The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, December 19, 1968

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — One of the deeply emotional issues of the 1967 Legislature was the liberalization of Indiana’s presently very limited abortion law and 1969 may find this same quiet chasm still exists. Of the 93 lawmakers who have voted in the poll, 38 said they were for a more adequate abortion law, 47 said they opposed any change and 8 were undecided. The balloting was on the question of the legislator’s personal convictions at the time of replying to the poll. The 1967 Legislature did enact a liberalized bill which would have allowed abortions to be legally performed if the pregnancy posed physical danger to the mother’s health, or if the conception resulted from rape or incest. Branigin Veto Governor Branigin vetoed the bill after it passed the House and Senate, explaining that, “I have listened to and weighed the many practical, medical and social goals which are thought to be accomplished by this act. I cannot in good conscience approve it.” Branigin listed three reasons for his veto, which will be brought before the 1969 Legislature for either confirmation or over-riding. These reasons included: — “It offends the moralprinciples of a large proportion of our citizens.” — “It does not provide sufficient safeguards in the case of children under the age of 16 whose pregnancy may be terminated solely because of age.” — “Sufficient study has not been given to the whole area involved.” The Indiana Legislative Council, mindful of this third reason cited by Branigin, then created the Indiana Legislative Study Committee on Abortion which made a year-long study and recommended “no change in the existing statutes concerning abortion at this time; however, further study should be given to

changes in the law to reduce the incidence of criminal abortions.” Other Proposals The study committee did propose, however, a program for sex education in public schools which was coyly stated as including “the rewards and happiness to be found in a well-ad-justed family and the possible problems of pre-marital sex.” The already prepared resolution, to be introduced in the 1969 session notes, however, that many unwanted pregnancies “result from a lack of knowledge concerning proper sexual practices,” so the proposed program of sex education presumable would seek to remedy some of the lack of knowledge. Elected president of Common DePauw University Computer Center director Paul Bickford has been elected president of Common, a national organization of computer users. Bickford was elected by the 1,500-member organization in Philadelphia and assumed his responsibilities at the group’s recent conclave in Houston, Texas. An international organization, Common was founded initially by institutional members who employed IBM 1620 computers in business, industry and education. DePauw became an instutional member in 1962. One of the objectives of the group now, though it includes many new breeds of IBM computers, is to provide a medium for communication between IBM and users of IBM equipment, notably computers. Bickford, who joined the De Pauw University staff in 1966, will serve as president of Com- . mon until September, 1970.

Bobby Baker still busy after convictions

By WILLIAM B. MEAD WASHINGTON (UPI)— Nearly two years after his convictions for larceny and tax evasion, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker is still bouncy and boasting of new business deals “all over the country” ranging from an anti-burglar invention to a $10 million hotel develop, ment. “If you’re an activist you’re an activist,” Baker said, explaining why his descent from Senate power failed to dampen either his optimism or his ambition. Baker, 40, was interviewed Tuesday during a recess in the first day of a U.S. District Court hearing on his appeal. He was convicted in January 1967 on seven counts including grand larceny, conspiracy and income tax evasion and was sentenced to serve one to three years in federal prison. But he appealed, contending the government used transcripts of illegally bugged telephone conversations in his prosecution. Baker has been free on $5,000 bond and said he has used the time on “private business”, spending about half his time on the road. The secretary of Senate Democrats and confidante of Lyndon B. Johnson said he plans to expand his Ocean City, Md., motel property by adding 1,000 condominium units at a cost of perhaps $35 million, hopes to build a $10 million hotel near Charlotte, N.C., and is “working on a new light system”—an invention he may buy and market.

The court hearing, ordered by a federal appeals court, is before the same judge who handled Baker’s trial, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Gasch. The issue is narrow— whether the government learned through FBI transcripts of Baker phone conversations, or by legitimate means, that the defendant was in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 2-4, 1962. If Gasch decides the telephone bugs tipped off the government about the Las Vegas trip, Baker’s lawyers could argue for a new trial. Government attorneys argued strongly Tuesday that they learned of the trip through legitimate means, not phone bugs.

THE INTRUDER

It Is Time We, Too, Get Hard-Nosed

THOROUGH SHOCKING exposure of illicit narcotics traffic that apparently has gone from the college crowd into high schools — such as that reported in Bloomington’s two prep schools — one must wonder how far this urge of the young will go. Indeed, how far has it already gone? * * * THE NEW HEAD of the National Institute of Mental Health’s narcotics program now says grade school youngsters, ages 8 to 12, have begun experimenting with marijuana and other drugs. Dr. Sidney Cohen calls this drop in the age of drug users an ‘‘ominous development,” and indeed it is. He says his evaluation is based on “trends” rather than a scientific study or absolute figures. Although only a small percentage of pre-teens use narcotics, Dr. Cohen said “It could become epidemic” through “peer pressure” from their schoolmates. Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, director of NIMH, said that there is the fear that drug use could become a “fad” in grade schools. * * * COHEN, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and author of books on drug addiction before taking the NIMH job, said the pre-teen use of drugs is in schools for “rather intelligent, affluent youngsters located in large urban areas on the East and West coasts. He listed New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco as cities where the problem has appeared. He cited a school in Beverly Hills, Calif., and “a junior high school in Bethesda (Md.),” which he would not name, has a drug problem. Besides marijuana, Dr. Cohen says the grade schoolers sniff airplane glue and experiment with other drugs. He emphasized that 8 to 12 is a critical age in the development of a child’s personality. Drugs have a DIRTY STORY CLAYTON, Mo. (UPI)-There will be a black Christmas sale of sorts at the Garland clothing store. A faulty furnace sent soot billowing through the store, over the entire Christmas clothing stock.

greater impact on the brain at that age than later on. The comments on grade school drug use came as Dr. Cohen took over as the head of NIMH’s newlycreated division of Narcotic Addiction and Drug Abuse. All of NIMH’s drug abuse research and treatment programs (30 million dollars in 1969) will fall under this division. * iii * DR. COHEN has taken a hard line toward the use of drugs. He does not believe that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, and therefore its use should be legalized. “Just because we don’t know the effects of marijuana doesn’t mean it is harmless,” he said. But, he added, his mind could be changed by “good, hard and valid information.” Dr. Cohen reports that the use of LSD is dropping — probably because of new studies showing chromosome breakage, “severe disruption” of the mind lasting longer than the trip, and a disillusionment by some of the original missionaries for • the psychedelic drug. On the other hand, Cohen says, the use of marijuana and methedrine (speed)' has increased. He called methedrine “a drug that has dangers far beyond that even of LSD.” The use of “hard narcotics,” such as heroin, is static or increasing “very slightly.” A new phenomenon, he said, is the multiple use of drugs. ♦ * * IF, IN THE PAST, we have taken too lightly the implications of narcotic traffic in this age and in these times, such information as this imparted by Dr. Cohen should bring us back swiftly to reality. It is time we quit condemning those who are taking a hard line against peddlers and those who use the stuff In fact, it is time we, too, get hardnosed.

Nixon to get hefty pay raise WASHINGTON (UPI)-President-elect Richard M. Nix. on—all but promised a hefty pay raise—is reported to have said he didn’t want it, but didn’t turn it down. The President’s pay now is $100,000 a year. He also gets $50,000 expense allowance. A government pay commission has proposed the salary be hiked to $200,000. Under the Constitution, a President's pay cannot be changed during his four-year term. So Republican congressional leaders told Nixon they expect President Johnson to recommend enactment of the pay boost—though not necessarily the full amount—as one of ais last acts. They said they look for Congress, which convenes Jan. 3, to rush it through before Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. “How much are they recommending?” Nixon was said to have asked. When told the commission’s proposal was to double the pay, Nixon screwed up his face in surprise. "That's a lot of money,” he was reported to have said. “I don’t need it.” House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford explained to Nixon that some increase in the President’s pay is almost necessary to accommodate other raises proposed by the commission for almost the whole top level of government, including members of Congress. For House and Senate mem. bers, it proposed a boost from $30,000 to $50,000 a year. Some members have called this outrageous. Others have predicted that unless Johnson trims it, the increase will be rejected by one house or the other. Niki Lee is editor GREENCASTLE, Ind.-There will be a feminine slant on journalism at DePauw University next summer with the election of Niki Lee of Terre' Haute as editor-in-chief of The DePauw. Miss Lee was elected to the top post by the University’s tripartite (student-faculty-ad-ministration) Publications Board. She succeeds Noel Humphreys of Indianapolis. Chosen to serve wit h the Terre Haute senior on the state’s oldest college paper were Mary Roberta Smith, managing editor, Carmel; Don Prosser, news editor, Carbondale, HI.; and staff editors Mike Flemming, Monmouth, HI. and Marvin Hall, Shirley, Ind. Wendy Gifford, 4633 Roundlake, Indianapolis, and Melinda Littleton, 7206 Cricklewood, Indianapolis, were elected city editors, and Judy Williams of Charleston, 111., was chosen artery-culture editor. New copy-proof editors will be Tom Lanning, Fort Wayne; Bill Mayr, Lawrenceville, 111.; Faith Nichols, Chicago; Nancy Harkins, Wynnewood, Pa.; Jane Gruhl, Davenport , la.; Mary Ganz, Quincy, 111.; and Miss Littleton. The students assumed their duties on the twice-weekly newspaper last weekend.

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It has been widely remarked that there is no Negro in Mr. Nixon’s cabinet. Yet Mr. Nixon did everything but run want-ads in the newspapers, in his search for a qualified Negro to accept a cabinet appointment. But no one stature would serve.Why? Because, the story was the same everywhere, to associate with the Nixon Administration would be to lose one’s authority within the Negro movement; would be taken, in a word, as betrayal; as if a Jew had accepted membership in the cabinet of Adolf Hitler. This is a terribly serious development. The consolidation of the Negro vote, which goes now regularly to the Democrats with a margin of more than 90 percent, is in one sense understandable. The whole notion of black power demands the maximization of political leverage, and this always is done by voting for one of the two parties, the better to secrue one’s bargaining position. It is lamentable, but so is life: the Irish in Boston crawled out of abjection on the shoulders of the Democratic Party. But what is going on is graver than the conventional consolidation of an interest group around a single party. It is the notion that the other party is The Enemy. As recently as 1960, Mr. Nixon took over 30 per cent of the Negro vote. Now it is different.Now, than the conventional consolidation of an interest group around a single party. It is the notion that the other party is The Enemy. As recently as in 1960, Mr. Nixon took over 30 per cent of the Negro vote. Now it is different. Now, with the general escalation of the rhetoric, the effort is consistently made to suggest that the Republicans are racists, from which obviously it follows that it is an act of betrayal to serve in a Republican gov-

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Consider, for instance, Jackie Robinson, the baseball player who along the way decided he was really born to play Walter Lippmann. When Mr. Nixon was nominated in Miami, Jackie Robinson called a news conference to announce that “we” “can’t tolerate a ticket which is racist in nature.” And he added that “If Nixon wins, people will be so frustrated there will be the most horrible riots in all our major cities.” Now it is fortunate that the cities do not yet riot in the beckoning of Jackie Robinson, but it is significant that the indulgence of such as Jackie Robinson by such as Nelson Rockefeller advances the polarization which is responsi ble for

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the delemma of Richard Nix£ on On the one hand there are the Black Panthers and thfe Black Muslims, urging all black men to hate all white mer^ On the other are genteel liberals who permit Jackie Robinson to say with impunity “I am first of all a Negro, then an American, then a Republican” ticket headed by a man who served eight years as Vice President of the United States and who back every civil rights Bill that came along, who breached protocol in order to congratulate Earl Warren on the desegregation decision. The cumulative efforts of such as Jackie Robinson and Eldridge Cleaver and Elijah Muhammad are deeply and mysteriously dangerous. One sees the childlike Cassius Clay, a man of the gentlest personal instincts, genuinely seized with religious fervor by the charismatic Elijah Muhammed, calmly pronouncing that all white men are devils. How much easier it is to believe such mischievous drivel when at the respectable end of the Negro spectrum the Jackie Robinsons are denouncing idealistic Republican leaders as racists: NO wonder that Whitney Young, offered a cabinet position whence he could significantly contribute to the prestige and welfare of his people, is scared off. Whose fault is it? It is surely the fault primarily of white opportunists who when they fail to censure distortion and injustice, cause them to thrive. If we had heard from Nelson Rockefeller ( to give an example) and, say, the New York Times, in emphatic denunciation of the extremities of Jackie Robinson, a significant effort would have been made to isolate the gentleman’s depravities. So that, upon the election of Mr. Nixon, the Negro community might have sighed that the better man from their point of view had not won; but that by all means,any Negro whose services were solicited, should do what he could to help the President of the United States and the republic.

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