The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, fcreencastle, Indiana

Thursday, October 3, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL The TFX Affair r |' , HE STORY of American aviation has been one of steady progress and achievement since the first uncertain heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903. Yet, in viewing the recent functional failures of the TFX jet fighter plane, one wonders if we are beginning to regress. Recently an F-111A, the Air Force version of the TFX, crashed and exploded while landing at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. It was not an isolated incident. American pilots know it as but the most recent in a series of TFX crashes which have taken a tragic toll in lives and material resources. Last May. an Air Force F-111A scheduled for service in Vietnam crashed into a southwestern desert. Later three more of the Air Force models failed over Vietnam, killing several servicemen in each instance. Early in September a Navy F-111B crashed off the coast of Southern California, taking the lives of two men. In addition, every crash costs the government more than

$6 million.

The ill-fated TFX was advanced by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as a jet fighter tailored to the requirements of both the Navy and the Air Force. By in effect combining two planes in one, McNamara argued that the country could realize important savings in defense funds. The final product meets none of these requirements. American taxpayers have spent millions on a plane with which neither the Navy nor the Air Force is particularly happy. The Navy, discovered among other things that the plane is too heavy to land on aircraft carriers, has cancelled purchase of the F-111B. The Air Force has temporarily grounded the F-111A while investigators seek the cause of the most recent crash. Numerous tests and changes in design have failed to make the TFX safe and efficient for use in combat. Indeed, they have not even succeeded in making it fly properly. It is most difficult to believe that the TFX represents a forward stride in American aviation. We think the time has come to ground the TFX once and for all. Instead of tinkering with the plane and perhaps sacrificing more lives, the Defense Department should abandon the TFX and proceed with other projects which will give our pilots the best possible equipment Amer ican technology is capable of producing.

TnTTTTTTTTTTnTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTl Capitol comments by Vance Hartke U. S. Senator Surtax Adds To Inflation Obscured from public attention by election oratory, the battle for your 1969 tax dollar already has begun on Capitol Hill. On the Finance Committee as well as in Senate floor debate, I have consistently opposed either the imposition or extension of the 10 per cent surtax added to your already high federal income taxes. I am most emphatically against increased federal taxation when no early action is in prospect on my bill to share federal income with home communities so that local property taxes may be reduced. The American taxpayer feels the bite of the surtax on both sides of his pay check. First, when it comes off the top of his take-home pay. Again, when his family pays more for items on which manufacturers and producers have raised prices to compensate for their tax hike. Remember that those who argued for the tax boost claimed it would do two things, “cool off the economy” and “reduce inflation.”

11TH ANNUAL DEMOCRATIC CHICKEN BARBECUE Guest Speakers: ROBERT L. ROCK, Candidate for Governor JAMES BEATTY, Candidate for It. Governor GENE BRINER, Treasurer Meet: All Local Democratic Candidates At Putnam County Fairgrounds SATURDAY, OCT. 5TH SERVING 5-7 P.M. PUBLIC INVITED Putnam Co. Democratic Central Committee

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To “cool off the economy” means only one thing — lost jobs and lost payrolls. As for reducing inflation, the whole nation knows that the surtax has had just the opposite effect. The cost-of-living went up again in September. Yes, this tax increase does not combat inflation, but compounds inflation by adding to the costs of goods and services you must purchase in your daily living. It is a war tax in every sense of the term because the root of our present fiscal problems is the drain of our resources to South East Asia - a drain approaching $100 billion (one hundred thousand million dollars) over recent years. Finally, and I think of most critical importance, continuing this tax may well lead us to recession in early or mid.1969. Walter W. Heller, recent chiei of the President’s Council oi Economic Advisors, warns us that the surtax should be reduced now, and must be ended by next June 30 or the nation faces trouble. Gerhard Colm, chief economist of the National Planning Association, predicts a rise in unemployment next year of between 500,000 and 1,000,000 wage earners. Are you to be among them?

He is 21. The dark eyes are perpetually amused. The hair is kinky tight with a part on the left side. The handsome face holds no hate. It is black satin. He has no steady girl. He has never been in a riot. He is a senior at Florida Memorial College. One of his courses is “Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement.” Bernardo Levarity is the other side of the Negro. His portrait is cool and confident. He never wears a cross and chain. Never wears sun glasses. He is embarrassed when he is reminded that Florida Memorial College is segregation in reverse. “It must be like this for a while,” he says. “We have 50 white students in an enrollment of eleven hundred.” There are other such seats of learning: Virginia-Hampton, Howard, Fisk, Tuskegee, and Florida Agriculture and Mining. Most of them started as teacher and preacher colleges, a step or two behind the scholastic strides of the white universities. Suddenly, they have attracted better teachers and hungrier students. Florida Memorial is the best example that segregation in reverse sometimes works wonders. It was a listless seat of learning in St. Augustine, Florida, for 51 years. The students were cloistered from the whites. A few years ago, some of them demanded service in white cafeterias. The municipal government, the police, reacted with indignant shock. The local Ku Klux Klan dusted the old sheets, and lit a few crosses. Florida Memorial College and its 620 students moved out. Two years ago, the Federal Government donated 48 acres in North Dade, near Opa-Locka, Florida. The college president, Dr. Royal Puryear, a pipe-smoking Negro who is too busy to afford the hobby of hatred, found a professional fund-raiser named Harold Dunsky. “We need a college,” said Dr. Puryear. “Raise what you can and charge whatever you must.” Dunsky understands minorities and underdogs. He is a jolly Jew, round as a robin, who believes that everybody is born with a big streak of charity which he spends a lifetime trying to hide. Another Jew, Jerry Carver, was enlisted to aid the Negro college with

publicity. Mr. Carver is a hardworking worrier who believes that the whole world is a timebomb ready to explode at any moment, so he listens a lot for noise. The college started the money tree by donating $15,000 to itself. Congressman Claude Peppier organized a luncheon and raised $35,000. A singer, Billy Daniels, reminded Dunsky that he graduated from Florida Memorial many years ago. He began to work to get donations. Raymond Burr, the Hollywood actor, became chairman of the National Advisory Board. At his expiense, he flew to Florida with two of the most militant Negroes in California, and showed them the new buildings going up, smart and straight and luxurious. “You guys should start to build a Negro college right in the middle of Watts,” Burr said. The first classes opiened two weeks ago. In two years, Florida Memorial raised $3,200,00 — almost all of it from Whitey. Thirteen buildings are already up. The girls’dormitory still consists of an assortment of trailers, but the students don’t mind. Next week a hundred more will come in from the Philippine Islands on Fulbright Scholarships. Fifty Negro students are enrolled from the Bahama Islands on Arthur Vining Davis scholarships. Bernardo Levarity is one. His father was raised on the island of San Salvador, where Christopher Columbus made his first landfall. Florida Memorial had 620 students when it was in St. Augustine. It has 1100 in its first semester in Dade, and a waiting list of 1,500. A year of study costs $1,100. With room and board, it comes to $1,790. Ten miles to the south, the big University of Miami has 17,000 students, about 50 whom are Negroes. Florida Memorial is trying to reverse that figure. The students, boys and girls, dress well-which shows that they come from families of some accomplishment. The skirts are not overly mini, the boys wear rich-looking slacks and turtleneck sweaters. One can walk the corridors, and the stone porches

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of the buildings, and never hear a loud voice. Mr. Levaritv caueht the eve of Dr. Puryear enroute to lunch. The doctor asked him what he plans to do after graduation next June. Bernardo hid the snowy-toothed grin with his hand. “If my marks are good enough,” he said modestly, “I’m going back to the Bahama Islands to teach. My pieople need all the school they can get” Want to be a rebel? by DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)—It is exceedingly difficult these days to become a rebel, a nonconformist or even a simple eccentric. Try doing something outlandish to set yourself apart from the main stream of society and chances are you’ll wind up creating a new fad. Look what happened to the beatniks. They started growing beards as their badge of rebellion. As a result, beards are now as commonplace as crabgrass. All over the country, rich men, poor men, beggars, thieves, doctors, lawyers, merchants and chiefs are wearing beards. It’s the orthodox thing to do. Hippies Acceptable The same type of fate befell the hippies. Long hair, love beads, oriental garments and the like currently are seen in the best of circles and are rapidly being adopted by the multitudes. The Beatles, once the Pied Pipers of rebellious youth, are now the favorite troubadours of middle-aged suburbanites. The wild dances invented by alienated teen-agers have become jet set standards. And how can an antiwar protestor feel the thrill of recalcitrance when hs sentiments are reflected in the majority column of the Gallup Poll? It is, as I was saying, a bad year for unconventionality. The iconoclasts are striving desperately to maintain an aura of radicalism, but they are barely ahead of the Philistines. These thoughts began scurrying through my head Tuesday as Jerry Rubin, a “Yippie” leader, was having a run-in with police outside the door of the Continued on Page 3

TZcftont friom By Congressman JOHN MYERS

A vote for Congress this year could well be a vote for president. This is the first time since" 1825 that the possibility exists that the presidential election could be decided in the House of Representatives. This points up the urgent need for reforms in the Electoral College system of selecting the President of the United States. Deficiencies in the present systern have gone uncorrected too .long. Reforms must be among the first items of business of the new Congress in January. Under the present system, the president is selected by a ballot of the Electoral College which is made up of electors equal to the number of each state’s representation in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, plus three electors for the District of Columbia - a total of 538. The presidential candidate must receive at least a majority of the 538 ballots cast • or 270 - or the selection will revert to the House to pick the President and the Senate to name the Vice President. Many of us have pledged to work to correct such deficiencies as these in the present system: 1. It has permitted a candidate with fewer popular votes than another candidate to be elected president. 2. It has allowed electors to disregard the mandate of their election in casting an electoral ballot. 3. The winner of the plurality of the popular vote in a state wins all the electoral votes in that state regardless of the vote received by the other candidate. 4. It has required the House of Representatives to decide elections when no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes. In this process, each state regardless of population is given one vote. 5. Under the present system the president and vice president who are finally chosen can be from different political parties. 6. There are no provisions made in the present law for the selection of a successor in the event of the death of a presidential candidate in the 41-day period between Election Day in November and the meeting of the electors in December.Similarly, the situation that would be presented by the death of a presidential or vice presidential can. didate after the meeting of the electors but before the counting of the vote is not specifically covered by law. A number of plans have been proposed. I strongly endorse one of these which proposes that the president be elected by direct vote of the people abolishing the present Electoral College systern. However, the American people must realize that this year’s election will be conducted under the existing system and that’s what is meant by my opening statement that a vote for Congress this year could well be a vote for President. Seniority Plus LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The Union Pacific Railroad has lost two of its steno-clerks — and with only a total of 103 years of service between them. Chrlstabel Troxel decided to quit work when she reached her 80th birthday. And she took her kid sister. Maud, 77, with her. The spinster sisters went to work for U.P. during World War I, Maud in 1916 and Christabel in 1917. They were born in Nebraska. Christabel is going on her second world cruise and Maud says she hasn’t made up her mind what to do.

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DEAR HELOISE: If your dog is not yet housebroken, accidents will happen. To remove a wet puddle from a wool rug, wipe up as much as possible, then just pour ordinary table salt on it. Cover the whole spot and put /ilcnty on. I put it on about a half-inch high. LoavtTTt on until the spot is thoroughly dry. Takes about a day or two. depending on the amount of liquid that is there. When it is dry. take your sweeper and pick up the salt. Result? No trace of the spot whatsoever and what's more, no odor. We are in the rug cleanipg' business a n d members of N.I.R.C. All my love, Mrs. Betty Schweitzer Friends, I do believe Hetty has found the answer! We’ve been testinf; tills for some time now and the results are truly fantastic! It’s best to first put clown some old terry cloth towels (or paper ones) over the stain and step on them until the excess moisture has been absorbed. Then just pour on that salt (like you were filling the shaker, not sprinkling an egg) until it completely covers the stain, being sure to rub some down into tinpile. After the salt dries eompletely (in a day or so), vacuum it up and you'll not believe your eyes. We didn't find a sign of a ring or spot! Now you may think pouring on so much salt will In- expensive, tint doesn't that beat buying a new carpet? Some stains, it not taken care ot immediately, are permanent, tin ahead and test it for yourselves. I'll bet you won’t ever be without an extra box of salt just for accidents like this. Kememlier, h o w c v c r, to empty that vacuum cleaner gals, and wipe off the bottom or section that came in contact with the salt. That salt may rust your machine—especially in damp weather. After testing this ourselves, we asked tin- National Institute of ling Cleaning to do so, and here's their answer: “The National Institute of Kug Cleaning has conducted tests on various absorbent ma-te-rials and found table salt to rate very high. “After all excess liquid has been removed, the salt should be sprinkled on and worked into the pile. This allows tinsalt to absorb more liquid. Sufficient salt should be added to absorb all of the liquid and as the top of the salt becomes wet continue adding salt. “When the area has dried completely, vacuum out all salt.”

A bushel of red roses to you, .Mrs. Kelt) Schweitzer, t (and to the VI.ICC.) for your answer to a dog lex er’s lument Ileloise

DEAR HELOISE: After all these years I have learned that if you wind a clock too tightly anil it refuses to run, all you have to do is release the alarm Til it unwinds. To think I used to dismantle the clock to try to release the spring! Of course, the alarm on youi clock would have to work on the sium spring for you to do this. Mr. E LETTER OF LAUGHTER DEAR HELOISE: I am a small woman . . . but 1 like to wear my skirts just covering my knees. When people ask me why 1 don’t wear the fashionable short skills, I tell them. “Oh. but I DO! I just prefer to buy them at the Tall Girls' Shop!” i For me, a tall girl's mini-skirt is just about right ... I Shirley Hackctt

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