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THE -INDIANAPOLIS NEWS fvtfntif 4I4T Sports 42-45 Friday April 29, 1966 Pag 39 Put Out fan sy Of Likens Tria Frivolity Sure Election Sign By FRANK WILSON Gimmickry, gimcrackery and frivolity are the sure Signs that an election is in the offing. With the primaries all set for Tuesday, at this stage the pace is just reaching its peak. Politicians are be Court Judge Rabb Posts Deputies At Doors By MIKE BROOKS Criminal Court 2 was cleared today of about 30 standing spectators in the Sylvia Likens trial because of "whispering, moving around and making too much noise." Judge Saul I. Rabb asked spectators jammed around the courtroom doors to leave and immediately posted two deputy sheriffs at the doors. coming frantic, forlorn, forgetful and frivolous.

Consider the man who sent a publicity item to political reporter Bill Wildhack. It was mailed from an East Market Street address, was carefully marked "Via Air Mail." and ail the proper stamps were affixed. Or think about the jockeying for position on the ballot. They're listed in alphabetical order, and in the Terre Haute race for 12 major offices, the first six nominees' names begin with WUson The 50 seats in the court room filled early before the trial got under way, with an overflow standing in the rear and along the walls. Rabb banned standing along the west wall.

A written statement signed by Richard D. Hobbs, 15, Howe High School freshman. ...6.. and one of four teen-aeers on trial fnr th' i ikpns miirHw was read to the iurv and ad L3a JfL mitted as evidence only for an attorney or need one be- the jury to consider in arriving cause she had not done any- at a verdict on Hobbs. wrong." In his signed statement, Kaiser testified that when read by Deputy Prosecutor he asked Hobbs wny he Leroy K.

New, Hobbs admitted scratched the words on the striking Sylvia many times, victim's stomach, he said, branding her with a hot screw- "Gertie told him to do it." hook and scratching on her Hobbs also told Kaiser there stomach the words "I am a were articles at the house at prostitute and proud of it." 3850 E- New York. used Yesterday, defense lawyers the beating of the victim in-objected to introduction of eluding a fraternity-style pad-the statement but Judge Rabb d'e and a screwhook, which overruled their motion today. were later admitted in Penney's Circled Police cars line the on the sidewalk to act as a command post. Patrolman Kenneth Hurst narrowly avoided death as he ducked away when the burglar fired. The incident occurred when Hurst and two others answered a 3:36 a.m.

burglar alarm in the store office. The NEWS Photo, Horace Ketring. the Circle, as their occupants continue the search of the J. C. Penney Co.

store for a burglar who fired a shot at a policeman about 4 a.m. today. One car was pulled right up to the door of the store Breakfast Star Kir by To Play Summer Tour Lead COURT RULES ON COMPREHENSION In other pretrial action today, Rabb ruled that teen-age defendants John S. Baniszewski, 13, and Coy Hubbard, 15, have comprehension to under- stand proceedings and to help prepare uieir ueic.ibc. The ruling followed testi mony by two neuropsychia- A Tt Tl -I TT r.

11 mbis, ur iwnwa Dr Dwight W. Schuster bo of Indianapolis, who said both roys naa cunipieueiisiuii ij Five persons, four of whom 4 are teen-agers, are on trial, facing first-degree murder facing first-degree charees in the slaving Oct. 26. 1QCK tha nnnicVi. B.

Not to be outdone, the first 14 names on the Marion County Republican ballot for state representative begin with A or B. Then there's the political candidate who has a racing driver for a friend. You guessed it. On his tour of a wide-spread political area, the candidate hopes the race driver will handle the car. Finally there is Oliver (Ding Dong) Bell, long a political character, who is a Republican candidate for state representative.

Ding Dong has not been slated by either of the Republican factions, so a friend "How do you expect to win?" "I intend to win in the confusion," was the answer. Names In The News DONALD F. FOLEY, 6464 Dean Road, has been elected president of the student Bar Association of the Blooming- 1 ton division of the Indiana University Law School. Other officers elected were WILLIAM L. ALLEN, 5699 N.

Delaware, vice-president, and JAN CHALFANT, Ridgeville, secretary-treasurer ELLEN J. HENDERSON, 830 E. 80th, and DIANNE TODD, 2229 Radcliffe, have been honored for high scholarship at Purdue University by the Lafayette chapter of the American Association of University Women DAVE WHITE of Speedway was elected president of the Indianapolis archdiocesan Catholic Youth Organization at the group's annual convention. TOM BARTH, Richmond, was named first vice-president; BARBARA LOUGHMILLER, New Albany, second vice-presi-dent, and JEANNE SCANLON, Indianapolis, secretary. Winners of awards as outstanding Catholic youth were JOSEPH ATKINSON of Indianapolis and SUSAN LUTHER, New Albany Winner of the fancy hat contest at the recent Indiana Women's Republican Club bonnet breakfast was MARTHA BURNETT, former state senator and now a candidate for Marion County recorder.

Forty women and one man entered the contest BERNARD PETRIE, 32, Munster, has been named president of the Northwest Indiana Crime Commission, succeeding Moses Dilts of Gary State Sen. EUGENE BAINBRIDGE, D-Munster, is proposing use of the state's $10 million atomic project fund to build a medical laboratory and library in Gary. Snakes Aren't All BarfMSi ti. While a timber rattlesnake or a copperhead are good items to steer clear of, North view Junior High School biology teacher Jack Mackenzie is telling" his class snakes aren't bad. Mackenzie is lecturing these days on the use of snakes, especially on farms, to maintain the balance of nature.

To illustrate his talks, Mackenzie today borrowed a 4-foot boa constrictor owned by Mrs. Robert Ferguson, 5274 Channing Road, to display to the class. The boa eventually will grow to a length of 12 feet or more, but today's performer is just a youngster. Did You Notice? The driver of a car with municipally-owned license plate 7317 tacking up political posters in the 6500 block of Shelby A group of high school boys, attempting to thumb a ride at 16th and Delaware, getting only a scowl as Mayor John J. Barton's car drove by A small black dog barking lustily at a group of passing teen-agers, darting out protectively from a pack of puppies at Commerce and Brookside Parkway.

'Hello, Wherewithal and patience, that's all you need to talk to a serviceman in Viet Nam by phone. If brother Joe is at Da Nang, for instance, you can easily place a call for him today. But you probably won't complete that call until May 14, according to Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Circuits to Viet Nam are available only four hours a day, from 7 until 11 p.m. And then only two radio frequencies are open.

The call goes from here to Oakland, then by radio to Viet Nam. The Vietnamese government uses the frequencies the rest of the time. curb, and double Dark on "because if you wait until the critics get at them, you may not have a chance to see them." Their younger son, Dennis, 16, accompanied them. An older son, Randy, 22, is rehearsing in a show, "Mame," which opens next month on Broadway. While here, the Kirbys will visit her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank W. Young. A Meanwhile, first-round play in the festival's gin rummy tournament started today in the Murat Temple. The final round for the $1,000 first prize will be played tomorrow in the Speedway Motel.

And judging of about 1,100 works entered in the "500" ment could be death or life trlfc.k Sia and stnkin herself- Women Give $250 To Symphony Two units of the Women's Committee of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra today contributed a total of $250 to the orchestra's maintenance fund. The Franklin unit contributed $50 and the Martinsville unit gave $200. The Bloomington unit made a special contribution of $300 for the orchestra's pension fund. It had contributed earlier to the maintenance fund. Orchestra workers continued the job of tabulating results of Wednesday's "Symphony Day in the Schools." Pupils in the schools were solicited for contributions to the maintenance fund.

The fund is within $4,000 of its goal of $241,670, the amount needed to balance income and expenses for this season. Orchestra officials said they have not been informed of any reason for the withdrawal of pickets from the symphony's offices in Clowes Hall. Officials of the American Federation of Musicians Union, Local 3 could not be reached for comment. Symphony union members are striking for a 52-week work-year and $200-a-week minimum pay. Besides Hobbs, Hubbard and 1 John Baniszewski, others on trial are Paula Marie Baniszewski, 18, and Gertrude Baniszewski, 37, in whose home the Likens girl lived at the time of her death.

Another teen-age defendant, Stephanie Baniszewski, 15, has been granted a separate trial. TOLD OF RIGHTS, SAYS POLICEMAN William C. Erbecker, attorney for Mrs. Baniszewski, 37-year-old divorcee in whose home the Likens girl lived, objected vigorously yesterday to testimony of Detective Sgt. William Kaiser, top Police Department investigator in the case.

WEATHER FORECAST By the U.S. Weather Bureau evidence. Erbecker continually questioned Kaiser as to whether Mrs. Baniszewski, alias Gertrude Wright, had been advised of her constitutional rights. Kaiser said, "I told her she didn't have to sign any thing, make any statements or say anything until she had an af.orneV" Kaiser continued: "She said she did not want Kaiser said, "I told Mrs.

Baniszewski that Hobbs and Jennie (sister of the victim) had implicated her in the death and she was under arrest. "She said she knew the kids harl hppn mktrpatinf, Qvlvla Kajser said she said she kent in the basement because she wet her bed." Kaiser said she stated Coy Hubbard did a lot the bea and paula Marje Baniszewski did most of the (Jamaee Kaiser said Mrs. Baniszew ski told him Paula once broke -J'n wiu iiiiii 1 aula uiiwc 1 She said she gave herself a "laCK eye once when she Latin School Addition Will Cost $144,000 Three classrooms and a science laboratory to cost $144,000 will be included in construction of a third floor addition to the Latin School of Indianapolis, 520 Stevens. In other renovation work already under way, the school's art center will be enlarged and another locker room will be provided. Enrollment at the school, which educates young men for the priesthood, is expected to reach 260 in September.

City good-will tour visited Woodward, yesterday. Britain's PRINCESS ANNE, 15, entered King Edward VII Hospital in London today for treatment of her broken nose, suffered when she was thrown from her horse during a hunting outing last Tuesday. QUEEN ELIZABETH accompanied her daughter to the hospital, but left in a few minutes. Observers noted that the princess also had a black 'eye. Princess Anne bluijfye, too.

J) YA 30 7 Festival of the Arts began this morning in the Bankers Trust Building. Judging is expected to be completed tomorrow. Winners of 33 cash prizes, ranging from $10 to $1,000, will be determined in professional and amateur divisions. Announcement of awards will be made at a 4 p.m. reception May 15 in the Columbia Club.

An added attraction for the "500" Festival season will be next week's four-day "Festival of Outdoor Fun," a display of 66 recreational vehicles on Vermont Street between Meridian and Pennsylvania starting Thursday. Picture on Page 18 Data from U.S. WMTHf IUMAU Uctl Year Ago 37 65 Butfolo Fair SI Charleston, S.C Fair II Chicago Cloudy SI 44 Cincinnati Cloudy 7S SI Cltvtland Cloudy 75 41 Dtnvtr Cltar 3S Dtlroit Cloudy 3) El Pais Cltar 71 S4 Evantvlllo Rain to S) Fairbanks Fair SO 40 Fori Woynt Cloudy SO 30 Fort Worth Rain 73 SI Honolulu Cloar 13 73 Jacktonvlllt Cloar IS AS Kantat City Cloudy 1 London PtCldy 43 S3 Lot Angtltt Cloudy Loultvlllt Rain 7S 41 Momphlt Cloudy 71 41 Miami Beach Clear 77 71 Minneapolis Cloud 44 Montreal snow Muskegon PtCldy SO 31 Now Orleans Cloudy 14 70 Now York Cloudy 41 Jt Norfolk Rain 31 4t Omaha Cloudy SS 31 Paris Cloudy 43 Photnli Clear tl 57 Pittsburgh Cloudy 44 47 Portland, Or PtCldy SO 43 Rome Cloudy 5 SI. Louis Cloudy 71 SO fall Lakt City PICIdy 43 44 San Antonlt Cloudy II 71 San Francisco Cltar 40 30 Stottkt Clear SI 40 South Bond PICIdy SS 37 Tampa PICIdy II 70 Toronto PICIdy 43 1 Washington, Cloudy 44 44 Winnipeg Clear 34 II Nigh In 41 state area: tl ot Presidio, Ttx. Ltw: 10 ot Olosgow, Mtnt.

V. Durward Kirby, back home in Indiana to perform as the master of ceremonies at tomorrow's "500" Festival mayor's breakfast, is going to go "track on the stage this summer as the star of a play now on Broadway. The Indianapolis-born star of stage and TV, accompanied by Mrs. Kirby, the former Miss Mary Pax'ton Young, arrived here today by train. They were met by members of the mayor's breakfast committee and later were greeted by Mayor John J.

Barton, host of tomorrow's 9 a.m. sell-out meal in the Murat Temple. "I'm going to do a five-week tour of summer theaters in 'The Impossible Years, now on Broadway with Alan King, who's a good friend," Kirby said. The tall 6-foot-2 actor, his hair a graying blond, appeared briefly on Broadway earlier this season in a play titled, "Me and Thee." It closed after only a few performances because it was panned by the New York newspaper critics. "But on opening night, there were interviews with the audience as they left the theater and everybody loved it," Mrs.

Kirby said. "However, the critics murdered it" The Kirbys said they now attend previews of new shows 14-ACRE IDEA Lockerbie Fair Action Sought "Less discussion and more action" was the theme adopted yesterday by a group of civic and government leaders interested in developing a "Gay 90s" neighborhood around James Whitcomb Riley's home at 528 Lockerbie. The long-planned Lockerbie Fair proposal calls for the redevelopment of a 14-acre area around the poet's home to produce a complete commercial and residential setting in the "turn of the century" architecture. A park and playground also probably will be included in the showplace project designed to become a major tourist attraction. As a result of the meeting yesterday to revive the idea, the Lockerbie Fair committee, and the Historic Landmarks Foundation will join forces In an attempt to renew interest and get some revised planning on the proposed development.

Representatives of the two groups will meet soon to map methods for proceeding with the plan. if urn Shaw law Temperatures tipett Until Satwaay Maniiwt Net tatlitiW- Cimh Johnson's Team? Ball Wont Say Quitting George (Eastern Standard Time) Temperature (24 Hours to 6 A.M. Today) Actual Predicted Record This Date 48 (1:30 a.m.) 40s 33 (1961) 66 (4:25 p.m.) 65 A Teens Give To Hospital Drive Barometer (Sea Level) Inches Millibars 7 am 30.38 1029 Noon 30.38 1029 Sunrise, 5:49 Sunset, 7:37 the campaign now are in the field seeking solicitations and predicted the goal to collect $15.5 million for expansion and improvement programs at five voluntary hospitals in metropolitan Indianapolis will be reached by the June 30th deadline. Most of the $7.5 million yet to be collected must come from the "average" workers. Fitzwater said the various campaign divisions so far have collected in cash and pledges these portions of their goals: Hospital Cmploytf tt per ctnl ovtr ot M.

Education Dlvltlon-tmtM. IS per ctnl ever Hi fool of IliMM, with txotctlons ot toilclhnf IM per cent 1 Its goal. Malar Corporation! Division U.I million, ttiret fourths ot Its tool. Medicot fwo-IWrdt ot lit tl million tool. Memorial and Special Oltts Division per cant at lit 00 tool.

Nonlassllltd flftt dlvltltn 000, rwe-thlrd, at lit teal. Commerce and Industry Division 10.000, IS par ctnl tl Hi ot (oal with only 14 ptr ctnl the protptctt contacted. Metropolitan It ptr ctnl tl lit iiio.ooo teal, with only ptr ctnl of tht prospects ctnlacttd. By LARRY PIPER Undersecretary of State GEORGE W. BALL says he is "not prepared to confirm" a story by the Boston Globe that he will resign before the end of the summer.

Ball, who was appointed by the late President JOHN F. KENNEDY, said only that he would "of course at some point return to private life." The Boston report came a day after PRESIDENT JOHNSON accepted the resignation of THOMAS C. MANN as undersecretary for economic affairs. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY magazine editor and Conservative party candidate fir New York mayor lust November, lias paid $13,750 to a Yale Law School professor's widow to settle a libel suit.

The settlement was made to Mrs. Fowler V. Harper, whose husband brought the suit after he had been criticized for his stand on the Viet Nam war. BARBRA STREISAND, ill with the flu, was forced to take last night off and 400 of her fans walked out of London's Prince of Wales Theater where she is starring in the musical "Funny Girl." Her place was taken by understudy LISA SHANE, but some theater patrons were angry. "We came only to see Barbra." said one man and demanded his money back.

Articles belonging to the late SOPHIE TUCKER, including the piano with which she used to rehearse in her Park Avenue apartment, will be auctioned in New York May 7. Dr. LEON EDEL, Pulitzer prize winning biographer of Henry James, has been named to the new Henry James professorship of English and American letters at New York University. Arapaho Indian Chief HENRY SPOTTED WOLF, 83, has revoked a curse he placed on Oklahoma City's water supply 13 years ago. He made the curse because the city started drawing water from a reservoir which the indians claimed as their hunting and fishing grounds.

But he relented when an Oklahoma Teen-age members of two Indianapolis Junior Achievement groups last night gave their money and support to the United Hospital Campaign. Presidents of the youth organizations presented checks to campaign representative John R. Walsh, an Indiana National Bank vice-president, in a ceremony at the Junior Achievement Center. Mike Cocherell, president of the youth group sponsored by Indiana Bell Telephone presented Walsh a $60.81 check, taken from the organization's treasury. David Ober-f ell.

president of the group sponsored by Chevrolet-Indianapolis, contributed his club's check for $25. Earlier, at the campaign's annual meeting in the Columbia Club, Ottis T. Fitzwater, campaign chairman, announced the drive so far has raised more than $3 million in cash and pledges. He said all 12 divisions of Fremont Power's Resumed Humidity yesterday: High, 93; low, 60. Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m., trace.

Total precipitation since Jan. 1, 8.32 inches. Deficiency, 4.04. Total degree days below 65 since July 1, 5,191. Normal, 5,465.

Indianapo lis Increasing cloudiness with some light rain or showers later tonight. Mostly cloudy and mild with occasional light rain and a few thunderstorms possiblo tomorrow. Low tonight mid-408. High tomorrow mld-60s. FIVE-DAY FORECAST Temperatures are expected to average about 8 degrees below the normal highs of 66 to 75 and normal lows of 43 to 51 tomorrow through next Wednesday.

Warmer tomorrow, turning cooler about Sunday or Monday. Precipitation will total one-half to three-quarters of an inch in showers over the weekend. Wttlhtr a m. Hloh Ltw Atlanta Cloudy limarck Cloudy as oittn Rom 44 tr Humidity 68 61 66 63 G3 61 59 58 51 51 91 52 52 54 58 61 Hourly Temp. 6:00 a.m.

7:00 a.m. 8:00 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m.

Column Will Be May 2. Check your driver's license, it may expire this month. 1 -1 1- 1 1.

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