Logansport Pharos-Tribune and Press (Newspaper) - April 4, 1968, Logansport, Indiana Final Edition Home Paper Of 41 Communities 46947 Founded in United Press International News Photo THURSDAY EVENING APRIL 4 All Price Per Copy Ten Cents Tornadoes Kill States Cass Retarded Ted Blank D D Named New Program best The Cass County Council for Re- Children has won first place in the state for progress toward total program for the retarded during the past year it was announced Thursday James Keyes of Columbus vice- president of the Indiana Association for Retarded Children and a member of the national board of directors pre- sented a framed certificate to the cal Council in recognition of its achievement The local Council operates a Day Care Center and a Habilitation ter and the Hendricks Special cation School was the first in the state built especially for the education of the retarded Construction already has started on an addition to the Habilitation Center to double the number of re- who are given job training and plans have completed for later enlargement of that building to mit all services other than the school to be under one roof Logan Fund Drive The Logansport Junior ment's annual campaign for funds be- gan Thursday with the mailing of letters Richard D Reddington fund drive chairman an- The goal of this year's drive has been set at according to dington Reddington explained that the five local JA companies are self- supporting in their own operations the board of directors must furnish the basic facilities from which they will be able to function This includes hiring a part-time program director and assistant renting a building in which to operate furnishing certain tools machinery and equipment and providing adequate insurance age Money to operate the Junior Achievement program is derived from yearly donations from individuals businesses corporations and clubs Reddington said a need exists for a permanent Achievement building and that funds received above the will be put in an accumulative building fund Reddington hopes to conclude the fund drive by May 15 in order that an announcement of the result of the drive may be made at the annual tures Unlimited on May 21st at the Serving on the fund drive tee with Reddington are Dr Richard Glendening and Edgar Closson Certify Names For Ballot Cass County Clerk Randolph ning received certification of the names of national and state candidates that will appear on the Indiana mary election ballot from Secretary of State Edgar Whitcomb Thursday morning The names of presidential dates on the Indiana ballot will be Re- publican Richard M Nixon and Roger D Branigin Robert F Kennedy and Eugene J McCarthy Certified as candidates U.S for the fifth con- gressional district are Republicans Richard L Roudebush of Noblesville and Charles R Kelley of Zionsville and Democrats Robert C Ford of komo Carl B Smith of Upland and Richard D Cater of Marion Candidates for the State Senate certified by Whitcomb include lican Leo Sullivan of Peru and crat Robert E Peterson of Rochester Certified candidates for joint from Cass Carroll and Miami Counties are Republicans mit I of Peru and J Harold Mertz of Logansport and Democrat James Riley Thimlar of Royal Center The new fifth congressional dis- includes the following Blackford Boone Carroll Cass ton Fulton Grant Hamilton Howard Miami Tipton and Wabash Johnson Prepares For Hawaii Trip 0 T TED BLANK 0 T Blank ent Noble Township farmer has been elected a member of the board of directors of the al Bank of Logansport it was announced Tuesday by Frank M McHale chairman and James P Coplen President Blank who resides on Rt 1 Is a livestock and grain farmer with his father He is a former director and past the Indiana State Fair Board chairman of the Cass Co Ex- tension Council -a the board dent of the 4-H past president of the Indiana stock Association and attended Purdue University Blank is married to the for- mer Helen Johantges They have three Lt Thomas A USAF Ted J a sophomore at Purdue University and Peter a junior at Pioneer High School WASHINGTON UPI ident Johnson prepared today to fly to Honolulu to discuss Vietnam peace moves with top U.S officials from Saigon and South Korean Park Chung Hee Park whose troops are fighting alongside in South Vietnam apparently will only foreign chief of state strategy conference South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu was not scheduled to take part Pacific meetings The United States having swiftly agreement to establish was seeking further information through diplomatic channels on a possible time and place for a meeting Geneva site of the 1954 conference that ended the French Indochina war and a traditional international meeting a likely place There were reports in London that the meeting might be held in Moscow Johnson already has said his prime negotiators would be W ell Harriman and Llewellyn E Thompson U.S envoy to Moscow two veteran cold war negotiators Top American officials from Saigon were in Hawaii President Defense Secretary Clark M Clifford and Gen Earle G Wheeler man of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Secretary of was to join toward the end of the he has been attending Asia Treaty Organization TO meeting in New Zealand for the past several days President Nguyen Van Thieu of South was not expected to take part in the Pacific meetings according to the White House But Rusk told newsmen at Wellington early today that if and when the war moved from the battlefield to the conference table the government of South Vietnam will play a very large and important part in any North Vietnam's offer to establish contact with U.S representatives was ex- tremely limited in scope but it raised peace hopes around the world marked the first sign of willingness on the part of Hanoi to meet on any terms short of a complete halt to the U.S bombing of the north The Communist statement broadcast in Vietnamese and in English by Radio Hanoi morning was in re- sponse to Johnson's Sunday night speech in which he disclosed that he had ordered an end to bombing attacks north of the 20th parallel This freed about 90 per cent of the North Vietnamese population and a good part of its territory from Officials here were guarded in their assessment of the lities for rear progress toward an end to the war Some contacts could mark the beginning of a process long and torturous would eventually lead to full-scale peace talks simply felt itself forced to make the offer in order to prevent any major T shifts world opinion in President's Sunday speech the general atmosphere in official circles here and in the allied capitals was one of considerable caution HOOSIER BOYS STATE Delegates and to this year's Hoosier Boys State are from left Lloyd second alternate Timothy Hoover delegate Stephen Beachler Key delegate William Crispen Key Club William Ray Jr first alternate and Thrall delegate Thrall and Hoover and their alternates are sponsored by American Legion Post 60 Staff Photo Hoosier Boys State Delegates Announced Delegates and alternates to Hoosier Boys State from High School have been announced Delegates sponsored by ican Legion Post 60 are Thomas Thrall and Timothy Hoover First alternate is William Ray Jr and second alternate is Lloyd Ericson Key Club is Stephen Beachler and his alternate is William Crispen Boys State is a citizenship Temperature NEW YORK UPI highest temperature reported Wednesday the U.S Weather Bureau excluding Hawaii and Alaska was 96 degrees at Mcallen Tex Today's low was S below zero at Laramie Wyo training institution signed to teach the individual responsibility to the community state and nation It is a school of government and practical politics designed to give actual experience in the problems of self-government to the boys who attend The first Boys State in ana was organized in 1937 and is has operated each year since with the exception of 1945 s Boys State will be held from June 8 to 15 on the campus of Indiana University in ton It is sponsored by the can Legion Department of In- diana The selection committee for this year's com- posed of Donald Hess and James K McKeever co-chairmen ald O'Conner and Kirk Wells The Weather Forecast v INDIANA Partly cloudy cooler ly sunny and cool Friday Lows tonight mostly in the 30s Highs Friday 40s north south Sunset today p.m EST p.m Friday EST CST v WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Pavement Peeled From Bed STAR CITY Ark UPI Tornadoes spun out of a succession of thunderstorms in Arkansas Kentucky and Wednesday night ing down peeling highways killing several persons The death toll rose to 12 with discovery of two more bodies in Atoka Tenn and two near Owensboro Ky There were four killed in Atoka died between Star City arid Monticello Ark another was killed in Paragould Ark More than 50 persons were injured by the twisters Other tornadoes touched down in Hernando Soco Mo and in or near the Tennessee towns of Millington and Gift The weather system that caused the tornadoes swept through Iowa as well bringing tornadoes there but none was reported in populated areas of Iowa Kentucky Hit Two persons were killed and 16 injured early today when a tornado slammed through sections of western Kentucky Hardest hit was the area in Galloway and Marshall Counties twisters sucked asphalt from roadbeds and pulled up trees three feet thick They hurled television sets through walls of homes and flattened houses Cars into MiB Soda a towerman for the Service saw 30 feet of highway where blacktop had been ripped away and blown into the woods He said trees some up to three feet in were Strewn across the The path of the tornado was not wide but it well cleaned up where Socia The first tornado touched down on the flat farmland near Star City and slapped along the ground for nearly 25 miles Hits Farm Area Lincoln County Coroner Grant said the area was lightly populated mostly cotton and rice farms Y A number of cars were blown off highway of Star City into the woods and a search is being made for people have been blown or sucked quf of Griffin said the first tornado was dispersing City other twisters reported in northeast Arkansas At least one person was killed there The body of Pillows 67 was found 200 from his partially homa in Paragould New Jersey Man New Y Director Lyle Oechsle of Madison N J has been named executive director of the Cass County YMCA He his new tion on May 1 according to Ward Watts chairman of the and ard Cassidy president of the of directors now assistant executive director of the YMCA in son associated with the Madison Y both in his present capacity and as boys program director He has been involved in Y work for 15 years Oechsle received his Bachelor of Science degree from George Williams College in Chicago and his Master of Arts degree from the University of Illinois He and his wife Lois have three children Eric 18 a man at Grinnell nell Iowa Gretchen 16 a ior in high school and Dana 12 a sixth grader Board OK's Public Camp Site In Noble Establishment of a public camp site and recreational area in Noble Township was approved late Wednesday by the County Board of Zoning LYLE OECHSLE The board members went to on Road MO N a mile west the Webb Chapel church to inspect it before proving the petition by Robert Shaw The board did not set a date for a new hearing on the tion of Clyde Black for a mobile homes park back of the Ben Hur motel Planning Director Floyd ford said a permit has been issued to James Jackson 840 W Broadway for construction of a new home three miles north on Ind 25 Applications for permits for several other new homes also have been received One is by Danny Ault east of Galveston on Ind 18 The other two are by Led Brown for new homes in Eel River Heights on High Street Road National Debt WASHINGTON UPI sury accounts for the fiscal year through April Deposits Cash Balance Public Debt Gold TOKYO UPI Hanoi said American planes bombed -a populated area northwest of Hanoi and near the borders of Laos and Communist China today This would be far above the bomb limit laid down by President Johnson Washington the Defense Department declined immediate comment on the charge The the area hit by three waves of planes was 30 miles west of the provincial capital of Lai Chau in the extreme northwestern tip of North Vietnam 10 miles the Laos border and about 38 miles below the meandering Chinese border Hanoi Radio said only that American planes struck the populated area three times hours of and aim unleashing more than 50 bombs It did identify the planes by type The area in the mountains above Dien Bien Phu is near the ill-defined border region where Laotian air force planes have carried out raids against North Vietnamese supply routes into Saly province of Laos The broadcast did not tion the set out by Johnson March 31 and not single out the alleged raids in a report that listed two other definitely below the 20th lel It said the other two targets were Than Hoa capital of Than Hoa province and the city of Vinh of Nghe An province Than Hoa is about 200 milas above the Demilitarized Zone and 85 miles below Hanoi Vinh is about 80 miles south of Than Hoa Saturn 5 Rocket Fails 11 1 -3 4 5 8 Irt 11 1 Mid 2 CAPE KENNEDY UPI The second unmanned Saturn 5 rocket failed a prime objective today when its orbiting top stage refused to restart its engine and fly toward an imaginary moon The failure which followed engine trouble suffered on the Saturn's way into orbit cast a serious shadow over the ability of the Apollo 6 mission qualif the nation's launcher tions The primary goal of the flight to achieve orbit shoot toward a point representing the moon miles deep in: space Full success would have accelerated Apollo moon launch timetable The third stage with its Apollo craft still attached soared into a preliminary orbit and circled earth twice Then at EST the orbiting rocket to its engine to a point in space where moon will be some other time We did not have ignition of our third stage a spokesman at the mission control center reported This was very tant flight objective The Apollo spacecraft then separated from the misfiring rocket and fired engine to increase its altitude to about miles what was planned spacecraft was to return to a Pacific Ocean fleet later in the day Before the third stage engine failure Apollo Program tor Phillips said it would take a number of days of examination of tracking data to see whether the rocket could be It was not immediately what effect the second failure would have on those plans The first Saturn was a full success last November and performed the third stage orbital restart without ty Such a maneuver to send Apollo astronauts to the moon Helium leak was reported in the third shortly the restart was attempted but said that was rot expected to interfere with the mission A third Saturn 5 is already assembled at the and could be to the firing in 10 days for an unmanned launch It dummy spacecraft Project officials had hoped to save that million rocket for a manned mission The engine trouble developed midway in the Saturn's climb to its preliminary earth orbit Two of the five engines on the rocket's second stage quit nearly two minutes too soon The fact that these two engines shut down certainly makes this less than perfect Phillips said at a news briefing hours after launch Had the Apollo 6 space machine been a manned flight to moon Phillips said that objective would have been called off and an alternate mission devised There was nothing to indicate however that astronauts would have been endangered had they been aboard The fact that the second stage trouble forced the Saturn's top stage to fire longer than planned to get into orbit That used extra fuel and sent the Apollo combination into an orbit reaching 222 milas double tie planned altitude Despite the problem however Houston's mission control ter reported there was a small here when the rocket attained
