The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 August 1970 — Page 9

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Fair Shows Variety Os Skills

The Kosciusko county fair is currently underway at Warsaw and shows a variety of skills and interests which the younger set has learned in 4H. /■ . Participation in 4-H gives a younger person a fine start in life — it puts him one step ahead in many skills and achievements. As one can soon see by visiting the exhibits now on display at the fair, 4-H club members are no longer country kids working on animal projects. True, animals and farm projects are a big part of the 4-H program but anyone who wants to learn something special can join a 4-H club and find a project to his liking. Boys, and sometimes girls too, work with woodcraft and metalwork. They do electrical projects, conservation projects and the like. Pets have also become an important part of the 4-H program.

Read The Legals

We are urging all our readers to take a few minutes out of their busy schedules and read the legals that appear in this week’s paper. Many of the notices published this week are notices to taxpayers of tax levies from the various towns and townships in the area and carry important information on each taxing corporation’s budget for 1971. Each notice also includes the date when the officers of said corporation will meet to give final approval to the budget. Why not read the legal notices that

New Light On Tour Score...

A 107-y ear-old pamphlet unearthed at the Kent State university library disputes the story that Abraham Lincoln’s address on the battlefield at Gettysburg on Noy. 19,1863, was greeted with silence. The pamphlet indicates that the short speech was interrupted no less than five times by applause and was followed by “longcontinued applause.” Lincoln’s speech takes up only a half page in the pamphlet after 30 pages of the main address given by Edward Everett, a former governor of Massachusetts and secretary of state under President Fillmore. According to tradition, no one applauded Lincoln’s address, either because they were disappointed at its

Goveraneat Farm Program Has Paymeat Limitatioa

LAFAYETTE — Limitation on government farm program payments “would have very little impact on Indiana and Corn Belt farmers,” says Jerry A. Sharpies. U. S. Department of Agriculture economist stationed at Purdue university And “if farm programs in the near future are similar to those o the past nine years,” adds Sharpies, “this conclusion will

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still be valid.” (The Senate has voted to limit payments a farmer may collect in one year to $20,000 The House already has passed the agriculture appropriation bill, but it did not include a ceiling on payments.) Sharpies points out that in 1968 Indiana farmers received $l2O million in federal payments. Feed grain (mostly corn, but a

Demonstrations give the younger set self-confidence and the dress revue which was last Monday gives the girls a chance to appear before the public and gain poise and experience as they show what they have created. The young ladies of the county have been busy cooking, sewing, canning, freezing and working with handicraft and home improvement projects during the last few months. All are on display at the fairgrounds. All of us have a stake in the future of this old world and supporting 4-H is one of the best ways we can think of for the improvement of our country and perhaps the world. So, why not make it a point to visit the 4-H booths at the fam and see the variety of projects the younger set has been working on this year and let them know that you are interested in what they are doing.

apply to the town and-or township where you live. Then, if you have a question or objection attend the public hearing and voice your question or objection. Your freedom to voice your opinion is the reason these legal notices must be published. If no one reads them or pays any attention to the meetings that are held to approve budgets as advertised there is no need to publish them. And, if they are not published we lose one of our precious freedoms! If you haven’t already read the legals in this paper why not take a few minutes out and take a look at them?

brevity in contrast to Everett’s oration or because they were stunned by the emotional impact of the president’s simple eloquence. Many people may want to go on believing the latter. Five interruptions for applause in the few minutes it took to deliver the address could only have marred its meaning and blunted its effect and suggests that the audience was applauding not the words but the man or the office he represented. Indeed, the rediscovered pamphlet actually lends new credence to the belief that it was not after the event, when people had a chance to read Lincoln’s words and think about them, that they could begin to appreciate their greatness. Goshen News

little grain sorghum > payments made up three-fourths of the total Wheat payments accounted for 13 per cent of the total and the remainder came mainly from several conservation programs. Size of individual payments to U.S producers, the economist continues, “range from several dollars to over $2 million." Most of the payments are small, but most of the funds go to relatively few payees, he adds. “Few of the large payments go to Indiana farmers.** the economist notes. “With all programs.combined, the largest payment was about SIOO,OOO. Only three per cent of the payees received more than $5,000 If. in 1968, a $20,000 payment limit had been placed on all farm program payments combined, says Sharpies, “about 10,000 payees in the U.S. would have been affected but government payments would have been reduced very little." In Indiana only between 67 and 95 payees would have been affected in 1966 by payment limits of $20,000, he says. “A maximum reduction of only about one million dollars would be made in government payments.” Government farm program payments have increased steadily during the 19605, from a low of S7OO million in 1960 to $3.5 billion in 1968. Sharpies explains “The increase continued jn 1969," he says. “Today govern? ment payments are equivalenjHo one-fourth the nation's total (net farm income." W

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Know Your Indiana Law _ By JOHN J. DILLON -71 Attorney at Law This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

This interesting word is one which clients are apt to hear from their lawyers when we are using the mysterious language of our profession. It is a venerable proceeding which has been passed down through history into our present Indiana procedure for the recovery of personal property. The word means a redelivery to the owner of an item of personal property which the owner claims is improperly being held by another person. The court issues an order or “writ of replevin,” as it was called in the English common law, to return the specific property to you. Once the court issues an order for redelivery of your goods, a sheriff or constable acturally seizes the goods and returns it to your possession.

Special Report From W ashington

WASHINGTON — George McMurtrie Godley, the American ambassador to Laos, was summoned before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the other day to answer questions about the secret war in Laos. He agreed to appear only after the Committee promised to make no transcript of the hearing. However, I believe the American people are entitled to know about a war that, the United States is financing. Godley admitted to the Senators that the U. S. is picking up most of the bills in Laos, both for the military operations and the civil government. The U. S. Air Force is also directing the air war against the North Vietnamese invaders. However, the invaders hide in the rain forests and the planes have been dumping their destruction upon native villages Godley claimed that the inhabitants have left the villages and that the destruction is necessary to keep the facilities from falling into communist hands. But he acknowledged that the fighting has left 750,000 Laotians homeless. This is almost one-third of the country’s population The tragedy is that the Laotians are probably the least war-like people in the world. They are. indeed, true believers in the doctrine that it is better to make love than war The Royal Lao Army is so lackadaisical in the battlefield that the Americans have been obliged to train their own army of mountain tribesmen to do the fighting. Captured documents reveal that the North Vietnamese are having the same trouble with the Loatians under their command. The natives are thoroughly brainwashed with communist propaganda Yet they still prefer to sit in the shade and contemplate nature than to build a new social order. Clearly the Loatians would stop the fighting and negotiate a peace—if only the Americans. North Vietnamese and Chinese would clear out of their country and leave them alate. Ambassador Godley admitted that little Laos was so impoverished that its foreign exchange amounted to less than $2 million a year. Under questioning by Idaho's Senator Frank Church, Godley also acknowledged

Replevin

Os course, before this order can issue from the court you must file a complaint aksing for this remedy. This can be done in a Justice of the Peace Court if the value of the property is SSOO or less, or any court of general jurisdiction in this state fa* any item of personal property, no matter what its value is. At the time the complaint is filed, if the complaining party wishes immediate redelivery of the personal property pending the final disposition of his lawsuit, he must post a replevin bond twice the value of the goods. This is done to insure that the opposing party, the defendant in the action, will be properly indemnified if the court later finds that the goods were in fact properly in possession of the defendant and

should in fact remain in the possession of the defendant. If the court in fact finds that the replevin order was improperly taken out by the person demanding return of the goods, then the replevin bond can be used to repay the defendant the true cash value of the goods, plus any damages he has sustained for the loss of the use of the goods while the lawsuit was pending in court. On the mother hand, if the complaining party is successful and convinces the court by [roper evidence at the hearing that he is in fact entitled to the possession of the goods as he claimed when he filed his replevin action, he may also recover damages for loss of use erf the property while the property was unlawfully held by the defendant. This is in addition to the return of possession of the property which he has already accomplished by filling the replevin action. In all courts except the Justice of the Peace Court, after the plaintiff has filed his complaint for immediate possession, the defendant has 24 hours to post a counter or redelivery bond to keep the goods in the defendant’s possession while waiting for trial. Again, if the plaintiff wins the lawsuit, then he can look to this redelivery bond of the defendant

that much of this foreign income came from illegal opium sales. Senator Church pointed out that the U. S. is spending SSOO per capita to devastate a land whose people take only S9O per capita to live on. FIERY FULBRIGHT \ Senator William Fulbright, the Senate oreign Relations Chairman, is furious over a tiger cage that has been erected in the Capitol Building. The life-sized cage is supposed to show how American prisoners are abused in North Vietnam. It was erected by H. Ross Perot, the wealthy Texan who has been trying to stir up world opinion in behalf of American war prisoners. He got the support of Speaker John McCormack, who agreed to let him display his tiger cage in the Capitol as a propaganda exhibit. This has outraged Fulbright, who considers it a grisly exhibit in poor taste fa Congress to be displaying. However? he hasn’t been able to overrule the Speaker. WITHDRAWAL PLANS The State and Defense Departments have drawn up comprehensive, classified plans for the South Vietnamese to take over the war within two years. The plans which go into the details of the disengagement, call for the South Vietnamese to take over not only the military but most of the other functions The Americans, however, are caught in a dilemma. They want Saigon to understand that a steady American withdrawal is inevitable. Yet at the same time they would like Hanoi to believe that the withdrawal schedule is flexible. To keep the details from \ the communists, the Pentagon has imposed J such secrecy on the withdrawal plans that / they haven’t been made fully available in field where they are supposed to be carried out. The result is that the plans exist more on paper than practice. The Americans have found that the South Vietnamese abhor keeping secrets. Therefore, the south Vietnamese are having trouble participating in plans that are withheld from them.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

South Bend Hamed To Unemployment List

Last week!l was notified by the United States Labor Department that South Bend has been officially designated an “area of substantial unemployment.” I have been pressing the Labor Department for this action because I hope it will help alleviate some of the critical problems in the South Bend area. The designation qualifies local industry for preferential treatment in government contract awards which can be of significant help in boosting our economy. The June unemployment rate for the South Bend-Mishawaka-Marshall County area was a staggering 7.2 per cent of the labor force. This is more. than double the 3.4 per cent unemployment rate recorded in January, 4969, only 18 months ago. Some members of the Administration contended last year that a rise in unemployemnt could be healthy for our economy. But I strongly disagree with this theory, and I believe they will have a hard time convincing the over 8,000 jobless workers and their families in our area that their unemployment helps the economy. The decision to name South Bend as an area of substantial unemployment is one step that could have immediate impact. I hope the Federal government will now consider placing more contracts in our areas and thereby stimulate business and open new job opportunities. In another step on the jobs front, last Thursday I joined a bipartisan group of legislators, including House Majority Leader Carl Albert and House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, in introducing an amendment to the Public Works Acceleration Act to aid areas with high rates of unemployment. for damages for the wrongful possession of the goods by the defendant and also return of his goods by court order after the trial. While a person is always entitled to recover possession of his property by simply taking it into his physical'custody from the person who is wrongfully holding it, he must do so without committing a breach of the peace, then you should resort to the procedure that the law has provided to remedy this situation and go to the proper court to seek a replevin order. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

We have learned, however, that the plans call for President Nixon to speed up the pullout of the 150,000 men who are scheduled to b withdrawn by next May. The U. S. will then announce plans to withdraw another 100,000 to 150,000 men. This will bring U. S. strength in Viet Nam down to around 100,000 by mid-1972. The pull-out process will continue until only a military assistance group remains in mid--1973. This will consist of about 40,000 support troops, including artillery units, helicopter companies, engineering companies and signal units. Meanwhile, President Nixon has told intimates that he will harden, not soften, the peace offer to Hanoi. This is justified, he said, by the latest developments in Viet Nam. He claimed that the South Vietnamese army not only has developed into a stronger military force, but the Saigon government has strengthened its political position beyond previous expectations. He is now confident that the Saigon government can hold off the communists and consolidate its political support. President Nixon sees no reason, therefore, to make any concession that would give Hanoi a voice in South Vietnamese affairs. RUSSIAN PRESSURE Intelligence reports claim that President Nasser accepted the American truce proposal under pressure from the Kremlin. The Russians reportedly promised to return to support the Egyptian military effort if the truce attempt failed. Nasser has told intimates, according to the intelligence reports, that he has such strong assurance from Moscow that he is willing to go it alone if necessary in negotiating a truce. This has already caused a break between Nasser and the Palestinian guerrillas. The Palestinians have opened an attack upon Nasser for his alleged appeasement. Meanwhile, the United States has insisted to both the Israelis and the Egyptians that the cease-fire pact should include an agreement that they will not use the lull to build up their military facilities.

Under the amendment, Federal funds for the construction of badly needed public facilities would be made available to areas with high percentages of jobless workers. Redevelopment areas, major labor market areas, and small sections of cities and towns would be eligible for assistance if their rate of unemployment over a three month period were to reach two and one-half times the national average during the preceding calendar year. In 1969 the average annual national rate of unemployment was 3.5 per cent. This means that areas with over 8.75 per cent unemployment would qualify for aid under the bill. FLOOR ACTION The movement for congressional reform, on which I v have been reporting to you for the past three weeks, took several more steps forward last week. On Monday, the House approved a measure designed to abolish the secret votes taken on J major amendments. In an almost unanimous voice vote. Members of the House decided to do away with the teller system of voting or at least the failure to record votes on tellers — an archaic practice which is older than Congress and which was brought over from England. The decision clears the way for every Congressman’s votes to be kept for the record on important issues. Under the old system, - Congressmen could slip through teller lines to record votes off the record. FARM LEGISLATION The long-awaited farm bill, which has been the subject of much study in the House Agriculture Committee, has finally been reported by the committee and is ready for floor action. This bill is supported by the Administration, but opposed by many farm organizations ~ throughout the country. It is expected to come to the House floor in a few days and I can give you a more complete report then. Also scheduled to come up for consideration is the Environmental Quality Education Act which I introduced last fall. This bill is aimed at teaching Americans about the actions which will detente the kind of environment we will have in the future and to stimulate an awareness of the various ways that this prospect can be improved.

By JACK ANDERSON