Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 88, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1981 — Page 2
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The Putnam County December 19.1981
Militant Polish workers battling military takeover
By The Associated Press From the southern coal fields to the giant Lenin Shipyards on the Baltic Coast, defiant Polish workers are reported holding out against a military regime determined to crush strikes and restore order. A high-ievel Polish government official told the U S. Embassy that strikes are under way at 43 enterprises in eight provinces, the State Department said Friday. A young miner who was at the Wujek mine in southern Poland where seven of his coworkers were killed Wednesday related his account of the fighting in a report from Poland Friday. It was the first officially confirmed incident in which Polish troops killed protesting workers.
Dutch aid delivery permitted Daily Telegraph. London THE HAGUE - A Dutch convoy of trucks has been allowed to deliver aid directly to Poles at church run distribution points after being detained by the Polish military 24 hours in a race track without washing or toilet facilities, according to reports reaching Holland. The convoy of 130 trucks, which left Holland on Sunday carrying 200,000 tons of aid, was taken into military custody after it crossed the Polish border Tuesday night. The trucks were shunted into a snow-covered race track in Tawica. near Poznan. The truck drivers, most of whom had slept only a few hours during the snow-and-ice-bound run through West and East Germany, were left without washing or toilet facilities and not allowed to leave the race track. The drivers became angry when it became clear that the army intended to confiscate the supplies. Wim Woudenberg, the leader of the convoy, told the authorities during negotiations that the drivers would burn the supplies rather than turn them over to the soldiers.
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Polish navy blocks Baltic Sea coast Daily Telegraph, London MUNICH The Polish navy has sealed off the entire Baltic coast of Poland, said the chief of staff of the West German navyi In a statement released by the West German navy Friday, Vice Admiral Ansgar Bethge suggested the Polish blockade was intended to “prevent a possible flood of refugees." He also said that West German naval observers had sighted some Soviet naval units off the Baltic coast. “This is not necessarily very unusual," he said. “But there is concern that they might join the Polish surveillance fleet." He said there was no sign that the ships blockading the Baltic coast planned to land troops. “It is simply a surveillance operation," he said.
The man said police lobbed teargas into the mine entrance, then attacked in small groups.
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The expression on Santa Claus' face shows he doesn’t know exactly how to react to "Balboa”, a boa constrictor owned by Jerry Fikes of Phonenix, Ariz. The snake was among several pets brought to see
Manager awarded $300,000 in lawsuit against IBM Corp.
SAN FRANCISCO <AP)-In-ternational Business Machines Corp. must pay $300,000 to a former manager who claimed she was fired for dating a man employed by a competitor, a jury has decided. “I’m very, very pleased,” Virginia Rulon-Miller said Friday. “We beat IBM. I thought nobodv ever beat IBM.” Her Superior Court lawsuit
grappling with chain-swinging miners. Radio Warsaw confirmed the seven deaths and
Santa during a special promotion at at Phoenix shopping mall. Santa handled puppies and kittens with his usual "Ho! Ho! Ho!," but the snake got only a nervous gulp from St. Nick. (AP Laserphoto)
had accused the giant corporation of violating her constitutional right to privacy by intruding in her personal affairs and discriminating against her since she is a woman. After less than one day’s deliberations, jurors decided Ms. Rulon-Miller, 34, was entitled to SIOO,OOO in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages. “I feel very strongly that companies have no right to get into the personal lives of their employees unless there’s a direct, provable effect on job performance.” she said. “You have a personal life.
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said 80 miners and policemen were injured in the fighting. The Communist government has said 200 people have been injured in clashes since martial law was declared last Sunday and Solidarity, the independent labor federation, was banned. They blamed the bloodshed on provocateurs who “do not want the community to return calmly to work.” Thousands of demonstrators in Kracow and Lodz were dispersed Thursday by police using water cannons and smokebombs. Police reportedly occupied the cathedral in Lodz to prevent a special mass from taking place. Militant workers appeared to have barricaded themselves inside buildings at the Lenin Shipyards in the northern port
and you have a business life,” Ms. Rulon-Miller’s career with IBM began in 1967 when she was hired as a receptionist and ended in 1979 when she was working as a marketing manager in IBM’s office products division here. She contended she was fired because of her relationship with Matthew Blum, an IBM account manager who went to the computer division of Exxon Corp., called Qyx. IBM. concerned the romance could jeopardize confidential information, contended it had a right to investigate an apparent conflict of interest.
of Gdansk, according to reports coming from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and released by the State Department in Washington. Associated Press correspondent Thomas W. Netter reported that Warsaw was quiet Friday following disturbances Thursday in which young protesters were routed by clubswinging police. Heeding a Solidarity request, thousands of Warsaw residents turned off their electric lights Thursday night and put candles in their windows to express support for the trade union. Armored military units continued to patrol Warsaw streets, and police and soldiers manned roadblocks at important buildings in the capital, Netter said.
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Auto license branches to revise accounting
INDIANAPOLIS <AP> - A new accounting procedure for auto license branches met with mixed reviews from two Indiana legislators who have filed suit trying to revise the system further. The new system announced Friday by Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr requires the 184 auto license branch managers after the first of the year to establish four accounts for funds they collect. The accounts include a clearing account into which all money including non-statutory fees is collected and then funneled into one of three other accounts: for excise tax. funds due to the state, and a manager's account. The manager's account pays for branch personnel, rent, lights, heat, telephone service and office equipment. The major revision is the idea of a clearing account, which the deputy commissioner at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles describes as “a big holding tank until a transfer of funds report is sent (to the bureau) with validated deposit tickets attached." William Keown said the bureau and the governor’s office decided six months ago after several discoveries of missing funds from license branches that “one of the big problems is the bookkeeping We worked up a centralized accounting system whereby every branch would be doing their internal bookkeeping the same way." Keown said he doubted the change would affect the lawsuits filed earlier this year by state Reps. Dennis T. Avery, D-Evansville, and Darrell E. Felling, D-Evansville. One suit seeks public disclosure of information about
'Sixth-grade Santas' Students chip in to replace sl2 stolen from teacher
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) When an intruder slipped into an empty classroom at Smith Elementary School last week and stole a teacher’s purse, he left a valuable lesson both for teachers and pupils. Teacher’s aide Dianne Weddell and her students were at lunch when the man entered the school on the east edge of Columbus. Some children saw him walk into the room, but they weren t sure at first whether anything was wrong. But when he thrust Mrs. Weddell’s purse under his coat and took off, they started yelling for help. It was too late. Some sixth-graders looked out a study hall window and saw him speed away on a motorcycle. After school that day, many students began looking for Mrs. Weddell’s purse. They looked in places a thief might discard a handbag - on school property, along nearby roads, even in garbage cans. "You could see them jumping down into cans," Mrs. Weddell recalled. Three days later, the purse still hadn’t been found But Mrs. Weddell discovered something else when she checked her mailbox at school a box wrapped like a Christmas present. ,
Netter’s report was one of the first out of Poland since the government restored telex communications for foreign journalists provided their accounts are submitted to state censors and are limited to first hand observations and state media reports. Poland’s severely depressed economy has been reeling for the past 14 years from the effect of strikes, crop failures and what the new martial-law regime concedes were disastrous economic policies in the 19705. But the government, headed by Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, maintained that order is being restored. “We are now in an interim period, moving from anarchy and poverty on the way to order
Revenue missing in Dubois County JASPER. Ind. (AP) Local auditors probably won t know until early next year how much money is missing from the Dubois County auto license branch, says manager Carolyn Burke. Mrs. Burke and Republican Party county chairman Don Hayes said the missing funds are from a private account and do not include any state money. The Dubois County office, as all license branches in the state, operates through the county Republican Party, which receives a portion of the money. Mrs. Burke, who is vice chairman of the party, said the county party organization has not received any money from the branch this year. At a news conference Friday. Mrs. Burke and Hayes said no law enforcement agencies have been called because the money is from an account used to pay off operating expenses at the license branch, they said.
how funds are spent in the bureau manager’s account. Another challenges the constitutionality of the branch system in which political parties draw a share of branch proceeds and the party of the governor garners higher proceeds. Avery said the new system "appears to be nothing but P R. (public relations) ... a different way of putting money in the bank.” "It might make things a little more clear to audit the branches, maybe a little easier, but it does nothing to improve the public's right to know as far as how moneys are expended," he said, adding that "as long as the public is left out of the system, you'll see continued corruption." Felling was more charitable. "I think it's at least a slightly positive step in the right direction because with the recent shortages (reported in some of the license branches), action
and overcoming the crisis,” Warsaw Radio said. However, Poles learned from Radio Warsaw that they may soon be returning to a seven-day work week and 12-hour shifts. It was difficult to judge how quickly the 5-day-old military regime was overcoming opposition mounted by the weakened Solidarity movement, or whether the strikes and protests were spreading, since communications within Poland and most Western news channels out of Poland had been disrupted for days. Under new travel restrictions, citizens must have written permission to travel between cities. Under earlier martial law rules, Poles were allowed to travel out of town for
needs to be taken by the governor." Felling said if you take the idea behind the new system a step further, “the logical conclusion is that the overall system needs to be tightened up. While I'm not elated (with the new accounting system), at least I’m pleased he (Orr) is taking notice." He said it might help their lawsuit because the change is "an admission that there are some problems" under the current system. Under the new system, Keown said the only people able to draw off the excise tax account are the county treasurer and commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The branch manager is now the sole signatory on the excise account, he said. "Once we get that money out of the branch, we want to make sure that person who is supposed to have it in this case.
It was from the "Sixth-Grade Santas,” and it contained nickels, dimes, pennies and dollar bills totaling more than sl2. “It was all quite secretive," Mrs. Weddell said of the pupils’ project. “I was crying and very emotional. You really don’t know how children respond to you in education. I found out I was really loved a lot.’’ She kept questioning the pupils until she got one to tell her the names of the Santas. It turned out that Matt Hunt and Chris Fields had spearheaded the effort to raise some money to cover Mrs. Weddell's loss. "I was sitting in math class when I thought up the idea," Matt said. "I thought it would be nice to give her some money since it was getting so close to Christmas and she lost her purse. We decided to wrap it in a box and put it in her mailbox." On Friday. Mrs. Weddell, who has been at the school for two years, gathered the children together in the cafeteria and told them, "I can never thank you enough." Later that day, her purse was found in the parking lot of a local fast-food restaurant Her wallet, empty, was found in a ditch between Columbus and Hope
up to 48 hours. Western journalists, confined to Warsaw, have learned of events in other parts of the country by interviewing those who have been allowed to travel. On Friday, the military was giving travel permits only to those who were returning to their homes, reports said. A variety of reports spoke of continued privations and panic buying. The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported from Warsaw that private farmers, the backbone of Polish agriculture, had been withholding food deliveries since martial law was imposed. It quoted an official appeal to farmers, pleading with them to “not be indifferent to the needs of your brothers in towns”.
the treasurer has it." Keown added. Proof of transfers from the clearing accour t would be forwarded to the bureau for internal audit verification. Under the old system, there was no central clearing account that was monitored by the bureau. "It is questionable whether there was an old system," said Keown, adding that “license branches each kept their own accounting system." Excise tax deposits will be speeded up under the new system so that the state doesn't funnel excise funds to the county treasurers. Now. funds go directly to county treasurers, which eliminates a lag time which could have amounted to 40 days. “The excise money is immediately available to the county treasurers. We think that's a huge benefit," Keown said. The State Board of Accounts estimates the prompt transfer of excise tax could produce $lO to sls million for local government. Each time money is transferred from the clearing fund, a transfer check must be written, said Keown. adding that if funds turn up missing from the excise or state funds, the bureau could force the branch manager to make up the funds from his operating account or from his bond. "They would send us a copy of a transfer sheet every time they transfer money from a clearing account. If there are any problems they’ll be discovered upfront," he said. Keown said 19 training sessions for branch managers were scheduled this week but three had to be postponed because of heavy snow.