The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 37, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 October 1972 — Page 4

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

National Newspaper Week

National Newspaper Week has been observed for many years. This year more emphasis is to be placed on the importance of the local newspaper. The event this year is simply designated Newspaper Week ’72 and is to be observed from October 8-14. In announcing the Week, the chairman of Newspaper Week ’72 helped to boost the ego of the editor a trifle when he said: “You help fill a lot of scrapbooks with items about varied events and organizations. You help fill a lot of churches, meeting places, and auditoriums . . . You give columns of space ea ch week to promotion of clubs, sports, fund drives . . . But when it comes to talking about yourself and your product, you are shy, retiring, reluctant, usually silent. Take this opportunity to talk about yourself, what

Constitutional Amendments

Among the issues Indiana voters will decide on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 7, are five proposals to amend the state’s five were passed by both houses of the General Assembly in the last two sessions. The proposals will be voted upon separately and will become a part of the Constitution if they are ratified by a majority of the electorate. All five merit ratification. The first proposal would permit the General Assembly to provide for the selection and tenure of the superintendent of public instruction. Approval of the ammendment could result in a restructuring of the Indiana Department of Public Instruction in away that would create greater professionalism and remove the need for the superintendent to campaign for office every two years. A special committee has recommended that a State Board of Education be formed with 12 members, one from each congressional district and one atlarge member appointed by the governor. The board would select the state superintendent. The second proposal would allow the governor to be elected to two consecutive terms. The present system has prevented the reelection of capable governors whose retention in office surely would have received the majority approval. A qualified administrator would have eight years instead of the present four in which to carry out his programs.

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ A Brief Look At — The Campaign Trail ★★★

The Indiana Credit Union League has passed a resolution naming RICHARD C. BODINE Legislator of the year. Bodine, former speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, is present House Minority Leader. He has served in the Legislature since 1963. It is the first time the league has so honored a legislator. SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY (D-Mass.) visited Indianapolis on October 6 as part of his tour on behalf of GEORGE McGOVERN and MATTHEW WELSH. He was accompanied by Welsh, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, as he stopped in South Bend and Fort Wayne before going to an outdoor rally and reception in Indianapolis. State Senator ROBERT D. ORR, Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor, told a news conference in South Bend that DR. OTIS BOWEN will work

EDITORIALS

tirelessly to advance the economic development goals of the South Bend-Mishawaka area. Bowen is the GOP gubernatorial nominee. Gubernatorial candidate MATT WELSH, Democrat, told a dinner meeting of the Crown Point Democrat Women’s club that one of the basic differences between Democrats and Republicans is their attitude towards change. “Democrats,” Welsh said, “see change as inevitable; we therefore try to channel it to meet the needs of today and the tomorrow that we can see. In that way, change becomes restorative — even, if you will, life-giving. “Republicans, on the other hand, see change as threatening and hurtful. And so they resist it and resist and resist — until it overwhelms them.” OTIS R. BOWEN, Republican candidate for Governor, took a wry poke at his opponent last Thursday, charging that he

you do for the community, how and why! It’s not a matter of bragging — but rather of informing arid explaining so readers . . . will know more about newspapers and a free press.” Perhaps he has something there. How many of us really understand the significance of the thousands of local newspapers and the part they play in sustaining our way of life? There is really only one distinction between “our way of life” and that of oppressionridden countries — independence of expression. Local newspapers stand as physical proof that independence of expression is a living fact in the United States. It will continue to be so as long as the local newspaper remains an unrestricted medium of opinion and comment.

Third among the proposals is one that would give the governor seven days to act upon legislation. If he vetoed a bill, it would be returned to the Assembly on the first session day after the veto. If the General Assembly had adjourned, the vetoed bill would be filed with the secretary of state for presentation on the first day of the next General Assembly session. This proposal would eliminate the confusion that has surrounded the vetoing of bills. The status of several bills pocket-vetoed by former Gov. Roger Branigin was unclear well into the Whitcomb administration. The fourth proposal for amendment would allow county officers to serve an unlimited number of terms. This would eliminate the switching of county officeholders from one office to another in a game of “musical chairs” at each election. The office of coroner would be removed from the Constitution and would be subject to laws passed by the General Assembly. The final proposal would allow the General Assembly to determine a method for filling vacancies in the state House of Representatives and state Senate. At present, a special election may be called by the governor, but any vacancies often go unfilled. Proposals for amendments often are not noticed by the voters. This is unfortunate, because citizens should exercise their right to decide on changes in the Constitution. We urge approval of all five proposals. — The South Bend Tribune

(Welsh) should qualify for a category in the Guiness Book of Records, a publication which catalogues unusual occurrences. “I propose tonight that we enter what must be a new record in an entirely new category and subject area. That new category in Guiness would be: ‘bureaucratic red tape and public expense;’ the subject area of the record would be ‘agencies, proposals to increase.’ “And in this new recordkeeping I would propose to enter the following accounts of what has to be a new record: ‘WELSH, MATTHEW E., Democrat candidate for Governor of Indiana: On Tuesday, October 3, 1972, this man set a new one-day indoor record for advocating the creation of new and costly state agencies. On that day, Welsh called for: ‘l. Creation of a new super bureau of transportation. ‘2. Creation of a new state agency for drug abuse. *3. Establishment of a super bureau of metropolitan affairs. *4. Development of a network of state governmental minibureaus throughout Indiana. “What was most unique about this record was that it was set by a man who had previously claimed that his state was on the verge of financial collapse, while he was supposedly campaigning on a pledge to provide tax relief.”

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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.

'Nice House, Wrong Lot'

It is not an unusual occurrence to read of a person who has built a house on a piece of property which he believes he owns only to find that he has defective title. Since the value of the house generally far exceeds the value of the lot or real estate upon which it was built, it is not unusual for difficult and trying litigation to follow such an error. In order to elevate the harshness of the person losing valuable improvements which have been placed upon real estate which in fact was not owned by the person making the improvement, the . Indiana legislature has provided a remedy known as the “occupying claimant statute.” This law provides that when an occupant of land has color of title and in good faith places valuable improvements thereon and later is found not to be the rightful

—Special Report from Washington— ABUSING THE MAILS By Jack Anderson 1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting (Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

WASHINGTON-Congress-men are playing so fast and loose with their free postal privileges this year that misuse of the mails is becoming a major campaign issue in political races around the country. The Fair Campaign Practices Committee reports it has already received twice as many complaints about congressional abuse of the mails in this campaign as it received during the entire 1970 campaign. Formal complaints have been filed against James Howard, D-N.J., Hamilton Fish, R-New York, John Moss, D-Calif., Bob Mathias, R-Calif., George Shipley, D-111., John Asbrook, R-Ohio and Albert Johnson, R-Calif. In addition, the committee says there are dozens of other cases in which congressmen have allegedly abused the mails but have not been challenged formally by their opponents. Under the law, congressmen can use the mails free of charge for official business, but incumbents have become so ingenious at disguising political puffery as official business that the Postal Service has given up trying to enforce the law. ' Congressmen have perfected all sorts of ways to circum-

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owner of the land, then the law provides the occupying claimant cannot be removed from the land until the procedures outlined in the statute are followed. Basically the statute provides that the value of the improvement must be determined in a lawsuit, the value of the land without the improvements, and the damages if any, which the premises have sustained by virtue of occupation of the land by the occupying claimant. Once these values have been determined then the plaintiff who has proven that he truly owns the land may pay the appraised value of the improvement and any taxes paid on the land and take the property. If after reasonable time the true owner fails to pay this amount of money, then the defendant may take the property upon paying the appraised value of the land, aside

vent mailing restrictions. Frequently, they insert self-ser-ving material into the Congressional Record, which makes it official business. Then congressmen order reprints and mail them to constituents at public expense. Questionnaires, which are drafted, ostensibly, to solicit the views of constituents, are another ruse used by congressmen to solicit votes. The questions are carefully loaded to produce the desired political results. Once tabulated, the results are released to voters in massive mailings—once again at public expense. These practices, among others, have so exacerbated postal authorities that they now refuse even to send advisors to Capitol Hill to caution cdngressmen not to abuse the mails. “It simply would do no good,” one insider said. Why have congressmen shifted so dramatically to massive direct mailings this year to get themselves re-elected? Besides the Postal Service’s reluctance to enforce the law, political watchdogs cite new restrictions on political ads in the media and the reapportionment of numerous congressional * districts as the major factors contributing to Congress’s latest assault on the U.S. mails.

from the value of the improvements. To have color of title any occupant of land must only show a connection in law or equity derived from the records of any public office, or as the recipient of a deed from a person who is in the chain of title by virtue of some public record concerning the land. This color of title claim can also be based upon any inheritance or descent from any person who claimed title from some record or deed set out in a public record. To support a color of title claim these deeds can come from any sale by executors, administrators, guardians, sheriffs’ sales upon execution of a judgment, commissioners’ deeds or deeds issued for the non payment of taxes. In other words any record indicating that a person has some color of title to the property is sufficient upon which to base a statutory action for recovery of the value of the improvements placed thereon. This valuable statute makes it possible for people who make an honest error concerning the improvement of real estate to recover the reasonable value thereof, and for persons who eventually claim the title to the property, to be able to recover the value of the real estate but not to be unjustly enriched with the value of improvements placed erroneously on the property. Copyright 1972 by John J. Dillon

—Pension Reforms Rebuffed— The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has reached into the Senate and effectively squashedlegislation that would protect older citizens from being cheated out of their pensions. The Senate Labor Committee, which has spent years investigating pension abuses, has established that citizens who lose their jobs before retirement often receive no pensions at all even though collectively they contribute millions of dollars to pension funds. [ To correct such abuses, the committee drafted careful reforms. But the guilty companies, working through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have managed to cheat their employees again. The Chamber of Commerce got the bill referred to the Senate Finance Committee headed by Big Business’s buddy, Senator Russell Long. When .the legislation' came back, it was stripped of its meaning. The key provisions had been gutted. Labor Committee members are furious and have promised a big battle on the Senate floor. Meanwhile, a TV network has dramatized the great pension scandal in a nationwide television documentary. But we have learned that corporate powers are putting quiet pressure on the TV network not to make the documentary available for private showing. —Around the U.S.— • Space Age Convenience— The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has proudly announced in a press release that it has awarded a contract to a private firm to develop the world’s most expensive toilet. The commode

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Indiana Needs Physicians

WASHINGTON — "Indiana badly needs Family Physicians. The rural areas, the large metropolitan centers and the small towns are all in need of more well-trained family doctors.” Thus began a letter I received recently from a top official of the Indiana University School of Medicine. What he was saying was very true not only for Indiana, but for many of the other 49 states as well. However, Indiana was terribly shortchanged this year in the distribution of Federal assistance for family practice residency programs. The National Institutes of Health received 91 applications from across the country from hospitals with training programs for family doctors. Os those, 61 applications were approved and 52 were funded. Indiana hospitals submitted six applications, but only one was approved and that (me was not funded. Indiana fared far worse than other states and the lack of funding dealt a sharp blow to efforts to ease the shortage of family doctors in our state. Frankly, I was extremely distressed by this discrimination against Hoosier hospitals. I never like to see our state shortchanged in the distribution of Federal funds. Determined to prevent a recurrence of this problem, I asked the Federal officials who administer this program for an explanation. While their written reply helped a little, I realized that the best way to handle this situation and to protect Indiana’s future interest would be a face-to-face meeting between the applicants and the officials responsible for distributing the funds. Accordingly, I invited representatives of the hospitals and programs which applied for these grants to come to Washington to meet at the Capitol with National Institutes of Health officials at a meeting which I would chair. The following Indiana hospitals were represented at the meeting, along with the Indiana University Medical School: Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Saint

under contract will be launched into space for use by astronauts in the space shuttle program. The pricetag for a prototype toilet is staggering: $238,000.. .Meanwhile, back on earth, the government is spending hundreds of thousands more dollars for the convenience of its employees. This year, for example, the government estimates it will spend $350,000 for smoking stands. If public money isn’t going down the drain, it’s going up in smoke. ' • Union Strikes in ’73— President Nixon’s Wage Board has held salary increases to about five-and-a-half per cent a year. But after the election, the board is expected to tighten controls on wages in an attempt to reduce the annual wage increase below five per cent. The move, no doubt, would infuriate unions. Their main complaint: The President’s controls would be tough on workers’ wages but not tough enough on prices and profits. If the wage lid is tightened, a showdown may come next year in the form of strikes by auto, construction, airline and railroad employees. • A Visa for a Star—Recent press reports claimed that movie star Vanessa Redgrave had been denied a temporary visa to shoot a new film in the United States. The reports, carried widely in the press, speculated that the decision was motivated by Miss Redgrave’s outspoken views against the Vietnam War. We have done our own checking. At the time of the reports, Miss Redgrave had not yet formally applied for a visa. Even a famous movie starlike Miss Redgrave—has to apply for a visa in order to get one.

Joseph’s Hospital in South Bend, Saint Mary’s Hospital in Evansville and Fort Wayne Medical Society Foundation. Representatives were unable to attend from Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis and Ball Memorial Hospital in Munice, although they will be kept advised of our progress. The five Indiana doctors and two NIH doctors met with me in a special Committee room in the Capitol during the last week of September. After expressing to the NIH officials my disappointment at the manner in which Indiana was shortchanged, I opened the/ meeting up to a discussion as to why the Indiana applications had been unsuccessful and how resubmission of those applications might meet with better results. Progress was quickly made. The NIH officials agreed to review Indiana’s applications in draft form and to advise the applying hospitals whether or not the applications were complete and in good order. This means that our hospitals will have an opportunity to correct any weaknesses in their applications prior to final submission. This is special consideration for Indiana to make up for our failure to receive any funding last year. Moreover, the NIH doctors explained why Indiana had not done as well as it might have, and offered posititive suggestions for improving the applications. The tone of the meeting was constructive and I am quite optimistic about the prospects of securing needed Federal help for family doctor training programs in Indiana. There are two main goals in this entire effort. One is to help meet the shortage of family physicians in Indiana and the other is to make certain Indiana gets its fair share of Federal tax dollars coming back into the state. Progress appears to have been made toward both these goals. [ r BE ON THE