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Page 16 The Herald, Friday, May 25, 1 934 Letter: Not asking for charity To the editor: This letter is in regard to the story on 'the county commissioners' meeting written by Vanessa Zimmer. First of all, sbe did not have my permission to use my name in the column. I feel humiliated. I don't want people to think I'm not trying to pay our bills, and that I'm asking the public for donations which is definitely not the case. People don't plan on then-children having surgery or other medical treatment It just happens sometimes to people when they don't expect it or to people who can't afford health andor life insurance.

A comment was made by the township trustee at the meeting about more low housing being built in Huntingburg which was referred to as bousing for more "trash" (this is the word that was used). I don't consider myself trash nor any of my neighbors. I'm sure people don't choose to live like this. Another thing, I think more low housing is needed to get rid of some of these run down houses that are not repaired or kept up by the landlords, that don't have correct plumbing and heating and make Huntingburg look bad. I'll never turn to people such as this again in times of needing help.

I have 12 children eight of whom are giving me money to help out whenever they can and are. buying clothes for my two youngest children. We are a respectable family and we wish people would think twice about' hurting other people's feelings. The feelings I've expressed go for my whole family because my children were also hurt and humiliated by the story. Mrs.

Ruth Ferguson Huntingburg Letters welcome The Herald welcomes letters to the editor. They must be signed. Address letters to: Letter to the editor, The Herald; P.O. Box 31, Jasper, IN 47546. Hatcher-backed candidates are losing cnclyc By BOB ASHLEY Gary Pact-Tribonc INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The naming of Rep.

Earline Rogers of Gary as vice chairman of the Democrat State Committee is me latest in a series of stunning political losses for Gary Mayor Richard G.HaUjher. Defeats at the polls for Hatcber candidates and his sudden loss of stature in state Democratic circles heralds new black political leadership in northwest Indiana. Mrs. Rogers and her benefactor. Calumet Township Trustee Dozier T.

Allen, stand to gain the most Hatcber views Mrs, Rogers as his enemy. Any political deal can fall apart faster than the time it takes to race a lap at the Indianapolis 500. But Mrs. Rogers was named vice chairman as part of a package put together by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wayne Townsend. While It's too early to write Hatcher's political obituary, voters and party officials finally have decided after more than a decade that there are entries other than Hatcher to the black Johnny McWUliams, Hatcher's candidate for Lake County recorder, suffered one the worst embarrassments in the city's political history.

With the backing of Hatcher's political machine, McWilliams lost the city vote to Rudy Clay by 23,021 to 3,760. Although Hatcher fielded a candidate to deny Mrs. Rogers renomination to ber House seat, she got 5,100 more votes man Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, her seatmate in the two-member district and candidate with Hatcher's endorsement. She beat Hatcher's other candidate, Don Leek, by 10,000 votes.

Hatcber was defeated for reelection last week as 1st Congressional District party chairman by political forces in Porter and LaPorte counties. Hatcher held the post for 10 of the -last 12 years. Hatcher attributes these" stunning failures to one thing: racism. He -refuses to acknowledge mere can be any other' explanation when he or anyone he supports is denied their political goals. But there are several other including Hatcher's own arrogance, his absolute refusal to strike political compromise and his habit of blaming racism for his failures.

In the two years since parts of Porter and LaPorte counties were added to the 1st Congressional District, Hatcher did not bold a meeting of county chairmen as be was supposed to do. He was represented by proxy at state committee meetings more frequently than he showed up in person, and more than one politician has complained it's virtually impossible to get Hat- cher to return telephone calls. A local city official says the reason she refused to go along with Hatcber in supporting Katie Hall was the treatment she received when sbe tried to visit Mrs. Hall In Washington. Twice she waited to see Mrs.

Hall for three hours before being told the congresswoman didn't have time to see her. It is the treatment of people as human beings, not whether they are black or white, that is responsible for most of Hatcher's political problems. community. Beginning with the primary elections two weeks ago, Hatcber has suffered the following defeats: Hatcher-backed U.S. Rep.

Katie Hall, D-Gary, lost a three-way renomination battle to Merrillvllle attorney Peter Viscksky, a former aide to the late Adam Benjamin. Another victim of Gary voter turnout that was tower than Hatcher had hoped for was presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. Hatcher is Jackson's national campaign chairman, and prospects for a Jackson victory in the 1st Congressional District were considered good. Instead, Jackson finished a poor third behind former Vice President Walter. Mondale and Sen.

Gary Hart Also in the same election, Nicaragua is slowly choking freedom of religion Buclcby Jr. columnist In his speech on Central America a fortnight ago, President Reagan mentioned, not without a trace of sarcasm, the extraordinary lack of ink, as the expression goes in the trade, given to the massive demonstration in Managua, Nicaragua, by Catholics on Good Friday. A crowd estimated at 100,000 accumulated to protest persistent Sandinista Infringements on the freedom to exercise religion. It is, of course, the same old story. No government that worships Marxist materialism can countenance a flourishing church.

The experience in'. Poland constantly reminds the Soviet hierarchy that probably the only absolutely reliable asserveration of Marx and Lenin was that, in the end, communism and religion really cannot co-exist without friction. Now in the general light of the above, consider a solemn report recently issued that deals as follows with the communization of Nicaraguan textbooks, a source of major complaints by the Catholic hierarchy. "It is also said that the new Now these paragraphs were not written by the Emergency Civil Rights Committee, or by any other communist front group. They are, incredibly, a small part of a large report on Central America done by a Catholic organization with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

It is called the International -Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, and comprises 13 Catholic agencies, in 11 countries, concerned with economic development Not very much more is needed to convey the bias of the Mission Report on Central America than to reflect on the term "New values." The new values here referred to are about as new as the Soviet printing press. The notion that Cuban textbooks are being used because they are so inexpensive will bet you a ham sandwich, if you have some ham, if you have some bread. What's going on? There' is still, in Managua unless it was shut down yesterday an independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights. It has been arguing for human rights for many years, right through the for an end to American aid to the government of El Salvador, and to the freedom fighters In, Nicaragaua. It is hardly a secret that quiet convulsions have been going on within the Catholic Church, a prominent segment of which has been captured by the populist know-nothingisin of The CIDSE calls now' for "information and conscientious compaigns to be conducted at all levels of society in our countries and by the most effective means." Meanwhile, Catholics in Nicaragua sit by in anguish at the "apparent lack of concern by fellow Christians over their progressive toss of freedom.

Catholics look to the Vatican for intelligent intervention. And everyone needs the reminder that the use of the Catholic label no longer certifies a document 'as primarily occupied with the welfare of the human spirit And even if we could live by bread alone, these ignorant gentlemen do not even recognize that the socialist world is very, very bad at producing bread. CUnlvTMl PrM Syndicate Somoza period. It has chronicled, day by day, the aggressions against freedom: by the Sandinistas. There is, also in Managua, something called the Human Rights Commission.

It is controlled by the Sandinistas, and says only flowery things about that government, where servility to the Soviet Union will no doubt be redundantly demonstrated by its withdrawal from the Olympics. The Catholic commission consulted only the second of these human rights commissions. So it is in El Salvador, where the commission reports that the "FMLN" (never referred to as the rebels) receives its military aid "from solidarity groups in different parts of the world, which openly collect money for the purchase of military equipment" The commission refers disparagingly to the "Americanization" of the civil strife in Central America and, in effect, asks the whole world to evangelize 'in favor of "negotiation" in El Salvador, which is the code word for surrender to the guerrillas, and program put forward Marxist ideology, and that the schoolbooks are also tinged with Marxism and are published in Cuba. We recognize that in general the programs and books do put forward new values, are based on the real social, cultural and economic situation of the people, and are pro-Sandinist, without being doctrinaire and propaganda-filled. Many teachers and members of religious orders see.

many positive aspects in this, and with it, a new How can this new situation be evangelized? "It is also true that many books are printed in Cuba. The reason given for this is a purely economic one. If they come from Cuba, they cost practically nothing. If they had to be purchased elsewhere with dollars, they would be exorbitantly expensive.".