The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 July 1968 — Page 7

Wednesday, July 3, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 7

Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF nPHERE’S A FIELD correspondent for a big London daily 1 covering the war in Vietnam who has a sadly needed sense of humor. Last Fourth of July he ran a British flag up a pole outside his quarters, hung up a cracked photograph of George Washington and crayoned a sign under the picture that read, “WANTED FOR TREASON” * * * Two raw-boned youths left their Oklahoma birthplace to seek their fortunes in wicked New York—and both made good in a big way. When their paths crossed for the first time in Manhattan they fell to reminiscing happily over beakers of grog. “Remember,” chuckled one. “when you only had a single pair of shoes to your name back there in Oklahoma?” “I sure do,” nodded the other, “and you asked me what they were used for.” * * * Larry Spivak, relentless interrogator on that long-running TV show, "Meet the Press,” doesn’t pull punches, no matter how important his guest may be. For instance, before Adlal Stevenson consented to occupy the hot seat, he told Spivak, “I hope you'll have mercy on me.” "You want Mercy on?” answered Spivak. "What newspaper does he work for?” “Skip it,” sighed Stevenson. "I should have realized you don’t know the meaning of the word.” Urges abolishing death penalty

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, quoting George Bernard Shaw that “murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another but similars that breed their kind,” urged Congress Tuesday to abolish the death penalty for federal crimes. Clark thus put the Johnson administration squarely behind a bill by Sen. Philip A. Hart, DMich. The bill specifies the death sentence may not be imposed for any offense punishable under federal law. It also provides that anyone under the death sentence for a federal

crime at time of enactment of the bill would have his sentence reduced to life imprisonment. Clark, testifying before a Senate subcommittee said: “In the midst of anxiety and fear, complexity and doubt, perhaps our greatest need is reverence for life, mere life: Our lives, the lives of others,all life . . . “A humane and generous concern for every individual, for his safety, his health and his fulfillment will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.”

Feminine horizon By SUSAN GOLUENBERG INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Petite, auburn-haired Mary Jo Rock is "pleased and happy” her husband, Lt. Gov. Robert Rock, is seeking the governor’s office. But the wife of the Democratic nominee said she is not “overcome” because her husband has “always been in government and it has always been our life.” Mrs. Rock, of Anderson, brings seemingly endless energy, abundant charm and a genuine desire to meet people to her position as a campaign wife. She enjoys making speeches even though she said she is not a “great orator.” “Indiana people are marvelous and they don't expect you to be a great orator. They are kind and appreciate your efforts,” she said. Since the lieutenant governor announced his gubernatorial ambitions last January, Mrs. Rock has been making and taking phone calls, arranging meetings, and stuffing envelopes as well as delivering speeches. If her husband is elected, Mrs. Rock said they have a “dream” of forming a state women’s organization which would have as its main concern the interests of the “forgotten people” in mental and penal institutions. “The organization would be made up of representatives from women’s clubs and sororities throughout the state and would be aimed at giving continuing service to Indiana's social structure,” she said. “They could learn what can be done without it costing the state money.” Mary Jo Ferguson and Robert Rock grew up next door to each other in Anderson. She recalled that as he was seven years older and she was the youngest girl on the block it was Rock's responsibility to look after her. After she was graduated from a course in education at Indiana University, they were mar. ried. The Rocks have four children — all “red-heads.” They are Kathy, 11, Karen, 9, Karel, 8, and Bobby, 6. The family are avoid swimmers and bicyclists, with the parents often using a tandem bike. Summers are spent at a farm eight miles north of Anderson where Mrs. Rock is proudly growing a rose garden. Days for Mrs. Rock start at 6 a.m. Because she often does not get time during the day to change clothes, she tries to wear classic, simple dresses of materials that won’t wrinkle or muss. She buys a few new clothes each season. Mrs. Rock always carries an extra pair of stockings as a safety precaution but sometimes prefers to make an appearance with a run in her hose. “For instance, we were running late for an appearance at Connersville because of bad weather and I decided it was better to have a runner than be even later,” she said. * » » Tlie largest single military fortification of ancient times was the Great Wall of China.

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On the lighter side

By MARGUERITE DAVIS WASHINGTON (UPI)-A project just off Agriculture Department draft boards is aimed at enticing everyone to national forests. A “Braille trail” is planned for the blind. Approaches to fishing ponds will be specially designed to accommodate the physically handicapped. Interpretive trails are to be geared for different ages, and provisions made for studying geology and plants, animals and

birds.

The National Forest Service project is to be tried in the Massanutten unit of George Washington National Forest, 70 miles west of Washington in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. If the test proves successful there, NFS hopes to expand the program to more of the 154 national forests in 40 states, with emphasis on those near big cities. Forest Service officials note that help of private community Viet plane on attack? SAIGON (UPI) - Reliable American military sources said Tuesday an unidentified plane which may have been a Communist MIG dropped bombs near a U.S. Special Forces camp 30 miles west of Saigon. The raider may also have shot down an American helicopter. There was no official confirmation from the U.S. Command on what could be the first attack on South Vietnamese territory by Communist planes. U.S. B52 jets flew 10 missions against North Vietnamese territory Tuesday in the second consecutive day of saturation missions in the northern half of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone and the southern fringes of North Vietnam itself. Sources reporting the bombings near Saigon said U.S. radar picked up a “high performance aircraft” with the flight characteristics of an early model Soviet, made MIG 17 as it streaked in from Cambodia. These same sources said a second blip appeared near the plane on the radar scope but disappeared minutes later, raising the possibility a helicopter may have been shot down. A helicopter has been listed as “missing” in the area, sources

said.

U.S. informants said the unidentified jet then dropped three “high explosive” bombs near the Thanh Tri Special Forces camp, one of the Allied bastions along the Cambodian frontier designed to stem the Communist indiltration into South Vietnam. No casualties were reported.

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and school districts will be needed to fulfill the plan to open the forests to youth groups, the underprivileged, and the handicapped. For example, means of transportation must be found, and supervisors must accompany young people. It is hoped the George Washington National Forest project will be ready to begin limited operations soon after school resumes in the fall. An old house is being rehabilitated for use as a visitors’ center, and a study by the National Audubon Society will identify plants and wildlife as part of the outdoor education program. The Braille trail likely will be among the last features to be added, but its success already is assured. The 600 - foot - long Roaring Fork Braille Trail in Colorado’s White River National Forest, opened last September, is proof of that. Sighted, as well as the sightless, follow the pathway strung with nylon cord through the forest. Braille and printed cards are installed at each station along the way so that every visitor may read the messages, with educated fingertips if not

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The Lighter Side By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)—Social notes: Last Sunday evening, the Bourbon Institute entertained a few Internal Revenue officials and other appropriate guests with what was billed as “The world’s first Fiscal New Year’s Eve party.” Actually, it may have been only the world’s second Fiscal New Year’s Eve party. I seem to recall having attending a Fiscal New Year's Eve party once before. However, that one may have started out as a regular New Year's Eve party. (Some New Year’s parties don’t break up until July 1. Or at least it takes that long to recover.) Scotch Drinkers Unhappy Any, the Bourbon Institute’s party was pretty much like the Strike ends NEW YORK (UPI)-Some 45,000 members of the National Maritime Union (NMU) headed back to sea Tuesday following settlement of a three-day strike which tied up ships in East and Gulf coast ports. The settlement granted almost all the union’s demands. The strike against the Mari, time Service Committee and the Tanker Service Committee came to an end Monday afternoon in the offices of arbitrator Theodore Kheel who awarded the union a 5 per cent wage increase from $423 per month to $444 and 15 additional vacation days.

regular type. Everyone had a good time, except perhaps the scotch drinkers. At midnight (British gold exchange time) we sang “Should gold acquaintance be forgot?” Then we tossed around some confetti, which consisted of shredded up copies of the President’s budget message. Later on, some of us gathered around the piano for a little close harmony. We saluted the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee with two choruses of “Down by the Old Wilbur Mills Stream.” I san tenor. “Miss Liquid Asset of Fiscal 19G9” moved among us with a cocktail tray. The manhattans were garnished with stock market tips instead of cherries. The next morning I found myself ringing in the new fiscal year with a ringing in my ears. My mouth felt like the bottom

vault at Ft. Knox. Read Predictions 1 brought in the morning paper and turned immediately to the financial section to see what the economists were predicting for fiscal 1909. The soothsayers had several soothful things to say. Among other things, they predicted that the upcoming tax increase would cause a “cooling oil” of the national economy. It made me feel proud to learn I was so far ahead of the rest of the economy. My economy has lieen cooled ofl for years, usually to the point where frost forms. I decided it was time to make a couple of fiscal new year's resolutions. Which I did. I resolved to; 1. Move my green stamps to a Swiss bank. 2. Stop going to Fiscal New Year’s Eve parties.

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