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Fbrmer President Gerald R. Ford, seated right, chuckles as Gov. Otis R. Bowen, left, tries on an oversized campaign button endorsing Lt. Gov. Robert Orr, center, for governor. The three men were at the speaker's table Thursday night at the annual Indiana Republican State Dinner

Ford addresses Hoosier GOP

"No way Anderson will be elected'

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford says that although John Anderson is “able, attractive, articulate, a very decent person,” there’s no way the independent candidate will be elected president “I. just think John made an error in judgment in getting into the race as an independent candidate,” he said of the man who served as his second lieutenant during Ford’s days in the Republican House minority. All an Anderson candidacy does. Ford said, is undermine the nation’s two-party political system. “There’s no way, in my opinion, that John Anderson can be elected president.” Ford told reporters at a news conference Thursday.

Euthanasia statement timely, U.S. Catholics say

c. 1980 N.Y. Times NEW YORK Roman Catholic authorities in the United States said Thursday that while there was nothing radically new in the Vatican declaration on euthanasia, it was timely on two counts. The first point, they said, is that advances in life-sustaining procedures may cause more hardship than benefit to patients and to society. Second, there has been a growing trend in the United States for courts to become involved with “right-to-die” cases and for legislatures to pass new “death with dignity" laws. The declaration says that such life-sustaining procedures

Prosecutor hopeful pleas will quell violence against Amish

DECATUR, Ind. (AP> - Adams County Prosecutor Dan Sigler says he hopes the guilty pleas of two youths in the death of an Amish baby will discourage violence against the Amish community in northern Indiana Guilty pleas were entered Wednesday by Linn Rich, Iff; Berne, and Kevin Rehn, 19, Monroe, in Adams Circuit Court before Special Judge Hermann Busse. The youths face a maximum sentence of eight years in jail and- a SIO,OOO fine on a reckless homicide charge. Sentencing was set for July 29. “I would hope that after this outcome, young men in Adams County will think twice before they throw anything into a passing buggy,” Sigler said in a telephone interview Thursday. The two teen-agers were the first of four to face trial in the death of seven-month-old Adeline Schwartz, who was killed last September by a field tile thrown into the buggy in which she was riding. The baby’s parents. Levi and Rebecca Schwartz, were in the

“lt just won’t work out. I told him that when he called me,” the former president added. Ford, who came to Indianapolis to roast Gov. Otis R. Bowen at the annual Republican State Dinner, gave his unqualified support to Ronald Reagan’s bid for the White House. But he stopped short of recommending a vice president, saying a Ford endorsement might do a candidate more harm than good. He noted that the former California governor has a number of good choices before him including U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana. However. Ford said he didn’t think it would be wise for Reagan to let the national convention delegates choose his vice president. “For him just to throw those

are optional and need not be used when “the investment in instruments and personnel is disproportionate to the result.” It also implies, the church authorities said, that the decision to use them or not to use them is not normally a matter for the legal system to decide. One of the authorities, the Rev. Richard McCormick, a ranking theologian from Georgetown University and a consultant at the Kennedy Center for Bio-Ethics in Washington, said that “the declaration not only says that we can stop these procedures once begun or not even begin them at all if they would only

horse-drawn buggy on a country road near Berne when the infant was struck by the tile thrown from a passing pick-up truck. Sigler did not see the incident as evidence of widespread violence against the Amish in the Adams County area. “When you look at the case objectively, I don’t think it really was a question of deepseated bad feeling against the Amish community,” Sigler said. The prosecutor said he be-

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at the Convention-Exposition Center in Indianapolis. Ford was featured speaker at the dinner, which also featured former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. (BannerGraphic photo by G. Patrick Grimes).

names into a hopper, some people might allege that was an abdication in leadership,” Ford said. Ford said the Republicans’ long suit in the fall campaign will be the economic blunders of the Carter administration. Carter will go into the November election with a national unemployment rate of 9 percent, double-digit inflation and double-digit interest rates. Ford predicted. “He’ll be defending the worst economic policy of any president since the Depression of 1932. That’s bad. And he’s responsible,” Ford said. “The Carter economic policies have been a catastrophe. They’ve been disasters. We handed them the economy on a silver platter,” Ford said, not-

secure ‘a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life.’ It also implies that the decision shouldn’t be lodged in the legal system at all.” The Rev. William B. Smith, professor of moral theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonkers, N.Y., said the declaration bears directly on a series of recent legal actions in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts that have become known as “pull-the-plug cases.” The first of these, the Karen Anne Quinlan case in New Jersey, he said, “drew so much uninformed comment that it may have been one of the things prompting the Vatican to put

lieved the Schwartz’s were satisfied with the verdict, even though they will collect no damage award. I “They’re not very interested in damages, except it means they’ll be able to start living a normal life again,” Sigler said.

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ing that when he left office, the inflation rate was under 5 percent and unemployment was going down. “The president blew it,” Ford said. He was critical of Carter’s reaction to the participation of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark in an anti-American forum in Iran. “If I had been president and the Iranian situation had developed, first I would not have sent Ramsey Clark representing the United States to Iran,” Ford said. “That was a mistake by President Carter. Eight months later when he went on his own, I would not have threatened him with prosecution.” Later he added, “That is so typical of the Carter administration.”

together this statement, the clearest, most concise Catholic teaching on euthanasia that I know of.” ‘ • Smith said the declaration also bore on the case of Joseph Charles Fox, the 83-year-old Marist brother from New York who was kept alive in a comatose state for 114 days last winter on a pulmonary resuscitator while lawyers argued in both trial and appeal courts over whether the machine could be withdrawn. “The case never should have gone to court,” said Smith. “Doctors and hospitals are handling these things very well without the intrusion of the law.”

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Klansman, 17, may sue school NEW ALBANY, Ind (AP) - A 17-year-old Ku Klux Klan member is threatening a court suit to force high school administrators to put the book, “White Power,” in the school library .. New Albany High School officials accepted the limited edition book as a gift from Kevin Lamb, who will be a senior next fall. They said, however, a school book review committee, the principal, New Albany Floyd County superintendent and the school board all rejected Lamb’s request the book go on a library shelf for access to any pupil who wants to read it. The school board was the last administrative appeal available to Lamb, and it tur ned him down Wednesday night. “1 don’t want my reading limited by a committee of any body,” La mb sa id Thursday. Superintendent Robert L Holmes said, “I think we have been very liberal, frankly, in how the school system has handled the situtation.” He said the book is on the reserve shelf for teachers and a student “is permitted access to it under supervision of certified teachers.” Holmes added the book, written by George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi party, fails to “meet literary standards and really doesn’t fit into existing curricu lum.” Lamb said he is among an undetermined ( number of new teen-age Klan members in the Jeffersonville-New Albany area. He said membership is “kind of small right now, but picking up.” Lamb said he is “getting ready to set up a Nazi party unit down here” and that he will file suit within three weeks, complaining that school authorities are violating First Amendment rights. He contended books on the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Black Muslims and Communists are available to students.

He said the declaration was a possible antidote to a popular but erroneous view that the Church insists that “we must take all means, at all times and in all places” to preserve life. He said the declaration noted that “death marks the end of our earthly existence, but at the same time it opens the door to immortal life.” Smith said, “Rome doesn’t release declarations such as this for the fun of it. They come from the highest congregation. They are signed by the pope and you can’t get anything more formal than this unless you want an encyclical. This one probably took several years and a good deal of editing ”

One-parent children have more school problems, study reveals

CINCINNATI (AP) Children from broken homes cause a strikingly disproportionate share of discipline problems in schools and fare far worse academically than their peers from two-parent homes, according to an extensive new study. For every two-parent child disciplined, the study says, teachers took to task three oneparent children. Comparing children from broken homes to those with both parents, the ratio for dropouts was 9-5; for expulsions, 8-1. And with the national divorce rate still sharply rising, the problems seem certain to worsen. The study conducted by Dr. Frank Brown of Melbourne, Fla., for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals is examining the behavior and achievements of 18,244 children, grades one through 12, from all economic and social levels. Fewer than a fifth, 18 percent, come from families with one parent the bulk of them from homes broken by divorce. Yet they account for 23 percent of the disciplinary actions, 25 percent of the dropouts, 26 percent of suspensions and 27 percent of expulsions. For all children in the study who have had disciplinary contact with juvenile authorities, 36 percent come from one-parent homes, 31 percent from two-parent families and the rest live in foster homes, with relatives or on their own In the inner city the figures are worse. “Of 200 delinquent children in Washington, D C., 175 came from single-parent homes,” Brown said in a telephone interview. And according to the U.S. Census Bureau the rising divorce rate means 48 percent of school children during the next decade will come from one-parent homes. “It’s a frightening statistic,” Brown said. “Everybody is concerned about the marriage thing. This is the first national survey to find out what happens to the children.” The study involves a crosssection of 26 schools in inner cities, small towns, suburbs and rural areas in 14 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin. He said the study was spawned by a 1979 Gallup Poll, paid for by the Kettering Foundation, which showed the public believed the No. 1 problem with schools is discipline, not finances. The preliminary conclusions are based on the

Plea made to release Rudolf Hess

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first semester of the 1979-80 school year. The results of the second semester are to be evaluated in July by participating schools, but Brown is already making recommendations. “First, the schools are going to have to update their records to identify the one-parent students. We ought to have a dean of students at night to meet with the single parent before the students are suspended, or at least appoint an advocate for the student. “That’s partly the reason this group is suspended at a much higher rate. The schools couldn’t contact the parent,” Brown said “They suffer in silence,” said an Ohio school principal who participated in the study but requested anonymity to avoid identifying her school. “They keep it inside. Now we ask the parents at the beginning of the year to tell us who the parents are in the home. “I would never have believed it,” she said of the study’s findings. “These kids all seem to have all they need. What surprised me most was the low achievement level of the children after their families break up.” Thirty-six percent of the children from twoparent families were high achievers, compared to 9 percent of the one-parent children. Fortythree percent of two-parent children were average; 50 percent of the one-parent children Twenty-two percent of two-parent children were below average; 41 percent of one-parent children. The principal questioned whether schools, already burdened with teaching and administrative chores, should undertake counseling for parents. “But at the same time, I have newly divorced mothers coming in in tears asking me what to do. What do I tell them? I guess we are already involved.” The principals and researchers found that neither parents nor children want it known when there has been a divorce. “High school children refuse to tell us,” Brown said. “Ninety percent of the single parents are working mothers. They don’t tell the schools and the schools have a hard time contacting them. “I’m going to recommend that the schools mail report cards and information to both parents. Family status is changing and the schools have been biased against the twohome family,” Brown said. “At least the kids aren’t alone anymore,” said the principal, noting that so many parents are now divorced. “But I don’t know if these children actually help each other. Maybe this is one of the things we have to look into.”

share responsibility for Spandau prison with the Soviet Union, have failed to shake Moscow’s refusal to free Hitler’s former deputy. There was no confirmation from allied spokesmen in West Berlin Thursday of a claim by the Hyman Rights Association that Hess’ condition had taken a turn for the worse. “His health is regularly checked by the doctors of the

four powers and the results of their examinations are a private matter on which we cannot comment." a British spokesman said. But other sources indicated that his condition was un changed. West Berlin authorities deny allegations that the allies had refused to allow him to undergo a necessary prostate gland operation.

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