The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, November 25, 1968

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THE DAILY BANNER and Herald Consolidated "It Waves For AH" Business Phone: OL 3-5151 -01 3-5152 Lu Mar Newspapers Inc. Dr. Mary Tarzian, Publisher Published every evening except Sunday and Holidays at 1221 South Bloomington St.. Greencastle. Indiana. 46135. Entered in the Post Office at Greencastle. Indiana, as second class mail matter under: Act of March 7, 1878 United Press International lease wire service: Member Inland Daily Press Association; Hoosier State Press Association. All unsolicited articles, manuscripts, letters and pictures sent to The Daily Banner are sent at owner’s risk, and The Daily Banner Repudiates any liability or responsibility for their safe custody or return. By carrier 50C per week, single copy IOC. Subscription prices of the Daily Banner Effective July 31. 1967-Put-nam County-1 year. $12.00-6 months. $7.00-3 months. $4.50 • Indiana other than Putnam County-1 year. $14.00-6 months, $8.00 -3 months,^ $5.00. Outside Indiana 1 year, $18.00-6 months. $10.00-3 months, $7.00. All Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes $2.15 per one month.

TODAY’S EDITORIAL It is easy to lose control of your car momentarily on wet pavement. The resulting skid can be a terrifying experience; and if you’re lucky that’s all it will be. Few drivers are aware that a car’s wheels can actually lose contact with a wet road. This phenomenon, known as “hydroplaning,” is the cause of many skids and crashes. As your car rolls along on wet pavement a layer of water builds up ahead of the front tires. When the tire treads can no longer disperse this water, your wheels are lifted up in much the same way water lifts a skier. The danger of hydroplaning is always present on wet or slushy roads. You can drive along for miles on the verge of a skid without being aware of it. A nerve-shattering skid, or even worse, a crash, can be brought about by sudden acceleration, braking, or a strong gust of wind. Hydroplaning occurs at virtually all speed ranges depending on conditions. As you increase the speed of your car the chances of hydroplaning become greater. Speeds in excess of 50 mph on wet pavemeit are considered to be in the ‘extreme danger zone.’ ” Motorists should follow these suggestions for watery-pavement driving: 1) Reduce speed at least one third and never drive faster than 50 mph. 2) Allow extra distance for stopping, especially when following another vehicle. Leave far more space than one car length for each 10 miles per hour. 3) Drive in the tracks of the vehicle in front of you. 4) Avoid deep water and puddles-they substantially increase the danger of hydroplaning. 5) Deep water can also soak your brakes and dangerously limit their effectiveness. As a safety precaution, check your brakes after driving through a puddle. To dry wet brakes, slow down, make sure that there is no one behind you and then pump the brake pedal gently and repeatedly, being careful not to throw your car into a skid. “Remember, ” “Rain is not only a traffic nuisance— it is a killer.”

Widows of veterans to be eligible for assistance

An estimated 2,983 Indiana widows of veterans who died as the result of military service will be eligible for up to 36 months of educational assistance from the Veterans Administration, beginning December 1, J.C. Robison, Manager of the VA’s Regional Office in Indianapolis, said today. He pointed out that starting December 1, the wives of Indiana’s 1,768 totally and permanently disabled veterans will also be entitled to VA educational assist, ance payments of $130 a monthup to a maximum of 36 monthsfor full-time institutional training. The allowance for threequarters time training is $95 a month, with $60 being paid for half-time training under the law granting these widows and wives VA educational help for the first time in the history of veterans

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benefits in the United States, Mr. Robison said. Widows and wives now eligible for this benefit will have until December 1, 1976, to complete their training under this new program, the manager explained. He said that women who become eligible in the future for VA educational assistance due to the service-connected death or permanent and total disability of their husbands have eight years in which to complete their training. Eligibility of widows and wives does not depend on when their husbands served in the Armed Forces. However, it was pointed out, if a widow remarries or a wife divorces her disabled husband, she loses her entitlement. The manager emphasized that it will not be necessary for eligible widows and wives to contact the VA for detailed infermation on this new program. In the near future VA will mail explanatory material with widow’s dependency and indemnity compensation (DIG) checks and with compensation checks for totally and permanently disabled veterans.

Since 1621 it has been our custom to pause during the Harvest Season and express our gratitude for the bounty of Mother Nature and the spiritual blessings of our land of America. In 1968 may we add a special "thanks” to you who have added to the richness of our lives with your friendship and association. We hope, too, that it may endure throughout the years that lie ahead. We will transact no business Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28th

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General Telephone asks for revised tariff SUMMARY: PSCI asked by General Telephone Co. for an adjustment in one-time charges. General Telephone Company filed a revised tariff with the Indiana Public Service Commission yesterday for an adjustment in one-time charges for installing, moving, and changing telephones and certain kinds of specialized communications equipment. Richard D. Kingston, division manager, said the charges apply only to customers who order a new installation, a move, or a change of their telephones. Kingston said that with the cost of premise visits at an all-time high, the tariff filing proposes that those customers who are responsible for these visits contribute a larger share of the cost. The new charges will be more in line with these higher; costs, though they still will not equal them, Kingston said. He said a number of other telephone companies in Indiana and elsewhere have filed for adjustments in these one-time charges in recent months. Under the revised tariff, charges for installing a main telephone would increase $2.50 for residential customers and $6.00 for business customers; change or relocation charges would increase $5.00 for residential customers and $4.00 for business customers.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

When the conversation becomes desultory, someone says: “I wonder whatever became of Faye Emerson” or Horace Heidt c* Lauritz Melchior. In these situations, I never respond because I do not know. And yet, most house guests assume that anyone assodated with newspapers should know. A few years ago, a bright television personality named Richard Lamparski wrote a book which I bought at once. It was called “Whatever Became Of. . .” It was obvious that Mr. Lamparski had spent time bird-dogging the personalities of other years. Now he has a second book (Crown Publishers) with the same title and I had to fight my wife and children to get first glance at it. Axis Sally, whom I recall as a radio voice which taunted our soldiers from Germany, lives in in an Ohio convent. Her name is Mildred Gillars Sisk, and she maintains that she was not Axis Sally, even though the U.S. Government convicted her in court. She works with the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus and teaches music. My older daughter grew up knowing more about Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody than they did about me. They fell silent in the evening at 5:30 because it was Howdy Doody Time. Buffalo Bob went off the air on Sept. 30th, 1960. He made a pile, and kept it. In the summer, he lives in Calais, Maine. In the winter, he sells condominium apartments in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He also owns three radio stations, so weep not for the kiddie kidder. Faye Emerson, a top television personality, chucked it all in 1963. She said she was going on a trip to Europe. She never returned. She never remarried, and lives in a four-bedroom house on the island of Majorca. Lily Pons did not quit. She fights obscurity, even though her singing engagements are few. She divorced Andre Kostelanetz in 1958. There are no children. Miss Pons is not broke. She has homes in Dallas, Palm Springs, New York City and one on the Riviera. Thirty years ago, Glenn Cunningham was the world’s fastest miler. When his running days were done, he became a farmer on Route 2, near Augusta, Kansas. He had two children by his first wife, ten by his second, and has sheltered 77 youngsters from “troubled homes.” Today, Mr. Cunningham is spectacled and

bald. Five months ago, he appeared on the Joey Bishop show and said he was broke having so many mouths to feed. Fame broke Brenda Frazier. She was Girl of the Year in 1938, a time when youth and adulation and beauty promised to last forever. Now she is two husbands and many nightmares removed from that. Miss Frazier almost died from crash dieting. She is still attractive, but the one person she cannot convince is herself. William Boyd was Hopalong Cassidy. He had two careers; one in movies and, after a long silence, fame as a television star. When the second one peaked in 1952, Hoppy sold out. He and hid fourth wife, Grace Bradley, live serenely. His old sidekick, whiskered Gabby Hayes, is over 80 and bedridden in Hollywood. Another star of bygone days who is a millionaire is Edgar Bergen. He owns expensive parcels of Hollywood real estate. Bergen’s beautiful daughter Candice has become a stage star. Mr. Bergen’s particular ulcer is his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. He cannot understand how the knothead became more famous than he. Lou Costello’s straight man was Bud Abbot. Eleven years ago, the team split and rancor replaced laughter. A year later, fatty died of a heart attack. Hard luck breeds hard luck. Abbot was out of work and Uncle Sam told him that he owed several hundreds of thousands in back taxes. Bud didn’t whimper. He and his wife sold their ranch, their property in Encino, and the residuals in the old Abbott and Costello films. Abbott is bald and jowly, but extremely articulate if anyone will listen. Lauritz Melchior, the blond Danish tenor, was as jolly as Santa. He sang like a man drowning in a rain barrel. He lives in California with his fourth wife, who is 34 years younger than he. Melchior is slightly deaf. “From listening to too much Wagner,” he says. Jack Oakie is almost totally deaf. He made his money playing the wise guy in movies, and doubled it in California real estate. Oakie and his wife live in the beautiful home once owned by Barbara Stanwyck and her onetime husband, Frank Fay. Frances Langford is married to Ralph Evinrude, who manufactures marine motors. Artie Shaw, who coaxed beautiful music out of a band and an assortment of Continued on Page 3

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WASHINGTON (UPI)— A federal appeals court, holding there is “ample evidence” smoking is probably dangerous to health, has ruled that broadcasters who air cigarette commercials must allow equal time for arguments against smoking. In the ruling Thursday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling that radio and television stations have a legal obligation to carry antismoking arguments if they carry cigarette commercials. In a strongly worded opinion, the three judge panel noted tobacco companies have “a financial clout and a compelling interest in the presentation of one side unmatched by its opponent.” “But,” the opinion added, “where the public stake in the

argument is no less than life itself, we think the purpose of rugged debate is served, not hindered, by an attempt to redress the balance. “In view of the potentially grave onsequences of a decision to continue—or above all to start—smoking, we think it was not an abuse of discretion for the commission to attempt to insure not only that the negative view be heard, but that it be heard repeatedly,” the

court said.

“A man who hears a hundred ‘yesses’ for each ‘no’ when the actual odds lie heavily the other way cannot be realistically deemed adequately informed,” it added. “Moreover, since cigarette smoking is psychologically addicting, the confirmed smoker is likely to be relatively unreceptive t o information about its dangers; his hearing is dulled by his appetitp ”

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There have been many 4-H activities this past week. The first meeting was on Monday when the Junior Leaders had their election of officers. The officers elected for 1969 are as follows: Co-presidents- Mike Clodfelter and Debbie Alcorn; Vice -presidents - Teddy Brewer and Vicki Wallace; Secretary - Sally Sendmeyer; Assistant Secretary - Cathy Niles; Treasurer- Kenny Carrington; Assistant Treasurer - Terry Clifford; News Reporter - Beverly McFarland; Assistant News Reporter - Marsha Brattain; Song leaders - Marjorie McCammack and Cindy South; Recreation Leaders - Judy Fordice, Pam Vaughn, Marie McKee, Rhonda Sutherlin, Larry Wilson, and Eddie Clodfelter. Parlimentarian -Gary Wallace; Assistant Parlimentarian - Becky Aker. Each township elects a person to be on the Board of Directors. Russell Township - Donna Kay Fordice; Franklin- Toni Johnson; Jackson - Anita Perkins; Floyd - Carol Robertson; Monroe Greg Richard; Clinton - Lynn Farrow; Madison - Marsha Brattain; Greencastle - Margaret Chase; Marion - Becky Singleton; Jefferson - Terry Clifford; Cloverdale - Ena Whitaker; Warren - Shirley Albright. I missed getting the name of the Washington Township Director. The next Junior Leader activity will be a Christmas Party held at the end of the year. Plans are being made at the present time for this. On Tuesday night, the Fairboard had their annual meeting. It was a very nice meeting with results of the past years business being discussed. The new Board Members were elected and the 4-H Adult Leaders were honored by the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce. On Wednesday night I went to Belle Union for the Jefferson Township 4-H Completion Meeting. On Thursday night was the Clinton Township 4-H Completion Meeting. Next Week the Junior Leader Christmas Party Committee will be meeting at 7:00 at my house. On Tuesday night will be the Jackson Township 4-H Completion Meeting. Then on Friday and Saturday of next week I will be taking a group of ten-year members to Chicago for their Achievement Trip. Last week I attended the National 4-H Agents Annual Conference at East Lansing, Michigan. This was a very inspiring and educational meeting. One thing that has stuck in my mind from this conference is the question “What is 4-H?” This is a question that I think a lot of people that have been associated with 4-H could ask themselves and even people that are not well acquainted might like to consider this question. Probably the first thing that would come to one’s mind would be projects, countyfair , trips, awards, clubs suet as this. Well this is part of 4-H but during the time I was at the conference I got to thinking a little deeper into this question. I was the seminar chairman for one of the sessions which

% consisted of two days of this particular seminar and this question came up. On the second day I got to thinking about how 4-H originated. 4-H originated about 1912 and seemed to spring up all at once in various parts of the United States. Probably no place can really claim to be the very first place to have the 4-H program because it did start at the same time in more than one place. It was started by the school superintendents and the school teachers in all of these places. The reason it was started was because boys and girls, especially the rural boys and girls had some needs which were not being fulfilled. At this time it happened to be in agriculture and an improvement of their way of life. Keeping this in mind, 4-H to me is a program that is to fulfill the needs of boys and girls. As you can realize that as time progresses these needs change. So must the 4-H program. The 4-H program has gone through a lot of change in the last fifty-plus years but I would suspect that there are many more changes to come. One aspect that is quite different the last couple of years in the 4-H program are the TV programs. This year much of the county is watching the 4-H TV Science Project which is being televised on Channel 2 at Terre Haute. This program is designed to supplement the school program in the Science Project. As you can see that this type of program is much different than the conventional 4-H that we have been used to for quite some time in Putnam County. I would venture to say that there will be many more changes such as this in tli« very near future. Next week there will be five boys and girls leaving Putnam County to go to Chicago to attend the National 4-H Club Congress. Putnam County hife five out of the total of forty-five in the State of Indiana. I feel that this is quite a record to have this many out of one county going. Those that will be going are Cathy Niles of Russellville, Marie McKee, Carolyn Torr.and Suzanne Sendmeyer of Greencastle; and Allan Sutherlin of Fillmore. Cathy and Marie are competing for National Awards. We hope to hear in about a week and a half how they came out. I understand that Indiana does have eleven National Winners.

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