Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 111, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 January 1982 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 19,1982
House bill would allow parents to sue for 'emotional loss' of child
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Despite warnings it will mean higher insurance rates, the House Judiciary Committee has endorsed a bill that would allow parents to recover money damages for the emotional loss caused by the death of a child. The measure, approved on an 8-2 vote Monday, also permits relatives of unmarried adults to collect, in wrongful death actions, for more than just medical and burial expenses and the cost of administering the estate. “It sounds a little like a crying towel to me," Rep. Joseph Summers, DIndianapolis, said of insurance industry opposition to his bill. Indiana’s wrongful death law is designed to compensate relatives for the financial loss caused by a person’s death.
Very cold, wet weatherman's state forecast
By The Associated Press A 30-day weather forecast offers little consolation to Hoosiers weary of heaps of snow or to officials worried that funds budgeted for snow removal may run out. The National Weather Service’s new extended outlook issued Monday calls for more frigid conditions and “heavy snow or rainfall. “God help us if we have a couple more blizzards,” Fred L. Madorin, director of the Indianapolis Department of Transportation, said Monday. “We will have to start juggling the money.” He indicated that with more snow, the money could run out toward the end of February. The normal snowfall for Indianapolis is 21-23 inches. Madorin said, but 28 inches already have fallen this winter. The weather service said a normal January has 4.8 inches of snow and average temperatures of 27.9 degrees. Already this month 10.8 inches of snow have fallen in Indianapolis. A normal February has average temperatures of 30.7 degrees with 5.1 inches of snow. Maforin said, “Officials gambled that we put in the budget the right amount of money and that we would not have a severe winter.” The City-County Council allotted $1.2 million for snow removal. That budget includes $500,000 for salt to melt snow, $500,000 for overtime and other labor costs and $250,000 for private contractors to help in plowing streets. The city just ordered an additional 10,000 tons of salt and that purchase nearly exhausts the salt budget, Madorin said. He noted he asked SBOO,OOO for salt, but the extra money was removed when budget cutbacks were ordered. The official said when the snow removal funds are exhausted, he will turn to money allotted for street resurfacing to keep snow removal crews on the streets. The newly ordered salt and part of another 12,000-ton order have not arrived, but “we’re going to have to slow it (salt usage) down” to make it last, Madorin said. He said private contractors are called on to assist city crews when more than six inches of snow falls and that has happened three times this winter. About 30 Boy Scouts and their five adult leaders from Michigan received hot soup and sandwiches from the Red Cross in Muncie and were sent on their way home about noon Monday after spending a day in the city when their bus broke down. Beverly Jones, Red Cross disaster director, said the group from the Jackson, Mich., area was en route home Sunday after a cave exploring trip to southern Indiana when the generator on the bus failed. The bus was able to make it to a truck stop off Interstate 69 and then continued into Muncie, about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis, officials said. Delaware County officials were then notified and arrangements were made for the group to sleep in camping bags at the chapter’s headquarters. The boys ranged in age from 10 to 16.
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If a child dies, parents can only recover for medical and funeral expenses unless the child worked and brought money into the family. The child’s financial contribution to the family was offset against what it would cost to raise him. Similarly, relatives of an adult who has moved away from the family home and has no children of his own can only recover for medical, funeral and administration expenses. For the last five years. Summers has introduced legislation to remove those limits. Summers’ bill allows relatives to recover for the emotional loss caused by the death of a child or a single adult, regardless of any direct financial loss. The emotional loss wouldn’t include damages for grief because Summers said
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Rookie legislator is victim of mock 94-0 'no' vote
INDIANAPOLIS ( AP) With a flurry of red lights signifying ‘no’’ votes, Rep. Vaneta Becker, R-Evansville, went through an initiation rite reserved for every freshman legislator in the Indiana House. She had her first bill up for a vote Monday. The measure would allow insurance companies to take action by written consent of the directors instead of having a formal meeting. In mock outrage. Rep. Edward Goble, D-Batesville, questioned Mrs. Becker about the propriety of her bill.
he didn’t think the bill could get through the Legislature with that provision. "The law is outdated. It’s antiquated. It’s inequitable," said Summers, a funeral director. "We ought to change it.” Representatives of the insurance industry called for defeat of the bill, saying it will mean higher insurance rates.
SOLIDARITY'S LECH WALESA Reports of impending release played down Walesa's release not likely soon
c. 1982 N.Y. Times WARSAW, Poland - The Polish government attempted to dampen speculation Monday that Lech Walesa would be released from house arrest soon and that martial law would be lifted in the near future. When asked at a news conference if Walesa would be released within three weeks, Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski replied, “I don’t know.” He said that talks with Walesa were continuing on the future of trade unions in Poland. Stanislaw Ciosek, the minister in charge of union affairs, had met with Walesa “several times,” he said. Walesa has been kept in isolation since martial law was imposed Dec. 13 and is said by government officials to be at a villa outside Warsaw. Rakowski defended the introduction of martial law as a necessary step to save the country from anarchy and civil war and said that no date could be set for its end. “We are constantly asked when,” he said. “There is no politician now who can precisely state when we’ll withdraw from this.” Speculation over Walesa’s release was touched off by remarks made in London Sun-
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“Can you really pay for the loss of a human life with dollars and cents?” asked Bob Benjamin, general manager of the Mutual Insurance Companies Association of Indiana. “I think what we’re talking about here is more litigation, more lawsuits that will hurt the policyholders because we’ll have to jack up premiums.”
day by the Polish ambassador to Britain, Stefan Staniszewski. Jozef Wiejacz, the deputy foreign minister who joined Rakowski at Monday news conference, said that the precise nature of Staniszewski’s remarks was not clear but that he believed that the ambassador had been quoted out of context. “Ambassador Staniszewski is a great optimist,” he added Monday’s press conference coincided with a spate of speculation that there 'yas movement in the government’s effort to bring Walesa into serious negotiations. Reports circulated among persons aiding political detainees that two of Walesa's advisers, Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Bronislaw Geremek, may soon be allowed to join him in discussions with Ciosek. There were reports that Geremek had been moved away from other detainees in Bialolenka prison outside Warsaw, leading to speculation that this was done to make it easier to move him about in secret. Mazowiecki, a Roman Catholic intellectual with close ties to the pope, was known as of last week to be in a summer hostel with other detainees at Drawsko in the north of the country.
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suggesting that the practice which is followed by many corporations was somehow suspect. House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey, R-Muncie, called for a vote on the bill as Mrs. Becker headed for her seat. The tote board lit up with red lights as 94 lawmakers voting no on Mrs. Becker’s bill. She greeted the sight with a startled expression, and the lawmakers erupted with laughter. The red votes were changed to green, and the bill passed 94-0.
Voting against the bill were GOP Reps. Anthony Miles of Indianapolis and Phyllis Pond of New Haven. “I know there’s a recession and attorneys need employment, but I don’t think grief can be compensated,” Mrs. Pond said. Meanwhile, the Senate Higher Education Committee
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Five rockets fired at French nuclear plant
LYON, France (AP) Five Soviet-made rockets were fired at a French nuclear power plant under construction and one hit a concrete wall causing minor damage, officials said today. The French news agency, Agence France-Presse, said it got a telephone call from an ecology group claiming responsibility for the Monday night attack. But the agency said the group’s name was unclear and it had not heard of it before. Officials said the rocket was one of five old Soviet-made, an-ti-tank rockets fired at the con-
Plane's tail section raised Both recorders on river bottom?
c. 1982 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON The two “black box” flight recorders, deemed the most valuable tools for air-crash investigations, were missing Monday when salvage crews recovered the tail section of the Air Florida Boeing 737 that crashed in the Potomac River just north of Washington National Airport last Wednesday. Officials said they still hoped the crash-resistant devices, from which locater “pings” had repeatedly been heard by government divers, would be found on the river bottom, 25 feet down. They also emphasized that loss of the devices would by no means rule out eventually determining the cause of the accident, in which 78 persons were killed. “It will just delay the investigation a considerable
Ex-Hoosier believed Potomac hero
By The Associated Press A man who repeatedly turned over a lifeline to other survivors of the Air Florida crash and died while struggling in the icy Potomac River was believed to be a former Indiana resident, Arland D. Williams, authorities said. Friends and relatives of Williams are sure he was the hero of last week’s crash in Washington. Williams, 46, was an Atlanta, Ga., bank examiner who formerly lived in Indianapolis. His body was recovered Sunday. An autopsy Monday revealed he was the only drowning victim among 50 bodies recovered. This lead officials to believe he was the man who kept handing the lifeline to others after Wednesday’s crash. The other 49 people died of the crash impact, officials said. Williams was “the kind of guy who thought of the other person before himself,” said Robert J. Hotopp, a business professor at Indiana University, New Albany, who was Williams’ roommate in Indianapolis from 1961-67. “He was a giver, not a taker,” Hotopp said. “It doesn’t surprise me that he would do something like this.” Hotopp, 45, rented an eastside house with Williams and two other men when all were in their late 20s, William R. McDonald, 46, also lived in the house and worked with Williams. Both were federal assistant bank examiners early in their careers. McDonald, now of Jupiter, Fla., said, "Arland was always a generous guy. If other people needed assistance, that would be the first thing on his mind.” McDonald said he and his wife, Carole, watched news accounts of the rescue attempt, unaware until the next as-
heard testimony but took no vote on a salary bill for teachers working in state mental health and correctional facilities. Current law bases teacher pay on the salary paid at local schools. State Correction Commissioner Gordon Faulkner said instructors in the Depart-
troversial Creys-Malville plant, 28 miles east of Lyon. The plant is two years from completion and there was no danger of radioactive leaks since the reactor is not loaded, officials said. Police initially said the rockets, fired from across the Rhone River, appeared to have been homemade. Official sources later said the hollow-charge rockets were made in the Soviet Union in the 19605. The sources said a carrying case found on the firing site carried inscriptions
period of time,” said Francis H. McAdams, the member of the National Transportation Board, who is overseeing the inquiry. “We investigated accidents, and found the causes, long before we had recorders. But it is particularly difficult, and takes a lot of time. There is some information we may never get.” The plane, Flight 90, bound for Tampa, Fla., took off in a snowstorm and reached an altitude of about 400 feet before losing lift, striking the 14th Street Bridge and plunging into the river. The dead included 74 of the 79 persons on the plane and four persons who were in vehicles on the bridge. The 24-foot-high tail section was lifted by crane onto a barge early Monday afternoon, then transferred to the bridge span. Investigators entered the struc-
ment of Correction work eighthour days for 12 months and are paid at a rate that equals what public school instructors would earn if they worked 12 months. Five employees filed a complaint, saying Michigan City school teachers work slightly more than six hours a day, so the correctional employees should either work less or be paid more. The arbitrator in the case held the correctional instructors were right. But in a similar case filed by an Indiana State Farm employee, the arbitrator held the Department of Correction had the right to make teachers work eight hours without increasing the pay. “It is going to cost the state millions of dollars if this is not taken care of,” Faulkner said. The bill being considered by
in Cyrillic script. The breeder reactor, the first industrial-scale plant developed from a French prototype, is not due to go into service for two years. All the major construction, including a threelayer protection for the reactor itself, has been completed and work is now devoted to the detailed installations. This morning, police reported an anonymous bomb warning to a Lyon office building which houses many of the companies involved in building the reactor. No device was found.
ture but could find no trace of either the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder. The absence of the voice recorder, which would contain conversations as well as any other audible sounds for the 30 minutes before the accident, was not too surprising. The device had been installed in the lower baggage compartment beneath the third and fourth cabin windows from the rear, and this was apparently the area of the fuselage that smashed into the 14th Street Bridge. The tail was severed from the rest of the fuselage at about that point. The flight data recorder had been in a somewhat less damaged area, just above the rear door of the passenger cabin. The brackets that held it were reported to be relatively intact. This recorder would
ternoon their friend was among those who died. “If was horrible the next day when we realzed we had watched a friend go down,” Mrs. McDonald said. “We were devastated. You always hate to lose a friend, and Arland was a real friend.” * In Washington, investigators note Williams has not been positively identified as the hero. They spent much of Monday contacting survivors and other witnesses who may be able to help identify the man through photographs and videotapes of the rescue efforts. Williams fits the general description of the man who aided rescuers before slipping into the ice-clogged river Friends said he would have been seated in the smoking section in the tail of the plane, which went down in the area where the survivors were hoisted to safety. Friends and relatives also said they were certain it was Williams because he had the ability and temperament to react coolly in a crisis. “He went to the Citadel (military academy) and was in the Army,” McDonald said, “so he no doubt had some training that allowed him to stay calm and assist these people.’’ Williams’ former wife, Jean Poss of AUanta, said he “held up very well under stress and strain and would help others before himself.” Her children, Leslie Williams. 17. and Arland D. Williams Jr., 16, will attend their father’s funeral Friday in his hometown of Mattoon, 111. Saying he thinks his father was the hero, young Williams added, “If I had to die, that’s the way I’d want to die saving other people.”
the committee would pay the 200 correctional instructors the same daily salary as public school teachers but allow DOC to set the hours worked per day. Representatives of the I. diana Federation of Teacher Indiana State Employees Association and Indiana Institutional Teachers Association said the bill was confusing and did not resolve whether teachers in the Department of Correction are state merit employees or are a “hybrid” with rights of local teachers. The committee voted 7-0 to establish a higher education student financial aid study commission. The commission will look at changes in the federal and state student loan programs and evaluate new programs.
In August 1977, the construction site was the scene of a violent anti-nuclear demonstration, during which one demonstrator was killed by the explosion of a police grenade. The Creys-Malville plant has been designed to withstand a direct crash by a heavy aircraft. Internally, the reactor housing can withstand a “missile” such as a turbine blade shearing off the electricity generators. Plant officials said the rocket penetrated through 4 inches of a 40-inch-thick concrete wall.
provide a moment-by-moment record of the plane’s speed, altitude, heading and gravity forces. McAdams said hopes of retrieving the recorders were based not only on the fact that the locater pings had been regularly heard but also on the knowledge that the black boxes were constructed to withstand impact forces 1,000 times the normal force of gravity. As soon as it was discovered that the recorders were not in the retrieved tail section, government divers resumed the search. Investigators continued their efforts to obtain as much eyewitness information as possible on the final journey of the twin-jet Boeing plane from the moment it taxied away from the boarding gate until it came down.