Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 108, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 January 1982 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 15,1982

State Senate reaffirms school funding formula on 35-15 vote

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The state Senate, after an hour of discussion interrupted by applause from the gallery, reaffirmed the school funding formula and sent it to the House. Two Republicans bolted Thursday to join 13 Democrats voting against using the formula passed by the Legislature last year. The vote was 35-15. One defector, Sen. John Sinks of Fort Wayne, chairman of the Sente Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, said, “Other alternatives should have been offered. By voting no I would hope we can get a new look.’’ Sen. Gregory Server of Evansville said he voted with the Democrats because he felt the Assembly hadn’t lived up to the bill it passed in last year’s special session. The 1981 Legislature appropriated $l.B billion to fund schools through June 30,1982, and $1.9 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30,1983. The two-year distribution formula provided an average funding increase of 4 percent. It included a clause that it must be reaffirmed or re-evaluated this year. Server, a representative when the school formula was passed last year, originally voted against the formula but was swayed by the provision for a re-examination this year. Sinks said he also voted for the formula last year believing

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Questions center on de-icing procedure Ice on wings probable jet crash cause

By RICHARD WITKIN. c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Safety experts speculating on the cause of the Air Florida crash in Washington tended to agree Thursday that the likeliest possibility was formation of ice on the wings or other external surfaces of the jetliner. But they emphasized there was no firm evidence and that other explanations for the accident, such as a technical malfunction, fuel impurity or pilot incapacitation, could not be ruled out. Rudy Kapustin, the main investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said at the crash scene: “Everything is speculation at this time. We’ve got a difficult investigation ahead to learn what happened.’’ ' The twin-engine Boeing 737, Flight 90 bound for Tampa, Fla., had just taken off in a blinding snowstorm from Washington National Airport at about 4 p.m. Wednesday when it crashed into the 14th Street Bridge, hitting a truck and several cars before plunging into the Potomac River. At least 77 plane passengers, crew members and motorists were killed. Asked about the ice possibility, Francis McAdams, the board member assigned to the inquiry, said: “That is definitely an issue, and we will look very deeply into that possibility. We want to know how long after the last de-icing the plane was out in the open.’’

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“education would be given it’s day in court.” He said that was the problem. The issue was given one day. “We held one hearing. I felt it was a breach of faith,” Server said. I have to live with what I did over there (in the House).” Server said the formula may be revised in the House, which

Money available in Hoosier pockets: ISTA

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Denouncing the school finance bill as a “Trojan horse,” the Indiana State Teachers Association has launched a lobbying blitz to pry more money out of the Legislature, even if it means raising taxes. “Money is available in Hoosier pockets,” ISTA President Cordell Affeldt said in calling for an increase in the state income tax. ISTA wants to raise that tax from 1.9 percent to 2 percent. The teachers union also wants the Legislature to permit school corporations to shift money from their debt service, cumulative building and transportation accounts into their general fund, which finances the day-to-day operations of schools. By the dozens, teachers descended on the Statehouse Thur-

Hoosier's relatives victims of crash NEWBURGH, Ind. (AP) A southern Indiana man reports his daughter and grandson were aboard the Air Florida jet airliner that crashed into the icy Potomac River in Washington. Walter Bohan of Newburgh said there’s apparently no hope his daughter, Mary Pionpik, 23, and her 5-month-old son, Brian, are alive. Bohan said Thursday his daughter was flying to her home in Tampa, Fla., with her mother-in-law, Barbara Pionpik. The latest list of the 74 passengers and five crew members aboard the fatal Washington-to-Tampa flight included the names of Barbara Pionpik and Mary Pionpik. No address was given for either woman. The airline said three unticketed infants were among the 74 passengers.

The plane had been sprayed with de-icing fluid, a glycol solution much like antifreeze used in automobile radiators, at least twice before it left the boarding gate. But government and

Divers seek voice recorder

WASHINGTON (AP) voice and instrument recordings from the crumpled Air Florida jet that crashed into the Potomac River will reveal whether excessive ice accumulation kept the plane from gaining altitude. Divers planned to plunge back into the ice-filled river today to salvage the recording instruments, which are expected to give precise clues to the Wednesday crash that killed 78 people. Hampered by sub-freezing temperatures and sporadic snowfall, boat crews pulled the bodies of an infant and a woman from the icy river Thursday, bringing to 11 the number of bodies recovered, Seventy-nine people, including five crew members, were aboard the Florida-bound Boeing 737 when it crashed seconds after takeoff from National Airport. Four passengers and a

would send it back to the Senate. “We may have a chance to vote again.” In introducing the bill calling for reaffirmation, State Sen. Lawrence M. Borst, R-Indianapolis, took more than a half hour. He said the existing formula has worked “exceedingly well” and

sday, buttonholing representatives and senators in the halls to talk about money. Chief ISTA lobbyist Robert Margraf said support for a tax increase is best in the House, where last year a majority voted for an amendment to raise the income tax to 2 percent. The amended bill was never called for a vote. Ms. Affeldt complained the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Sen. Lawrence M. Borst, R-Indianapolis, was “rushing with unaccustomed speed” to reaffirm last year’s “grossly inadequate” school finance bill. “It’s a Trojan horse, and he (Borst) is rushing it through before the teachers lobby in the Senate,” she said.

Naked City owner pleads guilty to obscenity

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times Dick Drost, owner of the controversial Naked City nudist camp in Roselawn, Ind., faces up to nine years in prison and fines totaling $70,000 as a result of his unexpected plea of guilty to several Indiana obscenity charges. Drost, 45, entered the plea in Jasper County Superior Court

airline sources said there were indications the fuselage had then been exposed to the snowstorm for half an hour or more, before the plane finally reached the runway for its takeoff. That would have been time enough, they suggested, for new ice to form. The danger of ice formations, one airline safety expert said, is not really the extra weight but their effect on the flow of air over the wings. The ice buildup, he said, tends to produce a turbulent air flow that destroys the efficiency of the wing contour in providing the lift required to get the plane in the air and keep it there. The experts, except for the Safety Board investigators, deciined to be identified by name, saying they did not want to prejudice the board’s official inquiry. Ice buildup has been a nemesis of the airline industry for many years, and has been a prime cause in at least three serious accidents. The safety chief of one major airline said there were standard procedures for the crew to follow if planes had to remain exposed to the elements for significant periods after going through routine de icing at the boarding gate. In such cases, he said, the crew manual called for one of the pilots to go back to the passenger cabin just before takeoff and look at the wings to make sure there was not a new buildup of ice.

flight attendant were rescued. Sixty-five people are presumed still entombed in the broken airliner, which rests in 25 feet of water about three-quarters of a mile from the airport. The death toll rose to 78 when two motorists, whose vehicles were struck by the plane when it clipped a bridge spanning the Potomac, died Thursday in Washington hospitals. Two other motorists died Wednesday. Francis McAdams, who heads the National Transportation Safety Board investigative team, said it could take several days before the 100,000-pound fuselage is pulled by crane from the river. Meanwhile, drivers have marked the location of the voice and instrument recorders in the plane’s wing section, which McAdams says has separated from the rest of the fuselage.

Bravest hero of all sacrificed his life

c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON—There were brave men among the living, and the dead, in Wednesday’s crash of an Air Florida jetliner into the frozen Potomac River. A U.S. Park Police helicopter team which pulled five survivors from the water and a young Congressional Budget Office staffer who dived into the river to save a woman too weak to hold onto a rescue line spent most of their time Thursday in interviews with reporters. But the other hero was somewhere under the river’s ice, still a nameless man who disappeared after passing a lifeline from the helicopter to five others who, like himself, clung to the tail wreckage of the plane in the freezing water. The helicopter crew, Donald W. Usher and M. E. Windsor, returned from the rescue mission Wednesday night to give their eyewitness account to reporters. They wore blue jumpsuits and sad faces. But when the two officers told their story, they insisted that the only hero was the man whose courage had filled their eyes with tears. They know him only as a head in the water, a balding man, perhaps in his mid-50s, with a heavy moustache and gray sideburns. Hovering close over the ice flows, they looked for survivors amid the wreckage and debris, which included a twisted tennis racket and a child’s shoe bobbing in the water. They saw six people clinging to the tail section. They threw down a rescue line to a man who appeared to be the most alert. Instead of taking it, he helped place it around another man with a head injury. They kept dropping the line, and the man kept passing it to the others, including three women. When everyone else was out of the water, the helicopter returned to pick up the man who had put others first. But the man was no where to be seen. They kept looking for him, swinging the helicopter low, hoping they could at least pull his body from the water. Finally, they gave up, looked at

in Rensselaer this week as the trial was about to begin on the charges against him and the camp, which resulted from a 1980 raid on Naked City by Indiana State Police. Sentencing was set for Feb. 11. The proceedings were moved to Jasper County from Newton County because Drost, a victim

the state can’t realistically provide more money. I ; “The state is caught in a bind. I like to think of it as a cash flow problem,” he said. I; Senate President Pro Tempore Robert D. Garton, R-; Columbus, joined Borst in explaining the Republican stand that maintaining the previously approved funding levefe would be tough enough as the state struggles with declining: revenues. -I Borst said the bill is “what we can do with the income we have.” But Senate Democrats disagreed. “Anyone who votes for this bill is saying, ‘We do not want to do more,”’ said Sen. Michael E. Gery, D-West Lafayette. He said the average starting salary of a teacher in Indiana is $11,400. Sen. Michael Kendall, D-Jasper, noted that’s $2,000 less than a state senator’s salary •: Sen. Clay P. Baird, D-Clarksville, blamed the school money.' crunch on generosity. He noted the 1979 Legislature gave a one * time income tax rebate that cost $lO3 million. It also reduced the income tax from 2 percent to 1.9 percent at an annual cost of about S4O million. “We need to get together and give some serious thought to getting these sources back,” Baird said.

of muscular dystrophy, is confined to a wheelchair and the Jasper County courthouse recently was remodeled to accomodate the handicapped. According to Newton County Prosecutor R. Steven Ryan, Drost could be sentenced to nine years in prison if given the maximum sentence on all counts and if the sentences are or-

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A raft deployed by rescue workers floats amid debris • from Wednesday's jet crash into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Officials said it may be several days before the plane's sunken fuselage can be raised. (AP Laserphoto)

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each other and wiped their eyes. Both officers said that in their minds, the man's face remains as vivid as his heroism. “We want to know his name,” said Windsor. Before the helicopter began pulling survivors to shore, M. L Skutnik 3d, a 28-year-old employee of the Congressional Budget Office, had paced the river bank as rescue workers stood by helplessly, unable to cast their ropes far enough. As the helicopter attempted to drag an injured woman to safety, she let go and fell into the water. Skutnik took off his coat and boots, jumped into the water and pulled her to safety.

dered to be served consecutively. However, what is more likely to happen, Ryan said, is that the five misdemeanor charges will be merged into the one felony charge—sponsoring an obscene performance depicting a 14-year-old girl—which carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a fine of SIO,OOO.

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