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MAIL SERVICE AT CURB 'It's Hard to Sell to Asks State Share in U. S. Tax By Drake Mabry A LONG WALK FOR MAIL This photo depicts another mail box situation in Des Moines. Residents of the 4000 block on Fiftieth street have had to place their mail boxes at the corner of Fiftieth street and Madison avenue in order to get service. Mrs.

Joe Horpestad of 4028 Fiftieth, who lives in the house second from the end of the street, said postal officials informed residents that the boxes would have to remain at the corner until the block was more than 50 per cent developed with houses. She said the block now is more than one-half developed but residents still must walk to the corner for their mail. Northwest Swimming Pool is located on the other (east) side of Fiftieth, which is a dead-end street north of Madison. Shown removing mail from the family's box is Mrs. Horpestad's daughter, Nancy, 12.

An official at the Des Moines Tost Offire Tuesday said "the Fiftieth Street situation will be thoroughly checked out." ISSUE TO COURT Gov. Harold Hughes said Tuesday he favors some sort of system for the state to get back part of the federal taxes now being collected from Iowans But he said at his press con ference it would be difficult to get such a plan through Congress, especially because of the high cost of the fighting in Viet Nam. The governor said that Con gress probably would never pass such a plan "unless people get aroused and demand it. Hughes added that he hoped Iowa's Democratic congressmen "would work toward this princl pie and support it." Agreement Hughes, a Democrat, and Iowa Republicans thus are in agreement on this controversial point, Some Republican candidates for the governor's nomination and a G. 0.

P. study committee have urged a "rebate" of feder al back taxes fo the state in order to help solve Iowa's rising tax problem. The governor said he has agreed with the theory of returning some federal tax money to the states for three years and that the National Governors Conference has been studying various proposals to do this. "Incentive" Said the governor, "I feel we're (the states) able to take care of most problems now being attacked by federal pro-prams, includine the War on Poverty, if we only had the resources to do it." He said most state governors feel the individual states are not wttinf an eauitable share of the tax dollar. Hughes said he personally fa vored what he called an "incen tive approach' to the system.

This means the federal gov ernment could cut income tax rates for Iowans if the state covernment would raise its state income tax rates a like amount. Backs Principle Hughes said that there are "many problems" in such a system, but he does "endorse the principle of it." He said he felt nearly every state would "pick up the differ- ence" if the federal government would agree to lower income taxes. Hughes said the Viet Nam has not diminished efforts of the state governors to obtain anonfmAnt nt curh a tar svstpm of Course Test Isaiah was written by three different men over a span of 300 Page 6 Some' meet postal but also are of modern design. "A lot of people," Robinson said, "think they must have old country boxes, but that isn't so. A mail box can be very attractive." Under the new regulation, most suburban apartment houses.

will receive door service, but apartments with individual outside entrances will get only curb service. In all neighborhoods, registered, insured and other signature mail will continue to be delivered to the door. Grades Bad, Boy Burns Records CHARLESTON, W. A (AP) A 17-ycar-old high school senior, who told police he was afraid his poor scholastic standing would keep him out of college, admitted Tuesday that he staged a series of break-ins to destroy school records. Arrest of the boy Monday climaxed a six-month investigation that began following break-ins at Charleston High School and the Kanawha County Board of Education.

Police said the youth admitted forcing his way into the offices last October, December and April and burning record cards by the hundred in an effort to conceal his own record. He failed in a fourth break-in attempt during May, prompting police to set up the stake-out over the Memorial Day weekend that resulted in his arrest in the Board of Education building. Arresting officers quoted the boy as saying he destroyed the records because he was "afraid to face the reality of my personality and academic life in high school. My grades had been dropping because I'd missed lot of school from sickness and no-care attitude." Police said the boy, considered a "loner," had no previous police record. Plead Innocent Of 2 Crimes Two persons pleaded innocent to criminal charges Tuesday in Pqlk County District Court and were released on bond.

Their names, addresses they gave, the charges and bond: Franklin Delano McCoy, 11. of 536 Twelfth West Des Moines; writing a bad $30 check ast Feb. 25 at Keith and DX Service Station, 211 Grand West Des Moines; $500. Wallace Arnold Jackson, 65, of rural Rising Sun; driving with a suspended license last Apr. 4 near Rising Sun; $300.

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Nationally, the Post Office Department estimates it would cost an additional $100 million year just to provide tooi Urges Polk: Pay Release Plan Costs By William T. Kong The Polk-Des Moines Taxpayers Association Tuesday urged Polk County to underwrite the cost of the Des Moines pre-trial release program. Annual cost of the program, under which some defendants in criminal cases are released without having to post bond, has been averaging about $15,000 during its sponsorship by the Hawley Foundation. The taxpayers association said its Board of Directors has voted unanimously to support continuation of the project under the guidance and direction of the Hawley Foundation and an advisory committee created in 1964, but further recommended that the cost be met from public funds. Rejected Last Year A request by the Hawley Foundation for the county to underwrite the project's ex penses was rejected last vear by the Polk County Board of Supervisors, partly on the ba sis of a county attorney's opinion that said the board has no authority to appropriate such funds.

Supervisors are now work ing on their 1967 budget. The current pre-trial release staff, consisting of six Drake University Law School students and a secretary, investigates arrested persons to determine whether the defendants should be released without having to post bonds-to guarantee their appearance at later court proceedings. 1,530 Released During the two years of Hawley Foundation sponsorship, 2,092 defendants were interviewed and 1,530 of them released by judges on the recommendations of the pre-trial staff, while 32 recommendations for release were not accepted. Of those released, 24 "wilfully" failed to appear in. court later, the Taxpayers As-, sociatinn reported, meaning that 98.43 per cent did show up in court as scheduled.

In 1965, there were 814 per sons released on a total of 1,029 offenses. Persons involved in 399 charges, or 38.8 per cent of the total, later were found innocent or had the charges dismissed, and fines were paid on another 394 charges. This brought to 793 the' total number of charges that were disposed of with no jail time resulting. The association pointed out that this means that released persons accused of 77 per cent of last year's charges never had to spend time in jail. Before the pre-trial program, the association said, many of these persons would have had to spend some time in jail or would have had to west Des Moines development said, "Nobody likes it.

For the money we're paying for postage, we should get better delivery service." Another woman complained: "I have to get dressed just to get the mail. I can't let the neighbors see me in my robe and slippers." Box Design Some women don't like the type of mail box popular in rural areas. However, there are new types available that not only Mooncraft Directed to New Path PASADENA. CALIF. (AP) Surveyor 1 cruised Tuesday toward a new and hopefully smoother landing site on the moon after a tricky steering maneuver 97,000 miles out in space.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory of ficials here, who are guiding the camera-carrying craft toward a soft landing in the dry Sea of Storms late Wednesday, said Surveyor re sponded properly to all radioed commands during the intricate change of course. 20-Mile Shift They said it would take sev eral hours of tracking to be sure Surveyor's new course will bring it down, as now planned, about 20 miles north of the point picked prior to Monday's launch. Officials said there was no indication so far that the steering maneuver was disturbed by any shift in the unmanned craft's center of gravity, a possibility that arose Monday when radioed data indicated that an antenna boom may not have extended fully after launch. There was still a chance that a shift in the center of gravity might cause the craft to tumble and crash during its final de scent to the moon. Target lhe new landing site was chosen to give the spacecraft the smoothest possible area in the 62-miIe-diameter target cir cleat the western edge of the equatorial strip selected for future Apollo astronaut touchdowns.

Like the Russian Luna 9, which soft-landed and -televised pictures from the lunar surface Feb. 3, Surveyor is pioneering a technique planned to deposit manned craft gently on the moon. This technique descending slowly while balancing on the thrust of downward-firing rocketsis believed the only safe way to land on the airless moon. Once down the Surveyor is to radio back pictures of the moon's surface, showing terrain' details as small as a pencil! lead. Harry Holland, Indianola, Dies Harry D.

Holland, 57, of Indianola died Tuesday morning at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. Mr. Holland, who was retired, is survived by his wife Eliza beth; four sons, including Donald L. of Des Moines and James D. of Indianola; a daughter.

Mrs. Nancy Shepherd of Des Moines; six brothers, including Frank and Thomas of Des Moines; two sisters, includ ing Mrs. Evalena Fetters of Des Moines, and six grandchildren. service to the more than seven million new houses. Postal officials admitted that some residents are not happy with the curb service.

"It's hard to sell to some who have lived in neighborhoods with door service," said Robinson. "But it's the trend of the times in all the cities." There have been complaints to postal officials from persons who are elderly or ill and have difficulty getting from the house to a curb mail box, especially in bad weather. One housewife in a north spend money for bonds to obtain their release while awaiting disposition of their cases, even though no jail time ultimately would have been required. "Savings" Noted The association said a study by the Bureau of Governmental Research of those released without bond during a six-month period of 1965 showed that a total of $68,492 was "saved" by eliminating the $11,592 it would have cost to keep the defendants in jail and by preventing the loss of $56,900 in income while the defendants were in jail. (The study assumed that none of the 440 defendants during the period analyzed would have obtained their release.) In the meantime, the assocl-tion reported, the pre-trial expense jor the period was J7.201, thus making the "net economic gain" to the community a "hypothetical" John Robinette Rites Planned Services for John P.

Robin ette. 58, who died of cancer Saturday at his home in John ii i sion, win De wv 10 a. m. Wednesday at the stover Fu-n al Home. Burial will be 1 a in ndaie Cemetery.

Born in Churchill, 1' fa Robinette was a Ues Moines 1 1 v. a i A a nf mmm V- A Vf years. He was "oiinetti an auto mechanic at Robinette's Garage in Johnston. Surviving are his wife, Wil ma; a daughter, Mrs. Dora Kate Farlow, Virginia Beach, three sons.

Walter John and Fred all of Des Moines: two sisters, Mrs. Stella Fields, Gate City, and Mrs. Juanita McConnell, of Churchill; four brothers, Huston and I. B. Robinette, both of Johnston; W.

Arch Robinette, Kansas City, and Wade M. Robinette, Ankeny, and nine grandchildren. The family suggests memori als in the form of contributions to the American Cancer Society. Stanford U. Chemist Slain SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

(AP) Detectives appealed Tuesday for help from the anonymous persons who re ported finding the body of a mysteriously slain Stanford Uni versity chemist. Two phone calls alerted police who found the body of Floyd C. Martin, 37, on a grassy plot near Lands End, a lookout point over the Pacific. Martin, senior laboratory technician specializing in der matology at Stanford Medical Center, was found with a loaded and unfired pistol in his pocket, pair of binoculars around his neck and a small flashlight near his right hand. He had been shot through the neck.

one damn mi, dui may nave diminshed the governors' opti Bible SEATTLE, WASH. (AP) The stage is set for a court test here of whether a course on the Bible as literature in a state university violates a state con stitutional ban against use of public funds for "religious worship, exercise or Instruction." On one side are two funda mentalist pastors, the Rev. Thomas W. Miller of Calvary Bible Presbyterian Church here and the Rev. Harold Webb of Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church in nearby Tacoma, who say it does.

The Other On the other are the regents the University of Washington, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Seattle and a i gton-Northern Idaho Councils of Churches. The issue is English 390, the designation of a course the University has offered in some form or other since 1919. Similar courses are offered in many other state universities, includ ing some whose state constitu tions have the same language as Washington's concerning religious instruction. The Bible Presbyterian Church, which the pastors rep resent, broke from the mam Presbyterian body in the 1930's Reference books give its 1965 membership at 11,994 in 95 churches, compared with 3,292, 204 in 9,016 churches for the United Presbyterian Church in the US. A.

Last December the Rev. Mr. Miller and the Rev. Mr. Webb wrote to Prof.

David C. Fowler who is teaching the course this year. They said they thought it should be stopped. Fowler referred them to the Train Pile-Up; $l-Million Loss SAN JOSE, CALIF. (AP) An axle snapped on a Southern Pacific freight train Monday, causing a accident and tying up the railroad's main San Francisco-Los Angeles line.

There were no injuries, but when an axle broke on the ninth car of a 90-car train, 41 cars jacknifed, tearing out both sets! of rails. Most of the half-mile long train was piled in a heap 750 feet long. The Southern Pacific canceled its passenger trains between the two largest California cities as well as its Del Monte from Monterey to San Francisco. Passengers on a northbound trip from Los Angeles were taken by bus from Salinas to San Francisco. Workmen completed tempor ary trackage by.

nightfall and some Monday night trains were operated. The accident was at Coyote, nine miles south of San Jose. ACJ7 $25,000 LIABILITY $1,000 MEDICAL a to university provost, who referred them to the regents. The re gents, on the advice of Atty. Gen.

John J. O'Connell's office, replied this way: "The board considers the course an important part of the university's curriculum because it offers to those students who desire it an opportunity to study a vitally important text of the western culture in the same manner and with the same approaches as are customary in any class devoted to the study of literary texts." Filed Suit On Apr. 18, the two pastors filed suit in King County Super ior Court to restrain the regents from continuing to offer the course. The manner in which the authorship and writing of the Bible is presented," they said, 'necessarily Implies that many of the books of the Bible were not written by those to whom their authorship is ascribed in the Bible, which presentation necessarily affects a destruction of the Bible as an infallible revelation from God to Texts for the course are the revised standard version of the Bible and "Outline for the Study of the Bible as Literature" by Prof. Fowler, in which the author says: "The establishment of a course in the Bible as literature does not necessarily imply that the Bible is assumed to be nothing more than another collection of literary documents the Bible is more than just another book." The pastors said in affidavits that dates given by Fowler in his book indicate the book of To Remove Disputed Pole, Lines Iowa Power Light Co.

agreed Tuesday to take down a controversial 50-foot utility pole and high-tension lines in the River Hills urban renewal area The pole and lines were in siauea aoout uiree weeks ago by the company and were sub sequently objected to by the City Council, urban renewal officials and the developers of new Federal Home Loan Bank. The pole stands in front of the River Hills lot on Second avenue where the bank will build a new headquarters. The council recently authorized Mayor George C. Whitmer ask Iowa Power to remove the pole and bury the lines underground. L.

E. Slade, Iowa Power vice-president, in a letter to the council Tuesday, said that the company will eliminate the line entirely, probably sometime this fall. QUARTERLY (CLASS IB) HAL HIGGS Ailni Casualty. Hartford, 611 5th AVE. DES MOINES a a 69, 2 a both Des years "in direct contradiction of numerous explicit statements of the New Testament" and that King David did not write any of the Psalms.

The suit brought some prompt reaction. The Olympic Church man, organ of the Episcopal dioces of Olympia, said of the two ministers: "Their claim that the Bible is an infallible revelation from God to man is a position that has not been held by most orth odox and educated clergymen of the major Christian churches for several generations." 1918 Case The plaintiffs' case rests in part on a 1918 case in which a group of parents in Everett, petitioned to have the local high school offer for credit course in the Bible to be taught by religious instructors of the various faiths represented in the student body. The State Supreme Court held that this would violate the constitutional provision. On May 9, Superior Court Judge W. R.

Cole denied a request by the plaintiffs to halt the course in mid-term and a motion by the state to dismiss the case. He set trial for June 6. The Civil Liberties Union submitted a brief as a friend of the court, contending that to halt the course would violate Prof. wler's academic freedom which it said is protected by the First Amendment to the U. S.

Constitution. Since then the Council of Churches groups also have entered the case in sup port of the university. Glen Harvey Services Set Services for Glen W. Harvey, of 4046 Third will be at p. m.

Wednesday at the Say- lorville Baptist Church. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery. Mr. Harvey, I who had suf- wo 1 fered Irom a lung ailment 2Vi years, was dead on arrival Sunday at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. A lifetime resident of Polk County, he was HARVEY retired farmer.

Surviving are his wife, Clara; three sons, Donald of Des Moines and Jerry and Glen, of Ankeny; three daughters, Mrs. Margie Sprow of Webster City and Mrs. Irene Scott and Mrs. Clara Ethel Allen, both of Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Clara Davidson of Moines, and 13 grandchil dren.

The body is at Hamilton's Fu neral Home. 3 A $1,000 ACCIDENTAL DEATH $20,000 UNINSURED MOTORIST AGENCY Conntetlcut Call 244-5145 mism for getting such a system Platform However, Hughes said that he did not think such a tax sugges tion should be in the Democratic state platform, now being written. He said he favored a platform that contained statements of party philosophy, not stands on specific issues. He said the various party candidates can take a stand on specific issues during political campaigns. Luce Sees Of Meaning' (Tha Tribuna'i low Nws Servicaj OSKALOOSA, IA.

"The assertion that life is absurd is losing its appeal and in its stead the quest for meaning is setting in for real," Henry Luce told William Penn College's 119 graduates at the college's commencement Monday. "The search does not make noise nor headlines because it. is going on inside of people." Luce, editorial chairman of Time, and honorary citizen of Oskaloosa, commented that President Johnson's Great So ciety has not aroused much citement in the country. To answer his own question, "Why Luce said one factor is that the United States "is a country whose government is based on political parties. The 'out' party finds it difficult to accept the slogans and formu lations of the 'in' party." 1 1 He commented, seems to me that the Republican Party made a strategic mistake in not accepting wholeheartedly the concept of the Great Society.

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