Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1959 — Page 10

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. -— Pr«» Went John G. Heller Vice-President t . l Chas. Holthouse — Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six months. $4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, s#.oo; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months. $2.50, By Carrier, 30c cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents. Another Pony League Suggestion It has been suggested that perhaps some recently graduated high school students, or some college students home for the summer and without fulltime employment, might like to help coach a pony league* team. If so, R. O. Wynn is the man to see. Let’s hope that all the boys who want to play get to play. Summer recreation is a must for young people, and is good for the adults, too. • * - • * Vacations Ahead Hot weather brings with it the reminder that many of us will soon be headed for summer vacations—at the lake, to the south, to the west coast, or east coast. Most of us will visit some friends of relatives along the way. A little planning ahead can prevent the whole family from worrying later. Let your relatives know where you will be, and when, and the routes you plan to take. Don’t drive too far at a stretch without resting and relaxing. It’s important to get there, but it’s more important to get there and back! Make sure you are taking the types of clothing and supplies you will need—it may prevent insect bites, painful, sunburn, and feet that are sore and painful from wearing the wrong type of shoes. Vacations are to be enjoyed. Take your time, and see all the scenery. Bring back some colorful descriptions for your friends that are not so fortunate, or for those that have been there before. • • • • Changing Scene ] n 57 years the main causes of death in Indiana have altered quite a bit. At the turn of the century, infective and parasitic diseases led all others in cause of death, with more than 255? of the 35,712 who died that year. Respiratory diseases, like pneumonia and flu, were second, causing 13%. Today, infective and parasitic disease has decreased 93.5% to the No. 10 rank, while diseases of the circulatory system, arterio-sclerosis amd heart trouble, have increased 680.5%, moving from sixth to first place. Cancer has moved from ninth place to second place. Even accidents have increased from eighth place to fourth place in the past 57 years. It should be noted that while Indiana’s population has gone up 80%, deaths have only increased 25%. This is a striking contrast, isn’t it, when you realize how much better the records are kept today, and how much older, on the average, our population is.

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More High Schools In Summer Classes By HORTENSE MYERS United Press Internstienal INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Although a 12-month compulsory school system is totally unacceptable in Indiana at present, more youngsters will be attending classes this summer than at any time in the state’s history. Dr. Edgar Smith, director of school inspection, State Department of Public Instruction, estimated today that the number of public school systems using their buildings for summertime instruction is than last year. He said more than 100 school systems in the state would be offering hot weather credit# in grade and high school courses. Supt. of Public Instruction William Wilson said he considered the expanded education “a healthy movement. More and more students are willing togfye- tip summer vacations to furtWm-their own education. But I dorft know if we ever will have 12-months compulsory school.” Dr. Smith said only a few of the summer pupils are making up work in which they have failed during the regular school term. ‘‘Most of these youngsters want experience and credits beyond what is required for graduation. Science* courses, typing, driver training all are in demand.M rBegin This Week Most summer schools begin their classes this week or neKt with teachers from the regular school systems as instructors. Citty schools do not have a monopolk’ on hot weather classes. Smith saiu. about 15 per cent of the requests came from township schools. For children enrolled in these summer schools; vacation will Le a matter of a few weeks in August rather than the three to four months., possible under state law Most Indiana schools operate ror nine months, but about 8 per cent run only for eight or eight and a half months. A bill making compulsory the nine-month length was passed by the 1959 legislators but vetoed by Governor Handley on the grounds it might work a hardship on rural areas where high school boys work in the fields. Mrs. Don Herrin, as a spokesman for mothers, and Robert Wyatt, for the teachers, both condemned the pse of summertime to accelerate, elementary and high school work for an earlier com-1 pletion but praised it for its indi-1 vidua 1 value. Mrs. Herrin, Indianapolis, vice i president and legislative advisorl for the Indiana Congress of Par- i ents and Teachers, said that while ( the PTA has made no sthnd on | year-around school, she personally feels fulltime school facility use will be accepted in the next 10 or 12 years. Some Worth Watching She said plans worth watching are those in Evansville where recreational programs providing education run through the summer, and at New Castle where| camping and conservation teach-I ing is offered. ■ ‘‘Mention 12 months to a child] and he thinks its terrible” the) mother said. “But with air conditioning of buildings, with better,

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>**** r* j YR ICEBOX RESCUE— Patsy Manco, 5, takes on some nourishment in Mount Vernon, N. Y., hospital after almost being one of those tragic icebox door victims. Bis father hunted high and low for him, even looked among the 15 old iceboxes in the Manco junkyard, finally called police 16 hours after - Patsy's disappearance. A policeman decided to check those iceboxes again. Patsy was in one of them, and near death. Merry Maids When the Monmouth Merry Maids met last week, Ann Seaman and dPa nett Fuelling led the pledges. Members answered roll by naming their favorite pets. " Two demonstrations were given: : Marsha King, on handicraft, and ,! Barbara Roe, ‘‘How to Buy Lin- , j gerie.” Connie Bergman gave the j health report. Kay Butler and Barbara Roe were in charge of recreation. In charge of refreshments were Deanna, Marsha, and Linda King and Ann Seaman and Karen Schieferstein. Peppy Pals Mary Heckman was in charge of the Preble Peppy Pals meeting Saturday afternoon. She and Cheryl Buuck led the pledges, and members responded to roll call by naming their favorite flowers. Diana and Karen Fuhrmann gave their demonstration, “How to hemstitch a towel.” Christine Reifsteck and Joan Schumann provided refreshments. The Peppy Pals’ next j meeting will be June 20, at 2 p.m. . at the Friedheim Lutheran school. I transportation and greater demand from the public. I believe there gradually will be extended. (school terms.” j Wyatt, executive secretary for I the Indiana State Teachers Association, said the idea of compulsory summer classes to get children through public schools more quickly” has elements of danger in it, I can’t see 12 months schooling except on a voluntary basis. ‘‘The physical, mental, emotional and psychological growth of ) a child is not accelerated by I making him go to school in the I summer. Suppose you do graduate |a child from high school at 15— i where does he go? Into college where he will be pushed beyond I his social ability?”

Handicapped Youth To Receive Diploma By HORTENSE MYERS United Press International • INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— When 19-year-old Jerry McClain rolls forward tonight to receive his high school diploma, it will be of importance not only to him but to all physically handicapped young people trying to get an The Indianapolis Manual High School Senior has been afflicted since he ,was six years old with muscular dystrophy, a deceptive ailment ip which muscles of the body become useless. Since he was 10.° he has gotten about in a wheelchair because he is unable to walk. Jerry wasn't able to go to classes, either. But through use of a two-way communication set, connected by direct telephone lines, he completed requirements for' a high school diploma so successfully that he won a scholarship as the outstanding male student in his class of 325. seniors. Only Two *'Bs” In four years qf high school he had all “A”s except for twb B’s in the earlier part of his schooling. One of these was in a summer speech course while the family was living in Brownsburg and he had to miss a week of the session. The other was in geometry . } Jerry’s parents tried to arrange use of his scholarship at either Butler University or Indiana Central College but they said this apparently is not possible. He now hopes to study law by correspondence with the goal of doing certain legal work at home, such as drawing up briefs. When Jerry’s fellowstudents learned of his high scholastic ability, they tabbed him as “The Brain.” Gradually, he convinced them he was also interested in sports and other extra-curricular events. He has attended many of Manual’s basketball games and other sports competition. Teachers, Students Help Students have carried his classroom set from one room to the other and he has answered questions, in turn, from his bedroom just as though he were at school in person. He dissected frogs and bugs at home to get his “A” in biology, just as his classmates were doing in the school laboratory. Papers and books have been brought to and from home and I school by classmates and teachjers. Some teachers said that having an "inter-com” student has j improved the’entire class presentation. Students tended to speak j more clearly so Jerry would have |no trouble in hearing what was ! said. Jerry has an addition to his! "classroom” not allowed in regu-1 lar school rooms. His dog. Gin-I ger, lies at his feet, and has seemed to understand he couldn’t bark during class periods. Well-Scrubbed " NEW YORK (UPD — Americans take an estimated 500 million baths per week. In addition, they spray, smear and roll on more than S9O million worth of j deodorants during the course of! a year. I '

■ ■ - "• '• - —— A BOMARCK MlSSlLE?— Although the electronic device pictured above may resemble a project from Cape Canaveral, in .reality . it is a combination joint-locator, cleaner, and sealant applicator used by the Fuelling company of Decatur in its work on repairing leaky gas pipe around the world.

The confusion that usually results between the Decaturs (Illinois and Indiana) may be well on the way to being settled, if the firm of C. W. Fuelling continues its ventures into foreign nations as well as cities and states throughout the country. Operating from modest quarters $t the Mcßride Welding Shop at 125 Grant street, this private “traveling chamber of commerce,” is making people rea-1 lize that Illinois does not have a restrictive franchise on a Decatur. Remote places like Australia, France, and other foreign countries are taking a long, hard look ■ at our town through the technical know-how of Bob Cook, Charles, Fuelling, and Lee Mcßride. Everyone, it seems, is always: trying to build “a bigger and better mousetrap.*’ away to do a job j more efficiently, and this is just what' the associates of the Fuelling company have in the natural gas industry. The company has patented a , process of re>-sealing bell joint couplings on cast iron gas pipe lines, which does away with most of the back-breaking labor and performs the operation in a functional. efficient, and economical manner. The backbone of the entire operation is an innovation off electronic equipment that ap-j proaches the epitome of automa- j tion.

The gas industry acquired a problem when geologists found great caches of natural gas, which supplanted manufactured gas as the main supply for commercial use. Manufactured gas is a relatively "wet,” or moist chemical ■ element, while natural gas posses- j ses a “dry” characteristic. The 1 pipe lines found in most areas of the world today w’ere installed sor 1 the use of the wet gas. When the ! switch is made to the natural, or: dry gas, the caulking around the i joints tends to shrink and leaks | often .result. Thousands of man-hours were ■ then spent, digging up the lines at ; 12-foot sections to externally re-1 pair the leaking couplings. The Fuelling compan, however, developed a method that required digging at only 800-foot intervals’, through the use of its electronic

adaption. While the previous methods called for external sealing of the joints, the Fuelling method is an internal process. The machine which houses a joint locater, amongst other items, is inserted into the open end of a pipe and travels on rollers to a length of 400-feet. It electronically records the position of the coupling on a j master board at the pipe entrance. A cleaning unit, which is an airpowered rotary brush attachment, then prepares the internal surface ■ of the joint' for the application of the sealant. The third integral part of the machine applies the sealing i compound. The entire device not j only looks like a fugitive from a • Cape Canaveral launching pad. : but actually uses a solution similar j to the solid rocket fuel used by the ! armed forces as its The coupling is now secure, permanently sealed by the well-bond-ed, but pliable chemical mixture. The flexibility of the sealant is an added protection against the shocks of road traffic. Cook, a native of Decatur and a

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graduate of Decatur Catholic high school, has been in the pipe construction business for 13 years. Cook also attended the University of California and Tri-State College. He served with the Army as an electronics instructor during World War 11. He relates a bit of human irony of his tenure at a South Dakota training school. While at the school, a civilian instructor, who incidentally received a fancy pay check every week, and Cook became fast friends being that they were from the same home town. The instructor, however, got caught in the draft, Army variety, and forsook the handsome salary for Army khaki. Well, lo and behold, the instructor had hardly been inducted and he was sent right back to the South Dakota school as an insructor. The going rate for Army privates at that time was SSO a month. The fellow is now principal at Decatur high school— Hugh J. Andrews. Currently at the Fuelling firm, besides Cook, who is vice president. and Fuelling, president, are Lee Mcßride, chief mechanic, and Mrs. Ma# Ladd, office secretary. One technician, Ralph Sills, travels the country as supervisor of the 16 pieces of mechanical and electrical wizardry. The company has repaired gas lines in Brooklyn, Syracuse, and New York City, New York; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Lyons, III.; Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and other places, indicating the diversity of their scope. The firm also has prospects in Australia, France, and other foreign nations. If they keep expanding in their travels, and more persons learn of our city, it won’t be long that the mail which invariably gets sent to Decatur, Illinois, will find its way to Decatur, Indiana, with much less delay. o o 20 Year s Ago Today o — o June 11, 1939 was Sunday and no paper was published.