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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, September 6, 1968

War costs Americans 200,000 casualties

By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. SAIGON (UPI)— The Vietnam War has cost America more than 200,000 men killed, wound, ed or lost in action, U.S. headquarters said today. The disclosure came in the weekly casualty totals which showed 408 U.S. servicemen killed and 2,513 wounded last week, the highest toll since the Communists’ May-June summer offensive. It brought the number of American casualties since Jan. 1, 1961, to 27,509 killed, 171,809 wounded and 1,197 missing—a total of 200,515, the announce, ment said. Communist losses last week were 4,476 killed, bringing their total for the war to 390,105. South Vietnamese headquarters said 284 government soldiers were killed and 1,187 wounded, but no totals for the entire war are available. U.S. battlefield losses have already exceeded those in Korea as well as those suffered by the French in the FrenchIndochina War. Vietnam is the third costliest war the United States has fought against foreign troops, behind World Wars I and II. Last week’s casualty figures represented the losses in a

series of battles along the Cambodian border, in the northern war zone and Communists shellings of key allied bases including Da Nang. The American losses were the highest since the week ending Jun 1 when 438 GIs were killed and 3,870 wounded. In action today Communist forces bombarded eight South Vietnamese outposts guarding

Saigon's western flank against infiltration and tried unsuccess, fully to overrun one of them, military reports said. Typhoon Bess’ 75-mile-an.hour winds forced cancellation of U.S. Navy air raids into North Vietnam. Seven government soldiers were wounded in the series of Communist attacks in Hau Nghia Province, lying between

the capital and Cambodia. Five of them were hit while beating off the ground assault, the war communique said. The shellings erupted before dawn as the Communists apparently tried to keep the outposts busy while infiltrators moved through the night along a favorite 70.mile corridor bombed repeatedly in recent weeks by American B52 bom-

bers. Heaviest was the attack against an infantry battalion camping 25 miles northwest of Saigon. The Communists opened fire with 30 mortar and recoilless rifle rounds and then attacked on the ground. The announcement said merely “The enemy did not overrun the base.” No Communist losses were given.

Humphrey seeks Kennedy aid

By STEVE GERSTEL WASHINGTON (UPI) — Hubert H. Humphrey, opening his uphill campaign for the presidency to all dissident Democrats, seeks the backing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The man assigned to mold the Humphrey.Kennedy detente is Lawrence F. O’Brien. O’Brien, Humphrey’s campaign manager and handpicked chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Wednesday he would personally contact Kennedy to determine what role the Massachusetts senator would play in Humphrey’s campaign. O’Brien is the perfect inter.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The prospect looked good that the Indiana Budget Committee will give the 1969 Legislature a balanced budget for the 1969-71 biennium. The committee indicated Wednesday that a balanced budget should be offered the legislature. Then the legislature could decide if tax increases should be enacted. None ruled out the possibility of a tax increase. But a difference of opinion came from Rep. Thomas P. Toon, D-Evansville, one of the four members of the budget committee. He said he thought lawmakers should have some indication of the needs of the state for the next two years, even if those needs exceed the expected in. come. The operating budget proposals now being received by the State Budget Agency contain increases except for the

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PUBLIC SALE Having sold our farm, we will sell the following personal property, located 2 miles northwest of Ladoga and r/i miles southwest of Crawfordsville, Ind, Take Ladoga Road to Road 650, west first house. Sot., Sept. 7, 1968 STARTING AT 10:30 A.VI.

FARM EQUIPMENT

arch, two years old, high arch, new 1963,

Tractors — Massey Ferguson 165 high Ikie new, cabette; Massey Ferguson 50

1000 hours, good.

Combine, John Deere 45, hume reel, header central, cab, 210

corn head, good condition.

Planter, I,H,C,, 6 row, 30 in,, new 1967. Cultivator, I,H,C., 6 row, 30 in., new 1967, Baler, M.F. No. 10, new 1965, good.

Mowers —M.F. 7 ft., used 2 seasons; Ferguson 7 ft.; I.H.C.

5 ft, rotary mower.

Drill, LH.C, 10 ft., new last fall. Sprayer, 300 gal, fiber glass, 28 ft. boom, adjustable to any row width, 1 year old. 4 wagons—2 with hoist, 1 new, 1 with 500 gal, water tank. Spreader, LH.C,, new in 1964, good.

Plow, M.F, 4 bottom,

M.F, 10 ft. wheel disc; LH.C, 9 ft. pull disc; elevator, Promway 40 ft.; 4 section harrow, LH.C.; drags; sub soiler, 3 point; fast hitch carry all, LH.C,; Kelly loader for 50 M,F.; M.F, 3 pt, blade, 7 ft,, new; post hole digger; old cultipacker; I.H.C. pull rake; hog house; sheep feeders; herders; buckets; tanks; old sheep shearing outfit; 4 row rotary hoe; McCullough chain saw; tractor seeder; many odds and ends used on

a farm,

2000 BALES GOOD WHEAT STRAW 15 HEAD GOOD EWES HOUSEHOLD GOODS 3 bedroom suites, 1 with single beds; innerspring mattresses; tables; chairs; lamps; kitchen utensils; coffee tables; end tables; 1 lot small articles; apartment size gas range.

Terms:

1966 Ford Fairlane 500 Hardtop, Good Cash Not responsible in case of accidents.

GLENN and EDNA DECKARD Carpenter & Henthorn, Auctioneers Ball & Brown, Clerks LUNCH WILL BE SERVED Will Be Working Full Time In Sheep Shearing Business In The Future

mediary to make the approach to Kennedy, who has remained aloof from politics since the assassination of his brother,

Robert, on June 4. The former postmaster general was a key campaign strategist for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and was Robert

Prospects look good for 69-71 balanced budget

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big ones—school support, mental health and highways. These are not yet filled. The Indiana State Police offered a budget of $34.2 million for the next two years, including 100 new troopers. The figure is about $13 million over the previous biennium. A $74.7 million budget is being proposed by the State Department of Public Welfare, in addition to federal funds which it receives and distributes. This is $18.6 million above the previous biennium. Farm leaders plan action WASHINGTON (UPI)- House farm leaders plan to make a push next week for a HouseSenate compromise on a farm price support bill and a com. panion food stamp expansion plan. Separate House and Senate bills on both issues were passed before the congressional August recess. Efforts to sched. ule House - Senate conference meetings to compromise the differences were blocked before the recess by parliamentary objections. Rep. E.C. Gathings, D-Ark., temporarily in charge of the House Agriculture Committee, sought unsuccessfully Wednes. day to get unanimous House consent to set up a HouseSenate conference. Informed sources said Gathings would ask the Agriculture Committee to meet next Tues. day to approve a procedure under which the House can decide by simple majority vote to permit the farm-food conference meeting.

DEEP IN THOUGHT, Vice President Humphrey walks on grounds of his home in Waverly, Minn., where he went to plan strategy for his presidential campaign.

New Politics Party still after Hoosier ballot spot

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Governor Branigin planned to wait until the conclusion of an Indiana Election Board meeting today before certifying the names and symbols of minority parties, which petitioned to get on the Indana ballot in November, to county clerks. Following a meeting of the election board Tuesday, Branigin said he hadn't received any replies from Sen. Eugene MeCarthy or New York Mayor John Lindsay as to whether they wished to remain on the Indiana ballot as the New Politics Party’s nominees for president and vice president. However, Republican national committeeman L. Keith Bulen said Lindsay was sending a telegram to Branigin asking that his name be withdrawn as the vice presidential nominee. Under Indiana law, even if McCarthy and Lindsay withdraw, the New Politics Party would remain on the ballot if it is one of the minority parties

certified today by the governor. It and four other parties filed petitions by the deadline Tuesday for a place on the ballot. Upholds Certifications At a Tuesday meeting of the Indiana State Election Board, Branigin pointed out that an opinion from Atty. Gen. John Dillon held that Tuesday was also the deadline for the governor to certify the names and symbols of the parties to the 92 county clerks. However, Branigin said he would wait until after the election board met again today before sending certifications to the clerks. The George C. Wallace Party, with 32,657 signatures and the New Politics Party with 12,228 signers reported are expected to give the biggest headaches to the majority Republican and Democratic parties. The Prohibition Party was expected to have the required 8,320 signatures. Election board clerk Edward Bell also reported that the Socialist Labor Party had 10,635 signatures, and the Socialist Workers, 10,682. For the first time since 1912, practical politicians are thinking in terms of a presidential elec, tion vote in which no one nominee would get a majority of all the votes cast. In that year, Woodrow Wilson won in Indiana with 281,890 votes, but Theodore Roosevelt, as the Progressive Party nominee, was second with 162,007; WiUiam Howard Taft, the Re-

Dear Mom:

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publican nominee, third with 151,267, and Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist, fourth with 36,931. Law Won’t Bar McCarthy As head of the election board, Branigin Tuesday polled the pther two members to see if they had any question to raise about the five minority party petitions. Edwin M. S. Steers, the Republican member, asked if a 1967 law barring a defeated primary candidate from being a general election candidate, would prevent McCarthy from being the New Politics Party nominee. Branigin referred the question to members of Dillon’s staff who have been working on election questions. They said their research indicates it does not apply because McCarthy was not being nominated for president when he ran in Indiana’s primary, and in addition, the vote Nov. 5 is for the electors, not the presidential and vice presidential nominees. Some McCarthy backers in Indiana plan to proceed with efforts to put his name on the Hoosier ballot and also to gain legal recognition for the New Politics Party. Consent of the candidate is not required, but a candidate so named can withdraw. Can’t Win Harvey Lord, candidate for U.S. Senate on the party, said Tuesday when he delivered petitions into Branigin’s office, that his party recognizes it cannot win the presidential election, but hopes to be “third strongest.” Lord said McCarthy backers can gain a change in policy by Nixon or Humphrey on Vietnam if the election is so close it goes to the electoral college or the House of Representatives. Thurman DeMoss, Democratic member of the board, said that In his opinion, electors need only to get a plurality vote, not a majority vote in order for their nominees to gain Indiana’s 13 electoral votes.

Buckley’s column starts next week

Kennedy’s campaign manager until tragedy struck. A Kennedy endorsement would be a huge plus for Humphrey as he begins his campaign against Richard M. Nixon. The backing of the 37-year-old senator would help in New England, the northern industrial states and California, where the vice president must score to win. Humphrey abruptly interrupt, ed a weeklong strategy and rest session at his lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., to fly to Washington for a routine session of the National Security Council Wednesday. The vice president stayed overnight at his Washington apartment and planned to return to Waverly at nightfall after attending a Cabinet meeting. The campaign itself opens Monday with a cross-country dash starting in Philadelphia at noon and ending in San Francisco. Humphrey plans a stop at Denver, Colo., on his flight to the West. O’Brien, in a new briefing aboard Humphrey’s chartered jet to Washington, indicated that Humphrey expected the “active” support of President Johnson in the campaign. At the same time, O'Brien indicated Humphrey, after having made several public overtures, will not press for support from Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, the leader of the Democrats “dove” faction.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starting next week the Daily Banner will start printing a column by an informed articulate spokesman for the conservative point of view, William F. Buckley, Jr. William F. Buckley, Jr., is like an Indiana fakir walking barefooted through a bed of redhot coals. In Buckley’s case, the coals are invariably the articulate verbal brickbats of the Who’s Who of America’s politically liberal intelligentsia. And like the fakir, Buckley usually walks out of the fire with little more than an occasional blister. Seemingly as invulnerable as an Achilles without a heel under a fusillade of words that would confound Webster, he has been variously and colorfully referred to as "Peck’s bad boy of literature and politics,” “a literary knight errant,” “the self-ap-pointed scourge of American liberalism,” “conservatism’s enfant terrible,” “an ideological provocateur,” and even a “prurient cicerone” by one of his more exasperated detractors. Crossing from the far left to the far right of the American political spectrum, however, this “lion of conservatism” is justly recognized as one of the prime architects of the recent amazing conservative resurgence. In the heady aeries of political ideology far above the smoke-filled backrooms, Bill Buckley is recognized as an explosive force that has consistently dynamited the logjams of torpid thinking. Described as the “master of the punchy, witty, sometimes elelant stab,” Buckley, whether writing his nationally syndicated d column, an acerbic editorial in his magazine National Review, or delivering verbal sallies with the fascinating precision and stark finality of a master bullfighter dispatching his foe, is heard, never ignored. In his own appraisal, Bill Buckley is a “radical conservative.” Buckley would have you think he is a barroom brawler. When he gets his Irish up, he says, “My blood gets hot, my brow wet, I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose. I am girded for a total showdown.” His political adversaries wish his dialectic were so crude. Longtime forensic sparring partner James Wechsler, somewhat bewildered and resigned, commented ruefully: “Buckley has the facility of creating an atmosphere which leads you to believe that you are engaging in reasonable discourse, only to make some outrageous point at the end. You become mellow, amiable, then suddenly you discover he is practically calling you a traitor.” The truth is a combination of both. As one intellectually blood-thirsty observer rhapsodized after an especially devastating debate: “Buckley blends the finesse of a James Corbett with the wallop of John L. Sullivan.” More poetically referring to Buckley’s fighting instincts, another wrote: “Buckley has managed to evoke both admiration and enmity... Fired upon from right, left and center, he returns the line of all will equal zeal, and responds to the idealogical battle like Pavlov’s dog to the sound of the bell.” Buckley, a fierce opponent of crippling conformity, would hardly take exception to labels such as “iconoclast” or “controversialist by nature” which have been hung on him with some venom. He feels we not only have the right but that we have the duty to dissent vocally when we don’t agree with something. Born in New York in 1925, Buckley’s first wail, friends are fond of saying, was one of wellconsidered dissent. When he was six he wrote an angry letter to King George V demanding that England pay its war debts. As a Yale undergrad, he wrote to the State Department to advise them to tell Russia to hold free elections in Czechoslovakia. The son of a multimillionaire the grandson of a politician and the great-grandson of a poor Irish immigrant, Bill Buckley went to school for several years

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in England and France and later studied at the University of Mexico. After a two year stint in the infantry during World War II, he was graduated from Yale, where he had been chairman of the daily newspaper, in 1950. A year later when his “God and Man at Yale”— the first of six books ( “McCarthy and His Enemies,” “Ocean Racing”, “Up from Liberalism,” “The Committee and Its Critics,” “Rumbles Left and Right,” “The Unmaking of a Mayor”)— hit the bookstands, he became probably Yale’s most famous, if not successful, alumnus. After reading it, many alumni wished he had gone to Harvard. Buckley’s interest in his alma mater continues strong; he has announced that in the spring of 1968 he ran as an insurgent candidate for the 18-man Yale Corporation to protest the university’s current “liberal bias.” Following graduation, he soon became one of the most prolific magazine contributors in the country, writing for Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review, Esquire, Coronet, Commonweal and Catholic World among others. For a time, he was an editor of American Mercury. In 1955 he found the voice he was looking for when he created National Review, which was soon recognized as “the most notable periodical speaking for the far political right.” From its first issue, controversy— and national attention—focused on the periodical and on Buckley. Ideological thermonuclear mushrooms spread even to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when the Review dared to come out against such sacred cows as the graduated income tax, the inheritance tax, centralized government and even the politics of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Political fallout reached to the ivory towers of the policymakers with an especially noxious dose falling on “New Frontiersmen” and penetrated even to the smoke-filled backrooms. Buckley’s targets were dictated only by conviction. A Roman Catholic, he didn’t hesitate to publish a scathing appraisal of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Mater et Magistrata” in the Review that termed it “a venture in triviality.” A believer in the potential of the John Birch Society, he nonetheless published a pages-long editorial in the Review excoriating its ultra-radical leader Robert Welch. The shock troops of the New Frontier are still unbecomingly scratching from a pungent Buckleyism, to wit: “Drop a little itching powder in Jimmy Wechsler’s bath and before he has scratched himself for the third time, Arthur Schlesinger will have denounced you in a dozen books and speeches, Archibald MacLeish will have written ten heroic cantos about our age of terror, Harper’s will have published them, and everyone in sight will havebeen nominated for a freedom award.” An imaginative critic, conced-

ing size and diversity of Buckley’s arsenal, imputed that he was firing blanks. “Mr. Buckley,” he wrote, “is in something of the position of a cheerleader whose team is always losing and who looks up to see that only a dedicated few are huddled in the bleachers,"Now even liberals will admit, the conservative bleachers are becoming alarmingly filled. Every political philosophy to grow and thrive must have theoreticians and spokesmen; Buckley has been both. In 1965 Mr. Buckley, running as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of New York City against John Lindsay, received thirteen percent of the total vote and notably enlivened the race with witty, perceptive comments and talks throughout the campaign. In addition to his stimulating column “On The Right,” distributed to more than 200 newspapers across the United States by King Features Syndicate, Buckley is identified with a variety of other creative activities. He is star of the TV debate program, “Firing Line,” currently enjoying great success across the country, and when he is not before the cameras or in his midtown New York offices of the National Review, writing his column, or criss crossing the country for his 70-plus lectures a year, Buckley is home in Stamford, Conn., with his wife and son, Christopher, (born in 1952) Buckley somehow found time in the fall of 1967 to conduct a college course on “Problems of Big Cities” for the New School of Social Research in New York.” For recreation, Buckley likes to ski and sail, appropriately enough, since these two sports are among the least confining. He’s written on the subject and participated in the Newport-Ber-muda sailing races several times. That there are many who wish he might capsize bothers him not at all. Name MADERA, Calif. (UPI) — Nearly a century ago, when demand for lumber in the eastern United States greatly exceeded the supply, the San Joaquin Valley town of Madera rose to the challenge. Between 1874 and 1932, Madera shipped out millions of logs, thus deserving its name, the Spanish word for “wood” or “timber.” Today, Madera not only still furnishes lumber, but has also turned to agricultural products such as grain, fruit and cotton.

PUBLIC AUCTION of 58 ACRE FARM Located 5% miles south of Bellmore, Indiana on SR 59, then 1 mile east to old SR 59 or iVz mile southeast of Mansfield Indiana on old SR 59, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1968 at 2:00 P.M. fEST) 58 ACRE FARM This is a well located 58 acre farm near Mansfield and near the lake with some timber pasture and 16 acres of good fertile tillable ground raising a good crop. Land being described as follows: The South Fast Quarter (SE‘/4) of the South East Quarter (SE 1 /*) of Section FightfS), Township Fourteen (14) North, Range Six (6) West, aim all that part of the North East Quarter (NE/4) of the North East Quarter (NE^) of Section Seventeen (17), Township and Range last aforesaid lying north of the center line of the Terre Haute and Greencastle gravel road, and East of the center line of the Mansfield and Carbon gravel road, excepting there from a strip Ten (10) rods in width off of the east side of both said tracts, said strip being the part of said tract belonging to what is known as the McPheeter’s lands. Also, all that part of the West Half (W%) of the North East Quarter (NE%) of Section Seventeen (17), Township agd Range last aforesaid lying North and East of the center line of Mansfield and Carbon gravel road, containing in all FiftyEight (58) acres, more or less deducting the aforesaid excepnon. TERMS Terms--Reasonable down payment day of sale and balance on delivery of deed and abstract. Possession--March 1, 1969. Taxes —Buyer will assume May 1969 installment of taxes and all taxes thereafter. For further information contact Harold Asbury, Auctioneer; Phone--Marshall, Indiana 597-2244 or 597-2514, if you wish to own a good farm come to the sale. Not responsible in case of accident Howard W. Goodin Sr., Charlotte McHargue, Evangeline Frank—Owners HAROLD ASBURY, Autioneer C.J. HANNFR. Attorney