Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1959 — Page 10

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - “The only reform at the State Reformatory Is in the name," the chairman of the Indiana Citizens Council told a legislative Penal Study Committee Monday. Clay Circuit Judge Robert B. Stewart said an intermediate penal institution for first offenders is “virtually a necessity" because Hoosier correctional institutions are not doing a good job of rehabilitating juvenile offenders. “I strongly recommend an intermediate institution, and along with it a program of rehabilitat tion, counseling and education,” r Stewart told the commttee, an f f adjunct to the Legislative Advisf ory Commission. J “Boys thrown into the Reformaf tory learn from hardened crimi- { nals," he said. “They have less of 1 a chance to become good citizens f when they leave.” Asks Investigation J Stewart also called Mr l ! —A legislative investigation "of 1 the whole matter of school disciJ pline." 5 —A change in state and federal J child labor laws. , —Changes in the 1959 pre-sen-J tence investigation law to elimi- # nate “some of the bugs". f —Employment of trained parole f personnel as opposed to the press ent appointment of “inexperienced I lay people.” t —A modification of the recent t law relating to compulsory school J attendance. J Stewart said the matter of discit pline in some schools “has gotten J completely out of hand,” although $ it is not as bad as in New York J City. J “In Indiana,” he said, “many t teachers are afraid to stand up in ! class and say my nme is John t Jones and I teach here,” J Much of the trouble, Stewart J said, is caused by teen-agers who J don’t want to go to school but are t forced to go to class because of f state laws which require attendance until age 16. Job Opportunities Needed I “The Idw says a child must go f to school until he or she is 16 ! years of age," he said. “There is t nothing magical about setting a J chronological age of 16.” t Stewart advocated a system f whereby a teen-ager could be ex--1 cused from the mandatory school f attendance if there were sufficient J cause. He said too many teens agrs are forced to attend classes ! when it wobld be better for socir ety if they were out working. ' ‘"Diose who don’t want to attend i school will sit there like pop bot- ' ties or will become a disciplinary ' problem and act like prisoners ' awaiting a parole.” he said. [ “That forces a teacher to act as ' police officer who must keep ! the students in line and causes ' the teacher to neglect those who [ are in school for a serious reai son.” ; He said the child labor laws are i all right in most respects, but 1 they make no allowances for spe- ! cial cases. ! “A boy can quit school at the ! age of 16,” he said, “but he can’t f get a job until he is 18. That is ' denying them a living. Many of i them spend their time playing the [ devil.” “Waste of Time” ’ Stewart told of one instance J where he was forced to send two ! boys to the Reformatory after ! they were convicted of crimes. > “Those same boys had been in [ to see me several times begging i for jobs, but there was nothing I could do because of child labor i laws.” he said. ' “I’m not advocating that we ! abolish the present laws because 1 they are necessary. But it seems ! to me that a juvenile judge diquld ' be allowed the legal right to |nake [ certain exceptions when fwar- < ranted." ] He also told the committee .the i new pre-sentence investigafcon [ law, which mandates extensilwin* i vestigation before sentencing® j#ve- ' nile offenders, must be revised. ! “Some persons just can’t be

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paroled because of the nature of the crime, regardless of what the pre-sentence investigation shows,” he said “In that case, it is just a waste of time and money.” Stewart also called for more trained persons in the parole field. “A good minister, a good party worker or a good teacher does not necessarily make a good parole worker,” he said. “If I were sick, I wouldn't want to go to a blacksmith or a mechanic, I would want to see a doctor.” “The problems of these antisocial people cannot be solved by lay workers. We need trained specialists who want to work in the field and have a genuine interest in the offenders problems." • • ■ Ohio Girl Is Named Santa Claus Mayor SANTA CLAUS. Ind. (UPD—An Ohio girl who believes --“it is the greatest honor to be born on Christ’s birthday” was named today as honorary mayor of Santa Claus. Sharon Gentner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Gentner, Akron, was selected from among hundreds of Christmas-born children, 6 to 12 years of age, who applied by letter for the mayorship of Santa Claus. Ferman Yearby, Chairman of a selection committee of the Santa Claus Chamber of Commerce, announced also that the honorary police chief will be Linda Belle Lipsey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank -Lipsey, New Albany, Ind. The two girls will be sworn into their honorary offices during ceremonies Saturday. Mayor William Davidson of Evansville and his police chief, Charles Gash, will officiate. Santa Claus is a tiny unincorporated town, so big neighbor Evansville assumes the responsibility for swearing in the girls. The honorary mayor-elect and her mother, Mrs. Mary Gentner, will arrive by plane Satuday at Evansville and will be met by a man who may get more attention from the children than the Evansville mayor and police chief. He is Jim Yellig, who works full time at the job of being Santa Claus at Santa Claus. A reception at an Evansville hotel will follow the “inauguration." Sharon is a brown-eyed, brownhaired fourth-grader at St Peter’s School in Akron. While many of the letters received from youthful prospects for Santa Claus mayor berated the timing that robbed them of a separate birthday, Sharon wrote “to me it is tne greatest honor to. be born on Christ’s birthday, the happiest day in the year." “Being mayor of Santa Claus town would be the best present Santa could give me this year and that’s all I would ask for Christmas and my birthday,” she wrote., , 4 Sharon’s father and her brother Kenneth, 13, also will share in the excitement of the two-day reign in the little town, which includes a 240-acre children’s park. Linda is a blue-eyed red-head with enough brothers and sisters to form a complete police department, if she needed one. Linda BeUe has three brothers, Ronald, 9; Frank, Jr., 12;, Tommy, 13; and three sisters, Phyllis, 17; Jessie, 15, and Kaye, 13. The little police chief-is a fifthgrader at S. Ellon Jones School at New Albany. She will be 11 on Christmas Eve. Sharon will be 10 Christmas Day. fjharon will end her brief reign Monday. ■fc. An. ■

Rockefeller Invades Indiana Saturday By EUGENE J. CADOU United Frets International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller will invade Indiana Saturday in hopes of obtaining a handful of Hoosier delegates to the Republican national convention when the presidential voting begins. Rockefeller will be the chief speaker at a 3rd District GOP fund-raising dinner in South Bend Saturday night, preceded by a midday news conference at the airport, a luncheon at the University of Notre Dame and heavy conferences with Indiana politicos from mid-afternoon until dinner time. Rockefeller is fully aware that the Indiana Republican organization many months ago committed itself- to the presidential bid of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon under leadership of Governor Handley, Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker, state chairman Edwin Beaman and former Sen. Wiliam IE. Jenner. Nixon Men To Attend However, Parker has agreed to introduce Rockefeler and Beaman and other Nixohites probably will attend. Handley will not be present •because he is on a tour of Japan. The ranking backer of Rockefeller in Indiana, Sen. Homer E.‘ Capehart, is expected to participate extensively in the various events scheduled for Rockefeller. ' Another Hoosier supporter of , Rockefeller is State Sen. Roy Conrad of’ Monticello. Both leaders are regarded as belonging to the antl-Statehotise faction of the GOP Rockefeller has conferred secretly with other Indiana politicos at a hideaway office in New York City and their identities may be disclosed Saturday. At the news conference, Rockefeller is sure to be asked whether 1 he will enter the Indiana presidential preferential primary, a 1 question which he undoubtedly 1 will dodge, as did Nixon. Most 1 observers believe that Nixon will run. the primary gantlet and that Rockefeller wil not do so. It mulst . be remembered that both Rockefeler and Nixon, although campaigning hard all over the nation, have not yet admitted offi- [ cially that they are running for President. 1952 Is Recalled The situation recalls 1952 when Sen. Robert A. Taft had all of the Indiana delegation except two Indianapolis delegates tfho were for President Eisenhower. 8 More than 1,000 persons are expected to attend the $25-a-plate dinner. Co-chairmen are Robert L. Oare. South Bend, and Walter R. Beardsley, Elkhart. They issued a statement saying that elected state officials and members of the state committee were invited “so that hey can see for hemselves our effort to revitalize the party in our district. We want them to witness the grass-roots enthusiasm this dinner has generated.” The Republicans took a bad beating in the 3rd District in both the 1958 and 1959 elections. Lucille Ball Plans For Broadway Show By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPl)—Amid rulmors of separation, divorce and financia problems, Lucille Ball calmly is making plans to star on Broadway next season no matter wh&t occurs in her personal life. Lucy cut a zig-zag course <fronih her. dressing room at Desilu to? Paramount studios two blocks down the street) on an electric ■ golf cart blithely ignoring traffrr and gaping tourists. . Once ensconced in the Par*? mount commissary the rebellious redhead announced her intentions for 1960. ’ “I’ll move to New York no later I than September to put the chil--1 dren in school,” she said. “Then I I’ll start work on my life’s ambii tion, a Broadway show. It’s somei thing I’ve always wanted to do.” ' What of rumors that Desi Arnaz i will join her to produce a show of > his own? ' “I don't know about that,” Lucy i said without a ficker_of humor. “But I don’t think Broadway can take both of us at the same time. And don’t ask me to explain that statemen, either.” Lucille is so sure of making the Broadway scene she hasn’t settled on which show she will do. Best bet is that the TV- star will seen In a stage version of Dorothy Parker’s “The Big Blonde ” “I haven’t decided for sure. There have been many offers, including a couple of musicals,” she admitted. Why is she giving up the soft life of an occasional video program for the rigors of a Broadway show? “I’m not about to retire, and my contract with Westinghouse is over. I’ve been committed to sponsors for the past 10 years. Now I’m free for the first time and Tm anxious to do as I please.” -»

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