Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 October 1973 — Page 7

Thursday, October 11, 1973

Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

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Blind Man Seeks Return To Teaching

By JON HA L VORSES Associated Press Hr iter POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y. (AP> Bruce Bevan reached for a coffee cup and tipped it over. He slammed his fist down on the table and stalked out of the kitchen, only to return minutes later feeling sheepish. His girl friend, Carol Stanislaw, 26, says that was a rare outburst of anger from the lean, 6-foot-tall teacher. And Bevan, who has had to learn the hard discipline of reaching for an object slowly, agrees. “My long suit, if 1 have any, is patience,” said the blind man who's involved in a battle against the school board in this

Hudson River city. Bevan, 39, is seeking to return to his job as a sixth-grade teacher, a position he held from 1962 until June 1970, when he began to lose his sight because of a long-time diabetic condition. Since his case became a public issue last spring, he says, -he has received scores of letters and more than a hundred phone calls. The entire class of a blind seventh-grade English teacher in Newton, Mass., wrote the Poughkeepsie School Board to argue in Sevan’s behalf. “Maybe you think that a blind man isn’t able to teach or

lead a group of kids, but to that I say you’re crazy,” pupil Tom Parker wrote to the board. But the school board, which last February sought Sevan's involuntary disability retirement with pension, has remained adamant. In a stormy public meeting last month, the panel voted 3-2 to appeal a July ruling by a state Supreme Court justice ordering the teacher reinstated. That’s where the dispute stands now. Bevan contends the board has nothing to lose by giving him a chance to prove himself. Board President Louis J. Kustas concedes the board is under heavy pressure because

of the natural sympathy for an “underdog.” “Sevan’s been preaching so long now he’s a polished performer,” he says. But Bevan says the support he’s received also makes him uncomfortable. “I’ve been made to look the martyr. And the cloak of martyrdom sits very ill on my shoulders.” A blind teacher cannot, by himself, maintain discipline, correct papers, use visual aids and supervise fire drills, especially “in a middle city school, which is one of the toughest places for any teacher,” Kustas argues.

“Unfortunately, we do not have funds for another teacher or even for an assistant to help him. That is the crux of the Bevan affair," he says. But Bevan insists he could handle a class alone. “The worst thing a handicapped person can do is rely on somebody else. If the aide was sick one day, man. I’d be in trouble.” Bevan, who is divorced and the father of a 10-year-old girl, says he has never doubted that he would return to the classroom. He was just hitting his stride as a teacher when he went blind, he says.

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Bankers Set Survey Of Consumer Attitudes; Must Live With Results

By JOHN CUNNIFF A P BUSI XES Analyst CHICAGO (AP)— America’s bankers asked for it and they got it, straight from the customer’s mouth. They commissioned a survey of consumer attitudes toward banks and banking services, and now they must live with the facts. The bankers got plenty of compliments from the customers, but they also got negative responses. First the good news. “There has been a general tendency to view banking institutions as safe, trustworthy.

almost parental institutions," the researchers found. “While many consumers tend to see their own financial decisions as childish, they have tended to view banks as exercising a form of parental control,” the customers told the bankers. But then, like precocious youngsters, they gave the parents a mouthful. Many customers, the researchers found, are gradually coming to view banks as large, impersonal, bureaucratic and even exploitive. They feel the bank snares them and charges them for handling their own money. “If they can get your cash for a week they can make a tremendous profit by lending it,” said one respondent. The survey, released at the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association this week, also had lots of comments about “the rigid, unresponsive bureaucracy” of the banks and the services offered. “Have you ever tried to change a payment schedule?" asked customers who felt they had to adjust to petty demands of machinery. “You have to come back three or four times and sit an hour before you can get it right.”

Lack of teller services, especially during the bu y lunch hour, was a frequent complaint, and “a general belief that banking hours are established for the convenience of bank personnel rather than consumers," was detected. Branch managers got mud in the eye. “These branch managers are no more than glorified office boys today. They just take everything to headquarters and come back and tell you what the decision was,” said one. As automation increases, so does customer frustration. The intensity of the hostility presented by man-machine interactions apparently is greater than that of person-to-person confrontations, as witness this tale: “I was in this gas station and a fellow came up and put a quarter in the soda machine and nothing came out. He really wanted a soda so he dug in his pocket for two dimes. Nothing came out. He didn’t even get his nickel back. “So, he took out the biggest gun I’ve ever seen in my life and shot it five times. Honest to God, I just got a warm feeling. It felt good. The machine was totally destroyed."

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Newsmen File Counterattacks

BALTIMORE (AP> — A group of newsmen and news organizations who had been ordered to name the sources of stories about the criminal investigation of Spiro T. Agnew filed legal counterattacks in federal court here yesterday. Motions to quash subpoenas issued by Agnew’s lawyers were filed on behalf of two news magazines and reporters for The New York l imes. New York Daily News, Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, the Washington Star-News and the CBS and NBC television networks. Lawyers representing reporters for the Star-News and CBS also asked U.S. District Court Judge Walter E. Hoffman to permit the newsmen to sit in when Agnew’s lawyers take depositions from top Justice Department officials concerning news leaks. Agnew has claimed there was a campaign of news leaks prejudicial to him and won authority from Hoffman to subpoena anyone involved in the investigation, including government officials and newsmen. The Justice Department, in a formal brief filed earlier, denied that anyone in the department was the source of news leaks about the Baltimore grand jury investigation of extortion and bribery allegations against Agnew. Subpoenas obtained by Agnew attorneys ordered the Thursday appearance of nine reporters and two news organizations: Time-Life Inc.; PostNewsweek Inc., and reporters Richard Cohen of The Washing-

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$300 Million Worldwide

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-Eli Lilly and Co. announced plans today for capital expenditures of more than S300 million for its worldwide operations from 1973-76. The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company also announced its stock is being listed for the first time outside the United States on three Swiss exchanges. ‘We hope this move will serve our shareholders here by making trading and long-term investment easier and, at the same time, help to make Eli Lilly better known in Europe,” Richard D. Wood, Lilly chairman, said. “If the present trends continue, we believe that within four to five years we will reach the point at which one-half of our sales will come from countries outside the U.S.,” Wood said. On the expansion program. Wood said the company would be adding to or modernizing “nearly every plant in the U.S. and outside the country—and building some new ones.” He said a construction and expansion program already is under way in Italy, Britain, France, Spain, Germany and at Indianapolis. The company also announced two new products, Fenoprofen, an anti-inflammatory analgesic expected to aid arthritis sufferers, and cefazolin, an injectable antibiotic.

Fenoprofen is being introduced in the Republic of South Africa and cefazolin is being marketed in Ireland. Estimated third quarter sales of S219 million, up 16 per cent from the same period a year ago, were announced. Net income for the same period is about 15 per cent. The company said the strongest growth was in international operations. The company’s estimated nine-month sales are S745 million, 19 per cent higher than the same 1972 period. Sharp To Resign INDIAN APOLIS( AP) Judge Allen Sharp of the Indiana Court of Appeals, newly confirmed as a judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana, advised Govi Otis R. Bowen and the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission today he will resign from the appeals court effective Nov. 1. The nominating commission immediately invited northern Indiana lawyers to apply for appointment to fill the vacancy on the appeals court bench. Judge Sharp has not submitted his formal resignation, but announced his intentions of resigning effective Nov. 1.