The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 9, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 April 1969 — Page 9

The MaU&ljoumal PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Est 1888) Syracuse-Wawaeee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

EDITORIALS Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower — sol- .. dier, politician, educator, statesman—all of these, and yet there is every indication he would prefer to be remembered as simply a “man of peace.” It is this great American we lay to rest this week. He has received every high honor his countrymen and indeed the free world could bestow upon him. Accolades to his life of service to America and the free world have flooded the printed page and the airwaves since his passing last week, and we feel humble in trying to match them here. But to recognize his service we A Quiet Sunday As holidays go, perhaps Easter is imbued with more of a feeling of peace and tranquility than any other. This year Easter faHs on April 6. The simple pleasures of the children’s Easter egg hunt will be combined with Christian observance of the resurrection of Christ. One of the greatest pleasures of Easter Sunday somehow seems to muffle the normal discordant clatter of everyday life. For a few hours, we can find composure in small tasks and small enjoyments. The tree-lined streets of many communities are a haven of soliCase History You may be interested in a hassle they had in Port Orchard, Washington, a few months back. Officials at the South Kitsap high school there let it be known that they were considering installing a fully automated cafeteria. That brought out the populace. The youngsters wouldn’t get balanced meals, they said; the lunch would be cold, and not the needed hot food and, heaven help us, the school would lose its federal lunchroom assistance payments. But, the officials went ahead. That federally assisted hot lunch program wasn’t really a howling success anyway, since only about 20 per cent of the 1,135 students used the lunchroom at noon. It took five cooks to prepare the meals, and even with federal assistance the losses were staggering. So what happened ? The school cafeteria looks and op- , erates like an automat. There’s a wide variety of food available, far beyond anything possible under the federal assisted program: hot soup, pastries, ice cream, beverages, hot dogs and hamburgers as well as assorted cold sandwiches, freshly baked cookies and cake, and a

CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR i . VANCE HARTKeJs J tSf Indiana Loss Os Very Special American

WASHINGTON, D. C. — We are all deeply saddened by the loss of a very special American. The late President Eisenhower, whom we all knew affectionately and respectfully as Ike, left more than a passing mark on this nation’s history. We all are deeply conscious of his multiple achievements and identify his virtues for this generation of Americans; each American knew Ike well. Indeed, we

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must. A product of the western plains, he never lest the common touch, and his homey letters to his Abilene, Kansas, townsmen even when he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe were emblematic of this. At no time did he ever seek fortune over service, and this is indeed something in this day and age. We liked “Ike” — we all liked Ike — and this was reflected at the political polls in 1952 and 1956. But now he is gone, and we can say farewell and well dene to an American who will certainly rank high in the annals of our great country. tude on Easter Sunday. The flowers and the songbirds, which go unnoticed and unheard by the average passerby during a noisy weekday, are suddenly there as reminders that nature and its creatures have no fear of the city. The origin of the customs of Easter go back to antiquity, as does the symbolism of the Easter egg. Whatever Easter meant to the ancients, the gentle touch of Christianity has added a special meaning for modern man that makes itself felt bn one quiet Sunday of each year. daily special. Students pop a coin into a slot and take their choice. Three times as many students use the cafeteria at lunch time. There’s less waste and spilling in the cafeteria. The official lunch period has been shortened. Two cooks do what five used to do. More important, school officials have found it worth while to keep the cafeteria open most of the day. Many pupils have breakfast in the cafeteria before the school day begins, and many others pop in for between classes snacks. When there are after-school activities, the cafeteria is a meeting place. About the balanced meals — hear what the school’s principal has to say on that: “You talk about balanced meals. We used to see the pupils eating part of their hot lunch and throwing the rest away. I think everyone likes to pick and choose from a variety. This way, the pupil picks what he likes and doesn’t waste any.” Federal assistance? Who needs it ? Patronage is up 300 per cent without it. — the Salem Leader

need not speak to future generations about his deeds and his character, for his place in history is already assured. But many of us wish to speak of him to show our esteem and our respect. In a democracy there are few honors greater than winning the confidence and respect of the people. As military leader, as President, as retired General, Mr. Eisenhower sustained the

people’s acdaim. He was much admired not alone by Americans but also by peoples around the globe. It was characteristic of this great man that in his last major presidential address — his farewell — he called upon the American people to restrain the influence of his own profession in American society, just as he had sought to restrain rather than extend the limits of presidential power. His farewell address was not unlike that of our first great who called for restraint and responsibility in international affairs. Just as Washington’s Farewell became a watchword for generations of Americans, General Eisenhower’s Farewell has become a watchword for generations to come. Equally characteristic of the late President was his resilience in spirit and in health. His indomitable will, which had shown through even in the last months of his illness, was matched by few men. My deepest sympathy goes out to the family. My deepest respect remains with the late President. Crippled Kids Can Be fIKV Helped! Give To y/A-Jjngf Easter ® Seals S

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

Temporary Support In Divorces

After the divorce complaint is filed sixty days must expire before the court can determine whether a divorce should be granted. This is the optimum time and it is unusual for a divorce case to be heard this quickly. What with the other business that must be disposed of by the court, it is not rare for a divorce case, particularly one that is contested, to take a year or more. Since in many cases the wife is not employed, or has no independent income, it becomes obvious that immediate provisions must be made for her temporary support and support of the children of the marriage. This is a matter of first precedence and it is the policy of our courts in Indiana to set an immediate hearing to make certain that support is provided the family during the pendency of the divorce. In exercising our legal Latin me

• uar cv it • OMM | J -<LA£—<. Agricultural Information Department • Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana i

PLAN LIGHTING NOW By use of outdoor lights your patio or garden can be made enchanting. Spring is an excellent time to make plans for such a project. In considering vour yard, remember to highlight the most important points of the landscape for beauty and functional purposes. For instance, dark areas or spots dimly lighted by moenlight should form background for lighted flowers, trees, shrubs, statuary or other landscape features, accenting and dramatizing their beauty. Walkways, paths and steps may be illuminated for notation and safety. Four basic approaches to dramatic landscape lighting, says Paul E. Johnson, Purdue university extension, agricultural engineer. are front, back, down and up lighting. Correct approach to be used, he adds, will depend on the subject, its shape, color function and relationship to other parts of the outdoor scene, and the mood or effect desired. Ask a local electrician to work with you in the selection of system and equipment. Fixtures may he either permanent or portable and be cither 125 volts or low voltage.

lawyers refer to these as “Pendente Lite hearings. In addition to support, the court can make such other orders as are necessary to make just provisions between the parties until the final hearing. If there has b:en violence between the parties the court can order the goad conduct of the violating party. Failure to follow the court’s order is punishable by contempt of court proceedings and the court can, if necessary, commit a party to jail to insure the court order being followed. If children are involved in the troubled marriage, the court will also make provisions for their suoDort and temporary custody. The court can also make such orders as are necessary to preserve th? ‘property of the marriage so that one party to the divorce proceedings cannot dispose of it. Normally, the court only attempts to maintain the

One of the most popular low voltage systems is the 12-volt model. Lamps are 12 volts and rated in power from six to 25 watts. Many sizes and types of fixtures are available, and these do an excellent job of lighting small areas to high level or large areas to low level intensity. Efficiency of the 12-volt bulb is high, and precision control of the lighting pattern is greater. Be sure you provide proper voltage to the low voltage lamps, warns Johnson. Excessive voltage will shorten the lamp life and excessive low voltage will result in poor light output. For example, a drop of one half volt to the lamp will decrease the light output approximately 16 per cent hut will increase the lamp life 60 per cent. Mercury vapor lamps are for 120 volts and 100 watts and up. They give a soft, blue green light that will flood an object or area with a silvery luminescence strengthening the color values of the material or object and bringing out the true beauty in nature. Some mercury vapor lamps require a ballast to operate them. Hence, three-wire cords and plugs should be used.

status quo until the final hearing when the proper disposition of the property of the marriage can b? determined. The court can also provide for suit and attorney fees to insure proper preparation of the wife’s case for trial. This is so whether the wife is bringing the action or is being sued for divorce. Again this is only a temporary arrangement to provide interim financing for the wife until the final divorce hearing. Next week I will discuss attorneys’ fees in divorce suits in more detail. (Second of a Series) You Aid Social Security Q — My family and I are receiving social security benefits because of my disability. My oldest son is working and plans to earn over SI6BO this year. Will his earnings stop all our benefits? A— No, your son’s earnings would affect his own benefits. Q—ls I sell off my dairy herd, would the proceeds from the sale effect my social security benefits? A—Dairy animals, excepting calves and heifers, are considered capital assets. The income from their sale is not covered by social security and it is not counted toward the $1,680 limitation to earnings.

Weatherproof fixtures are not necessarily waterproof, cautions Johnson. They should not be in stalled in wet or low places where drainage is poor, or whert deep snow may accumulate during winter months. It is best not to put the ballast or fixture below the ground surface, he stresses, unless constructed of concrete or similar material and provided with a drain that will not clog with ice or foreign material. Mercury lamps have inherently long lives. However, if turned off momentarily, the lamp will not relight again until it has cooled enough to reduce the mercury vapor pressure. This places the mercury lamp at a disadvantage should intermittent lighting be desired. CLEAN FLOWER BEDS To reduce possibilities of infectious plant diseases, thoroughly clean flower beds and areas an.und shrubs this spring. This precaution is recommended by Donald H. Scott, Purdue university extension plant pathologist. All dead plant debris should be raked and discarded before new growth begins, stresses Scott. As a spring project, he also suggests the repair of winter damag-

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Problens Are National In Scope

On Tuesday, March 18, I had th? pleasure of sharing the podium with Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts in addressing 8,000 delegates attending the annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. In this article I want to mention some of the thoughts I expressed on that occasion. The rural electrification story in our country is truly one of the miracles of the modem era. Thirty years ago only 10 per cent of American farm families had access to electricity. Today fewer than two per cent are still without it, and the expansion of the rural electrical services continues. In the entire state of Indiana, the 47 electrical systems financed by the Rural Electrification Administration serve 190,000 rural consumers. This means that 99.5 per cent of our rural population have electricity. In 1935, when REA was created, the figure was 11.7 per cent. Two rural electric coops have their headquarters in the Third Congressional District - with close to 8,000 member-consumers -a vital part of the counties they serve. While past achievements of the rural electrification system are impressive, its future needs and responsibilities are no less impressive. Rural electric cooperatives are being called upon to serve some 150,000 additional consumers each year. Rural power requirements will triple over the next 20 years. These needs call for an estimated sll billion in new capital by 1960, a significant increase in the amount Congress has traditionally appropriated for rural electrification. Although the needs of rural electric cooperatives for favorable Congressional action are growing, it is unfortunately true that in an era of ever-increasing urbanization the rural farm constituency by itself simply no longer has the votes in Congress to go it alone. In order to achieve their legitimate goals, rural electric cooperatives must be able to count on the cooperation and support of non-rural, non-farm interests. And this leads me to my major point. I want to emphasize that the most serious problems which our nation faces today are not regional or sectional, but truly national in scope. The problems of our cities and the problems of our rural areas are more closely intertwined today than ever before. If we are to solve them, greater mutual understanding and new patterns of alliance between leaders of rural and urban America are essential. Rural America needs the support of urban America — and urban

America requires the help of rural America. Let me suggest just two areas in which this need for a common approach to mutual problems in both the urban and rural sectors of our society is especially apparent. One is the protection of the American coifcumer. The other is the overall effort to achieve a better balance between the growth of our cities and the growth of the countryside. It is obvious that all Americans — whether from the city or the farm — share an interest in consumer protection, for after all, we are all consumers. Unfortunately, consumer protection has often been interpreted in rural America as meaning a “cheap food policy” for the benefit of urban America. This is not at all the object of laws for the protection of the consumer. Laws of this type will have the effect of protecting the consumer from uncertainty — the uncertainty which arises from the fact that no individual can be expected to know everything about the highly complex goods and services which absorb an increasing portion of the budget of the typical American consumer. For example, the average consumer has no way of knowing whether the new car he buys is 100 per cent safe in all respects unless the goverment through its legislation requires that certain minimum standards be met. Finally there is the problem of our rapidly-growing cities — which is another way of looking at the decline of our rural areas. Today 70 per cent of our population lives on the one per cent of the continental land mass classified as “urban”. Meanwhile, the number of farms is decreasing by 100,000 each year, and only 7 per cent of the total population has stayed down on the farm. But it is wrong to speak of an urban problem or of a rural problem. The two phenomena are opposite sides of a single coin; the problems of rural and urban America must be attacked simultaneously. We can achieve balance between the city and the countryside only by providing greater economic opportunity and by improving the quality of life in rural America, so that it can compete with the attractions of the city. And in this great enterprise, the most serious challenge which we face today, the rural electric cooperatives can play a vital role by helping to accelerate the economic development of rural America. Here in Indiana as elsewhere in the nation, rural electrics are playing an important role in revitalizing rural communities and thereby helping solve the urban crisis as well.

td trees and shrubs. Prune all broken and diseased limbs. Prime properly and paint wounds with a good wound dressing to prevent wood and heart rotting organisms from entering the wounds. Apply dormant fungicide sprays to trees, especially sycamores, that were affected with anthracnose last year. Use a one to nine liquid lime sulfur-water mixture, an 8-8-100 Bordeaux mixture, or phenyl mercury. Mercury compounds are toxic, however, and should be used with extreme caution. Also, remember lime sulfur may discolor paint. Apply dormant sprays when temperatures are above 45 degrees F and before new growth starts. Use a one to nine liquid lime sulfur dormant spray on roses for control of blackspot and stem canker. After new growth starts, use maneb, captan, or ferbam in a periodic spray schedule. Spray peonies and tulips for blight control. Uss an 8-8-100 Bordeaux mixture on peonies as soon as new shoots appear. Repeat every 10 to 14 days. Use captan or zineb on tulips every seven to 14 days, starting when plants are three to four inches high.