Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 56, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 November 1979 — Page 2
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Sniper kills three, wounds five in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS IAP) A policeman and two civilians were killed as a sniper held nearly 100 police at bay for 90 minutes Tuesday night. Five others were wounded in the bloody incident on the city 's far westside, police said. “Throw out your gun and come to the door, Richard," police pleaded with the sniper over a bullhorn. "If you can’t walk out the door, crawl to the entrance.” The sniper, identifier! as Richard D. Moore, 48, came to the screen door of the home on his knees with a gunshot wound in his abdomen, police said. After Moore reached the partially-open front door of the house, police fired tear gas into the building while a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team crashed in from the rear. The dead officer, who lay behind a squad car 10 feet from the front door while officers pleaded with the sniper and finally stormed the modest, white-frame house, was identifier! as Patrolman Gerald F. Griffin. Police said Griffin, a policeman since 1972, was shot in the back with a shotgun. Also killed were Moore’s exwife, Ronda Moore, and her father, John Caldwell Sr. His wife, Burdine, was wounded critically. The shootings apparently were sparked by a domestic squabble between Moore and his wife, whose divorce became final last week, said Capt. Tim Foley, head of the Indianapolis homicide division. Moore went to the home of his parent’s-in-law, and opened fire on the three, killing his wife and father-in-law, Foley said. Three other police officers were wounded in the shooting, officials said. They were identified as Lt. Ciero C. Mukes, shot in the face and listed in serious condition, and Patrolmen Amos E. Atwood and Roy E. Potter, both reported in fair condition.
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Women big municipal winners
By DANIEL BEEGAN Associated Press Writer Women were big winners in Indiana’s municipal elections, increasing their numbers in mayor's chairs from two to 11 six Republicans and five Democrats. But the state’s senior woman mayor. Republican Margaret Prickett of Mishawaka, was a loser in Tuesday’s voting. Mrs. Prickett was defeated by Democratic former state Sen. Robert Kovach by a margin of about 450 votes. The other woman city hall veteran. Republican Mayor Mary Jane McMahon of Frankfort. won a solid re-election vie-
Cutting control
By DARRELL CHRISTIAN Associated Press Writer Republicans won the numbers and Democrats the prizes in Tuesday’s municipal elections. The GOP cut deeply into Democratic control of the cities, whittling a post-Watergate 77 to 38 deficit t 062 to 53. But the Democrats returned to power in Fort Wayne and Evansville, two of the state’s four largest cities, kept control in Gary, South Bend, Terre Haute and Bloomington and increased their strength in the urban areas that were the real battlegrounds in the jockeying for a 1980 power base. Democrats won 21 of 28 cities with a population of more than 20,000. That left Republicans with the smaller, more rural areas, and those were by a smaller 46-41 margin forged in sueli cities as Garrett population 4,700 where the GOP won the mayor’s office for the first time since 1933. Republicans retained control of the state’s largest city, with Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut 111 winning re-election by an expected landslide, and they took away Muncie, Anderson and Marion from the Democrats. "The results were encouraging in number, but we were disappointed by losses of some of our second-class cities, especially Fort Wayne and Evansville," said Allan Sutherlin, secretary of the GOP state organization. In an election without any real trend, the biggest winners were women, who increased their numbers in city halls from two to 11 six Republicans and five Democrats. There were 25 women candidates for mayor in 23 cities. Twenty-one incumbents cans were unseated, leaving 69 new faces for city halls next year. At Fort Wayne, the state’s second-largest city, Democratic city council president Winfield Moses Jr. ousted Republican Mayor Robert A. Armstrong by just 1,300 votes out cf more than 50,000 cast.
tory for a second term over Jessee Lee Younger, the Democrat. In West Lafayette, voters were guaranteed a woman mayor in a contest pitting Democrat Sonya Margcrum against Republican Kathleen B. Hunter. Mrs. Margerum won by a scant 63 votes. The state’s youngest mayoral candidate, former police dispatcher Cindy L. Brooks, 21, a Republican, lost in Delphi to in cumbent three-term Mayor Wayne Van Sickle, a Democrat. in Elkhart, Democrat Eleanor Kesim, wife of a pediatrician, defeated incumbent Republican Peter Sarantos by a
Hoosier light up lives
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Tom Lemons, a former Indianapolis resident, has turned on the lights for millions of people. Lemons, who has flipped the switch for Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building, Indianapolis Market Square Arena and the Panama Canal, got his start as an illumination engineer while still a student at Shortridge High School. He and a friend, Leon Shiman, made their pocket money by renting lighting equipment to local theatres. Shiman now is an illumination educator, formerly at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now at the University of Arizona. And Lemons is an illumination engineer and
Preparation for near future urged
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Unity is the keyword in coordinating future energy sources, a state official says. And the near future is more urgent than the distant future. “We have a lot of smarts,” said Dr. Robert Henderson, chairman of the state’s Solar Research Advisory Commission. “We’ll be able to take care of the year 2000. What we need to be worrying about are the years 1984 and 1985.” Henderson, who also heads the Indianapolis Center for Advanced Research, told the Scienteh Club Monday that the US. Department of Energy should spend less money on nu-
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GOP reduces its deficit in city elections
margin of more than 500 votes. Republican Patricia A. Logan also unseated a male incumbent in Noblesville’s voting, defeating Robert V. Wical, a Democrat who was seeking a second term. In Logansport, Republican Jone-Wilson defeated a fellow woman, independent Mary Cotner. and Democrat Anthony Sabatini for the mayor’s post. Mrs. Wilson discounted the role her gender played in the race. “I never felt the gender issue was a problem in the campaign,” she said. In Lebanon, incumbent Democrat Robert Campbell, a
optical systems developer in the Salem, Mass., firm he founded in 1970. His TLA Lighting Consultants has brightened Toronto Stadium, Boston Garden and the Longwood Cricket Club, to name a few. Market Square Arena is Lemons’ first hometown job. He was assigned to redesign the lighting at MSA as a consultant for an Indianapolis-based firm awarded the arena contract. The Indianapolis job, like Yankee Stadium three years ago, is a challenge “in that you have to answer the problem of the best lighting where a design already is there,” Lemons said. He re-aimed 870 lights in Yankee Stkdium to insure the Yanks “the best lighted stadium, which the city guaran-
clear power and more on commercializing other energy forms. ‘Two-thirds of an estimated $5.5 billion currently is tagged for nuclear energy, and utilities are fully imbued with the idea of the application of nuclear energy,” Henderson said. The nuclear industry should work with the government that nutured it in the 50s and 60s to develop practical heat pumps and solar components for the 1980 s, according to Henderson. “It would seem to me that now is the time to be working with respect to the commercialization of solar and cocservation, said Henderson
At Evansville, the fourthlargest city and scene of one of the hardest-fought and most expensive campaigns this fall, Democrat Michael D. Vandeveer ended eight years of Republican reign with a 3,000-vote victory over Randall Shepard. “The Democrats are back,” a jubilant Vandeveer said. “This is wonderful, absolutely wonderful.” Democrats also ousted Republican administrations in Kokomo and Mishawaka, where the state’s senior woman mayor, Republican Margaret Prickett, lost her bid for a fifth term to former state Sen. Robert Kovach. Women were elected mayors in Batesville, Carmel, Columbus, Elkhart, Frankfort, Greencastle, Logansport, Monticello, Noblesville, Scottsburg and West Lafayette. The women losers included Cindy L. Brooks, 21, in Delphi, youngest mayoral candidate in the state, who said she would have won had she been six years older. The winners included Frankfort Republican Mary Jane McMahon, who became the first mayor ever to be re-elected in that city. Another GOP winner was in Logansport, home of Democratic State Chairman Donald Michael, where the third-party campaign of Deinocrat-turnedindependent Mary Cotner drew enough votes to elect Jone Wilson. In Indianapolis, the election was over before most of the votes had been counted. Democratic city councilman Paul Cantwell took one look at his home precinct’s returns and conceded defeat just 30 minutes after the polls closed. Unofficial final returns gave Hudnut one of the largest election victories in the city’s history, with 124,515 votes to 43,955 for Cantwell. That translated to 74 percent for Hudnut, 26 for Cantv/ell. For Hudnut, a former oneterm congressman, the victory may foretell a run for the U.S. Senate or Congress in 1980 or 1982. He
three-term mayor, defeated Republican Jane Titus by a margin of about 900 votes. Experience, not gender, decided the election, Campbell said. “I believe I had done a good job in office and the voters appreciated the work we have done the last three terms,” Campbell said. Other women winners included Democrat Roberta G. Benz of Batesville, Republican Jane Reiman in Carmel, Republican Jane M. Harlan of Greencastle, Republican Dixie Blair of Monticellow and Democrat Zelma Gladden of Scottsburg.
teed them. And it is!” Lemons says “more energy efficiency” is the key word in lighting these days. He already has found that 30 lamps, which produce 3,500 watts each, will achieve the same effect as the same number of fixtures that currently use 20,000 watts each. The special lamps are not manufactured in the United States. They are the same type used at the Munich Olympics. He is helping write the Building Energy Performance Standard, a federal code. Lemons’ role is an important one because “lighting represents 30 to 50 percent of the energy consumed in commercial buildings,” he said.
Approximately 1,400 Workers at the Merom Power Plant construction site in Sullivan County, owned by Hoosier Energy, have walked off the job this week in an effort to obtain safer working conditions. The protest came Monday after an iron worker reportedly fell 50 feet at the plant and broke both wrists while working Friday. A
Right to vote at issue First election in 40 years sees 90 percent turnout
MARENGO, Ind. (AP) - They haven’t seen a day like Tuesday in four decades. It’s been that long since this tiny community elected local officials, but they turned out en masse this time nearly 90 percent of the registered voters. They walked down from the hills to the town hall by Brandywine Creek to enter their votes in makeshift polls with torn sheets tacked up for privacy. They even waited on street corners “just checking out the polls, just curious,” said one. The issue was not lower taxes or paved streets or even candidates. The issue was the right to vote. Marengo, which calls itself the poorest town in one of Indiana’s poorest counties, has long been concerned with sur-
refused throughout the campaign to commit himself to serving the full four-year term as mayor. Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, the state’s only black mayor and due to become president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1980, enhanced his position as an urban power broker in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination between President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass. Hatcher, who has switched from an Indiana finance chairman for Carter to officially uncommitted, won an unprecedented fourth term by pulling 75 percent of the vote against Republican outsider W. Robert Borman, a second cousin of former astronaut Frank Borman. At Marion, Republican service station operator Fred D Weagley, making his first run for political office, was an 1,-100-vote winner over embattled Democrat Richard Treber. Treber, the Grant County clerk who had upset Mayor Anthony Maiden " berg in the primary, was indicted just a week and a half before the election on theft charges for allegedly juggling official ac* counts. At South Bend, city council president Roger O Parent built a 2-1 margin to succeed retiring Mayor Peter Nemeth. Democratic Mayors Edward Raskowsky in Hammond and Robert Pastrick in East Chicago were re-elected handily, and Democrat Pete Chalos withstood a third-party candidacy by former Democrat to win in Terre Haute. The state’s two senior mayors, Republican Morris Settles in Lawrence and Democrat Elton Geshwiler in Beech Grove, each won a sixth term. And the youngest mayor, Peru Democrat Larry Oyler, won a full term after being selected in 1978 to fill, the vacancy left by retiring Edward R. Moon.
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vival. Neighbors had little time to worry if board members or the town’s treasurer were appointed the jobs passed on to willing friends since the town’s last election in 1937 or 1938. Folks don’t remember just when the last vote was held. But when two strong summer floods ripped through the town’s heart and a newspaper called “Hard Times,” emerged along with a new political party, people began to care. “The same people may win, but we still need to vote,” said A. E. Crecelius, 71, before the votes were tallied. The same people did win. A group of incumbents calling themselves the Citizens Party collected more than 60 percent of the votes. But Tuesday was a red-letter day in Marengo, regardless of election outcomes.
spokesman for Hoosier Energy, which will provide power from the new plant to Morgan County REMC, which in turn provides electricity to part of Putnam County, said the company's safety provisions are adequate and no chanqes are planned.
It was the finale to the first piece of campaigning the town has known in years. Fliers were distributed, and ads in area newspapers urged people to the polls and warned against votebuying. “This is quite a bit of effort for just a little town election, isn’t it,” said Carl Wible. an opposing town board candidate from an organization calling itself the People’s Party. Wible and the incumbent; board president, Hughes Mills,; spent the drizzly day leaning' against pick-up trucks outside , the tiny town hall, watching the progression to the polls. “This election has caused a lot of animousity in the town.’*; said the stony-faced Mills, who was named to his post some.time in the 19505. Mills blames it on the “new-comers,” which means almost everyone but Marengo natives.