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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1968

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BICYCLE SAFETY—State Police Sergeant Don Bovenschulte, Safety Education Officer for the local state police post at Putnamville, is pictured above instructing children at the

Jones Elementary School about Bicycle safety. The sergeant and Captain Bill Masten of the local force visited all four elementary schools in the city yesterday conducting programs in bicycle safety.

Pueblo incident could repeat

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Robert S. McNamara told Congress a week after North Korean seized the USS Pueblo that there was no practical way to prevent another such incident. In secret testimony given Feb. 1 and made public Tuesday, McNamara, then secretary of defense, suggested the United States must be ready to take the risks and bear the

consequences if it wants to keep getting the important intelligence gathered in such missions. “We do not have the means today of preventing a recurrence of this kind of incident in many of the situations in which we find it necessary and to our advantage to carry on similar collection efforts,” McNamara told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

John Burkhart named DePauw alum of year

John W. Burkhart of Indianapolis last night was named DePauw University’s alumnus-of-

the-year.

ped in the bud by the Depression. His general insurance agency closed up shop during

World War 11.

After the war Burkhart and '''' SB a fellow DePauw classmate, Frank Moore, conceived the idea JgfcM of selling life insurance to college men. The idea caught on and by 1949 the three-year-old College Life Insurance Company had $25 millions worth of in-

surance in force.

Burkhart’s role in the growth and development of his community and his alma mater has been as remarkable as his role in his own dynamic business life. He is past president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and a director of the natk r - ional chamber of commerce. A M M political activist and Republican, m m he JB f ^ effort to get businessmen of all JMm I kpolitical beliefs active ir. govern-

mental affairs.

Not long ago Burkhart was named chairman of Indianapolis’ Capital Improvement Board which plans to build the Indiana Convention and Exposition Center in Indianapolis. He has found hours to serve as a member of the board of directors of the Ransburg Electro-Coating Corporation, the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, and the National Association of Manu-

facturers.

Young people—the collegiate set—have benefited from Burkhart’s activity in arranging college funds. He was the founder and is immediate past board chairman of the United Student Aid Fund, Inc., a non-profit nationwide corporation guaranteeing low-cost bank loans to college

students.

Since 1965 Burkhart has served DePauw as the chairman of a national steering committee guiding and helping to execute a $33 million development program for DePauw. He and his wife, Ardath Burkhart, a DePauw trustee and the recipient's 1928 classmate, have helped significantly in the financial campaign and also have provided financial support to create new faculty

housing on the campus.

Burkhart and his wife were

It’s Mushroom time, Mrs. Edith honored within the past year

for their responsible stewardship in their church congregation, the Indianapolis Meridian

Street Methodist Church.

Push Cold War McNamara agreed with a suggestion from some committee members that North Korea should be made to feel “she is worse off than she was before she started.” To do this, he said, North Korea will have to face a stronger South Korea. “Almost surely we will, need to supply additional military assistance to South Korea, to build up her strength vis-a-vis North Korea,” he said. The comments took on special significance in the light of President Johnson’s meeting today in Honolulu with South Korean President Park Chung Hee. McNamara said the Pueblo was scouting North Korean radar defenses by cruising the coastline outside the 12-mile territorial limit. Censored testi-

WSCS Spring breakfast at Gobin Thursday

President of College Life Insurance Company of America, Burkhart received the honor and the traditional Old Geld Goblet at DePauw’s senior-alumni banquet. He is the twenty-eighth winner of the award that is conferred by vote of the university’s

500-plus seniors.

He joins a distinguished list of Goblet winners. It includes such nationally prominent names as the former Commandent of the U.S. Marine Corps General David Shoup (1944), former baseball commissioner Ford Frick (1952), Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West (1942), and Wall Street Journal executive Bernard

Kilgore (1955).

The award presented to Burk-

hart by student body President David Jensen, Barrington, HI., recognizes eminence in life’s work and service to one’s alma mater. Burkhart delivered the

evening’s keynote address. Burkhart was graduated from

DePauw in 1928. His first business venture was a bottled gas business in Tipton. It was nip-

38 mushrooms

Knight found 38 mushrooms in her back yard Monday afternoon. She said they were REAL

MUSHROOMS.

The annual spring breakfast of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Gobin Memorial Methodist Church will be held Thursday morning in the Deadline May 15th The period for personal property assessment is half over. All assessments must be turned in by May 15th. The method of assessing farm property has changed from former years. The new method takes added time and it is therefore imperative that you see your Township Assessor soon. County Assessor, Albert Solomom says that under the 1961 law, each taxpayer is responsible for his own assessment, and under the same law, the County Auditor must add a penalty of $5.00 if the assessment is under $1000, and if more the penalty is $10.00, for all assessments filed after May 15th. Fulltime job MADRID (UPI)—Jose Luis Villar Palasi, 45, a law professor, was named by Generalissimo Francisco Franco Tuesday as minister of education in the midst of a university crisis. The nation's colleges have been swept by riots and boycotts by students protesting government policies. Politician arrested ATHENS (UPI)-A former parliament deputy, Angelos Angelousis, was arrested Tuesday by the military regime in Greece in an apparent security crackdown against dissidents. Several other former leaders, including two former premiers, were also arrested this week. /■

Rockefeller, Reagan consider entering race

By United Press International The Republican camp was astir today with renewed indications Governors Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan may at some point compete actively for the GOP presidential nomination. Reagan, who in the past went only so far as to make himself available as California’s GOP favorite son, gave the word himself Tuesday that he was beginning an “assessment” of his position. "The job seeks the man,” Reagan commented as he discussed with newsmen politi-

cal consultant F. Clifton White’s report of substantial grassroots support for Reagan’s nomination. Meantime, Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., a strong Rockefeller backer, said the New York governor is “very much interested” in seeking the Republican nomination and is on the brink of making an “affirmative statement” on his candidacy. “Governor Rockefeller is not a reluctant candidate,” Brooke said in Boston. “He has always wanted the nomination and he wants the nomination now.”

Giant jets blast Red supply route

mony indicated that the mission had been requested by field commanders and had been reviewed and approved by McNamara and other top strategists here. Analyze Korean Strategy At one point, acting Chairman John C. Stennis, D-Miss., suggested .< that the North Koreans may have hoped to divert strength from South Vietnam with the Pueblo seizure, and, at minimum, force the withdrawal of South Korean forces now fighting in Vietnam. “I think that was his first objective,” McNamara said, “and I think it is an objective we should insure that he doesn’t accomplish.” During the same hearing, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pueblo did not defend itself because it was outgunned and faced “obvious suicide.”

Colonnade room of the church at 9:15 a.m. The MeKendree Circle, with Mrs. J.P. Allen as president, has charge of the preparations. Amid a profusion of gay Japanese dolls, colorful paper cranes and cherry blossoms the meeting will focus on Japan International Christian University, a new'venture in Christian education which is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year, enth anniversary this year. Devotions will be conducted by Mrs. George Messinger who will include a poem of Dr. Kagawa’s, “Pine, Bamboo, and Plum” along with the story of a peace symbol emanating from Hiroshima. The program which will be coordinated by Mrs. Fred Ritchie, chairman, will tell the success of this University-a dream come true not only in international relations but also as a shining example of Christian cooperation. Members of the executive board will assist Mrs. Ritchie in this presentation wdth credits for the decorations going to Mrs. Elton Weston, Mrs. Ross Runyan, and Mrs. Peachie Jones. Presiding over the general meeting will be Mrs. Martha Ellen Johnson,president of the society.

By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI)-U.S. B52 Stratofortresses struck the main Communist supply route into South Vietnam with one of the heaviest air raids of the war, military spokesmen said today. The big jets dropped at least 1.8 million pounds of bombs on the A Shau Valley link in the Ho Chi Minh trail Tuesday, they said. The eight-engined bombers flew 10 missions in the massive raid, hitting at least five Communist troop concentrations in the jungle valley 375 miles north of Saigon, the American spokesmen said. The planes also struck eight weapons bases including an antiaircraft battery the Communists erected to defend the flow of men and arms from North Vietnam. Continue Pounding Spokesmen said the bombing of the A Shau Valley continued today. The forbidden valley is one of the few regions of South Vietnam undisputedly under Communist control. The Communists have built up the route with roads, bunkers, camps and dumps used to feed the North Vietnamese and guerrilla troops prowling the northern provinces. Military observers said the 10 missions marked one of the greatest efforts launched against one target zone during any 24-hour period of the war. In other developments, more B52 strikes hit the Communist base camps, bunkers and fuel dumps in the Central Highland jungles 34 miles west of the allied bastion at Kontum City. In Bangkok and Saigon today, American spokesmen said the search has been abandoned for a swingwing F111A fighterbomber that Hanoi radio claimed was shot down over the North Vietnam southern panhandle March 28 with the loss of two crewmen. The American spokesmen disputed the claim, saying the superspeed, all purpose plane was lost in the jungles of northwest Thailand. Two days after that loss, a second of the six FlllAs sent into the war theater for combat testing crashed in Thailand. American officials today blamed the crash on the failure of its flight control system. Its two crewmen ejected and parachuted to safety. Heavy American Casualties In fighting Tuesday, U.S. Marines reported suffering one of their heaviest losses in the months old campaigning around their northern border fort of Khe Sanh. A Leatherneck patrol walked into a Communist ambush and was riddled, suffering 17 men killed and 35 wounded. Seven Communist bodies were found after U.S. air and artillery strikes finally drove the North Vietnamese from their bunkers and away from the battered patrol four miles west-southwest of Khe Sanh. Both sides had about 50 to 60 men when the fight began, spokesmen said.

Back at the fort itself, the nightmare of Communist artillery returned. In a 24-hour period ending early Tuesday, the North Vietnamese on the hills around pumped in more than 290 artillery, mortar and rocket shells—more than one volley every 15 minutes. At the height of the siege of Khe Sanh, the Marines had an average of only about 200 shells hitting their positions. The heavy shelling continued through Tuesday. In that period more than 250 shells hit. Jury trial called off A jury trial scheduled for the Putnam Circuit Court Tuesday failed to materialize when the defendant changed his plea to guilty and the prospective jurors were dismissed. Thomas Rolls, 22, city, had been charged with second degree burglary in the theft of chain saws from the Putnam County Farm Bureau on October 29,1966. When first arraigned, Rolls had entered a not guilty plea. Special Judge Wilbur S. Donner presided at Tuesday’s session and upon Rolls’ plea of guilty sentenced him to serve 2-5 years in the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton. The sentence was suspended on certain strict conditions and Rolls was placed on probation to Mrs. Mildred Hervey, Putnam County Probation Officer. The sentence suspension was recommended by Prosecutor James Houck. Two State Farm inmates also appeared in court Tuesday and each pleaded guilty to escaping from the Putnamville institution. Jack Price, 24, Wabash, escaped March 25 and James Peters, 26, Elkhart, escaped April 9. Both were sentenced to the Indiana State Reformatory for 1-5 years. Water loan date set Farmers Home Administration today announced that April 3C has been the date set for the final loan closing for the Reelsville Water Corporation application of funds for construction of a water line through thai area. The announcement wa.< made to the paper by attorney for the corporation, James Houck. The Reelsville Water Corporation proposes a thirty mile line that will serve over 225 customers and cost approximately $327,980 when completed. Mine deaths BOLTON, England (UPI)— Three small girls and a fireman who tried to save them died Tuesday in a gas-choked mine shaft. Officials said the girls, 13, 12 and 10, forced their way through the sealed entrance of the abandoned shaft to explore it.

Rockefeller for President headquarters in New York announced that a Washington office would be opened next Monday as “kind of a nerve center office, not a campaign office in the traditional sense since the governor is not a candidate.” Neither Rockefeller nor Reagan appeared likely to enter any state primaries against the only active major GOP candidate, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Reagan made clear he has no intention of becoming a declared candidate before the Miami Beach convention, and Brooke said Rockefeller’s noncandidacy announcement last month meant “that he was not a candidate in the primaries.” In other developments: Robert F. Kennedy—In contrast to the mob scenes of his earlier campaigning for the Democratic nomination, the New York senator received a relatively cool reception in a swing through South Dakota in

search of votes in the June 4 primary. He talked of more federal aid for farmers and of jobs instead of handouts for persons in “pockets of rural poverty.” Eugene J. McCarthy—The Minnesota senator, campaigning in West Virginia, renewed his criticism of the Vietnam war as “wasteful and not morally defensible.” The Democratic presidential contender said negotiations would in large part depend on the willingness of the United States to accept a coalition government in South Vietnam and he had seen no evidence U.S. officials would. Hubert H. Humphrey—The vice president, back at work in Washington Tuesday after a Florida vacation, was endorsed by Robert F. Wagner, former mayor of New York City. He indicated he would play a major part in a Humphrey campaign for the Democratic nomination. Humphrey is expected to formally enter the race within a few days.

North Viets poised for major attack

PHU BAI, South Vietnam (UPI)—U.S. intelligence officers said today the North Vietnamese have 15,000 troops in the Hue-Phu Bai area who could launch another major attack against Hue at any time. But the officers expressed confidence any new Communist offensive could be thwarted. “We’ve got a lot more troops in this area now so let them try it,” a spokesman for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division said. “We’d welcome this fight.” Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam, was the scene of the most bitter fighting of the Communist Tet offensive in February. Since then, allied

troops strength in the area has been greatly increased. Wedged in a tight ring around Hue are troops of the airborne division, the 1st Marine Division, the 5th Marine Division and the 1st South Vietnamese Division. Intelligence officers estimate there are more than 15,000 main force Communist troops in the vicinity and more than 4,000 guerrillas, but feel the quality of the Red forces has dropped sharply since the Tet fighting. “Charlie lost some of his best men in the fighting,” an officer said. “He has received a whole slew of replacements since. Many of them probably are illtrained. There is also evidence that they are conscripting people younger and younger.”

Atlanta taxi driver recalls King suspect

ATLANTA (UPI)—The mysterious fugitive in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., apparently went nightclubbing in Atlanta the night after the murder and hailed two taxis in a hippie neighborhood. One taxi driver vividly recalled the man—whom the FBI has identified as Eric Starve Galt—because he tossed part of his fare onto the floor of the cab. “I remember him because he was a smart guy, the way he threw that money at me. You remember the smart guys,” the driver said Tuesday. The man rode only two blocks and then hurriedly left the taxi. Apparently the same man caught another cab several blocks away and went to a modern, two-story apartment building. Both cabs belonged to the Atlanta Million Cooperative Cab Co., which requested that the drivers not be identified. The area, around Peachtree and 14th Streets, is about seven miles from the public housing project where a white Mustang registered to Galt was abandoned April 5, more than 12 hours after King was shot to death by a white sniper at a motel in Memphis, Tenn. The 1966 Mustang had 1968 Alabama license plates and the registration gave Galt’s address as a south Birmingham rooming house where residents hadn’t seen him in three months. FBI agents, tracing Galt’s movements after the car was left in an apartment parking lot near the Georgia capitol the Friday after King’s murder, apparently followed a trail to the Playroom Nightclub near Peachtree and 10th Streets.

One cab driver said the FBI asked him if he’d picked up any fares at the Playroom Fridav night (April 5) and, when shown a sketch of Galt, he said he remembered picking up the m: four blocks away. Two jailed Claude Staley Duncan, 56, no given address, was arrested by Officer James Grimes at 3 this morning and booked for public intoxication and vagrancy. Duncan was taken into custody at the intersection of Washington and Jackson Streets. William Mike Burk, 20, citj, was jailed at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon by State Trooper Jack Hanlon and Sheriff Bob Albright on an assault and battery charge. Financial support is needed Following the disastrous fire that destroyed the Sherwood Christian Church last Saturday night, many pec^)le have indicated their interest in making contributions to the church rebuilding fund but were uncertain where to send their contributions. As a public service, the Central National Bank has offered its facilities as a convenient contribution acceptance headquarters. Donations may be made at the bank in person, or, if more convenient, they may be mailed to the Central National Bank, 24 West Washington Street. The bank will compile a record of all contributions and names of donors as a record for the Sherwood Christian Church.

U.S. holding out for peace talks in Asia

By NICHOLAS DANILOFF WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States appears to be holding out for a site in Asia for preliminary talks toward peace with North Vietnam—with representatives of South Vietnam and South Korea close at hand. State Department officials disclosed Tuesday in the fullest form so far the American requirements for a site at a

briefing for editors and broadcasters at the department. These officials, whose identities could not be disclosed under ground rules for the briefing, said that the site should be convenient for the United States as well as North Vietnam. It should be in a neutral country, equipped with adequate facilities, such as secure communications. It should provide access *

for U.S. allies who could be speedily informed as to the results of any contacts with Hanoi. Other officials said the United States sought an Asian site because of the essentially Asian nature of the problem as well as the consequences a settlement in South Vietnam would have for the other countries of the area.

Disclosure that the United States was thinking in terms of a site where some of its allies might also be present—even if not actually represented at the meetings—was a new element, which apparently is contributing to the delay in getting preliminary talks started. It was understood that one of the reasons the United States balked at Hanoi’s suggestion of Warsaw as a site for the Initial I

“contacts” was that South Vietnamese representatives could not be present there because Saigon has no diplomatic relations with Communist Poland. The officials said that the United States was still awaiting an answer from Hanoi to President Johnson’s proposal last week of a meeting at New Delhi, Rangoon, Jakarta or Vientiane, Laos. 1 t