The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 March 1968 — Page 1

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The Daily Banner

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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968

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NAVY BOMBERS BLAST TRENCHES

Five State Department Officials To Arrive In Greencastle Tuesday

Second U. S. Transport Destroyed At Khe Sanh

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Fisher Howe

James Farber

Robert Reddington

John Negropant

Tractor Maintenance To Hold Two More Meetings C I_i._ J spective Junior Leaders would Olared I uesaay plan to attend. Mr. Caldwell is . , .». a very excellent speaker. And Wednesday The County Sharethe-Fun

Contest will be held March 29,

The 4-H Tractor Maintinance Greencastle Junior High Program will have its second ! School. This is a talent contest meeting next Tuesday and Wed- for 4-H members. Acts may be nesdav There will be meetings Performed by individuals or - • „ ^ , groups. Rules can be Stained in Russellville at the Cooper s f rom t jj e County Extension Implement Sales; mGreencasUe office or the local 4 . H at Sherm’s Implement Sal es - leader. Enrollment can be made and Service, Greencastle Trac-; county Extension Office, tor Sales, and the Farm Bureau Extension Co-op on Tuesday. On Wednes- of th€ U)unty ^ xtension dat there will be a meeting at Office want to express our Smith's Implement sales at sympathy to the Daily Banner. Cloverdale Each of the meet- The Banner does a very imporings will start at 7:30 p.m. The tant service for the community Tractor program is for boys who They have given us very good will be at least ten years of age publicity. The next several

weeks will bring many extra

Meetings Start With Luncheon Greencastle and DePauw University Tuesday, March 12, will! host five members of a U.S. State Department team traveling under the Department’s Community Meetings program. One of the five members, Fisher Howe, a member of the Policy Planning Council which is the top level advisory group to Secretary Rush, will address an open community luncheon Tuesday in the Student Union. Anyone who wishes to attend the luncheon may make a reservation by noon Monday by calling the University News Bureau, OL 3-9721, ext. 480. The luncheon price is $1.25. Others in the State Department party include John D. | Negroponte, recently returned from the U.S. Embassy staff in Saigon; Robert J. Redington, Deputy Director of the Office of Inter-American Political Affairs and Alternate U.S. representa-

tive to the OAS.

Also James P. Farber, International Relations Officer in the Bureau of European Affairs and formerly a staff member at U,S. embassies in Bonn, Paris and Stanleyville; plus Miss Christine Camp, Community Meetings Officer, embassy staff member at Kabul, Afghanistan, and former executive secretary to Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press secretary. In addition to the community luncheon the five officials will address a number of DePauw classes and high school convocations at Reelsville and Green-

castle.

Interviews also are scheduled for Miss Camp and Mr. Redington by both of Greencastle’s radio stations. Miss Camp will be guest of Sheila Cooper for a live 10:15 a.m. interview Tuesday on

WXTA.

Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha Phi sororities will host Miss Camp, Redington and Farber for lunch and post-luncheon discussion sessions. Howe, who is a senior officer in the State Department, also is slated to participate Monday night (March 11) at 7 p.m. in the campus Viet Nam debate in the Memorial Student Union Building. He is a former Deputy Director of Intelligence for the State Department. He has completed diplomatic assignments in Olso and The Hague. The Community Meetings Program is being sponsored in Indiana by The WFBM stations of Indianapolis. The State Department team will be visiting five other Indiana cities. The aim of the program is to provide American citizens a n

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important in today’s farming firemen answered five 1 A grass fire at the James operation. We must also take in ’ a j arms Thursday and four of Phillips residence, 902 North mind the increasing numbers of runs were the result of grass Madison Street, occurred at

garden tractors which are act- fireSi chie{ Charles Watkins re- 5:25 p.m.

ually minature tractors. A boy this morning.

IGNITE. BURN, MIAMI — Greencastle’s cheering section has used a slogan for every tournament, foe they have met thus far and it evidently has worked, they’ve won all their tourney games. The slogan pictured above on the billboard located in front of the high school stands for “Ignite, Bum, Miami.” The Tiger Cubs meet North Miami in the semi-state tourney tomorrow. A caravan will leave the senior high building at 9:30 tomorrow morning and will be escorted by city, county, and state police. Bainbridge High School sent flowers and the Wainwright "School had representatives at

a pep session held this evening at the school.

U.S. Judge Says He s Powerless To Act In 1-A Reclassification

Washington (UPI) — A Federal judge ruled yesterday he was powerless to overturn a Selective Service recommendation that draft boards reclassify 1-A students who participate in illegal antidraft demonstrations. United States District Judge George Hart dismissed a suit brought by the National Student Association (NSA), Students for Democratic Society (SDS) and Campus Americans for for Democratic Action (CADA) and 15 student council presi-

dents.

They charged that Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey’s controversial Oct. 26, 1967, letter to the nation 4,084 local boards was an attempt to stifle legitimated dissent by students opposed the administration’s Vietnams policy. They said they would appeal Hart’s dismissal of the suit. Hart, in an oral opinion handed down after hearing arguments from both sides based his decision on these grounds: 1. The letter had “no legal effect whatsoever,’’ was not binding on the boards and was merely an expression of Hershey’s “personal opinion.” 2. Individuals who believe their draft status was being changed because they expressed their opposition to the war had other administrative and judi-

added

Nancy Buis Services At Cloverdale

rial remedies.

3. Amendments

Congress to the draft law last I views and recommendation,

year prevented court reviews of local board actions until the

time of induction.

Melvin L. Wulf, legal director of the American Civil Liberties ( Union (ACLU), which filed the! suit on behalf of the student or- j ganizations, said Hart’s decision would be promptly appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals. There are several similar suits pending in Federal courts around the country in addition to others brought by individuals seeking to reverse their own re-

classification.

The suit dismissed by Hart was believed the only one attemping to declare the Hershey directive unconstitutional and to enjoin its enforcement. The ACLU contended that in revising the draft law last year Congress made it mandatory that any student who was satisfactorily pursuing a full time course of instruction at a fouryear college was entitled—without exception—to a student de-

ferment.

“Gen Hershey has substituted his judgment for that of the legislature.” Hart was told by! Harriet Van Tassel Wiilf’s associate lawyer. But government attorneys maintained that Hershey’s dir-; ective was actually a letter—

The U.S. Command,

communique yesterday after noon, said Allied forces in fight ing around Khe Sanh, Hill 518 and other areas just south of the demilitarized zone and widely scattered places and elsewhere in South Vietnam had killed 144 Communists against compara-

tively light losses.

Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, yesterday named an Army man to command American forces defending South Vietnam's northern borders against an anticipated North Vietnamese invasion. A communique issued by Westmoreland’s headquarters said Lt. Gen. William B. Rosson, 49 years old, would command a newly created “Provisional

Corps Vietnam.”

The new corps will serve as a “tactical echelon between (Marine) Gen (Robert E.) Cushman and the commanders of the U.S. Army and Marine Division in the northern area,”

the communique said.

The two northernmost provinces have long been a stronghold of U.S. Marine troops and were part of the I Corps area, which includes South Vietnam's

four northern provinces.

The move puts an Army man in an area that had been considered U.S. Marine territory. The establishment of the new command was seen as an effort to bring the threatened area along the demilitarized zone, including the Marine base at Khe Sanh, more directly under the control of the U.S. Command at

Saigon.

The announcement capped weeks of speculation about a change in command at the beleaguered Marine Corps base at ! Khe Sanh. American air power began i naying off in the defense of Khe I Sanh, an isolated fortress of ; sandbags and concrete bunkers ! in South Vietnam’s extreme northwest corner. Marine commanders at Khe ! Sanh said North Vietnamese Wednesday toward the protecting outpost

a ' ericans, one less than the higli- ' est number killed during a previous seven-day period. Headquarters said Allied forces in the week ended last Saturday killed 3.849 North Vietnamese

and Viet Cong.

‘‘The number of enemy attacks and ambushes increased again during the week in all corps areas,” the Allied casualty communique said. “Action throughout the republic was moderate to heavy with a slight decrease in the number of

enemy killed.”

The Navy strike on Hill 518 and other raids in the Khe Sanh area, including saturation missions by high-flying B-52 Stratofortresses, dominated air war communiques, but headquarters reported a series of damaging assaults Wednesday into North Vietnam’s Hanoi-Haiphong Pow-

er core.

The raids Wednesday into Vietnam sent waves of Air Force and Navy jets on 83 missions that blasted the Hanoi port facility less that 2 miles from the center of the city and hammered the Van Dien battery plant, 7 miles south of the cap-

ital.

The Van Dien factory, said to produce half of North Vietnam's battery output, had been raided only once previously. In Saigon, a rebuff by the senate and a petition circulating among representatives yesterday indicated growing political trouble in the weeks ahead for President Nguyen Van Thieu. In a 40-3 vote, the senate turned down Thieu's request for additional emergency powers in fiance and economy. The house had voted similarly last week to deny Thieu’s request. The petition, though it is only a first step, calls on the house to put on its agenda a discussion of whether to bring up for a vote a motion of no confidence in Thieu’s administration.

Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Ellen Buis, Fillmore Route 1, will be held Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at the Whitaker Fun-

eral Home in Cloverdale. Rev- the North Vietnamese attack erend Berk McNair will offici- The plane destroyed at Khe ate. Interment wil be in the Sanh yesterday was a C-123 Gosport Cemetery. Provider damaged in a 100-shell Mrs. Buis was fatally injured Communist barrage Wednesday, in an auto-semi traffic accident the same day when another at the intersection of the Belle twin-engined Provider was shot Union Road<and U.S. 40, east of down by North Vietnamese anMt. Meridan Thursday morning. j tiaircraft gunners as it ap-

She is survived by her husband James F. Buis; two sons, James Douglas and Bradley, both at home; her parents, Alva and Bertha Carter, Coatesville, Ro u t e 2; one sister, Ruth Thromblin, Monrovia; and her maternal grandmother, Goldie

Thompson, Rockville.

Three Autos Damaged; No One Injured Three autos were damaged but no one was injured in a chain reaction traffic accident on Ind. 240 at the intersection of Fifth Street at 3:45 Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Bob Albright

reported.

Glen D. Horn, 31, Cloverdale, was going west on Ind. 240 in a 1966 Mustang and stopped for

1 traffic at Fifth Street.

Sarah J. Brienes, 29, Fillmore driving a 1963 Volkswagen, also

stopped behind Horn.

Mary L. Zeller, 21, 833 East Washington Street, also going west failed to stop and hit the rear of the Volkswagen which in turn was shoved into

the rear of the Mustang.

The accident was investigat-

v , , ed by Deputy Sheriffs Tom but there were no casulties in Brown and Bob Ziegelman. the C-123 lost yesterday. Damage was estimated at In Saigon, U.S. headquarters S250 to Horn’s car; $150 to the

Brienes’ Volkswagen, and $75

to the Zeller automobile. No arrests were made.

on Hill 518 overlooking the main base were hit by tons of bombs ! and napalm dropped by U.S. ! Navy jets. Pilots reported seeing North Vietnamese bodies blown out of the trenches and

l tunnels.

“We dropped the bombs right i where we wanted them,” said Lt. Cmdr. Richard Grant, 33 years, York, Neb., when he returned to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise after i the Hill 518 strike that crushed

proached the outpost. All 49 Americans aboard the plane downed Wednesday, were killed,

announced a step-up in the level of the Communists’ winterspring offensive killed 542 Am-

ay attend any of the meetings The f irst cal ] was at i : 50 p.m. hich ho would like to attend. I f rom Farmers Supply on East

Franklin Street due to burning grass in the rear of the building

which he would like to attend The fathers are invited also. Enrollment can be made at the

meeting.

The March Junior Leader meeting will be March 18, at the

which is owned by John Childs. At 2:30 p.m., the firemen made a run to the Joseph

4-H Building. The program will Wright farm, on West Walnut be given by Bill Caldwell of the Street Road. Brooms and State 4-H Office. Mr. Caldwell water from the township truck will be speaking on a topic that booster tank extinquished the

all 4-H Junior Leaders and pro-1 grass blaze.

PROCLAMATION WHEREAS: The 1968 Greencastle High School Tiger Cubs have brought renown and distinction to the community; WHEREAS: The citizens of Greencastle wish to encourage the team to continue in a winning manner; WHEREAS: Be it proclaimed; the date of Saturday, March 9, shall be known throughout the Greencastle community as Greencastle Tiger Cub Day, and in recognition thereof, all citizens are encouraged to wear white and watch the Tiger Cubs fight. Norman Peabody, Greencastle Mayor

Firemen then made another run to the extreme north end of Madison Street at 5:52 due to a grass fire in the yard of the New York Central Railroad

depot.

The last call was from the Culligan Laundramat, 438 South Bloomington St, at 6:40 p.m. Chief Watkins said a solution of sodium sydrosulfite, used for water softening, was escaping from a damaged tank releasing toxic fumes. The tank was taken outside the building after a dousing of water and the danger was over.

U. S. Likely To Refuse Deportation Of Czech

Temporary Office At 608 South College A temporary office for the staff of The Daily Banner has been set up at 608 Sooth College Avenue. The Banner will still be printed in Crawfordsville with the cooperation of The JournalReview newspaper there, but all advertisements and editorial matter will be handled at the temporary location. Office hours will be 8-5:00 daily and 8-12:00 on Saturdays.

Washington (UPI) — Czechoslovakia served notice yesterday it would demand the return of a top-ranking Czech Communist defector, but the United States was expected to refuse extradition. Czech Ambassador Kare Duda called on deputy assistant secretary of state Walter J. Stoessel Jr. and told him the Prague government was preparing a formal document asking extradition on grounds of misappropriation of state funds and embezzlement. The United States was expected to refuse on grounds that Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna fled to the United States for political reasons. THE CZECH DEMAND was made under a 1926 treaty that provides for return of criminals. The Czechs have charged that Sejna embezzled nearly $8,000 in state funds and speculated in seed grain in a $43,000 co-operative farm fraud. The 42-year-old treaty, however, excludes extradition for political offenses and fugitives from Czechoslovakia have not

been returned by the United States where politics appeared to be the primary motivation for the Czech request. Diplomatic officials beheved the State Department would act likewise in Sejna’s case. THE WHEREABOUTS of Sejna, his son and big female companion were unknown, but it was presumed they were being interrogated somewhere in the United States by intelligence officials. Reports circulated in Prague that Sejna, 40 years old, had fled to the United States with a young woman identified as his mistress and with his son, Jan. The State Department explained it did not want to be involved in a “family quarrel,” but reiterated that the defectors identified the woman as Evzenie Musilova, the son’s fiancee. Comic Dictionary

Oil A greasy liquid which is good for all squeaks except those found in mice.

CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY —The Cloverdale Lions Club just recently celebrated it’s 25th Charter Anniversary at the club’s post. Pete Foster is pictured above as he received a 35-year member award from Elmer Smiley. Others getting awards for membership and service were: William Bitzer, Paul Cassady, Victor H. Duncan, Donald Goss, Joseph Lasley, R. V. Murphy, James V. Routt, Thomas Sandy, Russell Sendmeyer, Elmer Smiley, Robert Wilson, E. M. Yount, Robert Ziegelman, Sr., Jack Davis, Curtis E. Jones, Eugene Knoy, Leonard Mann, Adrian Morrison, Charles O. Whitaker, Arthur L. Johnson, Albert E. Davis, and Herschel L, Knoll.