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Edition; INDIANA NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1971 SECTION Ft. Harrison setting bucolic Defense Information School has avoided i controversy To its critics, including a minority of the staff and faculty, the teachings, at best, are a perfect example of the futility of trying to achieve this reconciliation. At worst, the critics hold that the school pays only lip service to the ideals of an open society. Not everything at the school is controversial. Aside from "policy and plans" the principles and procedures of military public relations the students get some very practical vocational instruction.

This involves such areas as the production of military newspapers, public speaking and broadcasting, the latter often in preparation for work with the worldwide American Forces Radio and Television Service. A recent visitor to the school found students attending lectures or participating in do-it-yourself sessions in such diverse subjects as film splicing, newspaper layout and Latin America. In one room typewriters clacked with a newsroom staccato as about 15 enlisted men and women in the uniforms of all the services strove to complete a story on deadline in a newswriting exercise. But it is in the policy and plans classes that the students confront matters that form the essential question of military public relations: Can the person working to foster public support for the military also be relied on to provide full and honest information about military affairs to the civilian citizenry. The school holds that the answer is yes.

Among the students 1,500 went through the school last year in courses ranging from two to 10 weeks the officers and career enlisted men most often agree with the school. "You can publicize the good points about the military while also making public the bad ones, Navy Lt. (j.g.) June Weber said in a typical comment. Defenders of the school cite lectures such as a recent one by Air Force Capt. Stewart S.

Duncan, who stressed that the basic doctrine to be followed in releasing information to the public is "maximum disclosure with minimum de- lay." This policy he told a class of about 30 officers, is to be modified only by four limitations national security, which prohibits releasing classified information; "policy" it's not national policy to release it, then you accuracy "hang onto it until you check it and "propriety" (such things as not invading individual privacy and "not releasing pictures of GIs with beer in their The 28-year-old instructor said that information should not be considered classified "merely to avoid embarrass- ment." He added that where a unit or base commander who, he noted, has the ultimate responsibility for releasing informa- tion about his command wants to hush up something that the public has "a right to know," the good public relations officer will seek to persuade him otherwise. Pentagon," has suggested that military public relations amounts to a pervasive propaganda campaign to influence the public on vital issues of war and peace. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and other administration leaders have accused CBS of distortions and a congressional subcommittee has subpoenaed material involved in putting together the program which makes no mention of this school. The school also is not mentioned in the critical book, "The Pentagon Propaganda Machine," by Sen.

J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. But the school Dinfos is the military --acronym offers valuable insight into the philosophy and processes of the military public relations effort. To the school's supporters and the great majority of the 93-man faculty, its teachings successfully reconcile the necessarily authoritarian military world, and its need at times for secrecy, with the ideals of a democratic and open society.

By JOSEPH P. FRIED New York Times News Service INDIANAPOLIS Training for military public relations, a program now in a storm of controversy, takes place in a tranquil, bucolic setting on the outskirts of this city. The Defense Information School at spacious and grassy Ft. Benjamin Harrison is where many members of the armed services are trained to carry out public relations activities. Nearly 30,000 persons, ranging from fresh-faced recruits to combat-experienced colonels, have attended the school, which is seven years old, and such predecessor institutions as the Army Information School and the Navy Journalists School, which go back to the late 1940s.

But despite its important role, and a national controversy over the Defense Department's public relations practices, the Defense Information School has remained obscure. A Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) documentary, "The Selling of the Total trash buried by governmental units Clark-Floyd landfill meeting daily quota ts 'JW lit 1 mmm mm mm mm By FRED BALES vey by a University of Louisville group that recommended a single landfill for both counties. Separate landfills would have been economically impractical, the of group said. When the landfill opened in January, the quota was not immediately met. But for the past several weeks the landfill has last week that total daily tonnage from the counties has been averaging about 314 tons recently and "sometimes more." The two counties and the municipalities of Jeffersonville, Clarksville and New Albany guaranteed the private operator of the landfill the 300-tons-a-day volume.

The figure was based on a sur- Courier-Journal Timei Staff Writer Trash it is being buried at the Clark-Floyd landfill at the rate of more than 300 tons a day the quota agreed upon by governmental units in the two counties. A spokesman for the bi-county landfill near Bennettsville, in Clark County, said Making the Grade Woman takes up teaching at 57 after 35 years working as maid deposit all refuse collected within the city limits at the landfill. Among those opposing the move were representatives of Industrial Services of America, of Louisville. David Hender-man, a vice president of the firm, said that his company preferred to dispose of its refuse at its own landfill in Louisville. It would not be practical for his trucks to make runs to Bennettsville, he said.

In a later interview, Henderman said that company attorneys are reviewing the new New Albany ordinance. There is "some thought" about legal action challenging the ordinance, he said. Henderman said he would not be surprised to see others follow New Albany's lead and pass similar ordinances. Marra said that he had considered proposing some kind of ordinance to the city administration. "I've thought of it, but as we get closer and closer to closing the gap, I think less of it," he said.

He said gap, I think less of it," he said. He its quota in two to six months. In Floyd County there are no plans to consider an ordinance like the one passed by New Albany, said Ray Libs, president of the county commissioners. The county eventually will work up to its quota anyway, he said. Boosting the county's use of the landfill are residents who in increasing numbers are asking for service, and plans by the town of Georgetown to award a contract for refuse service, he said.

(The old Georgetown dump was closed and covered earlier this year.) Another factor in the landfill business is the practice of private haulers serving several business places and rural residents who want service. An association of these haulers has proposed serving all residents in both counties no matter how remote the location for a uniform price. In return, the counties would guarantee the private firms exclusive rights to operate in designated territories. been doing the required 300-tons of daily business, the spokesman said. Although the total requirements are being met, three of the separate governmental units that originally negotiated a contract with the landfill corporation are falling short of their prorated mini-mums.

Floyd County is under its 50-ton daily minimum and Clarksville and Jeffersonville are not making their assigned 75-ton combined minimum. However, New Albany is registering its daily quota of 125 tons and Clark County is meeting a quota of 50 tons a day. Landfill users are charged $1.65 a ton, and those governmental units that are under their minimums are charged $1.65 for each ton under their quota. John Marra, Jeffersonville street is optimistic that the city can meet the minimum, and it was expected all along that there would be an initial gap, he said. "We knew we couldn't meet it, but there was nothing we could do," Marra said.

He said that the state law forbidding use of open dumps after Jan. 1 of this year made a joint landfill and assigned quotas a necessity. However, the difference for the last accounting period, from mid-April to mid-May, showed that the two municipalities were missing the total quota by only 8 to 10 tons a day. Things are looking better, Marra said. In the first week of this month the city sanitation department was collecting 37 tons of refuse a day, up four tons from the earlier average.

Clarksville has been averaging about 14 tons a day from its own municipal service and private haulers are accounting for the rest of the tonnage from the city and town, Marra said. Under the present agreement, Jeffersonville is scheduled for 50 tons a day and Clarksville for 25. Floyd County, much smaller geographically than Clark County, has averaged only about 13 tons a day over the last two accounting periods. Falling short of its quotas cost the county $1,154 for the March-April period and $1,272 for the April-May period. In order to increase the tonnage going to the Bennettsville landfill, the New Albany City Council last week passed an ordinance requiring private haulers to Staff Photo by Glenn Rutherford Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Mrs.

Cleo Glass is trading in her mops and buckets, as a maid, for the chalk and erasers of the classroom, as a teacher. The 57-year-old Indianapolis woman signed her teaching contract Friday the day she graduated from college. Mrs. Glass was graduated from Crispus Attucks High School here 35 years ago. Since then, she has been an elevator operator, an assembly-line worker, and, most of the time, a maid.

Five years ago, friends who had watched her work with children in Sunday school said she should become a professional teacher. She liked the thought of working with children and getting paid for it. She has no children of her own. "I had always just been satisfied being a maid or running my elevator," she said. "It took me about a year to work up enough nerve to try college, and even then I planned to get just 30 credit hours so I could be a subsitute teacher." So, at the age of 53 Mrs.

Glass entered Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She continued working as a maid and took a full load of courses at night. "It was especially rough that first year," she said. "I just couldn't comprehend much of what I was reading, especially geography and history. "Then about the time I was feeling pretty discouraged, I went to Blooming-ton with a friend to watch her daughter's graduation ceremony at Indiana University.

"I got so excited watching all those people in that long line in their caps and gowns I thought how proud they must be of what they have achieved." At the start of each semester she borrowed tuition money from her church credit union, then paid it back with her earnings during the semester. It's age against youth OLD-TIMER Willis C. Adams, 80, who has a few generations of experience on his opponent, sits back and watches Eric Young, 7, make a move in a recent checker match in New Albany. Associated Press MRS. CLEO GLASS Starting teacher career at 57 Hamilton promises to help in attempt to save Clarksville post office branch "The teachers were very patient," she said.

"And gradually I began to catch on. It was easier every year, but it was always hard. "My husband doesn't say much to me about all this, but my friends say he talks a lot about it when I'm not around," she said. "Someone asked me what I did for a living and, out of habit, I started to say I was a maid. Then I remembered and I said, 'I'm a first-grade "You just don't know how proud that made me feel." Hamilton said he is in full agreement and sympathizes with town officials.

However, he said he isn't certain how much help he can be, even as a member of the postal committee. He pointed out that the postal operation, which was recently reorganized, is now run like a private corporation. He said it is still unclear how much influence Congress can exert under the new setup. However, he said he has already contacted Postmaster General Winton M. Blount for clarification on the decision to close the Clarksville branch.

In announcing the closing, Stanforth said it is an economy move aimed at increasing efficiency in local postal struggle. He has threatened that legal action will be taken, if necessary, to prevent the closing. Steps to save the branch already have been taken. Besides contacting Hamilton, Meloy said letters have been sent to post office officials and members of congressional postal committees. And a petition asking that the decision be reconsidered is being drawn up.

Plans call for the branch to be replaced by a postal contract station, which would provide counter services in the town, and for the carriers and lock-box operation to be shifted to the Jeffersonville post office. Meloy contends a contract station would not be sufficient to meet the needs of his rapidly growing community. ItWi By STEVE FAGAN Courier-Journal A Time Staff Writer Ninth District Rep. Lee H. Hamilton said yesterday he will do everything he can to aid Clarksville officials in their fight to save the town's branch of the Jeffersonville post office.

James K. Stanforth, Jeffersonville postmaster, announced Thursday that the branch office, which has been in operation since the late 1940s, will be closed June 30. Hamilton, in Jeffersonville to discuss fall campaign strategy with Democratic municipal officeseekers in Clark County, said he is "flatly opposed" to the U.S. Postal Service's decision to close the branch. He called the decision a sign of "disregard for the needs of a rapidly growing community" and said it shows a lack of foresight on the part of postal service.

Hamilton, a member of the House Postal Committee, said he objects to the action also because he was never informed that the decision, which affects his congressional district, had been made or was even being considered. He said he did not learn that the branch office was to be closed until Thursday when he received a letter from C. Kenneth Meloy, Clarksville Town Board president. i i-. Ho osier personalities Recall 'Knighthawks'? That was Buddy's band By CLIPF ROBINSON Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer Mention Clifton Maurice Knight and only his family will know who you're talking about.

But call him Buddy Knight and almost everybody will know. Sure, he's the guy who's been singing nightly all these years in his own Jeffersonville tavern, and who feels pretty certain he was singing fairly well the day he was born, only in a different key, Frankly, he doesn't remember when he wasn't singing. Music has indeed been his life, so convincingly so that he can get away with letting his customers sit a while with their tongues out while he finishes off a medley at the microphone. They understand. Many remember his once-popular orchestra, "Buddy Knight and his Knighthawks," which broke up in the Decision made suddenly "The last word I had from the post office department concerning the Clarksville branch was that plans for building a new facility were being considered," Hamilton said.

"That was several months ago." Apparently, the decision to close the branch, an arm of the Jeffersonville post' office, was made suddenly, Hamilton said. To date, neither Hamilton nor Clarksville town officials have been officially notified that the branch is closing. However, in an interview Friday, Meloy said that he learned last week that the branch would close when he received a note saying that operations were being phased out. The notes were given to all branch lock-box patrons. The town board president, who called the decision ridiculous and inconsiderate, said Clarksville officials aren't going to allow the branch to be closed without a Photo by Betty Cull general breakup of big bands after World War II.

They were expensive. The good Sisters of Providence, who taught him in the elementary grades at St. Augustine School in Jeffersonville, thrust a violin in his hands when he was a second-grader, and for seven years tried to impress him with that instrument. But all the time he wanted to be a pianist, or something else, preferably a vocalist, and finally managed to slip the violin under the bed. But just to please everybody, he did take two years of advanced violin from the late Prof, A.

A. Voit of Jeffersonville. But even that didn't save the violin. The good sisters might even arch their sisterly eyebrows if they heard him today, belting out modern pop tunes and See JEFFERSON Page Ind. 3, col.

2, this section '1 Washing cars for cancer drive VIEWED THROUGH the windshield of an auto-lobile he is washing, a youthful member of Teens gainst Cancer is involved in one of several projects the North Vernon group is sponsoring help raise money for the annual fund drive of the Jennings County chapter of the American Cancer Society. Other projects include a rummage sale, a bake sale, a chicken dinner, a dance scheduled for this coming Friday, and a Bingo party. The youngsters, from 14 through 19, had collected 1,096 by the end of May and are shooting for a goal of $3,000 by Aug. 15..