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Perry Meridian rally shows no hint of racial tension

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Racial tension was nowhere to be found at Perry Meridian High School on Indianapolis' southside after a rally, which included Mayor William Hudnut, was held to talk about disturbances reportedly related to desegregation. Students, black and white, greeted Hudnut and Marion County Sheriff James L. Wells on Friday with cheers, applause and a standing ovation. The rally was prompted after some students walked out Thursday and did not return, school officials said. Reporters at the scene and two teachers, who asked not to be identified, estimated that up to 200 students walked out. While school authorities could not confirm whether the incident was racially motivated, uniformed sheriff’s deputies remained in the school’s hallways as-

Aging agency aware of plight

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The head of the state Commission on Aged and Aging says she was aware problems existed with the agency’s accounting methods long before Uncle Sam’s auditors criticized them. A federal audit sharply criticized the fiscal accountability of funds spent between Oct. 1, 1976 and June 30, 1979 under the Older Hoosier Americans Act. The federal government has told Indiana to either document the spending of more than $26.3 million in federal funds under the Older Americans Act or pay

Videotape shown of PATCO protest

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) A videotape of a union caravan of cars and trucks on Indianapolis International Airport property in August was shown Friday night in a federal court hearing on alleged violations of a court order banning strike-related activities at the airport. Twenty-one people members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and some of their spouses are charged with contempt of court for violating U.S. District Court Judge Cale Holder’s order banning strikerelated activity at the airport. The order was issued Aug. 3, the day the national strike began. Holder viewed the 15-minute tape Friday night despite defense objections that a Federal Aviation Administration official had testified last week he did not know about any pictures of the incident. Joe Chavez, chief of the Air Traffic Route Control Center at Indianapolis, testified Friday he had approved of the filming of the PATCO demonstration which occurred Aug. 28 Chavez said the videotape was shot from a second-story of-

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back the money, said the commission's head, Jean Merritt, on Friday. The comission’s executive director since March 30, said Friday, “I don’t believe there’s been misappropriation of funds. I believe it’s a situation where the documentation has not been provided.” Mrs. Merritt, who is also executive director of the Community Services Administration, said she was aware of the problem when she became took charge of the commission. “I have to confess I did not understand the magnitude

fice in the control tower after police alerted the FAA the union caravan was approaching the center. Chief PATCO Attorney James F. Quill complained Friday in court that Chavez had testified Oct. 16 that he did not have any “pictures” that would be displayed in court But Chavez replied Friday, “I was not asked if I had any videotapes.” He added later the attorney’s question had confused him. The tape showed a string of cars and trucks pass by the center, make a U-turn and drive by again. A handful of cars leaving the center faced short delays because of traffic, the tape showed. Chavez testified there were from 80 to 120 people in the caravan and that he recognized three of them as PATCO members. Another government witness, an Indianapolis police chemist, testified Friday that the contents of bottles that had been sprayed on a non-striking controller and his car were hydrochloric acid. The court hearing is to resume Monday morning.

ter the incident The walkout came two days after six students, blacks and whites, were suspended for participating in a hallway shoving match that school officials contended was racially motivated. These incidents were among the first of their kind reported in Marion County schools since court-ordered busing began this fall. In an earlier incident involving Perry-Meridian students, a black student riding a bus was injured when a white student broke a bus window. About 5,500 black students from the first through the ninth grades were bused to six surrounding suburban township schools beginning in August. The desegregation of the township school systems, which are separate from the city school system, had been contested in the courts since 1968, with the U.S.

of the problem,” she added. The regional office of the Adminstration on Aging has given the state until March 4, 1982 to document the expenditures, Mrs. Merritt said. “I believe we’ll be finished before then,” she said. “We will get it straightened up. We think we’ll have it well on the way by the first of the year.” If the expenditures can’t be substantiated, the amounts will be recovered from the state, Mrs. Merritt said.

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Oppose utility construction plan

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Utilities buying excess power from each other might be a better way to keep a lid on rising power costs while providing more energy than making consumers pay for utility plants under construction. That’s what most of the 12 persons who testified Friday at a legislative study committee’s hearing in Evansville on an idea it rejected two years ago. The 12 addressed the idea of customers paying for construction work in progress (CWIP) with only one of the witnesses, a utility official, recommending approval of the concept. The others argued that allowing utilities to charge the cost of plants to consumers before completion is no better an idea than when the

Col. Roeder shares Sharer's big moment

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) coming, but Cmdr. Donald Sharer, a Plainfield, Ind. native and Indiana University graduate, finally became skipper of a Navy fighting squadron. His promotion had been delayed by the 444 days he spent as a hostage in Iran. To help celebrate the occasion and some good times Sharer invited other former

Supreme Court allowing U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin’s busing order to stand in October 1980. In a related development this week, the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced it had sent a telegram to President Reagan asking that federal troops be sent to the city to help with desegregation. U.S. Attorney Sarah Evans Barker said Wednesday the federal government has been asked to investigate recent racial trouble at Perry-Meridian, but she declined to say who made the request. Some students interviewed after the assembly said they were uplifted by the display of cooperation. “There isn’t that fright and tension,” said Robinn Schafer, captain of the cheerleading squad. “Yesterday, you could have cut the tension with a knife,” she

The programs involved include low-cost nutritional meals, transporation, recreation, counseling and continuing education for Hoosiers over age 59. Federal auditors said the state agency was carrying out an aggressive program under approved plans but added that “controls exercised at both the state and area agency leevels need to be improved if the state agency and the AOA are to be assured that funds are used efficiently, economically and effective

Legislature rejected it in 1979. Committee members were told that if CWIP is allowed, Indiana utilities will have no incentive to reduce their reserve capabilities of electrictity which witnesses said are already excessive. Indiana law currently prohibits an electric utility from including the cost of a new plant in its rate base unti’i the

hostages to the formal change of command Friday at Naval Air Station Oceana at Virginia Beach. Four, all from northern Viriginia, made it. Col. David Roeder, Clair Barnes, Col. Leland Holland and Gary Lee sat unnoticed among the 200 other guests. No special seats were set aside. Sharer said he wanted it that way. It was otherwise a traditional ceremony the colors presented, the admirals honored, the

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facility is completed and r eady to provide service. Utility officials claim absorbing those costs while construction is underway would reduce the amount of interest paid on financing and benefit consumers in the long run through lower overall costs. Opponents of the utility’s effort criticized the fact the utilities do not have to prove a

orders read as Sharer took command of VF-11, an F-14 squadron, from Cmdr. Peter Pierce. There was one paragraph in his biography in the official program: “CDR Sharer was assigned temporary duty to the Iranian Air Force as the F-14 liaison officer. During this tour CDR Sharer spent fourteen and a half months as a hostage of the Iranian government. ’ ’

added. The rally set the stage for what school officials say will be more attention to race relations. The ParentTeacher Organization established a special phone service which people may call with questions about the school. Hudnut said Friday’s assembly was not designed as an answer to whatever problems there may be at Perry-Meridian or as a review of the desegregation process. “It wasn’t the place to go into depth on the philosophy of busing,” Hudnut said. One student at the rally, senior class president Todd Anthony, contended the news media had exaggerated problems that led to the walkout Thursday.

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need for additional capacity before they begin expensive construction programs. Opponents also contend that consumers, not utility stockholders or company officers, are the ones who pay for management mistakes when unneeded plants are built. “Its like writing a blank check to someone you don’t even trust,” said John Blair,

Sharer had already been screened for command and was drafting his request for reassignment when the American Embassy in Tehran was seized Nov. 4,1979. The new commander did note “a special group of people out there I spent 14% months with” when he began his brief remarks. And Rear Adm. John Fetterman Jr., commander Tactical Wings Atlantic, said, “You

editor and publisher of the monthly “Ohio Valley Environment" magazine. “I doubt if anyone in this room wants their rates to go up 25 percent for electricity that never may be used in their lifetime.” The only statements supporting CWIP were made by Norm Wagner, president of Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co. Wagner did not mention construction work in progress in his prepared statement to the com mittee, but he later was asked by state Rep. Edward Goble, DBatesville, whether SIGECO would have trouble financing its planned addition to the A.B. Brown pjower plant without CWIP. “Its going to be difficult either wav,” said Wagner.

have been put to the test through your ordeal in Iran. We are proud of your performance. The words, ‘Duty, Honor, Country’say it all.” The stories that came out after the hostages returned portrayed Sharer as a hero. “I’m in this business because I believe in this flag, because I believe in the ideals of America,” he said Friday.

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