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

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, November 8, 1968

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DISPLAY FLOWERS--Members of the Northeast FTA committee for Saturday's Fiesta la Olympiad display flower decorations to add to the Spanish theme. Photographed from left to right are (front row) Mrs. Dona d Bossa<-t, Mrs.

Dan Rattray, Mrs. Robert Morris, chairman; Mrs. William Marley, Mrs. Joe Litchford; (back) Mrs. D. C. Gorham and Mrs. Larry Cox. The festival will be from 5 to 9 p.m.* at the school. The BANNER Photo, Wilbur Kendall

Experts guess at Nixon’s cabinet selections

By SAM FOGG WASHINGTON (UPI)Players of one of Washington’s favorite games were in midseason form today. They were trying to guess President-elect Nixon’s cabinet selections. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, former Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. Robert Finch of California and former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon were in the forefront of speculation. Other political figures being mentioned as cabinet prospects were Gov. George Romney of Michigan—like Rockefeller, a former Nixon pre-convention rival—Gov. John Volpe of Massachusetts and Gov. John Chafee of Rhode Island who went down to defeat Tuesday. The selection of Rockefeller for either secretary of state or defense would give Nixon a chance to dramatize his efforts to unify the American people. Rockefeller, who is finishing his final term as governor, has said he would leave Albany only

for a job such as secretary of state or defense. Nixon might be more inclined to name him to the defense post while picking as his secretary of state someone less independent minded than the New York governor. In that category would be

—Bishop

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The door opened. It had been unlocked. An orderly came in. He was smiling. He was fat and walked like a duck. "I knew you’d awake soon,” he said. “The day is Monday, the time is 2 p.m. and you’re in a rest home in Pennsylvania. You have been missing from home for three weeks and you are in no trouble with the police. Your parents will be here in an hour. Anything I can do for you, sir?” Reggie hurt all over. He almost worked up a smile. “You know all the answers before I ask the questions,” he whispered. “Are those drinks whiskey?” He pointed. The orderly nodded. “They are indeed, sir. We have a special private treatment herevery private. You get one drink every hour on the hour.” He looked at the mantel. “You are three behind.” “Is it medicated?” Reggie said. The orderly grinned, “It’s real enough. Eighty-five proof, sir. The management feels that no one can fight a real drinker. Therefore, we join 'em. Provided, that is, that the patient doesn’t tell his family the kind of treatment he’s getting.” Reggie put himself up on one elbow. “Bring them over,” he croaked. “And hold them to my mouth one by one. How much will it cost my people to keep me here?” The orderly fetched the shot glasses. “Three hundred a week, I believe.” “Fine,” Reggie said. “That’s dandy. Now give me those drinks and my watch. I may want to spend the winter here.”. . .

Scranton who served as Nixon’s emissary on a fact-finding trip to Europe during the campaign or Dillon who served as treasury secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Finch is believed certain of a cabinet spot if he wishes. He is an old and close friend of the President-elect and was an

intimate campaign adviser. He is being suggested as a possible attorney general along with Charles Rhyne, a Duke university law school classmate of Nixon’s, and Evelle Younger, district attorney of Los Angeles County. Romney is mentioned as a possibility as commerce; Volpe and Chafee to head health, education and welfare.

Funeral directors meet Tuesday at Naval Depot

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The Officers Club of Crane Naval Ammo. Depot, Crane will be the site on Tuesday, Nov. 12 of the 1968 Fall District Meeting held by the Indiana Funeral Directors Association for members in District number 6. The meeting will begin at 4:00 p.m. and include dinner, election of officers for the District, and a program following dinner. The first subject on the agenda is a discussion of the development of a plan for Indiana’s Emergency Medical Care Services, which will be presented by either Dr. Robert O. Yoho, Assistant Commissioner for Administration, Indiana State Board of Health, or Dale Harmon,Safety Coordinator, Indiana State Board of Health. Indiana’s plan must be completed by December 31,1968. The plan will call for emergency centers throughout the state, and of particular interest to Funeral directors, will include location and disbursement of ambulance service. Executive Secretary Frank —Farmers so heavily on present crop control and support operations that it will be “extremely difficult” to move away from them, Paarlberg said. On rural problems outside the crop support field, the new Nixon progam is far more detailed. It called, among other things, for vigorous new steps to promote nonfarm economic growth in rural areas, for “dedicated efforts to improve market prices,” for expanded conservation programs and expanded food aid for the needy.

Moore will explain the I.C. System, Inc., a new collection service being offered to members, and will discuss 1969 Legislative Proposals on advance education, funeral processions and cremation. Concluding the event will be a talk by Tom Ward on “Mystery and Its Mischief.” As a casket designer, Ward’s experience ineludes casket promotion, merchandising and manufacturing as well as styling trends. Reservations for the meeting should be sent to Richard R. Poindexter, 301 West Main Street, Odon.

Humphrey may yet win popular vote NEW YORK (UPI)—The candidacy of Hubert H. Humphrey for the presidency under two party labels in Alabama gave him two popular vote totals in that state and could lead to his having received a nationwide popular vote larger than that of the successful GOP presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon. The result would not change the electoral vote standings. Latest figures on the national presidential race from the New Election Service (NES) showed the standings of major presidential candidates to be: With 157,775 precincts reporting, 94 per cent of the precincts, Humphrey had 29,677,152 or 43 per cent as the Democratic candidate, including one of the two Alabama voter choices; Nixon 29,726,403, 43 per cent; George Wallace, 9,291,807, or 14 per cent; and Humphrey on the second line of Alabama’s choices, 53,120. If the two Humphrey vote totals, on the basis of this Incomplete count, were added together, he would show 29,730,272, a lead of 3,869 over Nixon. The separate tally on the Humphrey vote was carried nightlong in presidential bulleting from the NES, but it aroused little notice until the closeness of the popular vote emerged. In Alabama, Humphrey was not the nominee of the regular Democrats; this was Wallace, the only state where he ran as such. Instead, Humphrey ran on two “splinter” loyalist parties, the Alabama Independent Democratic Party, which gave him the larger of his two Alabama votes, and that of the National Democratic Party of Alabama, which ran electors pledged to him and a full slate of candidates for other office. Humphrey, however, gave his endorsement to the AIDP, and not to the NDPA. The state’s 10 electoral votes went to Wallace. —Cloverdale A special orientation program is planned for each night. Slides will be shown of the various classes in action during atypical school day. Come out; support your schools. America has a good thing going -- its school s. Oops! LUTON. England (UPI* — Mrs. Elizabeth Jones is seeing red — and brilliant blue and pink and lilac. The colors are in her apartment. And she isn’t happy. Next door neighbor Tony Flynn explained: “I left my key outside for the decorators to paint my flat. The painters came—and picked up the wrong key and painted the lady’s place by mistake.”

On the lighter side

WASHINGTON (UPI)—An inspection team making a routine check for fire hazards in the U.S. Capitol discovered one in the House press gallery. “That pile of junk will hav _• to be removed,” the inspectors said. It turned out they were referring to the stuff on my desk. I was pretty indignant about having my files condemned as a menace to public safety. But with all the talk about “law and order” these days, I felt constrained to comply. I’m glad that I did. In going through the files, trying to decide what papers I could bear to part with, I happened to notice that I had reached a milestone of sorts. If I manage to finish what I am writing without starting a conflagration, this will be my

By DICK WEST 2,002nd column. Which means I will have doubled the output of Scheherazade. The yarn-spinner of the “Arabian Nights” told 1,001 tales in order to save her life. My own situation isn’t quite that precarious, but survival is a struggle. I frequently find myself buffeted between two conflicting viewpoints, one of which was expressed recently by my wife. “Do you realize,” she said, “that you have frittered away some of the best years of your life composing trivia? If you had devoted that much time and effort to something substantial you might have become another Walter Lippman. Why do you persist in producing journalistic balderdash?” The only answer I could think of was the one that Jim Moran, the celebrated press agent, gave me when I asked him why he

once sat on an ostrich egg until it hatched. “Well, somebody’s got to do it,” I said. The other viewpoint can best be illustrated by the comment of a bookmaker in Philadelphia. He sent word to me through a mutual friend that he thought I made more sense than any other columnist in Washington. That sort of thing is terribly discouraging. I practically knock myself out concocting absurdities and then someone comes along and accuses me of making sense. I’ll admit that stray bits of wisdom may creep into my copy at times, but they are entirely inadvertent. I do my best to weed them out. When I do blunder into sagacity, it seems to me that a reader should be kind enough to overlook it. I’m having enough trouble with my wife.

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High School News Notes By The Journalism Class

OPEN HOUSEStudents and faculty of G.H.S. are hurrying their preparations for open house which will be next Tuesday evening from seven to nine. The open house is in the honor of American Education W'eek which starts Nov. 10 and ends Nov. 16. The highlight of the open house is the “victim” introducing his parent to his teacher. Everything seems ( okay until the worst happens. When the parents leave the room you can hear them say, “W'ait till I get you home.” IOWA TEST— This week all sophomores took the I.T.E.D. (Iowa Tests of Educational Development). These tests give the students an idea of how he rates in his class and how he compares to other sophomores in the United States. They also show the school which subjects need more emphasis. POLICIES - Principal Norman McCammon recently discussed with the student council members policies for after-game dances. Also discussed was a computer dance. FRENCH CLASSLast Friday morning, members of the French classes attended a convocation at DePauw where Francois Mitterand, leader of the French Socialist Party, spoke. HI-Y — Hi-Y members held a carwash at the high school Saturday, Nov. 2. Sponsors of the organization are Mr. Little, Mr. Myers, and Mr. See. FTA — The Future Teachers Association met recently to make plans

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Take It Easy

MINNEAPOLIS (UPI)—Because they harvest too fast, soybean farmers are throwing away bushels of money a year, says Cargill, Inc., a major processor of soybeans and oth-

er oilseeds.

The company says there are almost a half million soybeans —or some two-and-a-half to three bushels—left unharvested per acre each year. With support prices at $2.50 a bushel, that’s nearly $7.50 per acre farmers are leaving on the ground at harvest time. You don’t really waste time slowing down your harvester, either, the company says. All you do is salvage more beans that would otherwise be spilled by the reaping machine.

for attending the Area Conference meeting at Van Buren High School, November 9. A committee was selected by president Darla Grimes to plan a program for the January meeting. MINARETS - The meaning of “Do your own thing” which has appeared on signs all over the high school for the last few weeks, is finally going to be revealed Nov. 12, when students will be able to purchase their 1968-69 “Minarets”.

MOCK ELECTION Results of GHS’s mock election, on a national level were very comparable to those of the real election held the same day. Students accurately put Richard Nixon in the White House with 41 per cent of the vote. Second came Hubert Humphrey with 32 per cent. 25 per cent of these voters-to-be to cast their ballots for Independent candidate George Wallace. Students again predicted the future correctly when Birch Bayh received 65 per cent of the vote.

THE FAMILY LAWYER

Bloodhound “Testimony' In a burglary case, the prosecutor otlered evidence that a bloodhound had followed a trail from the burglarized warehouse to the home of the accused man. Promptly the defense attorney raised an ob-

jection.

“After all. this is nothing but the testimony’ of a dumb animal.

That isn’t good enough for a court of law.” Nevertheless, the court decided the evidence was admissible—and it helped send the defendant to jail. The use of bloodhounds to track down criminals has been known for hundreds of years. According to Sir Walter Scott, the practice was favored by King Richard the LionHearted hack in the twelfth century. And today most courts do consider this kind of evidence reliable enough to be permitted in criminal —Collegian Does Orlosky believe teachers’ public image is tarnished by strikes? “I believe that communities that commonly settle issues by strikes generally understand and accept strikes. In communitites where strikes are not typical in resloving issues I think we’ll find that teachers often go down in the estimation of the community at large. Issues themselves are factors in determining public reaction. If, in the public’s eye, teachers are trying to be greedy, the teacher image may be damaged. If the teachers are seeking conditions that will improve the education of pupils-improved pupils-teacher ratios, inclusion ofkindergarten, and better facilities and suppliesthe public will more likely accept the teacher’s more assertive behaviour.” Student teachers at DePauw get no pat answers concerning how they should react to strikes once they join the ranks of the employed. “All we can do is define the profession as we see it existing. I don’t think we can or want to advise our students about striking,” Orlosky said. “We try to place the issue in a positive vein. The object, as we see it, is to help youngsters learn and become better people. We tell our students that they will want to support whatever conditions are necessary to achieve these goals.” In Florida’s state-wide strike last year the teachers came out of it with a great deal of public

trials. In the usual case the trainer of the bloodhound is called to the witness stand. There he seeks to establish the dog’s credibility by describing his pedigree, his training. and his behavior. Still, even though bloodhound evidence is permitted, it is not considered strong enough—all by itself—to support a conviction. There must be some additional proof to back it tip. This lessens the risk that the jury will be swayed b\ what one expert calls “a superstitious faith" in the bloodhound’s

accuracy.

Furthermore, the circumstances of the particular case may affect the value of bloodhound evidence. Thus, in a murder ease, the fact that a bloodhound sniffed his way to the defendant's house was cancelled by the fact that the dog showed no reaction at all to the defendant himself. And the older the trail, the weaker ihe evidence. In an arson case, a bloodhound had supposedh picked up the defendant’s scent at the scene of the lire. Hut from the time of the fire to the time the bloodhound was put on the trail, five days and two rainstorms had gone by. Rejecting the evidence, the court said: “While we will not suggest it is impossible that the dog could have followed this trail, it is certainly highly speculative.”

support, Orlosky feels, mainly because they were concerned about the caliber of the state’s educational system and because some very specific administrative guidelines were being ignored. An intermediate step he feels to be effective is the imposition of a sanction. “If classroom teachers in a particular community feel conditions are sub-minimal, they can go to local, state and national organizations, describe the deficiencies, and ask for the impostion of a sanction,” Orlosky said. “A sanction will not close the school like a strike would. But it would be difficult for that particular system to hire new teachers because a sanction means that no other teacher will seek a position in the area under sanction. We tell our students at DePauw that sanctions are an available technique.” Orlosky predicted that teacher salaries are going to be better but that raising them over the objections of long-suffering property holders is going to be agonizing. He said new DePauw graduates entering the teaching profession last year averaged about $6,300 with a high of about $7,100 and a low of $5,900. He said the average next year should be around $6500-$6600. He obviously supports a proposal that would peg the starting salary in Indiana to $7,500. To do it, he favors an increase in the sales tax and a possible state income tax.