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The Daily Banner GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1968

“It Waves For All”

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AS FAIR TIME DRAWS NEAR 4-H members across Putnam County scurry to complete projects and record books. Several members of the High Climbers 4-H Club in Fillmore met at the school to prepare workbooks and records for

judging. Pictured are (left, l-r) Becky Zaring, Kay Ruark, Tammy Woods and Kathy Sutherlin, a junior leader; (right, l-r) Deborah Smithers, Karen Sears and Teresa Smithers. Marjorie Cash is leader of # the High Climbers 4-H Club.

Kosygin asks arms cutback

MOSCOW (UPI) — Premier Alexei N. Kosygin today announced the Soviet Union has asked all nations to make sweeping cutbacks in the arms race, including a reduction of nuclear weapons. Kosygin made the surprise announcement at the Moscow signing ceremony of the U.S.. Soviet. British.sponsored treaty banning the spread of nuclear arms. “The Soviet government has sent to all governments a memorandum on certain mea- > € Crimes

sures to halt the arms race, including the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, an end to the production of nuclear weapons, a reduction in nuclear stockpiles and restrictions on the means of delivery,” he said. The Soviet premier called on the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva to take up

the proposal.

Kosygin had been expected to be a silent member of the ceremony. But he rose and spoke, only a few days after Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko offered the United States talks on halting their mutual arms race including the deve-

in Geneva and was approved overwhelmingly last month by the U.N. General Assembly. The Soviet memorandum sent to world capitals was laced with attacks on U.S. “aggression.” It demanded an immediate end to international flights by nucleararmed bombers, a ban on underground nuclear testing, prohibition of chemical weapons, elimination of foreign military bases and steps toward regional disarmament, particularly in the Middle East. In his speech, Kosygin said “high priority” also should be given moves toward; — Banning use of nuclear

weapons, thus protecting natins with no nuclear arms. — Stopping the making of nuclear arms and reducing stockpiles. — Cutting means of delivering nuclear weapons to targets. — Banning not only planes carrying naclear arms across borders but also limits on rocket-armed submarines. — A ban on underground testing, but only with each nation policing itself and not the international controls the West has sought. — World agreement on peaceful use of seabeds and ocean floors.

Stray bullet kills man

investigated The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department and Indiana State Police are investigating an armed robbery and a break-in that occurred Friday evening. The Greencastle Drive In Theatre, located at the junction of U.S. Highway 40 and State Highway 43, was robbed at gunpoint at 9:40 p.m. According to reports, two men, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, took $26 from the ticket stand. Ricky Lee Crawley was working in the stand at the time of the robbery. The owner of the theatre, Thomas Free, Cloverdale Route 1, had cleared the register of the night’s receipts about 10 minutes before the rob-

bery.

lopment of the hugely expensive

antimissile missile system. Gromyko, U.S. Ambassador

Llewellyn Thompson and Britain’s ambassador, Sr. Geoffrey Harrison, signed the nonproliferation treaty under sparkling chandeliers in the Dom Priomov, the house of receptions, nestled on the Lenin hills

overlooking central Moscow. The moscow signing came

hours before—because of the time change from one capital to another—similar ceremonies in

Washington and London. The treaty banning the spread

of the nuclear arms was hammered out in years of talks

PLYMOUTH, Ind. (UPI)— Everett G. Anderson, 30, R.R. 4, Nashville, died Sunday of a gunshot wound he received while driving along U.S. 31 near here. Anderson’s wife, Shirley, told authorities her husband pulled off the road shortly after they had stopped at a gas station to buy canned soda. She said she heard a popping noise and first believed a soda can had exploded. Then she noticed a

bleeding wound in her husband’s neck. Police later discovered two boys had been shooting nearby at tin cans with .22 caliber rifles. A .22 caliber slug was recovered from Anderson’s neck. The weapons of the boys were taken to a ballistics lab for testing to determine if they were the source of the shot which killed Anderson.

Pope defends celibacy

The men, who were both on foot, were described as being “tall and short.” Both were clad in blue denim. One wore a paper sack over his face, the other a nylon stocking. Earlier Friday night the sheriff’s department investigated a burglary at the home of Gene Johnson, Centerpoint Route 1, located south of Reelsville. A lock on a door had been broken and nearly $2,000 in guns, diamonds, antique coins, a sewing machine and a television set were

stolen.

According to police reports, the theft probably occurred sometime Thursday night. The Johnson family had been away from home a couple of days. They returned Friday and discovered the burglary. Indiana State trooper Randy Green and detective sergeant Kenny Wolfe investigated.

VATICAN CITY (UPI)—Some theologians feel the Roman Catholic Church should expand change to allow married priests and women clergy. But Pope Grim prediction CHICAGO (UPI) — Between 700 and 800 persons will die in automobile accidents during the July 4 holiday weekend, the National Safety Council estimates. “Announcing so dismal an estimate gives us no pleasure,” Council President Howard Pyle said Sunday. The traffic count for the 102hour July 4 weekend begins at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday and ends at midnight Sunday. A similar nonholiday period averages 650 traffic deaths, Pyle said.

Paul has rebuked Catholics who show “a passion for change and novelty.” The pontiff defended the doctrines of papal infallibility and the virgin birth along with celibacy of priests in addressing 50,000 persons at a Mass Sunday night. In marked the start of his sixth year in office and the end of a Catholic “year of faith.” The ceremony began at twilight and ended in floodlighted darkness in St. Peter’s Square. John Patrick Cardinal Cody of Chicago was among 22 cardinals who concelebrated Mass with the Pope. Patrick Louis Cardinal O’Boyle of Washington and Archbishop Terence James Cooke of New York were among church dignitaries who attended.

Berlin squeeze tightens

BERLIN (UPI)—East Germany today puts into effect its tightest squeeze on West Berlin since the building of the Berlin Wall. In defiance of Western protests against interference with the Western right of free access, the East Germans introduced new taxes on road and canal shipments to and from Berlin. It was estimated the new taxes will cost shippers about $20 million, almost twice as much as they already pay the Communists in tolls on highway traffic to and from Berlin. The new squeeze on the K

isolated Western outpost was ordered by the East German government June 11. Along with the taxes, the government required West Berliners and West Germans to get visas costing $2.50 for trips to and from Berlin. The visa requirement went into effect immediately but the tax requirement was scheduled

July 1. he new truck tax is about half cent for every ton :ied and every kilometer eled. Barges pay from in cents a ton to 14 cents, he Western allies protested squeeze but took no direct iter-mei^ures.

They said East Germany had no right to place restrictions on Berlin traffic, which they said had been guaranteed by the Soviets in postwar four-power agreements in Berlin. Both the Soviets and the East Germans paid no apparent attention to Western protests. They said in effect that East Germany had the right to control traffic running through its territory. There was some talk of Western retaliation. But the Western allies, apparently out of a desire to reach a detente with the Soviet Union, took no forceful reprisals.

The Pope’s sternest words were in a “Credo of the People of God” in which he criticized Catholics who “allow themselves to be seized by a kind of passion for change and novelty.” Catholic sources suggested his defense of doctrine appeared intended mainly for liberal churchmen in Holland and other countires who have come up with ideas regarded as heretical by conservative Catholics. Vatican observers said thePope appeared to be suggesting that the liberals stop perpetualing their ideas or face disciplinary action. He touched on such doctrines as have been called into question: — The virginity of Mary. — The real presence of the body and blood of Christ n the Eucharist. — The infallibility of the Pope. The pontiff urged priests to remember their situation “will always be paradoxical and incomprehensible to those who have no faith.” IWeather watcher 1 * Variable cloudiness, windy with chance of thundershowers early tonight. Becoming cooler tonight. Partly cloudy with chance of showers and cooler Tuesday. South to southwest winds 12 to 25 miles per hour and gusty, becoming west to northwest and diminishing tonight. Highs today upper 80’s. Lows tonight lower 60’s. Highs Tuesday around 80. Precipitation probabUity percentages 40 tonight, 30 Tuesday.

U.S. transport plane forced down in U.S.S.R.

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Soviet fighter planes Sunday night forced an American civilian jetliner carrying 214 Vietnambound servicemen and 17 civilian crewmen to land on a Russian island after it apparent, ly strayed into Soviet airspace. The Pentagon said the Seaboard World Airways flight chartered by the military was “escorted” by Soviet MIGs to the Russian base on the island of Iturup in the Kurile chain north of Japan. The Pentagon said the pilot of the American plane radioed that he had landed with no injuries or damages. In Washington, the State Department was in contact with the Soviet Embassy about the incident. The last transmission picked up from the pilot of the plane came at 7:42 p.m., Sunday, 27 minutes after it was intercepted, the Defense Department said. Details of what caused the incident were still sketchy. “It apparently strayed off course,” the Pentagon said, “and was intercepted by Soviet aircraft at 7:15 p.m., EDT and escorted to a landing . . . . ” (The pilot of the plane gave a running radio account of his predicament until he met his Plea return MOWCOW (UPI)—The United States today asked Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin to return the 231-man airliner forced down on a Soviet Pacific island, An American Embassy spokesman said Kosygin replied the matter was under investigation. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson made the request during a IS-minute talk with Kosygin and First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili Kuznetsov during a ceremony at the signing of the treaty banning the spread of nuclear arms. W ages private war By BESSIE FORD MERIDIAN, Miss. (UPI)-A young man wounded in an abortive attempt to bomb the home of a Jewish merchant apparently was waging “guerrilla warfare against the Communist. Jew conspiracy.” A woman was killed and a police officer and a bystander wounded during a gun battle Sunday. Thomas Albert Tarrants III, 22, of Mobile, Ala., was seriously wounded by buckshot when he fled a police stakeout at the home of Meyer Davidson shortly after midnight Sunday. Tarrants’ companica, Mrs. Kathy Ainsworth, 26, a school teacher and card - carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan auxiliary, was killed in the fusillade that also felled officer Mike Hatcher, 30, and sailor Robert Burton, 20, as he ran to investigate the commotion. A notebook found on Tarrants said he was a “Minuteman . . . totally committed to defeating the Communist-Jew conspiracy which threatens our country—any means shall be used.” Police said the notebook said Tarrants had been “underground” since last March 23 and “operating guerrilla warfare. I have always believed in military action agaist the Communist enemy.” Nightriders Strike Officers said nightriders had fired shots into the home of Davidson, who has been active in helping to rebuild several Negro homes and churches burned in night attacks. Police had set up a stakeout at the Davidson house. Police Chief Roy Gunn said a car pulled up in front of the house early Sunday and a man, carrying a box, got out and strode up the front walk. When officers ordered him to halt, he dropped the box and opened fire on them. The box later was found to contain 29 sticks of dynamite. *

“big reception committee” on the ground, another pilot said. (Capt. Dick Rossi of Los Angeles, pilot of a Flying Tiger Airlines plane, was just ahead of the civilian airliner. He said the forced-down pilot talked his way into captivity apparently so that friendly aircraft would know his exact location. (Rossi said he saw no

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG PARIS (UPI) - President Charles de Gaulle today shattered the Communists and won the most stunning landslide election victory in French history. Napoleon never came close to it. After a second Sunday of voting in parliamentary elections, Frenchmen gave the 77-year-old leader control of 355 seats in the 487-seat national assembly. The parliament’s team runs five years. A month ago De Gaulle’s previous 242 - seat minority government wobbled as France collapsed into the chaos fo a 10million man national strike plus werker-student street riots with police. The Communists and other leftwingers proclaimed the De Gaulle era dead and caned tor eftwing government. Communists Cut Drastically But the voters cut the number of Communist seats from 73 to L'3 and their allies, the Federation of the Left, slumped from 121 seats to 57. Election officials said no single political group had won such a victory since France 4 arrested Gary Sutton, age 23, 20 Sunset Dr^e, was arrested on North Jackson St., on charges of speeding Saturday at 2 a.m. by Greencastle City Police. Charles D. Higgins, age 29, 1144 Avenue D, and Richard G. Kiger, age 22, Fillmore Route 1, were arrested at 4 p.m., Sunday on East Washington St. and charged with speeding in a posted zone. Both men were riding motorcycles. City policeman Larry Rogers made the arrest. Earlier Sunday, at 11:05 a.m., Rober A. Steegmiller, age 50, Greencastle, was arrested at the College Castle Motel and charged with public intoxication. John VermiUion was the arresting officer.

American military planes in the area at the time the chartered airliner was intercepted.) The Defense Department said there 174 soldiers, 31 Navy men, 9 Air Force personnel and 17 crewmen aboard the Seaboard DCS jet. Pentagon spokesmen also said its ultimate destination was Vietnam but U.S. military

became a republic in 1793. At 77, Charles de Gaulle may have engineered his finest hour. True to his image of lonely grandeur, De Guile—who had told Frenchmen to choose between himself and Communist “totalitarian dictatorship” — remained silent in his country house, coming back to Paris later in the day. In Paris, Communist leader Waldeck Rochet, his own dreams of power crumbling, told newsmen the election result was wrought by De Gaulle’s “blackmail by fear.” Rochet declared the new parliament will be but a rubber stamp for De Gaulle. Percentage Close Two Sundays ago Frenchmen

By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI)— U.S. Paratroopers smashed a 200-man Viet Cong attack on a nearby base in close combat so fierce that American commanders awarded 16 medals for valor on the spot, military spokesmen said today. The first battalion of the Army 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade killed at least 38 of the guerrillas who stormed out of the night Sunday, hurling satchel charges and grenades into American foxholes already hit by rockets and mortar shells. Five Viet Cong pitched over dead within two yards of one U.S. foxhole. One guerrilla crumpled so close that his chinese-made automatic rifle pitched into a U.S. bunker. Military spokesmen said no Americans were killed. Twentytwo suffered wounds during the two hours of a special kind of GI heroism. One medal went to Spec. 5 Ubaldo Meastas of Santa Monica, Calif., a medic

spoiesmen in Saigon expressed doubt it was taking the servicemen to the war zone. They said the next scheduled Seaboard plane there was due July 11. Indications were the transport was 80 to 100 miles off course. This much variation to the north would have put it in the vicinity of the Soviet islands.

voted in the first round of parliamentary elections, giving Gaullist forces 47 per cent of the vote. In the runoffs of 319 seats Sunday they gave his forces 46 per cent. But since each national assembly seat is decided locally, that percentage was good enough to build a landslide. With all but two seats decided, Gaullist forces took 6.7 million votes and the leftwingers won 6.1 million. Provisional final oflicial figures showed the center party— which preached a middle way between De Gaulle and the leftdropped from 41 to 29 seats. Scattered extremists and splinter rightwingers took 11 seats.

who rushed 20 yards through heavy fire to treat three wounded comrades in a fourman foxhole. Quake rocks Tokyo area TOKYO UPI) — A strong earthquake hit Japan tonight, rocking buildings i" Tokyo and disrupting electric power and communications. Jrain service was halted for fear of damage to the rails. Power in the UPI office just across the stree from the Imperial Palace was off for 28 minutes. Residents called it the worst quake in year. The Meteorological Agency said the epicenter of the quake was in Ibaragi prefecture, east of Tokyo. But shock waves hit Yokohama, Chiba and Mito. The National Railway Corporation stopped its train service in Tokyo and the vicinity to determine if the earthquake had damaged rail lines.

BECKY HOPKINS is the honored queen of the Greencastle Chapter of Job's Daughters. She was installed during ceremonies over the weekend at the.Masonic Temple. Other

members of the court are (left) Becky McMains, senior princess, and (right) Carol Giltz, out-going honored queen.

Not even Napoleon ...

Awarded medals