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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1968

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No. 263

U.S. soldiers kill 114 Viet Cong in raid

Do petition signers support their minor parties?

By JACK WALSH SAIGON (UPI)— U.S. infan. trymen slammed into two Communist base camps on infiltration corridors into Saigon and killed 114 guerrillas while capturing 134 suspects, military spokesmen said today. In Saigon, the national police director, col. Tran Van Hai, said Communist squads were slipping into the capital in preparation for an "inside attack this month." Hai said his men had captured a Viet Cong tape recording exhorting South Vietnamese troops, police and civilians to come over to their side. Apparently, Hai said, the Communists planned to broadcast it after seizing the government radio station in Saigon. Battle Infiltrators The two battles on Saigon’s outskirts erupted Thursday 12 miles southwest and 26 miles northwest of the capital on Viet Cong invasion approaches from hideouts along the Cambodian border. Among the suspects seized for questioning were three nurses, spokesmen said. The battles marked an increasing tempo of Communist activity in the provinces around Saigon, pointing perhaps to the offensive allied commanders have expected for months. A total of 39 Americans were killed and 42 wounded in the two fights, most of them when the communists fired into a flight of helicopters carrying them into the battle northwest of Saigon. The U.S. troopers called in air strikes on the enemy hideouts. Down Two Copters UPI correspondent David Lamb said the Communists shot down two U.S, helicopters in the day-long Mekong Delta fighting. Soldiers of the U.S. 101st Air Cavalry and 9th Division reported killing a total of 46 Viet Cong and capturing 30 suspects in the fighting 20 miles Aikman attends seminar Pat Aikman, director of DePauw University news bureau is today attending a one day seminar for college and university publicity directors at Wooster, Ohio. The seminar is for members of the Great Lakes College Association. Among items being discussed include how school publicity should be handled in cases of student riots, unrest, and protest on campus. The new bureau people are also learning how they can better publicize the association's foreign schools.

south and 25 miles west of Saigon which headquarters said was continuing. American losses were described as "light." Two Viet Cong mortar shells slammed into the Cau Tre police station in Saigon’s southeast corner before dawn today. There were no casualties. Officials also said a plastic charge exploded in front of a house downtown at the same time but no one was hurt. Typhoon Bess’ heavy rains left streams and rivers flooded Continued on Page 2

By BOYD GILL INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) — Indiana election records show that thousands of voters who sign petitions to get minor political parties on the ballot fail to support those parties when they go to the polls. The most outstanding example is the Socialist Labor Party. That party has had presidential candidates on the Hoosier ballot since 1928 with but one exception and they never have received more than 2,070 votes. State law gives minor parties an automatic place on the ballot if their candidates receive votes exceeding one-half of one per cent of the total vote cast for all candidates for secretary of state. In recent years, none

has made the grade, although the Prohibition Party once did so consistently. The alternative is submitting petitions signed by a number of voters equal to one-half of one per cent of the total vote cast for secretary of state candidates in the last preceding election. This year, minor parties were required to have 8,320 signatures on their petitions. Five met the requirement and submitted a total of more than 70,000 signatures. Only three were accepted, but the odds for each of them getting as many as 8,320 votes Nov. 5 were pretty slim. In 1964, the Prohibition Party almost made it with 8,266. But the Socialist Labor Party got only 1,374. In 1956 and 1960,

the Socialist Labor vote totals were even less than that and the total so-called "protest" vote was only a little above 7,500. Observers believe many of the signers do not vote at all and others support the minor parties for spots on the ballot but cast ballots for Republican or Democratic candidates when they step behind the curtains of the voting booths on election day. Except for Henry Wallace when he ran as the Progressive Party presidential candidate and received 9,649 votes in Indiana in 1948, no minor party except Prohibition has received more than a trickle of votes in the last quarter of a century.

Before 1940, however, minor parties often did fairly well. In 1920, the total vote for Prohibtion, Socialist and Farmer -Labor party presidential candidates was about 54,500 and in 1924 it was 77,000. But the number dwindled to only 10,000 in 1928, climbed to around 36,000 in 1932, and then dropped again. The presidential vote for minor parties in the last 50 years: 1964-Prohibition 8,266, Socialist Labor 1,374. 1960-Prohibition 6,746, Socialist Labor 1,136. 1956-Prohibition 6,554, Socialist Labor 1,334. 1952-Prohibition 15,335, Progressive 1,222, Socialist Labor 979. 1948—Prohibition 14,711,Pro-

gressive (Henry Wallace) 9,649, Socialist 2,179, Socialist Labor 764. 1944 — Prohibition 12,574, Socialist 2,223. 1940-Prohibition 6,437, Socialist 2,075, Socialist Labor 706. 1936—Union 19,407, Socialist 2,856, Communist 1,090. 1932—Socialist 21,388, Prohibition 10,399, Communist 2,187, Socialist Labor 2,070. 1928—Prohibition 5,496, Socialist 3,871, Socialist Labor 645. 1924 — Progressive (LaFollette) 71,700, Prohibition 4,416, Workers 987. 1920—Socialist 24,703, Farmer -Labor 16,499, Prohibition 13,462. 1916—Socialist 21,855, Prohibition 16,368, Progressive (Theodore Roosevelt) 3,898.

Special hearing classes to aid county children

A new multi-county educational program has been added to the Putnam County Joint School Services for the 1968-69 school year. Coordination, housing and supervision of the new program will be the joint responsibility of the Greencastle Community School System and the South Putnam Community School System. This is a three year pilot study financed through Title III funds and initiated through the efforts of the State Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Health. The project is entitled, "Preschool Program for Hearing Impaired Children,’’ and will serve Putnam County and the following counties: Parke, Montgomery, Hendricks. Morgan, Owen and Clay. Named alternate for scholarship The Putnam County Extension Office has received information that Tonya Harris, R.R. 1 Greencastle, has won the award of alternate for a scholarship to Indiana State University. Miss Harris won this award at the Indiana State Fair for Girls based on her record in home economics participation in high school, 4-H, and the State Fair School. The Indiana State Fair awards 13 of these scholarships to girls in the State Fair School to use for further instruction in an Indiana College or University. Each county is eligible to send three girls to the school. The award is selected on the girls record in 4-H Home Economics projects. Miss Harris, Nancy Perkins of Roachdale, and Floreen Danforth of Reelsville, were the representatives from Putnam County. The girls attend classes at the Indiana State Fair. The school lasts the entire length of the fair.

The physical facilities will be make available for the class at the Belle Union Grade School by remodeling a regular classroom to meet the unique needs of these children. The program is designed to help a child if he is severely hard of hearing and between the ages of two and five years. This program is fully paid and transportation will be furnished for the children. The child is a candidate for this class if he exhibits one or more of the following symptons: (1) has difficulties speaking and understanding instructions; (2) if he doesn’t talk; (3) continually requests repetition of things being said; (4) watches your lips; (5) doesn’t respond when you speak and he doesn’t see your face. Class instruction will be geared to social and language development needs that are suitable for students of this age level. Stress will be given to the following areas: family life; school; pets; city; farm; weather; holidays; and birthdays. Classes will begin Sept. 16. Each student will spend two hours a day, five days a week in the classroom. The teacher, Mrs. Julia Raley has professional training in the area of hard of hearing and deaf from Indiana State University and Ball State University. She also has exReunion Sunday The number ten school reunion of Washington Township will be held Sept. 8 at the Croys Creek Church. County unit meets Tuesday The Putnam County Unit of the American Cancer Society will meet next Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. in the charterhouse.

ATTEND CONFERENCE - Indiana dairy farmers joined more than 450 of the nation's top dairy fanners and Wayne Feeds dealers who attended a "Pacemakers for Dairy Profits" conference held recently at the Allied Mills Wayne Research Center in Libertyville, III. From left in photo: are Dr. R.E. Girouard, research associate in dairy, Libertyville, III.;

Robert L. Watkins, Allied Mills sales representative of Martinsville; Donald E. Young, dairyman of Acton; James W. Fair, Wayne Feeds dealership of Acton Grain & Supply, Co., Acton; E.D. Brookshire, dairyman of Roachdale; Dr. W.J. Byer, manager of Wayne Dairy Feeds, Allied Mills, Libertyville, 'll; and Chief Dairy Herdsman Dale Freyermuth, Allied Mills, Libertyville, 'll.

tensive practical experience in this type of work at the Indiana State School for the Deaf in Indianapolis, and the St. Louis Hearing and Speech Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Harold Kessler, Director of Special Education for Putnam County, should be contacted for enrollment information prior to Sept.. 16. His address is Miller Elementary School, Greencastle, Indiana, and his phone is OL 36180. There will be a meeting of all interested parents, regarding the pre-school program for the hard of hearing child, in the Miller Elementary School gymnasium, located at 534 Anderson Street, Greencastle, Sept. 11 at7:30p.m. Miss Delores Fowlkes, State Consultant for Hard of Hearing Children, from State Department of Public Instruction-Division of Special Education, will be the speaker for this meeting. She will disseminate state wide news regarding this program and be available to answer any questions the parents may have. Thirty dead By United Press International Indiana, with 30 traffic fatalities already on the books for the first five days of September, heads into another weekend counting period tonight with the toll for the year within seven of 1,000. The 1968 traffic death count was at least 993, compared with 964 a year ago. Limited parking for first game Greencastle High School Athletic Director, Lloyd Cooper announced today that parking for tonight’s 8 p.m. football opener with Edgewood at the high school field will have limited parking facilities due to building construction. Cooper said appoximately 300 cars can be parked in the rear of the school (west) and a first come first serve basis will be in effect for the front parking lot along the football field. The high school will furnish parking attendants. Cooper also added that the police feel Zinc Mill Road is too narrow for parking. Season tickets will be on sale tonight for the four home games. Prices are $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for students. Student prices have been raised to 75 cents per game this season. The Quarterback Club will have membership tickets on sale for $1.00. Sheriff jails four men One of four men who were jailed by the Putnam County sheriff’s office Wednesday pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol yesterday . and paid a $43.25 fine in Greencastle Justice of the Peace Court. Also jailed were Gary C. Kreinhagan, 19 arrested for escaping from the State Farm at Putnamville; Delmer Cooper, 38 on a warrent from Miami County; and Conrad Huber, 48, for assault and battery.

Army Chief Warrant Officer Arthur A. Martin (right), son of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Martin, Route 3, Cloverdale, Ind., receives the Bronze Star Medal during ceremonies near Gablingen, Germany, August 1. WO Martin received the award for outstanding meritorious service in military operations in Vietnam from March 1967 to March 1968. An aircraft maintenance technician and test pilot in the U.S. Army, Europe, Aviation Safety and Standardization Detachment, WO Martin entered the Army in March 1965. He has received the Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal and the Purple Heart. The warrant officer graduated from Cloverdale High School in 1954. His wife, Yolande, is with him in Germany. House burglary reported Early morning accident damages car, truck

Two vehicles were totally damaged today in an early morning accident on the Albin Pond Road east of Greencastle and one man was taken to the Putnam County Hospital for chest x-rays. Putnam County sheriff Robert Albright said Charles Gose, 23, Greencastle was driving a 1967 sedan east and attempted to make a left hand turn into his father’s drive-way when his vehicle struck a westbound pick-up truck driven by Jackie Whitley, 28, rural route three, Greencastle. Albright said the steering wheel in Whitley’s truck was damaged and injured the driver’s chest. Whitley was taken to the hospital. Gose suffered minor cuts in the 6:50 a.m. accident. There were no arrests. Parked cars sideswiped City police investigated two minor accidents involving parked automobiles the last two days. Yesterday police records showed a 1966 sedan sideswiped a parked car at 12:50 p.m. Police said an auto driven by Nile York, 922 S. Indiana, hit the parked vehicle owned by Norman Jones, 203 S. Bloomington. Wednesday damages totaling over $800 were caused in a three car accident. Police said a 1963 Sedan driven by John P. Sail, Rockford, 111., pulled from a parked position on Hanna Street into the path of a 1968 sedan driven by Harry W. Voltmer Jr., of Greencastle. The Voltmer auto pushed the Sail car into a parked vehicle owned by Robert Dor sett, Cloverdale. Police reported $500 damages to the Voltmer car and $300 to the Sail automobile.

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Albright said Gose was driving into sunlight and did not see the approaching truck. Albright also reported a breakin at the home of John Lyons, route one, Greencastle, about two miles north of the city early today at 12:15 a.m. He said the owner reported a box containing assorted coins was missing. There was no estimate of the amount taken. The house was entered while the family was away. A lock was broken on a door. Albright said the break-in added to the numerous burglaries which have been committed since July in Putnam County. He said burglaries in the last two months have out numbered those recorded during the first six months of the year. A silverware set was reported taken from the home of Mrs. Helen Pollom, rural route 2, Greencastle Wednesday during the late afternoon. Auto accidents kill 350,622 since 1961 CHICAGO (UPI) — Auto accidents have killed 350,622 persons since Jan. 1, 1961, figures compiled by the National Safety Council showed today. The traffic fatalities include the total count of each year except 1968, which runs from Jan. 1 through June 30, the council said. American losses in the Vietnam War number 27,509 from Jan. 1, 1961, through today,the Defense Department announced. A National Safety Council spokesman cautioned that it is not fair to compare traffic deaths with war casualties, since a relatively few men are exposed to war deaths and "nearly everyone is ex]?osed to motor-vehicle accidents.’’

The Miller Bros Circus of Etowah, Tenn. has been contracted by the Retail Merchants of the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce to entertain during the Sept. 16 to 18 ‘Fair on the Square’. Robert McCormick, fair chairman, announced today that the Bainbridge High School band will be offering a concert under the direction of band director David Gjesvold, Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. The Greencastle High School band will present a concert Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. during the fair week. The circus clowns who have made millions laugh and a real live 7,000 pound elephant named "Jessie” that can be touched and will offer rides to spectators, are included in the three day event. The circus will present two free daily shows, one at 4 p.m. and the other at 7:30 p.m. on the N. Jackson Street parking lot. Trained dogs and Jessie will be performing many stunts they have done on television and in the movies. Jessie the elephant has been entertaining children all over the nation and Canada. She is 17-years-old and has traveled over 1,000,000 miles by truck and air. The only circus charge will be for the rides. Discount coupons will be available from many sponsoring merchant free to any child

Scout council meets Monday The Putnam County Neighborhood Association of the Covered Bridge Girl Scout council will meet Monday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church basement. A new chairman will be selected.

Jessie performs who brings their parents to the store. McCormick said that the planned art league exhibits will not be shown this year. The women of the Greencastle Moose Lodge will be having a barbecue on the Central Bank parking lot. Chicken and ribs will be available each afternoon and evening, according to McCormick. The downtown area will have a circus theme and many of the merchants and their employees will be wearing circus costumes.

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Weather watcher

Sunny and rather cool today. Fair and cool tonight. Sunny and mild Saturday. High today mid 70s. Low tonight near 50. High Saturday upper 70s. Precipitation probability percentages near zero. Outlook for Indiana: Fair and cool Saturday night. Increasing cloudiness and warmer Sunday.

GIFT--This check for $500 is presented from Jim Meek of R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company to DePauw President Dr. Wilham E. Kerstetter. Meek, recruiting coordinator for the corporation’s Crawfordsville division, presented the unrestricted gift on the campus this week. R.R. Donnelley is the world's largest commercial printer, numbering among its hundreds of printed publications Life, Time, Look, and the Encyclopedia Britannica.