The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, November 14, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL

New National Gallery

V^INCE THE INFANT DAYS of the nation, a National ^ Portrait Gallery devoted to native American art has been discussed, planned, and until recently pigeonholed. On Oct. 5, the long-delayed dream became a reality. The National Portrait Gallery, housed permanently in the old U.S. Patent Office, a famous pre-Civil War landmark, formally opened its doors. It may be many years before the gallery fully represents the various periods in American history, but an excellent beginning has been made. The permanent exhibits now include a rare display of presidential portraits, some of them the only ones in existence, and portraits of famous Americans who shaped the nation in various fields of endeavor. The gallery has placed emphasis on items of historical value, and a visitor will find there an authentic—although still incomplete—view of the American experience. The gallery faces a herculean task in realizing its goal. Many of the items desired for the new gallery were long ago acquired by private collectors. When they do become available on the market, they are usually priced beyond what the government is willing to pay. For the most part, the gallery must depend upon the generosity and patriotism of private individuals and organizations. The National Portrait Gallery is already the beneficiary of acts of private generosity. That spirit must continue if the institution is to match the stature of the nation. The old Patent Office, one of Washington’s oldest and most distinguished public buildings, is an appropriate setting for the new national gallery. Most of its spacious grandeur, however, remains unfilled, awaiting the patriotic response of private citizens.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

In Cleveland, I broke bread with Bishop Clarence Issenmann, who was presiding at a dinner for 250 Holy Name Societies,and the topic swung to an intriguing question: “Why is it that the assassination of John F. Kennedy brings out venom in all who discuss it?” Everyone, it seems, has an ironclad theory, and friendships have been broken on disagreements about what happened on that solemn sunny day in Dallas. The bishop occupies a special place in the Catholic hierarchy. He is the only one of the 240 in high episcopal office who was a newspaper reporter. Bishop Issenmann worked for the Denver Register. It is natural that the American bishops selected him to be their “press agent.” I could not respond to his question about the assassination and rigid opinions. Like the war in Vietnam, it is not a subject for rational discussion. Hackles and voices rise. So do blood pressures. It is five years since the event. The book I wrote on the subject, “The Day Kennedy Was Shot,” will be pubUshed next week by Funk & Wagnalls, but I am already inundated with stories by the Associated Press, United Press International, the New York Times, each one of whom

has dissected the book and my mind, and none of whom bothered to phone and ask me how I feel about anything. A month ago, Newsweek Magazine devoted two long columns to the book, even though they did not have the book. It was reading a magazine condensation in Ladies Home Journal. Newsweek said that William Manchester’s book was “the Kennedy version”; Jim Bishop, who had the only interview LBJ ever granted on the assassination, has written “The LBJ Brand.” Bunk. That book cost 3,500 hours of research, of which 43 minutes was spent with President Johnson. It requred no more time to find out how he felt that day when they pinned him in a curtained emergency room while his chief was dying down the hall. If that makes my book the Lyndon Johnson version, I”ll eat it and it runs to more than 700 pages. Worse, some of the publications are given the book for review to competitors.-there is a rumor in town that the Times asked Manchester to dissect my work. That’s like asking Richard Nixon to write a report card on Hubert Humphrey’s performance. The book is still a week away from publication, and already Continued on Page 3

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Mr. Richard Nixon has sought to be very proper on the matter of the negotiations in Paris. He has said that he will not go to Saigon to visit with President Thieu or to make his own estimate of the situation there unless President Johnson desires him to go there. Mr. Nixon’s decision was generally applauded, mostly by those who interpreted it as a rebuff of Thieu, whom we are supposed to dislike at this moment for standing in the way of the peace talks by declining to recognize the National Liberation Front as an independent bargaining entity. It is, moreover, being pointed out that Mr. Nixon has a great deal to gain politically by standing aside and permitting Lyndon Johnson to write the terms of the peace. Because if it should then happen, say six months or a year from now, that the Communists take control of the South Vietnamese government, then President Nixon would be able to pin the blame for that reversal on the peace policies of his predecessor. Meanwhile, in the event that Johnson should succeed in bringing hostilities to an end, money would free up which could be spent by President Nixon on domestic programs which he would take credit for. Neat, isn’t it? The analysis ignores a couple of considerations. One of them is that Richard Nixon has fully supported the war for four painful years, and is not on record as changing his mind concerning the necessity to take a stand in Vietnam against the Communists. There are those who believe that Lyndon Johnson has taken the momentous decision: to liquidate the Vietnam war. They reason as follows: that Johnson stands by his original analysis, that the war was worth fighting and worth winning. But that sometime last spring, he resolved that the war could not be won, because the American opinion-making community would not support a long war, nor such an intensification of the war as would be necessary to conclude it.

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, Jr’s

ON THE

RIGHT

That under the circumstances, he would abandon the San Antonio formula, and go to the negotiating table even with something less than a commitment by the enemy to reward the suspension of the bombing by complementary military gestures. Therefore -- so the story goes -- believing that the war cannot be won in the present American mood, Lyndon Johnson will take steps, including the defiance of the South Vietnamese government, in order to write peace terms before the end of his tenure. That analysis could be correct. But even so, it makes no provisions for Mr. Nixon’s deep commitment to the Vietnamese enterprise. What reason have we for believing that Mr. Nixon is as demoralized as Lyndon Johnson? For one thing, Mr. Nixon is not bound by Mr. Johnson’s schizophrenic policies on Communism (blast the Communists in the east, romance them in the west). For another, Mr. Nixon will be the President of the United States when the consequences of a bad peace treaty in Vietnam are felt. It is one thing to be able to say that his predecessor, Mr. Johnson, wrote a bad peace and is historically responsible for what happened. But if what happens is the domino effect, it will be President Nixon who will have to cope with the reality. And the test now is for Mr. Nixon on the one hand not to get in the way of the negotiations by any undiplomatic interpositions: but on the other hand to renew his analysis of the situation, so as to bring pressure to bear on the North Vietnamese to make important concessions in Paris. Mr. Nixon might say something to this effect: that although he will not interfere, he wishes his views to be known, if indeed there are those who doubt them. That the joint effort to resist the Communization of South Vietnam was a vital effort in behalf of world peace, and will b e renewed if necessary. And that his administration will on the one hand attempt to de-Ameri-canize future military en-

counters in the area, but will continue to stand by our collective security arrangements. That’s all. But that would mean a great deal. On the one hand to the NLF, whose arrogance has never diminished, whose representative declared last week in Paris that South Vietnam must be left alone to run its own affairs “according to the political program of the National Liberation Front.” And on the other hand, Lyndon Johnson, who should take heart from the re-endorsement by his successor of the analysis that carried Lyndon Johnson into retirement.

Moon rocket poised for rehearsal

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The world’s mightiest rocket and the spacecraft and astronauts it will launch to the moon are prepared for a vital rehearsal mission, a prelude to the actual lunar landing scheduled next year. Most observers felt the word today from the U.S. space agency would be to shoot for the moon with the Saturn 5 rocket and the three-man Apollo spacecraft in the flight scheduled next month. The final decision— whether to ittempt a ring-round-the-moon shot at Christmas or carry out another training flight in earth orbit—was made by Dr. Thomas O. Paine, acting chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He made it alter a day-long conference here Monday attended by all high NASA officials involved in the $25 billion Apollo program to put a couple of space pilots on the moon in 1969. In next month’s flight, known as Apollo 8, astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr., and William A. Anders will become the first pilots to be boosted into space by the Saturn 5. This rocket’s first stage is nearly five times as powerful as the Saturn IB, which launched the great 11-day Apollo 7 flight in earth orbit last month. It was Apollo 7’s nearly flawless performance that caused NASA officials at Cape Kennedy, the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, and the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., to urge that Apollo 8 flight be expanded into a test of men and craft in an orbital mission around the moon. The Apollo 8 flight plan presented to Paine calls for the astronauts to orbit the earth twice on Dec. 21 and then head for the moon a quarter of a million miles away, arriving Christmas. For about 20 hours the pilots would orbit the moon 10 times at altitudes down to 69 miles and then depart for home early Christmas morning and a splashdown in the Pacific a little less than three days later. No manned flight like this has ever been attempted before. Unmanned craft have orbited and photographed the moon, others have landed gently and made on-site camera and radiochemical studies of the lunar surface.

To honor Governor Branigin

NEW HARMONY, Ind. (UPI) — New Harmony will celebrate a special day Nov. 19 in honor of outgoing Governor Roger Branigin as the community dedicates two structures at the New Harmony State Memorial. The program will include dedication of the restored Opera House and of a new visitors center to assist the growing number of tourists who come to see the village, many of whose original buildings still are in use. New Harmony was settled in 1814, before Indiana became a

state, and was the site of two famous short-lived experiments in communal living, one headed by George Rapp and the other by Robert Owen. Branigin, a history buff, has done much to restore the community. The Opera House, built by Rapp in 1823 as a dormitory for his colony, was transformed into a community ballroom by Owen, whose followers included some cosmopolitan settlers more familiar with life in Paris and New York, than the wilderness.

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A writer’s niche by Fred Ashcraft

While watching the near-flawless precision of the pro football teams on television over the weekend, I couldn’t help but think back to my high school team. I suppose every small town football squad has its collection of off-beat members. It does seem, though, that the Marked Tree Indians, vintage early forties, had more than the normal percentage. One of my favorites was a fellow we called Slick. After each play, Slick would rise dramatically from the pileup of players and stagger about in circles, emitting horrible gasps and clutching his chest. He would then collapse, thresh about spasmodically, then, manfully, crawl back to the huddle. Referees and opposing players would look on in alarm but we all knew that Slick was as sound as a dollar. Once in the huddle, he would remove his helmet and consult the typewritten list taped inside to learn what to do on the next play. He only had two assignments, depending on whether the play went his way or to the opposite side, but he never was sure without consulting the chart in his helmet. Then there was Big Red Morgan. Red was an emaciated beanpole who came gallumping out for football with a grin a mile wide. Red was about six-five and couldn’t have weighed more than 115 pounds. He had carrot red hair, growing down over his collar, and splashes of freckles and unbelievable good humor. His head actually approached a point. It didn’t take long for somebody to tag him Denny Dimwit. That was sort of cruel, but Red didn’t mind. He was the worst football player who ever lived. He couldn’t do anything but get hit. Boy, how ne did sop up that punishment! The coach would put him in ai a defensive tackle and then we’d run a play in that direction. Four blockers would crunch squarely over him, followed by the ball carrier. Poor Red wasn’t even able to get out of the runner’s way. It was mayhem. But he’d get up grinning and wobble back into position. Out of all that abuse, Red had one shining moment.

We were playing Earle or somebody, and got far ahead. Red was sent in to play tackle, on the apparent theory he could do least harm there. We ran a line play and somebody blasted our ball carrier. The ball squirted ten feet into the air. Red was standing with his arms folded, staring vacantly about with his amiable grin. Somebody hollered “ball” and Red started and put out his hands and the ball plopped into his arms like a baby snuggling up to mama. Joe Shaw, our quarterback, was lying on the ground. He almost had a stroke. “Run, Red, run,” he bellowed. Red hugged the ball to his belly, gave a startled bound and departed into a long-legged lope that I remember as about the funniest sight on earth. His shoes touched ground about every ten feet. The entire team instead of blocking, was rolling around on the field in wild laughter and beating each other on the back and yelling “Go, Red, go, they're catchin’ up!” Nobody was about to catch up. Red galloped all the way into the end zone and turned abound and glared upfield. ,as if daring anybody to say a word. The referee came up and tried to get the ball. Red clung to it, yanking back. We finally talked him into surrendering it to the officials, but it wasn’t easy. Another character we had was a quarterback who was a fine football player except for one bad failing. Whenever he got excited during a ball game, he commenced to stutter. In those days, we lined up in a T-formation and shifted into a box or single wing. One game he cost us close to 100 yards in penalties by stuttering on the shift signals. He could say “one” just fine, but when he hit “ttttt-wwww-twwo-ttttt-” well, it made for a very ragged shift. We had anothe r player who was undoubtedly the fastest thing in the state at the time. He was an absolute streak of blue-flaming chain lighting. He could almost lap the squad in running 100 yard sprints. Unfortunately, he was also very, very, very yellow. If he ever got into the clear and heard footsteps behind him, he was a blur. On the other hand, if you gave him the ball on a sweep play, he would run straight across the field and out of bounds before they could catch him. Continued on Page 3

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