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•' Chili suppers set : as candidates also get religion By The Associated Press With one day remaining before the general elections, Democratic Senate candidate Floyd Fithian is to stump for votes tonight at a chili supper in Vincennes. Meanwhile, three religious groups are stumping for everyone to vote, regardless of their politics. Officials of the Indiana Catholic Conference, Indiana Council of Churches and Jewish Community Relations Council say they want to break voters’ apathetic attitude that says, “My vote won’t count anyway.” The groups have printed at least 5,500 posters, which read ; “You Count,” in their campaign to get out the vote. The campaign to get voters to the polls is “absolutely nonpartisan,” said Marcia Goldstone, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council. None of the churches or synagogues in the vote campaign are permitted to endorse a candidate or an issue, she said. “It is the genius of the democratic system that people can really make their government represent them...it is possible for the people to materially change policies they don’t like,” Ms. Goldstone added. Catholic bishops in the nation and Indiana have endorsed Catholic participation in this get-out-the-vote drive. “Separation of church and state does not mean that voters cannot come from their faith system in addressing public issues,” said M. Desmond Ryan, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Conference. “We’re trying to avoid issues and make the issue voting,” Ryan added. “The purpose in coming together is to show that all the faith community in Indiana feels that all people should take advantage of this opportunity to become involved in public policy formation,” he added. Meawhile, Walter F. Horlander, associate executive director of the Indiana Council of Churches, said the council considers it a moral obligation for people to exercise their right to vote. To aid citizens in doing their moral duty, the Citizens Action Coalition recently provided some information on how much political action committees backed by utilities spent this year on which state legislative campaigns. Senate President Pro Tern Robert Garton says the $54,540 figure doesn’t break down to all that much money. The Columbus Republican is listed the sixth largest recipient in a CAC report called “Leaders of the PAC.” The coalition says Sen. Joseph Harrison, R-Attica, leads the list, with $2,400 in contributions from electric, gas and telephone utility interests this year. The report says Public Service Indiana was the largest contributor, giving legislative candidates $13,275 to fund their campaigns. The Rural Electric Municipal Corp. gave $11,400, General Telephone gave $7,250, Indiana Telephone Industry $6,185, United Telephone $6,155, Indiana Gas $4,400, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. $2,675, Indianapolis Power & Light SI,BOO, and Indiana Bell Telephone $1,400, the coalition said. The other Indiana state legislative candidates receiving the 10 highest contributions were: House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey and Rep. John Donaldson, R-Lebanon, who each received $1,450; Rep. Thomas Coleman, R-New Castle, $1,340; Rep. Nelson Becker, R-Logansport, $1,300; Garton, $1,250; Rep. Jack Mullendore, R-Franklin, $1,225; Sens. James R. Butcher, R-Kokomo, and Gene Snowden, RHuntington, who each received $1,200, and Rep. William Roach, D-West Terre Haute, $1,150, the coalition added. ’ “It is apparent that the utilities have put a great deal of money into the 1982 legislative campaign,” said Janelle Cousino, the coalition’s executive director. “A question arises as to where these candidates loyalties will lie when a utility issue is being voted on in the upcoming General Assembly. Can we really expect them to vote in the consumer’s best interest?,” she said.

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Senate race focuses on Social Security debate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - When Floyd Fithian decided in February to run for the U.S. Senate, GOP incumbent Richard G. Lugar was a distant spot on the political horizon, so far ahead that many thought he was uncatchable. Now just days away from the election, that gap has narrowed. Both sides agree on that. Depending on which camp you believe, it’s either dead even, in the case of Fithian’s managers, or comfortably wide, as Lugar’s people contend. “It’s looking closer and closer,” said Fithian. “It’s going to be a dramatic finish. ” “Our polls show that we have a very wide lead,” Lugar said. “I say that advisedly, with all the caveats you would normally expect, that polls are only as good as the day they’re taken. ... But it would appear that the lead is substantial and the trend is in our favor.” The issues in the Senate campaign in Indiana were a scaleddown version of the national debate over the economy and the future of Social Security.

Election Day governed by special Hoosier laws

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Somewhere along the way, the Indiana Legislature decided the sight of a drunk voter didn’t do much for democracy’s image. As a result, you can’t buy a drink between 3 a m. and 6 p.m. on Election Day. Given the limited success of Prohibition, the Legislature didn’t try to forbid people from drinking during those hours. Instead, the lawmakers simply said that it is against the law to sell booze during that 15-hour period. “Maybe a part of it was the thought that more people would turn out and vote if the bars were closed,’’ surmised Laura Kelly, an administrative assistant at the State Election Board. “They also didn’t want it served to people at the polls. ” There are other little twists to Indiana laws that make affairs on Election Day anything but business as usual. Still on the books is a provision added in 1945 that requires employers to give their workers four hours off to vote. Under a literal reading, the law forbids voters employed by a school corporation, a railroad “or in any manufacturing, mining, mechanical or mercantile establishment” from working during the first four hours the polls are open in their home county. There’s an exception for “works of necessity,” which aren’t defined in the law. But even if a voter is involved in a “work of

Along the way, there was sniping over who had the best attendance record in Congress and who had the most illustrious career. Lugar claims both titles. The men are pretty evenly matched when it comes to intelligence and political savvy. Lugar, 50, a Rhodes scholar, is a former two-term mayor of Indianapolis. He lost to Democrat Birch Bayh in his first run for the Senate in 1974, then won two years later by retiring Democrat Vance Hartke. Fithian, who will be 54 on the day after the election, has a doctoral degree in history. He taught history at Purdue

necessity,” the law still requires his boss to give him a period of four hours off work during the time the polls are open. The employer and the employee can agree on a mutually convenient time. The law makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine, for employers to refuse to give their workers time off to vote. But Ms. Kelly said there’s a catch. “There’s nothing in the election law that says they have to pay them for that time,” she said She said the law has been interpreted to mean that if someone is due to be at work at 8 a m. and the polls open at 6 a m., that worker can’t insist on taking from noon to 4 p.m. off to vote. Instead, she said, the worker could legitimately ask to take the four hours from 6 a m. to 10 a m. or from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., when the polls close. If the voter and his employer agree that the four hours can be taken during the middle of the day, that’s a different story, she said. “The intent of it is to make it easy for people who work in one county but live in another to be able to vote. They might not be off work in time, otherwise,” Ms. Kelly explained. The law sets special rules for people who will be working at Indiana’s 4,686 precincts on Election Day.

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University before being elected to represent Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District in 1974. He was re-elected every year since. But the men are nowhere near parity on what they will spend for the $60,662-a-year job in the U.S. Senate. Ann Sofios, director of finance and administration for the Lugar campaign, said his campaign commitee raised $2.8 million for his re-election bid. By contrast, Fithian has raised between SBOO,OOO and $850,000, according to press secretary Ted Moser. Like any political underdog, Fithian had to do something to

capture the attention of the voters and distinguish himself as an alternative to Lugar. He did that with the Social Security issue. Early on, Fithian accused Lugar of voting nine times to cut Social Security benefits. As the campaign went along, Fithian cited seven more votes that he claimed showed Lugar’s true colors on Social Security. Lugar used the Republican state convention as a forum to respond angrily to Fithian’s charges, describing them as “purely irresponsible demagoguery designed to instill fear in the hearts of the people.”

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