The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 33, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 September 1969 — Page 4

• 1 The Mail&j Journal PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) / Syracuse-Wawasee 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

Bicycle Safety

The rules of the road are just as important for bicycles as they are for automobiles. And with children beginning the return to school, bicycles- will be a primary mode of transportation. Parents have a weal responsibility to make this form ogtransport safe, reminds F. R. university’s extension safety specialist. To promote bicycle safety and reduce accidents parents should: Promote proper instruction of bike riders. Provide opportunities for bike

September Is A Delightful Month

The Indiana Calendar of Events for this year describes September as -a delightful month to tour Indiana in the “beautiful days of early autumn.” And it does look as though autumn, has arrived as cool weather visited the state last week and furnaces in thousands of Indiana homds were turned on to take the chill out of the house. September brings with it bright blue skies and a freshness that the warmer months of July and August lack. With the opening of schools in the area the rush of the summer seems to fall into the routine activities that take over when the cooler weather comes. This is American Youth month and a nation wide drive is being conducted to check the appalling up-trend in juvenile delinquency. September is also national better

Renew Our Pledge

On January 14, 1969, television’s great Red Skelton gave a lasting and eloquent description of the Pledge of Allegiance. We believe it to be so meaningful, it bears repeating. Here is what Mr. Skelton said: “I remember this one teacher, a real sage of my time. He had such wisdom. We were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and he walked over. Mr. Lasswell was his name ... He said: I’ve been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester, and it seems as though it is becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word: ‘I — me, an individual, a committee of one, Pledge — dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity. Allegiance — my love and my devotion. To the Flag — our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there is respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody’s job. Os the United — that means that we have all come together. States — individual communities that have united into 48 great states — 48 individual communities with pride and

Hartke Says: End Registration Os Ammunition By Sportsmen

WASHINGTON, D. C. — Senator Vance Hartke today called for immediate passage of legislation to end the requirement that hunters and sportsmen sign registration forms when they purchase ammunition for hunting weapons. Hartke is the co-sponsor of an amendment to the 1968 Gun Control Act which would eliminate what is known as a “back door” form of gun registration.

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The amendment would eliminate the requirement that a buyer of ammunition for shotguns, rifles and .22 caliber rimfire weapons sign his name, age, address and type of ammunition on a series of forms as required by law. “We have to end this confusion about buying ammunition which could cause the Hoosier sportsman a lot of unnecessary grief during the hunting season,”

riders to practice and demonstrate their skill under supervision. Discourage riding during periods of bad weather and heavy traffic. Be an especially careful driver whenever bikes may be present. Parents should in turn impress upon their children the importance of: Learning traffic rules that apply to bicycles. Learning to ride well. Being alert at all times. Setting good examples for each . other. Keeping bicycles in safe condition.

breakfast month and is observed to promote the importance of a good breakfast at the start of every day. The Boy Scout fall round-up began on September 15 and will run through December 19 as Scouting leaders work to make scouting available to more boys. Today is the start of National Constitution week and has been held by Presidential proclamation since 1956. It’s a time to study the constitution I National Press Sunday is Septemand honors the first daily paper which was published on September 21, 1784 and the first paper published in America, September, 24,1690. The month concludes with Kiwanis Kids’ Day on September 27 and Gold Star Mother’s Day on September 28. Now, isn’t September a delightful month ?

dignity and purpose, all divided by imaginary boundaries, yet united in a common purpose, and that’s love for country. Os America and to the Republic —a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it’s from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people. For which it stands. One Nation — meaning so blessed by God. Indivisible — incapable of being divided. With liberty — which is freedom and the right of power to live one’s own life without threats or fear of some sort of retaliation. And justice — the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others. For all — which means it’s as much your country as it is mine.’ “Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance — ‘under God.’ “Wouldn’t it be a pity if someone said ‘That’s a prayer,’ and it would be eliminated from schools, too?” It certainly would. And wouldn’t it be a pity if there were no Americans such as Red Skelton to remind us. — Tell City News

Hartke said. “It is obvious after eight months of trying to enforce the 1968 Gun Control Act that it is foolish and unrealistic to ask hunters to register when they buy ammunition. “It is obvious that this paperwork requirement will not help control criminals and criminal acts. “Something must be done to slash the growing crime rate in Indiana. But I am opposed to gun control measures which have the sole effect of imposing burdens on law-abiding hunters and sportsmen”, Hartke said. He pointed out that the amendment will not eliminate registration requirements for the purpose of most hand gun ammunition.

JttKilJlilii and Social Security Q —■ My wife was killed in an accident at the age of 22 in 1967. A friend recently told me that monthly benefits from social security are payable for my 5 year old daughter. Is that correct? A — If your wife worked and paid social security contributions for 1-14 years or more, benefits should be payable. For complete information on this ' situation contact your social security office immediately.

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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.

When An Immediate Report Is Required

Suppose you were crossing a street which had a crack or depressed area in the crosswalk ■which caused you to fall. Suppose, further that this street was in a city or town. You may have a good lawsuit against the city but there is something about your action that you have to know, and I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts you don’t. You have to give notice to certain designated city or town officials with-

Special Report from Washington

WASHINGTON — The backstage events that led to the White House strategy talks on Viet Nam this week were these: In Hanoi, it looks as if the late Ho Chi Minh will be succeeded, at least temporarily, by a three-man troika. They are Communist party Secretary Le Duan, Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap. Actually, these three have been making day-to-day policy in recent years. The aged Ho had merely presided over their policy meetings as an elder statesman, offering general guidance but keeping above routine decision - making. In Saigon, President Thieu hopefully predicted to General Creighton Abrams, the US military commander, and Sam Berger, the deputy American ambassador, that Ho’s death would ' create disunity in the Hanoi hierarchy. Instead, it has caused more disunity in Saigon. Thieu wanted to intensify the military effort in order to-exploit the demoralization in the Viet Cong ranks that Ho’s death was sure to cause. The Americans, however, wanted to de-escalate the war in an attempt to extend and enlarge the three-day truce that the Viet Cong proclaimed to mourn Ho’s passing. In Paris, US negotiators have still been getting the same blank stares and broken-record statements out of their North Vietnamese counterparts. The Americans have offered, in private talks, to withdraw all American troops from Viet Nam as expeditiously as possible, and have urged the North Vietnamese to accept this offer as a declaration of intent and get on with the truce negotiations. The North Vietnamese are

in sixty days of your injury or you are prohibited from bringing your action in court in a suit for damages. If the accident should happen in the winter time, and snow and ice are involved, then this notice must be given to the same officials within thirty days. Furthermore, the notice has to be sent by registered mail or delivered personally to the official concerned. Right now argu-

still sticking to their demand, however, that US troops be pulled out before the negotiations can begin. There have been hints from third parties that the communists are ready to make concessions. But so far there has been no sign of this in Paris. At the White House our policymakers still don’t know how to react to Ho’s death. They must have anticipated that the 70-year-old North Vietnamese leader wasn’t going to live forever. But they have come up with no reliable intelligence on what effect his death will have on the peace efforts. As a result, our policymakers don’t know which way to turn, and our psychological warfare experts can’t make up their minds what line to follow. DRAFT REFORM White House aides are debating whether to wait for Congress to reform the draft or to go ahead with their own reforms by presidential decree. Aides Peter Flanigan and Bud Wilkinson contend that the President has the authority under the present law to abolish some of the practices that are antagonizing young people. These aides believe that immediate draft reforms would help to cool student tempers and to prevent new outbreaks on the campuses this faU. The final decision has now been bucked up to President Nixon. KOREAN INFILTRATION Highly trained, thoroughly disciplined North Korean infiltrators are now slipping into South Korea with secret instructions to organize cells, spread dissent, create chaos and otherwise foment revolution. Those who have been captured

ments are being raised that talking with the proper officials within the sixty-day period might waive the notice* but so far our courts have not so ruled. It would be very impractical to rely on this theory, however, since the safest course of action is to contact your lawyer as quickly as you can and have him notify the city or town immediately as required by law. The reason for the requirement of notice to city or town is to give the city an opportunity to investigate the area which the injured party claimed was in improper repair and not be caught off guard since a person injured usually has two years to bring an action for damages in court. This very specific requirement is set out in Burns Indiana Statutes at sec. 48-8001, which states exactly what the notice must contain. I previously mentioned that it is good for a person to have a lawyer they consider their private counsel so that he can be contacted in case of an emergency. An action involving

belong to Special Unit No. 124, which has trained a reported 24,000 infiltrators. However, several other North Korean units are known to be training agents for guerrilla warfare. Most of them are sneaking into South Korea byway of Japan. A few are South Koreans who have been recruited by the communists. They go to Japan as stowaways, go to North Korea for training, and then return by way of Japan. Most infiltrators, however, are North Koreans who used forged visas and smuggler boats to get into Japan. Then they can pose as South Koreans returning from Japan to their own country. All of these North Korean agents seek to stir up a new, Viet Namstyle war, which could involve the 55,000 American troops still stationed in South Korea. To help prevent this, the United States will bring strong pressure upon Japan to cooperate with South Korea in' stopping the infiltration, and Japanese police will be ordered to crack down. DRUG LOBBY BOOMERANG Dr. John Adriani was asked by the Food and Drug Administration to head its bureau of medicine, then was abruptly dropped after the big drug companies got busy behind the scenes. It turned out that Dr. Adriani, in congressional testimony last May, had urged the use of generic rather than brand names in prescribing drugs for the public. The drug manufacturers charge as much as ten times more for brand-name drugs than they do for the same drugs under their generic names. « The drug lobby’s axing of Dr. Adriani is going to boomerang. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin will investigate the lobby in

Congressional Comer: John Brodemos Reports From Washington

The Japanese-American Assembly

I returned to Washington last week after attending the Japanese - American Assembly in Shimoda, Japan, where some 35 Americans met with 35 Japanese leaders to discuss relations between our two countries. The Assembly ? agreed that steps should be taken toward facilitating the reversion of 0kinawa to Japan, a highly emotional issue here. American delegates expressed the interest of.. the US in adequate security arrangements for the defense of Japan and other US allies in Asia. I was one of several American delegates to the conference who warned the Japanese that they must take the initiative to eliminate barriers to trade between the US and Japan. The Assembly agreed that the Japanese must begin to liberalize their trade policy to permit the importation into Japan of American products. Otherwise, Japan would face a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in the United States. ELECTORAL REFORM The House last week opened consideration of a proposed constitutional amendment to revise the antiquated system by which we elect our President. Last year’s closely contested public awareness of the defects of the present system. The American people were faced with the possibility that the candidate who received the most popular votes could nonetheless lose the election. This has in fact been the city in which negligence is alleged is certainly an emergency when quick legal action must be taken. The courts have been so stringent as to require people who are flat on their back in the hospital to give the required thirty or sixty day notice, whichever is applicable. Although more and more of the doctrine of sovereign immunity which prohibits negligent actions against government bodies is being limited in its application, the requirement of notice to a city or town as a prerequisite to a negligence action is still stringently applied in Indiana. It is therefore necessary, if you are injured due to negligence of a city or town, that you follow this law most carefully to protect your interest.

the result three times iin our history. Almost as serious was tlie possibility that a strong third-party candidate could prevent ether of the major candidates Irom getting a majority of elec;oral votes. When this happens the constitution requires the louse of Representatives to choose the next President on the highly inequitable basis of one vote for each state. The resolution now beforj the House puts the power to choose our President where it belongs — with the people. The pro posed amendment, which is simi ar to a Senate resolution introduced by Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, would abolish the Electoral College and provide for the direct popular election of the President. The candidate with the greatest number of popular votes would become President. If no candidate received more than 40 per cent of the vote, a run-off election between the two leading candidates woild be held. This proposal is eminently fair * and reasonable. Most of our public officials — from township trustees; t) U. S. Senators — are directly elected by the people. There is nc reason our most important public official — the President — should be an exception to this r lie. Nor is there any rec son the votes of the citizens of cne state should carry greater weight than the votes of residents in another state. In # 1968, for ex--ample, there were only 27,000 voters in Alaska for each of that state’s three electoral votes. In Indiana, there were 166,000 voters for each eleeto ’al vote. This means that the individual voter in Alaska had six times as much voting power as his Hoosier counterpart. This situation is ckarly unjustifiable in a modern democracy. The amendment under discussion in the House would go far toward removing these inequities. The constitutional amendment must be approved by a two-thirds vote of both the House and the Senate. Then the amendment must go to the state legislatures for ratification Approval by 38 states is necessary before the amendment can po into effect.

By JACK ANDERSON

Washington, and will produce evidence on how the drug companies block both people aid policies that might interfere wi.h their high profits. STRINGS ON TAX-SHARING President Nixon has proclaimed his desire to share federal tax revenue with the states and to turn more authority over to local governments. In all too many localities, ho wever, the federal money world likely wind up in the pockets of corrupt politicians. For, despite the scandals that have been <ijxposed in Washington, the federal government has better people and higher standards than mist local governments. This column can report tljiat the President is fully aware of this and has no intention of pouring federal money down hundreds of local drains. He will insist on strict federal bookkeeping standards before the moiey is turned over to the states, ci ties and counties. MERRY-GO-ROUND White House aides are bvsily lobbying in the Senate to moiify the tax reforms passed by the House. The truth is that more reforms, not less, are needed to correct the outrageous inequities in our tax system. During the last fiscal year, the Treasury lost a staggering sls billion through tax loopholes .... President Nixon has told his political advisers privately that he is skeptical about the plan to build a Republican majority by appealing to the Southern states and Northern suburbs. Nixor has told his advisers that, in his opinion, the, best politics was for to try to be President of all the people, not just Southern whites and Northern suburbanites.