Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 109, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 January 1980 — Page 3

Missing woman in Florida

EVANSVILLE. Ind. (AP) A woman's drive, almost 1,000 miles from her ransacked trailer near here to Florida, appears to have been an aimless journey made "in a state of shock," police say. Kimberly Rexing, missing for almost a week, telephoned her worried family Thursday from St. Petersburg, Fla., saying she was the victim of a kidnapping attempt. Police said they have no suspects in the case. The search for Ms. Rexing began Tuesday, when she was reported missing by her mother and stepfather. The woman was last known to have traveled to Evansville to go shopping. Trooper Larry Rudolph of Evansville state pojice said police believe when Ms. Rexing returned home to her trailer near Newburgh Friday, a person or persons may already have been inside. The trailer was in shambles, he said, ad-

Stifffer penalties approved

INDIANAPOLIS <AP) - Motorists who, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, cause an accident resulting in death or injury could face felony penalties under a measure approved by a legislative committee. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Felling, D-Terre Haute, was Approved 8-0 Thursday by the Qouse Judiciary Committee and 6ent to the full House for a vote! Both the House and Senate devoted the day to committee meetings. The House will reconvene Monday, but the Senate will not hold floor sessions until the following week. In other committee action.

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ding “it looks like either she surprised someone or they were there” when she arrived. She told her mother Thursday she was unharmed and had driven to Florida by herself, Rudolph said. Investigators plan to question Ms. Rexing when she returns, but they are not sure when that will be, Rudolph said. State police launched an aerial search for the missing car Wednesday, concentrating on stripper pit and river bottom areas of Warrick and surrounding counties. Rudolph said police will continue their investigation in the area surrounding the mobile home. “We’re still looking for someone who may have seen a strange vehicle in the area, or someone who passed there and saw something,” he said.

the House Governmental Reorganization Committee,approved measures dealing with hazardous wastes, revision of the state’s law on veterans and shifting authority for traffic safety to the Indiana State Police. Currently, driving under the influence is a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Under Felling’s bill, if driving under the influence resulted in an injury, the offense would be a Class D felony with a maximum penalty of 2 years in jail and a SIO,OOO fine. If it resulted in death the crime would be a Class C felony with a maximum penalty of 5 years in jail

Garwood greeted captors with hugs, former POW says

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) with hugs. He did,” says a former Vietnam prisoner of war testifying at Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood’s hearing on allegations of desertion and collaboration with the enemy. Some of the strongest testimony in the hearing so far came Thursday as former POW David Harker testified about the 33-year-old Indiana Marine’s actions in Vietnam during the late 19605. The hearing is under way at Camp Lejeune to determine if there is enough evidence to court-martial Garwood, who returned to the United States last year after nearly 14 years in Vietnam. Under questioning, Harker, who was an Army private, said

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and a SIO,OOO fine. The bill was endorsed by Elizabeth Riley, director of the Indiana Council of Churches and a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, who noted that 1.3 million young persons across the nation have drinking problems. Another woman told the committee that her daughter was killed by a drunken driver who has since jumped bail and cannot be found tostand trial. The hazardous waste bill would give the Environmental Management Board the power to regulate the transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes, including radioactive material.

tersely, “He was a collaborator with the enemy. He accepted favors by living with (communists).” Many POWs signed antiAmerican statements because of threats from their communist captors, but Harker said Garwood’s actions went beyond that. “I never greeted my captors with hugs. He did,” Harker said, gesturing across the small courtroom to the uniformed defendant. Harker, now a 34-year-old parole officer in Lynchburg, Va., also said Garwood once punched him in the ribs without provocation. The incident occurred after American POWs, desperate for meat, killed a cat belonging to the communist guards.

Deteriorating roads cost extra money

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A report prepared for a highway contractors group says it costs Indiana’s 3.5 million motorists an extra $420 million a year to drive on the state’s deteriorating roads. The Road Information Program, which conducted the study for Indiana Highways for Survival, said the extra expense comes from wasting almost 385 million gallons of gasoline a year by slowing down and then accelerating on broken and cracked pavement. The report said the extra expense amounts to an additional $l2O per Hoosier driver, who spends an

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average of $1,526 to operate a car in this state. By contrast, the report estimated that the state’s highways could be brought up to standard with a 10-year, $204.8 million-per-year repair and maintenance program The report, released Thursday during a Statehouse news conference with the head of Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering, was based on evidence gathered in road tests that measured fuel consumption relative to the condition of the pavement in use. Harold Michael said none of road tests were conducted in Indiana, but he added. “I think

one would find almost exactly the same thing.” Michael said the study underlines the need for additional highway money. “In my opinion, one should stick with a user tax,” he said. “Every vehicle ought to be taxed in relation to the damage or wear they put on the roadway.” In past years, the legislature has avoided raising the state’s eight-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax, which has stayed at that level since 1969. Gov. Otis Bowen, in his address to the legislature Wednesday, reiterated the importance of finding a per-

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manent source of funding to repair and maintain Indiana highways. The study said the index used to rate road deficiency were developed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Using that index, 33,055 of Indiana’s 60,463 miles of highways are substandard, the study said. “The road tests established that vehicles used more fuel when they had to stop or slow down from the posted speed to safely pass over deteriorated sections of pavement,” the report said As an example, the report

said an intermediate-sized sedan traveling at 40 mph used 16 percent more fuel when it had to slow down to 20 mph twice per mile. When the same vehicle had to come to a stop twice per mile on deteriorated pavement, the excess fuel consumption climbed to 32 percent, the report said. “Test vehicles operating on rough, bumpy and broken pavement also used extra fuel be cause of a loss of traction on the uneven road surface and because of an uneven power flow through the drive train as a result of excessive vibrations, the report said.

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