The Daily Journal from Franklin, Indiana • Page 1

Toll free county Mi wide phone service crpn nv (With which is combined me name, The Franklin Evening Star) Franklin Greenwood, Indiana, Wednesday, March 4, 1970 to become reality Following years of discussion and planning, toll 10 Vol. 7, No. between Franklin and become a reality before the Rail strike threatened WASHINGTON (UPD Labor Secretary George Pr-Shultz urged -Congress today-to avertthe-' 'nationwide disaster" of a railroad strike by imposing, a contract settlement on the railroads and four shopcraft unions. Trr? 1,1 IX I 185 Blaze at farm zzz: hr I f'V. west of Franklin usually kept in the barn at night, but which was left out of the barn Tuesday nightFiremen said the barn and all its contents were destroyed in the ire Jit 6 :30a.m.

Flames are extinguished by firemen at the Joe Garrett farm west of Franklin on Indiana 44. An early morning blaze destroyed a large barn killing 100 pigs inside. At left is a farm tractor free telephone service Greenwood is expected to end of this year. Officials with both United Telephone Co. in Franklin, and Indiana Bell in Indianapolis, said Tuesday they are shooting to wards an early December completion date for extended it official The Johnson County Council voted Tuesday to pass a resolution officially creating a sheriff's merit board.

The official creation Of the board came about two months after Sheriff Arthur Worrick appointed four members to serve on it and following a law passed by the 1969 state legislature providing for the establishment of such boards for counties with less than 80,000 population. According to Sheriff Worrick, the board and merit system takes politics from within the department, provides a merit system of ranks for officers, and provides insurance and pension plans for each of the deputies. The merit board assists the sheriff in preparing the department budget, regulates promotions within the department and reviews disciplinary cases. Some county officials feel the merit system will eliminate the constant retraining of sheriff's deputies whenever politics change in the sheriff's officer Those appointed to the merit board by-Worrick-are: Tom G. Jones, Franklin attorney, ni Ivan Osting, Greenwood ac countant." Malcolm Heuss, Edinburg, a retired state police sergeant.

Richard Walden, Greenwood, a furniture store owner. Sheriff Worrick serves as chairman of the board. Mer board fire kills 1 00 pigs area service which will affect every telephone subscriber in Johnson county and many in surrounding areas. The extended area service, as now proposed, will eliminate toll charges between Greenwood and Franklin and between Edinburg and Franklin. According to a spokesman for Indiana Bell, the next step for the proposed project is submission to the Indiana Public Service Commission.

If approved, of ficials with both telephone companies are hoping to see the service established by early December. Spokesmen for both United and Bell say there are still "bugs" to be worked out on the tentative plan including rate adjustments and a revised telephone diree toryThe new project calls for the installation of many new cables and complex equipment by both companies. Those directly affected by the EAS project one of the largest joint ventures ever conducted by either corporation are customers in Greenwood, Franklin, Edinburg, Whiteland, Bargersville, Trafalgar, Nineveh, Morgantown, Martinsville, Nashville, Fairland, West Newton, MooresvillerPlainfield, Acton and Marietta. Telephone officials said it was too early to-say what- ad justments might be made in telephone rates in the affected areas. According to spokesmen for both telephone companies in the largeomtenturethefix-: pansion is based on "communities of interest." They explained the toll charges are being dropped primarily between areas where long distance calling has been the heaviest.

The EAS- proposal- followed several surveys taken in most of the affected communities. Spokesmen said the surveys revealed the majority of telephone subscribers wanted the expanded service. Before the proposal becomes off advertised public (continued on back page, col. 5) The wood frame structure burned completely to the ground. The pig barn was located on the southside of Road 44 and the farm house, another large barn and farm buildings were on the northside of the road.

fire was burning out of control when they arrived. Garrett told firemen he attempted to reach a water hose at the corner of the barn in hopes of "saving something. but it was too late." ites Wh Testifying in support of President Nixon's proposed emergency legislation to avert a strike called by the unions for for 12:01 ajn. Thursday, Shultz pointed out that "the parties have been unable to settle their dispute by themselves." Shultz, who arranged to appear at both House and Senate special hearings on the the settlement would not be terms worked out by the government but by the railroads and union negotiators. It is a tentative settlement accepted by members of three of the four unions, rejected by members of one union the Sheet Metal Work- "This nationwide disaster for- that is what a railroad strike would be would be caused by the vote of less than one half of one per cent of all employees-ot the railroads and by less than 5 per cent of the Negro schools will be closed and students reassigned on a zone basis.

In Atlanta, Paul Rilling, the federal government's southern regional director for civil rights development, resigned Tuesday over resentment at the Nixon administration's school desegregation policies. Rilling said the Nixon policy is "one "of vacillation and nonleadership." who attacked I I I I Nea rc school ch 1 1 a re Farm Fire swept a large barn at a farm west of Franklin Wednesday morning killing 100 pigs trapped inside. The blaze occurred at the Joe Garrett farm, Franklin route three, on Indiana 44. Weather: By United Press International Cloudy today with rain ending early this afternoon. Clearing and colder tonight.

Mostly sunny and cooler Thursday. Fair and cold Thursday night High today 52 to 58. Low tonight 20 to 25. High Thursday 37 to 43. Precipitation probability percentages 30 today, 5 tonight and Thursday.

Indiana outlook: Cloudy Friday with chance of rain, becoming mostly fair Saturday and Sunday. Highs In the 30s north and 40s south. it seek help fforrognew By TERRY WOOTEN LAMAR, S.C. (UPD Seven persons were subpoenaed today in connection with Tuesday's attack by whites with bricksand ax handles on school buses carrying Negroes to a newly integrated school. Council man fi les i primary contest shopcraft employees," Shultz said in prepared testimony.

"The legislation which we propose to avert this disaster is simple. We propose that the Congress declare as- the contract of the parties the memorandum of agreement negotiated by the parties and favored by the majority of the union members voting on it." In a special message, President Nixon urged Congress to "act quickly" on his proposal so that a crippling stoppage could be prevented and the nation's travelers and shippers could be able to depend on uninterrupted service. The four unions have scheduled the strike against the nation's 128 1 major, railroads 1 beginning ail 12:01 a.m. Thursday after 15 months of unsuccessful efforts to settle jointly with the carriers on contract terms. The which thei legislation would make binding, calls for wage increases of more than 18 per cent during a two-year period.

In his message to Congress, Nixon said the agreement reachedastr December-was-ratified by an "overall majority" of all the members voting in three of the four unions. "We must not submit to the chaos of a nationwide rail stoppage because aminprityZpOheiaffected workers rejected a contract agreed to by their leadership. The public interest comes first," President Nixon said. The four unions scheduled the strike during a strategy session Tuesday, one day after UJS. District Court Judge Howard F.

Corcoran ruled that if they do, they must strike all the carriers and not selected ones. Nixon's proposal, if adopted by Congress, would be a compulsory settlement for only one of the four (continued on back page, col. 4) either Habig or deputy state treasurer John Price for the job. Presently, the GOP faction headed by national committeeman L. Keith Bulen appears to be looking toward State Representative John Butz of Indianapolis.

Lewis told a news conference Tuesday he had decided not to run for- Congress this year because he considered the 9th a gerrymandered district in which-it would be difficult for a Republican to win. The district is now represented by Lee Carswell may have enough WASHINGTONXUPI) A Republican head count and the Southern Democrat bloc indicate G. Harrold Carswell of Florida probably has enough votes for confirmation to the Supreme Court Senate Republican Leader Hugh D. Scott said Tuesday a "whip check" shows 33 or 34 GOP senators already committed to vote for Carswell. So far, 21 senators, including three Republicans, have an nounced they will vote against Carswell.

Fifteen senators have announced they will vote to confirm. Scott said no more than one or two Republican senators would announce against Cars-well. The Senate is scheduled to take up the Carswell nomination after it finishes work on the Voting Rights Act which may continue Indefinitely in what appears to be a Southern filibuster. Area Deaths Vina SlegeL 60, Morgantown Burl M. Smith, 79, Indianapolis Rebert Blackerby, 47, Edinburg.

Firemen said the pig barn and all its contents including- the livestock were destroyed in the fire about 6:30 a.m. Cause of the fire has not been determined. Firemen said the blaze apparently started in the upper barn loft, Loss in the fire will be several hundred dollars according to Franklin firemen reported there were nine sows and estimated 90 pigs in the when the fire broke out. animals were trapped barn. Also destroyed in the fire was a manure spreader, feed, and other farm implements.

A farm tractor, normally kept in the barn at night, was left out of the barn Tuesday night and was not damaged by the firemen said. Firemen from Franklin city and Trafalgar volunteer fire department member were summoned to the blaze, but the f.H an barn gation. Best, who did much of the talking and shouting to an outmanned group of state patrolmen, told United Press International today after he was subpoenaed that he was only there to "try to keep down violence of any type." Seeks Agnew's Help "Best added he is trying to arrange, through a meeting with the committee headed by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew which is being formed to mediate school desegregation disputes Troopers armed with' hot- guns stood guard outside Lamar High School, which was closed following Tuesday's dis turbance. Officials have set no reopening date for the school, which once was the white high school for this cotton and tobacco town.

Gov. Robert E. McNair called for responsible community leaders to "reassert their active influence and good judgment" in "returning law and ord The combined Lamar High and Elementary School had only a handful of blacks enrolled before a court order WW 1 yT- lastmonthequiredcceptanceJJm precinct The seven were, ordered to show cause in federal court in Columbia next Monday why an injunction should not be issued, preventing them' from interfering with operations of the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan. National Guardsmen were housed overnight in an armory atnearby-Hartsvillefollowing reports of possible- trouble. Some 150 whites gathered near Hartsville this morning but dispersed when Fred Stanley, an official of the county "freedom of choice" group, told them further violence would not solve school problems.

Among those subpoenaed today was Jeryl Best, a restaurant owner and leader of the "freedom of choice" group opposing court-ordered desegre It's John Jr. ue doesn't suit- ASHVTIXE7-Tenn7-(UPir- The country music star who sings a song about naming his son "George or Bill or anything but Sue" has settled on John Carter Cash. Johnny Cash's wife, singer June Carter, gave birth shortly after noon Tuesday to a seven-pound," 10-ounce Madison Hospital. Thefatheris- and mother, father and son are doing just fine," said Cash's sister, Mrs. Reba Hancock.

Cash has four children by a previous marriage and Miss Carter two by previous marriages. it is tne couple's iirsi cntia. They were wed March 1, 1968. moving hears a police officer state Posthumous heroism award Franklin funeral director WalkerMaguirehas added his name to the GOP ballot as a candidate for the Johnson County Council representing district one. The incumbent Republican from Franklin was the ninth person to file candidacy for the council.

All seven council seats are up for election this year -Tuesday incumbent Republican Lenzie Randolph of Edinburg, filed his candidacy or re-election' to the council to represent the county's -fourth district. In other local filings at the Johnson county courthouse, George M. Hubbard of Franklin, committeemen rrom raiiwin Township's seventh precinctr Republicans filing for precinct committeemen included Hazel L. DrakerPleasant-land "Lucille Davis, White River-1. Marley Lasiter, Greenwood, is seeking re-election as Pleasant Township justice of the peace.

Meanwhile in Indianapolis John W. Lewis, who ran un successfully for Congress in 1966 in the 9th District announced Tuesday he was a candidate for state treasurer at the Republican state convention June 18. The announcement will probably put Lewis in a race with Gerald Habig of Greenwood, for the GOP nomination. Although Habig, the chief of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, has not officially announced his intentions to seek the treasurer's office, Governor Whitcomb is expected to back To delivery of your Daily Journal, or if your Daily Journal is not dJiv-red by 53Q p.m. eooS day TELEPHONE FRANKLIN 736-7101 GREENWOOD 535-7541 EDINBURG 526-5859 Between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.

Accepting Army medals awarded posthumously to her husband, Staff Sergeant Larry Ray Glover, 21, New Whiteland, is Mrs. Donna S. Glover. Also at the recent ceremony are the young soldier's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Glover. Colonel James R. Burkhart (right), Post Commander of Fort Benjamin Harrisonj-makes the presentation of the Army Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, and Bronze Star Medal with Device for heroism, Glover was killed in Vietnam Oct. 7, 1969. "Court of Greenwood -is -in 500 Negro students, 200 Whites On Hand Tuesday abouW200whites were on hand when three school buses drove up carrying 39 Negro students.

They battered away at the buses with ax handles, baseball bats and chains. An outnumbered force of about 75 highway patrolmen pushed the whites back with nightsticks and threw tear gas canisters into" the crowd, rescuing the children from the wrecked buses. The mob stopped two of the buses in the street battering in the windows, and several of the children received minor cuts from the glass. In other school integration developments in the South, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox renewed his criticism of Federal Judge W.

A. Bootle who last week ignored a newly passed anti-integration state law signed by Maddox in ordering the school systems of Bibb and Houston counties reopened. At the time Maddox said Bootle bad "violated the law." Prepares For Reopening -At Jackson, Madison County school authorities prepared for the reopening of 17 of the 23 schools under a new desegregation plan. Classes in the 23 schools, where so-called freedom of choice had been allowed to continue, dosed Tuesday. Before the reopening, six all- Judge Sargent keeps thing reprimanding them and urging them to be "more careful in the future." Fines and costs are suspended.

But when need be, the judge is harsh, handing out the punishments he feels are called for. A white haired gentleman steps to the bench and says to the judge, "I plead not guilty. in aHas mtrmAm ha si Ana aa monv A. Judge Sargent By PHYLLIS LOUTNER "Hear ye, hear ye, The Court of the City of Greenwood is now in session, Judge James Sargent presiding. There will be no talking or smoking while court is in session." So opens the continuing drama of city court -each Tuesday night where Judge Sargent hears an average of 50 cases each week.

1 Impressive In his black robe and towering i six-foot-plus height, the Judge, known as "Jim" to most of the townsfolk, hands down judgments on traffic violations, public intoxication, bad check charges, theft and variety of other charges. Mrs. Edith Low, his secretary and right-band gal, comments on ber boss, "He always takes into consideration contributing circumstances. He isn't influenced by appearances nor does he show partiality. He always tries to help the young first offender." A case in point a young mother of two called before the bench for paying a finance company with a bad check.

Meekly admitting guilt and showing proof that the check had since been covered, she and her young husband awaited judgment "You could get six months in jail and $500 fine. Don't be that stupid again. Six months in jail for $45. That's ridiculous!" said the judge before he gave her a 30-day suspended sentence. One after another three teen-agers step up 'answering to speeding and traffic signal violations.

Neat and clean, obviously humbled by their appearance in court they each plead guilty. The judge talks quietly to each, firmly that the man was found staggering in an alley, unable! to talk plainly and with a strong odor of alcohol. Well, it's like this," he said, "I was waitln' on a bus to go back to Indianapolis. I came down with a fella' and be left me standin'. I hit a couple of taverns and I guess I had one too many." Upon determining the man had several previous (continued on back page, col.

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