Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 118, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 27,1982

Surprise witness recalls encounter

Atlanta boy identifies Williams

ATLANTA (AP) A teenager testifying for the prosecution in the murder trial of Wayne B. Williams says the defendant sexually fondled him, but under cross-examination the youth contradicted some of lus testimony linking Williams with two other victims. The appearance of the surprise witness Tuesday marked the first time in the 5-week-old trial that the state has brought forward testimony linking Williams to a homosexual encounter * " The 23-year-old free-lance photographer and talent scout.

Taxpayers to pick up Kimberlin's legal tab

INDIANAPOLIS iAP) - Convicted Speedway bomber Brett C Kimberlin is a pauper and the taxpayers must pay costs of his legal appeals. Judge William E. Steckler of U.S. District Court has ruled, Steckler made the ruling Tuesday despite evidence that Kimberlin's mother, Carolyn,

Denmark trying to locate WWII fliers

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) or Standish, and your B-29 was forced down on the Danish island of Bornholm 38 years ago, please step forward. Your help is need to fill gaps in the Baltic island’s World War II history. In 1944. two American fliers gave three French banknotes to farmer Aage Larsen, a member of the anti-Nazi resistance who helped them escape to neutral Sweden. The fliers wrote their names and addressses Lauren Davis, 2395 Dixie Highway, Pontiac, Mich., and Glenn D. Standish 4837 Mondell Terrace, San Diego, Calif. on the 100-franc notes, then worth about S6B each. Larsen didn't talk about about the mementos before he died several years ago. .After his widow died late last year, their daughter and son-in-law came across the bills and turned them over to the Forsvarsmuseet paa Bornholm, the Bornholm Defense Museum. Lt. Col. H.E. Skaarup, the museum director, decided that Davis and Standish could provide valuable information about Bornholm's wartime underground. He wants to find them.

booby trap trial is underway

: LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Sullivan was killed in a trap that used marijuana plants •growing on a porch and a rigged to fire when a tioor was touched, Prosecutor ilohn Meyers told a Tippecanoe :€ircuit Court jury, r The jury of 10 men and two rwomen was seated Tuesday for the second trial of Gary Ratcliff, 29. of Romney. He is Charged with reckless homicide £nd involuntary manslaughter Jor the June 1980 death of * Ratcliff's first trial ended Jeitha hung jury. £ Sullivan was killed by a Jshotgun blast when he tried to japen the storm door of Rat-

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who is charged with two of 28 slayings of young blacks whose deaths were investigated by a special police task force, has denied he is a homosexual. No charges have been filed in the other 26 slayings. The trial was to resume today. The boy on the stand was not identified by agreement between the prosecution and defense. He testified that he was a student at the Challenge School, a state-run facility for youthful offenders that a number of the 28 victims had links to He testified that in August

has paid a civil case defense attorney more than $6,000 since her son claimed he is an indigent. The attorney, Michael Van Treese, shares office space with Kimberlin’s criminal defense attorney, Nile Stanton. Costs of the criminal case appeal are not known, but they

cliff's rural mobile home during an alleged burglary attempt. Ratcliff was not home. The defendant testified during his first trial he rigged a shotgun loaded with salt and shot after repeated break-ins at his home. He said he had fixed the weapon so shot would cause only minor wounds to anyone who attempted to break in. Judge Warren B. Thompson ruled in a pretrial hearing Monday the prosecution could introduce evidence about marijuana found at Ratcliff’s home. The evidence was surpressed during the first trial which ended last May 15. The ruling, according to a

1980, while he was selling newspapers he had stolen in Atlanta, W'illiams drove up and asked him if he wanted a job washing cars. He said he got into Williams' station wagon and, as they drove around, Williams asked him about his family, whether he played a musical instrument and whether he had any money. "He felt my pocket he wasn’t really feeling my pocket...,” the youth said, describing how Williams fondled his sex organ. He said Williams gave him $2 and when they drove to a

will include an estimated SIB,OOO for preparation of a written transcript of the nine-week trial in which Kimberlin was convicted of setting the 1978 bombs that terrorized the community of Speedway. Attorney fees also are included. Steckler allowed Stanton to

“I want information about what they did, who took care of them, how they got away, which escape route they used,” he said in a telephone interview. “I want their story.” Like most of Denmark, Bornholm had an active resistance movement after German troops took it over on April 10,1940. The Nazis put a garrison on the island, 60 miles north of Poland, with 15-inch guns to use against Soviet shipping. One U.S bomber was shot down on Bornholm. Three others that made forced landings were taken apart by the Germans and shipped to Germany. Two of the airmen were killed, 16 were captured and imprisoned in Copenhagen, and about two dozen escaped via the underground to nearby Sweden. Skaarup said Davis and Standish were among the 10 crewmen of the first plane that crash-landed on the island after a bombing run in 1944. They found refuge first with a fisherman, then were taken to a hotel in the town of Hasle, on the west coast, and then to the Larsens’ home in Hasle. Tv- members of that crew surrendered, two were captured. and the other six made it to Sweden, Skaarup said.

court official, allows the prosecution to present evidence and to argue that the presence of marijuana provoked the victim into a burglary attempt which resulted in his death. Tippecanoe County police said that while investigating Sullivan’s death they found 65 small marijuana plants outside Ratcliff’s home, along with marijuana and items for using it inside the home. In his opening argument Tuesday, Meyers gave a brief description of how the shotgun was rigged and said, “Then there was the other part of the trap. There was a planter across the whole width of the porch containing 65 marijuana

secluded area, he “jumped out and ran,” getting away when Williams stopped to get something from the trunk. “I remember his face. I can’t forget his face,” the youth said. “I wake up at night dreaming about it.” The youth also linked Williams with two of the victims he is not charged with killing. He said he saw Williams and Lubie Geter, 14, get into Williams’ car sometime during the first weekend of January 1981. Geter is believed to have disappeared Jan. 2.

withdraw as Kimberlin’s lawyer Tuesday. Stanton said he would accept appointment as Kimberlin’s pauper attorney for the appeal if the court would pay his announced fee of $20,000. Stanton was paid more than $35,000 for the trial, according to evidence Tuesday.

plants, and another marijuana plant could be seen in the window of the trailer.” He said Sullivan may have attempted an unlawful entry “but the marijuana was a lure, a provocation, an enticement and apart of the trap.” Defense attorney E. Kent Moore said Ratcliff and his wife had chosen to establish a home they believed to be a secure one. Ratcliff’s home was burglarized four times before he sat the trap. Moore also referred to Ratcliff’s attempt to catch the burglars by staying home from work and a state law that allows a person to use deadly force to protect his home.

Rugby Club blast yields indictment INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Robert W. Lutterbach of Evansville is charged in a one-count federal indictment with malicious destruction of property in connection with the Sept. 25 explosion and fire at the AllWhites Rugby Club in Evansville. U.S. Attorney Sarah Evans Barker said the indictment, which was handed down Tuesday, followed a previous plea agreement between Lutterbach and the government. In return for Lutterbach’s agreeing to “cooperate with the government in its investigation of the rugby club explosion,” the government agreed to bring no other charges against Lutterbach in connection with the incident and agreed not to make a recommendation on a sentence. If convicted, Lutterbach could receive up to 10 years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine. The grand jury also returned a 10-count superceding indictment against Bernard C. Bartholome Jr. of Evansville. The new indictment contained no additional charge. It was returned mainly to correct minor typographical errors or omissions in the first one, which was returned Dec. 15,1981. Bartholome, 37, is scheduled to begin trial Feb. 15.

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STATE OF UNION: President acknowledges welcome from Congress

'Bold stroke' to give U.S. programs to states

c. 1982 N.Y Times WASHINGTON - President Reagan, in his first State of the Union address, vowed Tuesday to stick with the tax cuts that lie at the heart of his economic recovery program, and he announced a sweeping plan to transfer $47 billion in federal programs to state and local governments. Proposing to rearrange the relationship between the federal government and the states with “a single, bold stroke,” Reagan called for a “financially equal swap” whereby the central government would give up its responsibility for food stamps and payments to poor families with dependent children the two cornerstone programs in the federal welfare system. In return, Reagan said, the federal government will, starting in fiscal 1984, relieve the states of any financial responsiblity for Medicaid. This swap would be part of a broader transfer of responsiblities that, as described by the president, would assign to the states many highway, economic development, urban renewal, education and social services now administered by federal authorities. “By 1988, the states will be in complete control of over 40 federal grant programs,” the president told a joint session of Congress. He called on Congress to establish a “grassroots trust fund” to enable the states to pay for these new responsiblities. The trust fund would give the states S2B billion a year in revenues from federal excise taxes, Reagan said.

Carter notably absent

Democrats answer with prepared film

WASHINGTON The Democrats have painted a grim picture of an America gone wrong under the Reagan administration, a country where the “American Dream” has been reserved for the rich alone. Instead of relying on politicians in a television studio making predictable remarks to counter a Republican President’s State of the Union address, Democrats Tuesday night presented a slick, half-hour, documentary-style program filmed on the streets, in unemployment offices and in senior citizen centers. The Democrats’ own State of the Union presentation showed an America fearful of joblessness, high interest rates, Social Security cuts and believing that big oil, big businss and the rich are the winners under Reaganomics “The oil companies and the big corporations get all the breaks and that really burns me up,” said an elderly woman whose Everyman anger appears twice in the program that was aired under equal time provisions following President Reagan’s address to a joint session of Congress. “I think we’re on the wrong track, really,” said a woman in a crowded unemployment office. “If we were on the right track, you wouldn’t have to wade through lines like this.” “I’ve been through the Depression but I’ve never seen it like this. This has been worse than the Depression," says a man interviewed on a cold wintery street. The show, produced by Democratic media consultant Robert Squier, was filmed in Washington, Memphis. Detroit. Dearborn, Mich., and Sacramento, Calif. With politicians using the time-honored technique of the television interviewer who puts words in the mouths of the interviewees, viewers of the “The State of the Union a Democratic View” saw Rep Toby Moffett (D-Conn.) ask at a

On the economic front, Reagan settled a long guessing game and a major battle over economic policy within the White House staff by ruling out tax increases of any kind. He acknowledged, however, that his decision will mean the dnistration. Referring to reports about his inaccurate statements in his news conference last week, Reagan aimed a wisecrack at “our friends in the press, who place a high premium on accuracy.” On another count, Reagan sought to answer charges that his administration is indifferent to the poor and at the same time reassure Congress of his motives in proposing that the federal government withdraw from major social programs. “Contrary to some of the wild charges you may have heard,” he said, “this administration has not and will not turn its back on America’s elderly or America’s poor. Under the new budget, funding for social insurance programs will be more than double the amount spent only six years ago.” In presenting his plan for the federal-state “swap,” Reagan pledged “close consultation” with Congress, which must approve enabling legislation before any element of the president’s plan can take effect. He said his plan was intended to deal with “the overpowering growth of federal grants-in-aid” programs, rather than dismantle the social welfare system. “Let us solve this problem,” Reagan said, “with a single, bold stroke the return of some $47 billion in federal programs to state and local

government, together with the means to finance them and a transition period of nearly 10 yers to avoidpssary disruptiThe proposal, which stems from Reagan’s campaign promise to give the states more responsiblities and more tax revenues, envisions what a White House fact sheet released Tuesday night called a “clean separation of domestic welfare responsiblities.” Under this division, the federal government would retain control of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, support programs for the elderly and what the White House called “projects of national significance,” such as interstate highways. State and local governments would take over local highways and mass transit, community and urban development programs, most education programs, most social services and cash support of the nonelder ly needy. “In 1984.” Reagan said, “the federal government will apply the full proceeds from certain excise taxes to a grassroots trust fund that will belong, in fair shares, to the 50 states,” Reagan proposed. “The total amount flowing into this fund will be S2B billion a year.” During a four year phase-in period, Reagan said, state governments may either continue to receive federal grants or take other the programs themselves. In either case, the costs would be charged against a state’s account in the “grassroots trust fund. ” By 1988, the states will be in complete charge of the

senior center, “It looks like Hoover, doesn’t it?" “Yes,” replies the old woman. Democrats in the film are at pains to emphasize that the Democratic Party does not stand for big spending “not han douts but justice,” says Sen. Gary Hart t D-Colo.) - but that it is. the party with a heart. The American people want no “special advantages” or "tax: shelters, they "just want to put the groceries on the table," says House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip" O’Neill (D-Mass.). “A chance to provide for their families. A chance to own a home of their own. A chance to raise and educate their children and to enjoy a secure retirement.” \ou might call this the American dream and the administration is putting that dream beyond the reach of most Americans and it is reserving this dream for the wealthy few,” O’Neill says in the $65,000 film produced over the last threeweeks and paid for with Democratic funds The film also includes preliminary figures of a poll Democrats, commissioned which shows 32 percent of the 1,254 people questioned in November and December thought the country is going in the right direction while 57 percent “feel things havegotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track.” The program featured most of the countrv's majof Democratic figures, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy iDMass.i, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale. California Gov. Edmund (Jerry) Brown. Hart. O'Neill and Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd tW.Va ). Notably absent from the film was former President Jimmy Carter. Asked about this Rep. Tony Coelho (D-Cal ). chair-' man of the House Democratic Campaign Committee, said, “WPdidn’t think about it."

programs, which they can continue or abolish as they choose, Reagan said. Also, he said, the trust fund would be phased out and the right to impose or abolish the excise taxes would be passed on to the states. “In a single stroke,” the president concluded, “we will be accomplishing a realignment that will end cumbersome administration and spiraling costs at the federal level while we insure these programs will be more responsive to both the people they are meant to help and the people who pay for them.” Reagan’s proposal runs counter to the policy, in effect since the New Deal, that the federal government pay for certain essential services so that they would in fairly maintained by both rich and poor states. But White House aides involved in drawing up the president’s proposal have tried to avoid its being portrayed as a costcutting measure that will harm the poor and minorities in the less affluent states. However, White House aides acknowledge that taking over Medicare and Medicaid will enable the administration to impose deep budget cuts in those health programs in the coming years, even though there will be no immediate savings in 1983. Reagan concluded his speech with one of his trademark flourishes of patriotic oratory. He called on Congress to behave so that future generations would say, “We met the test and preserved for them in their day the sacred flames of liberty this last, best hope of man on Earth.”