Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1964 — Page 12

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Two Interests In < • Newswoman’s Life

By HOBTENSE MYERS * United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD- The two great interests in the life of Mrs. Vera Hall, Danville, put her in the difficult position of Dot saying what she thinks. One of those interests is politics. Mrs. Hall is the treasurerelect of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, a post which normally will lead her to the presidency in three more years. The other big interest is journalism. She is publisher of the Danville Gazette. “I have my ideas about candidates,” Mrs. Hall observed, referring to the rapid rush now beginning to announce for elective positions, ‘‘but if I say anything I commit my newspaper and I don’t want to do that.” Bern At Logansport Back in 1916, when Vera wed the Gazette publisher, Alvin Hall, she was principal of an Indianapolis business college and knew little about newspaper work.. She was born in Logansport and was, for the most part, reared under the supervision of an administrator. Both parents died while she was young and the administrator was the one who determined Vera should go to business college. One of her first jobs was as secretary to a law firm to

Says Suburb Free Os Hanky Panky By DICK WEST’ United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—I keep reading these novels about sex and sin in suburbia and they make me want to sue my real estate agent, I feel that I have been cheated. The house he sold me is indisputably in the suburbs, but as best I can tell the area is almost totally devoid of hanky panky. I moved out there expecting to find material for a book of my own. And I have. But who wants to read a book about Japanese beetles? If I used my neighborhood as the setting for a novel, its salacious index would register several degrees below “The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.” ' 1 Furthermore, I have prowled around a bit in the adjacent neighborhoods and they don’t appear to be any more wicked than my own. The conclusion seems inescapable that some of the novels depicting the suburbs as hotbeds of depravity were subsidized by sub-developers. The only hotbeds I’ve seen were full of African violets. According to the blurbs on the dust jackets, suburbs are a symbol of our decaying moral fiber. But I haven’t encoun- - - tered any decay outsjde of a compost pit. —- It is true that the agent I dealt with didn’t exactly promise that riotous living went along with picture windows. I guess I got that impression because he carried his conditional sales contracts in a paperback copy of “Peyton Place.” At any rate, I soon found that the suburbs are a poor place for research on assignations. In my community, people are more interested in bird feeders. Last summer, having nothing on my note pad more spicy than a new recipe for barbecue sauce, I tried to ■persuade one of my neighbOTs to start a secret romance with a lady across — the street. “Sorry, old boy, I’d like to accommodate you but I’ve got

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Danville—and one of the first persons she met was Hall, then a reporter for the Gazette. They were married just before the United States entered World War I and Alvin Went off to fight. When they returned to Danville in 1917, Vera began learning a new business — the weekly newspaper. “My husband was always interested in politics but he preferred to work behind scenes,” Vera said. “He helped put quite a few into office but he would never take a job.” With Alvin’s death in 1945, his widow took over full management of the newspaper and has undertaken to follow his same philosophy of leading separate political and newspapering lives. Seek Her Support “Some candidates have, come to me and asked for my support in the convention,” Vera said. “That includes a friend who is a candidate for governor. But I tell them the same thing—l can’t commit the paper until after convention.” The Gazette, established in 1880, traditionally has been Democratic. Vera is particularly proud of her journalism honors in the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana and Theta Sigma Phi, professional organization for women in journalism. “I never studied

✓ ? JR BIG LIFT — Demonstrating its lifting capacity in Culver City, Calif., this new helicopter lifts an airframe of its sister ship with ease. The Hughes 300 copter is a threepassenger, second generation model of the ship she’s lifting, the Hughes 269Ato mow the lawn,” he told me. In another effort to promote my literary enterprise, I "undertook to organize a neighborhood «rgy. It didn't turn but Well, either. I finally got a group together on a night when the PT A wasn’t meeting, but .no one present knew how an orgy was conducted. In fact, some of them thought that they had been invited to an organ concert. So we played charades instead. Somewhere in the land there may be a suburb that is as decadent as the novels indicate. But I’m convinced that the average suburbanite thinks a peccadillo |s some kind of relish.

journalism but learned it first hand, so these organizations mean a lot to me,” she said. One of the best kept secrets—and one which the IDEA may not know about its new treasurer—goes back to her youth. She switched from Republican to Democrat allegiance when she said "I do.” “My Republican relatives thought it was the end of the world for mb,” she recalled. “But I’ve never voted Republican since.”

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Names Commission For School Funds INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Gov-ernor Welsh today announced creation of a new state counmission which will enable Indiana to qualify for nearly $lB million in federal funds during the next three years. TTie money is available under a law signed by President Johnson Dec. 16 for construction of

undergraduate college facilities. Welsh named 16 members to the commission, representing private colleges, state colleges and universities, community colleges and the public, as required by the new federal law. Indiana University Chancellor Herman B. Wells was named chairman. The commission is known as the Indiana Advisory Commission on Academic Facilities. It will administer the expenditure of $5,975,860 a year in federal

funds for the next three years.' Os this, the act allocates $1,329,095 a year for construction of public community colleges and technical institutions, and $4,646,765 a year for other; undergraduate colleges and universities. The law specifically eliminates facilities to be used for schools of religion, njgdicine, dentistry, pharm a c y? ■ osteopathy, optometry, ;p ej.JJLtXJL—nursing and public health. Also eliminated are gymnasiums or

any facilities "intended primarily for events for which admission is charged to the public.” Indiana institutions allocated federal funds by the commission must provide up to twothirds of the cost of the buildings for which the .money is used. This means that as much as $35 million would have to be provided locally to qualify for .federal funds. Other members on the commission are James Edgett, Fort

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Wayne; Richard Meier, Sr., Evansville; A. F. Scribner, Valparaiso University; Mrs,, George Schuster, South Bend; Myron Busby, Terre Haute?Floyd Hines, Connersville; Hubert Hickam, Spencer; Ralph Thompson, Seymour; Byron Stewart, Anderson; Richard B. Stoner, Columbus; and State School Supt. William E. Wilsqn, Max Wright, William A. Brennan, Jr., Glenn W. Sample and Borden Purcell, all of Indianapol. ‘