The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 July 1969 — Page 18

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Blood And Birthdays

A new idea for relieving the serious blood shortages that plague many parts of the country, especially in the summer and after Christmas, is proposed in an article, “Why Is It Tough To Get Blood?,” in the April issue of the American Legion Magazine. Tom Mahoney, author of the article, suggests that every eligible person celebrate his or her birthday by giving a* pint of blood at his local blood bank or collection center. “If only one or two additional persons out of 100 would give one pint of blood a year,” says Dr. Frank Coleman, president; of the American Association of Blodd/Banks, “tfye shortage problem would be relieved at least for the near future.” The demand for blood has been rising steadily because of advances in sur-

What Is July?

Besides being the seventh month of the calander year and having been named in honor of Julius Caesar what exactly is July? It’s children running through the land shouting the joys of their youth — no school — it’s summer! July is teenagers enjoying themselves at the beach — hot dogs, potato chips, ice tea and Kool-Aid. It’s golfing, swimming, boating and vacation time. It’s hot days and cool evenings under the stars. July 4 was a special day in the hearts of Americans as we celebrated the birth of the nation. Fireworks were seen through out the land in tribute to the Revolution and the Declaration of Independence.

The Eleven Ages Os Man

menu style, the eleven ages of man look about like this: 1. Milk. 2. Milk and bread. 3. Milk, eggs, bread and spinach. 4. Oatmeal, bread and butter, green apples, all-day suckers. 5. Ice cream soda and hot dogs. 6. Minute steak, fried potatoes, coffee, apple pie.

CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR I VANCE HARTKeM / Indiana *

Raise Social Security Benefits 10%

Now is the time to modernize our lagging Social Security system and boost Social Secutiry benefits by 10 per cent. Last week I introduced the Omnibus Social Security Amendments of 1969 which would encourage a full-scale review of the entire social security system and correct some of the present unfair provisions. In general, my bill would: 1. Increase benefits across the board by 10 per cent. 2. Tie future increases in benefits to increases in the cost of * living. 3. Greatly liberalize the earrings limitation which now prevents a man or woman from re-

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ceiving Social Security benefits he or she is entitled to if he or she earns more than $1,680 a year. 4. Permit a widow to receive the full benefits which her husband earned. 5. Revise the funding formula for Social Security so that the employer, employee and the Federal Government all would pay one-third shares. Inflation is rapidly eroding the financial gains of all Americans. The elderly American, living on Social Security, is like a prisoner living in an ever- contracting cell. He paid his fair share and now discovers “fKat his benefits all but assign

gery and therapy and has now passed 6.5 million pints a year, the article reports. Blood needs are increasing 100 per cent a year at many hospitals? and work of the blood clearing houses is rising at about 15 per cent a year. They shift blood about the country to meet shortages and enable blood given locally to be credited to distant patients. But, our population is increasing only about one per cent a year and while nearly 105 million Americans are qualified by age and health to give blood only two to three per cent of them do so. If you are between 21 and 60, or even older if your doctor approves, you can help by donating at your local blood bank or collection center. You don’t need to wait for your birthday.

July is the time to remember John Q. Adams whose father had a great part in the founding of the country and served as the second President. John Q. was the 6th President and was born July 11, 1767. The 20-26 of the month is captive nations week and is observed by Presidential proclamation. It is also the week when special attention is called to the rural accidents and their solution — it’s Farm Safety week. And, last but not least, Children’s day is the 25th and is for the appreciation of good children. So, appreciate the warm, hot summer days of July. They won’t be around for long!

7. Bouillon, roast duck, scalloped potatoes, creamed broccoli, fruit salad, divinity fudge, demitasse. i 8. Pate de foie gras, wiener schnitzel, potatoes Parisienne, eggplant a 1’ opera, demitasse, and Roquefort cheese. 9. Two soft-boiled eggs, toast, and milk. 10. Crackers and milk. 11. Milk. — Steuben Republican

him to a life of poverty. We must enact an immediate 10 per cent across - the - board increase in all Social Security benefits this year, then provide for automatic increases. During the first quarter of this year, the cost of living has jumped almost a full percentage point. I want what President Nixon said he wanted during the campaign. I want the. law to provide for an automatic and immediate increase in benefits at the end of any 12-month period during which the cost of living increases by two per cent or more. The earnings limitation prevents a man from doing honest work and still receive the Social Security benefits he deserves. The purpose of the Social Security program is to provide security of an income after retirement. So long as the limitation remains, we give that security in greater degree to those who are already the most secure in their accumulation of resources. Twenty - six per cent of the American men, age 65 and over, hold responsible full -. time or part - time jobs. Men and women reach age 65 only to realize that they are penalized, not because of their ability or willingness to work, but because of an unnecessary and foolish artificial barrier. Today in America, millions of widows look forward to Social Security benefits profided for surviving dependents of wage earners who paid into the Social Security program. While the benefit formula was designed to take into account both the earnings record of the worker and the size of his family, the amount received by widows with large families is grossly inadequate. The only fair system is to allow the widow and children of the deceased wage earner to receive the full benefits which would have been available to the wage earner had he lived to age 65.

SPEAKING OF SKY-ROCKETS -

Know Your Indiana Law _ oKa By JOHN J. DiLLON Attorney at This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

'Here Comes The Assessor*

Many owners of real property, particularly homeowners, wonder who is responsible for the present reassessment of real property, what is its intended purpose and effect, and what they can do to protect their interests. The requirement for the reassessment of all real property is not the product of your local township assessor. It results from a mandate by the Indiana Legislature that all pal property in Indiana be reassessed, beginning January 1, 1968, to have been completed by April 1, 1969. The initial responsibility for performing the reassessment of any

Special Report from Washington

WASHINGTON - Ever since President Nixon surprised the world with the announcement that he was going to Romania, diplomats have been speculating as to whether or not it is a wise idea. This column can report from visits to Romania and talks with President Ceausescu that Romanians will welcome him. Ceausescu said that he had talked with Nixon about a year before he ran for President and found that they had much in common. “He’s a practical man," said Ceausescu. “He wants peace and we want peace. I believe we can work together.” However, whatever Moscow says publicly, Russia is bound to look with disfavor on choosing Romania as the first communist country to visit, due to the fact that Romania is one of the most independent of the communist nations. We believe Sen. Mike Mansfield was right when he said Nixon should also go to Moscow. Otherwise he may undermine his hopes for any disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. Incidentally, Nixon’s trip is making experienced observers around Washington wonder just who does President Nixon’s staff work. It seems to be based on Madison Avenue techniques rather than sound diplomacy. For instance, he is going to Thailand, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Romania immediately after the American astronauts return from the moon. But suppose something goes wrong -r as it well could on so pioneering a trip — and the astronauts do not come back? Or if they fail to land on the moon?

particular real property is the township assessor’s or the township trustee’s in those townships which do not have a township assessor. The intended purpose of this reassessment is to determine the proper tax base (assessed value) for each piece of real property in the state. The assessed value finally determined for each property is to be the value on which property tax rates will be levied for real property taxes, commencing with March 1, 1969 taxes nayable in 1970. Unless changed, such assessed value will remain the basis for the levy of taxes for each year here-

Nixon would then face a trip which he should not make after a great tragedy dr a major failure, and would be in a difficult and embarrassing position. Everyone hopes and believes that the moon mission will be successful, but the fact rem tins it is an extremely complicated and hazardous venture, and something could go wrong. That’s why experienced observers wonder why Nixon’s staff planners don’t think things through more carefully. DALEY’S FAVORS Mayor Daley of Chicago has now done two things for Richard Nixon. First, he insisted on holding the Democratic national conversion in Chicago last summer when everyone else, particularly Hubert Humphrey, wanted it moved to Miami Beach. The trouble in Chicago may have cost Humphrey enough votes to lose the election. On top of this, Mayor Daley last week put in a strategic and very timely phone call to three Democratic Congressmen right in the middle of the surtax debate, telling them to vote for Nixon’s continuation of the ten per cent surtax. As a payoff, Daley made it clear he was going to get more money for Chicago from Nixon’s Housing and Urban Development department. Those three votes saved the day for Nixon’s in the House. CIGARETTE ADVERTISING The Senate begins hearings July 21 on the House - passed bill prohibiting any Federal Trade Commission regulation of cigarette advertising for five years. Hearings will be under Sen. Frank Moss, D-Utah, a

after until a new reassessment if made six years hence. The intended effect of such reassessment is to equalize the burden, based upon relative value, which each piece of real property will bear with that which all other pieces of real estate will bear in providing the funds derived from the taxation of real property. The law provides that the assessed value shall be 33 and one-third per cent of true cash value. However, true cash value is a valuation determined by the application of the Indiana Real Property Appraisal Manual, which was duly adopted as a binding regulation of the State Board of Tax Commissioners. After studies of actual material and labor costs for constructing various types of improvements in Marion county as of January, 1969, were conducted, schedules were devised and included in the Manual to indicate the proper approximate unit cost and how to use such unit cost. Thus, assessing officals can mathematically determine a true cash value which will be uniform with comparable improvements. Provisions arp mnda fnr nd inciting imp rash

Mormon and non-smoker. Overall Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., an early opponent of cigarette smoking. Inside the Senate Committee, we can report that every Senator is opposed to the House ban on the regulation of cigarette advertising except Sen. Jim Pearson, the Kansas Republican. Ironically, Kansas used to ban the sale of cigarettes altogether. Some Senators lean toward an NBC proposal that the broadcasters accept for advertising only cigarettes with the 20 per cent lowest nicotine content. This would mean banning advertising for the big sellers such as Camels, Winstons and Pall Mall. k The tobacco industry naturally is very much opposed. We can report that Magnuson and Moss will try to get cigarettes off the TV and radio networks altogether. They have assurances from Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana that he will support any filibuster against the House Bill. CABINET JUNKETS Congressmen who have to report details on their trips abroad are griped at Nixon Cabinet members who are flying all flver the globe without haying to do so. Secretary of Transportation Volpe flew to Paris recently in the Coast Guard special jet. Sec- / retary of Agriculture Hardin has flown to London. And Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans has taken two trips in the Presidential jet — one to Japan, the other to Europe — each time taking Mrs. Stans and a large staff along. Secretary Stans went abroad

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports J'rom Washington

House Votes Tax Surcharge Extension

The average American can expect little in the way of tax relief in the next year. This is the message which comes through most clearly after passage by the House of Representatives, by a vote of 210-205, of President Nixon’s tax bill early last week. The bill would extend the income tax surcharge for another year — at 10 per cent until December 31, and at five per cent for the remainder of the fiscal year ending July 1, 1970.I voted against the surcharge last year when President Johnson wanted it, and again this year when President Nixon wanted it — and for the same reasons. The tax bill makes no serious effort to provide comprehensive tax reform. The narrow, five - vote margin by which the bill was passed took no one by surprise. For some time it has been clear that the American public is fed up with so - called anti - inflationary measures which fall most heavily and low income taxpayers — and which fail to halt inflation. The strong, bipartisian opposition to the bill should also be a clear warning to the Administration that the American taxpayer wants tax reform — now. CAMPUS UNREST BILL TO BE RECONSIDERED For some time now, the House Committee on Education and Labor, of which I am a member, has been considering various proposals for legislation to deal with disorders on our nation’s campuses. The need for such legislation has been questioned by several high officials in the Nixon Ad-

value determinations according to the county where the building is situated in those counties in which material and labor costs vary substantially from those in Marion county. This Manual also provides the method for determining the true cash value of lands. Remember, what the actual dollar amount of assessed valuation is, is not so important provided such valuation is proportionate to other property in the county. If properties are of substantially like character, condition, size and situation, they should have substantially equal assessed valuations. (Next week, “What To Do If You Are Unhappy With Your Assessment.”) ~

ministration and indeed by President Nixon himself. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Finch, U S Commissioner of Education James E. Allen and Attorney General John Mitchell all told our committee that present laws are adequate to punish students who foment disturbances on campus. Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame, and the overwhelming majority of other university administrators have argued that the primary responsibility for solving campus disturbances must be left with the universities themselves. A group of young Republican Congressmen, after a recent tour of college campuses, gave President Nixon a report warning that new legislation on campus disorders is not the answer to this difficult problem. During the past few Weeks, our committee has had before it a measure which is particularly serious in its implications for the future of American higher education. This bill would require all universities to file a statement with the Federal government, affirming that they have formulated rules, regulations and penalties to deal with disruptions by radical students. Universities which failed to file such a statement would suffer loss of all Federal aid. This requirement would mark a new departure in the relations between the Federal government and our universities. It would be the first step toward Federal intervention in the internal affairs of our universities. I believe such efforts at Federal control is most unwise and that the principal of freedom of higher education should not be eroded. For these reasons, I believe the bipartisan vote of the Education and Labor Committee to return this bill to subcommittee for further consideration was a sound step. OTHER NOTES On July 9, the education subcommittee which I chair will flpen hearings on a number of bills to provide assistance to elementary and secondary schools for educational programs on the effects of the use and abuse of drugs. I will report on this important legislation at greater length in a later column.

By DREW PEARSON And JACK ANDERSON

for the purpose of trying to negotiate import quotas restricting trade into the United States. One member of his party was the former administrative assistant to Sen. Strom Thurmond, Harry Dent of South Carolina, who is close to the big cotton textile interests which want to bar Japanese, French and other textiles from the United States. Perhaps because of the tough anti-import position of Sen. Thur’mond and Harry Dent, Secretary Stans was not successful on theSe trips. v MERRY-GO-ROUND The White House is pulling wires backstage to weaken the coal mine health and safety bill,*' recently reported out of the Senate Subcommittee on -Labor by Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J. The man pulling wires inside the White House is Richard Burress, who’s listening to the National Coal Association . . . Both the White House and Senate Republicans are getting fed up with Sen. Everett Dirksen, 111. He’s caused more problems than any other man on Capitol Hill . . . While Sargent Shriver was in Washington on a. secret trip recently, he cabled the Pompidou Cabinet in Paris that he was looking forward to working with them. At the same time, he was arranging to have his furniture sent to California., Neither the Nixon administration or Shriver seems to know what his future is . . . John Hanes, former under secretary of the treasury under Roosevelt but now a big Republican, dined with President Nixon the other day trying to sell him on not plugging the loopholes on racing stables and farms. Hanes is a big Kentucky horse breeder.