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46626. Sorry, Action Line cant handle telephone calls. Because of volume, we cant promise a reply. NORTHEAST INDIANA EDITION 17 The South Bend Tribune, Wednetdoy, March 28, 1973 tt On Feb. 9 my car was impounded by the South Bend Police Dept.

It had been parked in front of my home with no plates on It and would think that, before having it towed away, the officers could have come up to my door to find out why. If they had, they would have found that we Just purchased a different car and that the plates were in the process of being transferred. But anyway, they did us a favor by taking It since we were going to have it towed to the junkyard anyway. I never heard from the police until March 13 when I received a notice that my car was Impounded. Towing and storage charges (32 per day) by that time totalled 361.

I would think that, since the police were so prompt to impound my car, they would at least be as prompt to inform me of the fact. M. M. South Bend ent sfere Meuse By THOMAS F. GRUBER Tribune Staff Writer Weve had several letters testifying to promptness of police in clearing the streets these days.

Dont know the reason for the step-up, but the Traffic Div. says it doesnt have to notify an owner when a car merits impounding. They say its too time-consuming. Anyway, if you really wanted to find out what happened to it, youd call them before the storage charges mounted up. Most of the cars go to Buds Service or Hamiltons Body Shop.

If no one shows up to claim a car after three or four days, the State Bureau of Abandoned Vehicles gets told and they send the owner a note. FIRST CLASS SCOUTS Members of Cadette 'Girl Scout Troop 328 of Brookdale Junior High School ho were presented with first class awards Tuesday night are from the left, Mary Linn, Kim Hieber, Cindy Nicholson. and Debra Lapham. The first class award is the top honor of the troop. The meeting was held at the school in Elkhart.

Photos by Tribune staff Photographer 'wi mm w'i wiiMuiywiwfiwii 4 I need your help. I raise Siamese kittens. As anyone knows, these kittens are fussy eaters. Mine only eat Purina Cat Chow. This Is where the problem arises, I need large bags (20 lbs.) but It seems that no area store carries Purina cat chow in large bags anymore.

And soon my supply is running out. My cats eat approximately 100 lbs. a week and my cats will soon be faced with no food. I was wondering if you could find out where to obtain these large bags or a larger supply. This may not seem desperate, but have you ever seen 30 hungry cats? R.

Niles, Mich. You probably didnt realize that an international undercurrent flows beneath your cats chow crisis. Liechty Hatchery is South Bends Purina peddler. Theyve got a few 20-lb. bags in stock but when those run out, youll have to be satisfied with a litter of 10-lb.

sacks. The last time Liechtys sent in their order, Purina said they couldnt supply 20-lb. lots because of the fish meal shortage. Lietchys man says that under-supply comes from a change of Peruvian coast currents which are chasing aw ay the fish in Putinas vital vittle-producing area. And the nationalization of some fish factories by the Peruvian government doesnt fatten American felines ration reserves either.

So Putinas reaction to the fizzling fish market and the spiraling cost of other supplements is to cut back on sack size. The next time your cats get nippy, remind them theyre going to have to face facts and tighten their belts like the rest of us. mw' vf I K. 4' i Jhl 1 'ST A 'i, My question may sound silly, but please it is truly important to me. Please answer.

I want very much to write to the greatest singer and actor God has ever given talent to: Mr. Wayne New ton. He mav not be as well known as some, but In my heart I feel he is the best. Please find the address. S.

South Bend Just for the record, you can of Capitol Records, 1750 N. 90028. get a note to Newton in care Vine Hollywood, fetdlfy Turn the Pages Other Indiana regional arid statewide news on Pages 24, 29, 31 and 31. the possible use of capital punishment in nine circumstances. They are: 1.

Killing a law enforcement officer, corrections employee or fireman who is acting in the line of duty. 2. Causing death through detonation of explosives, such as planting a bomb. 3. Killing while committing rape, arson, robbery or burglary in any case where the perpetrator had a prior conviction for one of these offenses.

4. Murdering in connection with kidnaping. 5. Killing while involved in hijacking an airplane or other means of commercial transportation. 6.

Assassinating after lying in wait. 7. Killing for pay. 8. Killing by a person previously convicted of murder.

9. Committing murder while under life sentence, such as might occur in a prison situation. In other circumstances of first degree murder, situations with premeditated malice, a life sentence would be provided under terms of the bill. Sendak told the committee Tuesday that he believes the bill is constitutional. When the Supreme Court struck down death penalties as provided for in most states, if was suggested that some form of capital punishment might be upheld by the high provided it was to be applied uniformly in specifically detailed circumstances.

Library Request Approved DUNLAP The Concord Community' School Board approved Asst. Supt. Joe Feder-icks request to apply for federal funds for material for the South Side Elementary School library at a short board meeting Tuesday night. Frederick will apply for Title II funds under the "Right to Read program. Several classrooms at South Side will be converted to a central library.

prior to the opening school next fall. 7 The East Side School library was completed last year. Work is now nearing completion on the West Side School library. The school board members approved the advertising of bids for about 4.000 library for the Ox Bow School, The bids will also include the processing and indexing of the new books. Superintendent William Henry Reeves was given permission to borrow $65,000 in temporary loans to meet current operating costs pending the distribution of state tax revenue.

The loan will be, repaid prior to July 1. 1973. Reeves reported that work is progressing on schedule at Ox Bow School and that furniture for the new school will be delivered the latter part of June. Farmers Tax Order Changed WASHINGTON (UPI) -After protests from farm area congressmen, the Nixon administration has agreed to rewrite a presidential order that permitted the Agriculture Department to examine in detail the income-tax returns of farmers. Don Paarlberg, the departments director of economics, said Tuesday the order is being changed to make clear that the only information the department can extract from a tax form is the name, address, taxpayer identification number, type of farm aclivitiy and some indication of the size of the farming operatiorv vr.

'v, i A St 't A 1 '3 'SKV xk''k ditional races being considered in addition to last years event are for tricycles and tan-. dems. The volleyball contest will begin at 2 p.m. with Rev. Ralph Karst edt and Eldon Wilson in charge, and the winning team will receive the traveling trophy.

Also scheduled for 2 p.m. is a new event, the greased pig contest. Trophies and ribbons will be given to all winners and participants at the awards program at 3:30 p.m. The barbecue is MADs biggest money making event of the year, and proceeds are for community projects such as radio equipment purchased last year for the fire department and street signs for the town in 1971. Augsberger conducted a discussion of the possible use of this years profits.

Fire Chief I have a problem I cannot solve. I bought some Queens-Way clothes from Dorothy B. I have all my receipts and a copy of the letter I sent the company earlier. They agree that they owe me 529.44 but have not done anything about it since 1967. The company promised it would be taken care of.

I work hard for my money and cant afford to throw it away. D. South Bend DISCUSS CARIBBEAN CRUISE Some of the Girl Scouts of Troop 328 of Brookdale Junior High School in Elkhart who. will take a cruise liner tour of several Caribbean islands during their school spring vacation locate the itinerary on a map. From the left are Deborah Papenmeier, Rhonda Schrock.

Julie Waltz, and Cindy Lenaburg. They and others in the group will fly from Chicago March 31 to San Juan. Puerto Rico where they will board a cruise ship for visits to Trinidad. Barbados. Martinque.

St. Lucia, and St. Thomas. INDIANAPOLIS -Support-ers of a bill to restore capital punishment in Indiana won a slim but strategic victory here Tuesday when the House Human Affairs Committee passed the measure to the House floor without recommendation. The bill restores the death penalty under nine prescribed circumstances and is designed to go around the U.S.

Supreme Court decision of last June that struck down capital punishment under present state laws. State Rep. Robert DuComb. R-South Bend, cast the deciding committee vote, in a 6-4 decision to pass the measure. Stating he has very strong personal beliefs against capital punishment.

DuComb opined, this issue is of sufficient magnitude that I feel it should not be killed in committee. The 6-4 vote to pass without recommendation came after the committee split 5-5 on a motion to recommend passage of the bill to the House. Creates Split DuComb. initially not voting during a roll call on that motion. created the 5-5 split when he later voted against recommending the bill.

State Rep. Clifford Arnold. D-Michigan City, a House sponsor of the bill, said the committee vote was the main obstacle. I feel we have a better than even chance on the floor for passage, added Arnold. The Senate voted 40-9 on Feb.

5 in favor of the bill. The measure was amended twice during Tuesday's committee meeting, so if fhe House approves the bill, it will have to return to the Senate for concurrence. Cover Hijacking The amendments define the term hijacking" in the bill and add a provision that the jury, or trial judge, if there be no jury, may find the defendant guilty of second degree murder or voluntary or involuntary manslaughter if the facts proven are insufficient to convict the defendant of the first degree offense charged. This provision is designed to take away an all or nothing" prosecuting situation in which failure to get a death penalty conviction would result in the defendant going free. A third amendment that failed was introduced by Committee Chairman Daniel Huff of Indianapolis.

It had added the words puiposelv and with premeditated malice- to acts -of first degree murder punishable by death. The failure cost the support of Rep. Huff on votes to pass the measure to the House 2 Hours of Testimony The committee action came after some two hours of 0 nyp (Fan nr na jammed hearing room. Arnold, a former Laporte County sheriff, lined up supporting testimony that included, Indiana Attorney General Theodore Sendak and a representative of the state prosecutors organization. Arguments during the hearing centered on whether or not capital punishment is a deter-rant, and whether the death penalty is religiously and morally justified.

Among those opposing the bill were several student groups and church groups, including the Indiana Council of Churches, and Theodore Wilson, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for state attorney general last November. 1 Wilson said capital punishment is inconsistent with the self respect of a civilized nation. See Inequity Several other persons pointed out the inequality of past use of the death penalty, contending it only was applicable to the poor and minority groups. Proponents sajd no one can prove whether any form of punishment is a deterrent, and cited the increasing instances of murder in the nation and state as arguments for restoration of the death penalty. The bill Would provide for Seems there might have been a little confusion in the royal counting house.

They claim those 1967 records are no longer available. But theyve decreed youll get your $29 credit memo and their latest catalogue to order from. Milford Day Discussed I signed a contract with Lincoln Service Pekin, on Feb. 28, for a correspondence course to prepare me to pass a test for a Job with Civil Service. Immediately after I signed, I wished I hadnt.

I gave them a check for 5130 as a down payment. But the next morning, I went to the State Exchange Bank, Plymouth, to stop payment. I also sent a certified letter asking to cancel my contract under article nine of the agreement which said if I canceled within three days I would receive back the full cash price less 10 per cent. The bank passed my check through and I cannot get Lincoln to give the money back. Help.

C. Plymouth When we called them, they were quite civil. Slow, but weve come to expect that of civil workers. They claim they could not be responsible to send back the money because it was the banks error in sending the check through When we pointed out that they were responsible to you, they said they hadnt returned it because they had not heard from you since they wrote to induce you to stay on with their 7 program. But since we convinced them you want to drop, theyll send your cash.

MILFORD The Milford Area Development Council (MAD) Tuesday night discussed activities with representatives of local organizations for the third annual Milford Community Day on Me- jnorial Day, May 28, Co-ordinating all evenis are Paul Kizer and John co-chairmen. In charge of the cutie contest open to youngsters between four and six years old are Mrs Max Duncan and Mrs. Ronald Baumgartner. A king and queen will be chosen at the contest scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. A chicken barbecue will be held at noon.

Co-chairmen of the bicycle contest beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Milford Junior High School are Ted Speicher and Ronald and Steven Baumgartner. Ad- Driver Killed In Crash CLAYPOOL-John P. Miller. 42.

of 104 Church was killed at 4:01 p.m. Tuesday in a one-car accident three and a half miles south of Warsaw on County Rd. 100 East. The victim died of a broken neck, according to police, when his cab went out of control at a high rate of speed as it was entering a curve, skidded broadside for 229 feet, hit a mailbox, utility pole and fence post and rolled over several times, landing on Miller who was thrown out. Police said seat belts were not in use.

They said Miller had reportedly been involved in a hit and run accident about 10 minutes before when his car ran off the left, side of the road at Winona Beach. Harold Kaiser said that $450 remains due on radio equipment which cost a total of $6,500 and that the department hopes to obtain a resuscitator for emergency help since ambulance service was discontinued by the Mishler Funeral Home Estimated cost of the unit would be $475. Also needed is a generator for use during power failures. Oscar Pena, a member of the Waubee Park Board said that an $800 guarantee is requested for lifeguard services at the local beach and that there are presently no funds available. Pena said donations are slim due to a pending lawsuit challenging the towns ownership of the park.

Town Board President Thomas Miller reported on the progress of the town's sewage treatment facilities with construction to begin April 18. and completed June. 1874. Bids on, should be repaired and modernized, including the modernizing of rest rooms, installation of a new electrical system and clock system, accoustical treatment and carpeting for sound control, and replacement of the wooden entrance doors and dressing room windows. 1 Spectator Gym the committee did not give any cost estimate, and the work that would have to be done to convert the high school gym to a spectator gym was not detailed.

The gymnasium in the junior high building as presently used as the spectator gymnasium, and school officials said if the building program were adopted, it would be used for elementary and junior high school physical education classes and practice facilities. the project came in $60,000 be-'low the estimates of Baxter and Woodman, the towns engineering firm from Crystal Lake, 111. Kizer reported that out of nearly 465 sets of house numbers ordered for the town, proximately 160 remain at the-post office to be picked up. Mrs. Evelyn Om.

MAD secretary, said that the Milford Student Council has offered to the remaining and assist elderly residents with installation. Jolfn Clay, treasurer, on the-MAD membership drive now underway and stressed that more people from throughout the community and not just the town should become a member to have a voice in community affairs. Contest committees will make a report at the next meeting April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the fire station. Members of the Committee were Secor.

Don Bunge, Athletic Dreictor; Randy Sriver, drama directors; Mrs. Lois Wilson. Librarian, Loren Berger, band director. Larry Howell, vocal music director, William Somersel, high school principal; Rue Dee Marker, middle school principal; and James Trice, elementary principal. The need for additional shelving and seating for the 'school library was also presented.

In other business, the board accepted the bid of the Bremen State Bank for a $60,000 loan for 30 days at an interest rate of 2.95 per cent. The contracts for two bus chassis were awarded to Mor-etto Sales on its low bid of $4,575. Bids on the bus bodies were taken under advisement. Bremen Study OK'd In April, 1970, Apollo 13 took off for the moon. There was an explosion In the oxygen system, forcing the astronauts to forget the moon landing and use the LM (lunar module) to push them into an earth-bound course.

Grummans engineers sent a telegram to North American Rockwell's engineers about a bill for towing the Apollo back. Could you print the words of the telegram? There Is a very heated argument over this. C. Knox North American Rockwell Corp. can't remember the terminology of that note.

In fact, theyve probably been trying to forget ALL the particulars of that explosive situation. They do remember it was sent facetiously by the 1 head of P.R. at Grumman to NARCs program director. That P.R. person was a former Navy officer who remembered the old practice the Army and Navy had of sending each other tongue-in-cheek towing bills when one branch had to pick up stranded personnel for the other.

You see, NARC made the service module which exploded and left all the work for Grummans lunar module. The LM had to power the astronauts back through a quarter-million miles of space to conserve fuel reserves of the service module to pilot the high fliers back into the earths atmosphere. So Grummans P.R. director was reminded of his Navy days and thats why he launched the telegram. BREMEN The Board of Trustees of Bremen Public Schools Tuesday instructed Supt.

of Schools Edward Secor to conduct a cost study on school building proposals presented to it by a committee studying the school building needs of Bremen Schools. The board took the action after receiving the committees report Tuesday. The committees report said that an auditorium should be provided to accommodate an expanded drama and music program, the high school gymnasium should be converted to a spectator gymnasium and additional dressing rooms should be constructed because of the expansion of the physical education department program; and that the elementary-junior high school building Probe Bass KNOX Authorities today are continuing their investigation into the destruction of a rural Bass Lake home by fire Tuesday morning. Arson is suspected. The home, owned by Ostap Kachor, burned to the ground before the California Twp.

Fire Department arrived at the scene. Lake Fire Officials placed the timei of the blaze between 2 and 5 a.m. Kachor told firemen that he left the home at 7 p.m. Monday. Damage was estimated at between $15,000 and $18,000.

The site of the blaze is a mile south of Ind. 10 on Starke County Rd. 700-E..