduled for May 7. The formal period for filing declarations of candidacy for the primary opened Feb. 27 and closes March 28. Already 22 candidates have filed, 14 of them Republican* and & Democrat*.

WASHINGTON UPI —The mayors of several U.S. cities which have experienced racial turmoil see little evidence that the nation is ready to make the “compassionate, massive and sustained” effort called for by President Johnson’s antiriot commission. “Everyone is sympathetic,” said Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio of Newark, where 26 persons w r ere killed in last summer's rioting. “But no ones does anything and they haven’t done anything since the riots.” The commission’s 250,000-word study into the causes of last year’s racial rioting urged “a commitment to national action on an unprecedented scale” to prevent America from splitting into “two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.” The 11-member panel sought creation of 550,000 jobs and 600.000 housing units this year, a guaranteed income for every, U.S. family, full year schooling for slum children, and an overhaul of a welfare system w’hich makes recipients feel “untrustworthy, promiscuous and lazy. Blaming “white racism” for America's racial problems, the commission warned that “no American-White or black—can escape the consequences of the continuing social and economic decay of our major cities.” A number of the nation’s big city mayors, appearing on a broadcast interview Sunday, Meet the Press-NBC, generally endorsed the commission's findings. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. of Atlanta, speaking of “white Racism,” said that “we are responsible for the condition that the Negro citizen is in today . . . we have been the leadership group in this country. We have failed to live up to our obligations in the past. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh of Detroit, where violence claimed 43 lives and caused about $22 million in property damage, said that state governments and city suburbs have not done enough for big cities trying to deal with burgeoning slums and diminishing tax bases. “The state is largely a silent spectator and yet they’re one of the few agencies of government that have the responsibility to respond,” he said. Addonizio agreed. “I have practically spent our city bankrupt trying to meet Five runs made by city firemen A grass fire resulting from burning trash in an open incinerator sent city firemen to the Ron Vanlandingham home, north on Ind. 43, at 3:55 Friday afternoon. A frame storage building, at the rear of 311 Bloomington Street, was destroyed by fire Saturday morning along with the contents. The building was owned by Lee Williams. City firemen reported that a trash fire was responsible for the blaze. A total of 1200 gallons of water was poured on the burning structure. Sunday at 12:30 p.m., the firemen were called to the Dr. Jones residence, south on Ind. 43, to extinguish a grass fire. At 1:35 p.m., they made a run to the Joe Bird home, 119 Cassada Drive, due to a trash fire. The last alarm Sunday was at 3:35 p.m., west of the Limedale store. The firemen reported fire in a cornfield owned by John Torr. Jury finds three defendants guilty A jury in the Putnam Circuit Court returned verdicts early Saturday morning against three Indianapolis men in connection with break-ins and robberies at Cloverdale last Jan. 16. John Paxton, 24. and Jerry Atherton, 37, were each found guilty of second degree burglary and theft. William Silcox, 35. was found guilty of theft, but not second degree burglary. Judge Francis N. Hamilton set Tuesday at 1 p.m. for sentencing. Members of the jury were Charles C. Holland, Everett Carson, Gary Hanlon, James W. Berry, Wendell Ratcliff, Paul Aubrey. Jack Bonewits. Edgar N. Steele, Claude F. Tracy, William O. Young, Evelyn Kendall and Elgin T. Smith.

the problems in our community,” he said. “Unless the federal government and state government steps in and helps our community, I doubt very much whether there is any kind of a future for the city of Newark.” Mayor John V. Lindsay of New- York, vice chairman of the commission, urged the nation to force Congress to act on the panel’s wide-ranging recommendations. “The fact is,” said former Congressman Lindsay on CBS—Face the Nation

DURHAM, England UPI Twenty inmates of a maximum security prison defied police dogs and guards and remained barricaded Inside an assistant warden’s office today. Durham prison officials said the convicts grabbed keys from a guard during the Sunday night viewing of “The Saint” television thriller program, blocked themselves inside the office and telephoned newspapers their demands for better treatment. Officials of the top security prison moved special tracker dogs into the yard, called in police to beef up the guard force and said they let the convicts alone through the night to allow them to “cool down.” No violence was reported. “We have done this as a protest against working conditions for us in this top security block, we want an inquiry into it,” telephoned a prisoner who identified himself as Dennis Stafford, awaiting appeal of a murder conviction. “No one will get hurt. There will be no violence. We just don’t want any.

RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE. P. R. UPI—President Johnson today wound up his first weekend rest trip outside Texas and was flying back to Washington to deal with the nation's marathon copper strike. Aides said Johnson scheduled a 4 p.m. (ESTI meeting in the White House on the seven month long strike and was expected to send Congress a health message. There were indications his plane might make a surprise stop between Puerto Rico and Washington. Also the wreck of the tanker Ocean Eagle in San Juan harbor, with its oozing oil threatening the island's “Gold Coast” resort beaches, added uncertainty to presidential travel plans. Johnson has been away from Washington since Friday. He visited the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center in Texas, hopped to nearby Beaumont for a visit to an old folks home and spoke at a fund-raising dinner with fellow Texans. Saturday he flew to Marietta, Ga.. where he officiated at the “rollout” of the world's largest aircraft, Lockheed’s C5A Galaxy military transport, and mad* hi* unannounced flight to this baa*.

“That the congress must lead and th* country must push the Congress. Unless it happens, we’re in for trouble . . . is this country going to say that ft Is impossible to correct the cancer in these cities?” But another commission member. Sen. Fred R. Harris D-Okla., appearing on another broadcast interview ABC - Issues and Answers, said that Congress was not ready to act on the commission's proposals. If it were, he said, It already would have.

But we want everybody to know what it’s like here for long term prisoners,’* he told by telephone the Manchester office of the London Daily Mirror. Another prisoner, identified himself by telephone as Ronald “Buster” Edwards, serving a 15-year term for his part in Britain's $7.3 million great train robbery. A third man, identified by himself a* John McVicar with a 23-year term, said there were 22 inmates In the top security “E” block. He said they included Ian Brady, th* famous “Moors Murderer” who tape recorded his children-victims’ final agony. The inmate indicated Brady wa* not among the 20 rebels. The inmates said they broke into a prison office and shredded their records. They said they used the altar from th* prison chapel and carpets to barricad* themselves in. Britain opened the “E” wing in th* north of England prison in August, 1965, with 10 especially reinforced cells and an elaborate alarm system. The opening came as the government suffered nationwide criticsm for a series of jail break*.

Within 15 minutes of landing, Johnson had marched onto the golf course. After two less than Arnold Palmer swings, Johnson won cheers from bystanders with a clean drive down the 297-yard fairway. He ignored rain. But darkness forced him off the course after three holes. The President played a leisurely 15 holes Sunday with his son-in-law, Patrick Nugent. His wife and his daughter, Luci Nugent, babysat with grandson Patrick Lyndon Nugent, during the golf gam* which followed the family’s attending Roman Catholic church services. Th* Nugents are Catholics. Before golf, the President watched his heaviest bombers in a ground alert exercise complete with nuclear bombs. The President inspected the rubber raft, 22-caliber rifle and other gear of a B52 Stratofortsess crew’s survival kit Then he drove—at the wheel of a white convertible—to the flight line where six late “G” model B52s—more modem than those stratoforts seeing action in Viet-nam-and six KCT35 refueling tanker* wer* parked.

Strike is suspended by San Francisco teachers

Supreme Court refuses to block state remap plan

Johnson to take up extended copper strike

Cloverdale senior is DAR Good Citizen winner

Miss Vivian Whitaker, senior of Cloverdale High School, has been chosen winner of this year’s Good Citizen contest by Washburn Chapter, DAR. Miss Whitaker is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitaker, Cloverdale. Senior girls from the seven high schools in Putnam County participate in the local contest. Each school selects a senior girl who excels in dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. The girls take a written examination on American history and civics, local, state and national and must have some knowledge of current events. Miss Carrie Pierce, chairman of this year’s contest, announced that the other Good Citizens who participated were: Joyce Hammond, Greencastle High School, Donna South, Bainbridge High School, Carol Plessinger, Reelsville High School, Stephanie Vaughn, Fillmore High School, Vicki Gibson, Roachdale High School, and Brenda Jackson, Russellville High SchooL

Vivian Whitaker’s paper has been entered in the state contest with other state winners. All of the girls and their mother* will be guests of the DAR at a spring meeting. At that time Vivian will receiv* a pin and all will receive certificates in recognition of being chosen Good Citizens by their respective school*. Additional candidates Additional candidates filing with County Clerk Ennis Hasten for the May primary are: Republican Hubert A. Seller, commissioner Third District. Waldo E. Shoemaker, stat* delegate. Thomas Lee Gorham, Fox Ridge precinct committeeman. Democrat Phil Scroggin, county treasurer. Ward J. Robertson, state delegate.

Convicts barricaded in deputy wardens office