The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1968 — Page 1

The Daily Banner

INDIANA STATS LIBRARY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA “It Waves For All”

VOLUME SEVENTY - SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY. JULY 20, 1968 UPI News Service 10C Per Copy No. 224

A MOCK ROAD BLOCK is established by the City Police to demonstrate the process. Officer John Pursell stands behind the police car with a shotgun to offer protection to Officer Russell Rogers as he approaches the car. The City Council will

meet in special session Monday at 7:30 p.m. to rule on the proposed pay hike for city policemen. Earlier in the month, Chief of Police John Stevens asked Greencastle citizens to support the requested increase. $100 per month.

Chicago gang leader charged with contempt

WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate voted a contempt citation Friday against Jeff Fort, deputy commander of a Chicago street gang, who defiantly walked out of a Senate hearing last week. Senators approved a resolution directing federal prosecution of the Negro youth, a leader of the Blackstone Ran-

By ROY McGHEE WASHINGTON (UPI) - Justice Abe Fortas told senators with some emotion Friday how he is wrestling with himself to refrain from breaking what he feels is a constitutional mandate of silence on Supreme Court decisions. Fortas interrupted Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on his nomination to be chief justice to explain again, in the fourth day of testimony, why he could not answer questions about court actions. Has Responsibility “I tell myself every morning I come here that you are not participating in this hearing as Abe Fortas; you are participating in this hearing as an associate justice of the Supreme Court with responsibility to uphold the Constitution,” he said firmly. "It is on that basis that I cannot answer your questions,” he told Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. Fortas added that "I will not be an instrument by which the separation of powers” is denied. Fortas’ almost tortured explanation was prompted by a question from Thurmond about a court decision on apportion, ment of state legislatures. The South Carolina Republican,

WASHINGTON (UPI)— The Navy said today there was "no truth” to published and broadcast reports that the missing nuclear submarine Scorpion has been located on the floor of the Atlantic. The World Book Science Service, in a copyright story by Washington correspondent William Hines, said "the Navy believes it has found the place on the ocean bottom” where the submarine, with 99 men aboard, met its fate in May. Westinghouse Broadcast Co. also reported today that the Navy had located the missing sub. Both the published report, carried in today’s Chicago Daily News, and the broadcast accounts said the Pentagon was withholding an announcement until it had obtained pictures of the wreckage. But the Navy Department

gers. The maximum penalty for conviction is a year in jail and $1,000 fine. Threaten Citation The contempt citation had been threatened against Fort by Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark., as Fort and his lawyer were walking out the door of a hearing room on July 9 after

sharply interrogating Fortas for the second consecutive day, said the court had in effect had said that every county was not necessarily entitled to have a state senator. With the lengthy questioning by Thurmond and others of Fortas —and the threat of a filibuster on the Senate floor once the nominations of Fortas and Homer Thornberry to be an associate justice clears the committee —action by the full Senate on the nominees apparently will be delayed until after Labor Day. Senate leaders have all but abandoned hope of bringing up the nominations before the presidential nominating conventions. Thurmond and Fortas greeted each other coldly when this fourth day of Fortas’ testimony before the Judiciary Committee started. Gavels For Order Chairman James O. Eastland, D-Miss., gaveled for order at one point during Thurmond’s questioning when the audience applauded to Fortas’ single syllable answer, "No,” to a question by the senator after reading for 10 minutes a speech by Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

said: "There is no truth in the report the Scorpion has been found.” A Defense Department spokesman said the Pentagon told questioners Thursday the report was absolutely untrue. The World Book Science Service story said the Scorpion "is understood to lie in one of the deepest parts of the Atlantic.” "There is no possibility that anyone survived,” the report said. "Search vessels with automatic cameras are under, stood to be sweeping the area. "The whereabouts of the Scorpion wreckage is said to be known within a mile or two. But the cameras have only a range of a few yards in the dark murky bottom waters.” Neither of today’s reports specified the area of the Atlantic where the wreckage supposedly had been found.

Fort refused to answer McClellan’s questions. McClellan’s Senate permanent investigations subcommittee had subpoenaed Fort for testimony as part of its inquiry into a $927,300 antipoverty grant to the Rangers and a rival Chicago street gang, the East Side Disciples. Fort was sworn in as a witness and then stated his name. Then when asked, "Where do you live, Jeff?” he refused to answer. He also remained silent, when he was again asked, "Where do you live, Mr. Fort.” Fort’s lawyer, Marshall Patner, then requested, as a condition for Fort’s testimony that he be allowed to crossexamine all previous witnesses who made statements about the Rangers. The subcommittee’s rules preclude questioning by anyone except by senators and staff counsel and McClellan rejected the request. Fort and Patner were told that the only way to avoid testifying was for Fort to take the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. According to McClellan’s resume for the Senate, the street gang leader "contumaciously refused to answer any further questions which might be, or which were intended by the subcommittee to be . . . and departed the hearings without leave of the subcommittee.” Danville girl killed in freak accident DANVILLE, Ind. (UPI)Robin Lawson, 3, Danville, was killed Friday night when a parked station wagon in which she was playing in a driveway at a subdivision rolled down an incline into a pond. The girl, daughter of the Robert Lawsons, was playing in the car with Steven Ray Moore, 3, son of Girth Moore, owner of the car and a neighbor of the Lawsons. Moore told authorities he saw the vehicle roll down the incline and ran after it but could not reach it before it plunged into the water and submerged. He said he jumped into the pond and rescued his son but could not find the girl. Her body was found when the car was pulled from the pond. Man promises work of art LOGANSPORT, Ind. (UPI)-A Cass County woman has reported to authorities that she apparently was bilked out of $79.50 by a man who promised to make a three - dimensional carved wood bust of her son who was killed in Vietnam. The case was similar to six reports from southwestern Indiana earlier this month in which a man last February promised delivery of the carved busts by June.

A battle to keep decisions silent

Navy denies reports of location of Scorpion

Hope to avoid Indiana time split

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)— Federal government officials Friday pinned their hopes on legal maneuvers within the next week to keep Indiana from being divided into two daylight saving time zones effective next Friday. David Casterline, assistant U.S. district attorney, said affidavits from the Department of Transportation in Washington are believed to be on their way to Indianapolis. When they arrive, Casterline said, a motion will be filed with Judge Cale J. Holder, accompanied by the affidavits, asking

for a hearing before next Friday to show cause why the government cannot comply with Holder’s order issued Wednesday for the statp to begin observing the 1966 Uniform Time Act within 10 days. The state now observes a uniform Eastern Standard, or Central Daylight, time schedule because the Department of Transportation exempted Hoosiers temporarily from complying with the act. If Holder’s order becomes effective, the eastern half of the state would be required to move clocks and watches ahead one hour while the western half

remained on the current time schedule. The line separating the areas would be the zigzag line separating the Eastern and Central times zones as established by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1961. Casterline said if Holder does not grant the motion for a hearing before the 10 days are up, or if he rejects the governments contentions that it cannot comply, a writ of prohibition to stay the executio of the order would be filed immediately with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. At the same time, he said, a notice of appeal would be filed.

Czech leader gains support for reform program

By JAMES O. JACKSON PRAGUE (UPI)—Czech Communist party leader Alexander Dubcek, battling Stalinists over his defiance of the Kremlin, has received 20,700 messages of support for his reform program, Premier Oldrich Cernik told the party’s Central Committee today. While Dubcek fought for survival of his leadership, the Soviet Union hinted at an Hungarian.type intervention in Czechoslovakia. It was in 1956 the Russians under thenPremier Nikita S. Khrushchev sent tanks into Budapest to crush a freedom uprising. The Central Committee, with 110 members, holds the real power in Czechoslovakia and can upset decisions of the smaller ruling Presidium. Party sources said 40 members favor Dubcek, 40 Stalinists oppose him and 30 are uncommitted. Defends Policy Cernik defended Dubcek’s reform policy in the baroque splendor of Hradcany Castle’s 300.year.old Spanish Hall— a debate brought on by the greatest crisis in the East European Communist bloc since the abortive Hungarian uprising. His statements were reported by Prague Radio. Cernik said the 20,700 resolutions and letters of support came from throughout Czechoslovakia approving Dubcek’s Profile

defiance of the Warsaw letter sent by the Soviet Union and four of its closest hardline East European allies. The Warsaw letter harshly demanded an end to the reform movement. The reply rejecting the Russian demands was sent by the Presidium, and Thursday night Dubcek in a nationwide radio and television broadcast again rejected Russian and other outside interference. Then it was announced Dubcek would appear before the Central Committee Friday in hopes of getting a vote of confidence. Cernik told the Central Committee members the party leaders will have talks with French Communist Party First Secretary Waldeck Rochet who flew in Friday from Paris, and that there will be more talks with "other fraternal parties” on Saturday. He did not say which other parties that would be, but President Tito of Yugoslavia was reported ready to fly to Prague on a moment’s notice. Approval by the powerful Central Committee came soon after the Soviet Union once more attacked Dubcek’s liberal policies and hinted at an Hungarian type intervention in Czechoslovakia —a reference to 1956 when Russian tanks crushed a Hungarian freedom uprising.

CTK said "unconditional approval” of the attitude taken by First Secretary Dubcek and the 11-member Presidium "was expressed by all members of the Communist Party Central Committee who took the floor during the plenary session Friday.” There were widespread reports Dubcek would meet with Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev in Kosice, Czechoslovakia on Saturday. Observers said the vote of confidence gave Dubcek the support he needs for the Russian confrontation. Defies Suggestions Friday’s Central Committee meeting was called to discuss and pass on the stand Dubcek and the presidium took on the criticism of his course by the leaders of the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria in Warsaw earlier this week. His stand was simply to defy the suggestions he take Czechoslovakia back to Stalinism. CTK said 88 membersattended the meting. Nineteen excused themselves, one of the absentees, Vaclav Pasek, sent a letter from his hospital asking his vote be cast in favor of Dubcek. Pasek had been injured in a car collision with an American tourist.

GREENCASTLE POLICEMAN L. B. Giddings takes a phone call at the Police Station in City Hall. Each day dozens of phone calls go through the police station asking help from local law officers. Accused slayer granted two-week postponement

LOS ANGELES (UPI)—S i rhan Bishara Sirhan was granted another two-week postponement when he appeared in court Friday to enter a plea to first degree murder in the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Defense Counsel Russell Parsons requested and was granted the continuance until Aug. 2 to permit court-appointed psychiatrists more time to complete their examination of the 24-year-old defendant. During the 18-minute proceedings, Sirhan held several whispered conversations with Parsons and appeared brighteyed and alert although his complexion was very sallow. Superior Court Judge Richard Schauer also granted permission for a psychologist, Roderick Richardson, and Dr. Edward Davis, a neuro-surgeon, to examine Sirhan in his jail cell on the 13th floor of the Hall of Justice. Dr. Davis will test Sirhan’s brain waves with the use of an encephalograph. . District Atty. Evelle Younger made no objection to the

continuance nor to the appoint, ment of additional persons to examine Sirhan. Younger, however, did submit a motion to amend a court order issued June 7 restricting information concerning the case. Changes in postal service for Greencastle Postmaster C.T. A 1 b i n announces changes in postal service in Greencastle. The changes will be effective Saturday, July 27. There will be no window service on Saturdays. There will be pick up of mial o be no pick up of mail on Saturday mornings from city collection boxes. Mail will be received at 4 a.m., 7 a.m., and 1 p.m. and dispatched at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Patrons are encouraged to deposit mail early so that employees can make the dispatch on schedule.

A world of aprons and cookies

By Penny Blaker In working with homemakers in Putnam County, Mrs. Sendmeyer conducts leadership training sessions. She attends one meeting a year of each of the clubs. And each month she publishes a newsletter. She is a lady who enjoys her work. It is satisfying to watch awkward young fingers grow deft with needle and thread. It is gratifying to observe the looks of pride and accomplishment as a young member of 4-H completes her first chocolate cake or bakes her first biscuits. And it is rewarding to guide a young lady in completing floor plans for rearranging and redecorating a room. It is thrilling to be invited to view the finished product. Working with the young, Mrs. Sendmeyer offers a gift of knowledge and assurance. Every women needs the skills of cooking, planning meals, sewing, even if the task is merely sewing a button on an upset husband’s shirt. And when the skills are instilled in the young, girls between the ages of nine and nineteen, they are more readily developed and by maturity they are professional. Housewives, women who are new brides, and women who have been brides for many years, question Mrs. Sendmeyer and seek her advice and help. They ask for diabetic recipes. They require the reassurance that shades of blue and green and shades of pink and red can be used together effectively in decorating. They request advice on fashions, styles and new sewing techniques. Often they search for a new hobby idea or a new handicraft project, and in searching they go to Mrs. Sendmeyer.

It is an active life. And it overflows into her home life. Mrs. Sendmeyer and her husband, Glendon, reside at 626 E. Anderson, Greencastle with their two daughters, Susan and Sally. Both are active in 4-H work. Susan is now involved in her tenth year of 4-H activities and. has just completed her first year of study at Purdue University. Sally will be a junior at Greencastle High School in the fall. Together, as a family, the Sendmeyers attend Gobin United Methodist Church. In her "extra” time, Mrs. Sendmeyer enjoys reading. Farm decorator and women's maga-, zines and books help her keep up to date with the problems facing modern women. Through the reading materials she gleans new and novel ideas for the women she serves. She enjoys attending plays and musicals and sings in the chorus composed of members of extension homemaker clubs in the county. Mrs. Betty Sendmeyer is a wife, a mother, a teacher, a helper and a friend. Her world revolves around bright print aprons, chocolate chip cookies, color schemes and roses. For she is a county extension agent. Her world is completely feminine. It is a world of sewing, cooking and decorating. Her career spans over 20 years in areas of teaching, guiding and helping. She is Mrs. Betty Sendmeyer, extension agent for women in Putnam County. Originally from West Terre Haute, Mrs. Sendmeyer was graduated from Indiana State University, with a degree in home economics. She taught three years at Idaville, located in the northern part of Indiana, and for a time

at Cory High School in Clay County. And before coming to Greencastle a little more than a year ago, she worked with the welfare department in Vigo County and in Brazil for 19 years as

an extension agent in Clay County. The duties of the pert, attractive lady are many. She directs activities of the extension homemakers clubs. There are 24 in Putnam County. She works with

girls engaged in 4-H projects and helps plan the annual 4-K fair (arranging booths and projects for clubs). She schedules dress reviews, selects judges and offers encouragement and advice.

Mrs. Betty Sendmeyer

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