The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, December 20, lOeB 1 ' 1

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Mrs. Aristotle Onassis makes New Year’s resolution

NEW YORK (UPI)-Mrs. Aristotle Onassis has already made her New Year’s resolution. She is going to retire to private life with no publicity, if she can help it. That was the word today from the former Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s secretary, Nancy Tuckerman. “It's the way it’s going to be,” said Miss Tuckerman in refusing to divulge when Mrs. Onassis is flying to Europe to join her Greek shipping tycoon husband for the Christmas holidays, reportedly on the island of Skorpios. “From now on there will be no information as to where she is going and when she is going or anything else,” Miss Tuckerman said in tones of definite finality. “That’s the way she feels.” Mrs. Onassis’ first venture forth as a strictly private person was her visit to Washington Tuesday to see the girl born to her former sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, last week. She travelled by shuttle flight, used a rented limousine under protest, visited Arlington National Cemetery without notifying authorities, refused to use an airlines VIP Priest Nixes Lady Priests VATICAN CITY «UPI» — A prominent Catholic theologian has turned thumbs down on the idea of women becoming priests. Writing in the Vatican magazine L’Osservatore della Domenica. M s g r . Ferdinando Lambruschini said he felt such proposals were “pure fantasy and extremely hazardous.’’ He said they could only add to “the confusion in many fields of theology.” Msgr. Lambruschini said the fact women hold high lay positions does not "automatically mean they must or can be called to take part in the priesthood.” He said it was ultimately up to higher church authority to decide the matter but its position "could not help but confirm” his.

room, and munched a hotdog at a stand-up airport lunch counter. From other sources it was learned that Mrs. Kennedy will leave New York by Friday night with her two children, Caroline and John, to meet Onassis, who has been in Paris this week. They will spend both Christmas and New Year’s on Skorpios and have scheduled a New Year’s Eve party on the Onassis yacht, Christina. President Johnson improving from flu bug President Johnson was reported improving today from his bout of flu but he was expected to remain in Bethesda Naval Hospital for at least another day. White House Press Secretary George Christian told newsmen that Johnson “spent a fairly comfortable night” and his temperature was down to normal. But Christian added that Johnson’s physician, Vice Admiral George B. Burkley, advised that the fever may return during the day. The President is still feeling “some discomfort,” Christian reported. His throat is still sore and there is some tightness in his chest and achy feelings which accompany flu-like illnesses.” The press secretary said that Johnson is taking a great amount of fluids and had a light breakfast. Christian said that Mrs. Johnson spent the night with the President in his third floor VIP suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital and that his daughter, Luci Nugent, visited him Wednesday evening. The Chief Executive is doing some work in bed, Christian reported. He said there was still no definite word on how much longer Johnson would be hospitalized except to say, “we will be here through today.” Johnson entered the hospital Wednesday suffering from an “upper respiratory ailment.” When pressed, Christian said he would not challenge the word “flu” to describe Johnson’s illness.

American fleet shadowed in

Mediterranean by Egyptian jets

NAPLES (UPI)—Soviet-built Egyptian jets are shadowing the American 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, U.S. Adm. Horacio Rivero said today. Rivero, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commander in Italy, Greece and Turkey, also told United Press International in an exclusive interview that the Soviet Union has resumed military cooperation with Yugoslavia. The 58-year-old chief of NATO’s southern flank also expressed “particular concern” about Soviet submarines in the Mediterranean. Rivero said Soviet-built TU16 combers of the Egyptian air force have been flying recon. naissance missions over the 6th Fleet that is America’s major force in the Mediterranean. The admiral said he “suspected” at least some of the TU16 crewmen are Russians. “They (the bombers) have quite sophisticated equipment

which I don’t think the Egyptians are trained to use,” Rivero said. He said there is no evidence the Russians as yet have set up air bases in Egypt. It would be a “serious matter” if they did, he said. “This would threaten out line of communications and make the operation of Soviet ships more siable. We would have to provide air escort for our ships and we would have an air defense threat to Europe from the south which we haven’t had to face,” the admiral said. Rivero said the Soviets recently delivered to Yugoslavia several speedy patrol boats of the same type that the Egyptian navy last year used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath. He also said a Soviet submarine tender had been at Split, the chief Yugoslav port, since Nov. 25— the first such visit since Yugoslav-Soviet relations went cold when the Kremlin invaded Czechoslovakia.

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Police Department to make ‘dramatic changes’ PATERSON, N.J. (UPI)— Mayor Lawrence Kramer promised today there will be “dramatic changes” in the Paterson Police Department following the indictment of 11 of its 90 members on various charges this week. A federal grand jury indicted three sergeants and five patrol, men Wednesday on charges of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Negroes and Puerto Ricans during disorders last summer. Earlier in the week, three policemen had been charged by a Passaic County Grand Jury with complicity in a burglary ring. Kramer said he decided to reorganize the department when he heard of the burglary charge. The civil rights indictment, he said, “creates an entirely new area.” Wednesday’s indictments, based on a century-old civil rights law, charged that the policemen concerned beat Negroes and broke the windows of egro-owned businesses. The SCLC has charged police tear-gassed the office, but that charge was not mentioned in the eight-page indictment. The lOO-year-old law makes it unlawful to act under cover of law in violation of anyone’s constitutional rights. The maximum penalty upon conviction would be one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Christmas is gold

Man’spresent to wife creates

to Estella Hanell

Christmas activity for both

elect Richard Nixon this season.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) — Christmas is colored gold to Estella Hanell. The national president of the Indianapolis-based American Legion Auxiliary is doing her best to emphasize that 1968-69 is the 50th anniversary observance of the Legion and its auxiliary. To Mrs. Hanell, a resident of Culver City, Calif., everything comes out gold, rather than traditional red and green. It is “The Golden Year,” “Every Day a Golden Day of Service,” and “Sowing Seed for a Golden Harvest,” to name a few of the slogans which have come about for work being done this year and next. Members of the auxiliary also joined in paying for a $50,000 gift to the nation which has golden anniversary significance. This is the new light system for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

WASHINGTON (UPI)— A motion picture industry spokesman told the president’s violence commission today that violence has a justifiable place on the nation's movie screens and said there is no proof yet of its harmful effect on children. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in prepared testimony that he was also “convinced” violence in the movies can even be therapeutic by allowing persons with “disturbing emotions” to release them as they watch “aggressive acts on the

screen.”

Valenti, a former White House assistant in the Johnson Administration, appeared before the commission as it began a second day of hearings on the communications media and their relation to violence in the United States. Contending that violence has always been part of human life, he argued that it should be portrayed on the screen as well. He said his concern was only that it be kept in focus. “The essential point is not necessarily the inclusion of violence or the quantity or the

Visits All Over Mrs. Hanell, whose husband, Arthur, is an MGM executive, currently is visiting are conferences held by the auxiliary, which began Oct. 30 in her home state of California and end next Jan. 9 in Springfield, 111. She worked also on auxiliary projects in Veterans hospitals where volunteers stocked gift shops and from which wounded and ill veterans could select Christmas presents for their families, without charge to them. More volunteers and more young members are also goals of the national president for her term, which covers the year leading to the 50th anniversary in November, 1969, of the Legion’s founding. The member, ship drive has a golden look, too; it is called “Estella’s Gold Rush of 1969.”

“but how violence is treated on the screen, how it is related to all the ingredients and attitudes and characterizations making up the film.” Valenti said film makers, as artists, should be allowed to decide what is “unnecessary or excessive” until there is clear proof that they are using their liberty as a license for irresponsible action. So far, he said, there is no such proof, with regard to children or adults. “There is disagreement—not just among laymen but among social scientists—on what effect violence shown in the media might have on the public and especially on children,” he said. “If one conclusion appears to be warranted, it is that most authorities are reluctant to conclude that the portrayal of violence in motion pictures results in harmful behavior,” he added. Instead, he said, the overwhelming evidence available indicates “that the root causes of behavior are developed in the early years of the child’s life and are primarily environmental, physical and psychological, arising out of home and

GARY, Ind. (UPI)—A man’s Christmas present to his wife five years ago has snowballed into a year-around Christmas :v’tivity for both of them. Mrs. James Davis expects to receive about 10,000 Christmas cards this year. Her husband was boosting her correspondence to pen pals when he wrote to six newspapers in the United States and other countries five years ago and requested Christmas cards to be sent to her. Helen Davis had about 6,000 pen pals last Christmas as her husband continued to write to newspapers. This year he wrote to newspapers in West Germany, Nicaragua, France, Italy and Norway. Mrs. Davis had cards printed for this Christmas. She began addressing them early in 1968. In previous years, Dayis made the grounds of the post-Christ-mas card sales so that she would have enough. “We buy stamps every pay day all year long,” Davis said. Decorating their home for Christmas each year poses no problems for the couple, both

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Davis hangs chicken wire from the ceiling to the floor to provide enough space for the collage murals of Christmas cards. Mrs. Davis has received cards from hundreds of celebrities, world leaders and countries. President Johnson sent her a card last year. Davis expects a card from President-

The late Robert Kennedy sent a card last year. And so did United Nations Consul Gen. U Thant and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Elvis Presley, Danny Thomas, Walt Disney and the Peyton Place cast have also sent their Christmas greetings. Civil Rights And Religion SANTA BARBARA. Calif. 'UPIi — The relationship between the Negro and civil rights movement and religion is an ambivalent one, according to Dr. Robert Michaelsen, professor of religious studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Although religion has been a chief force in the movement’s dynamics — as evidenced by the Montgomery bus boycott and subsequent crusades led by the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—there are also elements of strong protest against religion. Michaelsen says. This protest is aimed most often at religion as an institution. but in some cases it strikes at religion as an idea. Michaelsen says this ambivalence also characterizes the relationship between the Negro’s religious experiences and those of the majority white culture.

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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.’s ON THE RIGH1

DEATH ROW, U.S.A. In his best-selling and unforgettable book, Edgar Smith, whose vigil in death row is the longest in contemporary history, speculates that in all probability capital punishment will soon be abolished in New Jersey. Local abolitionists,he concludes, have adopted a psychological strategy which calls for the execution of Edgar Smith followed by a backlash of resentment and disgust which will overwhelm the legislature and compel it to abolish capital punishment permanently. “I wish to serve notice,” writes Smith in “Brief Against Death,” “that if nominated I shall not run, and if elected I shall not serve.” The strength and the wit of that observation—indeed, the incredible story of Edgar Smith—serves to remind us that capital punishment, the problem thereof, is one of the great unfinished pieces of business in this country, and that no solution to it is worse than the existing solution, which is to leave several hundred men imprisoned in the nation’s death houses in a state of permanent insecurity on the question whether they will live or die violently. What are these men like? What are they thinking about? How do they pass their days? How different are their quarters? Their regimen? Their attitudes? What do the wardens think? And the families of the victims? Surely there are few assignments of such imperative interest, and no medium better suited to informing the public than television. And sure enough a year or so ago the American Broadcasting Copany commissioned Truman Capote to put together a documentary on Death Row, U.S.A. Mr. Capote, who is one of the most expensive talents on the national scene, ought to be, set out on the road with a sizable staff and months later completed a one-hour documentary whose impact, put simply, is unforgettable. It has the advantage of being non-tractarian. There is plenty there to whet the appetite for abolition. But there is also ambivalence. One scene is of a little man in Indiana, who speaks with a strange and beguiling sadness,and soon one comes to know that he is a thoughtful man, educated; indeed a practising psychiatrist. He tells of the death-rape ol his little girl and how, when the mob gathered outside the county jail, he stood up to dissuade it from entering into the prison and hanging the cul-

prit.

I have lived to regret what ‘ I did—he says. Because I thought then—and I assured ' my wife at that time—that the • prisoner would be dealt justice. Now, eight years later, the - prisoner is still in death row- - and there is, let’s face it, no real prospect that he will be - punished. I care less for his punishment (the doctor went on), than for the effect that his non-punishment is having on my wife, whose faith is gone, who is disillusioned with her country, and with itsclaimsto justice: who is being teansformed, who is being made - ugly by all the ugliness which , might have been wiped clean ■ if I had let the mob have its way. Oh I know, I know—said the little doctor--that I am/* exposing the primitive impulses that lie deep in each one of..., us—how could I not know, since I am a student of the subject? But I also know what is hap- jt pening to my wife... Such are the complexities,/' ruthlessly, superbly, recorded by Truman Capote, and the end„. of the story is that, incredibly, the public is not to be per-, mitted to view the television special. Why? ABC has issued more than one explanation, including that it is too grim. One would hope that whoever said that had tongue in cheek ; considering the fare that tele-r^^ vision audiences are given to view along with their Post Toasties , like American soldiers being slaughtered live in South Vietnam , or , if you want fiction, the latest romp

of James Bond.

No, wha t you have here class'ically is the collision between mature television and box office. No doubt the generals at ABC figure that it would be hard to get a sponsor for a program so deeply provr ocative. And after all you can’t sell your Emmies for a hundred thousand dollars, or whatever it would cost to run this -- program. It is a terrible pity that some television network won’t vouchsafe all this re*,^ markable film, which is another arguement for the only ultimate solution to quality television, which is pay-TV. .....

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