The Independent-News, Volume 88, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 December 1964 — Page 4

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS — DEG 3, IMI

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What A Day That Night Was!

Everyone has one of those day* when they feel they should have stayed in txxi. We axe no exception to this fact, and of ctiurx.’, Dus type of day had to come at a most inconvenient time To further aid the cause, the little gremlins that can add to a person's woes, must have been having a convention in dur shop on that particular day. The occasion blessed us last week on Tuesday. Usually Tuesday is a good busy day when the basic work is done on the newspaper prior to the Wednesday publication However, with the high anticipation of Thanksgiving Day just around the corner, and the thought of watching the favorite ’ Lions" on TV in football, and the real test of the Beautiful Wife's ability in the kitchen, we weie going to publish on Tuesday so you gi>od people could have your news before the holiday and especially enjoy the section announcing the opening of the Christmas season in Walkerton. This made it an extraordinary Tuesday. Tnings went smoothly until it was time to get up. Then it stalled to happen. No milk for the corn flakes would make even the sober faces on TV fail to sing about then product. A broken shoelace from the evening before and the fact that a car payment was due, didn't cheer us up either. Then we made it downstairs (safely anyway! to the office. Things went along rather smoothly for a while, considering the fact we were g'oing to press a day early. People continued to bring in copy which was needed to fill the grand and glorious 28 pages we had planned. The fiist 12 pages of special Christmas ads and stories put us in a better mood as it was completed and we were pietty well satisfied until yours truly discovered he left out one ad. Then the little gremlins began their tricks. Two typesetting machines didn’t break down, but they didn't cooperate as well as we would have liked either. This cramps our styk which is in such a condition it couldn't stand ciampmg. The added anticipation of seeing our favorite baskeObeJl team in action that night against Rolling Prairie, had to be eliminated from the plans, but we still had hopes of hitting the Leons Buffet Dinner afterwards (We like to eat.) Things continued to progress slowly as was slightly expected, but we finally, after some trying hours, did make it to press. The run started smoothly but the noise of the press must have wakened the gremlins and pretty soon WHAM one of them stuck th< r foot through the web of the press This requires cleaning the mess of torn

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paper from the rollers and all that old stuff, rethreading tho paj>er in the press and going again. Weill, this was done and the jolly UlUe fellow’ must have enjoyed it so much that he did it again. After wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving under our breath (or something like that! we repeated the process and started rolling again, only about 45 minutes lost. This time we were sailing nicely until ■’Hook'’ cut the speed of the press. Thinking we were done, we traveled to thy back room only to find out that wy were out of paper, needing about 300 more issues to complete the job. As it was, everyone was busy stuffing one section in another and not until we had to stop for paper did we notice that a couple of pages were hardly showing up at all. This caused more than concern as we set about to find the reason why. It was finally noticed after taking the dirty old ink rollers out, that one had broken during the nin. something we had never heard of before and would not care to again. We then realized how lucky we were in the fact that the shaft had bioken under the rubber inking surface and this was all that had held it from breaking completely out and damaging the press very seriously. For a few minutes, complete pandemonium reigned as we tried to figure away to remedy tile situation. Aftei a blue checKUig, we were able to finu a roller for future use wmeh relieved us considerably and maybe made us think that the gremans had left. We were able to run enough papers to covwm the bad ones that weren't aucady mailed, but we would liae to offer our apologies to anyone who did receive the almost blank pages of five and 12. There weren t too many that went out this way, and anyway, there were 26 other pages to read, and that is way above our ave. age. We also would like to urge these people to understand the situation, especially m defense of the advertisers who were on these pages. Poor old Homer Balsley of Modern Electric, had two ads in this area, as did Powell-Mann, but one of them was just merely a picture of super salesman "Buck ' Kepcha who everyone sees plenty of anyway. We will try to console the friendly banker in town as their ad also appeared as did one for John Croy. We want to assure you this wasn't intentional and was lemedied as quickly as possible. It is httle things hke this that make life interesting, but we are glad that they are few and far between and that those httle gremlins find someplace else to go to have their fun.

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Voice of the People To O-D School Patrons: Since school started Qus fall, some children in the O-D system have paid twenty-five cents a week for school milk. In spite of the fact that this price was questioned by a member of the O-D school board at a meeting on September 22. the price of milk remained unchanged. When we took our complaint to the O-D superintendent, he gave no satisfactory answer; when we informod him that we might take our complaints to the state level, if necessaiy. he said, "perhaps that would be the best way to clear it up." On October 28th. I wrote to Charles Howell, director of the Sciiool Lunch Division of the Department of Public Instruction. My letter received prompt attention; on November 6th. I received copies of a letter which had been sent to principals of both schools of Oregon-Davis. They read in part: "According to each of the approved contracts, the charge to the child is 2c per half pint When contracts are approved, they are approved on the basis that there will be no difference in charge to any child whether he buys Type ’* A " or carrtes his lunch The school agreed, by contract, to sell all milk regardleas of the time of day, at 2c per half pint Any milk which has been sold in excess of that figure is not eligible for reimbursement, and it would be a violation of the agreement We. actually, would not be pc mitted to pay reimbursement on any other milk sold in the school system if this practice continues. Please advise this office as to whether or not there has been a difference in the charge to the <htidrvn, and if so, if you will make a reduction in the charge. Do you have any record of those who have been paying sc. A refund would be in order if you have claimed reimbursement for milk sold at that price." Since then I’ve received a phone call from Mr Howell Inquiring as to whether the situation has changed I told him that the principal at Grovertown had announced on Mondav following the rec ip! f the letter from the state, that milk would be ten rente >ta't nir the next week, but had hear! nothing about the Hamlet s* ho<»l He had received a letter from the Hamkt principal denying ever having overcharged

for milk (this was contrary to our information) but Mr. Howell said that a reviewer would be sent down anyway. I am writing this because 1 believe it's time that parents know that some of the things that are wrong with our school can be corrected. Given parents with the proper interest in seeing that the men we hire and those we elect to run our schools do their work the way were paying them to do it. we just might wind up with a better school system. If not, we will sit back and wring our hands in despair. It something is being done wrong and you know it. then it's your duty as a parent as well as a taxpayer, to bnng it to the attention of the proper authority. Mrs. V. A. Keiper Dear Editor: The episode about the Indiana Girls School u» indeed sad. As a foi mer State Senator and Judge of the Juvenile and Probate Court, I am perhaps more concerned than the average citizen. As Judge of Juvenile Court, 1 was very reluctant to commit girts to that institution. Upon my return from Geneva. Switzerland, whee I attended the United Nations Conference on Crime and Delinquency, I advocated the establishment of Youth Councils, not only in St. Joseph Count v, where I was Judge of the Juvenile Court and had jurisdiction over the children of the county, but I urged the same for the State of Indiana I recall also, that in our meeting at the International Congress of Juvenile Court Judges, in Brussels. Belgium, it was the consensus of the opinion of all judges and other experts, the importance of community action. As one speaker at the Geneva Conference stated, "you can't ex- •

7^ - UeM Robert E. Urbln, Editor PUBLISHER Independent-News Co., Inc. Walkerton, Indiana PUBLICATION TIME: Thursday Os Each Week Second Class Postage Paid At Walkerton, Indiana BU3SCIPTION RATES: $3.00 Per Year -50 c Additional If Mailed Out Os State

peel the results you hope for of the children if you manifest youi efforts from the Town Hall. You must go to the home and neighborhood for proper results." A good Youth Council operating in it's full form, the Girls School whi di our State maintains. would not be necessary, or a Boys' School for that matter. Hence, we would not only have a better society, but millions of dollars of the taxpayer i money would be saved. Yes, million# of dollars are spent each jvar to opeialc .such institutions. 1 preclude the Youth Council Plan of our County. 1 was convinced it was very helpful. Our delinquency rate was not only the lowest tn the state, but among the lowest in the nation. A Youth Council Program must have Use support of the church and school and every professional and layman, as well as every citizen. I vividly remember a juvenile hearing when a boy was charged with punching a school teacher. His lawyer, a well known Barriator, in fact he was a former president of the County Bar Association, said that the teacher had it coming to him. Thal statement was made to the school officials in the presence of the boy. which is regrettable. As I pointed out in my article in Legal Publications and on television, and again I repeat, a good juvenile court, together with first class probation department and a child guidance clinic cooperating fully with a good youth council will help every home to have health, religion, happiness and respect for law and order. This is the answer. Lest we forget: Our State and Nation's greatest assets — our children. Tho America of tomorrow. John S. Gonas South Bend, Ind.