The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1968 — Page 5

Thursday, October 24, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Did Kennedy family try to stop wedding?

By SHEILA WALSH NIDRION, Greece (UPI)Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis broke off their honeymoon today to let the Greek multimillionaire attend to business, an aide, said. In Boston, Cardinal Richard James Cushing said Kennedy family associates tried to block the wedding. An officer of Onassis’ $3 million yacht Christina said the former Jacqueline Kennedy and her bridegroom were using a private helicopter and plane to

fly later in the day to Athens. The aide said Onassis had urgent business in the Greek capital. in Boston, the Roman Catholic Church prince and Kennedy family friend defended Mrs. Onassis’ marriage and said he had encouraged the match. “I know what she had been going through for many, many months ... I have been contacted by many of those who are identified in high places with the administration of the late President (and) by others

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intimately related and associated with the Kennedy family to stop all this from taking place— namely, that Jack’s widow, God rest him, would marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis. “Finally she came to me secretly and unknown and unannounced. Only one person was with her, a Secret Service man. She spoke to me about two hours . . . and I encouraged and helped her in every possible way,” the cardinal said. Cushing did not name any members of the Kennedy personal and political family in his speech. But he attacked Mrs. Onassis’ critics. “This idea of saying she’s excommunicated, she’s a public sinner, what a lot of nonsense! Only God knows who is a sinner and who is not,” he said. The Vatican announced Monday Mrs. Onassis, a lifelong Catholic, was being barred from receiving church sacraments as punishment for marrying a divorced man. A church official said she became a “public sinner” by wedding Onassis Sunday. Cushing also said he knew the marriage was coming for months. “I had a letter from her that would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars if I allowed any of the national secular magazines to publish it,” he said. “I burned the letter. My lips are sealed.” Up and Down CAPE CHARLES, Va. <UPI> —The 17.6-mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linking the northeast corridor of the United States with Virginia and the Carolinas is 83 feet above the water at its highest point and 93 feet below water at its lowest point.

Vatican officials don’t believe ears VATICAN CITY (UPI)—Vatican officials reacted with disbelief today to Cardinal Richard James Cushing’s statement that the former Jaqueline Kennedy could marry “whomever she wants.” Msgr. Fausto Vallainc, the official Vatican spokesman, reaffirmed the Vatican position that the former American First Lady is in an “irregular position” with the Roman Catholic Church because of her marriage to the divorced Aristotle Onassis, and is barred from church sacraments. “I agree with the cardinal’s statement that only God knows who is a sinner,” he said. “But whoever contravenes the law of the church incurs her sanctions.” ♦ * * The U.S. $20 gold piece is called a double eagle.

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LIGHT BUSINESS--The Putnam County Absentee Voter Board consisting of (Estil Meek, Democrat, and Paul Grimes, Republican are shown on the second floor of the courthouse where county registered voters will be voting by absentee

ballot now until Nov. 2. The board behind them will be used election night, Nov. 5 to chart precinct results. -The BANNER Photo, Dennis Abell.

Southern state incumbent should win

By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The four congressmen representing the southern half of Indiana are regarded as fairly sure of reelection unless some dramatic happenings upset present political observations. For example, assume that a cease-fire in Vietnam and a seeming end of fighting were to occur and that this would mean an upsurge in votes for Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic presidential nominee. Political polls in the 8th District indicate that Rep. Roger H. Zion, a Republican, will win over his Democratic challenger, Evansville City Judge K, Wayne Kent, mainly on the basis of an expected big vote for Richard M. Nixon, the GOP presidential nominee. In Vanderburgh County, the biggest and the one with a repu-

tation as a bellwether presidential county, 35-year.old Kent is expected to do well. He has been a strong vote-getter in his home city and his views and those of Zion, 47, are, from the public point of view, somewhat alike. They have made joint appearances. “Who’s Most Conservative?” “The trouble the audiences appear to be having is in finding differences in points of view,” one astute Evansville observer said. “The question seems to be who can be the most conservative.” A less-than-expected vote for Nixon apparently would make the biggest impact in the 8th. However, it could be a factor in the 6th, where Republican veteran Rep. William G. Bray is a strong favorite to defeat his Democratic challenger, Phillip L. Bayt, former Indianapolis mayor and currently a member

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of the Indiana Public Service Commission, and in the 7th, where incumbent Republican Rep. John T. Myers is far in front of his Democratic challenger, Elden C. Tipton, Jasonville, a retired Navy officer and teacher. In the 9th, the loan Democrat among the four congressmen serving Southern Indiana, would benefit from an improved vote for Humphrey. But Rep. Lee Hamilton already is considered ahead of his GOP opponent, Robert D. Carton, a management consultant firm official in Columbus. However, a Columbus observer commented that “if anybody has a chance to beat Hamilton, it is Bob Carton.” Hamilton, a Columbus attorney seeking a third term in Congress, is about the same age as Carton—he is 37, Carton 34—and both have campaigned with vigor and imagination. Shoulder Boy Model “House and Carton” tours have been staged by Carton’s friends to help finance his campaign. These are unusual or interesting homes and gardens opened for public visits for a fee Pastor turns down bishop position TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI)— The Rev. John Elford, 46-year-old pastor of St. Patrick’s Church here, has announced he turned down appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church for “personal reasons.” Father Elford, whose appointment was announced by the Vatican last July 25, said Pope Paul VI had granted his request to decline the appointment. He did not elaborate on his reasons for not accepting but said in a letter made public that he reached his decision “only after much prayer, thought and counsel” and that now “I am at peace.”

One of Hamilton’s campaign photographs showing an attractive little boy riding on his shoulders. The Carton campaigners tried with little result to make an issue of the fact it was a boy model and not one of Hamilton’s three children. Another factor in the southern half of the state is redistricting. Bray, seeking his 10th consecutive term, is the dean of Republican congressmen now that Rep. Charles Halleck has retired. He has only three of the same counties which were in his 1966 district, and in one of those— Marion— he has a differ, ent assortment of townships. However, an evaluation of the

1966 results shows that he would have won in the six counties of his current district with 64 per cent of the total. Zion, seeking a second term, apparently will benefit still further by redistricting, which worked to his advantage in defeating the incumbent Democratic congressman, Winfield Denton, in 1956. Clark County, which is consistently Democratic, was sliced from the 8th and put in Hamilton’s 9th District before the 1966 election. Then a further redistricting, effective this year, took Democratic Floyd County out of the 8th and in the 9th, which presumably again will help Hamilton.

State Budget committee approves $2.7 million for two state parks

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana State Budget Committee has approved expenditure of $2.7 million for work on MeCormick’s Creek and Dunes State Parks but took no action on Indiana University requests for approval of a new publications building and an addition to the physics building costing a total of $9 million. However, the committee approved purchase of a church property as part of the future site of the Indianapolis regional campus and a revised financing plan for the IU library center at Bloomington which involves a $2 million increase in bonding authority. The committee took the action at a meeting late Tuesday but did not meet with Governor Branigin. A budget agency spokesman said the governor approved the IU library bonding plan but other items are yet to be considered by Branigin. The IU plans to finance the library center, costing $14 million, were thrown off by a reduction in federal loans under the Higher Education Facilities Act. The university was first advised it could borrow $6 million, but this was cut when the Health, Education and Welfare Department put a ceiling of $4 million

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on all loans under tne act. The new plan calls for $4.7 million in federal grants, $4 million federal loan and $5,395,000 in bonds. The committee also approved purchase of $73,000 of the Mount Olive Baptist Church property in an area planned as the Indianapolis Regional Campus. But it took no action on a request to appoint architect for a physics building addition to cost $8.2 million and a request to construct a $1 million publications building using 1967 bonding authority. Other action included: — Approved the expenditure of $1.7 million to redevelop MeCormick's Creek State Park, ineluding new water supply and sewage disposal systems, new swimming pool and bathhouse, visitors center, campground, amphitheater and more picnic facilities. — Approved $1 million for development of Dunes State Park including two new parking areas, new beach pavilions, and water and sewage disposal systems. — Denied a request to add eight security officers to the Indiana Women’s Prison. — Denied a request to transfer 23 Central State Hospital employes from the farm colony to the main hospital. — Authorized replacement instead of rehabilitation of two wards at Logansport State Hospital. — Approved $98,000 for airconditioning dining areas at the Norman Beatty Hospital. Vacation "Village" NEW YORK (UPI) — Air France reports that Club Mediterranee, which operates more than 30 vacation “villages” around the world, will open its first facility in the Western Hemisphere in December. A former luxury hotel, the Fort Royal, is being converted to meet club needs at the new resort. Air France serves Guadeloupe with jet service from New York and Miami.

Wayne Hopkins Rep. Candidate For County Coroner

ELECT WAYNE HOPKINS

COUNTY CORONER

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