Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1959 — Page 8

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Individual To Sign Transfer Document INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Indiana Attorney General Edwin K. Steers ruled today that when the 1959 General Assembly said the “person" who prepared a lien ofj property., transfer document must sign it. the lawmakers meant a human being and not a corporation. " Legally the word “person” can mean artificial “persons” such as corporations, firms, partnerships and the like. But Steers told Joe, McCord, director of the Depart-! ment of Financial Institutions,( that the new law, which goes ihto effect Wednesday, requires the’ name of the individual who “actuallyprepares thelnstrument.” "The names of secretaries and other clerical employes, who might reproduce the instrument in the course of their work, would not, be proper," he said. The new law prohibits recording any instrument transferring title to real or personal property or establishing a lien, unless it carries the name of the person who prepared the Steers said he thought it would be "repugnant to the intent of the Legislature” if the new law were interpreted to mean that the name of a corporation, firm or trade ! name could be used without a further signature of the individual. He said he figured the lawmakers wanted to “fix the responsibility for any later discovered defects ' in the instruments.

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Campout Is Held By Monroe Boy Scouts Troop 72 Oi Monroe Boy Scouts had their camp-out Saturday noon until Sunday noon at the state park at Bluffton. Saturday afternoon was spent by the Scouts preparing fires for evening suppers, and some fishing and observation ; classes were held. In the .evening hours, timg was spent around the camp fire with interesting discifsi sions and songs. i Sunday morning scouts prepared ■ their breakfasts, striking tents and 'cleaning up teh camp area. Rev. Burke of Monroe had a very inter- , esting devotional service about the 10 boys in the Bible days and a few songs were sung and all scouts I returned home Sunday noon. | Barn Is Destroyed Bv Fire Sunday A small barn, valued at approximately $2,000. was destroyed by : fire Sunday evening southwest of | Monroe. The Monroe rural fire deI partment was called to the scene of the fire, but the blaze had a head start, and he building could not be saved. The building was empty, except for some old straw. A disc and a harrow on the outside of the barn were slightly damaged. The cause of the fire is unknown. Howard Habegger, Monroe rural fire chief said this morning. No , one was there when the fire started. There was no electrical wiring in the barn, however. The barn, located three miles"'east and two and one-half miles south of Monroe. is on the Roop farm, operated , by . Chris Inniger, and the propertyLos. his-mother-in-law. ——, —-

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| Nurses Error Is Blamed For Infant Death I INDIANAPOLIS <UPD — A I nurse’s error in preparing a forI mula was blamed Unlay for caus- | ing the death of one newborn inI fant and leaving two in’ critical I condition. ! ->■. I Superintendent George Rollo.-of] | the Putnam County Hospital at, I 'Greencastle said the nurse “apparently got • hold of the wrong | bottle.” 'A | He said she put "a substance | not a poison per se” into the feed-, ing formula last Wednesday in i ' place of distilled water. Another 1 source identified the substance as! boric acid solution. The three infants who received I the formula became ill. They were , (transferred from the Greencastle; hospital to the. James Whitcomb! Riley Hospital here. Little James Christian Gambold, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gam-' bold of Coatesville, died Sunday, night. . I Attendants at Riley Hospital said the others were “critical but improving.” The babies were iden-, tified as Jeffrey Coffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Coffman, and Amy Lynn Taylor, daughter ofj Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, both of Greencastle. All three infants were under one week old. Rollo declined to identify the I nurse. He said she is. "a fully ■ qualified,rtrrTrnrt 1 ( nurse” who is .expecting a baby, ’ herself. —■ ' i The Gambold baby became ill , Wednesday night. A doctor was. J, unable to diagnose: the illness and i ordered the infant sent to the In’'dianapolis hospital wtrich special- ’ izes in children's ailments. The baby’s illness was marked ■ by vomiting and diarrhea and a red rash on the skin. Body tem--1 peraiure was described as nor--1 mal, thus ruling out food poison- . ing, experts said. Another of the babies was taken, » to the Indianapolis hospital on i i Thursday and the third on Friday. Two other newborn babes in the Greencastle hospital did not become ill and apparently were not given tfae formula which contained - the foreign-substance; Rollo said the contanier of the - boric solution was marked plainly i r as to its contents but was on a I f shelf near a container of distilled i - 1 water which is used ’in making k formula. ! Rollo said the use of boric acid 1 was immediately banned through--5 out the hospital on advice of the ’ institution’s medical staff. ! I ■ I ij Funeral Thursday ’I For Mrs. Richey ■; • , Funeral services will be held ( Thursday for Mrs. Gaylord Richey, ’, sister of Ralph Stevens of Decatur. ' who died Friday at San Diegb, 1 ' Calif. Services “will be held at 2 ; p. in Thursday at'th'e''Cowan & "Son . funeral home. Van Wert. 0., the ! Rev. Albert Swenson officiating. BufiaJ will be in Woodland cemetery, at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday. Examinations Listed Under Civil Service The United States Civil Service Commission today announced an. examination for the position of micropbiologsit, GS-11, $7030 annum. The positions are with the 1 Department of the Army, Fort|Knox, Ky. No written test will be j required. Appplicants will be rated on the basis of their experience, j Full information with, instructions on how to apply may be obtained from the examiner-in- ( charge at the Post Office: executiee secretary, Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners, Enrt Knox, Ky.i or the sixth U.S. Civil Service Region. Post Office and "courthouse building, Cincinnati 2. O. Applications will be accepted until July 15. j Veteran Employes Os Casting Co. Honored Fifty two employes of the Decatur Casting company attended a dinner party at the Fairway Restaurant Monday evening to celebrate the company’s 39th birthday and to give special, recognition to those with over 5 years of service with the foundry. Highlight of the occasion was the presentation of a 25-year pin and wrist watch to Paul G. Lobsiger for his quarter of a century of service. Others receiving awards were: Ervin Zimmerman, 20 year service pin; Ruby Brodbeck, Burley Billington, Andrew Chavez. Harry Roth and Sylvan Strahm, 10 year I service pins. I Peter E. Rentschler, president of Hamilton, 0., made the award presentations and lauded the ef- [ forts of the 68 employes-who have been with the eompany for more than five years. He pointed out that through the co-operation and ability of these employes the Decatur Casting company 'had been able to gain a reputation as a producer of quality castings throughout the midwest and Canada.

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Psychiatrists Give Gov. Long Report, COVINGTON, La. (UPD-Gov. Earl ,K. Long is a victim of a nervous breakdown from overwork, his psychiatrists reported, but they warned him that even so he is in better shape m’entally than physically. Physically, the psychiatrists said, he is suffering from the effects of a small stroke, or series of strokes and his heart is still laboring from the effect of an attack he suffered nine years ago while chasing a hog. The psychiatrists refused to guarantee he will get well, but said there is now "nothing that would indicate that the governor cannot make another comeback." Motel Room Conference The psychiatrists — _ Drs. Robert Heath, Charles Watkins and j Victor Leif — told Long what was wrong wiht him in a motel room .conference after he had returned from a week end at his “little pea patch” — his farm in Winnfield, La. Long, 63, went along with (everything except their diagnosis that he had suffered a stroke. | “I want to tell you that I respect these men and they’re doing what they think is right,” he [said. “But I highly disagree. I never suffered a stroke in’ my life.” j Long sat in trousers and shirt, sleeves rolled above his elbows and sock feet planted firmly on a deep carpet as Dr. Heath read a statement for his colleagues. Legal Troubles Possible In addition to mental and physical troubles, Long may also . have legal troubles. The district attorneys in both Orleans and East Baton Rouge , Parishes disclosed that they were looking into a charge that a 'steamship line’s- agent-paid Long $5,000 in 1956 to veto a bill affecting pilots on the lower Mississippi River. _ The governor has announceu that he will divorce his wife Blanche, , whom he called “the most jealous woman God ever put on this earth.” Long has been in mental hospitals in both Texas and Louisiana, but the. psychiatrists’ statement was the first detailed diaglidsis of wha ails him. Search Team Seeks Bodies Os Airmen FRANKFURT, Germany (U?fi —The leader of a search team looking for the bodies of nine American airmen who bailed out (over the Libyan Desert 16 years i ago said here today he had “every hope in the world” the bodies would be found. » Wesley Neep, 47, Seattle, Wash., ! head of a 10-man team searching for the remains of the crew of the crew of the 824 Liberator | “Lady Be Good,” said “There is no doubt the men perished, primarily because of lack of water.” “The nearest water lies 170 miles south of- -where they bailed out,” he said: J “I have every hope in the world of finding the bodies because the area where they bailed out is a gravel plain with only slight movements of fine sand." The plane crashed on returning from a mission against Naples, Italy, to its home base at Benghazi. Libya, on April 3, 1943. “Lady Be Good” was the only! one of 25 bombers on the mission which failed to come back from the Naples mission. Neep said the two reasons for [ the exhausting search are “to get ( proof of death and to give the I men a proper burial.” He said most people believe the Liberator, got so far off course because of strong tailwinds. Neep confirmed that the party ( found several markers left by the crew members, including a pair of pilot’s boots found 17 miles north of the still perfectly preserved crashed Liberator. • IN KEY POST — After accepting the key post of Argentine minister of economics, Alvaro , Alsogaray. a retired army officer, talks to newsmen Ih Buenos Aires. The key man in a new cabinet being formed by President Frondizi, Alsogaray announced Argentina’s politicomilitary crisis has been “completely overcome.” Cabinet re- ■ signed under military rfressurs.

Lions International Convention Underway NEW YORK (UPD —Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Robert F. Wagner officially welcome delegates from 99 countries today to [ the opening of the four-day con- ■ ventton of Lions International at , Madison Square Garden. >' -■ ; . , Gary Residents To i Meet Again Tonight » GARY, Ind. (UPD—The Gary Crime Commission and the Wom- ' en’s Citizens’ Committee »sched- > uled a closed meeting tonight less - than 24 hours after their .ultlma- ’ tom to city and ( county officials expired> The two groups will consider i what action to take next in their drive to "clean up” Gary and ’ | Lake County. ! -Mrs. Cornelius Verplank, wife of [ | the Gary Crime Commission chief, said they had received no to telegrams sent to Mayor George Chacharis, Police * CJiiefi ‘ John Foley, Sheriff Peter MandiCh and county Prosecutor Floyd Vance. She said the telegrams re- ], ported that the women’s commiti tee found a few places where solicitation by prostitutes was in progress during a spot check last Friday. The telegram named no names nor addresses, Mrs. Verplank said. ‘ Police Chief Foley said he and the mayor did some spot-checking; themselves Monday and found! conditions "in good shape.” But] Foley admitted he didn’t know if they would stay that way. “As any law enforcement officer ' knows, it is hard to police small and mobile operations,” he said. However, Foley promised con- . tinned pressure on Illicit activities. Bockman Confirmed ‘ To Postmaster Job i WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate today confirmed 146 postmaster nominations sent it by President Eisenhower, including Rosco 6 and Charles H. Drew. Washington, iH. Bockman, Huntertown, Ind., Ind. Siamese Twins Born To Idaho Couple PORTLAND, Ore. (UPD — Siamese twins, born to an Idaho farm couple, were to be .flown here by air ambulance today to be studied] for possible separation. The twin girls, joined abdomen, were born Monday at Malheur Memorial Hospital in Nyssa, Ore. They will be checked by specialists at Doern-Becker Hospital. The parents are Mr. and Mrs, James Stubblefield, Parma, . Idaho. He is 25 yeaWrtWrand ! she is 24. They have three other children, 1 to 4 years old.

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Veteran Correction Official To Retire > By HORTENSE MYERS United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — When 78-year-old Ralph (Cap) Howard walks out of the Indiana Department of Correction tonight, he will mark the close of a 57-year career that has included being warden of all three state penal Institutions for adult males. Howard has served under .14 governors during those years. “It would have been 16,” he said, “if it hadn’t been for Townsend and Schricker." Howard, a Republican, was ' sidelined by former Democratic Govs. Clifford Townsend and Henry F. Schricker, but returned to penology work by their successors. “It’s been a wonderful life, working with people, not things,” , the tall, sharp-eyed ex - warden commented. “I have no definite plans about my retirement. Take -a trip or two, I suppose. And I , might do some reading. Television plays the dickens with reading habits. “Maybe sometime later I could serve on a parole board. I know a little about the institutions.” Watchman in 1903 Howard probably knows more about the state prison, reformatory and farm than any living i man. During his long career he has been in charge of all three. In 1903, when he was 21, he took a job as night watchmap' at Jfiq, ] Plainfield Boys School.'--aqro- jat. Winchester, he had lived during I several years of his youth in an orphanage managed by his father. He became a “house father” at the correctional school, then shifted to the state prison, where he worked as a shop guard, mail clerk and finally supervisor of the insane section of the prison, a job he didn’t like. “I resigned in 193,2 but id 1914 I was back as assistant superintendent of the new penal farm,” he said. Indiana was the second statein the nation to., adopt the penal farm plan for short-termers. It was Supt. C. B. Talkington of the state farm who inadvertently gave Howard his nickname. In assigning Howard to some of his various duties in charge of working groups of prisoners. Talkington called him “captain of the host” — an Old Testament termr; — “Lot’s of folks think my nickname is a military title,” Howard chuckled. "But I was too ; young for the Spanish-American i War and too old for World War II.”- - . Men Go Straight After 10 years as superintendent of the farm, Howard became reformatory warden, was shifted back to the farm by Democratic Gov. Paul McNutt, then fired by Townsend- But ,in_ RepubliGates named him state prison warden. Out again in the succeeding Democratic administration of.

Schricker, Howafd returned under ex-Gov. George N. Craig as a member of the Department of Correction. In 1957 he was named administrative assistant to the department’s chairman, the job he now is leaving. “I was fortunate. I suppose," Howard remembered. “I had a i few minor breaks, but no riots. I No trouble worth mentioning. I ■ did a lot of prowling when I was I administrator. Half , the day I’d • be out in the shops and industries and in the hospital. When a ■ man put in a request for an interview I’d try to see him. ' “Each man is an individual. You can't show animosity or prejudice or partiality. I see these fellows frequently, even now. When I meet up with a man who could pass me by and I’d never i know lie had been a convict, it ' makes me glad. That’s the payoff. Some of my Jaoys are holding mighty good jobs. “I just hope something I said might have had something to do L with it.” Injuries,Are Fatal To Lafayette Youth LAFAYETTE, Ind. <UPD - Danny L. Lester, 20, Lafayette, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital here late Monday of injuries suffered in' a traffic accident last Wednesday. I ' ' ' ’ ' 1 ■ 11 I"-'

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