Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 74, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 December 1981 — Page 3

Midwest poisedior second big quake?

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Earthquakes are normally associated with areas near the ocean. However, the largest cjuake ever recorded in the United States was centered in southeastern Missouri. Federal disaster officials say there is a better than even -phance another quake will occur in the same area by the year • 2000, and they want to get ready for it. - . - As a part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were in Evansville Tuesday to warn area emergency personnel of the potential damage if another quake occurs. On Dec. 16,1811, tremors lasting two days shook the central . United States. Large shocks followed on Jan. 23, 1812, and again Feb. 7 that year. The largest of the shocks was felt throughout two million . square miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the . Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. That quake was credited with changing the course of the ~ Mississippi River and forming Reelfoot Lake in northwestern ' Tennessee. Jean Millin of FEMA’s emergency response and national . security division said there is up to a 63 percent probability of

Abrupt turnaround is surprise

Schiro to fight electric chair date

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Despondent man .fax listens, doesn't jump

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Two. policemen talked a young man out of jumping from the roof of a 15-story bank building Wednesday while a lunchtime crowd of hundreds watched from the sidewalks. William L. Fielder, in his late 20s, was said to be despondent over what police called “domestic problems” with his girlfriend and over losing his job. Spectators watched him dangle his legs and lean precariously over the edge of the roof for about 25 minutes before he was persuaded to

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“It’s a whole new ballgame, judge,” Givan quoted Clouse as saying. “He’s decided to appeal.” The court decided to go ahead with the hearing “because there was no point getting him down here and not making a record on it,” the chief justice said. The first hint of Schiro’s decision came when he told Givan he wanted Michael Keating, who represented him at his trial, to continue as his lawyer. Schiro had fired Keating, but the Evansville attorney continued to work on his client’s behalf. Flanked by his father, Thomas Schiro of Bicknell, and Keating, the young man responded with. “Yes, sir,” and “No, sir,” to the chief justice’s questions. Givan didn’t get through his full list of 14 questions because Schiro said no to this one: “Is it still your request that there be no appeal from your conviction of murder in the Brown Circuit Court? ” Schiro made no statement other than to say he wanted Clouse, an associate of Keating’s, to work on his case. With Schiro’s father in the

leave the area. Fielder believed that the girlfriend’s father was responsible for his dismissal from his job, Patrolman Jeffrey Carr said. Before he went to the roof of the United Virginia Bank building, where his girlfriend works, he had a discussion with her, said police, who declined to identify the girlfriend or the nature of the discussion. Carr said he and Patrolman John Hammer promised Fielder he could talk privately with his girlfriend if he would move away from the edge.

a substantial quake occurring along the fault before the end of the century. The fault area includes parts of seven states, she said, and geologists have estimated a strong quake would have the potential to cause severe damage in 10 southwestern Indiana counties and 20 counties in western Kentucky. “It’s been rumbling and shaking for 500,000 years down there, and it isn’t likely to stop,” said Jack Barnes, assistant professor of geology at Indiana State University-Evansville. Ms. Millin said that besides having potentially devastating effects on the area, an earthquake along the New Madrid fault would have national implications. Such a tremor “would hurt the entire nation’s economy because the natural gas pipelines for the northeast run through this area,” Ms. Millin told officials from southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. “It would shut down the industry of that region.” She said her team will return to the Evansville area next year to collect information on local buildings and services such as police and fire stations, industries, medical facilities and military outposts. The information will be forwarded to the U.S. Geological Survey for analysis and assistance in preparing an emergency response plan.

courtroom was Mary Carr, foster mother of Steven T. Judy, executed last March for killing Terry Lee Chasteen and her three children. Judy, despite pleas by Mrs. Carr and others, fought all attempts to stop his execution, saying he would rather die in the electric chair than spend the rest of his life in prison. Mrs. Carr said she talked with Schiro by phone on death row in an effort to get him to change his mind and go ahead with the appeal. “Tom may realize he has a lot more going for him,” she said in an interview after the hearing. “Steve’s case was pretty cut and dried.” Mrs. Carr said she contacted Schiro’s parents after reading about his decision to forego his appeal. “I could just see what they were going through,” she said. “God, I didn’t want to see anybody else go through this.” Schiro’s lawyers learned Wednesday morning the appeal would not be dropped. But Keating and Clouse said they didn't know when Schiro changed his mind.

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“I think he finally realized there may be some merit to his appeal and that he may have a chance,” Keating said. Asked what motivated Schiro’s decision, Keating replied, “He really didn’t give me a reason, and I wasn’t going to press him for one. I thought it was a good decision.” “I’m just sure that in his present state, he’s subject to emotional tides,” Clouse said.

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Social Security cuts opposed Aging delegates ready report

WASHINGTON (AP) - A resolution opposing any benefit cuts for Social Security recipients is among the recommendations in a White House Conference on Aging draft report that repudiates some Reagan administration policies on the elderly and embraces other. Nearly 2,300 delegates were voting today on the conference report, the sum of recommendations by 14 committees. But lingering dissatisfication with the convention rules, which will allow only a vote on the report as a whole, prompted some discussion of a possible protest during the conference’s final hours. In a special appeal to the

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White House, the Leadership Conference Council of Aging Organizations asked that conference rules be changed to permit separate votes on individual committee recommendations. But there appeared little likelihood that the request would be honored. “I am not at all sure there is any legal way of changing the rules even if that were advisable,” said the conference chairman, Constance Armitage of Inman, S.C. The Committee on Economic Well-Being approved a compromise resolution Wednesday that strongly recommends no reduction in benefits for future Social Security recipients. While President Reagan

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assured the delegates Tuesday that he would not cut Social Security for those “dependent on that program,” he has never promised to keep all benefits intact for workers now paying into the program. He proposed last May to remedy Social Security deficits by cutting early retirement, disability and other benefits for future beneficiaries by almost 23 percent. He withdrew that plan in September and called for a bipartisan task force to study the problems. Passage of the resolution was a strategic victory for Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., the 81-year-old chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, honorary conference chairman

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and leader of the dissidents on Social Security. “We have a resolution we can live with and I can take back to Congress and we can use when it gets to the meeting of the task force on what we’re going to do about Social Security,” Pepper declared after three hours of closed-door negotiations. Some angry sentiment was revived later in the day when the same committee voted 60-55 “to commend Congress and the administration for its support of Social Security and its efforts to control inflation, which is the heaviest tax on senior citizens.” The committee had decided in one of its first sessions not to oppose cuts in benefits for future beneficiaries,

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