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SECTION 2 NDIANAPOLIS The Editorials TAR Radio-Bridge SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1965 YARD PAKKS ORIGINATOR HONORED She's The (Straw Berries! City Beautification Award Goes To R. P. Early At Rose Festival rV ilk rfA V'-: i i i Lilly To Add 10 Stories To Building Eli Lilly Co. has signed contracts for construction of the tallest office building south of Maryland Sreet in Indianapolis, it was announced yesterday. The $4 million.

10-story addition on top of an existing three-story building at Mc-Carty and Alabama streets will be the fifth tallest office building in the city. WORK ON the 200-foot new structure wi 1 1 begin i nv mediately, according to Donald F. Langebartels, project engineer. Completion is expected by late 1966, he said. The new construction will be used for administrative, marketing and financial offices of the pharmaceutical firm.

Parking areas immediately surrounding the present building site will be cleared tomorrow in order to provide space for contracting firms to bring in equipment. COVERED walkways will be erected along McCarty far Civic Center. Visitors joined the queen in nibbling strawberries and ice cream. The queen, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Nolan E. Havens, 1147 South Richland Street, is a junior at Sacred Heart Central High School. (Star Photo by Frank H. Fisse) Miss Nolo Havens proved herself worthy of her title of queen of the annual Strawberry and Art Festival by downing a strawberry delicacy. More than 200 paintings by Southside artists were displayed and judged yesterday at the eighth festival, sponsored by Greater Southside Inc.

at the Southside 10 Talent Contest Sites And Dates Announced (Star Photo) LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ROBERT L. RO CK CROWNS ROSE QUEEN CINDY BOTKIN Mayor John J. Barton Puts Basket Of Flowers In Position At Festival New Research Combines Medicine, Engineering Street in front of the building and toward Wyoming Street, south of the building, to protect pedestrians. General contract for the project was assigned to the F. A.

Wilhelm Construction Company. Subcontractors assigned to Wilhelm are Watson-Flagg Electric Company for electrical construction; Robert Carter Corporation for mechanical construction and Otis Elevator Company for elevator installations. Acts in both divisions are classified according to age. Class A is for performers from 16 through 18 years old; Class 12 through 15; Class 8 through 11, and Class 4 through 7. The age of the child on Aug.

31, 1965, must be used to determine age classification. If more than one person appears in an act, the act must enter the age group of the oldest participant. CONTESTANTS MUST ap pear in the sectional nearest their home and may appear in one sectional only. Only amateurs may compete and student teachers cannot enter in the field in which they teach. Contestants may appear in only one act or group.

Mrs. Manley called attention to a change in rules this year which will permit first place final winners to enter sectional contest again in the same age classification and division if they have a completely different act. Application blanks and complete contest rules are available at the public service desk at The Star, 307 North Pennsylvania Street, and the office of the Music Supervisor, Park Department, 1426 West 29th Street. Entries should be mailed to the Park Department. Douglas Park, July application deadline, July 2.

Garfield Park (Classes and D), July 12; application deadline, July 7. Garfield Park (Classes A and C), July 14; application deadline, July 9. Tarkhigton Park, July 19; application deadline, July 14. Brookside Park, July 21, application deadline, July 16. Eagledale (School 61), July 26; application deadline, July 21.

46th and Arsenal, July 28; application deadline, July 23. Christian Park, Aug. application deadline, July 28. All first place sectional winners will be advanced to the Ten sectional sites forThe Indianapolis Star's 17th annual Amateur Talent Contest have been announced by Lee Burton, director of the Metropolitan Park Department. Applications now are being accepted for the series of 10 sectional contests, beginning at Rhodius Park on June 30.

A sectional contest will be held at the new North Eastway Park for the first time this Sectional contests are scheduled as follows: Rhodius Park, June 30; application deadline, June 25. North Eastway Park, July application deadline, June 30. ROSE FESTIVAL EVENTS Today Gardens Open 9 a.m. Historical Pageant and Flag Raising 2 p.m. Boy Scout Band Concert 2:30 p.m.

Robert P. Early, managing editor of The Indianapolis Star, yesterday received the first Mrs. B. Lynn Adams Award in recognition of his many services in furthering beautification of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The presentation of the honor, which will be an annual one, was made at the 25th Anniversary Rose Festival at Hillsdale Rose Gardens, 7845 Johnson Road.

THE LATE Mrs. Adams was executive secretary of the Yard Parks (make your yard a park) Program originated by Early in 1948. The campaign, encouraging residents to tidy up and beautify their property, won many awards for the city, helping dispel the taunt of author John Gunther that Indianapolis was the nation's dirtiest city. The City of Indianapolis now has taken over operation of the Yard Parks Program. The rose festival will conclude today with "Indiana Youth Day." FESTIVAL SPONSORS have dedicated today's ceremonies to the Central Indiana Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Camp Fire Girls who have assisted the Rose Festival for many years.

The festival was originated with the help of the Boy Scouts in 1937. The history of the American flag will be depicted in a pageant to be conducted in the Rose Display Gardens by Joseph Brand, 3246 West High woods Drive, and the Central Indiana Boy Scout Governor's Honor Guard. The Scouts will use 50 American flags, 50 state flags, and 20 historical flags to present development of the American flag from the Queen Anne's flag to its present design of 50 stars. FOLLOWING THE pageant the Central Indiana Boy Scout Band will present its 25th consecutive concert for the Festival. The 195-piece band is under the direction of Harvey Gill.

The display gardens with an estimated 200,000 blossoms on more than 25,000 plants will be open today until dusk. Dedication Set STAR STATE REPORT Lebanon, Ind. Dedication ceremonies for a new educa tional wing at the Walnut Street Baptist church here will be held at 2 p.m. today in the church. The cost of the wing is about $35,000, according to the pastor, the Rev.

Donald Huoer. of the Methodist Church yes terday approved a resolution expressing their opposition to governmental aid to parachial schools as being a threat to the separation of church and state. Only one dissenting vote was seen in 'a show of hands among the more than 450 delegates who approved the resolution at the conference's annual meeting at Ball State University. THE RESOLUTION said in part: "We view with alarm the growing efforts to provide government aid to parochial schools. The use of tax funds, even for bus transportation or for school textbooks, in sectarian schools, is a diversion of government funds from public education.

"The aid to pupil concept may well be a guise for indirect aid to parochial educa tion. It is therefore a threat to church-state separation." THE CONFERENCE also adopted a resolution calling for greater participation by Methodists in inter-denomina tional work. The conference wifl close this afternoon with the read' ing of ministerial appoint ments for the next 12 months and an ordination service. the projects it so far has produced, explains Dr. Frank P.

Lloyd, director of research at Methodist. One purpose of the joint effort is to discover methods for translating the advances of engineering and physics into solutions for medical problems. One example of the pursuit of this purpose involves the project to forecast fertility in women. Dr. Harold M.

DeGroff, president of MASC, said the corporation is developing new instruments for accurately recording biological functions, such as the flow of blood to ovaries, which may be significant. The problems of developing such instruments are primarily engineering problems, not medical, but they cannot be Methodist Hospital has asked the National Institutes of Health for financial support for two research projects in an unusual program combining medicine and engineering. One of the projects is an attempt to develop a reliable and simple test which women may use to determine the fertile periods in their ovulation cycles. The other is to prefect a method for recording the heartbeats of unborn infants. THE PROJECTS are the joint efforts of Methodist Hospital and the Midwest Applied Science Corporation (MASC), based at McClure Industrial Research Park at West Lafayette.

This joint effort may become almost as important as IN LABS AND WARDS Dillon Proposes Sweeping Plan For Court Reform Methodists Oppose Parochial School Aid Centralized Computer Would Give City Boost contest finals at Garfield Park Aug. 9 and 11. Mrs. Jackie Manley, music sunervisor. Dointed out that all contestants and parents should be aware of the change in De-einnine time for the contests.

All sectional and final con tests will besin at 7:15 p.m. and contestants must be reg istered by 6:45 p.m. There is no entry fee and all Marion County residents between 4 and 18 years old are eligible. In acts consisting of two or more persons, only one contestant need be a resident of Marion County. There are two divisions Division I for dance and novelty numbers and Division II for vocal and instrumental.

"TO LEAVE JUDGES to run on a non-partisan ballot will not take the judges out of politics, but will merely change the type of politics in which they must indulge," he says. billon's approach is to improve on the Federal system of lifetime appointment. The major problem there, he says, is that judges not able to perform adequately because of age or other factors are not easily removed. The answer there is to provide reasonable tenure 20 years so that talented men would be interested in going on the bench with the prospect that they could qualify for a pension at a stated age but also could engage in law practice after the term ended, he says. The plan also provides for a Judicial Council of five members with rule-making power, an administrative office of the courts under i supervision, statutory enactment of some of the legal cannons of ethics, and removal of incompetent judges by legislative action on recommendation of the council.

UNLESS THE state is willing to go "all the a on creating an independent judiciary, Dillon declares in a statement that would meet much challenge, it should stick with what it has. He says he thinks the politica' parties "are more responsible than the moulders of public sentiment," meaning the pressure groups that make themselves heard by everyone in public life. The Dillon plan, like many others, probably will get a good airing in the next year and a half, with some sort of action by the 1967 General Assembly on judicial reorganization considered a good bet. One of the lawyers in Indiana who has said repeatedly that reform is needed is Governor Roger D. Branigin.

solved without co-operation of engineers and physicians. TO USE THESE instruments, Methodist is converting an old hotel building on North Capitol Avenue into an animal research laboratory. (The hotel was once used used as a house of prostitution, according to neighborhood historians, before it was bought for fertility research.) Another function of MASC in the research is to re-evaluate all previous fertility research, using advanced statistical and computer methods, to see if something of undiscovered significance has already been recorded. Dr. DeGroff said that the statistical and computer methods developed in military and space programs has advanced much farther than the methods now generally used in medical research.

MASC has already accumulated references to more than 800 research projects in fertility prediction. One part of the project will be a simultaneous evaluation by computer of these research results. These reports, in various combinations, may reveal something which the individual reports, analyzed alone, would not. The development of the fetal electrocardiograph revealed different problems in the co-operation between doctors and engineers. Both agree that it is important to develop a device which could indicate heart difficulties in infants before they are born, so that no time is lost treating the difficulties after birth.

Doctors tend to think in terms of the specific problems of specific patients. En-geneers tend to be more statistically oriented as they consider problems and people as abstracts. Dr. DeGroff said the MASC-Methodist program is being developed partly because of a belief that medical engineering has a tremendous potential for growth. Dr.

Lloyd observed that the multiple variables of the human body are proving a fascination to engineers who look for the greatest challenge in research. Dr. DeGroff added that there is a generation of engineers who grew up in the boom era of defense and missile research. Now, he said, many of the best are looking for something with more meaning. the outlook now is that a thoroughgoing reform of the court system in Indiana may develop in the next two years.

One reason, as Dillon pointed out, is that an amendment to the Indiana Constitution will be submitted to the vdters in November, 1966, in an effort to make it easier to amend the constitution. Amendment is carried out by a process of adoption by two succeeding sessions of the General Assembly, followed by voter action. While one or more proposed amendments are pending their second legislative action, none can be introduced in the legislature. The amendment the voters will consider next year would eliminate this "wait your turn" delay. SINCE ANY extensive court organization change, such as providing non-partisan election, involves constitutional questions, the safest way to get the job done is by constitutional amendment probably more than one.

And court reform generally gets a low priority among legislators when constitu i a 1 changes are being considered. The last legislative session produced a resolution creating the new Judicial Study Commission, charged with working out a complete new court organization plan. The commission has not yet been set in motion. But Dillon says he intends to offer his court plan, which he readily says can be improved upon, as a starting place for the commission. Its basic approach is that the primary need is for a truly independent judiciary.

Dillon does not think that plans providing mainly for non-partisan election, such as the "Missouri Plan" or a similar one indorsed a few years ago by the Indiana State Bar Association, go far enough. By PAUL DOHERTY John J. Dillon, Indiana attorney general, is advocating a plan for judicial reform that would, if carried out, place Indiana in a unique category from the standpoint of court organization. The proposal would: 1 Do away with the elec- tion of judges, substituting appointment by the Governor for 20-year terms, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. a p-pointment would be prohibited.

2 Replace the Supreme and Appellate Courts with a single appellate level court that would meet in various areas of the state. 3 Provide a central administrative office for the courts, with one result being the elimination of local court rules that often baffle attorneys and citizens alike. 4 Eliminate formal distinctions of function among trial courts in populous counties (such as statutory provision of criminal, superior, probate and juvenile courts in Marion County) in favor of a multi-judge trial court with a presiding judge who could make such role divisions on the basis of the case load. The proposal, first outlined by Dillon at a Law Day observance on the Indiana University campus earlier this year, has met a mixed reaction among attorneys, he says, as he expected. MEMBERS OF the bar in Indiana have been divided for years on the question or whether and how the court system should be revamped.

There is widespread feeling among attorneys and observ-lers, however, that the present is too political, too Confusing, too slow and too TTisecure. i After many years of debate, kemia victims lived in the same neighborhoods. RESEARCH BEGUN to prove or disprove the accepted theory that there was no contagion factor in leukemia eventually found unexpected virus-like particles in the victims' blood. Generally, medical records are filled by the names of the patients, which suits best what has been the hospitals' primary purpose: Treating individual patients for individual diseases. The system works excellently for a doctor who wants to find how his patient responded to a particular drug the last time he was treated.

But the system is awkward for medical researchers. IF A RESEARCH TEAM investigating cirrhosis of the liver were interested in the response to various drugs, it would have to look at perhaps hundreds of thousands of individual records to accumulate a group of cirrhosis victims large enough for statistical reliability. This manual search of records, many of which are packed away in hospital basements, takes discouraging amounts of time and money. The centralized computer facility, however, could complete such searches almost STAR STATE REPORT Muncie, Ind. Delegates at the North Indiana Conference "Dear Heavenly Father, We thank You for all the things You have given us.

For our parents who understand us and help us to grow up to be good citiizens. Thank You for the churches which help us to learn more about You, and Your way of living. We hope that the children who have learned Your words will keep them in their minds and in their hearts. Help us all to bring Your words to others. In Jesus' Name, Amen." Cynthia LaFollette wrote today's prayer in her fifth grade released-time Weekday Religious Education class from School 66.

She expresses the same wish of who are spreading the message of the Gospel to others. These classes are made possible through the co-operative effort of churches, with the help of Cynthia interested individuals, corpo' rations and foundations. Child's Prayer By HARRISON J. ULLMANN Star Science Writer The potential of metropiltan Indianapolis as a major medical research center would be enhanced greatly if the hospitals of the area decided to adopt a centralized computer service. The hospitals this month are considering the computer proposal, mainly because their administrators and trustees believe it will improve patient care and lower hospital costs (or at least keep costs from rising so fast).

But a parallel result could be the opening of wide fields of research. ONE OF THE GREATEST tools of medical research lies largely buried in the hospitals' vaults, storerooms and filing cabinets. This is the medical records of patients: Their medical and hospital histories, their diseases and how they were treated for them. Collectively, through statistical analysis, these records could yield clues for remarkably better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Such analysis led to results indicating that viruses may be an important factor in leukemia.

Hospital records in several cities showed that statistically improbable numbers of leu a I i.