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THE NEWS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1973 Weekend Toll On Highways At Least 11 PAGE 35 104th YEAR "i'lg People In The News CBS Ordered To Pay Smothers Brothers I )' 5 is Ill KLELNKNIGHT, 68, and Mrs. MARY COLE, 61, both of Bluffton, were killed Saturday when a pickup truck driven by Cecil Cooper, 44, 1554 Ringgold, skidded into the path of Mrs. Klein-knight's car about 5 miles south of Fort Wayne on Ind. 1. Mrs.

Cole was riding with Mrs. Kleinknight. Cooper-was reported in fair condl-tion in Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne. Three other persons were killed in earlier-reported weekend accidents. The death Saturday of Mrs.

Kathryn Unger, 74, Shelbyville, has been attributed to injuries suffered March 17 in a one-car rural Shelbyville accident. Mrs. Unger became ill Saturday while visiting in Columbus and died a short time later in the Bartholomew County Hospital, Columbus. An autopsy indicated she died of a blood clot caused by her injuries in the accident, authorities said; The 1973 Indiana traffic toll stands at 398, compared with 359 by this date last year. fix New Miss Indianapolis Kathryn DeVoe of South Bend, a Butler University student, is crowned Miss Indianapolis of 1973 by last year's queen, Paula Heil.

Miss DeVoe will represent Indianapolis in the Miss Indiana Beauty Hageant at Michigan City in August. The NEWS Photo, Tim Halcomb. CITY, STATE SUMMARY A young Wheatfield man was killed when his auto crashed along U.S. 231 in Jasper County about an hour after the close of the weekend fatality counting period which saw 11 persons die on Indiana streets and highways. THOMAS W.

YOST, 21, was killed instantly about 1:15 a.m. today when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his northbound auto about 20 miles north of Rensselaer. The car ran off the road and hit a tree. The weekend's most tragic crash killed a Terre Haute couple and their unborn twins about 2:25 p.m. yesterday.

State police said DONALD K. WILLIAMS, 44, and his wife SHARON, 31, were believed en route to Indianapolis on U.S. 40 near Brazil when Mrs. Williams may have begun labor. Investigators said the accident occurred when Williams turned off at a truckstop, then pulled back onto the highway and was struck broadside by a car driven by Carta R.

Pounds, 21, Brazil. Miss Pounds suffered minor injuries. Clay County Coroner Philip Slack said the twins were stillborn in the Clay County Hospital, Brazil. He said their deaths were the result of the accident, but it was not immediately known whether they would be included in the traffic toll. Slack speculated Williams turned back toward Terre Haute because Mrs.

Williams went into labor. WILLIAM J. TALBOTT, 16, Buffalo, and PATRICIA CLOTHIER, 15, rural Idaville, were killed yesterday when Talbott's motorcycle hit a pickup truck on a White County road just east of Idaville. Center Line Crossed State troopers said the cycle, carrying Talbott and Miss Clothier, crossed the center line and collided with a truck driven by Vernie R. Criswell, 21, Idaville.

JOSEPH R. PLANK, 39, Hartford City, died yesterday when his car went out of control on Ind. 18 about miles west of Montpelier, crashed through a fence and overturned several times. A passenger, Larry Devers, 22, Van Buren, was reported1 in good condition in the Blackford County Hospital in Hartford City. MABEL COMBS, 61, 369 W.

Elbert, died Saturday night in St. Francis Hospital of injuries suffered earlier in the evening when the car in which she was riding was struck broadside by another auto while crossing Pleasant Run Parkway on Madison. Police said Mrs. Combs was riding with Thelma M. Stivers, 42, Greenwood, who had started across Pleasant Run Parkway after stopping, when a southbound auto driven by Joseph R.

Hinkeldire, 59, 2625 N. Meridian, struck the side of her car. Traffic Signals Off Investigators said the automatic traffic signals at the intersection were not working because a fuse had blown out about 10 minutes before the 6:25 p.m. accident. Hinkeldire was charged with driving without an operator's license, police said.

Neither he nor Miss Stivers was injured seriously, police said. State police said Mrs. DORCAS Justice Douglas To Talk At l.U. April 26 By L. T.

BROWN CBS has been found guilty of breach of contract for cancelling the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour four years ago and has been ordered to pay comedians TOM and DICK SMOTHERS $76,000. A Federal court jury in Los Angeles rejected the network's $l-million coun-tersuit, in which CBS contended it was the brothers who violated the contract. CBS canceled the show April 3, 1969, saying the comedians and their producers had failed to comply with an agreement to co-operate with the network's program practices department. The Smothers brothers said they were being censored when segments either did not get on the air or were edited by CBS. Reminiscing during a luncheon at Princeton University, Supreme Court Justice WILLIAM 0.

DOUGLAS described how he once told Nikita Khrushchev it was a pity he had not been born in America. "Mr. Premier, you'd have become the mayor of Chicago," Douglas said he told the late Soviet leader. In Turin, Italy, fiery opera singer MARIA CALLAS, who has given opera directors headaches, has become a coif director. The New York-born soprano will help start the season in Turin's newly rebuilt I Royal Opera House, closed since a fire destroyed its interior in 1936, by co-' directing Verdi's "Sicilian Vespers" with tenor GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO.

The opera will be staged tomorrow for a VIP audience and have four more shows for the public. Turin opera maestro GIANANDREA GAVAZENNI resigned in a huff after Miss Callas signed her contract. It was announced in Atlanta that Georgia has a new poet-laureate Pulitzer prize-winner CONRAD AIKEN. The 84-year-old poet, a native of Savannah, accepted the honor from his Savannah home, where he lives with his wife MARY. Aiken, who won the Pulitzer in 1930 for his "Selected Poems," was a contemporary and confidante of T.

Eliot. Actress SUSAN HAYWARD is "responding well to treatment" for an undisclosed illness for which she was hos-pitalized March 26, a spokesman said in Los Angeles. He said Miss Hayward was first admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital but transferred to another hospital because a flood of flowers and calls to the switchboard created too much publicity. The spokesman declined to say where she was transferred. I got a raise department: HENRY FORD IL chairman of Ford Motor was paid $874,567 last year, according to the company's notice to its holders.

That was $185,000 more than he made the previous year. Before you grab a pencil, that comes to $420 an hour. From Munich comes word that LUCIUS D. CLAY, the former U.S. military governor of West Germany who inspired the Berlin airlift, was named the winner sv" means to the communities and how he hopes the base can remain open.

He cited the importance of the base not only as a home for the Strategic Air Command's KC135 tankers and FB111 fighter-bombers, but also that the runways are large enough to accommodate nearly any aircraft that needs to land while on a cross-country flight. He said the base is important location. "Everyone knows defense spending will be cut. We don't know where the cuts will be, but we will do everything we can to keep the base open," Hillis said. He said of the three cities surrounding the base Logansport, Peru and Kokomo Peru is the closest and probably would be hurt most financially if the base should close.

Search Hampered Special to The Newt LAFAYETTE, Ind. Nearly flood-level water continues to hamper efforts to recover the bodies of three Logansport men feared drowned March 17. Jack Steinman, 55, Paul Gormley, 44, and Donald Krathwohl, 43, disap-, peared when the boats in which they and two companions were riding capsized in the turbulent Wabash River north of Lafayette. Their companions, James Frank, 45, and Kenneth Haynes, 37, were rescued by state police and Tippecanoe County sheriff's deputies. Officials of both departments said boats have been patrolling the river daify in a vain search for the bodies.

Kissing Backed "A little kiss can't hurt anybody," said Sen. Rudolph Clay, D-Gary, who is asking the Indiana Reformatory superintendent to allow inmates to kiss their wives during visits. It has produced "good results," at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute where it is now an "accepted practice," says Clay. Held In Death NEWPORT, Ky.

(AP) Harold Hall, 29, Covington, was held today in the shooting death of Roger Eugene Courtney Marion, Ind. Police said Courtney was shot in the chest outside a bar in Newport Saturday. Demos Name Kane Indiana Collegiate Young Democrats have elected Robert M. Kane, 19, Griffith, president. He was chosen Saturday during the group's two-day convention.

DOUBLE CROSSERS Br BILL KRSJII ADAM DIPITTO CROSS A UBANGI WITH A LION AND YOU GET A LIPPY LEO til A Miss Callas: Turn in Turin of the Konrad Adenauer prize, worth $10,700. Some Arab governments privately have protested the acceptance by QUEEN ELIZABETH of a forest in Israel as a gift for her silver wedding anniversary, the Foreign Office said in London. A group of British Jews raised more than $1 million to plant one million trees in the forest, which then was named after the queen. Diplomatic sources said the Arabs are particularly upset because the trees were planted in a part of Galilee that, prior to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, was Arab territory. Arabs continue to claim the land.

2 Charged With School Burglary Two suspects, one 13 years old, were charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools in connection with a near-Eastside school break-in yesterday, police said. Answering1 an alarm at School 15, 2302 E. Michigan, police said they found a young man and a boy leaving the building. Arrested was Sam Shipley, 22, 2800 block of East Michigan. The 13-year-old was turned over to juvenile authorities.

Confiscated as evidence were seven headphone sets and a cassette recorder. Gen. Bumen Retires Brig. Gen. Louis G.

Bumen, deputy commander of the Indiana Guard Reserve, has announced his retirement after 52 years in military service. He enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in 1921 and was commissioned in 1924. He served with the Guard unit at his home town of Madison, Ind. During World War TI, Bumen was commander of the 49th Quartermaster Truck Regiment in Africa and later in Italy. He was assigned to the Indiana Guard Reserve in 1961.

STATE DEATHS ON PAGE 16 watch lights on the Thpv WPro tonina Destination Of 80,000 Pills Sought i An investigation by the Indianapolis police narcotics branch is under way to determine the supplier and the destination of 80,000 amphetamine pills confiscated from a Franklin College student Saturday at Weir Cook Airport. Police said the pills, valued at $20,000, were taken from a suitcase belonging to Richard D. Drake, 22, of Bloomington, after Drake arrived at the airport on a flight from Los Angeles. Drake was charged with possession of dangerous drugs, sale of dangerous drugs and conspiracy to commit a felony. Also arrested at the airport were Charles D.

Pile, 19, Edinburg, and Mark D. McQueen, 21, Flat Rock. Pile is a student at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and McQueen told police he is a student at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Police Tipped Off Pile and McQueen were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and being a common nuisance. Patrolman Michael Horn, a narcotics squad investigator, said police received a tip that Drake would arrive at the airport on a 4:19 p.m.

flight from Los Angeles. Indianapolis police and airport police staked out the airport and arrested Drake, Pile and McQueen after Drake claimed his suitcase. Horn said the suitcase contained 80 plastic bags, each containing 1,000 pills. Police said Pile and McQueen met Drake at the airport terminal. Dies In Fire FORT WAYNE, Ind.

(AP)-Cath-erine Williams, 42, Fort Wayne, was killed when a fire damaged her home. The victim's body was found in the kitchen. Authorities said the blaze apparently started in the bedroom. there will perpetuate our freedom." Brenneman added, "I'm only sorry I couldn't have returned with more of America's sons." The bachelor was greeted by Misha-waka Mayor Margaret H. Prickett who declared yesterday "Richard C.

Brenneman Day," and Rep. Richard L. Lindsey, R-Mishawaka, who brought a citation from Gov. Otis R. Bowen.

The happy Brenneman said, "Don't ever believe fighter pilots can't cry." He thanked his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Brenneman, and brother and sister, Brian and Druzelle, and all the members of his "second family." He said, "I would tell you about my other family, a very large and diverse family. It numbers over 200 million.

They live in a beautiful land that stretches from one shining sea to another. They even come in all colors. "They are a wonderful family. I love them very much," he said. Evening Prayer God, forgive me for forgetting.

Because of Christmas, I think of Jesus' birth and at Easter of his resurrection. Valentine's Day reminds me of the ones I love and national holidays of the heritage and freedom of this land. But I know that I can't depend on the calendar to do all my remembering. Make me more sensitive to the blessings I enjoy and all the good things which have been done for me by so many people In so many ways. May my gratitude prompt me to do good for others.

Gratefully. Amen. Dr. Gene E. Sense, President Indiana Central College Ex-POW Brenneman Thanks Letter Writers Special to Tti News BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

William O. Douglas, associate jusstice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak April 26 at Indiana University as part of the Indiana Memorial Union Board-sponsored, Emphasis Lecture Series. Douglas' at 3:30 p.m. in the I.U.

Auditorium, will be open to the public free. His topic has not been announced. The 74-year-old associate justice has served on the highest court since his appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the spring of 1939. Before his appointment, he practiced law for two years in New York City and taught law at Columbia and Yale Universities for nine years.

He served as a director of the Se-curities and Exchange Commission from 1934 to 1936, and as a commissioner and chairman from 1936 to 1939. Base Closing Checked Special to Tin News LOGANSPORT, Ind. Rumors that Grissom Air Force Base may be closed are being checked by Rep. El-wood Hillis, Don Ruby, assistant to Hillis, said the congressman has been informed by the Pentagon that a message was sent to all Air Force bases in the country, warning that there would be some cutbacks. However, the Pentagon did not say where the cutbacks would be.

Ruby said Hillis has called the Pentagon "two dozen times in the last month," saying how much Grissom tally board in the Indiana Senate. ae naaoc fnr on Pltilin l-l Mnoc The NEWS Photo, Joe Young. tnmmmmmmmmmmmmi ilium iMimi I I I mk r- Otf. --r-. A ess, xM i 7 7mmS far Vl I fir JiXM lu- 4tA 1 fflli'LJ 1 MISHAWAKA, Ind.

(AP) Air Force Capt. Richard C. Brenneman, who spent more than five years as a prisoner in North Vietnam, credits the American people for improved POW treatment in late 1969 and early 1970. That was "when you, my fellow brothers and sisters, put pressure on the North Vietnamese in the letter-writing campaign," he told several thousand persons at a welcome-home celebration yesterday. "The bricks came out of the windows and we could breathe," he said.

"Those in the torture chambers were taken out, those living alone were given roommates. The food picked up a little bit en the improvements did come." Brenneman, a 1960 graduate of Mis-hawaka High School, was released from captivity early last month. He said the POWs did not realize the effect of the letter-writing campaign at the time, "but we do now and believe me words cannot convey our appreciation for this." 'Truly Wonderful' Brenneman told the crowd at the high school gymnasium, "I don't think any words in any language could properly describe my feelings about my home-coming and my country; but, believe me, it has been wonderful, truly wonderful. "There was a conflict of ideology that took me half way around the world. There are those people In our world who would impose a different Ideology upon us.

They would deny us certain freedoms," he said. "I'm proud to have served and I'm sure that Uie service of all those over Learning About Government Cayle Ceding, 11 (left) and Elizabeth Hayes, 10, D-Evansville..