Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1964 — Page 8

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Cheerful ’Princess’ An Inspiration To All Courageous Farm Girl Is Polio Victim tl >' : T v; jM MfcstgSß muSKRa O&in * ®|* ” : v'|F-V» I lib^.4.Kww ■—' ■JI \* wO* t! ■ - ..Ab ySk 7 mt. j* " < '> l^fc^ZZ-'? ''' “> -‘4 The Lynn Boyette family enjoying an evening with their daughter Marilyn, in their air-eon-ditioned family room. Marilyn is watching one of h'er favorite TV programs while her ' mother does needlework and her dad reads the evening newspaper.

To the Kiowa Indian tribe of Oklahoma, 24-year old Marilyn < Boyette of Rutherford, Tenn., will always be “Princess PahMah,” which translated means “Princess Laughing l Eyes.” ! They gave her this name in I 1955 at tribal ceremonies staged t especially for her in an Oklahoma City hospital where she was re- ’ covering after becoming seriously ill during a vacation trip • to the Southwest with her par- ; ents, farmer Lynn Boyette, and I his attractive wife, Janie. I Marilyn was a victim of both bulbar and spinal polio in 1948 when only nine years old. After the attack she spent nearly nine months at Warm Springs, Ga. In 1955 Marilyn’s doctor permitted her to accompany her parents on an automobile trip that was to take them to New Mexico. It Was a vacation the three had

I 0 ‘JMBRMRI : |g|gL <r * Marilyn Boyette and her pet dog “Doc” watch her mother mow the lawn at their home in Rutherford. The generator 1 which would provide current to operate Marilyn’s respira- 1 tor in case of power interruption is attached at the rear of 1 the garden tractor. ;

REV/PENROD (Continued from., JEagfe. One> _ The minister concluded his talk by Urging Rotarians to encourage.more young men to enter, • the ministry. He said they should be-shown the great need, have a desire to serve, and must have a willingness to make adequate preparation. Roy Kalver introduced a short film “At the Edge,” prepared by tlie National Foundation, and narrated by Henry Fonda, which ex-

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planned on for a long time. During this trip a combination of rarified air and fatigue caused an almost fatal setback for Marilyn. “It was a close race to get her to the hospital in Oklahoma City and into a respirator after she blacked out,” her mother recalls. “Another minute or two and it would have been too late.” Marilyn knew that her activities in the future would necessarily be sharply curtailed, but she continued to radiate sincere cheerfulness. Hospital personnel struck by her courage, “smoke signaled” the Kiowas about this exceptional teenager. The Indians came to meet Marilyn, and decided then and there to induct this little pale face from Tennessee into their tribe as “Princess Pah-Mah,” a title no one who has ever met Marilyn will dispute. Since her return home from

plained the March of Dimes present use of funds to work ■ against birth defects matic arthritis. ~ Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will hold its January meeting at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning at the Zion United Church cf Christ. The Rev. Gerald Gerig. pastor of the Missionary church, will have devotions.

Oklahoma in 1955, Marilyn has 1 spent at least 20 hours each day 1 in the respirator the National ■ Polio Foundation installed in her ; home. With the memory of that race to the Oklahoma City hospital never dimming, the Boyettes worried about what might happen if the operation of Marilyn’s, iron lung were affected, for instance, through power interruption. v “We weren’t too concerned about a momentary power interruption,” Mrs. Boyette said. “But what would happen if the interruption lasted beyond Marilyn’s ability to breath without the aid of the respirator? It certainly would have meant a very fast trip to a Nashville or Memphis hospital. The margin of safety would be just too close for comfort.” ■" , The solution to their problem came quite unexpectedly one day while Marliyn’s father was visiting the Lake County Implement Co., Inc., the Allis-Chalmers dealer at Tiptonville, Tenn. “I saw some sales literature telling about the Allis-Chalmers B-l suburban tractor and its various attachments, including a 115 volt generator,”- Lynn Boyette said. “This unit with its generator struck me as the practical ' stand-by power source for Marilyn’s iron lung. “Cleland Johnston, the dealer’s salesman, demonstrated the tractor and it seemed like a real handy tool to take care of a lot i of chores. We use it now to cut 1 the lawn, and to plow, cultivate, ' and till the 1% acre truck gar- 1 den on our Barton farm.” 1 Boyette owns the 154-acre Barton farm north of Rutherford, t and eight miles further north he t owns another farm of 720 acres, 1 370 of which are under cultiva- 1 tion. Both farms are in cotton, c soybeans, and corn. In addition, j he rents a third farm of 108 t acres, in soybeans and cotton. I

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f The truck farm is Janie Boyette’s project. With Lynn’s assistance she raises corn, beans, okra, potatoes, peas, and many other vegetables which she either cans or freezes. Many of the Boyette friends also enjoy the fruits of her labor. Up to now the tractor hasn't been called into active duty aa a stand-by power unit, but it is | always in readiness. As her mother points out “Marilyn loves a challenge and doesn’t ’ give up until she has completed whatever she’s started out to accomplish.” Completing both elementary and high school, the latter as co-validictorian illustrates this trait, especially when one considers that most of Marilyn’s education was attained through "home bound” teaching. Marilyn has many and varied interests to keep her occupied and give her what one her former teachera describes as “a most pleasant outlook on life." When in her iron lung, she reads, enjoys TV, her hi-fi or radio, and visits from her many friends.'She’s an avid baseball fan and jokingly explains "when I watch the game on TV through my mirror mounted to the iron lung, the batter always runs to third base rather than first. But, one soon gets used to viewing things in reverse, and so I don’t mind this one bit." Writing letters, typing, talking on the telephone, doing needlepoint, are what Marilyn terms “my outside interests.” Her mother adds, “serving as 'strawboss’ to assist Lynn and myself plan, arrange and maintain our flower beds and shrubbery is another one of her favorite pastimes when she’s out of the respirator.” When she goes to church, Sunday school, out for dinner or to Lynn Boyette connects extension cord to his suburban > tractor's generator attachment which can provide the power necessary to operate his daughter Marilyn's iron lung, in the event of power interruption. visit friends, Marilyn uses a portable wheelchair which easily fits into the family car. Her own physical limitations haven’t dulled Marilyn’s concern for the problems of others. A point in case is the young man who withdrew “into a shell” after a diving accident left him completely helpless. After several visits with him, Marilyn was able to convince the boy that he really had a lot to live for. Now he attends church and Sunday school, visits with old friends, enjoys meeting new ones, and in general, appreciates his family and life. And Marilyn ... she continues to face, and successfully meet, each new challenge with a twinkle in her eyes and a smile that again and again prove just how correct the Kiowa Indian tribe’s judgment and decision was when they crowned her “PHncess PahMah” back in ’55;

Citizens Telephone I" Expands Aid Dept. Announcement was made today by the Citizens Telephone company that the customers’ service aid department, formerly operated on a part-time basis, had been expanded. Mrs. Mabie Murray, Decatur, was named as head of the new department and will devote full time to her duties. Listed as a part of the functions of the customers’ service aid department were the following: advice and counsel to subscribers concerning types of service available; handling of subscriber service difficulties or complaints; public relations; public information and publicity. In addition to handling such services for subscribers of the Ci- ?' tizens Telephone company, Mrs. yiu Murray will also work with the Argos and Nappanee Telephone companies, which are subsidiaries of the Citizens Telephone com:’K pany . The telephone company also announced that the commercial dev partment, formerly headed by 4 Mrs. Murray, had been merged with the general accounting department and that this combined department would, be headed by Ivan Oberlin, chief accountant and assistant secretary-treasurer of , I the company. 1 A spokesman for the company stated. “In the past year, we be-, 1 ; gun the customers’ service aid department on a tentative and trial basis. The results of this number of subscribers who have contacted Mrs. Murray concerning additional services, changes in present telephone service, complaints, and, in fact, everything and anything concering the furnishing of tele- ~ phone services to individuals and to business firms. By making such services available on a fulltime basis, we sincerely hope that the public will feel even more free, in the future, to contact the customers’ service aid department concerning any of their telephone problems.” No Change In = U. S. Policy Toward Cuba WASHINGTON (UPD—Secretary of State Dean Rusk says that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was “emphatically wrong” when he declared that the late • President Kennedy had been contemplating a change in U.S. policy toward Cuba. Rusk told a news* conference Thursday that there could be no change in the United States’ Cuba policy so long as the Soviet military presence remained and Castro continued to meddle — in the affairs of his’ heighbors. The secretary said he had" no evidence that Castro was willing to disavow the Russian penetration of the island nation or to promise to stop trying to subvert other Latin American governments. Cuba was among the danger points listed by. Rusk. Others included Cyprus, where the Greek and Turkish communities are again at militant odds; Yemen, where the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia support different sides in the overthrow of the royal government; Algeria and Morocco; India and Pakistan; Indonesia and Malaysia, and Somalia and its neighbors,' Ethiopia and Kenya. Rusk said the United States would use its “maximum influence” on the side of moderation in the Cyprus struggle. He said he had no knowledge that the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean was engaged in any activity in connection with the dispute.

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More Federal Aid is Sought At South Bend INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh may travel to Washington next Tuesday in an effort to obtain more federal assistance for workers left jobless when Studebaker Corp, moved its auto-making facilities from South Bend to its Canadian plant at Hamilton, Ont. Welsh made the tentative decision for the trip at a conference Thursday with President Dallas Sells of the Indiana AFLCIO, Director Lewis Nicolini of the Indiana Employment Security Division, Administrator Albert Kelly of the State Department of Public Welfare, State School Supt. William E. Wilson, State Sen. Donald Yeagley, DSouth Bend, and several others. Sells told Welsh that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s action in relaxing requirements for distribution of surplus federal food stocks had failed to achieve its purpose. At Welsh’s request, the department increased the amount of monthly income a family may receive and still be eligible • for the food but Sells said the failure to change the limit on liquid assets left most of the ... former Studebaker workers ineligible for the foocj. Yeagley suggested that Welsh issue an executive order to bring Indiana under the provisions of a federal program to provide food for dependent children of jobless parents. The program calls for the federal government to pay 70 per cent of the cost with the rest split between the state and the county involved. Welsh said that because this could cost as much as $3 million in state and. county funds “there is a serious question in my mind if I should do this by executive order.” He said he thought it might be wiser to submit the plan to the 1965 Legislature and use the intervening time to gather facts on the need for the program. He said, however, that he would be willing to fly to Washington Tuesday if it would help in obtaining a stepup in federal aid at South Bend. If meetings can be set up, he said, the trip also will be used to explore the possibility of working out some sort of group employment program for men past 65 years of age. Nicolini said that 1,152 of the idled Studebaker workers are men 60 or over and added that he feels men of that age are*’ “done for as far as the industrial labor market is concerned.” Meanwhile, the first cars destined for the American market rolled off the Studebaker assembly line .at Harriilton? ~ The first car off the line was a six-cylinder sedan for delivery at Laconia, N.H. It bore a sign reading “Now—Studebaker of Canada builds for the world. Let quality be your trademark.” Later in the loads of cars left Hamilton for Windsor and eventualy delivery to the United States.

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