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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX

The Daily Banner GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1968 IOC Per Copy

“It Waves For All”

URI News Service

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Co. GOP rally tonight

William D. Ruckelshaus Donald Jackson speaks up for white America

Ruckelshaus debates Bayh; charges made FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI)— Democratic Sen. Birch Bayh and Republican challenger William D. Ruckelshaus Monday staged their sixth debate—a toned down version of No. 5— before about 500 persons, and, for the first time, a live television audience. In the past, Ruckelshaus has charged Bayh with a poor voting record. But Monday it was Bayh challenging Ruckelshaus. Bayh said Ruckelshaus missed 219 votes in the Indiana Legislature for a record of about 70 per cent in attendance. Bayh said his own record in the Indiana Legislature was about 95 per cent. Ruckelshaus assailed Bayh on gun control. He said letters written by the Democrat were “masterpieces” and didn’t spell out a definite position. Bayh contended one letter opposed any form of “blanket” gun control while the other favored regulation of mail order sales of weapons. For the most part, the debate provided reiteration of each candidate’s views. Ruckelshaus said Bayh was tied to the present administration in Washington. “If his record were good,” Ruckelshaus said, “I wouldn’t be running against him.” He said the Johnson-Hum-phrey administration had “failed miserably.” Bayh, on the other hand, once again directed attention to the amount of federal funds he has helped bring into Indiana for various projects. He said he basically favored continuation of the poverty programs, with some “reshaping.” Ruckelshaus said he was for continuing those programs which were “proven to work.” The rest, he implied, could be scrapped. On foreign aid, he said he was for it only when it was “of benefit to my nation.” Bayh called for a “hard look at priorities,” saying he was against all military foreign aid. He said it had “outlived its usefulness” He also said that the South Vietnamese should assume a greater burden of the responsibility, adding that he favored a bombing pause. Ruckelshaus accused Bayh of vbting for the minority plank calling for a coalition government. Fall festival is planned by PTA for Oct. 19 The annual Fall Festival sponsored by the Jones School P.T.A. will be held Saturday evening, Oct. 19, at the school building. The committees headed by vicepresident, Mrs. Robert Lear, have activities planned for the entire family. Fun games, cake walk and bake walk, and a movie are among the activities. The cafeteria will open at 5:00 p.m. Chili, sandwiches,pie,cake, and hot coffee will be served. The room concessions will open at 6:00 p.m. There will be a final auction at 9:00 p.m.

by BILL BOYD, Staff Reporter The Putnam County Study Club last night presented Donald L. Jackson, speaking on the topic “No ‘Civil Rights’Leader Speaks for Me!” Jackson is in the anomalous position of being a Negro supporter of Presidential candidate, George Wallace. Current racial strife has brought Jackson to give his explanations of the turmoil in many cities and his prescription for negro conduct, both of which differ markedly from most black men’s viewpoints. Jackson says his conservative stance is not easy as a Negro. Jackson claimed that the entire civil rights movement was inspired and dominated by communism. “There is no sector, to my knowledge, in the civil rights movement which is legitimate,” said Jackson. He explained the Newark, Detroit, and other riots as products not of poverty but of the government’s poverty program. “OEO ( Office of Economic Opportunity ) has to go,” declared Jackson. Jackson says he does not want plans made for his race, defining a conservative as “ one who plans for himself.” Jackson unequivocally categorized leaders Roy Wilkins, Ralph Abernathy, and Martin Luther King as having the same viewpoints as communists. He said they were the tools of the communist conspiracy he asserts is behind the NAACP and every other civil rights body. Subversion was rampant, according to Jackson, in the ‘War on Poverty’ which he claims is

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financing and fomenting racial strife. “Poverty workers incited Newark Negroes,” said Jackson. “Riot and ye shall receive,” was Jackson's phrase for the communist line in its current racial subversion. Jackson left implicit that the whole fabric of executive and legislative government, including the President, was thoroughly subversive. But, according to Jackson, the American Negro’s plight of poverty and discrimination is no one’s fault but their own. One Greencastle negro man attended the meeting. Weather watcher Continued partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday. High today 85 to 89. Low tonight 63 to 67. High Wednesday 85 to 89.

by DENNIS ABELL Bill Ruckelshaus, fresh from a television debate last night with his Democratic opponent for U.S. Senator, comes to Greencastle tonight for the Putnam County Republican rally. GOP candidate Ruckelshaus will speak on the steps of the DePauw Student Union Building tonight at 7:30 p.m. He will later travel to the county fairgrounds by motorcade to be the feature speaker at the $2.50 a plate chicken dinner. Last night at Fort Wayne, Ruckelshaus charged his opponent with helping to send money for road building in Kenya, Africa, rather than to Indiana. The senatorial hopeful’s wife, Jill, appeared earlier this month in Greencastle with Carolyn Myers, wife of GOP incumbent congressional candidate, John T. Myers, seventh district. Mrs. Myers will be representing her husband at the rally. Mrs. Ruckelshaus will not attend. She has another speaking engagement on behalf of her husband’s candidancy. Ruckelshaus will speak a little after 8 p.m. The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Also attending will be GOP county candidates, Jewel W. Blue, for treasurer; John Carson, for auditor; Wayne Hopkins, for county coroner; Fred A. Cox, for county commissioner; first district; and Robert A. Ziegleman, for county commissioner, third district. State Senator John Thomas, Brazil, will also be at the rally along with Joe W. Lowdermilk, Sullivan, candidate for Judge, Indiana Appellate Court, first district. The rally precedes a Thursday visit to Greencastle by Edgar D. Whitcomb, Secretary of State and the Republican’s candidate for Governor. Whitcomb will be in the city from noon until 3:30 p.m. He will visit the industrial area of Greencastle and will attend a press conference at Republican Headquarters at 2-30 p.m. Torr to represent area Angus owners Kenneth Torr, a registered Angus cattle breeder from near Greencastle has been elected to represent Indiana members of tlie American Angus Association at the annual meeting December 3 in Chicago. Indiana will be represented this year by 18 delegates at the annual meeting during the International Livestock Exposition. Delegates from every state in the union meet each year to elect officers and new members to the board of directors, and conduct other official business of the Association. The American Angus Association, with headquarters in St. Joseph, Missouri, is the largest beef cattle registry organization in the world. It is composed of 50.000 active adult members and 12.000 junior members. During the 1968 fiscal year these people registered 406,310 head of bulls and heifers and transferred the registration papers (sold) 404, 384 head of cattle. Indiana breeders during the Continued on page 3

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The Democratic Women’s Petticoat Caravan will arrive at the Elks Club in Greencastle on Thursday, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. The Caravan is made up of the wives of Democratic candidates for State offices, as well as the women candidates, including Mrs. Betty Sheek, candidate for State Auditor, and Miss Helen Corey, candidate for re-election as Reporter of the Sqreme and Appellate Courts. The Caravan is led by Mrs. Robert Rock. The Petticoat Caravan, led by Mrs. Rock, wife of the Lt. Governor and Democratic candidate for Governor, began its second swing around the state October 8, into northern and northeastern Indiana, Democratic Campaign Headquarters announced today. The decorated campaign bus will be seen during most of the next three weeks on “Main Street, Indiana” as the wives of state,

candidates and the two Democratic women candidates stop to ’’visit the folks” in Hoosier towns large and small. The first leg of the campaign trail on their 3,000-mile journey was into southeastern Indiana from Sept. 25 to 27. From Oct. 811, they concentrated on northern and northeastern Indiana. From Oct. 14 to 18, they will be in southwestern and central Indiana, and on the fourth and final swing from Oct. 21-23, they will travel in central and northwestern Indiana. Mrs. Rock of Anderson, was born February 2, 1934. She is a native Hoosier, was graduated from St. Mary’s grade school and high school at Anderson, and was graduated from Indiana University in 1956 with a B.S. degree in education. Mrs. Rock is a petite 5-feet tall, has reddish-brown hair and bluegreen eyes. Traveling with her on

the Democratic women’s Petticoat Caravan this fall will be her sister, Kitty, who is Mrs. Rich, ard B. Tangeman of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Rock’s father, Ralph Ferguson, is a former county clerk, state senator, and mayor of Anderson. Mary Jo has been inter, ested in politics all of her life. She has an intense interest in government and the way it can best serve people. She is a popular speaker. The children, Kathy 11; Karen 10; Karel Jo 8; and Bobby who had his 7th birthday party September 28, already are good swimmers. A favorite family activity is bicycling together on the farm trails and country roads- - with Bob and Mary Jo riding their “bicycle built for two.” They all like picnics and cook-outs; and the menagerie of animals they keep at their farm near Anderson, where they live during the summer months.

MISS HELEN COREY of Terre Haute is seeking re-election ^s Reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts on the Democratic Party ticket. During the past four years as Reporter, she has effected many improvements which she believes have broken long-standing state records for efficiency and accomplishment. Previous to her election as court reporter, Miss Corey served for four years as director of the Bureauof Women and children in the Indiana Division of Labor, a position to which she was appointed by former Governor Matthew E. Welsh. During this time she authored Indiana’s first and only Child Labor Booklet on laws pertaining to employ, ment of women and children. In 1959 Helen was voted Indiana’s Outstanding Young Democratic Woman and was elected as Indiana’s Young Democratic

National Committee woman for 1960-61. While director of the Bureau of Women and Children, she also served as a member of the governor’s committee on migratory labor; was one of President Kennedy’s aeration support in Indiana. Since September, 1963, she has been executive secretary to the Somission on the Status of Women, and was also a member of the commission's committee on protective labor legislation. From 1948 to 1961 she was secretary to Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute. MRS. JAMES W. BEATTY (Mrs. Phyllis Beatty) of Indianapolis, wife of the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor. . . .received her A.B. degree from the University of Michigan and is now working toward a degree in social work from Indiana University. Her interests center on mental Continued on Page 3

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