The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 December 1968 — Page 6

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, December 16, 1968

Outbreak of Hong Kong flu closes Schools .early for Christmas holidays

By CHARLES S. TAYLOR ATLANTA (UPI) - Many schools and colleges, particular, ly in the East and Midwest, are closing a week early for the Christmas holidays because of Hong Kong Flu outbreaks. Health officials predicted a three-month flu siege for the nation.

The National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) said statistics compiled from 122 cities show nearly 700 pneumo-nia-influenza deaths for the week ending Dec. 7—above the epidemic level. “It appears we’re at the beginning of a national epidemic, not at the peak of it,” an

William Fields inherits $15,000 from Flat Nose

TOO DEMONSTRATIVE These two demonstrators at San Francisco State College apparently got too demonstrative.

William Holden questioned about business enterprise

LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Actor William .Holden was questioned behind closed doors in a federal court room for nearly two hours Thursday night on an African business enterprise in which he was a partner. * His testimony was given in the case of Ray Ryan, a imillionaire oilman from Evansville, Ind., who has been charged with obstruction of justice. Ryan has been accused pf de-

stroying certain records of the Mt. Kenya Safari Club in the East African country of Kenya. Federal prosecutors say the records allegedly showed that Mafia members were granted guest memberships in the club.

.Holdeni and Ryan were partners in the enterprise, along with a Swiss banker. However, Ryan is believed to have been in direct charge of operations.

CHICAGO (UPI)—William J. Fields, in financial straits the past few years, had been making “elaborate” "plans for a birthday celebration for his friend Flat Nose, who would have been 20 on Christmas Day. But Flat Nose died Friday. Because of his friend’s death, Fields, 79, ends his days of poverty. Flat Nose left him $15,000. Flat Nose was a gray, tigerstriped and very rich cat whose 20 years equals 100 human years. He lived the life of luxury despite his keepers financial status. Even though Flat Nose for the past few years has been the only thing between Fields and the inheritance, the retired waiter felt as if “I’ve lost a child.” Fields was left five cats when Margaret Montgomery died nine years ago. Her will stipulated that so long as Fields cared for the cats in the lavish manner to which they had become accustomed, he would be permitted to live rent-free in her apartment building and would receive $15,000 when the last cat died. For Fields it was a long wait. It appeared Miss Montgomery, a seamstress who came here from Philadelphia, raised only long-lived cats. The fourth cat died only three years ago. Miss Montgomery became indebted to Fields when, while a renter in her apartment building for 40 years, he helped her care for her 18 cats. Miss Montgomery was a semiinvalid. Flat Nose almost outlived Fields. “I won’t have any more pets. i “I’ve been sick and I’m too old,” Fields said Friday after returning from the veterinarian

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where he had taken Flat Nose for the autopsy required by the will. Flat Nose was believed to have suffered a heart attack.

Planners Hope Free Coffee Will Curb Accidents

NEW YORK (UPI)—To the delight of the nation’s penny pinchers, free coffee will flow from urns of 10,000 restaurants during peak traffic hours Christmas and New Year’s. But saving lives, not pennies, s the aim of the free java. The National Coffee Safety Stop Program hopes to reduce the holiday death toll by getting road-weary motorists off the highways for rest breaks. Cooperating in the program are the International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, Coffee Information Service, National Restaurant Association and numerous state restaurant associations. Safety officials of the Armed Forces also are participating. Participating restaurants will display signs alerting motorists to the free coffee service. Signs also will be posted at booths on many of the nation’s toll facilities. Recommended free coffee stop days this year: Monday, December 23, starting at 6 p.m. and continuing on to Thursday, December 26 at 6 a.m. The next week, the free coffee will be served from Monday, December 30 at 6 p.m. until Thursday. January 2 at 6 a.m. Participating restaurants will adjust these suggested times to fit local situations. Thomas Cahill, chief of police of San Francisco and president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, is chairman of this year’s campaign. “Rest breaks long have been recommended as basic to safe driving,” he said. “This is particularly true on our high speed roads which have spawned the hazard known as highway hypnosis. “Unfortunately when it comes to the holidays, people are usually in such a hurry to get to ‘grandma’s house’ that they tend to put off the rest break or ignore it altogether. “In this risky situation, the universal appeal of the coffee break plays an important role. People regard a cup of coffee as a reward an<j are more inclined to stop for a coffee break than just for a rest.” More than 5,000 motorists from 37 states and four foreign countries took advantage of a free coffee stop operated by the Longview, Tex., Jaycees and Citizens’ Band Radio Club last Labor Day weekend. The Second Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N.C.,* has been making especially effective use of coffee stops in preventing accidents among young men returning to base after extended leaves. In the last five years, the Marines at Camp Lejeune have reported no fatalities or major accidents while their coffee safety stops have been in operation.

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CHICAGO (UPI)-Police said watchman Robert Schindler, 26, charged with impersonating a policen&n, carried in his car;

Two .38 caliber revolvers, an M-l carbine, a 12-gauge shotgun, a 7.26 caliber rifle, about 1,000 rounds of ammunition, two police caps, a police riot helmet, a can of Mace, a police club, a first aid kit, a box of traffic warning tickets and several hypodermic syringes.

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SCIENCE ADVISER Dr. Lee A. Dubridge. California Institute of Technology president, looks pleased in New York at the announcement he will be President-elect Nixon's science adviser. He will be on leave from Pasadena.

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NCDC spokesman said Friday. The peak should be reached in mid-January and begin fading toward the end of February, he said An estimated one-third of the University of Cincinnati’s 19,000 day students have had the ailment. Catholic University in Washing^n reported 700 of its 1,400 students ill, and American University said 500 students were sick. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings’ Point, N.Y., suspended classes when about half of its 728 midshipmen were stricken. Absenteeism also was high in public schools around the country. Oakland, Calif., schools reported 315 teachers absent, leaving 49 classes unstaffed, and a 20 per cent absenteeism was reported in Castro Valley, Calif., schools. Dr. Ichiro Kamel, chief of the acute communicable disease control division of the Los AngelesY5bounty Health Depart, ment, predicted that nearly three million residents of this county will contract flu before the epidemic peaks. The current toll in Los Angeles is 282,500 persons sick, including 100,000 school children. Business and government also was feeling the flu. General Motors said absenteeism was ranging 25 to 50 per cent above normal in its five Cleveland plants, and Ford Motor Company reported its employe absences double the normal rate. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was bedridden with flu and missed his first city council meeting* in 13 years. Chicago police estimated that up to 3 per cent of its'10,000-man force was sick. Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson warned that Christmas mail might be delayed because of a high sickness rate among postal employes.

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