Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 108, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1980 — Page 3

State of the State: Highway funding main topic of Bowen message

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) While not mentioning a gasoline tax increase by name in his State of the State message, Gov. Otis R. Bowen has pointed the Indiana General Assembly toward that as the only acceptable solution to Indiana’s highway funding needs. Bowen did not miss the opportunity Wednesday, in his last address to the joint session of the House and Senate as governor, to reiterate his longstanding demand for a permanent source of highway money. ‘We need a permanent solution and we cannot defer that decision. Highway funding is the critical issue facing this session of the General Assembly,” the governor said. "If this session adjourns without a permanent solution to our * highway needs, it will have proved to be a case of bad political judgment on the part of both parties. Most importantly, however, it will be irresponsible government and the people will take us to task for it and they should.” • Although Bowen made no specific recommendations on highway funding, he declared he would not tolerate using money earmarked for property tax relief to pay for “any other program, no matter how desirable or necessary that program may seem.” In past sessions, the Democratic minority in the House has flatly refused to go along with any discussion of a gasoline tax increase. But after Bowen’s speech, it was plain that there was some room for negotiation. "I'm not saying the Democratic caucus at this time will support a gas tax increase," said House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips of Boonville. “We have an obligation to look at it, study it." Missing from the governor’s lengthy address was any reference to state aid to Chrysler Corp., another of the volatile issues

Search leads to shooting NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - One sheriff’s deputy was killed and a second was wounded Wednesday night when they tried to enter a home to search for narcotics, police said. Officials said Detective Sgt. Ron Lampe, 40, was shot once in the chest and died in the emergency room of Henry County Hospital. * Deputy Richard Scott. 27, also shot once in the chest, was reported in serious but stable condition at the hospital, officials said. They said a suspect was taken into custody but his name was not released. Police said they believe both officers were shot with a .22 caliber rifle. The indication is, one investigator said, the assailant fired on Lampe as he stood near the rear door of the home on the north side of this north central Indiana community. Scott, hearing the gunshot, started to enter through a front door and was wounded. He fell back against the front door. &

Air search begun for Newburgh woman

NEWBURGH, Ind. (AP) - State police have launched an air search for clues to the mysterious disappearance of a 21-year-old Newburgh woman. Kimberly S. Rexing was last seen Friday evening as she entered an Evansville department store. Police said the case is being treated as a “missing person. foul play suspected. ” Police have described Ms. Rexing as “as straight as they come.” Foul play is suspected because of a series of threatening phone calls Ms. Rexing

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Assembly takes a break from regular sessions Panel okays overhaul of bonding system

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana General Assembly is taking a break from regular sessions the rest of this week, devoting the time to committee hearings on the hundreds of bills filed for consideration this year. After hearing Gov. Otis R. Bowen’s annual State of the State address on Wednesday, the House adjourned until Monday and the Senate adjourned until Jan. 21. Even though the Senate will not be in session when the House meets next Monday and Friday, those meetings will use up two of the 26 session days remaining for the legislature to

had received, said investigating officer Det. Thomas Whitlow. He said the calls began last fall, when she lived in Evansville, and continued after she moved to Warrick County three months ago. The detective said the caller had threatened at least once to kill Ms. Rexing if she did not consent to a sexual act. Diane Chapman, Ms. Rexing’s stepsister, said the latest call came Thursday, one day before she was last seen. Whitlow said Ms. Rexing

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facing the legislature. Kokomo Democrat Alan Zirkle, a sponsor of legislation to provide emergency state loan guarantees to large industrial employers such as Chrysler, said, “I don’t know that I was surprised that he didn’t mention Chrysler, but I was certainly disappointed... For all the discussion the governor gave the subject of the state’s economic health and considering we have one of the major industries in the state that is in financial trouble, certainly you would think it would merit some mention of the problem at least." Phillips said it was curious the governor did not address Chrysler’s problems. “Obviously, there has been enough activity, discussion and concern about the problem,” he said. “I’m sure he intentionally declined to comment on it. I understand the administration hasn’t been responsive to Chrysler’s needs.” "I think he felt it was best not to comment one way or the other until he saw the legislation,” Senate President Pro Tern Martin K. Edwards, RNew Castle, said of Bowen’s omission of Chrysler. “I don’t think it’s significant at all. I think it was intended so it wouldn’t influence the situation.” The highway finance problem headed Bowen’s legislative agenda. Other priorities include: —Preservation of the property tax relief program he instituted seven years ago. —Creation of a budget stabilization fund of unspecified size to build a revenue cushion in good economic times for use if the economy sours. —Reorganization of Indiana’s transportation agencies into a single department. —Revision of the state’s crime victims compensation program under the authority of the Industrial Board.

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accomplish this year’s work. In committee action prior to Wednesday afternoon’s session, a measure that would overhaul Indiana’s bail bonding system to provide a uniform set of standards for releasing persons accused of crimes •was approved 11-0 by the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee. Rep. Eugene Leeuw, R-In-dianapolis, who sponsored the bail bill, said the measure “represents an attempt to individualize or tailor the conditions of granting bail to each defendant.” “It makes no sense that each person charged with robbery should be entitled to the same

didn’t show up for dinner at her grandmother’s Saturday, nor has she appeared for work at Alcoa’s Warrick Operations all week. Her mother and stepfather, Carpi and Michael Suter, became worried and went Tuesday afternoon to Ms. Rexing’s trailer in a mobile home park north of Newburgh. According to Whitlow, the Suters found furniture overturned, drapes and shower curtains pulled down, and drawers yanked open, their contents

amount of bail,” he added. “Sometimes, there are either mitigating or aggravating circumstances that judges should consider.” Roscoe Stovall, a spokesman for Protect the Innocent, an advocacy group for crime victims, called on the committee to “pass this bill with great dispatch.” The bill would allow courts to consider the defendant’s criminal record in setting the bond and would allow a judge to require a defendant to divulge the source of the money he plans to use to get bail. The House Labor Committee deferred action on a bill to give

strewn about. “It was just about as bad as you can imagine,” the detective said. He said police found signs of a struggle as well as the ransacking, with a lampshade crushed as though someone had grabbed it. But the doors to the trailer were found locked, with no sign of forced jentry, Whitlow said. He said a .22-caliber rifle, a 22-caliber pistol, a small television set and Ms. Rexing’s car were discovered missing.

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—Pay raises for state employees, university personnel and teachers, with no recommendation on the amount. —Reviewing Indiana’s economy. Bowen said much of Indiana’s financial problems can be attributed to factors beyond the state’s control. “Given the softness of the economy and the justified concern about its future direction, it is imperative that we maintain a reasonable general fund working balance,” he said. Bowen noted that the current fiscal forecast shows that Indiana will have $lB4 million in the general fund by the end of June 1981. He called on the legislature to maintain a SIOO million balance in the fund to act as a “cushion against adverse economic circumstances.” The governor also reminded the lawmakers of the necessity to enact health care planning legislation to avoid losing $74 million in federal funds in that area. Bowen said he wants to expand the energy assistance program which provides financial aid to 50,000 Hoosier families for winter fuel bills. He called on the legislature to amend last year’s bill to include broader eligibility standards he authorized by executive decree in October. The state needs to assign one agency to handle on-site coordination at the site of hazardous waste spills, the governor said. He recommended that the Indiana State Police be given that task and that the State Board of Health have authority to seek out disposal sites within Indiana for hazardous wastes. Bowen also endorsed legislation which he said would reform Indiana’s bail bond system and “put a lock on the revolving door of our present system and prevent accused criminals from quickly posting bail and returning to the streets to commit new crimes.”

Bayh, farmers discuss grain embargo

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Congress will mandate a support price “at a reasonable level” in the wake of President Carter’s grain embargo to the Soviet Union, Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., predicted Wednesday. Bayh, who invited farmers to

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prices probably within the next two months. Asked whether there were plans to sell some of the Russiadestined grain to China. Bayh said, “I think we’ll see China buying more grain,” if only to spite the Soviets.

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He told the group it appears Canada, Australia and the European Common Market countries will cooperate with the United States by not selling Russia the amount it lost from this country. Bayh said Argentina was still a question mark.

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