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Putnam Republican women chat with Jill, Carol during coffee hour

THERE WAS A CROWD--More than 100 Republican women squeezed into a second story room in the Student Union Building at DePauw University here to hear the wives of Congressman John T. Myers and GOP U.S. Senator nominee, William Ruckelshaus. Carol Myers, shown at the far left, related her experiences of living

in Washington D.C. She commented on the social life including parties given by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson. The large number of women spilled out into the hallway as shown in the secondphoto from the left. Jill Ruckelshaus, who also talked to the women, looks over the shoulder of one visitor while chatting in the hallway dur-

ing Mrs. Myers' talk. Jill, in the photo to the far right is shown talking about her husband's candidacy. The coffee was held yesterday morning. A large auditorium was not obtained because the party officials did not look for such a large turn out —The BANNER Photos, Dennis Abell.

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Gobin Methodists name new associate minister, Dr. Tower

DePauw students feel Richard Nixon is best qualified to be president

Dr. Hansel H. Tower has been named Associate Minister at Gobin Memorial Church, and begins his work today. Dr. Tower will have a variety of responsibilities at Gobin, with primary emphasis on parish cultivation, membership enlistment and training. He will be formally introduced to the congregation this Sunday, when he will be one of the ministers serving communion at the congregation’s observance of World-Wide Communion Sunday. That service will be at 11 o'clock. This new work is a return to Greencastle for Dr. and Mrs. Tower. He was a Rector Scholar at DePauw University, graduating in 1929. Mrs. Tower, the former Helen Knauer, was born here and has family living here. DePauw honored him with a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1946. A native of Pilot Knob in Crawford County, he studied at DePauw, Boston University, and Temple University. He has served as pastor of several churches, the first being Fillmore Methodist Church, and the latest St. And. rew Methodist Church in Indianapolls. He held other pastorates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. He has also

Dr. Tower

been a minister of counseling for a local church in Pittsburgh, Pa., and for the Western Pennsylvania Conference of The Methodist Church. He had unusual experiences as a chaplain with the United States Navy. He entered the chaplaincy in 1940 and retired as a captain in 1961. In the European area he was the Navy representative on Continued on Page 8

Kate McMartin with a foreign keepsake.

By SHAUN HIGGINS Banner Staff Reporter If most DePauw students had their way Richard Nixon would be the next president of the United States. According to a recent poll of all students by the DePauw Young Republican organization, students preferred the Republican candidate almost two to one over Democratic challenger Hubert Humphrey. In an effort to find out why Nixon is so popular on campus the ‘Banner’ interviewed eight student voters. Four members of the group supported the formCooper asks residents to stay out of building Greencastle Athletic Director, Lloyd Cooper, has asked people not to visit the construction site of the new high school facilities currently in the final stages. Glenroy Construction of Indianapolis and the school board met yesterday in a progress meeting to determine whether or not the company will have the new basketball gym completed for the Tiger Cubs opener with Cloverdale November 30. Said Cooper, “Glenroy is making an effort to have the gym ready by the opening game, so we must ask people from the standpoint o f safety not to visit the site on weekends.” Man charged Ray Albright was found guilty in Putnam Circuit Court Monday on a charge of contributing to minors. He was given a suspended sentence of 6-months to the state farm. He was arrested by the Indiana State Police, Sept. 21 in connection with alcohol in the possession of two Roachdale minors.

er vice-president, two of them backed Humphrey, and two stated that they had no desire to choose between the candidates. Doug Mitchell, editor of the campus yearbook, said, “I like Nixon. He doesn’t compromise with Communists. He offers a chance for Americans to have some pride in their country, and he offers the people some chance of taking part in their country.” Another Nixon backer, Rich Wehnes, a senior zoology major, feels Nixon is the best man for two reasons. “His beliefs aren’t predominately left or right, but are right down the middle. Therefore, he can do the most good for the most people. Secondly, he is the only candidate who has stood up face-to-face with a Communist leader, as he did in the ‘kitchen debates’ with Kruschev. I feel he won’t agree to the Communist’s unreasonable demands.” Tom Bowman, advertising manager of ‘The DePauw’, said merely, “Richard Nixon is the man who will put this country back on its feet. He is clearly the best candidate.” However, Bowman’s boss, Noel 1 Weather watcher Increasing cloudiness, windy and warm today with a chance of showers later this afternoon. Showers and thundershowers likely tonight and turning cooler. Variable cloudiness and cool Thursday with a chance of light showers. Winds southwest 15 miles per hour with gusts to 30 mph today shifting northwest late tonight and diminishing. High today low to mid 80s. Low tonight upper 50s to lower 60s. High Thursday mid to upper 60s. Precipitation probability percentages 40 today, 60 tonight, and 30 in Zone 2 and 20 in Zones 4 and 5 Thursday. Outlook for Indiana: Partly cloudy and cool Thursday night and Friday.

Doug Mitchell Humphreys, editor of the campus newspaper, disagreed with his business manager. Humphreys supports Vice-president Hubert Humphrey (no relation). The campus journalist said, “Humphrey seems to be the best candidate because of his experience in various governmental positions and because of his long-standing progressive position. Both Nixon and Wallace lack the understanding and perception to solve modern America’s problems.” The majority of the DePauw students would not, however, agree with Humphreys’ statement. The general mood among students questioned was perhaps best expressed by Charles Labig, an active Nixon supporter and a member of the Young Republicans organization. Labig said, “I feel Nixon’s involvement in the Eisenhower Administration, which got us out of Korea, has helped Nixon become familiar with the inter-workings of the Federal government. In the last eight years, because he has not held public office, Nixon has been able to intensely study the nation’s problems and has been free to travel the world and see the failure of present policies from a firsthand point of view.” Not all DePauw students.

Tom Bowman Rich Wehnes however, have a candidate and One Humphrey backer some are making a very reluc- commented that he supported the tant choice. vice-president merely because he

High speed chase ends at Stilesville

Special to the Banner STILESVILLE, Ind. - An auto chase with speeds up to 130 miles per hour on U.S. 40 ended early today just eastof here when the state police set up a road block using a semi truck and trailer and stopped a fleeing subject. Glen Manley, Indiana State Trooper from Manhattan told the Banner that after a Jerry Bridges, 25, Indianapolis, went through road blocks in Indianapolis and Plainfield around 3 a.m., he had a truck driver swing his rig over the 2-lanes of west bound U.S. 40. “We had just got the semi over the road and I had my shotgun out when this guy came over the hill,” said Manley. Bridges, the policeman said, tried to make a U-turn to avoid hitting the semi and flipped his 1966 Toronado. The man was knocked out momentarily.

Police, said when he came to, he tried to fight policemen at the scene. Officer David Paschall set up a road block in Marion County in the 5000 block of West Washington, but Bridges reportedly drove around the blockade. Paschall fired a shotgun at the fleeing subject. At Plainfield, another roadblock was established. Bridges, according to police, traveled through the town at speeds up to 110 miles per hour. The man was taken to an Indianapolis hospital for minor injuries and was later charged today with reckless driving and disorderly conduct. He had traveled around 28miles. Indianapols police originally started chasing the subject around 2:30 a.m. in the 3300 block of West Michigan for Continued on Page 9

Noel Humphreys could not back Nixon or Wallace. The student, who asked to remain unidentified, said, “Humphrey looks better today than yesterday. He’s starting to show some guts. I have always liked his record on civil rights, but I loathe his position on Vietnam. Despite that, however, I could vote for the man if he didn’t come across as such a milksop.” A number of students,however, feel it is unwise to support a man as the lesser of two evils, they are not supporting anyone. Preston Moore, a student senator from Longden Hall said, “I feel alienated by the American political system. If you line the differences of opinion represented in this election and placed them in a line stretching from East College to the Adminstrative Building, I’d be somewhere near the corner of Hanna and College. The system has given me no choice.” Another student, who asked his name be withheld, said he would vote for Wallace in November. “Actually I hate Wallace. But I want to see him get elected because then this country would have four years of the worst administrative policies in its history. If that happened we could look forward to new leaders arising to save the ship.”

DePauw co-ed sees ‘Reds’ invade Czechoslovakia

by SHAUN HIGGINS Banner Staff Reporter A DePauw University co-ed who recently returned from Eastern Europe said many Czechs hoped for United States intervention during the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia but few people really expected the U.S. to enter the dispute. Kate McMartin, a junior at DePauw, has spent the past two summers in Yugoslavia, the Communist country which broke away from Russian control. Miss McMartin spent three days in Prague prior to the armed assault of the Russian Army and participated in a demonstration stressing solidarity for Alexander Dubcek, Czech reform leader. “This was an extremely or-

derly demonstration, unlike many American student marches. The students took the move seriously,” she said. The Czechs and the Yugoslavs are both very nationalistic countries, according to the pert political science and religion major. Miss McMartin said that aside from the pure nationalistic feellings of the people in Czechoslovakia the people had a vested economic interest in keeping their country free from Russian restrictions. The Czechs need Western markets for their industry,” she commented,” and they can’t get them with Russian restrictions on trade.” She emphasized that the Eastern Europeans are wellinformed concerning the eco-

nomic needs of their countries. “Everyone keeps informed about national affairs and there is a great concern among the people about the future of their country.” Miss McMartin, who was staying in the small Yugoslav town of Groblje, less than 100 miles from the occupied Czechoslovakia, said the experience really brought the facts of international militancy home to her. “Vietnam can sometimes seem a long way off and we tend to lose sight of it, but when Russian troops are stationed less than 100 miles away you can start to get the feeling of the thing,” she said. When news of the invasion reached Yugoslavia there was immediate fear that Yugoslavia

might expect similar treatment at the hands of the Russian army, Miss McMartin observed. “We saw soldiers on the streets with machine guns and I was put on 24-hour call to leave the country. If they had called, I would have been required to leave,” she said. Miss McMartin said that most Yugoslavs whom she talked to felt that the United States wouldn’t intervene in the area until Yugoslavia itself was attacked. Yugoslavia was the first Communist country to break away from the Soviet bloc to pursue its own foreign and economic policies. Under Party Chief Tito the country has received both economic and military aid from the United States and bolsters a very

efficient army for a nation its size. The DePauw co-ed said that the Czechs had to resort to passive resistance against the invaders because they are a small, non-militant, poorly equipped nation. She feels that Yugoslavia would fight an invasion. “There is a great hatred of the Russians in Yugoslavia,” she commented. Miss McMartin spent most of her time at the University of Ljublana, in Yugoslavia. She was granted the trip under a joint program sponsored by the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the U.S. State Department. Her hometown is Cedar Rapids, Iowa.