The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 November 1968 — Page 1

INDIANA STATE LIDEARY

How did your precinct vote in the last presidential election?

Voters of Putnam Comity during the past two elections have thrown their support to a Democrat and a Republican presidential candidate. They also voted more than 1,000 votes in the spring primai’y for George Wallace who ran against Mathew Welsh, a stand in for President Lyndon Johnson. Here is the way voters placed their ballots in the two presidential elections and the 1962 spring

primary-

Precinct

1960

Kennedy

Nixon

N. Jackson

S. Jackson

135

N. Franklin

149

S. Franklin

151

223

Fin-Franklin

132

N. Clinton

100

S. Clinton

N. Russell

221

S. Russell

N. Floyd

S. Floyd

E. Monroe

199

213

W. Monroe

173

E. Jefferson

110

W. Jefferson

102

MC-Jefferson

N. Marion

194

274

N. Warren

114

S. Warren

102

117

E. Cloverdale

194

248

W. Cloverdale

193

323

W. Washington

193

229

S. Washington

149

129

W. Greencastle

187

225

Fox Greencastle 170

240

Lime-Greencastle 62

N. First

189

162

S. First

139

172

N. Second

252

486

S. Second

119

243

E. Second

204

269

N. Third

207

S. Third

151

180

N. Fourth

112

161

S. Fourth

188

291

Total

4,798

6,583

Precinct

Welsh

Wallace

N. Russell

S. Russell

N. Franklin

S. Franklin

Fin-Franklin

N. Jackson

S. Jackson

N. Clinton

S. Clinton

E. Monroe

100

W. Monroe

N. Floyd

32,

S. Floyd

is'

E. Madison

W. Madison

N. Morris

S. Marion

N. Washingtin

Washington

N. Warren

S. Warren

E. Jefferson

W. Jefferson

MC-Jefferson

E. Cloverdale

107

W. Cloverdale

147

N. First

S. First

N. First

S. Second

E. Second

W. Second

N. Third

S. Third

N. Fourth

S. Fourth

Fox R. Greencastle 74

Lim-Greencastle

N. Greencastle

Totals

2,311

1,131

1964 Presidential

Precinct Goldwater

Johnson

N. Russell

158

117

S. Russell

N. Franklin

133

S. Franklin

184

Fin-Franklin

N. Jackson

S. Jackson

N. Clinton

S. Clinton

E. Monroe

173

W. Monroe

148

W. Floyd

S. Floyd

E. Madison

W. Madison

N. Morris

218

S. Marion

154

N. Washington

179

S. Washington

108

N. Warren

S. Warren

E. Jefferson

117 194 114 83 98 101 101 250 130 79 87 114 111 281 180 258 164 108 108 142

W. Jefferson

MC Jefferson

E. Cloverdale

206

W. Cloverdale

265

N. First

112

S. First

129

N. Second

188

S. Second

163

E. Second

214

W. Second

301

N. Third

149

S. Third

N. Fourth

115

S. Fourth

213

N. Greencastle

264

Lim Greencastle

Fox-Greencastle

200

Totals

5,331

280 316 212 170 139 153 272

215 126 247 124 231 290 75 227

6,275

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VOLUME SEVENTY-SEVEPJ

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1968 IOC Per Copy UPI News Service

No. 5

Harper’s Valley issue? School board candidates to be elected

by SHAUN HIGGINS Staff Reporter Putnam County residents in three districts will be electing new school-board members in Tuesday elections. New members will be elected in townships making up the Cloverdale, North Putnam and South Putnam Community school districts. Perhaps the most heated contests for school-board seats are being waged in the Cloverdale system, where three seats are up for grabs. Seven persons are seeking to fill three vacancies in Cloverdale township. Two of the candidates, Russell O. Sendmeyer and Lillian Whitaker, are incumbents. Several of the school-board candidates were contacted Sunday in an attempt to ascertain why these persons were seeking election or re-election in their district. Robert Ziegleman, Jr., candidate in Cloverdale township stated that he felt many changes were called for the Cloverdale system. Ziegleman charged the current schoolboard with interfering with teacher’s jobs, thus making it difficult for Cloverdale to obtain quality teachers. Ziegleman also said, “I want a superintendent who will be a superintendent. Now, we have this one board member who is down at the school everyday, and this is a problem.” Only two incumbents on county ballot Putnam County voters will have a choice of selecting from only two county incumbents in Tuesday’s election, Richard E. Huffman, Democrat for county commissioner from the third district and unopposed Democratic candidate for judge ofthe circuit court, Francis N. Hamilton. The offices of auditor, treasurer, coroner and one commissioner’s spot will be filled by someone other than the man who was elected to the positions four years ago. County coroner Charles H. Rector Jr., Democrat, was appointed to the office two years ago. He seeks the office by election this time. Voters are reminded in Putnam County that in marking their ballots they are to place an ”x” in the boxes for their selected candidates and not a check mark. The ballot will not be counted according to law if a check mark is used. The county ballot contains the following candidates: Representative in Congress, 6th District Joh n T. Myers - R Eldon C. Tipton - D Joint Representative, Owen Parke & Putnam Counties John J. Thomas - R Harold W. Roeschlein -D Auditor John Carson - R Clifford Hillis - D Treasurer Jewell W. Blue - R Percy M. Rice — D Coroner Wayne E. Hopkins -R Charles H. Rector Jr. — D Commissioner - 1st District Fred A. Cox - R Kenneth Shannon — D Commissioner - 3rd District Robert Ziegleman Sr. - R Richard E. Huffman - D Judge, 64th Judicial Court Francis N. Hamilton — D

The candidate said "We want to take the Harper Valley out of Cloverdale and put it back where it belongs.” Harper Valley, is the name of a community mentioned in a pop record concerned with hypocrisy. Later, incumbent schoolboard member Russell Sendmeyer was contacted, Sendmeyer stated there was no truth in Ziegleman’s statements. ‘‘We’ve had no problems keeping teachers,” Sendmeyer said. Sendmeyer, who has served on the Cloverdale board for four years, said he felt there was a great need for building to meet the demands of greater enrollments in the school system. Lillian Whitaker, the other incumbent on the school board, supported Sendmeyer’s statement concerning Cloverdale’s teacher situation. ‘‘We have had no problems with teachers,” she said, “and the superintendent has no problems.” Mrs. Whitaker went on to say she had no idea what Ziegleman meant by his “Harper Valley” statement. Both Sendmeyer and Mrs. Whitaker expressed pride in the Cloverdale system. Sendmeyer called it “progressive” and Mrs. Whitaker stated, “We have about the highest number of students in the area to successfully complete college after they have first enrolled.” Other candidates at Cloverdale include: Alva Cash, Samuel Conner, Jack Davis, Frank Orr, and Jerry Orman. Only two candidates are seeking election in the South Putnam Community School Corporation, Richard K. Jones and Bill Birdsell. Jones was unavailable for comment. Birdsell said he was primarily interested in working “for better communication and cooperation between citizens and schoolboard members and citizens” in the South Putnam system. Birdsell also said he favored competitive salary standards for South Putnam teac hers, thus assuring the best education for all children in the area. The final schoolboard race is being held in the North Putnam school system, composed of Russellville, Roachdale, Bainbridge High Schools. Incumbent, John C. Burdette is running unopposed for the atlarge on the North Putnam ballot. In the other board race in North Putnam incumbent William E. Etcheson, Jr., is being opposed by James Mandleco, an ironworker with a particular issue stemming from what he terms miscontruction of the system’s new high school building. Mandleco has made appeals to the board, called in state building inspectors, and even written Gov. Roger D. Branigan concerning the new high school building. He feels that several basic safety measures have been disregarded in the construction and that the structure is unsafe for teachers. I Weather X; X* watcher s Mostly cloudy and not much temperature change today. Clearing and cooler tonight. Fair to partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday. High today 57 to 63. Low tonight 34 to 40. High Tuesday upper 60s. Precipitation probability percentages 20 today, 5 tonight and Tuesday.

Road issue hangs over county election

by DENNIS ABELL Managing Editor Are county roads really as bad as Putnam County Republican office seekers say they are? Should a county landfill dump be established? Will Putnam County voters always have to use paper ballots? Is the county home adequate to care for the area’s aged? These are questions facing four men seeking two of three Putnam County Commissioner spots in Tuesday’s election. But they are questions which have not been to the forefront in this coming election. County office seekers have taken the back seat to questions such as, “Will the bombing halt bring peace in Vietnam or is the move simply a pre-election day stunt to elect Democrats? The national and state candidates, those aspiring to the state house and senate and to congress as well as candidates for top state positions have gained most of the attention in the Nov. 5 campaign. Very little tal:< is given to issues in the race for county coroner or auditor. The jobs are not as glamorous as the “White House” or Capitol Hill positions. But the county candidates have been out handshaking and attending the bean suppers. Most of the time they have fallen in the shadows of a campaigning State Senator or congressman incumbent or hopefal who h-ve been swarming in and out of Putnam County all fall. DePauw University has attracted many state candidates because of its facilities and a usual “standby” audience. Candidates do need someone to talk to. Candidates endorsements have been enscribed on general paraphernalia such as matches, combs, and rain bonnets, which one candidate, Kenneth Shannon, Democrat running for County Commissioner in the first Dis-

Cox - (R), 1 st. Dist.

trict, has actually passed out to voters. Most of the candidates have tried to hit the community activities sponsored by farm and church groups. Farm sales have also provided candidates with a “crowd” where they can pass out their literature. County roads and the problems of cutting weeds and providing proper amounts of gravel and patching has been the ramrodding issue with Republicans in the county commissioner races which seem to have generated more interest than the other county candidates seeking either election or re-election. Only one incumbent, Richard E. Huffman, (Democrat) present Commissioner from the Third District, is seeking re-election. Claude MaLayer, (Democrat) was defeated in the spring primary by Kenneth Shannon, former member of the Putnam County Council. The lone Republican on the present Board of Commissioners, Waldo Shoemaker, Greencastle, is not up for reelection this year. He has been in the minority for the past four years serving with two Democrats.

Shannon (D), 1 st Dist.

Shannon, 57, self-employed resident of Roaclidale, is opposed by Fred A. Cox, 66, Greencastle farmer, and former state road inspector. Shannon, although a Democrat, does not feel he lias to uphold the actions taken in the last four years by the present two Democrat office holders. “I do feel the weeds should be cut down along the rural roads so that a person can drive a new car without having it all scratched up.” The Republicans, Cox and Ziegleman, have been running a campaign based on the bad conditions of the county roads. “If it takes $100 to buy one of those blind corners, we should go ahead and purchase the ground so the corner can be straightened out,” said Shannon. “We ought to take a bulldozer and move some of those bad corners back say 15 feet,” he suggested. Shannon pointed out that Putnam County did have some very rural areas where it is most difficult to maintain weed control. Ziegleman Sr., has been leading most of the open campaigning about the roads. He comes straight to the point. He thinks

there has teen too much neglect. He runs against incumbent Huffman in an area which is considered Democrat country. “But I’ll have Democrats voting for me this time. A lot of people are tired of not having their roads fixed.” Ziegleman, 67, Cloverdale a 43 year employe of Public Service Indiana, has to acquire Democrat votes from the Cloverdale area to be elected. He claims that roads south of U.S. 40 have teen neglected for the past 14 years and with Democrats heading up the majority of the Boards of Commissioners. “I can’t understand it. You would think Democratic office holders would pay attention to areas where there are Democrats, but they haven’t,” he said. He pointed out that during snow storms the county roads have always teen blocked when state highway trucks push snow out of the way of state roads into the approaches of county roads. “Here again you’ve got county Democrat officials, and they haven’t been able to get cooperation with state highway officials who are also Democrats,” said Ziegleman. “I haven’t had to really promise anything,” he said. “People just want to make sure the weeds are going to get cut and that there will be some ditching done.” The candidate pointed out he felt the biggest problem with roads is that too much water is allowed to stand in them. “When roads are graded, big piles of gravel are left on the roads edge disturbing the natural flow of drainage water which runs out into the road,” he said. In listing other issues Ziegleman said he felt a landfill dump should be established, and that a method should be devised to finance election machines. He served four years as a Democrat on the Belle Union School board as an advisory board

Ziegleman Sr. (R), 3rd. Dist. member and four years as a Republican. School issues are creeping into his own campaign. A son, Robert A. Ziegleman, Jr., is seeking election on the Cloverdale school board. Although the oldestof the two candidates knows the school election will bring out a lot of voters (many Democrats), he says he does not feel a large turn out of Democrats will hurt him. He feels many will be voting for him because of a dissatisfaction with the present Commissioners. He pointed out that of the two covered bridges now being replaced by the County Commissioners, the Clinton Falls and Pete Cox bridges, the latter should have lasted longer. “If they had got some good ditching a few years ago and not have allowed water to have flooded around the bridge, it would not have been damaged like it is now.” Both bridges are condemned and scheduled to be replaced next year. Huffman, 65, is a lifetime resident of Centerpoint. He is an associate member of the Putnam County planning commission and has completed four years as Commissioner. Shannon was defeated by seven

Huffman (D), 3rd. Dist. votes in a 1964 Democratic primary by MaLayer. He fills the county plan commission needs to complete its overall zoning and for the county then to plot a land fill dump to correct open dumping in the county. He doesn’t feel that election machines are really more economic but said a cumulative fund of 5-cents should be established to finance election machines to be located first in Greencastle. Other County candidates seek - ing election include John Carson, 29, Greencastle, Republican, and Clifford Hillis, Greencastle, Democrat, for the job of county auditor now held by Republican Eston Cooper. Carson is in the cleaning and supply business. Hillis is a farmer. For the office of county treasurer the two candidates running are Jewel Blue, (Republican) 51, Bainbridge, Putnam County Sanitarian, and Percy M. Rice, (Democrat) 54, Bainbridge, selfemployed, grocery and meat market. Roland Lane, present treasurer, did not seek re-elec-tion. The county coroner candidates are Republican - Wayne E. Continued on Page 3

Federal court hears student pleas Putnam County officials, both Republican and Democrat, were to have appeared early today in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, on subpoenas connected with a suit filed last Friday by 18 DePauw University students. The suit seeks a restraining order without notice against Putnam County officials. Plaintiffs in the case are the 18 students who recently were ruled “not legal residents of the State of Indiana” by Judge Francis N. Hamilton of Putnam Circuit Court. The students ask a restraining order from threatening to prosecute them and other registrants of Putnam County who might assist them in voting in Tuesday’s election. In addition to Judge Hamilton, other defendants are Putnam County prosecutor James M. Houck, Putnam County Clerk Ennis Masten, Putnam County Election Board members William R. Jackson, and William R. Padgett, Robert Poor, chairman of the Putnam County Republican Central Committee and J.D. Calbert, Greencastle city attorney. The suit revolves around the students’ efforts to vote in Put. nam County as legal residents instead of by absentee ballot. Judge Hamilton ruled Oct. 8 that DePauw University students whose voter registrations were questioned were not legal residents of the county and could not vote in Putnam County. Continued on Page 3

xttwxwtfxttxWX^XvX::*:^^ Candidates-posters show signs of wear |

by DENNIS ABELL A billboard on Ind, 43 south of Greencastle is showing signs of a long political fall campaign. It is torn. The picture of the Republican candidate for Governor is weather beaten. Come Jan. 20 of next year, there will be many election posters which will no longer be clinging to utility polls. The weather will have damaged other literature. Some, however, may hold out throughout the next four years. In Washington, a new president is supposed to be inaugurated at noon on Jan. 20. The new president will be either Hubert H. Humphrey, 57, aCongregationalist born in Wallace, S.D., a Democrat; Richard M, Nixon, 55, a Quaker, born in Yorba Linda, Cal. a Republican; or George C. Wallace, 49, a Methodist born in Clio, Ala., a third party choice for president. If a Sunday night CBS television survey proves to be true and none of the three presidential candidates receive the necessary 270 electoral votes needed to win the race, the U.S. Senate will select a vice president after Jan. 6 from among three candidates. They are Edmund S. Muskie, 54, Roman Catholic, born in Rumford, Maine, a Democrat; Spiro T. Agnew, 49, an Episcopalian, born in Baltimore, Md., a Republican; or Curtis E. Lemay, 61, ( no religious affiliation, born in Columbus, Ohio, third party choice.

If a deadlock does come about and a president is not elected Nov. 5, the U.S. Constitution requires the newly elected House of Representatives to elect a president. It must proceed to this immediately upon learning of a deadlock — that is, when the electoral votes are formally opened and tallied. The House selects a president from among the three candidates with the largest electoral votes. The Senate chooses a vice president from the two electoral leaders. Under present law, the Congress that convenes Jan. 3, 1969, would make the selections. In the House election of a president, each state has one vote. The votes of at least 26 states are needed to elect a president. In the Senate election of the vice president, each senator has one vote. The votes of at least 51 senators are needed to elect, although it is presumed that the incumbent vice president could cast the decisive vote in a SOSO tie. The incumbent would be Hubert Humphrey. If the House is unable to elect a president by noon, Jan. 20 and there is a vice president-elect he would take office as acting president until a new president is selected. If there is neither a president or vice president to take office, the Constitution says Congress “may by law” make provision for filling the offices. The new president actually will be the 36th man not 37th to hold the office, but most authorities count Grover Cleveland as both

the 22nd and 24th President because his terms were not consecutive. The new president will be the 39th man to serve in the office. Nixon and Humphrey are the first vice presidents to oppose

each other as the major party candidates for president in the same election. However, before the electoral system was changed and before the party system was fully developed, former vice presidents

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were opponents in the election of 1800. Either Humphrey or Nixon would be the 12th former vice president to become President, Continued on Page 6

PERSONAL ENDORSEMENT--Residents in sign endorsing the presidential candidate This home on U.S. 40 on the east edge of of their choice. Putnam County have their own homemade