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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, December 4, 1968

THE DAILY BANNER and Herald Consolidated “It Waves For All” Business Phone: OL 3-5151 -0L 3-5152 LuMar Newspapers Inc. Dr. Mary Tarzian, Publisher Published every evening except Sunday and Holidays at 1221 South Bloomington St.. Greencastle. Indiana, 46135. Entered in the Pos- Oftice at Greencastle. Indiana, as second class mail matter under- Act of Warch 7. 1878 United Press International lease wire service- Mem; ber Inland Dai ly Press Association; Hoosier State Press Association. r. un f 0 li c,ted art,cles . 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-ofh^r C t < hi?. tV D 1 , Vear V $ 12 ' 00 .' 6 mon,hs . $7.00-3 months. S4.50-lndiana th ^ . F ^ tna . m J C° ur 'Y* 1 vear. S14.00-6 months, S R.00-3 months. ,V!! d,a " a - 1 vear ' S’S-OO-e months. $10.00-3 months, s/.uu All Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes $2 In per one month. ' ° Cambodian Hypocrisy TJYPOCRISY seems to be the basic ingredient of Cambodia’s foreign policy with the United States. Prince Sihanouk, in varying degrees, has opposed the U.S. presence in South Vietnam. He holds 11 Americans for ransom whose supply boat accidentally strayed into Cambodian waters about three months ago. Sihanouk is less concerned about the massive border violations of the Communists. He continues to deny that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese use his country as a supply route and sanctuary from the war in South Vietnam even though American newsmen, invited by the prince himself, found a recently abandoned enemy camp near the South Vietnamese border. U.S. TV broadcasters also have filmed Cambodian police directing traffic for Red transports carrying war materiel from North Vietnam. By established rules of war the United States would be justified in hot pursuit of enemy troops fleeing into Cambodia. So far, the Johnson administration has permitted Communist forces to seek sanctuary in Cambodia. The prince realizes, of course, that Hanoi would step up its activities against Cambodia if the United States should withdraw from Southeast Asia. Already they have organized native guerrilla units in Northern Cambodia. Sihanouk’s enthusiasm for the Communists rises whenever the U.S. appeaars to vacillate in the protection of South Vietnam. His belligerence has stepped up since the Paris peace talks began because he fears a victory for Hanoi. His holding of the 11 U.S. servicemen can be interpreted as a test of American determination. Therefore, we should demand their return within a specified amount of time and then go get them, if they are not released. That would serve notice on friend and foe alike that the United States has the power and will to protect its interests.

SHAPING UP

Arendt’s 1968 grand champion Women considered

steer goes to auction

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CHICAGO (UPI) - Blackjack may not have had much of the hoopla, but he’s worth in the neighborhood of $18,000 to three Highmore, S.D., boys. Aloysius, Gregory and Peter Arendt find out today just how much their 1968 International Live Stock Exposition grand champion steer is worth when their 1,100-pound black Angus goes on the auction block. Last year’s grand champion, sired by Ankonian Jingo II, Blackjack’s father, brought $15.15 a pound at the auction in the International Amphitheatre. When they learned Monday they had won, Al, 16, speaking for his brothers, Gregory, 14, and Peter, 12, said, “We’re very happy. We didn't think we had a chance here until 24 hours ago.” Bought For $125 Their father, who bought Blackjack for $125 from the owners of the Ankony Ranch which he manages, “promises” the money the boys receive for their steer “is going for their college educations.” Before the auction the boys

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already had won the $825 cash prize for the championship plus that coveted blue ribbon. The emphasis on education is why Blackjack was never shown outside of the Hyde County Fair in South Dakota where he was reserve grand champion. “We put other things, like schoolwork, ahead of shows,” the father said. Al said the champion was “too poor for a carcass testjust skin and bones” when Arendt discovered him. “He was tossed in the feedlot and that’s how we got him.” A ‘Good Gainer’ Grazing on the wide - open ranges near the town of 950 persons in central South Dakota, Blackjack was a “good gainer—he gained about 3V4 pounds a day.” The Arendt brothers, from a family of 13 children and decked out in black slacks, white shirts and black vests, also showed the championship Angus group of three steers. Blackjack got the traditional slap on the rump over Blue Again, the Angus - Shorthorn crossbreed which won t h e junior grand championship for Michael Miller, 15, Alta, Iowa, Friday. Blue Again was named reserve champion. Four young men from the Eight Ball Ranch of Fullerton, Neb., showed the champion Hereford and Hook, Santmann and Irvine of Dysart and Buckingham, Iowa, showed the champion Shorthorn.

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‘fair game’ in auto monopoly By ROBERT F. BUCKHORN WASHINGTON (UPI) - Automobile repair operations that prey on gullible women, pass off rebuilt parts as new ones, and jacked up prices $1 billion over the last year were described to Congress today as hearings opened on the car repair

business.

Chairman Philip A. Hart, DMich., said in an opening statement to his Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee that the $1 billion price increase was a conservative estimate, but even at that “was an out-of-pocket expense nearly triple the cost of price increases on 1969 cars.” Neal E. Mann, executive secretary of the Independent Automotive Damage Appraisers Association, said the industry had to cope with some repairmen who bribe insurance appraisers to pad damage

appraisals.

“A typical type of bribe is to hand the appraiser $50 in cash and ask the appraiser to inflate the appraisal by $100,” Mann said in prepared testimony. Mann, whose organization employs some 700 appraisers, said that there have been cases where garage owners worked out agreements with other garage owners to supply higher bids to customers who try to compare repair estimates. He also said some garage owners used “dummy estimate pads” from other garages to try to convince customers their estimates are lower. According to Mann, other repair shops “consider women fair game and a good source of

revenue.”

A typical procedure is to advise women that “the family car is on the verge of a breakdown and they won’t make it home unless it is repaired,”

Mann said.

He also cited examples of garagemen who install rebuilt parts on repair orders that bill the customer for new parts. Mann said some rebuilt parts are as good as new ones, “but the fact remains that the new parts are more expensive.”

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Nixon names new chief adviser By EUGENE V. RISHER NEW YORK (UPI)— Pres-ident-elect Richard M. Nixon, his administration beginning to take shape, today names as his chief science adviser Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, president of the California Institute of Technology. Nixon was to introduce Dubridge, a long-time personal friend and a renowned physicist, at a news conference at 10 a.m. EST. Dubridge, who will take a leave of absence from Caltech, has met with the president-elect several times since Nixon’s election to help map plans for scientific programs in his administration. He told newsmen after a meeting with Nixon last week that he was not a candidate for a White House post but that as a patriotic American he could not turn a firm presidential offer down. “No scientist will decline an important government position if offered one,” he said. He will replace Dr. John P. Hornig, President Johnson’s science adviser. Nixon named the first high, level policy maker in his administration Monday when he appointed Dr. Henry A. Kissin. ger of Harvard University as his assistant for national security. Appearing at a joint news conference with Kissinger at his hotel Pierre headquarters, Nixon charged him to bring “creativity” into Americar foreign policy and defense planning and to revitalize and streamline the national security council. In his new post, Kissinger, 45, will be the chief liaison between the president and the state and defense departments.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

The bitterness was always unspoken. It was alive, but it showed only in a slight curl of the lip. John Bishop felt that he had been betrayed by the politicians and the knowledge dimmed the twilight years. One day not long ago his shaking bony hand held out a small leather case. “Would you like to have my lieutenant’s shield--as a memento?” I took it, conscious of the honor of being selected out of three children. It was placed in a drawer full of baby shoes, old Christmas cards and notes from my mother. None of them would mean anything to another generation and someday would be dumped by younger hands into the day’s garbage. John Michael Bishop had been born of Irish immigrants in Jersey City, N.J., on October 29th, 1883. He was the oldest of eight. In Christmas week, 1898, three of the children had died of diphtheria. His father, Jim Bishop of Innescorthy, Wexford, shoveled bituminous coal at the Eagle Oil Works and died of silicosis in 1904. A Democratic ward leader, John Prout, helped John to become a policeman. There were no squad cars in 1909. He pounded the pavement out of the Fifth Precinct and earned $60 a month. Ambition is a flogging master; my father had enough of it to eat his heart out. The city fell under the benevolent lash of Frank Hague and a long era of Christian scourging began. The “outs” could do no right; the “ins” could do

no wrong. Johnny Bishop was lucky; he was “in.” He took the test for sergeant and came up second on the list. He took one for lieutenant and emerged on top. He wore a big chest. By 1921, he was a man who could do favors. He could even get jobs for the children of friends. Hague had come to know this broad-beamed lieutenant (254 lbs.) as a scholar. Bishop had taken more correspondence courses than there are schools, and he leaped from mathematics to astronomy to physics. One day the stiff collar of Hague confronted the ambition of Bishop and the mayor said: “Tom Wolfe went to school with me. I’m going to make him chief and I want you to be his aide and steer him right. Do this, and I’ll make you chief someday.” It is possible that my father helped too much. The chief ordered him not to take the test for captaincy. “I want you right here,” he said, “and that ought to be good enough for you.” The first taste of bitterness was on the lieutenant’s tongue. In 1933, there was a depression and the cops were on half pay. Bishop retired and tried other fields. When my mother died, eleven years ago, he went to live with

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