The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 29, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 August 1970 — Page 7

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Bicyde Safety

LAFAYETTE — Bicycles are the major means of transportation for school age youngsters. So be sure your children know the rules of the road before sending them out on the streets to compete for space with cars, trucks, and pedestrians, advises F. R. Willsey, Purdue university’s extension safety specialist. . Bicycles are vehicles and have road rights and responsibilities just like automobiles. However, these facts are frequently overlooked by both motorists and cyclists. Because children often don't know traffic rules and because children are unpredictable, motorists need to be

The ‘b’ Bikes Are 'Oaf Lowed

Mini-bikes and so-called trail bikes seem to be the ‘in’ thing these days, says Albert E. Huber, executive director of the Indiana Traffic Safety Council, Inc., but they are clearly the ‘out' thing insofar as riding them on public thoroughfares is concerned. Indiana law clearly states that no motor vehicle can be operated on the public Streets or highways unless it is properly registered and licensed. Most of these bikes do not have adequate and proper safety equipment to be licensed, such items as headlights, taillights, and two wheel brakes, and therefore should not be operated in traffic. The mini-bikes are especially dangerous in traffic, Huber said, due to their speed and their small size. ‘‘These small machines literally whip around like little bees and even the most careful motorist finds it difficult to see them in time to avoid them”, Huber added. The fact that some are a nuisance as a result of their noise is not the concern of his organization, he added.

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In athletic competition between U.S. track and field teams and those from western European countries the record shows U.S. females have done poorly for years. Time after time U.S. men win more points than than their French, German or English opponents but U.S. women almost invariably lose. _ This summer the U.S. track and field team which has been meeting teams in various European countries has fared as had been expected. The men have excelled but because U.S. women have not been able to match the performances of other countries’ females matches have been lost. The meet against a Russian team in Leningrad was not even close because of

Sorrow Expressed By Seaoto

WASHINGTON - The United States Senate today unanimously approved a resolution introduced by Senator Birch Bayh. for himself and Senator Vance Hartke. expressing sorrow over the death of Dan Mitrione. the department of state employee

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slam in Uruguay this week In a statement on the Senate floor, Bayh acclaimed Mitrone's "long and distinguished career of public service to his city, his state and his nation. “His life was full of meaning and purpose.” Bayh said. "His

alert for bicycles darting from between parked cars or shooting down driveways into traffic. Failure to obey traffic regulations can be especially dangerous at dusk and during the darkness hours, so be sure your child’s bicycle has good lights and reflective devices. Reflective material may be applied to several parts of the bike to aid visibility. Willsey considers tape markings as especially important on the rear fender, handlebars, and forks of the bicycle. In addition, he suggests that sew-on or iron-on reflective fabric be applied to the rider’s jacket.

Another important factor concerning the problems these vehicles create is that the operators, more often than not, are underage and do not have a driver’s license. This simply compounds an already illegal activity because a valid driver’s license is required to operate these vehicles. “It is beyond me how a parent can put an underage child on one of these relatively high speed vehicles and then send him out into traffic on our congested streets and highways”, Huber concluded. He urged dealers who sell trail bikes and mini-bikes to make certain that all purchasers are fully aware of the safety ana licensing regulations governing the lawful use of such equipment and to stress in their advertising and selling that unless properly equipped, these type of vehicles cannot be legally operated on the public streets and highways. We think Mr. Huber’s ideas are good ones and hope you agree too!

the poor showing of American women. It’s true European girls ride bicycles and work more than American girls — and they probably do more physical work, especially as youngsters. They have, as a result, healthier bodies. Many Europeans, especially in the northern European countries, probably benefit from a more nutritional diet, also. (Americans eat much undated and stale packaged and canned food, and more artificial flavor, color and additives than any other people.) Can American girls catch up? By proper exercise (perhaps more emphasis on healthy exercise, honest work, and walking) they undoubtedly could. The Farmers Exchange

death, in contrast, was senseless and a contradiction of the very principles for which he lived and worked "The final chapter has. been written. We can now only share in the appreciation of his life and in the common prayer that his death will rekindle within the hearts and minds of all mankind a greater understanding of the value of human life.” The resolution Bayh introduced for himeself and Senator Hartke read: “Resolved, that the Senate expresses its sincere sorrow over the untimely death of Dan Mitrione of Richmond, Indiana, while loyally serving as an employee of the United States Department of State in Montevideo. Uruguay. You And Social Security Q — I receive social security benefits for my 17 year old son. He will be 18 in January. Can he receive student benefits from social security? Are they limited to college students? A— He can continue receiving benefits until age 22 if he is a full time student and does not marry. Student benefits are not limited to college students.

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

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

Coastitutional Amendmeats 1970

Last week I discussed the importance of the constitutional amendments to be voted upon by the citizens of Indiana in the November election of 1970. I treated specifically the Judical Amendment which will be on the ballot this fall which will change the method of selection of our Supreme and Appellate Court Judges. There will also be two other very important amendments on the ballot this fall. Both of these amendments were voted upon and approved by the 1967 and the 1969 Sessions of the General Assembly. They are now, therefore, ready for a referendum vote by the citizens of Indiana. The first of the

Special Report From W ashington

WASHINGTON — Thriving Houston, capital of the U.S. aerospace industry, is America s fastest growing metropolis and the most cosmopolitan city in the Southwest. But if a still-secret draft report prepared for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is correct, Houston is also the scene of systematic, racial and sexual discrimination by some of the nation’s most powerful corporations and unions. The 137-page report, written dispassionately by Prof. Vernon Briggs of the University of Texas at Austin, is based on hearings held by the EEOC in Houston in June. Blacks. Chicanos and women painted a bleak picture of pernicious discrimination in both hiring and promotion by unions and large companies, including defense contractors. As disturbing as it is, the report deals with only a part of the discrimination that affects workers in Houston. This is because only 12 of the 31 companies invited to testify before the commission accepted. Among those who refused to appear were such giants as Armco Steel, Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., General Electric Co., Monsanto, Phillips Petroleum. Union Carbide. Tenneco, Texaco. E. I Dupont Co. and Dow Chemical Co The Commission also asked six local building trades and longshoring unions to appear. All refused. Two locals were then forced to appear imder court order in a secret session. Os them, the report says this: “The two locals, of prominent international unions, were selected not because they were the worst: for with scant exception all were dismal. “Based upon data filed with the EEOC and from the forced testimony of the two locals it did hear, there is no question that these unions have yet to divest themselves of their discriminatory past.’* Os the 12 corporations which agreed to attend the hearings. Briggs singles 'out a handful for their aggressive efforts to hire minority group members The best known of

amendments that I will discuss this week concerns the meeting time of the Indiana Legislature. It was provided in our 1851 Constitution that the Indiana General Assembly would meet once every two years or for special sessions as called by the Governor. There has been a large body of opinion suggesting that in this complicated age in which we live that our Legislature should meet annually. This is based upon the increasing volume of work that comes before the Legislature and the massive amount of legislation that must be considered in the sixty-one days provided by the Constitution. You have no doubt

witnessed the stopping of the clocks at various sessions of the Legislature as a method to circumvent the sixty-one day meeting requirement in our present Constitution. The Constitution goes on to provide at present that no special session of the Legialature may go beyond forty days. It is very clear that the frames of our present Constitution wished to put definite limitations upon the time in which our General Assembly can meet. Unfortunately, much confusion has arisen over the exact nature of the constitutional amendments concerning the Legislature on the fall ballot. The impression has been widespread that this amendment in fact provides for annual meetings of the Legislature. It does not so provide. It merely provides that the Legislature shall by law pass a bill stating when the Legislature shall meet. In other words, the Legislature can continue to meet sixty-one days biennially under this proposed constitutional amendment if the law was so passed. Some persons have suggested that the biennial session continues but that a budget session be held each year with only budget matters being

these are IBM, Shell Oil Co. and Lockheed Electronics. / Os the others, however, he finds little in the hearing record to merit praise. These companies include the American Oil Co., Brown and Root Construction Co. (the nation’s largest building company), Cameron Iron Works. Gulf Oil Co. and Humble Oil Co. . these enterprises are immense in size,” the report concludes. "In most instances, they have global reputations and national spheres of influence. Their massive power exceeds their small numbers. “They could be the instruments of change if they wanted to be The employment record in Houston shows many prefer to retreat from a position of community leadership to the false security of satisfaction with the status quo.” RESIGNED MAN STILL AT WORK When Assistant Housing Secretary Lawrence Cox resigned the other week, the event made headlines because it came while has affairs were under investigation by government auditors. Despite the unbecoming coincidence, HUD officials insist vigorously that Cox did not depart under a cloud. In fact, they acknowledge, he hasn’t, really departed at all. He still has an office in the same suite as his former quarters and retains his building pass and parking privileges. This is because he is being kept on indefinitely as a SIOO-a-day advisor to Housing Secretary George Romney on an on-call basis. Assistant HUD Secretary George Creel told this column that Cox’s resignation had nothing to do with the department audit of his activities as head of the Norfolk urban renewal agency — the job he held before joining HUD. Creel insisted the audit was purely routine. LAW VIOLATOR Rep. Clark MacGrggor, R-Minn., found himself outside the law the other day because of one of those clerical errors that secretaries have nightmares about. MacGregor wrote his friend Sen. Carl

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Congress Comes In For Flurry Os Criticism

MORE BRICKBATS of criticism have been hurled at the present 91st Congress than any in our newspaper career. Congressman William G. Bray said in substance, members of theU. S. Senate should be elected for short 90 day terms so they would be more responsive to the people. ’ A foreign dignitary, not unfiendly, pondered whether the U.S.A, had suffered a nervous breakdown. Tliere are 57 Democrats and 37 Republicans jn the U. S. Seanate. In the House it is 244 Democrats, 188 Republicans and 3 vacancies. This is misleading for in reality neither party controls Congress. Vote hungry southern Democrats team with vote hungry northern Republicans to flop across party lines on important votes. Many wonder whether our Nation is not far along the road the Roman Empire pursued to its destruction. Were there room a column could be written on each of these gyrations. Abe Fortas relinguished his U.S. Supreme Court job in a cloud of scandal. Two nominees of President Nixon for the High Court were rejected. Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, Jr., led the blitz of the nominees. In a bitter 18 months battle that let cases pile up in the court, the charge was “conflict of interest.” The blitzers never mentioned “conflict of interests” of individual Senators in the fray. President Nixon poured “gasoline on the fire” by charging Senate rejection of his nominees was “southern bigotry.”

considered in the even years. TTiis would give the Legislature an opportunity to examine the fiscal situation in the State without going into a General Session concerning all facets <of legislation. It is interesting to note that our original Constitution passed in 1816 provided for annual sessions of the Legislature and the Legislature did meet annually until 1853 when our present Constitution was implemented. The other amendment on the ballot concerns the term of office of the Secretary of State, the Auditor and the Treasurer of the State. It is proposed that these offices be increased from a twoyear term to a four-year term. This would make the terms of those officers the same as the Governor. Lieutenant Governor and other State officers. It is important that each citizen understand -6 these constitutional amendments which are to be voted on this fall because basic changes in our Constitution in Indiana happen only infrequently. | Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

Curtis, R-Neb.. a fellow conservative, that “I have an excellent chance November 3 to defeat Hubert Humphrey in Minnesota and ‘ thus add a critical Senate seat to the Republican column.” MacGregor confided to Curtis that he was having a big fund-raising dinner in Chicago and “your presence, and the advance announcement that you will be there, could well make the difference between success and failure of our effort.” Postal regulations require that franked mail be non-political. So MacGregor’s staff carefully addressed the letter to go via “Inside Mail” — not through the post office. But the letter somehow got dumped into the mails and put MacGregor technically outside the law. In fact, the Minnesotan was more careful about the franking regulations than dozens of his colleagues who regularly pump all sorts of ill-disguised political propaganda into their constituents’ mailboxes with the taxpayers footing the bill. Through one of those ironies that about on Capitol Hill, one of them was Hubert Humphrey, when he was a member of the U.S. Senate. The Post Office caught Humphrey and he paid the postal bill for the mailing as is requiredbylaw. RICKOVER’S TIP PAYS Adm. Hyman Rickover, the Navy gadfly who had been deflating military stuffed shirts for years, had a hand in the expose by two Congressmen of the prison atrocities on Con Son Island off South Viet Nam. Before leaving on the fact-finding trip, Rep. William Anderson, the determined Tennessee Democrat, talked by telephone to his friend Rickover. “The only way you’re going to find one •damned thing,” the crusty Admiral told his friend, “is to get away from the crowd and stay out of those air-conditioned briefing rooms.” Anderson took the advice and he and Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Calif., made an unannounced visit to the island prison. They outsmarted equivocating U.S. and Vietnamese officials to gain entrance to the now famous “tiger cages.”

By FRANK WHITE

There has been great wailing over the Nation spending itself into bankruptcy. A deficit of $7 Ullion or more in the 1971 budget is talked. The Senate voted to hike the “temporary budget” ceiling by $lB billion to $395 billion ofr the fiscal 1971. It hiked the “permanent” public debt ceiling by sls billion to S3BO billion. We can’t comprehend a billion but this one is understood. Last February in face of inflation Congress voted itself the biggest pay in history. It voted 56 to 29 to forego the raise until we have a balanced budget. The Senate voted a raise for postal employes and opened the door for unionization of the postal service. Social Security was hiked and another raise prepared. The pork barrel was rolled out by the 91st Congress. The Senate approved the House Public Works bill. It was a fat one, authorizing $770 billion of public works that are to be approved first by the Economic Development Administration. The Senate tacked SBOO million more on the White House budget request for education funds for 1971. Senator Jacob Javits (R-N. Y) a liberal spender tacked on another $l5O million to speed desegregation of schools and bus pupils. The senate approved $3.3 billion for Housing and Urban Development. That was $328 million inore than the Administration asked. The most unnerving, shameful hassle of the Senate was spending eight weeks on the CooperChurch bill to tie the President’s hands in Cambodia. The action repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution giving President Johnson authority to fight the Vietnamese war. It tied the President’s hands, or did it, on spending money to help Cambodia. It forbade defense money to any nation going into Cambodia to aid the South Vietnamese. President Truman saved Greece from a complete Soviet takeover with our troops. U. S. Senator Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) got an amendment tacked on that no money would go to Greece. This Cambodia bill was a monstrosity and Democrats and Republicans in the House could not swallow the Senate action. U. S. Senator William Fullbright (D-Ark) came up with a more frightening bill. His bill demands small nations put up one half of the cash of defense funds. If enacted, it would cut the heart out of both SEATO and NATO alliances against communist takeover of free nations. It would for instance boost the defense budget that Korea is now spending to impossible heights for its economy.

By JACK ANDERSON