The Mail-Journal, Volume 73, Number 2, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 January 1962 — Page 8

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The Milford Mail PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT MILFORD, INDIANA Democratic ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER : L ‘ Publisher and Owner ■. ,<■ ' Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Milford, Indiana Subscription: $3.00 per year in all zones, payable in advance. ——-—7 > V " ' : — ' z RURAL NEWS CORRESPONDENTS NEW SALEM— -M*s. Ray Ferverda MAIIQNAI ADVERTISING REPRESEtf. ATIVE OKIM TOSS EDITORIALS

Public-Be-Damned Gas Tax

There’s one thing you can say with certainty about the motorist. He isn’t the forgotten man! The tax collectors — - state and federal — remember him with a vengeance. According to U. S. Bureau of Public Roads estimates, tax receipts on motor fuel accounted for 64 per cent *of total state highway-user taxes during the year just closed. In terms of dollars, they came to $3.5 billion. And this wasn’t all by any means —for the federal tax, of four cents a gallon, added up to a handsome $2.4 billion. There is, however, a very definite question as to just how long this goose is going to give ever-increasing golden eggs. While state and federal taxes on

Reforms Long Overdue

Public welfare — in many instances —- has become a racket and a disgrace in this country. So everyone with a sense of decency and honesty should welcome Welfare Secretary Ribicoff’s announced intention to make some drastic changes. As the Portland Oregonian sums up the Ribicoff program, it will “consist both of administrative actions and requests of Congress for new authority to put relief recipients to work on community projects and bring a halt to the upward surge of relief spending. He hopes to end the phenomenon of chronic relief families

DEATH OF MOTHER Robert McLaren, former Milford druggist and now a resident of Rockford, Hl., received word of th edeath of his mother in Albany, N. Y. Her funeral was held in the

BY AMY ADAMS / t'7 %

“PRISONER OF LOVE”: PROS AND CONS

Dear Amy: Fve been reading your column for years and I have never been so taken with any reply as the one you gave “Prisoner of Love.” Thanks a million. The American housewife never had it so good. I’m glad you let them know in no uncertain terms. We work for them, fight for them and love them. And what do they do? They write you and grumble how bad they have it. You just can’t please them. Maybe that’s why so many of us gave up trying! An American Husband • • • Dear Amy: The only characters who would appreciate your reply to “Prisoner of Love” are husbands. They finally got someone to tell them they were right. My ‘character’ will probably never let me forget it. Thanks for nothing! , Toby Dear Amy: You deserve a round of ap- , plause for your reply to “Prisoner of Love.” It was refreshing to have a woman tell off her own sex for change. I have traveled over most of the world and if these women could see how other women rough it in foreign countries, they would appreciate their “selfish, inconsiderate husbands.” Traveler Dear Amy: ' I’ve been married for 12 years. That’s a long time listening to complaints. I cut out your answer to "Prisoner of Love” and framed it. It hangs next to my wife’s needlepoint of “Home Sweet Home” to serve her as a reminder “How to Keep Our Home Sweet.” Bert • • • Dear Amy: Your reply to “Prisoner of Love” was unfair. You’re an absolute traitor. I thought we women had to stick together. It’s true we have it better than our mothers but I have yet to meet a man better than my Elsie M.

Thursday, January 11, 1962

gasoline have risen 50 per cent in the last decade, the rate of increase in gasoline .consumption has, in late years, shown a substantial decline. For instance, when the federal tax was increased in 1956, there was growth rate decline in 40 states. The same thing happened almost identically when the latest increase went into effect in 1959 — 39 states reported a consumption fall-off. So what we seem to be witnessing is an example of the ancient and irrevocable law of diminishing return. The combined federal-state gas tax now averages more than 10 cents-a gallon. So motorists drive less, or shift .to the smaller cars. And government in the long run, is a major loser.

who live on handouts from generation to generation, to put a new emphasis on providing incentives for getting off relief and to build a sense of self reliance among relief recipients.” This is an ambitious program, and it won’t be easy to put into effect — welfare is shot through and through with politics, for the sad reason that the vote of someone who makes a capeer of living /off the. public treasury is as valuable as 'tiie vote of anyone else. But it is a program that is sorely needed — and that is long overdue. f

eastern city on Monday. Everyone Who Is Anyone Reads The Milford Mail

I Dear Amy: That “Prisoner of Love” who 1 wrote you really threw you a ; curve ball. But you handled it beautifully. Your answer hit home plate. My old lady hasn’t been on • my neck for two days and that’s a 25 year record. John i * . ■ * > Dear Amy: t My husband and I are very ;• close with another married couple > and several weeks before Christmas, her husband called me and asked that the next time his “little girl” (wife) and . I go shopping and she saw something 1 that she liked (but wouldn’t buy ■ for herself) that I should purchase it for her saying that it was from I him. I thought the idea was novel • and romantic and asked him what ; the limit should be. He said fifty dollars and that he would giye it to me. ? Now, Amy, I don’t walk around with fifty loose dollars in my bag and he’s had plenty of opportuni- ; ties to slip me the money—but he never did. However, I bought 1 her the gift of her choosing with 1 my own money and she was , thrilled and surprised that her ■ hubby was so thoughtful. Her husband has thanked me a million times but has yet to repay me. Should I ask him for it or wait? Estelle Dear Estelles Certainly ask him for it. At this late date, why wait? Dear Amy: I have asked three of my teach- ‘ ers .and my parents what a hypo- ’ crite is and I got four different , answers. What in your opinion is a hypocrite? Thanks. A Freshman Dear Freshman: Here goes opinion #5. A hypocrite is one who sets a good example when he has an audience.! • • • Please address all letters to: Amy Adams c/o This Newspaper For a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

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WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ACCURACY AND OBJECTIVENESS OF OUR TWO GREAT PRESS ASSOCIATIONS? OCCASIONAL MISTAKES OCCUR, BUT STAFFERS NO. 1 GOAL IS ACCURACY. CLOSEUP OF A PRESS ASSOCIATION MISTAKE A friend, who is a high grade professional man, pointed to an

erroneous dispatch by one of our two major press associations that Jacqueline Kennedy,’wife of the President, danced the twist in a Florida night club. He expressed the view that our news is often erroneous if not slanted. * Jack Paar, who MCs a late, late

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television show, made much of a dispatch from the other press association. It erroneously reported the Secretary General of the United Nations landing safely in Africa, when in fact he was killed in a nearby plane crash. How objective and accurate are the press association dispatches' that give Americans practically all the coverage of world, national and state news that we get in our newspapers? What occurs when a mistake is made? Being a former press association staffer myself,, and an editor on the receiving end, I am qualified to discuss the subject. Iron Curtain communist countries get a strange outpouring of news and row propaganda from Pravda. Britain depends upon Reuters and our American press associations report for world news, bur world wide news gathering networks are the Associated Press, cooperatively owned by the papers it serves, while the United Press International, is privately 1 owned by stockholders. Each of these press associations provides an exchange of news or coverage of news with each and every paper served. Giving us “hot” news, rather than “history” daily, with speed, becomes an enormous operation, involving and thousands of the world’s top newsmen! WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MISTAKE TAKES PLACE The Jackie Kennedy mistake by the Associated Press arose in this fashion. “John Phelan, a reliable

person, phoned the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., News that Jackie Kennedy was dancing’ the twist on the floor of the Golden Falcon night club, he owns. Dick Hoekstra, a News staffer, wrote a story. His managing editor Milton Kelly, phoned Associated Press in Miami, to check wheth- i er Jackie Kennedy was in the city. 1 Hokestra was put on the phone by Kelly and read the News story to the AP man, who took it routinely as a story from a member paper source. He put a seven paragraph story on the AP wire that Jackie was dancing the twist. Editor Kelly said he only wanted AP to check when he called but 23year AP staffer Ben Funk had another version. It was that the News gave him the story clear for exchange. The AP checked with Pierre Salinger, presidential secretary, as the event progressed, and learned the report to be false. Immediately the New York office of the Associated Press with customary vigilance it exercises put out a “kill twist story erroneous.” The twister was the niece, Stephanie, of New York Senator Jacob Javits, who for the first, and probably last time was dancing it in public. She repeatedly has been mistaken for Jackie Kennedy and wired her apologies to Mrs. Kennedy. Benjamin McKelway, editor of the Washington Star and President of Associated Press, wired Mrs. Kennedy, via her husband, apologies of AP for the error. The very rarity of a major press association making such a goof, contributed to it being so widely noted. ACCURACY DEMANDED OF ALL THE/STAFFERS The AP full ~eport going to some 8,000 Ameixean newspapers and radio, will run from a quarter to a half-million words daily. The full report of the United Press Iriternational exceeds the wordage of a thick book, daily. Robert Johnson is the head man of the Associated Press in Indiana. Boyd Gill is the top man of United Press Iriternational for Indiana. Only one of the highest professional ability, after a long career in the association, can attain such responsible posts as to head a state bureau. * No place else in the world do people enjoy a free press and un-

censored news that we do in America. The operation is enormous and errors creep in. Each staffer makes accuracy No. 1 to hold his jeb on a press association. Americans should thank God for the overall magnificent job our press i associations do in bringing us world news.

_ Again for 196f,wepledge that theta tasponslbflities ■ are ourt: To provide our customers with dependable gas and ‘ ~ Wf®. 1 electric service at reasonable prices ,*,to pay our employes r / wages and benefits that will enable them to enjoy a high ! ‘ standard of living to pay our Investors a fair return on < toe funds (hey have provided .to conduct ourselves as J® : good citizens la the communities we serve.'. fey > , i— ■ ■ CMrnwijM PiuHvV 1 Anniversary A HALF CENTURY OF PROGRESS &OSL. j ... springboard to the future ■ This year is an important milestone for NIPSCO. It marks our fiftieth year as H an Indiana corporation, serving the gas and electric needs of nearly two mil,lon People living here in the “workshop of America.” We like to think of this event as a mark of maturity-a “coming of age.” We ' . "T I** to u^ure * ns tead of the past-with wisdom of experience, and confir */' dence, as we continue to build ahead for the growth and progress of this z. dynamic northern third of our Hoosier State. iGreat technical strides over the last 50 years have been made by the investorowned gas and electric companies in providing service to the people of this . nation. The next 50 years of progress will see the greatest advancements in ■ t ‘ gas and electric service'in this country’s history. Continuing programs of 11| ''77 ■ research and improved operating techniques are paving the way for an era in 7-- | modern living never dreamed of by the pioneers of the utility industry. • At NIPSCO, our modem new Electronic Data Processing Center at Laporte w in S oon be ready to meet the increasing emphasis x | -1 ® n s P ee d and accuracy in customer service, accounting and '• * . 1 > tSI bil,ing - \• The first unit at our new Bailly Generating Station will go “on the line” next December-adding 183,000 kilowatts of net capacity *° our electric system. • At Royal Centre, a huge 660 horsepower compressor is pump- ; * n E natural gas into NIPSCO’s first underground storage facility. I Gas stored here will be available to customers on the coldest | winter days. . ” • NIPSCO continues to keep abreast of the latest developments in Atomic generation of electricity, as a member of a midwest- * em study group. Plentiful supplies of coal in Indiana and IHmois, ’ however, still makes Atomic power too costly for customers. The future is exciting?^ and full of challenge. We are cohfident we will .mget Uiat challenge./ I Northern Indiana Public Service company 7'4 ~ serving today^*<buildingJorthe future IE EjmSSUi. ~ <

Spring Semester Os I. U. Center Enrollment opens January 24 and continues through January 26 for the spring semester of the Indiana Uriiversity Center at South Bend. Enrollment hours will be

Why an REMC competes with ' ; 1 ITSELF ■ - z w. Ma " ‘T* Ji . I vC' 1 / There is no such thing as actual competition among utilities in | \ t ® / Indiana. The state law says that each utility may serve only the | \,; \\ X area specifically designated by the Public Service Commission. | V?- > \V Electric utilities, for example, do not compete for new consumers. | Each utility automatically gets the electric business of every user • '\\ who buys or builds within its service boundaries. I \\ REMC service boundaries include only rural areas, with long I \\ stretches of line between member-users. Each REMC is legally ( • VjfVwv ) bound to provide “area coverage”—-to take electricity to every i ■ < ’’At one who asks for setvice within its territory. The REMC Act ■ ■ J prevents these organizations from extending service to towns with more than 1,500 population. g W The rigid rules that control REMC operation set up operating g ’ hazards that other utilities do not have. Each REMC’s behavior g < is further policed by its members, who own and control the busi- g ■ ness. As members, REMC users themselves can put pressure upon g management and directors to continually improve REMC service. g Actually, an REMC competes with itself to get a better job done. g ... and the only competition REMCs can offer commercial utilities I * S competition by example. | kosciusko y r'OI IKITV wk/ tltbl ■■■i'WwrWi COUNTY KLECTkIC MEMBERIHIP CORPORATION

from 12 noon until 4 p. m. and from 6 p. m. until 8 p. m. on each of these days. Classes will be offered in the liberal arts, education, business, music, engineering arid pre-profes-sional areas. enabling students to complete their first two years- of work at the local center. Classes are arranged so that full programs

may be taken either in the day or evening hours. Students may enroll on a full time course basis or they may take part time collegiate work. , Credits earned at. the University Center may be transfered to the Bloomington campus of Indiana or to other colleges.