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of dollars monthly to understaffed and ill-equipped private homes: “It is obvious that these patients are not getting the kind of care they're paying for,” declared Dr. : Charles W. Meyers, City hospital i superintendent. “This money being spent for private home care could be used for maintenance of a public insti-| tution where the methods and con- | ditions would be under public scrutiny and where trained personOnly $10.45 Plus Tax nel would care for patients." AMERICAN BUSLINES DEPOT | Dr. Meyers said the entire private HN. Capitol Ave. ‘nursing home situation is the result one LI ncoln 3750 of public apathy toward such TTT things, AMERICAN BUSLINES “These conditions have been go- —————— ing on for vears and nobody will do & «
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{anything about it.” he said. “We | haven't the facilities to take these private home patients into public ' institutions.” | — Personnel Inadequate I Dr. Burney said “what Marion | ou county needs is a “chronic disease 1}
hospital to be operated as a sep-| . y arate unit with a general hospital. % VICTOR'S Tuesday Special!
He pointed out that, with mod-
ern medical progress more people will live to grow older and many % lof these will need care ia their lold age. “Private nursing homes have not proven satisfactory because of the lack of proper supervision and equipment,” he said. “I understand there was not a single registered nurse at the N Illinois st. home and there was not sufficient personnel to care for the patients properly. That's why the patients were chained to their beds.”
Hospitals Overloaded Dr. Burney said the new screening hospital for mental patients at the .state medical center here, ex-
pected to be compieted by next | vear, will relieve the load on mental patients some.” Bid Records revealed that all state 33 cid
mental hospitals are overloaded and | that half the City hospital psycho- | pathic ward beds are filled by patients waiting to be taken to state
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Raiding party headed by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue Saturday found this young woman patient chained to a table in a nursing home at 1828 N. Illinois st. The operator of the home was arrested. The patient's face
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The raid on the Colvin home was, based upon a statement made by a Straps, then chains them to tables, | woman informant who took employ-|if she feels the urge,” the state{ment at the home in order to get ment said. evidence. “Mrs. Colvin told me her treatHer statement to Prosecutor Blue ments would cure patients 100 per declared that Mrs. Colvin “is in the cent and that the doctors didn’t habit of beating any patient who know what they were doing,” the resists her.” {woman informant’'s statement said. “She pulls their hair, slaps their| After her release from jail, Mrs. faces and even beats them with Colvin said her “corrective restraint —— | treatments (chains) out with the consent of the relatives of the patients.” Private Homes Thrive “Doctors are mad at me,” she said, “because I refused to give narcotics and sedatives to patients as they ordered. The doctors have carried |out their threats against me” | Arthur E. Wooden, Marion county welfare department director, said “without adequate public institutions, private homes of all shades are permitted to thrive.” | As to his department's responsi- | bility for mental cases, he explained | that “We have no authority over {where our welfare dependents live.” Investigation revealed that some of the patients in the Colvin home were receiving old-age assistance | benefits. | Other public welfare and health authorities said inadequate hospital
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body . Th “warrant arrest.” | these are in Dupont cemetery. €! Meanwhile, this village, with giant
other, that of Mrs. Hattie Calhoun, sunflowers growing along its noris buried in Burlington, Ia. mally serene main street, was in a When Dr. Harger found traces of Slate of extreme agitation.
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spent his entire life. He was, they body at the morgue and said it def- sald, not the kind of man who'would
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Mrs. Elzora Henry, 38 8. Sheridan the toad: Sid Bolles that ; s. Borgman told police that the Bre. Jepories Me slaying o 5 Me, dead man stayed close to his farm i iy Sere the weeds in the And ‘liked to take the family to » .| town on Saturday nights. He went vacant fleld. Police ound the car | tn alone only: Itrequently. ohe nudged against a telephone pole | % | said he did not drink more than where it had rolled to a halt, the| Nottie of Bove OF Tis TY It motor dead, Mr. Borgman slumped | 4 only thas DeERbEE © arcyor ne at the wheel | vised him it would be good for him. Hard-Working Farmer Neighbors said he was proud of Blood from his wound was
his family and concerned about splashed on the outside of the car|all young people and the possibildoor and puddled on the seat of the
ity of their getting into trouble. car,
Informed of his death at 2 a. m, | Sunday by State police, a distraught Mrs. Borgman told police that the hard-working farmer had driven! into town to visit the East Way | tavern at 6117 E. Washington st. for a bottle’of beer, She said he had planned to take the family to town, but had worked too late in the field and went alone while she put to bed their youngest children, Mildred, Marie and Mari- | lyn, 5-year-old triplets. : Neighbors verified statements inat | he was a model husband and father | who was seidom away from home, ‘No Holdup Man’ When police notified the family | that Mr. Borgman might possibly have been involved in the attempt- | ed holdup, his 14-year-old son. | Floyd, replied: “Aw, it couldn't be my dad. He's no holdup man.” His other son, Kenneth, 17, comforted his mother. The slaying, which Coroner Roy B. Storms termed as “definitely murder,” was the first heavy blow that had ever struck the -wellknown family in New Palestine, They lived in a home owned by Mr. Borgman's 91-year-old father, Henry Borgman Sr. The dead man had owned 80 acres of land, but worked a total of 206 acres with the help of his sons and hired help
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of Mrs. McConnell, Detective Tevis| munity. Its God-fearing citizens re- | proceeded to the home of Mrs. Lock- | mained tight-lipped, however, pendman’s niece, LaVerne Jeffries, and | ing investigation of the “mercury
and oid lace” case. made the arrest. Others whose deaths Prosecutor
“You know what we want YOU Bear said he would investigate infor,” he said to the stoical, stern-| clude those of Walter Lockman, the faced Mrs. Lockman, | suspected woman's brother-in-law; “Yes,” she replied, “this is awful.” her husband, Frank; Mr. Giddings, Red-eyed, she walked stolidly inte! retired farmer who left the bulk the jail building and snapped: of his property to Mrs. Lockman, “Have my lawyer called at once.” and Mrs, Calhoun. Cellmate Told to Watch
Before committing her, Deputy] Sheriff Walter Sauley removed pins. | shoe laces and other sharp instruments.
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