The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 August 1968 — Page 1

It Waves For AIT

No. 238

Hot? Remember’36 heat wave?

COOL WATER--While county residents drag themselves through sultry afternoons of above 90 degree temperatures, these teen-

agers have found the way to beat the heat at the Greencastle city swimming pool.

Hoosiers could elect second blind senator

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House. But his two rivals, conceding nothing, still were

trying to stop him.

Key states in the final day of maneuvering were New Jersey, Florida and Ohio. There were rumblings of revolt in New Jersey where favorite son Clifford Case, a Rockefeller man, sought to prevent a bolt to

Nixon.

Florida, hitherto strong for Nixon, threatened to drift into the Reagan camp. That could spark a Southern defection from Nixon and wreck his hope for a first-ballot nomination. But Ohio's favorite son, Gov. James A. Rhodes, was in the best position of all to play kingmaker. If he should release his 56 votes, it probably would put Nixon over the top. Hours before the balloting got under way, the UPI tabulation of delegate preferences gave Nixon 635 votes, Rockefeller 301 and Reagan 203. Favorite sons held 180 votes, and 14 were still uncommitted. It takes 667 to win the nomination. Nixon’s campaign managers have consistently claimed more than 700 votes to win on an early ballot, without counting votes from five states with favorite son candidates. They have applied heavy pressure to win on the first ballot, knowing that doubtful delegates may desert a front-runner who doesn’t quite make it the first

time.

Gov. Rockefeller of New York and Gov. Reagan of California have based their whole strategy on stopping Nixon on the first ballot. They figured he would slip on a second ballot and fall out of contention by a third. Historically, in multi-ballot conventions, candidates have faded out of sight once they began to slip. Therefore, a leader who expects the convention to go beyond one ballot usually will hold back “reserve strength” in order to show an upward surge on the second ballot. At Tuesday night’s convention session, the delegates approved

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By EUGENE J. CADOU INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) — Indiana may have her second blind senator in the past 40 years. James C. Cobb, Valparaiso, a sightless businessman, has announced his candidacy for the Train hits man under bridge at Plainfield Special To The Banner PLAINFIELD-A Lafayette man was killed in an accident in Hendricks County, Tuesday after-

noon.

J. Stanley Rene, age 46, 1210 Parkway Court, Lafayette, died of head injuries sustained when he was struck by a Penn-Central train. The accident occurred at 4:04 p.m. 3 miles east of Plainfield off U.S. 40. Rene was a bridge inspector for the State Highway Depart-

ment.

Authorities said he and a paint crew were walking east on the Penn-Central tracks under U.S. 40. The eastbound train #7157 was traveling about 45 miles per hour when the engineer, Frank Horn, Terre Haute, saw the painting crew and blew the whistle. Other members of the work crew jumped clear of the railroad tracks. The Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department investigated.

Republican nomination for state senator from Porter, Jasper, Newton and Pulaski Counties “in anticipation of the resignation of Sen. Earl F. Landgrebe.” Landgrebe is the GOP nominee for 2nd District congress, man, to succeed Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, who did not run for another term in the House. Landgrebe has indicated he will resign the state legislature seat before the deadline

Sept. 1.

The vacant nomination seat would be filled by the party officials of the four counties. Hasbrook is Predecessor Thomas Hasbrook, Indianapolis, who was blinded in training as an officer in World War H, served a term in the Senate a decade ago. He now is president of the Indianapolis City Council and acting mayor in> the absence of Mayor Richard G. Lugar, who is a member of the resolutions committee of the GOP national convention in

Miami Beach.

Hasbrook was an exceedingly active member of the Senate. He was guided by his seeing, eye dog which curled up beside his seat. Hasbrook is a member of the public relations stanf of Eli Lilly & Co., pharmaceutical

manufacturers.

“I am a practical realist and believe in the use of profound judgment in dealing with the responsibilities of formulating Continued on Page 4

Cloverdale

without principal

CLOVERDALE, Ind.— With the first day of school less than a month away, school officials of the Cloverdale CommunitySchools face a problem. Cloverdale High School has no princi-

pal.

Announcement of the situation was made during the regular school board meeting Monday night. According to Arthur L. Johnson, superintendent, Clifford Keiln, who was named principal just a few weeks ago, has resigned to accept a position as principal of Peru High School. School board members reviewed applications at the meeting Monday night. The only other vacancy on the teaching staff is a position for a sixth grade

teacher.

In other action, members of the school board awarded a contract for milk for the school cafeteria to Bob Las ley, representing Handy Milk Products. The bid Continued on Page 4

s Weather watcher S v *:•

Generally fair, warm and

humid through Thursday with chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers. High today low 90s Low tonight low 70s. High Thursday low 90s. Precipitation probability 20 per cent

through tonight, 40 Thursday. Outlook: Hot and humid Fri-

day, chance of afternoon and

evening thundershowers.

Back then, airconditioning was new. About the only place you could find it was ~in the movies, and even some of them didn’t have the newfangled cooling systems yet. When it turned hot, you just

Ball Zinc firm plans to relocate In a letter released today by C.L. Hamilton, plant manager, American Zinc Products, Ball Brothers Company announced plans to build a new zinc rolling and fabricating plant in Greene-

ville, Tenn.

The Ball plant in Greencastle across from the high school currently employs nearly 130 people. The zinc related manufacturing activities now being carried on in the firm’s plants in Muncie and Greencastle will be combined in the new plant, according to Hamilton. Operation of the new facility will probably start late

in 1970 or early 1971.

In a letter to employees announcing the company’s plans, Ralph L. Hoover, vice presidentemployee relations, wrote: “In order that Ball zinc products can continue to compete successfully in the marketplace, new larger, more efficient casting, rolling, and fabricating equipment must be put into operation relatively soon. Unfortunately the volume of zinc production in any one of our three zinc plants alone is not adequate to efficiently utilize the new and very expensive production equipment we need. Nor could any one of the three present plants adequately house the new equipment. An all new structure

will be required.”

“Consequently, Ball management has decided that it will be necessary, in the interest of efficiency and competitive production costs, to combine in a single location the zinc related production activities now being carried on in our Brooklyn, Greencastle, and Muncie plants. A decision concerning the location of the new facility was made at a recent meeting of the company’s

Board of Directors.”

“After careful study of several locations, including each of the communities in which we now have zinc plants, by a group of Ball engineering, production, traffic, insurance, taxation and marketing specialists, it was recommended that the new facility be located in Greeneville, Tenn-

essee.

“Ball management also engaged the services of a highly regarded firm of plant location specialists and asked them for an independent evaluation of the various sites under consideration. After completing their studies, they, too, selected Greene-

ville.

“We expect that ground will be broken very soon to build the new plant and that the required

suffered through it as best you could. I was just past my teens and living with my mother at the old homestead in Edinburg that summer. It was a busy summer for me. On most of those sultry days, I worked part time vacation relief reporter for the Columbus Republican. On many of the evenings, I played piano in Gene Kellams’ dance band. The orchestra had a two-nights-a - week engagement at Heflen’s Camp, a Driftwood River resort between Edinburg and Columbus. Every Thursday and Saturday night, we would put on stiff shirts and formal coats and sweat away at our respective instruments for about four hours until midnight with one 15 - minute break. Most weeks we had other engagements. Next morning, it would be back to Columbus to see what

kind of reporting assignments editor Mel Lostutter and city editor Bob Gordon had for me. On the days I didn’t have to work, I’d play tennis at Heflen’s or walk a quarter mile to the Driftwood golf course and spend the afternoon hatless and stripped to the waist under a broiling hot sun chasing a ball over that little nine-hole layout with its sand greens. It was hot, It was humid. The sun never ceased to shine. There was no relief. It lasted through July and August. The younger you were, the better you adjusted to it. But, young or old, you suffered through it as your father and his father before him survived heat waves of earlier eras. 18 Records Broken Somehow most of us hung on until the cooler weather came along in the fall, and I guess

we didn’t realize at the time that the heat we sweltered through was as historic as it was. For the record, there were 11 days in a row in July and seven in a row in August when all existing records for the dates were broken at Indianapolis, where they had been keeping such records for 65 years. On most of those record-shat-tering days, the mercury officially passed 100 degrees and the top was 106, the highest temperature ever listed in Indianapolis. The average temperature for July that year was 82.8 at Indianapolis and for August 80.5, and never before or since were such abnormal averages recorded. If you’re over 40, you’ll remember it. How did you beat the heat that summer?

Nixon needs 667 votes, ballots taken tonight

By RAYMOND M. LAHR

MIAMI BEACH (UPI)—Richard M. Nixon drove toward a first ballot victory for the Republican presidential nomination today despite zero hour efforts to Nelson A. Rockefeller

and Ronald Reagan.

With the balloting starting tonight, the former vice president seemed all but certain of a second shot at the White

the “harmony” platform as it came from the drafting committee Sunday. The convention also approved party rules for the coming four years, including a new anti-

discrimination provision similar to one adopted by the Democrats four years ago. The provision included this Ianguage: “Participation in a Republi-

can primary, caucus or any meeting or convention held for the purpose of selecting delegates to a county, district, state or national convention shall in

TOLLS TRAFFIC DEATHS-Preparing the city's first "accident recording board" are (left) Charles Walker, fire chief; Mayor

Norman Peabody and police Capt. William Masten. The BANNER Photo, Dennis Abell.

Traffic sign follows two city fatalities

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He even reads newspaper’s “flag”

Special To The Banner A newspaper gets used for almost everything. It is bought to spank the dog, roll up the garbage, keep fresh paint off the floor, and to stick almost everywhere to patch up holes. It is also read and for many reasons. Most people have a favorite section or page. They read it for the Barney Google comic strip or the classified page or the sports. They want to read the gossip columns or who is getting married over the weekend. They read it for the front page. Tastes vary. But very few people scan a newspaper so thoroughly that they

even read the “flag”, that is newspaper slang for the front page banner where it says, “The

Daily Banner.”

One young reader has drawn the newspaper’s attention to flag, not the nametag, but small waving kind, “Old Glory found on the left side of

page.

The reader wondered if it was an old 48 star flag or a newer 50 star one.

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He started counting. It is neither, according to Douglas White, Bainbridge. He says it’s a 51 star flag and cal'ed the Banner office to find out when the new state was added to the Union. The fourth row carries six instead of five dots representing stars on the national banner, he said. Douglas just wasn’t sure if the Union had added another state so he wrote the Banner asking how come the 51 stars. The flag was added to the Banner’s front page after the newspaper was bought by Dr. Mary Tarzian in May. The flag

was picked from a mat service the paper receives. The paper wasn’t aware of the extra star, but then it took a sharp eye to find the error. Douglas, 14, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. White, of Route 3 Greencastle, will be a freshman at Bainbridge this fall and is looking forward to attending school. Mrs. Tarzian was so impressed with the boy’s letter to the Banner, she appointed him an honorary member of the Greencastle advisory committee on the Daily Banner, a group organized to advise the Banner on ways of aiding the community. Continued on Page 4

DOUGLAS WHITE Sees stars

Special To The Banner A young girl was riding her mini-bicycle. It was dark. The street light was dim. A car approached. There was a crash. The girl was a new comer to Greencastle. It had been moving day for her parents. Within the next 24 hours she died in Union Hospital at Terre Haute. The city of Greencastle recorded its first pedestrian fatality in 34 years. Tomorrow, only one day shy of being two months from the June 16 accident, city officials will dedicate a new traffic accident and fatality record board which will be erected on the southside of the Putnam County

Courthouse.

The death column will begin with two deaths, both of Greencastle teenagers including Denise Galloway, 13, the first pedestrian killed since 1934. Last year the city had no traffic fatalities. But within a month of the Galloway death, a second city accident took the life of a 19-year-old driver. Under the accident heading, the number 34 has been painted twice the figure reached all of

last year.

Capt. William Masten, who spearheaded the sign project, said only city accidents will be recorded. He voiced a concern the city police department of increasing rise in the ac-

cident toll.

Many cities the size of Greencastle have such signs. They are used in a manner similar to the white cross along Hoosier highways and the “ghost patrol” used by state police where they

park unoccupied patrol cars along roadsides. “The idea is to make the public more aware of accidents and the death toll,” said Masten. The police officer said he got the sign idea from seeing them in other towns and that the recent fatalities encouraged him to take action. The materials and painter were donated by the Huber, Hunt, Nichols Inc., a Greencastle contracting firm. The sign will be dedicated by

Mayor Norman Peabody at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Final touches are being made on the sign. The accident board comes also in wake of an increased countyaccident rate and death toll. Three persons were killed south of Greencastle May 9 on U.S. 40 when three cars crashed near the Ind. 43 intersection. A rural Greencastle woman, Anna B. Duell was killed. The board will be changed for each new accident fatality.

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Reminder of traffic deaths. Three died here U.S. 40.