The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 April 1968 — Page 1

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.GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1968

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MOOSE INSTALLS OFFICERS -Officers installed at the Moose Lodge last night and pictured above are (left to right) Dora Haltom, Governor; Pete Wiekert, Junior Governor; Bob Friend, Prelate; Marlon Coy, Treasurer; Mur-

ray Lewis, Trustee; Don Holt, Trustee; Don Ratcliff. Trustee; Mike Walsh, Past Governor; Karl Newman, Secretary; William Alspaugh, Installing officer; and Ernie Walls, Sergeant of Arms.

“T hings looking up” in telephone strike

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The cross-country telephone strike entered its second week today with union officials indicating substantial behind-the-scenes progress toward settlement. President Joseph A. Beirne of the striking Communications

Cars damaged

Two autos were damaged but no one was hurt in a traffic

Workers of America said W ednesday negotiators had agreed in informal talks to work for a new three-year contract rather than bargain for higher wages under the current one. “Things are looking up,” Beirne said. Some 200,000 CWA members remained off their jobs at installations of the Bell Telephone system and of Western

Electric Co., both affiliates of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., in 42 states. More than 13,000 employes of the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania meanwhile walked off their jobs early today in a dispute over salary increases in a contract reopening clause. Union leaders said the strike was called at 12:01 a.m. after the company failed to respond to a union proposal made

Tuesday. The union demanded a 14.2 per cent wage increase, double what the company had offered. Union and management negotiators were to meet with a federal mediator today. Despite the nationwide strike,

Bike Safety

Funeral

Roadeo

accident at the intersection of Washington and Arlington Streets

at 4:50 Wednesday afternoon. Vehicles involved were a 1967 Dodge station wagon driven by Laurie Knights, 18, Greencastle, Route 2, and a 1961 Volkswagen driven by Elmer Craver, 62, 1003 Avenue C. Sgt. John Pursell estimated the damage at $400 to the Volkswagen and $300 to the Dodge.

GHS band receives

home burns

Saturday

Division I placing

The Greencastle High School Band participated in the Central Southern Music Auditions for bands Saturday, April 20. The Indiana Music Association

Local firm’s safe robbed

The Greencastle Implements building was burglarized sometime Tuesday night or early Wedesday morning and $488.51 was taken from the company’s safe according to a report from City Police Captain Bill Masten who conducted the investigation.

Intruders entered through a door on the east side of the building and used a screw driver and pinch bar to pry open the safe located in the office of the owner, Michael Bonomo. The burglary was discovered

at approximately 6:45a.m. by John Childs, company bookkeeper, who found the safe open shortly after arriving at work Wednesday morning. He phoned city police. According to Bonomo the cash was the only thing taken, but the doors the burglars used would have to be replaced along with the safe itself. Police mentioned that they did have a suspect in mind, but refused to say if the robbery was connected with any that had taken place in the city recently.

(I. S. M. A.) sponsored the auditions for bands and Choirs. Greencastle was assigned to participate in the auditions for high school bands which was held at Gerstmeyer High School in Terre Haute. The Greencastle High School Band entered in Class C along with the high school bands from Rockville, North Vermillion, and WTley. Each band played Florentine Festival by Caneva plus two selections of their own choice. Greencastle chose Citadel March by Erickson and Concert Overture by Johnson as their two additional selections. Greencastle received a Division I placing, the band receives a placque and each bandsman receives a medal. The judges were William Kleyla of Indiana, polis, William Knapp of Evansville, and Joe Naumcheff of Muncie.

The Whitaker Funeral Home in Gosport was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. The town’s water supply was almost exhaused as firemen battled the flames engulfing the 110-year-old two story brick building. The structure, a landmark in Gosport, was builty by Hezekiah Wampler, a pioneer settler. Cause of the fire and the damage was not reported. However, some of the funeral home’s records and equipment were saved.

Pleads guilty

Daniel Benjamin Cooper, 21, Greencastle, Route 5, when arraigned in the Putnam Circuit Court Wednesday entered a plea of guilty to furnishing alcoholic

beverage to a minor.

Judge Francis N. Hamilton remanded him into the custody of Sheriff Bob Albright and he will be returned to court Friday morning for sentencing. Cooper was arrested Tuesday night by Officer Alva Hubble.

The Jaycee Bicycle Safety Roadeo will be held in RobeAnn Park this Saturday, April 27th. All boys and girls in the third through the ninth grades in school will be eligible to participate if they have completed a written examination and if their bicycles pass the safety inspection that will be made by the Greencastle Police as they register for the competition. Registration will begin at noon in the No. 1 shelterhouse and will end no later than 3 p.m. During the registration period those failing to pass the bicycle safety inspection, will be given a chance to make minor repairs and needed adjustments in order to qualify. Only the Bloomington Street entrance and west road loop will be open in the park during this event. Prizes will be awarded to the winners by the following local merchants: Montgomery Wards, Weber Bike and Toy Store, Ace Hardware, A. & P, and Moore’s Store.

Unusual show by

student playright

SHOWS SAFE--Micheal Bonomo, owner of Castle Implements, shows a Banner reporter the safe pryed open by intruders either

late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning at his business. Approximately $500 was taken and two doori broken down.

With a financial outlay of $11.50, DePauw University senior Daryl Lindquist of Portage, Ind., makes his plunge into the world of playwriting here this week. The curtain or a reasonable facsimile thereof is sceduled to go up tonight at 8:15 in Lindquist’s free “Theatre of the Absurd” production. The 21-year-old dramatist is using for his debut vehicle an original one-act play he calls “The Dictionary: A Through E.” Because this part of the show alone lasts 25 minutes, he’s judiciously chosen not to tackle the entire alphabet at one sitting. By a nifty quirk of fate, Lindquist has been endowed with a set of circumstances few novice writers have. In The Dictionary cast are six performers. Two of them are queens—Miss DePauw of 1967, Leota Didier, and Miss DePauw of 1968, Lani Novak. “The Dictionary has a fairly simple plot,” the one-time varsity football and track athlete explains. “There are five letEach letter opens by introducing himself in a monotone. Then, vegetable-like, he sits down on a block. “That’s when Words comes in. He begins organizing the

letters into words. The characters (letters) become spontaneous, functional, useful and happy. When they spell something they act it out. “When you see A-B-E you get the Gettysburg address. Wehn they spell C-A-B you get a roaring automobile. See?” asks Lindquist. A veritable lexicographical

automat!

“The basic idea is this,” points out Lindquiest: “People are more useful when they inter-relate. They give meaning to their own lives as well as to those about

them.”

Lindquist started writing the play last September. He finished it in December and since has put it through four revisions. The Dictionary isn’t the last word in Thursday's Speech Hall show. The theatrical fare also includes “a slice of life happening” called The Ladder, a dramatic monologue dubbed A Story at 2:36 a.m., and a fiveminute satire, The Lunch Break. It is a limited budget show. Nine dollars for promotional posters, 50? for adhesive tape, and $2 for dittoing the three-page

program.

Fortunately Lindquist possesses a characteristic indispensable to every playwright— a

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Mother denies man held in Mex. is King’s killer

CABORCA, Mexico (UPI)— Police today said they have arrested a bearded hitchhiker from Baltimore, Md., in their hunt for a suspect in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They said 'they arrested Daniel D. Kennedy at a cafe Wednesday in this town 80 miles southwest of Nogales, Ariz., questioned him for 12 hours in his $5.a-night hotel room and then drove him in handcuffs to the Sonora state capital of Hermosillo, 120 miles to the south.

In Washington more than 12 hours after Kennedy was handcuffed the FBI said that “there has been no arrest” in the hunt for Ray. In Baltimore, Kennedy’s mother called the arrest “impossible.” She said, “He’s just a skinny old thing” and only a “blind man” would say her son resembled Ray. Hotel Manager Carlos Valancia Beltran told United Press International he had told police his guest resembled pictures of James Earl Ray, wanted by the FBI in connection with King’s slaying.

Distribute $562,954 in motor vehicle tax funds

telephone services remained near normal, largely because of automated equipment and su. pervisory personnel who sat in for operators.

Putnam County and its incor. porated citied and towns received $562,954.42 in motor vehicle tax funds for road and street construction and repair during 1967. An Indiana State Highway Commission summary, distributed by the Indiana Motor Truck Association, shows the county received $471,739.81 and the cities and towns shared in $91,214.61. These funds were paid by Indiana automobile and truck owners mainly in the form of motor fuel taxes and license plate fees. Trucks represented approximately 18 per cent of registered vehicles in Indiana last year, although they paid 37.7 percent

are paid, the state distributes 32 percent of the net motor vehicle tax funds available for distribution to the counties on the basis of number of vehicles plus miles of road within each county. 15 percent of the net income available is apportioned among the cities and towns on the basis of the population of each city and town to the population of all cities and towns in Indiana as of the most recent U.S. Census.

During 1967 the counties received $54,038,377.12, with cities and towns receiving $25,415, 895.80.

From Mexican authorities there was no word of any formal charge being placed against Kennedy. The hitchhiker registered at Caborca’s San Carlos Hotel under the name of Daniel David Kennedy, 42, of 548 East 38th St., Baltimore. Police said his U.S. passport was numbered 8527475. Lt. Roberto Fletcher of the Mexican police made the arrest and led the questioning in the hotel room. He surrounded the hotel with officers armed with pistols. Police said they found no weapons on Kennedy nor any in the Army-type pack he carried on his back. In Baltimore, Kennedy’s 68-year-old mother said her son was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart in combat in Germany during World War II. “He is a mixed-up kid and has been ever since they found him paralyzed from the waist down on that battlefield in Germany. “He wouldn’t harm a flea, he wouldn’t kill a fly,” she said. Mrs. Kennedy said her son left Baltimore March 24 after answering a newspaper advertisement from someone wanting to drive to Tucson, Ariz., with expenses shared. She said her son hitchhiked from Tucson to Caborca and called home Tuesday night. “I wired him $30 yesterday,” she said.

of the motor vehicle taxes in

1967, according to the Indiana Motor Truck Association. Amounts representing truckpaid taxes distributed to Putnam County; therefore, were $177, 845.91 to the county and $34, 387.91 to cities and towns. Separate amounts received by 1967 by the various urban areas in Putnam County were: Bainbridge $4,933.40 Cloverdale $6,062.41 Greencastle $69,591.13 Roachdale $7,584.19 Russellville $3,043.48 Truck-paid taxes amounted to 37.7 percent of these figures also. After numerous expense items

Schuldt will preach at Gobin Sunday

Dr. Arthur F. Schuldt, Methodist minister and member of the North Icwa Conference cf The Methodist Church, will preach at both the 9:00 and 11:00 services at Gobin Church this Sunday morning. Preaching on the topic “Doing the Best of Things,” Dr. Schuldt will be substituting for the regular pastor, Dr. Jameson Jones, who with Mrs. Jones is in Dallas, Texas serving as a delegate to the historical General Con-

ference at which the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches become united and henceforth known as United Methodist Church. Dr. Schuldt, father of Mrs. Jones, is in his second year of retirement after serving Iowa churches for 44 years. Both his A. B. and D. D. degrees were granted from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and his B. D. degree was earned Continued on Page 2

Select 12 DePauwites

for All-College Band

Twelve DePauw University band members have been selected to participate in the tenth annual Indiana Intercollegiate Band when it gives a formal concert Sunday in Terre Haute. The 92-member ensemble was assembled from outstanding musicians at Ball State, Butler, DePauw, Evansville, Indiana Central, Indiana State, Manchester, Purdue, Valparaiso, and Wabash. The band, sponsored by the

Hoosier members of the College Band Directors National Association, will convene for rehearsals Saturday at Indiana State. The concert will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Tirey Memorial Union on the ISU campus. DePauw students to perform under Colonel Arnold Gabriel, director of the U.S. Air Force Band, will be Dan Asmus, Cynthia Leonard and Janet McClelland, saxophones; Sue

Reno, Janice Knight, clarinets; Ed Greene, bass clarinet; Jim Burrier, bassoon; Carol Goodrich, flute; Fred Haigh, French horn; Charles Isaacson, troii - bone; Andy Palm, tuba; and Ed Williams, trumpet. Among the program selections will be a composition by Lr. Donald White, DePauw School of Music faculty member. Professor Dan Hanna is director of bands at DePauw.

ANNIVERSARY—The 45th Anniversary of Chapter 1 of PEG was celebrated Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. William Kerstetter. Honored at the meeting were two charter members, Mrs. Elizabeth MeGaughey and Miss Lela Walls. Miss Walls

was unable to attend, but a presentation of a corsage was made to Mrs. McGaughey by the club. She is pictured above having the corsage pinned on by Mrs. Brice McKee, vice-president, while Mrs. Willard Sunkel, Miss Mary Fraley, and Mrs. A. W. Crandall

wa^t to pass on congratulations. ^

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