Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 105, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 January 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 12,1982

Unemployment law amended Assembly bows to Uncle Sam

INDIANAPOLIS (API - With millions of dollars at stake, the Indiana House and Senate have sent each other separate versions of a bill to make temporary legislative employees eligible for unemployment compensation. The U.S. Department of Labor warned the state last year that unless the offending section of the law was removed, the state would lose S4O million in federal funds to run its unemployment program and Hoosier businesses would face a S3OO million increase in their federal unemployment taxes. The original deadline for action was Oct. 31, but Gov. Robert D. Orr negotiated an extension to Jan. 22 to change the

'Guerrilla tactics' in Fort Wayne Angry cops respond with tricks

FORT WAYNE. Ind. (AP) - Fort Wayne police are using "individual guerrilla tactics,” including work slowdowns, harassing phone calls and practical jokes against commanders to show their ire with top police

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law. With much grumbling but no dissenting votes, the Senate bill was approved 38-0 Monday and forwarded to the House for further action. The House version passed 62-18 and was sent to the Senate. Whichever bill reaches Orr’s desk first will become law. “I don’t like it, and I’m here publicly to say I do not like it,” said Sen. Joseph Harrison, RAttica, Senate sponsor of the bill. “I will go back and probably close my eyes” while voting yes. Sen. Charles E. Bosma, RBeech Grove, held his nose while voting for the bill, as he did while voting for it in committee, proclaiming “it smells

management, police union officials say. Although Chief David C. Riemen denied the charges, David Bechner, president of the 220-member Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association said Monday, "The cops are slowing down. They’re speeding up. They’re hanging signs all over town. They are doing everything they can to throw a wrench into the works.” The targets have been Riemen, Assisant Chief David Racine and Fire Chief Tony

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Dad.” In the House, Rep. William Soards, R-Indianapolis, said the state has no choice but to repeal the law he helped enact three years ago. Under questioning from Rep. James Hunt, R-Fort Wayne, Soards said he "couldn’t venture a guess’’ as to how many former legislative employees might seek unemployment compensation retroactive to October 1980. Hunt suggested the claims might place a further drain on Indiana’s beleaguered unemployment compensation fund. “This is another attempt on the part of the bureaucracy to jam something down our throats,’’ Hunt said.

Myers who also oversees police operations as city safety coordinator. The PBA and the Fratrenal Order of Police, which represents ranking police commanders, will present a petition to the City Countil tonight signed by 83 percent of the police force asking that Myers’ safety coordinator post be eliminated and he be returned fulltime to the fire department. The petition says, “Due to his status as a firefighter, he has not gained the trust and

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cooperation of police department as evidenced by this petition.” But Bechner said individual officers also have begun showing their dissatisfaction with Myers, Reimen, low pay and poor morale in their own ways The most visible acts of protest have been signs over several railroad overpasses in recent weeks proclaiming such statements as: “Mayor Win Moses-Let My People Go, Fort Wayne Police,” “Welcome To Fort Wayne-Home of King Tony Myers and Queen David Riemen.” Police who asked their names not be used said some unhappy officers also paid for a classified ad in the Fort Wayne newspapers offering two tickets for sale to the Notre Dame-USC football game on the 50-yard line, listing Reimen’s home telephone number. Riemen noted this occurred but it was more than two months ago. PBA Vice President Jon Jones said the work slowdown has not included refusal to answer citizen calls for help. Bechner agreed and said, “They’re just not arresting anybody. The word I’m getting is it’s a statistical slowdown. Riemen is a statistics freak, so what the guys have done.is just begin to eliminate his statistics.” Although the PBA did not organized the protest, Bechner said, “I gave my sanction to it when we got a 4 percent wage increase for 1982.

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Florida citrus crop in grip of winter blast

By ANDY O’CONNELL Associated Press Writer Some of the bitterest winter weather to hit the South in decades threatened Florida’s citrus crop today as the death toll from sub-zero temperatures across the nation shot up to 70. Several elderly people froze to death in their homes, including a 92-year-old woman in Mississippi and another the same age in Alabama. Buffalo, N.Y. was digging out from a record 24-hour snowfall of 25 inches and hundreds of miles of roads w'ere closed in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York because of blowing snow and drifts up to 6 feet deep. Travelers forced off the highways by blowing snow spent the night in highway service stations and church pews, and state office buildings in western New York were ordered to remain open as refuges. In New York City, the Heat Complaint Bureau received more than 10,000 reports of apartments without heat. Workers at Ashland Oil Co. plant in Catlettsburg, Ky. were trying to clear a frozen pipe Monday night when explosions ripped through gasoline tanks, injuring two people, a company official said. A resulting fire was contained early today. As the Midwest warmed to zero and above after record-cold weather that saw the wind-chill factor dip to as low as 100 below in Milwaukee, temperatures sank into the 20s today over this year’s citrus crop, most of which is still unpicked. “The Lord’s taken care of us before. I hope he’s looking after us again,” said John Jackson, a state Agriculture Department official for Orange and Lake counties in the northern part of Florida’s citrus belt. Citrus fruit can be destroyed by six hours of 28-degree cold. It was 2 below in Birmingham, Ala. Monday, and 8 above in Pensacola, Fla. The 15 at Houston was the coldest there in 30 years. Schools, factories and business were shut throughout the Mid-

Mutz urges funds to retrain auto workers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Job training grants will be an important part of finding work for the 37,000 Hoosiers who lost jobs in the auto industry the last three years, Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz told a congressional subcommittee. “The effect of the autorelated recession on Indiana has oeen the second worst in the nation,” Mutz said. “Many of the 37,000 people who have lost jobs in the Indiana auto plants the past three years will never return. They need to be retrained to become employable again.” Mutz urged Congress to get the block grant program for retraining underway as quickly as possible because automobile

workers “will have to learn new skills and change jobs. They need options to make the change without moving.” The subcommittee chaired by Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind., is hearing testimony on the effect of the recession on the domestic automobile industry. Employment by automakers and their suppliers dropped from 2.8 million in 1978 to 2.2 million in 1980, according to government statistics. Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have been particularly hard hit by the auto slump. Quayle said more than 150,000 auto industry jobs have been lost and 17 plants have been closed in those three states.

west and South, and homes lost electricity as power lines cracked or generating facilities became overloaded. There were some benefits, too. Fewer cars were on the roads, and the Wisconsin Transportation Department reported its first weekend in more than three years without a traffic death. in Chicago and Detroit reported a drop in some categories oT violent crime. _ t “The weather is the perfect cop,” said Detroit Lt. Fred Williams. Wisconsin’s temperatures hit an officially recorded minus 29 Monday morning, but unofficial reports said the air felt as cold as minus 100 degrees with the wind-chill factor. Icy air that dipped to 5 below in Atlanta, the coldest since 1899, and 1 above in Augusta, Ga., the coldest ever recorded there, froze the radiators of cars, said Harry Murphy of the state Department of Transportation. Most schools that closed Monday were expected to reopen today. Buffalo had 25 inches of snow between 1 p.m. Sunday and 1 p.m. Monday. “It was like something out of a fairy tale,” said Cathy Green,, 21, of the Albany, N.Y. area, who was forced off the New York State Thruway southwest of Buffalo. “You couldn’t see anything but white. It was like we were floating through white clouds.” Ernie Neff, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual in. Lakeland, said there was a “strong possibility there will bel damage” to the citrus crop, and National Weather Service' forecaster Bob Case in Miami said Monday night was the “critical night.” Only about 12 percent of Florida’s projected orange crop and" 10 percent of the grapefruit crop has been picked. Weather-related deaths including traffic fatalities, heart attacks and exposure have been reported in 22 states since the. harsh weather moved in Saturday.

Ohio Lottery loses $1.9 million in one night CLEVELAND (AP) An Ohio Lottery spokesman summed it all up this way: “We took a licking! ” The luck of the draw Monday night in the state’s daily game “The Number” came up 111, and that happened, of all times, on Jan. 11. The game allows wagers of 50 cents to $5 on a three-digit number drawn at 7:29 p.m. each night. Usually, slightly less than $1 million is wagered in Ohio each day, and the winners’ share usually is 30-to-40 percent. Lottery officials said Monday night that holders of winning tickets in the Monday night drawing can share $2,740,375 in prize money. The money bet on that drawing was only $837,670; so in one night, the state lost $1,902,705. The payout is the largest ever in the state’s daily game. The state guarantees a rate of return, depending on the type of wager. A straight bet, which predicts the exact threedigit number, has a return rate of 500-to-l. “We really took a licking,” said Robert Walczak of the lottery’s public relations department. “There were $5,468 bet straight on 111, and that accounts for $2,734,000 of the liability.” Walczak said the lottery’s computers are programmed to stop accepting wagers on any number bet so heavily that the payout, if it hit, would be $3 million. He said 111 was so popular that it came close to being cut off at betting terminals. The number was picked on statewide television. Hostess Robbie Paynter displayed three small balls which happened to pop up in air-powered mixing machines.

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