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VKATIini TODAY Sunny, Mild High, 70; Low, 43 Yesterday High, 69; Low, 40 jiNujiiAr ii Ab 'llVere spi'n'f Lord fifrc is Liberty" II (or. VOL. G3, NO. 3G1 Yednesday, June 1, 19G6 Indiana Sesquicentennial Ycai 6.JU-2 1 1 1 10c 43C Per Mk Corner OeU'ered WX1W i UVJ I I ij i ij- JuL jLi I i At? I i-iii 7y Gets $156,297 For WO' Victory COLKT (X)INVENED Old Landmark Brings History To Life mt ii Loose Connection Fixed; Crewmen In Top Condition Cape Kennedy, Fla. (AP) The Gemini-9 pilots, veterans of launch day frustration, try again today for three days in space and a walk in the siies.

A late electrical problem was solved. Blanclianl, 2d Ranking A.F. General, Dies ric is IN COKYDON (Star Photos by William the last five years. "See them rosebushes over yonder," he pointed with pride. "There's 19 of 'em, one each for Indiana being the 19th state in the Union," Emily explained.

He plucked the first real bloom which had co-operatively blossomed at dawn for the arrival of the Federal judge all had come to see. Twenty prospective jurors, some from as far away as rr 'v-n HISTORIC COURTROOM DURING RECESS IN YESTERDAY'S ACTION Nostalgia Filled Scene Of Long-Ago Trials SPECTATORS WATCH THE 'GOINGS-ON' Gather Outside Well-Kept Landmark At Corydon By CAROLYN PICKERING polished Indiana's birthplace nington, may have been the Star Staff Reporter Corydon, Ind. They turned back the pages of Hoosier history 150 years in this friendly little town nestled in the green hills of southern Indiana yesterday and it couldn't have been more charming had there been a script. For the first time since 1816, Federal Court was convened in the quaint courtroom that was the scene of the birth of the 19th state. YOUNG AND OLD flocked to the wooded square to witness the trials of three land condemnation cases involving the government's taking of acreage to allow construction of dams and locks at Cannelton.

Like most small towns, things are bustling early in Corydon. By 8 a.m., folks had gathered at the historic old state capitol building amid the chirping of spring birds and the rusling of lovely old elms. Most proud was custodian Charles (Just call me Charlie) Emily, who has pampered and i Stewart Rookie Of Year By RAY MARQUETTE Graham Hill collected $156,297 for his first In dianapolis 500 Mile Race victory last night the biggest paycheck ever for the 37-year-old London driver. Sharing honors with Hill at last night's victory dinner was another foreign driver Jackie Stewart of Dunbarton, Scotland who was chosen Rookie of the Year. aljhuuuh tne winners share was off from last year's purse of $166,000, the total payoff for the 1966 race was a record $691,304.90.

Last ear's previous high was $628,399.23. Hill's slightly shorter winner's total was due mostly to the fact he had only $1,500 in lap money. STEWART, who had first place "locked-up" until his en gine failed on the 191st lap. finished in sixth place. Hill was also a rookie and the balloting for the Stark and Wetzel award turned out to be a pleasant surprise for Stew art, who felt Hill would re ceive it as part of winning the big rac.

"This is a very nice consola tion prize to take home," said Stewart, i must say it a very pleasant surprise, The breakdown on the largest Speedway payoff in history found the Indianapolis Motor Speedway upping its share of the ante to $545,289. Lap prizes totaled $30,000 and the accessory awards amount ed to $116,015.90. Last year the Speedway, television and entry money contributed $500,493 to the total purse. HILL RECEIVED $101,772 from the Speedway. He also picked up the lion's share of the accessory money $53,025 to go with his $1,500 in lap money.

Not included in the monetary return is a 1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone pace car; a $1,000 wardrobe, a $500 wardrobe, a $500 United States savings bond, the Bardach Ringmaster award, the Wynn Oil diamond pin, the Borg-Warner trophy, the L. Strauss trophy and the WFBM checkered flag award. Jimmy Clark, the 1965 champion and second placer this year, will take home $76,992 for his finish while Jim McElreath was awarded $42,586 for third place. THE PURSE breakdown: 1. Graham Hill, London, England, $156,297.00.

2. Jimmv Clark, Duns, Scotland, $76,992. 3. Jim McElreath, Arlington, $42,586. 4.

Gordon Johncock, Hastings, $26,381. 5. Mel Kenyon, Davenport, Iowa, $21,987. 6. Jackie Stewart.

Dunbarton, Scotland, $25,767. Turn to Page 11, Column 6 The Weather Joe Crow Says: Amid the discussions 'of universal daylight saving time, the oli'ice grouch says he plans to go on a time all his own ami not toll anybody what it H. Indiana Sunny and rather mild today. Fair and cool tonight. Mostly sunny snd mild tomorrow.

Indianapolis Sunny and rather mild today with temperatures dropping tonight. Mostly sunny and warm 6th Apartment Fire In 2 Years Destroys 8 Nearly-Finished Units one man sponsible re-f Corydon being Indiana's first capital. nningtun. a stonemason born in 1775 in Virginia, came to a i son County in 1802. He soon Davis gained a reputation as the about 80 per cent completed and would have been finished in two months, Robert D.

Parks, a partner with William Jennings in the Tara Company, said. THE OTHER eight apartments, saved in part by the direction of the wind, were only 30 per cent completed, Parks said. Some of them were scorched, but not badly. The complex was to be known as Tara IV. Only workmen present were some men laying cement in another building.

Parks said that a strike which held up materials made it impossible to say just which workmen had been on hand yesterday. A watchman was dun at the complex at 6 p.m The eight apartments went up in flames in moments, witnesses said. 4A Il was an electrical abnormality that stood between the Atlas rocket and flight certification. It was traced to a loose connection, and was remedied. The abnormality was the only element wrong in the flight check so far.

The electrical troubles cropped up in an inverter a gadget that translates direct current into alternating current aboard the Atlas rocket. The Atlas is to send a make-shift target into orbit at 1 1 a.m. (EST) today. The astronauts themselves were ready to roar off aboard a Titan-2 rocket an hour and 38 minutes later. Launch officials began their midcount checkout at 12 noon (EST) yesterday testing out all the Gemini systems.

GEMINI PILOTS Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cer-nan crammed the last afternoon before their space adventure with mission reviews and flight rehearsals in a simulator spacecraft. While they worked on flight details, the Atlas rocket that will send their space target into a 185-mile circle around the earth at 1 a.m. (EST) today was fueled and checked out.

The ripple in electrical current that showed in the Atlas Monday has cropped up in other Atlas rockets and they have been launched with the problem without consequence, officials said at a prelaunch briefing. The astronaut schedule for the remainder of the dav was traditional dinner at 6 p.m. (EST) and bed at 8 (EST). "The astronauts were in as great a shape as they were two weeks ago and just as ready as they were then," said astronaut co-ordinator Donald K. Slayton.

"The crew is in excellent condition," said Dr. George Mueller, deputy administrator for manned space flight. "They've been ready to go for several weeks now." For all of the hope and excitement surrounding their own flight, Stafford and Cer-nan kept ears cocked for reports of the three-legged Surveyor probe heading with great precision for a soft-landing on the moon to chart Turn to Page 1 1, Column 7 fore general elections, set tentatively for Sept. 11. IN THE WAR zones, U.S., Korean, Australian and Vietnamese troops engaged in a series of minor clashes with the enemy, but U.S.

military headquarters disclosed the heaviest raids on North Viet Nam Monday since the bombing lull ended Jan. 31. That lull was ordered by the U.S. in hopes of bringing the Communists to the peace table. A U.S.

military spokesman said Navy and Air Force planes combined for 83 missions in the Communist north, blasting at Soviet installed missile sites, bridges, trains and supply lines. A Red Chinese broadcast claimed one U.S. plane was downed yesterday, indicating the raids were continuing, but there was no confirmation. Washington (L'Pl) Gen William H. Blanchard, vice-chief of staff of the United States Air Force and one of iis distinguished World War II officers, died of a masshe heart attack in the Pentagon veslerdav.

He was 50 years old. Blanchard was stricken while attending a committee meeting and died before ht was taken to the Army dispensary in the Pentagon. The general, nicknamed "Butch," a been the Airj Force's second- ranking officer! since Feb. 19,1 1965. A native of 1 Boston, and a graduate! of Phillips Exe ter Academy, blanchard was graduated from Blanchard West Point in 1938 and went immediately into military aviation.

As a young officer in Gen. Curtis E. LeMay's Pacific command in 1945, Blanchard prepared the detailed opera-tions order for the delivery of the atomic bomb on Hiro shima. When the United States and Great Britain decided in the late 1950s to install Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles of U.S. design in Britain, Blanchard was named to carry out the project.

IN 1961, he became the inspector general of the Air Force. Then, wearing the three stars of a lieutenant general, he made headlines across the nation by employing lie detectors in an effort to run down the source of a news leak which had annoyed Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. The story concerned a secret Air Force report covering the alleged treatment of Air Force witnesses by the Senate investigating subcommittee, then inquiring into th TFX airplane contract. Junta, Crisis Peking also claimed three U.S.

planes were shot down Monday. WASHINGTON, the White House said that President Johnson would seize eagerly any opportunity for Viet Nam peace talks, but there had been no hint "unfortunately" of any such offer from the Communists. Press secretary Bill D. Moy-ers said the U.S. had no in- formation to substantiate a magazine report that North Viet Nam had sent some i-vt, of peace feeler through Ro-' manian intermediaries who cently visited Ham.

"I am not aware of anyone'i in government who knows of-an overture of that kind or of' any other kind, through the. Romanian government or ny other government unfortun-, ately," Movers told newsmen. I I Longtime Republican Takes Democrat Post A $110,000 two-alarm fire destroyed eight nearly com' pleted apartments in a 16-unit two-story apartment complex under construction on the northwestside early last night. The fire, whihe sent flames 100 feet into the sky was the sixth in partially built apartments in Marion County in the last two years. Yesterday the Marion Coun- reserved as a patronage spot for the party in power.

Hill, a former secretary of the Republican state committee, had worked from 1963 until last month for defeated GOP Marion County chairman H. Dale Brown. He had been associated with the state committee from 1950 to 1963. A former managing editor of The Indianapolis News, he was press secretary to Harold W. Handley in Handley's 1953-57 Lawrenceburg, Bedford and Osgood, sat on a limestone wall as James R.

Tyre, clerk to Judge S. Hugh Dillin, explained procedures for the historic day. EVERYBODY WAS in a nostalgic mood. Even the lawyers, who obligingly left the one juror with real personal emotion involved on the jury. He is C.

Jerome Davis, a Ramsey farmer whose great-great-grandpa, Dennis Pen- ty Building Commissioners had announced plans to seek a building code that would help eliminate the continuing blazes. Une fireman sutlered a sprained ankle fighting the blaze in the complex owned by the Tara Company, 3901 West 30th Street. Fire Chief Arnold W. Phillips said exact cause of the fire was undetermined and that he had been informed no wiring or plumbing had been hooked up. Most of the previous apart ment fires have been blamed on plumbers' torches.

PHILLIPS said the fire department will investigate re ports that children were in the building before the fire started. The first alarm was given at 5:56 p.m. and a short time later, it became a two-alarm blaze. The apartments were town- house luxury-type. The eight that were destroyed were TODAY'S CHUCKLE Optimist: A man who can turn his car over to a parking lot attendant without looking back.

20 31-32 TV-Radio 10,19 Uncle Ray 25 9 Weather 21 Women's Pages 8-9 county's finest Penman and as a man of wisdom. In 1812, he persuaded the county commissioners to build the capitol because "Indiana will soon be a state and I predict the county with the finest building will be its capital." Pennington designed a structure and erected It together with his brother, Walter Pennington, a Meth- Turn to Page II, Column PARKS SAID the blaze will delay opening of lie apartments a month. His firm has erected other apartments in the area. He and his partner also built homes in the section under the and Realty firm name. Several hundred people gathered to watch the blaze and traffic was blocked for a short time.

Kenneth Pedigo, president of the building commissioners, had pointed out yesterday that the county has no building code. "All we have to go on is the state code," he said. The building commissioners, worried by the series of fires, will ask for public hearings tomorrow as a preface to setting up a county building code. The request for hearings will be made to the Board Turn to Page II, C'oli'mii3 Institute headed by the Thich Tarn Chau. The meeting followed five dramatic suicides by fire by Buddhists since Sunday.

The latest came early in the day at where a woman burned herself to death in that northern citadel of opposition to the government. The deaths were aimed at electrifying public opinion and putting pressure on the U.S. to disavow the military regime. The American attitude has remained unchanged, however. The U.S.

mission in Saigon deplored the self-immolations, but America's support for the regime in power continued. The Buddhists demand that the military government turn over its power to a civilian body that would head the nation in the interim period be Buddhists Meet With Viet Kindle Hopes For End To Herbert R. Hill, longtime Republican publicity director, yesterday was named by Gov ernor Roger Branigin's Dem ocratic adminis tration as in formation and education direc tor of the State Department of atu rat Resources. John E. Mit chell, director of the Natural Re- Hil1 sources Department, an- nounced Hill's appointment to the job which has been vacant several months.

Mitchell acknowledged that "Hill is recognized as being ac tive in the Republican Party" but said that "from a professional viewpoint, he is highly qualified to do this job." Hill will begin this morning in the $9,800 post. It had been vacant since the resignation earlier this year of Thomas B. March, who accepted a job in private industry. MITCHELL admitted that he had had trouble finding the right person for the job. He said that word that Hill was "available" came from the governor's office and after an interview he judged him to be well qualified for the position.

The post has generally been Inside Today's Slar INTERNATIONALIZE MOON, REDS URGE-Soviet proposal similar to plan suggested by President John-son My 1 Page 2 U.S. FAVORS BALAGUER-Michael The Star's foreign editor, writes there will be trouble if Bosch wins in Dominican election poge 3 NAVY SHORES UP SECURITY SYSTEM Action taken after sailor tried to peddle "top secret" data to p0fle 3 HOOSIER LEADER OF ANTI-RED GROUP-Logansport youth is international secretary-general of new "World Youth Crusade for Freedom." Page 17' FROM AP AND LPI Saigon Buddhist envoys met unexpectedly yesterday with leaders of the military junta they sought to over throw, and United States officials said this was a hopeful sign that might lead to a negotiated solution of the crisis. It was the first formal meet ing between the Buddhists and the junta, whose feud has brought South Viet Nam to the brink of civil war. Spokes man for both sides indicated the session may be the first of a series aimed at a possible compromise. PARTICIPATING in the meeting at the Gia Long Pal ace were Chief of State Lt.

Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, Pre mier Nguyen Cao Ky and four leading monks of the Buddhist Amusement Editorials Pages 24-25 Finance onage Pood umics 26 Sports -ro5swora 10 Pages.