The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 December 1968 — Page 2
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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Saturday, December 14, 1968
THE DAILY BANNER and Herald Consolidated "It Waves For AH" Business Phone: OL 3-5151 -01 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 Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as second class mail matter under - Act of March 7, 1878 United Press International lease wire service Mem. ber 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. S 12.00-6 months. $7.00-3 months. $4.50-lndiana other than Putnam Cour ty-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 Alt Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes $2 15 per one month. TODAY’S EDITORIAL Free Coffee—Coming Up! LIVERY YEAR about this time the grim predictions I-j of death and injury on the highways send a cold chill through the seasonal warmth and good cheer. Enough Americans make the attempt to drive home for the holidays—no matter how far—that the “season to be merry” is now the “season to be careful.” Last Christmas-New Year’s, holiday highways produced more than 1,000 deaths, most of which safety experts say could have been prevented. To help cut this year’s toll, restaurant operators across the country have launched a direct attack on one of the major long distance driving hazards. More than 10,000 in cooperation with local police and state and national public safety authorities are sponsoring free coffee safety breaks tooffset fatigue and drowsiness. By offering free coffee restaurant operators hope to inspire hundreds of thousands of rest breaks. Experience shows drivers respond to the pleasant appeal of a coffee break . . . especially a free one. Leaving the car long enough to drink a cup of coffee in the bright surroundings of a restaurant gives the driver a change of environment to offset fatigue and to relieve the pressures of crowded holiday highways. The coffee stop campaign is part of a national safety effort supported by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the Coffee Information Service, numerous restaurant associations and the more than 10,000 restaurant proprietors who are offering the coffee at their own expense. Clearly restaurants participating in this life saving effort are providing a public service of value to us all. Those taking part identify themselves by prominently displaying signs saying “Stop Here . . . Free Coffee . . . Safety Break.” There are no gimmicks in this offer. Any motorist may stop at any restaurant displaying the sign and get free coffee. Along with it, he will get a refreshing change of pace to help stay alert when he is back behind the steering wheel. A deep bow to sponsors of this program. Do your part. Stop where you see the free coffee safety break sign. If you don’t see one, stop anyway. It’ll help keep you alive to enjoy the New Year.
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Postage Pointer WASHINGTON (liril — To seal or not to seal — it makes no difference in cost of sending Christmas cards this year. Just slap six cents on each one. Under a little-noticed provision of the new postal rates, costs for the first ounce were made identical to first class rates—six cents per letter. A year ago, and for many previous Christmases, unsealed greeting cards containing no personal messages heyond the sender’s signature might be mailed for a penny less than first class. But cards undeliverable to the given address were neither forwarded nor returned. For the extra penny this year, you will get one or the other, provided a return address is on the envelope. Actually, the new provisions only make the third and first class rates equal for the first ounce, a category that includes most holiday greeting cards. A card weighing up to two ounces may be mailed third class for just six cents, but it will not be forwarded or returned if non-deliverable.
Report no survivors in crash
By KIM FUAD CARACAS (UPI) — Rescue boats operating among swarms of sharks off the coast of Venezuela radioed today there were no survivors in the crash of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 jet which hit the sea in a ball of flames Thursday night with 51 perso s aboard. The plane had left Kennedy International Airport in New York at 5:10 p.m. EST Thursday and plunged into the sea as it was approaching Caracas’ Maiquetia International Airport on a nonstop flight. The last word came from the pilot who radioed at 9;05 p.m.
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he would need no maintenance in Caracas. The plane was reported to have exploded in flight and Venezuelan navy rescue officials said “there are no signs of life’* at the scene, 1G miles off the coast. They found emptyrubber rafts and fragments of wreckage floating on the sea. Crew's of the rescue boats said they had found 13 bodies— seven women, five men and two children— and that some of the bodies had been molested by sharks. The reported “swarms” of sharks at the scene of the crash. In Washington the National Transportation Safety Board said first information indicated
the crash was within Venezuelan jurisdiction and would be investigated by Venezuelan authorities. Otherwise a team of safety board investigators would take charge. Investigator Pat Grimes flew to Caracas today. He will be assisted byadvisers from the Federal Aviation Administration, Pan American, Boeing, Pratt and Whitney and the Air Line Pilots Association. Withdrawal WASHINGTON (UPI)Defense Secretary Clark M. Flifford today proposed a mutual withdrawal of US. and North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam starting in the next 40 days.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has finally moved. For years and years it subscribed to the futile doctrine that one cannot criticize one’s own: one’s own being, in this case, all other colored people. Insiders and not a few outsiders knew that such gentlemen as Roy Wilkins and John Morsell, the two principal executives of NAACP, have been aghast at the extremism that has issued from the irresponsible black left. But until now, the Association has been reluctant to identify black extremism for fea r of appearing treacherous, so that the present break suggests that, on reflection, their policy of see-no-evil hear-no-evil over there in the fever swamps of black ideology has struck them as unsound. Or it suggests that the intensification of extremist activity is now such that it cannot, as a matter of fact, be ignored. I think of the Reverend Ralph Abernathy who, facing a college audience the day before the NAACP published its disavowals was asked the question: “Do you believe that Richard Nixon and William Buckley are racists?” to which he gave the answer: “Well, they are very nearly that.” Granted, it is hard to wrest any analytical meaning from such a statement, it being as hard to be very nearly a racist as to be very nearly pregnant. Now I do not mean to suggest that Mr. Wilkins has now shown such penitence as would be appropriate in, for instance, setting right the record on the NAACP’s own demagogic and irresponsible criticisms of Barry Goldwater when he ran for President. Nor can we expect retroactive criticisms of Martin Luther King for drawing comparisons between
Goldwater and Hitler--as well expect the Friends of the Little Flower to attack the Little Flower. In fact, the statement did not single out anybody at all by name, in the magisterial tradition. And, interesting also, the statement gave reasons against black extremism which are unrelated to questions of right and wrong, as in, “Dr. Abernathy, you mustn’t call Mr. Nixon a racist, because if you do he might bite.” That is different from saying: “Dr. Abernathy, you mustn’t call Mr. Nixon a racist because he isn’t one.” “The time has come,” said the NAACP editorial, “for speaking out loud and clear lest the entire race be branded as hate-mongers, segregationists, advocates of violence, and worse.” That is solid tactical judgment, because there is great risk in the unjust association of the many with the sins of the few. Eldridge Cleaver hasn’t a large black following, but it exists, and, for his echo chambers, he has the New Left. I pause to record that in the current issue of the Evergreen Review Mr. Jack Newfield, whose conscience is so refined that the gentlest wind will sear it, notes that he voted for Eldridge Cleaver for President, which is rather
like a staff member of President John Kennedy voting for Oswald for President, inasmuch as Newfield was a fervent follower of Senator Kennedy, and Eldridge Cleaver calls Kennedy a pig and Sirhan Sirhan a hero. Although the many white extremists do much to give the few black extremists a bad name, the NAACP has a point there: that bad name could contaminate black-white relations. Finally, the NAACP editorial makes the good point that entirely too much attention is given by the press to the perversions of the extremists. I remember lunching a while ago with a Negro leader who seized that morning’s issue of the New York Times which featured as its “Man Continued on Page 3
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Blizzard hits plain states By United Press International A blizzard with winds that drove snow at speeds of a mile a minute swept parts of five northern plains states today. The weather bureau said blizzard and severe blizzard warnings were in effect from Iowa and central Nebraska through parts of the Dakotas to Minnesota. Wind gusts of 40 to 60 miles an hour and driving show reduced visibility to near zero in the area, the weather bureau said. Five inches of snow, whipped into drifts by 55 mile an hour winds and temperatures of 8 degrees, numbed Sioux Falls, S.D. The city’s two television stations were knocked off the air by icing on power lines. Four to eight inches of snow had fallen in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin by moning and the weather bureau said more was on the way. The weather bureau said subzero cold was reported overnight from the western Dakotas to northern Wyomine and north central Montana.
The young sailor wasn’t nervous. He had a microphone, and a set speech. The only way he could be derailed would be to ask him a question in the middle of his rehearsed proclamation. His job was to conduct distinguished visitors on a tour of Pearl Harbor. His white sailor hat was shoved forward over his brows. He was pink-cheeked and beardless. The attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor was now ancient history; he recited the event as though the United States had won something. The United States Navy—with the connivance of the Congress-has spent millions of dollars on a Pearl Harbor memorial, which makes it appear as though sleepiness and sudden death are virtues. The monument must be a tribute to the Japanese Navy, which smashed the American which smashed the American fleet in one blow on that morning of December 7th, 1941. Before the Japanesecouldmove southward to subjugate the Philippines and take the oil and rubber of the Dutch East Indies, Borneo and Malaysia, they had to nullify the one striking force which could contest these acquisitions; the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The final decision was to send Mr. Saburo Kurusu to Washington to negotiate a peaceful agreement in concert with Admiral It would not be an affirmative declaration of war, but diplomatically, a severance of relations. The U S, had broken the code of the Japanese, and had read the final advisory to the Japanese advisers before they had time to decipher it.
On December 5th, Gth, and 7th our country slept. A Japanese task force of carriers approached within 750 miles northwest of Oahu and, in the morning, released it., bombers and torpedo planes for the run-in on Pearl Harbor. The American battleships were anchored around Ford's Island in twos. As Kurusu and Nomura were waiting in Hull’s outer office to tell him that all bets were off (they were not told of the sneak attack) the battleships Maryland and Mississippi and Arizona and Pennsylvania--the main American muscle in the Pacific--were going up in black oily smoke and thousands of American sleepyheads, who believed that Sunday morning was the proper time for weekend liberty passes, were dying. T'e young sailor, who could not have been born when this event occurred, continued his happy spiel about that day and said: “On your left in the Arizona memorial, built on top of the number three turret of the battleship, where more than a thousand American sailors are still imprisoned.” In the forward part of the boat, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kroll, American patriots, looked ai each other and asked the sailor if those bodies were still below. He dropped the set speech. “Yes,” he said, “the Navy seni divers down years ago, but they found that there was a lot ol unexploded ammunition aboard and oil is still seeping to the
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