Peace Officers To
Form Association
In Two Counties
(Continued From Page One)
over to the Treasurer of the Mar
tin and Washington Counties
•5\nivV -Officers’ Protective Associ
the association. Donations and
ri Martin aiul
ceived from any source ap, oved
by the executive board.
Sec. 8. Application of Fund.
'■'Ihe V^oTit V‘s.. pai-.i into the hands
of the Treasurer of the Martin
and Washington Counties Peace
Officers’ Protective Association
shal be known as the Martin and
Washington Counties Peace Of
ficers Relief Fund, and shall be
used as a fund for the relief of
members who may be injured or
become ill by disease while serv
ing as peace officers, and for the
lelief of their widows and chil
dren, and if there be no widow'
dr children, then dependent mo
thers of such officers killed or
dying from injuries or disease so
contratced in such discharge of
duty, and as a pension fund for
peace officers grown old in line
of duty, and also for the benefit
of special officers or citizens in
jured as such peace officers. All
persons entitled to benefits under
this Section shall make applica
tion to the executive board, above
provided for, and said executive
board shall investigate each such
application and shall determine
what benefits shall be paid. The
decision of the executive board
shall be final and conclusive as
to what persons arc entitled to
benefits and as to the amount of
the benefit to be paid, and said
executive board shall have power
to increase or decrease monthly
benefits at any time, and no ac
tion at la A' or suit in equity shall
be maintained against said as
sociation to enforce any claim or
recover any benefit under this
Article or under the constitution
or by-laws of said association; but
if any officers or committee of
said association omits or refuses
to perform any duty imposed up
on him or them, nothing herein
contained shall be construed to
prevent any proceedings against
said officer or committee to com
pel him or them to perform such
duty.
Sec. 9. Annual Reports. The
treasurer of said association shall
make annual reports to the ex
ecutive board prior to the meeting
of said association in July of each
calendar year showing the total
amount of money in his hands at
Ihe time of the filing of the re
port, and also an account of re
ceipts and disbursements since
his last report. The chair
man of said executive board shall
present such reports to the mem
bership of the association at each
annual meeting in July. The ac
cumulated funds of the associa
tion may be invested in bonds and
securities unanimously approved
by the executive board. All in
terest and other income eoeivod
from investment or denosits shall
■»»^ ■'
fund. Expenditures shall only be
made upon vouchers properly
signed* nv the chairman of the
Sec.' 10. Eposes.
All officers and members of the
executive board shall serve with
out compensation. Necessary of
fice supplies ana stationery shall
be paid for out of the funds of
the association.
Sec. 11. Constitution and By
Laws. The Mai tin and Washing
ton Counties Peace Officers' Pro
tective Association shall adopt
a constitution and by-laws, to be
approved by the executive board,
suitable for carrying out tht pro
visions and purposes of this Act.
Sec. 12. Power to Insure. The
executive board shall have au
thority to insure the members of
the Martin and Washington Coun
ties Peace Officers' Protective
Association against death or dis
ability, or both, during the terms
of their employment or terms of
office, under forms of insurance
known as group insurance, the
premiums on such insurance to
be paid out of the funds of the as
sociation.
See. 13. Funds not Taxable.
The current or accumulated funds
of the association shall not be
subject to State, county or mu
Inicipal taxation
| Church Fire Loss
! In The Millions
| In the last 15 years fire has
damaged or destroyed 40,000
! churches in the United States and
| Canada!
i This year fire will consume
lover $50 million worth of church
j property!
| These facts were brought out
recently by the Christian Herald,
which observed that some fires
were spectacular large loss fires.
Some laid waste historic shrines
or landmarks ftC years standing.
Some w»VMBnall fires that went
a 1 mostxlitiWifuvd “by the press
and ffarfftf*'""
According to the Christian
Herald, nearly 3,000 churches in
the United States and Canada
burn every year—2,000 of them
during the winter months.
While many of these 2,000 fires
will be only minor blazes, more
than half will reduce church
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is at long last forced to ask Con
gress for a modernization fund
So skillfully has the Institution
always stayed within limited bud
gets that it was page one news
when its Secretary, Dr. Leonard
Carmichael, went up on Capitol
Hill to make his appeal, reports
the National Geographic Society,
which often has been associated
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ian in the ceaseless quest for facts
and truth. ,
Dr. Carmichael said that the In
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ington Mall must be repaired and
given modern facilities to pre
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things the country has entrusted
to Smithsonian care. An over
worked stall' is embarrassingly
in arrears on tin; vital activity of
exchanging scientific knowledge
with the rest of the world.
Many well informed Americans
have no clear idea of what the
Smithsonian is. Some believe it
is a government institution. Ac
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At the same time, it is both a fi
nancially nurtured ward and a
trusted servant of the Govern
ment.
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THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Accidents on the highways
and streets in this county
were held to a low number,
last week, officers reporting
no deaths or injuries and com
paratively little property da
mage The 1953 accident re
cord is pretty snug so far,
but it was about this time
last year that one person was
killed and ten limbs were
fractured in one accident. It
is necessary to keep plugging
to keep the record snug.
The following tabulations
offer a comparison ol' the ac
cident trend first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time
15th Week
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dani’ge
1953 2 0 0 $ 400
1952 8 5 0 2,265
Comparisons To Date
1953 72 16 0 $18,640
1952 93 39 0 26,920
The uniquqe Smithsonian had
an unusual beginning. James
Smithson, an Englishman who
never in his lifetime visited the
United States, at lus death in
1829 left this country the then re
spectable fortune of $550,000 to
found a “Smithsonian Institution,
an establishment for the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among
Hugely does a bequest so little
limit the scope of activities d
makes possible. Fortunately foi
the country and the world, the
men who organized the Smithson
ian and charted its future had
imagination as unlimited as the
bequest, and there is now hardly
a byway of knowledge which the
Smithsonian has not explored
with scientific objectivity.
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Today it operates the National
Capital'-' fine zoological park, the
National Herbarium with 2.000,
000 plants, the Astrophysics 1 Lab
oratory and the Bureau of Amen i
can Ethnology, which saved the
lore of the American Indian for
posterity. It has responsibility for
the National Gallery of Art, some
times called the Mellon Gallery
It operates the National Collec
tion of Fine Arts and the Freer
Art Gallery.
i adn.'£/i'it7 and oi'ganlsn’.s It \v;i
administer the National An Mu
scum when the museum is built
the Governin'hi, tin nation - In t
weather bureau and its first coin
mission on fish It has taken part
>n at least 1,500 scientific - t:pv
ditions “per orbem," as its motto
says—“throughout the world,"
Millions have been awed, amaz
ed and edified by the public ex
hibits in its National Museum.
The original Star Spangled Ban
ner from Fort McHenry, Dr. Alex
ander Graham Bells first tele
phones, the pioneer Wright air
plane, gowns of every First Lady
from Martha Washington on
down, the world's most perfect
crystal ball, huge whale and dino
saur skeletons, Theodore Roose
velt's big African animals, the
first American automobiles
these and 3,000,000 other fascinat
ing objects arc on view.
Not displayed, but equally \alu
able, are 30,000,000 other things
held in vaults and laboratories
and special rooms. Collections of
bugs and bones, of birds and bro
cade,, ol fish and fossils, of gems
and gears, of stones and ship mod
els—the list is endless, and every
thing is available, when the pro
per representations are made, W>
all who study for the good of
mankind.
The Smithsonian helped win
four wars by answering questions
on an inconceivable variety of
subjects for the armed services.
It has assisted countless children
to pass their school courses by
answering, just as carefully, their
sitiall questions. It was Smith
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James Young. Negro farmer of
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words.
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by Or Alexander Westtnore, re
tired Secretary who preceded Dr
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lion's 100th anniversary year, he
wrote:
"The Smithsonian had a definite
| beginning but has no foreseeable
'em!. I Is staled purpose knows no
I time or space limits, and il will
i go on through the centuries,
changing with a changing world
land so adjusting itself that it may
fill a useful role in the upward
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in Fire fighters from two: other
Renssi laer county volunteer com
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own home.
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about S45 And he has enough
W. ^ 'y i ■
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