The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 November 1968 — Page 1

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The Daily Banner GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1968 UPI News Service

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Reelsville water project supplies water Thursday

by SHAUN HIGGINS Banner Staff Reporter The Reelsville Water Company is hoping to open full service Thursday following an inspection Where were you when the quake hit midwest ? by WILBUR KENDALL, Staff Reporter Last year when New York City had its power failure, the talk in the “big city” was, “Where were you when the lights went out?” A movie was even made of the happening. Saturday the question around Putnam County, and most of the rest of the midwest, was “Where were you when the earthquake hit?” Putnam County experienced part of the earthquake that covered 21 states and parts of Canada at 12:01 p.m. Many residents reported table lamps moving, windows shaking, Fortunately, no damage was reported. State police headquarters at Indianapolis was covered with calls wanting to know what was taking place. The news media also reported hundreds of phone calls. The quake caused minor damage in Evansville and North Vernon. Tall buildings were reported swaying in St. Louis and Indianapolis, but were not serious, but enough to excite the occupants. Indiana University reported a reading of 5.5 on the quake. A reading of 6 is considered dangerous. The quake was south of St. Louis and about 120 miles east. This was the center of another quake back in 1887. The previous quake formed a lake in Tennessee. It is still there nov' and florrivhes as a resort and fishing area. Several Greencastle residents thought at first it was a blast from the O & I quarry, but since it lasted too long, some 50 seconds, it was evident that something else had caused all the movement. They assumed they could locate the cause by running outside their house and looking around. But alas, there was nothing to be seen. Board meets Tuesday The regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Wabash Valley Regional Institute will be held at the Adminstrative Office, R.R. 22, Box 450, Terre Haute, on Tuesday, November 12, 1968, at 7:30 p.m. , for the purpose of conducting business relative to the Institute.

by State officials, according to Jimmy Proctor, president of the corporation. The water system, which will initially serve 225 persons in an area from Greencastle to the State Farm, and from Reelsville to Oak Hill, was begun four years ago by interested persons in the area. Proctor explained the area has in the past had a critical water shortage, highlighted by difficulties with the water supply in the summer. He said many people in the area had no wells and depended on cisterns for water until the corporation sought new ways to provide water to the communities. The project is being financed with a 40-year loan from the Federal Housing Administration. The loan, which is made out for $303,000, is being administered by the Central National Bank in Greencastle. Proctor explained the corporation had been required to raise about $24,000 in additional revenue in the form of hook-on fees and membership to qualify for the loan. Hook-on fees for the corporation average $50 and there is a $50 membership fee. According to Proctor the new water system was built with an allowance for a 100 per cent increase in service, so that eventually as many as 450 residences may be served by the company. The company itself is a nonprofit corporation similar to a cooperative, Proctor explained. The members are the owners and towns whose residents are served by the company have no part in the ownership. At present the company has laid 24 miles of water line, Proctor said. The water used in the system is purchased from Greencastle

and distributed throughout the system by the new tank located on U.S. 40. Proctor explained the system has no pumps. “Our tank is located on a lower level than Greencastle’s so that water flows down to it,” he said. The corporation does, however, have a control and chlorination plant on Manhattan road which controls the water level in the tank by means of an automatic telephone warning system which releases a valve, allowing the tank to refill. Proctor explained the corporation had met several obstacles in raising the original funds for the new system. This slowed construction down, he said. “But we’ve had good cooperation from just about everybody in the area,” he added. Engineers for the project were Midwest Engineers, Inc., ofLoogootee and construction was done by John Reynolds Construction, West Baden. Minimum rates for the water piped by the system are $5.90 for the first 2,000 gallons and $2.95 per 1,000 gallons for the next 3,000 gallons used. Directors for the organization, in addition to Proctor are: William McElroy, vice-president; Clyde Hunter, treasurer; Earl Hutchison, secretary; and William Owen, Charles Starr and Marshall Montani, members.

Legion dinner A free turkey dinner will be served Monday evening for post members of the American Legion and all Vietnam veterans. Former Chicago Bear player, Mike Rabold, a former Indiana University star, will be the special speaker at the dinner.

Fillmore youth dies in corn bin, services set for tomorrow

FILLMORE —Services will be Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Science Hill, Ky., for John Dick, age nine-years-old, who suffocated Saturday afternoon at 4:38 p.m. on the Wallace Parker farm on Ind. 240. According to Sheriff Robert Albright’s report, the DePauw University volunteer fire department administered oxygen to the boy, but failed to get a response. After a period of several minutes, Sheriff Albright summoned the boy moved to the Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle. The boy was pronounced dead by coroner Charles Rector at 5:15 p.m. Albright said that the accident occurred when the youth was buried beneath a load of shelled corn which was being unloaded

in a bin on the farm located sevenmiles east of Greencastle. The boy, according to reports, was apparently playing in the bin while his father, Vernon Dick, worked outside. The sheriff said the boy apparently stepped in an air pocket in the corn and sand under the grain. The body was taken to the Rector Funeral Home before being moved to Pass-Morrison Funeral Home in Science Hill. John Dick was born July 31, 1959 in Sommerset, Ky., the son of Vernon and Ruby Foster Dick. The family were natives of Pines Hills, Ky., and had moved to this area only a few months ago. John Dick attended the Fillmore Elementary School. Savings Bond sales up Ward D. Mayhall, Chairman of the Putnam County U.S. Savings Bonds Committee has received a report revealing that the County’s Savings Bonds sales for September were $46,749 compared with $40,234 for the corresponding period of last year. The State’s sales for September were $11, 516,128 and $11,010,536 for a like period of 1967-a gain of 4.6 per cent. On June 1,1968 , interest rates on E and H Bonds were raised to the legal limit of 4.25 per cent, when held to maturity, while the interest on Freedom Shares (Savings Notes) were hiked to a full 5 per cent, when held to maturity. Freedom Shares were also made available for over-the-counter purchase in combination with E Bonds of the same or larger denomination.

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NEW JUNIOR MISS-Bonnie McBane. a freshman at DePauw University, (right) completes crowning the new Lawrence Junior Miss, Patrice Lacatskie following Saturday night's Lawrence Junior Miss Pageant in the Lawrence High School auditorium. Miss McBane. who lives in Rector quad at DePauw, represented Lawrence last year at the State Junior Miss Pageant at Frankfort. -The BANNER Photo. Dennis Abell.

Increasing cloudiness today with chance of some light snow by this afternoon. Some snow likely tonight. Snow ending and becoming partly cloudy, rather windy and cool Tuesday. No significant snow accumulation expected. High today mid to upper 30s. Low tonight mid to upper 20s. High Tuesday upper 30s Precipitation probability percentages 40 today, 60 tonight, 20 Tuesday.

War to end all wars? Americans reflect upon veterans of other wars

By United Press International To the rest of the world, today is the golden anniversary of the signing of the armistice that stopped the “war to end all wars.” But to Americans, that famous quote of President Woodrow Wilson turned out to be perhaps his most unpropheLions observe 21st anniversary The completion of 21 years of service to the community by the Greencastle Lions Club was recognized at a Ladies Night Banquet at the DePauw Union Building Saturday evening. The local Lions, whose club was organized in 1947, marked the occasion with their annual Anniversary Charter Night. Also featured at the meeting, conducted by President Norman Pelfrey, was the formal induction of three local young men who had recently been accepted for membership, Jerry Ensor, Tim Greene and Jack Robinson. They were inducted by Cecil Sharp, Lions District Governor from Brownsburg, who was present with Bill Lewis, District Cabinet-Secretary. Other guests included Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Lewis, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Underwood and Mr. and Mrs. Carter Everage from Versailles. Lion Richard Rossok was recognized as the only Charter Member present Saturday night. Lion Karol Underwood introduced Mr. Everage, a former District Governor, the speaker of the evening. He presented a most interesting program, and also emphasized the opportunities that Lions have for contributing to peace and understand, ing among people in their own communities and on up to the international level. League of Women Voters meet November units of the League of Women Voters will meet on the 12th and 13th of this month to begin a two year study of housing. The Housing Committee, Mrs. Gordon Chastain, Chairman, and its members: Mrs. Bill Birdsell, Mrs. Julius Edmonds, Mrs. Jameson Jones, Mrs. Priscilla Miles, and Mrs. Becky Peterswill discuss the present situation locally and nationally. League members are urged to read the new Facts and Issues on this subject and other recommended material for background information. Units will be held as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 12—9:00 a.m. hostess: Mrs. Henry Pehan, 700 E. Washington; Disc. Leader: Mrs. James Cooper. Tuesday, Nov. 12-8:00 p.m. Hostess: Mrs. John Morrill, 633 E. Seminary; Disc. Leader: Mrs. Patrick Aikman. Wednesday, Nov 13—8:00 p.m. hostess: Mrs. Donald Wilbur, 114 Bloomington; Disc. Leader: Mrs. Fred Silander.

tic. So, today is Veterans Day in the United States. Because American men have since died fighting in the South Pacific, Europe, Korea and are still fighting in Vietnam, today’s observances are solemn ones more for honoring the war dead than for that joyous day in 1918. It’s a federal holiday, but many local and state governments suspended operations for the day and school children across the country got the day off. Many of the actual observances were timed to coincide with the 11 a.m. signing of the armistice ending World War I. Ceremony At Arlington The nation’s official mourning was at Arlington National Cemetery, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, created on this day in 1921 to honor the unidentified dead in “the great war.” Inscribed on the tomb is: “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God. The World War I body was taken from among unidentified dead at C h a 1 o n-Sur-Marne, France. Since then unidentified servicemen representative of World War II and the Korean War have been placed in crypts beside the first. Gen. John P. McConnell, Air Force chief of staff, represented President Johnson in laying a wreath at the tomb today. A military fly-over heralded the laying of the wreath and representatives of Belgium, Britain, France, Israel, Italy and Mexico presented “freedom torches.” At the birthplace of the man who died believing there would be no more wars, Gov. Mills Godwin paid homage to President Wilson in his Veterans Day speech at Staunton, Va.

By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS (UPI)— Five hours and 50 minutes before the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918—50 years ago today-Germany’s Matthias Erzberger signed World War I’s armistice on the undotted line. Then he wept. Today the emotions wrought by World War I and II still raised passions across this battlefield continent. More than 8.5 million soldiers died in “the war to end all wars” and some 20 million more perished in its successor. In Paris President Charles de Gaulle of France, twice wounded and a POW in World War I, put on his World War n general’s uniform and organized the parades, pomp and circumstance at the Arch of Triumph, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Champs Elysee he so admires. He is 77. But the high school radicals of France proclaimed this day a shame and called for a general classroom strike “to make Nov. 11 not a day of homage for an imperialist war but a homage to the memory of Gilles Tautin.”

Westmoreland Participates Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, former U.S. commander in Vietnam, and comedian Bob Hope, famous in part for his entertainment troupe visits to U.S. military installations, were the center attractions in a parade at Columbia, S.C. In the city that loves parades, the American Legion sponsored a parade through downtown Chicago to State and Madison where a memorial service was scheduled. San Franciscans held their Veterans Day parade a day early, and attracted about 25,000 persons along a two-mile parade route from the financial district to the steps of city hall. In New York City, the American Legion sponsored two parades, one down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the other down Bay Parkway in Brooklyn. Elected student senator Heather Neier, Route2,Clover, dale, has been elected student senator of DePauw University’s Rector residence hall. Announcement of results of the student election was made this week by Associate Dean of Students Nelle Barnhart. Approximately 140 women reside in Rector hall for which Miss Neier will serve as a freshman officer during the current academic year. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oral G. Neier, and is a graduate of Greencastle High School. She plans to major in history and American literature at DePauw.

Schoolboy Tautin drowned in June during s t u d e n t-police clashes. In Carcassone, unknown hands smeared leftwing slogans on the graves of French soldiers who fell in both wars. One said: “They believed they died for the nation. They died for the industrialists.” Another; “19141918—deaths for nothing.” Not all passion was angry. In Poitiers, 1,000 French World War I veterans gathered for much wine drinking, the eating of the sardine sandwiches they ate in trenches and some songs and stories. In Warsaw, Rome, Brussels and other capitals old soldiers also met and old women cried. The gardeners worked in the woods of Compiegne, 55 miles east of Paris, where the Germans signed the 1918 armistice they regarded as literal surrender. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Frenchman who served as allied commander, gave hard terms and, with the American’s 45 divisions under Gen. John J. Pershing poised for a great offensive, the Germans signed.

World celebrates Armistice anniversary

Viet Cong shell allied bases from border DMZ

By JACKWALSH SAIGON (UPI)—For the first time since President Johnson halted the bombardment of North Vietnam Nov. 1, Com munist gunners have used positions in the border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to shell allied bases on South Vietnam’s northern tier, military spokesmen said today. The artillery, mortar and rocket barrages against one South Vietnamese and three U.S. Marine outposts Sunday killed four leathernecks and wounded 41. Meanwhile, Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, said today recent allied victories “marked the end of any serious pretention” by . the Communists to mount a new Vietnam offensive. U.S. negotiators at Paris had demanded a withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from the six-mile-wide DMZ in exchange for the bombing halt. But it was never spelled out whether the Hanoi delegation had agreed to that condition. Marine officials said spotter pilots and ground troops sighted Communist gun sites a half mile and a mile deep into the buffer zone and called in American warplanes to batter them. Bomb Rocket Site The divebomber pilots said they knocked out one rocket firing site and destroyed at least 10 bunkers. Battlefield reports said the North Vietnamese used 75mm artillery and 122mm rockets against the Marine outpost at Con Thien and against two camps nearby. There were no damage or casualties at Con Thien, a well fortified base. The two other positions, four miles southwest and about 10 miles east of Con Thien, absorbed all the casualties. Last Thursday, Communist artillerymen firing from just below the DMZ shelled two other Marine camps—the first barrages against Leatherneck border posts since the bombing halt. Casualties in those rocket assaults were termed light. In addition, the guerrillas shelled a province capital 105 miles northeast of Saigon, killing a child and six civilians, and poured 100 mortar rounds into a Green Beret camp 45 miles southwest of the capital, wounding six Americans. Informed military sources at Marine headquarters in Da Nang told UPI correspondent Raymond Wilkinson the North Vietnamese had been using the

bombing halt to move big guns south to the border in broad daylight. Fear Higher Casualties Opponents of the bombing halt had argued this is exactly how the Communists would use it. They argued it would result in higher American casualties. The shellings came one day after Gen. Creighton W. Abrams’ U.S. command proclaimed the northern war zone quiet enough to move the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division south into the defense of Saigon. The 19,000-man division was to take up positions northwest of Saigon near Cambodia, where intelligence estimates have placed 30,000 Communists massed, possibly for an attack on Saigon. In ground fighting, allied infantrymen, helicopter gunships and warplanes killed 70 guerrillas near Saigon Sunday in four battles.

Putnam Co. doubles raised cancer funds Dr. Fred Haggerty, President of the Putnam Co. Unit of the American Cancer Society, announced here today that $7187.93 was raised this year in Putnam County compared to $4758.00 in 1967. Haggerty paid tribute to American Cancer Society volunteers who joined the more than 35,000 Indiana citizens in conducting the educational and fund-raising appeal and to those persons whose thoughtful and generous contributions enable the Society to spur on Research to bring about an earlier conquest of cancer. Haggerty reported that for every dollar contributed during 1968, the society will spend an equal amount in Indiana as follows in 1969; 36 cents for Cancer Research; 20 cents for Public Education and Information 15 cents for Service to Cancer Patients; 9 cents for development of program and administration; and 11 cents for campaign costs, providing materials to reach Indiana families with up to date life saving facts during the 1969 April Crusade.

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HOMECOMING QUEEN-Cloverdale High School crowned its new homecoming queen senior Rita Davis Friday night prior to the Cloverdale-Van Buren basketball game. Performing the crowning ceremony was last year's homecoming queen. Joyce Shrader. —The BANNER Photo, Dennis Abell.