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News Ads Mishawaka The South Bend Tribune Classified SECTION TWO SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1968 31 SECTION TWO READY FOR PARKING DESIGN COUNTY PARK BUDGET RISES NEARLY Spending for 1969 Set at $460,316 By Board By THOMAS JEWELL Tribune Staff Writer A county park budget that is almost doubled to $460,316 has been proposed for 1969. It would mean a nickel increase in the park tax levy from 5.5 cents to more than 10 cents next year. The proposed budget contains two major facets: $221,150 toward completion of development of the county's first park and additional funds for the actual operation of the park. No provision is included for acquiring additional park sites, but this could be done later outside the budget. The payroll proposed would double from $64,375 this year to $122,611, most of it going toward personnel to staff the newlyopened park.

'Resident Naturalist' A $9,000 assistant park superintendent post is also created in the proposed budget and is envisioned as a "resident naturalist" and designer. The Bendix Gift Park is now undergoing a $247,000 development phase that will open it to the general public for the first time. Robert J. Fischgrund, presIdent of the St. Joseph County Park and Recreation board, emphasized today, "Without question, the park will be usable this year.

The massive development of the park with an estimated price tag of about $600,000 could be completed next year with these budget appropriations. Another $100,000 project not included in the budget is the conContinued on Page 34 Intruders Mar Wake Of Veteran "A funeral home employee was -attacked and threatened with a knife by an assailant Tuesday night where several persons were mourning the death of a Vietnam veteran. Shortly before the attack, at the 1222 St. W. Joseph's Funeral Home, Napier unidentified men walked up to the casket containing the body of Robert Jaronik, a Marine sergeant, and one of them i spat on the floor near the casket.

Joseph V. Grzegorek, 63, of 1217 Western the employee, told police that he was attacked by a man who lunged at him with a large knife shortly after the other two men left the funeral home. Grzegorek said he lurched backwards, falling to the floor on his back, when the assailant came after him with a knife. The assailant leaped on top of Grzegorek and demanded his money. Enters Lobby A relative of the deceased veteran, Diane Jaronik, 18, who was in the viewing room at the funeral home, went into the lobGrzegorek was being attacked after she heard the commotion in the lobby, according to police.

The woman attempted to assist Grzegorek by pulling at the assailant. Several persons in the funeral home went to the lobby to see what was happening, apparently scaring the assailant, who fled. While the assailant was escaping from the funeral home, Capt. Clyde R. Magill, Vandenburg Air Force Base, picked up a chair and threw it at the fleeing man in an attempt to halt him.

Chase Assailant Capt. Magill and others in the funeral home chased the assailant but lost him when he fled down a neaby alley, police said. The assailant, described as Negro, 6 feet 2, wearing blue jeans and a blue T-shirt, reportedly is known to police. Earlier, the two other men, described as young Negroes entered the funeral home and one of them spat on the floor near the casket, according to Grezgorek. He said they first asked it the soldier was killed in Vietnam.

Jaronik was killed on June 29, In Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam while on patrol duty, SELECT FIRM FOR PLANNED CITY GARAGE Architect Chosen After Delay For Funds By MARCHMONT KOVAS Tribune City Government Writer A contract will be signed within the next few days with an architectural firm for the preparation of a functional design for the two proposed municipal parking garages, City Engineer Lloyd S. Taylor said today. Taylor declined to name the architect that has been selected and said the contract cost has not been established. The multi-story parking facilities will be erected on the southeast corner of Main St. and Colfax Ave.

and the northwest corner of Jefferson Blvd. and St. Joseph St. Two months ago the selection and hiring of architect appeared imminent but a delay was occasioned by a lack of funds to pay the architect, said Taylor. There have been numerous suggestions made to the transit firm that a covered transfer point be provided for bus riders.

Council Approves Taylor said it will take about 60 days to complete the designs and after that the Board of Pubtic Works and Safety will he hold public hearings on the designs and the costs. The council already has given its approval, over vigorous objections by some segments of the community, for the planning of the facilities. Among objectors was the South Bend Parking Co. which operates numerous downtown parking lots. Cost of the two structures is estimated at $3 million.

The city would finance them with a revenue bond issue which may be sold an interest rate not to exceed per cent. If all goes well bids would be taken on the structures, next spring. Taylor and City Controller James A. Bickel said a legal opinion has been given by City Atty. Arthur W.

Frisk that the cumulative capital improvement fund may be tapped to pay the cost of the functional designs. Tap Cigarette Tax The capital improvement fund is derived from cigarette taxes returned to the city by the state. At the instigation of Bickel, the South Bend Public Transportation Corp. board of directors Tuesday agreed to have a representative co-operate with the architect in providing space in one of the garages as a bus transfer point. E.

Eugene Furry, head of the transit management firm that runs the bus system, will consult with the architect on the matter, Youth Council Stages Pray- at County Jail Assn, for the Advancement and sang civil rights songs in ernoon outside the St. Joseph of Colored People kneeled in prayer a 42-minute "pray-in" Tuesday aft; County jail. By LAURANCE MORRISON Tribune Staff Writer Twenty -eight members of the Youth Council of the National, READY FOR INNERBELT OPENING -Mayor Lloyd M. nerbelt system today at Washington and Chapin St. In the rear Allen sits beside City Engineer Lloyd S.

Taylor, who is at the seat, left to right, are J. Chester Allen Dan A. Clark and right hand wheel of his 1912 model Oakland car, as the two Dr. Gerald Sequin, of the South Bend-Mishawaka Area Champrepare for the ceremony opening the new segment of the in- ber of Commerce. CIT THROUGH A PAPER BARRIER The the barrier are, left, Stanley Ladd, president car breaks through a paper barrier bearing of the St.

Joseph County AFL-CIO Council, the All-America City emblem as the highlight and right, Stephen T. McTigue, executive of the opening ceremony. A motorcade then vice-president of the Area Chamber of Commade a round trip of the innerbelt. Holding merce. -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer ASK PURCHASE OF NEW BUSES Agency Seeks to Cut Operating Loss Of System By MARCHMONT KOVAS Tribune- City Government Writer Moves to purchase new buses and to make a technological study were made Tuesday by the South Bend Public Transportation Corp.

(PTC) board of tors in an effort to stem continuing operating losses. Despite increased bus service and route improvements made in mid-June, revenue is down from the same period a year ago, James A. Bickel, city controller, reported to the directors. Robert J. DuComb, attorney for the board, said petitions have been prepared to obtain tures for launching a $2 million bond issue to finance the purchase of new buses.Cleveland Firm Hired And the agency decided to hire the W.

C. Gilman firm of Cleveland, Ohio, to make the technological study even though Bickel, who is also controller for the PTC, advised that "there is no money for the study. After reviewing the financial statistics, the board felt that there will be funds available by the time the study is completed in about four months. Bickel reported that passenger revenues in June totaled $43,766, compared with $45,889 a year ago, and that revenue dropped from 61.25 cents a mile to date this year to 49.64 cents in June. A major factor in the revenueper mile drop is the increased mileage traveled by buses 585 in June, compared with 459 for June a year ago, said Bickel.

Fund Chances Slim Now Director William L. Harmon reported that the city has slim chances of obtaining federal funds immediately from the Housing and Urban Development Department to finance the bus Continued on Page 34 OUTH AM 3 Open Key Segment Of Innerbelt System A host of public and civic Mr. Allen, today participated in nerbelt segment to traffic. With City Engineer Lloyd S. Taylor at the wheel of his 1912 model Oakland touring car, and the mayor sitting beside him, the vehicle burst through a paper target bearing the All-America city emblem, as the highlight of the ceremony.

Hard on the heels of the lumvehicle was the mayor's Imperial limousine driven by City Controller James A. Bickel. Riding beside him was Miss Virginia Guthrie, executive secretary of the South Bend Civil Planning Inc. Council President Robert 0. Laven was next in the motorcade with a station wagon bearing members of the council.

Four-Block Stretch The section thrown to traffic is the four stretch from Washington Ave. to Lincoln Way W. and is an extension northward of Chapin St. Another segment, connecting Lincoln Way with Michigan St. at Marion and Madison Sts.

has been open for use since last fall. The new segments of the innerbelt constitute the northwest part of the system which is designed to provide a belt route around the perimeter of the heart of the city. Chapin forms the west leg, Sample St. the south leg and Eddy St. the east leg.

Eventually, a bridge is to be constructed over the St. Joseph River at Madison St. to carry north eastward on the route of Madi- son St. No Action on Bridge But no official action has been taken to build the bridge other than the adoption of a resolution by the Area Transportation Board that such a bridge ought to be built. It is expected that federal and state funds would be available to help finance its cost.

Officials of the South BendMishawaka Area Chamber of Commerce also participated in the opening ceremony today. The innerbelt was financed POLICE LOOK INTO Store, Boy Robbed; Man Attacked On Street A store was robbed at gunpoint of $100, a man was beaten with a pipe for no apparent reaof cash and knife after son and a teenager was robbed being threatened with a beating in separate incidents Tuesday. About $100 and a wallet containing $1 were taken in a holdup lat 3:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Hillview Dairy Store, 4122 Western by a who brandished a revolver and forced an employee to lie on the floor. Mrs.

Ada Wentzel, 48, of 3404. Ford a clerk, said the man entered the store holding his gun and told her to get on the floor behind the counter. Empties Cash Register Police said the robber emptied the cash register and ordered Mrs. Wentzel into a back room. While in the rear of the store, Mrs.

Wentzel told police, the bandit saw her wallet, containing $1, and took it. He then fled out a rear door after pushing the clerk down and throwing boxes on top of her, police said. She described the bandit as a Negro, 21, 6 feet, 150 pounds, slender build, wearing colored trousers and dress coat and a dark grey, small-brimmed hat pulled down to his eyebrows. Shaner Beaten Robert E. Shaner, 22, of Prairie was treated at St.

Joseph's Hospital Tuesday night for a skull fracture after he was beaten with, a pipe by three men Continued on Page 34 Seven other members were in the jail serving sentences for failure to pay fines for trespassing in a sit in April 29 at the South Bend Community School Corp. administration building. A second "pray-in" was announced for 4:30 p.m., today again at the jail. Ralph E. Bingham, 18, of 307 N.

Birdsell a youth council member who served two days in the jail, said the purposes of the second jail demonstration would be twofold. They are, he said, "the actions of Dr. Holt (School Supt. Charles c. Holt) and a corrupt power structure, but also the prevailing conditions that exist in the men's section of the county jail." Calls Conditions Filthy Bingham listed the conditions as "cockroaches, unsanitary toilet conditions, poorly prepared food, guards that neglect their duty, filthy sleeping conditions and many other abominable conditions." Told of the list by newsmen, Sheriff Elmer Sokol stated flatly there are no cockroaches or "vermin of any kind" in the jail.

He said that "absolutely" the food is healthful, adding that he eats prisoner fare four times a week and that department personnel eat the food too. "I don't have tablecloths and candelabra," Sokol declared, "but anyone can come and eat the food." The sheriff, with public funds, is responsible for feeding county and South Bend jail inmates. The cost of meals comes to about 40 cents per prisoner for each meal, the sheriff estimated. No Janitorial Services Of assertedly unclean cellblocks, Sokol said, "There is a large percentage of inmates who refuse to clean up and I don't have janitorial services." He added that some inmates manage to keep themselves clean but understandably fuse to clean up after other, messy prisoners. "To a certain degree I have to agree," said the sheriff, to condi- allegations of filthy sleeping tions.

And, he said, most of the time there is one guard for male prisloners and one matron for females. There are 61 male inmates in the jail and the guard must give medicine where prescribed, take care of canteen requests, and other duties. There are about 20 persons assigned to each eight-hour shift, "but we're lucky to have 14 with sick leave and days off," accordto Sokol. He added that he foresees a "serious need" for about 12 additional deputies when the new jail in the County-City being built, is finished in about a year. A demonstrator who spent one day in the lockup, Dr.

James T. Big Construction Projects Resumed Operations have resumed at all of the city's major construction sites following the solution of a series of labor disputes that idled building progress and led to a threeweek delay in construction. All construction trades are reported back to work at the sites of the American Bank Trust 27-story motor inn and office complex, the County-City the 15-story St. Joseph Bank office building and the twin-domed Athletic and Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame. Work at the four sites was halted when a contract dispute flared between the General Contractors Assn.

of South Bend-Mishawaka and members of the ironworkers and cement finishers. April sit-in were held. Ask for 'Our' Freedom Cushing, 31, told the "pray-in" group on Tuesday that the jail is "incredibly filthy, overcrowded and inhumane." Refers to Jury Report The sheriff, asked later about the commentary, acknowledged there are housekeeping problems in the jail and referred to the last two grand jury reports on the jail. The last report, in May, brief ly noted the low pay scale for the Sheriff's Department. The preceding report, in February, praised the sheriff for doing a (fine job despite inadequate facile ities.

The next report is due in September. Tuesday, after the group kneeled on the sidewalk in front of the sheriff's office, 116 S. Las fayette and said the Prayer in unison, Miss Norma Coppage, 21, demonstra: tion leader, read a prepared statement from the steps of Sheriff Sokol's office. She said, "It will be us, the youth of today, who will have to live with your laws after you are gone." With guitar accompaniment and singing "We Shall Over, come," the group moved to an alley beneath the windows of a tier of cells in which some of the demonstrators convicted in the officials, headed by Mayor Lloyd a ceremony opening the new inwith the bulk of a $1.5 million bond issue and was constructed by the Rieth-Riley Construction Co. The section from Washington to Lincoln Way is over right of way land that had to be purchased and cleared of buildings and dwellings.

Light fixtures still must be installed on poles in the center divider. liam D. Ruckelshaus, RepubliINDIANAPOLIS (AP), Wilcan nominee for the U.S. Senate, challenged his opponent today to a statewide series of debates on the national issues of this year's campaign. Ruckelshaus wrote Sen.

Birch Bayh, recalling that in 1962 Bayh issued eight challenges to then Sen. Homer E. Capehart, for similar face to face discussion of the issues. "Knowing your insistent attitude that Sen. Capehart debate in 1962, plus the real service we both know will be afforded the voters of Indiana by a full airing of the issues, I am sure you will accept my challenge with alacrity," Rusckelshaus wrote Bayh.

RUCKELSHAUS CHALLENGES FOE TO DEBATE 25 YEAR- -OLD DRIVER HURT The Tribune's Special Service ELKHART Mrs. Sandra K. Scott, 25, of 123 W. Hively complained of back pains after her car was hit in the rear by another auto at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday on Ind.

112 at the northwest city limits. Driver of the other car was Charles Bybee, 27, of 1015 Iowa Mishawaka, who, county police said, left the scene after the mishap. Police are continuing the investigation. As the singing proceeded out: side, catcalls could be heard from the barred windows, evi dently uttered by prisoners. Later, after the "pray-in" was concluded, a visitor in the cell Continued on Page 34 ELMER SOKOL SHERIFF PRAY-IN HELD AT COUNTY JAIL Demonstrators trespassing charges in an April 29 sit-in at the South Bend kneel in front of the Sheriff's office and official residence, 116 Community School Corp.

administration building. Rev. Joseph N. Lafayette adjacent to the St. Joseph County Jail, as A.

Schneiders, standing at right in white hair, leads the praythey pray for seven of their number committed to jail. The er. seven failed to pay fines after being convicted in city court on -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer.