Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 285, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 February 1975 — Page 4
(C) 1975 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON- During World War 11, Donald M. Nelson headed the war production board. The former Sears, Roebuck executive typified the businessman who came to Washington to put his managerial skills to work to win the war. But one day, President Franklin
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Letter to the editor Supports extended service
To the editor: It would be difficult to convince residents of the Coatesville area that satellites and other sophisticated devices for improved communications really exist, especially the day their phone bill arrives. The only technological advantages these residents have to enjoy in recent years is to be able to call their next door neighbor toll free. Otherwise, most calls made by people in this small isolated area for the necessities of day-to-day living and business is a longdistance call. These hapless people are unable to call their county seat (Greencastle or Danville), the Sheriff (also Greencastle or Danville). Any hospital facility is also a long-distance call. Only three doctors are available to these residents without paying a toll charge. Only one veterinary is available to serve this primarily farming community without paying for a long-distance call. Two years ago, area residents petitioned for their company (Clay-County' Rural Telephone Co-operative), for extended area service but nothing came from the request. Now the company is petitioning the Public Service Commission to increase rates from $8.15 to $lO,- stijl without adding anything to this area’s calling capacity'. Granted, the proposed rate is lower than that of sorrounding communities. However, the bill for the Coatesville subscribers, regardless of how carefully they limit their calls averages between S2O and S4O monthly. Residents of this area immediatly protested this proposed rate increase with a petition signed by more than 70 percent of the subscribers. The petition requested extended area service be made available if rate increases were granted. Some subscribers indicated a willingness to pay an even higher base rate than was proposed in order to receive extended service. After the petition from the Coatesville area was submitted to the Public Service Commission, subscribers were then told that the only way they could hope to get this extended service was to obtain signatures from the people in the
Editors Note: This is the third in a series of articles prepared by the Citizens’s Action Committee to oppose the Big Walnut Reservoir. We would like to tell you exactly the boundries of the Big Walnut project but since it is changed repeatedly in the planning of the Indiana Department of Resources and the Corps of Engineers, we will deal with the project as proposed at the last Public Hearing in January, 1972. The Big Walnut Lake and Parks will take approximately 15,000 acres, all of it in Putnam County. This land is presently used, 8000 acres in cropland, 4000 acres in
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Roosevelt grew suspicious of him; the next day, agents of the F.BJ. began a long, intimate “surveillance” of Donald Nelson, tapping his telephone at office and home, with relays of agents shadowing his every movement. The suspicion, it turned out, was unfounded, but J. Edgar Hoover had shown FDR how closely a man who had annoyed a president could be watched
Greencastle and Danville areas, indicating their interest and support. Much hard work went into this project to try to meet the requirements and hearing date of Jan. 20. Despite their efforts and support from approximately 550 Danville businessmen and residents, the subscribers of the Coatesville exchange were again rebluffed. During the hearing it became apparent that the requested rate increase was to go to pay for improved services for other subscribers of the Clay County Rural Telephone Co-Operative, Inc. Improvements which Coatesville area were required to pay for themselves as a rate increase when these improvements were made available to them. It also became quite evident that extended service to the Greencastle area was desired by a large number of the Coatesville area subscribers. The Public Service Commission granted more time to the Coatesville area people to prove the need and desire for extended service to both Greencastle and Danville; as the telephone area is split by the Put-nam-Hendricks County Line. As a background to the plea, several years ago when the Coatesville Telephone Co. was for sale, both the Hendricks Telephone Co. and the Clay County Rural Telephohe Co-operative wished to purchase it. Many subscribers, particularly those in the north and east portions of the area, petitioned that it be sold to the Hendricks Telephone Co., or that they be released to receive service from the company as they felt that company could best serve their needs. However, the Public Service Commission ruled they had been sold to the Clay County RTC, Inc. Area residents have paid out thousands of dollars in toll charges in order to receive almost any type of personal health care, veterinary service, repair service and parts for equipment, and frequently for personal and social contacts. These services are toll-free to their next door neighbor, to either one area or the other. Those wishing to express their desire or support for extended service please write: Public Service Commission, care of W.C. Seabury, Room 906, State Office Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 46204. Joyce Street Coatesville
Big Walnut Project will take 15,000 acres in county
pasture and 3000 acres in woodland. This land produced S3V 2 million worth of crops and livestock in 1973. It furnished homes for approximately 200 families and several large farms which are business enterprises in themselves, contributing to the economy of Putnam County. The balance working at other employment contributing to the economy. The Corps of Engineers has said this project will take 70 homes. In the summer of 1974 the Citizens Action Committee counted and pictured 159 homes that would be taken by this Project without counting any north of Road 36. When all is said and done the count will be much nearer to 200. This is typical of the Corps figuring to promote their projects. In assessing the benefits of the Reservoir, the Corps of Engineers has attributed $2 million as the annual flood control benefit of Big Walnut Reservoir. As you can see the flood control benefits do not equal the production of the land as it is presently being used. If the cloud of the Big Walnut Reservoir were removed it would produce even more. This cloud has hung over the people of the Big Walnut Valley for over twelve years. It has been the single most depressing factor in the economy of Putnam Conty. For the most part, people who feel their
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on specious “National Security” grounds. Nelson never knew his every movement had been recorded, filmed, and noted down, his privacy and that of his family and friends irreparably invaded. He went to his grave convinced he had done his bit to help defeat the forces of totalitarianism which employed secret police methods to unlawfully spy on citizens. The story of the Nelson tap has never been revealed, but it is the kind of incident that might interest us more in days to come. For now that the Nixon men have been safely tucked away, the public may finally be permitted looks into the precedents to Watergate: These have been deliberately concealed for fear that the impressionable public might consider “everybody did it” to be some form of mitigation of guilt. In a dog-in-the-manger essay on the day of the conviction of Nixon’s aides, I wondered “who else is guilty?” Tired of the Watergate coverup of incidents in previous administrations so clearly precedential to Nixon’s unlawful use of the law, I ticked off a few incidents of likely abuse of the F. 8.1. in the sixties and demanded to know why the truth was being suppressed. How come, for example, former F. 8.1. official Cartha Deloach had not been called by the Senate Watergate Committee to testify to the F. 8.1. surveillance of the 1968 Nixon campaign? We know the government of Lyndon Johnson was too intently concerned with Nixon supporter Anna Chennault; we know that the telephone records of the Republican vice presidential nominee were examined by the F. 8.1. and reported to the Democratic president. Why were no questions asked by our protectors of civil liberty during the Watergate hearings? In asking this, I was in error. “Deke” Deloach, in a gracious note and subsequent conversation, tells me that he did testify about this and other matters before secret sessions of the Senate Watergate Committee, and before a Watergate Grand Jury as well.
William Buckley The story of Charles Pinckney Luckey: or Death of a Christian
A day or two before Thanksgiving. Charles Pinckney Luckey of Middlebury Connecticut Congregational Church was making his ministerial rounds, as usual on his motorcycle, when suddenly, rounding a corner, he lost his balance and fell. He arrived home to his three vacationing sons -- two from college, one from nearby Taft School - a little bedraggled. But this didn’t matter much -- he was always a conspicuously informal dresser, though never affectedly so; in fact there was no trace of affectation in him, which is one reason why he was so greatly, and quietly, popular with the congregation even as he had been at Yale, and Taft. “What does the Christian do when he stands over the abyss of his own death.’ What vexed him was that he should have lost his balance. A perfect physical specimen at 50, tall and rangy and handsome with a face of a 30-year-old and the physicque of a long-distance runner. So he went to the doctor suspecting he had something wrong with his ears, knowing like the rest of us only Boy-Scout
home and land will be taken for the proposed Reservoir put off improvements, do with less, don’t build new homes, buildings and fences. It is time to remove this cloud once and for all. The tax loss to Putnam County is over SIOO,OOO a year. It would take several years to regain this tax base if the Reservoir were designed for homesite building around it. The design of the Reservoir is such that homesites with a view of the water will be almost nonexistent due to pollution problems on other Reservoirs. If the cloud of the Big Walnut Reservoir were removed to allow free movement of that land, we would get an orderly influx of permanent citizens to Putnam County. The Corps of Engineers always implies the building of a new Reservoir will cause new homes to be built which will increase the tax base thereby lowering individual taxes. Let’s check the record. Six Illinois counties have suffered tax losses and increased costs as a results of three Reservoirs built by the Army Corps of Engineers according to a new study done by John Ballard of the University of Missouri Extension. Benefits from the Reservoirs, Lake Shelbyville, Lake Carlyle, and Rend Lake have not made up for the strain on local economies.
That’s interesting. It means that much of the story of Democratic abuses of our election process has been taken down in sworn testimony, sealed as unsuitable for public consumption during the get-Nixon era, and might be vouch-safed to us later when the powers that be area certain the Vilification of the Nixon men is ineradicable. The secret files of the Senate Watergate Committee were sent to the senate judiciary committee; after first denying to this columnist that the files were in its
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medicine, which tells you that when your balance is off, something is wrong in your ear canal. The doctor examined him, couldn’t find anything, and everyone hoped whatever it was would go away. It didn’t. Within a week or two he began to lose his vision, at an alarming rate. In three weeks he was blind, and beginning to lose motor control on his left side. A legion of specialists had by that time surveyed his wilting frame, and a name was spoken which squirts icewater even among hardened doctors, because there are only a half dozen recorded cases of it and it is most gruesomely and implacably lethal. They call it Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. Something about a galloping attrition of the nerve endings. Prognosis: one-three months. Cause? Nobody knows, though there was much speculation. Could he have got it eating strange fish in the Yukon on his camping trip this summer with the boys? They took him to Columbia Presbyterian in New York, to “confirm” the diagnosis. One suspects the real reason for the trip was to give the medical
The assessed valuation in each of the six lake counties have increased at a rate far less than the state average.
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hands, that committee start checked with Sen. James Eastland, who has decided that he will not release this embarrassing material until forced to do so by the Senate Rules Committee. Meanwhile, most of the leaks now springing int the suppressed files are controlled by Fred Thompson, former minority counsel of the Watergate Committee, and now an attorney in Tennessee. Thompson was a bumbling, inept questioner; the transcripts are likely to reveal great gaps in the interrogation r'
students a chance to examine someone suffering from such an exotic disease, rather like the gathering of the astronomers to gaze at a once-in-a-lifetime comet. It was only there that he yielded to depression, as they poked about and asked him questions, to measure, scientifically, the physical and intellectual deteriorations. Before, and after, he was obstinately cheerful and affectionate, dictating to his secretary every day letters of farewell to his friends, letters exalted by a curious dignity that attached to him even as a teenager. He preached his last sermon, propped up by his 17-year-old son at the lectern, on the Sunday before Christmas to a congregation wracked with pain and admiration. The crisis came shortly after. He called his secretary and dictated a paragraph which he sent to a few friends, and which was pronounced by the retired, aged chaplain of Yale University “the most moving credo to the Christian faith written in my lifetime.” “What” - Charlie dictated - “does the Christian do when he stands over the abyss of his own death and the doctors have told him that his disease is ravaging his brain and that his whole personality may be warped, twisted, changed? Then does the Christian have any right to selfdestruction, especially when the Christian
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witnesses. Understandably. Thompson wants the material to come out in a way that does not expose his pattycake approach to the Democratic scandals. New questions arise. Why has the testimony taken about the “dirty tricks” of LBJ’s Marvin Watson in the surveillance of newsmen been so successfully suppressed? Why have no investigative reporters been slipped the Deloach testimony about 1968 from the usual Senate and Special Prosecutor’s sources? Where is the zeal of yesteryear?
knows that the changed personality may bring out the horrible beast in himself? Well, after 48 hours of self-searching study it comes to me that ultimately and finally the Christian has to always view life as a gift from God, and every precious drop of life was not earned but was a grace, lovingly bestowed upon the individual by his Creator and so it is not his to pick up and smash. And so I find the position of suicide untenable, not because I lack the courage to blow out my brains but rather because of my deep, abiding faith in the Creator who put the brains there in the first place. And now the results is that I lie here blind on my bed and trust in the succeeding, bloving power of that great Creator who knew and loved me before I was fashioned in my mother’s womb. But I do not think it is wrong to pray for an early release from the diseased, ravaged carcass. “Lovingly given,” he closed the statement, diffidently, “to my congregation and to my friends if it seems in good taste.” It seems to me in very good taste, and I pass it along, with the good news that at least that final prayer was answered. The coma began tv.o weeks later, and on January 21, he died. There had been no personality change. That, all the dreadful powers of Creutzfeld-Jakob couldn’t do to Charles Luckey.
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