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Yi I (j)la3iaBaE3Moas TIMES, LOUISVILLE, KY. (J SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1971 Welsh criticizes operation of vehicles' bureau were unable to get through the legislature or otherwise could not accomplish during your four years? Continued from Page 1 man commission and for a full-time career executive director. We created a major new program in the Department of Corrections with the youth camps which have now been greatly expanded. In my judgment, there should be further expansion of this type of thing, par-ticularly for juvenile first offenders, in an effort to get more and more emphasis on vocational training. Rights gains claimed Prior' to my administration, the Civil Rights Commission had been a part-time inactive office.

We were able to get statutory authorization to give it real authroity and the appropriation to give it a staff. I think it is fair to say we made great strides in that whole field. We required all state contractors to employ blacks and did a lot in the housing area. This was the first time there had been any attention paid to this problem. We greatly expanded the merit system to include all technical and professional employes.

I did this by an executive order which Gov. Whitcomb subsequently revoked. The thought we had was that you should try to get good technical and professional people and get them to make a career of state service. Really, they're not political people and shouldn't be treated as patronage employes. necessary without defining what that change might be? It would depend on what the 1972 session does.

They may solve the problem. It's quite possible there will be a' crisis in state government. I can't predict. There are some large city school systems in serious trouble and it may get so bad the legislature in '72 has to do something. Q.

Turning "to a political topic, Gov. Whitcomb abolished the 2 per cent club for employes under his jurisdiction, ending the requirement that they contribute, part of their salaries to the party in power. What -was your reaction to that move? I don't want to "get involved in his internal political problems. I think the reason he did this was because of a dispute with his own state GOP chairman. The broader question is how should political parties finance themselves.

The 2 per cent is only one means that has been adopted in Indiana. There are other ways, ranging all the way from weekly bingo games to luncheons, dinners, and open solicitation of funds from the general public or in the case of the Republicans typically, from the economic areas they feel they represent. The Democrats over the past have felt they preferred the broadest possible base for obtaining political funds rather than reliance on contributions from beneficiaries which immediately gets into a conflict of interest situation and is very dangerous for this reason. general standards. The day-to-day, nuts and bolts administration has to be done at the state level.

Is state government equipped for that responsibility? I think so. I think we have very good departments of state government. They're not given near the credit they should be given. There are a few departments that have been politically footballs, historically. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles is the best example.

This is going to have to be resolved because we can ho longer permit the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to be run on a slipshod basis. i You have said the extent of the state tax problem won't become clear until after the 1972 legislature, but at this point do you have a general outline of what you would favor? No I don't. The situation is too iffy. In 1963, you supported a graduated income tax and the current legislature's Democratic leaders favor some form of graduation. Do you still favor that concept? That was what I recommended back in 1963.

Whether or not that makes sense now is something I'd want to examine in light of what the 1972 session does. Would you think some change is lic generally feels we simply have got to come up with solutions or improvements in the manner we handle local issues. The idea of running to Washington to solve all these matters there's a feeling it hasn't worked and I agree. Let the federal government establish broad national policies, but the implementation locally is what is really going to determine. The best illustration now is the whole pollution field.

Washington sets national standards which everyone agrees should be reached as early as possible, but Washington simply cannot become involved in policing every hatchery, every canning factory, every Oil refinery, every steel mill, every chemical plant in the United States. It's got to be much closer to home. Must the federal government provide much of the money? Washington will have to provide a major share of the money. Absolutely. That's why I'm sure revenue-sharing is going to come more and more to the forefront.

And it becomes more and more important that you have quality government at the local level because Washington wjll insist on it. The same thing is true of highways, the school systems, welfare. The" federal government is finding it extremely difficult to set anything more than broad So far as my own personal feeling about what is proper, I would. want to look at it when and if I'm 1 There are legitimate criticisms of the 2 per cent. There are legitimate criticisms of every one of these methods of financing a political party.

On the other hand, if you believe in the necessity of a strong two-party system as certainly we do in Indiana, you just can't arbitrarily make it impossible for political parties to survive financially. How do you see Democratic chances shaping up nationally in 1972? i I believe President Nixdn has lost substantial support nationally and in Indiana. I my judgment, the results of the election are going to depend very largely on the economic picture and employment. Assuming of course, the Democrats come up with a credible candidate. Any suggestions? I don't think there are any "incredible" candidates.

I don't think any of them are setting the world on fire at this point, but this is just a part of the process of the Democratic party making up its mind. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie's way ahead, but there are several any one of whom would make a fine candidate, including Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana.

Of course, Birch on the national ticket would be quite an asset in Indiana. Were there failures, programs you I suspect one was the inability to get this merit system for career people. I was unable to get the legislature to buy that, so I had to do it by executive order. By and large, there were very few legislative programs that we didn't work out and get adopted. I did far better than I expected1.

We adopted a policy that any legislator who wanted to see the governor could. They had overriding priority. You must remember, at least my experience was, there's less than 5 per cent of the business of the legislature that's voted on strictly partisan lines. Pressure called useless The individual legislator is voting as this particular matter affects him in his district and he's the best judge of that. You can't put him at odds with the people in his district.

If you try to do it by pressure, you're going to lose him. It's just bad politics. Yet by persuasion and discussion, you can get a lot done. Contrary to public impression, I find the legislators are very able, conscientious people who are earnestly trying to find solutions to very difficult problems. You have spoken of the need for effectiveness as state government's strongest challenge.

Would you explain? Local issues are coming to the forefront in the public's mind and the pub 'Man' the oars Reviews are near Officials work to hold municipal Continued. From Page 1 of-county cars at Community Park were doubled. This year New Albany has a $3.85 million budget, about $200,000 more than in 1970. The Clarksville Town Board has had three meetings with officials from the town's police, fire and streets and sanitation departments to discuss budget requests. However, Board President C.

Kenneth Meloy said none of these departments have submitted their final budget proposals, which are expected to include sizable increases. Traffic accidents in state claims lives of two women BOYS GET A TREAT as Julia Conners, of New "man" the oars on a boat ride up the' Little Albany, and Mary Sullivan, of Louisville, both 12, Blue River, near: Sulphur in Crawford County. Indiana deaths funerals Tabernacle. Burial, Eastern Cemetery. Home here.

Burial, Sellersburg Ceme-The body is at Coots Funeral Home here. tery. Presidency cheers given Birch Bayh Continued From Page 1 newly enfranchised voters think "it doesn't really make much difference how they vote." The Democrats, he said, "must make their platform meaningful and nominate candidates who stand for a clear alternative to the Nixon policies, not just try to capture the young vote but to inspire young people for the rest of their lives." He said it wouldn't be enough "just to rewarm some programs that are good but fell short." The civil-rights battle has not yet been won, he said, and "the next administration must implement the civil-rights laws that are on the books." Sen. Vance Hartke, Indiana's senior Democratic senttor, also emphasized that American youth has been given an unprecedented voice in determining the country's aims. He said he hoped they would dp better, than their elders, even the elder Democrats.

Reminder given by Welsh Hartke told the delegates that if young voters don't get busy and "start this country moving in a new direction, you will join the Old Guard as part of the problem." Former Gov. Matthew E. Welsh reminded the Young Democrats that the average age of the colonists was under 21 at the time of the American tion. Welsh said he welcomed young people in no matter how many oldsters complained of "lack of maturity," because "I don't know how you can gain a tempered judgment without experience. You can't gain experience without being involved." Outside the convention hall, Bayh told newsmen he was annoyed at reports that he took a wild swing at a heckler who spat in his.

face during a demonstration at the Orlando, airport last week. "What I resented was the fact that they said I swung and missed," Bayh said. "As a matter of fact, I seriously considered knocking him on the seat of his pants but I didn't swing. If he had spit in my wife's face, he would have found himself picking himself up." 'He couldn't take it' Bayh said the man was making objectionable remarks but he decided to give him the smiling treatment. "I walked toward him, smiling bigger and bigger, and stuck out my hand," Bayh said.

"He yelled louder and louder as I got closer. He couldn't take it and spit on the most prominent part of my face my nose." He said the incident at least got his name in some Florida papers, although he considered it more important that about 500 Democrats of all levels attended a party for him that night. He said he was told that Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, another potential candidate, drew only 60 persons to a similar gathering.

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"This means we are simply going to have to spend more," Meloy said. Meloy expects all departmental budget proposals to be ready for preliminary review by Wednesday, This year Clarksville has a $848,000 budget, about $100,000 over its 1970 budget. truck Friday as he walked along a Green-castle city street. Police said the victim was probably a transient. Still brewing Wisconsin beer boss to try again in Indiana Associated Press OSHKOSH, Wis.

Theodore Mack, president of the Peoples' Brewery of Oshosh, said yesterday that he is going back to Gary, to try again to introduce his firms' beer in that city. When he tried to ship two truckloads of Peoples beer into Indiana a few weeks ago, the shipment was impounded on a technicality. Mack said he and his attorney have cleared up the technicality and the beer has been returned. He said he has set up a distributorship in Gary, owned by Gary residents. Mack said he won't take beer with him when he leaves for Gary but would send it later.

"I'm not going to take $70,000 worth of equipment and $15,000 worth of beer to be played political football with," he said. Mi' A COMPANIONSHIP Have you seen the- original bronze casting "COMPANIONSHIP" the only one of its kind designed and cast by the one and only Giovata. Located in Mausoleum Court of Remembrance. Graceland's new chapel now on the drafting board will seat over 100. Groceland has in excess of 1300 crypts with' approximately 800 in the planning stage.

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Monday at Beanblossom-Steen-bergen Funeral Home, Burial, Cedar Hill Cemetery. She died Friday. JEFFERSONVILLE Mrs. Gertie Kate Buckner, 76, of 1320 Spring, died at 3 a.m. Saturday at her home.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Rachel M. Hooker, Jeffersonville, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Funeral, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Coots Funeral Home.

Burial, Eastern Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Monday. JEFFERSONVILLE George L. Colvin, 67, of 940 E.

Maple, died at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Clark County Memorial Hospital. He was a retired machine operator at Reynolds Metals Co. and a member of Free Gospel Church. Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Conn; a son, Lemuel L.

Colvin, Jeffersonville; a stepson, Carl Hutsell, Anthony, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Ross Randolph, Madison, and Mrs. Byron Bratcher, Jeffersonville; two Mrs. Al Shouse, Jeffersonville, and Mrs. Iva L.

Hardin, Louisville; two brothers and two sisters, 18 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. 2 p.m. Monday Branhams Photo by Will Lott ST. ANTHONY Jacob Englert, 87, died yesterday morning at his home here. Surviving are his wife, the former Sarah Jahn; three daughters, Sister Brenda, of St.

Anthony, Mrs. E. J. Staab and Mrs. Charles Reteneller, both of Louisville; two sons, Harold Englert, Jasper, and Bernard Englert, St.

Anthony; a sister, a brother, 20 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Funeral, 9 a.m. Monday, St. Anthony Catholic Church, Burial, church cemetery. The body is at Becher Funeral Home, Jasper.

TELL CITY Mrs. Bertha Harding, 85, died at 8 p.m. Friday at Rockport Nursing Center. The body is at Finch Funeral Home. VEVAY Thomas W.

Smither, 80, Florence Rt. 1, died at 7 p.m. Friday at Dearborn County Hospital, Lawrence-burg. A native of Owen County, he was a retired farmer. Survivors include his wife, the former Golda Long; two sons, Warren Smither, at home, and Lawrence Smither, Florence; a daughter, Mrs.

Pauline Baker, Tell City; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Haskell Morrison Funeral Home. Burial, Rising Sun (Ind.) New Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after 2 p.m..

Sunday. Bridge victim is identified OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A hitchhiker who leaped from a car and plunged over the railing of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay bridge to her death Wednesday has been identified as Christiana Ann Sust, 23, Berkeley, formerly of Muncie, Ind. It can help pay soaring hospital and surgical bills. Call me.

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Richard Begle, 19, Elkhart, died in a hospital Friday of injuries suffered the previous day when his motorcycle collided with a truck in Elkhart. An unidentified man was killed by a Young Republicans hear Bowen call for unity in party Associated Press i COLUMBUS, Ind. Indiana House Speaker Otis R. Bowen, R-Bremen, yesterday issued a call for party unity to Young Republicans here at a breakfast session of the three-day convention. Bowen told the state convention the party has the "earmarks and "symptoms of sickness" but "our sickness is like a head cold, not terminal cancer." He said party "squabbling must yield to the political commandment, Thou shall not speak ill of any Republican." Bowen told the members that they should go further.

"Let's not speak ill of anyone at times, we need to, apply stitching to our tongue," he said. He also told the Young Republicans there must be an open-minded effort to hear what the 18-year-old voter has to say and to recruit him as a worker. The Young Republicans will elect a new state chairman today. NO FINER TRIBUTE There is no more meaning ful way to show how much you remember than with a Sealmark Rock of Aaes Memorial. See our wide VdGESV selection now in Southern Indiana.

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He was a retired engineer for the old Quartermaster Depot here and a World War I veteran. He was also a member of the American Legion. Survivors include his wife, the former Frances Shoemaker; three sons, Leo Combs, Clarksville, Edward Combs, Anderson, and E. B. Combs, Mobile, a daughter, Mrs.

Charles Elliott, Jeffersonville; two sisters and 10 grandchildren. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Coots Funeral Home. Burial, Walnut Ridge Cemetery. JEFFERSONVILLE Clyde Raymond Leach, 74, of 721 E.

Seventh, died at 10:30 p.m. Friday at Clark County Memorial Hospital. A retired security officer at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, he was a member of St. Luke United Church of Christ. Leach was a World War I Navy veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eura Leach; two sons, George Leach, Alice, and Ronald Leach, New Albany; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Brown, Butte, Mont; a brother and a sister, 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Scott Funeral Home.

Burial, Walnut Ridge Cemetery. JEFFERSONVILLE Mrs. Avis Stephens, 41, of 900 Virginia, Clarksville, died at 12:04 a.m. Saturday at Methodist Evangelical Hospital after an illness. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Survivors include her husband, Wilbur S. Stephens; a son, Edward Oliver, Clarksville; a stepson, Gregory Stephens, Pleasure Ridge Park, three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Raley, Chamblee, and the Misses Beverly and Melanie Stephens, both of Clarksville; two brothers and three sisters. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Coots Funeral Home.

Burial, Walnut Ridge Cemetery. The body will be at the fu-- neral home after 4 p.m. Sunday. i LANES VILLE Charles W. Simler, 82, died at 11:20 a.m.

Saturday at Floyd County Memorial Hospital. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Lancsville United Methodist Church, the IOOF Lodge of Georgetown and the Harrison County Historical Society. Survivors include three sons, Kenneth and Harlen Simler, both of Lanesville, and James Simler, Corydon; two daugh- 1 ters, Mrs. Florence Ehalt, Lanesville, and Mrs. Wilma Miller, Sellersburg; 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

The body will be atGehlbach Royse Funeral Home, Corydon, after 10 a.m. Sunday. SELLERSBURG Funeral services for Harvey Lanliam, who died in an automobile accident Friday morning, will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Haas Funeral i Larene Rhodes, French Lick ex-writer, dies Special to The Courier-Journal FRENCH LICK, Ind. Mrs.

Larene D. Rhodes, 82, a former writer and schoolteacher, died Friday at Westminster Village Health Center, Greenwood. She was the author of numerous children's stories which appeared in church and juvenile publications and also wrote adult fiction for such magazines as Every-woman, Country Home, and Farmer's Wife. She also was a prolific writer of newspaper stories, many of which appeared in the Sunday Magazine section of The Courier-Journal Louisville Times. She taught music in the Brazil, Orleans and French Lick schools before her marriage in 1916.

She was the widow of Far-well C. Rhodes, a French Lick insurance agent. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Eloise Valinet, Indianapolis; two sons, Farwell C. Rhodes Greenwood, and Rhys D.

Rhodes, Paoli; a sister, Mrs. James M. Bevers, Evansville, and five grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Ritter Son Funeral Home, French Lick.

Burial will be in Ames Chapel Cemetery near French Lick. '7.