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16 KOKOMO TIMES Saturday November 26, 1966 essSSsHKHHSK -i-M-33 America Downing America Ellen Downing, 85, 702 N. Anderson, died at 7:45 p.m. Thursday at Mercy Hospital. She was born Dec. 1, 1880, at Modoc, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Fairfax Hunt. She was married to Charles M. Downing, who preceded her in death in 1934. She was a member of the Modoc Nazarene Church.

Survivors include three sons, Charles, Elwood; Joseph, Pendleton; and Donald, Fortville, 9 grandchildren, 12 great- grandchildren, and 2 great- great- grandchildren. Arrangements are pending. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday at York-Dunnichay Funeral Home. Vernoy Fetrow FRANKFORT Mrs.

Vernoy Landis Fetrow, 66, 452S. Main, died at 12:45 a.m. Thursday at the Clinton County Hospital. She had been ill the past three years. Funeral services will beheld Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

in the Goodwin Funeral Home. Mrs. Fetrow was born in Clinton County and lived in Lafayette for 10 years before returning to Frankfort in 1961. She was a member of the Colfax Christian Church. Surviving are five sisters, including Mrs.

Leona Hinton of Frankfort. Services will be conducted by the Rev. George Smith. Burial will followinBunnellCemetery. Dessie Few LOGANSPORT -DessieFew, 67, died Friday at p.m.

at her residence, 1030 Sunset Drive. She had been a resident of Logansport for the past six years, moving here from Cleveland, Ohio. She is survived by her husband, Henry and two daughters, Mrs. Nelson Nicolaus, Palmer Heights, Ohio, and Mrs. Robert Simmons, Cleveland.

There are four grandchildren. Also surviving is one brother, BrodyClark, andMrs. Pearl Bothwell, both of Cleveland. Friends may call at the McCloskey-Hamilton-Kahle Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Saturday.

The body will be taken to Cleveland earlySunday morning where final arrangements are pending. None hurf in rash of fender-benders TIPTON A rash of fender- bender accidents plagued the Tipton area the past few days, with no personal injuries involved. At yesterday, Donna T. Savage, 48, tore down ten rods of fence and posts on the property of Walter Powell, located on Highway 19, two and three-quarter miles north of Tipton. Cause of the accident was attributed to wet pavement.

Damage was estimated at $100 to the Savage car. On Thursday, Nov. 24, at the intersection of West St. and College Miss Roma K. Snipes, 16, Frankfort, collided with Michael G.

Cox, 17, Kempton, at 4:40 p.m. The Snipes car received $350 damage to the right doors and front fender, while the Cox car sustained damage of $200 to the front end. Smoke and parked cars obstructing the view from the Snipes car was the cause of the accident. A car driven by Joy Connor, 59, Terre Haute, collided with one piloted by Darwin DeLaugh- ter, 26, Wabash, Indiana, at 6:16 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.

23. The accident occurred seven miles north of East Union, on U.S. 31 at 100 N. Fenders of both cars Were severely damaged; a total of $1,400 damage to both vehicles. There was no personal in jury, and no charges were filed.

France's reforms may split Catholic church MADRID (UPI) --Generalissimo Francisco Franco's inclusion of greater religions freedom among constitutional reforms announced this week comes at a time of severe religious crisis in Catholic Spain. In his address to Parliament Tuesday, Franco proclaimed the principle of religious liberty for non-Catholics as a legal right and said a special law on freedoms of Protestants and Jews would follow. How this will affect the critical situation within the Spanish Catholic Church itself is not immediately clear, but the church has been troubled by a dramatic split between the so-called "young priests" -seeking separation of church and state --and the old church hierarchy. The Catholic Church in Spain is, in effect, sharing a problem affecting the entire Spanish people --the "long black line" dividing 33 million Spaniards Into those who are over 40 and remember the Civil War and Its one million dead, and those who are under 40 and were too young or not yet born, Statistics show that 65 per cent of Spanish Catholics are under 40. The same proportion is also recorded for the Catholic clergy.

The old hierarchy of cardinals, archbishops, bishops, mon- slgnorl and old priests still remembers that duringtheClvl! The "young priests" and laymen under 40 have no direct knowledge of the Civil War. "Los Curas young priests --have been proclaiming more or less openly that they want to separate the church from its past and its conditional support of Franco's regime even if Franco did protect the Catholic Church and its priests from the republican wrath. Last May the incredible happened. About 120 priests ranging from Jesuit fathers to Benedictine monks and Paris priests--all under 40 staged a demonstration in Barcelona to protest against the alleged manhandling of a young student arrested by police following demonstrations in the local university. The young priests were attacked by the Spanish press and vaguely reprimanded by their own bishops.

The executive committee of Spain's Roman Catholic bishops criticized the young priests, saying that although they were obviously animated by a pastoral problem their methods were regrettable and could not be approved, War 13 bishops, 5,255 priests and 2,669 members of different religious orders were assassinated simply because they were Catholics. In the same way the ordinary Spaniard over 40 members that one million of his countrymen met death In the conflict. A JOLLY OLD bewhiskered gentleman in a red suit arrived in Kokomo yesterday. In fact he arrived three different times at three different locations. Santa Claus is shown at 'Obituaries 1 the left disembarking from a helicopter at the T-Way in the Southway Shopping area.

In the center Santa came to the downtown Kokomo business district atop a fire truck Final a for 2nd school before board Tuesday Consideration of final plans and specifications forKokomo's new, and second, high school will be undertaken Tuesday by a joint session of the Kokomo-Center Township School Board with the Kokomo-Center Township School Building Corp. The meeting will convene at 7:30 p.m. in the school administration building on Lincoln Road. A report by the engineering committee will also be heard. Plans for the $7,880,000 high school, if approved, are slated to be given to prospective bidders as soon as possible, in order that they may have ample time to prepare their estimates.

Bids are scheduled to be taken in January, 1967. and at the right, the children line up at the Kokomo Mall for their turn to set on Santa's lap and tell him what they want for Christmas. And as only Jolly Saint Nick can do he will set up shop at all three locations from now until Christmas Eve when he will rush back to the North Pole to prepare for his big day. (Morning Times Photos) Lady Bird to host Mamie AUSTIN, Tex. (UP1) --Lady Bird Johnson will entertain her predecessor, Mrs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the members of several other former first families Monday at a party launching a new Living White House." The First Lady is preparing to fly from the LBJ Ranch to Washington this weekend or early Monday for the 4 p.m. history-making reception, Nov. Filth, apathy, muggings: Police investigate way of life in Harlem slum By MAGGIE BELLOWS United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) This is the story of Metro North, a story of ugliness, smells, screams in the night and the violence of seven blocks of rat-infested old law tenements of an East Harlem slum called "worst In the city" by Mayor John Lindsay. It is the story of the people who live there--a mixed group of about 20,000 Puerto Hican.Negroandasprinklingoflong- time Italian families.

A third of them are on welfare. Income of the employed residents averages $58 a week. Filth and apathy, muggings on the streets and drunks in the halls are part of the way of life in the neighborhood. Three children burned to death there in a Hash fire not long ago--one of 82 such fires in seven months. A young man, trying to break into an apartment for narcotics money, was electrocuted by a wired window.

A child fell from one of the rickety tenement windows to death. A man was killed in the collapse of a grate outside a condemned building the city had forgotten to demolish. "It was a loading platform D'Ar- pa Italian immigrant who lived inthearea35 years. "It vrasn't American. Americans do things.

They don't live just to die. They stand up and fight." D'Arpa invited a few neighbors to the back room of his liquor store late in 1962, and started the fight. They called themselves Metro North Association. Nothing much happened atfirst.PeopleduIledbypbverty, frustrated by faceless landlords, distracted by winos, bums, drug addicts, don't know how or where to fight. But leadership developed: From the churches (St.

Lucy's Catholic church and Church of the Resurrection), from Union Settlement, and from another group which had formed to fight neglectful landlords under leadership of a former pastor, the Rev. Norman Eddy. These "fighters" wenttogethertoaprominentcityplanner, William Conklin, and together they made a plan--known today as "our plan" by the people of Metro North. It was a plan to dream about and fight for, something on paper they could see. New York began to hear from Metro North.

When four landlords simply dese rted falling-down buildings, Metro North staged a mock funeral march for the "dead" structures. Then the tenants organized and ran them themselves. When a blizzard caught other buildings with no heat or water, Metro North barricaded the streets, marched to City Hall. The city slapped a vacate order on the apartments. When the city talked public housing, the people, hating what they call "filing cabinets for people," fought high rise.

The city agreed to a low-rise project with a community plaza near the new Church of the Resurrection. The locals formed a "parks and recreation committee." When the city built a small vest-pocket park, they equipped it with volunteer labor. They formed their own "relocation committee." The city trained 15 volunteers under a poverty grant; now neighbors help neighbors find places to live in a difficult area. Metro North, finding it had muscle, began to flex it. The group got six firetraps condemned and torn down; 11 other tenements radically improved under city laws; four others taken over by the city for operation and improvement.

Meantime, in Chicago, the Kate Maremount Foundation had tackled an experiment. In" an attempt to prove that rehabilitation of slum housing could be profitable, it had bought several, hoping that unions, churches, businessmen and other foundations would undertake other slum renova- Metro North invited Maremount to try East Harlem. A non-profit association was setup, and Maremount moved in on five oftliemostramshackleold-lawbulldingson 100th ST. Industry, reading Maremount's success figures, pricked mount's success figures, pricked up its ears. U.S.

Gypsum bought six more buildings St.andbegan reconstruction. Two slightly hurt in 3-car pileup 3 separate crashes Three separate accidents yesterday resulted in $1225 damages, according to city police reports. Two cars collided at the intersection of HofferandtheU.S. 31 bypass about 4:30 p.m. Drivers were Charlene H.

Taylor, 24,1230 E. Sycamore and Jesse V. Askern, 71, RR 1, Tipton. Askern was arrested on a charge of failing to yield the right-of-way to an oncoming vehicle, police said. Two autos were involved in a mishap at Morgan and Webster at p.m.

yesterday. Drivers were; James R. Quirk, 35, 900 E. Markland and Steven L. Croddy, 17, 729 S.

Brandon. Cars operated by Richard M. Boyce, 17, 203 Westmorland and Genevieve A. Griffin, 22, 1116 W. Harrison were involved in an accident near the intersection of Mulberry and Washington, police commented.

Total damage was estimated at $125, according to police. Car hits cow LOGANSPORT Pressey, Winamac, escaped injury at 6:15 p.m. Friday when his auto struck a cow at the intersection of Tipton and Burlington Avenue. The cow had escaped from the Stoney Pike Stock Yards earlier, according to Logansport police. The cow had to be killed as a result of injuries suffered in the mishap.

However, law enforcement officials had to chase the animal over most of western Logansport prior to its capture. Extensive property damage was reported to the front of Pressey's small foreign car. 28. Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and her daughter- in-law, Mrs. John Eisenhower, and three of her grandchildren, Barbara Anne, Mary Jean and Susan Elaine, were among the stars on the.guest list.

The guidebook--a joint effort of the White House Historical Association and the National Georgraphic Society already has had more than 3,000 copies sold in advance sales. The book was inspired by historical-minded Mrs. John- son, who found most White House visitors plying the guides with questions about the first families. Elizabeth Carpenter, the First Lady's press secretary, said the first White House guidebook was a "primer" to the furnishings and rooms of the White House. Caroline and John F.

Kennedy whose days in the White House are still vivid in the public memory, are prominently leatured in the new book. Neither former First Lad. Jacqueline Kennedy or children will attend the rec' tion. Mrs. Kennedy has consil tently declined invitations to return to the White House or Washington since she moved to New York.

Guests at Mrs. Johnson's reception will "walk through the pages of history." Mrs. Carpenter said. Blown-up reproductions of many of the photographs in the new book will decorate the East Room and the Great Hall. A CROWD OF 10,000 is expected to fill Detroit's Cobo Hall today for a preview of the 51st Detroit Auto Show, It features a $1 million display of the 1967 models.

A general view of the show is presented through this 180-degree Fisheye lens. (UPI Telephoto) PERU Two people were injured, neither seriously, during a three car pileup at 6:20 p.m. last night on U.S. 31 in front of the Hillcrest Bowling Lanes south of Peru. James Reder, 26, Twin Bridges Trailer Court, and his four- year-old daughter, Maria, were both taken to the Bunker Hill Air Force Base hospital where they were treated for minor cuts and possible back Injuries.

Also, Carl Wilson, 51, HR 2, Walton, complained of a neck injury but was not taken to the hospital, The driver of the third car Involved, Ronald Hartgrove, 20, BIIAFB, escaped injury. State trooper Robert Burns said that the wreck happened when Wilson's car, attempting to make a left turn into the bowling lanes, was struck in the rear by Seder's auto, The impact forced Wilson's auto across the center line and into the path of Hartgrove's southbound car. Reder was cited for reckless driving. Radar's vehicle was listed as a total loss and damages to the other cars involved was estimated at $850. Assisting In the Investigation were state trooper James Goerges and Miami County Deputy Sheriff Lowell Harmon, PRESIDENT JOHNSON gestures toward Sen.

Everett M. Dirksen and everyone enjoys a good laugh as the President asks Sen. Dirksen to speak to newsmen. This group of congressional leaders met with newsmen after centering with the President during the afternoon. (UPI Telephoto).