The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 20, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 June 1970 — Page 11

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY s The Milford Mall (Eat 1888) Syracute-Wawaoee Journal (Eat 1907) a Consolidated Into The Mall-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567 EDITORIALS

Father's Day And Flotilla What’s the best way you know to spend Father’s Day? It’s at Lake Wawasee watching the annual parade around the lake — the Flotilla’ The Flotilla features decorated floats and boats of all kinds that have been decorated with hopes of receiving one of the trophies given to the best. There is also a Miss Flotilla, chosen earlier in the week and a Top Pop to preside over the festivities. You’ll also find plenty of pretty girls and friendly people around Wawasee at Flotilla time! Timely Advice Nineteen hundred and seventy is an important election year. In these critical days of unrest and uncertainty, the one reassuring reality that every U.S. citizen can fall back upon is the allimportant right Jo walk into a polling booth and express his choice, with a simple check mark on a ballot, of those who aspire to serve him in public office. Not only should all eligible persons exercise their right to vote, but they should also exercise it with the same care, wisdom and grasp of high principles that they expect of those they put A Good Time Os Year The Hindu Rabindranath Tagore wrote of summer: “Today the summer has,come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.” There is something about those words that express the spell of the season which will arrive as usual on June 21st. When all is said and done, the poet has caught what, for a great many people, is the enduring spirit of summer that will last longer in memory than the excitement and fun of even the most momentous vacation. What earthly experience is there that can truly match the tranquility of a summer morning when the sounds of nature can be heard as the heat of the rising sun stirs afresh the good smells of

CAPITOL COMMENTS With senator A I VANCE HARTKEJsA Indiana ’, Problems Os World Elderly

The problems of the rural elderly are basically economic problems Isolated in farmhouses in Indiana and lowa and backwood shanties in Kentucky, the elderly live frequently lonely lives. Forced to exist on incomes which are drastically lower than their urban contemporaries, the rural elderly live on incomes well below the poverty level. Since last fall, the Special Senate Committee on Aging has been investigating the special problems of the aged in rural areas We have been out on the road: to lowa, to two small towns in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, to southern Indiana, to a meetinghall in Mississippi, to Arkansas and to a tiny town and the capital city of Idaho. We had to get out and see for ourselves what our subject is all about We had to see what it means to be old. and to live in the remote rural reaches of this Nation. And here is what we found: That retirement income is generally lower in rural areas simply because earnings during the work lifetime have been generally lower. Our elders of rural America are among those in greatest need erf increases in minimum Social Security benefits. The five per cent increase voted by the House — welcome as it is — still does not catch up with

Truly, Sunday, June 21, should be the day you remember Dad whether you share the day with him watching the Flotilla or in some other way. It is his day and he shouldn’t be forgotten. Even if you can’t spend the day with your dad you can remember him! You can mail a card or letter to him. even send a gift or give him a ring on the telephone . . . anything to let him know you care. At any rate remember the Flotilla next week end and remember Dad is King on his day. into office. A brief item in a national news release reminds us all that spring is here, and summer is just around tlje corner. “Before taking off, either for business or pleasure, there are many chores to delegate or complete. However, one chore should not be delegated. That is to determine your eligibility to vote. ... Now is the time to prevent your being a political dropout by making sure that you are properly registered!” This is a timely word of advice for all good citizens. a the earth and its vegetation. In the high mountains, the morning is ushered in with the dry hot smell of forests and perhaps the murmur of a nearby stream blending with the sharp strokes of an enterprising woodpecker. In the valleys, the freshness of a summer morning is magnified by traces of dew and the symphony of birds. The burst of energy at the beginning of a midsummer day is but a prelude to indolence as the sun approaches its zenith, driving dogs and small boys to the shade of the nearest tree. These are the things we remember about summer long after the rest is forgotten — things that only a poet can recall. Goshen News

the levels 1 proposed in my bill S. 3100 last year And it does not do enough to raise minimum benefits Second, the Committee has confirmed the common assumption that there is a much higher proportion of the elderly in rural regions than average for the Nation as a whole And so here we have a growing population group with special needs: the need for good medical care, the need for special services that will enable them to live in their homes instead of in institutions, the need for good transportation, the need for satisfying work. But they live in small towns which often lack resources with which health care facilities, service programs, and institutions can be maintained. Quite often, the communities lack even the funds needed fo r modest matching money needed for Federal help Third, we have found that the Administration on Aging, the Department of Labor, and the Office on Economic Development, in particular, have sponsored pilot programs which clearly demonstrate that the elderly are capable and willing to work on self-help projects which benefit them and their communities. The Green Thumb program is an outstanding example. We have seen others: home rehabilitation

projects in Kentucky and in Arkansas, a senior center in Idaho which uses a nutrition program as the basis for providing other services, and much else. Fourth, the housing needs of the rural elderly must receive more concern and attention from the Special Committee on Aging, from the Congress in general, and from the Executive Branch. It was 20 years ago that the Housing Act of 1949 authorized a rural housing prcferam But the sad statistics of 1970 show that two thirds of all the Nation's substandard housing are in rural America There are six million of these substandard homes in rural areas, and we have seen many of them along the way. Last week, the Special Senate Committee on Aging held the first of three wrap-up hearings on the special problems of the rural aged in Washington. In the next two hearings we will specifically be discussing the housing problems erf the elderly. We hope to end this series of hearings by coming up with suggestion and legislative proposals to improve the lives of our elderly citizens. You And Social Security Q — My friend in another state receives more social security* than 1. Does the amount of social security payments vary from state to state? A — No. The formula used to figure the amount of benefits is a national one It does not vary because of place of residence.

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Congressional Corner: John Brademas Reports From Washington

House Action - Cabinet Switches

In Washington, several key votes were cast in Congress last week Much of the attention was centered in the Senate, where last Thursday an amendment, offered by Senator Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), was defeated 52-47. in a major foreign policy vote. The defeat of the Byrd Amendment, which gave the President authority under certain circumstances to widen the war in Cambodia without consulting Congress, was interpreted as a reassertion of Congress' role in the decisions to commit United States troops to new battlegrounds. Meanwhile, a number of significant votes were also taken to the House of Representatives.

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON — Television comics Imogene Coca and Louis Nye have let a pharmaceutical firm use their laughing faces in an advertising campaign for a drug designed to lift the spirits of the depressed. There’s nothing funny, however, about the drug, “Ritalin.” The Food and Drug Administration is about to require that it carry a strict new warning against dangerous side effects. In Sweden, the drug is banned altogether Miss Coca is shown in full-collor ads with an 18-tooth smile. Nye beats a drum in a clown costume for Ritalin while Miss Coca poses as a jolly Valkyrie made glad, presumably, by the pills. The ads tell how “Ritalin brightens moods and kindles enthusiasm.” Its maker, CIBA Pharmaceuticals, has reaped fat profits from the drug But in the tiny print on the back of the ads are warnings against anxiety, tension, nausea, headaches, rash and even rare cases of phychotic behavior and addiction “in emotionally unstable persons ” The ominous warning will be stiffened further by the FDA with CIBA’s consent. In Sweden, the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association wrote that Ritalin has “contributed to the spread of narcotics addiction.” The Journal says the pollyanna ads raise “the question of the drug company’s ethics and sense of responsibility." It said CIBA won’t change its happytime policy until "the U.S. authorities react — when abuse becomes acute in the U.S.A." Footnote: This column could obtain no comment from Miss Coca or Mr. Nye. CIBA said Ritalin is not addictive, although in rare cases it brings on psychological dependence. TRADING ON HUNGER For eight months the food stamp reform bill has been bottled up in the House Agriculture committee. Passage of this reform bill would help to feed the 26 million Americans living below the poverty level. But cynical Congressmen are holding it up until they can get a deal with big city Democrats to renew farm subsidies. There has been a public outcry against the huge subsidies that the federal government hands out to wealthy farmers. However, the Southern Democrats who run the House Agriculture Committee are refusing to ap-

The House, with only one dissenting vote, approved a major Clean Air bill which is aimed at the problem of coping with air pollution. I believe it is essential that we enact new and stronger legislation to deal with our environmental crisis, and this bill is one such step we can take. The House also passed, in a unanimous vote, an extension of the Hill-Burton legislation which provides new funds for hospital constructioh. The Hill-Burton Act has brought millions of dollars to Third District communities over the years to build much needed hospitals. Two other issues, which proved to be more controversial, also came to the floor of the House last

week. * During debate on the Agriculture Appropriation bill another attempt was make to place a $20,000 ceiling on farm subsidy payments. As in the past. I supported limiting these payments. Records show that literally hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid by the government to big farming operations under the present program. At the same time, the thousands of smaller farmers are suffering from rising costs and falling prices. The unlimited farm payments serve to benefit only the wealthy farmer. This inequity is part of the reason that many persons are forced to give up their small farms each year. However, the effort to prune these government expenditures—which many Members of Congress feel are excessive—was unsuccessful, just as were efforts last Thursday to block another $357 million for the Safeguard ABM system. There is now evidence that cost overruns on the ABM are increasing by $l3O million per month, with no assurance that it will ever prove effective.

prove more food stamps for the poor until they also get more subsidies for the rich. Those who are responsible for holding the food stamp bill for ransom are Chairman Poage of Texas and Congressmen McMillan of South Carolina. Abernethy of Mississippi, Abbitt of Virginia. Stubblefield of Kentucky, Purcell of Texas, O’Neal of Georgia. Jones of North Carolina, Montgomery of Mississippi, Alexander of Arkansas. Rarick of Louisiana and Jones of Tennessee OIL INDUSTRY DRAGS LEAD FEET President Nixon's threat to crack down on lead additives in gasoline has kicked up a furor in the oil industry. He would like to get rid of the additives which have been adding to the pollution problem. Several oil companies have proposed reducing the lead content in their gasoline, but they have brought pressure upon the White House not to ban lead additives entirely-. Humble Oil, for exampit, has pleaded that it would take eight years to remove the lead from all its gas pumps around the country. Himble has been joined by Gulf, Mobil and Union Oil in resisting the President. Meanwhile, the nation’s business leaders have urged the White House to adopt federal pollution standards. Under the present system, businesses are forced to deal with a host of federal, state and local agencies that have suddenly been stirred into action against pollution. The leaders have concluded that a federal pollution control program, setting up national standards, would be preferable to the present confusion. DOBRYNIN PLAYS COY Secretary of State Bill Rogers got nowhere in his secret talks last week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin over the Middle East. Dobrynin merely repeated the same line that the Kremlin has been putting out for the past several weeks. An attempt by Ambassador Jacob Beam in Moscow to get a favorable sign out of the Kremlin also failed. Ambassador Dobrynin hinted to Rogers that the Kremlin is waiting to seewhether the United States goes ahead with the sale of fighter planes to Israel. He agreed, mean-

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

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

No Will? (Part II)

In my last column I explained the share of a surviving husband or wife would have in the estate if one or the other died without a will. In this column I will explain the share others have in such an estate. Again I am explaining these rules of descent and distribution for your general information. There are many facts and circumstances too numerous and complicated to discuss in this short column that might change the effect of these rules. In fact some property is not subject to these rules at all. You should consult with an attorney as to how these rules would apply to an actual estate. As pointed out in the last column, if there are no surviving lineal descendants and no surviving parent of the deceased, then all of the net estate will go to the surviving husband and wife. That share of the net estate not distributable to the surviving husband or wife, or the entire estate if there is no surviving husband or wife, will be distributed as follows: First, to the lineal descendants of the deceased (children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren. etc.). If they are all of the same degree of kinship to the deceased, they take equally. If they are of unequal degrees, then those of more remote degrees shall take by representation. “Degree” refers to the kinship of the survivor to the decedent. To take by “representation” means that remote heirs will only be entitled to that share of the net estate which would have been distributed to the kin through whom they take. For instance, if the decedent left surviving him three children and two grandchildren by a fourth child who had pre-deceased him, then the three surviving children would each receive a one-fourth share of the estate and the two surviving grandchildren would each receive one-half of their parent’s one-fourth share. Second, if there is a surviving husband or wife but no surviving lineal descendants, then to the surviving parent or parents onefourth of the net estate. Third, if there is no surviving husband or wife or lineal descendant of the deceased, then to thesurviving'parents, brothers and sisters and lineal descendants of deceased brothers and

By JACK ANDERSON

while, to continue their talks on the Middle East. The implication was that a breakthrough might be possible after the American decision on the fighter planes sale. Later the Secretary became upset over his total exclusion from the policy meeting at the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., before the President’s progress report to the nation on Cambodia. Not a single State Department official was invited to the meeting. SYMINGTON GETS HIS MAN A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, headed by Senator Stuart Syminton, D-Mo., has been fencing with the State Department over bringing home a controversial ambassador to testify. He is G. McMurtrie Godley, American ambassador to Laos. Godley got a bad name with newsmen for. the way he handled his previous post in the Congo. Since he has been switched to Laos, the administration has also been getting a bad press. For example, the U.S. Air Force has been bombing villages while Ambassador Godley has been denying the bombings. Symington politely asked the department to bring him back for questioning. The department politely said not now. But the Missouri Senator is as stubborn as his state’s famous mules. He has now won the tug of war over Godley, who is expected home in July to face the Senators. ISRAEL HOLDS 1,300 WITHOUT TRIAL Israel has the most modern prison system in the Middle East. In fact, the model Maasiyahu camp even lets inmates run many of the management functions. But as in South Africa and the communist lands, Israel has some skeletons in its prison closets. There are approximately 1,300 people held in prison without trial. Indeed they have not even been charged with crimes. Most of the prisoners are Arabs, but one recent tally showed 37 are Israeli citizens. They are considered dangerous to the security of the state and are held for preventive purposes, the Israeli government puts it. In other owrds, the government thinks they may be dangerous and has locked them up for it. Israel is at war, but the “administrative arrests” fly in the face of the very freedom and independence she is fighting for..

sisters of the deceased. Each living parent of the deceased shall be treated as of the same degree as a brother or sister, and shall be entitled to the same: share as a brother or sister parent shall not be less than onefourth of the net estate. Lineal descendants of descendants of deceased brothers and sisters shall take by representation. Fourth, if there is no surviving parent or brother or sister of the deceased, then to the. lineal descendants of brothers and sisters. If they are all in the same degree of kinship to the deceased. they shall take equally and those of more remote degrees shall take by representation. Fifth, if there is no surviving lineal descendants or parent of the deceased or lineal descendants of k parent, then to tlie surviving grandparents of the deceased dually. Sixth, if there is no surviving lineal descendants or parent or lineal descendants of a parent or a grandparent of the deceased, then the estate whall be divided into that number of shares equal to the sum of the number of the brothers and sisters of the decedent’s parents surviving the decedent plus the number of deceased brothers and sisters of the decedent's parent leaving lineal descendants surviving both of them and the decedent and cne of said shares to pass to each of the surviving brothers and sisters. The lineal descendants of the deceased brothers and sisters will take by representation. Seventh, if there is no person entitled to a share of the est ate under the foregoing rules, then the property goes to the StateJ of Indiana. ’ j Copywnght 1970 by John J. Dillon. Smokey's friends don’t play with matches. I 1 i