The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1968 — Page 6

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, October 24, 1968

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S. Vietnamese will release Red captives

SAIGON (UPI)—South Vietnamese government spokesmen said today they planned the largest release of Communist captives of the war. The announcement came as allied weekly battle deaths fell to the lowest point of the year, reflecting a lull in fighting. US. aircraft losses, however, rose sharply with the downing of seven planes and helicopters in a 24-hour period, military spokesmen said. On the ground Wednesday, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops plunged into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 112 North Vietnamese soldiers in a three-hour battle. Government spokesmen said —Endorses in certain sections of the ordinance before the person could be found quilty of a violation. This applies specifically to section eight of the ordinance which deals with the operation of “dives.” Fishburn expressed hope for the committee and said he had faith that constructive action would be taken by the group. The student co-ordinator asked students to endorse the establishment of the town committee on a permanent basis. As the situation now stands the boycott will go into effect Tuesday if the committee meetings, scheduled for Friday and Sunday foil to bring results. Members of the committee include: James Houck, Putnam County prosecutor; Harry Moore, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Harold Sutherlin; president of the Merchant’s Association; Ernest Collins, city councilman; George Long, Norm Donaldson, Kenneth Eitel, and Mrs. Lucia Taylor, merchants, and Norm Knights, assistant to the president for Planning and Development at DePauw. Student members include Fishburn, Hirschauer, Jim Putnam, chairman of Student Legal Committee; Pat O’Connor, president of the Inter fraternity Council; Preston Moore, co-chairman of the Student Legal Committee; Don Coffin, vice-president of Student Senate; and Jim Nyenhuis, president of Student Senate. The students also hope to gain an agreement so that student's attempting to vote in November will not be challenged at the polls, according to Fishburn. If negotiations fail the DePauw Student Association will meet Monday night to take action on the boycott proposal. In other action at the senate meeting, it was moved that the inter-racial study committee bring action in Student Court against the University administration for approving three local dwellings for use as student housing. The three landlords of the houses have stated they would discriminate in the rental of their housing on the basis of race, color and/or creed. The committee and senate feel such an action on the part of the university endorses the discriminatory actions.

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they planned to release 140 Communist captives. It was the third gesture of its type since the lull in fighting began amid reports in world capitals that a full bombing halt over North Vietnam was imminent along with a breakthrough in the preliminary Paris peace talks. An allied casualty report covering the weekly period beginning Oct. 13 said U.S. combat deaths were 100, the lowest weekly toll since Aug. 12, 1967. The previous week 177 Americans died in Vietnam fighting. U.S. wounded last week totaled 589, the lowest figure since the week ending last Dec. 3. South Vietnamese battle deaths dropped to 132 last week, the lowest figure this year. Communist forces initiated no major attacks in South Vietnam Wednesday. They took their casualties in attacks launched by American and South Vietnamese forces. Military spokesmen were reluctant to attach significance to the fact the slowdown in fighting corresponded to the bombing halt reports. A U.S. military briefer said, “It is our opinion that the enemy is regrouping, resupplying and refitting as it was following the Tet and May offensives.” The South Vietnamese government described its plan to release the Communist prisoners as a “tolerant and humanitarian gesture.” A spokesman, asked if the move had any relation to reported peace proposals, said “details will be provided later.” The spokesman said the prisoners would be freed within a week, probably Oct. 30, with the release taking place in Saigon. U.S. authorities freed 14 North Vietnamese sailors Monday Radio Hanoi in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo today said the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front freed 11 government soldiers “recently.” Communist gunners shot down four American planes and three helicopters in South Vietnam Tuesday and Wednesday, military spokesmen said. The planes were down in the northern sector and one of them crashed inside the southern portion of the DMZ, the six. mile-wide buffer zone that separates the two Vietnams. Three of the planes were observation aircraft, and all four crewmen aboard them were killed. The fourth was an F100 Supersabre and the pilot ejected safely after the craft was hit. The losses brought to 318 the number of planes downed in combat in South Vietnam. The three helicopters downed brought to 900 the number of U.S. choppers lost in the South. On the Farm Front By BERNARD BRENNER UPI Farm Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presidential candidate George C. Wallace’s farm program proposals would produce sharp increases in price supports for a number of major crops including corn, cotton and wheat. But at the same time, Wallace’s program would limit farm support payments to big farms. And the third - party candidate’s platform states that Wallace would adopt a long, term policy of working toward gradual relaxation and elimination of farm production controls and subsidies. The move toward a non - control, free market agriculture is seen in the Wallace platform as a slow and “iffy” development. Eliminating controls and subsidies, under the former Alabama governor’s plan, would depend on “the increase in farm income to a level making subsidy unnecessary.” For the short run, the heart of the Wallace farm plan is a pledge that his administration would immediately raise farm supports to 90 per cent of the “fair earning power” parity level. And, Wallace’s platform adds, Congress would be urged to raise the support ceiling to 100 per cent of parity. As for production controls needed to permit such support levels without piling up surpluses, the Wallace platform states that Congress would be asked to allow farmers to vote on whether or not to accept controls. Such a system already is in effect for some crops, including cotton, tobacco and peanuts. For grain crops, farmers now can individually choose to ignore government controls or to accept them in return for the right to get price supports.

State to present writings in Sirhan case next month

PRINCESS CANDIDATES-Candidates for princesses for Greencastle’s homecoming Nov. 1 are (foreground) (left to right) juniors - Becky Davis, Sally Sendmeyer, Brenda Modlin and Kathy Kiger; from left of center beam (left to right)

freshmen - Barbara Carrington, Patty Rattray, Linda Moore and Janice Jefferies; four standing to right of center beam (left to right) sophomores--Candy Marvel, Donna Braden, Deanne and Susan Marvel. -The BANNER Photo, Mark Steele.

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Proposed 750 mile waterway meets first opposition

CHICAGO (UPI)—A proposed 750-mile waterway across Indiana ran into its first formal opposition Wednesday in the second of three public hearings by the Army Corps of Engineers. Conservationists constituted the bulk of the objectors to the navigable waterway, which received unanimous support ear. lier this month at a hearing in Terre Haute, Ind. The third hearing is set next Wednesday at Toledo, Ohio. The project, known as the Cross Wabash Valley Waterway, was proposed by the Wabash Valley Association, a citizens’ group based at Mount Carmel, 111., which praised it as a builder of a sagging Midwestern economy and as the “missing link” in the nation’s water transportation system. The major portion of the waterway would be in the rich Wabash River basin, currently undergoing a comprehensive river basin study ordered by the Public Works Committees of river basin study ordered by the Public Works Committees of the U.S. House and Senate. The waterway, which would demand construction of canals and the use of rivers and tributaries in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, would begin at Toledo on Lake Erie and run southwest to the Ohio River at Evansville, Ind., through the Indiana cities of Fort Wayne, Lafayette and Terre Haute. One leg would veer off into Illinois, north of Terre Haute, and connect with the Illinois Waterway to Chicago. Another would run north from the Lafayette-Logansport, Ind., area to the Calumet area ports on Lake Michigan.

port development for the Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development, and Abraham Feldman, president of the Chicago District Waterway

Association.

Those opposed included

Opponents, such as E. Eugene Minney, Griffith, Ind., damned the proposal and said it would increase water pollution to “lethal qualities,” would destroy the productivity of rich farmland and would cost taxpayers “as much as $1.5 bil-

lion.” w IV/V Minney, a task force officer I IVl fl y WOTTIS of the Izaak Walton League of r f i America, a national conserva- ()| tcllSP

tion organization, took the most impassioned stand Wednesday. “No stream could be spared; no natural beauty spot could be safe from the bulldozer’s cutting edge if it sacrifice was needed for the canal,” Minney

said.

Charging the waterway was a political “scheme” by the fdderal government, he added that it would ’’’represent economic disaster for existing freight carriers which operate through the free enterprise system, and which could hardly compete against a multi-billion-dollar federal subsidy to large traf-

fic”.

One of the supporters was Richard B. Ogilvie, Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, who sent a statement saying the waterway would be “a benefit to industry.” Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., said in a statement he hoped the study “will be completed and the many varied benefits accurately evaluated.” But he did not take a stand. Others who testified in favor of tfye waterway included: Phil Pearce, president of the Wabash Valley' Association; Mrs C. B. Baldwin, a member of the water resources advisory council of the Indiana Depart, meat of Natural Resources; John F. Hynes, manager of sea-

Viet moves SPARTANBURG, S.C. (UPI)

— Curtis E. LeMay says false Vietnam peace moves may come from Washington or Hanoi before ‘election day to influence

the American voter.

But the vice presidential candidate on the American Independent Party ticket of George C. Wallace said Tuesday night the United States should not neglect “any genuine peace

offers or concessions.”

“I warn the American people that between now and election day, some gesture is going to be made by either Washington or Hanoi to indicate that peace is in the offing,” the 62-year-old former Air Force chief of staff told 300 flag-waving supporters

at an airport rally.

James Hennessy, former mayor of Joliet, 111., who represented the Holiet Port District, and Lawrence Charlton, secretary of the Will County Sportsman Club. Mrs. Samuel Rome, River Forest, 111., water resources chairman of the Illinois League for Women Voters, said her group had taken “no position for or against” the proposal and wanted only “the opportunity to study it.”

LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The prosecution in the trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan intends to introduce as evidence certain writings of Sirhan who is charged with the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker, who will preside at the trial scheduled to start Dec. 9, Tuesday denied a defense motion to suppress the notebooks and other belongings taken from Sirhan’s bedroom without a search warrant. Walker said he was not ruling on the admissibility of the evidence that only that it should not be suppressed. Defense attorney Russell E. Parsons said he would not appeal the pretrial ruling but would fight against introduction of the notebooks during the trial. Parsons argued unsuccessful, ly during the hearing that police had no right to enter the home in Pasadena 12 miles from the Ambassador Hotel here where Kennedy was fatally wounded early June 5. Sgt. William E. Brandt of the Los Angeles Police Department testified he and another officer entered the home with the permission of Sirhan’s brother, Adel, 30, in the course of an investigation into a possible conspiracy in Kennedy’s killing.

Adel testified he told police his mother was the owner of the home but requested they not disturb her. Mary Sirhan, the mother, also called as a witness, testified she Georgia State Park Grows ATLANTA i UPI) — Acreage of Georgia’s State Parks now totals almost 40,000, up 12 per cent in the last year, and is growing steadily to meet the demands of more than 6.76 million visitors each year. Revenue has increased more than 18 per cent over last year.

never gave permission for the police search but Judge ,Walker held this was not necessary. At a news conference follow* ing the pretrial hearing, chief Dep. Dist. Atty. Lynn Compton said the state intends to introduce some material from the seized notebooks as evidence. It would include a notation reading, “Kennedy has to be assassinated before June 5, 1968”—the first anniversary of the six-day Israeli-Arab war. Sirhan is a native of Jordan, one of the Arab nations engaged in a continuing struggle against Israel.

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to students, including lowering of the voting age.” A number of universities have set up Whitcomb committees, Lester said. He announced these chairmen appointments; Indiana. -John Barry, Indianapolis, and LaurieSmith, Lafayette; Purdue- -Phil Smith, Shelbyville, and Nancy Main, Shelbyville; Notre Dame- -Randy Wilbert, Wabash. Indiana State- -Mike Serban, Terre Haute; Ball State- -Ken Clark and Judy Stewart, both of Marion; Butler- -Donna Martin, Greensburg. DePauw- -Steve Holt and Sally Reid, both of Indianapolis; Wabash-Tom Ristine, Crawfordsville; Vincennes. -Kent Holm, Vincennes; Evansville- -Linda Kramer, Evansville; Anderson. - Fred Daily; Franklin- -Cole Banks, Rushville, and Indiana Central. -Gary Maxwell.

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