The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 August 1968 — Page 3

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Friday, August 16, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Pueblo broadcast questionable

TOKYO (UPI)—North Korea Thursday broadcast what it described as a press conference by the captain and members of the crew of the USS Pueblo in which the men of the intel. ligence ship said the vessel was on a spy mission when it was seized Jan. 23. The broadcast contained a lengthy statement allegedly from Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher of San Diego, Calif., but there was no way of identifying the voice or determining the circumstances under which the remarks were made.

“We wish to express our intense desire to be reunited with our families at the earliest possible moment and thereby appeal to the people of the United States to urge our government to take appropriate action to enable us to return home,” the broadcast quoted Bucher as saying. North Korea has been demanding a U.S. apology for the alleged intrusion by the Pueblo. The account further quoted Bucher as describing himself and the crew as “criminals who committed espionage and hos-

John-John is gone, gone

NEW YORK (UPI)—St. David’s School, an exclusive Roman Catholic private school, has lost its most famous pupil, John F. Kennedy Jr. John’s mother, the former first Lady, withdrew him from the East Side Manhattan boy’s school and has enrolled him at the Collegiate School, a Prote-stant-founded private school on the West Side, it was learned Thursday. Although neither school would comment on the reason for the switch a month before John enters the third grade, informed sources said Mrs. Kennedy would not accept the recommendation of St. David’s officials that John repeat the second grade. The 330-year-old Collegiat*

School, the nation’s oldest independent school, was recommended to Mrs. Kennedy by composer - conductor Leonard Bernstein and actress Lauren Bacall, both of whom have sons enrolled there. The school is affiliated with the Reformed Dutch Church although it relies on the community at large for the bulk of its financial support. In recommending the school, Bernstein stressed its democratic character. It has many boys from underprivileged areas on scholarship, a number of sons of United Nations diplomats, and representatives of various races and religions. The school is in a racially mixed neighbor, hood. John’s sister, Caroline, will continue to attend the Convent of the Sacred Heart School where she is a sixth grade student.

Rock names 7 to task force

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Seven established Indiana law enforcement figures were named by Lt. Gov. Robert L. Rock Wednesday to a task force designed to formulate detailed proposals for state law enforcement. Rock said the group is the first of a series of such groups which he hopes will further the progress of state government. He called a meeting of the task force for Aug. 19. Members are John J. Barton, member of the Indiana Parole Board, former Indianapolis mayor, and former superintendent of the Indiana State Police; Maj. Gen. John S. Anderson, Indiana Adjutant General; George Wise, Chief of the Hammond Police Department; Robert Graham, staff member of the state Fraternal Order of Police and a retired Anderson policeman; Clifford Arnold, LaPorte County Sheriff; William F. Lawler, Jr., president of the Indiana Prosecutors Association and prosecutor of Madison County; and Woodrow Gilbert, Clark County Sheriff and former marshall of Clarksville, now serving as first vice president of the Indiana Sheriff’s Association. Rock said he would, if elected

governor in November, give strong support to law enforcement by establishing a state police academy and by getting maximum benefit from Indiana’s share of the new federal crime Control and Safe Streets Act. “One of several items on the agenda of the Law Enforcement Task Force,” Rock said, “will be to consider recommendations on how Indiana can best benefit from this new federal law.”

Plan Hawaiian trip Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lewis with 160 other Indiana Elks Club members are planning to spend two weeks in Hawaii as part of a Elks vacation plan. They will visit Las Vegas for three days and nights after which they will fly to Honolulu for seven days. They will visit San Francisco for three days on the return trip.

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i le acts after having intruded into your (North Korean) territorial waters.” (In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the new “confessions” of Pueblo crewmen, like similar stateCigarette tax hike advised INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana Association of Cities and Towns will get a recommendation from its executive and resolutions committees calling for a 2-cent per pack increase in the state cigarette tax. The present tax is 6 cents. The two committees, headed by Mayor Othmar C. Frye of Washington, the association president, and Mayor Will H. Hayes Jr. of Crawfordsville, the resolutions chairman, also adopted numerous proposed resolutions on other subjects, ranging from dual auto license plates to a referendum on a new constitution. They said the additional 2cent tax on cigarettes should be dedicated to the municipalities for capital improvements, except for towns of less than 1,000, which could elect to put the money in their general fund. The resolutions will be presented to the association at its convention in Evansville, Sept. 16-18, and those adopted will become the association's legislative action program in the 1969 session. Other resolutions would provide: — Comprehensive legislation dealing with employer-employee relations for local governmental units. — Authority to impose some form ,of a local tax, other than property in the event the state does not provide property tax relief. — A call for a referendum on whether a constitutional convention should be held. — An end to double taxation through statutes which provide benefits for county residents only while levying taxes for these projects on a county-wide basis. Circle of Beauty 7106

ments on Feb. 15, were open to the suspicion that they were not voluntary. (But the spokesman, Carl E. Bartch, said the United States “welcomes anything that indicates the crew is being well treated.”) The United States has said the Pueblo was in international water’ when it was boarded by North Korean naval forces last January. The State Department has left open the possibility that the ship may have strayed into North Korean waters at some time during its voyage in the Sea of Japan. This cannot be ascertained until the crew is released and interrogated by American officials, the State Department has said. Save covered bridge group MOORESVILLE, Ind. (UPI)The Morgan County Historical Society has started a campaign to save the only covered bridge in the county from destruction. Mrs. Rebecca Hardin, Moores, ville, corresponding secretary, said the first step is the mailing of several hundred photographs of the bridge over Mill Creek near Little Point to potential contributors. She said the campaign grew out of a suggestion from the Little daughter of Stuart Ruona, the society president who asked: “Daddy, why don’t you save the bridge?” Moving the bridge to a spot near Interstate 70 would cost about $18,000, the society was told.

Woman’s view

By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor

Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF

NEW YORK (UPI)—You notice the trend when a can of tomatoes goes up from 19 to 21 cents, when the box of frozen peas and onions is marked 33 instead of the 31 you were paying six months ago, when the pound of ground chuck is 69 cents instead of 65. And you certainly notice it as each week the total at the market checkout counter is just a little more on much the same items as you bought three or six months ago. What’s happening is that food prices are inching up, and will for the rest of 1968. It’s all because of the old law of supply and demand—supplies of farm products are about the same or slightly lower for the rest of the year than they were last. Supplies Lower With the population up about 1.5 per cent, this means per capita supplies will be slightly lower and overall farm prices perhaps three to five per cent higher. Put on the increased cost too of merchandising foods—getting them from farm to table—and the result is a predicted 2.5 per cent price rise by election time. For all of 1968, food retail prices will average 3.5 per cent to four above 1967. These forecasts come from S. Kent Christensen, vice president and agricultural counsel for the National Association of Food Chains.

Even so, Christensen said, the line on food prices has been held better than on the total cost of living. Prices on food consumed at home have gone up less since 1957-59 than the index of prices on other major expenditures covered in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports. Food at home is up 15 per cent above the 1957-59 index; all other items are up 19.9. Spend $31 Billion We spend $67 billion a year in stores for food, of which $31 billion or 46 per cent goes to the chains, Christensen reported at an association conference recently. We’re eating better for less, for we can buy three times as much food for an hour of work today as in 1916, the year that the self-service idea was introduced. And the trend should continue, for wages have been rising more rapidly than food prices even in recent years. Last year, per capita expenditures of food amounted to $484, up $92 from 1960. But the spending as a percentage of disposable income declined to 17.5 per cent. And the percentage continues downward.

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A TRAMP seeking a free meal was told by a thrifty farmer’s wife that he could have a full dinner if he’d milk the cow first. She handed him a stool and he wended his way reluctantly toward the bam. He was back some time later, battered, bruised — and without one drop of milk. ”1 done my darndest, lady,” he reported sadly, “but I just couldn’t get that fool cow to set on the stool.” • • • The golf nut had a beautiful creature on his right at dinner and gave her an endless monologue on his extraordinary achievements on golf courses here and abroad. All she got in was an occasional, "Remarkable." Finally he became aware that her attention was wandering and apologized, "I’m afraid I’ve been monopolizing the conversation and talking about nothing but golf.” "That’s quite all right," she assured him, "but do tell me this: what’s golf?" • * • "How are you so sure,” a kindly boss asked his worried righthand man, "that your wife insists upon a vacation abroad?” "Well, for one thing," the right-hand man reported, "she phoned me this morning from Rome." V 196S, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kiug Featurex Syndicate.

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