The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 March 1968 — Page 6
Thursday, March 28, 1968
Mob force firemen to fight blazing house
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Open Housing Fight Has Many Fronts
HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. (UPI) — A crowd of neighbors Tuesday threatened mob violence unless firemen fought a blaze in a house without a protection district tag. The firefighters doused the flames. About 35 sheriff’s deputies and state troopers responded to calls for help from another deputy on the scene, but before they had arrived the crowd of 150 persons, some with shotguns, had forced the firemen to capitulate. Asst. Fire Chief Robert Ellison explained, “There was a bunch behind me that said, ‘if you don’t fight it, we’ll throw you into that fire.’ They could have done it. We had to fight it or be mobbed and maimed like animals.” Deputy H.S. McKee, who asked for help, said, “I had my riot gun and I said the first man to touch that fire equipment, he’d go to jail. They were going to take over the equipment and fight the fire
themselves. They threatened to shoot all the men and throw them in the house.” There were no injuries or arrests but the interior of the three-bedroom, brick-front home of Phillip Rush was destroyed. Cause of the fire was unknown. The crowd reaction apparently stemmed from a similar situation March 18, when the home of John Akers burned to the ground because it lacked the $7 fire protection tag.
The House Springs neighbor, hood is organizing a fire district that might eliminate the tag system, which requires an annual fee for fire protection. Watching a fire without fighting it “goes against everything we’ve ever learned,” Ellison said. “We’re taught to help your fellow man, but by God, they can help themselves by buying a fire tag. We don’t make these damn rules. The tag owners do.”
Easter Observances Show Wide Variety
NEW YORK (UPI)—Ever wonder what your “neighbors” around the world will be doing Easter Sunday while you’re sporting new finery at church or watching the kids hunt for hidden Easter eggs? The customs and clothes of Easter vary widely from country to country. In Bombay, India, Christian
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women have their own special Easter attire—bright red saris worn to signify rejoicing, says Interflora, the international arm of Florists’ Transworld Delivery Association <FTD). The Indian women join a colorful procession that winds to the top of a hill outside the city of Bombay where stands a shrine that has been visited by Pope Paul VI. A special sweet pastry called Mithai is served to the worshippers. In Yugoslavia, the youngest girl in the family takes part of the food from the Easter feast to church to have it blessed. The family then ceremoniously eats these morsels before settling down to the rest of the dinner. In Egypt In Moslem Egypt, Easter is a national holiday observed by all sects and religions. They mingle in the parks and on the hillsides to picnic on sardines and Easter eggs. In Mexico, streets turn smoky the night •before Easter as effigies of Judas are burned.
By JAMES L. SRODES WASHINGTON (UPI)—The war for open housing could be lost or set back several years between now and July. It is generally expected here that major' portions of the struggle to end segregation in housing will be settled by the middle of this summer. The results will have a profound effect on the future. Most of the attention is focused on the Congress where the debate over legislation to ban discrimination in housing sales and rentals continues. But there are other efforts to end housing segregation. The push comes from the White House, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission, from city halls and state legislatures. The battle even rages in the U.S. Supreme Court. These efforts range from local open housing ordinances to President Johnson’s proposal for a national partnership for housing which is based on free access to the best home a man can afford, wherever it is. But the box score on these efforts so far is not so good from the viewpoint of open housing advocates. Look at the Supreme Court
case.
It’s the first time the high court has ever taken up the matter of racial discrimination in housing. But some feel that the case, Joseph Lee Jones vs. Alfred H. Mayer Co, may not lead to the results civil rights leaders are seeking. The case deals with the refusal in 1965 of Mayer to sell a house in his development to a Negro. The lower courts have ruled for Mayer and the high court at most is expected to restrict itself only to the ques-
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tion of racial discrimination by the developers of large housing tracts, ignoring the question of private homeowners alone. In a related development, the Federal Trade Commission has dusted off a 1914 law to try to influence owners of rental property to adopt an open policy. The FTC charged nine Arlington, Va„ apartment owners with false advertising, alleging that the owners’ ads to the general public did not point out that they did not intend to rent to Negroes. A hearing date on the matter has not yet been set. There also is open housing’s progress at the local level. On the surface it looks pretty
good.
During 1967, the number of local open housing laws doubled from 47 to 94. This puts more than half the nation—about 115 million people—in a state, county or city which has open housing laws. The result however, has been more not less segregation. Figures from the Census Bureau, the Department of Labor and the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing show the number of predominantly Negro neighborhoods in a range of U.S. cities increased between 1960 and 1966 while the number of integrated areas decreased. This is easy enough to understand if you consider that for every two Negroes who move to a city, one white man moves away to the suburbs. So it is more than the force of law which governs the fate of open housing. Economic and social factors play a large part here. Politics also plays a part. In a presidential election year, Congress is keeping a weather eye cocked on the mood of the voters. If the voters turn thumbs down on open housing —as they seem likely to do— the 90th Congress could sweep the legislation under the rug for the 91st Congress to deal
with.
How long it would take open housing advocates to recover lost ground would be anybody’s
guess.
But it doesn’t seem much of a guess at all that the next six months will be the most important period of all for the troops on both sides of the issue. i 4 Slang Book Helps Parents By PETER M. KELLY CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UPI) — Local teen-agers perhaps a little tired of translating for gray-haired parents, have compiled a dictionary of slang that tells it like it is. The dictionary, called “The Latest Word,” was written and edited by two Cheyenne High School composition classes and covers a wide range of words never found in Websters. Some of the definitions are: —Clyde: noun; head or mind; as in ‘“Use your Clyde,” or “put it out of your Clyde.” —Dohinky; noun; object; thing, item, as in “What did this donhinky come off of?” —Gourd-guard; noun; helmet; as in “Put on your gourdguard” (used by motorcyclists primarily). —Grin: noun; a good time as in “We had a real grin.” —Grub: noun; unkempt person, as in “A grub feels out of place in clean clothes.” —Hairy: adjective; difficult sometimes frightening, as in “I had a long hairy talk with my brother.” Suggests a certain grotesqueness. '—Honk around: verb; *to drive around town with friends, as in “Let’s go honk around” Synonyms: “Tool around, mess around, buzz.” —Lunch: verb; ruin, as in “He really lunched his engine.” —Moldy: adjective; unappealing. disgusting, as in “That fellow is really moldy.” Synonym: Groady. Either or both often used with grub. —Mover: noun; a swinger; as in “I was surprised he is such a mover.” —Skin: noun; automobile tire, as in “My skins are not too safe.” Bubble gummer; noun; junior high school students, as in “I can’t stand a bubble gum-
mer.”
—Teeny-bopper; noun, see bubble gummer. —Tube: noun; television set, as in “There are good programs on the tube tonight.” —Yellow Dog: noun: school bus, as in “We had to ride to Denver in a yellow dog instead of a charter.” —Yick (also Ick, Yeck, Eugh)”, exclamation; expresses distaste; May be pronounced and spelled in various ways in imitation of clearing the throat. Common among young children, as well as teen-agers.
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STRENGTH for the Republican presidential nomination stands about like this right now, according to anybody’s guess. Maybe Harold E. Stassen is getting a break here.
LBJ political team finds tough going
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI)-
President Johnson’s political team in Wisconsin is running his primary campaign like men beset by an enemy armed with new weapons on an unmapped battlefield. They are relying on oldfashioned organization politics in a state with no tradition for that style of political warfare. They are facing an unconventional opponent in Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, the Minnesota peace candidate challenging the President with an army of student volunteers and tireless personal campaigning in an effort to carry his message to every voter and every home in Wisconsin. Scared by the results in New Hampshire, Johnson forces have sent major administration spokesmen into Wisconsin to defend its policies against daily assaults from McCarthy. These have included Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Postmaster Gen. Lawrence F. O’Brien and Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. More Talent Added More professional talent also has been recruited for the Johnson campaign headquar. ters. One newcomer, bearing scars from the New Hampshire primary, is James Keefe, chief aide to Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre, D-N.H. Another is Neil Staebler, Democratic national committeeman from Michigan who acquired a reputation as an organizational genius during his tenure as Democratic state chairman in Michigan. The Wisconsin vote will be cast next Tuesday, just three weeks after McCarthy came close to matching Johnson’s turnout in the nation's first 1968 presidential primary in New Hampshire. Although he trailed the President in the popular vote, McCarthy won 20 of New Hampshire’s 24 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Leslie Aspin, a former campaign manager for Sen. 100,000 Baptists Reported in Romania HAMBURG. West Germany • UPI i — A membership of aporoximately 100.000 adults in Romanian Baptist churches .tas been reported by the Rev. Rudolf Thaut. vice-president of the European Baptist Federation. upon his return x rom a visit to the Coi .munist country. "We were very much impressed by the crowded houses cf worship and the very lively worship services in three of the six churches in Bucharest, as well as in Basov and Sibiu.’’ Mr. Thaut said
William Proximire, D-Wis., is field director for the Johnson campaign in Wisconsin. He left a job in the Pentagon to serve as deputy in this state to James Rowe, the Washington attorney, old political ally of Johnson and national chairman of the Citizens Committee for Johnson.
Humphrey.
Got Head Start After moving back to his home state in mid-February, Aspin is complaining that McCarthy “got a head start” in the competition for the votes in the Democratic primary. Aspin refuses to predict the outcome, but says he would be very happy to see Johnson poll 51 per cent of the vote.
Aspin says he is uncertain about the outcome because of the endorsement given McCarthy for Wisconsin by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, and because of “crossover” voting. Wisconsin voters are not registered by party and can vote in either party’s primary. Republican leaders have appealed to GOP voters to stay in their own primary, which offers no significant contest. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon is a sure winner over Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, an inactive candidate, and Harold E. Stassen, who keeps trying although he has not won a presidential primary since
1952.
Public Auction of Farm Machinery & Shop Equipment Due to the death of my husband, Maurice Summers, I will therefore sell all the following described personal property at public auction to the highest bidder. At the farm located: 3 miles south of Crown Center or 2 miles north and then 2 miles east of Eminence. on Saturday, March 30,1968 COMMENCING PROMPTLY AT 10:00 A.M. Tractors & Farm Machinery Co-op E 3 tractor; Case SC tractor with loader and cultivators; J. D. 490 corn planter with herbicide; spring tooth harrow; 5-ft. Corsicana rotary cutter; 2-row rotary hoe, used one season; elevator; auger and motor; 8-ft. Dunham wheel disk; 1-row corn picker; 2 bottom J.D. plow with coverboards; 2 bottom Moline plow; wagon gear; Korn King 130 bu. gravity bed; PTO grass seeder; corn sheller; 2 wheel trailer; old junk Chevy truck. Farm Truck 1948 Dodge 1 ton with grain bed and hoist. Hog-s & Equipment 5 gilts, to start farrowing approximately May 19th; 2 hog feeders; 1 hog waterer; approximately 40 bales of straw'. Shop Tools & Equipment G. E. 250 amp. electric welder; a Marquette electric spot welder; oxygen-acetylene welder with attachments; power hack saw; Black & Decker portable disk grinder; Sears drill press; post drill; 7-inch Sears electric hand saw; floor grinder and motor; complete set of micrometers; 2 paint guns; ^-inch socket set; |-inch socket set; i-inch socket set; cylinder hone; Black & Decker valve grinding machine; Van Dorn valve resealer; Craftsman ^-inch hand drill; Black & Decker £-inch hand drill; large 700 lb. anvil; complete set of body shop tools; Port-a-power body jack; Nicholson & Watterman metal turning lathe; several work benches; hand saws; carpenter tools; a complete line of mechanic hand tools; some new parts; 6 & 12 volt battery chargers; heavy duty vise; square tub Maytag washer; Philco refrigerator with full freezer, and many misc. items too numerous to mention. Terms—Cash Day of Sale Nothing to be removed until settled for. Not responsible in case of accidents. Ruth Summers, Administratrix AUCTIONEER: KENNETH RATTS, Phone Gosport 879-3389. LUNCH WILL BE SERVED
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