Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1961 — Page 8

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43 Reorganization Plans Approved

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Hoosiers no longer oppose school reorganization—They just argue occasionally about how such reorganization should be effected. That is the conclusion of J.B. Kohlmeyer, director 3 of the Indiana State Commission for the Reorganization of School Corporations. Kohlmeyer, at a commission meeting today will report that so far TO of Indiana’s 92 counties have submitted reorganization plans, of which 43 have been approved by the commission. The plans of four counties have been rejected by the commission, I hearings have been held on 11 more proposals and action is pending, and for the remauJng 12 of the 70, hearings are yet to be held. Although 22 counties have not yet submitted plans for reorganizing their school systems in accordance with 1959 and 1961 state laws, Kohlmeyer said this does not mean opposition to reorganization. i Expect Most By Nov. 1 “I expect most of the 22 will have their plans by Nov. 1,” he said. “Action has been taken by committees in 90 counties now. There are only two counties in which the committees have been I inactive—• Greene and Daviess." But generally over the state, the director said, the public attitude has favored reorganization, in contrast to the situation two years ago. “When this first started there were a lot of questions whether the law would be repealed," he recalled. “There was a general i feeling—why work toward reor- < ganization if the law is going to 1 be repealed? Thirty-eight bills 1 were introduced in toe 1961 Legis- 1 lature to amend the 1959 law, but i not a single one for outright repeal. Six of those bills passed and the governor signed five. All five s strengthened school reorganize- i tion. None weakened it.” < 2 Factors Cited Kohlmeyer said he attributed 1 the changed attitude to two sac- 1 tors. 1 "People were ready for school . reorganization before the legisla- ( ture was. They were interested in i good education. The rounty com- I mittees working on the plans represented a large number of peo- I pie. It was a grass roots thing," Kohlmeyer said.

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He said that before school reorganization began there were slightly more than 1,000 school corporations. The last tally of submitted plans indicates there may be about 250 when the reorganization is completed. "In some places there is still some disagreemant on the part of some people with the plan the county committee has proposed. If and when these plans are put I to election, some may fail,” Kohl- | meyer said. "But these people say I they are not against reorganiza- ! tion, just against the particular i plan offered. There has been quite a change in public attitude. Reorganization is now accepted.” Two Counties Late Kohlmeyer noted that two counties were late in starting on reorganization because their people thought their previous school reorganization under an earlier law exempted them. These two counties—Ohio and Clinton, are among those with plans not in but which are expected to submit the required outline later, although no major changes are involved. A number of proposed reorganizations are involved in court cases, including Posey, Vanderburgh, Fulton, Noble, Whitley, LaPorte, St. Joseph and Jefferson, Kohlmeyer said, adding that this is "only a partial list." In some counties part of a proposed county plan has been adopted, and part rejected. He cited Wells as an example. Two of three units proposed were approved, one lost by 25 votes and I probably will be re-submitted. Special elections have been scheduled or held this fall by De- I catur, Carroll. Warrick, Johnson, Wells, and LaGrange, he added, but "most of the others are going to wait until the May, 1962, primary." Counties Are Listed Here are the 43 counties whose ' school reorganization plans al- ( ready have been approved by the 1 commission: «, 1 Grown, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Clark, Decatur, Floyd, Foun- ' tain, Gibson, Hamilton, Harrison, ( Hendricks, Huntington, Jackson, ’ Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, La- 1 Grange, LaPorte, Lawrence, Mad- 1 ison, Monroe, Montgomery, New- 1 ton, Noble, Orange, Perry, Parke, 1 Posey, Pulaski, Rush, Scott, Spencer, Switzerland, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warrick, Washing-

ton and Wells. Here are the 23 counties whose plans are awaiting action by the commission: Bartholomew, Blackford, Cass, Clay, Delaware. DeKalb, Fulton, Grant, Hancock, Howard, Jay, Jennings, Kosciusko, Marion, Morgan, Owen, Pike, Porter, Randolph, Shelby, Steuben, Sullivan and Wayne-. Here are the 4 counties whose plans were rejected by the commission: Knox, Tippecanoe, Miami, Henry. Here are the 22 counties whose plans have not yet been submitted: } Allen, Adams, Benton, Clinton, Davies, Dearborn, Dutxiis, Elkhart, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lake, Martin, Marshall, Ohio, Putnam, Ripley, Starke, St. Joseph, Warren, White and Whitley. Asks Railroads Aid Soybean Crop Move INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Covernor Welsh today urged railroads serving Indiana to provide sufficient box cars to move a record soybean crop to market. The governor, in telegrams to 11 railroads that serve Indiana, said the 83.8 million bushel crop is 29 per cent above last year’s record crop and 79 per cent above the average of the previous 10 years. Welsh said the large crop could “cause a severe strain on rail transport facilities. . “I am certain that Hoosier farmers can again depend on the railroads to cooperate during the peak shipping season," Welsh said. Reverses Decision On Union Picketing WASHINGTON (UPl)—The National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that there sometimes is justification for a union to engage in what would otherwise constitute unlawful picketing of a plant where ainother union is the recognized bargaining agent. In Wednesday’s 3-2 decision, the NLRB reversed an eight-month-old decision against a local of the International Hod Carriers at Hammond, Ind. Two members, appointed by President Kennedy since the previous decision, helped form the new majority. The board upheld picketing by the local to protest wage rates at a construction site of George DeJong even though DeJong’s .employes were represented by another union. “A union may be legitimatelj concerned that a particular employer is undermining area stand ards of employment by maintain ing lower standards," the boarc held. It said picketing in sue! circumstances to obtain recogni tion is unlawful but that there is other justification for it. Board m e rri’b er s Philip R. Rodgers and Boyd Leesom said the picketing was “clearly an attempt” by the Hod Carriers to win recognition as bargaining agent for the DeJong workers. Moslem General Is Named By de Gaulle PARIS (UPI)—A Moslem general stepped in an France’s second highest military commander in Algeria today in a move apparently aimed at winning rebel support for an independence referendum. President Charles de Gaulle named Brig. Gen. Ahmed Rafa an infantry commandant Wednesday. De Gaulle has insisted that free elections must precede independence. The rebels have contended that no referendum on self-de-termination can be free if it is controlled by the French army. De Gaulle recently urged the formation of a local 50.000-man force of Algerians to supervise the proposed elections and observers called Rafa the logical choice to head it. He is the only Moslem ever to become a general - in the French army. Tough and experienced, Rafa, 55, formerly commanded a brigade. Rato's nejy post carries an important title but it does not include the actual leadership oi troops, thereby eliminating the possibility that he could take over command of France’s hardened paratroopers. The promotion climaxed e months of overtures toward the Algerian rebels by De Gaulle. State Forest Head Dies Unexpectedly PERU, Ind. (UPI) — Rober Lewis Stineman, 53, superintend ent of Frances Slocum State For est, died unexpectedly at his home in the forest Wednesday. Stine man, of near Wabash, was super intendent only a little more that six weeks. If you have something to sell oi trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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: Emergency Caused ; By Bridge Collapse ? INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)— A dele gation from Clinton headed by ' Mayor John Goldner was achedn uled to confer at 3 p. m. today with Governor Welsh on an emergency situation caused by collapse of the only public bridge over the Wabash River at Clin- • ton. However, a spokesman for the B state highway commission said ” that emergency planning for repairs began Wednesday as soon • as word of the collapse was re- ■ ceived. Roy Whitton, secretary of the ’ commission, estimated that traffic over the damaged bridge can be restored in “60 to 90 days,” He said the situation obviously is serious since anyone wanting to cross the Wabash between Indiana and Illinois at Clinton must now drive to either Terre Haute or Montezuma to reach a bridge. However, Whitton said the state highway engineers were not in ’ error in their report concerning the strength of the bridge. ' 'Tf you hit any bridge in the 1 right place, it’s going to fall, and . that is what happened here. The J footings about which the engi- ? neers were consulted are still i standing. This car just hit a key- > stone piece," he said. ! Whitton said he understood that ■ Fred Wampler, who is a member of the Wabash Valley uAthority 1 and a former congressman, had contacted the U. 8. Army Corps p of Engineers with a request '’for 5 a pontoon bridge. - The highway official said he • understood that if the pontoon bridge is erected it would be for emergency use, and not for general public traffic. Goldner and about 100 Clinton residents decided at a town meeting Wednesday night To take a strong protest direct to the capital city after the 61-year-old ■ bridge crumbled when struck by 1 an old car. An 180-foot span of the bridge just east of Clinton collapsed into the shallow water 30 feet below Wednesday, taking with it a 1939 model car that struck it and* a state highway truck with two occupants. A natural gas main was cut by the collapse. 1 Harvest Gathering r For Otterbein Home t The Rev. Kenneth Angle, pastor . of the Union Chapel -Evangelical United Brethern church, announced today that Sunday will be y harvest home gathering, for the j. Otterbein home., l_ Persons desiring to give to the home are asked to bring items (j such as cookies, candies (home h made or store purchased), canned [. goods (not home canned), cloths ing, popcorn, quilts and sheets. The home raises its potatoes, other i. vegetables and apples. d

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(Lebanon Man Heads Stale Youth Camps INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Clifford C. Parr, Lebanon, was appointed Wednesday as director of state youth camps which are being established in Indiana at the order of the 1961 Legislature. The appointment was announced by James E. McCart, assistant state correction commissioner. Parr, a former football coach at Lebanon high school, will direct a camp near Henryville in Clark County State Forest for inmates oL the Indiana Boys School and another for youths at the Indiana Reformatory which probably will be established near < Rockville. ■ Parr is busy screening inmates : of the boys school to selcet 40 or i 50 who will serve at the Henry- < ville camp. McCart said a work : detail from the Indiana State Farm will go to Henryville Mon- ] day to remodel a building to be used as a dormitory for the boys.

I THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT I I OFFICE I I WILL BE I CLOSED I I DURING THE I I FUNERAL OF I MRS. JOHN H. HELLER I FRIDAY AFTERNOON |

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Attractive Haley Mills plays a dual role in the Walt Disney Technicolor production starting Friday at the Adams theater for four days. Others in this popular comedy that reopens the theater for the fall and winter -season are Maureen O’Hara, and Brian Keith.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1981

Indiana Girl Dies In Crash In lowa PRIMGHAR, lowa (UPI) — A young Indiana woman, traveling with her fiance to her home state to be marled, suffered fatal injuries in a one-car accident near here late Wednesday. The victim was Patsy Deiss, 20, Evansville, Ind. Her fiance, Blaine Marner, 24, Candy, Mo. was listed in good condition today at a Cherokee hospital. Miss Deiss died at a Cherokee hospital about two hours after the mishap. Authorities said Marner the driver of the car, apparently took 1 a curve too fast on lowa 59 eight r miles south of here. Authories said the car left the r road, turned end over end and r smashed into a utility pole. r The young woman’s wedding 3 gown was found in a box amidst 1 the wreckage.

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