Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 214, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 May 1980 — Page 3

Debate rages as more states adopt laws to raise legal drinking age

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Georgia will do it in four months. New Hampshire and Massachusetts did it last spring. Florida and at least eight other states are thinking about doing it, too. The issue being discussed in statehouses and high schools and colleges is drinking or, more precisely, how old people should be before they may legally consume alcoholic beverages. A new Georgia law will go into effect Sept. 1 boosting the age from 18 to 19 but exempting young people in the armed forces. Other states New Hampshire, New Jersey and Tennessee also raised the minimum legal drinking age during the past year. But Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez, a University of Florida researcher who runs a college alcohol awareness program called ‘‘Bacchus," con-

Police add hotline in probe of Yorktown double murder

YORKTOWN, Ind. (AP)- As local, county and state police continue searching for clues in the stabbing deaths of a Yorktown couple, a special telephone hotline is working to help in the investigation. A team of 14 officers was assigned to around-the-clock duty to help police in this central Indiana community of 1,700 just west of Muncie. By Monday afternoon police were ready to take calls on the hotline - 317-759-9348 - from anyone who might be able to provide a lead. “Obviously we have numerous suspects,” Sheriff Gary Carmichael said. The bodies of Max Williams,

Bishop Sherrill dies

c. 1980 N.Y. Times NEW YORK Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, one of the nation’s most influential church leaders after World War II and the retired Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, died Sunday at his home in Boxford, Mass. He was 89 years old. Sherrill was among the handful of churchmen mainly responsible for turning the major Protestant denominations toward a more liberal and ecumenical outlook in the 15 years following the war when church growth was reaching record levels. Sherrill, tall and ruddy-faced, was a fixture among church luminaries whose opinions were widely sought and whose ideas moved into the forefront of discussion about the mission and purpose of the churches. Unlike many church leaders of the 19605, Sherrill and his associates adopted a genteel approach that fit easily into the Prime 16 1 / 2 NEW YORK (AP) - The prime lending rate dropped to 16Vfe percent at some major banks Monday, reflecting a steep drop in the demand for business loans as the economy sinks into a recession. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the nation’s fifth-largest bank, cut its rate one full percentage point from the 17M> percent rate it had set just last week. Some other banks followed the move. The 16M> percent level is the lowest since late February, when the prime began an upward surge that peaked at 20 percent in early April.

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tends such laws are backfiring. “My feeling is that raising the drinking age s causes more problems than it solves,” Gon- 1 zalez said after a recent visit to the University < of New Hampshire to talk to college officials ; about the effects of the new law in that state. “What they have found are problems like 1 their residence assistants being assaulted by < students when they try to enforce the new law, and increasing (traffic) fatalities among the 18 i to 20 age group,” said Gonzalez. j When the issue came up in the Florida Senate 1 earlier this month, it was sent back to com- i mittee after a joking suggestion by Sen. Jack t Gordon, D-Miami. i Gordon drew hearty laughs when he suggested an amendment to prohibit people be- | tween the ages of 34 and 36 from drinking, noting statistics that show that age group has < the highest incidence of alcoholism. ;

59, and his wife. Aline, 57, were discovered Friday morning by neighbors who went to the modest ranch-style house on Yorktown’s east side when the couple failed to report for work. She was an office nurse and he was an insurance agent, officials said. Both victims were stabbed many times. Williams died of a stab wound to the heart and his wife died of a wound in the lung, the coroner said. Police determined the slashes were made by the same weapon, as yet unidentified. Over the weekend, authorities recovered an automobile belonging to the couple from a parking lot outside a Muncie

progressive mentality of the 19505, controversial without causing much strife. As the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church from 1946 to 1958, Sherrill brought his uncommon talents for speaking and leadership to his advocacy of such causes as birth control, racial justice, a more flexible church stance toward divorce and the quest for church unity. He was chosen in 1950 as the first president of the National Council of Churches, an ecumenical agency organized in 1949. Protestantism was perceived as the Establishment in the years of Sherrill’s greatest prominence and he strove to bring those churches beyond attitudes that their leaders considered too confining. “Far too many people in the church have very great convictions about very small things,” Sherrill said. Along with colleagues from

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tavern. The white sedan, the subject of a nationwide alert, was locked and the keys were missing when it was found. It was dirtied by the rain but was not damaged. Muncie Police Lt. Jack Stonebraker Jr. said a thorough examination of the car failed to disclose any clues. Stonebraker said 50 policemen and volunteer firemen traveled on foot Sunday retracing the probable route from the victims’ home to the tavern, looking for the murder weapon and possible clues. Nothing was found. Authorities said they are still puzzled about the motive for the double slaying.

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other churches, he reflected a broad perspective fashioned by theological and cultural views characteristic of the elite American universities. They traveled widely to build structures for interfaith cooperation on a national and global basis. Sherrill was among those who helped forge the World Council of Churches and he served as one of its six presidents from 1954 to 1961. He could be whimisical and unpredictable without causing great offense to those who thought or acted differently. With ease he could include himself in criticism and scrutiny of the church.

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Gordon also raised the main argument against raising the legal drinking age, saying it’s hypocritical to permit 18-yearolds to vote and serve in the military but bar them from buying a drink. Proponents all along have argued that the higher drinking age would reduce the number of alcohol-related highway deaths. “The No. 1 killer of young people in this state is not cancer. It is not heart disease. It is alcohol-related accidents,” said Democratic Rep. Fran Carlton. “Raising the drinking age will help to save the lives of young people who are dying by the hundreds in alcohol-related accidents.” Gonzalez and others contend there’s no such proof. “While the efforts are well-intentioned, the evidence does not support such a move,” Gonzalez said.

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Reynaldo Sanchez Vetia, one of hundreds of Cuban refugees temporarily housed at Miami Beach, admires a statue of San Lazaro, the patron saint of Cuba, as he lies on a cot in makeshift living quarters.

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“In Massachusetts, they have found an increase in DWI (driving while intoxicated) arrests in teen-agers,” he said. “We get the opposite effect of what it intended.” The same thoughts were voiced in Washington at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which picked “Bacchus” as a national model. “There’s no conclusive evidence that the drinking age makes any difference because young people are drinking at a younger age, prior to any age limit,” said institute spokesman Paul Garner. “Let’s face it, most of the kids get the liquor out of their homes anyway.” Garner and Gonzalez say what’s needed are programs like “Bacchus” to inform young people about what will happen when they drink to excess. Death in an automobile should be high on the list, they say.

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“I think it’s pretty well established that laws in and of themselves do not change social customs,” Gonzalez said. “What we need is to support a comprehensive and sustained commitment toward alcohol education drinking and driving, the effects of alcohol on grades, and some of the other negative consequences.” Gonzalez’ program is used on at least 14 college campuses around the nation. Students visit dormitories, sororities and fraternities warning their peers about the hazards of over-indulgence and giving tips on how to be more responsible. For example, they urge party hosts to serve nonalcoholic beverages along with booze and not force “one more drink for the road” on departing guests. Garner said there is some evidence that people are more aware about the risks in excessive drinking and its effects on young people.

Twisters strike in two states By The Associated Press Tornadoes touched down in four communities Monday night two in Pennsylvania and two in Missouri injuring more than 30 persons and, in one town, leaving nearly 200 people homeless and causing damage estimated at $45 million. No deaths were reported. National Guardsmen were called out to assist in both states. In Sedalia, Mo., officials said at least 25 people were hurt, 200 were made homeless and five businesses destroyed when at least one twister cut a swath about a half-mile wide through the community of 23,000. The National Weather Service said two tornadoes may have touched down. Mayor Allen Hawkins said a manufacturing plant was also heavily damaged and said 1,500 to 2,000 people would be out of work until the businesses could reopen. He estimated damage in the town at about $45 million.

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