The Logansport Press from Logansport, Indiana • Page 1

jjfiBfflffl Home Paper Of 41 Communities Founded In 1844- N6ws, Photo United InMrnatlonai LOGANSPORT. INDIANA, 46947 THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1971 All 75J-7S13 Price Per Copy, TenCentt Vote To Close St Bridget More Using Local Clinic There has been an 11 percent increase in admissions to the local Guidance Center during the past six months, Administrator David Barnett reported Wednesday night. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Cass Mental Health board, Barnett pointed out that the people of Cass, Pulaski, Fulton and Miami Counties are receiving mental clinic assistance of top quality at the lowest possible cost. Despite the fact that the local Guidance Center serves 109,220 people, 10,000 more than the Kokomo clinic, its annual budget is only half as great as that of the Kokomo clinic, he reported. The low cost here has been possible because the Guidance Center leans heavily upon the state hospital for its professional staff, he explained.

The 133 admissions to the local Guidance Center during the past three months included 61 from Cass, 48 from Miami County, 15 from Fulton and nine from Pulaski County. The Guidance Center is starting a drug education program in schools of -this area, Barnett said. The first seminar for teachers will be Feb. 1 at Ma- conaquah. Barnett said 47 percent of the people already being served by the Guidance Center for mental problems are under 18 years of age.

Former administrator of the Kokomo mental health clinic, he has been administrator here since October. Offer Adults Five Classes Five classes in Adult- Education will be offered at the Logansport High School when the second semester begins on Feb. 8, according to Gene Williams, director. They are: art and ceramics on Monday evenings, and sewing and reading improvement on Tuesday evenings. Time of a class in driver's training will be set later.

Williams said that those interested in other classes should contact him and if there is sufficient interest in other subjects, these may be offered. Sessions are one night a week from 7 until 9 p.m. The fee for all classes, except driver's training, is $10. A $30 fee is charged for driver's training. Cleanliness ST.

BRIDGET'S SCHOOL, LINDEN AND WILKINSON, WILL CLOSE JUNE 1 Green Beret Clcseout Higher Gas i Rates Meet In Vietnam Announced opposition SAIGON (UPI) -The U.S. command today announced the closeout of all Special Forces operations in South Vietnam and said the Green. Beret, symbol of the elite will disappear from the battlefields of 1 1 The last major Green Beret installation in Vietnam, the 5th. Special Forces headquarters at Nha Trang, ceased operations: Jan. 15 after nearly a decade.

Spokesmen did not specify when all the troops would be out of the country. Military spokesmen also said Communist troop.s violated Wednesday's 24-hour Tet lunar new year cease-fire 78 times. American casualties during the day-long stand-down were a low for a Vietnam cease-fire-one wounded. However, 25 South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed and 81 wounded by Communists bombs and bullets during the period. The worst Communist attack came from terrorists who tossed three hand' grenades into a holiday crowd watching a movie at the of An Nhon killing- 10 Vietnamese injuring 19..

However, it came two hours after the. allied -cease-fire are honoring a four-day stand-down ending early The American casualty toll for the week ending last Saturday rose to highest point in more than two months, the U.S. command said. A spokesman attributed the sharp increase in combat deaths to "an incraase in aircraft incidents" involving Communist action. The week before 37 Amen- Is Your Child A Drug User? Many Here Are cans were killed and the week before that 27.

Vietnamese spokesmen reported 274 government troops killed during last week, while 1,361 North Vietnamese Cong were The Command for time'the exact dimensions of recent US." air intervention in- Cambodia to support a joint 'Cambodian- South Vietnamese operation to clear Highway 4 from Phnom Penh to the seaport of Kompong Som. In Cambodia, the high command today reported no new Communist-initiated incidents close Penh and said the Communists appeared to be moving their forces away from the capital. The U.S. military, command in Saigon said, an Air Force F100 jet fighter- bomber crashed Wednesday in the Cambodian province of Kbh Kong, which borders the Gulf of Thailand. The pilot was killed A petition for an investigation of proposed gas rate increases in this area has been filed with the Public Service Commission by Carl.

Van Dorti'of 'Indianapolis. The Public Service Company requested a million gas rate increase. Under the new PSCI rules no hearing is required. The public counselor's petition alleges that'after two" hearings, the Public Service. Commission of Indiana set NIPSCO rates based upon a 6.96 percent return on plant investment.

Van Dorn's request for an investigation- and hearing states that information provided by NIPSCO indicates the utility will receive a-return in excess of 8 percent if the new rates are approved. The petition explains that 1 NIPSCO did not specifically request an increase in the rate of return. LONDON (UPI) Railway station porter Yahaya Bkhari's passion for cleanliness put him in court Wednesday. Bahari's troubles began the other day when he saw Alfred Hosner, 57, drop an empty cigarette package on the immaculate platform of Beckenham 'Hill Station, south of London. When Hosner refused to pick it up, Bahari grabbed a sickle he uses to keep the station free of weeds and went after the litterbug, the court was told.

Bahari blocked off escape routes by locking two station gates. Hosner gave up and Bahari lectured him on the virtues of keeping Britain clean. As soon as he was free, Hosner called police. They charged Bahari with possessing an offensive weapon. A First For Apollo Pilots CAPE KENNEDY 14's backup pilots have matched the training regimen of the prime pilots and for the first time today, could step in at the eleventh hour and replace Alan B.

Shepard and crew if necessary to meet Sunday's moon launch appointment. "It's been theoretical in the past and it's a reality now," a space agency official said. Donald K. Slayton, chief of the astronaut corps, explained that backups Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E.

Evans and Joe Henry Engle are "up to the same readiness" as Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar D. Mitchell and could substitute as an entire crew If they had to. It's 1971. Are your children using drugs? What makes you so sure your youngsters aren't or haven't experimented with drugs? Would you recognize tie symptoms if they were using them? suspected they were experiment- Ing, what would you do? In November -and December, 1970, questionnaires prepared by the Pharos-Tribune and Press were distributed to'students in grades five through 12 in the public schools, with the approval of Dr.

Ted Hughes, superintendent of schools. Purpose of the. questionnaires was to determine to what extent local students have experimented with illegal drugs, their attitude toward the use of these drugs, and their knowledge of drugs and their effects. Students were told they could sign questionnaires if they wanted to, and would possibly be contacted for their-views. Evidence was found'that some teachers told students how to answer questions and not to sign their names! Students were cautioned to respond honestly and thoughtfully to ail questions Prior to tabulating results, numerous questionnaires were, discarded due to inconsistencies or fallacies or obvious misinterpretation' of Several students refused to complete the forms.

The final tabulation is based on 2,843 completed questionnaires, including .965 from the high school, 1,148 from Junior high school students, and 730 from fifth and sixth grade.stu- dents. In a city such as South Bend, Fort Wayne, Gary or Indianap- olis, such a series on. drug abuse wouldn't cause much of a stir. But In a city like Logansport, such a series has a great ten--. dency to bring about such comments as "Why write it? Logansport has ho drug are emphasized too One person to make that comment is in contact almost daily with students, who in questionnaires filled out by them, said that 2.6 percent are currently using drugs and 19.5 have been offered or have used some type of drug at least once.

One school official, when asked to distribute questionnaires, said he would not unless the superintendent "told" him to do so. He termed the drug situation "highly over-rated." Reporters found that many parents are not as well versed in drug information as students are and that it' would 'be beneficial to the community if some organization, would see that parents have the iopportunity to see the same or similar films that are viewed by students, and hear comparable talks about drugs; Certain officials were reluctant to have reporters talk with persons working under them unless they were informed before, and in one case, the person wanted to be present when comments were made. (They were interviewed separately.) The series, divided into 12 installments, begins Sunday in the' Pharos-Tribune Press: This series is presented as a public service in an effort to provide readers with a vivid and accurate picture of the drug, abuse situation as It exists, in Logansport today, and the cause of the crash was not determined, the spokesmen was the' 53rd American Ik Weather aircraft lost in Cambodia, cnDCrACT including 16 fixed-wing aircraft FUKtwO 1 and' 37 helicopters. dpudy Ffiday with light snow likely near a'nri snnw flur- MISS YOUR NEWSPAPER? If you miss your daily newspaper and do not receive it by 6:00 P.M:, please phone 753-7511 before 7:30 P.M. and a paper will be delivered to you.

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.10 .10 10 10 9 7 5 4 3 3 4 4 6 9 New Logansport Park To Be Built On Island Construction of a new city Biddle's Island, sponsored- by the Cass County Building and Construction Trades Council in cooperation with the city administration, will get underway Saturday. island is. located on city's sduthside. "If weather permits, we will begin; clearing the area Saturday," asid Bay Miner, president of association. The park-, be located on the east'end of the island.

The City's Smallest School To End Classes June I St. Bridget school will close June 1, it, was announced Thursday by St. Bridget Parish Council, governing body. The closing will not affect the 'city's two remaining parochial schools, St. Vincent's or St.

Joseph, officials of those two parishes said. The decision to close St. Bridget's Wednesday night following a meeting of the Parish Council. The vote was 12 to 2, with two members of the board absent. "The decision to.

close the school-came after many months of committee ways and means to maintain the, school as a parochial educational facility," the council said. According to the parish council, the closing is "based on a number of factors." Cited as the principal cause was the "rising cost of administration with little, prospect of outside aid." Enrollment was another problem cited by the council. The school at one time had'a peak enrollment of 180 pupils and this is now down to about 90. The council said "very few" children who would be entering the first grade next year have registered to date. Finally, the council blamed "the diversion of large sums of parish monies for diocesan and other needs and the feeling that too much of the parochial funds were being expended for education to detriment of other crying parish needs." St.

Bridget's is the city's smallest-Catholic parish. The school this year'dropped the seventh and eighth grades, but at that time, the Eev. Francis Meehan, garish pastor, indicated that the school could tinue to operate for pupils in grades one through six. With the closing' of the seventh and eighth, grades, those pupils, with one exception, were transferred to the. public school system.

"The council will begin at once to negotiate with the Logansport school authorities for as smooth a transfer of the pupils of St. Bridget's to the city system as is possible," the governing board said. Those pupils now attending St. Bridget's could also transfer to one of the two remaining paro- chial schools, should their parents desire. The Rev.

Francis Niesen, pastor of St. Vincent's, said his parish school would be willing land is owned by the city. The project has been on the drawing board for about a year. "We will try to get the rough stuff cleared out right now," Miner said, "and then bulldoze the land in the spring." The property then be seeded. Plans call for the park to provide both picnic and playground facilities.

Miner said it would take about two years to complete the project in its entirety. to take some of the but added that a "tuition fee" would have to be negotiated with the parents. "I would think it. would be rather doubtful the parents would want to subsidize another school, however," Rev. Niesen said.

About 30 of the pupils attending St. Bridget's are children of Air Force parents stationed at Grissom Air Force Base. They would have to enroll either in another narochial school or attend public schools available to base children. Dr. Ted Hughes, superintendent of Logansoort Community School Corporation, said" a study would have to be conducted to determine to which district the St.

Bridget students would be assigned, but he indicated it most nrobably would be Franklin, the largest elementary school in the system. "We will have to find --ojA where the students live and-assign them to the elementary school district in which they reside." Dr. Huehes said. The superintendent said he did envision "any major problems at this time," in absorbing pupils from St. Bridget's into the local school system.

"We had asked." Dr. Hughes continued, "that if a parochial school was to be closed that we be given sufficient time to plan for the transition. I would have to say St. Bridget has done this." did not indicate how long would be before school assignments would be made known to the parents of the St. Bridget students.

The present St. Bridget school is the newest of the three parochial schools, being constructed In 1962! tt has four classrooms, gymnasium and a multi-purpose room that also serves as a cafe. teria. There no immediate indication as to the future plans for the school building from either the parish council or public school officials. Closing of the school Is subject to approval of Bishop Raymond J.

Gallagher, bishop of the Lafayette Diocese, but the parish council said "it is not anticipated that he will overrule the decision St. Bridget school was opened in 1875 and initially served also as the parish church until 1918, when the present church was built. The original school was located on the corner of Wheatland Avenue and Wilkinson Street. Plunkett To Patriots; Chicago Gets Joe Moore NEW YORK (UPI)-Jim Plunkett, the Stanford quarterback who won the Heisman Trophy after shattering NCAA single season and career passing today was selected by the Boston. Patriots to open pro football's annual draft of college players.

Plunkett, a 6-foot-3, 203- pounder from San Jose, won the Heisman after becoming the first collegian in history to surpass 7,000 yards in total offense during his- career. He amassed yards during his three varsity seasons, completing 530 of 962 passes for 7,544 yards and 52 touchdowns. Last season Plunkett completed 191-of-358 passes for 2,715 yards and 18 TDs to rank sixth nationally. Despite his impressive statistics, it was Plunkett's methodical dissection of Ohio State in Stanford's Rose! Bowl upset of the second ranked Buckeyes that stamped him as the outstanding college quarterback in the'nation. Archie Manning, who rewrote Southeastern Conference passing records during his three year career at Mississippi, was selected by the New Orleans Saints.

Manning (6-3, 204) had an outstanding junior season before suffering a broken arm midway through his senior year. He ranked 15th in passing last season, completing 121-of- 233 attempts for 1,481 yards and 14 TDs. Manning, I4th nationally in total offense with 1,594 yards, also has been drafted" to play baseball by the Kansas City Royals. The Houston Oilers took Dan Pastorini, the triple threat quarterback from Santa Clara. Pastorini, a 6-3, 218-pounder who was injured most of his senior year, was outstanding as a junior, completing 155 of 298 passes for 2,049 yards TDs: Other first round picks included: 4 J.

D. Hill, receiver, Arizona State by Buffalo Bills. 5. Richard Harris, DT, Grambling, Philadelphia. 6.

John Riggins, FB, Kansas by York Jets. 7. Joe Profit, HB, Northeastern Louisiana, Atlanta. 8. Frank Lewis, receiver Grambling, Pittsburgh.

9. John Brockington, FB, Ohio State, Green Bay. 10. Isiah Robertson, Southern University, LB, Los 11. Joe Moore, HB, Missouri, Chicago Bears.

12. Marv Montgomery, OT, Southern Cal, Denver. 13. Leon Burns, RB, Long Beach State, San Diego. 14.

Clarence'Scott, DB, Kansas State, Cleveland. 15. Vernon Holland, OT, Tenn. State, Cincinnati. 16.

Elmo Wright, receiver, Houston Kansas City..