The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 April 1972 — Page 9

The Yfa «I / wa m-kmh M L PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (Eat 1907) Conaolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

War Os The Roads

Late auto accident figures tell the story of "... the war of the roads in 1971.” And war it is! In the single year of 1971, the death toll on U.S. highways surpassed total G.I. fatalities in nine years of Viet Nam combat. During 1971, an estimated 55,000 Americans died in traffic accidents — riearly five million were injured. There were some 22 million accidents with a total economic loss estimated at a stunning $16.3 billion. Anyone pausing to reflect on these figures should have no trouble understanding why auto insurance costs have risen, nor why insurance com-

Watch Out For The Swindlers

The swindlers come out from under their rocks as soon as the grass begins to turn green. They begin to telephone or to call at the door trying to sell their products and services. Watch out if you do not recognize the brand name or the firm they represent, warns Dr. Jan Armstrong, extension consumer marketing specialist at Purdue university. s*. Always beware of the unknown and the intinerant. While many reputable companies sell house-to-house — and a few use the telephone —so do many “gyps.” If in doubt, find out! To guard against the spring swindlers, Dr. Armstrong suggests avoiding trouble by following some simple rules: Ask for credentials or references. This applies to yardmen, painters, paper-hangers, etc. Check on salesmen by phoning the Chamber of Commerce or the Better Business Bureau. Only

Churches And Prison Inmates

Here is a chance for all the churches in the Tri-State area to put their actions where their sermons are. ' A group of thirty Catholic and Protestant churches in New York City have taken on a project which should challenge the conscience of every church congregation in this area. Together, they have “adopted” fifteenhundred prisoners serving time in a Brooklyn prison. Each participating church provides at least one clergyman who visits the prison once a week, visiting inmates, counseling them, advising on family problems. When a prisoner is nearing

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CAPITOL COMMENTS^ With SENATOR i VANCE HARTKEia . Indiana «

The Price Os Pollution

The coming of spring means that millions of Americans will be taking to the outdoors for picnics, * sports, and recreation. It is a time when, through Nature’s reawakening, we are reminded of the splendor of our environment. As we spend more of our week ends outside, we will not find it difficult to notice that the lakes Sind streams are dirtier this year and that the air we have to breathe is a little less pure. There is something else we win have to face: two of the “best things in life” are no longer going to be free. Fresh air and a clean, continuous supply of water are going to cost money, lots of money. The costs at fighting pollution, \ however expensive, are ones we cannot ignore. The longer we wait/ the higher they will climb: and the price of doing nothing, in - the long run, could be more costly in more ways than we would want to imagine. A report just released by the Council on Environmental Quality has outlined the economic impact of pollution control. It is the first well-

EDITORIALS

documented effort to tell the American people what the bill * will be for cleaning the chemicals and sewage from our waters and the poisons from our air. Between 1973 and 1960, that “bill” for pollution reduction is expected to run at least $26 billion. That is hardly welcome news for most of us because we are the ones who, in one way or another, are going to have to foot the bill. What is most disturbing about the Council's report, however, are the implications for our economy. With industry having to assume a major part of pollution control costs, money that would once go toward the industrial expansion necessary for a healthy economy, would have to be channeled instead into the anti-pollution effort: a result of that action — higher prices for consumers. Other companies, with smaller profits, probably could not even meet the pollution program costs and would thus be forced out of business: the result — unemployment. Higher costs andhigher prices

panies urge higher standards for drivers and seek the development of cars that are less costly to repair. It is a sad commentary on human sensitiveness to tragedy that while a great many persons will ignore commonsense rules of caution on the highway — until it is too late — they are extremely aware of bruises on their pocketbooks. Thus, the pocketbook incentive is a powerful ally of those seeking safer highways, safer drivers and cars that do not become financial disasters when fenders are bent.

swindlers will object. Get all prices and promises in writing beforehand. Spoken promises mean nothing, so don’t believe everything said on the telephone. Never sign a contract you don’t understand nor one with blank spaces. If you have any doubts, try to see an example of the work. Or, call an established firm instead. Never pay until the job is finished. Then be sure to get a receipt with guarantee terms written in detail. Especially guard against these: topsoil peddlers, furnace “inspectors,” shrubbery salesmen, chimney and roof repairmen, and storm window and siding salesmen. Finally, Dr. Armstrong urges the homeowners never be afraid to say “no” — no matter how rosy the proposition seems.

his time of release, the visiting pastor helps him find a job and prepares him for the tricky experience of returning to the outside world. Accordingly, a prisoner emerges not as a friendless excon, but as a protege of that highly respectable institution, the Church. Nearly every town in the Tri-State area has a jail, and several churches, WOWO suggests there is very little excuse for people who attend the latter to continue ignoring those penned up in the former. How about talking to your pastor about emerging in such a program. WOWO Radio

will slow our economy even more than it has been dragged down in the past 3>* years. Certainly, we cannot assort even higher prices and more unemployment when we are already suffering from too much of both of these conditions. There are two approaches I suggest we can take which will allow us to care about pollution and jobs and the survival of our own industries. The first is increased government assistance to industries which are required by law to undertake pollution control efforts. If we are going to say to a manufacturer that be must end all pollution at his plant by 1965, then we will have to offer that (manufacturer financial assistance in the form of loans and loan guarantees to meet that deadline. The second approach is contained in my “Full Employment Act." Anyone who is able to work and wants a job should be guaranteed employment. If private business and industry have no job openings, then government should provide meaningful work. If men and women are thrown out of work because of pollution control, then we must find other work for them to do. Taken together, my proposals offer both industry and individuals a valuable assist in making the transition to a pollution-free environment. They will not hold down the costs of ridding our environment of manmade pollution, but they will make those costs both manageable and bearable.

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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.

Are You Up To Date On Unemployment Compensation?

A drastic change has occurred this year in the taxation of employers for unemployment compensation benefits. A corresponding change for employees is in force. Many em-, ployees not entitled to such benefits before 1972 are now entitled to employment compensation. If an employer must pay the tax, his employees are entiUed to collect unemployment compensation. Before 1972, employers required to pay the

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

White House Directs Harassment Os Anderson

WASHINGTON — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet author, has accused Soviet authorities of harassing him. He claims the Kremlin has systematically slandered, investigated and hounded him. The story has outraged the intellectuals around the world. No doubt most Americans believe Solzhenitsyn’s experience could never happen here. We might point out that the White House has directed a similar campaign of slander and investigation dgainst us for the past several weeks. In an attempt to discredit us. White House speech writers have furnished, speeches to congressional leaders blasting us. Robert Mardian, the Justice Department s internal security chief, has been running an intensive investigation of us. Government gumshoes have staked out my house from a nearby vantage point and keep it under surveillance through binoculars. They tail me wherever I go, driving about two blocks behind. We have traced the license numbers to FBI cars. The FBI has also prepared a thick dossier on us, full of raw, unconfirmed allegations which has been turned over to the Justice Department and the White House for ammunition against us. Hiis campaign is beginning to resemble the Soviet harassment of Alexander Solzhenitsyn for the same crime of criticizing the government. ROGERS’ ROLE President Nixon is taking extra pains to give Secretary of State Bill Rogers a role in planning the Moscow summit meeting in May. The President was criticized for bypassing the State Department in his preparations for his Peking trip. He has made a point, therefore, of asking Rogers to prepare the briefing papers for the Moscow trip and to coordinate the preparations inside the National Security Council. Rogers has assigned the responsibility to Martin Hillenbrand, the Assistant Secretary in charge of European affairs. Both Rogers and Hillenbrand have met privately with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to discuss the trip. preliminary papers have already been submitted by the State Department experts. One secret analysis warns that the Soviet

tax were those who had four (4) or more employees on at least one day of each of twenty (20) calendar weeks in the calendar year or the proceeding year. Beginning in 1972, taxed employers are those who .during 1971 or 1972 either paid wages of $1,500.00 or more in any calendar quarter (three months) or had one (1) or more employees at any time in each of twenty (20) calendar weeks. The hiring of a part-time employee tax.

The amount of the federal unemployment tax in 1972 is 3.2 per cent of the first $4,200.00 of wages paid during the calendar •year to each employee. In 1971 the tax applied only to the first $3,000 of each employee’s wages. The State of Indiana also taxes employers 2.7 per cent of the taxable wages, and the federal government allows employers to deduct payments made to Indiana from taxes otherwise due the federal government. Thus, the federal government receives 0.5 per cent of the taxable wages. Employers must deposit taxes owed the federal government by the last day of the month after the aid of any calendar quarter if the taxes due as of the end of the quarter amount to SIOO or more. Taxes may be deposited with a bank designated as a depository by the federal government, or with a federal reserve bank. Checks should be made out to the bank, and your federal employer identification number should be written on the check. Some types of employees such as household workers employed in a home, are exempt. The federal government has

Union, despite its lip service, is quietly building up its armaments while talking disarmament and seeks to exploit relaxed tensions to improve its strategic posture around the world. *. SPANISH NARCOS Narcotics officials are quietly studying Spain's success in curbing the narcotics traffic by strict enforcement. Spanish customs officials are the world’s best in nailing narcotics smugglers. Those who are caught get stiff sentences that discourage other smugglers from entering Spain. The Spanish enforcement has also caught a number of American teenagers who won’t be coming home from Spain for a long while. Typical is the case of 16-year-old Claudia Bamer from South Pasadena, Calif. She was arrested for bringing seven pounds of hashish illegally into Spain. She will be 23 years old before she will be released from Spanish prison to return home to South Pasadena. MORE LOCKHEED TROUBLES Lockheed planes have been plagued with problems here in the United States. Now Lockheed’s fabled 104 Starfighter jets apparently are having trouble staying in the air in West Germany. The West German government signed its first contract with Lockheed back in 1958. More than 900 Starfighters have now been delivered to Germany. A distressing number, however, have mysteriously crashed. The actual number of accidents is classified by the German government. But my information is that a startling number — from 150 to 250 — have crashed. The son of a former German defense minister was one of the victims. The planes have come down at such a rate, in fact, that Melvin Belli, the famous San Francisco attorney, has filed suit in behalf of widows and orphans of German pilots who have died in Starfighter accidents. Belli tells me something is wrong with these planes. They were modified by the Germans under Lockheed supervision. So many have crashed, be says, that the pilots flying them are scared. Lockheed denies the charges. First of all, said a spokesman, the German starfighter is

Pennsylvania Was Focal Point

Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Year Week of April 30 Through May 6 Editor’s Note: This is one of a senes of weekly columns recalling events in the history of the nation, and of the world, 200, 150 and 100 years ago. 1772 — Pennsylvania was the most centrally located of the 13 colonies. This made Philadelphia, its leading city, the convenient site for sessions of the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1781, and also for the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and as the national capital from 1790 to 1800. The general area was first visited by Dutch, Swedish and French explorers be- , tween 1609 and 1678. A Swedish settlement in 1643 at Tinicum Island, near the mouth of the Schuylkill River, was the first in what now is Pennsylvania. After 1674 the entire area, including that of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, became Brit-ish-controlled, administered by James, Duke of York, brother of King Charles n, and later to become James D. In 1674 and 1676 a group of British Quakers — William Penn (1644-1718) among than — bought a portion of New Jersey from Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, as originally granted to them by James, Duke of York. Penn, however, wanted to establish his own colony as a ‘holy experiment” where all good people could live together in peace, and he applied to Charles II for a grant. Accordingly, a very large section inland from Delaware and New Jersey was assigned by the King in March, 1681, with Penn as its governor and proprietor. Penn wanted to call the area “Sylvania,” or “woodland,”

published Publication 15, “Employer’s Tax Guide, 1972 Circular E,” which you should obtain from your local internal revenue office if you desire further information. For information concerning Indiana forms and payments, contact the Indiana Employment Security Division, Employer Audits 141 West Georgia Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204, phone 633-5880: Copyright 1972 by John J. Dillon

the same plane that is being used safely by other NATO countries. Secondly, Lockheed told me, the accident rate — even by United States standards — is a realistic number. About 17 major accidents occur, I have learned, for every 100,000 hours the Starfighters are flown. This figure many be realisitic, but Lockheed may have trouble convincing the German public it is acceptable. Few people realize how frequently lawmakers are also lawbreakers. They have become so puffed up with their own importance that they regard themselves above the little laws that are intended, presumably, for lesser citizens to obey. Take, for example, the case of Congressman John Melcher, D-Mont. He makes his Washington home in the Maryland suburbs. Some time ago, Melcher decided to erect a basketball backboard for his kids and their neighborhood friends. Melcher put it up on a curb so that the kids had to play in the streets to use it. Neighbors complained, to no avail. A short time ago, Melcher moved a few blocks down the street and erected another basketball net in the same manner. County officials have instructed Melcher to move it. The congressman has stubbornly refused. It remains in place to this day. Or take Congressman Peter Kyros, the Maine Democrat. Last December, while speeding down a Washington street, he struck a parked car. It plunged into another car ahead of it. Kyros then drove around the block and hit yet a third automobile. He then left the scene of the triple accident. Unhappily for Kyros, the crashes were witnessed. Police visited the congressman in his office, but no hit-and-run charges were filed. Kyros finally went to drivers’ school, but only after we had exposed what he’d done. Such disdain for authority is by no means confined to Capitol Hill. Peter Flanigan, the fixer-without-portfolio in the White House, has frequently tried to influence officials in his home town of Harrison, N.Y. Once he tried to block a college housing development near his home. And about a year ago, he wrote to town officials on White House stationery to try to get two streetlights removed. They were, he said, shining too brightly into his bedroom window.

but the king insisted that it also bear the name “Penn,” in honor of Pom’s late father, Vice Adm. Sir William Penn, who had been a great figure in the British navy, and also a friend to whom the king owed 16,000 pounds at the time of his death in 1670. It was in return for this debt that the king granted the territory to the younger Penn, then 37, who compromised by calling it “Pennsylvania,” or “Penn’s woods.” 1822 — President Monroe vetoes an appropriation for repairing and preserving the Cumberland Road, with a plan to levy tolls on users. This was the first national road in the country, and the most important highway through the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh, Ohio, and the Midwest before any rail lines existed. Now part of U.S. 40, it was taken under control by the individual states after 1822 and extended 591 miles from Cumberland, Md., to Vandalia, 111. Monroe had argued that the Constitution did not give Congress the power to appropriate funds for such improvements unless they affected national defense or provided a “general” benefit, rather than merely local or state advantage. 1872 — The National liberal Republican Party met in national convention at Cincinnati. A splinter group of the Republican Party, it reflected dissatisfaction with President Grant’s first administration, and also favored greater leniency toward the South and those who had espoused the Confederacy during the Civil War period. Carl Schurz was permanent president of the convention, which nominated Hor- v/ ace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, for the presidency, and Gov. B.G. Brown of Missouri for vice president.... U.S. import duties on tea and coffee were removed —two most important items of national revenue — on a call for a “free breakfast table.” —Robert Desmond ASSISTANCE PROGRAM On April 2, 1960, the U.S. technical assistance program was extended to the Syrian region of the United Arab Republic.

By JACK ANDERSON