The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 December 1968 — Page 2

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, December 6, 1968

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Race With Catastrophe r PHE UNITED STATES Post Office is an excellent example of what happens to a government business which doesn’t face competition from free enterprise. The postal service operates at a $1 billion annual deficit and has antiquated equipment which contributes to steadily deteriorating mail delivery. The Post Office, according to former Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien, is in a “race with catastrophe.” In 1966, for example, the Chicago Post Office, the world’s largest, simply stopped operating. Some 10 million pieces of mail piled up and it took a special crew from Washington three weeks to alleviate the jam-up. The ideal solution to the plight of the Post Office, according to the Kappel Commission, would be to sell it to private enterprise. Frederick R. Kappel, former chairman of AT&T and chairman of the presidential commission, says that, unfortunately, the Post Office is such a mess, “you couldn’t sell it to anybody.” The next best answer offered by the commission would be to create a government corporation similar to the TVA, which operates much like a private business concern. The commission predicts that within several years, a government corporation could modernize postal equipment, eliminate the deficit and improve mail delivery. So far, the proposal has been brushed aside by the President even though he appointed the commission. If the solution is unworkable or the President has a better one, the public wants to know.

X15 rocket pilot receives Harmon Aviation Trophy WASHINGTON (UPI) — X15 launched from a B52 jet flying

rocket plane pilot William J. “Pete” Knight, a native of Indiana, was presented the Harmon Aviation Trophy Tuesday by President Johnson who praised him as having “made a career of challenging the impossible.” “The men who fly the X15 are our finest,” Johnson said in presenting the coveted aviation award to the 39-year-old Air Force major, a native of Noblesville, Ind., at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room. “They do not have the security of knowing that their equipment has gone through unmanned flight tests,” Johnson said. “Everytime an X15 takes to the air, a man is at the controls.” Knight flew the stubby-winged rocket craft to a record 4,500 miles per hour Oct. 3, 1967. The research ship, which has been flying since 1960 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is

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at 45,000 feet. Johnson called the X15 a “flying laboratory” and said that future planes would be safer, faster and more efficient because of it. Johnson said Knight safely landed the X15 after it experienced complete rocket and power failure at 107,000 feet— more than 20 miles high. But the President said Knight’s courage was “tested time and again” in his role as a test pilot. Knight, who won astronauts’ wings for flying the X15 more than 50 miles above earth a few days after his record speed flight, won the Distinguished Flying Cross for making that “deadstick” landing. Knight’s wife and two young sons watched as the President handed him the trophy, which was founded by the late Col. Clifford B. Harmon, a pioneer American aviator who wanted some way to honor exceptional pilot performance. Also on hand was actress Maureen O’Hara, wife of Brig. Gen. Charles Blair, who won the trophy in 1952. “Seventy years ago,” Johnson said in presenting Knight the trophy, “if an American president had announced that next month three men would take a trip around the moon, he would have been locked up. “Only people like Jules Verne were allowed to talk such foolishness,” he said, referring to the scheduled launch about Dec. 21 of three astronauts on a flight around the moon in an Apollo spaceship.

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Sheppard sued for divorce by second wife, who fears for life

CLEVELAND (UPI)—Pretty, blonde Ariane Tebbenjohanns linked her arm in Dr. Sam’s that happy day in 1966, smiled for photographers, and told the world how happy she was her husband finally had been acquitted of murdering his first wife. Tuesday Ariane Sheppard filed for a divorce. The petition asked the court to enjoin her osteopath husband from “touching the person of the plaintiff or otherwise threatening or molesting her in any way.” She said she feared for her life. Sheppard served almost 10 years in prison for the bludgeon murder in 1954 of his pregnant wife Marilyn, after one of the century’s most sensational murder trials. He proclaimed his innocence, contending a bushy, haired intruder was the killer. Because of adverse pretrial publicity, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a new trial, and Sheppard was acquitted in 1966. He had married the German, born divorcee two years earlier after a pen-pal correspondence blossomed into romance. The day he walked out of the courtroom, a free man with a pretty wife and a new life ahead, seemed to be a personal high point for Dr. Sam. It’s been downhill for him ever since. Sheppard took up practice at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital a year ago. Since then he has been named in two negligence suits totaling over $1 million in which his patients

died after surgery. Then Tuesday Ariane filed for divorce, and sought and won court protection from her husband pending the divorce proceedings. She asked Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court for both temporary and permanent alimony, use of their $40,000 home in the Cleveland suburb of Bay

Village and payment of attorney fees. Her attorney, Jerry E. Dempsey, claimed Sheppard threatened to kill his second wife. They separated a week ago and Sheppard’s whereabouts were unknown, Dempsey said. The suit said Sheppard “threatens to and unless restrained by this court will perpetrate on her person acts of violence to her irreparable damage and great bodily harm for which she has no adequate remedy in law.” The couple’s southern colonial brick home, fronting on Lake Erie, is just a mile east of the house where Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant, was bludgeoned to death .

Franklin College announces tuition hike FRANKLIN - In a letter to parents and guardians, Franklin College President Wesley Haines Monday announced a $120 increase in the College’s tuition for the next academic year, beginning September, 1969. Relaying the recent regretful decision of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Haine’s letter said, “Educational institutions Share with business enterprises the burden of inflation in our national economy, with consequent increases in faculty salaries, in wages generally, and in prices for food, materials and supplies. Prices for board will also be raised $20 with room remaining the same, bringing the schedule of costs for the next academic year to : tuition, $1,710; board, $540; room, $370, a total of $2,620 per year. The most recent tuition hike at Franklin was a year ago, when a $150 increase was made. Franklin College is not alone in feeling the press of rising costs, as nearly all of Indiana’s colleges and universities, both public and private have raised fees within the past two years. As studies have indicated, tuition fees pay only about two-thirds of the cost of educating a student, with the other third being made up through endowment, gifts, and other sources. As Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Eddy Tests indicated, “Costs at independent colleges like Franklin are high, because the costs of education are high, yet students are still paying the same proportion of their expenses as they did many years ago.” A national study indicated that costs per student have escalated some 33 per cent since 1961, with inflation being the major factor in this spiral. “Education is the one major product that is sold below cost,” Dr. Haines noted in a recent Speech. The cost of higher education continues to rise, both in rigor and in the explosion of knowledge as well as in money.” To meet this need, private colleges are also engaging in stepped up programs to encourage alumni giving and turning increasingly to business and industry and foundations for assistance.

"BODILY HARM" Or Samuel Sheppard and wife Ariane are shown in a happier day. before she filed for divorce in Cleveland and asked the court to enjoin him from threatening her with “great bodily harm." They were married in 19H4 shortly after he was released from prison where he served almost 10 years in the bludgeon murder of his first wife. He was acquitted in a second trial.

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They say that Joe Valachi is the only canary who sings bass. He has been caged for life by the United States Government---as much to protect Valachi as to protect us from Valachi. He is short, squat, lipless, a lower case soldier in the Cosa Nostra. He is the first man to have broken the blood oath never to reveal anything about the “families” of the Mafiosa. For this he has been sentenced to be “hit” as an ingrate. In the early thirties, the superhoods had taken Joe in, permitted him to become a respectable loan shark, paid him well to drive getaway cars when rebellious gangsters were being erased, put him in the numbers racket in Harlem, and, in general, opened to him life’s nobler side. Valachi told his story to the U.S Senate. He told it to the FBI. He recited it for publication in the Saturday Evening Post (an article presumably written by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy) and in a book by Peter Maas called “The Valachi Papers.” When Joe sings, he may not be in key, but he is loud. I don’t know why he strikes me funny, but his statements about gangsters murdering other gangsters are hilarious. Valachi belonged to the Vito Genovese family, a grim man with sunglasses who seldom smiles unless somebody else’s head is being blown off. “If you went to Vito,” Valachi said, “and told him about some guy who was doing wrong, then he would have you killed for telling on the guy.” These are short odds. Vito.who lived on a hill in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., while I had a house on the edge of the sea, was about as subtle as a broken leg in a ballet. He fell in love with Anna Petillo and, by coincidence, her husband was found strangled on a roof shortly after.

Within two weeks of the funeral, the grieving widow was married to Vito Genovese. At one time, Ferdy the Shadow Boccia brought Vito a mark to play with. A mark is a sucker with money. Vito went partners with Mike Miranda and they rigged up a crooked card game and took a lot of cabbage from the chump. He began to squawk, so they sold him one of those old-time machines which churns out ten dollar bills. Total take: $160,000. He went away happy, but Ferdy the Shadow didn’t. According to his arithmetic, which involved taking off his shoes when he counted beyond ten, Vito and Mike Miranda owed him $35,000 in commissions for finding the mark. Vito irked easily. A sum like $35,000 moving in the wrong direction could steam Genovese for hours. William Gallo and Ernie The Hawk Rupolo were called in and ordered to hit Ferdy The Shadow. As you know, a hit is to make somebody dead. Gallo was sent off to find Ferdy, while Vito and Mike Miranda paid The Hawk an extra $175 to hit Gallo as soon as Ferdy was stone dead. At this point, it was becoming involved and Genovese had all the signs of an Excedrin headache. A week later, Ferdy was still Continued on Page 5

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