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$85,899 shortage traced to manager of license branch

INDIANAPOLIS (API - More than $85,000 is missing from accounts of a Daviess County license branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, according to a State Board of Accounts audit. The audit, which examined records of the Washington branch from Jan. 1, 1977, through Sept. 23,1981, was forwarded to a grand jury and the state attorney general Tuesday. It said $72,050 in checks were made payable to branch manager Harvey C. Newton between Dec. 16,1980, and May 5,1981. About $13,079 in receipts were never deposited, according to the audit. Accountability differences in state fees and differences in the excise tax collections total $598, the audit said, bringing the total

Anderson closing six schools

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Up to 40 grade school teachers in Anderson -the central Indiana city wearied by layoffs in autorelated industries - may lose their jobs next fall when Anderson Community Schools closes six elementaries. Anderson School Board members voted Tuesday night to close six of the district’s 24 elementary schools. Declining enrollment in recent years which dropped the student-teacher ratio to 19:1 prompted the closings, school officials said. There are about 8.000 students in kindergarten

'Laid-off teacher should get unemployment benefits’

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A regular teacher laid off from his job because of <a cutback in staff is eligible for unemployment benefits even if placed on a substitute teaching list, the Indiana Court of Appeals says. The court ruled Tuesday in a case involving Dane C. Starbuck, laid off from the Fort Wayne Community Schools system in March 1980. The English teacher and tennis coach was notified that if conditions changed, the layoff at the end of the semester might not be necessary and if he were laid off, his name would automatically be placed on the

Mrs. Van Orden 'insane'

COLUMBUS (AP) Two court-appointed psychiatrists have testified Julie Van Orden, accused of killing former Evansville Mayor Russell Lloyd, was insane when she shot him. Arid Genna Lloyd, the exmayor’s widow, testified for the prosecution Tuesday, the 10th day of the trial. Ms. Van Orden, 37, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to shooting Lloyd at his home March 19, 1980. He died two days later in an Evansville hospital. Before the psychiatrists

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unsettled amount to more than $85,899. The audit report included a copy of a handwritten letter dated last Saturday from Newton to state Board of Accounts examiner M.F. Renner. It reads: “I received your letter this week on the examination of License Branch 149.1 am very sorry of the shortage that I borrowed. I in no way had any intention of keeping that money. I was laid off from my job and had some bad luck farming along with some other problems. I am sending you a check for SSOO to put on this account as payment back. I will pay back willingly the full amount. Please let me know what is acceptable to you. I will do my best. Sincerely yours, Harvey C. Newton.”

through the sixth grade in the district. Board members will begin working on a redistricting plan at their next meeting Jan. 5 which will take effect for the 1982-82 school year. They want to raise the student-teacher ratio to about 24:1. The schools to be closed next fall are Brentwood, Lindbergh, Longfellow, Riley, Roosevelt and Washington. The vote to close them was unanimous on all except Brentwood. Two of the seven board members voted to keep open Brentwood, which was built in 1976. The other five

substitute teacher list. The previous year, he had undergone the same process of being laid off but was rehired in August. Starbuck applied for a oneyear leave of absence which was denied, so he resigned Aug. 11, 1980. enrolling in Indiana University. Starbuck applied for unemployment compensation benefits, contending his job was terminated June 6, 1980. The Employment Security Division rejected his claim, but the division’s review board reversed that decision. The

testified Tuesday, the defense had Ms. Van Orden’s statement, given police when she was arrested the day of the shooting, read in court. In the statement, Ms. Van Orden denied shooting Lloyd, claimed she was the victim of a plot and had been framed in the shooting. Then the two court-appointed psychiatrists, Jon Holdread and Sherman Franz, testified Ms. Van Orden suffered paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the shooting and was unable to understand her action was wrong.

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Debbie Struense gives her six-month-old son, P.J., a bottle as he recuperates from surgery in which he received a kidney from his father. The surgery was performed last week at University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis. Doctors say P.J. is progressing well. The family is from Fairview Heights, 111. (AP Laserphoto)

were built between 1915 and 1932. The closings will affect about 60 teachers. About 40 may be laid off and the rest will be transferred to other schools, assistant Superintendent Robert Stinson said. After the board finished voting, board member Dorothy Moore told citizens, “This has not been easy. It has touched our hearts the same as yours, but something had to be done, a decision made.” Superintendent Leonard Austin said, “This has been a painful process for members of

Court of Appeals upheld the review board’s decision and said, “Starbuck had, at most, only a hope of being reemployed as a regular teacher. This is not enough to constitute a resonable assurance of continued employment in an instructional capacity. The only assurance afforded Starbuck by FWCS was that he would be placed on the substitute list.” The appeals court agreed with Starbuck’s contention that substitute teaching is not steady employment and pays much less than regular teaching.

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both the board and the community.” Meanwhile, in anticipation of additional school closings, the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners decided Tuesday to notify up to 18 elementary principals and assistant principals their contracts may not be renewed next year. Superintendent Karl R. Kalp was directed to eliminate enough positions so that every elementary school operates at 80 percent capacity during the 1982-83 school year.

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NIPSCO wins round one

Rate hearing to include Bailly costs

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Eichorn, as a witness was withdrawn after another attorney pointed out Eichorn would have to disqualify himself from representing his client if he testified. NIPSCO also argued Eichorn’s testimony probably could be gleaned from other sources. Little testimony was presented at the pre-conference hearing, although Gary resident Jack Weinberg, NIPSCO Vice President of Finance Allen H. Petersen and NIPSCO Chairman Edmund Schroer took the witness stand.

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Utility attorneys objected to many of the questions posed by intervenors on grounds they were irrelevant. Many of the objections were sustained by PSC Chairman Larry J. Wallace, who presided over the hearing. After listening to arguments from representatives of the intervenors and NIPSCO, Wallace, administrative law judge Charles Mercer and Commissioner Peggy Harris agreed with NIPSCO’s contention that Bailly costs and the rate increases be considered as a package.

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