Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 286, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1979 — Page 3
Mixed emotions greet court's latest move in Indy school busing suit
By JAN CARROLL Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than 10 years after the desegregation of Indianapolis schools was placed in the hands of a federal judge, the city is still batti. g over busing. It is a • 'oblem that faces other Midwestern cities as the opening of fall classes draws near. In Columbus, Ohio, the public schools are ready to bus 37,000 of the system’s 83,000 pupils as part of a plan that was held up last fall by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Cleveland, school officials have yet to schedule the opening day of fall classes. Pending in Kansas City is a two-year-old desegregation lawsuit that has the potential to affect
Coleman pledges new effort to hike gas tax
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The chairman of the Indiana House Roads and Transportation Com mittee says he will try again to win legislative approval of an increase in the state gasoline taxi Rep. Thomas Coleman, RNew Castle, told reporters after a legislative study committee meeting Wednesday he plans to introduce a bill to raise the tax, now 8 cents a gallon, but has not worked out specifics. Coleman said he was leaning toward recommending a flat increase in the tax on each gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel sold in Indiana, rather than basing the tax on other factors, such as price. “I’m not too enthusiastic about anything other than gallonage,” Coleman said. He has all but rejected proposals to change the gasoline tax from a levy on gallons sold to a percentage of the sales price, a tax which would be
Heating oil projections 'phony'
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The federal government may be lulling Americans into abandoning energy conservation by being overly optimistic in its projections on home heating supplies, a Midwestern energy official says. William J. Watt, chairman of the Midwestern Regional Advisory Board to the U.S. secretary of energy, said Wednesday Carter administration projections of an adequate supply of home heating oil are “a phony statistic.” Watt, also energy adviser to Gov. Otis R. Bowen, urged U.S.
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pupils on both sides of the Missouri-Kansas line. For the third time in the complicated legal history of the Indianapolis case, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stepped in to block the implementation of cross-district busing ordered by U.S. District Judges. Hugh Dillin. Indianapolis Schools Superintendent Karl Kalp greeted Tuesday’s appeals court action with mixed emotions, saying, “it’s like seeing your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.” Dillin has supervised the Indianapolis desegregation case since the suit was filed in May 1968. During the intervening years, Dillin has ordered busing within what once was the old
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similar in concept to the existing state sales tax, he said. “Gas prices are going to be so crazy from now on, we can’t rely on it as an index,” he said. Coleman said the only other alternative would be to peg the gasoline tax to an index such as total state sales tax collections. One possible alternative, he said, would be to provide for an automatic penny-a-gallon gasoline tax increase every time state sales tax collections jumped 10 percent. All attempts in the past several legislative sessions to increase the gasoline tax were defeated. During the 1979 session, unsuccessful attempts were made to raise the tax two cents a gallon and to change the tax from one on gallons to one on price. Gasoline tax revenue is used for state highway construction and maintenance. The last two legislatures have provided additional funds for highways
Energy Secretary-designate Charles Duncan to set the record straight so Americans will not be lulled into a false sense of security. “I fear that conservation will lag, based on the false optimism expressed by the (Carter) administration,” Watt wrote Duncan. “Yet, we cannot afford a slippage of conservation.” Watt said Energy Department projections on home heating oil supplies are misleading. “Mr. Schlesinger’s forecasts of adequate heating oil stockpiles at the refinery level have amounted to an announcement
city limits of Indianapolis, population 708,867, before its boundaries were extended by state law to encompass nearly all of Marion County, population 7%,400. The legislation did not consolidate the school districts within the county, and that has been a roadblock for desegregation. Dillin has said that for any plan to be effective, the suburban school districts must be included. Dillin’s latest order, which was blocked by the appeals court, would have bused 6,000 black pupils to the predominantly white suburban districts. Attorneys for the suburban school systems sought the delay until the case can be resolved on
from general tax money, approving $l5O million in additional highway aid this year. But Coleman said it probably will be impossible to significantly increase that amount next year because the nationwide recession is likely to cut tax collections by the state, reducing the prospect of a sizeable increase in the state’s general fund surplus. Coleman spoke after a meeting of a special legislative study committee on local highway needs. He said the committee, which is conducting its study both this summer and next, will concentrate on whether counties, cities and towns are spending their highway money wisely, instead of whether they need more aid. The need has been clearly demonstrated by earlier studies, he said, adding, “We realize the need and know it is there.”
that the current fuel pinch has ended. The facts do not bear that out,” Watt said, referring to outgoing Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. * Watt said that Schlesinger and other federal energy officials have said that heating oil stockpiles will reach 240 million 42-gallon barrels at the refinery level by Oct. 1. But Watt said that is a minimally adequate level only if inventories at the wholesale and jobber levels are also near normal.
appeal, adding that there was not adequate time to prepare for pupil reassignments. Oral arguments are scheduled before the appeals court in October. “The issues before the court will be whether the district court order went too far, as claimed by the suburbs, or not far enough, as claimed by Indianapolis,” said Tom Atkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has sided with
Criminals, speeders and illegal truckers targets of state police
By DANIEL BEEGAN Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana State Police Superintendent John T. Shettle says criminals, speeders and illegal truckers have the most to fear from his officers this year. Shettle says crackdowns on those wrong-doers are among his top priorities for the rest of 1979. The priorities, he said, have been presented field commanders as part of his management objectives program, an effort to set specific goals for the improvement of law enforcement. “By using a selective enforcement technique, a kind of task force approach, we can move around and concentrate on major enforcement areas,”
Phone loss blamed on 'political revenge' PERU, Ind. (AP) Peru Mayor Larry Oyler claims “political revenge” by city council members is costing him his office telephone. “The telephone is being removed in the morning,” Oyler said in an interview by phone Wednesday night. “I’ve got a lame duck council that is hurting the citizens of Peru by their action.” The council, which claims Oyler has made long distance calls when he should have written letters, tabled a request from the mayor on Monday for additional funding for his office telephone. “I may be the only mayor of a city of 15,000 persons who o has an annual budget of SSB for long distance phone calls,” Oyler said. “I have to make two or three calls a week, talking to other mayors, state officials and the Indiana Cities and Towns Association.” Oyler added that his phone budget for 1979 had been cut to $325 from the $340 appropriated in 1978. Oyler used up his $325 budget for an office telephone and asked the council to approve an additional S3OO to finance phone service until Jan. 1. When the council refused to approve the funds, Oyler, a Democrat, announced he would not resubmit the matter to the council and would let the phone be removed. The council of five Democratic and two Republican members, said it rejected the request because Oyler made long distance calls when he could be writing letters. “I’m a former council member and I think the head of the council (Richard Weinke) wanted the job and felt he couldn’t beat me, so this is the way he’s acting. He didn’t run for reelection. Most of the council isn’t coming back, so they’re just trying to be a pain until they’re out of office,” Oyler claimed.
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Indianapolis schools in the case. The delay in busing is a question mark for 300 IPS teachers who were told last spring that they would not be needed as a result of pupil reassignments to suburban schools. Presumably, Indianapolis schools will attempt to hire most of them back. In neighboring Ohio, Columbus is proceeding with its busing plan, which was upheld this summer by the U.S. Supreme Court, along with the one used
Shettle said in interview Wednesday. He said he is working on programs to increase criminal law enforcement because reports show a 19 percent increase in major crime in Indiana the first quarter of this year. Shettle said he is trying to develop a program to allow the same types of effort for criminal enforcement as for traffic enforcement, such as buying back days off. “There is no reason it can’t be done in crime fighting as well, and this is what I’m working on with our field commanders,” he said. The crackdown on speeders, he said, includes such projects as Operation Care, a multistate enforcement effort on long
in Dayton, where 13,000 pupils were bused last year. But the big question facing Columbus, the second-largest school system in the state, is where it will find the money to pay for busing. In Cleveland, where local officials have yet to schedule the opening day of classes, a limited desegregation program, involving 17,000 of the system’s 97,605 pupils, is set to begin this fall. About 6,000 of them will be involved in two-way busing. The implementation of Cleve-
holiday weekends, and Project 55, an instate effort being conducted through early September. Under Project 55, federal traffic safety money is used to pay troopers to work their days off, placing more police on the highways, Shettle said. In the trucking area, additional training is being provided road patrol officers to allow them to better inspect trucks and truck log books and to learn more about weighing trucks, he said. “We’ll be stepping up truck enforcement in the days to come,” Shettle said. “We’ve increased our activity in the truck inspection and weight areas, as well as in moving violations.” Shettle said the increased emphasis on highway safety has been ordered because traffic fatalities are running about 50 ahead of last year. Shettle said even though he has ordered an increase in enforcement, no arrest quotas have been set for individual officers. “An officer involved in a major criminal investigation is going to have fewer traffic arrests. It’s an overall thing,” Shettle said. He said the number of arrests a trooper makes is taken into consideration in evaluating the officer, but is weighed against other factors, such as the officer’s assignment and where he works. Shettle said he expects to fully achieve a fourth major goal of the year, reducing to zero the number of vacancies in his department. Right now, he said, the department is short about 90 troopers, with 50 scheduled to graduate shortly from the latest state police training class. The other 40 or so, he said, should be trained and on the job by the first week in January.
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land desegregation hinges on the lifting of a stay imposed by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, pending a review of the Columbus and Dayton cases by the Supreme Court in June. With the appeals court action expected later this month, U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti has warned Cleveland schools to be prepared to proceed with the desegregation order. In Kansas City, a suit was filed in May 1977 asking the federal court either to consolidate area school districts or to bus pupils across district lines to desegregate public schools on the Missouri side of the metropolitan area. Eventually, the suit could affect students across the state line in Kansas suburbs as well.
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While the suit is pending, there currently is no busing for desegregation purposes in Kansas City schools. In Chicago, busing is part of* voluntary plan known as “Access to Excellence.” Busing isdevised around academic tematives and magnet schools which draw pupils because dt emphasis on a specialized riculum. This fall will be the second, year for Chicago’s desejf-' regation plan, which drew ticipation by 40,200 pupils. 7 Co-director Salvatore Vallina:' hailed it as “a fantastic, firsts year success. We had no corn" fusion, no fighting, no riots and* the whole school year went qui* v et and smoothly.” **'
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