Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 104, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1981 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 2,1981

Renewed talk of spy trials

Algerians deliver U.S. reply

B\ The Associated Press The Algerian intermediaries in the hostage crisis arrived in Tehran today carrying the U.S. reply to Iran's demands for $24 billion. A leading Iranian clergyman said Iran should stop bargaining over the 52 Americans and put them on trial like any other criminals because they are spies, not hostages. The three intermediaries "ere met at Tehran Airport by representatives of Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai. They refused to talk to reporters and were driven away for a first round of talks with Iranian officials directly concerned with the hostages seized 14 months ago. Informed Washington sources Six killed on state highways By The Associated Press At least six people have been killed in Indiana traffic accidents during the New Year’s holiday weekend, including a pedestrian killed in a hit-andrun incident. Indiana’s 1981 traffic death toll stands at four, while the 1980 count reached 1,162. That compares with 1,313 for all of 1979. Schererville police said Eric R. Martin, 29, Schererville, was found at 3 a.m. Thursday on U.S. 30, just west of U.S. 41. Investigators thought a white car struck Martin because white paint chips were found at the scene. Banner-Graphic "It Waves For Alt" (USPS 142-020) Consolidation of The Daily Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Established 1883 Telephone6s3-5151 Published twice each day except Sundays and Holidays by LuMar Newspapers, Inc. at 100 North Jackson St„ Greencastle, Indiana 46135. Entered in the Post Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as 2nd class mail matter under Act of March 7,1878. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier j gg Per Month, by motor route $4lO Mail Subscription Rates R.R. in Rest of Rest of Putnam Co. Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months $10.25 $11.25 $13.75 6 Months 20.25 22.50 27.25 1 Year 40.45 44.00 54.45 Mail subscriptions payable tn advance . . . not accepted in town and where motor route service is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for repubiication of all the local news printed in this newspaper.

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said the U.S. reply offers to deposit about sl2 billion of Iranian assets in an escrow account in a neutral country, presumably Algeria, and that Iran could claim the funds once the hostages are released. President Carter said the American response contained “reasonable proposals” and said, “I think it would be to the advantage of the Iranians certainly to the advantage of the United States and the hostages if they would accept what we have proposed.” However. Carter has little more than two weeks left in his administration to settle the issue, and most observers saw' little chance of the crisis being resolved before President-elect

world/state

Stabbing keeps Buffalo tense

Blacks arming in wake of attacks

BUFFALO, NY. (AP) Black leaders in New York’s second largest city said Thursday that more and more blacks were arming themselves because of a series of apparently unprovoked attacks on black men. The latest victim, Albert Menefee. 32, of Buffalo, was hospitalized in critical condition but reported “slightly improved." Menefee was knifed by a white man Wednesday as he left a tobacco shop. Black leaders said the inquiry into the violence must be intensified.

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Ronald Reagan takes office Jan. 20. The Washington Post reported today that the U.S. response gives Iran until Jan. 16 to accept the proposals. The Post said official sources decribed the date “not as an ultimatum but ‘simply a fact of life’.” The sources said Iranian acceptance by Jan. 16 would give the Carter administration time to implement the proposals before going out of office. The Post said Carter does not want to leave negotiations “in an ambiguous state that limits the options of his successor.” The Iranian Parliament decided two months ago the hostages would be freed if the U.S. government returned the wealth of the late Shah Moham-

“I said it then (in September) and I’m saying it now; the attacks on black males were like an indoctrination ritual that was taught by some hate group,” said the Rev. Bennett Smith, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church. Bennett, local chairman of Operation PUSH, said one of his members called him to say “he was forced to stick his gun in his belt. That is the way many blacks feel.” And Daniel Acker, president of the Buffalo chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,

Heart technique reported

CHICAGO (AP) A new technique for dissolving clots in the arteries around the heart could cut sharply into the 300,000 deaths now caused by such blockages each year, a researcher says. The technique, if used promptly when symptoms of a coronary attack appear, could help save the lives of victims of arterial clots or coronary thromboses, said Dr. William

mad Reza Pahlavi, released $8 billion in Iranian assets frozen in U.S. banks, cancelled pending lawsuits against Iran and pledged not to interfere in Iran’s affairs. Last week, Iran said the United States had to deposit $24 billion in the Algerian Central Bank before the hostages could be freed. But Iran’s chief hostage negotiator said early this week a U.S. counterproposal on the money would be accepted if the Algerians went along with it. On Thursday, a leading Iranian clergyman, Ayatollah Allameh Wahya Noori said documents found when the Americans and the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were seized 426 days ago provided proof that

said the killings appeared to “be a conspiracy to eliminate black males.” . “Already some blacks are beginning to arm themselves,” Acker said. “We don’t want violence, but we want the killer or killers captured.” After the attack on Menefee, police began a search of nearby buildings, set up roadblocks and assigned officers to airports, bus and train stations. No arrests were made. A spokesman for Erie County District Attorney Edward Cosgrove said a description of the attacker matched those of a

Ganz, cardiology professor at the UCLA Medical School who is developing the procedure. The procedure is still in the developmental stage, Ganz said, and until it is perfected “it cannot and should not be done in an institution that doesn’t have the intellectual and physical capacity to do so.” But when the technique becomes available for geneal use in about two years, it will represent the first significant means of reducing death rates from coronary thrombosis in a decade, Ganz said. A coronary thrombosis involves the cutoff of blood to portions of the heart muscle, as when a clot forms to block the artery. Without blood, the

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the captives had been engaged in espionage. Noori said there was no provision in Islamic law for ransom, criticized the government for demanding $24 billion, and said Iran’s demand for a U.S. pledge not to interfere in Iran’s affairs was “like asking a scorpion not to bite.” His statements appeared in the Tehran Times on Thursday as Tehran Radio said with the U.S. “final reply” being handed over to the Algerian intermediaries, “it looks as if the matter is nearing its end.” The broadcast said the reply had not yet been passed on to Iran and “one ought to wait and see what it contains and to what extent it meets Iran’s legitimate demands.”

man wanted for a stabbing death in Buffalo on Monday and a knife slaying in Rochester on Tuesday. Both victims were black and were stabbed while waiting for buses. Federal officials said Wednesday they had no plans to expand what they described as a “major and active role” in looking into the deaths. In September, a white gunman, dubbed the “.22-caliber killer,” shot four black males in the Buffalo area. In October, one or more assailants bludgeoned or stabbed two Buffalo cab drivers to death.

muscle tissue begins to deteriorate after 20 minutes and gradually worsens until, after six hours, it is irreparably damaged. Ganz reported in the Jan. 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that he and colleagues at the Cedars-Siani Medical Center in Los Angeles have used the new technique to open clogged heart arteries in 20 of 21 patients who were suffering from coronary thromboses. Under the technique, doctors feed into a patient’s heart arteries a small flexible tube telescoped inside a conventionalsize catheter tube inserted into the arteries at the arm or groin.

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Funeral services for Beth A. Bowen, shown holding the Bible as her husband took the oath of office for a second term in 1977, have been set Sunday in Bremen.

Services for Mrs. Bowen i scheduled Sunday at Bremen

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Funeral services for Beth A. Bowen, 62, wife of Indiana’s governor, will be Sunday in Bremen. The popular wife of Gov. Otis R. Bowen suffered a chronic bone marrow disease since 1977. She died Thursday. Mrs. Bowen had been hospitalized since Oct. 11 but left briefly Dec. 12 to make her last public appearance at a tribute to the Bowens. The governor is completing his second term in office, prohibited by statute from serving a third term. The governor and the Bowen’s four children were at her side when she died. One of her last wishes was granted just recently when she asked about the possiblity of seeing her youngest son, Rob, 28, sworn in as a Marshall County judge. Bowen researched the matter and found he could legally hold the swearingin ceremony in his wife’s hospital room. For the past several weeks, the governor has been either at his wife’s bedside or at his official duties. “The last nine or 10 months have been heartbreaking,” he said a few days before his wife’s death. “We were together 42 years.” Tributes to Mrs. Bowen flowed in from many friends and political leaders. The Indiana State Medical Association Auxiliary', which Mrs. Bowen headed - several years ago, issued a statement which called her a unique person who had “made a great contribution to humanity.” U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar called Mrs. Bowen “an intensely loyal friend whose life combined warmth, wisdom and courage.” “We have loved our first lady, and our prayers for strength are now with Gov. Bowen and the Bowen children who carry on life’s important work.” said Lugar, who has known the Bowens 15 years. State Republican Chairman Bruce Melchert said Mrs. Bowen will be mourned by thousands. “Beth Bowen was more than a governor’s wife or the first lady of Indiana. She loved In diana and the people of our state and she epitomized the finest qualities of love and understanding combined with practical commmon sense,” he said. Gov.-elect Robert D. Orr, who has served as Bowen’s lieutenant governor for two four-year

Mrs. Bowen died Thursday at age 62. She had suffered a chronic bone morrow disease that was first diagnosed in 1977. (AP Laserphoto)

terms, visited Bowen Thursday. “Mrs. Orr and I are deeply saddened by the death of Beth Bowen. She and the governor have become warm personal friends over our years of service,” Orr said, adding he had known Mrs. Bowen about 15 years. “We will miss that gracious, thoughtful, warm-hearted lady whose remarkable spirit has shown so brightly through her long period of adversity,” Orr said. A veteran campaigner for her husband, a country doctor from Bremen, she was there through Otis Ray Bow'en’s 14 years in the In diana House of Representatives. Often she was in the House gallery, listening and knitting as Bowen, the House speaker, ran things in the chamber below. “Growing up in a small Indiana town w here I lived across from the courthouse and knew everyone, and being a doctor's wife at Bremen were good training for the wife of a politician. You become accustomed to interrupted meals and unpredictable and late hours, and yoy develop an extra degree of empathy for people,” Mrs. Bowen once said. Born April 8, 1918 jn Chicago to German im migrant parents. Elizabeth Ann Steinmann graduated from Crown Point High School in 1936. “I was the child of a poor widow and wore hand-tnedowns and made-over clothes, but it didn't hurt me a bit. It was during the Depression, and almost all the other kids were in the same boat. There wasn’t any money for college, so I went to business college,” she said She attended Gary Business College for two years after high school, and it was during that time she met Bowen, then a pre-medical student. •; They were married Feb. 25,1939. “I wanted to be a court reporter, but only secretarial jobs were open, so that is the work! did.” she said. She used her secretarial skills helping her husband in his later politie&l career. , . Mrs. Bowen was at her husband’s side when he won the governorship in 1972 and again in 1976, when he became the first man this century to succeed himself in the state's highest office. She was well-liked by the governor's staff and many considered her a second mother. She was named mother of the year in 1978.

Two die in gun battle

By The Associated Press Two men were killed and a third wounded seriously by gunfire early Thursday at a New Year’s party in the Buckhorn community of Perry County, state police reported. State police at the Hazard

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post identified the victims ns Paul Barger and Fred Combs,' both 25. Officers said Donnie Ray Bush. 33. shot three times, was taken to Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington where he was reported in serious condition.