The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 April 1971 — Page 9

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An Editor's Trials If you stop to think about it, every community, large or small, gains its sense of identity and purpose through the pages of its local newspaper. If you want to find out anything or let other people know about some event, service or product, it’s a pretty fair bet that the pages of your local newspaper can lend a hand; even ex-subscribers seem to think so. A letter published in the Hayti, Mo., Herald, makes this point and illustrates, as the editor put it, “... one of the better days in the life of a weekly newspaper publisher.” The letter says, “Dear

Goodwill Week 1971

Goodwill Industries of America, this year, will be given special recognition during (he observance of Goodwill Week, May 2-8. This outstanding organization has expanded from a fairly humble beginning to a point where it is now nationally recognized as an authority in the field of providing rehabilitation and training for the handicapped. \ In Goodwill shops throughout the United States, many thousands of handicapped people have received encouragement, a sense of belonging and precious self-respect that comes with learning new skills and being employed as working members of a useful and productive enterprise. A great many handicapped individuals have gone on from Goodwill training to take positions in competitive industry. At this time, when the cost of welfare

Going Back In Time We had many requests for a copy of the following portion of the sermon given by Rev. Bill Richardson (5560) at our West Palm Beach Rally. TJiose who wrestle with the space program and doubts about an Almighty, might find some consolation in this article, reprinted from the Spencer, Indiana Star. Harold Hill, president of Curtis Engine Co. in Baltimore, and a consultant in the space program relates the following development: “I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today hap* pened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were checking the position of the sun. moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years and 1,000 yeats from now. We had to know this so we don't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lav out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down! They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it and they said, “It’s perfect.’’ The head of operations said, “What’s wrong?’’ “Well, they have found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time.’’ They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer! One religious fellow on the team said, “You know, one time I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still.’’ TheyHidn’t believe him, but they didn’t have any other answer so they said, “Show us.’’ He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anybody who has ‘common sense’. There they found the Lord saying to Joshua. “Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand: there shall not a man of them stand before thee.’’ Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower

EDITORIALS J

Editor: Please send me a free copy of your newspaper containing the obituary of my aunt. Also publish the enclosed clipping of the marriage of my niece. And I wish you would mention in your columns, if it doesn’t cost anything that I have two calves for sale and our church is having a chili supper Friday night and the tickets are only 75 cents. As my subscription has expired, please stop the paper as I can’t waste money on newspapers. — Ex-subscriber.” About the only comment that can be made here is that some day's just start out* bad, and once in awhile they don’t get any better!

threatens to bankrupt a good percentage of our state treasuries and contributes heavily to multibillion dollar deficits at the federal level, we may be thankful that such an organization as Goodwill Industries exists and carries on its fine work completely independent of taxpayer support. A great many of those people now productively employed in the Goodwill program would otherwise be dependent upon some form of government role or other assistance. The week of May 2-8,1971, is a good time to remember that Goodwill Industries deserves the respect and support of each one of us and that it lives by the donation of repairable items. Call your nearest Goodwill Industries office. Remember, what you can no longer use today could help give someone else a new start in life tomorrow.

them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That’s right. “The sun stood still, and the moon stayed ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day.” Joshua 10:8,12,13. The space men said, “There is the missing day!” They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua’s day was 23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was - “about (approximately) a day”. These little words in the Bible are important. But they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you’ll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. This religious fellow afso remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The space men told him he was out of his mind. But they got out the Book and read these words in 11 Kings: Hezekiah, on his death-bed, was visited by the Prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, “Do you want the sun to go ahead ten degrees?” Hezekiah said, “It’s nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.” II Kings 20:9-11. Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in II Kings make the missing 24 hours the space travelers had to log in the logbook as being the missing day in the universe! Isn’t that amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!” —Holiday Rambler

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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.

fair Credit Reporting Act'

Many a person has been severely injured because erroneous information was put < out by a credit bureau or credit investigating bureau concerning ] the credit habi ‘k of the individual. < To alleviate this situation and i make credit reporting companies i more responsible for their conduct, a new law goes into effect ; April 25, 1971, designed to make these companies more respon- .1 sible. j First the Act limits the reasons 1 for which a credit report can be obtained. They are: (1) In response to a court order. (2) Upon the written instruction of theconsumer. (3) To a person (as f defined in the Act) who - (a) 1 intends to use it in connection <

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Relaxed Chinese Trade Restrictions Seen

WASHINGTON — American businessmen have flooded the Commerce Department with inquiries to find out how they can take advantage of the relaxation of trade restrictions against Communist China. They are ready to start selling machinery, tractors, trucks, chemicals and fertilizers for Chinese wool, furs, rugs, handicrafts, furniture. oils and tea. The trade restrictions still haven’t been liberalized enough to offer the Chinese the sophisticated telecommunications and electronic equipment they want. China s communications and power systems are still basically American. A large number of China’s top engineers and technicians also received their education in America. Therefore, there will be a further relaxing of trade regulations. This will open the bamboo curtain to an increasing number of American businessmen who will become the forerunners for American diplomats Meanwhile, Red China’s Ping Pong diplomacy has caused a crisis on Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek has called Ambassador Chow Shu-kai home and sent his trusted former personal secretary, James Shen, to Washington as the new ambassador Chinese diplomats have also been frantically contacting their friends in the Republican party. At least one powerful friend. Vice President Spiro Agnew, has been fighting inside the National Security Council against President Nixon’s policy of improving relations with the Chinese mainland. Privately, the President has assured his Chinese friends that he has no intention of letting Chiang Kai-shek down but that it is now longer realistic to ignore Communist China. WANT KREMLIN SUPPORT Intelligence reports warn ominously that Arab leaders have asked the Kremlin to back an Egyptian-Libyan-Sudanese attack across the Suez Canal. Sudanese Premier Jafaar al-Nimery and Defense Minister Hassan Abbas flew to Moscow reportedly to discuss a military thrust into the Sinai. The Egyptian Foreign Minister. Mahamud Riyad. also has discussed this possibility with Kremlin leaders.

with an extension of credit to, or review or collection of an account of, the consumer; or (b) intends to use it for employment purposes; or (c) intends to use it in connection with the underwriting of insurance; or (d) intends to use it in determining responsibility in connection with governmental licensing laws; or (e) otherwise has a legitimate business need for the information in connection with a business transaction. To obtain information for any other purpose than those enumerated is a crime punishable by one year in prison and $5,000.00 fine. A credit reporting agency employee or officer who knowingly provides

information to one not entitled to it is subject to the same prison sentence and fine. Further, a company that provides credit information must, upon demand, disclose to the consumer the nature of the information that it has on hand about the consumer. If the consumer disputes this information, the credit reporting agency must re-investigate to determine whether it is accurate. If it is not accurate, then it must be deleted from the files of the credit reporting agency. Failure to follow the requirements of this Act also makes the credit agency or a person who uses the information supplied liable to the consumer for damages in a civil action, and if the company’s conduct is willful, it can also be held accountable for punitive damages and attorney’s fees. It is felt by all people in the credit business that the implementation of this new Act will make credit agencies very careful about their investigation of potential debtors and it will be certain that any information they give to any financial institution will be accurate. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

The Arabs have urged an immediate strike before the hot summer makes desert operations difficult for fuel-burning planes and tanks. The Arabs apparently seek a limited offensive to give Arab morale a boost and to bring pressure on Israel to accept Egyptian peace terms. Meanwhile, the Israeli cabinet, under strong U.S. pressure to respond to the Egyptian peace overtures, is tom over concessions. The confidential details have been reported to the State Department by the American embassy. Moshe Dayan, the tough, one-eyed Defense Minister, doesn’t trust the Egyptians. He has reminded his cabinet colleagues that the Egyptians violated the last cease-fire agreement by moving anti-aircraft missiles into the truce zone. It would have taken a major offensive to eliminate them — an option that Israel seriously considered but finally rejected. Prime Minister Golda Meir, however, is willing to permit the reopening of the Suez Canal, provided that Israeli ships will be allowed to use it. She has argued inside the cabinet that, realistically, the Egyptians can’t be expected to reopen the Canal as long as Israeli troops can be safely pulled back five or six miles on condition that Egyptian troops don’t enter the evacuated area. Egyptian technicians, however, could move into the vacuum. Golda Meir also wants U.S. assurances that if the Egyptians move troops into the evacuated stop, there will be no objection to Israel’s reoccupying the area by military force. She also wants U.S approval of an Israeli counterattack if the Egyptians attempt a military drive across the Canal ECONOMIC RIVALRY President Nixon has directed the White House Council on International Economic Policy to prepare for a “generation of peace. ” In three private conferences with his new international economic adviser, Pete Peterson, the President has set the guidelines for economic rather than military rivalry in the 19705. He predicted in his talks with Peterson that the nuclear stalemate will keep the great powers out of war for the next generation The emphasis, therefore, should

Congressional Corner: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Consider Legislation To Create A National Institute Os Education

As- I’ve mentioned in earlier reports, the House Select Subcommittee on Education is at the moment considering legislation proposed by President Nixon to create a National Institute of Education, to serve as a center for research, evaluation and reform in American education. A number of other countries already have such institutions, so over the Easter recess, a bipartisan group of committee members visited educational research centers in key European cities. In Paris we talked with officials of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as with UNESCO officials engaged in programs of educational research. In Oslo.tfNorway, we spent a highly productive day with members of the Ministry of Education, and members of the Norwegian National Council on Innovation in Education and exchanged views with them mi how to build new and better ways of teaching and learning into their schools systems. In London, we talked with Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, top British government official for Science and Education, and we visited several of the British institutions of educational research and innovation. These included the National Foundation for Educational Research; the Schools Council, which involves their teachers in educational change; the University Grants Committee, which allocates funds for many British colleges and universities; and the new Open University, which teaches students through correspondence and the use of radio and television. At all of these places, we found a high respect for American research and practice in education, and in all of them we found an openness to further cooperation with the United States. DRUG ABUSE EDUCATION While the main purpose of our trip was to consider educational research, we also spent some of our time consulting with Europeans about education to combat drug abuse. In Oslo, we talked to the Chief of Police and officials of the Ministry of Health

be on economic competition. The President asked Peterson to establish an “early warning system” to locate and identify foreign economic threats. Peterson called the Council together behind closed White House doors on April 8 to start tackling the economic challenge that the President has laid down. THIRD PARTY’ Black leaders have been talking privately about organizing a third party, a coalition of minority groups, which would fight for the underprivileged But privately some admit their real purpose is to persuade the Democratic party to nominate a black for vice president in 1972. They will point out to Democratic leaders that the Democrats could lose the black vote in such pivotal states as California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Ohio. However, the labor unions, which will have a powerful voice at the Democratic conventions, aren’t ready to accept a black on the ticket. Too many rank-and-file workers are still worried about blacks moving into their neighborhoods and taking their jobs. Black leaders will, therefore, unite at the Democratic convention and push Michigan's Congressman John Conyers for the vice presidential nomination. Conyers won’t get the nomination himself, but the blacks will show enough strength that their advice and consent will be instrumental in choosing the final candidate. o HOLY LAND POLLUTION Pollution, the curse of modern technology , has come to the Holy Land. The gnarled mountains and sweeping valleys, where Jesus sought to change men’s hearts, are now plagued with factory smoke The sweet smell of the grape vine, mentioned in the Scriptures, has given way to the exhaust fumes of the automobile. The Sea of Galilee, that great heart-shaped mirror of the sky in the midst of encircling mountains, has been polluted with raw sewage. Israeli biologists have warned that the sewage, if it isn’t controlled, will kill off the fish in the historic waters where the Biblical brothers, Peter and Andrew, James and John once hauled in their nets.

and in Paris we interviewed a top U.S. Justice Department narcotics official. In each country we found agreement that hardhitting, frank and honest education should be a major component of society’s fight against drug abuse. Back in Washington now, I have missed the cherry blossom festival, but I have observed something much more valuable: new ways of improving education, |nd new ways of fighting the drug traffic. LEGISLATION FOR JOBS Congress reconvened last week and the House of Representatives went right to work on a major public works bill designed to stimulate employment and economic development in areas of high unemployment. Recognizing the widespread unemployment crisis throughout the country, the House passed the measure Thursday, and it now goes to the Senate. The South Bend-Mishawaka area, including St. Joseph and Marshall counties, would benefit from two of the key provisions of the bill because of our high unemployment rate. One, our area would be eligible for public construction grants which would not only increase employment opportunities but provide essential public facilities such as water and sewer works, hospitals and road improvements. Second, additional funds would be available for Economic Development programs for which the South BendMishawaka area is now eligible. I am hopeful this bill will soon become law and an effective instrument to help give employment and the economy a shot in the arm in our area.

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By JACK ANDERSON