The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 September 1968 — Page 1

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DePauw’s Lambda Chi has new cry: Watermelon or bust . .

Miss Watermelon Bust, Bonnie Cochinis, (left) and students enjoy Lambda Chi Alpha Fraterniity contest, feast.

“It Waves For All”

The Daily Banner

VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1968

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No. 277

Greencastle soldier wounded in Vietnam;

was home in July

‘Special to the Banner’ The last time Mr. and Mrs. Marion O’Neal, 1108 C. Avenue, saw their son was when he was home on leave from the Army 14 days in July. He was sent to Vietnam Aug. 29. Last Thursday night, the O’ Neal’s received a telegram from the Secretary of War’s office informing them that their son, 19-year-old Pvt. 1C Robert E. O’ Neal had been wounded in combat the previous day. One injured in U.S. 40 crash ‘Special to the Banner’ COATESVILLE, Ind.—A North Salem man attempting to make a left hand turn from the eastbound side of U.S. 40 near here onto Ind. 75 from the outside driver’s lane, was involved in a two car accident last night that sent one woman to the hospital. State Trooper Ted Settles, investigating officer, said Eugene Gordon, 59, Box 547, North Salem, attempted to turn his 1964 Sedan north off of U.S. 40, from the southside lane. The trooper said an oncoming 1967 Thunderbird, driven in the inside lane, hit the Gordon car in the rear. The driver of the second vehicle, Mrs. Leona Blair, R.R.3 Danville, was taken to the Putnam County Hospital at Greencastle for lacerations to the forehead. A passenger in the Blair car, Mrs. Blossom Blair, 50, of rural Terre Haute suffered minor Continued on Page 5

Pvt. 1C R. E. O'Neal

The telegram said the soldier received metal fragment wounds in both legs and head while on a combat operation against the enemy. The message, brought to the O’Neal home by a Greencastle city policeman, Mrs. O’Neal said, told them their son was treated in a Vietnam hospital and that since their son was not seriously wounded, no further report would be made. “We haven’t heard another word about him,” Mrs. O’Neal said. The boy had entered the military in February. He had attended Greencastle High School, but did not finish his senior year. Mrs. O’Neal said the telegram came from Terre Haute and was signed by Major General Kenneth G. Wikham.

Mrs. Russell Pierce and Adrian Vander Mast

Mrs. Pierce receives

membership award

Mrs. Russell Pierce, 713 Locust Street, Greencastle, membership chairman of the Mental Health Association in Putnam County, was honored by the Mental Health Association in Indiana, for exceeding her chapter’s 1968 membership quota. She received her award from Adrian Vander Mast, Crawfords.

ville, chairman of the Member, ship-Fund Raising Campaigns Committee of the Mental Health Association in Indiana at the Victory Luncheon on Friday. The award ceremony was part of the two-day annual Program Conference at Stouffer’s Indianapolis Inn.

Old National Road not forgotten

Red gunners shoot down 6 helicopters By JACKWALSH SAIGON (UPI(—Communist gunners shot down six U.S. helicopters, two of them supporting U.S. Marines in and near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), military spokesmen said today. The losses raised the U.S. helicopter battle toll to 869. The spokesmen said six crewmen were listed as missing from a twin-rotor CH46 Marine helicopter downed in the southern portion of the buffer zone Saturday while re-supplying a 2,000-man Marine sweep there. They said the craft plunged into Red-held territory. A second helicopter was cut down Friday while supplying troops operating just below the demilitarized strip between the two Vietnams, where U.S. and government forces have mounted a drive to scatter Communist troop concentrations and smash supply depots. Spokesmen today reported that U.S. Marines captured a North Vietnamese base camp with 300 foxholes and 1,220 mortar rounds in an unopposed seizure near where the second chopper crashed. Not far away, government troops killed 98 Red troops with “light” losses. Two other helicopters were shot down near Pleiku in the Central Highlands, one was downed Sunday on the northern coast and the sixth went down Sunday 18 miles south of Saigon. Ten Americans Wounded A total of 10 GIs were wounded in the crashes and eight others rescued unharmed, the spokesmen said. Apart from the DMZ action by Marines and government troops, ground action was light Sunday and today. South Vietnamese regional forces Continued on Page 5 Marketing discusion planned “Economic Condiderations in Marketing High Moisture Corn” is the subject for discussion at an extension school to be held at the 4-H Club building, in Crawfordsville, Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 8:00 p.m. Dr. J. William Uhrig, Agricultural Economist at Purdue University, will lead the discussion. Farmers from Montgomery, Fountain and Tippecanoe and other neighboring counties, are invited to attend. The discussion will include such questions as: Under what conditions can one afford to market corn directly from the field without drying?, How much does corn shrink in the drying process?, Will it pay to store corn on the farm for a better price at a future date?, What is the cost of drying corn?, What are the harvesting loss of combining corn above 25 or 26 per cent moisture? You are invited to attend and to ask questions. The meeting is sponsored by the Montgomery County Extension Committee and J.A. Carroll, County Extension Agent.

1-70 has not replaced

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Ted Settles shows traffic has to go east or west off 1-70.

‘Buckle up’ may be law, not just safety slogan

By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Indiana motorists can expect some more pressure coming from the 1969 Legislature, and “buckling up for safety” is going to be

part of it.

If the State Traffic Advisory Committee has its way, all 1964 automobiles and later models will be required by state law to be equipped with seat belts. The present statute requires only that seat belts be installed at the time a vehicle is sold. Part of the seat belt safety problem draws attention from the fact that motorists presently can not be penalized for removing them or failing to replace damaged ones. Backing for new legislation on the matter was sought by Willard L. Walls of the State Vehicle Inspection Board. And it appeared Wednesday that he got

be raised to $200, claiming “you could cause a $50 accident simply by hitting a car with your fist.” But it appeared that legislative inclinations are heading toward toughened traffic policies. Trailer registration, too, received its share of attention. Under a 1955 law, registration is required on trailers with a gross weight of over 3,000 pounds. Floyd Kline of the Office of Traffic Safety pointed out there is a growing use of twowheeled trailers which do not have brakes on them. “The boats are getting bigger on the trailers and more is going in the camping trailers,” Kline said. Consequently, the committee stamped its approval toward a Choral Union

new law requiring registration of trailers weighing between 1,500 and 3,000 pounds. In other committee endorsements, a bill requiring uniform traffic control devices throughout the state wasgiven the okay after removing a penalty clause which would have cut 10 per cent from the local governmental unit’s share of highway funds. , About the only thing not agreed upon concerned a plan to place vehicle inspection decals on the lower left portion of the windshield. The chief objections came from James E. Nicholas, Indianapolis, who reminded the committee that some other states specifically make it unlawful to display decals or stickers of any kind on the glass portion of the wind-

shield.

Additional research is heading

‘Killer Road’ traffic By DENNIS ABELL The American Pioneers nicknamed it the Cumberland Road, the National Road, the archway to the East and West. Today’s travelers know U.S. 40 far better as the tar-patched skeleton which has earned the grim title of “Killer Road” and the

reputation of having one of the Putnam and surrounding county commuters have used U.S. 40 daily to and from Indianapolis

jobs.

The road surface area over the years has gained wide recognition for its fine quilt characteristics of odd shaped tar patches which challenged the most stubborn tire and car axle. But the famed road bed with its dips and curves, its historic taverns of old and truck stops of later times, was supposed to fall beneath the shadow of paralleling Interstate 70 opened recently to west bound traffic from Indianapolis’ 1-465 to Ind. 43 near Cloverdale. Yes, the rumbling thump of semi-truck and tractor wheels has decreased. The heavy vehicles are utilizing 1-70, but not all of them. For the first few days following the interstate’s Labor Day weekend opening, few trucks were seen rolling down U.S. 40. Today more and more rigs are being spotted. The semi driver realizes the truck stops from Brazil to Indianapolis are all on U.S. 40. A break down along the interstate means a long jog to the nearest gas station. The largest truck stop in the area, Inman’s truck stop and restaurant just east of Belleville in Hendricks County still does a good business although the owner says he is always down in business during September. Auto traffic is a different story. Motorists leaving Greencastle still use Ind. 240 to U.S. 40 at Stilesville and travel onto Indianapolis. Many westside Putnam County residents will continue on U.S. 40 rather than drive south on Ind. 43 to the Interstate. As had been pointed out by Indiana State Highway Department studies, much of the U.S. 40 traffic has always been largely suburban commuters from the three counties west of Indianapolis, Hendricks, Putnam and

Clay.

Highway officials are still faced with the problem of keep-

highest death rates in the nation. limiting out of state traffic. William P. Mercer, district highway engineer for the state highway department, told the Banner his department was ex- , perimenting with contractual pavement on U.S. 40 near Stilesville where motorists have traveled on sections of new pavement during the last month. “We will eventually have to pave the entire stretch of highway,” he said. Motorists presently drive along a newly paved section of road and then suddenly go back to the original suface. There have been complaints that the highway is dangerous because of the considerable change in surface every thousand feet or so. The need for opening 1-70, highway experts proclaimed, was to help decrease the number of accidents and fatalities recorded on the old highway. The reason? Interstate highways have proved to be safer with an impressive limited number of accidents and deaths. U.S. 40 continues to register its share of the state highway death toll. Already this month, the tiny community of Manhattan has qualified for four white “death” crosses symbolizing traffic fa-

talities.

Three persons were killed earlier this month in a two vehicle accident. Last week a state highway flagman from Greencastle was struck down and killed. The road’s edges were being

graded.

Will interstate traffic soon be able to go beyond Ind. 43 to Brazil and Ind. 59? Mercer says no. He points out the remaining portion of I70 from Ind. 43 to Brazil will not be opened for at least another year until the highway is finished in Clay and Vigo counties and traffic can be continued all the way to Ind. 46 where the 1-70 bypass around Terre Haute is already opened. Mercer said although the interstate is nearly finished to Ind.

it. And then there are a number of other legislative endorsements made Wednesday by the advisory committee, one among them being to require reporting to state police accidents in which as little as $50 damage has resulted. The proposed minimum was $100, and others urged that it Weather watcher

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Partly sunny, warm and humid with chance of thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Showers and thundershowers likely tonight. Showers and thundershowers likely and turning cooler Tuesday. High today 83 to 88. Low tonight 63 to 68. High Tuesday 80 to 85. Precipitation probability percentages 40 this afternoon, 60 tonight, 50 Tuesday.

begin practice Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Choral Union of DePauw University will begin rehearsals for the Christmas performances of Vivaldi’s Magnificat and portions of Handel’s Messiah. The Choral Union is a mixed chorus composed of students, faculty, and townspeople, and it rehearses weekly on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 in Meharry Hall on the DePauw campus. The Magnificat, by Antonio Vivaldi, will be performed with soloists and orchestra in Meharry Hall, Dec. 2. Selections from the Christmas portion of Georg Frederick Handel’s Messiah will be sung at the final chapel service before Christmas vacation in December. All interested persons are in. vited to sing these two major works with the Choral Union under the direction of Mr. Graeme M. Cowen, director of the University Choirs.

toward bills providing for par- ing the old historic pathway in 59, the road can not be opened tial reimbursement to schools good condition. Interstate 70 has because of lack of a proper defor driver education. only answered the problem of Continued on Page 5

W ant date? Try computer

W.D. BOYD Staff Reporter The computer and its ubiquitous representative, the IBM card, intrude into modern life more and more—even into matching people. Nothing new on U.S. campuses, even made a business of some entrepreneurs, computer dating game for the third time to DePauw University this past weekend in its annual computer dance. Participants in this mechanization of mating received a multiple-choice questionnaire and answered it on a punch card which was processed by computer equipment. The idea was to obtain a member of the opposite sex supposedly most compatible among the participating group.

Students entering the experiment were asked to answer 50 questions on what kind of activities they preferred, what their dating habits are, what they thought of themselves, and most important what their sex is ( six people falsified this question for some reason). A sample question was “Would you rather go to a: 1. campaign rally, 2. convocation, 3. movie, 4. football game, 5. bum room.” Even though the questionnaire included a query on height, there were a few couples who had tc communicate vertically. The affair is, in essence, the arrangement of a hopefully compatible blind date. Most people seem to idealize about the date that technology is about to offer

them. Some think twice. Sophomore Joe Vosicky, dance coordinator, reported that he had received quite a few phone calls from those desiring to “fix” their date—which was not granted-and from those who wished to drop out altogether. Participants received the name and living unit of their date one hour before dance time. Vosicky related that there were some cold feet in this interval; in fact, said Vosicky, his fraternity roommate was stoodup. Of those who were stood up this year, and this seemed to be the pattern in contrast to previous years, the women stood up the men. Vosicky plans to publish the names of those who did the Continued on page 2

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