The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, December 9, 1968

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Editorial

Can You Think of a Better Deal Anywhere? (Reprinted from the Bloomington Courier Tribune) WITH THE VAST expenditures of the Vietnam War, domestic programs have been required to take back seats to the costly military extravaganza. The State of Indiana felt this in a most obvious fashion when highway construction funds were withheld for critical periods by President Johnson to offset mounting costs of waging war. Thus, road-building was impeded, especially in the much-needed interstate program. Other tolls, not quite so obvious, result from living in a wartime economy. One of these is in the field of naturalresources development. The Bloomington area feels this especially as it assumes its role as hub for some of Indiana’s finest recreation areas—Lake Monroe, Brown County State Park, McCormick’s Creek and Spring Mill State Parks, Lake Yellowwood and Morgan-Monroe State Forest. THERE IS NO DOUBT in this newspaper’s mind that much development could have been achieved in these potentially aconomically fruitful areas were it not for the cost of warring in Southeast Asia, necessary as that seems to be. Developments of the kind represented in our public lakes and parks yield economic benefits rather than drains. Our State Natural Resources Commission had established a sort of informal 10-year plan for developing Lake Monroe. A start has been made, but this timetable is at least two years behind schedule and will lag even more unless something is done. Other areas of Indiana are feeling the same pinch. The impressive Patoka Reservoir of some 8,000 acres is falling behind. It will be one of the greatest boons possible to a somewhat blighted area of Crawford, Orange and Dubois counties when it is built. Knowing this causes impatience and anxiety in such communities as Jasper, Huntingburg, French Lick, Paoli and English. Delays are costly in these instances. IN THE WABASH VALLEY, other impoundments are muddling in similar fates. The Lafayette Reservoir was ready to start last year when engineering was finished, as was the Lincoln Reservoir in neighboring Charleston, Illinois. Actually, if it had not been for Vietnam, not only might these three reservoirs have been nicely started by now, but the Big Pine and Clifty Creek Reservoirs in Southern Indiana might have been started this year. NATURAL RESOURCES officials in Indiana feel some frustration at itie wai ^caused delays in getting such programs started but tfiey are not idte. The Federal Government is working on its fiscal 1970 budget which starts July 1, 1969. State officials, civic leaders and Hoosier legislators on Capitol Hill are working hard to expand the government’s capability to get going in these fields. Indiana is seeking $10,637,000 for the fiscal period —four million dollars more than last year. It has been pointed out that these funds represent investments in natural resources developments which pay off in saving of lives and property plus building of a tourist economy. All 10 projects for which funds are requested in Indiana this year contain benefits of $1.50 in return for each $1 invested. Can you think of a better deal anywhere?

American destroyers distance Soviet’s private lake

ISTANBUL (UPI) — The American destroyers Dyess and Turner sailed today out of the foggy Bosphorus Straits and into the Black Sea which the Soviet Union considers virtually its own private lake. Despite a storm of Russian propaganda fury, no crowds lined the European and Asian shores of the historic straits to watch the early morning passage of the U.S. 6th fleet ships showing the American flag in the Black Sea. Military observers here said the destroyers’ journey marked the American response to the presence in the adjacent Mediterranean Sea of a growing Soviet fleet. For 1,000 miles the coast of the Black Sea touches Soviet soil. The Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda has called the journey of the Dyess and Turner a “provocation.” The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia called the ships “unwelcome guests.” It said that since the United States is at war in Vietnam, the dispatching of American warships into the Black Sea violates international treaties governing use of the Bosphorus Straits gateway to the Black Sea. U.S. Navy spokesmen said the destroyers’ voyage was “routine operations.” The destroyers are spending five days in the sea. The military observers here said some 40 to 50 Soviet warships now operating in the Mediterranean are the reason. The Soviet ships challenge the once undisputed supremacy of the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean.

The Soviets have complained that the armament aboard the antisubmarine destroyers is too large according to international agreements governing use of the Black Sea. The allies have countered that such armament was not in existeno- when the treaties were written three decades ago, before World War II.

NEXT ENGAGEMENT?

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

Doctor Sol was a born loser. He was honorable, ethical and sentimental—in sum, a schnook. He had an office on Sutton Place. The waiting room was jammed with ornate cages full of parakeets. The doctor had a duplex. The office was downstairs; he lived one flight up a spiral staircase. His head looked like a pink Easter Egg, although Doctor Sol would have preferred the term Passover to Easter. The doctor believed that there is a human malady called hypoglycemia. Briefly stated, if too much sugar in the blood constitutes diabetes (which is hyperglycemia), too little would be hypoglycemia. Doctor Sol made hourly blood sugar tests on thousands of patients and found that many of them had a sensitive and overactive pancreas which was squirting too much latural insulin into the body and cancelling the sugar. Most of these patients felt listless and fatigued between meals. They ate candy bars, pies and ice cream frantically. The sudden increase in sugar gave them energy, but, within an hour or two, they were half dead again. Doctor Sol couldn’t get his conferees in the American Medical Association to listen to him. It was their potifical judgment that there is no such thing as hypoglycemia. The doctor was mad enough to hop into a cage with the parakeets. Come to think of it, he spent half his time loving people and the other half

being mad as a woodpecker in a bronze forest. Before we became friends, he had married a redheaded nurse and he was so in love that he adopted her 12-year-old son. This was thoughtful. But it became embarrassing when the nurse left Doctor Sol on a sudden morning for a salesman who specialized in electric can openers. As a mark of her esteem, she left Doctor Sol her son, which the courts said he had to support. The kid was a monster. His clothing and school bills came high. The doctor immersed himself in work. His round face was sad. He read medical tracts which stated that hypoglycemia was a figment of what Sol called his imagination. Once, he was running blood sugar tests and Consolidated Edison, working on electrical cables in the street below, gave him the wrong voltage for a moment. Doctor Sol swore that it ruined his tests and he sued Consolidated Edison and had to pay court costs. Life became just one damned thing after another. Some of his patients said: “My family doctor says you’re a little cracked, Doc. There is no hypo in Continued on Page 7

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Release of Indiana guardsmen set for end of 1969

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The army’s plans announced today to release before the end of 1969 all 20,000 Army National Guard and reserve troops who were called to active duty early this year includes two Indiana units. Company D, 151st Infantry, Indiana National Guard, based at Evansville and Greenfield and including more than 200 men, anthe 890th Transportatio Co., Army Reserves, based at Fort Wayne, with nearly 200 men, were the Hoosier units involved. They were ordered last April 11 to active duty May 13 as a result of a presidential executive order after the development of the Pueblo crisis. The Evansville - Greenfield guard company is a long range patrol unit. The Fort Wayne company is a medium truck cargo unit. Those who were sent to Vietnam—about half the national total—will be released “after the completion of the normal one-year tour of duty,” the army said. About 10,000 will be released before Oct. 31, 1969. • The Army reservists, along with 16,000 Air Force reservists and 1,600 from the Navy, were called up for a maximum of two years.

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There is much speculation about the composition of Mr. Nixon’s Cabinet: indeed bv brothers Messrs. Novak and Evans, after telling us over the years that Nixon could never win the presidency, have now just about completed the staffing of Nixon’s Administration. If we take their word for it, and that of others who are engaged in similar forecasting, Mr. Nixon’s Cabinet will look like a roster of eligibles drawn up by the Ripon Society. It is, by the way, interesting that so many of the season’s orators who were proclaiming that Senator Strom Thurmond would exercise a veto power over any appointment by Mr. Nixon, think nothing at all now of predicting very liberal appointments. But of course that was campaign oratory, and we have known it ever since Mr. Wendell Willkie told us, that we are not to take seriously the vaticinations of hungry politicians. Even so, it is unquestionably in Mr. Nixon’s mind to nominate a “balanced” team: i.e., to include in it recognized leaders of Republicans, both left and right. He may even nominate a Democrat or two, even as old FDR used to do, the better to eat us up with. A few words are appropriate concerning some of the names one hears mentioned. Nelson Rockefeller. More than any man in America, he is anathema to the right wing. It is in part a chemical reaction. Because Mr. Rockefeller has flogged the right wing mercilessly. In the summer of 1963 he formally charged that the Republican party was being taken over by extremists, and the average Republican suddenly discovered that the man Rockefeller was describing, was himself. And then there was Mr. Rockefeller’s desertion of his party during the Goldwater campaign. In fact, apart from Mr. Rockefeller’s addiction to domestic liberal cliches, the Governor is a very capable man, and in foreign policy, a very realistic man. Late this spring he managed, under the inexpert tutelage of Emmet Hughes, to say some complicated and demoralizing things concerning Vietnam. But even that tergiversation does not obscure a firm anti-Communist commitment that dates back to his role

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, Jr’s

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in the Chapultepec Conference in the early 40’s, where he first incurred the animosity of the world Communist enterprise. He is, moreover, an expert administrator. And he profoundly believes in the necessity of national strength. He would be the last man in America to be fooled by phony disarmament drives, or taken in by the sentimental pretensions of non-proliferation treaties. In other words, Nelson Rockefeller would make a good Secretary of Defense, and a very shrewd choice for that position since Rockefeller’s clientele, which is the Eastern Seaboard liberal establishment, is greatly needed in support of tough defense policies. There is talk about William Scranton for Secretary of State, notwithstanding Mr. Scranton’s adamant disavowals of interest. Again, Mr. Scranton is a highly competent man and a diplomatic man. Such is Mr. Nixon’s own interest in foreign policy that what he desires primarily is an effective surrogate, and Mr. Scranton would make that, no doubt about it. And he is not- - unlike Rockefeller — a magnetic field which would interfere with the orderly flow of electricity in a Nixon Administration. Rockefeller’s personal assertiveness could fairly easily be integrated if exercised in a department (Defense) where such attributes are necessary for survival, and when in pursuit of policies directly synchronized to the president’s. The same qualities, in a Secretary of State, could make life not worth living for any president, even Humphrey. So, Rockefeller, Scranton. Who else? There is talk of John Lindsay, incredibly. It cannot be because Mr. Nixon needs Mr. Lind-

say — what for? If he cannot run New York City, surely he cannot run the Department for Urban Affairs? The talk, undoubtedly specious, is based on the recognition that Mr. Lindsay might very well be looking for refuge from the lowering storm. And in California, they are saying that Senator Thomas Kuchel, the lame duck, will be named Secretary of the Interior. Without knowing much about what Mr. Kuchel knows about the Interior, it would appear that such an appointment would be calculated rather to help Mr. Kuchel than to help the Interior, and it is not clear to me what is the nature of the debt to Mr. Kuchel by a party whose last four nominees (Goldwater, Murphy, Reagan, Rafferty) Mr. Kuchel declined to back. So , okay Rockefeller, Scranton; ixnay Lindsay, Kuchel. Dyer approved New water system program INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana Public Service Commission Thursday approved a rate hike and water system improvement program for Dyer. The PSC approved a new schedule calling for minimum monthly charges oi $3.20. For a family using 5,000 gallons monthly, the charge would be $4.55. Dyer was authorized to issue $520,000 in waterworks revenue bonds to pay for the improvements in the system.

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