The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 July 1968 — Page 5

Thursday, July 18, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

Try and Stop Me

-By BENNETT CERF-

rpHE POWER of prayer was proven to the good people of 1 Pulaski, New York, early this March. Congregations in nine local churches were asked to pray for snow to ensure the success of the upcoming winter carnival—not a flake had fallen in the previous month. The very next day a blizzard hit the area and by Wednesday so much snow had fallen the whole carnival had to be postponed!

A general determined to keep morale high among his troops stopped to question

new recruits during an inspection. “How does the food strike you?” he asked one likely looking lad. "It’s horrible,” was the frank reply. Taken aback, the general said, "That distresses me. What, for instance, did you have for breakfast this morning?” The recruit answered, "Orange juice, scrambled eggs and bacon, toasted English muffins, and two cups of coffee.” "But that’s a wonderful breakfast,” exclaimed the general. "It should be,” nodded the recruit. “It cost me four bucks at the PX.” * • * QUICKIES: A successful TV gag writer tests his jokes by tossing them into a wood-burning stove. He uses the ones that make the

fire roar.

Asked to name three great inventors, a brilliant student in Wisconsin proposed Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Pat Pending. There’s one good thing about an egomaniac: he doesn’t go around talking about other people. C 1968, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.

Detroit police have hands full with enforcement of the law

By JUSTIN BAVARSKIS And MICHAEL J. CONLON DETROIT (UPI) — A few weeks ago Howard King, a Negro, was pulled from his car and beaten. He said the police did it. It was not a new charge. Three years ago he was also beaten, his hand broken, and a gash opened above his eye. He said the police did it then, too. This time, police said they tried to sell tickets to a policemen's ball to King. They said he became offensive. King claims he has been harassed by the police ever since the first beating. Cases such as this, scores of them, clutter the desk of Insp. Charles E. Heffernan. He heads the Citizens Complaint Bureau of the Detroit Police Depart, ment. Complaints Increase There were many complaints

against the police before the devastating race riots that exploded in Detroit a year ago on July 23, 1967, and continued for a week of shooting, looting and burning. At least 43 persons died and property damage topped $200 million before police, troops and National Guardsmen restored order. It was the nation's most terrible race rioting. The complaints against Detroit’s police have not stopped since that July a year ago. They have multiplied. Here lies at least one of the answers to the question whether things have improved in Detroit since last year It may be the most important answer. The President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) investigated the causes of Detroit’s and the nation’s disturbances for six months. It

concluded that a community’s dissatisfaction with police practices is a major cause of riots. Insp. Heffernan is aware of this. So is A1 Dunmore, former editor of the Michigan Chronicle, a weekly Negro newspaper published in Detroit. Dunmore says of the present atmosphere in the city: “Police-community relations are really as far apart as they have ever been apart. The black community is really on edge, and the tension is great; but there is also a wait and see attitude as to how the new police commissioner will act. (Detroit’s present commissioner, Ray Girardin, is retiring). “A great deal of the kind of summer we will have will depend on the ability of the new commissioner to establish a new image as far as law and order are concerned, with equal justice.”

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Hire More Negroes The Kerner Commission called for massive changes in police practices. It suggested removing officers with bad reputations, poor records or insufficient training from the ghettoes, replacing them with experienced men. Detroit has not done this, according to Insp. Heffernan It still sends rookie copes to the ghettoes.

But Detroit has begun to implement one of the recommendations of the Kerner Commission. It has started a sustained drive to hire more Negro policemen. The oeduating class of July 8 had 17 Negroes, 17 whites. Heretofore, the ratio has been one-third Negro.

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PALME RTON, Pa. (UPI)The Eastern Sunbathing Association (ESA) intends to fight for your right to go swimming naked. In addition to athletic contests and crowning of a king and queen of nudism at its five-day convention opening here today, the ESA promises to form a nudist political action committee to work for passage of legislation benefiting the nudist movement. Among the goals is abolition of laws banning nude bathing on public beaches.

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Bainbridge news

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harshbarger have returned home after an interesting three week trip through the southern and eastern states. They left home, Sunday, June 16, and stayed the first night in Kentucky. Then they went to Gatlinburg, Tenn., where they visited a cousin, Mrs. Cleo Gervin, then on through the Smokey Mountains to Greenville, S.C., where they were guests of other relatives. The trip back north was by way of Winston Salem, N.C. They spent some time at Lynchburg, Va., then on to Bridgewater, Va., to stay with the Elmer Gardner family, who had visited the Harshbargers at Thanksgiving. From Virginia they went to Ocean Grove, N.J., where they attended the conference of the Church of the Brethren for a week. From there they drove to Ithaca, N.Y., to see their son, Bill, Karen and Mike, who are concluding their period of residence to soon move to Pittsburg, Pa., where Bill will continue research at Carnegie Melton University. They spent the fourth of July with them and saw a marvelous display of fireworks in Cornell University Stadium. From Ithaca they drove to Manchester to spend the weekend with

their son, Dick, and family, who had moved into their new home since their parents had seen them a month before. Some of the interesting places seen in the three weeks were Berea College, hand weaving, the Biltmore built by the Vanderbilts, Bob Jones and Bridgewater Colleges, cigarette factories in Winston - Salem, cloisters in Ephrata, Pa., Cornell University, Bowling Green University, the Shenadoah Valley of Virginia, Ocean Grove, N. J., operated since before the Civil War by a camp meeting association of the Methodist Church. The organization has many “blue’Taws, including a requirement that all automobiles are forbidden in the corporate limits of the town from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday. Girl Scout Troop 282 spent the July 4th weekend camping out at the home of their leader, Mary Blue. Everyone had a good time, working badges, boating, hiking and fishing. With Mary and Becky Blue were Cathy Proctor, Betty Burke, Beverly Kelly, Elaine Harris, Robin Hooker, Janet Roe, Cheryl Phillips, DeRonda Phipps and Gail South. Freda Devashier and Beulah Webb were unable to attend. Mrs. Archie Pingleton has returned home from a two weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Betty Evans and family in Dallas, Texas. The Evans had been guests of her parents and Mrs. Pingleton accompanied them home. Trudy McCammack, Cloverdale was the guest of her cousins, Janet and Julie McCammack, a few days last week. The other girls went home with Trudy to spend the weekend. Mrs. Bernice Steward attended a family reunion Sunday at the home of her niece, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Albright and family, Indianapolis. Others present were another niece, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Johnson and family, Rochester, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sands, Indianapolis, and Morris McGaughey, Suzanne and David, Russellville. Mrs. Loraine Ader Waite, husband and son, California, have been visiting relatives and friends in Indiana the past two weeks. They spent some time with Mrs. Waite’s brother, Wayne, in Sullivan. He is moving to Vincennes to be superintendent of schools there. Mrs. Waite was the guest of Mrs. Kenneth Etcheson, Saturday, and they visited former school mates and friends in Greencastle. The Eskimo Bridge Club enjoyed a cookout dinner Wednesday evening at the new country home of Mrs. Willard Scobee. A long table was placed on the patio overlooking the lake and everyone feasted on the many good dishes of food. After a tour of the house, four games were played with score prizes awarded to Mila Higgins and Chrystal Priest. Mrs. Albert Harshbarger was hostess to the Birthday Bridge Club, Saturday evening. Mrs. Alice Mahoney was co-hostess. A small vase of daisies decorated each of the four tables. After refreshments five games were played with all members present except one. The August meeting will be dinner out and then play at the home of Mrs. Mahoney. Thursday, July4,at 11:30a.m., Jack Bullerdick and Phyllis Willis were united in marriage at the Christian Church in Bainbridge by the Rev. Tom Steiner. Their attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Max Bullerdick, Waveland. After the wedding a pitch-in-dinner was enjoyed at the home of Mrs. Josephine Fosher, by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Willis, parents of the bride, and her grandmother, all of Plainfield; Sharon, Carol, Timmy and Nancy Willis, Avon; Melvin Bullerdick, Mishawaka; the bridegroom; the Rev. and Mrs. Steiner; Mr. and Mrs. Max Bullerdick, and Mrs. Verna Bullerdick, Waveland; Geraldine Bullerdick and Richard Waite, Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bullerdick, Florida; O. B.Lane; Mrs. Guenn Beck;

Author Bayh discusses “One Heartbreak away”

NEW YORK (UPI) - Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., will discuss his new book, “One Heartbeat Away,” on the NBC “Today” show Thursday. Newsman Edwin Newman will interview Bayh, who is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, about the book which deals with the 25th Amendment to the Constitution which sets procedures by which a vice president may act as president if the chief executive is disabled.

and Mrs. Fosher. Afternoon guests were Marcia Bullerdick, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Poff and daughter, Florida, Linda Bullerdick and friend, Greencastle, Jack Bullerdick is terminal manager of Schwerman in South Bend. The couple will reside in Mishawaka. Homemade ice cream, cake, cookies and iced tea were enjoyed by neighbors and friends in the backyard of Mrs. Foshers’

home Saturday evening. Those present were Mrs. Guenn Beck, Mrs. Effie Smith, Mrs. Edith Sallurst, Mr. and Mrs. James Curran, Mr. and Mrs. O.L. VanCliave, O.B. Lane, Clarence Steward, Mrs. Ruby Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zenor, Roy and Cindy, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bullerdick and Nancy, and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bullerdick. Muriel Nelson was an earlier caller.

Miss Geraldine Bullerdick and friend, Richard Waite, Indianaof her aunt, Mrs. Fosher. Geraldine’s parents, Cecil and wife, are leaving Friday morning on their way home in Florida. They will stay at their son’s home in Clarksville for a short visit and leave, Monday, July 29. Mrs. Kenneth Etcheson entertained two of her classmates of 1943 at the home of her mother

last Saturday evening. They were Mr. and Mrs. Don Bosma (Martha Goodhart), Indianapolis, and Mrs. Loraine Waite and husband, California. Mrs. Etcheson left Sunday for her home in Canton, m. Folks in the community do not realize what the basketball court in the school yard means to the young boys in town. There are boys bouncing the ball and throwing it to the hoops from early morning till 10p.m. almost daily. It Is hoped that the court will remain here when the school is moved. Too bad Bainbridge can’t have some swings and slides and a park for the little folks.

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