The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 October 1968 — Page 8

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, October 15, 1968

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Coatesville news

by Joe Davidson

Bainbridge H.S. thespians give play

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The Bainbridge Thespian Troup 1478 presented the production "Our Town" last Saturday night. Shown above are cast members (left) Dough Summers, Suzanne English, Debbie Bunn, Paul Sanders, Bar Sutherlin and Patty O'Hair. In the bottom picture the players are (left) Chris South and Sam Lasley. At the left on ladders are Debbie Bunn, Dough Summers and Patty O'Hair. Chris South goes through his I ines at the right.

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By DAVID SMOTHERS UPI Senior Editor CHICAGO (UPI)—It was in 1952 that a Democratic governor of Illinois ruminated in Springfield, “I’m too old to cry and it hurts too much to laugh.” He was Adlai E. Stevenson and he had just lost the presidency to a Dwight D. Eisenhower landslide that carried Illinois along with it. Stevenson had a way with words and his rueful farewell to his presidential hopes that year has been remembered as a model of how to lose with class. This year, all indications are that the Illinois Democratic powers who followed Stevenson may do well to learn some lessons from the old, departed master of graceful defeat. Sweep Midwest Illinois is where, Richard M. Nixon has figured, a 5 per cent edge in the balloting on his behalf Nov. 5 will mean a sweep of the Midwest over Hubert H. Humphrey. There are few signs to indicate, at this point, that Nixon wiU not get his 5 per cent. At the very least, that would mean 26 electoral votes for the man who may have lost the White House in the Illinois voting eight years ago. Illinois Democrats would be lucky if their troubles stopped there. Instead, they are struggling with a nightmare. No authoritative statewide polls have yet been published on how the vote is going in Illinois. But random samplings have been taken and, to Democratic eyes, they are appalling. Downstate farmers polled have put Nixon first, Humphrey third, and George Wallace in between. At steel mill gates in Chicago, Humphrey slipped in first, but only because Negro miUhands came down solidly for the Democrats. A plurality of white steel workers checked preferred Wallace. The fear abides among Democratic precinct captains in Chicago that many more white unionists—the men who usually make Mayor Richard J. Daley and the city’s Democratic machine purr—feel the same way. Vote For Wallace

One such maverick is Thomas Enright, a union painter who lives in Daley’s neighborhood near the stockyards. He has made two decisions: To vote for Wallace next month and then emigrate to Australia. “Two years ago I would have whipped one of my kids if they had said ‘nigger’,” Enright says. “Now I’m saying it myself. It’s the law and order thing that gets me—to have laws they don’t have to obey and we do.” Many miles downstate, deep in that part of Illinois known as “Egypt,” Valgene Gould says much the same thing. Gould, a contractor, used to be a “90 to 95 per cent Democrat.” Now he

has opened a Wallace headquarters in his home town of Energy because he feels “the federal government is taking the country over.” • The few polls presently available in Illinois reflect the same kind of talk. The Chicago steelworkers poll, conducted by the Chicago Sun-Times, showed 44.16 per cent of white union members questioned in three plants for Wallace. Humphrey was a distant second at 27.92 per cent. But when the Negro vote was added— United Steel Workers officials estimated 30 per cent of their Chicago area member, ship is black—Humphrey got in front of Wallace, 45.755 per cent to 31.22.

Democratic gloom deepened over scattered polls from downstate. Down in Egypt, the Mount Carmel Register Republican took a local sampling and found Nixon galloping off with 68.1 per cent of the straws, Wallace picking up 24.4, and

Humphrey with a very minor league 7.5. A Marion Daily Republican poll of 10 towns in the Williamson County coal country had the same 1-2-3 allignment, although the percentages ran closer, 49-28-23.

Mrs. Gertie Coble and her son, Mr. Emory Rector of StilesviUe were callers on Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bottorff Thursday. Mrs. Coble now 93 and Emory are making plans for their annual autumn pilgrimage to the Sunshine State. It can be easily ima--gined that a lady of 93 years would love constant sunshine and warmth of the deep South. The Avon Arioles were on Cascade field last Friday evening. The final count was Avon 31,

Cascade 13.

In a cross country meet with Plainfield High the Cascade team defeated them by a good score. Well, Well! Danville and the Brownsburg Bulldogs tied 20-20; and the Quakers of Plainfield

High took the Cubs 14-7.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Christy of Danville were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davidson Saturday evening. The Christys are friends of long standing. Mr. Christy is a retired business man and Mrs. Christy is on the stai

of the Danville Gavette.

Worship services had been reversed both at the Amo and Coatesville United Methodist Churches. The local church Sunday School will be at 10 a.m. the Worship services at 11:00. There was a charge Conference Meeting cm October 8 at Danville. A pastor’s Bible Class started at Coatesville on Sunday evening,

October 6, at 7:00 p.m.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Waskon came to the local Methodist Church Sunday morning in an old ford car that belongs to Mrs. Waskom’s father. It is the Ford with the brass band around the radiator, the order of a buggy covering, wooden spokes in the wheels, and wide running boards, the sure enough old-timers. It was painted in black and looked as if it might have just recently come from the factory. Mr. Waskom said that the car would do 45

miles on a gallon of gas.

Mr. and Mrs. Davidson accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Knight after a Sunday dinner together visited-were Mrs. Flora Hodson, Mrs. Della Bridges, Mrs. Bernice Greenlee, Mrs. Minnie Biehl, Mr. Frank Brown

and Mr. C.J. Powell.

Word was received this week of the death of Mrs. Nell Doty of Cleveland, Miss Doty was born and reared in Coatesville. She was a young lady who attended church, clerked in the stores whenever an opening came and one who was kind and considerate of young and old. She was married to Charles Doty. They moved to the rich land of the Mississippi Delta country and built their home. Nell’s estate is said to be val-

ued at a near half million dollars, weather for the Olympics. Coming into wealth did not in Looks like a nice day to be on the least change this lovely lady the beach.”

from the courteous and friendly person she had learned in early

life to be.

Mr. Etna Lefforge of Amo, a man in his 85th year, died SatCommon cold makes space debut By AL ROSSITER QI Space Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — The common cold, which made its outer space debut three days ago, threat, ened today to present some uncommon problems for all three astronauts when the Apollo 7 re-enters the earth’s atmosphere. Space center physicians were studying the possible effects the planned splashdown Oct. 22 might have if Walter Schirra, 45, Donn Eisele, 38, and Walter Cunningham, 36, all have head

colds.

The crew went ahead with preparations for another telecast from outer space at 10:28

EDT today.

“Have the doctors done any talking down there about the possibility of one or all of us having a cold and stuck up (clogged) ears on re-entry?” Cunningham asked ground control Monday night. Ears Congested Cunningham said Schirra was “about holding his own on his ears.” Schirra’s ears became congested when he came down with the first cold in outer space on the first day of the

flight Friday.

Eisele and Cunningham had colds a few days before launch on the planned 163-orbit, four million mile mission that may lead to a December flight

around the moon.

Cunningham had a brief flareup Sunday night. Monday night he reported Eisele “may be getting a little worse.” Cunningham said his ears were “still clearing.” He was apparently worried that the increasing atmospheric pressure during re-entry might cause extreme discomfort for the crew if their colds were nol

cured by then.

Schirra, affecting an airline pilot’s manner during a crossing of Mexico: “Houston, this is your captain speaking as we fly across the Gulf of Mexico where we are cleared to the Yucatan Peninsula. Looks like it’s good

urday at the Putnam County Hospital. The body was brought to the Weaver Funeral Home at Coatesville. Lefforge had resided in Amo for several years and at one time had operated the grain elevator and a coal yard. Funeral servies were held Tuesday afternoon and burial was in Amo Cemetery. Mrs. Jennie Carpenter a Fillmore resident well known in that community and Coatesville, died at the Putnam County Hospital early Tuesday morning at the age of 82. She was the daughter of Luther and Katherine Campbell. She was married to Phillip Carpenter a railroad man and to this union were born two daughters, Mrs. Naomi Bock and Mrs. Margerite Miller. Several years ago, Mrs. Carpenter was walking in her yard when a dog threatened her and caused her a hard fall that broke her hip. This injury proved too much for one her age to bear. Besides grand children and great grand children she leaves one first cousin, Mrs. Rose Gottschalk age 84 of Iowa City. Mrs. Carpenter’s funeral was held in the Hopkins and Walton Funeral Home and burial was in the Fillmore Cemetery. An elderly lady of Cartersburg watched the demolition of the 72 year old Methodist Church that she as a child had helpe< to dedicate, and as the walls fell she exclaimed, “It breaks my heart!” Such is happening over this country side and in villages like Cartersburg. The 65 members of this church had no say about the church destruction. The Methodist Conference willed it. —Buckley have made an association which positively guarantees that the very worst construction will be put on his views. It is as if an F. B. I. agent, on discovering absolute proof that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency was an agent of the Communist Party, elected to join the Council of the John Birch Society whence to pronounce his discovery. General LeMay has hurt deeply the tough-minded Americans who have given him support over the years, and who know the inevitability of the response in the hectic political situation to his lining up with Wallace. “The big question,” a shrewd observer said in a memorandum, “ is will Nixon or Humphrey be the first to attack the LeMay plan for defoliation.” Unfortunately, it will likely be a tie, and down goes, perhaps for the third time, the argument for the use of atomic energy as a licit instrument for the defense of the free world. It is ironic that if the argument is indeed finally submerged, it should prove to be Curtis LeMay who sank it.

MOVE AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE

Six Senators retiring

By WILLIAM B. MEAD

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Six senators with service totaling 134 years are retiring this year, opening two committee chairmanships and the top minority spots on two others. Voters evicted four other senators in primary elections. But one of them, Sen. Ernest Geurning, D-Alaska, is trying to keep his seat with a write-in campaign and another, Sen. Edward V. Long, D-Mo, apparently is looking forward to new political races. Gruening and the Senate’s retiring dean, Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., 91, have been in Congress since their states were admitted to the Union. Hayden served 15 years in the House and 41 in the Senate, and sponsored legislation which looks today like ancient history, including female suffrage and creation of the Grand Canyon National Park. Other voluntary retirees are Democratic Sens. Lister Hill, 73, Alabama, and George A. Smathers, 54, Florida, and Republicans Bourke B. Hickenlooper, 72, Iowa; Frank Carlson, 75, Kansas; and Thruston B. Morton, 61, Kentucky. Pushed out in primaries were Gruening, Long, Sen. Thomasv

H. Kuchel, R-Calif., 58, and Sen Frank J. Lauche, D-Ohio, 73. Hayden, whose length of Capitol HiU service is unchallenged in history, yields the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee and the largely honorary post of Senate president pro tempore. Hill, known primarily for the Hill-Burton program of federal hospital subsidies, is giving up the chairmanship of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee and leaving Washington after 25 years in the House and 21 in the Senate. Carlson was ranking Republican on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee. Morton, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has not announced any plans except to say he wants something less arduosthan the Senate, which he is leaving after 12 years. He was an early backer of Nelson A Rockefeller for president, but now is working hard in Richard M. Nixon’s campaign. Smathers is retiring after 18 Senate years because of a recurring touch of malaria. Hickenlooper, finishing 24 years in the Senate, has kept his plans quet.

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Jewel W. Blue Republican Candidate For County Treas.

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Fred A. Cox Republican Candidate For County Commissioner

John Carson Republican Candidate For County Auditor

THE TIME IS NOWFOR THE BEST COUNTY GOVERNMENT ELECT THE TEAM THAT CAN AND WILL GET THE JOB DONE.

Wayne Hopkins Republican Candidate For County Coroner

Robert A.Ziegleman Republican Candidate For County Commissioner

VOTE REPUBLICAN ON NOV