The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Editorial THE CHANGING of the Guard is as it should be. At the national level, President Johnson and his retiring administration have offered full cooperation to incoming Pres-ident-Elect Richard Nixon and his Cabinet-designate. In Indiana, outgoing Gov. Roger D. Branigin, Lt.-Gov. Robert Rock and other Democratic officeholders have offered to acquaint their successors with the duties of state offices. This week, Democratic State Chairman Gordon St. Angelo dispatched a communication to all Democratic County Chairmen in Indiana, requesting that they cooperate with Republicans on the local level “for the sake of effective state government” in making a smooth transition as Republicans move into government positions next month. St. Angelo informed the leaders that “I will be cooperating with Republican State Chairman Chaney, attempting to smooth out any difficulties that may arise.” SUCH INTRA-PARTY cooperation impresses The CourierTribune as a manifestation of the two-party system as its best. The national election for the presidency was a close one. Rather than a landslide mandate for the Republican Party, the result immediately suggested a dual responsibility, calling for special support for a “smooth transition,” as was the case when President John F. Kennedy squeaked to victory in 1960. More important, world conditions and domestic problems, and our country’s position in all of these, make it a compelling duty of both parties to establish a maximum of power and efficiency in meeting the days that lie ahead. AS MUCH AS at any time in history, there is great importance in the inheritance of the “unfinished business” of the Johnson Administration as Nixon marshals his forces to take the reins of government. President-Elect Nixon is striving impressively to “catch the baton” tossed by his predecessors and meet the nation’s problems with zeal and determination, as well as with revised and fresh viewpoints. As we have said, the “changing of the guard” in this manner is as it should be. It has not always been so. Full briefings at every level of government, together with close cooperation between incoming and outgoing officials safeguard our security and bring new meaning to the power of government in a democracy.

State park lodge to be constructed by promoter

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Natural Resources Commission Thursday approved the state’s first contract with a private promoter to construct a state park lodge. The contract, which also includes a marina, still must be approved by Governor Branigin. Action on a second proposed contract with another private concern to build a second marina was delayed. The commission also voted to increase per vehicle entrance fees to state parks and to increase several other fees affecting Hoosiers who go to state parks and other recreation areas for their outings. Director John Mitchell of the Department of Natural Resources estimated that the increases will produce an additional $367,000 annually for use in maintaining and improving the parks. He pointed out that the 1969-71 proposed budget makes no provision for additional phases of new construction at state parks, nor for reservoirs, geological surveys or soil use planning. Mitchell also advised the commission that Branigin has sign-

ed a contract permitting construction of Quick Creek Reservoir Dam in Scott County. The first contract for a privately developed lodge and marina is between the state and the Taggart Corporation to spend approximately $1.5 million on a 105 room lodge with dining room, gift shop, indoor and outdoor swimming pool and 126 boat slip marina. It will be on F airfax Peninsula on the Monroe Reservoir in Monroe County at an annual rent of $10,000 plus 4 per cent of gross receipts in excess of $500,000. The proposed contract which was delayed would have been for a second marina of 328 slips on the route 446 causeway, also at Monroe. Among the major changes in the new fee schedule is $1.25 for a car and its passengers to enter a state park compared to the present charge of $1.00. The annual entrance permit remains at $10.00 as the individual fee remains at its present 25 cents. The commission also voted 4-3 against a petition from the Underwood family to run a power line across the Steele Memorial in Brown County.

TAKING SHAPE

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Julie Nixon repeats sacred vows; becomes Mrs. Eisenhower

NEW YORK (UPI)—“To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God’s ordinance, and there to I pledge myself truly with all my heart.” With these sacred words Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower became man and wife Sunday afternoon in ceremonies with which millions of couples have pledged that “What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” Julie, 20, is the lovely, darkhaired daughter of the next President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon. Touslehaired David is the only grandson of the former President Dwight David Eisenhower. Their union is unique in U.S. history, for it is the matrimonial linking of a presidential family with that of a presiden-tial-elect’s family. Julie and David grew up in the shadow of the White House. They were linked from childhood by the world of politics and they found each other as adults falling in love against the background of politics and a presidential campaign. Secret Honeymoon Site Today, the new Mr. and Mrs.

Greencastle, Ind. -- There’s someone looking out for student health at DePauw University besides the school’s regular physician. Enterprising Mark Vittert, a senior from St. Louis, Mo., has launched the sale of a “Survival Kit,” designed to see the fluplagued campus through postChristmas exams. Vittert and an associate, Bob Gross of Sullivan, Ind., have been in direct contact via letter with the 2,000 plus parents of DePauw’s students. They have painted a picture of pathos--little sleep, 12 hours a day on the books, meals of hamburgers and cokes. Would any self-respecting parent want his offspring to face gruelling exams on such a regimen? “We are soon approaching exams and during these two weeks most of us are in our rooms studying up to 12 hours a day. We really do study this much, parents,” writes Vittert in his introductory offer. “Exams make for a very irregular period when we sleep

Dwight David Eisenhower II honeymooned at a spot the bride said was “secret, secret” although she had packed warm weather clothing for it. Now the glittering marriage in historic old marble collegiate church with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale officiating and the swinging reception at the Plaza Hotel were for memories and the photo albums. Some 500 guests attended the wedding, Sunday afternoon to watch as the tiny, chestnuthaired bride in a long white silk peau d’ange dress with a Victorian old-fashionedness to its styling said “I do” to the lad whom she’d dated since fresh, man college days. The setting in the high, domed auditorium of the 114year - old Dutch Reformed Church combined Christmas— the altar was banked with poinsettias and evergreen wreaths decked the auditorium — with a white and pink motif traditional of a wedding. A white linen runner covered the 65 feet of aisle down which the bride walked. Her bridesmaids and maid of honor were all in palest pink. Immediately after the ceremony, the couple received a congratulatory telegram from the bridegroom’s grandparents.

little and our meals usually consist of a quick hamburger, candy bar, or coke. Vittert, whose fame as a campus entrepreneur is wide spread, entreats parents to order the Survival Kit “to brighten up his or her day and also give your child the strength and stamina to study hard and keep alert.” The offer continues: “The thought that all of your encouragement and understanding is behind him will surely help him or her in making good scores.” Mark and Bob include a return card for personalizing the kit and placing the order. For $5 Vittert and Gross will deliver to students by January 11, "the first day of exams, the following Survival Kit: “3 fresh bananas, 6 fresh apples (large), 6 fresh oranges (large), Issorted cheeses, a quart of milk ( to keep on window ledge), sandwich spread, a jar of Tang (making 1 1/2 quarts), a large jar of peanut butter, a large jar of jelly, 2 boxes of raisins, and a chestnut for Xmas Spirit!”

Roy Weller and Mr. and Mrs. Woodson Buttry attended the Putnam Co. Road Employees Christmas supper at the State Highway Garage in Greencastle, Friday night Dec. 6th. Lucy Woodal spent the week end with Lillie Parks at Roachdale. Clarence Ward spent the week end with Lillie Parks at RoachClarence Ward called on Arlie Branson, Friday. Grace, Kathy and Mary Leak of North Salem spent Friday night with their grandparents , Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leak Sr. Mr and Mrs. Bob Leak Sr. had dinner with Mr. and Mrs, Junior Birdine at Roachdale Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Woodal and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dickerson Sunday. Mrs. Iva Downs of Dana and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Elliot and Crisman visited Mr. and Mrs. John D. McGuire Sunday. Bill Simpson of Danville called on Arthur Woodall Sunday. Bob Leak Sr. had dinner with Fred Lays last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin visited their son, Junior in the hospital Sunday.

year. He said he would discuss with President Nguyen Van Thieu “The possibility to have a direct contact with all opposition groups in South Vietnam to solve their problems,” including the Viet Cong. “We will never accept the front as entity, but it’s reality, and once we recognize this reality as a sovereign govern, ment, elected government, we have to face this reality in trying to solve it,” he said. Ky said, however, “If we are ready to talk with them, it is better we meet . . . somewhere in South Vietnam.” The Communist delegations Sunday celebrated the eighth anniversary of the NLF. Nearly 1,500 Vietnamese in Paris turned out for the celebration under the red, yellow and blue Viet Cong flag. They cheered as Xuan Thuy, Hanoi’s top negotiator, told them, “In order for the conference to open and achieve results, it is necessary to establish in Saigon a government which really wants to negotiate with the National Liberation Front.”

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Mr. and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Both are in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Wash, ington. He is recovering from a series of heart attacks and she from influenza. They watched the wedding by special closed circuit television. Their marriage followed Protestant tradition for such ceremonies with only a few exceptions. No one cried—at least none would admit to a tear. And the bridegroom did not kiss the bride when the marriage was sealed. Instead, Julie turned suddenly and kissed her father when it came to the moment in the ceremony for the bride to be given away. Later, at the Plaza Hotel where the couple, their parents and attendants posed for photographers and answered reporters’ questions, David bussed Julie soundly. It was a kiss from a shy young man only after the newsmen had shouted “chicken” and after Julie had removed a short white glove to show off a white gold and diamond wedding band which went on third finger left hand. Her diamond engagement ring once had belonged to David’s great grandmother Mrs. John S. Doud, of Denver.

New Maysville news

now up to Viet Cong

PARIS (UPI)—Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam left it up to the Viet Cong today to accept or reject political talks with the Saigon government. Ky opened the door to discussions between Saigon and the Viet Cong’s National Liberation Front (NLF) in an interview broadcast Sunday in the United States. Without acknowledging the offer, the Viet Cong’s top man at the Paris Vietnam War talks Sunday warned the allies will “achieve nothing” in South Vietnam without negotiating seriously with the NLF. “Between the front and our government, it’s an internal affair,” Ky said. “So as my president and government had always said . . . We are ready to hear them, to meet with them and talk with them, discuss with them their problems. “If they accept this kind of peaceful talks, I don’t see any reason why we are stuck here.” His reference was to the deadlock over negotiating procedures that has blocked a beginning of expanded discussions to end the Vietnam War. The head of Saigon’s delegation in Paris, Ky flew home Sunday for Christmas leaving little hope for progress in the talks before the first of the

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Black iacuity? Further on the overwhelming subject of race, the question arises: if it is right to induldge in a reverse discrimination so as to permit students who are not competitively qualified to get into first-rate colleges, shouldn’t we then permit Negro teachers who are unqualified by residential standards to take up portfolios as teachers of history, and English, and so on? It would appear to follow, which is why it is so very important to distinguish between sensible indulgence and self-defeating travesty. I have here a letter from a professor of classics in a venerable small university in the midwest recently rocked by the demands of the militants. But listen as he describes the forlorn resources of the administrators of his college, up against the consolidated pressures of the adamant minority. “It is obviously impossible,” he observes, “to keep up a state of seige forever citadel. Hence piecemeal capitulation, black studies, etc., the president (of the university) apparently looking for a settlement with minimum actual damage.” My friend recognizes strategic power relationships. “My own guess is that the demands, e.g. for black faculty, are not really substantive but are merely items on a list drawn up to test the pliability of the authorities; if so, then receiving those demands will not appease the insurgents but merely reinforce their hope of getting Everything, i.g., total command of the institution. “Here, our president, not simply employing platitude as a short-cut from point to point but actually swimming in it with great sighs of satisfaction like a wasp in honey, has been laying it down to the faculty, off the record, that Black Faculty are to be hired. Sociology has been instructed that it is a department marked for trouble unless it complies Funds can be squeezed or withdrawn. Chairmen can be replaced, The President has made, it is clear, a foggy commitment to the blacks, which he regards as moral and equivalent to progress, and expects us to work out the details of honoring it.” So much for power, and the effective uses thereof. It is an imprudent assumption that community administrators, nudged by student power, will yield control only over such situations as students might logically lay claim to an inherent sovereignty over, for instance, the preference of breakfast foods. It goes much further, at the professor points out, advancing two observations. 1) On the president’s observation that the University does not sufficiently represent the structure of society (meaning its

ethnic structure), one reflects that if it were to represent, say, the intellectual structure of society, it would have no reason to exist. 2) The point has been explicitly made without administration rebuttal, that since qualified black instructors are lacking, we shall have to take on ququalified ones. This appears not to cause scandal in the president’s heart. Me, I feel as would a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord on discovering that the proprietor was converting it into a whorehouse.” The line is sharply drawn, unassailably. One thing to admit black students into the pressure cooker of first-class colleges, on the assumption not that necessarily they will all adapt and graduate as members of Phi Beta Kappa; but on the assumption that such shock treatment will reverberate out in the black community and help to shatter the consolidated lethargy which black and white leaders join in identifying as the principal cause of the trouble. But to install someone in, say, such a place as Harvard, and merely because he is black, qualify him as a professor of sociology— or English--Swahili: that is the Orwellian reduction towards which not only the black militants (they would be powerless by themselves) but their white epigoni are driving the colleges (whose presidents almost to a man need great transfusions of courage from us-folks in the bleachers). It all seems obious—that it is nothing less than to declare war against the very idea of a university to impose upon its faculty teachers drawn by mathematical reference to the last racial census. But what isn’t widely enough realized is that the college professors and college administrators, for all their training, for all their sophisticatin, for all that they will be able to wander about in paradise exchanging in-jokes with Aristotle, Erasmus, and Kant, are first class children up against such as Eldridge Cleaver. They need YOU. Makes charges ROME (UPI)- The ItaUan Ministry of Health accused 19 persons Tuesday of artificially fattening cattle with hormones and said it would investigate whether meat of the hormonetreated stock sapped men of their virility.

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