The Independent-News, Volume 89, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 May 1965 — Page 4

-THE INDEPENDENT NEWS — MAY'I3, 1965

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"Towns Cooperate With Safety Check

. .Once again Walkerton and North Liberty are participating in the annual May Safety Check in Indiana. To many this small means of checking a car seems sijiy, but a defect in one of the ten points checked could save one or more lives or a property damage accident. With the highway fatalities climbing every year, any prevention that can be ^^jjlken is well worth while. Many people are anxious to have this check run on their vehicle while others are very reluctant to have it done. Usually those not ,wanting to pass through a safety check lane, know of a slight defect, or are z afraid one will turn up and they

New Laws May Be In Effect Soon

State officials have stated recently that several laws enacted by the 1965 Indiana General Assembly may be effective by June 1, the earliest promulgation date in quite a few years. With the stepped-up procedure this year, several of the important bills that may go into effect at the June 1 date includ*: The Abolishment of the poll tax. This has been a controversial, item for years and is now on its way out. The bill that makes drivers’ licenses probationary until 21 years of age. This currently is set at 18 years of age. This matter could have a definite effect on th? highways and streets. Through the age of 18, one is usually still in school and a car isn’t a necessary part of life as much as a luxury. However. once out of school, then the right to drive may have a definite effect on a person’s job as wel 1 . as future. A bill providing tighter health and safety standards for moble home parks, which in the past few years have definitely blossomed out throughout the state and nation. The defining of switchblade knives as dangerous weapons

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don’t consider it any problem. This type of negative thinking could result in something quite costly in tha long run. In Walkerton, again the Police Department is cooperating with the Indiana State Police and as has been the case, the service stations are also cooperating. In North Liberty, safety check lanes are set up on Friday evenings, as well, as cooperating with any the State Police may have. Tha value of this few minute check may never be known, but the cost of failure to have it may be known only too well in the future.

and provide stiffer penalties for possession of narcotics. Any improvement in theso lines will be welcome and are much needed. Narcotics, especially, are one of the things that must be controlled as this crime has spread in recent years for that big fast dollar that is connected with the drugs. It also has forced many into a life of crime in order to get the money to buy drugs, once a p rson is in the habit. This is just a few. but some of the more important ones. The General Assembly this year accomplished a lot and did it in better order and manner than has been the case in many recent years. This year the last very few days weren’t a mad housa, one big party, and a quick action type of session that has bills acted upon without time and thought. Indiana has developed somewhat of a reputation over the years from taxes to school situations that has not increased the outlook of the state to others. Tn a couple more vears time, it is hoped that this image can be erased with one of top-notch caliber again.

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Voice of the People Dear Editor: Over the week end I had the pleasure of visiting in Walkerton with old friends, and learned of the Lettermen’s dinner from several of the members of the club. In attending, it was a pleasure to renew with even more folks about town and am of the firm opinion the annual event is worthwhile and proves to the younger set that the old timers have them very much at heart. So long as the community has such fine civic leaders as Denslow Doll, Lester and Amos Bierly, Francis Gindelberger and yourselt, to site a few, and as long as such programmed events continue, then so long will the community prosper. Your program was interesting and as the years roll by and the membership in the awards group grows, the attendance will not be lacking. Indeed, it was an evening well spent, and as Ken Gillies told me in leaving, "It does one a lot of good to attend this type of reunion.” That is my feeling, too. Bill Moore, reporter The Pharos Tribune ,|§cience3| Research on retinal detachmmt. a common cause of blindness, is moving along at high .speed, reports Stanford University. The scientists are whirling a model eyeball m a centrifuge at a force of two Gs, i twice the force of gravity.i If left perfectly still for sev ral days, the m del’s detached retina (like its human counterpart i gradually falls back into place but the extent of the settling is unpredictable. When spun in the centrifuge, however, a more complete and positive set. ting takes only 20 minutes so that the retina can be fastened down by painless "biological spot-welding" with a laser beam. An instrument called a “wolf trap nam d after its dtweV oer, now being built at the University "f Ro< ,est< r. may tell us wheth r hh l ex s mi Mars Wlw deposited on th- plan* t, it will be able to sm k . unpl^ of Martian soil into the culture chamber. Living

organisms, if they exist, should multiply, turning the culture medium cloudy. Any change in the chamber will ba measured by Ijight sensors and the information transmitted back to earth. Since man first inhabited the earth, 77 billion people have bean born, with 5.5 billion of them born since 1900, says the Population Reference Bureau. Some 3.2 billion are alive today. Special; construction keeps taxicabs running after the (wear and tear of constant city driving has worn out conventional autos. Body steel is heavier and preparation of the metal more exacting, reports Northwest Chemical, Detroit. Before spray-painting, the body is ch- mlcally cleaned in a four-stage process, preparation which keeps the paint in place from the time the first passenger slams the door until the last. Children can become dental cripples unless proper care is taken of their baby teeth, warns

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the University of Michigan. Premature loss of primary teeth may result in the space, closing in so that the permanent tooth cannot erupt into its proper position. The University says parents should select a dentist early and plan a visit by th® time the child is age three so that a preventive program of dental care can be planned. Pigeons need birth control, savs Aiderman Matthew Larmour of Grimsby, England. Pigeons, Larmour insists, dirty buildings and statues, interfere with traffic and menace passers-by. He suggests a contraceptive pill. Taking note of the controversy surrounding the subject, Larmour says: "No one could possibly object to the pills being used on pigeons, not even the pigeons ” FULL TIME JOB Safe driving is serious business. be alert and steady -don’t drive the past tense.