Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 204, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 May 1980 — Page 3

Primary to set legislative races

Demos eye Indiana House seats

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Faqing a key year ahead for legislative reapportionment, 97 representatives and 23 senators are seeking renomination May 6 to win the right to participate in another tight numbers game this fall. All 100 House seats and half of the 50 Senate seats will be up for grabs in November. Hoosier Democrats, in the minority in both houses of the Indiana General Assembly, have all but conneded they have no chance to capture a majority in the Senate. But the House is another matter. Republicans currently hold a 29-21 majority in the Senate. But the numbers look even better considering there are 15 Republicans who don’t have to run this time. That means the GOP only has to win back 11 of its 14 seats up for re-election this fall to win a majority. The Democrats, however, face an uphill fight. Not only

Food stamp continuation assured 1 .

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The thousands of Hoosiers who depend on food stamps each month to feed their families will not have to worry about a possible cutoff as long as congressional leaders keep their promises, a state official says. “I have been assured by people in Washington that Congress will come through with the appropriation for the food stamp program by the end of May,” Indiana Welfare Administrator Wayne A. Stanton said Wednesday. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland warned earlier this

500 greet senator at Evansville

'We're the underdogs here/ Kennedy says

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, an admitted underdog in next week’s Indiana primary, told labor leaders in Evansville that his record as a U.S. senator entitles him to their support. “There’s not a senator in the United States who has a better record fighting for the working people,” Kennedy said Wednesday during a brief appearance at a local labor hall. At a campaign stop in Indianapolis earlier in the day, Kennedy conceded that he faces “an uphill battle in Indiana” next Tuesday when he squares off against President Carter in

Jurors from another county may hear Van Orden trial

Evansville, ind. (api - Importing a jury is cheaper than moving a trial, and that’s what Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Jeffrey Lantz says he may try to do in the case of Julie Van Orden. Ms. Van Orden, 35, is accused of killing former Mayor Russell G Lloyd. Her lawyer, Charles Berger, argued Wednesday that a change of venue is necessary if his client is to receive a fair trial. Vanderburgh Circuit Court Judge William H. Miller took the motion under advisement and said he would make a decision within a week. Following the hearing, Lantz said he would consider asking that the trial remain in Vanderburgh County, but that the judge and jury be selected from another county. Berger said he would not object to such a motion. Lloyd, 47, was critically

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PATRICK CARROLL KERMIT BURROUS Familiar faces will leave legislature

would they have to win back each of the 11 seats they now own two occupied by incumbents who aren’t seeking re-election but they would have to pick up five more. The House, however, is an-

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week that “a suspension of all June food stamp benefits” is likely unless Congress acts by May 15 to fund the program. However, Stanton said he had instructed all county welfare workers to plan for regular distribution of the stamps on June 1. “Personally, I don’t think there’s any chance of the food stamp program being curtailed any longer than a week, if at all,” Stanton said. “We will not give out stamps June 1 if the federal government tells us not to, but I expect to get a notice around May 27 saying that they

the primary. “We’re the underdogs in Indiana. We’re the underdogs in reaching the democratic nomination,” he told reporters. But he likened his chances to those of the cars that run time trials at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May. “It isn’t always the one who runs the fastest at time trials who wins the big race on Memorial Day,” he said. There were no crowds to greet the Massachusetts senator and his wife when they arrived at Indianapolis Inter-

wounded in a shooting attack at his home March 19. The twoterm mayor and father of six never came off the critical list in the two days he clung to life at a local hospital. An hour after the shooting police arrested Ms. Van Orden, a commercial artist who gave authorities the impression she was unaware that Lloyd had stepped down as mayor. She has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting. At Wednesday’s change of venue hearing, Berger argued that news reports of Lloyd’s death resulted in “sympathy for his family and for him as a person that cannot be removed from this community.” ‘Russell Lloyd was on a pedestal, and rightfully so for his position,” Berger said. “But my client cannot be bound to suffer from the position that he held.” Lantz argued that Berger

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other story. With all 100 representative seats up in the fall, Democrats think it is possible to pick up the five seats necessary to turn their 46-seat minority into a majority. The most powerful Republi-

have the money and to go ahead with the food stamp program.” Congress provided about $6.2 billion to run the program, which reaches aout 20.8 million Americans. But Agriculture Department officials estimate they will need an additional $2.65 billion to see them through the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Indiana issued about $13.5-sl4 million worth of food stamps in April to at least 381,000 persons in 128,500 households, Stanton estimated, and the dollars spent on stamps increases by $500,000-$! million each month.

national Airport on Wednesday. But more than 500 cheering supporters were on hand to hear Kennedy at the Evansville rally, and the senator often had to shout to be heard above their whoops and hollers. “I believe in the American dream, and I believe it should be maintained and kept alive,” he said. “Carter wrings his hands and says ‘What president could do any better?’ Well, I remember a president in the early 1960 s who said ‘we shall overcome’ and we did.”

failed to prove Ms. Van Orden would be unable to receive a fair trial in Vanderburgh County. And he noted that a change of venue “is not a constitutional right.” The prosecutor said later that he “probably” would file a motion asking that the case remain in Vanderburgh County but that it be heard by a judge and jury from another county. A similar request was filed last week in the trial of Donald Ray Wallace, who faces four counts of murder in last January’s shooting deaths of the Patrick Gilligans, a Vanderburgh County family of four. The Wallace trial has been moved to Vigo County, about 100 milles north of Evansville. No ruling has been issued on the motion filed in the Wallace case, however, and Lantz noted that Indiana law makes no provision for importing jurors from other counties.

can incumbent is not seeking renomination. Speaker Kermit O. Burrous of Peru has turned his sights to another nominating contest lieutenant governor. Two House Democrats will not be on the ballot in May. Alan L. Zirkle of Kokomo is stepping down after four terms to spend more time with his family. Gary L. Butler of Lawrenceburg, who was accused but never charged with shoplifting sll worth of merchandise from an Indianapolis supermarket on the eve of the 1980 session, declined to seek renomination to a sixth term. In the Senate, two Democratic incumbents have by-passed the renomination. Patrick D. Carroll of Bloomington is stepping down after two terms to seek the 7th District Congressional nomination. Assistant Minority Leader Robert E. Peterson of Rochester is ending three terms in the Senate to run for his party’s nomination for lieutenant governor. In the House, 50 incumbents crats are assured of renomination, facing no opposition in the primary. In the Senate, 12 incumbents crats have a free ride to November. Two representatives will be facing their first defense of their nomination. Anita Bowser, a Democrat from

In addition, both the state and national food stamp rolls have more than doubled in the last year because of liberalized eligibility requirements, which partly .explain the program’s current financial straits, Stanton said. “Instead of liberalizing benefits, they should have reduced their budget,” Stanton said. “A family of four used to be eligible if its income was below $6,200. (Beginning Jan. 1979), it was below $11,250. That made substantially more people eligible. Some of those liberalized benefits are going to be adjust-

Kennedy accused Carter of disregarding the needs of the nation’s working men, young people and elderly. After 17 years as a senator, he said, “I could not stand on the sidelines with the administration turning its back on the people.” He cited a recent layoff of workers at an Evansville factory, and the 20,000 United Auto Workers around the state who are out of work. “Let’s send a message back to that rose garden,” Kennedy said. Speaking in Indianapolis earlier, Kennedy termed Carter’s decision to resume limited campaigning a “political judgement” based in part on the president’s recent setbacks at the polls. Carter has refrained from

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Michigan City, and Richard A., Thompson, a Republican fori North Salem, each was appointed to fill the terms of representatives who resigned during the last session. In the Senate, Republicans are waging a pitched battle tor the right to represent the GUP in the district that includes most ot northeastern Marion County. Incumbent Joan Gubbin’s is lacing a stitt challenge from Virginia Blankenbaker and each candidate is trying to out-conservative the other. Mrs. Gubbins, a housewife who has long been an outspoken opponent ot the Equal Rights Amendment and an advocate tor morals instruction in the public schools, has accused Mrs. Blankenbaker ol distorting her voting record in the three terms she has served. Mrs. Blankenbaker insists that her campaign literature about Mrs. Gubbins’ performance is accurate. "Sen. Gubbins will be held accountable lor her voting record, whether she likes it or not,’’ Mrs. Blankenbaker said. The powerful Indiana State Teachers Association has targeted Mrs. Gubbins lor deteat. Hundreds ot teachers are canvassing the neighborhoods in her Senate district in a "Gubbins Has To Go” campaign. Mrs. Gubbins is chairman ot the Senate Committee on Secondary and Special Education.

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ed before Congress agrees to give the program money.” He added that some congressional leaders were reluctant to appropriate more food stamp money because they believed the Agriculture Deparment had “deliberately exceeded its appropriation. An amendment authored by Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., and adopted by Congress last year, requires the Agriculture Department to reduce food stamp benefits any time it has “exceeded its appropriation two months in a row,” Stanton noted.

campaign appearances since Iranian militants seized American hostages nearly six months ago. Kennedy also said he would not rule out military action in the long run to win the release of the hostages. But he warned that an immediate attempt to stage a rescue effort such as the one that failed last week could result in the deaths of the hostages. In Evansville, Kennedy focused on the economy, criticizing Carter for “using high interest rates and increasing unemployment to solve the economic problems of our times.” “It’s a tired, old economic policy,” he said. “It didn’t work for Herbert Hoover, it didn’t work for Richard Nixon, and it didn’t work for Jimmy Carter.”

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