The Mail-Journal, Volume 3, Number 8, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 April 1964 — Page 4
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The PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Fhe Milford Mall (EM. 1888) ( Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (EM. 1907) Consolidated Into The Mall-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 Democratic ARCHIBALD BL BAUMGARTNER. Bditor and Publisher - DELLA BAUMGARTNER, BttMneaa Manager Entered &■ Second C3aas matter at the Poet Office at Syracuse. Indiana Subscription: $3.00 per year in Kosciusko County; $3.50 Outside County
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Inches Become Feet
The tax.cut lias been almost universally heralded* That’s natural — everyone likes to see more mqnevin the pay envelope. ( But that shouldn’t blind us to the dangers — very rekkdangers — that exist. And their name is inflation. The price index has been inching upward year after year. Inches, in time, become feet. And the number of dollar bills in that pay envelope is less important than what they will buy. It is expected that a new. wave of wage jand fringe benefit demands, led by
What Is me Alternative At a meeting of. press and radio representatives from a JO-county area last week in Lafayette, George Doup, president of tlie Indiana I'arm Bureau, Inc., which sponsored the dinner, discussed the Indiana Sales Tax and its present status in Indiana. ‘ He said that lb’i: definitely favors the tax because it alleviates the burden placed upon taxpayers by the personal property and real estate taxes. Although this has not been proven to date, it is ex-
A Good Age To Be Recently a 15-year-old girl told this - writer she wishes she could become 16 years, one month and one day old and just stay there.’ Maybe she has something there. What a wonderful age to be I At this age one is eligible for a driver’s license, and if you think this isn’t a milestone, you just don’t have.ai 15>year-old around your house. * It’s an age when high school graduation is just over the horizon, yet, the ’’good years” of the junior and senior class lie ahead. There are class plays, basketball games, tournaments, sock hops., drive-ins, bowling, and driving the convertible with the top down. Ah, to be 16 years, one month and one day old! This is an age when one begins to have hj*r first dates. It’s an age when the Reatlesk “send you”, and Mom and Dad are
R - CORN ROOT WORM has become a major pest of the com producing | areas. It can be especially bad in fields of continuous com production. The worm stage is a feeding period in which the worms destroy the small roots of the com plant and damage the larger ones causing aj lot of com to be down at harvest time, The adult stage of. the com root worm is a pale green beetle with spots on the back and wings. They feed on the leaves, silks, and pollen, but do not 'cause much trouble in this stage. THE PURDUE AG. alumni group of Kosciusko county are working hard on getting a good representation at the operation brain power program at Purdue April 1L They will join other northeastern counties in traveling on the brain-train, organised by Al Pell, assistant county agent in Alien county. MANY PEOPLE TEND to asso-
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Thursday, April 2, 1964
EDITORIALS
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: date moss in lawns with acid soil and when some moss is present they put on more lime. Most lawns do not need lime and a good many are at the place where it does more harm than good. We lime fields to do two things: one is to adjust the ph. level, or the | percentage of hydrogenion concentration, to a point where legume seedlings will uVe. They won’t do it in acid soils. The other is to improve the exchange capacity of soils to a ‘ level where plant food elements, 1 particularly phosphorus, will be released so the plants can use them. 1 We want this release to be rapid, as ! I com as an example, only has a few 1 mouths to make its growth. i | Moss is a low form of plant life that can grew about anywhere. It “ grows on rocks, even limestone rocks, on old shingles and boards and on metal where dust has collected. When we find it in lawns it is ju>t filling in a space ade barren - ■ by some other cause.
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■ the pace-setting auto workers, will soon ; occur. The government’s economy pro-' gram begins to look more political , stratagem than the real thing. So the stage is set for another wage-price spiral that could more than wipe out the tax • reductions most of us will receive. The dollar is worth something like ; , 10 cents now',.as compared with past times, i Unless an aroused and knowledgeable public demands the necessary measures and safeguards, there’s no telling how much ’ ' more erosion will take place. ——■ ■
• pected that increased revenue from the state will result in lower assessments in the local taxing units. Doup also said that he believed the 1 tax was becoming better accepted each* • day and that it is the best way for addi1 tional revenue to be collected in an equitable manner. . ; His closing statement‘on the Sides i Tax was framed ri this manner, “b you I do not think the Sales Tax is a-good thing i for Indiana, then what is vour alterna- ■ tive?”
' talking about some old fogie named Clark > Gable or Glenn Miller. I It’s an age when taxes and fuel bills are something that arrive in the mail, discussed by Dad with a grim look on his ? face, then paid. What are stocks, bonds, , interest .. . don’t bother me with that, i Viet Nam, De Gaulle and that fellow Khrushchev we talk about in civics class. Then there are Republicans and Demo- • crats. One are the “good guys,” the other • the “bad guys,” but for the life of me I can’t remember which. “All that’s pretty important, I guess, but right now I’m more interested in pretty dresses on Sunday, and slacks and loose sweaters most any other time,” . would be a likely statement. You know, she may have something there. It might be right nice to be 16 years, one month and one day old again. At least for a while.
Practically all lawn troubles are either fertility problems or water : problems. Make sure that these are adequate and let the soil be in a condition so that air can get in and bluegrass will outgrow any other plants. One of the real difficulties in growing a good lawn is that there is no way to assure it by just a few hours* work on the first nice day and that's all that many will get, mine included. I AG. WAGE SCALE RISE SEEN Indiana's 1963 farm crops were • harvested and processed almost completely with domestic labor, local and migratory, Lewis F. Nicolini, director of the Indiana Employment Security Division, told growlers, food processors, and division farm placement representatives at i'the annual/ Farm Labor Service , meeting recently. Mr. Nicolini add- » ed that the expiration of the foreign i j labor program (Public Law up at , I the end of this year wffl require an . t intensification of domestic worker' ,! recruitment and will result, probably, s in an upward revision of the wage f ; scale of agricultural workers. He stressed the need for Indiana e | growers and processors to expand II their present sources of domestic labe er and to develop new. He said ins; creased competition will develop for [. Texas-Mexican labor not only in Id- » diana. but in other farm states. a In the season, for the first »time in 15 years. Indiana growers „ used no British West Indian farmworkers. No Puerto Rican contract labor was used, either, and the 403 contracts and recontracts of Mexican Nationals were about one-third fewer than the year before. Mr. Nicolini pointed out the correlation between rates of pay and •» vailability of labor. He said the supply of farm workers would be far greeter were their wages at a point where they could enjoy the same type of economic advantages as their non-farm counterparts. He said increases in pay scales in agriculture here were not without parallel and pointed to the fact that the scale of $2.25 an haur for lettuce pickers in California had not driven the growers out of business. He said that various agencies are eager to see if some farm labor shortage can be corrected and helped through MDTA projects.
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THEY SAID IT COULDN’T BE DONE!
Dear Amy: I never miss reading your column and I’m particularly interested in the letters the daughters-in-law write about their mothers-in-law. I wonder sometimes if Mamma is always at fault My mother-in-law has lived with us for 7 years (since my fatfibr-in-law passed away). She didn’t want to but I insisted. She’s wonA derful, helpful and I love hen dearly. The day she came to live with us, she made it dear that', she didn’t want to be a burden and wanted to help around the house. So I assigned her a schedule of chores to do each day. We each do our work and never get in each other's way. The children love her and she loves them . . . besides we have a built-in baby sitter. I have a great deal to thank her for because she also gaye me my wonderful husband. No Complaints Dear No Complaints: . My hat’s off to you and Mamma .. . and they said it couldn’t be done! • • • Dear Amy: I am looking for a certain kind of man to marry and I can’t find him. He must be rich and handsome. He must have personality, charm, wit, prestige and he must be well educated. Can. you help me find him? Still Looking Dear Locking: I only know one man who possesses all these qualities, but he’s already married ... to me! • • • Dear Amy: Please answer a few questions. Does a man always remove his hat on an elevator, and is he supposed to let a lady on first and off first? Also, is a lady supposed to say thank you or remain silept? Sid Dear Sid: A gentleman always removes his hat. He allows a lady to step into an elevator and alight first, | Although this is an accepted social grace, a lady ‘ always acknowledges with a “Thant you.” • •• Dear Amy: This may be a legal question that I’m confronting you with but;
The War Against Poverty
“We are citizens of the richest and most fortunate nation in the history of the world.” With these words President Johnson opened his message to the Congress outlining a “national war on poverty.”. Our goal, he said, is the same as it was at our nation’s founding: “an America in which every citizen shares all the opportunities of his society, in which every man has a chance to advance his welfare to the limit of his capacities.” For each dollar of next year’s Federal budet, one cent will A> to the poverty program. Measured against the size of the need/ this $970 million is not (great./Hut it is what may be called Seed 7 money,” the help for many thousands of people which will enable them to help themselves. •’Poverty” has come in these days to mean a family income below $3,000. By that definition 9W million American families are in poverty, including a fourth of Indiana’s residents - 432.743 families according to the 1960 census. |To raise all American families above the $3,000 mark with an out-
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I know you will advise me if you can. There is approximately four feet between my house and my neighbor’s house and three feet of it is my property. This neighbor stands on her porch and bangs rugs for twenty minutes at a time right into my open window during the warm weather. Her garbage can is one foot off of my property right close to my bedroom window and she refuses to qnove it nor will she shake her rugs'*!* the backyard. She says her time is too valuable to walk around to the back. I'm not being a crab, Amy. I like my Windows open when possible, but if you say so. I’ll keep that side of the house closed. I’m planning to have my bedrooms painted this year and I don’t want her fuzz. „ .... Dolores Dear Dolores: ~ In my humble opinion, you don’t have a legal leg to stand on. While she is inconsiderate, she is not overstepping her property boundaries. She’ll take some tactful handling, but it would be to your advantage to get on friendlier terms; Perhaps then she’ll do her shaking around the back and take her can with her! Dear Amy: My wife is a swell girl, but she has no will power. She is in the hospital, and is supposed to be on a special diet for her condition. Her mother visits her every day with corned beef sandwiches, chicken soup and everything else she is not supposed to eat She’s her Mama’s baby and Mama thinks she’ll starve if she doesn’t drag her food in to eat I am getting fed up with thia because my wife doesn’t hfive the will power not to eat it, or the sense to tell her mother to cut it out I told my mother-in-law and now she thinks I’m a mean beast How can I stop them both? Mr. R.T. Dear Mr. R. T.: Save the sermon. Tell, her M.D. He’ll prescribe the Rx. • • • . ' - Address all/letters to: AMY ADAMS e/o THIS NEWSPAPER For a personal reply enclose • stamped, self-addressed envelope.
right gift, which one proposes, would take sll billion, an amount equal to the recent tax cut. But what the Johnson program aims to do is not to give support; there are millions on relief programs now. Rather it is to give them the tools, through education, training, or a loan, so that they can pull themselves up to better self-support. For millions, as someone has said, their only inheritance is poverty. To the slum child no better way of life is known, and he does not realize that with education and a different environment it might belong to him. There are “rural slums too, areas where poor land and too little of it produces little more than a pittance. In fact, 40 percent of all farm families rate as “poor” by the $3,000 income standard. As for education, the heads of 60 percent of all poor families never wen t beyond grade school. The new “war on poverty” aims at building skills and education, primarily for the unemployed young man, through a job corps providing work training and work •
study programs. It will help communities organize their own resources for a local attack on poverty in their midst. Rural families may be aided by grants and loans which will help them break into the clear, stimulating a permanent increase in income. And most of the work will be done by coordination of existing means. Here is a war worth fighting - the war against •'overty. ♦ North Ind. Regional Science Fair At Manchester Apr. 11 NORTH MANCHESTER - Fifteen northern Indiana business firms have made sponsoring contributions in support of the Northern Indiana Regional Science Fair to be held on the Manchester college campus April 11. Included are seven Elkhart firms: They include Adams & Westlake Co.; the CTS Corporation; Conn Corporation; Elkhart Products Co.; Excell Corporation; Miles Laboratories, Inc.; and H. & A. Selmer, Inc. >. Two Wabash firms include Honeywell Foundation; and The Wabash Plain Dealer. Other sponsoring firms are Dodge Foundation, lion. South Bend: Zimmer Manufacturing Co.; Warsaw; McCord Corporation, Plymouth; and the News Journal, North Manchester. Exhibits will be entered in the Fair by high school and elementary students from ar. eight county area including St. Joseph, Elkhart. Marshall. Kosciusko. Fulton. Miami, Wabash and Huntington Counties. Dr. Harry R. Weimer Chairman of the Manchester College Division of Sciences and Head of the Department of Chemistry, is Director of the Fair. SYRACUSE CRAFT CLUB MEETS MARCH 30 The Syracuse Craft club met on Monday evening with Miss Priscilla Rhode at her home in Syracuse. President, Miss Rhode, held a short business meeting and welcomed the guest. Miss Nancy Clark who was home from Milwaukee, Wis.. visiting with her mother, Mrs. Alice Clark, over the Easter week end. Lessons for future meetings were presented by Mrs. Edith Rhode. Miss Esther Hoover, Mrs. M. K. Meredith and Mrs. Nelson A. Miles. Mrs. tilth Rapp read a letter of .appreciation from a recent guest of the club, Miss Margaret Freeman of Seattle, Wash. The next meeting will be at 6:30 supper meeting with Mrs. George W. Kleopfer on Monday, April 13. Mrs. Kleopfer’s lesson will be “Fabric Painting.”
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Hies For ReElection As Trustee At I. U. Ray C. Thomas, prominent Gary attorney who has served as an Indiana university trustee for 12 years, has filed for re-election. He has filed a nominating petition signed by hundreds of Indiana alumni. ■ Ww W K fl RAY THOMAS Ballots will be mailed to degree holders May 5. Thomas is vice president of the board of trustees and has a perfect* attendance record during his loftg ! service.Alumpi supporting Thomas for trustee point out the need for continuity of membership on the board of trustees, particularly under a new : university president. After next year [ all other members of the board will ■ have only one or two terms of service. The alumni also emphasize the need for their large number of graduates in the north central and northwestern parts of the states to have representation on the board in univ-
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ersity matters being considered by the Indiana General Assembly. Thomas is the only trustee from that area. As a trustee Thomas has stressed improvement of standards and the development of regional campuses. He has been an ardent follower of Indiana football and, as such, has encouraged numerous outstanding athletes to attend I. U. He may have * attended more football games than any other alumnus. Thomas is a former instructor of the American Institute of Banking and has served as a special instructor at the Northwest Regional Campus of I. U. Alumni feel this experience has been an excellent background for attaining an outstanding record as a trustee. STUDENT TEACHERS TO BE LUNCHEON GUESTS SATURDAY Students from Indiana high schools and colleges who plan to become teachers will be special guests of the Indiana Classroom Teachers Association Saturday, April 4, in the ISTA Center, Indianapolis. The luncheon event will highlight the nation-wide observance of April as Teaching Career Month. Local presidents of Future Teachers of America High School clubs and College Student National Education Associations chapters will join local members of the Teacher Education and Professional Standards Committee of ICTA, also invited to the all-day meeting. They will hear Dr. Helen Somson, Muncie, speak about “Promises to Keep to Our Profession”. Arrangements for the meeting are f . in charge of Miss Rhoda Williams, ISTA director of local services. Week end guests of Mrs. Rose Markham were her son and daughter, RM 2d Class Terry Markham and RM 3d Class Sharol Galvin, and Miss Bonnie L. Court, Seaman Apprentice, of Ellwood, Pa., and Great Lakes, 111. > ‘ .
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