Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 67, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 November 1979 — Page 3

Weather Speeds up harvest WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. (API Conditions were prime for harvesting operations in most portions of the state last week, agricultural statisticians at Purdue University say. Earl L. Park, chief statistician for the U.S. Agriculture Department at Purdue, said Monday corn harvest at 85 percent is still behind the 90 percent harvested by this time last year, but ahead of the 80 percent usual progress. Soybean combining is now 98 percent complete, matching progress of last year and the five-year average, Park said Corn harvest is 70 to 85 percent complete in the north, 85 to 90 percent complete in central counties, anc 85 to 100 percent complete in the south. Park said. Seeding of the 1980 winter wheat crop is complete, and 90 percent of the crop has emerged, on par with last year and the average. Park said. Plowing of crop lands for next spring is about 40 percent complete, still ahead of the 35 percent average.

Quayle given slim lead over Bayh in poll

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A poll released Monday by Indiana Prairie Farmer magazine shows Rep. Dan Quayle with a slim lead over Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh for U.S. senator. The magazine said 347 farmers in 33 counties answered questions for the poll. Quayle, one of two Republicans seeking the Senate nomination,

Court upholds Robinson verdict

‘INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The burglary and arson convictions of Manuel Lee Robinson, tried in connection with the sensational Marjorie Jackson mur-der-burglary-arson case, have been upheld by the Indiana Court of Appeals. Mrs. Jackson, a gorcery chain heiress, was slain in May 1977 and robbed of several million dollars hidden in her home. Robinson was convicted of burglary and arson, but was cleared of robbery and murder charges. Robinson argued Monday there was insufficient evidence to sustain his Marion Criminal Court conviction and that he should have been granted a change of venue because of extensive publicity in Marion County. In upholding the burglary charge, the appeals court rejected arguments there had been no signs of a break-in, saying burglary occurs when a person merely opens a door or removes a screen. “The jury could have

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Measures would give local governments more power

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Plans to give counties, cities and towns more power to run themselves are slated for introduction today in the Indiana House. The measures, drafted by the Local Government Study Commission, were detailed at a news conference Monday by House Speaker Kermit O. Burrous, R-Peru, Sen. Douglas A. Hunt, D-South Bend, and Rep. Stephen C. Moberly, R-Shelby-ville, the panel’s chairman. Changes in the tax system, which now leaves cities and towns mostly dependent on the state, are not included among this year’s proposals. Hunt said

received 34.9 percent of the vote to 33.7 for Bayh. The bimonthly magazine with about 100,000 farm subscribers, asked voters to rate Bayh and 8.9 percent listed strongly approve, 37.5 mildly approve, 21.6 mildly disapprove and 15 strongly disapprove. Democrats responding favored Sen. Edward M. Kennedy 56.2 percent to 43.8 for President Carter in a presidentil

reasonably concluded that on May 2, 1977, Robinson and Howard Willard had to at least open a door to gain entry to the house,” Judge Eugene Chapman wrote. Chapman, writing for the appeals court, said the evidence of arson was circumstantial but the “entire web spun by the evidence” supported the verdict. Robinson was sentenced to 10 to 20 years imprisonment and fined $17,000. The body of Mrs. Jackson was found May 7, 1977, after a fire was set in her looted home. It was estimated that several million dollars in cash and valuables was kept by the heiress in her home. The reason for the large amount of cash was that she had withdrawn millions of dollars from a bank after a bank official had been charged. In another decision, the appeals court said the stepfather of a woman who borrowed his car was not liable for damages in a law suit brought by the driver of another car.

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the commission will not make any taxation recommendations to the 1980 legislature because it wants to first win approval of other measures. Hunt said one of the major recommendations of the panel is a consolidation and revision of the home rule laws for local units of government, designed to give more power to local elected officials. “The people at home are closer to the people, they are under closer scrutiny,” Hunt said of the reasons for granting more autonomy to counties, cities and towns Hunt said if the study commission’s recommendations be-

race, Prairie Farmer said. It said when all farmers were asked about their preferences for the Democratic nomination for president. Carter led with 34 percent and Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. tied with 33 percent. Republicans favored former California Gov. Ronald Reagan 37.2 percent to 23.1 for former President Gerald R. Ford, 12.3 for Sen. Howard R. Baker. 8.4

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come law, cities will have to make fewer requests to the legislature before taking action. For example, he said, cities would not have to get the legislature’s permission any more for crosswalks on city streets. Moberly said 25 percent of the bills presented to the legislature pertain to local matters, many of which could be settled at the local level if officials there had the authority to act. “We think the state should stop sitting as a super city council, town board and county council for the units of local government and spend more time deliberating the broad policy questions affecting all five million Hoosiers,” he said.

for John B. Connally and less than 4 percent going to four other candidates. In the Indiana governor race, Democrats favored State Sen. W. Wayne Townsend, Hartford City, a hog farmer, 29.4 percent to 9.8 for John A. Hillenbrand II of Batesville. The poll did not measure Lt. Gov. Robert D. Orr against any potential candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

Forging a link

Orr hopes to follow in Bowen's footsteps

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Lt. Gov. Robert Orr came home to Evansville Monday to tell his friends and neighbors that he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. By the time Orr reached Evansville, his last stop in an announcement tour that took him to five Indiana cities, his intention to run for the state’s No. 1 post was old news. But the 300 Republicans who turned out to greet him at an evening rally that bore a striking resemblance to a victory celebration responded as though they were hearing it for the first time. Orr made it clear in his opening remarks that he hopes to forge a link between his campaign and popular GOP Gov. Otis Bowen. “I intend to govern Indiana in the same way the state has been governed by Otis Bowen, effectively, intelligently, efficiently and economically, and

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ROBERTORR Officially joins in the race with honor, decency, openness and common sense,” Orr said. “It will be my intention, as governor of Indiana in the 1980 s, to build and expand on the very solid foundation that we have

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created during the decade of the 705.” His strategy is similar to that used by the Republicans last year, when the GOP captured from the Democrats the state Senate and the state treasurer, auditor, secretary of state and court clerk posts. But while he labeled many Bowen administration policies “joint endeavors,” he said his overall program “will be one that belongs to Bob Orr.” As priorities, he listed improving public education, reducing crime, creating more jobs, and overhauling state government to provide “greater efficiency, better accountability...and improved service to the public.” Orr, who cast the tie-breaking Senate vote in 1973 to pass Bowen’s package that doubled the state sales tax to provide money for property tax relief, pledged to continue the program unchanged.

“There are some problems at the local level,” Orr acknowledged, “but that doesn’t mean they can’t be remedied.” -’>* He declined to detail his plan* for solving those problems, l however, saying that it “behooves me not to fire all my* ammunition in the first battle. ”*> In a departure from his pm pared speech, Orr told cheering supporters that he is conw mitting to the completion of several highway improvement projects in Evansville. And he called on the Legislature to become “more support five” of funding road work in’ southern Indiana. Orr, 62, is unopposed for the GOP nomination and has been’ endorsed by Bowen, who is in-’ eligible to seek a third fouryear’ term. • • If elected, Orr said, he would become the first governor from, Evansville since Conrad Baker took the job in 1866.

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