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Need More Patrolmen: Safety Chief By HARRISON WEBER (Iowa Daily Press Writer) DES MOINES State Safety Commissioner William Suep- pel says the state could use another one hundred highway today. Demands will be even greater as more miles of the interstate highway system are opened to the traveling public, Sueppel added. The safety department asked the 1963 legislature to increase the authorized strength of the patrol from 300 to 400. The lawmakers failed to appropriate funds for any additional patrolmen. Sueppel estimates that another 60 miles of interstate will be opened by the time the 1965 legislature convenes.

Sueppel's comments were prompted by remarks made by Highway Commission Chairman Harry Bradley. Des Moines who said that Iowa is going "to have to face up to the fact that we're opening more and more miles of highways and we'll need a larger highway patrol to provide adequate protection and service." Commissioncr Sueppel admit- thorp arp timos whpn a ICU UlLIB die UlIll-5 WIILI1 a wra wonder Printed Pattern Give Doctors, Hospitals Legal Protection- Proposed Law Would Require Reports on Injured Children By HARRISON WEBER (Iowa Daily Press Writer) DES MOINES There is no state law requiring cases of battered children be reported nor is there any special legal protection for doctors or hospitals who do so. This was brought into focus by a survey made by the State Department of Social Welfare and the State Department of Health which cited examples of abuse inflicted by parents on 71 Iowa children during a six- month period, Oct. 1 through March 31, 1963. go to the county nurses or child welfare workers to investigate on suspicion of parental neglect, which is difficult to prove.

Hasty action is not possible except in extreme cases. In a few instances reported in this survey, children suffered additional injuries while efforts were being made to help the parents to a proper solution of their problems of caring for their children. The United States Children's Bureau has released to the states a proposed uniform act to amend their laws so that, given full legal protection from The reports made by those in liability, doctors and hospitals the healing professions usually will be required to report to county is not being patrolled on a 24-hour basis by the patrol. There are instances, he said, when a highway patrolman is in a county only during the daytime or nighttime, depending upon his assignment. Sueppel commended the sheriffs and police departments for their assistance during these periods when no patrolman is on active duty within the county.

Sueppel noted that patrolmen are on a 56-hour work week, averaging ten hours a day. The safety commissioner agreed with Bradley that something should be done about providing some kind of emergency service to motorists traveling on the interstate. Bradley has instructed commission engineers to study the feasibility of installing telephones along rest areas, so that motorists could summon help in emergencies. Cinch to sew Just 3 main pat- torn parts to cut out, stitch up. No filling worries wrap 'n' tie.

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Monday, Oct. 21, 1963 sometimes due to lack of re- there was extreme hesitancy of! Some of the parents have vo- sources or to misuse of what one parent to report abuse by luntarily admitted they could was available. A few families: the other parent or to institute no love their children and were receiving public aid, i court action, although a few have consented to foster care. benefit of the children. which was not spent for the: such actions were reported.

Other parents are accepting Fathers left to care for sev-' mental health clinic care. A cral under five children while ew have been hospitalized in mothers worked to help sup-; mental health institutions. it does not begin to represent the full extent of the problem. It is very difficult to identify injuries to small children too rt the fam for court action has removed 17 of proper authorities any cases of injured children coming to their attention in which it appears the injury was inflicted and not just accidental. The suggested law would also permit husbands and wives to testify against each other in order to get before the court more accurate teestimony on mistreatment of children than is now possible.

A recent editorial in the i i iwmid. mm. I.H..M Journal of the American Medi- i ldea how an "Wy could at homc with the children and i conditions so that the a few of the severe injuries, the 71 children mentioned in One of the fathers admitted this survey to foster family enormous cruelty and could not i care understand his own behavior. young to speak for themselves With thc he of thc chHd we In every case in which a dire as inflicted by the parents. fare wor er ant ie a 1 emer cnc cloes not seem to Parents offer quite illogical; clinic the mothor came exist, every effort is a explanations, or deny having i to hal ghc mus( close supervision to cal Association declared that have occurred.

For instance, 1 Vt LI I till 1 when the facts about children infant bo was reported for no known reason" to have both eyes blacked at age two depend upon her husband to be the wage earner. children can remain with their parents in safety. What is being done? In addi- When all the specialized ser- leg three tion to securing immediately vices working with some of the months- and at five months a I necessar medical care, the parents have concluded that a fractured skull with concussion chnd welfare workers and pub- parent, cannot be helped to At this point, he was removed lic heal nurses are working function acceptably the child vmn; nlncrm; unth tnnco me- ic rnmnvnrl rnm Inpm nprma- to foster care. very closely with these dis- is removed from them perma- turbed parents, making super- nently, either with their con- The information reported in visory visits every week guid- sent or by juvenile court com- ing early in November to Heri- Haviland china of the Ransom Marian Martin, Carroll Dally Times 232 18th New York 11, N.Y. Print Herald, 25 Pattern 232 West plainly NAME, ADDHKSS with ZONE', SIZE and STYLE NUM- CLIP COUPON FOR 50c FREE PATTERN in big, new Fall-Winter Pattern Catalog, just out! 354 design ideas.

Send 50c for Catalog. tage House, Atlantic, a Methodist retirement home. Meantime, her friends are recalling the good times they have always had, the problems they've worked out together, the help she has given many, especially in her associations at First Methodist Church and pattern for use in the minister's home. She has also given many of her books to the church library. Some library items will go with her to the new home.

After finishing college work, Miss Winter taught school and worked in libraries. She was a Priscilla Alden Chapter, teacher about 20 years, nine at Daughters of the American Re- Ft. Dodge and six at Jefferson. At Cornell College she worked in the library for a year and in the library at Athens College, North Alabama, under the volution. Sunday was "Lucy Winter Day," when the women of the Methodist Church arranged a potluck luncheon after the second service.

At the last DAR es of the central nervous system." Severe mistreatment of children by their parents is not a new problem; it has existed always. In some Iowa cities, there were during the late 1800's a number of societies for prevention of. cruelty to children. Dubuque was one of these. However, as the child population has increased, as mere children are being married without any special training for the survey shows that most, of I ing parents who can respond, these abusive parents are very immature emotionally, and many of them chronologically.

Many of the mothers were teen- agers, school drop-outs, at least at the time of marriage, who had no idea how to care for a child. One 15-year-old mother, reported by relatives for abusing her baby, said she could not stand his crying and so she beat him to make him stop. Good case work is helping her learn how to soothe her baby and care for him without inflicting abuse. 1 mitmenf. BALK'S for Everything Photographic Order your photo Christmas cards now "Telephones are fine," Suep- pel said, "but there is the problem of vandalism which I'm sure the commission is aware of." Sueppel also suggested that the highway commission explore the possibility of adding "shelters" at the various rest stops along the interstate.

'These shelters might include picnic tables and toilets," Suep- pel said. lowans Against The Shaff Plan are planning to put up red, white and blue billboards across the state urging lowans to vote against the reapportionment plan on December 3rd. Duane Dewel, Algona, chairman of the group, said they will have about 50 billboards to start with and hope to add more later. Dewel explained that the signs will be put up locally, by various county groups. The money for the signs will be raised locally, he emphasized.

The former state senator said the state organization doesn't have the money to buy the billboards outright. He said inferences that his group is receiving money from labor simply are not true. "We haven't had a nickel out of labor, nor do we expect anything from hem," Dewel commented. The billboards will read: The Shaff Plan is Taxation CAMERAS $11.95 to $259.50 PROJECTORS $29.50 to $219.50 NEW'POLAROID J66 I POLAROID CAMERAS $99.50 to $159.50 TAPE RECORDERS $29.50 to $600.00 BALK SON CARROLL, IOWA iVithout Representation, on Dec. 3." Vote One of the most successful ommittees of the various committees that have been appointed through the years by different governors, was Gov.

Love- ess' "Committee of One Hundred." This committee's assignment was to determine what direction Iowa was headed and to present a program the future. Gov. Harold Hughes is considering re-activating the committee. Only instead of one lundred members, he is likely to have between 25 to 40 mem- jers. This is because much of the ground-work was done by the first committee and it would be a relatively simple matter to up-date the basic material.

Look for an announcement sometime in early December that Attorney General Evan Hultman has decided to seek the Republican nomination for Governor. This certainly will come as no surprise to lowans who follow politics for as he is known to his friends, has been running hard for many months. The tip-off as to the formal announcement date is the fact that Hultman always has "tossed his hat in the ring" in December. Miss Lucy Winter meeting she was given a re- Fasl membrance and the members recalled how she'd kept the registrar's records faithfully. Her father, Merritt, a native of New York State and her mother, Mary, of Vermont came here in pioneer days.

After living in Manning two years after their marriage, the Winters homesteaded in north western Nebraska near Craw ford. They spent five years there until a severe 11 changed their minds and thej returned to Carroll County. Miss Winter remembers he mother's stories about the In dians. She said the Indians' ac tivity near Ft. Robinson have also prompted the dec: sion to return.

Their eldest daughter had died there, and they couldn't see much of a future. The second daughter, Ella June, was a baby when they returned to Iowa. While they were spending that winter at Gibbon, Lucy Allen Win ter was born. sponsorship of the North Alabama Conference of the Metho- Church. Her sister, Ella June, also vas a teacher and for many years before her retirement aught fifth grade at Carroll 3 ublic School.

She died Aug. 20, 1955. Lucy Winter has always been a busy woman. Her home has many plants and in the growing season ed it. She is flowers surround- talented as a seamstress, and many friends have enjoyed the baking from her oven.

One of the recipes which she uses often for rollout cookies she knows by memory. It is her family's "Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cook- Miss Lucy's Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies 2 cups sugar (granulated) 1 cup shortening, if possible, butter 3 eggs 1 cup thick sour cream 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder parenthood, and as communities have developed better service programs for their children, the problem is coming to public attention more clearly, and various new approaches are beind made to curb it. The abuse reported in the recent survey consisted of very beatings with multiple bruises over the body in 31 cases, broken bones in six cases, severe head injuries including skull fractures in nine cases, one blinding an infant permanently, scalding, burning with matches, neglect and severe malnutrition in the other cases. Seven of the children died of their injuries. Some of these were in families where older children had also died of injuries plus neglect, and were not included in this study.

While very serious neglect was not included specifically in this survey, it is significantly related, because in some of the cases the neglect consisted of failure to provide an injured child with medical care; also deliberate denial of food to children over such long peri- 1 teaspoon or more vanilla or nutmeg if preferred 4Vz cups flour, sifted Mix and put in refrigerator overnight. Next morning, roll out and cut in shapes as desired. Sprinkle tops of cookies with sugar. Bake four or five minutes in 500-degree oven. One 20-year-old mother sent her infant son to the hospital twice in his first three months -first with a crushed chest and broken ribs, and later with broken arms.

Some of the fathers were also teen-agers. Others were divorced and some were in need of mental treatment. This was accepted in some cases, in others it was refused and the family disappeared to avoid court action. Step-parent abuse was i common in several cases. Several children were report- eed to be subnormal or handicapped.

Their parents could not tolerate the handicaps. One retarded child had suffered a broken back and leg before she came to the attention of the child welfare worker for multiplex new fractures of her fingers and arms. A few reports indicated marital difficulty which was "taken out on the children." Also IN IOWA BEER IS A NATURAL Brewed slowly, by a centuries-old natural process, beer is Iowa's traditional beverage of sparkling, delicious. And naturallyv the Brewing Industry is proud of the millions of dollars it contributes to this state's economy through wages, advertising, rentals, insurance, transportation and utilities. Money made in Iowa, spent in Iowa.

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