The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 October 1968 — Page 1

VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

The Daily Banner GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1968 100 Per Copy

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No. 294

Putnam County residents close to two weekend fall festivals

Covered bridges, goods featured at Rockville

By WILBUR KENDALL Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Ind. ..Parke County’s 12th Annual Covered Bridge Festival begins this weekend with the Fall Foliage rapidly growing to bright arrays of color and splendor. Each year since 1957 Parke County residents have extended great effort, time , and money to help make this one of the best Fall Festivals in the state as well as in the nation. There will be a great variety of Good Old Fashioned food for everyone to enjoy while seeing the sights listed in the tour literature that is obtainable here. Home made apple butter is made on the spot as well as ham and beans with corn bread baked in an old coal stove. Persimmon Ice Cream is made the old fashioned way, and many more items including, dried apples, sausage, cider, bread, biscuits, barbecue, chicken and much more. Parking, one of the biggest problems in the past, will be handled this year by the Cayuga Civil Defense members. This will be a big help to those wishing to visit the festival this year. Arrangements for parking are as follows; those approaching Rockville from the north will turn at the Standard Station and park in the high school football field and grade school grounds; those from the south on U.S. 41 will park in the Beech wood Municipal Park.

Traffic coming east on U.S. 36 will park in the Billie Creek Village. Bus Shuttle Service is provided from these spots and parking is free. Tours have been arranged to see the many covered bridges and other sights surrounding Rockville in Parke County. Thirtyseven covered bridges are listed on the tour by bus. There are also bike tours if you feel up to pedaling your own load. Scarecrows will dot the routes to the bridges as part of the scarecrow contest sponsored by the festival. Ballots are given to you when you register for tours. You may vote for the scarecrow of your choice. Handicrafts are displayed in the eastern half of the headquarters tent along with a

Quilting Bee, antique dolls of all types and polished rocks and many other items. A photo exhibit is held in the basement of the Parke County Public Library just north of festival headquarters. This contest is entered annually by both amateur and professional photographers.* Winning entries are judged a week prior to the festival and are on display for all to see. Art exhibits are displayed this year in the corridors of the courthouse. These are all done by Parke County artists and are on display daily to the public. Well known Rockville painter Dr. H. B. Pirkle, recently won first place in the 15th Annual Paris Art Show for his painting “Nashville Street.” This should speak highly for the talent to be found here. Activities . include a covered bridge model contest, band concert every Sunday afternoon, and many more events that can be throughly explained at the Parke County Tourist Information Center. Adding to the festival atmosphere, local residents will dress in clothing suited to the time of the origin of the covered bridge. Old and young alike enjoy the clothing just like Granddad and Grandma used to wear. Parke County is first in the nation with the number of Covered Bridges, (37) and at one time had a grand total of 49 1/2. The half being their end of the bridge that span Wabash at ClinContinued on Page 4

Rockville women prepare booth.

Martinsville’s fall festival parade tomorrow

BY DENNIS ABELL MARTINSVILLE, Ind.—Like a landscape scene out of a Grandma Moses painting, downtown Martinsville will tomorrow resemble all that is Hoosier fallism, all that is pumpkin pie, apple cider and falling golden brown leaves, rolled up into one spectacle. The large number of vehicles through here today had nothing to do with Indiana University football games. Where the town is generally tied up with traffic on Saturday afternoon enroute to Bloominton’s football stadium, there was no game today. The Hoosiers were at Iowa. But the cais were still in great numbers. Tomorrow the autos will increase more. Better than 55,000 people are expected to be wandering around the Morgan County square. Foliage color will hit Ind. next week

The reason? Tomorrow will be the climax of a week long fall foliage festival here. A parade featuring bands from around Indiana is only second in size in Indiana to the 500 Festival Parade in Indianapolis each May. National and international figure heads have attended the Sunday activities in past years. Mayor Jimmy G. Gardner has attracted many noted speakers for his annual festival breakfasts. This year “Jimmy G.”, as most Martinsville folks know him, has turned the event into an 11:30 a.m. luncheon. The speaker will be Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Diem. While the crowds were not going to Bloomington today, there is speculation that the crowd may come from Bloomington tomorrow and not the kind of people interested in fall foliage. Martinsville police have worried for two years about war protesters. Two years ago Draft director, Lewis Hershey spoke. Last year Gen Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff to President Johnson appeared. There were no incidents.

Crowds lined Martinsville street last year.

The appearance of Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Diem is expected to draw Vietnam protestors from I.U. Mayor Gardner will play host to mayors from all over Indiana at the noon luncheon. An antique auto show will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the public square. The

parade will start at 2 p.m. The crowning of Miss Air Force Recuriter and the Fall Festival Queen will be at 1 p.m. The Vietnamese ambassador will also serve as parade marshal. The parade winds over a 2-mile route and lasts nearly 2 Vj hours. It will begin and end at the Mar-

tinsville High School with a reviewing stand for VIP’s on the southside of the courthouse square. Nancy Wilson, 19, present Miss Dominion of Canada will be riding in the parade. Other activities this past week have included a Ball and a Dixieland Jazz Concert.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The next two weeks in Indiana may be the big ones for leaf watch, ers, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. The department said frosts, low temperatures and rains are now speeding up the seasonal changes which were delayed by an unusually mild and moist summer. Here is the regional outlook: Southwest — Much color abounds in this area, setting the fall pace in color change. Central South— Changes are coming fast, but the peak period is yet a week away. Dogwood and Sassafras are about 10 days behind. Southeast—Two heavy frosts have brought about abundant reds. Maples Sassafras, Gum and Sumac are brilliant. Ash are purpling, and some Oaks show more than usual color. Central—Hill country is generally bright, particularly Brown, Monroe and Spencer Counties. Considerable green remains in Indianapolis area, but changes, when they occur, are expected to be rapid. East Central —Coloring is slow here, however next two weekends may indicate change. West Central — Coloring has not peaked, but next 15 days promise excellent viewing. Northwest—Reds and yellows are both abundant, the changes speeded by frosts. Color duration is expected to be brief due to rain-induced leaf fall. Northeast— Peak coloring in this area is likely to be delayed until mid-October. Frosts have caused some coloring. Relative works on Apollo mission William J. Strahle, nephew of Mr. and Mrs E. J. Bennett of R. 1, Greencastle, is Guidance and Control Systems Engineer for the Apollo 7 mission. Apollo 7 went into orbit yesterday from NASA Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 34. Spacecraft systems have undergone intensive testing on this first of a kind mission. Apollo 7 is a test flight of a new spacecraft, the operational buildup toward the lunar landing mission. Apollo 7 is planned to be openended to 10 days duration, but a full 10 day mission is not essential to a successful mission from a technical standpoint. Although Apollo essentially takes up where Gemini left off, Apollo 7 cannot be considered an extension of Gemini. It is a third generation spacecraft with twice the complexity of Gemini and with the capability of operating at lunar distance. Strahle has been an employee of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex. for the past two years. In that time, he has supported three unmanned Apollo missions. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Strahle, Boonville. Continued on Page 4

Parade has many floats Hoosier publisher to receive degree

Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam of Indianapolis, on recommenndation of the president and faculty, has been voted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the Board of Trustees and Visitors of DePauw University. Conferring of the degree on the 79-year-old journalist was to have occurred this morning (Saturday) during homecoming weekend, but Pulliam is confined in a New York Hospital. Board chairman J. Kurt Mahrdt and DePauw President Dr. William E. Kerstetter said the degree will be conferred on Pulliam next May during commencement weekend activities. Pulliam entered a New York City hospital after attending a meeting of the directors of Associated Press. It was thought his examination to discover the cause of a presistent back ailment would require only a twothree day confinement. Doctors have located the cause of the ailment and treatment has taken longer than anticipated. He expects to be released and resume normal activities within the next few days. For Pulliam the honorary degree will mark the second major honor conferred on him by DePauw University to which he came as a Kansas minister’s xsor. in 1906. In 1946, two years ai’.er he became the publisher of The Indianapolis Star and two years b e f o r e he bought the Indianapolis News, Pulliam was voted by DePauw’s seniors as the university’s alumnus-of-the-year. It was well before then, however, that Pulliam launched his

Eugene C. Pulliam

post-graduate association with journalism and with DePauw University. which h e established The DePauw Daily and was one of 10 founders of the international journalism society, Sigma Delta Chi, Pulliam joined the Kansas City Star as a reporter. Three years out of college he became the nation’s youngest publisher (Atchison, Kansas, Champion) before heading eastward to Indiana to become partj vner of the Franklin Star. Since that youth ful start in the publishing business 56 years ago, Pulliam has owned and operated 46 newpapers in eight states. Today his newspapers — his sole business interest-- are the two Indianapolis papers, The Continued On Page 4

Says Gary Mayor ‘Listen to moderates or Man Man’s get you’ by SHAUN HIGGINS Staff Reporter

Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, addressed a capacity crowd at Gobin Methodist Church yesterday to speak on law, liberty and progress as pertaining to minority groups and urban crisis. The Negro mayor was speaking as a participant in DePauw’s “Law, Liberty and Progress” symposium taking place on campus this weekend. Hatcher, who has headed the Steel City since last November, spoke of America’s national im. age, the role of education in racial relations, and Black Power. In prefacing his remarks Hatch, er said the image of the Negro in America has changed in the past decade. “The Blacks were once thought of as victims of white racism,” he said, “They are now seen as assailants in the mind of the public. Hatcher said, the negro had taken on the image of “a Black Viet Cong in the nation’s midst.” According to Hatcher the United States is countering domestic unrest with military solutions. “The nation is slowly moving toward a military solution to a social problem,” he said and pointed out the vast sums being spent on riot-control by police departments. Hatcher spoke for about 50 min. utes and devoted much of his time to a discussion of Black Power. The Gary mayor explained that Black Power arose because white institutions prevented the black man from making free choices. At the same time, Hatcher said, white society prevented the building of parallel institutions by monopolizing societal resources. “Black power urges pride in pigmentation, ” Hatcher stated, “and calls on black people to purge themselves of the uncon. scious feeling the ‘white’ is ‘better’.” Named GOP Bayh head A DePauw University librarian, Emily Alward, has been named chairman of Republicans for Bayh activities in Putnam County. Announcement of the appointment was made by James B. Capehart, Indianapolis attorney, who is state coordinator of Citizens for Bayh. The nonpartisan citizens groups and allied organizations, such as the Republican groups, are working on a county level throughout Indiana for the election of Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) to his second term in the Senate. Mrs. Alward, 533 Anderson, holds a master's degree in library science from Purdue University and is reference librarian at DePauw.

Richard Hatcher

Hatcher said black power supplies self-help instead of white paternalism. The nationally prominent mayor said the Negro must gain a knowledge and a pride in his heritage. Such a pride would spell an end to the “psychological destruction” of the Negro which has gone on for centuries in America, he said. In closing his remarks Hatcher asked the rhetorical question, “What kind of people are we?” Answering himself, he said, “We are a frightening people. We are frightening because centuries ago we put shackles on the bodies of blacks, brought to this country against their will. We are a frightening people because in 1865 we took the shackles off their bodies and put them on their minds. We are a frighten, ing people because we pay farmContinued on Page 4 Hendricks Co. case all up in the air DANVILLE, IND. - The Hendricks Circuit Court was ordered to keep an airplane owner as a defendant in a $244,720 damage suit growing out of a plane crash, in an opinion handed down Thursday by the Indiana Appellate Court. The trial court ruled that the Sheridan Airport and Robert G. Apple should not have been named defendants in a suit brought by John S. Ross against both the pilot, John Brant, and the airport as owner of the craft. The plane crashed on an emergency take-off near Mt. Grab, Ohio, in 1960. The Appellate Court said Ross should be given the opportunity to introduce what evidence he had before a demurrer was issued, excluding the craft owner, who had leased the plane to the Dilot.

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