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VOLUME SEVENTY'SIX

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1968

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FLOWERS OF SUMMER, in a rainbow of variety and color, were featured during a workshop in the Community Building on the Putnam County Fairgrounds, Monday evening. Betty Sendmeyer (above, left) extension agent for women, directed the event for members of Extension Homemakers Clubs Soil moisture termed adequate

in Putnam County. Members of 4-H who will display flow ers at the 1968 4 H Fair also attended. Kenneth Eitel (be low) local florist, displayed several floral arrangements and demonstrated proper techniques of handling and arranging flowers.

Khe Sanh again battleground

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI)— Rains, sometimes heavy, last week restored ratings of adequate to surplus to Indiana subsoil and topsoil. Robert E. Straszheim,agricultural statistician at Purdue, said in his weekly crop report that the rains limited farmers to two days * for field work but increased the soil moisture rat-

ings.

“Topsoil moisture was surplus in most northern counties and adequate to surplus in central and southern counties," the report said. “The southwest was one of the drier areas in the state." ,r Wheat combining to date has been limited to southern counties," the report said, “mostly in southwestern Indiana. Less than 5 per cent has been combined, and most farmers are waiting for drier field conditions to begin harvest. Only 5 per cent was harvested at this time last year, but 20 per cent is Testimony opens in SI50,000 suit Jurors were selected and preliminary testimony heard from two witnesses Monday in the $150,000 Putnam Circuit Court damage suit of Willard Jarvis vs. the estate of Russellville farmer Fred McGaughey. James Garrett, Roachdale Route 1, and Ned Soulliere, Terre Haute, were called by attorneys for Jarvis to recount circumstances they observed Nov. 23, 1966, when an auto driven by Jarvis, Waveland, collided with a farm tractor and wagon operated by McGaughey on U.S. 236 just south of Russellville. McGaughey was killed and Jarvis injured in the accident. Jarvis is seeking a total of $151, 075 in damages from the McGaughey estate. Jury selection Monday took nearly five hours, with nine men and three women finally seated and instructed by Judge Francis N. Hamilton. Testimony resumed at 9 a.m. today, and court officials hoped for a wrap-up by the end of today’s session.

average. Virtually no spring oats have been combined as yet, but this is par with the five-year average." Straszheim also reported that “little corn has tasseled to date, but scattered fields in southern and central areas have begun to tassel."

Fair and cooler tonight. Mostly sunny and mild Wednesday. High today 77 to 82. Low tonight 53 to 59. High Wednesday around 80. Precipitation probability percentage 5 tonight and Wednesday. Goes to FHA convention Miss Julie Neumeister , Fillmore, will represent Putnam County at the national meeting of America. The meeting will be from July 8 to 11 in Miami Beach, Fla. According to Miss Joyce Konzelman, F.H.A. state advisor, twelve state officers will attend as delegates from Indiana. They will leave Sunday, July 7. In Miami Beach they will join approximately 1,200 other delegates from across the United States. Planned entirely by delegates, each state is responsible for some segment of the meeting. The Indiana delegates will present the “Thought For The Day” during the closing session, Thursday morning. The meeting launches the 23rd year of the national youth organization for students of home economics. F.H.A. has a national membership of more than 600, 000 students and more than 12, 000 chapters in the U.S. and its territories. Auto fire The Greencastle Fire Department was called Monday at 3:27 p.m. to the intersections of Seminary and Vine Sts., where a car was on fire. The fire was confined to the backseat of the auto, owned by Frank and Judy O’Hair, Box 151, Bainbridge.

By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI)— U.S. headquarters today announced the first major battle around Khe Sanh since the Marines began pulling out—a sharp, nine-hour clash that cost the Communists 157 men and the Leathernecks two. The announcement said a company of Marines ran into the large Communist unit three miles south of the base Monday as demolition teams finished off bunker after bunker at the controversial outpost in South Vietnam’s northwest corner. Gen. Creighton W. Abram’s command said last Thursday the base that survived a 77-day Communist siege and almost continual shelling earlier in the year was being abandoned. Spokesmen said the allies now had sufficient troops to conduct mobile patrols around the hillock bastion.

Marine fighter-bombers from Da Nang and Chu Lai ripped into the Communist positions during tht battle Monday and bombed 60 Viet Cong reinforcements headed across an open field to the fight, U.S. officials said.

Fine 4 minors Robert Bitzer and J. Randolph Mark, both 18, and Allen R. Buchanan and Lewis Caplinger, both 17, all of Greencastle, were fined $50 and costs each in the Putnam Circuit Court Monday on charges of being minors in possession of alcoholic beverages. Restrictions were placed on their drivers’ licenses by Judge Francis Hamilton. Also pleading guilty to a similar charge was Robert G. Robinson, 18, whose plea was taken under advisement.

Death warning sought in cigarette advertising

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Citing what it called evidence of new links between smoking and fatal disease, the government has asked Congress to outlaw radio and television cigarette commercials and require stronger health warnings in other adverUsing. In separate recommendations Monday, the Health, Education and Welfare Department called for a “death" warning on cigarette packages and ads, and the Rederal Trade Commission went farther and urged a ban on all cigarette commercials. HEW Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen said the current package warning reading “Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health” should be replaced with one saying: “Warning: Cigarette smoking is dangerous to health and may cause death from cancer and other diseases." Life Expectancy Cut Cohen, citing a new study by the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, said there was now evidence young men who are heavy smokers lose

By SCOTT B. BRUNS LONDON (UPI)—A court today ordered James Earl Ray extiadited to the United States to stand trial for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kay, 40, identified as an escaped convict from a Missouri jail, was accused of shooting the civil rights leader in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4. He was arrested at London Airport June 8. Ray’s defense attorney, Roger Frisby, argued in Bow Street Magistrate Court that the slaying was a political crime. But Frank Milton, chief metropolitan magistrate for London, agreed with the U.S. position it was outright murder. Ray, so nervous he was almost incoherent, had shown earlier in a surprise statement to the court that he feared— and perhaps, expected—the extradition to be granted. There was still much legal red tape to go through before Ray returns to the United States. His defense attorney indicated he would appeal in a maneuver that could take weeks. Milton in his ruling said no evidence had been presented at the two-part hearing to substantiate defense claims the slaying was a political crime. He also ruled that Missouri law covering robbery with violence was relevant in the extradition case. Missouri wants Ray for trial on charges he escaped from prison while serving a term for armed robbery. In his unexpected personal appearance before the Bow Street Magistrate Court Ray said the American prosecution case “is not too favorable to me.”

four years in life expectancy and light smokers lose two. Heavy smoking was defined as two packs a day, light smoking less than half a pack. In addition to the link with lung cancer—first asserted by a surgeon general’s report four years ago—smoking can contribute to death from coronary heart disease and to the development of cardiovascular disease, Cohen said. He said some of the harmful effects appear to be reversible after the smoker quits. The initial surgeon general’s report touched off a flurry of legislative proposals that ended with enactment of the cigarette package labeling requirement in 1965. Unanimous On Warning Cohen and all five members of the FTC concurred in proposing the new health warning for packages, recommending that it also be required in all cigarette ads in print or on the air, and urging that both packages and ads be required to carry the brand’s tar and nicotine content. The absolute prohibition of

Ray, bouncing up and down on the heels and toes of his feet, spoke in a staccato voice. It was difficult to understand him.

Victim critical An Indianapolis man was listed in very critical condition in Putnam County Hospital this morning following a one-car accident on Ind. 236 two miles west of Roachdale. Details on the accident, involving Bernard Lee McPeek, 1321 North Windfall, Indianapolis, were not available at press time. State Trooper Jack Hanlon investigated the accident which occurred at 5 a.m., Tuesday.

By TOM WALLER INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)- Simon Boorda of South Bend was a surprised man Monday night when a United Press International reporter told him that he was one of seven men in the country who will be investigated by the Subversive Activities Control Board to determine whether he is a member of the Communist party. ■ “I haven’t heard anything about it," Boorda said, speaking over the telephone from his South Bend home. “But it’s strange this announcement is made on the eve of the Communist convention in New York."

cigarette commercials was recommended by the FTC alone on a 3 to 2 vote. The commission said that on an average, Americans see66.75 cigarette commercials on television a month. The FTC also called for federal funds for the National Institure of Health to develop a less hazardous cigarette.

Bert A. Hanson, an executive of Republic Steel Corporation’s Union Drawn Division plant in Gary, will speak at the noon

Bert A. Hanson

meeting of the Greencastle Kiwanis Club on July 11 at the DePauw University Memorial Union Building. Hanson, representingSteel Producers of Indiana, will talk about the impending threat to jobs of 70,000 Hoosier steelworkers and to Indiana's economy from rising foreign steel imports. His firm is a member of Steel Producers of Indiana, an industry task force organized among Indiana’s steel-producing companies to acquaint Hoosiers with the importance of the steel import problem.

The next query revealed that Boorda will be attending the convention, despite his refusal to confirm that he is a Communist or the Indiana state chairman of the Communist party. Boorda and six others were identified by the Justice Department Monday as Communist party officials. The department asked the SACB to formally verify that the seven idividuals it named are actually members of the Communist party. “The board (SACB) is a disservice to the nation,” Boorda said. “We are founded on democratic principles, and a board like this inhibits a man from

Cohen said “new evidence" substantiates the finding that cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer in men and is realted to lung cancer in women; is a significant factor in the cause of cancer of the larynx and in the development of cancer of the oral cavity, and may be a cause of cancer of the bladder and pancreas.

Indiana is the third largest state in the production of raw steel, ranking only behind Pennsylvania and Ohio. A graduate of Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., Mr. Hanson has been with Republic Steel since 1961 when he was appointed industrial engineer at the company’s Massillon, Ohio, plant. He came to the Gary plant in 1966. He is a member of the American Society of Industrial Engineers. Dustin blasts Big Walnut FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI)— Thomas E. Dustin of the Indiana Division of the Izaak Walton League Monday praised the Senate Public Works Committee for removing the Big Walnut Valley flood control project from an appropriations bill. But he warned it was “only a temporary victory" for the league and other conservation, ists interested in preserving the valley instead of flooding it. “Pushers of the ruinous project will try to hustle it back into the omnibus bill through a rear door, even though the administration has not approved it," Dustin said. He said floor amendment tactics may be used to restore the project to the bill and added “we fully expect Congressmen John Myers and-or Roger Zion and possibly Indiana’s senators to resort to such devices."

taking stands that are the honest opinion of the majority. “Like in the McCarthy era," Boorda continued, “those years were unjust to all men who had the constitutional right to a po. litical opinion." The McCarran Act of 1950 requires the Justice Department to ask the board for a formal ruling declaring a person to be a Communist if the department has reason to believe so. It is not illegal to be a Communist in America, and finding that a person is a Communist carries no penalty, although if a man is declared to be a CornContinued on Page 4

Order Ray extradited

Hoosier ‘surprised’ at communist label

Threats to steel Kiwanis talk

U.S.-Soviet arms talks ‘most complex’

By DONALD H. MAY WASHINGTON (UPI) - Robert S. McNamara, when he was defense secretary, once said “The root of man’s security does not lie in his weaponry" but “in his mind.” Presumably in mutual recognition of this, the United States and the Soviet Union are moving toward negotiations on slowing the pace of their race to build up nuclear weapons deterrents. At the signing Monday of the treaty to halt the spread of such weapons to the non-nuclear nations, President Johnson said the discussions would start “in the nearest future." In Moscow, Soviet Premier

Alexei Kosygin set forth broad and detailed proposals for slowing the proliferation of arms, including a ban on international flights and cruises by planes and submarines carrying atomic weapons. U.S.-Soviet talks, if they come to real grips with the problem, are likely to be among the most complex and difficult ever attempted. Intricate System The nuclear arms race will be hard to unravel because it amounts to much more than simply building ever more and better weapons. It is a matter of intricate actions and reactions.

The most important thing, at any given time, is the balance between the two sides—that of deterrence. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union could now attack the other without being destroyed in return. The Pentagon calculates that if Moscow attacked first, sufficient U.S. underground missiles, submarine missiles and bombers would survive to kill 120 million Russians. If the United States struck first, 120 million Americans would die. Knowing this, neither country is likely to start nuclear war except by accident, gross miscalculation or madness. The balance is not stationary, like two weights on a set of

scales. It is more like two people running to keep up with each other. But even that analogy doesn’t quite fit. Because it takes many years to build a weapons system, both countries actually are running now to reach the point where each thinks the other will be in the 1970s. Also, each country must base its calculations not on how fast it really expects the other to run, but on the maximum possible progress the other might make. In this way is the arms race propelled. Before 1967 Moscow began building an antiballistic missile (ABM) system, called Galosh, around Moscow. Work on it has been slow. It has not been expanded to other cities.

But because of the possibility that Moscow’s infant ABM might be expanded by the 1970s, the United States plans in the next few years to convert part of its force of 1,710 land and sea-based missiles to multiple warheads. The multiple warhead missiles, known as MIRV, will be a huge stpe in the arms race. In a few years they will multiply several-fold the number of U.S. explosives which could be rained on the Soviet Union. This will mean that ABM defenses several times heavier could be penetrated. Defense officials have said that after an initial U.S. deployment of some MIRVs, the extent to which this country

deploys more will depend on Moscow’s progress on AM. More Items Included Therefore, the “trade" in U.S.-Soviet talks might not be just ABM against ABM but might also include the MIRV. The arms race doesn’t end here. The Soviets have been building more ICBMs, their numbers now approaching those of this country. They have been building missiles of higher payload. They have been improving their submarine missile force. Against the possibility the Soviets might improve their offensive weapons even more, particularly in accuracy, the United States is developing a “superhard" missile silo to protect its ICBMs.

It is looking into new, more advanced ICBMs, and longerrange submarine missiles. Problems Of Trust Some U.S. weapons experts have long thought that at the very least the two countries should talk over the complexities of the arms race in hopes of avoiding escalation based on misunderstanding. One major problem would be how far they could trust each other. Beyond that, the administration has talked about negotiating some kind of “freeze" and ultimate reduction in nuclear arsenals. The problem of inspection, to which Moscow traditionally objects, could be formidible, but perhaps not as severe as it once was.

In the age of observation space satellites, intelligence is getting better. The U.S. Aarms Control and Disarmament Agency has done considerable research on unobtrusive, unmanned inspection devices including advanced chemical and physical sensors, acoustic, photographic and spectroscopic techniques, and analysis of economic indicators. But the problem of just how to freeze the cycle of acion and reaction is immense. At each stage of disarmament the balance of deterrence would have to be maintained. Hawkish sentiment in each country which feared the other was gaining advantage would have to be satisified.

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