Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 34, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 October 1979 — Page 3

Reassurance Severe weather only obstruction to adequate fuel supplies: Bowen

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosiers should have enough home heating oil to keep warm this winter, barring exceptionally abnormal weather, Gov. Otis R. Bowen says. “The quantity of heating oil this winter should be all right, so long as we don’t have a very cold or prolonged winter,” the governor said Thursday during a taping of the weekly “Report from the Statehouse”television show. Echoing an earlier report by his energy adviser, William J. Watt, Bowen said some spot

Merit in both approaches

Rentention of current bail systems advised

.INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana should keep both the private bail bonding system and a public bail system run by courts in some of its counties, a special legislative panel has recommended. Under the private bail bonding system, a defendant pays a bondsmen 10 percent of the bail, but does not get it back. The 10 percent serves as the bondsman’s fee for guaranteeing the bail. In some counties, courts allow a defendant to be released if he posts with the court clerk 10 percent of the bail. If he fails to appear for trial, he must raise the other 90 percent, but if he

Check of company buying surplus state equipment bounces

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The State Board of Accounts says the $22,500 check an Atlanta company used to pay the state for surplus computer equipment bounced. Examiners said TLW Financial, Inc., submitted the winning $25,000 bid to buy surplus computer equipment offered for sale in January. The company submitted a 10 percent deposit of $2,500, which cleared the bank, they said. On April 9, the auditors said, the state Department of Administration received a check from TLW for $22,500, the balance owed on the equipment previously used by the state highway commission. On April 10, state officials authorized a trucking company hired by TLW to pick up the equipment from a warehouse. But, the auditors said, “On April 25,1979, check No. 279 was returned. The bank upon which the check was drawn, Trust Company Bank, Atlanta, Ga., had stamped ‘insufficient funds’ on the face of the check. ” The auditors said D.C. Zimmerman, president of TLW,

School board reverses tablepickets teachers

ST JOHN, Ind. (AP) - The school board of this northwestern Indiana community has reversed the managementlabor roles that seem prevelant in teacher contract negotiations this year. The school board picketed its teachers on Thursday to protest slow progress in negotiations. •Frustrated when a nine-hour negotiating session Wednesday night failed to produce a settlement, the five board members wplked in front of several Lake Central schools as teachers entered the buildings for morning classes. The board members said they decided to picket because the teachers’ chief negotiator, Cjirolyn Smith of the Indiana StJate Teachers Associatation, reneged on a public pledge to settle the dispute if the board would allocate 55 percent of the sjtetem’s general fund budget foi* teacher salaries and fringe benefits.

heating oil shortages are possible in Indiana but can be handled without serious problems by shifting fuel from one section of the state to another. Bowen said gasoline supplies for October should be adequate to meet demand in Indiana, especially since the cold snap makes it unlikely the state will experience a driving boom similar to last year’s. Bowen also said a federal court decision limiting patronage employment in Chicago will have little effect in Indiana. The decision, handed down last

appears, the 10 percent deposit is refunded. In recommending retention of both systems, the special committee said Thursday there was merit in both approaches and the state should not commit itself exclusively to either one. The panel was established after extensive debate during the 1979 legislature. The House-Senate committee also moved closer to endorsing a proposal from Marion County Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith to provide stricter standards for awarding bail to those accused of crimes. The Goldsmith proposal, which would have to be ap-

told state officials the check was incorrectly processed by the bank, and the company had money to cover it. Arrangement was made to wire money directly to the state, but state officials said the wired funds were less than the amount owed and refused to accept them. Later in April, the auditors said, the state discovered only three of the four pieces of equipment had been picked up from the warehouse, and the other piece of computer hardware was still in state custody. The auditors said the problem arose because the state administration department misinterpreted the word ‘insured’ on the face of the TLW check. “They were under the impression it was similar to a certified check,” the auditors said. “It is our understanding it is printed on by a check-writing machine to insure against altering the amount of the check.” The Board of Accounts said the audit has been forwarded to the Indiana attorney general’s office and to the Marion County grand jury.

Ms. Smith said at a public meeting last week that the 55 percent arrangement would bring an immediate settlement to the negotiations, which began last March. A spokesman for the Lake Central Teachers Association said the 55 percent offer by the board Wednesday night brought verbal agreement on salary but other teacher demands on binding arbitration, dismissal procedures and a transfer policy remained unresolved. The system’s 270 teachers have authorized their bargaining team to call a strike between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19 if there is no contract agreement. Another negotiating session was scheduled for Thursday night. The picketing board members carried signs that read, “Let’s settle,” “Board will, ISTA won’t,” and “55 percent is all we have.”

month, prohibited Chicago from hiring only those who had worked on the campaigns of successful candidates for city offices. “To the best of our ability and to the best of my knowledge, we are following that right now.” Employees in several Indiana state departments, including the State Highway Commission, portions of the Revenue Department and the staffs of elected officials, are hired on a patronage basis. But state law provides only for a test of party membership,

proved by the full legislature, would allow bail to be revoked if a person released on bond committed another crime or violated restrictions placed upon him by the judge. It also would allow a judge to revoke bail if a criminal defendant threatened witnesses or destroyed evidence in the case. The proposal considered by the committee also included a provision allowing a judge to deny bail if there were convincing evidence the defendant would fail to appear for trial. Goldsmith said he was not advocating the denial provision, which was added by committee chairman Rep. Gene R. Leeuw,

Surprise inspection allegedly linked to Hatcher story

GARY, Ind. (AP) A surprise inspection of the Gary Post-Tribune offices has nothing to do with stories the newspaper has run this week concerning an apartment building owned by Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, city inspectors said. The Post-Tribune has criticized maintenance and enforcement of building code regulations at the building where two of eight tenants were threatened with eviction after refusing to pay their rent. No report was issued on Thursday’s inspection at the newspaper, which publisher Don Becker said was the first one of its type ever made at the 22-year-old building. “It is probably a lot more than concidentally linked to our Wednesday story about the mayor’s apartment building,” said Becker. Earlier, city officials reportedly reminded the city’s building inspectors not to release any information about their work.

Six Hoosiers vote no

WASHINGTON (AP) - Six Indiana’s congressmen voted with the majority Thursday as the House rejected an attempt to block President Carter’s oil decontrol program in a 235-135 roll call vote. Democrats Lee H. Hamilton, Philip R. Sharp and Andrew Jacobs Jr., voted no

CLOVERDALE TEXACO Special on Anti-Freeze

DOWGARD all season anti-freeze $039 W per gal. with any $ lO gat purchase Limit 2 per customer

not active work for the party. Some of those departments are required by law to have 40 percent of the work force belonging to the party not in power now the Democrats. Bowen said the ability to replace policy-level employees is his major concern. “I couldn’t run my office if I didn’t have aides who were compatible with me,” he said. On other matters, Bowen said he: —Continues to favor an increase in Indiana’s 8-cent-a-gal-lon tax on gasoline and diesel

R-Indianapolis, for discussion purposes. Some committee members speculated a law allowing bail to be denied might run afoul of the Indiana Constitution, which guarantees the right to bail for all crimes except murder and treason. The plan would require judges to take into consideration a defendant’s prior criminal record when setting bail. Leeuw said the committee would take final action on the Goldsmith plan later this month. Goldsmith, who has been investigating private bail bonding firms in Marion County, told the

state

The newspaper said inspectors were told information about their work could be released only through the office of Leland Jones, Hatcher’s executive secretary. Inspectors were told to beware of “innocent looking old ladies” who might be wired with tape recorders or who might be relatives of Post-Trib-une reporters, the newspaper said. The instructions were reported to have been issued in City Hall within earshot of the public. “It is our standard size inspection crew,” Jones said of the city workers who visited the newspaper’s building. He said the mayor had no comment on newspaper stories concerning the building he owns. Jones said there would be no reply to a report two city building inspectors were fired after the Post-Tribune published a story about buildings at Gary Municipal Airport which failed to meet city building codes.

along with Republicans Elwood H. Hillis, John T. Myers and Joel Deckard. Reps. Adam Benjamin Jr., John Brademas, Floyd Fithian and Dave Evans, all Democrats, each voted with the minority. They were joined by 124 Democrats and only seven Republicans. Republican Dan Quayle did not vote.

(|P

fuel to provide more money highway repair and said the legislature would be shirking its duty if it fails to approve it. “If they don’t, I think they are putting politics above their duty,” Bowen said when asked the chances of an election year tax increase. —Remains opposed to repealing Indiana’s mandatory onceayear motor vehicle safety inspection requirement. —Has no plans to seek any political office in the future, but does not rule out political involvement after he leaves office •

committee he expected thq grand jury to hand down preliminary indictments later this month. Goldsmith said he expects to recommend to the state Insurance Department, which regulates the bail bonding industry, that the licenses of at least three bondsmen be revoked for providing credit to accused criminals. State law prohibits bondsmen from providing credit. In addition, Goldsmith said he expects to recommend some additional revocations of the licenses of bondsmen who have failed to turn over to his office public records.

I TWO HOURS YOU WONT FORGET YOU SAW AND HEARD. '■lßMpresents a new television production of hiMutkt "THEMIRACLE JHL WORKER" JUb see, hear or spetik I Jblb Annie Sullivan set out to teach heron/yonething. I Patty Duke Astin I A W Igjtf as Annie Sullivan ■ .' " : |f and Melissa Gilbert j as Helen Keller. 1

Missing for a year Child's death spurs search for her sister

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - Juanita Allen has endured the nightmare most mothers fear but never have to experience. One of her children is missing and another is dead. Mrs. Allen has a message for her 16-year-old daughter, wherever she may be: “Lisa, please come home. Your sister is dead. We love you and need you here very much. ’ ’ Until three years ago, family members say, Lisa was a bright, thoughtful young girl. Then she met an older man, got involved with a different crowd and became a discipline problem. She ran away with that man last October, when she was 15 and he was 20. In the pre dawn darkness Sunday, 13-year-old Machelle Allen was struck and killed by a pickup truck on U.S. 12 near New Buffalo, Mich., about five miles from the Allen home between LaPorte and Michigan City, Ind. Except for one phone call shortly after Christmas, the family hasn’t heard from Lisa in the year since she ran away. And this week the search became desperate. So far, Mrs. Allen said, family members have contacted police, juvenile probation officials and prosecutors but no one has been able to help them find Lisa, “and we don’t have the money for a private detective.” “We don’t know what to do anymore.” said

Court battle over dog searches only beginning

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) A few dogs roamed Highland High School last spring, and their 2V 2 hour visit to the halls of learning has resulted in a lengthy legal battle that seems to have only just begun. U.S. District Court Judge Allen Sharp ruled on Thursday that the Highland system may continue to use trained dogs to search students for drugs while the American Civil Liberties Union challenges the practice in court.

SUNDAY, OCT. 14,7-9 CHANNEL 13

October 12,1979, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

Lisa’s uncle, John Reed. “There is so much sorrow in this family. This has just about killed all of us.” The situation has been complicated by the circumstances of Machelle’s death. She disappeared from her home for a few hours two week ago after an argument with her mother. She was found with one of the youths in the crowd Lisa had been involved with. Last Saturday, while Mrs. Allen was working, Machelle told her babysitter she was going to a service station next door for a soft drink. She took sl, leaving her purse behind, and disappeared. Macheile’s death has heightened the family’s worry about Lisa’s safety. “We heard a rumor once that she was sick and in a hospital in Denver, but we couldn’t find anything out about it,” Mrs. Allen said. She also was reported at one time in the South Bend area. LaPorte County police said they have done everything possible to find Lisa. “We sent teletypes out all over the nation,” sad county officer Larry Trueblood. “We’ve tried to follow every lead the family gave us.” Reed said the family doesn’t know what to do know, “except hope she hears about this or reads it in a newspaper and comes home. Or maybe someone else will read it and call us. ”

Sharp rejected the ACLU’s request for an injunction prohibiting the practice while it appeals a previous decision. On Aug. 30, Sharp ruled that Highland school officials didn’t violate students’ constitutional rights by sending dogs through the junior and senior high schools to sniff out drugs. The case stems from a March 23 search of Highland High School’s 2,780 students. The search resulted in the discovery of 19 students in possession of

what police termed “questionable items.” Police also found drugs or liquor in seven students’ cars. Similar searches were conducted at Crown Point and Lake Central school systems. ACLU attorney David Goldberger said Sharp’s denial of the injunction makes it “quite possible” Highland will use dogs in the schools while the ACLU goes through the long appeal process in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A3