Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 288, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 February 1975 — Page 4

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C) 1975 New York Times News Service New York-Jqhn Dean “Is in a class all by himself,” says Dean’s booking agent, anyway you at it, it’s hard to argue with that financially, for example, Richard Nixon’s former counsel, fixer and nemesis has been out of the pen only since Jan. 10 and already his take is crowding a half-million. -For the book she is planning to write, Mrs. John Dean will receive a $150,000 advance, minus another 10 per cent, thus helping to prove her contention on the day

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Letter to the editor Cites ‘oil government’

To the editor: Inexpensive fuel is growing most everywhere you look in this country, that will not only heat homes, with slight modification will run internal combustion engines. However, since we have “oil” government in this country it will probably never be used. A large percentage of the politicians in this country have oil stock, and as a result we have government “of the oil people, by Letters are The opinion page of The BannerGraphic is open to anyone in the community who wishes to express an opinion on a subject of public interest. We welcome such opinions in our letters to the editor column. However, we request that certain guidelines be followed.

Vance Hartke Sad picture of inflation

President Ford has requested legislation limiting the Social Security cost-of-living benefit increase scheduled for this July to five percent. I oppose that limitation. Our old and disabled are already battered and bruised after months of economic duress. The cost-of-living climbs, but their incomes remain stagnant. They are being hurt more than we have any right to expect them to endure. There is no more bullet left for them to bite. Last week I received a letter painting a sad, sad picture of hardships the InflationTurning back the clock 60 years ago A transient, given overnight shelter at Sheriff Boes’ jail, repaid the favor by taking two brand new blankets With him as he left. Headline: “DePauw's New Gynr (Bowman) to excel any in the state.” 20 years ago Mrs. Willard Garrett gave the program for the Martha Washington club which was entertained in the home of Mrs. James Heartsall. 10 years ago Fred Casper, a Greencastle grocer for almost 25 years, had joined the Central Insurance Agency. 5 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Gene Cook of Greencastle were the parents of a son, Darrin Eugene.

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Tom Wicker Free speech and post-Watergate prosperity

of her husband’s release (after four months in prison) that he had been “sufficiently punished.” -For the lecture tour on which he embarks Feb. 2, Dean is expected to gross about SIOO,OOO, minus the booking agent’s commission-usually about a third of the fee-and travel expenses. But the latter' are deductible, as Dean’s sources in the internal revenue service must lohg ago have assured him. For his opener at the University of Virginia, he is getting $4,000, which is top

the oil people, and for the oil people.” It is high time we take a look at something else besides fossil fuels, but no: It can’t be done because it would cause oil stock to fall in value. As a result of the “oil” government, nOnfossil fuels have been legislated against, taxed out, and public information about them has been kept Hash! Hush! R.L. Rosenbarger Rt. 1 Box 290 Cloverdale welcomed Please write clearly and limit letters to one subject. Letters limited to 300 words have the best chance of appearing in our column. Writers must include full name and address, although their letters may be published with initials if so requested. Although we reserve the right to edit letters, we will try to limit editing as much as possible.

•recession places on oldsters. A 77-year-old retiree described a shopping trip made with a friend. Picture in your mind this scene as I quote him directly: “Today I went to a store in the lower part of our city as a gentleman in our senior group had to buy some clothes. When we got out of the store we went nearby to get a Cup of coffee and this kind person had tears in his eyes. Like myself, he worked hard all his life.” What a blemish on our tradition of American generosity When shopping for necessities like clothing is reduced to a frustrating, humiliating experience for our elderly. What dignity remains when you are old and unable to stretch that dollar or dime any further, only to learn that your anticipated benefits increase will not meet the cost-of-living even halfway? Bare Benefits I have other letters from elderly and disabled constituents, containing comments like the following: From Terre Haute-“I am 82 years old and on a fixed income don’t have enough income to pay taxes, but do have to eat and try to keep warm.” From Indianapolis -, a woman whose retired husband draws disability benefits“l don’t see where taking more out at one pocket than you put in the other can do anything but cost us more than we can afford. I would like to see Mr. Ford live on our income.” From Indianapolis-“As things are now, I just barely make ends meet. If you have been to the grocery or bought anything lately, you know what I mean.” From Crawfordsville-“Please be against plans to Cut our Social Security increase-we don’t get enough to live now.” A Marion County native wrote-“It seems there are always billions of dollars for foreign aid and whatever is thought to be necessary for useless things while some in old age are going hungry.” Unfair 5 percent Limiting the 1975 benefits increase to five percent instead of the projected nine percent would further cramp the strained finances of the 30 million Americans drawing Social Security. We cannot ask those people to bear yet heavier economic burdens. It simply is not fair and not consistent with our tradition of caring for the people who have given their best, most productive years to society.

dollar on the lecture circuit, but the Washington Post has reported that 2,000 tickets already have been sold at $1.50 and $2.50, with 4,000 more available. From all four appearances he makes in four days in Virginia and West Virginia, he will gross $13,500, with five more weeks business ahead. A few minor unpleasantries are pendine. however, at Georgetown University in Washington and at the University of Maryland. The post reports that more than a thousand faculty and students have signed protests against the $3,000 fee Dean will receive for his return to the Washington stage. Maryland students, too, are debating whether to complete a deal to pay Dean $3,000 for a lecture. After all, they only paid Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. $2,500 when he appeared at Maryland last soring. But the resistance Dean is encountering so far is minor compared to that facing Ron Ziegler, who has not been in prison at all, nor confessed to any crime. Ziegler, too, is undertaking a lecture tour for substantial fees, but at Boston University a deal to pay him $2,500 was rescinded by a student group, President John Sibler then rivited Ziegler for SI,OOO, described as the University’s “standard maximum speaker’s fee,” and offered to throw in expenses. Zeigler’s agent apparently turned that down as beneath his client’s notice Meanwhile, at Michigan State University, the student government decided not to provide 50 per cent of another $2,500 fee for Ziegler. But this did not render his appearance at East Lansing inoperable, because the University administration announced that it would pay the whole fee. Silber said he was making the new offer to Dean to remove any doubts about Boston University’s commitment to free speech. No doubt that consideration also was involved in Michigan State’s decision to pick up all of the tab for Ziegler’s appearance, too. Since both Dean and Ziegler may encounter further difficulties of this kind, the free speech question

Inside education Acceleration in education By JOHN COOMER

There is growing emphasis in education today upon acceleration. High schools are graduating students who have spent less than the traditional twelve years in school. Colleges are accepting younger students, even those who have not graduated from high school. One fairly new approach to acceleration is advanced placement. By this arrangement, students of high ability or interest take highly advanced sections of specified courses in high school or carry on in-depth study in certain subjects oh their own. Then they take a nationally standardized three hour exam in that subject. If they score high enough on that

Russell Baker Dr. Gallup’s ten most admired people

(C) 1975 New York Times News Service NEW YORK-Dr. Gallup tells us the 10 most admired people in America are nine politicians and Billy Graham. I doubt it. Dr. Graham’s explication of St. John may truly make him one of the men most admired by his countrymen, but even in his case long association with notorious politicians suggests that he is picking up points for the frequency of his appearnace in the headlines. As for the other nine, the list makes sense oily if read as a litany of the names that most heavily burden the American Spirit in headline and television film. If read as the parade of heroes it purports to be, it means that we are all moonstruck with politicians, including some of the least admirable in the business. If this be so, how account for the fact that very few of these birds dare set foot out-of-doors anymore unsurrounded by bodyguards? What Dr. Gallup has measured, I submit, is not a list of most admired people, but only of most familiar names. Thus, no. 1 aclmiree is Henrv Kissineer and No. 3-the Rev. Dr. Graham being No. 2 is President Ford. Possessing only these clues, anyone casually familiar with the newspapers can guess without looking which names will round off this dispiriting list. Kennedy, Wallace, Rockefeller, Reagan, Goldwater, Jackson and-a grin surprise to all but the closes students of the American psycheRichard Nixon. There thev are. ladies and gentlemen -

considering. So far, their “right to speak” does not seem to be in question. Presumably, either can go to any campus he chooses-including those now having second thoughts about their lecture commitments-and speak out freely. But it is impossible to read into the First Amendment a Constitutional right to be paid a large fee, or any fee, for doing so. A public personality, offering him or her self on the lecture circuit for a fee, can hardly claim that a Constitutional right has been violated If no one wants to pay the fee, or if only some are willing and others are not.

exam a number of colleges will give them credit for the course. The student who can pass enough of the exams may earn enough credits to enter college as a sophomore. Even if he earns only one college credit, that is one less course he will have to take in college. Advanced placement is the creation of the College Entrance Examination Board. This is the non-profit organization that administers the test commonly referred to as the “College Boards” or the “SAT” in which most colleges place a great deal of stock in admitting students. The program began in 1954. More than

Misters America! I prefer not to believe it. Not because some of these men do not have admirable traits. Some of them do. But to suppose that Americans, given such a wide choice of admirable citizens to pick among, should settle for an assortment of power mongers suggests that we are resigned to a bleak future. Even among public men a list of truly

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It may well be, of course, that in some or all of the present disputes, Dean or Ziegler has a valid, enforceable contract that would entitle him to collect his fee even though his sponsors have changed their minds about sponsoring him. But that is a question of contracts, not of free speech. If some university had refused to permit its students to hear Ziegler, that clearly would have violated his and their free speech rights. Or if a student body should shout down or otherwise refuse Dean the right to speak on the campus, free speech would be deeply offended-as it has been, for example, in the Several instances when

1,000 colleges now participate. In 1973, approximately 55,000 high school students took one or more AP exams. On the courses and is able to adjust to college work with greater ease. While the student may not be able to pass enough of the average, two out of three students Who took the exams scored high enough to receive college credit or advanced standing as the case may be. We see advantages in this approach to acceleration. The student does not enter college any younger than normal and therefore has had the senior year in high school to mature further. He has spent the

admirable people is easily compiled. Judge Sirica, Leon Jaworski, Archibald Cox, Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshous-all men who behaved admirably in the Watergate squalor. What about Senator Mondal, who decided to spare us the bogus theatrics of at least one presidential campaign? My own list would include Kojak, Colombo and the incomparable Hudson of

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Dr. William Shockley has been physically prevented from stating his views on genetics. Again, if the directors of a university lecture series consistently refused to invite or to pay any speakers representing a particular point or view or political position, students could make the case that their free speech rights were being violated. But none of that seems as yet to have happened in the Ziegler-Dean cases; and after all, picketing and protests in a peaceful manner are free speech too.

senior year taking advanced college-like exams to gain an entire year of college, he is at least relieved of the j basic prerequisite courses in the subject which interests him and is able to move immediately into advanced sections. We believe that we will see greater emphasis on acceleration in education. As students have greater opportunity to learn and to have a greater variety of experiences they will be able to progress at a more rapid pace. Acceleration is not for every student. However, we see advanced placement as on of the most feasible approaches for those who are qualified.

“Upstairs, Downstairs.” Catherine Drinker Bowen, who died at the end of the year, would qualify, as well as Catfish Hunter, who not only does one of the most difficult jobs in the world - throwing a baseball - as well as anyone alive, but has also established the precedent that the possessor or such rare skill should be rewarded almost as richily as men who run corporations with middling talents.

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