Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1962 — Page 8

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jam —Outboard motoring is almost "as rough as taxi riding in Paris. French water jockeys are competing in the “Six Hours of Paris,” a marathon on the narrow Siene. Race was won by number 32, in lead, a 17-foot runabout with a 100-horsepower Mercury driven over the 425 kilometer-course by Raoul De Biasi and Henri Prat.

Milk Price Control Before Legislature

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Milk price control, a proposal which has produced fireworks in the last four sessions of the Indiana General Assembly, will be back before the lawmakers when the 1963 session convenes Jan. 10. A study committee recommended to assembly members at a pre-legislative conference Wednesday that they enact a bill which would provide some measure of control over the price of milk. The committee also recommended creation of a new state commission to enforce the law. The measure, opposed by the chairman of the committee which suggested it, would prohibit retail sales of milk at less than cost. It is aimed generally at the use of milk by supermarkets and chain stores as a ‘‘loss leader” to attract shoppers. , Calls It Unnecessary Sen. Robert L. Brokenburr, RIndianapolis, who headed the committee, called the legislation unnecessary and charged it would have an adverse ffect o n the state’s dairy industry. Speaking for the committee majority, Sen. Jack H. Mankin, DTerre Haute, contended the proposed bill was not fair trade legislation and .was “less stringent” than similar measures which have met with varying degrees of success in every session since 1955. He said the committee felt some control was needed to protect independent dairies, milk processors and groceries from unfair competition. He said some chain stores, which can make up their losses gGifts for H!m . . . .1 I 1 <v’l » i, Y*f" i r i .tenanti! S 1 W f ________ y t _ y t Arrow jj Dress Shirts | f Smart, sure-to-please fashions y [in new collar styles and clas-* isic favorites. Contour 'wash & wear blends, “Sanfor-y [ixed,” broadcloths. White,* > stripes, tones. $> $4.50 up g [ If You're In Doubt . . | J Give A Gift Certificate! jj PRICE I I MEN’S WEAR g f TOM WEIS * (<WSjU OFFICIAL * BOY scout g ! ss§f gift HEADQUARTERS S B < B

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! elsewhere, are able to buy milk I for 37 cents a half-gallon and sell it for 10 cents. He said the dairies which supply the milk to the stores must sell it to their own retail customers for 45 cents to show a profit. Would Outlaw Rebates The proposal would also outlaw discounts, rebates, and other inducements which the committee said some dairies were forced to give in order to obtain the business of large outlets. The bill would allow the proposed commission to issue ce.ase and desist orders against such practices and against sales below costs. But Mankin said the major enforcement of the act would be through civil action in the courts. Mankin said the bill would not prohibit stores from selling milk at a loss, as long as they did not sell it below the cost to them. The bill also would allow retailers to drop their prices to the level of the lowest price of their competitors. No Dairies Damaged Brokenburr contended the committee hearings produced no evidence that below cost sales of i milk had damaged any Indiana \ dairies. He also said that proposed legislation provided “no authoritative definition of unfair competition’’ and price control would mean an increase in the cost of milk with a resulting decrease in milk consumption. . Milk price control legislation first was enacted in Indiana in 1935. However, the terms of the act required re-enactment every two years, and it was allowed to expire in 1943. Beginning in 1955, milk price control legislation has been introduced in every legislative session. The closest it came to enactment was in 1959 when the bill was passed by both the House and Senate but was vetoed by then Gov. Harold W. Handley. Greencastle Man Is Named To Council INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Governor Welsh has named Rexell A. BoycL -Greencastle. -to thelndiana Advisory Council for Mental Health. He succeeds Leroy Hanby, Connersville, who resigned to become judge of Fayette Circuit Court. Both men are Democrats. One-Car Derailment At St. Joe Wednesday AUBURN, Ind. (UPl)—Authorities blamed a load of hsavy copper ingots for the one-car derailment of a Baltimore & Ohio freight train Wednesday west of St. Joe. The ingots were being taken to Baltimore for coinage. The braces in the floor of a freight car collapsed under the weight of the ingots and fell to the tracks, causing the car behind ta derail. No one was injured.

Santa Claus, Ind. Looking For Mayor INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Postmaster Elbert S. Reinke of Santa Claus, Ind., announced today that his famous little town is looking for an honorary mayor. Reinke’s announcement is in keeping with a custom started at Santa Claus in 1956—t0 select from among Christmas-born children anywhere in the world one boy or girl to reign for a festive weekend as chief executive of the little southern Indiana town. The entrant must have been born on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and must be no older than 12 nor younger than 6. 1116 child—with the aid of parents—should send a letter to the committee, explaining why he or she wants to be Santa Claus mavor, and accompany the letter with a snapshot. Deadline for entering the contest is Dec. 8. Reir.ke said the name of the winner will be announced by his committee Dec. 12, and the little mayor will be brought to Santa Claus on an expense paid trip the weekend of Dec. 15-16. A real-life mayor, Frank McDonald of Evansville, the nearest city to Santa Claus which has a big airport, will welcome the fledgling mayor and after a re-1 ception, the winner will be taken by motorcade to Spencer County. Here in the co*tv where Abraham Lincoln’s was spent, the little mayor Vill find a small village founded in 1852 by a grouD of pioneer settlers. Tradition* has it that just as the adults, who had gathered to pick a name for their town, reached a stalemate, the door of their meeting place opened and Santa Claus walked in, settling the argument. The town was almost unknown outside Indiana and Kentucky until James Martin, who became postmaster in 1914, began answering letters sent to the Santa Claus by children. , Since then, the little post office has™ grown to the point where it handles yearly about five million pieces of mail. Reinke, who became postmaster in 1949, has continued the custom of Martin, but now it takes the help of volunteers from many organizations to answer all the letters. James C. King Heads District Principals James C. King, principal of the Harmon school at Oakwood, 0., and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry King of Decatur, has been elected president of the Western Ohio department of elementary school principals. i The district comprises elementary schools of six counties. During his two-year term, King will also be a member of the executive board of the state association. He, his wife and four children reside at Oakwood.

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Judge Reverses Sell At Newsman's Trial BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) - A county judge reversed himself, Wednesday and enabled attorneys for veteran newspaper editor James E. Mills to challenge the constitutionality of a state law prohibiting election day editorials on issues before voters. Judge Francis Thompsc* did his about-face in the trial of Mills, editor of the Post-Herald, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, on charges of violating the 47-year-old law. Thompson first sustained defense demurrers, freeing Mills, but later, after consultations with attorneys for both sides, produced an amended state complaint, reversed himself and overruled the demurrers. Then he recessed the Jefferson County Criminal Court proceedings until Friday when testimony will resume. The action makes it possible for Mills’ attorneys, if the editor is convicted, to attack the constitutionality of the law in a higher court. The state Corrupt Practices Act, under which Mills is charged,; prohibits soliciting votes “in support or in opposition to any proposition that is being voted on on the day which the election ... is held.” Maximum penalty under the law is six months imprisonment and SSOO fine. Defense attorney Kenneth Perrine contended the law violates both the state and federal constitutions and infringes upon freedom of the press. He claimed the law was vague and did not mention newspapers. Solicitor Emmett Perry argued that freedom of the press was not an issue but merely the state’s right of “reasonable police power” to regulate elections. The Post-Herald election day editorial urged Birmingham voters to approve the mayor-council form of government instead of the present three-commissioner form. It also criticized Mayor Art Hanes for promising city firemen a pay raise if the present form of government was retained. NO INDICTMENTS (Continued from Page One) every person imprisoned in the county jail on criminal charges, who were not indicted. Reports were heard from sheriff [Roger Singleton, police chief James M. Borders, the Indiana state police and prosecutor Severin Schurger. - . Of’; • MINCH RETURNS (Continued from Page One) summer months, when one officer was on vacation every week. I Two in Car Chief Borders was unable to be contacted this morning as he was appearing before the grand jury to make his report. It is expected, however, that three men will be placed on each of the three shifts, with the remaining two uniformed men working different hours. This will enable the department to have two men in the patrol car the hours preceding and after midnight, even with the men taking their two days off each week. This has always been a problem for the local police. Break-jps, robberies, etc., generally occur around the midnight- hours, and-itv the past there has been only one officer in the car. Bad Situation This is a bad situation as the department keeps a night-long surveillance on local business and homes, and when a break-in is discovered, there is only one officer in the car at the time of the discovery of the robbery. In addition to Chief Borders, uniformed officers include: Bobj Hill, Donald Liechty, Victor | Strickler, Grover Odle, Kenneth Jennings, Raymond Seitz, Dick Mansfield, Cochran and Hoffman. Civilian clerks are George Stults and Pat Nelson.

Seek To Solve Pakistan And India Trouble NEW DELHI (UPI) — The United States' and Britain ap-‘ peared today to be making a major effort to resolve the di Terences between India and Pakistan in the face of the threat from Communist China. Duncan Sandys, British secreretary for commonwealth relations, was reported flying back here fronnj Rawalpindi today for urgent consultations with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Both Sandys and W. Averell Harriman, who is surveying the situation for President Kennedy, dined and conferred Wednesday night with Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Continue Pakistan Talks Harriman, U.S. Ambassador Walter McConaughy, Gen. Paul Adams and Paul Nitze of the Defense Department stayed behind and continued the conferences with Ayub today after Sandys took oH for New Delhi. Pakistan has been concerned that the fresh arms supplies pouring into India from the West to stem Red China’s border invasion someday may be turned against Pakistan in the dispute with India over Kashmir. Harriman sought to assure Pakistan on his arrival in Rawal-

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jf m 111w® II LOCKHEED STRlKE— Government mediator William Simkin, seated at head of table, talks with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and International Association of Machinists negotiators in Burbank, Calif., in an unsuccessful last-minute effort to halt walkout.

pindi Wednesday that there were extensive safeguards against this. Press On Diplomatic Front With the cease-fire on India's border still effective on the eighth day after Communist China initiated it, both nations were pressing a diplomatic offensive to win over Key non-aligned nations.

Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon, has invited five other non-aligned nations to a conference in Colombo sometime in December to try to settle the Sino-Indian border dispute. Reports from Ceyion said Burma, Indonesia and Cambodia have accepted and the United

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Aram Republic and Gahna arc giving the idea favorable consideration. India is sending Laxshmi Menon, minister of state for foreign affairs, to Colombo next week to talk with Mrs. Bandaranaike. Reports from Ceylon said Peking is sending its vice foreign minister, Huang Chen.