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the the the the the the the the FEATURES ADS WOMEN'S Tribune. CLASSIFIED The South Bend SECTION TWO SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 20, 1957. 21 SECTION TWO PAIR MAPLE LANE SEEKS VIEWS ON FUTURE Annexation Topic Listed for Mass Meeting. collected will be spent for the direct. benefit of the Maple Lane community." added, "'We have a school here in Maple Lane that we built and paid for.

We want to run it ourselves." Robert Greenwood, another Maple Lane businessman, observed that "we know the city is coming out this way and that it already has annexed some properties that could be included in Maple Lane." Want Expression of People. He added, "The association is neutral in this matter. We just want to get an expression from the people and see how we can be of service." Greenwood observed that the area will be confronted soon with street, sewage and school problems and that a decision either for annexation by South Bend or incorporation as a town would have to bel reached. Greenwood pointed out, too, that the loss of Maple Lane to Clay Township would take a big chunk out of the township's tax revenues for school support and A mass meeting at which Maple Lane residents will be asked to decide whether they want to be annexed to South Bend, form their own town or retain the status quo is scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight Washington-Clay Junior light School gymnasium. The session was called by the Maple Lane Business Men's which claims in its membership representation from all of the 22 business places located at or near the Ironwood RoadEdwardsburg Highway intersection.

"We are interested mainly in getting the sentiment of the people in the area as to what they want to do," said Norman Merrick president of the association. "One of these days we may have to act in a hurry, It would be better to start making our plans now, rather than to rush into something without Merrick said that Scouts had distributed announcements does of the meeting to some 1,800 homes in the Maple Lane area. He estimated the number of homes would represent a population of 5,500 or more. Promotes Community. According to the announcement, the association was organized "to promote the welfare of the Maple Lane community.

and to try to guard against anything which might not be for the good of Maple Lane." The association defined the Maple Lane area as the part of Clay Township between Edison Road on the south and Douglas Road on the north and between Ivy Road on the west and Hickory Road extended north to Edwardsburg Highway on the east. area has been growing so rapidly that we may soon run into a problem of water contami-der nation because of so many dry wells and septic tanks," Merrick said. "If this happens, we shall have to take stringent action immediately." Merrick said he that residents of the area should band together and select a spokesman to protect their interests, regardless of what action is decided. Association Neutral. Although professing to be neutral in the matter, the association in its announcement of the meeting took the stand that Maple Lane residents could best serve their interests by incorporating as a town.

It was noted that the boundaries defining the Maple Lane area are not absolute and that adjacent properties might be included if a new town is incorporated. It was claimed in the announce-ling ment that "if we are taken into South Bend, we will get all the city taxes without receiving many of the benefits of being in the city. Whereas, if we incorporate as a town, any taxes levied and other purposes. DRIVER HELD IN NILES. NILES, Mich.

Clarence Patrick, 56, of Berrien Springs, was lodged in the Berrien county jail after being arrested at 11 p.m. Tuesday on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Patrick was arrested by Michigan state police north of Berrien Springs on U.S. 31. 15 BURGLARIES IN AREA Hungarian Relief Needs Insured Here The financial needs of agencies handling Hungarian refugee relief in St.

Joseph County were assured today with the report that more than $5,000 in donations Thursday's "Hungarian Night" benefit dinner have been received. Mort Linder will serve as toastmaster for the dinner at 7:30 o'clock in Le Mans Hall at MORT LINDER. MORT LINDER. St. Mary's College.

The dinner i is sponsored by Advisory Council of St. Joseph County for Hungarian Relief. Mishawaka Mayor Albert L. Doyle, who was to be toastmasnotified the committee Wednesday that a death in the family necessitated an immediate trip to New York. Linder is well-known for his dinner presentations.

He was named by the South Bend Junior Chamber of Commerce as its outstanding young man for 1951 and was a recipient of an annual brotherhood award from the South BendMishawaka Roundtable of the NaItional Conference of Christians and Jews. Red Cross $2,692 Short. the program. passed in 1947, anyone who relief This leaves from the bene- to vides care and housing on a 24- be raised fit for the hour-a-day basis for YWCA. two or more The unmet needs total $3,691 old people not related to him, for nationally-affiliated organizamust obtain a nursing home litions.

Locally, the Hungarian Refugee Committee, the designat- of Public Welfare. Under the statcense from the State Department led resettlement branch of the Council, will receive without license jute, operating a nursing home Advisory a constitutes a funds collected over the needed I misdemeanor which is quotas and expenses from the punishable by a $100 fine for the first benefit, the dinner committee an- offense and $100 fine for each a Incunced. day the home is operated after Resettlement Funds Needed. the first conviction. The committee said today it But before the license is grantseeks an additional $1,000 to the home must pass an in500 in donations to provide for spection by the State Board of the local resettlement needs.

No Health and the State Fire Marestimate has been made of the shall's office. After that, the home needs, but more than $1,000 has is inspected twice each year by been reported spent on behalf of the two departments. the some 250 refugees now liv- But since the beginning of Febin St. Joseph County. ruary, the South Bend Fire Dept.

The expenses of the Hungarian has taken a hand in the operRelief Committee have been met ation of local nursing homes. Acby the Hungarian churches and cording to Battalion Chief E. Don societies and from $800 raised Smith, South Bend fire inspecat a welcoming dinner. for. the tors will check each nursing refugees Jan.

26. home in the city at least once The "pool" arrangement of the a month. Records of violations Advisory Council provided: funds are kept and an annual report The announcements by Victor Freeman, dinner committee chairman, indicated that the nationally-assessed quotas of the St. Joseph County chapter of the American Red Cross and of the South Bend YMCA and YWCA would be met after expenses of the benefit. The Red Cross has been assessed $8,236 for the refugee relief program.

Blair Bronstad, chapter manager, today reported receipt of $5,544 in donations, leaving balance of $2,692 to come from the benefit fund. Elmer Wiseman, general secretary of the YMCA, reported tributions of. $201 toward the Y's quota of $600, leaving some $399 to be raised from the benefit. YW Turns Over Money. Miss Rosemary Rheinhold, general secretary of the YWCA, reported today that all donations that organization have been turned over to the Red Cross unthe Advisory Council's "pool" arrangement of fund-raising for from all sources to meet assessed quotas individually.

Mishawaka Tops Quota. The Mishawaka Chapter of the Red Cross was assessed $1,650 for the relief program. It has raised over $2,400. The $10-a-plate affai: benefit dinner will present Russell Jones, United Press foreign correspondent, who covered the Hungarian revolution from Budapest for two months. He was the only American newsman to remain in the besieged country for the duration of the uprisings.

He was expelled by the Communists with threats of imprisonment, it was reported. Accompanying Jones here will be his wife, the former Hungarian baroness, Martha Von Sennyey. TWO HUB CAPS TAKEN OFF CAR Theft of two hubcaps, valued at $10, from his automobile parked. in front of his home, was reported to police Tuesday by Bernard Doetsch, 833 N. Hill St.

James L. Coleman, 238 N. Kenmore reported that two fender skirts, valued at $22, had been taken from his car parked in front of his home, and Adolph T. Hunt, 18164 Eugene Clay Township, said a box containing $70 worth of mechanic's tools had been stolen from his car. He did not know where the theft occurred.

WATCH KEPT ONNURSING HOMES HERE a 1 Loopholes Prevent Full Safety. By JOSEPH B. TIERNEY. Tribune Staff Writer. Public safety and public health officials in Indiana maintain close check on nursing homes the state to keep them safe for inmates and to avert tragedies such as the fire which swept crowded nursing home in Warrenton, Mo.

Sunday, taking 71 lives. But there are still many loopholes which must be plugged and an entire area of operation which is not covered by the law. This was the opinion today of several South Bend and St. Joseph County officials who are involved, in one way or another, with the control of local nursing homes. The Missouri fire came when 225 visitors and patients were in the 65-year-old nursing home.

Most of the dead were elderly patients trapped on upper floors. firemen said. The license of the nursing home was being withheld pending compliance with state requirements when the fire broke out. Big Business Here. Operation of nursing homes' in St.

Joseph County is a big business, as witnessed by the anual receipts which are estimated to exceed the million dollar mark. Approximately 275 persons live in 17 nursing homes in St. Joseph County which are licensed by the Indiana Department of Public Welfare. How many unlicensed homes are operating in the county, no one seems willing to estimate. But reports from persons familliar with conditions in the county, operators of some of the homes among them, say there are some unlicensed homes operating here in defiance of state law.

Law Passed in 1947. -Continued on page 35, column LATTER DAY SAINTS of the Church of Jesus Christ 150 W. Angela Blvd. to hear two Marion G. Romney, left, fare director of the Mormon, church whose headquarters are president of the Great Lakes diana and Michigan.

He is a Wayne headquarters of the liam C. Chris, South Bend MISHAWAKA POLICE NIP CRIME SPREE Implicate 3 Others After Arrest Of Suspects. Mishawaka police said today that two men have admitted 15 burglaries in the South BendMishawaka in the last month and implicated three others. Richard Wagner, 21, sho address listed, and Harry Fred Palmer) 25, of 112 N. Hill were being questioned today by Elkhart police regarding crimes there.

Two others are sought, according to Capt. Julius Maenhout, WOMEN REGISTER FOR HUMAN RELATIONS INSTITUTE--An -day institute on Human Relations was being held today in Temple Beth-El by members of the Women's Council on Human Relations. Registering for the meeting are left to right Mrs. Nelson Christianson, Mrs. Joseph Canfield and Mrs.

Edgar L. Schnadig. Seated, left to right, are members of the ticket committee. Mrs. Joseph Hennessy, ticket chairman, Mrs.

Ben Stewart, and Mrs. S. A. Spellman. by Tribune Staff Photographer, Resistance Stalls Unified Plan Bill Pictures, other stories on pages 32, 48.

By WILLIAM C. BUTTERS. opment possible for those 'that might want it. Staff Writer. INDIANAPOLIS A House-passed bill permitting Indiana counties to have unified planning and zoning agencies may become permanently stalled in a Senate committee as a result of increasing resistance to the measure from the South Bend city administra- ner and City Police Chief J.

tion. Charles. Dutrieux. The senate committee on court- The proposed amendment uses ty and township business gave the population as a basis for reprebill only a cursory hearing Tues- sentation on the proposed planday evening and then took up oth- ning agency. The amendment iner matters.

creases South Bend's membership Mayor Edward F. Voorde has from five to seven, increases the let the committee know through non-urban county membership Sen. Peter Bezkiewicz, South from three to six and leaves MishBend Democrat and committee awaka's at four. member, that the bill in its pres- The bill doesn't require any ent form is unacceptable to South county to have unified planning Bend. and zoning but makes this devel- Bill- Unsatisfactory.

And Voorde indicated that his demand for greater South Bend representation on any St. Joseph County-S out h' Bend-Mishawaka unified planning agency envisioned by the bill is still not satisfied by an amendment written late Tuesday by supporters of unified planning. Beczkiewicz has the proposed amendment but has assured Voorde that he will not attempt to introduce it in committee unless the mayor consents. City Planning Director Robert L. Huff and Executive Secretary James P.

Leddy of the South Bend Chamber of Commerce attended the committee hearing but did not receive a chance. to- testify. Pressed by other business, the committee cut the hearing short when Frank J. Murray, president of the Indiana Taxpayers Federation and formerly of South Bend, asked for time to study the bill. The bill passed the house last week under the sponsorship of Rep.

Jesse L. Dickinson, South Bend Democrat, who has continued to defend it. Offers Amendment. Dickinson told Voorde at a dinner meeting in the Washington Hotel Tuesday night that he bethe bill could be amended to -the mayor's" satisfaction. ers at the dinner.

were Beczkiewiez, Reps. Otto Pozgay and P.D. Pointer, South Bend Democrats: City Controller Frank J. Brugg- CHURCH LEADERS HEREAbout of Latter Day Saints met in caucus national leaders of the church. member of the Twelve Apostles movement.

He is on a national tour in Salt Lake City, Utah. Reul Mission of the church, which Utah cattleman and legislator mission. With Romney and. Christensen branch president of the church. COP PRAISED BY DICKINSON8th House Defeats Bill To Alter Vote on Commissioners.

By WILLIAM C. BUTTERS. Tribune Staff Writer, INDIANAPOLIS Rep. Jesse Dickinson, South Bend Democrat, today credited the can majority in the House with "a lot of cooperation" in the de feat Tuesday afternoon of a bill which would have required St. Joseph County to elect its Board of Commissioners by districts.

The bill went down by a vote of 56 to 19 under an attack led by Dickinson and Rep. Otto Pozgay, South -Bend Democrat and minority caucus leader. Dickinson, Pozgay and. Rep. P.

D. Pointer, also a South Bend Democrat had lobbied against the bill among their colleagues in the House, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 75 to 23. Affected 2 Counties. The bill called for traditionally Democrat St. Joseph and Lake Counties to elect their commissioners by districts.

Each of Indiana's 92 counties always has elected its three-member Board of Commissioners by vote of the entire county. Although commissioners are elected by the voters at large, they run by districts to satisfy residence requirements that assure representation of all parts of the county on the board. Both the St. Joseph and Lake boards had threatened to gerrymander their counties in favor of perpetual Democrat control if the bill passed. They said they could realign heavily Democrat sections so that Democrats could be certain of keeping two out of three seats on the board.

Scores House Use. Dickinson told the House- that "It would be morally wrong to use this body to settle local political The bill was introduced by Rep. Carl Edward Bell, Hobart Repubtican, and Richard W. Guthrie, Indianapolis Republican. Bell is.

joint. representative for Lake and Porter counties and his bill reportedly was aimed principally at Lake. Bell argued before the House that the bill would "give the people a chance for self-determinaItion. Pozgay declared "I believe the people back home are sufficiently intelligent to go to the polls and change the commissioners if they choose. They have done so in the past." Sees District Fight.

Pozgay contended that election of commissioners by districts would cause these officials to pit district against district rather than to represent the, county as a whole. Dickinson added that the measure raised a question of constitutionality since it sought to apply to which the other 90 were to only two counties a condition ly susceptible. OLIVER TALKS CONTINUING Negotiations continued today toward settlement of the eightday-old strike of 875 production employes of the Oliver Plant 1, but neither management nor union officials gave any indie cation of what course the talks are taking. Oliver Local 1095, United Auto Workers, called the strike Feb. 12, in a dispute over a backloglity of grievances.

The negotiating sessions are being held in the YMCA. Panel Opens Institute Relations Public Office Will Close On Friday Most government offices will be closed all day Friday in observance of Washington's Birthday, a survey by The Tribune showed today. Only policemen and firemen will be on duty among city employes. Sheriff's deputies will be the only county employes ing. However, both city and county offices will be open Saturday morning.

The Indiana License Bureau is staying. open, but the Indiana State Employment Service office will be closed. Indiana state police and toll road employes will be on the job. Federal Holiday, All federal employes will get a holiday giving them a full three(day weekend. These means that all postal windows will be closed, except the General Delivery window, which will be open from 8 to 9 a.m.

Friday. Schools will stay in session Friday, but the Public Library and its branches will be closed. The library, will be open as usual from 9 a.m. to 6. p.m.

Saturday, Banks will be open as usual for business Friday, 120 persons of the congregation Tuesday night in the chapel at Addressing the group was Elder the church and assistant welof branch congregations of the Christensen, second from left, is Mormon activities in Ohio, Inserving without pay in the Fort are Mrs. Romney and Wil-Paulo by Tribune Staff Photographer. A panel discussion on the institute theme, "Today's Family in Today's World," opened the eighth annual Human Relations Institute this: morning in Temple Beth-El. Opening the discussion with a comparison of South Bend today with South Bend of 25 years ago, Bruce Hammerschmidt said that the evolution, of the large resulted in corporation- security and loyalty among employers employes and that in turn has often led to a loss of understanding in the family unit." Mrs. Eurilla Howell, group work director for the YWCA, summed up the feelings of the discussion group when she said, "Human relations start in the home.

Try to teach each person in the family that he is important. Look down on none. Claim Parents Inconsistent. Mrs. James W.

Schmidt, of the John Adams High School counseling staff, said that one of the problems many children face is the inconsistency of their parents. "It doesn't matter how much parents talk about rights or give examples of what should be done if they don't follow these principles in the they are defeating their Hmmerschmidt contended that one of the basic problems in today's. world is that the family does not stick together and lacks an understanding of responsibility. "Members of families today often are treated just like boarders," he said. Hammerschmidt said that religion should set the values a family.

"Breakdowns in a family come from families not connected with a church," he said. The problem is-to reach families who do not have spiritual values." Mrs. Howell said, "We are not friends within our own homes and many times know more about our friends than our family." 400 EXPECTED AT GOP DINNER More than 400 St. Joseph County Republicans will gather in the Club at 6:30 p.m. today for the annual Lincoln Day dinner which will be addressed by Senator Homer E.

Capehart, senior senator from Indiana. The senator will be introduced by Shepard J. Crumpacker, former Third District congressman. Indiana Secretary of. State Frank Lenning will be presented by Thomas E.

Bath, St. Joseph County GOP chairman, and othVer introductions will be made by Mrs. Juanita Underhill, president of the St. Joseph County Repub(lican Women's Club which annually sponsors the affair. Charles Ainlay, of Goshen, Third District Republican chairman, and Mrs.

Susie Robertson, of Plymouth, district vice-chairman, will also attend. PALMER. WAGNER, Mishawaka police detective. The fifth man is in the St. Joseph County Jail.

Burglary charges will be filed against Wagner and Palmer, Capt. Maenhout revealed. Captured in Hallway. Capt. Maenhout and Lt.

Vine cent Meribela- Wagner in the hallway bathroom an apartment house Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous call that a suitcase containing $400 in cash was hidden in the bathroom. When Wagner arrived the detectives arrested Wagner admitted that- he and Palmer broke into six places in Mishawaka, including the theft of the safe from the Tivoli Thelater Feb. 13, police said. Both men also said that they, and either or both of their accomplices, raided four business places in South Bend, three in Elkhart and two in Osceola. Continue Questioning.

The suspects are being questioned by police to determine the victims and places burglarlized since Wagner and Palmer were vague, police said, as to the names of the looted establishments. In addition to the $400 in the suitcase police said they from the windshield washer water jar under the hood of Palmer's automobile, Wagner led Lt. Meribela and Lt. John. Kopca Tuesday to a woods on Osborne Road two miles west of Ind.

331 to a shack where the Tivoli safe was found. A hole had been chiseled in the bottom. Admits 5 Burglaries. Detectives said Palmer and Wagner admitted raiding five other Mishawaka establishments: Madeline's Cafe, 4309. Lincoln Way East, Jan.

30; The Curve Inn, 3407 Lincoln Way East, Feb. 16: The Ramona Tavern, 1653 E. Fourth Rae's Rainbow Inn, 621 W. Jefferson and Furore's Restaurant, 1215 E. all Monday.

South Bend detectives said the following burglaries were clear: Ewing Cale, 111 W. Ewing and Tavern, 3013 Mishawaka both Monday; and Eve's Cafe, South Bend Ave. and Edison and Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Corp. store, 336 N. Hill both Saturday, Police said cash was taken from cigarette machines and cash registers in each burglary.

St. Joseph sheriff's deputies said the pair admitted breaking into the Inn, Lincoln Way West, Osceola, and Sim's ResContinued on page 35, column 2. Extra Police to Forestall Dollar Day Traffic Jam Extra traffic policemen will Bend Thursday when the city's sored by the Retail Division of merce. Inspector Clement F. Hazinski, head of the police traffic division, said that policemen would be taken out of squad cars and assigned.

to -the business district as the need arises. He added that arteries leading in the also would be patroled to forestall traffic jams. Merchants have. made plans for their "biggest and best" Dollar be assigned to downtown South annual Dollar Day will be sponthe South Bend Chamber of Com- Day in years, William R. Rasmussen, chairman of the Retail Division, explained.

He said that retailers have laid in ample stocks of, goods stocked with an eye to real values. "Anybody scanning the Dollar Day advertisements in The Tribune today can determine for himself the number of bargains that are being offered tomorrow," Rasmussen -added..