The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 June 1968 — Page 3

Saturday, June 8; 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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By FRANK ELEAZER WASHINGTON (UPI)-Con. gressmen recently raised old age benefits for the taxpayers, didn’t they? So who can blame them now for sweetening their own pension plan just a percentage point or so? Joe Citizen, after working in private employment maybe 40 years to age 65, until March 1 was eligible with is wife to draw, on the average, $145 a month in Social Security benefits, With the new liberalization effective on that date his monthly check was boosted to $165. Now take the congressman who gets turned out next November, or who quits. Say he is 62 and has been on the public payroll 24 years. Under present law he must try to make out on an annual retirement stipend of $17,100. Boost Congressional Pensions A bill already approved by committee and awaiting House action would give him an increase to $24,000 a year, a sum obviously more in keeping with the living style of the average member of Congress, who frequently is heard to complain that he can’t live on the $30,000 salary he gets while he works. The House and Senate both have recently voted to cut federal spending (at unspecified places) next year by $6 billion below what President Johnson. planned. And taxes are about to be raised. So some members fear that small-minded persons may say this is an odd time to talk about boosting congressional pensions. Not so, says the bill’s principal sponsor, Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio. Hays says the new pension plan is just what the doctor ordered to induce old fuddy-duddies to quit the lawmaking business and make way for bright, younger fellows. The same argument was advanced for the original congressional pension, o course, and in its present context raises some question as* to whether senility, invalidism and other impediments of old age set in earlier amongst congressmen than among people generally. Early Retirement In most businesses, the employes aren’t expected to be turned out to pasture before age 65. Congressmen don’t have to wait that long, even under present law. The maximum pension now is 80 per cent of their pay—or $24,000—and it can be drawn at age 60 after about 33 years service, as little as 10 years of which may have been spent in Congress and the rest somewhere else on the government payroll or in military service. The main stated object of the current liberalization is to let members reach this 80 per cent goal in 24 years. In the process it would boost their pensions substantially in all brackets,

providing roughly $1,000 a year in pension for each year of service. A five-term House member, for Instance, quitting after 10 years, could draw retirement pay of about $10,000 yearly. Protect candidates WASHINGTON (UPI) — Bereaved and indignant at the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Congress and President Johnson have moved quickly to provide what they hope will be insurance against further political murder. The President T h u r s d a»y signed into law legislation authorizing Secret Service protection of major candidates for the presidency and vice presidency. The House and Senate acted within hours of Kennedy’s death to approve the protection. Johnson, acting extra-legally, already had dispatched federal agents to protect all major candidates after Kennedy's shooting in Los Angeles. Secret Servicemen are now protecting Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Harold Stassen and thirdparty candidate George A. Wallace. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the leading Democratic contender for the presidential nomination, already has such protection. The legislation speedily approved Thursday legalized John, son’s action of the day before and provided $400,000 to finance protection of the candidates through the end of this month. Next week, legislation is expected to provide an extra $2 million to the Secret Service for the upcoming fiscal year. There are currently 575 trained Secret Service agents. In addition to protecting the President and vice president, the agents are charged with enforcing laws against counterfeiting and forgery of government checks and bonds. The White House said if there are not enough Secret Service agents to protect all the candidates, agents will be borrowed from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Narcotics Bureau, the Customs Bureau and, on occasion, from the military and local law enforcement agencies. In addition to protecting the chief executive and the vice president, Secret Service agents provide security for past presidents and Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her children. Any of the candidates, under ■the legislation passed Thursday, can refuse federal protection, but none has.

PAUL WILSON, of Greencastle, was the recipient of the Jaycee Road-E-O Award, in recognition of safe driving practices..

Don Barnes, President of the Greencastle Jaycees, and Dick Hatcher, chairman of the Road-E-O, made the presentation.

Bainbridge news

The annual Bainbridge High School Alumni Banquet was held Saturday evening in the large recreation room in the new elementary school. The room and stage were very pretty with a canopy of blue and white paper strips and walls decorated in the same colors. The theme for the evening was placed on the wall back of the speakers’ table in the same colors. The theme was “Thanks For The Memories.” The guests were seated at card tables covered with blue and white checked table cloths with bowls of flowers in the centers. A delicious Swiss steak dinner was served cafeteria style with Girl Scouts serving dessert and coffee. The president then introduced the toast master, Phillip Elliott, who in his clever and gracious manner called on a member of the 50 year class, Jesse Priest of Indianapolis. Priest is a retired post office employee of Indiana, polls. He recalled the years of his school at Bainbridge and was sorry to hear of the passing of Miss Ella Pickett, a member of his class. He read a poem he had written 20 years ago and also one he wrothe one he wrote that day. The next speaker Mr. Elliott called on was Kenneth Etchison, a 25 year member. He spoke of his travels in Germany and other lands. Etchison attended DePauw and several colleges but won his degree in Iowa. For the past seven years he has been a hospital administrator in Illinois. The next speaker who was introduced was a 10 year member, Mrs. Mildred Tippin Rusk of Terre Haute. She is a junior high teacher of physical education in Terre Haute. Her talk was very humorous and interesting. Elliott then introduced Brenda

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By Muriel Nelson Brackney Heacock, who was graduated five years ago. She named all the members of her class and recalled plays they gave and the many romances. The fifth speaker was a senior this year, Doyne Cruse. He was the class president and will go to Indiana State University this fall. He thanked the alunmi for the invitation to the banquet and expressed his appreciation. Mr. Austin named the officers for next year as follows: James Sutherlin, president; Pat Houser, vice president; Marcia Zimmer, man, secretary; and BobRooker, treasurer. He then asked for a vote of recognition for Mrs. Etta Collings, who has never missed a banquet, and for Bruce Lane, who has only missed one. Austin thanked his help and the girl scouts. The Rev. Ralph Graham, who is a Methodist minister at 38th and Meridian Sts., Indianapolis, arrived late. After the program, as he claimed, he crashed the party to say a few words. He was the basketball coach here when Archie Chadd, the lateCleo Steward and Donava Steward and Donavon Moffett played. He was so happy to see many friends again. Mr. and Mrs. O.L. VanCleave then led the grand march to the music of the Danny Clouser Variety Band from Thorntown. Mr. Benboe was a member of the band

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By BENNETT CERFT?MBARRASSED was hardly the word for the Long Island Hu motorist who spied a car partly hidden by foliage alongside a parkway, and thinking that the driver might be in trouble, alighted from his own vehicle to walk over and offer assistance. The driver waved him away angrily, “Thanks, Buddy,” he said, showing his police badge, “but will you kindly buzz off? I’m a speed trap!” * * • George Thayer, in a country-wide search for likely candidates for his book about political extremists called “The Farther Side of Politics,” encountered a prize package in the person of one Joseph B. Lightbum who actually ran for President of the United States in 1964. Mr. Lightbum'a slogan was “Let a Lightbum in the White House.” He rejoiced in the fact that his initials were the opposite of L.B.J. and expected to get thousands of votes just because he had picked his running mate from the town of White House, Ohio. Mr. Lightbum miscalculated. • • • • QUICKIES: A young miss received & paper dress for her birthday this year —but she’s returned it for a later edition. Good warning sign at a Connecticut intersection: “Cross Road. Better humor it!” Mystery woman linked with Kennedy case

LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Police said Thursday they had issued an all points bulletin for a possible woman suspect In the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Insp. Peter Hagan said officers still believed only one person was involved In the shooting, but didn’t want to overlook any possibility. The case was not considered closed yet, said Hagen, press liaison officer for Chief Tom Reddln. The bulletin was Issued Wednesday after a Kennedy campaign worker told police that a woman in a poka dot dress ran from the Ambassador Hotel early Wednesday at about the time an assassin fired eight shots at Kennedy. “We shot him," Miss Sandy Serrano said the woman told her.

Police described the woman in their bulletin as a white female, 23 to 27 years old, 5-foot-6, wearing a white dress with three-quarter sleeves, and small black polka dots. Miss Serrano, a 20-year-old youth for Kennedy worker from nearby Pasadena, explained in a teleivision Interview after the shooting that she had gone out on a hotel terrace as Kennedy began his speech claiming victory in Tuesday's California Democratic presidential primary. “A girl came running down the steps and said, ‘We shot him!’ ” Miss Serrano said. A man allegedly was with the girl. Who did you shoot? Who did you shoot?” Miss Serrano said she asked. “We shot Senator Kennedy,” was the answer, she reported.

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