The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 52, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1969 — Page 7

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Minority Presidents

Because he received less than half of the popular votes cast, Richard M. Nixon will enter the White House next January 20, as a so-called “Minority President.” This is a serious handicap since it means the incoming Chief Executive was given no clear-cut mandate for action. Practically, this is true. Yet we are indebted to Hugh D. Adair for pointing out that the term “Minority President” is something of a misnomer for describing the situation. In a larger sense, all of our recent Presidents could be so described. Mr. Adair, an official of the American Legion in San Antonio, Tex., writes:

Happy Birthday...

One cf the biggest birthday parties in the state’s history will begin at noon on March 19 when more than 10,000 members of the Indiana Farm Bureau are expected to attend the gala affair to celebrate the golden anniversary of this state’s largest farm organization. The Eddy Arnold show, nationally known agricultural leaders, a special commemorative medallion, exciting ex-

DBAPD...

No, it’s not a word, it’s our abbreviation for Don’t Be A Peephole Driver. You see them all over the road everytime it snows. They are the people who are either in the biggest rush ever to get where they are going or just tod lazy to clean the snow and/or frost from their car windows before they drive. A good driver knows that a few minutes time spent scraping ice and snow from the windows of the car can

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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21 — Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) today introduced a bill to increase to $2,400 the amount that can be earned by Social Security recipients before suffering the loss of any benefits. Bayh has offered a similar proposal as an amendment to the 1967 Social Security Act. The Hoosier lawmaker’s 1967 amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 50-to-23, but was deleted by*" the conference committee. At that time, Bayh said he intended, if re-elected, to pursue this change until he was successful in establishing a “realistic” earnings limitation level. The present cut-off, Bayh explained is $1,630 annually. A Social Security recipient earning more than $1,680 loses $1 in benefits for every $2 earned up to $2,880. Beyond that, $1 in earnings automatically results in the loss of $1 in benefits. The Bayh bill would permit earnings of up to $2,400 annually without the loss of any - benefits. For every $2 earned between S2,4CD and $3,600, the beneficiary would .lose $1 in benefits. Every $1 earned beyond $3,600 would mean the loss of a dollar in

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benefits. Bayh pointed out that today the average monthly benefit paid to ai elderly couple is approximately $165. Thus a Social Security beneficiary who continued to hold employment, and who received the average monthly payment, could have a combined income for him and his wife of $5,000 before continued employment was no longer profitable. “In view of the greatly increased cost-of-living and the fact that a large percentage of the elderly’s income—about two-thirds — is speqt on the bare necessities.” Bayh continued, “I believe that the $5,000 figure is a modest one.” Bayh said his bill is “one answer” to the problem of how to insure dignity and self-respect to our elderly. The Bayh answer, he explained, was “to see that our senior citizens are self-sufficient; that they are not dependent upon welfare payments; that they are not subject to the embarrassments that come from dependence upon their children.” The way to do that “is to provide them with the opportunity for continued employment to supplement Social Se-

“We hear some snide remarks about a ‘Minority President,’ but who wasn’t? In the last nine elections less than 59 percent of those eligible voted in two of them; over 59 percent voted in four of them, and an even 59 percent voted in two. including the last one. “Roughly speaking, this means only a little over 30 percent of the eligible voters of this country elected our last nine Presidents. Doesn’t that make all of them ‘Minority Presidents?’” The answer, of course, is yes. And it is a shameful answer which reflects no credit on far top many citizens. Almost 50 mi l lion failed to vote last November 5, although privileged to do so. — Boston Record American

hibits and a festive banquet will highlight the historic day. The Farm Bureau has long been an important part of the farmer’s life and the Farm Bureau in Kosciusko county is one of the best. We congratulate this active organization on its 50th anniversary with wishes that they continue their good work for another 50 years.

save time later and may even keep him out of an accident. Everyone knows driving is easier when you can see where you are going. Winter driving is hard enough because of the road conditions without adding to the dangers because we are in a hurry or just plain lazy. So, DBAPD, the few minutes you spend cleaning your windows could save you hours later on, and they might even save your life or the life of your loved ones.

curity.” The Bayh bill has 23 co-spon-sors. Food Prices About The Same This Year LAFAYETTE — You can expect food prices to average about the same the first half of this year as in 1963, predicts Jan Armstrong. Purdue university extension consumer marketing specialist. An average of 17.2 per cent of : after-tax income was spent for ■ food in 1968, down slightly from 1967. Miss Armstrong anticipates lower prices on fresh and processed vegetables, many fruit products, fats and oil products and pork. On the other hand, eggs, turkey, dairy products, potatoes, candy and other chocolate products and soft drinks are expected to be higher than in 1968. Prices for sugar, beef, cereal and bakery products, tea and coffee will remain about the same, according to Miss Armstrong. WINTER WHEAT ACREAGE DOWN LAFAYETTE — Indiana farmers planted 948,000 acres of winter wheat last fall, 12 per cent fewer than the slightly more than one million acres seeded in 1967. State federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue university estimate the 1969 crop will be slightly more than 36 million bushels. This would be two per cent larger than last year’s crop, but 21 per cent smaller than the 1963-67 average. The statisticians note that good stands were achieved in nearly all areas of Indiana. Indiana farmers planted 82,000 acres of rye for all purposes in the fall of 1963, the statisticians report. This is the same as in 1967, but is 43 per cent smaller than the 1963-67 average;

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Know Your Indiana Law By JOHN J. DILLON Attorney at Law

This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

Collection Agencys

Unknown to many people that deal daily with the debtor-credi-tor relations is the fact that in. Indiana; collection agencys or those who collect debts for another, are required to be licensed, and required to follow certain procedure in the collection of debts. Under Indiana law the Secretary of State is responsible for the licensing of collection agencys. Persons or companies that engage in collection agency work are required to file with the Secretary of State an application under oath setting forth certain prescribed information. Such applicants are also required to file a financial statement and a corporate surety bond in the sum of $5,000 for each office the applicant operates in the state of Indiana. Applicants for a collection agency license must be citizens of the United States and not less

HOOSIER DAY The Voice Os The Turtle By FRANK WHITE

'LET’S TALK!’

than 21 years of age. They cannot have been convicted of any crimes involving moral - turpitude. They cannot have had a record as a defaulter in the payment of money collected or received for another nor can they be a person who has held a former license which has been revoked. Certain acts have been specified by the law as to be unlawful. One of those provisions states, that it is unlawful to operate a collection agency in Indiana without a license. It is also unlawful for any person who conducts a collection agency to fail to render an account of and pay to the client for whom he is making the collection the proceeds of the collection. This accounting to the client must be made w’ithin 60 days from the date of the collection of the claim. It is also unlawful for any per-

IS THE LOUD noise welling up from college campuses of our fair land that of 7Vz million students? Who is speaking and engaging in violence and destruction of property? Mary M. Edwards, an editor of “Trends”, a publication for group discussion of Presbyterians, leaves this impact with me. We adults should succumb to a “guilt complex” and admit we have made a “mess” of our society. She neglected to note the organizations such as Students for Democratic Society and the Dußois clubs are branded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as subversive. I have youth in my home, high school age and college age, keenly attuned to the Hippy movement, the school dropout and the draft. I have probably read more on the subject in the leading news publications and Congressional Record than any news man in Indiana. It is my business. I WENT TO THE Democrat National convention in Chicago, that proved a laboratory of the Hippie, Yippie, violent protest. David Tyre Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam. said there would be a million protest esters at Chicago. Reputedly most would be college students, followers of the late Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential Candidates McCarthy and McGovern and su-per-Doves such as Senator Hartke. Highest estimate of the protesters at Chicago was 2,000, not the one million Dellinger predicted. My first shock came when I

son conducting a collection agency to fail to deposit with a local depository not less than one time each week all money due and owing to clients collected by him and keep the same on deposit or in such depository in a special account until remitted to the clients. It is unlawful for any person to fail to keep a record of the money collected and the remittance. , Further, it is also unlawful for any person operating a collection agency to fail to maintain at least one office within Indiana. Certain professions are exempted from the collection agency act and these are primarily those that are regulated by other agencies or other departments. Among those that are exempted are attorneys at law, persons who are regularly employed on a regular wage or salary in the capacity of credit men, banks, licensed real estate brokers, employees of those holding collection agency licenses, electric, gas, water and telephone public utilities and any express company which is subject to the regulation of the public service commission. While every individual has the o’ ligation to pay debts which he duly owes nonetheless certain invidious activities are forbidden in the collection of debts. For instance, in the collection of a debt one cannot use documents or letters that look like legal papers which in fact are not legal documents.

realized that the Chicago debacle was not a valid voice of college youths. There were no less than 135 separate organizations at Chicago. There was no consensus of youth opinion. Thes n youths were unable to formulate or even suggest with clarity any platform, or program, to replace the society they would tear up by the roots. SUCKERED INTO the movement where they were pawns of “liberal” hard core manipulators. There were many elements. Some were Flower Children, the unshaved and long - haired type. Their theme was love. They caused little trouble other than with police over undress. There were starry eyed followers of Kennedy and McCarthy sincerely wanting to be involved in politics. Consider these facts in trying to determine the noise from the source of noise from our campuses. ON A RAIN SOAKED, cold October 31 a year ago, I eyewitnessed a sickening spectacle at Indiana university. Less than 400 militants from SDS, the DuBois clubs and associates, shouted “Liar, Assassin, Murderer” at our distinguished Secretary of State Dean Rusk. They denied those who came to hear him benefits of free speech. Over 14,000 I. U, students and the president by petition apologized for the 400 or less illy behaved trouble makers. Seventeen persons, including two off campus organizers, were present at the organization of the Fair Play for Castro farce at Indiana university. Yet this inci-

Be Careful When Filing Taxes

REGULATE SPEED — Regulate your driving speed according to ROAD and WEATHER CONDITIONS, advises the Chicago Motor club—AAA. After a winter storm has passed, isolated icy spots often remain in sheltered places. BE ALERT for slippery conditions under viaducts, on bridges, in shaded spots and other protected areas. BALL STATE SECOND — BALL STATE university RANKS SECOND IN THE NATION in the total number of graduate degrees awarded to teachers and FIRST IN INDIANA, according to a recent report. Columbia university leads the colleges and universities in the total number of graduate degrees awarded to teachers with 1,079 in 1967. * » * SMART SPORTSMEN — Taking time out for sports doesn’t push Purdue university athletes into BACK SEATS IN THE CLASSROOM. The 59 athletes enrolled in the school of industrial management—about one-fourth of the total on all of Purdue’s varsity squads—have a higher grade average than that for all male students in the school. Among the leaders are PAUL SPURGEON, from the track squad, with a grade index of 5.76 cut of a possible 6.0; GEORGE FAERBER, sophomore forward on the basketball team, with 5.29; RON RYBARCZYK, linebacker in football, 5.0; and star quarterback MIKE PHIPPS, 4.96. BRADEMAS NAMED

Indiana Receives Additional Federal Grant For Law Enforcement Planning

WASHINGTON — An additional federal grant has brought to a total of $304,029 the amount of funds awarded to the Indiana Criminal Justice Planning Agency by the Justice Department, according to Congressman John Brademas. Brademas said the award will enable the state agency to develop further a comprehensive plan for the overall improvement of law enforcement and criminal justice. An initial $87,230 grant under the provisions of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1963 was awarded the state agency last October. Following the first allocations of funds to the states last year under the crime control legislation, which Brademas co-sponsored, the South Bend police department received $15,000 for special radio equipment. Since then the University of Notre Dame was awarded The regulation of collection agencys operates to protect the creditor and the debtor.

TO BOARD — U. S. representative JOHN BRADEMAS has been named a member of the board of advisers of “A Presidential Classroom for Young Americans,” a new nonprofit, hon-partisan organization which, starting this year, will bring high school seniors to WASHINGTON in groups of approximately 300 to observe for oneweek the operations of American government. Senator BIRCH BAYH is also a member of the committee as is entertainer JERRY LEWIS. * « • ABOUT THOSE TAXES — JAMES E. DALY, IRS district/ director for Indiana urged all taxpayers to be especially careful in computing the tax surcharge when preparing theip income tax returns. He said that early reports from the central service center disclose MANY TAXPAYERS ARE FAILING TO COMPUTE THE SURCHARGE, and others are computing it incorrectly, both of which cause delayed refunds and time consuming correspondence 1 between the taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Daly explained that the surcharge is just a matter of increasing the tax by 7H per cent of itself, or reading the new tax already figured on a chart. HE ADVISED all TAXPAYERS to carefully FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS, to dcuble check their, arithmetic, and if they are using the surcharge chart to make sure they have used the one which applies to them.

$41,400 under other provisions of the law for student loans and/or grants to state and local public law enforcement personnel and to persons who promise to enter the law enforcement field. and Social Security Q—l am responsible for getting a speaker for my civics class. Will social security send a speaker to a school for just one class period? Is there any charge? A—We will be glad to provide a speaker for your class free of charge. If you wish, we will show a film, provide free literature and give your class a chance to ask questions. Contact your social security office so arrangements can be made to suit the needs of your class.

dent got fromt page play in the Indiana Daily Student paper, plus live art. Os course the movement, as proven, was communist. LESS THAN 500 perlons, including two or three bearded professors and the idle, turned out to hear poet Allen Ginsberg at I.U. Ginsburg, filthy in attire, body and mind, and' his associates lectured on joy students could get from homosexuality, use of drugs and ridiculed Christian religion. Yes, they were at Chicago also. Forty students were arrested for physical attempt to mob job recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company. Dow, at government request, makes napalm. It also makes 800 useful products for consumer trade. Less than 60 militant Negroes led to the delay and disruption of the Little 500 scholarship bicycle race at I.U. Not more than that number camped on the lawn of former President Elvis Stahr with a lengthy ultimatum. 1 Those who advocate strong arm direct confrontation at I.U. have never mustered more than 300 real activists. Consider what an insignificant minority this is, compared to 27,000 resident students at I.U' THE PEACE UNION at Purdue university numbers less than ICO activists. Bearded editor of the Exponent Purdue paper in an obscene editorial wanted Hovde fired. Less than 50 engaged in the disgraceful affairs at Notre Dame. Yes, it is interesting to ask oneself who makes the noise on the campuses.