The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1968 — Page 8

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

April arrives, history made

By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI>-April arrived in America and the United States had had enough of winter. Gas in Industry NEW YORK (UPD—The same gas flame that cooks your food and heats your home has about 28.000 uses in industry, according to the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association. The Industrial roles of gas ranges from “cabbages” to kilns. “Cabbages” are compressed bales of metal scrap that are fed to powerful gasfired furnaces for re-process-ing. Kilns of many varieties, such as for fashioning bricks, also are gas-fired. EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE The George A. Fitzsimmons property in Jacfeson Township, Putnam County, Indiana, described as follows, to-wit: TRACT I A part of the West half of the Southeast quarter of Section 4, Township 16, Range 3 West more particularly described to-wit: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the Southeast quarter of said Section 4; thence North 40.28 chains to the Northwest corner of the Southeast quarter of said Section 4; thence East 5.2598 chains with the North line of said Southeast quarter: thence South 15.21 chains; thence East 3.9302 chains; thence South 25.07 chains to the South line of said Section 4; thence West 9.19 chains to ing 31.05 acres more or less excepting from the above described described real estate the richt of way of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railroad as the same is located over and across said real estate leaving a total of 29.50 acres more or less. TRACT II A part of the West half of the Southwest quarter of Section 9, Township 16 North, Range 3 West more particularly described as fol lows, to-wit: Beginning at the Northwest corner of the Southwest quarter of section 9. thence East 1336 feet to the Northeast corner of said West half; thence South 970 feet with the East line of said West half to a ditch thence South 60 degrees 24 minutes West 266 feet with said ditch; thence leaving said ditch North 3 degrees 42 minutes West 428 feet; thence South 88 degrees 08 minutes West 1082 feet to the West line of said Section 9; thence North 708 feet with said West line to the point of begining, containing 23.0 acres more or less, together with an easement of access from the County road to ♦he South. Said Real Estate will be sold by Robert H. Fizsimmons to the highest bidder at public sale for no less than the appraised value at the law office of James M. Houck 11 1/2 South Indiana Street, Greencastle. Indiana, at 10:30 A. M. Saturday, April 13, 1968. Terms cash upon delivery of documents of title. Sale subject to approval of the Putnam Circuit Court. Purchaser to assume taxes payable in 1969.

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T t had suffered the insult of a questioned dollar, the injury of the Pueblo, the fear of siege at Khe Sanh and the direct diagnosis of the President’s -TV review of concern in the land, despite other attitudes. Although the networks did an admirable job in their coverage, gome industry observers felt they might have made a gesture which many Negroes told me they would have appreciated and respected. The suggestion was: On the day of the killing, at least, and on Sunday’s national day of mourning, the networks might have done what they did when President Kennedy was assassinated—suspend alladver. tising and eliminate all of the regular trivial programming. Commercials Mar Mood The constant interruptions of sickening commercials while nation was in a traumatic state constantly made it all but impossible to maintain a continuous mood of dignity. One can imagine the reaction to these abominable intrusions, especially the feeling of Negroes, to many of whom King’s death was at least as agonizing as the murder of President Kennedy. Network reporting of the King assassination aftermath continues today and Tuesday. Today the subject is the Memphis march King had planned to lead, and which now will be led by his widow. On Tuesday, television will present coverage of his funeral in Atlanta. Both events begin in the morning. Tonight’s scheduled Academy Awards broadcast on ABC-TV has already been postponed until Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST, out of respect to Dr. King. The broadcast had faced the unhappy situation of going on the night before the funeral, without any Negro performers or presenters taking part in the program because of their mourning. They will participate Wednesday.

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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders which saw forming “two socieites, one white, one black— separate and unequal.” On the last day of March the President went on television, renounced political ambition and was saluted in Congress for sacrifice and statesmanship. And—profoundly surprising—the Communist regime in North Vietnam said the electric word; “Talks.” Then came the crack of a rifle. Martin Luther King was in Memphis, preparing to march again. He had led a march there in support of garbage men, mostly Negroes, who were on strike for union recognition and the dues checkoff. The march had erupted into riot, embarrassing King, who preached that nonviolence was not yet out of season in America. Fatal Outing King stepped onto the second floor porch of a Negro hotel in Memphis, the Lorraine. A companion called up from the street that he’d better wear his overcoat; the evening promised to be chilly. King leaned down to hear him say something else. Across the street, from a bathroom in what was described as “a flophouse,” a single bullet from a Remington pump rifle equipped with a telescopic sight was fired, mortally wounding King. The marksman escaped. King, 39, a Georgia preacher,

son of a preacher, the intense advocate of nonviolence, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, “de lawd” to younger black militants, but chiefly the nation’s bridge between the black man in the slum and the white man in power, died in the same hospital emergency room where James Meredith had been treated. Meredith was wounded from ambush while on a oneman march from Memphis to Jackson, Miss., in the summer of 1965. Within two hours of King’s death the President of the United States, who on Sunday had prayed for peace in Vietnam on television, was again on television, soliciting national prayer “fo r peace and understanding throughout this land.” No Politics Having paid $250 each, about 2,800 Democrats were eating in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton and it promised to be a heady political evening. The President was to speak and so was Hubert H. Humphrey and the Democrats would listen closely for that careful wisecrack a politician who is not quite ready to announce uses to say: 'Tm running, fellows.’' Instead, when Humphrey rose he said: “Martin Luther King has been shot and he is dead.” “We are steeped in violence,” said Sen. Frank Church of Idaho. “It is the curse of the land.”

The sun had not yet set in California when the first stone was thrown and the first easycredit television set was stolen. The South reacted first. Automobiles were stoned in Birmingham. Police used disabling gas in Raleigh for crowd control. Two policemen were shot in Memphis. A furniture store was looted in Miami. Trying magic again in the nation’s biggest Negro community, Mayor John V. Lindsay left the Broadway show he was attending and walked Harlem’s streets. In Greensboro, N.C., Gov. Dan K. Moore called out the National Guard. Trouble Widespread Before the day ended, disorder was reported also in Nashville, Term., Tallahassee,

Fla., Toledo, Ohio, Greensboro, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, New Bern and Wilmington, N.C., Hartford, Conn., Detroit, Mich., Itta Bena, and Jackson, Miss., Tampla, Fla. Syracuse, Monticello, Ithaca, and Tarrytown, N.Y., Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Washington, D.C. The White House, President Johnson again on television; “Once again, the heart of America is heavy— the spirit of America weeps—for tragedy denies the very meaning of our land. The life of a man who symbolized the freedom and faith of America has been taken. But it is the fiber and and fabric of the republic that is being tested. If we are to have the America that we mean to have, all men—of all races, all regions, all religions—must stand their ground to deny violence its victory in this sorrowful time and in all times to come.”

Golden Circle anniversary

The Golden Circle Club held their 31st anniversary dinner March 28 at Torr’s Restaurant. _ The table was beautifully decorated with spring flowers. Fourteen members enjoyed a delicious meal with Marie Craft giving thanks. A short program was given by Marie Craft, Bessie Fellows and Vesta Stearly. A beautiful poem was read by Bessie and a contest given by Marie with Lucille Herbert and Lena Trussell winning

prizes. Eva Diel won the door prize wich was a beautiful potted plant. The flower fund was collected and cards were sent to the sick. Everyone received a gift and special gifts were given to the club’s four charter members. A big thanks was extended to Bessie, Marie and Vesta for making the anniversary a big success. The next meeting will be a pitch-in-dinner at th ReelsvilleLions Club building April 25 with Etta Hinote as hostess.

Outside the White House that Friday, young Negroes pranced by the steel gates with their booty of stolen radios, defying the guards; “Shoot me, kill me!” Washington is a city of 485,000 Negroes and 285,000 whites, the northernmost southern town in America with slums equal to any, a city dependent upon an often indifferent Congress for government, no model city in a place where “model cities” are legislated about. Now in rancor one Washington spilled over the other. Fleeing to their town houses and apartment towers in the suburbs civil servants released from their desks early drove through the city’s streets and had to turn on their headlights in daylight to see through the acrid smoke of burning slums. Troops Guard Capital For the first time since President Hoover had the bonus marchers chased away 36 years ago, federal troops—ultimately 11,600 of them —occupied Washington. American troops mustered on the lawn of the White House and machine gun implacements stood on the .'ront steps of the Capitol. Downtown store windows were smashed a short stroll irom the White House. Ambassadors in the safety of dieir embassies could hear the scream of sirens and see the glow of slums in flames. What they said of this in their ^diplomatic dispatches to their own capitals must have made interesting reading. The White House “situation room” is normally the nerve

Tuesday, April 9, 1968^ center of the American govern, ment at time of internatlnal crisis in the Middle East or Cuba or Budapest. Now it received reports from the 9th Precinct and the 13th. On Sunday, Hamilton, N.Y., and Des Moines, Iowa, were added to the list of troubled cities. ^he President now dispatched troops to Chicago and Baltimore. Washington at last was peaceful. A few days before the rifle shot in Memphis, the wheels of bureaucracy had completed one task here and produced a handsome paperbound book, thicker than the Bible, containing the complete text of the report on the President’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. On page 265 appeared the conclusion, which read: “It is time now to end the destruction and the violence, not only in the streets of the ghetto but in the lives of people.” The book is on sale by mail through the U.S. government printing office. The price is $2. WAKE UP YOUR PERISTALSIS And Be Your Smiling Best The muscular action of your digestive system, called Peristalsis, should not slow down. If this happens waste materials can build up in the lower tract and you become irregular, uncomfortable and feel stuffed. Carter’s Pills with Its unique laxative formula wakes up the slowed down muscles of the lower digestive tract and stimulates Peristalsis, giving temporary relief of this Irregularity. Then you will be your smiling best. Millions of satisfied users take Carter’s Pills. Why don’t you. 49< 1

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