Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 116, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1982 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 25,1982
Most work remains as General Assembly marks half-way point
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Legislature reaches the halfway mark in its 30-day session Monday, but the lawmakers are nowhere near halfway through their work. Only one of the hundreds of bills intoduced this session has already cleared both the House and the Senate and been signed into law by Gov. Robert D. Orr That is a measure to make temporary legislative employees eligible for unemployment benefits. The Legislature moved with uncharacteristic haste on that bill because the state was threatened with the loss of S4O million in federal funds to run its Employment Security Division. In addition, businesses could have faced up to SSOO million in higher federal employment taxes unless the Legislature brought the state unemployment law into conformity with the federal statute The deadline for passing the law was Friday.
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Icy Boston runway may have caused jet to skid
BOSTON (AP) - A World Airways DC-10 that plunged into shallow water and cracked in two might have skidded on a slick spot as it landed in icy rain, according to an airline official and some of the 208 people aboard. But an airport spokesman said the runway was “safe.” Federal officials, investigating the third jetliner accident in bad weather in two weeks, say weather and runway conditions at Logan International Airport will be among the prime focuses of the inquiry into the crash Saturday night of Flight 30. No one was killed or seriously injured when the plane splashed into Boston Harbor, although four people remained hospitalized today, including the pilot. The 1% passengers and 12 crew members scrambled down emergency chutes and waded through waist-deep water.
The biggest job, however, is still ahead for the lawmakers. They must decide whether Indiana taxpayers both individuals and businesses will get the Reagan-style tax breaks on their Indiana income taxes. The House Ways and Means Committee has such a proposal before it and a vote is expected Monday, although a business tax increase to pay for the new breaks isn’t in the bill’s first draft. The Ways and Means Committee already has approved bills to speed up collections of state sales and income taxes to help the state with its serious cash flow problem. The latest revenue forecast predicted the state would be almost $l4O million in the hole in both the general fund and the property tax relief fund by June 30, 1983. That estimate doesn’t count between S3O million and SSO million in court judgments against the state, nor does it include the estimated $35 million cost of passing along federal
“A pilot or co-pilot, stunned, walked past us, and he was saying, T couldn’t stop the plane, I couldn’t stop the plane,’” said Jeffrey Carr, a college student from Attleboro, Mass. “He was in a total state of shock.” Passenger Debra Carr of Sandwich reported the runway was “sheer, smooth ice, just like a skating rink” as she walked from the wreck. “My information is the plane hit an icy slick and skidded. But that’s what the National Transportation Safety Board is trying to find out,” World Airways spokesman Michael Henderson said. Patricia Goldman of the safety board, who is heading a 10-member investigative team, said, “Weather conditions and the airport’s decision to operate is a key area we’ll be looking at. We will be concentrating on the runway environment and the weather.”
Ceiling falls on three
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Officials from the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the airport, said runways had been plowed and sanded, and said other jets landed safely. “The runway was open and operational. As far as we’re concerned, it was safe,” said Patrick Moscaritolo, a port authority spokesman. Pilot Peter Langley, 54, who was thrown into the water, was in good condition after being treated for hypothermia, cuts and bruises. Co-pilot Donald Hertzfeldt, 38, was released after being treated for exposure. “I’m all right, but I really don’t care to talk about it,” he said Sunday by telephone from his hospital room. The jet remained in the icy ocean water today, its tail on land and the severed cockpit dangling from the body. The fuel was unloaded.
The aging plaster and metal ceiling on the first floor of the Washington Tower Apartments fell about 14 feet onto .Gary Robertson, 33, of Crawfordsville; Ronald Leppert, 46, of Indianapolis; and James Martin, 26, of Greenfield. Robertson, who suffered back injuries, was released from an Indianapolis hospital Saturday. The other men received minor cuts.
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tax breaks for state tax purposes. The tax collection speed-up bill is estimated to bring in anywhere from sllO million to $132 million, depending on whose figures are used. In essence, by requiring businesses and merchants to send in their tax collections on the 20th of the month instead of the 30th, the state gets 13 payments -- instead of 12 -- during the 1983 fiscal year. The Senate has passed a bill to create a “rainy day” fund for the state. A similar bill is pending in the House. Orr asked for this bill, largely because of the fiscal pain the state is feeling in this recession. With the “rainy day” fund, the state could put away money when revenues are high to use in times such as this, when revenues have dropped off dramatically. Redistricting is on the legislative agenda again this year. But this time, the task is to correct errors made in the 1981 maps.
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Congress returns amid talk of tax increases
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 97th Congress returned to work today with its optimism drowned in red ink and legislators reluctantly talking of election-year tax increases to trim projected deficits. That painful prospect comes within weeks of final votes on record tax and spending cuts that President Reagan and his followers in Congress had hoped would lead to a balanced budget. “All the economic theory would say with the country in recession you don’t need new taxes,” Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., said Sunday. “But also, every fiber of my political body says that when you’re facing a SIOO billion deficit you ought to try to do something about it.” Republicans and Democrats agree that election-year concern over an economy mired in recession, rising unemployment and projected record budget deficits will make it
Cites arbitration as alternative Case loads threatening courts: Burger
(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO The nation’s courts can’t handle the burden placed upon them and the “avalanche” of growing case loads “will make matters worse for everyone,” U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declared Sunday. Burger, invoking the legacies of Homer, Marco Polo and the Greek orator Demosthenes, gave his annual “state of the judiciary message” Sunday to the American Bar Association midyear meeting here. He criticized law schools for steeping students in “the adversary tradition rather than in the skills of resolving conflicts.” That, he contended, partly explains burgeoning court dockets, the need for greater negotiating skills and. perhaps, for shifting matters like divorces and personal injury cases to non-judicial, administrative proceedings such as arbitration. “What we must have, I sub-
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SEN. HOWARD BAKER 'Ought to do something'
more difficult for Reagan to get this session of Congress to do his bidding. That atmosphere also could make it difficult for Congress to take any substantive action. “It’s likely to be a very highly partisan, volatile year,” said
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mit, is a comprehensive review of the whole subject of alternatives, with special emphasis on arbitration,” Burger said. “It is now clear that neither the federal nor the state court systems are capable of handling all the burdens placed
The Senate has passed a bill correcting errors in its map and the House has passed a bill correcting errors in House districts. Now each is being asked to approve the other’s bill before they can go downstairs for the governor’s signature. A bill reaffirming last year’s appropriation for Indiana's public schools already has cleared the Senate and is pending in the House. Teacher groups are hoping the House will add more money to last year’s school funding formula. Also ahead is more work on bills dealing with abortion, school busing for desegregation, community corrections, economic; development and all the other bills dealing with one special in-; terest or another. Republican leaders in both houses are optimistic they will be able to conclude in mid-February, time enough to let everyone go home and start campaigning for the May primary.
Rep. James R. Jones, D-Okla., chairman of the House Budget Committee. “In a condition like that, responsibility and substance usually take a back seat.” The House and Senate were convening at noon today, ending a six-week recess. But the first major event will be Tuesday evening when legislators gather in the House chamber for a joint session to hear the president’s State of the Union address, during which he will outline his plans for the coming year. Reagan’s complete budget plan is to be submitted to Congress Feb. 8 and many top Republicans in Congress have urged him to seek higher taxes to reduce deficits. “Triple-digit deficits in fiscal years 1983 and 1984 are just not acceptable economically or politically,” Sen. Bob Dole, RKan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, warned last week.
upon them. Surely the avalanche that is bound to come will make matters worse for everyone.” In calling for greater conciliation, Burger kept alive one adversary relationship of his own. In what has become an annual rite, he declined to speak with reporters. He skirted questions about his performance raised in a new book by John Ehrlichman, adviser to President Richard M. Nixon and a convicted Watergate coconspirator. The book, “Witness to Power,” contends Burger discussed with Nixon issues directly bearing on Supreme Court cases. It was Nixon who appointed Burger chief justice. In his address. Burger’s most telling comments were statistical. Between 1940 and 1981, he noted, filings of federal court civil cases jumped from about 35,000 to 180,000. Between 1950 and 1981, annual filings in appeals court soared from 2,800 to 26,000. The annual case load for appellate judges increased to 200 from 44 between 1950 and 1981. That growth, Burger said, was 16 times greater than the increase in U.S. population during
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But Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., has led a vocal lobbying effort to get the president to reject the advice that increased taxes are necessary to cut deficts. Reagan reportedly has set-' tied on s3l billion in spending cuts for 1983, with more than half to come from domestic' programs. But after initially ac : cepting a plan to raise excise taxes last week, administration sources said the president had “second thoughts” the next day. Republican leaders iu Congress contend the president has cut all he can expect from hundreds of domestic prograrns and have warned Reagati against expecting a replay "of last year’s budget cuts . Baker, appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said it was his impression after a telephone conversation with the president that Reagan “may be leaning against” requesting higher excise taxes.
the same period. “We read in the news of cases that continue not weeks or months, but years,” he said. “Can it be that the authors of our judicial system, those who wrote (the) Constitution 209 years ago, ever contemplated cases that monopolize one judge for many months or even years?” In urging greater interest ip arbitration proceedings, he harkened back to the days of Homer when “the community elders served as civil arbitrators to settle disputes bet : ween private parties.” Commercial arbitration was common “among Phoenician traders and the desert caravans of Marco Polo's day.” Burger said. Several minutes later, he was elaborating on the type of remedy he’d prefer final and binding arbitration by turning the clock back to the days of Demosthenes. The chief justice also quoted Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer: “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser in fees, expenses and waste of time.”