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THE NEWS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 103rd YEAR PAGE 25 1972 Don't Quote Me When It Snows, Cross Fingers Against Fires i if 1 1 lot 1 -Li. End Of Christmas The annual 12th Night Christmas tree-burning ceremony in Ellen-berger Park attracts a large crowd. Twelfth Night ceremonies, com plete with choral groups, were held simultaneously in five parks last night under sponsorship of the Department of Parks and Recreation. The NEWS Photo, William Palmer. CITY, STATE SUMMARY Neal Slated To Replace Snyder Multi-Fatal Crashes Hike 71 Death Toll By BILL WILDHACK It was snowing heavily Tuesday afternoon when a reporter for The News set out for a small volunteer fire department In one of the suburban counties.

His assignment: A feature story on recent improvement of the department. After arriving at the station, the re porter waited to meet the chief and several volunteer firemen, who, by. previous arrangement, were to meet him. Long after they were to arrive and while the station was still deserted, the reporter left a note in- nlnrlinrr Yia nrt wuanacit phone number in door of the station and proceeded through the snow to his home. Several hours later the fire chief called and explained he would have to meet with the reporter at a later date.

"With this snow, it's just impossible for any of the fellows to reach the fire-house," he said. When the reporter asked what they would do if a fire report was received during a snowstorm, the chief replied: in times like this, we just keep our fingers crossed and hope there isn't a fire." NAMES IN THE NEWS Former Gov: -MATTHEW E. WELSH, an announced candidate for the Democratic nomination to become the state's chief executive again, will give a nonpolitical speech at Tuesday noon's meeting of the Rotary Club in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Welsh, former chairman of the United States section of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, will discuss the water situation between the two countries HERM ALBRIGHT reports the following notice appeared on the employes' bulletin board at the Naval Avionics Facility: "For Sale Four-year-old pony. Will trade for gun, pistol, fishing boat or what-have-you" City Controller FRED L.

ARMSTRONG IS has been appointed Indiana chairman of the Municipal Finance Officers Association Students enrolled in food service and lodging supervision courses at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, have chosen DOUGLAS BEANE, manager of the. Hospitality Motor Inn at Fort Wayne, as 1971 Indiana "innkeeper of the year" LARRY LAN-DIS, assistant public relations director in Mayor RICHARD G. LUGAR's office, has left to take a publicity and campaign post for former Secretary of State WILLIAM SALIN, Fort Wayne, who will announce his candidacy for the 4th District Republican nomination for Congress later this month RON CULP, a reporter for the Columbus Republic, has resigned to join the campaign staff of state Rep. RICHARD BOEHNING, Lafayette attorney, who is seeking to defeat 2nd District Congressman EARL LANDGREBE in the Republican primary in May. Boehning is GOP majority leader in the Indiana House.

LATER, MAYBE-Former Bloom-ington Mayor John H. Hooker's last act in office before leaving at the end of 1971 was to proclaim 7th Street, through the heart of the Indiana University campus, Herman Wtlls Avenue. The new City Council has decided Hooker had usurped one of its powers and rescinded the proclamation. This was in keeping with the wishes of Wells, long-time I.U. president and now chancellor.

He had written a letter to the old council saying the possible renaming of 7th Street should be considered some time later. HUMMM, WHAT'S THAT yesterday's nationally broadcast "Jeopardy" television quiz show, carried here by Channel 6, there was this question under the category of "Mayor of this city, R. Lugar, is called 'Nixon's favorite The name. of the city drew a blank with all three contestants. created by the State Constitution.

This includes all courts except the Supreme, Appellate and circuit courts. In place of justice of the peace, city and superior courts, the ABA recommends a system of courts with limited jurisdiction and traffic violation bureaus to handle traffic violations of a less serious nature. The study, delivered to the governor yesterday, also recommends minimum penalties for traffic violations be abolished to allow judges more freedom in rehabilitative action, such as required attendance at traffic safety driving schools. Support Payments LOGANSPORT, Ind. Support payments by Cass County fathers in broken homes neared the half-million-dollar mark in 1971, County Clerk Forest Montgomery said.

Montgomery said the support payments soared from $190,519 "in 1963 to $470,595 last year. The increase during the last year alone was $81,065. Most of the support money was for children, but some of it represented support for wives while divorce suits were pending. Pleads Innocent CHICAGO (AP)-Everett Holt, 25, Indianapolis, has pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court here to charges filed in connection with the hijacking of a Northwest Airlines jet en route Christmas Eve from Minneapolis to Chicago.

He is accused of air piracy, kidnaping, intimidation of a flight crew and assault with intent to commit murder. The former Indianapolis postal clerk allegedly forced his way at gunpoint into the jetliner's cockpit and ordered the pilot to arrange a $300,000 ransom and provide two parachutes when the craft refueled at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. governor's camp and lately a petition to oust Snyder has been circulated among state committee members. Reliable reports say 14 of the 22 state committee members have signed. Snyder supporters say some were forced to sign through threats and coercion, a charge denied by Whitcomb's office.

Snyder has held a trump card in the long fight because while a state com- mittee rule states the state chairman must call a committee meeting if 12 members request it, it does not state any time limit within which he must do this. Snyder made it clear he would be in no hurry to call a meeting and once said he would call it for May 1, the day prior to the spring primary election. Party reorganization is mandatory each two years following the primary and he could not then prevent a meeting. The bitter party fight was worsened in November, 1970, after Roudebush lost to Democrat Vance Hartke by 4,283 votes in an election which has been challenged and still may be recounted. A suit to determine the legality of Indiana's recount law is pending before the U.S.

Supreme Court, but Hartke has been seated by the Senate and the U.S, Constitution clearly states the Senate and U.S. House are the sole judges of the qualifications and elections of their members. Hartke is likely to retain his seat. Who might be elected chairman in May to replace Neal and whether a fresh fight would break out at that time is uncertain. Snyder has never called a state committee meeting in the 13 months he has been chairman.

For months the committee has been on a starvation financial diet because Whitcomb ended the "voluntary" 2 Per Cent Club contributions from state employes who owe their jobs to politics. This money gusher had rolled in per month to the state committee but after Whitcomb ended the practice months ago Snyder had to cut staff and has not drawn any pay himself for several months. Apparently the agreement on Neal includes some sort of plan. to finance7 adequately again the committee although a straight out revival of the 2 Per Cent Club is not expected. The 2 per cent practice started with the Democrats in 1933 and has been used by both parties.

People In The News Bookie's Boolcie Calm-He's 'Past His Heyday' By EDWARD ZIEGNER Political Editor Warring factions within the Indiana Republican party have tentatively agreed on Noblesville newspaper publisher and editor James T. Neal as a compromise selection for state chairman to succeed incumbent state Chairman John K. Snyder. Neal, a former secretary of the GOP State Committee and highly respected in party and newspaper groups, said: "I have been approached about the state chairmanship and I have agreed to serve on an interim basis." Neal talked with Gov. Edgar D.

Whitcomb earlier this week and has also had conversations with various leaders in the GOP factions. Neal said that if elected he would serve only until the manda- Neal tory party reorganization in May, following the primary. Keith Bulen, Republican national committeeman and Marion County Republican chairman, who has been working with Whitcomb and Whitcomb's No. 1 adviser, Don Tabbert, to oust Snyder said: "Things look very positive toward the unity effort among all segments of the party." He added there is "communication and dialogue" and said the change in state chairman is possible this month. Bulen declined to say who the new chairman will be.

Snyder was sparse in his comment on the apparent agreement, and also declined to say who his successor might be, but confirmed that a change is coming with his assent. He indicated it might not happen until the conclusion of the 1972 Legislature, which opens Tuesday in the Statehouse and which will adjourn in late February or early March. Tabbert said, "If the state committee offers the job to Jim Neal and if he accepts, I would say he is an extraordinarily gifted person." Tabbert declined to say if Neal was personally acceptable to him, but added Neal's long experience with the state committee as secretary made him well qualified. If Neal is elected as expected, he will be the 14th Republican state chairman in 23 years. In the same period of time Indiana Democrats have had four.

Neal, who has not been involved with either side in the bitter party battle which has gone on for almost two years, served several years as secretary of the state committee and in his tenure won praise for his efficient handling of his job and his skill in making the complicated arrangements for primary and general elections and Republican state and national conventions. Snyder was elected state chairman Nov. 25, 1970, replacing Buena Chaney, who resigned voluntarily and supported Snyder as his successor. Chaney is also 5 7th District GOP chairman. Snyder, Whitcomb, Bulen and Tabbert were all once close political allies in Whitcomb's behalf.

All supported him for nomination and election as secretary of state in 1966 and for governor in 1968. In 1969 and 1970, Bulen split with the governor and attempted to oust Chaney, who then remained allied with Whitcomb, as did Snyder. Snyder, then state treasurer, resisted Bulen's efforts as a Whitcomb friend. In December, 1969, Snyder announced his candidacy for the Republican nomi nation for U.S. senator and thought he had a solid commitment of backing from Whitcomb.

Bulen had begun an effort to nominate 5th District Congressman Richard Roudebush. He was nominated in June, 1970, after Snyder withdrew from the convention, never having received Whitcomb's support. After Snyder's election, Whitcomb began a long effort to oust Snyder and replace him with a chairman friendly to the governor. Whitcomb's first choice for the job was Tabbert, but the votes to elect Tabbert were never found among the 22-member state committee. Numerous other names were mentioned in speculation.

In 1971 Bulen moved back into the i. The number of persons killed on -Indiana highways in 1971 increased mainly because of the increase in multi-fatal accidents, the Indiana Department of Traffic Safety and Vehicle Inspection reports. Thomas Coleman, director of the division, said the 1971 toll of 1,600 so far included a 10-death and eight-death mishap along with several which took five or four lives. The preliminary study of traffic death statistics revealed there were 1,150 fatal crashes in 1971, a decrease of 150, or about 11 per cent from 1970. The 1,600 toll for 1971 is 37 more than 1970.

Deaths from injuries received in the previous year's crashes are added to the toll until the last day of February. The yearly traffic death record in Indiana is 1,676 in 1969. Youths Arrested TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) Six youths were arrested yesterday in an attempt to obtain "speed" drugs through forged prescriptions, Detective Chief Frank Hoffman Hoffman said forged prescriptions were used in two Terre Haute stores. Three of the persons arrested were juveniles.

The others, charged with forgery and attempting to obtain drugs by fraud, were Dennis Hetterscheidt, 20, Dennis 'Matherly, 21, and James Waltrip, 19, all of Terre Haute. Man Convicted FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP)-A 21-year-old Fort Wayne man was found guilty of failure to report for induction into the armed services, although he contended he acted under international law. Jeffrey Gibson said in U.S. District Court here the Nuernberg trial of German war criminals after World War II established a man's responsibility for his own actions in spite of orders.

Judge Jesse Eschbach said Gibson was charged under American law and ordered a pre-sentencing investigation. Gives Up Fight ELKHART, Ind. (AP) The owner and operator of the Adult Bookstore here, facing charges of sale of obscene material, apparently has given up the fight. The charges had been brought by Michael Cosentino, deputy prosecutor, and the case had been postponed several months without coming to trial. The store was shut, yesterday, with one message scrawled across the front window: "Closed and closed for good, Mike." ABA Court Study Gov.

Edgar Whitcomb has been given a 280-page report by the American Bar Association which recommends abolishing all courts in the state not Green May Nixon State A high White House staff official has met with Paul Green of Zionsville, former 5th District Republican chairman, and discussed the possibility of the Hno-sicr running President Nixon's re-election campaign in Indiana. The meeting was Dec. 23 in Indiana. Green said today, "We talked for three hours and discussed the matter in detail but he did not make a firm offer and I have made no decision as to what I will do." Green said the official, whom he declined to identify, had phoned him again Wednesday but they did not talk because Green was out of the city. Green, who Is Boone County GOP chairman and regarded as one of the state's most competent politicians, managed D.

Russell Bontrager's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and the campaign of Earl L. Butz By JACK ADAMS Onetime gangland boss MICKEY COHEN, convicted in 1961 of income tax evasion and sentenced to 15 years in prison, got an early release today from the U.S. Medical Center at Springfield, because of good behavior. Cohen, a big-time gambler who liked to call himself the "bookie's bookie" and once was thought to be the chief of the Southern California underworld, was convicted of failing to pay more than $392,000 in Federal taxes during the late 1940s.

Cohen, 57, walks with a cane because of injuries suffered when another inmate beat with an iron bar at the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta in 1963. Cohen was transferred to Springfield for treatment and rehabilitation. He says he has no fear for his life since his release, adding he is past his heyday. Screen star RAQUEL WELCH ran as fast as her maxiskirt would allow her to an automobile in Santa Monica, after shedding her husband of live years, film producer PATRICK CURTIS, her long-time press agent.

The twice-married actress wept on the stand at a short Superior Court hearing while testifying about "irreconcilable differences" with Curtis. The actress retained custody of two children by her marriage to JAMES W. WELCH, a childhood sweetheart 10-year-old DAMON and 8-year-old TAHNEE. Curtis, who as a Hollywood press agent promoted Miss Welch into a sex symbol, was not present at the hearing. i Married on St.

Valentine's Day in 1967," Miss Welch and Curtis separated last April. Rep. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, said in Tallahasee, her presidential hopes are not going to get the backing of the power structure because she is black and a woman but she's not necessarily going to support the power structure. While most candidates say they will support their party's nominee, Mrs. Chisholm Sdid, "I cannot support the nominee regardless; for instance, if GEORGE WALLACE is the nominee." Mrs.

Chisholm said, "Because I'm not white and not male, I'm not going to get the blessings of the power structure" of the Democratic party. She said black males were just as guilty of male chauvinism as white males. Arizona State University officials say HUGH DOWNS, former host of the "Today" television show, will join the facully of the school in Tempe Feb. 1. Dr.

GEORGE PEEK dean of the University's College of Liberal Arts, sold Downs had born appointed as a lecturer In mass communications. BUTTON-A-DAY By Ed Moore ffi United Fttturt Syndlcill eco MS CSX? Manage Campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in 1968. Butz, former dean of the Purdue University School of Agriculture, is secretary of agriculture and a close personal and political friend of Green. Green said he expected to talk with the White House official again in the next few days, but did not know when. Will H.

Hays former Crawfords-ville mayor, is expected to head the Indiana committee to re-elect the President. Green's possible appointment would not conflict with this, as he would be a sort of operating and political head if he is named. Hays does not have the statewide political experience and background of Green. Whether L. Keith Bulen, Republican national committeeman from Indiana, knows of Green's possible appointment couldn't be learned immediately.

E.Z. 1 McCluskey To Leave Post At Park-Tudor William A. McCluskey III, headmaster of Park-Tudor School, has submitted his resignation effective at the conclusion of the school year. McCluskey took over the headmaster's duties at Park School in 1964 after serving as assistant headmaster in a Lake Placid, N.Y., school. In his letter of resignation Cluskey stated he had given his resignation two years ago and at that time agreed to serve two more years when Park merged with the old Tudor Hall School for girls.

McCluskey "After detailed discussion with officers of the board in recent weeks, it has been mutually agreed upon that my employment should be terminated at the conclusion of the current school year," McCluskey said in his letter of resignation. Walter W. Kuhn president of the board of directors, said a committee has been established to search for a new headmaster. The committee, headed by Dr. C.

W. Pettinga, includes Kuhn, Mrs. James Neal and Dr. Thaddeus Seymour. McCluskey, a Marine Corps veteran, received his education at Mount Herman (Mass.) School; Wesleyan University, Middletown, and California's Stanford University.

He did not indicate his future plans. Raquel Welch runs fast. WAYNE MORSE is going to try to regain a seat in the U.S. Senate. The former senator from Oregon, defeated in 1968 by Republican ROBERT PACKWOOD after serving 24 years in the Senate, first as a Republican and then as a Democrat, filed his candidacy in Salem, for the Democratic nomination.

Morse's target this year will be the Senate seat held by Republican MARK 0. HATFIELD. Both Morse and Hatfield are outspoken opponents of U.S. involvement In Vietnam. The Foreign Ministry in Ankara reports NIKOLAI V.

PODGORNY, president of the Soviet Union, plans to visit Turkey in April. The government said the Russian leader's visit will return a visit Turkish President CEVDET SUN AY made to the Soviet Union in 1959. VITTORIO MUSSOLINI, second son of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, is seeking a civil divorce in Rome from his wife, ORSOLA, from whom he has been separated for years. Mussolini, 55, has been back in Italy for a year after spending more than five years in Argentina, where he owned a textile plant. t- i i-.