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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Builders Glass

The Builders class of the First
Mennonite church will have a special
Silver Anniversary meeting celebrat-
ing the 25th year of the organized
Sunday school class Tuesday evening,
March IS at 500 at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. Harry Yoder The charter
members of the class will put on a
skit about the first meetings of the
class and a short history of its organ
ization. Special music will be fur
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1858

plant for schedule adjustments" 1t
will end on March 81 when the plant
goes back into operation.
Nearly all of the $50 hourly pro-
duction employees will be laid off dur
ing the weeklong period, officials
said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
BIuffton Boys g. Girls All

At our March IA meeting we elect
ed the following officers: President,
Tom Criblez; Vice President, John
Neuenschwander; Reporter, Judy
Chidester; Sec'y-Treas., David Bar
nett. The meeting was closed with
recreation and refreshments. Boys or
girls who are 10 years of age by
June /, who would like to join the All
club, be at the meeting on Tuesday
evening, March Is at 800 pm. in the
Ag room. All parents are invited tc
be there. Advisors are Kenneth
Chidester and Edgar Herr.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
TOPS Nick N Tuck Club

TOPS Nip N Tuck club met at
the home of Fairie Stager with nine
members present. Minutes and treas
urer's report were read and approx
ed. Queen for the week was Glenona
Badertscher and runner-up Evelyn
Bowyer. Next meeting will be with
Evelyn Bowyer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20

WELLrFERTILIZED PASTURES
will furnish better grazing for long
er time than whose which have not
received enough plant food
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Mothers Night Out Club

Mothers Night Out club will meet
March Is at p. m. at the home of
Mary Amstutz. Betty Lutz will be in
charge of devotions. New officers
will be elected for the coming year.
Program will be given by Jaunita
Suter who will show slides brought
by the club members.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20

AMERICAS ONLY violin factory is
the Jackson-Guldan plant at Colum-
bus, Ohio. Here the commercial vio-
lin, used by the beginner and the
"'hillbilly fiddler, is mass produced.
All other factory-made violins are inn
ported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Richland Grange

Perry Center Grange will. visit
Richland Grange Tuesday, March 25.
All Richland members are to bring
pie and sandwiches.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Society and clubs

nished by the Yoder family. Paul
Stauffer is the present teacher of the
class and Mrs. Howard Raid is the
president.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Troop #1ss

Monday evening Troop 1S9 started
working together to complete their
Health and Safety badge. We learned
TO bandage the foot, wrist, head and
we made arm slings. Cookie order
sale has ended so we handed in cur
order blanks. Our cookies will be de-
livered April Z.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
Kings Guards

The Kings Guards leaders and
children met last Sunday morning in
the Methodist church basement at
1890 a. m. A film "Our World of
Happy Differences" was shown. The
purpose of the film strip was intend
ed to help children realize the wide
variety of differences that are in the
world about us, including the differ
ences in people.
Since Easter falls on the first Sum
day in April there will be no Kings
Guards meeting. However, the Kings
Guards will meet on April 13 and 20.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-03-20
American Legion Auxiliary

American Legion Auxiliary
Regular meeting night Tuesday,
March Is at 500 p. m. Please be
prompt Community service program
at $3.50 p. m. will be a movie on
cancer The program is open to the
women of the public. All members
are asked to bring guest. Refresh
ments! All members bring cookies.
Progressive Mothers Club
The Progressive Mothers club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Treva Dill
man Tuesday, March Is at 500
o'clock. Devotions will be given by
Juanita Swank. Program = "Matur.
ity" given by Marcile Habeggar;
"Old Maids are Homemade" giver
by Martha Greding. Roll Call :
Comments on the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25
Elections SET
ForvenezueIa

CARACAS, Venezuela, May "a
up. - Government leaders
painted a bright picture today
for Venezuela-as a nation
struggling in the changeover
from dictatorship to democracy.
There was a prediction that
problems brought on by United
States restrictions on Venezeu-
Ian oil would soon be lifted.
And there was the definite
prospect Of free elections, prob
ably on November 30.
Junta leader Wolfgang Lar
razabel, whose provisional gov
eminent drew up an election
law last night, told the people
they should put the law to good
use by choosing as their presi-
dent a man of outstanding
merit.
Enactment of the election
law was good news to all Vene-
zuelans who UP to four months
ago lived under the dictator
ship of Marcos Perez Jimenez,
Thus far no candidates have
come forward to seek the presi-
dency. Most Venezuelans and
all political parties have been
plugging national unity.
About three million Vene-
zuelans-all men and women
over 10 years of age-will be
obligated to vote for president,
members Of congress and mu-
nicipal administrations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25

a man - wen tear you to
pieces"
j. Alan Coogan. a Spanish
speaking American who works
for the Creole Petroleum Corp,
filled in what the crowd was
shouting at the Venezuelan Of
ficers They were calling them
'Vendepatria'," he said. That
means traitor.
Then the crowd started
throwing things. From some
where they got sticks about an
inch in diameter and a yard
long. These they broke in two
to make jagged missiles about
Is inches long. and hurled
them at the beleaguered Of
ficers.
"One hit me-" Col. Daley
said. 1T didn't hurt me, but
I was worried about my eyes. +"
The four extricated them
selves and went to the nearby
San Carlos barracks. An hour
later, they left the downtown
area,
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30 Hours Thot Shook
The Hemisphere

lad msmorized for the oc-
easion. snarled:
How about dee block boys
cen Leet-lay Rhock7"
II was not until later that
Mrs. Nixon understood that she
had been asked about last years
Little Rock school indignation
incident.
Mr.. Nixon said nothing about
the open car as the party
ducked through a final shower
Of spittle and got into their
limousines for the trip into the
city.
The Venezuelan soldiers
looked on impassively. A sex
tet Of policemen sat on their
motorcycles and looked back
with mild interest. They did
nothing TO dispense a crowd
that pushed around the Vice
Presidents car.
Finally the No. / limousine,
containing Mr.. Nixon. DR.. Car
ella Velutini, the foreign minis
ter; 1t. Col. Vernon Walters,
Mr.. Nixon's interpreter, and a
secret service man, inched
forward. The policemen started
moving, too. but they were i'm
peded somewhat by a truck
full Of newsmen and photog-
raphers, American and Vene-
zuelan.
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H:2I o.m.: Tense Trip

The caravan picked up speed,
whisked through the toll gate
onto the autopista and headed
for Caracas. The time was
|li:2l.
As the cavalcade moved up
hill, the lead car contained two
pale-faced, tight-lipped men.
Mr.. Nixon was trying to make
the best Of a bad situation.
DR.. Garcia Velutini. aghast.
embarrassed, horrified. was
trying to wipe the spittle on
the suit and face of his
nations guest with a handker-
chief.
IT told him that the fact
such a demonstration had
occurred was a distressing
thing" Mr.. Nixon said. But
i added that the right Of free
speech Is something tn a I
should always be guarded.
Speaking is always good. !
said, but violence and melting
to violence-the possibility OF
mob action-must be controlled
or a nation can have no free
DOM"
In the car behind. Mrs.
Nixon and Sonora de Garcia,
the foreign minister's wife,
chstted nervously.
A few cars back, Col. Daley.
in his blunt New England Irish
fashion. was demanding to
know what kind of Army the
Venezuelans thought they had.
His Gaelic temper was not
improved by the fact that car
loads Of rowdies were cruising
alongside the convoy. shouting.
jeering and displaying placards
reading "Fuera" (get OUT and
proclaiming that Mr.. Nixon
was a "tiburon"-a shark.
The tense trip up the auto
pista was not fast enough to
suit most Of the riders. The
stake body truck carrying the
press regulated the speed of
the convoy by its position at
the head. What had been or
dered was a truck capable of
SIS miles an hour. What had
been delivered was one with a
top speed of SIS kilometers-
about IS miles.
1t took a little better than
half an hour to climb the 5000
foot-high slope that separates
Caracas from the seashore. So
1t was about noon when the
convoy swooped of the auto
pista and into the streets of
the working-class suburb of
Catia.
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Rear Guard

Six cars back, Col. Daley and
his Venezuelan colleagues had
long since lost sight Of Mr..
Nixon's limousine. They beat
their way as best they could
toward the Panteon. whereas
far as they knew-the next en-
gagement was due to take
place.
The crush was too great to
approach the Panteon 'front.'
ally, so the military men
threaded their way through
the little side streets and ap-
preached from the rear. AS ii
was, they made the last three
blocks on foot through a crowd
of about 5000 persons.
The American Naval attache,
Comdr. Louis Scliris. and Mas
ter Sergt. Paul Tomasack from
Col. Dailey's office. were at a
nearby flower shop meanwhile
picking up the wreath Mr.,
Nixon was supposed to put on
Bolivar's tomb.
All the military men arrived
at the Panteon about the same
time. The place was a sham
bles. The supposed patriots
guarding the sacred tomb
from the yanqui enemy-had
run wild. The had hoisted a
black flag of mourning. They
had draped anti-American slo-
gans across its front. They
had befouled its steps with
garbage.
Then this happened-an ac-
curate account (barring the
tone Of its words which APP
Ipeared in the Communist pa
per, Tribuna Popular:
"A little truck rode up, car
rying members of the Ameri-
can military mission with a
wreath of flowers. They were
going to take the flowers in
side between ranks Of police.
THE multitude surged to-
ward the truck and a valorous
girl. easily recognizable as a
student Of the Andres Bello
High School because of her
red-and-white uniform, jumped
into the truck, seized the
wreath and carried it back
among the students where it
was torn to pieces"
AS Col. Daley and the Vene-
zuelans appeared, Comdr. Sell
ris and Sgt. Tomasack left,
their mission unfulfilled. The
four officers from the convoy
were not sure yet what had
happened-though it was OBJ
vious Mr.. Nixon would never
get inside the Panteon.
I'VE walked down between
the police" Col. Daley said.
1.-THE crowd was screaming at
us They were shouting hor-
rible things at the Venezuelans
and telling me, Come on. you
North American fairy. come
out, damn you, and fight like
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12I5 pm: Ponteon

A block or so farther on, the
cavalcade, now beginning TO
disintegrate. moved into the
Avenida Urdaneta and passed
in front of the Palacio Blanco,
headquarters of the ruling
junta Of Venezuela. The next
scheduled stop was the PAN
teon, the resting place of Libe-
rator Simon Bolivar. 1t was
just about 1915.
The Urdaneta is about as
out Of place in its setting as
a street could be. Broad and
glossy. it runs through a Sec
ton Of town so ancient that
most Of the side streets have
no names and are only one
car wide and the buildings
turn their backs on the side
walks and look Unexpectedly
into patios.
The Panteon is up just such
a side street. You turn left
where the Urdaneta passes the
Santa Capilla corner and drive
up a gentle grade through an
ever-narrowing way past es-
quinas-corners-named Jesu.
itas, Tienda Honda and Puente
Trinidad. Then you come 10
the Panteon.
Any noontime it is a tight
squeeze going from Santa
Capilla to the Panteon. This
time it was worse. The street
was packed with rowdyish.
banner-carrying youngsters
perhaps from Is to % in age.
Storekeepers, always alert to
trouble. had shattered their
stores and gone home.
Mr.. Nixon recalls the scene:
I'VE started up this street.
Our six policemen had dwin-
died to two. I saw what was
ahead and made my decision.
l told the driver, through my
interpreter. to turn right at
the next corner.
THE foreign minister said,
We can't do this; we are go
ing to the Panteon.'
II told him it was important
to get away, to go some place
where they wouldn't know we'd
be-"
The lead car turned right,
went a few blocks down to
where stores we're open and
people were milling around
looking with friendly curiosity
at the damaged limousine. Mr.
Nixon got out. looked at the
car, and then told the driver
to go to the Embassy residence
on a hill in the Las Lomas sub
urb a couple of miles to the
east. He Cancelled a scheduled
appearance at the Circulo Mil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25
4 P.M.:Good-bys

At ( o'clock the Vice Presi-
Dental party said its good
byes at the Circulo Militar.
About is minutes later Mr..
Nixon and the others got into
limousines and started to Mai
quetia.
The way was we'll prepared.
A few minutes earlier, troops
had roared through the streets
in armored cars. flushing coveys
Of curious at corners along the
Avenidas Urdaneta and Sucre,
shooting prophylactic doses of
tear gas here and there into
street-corner gatherings.
1T was a ghost city," the
Vice President said. II noticed
people holding handkerchiefs
over their noses, and thought
it was a new way to express
their contempt for me.
Later I found out about the
tear gas"
Caraquenos had never seen
such a show Of force since the
days Of Dictator Perez Jimenez.
OF old. bitter experience they
knew what to do when the
tanks roared into town. They
fled for cover.
The Nixon convoy screamed
along at mile-a-minute speed.
Careening onto the superhigh-
way, the convoy took the left
hand lane to avoid running be-
meath cliffs where boulders
might be rolled down. There
was no danger from oncoming
trafic, because except for the
Nixon calvalcade, no wheel
moved on the autopista for
more than an hour that after
noon.
At Maiquetia, Col. Castro
Leon had done his work well.
No one without a good. solid
reason for being there was
within a mile Of the airport.
The Nixon party's cars
squealed to a stop. The Vice
President, Mrs. Nixon and the
others got out. They walked to
the Official plane. which had
been under close guard all
night. After some brief fare
wells they got into the plane
and waved a last goodbye.
The door closed, the engines
revived up and the big craft
rolled out to the end Of the
runway. The nervous five-man
junta. the foreign minister and
the relieved Col. Castro Leon
stood silently watching until
the planes wheels left the
ground.
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he thought he ought to 20 back
TO the States. Half past /
would be a good time to 60. he
thought.
Just at this moment, an in
vitation arrived from the
Palacio Blanco. The junta
wanted Mr.. Nixon to be its
guest at luncheon, and would
assure his safety.
"What turned the trick" a
close associate said, was that
the junta members told the
Vice President the government
would fall II he rejected the in
vitation."
The invitation was accepted,
and Mr.. Nixon was spirited
across town to the Circulo Mill
tar. At about the same time.
two Venezuelan government
DC-3 airplaneS were nown into
the light-plane airport Of La
Carlota, in the eastern part Of
the city. The plan was to fly
the Vice President to Maiquetia
rather than risk q ride through
town.
II refused to 60 out that
way" Mr.. Nixon explained, be
cause ! recalled that the die
tator, Perez Jimenez, had fed
from that airport. I wasn't
going to have it said that Nixon
took Perez Jimenez' way out. +"
Col. Castro Leon agreed with
Mr.. Nixon's decision, and
pledged on his life that the
Vice President would be safe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25
Noon: Tough Guys

Noon in Caracas is the time
of one of the four daily traffic
Jams. The capital still knocks
of for a two-hour lunch-with-
siesta at home.
Tuesday was no exception.
In fact, in Catia and along
the Avenida Sucre leading to
the center of town, there were
a few more people and cars
than normal.
The center island Of the
six-lane Avenida Sucre was
jammed with screaming Vene-
zuelans. These were not the
students Who greeted Mr.. Nixon
at the airport. These we're
hardy, unshaven braves of the
workers quarters and the hill
side slums. These we're the men
who traditionally riot for fun
and profit at the drop of a
sombrero.
Despite the traffic jam, the
convoy proceeded nicely along
the Avenida Sucre until a
choque-a stoppage Of traffic
occurred. A crowd rushed up to
the Vice Presidents car and
started banging on the left
hand windows. One window
broke and the interpreter, Col.
Walters, felt the sting of a
splinter of glass as it cut
his lip.
Secret Service men leaped
out and started elbowing the
braves back. Two Of the Sc
cret Service men carried out
from in front of the car a
youngster who had lain down
to prevent the cars moving
Then the convoy resumed its
progress.
A few moments later there
was a second choque-one
caused. according to Americans
in Caracas. by an accident,
but according to Mr.. Nixon
and members of his party, by
design.
ut was no accident" the
Vice President said. There
were two trucks. They collided
and the drivers just walked
away"
This time the mob went wild
Screaming, beating on the
halted lead car with sticks
pieces of scrap iron and brick.
bats, bowling the foul impreca
tons which abound in the
Spanish language, splitting
throwing rocks, the braves triec
to get into the Nixon car.
In the last car in the convoy
Mr.. Nixon's SECRETARY. Rose
Mary Woods, suffered a slight
facial cut from window glass
shattered by a rock.
No one to whom this reporter
talked. from the Vice President
pf the United States to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25

Secretary General of the Vene-
zuelan Communist Party, seri-
ously doubts that at this mo-
ment the mob was completely
out Of hand. 1t can be said cat
egorically that II Vice President
Nixon had been riding in an
open car, or II the mob had
ripped open one Of the Cadil-
laos doors-or II a Secret Serv-
ice man had fired on the at
tackers-Mr. Nixon would be
dead today.
Morris Rosenberg, Associated
Press representative in Caracas,
was within a few feet Of the
Nixon car.
Il wondered what to do" he
recalled. II thought a tragedy
was developing before my eyes.
/ wanted to leap in and help
save him."
Il decided not to-" he went
on. II figured the Secret Serv-
ice could take care Of the affair
without my help"
Somehow, in that moment of
supreme confusion. the tide
turned. The choque was cleared.
The Nixon limou sine cut
around the press truck and the
convoy proceeded.
At this point, the worst was
over. The most terror-laden
moment of the 80 hours had
passed. But the confusion of
that time on the Avenida Sucre
was so great that no unified, CO.
herent story Of what happened
can be syntheSized. The men
inside the car tell a story that
does not jibe with what wit
nesses outside tell. This is I'M
derstandable, the two groups
were, essentially. witnesses to
different events.
This. however. can be stated
with certainty: The real heroes
of the Avenida Sucre were the
men Of Mr.. Nixon's Secret Serv-
ice guard. Playing their parts
by ear in an unimaginably con-
fused and dangerous situation,
they we're living examples Of
what Mr.. Nixon meant when he
said at his press conference a
few hours later:
Its harder on you to keep
your temper than to lose it,"
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|'Order and Dignity
To quote the Comm

10 quote the Communist
paper again:
AT 1890 it was announced
that the demonstrators had
won a victory: THE FOOT
STEPS OF NIXON WOULD
NOT DEFILE THE SACRED
PRECINCTS WHERE REPOSE
THE ASHES OF THE LIBER-
ATOR!
Little by little, in order and
dignity, the demonstration dis.
solved"
The rest of the convoy, sepa-
rated as was Col. Dailey's from
the lead car, had headed fol-
the Circulo Militar across town
At the Circulo it was an
nounced that the Vice Presi-
dent had gone instead to Am
basSador Sparks residence in
Las Tomas.
The rest of Mr.. Nixon's elab-
crate program was called of,
He received the apologies OF
the government junta headed
by Admiral Larrazabal, who
earlier had assured the peo-
pie that he would never order
troops to fire on Venezuelans.
Then the Vice President re.
ceived the press in q lengthy
and by-and-large sympathetic
press conference.
A few plug-uglies had made
a reconnaissance tour of Las
Lomas earlier in the day and
had given up any thought OF
highjinks at the Embassy resi-
dence. Situated on a hill, the
mansion was too easily defen-
sible to be susceptible to trouble
So the braves went down.
town and smashed street lights
and windows along the Urdaneta
and tried to loot a few small
shops in the section known as
Ell Silencio. behind the famous
twin towers that dominate
Caracas skyline.
A few were rounded up by
city police-for footing, not for
demonstrating. One Of the
arrested men was the son of
Jovito Villalba, head of the
left-wing but non Communist
political party Union Repub-
licana Democratica. The young
er Villalba is a Communist.
Business went on through
out the night at the Embassy
residence. And there was
business, too, at the Palacio
Blanco, where Admiral LARA
zabal called in the Defense
Minister, Col. Jesus Maria Cas-
tro Leon, and put Mr.. Nixon's
safety in his hands.
II will undertake the task
on these terms only" the De-
Tense Minister said. III any
one gets in my way, ] will shoot
to kill without warming"
Admiral Larrazabal agreed
thus reneging on his mo-
shooting" promise to the street
mobS.
The Nixon party was split
on what to do next. Some Of
his advisers wanted him to leave
as soon as possible. Others
wanted him to stick it out
until his planned 1890 am
Thursday departure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-25

The time was 500 pm. It
had been 80 hours and II min
utes since Mr.. Nixon's plane
had landed. Those 80 hours
may have changed the course
Of American policy vis-a-vis
the Latin republics.
BY six O'Clock, Caracas was
quiet and peaceful. There
wasn't a sign of military ac-
tivity. Only a few broken win
dows and street lamps along
the Urdaneta and in Ell Silencio
and a few roughly painted
scrawls-''Fuera Nixon"-re-
NAMED to remind Venezuelans
Of an ugly and almost tragic
time.
Tomorrow: The "Fuera Nixon"
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