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Rui not immediately were Ronnie Wells James Bernard, ‘25.ior many workers 10 iu percent a year and restrict priceboosts by some corporations to their increase in costsman Due men tuuay uaiueu meworst fire on national forestland in 86 vears whichwthreatens one of the nation'sdispose ofd “We do * be done teople are oke, and aes createweabydeprainbadthinjThainted out ent would ttendance le burning on’t want can helpamINDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The first Indian to receive the Sagamore of the Wabash honor from an Indiana governor was busy telling Hoosiers today to quit polluting the land they took awav from his ancestors.WThe honor derives from an Indian word for chief or wise man The first Indian to receive the Sagamore honor from the pen of an Indiana governor is Iron Eyes Cody, a Los Angeles actor seen currently as the Indian with a tear in his eye over human pollution of the environment, in a “Keep America Beautiful” campaignCody is in Indiana for an environmental education pro gram in the Hoosier schools. He opened the four day program at a reception Monday in the rotunda of the Indiana State-house.On behalf of Gov. Otis R Bowen, state school Superintendent Harold O. Negley presented Cody with the Sagamore award, which the Indian“This is the first time any state has called me ‘chief’,” Cody said. “I’m really not a chief or leader of my people. But my wife will think this is a high hohor .”Cody said afterward that the Cherokee tribe, to which he belongs, does not use the term “Sagamore” but the Iroquois, to which his wife belongs, does Cody’s theme in his talk to school children in the State-house rotunda was that prevention of pollution is essentially an individual matter “When I chew gum I put it back in the tinfoil wrapper and put it in my pocket,” he said When I eat candy, I put the wrapper in my pocket. You grown-ups, if you smoke, put your match in your pocket when the flame goes out Don’t throw your cigarette butts or your empty packs on the ground.”Cody, an authority on American Indian language, songs, dances and rituals, conceded(Continued on page two)accepted with a reterenee to Indian history that many of the whites and blacks in the audience may not have graspScout FathersDLThenessraskelt;priesmeditradeIngoveiaskectaryunionnegotold HLimeThe who 1 with mess, authe eredA i mess;alive.Flynrmatioe report homes, a ing a bad citationsrs.ting two homes ten fromFathers of the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of the Milroycommunity w ill be soliciting the Milroy area tonight for theUnited Way campaign. The men w ill work three nights beginning tonight, Thursday, and Friday These parents who will besoliciting are L. Richards, PCox, T Young, N. Mahan, J. Bailey, G. Linville, K Maple, R. Wilbur, J Jarboe, S. Brown, P. Carter, B Ward, P. Murphy, L Wildey, I) Perkins, N Herbert, and J. Brees.a report im Anna an, that ier home n threethat theie duringi. Arthur r billfold sterday p.m. She left her ely two
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Rushville Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 14, 1975
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