The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, December 12. 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL A Shorter Transition I [NTIL 1933 when the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, presidents were inaugurated in March, about four months after Election Day. There was justification for a long transition period in the early days of the republic. Transportation was slow and difficult, and winter storms made it more tedious still. Before a president could be inaugurated, it was necessary for the electors to travel long distances to cast their ballots and more time was required for the results to be sent to Washington and for Congress to convene in order to tabulate them. More time still was consumed by the president-elect as he proceeded toward the capital, a journey which sometimes resembled a triumphal march. He would stop at each town along the way to greet well-wishers and confer with local dignitaries. The 20th Amendment, which established Jan. 20 as Inauguration Day, recognized that the pace of the nation had quickened and that four months were no longer needed for the transfer of power. Today, in an age of jet travel and instantaneous communications, thought might be given to shortening the transition period once again. The investiture can be accomplished in less time, making it pointless to prolong the tenure of an outgoing president. The long period between Nov. 5 and Jan. 20 has become a time of paralysis in decision-making. An incumbent president possesses the full powers of the office so far as the law is concerned, but as a practical matter he finds it increasingly difficult to exercise them. President Johnson’s authority has been fading since his announcement not to seek another term. Important decisions must necessarily wait upon Inauguration Day. Despite the statesmanlike co-opera-tion between President Johnson and President-elect Nixon, a breakthrough in the Paris talks seems improbable until after Jan. 20. The Johnson-Nixon relationship reduces the dangers of a lengthy transition. But Congress can largely remove them by proposing a constitutional amendment reducing the unnecessary delay.

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Fireman Apprentice James A. Plummer, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet E. Plummer of 707 E. Washington St., Greencastle, participated in operation “Beef Trust” aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Southern California. The last major First Fleet exercise of the year, the eightday exercise involved 28 ships and 31 air squadrons, including four Canadian units. Designed to prepare U.S. units for the conditions encountered in Southeast Asia and throughout tho Western Pacific, theexercise consisted of missile firing exercises, bombing practice, close air support and anti-sub-marine warfare. Cruisers and destroyers fired their guns at the San Clemente Island Range and at a target hull the ex-USS Jesse Rutherford, while guided missile ships tested their batteries against drone aerial targets in the Pacific Missile Range. Carrier and land based aircraft flew strikes against the San Clemente Island Range, while the entire task force guarded against two U.S. submarines playing aggressors.

LEXINGTON, MO., — Cadet James G. Morrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Morrison, Greencastle, has earned academic honors for the second six weeks grading period of the first semester at Wentworth MilitaryAcademy, Lt. Col. Cordell Thomas, dean, has announced. James has earned superior grades to qualify for the dean’s Special Distinction List. Cadets who earn academic honors during the specified grading periods at Wentworth are accorded extra privileges and are permitted to wear the Scholastic Bar on their uniform. Unsuccessful attack By United Press International SAIGON—A Marine official, commenting on an unsuccessful attack by North Vietnamese on the Marines’ Quang Tri base below Vietnam's Demilitarized Zone: “They must have been crazy to think they could get in there.” Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.

A country with as little faith as any in the outcome of Paris peace talks over Vietnam is Thailand. The Thais, like many highechelon South Vietnamese, fear a U.S. sell-out in Vietnam and fear that if the Communists succeed in taking over Vietnam, their country will be next. Meanwhile, Thailand’s com. mitment in South Vietnam is total. Its army and naval forces fight in South Vietnam along, side the United States. U.S. fighter-bombers take off from Thai bases to attack North Vietnam transports along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, and, before the bombing halt, against North Vietnam itself. Which is by way of pointing up the complexities facing U.S. negotiators in Paris. These are not the peace talks which concluded the armistice in Korea 15 years ago. Those talks dealt specifically with Korea and with the North Koreans and Red Chinese. In Paris, the negotiators must consider not only Vietnam but Laos and Thailand as well. Eventually they must have a voice. In the military viewpoint Vietnam, Laos and Thailand always have been considered one war theater. In Vietnam, the North Vietnamese openly support the Viet Cong but deny participation in the South by their own troops. In Laos, it is the Pathet Lao, again with denial that some 40,000 NVN troops are in Laos in violation of Laotian neutrality. And in Thailand, it is the Thailand Patriotic Front which

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst is supported by North Vietnam, separated at one point from Thailand by only 55 miles. Giving point to Thailand fears, a recent report of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) listed five Southeast Asia nations suffering from increased Communist insurgency. They were Thailand, Laos, Three Counties in community action CLAY-OWEN-PUTNAM Community Action Program is sending Outreach people into ail areas of the three counties during December and January to make personal contacts with families who might wish to become involved in one of the programs available thru Community Action. Thirteen persons have been hired to make contacts in areas familiar to them. COP-Com-munity Action is an organization of local people designed for helping communities to meet the needs of the community. It is hoped that you will welcome these visitors to your home and express your feelings to them. Certain data is necessary so COP-CAP can plan its Headstart, Neighborhood Centers, Senior Citizen, tutoring, sewing, cooking, camping, etc. activities for the coming year.

Cambodia, Malaysia and Burma. The Thais are firm believers in the domino theory and are convinced that within moments of a Communist takeover in Vietnam they would become the next target. Laos, they believe, would fall as a straw house in a windstorm. Meeting held Paul Jackson, Area Extension Agent, announced today that Noah Hadley, Purdue Extension Economist will be back Wednesday for Farm Finance. The session will be held at the community buildingat the fairgrounds at 7:30, The meeting will deal with the critical question of farm organization and operation in the competitive years ahead. Farmers in modern day agriculture are faced with many management decisions that must be based on an understanding of farm technology and economic forces. Topics to be discussed include: “The BestSizeof Business to Operate,” and “Financing the Farm of the Future.” Jackson states these meetings are designed to bring to Putnam county farmers an analysis of current management problems coming out of the rapid changes in farming.

Annual beef sale The Seventh Annual Beef Bull Sale has been scheduled for February 22, 1969 at 1 p.m. at the Springville Feeder Auction facilities 10 miles Northwest of Bedford on State Roads 54 and 58. Rush Armstrong of the Springville Feeder Auction Association has been named Sales Manager. The Southern Indiana Feeder Auction Association, Indiana Horned Hereford Association, Angus Association, Indiana Polled Shorthorn Association, Indiana Charolais Association, Indiana Cattleman’s Association, Indiana Cooperative Extension Service, and the Animal Science Department of Purdue University are sponsoring the sale. This sale is held each year in order to bring together an offering of good bulls for the commercial beef producers as well as purebred breeders. Any purebred beef producer wanting to consign bulls to this sale may do so by contacting his beef cattle association representative. The consignment deadline is January 16. The group is planning on approximately 25 Angus, 20 Polled Herefords, 15 Horned Herefords, 5 Charolais, and 3 Polled Shorthorn. The bulls must be born prior to Nov. 1, 1967. Any cattleman in the market for a good herd sire this spring should mark his calendar and plan to attend this sale. As in the past there will be some bulls with performance records. Search continues for Black Panther leader SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-The federal government has entered the search for fugitive Black Panther leader E 1 d r i d g e Cleaver on evidence of a large bank withdrawal and trip to New York by Cleaver’s wife. The FBI, in an affidavit presented Tuesday, said Kathleen Cleaver flew to New York last Sunday after withdrawing $33,000 from the couple’s joint bank account, money apparently earned from sales of Cleaver’s book, “Soul on Ice.” “It appears she has transported funds which are the fugitive’s property for delivery and probable use outside the state,” the affidavit said. The 33-year-old Cleaver disappeared Nov. 24, three days before he was due to be returned to prison as a parole violator from a 1957 assault conviction in Los Angeles. On the basis of the FBI affidavit, U.S. Commissioner Richard Goldsmith issued a federal fugitive warrant charging Cleaver with unlawful flight across state lines to avoid prosecution. Bail was set at $100,000. Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom party’s 1968 presidential candidate, had been free on $50,000 bail on assault charges stemming from a shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police last April 6. After the shootout, Cleaver’s parole was revoked and he was returned to prison. He had been paroled in 1966 after serving nine years of a 13-year sentence for assault and rape.

Snow salted the hills. The hunters had an edge on the deer. They could be tracked today. In the bottom of the white soupplate, the town of Clean, New York, nestled like a breakfast cereal. Olean is pronounced Oh-lee-an and it is self-contained because it is off the road to anywhere. There is a main street with toed-in parking, a few traffic lights, some old-fashioned houses with gingerbread porches and long icicles hanging from the gutters. It is the site of St. Bonaventure University, an assortment of moderm buildings edging the Allegheny River. The Franciscans run it. In brown habits, they meditate on the curving campus walks. They have but two problems: (1) How to keep from going broke. (2) How loose to hold the reins on 2,500 students. Today, a small group of them were picketing Olean shops for selling California grapes. The students want the Mexican grape pickers to get more for their work. It was an embarrassment' to Father Reginald Redlon, the handsome president. After wearying thought, he decided not to stop them. The right freely to assemble could not be abridged, and yet those merchants were friends and supporters of the college. Some of the shopkeepers came out on the snowy sidewalk and talked to the pickets. They nodded and went away. The local rabbi, recently returned from Poland, stopped in to see Father Iraeneus, the Barry Fitzgerald of the university library. It is a place of peace, books and beautiful paintings. A Jew named Friedsam built it. The rabbi had fresh knowledge of the Iron Curtain to impart. Scholars can debate all afternoon without noticing the encroaching darkeness. Olean deserves national attention because it cares for its brethren. In addition, it has a sense of humor. Vince Letro, the county supervisor, leaves bags of shelled pecans in each room of Guerino Butchello’s imposing Castle Inn. A card attached to the nuts welcomes the stranger and hopes that he “will not need our services during your stay in Olean.” Mr. Letro is the undertaker. He phoned a buddy in St. Francis Hospital and said: “I would have sent flowers, my friend, but we had no funeral today.” Dr. Russell Jandoli runs the journalism school. He is a gray owl who doles minutes like a miser handing out gold pieces. There is no campus insurrec-

tion at St. Bonaventure and one learns quickly that academic freedom is elastic. Some of the boys grow beards; some of the girls go mini. Too many beards; too many minis—and the faculty cracks down and everybody starts all over. The university went into hock at the bank to build a rathskeller for the students. Freshmen are not allowed, but upper classmen sit in the brick cellar in the evenings and order beer. The rathskeller is paying for itself. One enterprising student fashioned a pizza oven and he and his roommate bootleg the pies at midnight. They think no one knows. The faculty knows who and how much, but they permit it because young stomachs are always hungry. Another boy makes hero sandwiches and, for a price, these are hand-deliv-ered all over the dormitory. Ten years ago, for some obscure reason which escapes me, St. Bonaventure bestowed upon me a doctorate in letters. I cherish it doubly because I was a school dropout. This time, the university dedicated a Jim Bishop Room at the library. All of my original manuscripts, most especially all of my mistakes, will go there so youngsters may peruse them and learn how not to do it. The university does not dominate the town, as some colleges do. Mayor Harvey Sneiderman runs Olean. The air of peaceful pursuit and isolation makes ful pursuit and isolation makes it appear warm and friendly to a stranger. The citizens can drive south to Allegheny or north to Buffalo, but they seldom do either. The town lies in a snow belt and cars are marooned by sudden blizzards halfway to nowhere. There are a thousand municipalities like Olean across the breadth of this country. Often, we drive through them without stopping, noting the hardware store, the steepled church, the bulging red barns at both ends. This one represents all that is good in all of them. Each has its own elegant society, its Peyton Place, a school which tries hard to grind out scholars, a police chief with a fat cigar in his face, and a few hardship cases. Each is a classic portrait of what a small town should be, complete with free pecans and the notation: “We hope you don’t need our services during your visit.”

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