Folks Back Home Honor Poindexter

His former hometown has named a street after Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, who resigned this week as national security adviser to President Reagan in the midst of controversy over the secret sale of arms to Iran.

Signs were hung Wednesday on a four-block street--formerly named John Street--in this southwestern Indiana community of about 1,500, said John Myers, publisher of the Odon Journal.

“It had been planned since the first of the year,” Myers said. “The town board approved the name change in, I’d say, April or May. They had hoped to invite Poindexter to come back and make a ceremony. He couldn’t make it all summer; that was the only reason for the delay.”

Poindexter’s resignation caused no second thoughts about hanging the signs, Myers said.

“There’s a lot of disappointment and concern, a lot of indignation, too,” he said, but “we’re all wishing John the best as he goes into his military career again.”