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Candidates Tipton-Myers debate ‘law and order’ in Cloverdale

By SHAUN HIGGINS Staff Reporter CLOVERDALE- Congressman John T. Myers, R-Covington, and his Democratic opponent Eldon C. Tipton debated the Issues of the 1968 political campaign at a “Meet the Candidates’ ’ session of the Cloverdale Farm Bureau Cooperative Friday night. Speaking before a crowd of approximately 100 persons, the two candidates commented on farm subsidies, Vietnam, taxes, law and order, and inflation. According to Myers the law and order issue is like a house on

fire. “First you put out the fire,” the Congressman stated, “then you find the cause.” Myers also stated that he thought it a sad thing when the Attorney General of the United States emphasizes the rights of the accused over the rights of the individual citizen. Tipton, who is seeking the of. fice for the fourth time, stated that the U.S. has adequate laws to cover most crimes and violence. But most criminals know they can “beat the rap” he said. He also felt stricter enforcement of law was necessary. However, Tipton emphasized

that law and order must not violate the basic right of dissent in a free society. Myers also said that the right to dissent should be protected. The two men were questioned on Vietnam and came up with op. posing points of view. Myers simply said that something must be done. Tipton said the same, and both advocated a policy of “win or get out.” However, Tipton stated that the United States showed no intentions of winning. Myers said that nothing can be done until changes are made in the Washington poll, tical structure.

In an after.program interview, however, Myers commented the war should be conducted accord, ing to what the Joint Chiefs of Staff feel to be best.” In a similar interview, Democrat Tipton stated that since the United States is not pressing for a win, and has shown itself to be relatively ineffective in offensive maneuvers, then it should re-evaluate its position and con. sider withdrawal from the confUct. On the farm situation the two candidates somewhat agreed. Myers stated that government should first solve the problems of

inflation in the country and then help specific areas of the econ. omy. Only in this type of environment, said Myers, can progress be made. “We(Republicans) want the government to get out of farming completely,” he said, “but we realize this must be done gradually.” Myers emphasized that a new Congress could seek new solutions to farm problems under a new and more effective Secretary of Agriculture. Both men favored welfare programs which will help people to help themselves. Tipton said welfare should be administered pri-

marily on a local level, efforts should be made he said, to eliminate local poverty pockets so families can be taken off the welfare roles. Myers favored redesigning the federal welfare programs so that local, state and federal subsidies would not duplicate each others efforts and waste tax money. On the questions of taxes and inflation, Tipton said that he favored the 10 percent surcharge which Congress granted in its last session. “Every important economist favored the surcharge,” he commented.

Tipton also stated that taxes could be reduced and inflationary trends slowed down by greater economy in government operations. Myers said basically the same only spoke more strongly. “You can’t tell me that every agency couldn’t have operated efficiently if their budget had been cut 10 percent.” The incumbent Congressman stated his strong belief in “sound economic principles” and said he felt inflation could be cured only when government stopped over-spending.

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Would you believe Richard “It is commonly believed that Morrow said there are at least Nixon as president and Edmund the House’s 435 members elected two 'hookers’ in this plan. Muskie as vice-president? Or in November will simply convene “The Constitution says the

John W. McCormack or Spiro Agnew as White House occupant? Such combinations are possible, but the public is little aware of it DePauw University political science professor Dr. William Morrow believes. * 'Americans are not well enough informed about what is going to happen this fall should none of the three major presidential candidates win a majority in the Electoral College."Morrow asserts. “Of course, most people know the selection of president could be thrown into the House of Representatives. But what happens from then on is a mystery to too many voters,” he said.

and vote along party lines. Therefore, if say the Democrats win 235 seats and the Republicans take 200, the election of Hubert Humphrey should be virtually assured.” “This is far from what actually will happen. There will not be 435 votes in the House election. There will be 50* - * one for each state. It will be necessary for each state’s House delegation to caucus and determine how the state’s vote shall be cast. “If, in Indiana this fall, Republicans win six Congressional seats and the Democrats win five, presumably Indiana's single vote in the House election would be cast for Richard Nixon.”

Postmaster applicants being taken for Reelsville office

An examination for Postmaster at Reelsville, Indiana, at, $6,807 a year, will be open for acceptance of applications until October 22, 1968, the U.S. Civil Service Commission announced today. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for appointment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, politics, or any other nonmerit factor. Complete information about the examination requirements and instructions for filing applications may be obtained at the post office for which this examination is being announced. Application forms must be filed with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. 20415, and must be received or postmarked not later than the closing date. Competitors for the postmaster vacancy in this city must: have at least 1 year of experience (education above high school level may be substituted

Vandals damage

Muncie School MUNCIE, Ind. (UPI) — Vandais hit Muncie South Side High School late Saturday night and did $20,000 to $25,000 damage to the dispensary, faculty lounge and library, according to Principal Clayton J. Smith. Included in the damage was a $1,000 eye examining machine, which was smashed, along with several electric typewriters and an air conditioner in the principal’s office. Smith said every book in the school library was dumped on the floor and the chairs in the faculty lounge were slashed. Police believe the vandals were teen-agers who had a grudge against the school.

for 6 months of experience) showing that they have the ability to maintain simple records of accounts or that it has given them a knowledge of postal procedures. They must show that they are of good reputation and that they can meet and deal with the public agreeably and effectively; They have resided within the delivery of the post office for one year immediately preceding the closing date of the examination; An applicant must have reached his 18th birthday on the closing date for acceptance of applications and take a written test. Those who pass will be assigned final ratings on the basis of this test and on their experience and fitness for position. Persons over 70 years of age cannot be appointed. Nixon first, Wallace next, shows poll INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—A poU of 1,006 Hoosiers last weekend showed that Richard Nixon was preferred for president, George C. Wallace, second, and Hubert Humphrey, third. The survey was taken by a professional polling organization of The Indianapolis News. The standings were Nixon 44 per cent, Wallace 21 per cent and Humphrey 20 per cent. Of the 1,006 persons contacted, 15 per cent said they were undecided. Fifty per cent of the voters said the law and order issue was more important than the Vietnam question. Only 22 per cent said Vietnam was most important. Of the Democrats polled, 25 per cent said they would vote for Wallace, while only 9 per cent of the Republicans said they would support him.

House can consider as many as three men for president. They would be the three leaders in the Electoral College tally. If, as is widely suggested, George Wallace prevents Nixon or Humphrey from winning in the Electoral College, he could heavily influence the House’s choice. One of the three candidates has to get 26 (a majority) of the 50 votes. It is not unlikely Wallace could carry the House vote of five Southern states. It also is very possible that Nixon and Humphrey would be neck and neck in the remaining 45 states. This would create an impasse, wouldn’t it?” The second complication is slightly more complicated. The House, when it convenes on or about January 3, could alter its presidential voting procedure. It could pass a resolution binding each Congressman to vote for the presidential candidate who carried the Congressman’s district. Passage of such a rule, says Morrow, in theory might more directly reflect grass roots sentiment, but it could also be political murder for the aspirations of the candidates’ whose parties failed to win a majority of the House seats. On the other hand, such a move still wouldn’t guarantee that the man with the most popular votes would become preidentl “We’ve had a less-than-plurality president three times,” Morrow pointed out. A Congressional intern in the Continued on Page 6 Wallace to be in Indiana

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — George C. Wallace, third party presidential candidate, will speak at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis next Thursday where Republican Richard Nixon spoke three

weeks earlier.

The former Alabama governor’s campaign headquarters here said Wallace would arrive at Weir Cook Municipal Airport at 10:00 a.m. and go by motorcade to a downtown hotel. Before his speech at the Circle, Wallace will confer with campaign aides on the progress of his Indiana campaign.

DIDN'T MAKE THE BRIDGE-Two transit carrier loads of 1969 automobiles are topless or near topless here as Daily Banner Staff Reporter Mark Steele looks over an estimated $12,000 worth of damage. Ten automobiles were damaged when the Monon Railroad pulled onto the spur line to ac-

quire a load of stone at the Ohio & Indiana Stone Corp. According to Putnam County Sheriff's officials. The cars were sliced going under the Walnut Road bridge. The damaged ocurred Friday night. —The BANNER Photos, Dennis Abell.

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Fair today through Tuesday. High today mid to upper 70s. Low tonight near 50. High Tuesday upper 70s. Precipitation probability percentages near zero today, tonight and Tuesday. Outlook for Indiana: Little change Tuesday night and Wednesday.

By JACK WALSH ABOARD USS NEW JERSEY (UPI)— Recalled to duty from the mothball fleet, America’s mighty USS New Jersey joined the Vietnam War today. The world’s only active battleship promptly battered Communist positions with her 16-inch guns. Fifteen years and 66 days after she fired the last battleship shells triggered in naval history, the reborn battleship pounded the North Vietnamese half of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) atop South Vietnam. Pilots in spotter planes radioed that the New Jersey's 2,700-pound shells blew up at least four Communist automatic weapons sites, shredded an

artillery position and mangled a North Vietnamese trench line and road. The New Jersey fired about 20 rounds immediately after joining the U.S. 7th Fleet after voyage from California. Called to duty to deliver a punch unequalled by the other American weapons in this war, the New Jersey’s shells scattered Communist debris over a wide area, the pilots reported. The big shells fell along the northern edge of the six-mile-wide DMZ. The DMZ is a major staging area for Communist forces infiltrating into South Vietnam. Allied observers said the DMZ probably will be a main target for the New Jersey, a ship

GOP charge Demos with name calling

By United Press International Democrats angered today by GOP charges that Hubert Humphrey’s campaign chairman violated the fair campaign practices code by referring to Richard Nixon as “Tricky Dick” and “evasive Dick,” say they want full-scale open hearings held on the matter. Richard G. Kleindienst, general counsel for the GOP National Committee, said Sunday his

party regarded the references by Lawrence F. O’Brien as an attempt to “vilify and defame” Nixon’s character. Kleindienst filed a formal GOP complaint with the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a nonprofit, nonpartisan body organized to publicize what it considers unfair political tactics. Although the committee has no enforcement powers, the Republicans asked the group to

demand that O’Brien retract his statement. Reacting today to the GOP move, Alvin Spivak, public affairs director for the Democratic National Committee and a Humphrey aide, accused the Republicans o f registering “spurious complaints” with the committee in an attempt to use it “as a sounding board.” Spivak said Democratic attorneys would insist that the

committee “hold full-scale open hearings so that the public can have a full airing of the question of whether Mr. Nixon is indeed tricky or evasive this year.” As these events were taking place, Humphrey conferred in Seattle with top level advisers on the problems of Vietnam and exposition from antiwar demonstrators while Nixon, in Miami, made a statement on crime.

Humphrey and his aides devoted much of their time to drafting a “major” foreign policy address for broadcast tonight on national television and radio. The vice president’s campaign headquarters in Washington, meanwhile, issued a statement on poverty that said Humphrey pledged himself to “serious and early consideration” of some kind of guaranteed minimum income.

seeing its third war. The only active battleship in the world cut into the South China Sea with a crew of 1,636 and a fighting heritage of 13 battle stars. Refitted at a cost of $21.5 million for her third war, the New Jersey has nine 16-inch guns each capable of hurling a 2,700-pound shell 23 miles. Each shell can pierce 30 feet of reinforced concrete. Military spokesmen said the projectiles are so powerful and so precise that even swarms of B52 Stratofortresses— America’s major warplane of the war— cannot match the New Jersey’s doomsday guns. Top Capacity “In 3V2 minutes we can fire seven broadsides from our 16inch guns, equalling the bomb load of approximately 60 planes,” said the New Jersey skipper, Capt. J. Edward Snyder Jr., 43, of Fairfax, Va. She’s a big lady. The New Jersey weighs 56,000 tons. She is 887 feet long. She runs up to 34 miles an hour. And she puts more punch into the sometime forgotten fact that U.S. forces shell the North Vietnam southern panhandle as well as bomb it. Her job will be plying the Vietnam coast, providing supContinued on Page 6

Ford Foundation President MeGeorge Bundy, former United Nations General Assembly President Charles Malik, Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, and philosopher Sidney Hook will participate in a special public symposium on law, liberty and progress at DePauw University on its traditional homecoming week-end, Oct. 11-12. “The purpose of the symposium,” according to President William E. Kerstetter, “is to examine again the important relation among freedom, order, and the achievement of justice and progress under a government of law. “The symposium, ” continued Kerstetter, “has special relevance to controversial issues being debated throughout the world. We feel particularly privileged that four distinguished national and international leaders will be coming to DePauw to share their insights and experience with our students, faculty and returning alumni.” Other major events during the Old Gold Day week-end include dedication of the new $1,600,000 Hogate Hall for women and ground-breaking for a $7,000,000 Science Center. The “Symposium on Law, Liberty and Progress” is being conducted in honor and memory of John and Sally McNaughton who, with one son, were killed in a commercial airplane crash last year. “John McNaughton, who was Secretary of the Navy designate at the time of his death, had a profound concern about the subject with which our symposium will deal,” Dr. Kerstetter said. “DePauw feels this to be a most appropriate way in which to honor the McNaughtons.” The MeNaughton’s were alumni of DePauw. Sidney Hook, recently retired head of the department of philosophy of New York University, and Mayor Hatcher will lead off the symposium Friday morning, October 11. Charles Malik, former president of the United Nations General Assembly, will speak Friday evening. Following this talk, Hook, Hatcher and Malik will be joined in a panel discussion by McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the faculty at Harvard University, then special White House Assistant to Presi. dents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He now is president of the Ford Foundation. Bundy’s address, concluding the symposium, will be delivered Saturday morning. During the two day symposium, the University’s distinguished Voter registration deadline is Oct. 7 Voters who anticipate on voting in the Nov. 5 election who did not vote in the 1966 election or the past spring primary only have one more week to register. Monday, Oct. 7 at midnight is the last day a voter can register including a voter absent from his county by reason of military or naval service. Voters can register in the Clerk’s office at the courthouse or at either the Democrat or Republican headquarters. Precinct committee people can also be called who will register a voter at the voter’s home.

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