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A 6 THI INDIANAPOLIS NIW5. Monday, Aitfurt 26, IW dlefon? Wfcaf BeiW The Fare-Up 4f Pen it Cheers For Wells four stitches to close. This happened as the captain was trying to take the inmate to the hospital "Officer George Davis was choked and struck by inmate as Officer Davis refused to unlock the door to the laundry. This man was not assigned to the laundry "Mr. Ernest Hosek was bitterly beaten by inmate Hosek suffered a busted lip and several bruises about the head and arms "Lt Phillips was struck on the head by a trash barrel thrown off the by unknown persons.

It required' medical treatment." "Officer Andrew Vineyard was seized by several inmates and thrown into a cell. They then piled several mattresses in front of the cell and set them on fire. He was later rescued before being suffocated." In none of these cases were new legal-charges filed against the assailants. The reformatory rules list "assaulting an officer" as a "serious offense." The rule book states: "For any i of these offenses, you will probably be confined to solitary confinement for a certain period of time and, in addition, you may be confined in admin-' istrative segregation for an indefinite period of time." Only four of the assailants were placed in isolation. Eight were assigned to administrative segregation without first serving time in solitary.

to Henry's side. Pro-Henry petitions received signatures from more than half of the inmates, but the support of rank-and-file employes was not sought The subsequent news of the superintendent's departure seems to' suggest that the officers' opinion has prevailed. Figuring in the controversy have been acts of lawlessness inside the prison and charges that authorities have hesitated to deal with the problem. A confidential memorandum from Lt Lewis Beck to the superintendent lists 17 instances in which correctional officers assaulted during the first six months of this year. Since June 27, when the memorandum was prepared, five more officers and employes have reportedly been attacked.

One veteran officer notes this eight-month total is about the same as for the previous 20 years. This sort of thing," he said, "has never happened here before." In several cases, the assailants inflicted serious bodily injury or jeopardized the lives of the officers. Among the incidents cited in the memorandum: "Officer Ndrval Peters was the officer in the outer guard's hall when several inmates returning to the cells from the gymnasium attacked him, knocking him down, severely kicking and beating him "Capt. McDaniels was stabbed on the left side near the heart, requiring By Ross Hermann BEHIND THE expected departure of Jerome N. Henry as superintendent of the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton is a heated controversy over discipline and security practices.

Recently Henry "agreed verbally to resign" following consultations with State Correction Commissioner An-thony S. Kuharich. The commissioner told The News Henry is due to leave the reformatory early in September. Kuharich offers failure "to discharge administrative responsibilities" as the reason for the move. Henry suggests the reason is that "I don't believe in the methodology that has been used traditionally in this field." He added: "It's been hard to get much done fighting the traditions of the institution." The resignation comes, significantly, in the midst of a weeks-old dispute over discipline and security.

Some inmates have said that Pendleton authorities are too harsh, dramatizing the charge with protest demonstrations. Many of the guards, members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employes union, charge that the reformatory operates in an atmosphere of permissiveness and fear for their safety. The officers appear to be exerting the greater influence. Despite signs of dissatisfaction, inmates have rallied 'And Now From Saigon And Prague We Switch To the Indianapolis public schools in Federal court." Concerning the current effort to reshuffle Indianapolis teachers under the threat of mandatory assignment, Wells further notes that the 1964 act prohibits the placement of employes on this basis, just as a prohibits the "busing" of school children. Yet the Federal planners have gone blithely forward imposing the blueprint anyway.

As Wells observes, "the present court order and Justice Department action are in exact conflict with the intent of meaning of the Civil Rights Act." Anyone who has studied the record of Harold Howe and other Federal planners in this field can hardly doubt that a Federal takeover is in the works, and that what we have been witnessing in Indiana is part and parcel of this effort. We are in the middle of a historic power grab. Yet as it has proceeded few people if any have spoken out for local control of Hoosier public schools. Wells has said the things that need to be said in behalf of local government in Indiana. As the Hoosier state's chief education official, Wells has fulfilled an important responsibility.

He has branded the Federal takeover for what it is and defended the autonomy of our schools. We trust that other public officials, in this city and throughout the state, will join with him in speaking out for self-government and for compliance with the law. Feelings lived with the Communist menace for years, they know the cruel fate that awaits them should the Viet Cong subjugate their country. The war is discouraging to many American fighting men, she thinks, because they "feel like sitting ducks." They are forced to risk their lives but aren't allowed to fight for victory. The Viet Cong, on the other hand, "are fighting to win," a fact that American doves overlook in their haste to pull out of the conflict.

Dr. Bradshaw's views are founded on direct acquaintance with what is happening in Vietnam. To us they make a lot more sense than the airy theories of the doves who would rather believe Communist words than study Communist actions. E. Adams thought they could be of help.

Adams knew his subject. As a professional shooting instructor, he had become concerned about the number of casualties in each hunting season and began his one-man safety crusade. His efforts brought him citations from all quarters of the country for improving the safety consciousness of the public. Charley Adams was one of those people who are single-mindedly devoted to a subject. In his case it must have been an avocation more rewarding than most.

No one can ever know-how many lives have been saved or how many injuries prevented because of his untiring efforts. Hoosier citizens of both political parties owe a debt of gratitude to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Richard D. Wells, who has tackled the Federal planners in Washington head-on. Events of recent months have made it plain that Federal authorities at various levels mean to take over local government in America, starting with the schools. A blueprint for these actions has been set forth by U.S.

education official Harold Howe II, who has stated his desire to subordinate local schools to the dictates of the Washington bureaucracy. Wells, speaking up for the school children and the teachers of Indiana, has challenged Howe on several occasions in the past. Last week Wells called attention to the latest phase in the takeover campaign being waged against the public schools of Indianapolis. Despite the fact that existing law forbids such action, the Federal government has been moving to manipulate Indianapolis pupils and teachers in accordance with the Howe blueprint. The Indiana education chief challenges this action and reveals it is being taken in defiance of an understanding reached last in which the Washington brass agreed to consult with the state about al-; leged problems in our schools.

"The next thing I found out," Wells says, "was five months later when the Justice Department filed suit against Strong Dr. Pat Bradshaw, unlike some people who go to Vietnam for a short stay and return as "instant experts," doesn't claim to know all the answers to Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. She has strong feelings however, about the South Vietnamese fight for freedom. A volunteer for a four-month stint in South Vietnam, the lady doctor firmly believes the United States was right in coming to the defense of the government. "I can't see why a country should have to live under this rule of Communism if they don't want to," she says.

Dr. Bradshaw, who worked among the South Vietnamese population, says "the people are terrified that the Americans will leave." Having Charles When some people retire, time hangs heavy on their hands. That was not the case with Charles E. Adams, who died last week at 83. Charley Adams was a man with a single overriding purpose in his retirement years.

It was to make the public aware of the danger in guns improperly handled. It was to make the sport of hunting safer. To this end, Adams had distributed at least 5,000 safety posters a year in the 13 years since his retirement. Some were vivid posters, showing what could happen when a gun was mishandled. They were distributed to businesses, civic organizations, schools any place where Adams ABSENTEE SENATOR One was transferred to a mental hos-pitaL In the other cases the inmates were not identified.

Prison rules state additionally: "You may be assessed a fine of so many months, of years." None of the assailants was punished in this manner. Correction boss Kuharich acknowledges that the rule book has been put aside in recent years and cites the need "to write new rules and regulations." Commenting on the list of assaults, the commissioner said: "We may have to go to a system of prosecution on the outside. It is being seriously considered at this time." He assures dissident inmates, however, that the next superintendent will be "treatment-oriented," that "there will be no reverting to brutality." Controversy also centers on security procedures. In one case receiving attention, Lt L. Judy obtained permission from assistant superintendent Richard V.

Schroeder for an inmate to be assigned for work in the Wheel-house, the prison's security and communications nerve-center. In his job as file clerk, the inmate would be within 10 feet of the prison's keys, its arsenal of firearms, tear gas, and radio Although officially approved, this assignment was delayed following a protest from the employes' union. DURING A HAIRDO Movie Folk Told How White House Makes Decisions By Don Maclean Los Angeles I SAW NO reason to cancel my tour of California simply because Gov. Ronald Reagan failed to win the Republican presidential nomination. After all, there are other things here besides Reagan, although I doubt that his staff would admit it.

For instance, there is where Americans are learning to make movies just as it's done in the film capitals of Rome, Madrid, Lon Maclean don and Paris. Yesterday I went out to the Warner Arts itu-dios in Burbank and found several projects in progress. One of these was "The Big Bounce," "which sounds like a documentary about my checking account, but ac-f tually is a movie concerning a migrant farm worker who is led astray by a wicked woman. Both stars, Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young, are in TVs "Peyton Place." ON THE SET, I was interviewed by Alex March, the director of "The Big Bounce." (Hollywood -people are simply fascinated by personalities from Washington.) March wanted me to tell him everything I knew about government, and this took at least eight minutes. Then he told me everything he learned in Washington last year while filming a TV documentary on Harry Truman's He was amazed at how decisions are reached at the White House.

"For small decisions, the President calls in experts and the whole thing is discussed for weeks," he said. "Huge decisions are reached instantly. I asked President Truman how he decided to go into Korea. He said Secretary of State Dean Acheson called one night and said, 'North Korea has marched into South Korea. What shall we Truman said he answered right away: 'Throw teni the hell out of there! Use WE WERE interrupted when an aide came up and told March that Miss Taylor-Young's hair was not dry yet.

March moaned and said, "The hair neoDle said it would take 20 minutes; it's taken 40. Tis isn't fair. We have 65 neop'e standing around waiting for her hair. This picture is costing MO.OOn rwr dav! Put her head further into the dryer. "Where was Oh, yes, I asked Truman how he decided to fire Gen.

Mac-Arthur. He said it was easy: Mac-Arthur fired himself." At this point, Miss Taylor-Young's hair was dry and March went back to work. Why is the gold drain a problem? "All we've got to do is send some American chorus girls to Europe and they'll get our gold back in a week! MR. MUM .111 ii iw fell5 1 )dKfom lliw .4 i 'BRIDGE-BUILDING FAILS' Landgrebe its Aid McCarthy's Campaign Costly For Taxpayers V- If By Robert S. Allen And John Goldsmith THE AMERICAN taxpayer is involuntarily footing a sizable part of the cost of Sen.

Eugene McCarthy's "peacenik" campaign for the presidency. This unwitting contribution amounts to more than $350,000. McCarthy's tapping of taxpayers for this purpose is unmatched by any other candidate in either party. In this respect, the sonorous liberal is distinctly in a class McCarthy To Reds national budgets. Government no more than the individual can continue to spend more than it takes in, despite what the new economists like Gal-braith tell us." Landgrebe notes that the expected additional revenue from the newly enacted 10 per cent surcharge on the income tax will pay only for the increased cost of financing the country's national debt.

HIS CAMPAIGN platform calls for "whittling away some of the bureaucratic red tape so that private enterprise can invest and grow. The restrictive tax programs make it difficult for businessmen to accumulate funds for expansion. Private enterprise is the most successful employer, yet it can't expand and hire more people because of the tremendous tax burdens imposed by the Federal government," Landgrebe contends. "Washington spends billions of dollars trying to train people for jobs which often don't exist. If the tax rates were lower, industry could better afford to hire and train the unemployed." Potomac Fever By Jack Wilson Humphrey says Sen.

McGovern's candidacy is "a wholesome and healthy thing." Translation: George hasn't got a chance. Hubert wants to fire Hershey. Nixon says Clark has to go. McCarthy threatens to bounce J. Edgar doesn't anybody care about unemployment any more? Gov.

Maddox won't pick a vice-president if he's nominated. Les is a very strict man he's against vice in any form. i Julius Boros just proves what the rebellious young golfers have been telling us you can't trust anybody over 47. By W. J.

Griffith III "BRIDGE-BUILDING" with the Com-munists through extension of American trade and aid has failed, and the U.S. Congress must move to build positions of free world strength instead. That's the opinion of Republican congressional candidate Earl F. Land-grebe of Indiana's Second District, expressed during a visit to the Hoosier capital last week. Landgrebe, a 10-year veteran of the State Senate, says the Soviet-engineered invasion of Czechoslovakia is solid proof that liberal arguments about a Cold War "thaw" are false.

THE ATTACK on Czechoslovakia shows that the policy of trade and aid with Moscow has failed, he says, and that hopes of trusting the Communists in Vietnam are also doomed to fail. "Any gesture of independence by a Soviet satellite," he asserts "is met by overwhelming force in order to prevent the disintegration of the Kremlin's colonial empire." Speaking of Vietnam, Landgrebe says "one reason we are bogged down in a war of attrition is that the administration doesn't know what its goals really are. Our officials have said the purpose for our being there is to contain Communism. Yet we pursue a contradictory policy which aids and abets Communist aggression. We sell them strategic goods, such as rifle cleaning compound which is in short supply In Vietnam, while the Kremlin ships war goods to North Vietnam.

Is this the way to contain Communism?" Landgrebe believes that crime is the domestic issue which most concerns the American public. "We hire the police to protect us and then tell them they can't do this and they can't do that. The police must do whatever is necessary to maintain law and order, which, of course, is not a justification for police brutality. We have tried to treat criminals with a lot of gentleness and concern and it hasn't worked. We must give some consideration to plus a number of perquisites.

These include: $212,440 for clerical help; a fully equipped suite of offices in Washington as well as an office in his home state; six round trips a year -to Minnesota; $3,000 stationery and printing allowance; 200 long-distance telephone calls; $2,200 a year local telephone allowance; and unlimited franking (free mail) privileges. McCarthy has partaken of all of these emoluments without stint while devoting practically all his time and efforts to running for president. Graphically illustrative of this is McCarthy's carefully unmentioned voting record in the congressional session to date, from early January to Aug. 2, when a break was taken until Sept. 4 for the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

Throughout the seven months of legislating, there was a total of 227 roll call votes in the Senate on a wide range of domestic and foreign measures and issues. MCCARTHY is recorded as participating in only 11 of these votes. From July 8 to Aug. 2, there were 54 roll call votes. McCarthy voted on only one of them.

This was on an amendment offered by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a fellow "peacenik," to the military construction bill to reduce the Army's funds by McCarthy supported the amendment, which was decisively defeated. In between these rare voting appearances in the Senate, McCarthy was dashing about the country sten-toriously declaiming about the urgent need for a wide range of sweeping reforms and improvements, in housing, education, agriculture, civil rights, foreign aid, taxes, etc. Meanwhile, the Senate was voting on legislation dealing directly with a number of these matters, but McCarthy wasn't there. Publisfttn-Hill Srndicit by himself.

He is doing it by the simple means of, in effect, taking a leave of absence while continuing to draw his congressional salary and various juicy perquisites. What it amounts to is a self-bestowed sabbatical at taxpayers' expense to electioneer back and forth across the country. FOR MINNESOTA, with a population of upward of 3.5 million, this has meant that throughout this year's session of Congress McCarthy's home state has been represented by only one senator while taxpayers have paid for the full-time services of two senators. That taxpayers have thus been used to help finance McCarthy's White House aspirations is incontrovertible. His only known source of personal income is his senatorial salary.

It is from this that he has paid the household and other expenses of himself, his wife and their four teen-age children, while virtually doing nothing to earn his salary as a member of Congress. As such, he gets $30,000 a year pay i LANDGREBE the victims of crime and to the families of the victims." Landgrebe notes that the Federal government wants to restrict gun ownership by private, law-abiding citizens while, at the same time, it does little to protect the public from growing crime. "A gun doesn't mean a thing until the trigger is pulled," he says. "We should enforce laws against the use of guns in crimes. I've received letters from all over the state, running 20 to one in favor of my stand against gun registration." A businessman who built up his trucking line from a two-man operation in 1943 to a company employing 55 people today, Landgrebe is worried about what he describes as the "current fiscal insanity.

It's suicidal for the government, in time of prosperity, to be running $20 billion to $30 billion in debt every year. We're going to have to start balancing our.