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i -v. -u a v. vi vi vi Today's Chuckle Man is that peculiar animal who gets a hearty Jaugh out of an old family album and then looks in the mirror without so much as a grin. Comic Dictionary HYPOCHONDRIAC A woman who is always suffering from an habitual lack of ailments. ttwit Sunday, Sept.

24, .1961 THE SECOND FEONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Is Ionia Blasted tate GOP Leaders ost Miss Hart Heads Dem Delegates iVamed Chairman At Con-Con Caucus BY JAMES ROBINSON Lansing Bureau Staff ANN ARBOR Detroit music teacher Adelaide OK etuiio evampin In for Life' Study Labels Hospital Human Dumping Ground Neiv Workers, Facilities Planned Detroit Office, Lansing HQ Aimed at "62 Election Victory BY KAY COURAGE Free Press Politics Writer ST. JOSEPH Confident Michigan Republicans shook up their party structure here Saturday as the first step toward a 1962 election victory. BY HAL COHEX Frs Press Staff Writer John Doe, 28, is serving a life sentence in a Michigan institution for a crime he may not have committed. He has never been convicted of breaking a law. Mary Roe, 39, killed her husband with a shotgun blast.

Today she is walking about a free woman. She, too, has never been tried. Sound impossible It happens every week in Michigan. Each year scores of persons are charged with serious crimes but never get their day in court. They are committed to the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane as "incompetent to stand trial." Our treatment of these persons is outlined in cold, analytical terms in a Michigan Review report on our commitment laws and procedures.

fj mJ1LulM TrTTm i 8 4f i The Republican State Cen tral Committee. top policy makintr bodv in the nartv. Are most doctors don't understand the legal term' "incompetent." They often confuse it with legal responsibility for committing a crime. Doctors, too, like lawyers, judges and policemen, frequently let their feelings about the accused Influence their testimony, the study found. IT CITED one doctor who testified that the accused could co-operate with counsel but would be better off in Ionia.

Another doctor recommended commitment because the accused had "hostile and aggressive tendencies." Ionia, the authors charge, is too often a dumping ground for persons society is reluctant to send to prison because of uncertainty as to their mental condition. In fart, the study said, it is often more humane to commit to Jackson Prison than Ionia. At least in Jackson, there is a fixed term of years to serve. In Ionia, they note, most patients are in for life. The records show that from July, 1955, to December, 1960, 470 persons were committed to Ionia as incompetents, a rate of 84 a year.

In the same period, 105 were discharged, or 16 a year. Once a person is committed, he runs into the overcrowded, understaffed con-' ditions which hamper recovery, the authors say. In 1960, when the study was made, there were 1,484 patients and just four doc-Turn to Tage 4, Column 4 in which nine cases were recorded in Detroit (six-paralytic) and 10 outcounty (seven paralytic) none of them fatal. This is in great contrast to the 'jepidemic" which hit this area in-1958, the most recent "scare" year. Detroit had 650 cases that year, of which 339 resulted in paralysis and Greenlawn ramp is closed and some are mad and some are glad.

Ah, Wondrous Peace! Greenlawn Residents Hope It Lasts Forever Two University of Michi- can psychiatrists. John H. Hess and Herbert E. Thomas, ana two senior Law Review editors, Henry B. Pearsall and Donald A.

Slichter, made the study. They found an urgent need for an overhaul of Michigan's often conflicting and pointless statutes and a need for a change of direction at Ionia. Under our present laws there are three ways a person can be sent to Ionia: As "incompetent to stand when found innocent by reason of insanity as "not or as a criminal sexual psychopath. IT IS THE FIRST of these routes that lands most patients in Ionia, and it is this route with which the study is concerned. A person charged with a crime can be ruled incompetent by a Circuit judge if two or more court-appointed doctors (not necessarily psychiatrists) so testify.

Incompetent, the authors point out, does not mean insane. The law says if a person cannot assist his counsel at a trial, or does not understand the charge against him, that is enough grounds for commitment. However, to get out of Ionia, the law provides that the patient must be "restored to sanity." What happens when an accused person is examined by court-appointed doctors According to the study. Cohen Hart was named Satur day as temporary chair man to lead the 4D Democratic delegates to the Constitutional Con vention Oct. 3.

Miss Hart was elected at a caucus of 36 delegates at the Michigan Union here. She de feated attorney Melvin Nord of Detroit by a vote of 24-8. Although the Democrats chose no nominees for office at the convention, they did ask Miss Hart to submit questionaires to all delegates of both parties asking their views on an open convention with roll call votes at all meetings. Delegates seeking office will be invited to attend a second Democratic caucus at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Henrose Hotel in Detroit.

Delegates at the caucus also invited their Republican coun terparts to aid in forming a joint committee to meet this week and outline a program for the convention. HOPES FOR the planning committee dimmed after Republican State Chairman George M. VanPeursem wired the Democrats that the matter would be taken up at the full Republican caucus scheduled for next Saturday. This would be only three days before the start of the convention. VanPeursem said the St.

Joseph meeting had broken up by the time the telegram arrivied from Ann Arbor. However, some Republican leaders suggested that it might be possible to contact delegates and hold a meeting before the weekend. Gov. Swainson addressed the 36 delegates at the Michigan Union Building and urged that all activities of the convention be held in the open. "My own experiences tell me that much mischief is done in secret committee votes," the Governor said.

Gov. Swainson asked the delegates to work for basic im provements in the new Constitution. This included elimination of the $250,000 State-debt limitation, strengthening of the governor's power by dropping elections, for membership on the State Administrative Board, and authority for organization of metropolitan forms of government on a home-rule federated basis. 23 in deaths. Outcountry, there were two deaths and 57 paralysis victims among the 226 cases.

Health officials warn against apathy in receiving the full course of Salk vaccine inoculations. Although the vaccine has been available for years, many persons have still failed to make full use of it, they say. UtfAU Foreign Temps. TEMPERATURES AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY Aberdeen London Paris Berlin Copenhagen 57 Tokyo 68 Mexico City San Juan 63 Havana 57 Kingston 71 70 88 85 89 Oslo Rome Madrid Casablanca 54 Maracalba, Ven.

93 77 Bermuda 82 81 St. Thomas, V.I. 87 73 romnuuiieni kept him Former congressman Alvm M. Bentley, although a con-- servative, has backed Dr;" James K. of the University of Michigan.

Bentley wants to prevent Romney or any other delegate from using the convention chairmanship as a stepping stone to the Governor's ofice. In other action the State Cen, tral Committee urged the Re- publican convention delegates to "rise to the responsibility and challenge of the Constitu-- tional Convention." I The committee also censured; Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara for blocking the -Senate confirmation of Federal. Judge John Feikens, appointed to the Detroit Federal bench by President Eisenhower. Delegates Back Open Con-Con A poll of delegates to th State Constitutional Con-; vention showed 121 defi- nitely pledged to support! open meetings of the con- vention and its committees. The views of 20 of the I 144 delegates were unre- corded in the Associated Press survey.

Three delegates were listed as op- posed to a fully open convention. II ever, the survey found "a definite feeling" among many of those supporting open committee meetings that committees should have authority to go into executive session. Such a move would have to be ordered by a majority vote of the committee, with the vote taken in open-session, the consensus of delegates indicated. There was no opposition to the premise that all votes be taken in public, both in committees and in general sessions. Michigan's Fallout Count Dips Sharply The State Health Department's radioactivity count Saturday fell to a reading of 10.1 micromirocuries after a 98.2 count Friday.

A department spokesman said the readings "vary tremendously" from day to day because of weather conditions. Danger from a high count is almost impossible to determine, scientists say. But they agree that it depends on the length of time the fallout count stays high. Talks Slated On Con-Co li The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes will hold a conference in Detroit Monday and Tuesday on what the Constitutional Convention means to Its members. The conference will cover tax issues, reapportionment, the possible effects of the conven tion on public employes and recommendations.

Thomas Cosgrove, the Federation's international a-tional representative will chairman. pressway) were there for their personal benefit. They used them for drag strips." City officials say this is the trouble: Greenlawn is a half-mile road. It is midway between Livernois and Wyoming, where there are also ramps to the expressway. While Livernois and Wyoming are business streets, however, Greenlawn is residential.

It is 28 feet wide. a AND, IX THE two blocks from the ramps north to Puritan, Greenlawn has Post Junior High School at 8200 Midland and Fitzgerald Elementary School at 8145 Puritan. Director of Streets and Traffic Alger F. Malo said there have been scattered complaints from drivers "a few letters and phone calls" since the blockade. At the Livernois ramp, Malo said, the closing of Greenlawn made little difference.

At the Wyoming ramp, he said there was "a little congestion'' in the left turn lane. He said he felt that would straighten itself out. Most of the complaints from drivers concerned the extra distance they had to drive to get downtown or get home. Before the ramps, only 700 cars used Greenlawn daily. With the ramps, more than 7,000 cars did.

With the ramps blockaded, only 2,500 cars are using it now. OFFERED BY FREE unanimous approval to a broad reorganization plan. The overhaul will include opening a well-staffed metropolitan office in the Detroit area; expanding and moving the Lansing office into new quarters, and building a larger staff of grass roots organizers. Cost of the expansion will be at least $75,000 for the remainder of the year, according to John A. Gibbs, executive assistant to Republican State Chairman George M.

Van Peursem. The action came at the wind-up of a three-day conference here, devoted to celebrating the GOP Constitutional Con vention victory and planning for the first full meeting of the 99 Republican convention delegates. The new Detroit-area office will be staffed by a full-time director, a public relations as sistant, several field organizers and clerical help. Lansing headquarters will be moved from the present 11-year location in a reconverted house to modern offices in the Hollis-ter Building. The' staff eventu ally will be doubled, with most emphasis on new field men to serve county and district GOP organizations.

REPUBLICAN leaders wrapped up the conference expressing optimism that they will be able to agree on a convention chairman at next Saturday's Lansing meeting of the 99 GOP convention delegates. Of the 50 convention delegates who attended the conference, most left here Saturday uncommitted to any of the announced and unannounced candidates. Former Senator Edward Hutchinson, of Fenville, who has become the rallying point of party conservatives, was the first to make a formal announcement. Hutchinson, who served ten years in the Senate and four years in the House, is backed by former State Treasurer D. Kale Brake and Stanley Powell, lobbyists for the Michigan Farm Bureau.

George Romney, president of American Motors and an Oakland Country delegate, spent a day wooing other delegates, although he said he was rot seeking the chairmanship. Romney and Hutchinson represent the two extremes of party philosophy among the delegates. As a result, neither is likely to get the Job. CHANCES of Michigan State University President John A. Hannah were hurt by his failure to appear here.

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to receive your copy of this vital booklet, use the on Page 14-D today. Only 5 Polio Cases in '61 "I could tell you stories for hours about this street," she said. "We had quite a few close calls. One day my son (Jerry, 4) was playing on his bike in front of the house. I glanced away for a second and when I looked back, he was sitting in the middle of the street.

"I ran out there and got him. It was just like an expressway out there." A couple of years ago, Mrs. Keyes started a campaign. She began to write the City about the speed of the cars, about the lack of stopsigns, about a red light. She went door- to got signatures for a petition asking: that Sudomler the ramps be closed.

She sent it 100 names long to the City. Mrs. Keyes even considered a human barricade. "If they open those ramps again, I'm going to close them," she said. "I'm determined." HER VIEWS are shared by her neighbors.

0 Mrs. Donna Howard, 28, of 15481 Greenlawn, a half block from the ramps, a mother of three children ranging in age from 18 months to 5 years: "They (the cars) went awfully fast and there were so many of them. They (the drivers) didn't seem to pay any attention to the school zones at all." 0 Mrs. Geraldine Atkins. 39, of 14684 Northlawn, a block west of Greenlawn and the ramps, a mother of six children ranging in age from four to 19: "It was always bad after school.

It was hard for the children to cross. And some teen-agers seemed to think that the ramps and the service drive (along the ex Work to Shut E. Congress A four-block section of E. Congress from Orleans to the Chrysler Expressway will be closed permanently Monday as part of redevelopment plans for Lafayette Park. Traffic on Congress, a oneway westbound street, will be shifted in the area to the new divided E.

Larned roadway and will return to Congress west of the expressway. BY WILLIAM SCDOMIER Free Press Staff Writer Greenlawn has changed and most people who live on the street between Fenkell and Puritan aren't complaining. Net a bit. They're hoping it stays the way it is: Peaceful. They're hoping the City will keep its blockades on the en-trance and exit ramps that lead to Greenlawn from the John C.

Lodge Expressway. THEY HOPE the blockades will be there beyond the end of the 90-day test period that began Sept. 5 and will end Dec. 5. They hope they will be there forever.

The ramps were built five years ago at an estimated cost cf $60,000. They opened sensible-serene Greenlawn to the whiz-bang civilization that is best exemplified by the expressway at 5 p.m. on a weekday. Greenlawn people were frightened. Cars whipped around the corner off Jhe ramp, zipped up the street.

Trucks rumbled by, shaking the pavement under the feet of the kids at school crossings. OXE OF THE terrified was Mrs. Patricia Keyes, 27, an attractive, articulate, determined mother of five who lives at 15493 Greenlawn a half block north of the ramps. Mich. Temperatures (U.S.

Weather Bureau) Pre. Pre. Aloena 64 55 .00 Jackson 68 66 .04 Bav Citv 64 59 .07 Lansing 65 60 .21 DETROIT 7S 45 tr. Marquette 52 42 .00 Escanaba 56 43 .13 Muskegon 63 58 24 Flint 67 62 .07 Pellston 60 54 .85 G. Raoids 63 59 .49 S.

Marie 56 51 .18 Houghton 51 42 .06 Trav. City 61 55 tr. Michigan Forecast Detroit area: Rain and Cooler with northeast winds 8-15 mph. High 62-66, low AREA FORECAST SE and SW Lower Rain and cooler with northeast winds (-IS mph. Low 52-58, high 60-64.

NE and NW Lower Rain with little temperature change. Northeast winds t-15 mph. Low 48-54, high 56-62. and Upper Mostly cloudv and cool with occasional rain. Variable winds.

Low 31-44, high 52-51. Monday's outlook: Partly cloudy, cooler. Lake Conditions LAKE ST, CLAIR, HURON: Small craft warnings. Chance of rain with east winds 13-25 mph Sunday. ERIE, ONTARIO: Small craft warnings.

Chance of rain with East winds 17-28 mph Sunday. MICHIGAN: Small craft warnings. Scattered showers with east winds 18-28 mph entire lake Sunday. SUPERIOR: Small cref warnings In effect from Eagle Harbor eastward. Chance of showers with east to southeast winds 14-23 mph.

Day of Autumn Just Like First U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast to 7 a.m. Sunday Booklet Is Available On 'Better Grades' One dollar could spell the difference between flunking out or getting good grades in school. jsK- 30 Oaia fnm U.S. WfATHl Health authorities say it is "absolutely amazing" that Wayne County has had only five polio cases this year.

The cases have all been the paralytic type, four in Detroit and one outcounty. But none have been fatal. THUS, 1961 is turning out to another low-incident year, as was 1960, Second U.S. Temperatures (14 Hours Ended at I P.M.) Official Government Figures MIDWEST Pre. Pre Bismarck 54 33 .33 Kansas C.

51 .09 Chicago 63 S7 1.67 Milwauk. 57 52 .18 Oncnnatt B9 66 M. 50 38 Cleveland 85 67 Omaha il 43 .23 Moines 49 46 .23 St. Louis 91 66 Duluth 52 31 EAr Albany 88 58 Pittsbrgh 87 0 Boston 72 64 tr. Me.

76 63 Mew York 90 66 Washingt. 90 67 Philadel. 88 63 SOUTH Atlanta 89 67 Miami 85 79 Birming. 93 66 N.Orleans 87 68 Jacksonv. 89 66 Paleigh 89 60 Louisville 90 68 Richmnd 91 63 Memphis 92 69 Tampa 93 71 WEST Aibuouer.

77 53 Okla.City 88 72 Denver 58 40 .41 Phoenix 87 65 El Paso 88 60 Port. 69 4 Ft.Worth 92 73 SanFran. 66 56 LasVegas 84 58 Seattle 66 42 L.Angeles 75 57 National Summary The firs day of autumn has been sunny and unusually hot over most of the East and across the Southern states into Texas. Meanwhile very cold air continues to cover much of the Midwest and near-wintertime weather was noted in Central Montana where snow has been reported at mountain stations most of Saturday. Very active shower and thunderstorm activity has occurred in the cool air aiong the stationary front which sepa rates these two sharply contrasting air masses.

Readings in the warm an- across southern and eastern portion country Saturday afternoon were the 90s and much above normals. The 92 degrees recorded Sarasota, set a new record for this date and at Tampa. the high of 93 eauals the record set previously in 1951. Saturday's high at the Baltimore. city office was 92.

This is the 12th day this month with readings of 90 degrees er higher and exceeds the previous record for number of days with 90 degrees or higher for September. mO at One dollar will buy "You Can Get Better Grades," a booklet being offered once more by The Detroit Free Press in answer to thousands of requests. Over 23,000 of the "You Can Get Better Grades" booklets were sold to Free Press readers last winter. Since then, letters and phone calls asking how to get more copies have been coming in to the Free Press. Irvin G.

Wolf, principal of Denby High School, says, "A number of our teachers and all of our counselors are most anxious to have a copy of this booklet." Dr. Huldah Fine, district ad ministrator of the Detroit pub lic schools, says, "It is good to see all of the study devices, which teachers try so hard to encourage as they work with Uatfl Sunday Hm Raw law T.waarahww nrd Local Statistics (T QD FULL Sept. 24 LAST Oct. 1 NFW -Oct. FIRST Oct.

17 Sun rises a.m., sets 6 m. Moon rises 6:20 p.m., sets a.m. One year ago Sunday: Low 63, high 71. Record temperatures Sept. 24 since 1871: Low 34 (1887), high 89 (1891)..