The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, December 18, 1968

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Editorial It’s No Time For Sweet.Talking From the INDIANA DAILY STUDENT The Student Legislative Coordinating Committee (SLCC) is a good idea, and could be effective in accomplishing what stu. dent government is setting out to do: convice state legislators that I.U. is on a positive course of policies which should be furthered rather than discouraged. It is one of the more constructive things that student government has done, and basically the students that are on the com. mittee are as good a group to be talking to the legislators as any that could be found. The committee will use the gentleman's approach which many activists despise. There will be no confrontation. But if the committee follows the course it has set for itself, neither will there be a whitewash. Some administrators are privately saying they are worried that this group will bungle the job. But such need not be the case. Students should prove themselves to be as able to deal with non-academic community as the administration. The changes that have been made, which many Hoosiers are upset over , came about because of student action. It is only plausible that if misunderstanding has come with these changes, students should be at the front trying to tell what’s happening. Some problems with the committee can be anticipated. Its spokesmen, when questioned by newsmen, said they would explain to legislators about the black student movement on cam. pus. But the committee’s effort could certaninly be improved if it had some black students in its members hip to help with this aspect. We feel that there are several on the committee who could effectively explain why I.U. has taken certain steps in the past year in regard to black students. But we also feel that many members of the committee could not. Student Body president Ted Najam very wisely put Repub. iicans John Galles and Ros Stovall in charge of SLCC. With most of our legislators Republican, it is possible that these two will be able to make some men listen to what they say where other might not. It might appear to some that putting the coat-and-tie persons on this committee (leaders of most of the major organizations on campus) is an attempt to sweet-talk legislators. But that’s not really the case. We as students have to keep in mind that members of the General Assembly are on the whole intelligent individuals who are sincerely interested in what’s best for Indiana. But some of them think getting rid of open visitation is in Indiana’s best interests. The student government committee has got to be able to level with them. There’ll be no time for sweet-talking. The committee will simply have to inform them of what is taking place here. If the legislators don't like what the facts are, then we’ve simply got to continue with our policies and keep this committee workin in order to communicate with future legislative groups. One committee member suggested that SLCC be a regular function of student government, and we agree. Then it could truly be established that students are interested in informing the state of what’s happening here, not just informing legislator financil blessing. The student government committee is a major step in communicating with the state. But it must follow its own philosophy, and make, “a positive, explicit and logical” explanation of what is happening at I.U.

Girl kidnaped by Viet Cong comrades turns up

SAIGON (UPI)— An 18-year-old girl kidnaped last week by the Viet Cong comrades from whom she had defected turned up beaten barefoot at a provincial headquarters, Vietnamese sources said Tuesday. Tran Thi Ho Le had left Saigon with her fiance Dec. 12 to get a wedding license when she was abducted by Viet Cong. Vietnamese sources in Long An Province said Tuesday she walked in barefoot Saturday

and said she had been beaten and barely escaped execution. Ho Le told village officials the Viet Cong took her to a village and assembled what they called a people’s court. She said another girl was executed and she was awaiting the same fate while tied up behind a house. She said an unidentified Communist official slipped up to her, asked several questions and secretly released her.

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Jaycees launch new program

The Greencastle Jaycees launched a unique program on Tues. , Dec. 10th. Seven Jaycees traveled via airplane to Bowling Green, Ky., on an in-ter-chapter visitation. The project, dubbed “TAKE ME ALONG”, is designed to allow as many local Jaycees that wish to take part, to visit one of the top four chapters in the states adjacent to Indiana. Ten chapters have been contacted and the list will probably grow to 12 chapters. At least one of the local chapter. The “maiden flight” was courtesy of Jaycee Steve White, manager of Greencastle Airways Inc. The local Jaycees were pleasantly surprised upon arri-

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Offbeat DEMAPOLIS, Ala. 'UPD — A trip to Gaineswood, an antebellum mansion here three blocks off the main highway, is a rewarding experience in travel off the beaten path. The 16-room mansion was completed in 1860 and recently taken over and restored by the State of Alabama as a historical site. The home, with its small but majestic interior, has been described by E. Walter Burkhardt, professor of architecture at Auburn University, as the ‘ most magnificent” of all mansions in Alabama. Now you know By United Press International The blue whale can grow to 150 tons, far larger than the elephant or even the largest dinosaur.

Czech workers elect own factory boss PRAGUE (UPI)—The Kremlin had said no. But for the first time in their history Czechoslovak workers today had a major factory bossed by a man they elected. The workers council at Pilsen’s vast Skoda Works defied the wishes of Soviet occupation forces and elected Jan Martinak to a 4 to 6 year term as plant general manager. National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky, one of the fathers of the Czechoslovak Communist Party reform which the Soviet bloc Aug. 21 invasion aimed at crushing, telegraphed the Skoda workers his congratulations, Prague Radio said. Smrkovsky has been under fire since the invasion for his continued devotion to reforming the nation toward more Democratic rule. Worker control of industry always has been a sore point with the Russians. The Yugoslav Communists began the practice and Moscow denounced it as impractical, as nonCommunist; the Kremlin preferred to name its own factory bosses. Until the Skoda workers acted, the party in Czechoslovakia had named managers. The reformers and economists had blamed the practice for much of the nation’s economic woes. The Skoda workers council acted without an official approval from Prague. They announced they were seeking a new manager and received 10 applications. They narrowed the list to five and subjected the finalists to close examination by economic and administrative experts. With the results in hand, the council voted by a two thirds majority to name Martinak to the post. Smrkovsky’s message hailed their “progressive election method.” In Prague, Smrkovsky’s National Assembly assembled for a three day session. Their agenda included: — Finding housing for Czechoslovak soldiers whose barracks are now filled with Russians. — Arranging for the Jan. 1 shift of this country into a twopart federal state of Czechs and Slovaks.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

Beauty dies a separate death. It leaves the premises early, tiptoeing so lightly that, for a time, it isn’t missed. Once, when I was a growing boy, I met a rare woman named Ceil Arnold. The face was pale and almost haughty; the eyes flashed like gems; she had been a movie star at a time when Pearl White was making The Perils of Pauline. She was a concert pianist, and played for the crowned heads of Europe when she was a child. Miss Arnold composed music for Irving Berlin. She spoke seven languages, five fluently. In 1914, her Hollywood fiance was Wallace Reid, a great star who died of drug addiction. Last week, I was in Los Angeles and decided to track her down. I knew that she had been married to William Nolte, head of production at 20th Century Fox, but the word was out that he died a few years back. I located a Ceil Nolte at 3784 Valleybrink Road, but no one seemed to know where that is. My wife and I got in a taxi at the Beverly Hills Hotel and drove about $5 worth. The driver found a Valleybrink Road off Los Feliz, near Glendale. He pulled up in front of a bungalow. The talented beauty had to be behind that plain front door. We knocked. A small dog barked. A voice croaked: “Come in. Come in.” Ceil Nolte recognized me before I did her. A little old lady sat in an arm chair, a faded tapestry hung on a wall; there was an ash tray, a telephone on a stand; some newspapers on an end table. The woman had lost many teeth; the face was that of an old lady; the eyes flashed the same brilliance and suddenly they filled with tears. She had cancer fifteen years ago and the operation was a colostomy. Ceil Nolte has never left the bungalow since. She lives in the little two-

room bungalow with a dachshund and a manx cat and a treasure chest of memories. She has no children, no relatives, no friends—just the County of Los Angeles and a nurse who helps tier out of bed at 10 a.m. and sets her in that chair. Her food consists of four scrambled eggs every day, plus a sugar bun and innumerable cups of coffee. The lawyers told her that her husband left no money, and she scrapes up enough to pay a small phone bill every month. There is an upright piano, but, like Ceil, it is out of tune. Her mind is electrifyingly bright and she sits in a white Turkish robe talking of today and tomorrow and a host of yesterdays. What happens to the beauty? More to the point, where are those who looked upon Ceil Nolte as an idol? I felt small when she said that we were the first people to come to see her in years. “The head is still intact,” she said, laughing and wiping the tears, “but the rest of me is garbage.” Now and then she pockets the haughty pride and begs the county to allot a few more dollars to her so that she can afford a magazine, or a book. The nurse fixed her hair and the bony fingers toyed with the little curls on the side of the head. After an hour, I said I had to go. “A dinner appointment,” I said, “with Jim Mahoney.” “Of course you must go,” she said. “I follow your career in the papers and I save everything you write. You’re a busy man, Jim. I just wish that we could talk all night.” As we waited for the cab, her speech speeded up. There was so much to say. So little time. I wonder if the Motion Picture Relief Fund couldn’t do something for one of the earliest movie stars, but I Continued on page 12

val in Bowling Green to learn that the featured speaker for the meeting was to be Junior Chamber International President Tom Gates. Gates, elected last month at World Congress in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, is a prominent Louisville attorney. One of the goals of the program is to seek and exchange ideas for projects to aid the respective communities. Plans are being formulated to include the Indiana state Jaycee President on one of the future flights. Local Jaycees involved in Tuesday’s trip were, Lellan Barlow, Doyne Priest, Lloyd Wells, Don Cochran, Steve White and Joe Kerr.