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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1968

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Public Service Indiana will erect new buiding east of city limits

PROMOTED TO MAJOR—Army Chaplain Norris M. Webster (center), son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Webster, Fillmore, Ind., was promoted to major during ceremonies at Ft. Bragg, N. C., Jan. 15. Presenting the insignia are Colonel William B. Roop (right), commander of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade, and Lieutenant Colonel James D. Kennedy. Chaplain Webster, assigned to the brigade’s headquarters, entered the Army in 1962 and has served in Germany. His wife, Lois, is with him at Ft. Bragg. (U. S. ARMY PHOTO) Explosion rocks Soviet Embassy in Washington

DePauw Chaplain Dr. Marvin C. Swanson of Ashburnham. Mass., today was named University Chaplain at DePauw University. The appointment of the 32-year-old Illinois native was announced today by President William E. Kerstetter. Swanson presently is serving in ad-ministrative-teaching and religious capacities at Cushing Academy in Ashbumham where he is administrative assistant to the headmaster and chaplain. According to Dr. Kerstetter’s announcement, Swanson will assume his new duties this summer. He assumes responsibilities now being performed on an interim basis by Dr. Donald Bossart, campus minister of the Methodist Student Foundation. Swanson is a former resident of Chicago Heights, HI. He was graduated from Bloom Township High School and attended Thornton Junior College for two years. He received the B.A. degree from Simpson College in 1958 when Dr. Kerstetter was president of the Iowa college. Boston University awarded him the S.T.B. in 1961 and the Ph.D. in 1965.

OTTAWA UPI —Prime Minister Lester Pearson goes to Parliament today determined to win a crucial vote of confidence that would permit his government to retain power. *Tf the motion of confidence in the government is defeated, and I believe it will not be,” Pearson told newsmen Delay is asked by Ind. Election Board INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The threejudge federal panel which handed down new congressional districts for Indiana was asked Tuesday to delay enforcement until the U.S. Supreme Court acts on an appeal to be filed by the Indiana Election Board. The board sought the delay in a motion filed with the judges by Charles S. White, chief counsel for the Indiana Attorney General’s office. The redistricting map, supported by two of the three federal judges, was handed down after Indiana legislators tried in vain to reach agreement on a new plan. The same three judges a year ago had ruled Indiana’s 1965 districting law did not meet the one-man. one-vote yardstick. Democratic leaders charged that the new map would give the Republicians a 9-2 edge in congressional elections. The state election board consists of two Democrats, including Governor Branigin, and a Republican. The motion filed with the judges said a "great hardship would be imposed upon all primary nomination candidates” in expenses, time and effort “in campaigning for a nomination which could be voided by the Supreme Court. The motion also contended that after the Supreme Court rules, the three judges could order a special primary election or that nominees could be picked by convention or committee.

Some $56 milhon will be spent by Public Sendee Indiana on electric power facilities during 1968, the company announces. This program includes a new operating headquarters and service building just east of Greencastle. According to Pat Blume, local manager, the building will be erected on five acres of ground on Ind. 240, south and across from Jim Harris Chevrolet-Buick. The building will contain 14,000 square

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, UPI — Gov. Claude Kirk flew home from a California speaking tour early today, vowing to “go on a recruiting drive right now” if necessary to end a mass teacher walkout that has crippled Florida’s educational system. Arriving on the third day of a classroom crisis instigated by passage of what teachers called an “inadequate” education budget by the legislature, Kirk went into immediate talks with his staff. The walkout has seriously hampered most of the state’s 67 school systems. The urban areas around Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, and St. Petersburg were the hardest hit. Most counties scheduled classes, but

Tuesday, “then of course the government resigns.” Passage appeared far from certain. The leaders of all the opposition parties agreed to vote against Pearson’s Liberal government. Neither was it certain the issue would be resolved today. The opposition parties had a combined total of 129 votes—the same number as Pearson’s Liberals. The crisis was created by the defeat Monday of a bill to increase Canada's income tax by five per cent. Pearson broke off a vacation in Jamaica and hurried back to Ottawa to rally his forces. He spent most of Tuesday in consultation with his key cabinet members. Shortly before the House of Commons was scheduled to meet yesterday, Pearson won agreement from the opposition parties for a 24-hour adjournment so the government could “assess the situation.” Later Pearson, insisting the unexpected tax bill reversal was “not formally a vote of confidence,” announced his determination to seek a showdown today. He pledged his government to “stand or fall” on it. Pearson’s announcement infuriated opposition leaders. Conservative leader Robert Stanfield charged a “breach of the understanding” which resulted in the 24-hour postponement. “We take the firm position that the government has been defeated and should not be allowed to put any more legislation before the House,” Stanfield said The other opposition parties lined up behind him. Mayor injured ROME UPI—Rome's mayor. Rinaldo Santini, fractured his left foot in a skiing fall at nearby Mount Terminillo Sunday, it was announced Tuesday.

feet with 2,400 for office space and 11.600 for store room space. There will also be a pole yard and transformer racks outside the structure. Present plans are for the construction to start in May. Carroll H. Blanchar, president of the utility which serves 423.000 customers in 69 Hoosier counties, said the capital spending plan for the year approximates last year’s outlay. Construction of additional electric gen-

none was reported operating at full capacity. Many substitute and volunteer teachers were being used and paid under emergency regulations passed by tha state cabinet Board of Education Tuesday. Broward (Fort Lauderdale) County was the lone populous county with a majority of teachers still on the job. Only 125 of 4,464 teachers stayed home Tuesday, and the Broward County Classroom Teachers Association voted 888-756 Tuesday night not to join the statewide walkout. Broward teachers apparently settled most of their grievances in negotiations forced by a local walkout last fall. The Florida Education Association FEA, representing 5 0,000 of the state’s 61,000 teachers, led the walkout Monday in protest against a $254.5 million education package approved by a special session of the legislature. The FEA contends only about a third of the public schools, the rest going for other educational programs and property tax relief. FEA Executive Secretary Phil Constans predicted Tuesday that more teachers would join the walkout each day. "There is a groundswell moving through the state.” He said the resigned teachers which the FEA claims total 35,000, have been heartened by letters of encouragement and money from teachers in other states. State Education Department officials said 27,776 teachers were absent Tuesday.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. UPI—Flames fanned by a cold wind swept through an old hotel in downtown Knoxville today, killing at least three elderly men and injuring two others. Detective Robert Chadwell said two of the 10 residents at May’s Hotel were unaccounted for. Masonic honor for R. A. Ziegelman Robert A. Ziegelman. Sr., of Cloverdale, has been awarded the designation of Knight of the York Cross of Honour. This honorary degree, highest in the York Rite of Free Masonry is conferred only on those who have held the highest offices in each of the four bodies of the rite. Mr. Ziegelman served as Worshipful Master of Cloverdale Lodge No. 132, F. & A. M., in 1937. He was High Priest of the Greencastle Chapter No. 22 Royal Arch Masons in 1948: Illustrious Master of Greencastle Council No. 107 Royal and Select Masters in 1967. and Commander of Greencastle Commandery No. 11 Knights Templar in 1949. He was elected to membership in Robert A. Woods Priory No. 62 and his investiture was made at the Masonic Lodge in Bloomington.

erating facilities accounts for the major share of the spending program, he said. About $35 million is earmarked for such projects. The electric company also plans to spend $8.7 million on distribution lines and improvements: $3.6 million on transmission lines, and $3.6 million on substations. Work is proceeding on schedule in the erection of its 1-million kilowatt coalfired Cayuga generating station on the Wabash River in Vermillion County. An estimated $17 million will be expended on this project during 1968. The plant, largest in the Public Service Indiana system, is slated for completion in 1972 with the first 500.000 kilowatt unit to go into service in 1970. Another major power production project included in the 1968 budget is completion of a new 360.000 kilowatt generating unit at Wabash River Station, north of Terre Haute. This unit is to go into service June 1, 1968, at wiiich time this facility will be the largest power producer in the utility’s system. Major progress in air pollution control is planned by Public Service Indiana this year, according to Blanchar. About $2.3 million will be spent this year for new dust collector equipment at Gallagher Station, New Albany, as part of a $6 million program to correct stack “fallout.” Another $1.2 million is budgeted for dust collection equipment at the utility’s Wabash River Station, where $5 million wdll ultimately be spent to reduce stack emission. Completion of a $5 million direct-fired turbine generating facility at Wabash, Indiana, is expected by June, 1968. This installation will be capable of producing 75,000 kilowatts of power for peak periods of customer demand and for emergency use. Major substation construction and improvements to “beef up” power supply in various areas are scheduled at Rockville, Lafayette, West Lafayette. North .Manchester, New Castle, Princeton, Terre Haute, Milltown, Bloomington, Sullivan and Rushville. New Public Service Indiana buildings included in this year’s construction budget include an area headquarters at Wabash and new service headquarters at Greenburg and Corydon.

“There may be one or two more bodies • in the rubble,” Chadwell said. “It was a damned inferno.” Firemen carried six persons to safety down ladders from the three-story, brickveneer building. Fire crews were unable for several hours to enter the smoking rubble inside the gutted building to search for other possible victims. “It’s too dangerous in there now,” one fireman said about 5:30 a.m. EST, four hours after the flames broke out on the second floor and spread throughout the building. “It’s all caved in, and there’s six feet of water in the basement,” the fireman added. Fire officials said the third floor of the hotel caved in, and that the other floors suftered “severe damage.” Authorities said 10 persons were in the hotel at the time of the fire. The hotel catered largely to permanent residents, "mostly older people,” said Police Sgt. Roy Whitfield. All of the residents were men. Ruby judge dies DALLAS UPI—District Judge Joe B. Brown. 50, who almost four years ago condemned Jack Ruby to the electric chair for murdering Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died Tuesday night 16 hours after suffering a heart attack.

WASHINGTON UPI —A predawn explosion rocked the Soviet Embassy early today twisting the steel bars guarding a first floor window like pretzels. There were no injuries. The blast apparently was centered Publication cites local DPU grads Four DePauw University alumni—all of them Hoosiers—will be listed in the fourth edition of “Outstanding Young Men of America.” A sort of Who’s Who for outstanding young men between the ages of 21 and 35, the book with some 10.000 listings will be published in May. DePauw University graduates selected include Dr. Joseph P. Allen IV, U.S. astronaut trainee, formerly of Greencastle, class of 1959: Dr. Robert L. Fuson, Duke University Medical School, formerly of Greencastle, class of 1956. Also Dr. Barry D. Lindley. Western Reserve University School of Medicine, formerly of Lebanon, class of 1960: and Dr. Vincent S. Frohne, former Guggenheim Fellowship winner now studying music in Berlin, formerly of LaPorte, class of 1958. The biographical compilation is published by the Outstanding Americans Foundation. Its purpose, according to its president, John Putnam, “is ... to recognize and honor the young men in our country who are working toward excellence in their careers and community service. . . .” Nominees for the book come from many sources. However, the majority of the nominations are made by Jaycee chapters and college alumni associations. Allen is the son of Professor and Mrs. Joseph P. Allen III, 615 Ridge Ave., Greencastle. Fuson is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Fuson, 314 Redbud Lane, Greencastle. Joins advertising staff of Banner Roger Southard, formerly assistant manager at the local Montgomery Ward store, has joined the advertising staff of The Daily Banner. Mr. Southard, a native of Blue Island, 111., graduated in the field of advertising and marketing from Bradley University in 1958. He started working for Montgomery Ward in Davenport. Iowa, shortly after graduation. While attending school, he worked a year for the Peoria Journal-Star. During his nine and one-half years as a Montgomery Ward assistant manager his duties included advertising layout and display. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955.

at the front corner of the fortress-like brownstone building. Pieces of steel window grating were lying in the street sixty feet from the embassy when police arrived. The explosion shattered windows in nearby office buildings and blew’ out the windshield of a car parked on the street in front of the embassy. An Army bomb squad joined police in the investiga.tion. There was no official word on the cause of the explosion. The four-story building did not appear to have suffered major structural damage. All of the windows on the top three floors of the embassy are shuttered. But officials said the explosion caused “quite a bit of damage” to the corner room and newsmen said the room ap» peared to be full of smoke. An embassy spokesman said at first that some members of the Soviet staff had been injured in the blast. But officials later reported there had been no i juries. The FBI said the explosion occurred at 5:52 a.m. EST. Fire equipment was dispatched to the embassy, but the explosion apparently did not touch off a fire and the equipment was recalled a short time later. State Dept, officials to speak in city Greencastle has been selected as on* of six Indiana cities that will host four officials of the U.S. State Department on Tuesday, March 12. The program, called “Community Meetings of U.S. Foreign Policy,” is being sponsored and arranged by Th* WFBM Stations of Indianapolis. The four as yet unnamed State Department officials will be in Greencastl* to appear before local service clubs, civic organizations, high school and university audiences. It is expected that specialists on Latin America, Europe and Asia will participate in the program along with one member of the State Department Policy Planning Council. The State Department meetings ar* being conducted in the hope that this contact between Indiana citizens and senior Washington officials will lead to an exchange of ideas and information about U.S. foreign problems and policies and programs. In order to utilize the time and services of the four officials DePauw University has been asked to coordinat* with interested community groups programs between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. March 12. Persons representing organizations desiring to hear these speakers should contact the DePauw News Bureau, OL 3-9721, ext. 480.

Canada Prime Minister wants confidence vote

Gov. Kirk seeks end to Florida school crisis

Knoxville hotel fire kills three

U. S. Marines break stalemate in Hue with predawn ground attack

SAIGON UPI—U.S. Marines broke the stalemate in the battle for Hue today with a predawn ground assault, a heli-copter-borne attack and jet planes splashing the Communist positions with flaming napalm. U.S. spokesmen said the Leatherneck onslaught is “moving pretty good” against the 300 to 500 North Vietnamese in the 22nd day of their suicide stand in the rubble of Hue's former imperial palace grounds. Surprise and a break in the weather

ended four days’ frustration for the Leathernecks who had been measuring their gains in blood-soaked inches. “The VC (Viet Cong) were sleeping — we caught them off guard.” a U.S. spokesman told UPI correspondent Richard V. Oliver. The 5th Marines’ 1st Battalion, with no reinforcements to fill their casualty depleted ranks, apparently stunned the invaders with a 4 a.m. drive that swallowed a whole block of Communist bunkers. At dawn the overcast that blocked

U.S. air support since the weekend broke and the jets streaked in. The Marine pilots dumped 500 pound barrels of napalm on the ruptured palaces of Vietnam’s onetime kings. Oliver said massive orange fireballs rolled up above the once sacred shrines now pocketed with North Vietnamese bunkers. South Vietnamese A1 Skyraiders divebombed. Marines fired in nausea-tear gas. Big CH46 Seaknight helicopters whirled in with the reinforcements Marine commander* did not want to us« until th*

weather cleared for protective air strikes. Oliver said fierce Communist antiaircraft boomed from the two-square-mile citadel and from the opposite, southern side of the Perfume River. The Seaknights could only drop 45 of the estimated 205 reinforcement troops. The choppers whirled a short distance aw r ay and the reinforcements joined the Marines who had held out in the bitter days of stalemate. At Saigon, with allied commanders warning th* Communists may be launch-

ing a second drive into the heart of the capital, U.S. and government troops reported killing 155 guerrillas in battles north, south and west of the city limits. U.S. intelligence officials said up to 15,000 Communist troops still threatened the capital. Military spokesmen said guerrilla action in the capital appeared to be fading —at least today. But the Viet Cong hit suburban Tan Son Nhut Airbase — Gen. William C. Westmoreland's headquarters post — with 122mm rocket* that struck

the barracks of the U.S. RMK-BRJ construction combine, killing a Vietnamese. Despite the fighting in the outskirts, Saigon bustled back to street-crowded life before the 7 p.m. curfew left the roads bare once again. Government officials said almost 200,000 refugees huddled in special centers as sporadic gunfire punctuated the night. They said th* guerrilla assault on the capital has. sine* it began Jan. 29, killed 5,275 civilians and wounded 8,692.