Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1959 — Page 9

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1959

Hundreds Os Candidates In City Elections By HAL W. MAERTZ United Pess International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Hundreds of hungry candidates, ranging from experienced public officials to darkhorse political novices, crowded the starting gate today to post their entries in the forthcoming municipal primary

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election sweepstakes: t The reward was control of some 110 Indiana cities in November. Top prize”up for grabs in the May 5 primary was the office of mayor. Voters also will select the Nov. 3 candidates for the offices of ctiy councilmen, city judge, cleric and treasurer, or clerktreasurer. The deadline far filing is Thursday. "Tn all-encompassing law fathered by the recently adjourned General Assembly helped swell the total number of candidates. The new law allows city councils to set the salary for municipal officials, a power previously vested in the legislature. Several cities have already raised salaries and others have indicated they intend to do so. X J

The second portion of the law provides for election of city judges in fourth and fifth class cities. Previously, the mayor of a fifth class city also served as city judge if he wished. In fourth class cities, the judge was appointed by die mayor. * - 73-29 in 1955 The law mandates that municipal elections be held every four years in the year preceding the presidential election. The last previous municipal election was held in 1955, a year Republicans won’t soon forget. In that election, the GOP went down to its worst defeat in Hoosier history. Democrats took over 73 cities and Republicans were left with a paltry 29. Seventeen of the state’s

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largest cities went to the Democrats, with only Elkhart, Fort Wayne and Lafayette escaping the onslaught. . Forty-eight cities switched from Republican to Democratic in that election. They included Delphi, which elected its first Democratic mayor in 42 years; Rochester, which elected its first in 26 years; Logansport, its first in 25; Attica, its first in 20 and Goshen, its first in 17 Other major cities which came into the Democratic fold included Anderson, Bloomington, Evansville, Hammond, Indianapolis, LaPorte. Marion, Michigan City, Mundn, New Castle, Peru, Richmond Shelbyville and South Bend. In addition to Fort Wayne, Elkhart and Lafayette, Republicans

managed to salvage Columbus, Connersville, Crown Point, Greencastle, Madison, Martinsville, Noblesville, Rensselaer and Valparaiso. Demos Vow to Hold . Republicans are geared for an all-out effort to recoup their losses. Democrats vowed to reenact their lopsided victory of 1955. Some Republicans apparently still were “gun shy” from the 1955 beating. With the filing deadline only 24 hours away, the GOP was unable to fill slates in several cities. Lively mayorality contests were shaping up in many cities, with incumbents generally favored to beat back stiff primary opposition. In many instances, particularly in

Democratic cities, candidates were expected to encounter their roughest competition in the primary, rather than in the general election six months later. Among mayora Ity contests which drew more than general interest were these: -r Indianapolis—lncumbent Charles Boswell was considered a shoo-in on'the Democratic ticket. The Republican organization had not found a “suitable" candidate. J Logansport — Mrs. Marjorie Wray filed as a Democrat, the first woman ever to run for that office in Logansport. Incumbent Ralph Eberts, a Democrat, had the inside track. Evansville—A lively intra-party skirmish was expected after former sheriff Frank McDonald, one-

Many Mentally 111 Do Not Feel Pain By DELOS SMITH i DPI Science Editor - NEW YORK (UPD You had to wonder about the realness of pain because the woman with a fractured thigh bone was walking all around the place in normal fashion, trying to convince a physician nothing whatever was wrong with her. A broken thigh bone is supposed to cause such excruciating pain walking is impossible. Yet in the same place there were other women and men with broken thigh bones, who. felt nothing Fortunately, skilled eyes noticed they were lumping and something was done. Peptic ulcers or an acute appendicitis also are very painful in 95 per cent or more of all people. Yet in this place people had perforated ulcers and tremendously inflamed appendixes and felt nothing. The place was the mental hospital operated by the Veterans’ Administration at Bedford. Mass., and the people were all patients. Some Feel No Pain Now, it is well known in medical science that persons afflicted with the severe mental illnesses, the psychoses, often don’t feel pain whiehj would double-up a mentally normal person. If you could say all psychotic persons felt no pain, you’d know you had to be mentally normal to time Vanderburgh County Democratic kingpin, filed to run against incumbent J. William Davidson, a Democrat with official party backing. South Bend—Former Indiana Appellate Court Judge John Pfaff was expected to be the Republican standard bearer. Democrats were set with incumbent Edward Voorde. .. Meyers On Sidelines Bloomington — Incumbent Democrat Thomas Lemon said he would not run unless the city council granted him a pay increase. GOP choice was Harold Mumby, who made an unsuccessful run against Lemon as an independent. Fort Wayne—With incumbent Republican Robert Meyers on the sidelines, it was anybody's ball game.

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feel pain. But it isn’t that simple What Dr. Walter E. Marchand; chief of the hospital’s medicalsurgical service, and his associates wondered about first waS how often this strange freedom from pain occurred among merft tai patients. C They chose fractured thigh bone, perforated peptic ulcer, and acute appendicitis because thosfl conditions presented overwhelm? ing physical reasons for pain, la e 10-year period, there were 79 patients in the huge hospital who came down with one or anothei of them. In normal persons, remember; the rate for pain is 95 per cenj or more. But in those mental pa> tients 41.3 per cent with fractured hip bones felt no pain. The pain* less rate for perforated ulcer an# acute appendicitis was 21.4 peg cent and 36.8 per cent, re spec* tively. Doctors Wonder The doctors then were in a ptS sitlon to wonder, how come? The mystery was deepened becausd the phenomena were not confined to one type of psychosis, but were scattered over the psychotic range. What it must show, obviously, is that in severe mental illness, the meaning of pain is ofe ten lost. The cause of pain is there all right —a perforated ulcer,; an inflamed appendix or a bone — but some sick minds (not all) do not recognize the physical cause as a reason for feeling pain. Marchand and his assoefr ates went along with this, and added the suggestion that freedom from pain increases as people grow older — mentally mal people as well as mentally ill people■ In reporting to the New Engsland Journal of Medicine, they recalled a study which showed that agod normals frequently suffered heart attacks which were painless but which in younger men are almost always accompanied by pain. Among their psychotics, the ratio of painless body catastrophes was much higher in thfc higher ages. J A new machine translates music from tape, records, radio or electronic organ into moving color# projected on a wall. About 27,000 persons in the United States died during 1958 as a resuit of accidents in and about the home.