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pointer only, per this section's rule
There is no Roseland patronage holder to name, because there was never a Roseland branch to hold. The patronage-era rule of this section is that the county's holder-by-holder record lives in the county's seat — South Bend, whose branch managers from 1949 to 1987 stand in the South Bend package — and this section prints only the pointer. The frame around it is documented at state size: the branches were "part of a political patronage system that generated money for the political party of the governor," their chairmen running branches "out of their cramped garages"; Governor Robert Orr "began the hard work in 1986" to remove the system, and the consolidation is credited to the O'Bannon and Daniels eras. A town that never held the branch contributes nothing to that record, and the absence is itself the finding: a patronage holder cannot be conjured for a seat that never existed, and no carrier prints one. The county's standing pairs ride here at pointer strength, as carried in the sibling builds: the takeover counts of 187 branches (Kokomo Tribune, 11 July 1986) against 189 (the IBJ retrospective) passing to the commission in 1988.
Sources: the IBJ patronage frame (commentary of May 5, 2008; editorial of October 7, 2022); the South Bend package (the 1949–1987 manager record); the Kokomo Tribune, July 11, 1986 (the 187 count); the IBJ retrospective (the 189 count).