The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1968 — Page 2
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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Friday, November 22, 1968
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TODAY’S EDITORIAL Still At The Top VJINCH THE RUSSIANS hurled Sputnik I into space in 1<>37 there has been much talk of the progress of Soviet technology, but in the final analysis American scientists still rate at the top. This year five Americans captured all of the Nobel Prizes for science and medicine, bringing the country’s total to 79. Br itain has won 47 Nobel Prizes. Germany lt>. France 20 and the Soviet Union nine. As other proof that the United States is ahead in scientific and technological research, the Italian foreign minister- in 1966 urged America to create a technological Marshall Plan to give Europe and the Soviet bloc tree American technology. Not all of the outstanding scientists in the United States have been native-born, which, in itself, is significant. Probably the country’s most famous refugee scientist was Albert Einstein, who tied the persecutions of a totalitarian Germany. Many brilliant scientists have come to the United States because of the climate of freedom which permits the inquisitive genius to pursue his research unhindered by the state. Americans traditionally have put a premium on scientific progress, an attitude that encourages delving into the unknown. We are never satisfied with what we have today and are always demanding improvements. Totalitarian societies, on the other hand, fear the consequences of too much freedom for their scientists and place restrictions, often of an ideological nature, on their search for new knowledge. The Nazis made a mockery of independent inquiry by demanding “research” to prove their theory of racial superiority. Fantastic sums of money can be poured into research but scientific progress cannot be forced out of the human mind. It is the product of unfettered curiosity, something only a free society can supply in abundance.
Keita is deposed as president of Mali By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Sahara sun boiled down on a gaily decked tent from which the president of Mali, Modibo Keita, spoke above the loud complaints of camels tethered alongside a new macadam airstrip. This was Mali in the first flush of independence from France. Already, the desert sand was beginning to drift over the new runway. And this was Timbuctu, “where the camel meets the canoe,” linked now by a new Malinese airline with Bamako, the capital, 400 miles away. As visiting diplomats and other guests stewed in their own perspiration, Keita told them that this new airline would overcome desert barriers and act as a symbol of Mali’s independence, unity and new prosperity. Despite its size, twice that of Texas, Mali wasn’t much of a country then and it isn’t now. Literally, it had a peanut economy. Its chief export is peanuts. And, like many another newly independent black African nation, it wanted to fly before it
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could walk or run. It needed an expensive national airline like Eskimos needed iceboxes. Keita, more than six feet tall, imposing in his white robes, tough under a gracious exterior and a socialist in the African manner, became Mali’s first president after a short-lived federation with Senegal • in which he served as premier. But Keita, after receiving aid from both East and West, including the United States, was swinging close to the Red Chinese. A slogan in Bamako declared: “All the peoples of the world ardently love Chair, man Mao.” With the Malinese economy slipping badly, it was too much for young officers in the Malinese army. This week, Keita fell to a bloodless coup. Cancel interviews SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI)— The Central Intelligence Agency Wednesday cancelled job interviews on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, and apparently saved about 50 protesting students from Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College from suspension and arrest. The students, who were in the third day of a three-day protest against job interviews by controversial firms and governmental agencies, lay prone on a corridor floor of the administration building and refused to make a path into the office where the CIA was scheduled to interview students. While the 50 students blocked the office, about 50 others stood nearby giving moral support.
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Nixon administration may emphasize farm programs WASHINGTON (UPI) — The coming of the Nixon administration may put new emphasis on farmer bargaining programs operated through cooperatives, a farm spokesman said today. Kenneth D. Naden, executive vice president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperaties, said this fall's elections had sharpened prospects for a “gradual phasing-out of some federal involvement in farm programs.” If this takes place, he said, cooperatives may find their role increasing. “Even though the makeup of Congress was not greatly altered, we saw signs of sweeping changes beginning to take shape during the last session. And with Republicans coming to power in the new ad ministration, there’ll be an even stronger push for new directions,” Naden said. “The step - down of federal commodity programs, though likely to be offset to some extent by new emphasis on land retirement, will leave a vacuum that invites further bargaining power activity,” Naden added in a newsletter issued by the cooperative council. “This should be an opportunity for cooperatives to play a more dominant role in the marketing picture. By 1970 we maysee much more emphasis on farmer marketing strength through coordination of production and marketing.
Auto Dealers see inspection problems
Editor’s Note: The following is a preposed text from the Automobile Dealers’ Association of Indiana, Inc. The Automobile Dealers’ Association of Indiana, Inc., a State wide organization of new car dealers, a dedicated supporter of motor vehicle inspection, foresees vast problems and much unnecessary hardship and inconvenience to the motoring public, the State and Official Inspection Station operators in implementing Indiana’s mandatory Motor Vehicle Inspection Lawaccording to Herman Schaefer the Associations’ ExecutiveVice President. The Act itself which was revived at the tail end of the ‘67 Session of the General Assembly, after being killed in Committee in the early days of the Session and which went to a conference committee in tlie overtime hours, passed with little or no opportunity to hear testimony or make amendments in the measure. It was passed under duress of the Federal Government which threatened to withhold 10 T of Indiana’s Federal Highway subsidies. In the judgement of the Association, following a prolonged study by its Committee on motor vehicle inspection, the Act itself and the Rules adopted under it need to be amended extensively. The Legislature mandated the Department of Motor Vehicle Inspection to purchase inspections from qualified independent businesses for $2.00 but the Department has drawn specifications which require inspections costing twice that much or more. Many of the problems result from members being appointed to the governing Board of the Department who are totally inexperienced in the automotive service and repair fields. Since the Legislature saw fit to put a $2.50 ceiling o n the inspection of a vehicle, of which 50£ goes to the State, the Department of Motor Vehicle In-
spection should have limited the inspection requirements to keep them within that figure. To prescribe inspections which cannot be performed by private industry without incurring an actual financial loss is the worst tiling that the Department could have done as one of several undesirable results is inevitable. Many of the most desirable and qualified service establishments, rather than incur known losses, will simply not apply for licenses. Others who become inspectors under the law will limit their inspections to accommodate only their own customers to keep such losses at a minimum while still others will be tempted to recover losses on inspections by unnecessarily rejecting vehicles to sell profitable services or illegally short-cut inspections. Furthermore, the Department has drawn Rules which specifically circumscribes areas where inspections must be performed which means that official inspection station operators would have to set aside costly space for the exclusive use for making inspections and no inspection could be made o u t s i d e of the designated space excepting for road testing of brakes. Additionally, such areas would require considerable investment for testing equipment which the service operator may already own and operate in his facilities but which are outside of the prescribed areas. No one can argue with the States’ right to require an applicant to have a minimum amount of service space in order to qualify for authority to inspect vehicles under the law, but it is unreasonable to expect automobile dealers or other service establishments which have the required testing equipment located elsewhere within their shops to duplicate such equipment to conform to the area requirements as now stipulated in the Rules. At the present re-
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turn of $2.00 per inspection to the station operator, which will take from 30 minutes to an hour to perform, depending on whettier a vehicle lias disc brakes, inspection cannot be successfully performed at today’s high labor rates. The Rules adopted under the law requiring inspectors to comply with “manufacturer’s specifications” which would necessitate further investments in the vast number of manuals to cover all makes, series and year models are unnecessary and can only result in exposing inspectors to damage suits whenever inspectors fail to have in their possession the required specifications wiien making inspections. Since the return of 50<? per inspection to the State of Indiana is twice as high as that to any other State, wliere such programs are self supporting — why should station operators in Indiana be required to pay $30.00 each year for renewal of their authority to inspect vehicles under the law to subsidize this program? Authority of station operators and of their mechanics to inspect vehicles should remain valid continuously, unless of course sucli authority is for good reason revoked or suspended, thus relieving the State and inspectors from much unnecessary work and inconvenience for annual renewal of authority. To eliminate the necessity of annual license renewal would also aid in overcoming the problem of having too few stations to accommodate the Public’s need. Pennsylvania State which has had mandatory Motor Vehicle Inspection since 1929 and which is considered to have the best and most effective law of all 31 states having such laws receives just 15<? per inspection and makes no charge for Inspection Stations or
mechanics, yet its program is self supporting. The Automobile Dealers’ Association, according to Mr. Schaefer, acknowledges the need and desirability for mandatory Motor Vehicle Inspection to correct mechanical deficiencies and for its psychological effect upon motorists to make them more cautious in their driving as well as to comply with Federal requirements but it strongly feels that substantial changes in’ the Law and the Rules must be made to assure its Public acceptance and success. It would be disastrous and doing the Public a great disservice not to make the effort or to fail to take the necessary time required to make the corrections even if the implementation of the Law is deferred to January 1, 1970. Trustees entitled to itemized lists INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Township trustees are entitled to itemized lists from retail stores of food purchased with food stamps, Indiana Atty. Gen. John J. Dillon ruled Wednesday. Dillon also held that a county using the federal government food stamp program in provid. ing food to needy households cannot also use the commodities distribution program. About 20 of Indiana’s 92 counties participate in a federal program by which food stamps are issued to needy households with the determination of eligibility made by the county welfare departments or the township trustees. The stamps provide such families with additional purchasing power beyond the money value of the stamps.
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JIM BISHOP: Reporter
Six weeks until Christinas. It’s countdown time. The disc jockeys have already begun to torture the people with jingles. We will hear them on every radio station over and over and our hearts will be gladdened by the monotony. I just can’t wait to hear Old Bingo the Cros start to dream of a White Christmas for the 8,000 and first time. Sickening. Still, I would infinitely prefer to hear the groaner do it a hundred times than to hear That Little Drummer Boy go through his dratted rat-a-tat-tat once. One of my daughters hums Adeste Fidelis because, as she explains it, she cannot divorce it from her mind. This time we should try to establish whether she has a mind. The department stores are beginning to dress up with tinsel, enormous holly weaths and giant fir trees with sparkling tinsel. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, if by chance you have the lolly. . . Those friendly little loan offices will be getting a big play from the squirrels who forgot to put the nuts away all last summer. Charge accounts and Diners'Club cards will make the shopping appear to be easier until the bills arrive by mail around January 3rd. Mother and lad will sit late around the difiing room table deciding who gets on their Christmas list and who gets off. One year I -^surrendered and went out and bought thirty wall barometers and an aunt phoned me later and, with some asperity, told me that the dam thing wouldn’t keep time no matter what she did to it. A few relatives kept them in the packing box and tried to give them back to me the following Christmas, but I wasn’t having any of that. My fattier never shops. He writes checks with a hand so shaky that the bank figures they were written in the middle of a stickup. Children get $2. Adults get $5. Close relatives $10. Very few ever cash these things, so that John M. Bishop becomes the only man who can run through the Christmas season and emerge on the other side with the same bank balance. A shrewd cooky, that one. My beautiful wife starts Christ, mas shopping in July. She looks for bargains and then tries to figure out who should get it. We have a utility room full of cardboard boxes with little code marks inscribed, so that she does not make the mistake of sending the knitting needles and yarn to my son-in-law, Charles Freschette, and the Erector Set to my father.
The first constructive thing we did about Christmas was to stop sending the cards. Our family list of those eligible for greetings, but not warm enough to rate a gift, ran to four hundred. Two years ago we stopped it. No!>ody ever read them. The practice is to open the envelope, look at the signature and murmur; “Holy mackerel. Here’s a Christmas card from Aunt Arabelle, and we forgot to send one to her.” In the long ago, my children were forbidden to leave their room Christmas morning until mother and dear duncy dad were awake so that we could watch the dancing eyes of the youngsters as they first glimpsed the lighted tree downstairs, and the array of gift-wrapped packages under the tree. By 4 p.m., one wheel had fallen off the doll carriage. One of the innocents was crying because, although the doll could open and close its eyes and say “Maamaa,” it couldn’t wet. The importance of the plumbing escapes me. The Christmas candy was half gone; the dog had chewed Continued on Page 3
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