The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 November 1968 — Page 8

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday. November 5, 1968

A bad automobile wreck occurred Tuesda / afternoon around 3:30, south of town near the Farrel Skelton farm. Mrs. Marjorie Jones and her two small sons were driving west when they met with a car driven by Miss Bonita Stanley a local bank employee. Both ladies were taken by Weaver ambulance to the Putnam County Hospital and treated for bruises and cuts. The younger son of Mrs. Jones suffered a broken leg, the fracture coming between the knee and hip. Both cars are reported as heavily damaged. Cascade High School was host to Plainfield’s Quakers squad last Wednesday evening. Both teams scored in the first quarter and at half time the score was 14-7 in favor of the Quakers. A second half flurry by Plainfield added two more touchdowns. The final tally was Plainfield 27, Cascade 7. Cascade’s final game was Nov. 1st against North Central, (Sullivan) on the local field. The Methodist Youth Fellowship of the Amo-Coatesville United Methodist Church canvassed Amo and Coatesville on Sunday afternoon trick or treating for UNICEF, Oct. 27. This is a work project of the youth group in seeking to help others. UNICEF contributes aid to the undernourished and forgotten children of all nations. The pennies, dimes and monetary gifts will go toward bringing life and health to unfortunate children. Mrs. Martha Hanlon recently enter':d the Putnam County Hospital again for observation and treatment for a possible lung infection. This week’s library news concerns a book on education and a very readable one by Jesse Stuart. The author is a well known poet and short story writer who was reared in the eastern Kentucky mountains. He makes the reader see the hard life of his own growing up where edu-

cation was hard to get; where he and others like him walked miles over paths to a dilapidated school house to a teacher often not a graduate of high school. This author has much feeling for the moutain boys and girls who stripped cane, plucked worms from the tobacco leaves and came to school in November barefooted and left bloody spots on the school house floor where they walked. This very readable and exciting story is entitled; “The Thread That Runs So True”. When you start reading you will not want to stop until the last page is read. The local library will provide you with this and other books. Mr. and Mrs. George Masten take advantage of each weekend that George does not have to work at the Farm Supply Company. Last week they drove to Madison, and Mrs. Masten relates that boats were thick as hops on the Ohio River and Madison was fairly swamped with travelers. She and George could find no vacancy in the river city so they drove across the Ohio River and had a nice place to stay. They drove to Carrolton, Ky. They obtain much pleasure from these short weekend trips. Mr. Jess Wingler and a brother from Indianapolis left by plane last Saturday for Sioux Falls, S. D. to shoot pheasants. The weather was right. The hunting was first class and each hunter returned home with his limit of fifteen birds. They were hunting in a settlement where the people held religious beliefs quite like the Amish and Mennonites. These folks had 5,000 turkeys, about 3,000 geese and a few thousand Mallard ducks of a tame variety. Jesse says that it was a wonderful trip and a treat to be away from a telephone. The Halloween Carnival sponsored by the Coatesville Voluntary Fire Department held on Saturday evening at the Civic

2.2 million Hoosiers expected at polls

By BOYD GILL INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Election day dawned cool but dry in Indiana today and a great outpouring of 2.2 to 2.3 million Hoosiers began voting for offices ranging from the presidency of the United States to local school board membership. Favorable weather was expected to increase the vote volume. Temperatures in the upper 50s and 60s were expected this afternoon. Occasional rain is predicted tonight which could catch the last-minute voters. The polls opened at 6 a.m. and will remain open until 7 p.m. At stake were Indiana’s 13 electoral votes, a seat in the U.S. Senate, 11 seats in the House, and 14 state offices ranging from governor downward. Also up for grabs were 128 seats in the 1969 Legislatureall 100 seats in the House and 28 of the 50 in the Senate. County officials and hundreds of school board members also were being elected. Presidential Top Race The top race was the presidential battle between Republicans Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, Democrats Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie, and George C. Wallace and Curtis LeMay. Pre-election polls and guesses by political observers and newsmen gave Nixon a decisive edge over Humphrey, with most predictions having Wallace come in third. But the strength of the Wallace support and a hidden Humphrey boom were unknown factors that could make the prognosticators look silly. The big question mark of what the Wallace voters will do after they cast their lot with the ex-governor of Alabama also befuddled the guessers, and clouded the outcome of the 15 races on the state ticket. Sen. Birch Bayh, a Democrat running for a second sixyear term, was considered the favorite over State Rep. William Ruckelshaus, Indianapolis Republican, and Lt. Gov. Robert L. Rock, a Democrat, and Secretary of State Edgar D. Whitcomb, a Republican, were neck and neck in the governor race. The outcome of both races very well could depend on the size of Nixon's plurality, if he wins, and the Wallace people do after casting a third-party presidential vote. On Governor’s Coattails Barring a close gubernatorial election, the remainder of the

state ticket was expected to ride in on the coattails of the winning governor nominee. At stake were the offices of lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state auditor and treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, reporter of the courts, two Supreme Court judgeships and four Appellate Court judgeships. Whether the Republicans or Democrats control the 1969 Legislature, with its perplexing problems the greatest of which are the dwindling general fund surplus and a backbreaking public education financing program which could cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than the present state outlay. Democrats controlled the 1967 Senate and Republicans the House. The Senate was likely to go Republican this time because 14 of the 22 holdover senators elected in 1966 for four-year terms are of the GOP faith. The guessers wondered whether this was the year the voters would “throw the rascals out” from the county level to Washington, shoving the ins out and the outs in. The election campaign actually began last June when the two major parties held state con - ventions to nominate their state ticket candidates, and picked up steam after the parties held their national conventions in August and chose the national tickets. St. Angelo Absent It was an odd campaign. Gordon St. Angelo remained as Democratic state chairman but spent all his time in Washington helping Humphrey. St. Angelo, along with the state organization and Governor Branigin, had unsuccessfully backed former House speaker Richard Bodine for governor in June. Rock beat Bodine by a scant two votes among nearly 2,000 cast. Thereafter, Branigin stayed in the background while former Gov. Matthew E. Welsh campaigned in Humphrey's behalf, former state chairman J. Manfred Core directed Rock’s campaign, Bayh directed his own bid for another term, and most candidates roamed the state with little mention of Humphrey and President Johnson. At times, the campaign grew bitter, with threats of libel suits pockmarking personal accusations of campaign opponents. But most of the talk heard at the grassroots level was about Continued on Page 6

Building was quite a success in attendance, with good eats and a fina program of music and magic. A masquerade that followed the supper was won by Scott Jacobs. The next two prizes went to the small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Don Waggoner. The floral gift upon the Altar at the United Methodist Church last Sunday, Oct. 20, was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Walton. The lovely flowers for the altar this Sunday for the morning’s Worship Service was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Waggoner to the Glory of God and in memory of Deanna Waggoner’s birthday. I now want to talk about the election. This is not a “plug” for any particular man. We the voters have seen smiling, talkative, Vice President Humphrey dare the other candidates to debate the issues with him. We have watched

the smiling, square faced, positive speaking, Mr. Nixon declare how the country’s ill can be cured. We have seen frowning, beady-eyed George Wallace give his opinion on law and order and his poor regard for the “Intellectual Morons” in Washington. Political experts are telling us how superior these men are and how dangerous they all are. There is not a soul in these United States who can know what any candidate will rate four years from now. Last election was a land-slide for a great man from Texas and now look about you if you will. All these candidates are well educated. They know much about law and politics and government, but not one has sat for four years in the President’s chair. As Andy Brown used to say;” That is the color of another horse”. They have lambasted each other which could not be a characteristic of a Christian

gentleman and superior person. Notice that “nary” a candidate, high and naught as he is, had even cheeped as to how or when the Pueblo and its 83 sailors will be home. The political experts may have to find a man who is a super dupper to accomplish this and this is but one problem “■or he who make the grade on the evening of Nov. 5, 1968. Mrs. Davidson and I were driving home years ago from our school at Particksbury in Owen County and as we were passing through the little village of Vandalia a man rushed out from the little grocery store and stopped us. “Here,” said he”ismycard; I’m running for sheriff of this county”. When I explained to him that we were from Hendricks County he laughed and said, “Keep my card folks, the Lord only knows, I may need the votes of both Hendricks and Owen to put me over.”

FIESTA TIME--The Northeast School will have its annual Fall Festival Nov. 9 from 5 to 9 p.m. Here (left) Mrs. Jerald Calbert

Larry Hunt and Mrs. John McFarland go through a Spanish singing session. The BANNER Photo, Shaun Higgins.

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