The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Saturday, December 28, 1968

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With the Apollo 8 back from its half-million mile plus lunar journey and the U.S. first in space for the first time in many years the question arises: Where do we go from here? NASA, officials have suggested that America can put a man on the moon before the end of 1969, possibly by July. If so, we will have reached our original lunar goals a year and a half ahead of our original expectations—indeed a tribute to American technological achievements. One gloomy prospect however hangs over the horizon the money prospect. NASA officials are worried about their financial—and so their project’s —future. In the mid-1960’s NASA’s relationship with Congress and the Johnson Administration was virtually perfect. Whatever Lola wanted, Lola got. The current budget situation is somewhat less bright than that of earlier years, and it would seem doubtful, budget deficits being what they are, that the space program will be as well-nourished as in the past. President-elect Nixon has yet to state his position on space program budgets, but his hands would seem to be tied unless other budgets can be cut significantly to allow expansion at NASA With the success of Apollo 8 and immediate prospects for Apollos 9, 10, and 11 it would indeed be a shame for space appropriations to be cut at this time. Many people fail to see the importance of the space-race. “Why go to the Moon?” they ask. The answers are many. The space program has already contributed to the economy in the form of new jobs and technological advances. These advances have led to improved communications, improved medical equipment and surgical technology, improved weather-forecasting, metallurgy, even improved nutritional information. If nothing else space advances have contributed to an expanded knowledge of the universe and man’s place in it. In past eras adventurers have always been hampered by lack of funds. In today’s world delays cannot be afforded. We can rest assured that should the U.S. decrease budgets other countries, shamed by the American Apollo success, will increase their appropriations to make up for lost time. The U.S.S.R. is already pressured by our success. It is no time to cut-back but a time to push on with renewed vigor— and more money.

Lady Bird Johnson reveals life in White House

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Lady Bird Johnson revealed today that her favorite spot in the White House is the Truman balcony. Her husband brings problems to her. She likes to walk around the presidential mansion at night, but has not encountered any presidential ghosts. The First Lady disclosed her intimate view of life in the White House in an hour-long Ball State receives grants totalling $169,616 MUNCIE, Ind.—The National Science Foundation has awarded Ball State University three grants totalling $169,616 to conduct three summer institutes for high school teachers. The eight week institutes will open June 16 and close August 8. Each offers educators an opportunity to update themselves in special fields of teaching as well as receive a stipend while studying. Dr. Phillip C. Schlechty will direct an institute in sociology for high school teachers and supervisors. Materials for the institute have been prepared especially for secondary teachers by the American Sociological Association. Dr. Roy L. McCormick will conduct a second summer institute for junior high school teachers of mathematics. The institute is designed to update experienced teachers with the real number system and recent changes in the mathematics curricula in grades seven through nine. The Department of Biology will have its seventh summer institute for high school biology teachers, offering graduate work in molecular biology, cell biology and information on the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. Dr. Thomas C. Mertens will direct the institute.

television interview with commentator Howard K. Smith to be broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company at 7:30 p.m. EST today. Recalling her waits for the President to return to the family quarters from his office, she said, “sometimes we have dinner at 11 p.m.” “Finally I hear the three rings on the elevator,” she said. “That is the sign that he is coming and then in a moment I hear his voice saying, ‘Where is Bird,’ and I know the day is ended and he is home.” Speaking of the White House, Mrs. Johnson said: “I like it at night. I often walk around, just to sense it and drink it in. But no, I haven’t had any encounter with ghosts. However, there is sometimes a sense of presence “I remember one night in February, I think it was ’65, the centennial of Lincoln’s death, I was watching a very good TV drama alone in my bedroom and the fire was flickering and I looked above the mantel and my eyes came to light on the plaque that said ‘in this room Abraham Lincoln slept in the years of his presidency 1862 to 1865’ and I got that eerie chill.” Most of the program was devoted to feelings about th#' 1 White House. But President Johnson popped in briefly during the broadcast to confide, “Mrs. Johnson has been my most careful and dependable reporter and I think she reflects the judgement of the average American and I find that after 35 years of living with me, she can be still objective about me.” Johnson also said that he “listens to his wife’s advice all the time, more so than any other person I know.”

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Granted that a city encouraging the decentralizationof its schools so as to secure black control of black schools should look after teachers who are arbitrarily relieved of their teaching duties. To say as much is to concede that the new black superintendents will dispose of the power to fire whom they like. Should they have the power to hire whom they like? The struggle in New York focuses essentially on that question. It is hard to give a persuasive answer, hard to draw an exactly plausible line. Herewith some thoughts on the matter: Q. Should Negro administrators be permitted to hire teachers irrespective of state licensing requirements? A. Irrespective of some state licensing requirements, yes. Such requirements as specify, for instance, residence at teachers colleges should be waived. Others that require some evidence of proficiency in the subjects should be taught, obviously should not. However the superintendent and the board of the approproate unit should be given the power to waive any requirement in any individual case. Q. What if the administrators of a black school hired a teacher who taught hatred for white people, or for white officials, or policemen? A. The teaching of race hatred should not be permitted. A useful definition of what ought not to be permitted is embodied in the UN’s Genocide Convention. A teacher judged guilty of teaching such doctrines should be suspended for a period of, say, three years. Q. What about ideological indoctrination? What if the teacher preaches the thought ofMaoTse-

tung, or advances the principles of Karl Marx. Should that be tolerated? A. My inclination would be to say yes: tolerate it, say over a period of two or three years. Such toleration would be an act of faith in the strategic good sense of the Negro community. During that trial period, arrangements should be made to protect the minority which desires to go to a different school because of the parents’ opposition to the indicated school. If after a few years it becomes manifest that the black community as a whole does not bother to control the schools, that in fact they are conscript to an ideological clique, then the only answer is to move massively to recapture the schools. But until it is so proven, it would appear wise to make the experiment. Q. How can you talk about “making the experiment” when conceivably it is at the expense of ruining the minds of young children? A. In the first place, the minds, qua minds, are being ruined anyway, by inadequat education. In the second place, it isn’t only in black schools at BrownsvilleOcean Hill that you run the danger of ideological indoctrination. You get i.i. in schools throughout the country. At Princeton University, more members of the faculty registered a preference for Dick Gregory for President than for Richard Nixon for President. It is not as though one were threatening what was heretofore a well-balanced civic situation. At Harlem they have had centrally administered public schools for years, and for years they have had Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Q. But aren’t you making recommendations which are in a sense racist 0 A. Yes, but only in the sense that reverse discrimination is racist. It is apparent that the black community desires the exercise of power. Now in order to exercise power, it becomes necessary to permit black people to assume positions for which they are not qualified by conventional standards. That is no different from what the white colleges are doing when they lower their standards in order to admit Negro freshmen ahead of others who are better qualified academically. To appoint a black teacher because he is black is racist, granted. But we have reached a point in race relations where it becomes desirable to act consciously in such a way as to accede to such demands of the Negro community as are in the least way plausible. Negro control over the education of Negro children would appear to be one of these defensible objectives. Q. Do you then assume that only black teachers would be hired? A. No. In Brownsville, for instance, the majority of the teachers were white even under the rump regime of Mr. McCoy. What seemed to make the difference was that those particular teachers were hired by the black administrators. It is the authority that they seem to desire: that is the crucial point. Q. And how can one prevent the minority of fanatical blacks from taking over? A. How does one prevent the minority of fanatical whites from taking over? By periodic elections, overseen by the courts.

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Policy announced for dock and buoy rentals An over-all policy fordockand buoy rentals at Hoosier reservoir recreation areas was announced today by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. New applications will be received by mail, with payment enclosed, at the various reservoir offices after January 1. New applications will be accepted on a first-come basis. No preference will be given to names on a prior waiting list. If more applications are received on the first day than can be honored, a drawing will be held to determine allotments. The reservoir office will stamp the date received on all applications and keep them on file throughout 1969. Present tenants will have the opportunity to renew leases on or before December 31. They should make such application by mail, with payment enclosed, before the year end. Present tenants whose applications are received after December 31 will have their applications treated the same as new applicants.

The physical health of the people of the United States is better than ever. Mary Lasker, the widow of Albert Lasker, has drawn up a report that should please the physicians of the nation, the pathologists, the research groups and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It had been said many times that these people could not, and would not work together. When Lyndon Johnson implemented Medicare and raised Health to the position of a cabinet post, there was genuine fear that the government was going to watch over the shoulders of our doctors, counting those aspirin tablets. There are some grumbles, but the system is working effectively. The doctor has not lost his independence and the government is spending $16 billion a year on health. The cost is high, but it is still only half of what this

country spends in Vietnam. Deaths in continental U.S. are down to 9.3 per thousand per year. Since 1942, life expectancy has gone up seven years. The National Institutes of Health gives aid and grants to 16,000 research projects, each of which is trying to find a key to an illness. A few years ago, one cancer patient in four could be saved; the figure is now one in three. The advent of chemotherapy in emotional illness has cut the use of hospital beds by 16% in the past four years. Two men—Salk and Sabin— have almost eliminated poliomyelitis. There is a vaccine to prevent measles encephalitis. All of us have read about heart and kidney transplants and there is an aura of the miraculous in this work. But better times are ahead. Scientists are working on artificial hearts and lungs and kidneys that will not only asContinued on Page 7

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