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Area, State Report By Tribune-Star Correspondents 24 THE TRIBUNE-STAR, TERRE HAUTE, IND. SUNDAY, OCT. 24, 1974 Mattoon Dentist Earns Degree By HOWARD STEVENS Tribune State Editor MATTOON. Ill Back to school when other people are thinking about retirement is what it is all about for a prominent dentist of 40 years Dr William "Bill" Podesta. "You can live in the past.

The past only helps shape the future." Podesta proposes. Intrigued by a new degree program at Eastern Illinois University. Podesta became a college student again at age 63 In the spring, he was one of 85 DR. WILLIAM PODESTA persons who received Bachelor of Arts Degrees trom Eastern "I believe in the future always have Education stimulates me and I recommend it for anyone who wants to be stimulated." he says. A graduate of St Louis Dental School.

Podesta has long been associated with education He has been a board member of the Mattoon Community Unit Schools for 12 years and a member of the Lake Land Junior College Board for six vears "If I had my way. every school administrator and every board member would be required to take a class nowT and then There is so much more to education thdn buses, budgets and he maintains How did he feel on-campus0 "I never felt out of place. Everyone was most helpful. very impressed with our young people." The degree program at Eastern was launched in 1973. In 1975.

75 degrees were conferred Last year, the total soared to more than 100. A waiting list of 600 is on file at college headquarters. The program is a boon to area citizens who want to go back to college It is a direct way to the challenges of the future." Podesta is convinced the program, no major is required and skills and knowledge acquired by nonacademic means can be evaluated for academic credit. The program recognizes an intelligent adult will have acquired a large amount of education through experience. Podesta the graduate now has another dheam a degree in health or psychology "School is a very disciplinary thing For me.

it has been a very rewarding, enriching experience Try it. You'll like it." he vouches Vacations, Conventions At Lewis LEWIS. Ind. Mr and Mrs. Dale Dicus were guests of Mr and Mrs Veriin Dicus.

Dale and his wife recently returned from a vacation trip to Colorado Rev and Mrs Howse attended a district convention at Springfield. Ill Mr and Mrs Lanny Moyer visited with Mr and Mrs Bob Coogan and family in Indianapolis Mr and Mrs Don Caton and Bertha Hendricks visited with Mr and Mrs Herb Myers Mr and Mrs Warren Bedvvell. Mr and Mrs Walter Bedwell and Mr and Mrs. Don Bedwell and families visited with Mr and Mrs Carroll Bedwell Mr and Mrs William McGavic were guests of Mr and Mrs James McGavic of Washington Knightsville Woman Attends Wedding KNIGHTSVILLE, Ind Mrs Nellie Watson of this community was in Grand Rapids. for the wedding of her grandson, Paul Oberlin, and his fiancee.

Miss Pamela Boersen. She was accompanied by Mrs. Jessie Wasnidge, also of Knightsville. The wedding was held in the South Congregational Church of Grand Rapids and the newlyweds are now residing in the Michigan City at 1016. Hollywood N.E Indiano HCDS 1 STATE BEXEATH US INDIANA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MINERAL WATERS AND HEALTH RESORTS IN INDIANA Many of natural mineral springs were used by ancient Indian tribes. French Lick Springs in Orange County probably was one of the first known to white explorers. But improvements were not made there until 1836, when the first hotel was built. Use of mineral water was most popular between 1890 and 1910, when 30 or more hotels operated at springs in the state. Health resorts and use of mineral water began to decline by 1915.

Mineral loss of popularity was due partly to exaggerated claims of its curative powers, partly to rapid advances in medical science, and partly to improved means of travel. Some Hoosier spas were large and lavish. West Baden Sprfngs Hotel, for example, was considered by some to be the "eighth wonder of the Consumer Advocate Says Postal Patrons Cheated SPRINGFIELD. 111. (AP) One out of every four times you have a letter or parcel weighed at a downstate post office you wind up being overcharged for postage, the consumer advocate says And Celia Maloney says the S.

Postal Service ought to do something to end the ripoff i feel very strongly there are some managerial procedures in the post office that must be tightened up." she said. Ms. Maloney said Wednesday that an investigation of 30 post offices in central and Southern Illinois showed customers having letters or parcels weighed at the window were being overcharged 27 per cent of the time Customers are overpaying the post office an average 3.7 per cent in such transactions, which means extra profit for the U. S. Postal Service, she said Ms.

Maloney said that "there is no evidence of deliberate fraud, and I am not contending there is my belief that the problem is simply one of not keeping the post office scales in proper working order." she said. Edward G. Gold, general manager of communications for the U. S. Postal 13- state central region, said that the service had not yet been given the results of the downstate investigation.

But he said "we welcome and appreciate any valid evidence about any inaccuracy of our It was the second such blast against the Postal Service by the consumer office in less than a month. On Sept. 27. Ms. Maloney released the results of a similar investigation in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area.

That one showed consumers paying almost 5 per cent more than they should when they have mail weighed at post office windows, she said. In the downstate probe, investigators went to 30 post offices in central and Southern Illinois. said Ms Maloney At each one they presented three letters and three to be weighed and assessed for postage Each letter and parcel was also weighed on precision instruments of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, she said.

The post offices came up with the correct weight only 46 per cent of the time, and the correct price only 70 per cent of the time, she said. She said consumers were undercharged three percent of the time, and overcharged 27 per cent of the Ms. Maloney said the investigation was prompted by complaints, such as one from a consumer who said he had been overcharged $30 in 11-cent stamps because of sm innaccuracy in the scale. She said that during the investigation, postal employes were suspicious of (the) In many cases they parcels on as many as four different scales, often producing four different weight employe then arbitrarily selected one scale and its assessment as accurate, but failed to alter or report the other scales as inaccurate," she said. Ms.

Maloney said her office had also found among the postal employes a widespread misunderstanding of the Parcel Post rate structure, which contributed to overcharging. Craft Club At Newport NEWPORT, Ind. Members of the Vermillion County Craft Club will meet Nov. 1 at 9 30 a.m. to work on a dried apple project.

Mrs. Marjorie, Henderson. Clinton, will give the lesson and all members are urged to bring appropriate materials. Mrs. Gladys Waymire, Newport, is president of the club.

The meeting will be held in Courthouse Auditorium and each member is asked to bring a sack lunch. Newsmen to Hear Senate Candidates Speak at S. Bend SOUTH BEND, Ind. lUPh- Sen Vance Hartke and his Republican challenger, former Indianapolis Mayor Richard G. Lugar will appear before the Michigana professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Monday evening.

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