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Final Edition Home Paper Of 41 Communities LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, 46947 Founded in Leased United Press International News, Photo -Wires "THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29,1970 All Departments Phone 753-7511 Price Per Copy, Ten Cents By-Law Change Ok'd By Committee Wydtt Deplores HEW Bill Veto INDIANAPOLIS schools will "suffer great losses" if the vetoed $19.7 billion Health Education bill is replaced by proposals made by President Nixon, Robert Wyatt, executive secretary of the Indiana State Teachers Association, said Wednesday. Wyatt said the White House put forth "actually enormous" efforts to gather congressional support of Nixon's veto. "Arm twisting is a pretty weak term for what I saw down there," Wyatt, who just returned from Washington, said. Wyatt said the vetoed bill called for $4.4 million in federal funds for Indiana. An alternate plan suggested by the President, he said, would divert only $982,000 into the state.

In 1969, $4.2 million was funded to Indiana. Most seriously effected would be Maconaquah Township of Miami County where Grissom Air Force Base property is not included in the area's tax rolls. For the same reason, Lawrence Township of Marion County' would suffer because of Fort Benjamin Harrison. Wyatt warned. Wyatt said one of the greatest losses could be to college students requiring loans.

He said about 3,700 such students would be denied such loans this spring unless more money is made available than was proposed by Nixon. Wyatt also mentioned the handicapped children's program as another area which would be seriously hurt by the veto. Wyatt said there was "an enormous outpouring of people interested jn all aspects" of the measure. He said he spent three days in Washington working with other parties favoring the bill. Wyatt said he was "encouraged" by the 226 votes to over ride the veto against 191 to up hold it.

"I am sure there will be a compromise," he said. The first step in that direction, he said, would be for the bill to go back to the House Appropriations Committee where it could be subjected to additional review. Although he indicated disappointment in failure of the bill to survive the veto, Wyatt said his organization would not endorse any candidates. "We expect to keep our people informed," Wyatt said. "But I do not believe the ISTA will endorse a candidate." He said he relied on ISTA members' "political education" to serve as their personal guideline in casting their ballots.

Prison Warden Proposes Plan INDIANAPOLIS Russell Lash of the Indiana State Prison said here Wednesday that he felt the institution could be self supporting if "legal barriers and red tape barriers" blocking a money making vocation training program were removed. Lash outlined to a news conference a proposal he had presented to State Correction Commissioner Robert Heyne for a pilot program in which five inmates would refinish 1,000 desks for the South Bend school system. He called the proposal "a unique, positive experiment in rehabilitation that will give financial assistance to the vocational and education programs at the Indiana State Prison." Lash said the South Bend School B'oard would pay $3 each for refinishing the desks and that the cost of sandpaper, varnish and other materials would amount to $1.62 per desk. Lash asked Heyne for approval of a plan by which each of the five inmates would get 10 cents per desk for his commissary account and 50 cents per desk in an escrow account to be given to him upon discharge, with the remaining 78 cents to go the recreation fund. The warden said Heyne was "favorably impressed" with the plan but had warned there might be "some legal complications" that would prevent it from being realized.

Lash said that within the prison population much talent is "going to waste" that could be utilized in other programs by which items made by the inmates in the course of learning a vocation could be sold. He said that "thousands of items not in competition with Indiana business" could be made by the prison inmates. JOHN STREU DAVID PATTY LARRY DELANEY Four Area Men Selected For State Police School Three Logansport men and another from Carroll County will begin 12 weeks of intensive law enforcement training at the Indiana State Police recruit school that begins Monday at Indiana University. Attending from Logansport will be John Streu, 24, of 224 Northern Larry E. Delaney, 22, of 1426 North and David A.

Patty, 25, of Wheatland Ave. The recruit from Carroll County is James L. Sailors of Flora. The recruits, a total of 75, were selected from a. group of more than 800 applications on a basis of rigid written and physical examination and character investigations.

They will receive training in traffic and crminal law, first aid, police driving, photography and the use of fire arms. On April 15, at the end of 10 weeks, those who have successfully concluded the training course will be appointed to trooper ranks as probationary officers. They will be assigned to districts and ride with veteran troopers on patrol. On June 1 the rookies will return to Indianapolis to undergo training to become qualified chemical test operators. In addition, they will be schooled in the department's community and news media relations program.

After this phase of instruction the new troopers will be assigned to patrols of their own to begin one year of in-service training before being permanently assigned to rank of trooper. Streu, who resides with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Streu, has been a Cass County Deputy Sheriff since July of 1967. He Ms resigning his post effective Feb.

1. Streu was graduated from Logansport High School and the Academy of Applied Machine Accounting at Ilndianapolis where he studied computer programming and data processing. He is a member of the Logansport Lodge of the Faternal Order of Police and currently holds the rank of Sp. 4 with the Indiana National Guard. Delaney, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Alvin Delaney, 215-16th is a division manager with Sears- Roebuck Company. Married to the former Linda Brown of Macy, Delaney was graduated from Logansport High School in 1965. He served with the U.S Army from 1966 to 1968, including 12 months duty in Viet Nam, and was discharged with the rank of sergeant. Patty, son of Mr, and Mrs.

Burdette Patty, 21442th was graduated from Logansport High School and attended the University of Arizona. Employed with Young Transport Company in Logansport, Patty also is a Viet Nam veteran. He served with the U.S. Air Force from 1963 to 1967 and was discharged with the rank of sergeant. Patty is married to the former Anne Russow of Idaville, a fourth grade teacher at Franklin Elementary School.

Nominating Committee Selects 7 New Members Seven new members, led in the balloting by Mrs. Helen C. Herd, of 2509 High Street Road, were elected to the Citizens School Board Nominating Committee Wednesday night. Mrs. Herd received 141 of the approximately 200 votes cast.

Others elected and the votes they received were: Duane Meeker, Rt. Dr. Richard Glendenning, 2300 E. Broadway, 120; Mrs. Richard Vogel, 3008 E.

Broadway, 140; Dan Layman, 2126 E. Broadway, 140; Mrs. Judy Williamson, 824 High 122, and James Frohbeiter, Rt. 2, 137. The balloting came during the annual open assembly of the nominating committee held in Logansport High School.

In all, 12 persons were nominated to fill the seven committee vacancies. The others and their votes were; Mrs. Rosemary Mohlman, 2900 Woodland 63; Devon Moon, 3731 U.S. 24 East, 58; Don Shelhart, 1330 College, 85; Charles Cotner, 8 E. Mildred 102 and Dr.

Russell Eckert, 15 Frederick 74. The new members will serve four year terms. Members of the committee whose terms had expired included Mrs. 0. L.

Shanteau, National Debt WASHINGTON (UPI) accounts for the fiscaal year through Jan. 26. Wtidrwls $126,868,361,732.96 Deposits 112,892,049,559.09 Cash balance 7,640,622,387.55 Public debt 373,243,542,324.78 Gold 11,367,087,998.84 Bulletin Logansport City Police are searching for two Negro women who reportedly walked out of the Kreuzberger Jewelry Store, 526 E. Broadway, with a tray ol diamond rings about 1:30 p.m. An estimated 20 rings were on tlje tray which was taken from inside a display counter, Fred Dr.

Marian Hochhalter, Mrs, Bernard Nathan, Mrs. Kenneth Kahle, Mrs. Charles Cotner, and Richard Scott. Committee bylaws prevent a member from succeeding his or her self on the committee. The committee previously announced the names of five new appointive members to the committee, with the Labor Council yet to name its representatives; The organization, its purpose to seek qualified candidates to fill vacancies on the board of school trustees, is composed of 27 members, with 15 elected at- an open assembly and 12 appointed by the various civic organizations in the community.

The new appointive members are Mrs. Robert Johnson, 2727 E. Broadway, American Associ-, Local Girl Injured In Accident Miss Christine B. Muehlhausen, 17, of 301 Davis sustained cuts on her lower lip in an accident that damaged four autos shortly after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on High Street, just west of 13th Street.

Investigating officers a i'd Miss Muehlhausen was traveling west on High Street when her auto struck a parked car owned by Glenda -S: Fisher, 1230 High Street. The Fisher auto was pushed into another parked car owned by Jimmie D. Davidson, 1224 High Street. Officers said Miss Muehlhausen's auto then struck the Davidson auto, shoving it into another parked car owned by Jo Ann Davidson, of 1224 High Street. Damage was done to the entire front of the 1965 Muehlhausen auto, to the entire front and rear of the 1963 Fisher auto, to the complete front of Mr.

Davidson's 1962 auto, and 'to the rear of Mrs. Davidson's 1967-auto. ation of University Women; Mrs. James Delaplane, Rt. 5, Logansport PTA Council; Mrs.

James Ide, Rt. 1, League of Women Voters; John Porter, Rt. 2, Cass County Farm Bureau and James Bishop, 2125 Otto Lions Club. The appointees replace Mrs. George Thompson, Jerry Gibson, John Henson, Mrs.

Gene Williams, Mrs. Betty Long, and Mrs. John Shafer, Jr. Carryover elected members of the committee are James Coplen, Anthony Sabatini, James David, Mrs. Ronald Deitrich, Don Tilton, H.

H. Willard, Sam Kitchell, and Mrs. R. W. Ripple.

Carryover appointive members are Mrs. Richard Burk, Jack Hill, Jack Barton, William R. Honick, Dr. James Montgomery and Jim Hendricks. committee chairman, announced the group would meet at 7:30 p.m., Feb.

4, in the city building to reorganize and make plans for the upcoming school board election to be held in conjunction with the county's May 5 primary. Blaze Erupts On Carrier BOSTON (UPI)-Fire broke out early today in a storage area aboard the aircraft carrier USS One injury was reported. Flames erupted at about 5 a.m. EST: in the storage space four levels below the flight deck as the carrier was berthed at the South Boston annex of the Boston naval shipyard. The blaze was declared under controlless.than an hour after the second alarm was sounded.

The lont injury was reported to be a Boston fireman who suffered smoke inhalation. The carrier had arrived Jan. 9 for refitting and was scheduled to depart Feb. .19, Top Draft Position To C. DiBona WASHINGTON (UPI)' Charles J.

DiBona, a young navy "think tank" expert, Annapolis graduage and Rhodes scholar, has been chosen by President Nixon as the nation's Selective Service director. DiBona, 37, has served for the past years as president of the Center for Naval Analyses which helps the Navy and Marines plan troop and ship deployment and determine whether new weapons systems are too costly. He would succeed Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, 76, who held the controversial post since World War II and who in recent years came under increasing criticism from young antidraft and antiwar demonstrators because of his tough policy of drafting protesters.

Five days before the first of the major antiwar demonstrations in Washington, president Nixon ordered Hershey kicked upstairs to a White House consultant's post and given a fourth star to the rank of full general. DiBona former lieutenant commander in the Navy before taking on civilian Defense Department posts described by acquaintances in Congress as a supporter of additional draft reform and Nixon's proposals for an all- volunteer Army. His mother, Helen, said in Quincy, Mass. DiBona's hometown her son had left Tuesday for a cruise with his wife Evelyn to the Virgin Islands and wasn't expected home before Sunday. She said he had always been a Nixon supporter and "doesn't go into anything unless he supports it." Congressional sources disclosed Wednesday the Nixon selection DiBona's chances of confirmation by the Senate were "very good." The White Hluse later confirmed he had been offered the job and added that there would be an announcement on the new draft director sometime after this week.

DiBona second in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy and took first honors at Balliol College of Oxford, England, 1957-1960, after being named a Rhodes scholar described as an "egghead" by his civilian associates and "a real brain" by former Navy colleagues. No Restriction On Candidates More spoke in opposition than in favor, but persons attending the biennial meeting of the school board nominating committee Wednesday night voted not to restrict the number of candidates the committee must nominate for a single school board vacancy. Nearly 200 patrons, of the school district attended the assembly, and after a 30-minute discussion voted 135 to 39 to abolish the committee's original stated -to secure two qualified candidates for each vacancy to be filled at the election of the Logansport Community School Board." The Committee's purpose, as revised, is "to secure qualified candidates. Thus, the door has been opened for al-out political war in the election of school board Four Hurt In Blast Near I.U.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI)An explosion shattered a small apartment building near the Indiana University campus and set off a fire oday, injuring four persons, all of. them apparently seriously. The blast occurred about 5 a.m. in a four-apartment structure which had been converted from a one-family residence at 516 N.

Grant two blocks west of the campus. The injured, all of them college age young men, were hurt and taken to Bloomington Hospital where they were reported in intensive care units being treated for third degree burns and other injuries. They were identified as Gary Simon, 21, Dwight Smith, 21, Dennis Cox, 22, and Byron Ashmore, 21. Authorities later identified the four as university students. They said Simon and Smith are from Indianapolis, Ashmore from Washington and Cox from Westport.

The blast was blamed on a severed gas line at the rear of the building. Firemen said the line was inspected and passed inspection only three weeks ago. Whitcomb Has Only One Avenue Of Appeal Left INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-Only appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court remained active today in the legal battle in which a three judge federal panel has ordered the state legislature reapportioned into 150 single member districts. The same of Judge Otto Kerner of the 7th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and Judges William E. Steckler and James E. Noland, both of the Southern District of Indiana Wednesday denied Governor Whitcomb's request for a stay of their Dec. 15 order. However, the panel's decision Wednesday cleared the way for state officials to file a motion for a stay of the order with the nation's high court.

No explanation was given by the federal panel when it announced it was denying the state's request in the case which originally began as a complaint on behalf of Negroes in Indianapolis that their representation was diluted by at-large elections of legislators in Marion County. The three federal judges in a July 28 opinion held the 1965 Indiana reapportionment law was unconstitutional because all 15 state representatives and eight senators were elected at large from Marion County. The three judges stepped beyond Marion County in their decision and said all 100 House seats and 50 Senate spots be remapped into the single-member districts. They gave Whitcomb until Oct. 1 to call a special legislative session to deal with reapportionment.

The governor failed to act; the judges called for remap plans, and then handed down their own redistricting plan in mid-December. Whitcomb, in the meantime through Attorney General Theodore Sendak, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of the July 28 decision. The court is not expected to re- 'turn from its recess until late February. The Weather FORECAST colder tonight.

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Those favoring the change didn't hide the fact they were still smarting from the outcome of the 1968 school board elections when four of the committee's nominees for one vacancy were defeated by two independent candidates. Mrs. Richard Vogel, of 3008 E. Broadway, who was later elected to the committee, contended the old ruling was a "kiss of death" for committee nominees. "If we don't approve the change," she said, "the committee isn't going to be able to find qualified candidates willing to accept the nomination." Another said the committee's nominees would be "lame duck candidates." Edward Drerup, a member of the committee when it was initially formed in 1964, opposed the change, saying the original committee "had its reasons for specifying that two candidates be nominated for each vacancy." "We didn't want the public to get the idea that we were trying to ram a single candi- dae down their throat," he said.

Drerup recommended that if there was to be any change in the organization's purpose, it should be that the committee secure "several but not less than two qualified candidates for each vacancy." Another objector urged that the committee "not interest itself with winning the election," but only with "providing qualified candidates." Another said he feared that if the committee were to nominate only one candidate and no additional candidates filed on their own, "There would be no reason for anyone to go to the polls." Richard Flory, current president of the school board, summed up the case for those favoring the change: "Everyone knows why this change is being presented and everyone knows what will happen if we don't pass it," he stated, in obvious reference to the 1968 school board election. Flory also ran for reelection in 1968, but was opposed only by another candidate nominated by the committee and not any independent candidates. A question was raised regarding a possible conflict with another section of the committee's That section states: "The Logansport Community School Board Nominating Committee shall not.support in any manner or endorse any individual candidate which it has selected." The question asked was if the committee nominated only one candidate for a single vacancy, would it not in effect be endorsing and supporting that individual. Attorney Frank Tolbert confirmed there was some conflict. "If it should become apparent," Tolbert said, "that the committee's intent is to support one candidate then other changes will have to be made in the bylaws." Any changes in the bylaws, however, must be approved by the committee prior to the biennial public meeting or by petition published at least one month in advance of the biennial meeting.

The change in the number of candidates to be nominated by the committee was proposed by petition, and not by the committee. Some committee members objected to the change, and. one, James David, spoke against it. "Our job (the committee's) is not to secure school board members," David said, "but to find qualified candidates." Two other changes in the committee's bylaws were also approved Wednesday night. Those attending the meeting voted 77-38 to change the name of the organization to Citizens School Board Nominating Committee and passed unanimously a change in the wording of another article.

The two-hour session was presided, over by James Coplen, committee chairman..