The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 December 1968 — Page 9

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Community Problems. How do you look at community problems ? Are you involved in trying to clear them up or are you an uninvolved citizeif? Have you been to a town board, school board or any other civic meeting of late? Most board members welcome townsmen to their meeting. They are willing to listen to what the people have to say and answer questions. Suggestions, too, are sometimes helpful. They like to see people take an active interest in the community. Os course it’s always the uninvolved citizen who does the most complainr* A Wise Investment.. One of the wisest investments a person can make is immunization. Immunization against diphtheria, measles, pertussis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, tetanus, typhoid fever are important. Youngsters especially should have immunizations. By the time a child is six months of age he should have his diphtheria immunization. Most doctors say this should be done between one and three months of age. Many doctors give diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough combined. Children should be immunized against the old fashioned measles when they are one. Ah, The Joy Os It Do-it-yourself fun is back with the news that stilts are big with children again. Stilts can be store-bought but they can be made on the spot. We used to nail pieces of two-by-four to discarded mop handles and stump around to see what the world looks like from the height of a 12-year-old. It was a real thrill.

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De Gaulle Austerity Disquised Devaluation

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Senator Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) today called the French austerity program to buttress the French franc an ingenius political ploy on the part of President Charles de Gaulle. Hartke, a member of the Senate Finance committee, said that French austerity restrictions are nothing more than thinly disguised forms of de facto devaluation. "The only difference between de jure and de facto devaluation," Hartke said, “is that in the former, a nation declares partial bankruptcy and calls upon neighbors to pick up a sizeable chunk of its future international grocery bill. In the latter, the citizens of the bankrupt state are put into national receivership by their leaders and are moved to the workhouse.

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Hartke said that “whatever route is pursued to alleviate the pressures on the franc, there can be no doubt that the present French financial and economic difficulties are a product of the ‘beggar thy neighbor’ economic policies of Charles de Gaulle. The currency of any country under any criteria of economic exchange can only be as sound as its own basic economy," the Indiana lawmaker warned. * “The French have mortgaged heavily in an effort to promote an international trade balance through contravention of the competitive process that devaluation, whether officially declared or not, was inevitable. This was particularly the case after the Germans would not agree to revaluation of the German mark,” Hartke said.

ing. Be it about the town, the school, the church, the club, whatever. Often this uninvolved citizen doesn’t even know what’s going on but claims he has a right to complain. Those same people would not think of going to a meeting— . it would take up too much of their time. The uninvolved citizen is also the one who is too busy to serve on church or club committees. Remember the old saying—If you want a job done, ask the busiest person in town. Well, it’s still true. Some people are involved and some are not. Which are you? A crippling and often fatal disease that everyone should be immunized against is poliomyelitis (polio). The disease attacts all age groups but is most common in those under nine. Immunization should be started when the child is six months of age. By the time a child is six months old he should also have a small pox vaccination. Most physicians recommend a child be re-vaccinated every three years for life. In addition tc the immunizations doctors recommend a complete examination from the family doctor at least once per year. t This may be a beginning of a trend toward other simple pleasures, such as playing Knight of Old, with a broom for a horse and a helmet made from fin old sauce pan. The best shields were the oval lids to copper wash broilers, hard come by any more. But a garbage can lid isn’t bad and gives/a good martial clang. 03 — Detroit Free Press

He added that at best a monetary crisis has not been averted, but only postponed. Hartke said that “immediate international monetary reform is absolutely essential to the economic stability of the world community.” In conjuction with monetary reforms, a re-evaluation of international trade agreements is in order if “a continued treadmill of international economic and monetary crisis is to be averted,” Hartke explained. Senator Hartke leaves December 2 for London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berne and other business centers to study the monetary crisis is to be avertblems. He will report his findings to the finance committee.

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Know Your ' Indiana Law By JOHN J. DILLON Attorney General This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

'Fish And Game Recodification'

Even before the turn of the century, when our Indiana forests abounded with seemingly endless supply of wildlife, and the unpolluted streams and lakes lay in solitary splendor, surrounded by wilderness rather than cottages, marinas and docks, there were far-sighted conservationists and sportsmen who recognized the encroachments of man upon the wilderness as a threat to the wildlife. Likewise, the private landowner needed protection for his property from loss or damage by the trespassing hunter or fisherman. Consequently, the Indiana legislature, recognizing the wildlife and its habitat as being valuable and irreplaceable natural resources of the state and its citizens, passed fish and game laws. This field of law grew over the years by passage of miscellaneous fish and game statutes at each session of the legislature. Many of the laws conflicted, many duplicated each other, and some became obsolete with changing times.

HOOSIER DAY Gorrell Proud To Be 'Country Editor’ By FRANK WHITE

By taking all these miscellaneous laws, placing them in good order to eliminate conflicts and (indication, the legislature has produced what is known as a “code”'. Indiana’s current Fish and Game Code is now over 30 years old, and it has become cluttered with conflicts and duplications. The Indiana Legislative Council has been diligently studying and preparing a new Fish and Game Code to be presented and recommended for passage to the Legislature in January, 1969. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has professional experts in this field working with them, and the council has benefited from their studies and recommendations, as well as from other interested organizations. Interest and recommendations by citizens are welcome in this important work of protecting and regulating the fishing, hunting, and taking of wildlife in Indiana. You should follow the legislation

EDMUND (NED) GORRELL, ’ publisher of the Winamac Pulaski County Journal, who died October 22, 1968, was proud to be “a country editor”. He enriched his community for 77 years of active newspaper work. For many years his column, “The Old Man at His Deck” and a companion column entitled “The Old Man’s Daughter”, by Mrs. Janet Gorrell Meyer, who now is publisher, had a lot of good common sense, a precious commodity. From personal experience I have always felt you can take a boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of a boy even if he is transplanted to the asphalt jungle of a big city. I quote from one of Ned Gorrell’s colunms: contrasting small town to city life. “INSTEAD, we live in an atmosphere dominated by home loving, wife and husband loving, children loving, business loving; a place where a neighbor’s a neighbor, whether he works or plays golf; where a man’s a man, whether he be banker or blacksmith . . . “If it be summer, shall we enjoy a drive . . . cross the bridge at the edge of town and take the winding road along the river? “Can we time the trip so the moon will be slipping up over the eastern hills about the time we reach our favorite big tree? Can we stop at the bend in the creek and let the children play on the sandy bank.” “Can we linger in some moonlit spot and listen to the night birds and whiff the odor of new

during the next session of the Legislature. Some of the changes recommended by the Department would do the following: (1> Add emergency authority to the director’s discretionary powers; (2) Change the name of the Division of Fish and Game to the Division of Fish and Wildlife; (3) Make it unlawful to tend someone else’s traps. Traps must be tended at least once every 24 hours; (4) Make it illegal to shoot along, across, or upon any waters of the state except in lawful pursuit of wild animals; (5) Prohibit trot lines, nets, traps and all types of fishing gear other than pole and lines for 300 yards below any dam; (7) Increase the cost of the resident Commercial Musseling License from $3 to $lO per year. If you have suggestions or inquiries, address them to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fish and Game, Sixth Floor, State Office Building, Indianapolis, Ind. and Social Security Q—l try to limit my earnings to $1,680 a year so that I will receive all my social security checks. Do you count my gross wages or my take-home pay? A—We count your gross wages. If you are self-employed we count your net earnings.

mown fields, then circle back home past the gladioli gardens? “Riches in all these things? No. Fame or power? No. Contentment? Yes.” FROM THE INDIANA Traffic Safety Council, Inc Keep in mind that the aim is not to punish a drinking driver after he has killed, but to take him off the road before he kills or injures anyone”. (Dr. Horace E. Campbell, Denver, Colo.) Airline pilots do not indulge in alcoholic beverages for 24 hours prior to scheduled flight. Drivers would do well to follow this policy established by the airlines and supported by the pilot’s union. Two cocktails (about 0.04% of alcohol in the blood, may reduce visual acuity as much as dark glasses at night. THESE PARAGRAPHS share with you, a motorist, how to make a “do-it-yourself” obstacle course that will stir up a headache, not soon to be forgotten. Scene—a rain soaked black night, my G. W. (Good Wife) driving, wedged between giant trucks and cars on U. S. 65, some 17 miles north of Indianapolis. Prevailing speed is 70 miles an hour. Despite wet pavement, both trucks and car were near that. Car started sputtering. We saw why—out of gas. We extricated it from the traffic and onto a shoulder of the road. I stood in the wind and rain signalling, but not a truck or car would even slow. My wife locked the car, put lights on park and I started walking —

Indiana Has New Secretary Os State

SEEKING TEACHERS — The Department of Defense is SEEKING TEACHERS and administrators for POSITIONS in its DEPENDENTS OVER SEAS SCHOOL SYSTEM for the 1969-70 school year. The department maintains 300 ELEMENTARY and SECONDARY schools in 28 COUNTRIES for more than 160,000 children of U. S. military and civilian employees. The curriculum of the Overseas School System is similar to that in schools in the United States and the LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION IS ENGLISH whether the school is in Western Europe, Iceland, Japan, Pakistan or the many other countries. Indiana residents may OBTAIN INFORMATION from the Teacher Placement Service, Indiana State Employment Service, 10 north Sen-' ate Avenue, Indianapolis. SYMPOSIUM SATURDAY — A SYMPOSIUM entitled “The Chemistry of the Mind.’’ sponsored by the Indiana Section of the American Chemical Society, will be presented SATURDAY, DEC. 7. in the television conference room (G-46) on the PURDUE FORT WAYNE CAMPUS. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The day-long program will ORIGINATE at the INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER in Indianapolis and will be carried to the local campus and around the state by closed circuit TV. * * * INAUGURATION CEREMONIES Clem Warn, who arranged the inauguration for Secretary of State EDGAR D. WHITCOMB (now Governor-elect' two years ago,

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walking—walking. Wet, chilled, wind lashed, 1 > an occasional light miles otf b> . either side. Two miles furt’-ot I saw what appeared to be ■.... houses, one with a dim light, bout one-half mile off to one side I crossed four lanes of zoomint traffic, stumbled down into a d '< i ditch, climbed a steep bank, t.< ’ fence. TRY CLIMBING a wire fen topped by barbed wire strands.'m darkness. That I did. On the cbic side, after shaking gravel tn'!., my summer lowcut shoes. I fought my way through wet weeds, a' most neck high. No response from the dark first house, for they had gone to bed I guess. At the second house a man who was ill let me to a telephone He said there was a new gas station at Agony Acres, .two miles on but I had enough of hiking. Finally I got my son-in-law Philip Waller on the phone at Indianapolis He set out to bring us gasoline. Panicky, having Ifcst my hat. I climbed the wire fence topped with barbed wire again, negotiated the traffic, and hurried north, wondering what happened to my G. W. in the cold and rain. SHE HAD HER FRIGHT also. A bareheaded motorist lost car control, zigzagged along a ditch, and regained control, missing our car by some 25 feet, as testified by the torn up road shoulder. LESSON—Have plenty of gas when driving Interstates. Carry a flashlight in your car at all times We won’t soon forget.

acted as chairman-of ; . ing-in ceremonies for S el v o State WILLIAM SAI IN n . auditor TRUDY SLABY I jtIFR TON. The inaugural 'io.- 1 . Sunday in the Stab' ” da. WARN also will assi.M in. ; ral ceremonies for ( i WHITCOMB which ' : ! ' Monday, Jan. 13 TAX CUT — Legislators and citizen - hear proposal by natu > mous indust rial -on: tical economist, Will. STONE, oa Dec?! Stone will give bi- . sive analysis of >' ■ omic turmoil in '• e auditorium at 7:30 y n Stone will eonfe’ •> '* ponents and ley - ■ m. until noon in > tel. Indianapolis, ■ S t.?;! The public is im. :• I sions. Stone sees a two o' in sight for Indiana v i ■■ ■BSm ■■■MR ■’’R