The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 November 1971 — Page 10

Tli** PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (E*t. 1888) Syracuse-Wawaaee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 H. a DEMOCRATIC ‘ 3 ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse,. Ind., — 46567

Power Tool, Safety -POWER tools can be as safe — or as dangerous — as the person using them. A recent survey of safety officials showed the two paramount rules for safe operation as ‘‘reading the owner’s manual” and “proper grounding.” To ensure handymen don’t become “handicapped,’’ the Power Tool Institute, Inc., offers these safety suggestions: Ground all tools. If a cord is equipped with a three-prong plug, it should be plugged into a three-hole receptacle. If an adapter is used to accommodate a two-prong receptacle, i- the adapter wire must be attached to a known ground. Never remove third prong. ? Guards are for your protection. Keep them in place and in working

Does Mom Hear My Heart?

The following article was issued recently by Poland’s fighting Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski when the Communist government in Poland tried to force the Church there to give up its opposition to abortion. He is one of the few churchmen who has fought the Reds all the way, yet is still free. The story was used by pastors throughout Poland, defying Communist opposition. October 5: Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet. I am as small as a seed of an apple, but it is I already. And I am to be a girl. I shall have blond hair and azure eyes. Just about everything is settled though. Even the fact that I shall love flowers. October 19: I have grown a little, but I am still too small to do anything by myself. My mother does just about everything 5 for me. And what is odd — she still doesn’t even know that she is carrying me here under her heart, and that she is helping me already, that she is even feeding me with her own blood. She is so good. Some say that 1 am not a real person yet, that only my mother exists. But I am a real person, just as a small crumb of bread is yet truly bread. My mother is. And I am. October 23: My mouth is just beginning to open now. Just think, in a year or so I shall be laughing, and later talking. I know that my first word shall be — mama. October 25: My heart began to beat today all by itself. From now on it shall gently beat for the rest of my life. Without ever stopping to rest. And after many years it will tire. It will stop, and then I shall die. November 2: I am growing a bit every day. My arms and legs are

Corn Surplus Rips Farmers Pocketbooks: Senator Hartke

Because of a serious miscalculation by the United States Department of .Agriculture, many of our nation's com farmers are now facing economic ruin The saddest part of this whole situation is that the farmers must now suffer through no fault of their own. In 1970, a com blight destroyed enough of our national com crop to cause the total production to fall millions of bushels short of what the Department of Agriculture said was needed As it turns out, even with the heavy loss, there are an estimated 700 million bushels of com left over from 1970, But, in view of the 1970 blight disaster, the Department asked and encouraged farmers to plant large com acreage to assure the country an ample supply this year. As always, our farmers responded. The result is that we can now expect to have more corn tnan we can use — at least 1.6 billion bushels more than last year, and at least 500 million more than we can use in the next 12 months. This abundant supply has

EDITORIALS

caused the price of com to drop sharply For the first time in several years, No. 2 com has fallen below 61.00. We do not know how much further the price of com will drop in the next few weeks, but even so, it is already to a level that will bankrupt many farmers. Something must be dune immediately x to correct this situation. The Secretary of Agriculture made an attempt to deal with the problem when he announced the 1972 feed grain program two weeks ago. But, as is the case too often, his proposals fall short of solving the real and immediate problems. I regret to say that it offers few assurances of an adequate income for farmers in 1972. . To reserve the present critical situation. I have cosponsored the "Strategic Storable Agricultural Food Commodities Act of 1971." Under the fancy name are real ways to deal with the real issues. This legislation defines the amount of wheat, feed grains, soy beans, and dairy and poultry products the Secretary of Agriculture must keep in

order. And avoid accidental starting by making sure the switch is in the “off” position before plugging in the cord. Form a habit of checking to see that keys and adjusting wrenches are removed before turning on tool. Avoid damp or wet locations when using power tools. Keep work areas well illuminated and benches uncluttered. Keep your footing and balance. Keep children and all visitors at a safe distance from your work area. Don’t force a tool or attachment to do a job for which it was not designed — nor at a rate faster than that at which it was designed to operate safely. Whenever possible, use clamps or a vise to hold work, freeing both hands to operate the tool.

beginning to take shape. But I have to wait a long time yet before those little legs will raise me to my mother’s arms, before those little arms will be able to gather flowers and embrace my father. November 12: Tiny fingers are beginning to form on my hands. Funny how small they are! I shall be able to stroke my mother’s hair with them. And I shall take her hair to my mouth and she will probably say: “Oh, nasty!” November 20: It wasn’t until today that the doctor told mom that I am living here under her heart. Oh, how happy she must be! Are you happy, mom? November 25: My mom and dad are probably thinking about a name for me. But they don’t even know that I am a little girl. They are probably saying Andy. But I want to be called Cathy. I am getting so big already. December 10: My hair is growing. It is smooth and bright and shiny. I wonder what kind of hair mom has? December 13: I am just about able to see. It is dark around me. When mom brings me into the world, it will be full of sunshine and flowers. I have never seen a flower, you know. But what I want more than anything else is to see my mom. How do you look, mom? December 24: I wonder if mom hears the whispering beat of my heart? Some children come into the world a little sick. And then the delicate hands of the doctor perform miracles to bring them to health. But my heart is strong and healthy. It beats so evenly — tuptup, tup-tup . . . You’ll have a healthy little daughter, mom! December 28: Today my mother killed me. —Delphi Journal-Citizen

reserve. It also sets the minimum price which the Secretary must pay for the goods he is required to purchase for the national food reserve. By maintaining these inventories, we would be able to stabilize the market and the farm prices and thus eliminate the kind of surplus which is currently depressing the corn prices and destroying the incomes of our corn farmers. The purchases for and sales from such a reserve can also help to stabilize a farm family’s income at or near the parity level. Therefore, this policy would protect the farmers against unfair loss of income. My bill also authorizes the Secretary to use the food reserves to help our world neighbors combat famine and severe food shortages. This bill, then, can help to serve the cause of world peace and understanding. It is my hope that the bill will be passed promptly. The frustrating and critical situation our corn farmers now face continues to worsen by the minute. Without this help, America will be penalizing its farmers for doing their job too well.

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

limitation Os Actions'

In the American scheme of jurisprudence, both federal and state, practically every cause of action must be brought within a certain limited time. These laws which prohibit the bringing of an action beyond a certain time are known as “statutes of limitation.” The statute of limitation is a public policy position enunciated by the Legislature that says that a given action not brought within a specified period of time ought not, as a matter of public policy, ever be brought. This means that a person who has a perfectly good cause of action must file their lawsuit in the proper court within the prescribed time or lose their cause of action. The policy behind this is so that matters that can be brought into litigation should be brought within a reasonable time

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Pentagon Crammed With More Secret Papers

WASHINGTON — Somewhere in a guarded vault deep inside the Pentagon are as many as a dozen massively detailed historical studies They deal with every major foreign policy crisis going back to the Eisenhower Administration. The famous Pentagon Papers which gave the inside details of our mistakes in Viet Nam constituted only one of these secret studies. The studies are so restricted that even their subjects are highly classified. Most of them were compiled during Robert McNamara’s days as Secretary of Defense. Yet even McNamara was unaware of the existence of most if not all of these sensitive studies. The Pentagon Papers, which review what went wrong in Viet Nam, have now been splashed all over the front pages. But we can report that the other historical studies examine America’s undercover war in Laos from 195® to 1961; the show-down over the Congo in 1960; the Berlin crisis of 1962; the celebrated Cuban missile crisis, also in 1962; and the U.S. intervention in the Dominican civil war in 1965. These papers are known as the “Critical Incident Studies.” They were compiled in an effort to assist the Joint Chiefs of Staff to prepare for future emergencies. The idea was to record great crisis in excruciating minute-by-minute detail. Highly trained historians from the Institute for Defense Analysis were given access even to such inner sanctums as the Pentagon's fabled war room. They heard every word and saw every move. They noted every blunder and miscalculation. Obviously, such a detailed record could be highly embarrassing to the military brass. So a bizarre secret agreement was reached to protect the generals and admirals. It was stipulated that no one on the civilian top side of the Pentagon would know of the project, not even the Secretary himself. The studies were placed under the strict control of Joint Chiefs. In this way, the top military brass sought to learn from their mistakes and to cover them up at the same time. In the end, however, they just covered them up.

of forever put to rest. It is interesting to note that a person can have a perfectly good, provable and just cause of action against another person but if he sleeps on his rights he cannot enforce any remedy. The tricky part about various statutes of limitations in Indiana is that there are so many different applications of time to be made. For example, in criminal cases, generally speaking, the prosecution of a misdemeanor must be commenced within two years and the prosecution of a felony must be commenced within five years. However, a very notable exception to this rule is that there is no limitation of time in which a charge of murder may be brought. Nor •is there any limitation of time for com-

mencing the prosecution for treason, arson and kidnapping. To those persons who have committed ~a crime which has a specific time limitation, if the prosecution is not commenced within the required time, then a person, even clearly guilty, cannot be prosecuted for the crime. Each civil action that a person is entitled to bring has some form of limitation. The most notable statute in this regard for injuries received to person or character, such as injuries received in an automobile accident, the statute of limitations expires within two years. These so-called tort actions must be brought within this required two-year period or "the plaintiff is forever foreclosed from bringing the action. In addition, there is a five year statute for suit against public officers and their sureties, ten years for the recovery of real property sold at sheriff’s sale, ten years upon promissory notes and twenty years for actions on contracts in writing for the payment of money. I hasten to point out that I have mentioned just a few of the various types of action which have different periods within which an action must be brought. Finally, there is a general statute which says when no other statute limits the time within when an action may be brought in

The Pentagon Papers are no more secret, however, than those that President Johnson quoted from in his memoirs. The only difference is that Johnson as a former President has the authority to put out his version of the Viet Nam War. But Daniel Ellsberg, who was a lesser official in the Pentagon, is prohibited from putting out the true version. The federal grand jury will, therefore, indict Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press. Some of the key New York Times editors and reporters will also be indicted for alleged conspiracy with Ellsberg. Os course, the grand jury won’t even consider indicting Lyndon Johnson for publishing secret documents which give the history of the Viet Nam War according to LBJ. STORM BUSTERS FRUSTRATED U.S. storm busters have been trying for nine years to break up hurricanes. They are prohibited, however, from tampering with hurricanes that are too close to the mainland. There is some concern that seeding a hurricane might change the path of the storm „ and send it careening into the coast. During the entire nine years the storm busters have found only one ideal hurricane: Hurricane Debby back in 1969. They were able to reduce wind speeds by 31 per cent which had the effect of decreasing destructive force of the storm by more than 50 per cent. The storm busters in their search for ideal hurricanes are now eyeing the Pacific and will probably be transferred there during the typhoon season to experiment with Pacific storms. PEACE DATE WANTED House Republican leaders have warned President Nixon that the House will vote a deadline for ending the Viet Nam War if the President doesn’t beat them to it. The Senate has already adopted resolutions to set a termination date, but the House has defeated these resolutions four times. The last vote was 215 to 192. Next time, the GOP advisers told the President, the House will go along with the Senate.

Congressional Corner: John Brademas Reports From Washington

House Spends Week Studying Higher Education Legislation

The Higher Education Act of 1971, which the House is now considering and which the Senate has already passed, would extend all existing higher education programs, including aid to colleges and universities and assistance to students attending them, for five more years. The bill under consideration in the House has been a highly contentious one, both with respect to the appropriate form of assistance to students, and to the proper mechanism with which to provide what legislators and educators know as “general institutional aid.” The House has not yet resolved this particular issue, so the debate on the higher Education bill, will be resumed this Wednesday. ADDRESS TO ENGINEERS On Wednesday, I spoke before the annual convention of the American Society for Engineering Education. This Society, as its name indicates is composed of engineering professors and deans of engineering schools throughout the United States. I could not speak to them as a fellow engineer, of course, so I spoke, rather, as a Member of Congress who has over a period of thirteen years specialized in education legislation. In my comments, I suggested to the engineers that they who build the buildings, the highways, the dams, and the waste disposal systems of our country, have perhaps a more crucial role to a civil matter, then the matter must be brought within fifteen years. ■' While there are many distinctions to be made between various statute's, and there are exceptions made for various reasons, such as the minority of disability of the person bringing the action, or fraud, it should be remembered that the best way to lose a cuase of action is to have the statute of limitations expire. Therefore, it is critical for any person who believes he has a cause of action, to get to his lawyer’s office immediately so that the lawyer will have ample time to research which statute of limitation applies and file a lawsuit in a timely manner. Copyright 1971 by John J. Dillon

SPACE CENTER PIE THIEF The highest officials of America’s space program are quite shocked at the behavior of one of the program’s top scientists at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. . The scientist has been suspended for a week and pul on probation for the rest of his government career for stealing 20c apple pies from a blind vendor. The $25,000-a-year engineer was caught in the act by a colleague who reluctantly reported the incident to Grady Williams, the director of design engineering. Williams could hardly believe the report. But he assigned an investigator to follow the scientist, who robbed the blind vendor three more times. The scientist was called on the carpet. At first he evaded his boss’s questions. Then weeping, he fell to his knees and confessed he had stolen the pies. He begged Williams to spare him from the humiliation of dismissal or arrest. So Williams decided upon the suspension and probation. At Williams’s request, we have agreed not to name the pie thief. AFFAIRS OF REDSKINS President Nixon began his last congressional strategy session by lecturing GOP leaders on the resurgent Washington Redskins football team. Even the President has been caught up in the football fever that has swept Washington. At the opening of the meeting, he turned to Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and congratulated him on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ world series victory. Then the President immediately launched into a precise analysis of the key plays in Washington’s victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. While the President gave his enthusiastic wrap-up. Secretary of State Rogers waited patiently in the wings to brief the leaders on Viet Nam and other great, but much less interesting, affairs of state.

play in the years ahead than even they themselves may have realized. And I suggested to the engineers present what I described as “new dimensions” in engineering education. I suggested to the engineers that they ought to take into account developments in engineering in other countries of the world, from which we might have much to learn, and I suggested also that the modem engineer will have to take far more factors into account than he has heretofore done with respect to the impact of his projects on the total environment . ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION • Along the same lines, my Select Education Subcommittee held hearings last Thursday morning on the Environmental Education Act of 1970, which was signed into law just one year ago last week. W’e asked prominent authorities in the field, such as the former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, to report to us on their views of how the new law has been implemented during its first year of operation. We very sharply questioned the United States Commissioner of Education, Sidney Marland, on the effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness, with which the Administration has been following the intent of Congress in carrying out the provisions of this Act. (The law, by the way, of which I am the sponsor in Congress, provides for support through Federal monies for the training of teachers in environmental studies and assistance to elementary and secondary schools for the support of environmental education courses.) Unfortunately, the Administration has given very low priority to environmental education and failed to obey the intent of Congress, first in establishing a new Office of Environmental Education within the Office of Education, and second, in establishing an Advisory Council on Environmental Education to advise the Office of Education on how the program should be operated. As a result of our sharp questions, however, the Commissioner of Education agreed to establish a new Office of Environmental Education and announced the appointment at long last of the Advisory Council.

By JACK ANDERSON