The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1968 — Page 1
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VOLUME SEVENTY-SEVEN
South Vietnamese
spurn U.S. threat to ‘go it alone’
By LOREN JENKINS PARIS (UPI>—South Vietnam today spurned an American threat to go it alone with Hanoi and the Viet Cong in Vietnam war talks that Saigon is boycotting. In Saigon, South Vietnamese Information Minister Ton That Thien told newsmen, “They can go ahead and talk but their conclusions certainly will be of no validity at all.’' Thien later told UPI correspondent Daniel Southerland, “They can talk on anything that concerns only Hanoi and the United States but any agreement having to do with the fate of South Vietnam will not be binding on us.” U.S. Defense
Jamboree
applicants will
meet Sunday
A meeting and individual interviews for boys who have applied to attend the 1969 Boy Scout National Jamboree will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday Nov. 17, in the Boy Scout Service Center, 501 So. 25th, Terre Haute. The meeting, directed by Wabash Valley Council Jamboree Committee Chairman, AlSiebenmorgen, Terre Haute, and Jamboree Scoutmaster Keith Price, Robinson, will include colored slides of the Jamboree site. Thirty-nine qualified Boy Scouts and Explorers from the Wabash Valley Council will enjoy a “once in a lifetime” mountain top Scouting experience at the 7th National Jamboree to be held July 16-22, 1969 at Farragut, Idaho. Jamboree assistant leaders are John Monts of Rockville, and Robert Harker of Terre Haute. Boys who are registered in Scouting or Exploring and who can meet age, rank, and physical requirements may become eligible to attend the Jamboree. All boys and parents who would like to learn more about the 1969 National Jamboree are invited to attend the Jamboree meeting on November 17th.
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Valley camp rally planned
Farm Bureau
supper Nov. 14
Plans have been made for an oyster and chili soup supper for all Franklin Township Farm Bureau members and families on Thursday evening Nov. 14 at the Roachdale Library Basement. Supper will be served at 7 p.m. Members are asked to bring a salad or dessert and table service. Farm credit will be the subject of the evening program presented by the local bank. Committee in charge will be Mr. & Mrs. Noble C. Fry; Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Brown; Mr. & Mrs. Harold Young and Mr. & Mrs. Howard Gough.
Wabash Valley Council Camping Chairman Don Foltz has announced that a special camp promotion rally will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Boy Scout Service Center, 501 So. 25th St., Terre Haute. Purpose of this meeting is to provide detailed information and promotional materials to leaders of Boy Scout Troops and Explorer Posts. The 1969 Summer Camp plans and Promotional Materials will be distributed. All scoutmasters, explorer advisors, ( or a unit adult representative) and commissioners, are urged to attend. This meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will end at 8:30 p.m. Many door prizes will be given away, according to Fotlz. Camp dates, Order of the Arrow elections procedures will be included and full details on the 1969 National Jamboree; The Council Philmont Trip; and information on Region Seven Canoe Base will be provided.
Federal Grand Jury returns indictments
against 58 persons
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A big money scheme which victimized two Hoosiers and an attempted extortion from a retired banker were among the indictments returned yesterday by a federal grand jury. The return was made before Judge S. Hugh Dillin. However, the jury will continue in session, according to District Atty. Edwin Applegate, to make further investigations, including some concerned with possible election law violations. The indictments were against 58 persons, one of whom is Ron. aid Gene Gibson, Hollywood, Cal., who convinced at least two Hoosiers that he had access to large sums of money from movie and television stars which they wanted to lend for investment. The indictment alleges that the two Indiana victims paid $25,000 representing “good! faith” money which was to be 3 per cent of the 7 per cent interest charged on the loans. Gibson, using the name of “Investment Enterprises, Inc.,” was indicted on a charge of
fraud by wire since one of the allegations is that he caused a $4,000 money order to be sent from Indiana to Los Angeles. The extortion indictment concerned threats made against the lives of two grandchildren of W. D. Whitaker, a retired banker living in Bloomfield, in an effort to obtain $10,000. Charged with sending the extortion letters to Whitaker was John J. Albertson, Odon. The letters contained threats against Kathy and William Whitaker Jr. Counterfeiting charges were returned against Russell A. Sanders, Dale L. Burden and Kathleen A. Burden, all of LaPorte. In addition, Gracie M. Benoit, Lionel P. Benoit, and Donna J. Morse, all of Clinton, and Fred Perrine, Marion County Jail, were indicted on charges of possession and passing of counterfeit notes. Jimmy Lee Adams, Vanderburgh County Jail, was indicted on a charge of robbery of the National City Bank of Evansville.
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Secretary Clark M. Clifford had suggested Tuesday in Washington that America go it alone in Paris if Saigon continued to refuse to come to the bargaining table. Note Communist Violations In Saigon, U.S. military spokesmen today said Communist artillery shelled allied positions Tuesday from points either in or just below the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Vietnam. The spokesmen, who earlier had said the Red shells came from inside the DMZ, later said they trying to pinpoint the exact Communist firing positions. A Communist artillery attack Saturday from inside the DMZ appeared to violate conditions for holding the Paris talks. In Hanoi, North Vietnam today vowed anew to carry out its Communist plan for unification with South Vietnam. In Paris, the Vietnam talks today entered their seventh month with American diplomats meeting North Vietnamese delegates in search of a formula that would bring Saigon to the conference table and get expanded settlement negotiations underway. Aim At Peace The United States and North Vietnamese opened talks here May 13, aiming to cool down the war enough to allow full negotiations. President Johnson Oct. 31 announced a Nov. 1 halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam to open the way for bringing South Vietnam and the Viet Cong guerrillas into the talks. Saigon’s refusal to come in
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PTASCHOLARSHIP PRESENTED-Miss Velvet Ann Clark, a student teacher in Greencastle from Indiana State University, in front at right, receivedthe PTA Scholarship from Mrs. J. L. Stamper. This makes the second year in a row that Miss Clark has been presented with the award. Others included in the presentation are. in back
from left, Mrs. D. C. Gorham, Northeast E lementary PTA president; Mrs. James F . Cox, Jones Elementary School PTA president, and Mr. Fred Si lander, PTA president of the Mi Her E lementary School. Miss Clark is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Clark of rural Greencastle. BANNER Photo -Mike Chran
Mike Chron named new sports editor
NATO
seeks plan
Michael (Mike) Chron, a native of Charleston, 111., was today announced as the Daily Banner’s new sports editor, by managing editor Dennis Abell. Chron joined the Banner staff last week. He comes to Greencastle from Bloomington where he was on the sports staff at the Bloomington Courier-Tribune, another LuMar Newspapers Inc. owned newspaper. He was a former sports editor at the Charleston Daily Times, owned by the Hemphill Corporation. He moved to Bloomington last spring. He is 23-years old, single, and is now residing in the Parkwood addition in Greencastle. Chron, was responsible for the editorial contents of a recently published 32-page basketball
Mike Chron
Little League meets Nov. 20
Because of American Education Week, the Greencastle Little League will meet Wednesday, November 20, 1968, instead of the regularly scheduled date of November 13, 1968. The meeting will be held at 7:30 at the American Legion Meeting Room. Officers, managers, and coaches are requested to attend.
supplement to the CourierTribune which covered the basketball teams in the Bloomington area. He has covered the various Big Ten football games, the Indianapolis 500-mile race, Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl in Miami, Fla., and the 1968 Rose Bowl contest when Indiana University met Southern California. He also covered the 1967 World Series in St. Louis. He has served in the Air Force and attended Eastern Illinois University.
To receive Masonic degree
John Henry Miles of South Bend has been elected at the 55th annual meeting of the Indiana Council of Deliberation in Marion to receive the honorary 33rd Masonic Degree, Prince Hall Affiliation.
Miles was nominated for the honor to be conferred next May in Philadelphia, by James Ander-
son of South Bend, only other holder of the degree in the area. Miles is a past master of St. Peter’s Lodge, F&AM, Prince Hall Affiliation. He also is a trustee of Prince Hall Low 12 Club, commander-in-chief of Wabash Consistory 77 of South Bend, P.H.A., and a member of Mahomet Temple 124, Order of the Mystic Shrine, East Chicago.
By K. C. THALER BRUSSELS (UPI)-North At1 a n t i c Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders meeting here this week expect to produce a “package of wide-ranging measures to shore up the alliance’s defense in the face of increased uncertainty over Soviet designs, diplomatic sources said today. The NATO Council of Ministers, gathering for a three day formal session Thursday through Saturday, is aiming at a variety of steps. They range from a freeze on further reductions of allied military contributions to the alliance, to a tightening of controls in the strategic Mediterranean, where Soviet naval power has built up to unprecedented proportions. The strategy of the alliance, the scope of its future “flexible response” to any potential Communist aggression, the alert system against Warsaw Pact surprise moves—including the positioning of the alliance’s 7,000-odd tactical nuclear weapons— are all expected to come under review. In the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the mobilization of the Warsaw Pact forces, allied political and military officers have been preparing detailed recommendations for a major overhaul of key provisions in NATO's defense shield. Allied defense and foreign ministers are to give their final approval to what is expected to emerge as a major NATO “package”. Very close study also is to be given to the question of Soviet intentions, in an effort to establish so far as is feasible what may be expected in the foreseeable future from the Kremlin, whose Czech action triggered fears of a new
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Mrs. Dottie Masten named new branch manager
Region 2 meeting tonight
Approximately 65 students from Indiana college campuses will attend a Region 2 Conference of the Student Education Association this evening at DePauw University.
A delegation will come from Anderson College, Ball State, Marion College, Purdue, and the IU Regional campuses at Kokomo and Indianapolis.
Prior to the program, the group will have a business session and an invitational dinner. The students attending are prospective elementary and secondary teachers and will be accompanied by the campus’s advisors of the SEA chapters.
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The DePauw chapter of the SEA and their advisor, Dr. Ned McPhail, will act as host.
Gym completion
behind schedule
With the election of Republicans to the Governor’s office in Indianapolis, the most immediate and most far reaching change to be made in the switching of Republicans into Democrat offices will be in the area of license branches. At the present time, Putnam County has only one license branch. It is located in the northeast corner of the courthouse on the first floor. In most counties, the county chairman of the party in control of the Governor’s office either operates the license branch or appoints someone to do it. The present manager is Mrs. Charles Shuee, wife of the county Democrat chairman who is also seventh district county chairman. Next year a change will be made. Robert Poor, Putnam County Republican chairman, when contacted by the Banner said he will not operate the license branch but has appointed Mrs. Donus (Dottie) E. Masten, 118 Northwood Blvd., as manager. Mrs. Masten’s late husband was a former county chairman. Claude Hughes, Republican County chairman in Hendricks County said residents in the Coatesville area have three branches in which to use, one at Danville, Plainfield, and one at Brownsburg. He said that he has not yet appointed managers for any of the three branches. Poor said the Putnam branch would change hands early next year but that there would have to first be an audit -of the branch.
for first game
The keynoter for the program will be James T. Cronin of Chicago.
Cronin is the college associate for Science Research Associates.
By SHAUN HIGGINS Staff Reporter The gymnasium at the new Greencastle High School is running behind schedule in several areas, accordingly to a progress report presented at last night’s Greencastle schoolboard meeting. At this time the bleachers are not in, the floor is not in, the goals have not been installed, the public address system and scoreboards are not functioning, and the restrooms iced finishing touches. However, all is not* lost and schoolboard members and the architect for the project still have hope that the Tiger Cubs will be able to play their first home basketball game at Jess McNally Center on November 27. Superintendent of schools Joseph Rammrl pointed out that the company in charge of installing the bleachers might well have the job finished by Sunday. Rammel said the group was working overtime and would work all day Sunday to finish the job. Rammel also pointed out the Cincinnati Flooring Company in charge of installing the gym floor, had requested 11 days to put in the floor. The company would like to put in the floor without the presence of other firms working at the same time. There was some talk at last night’s meeting of extending November 30 deadline, Rammel said, but the architect felt this was unnecessary. The board agreed. Rammel said state building inspectors would arrive in Greencastle on November 26 to inspect the structure for safety. Even if the first home game is played in the gymnasium here, the building will not belong to the school corporation but to the contractor. Final acceptance of the building is not anticipated to occur before February of 1969. In the meantime the school will be “renting” the facility. Another matter brought before the board last evening concerned the rental of the new auditorium to the Putnam County Playhouse. The local drama group wants to use the building during the summers for the production of their plays. The schoolboard is now con. sidering a preliminary contract which would allow the group to present performances of five plays, or 12 performances of four plays for a total of $900. The fee includes use of the new
facility for one week prior to the final performance of each play. No decision was reached on the contract at last night’s meeting. The executive board of the Playhouse group is meeting Sunday to discuss the schoolboard’s proposals in detail and decide on a method of action. The board also accepted a bid of $14,660 for the application of eight inches of stone to a parking area on the east side of McNally Center. The contract was granted to Cecil Modesitt who bid$14,660to remove fill dirt from the 155 x 600 foot plot of ground and apply cut stone to the area. The only other bidder on the project was Mark Broadstreet, of Broadstreet Construction who bid a total of $15,288 for the job. In miscellaneous action the board took action on two appropriations requests made by Rammel. The first request called for the transfer of no more than $50,000 from the general fund to be used for various shortages which may occur as a resuit of under-budgeting. The board decided to fix the specific amount needed and advertise a hearing to discuss the matter. The board took similar action on Rammel’s request to borrow $200,000 for the purpose of paying various bills which will fall due on January 2, 1969. The bills, which include salaries, due each year at this time, when the old budget will be exhausted and the new year’s revenue will not yet be received by the board.
Store robbed
RUSSELLVILLE- -Eli Wilson reported to Putnam County Sheriff Robert Albright yesterday that his store had been forceably entered. According to official reports, the apparent break-in was discovered by Wilson about 7 a.m. An estimated $500 in goods was reported missing by Wilson including clothing, cigarettes, meat and other items. Reports also said that the alleged thief or thieves then used a truck belonging to the Russellville Implement Sales to carry the $500 worth of merchandise away. The truck was later discovered in the day empty and abandoned about two-miles southwest of Russellville.
He will speak at 7:30 p.m. at the Union Building on “Modern Materials and Future Possibilities.” The lecture will be open to the public, and area teachers are extended a special invitation to attend.
Attend agents convention
Morris Hunter and Ray Brush of the Stoner Insurance Agency, Inc., Greencastle, attended the 70th annual convention of the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana at the Stouffer’s Inn. The three-day session, with one thousand delegates and their ladies -.attending, adjourned Tuesday, November 12th. The program theme was “The Stanford Report - A Circus of Ideas,” based on the United States insurance industry study made by the Stanford Research Institute. One of the highlights of the con-
vention was an address by U.S. Senator Vance Hartke (DIndiana). Other speakers included Dr. Kenneth McFarland, this year’s recipient of the Freedoms Foundation award.
The I LAI has over 925 agency members statewide and has served as a clearinghouse of information on matters affecting the interest of local independent insurance agents since 1891. Mr. Hunter and Mr. Brush, represent the Stoner agency which has been a member of the IIAI for over 10 years.
226 freshmen attend I.U. School of Medicine
They came from nine states and 52 of Indiana’s 92 counties; they were among the best students of 75 colleges and universities around the world; there are more of them at Indiana University than any other university in the United States.
gram for Statewide Medical Education.
They are the 226 students who have enrolled in the freshman class of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
“One of the basic purposes of the Indiana Program is to organize and use the resources for medical education which already exist in our state,” explains the dean of the state medical school. Dr. Glenn W. Irwin Jr.
Most of the I.U. medical freshmen—212 of 226--are Hoosiers: 33 from Marion County, 21 from Lake County, 17 from Allen County, nine from Monroe County, seven from Vanderburgh County, six from Porter County, six from Vigo County, and the rest from 42 other Indiana counties.
ville College, Franklin College, Hanover College, Huntington College, Manchester College, Taylor University and Valparaiso University.
Not all of them have yet congregated on the I.U. Medical Center campus in Indianapolis.
There are 24 students enrolled in the basic medical sciences program of Indiana University at Bloomington. Five more are graduate students enrolled in pilot medical education programs at Purdue University and University of Notre Dame. These five students--three at West Lafayette and two at South Bend--represent the continuing development of the Indiana Pro-
“The exceptionally strong graduate programs which Purdue and Notre Dame offer in the biological sciences already include most of the courses required by first year medical students,” Dean Irwin said. Purdue and Notre Dame have opened these courses to freshman medical students on a pilot basis this year. “The result of the co-operative effort is that we have been able to accept more students than we would have been able to accept if we had failed to recognize the potential for medical education which exists cm other campuses,” said Dean Irwin.
A dozen came from other states (Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin) and two came to I.U. from Hong Kong.
The other 58 went to colleges and universities ranging from Yale University to the University of California, from the National University of Taiwan to the University of London.
Although 212 are Hoosiers, only 168 did their undergraduate and pre-medical work in Indiana: 80 at Indiana University, 24 at Wabash College, 13 at Purdue, nine at Notre Dame, seven at Indiana State University, five at Butler University, five at DePauw Uni. versity, four at BaH State University, four at Goshen College, and the rest at Anderson College, Earlham College, Evans-
There is a nearly even balance between athletes and campus politicians: 31 were varsity athletes and 32 were class or student body officers during their under, graduate careers.
Their grades are impressive: 154 of the 226 had grade averages ranging from straight B to straight A. Their family backgrounds are more diverse: 73 have fathers who are business executives or proprietors, 31 have physicians for fathers (compared with 15 last year), 16 are the children
of laborers and 16 are the children of educators. There will not be many marriages within the Class of '68 Only 17 of the 226 are women (compared with 19 in the Class of ’67) All of the students are enrolled in a new medical curriculumanother part of the Indiana Program for Statewide Medical Education- which has been widely described as one of the nation’s most ambitious reforms of medical education. The Royal Commission on Medical Education of Great Britain reported that the Indiana University School of Medicine is one of five American medical schools”. . .which are blazing a trail (in medical education) which the rest of us are likely to follow.” The other universities leading the reform in medical education are Duke University, Yale University, the University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University.
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