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VOGELBETSlpfea RECORD LEVY SELL BONDS FOR SCHOOL By JAMES CARROLL Tribune Pulltlca! Writer. Frm al1 1958 wil1 6 dovvn in political history as "the year of the bumPer croP of bumper stickers. stickers have been applied to the riPil 1 T0 1 0 YEARS 'I AA1III fill AVVAIH I II HOOHUL I Probation Lifted After Beating Of Victim; Charles R. Vogel, 21, of 236 S. Main.

St, who assaulted a companion Sept. 2 and duntped his victim into the street from a car, was given a l-to-10 year Indiana State Reformatory term today by Superior Judge E. Spencer Wals ton. Robert 19, of. 1148 Franklin drew a 2-to-5 year term in the reformatory at Pendleton and four other criminal cases were heard by Walton and Judge F.

Kenneth Dempsey. Vogel and Taylor were -on probation for previous offenses and in each caseprobation was re Neighbors Closer As Stork Calls Mrs. George R. Myszak, 1315 Edgewood and Mrs. Henry Wasileski, 1316 Edgewood "across the street neighbors, are acrbss-the-hall neighbors in Memorial Hospital, where both gave birth to daughters Tuesday.

Each family now has three children. attempt to keep the stickers out of the elements until Nov. 4, And, as if to prove both theor ies, the woman reported: 1 She the name on the jstick-er, and, 2. She'll never forget the trouble she had getting the adhesive off the window. The first Republican billboards have begun to make an appearance.

These show- pictures of Gov. Harold W. Handley, of La-Porte, the senatorial nominee, and Rep. F. Jay nominee for reelection from the 3rd Congressional Similar posters are going up a'I over1 'the state.

Each pairs PERFORM SURGERY FOR TV AUDIENCE A surgical team removes gall bladder in one of South Bcnd's'new hospitals as a small television camera, mounted between the overhead lights, -beams- the 'operation -over ribime's television live telecast carried, over, open circuit television Tuesday night, was the first ever shown in Indiana. In addition to the gall bladder," surgi-ons also removed the appendix while the television-camera was focused on them. TM voked and the sentence imposed. Draws Charge in March. Vogel drew his sentence on a vehicle taking charge on which he" was placed on" probation last March 18.

In connection with the Sept 2 assault on Eugene Carroll, 27, of 3832 Langley Vogel received a 90-day state farm sentence and was fined $63 in city court. Friday. Probation of fieer- George W. Parkes said the 90-day sentence will be served concurrently with his fiew sentence. Vogel claimed Carroll provoked the assault by his remarks during a tavern drinking session.

Carroll suffered a jaw fracture and other injuries and required hospital Carroll was dumped out of the auto in the 500 block of S. 28th a picture of Handley with a pic- pros. tw f-u rno New York, 2.4773; Chase ture ot -the uUH congressional t- Manhattan Bank, New York, nominee, in some districts, the r. 12.4608, First National Bank -xyff I- 1 i CLASSROOMS Three Building Additions Are ZZIT Planned. By ROGER BIRDSELL.

Trliiunc Slafl Writer, "School City officials" pushed ahead today 'with plans for addi tions to John Adams High School, Perlcy School and Navarre School after. the. sale of $1,375,000 in general obligation bends Tuesday for pc ccnt interest. -The Board of Education sold the six-year bonds at a net rate of 2.40579 per cent to the Northern Trust Co. and Harris Trust Savings.

of Chicago," and Albert MoGann -Securities- of- South Bend; The sale at a meeting of the board in the School Administra tion Juildingproducedsoqi.e..ex- tremcly close bidding. The last general obligation bond dssue of- the' School City went for about the same figure in 1956. other Bidders Listed. Other bidders were the First Boston Chicago, 2.44909; Continental Illinois National Bankl Trust Chicago, 2.54102; alsey, -Stuart Chicago, Chicago, 2.4S820.V -The Iward will receive construe- tion contracts on a six-room addition to the Perlcy Elementary School; at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the administration building.

Perlcy has the kindergarten and first grade sections-on special because of crowding this fall. The seven classrooms and a study hall addition to the Navarre Elementary and Junior High School is expected to be let on contract late in October. Some first grade sections ate now housed in rented quarters in that 16 Rooms for Adams. Adams addition of 16 classrooms and a-studv-hall is aimed- for contract letting late in Novem bcrr Early rrtorning- 'classes have been scheduled there to handle a record enrollment this fall In another matter the board Andrew A. Toth, architect, to plan the remodeling of part of the garage in back of the administration buildingj to house Inlerna-IkmaL.

Business Machines equip- mcnt. The equipment is being acquired under the 1959 budget use. in student testing and other research programs, The remodeling work will be handled out of the left in a special tax relief fund given" by the' state last year. Hires Furnishers. The board also hired Chandler Cudlipp Associates, New to supervise the furnishing and equipping of the new main library now under construction "A fee of not more "than" $8,000 will be paid to the interior decorating in a equipment and furnishing budget of $120,000.

The- board -accepted the-resigna- tion of-Margaret Schloeman, Perlcy School teacher. Norma Scher- merhorn was hired as a clerk at Adams, replacing Ran schaert, whose resignation was acccptedr Dallas -Lung wa-hircd asa custodian at Adarmsrarplac- ng James Rightlcy ri. aim binnc iM-puiJiiLuri uuiiil-s- men e'e. have seldom seen eye-to- The impending departure of City George-W. Carr, will not sadden some Democratsi active in union affairs.

Thcsei Democrats haven't been! happy! since the administration of Mayor Edward broke with tradition and purchased for city use cars not manufactured by local labor in the Studebaker-Packard Corp. plant here. Since some of the non-Stude-i bakers were sold to the city by the firm" that employed Carr, he was blamed. Most observers this blame, didn't, help arc in his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for sheriff. VIEWERS GET DESCRIPTION OF OPERA TION-While a movable camera focuses on them, Dr, Dan D.

Stiver, andWSBT special events director Joe Boland discuss the operation from a corridor outside the operating roonvDuring the hotrMong program, the step by step prepara St. Sentence is Taylor's probation in ar burg lary case of last Feb. 31 was re voked and the sentence imposed after he was involved in a new burglary of a gasoline station Sept. 6, Parkes told Walton. I ay lor also changed an in- nocent plea to guilty in an April "'30 gasoline" station burglary and received a concurrent 2-to5-year sentence on a second degree ourg-lary charge.

A public defender was ed to represent Robert Yoder, N-24, of 3811 Langley charged Superior Court 2 whh" vehicle theft. Held ih -the county jail in lieu rf- $2,500 -bondrYoder-is" accused tion for the operation was traced and the fa cilities of the Merh'oria'l HbspifaT Wer'e'shbwii and discussed by doctors- stnd Already, thousands of these bumpers of cars and trucks. By the 4 election, scarcely an undecorated bumper will exist in St. Joseph County, So far, the chief distributors of the stickers have beei. two Demo crats.

One is Prosecutor Patrick Brennan, nominee for reelection. Th.e.other' Deputy Sheriff Wil ham J. Locks, nominee for. sheriff. Supporters of Brennan and Locks have been festooning bumpers with all the enthusiasm of an army of narcotic-Crazed paperhangers.

In many cases, the Brennan Locks supporters do not ask the permission of the car owner, Instead, they pounce on defenseless vehicles. Apparent ly, they hope the owners will be delighted 'to find their cars1 have been converted into travclinge bill boards. A11 this irbasd on an ancient political thecryr This-theory holds that a candidate vote getting ability is enhanced if his name is frequently and prominently dis-i played. In this automotive age the name can be displayed ef fectively on motor vehicles. A contrary theory is based largely on equally ancient con cepts of property rights.

Thisi theory holds that a man who has to spend an hour picking a bump er sticker off his car is likely to be somehwat hostile toward the candidacy of the man whose name appeared on the sticker. One housewife reported that a Brennan sticker was applied without her permission, to the inside of the rear window of her car. his, she conjectured, may have" been -the -first move'in an JOHNSON TRIAL AGAIN DELAYED Fifth First Degree Murder Hearing Is. Reset The Tribune's Special VALPARAISO The fifth first- degree murder trial 'of Robert L. Johnson of South" Bend was set over to Nov.

24 by Porter Circuit Judge-Goldie- lowing the appointment Monday of a second public defender for Johnson The trial was set to begin Sept. 15. Burns appointed Valparaiso City Judge William G. Conover to assisted Floyd QJellisonjif South Bend, in Johnson's defense. Conover told the court-the du ties 61 his own court would prevent hirrKfrom participating until 24, Johnson, 34Ns held in the Por ter t.y JaU here.

He is charged with the March 1949 slaying of South Bend taxicab driver David R. Smith, In four previous twiKend- ed with deadlocked juries and one produced, a verdict of verdict was set aside when the defense proved prejudice on the part of; a juror. The fourth trial was ruled a mistrial when a LaPorte radio announcer broadcast an interview with Johnson, which the judged prejudicial to a fair trial. nil CMIDDCn PUT AT $7.04 i i jr Action Seeks to Reach Even Figure. South i.

Bend's all-time record tax; rate was eased- down l'i cents, today by the St. Joseph County- Tax Adjustment' Boa rd; The rate now stands at $7.04 on each $100 of assessed property valuations. The recluctipwas more in (ho way of an attempt to establish the rate in even dollars and cents than an effort to make substantial cuts in governmental spending for 1059. The rate, which stood at $7,0525 before today's Adjustment Board still is subject -to action 1... il r.

oy mc aiuie noarn oi ax commissioners. The Stale Board hearing "on proposed 195S rates -has not hcen-jichedulcd. Representatives of the i y's la rnncr cnnnrlin kr-kslini-i Ut Civil.City and School City, resisted requests for substantial rate -reductions. -The representatives on "the Adjustment Board were City Controller Frank" tpi uic City, and Board of Education memler Ben II. Drollingcr, representing the School City, Volunteers Half a Mill.

Bruggnrr volunteered a reduction of a half a mill. "In fig-uros a half a mill is. .0005 cents. Drollingcr agreed to a reduction of only half ccnt. He did this because the Adjustment Board public hearing turned lip an $18, 000 error m-the city in.r)9 duplication ol the amounts budgeted for the pay of maintenance personnel.

Othrr reductions in the overall South Bend rate were mado possible by a 5 mill cut in the rale for Portage Twp. poor relief and a 2 mill cut in the rale- for the St. Joseph County Ariport. Miss Virginia Guthrie, executive secretary of the South Bend Civic- Planning her organisation" is considering the preparation of appeals on the lax rates ot bo 111 the civil and u. school cities.

'Ihe' appeals would be directed to the State-Board of Tax Commissioners. The State Board, like the County Adjust1 ment Board, has the power to reduce rates but not individual budget items. Mishawaka Kate tut zr. The Adjustment Board reduced by 2 cents the Vm rate lor lYlisn-awaka. The proposed rate was $5.74, The rate as approved by the Adjustment Board is $6.72.

The board made no cuts in the rate for Mishawaka-'s city government. It cut by 5 mills the raffr' for Mishawaka schools. Other cuts in the'Pcoji Iwp: rates and Ihr? county" rate "were reflected in the over-all Mishawaka rate. The highest rate in the was set for South Bcnd-Clayi the Rinrt flint fie in Clay Adjustment Board sent the South Bend-Clay rate at $7.10, down 4,75 cents-from the proposed -rate- of "$7.4475. The current bouth riend-uay rate of is- also the coun ty's highest.

The current rate for South Bend. Proper is $6.44.. The irnrrftnr Mithnu.nka rate $6.18. T.UI. U'nrL Mine juuna num.

-I Mr TVVII1 Ml -MIV '1 Board is reflected, in this table showing raiesjor all county tax ing units before and after the-Ad justment Board completed its work today: Brlnr Arior- -founty m- Mitre- Twp. I.TM f-UTf lwp, Indian Villapf Jfi.922 BO RotrkiMt -t titrman Tup, 15.41 Oreeite Twp. KM Harris Twp. LlberlyTwii SS.SII tV-W North. 'Liherty M.KJ SO Linroln Twp.

a Walkfrtnn .....1.. JV7M IV74 Madunn Twp. 11 472 13 Oliver Twp Nrw (xrliile tins Penn Twp. S.V52 On-enir JR 74i Mishawan S8.74 Jfi 72 Portage Twp, .55.7 Jim South Bf nil Centre 6M.V S81 South Bend-Cley I7.I47J' it in Union Twp 5S 14 54 Lakeville ISMS K.4 Warren Twp. 14.954 S4.M BURGLARS BREAK GLASS.

"Glass in a rear door at the-Hunt Gibson Warehouse, 1617 S. Lafayette was shattered in -a burglary there which netted intruders $12 from a cash register, Ellsworth Gibson, 1604 Hoover manager, told police Tuesday afternoon. LAPORTE SOLDIER HURT. LAPORTE Pfc. Wayne Cook.

19. bf 706 Detroit who is home on leave, told police he ac- cidcntally shot himself in the toe bout 6:40 a.m. today while cleaning a rifle. He was treated and released at Holy Family Hospital. When and if Carr gets aroundjXuesday approved the hiring of Operation Successf ulFUMES SICKEN For Patient, Viewers By JOSEPH Indiana's first live, open circuit telecast of a surgical operation carried Tuesday night by WSRT-TV, The Tnhune's television station, was termed a success today, judged from both medical and television standards.

I of stealing a 1957 model car from the Ben FcfermanMotor Sales lot at 602 S. Michigan Sept. 2. Yoder Admitl Theft. -1 In 'a signed statement given to police Yoder said he drove thes to Indianapolis where he traded it for another car despite the fact he had no title to the first one.

Authorities got on Yoder's trail when the Indianapolis---auto agency contacted Feferman's to ask for the title. to resigning from the "Common Council, the leading Democrat interested in Carr's post remains Donald Erhardt Like Carr, Er- hardt has beeTi active in veterans organizations. FINE LEVIED IN JAYWALKING Moore -26, of 710 Chapin who attempted to walk "from Indiana Employ ment Security office, 216 N. Mich igan across the street to his parked car, paid a $6 fine in city court on his guilty plea to a charge jaywalking. Richard Budd, 525 Southmoor charged with and Glenn P.

-Skeels Jr.f-29,-of 920 W. Oak SLcharged with making an improper turn, were assessed $15,75 -and- $19.75 -respectively. Charged with operating a vehi cle without a driver's licence, and improper registration of his car, Larry W. Lint, 17, of 919 Baldwin drew-a. $24.75 fine on J.irst.

count, and. 11.75, on the second. Lj was arrested in the sec- B. TIERNEY. Public fours This Weekend Public toUrs of the new wings at Memorial and St.

Joseph's Hospitals will be held for residents of St. Joseph's County from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. All departments of ihe new buildings will be jshown' toyisitors an brochures describing the1 new facilities will be distributed. Children are invited to take part in the- tours -with their parents.

show," anministrator of St, Joseph's-Hos pital, and Richard WrTrenkner, Memorial Hospital administrator, riarrated films of the newhospi(al buildings and facilities. WSBT-TV has.schcduled another "special program to mark VHospital Dedication Week" in St. Joseph County. A half hour filmed tour of the two new hospitals be shown at 10 p.m. Saturday, covering all departments of-the two new wings.

STATETRAFFIC TOLL DOWN 108 INDIANAPOLIS Inspite of 26 more traffic deaths 1 a st week, Indiana's 1958 traffic toll has dropped 108 below the pace of a year ago. State police reported 620 traffic deaths through Sunday, compared. --ond car in Illinois-state, troopers. A public defender was oppointed also in the case- of -Allen RSen. our, 21, of 1617 vCoh-mbia St, charged with driving a vehicle without the owner's consent, He is accused of taking a panel truck owned by Ivan E.

Ham-. man, 825 E. Dubail Sept. 5. Senour is in the county jail "bond." JOhWcARROLL HAS SURGERY John FrCarroll, assistant to" the editor of The Tribune is reporf-- tc jn fairly good 'condition in-St.

Joseph's Hospital where underwent surgery today for an in-: testinal ailment. Carroll, who lives at. 310 -Walsh. was admitted to the hospital Saturday. new wings at St.

and hnspi ta 1 of fi l'holos hy Tribunt- Slflff I'holoBrBphrr. A Ml OF 6 Leak i Ammonia In Refrigerator Is Ammonia from a leaking refrigerator was blamed early today for the near asphyxiation of a family of. six awakened by a five-year-old daughter, unable to sleep in their new home. Joseph Birchwood his wife, Glenya 23, daughters Pamla, 5, Kathleen 2. and sol William, were relcasctl after treatment Memorial Hospital Police-credited -Pamela with saving the lives of the family She was unable to sleep in her ncw.surroundings, sharp ordor and, awakened- her parents "at 2 a.m.

"Arou.se" Rest nf Tamily. Ericksnn and his nearlv overcome, a roused-the remainder of the family -and carried them tromlhc" dwelling. Mis. Erickson then" ran to, the home of Mrs Russell Shephard, 1010 Birchwood a block awav, to telephone police Police said wber they entered the Erickson home it was so filled with the fumes they were unable to remain inside. All the windows were opened and the Erickson family was taken to the hospital for chest examinations.

None of the family was rendered unconscious by the fumes al though the father-appeared to bei the most seriously affected po-i lice said. The ammonia apparent- 'y escaped through a break in one or 'ne llnes- Family Moves Tuesday'. Erickson indicated the "refri- gerator possibly was damaged sleeping upstairs. The refrigerator was about 10 years old, police said. WAIT FOR RESH ECGS.

GREAT DUNMOW England (UPI) Notice on a farm gate near this.Eisex "Freb ejs laid while jtHi inn the operation to remove the fall bladder from a South Bend woman was described as successful by the woman's doctors and the patient is reported in fairly good condition today. The. hour long program which included 'several switches from the hospital operating- through-WSBT's mobile -unit to the studio at Broadcast Center came off without incident. Dr. Sliver Narrator." The hospital, the patient and the surgeon involved remained an- nonymous to focus attention on the joint character of dedication ceremoniesbeing hefd this week at -the- wings o.f.

Memorial and St. Joseph's Hospitals. WSBT special- events director Joe Boland," who served with Dr. Dan D. Stiver as narrator of the surgical part of the program, described the operation as "a double header" when the- surgeon -removed the woman's appendix as wetpas her gall bladder.

Dr D. Logan Dunlap," "stationed with interviejA'er Mort Lindcfin the Broadcast Center explained that it is normal practice to remove the appendix during the gall bladder operation, if it can be done conveniently without making another incision. The removal of the appendix, picked1 up very clearly by the operating room camera, was a dramatic high light of the pro gram. Another high light, and one that cold not be written into the scrip was the size of three stones whicfrwre found in the gall bladder aftar it had been removed. Dr.

Carlj. Culbertson, director of the South Bend Medical Foundation, avei. pathologist's report on -the gall bladder and displayed the large stones from the laboratory in the surgical ei Htm Drs. Herbert G. Schiller Wallace D.

Buchanan and John E. Krufgcr served as technical ad Low of 43 Is Predicted For Tonight It is to be partly cloudy and cooler tonight in the South Bend-Mishawaka area. The U.S. Weather Bureau at the St Joseph County Airport has predicts ed a low of 43 degrees for tonight. Forecasters said Thursday is to be.

fair and rather cool with a high of 72 degrees. The outlook for Friday is for partly cloudy skies, warmer' temperatures with icattered showers probable by evening. In their five-day outlook -for Indiana, weathermen said temperatures will average 2 to -4 de grees below normal maximums of 73 to 78 degrees in this area and normal minimums of 53 to 78 de crees. 1 with -728 -a year when it was moved into the borne. The only increase came on-theThe family had completed mov-toll road, where 17 have- died this, mg Tuesday he told, police.

year, compared witn py tnis children were occupying time last year. Deathsn eownstairs police re-free highways' dropped from 430 ported, while the parents were to 348. i TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. Fiied 69, of lfl2i" S. Michigan was taken i tr 'Me morial Hospital by police am- bulct shortly before noon today with, a possible broken left arm suffered whew he let! hi his home.

MOTHER AND SON SERIOUSLY HURT BY TRUCK Mrs. Barbara 25. and her sort Rickey Allen. months, were seriously injured about p.m. Tuesday when this pick-up truck driven by the husband and father, Kenneth Ellsworth.

31. struck them as it 'crashed into their home at 1533 Best in Baugo west of Elkhart. "The father7 who was arrested on a charge of driving while under ihev influence of intoxicants, said the brakes' vfin the vehicle failed. Mrs. Ellsworth was seated on a chair, left front, in front of the borne holding the child when the crash occurred.

Drputy Sheriffs Robert! Nussbaurrt and Phil Geb-- hard examine the wreckage with UiworUv 1 -4-nr ir.na s-a FhoograpMr visers for the program, rynrescnt-ing the St. Joseph Countyj Medical Society. 1 i In the studio portion of the i.

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