Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1961 — Page 2

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Say Cutback Order Is False Eeonomy

INDIANAPOLIS (UPII — The superintendents of Indiana's mental hospitals told Governor Welsh that they would abide by his 5 per cent cutback order but that they „ felt it was a false, and possibly dangerous economy. Welsh met with most of the superintendents at Laßue Carter Hospital Tuesday afternoon to discuss his order. He had directed a 5 per cent reduction in all der

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partments and agencies under his administration by Dea. SI to bring the number of employees below the level of Dec. 31, 1660. Welsh first outrmed to the superintendents his over-all financial problems leading to the order, and gave them the pleasant news that he had taken two steps to find places for 300 mentally retarded children oi) waiting lists of state institutions. One was a shift in

use of Rockville Sanatorium from tuberculosis patients to mentally retarded. The other was a SIOO,OOO allocation for family boarding homes to care for the mentally retarded. Then the superintendents had a chance to present their position to the governor and some of them did. Disagrees With Policy Dr. Donald F. Moore, medical director of Laßue Carter, said: “I still disagree with your policy but as you are the commanding officer who made the decision, I feel I should abide with the order or get out. But we can’t do it without a very real cost.” Moore said the biggest cost will be the departure of qualified per-

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sonnet which he said already has begun. “The problem may not he to make e 5 per cent cut,” he warned, "but to keep R from going to 10, 15 or even 20 per cent.” " Moore also protested a new arraagement whereby superintendents of hospitals are required to get authorization from Budget Director John Hatchett before hiring an employe. “I would like for you to have sufficient confidence in me to let me hire my own people,” Moore said. ”1 don't think Hatchett should be overburdened with it or that I should have to write a letter to John justifying my choice. I'd like to have the authority to continue to run my hospital.”

Welsh to Reconsider Welsh, somewhat startled, made a gesture toward revoking this part of his order. "It hadn’t occurred to me that leaving hiring in the bands of the superintendents would be viewed as a matter of confidence,” he said. “I will ait down with Dr. Ginsberg and work this out.” Welsh also conceded that “perhaps the department can’t cooperate to the full 5 per cent. I’m not saying that it can.” Dr. David P. Morton, superintendent of Norman M. Beatty Memorial Hospital, which also includes the criminally insane, declared that a recent death of a patient there was, in his opinion, due to a lack of trained attend-

ante. He *al4 he wa» referriM to a patient who died ia a fan * He warned that he haa "i* murderers up there” and that “six or eight of them had (gotten loose on Indiana.” He said his shortage of staff is so critical he sometimes must hold over the departing shift for three-fourths of an hour to get enough volunteers to fill the next shift. Farmer Killed When Hit By Tree Limb VINCENNES, Ind. <UPl)—Former Knox County Commissioner Henry W. Trabapt, 84, died Monday from injuries suffered as a tree limb fell on him while he cleared timber on a tract of woodland near FreelandviU*.

Retail Farm Head Shows Indignation"

By LYLE C. WILSON , United Press International WASHINGTON (UPl)—This es-i say will reflect the indignation of W.E. Johnson, executive secretary of the South Dakota Retail Farm Equipment Association. RFEA headquarters is in Huron, S.D. Johnson is indignant because of a back-minded swipe by a government agency against the free enterprise system of the US. national economy. He identified the government agency as the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. ASCS is an arm of the Department of Agriculture whose boss is Orville L. Freeman. ASCS is one of Freeman’s spending arms. Two or three billions of the taxpayers’ dollars are distributed annually by ASCS in feed grain support and production control programs. Congress considerably bobtailed the Kennedy-Freeman farm program at the last session of Congress. That may have contributed to the ASCS’s lack of faith in the generally accepted American free enterprise system. Whatever may have caused it, the lack of faith is evident in the cause of Johnson’s indignation. : In a letter to a Washington friend, Johnson enclosed a photograph of the recent South Dakota state fair exhibit of the state ASCS office which is located in Huron. The exhibit consisted of a toy electric train layout, an oval track with a couple of spurs. A train safely on the track was Identified bjTsigns as representing various farm-aid programs. Alongside a spur lay a derailed train. Above it a sign read: “Free enterprise wrecked this Ur an.” Tht s wht mpset Johnson. He sd that after a day or so the sign was changed to read: I “Opponents of the farm program wrecked this train.” Johnson believes the change was made at the suggestion of the Department of Agriculture. “There were -many others,” Johnson wrote, “who we r e shocked and dismayed when they saw this sign. But I believe that this photo is positive proof that type of thinking that we are having in the present administration. I do not intend to generalize by saying that this is the thinking of all people in our government, but certainly there should not be room for even one person thinking this way in the federal government. “Strong protests have been lodged by several of the (RFEA) associations who have come into possession of this picture. We are resisting such thinking in behalf of all who believe strongly in the theory of free enterprise, a system which has made our country the most powerful and influential in the world.” Bernard Brenner is the able agriculture writer in the Washington bureau of United Press International. I asked Brenner why someone in ASCS would commit a political goof such as that reported from Huron. Right or wrong, the sign was a political baddie. Brenner had an explanation. He said the phrase “free enterprise” was a sort of spithet in some farm areas as a nickname or synonym for Ezra Taft Benson, agriculture secretary in the Eisenhower cabinet. They were trying to say, Brenner told me, that Benson wrecked the train. Maybe so. That isn’t what the sign said. Arnie Lehman Ninth In Tomato Canning Arnie Lehman of Geneva route 2, placed ninth inth 1961 Indiana 4-H canning tomato club according to a rport from Roscoe Fraser, state leader. He will receive a prize for his placing. Also placing in the state contest were Paul Norr, 19th and Ronald Bollenbacher and Ronnie Mosser, 29th and 30th respectively.

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BEAUTIES SEEK WORLD TITLE —Jo Ann Odum, ol West Virginia, left, who is Miss U.S.A. in the Miss World contest In London, poses with a Brazilian competitor, Alda Coutinho de Moraes. at a preconlest party.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1961

Bartender Is Slain In Gangland Style CHICAGO (UPI) — A bartender with a minor police record was slain early today by six shots fired from a speeding Cadillac as he parked his car in front of his West Side home. Joseph Gentile, 51, was slumped dead behind the wheel when police arrived. Two companions with him at the time said they could not tell how many men were in the Cadillac. It was the 14th gangland-style slaying in Chicago in the past year and the third in several weeks in an outbreak of violence that brought back memories of the Capone era. All the killings are unsolved. Police said Gentile was backing his car into a parking space when the Cadillac sped past. Several of the bullets struck him in the head. With him at the time were Jack Hodges, 51, Chicago, and Richard Longford, 20, Asheville, N.C., described by police as a Marine deserter. Hodges and Longford said Gentile, a bartender at Kings Paradise, a tavern in a rundown area, had asked them to spend the night with him. Police said Gentile had a record for disorderly conduct and vagrancy. Gentile apparently saw his slayers approach. Hodges and Longford told police Gentile said, “Oh. my God” just before the started. The 'bullets riddled Lite “window on the drivers’ side of the car. Hodges and Longford ducked when the shots started, but Hodges was hit in the face and cut by flying glass. Police said they were mystified as to the reason for the killing. They said they knew of no motive, but were looking into the possibility that Gentile may have been a victim of the juice gang racket — an underworld moneylending racket. Police said Gentile had made large deposits in a savings and loan firm totaling nearly S6OO since August. There was no indication of where he was getting the money, much more than a bartender in that area would be able to save. Hodges and Longford said Gentile showed no signs of fear before he was shot. They said he was joking and laughing with them.

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SQUIRREL HAT — Maureen Murphy, 14, of Sunnyvale, Calif., prefers her pet as a headpiece far more than a coonskin cap, in any weather.