The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 December 1970 — Page 7

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Its Time To Buy Christmas Trees Again

Christmas carols, stringing popcorn, hanging stockings, smiles and children’s wide-eyed joy — the mirth and festivities of the Yuletide are most often enjoyed around a Christmas tree. In selecting just the right tree for decorating, most people look for a tree that is healthy, free from damage, and well-trimmed. They generally want a tree that tapers gently from a full bottom and has an ample number of branches for hanging ornaments. U.S. grade standards for Christmas trees, established over a decade ago by the Consumer and Marketing Service of

Something Gdod On Television!

Many of the people in today’s society feel that good television programs are a thing of the past. Once in a great while, however, an exceptional program is shown. We believe Sunday’s John Wayne special “Swing Out, Sweet Land.” to be one of these. It was described as “humorous,” “hopeful,” and “Flag-waving” in TV Guide and we’ll have to agree with this as it had the comedy of many famous stars and was hopeful in the fact it showed a nation that America is really worth saving. It was flag-waving in the sense that it followed famous Americans through historical scenes in the country and many quotes were recalled during the program. The viewer was introduced to such people as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and was on hand as the whites met the red man, the tea was thrown in the harbor at Boston in defiance of the English taxation. The viewer saw brother meet brother in the Civil War and traveled across the western states as they were settled. Truly, it was 90 minutes of history mixed with humorous touches and told

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Occupational Safety And Health Act Passes Senate

WASHINGTON - A biU which could literally mean the difference between liK death to America's 80 million civilian working men and women passed the Senate on November 17th and was approved by the House in somewhat different farm just one week later This historic measure now goes U> a House-Senate conference, which will iron out differences between the two bills. I wholeheartedly endorsed the Senate version of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, for I believe it would help greatly to end the tragic waste of life and limb in our work places. It is a shameful fact that 2.2 million workers in this country are maimed, disabled, or otherwise injured annually on the job, and another 14,500 died through job-related accidents and illnesses every year. Moreover, over 250 million mandays of work are lost through job disability. It is estimated that the annual loss to the gross national product because of industrial accidents totals $8 billion Even more important, of course, is the tragic effect on the lives of the families which have endured these unfortunate accidents. In only four years as many people have died through their employment as have been killed in almost a decade of American involvement in Viet Nam —a shocking, needless waste. National attention has been focused recently on environmental problems — the pollution of our airland water and

EDITORIALS

the destruction of other natural resource. However, this concern with the “environmental crisis" has generally overlooked the question of occupational safety and health. And yet our environment consist not solely of the air we breathe traveling to and from work or the water we drink; it consists also of the air we breathe at work, eight or more hours daily. Collected in 1.790 pages of 13 volumes of hearings held by the Labor and Public Welfare Committee are the gruesome statistics of job-related illnesses and accidents The problem of occupational illness continues to be one of the greatest problems facing industrial society. The Public Health Service estimates that there are approximately 390.000 new occurrences each year of occupational disease These include such diseases as byssionosis and asbestosis, which are contracted directly as a result of industrial environment, as well as chronic diseases indirectly linked to industrial environment, such as respiratory illness allergies and heart disease * Agricultural casualties have also been heavy. An estimated 80,000 injuries and 800 deaths each year ate attributed to the improper use of some pesticides. The legislation which I have supported would authorize the Federal Government, for the first time, to set job safety standards for the bulk of the nation's 80 million working men and women. The bill also creates a National Institute of Occupational Health

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, can help you choose a tree that has these characteristics. The grade standards require that a tree be: Fresh — with pliable needles that are firmly attached to branches. Clean — at least moderately free of moss, lichen, vines and other foreign * matter. Healthy — fresh, natural appearance for particular species. Well-trimmed — free of all barren branches below the first whorl and smoothly cut at the butt.

in story and song. We also liked the way John Wayne commented at the end of the program on the fact all kids are not bad. This is something we have believed in for some time. According to his closing remarks 99 per cent of the kids in America today deserve a pat on the back. In closing he urgedeveryone to take up the saying, “This is my country and I’m going to do good for it” Just think what would happen if all his viewers took this advice and really took an active interest in doing good for America instead of letting the other guy do it. The good Lord, too, was given credit where credit is due and Wayne and his cast closed with “God Bless America.” We hope some of Wayne’s enthusiasm about America and what she stands for rubs off on some of the viewers. And, if you missed the show it’s scheduled for another showing sometime jn the future so be sure and see it then and you too will know why we are praising Wayne for his $2 million dollar special. We think it was worth every penny spent.

and Safety and authorizes a major study of the adequacy of workmen's compensation programs. The Senate-passed bill authorizes the Labor Department to set. administer and initially enforce safety standards. I would have liked to have seen the Secretary of Labor given final enforcement powers, with employers having the right at appeal to the courts, but the Senate decided to put final enforcement in the hands of an independent. three-member board. The House version of the bill differs in one major respect from the Senate bill. The House bill would create a presidentially appointed board to set job safetystandards. rather than the Labor Department. I think this sort of arrangement would be a mistake, for by so dividing the responsibilities for carrying out the provisions of the bill, we would merely be creating another unnecessary agency as well as reducing the effectiveness and strength of the measure. The Department of Labor is perfectly capable of carrying out all the functions called for. and experts in government operations believe it important that the same agency which administers the program on a day-to-day basis, be the same agency which initially sets the standards for the program. I am hopeful that the HouseSenate conferees will restore the Labor Department's powers in this important area, for the bill needs this "punch” to be truly effective. Surely such legislation is long overdue. Since the 1890's, when Congress first acted to protect railroad workers, safety legislation on state and federal levels has been only piecemeal. But the Federal Government clearly has the responsibility to insure safe and healthful working conditions to workers engaged in interstate commerce. Passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act will immediately provide protection to 53 million employees in interstate commerce activities.

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

This is a public service aiticle explaining provisions of

Indiana law in general terms.

"False Arrest"

Never in the history of our country have citizens been more prone to excercise their rights guaranteed by the constitution as they are at this particular time. Particularly, people are very resentful of any restraint upon their liberty, or any restricting of their right to move about as they see fit. This has caused an increasing number of civil actions brought to recover damages by persons who feel that they have been falsely arrested or falsely imprisoned. False arrest in Indiana is simply any detaining of a person by force or any constraint of a person’s freedom of movement by either color of law or threat of the filing of criminal charges. Even if a person is arrested with legal process, but the legal process is maliciously issued without probable cause, this arrest can still be the basis of a civil suit for damages. The mere locking a person in a room, or demanding that they remain in a given place without proper legal authority constitutes

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Buckley Company Would Exploit The Ecology

WASHINGTON — Senator-elect Jim Buckley, the New York conservative, wants to be on the Senate Interior Committee which oversees the Interior Department and much of the nation's conservation efforts. He insists he is a true conservationist and is not involved in the ravages that his familyowned Catawba corporation has tried to visit on Florida’s fascinating Lake Okeechobee. We have now learned, however, that another Catawba affiliate. United Canso Oil & Gas. is pressing for permission to exploit the oil in 957,512 acres of land on Alaska's controversial North Slope Conservationists fear the giant oil rigs, roads and pipes will destroy wildlife on huge tracts of virgin Alaska land. The “uninvolved” Buckley is listed in United Canso’s most recent annual report as vice president of the Canadian firm and a member of its seven-man board of directors. TWO-STATER Throughout his campaign for the Senate, Buckley tried to disguise the fact that he lives in Connecticut, not New York. But when the weekly Lakeville Connecticut Journal failed to carry the news of his election, there were howls of outrage from the fabulous Buckley family compound in nearby Sharon Sister Jane Buckley Smith even wrote to the editor to complain that her brother had been unfairly treated. The incident has now erupted into a major controversy with the citizens of the elegant little towns that surround Lakeville all taking sides. MARTHA'S MOUTH Martha Mitchell's nocturnal telephone calls berating politicians and newsmen who get her dander up have led to whispers that she partakes too freely of the sauce No one in Washington, however, has seen

an arrest. This should not be interpreted to mean that anytime a police officer arrests a citizen, who later is found to be not guilty of the charge, that the police officer can therefore be sued for false arrest. A police officer acting in his official capacity, who reasonably believes that the person he is arresting has committed a crime, can raise as a defense his reasonable grounds for the belief that the person he is arresting is guilty of a crime and this constitutes a defense. Even a police officer, however, cannot make an arrest without probable cause, maliciously or without some basis on which he believes the person he is arresting committed some crime. It is often pointed out that in Indiana, any citizen may arrest another citizen without a warrant when he has knowledge that the person being arrested has committed a felony. I should like to point out however, that a citizen should make an arrest only when the circumstances are

particularly grave and a true emergency exists. It is better for the citizen, who observes a crime or has knowledge of a crime to call the local authorities and let these persons who know exactly what they are doing make an arrest for the commission of the crime. Many false arrest suits arise out of citizens’ arrests and many times substantial damages are turned in favor of the person improperly taken into custody by another citizen. Indiana also has a special statute covering mercantile establishments which allows owners or operators thereof to detain persons who the owner believes is guilty of shop lifting. The person so detained may be required to identify himself and disclose whether or not he has in his possession unpurchased merchandise. However, under no circumstances may the owner of a store detain any person he suspects of shop lifting beyond the time a peace officer arrives or one hour under any circumstances. This statute is designed to protect shop owners from harassing civil litigation in their attempt to control the greatly increased shop lifting that is going on in our country. Since such items as wounded pride and humiliation can be considered in arriving at damages for a person who has suffered a false arrest, it is exceedingly important that arrests be left to the police authorities in any given jurisdiction. In this way. a citizen can be certain that the arrest will be properly made and the chances of convicting the person arrested of a crime will be

her drink excessively. The recipients of her calls also say her tongue is sharp, but not the least thick. Her husband. Attorney General John Mitchell, has told friends that she is moody and makes the calls when she “gets in one of her moods." But her friends explain — with more delight that distress — that Martha merely has a big mouth. INVESTMENT LOST The highway lobby is distressed over the defeat of Congressman Bill Cramer. He has been the top Republican on two House subcommittees dealing with roads. He has used his influence inside these committees to promote the interests of the big construction companies and makers of bridge steel, cement, asphalt and street lights. The highway builders, therefore, quietly chipped into Cramer’s Senate campaign, hoping to install their champion in the Senate. Contributions to Cramer from road builders t have come from as far away as New York, North Carolina and Mississippi. The highway lobby's investment in Cramer, however, failed to pay off. He not only lost his Florida Senate race, but must now give up his spot on the two House subcommittees. HOOVER'S 100 TAPPS In 1966 the Supreme Court demanded full details on the bugging of Washington lobbyist Fred Black’s hotel suite. Over the bitter protests of J. Edgar Hoover, then-Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach submitted a memorandum to the Supreme Court naming Hoover as the official who directly authorized the bugging. The memo also acknowledged that the FBI had engaged in additional eavesdropping in the interests of internal security.

Congressional Corner: ; John Brademas Reports From Washington

Thanksgiving, 1970 Brings Troubled Times For America

This Thanksgiving week end I hope that you and your family had a chance to get together in the traditional manner, to meet, to extend hospitality or to accept it, and to be thankful for your and our blessings. These are troubled times for America: the war in Viet Nam continues, problems in our schools and universities continue, and drug addiction among our young seems to be still on the rise. The storms in East Pakistan are causing starvation and disease on a horrifying scale, and around the world there are dozens of countries afflicted with war, disease or starvation. Yet still we have much to be thankful for. Our system of free and constitutional government enables us to move to solve these problems, and the awesome wealth with which we have been blessed makes it possible for us to help a little to lessen the misery of the poor and the starving. Having eaten our Thanksgiving turkey, let us give thanks that our industrial and agricultural might have made it possible for us to eat so well and still have the food, the helicopters and the good will with which to help the storm victims of Pakistan. There was good news last week from the Education and Labor Committee, of which I am a member. Last Tuesday we reported out the President’s Emergency School Aid Act of 1970, a bill authorizing 14 billion dollars to help alleviate the stress on schools still undergoing desegregation This is a good bill, bringing us several steps closer to genuine equality of opportunity in education. With Mr. Nixon, I strongly hope that the House and Senate will pass it into law within the next few weeks Three constructive bills from my own Select Education Subcommittee were also sent to the full House by the Education and Labor Committee. LIBRARIES My own Library Services and Construction Act — co-sponsored by over 40 members of both parties—will streamline the administration of Federal aid to libraries and contains important new initiatives in the provision of services to rural areas, the physically handicapped and institutionalized persons. It provides Federal support for improving State administrative agencies in the library field and can be expected to improve the quality of libraries throughout the country. far greater. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

In all cases Hoover had approved the wire taps on loose authority from successive Attorneys General. Hoover has been so disturbed over this eavesdropping publicity that he has strictly limited FBI bugging. Despite the popular impression that the FBI is listening in to conversations across the country, we can report positively that the FBI maintained less than 100 wiretaps and hidden listening devices. REDS IN THE NEWS Intelligence reports are that Mikhail Suslov, who helped to install Leonid Breshnev as Russia’s Communist party boss, has now turned against him. Suslov is reported to be leading an faction. Apparently Breshnev hasn’t been following a line hard enough to suit Suslov. Both Britain and France have hardened their position against Israel in the back room diplomatic discussions We can now report that both countries raised strong objections when the United States and Israel considered military intervention to rescue King Hussein during his September civil war with Palestinian guerrillas. Now the British and French are calling upon Israel to make concessions to settle the Middle East crisis. UN mediator Gunnar Jarring has abandoned his Middle East peace negotiations to return to his post as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow. However, Jarring has promised to keep in constant touch by telephone with UN Secretary General Thant. At the slightest sign of a breakthrough, Jarring will return to his mediation. The left wing leaders of Bolivia, Chile and Peru are talking privately of forming a leftist alliance of the three Andes nations. This could become a powerful bloc for spreading the Marxist revolution throughout South America.

MODELSCHOOL FOR THE DEAF One bill I co-sponsored—-introduced by Congressman Hugh Carey of New York—will establish a model elementary school for deaf children. The House Education and Labor Committee approved this bill unanimously, a strong recommendation for floor action. By establishing the Kendall School at Gallaudet College in Washington, D. C. we will extend the education Gallaudet gives the deaf down to the vary young children. This legislation is necessary because researchers tell us the most important years for the acquisition of language concepts are between birth and age 5. yet at the moment the vast majority of deaf children do not enter school until after age 5. The Kendall School at Gallaudet will help educators discover the most effective techniques for working with the very young deaf children. Indeed, it can serve as a model for the nation. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION Finally, the committee approved Extension of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, a law which has shown a solid record of achievement since President Woodrow Wilson signed it into law fifty years ago. In less than a decade the numbers of handicapped people served have increased dramatically, and the number of rehabilitated people leaped in geometric proportion. During the 1960’s the number of individuals aided by programs under this act doubled, from 100,000 to 200,000 and projections indicate that the figure should reach 500,000 within five years. The legislation we sent to the House of Representatives provides for a variety of programs to aid the physically and mentally disabled, including a basic program of grants to aid State vocational rehabilitation agencies, aid for innovation in rehabilitation services, research and training, and the construction of much-needed rehabilitation facilities, laws, and I strongly hope that they will be passed by Congress Because there were 390,000 workers injured last year on-the-job and another 14,500 killed, Congress has been highly concerned with the question of on the job safety. Last week we acted, passing a bill to set standards of job safety and to penalize businesses which subject their employees to undue dangers.

By JACK ANDERSON ,