The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 July 1968 — Page 1
The Daily Banner
INDIANA STATE LIBRARY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA “It Waves For Air’
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VOLUME SEVENTY'SIX
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 5. 1968
UPI News Service IOC Per Copy No. 211
THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM sparkled Thursday night as young and old remembered the birthday of the nation. The dancing white lights of sparklers and the red, green, blue.
and gold bursts of fire from the fireworks display at Windy Hill all exemplified the wonders of a nation that is free.
’68 County Fair w i 11 feature talent contest
The Triple Champion Putnam County Fair will open at the Fairgrounds on July 28. The fair is rightly named Triple Champion because in the years 1965-66-67 the fair was awarded a championship trophy by the State Association of County and District Fairs.
Advanced tickets for admission to the fairgrounds will go on sale today at the County Extension Office and at Donelson’s Drug Store. • The opening event for this years’ fair will be the 4-H Dress Revue to be held in the arena at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 28. Fol-
FCC hunting Hughes* ghost
By ISABELLE MCCAIG WASHINGTON (UPI)—Can the Federal Communications Commission smoke out billionaire mystery - man Howard Hughes to defend his bid for control of American Broadcast, ing Companies, Inc.? Just two days after he hit Wall Street with his sensational offer to buy two million shares of the third-ranked network’s common stock, the FCC announced it would hold public hearings. The commission stressed that the transaction involved “a possible transfer of control of one of the most important mediums of mass communication in the nation.” At the same time, it ordered Hughes specifically not to exercise any voting rights in the shares of ABC stock he may acquire pending the hearing “or in any way to seek to influence the policies or operations of ABC.” Hughes assured the commission he would not exercise any voting rights to exert a controlling influence without first obtaining commission consent—if, that is, his offer to buy is accepted. No date was set for the hearings to determine Hughes’ qualifications to hold a controlling interest in ABC. But the FCC emphasized that the Fire, rescue teams know no holiday There was no July 4 holiday for firemen of the Greencastle Fire Department. From 7:20 to 9:15 a.m., they were at the home of Abraham Sutherlin, R ockville Road, Greencastle Route 3. An overheated stove was blamed for the blaze that caused an estimated $1800 damage to the frame structure and $300 damage to the contents of the building. At 7:58 p.m. the Rescue Unit was called to Van Bibber’s Lake where William Robert Walker, 1229 N. Pennsylvania St., Apt. 101, Indianapolis, was suffering from a heart condition. Oxygen was ad mini sired and the man was taken to the Putnam County Hospital in a Whitaker ambulance. At 8:50 p.m. a 1964 Chrysler four-door. Yellow Cab, was driven by Chester McHargue to the Fire Station. Firemen extinguished a blaze in the rear seat, caused by a cigarette, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $60
serious questions raised should be fully explored and all necessary witnesses examined. The commission might well call Hughes—62-year-old financier who ranks with J. Paul Getty as America’s richest individuals—to testify in person. (The two men are each estimated to be worth between $1 billion and $1.5 billion each.) Hughes, who has not been seen in public for years, has such a penchant for privacy he might drop the whole deal rather than make an appearanee. He did just that, apparently, when he relinquished control of Trans World Airlines, Inc., without a court fight.
lowing this will be the All-De-nominational Church Service in the arena at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Monday morning, July 29, the exhibit^ of livestock and crops will be put into place, and the fair will officially open at 8 a.m. Monday. At this time judging will start in many of the divisions of the fair and will continue until the fair closes officially at 11 p.m. Saturday, August 2. An Amateur Talent Contest has been added to the fair program this year. Preliminaries in the contest will start on Tuesday evening, will continue through Wednesday evening, and the finals will be held on Saturday evening. Saturday morning an Antique Car Show will start at the fair and will continue throughout the afternoon. The Horse Show, which was originated last year running all day Saturday and Saturday evening, will be repeated again this year. Also new to the fair program will be concerts by different high school bands from the county. The Greencastle band will perform on Tuesday evening— The Cloverdale band on Wednesday evening—and the Fillmore band on Thursday evening.
Leon Snyder new principal
The «6outh Putnam Community School Corporation has appointed Leon N. Snyder of Greencastle to the position of principal of the Reelsville and Putnamville Schools. Snyder is well known in Putnam County. He began his teaching career in Putnamville High School, and later taught in the Belle Union, Fillmore and Greencastle High Schools. He is a former principal of Jones Elementary School in Greencastle. Snyder has also spent several years as an educator in Vero Beach, Florida schools. He has traveled extensively both in the United States and Europe. Snyder holds the B.S. Degree from DePauw University and the M.S, ^rom Columbia. He has completed additional g r a d u • ate studies at Indiana State, Butler, DePauw and Florida State Universities. • The board also elected officers for the 1968-69 school year at its
regular meeting July 1. Estal Scobee is the new president succeeding Truman McCammack. Max Zaring is vice president and Lee O. Zieg is secretary. Mrs.^Ivia Query was appointed Tr«lsurer of the school cor. poration.
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Partly cloudy and mild with slight chance of evening thundershowers. Mostly sunny with little temperature change Saturday. Highs today 78 to 84. Lows tonight 55 to 61. Highs Saturday 78 to 84. Precipitation probability percentages 20 tonifrht. 10 Sattirdav
5 prisoners escape
CHICAGO (UPI)—Five prisoners overpowered three guards, took their uniforms and guns and tried to scramble over the fence at the Cook County Jail Thursday night. The prisoners, who fled their unlocked cells, then engaged in a lengthy gunbattle with jail police and city and county author^es before one of their number was wounded. The other four were captured early this morning after being out of their cells for three hours. The wounded prisoner was taken to Cook County Hospital where he was treated for gunshot wounds. None of the guards nor police who answered the call was injured. Warden Winston Moore said the five prisoners were able to pull their escape attempt because “some officers didn’t lock their cells. It was negligence.”
Missiles fail to stop bombers
By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI)-U.S. B52s struck North Vietnam’s Southern Panhandle for the fifth day in a row in one of the war’s heaviest bombardments, military spokesmen said today. The Communists vainly tried to stop the Stratofortresses with missile fire. The spokesmen said crewmen aboard the eight-engine Strategic Air £ommand bombers Thursday saw at least two surface to air missiles (SAMs) fired at them. Both missed. It was the first time in two
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG PARIS (UPI)—In France a gallon of gasoline costs $1 or more today and is going up. The national economy is running scared. President (sharles de Gaulle recently triumphed over a 10million man strike, the Communist party and rebel students. Today's French crisis is in the pocketbook. The bankers talk in big pictures—gold reserves falling, bank interest rates rising. But unlucky little Pierre looks at the rising cost of a haircut, a sleeping car berth to the Riviera vacation and—no small beer in France—a glass of table wine. No Devaluation French officials said De Gaulle's government is determined to live up to its pledges not to devalue the Franc. %nd that is the heart of the matter. Devaluation—about five francs now equal “$1—would strike French prestige and wipe out much of the recent salary hikes. In the past 10 years, De Gaulle painfully, proudly built up its stores of gold and foreign exchange currencies. Once a postwar economic sickman, France by the end of May had $6.4 billion in Bank of France reserves. Then the trouble tame. The big strike resulted in big
months the North Vietnamese had got a shot at the high-flying B52s. Five of the Stratoforts have crashed due to accidents in Vietnam but none has been lost in combat despite repeated Hanoi boasts. Because of the danger of missiles, the B52s have rarely— until this week—ventured into North Vietnam. But U.S. spokesmen revealed that since Sunday the huge bombers have pounded North Vietnamese ter. ritory 27 times—11 times inside the border of the Demilitarized Zone and 16 times above.
wage increases. It also walloped industry with lost production and the cost of the pay boosts. In London, Zurich and other world banking centers, financiers reckoned the new look in Paris' Franc was more Twiggy than ‘Anita Ekberg. They began selling Francs, figuring boom was giving way to bust in France. De Gaulle has had already to shell out $1.3 billion in gold reserves to pay off the Franc sellers and the end is not in sight. Raises Bank Interest De Gaulle raised bank interest rates from 3.5 to 5 per cent in order to keep foreign money from fleeing France. No French government had done such a thing since prewar depression days. No one appeared sure even that would work. French stocks have been falling in exchanges around the world. De Gaulle only weeks ago had been scolding the United States and Britain about their allegedly weak currencies, the dollar and the pound. Now the Franc was under attack. He has taken more defensive measures. Reluctantly his Common Market partners—West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg—are allowing De Gaulle to throw up protective tariffs to protect his weakened economy.
Hit Red Troops In four strikes Thursday, the B52s bombed artillery sites, weapbns positions and suspected North Vietnamese army troop concentrations, spokesmen said. American intelligence sources said that since U.S. bombing was limited to the panhandle April 1, the North Vietnamese have increased both the number of troops and gun batteries just above the DMZ. Just below the DMZ, the ground war raged. * About 100 North Vietnamese troops at dawn Thursday charged out of dense jungle and a U.S. Marines 12 miles below the DMZ and three miles southeast of Khe Sanh, • the Leatherneck fort being abandoned. The Marines, number about 200, drove the attackers back. They killed at least 17 North Vietnamese. Four Marines were killed and 13 wounded. 40-Minute Fight The battle lasted 40 minutes. It erupted where the Marines were guarding Highway 9, the only open road from allied coastal bastions to Khe Sanh. 4-H contests ' Tuesday The annual 4-H Demonstration and Public Speaking Event will be held Tuesday, July 9 at the 4-H Community Build-
ing.
The Junior contestants will register between 9-9:15 a.m. and the Seniors will register between 1-1:15 p.m. Juniors are girls and boys not yet in high school and Seniors are those who have been in high school. Seniors will demonstrate in 17 separate categories, including meat products, fruits and vegetables, breads and pastry, dairy foods, clothing, home furnishings, electric, crafts, horticulture (garden, flowers, small fruits, landscaping), field crops, conservation, poultry and eggs, farm equipment, livestock, dairy, horse and pony and general(nutrition, health, safety, photography). One demonstration will be selected in each category to re-
Nearer Saigon, U.S. Army infantrymen still had no report on how many Communist soldiers died in aTi almost suicidal assault on a U.S. camp 40 miles northwest of the capital, where the Viet Cong are believed massing 2,000 to 4,000 troops for a push toward the city. Three American soldiers were killed and 50 wounded in the 500-round mortar and rocket barrage preceding the attack
By HELEN THOMAS SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)— President Johnson invited President Repe Barrientos to lunch today as a prelude to the weekend summit meeting in El Salvador with Central American heads of state. Johnson planned to leave early Saturday. Reports have spread that this is only the beginning of presidential travels before Johnson leaves office in January. Authoritative sources -said another trip to Latin America, possibly Colombia, was in the works for later this summer. Also rumored is a return journey to the Pacific for a meeting with President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. This week Johnson was stressing his warm feelings for nations south of the border. Barrientos was in Texas for Olivia Day at Hemisfair and the President invited him to the LBJ ranch 75 miles north of San Antonio for conversations. In a In a strong Fourth of July statement, Johnson condemned the “intolerance” of hecklers who prevented third party presidential candidate George Wallace from speaking i n M i n n e a polls Wednesday
night.
He said the demonstrations were the “antithesis of what we began 192 years ago today” with the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
“Freedom to speak, freedom
and during the 2'--hour fight at Dau Tieng itself. In other developments: — President Nguyen Van Thieu gave his blessing to a new alliance of 28 Vietnamese political and civic organizations with all the earmarks of a progovernment political party. — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman completed his third day in Vietnam with another tour of agricultural projects. He is to leave for Manila Saturday.
several exhibits but appeared partial to the institute of Texan cultures which graphically depitiS the melding of ethnic groups that made the long star state what it is today. Johnson took a swing around the exhibits of Spain, Italy, Korea, Thailand, Mexico as well but made a broad detour, observers said, to avoid visiting the French pavilion. Arrested John R. McMurty, age 22, Bainbridge Route 1, was arrested at 3:10 a.m., July 4, on charges of furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor. Sheriff Bob Albright made the arrest. At the same time, Larry York, age 19, Roachdale, was arrested by Sheriff Albright on charges of a minor in possession. Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown arrested Johnny David Osborn, age 27, Roachdale Route 1, July 4 at 11:30 p.m., on charges of public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. George Thomas Griffin, Roachdale, age 21, was arrested by Brown at the same time and charged with public intoxication. Patricia Kallner, age 21, 302 W. Poplar St., was arrested at 2:25 a.m., July 4, on W. Jacobs St., on charges of failure to exhibit registration. Sgt. A.L. Hubble was the arresting officer. Fillmore coach promoted
French crisis in the pocketbook
LBJ travels to stretch far, wide
Group ready for Bolivia trek
Three Greencastle Methodists will leave Tuesday, July 9,,for a month’s special missionary work in Bolivia. They are Dr. and Mrs. James B. Johnson and Mrs. Jameson Jones. Gobin Church will honor the three during an informal fellowship hour on the church lawn this Sunday, at 10:30 a.m., following the service. All members and friends are invited. A committee headed by Mrs. Dan Smith is preparing refreshments. In La Paz, Bolivia, Dr. and Mrs. Johnson will provide medical services to Aymara Indian people who have moved from rural areas into the city. Dr. Johnson is taking medical equipment to leave for the establishment of a permanent clinic. Mrs. Jones will work with a Methodist minister from Crawfordsville, the Rev. Keith Carlile, and nine high school students representing the Terre Haute District Methodist Youth Fellowship, in helping the Indian people to build a church building. The youth and adults pay their own expenses for the trip. Gobin Methodists have contributed to the costs of the new church building, arid have given equipment for it: cross and candlesticks for the altar, the communion serving pieces, church school equipment, and athletic ‘Independence’ on July fourth COVINGTON, Ind. (UPI)— Two prisoners escaped from the Fountain County jail here Thursday night, apparently with their own notions of Independence Day. Sheriff Art Creua said Raymond Paul M a e s t r e y, 23, Hyattsville, ^Id., and William Cornett, 16, R.R. 3, Chesterton, escaped about 9 p.m. Their direction and method of travel was unknown. Maestrey was being held on charges of stealing a vehicle and resisting an officer. Cornett 1 was being held for inflicting injury in commission of a robbery and fot escaping from the Hen-
and recreational equipment. The youth are from Clay, Vigo, Parke, Vermillion and Montgomery counties. They were chosen from some 22 who applied to go on the project. The team flies from Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon, spends Wednesday afternoon and evening in Lima, Peru, and the lands in Boliv i Thursday noon. They will return home August 9.
present Putnam County at the district event on July 18 at Owen
Co.
Junior demonstrations will not be classified by subject matter. Two demonstrations will be selected to represent Putnam County at the district meeting. The contest is in the charge of Betty H. Sendmeyer, Area Extension Agent-Home Economics assisted by the 4-H leaders. Visitors as well as 4-H’ers are encouraged to attend the event.
to listen, the full and open right to communicate and reason together are essential to our system of government and our fulfillment as individuals,” he
said.
“While truth is free for all to see,” he said, “we ifeed never fear any ideology or candida-
cy.”
Johnson spent more than three hours in a leisurely tour of the fair. Thousands turned out to get a look at him. The president dropped in on
Darrell Durham, assistant coach at Fillmore High School for the last 2 years, has been chosen head basketball and baseball coach of the Cardinals for the 1968-69 school year. Durham’s “B” teams have compiled a record of 24 wins against 12 losses. His 196768 team won 14 and lost only 4 games. Durham is a graduate of Spartenburg High School in Randolph County, and he earned the B.S. Degree at Ball State University.
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GREENCASTLE CITY FIREMEN Thursday were called to fight a blaze caused by a overheated stove in the home of Abra-
ham Sutherlin, Rockville Road, Greencastle Route 3. Firemen were on the scene from 7:20 to 9:15 a.m. Damage was
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