The Independent-News, Volume 94, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 April 1969 — Page 4
— THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS — APRIL 17, 1969
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It's Hard To Believe!
f Each week many stories come across our desk that shock, dis--atisy. please, and certainly enlighten us as t • action' in different part' of this country of our' With a crime rate almost to the alarming stage and headlines made o r many stories •>f ciime' forcing one to question our laws, two such -tones attracted special attenti'ii this pas' w< ek We would ike to pas- them on to you in his fmshion. THE SAME OLI) STOIH it was lass than a year ago Hat a Philadelphia man. free on bail a'ter being charged with the death of a police ...ficer, o'led a second policeman. In Washington, D. C.. the ■ umber of crimes committed by paroleeand accused men set tree on bail and awaiting trial, has reached the danger point. The same problem laces every tn ijoi city in the United States, , d is overflowing into suburban areas. Many citizens were shocked a *-w years ago when a plot was tr covered to place bombs in three of our historic shrines the L berty Bell, the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty. )ne of the same men who planned that sabotage is again under arrest. He had been found guilty in the bombing »lot and .sentenced to a term of five years. He had served less than two years when someone decided that he had either paid । s debt to society, or had been punished enough. Then, last month, Manhattan Borough r resident Percy Sutton named the recently released convict to serve as an unpaid advisor to a ■ommunity planning board. After all. he had shown some flare for planning. ’o most people, this would have meant a chance. not only ♦o clear their names, but to mow that the parole system ■an work. But this man did ot react as one might guess. It was the same old story once ,gam. He has now been ini cted for taking part in an•ther b mib plot. This time the ■lot did not involve destruction >i historic symb >is. This time v involved hunwn beings. 1 wenty-one members of the extremist Black Panthers, inuding the parolee, were alegedly plotting to bomb five
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1959 mna International Organizes Jecal Club. At a meeting Monday night ■v’th 34 members present, a new Taons Club was f rmed in North Liberty Lions is n t entirely new .. North Libeitv is a club was forme 1 in that town many years go but disolved dm mg World War II Gs the thirty-four pres■et ax w<ie fi m the Walkerton ^lub, sp n> ring club, for the new members of Lions Inter- ? a* ional. V. I . W. Post I’rewnts Book 4<» High School. I’ne Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Indiana and it’s JLadiea Auxiliary presented a t«py of J. Edgar Hoover's "Masters of Deceit , to the North Liberty High School on April 13, 1959 Walkerton Elementary School Condemned The County Council and County Commissioners condemned the Walkerton Elementary School at 4 15 p m. Wednesday, April 15. after rrtuming to the hearing that recessed Monday evening. The combined council arid oommisdoners were in Walkerton Wednesday afterXtoon after hearing the case presented following petitioning of this action by the voters of U alkerton and Lincoln Townbhip. The Trustee and C. Em-
New York City department stores, a police station and a commute.- rail station. Snipers were to be in position to gun d >wn policemen as they fled tHe stationhouse. SIRHAN IN SPLENDOR The Los Angeles County supervisor has been quoted as estimating the exist of the trial o r Sirhan B. Sirhan as being more than $858,000 to date. He said that the sum total will be in excess of a million dollars before the trial is finished. In recent months, we have been up to vur elbows in circuses. The James Earl Ray trial and the Gan ison-Sh iw episode set some sort of record for bizarre court cases. They make the Scopes trial look like a small claims case. It now appears that the astronomical expen.se of the Sirhan trial is not going to be the end. The California Medical Facility is in process of creating special living quarters for Sirhan in case he is found guilty and sentenced to life imprLa>nment. Plans for the special cell appear to be curiously lavish. The quarters will consist of three units. One will be a kitchendining room. The others are a living room, a bedroom and a lavatory with shower. This seems to us generous and makes us wonder how the California tax-payer must feel about it. Unfortunately. the press release did not give the cost figures oh the cell. It did not even detail what the furnishings would be. We are not among those who believe that convicted murderers should live a bread-and-water existence. Prisons o # today do not contain dungeons with chains and manacles or torture racks, but surely a line should be drawn between imprisonment, as a punishment for a capital offense, and a retirement suite. After all. the as' is-in is convicted, he should receive appropriate punishment. A man is dead. A woman has lost her husband. Children have been deprived o f their father. Punishment in an environment of the sort described might well lead other murderers to seek equal treatment, or to conclude that murder is its own reward.
met Eiler were the final speakers on the situation. No one preaent demonstrationed against the petition that had. been signed by 83 taxpayers xf WalkertonLincoln Township for the condemning of the building. This is the action required by the law to condemn a scho 1 building despite some misbelief in this matter. 1944 T. B. Church Marks 40th Anniversary The Walkerton United Brethren church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the dedication xjf their church building on Sunday, April 30. The church was erected at a cost of U.OOO and was dedicated on April 24, 1904 under the pastorate of Rev. S. H. Yager. Collect Scrap Paper Saturday Morning. In rei»p»nse to the repeated and urgent calls from the Army and Navy that Scrap Paper Drives be held all over the nation, the people vs Walkerton are asked to cooperate on Saturday morning by having all scrap paper. magaMnes, books, etc., tied up and on the curb early for collection at 9 00 a.m. War (hi The Hoosier Home Front. Os the 11,516 veteran* Who applied for Jobs, 6,361 found work Immediately during a demcmstratlon program open in
January by the U.S. Employment Service, the War Manpower Commiaston announced. New Shoe Stamps: Beginning May 1. Airplane Stamp 2 in War Ration Book 3 may be used for buying one pair of rationed shoes, OP A announced. Provide* Bounty On Fox and Coyotes. Wednesday evening the County Council appropriated SS,OUU to be used as bounty on fox and coyotes and other predatory animals in this county. Voice Os The People To the person involved with removing the flowers from my grandparents grave. Lt is beyond my way urf reasoning what those two bouquets could mean in your heart. Can they brighten your home? Can they be placed on another person’s grave with love ? My grandmother cfmse her burial plot at the Westlawn Cemetery in North Liberty the summer before her pasMng. She chose a simple spot close to the road; not knowing It would bring temptation and a cause for others to sin. This was certainly not her way. And yet, sometime between Easter afternoon and Wednesday you found the audacity to remove those red roses from their resting place. Yes. I knuw they were only artifical; but they were given with love the same as if they had grown in God’s own garden. I have reason to believe this was not simply a prank, because none of the older flowers were disturbed from the surrounding graves. This is not the first time this has happened to our family. Why should it happen to anyone? In my own mind you are the lowest of people, you are a thief. A person who does not have the nerve to even beg or borrow from the living but must steal from the dead. To you I have no more words; but to my Grandma and Grandpa Clingenpeel I say: You have went first and I remain, To walk the road, though not alone. I ll live in memory's garden With happy day's we have known. In Spring I'll watch for roses red, When fades the lilac blue. In early fall when brown leaves call, I'll catch a glimpse of you. We have known so much of happiness.
We have had our cup of joy. And memory is one gift of Gnd That death (or thief) cannot destroy. Theresa Hostetler Main Street Gossip Glenn Place - Pauline is vn the telephone talking with Agatha and the natural instincts of Agatha is to do all the talking. Agatha says the time is di awing near for the After Prom Party on May 9th. The committee hasn't met, tire gifts haven't been given, the funds are very very slim and the concerned parents are becoming concerned. The time is now to start planning this annual happening for the yuuuger generation of our school district. Yes, your help is expected Pauline. Hope to see you at the meeting, when eVer that is. —M3 G — The uptown park fountain was turned on Moa-Jay. The cool clear water is a flowing. —MS G — Trees are budding. turtles are moving b> the lakes, birds are singing merrily, and a great many of our citizens have what Lm called Spring Fever. —MS G — Well, I will have to cut this column short, because that old Spring Fever has caught up with me. Seat Belts Do Save Lives
Voluntary Vehicle Inspection Continues At A Rapid Pace
Willard L Walls, Administrator of Indiana's Vehicle Inspection Department said today, more than a quarter of a million voluntary inspections have been made since the beginning o^ the year. Walls urges motorists to avoid the last minute rush and get their vehicles inspected, now, during the voluntary period. The schedule tor the mandatory period is as follows: Vehicles bearing a 1969 license plate ending with the digit 1 or 2 shall be inspected on or before August 31. 1969; those ending in 3 or 4 on or before September 30, 1969; those ending hi 5 or 6 on or before October 31, 1969; those ending in 7 or 8 on or before November 30, 1969; and those ending in 9 or 0 on or before December 31, 1969. Self Inspectors shall have all vehicles inspected on or before August 31. 1969. Walls stated, vehicles inspected voluntarily or otherwise will be due for inspection one (1) year from the month in which they were inspected, provided, that the vehicle is not involved in an accident that the Investigating
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