The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 March 1968 — Page 1

VOLUME SEVENTY * SIX

The Daily Banner GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1968 UPI News Service

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IN CHARGE FOR A DAY—Omnes Chapter of DeMolay members David Albright, Mike Hurt, and Larry Mason took charge of the mayor, police chief and fire chief's jobs Wednesday in recognition of their work in DeMolay. DPU to host teachers

Handing over the day’s duties to the boys are Mayor Norman Peabody, assistant fire chief Lester Haltom, and police chief John Stevens. Fire chief

Charles Watkins was not present for the picture.

U.S. battle deaths reach

20,000 mark in Viet

Nearly 150 English teachers are expected to convene at DePauw University Saturday for the spring meeting of the Indiana Council of Teachers of English. Theme for the conclave of high school and college teachers will be “Creative America: Past, Present and Future.”

The Greencastle Jaycees again have made plans for their third annual Dog and Cat Rabies Clinic, to be held in Greencastle and Putnam County. This successful project has been conducted by the Jaycees for the past two years. The Jaycee chairman this year is Steve Richards. The clinic will be held in Greencastle at the local grade schools Saturday, March 30th. The clinic caravan will then move to the northern and southern parts of the county April 6th. The clinic will be climaxed Sunday April 7th at the Greencastle city parking lot across from the Post Office. Exact times and locations will be announced later. The veterinarians again this year will be Boyd Knuppel, and Don Brattain. The two veterinarians assisted the Jaycees last Naughty bird FREMONT, Ohio (UPI)— Power officials today blamed a low-flying bird for 1,000 workers getting a day off, a newspaper publishing late, and a computer being a day behind Wednesday. The bird knocked out an electric substation in this northern Ohio community of 17,550, causing the disruptions in services.

Registration for the one-day meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Memorial Student Union Building. Two keynote addresses, a 70-minute discussion session and the presentation of the El H. Kemper Me Co mb Award are the main items on the agenda. Dr. James H. Mason, past vice

year to help rid the county of the dangerous dreaded threat of rabies. Two years ago the clinics established to curb the growing threat of rabies that existed at that time in the county. There were three cases of rabies reported then in county, and that had been the most cases report-

ed in many years.

The first clinic was held in 1966 with 396 dogs and cats being vaccinated, while in 1967 over 489 dogs and cats were innoculated. The clinic is primarily designed to attract people who normally don't have their dog or cat vaccinated. Only through community wide vaccination programs can the dreaded threat of rabies be held in check. Rabies is a terrible disease that can be contacted by all warm blooded animals, who in turn can infect humans. Humans can be infected through an animal bite, or by having the animal’s saliva come in contact with an open wound. The disease is fatal to animals and humans, but humans can be cured through a series of very painful and expensive shots administered in the abdominal region. If anyone sees a suspicious looking animal, do not take any action yourself, but contact your local author-

ities immediately.

president of the National Council of Teachers of English and a member of the Indiana State University faculty, will address a 9:45 session. Dr. Eldonna Evertts, assistant executive secretary oftheNCTE, is slated to present the keynote address remarks for the luncheon session. Post-luncheon awards will be presented Mrs. Ruth Herin, Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis, and by Charles Blaney, Indiana State University faculty member and president of the ICTE. Mrs. Herin will present the McComb Award. It is given the outstanding service and leadership in the field of English and its professional societies. Blaney will present anumber of achievement awards. Earlier in the morning Edward Jenkinson of the English Curriculum Study Center, Indiana University, will discuss the American Literature program. This will be* preceded by discussion sessions dealing with American novelists and poets and programs in literature and language. Dr. Harold Garriott, professor of English at DePauw, is coordinator for the conference. Youths demonstrate PARIS (UPI)-More than 300 youths smashed windows and splashed red ink on the office of American Express Wednesday night in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. The demonstrators, waving North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags, shouted antiAmerican slogans, grabbed metal bars and paving stones from the construction site of a new subway station and broke

windows.

By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI) — American battle deaths in the Vietnam war passed the 20,000 mark with 336 men killed in fighting last week, U.S. spokesmen said today. U.S. officials said the 336 figure was the lowest in several weeks but it raised to 20,096 the total dead since 1961. Heavy ground fighting raged in two areas of South Vietnam today, the spokesmen said, and in North Vietnam U.S. warplanes struck their heaviest blows in months by bombing a MIG base and a large supply convoy. One battle 1 today was 16 miles west of Saigon where South Vietnamese troops counted 142 Communists killed in fighting that erupted Wednesday. In a series of clashes to the south of Danang, troops of the U.S. American division killed another 111 Communists. The spokesmen said U.S. pilots flew 119 missions over the north Wednesday, the most since Feb. 19 when American pilots went on 126 missions. One of the targets was the Phuc Yen airfield 18 miles west of Hanoi, a base for MIG fighters. Other strikes were aimed at Communist supply convoys streaming toward South Vietnam and U.S. Navy pilots reported a spectacular fuel fire that sent smoke billowing 5,000 feet into the air. The officials said at least 110 trucks were destroyed in the convoy moving through the panhandle region. Near the Mu Ghia pass leading into the Ho Chi Minh trail the pilots said their bombs set off a series of fires and

large explosions from ammunition in the convoy. “Right after our bombs hit we had an instantaneous forest fire going,” Cdr. Fred H. Whittemore, 38, of Carson City, Nev., said. One of the trucks, apparently a tanker, exploded with a fireball 200 feet wide and sent a huge cloud of smoke 5,000 feet high, the pilots said. Air Force Maj. Charles W. McClarren, 37, of Spencer, Ind., said he was “absolutely astounded at the number of vehicles and the way they were sitting out in the open.” The U.S. command announced five major U.S. military operations that so far have accounted for 799 Communists killed. They said some of the campaigns began early in January. Total American casualties in all of the operations, the spokesmen said, were 97 men killed and 997 wounded. The largest was Operation McClain which they said began Jan. 20 in the Central Highlands northeast of Phan Thiet and accounted for 475 of the Communist dead. Others were centered in the northern provinces and in the Saigon area, they said. In the fighting west of Saigon today, Allied troops reported at least 142 Viet Cong deaths. Getaway taxi TORONTO (UPI)—Magistrate Robert Taylor ordered Thomas Cunningham, 24, to jail for six months Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to theft. Police said they traced him through a taxicab driver who took Cunningham and his $475 in loot home from a sports arena.

Jaycees plan third dog and cat rabies clinic

Rocky to announce presidential race plans

NEW YORK (UPI)-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller today announces his plans for the 1968 presidential race. Rockefeller was expected to declare his candidacy against an old rival, Richard M. Nixon, and enter at least one presidential primary .Oregon. But, just hours before his 2 p.m. EST news conference, Rockefeller’s closest advisers remained tightlipped and cautioned newsmen to wait for the Hurst PCA director The Board of Directors of the Greencastle Production Credit Association announced the appointment of Morris G. Hurst, 39 year old Putnam County farmer to fill a vacancy created by a recent resignation. The Greencastle Production Credit Association’s Putnam County office is located at 107 East Washington Street, in Greencastle, Indiana. Mr. Hurst is a life long resident of Putnam County. He and Mrs. Hurst own and operate 188 acres and lease and operate an additional 400 acres, producing wheat, corn, and soybeans, with hogs as a principal livestock program. The Association serves the following ten west central Indiana counties, Boone, Clay, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Morgan, Parke, Putnam, Vermillion, and Vigo. Serving approximately 1,280 farm families, the Association expects to loan in excess of $16,000,000.00 during 1968. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst have two children, a daughter Janis, and a son Marshall. Mr. Hurst’s 21 years of farming success is expected to be of wide benefit to the policy making body of the Greencastle Production Credit Association. 7 injured Seven teenagers were injured in a one-car accident, one-half mile south of Fillmore Wednesday afternoon, and three of the group were admitted to the Putnam County Hospital. Admitted as patients were Cindy Lou Shillings, 7, Coatesville, Route 2; Tom Simmons, 17, and Janet Kirby, 14, both of Fillmore Route 1. Treated and released were Donald Shillings, 17, driver of the car; Margaret Shillings, 15, Coatesville, Route 2; Bill Gist, 17, Fillmore, Route 1, and Arthur Arnold, 16, Coatesville, Route 1. Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown reported that Donald Shillings was driving south and when he hit the brakes, the right front wheel locked sending the auto into an abutment. Ask bombing halt NUERNBERG, Germany (UPI)— The social democratic faction of West Germany’s twoparty coalition government demanded Wednesday an immediate halt to American bombing of North Vietnam. The same resolution called on warring parties in Vietnam to renounce a military solution and work for a political end to the fighting. Largest tanker NAGASAKI, Japan (UPI)— The Mitsubishi Shipyards today launched the world’s largest ship, a 276,000-ton tanker that required six tugboats to tow it into Nagasaki harbor. The vessel, ordered by National Bulk Carriers Inc. of* the United States, has a speed of 17 miles an hour.

announcement, an indication, perhaps that the New York Republican was agonizing over his decision right down to the wire. Rockefeller, an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960 and 1964, has until Friday to remove his name from the Oregon ballot if he decides against running. The governor, considered a GOP moderate, is popular in Oregon, the state which gave him a primary victory in 1964 over the ultimate nominee, Barry M. Goldwater. His name also will likely be on the Nebraska ballot. But Nebraska is Nixon country, and Rockefeller probably would not campaign in the former vice president’s bastion. Rockefeller vowed repeatedly over the past six months he had no intention of running again. But when Gov. George Romney of Michigan dropped out of the presidential sweepstakes two weeks before the New Hampshire primary, there was considerable conjecture that Rockefeller would declare his candidacy. Since that time, however, Rockefeller has been wavering on whether or not to contest Nixon, the frontrunner. A poorly organized, underfinanced write-in campaign for Rockefeller in New Hampshire flopped. The governor got little more than 10 per cent in a Nixon runaway. Strengthening the possibility of his entering were conferences Five land in Co. jail Five persons were arrested and lodged in the Putnam County jail Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. Wassell Crosby, 23, Ladoga, Route 2, was booked at 1 a.m. Wednesday by Neal Ferguson, Bainbridge Town Marshal, for public intoxication. James Rood, 22, city, was jailed Tuesday night by Sheriff Bob Albright and Deputy Bob Ziegelman for theft. Rood was taken into custody in Bainbridge. Floyd Atha, Jr., 17; David Atha, 16, and Steve Atha, 15, all brothers, were slated Tuesday night for assault and battery by Deputy Sheriffs Tom Brown and Ziegelman. Land suit trial ends A Jury trial in a land condemnation suit ended early Wednesday morning with a judgment of $13,100 being returned. The trial started Monday morning. The case was that of Rollie D. Bedwell and G. June Bedwell In connection with the construction of the new 1-70 highway in Washington township. Members of the Jury were William C. Cash, Marshall McCammack, Barbara Age, August L. Deacon, Harley A. Benson, Mary DeVaney, Billy L. Secrest, James Sutherlin, Willard N. Scobee, Elmer Abbott, Robert L. Andrews and Charles Perkins. Named chairman Bob Albright, Putnam County Sheriff, has been appointed state chairman of Indiana Sheriffs for Edgar Whitcomb in the incumbent secretary of state’s race for the nomination for governor.

with GOP national and state leaders, who'urged his candidacy. Another sign pointing to his joining the battle was his willingness to at last break his silence on the Vietnam War. In interviews this week Rockefeller has urged “accommodation” both in the war and in the struggle for Negro equality in America. Local girl is winner MUNCIE—Joyce Darlene Hammond was among 22 young Indiana writers who are winners of the National Council of Teachers of English 1967 Achievement Awards. This is the sixth straight year that the English Department of Ball State University, in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers in English, has cosponsored the contest. Miss Hammond qualified with her entry, “Four Poems.” She attends Greencastle High School. To participate in the competition, high school juniors took an objective test, wrote an autobiographical sketch and a sample of their writing and produced a 60-minute impromptu theme on a topic assigned by the National Council. Dr. Howard K. Nixon, Jr., associate professor of English at Ball State, was contest chairman. Spiker cited Dr. Harold Spiker, formerly of the DePauw faculty, has received the “Man of the Year” award from Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic honorary, at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. The citation recognized his years as adviser to “The Statesmen”, school paper, and for its interscholastic press awards and also coaching the first ISU team ever to appear on TV’s College Bowl. To be ordained

Thomas A. Jeffries, minister at the New Ross Christian Church will be ordained at the Roachdale Christian Church Sunday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Eddie Bamish, minister at the Hazelwood Christian Church, will deliver the ordination message. Mr. Jeffries is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Jeffries of Greencastle. He attended Milligan College at Johnson City, Tennessee, for two years, and will receive his A.B. Degree from Lincoln Christian College, Lincoln, Illinois, May 31st. Mr. Jeffries is married to the former Carol Jackson of Jamestown. They have one daughter, Joanna. All friends are invited to attend this ordination service and the reception which will follow.

DPLF students leave Friday for spring seminars

each seminar will begin the ar-

Friday is exodus day for 100 DePauw University students and professors who plan to spend their spring vacations in the company of men like journalist Ralph McGill, draft critic William Sloan Coffin, and Senators Charles Percy and Everett Dirksen. Their homes will be settlement houses in Chicago and New York, churches in New Haven, Conn., and Little Rock, a Negro college in Atlanta, and a Washington, D.C. hotel. A few of the students will go with a bundle of cash to see and pay for what’s relevant and Irrelevant on New York's arts scene. A few will go tor an eight-day stint to Chicago with

$10—to see poverty and be a part of it. But most will go with a modest amount they can scrap up for the annual Methodist Student Foundation spring seminars. “Trips like these are something that ought to be happening on every university campus,” says Phi Beta Kappa senior Nell Sale from Charleston, W. Va. “These are field trips—extensions of the classroom where social problems are focused on. We plan these things ourselves; there Is action, and we move!” One group is headed for Washington, D.C.—its aim to pick brains on U.S. military and political policy toward Vietnam. By the time it wraps up its business March 29 the seminarists will have talked with the American Friends Service lobby, had a

special briefing by State Department pacification officials, and journalists covering Washington. Depending on their availability at the moment, interviews have been promised the students with Senators Percy, Dirksen and Robert F. Kennedy. Georgia’s first negro legislator since Reconstruction, Julian Bond; Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph McGill, and Atlanta Police Chief and U.S. Riot Commission member Herbert Jenkins, are scheduled to provide facts and opinions to a Black Power seminar to Atlanta, The students and their faculty advisers will live at predominately Negro Clark College, attend classes there, and be hosted by DePauw alumnus Vernon Jordan, Negro attorney.

In New Haven 11 students, plus the head of DePauw’s philosphyreligion department, Dr. Russell Compton, will probe the question: “Why Riots in the Model City?” Stops are scheduled at Bell Telephone and Olin Mathieson to discuss their ghetto job training, at Yale University to confer with activist chaplain William Sloan Coffin, to city and police offices and to urban development projects. Plans are afoot to talk too with persons jailed in New Haven’s race riots. Probably the busiest schedule will be kept by one of two New York groups that will stay at Sloan House near the U.N. Under speech and theatre professor Dr. James Elrod the contingent of H collegians hopes to see what’s relevant—at least to them—in the

arts. They’ll hear a jazz religious service, see experimental movie making, take libation at an improvisation coffee house, drop by an “Electric Circus Discoteque,” and if the money holds out, take in a lecture by Marshall McLuhan. Still in New York, a second group checks in at the Bay Ridge Methodist Church in Brooklyn to begin a study of urban delinquency. Conversations with welfare and youth officers and sessions at adolescent training schools and youth courts are on the slate. Two seminars to Chicago aim at studies of proverty and the Church’s movement into the problems of the inner-city. A third group of students will head for Little Rock, Ark., to study

the impact of urbanization and industrialization and what it does to a previously rural culture. Faculty advisers for this group will be Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Gray, DePauw faculty members. Dr. Gray is on leave, serving in Governor Rockefeller’s new Economic Development Administration. The ninth seminar will go to Central State Hospital in Indianapolis to spend the week working with the staff in the children’s division there. The Methodist Student Foundation seminars started some five years ago. They since have blazed a number of new trails tor collegians across the country. The first group of college students admitted to the clinical wards of the Menniger Clinic

were from DePauw. The first white teacher in Selma, Alabama’s, Negro schools was a DePauw student chosen tor the job because he demonstrated social concern through an MSF seminar on race relations. He later was presented the American flag carried in the

famous Selma march.

According to Dr. Donald Bossart, MSF director, the multipronged program was established to give students informal research opportunities with faculty supervision, a coupling of the

classroom and field work.

The actual trips have been preceded by two one-half months of rigorous reading, weekly boning up sessions, and volumes of correspondence with figures the stu-

dents plan to interview.

When classes resume April 1

duous task of assembling the results of its interviews. These results eventually will wind up as written reports, supplemented by tape recordings, photographs and movie film. Then they’ll be made available to other college groups through the University Christian Movement. Faculty and staff members chaperoning the groups include Professor Robert Newton (Washington); John and Nancy Owen (Atlanta); Episcopalian minister Gordon Chastain (Chicago-pover-ty); Professor James Elrod (New York-art); Dr. Bossart (Chicagosecularization of the church); Professor Saad Ibrahim (New York-delinquency); and Professor Comptofl (New Haven).