Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1964 — Page 6

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Legislative Goals To Help Retarded Discussed Tuesday

A crowd of 42 persons from six northeastern Indiana counties braved snowy weather to spend 2ft hours at the Johnny Appleseed school in Fort Wayne Tuesday night, and discuss legislative goals to educate and train adequately the 30% of Indiana's mentally retarded now being educated by the state and local government. Owen C. Wemhoff, Decatur native and executive director of the Indiana association for retarded children, opened the discussion at the second of five prelegislative sessions to be held around the state. Only 40,000 of the estimated 120,000 mentally retarded in Indiana have hnd any of the education they need to become taxpaying citizens rather than costIv linhilitiPß Wnmhnff pvnlninfd

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No Claeses Here Adams county, for example, has no provisions at all at present for its estimated 245 mentally retarded persons. Some parents take their childern to the Vera Cruz school, and some take theirs to the Johnny Appleseed school, purely on an availability basis, and .frequently the children can not be admitted because the neighboring facilities are overcrowded. This accounts for perhaps ten allized? but most are allowed to wander around their homes, hopeless and forlorn, without proper training. There are two or three advanced with every local school class. ■— Attending the meeting from Adams county were Mrs. George Millington, Mrs. Stanley Baumgartner, Mrs. Gerald Strickler;

Mrs. Jack Schnepf, and Dick Heller. Jr. Accomplishing the goals of the association will reduce the costly borden of custodial care, as many of the retarded, when properly trained, can be as productive in their own way as normal citizens, and can. become useful to themselves, their ramilies, and mentally adjusted to society. Four Special Goals Goals for this general assembly include: 1. A new source of funds for special education classes. 2. A new reimbursement formula for special education classes. 3. An increase of two in the supervisory and consultative’ staff. 4. Provision In state law to allow two or more school corporations to combine for special education and special purposes. Wayne Owens, a consultant in ♦he division of special education of the department of public instruction, explained the reason for these goals pointing out that the dedicated funds for special education are now deplated by many others dipping into the same till, and general fund money should be available. A new reimbursement formula, preferably based on regular distribution channels, with twice as

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much for retarded, four times as much for blind, may be proposed: otherwise a 50% reimbursement from special education funds with 70% for therapy, may be asked for. Need Cotarattants With 515 classes for retarded children in the state, and 273 speech and hearing therapists, one consultant for the first, and a half-time consultant for the second, is fare too few. With only 180 days in the school year, one consultant cannot possibly visit all 515 classes, and every year more classes are developed. Joint operation of special education and special services between two or more school corporations would cut red>4ape for cooperative work which is better done with a larger base of support that just one school corporation, 12 Cooperative Goals Wemhoff then explained 12 points in which the Indiana association for retarded children is cooperating with the department of mental health in asking additional legislation: 1. Increase funds for community services for schools like Johnnv Appleseed and Vera Cruz from $250,000 to $750,000, with $500.000 additional for a training program for psychiatrists at I. U. 2. Increase the budget of the

division on mental retardation for additional staff from $74,000 a year to $87,000 a year. 3. Establish a new residential facility for the mentally retarded in a populous area. Muscatatuck, Fort Wayne, and South Bend are all overcrowded, with 1,200 on the waiting lists. A new $4,900,000 hospital with 200 beds at either Indianapolis, Gary or Evansville, is proposed. 4. An increase in the construction and operating budgets of the department, to keep up wih the increasing demands of a growing population asking for more humane care. 5. Appropriation to the department to match federal funds available. 6. An increase in the budget for the family care program, in which 196 retarded are now living with families outside of instituions. 7. An increase in the budget for community psychiatric clinics. 8. An increase in the educational budget of the department for training employes, educational stipends to physicians, nurses, etc. ■ . .... .■ - — 9. An increase in research budget of the department of mental health. 10. Appropriation for operating funds in the department to

prevent shortage of drugs, food and clothing, etc., which now exist. 11. Improve the salary schedules — so workers do not have to start at SSO a week when they are semi-skilled and trained. 12. Additional funds for manpower training center at Atterbury, so the 25% of the trainees who are mentally retarded can be properly helped. Non-Flnancial Goals Three non-financial goals of the mental health department will also be backed by the association for retarded children: 1. Change the names of the state schools in Fort Wayne and Muscatatuck to state nospital and training center—this results from a court case in which a director was reinstated after\beating a patient because the coiirt held a “school” principal could legally beat a “student”! 2. Establish the Northern Indiana children’s hospital in South Bend as a separate unit, just as the other schools are. 3. Pass enabling legislation to authorize counties to tax themselves up to $lO per SIOO valuation to match state and federal funds for construction of mental retardation or mental health facilities. Important Changes Three other important changes back by the IARC, Wemhoff continued, are: 1. Mandatory PKU testing for all newborn infants to prevent mental retardation. Only 50% of the newborn in Indiana are being tested at present. Meanwhile, 10 to 15 babies a year who could be normal are growing up retarded because this simple test is not used. 2. Increase the budget for the clinic fcir intellectually handicapped children at Riley hospital, Indianapolis, where 2,400 children with brain injuries are testqd each year. 3. Increase the budgets of the divisions of vocational rehabilitation and vocational education as they relate to the retarded. "'■S 1 KIMBERLY KAY BUTLER is the name of the six pound, eleven and one half ounce daughter of Charles and Virginia Miller Butler, route 1, torn at the Adams county memorial hospital at 3:17 p. m., November 24, 1964.—(Ph0t0 by Cole) • III' I s'■ ! i WS } 1 ■ JBMHkhBBf FREDRICK ALAN KRUECKEBERG is the name of the seven pound, eleven ounce son of Herbert and Barbara Hillard Krueckeberg, 822 Parkview <frtve, born at the Adams county memorial hospital at 9:03 p. m., November 18, 1964—(Photo by Cole) '

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Highway Display At Decatur Bank The Indiana state highway commission is placing an unusual and attractive achievement display for public viewing at The First State Baink in Decatur. It emphasizes graphically on district, covering whole or in a large map of the Fort Wayne northeastern part of the state, all Dairy Association Meeting On Monday The 75th annual Indiana s*tate dairy association meeting will be held December 7, at Purdue University, Lafayette, according to announcement by Ernest J. Lesiuk county extension agent. Sam M. Gregory, Purdue extension dairyman in charge of dairy heard improvement association records, will award the certificates to the dairymen with outstanding herds in Indiana. The Adams county dairymen who will receive awards are as follows: Bronze awards, Ben and Arnold Gerke, Decatur; Paul E. Liechty and Sons, Berne; Eli Schwartz and Sons, Berne; Ivan Steury, Berne, and Yager and Lehman, Geneva. Silver awards: Yager and Wulliman, Berne; Harry Wulliman Berne; Ben and Noah Mazelin, and Son, Berne; Franklin Steury, Berne; Kenneth Isch, Berne; Kenneth Beer and Sons; Jesse Blume and Sons, Decatur; Albert Ewel, Decatur; Eugene Caffee, Geneva; Otto Kauffman, Geneva; and Chris Stahly, Geneva. Gold awards: Norman Bechler, Berne; Rolandes Liechty, Berne; L. R. Schwartz and Son, Berne; Arnold Scheumann, Hoagland, and Martin Habegger and Son, Monroe. For the first time in the history of the D. H. I. A. award program, certificates are based on the average milk production per cow rather than a butterfat standard. Herds were classified according to breed, each with its own level of production. Lists Winners Os Open House Gifts Winners of open house gifts during Ch.istmas opening at Sheets ~ Furniture this past weekend were announced today by R. Earl Sheets. Mrs. R. D. Davidson, of Decatur, was declared Winner of the SSO gift certi icate; Mrs. Alvin Fiechter, Craigville, won a fry pan; Eta Ginte", rural route 2, Decatur, won an ele'tric blanket; ard Dave Liby, of Decatur, won a steam iron. fl -iflL;‘*l 'i 4 .J. PAMELA LOUISE GRIM is the name of the nine pound, six ounce daughter of Kenneth and Sharon Herman Grim, 604 Grant street, , born at the Adams county memorial hospital at 5:50 a. m., November 19, 1964—(Photo by Cole)

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■art fourteen counties in the part of the state, all bridge and highway projects for the past three years. Proposed construction and maintenance of highways, bridge and bridge widening projects are shown in multi-color. The new official 1964 Indiana highway maps and state highway commission litter bags are available in quantity free for the public at the display. The new maps depict up-to-date progress of the interstate program. Os particular interest locally is the progress on Interstate 1-69. Attractive aerial pictures of notable interchanges in the district along with close-up of bridge widening projects are included in the display. Also featured ts an attractively colored annual report setting fourth interesting sidelights about Indiana highways. It is noteworthy in connection with bridge construction that precast bridge construction was initiated in the Fort Wayne district in 1961 by C. R. Weber, district engineer. These bridges are made to specifications by various manufacturers. These bridges can be built in only a fraction of the time and cost required of the older conventional type bridge construction. As an example, a crew of five men can now construct a bridge in eight days as compared to the old method where months elapsed before completion. Beautiful Basic Printed Pattern 1 ' ■ i ■ 11 | nt Fl W I Pt f I PR a / I I-1 I 9121 12%—24% 7. •’’••'•V Iry ONE is a beautifully basic casual; TWO, a dressier version with scarf-soft neckline. Sew BOTH, enjoy 1965 with no what-to-wear worries. Printed Pattern 9121: Half Sizes 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 16% takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric. Fir'll CENTS in coins for this pattern — add 15 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing and special handling. Send to Marian Martin, Decatur Daily Democrat Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Name, Address with Zone, Size and Style Number. i FREE PATTERN DIRECT TO i YOUR DOOR—choose it from 300 , design ideas in new Fall-Winter ■ Pattern Catalog. School, casual, ■ career, Dressy styles — all sizes. Send 5Rc.