The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 November 1970 — Page 4

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Give Thanks The first Thanksgivings were pioneer feasts held in Virginia and Massachusetts in the early 1600’s. Almost all of the variety of meat on the tables consisted of game. Able hunters among the early settlers provided it. This November as we observe Thanksgiving, it is still possible for Americans to go out and take with their guns nearly every species of game that graced the original Thanksgiving menus. Forests have been cut away, hillsides eroded, waterways changed and polluted, but Americans in most sections of our country-still enjoy good hunting and the fruits of the chase. For this and for the whole basis of the present campaign against air and water pollution in general, we can thank a few pioneers of the present century — the early conservationists who turned the tide of extermination and saved our game-from extinction. Almost to a man, these giants of conservation who led the way for the millions todav were hunters. Notable

Editor Interviews Visitor From Northland

Many important and distinguished persons have visited the Lakeland area over the past few years but none have been as important in world affairs as the jolly gentleman this -editor was privileged to interview earlier this week The visitor, from the land of ice and snow, slipped into the area one night last week and let it be known he is staying through the Holiday Season. In an exclusive interview this editor was told the visitor, none other than Santa Claus himself, is here to issue his annual plea to shop early! He stated he is ready to help Lakeland shoppers during the next few weeks as they select gifts for Christmas giving. His stay here reminds one apd all the Christmas season is upon us and this issue of die paper offers many advertising suggestions for Christmas giving Santa has issued an invitation to all to scan the pages of this issue for gift giving ideas. He urges everyone to shop now to avoid the last minute rush. Christmas is a fun time! It’s time for the family and friends. It's a time for entertaining, for visiting, for giving gifts and mailing cards. But. most of all Christmas is for celebrating the birthday of the Christ Child who came to earth 19 long centuries ago to be the Saviour of the world Even Santa agrees with this He doesn't try to take away the true meaning of Christmas. He only tries to add to the spirit of the season which should be a happy time for all. So. why not heed his plea and shop

Why Editors Turn Gray (Bald)

Being editor of a country newspaper is not the most desirable job in the world — unless you are a glutton for punishment. It is confining beyond what is reasonably accepted these days. There are constant pressures. That means constant deadlines and everything has to be done in a hurry. As for financial reward, only a few really make it and we seldom advise youth to enter the field unless they are really dedicated and can cope with the inherent perplexities. . This does not mean that the newspaper-business completely unrewarding. because/There is certain satisfaction in doing any job well. There is humor in the work and something pops up almost every day that is good for a laugh. A lot of it comes from the fact that most people feel strongly, one way or the other, about having their names in the paper. Here are a few typical examples, not all original, of a number of ways to spoil an editor's day: “Please put it on the front page." “Use the story just as I have written it. The club wants it that way for the scrap book." “You're invited to our annual dinner tonight (this was the third invitation that week and we wanted a night home). There will be plenty free to eat and drink Oh. yes. please bring ypur camera.” ‘ How come it wasn’t in the paper 0 It was — well. I didn't see it. Will you

among them was President Theodore Roosevelt, both an ardent hunter and a dedicated conservationist. Virtually unnoticed until lately, the relatively small bands of devoted men not only preserved much of the wild-life of America — they increased and expanded ft. It has been said that there may be more deer in the U.S. now than when the first white settlers arrived. Pheasants and other game breeds have been introduced. Wildlife sanctuaries and broad refuges have been established. The National Wildlife Refuge System alone embraces 28.6 million acres. True, the passenger pigeons that once darkened unpolluted blue skies have been hunted out of existence. The buffalo that blackened the prairies are but a tiny remnant of the awesome thundering herds. But market hunters and commercial exploiters, not sportsmen. accounted for their extinction. To blame it loosely on “hunters,” implying sportsmen, as some do, beclouds the truth.

early so you won't have to be worrying about the gift you are going to give Aunt Susie or Uncle Joe when you should be attending a church service honoring the Christ Child or at a party with friends and relatives. This newspaper is responding to Santa's plea. Are you 9 The editors have prepared this special gift edition which is full of suggestions about what to buy and where to buy. It also gives ideas for the coming holidays. A traditional way to shop is for mom and dad to take the youngsters to toy la nd. Such a trip usually puts everyone in the mood for Christmas and also gives "Santa” an idea of what the youngsters would like to find under the tree on Christmas morning. A great idea for gift-giving is a major item for the home — furniture, furnishings, electronic entertainment equipment, major kitchen and laundry appliances. etc., are fun to choose and make a wonderful gift for the entire family for years to come. Individual gifts are nice too. Apparel is a natural and the givers have a wide choice. Or. how about jewelry, toiletries or grooming aids. Maybe the people on your list would like sporting equipment, hobby equipment or a good booly Personalized gifts add an extra touch of toughtfulness. With so much to see and so many gifts to choose from we suggest you heed Santa's plea . . . read the ads in this paper then make your purchase early so you can enjoy Christmas. And remember, “Shop at Home!”

please go through the back copies and tear it out for me.” “I just stopped by to talk a fewminutes. but if you're busy.” “We voted to make you our club publicity chairman." “I know you have a deadline, but couldn't you just squeeze this little item in?" “My husband has never been in trouble before so I don't think his name should appear in the paper for drunken driving and hitting that nasty policeman (who was only trying to arrest the man without hurting him). Besides, he onlyhad a couple of beers (the drunkometer showed him nearly dead drunk). And there are the children to think about (he didn't and the facts are he regularly gets drunk in front of them and beats the old lady about every Saturday night). “I know it’s on a Sunday, but it's our annual reunion and someone ought to cover it.” “My uncle's brother is one of your biggest advertisers and I was wondering if . . ." “I’ll try to get my ad in to you before the deadline next time." “You ran the disaster picture, but you didn't get my first wedding anniversary picture until the day after." “If there wasn't room for the picture. why couldn’t they run it on another page?" An on and on and on. LaGrange Standard

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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

Counting Your Vote

Many controversies have occurred these last few days in the State of Indiana concerning the counting and possible recounting of your votes in the recent election of state, local and federal officers in Indiana. The election machinery for counting votes has long been established in Indiana, but is quite often taken for granted by most voters. Your vote is originally counted, or “tallied ’, by the precinct election board in your precinct. The precinct election board is headed by an Inspector, who is technically appointed by the County Election Board, but is nominated and actually selected by the Chairman in your county of the party whose candidate for Secretary of State won the

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON / By JACK ANDERSON Hickel Gives Up Fight With White House

WASHINGTON — George Habbash. the militant Palestinian guerrilla leader, is in trouble with his troops for ducking out on the September fighting in Jordan. He was in the Far East getting some advice on revolution from the Chinese and the North Koreans In Peking, the Chinese sharply criticized the rivalry in the Palestinian movement At this stage of the fighting, they advised Habbash to seek to unite the forces against Israel The Chines? Reds pointed out that they had even joined forces with Chiang Kai-shek during World War II tq drive the Japanese out of China The Chinese also criticized Habbash for organizing the spectacular hijackings which they said alienated world opinion and hurt the Palestinian cause Habbash has told aides, according to intelligence reports, that he intends to take the Chinese advice - HICKEL TAKES LUMPS Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel has gained national acclaim for standing up to the White House But he quietly backed down when the White House brought pressure on him to cancel a national pollution conference he had scheduled for this fall The conference was set up to present four days of seminars, with commercial exhibits featuring anti-pollution equipment and services. But John Ehrilichman. the White House czar over domestic affairs, was piqued at Hickel for speaking out on President Nixon’s isolation from youth. Ehrlichman’s aides began to carp and criticize behind the scenes against the pollution conference. Health. Education, and Welfare officials, who were miffed at Hickel for stealing the anti-pollution spotlight away from them, joined in the sniping They complained petulantly that it was a conflict to have private exhibitors at a government antipollution powwow i Wearily, Wally Hickel, already in the presidential doghouse for his outspokenness. decided he couldn’t fight the White House at every turn. So he regretfully cancelled the conference He made up a phony excuse, saying his office would be too

election for that office. This year all the inspectors in the State were Republicans Two judges, one from each of the major parties (this year one Republican and one Democrat) are the other members of the precinct election board These three personS/Count the votes in your preci/ict for each office, whether the precinct votes by machine or paper ballot, and couhts the absentee ballots. .Any member of theelection board is entitled to protest the counting of a ballot After the votes are counted, your inspector must certify the vote and enclose his certification, the tally sheets upon which the votes were counted and added plus all ballots, in a paper bag which he must securely seal He then

delivers this bag. usually on election night, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court. His deadline for delivering his certification is the Thursday following the election. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of your county, together with a Republican and Democrat appointed by the respective party county chairman, make up the county election board and the county canvassing board. The Clerk delivers the certification of votes given him by each inspector to the county canvassing board, which has a number of employees to help A team of one Democrat and one Republican posts the votes from various precincts on tally sheets, working by wards and townships. The county canvassing board certifies to the clerk of the circuit court the results of the vote of each office If there is any member of the board who does not agree that the canvass is correct and will not sign the certitication. the controversy is referred to the Judge of the Circuit Court of your county, who decides what the results are. -- When the canvassing board or the Judge of the Circuit Court has made its certification to the County Clerk, the Clerk certifies the results of the canvassing board’s count for officers who are running from more than one

busy setting up a new environmental agency to carry on with the conference. But the Interior Department had already. contracted out the planning work to two private firms. Courtesy Associates and Ralph Witner & Co This column has now obtained the Interior letter confirming that they will be paid $65,823 on the cancelled contract. The original plan was to pay the cost with registration fees and charges to the exhibitors But these funds, of course, are now not available The money to pay off the contractors will not come from the White House, or from HEW. or even from Hickel s funds Instead, the under funded pollution fighters themselves — the Federal Water Quality Administration — will have to pay the entire $65,823 ZUMWALT FIGHTS FOR CARRIERS Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the Chief of Naval Operations, is fighting in the Pentagon to hang on to three aircraft carriers that his civilian superiors would like to put into mothballs The Navy now has 15 carriers, and DeputyDefense Secretary David Packard has suggested the Navy could get along with 12. Yet during the Jordan crisis, the Navy had no extra carriers available to rush to the Mediterranean. It finally had to send the John F Kennedy, which hadn't completed its shakedown training cruise Its crew simply wasn’t ready for an emergency. Then President Nixon, who was in the Mediterranean at the time, wanted to make a show of visiting a carrier. The Navy had to do some fast switching so he wouldn’t wind up on the John F. Kennedy, named after the man who defeated him for president in 1960. Seven carriers are assigned to the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets. During the crisis, however, two were on temporary duty with the Pacific Fleet, two were tied up in shipyards, and two were already in the Mediterranean That left the John F. Kennedy as the only available re-enforcement. Admiral Zumwalt has cited this as the best argument for keeping 15 carriers. Newspaper accounts last month suggested he would

Congressional Corner: , 1 John Brademas Reports From Washington

Congress Returns For First lame Duck' Session In Twenty Years

Members of Congress returned to Washington, this week for the first “lame duck" session of Congress in twenty years. This means that it is the Members of the current 91st Congress who are working in Washington this week. Members of the 92nd Congress, who were elected on November 3. will begin their terms next January. Because a number of the members here this week will not be serving in Congress after the end of the year, this session is termed a “lame duck" one. Regardless of the status of the individual Members, every Representative has gone back to work vigrously this week to wind up legislative consideration of many bills which have been shaped during the past two years. The House completed action on several important measures this past week. MANPOWER BILL PASSED One of the most important of these is the Comprehensive Manpower Act of 1970, which the House passed last Tuesday This bill gives us powerful new weapons in our fight against unemployment. By streamlining Federal manpower training programs and creating new job opportunities in the public sector, we should be able to get tens of thousands of the able-bodied unemployed back into jobs which they have been so earnestly seeking. The Act provides for state, city and other governments to set up programs of useful work in conservation, health, housing and recreation. Such programs will help fill manpower vacancies in needed areas while at the same time enabling jobless men and county or for federal office to the Indiana Secretary of State, in a sealed envelope. The law states that this certification shall be made on or before midnight on the Friday following the election. The Secretary of State is required immediately to add the votes certified to him and certify the results to the Governor The Secretary of State is not authorized to reject any returns certified and sealed by a Circuit Court Clerk Certification of elections are made but by the Circuit Court Clerk or the Secretary of State, depending upon the office, but are not delivered until 10 days after the vote has been counted, to allow time for the correction of errors. Copyright 1970 by John J Dillon

accept a limit of 12 He was so outraged that he prepared a statement declaring anew his support for 15 carriers But Defense officials refused to let him release the statement. WILL TAKE CAPITALISTIC COIN Assistant Secretary of State Charles Meyer, just back from attending President Salvador Allende s inauguration in Chile, has reported on his private talks with the Marxist leader. Meyer quoted Allende as saying he hopes the United States will continue its foreign aid to Chile, but that he won't let this assistance influence his policies. Allende declared bluntly that the US will have to accept his •plans to introduce Marxism to Chile. Meanwhile, communist agents already are heading for Chile, apparently to set up guerrilla training bases in the Castro style. . , RUSSIA’S ANGLE Soviet diplomats have made quiet backstage appearls to Israeli diplomats in several countries to urge Israel to return to the bargaining table. The Soviets have hinted that a Middle East settlement, acceptable to Israel, ean be worked out through UN mediator Gunnar Jarring. The Kremlin may be more willing to press for concessions. State Department strategists believe, to get the Suez Canal reopened. Soviet interests in Arab and Indian waters have made the canal vital to Russia. Jacob Beam, our ambassador to Moscow, has warned that the Kremlin may bring pressure upon the U.S. to discontinue military bases in Turkey. White House statements about the Soviet agreement not to construct bases in Cuba have embarrassed Soviet leaders. To save face. Beam has warned, they can be expected to demand a reciprocal agreement on American bases in Turkey. Secret intelligence reports, telling of Soviet officers in communist-controlled areas of South Viet Nam. have been carefully hushed up throughout the Viet Nam war. The Russians made only rare appearancesTn Viet Cong controlled country, as observers, not advisers.

women to earn an income. r In other action this week, I was pleased to vote for a law to extend GI benefits to the wives and children of men held prisoner of war or missing in action. The bill passed, and I am sure you will join me in my feeling that this is the least we can do for the families of these unfortunate men now held hostage. I am hopeful that there soon will be a breakthrough in negotations to release these American men who have, in many instance, been held captive for years now. CONTROVERSIAL TRADE BILL Another major piece of legislation which came before the House this week was the Trade Act of 1970 which would set quotas on the importation of shoes and textiles and extend the program of oil import quotas. After extensive debate, the measure narrowly passed the House Thursday night by a vote of 215 to 165. It was argued on one hand that the bill is needed to protect jobs for those employed in these specific American industries. Those opposing the bill contended that it will, in fact, only cause American consumers to pay . more? for shoes.> clothes and heating oil. 1 opposed the bill for several reasons. For one thing. I beleive its overall adverse economic impact outweighs the benefit the affected industries will receive. In addition, the President already has, under existing law. an impressive arsenal of weapons with which to retaliate against foreign importers who unfairly discriminate against U.S. industry. In fact, for some months now. I have been urging President Nixon to use these weapons to protect the American band instrument industry. In other!action in the House this week, the annual appropriation of the Civil Rights Commission was renewed to continue the important work of this Commission, headedby the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. President of Notre Dame. The continuation of the Commission was supported by the Department of Justice, which* recognizes its rote in helping assure equal rights to all American citizens. The House this week also authorized family planning services to be administered by the Department of Health. Education and Welfare.