Walkerton Independent, Volume 83, Number 22, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 April 1960 — Page 8

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— WALKERTON INDEPENDENT — April 2S. 19«0

| EDITORIAL | “ne sit« Htion exists in Walkerton that < • Mainly i-n't favorable and ' . <>i c that should < <>n mand the xttertnn of th * Walkerton Town (’mint il. Tins is parking noi in cl the town, but on < erL<” di et< W Ikertnn s blessed W ith adequate parking tm i< e without having to wdk t<o • • ti in ones 1 11 to the btisinc houses Ibm ver, everu! Fpots Walkerton provide nd bottle n< ’ks with the w: Uh of t)w st:> ’is In n^ us< i by the preserd p.’ king tu j! ion' ( >nc of ’in W’ -t is on I’S 6. Hoosevoh R ■id in the s<io tihs k Paralh'. parking on both sides of th' Street by the dtxtois' office and b iwling alley, making meeting 1 1. ssh imp tssiblc or. > mx ( Fleas, csp’cialv if you happen <<> ms t a trm k at this point An o-ln.nc (tiling »• ' paiki- u. oie si'h ‘ the s' rt < t only w<’ lertainly benefit this sdw.tiur. This r< nt narrows in the sh ’ bb'<k west of the bu.-mes datiicl. and the jog that has to be nude with cars poo ly paik-l nukes driving on Main St re« hazi iil ’Us to some extent Other plater ot pit king d:i .. c ties are on Illinois Silvi from Harrison Stieet to Van Burri Stieet. especially in the block directly south of Roosevel’ Road. The angle paiking here is a pain in the neck Certainly u is recognized that more cars ,m be jinked in this fashion, but over . year s time. 20 or more aceidents occur in this area and in the similar area on Michigan Street, from Roosevelt Road and Van Buren Street Barking from a parking spot is h; d, but the poor visibility provided by this parking maze makes it even Worse If at Iris; one side ”f Illinois and Mali gan Streets were made for parallel parking, this situation would I ■ greatly ease’ The way people park also is had Some pull clem on the sidewalks, leaving very little room. while otPeis let the e d of their automobiles stick well out into the street, once again causing a situation when only one car can Hear the sma’i passage left. On the same area on Indiana Ptjed. (Road 231 the situation r fine with the p .iahcl parking as it is. Certainly that stieet is no wide than Illinois and Michigan Stieet. Van Buren Stieet is also being used j>oorly by drivers when pa-king on each side of Ulmon rang.ng almost from Michigan । S'i <et t Indtara Street Where ■ tin angle parking b triployed, th* ame situation ex.sts. not much room nd th.* constan* ti.i ot of backing automobile- i Outside of the rm ide aed area, the parking in Wallertmi isveiy g<>< I. paial!?; and 'lot c ngest< 1 ; Certainly th > number of a. •i- ; dents that oc< u should be en< igh to make one realize ’he inn aLince () f this situation We

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have been very fortunate that no one his been seriously injured in this area, hut only once would make a pers >n realize what this • ■’ill I mean If we ate to have a g< Q progressive town, why let a mrse .ml-buggy condition su"’r as this exist Parking sp cos won! I be avail ab’e f people respo ted the parking reguiat’onc especially on lie length <>f time allowed. Maybe th'- mstid..dion of paiking n te s w.mid correct this situation, bi th. ■' s something that won d hiv- : . I • proven as some town- .. . iv ' using theirs after install ms ti. ■ l it. the person who < ar ?! while it w<wk ha n. Ie a ; irking spot worthh -* if It •, the ai* a of the busme. .; d.stia' Several park their ca: 1 > thet away from this area aim •di Uunr rides at other poir. thm on ' 'ie man street or m ' to it., Y'l, If’ is tune this matter is t: ng a mo attention as the old -aying goes. 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of < me.” Let’s make our town as saCe as possible, and the eorre iing of t.his situation will help YOU AND ADVERTISING There is a lot of talk dial the ert.smg industry might be investigated by this one group or another. There is nothing wrong with that unless the result were to try to put some sort of regulatory strait jacket on an industix in which creativity is the hea. I beat. Tins might not seem a calamity of great national significan< e except that the dj-namics of th« advertising industry are insepcrnbly intertwined with the booming health of t,he industrial economy and this involves the well being and daily life of everyone. No serious threat to advertising or to the public interest woul I he posed by an objective scrutiny The thie.at would be serious only if the scrutiny wore concerned with digging up and spotlighting the infractions without at the s ame time discovering and weighing the virtues on the other side of the scales. Most of as now realize that some TV Quiz programs were jigged, some disk j«K*keys took payola; some commercials skirted good taste, and. some othei << nmor als tried to decieve T< the extent that these things were deliberate, the people v.ho did them wcie wrong. Mature he; is in the industry are working quickly to correct the malfeasance and to discipline the seal .- WagS. (>verr ding these individual situations most of us also know that th<- advertising industry in total jefiects a high level ot morality and indeed seeks in its messages to prod our natural ambitii n to attain better thing-i Im h: ting higher level of s<x i.d ’ ursuit s. All of us see advertising p^r-

fornt wonders as a partner in industry, helping to keep engineers die iming with their slide rules assembly lines moving, crop harvests at high levels, miu.i nt produc’ivp capacity, pay «»i wlojK’S fat and consecutive and surplus. at a low level Hopefully, an <»t u.- are equally aw.ire that advertising is as bu ; in the social as we’l as the e< onomic i’abric. It cnisadea es feftively and without 'iecompri s> tor highway safety, fire prevention, better schools and the snl<’. of I' S Savings Bonds. Recordly it has taken on the challenge of gaining public underst inding of mental health pi >blems, and the public has responded by r questing more than 1.000,0 Ml items of literature on 'I c sui. ject Let s nope any investigati takes a total view THE EMPTY SEAT Those school officials ooniemed with high school expansion need not be concerned with some 1.600 deskes which never will be filled That's the approximate number of those not eligible for enrollment because they are "playing truant" in cemeteries, victims of traffic accidents They were included in the pre-high scho. 1 a^.. group killed the las’ 14 years in Indiana Izist year, a'roiuing to the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety. 120 youths under the ago of 15 perished in traffic Os the total 3R were pedestrians. 13 were on bicycles and 69 were passengers. The total represented more than 10 per cent of all 1 125 fatal, ties in the state An additional 6.9^3 in the same age group were injured seriously enough for medication or hosp

VOTE MAY 3rd FOR DAVID M. MELLIN REPUBLICAN TICKET PRECINCT COMMITTEEMAN Precinct 3 _ Lincoln Township (All Area South of Booscvch ।I. and Hast of Washiut’loii sl. and Wal Io ; on Trail) DAVE SAYS: I am in accord with having obtain a license branch in Walkerton and KEEPING it here." "I will give my support in the appointment and election of qualified Republicans from my community." I will use my position as a Precinct Committeeman in the best interests of our community." < OXTRIBI TED BY FRIENDS • UM. Pol Adv )

Organize Joint Council To Improve Health 01 The Aged

thganizaion of a Joint Count'd to Improve the Health ol the Age-l in Indiana has been announced by the state hospital dental, nursing home a nd med cal associations. At the initial meeting. Emmett B Lamb. M I)., chairman of tl « Indiana State Medical Assoc:; l lion's Commission on Pub. . Health was ehs ted chairman of the organization. Other officers elected were Maynard K. lime, Pean. Indiana I’nnersiiy School of Dentistry, vice-chair-man Mrs Margaret Nickols, Indiana Association of L:<vnstd Nursing Homes secretary: am' Miss Ola lys Pos‘. Assistant to the Administrator. Indiana University Medical Center, treasurer In addition, a letter was drafted to be sent to Governor Harold W Handley offering the facilities of four major health organizations in the joint counc l t<> the Governor and his Comnm (ce on the Aging Some pnmarv objectives of this council are identification and analization of the health nerds of the ag-d, appraisal of available health resources, fostering of effective methods of navmei.t 1 • < for health care and development of community programs. The joint group also plans to foster health edu ation programs and inform the public of facts related to hsnJth care of the aged Although these four groups tahzation With spring and be - ter weather touching off the i ush to kite flying, ndlrr skating and ball games .it is a time fo>- added precaution by motorists. Motorists are being urged by state and local officials to exert caution particularly in s< hool, paik. recreation and mban residential ®reas

have been working together for several yeais m problems of health care for the total populn tion this is the first effort on the health groups designed primarly for a single segment, that of the over «'5 age group Formation of these allied health groups into an integrated organization in the Hoosier side as a result of the First Nation il (’onferenc<» of the Joint t'oiin’ I to Improve the Health <’are of the Aged held in Washington, I). (’ last June. There medical and health leaders of the country met to proMde leadership on a national level in developing health programs which will meet the needs of the rapidly growing portion ot <>ur population over 65, and to coonimate activities of principle purveyors of health Care, namely dentists, doctors, hospitals an I nursing homes Primary aim of this initial nation d meeting was to encourage and assist fornkition of state jomt councils, develop patterns for joint effort and planning, and th help delineate the role of affiliates in preliminary state conferences and the forthcoming White House Confer once on the Aged and Aging It is intended Wurt joint groups such as the one organized in Indiana will pool basic information on needs, problems and sound worktable pkms for health care of this specific g’-oup the aged and aging This information, in turn, will be taken to the White House Conference In the meantime, the concentrated effort of state joint courcils in this specific area of aged and aging will be aiding and solving the problems and needs as may exist on a community basis.