The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, December R. 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL One of the Few f IKE THE WEATHER, most people complain about the government but few do anything about it. Louis G. Ruderer is one of the few. He has challenged in court the Army’s Aviation Materiel Command which fired him in 1964 after he documented evidence of “foulups and waste” all the way to the Cabinet level after lower echelons ignored him. He is fighting for re-in-statement in his old job and a denial of the charges made against him by AVCOM. In 1961 Ruderer first went to his AVCOM superiors and presented a list of wrong-doings which officials denied. Evidence which has come to light since that time supports his claim that waste and mismanagement have cost the lives of American servicemen in Vietnam. Ruderer had charged, for example, that misinformation had been printed in “manuals issued to aircraft maintenance personnel in Vietnam.” AVCOM admitted some of the mistakes but claimed they did not affect aircraft performance. That same year the Army reported that eight soldiers died in crashes as a result of helicopter structural failures. In 1965 the General Accounting Office charged AVCOM with wasteful buying and failure to keep adequate aircraft replacement parts on hand. Earlier Ruderer had complained that one of every five of some 100,000 parts for which he was responsible was listed incorrectly. A year ago November GAO found almost $1 billion difference between AVCOM supply records and the actual amount of supplies on hand. In 1966 an AVCOM witness who had testified against Ruderer was convicted of conspiracy and soliciting a bribe. He admitted that AVCOM officials had ordered him to “get” Ruderer. Despite the evidence that he was right all along, Ruderer is still having to fight AVCOM and the government in the courts to get his record cleared. He argues his own cases and is in danger of losing his home because of mounting bills. We can only admire his courage and hope it is matched by justice.

Auto industry accused of pressure sales

WASHINGTON (UP I)—A Federal Trade Commission consultant accused the auto industry today of high pressure sales policies which he said prompt dealers to cheat their

customers on repairs, financing and used car deals. Dr. N. Leonard told the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee that car Continued on page 5

The most fitting gifts for Christmas

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For his lounging hours, we suggest: A pair of footcoddling Jarman house slippers (ribbed corduroy style with terrycloth lining and cushion sole is a current favorite). For his leisure wear, we suggest: A pair of famous glove-leather “Deerslayers,” right on target for comfort and smart styling. Yes, Jarmans make a fitting gift for any man on your list.

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THE ICEMAN HAS COMETH

First term congressmen begin preparations By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI>- Both of Indiana’s freshmen members in the next Congress were in Washington today to begin advance preparations for their new duties. The two new faces among the 11 Indiana congressmen belong to David W. Dennis, Richmond, from the 10th District, and Earl F. Landgrebe, Valparaiso, the 2nd. Both are former state lawmakers. Dennis won election in a district left without an incumben congressman by reapportionment, and Landgrebe sueceeds Rep. Charles Halleck, RInd., who is retiring after 34 years. Dennis said before leaving for Washington that he plans to “do some interviewing for a possible staff, check into committee assignments and also look for a place to live.’’ He said he will hire part of his staff from the 10th District but also wants “to get some with Washington experience.” Dennis said he is not yet ready to announce his selections. Likes Wilderness Area His committee preferences include foreign affairs, judiciary and interior and insular affairs. “I’d like to be on a subcommittee on wilderness areas,” Continued on Page 5

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DEAR HELOISE: Here's a tip for owners of sports cars with leaky tops. As those tops (cloth, plastic or leather) begin to give at the seams after a great deal of lifting and lowering, plus weather damage, we decided to repair the top ourselves. We used a strong needle threaded with dental floss, two thimbles and four eyes! Two people make this job easy. One sits inside and pushes the needle and dental floss through the holes to the person standing outside and he in turn pulls it through and pushes it back to the insider . . . half as easy and twice as fast. Even the inside snaps can be sewn back with floss. It’s

easy to match the new stitches with the old this way and sure saves buying a new top or expensive repair on the old one. Marilyn Papalia

Well, I’ll be doggoned. And wouldn’t this Idea be terrific for eanipers who need to mend their tents! If you-nll will send me your four eyes along with four hands, then I'd have six and could get the pantry in order. You folks are great. Both of you. Ileloise •Jr. * Continued on Page 8

WILLIAM F.

BUCKLEY, JR.'s ON THE RIGHT

The indictment of Roy Cohn by the U.S. Attorney in New York raises far more interesting questions than whether Mr. Cohn, as charged, attempted illegally to bribe a state official. On that point it is likely that once again Mr. Cohn will establish his innocence. And indeed, a reading of the indictment suggests that here is merely one more offensive by a punchdrunk official who remembers that he is supposed to keep on charging for as long as he can stand up, and who somewhere along the way in the mists of time came to identify the defense of the law with the persecution of Roy Cohn. But let that stand, and let us proceed, as we have been taught to do, on the presumption that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty: and on the further assumption that Roy Cohn will be vindicated at trial. What then? The point is not often enough raised. A few years ago, it was the same thing all over again. Roy Cohn was indicted. He was exonerated after two, not one but two, trials. In the course of defending himself, he devoted cumulatively a year’s work , and the cash costs to him were in excess of one hundred thousand dollars. Why is it that the government can, so willfully, impose such a burden upon one of its citizens? If the government assaults a citizen, puts him through grand jury meetings and public trialsand then fails to make its case, leaving the intended victim ex-

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onerated but exhausted, why shouldn’t the government assume at least the financial burden of the exonerated defendant? The zeal with which the U.S. Attorney in New York has gone after Roy Cohn over a period of years suggests either that Mr. Cohn is soon to be revealed as head of S.M.E.R.S.H. or that the U.S. Attorney is suffering ifrom a devil fixation. His office has in recent years demanded that banks in which Cohn does business send him copies of every check Cohn draws. His office tried to persuade an insurance company to stop pay. ment on a loss sustained by Cohn. His office turned furiously on a teen-age summer messenger boy dispatched by Cohn to the U.S. Attorney’s office to retrieve some records. His office sent a U.S. Marshal into a board of directors meeting in Chicago presided over by a partner of Cohn’s law firm-- to issue subpoenas on the spot, to everyone in sight. His office has had Cohn up before four Grand Juries. Before one of these grand juries, Cohn was asked 4,851 questions. His office ordered the interception of Cohn's mail, including mail addressed to his own lawyer.-an interception which, when it was discovered, led to a front-page expose in the New York Times, and a reprimand by the courts. Continued on Page 8

Nixon names Dr. Dubridge as chief science advisor

By EUGENE V. RISHER NEW YORK (UPI)— Pres-ident-elect Richard M. Nixon today named Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, president of the California Institute of Technology, as his chief science adviser and charged him with bridging the gap between the political and intellectual communities. Dubridge, 67, a friend of Nixon’s for 22 years, will retire as President of Caltech to take the position. The physicist said he was delighted with the position and would advise Nixon on ways in which the federal government could stimulate scientific and technological research. “I will not be his political adviser nor economic adviser but will try to get the best scientific information in the country and present it. Nixon introduced Dubridge to newsmen at his Hotel Pierre headquarters and praised him as one of America’s leading scientists. Noting there was a tendency for people in the scientific and intellectual communities “generally to take a rather dim view of the political operator,” Nixon said that one of Dubridge’s jobs will be “to reassure them that our interest is not only in what they can produce but in how they can counsel us.” Dubridge said he would seek to stimulate basic university research and that he hoped federal government participation in such programs would increase. He said he currently saw no scientific lag of the United States behind thte Soviet Union but added, “we must guard against it becoming so.”

Nixon’s headquarters also announced appointment of two major task forces, one on science and the other on space. They are to study ways in which the Nixon administration can participate in space and science programs and report their findings to Nixon and Dubridge. Dr. H. Guiford Stever, president of Carnegie - Mellon University in Pittsburgh, heads the science group and Dr. Charles Townes, Nobel prizewinning physicist at the University of California, heads the space group. Both received their doctorates from Dubridge’s Caltech. Dubridge, a modest but brilliant man who worked during college as a door-to-door salesman and once wanted to be a newspaper reporter, has been president of Caltech for 22 years. He has devoted most of his career to the pursuit of pure science but during World War II was director of the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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