The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday. November 5, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL

Ruling on Discipline

r pHE FEDERAL District Court of western Missouri has issued an opinion which strengthens the position of colleges and universities in dealing with unruly student elements. The decision, which delves into the often confused area of administration-student relations, serves to remove any doubt that tax-supported institutions can legally formulate and enforce standards of discipline tor their students. In the recent case of Scoggin v. Lincoln University, the court said, in effect, that rules and regulations related to the purpose of education do not infringe upon the rights of students because attendance is voluntary and involves acceptance of certain responsibilities. The court spoke unequivocably: “The voluntary attendance of a student in such institutions is a voluntary entrance into the academic community. By such voluntary entrance, the student voluntarily assumes obligations of performance and behavior reasonably imposed by the institution . . . relevant to its lawful missions, processes, and functions ..." The court continued: “No student may, without liability to lawful discipline, intentionally act to impair or prevent the accomplishment of any lawful mission, process, or function of an educational institution.” School administrators, the court holds, may act “to secure compliance with these higher obligations as a teaching method or to sever the student from the academic community.” California Gov. Ronald Reagan, a veteran of the battles of Berkeley, has said the same thing in non-legal language: “Obey the rules, or get out.” Because of the Missouri ruling, it is clearer than before that administrators have the authority to discipline those involved in the current wave of campus disorders. Perhaps the knowledge that the law supports reasonable standards of student behavior will cause some of the more hesitant school officials to act.

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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.’s ON THE RIGHT

The Role Of Wallace George Wallace could very weU cost Mr. Nixon the presidency, notwithstanding that the polls sug. gest he is drawing most of his strength from registered Democrats. The reason for this is that no Republican ever wins the Presidency without taking a lot of Democratic votes, and it should appear obvious by now that most of the Democrats who are going for Wallace would not have voted for Humphrey if Wallace had stayed out of the race. They would have gone to Nixon, who although he imperfectly satisfies them, is distinguishable as the conservative alternative t o Hubert Humphrey. Add to the drain away from Nixon the electoral votes he will lose in the South. Here there is absolutely no question about it. If Wallace were not running, Nixon would sweep the South. All of it. As it stands, it cannot be absolutely predicted even that Nixon wiU carry North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, let alone South Carolina. In New York State, the authoritative Daily News poll published last Monday morning shows, and for the first time, Humphrey leading by four per cent. If the figures are correct, then the trend over a two-week period shows Humphrey to have made a relative eight-point rise (when first tabulated, it was Nixon who was leading by four per cent.) Republicans are cheering themselves up by passing along the memory of the New York Daily News announcing two years ago that Frank O’Connor would beat Nelson Rockefeller for governor. The trouble is, the News, gravely embarrassed by the sudden inaccuracy of its poll (it hadn’t failed in years), took pains to overhaul it, and now, the management swears by its reliability. Of course, Nixoncould lose New York and still carry the election, as Harry Truman did. But it’s a pretty brinky business, and Nixon people are under the circumstances facing the urgent necessity of communicating to Wallace voters the unwisdom of their commitment. The same poll that shows a rise in Humphrey’s vote shows, over the same period a half point’s decline in the Wallace vote, which now stands at eight per cent. It could be

that in the next few days many of the voters will privately conelude that a vote for Wallace is, in effect, a vote for Humphrey. I know from personal experience that it is altogether possible to drop precipitately on the last day. On Election Day in 1965, the New York Daily News poll showed 18 per cent Buckley for mayor of New York City. But when the votes were counted, Buckley had 13 per cent. As much could happen to Wallace, and the gainer, in my judgment, would be Nixon. Meanwhile, how to reach the Wallace voter? Governor Claude Kirk of Florida pointed out months and months ago that it is futile to address the followers of Wallace as racists; many of them are no such thing and in any case, the psychological strategy is certainly bad. Writing last week in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Harvard sociologist Mr. David Riesman in effect endorses that position. “America is condemned (by the New Left) as being racist, ” Mr. Riesman points out, “thus forcing on people introspection concerning their attitudes- an introspection often confused by the fact that most Negroes are lowers class, while most Americans seek democratically not to be class conscious. One consequence of calling people racists who consider themselves reasonably decent and humane may well be that they will conclude; ‘So be it; I am a racist and will follow leadership that respects and justifies me as I am.”’ It is not easy for a conservative to jargonize the case against Wallace-beyond pointing out, again and again, that a vote for Wallace is a wasted vote, nay, a vote for Humphrey. The solid case against Wallace as a reliable conservative takes time to make, more time than is available in quick objurgative conversations with Wallace voters. Such a case would touch on the necessity of mediating institutions (concerning which Wallace is notoriously impatient); on the bizarre career of Mr. Wallace (he was a supporter of the leftmost governor in recent Southern history, Kissing Jim Folsom); on continuing anomalies in his position (Wallace is a stout union Continued on Page 3

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Viet Cong, U.S. continue secret talks on war

By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS (UPI) — Diplomatic sources said U.S. and North Vietnamese officials Sunday secretly discussed how to arrange expanded war talks which the South Vietnamese government has vowed to boycott and to which the Viet Cong was sending a woman as delegation chief. According to the reports, the secret planning was being done by U.S. Ambassador Cyrus R. Vance and Hanoi’s Col. Ha Van Lau. The two men, deputy leaders of their respective delegations, six months ago used similar behind-the-scenes huddles to fix the opening of U.S.-NORTH Vietnamese preliminary talks. In the past two weeks, according to diplomats, similar meetings led to the Friday halt to American bombing of North Vietnam which in turn paved the way for inviting Saigon and the Viet Cong into the talks. Major Hurdle South V i e t n a m’s boycott threat was a major hurdle the diplomats were attempting to remove before the expanded talks’ first scheduled session on Wednesday. In the Filipino resort of Baguio City, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines proposed Sunday an allied summit conference meeting in Manila and thrash out the problem. President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam said in Saigon Saturday he could not take part in the Paris talks unless Hanoi voted to de-escalate the war and unless the Viet Cong attended only as part of the North Vietnamese delegation. In Paris, North Vietnamese diplomats said the National Liberation Front (NLF), the political arm of the Viet Cong, will be an independent delegation. Hanoi diplomats aid Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, 41, will fly in Monday from Moscow to head the NLF delegation. Jailed By French Born in Saigon, Mrs. Binh joined the Communist cause in 1950. Jailed by the French, she was freed after South Vietnam won its independence from France in 1954. She went o Hanoi and has since been a travelling spokesman for the Viet Cong and the NLF, based in Hanoi. She is a member of the NLF presidium, its ruling body. Thieu stressed in a wildly cheered speech to his parliament Saturday that his government does not recognize the NLF or the Viet Cong. His supporters said agreeing to treat the Communist guerrillas as anything but a Hanoi tool would be a “surrender.” North Vietnamese diplomats said they and Mrs. Binh’s delegation are willing to sit down with the Saigon delegation, “a gang of traitors.” They also said they do not recognize it as anything more than a “U.S. stooge.” The expanded talks were set to work toward what even

Hanoi radio called a “political settlement” of the war. But Hanoi’s official newspaper Nhan Dan, echoed by Moscow’s Communist party newspaper Pravda, Sunday once more listed the political conditions as American withdrawal and Viet

The semi annual meeting of the IndianaStateSociety of Colonial Dames XVII Century met Saturday at the Atkinson Hotel in Indianapolis. There are seven chapters in the state, all of which were represented at the meeting. Twelve members gathered on Friday evening at the hotel to meet and have dinner with the President General, Mrs. Charles W. Burkett, Jr., from Miami, Fla. Mrs. Charles F. Brown of the Colonial Thomas Hardy Chapter of Evansville is the state president and presided at the Saturday meeting. Reports of the chapters were given showing activity and twenty -two new members. There are now 220 members in the state. The 8,760 members in the United States maintain a headquarters in Washington, D.C. help four colleges, give scholarships,help libraries, and providing of tapes for a program of service to military families, called “Voices from Home.” This enables families to send recorded messages to their Postal examinations scheduled The Post Office Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Cincinnati, Ohio, today has announced a new Tri-State-Wide Examination (C 3-8-06) for Substitute Clerk and Substitute Carrier positions for service in all First and Second Class Post Offices in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The starting salary for Substitute Clerk and Substitute Car. rier (PFS-5) is $2.95 Per Hour. Applicants may apply for employ, ment at any First or Second Class Post Office regardless of residence. At the time of examination applicants will select the post office(s) where they wish to be considered for employment. No specific experience is required, but all applicants must pass a written test. Application forms will be accepted until the needs of the service are met. Full information regarding the examination m a y be obtained from the local post office or by writing the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Room 305 Post Office Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209

Cong control of South Vietnam. Diplomatic sources said the United States was aiming at getting a ceasefire and obtaining a secure future for a South Vietnam free of Communist menace.

servicemen and women overseas, and is sponsored by the Red Cross. A tape costs forty cents. Mrs. Elmer Seller, local president, Mrs. Russell Pierce, Mrs. Y.G. Yuncker, and Miss Carrie Pierce attended the meeting. Threatened to disrupt Catholic Mass NEW YORK (UPI)—A group of dissident Catholic priests, nuns and laymen, who had threatened to interrupt Mass at St. Patrick’s cathedral Sunday to protest church “silence” on Vietnam, decided instead to picket the cathedral and hold their own outdoor “Mass.” The 35 demonstrators, carry, ing flowers to “celebrate life” and signs reading “We Protest our Church’s Silence,” said they wanted Catholic bishops in this country to speak out against the war. Paul Mayer, 37, a priest until his recent marriage, said the group decided to hold its own “Mass” instead of interrupting the service inside the towering gothic cathedral on Fifth Avenue where thousands worshipped. He said they had sought permission to read their statement and were refused. “Our community has been refused the opportunity to raise our voices on behalf of the peace within the cathedral,” the group said in a statement. “The Archdiocese’s response has been to alert and summon the police, and so we become the church in the streets.” After picketing the cathedral for more than an hour, two young Jesuit priests conducted a 25-minute “Mass” over a covered bridge table set up across the street, concelebrated by the Revs. Paul Kope, 33, and Ned Murphy, 31, both graduate students at Fordham University.

Fight to keep buried treasure BAYARD, Iowa (UPI)— The “buried treasure” which 12 Bayard boys found more than three years ago has been sold at an auction for an estimated $18,500 but two court suits are tying up its distribution. The treasure, which had a face value of $11,500 and consisted of 888 items—mostly old coins—was found underneath a floorboard in an old building on the property of Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenbeck in this rural community of 600 persons. Mayor Kenneth Robinson said 600 persons from 40 of Iowa’s 99 counties and from Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas, and Illinois attended the day-long auction Saturday which the town had been preparing for weeks in advance. Women from the local Union Methodist Church served meals to the hungry crowd, while other townspeople assisted in parking cars and telling visitors the story which has focused nationwide attention on the community. Jim McAlister, the father of eight children four of whom were among the 12 who discovered the treasure, didn’t share in the excitement. McAlister, a contractor, has been leading the court battles for his sons and the other treasure finders. Seeking custody of the treasure in addition to the finders, are the Rosenbecks, on whose property it was found; Mrs. Louis Tallman, niece of the former owners of the property; and the American Red Cross, beneficiary of the estate of a former owner. The Rosenbecks purchased the property in 1958 when Miss Ella Beardsley died. Miss Beardsley willed her estate to Mrs Tallman. The Red Cross is the beneficiary of the estate of Miss Beardsley’s brother, Fred, co-owner of the property with Miss Beardsley, until it was purchased by the Rosenbecks. The various claims are based on the fact that no one knows when the treaure was buried or who buried it. McAlister said he talked to a couple of coin collectors who told him “it all went too high.” “Most of the gold stayed local,” McAlister said. “Collectors got some of the other stuff.” The auctioneers paid each of the 12 boys $10 Saturday to assist them with the proceedings. The boys include Rusty, Mike, Pat, and Kelly McAlister, Bob Melson, Marty and Myron Nissen, David, James, and Mike Springer, Tom Burns, and Jerome Sidhoff. They were between the ages of six and 11 when the treasure was found on June 1, 1965. —To vote the students were qualified to vote. The only interpretation to date was made by Judge Hamilton who said the students are not qualified. This is now the interpretation election officials are to follow. The students alleged they are “likely to be unable to vote because of the chilling pattern of intimidation being perpetrated and implemented by the defend, ants.” Back of the charge is a long list of events which at various times has involved the Indiana State Election Board and district attorney Edwin Applegate. Gas Company pays $15,531 in county taxes A large investment in the financing of local and county government has been made by Indiana Gas Company, Inc. with the fall payment of its real estate and property taxes. Thirty.six counties are receiving a total of $744,614. 98 for the second half of 1968 , making the total pay. ments for the year $1,489,229.96; The Putnam County tax payment for the year 1968 totals $15,531.55

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He always tucked his younger brother in bed. It calmed Moshe. It was good for Nick too, because he was always the big and overly polite brother; the one who was so emotional that he often whispered between his teeth while his chest heaved. He felt protective when he placed the blankets around Moshe, and rubbed the little boy’s brow, The Meshulams were Bulgarians. They were also middle, class Jews. Life was sweet for them until the Germans overran Europe. The question for fathers was whether to run, and when. Some waited too long. In Buigaria, the kingdom of Boris was liberated, in time, by hordes of Asiatic Russians who swept the land and reaped the people. Even when the time came to give up all the materialistic things of life, a good home, a business, a bank balance, Nick still tucked his little brother into bed every night. The Meshulams fled to Palestine. There was sanctuary of a sort to be a Jew among Jews, but, in 1948, the land convulsed with flame and death. The big-chested Nick enlisted. He fought in Palmachs Commandos. Moshe was 15V2 years old. He was weak from a double mastoid operation, but he was sure that, if he could no longer play the baby brother, perhaps he could be a man. He too enlisted. When the war of liberation was over, Nick came home. His brother was “missing.” Fists pounded tables and tears slalomed down bony cheeks. “He was only a little kid!” Nick shouted. He left Israel and came to America. He labored with his hands while his head labored with a new language. In court, he became Nick Morley. Twenty years later, he was president of General Development International, a big real estate operation. He was on the board of directors of other corporations. In the back of a gleaming Rolls Royce, he stared at the head of a uniformed chauffeur and worried about Moshe. Missing. Missing from what? Missing from a radar station in the old section of Jerusalem. Nick drew no comfort from riches; the exiled King Simeon of Bulgaria made Nick a director of the select Committee of 100--which helped exiled Bulgarians. Nick was given high honors; medals for a hollow chest. Missing. Nick traveled to Paris and walked the boulevards. He saw the back of Moshe’s head a half block ahead of him. It wasn’t Moshe. He saw his face on a bus in London. He saw Moshe at a soccer match in Italy. He saw the pale face in his dreams. “Why do you torture yourself?” his friends said. “I must tuck him in bed,” Nick said. Then he smiled. “Excuse me, I don’t know why I said that.” He knew why. In London, Nick was in a jewelry shop at the Hilton. He studied a case of watches. The jeweler spoke with an accent. Nick smiled. “Both of us have accents,” he said. They talked of family and home life. The jeweler had lived in Israel, but he would not go back. He had a brother killed in a radar station in the old section of Jerusalem. When? May 27th, 1948. The big chest began to breathe deeply. A decade had passed, and Nick was now convinced that Moshe was truly dead. But where? The —Nixon Electoral College or in the House. On the same program, Nixon said that if he is elected he would go to Saigon or Paris before his inauguration Jan. 20 should President Johnson feel such a trip would improve the prospects of peace.

jeweler said he had a customer, a certain Jordanian colonel, who was.-shall we say?-a reasonable Arab. The colonel and the jeweler had many conversations about that war. One day the colonel said that he had led two raids on that radar station-one on the night of May 27th, 1948. They had killed a score or so of Jews, cut the bodies up, and tossed them into nearby wells. It had been a vicious business, in a vicious time. “What well?” Nick Morley begged. “Please.-what well?” No one knew. Nick Norley had position and money. H i s fellow commando, Moshe Raskes, was now Minister of Labor in Israel. Nick began to write, to wire, to plead-“find my kid brother!” The government moved slowly. Old records were searched. Nineteen soldiers died that night. “It is not going to be easy. There are many wells. . .” Weeks turned into months. The six-day war brought the Israelis into old Jerusalem. Threats and bribes of native Arabs narrowed the option to five wells. Two were filled with stones; two were empty; one was full of water. “My brother,” asid Nick, “can be identified. Part of his skull behind both ears is missing.” Israel dug the stone-filled wells. Nothing. Arabs pointed to a bricked-up well on the radar station itself. Volunteers dug 30 feet. Seven skeletons were found. Time bleaded the bones. Scientists tried to piece them together. With strontium 90, they found that one skeleton could not have been more than 16 years old. Bits of skull were missing. Nick went back to Israel. Recently he stood on Mount Herzl. In the Grave of Brothers, he tucked little Moshe in. Then he went home. . . Search MUNCIE, Ind. (UPI) - A search was underway Sunday for six prisoners who overpo.vered two deputies at the Delaware County jail here Saturday night and fled. Eight men took part in the break, but one changed his mind and decided not to flee. A Muncie policeman recaptured one of the remaining seven a short time later. —Wallace the presidential contest and the Senate the vice presidential race. When pressed for his reaction to an electoral deadlock, Wallace said that “whoever becomes the president is going to have to promise the American people what he has promised them—if it happens to be somebody besides me.” These promises, said the American Independent party candidate, are to restore powers to local government, “stop taxing the little man to death,” stop the breakdown in law and order, cut off foreign aid to nations that refuse to help the United States in Vietnam, crack down on American citizens giving aid to the Viet Cong, and make certain the United Stales is the world’s strongest military power.

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