The Independent-News, Volume 102, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 August 1975 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS AUGUST 7, 1975

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Several members of the Walkerton Business and Professional Women’s Club attended the dinner play in Michigan City on Wedesday. July 23 at the Canterbury Summer Theatre. The play viewed was Cabaret. The women met at the Walkerton Community Building to form a caravan to the theatre and the

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group stated they enjoyed th»* evening very much. RELEASE TAX MONIES James D. Sims, Chairman of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverae Comission has distributed a total of $2,800,238.50 in Excise Tax Collection to various state and local agencies in Indiana. Os the

$2,800,238.50, $1,460.00 went to the General Fund, $123,66.00 went to the Commission on Alcolholism, $985,724.38 went to the Department of Public Instruction, and $1,571,469.12 went to cities and towns in Indiana. In making the announcement. Sims said “we are extremely glad to have realized a goal of this Commission since it took office under Governor Bowen in January of 1973. At that time the Alcoholic Beverage Commission was anywhere from twelve to eighteen months late in making this important distrlibution of monies to the various agencies in Indiana. With the incorporation of computer systems, updated office procedures, and modernization of work flow techniques, this Commission can now say that it is current with the receipts and distributions of excise tax collections. We

■ There is considerable confusion tion, another in-depth investigation about the procedure for “clem- into the status of rehabilitation is ency" for inmates of our penal undertaken. Again, parole requests institutions. It surfaces every time often are denied. my office releases a list of clem- |f request is granted, the ency actions. prisoner is released from confineSome people interpret a clem- ment j,ut p| ace q under the superency recommendation to mean that vjsion of a paro | e officer I have issued a pardon — set a « ... prisoner free. Generally, inmates are not eligiThe actual procedure is quite & le f ? r c * emenc Y action until 30 different months after imprisonment. HowThe State Parole Board - which ® ver ; ’ lfe Piners must serve at also functions as a clemency board •east ten years before clemency is — undertakes a thorough evalua- considered. tion of long-term inmates, weighing Media reports of clemency deciconduct while a prisoner, actions sions and parole actions often do toward self-improvement, ability to n °t mention the unique facts surget a job and efforts to become a rounding a particular case. Often, good citizen. Recommendations persons recommended for clemare sought from the sentencing ency have been imprisoned for judge and prosecutor. decades. Some have serious health The board recommends to me problems or terminal illnesses. In whether or not it believes a particu- most cases they have compiled lar inmate should be granted clem- exemplary records of selfency. I evaluate each request, per- improvement. sonally, and quite often reject I am mindful of the need to prorecommendations for clemency. tect society from criminals. I also When I do agree with the board am mindful that our State Constiturecommendation. it only makes the tion requires that the prison system inmate eligible for a parole exists to rehabilitate prisoners, hearing It is not a pardon; it puts When an exhaustive investigation the inmate in the same status as demonstrates that a prisoner is caother prisoners who seek to qualify pable of being a productive citizen, for parole we would be derelict in our duty if If. after a parole hearing, the we failed to give the Constitutional board decides to initiate further ac- process the opportunity to work.

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considered this a crucial aspect of responsible, efficient, governmental activity, and are proud to state that since the start of Governor Bowen’s administration the Alchoholic Beverage Com-mis-sion has distributed $14,881,242.60, $8,239,140.01 of which has been sent directly to the financially burdened cities and towns of Indiana.”

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Capitol Commentary Governor Otis R. Bowen

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