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THE HAMMOND TIMES Formerly County Calumet Region's Founded in 1906 by Sidmon McHie Dally Except Ss-ureav oy Hair.moM Company. In Time? 417-19 St Hammond JAMES S. DeLAURIER Editor and Publisher KEXXETM V. PETERSON CARL M. DAVIDSON Advertising Director Managing Editor D.

A. CORXWELL HOWARD M. REISER Circulation Manager Classified Manager Page A-10 Monday. February 22, I960 435 High Above Foggy Bottom OTHERS MAY FOLLOW FRAME Lake Boies Out The state senate is losing a Republican who served as "Boss of Lake County'' in the Senate during the legislative session last year. The "boss" is State Sen.

Howard Steele, who comes from Knox, and represented Starke and LaPorte Counties in the 1953, 1955. 1957, and 1959 legislative sessions. He succeeded Gov. Handley as state senator when Handley was nominated for lieutenant governor in 1952. Xow Steele has announced he will not run again for th.8 state senate but has accepted an appointment as a mediator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

He will be sworn in Feb. 29 at Washington. During the 1959 legislature, Steele was chairman of the Committee on Affairs of Lake County, which reviewed proposed legislation dealing with Lake County affairs and either pigeonholed them or reported them onto the Eenate floor for further consideration. THE REASON' this man from Knox was chairman of the Lake County affairs committee was that the Republicans controlled the Senate by a small majority and it is the majority party that organizes each house. Since all three of Lake County's senators were Democrats, none eligible for chairmanship.

The Republicans, therefore, did the next best thing and chose a Republican from a nearby locale--Sen. Steele. Steele, a Knox newspaper editor, was a Republican state representative from 1941-49 and served as caucus chairman in 1949. He has been director of customer relations for the Toll Road Commission and public relations director of a restaurant chain operating Toll Road eating facilities. Sen.

Steele's withdrawal from this year's senate race in favor of former Rep. John Shawley of LaPorte will remove from the political scene one of the figures best Schooled on Lake County's problems. Economy Should Be Tried While emphasis for more federal spending is placed in the natioil defense area, because of its capacity for arousing public alarm, the greater spending idea takes in more territory than that. The extreme contention is that the American people are applying too much of their income to comforts and luxuries. They need to have austerity imposed upon them.

Capture more of their income, the argument runs, through higher federal taxes. Then apply the additional revenues to space ventures, national defense and assorted public works. There no argument about some of these needs. And if there is anything to charges about lack of defense hardware, the deficiency certainly should be corrected. But must public services be built up by further depriving private consumers? Citizens already surrender more than 30 per cent of their income to government.

A further drift in that direction will tend to starve out private enterprise and build up government operations. Every student of the federal budget knows billions can be saved by efficient government management. Instead of reaching for more taxes on grounds that the people are living too high on the hog, why don't the Washington managers apply the fat in their budgets to the real needs of the nation? Umvarranted Fear Do you have radiophobia? Radiophobia. Science Service, explains, is characterized by a slight pallor developing at or sight of the words "radiation" or "X-ray," the simple failure to report for prescribed X-ray treatment, and the consumption of valuable professional time in re explaining the value of radiation in medical care. It's also known as "nuclear neurosis," and apparently spread in the wake of a summary of genetic hazards published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.

Scientists fear that it may have been driven into the subconscious tn "smolder like a bog fire." Potential hazards of radiation are something to be aware of but scarcely something to get into a cold sweat about. This is especially rf X-rays administered by competent As to the hazards of fallout radiation, they may be there, but so far nothing has demonstrated that they are at dangerous levels. Nothing, a is. to warrant radiophobia. It Can Be Done GUEST EDITORIAL Rebel Over "Free-Loaders' i Trust Lacking Over A-Bombs Bv DAVID existing: stockpiles are destroyed, ments replace autocratic a This canno happen until there is ments.

That's the basic issue that WASHINGTON Now that mutual trust. And there can be no has been by pro- France has develooed the atom mutual trust until get tractcd discussions about banning ranee has developed tne aiom doger together and fr ee govern ruc iear "tests." TEAMSTER MYSTERY Missing Champagne Buckets By VICTOR KIESEL Before the of today's story we'll get to the case of the missing champagne buckets. But first the news is that there will always be a Senate probe of labor rackets. By any other name the McClellan Committee work will continue. That's a safe prediction.

It can only go wrong if current plans are pressured out of existence outside forces. At the moment, the committee is still operating. Its powers have been extended to Mar. 31. At that time, racket-probing functions will be turned over to some other Senate group.

No one knows just which one nor how it will operate, but it will operate as a steady deterrent to the mobs inside some labor outfits. There won't be a constant investigation. But there will be stand- tions in the case of the champagne buckets which were so graciously distributed as Christmas gifts by the Ohio lieutenants of Brother Hoffa. THE tip on this came during the hearings when the committee's ace prober. Walter Sheridan, testified that he had spent some time going over the books of the Ohio Teamster Joint Council 41.

There he found an envelope marked "Chirstrnas List." In the envelope was an invoice dated Der. 1955, referring to right champaigns masters costing $100 apiece. At the left side of the invoice wore eight names- "Beck, English, Hoffa, Brennan, Connell, Bender, Bliss and Dorfman." Sheridan wanted to take the records. But Ohio's Teamsters chief Bill Presser asked for time to pho- tostat everything the wanted. Sheridan agreed.

He returned three days later for material. Being Sheridan he examined the documents carefully. He discovered that the names had been torn from the invoice. A yellow sheet important to this matter was gone. This is a mighty vital list.

On it could hang one of the year's sensational stories. It all depends on what's discovered by the "champagne bucket Grand Jury" now in Washington and another soon to take testimony in Cleveland. And the McClelland Committee members want some Senate i available if these Grand Juries and others to come just happen to need more information. THE WORRY CLINIC KIESEL Juvenile Responsibility Reaches Peak at Age 16 By DR. GEORCE W.

CRANE Milton aged 17, has recently been arrested. bomb, other nations can do the same. All they is the money. There is plenty of scientific knowledge a a i a There is no way to prevent the production or use of a weapons except by international action that be applied against country in the world. The truth is that no steps have been taken to bar the production or use of nuclear weapons.

All the talk thus far has been about banning future "tests." But no proposal has come from any ment a it would be willing to negotiate a agreement to ban the use a weapons in the stroying a a produced. If "disarma- LAWRENCE ment" means anything, either from a humanitarian or an economic standpoint, then the mere stoppage of "tests" will not contribute to world peace. About all the knowledge possible, with the exception of some data from underground tests of a certain type, has already b.een accumulated. It isn't future "tests" which constitute the basic worry of the world, but the fact that missiles containing nuclear warheads can at any moment be fired and causa indescribable destruction. WHY AREN'T the "Big Four" nations the "Nuclear Club" -talking about a plan to destroy all nuclear weapons, instead of confining themselves to academic about The answer is that there is no such thing as mutual trust between the East and the West.

Nor is, there any check as yet by the people of the Soviet Union or their autocratic government which can provoke war or attempt conquest by blackmail. Only on a free government could they exercise such restraint. One reason why the United States has not been willing to say it would destroy its stockpile of nuclear bombs is that to do so would weaken its entire defense against surprise attack. In the last 10 years the strategy of the West has been built around tactical weapons in the nuclear category, to be used by ground troops, and big nuclear bombs, to be carried by manned planes and naval aircraft. Now, with missiles to be fired from fixed bases on land and from bases on and under the sea, potential destructive power has reached a point that the experts call "over-kill." This means that whatever may be produced in the future cannot be any more deadly and for all practical purposes, the power of devastation by nuclear bombs at present is as far as Voice of the People If Is 'Taxpayer'? If the Mommous writer who signed himself "Taxpayer" i let us have his name address, we'll Klad to print letter.

All to be published, must contain the name and address, which may be withheld if the writer Griffith Needs More Sidewalks on Broad The Griffith officials are requesting the State Highway Dept. to install a. sidewalk for pedestrians crossing the railroad overpass on Ridge Road. That's very noble of them, since all it takes is a sheet of paper, but let's see what these same officials have done in their last 4 years to remedy the sidewalk situation. The situation has existed for the past 30 years, right under their noses.

In order for the children who live on West Glen Park avenue 45th a to get to Franklin School or St. Mary's, they have to cross unprotected Broad street get to the east side of the street, because West Broad street from Glen Park to Pine street has no sidewalks. Two new homes and a service station have bpen put up in the last 4 years, and other residents have been there 10 to 20 years and no one had made a move to put in a public walfc. Since the town officials don't care, why should they spend money for public walks? And if a child does get hurt or killed--so what? After a heavy rain, the sidewalks on East Broad are filled with over an inch of water, these walks are lower than the street. Therefore the only way to get to school is by walking down Broad street.

Eldon Ready school and the shopping center are fairly new. Franklin and St. Mary's schools have come up with the town, so let's do something about our front yard, too. CONCERNED RESIDENT. Griffith.

Calumet Township School Politics Hit A group of taxpayers of Calumet Township worked hard in the past to take politics out of our schools, and succeeded in electing a non-partisan school board. Now into our midst comes an organization calling themselves after a political party, endorsing their own candidates for next May's election. It too much like they are trying to reverse the trend and instill politics into our again. Let's vote for a candidate of our choice, but let's vote on a non- "Voice" letter in regard to the condition of our schools. She stated that our schools have never been in such good conditions because of the wonderful school board.

1 would like to ask a few questions of Mrs. Bair as to what she believes are good school conditions. Does she consider these conditions good? Is a student or teacher expected to be comfortable in a room with a temperature of below 55 degrees, or if he is in luck, a with a temperature of above 90 degrees? Should a teacher and students have to climb around a sandpile in the room because of leaky pipes that have to be dug up to be fixed? Then to cite another example. is a direct quotp from the "Warrior." our school newspaper. "Rain, rain go away, come again when the gym room is fixed." Would you like to go to school under conditions such as 'these? Could you be comfortable? Do these conditions sound like they are i i But of course, these conditions are provided by our very wonderful school board.

If anybody ran say that these are good conditions, I very strongly suggest that they go to the noaresl psychiatrist and have their heads examined. SANDRA FORCHT. Calumet Twp. High School Calumet Township. Unsightly Conditions C5 In Tech Neighborhood What has become of the taxpayers who used, with pride, to keep their property and neighborhood clean, respectable and safe? Now, having a new high school and the Civic Center close by the property owners of the Claude- Sohl-Erie avenue area should join thesr councilman in fighting tc bring back what used to be Just because a few haven't any respect or consideration isn't any reason for the others to relax.

How dc you expect to hold or increase your property values if you let trucks be parked, and speeders us ths neighborhood for a race track? Speeding with exhausts roaring at early morning up and down Thornton Street and and Sohl Avenues, cars parked bumper to bumper, trucks parked also, violating a law of a. residential district, are some other bad things. You respectable taxpayers pay for protection and rights: why not demand satisfaction? Don't let one person do the protesting. Help vour councilman and stick up for what's right, and you help yourselves. Bring the neighborhood back to a respectable one again.

Your police and other departments cannot help unless you demand such. FELLOW TAXPAYER Hammond. it needs to go to attain its lethal partisan basis for the best fidSn I trOt It purposes. The United a few ago abandoned its reliance on conventional armed forces and concentrated on nuclear strategy, be- in our district. Griffith.

JOHN REGESKI. "Dr. Crane," a policeman informed me, "he has previously been cause the Soviets were doing the Student Protests keep the McClellan Committee files intact and keep strengthening them. It will have small but ex- new outfit will in Juvenile Court several times for burglary, and now is involved sama thing. Also, it would have been prohibitive in cost so the Cal.

Twp. Conditions perienced group of investigators a nd may die. including several from Robert Ken- nedy's old staff. with two pals in slugging a filling station attendant. "Milton helped beat up their victim till he has a skull fracture IT WILL be empowered to hold "Milton seems smart enough and I feel sure is fully aware of his violations of the law, so why shouldn't he be treated as an adult offender? "Why should we mollycoddle public hearings if it runs across- these vio i ators by treating them any scandals.

It probably will run ajj uveniles tlll thcy reach 18? open sessions from time to time just to remind the underworld and the more "legal looters" that there is a deterrent force watching from The Hill. THIS I has a good question. Recently of our states have been urging that we drop the age for adult responsibility from 18 to 17. But we might as well go down to 16, for that's when the human brain reaches maturity. Thus, a person, aged 16.

has the sdult memory span and ability to do logical His mental "motor" 'brain) Is able to recognize right from wrong, so if he pulls the trigger on a vic- Rppublicans have Um or robg a home he During the nrxt two weeks, the McClellan Committee will release reports on political spending: secondary boycotts: a fellow named Jim Hoffa: the big crime syndic a sheet metal workers: a Chicago Teamsters chief named Joey Glimco. and juke boxes. On these matters both Democrats and Those whose more pleasant dreams include repeal of any existing law may take heart after what happened the "other day in the House of Representatives at Washington. Members voted to repeal the tire tax on American-made bicycles. If the Senate agrees, this tax repeal could lower the price of an American made bike by 25 cents.

To the youngster saving up for a new bicycle that 25 cents may not seem very much. But the wonderful thing about it is that Congress apparently has re nfmbered a there's no law against repealing a tax and may even do it again pometime. a i I 'x ri n-v pystrm a a i HP "It a IIT. i doctors to a i school a ri ha- PtrP.r.^r- r.p do- tor's .1 a i sys jtsrnts v. no a a i charged iir-m iru-'r TV i i a tin-- 1 a i a Th" n'.

is a no crr'd -Aj-jn-o a a i i a hf deprived of it bcca 1 of I a i i i to a But a for th" doctor j.tflt«-.: school i i a i a has ou' rf ail proportion." He "We V.a\e i i snots to babif-s THIS ISX'T REASON i -A hat a posed to be a srhoo! a Donors a reasonablv bp expected to STVP as v. ith school administrators' ron- a system a si to for the of pro" pip a to for dor The doi a a hoo! a i a "have sf i th.p 'hots i i WhT. a i certainly be a the i i of a irn- other matters, involving the United Auto Workers, to report disagreement is to master the technique of understatement. However, on one thing above all there is agreement there must always be a follow through to save "the work of some three years of investigation. Results have just begun to show.

There are at least four Grand Juries sitting now on leads developed by the committee. Two of these are concentrating on the Florida Sun Valley project. One Grand has been probing this quietly for six weeks. The other was convened in Orlando. last Monday.

They are looking i possible misuse of the mails in connection with the land development project. There are two Grand ac- You're Telling Me By WILLIAM RITT Britain's Dr Barbara Moorp, recently staged solo nno. mile in Fnjrlard. a she hopes cross the on foot a 3.000-milr coa.st-to-coa?t stroll Somebody had i her off to thp i of weather we'vp been having! Incidentally. Dr.

Moore's just been fined by a London court for speeding in her car. This shouldn't happen to a pedestrian famous or otherwise. what he is doing. Obviously, a person can learn new ideas all his life but the brain's a i a capacity reaches Its peak at 16. Memory span is one index of adult brain power.

The normal child at 4 years can thus recite 4 digits. "Repeat after me." says the psychologist, "these words--two-sevpn- six-eight." and the normal 4-year- old can do so. But he can't repeat 5 or 6 bers! At the age of 4. he can also count 4 pennies. But he must be 6 yrars old to count 13 pennies.

"Oh. but my 4-year-old can count to 20." you may protest. WELL, a may mean he is very superior in his I. Q. But it is more likely to indicate you aren't making the child point to ea'ch penny as he names its sequence.

For youngsters can parrot the numbers from 1 to 20, even at the age of 3. but they fail to realize that each number stands for a separate item or unit in the series. The same child who glibly recites the numerals from 1 to 20, will start counting pennies like this: one-two-three-four-eight-ten-seven, etc He keeps on the beam till he passes the 4th Item; then gets mixed up. A CHILD of 4 can also copy square correctly. But he caji't copy a diamond at 4 or 5 or even 8 years.

No. he must be 7 years of age to copy the diamond! As we grow older, we can repeat after the examiner a series like: four seven six-one-nine-five, and even do it in reverse! Test yourself and family. When we speak of brain "capacity" to reason and retain a long series of digits (memory span), we find that at the age of 16, the average person's brain reaches its adult power. Brain capacity is thus much tensile strength of steel or wire. Since 16 is the age of brain maturity, this policeman has a good reason to urge the courts to use 15 as the dividing line between juvenile vs.

adult offenders. Send for my "Vocational Guidance Kit." enclosing a stamped return plus 20 cents, if you wish some helpful mental tests. They also familiarize you with the types of exams used for college entrance. STRICTLY BUSINESS fcv McFeatlerg i a i i tfiok r.ol to i a Thry a it rotnrr.rd to a it was onjr.r.aKy- a to provide for whoso i a I a i a a tn: It rf )r a i a i m.sro'iracr- and bp a i i T- ir I to i a 1 'ne of iv.kiirn v. hose parents a elford LO A mystery planet, a mystery a and a mystery submarine are all in thp news the same week This old world's becoming more of a puzzle than ever.

Cannon a and floodlights used successfully to drive out a hugo of blackbirds which had rooster a Memphis. Trnn comptpry for two weeks Tho wing- rd bums it scorns, didn have a jrnost of a n-rally Ipnorpd Va.I- Day. Survey Shows" arrow into a boomerang? INVESTMENTS argument went to rely on bigger armies, a i a air equipped with conventional weapons. All emphasis was placed on "deterrent power" through nuclear weapons. "OW, HOWEVER, it is conceded that one side cannot wreak havoc upon the other without inviting massive retaliation.

A stalemate has been reached in destructive power. Yet all the talk still is about banning "tests." This is based on a false issue alleged danger from radioactive "fall-out," and the Soviets keep on talking about prohibi- tion of underground testing, in which, of course, there is no danger of A curious of the controversy in what is happening in a The Communists there have for several now been denouncing "tests," and they have managed to lam- haste the United as a "warmonger" because it has not been willing to stop all without some foolproof method of inspection. Xow France has tested a bomb and doubtless will soon develop and manufacture more of them. Unwittingly, General De Gaulle may have focuted world-wide attention on the real issue, which is not the ban on "tests" but the further production or use of nuclear bombs by any nation. While expense is a temporary barrier to the development of atomic weapons by most countries and Congress is reluctant to amend existing laws to permit any sharing of nuclear knowledge with other countries, the production of bombs by the "Nuclear Club" the Soviet Union.

Britain, a and United States goes unrestricted. This means that a. threat of a holocaust for the world will not removed until all bombs in the All in the Location A pretty young Miss at a. hotel cocktail bar spotted one of those rangy Texans, obviously a millionaire, and engaged him in what she hoped would prove a rewarding conversation. "A millionaire, I'll bet," she grinned.

"Right nice of you to mention it. ma'am." he drawled. "A millionaire --and how." "Oil or cattle. I suppose." "You drew a blank that time, "Real estate then." "On the nose, Missy. I do own 37 acres." The young lady's face fell bit.

"That doesn't sound like to much in those wide open she "What do you call your place?" The a answered quietly, "Downtown Dallas." As a student member of Calumet High School, I would like to disagree with Mrs. Bair's Jan. 18 Dr. Morris'Fishbein tells about two cows who were idling besida a fence in a pasture as a shiny new truck whizzed by. On tha truck a sign proclaimed, "Grade A i pasteurized, homogenized, fortified with vitamins A and A tear trickled from the eye of the older cow.

"It makes me feel so inadequate!" she sobbed. ASSIGNMENT: WASHINGTON by ED KOTERBA, Uncle Sam Pinched for Pennies WASHINGTON--The U.S. Treasury got caught up in a bureaucratic boo-boo. It has billions of dollars on hand for foreign aid --but not enough copper pennies for the milkman in Michigan! This lack of cents was acknowledged by Bill Brett, director cf the Mint, who came up to ask Congress for more money to make money. Don't blame Brett for the penny shortage.

Blame those dern hoarders. stashing away new pennies like a squirrel hiding nuts. It's those pennies with the Lincoln Memorial on back. A lot of folks i they've found a valuable i i mistake. It so happens that the phrase on the back of the penny.

"United States of America." was sculptured with a. small At first glance, the little appears peculiar. But the chjpf money-maker said it's no mistake. "That was artistic." he said. "But it was broadcast that there was an error in the coin and" that the Treasury Department was going to recall it and pay 50 cents ED KOTERBA "Would you mind moving nation's industry I ports alloying: elements from 46 countries, Steel FacU 23D PSALM (HEALING) "Thou anointest my head with oil." Psalm 23:5 In Bible times, the sheep, one reads When scratched by rocks or thorny weeds Would be bathed by the shepherd and Have oil applied with gentle hand To heal their wounds and oft we find The Psalmist and Christ bring tc mind The healing powers of the Lord And how those who are in accord With what "The Shepherd'' has in view Will through His healing grace renew Thfir strength by soothing; rot For loves and cares for His JULTEN C.

HTER or a dollar each to get them back." And. the Mint men said wistfully. "We still have them mailed back to us." THE HOARDERS, he said. Is what has thrown off the Mint's calculations and is probably ths reason he's received complaints from Michigan that a man who peddles milk there couldn't get enough one-cent pieces to make change for his customers. Despite the penny shortage, thn Treasury won't step up its production measurably next year.

After all. they put out more a a billion and a half of the coppers last year, and expect to do the same tha next two years. What horrifies the Mint (9 a if the hoarders unhonrded their stocks while he stepped up production, "we'd i ourselves knee deep in one-cent pieces." ANOTHER reason for the penny shortage, he said, is thp exploding population of a beings and x-ending machines. The machines this year are taking coins at a clip. Sales taxes, too, puts pennies into faster circulation.

And then a lot of the coins wear out and the Mint melta them and strikes new ones-at a neat profit. It costs only 93 cents to manufacture 1.000 pennies False impressions about pennies is old hat. I learned from the assistant Mint chief, Leland Howard. He recalled the Indian-head penny tales he used to hear back at his corner barber shop in Kentucky. One story was that if you found four Indian-head pennies with Mint designations that spelled Ford, ol' Henry would give you a new automobile.

The Indian heads carried small letters designating the city whcro they were for San Francisco. for Denver, for Nrw Orleans, a so on But ratrh was a no Mints carried the designations and.