The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 November 1968 — Page 1

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INDIANA STATE LIBRARY

The Daily Banner

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VOLUME SEVENTY - SEVEN

GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 IOC Per Copy UPI News Service

No. 4

Africa will be subject of Nov. 27 Kiwanis series

HOMECOMING QUEEN-Janice Proctor, a Greencastle senior is surrounded by floating ballons after being named homecoming queen during the half-time celebration at last night's football game. -The BANNER Photo, Dennis Abell. AAUW seeks old books for planned Nov. 8-9 sale

16,071 county voters registered for election

On Thursday evening, Nov. 27, the Greencastle Kiwanis Club will present its 2nd program of the “Travel and Adventure Series” at 8 p.m. at the Greencastle Junior High School Auditorium.

Remain Wilhemsen

Halloween winners announced Winners of the Halloween poster contest sponsored by Greencastle businesses were selected by members of the DePauw Art Department and are displayed in the window of the Chamber of Commerce, 14 South Indiana Street. The contest was limited to pupils in the four elementaryschools in the city. One winner was selected from grades 1 through 3, and one from grades 4 through 6 in each school. The winner’s home room is given a gift of the room’s choice in an amount up to $25.00. This is the third year for the event and, as in previous years, sponsoring businesses will have their windows filled with posters Continued on Page 2

The announcement was made by Evan Crawley, club chairman. Remain Wilhemsen will present “Timbuktu, Africa and Beyond.” Wilhelmsen’s residence is in East Lansing, Michigan. He attended St. Joseph’s College, in Indiana, and is a graduate of Pasadena Playhouse, California, training school for the stage. He started his film-lecture career in 1953, and estimates that he has appeared, in person, before more than 2,000 audiences. Starting his professional career on the stage, he enjoyed two successful seasons on Broadway. Having adventure and exploration in his blood, he left the theater and at that time became interested in the “wild” parts of Mexico, Central and South America. He studied all he could find on their lost cities, missions, lost treasures, and remote civilizations, then set out to find them and record them on beautiful ali-rnior film. His success has been phenomenal. He found many of the places he had read about along with their legends. Great personal danger was overcome except on one occasion, when he almost didn’t make it. In Columbia he and his party were held up by three bandits. While he was shot in the side, Wilhelmsen managed to kill one of the trio and the other two fled. Adventure is what he likes. Timbuktu and Beyond begins in deepest Africa. West of the Mountains of the Moon, and last of the old slave pens of Dakarat, is the ancient city of Timbuktu, as remote as Tibet, and as legendary as Carthage to the north. A thousand years ago this city was one of the two most important cities of inner Africa, yet today most people believe there is no such place. In 1963 France gave up her centuries old Continued on Page 2

AAUW’s annual book sale, scheduled for next Friday and Saturday at 22 E. Washington St., will afford local housewives a good opportunity to clear out their overloaded book shelves. Books and records of all descriptions will be welcomed, and they may be brought to the sale room ( now temporarily housing the Republican headquarters) on Thursday Nov. 7, where they will be sorted and marked for the sale on the following two days. Proceeds from the book sale, held each year by the Greencastle Branch of the American Associ-

ation of University Women, go to maintain scholarships for advanced graduate study by women. Anything from nursery rhymes to Shakespeare and from comics or paperbacks to advanced textbooks as well as all types of re. cords and hobby supplies are in great demand by an expectant public who looks forward eagerly each year to this sale. Parking is available in the lot at Vine and Walnut, and donors may find it convenient to park there and bring the books into the rear of the building. Continued on Page 5

DePauw students file petition Residence and the right to vote was claimed in a petition to fed. eral court Friday by 18 DePauw University students who want to vote Nov. 5 at Greencastle. They asked Judge Cale Holder of the southern Indiana federal district court here to enjoin the Putnam County Election Board, the circuit court judge and the prosecuting attorney from inter, fering with the casting of their ballots. Holder set a hearing for 9:30 a.m. Monday on the injunction request. The students registered as Putnam County residents, but their residence eligibility had been questioned. Meanwhile, US. District Attorney K. Edwin Applegate told a news conference that intent of residence is the crucial factor in determining residence, not other criteria such as w h e r e taxes are paid or auto license plates are purchased. Applegate said he had reported Indiana’s “possible problems” to U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He pointed out that any voter who feels he has been “interfered with or intimidated” should call his office. He said his office will remain open from 5 a.m. Tuesday to “as long after the polls close as is necessary.” Mental Health group will elect new directors The Mental Health Association in Putnam County, which, according to Mrs. Charles Rector, Jr., president, has a member, ship of 186 persons from all areas of the county, will have a short business meeting during the annual meeting, Monday evening, Nov. 4. Following dinner at 6:30 p.m., members will vote on proposed amendments to the bylaws. The major amendment, if adopted. Continued on Page 2

By DENNIS ABELL, Managing Editor North Jackson precinct has the smallest number of registered voters this year among the 39 precincts in Putnam County. There are 194. The voting record in the last two presidential elections in this precinct is charac. teristic of the voting trend across the county, state and nation. In 1960 most midwestern and western states gave Richard Nixon their electoral votes over John F. Kennedy, although Kennedy was elected. The actual vote count in Putnam County was 6,583 votes for Nixon and 4,798 votes for Kennedy. Welch flies to W. Indies for mosses Dr. Winona H. Welch, Emeritus Professor of botany and curator of The Truman G. Yuncker Herbarium of DePauw University, has flown to the West Indies to collect mosses for the DePauw Herbarium and Hookeriaceae ( a family of mosses, chiefly tropical) for the continuation of her monographic studies of this family as it occurs on the West Indies Islands. Research grants from Sigma Xi and the Indiana Academy of Science make possible the collections of the plants. The islands to be visited are Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Martinique, St. Thomas, and Puerto Rico. Botanists on the islands will accompany her on the respective islands. Dr. Welch has published, in the series of Hookeriaceae monographs for the North American Flora, for Canada, United States, and Mexico. The editor of The Bryologist has the Cuban Hookeriaceae manuscript. The next treatise will pertain to Jamaican species.

North Jackson precinct casted 90 votes for Nixon and 79 for Kennedy. But in 1964 the trend reversed itself among the two major parties. Lyndon Johnson obtained 6,275 votes in Putnam County while Barry Goldwater took 5,331. North Jackson casted 63 votes for Goldwater and 83 for Johnson. Putnam, which has Republican city officials and several Democrat county officials, is not like neighboring Hendricks County where the votes are all one sided, -for Republicans. Nixon is given the headway among pollsters. The results from the last two presidential elections show Putnam County residents will not vote straight party lines. A total of 16,071 voters are reg. istered for Tuesday’s election according to county clerk Ennis Masten. North Greencastle precinct has the largest number of registered voters, 832. The right to switch party lines is a concern of both Democrats and Republicans. A third party candidate, George Wallace stands to take votes from both sides of the major parties. During the 1964 presidential primary election in Putnam County, Wallace ran third to Matthew Welch, a stand-in for President Johnson, and Goldwater. Wallace obtained 1,131 votes in Putnam County to Welch’s 2,311. Goldwater polled 1,722 votes. Wallace failed to win any precinct races against Welch but only lost many precincts by three They’ll win

By BOYD GILL INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) — Straws in the wind from Indiana’s three best-known bellwether counties indicate that Richard M. Nixon will win the state’s 13 electoral votes and Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb will be elected governor. Polls and political experts at South Bend agree that St. Joseph County is likely to go for Nixon. Others at Evansville believe Nixon has the inside track in Vanderburgh County. And at LaPorte, the signs point to Whitcomb over Democratic Lt. Gov. Robert L. Rock. St. Joseph County has given a plurality of its votes to the winning presidential candidate every four years since the early 1890s. Vanderburgh has missed only once, in 1960 when it went for Nixon in a losing cause to John F. Kennedy. LaPorte has been on the winner’s bandwagon in every gubernatorial election since the late 1880s. Two telephone polls by WNDU at the University of Notre Dame Wednesday night favored Nixon. One, a random sampling by phone calls to homes gave

to eight votes. He got 64 votes in East Cloverdale and 81 votes in West Cloverdale. In North Greencastle he lost 63 to 41. He lost 53 to 48 in South Washington, 37 to 30 in South Clinton and 39 to 32 in N. Floyd. Circuit Court Judge Francis N. Hamilton, Democrat, and running unopposed Tuesday, said the Wallace vote in 1964 was a backlash at Welch, and not at John, son. The trend, however, across the state, gave Wallace a good Continued on Page 2

The number of registered voters in each precinct include: South Clinton - 324, North Greencastle - 832, North Jackson - 194, Fox Ridge Greencastle - 661, West Cloverdale - 795, North Clinton - 217, East Cloverdale - 612, North Fourth283, West Jefferson - 238, Mill Creek - Jeff. - 201, East Jefferson - 274, South Jackson - 233, North First - 443, South First - 423, South Second - 455, South Washington - 372, North Second - 449,* East Second - 636, North Marion - 620, North Warren - 288, Fincastle Frank.327, East Madison - 282, North Washington - 648, North Franklin - 315, South Franklin - 503, South Russell - 193, West Madison - 252, North Russell - 383, South Third - 410, South Marion - 428, Limedale - 236, West Monroe - 335, South Fourth - 659, North Floyd - 279, North Third578, West Second - 629, East Monroe - 588, South Warren - 260, South Floyd - 216.

Nixon 33 votes, Vice President Hubert Humphrey 24, George Wallace 10 and 5 undecided. The other, covering 781 persons who called the station, showed 37 per cent for Nixon, 33 per cent for Wallace and 30 per cent for Humphrey. The polls were directed by news director Harry Kevorkian. In addition, political observers in the area indicated Nixon apparent ly has the edge in what they expected to be fairly close contest. Bob Flynn at the Evansville Press in a poll of two precincts on the city’s north side that have been “bellwethers within a bellwether county” in the past found 47.5 per cent favoring Nixon, 22.5 favoring Humphrey and 15.9 for Wallace. No polls were taken at LaPorte, but veteran news executive Donald W. Benn, managing editor of the LaPorte Herald. Argus, said Whitcomb appears to be slightly ahead of Rock. Benn based his guess on conversations with many area residents. He said Rock’s-strength goes beyond labor union membership and includes many in the business and industrial community.

:x*x*:+:*:*x*x*:*:*:*:*:*:*^^ GOP may control both Hoosier house, senate

By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) - Republicans have a good chance to gain control of both the House and Senate in the 1969 Indiana Legislature for the 20th time this century. The Senate was under Democratic control 29-21 in the last session but the Republicans need only to elect 12 senators Tuesday to have a majority for the next session. This is because 14 of the 22 holdover senators elect, ed to four-year terms in 1966 are Republicans, compared to eight Democrats. The House elects all 100 members each biennium, so the mere fact the House was 66-34 Republican in 1967 would not assure a GOP victory this time. However, seven Republicans are unopposed in the Tuesday election so the Democrats are starting at a disadvantage, even if political trends were in their favor — which they do not appear to be.

Controlled 19 Times In the 34 legislative elections in this century, 19 have resulted in Republican control of both houses, with the Democrats in full control seven times, and with divided House and Senate eight times. In some years the control has been so slight as to be of little effect. In a few it was very lopsided with worst being in 1913 with only four Republicans in the 100 - member House. Republicans assured of reelection because they are not opposed Tuesday include Rep. Glenn R. Slenker, Monticello, dean of state lawmakers with 40 years in the legislature and Reps. John W. Donaldson, Lebanon, James T. Robison, Frankfort, and Donald C. Pratt, Rockville. In addition, the Democrats lacked three of filing a full contingent in two multipleseat districts. Only Gary Nordmann, North Manchester Democrat, is in the

field against Reps. Arthur P. Coblentz, R-Liberty Mills, Ralph Heine, R-Columbia City, and Thames L. Mauxy, R-Warsaw for the three representatives from their five-county district. Only former legislator James Thimlar, Royal Center Democrat, is contesting incumbent Reps. Kermit O. Burrous, RPeru, and Harold Mertz, R-Lo-gansport. Of the 28 Senate races,three are for two-year terms, resulting from the resignations and death of men elected to serve until 1970. Sens.Earl Landgrebe, R-Valparaiso, and W. W. Hill Jr., R-Indianapolis, resigned to become congressional nominees, and Sen. Vincent L. Pittenger, R-Albany, died in 1967 after serving for only one session. Senate Leaders Back Three of the 1967 leaders elected by the Senate are assurred of returning because they are holdovers—Sen. Marlin K. McDaniel, Republican minority

leader and Keith C. McCormick, GOP caucus chairman, and James M. Plaskett, Democratic caucus chairman. In the House, 1967 Speaker Otis R. Bowen, R.Bremen, is seeking relection to a sixth term and if successful to a second speakership. Burrous, GOP caucus chairman, is trying for reelection as is his Democratic counterpart, William E. Babincsak, Munster. But House minority leader Richard Bodine did not try for re-electioi * He, like Bowen, made a fultile gubernatorial bid but Bowen had taken the precaution of also filing in the primary for re-election. Indiana legislators, who at their current annual salary of $1,800 are considered underpaid by the standards of most states, still apparently think the work important enough to seek a return. There are 18 present members of the Senate campaigning for re-election and five former lawmakers also are trying for

the Senate. They are John Shawley, R-Michigan City, who has served in the House or Senate since 1955; Marshall F. Kizer, former Democratic minority leader; Von Eichhorn, DUniondale, who lost out two years ago after 25 years in the Senate; and former Rep. John Frick, D-South Bend and exSen. Leonard Conrad, D-Terre Haute. In the House 72 of the 100 incumbents seek reelection and 12 former lawmakers are try. ing for a comeback. Ex-Congressman Tries A former member of the Congress a one-time Indiana Appellate Court judge and the widow of a Supreme Court judge are among the first-time .seekers after state legislativeposts.Earl Wilson, Bedford who served in Congress for 22 years before he was defeated, is the GOP nominee opposing incumbent Sen. Victor Green, D-Pekin.

Straw vote shows Nixon, Whitcomb