Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 84, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 December 1981 — Page 3
Bailly costs key issue in NIPSCO rate hike hearings
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A hearing on Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s request for a $176 million rate increase begins today, and the presiding Public Service commissioner expects the result in less than a year. Representatives of all sides were expected to settle the hearing schedule this afternoon and argue whether recovery of costs from the aborted Bailly nuclear power plant should be treated as a separate issue. < “The biggest issue is what is going to happen to the Bailly hole in the ground,” Commissioner Peggy Harris said in an interview Monday. The state’s second largest utility serves about 362,000 customers in 21 northern Indiana counties. Construction of the Bailly plant was halted in August after legal challenges and delays prompted by complaints from environmentalists and area residents. NIPSCO estimated the plant cost $205.6 million before construction was halted. It wants the cost of the aborted plant at Burns Harbor shared by consumers, who would collectively pay about s4l million annually over five years. The utility wants a $55 million rate hike for gas customers and a sl2l million increase for electrical customers, incorporating the Bailly costs. These would mean a 6 percent increase for gas customers and 16.5 percent for electric ratepayers. After this afternoon’s pre-
Judge Bontrager will leave bench
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - A judge the Indiana Supreme Court cited for contempt for refusing to sentence a burglar says he will resign from the bench. In his resignation, to be effective Feb. 14, Elkhart Superior Court Judge William Bontrager cited a controversy in his home county. While he did not elaborate, he has spoken out against a move to transfer juvenile cases from superior court jurisdiction to a referee. Resignation also would avoid a confrontation with the Judicial Qualifications Commission which is considering disciplinary action against him for alleged misconduct. Bontrager appealed his contempt citation to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last month it decided to let the citation stand. He said Monday he sent the resignation to Gov. Robert D. Orr and Richard Givan, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. Bontrager admitted he had been the focus of controversy in the past and added, “Over the past five years, I have tried to a servant to the people of
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hearing conference, the utility will file its testimony and present technical testimony. Other parties will do the same later. Ms. Harris said she didn’t expect much conflict over establishing a timetable for hearings. “The most likely area for testimony would be the test year,” which is used to calculate the utility’s financial base. NIPSCO asked that Sept. 30, 1980, through Sept. 30, 1981, be considered the test year. Ms. Harris said field hearings would be conducted in Gary and Fort Wayne with other sites probable. She said it “probably wouldn’t be a year” before the decision was made, “probably between six and nine months.” Administrative matters expected to be covered in the afternoon hearing included requests from two legislators. State Rep. William Drozda, D-Gary, asked on behalf of the city of Gary that the PSC consider the general rate request apart from the Bailly funding issue and that the gas and electric requests be considered separately. Rep. Ralph Ayres, RChesterton, asked that all official hearings on the latest increase request be in the NIPSCO service area, not in Indianapolis where the PSC is located. NIPSCO’s last rate increase was approved in September, totaling $43 million of SB9 million requested.
Elkhart County. During that time, I have wanted to and attempted to improve the quality, quantity and speed of judicial services. However, and for whatever now unimportant reasons, controversy has seemed to surround me time after time. “Until now, I have never felt that the controversy was hurting the ability of the Elkhart Superioir Court 2 to function. Nor have I felt my actions were effecting the rest of the judiciary in Elkhart County. “Now, a new controversy is swirling. This one, however, has the potential of impairing judicial services in Elkhart County. If it grows, it threatens to embroil legislators, attorneys, judges, prosecutors, welfare, county government and citizens. All of these could adversely affect the ability of Elkhart County to receive needed judicial relief from the Legislature in 1982. “To respond to and participate in the controversy will only fuel it further. It is time for all controversy surrounding me to cease.”
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music for Miss Anderson as she and nearly 30 other IU music students dressed like Santa to stage Bloomington's annual w Tuba Christmas” on the steps of the Monroe County Courthouse. (AP Laserphoto)
Disease suspect in child's death Meningitis scare closes two Cannelton schools
CANNELTON, Ind. (AP) - The death of a fourth-grade pupil, a suspected victim of meningitis, has closed two elementary schools in Cannelton. Superintendent Dale Lane said the schools were closed Monday as a result of the death of Stacey Anderson, 9. She died Saturday of a highly contagious disease, Lane said. State health authorities have not confirmed the disease was meningitis, and officials said there was no indication of an epidemic. St. Michael’s and Myers schools will be closed through today, Lane said. The incubation of meningitis is 2-5 days, he said, and today was the fifth day since the girl last attended school. Cannelton high school and junior high school were not affected, Lane said. In Indianapolis, Dr. Charles L. Barrett of the Communicable
Troopers raid bars in three counties
SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) They’ve got gambling right here in southern Indiana. Gambling that starts with G and rhymes with P and that stands for poker. Draw poker, that is, the electronic kind. It’s played in bars at a quarter a game, and according to state police, the luck of the draw can net a fortunate player as much as SIOO an evening. Seekers of fortune in this portion of the state, however, are likely to have a tough time finding a machine to play. State police confiscated more than 80 of the gambling devices in raids Monday afternoon. The raids were the latest in a series of attempts to control what state police officials term “a virtual explosion” in the number of machines appearing in taverns throughout the state. Previous raids resulted in machines confiscated in Marion, Madison and Tipton counties. No arrests were made Monday, but it is possible warrants charging possession of gambling devices and public gam-
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December 15,1981, The Putnam County Banner-Graphic
Disease Control center for the state Board of Health, said school closings “would not normally be a necessity” if a case of meningitis were reported. “The people at actual increased risk from contact with a case of meningicoccal meningitis would be members of the immediate household, boyfriends, girlfriends or emergency or hospital personnel who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to the victim,” Barrett said. He said there are 50 to 60 cases of meningicoccal meningitis reported in Indiana each year. “The majority do get reported because it is not too common,” Barrett said, adding that cases usually are reported as single incidents, not as epidemics. “Usually there is no need for the panic these cases produce.”
bling will be issued later this week against tavern owners who made illegal payoffs, police said. One-hundred policemen participated in raids at 40 bars in Floyd, Clark and Harrison counties where a two-month invstigation uncovered evidence the electronic games were being used as gambling devices. Most of the raids were low key, scarcely disturbing patrons of the bars.
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Five percent of those who contract meningitis died of the disease, Barrett said. However, he said the disease can be treated successfully with antibiotics. Death often results because the disease, a highly contagious brain fever, moves so quickly, Barrett said. “In some cases the disease runs its course so fast, even in a matter of hours, there’s no time to get proper treatment started.” Dr. Fred Smith, Perry County health officer, said closing the schools was not his idea. “From a public health standpoint, it was not necessary,” Smith said. “There is nothing at this point that needs to be done.”
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