Logansport Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1964, Logansport, Indiana PUBLIC LIBRARY Weather Generally fair cooler still Autumn bringing a little chill Yesterday's Temperatures High 71 Low 62 VOL 44 NO 71 LOGANSPORT PRESS Only Local Morning Paper Serving Cass Carroll Pulaski Miami Fulton White Counties LOGANSPORT INDIANA 24 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UPI TELEPHOTOS Good Morning PRICE TEN CENTS PANORAMIC VIEW A panoramic aerial view of the Farm Progress Show daily During the days the machinery has been used west of Brookston at the Warren North farm shows a large portion of the gigantic beans picking corn and exhibit An estimated persons attended the show Wednesday and another approximately nnn are to be on hand today when the show ends its three-day run tions of crop The annual Tow is rotated annually among Indiana Illinois and Iowa Modern house and a fashion show for women Nearly 250 tents and SO have been at over million is being exhibited and demonstrated erected on the North farm to house the various exhibits and demonstrations Other activities on the program include grinding corn making cider and ploughing nard Bertsch who is in charge of the show said that Wednesday was probably tha biggest day of the event The North farm provides parking facilities for more than American Believed In Viet Cong Hands New Blaze Running Wild Fire Menaces Suburb SAIGON Viet Nam AP Viet Cong guerrillas shot down two U.S Air Force bombers in a fight 125 miles southwest of Saigon Wednesday and presumably captured two of their four crewmen one American and one Vietnamese The missing American was identified in Washington as Lt George E Flynn III of New Orleans La an instructor pilot The planes were Douglas two-seaters They carried Vietnamese markings are U.S Air Force craft used to train Vietnamese pilots The were hit while striking units that were attacking a town and two government posts in the Each Gia area on a bay of the Gulf of Siam The plane occupants bailed out of Flynn's The mese pilot was rescued but his tutor was missing and fellow officers believed him to be a prisoner The second plane The U.S pilot made his way to government lines His Vietnamese ion failed to get through Far to the east other ers helped blast suspected tions of the survivors of a Viet the garrison repulsed the attack and even battled the Communists for Viet Cong dead and arms that fell the barbed wire defenses Reputed to have killed 30 or 40 of the attackers they collected 20 ies and 26 weapons The guards and their families suffered 6 dead and about 12 wounded U.S authorities announced an Storm Gladys Swings North NEW YORK AP cane Gladys swung in an arc Wednesday and diminishing fury pointed toward her the on Page battalion attack that staged a open North Atlantic and away from the populous eastern board i The Weather Bureau expected the storm to pass 75 to 100 miles south of Nantucket after mid- night On Nantucket Island 20 miles off Cape Cod residents were taking no special precautions Elsewhere along the coast ideal weather prevailed New York City on its first day of autumn basked in degree of Phuoc Tien an outpost 340 miles north of Saigon The military activity flared as Premier Nguyen caretaker regime faced a new labor crisis About workers on rubber tions of Bien Hoa Province were reported to have struck calling for a 50 per cent wage increase and double allotments of rice Bien Hoa which be- gins about 15 miles north of Saigon is largely controlled by the Viet Cong and there were rumors that the strike was called on Communist orders There seemed to be a strong possibility that plantation ers in other provinces would walk out SANTA AP BARBARA Firemen Calif fought night attack on a Tides were subsiding civil guard at Long though some minor was Though heavily outnumbered I Arson Suspected In Muncie Blaze Arlan's Store Planned Here Initial construction is expected to begin within two weeks on the foundations utilities and footings for an Arlan's ment Store at Eastgate ping Plaza on U.S 24 East The store will be located south of the Buy Low food store and will cover an area of square feet Foundations will also be laid for two other stores one and the other square feet They will be located between Buy Low and Arlan's The types of business that will go into the smaller stores have not yet been announced The Arlan's company has not Wednesday in hills rimming this picturesque seaside community firemen one of whom was with burns on his face and hands The four vanly tled to keep the fire from ing Mountain Drive minutes after it started Most of the to check a fire that has destroyed homes were on an estimated 15 homes iam Drive Santa Barbara a coastal community of some sons was not in danger but officials kept their fingers crossed that the wind would not change Also escaping the fire was Westmont College from which 600 students were evacuated Tuesday night Gov Edmund G Brown flew to Northern California Tuesday to inspect the fires there saw the Santa Barbara fire on his way back to Los Angeles and termed it a The fires north of San cisco blackened more than 000 acres of watershed Fifty homes and acres were and could imperil estates in the wealthy suburb of Montecito The blaze was the newest in a rash of forest and brush fires that have run wild in since Sunday night In Northern California where others are located the situation looked better Major fires jn the wine country around Calistoga and Sonoma were reported con- trolled but an extension of the Sonoma fire flared up near Napa and a new brush fire was reported 200 miles farther north in the Eureka area One thousand firemen battled the fire in the hills behind Santa Barbara Winds pushed the flames away from the city late Wednesday and the blaze jumped firelines at the crest of the Santa Ynez I tains and burned down into the i slopes of the Santa Ynez Valley There are few homes in the area Winds up to -45 miles an hour whipped the fire after it started I from an undetermined cause Tuesday Thirteen persons reportedly suffered injuries including four GOP Says Johnson Using White House for Politics WASHINGTON AP Re- publican congressional leaders accused President Johnson of putting a terrific strain on their bipartisan foreign policy I came to playing politics in the efforts saying he is using the I white House Presidents White House to play politics D Roosevelt and Harry S more than any chief executive Truman were experts and trying to get Lyndon B Johnson and defense spokesmen In elected president his battle with GOP presidential House GOP Leader Charles A nominee Barry Goldwater of Indiana said when it I Dirksen said Secretary of in history Certainly they ident John F Kennedy was said pretty good But Johnson day Washington has never seen said is the best of any anything like the way the entire I've seen in my time executive branch of the and Senate is now engaged in I can Leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois told newsmen also that Johnson is trying to sweep under the rug the issue of the worldwide Communist threat We are astonished at the omission of this greatest issue the world has known since the Dark Ages the issue of corn- Added Street Lights Urged A recommendation that seven versus they new street lights be installed by i burned Monday in Calistoga the city was made Wednesday declared the issue That fire was reported to the Works Board by Police be for the very trolled More than 100 homes and other have been de- in Northern California fires including about 20 homes in the Sonoma fire also ed An extension of that blaze popped up three miles east of Napa within two miles of the Green Country Club j Traffic Sgt Wally Fye He suggested that additional street lights be installed at E Roselawn Dr and U.S 24 East 13th St and Broadway MUNCIE Ind AP -A oline can and a flare pointed to arson as the probable cause of a lumber yard fire Wednesday The fire destroyed two lumber storage sheds about 30 feet wide and 150 feet long and also damaged an office and display building of the Consumer ber Supply Co An employe Charles Jackson who discovered the fire said he saw the flare burning in a- pile of lumber stacked against the office building The gasoline can was found between the lumber and the office building A 50 foot paved driveway separated the office from the two sheds Firemen said flames could not have leaped the dis- tance and they considered that fact an additional indication of arson The fire spread quickly and shot flames 60 to 70 feet in the air but firemen brought it under control within 30 minutes after they received the alarm Units from Eaton and Albany helped Muncie firemen fight the The loss was estimated by John Hartmeyer owner of the lumber yard who also is tive vice president of Indiana Refrigerator Line Inc which has headquarters adjacent to the lumber yard line which serves Marhoefer Packing Co in Muncie was struck by the Teamsters Union about nine weeks ago Authorities said Sherwood Produce Co which provided trucks for Marhoefer after the but are expected to do so within a week Permission to tion on the foundations prior to approval of the actual buildings was granted Wednesday by the Works Board on- of Building Commissioner Charles Harmon Warning Sounded DETROIT Reuther of- the United Auto Workers day that one day closer to a strike at General Motors Reuther newsmen no progress was being made in discussions on chief block strike started was bombed Aug to a 29 The still is under workers investigation world's maker Polio Campaign In U.S Mapped simple reason we won't let it happen here and Dirksen talked with newsmen after a meeting of the Republican son St and W Market expanded on Broadway and W Market statements making their Linden Ave and W Market on Wheatland Ave and W said tnat almost daily St Miami Ave and W Market Johnson js using his top diplo- St that a new street light installed at 24th St and Broadway has greatly improved there at night I dation seven new lights elation seve under consideration State Dean Rusk is in the thick of the campaign and Secretary of Defense Robert S mara has kept up a political press desk just to issue ments promptly The two Republicans said Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson is injecting his own special brand of sarcasm into the race without regard for what other delegates to the United Nations may think Also they said William C Foster director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency appeared before the Democratic Platform tee and Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver makes political speeches attacking Goldwater Halleck said the Pentagon is censoring speeches by Gen Curtis E LeMay Air Force chief of staff about the need for new weapons On the other hand he continued Adm old Page Smith supreme Allied commander in the Atlantic is free to talk about nuclear ons because he is attacking Goldwater Recruiters Pose Parking Problem WASHINGTON AP The Public Health Service mended Wednesday a new drive this fall and winter to vaccinate younger polio age groups against most adults do not need it cause they are already ly immune there is way of identifying those who are not immune Paralytic polio is more severe and tragic in adults Surgeon General Luther L sis oh adults drew a sharp dis- sent from Dr Albert Sabin developer of the oral vaccine against He is a member of a special advisory committee that recommended the new effort of the data Sabin said is no good reason for adults of either to avail selves of the staple and pensive opportunity to be His report differing from the committee majority stand ed: Although it is that eluded Primary emphasis in the new drive should be given to immunizing during their first year of life The vaccine to be used and the age groups to-be immunized should be determined locally The oral vaccination of individuals over age should generally be mended only in those situations in which unusual exposure to pated such might as in be epidemics into military service and travel to other countries In Area Listed students including one have been named semifinalists in the 65 National Merit Scholarship competition They are v Janet L Snyder Logansport Community High School David Leroy ris of Mentone High School Lloyd Jefferies of Rochester High School and Vicki of Chalmers High School The four were among named throughout the nation.- Janet 17 a member of tional Honor is active in the National Forensic League and is a member of the speech and debate team v LOUISVILLE Ky AP How do you make the U.S pay for a parking That's an question the City of Louisville would like to have answered soon In the last year it has slapped 200 parking tickets on the autos of Army Navy and Marine Corps recruiters whose offices are in the federal building They use government cars but all three services doesn't budget any money for parking or for parking tickets If the men put a nickel in the meter it's out of their own says Lt George Tsarnas of the Army Recruiting Service We don't have any funds able for this purpose The Marines speaking through Maj Leonard Wood take the position that our cles are as much a part of a federal agency as post office trucks When we pay authority every paying Lt Com a municipal taxpayer is Robert the Navy recruiter said he never has been approached by police about any parking lem My men don't have a ing meter allowance he reported I can't go out and tell a man you can break the state law not going to teU him that I'll put it that way The city said Safety Director George Hoaglund doesn't mind if the services park for a few minutes without feeding the meters We only ask that they don't park on those meters
