The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 November 1968 — Page 8

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, November 6, 1968

V. V. V. Morton news %

By Maude Brothers

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Whitehead were Friday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bettis. Mrs. Ona Sieler was a visitor of Maude O’Haver Friday evening while Mrs. Sigler was attending a Masonic Lodge meeting at Morton. Miss Joyce Farrow returned home Sunday after being a house guest for a week of her sister Mrs. Hobert Ricley and family of New Castle and she also spent a week with her aunt Mrs. John T. Ray and husband of Indianapolis. Union Chapel W.S.C.S. will serve the meals for the Election board on Tuesday Nov. 5th in both North and South Clinton precincts. Mike O’Haver of Indianapolis called on his grandmother Maude O'Haver Saturday afternoon. Dale Barker of Purdue University spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barker. Mrs. Helen Bosley and Fred Atterburn of Rockville were Sunday afternoon visitors in the Bar. ker home. Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson were Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett of Russellville. The Andersons drove to Oakland, 111. last Thursday and spent the afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Woodworth who are former residents of Morton. Recent callers of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Martin were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bettis Saturday evening and Mr. and Mrs. Robert MeCullough last Thursday after, noon.

Janet Scobee of Hanover College spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed Scobee. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Scobee and daughter Diana Lynn and son Bryon Lee were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Scobee. Jimmie Albin of Indiana State College spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Albin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marion McIntyre of Richmond were house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Caywood last Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Clair Albin, Mrs. Janet O’Hair and sons called on Mrs. Albin’s mother, Mrs. Glen Clark, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Guy Hawkins of Indianapolis and Mrs. Marie Sullivan of California were Saturday guests of Mrs. Noel Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Clodfelter were Friday evening visitors in the Noel Nicholson home. Mrs. Lee Martin and daughter and Mrs. Burl Taylor called on Mrs. Sharon Taylor and daughters of Crawfordsville last Thursday. They also shopped down town. The Union Chapel W.S.C.S. wiU hold their next meeting at the church on Nov. 20th. They have planned a Stanley party. All in the Community who care to attend are welcome. Mrs. Elmer Bennett spent the day last Thursday with her mother Mrs. Ma Phipps of Jasonville.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stultz entertained with a family dinner in honor of Mrs. Stultze's mother’s birthday which was Sunday. Others present besides the host and hostess and honored guest were Mr. James Frazier and sons Ted and Ron, Marilyn Kincaid, Mr. and Mrs. Art Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. William Woodrun Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Sizemore of Indianapolis were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Mauck. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Allgood entertained with a family supper Saturday evening for all of their children and their families. They drew names for Christmas gift exchange. Mr. Floyd Yochum and Mrs. Daisy Alexander were Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Crodian and family. The occasion was to celebrate two birthdays of the Crodian children. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Martin and family visited Mrs. Martin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burl Taylor, Sunday aiternoon. Carolyn Inman of Bainbridge was Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Earley Jackson and family. Mrs. Barbara Terhune, Mrs. Dorthy O’Hair and son Bryan attended the Halloween party at the Bainbridge grade School Thursday afternoon. Recent visitors of Mrs. Lillie Stultz were Mrs. Everett Wichman and daughters Sandra and Mrs. Barbara Hanaway Saturday afternoon and Mr. and Mrs* George Stultz and son Sunday evening.

Two youths found v »et action guilty of murder continues

SAN JOSE, CaUf. (UPI)— A tear slipped down the cheek of 18-year-old Susan Bartolomei as she sat in the courtroom cuddling a stuffed toy animal.

LBJ casts ballot in Johnson City By HELEN THOMAS JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) — President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson drove 15 miles from their LBJ ranch to cast ballots in the general election at this small town precinct—a model kitchen in an electric co-op building which Johnson helped to establish. This was the first election in 31 years in which Johnson was not running for any public office. The President obviously voted for Hubert H. Humphrey as the man to succeed him in the White House, but he smiled off any comment when asked by newsmen how he had voted. His wife, Lady Bird, nodded vigorously with a big smile when asked if she had cast her ballot for Humphrey. The Johnsons arrived at the Pedernales electric co-op building two hours after the polls opened. The First Lady took one look at some 50 newsmen and cameramen waiting for their arrival and said, “I hope all of you voted absentee.” The President, who usually is the first man to vote in Johnson City, held off for a couple of hours in this presidential balloting. When Johnson arrived he shook hands with a cluster of secretaries who were gathered under a sign saying “pay bills here.” “All of you all voted already?” asked Johnson as he hand shaked his way through the crowd. The President and Mrs. Johnson sat at a side table. The First Lady took off her coat and put on her glasses and announced, “I am going to read the amendments. This will take a little while.” Like all other Texans, the President and his wife voted on 14 state constitutional amendments ranging from giving Texas legislators a $300 a month pay increase to cutting property tax payments. Johnson strolled back to his car smiling, but made no comment on his choices for the President. He has campaigned strongly f«r Humphrey and has predicted victory for the vice president. He planned to spend election day at his hill county ranch and will be watching the returns on television.

Life ahead for the pretty teenager is a wheelchair. Her world is the world of a child. She is voiceless and almost totally paralyzed. Two drifters just a year older than she were found guilty of shattering her world by firing five bullets into her brain. The verdict won’t change things for Susan. On the night of Aug. 21, 1967, Susan and her boyfriend, Timothy Luce, son of a district attorney, were driving near their hometown of Ukiah, Calif. They ran out of gas. Two young men gave them a ride. It was a ride of death for Timothy and the beginning of Susan’s lifelong ordeal. The two drifters killed Timothy within an hour. They beat and repeatedly raped Susan on an auto flight across California, then dumped her from the car by a mountain roadside before dawn. A passing motorist found her at daybreak. Susan’s head was a mass of blood matted with dirt, hair and grass. She was rushed to a hospital and search was started for the two drifters. A few hours later, Thomas E. Braun and Leonard E. Maine, both 19, were arrested while sleeping in a hotel at Jamestown, Calif. Those who knew the two youths around the farm town of Ritzville, Wash., where they lived knew them as “troublemakers.” To give them a fair trial, the court moved it from their hometown to San Jose. Early in October, Susan was brought to the courtroom in a wheelchair as a silent witness against the defendants. A pretty girl still, she clutched a rosary and a small stuffed animal. She answered questions with a slow, frail movement of her hand or a nod of her bandaged head. The movements had to be interpreted for the court by a nurse. In the end, Susan was unable to show she recognized Maine and Braun as the youths who killed her boyfriend and attacked her. But the jury was convinced. After a 10-week trial, the panel Tuesday found Braun guilty of first-degree murder as the one who did the shooting. Maine was convicted of second-degree murder as an accomplice. Both were found guilty of kidnap and rape. Superior Court Judge Joseph P. Kelly ordered the jury to return next Wednesday to decide whether Braun will be given life imprisonment or the gas chamber. He also ordered Maine back into court Nov. 15 for a probation report and sentencing. Second degree murder in California carries a sentence of five years-to-life, kidnaping has a penalty of one to 25 years, and rape is punishable by 3-to-50 years.

heavy By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. SAIGON (UPI)—Allied forces killed at least 230 guerrillas in light but numerous clashes throughout South Vietnam, military spokesmen said today. In one fight a U.S. Marine Jet accidentally bombed American positions, killing six Leather, necks and wounding eight others. Military officials described the South Vietnamese fighting as generally calm with no large scale fighting reported. Saigon’s attention centered on government plans for a 6,000 person rally to support President Nguyen Van Thieu’s refusal to allow South Viet, nam’s participation in expanded peace talks in Paris, despite U.S. urging. American spokesmen said they saw “no trouble” from the rally but said the Marine guard at the U.S. Embassy here was “increased slightly” the past few days. Concentrate On South The killing of the 230 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese came Sunday up and down the country. Airplanes and warships, no longer allowed to strike North Vietnam, joined the attack in the south. The battleship New Jersey, fresh from hitting North Vietnam, sent one ton shells crashing into a North Vietnamese camp near Da Nang, 360 miles north of Saigon. About 20 miles southwest of Da Nang, a Marine F4 Phantom dropped its bombs on Leathernecks charging toward a North Vietnamese trench nest, causing the American casualties. The accident was being investigated. Further down the coast, the destroyer Waller blasted a Viet Cong camp near Phan Thiet, 100 miles east of Saigon. Some of the dazed guerrillas came so close to an American forward spotter on shore that “they left muddy footprints on my poncho,” he later reported. Small Fights Erupt American and South Vi etnamese troops killed Communists in small groups from the Mekong Delta to near the North Vietnam border. Despite a lack of major combat, American warplanes continued to search out and bomb suspected guerrilla positions and supply dumps in the South. According to US. military sources, the halt in bombing North Vietnam may result in the withdrawal from the war zone of two of the three aircraft carriers the 7th Fleet used in bombarding North Vietnam. The Viet Cong, although shying from major action over the weekend, used terror tactics Sunday. Guerrillas killed five persons in mortaring a town 30 miles south of Saigon.

Finian’s Rainbow is Dog Patch, and Ireland in one package

By DENNIS ABELL “Dogpatch U.S.A.” complete with back hill folk, a leprechaun and a dancing, jug swinging Irishman, and a crock of gold, make up the story background for a new Warner Bros-Seven Arts’ film which premieres at the Circle Theater in Indianapolis Wednesday, Nov. 6. One of the best family motion pictures since “The Sound of Music,” “Finian’s Rainbow” was previewed by the Daily Banner Sept. 25, at a special press showing. Many Indiana Daily Newspapers were invited. A 1947 smash Broadway musical, the movie does not star, Julie Andrews, but delightful Petula^ Clark, also from the British Isles. For Mom and Dad. Fred Astaire once again dances across the screen in a day when “song and dance movies” like the former Ginger Rogers-Astaire flickers, have faded away to the likes of “The Graduate” and “Rachel, Rachel”, not recommended for little Johnny, and the chiller like “The Boston Strangler.” Astaire adds the bright touches throughout the movie and is only upstaged b y another Britain,lively Tommy Steele, the butler from the Walt Disney film, ‘The Happiest Millionaire’. The granddad of the swing set, Astaire keeps a fast pace through the movie, and although surrounded by the likes of popular stars Petula Clark, Steele, Keenan Wynn, Don Francks and Barbara Hancock, Astaire still maintains the upper hand from the audience’s viewpoint. At the conclusion of the flim, with walking cane in hand, Astaire jigs down along the Kentucky hillside as the remaining

stars wave from behind. The move, a salute to Astaire’s talents, could well be the last of a long line of family entertainment. f Astaire is in his seventies. Some of the -evergreen’ classics from the musical used in the show are ‘How are things in Glocca Morra,’ ‘Looktothe Rainbow,’ ‘Old Devil Moon,’ ‘If this isn’t love,’ and ‘When I’m not near the girl I Love.' The movie story tells of an Irishman and his daughter, Astaire and Miss Clark, who leave Ireland and come to America. The big screen of Technicolor, Panavision, 70 mm and six-track stereophonic sound shows the couple crossing the great picturesque scenes of North America such as Yellow Stone National Park, the Painted Desert and the hillsides of the Midwest. Astaire brings his daughter to Kentucky near Fort Knox. He tells her they’ve come to America to make their fortune. I’ve heard how in America the people all went to California and dug up gold. Then they buried it in the ground at Fort Knox and that is how Americans got so prosperous. It’s the ground around Fort Knox.’ he tells his daughter. So the Irishman and his songs of Glocca Morra invade the hillbilly country w i t h its guitar thangers and juice harp players. He also steals a crock of gold from an Irish leprechaun, Tommy Steele, and figures to bury it near Fort Knox. Steele follows Astaire to America. The movie is right up to date with a whole lot of punch involving the racial issue. A former southern Senator,

played by Keenan Wynn is turned from a white man to a gospel singing Negro. Oh, yes. The crock of gold is buried in the ground on a plantation and as the legend goes, if three wishes are made in the area the crock of gold dissolves. Miss Clark wishes the senator into a Negro because of his attitude towards the black man. On this plantation there is a ‘get rich quick’ plan under way. A chemist, a Negro by the way, tries to produce a tobacco plant that is crossed with chlorine plant to produce the first menthylated cigarette. The only trouble is the plant, dried and rolled into cigarette form, does not burn. And when the plant finally burns, it does not smoke. The movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Joseph Landon. E. Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy and Burton Lane created ‘Finian’s Rainbow’. There will be a special 2 p.m. matinee on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11 and Thanksgiving vacation, Nov. 28 and 29. Shown on a reserved seat basis,

BRAZIL, Ind. (UPt) — Earl Cummings, a former minister and Clay County Republican chairman, is scheduled to go to court Friday to be arraigned on a forgery indictment. A county grand jury Monday indicted the former First Christian Church pastor on 51 counts of forgery in connection with a $150,000 bond issue floated by

the Circle has scheduled nightly performances at 8:15 p.m. with regular 2 p.m. matinees on Wednesday, Saturdays and Sundays. Ticket orices range from a

the Independent Christian Missionary Society, of which Cummings was a director. Earlier, Cummings waj charged with theft and conspiracy in connection with the financing of the congregation’s new church. Cummings, 34, faces trial in Vigo Circuit Court at Terre Haute Nov. 12 on theft charges.

top of $2.75 on week-end evening performances to $1.50 for Wednesday matinees. Cedric Brown is manager of the Circle Theater, which is finishing up a long range engagement of ‘Gone With the Wind.*

—Bishop for them or us. In a world oi chronic protest where a simpR majority is no longer sufficienl to win, we might as well stud} one more small world. . .

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Former minister to be arraigned in Brazil Friday

IIIGII-FI.IERS: Fred Astaire and Barbara llanrnrk sail through a glen in ‘‘Finian’s Rainbow,” the Terhnieolor-I’anavision motion picture musical from Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Astaire stars in the title role of that lovable rogue, Finian, while Miss Hancock co-stars in her film debut as the mute Susan the Silent. I’etula Clark and lommv Steele play other starring roles.

We just cleaned the oven!

One of the messiest housekeeping chores of all becomes “child’s play" when you have an electric range with a self-cleaning oven. It’s so miraculous, you almost have to see it to believe it! Baked-on spatters and grease simply disappear like magic. Right now, appliance dealers are featuring the 1969 models of flameless electric ranges with selfcleaning ovens. Make it a point to see them!

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