Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 December 1982 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 22,1982
Daring subway rescue yields call from President Reagan, job offer
By WOLFGANG SAXON c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK When Reginald Andrews leaped onto subway tracks Monday to save a blind man who had fallen between the cars of a train, he said all he could think about was that “somebody needs help.” Tuesday as word of Andrews’s deed became known, so did the fact that the 29-year-old father of eight had been unemployed for a year. And some people began to realize that Andrews himself might need a little help. “‘This is President Reagan,’” Andrews quoted a caller as saying. “I thought it was Rich Little at first. 1 didn’t know if it was a crank or for real The more he talked, the more I realized it was him. ” “I almost fainted, he was calling to thank me for the country. He asked me how my knee was doing,” said Andrews, who tore some ligaments during the rescue. “He said he knew how knee injuries are when he played football and he advised me to take care of it. Then he wished me a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous year.” The new year is indeed looking prosperous for Andrews. He was returning from a job interview at a meat-packing plant on West 16th Street when he rescued the blind man, and Tuesday Edward Marbach, a vice president of the company,
Year-round DST proposed
Time change bill in hopper
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two measures to require all counties in Indiana to observe Daylight Saving Time through the summer are among 22 bills filed in the Indiana Senate for consideration during the 1983 General Assembly. - The identical bills by Sens. Virginia Blankenbaker, RJndianapolis, and Elmer MacDonald, R-Fort Wayne, would repeal the law exempting most of Indiana from the Federal Uniform Time Act of 1966. If the bill is approved, daylight time would begin statewide next year. Currently, residents in six counties in northwestern Indiana Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Jasper, and Starke and five counties in southwestern Indiana Van-
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derburgh, Posey, Warrick, Gibson and Spencer turn their clocks one hour behind Indianapolis time in the fall and observe Indianapolis time in the spring. Five counties in southern and southeastern Indiana Harrison, Floyd, Clark, Dearborn and Ohio observe Indianapolis time in the winter and set their clocks one hour ahead of Indianapolis in the summer. The time configuration of those 16 counties is listed in the federal uniform time legislation, and Congress, rather than Indiana’s Legislature, would be the body to revise that, MacDonald said. The remaining 76 Indiana counties observe Eastern Standard Time all year and don’t
Jamac Frozen Foods, called to offer him the job. But just for insurance, President Reagan could not resist putting in a good word, and he called Marbach. ‘“Bless you, Mr. Marbach. Bless you,’” the vice president of the company quoted the president as saying. He said that Reagan had read about Andrews and the rescue in The New York Times and that “he called me to thank me for giving him an opportunity.” As for Andrews, Tuesday afternoon he sat on a green easy chair in his sparsely furnished walk-up, at 513 West 145th Street, surrounded by seven of his children, who range in age from 4 to 13 years old, and looking ecstatic. He reflected on what had been a truly remarkable day in his life. The day before, he had been out of work, accepting food and money from neighbors, his telephone cut off for nonpayment of bills and, to make matters even worse, his knee injured in the rescue. Tuesday began with his thinking that his future was looking as bleak as it had been all through the time he had been filing all those job applications. “About a thousand, almost,” he said. “I was thinking about Christmas for the kids. Now that I am hurt, what am I going to do for them. Then everything just broke loose.” “Everything” meant not only that he had a job and that he
change their clocks. As a result, those 76 counties are on Chicago time in the summer and on New York time in the winter. MacDonald’s bill would place the 76 counties in sync with New York all year long, observing daylight time from the last Sunday in April through the last Sunday in October. “The Indiana Broadcasters Association finds it very expensive to adjust schedules at the end of April and the end of December,” MacDonald said. “I know we're never going to satisfveverybody, there’s just no way.” In other draft legislation, Indiana business owners would receive an income tax credit for a percentage of the property taxes paid on inventory.
A bill filed by Sen. Ralph J. Potesta, R-Hammond, would allow the business owner to take a tax credit for 10 percent of inventory property taxes paid in 1984. The amount allowed as a tax credit rises to 100 percent in 1993. Other bills filed would: —Prohibit a utility from filing a rate increase request within 12 months of its most recent rate increase, except when the utility’s “economic integrity” is threatened. —Declare a legal holiday on Fridays preceding a holiday. —Make a pregnant, unmarried and unemancipated girl competent to consent to medical care concerning her pregnancy, with the exception of abortion.
had been thanked by the president, but also that he had become a hero in his upper Manhattan neighborhood and that the Transit Authority Police Department said it would recommend him for a civilian hero’s award. Calls from news organizations sent him hobbling down the five flights of stairs at his apartment building to the Third Sun Spiritual Church, where, since he had no phone, he was taking calls. Everyone wanted to hear Andrews recount how he had saved the man on the subway tracks, and he happily obliged. It started at 9:40 a.m. Monday, as he was standing on the platform of the IND station at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue and an uptown local train pulled into the station. Among the passengers waiting to get on was a blind man, David Schnair, of Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx, feeling his way for an open door with his metal cane. Misjudging his position, Schnair instead stepped into the space between two cars in midtrain and fell onto the tracks. Andrews shouted at other riders to try to stop the train and then climbed down after Schnair, who was bleeding from a gash in his head and, as the train’s doors started to close, pulled him into a narrow crawl space below the edge of the platform. The train began to move, but stopped after a few
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Third Senate filibuster threatens gas tax hike
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has gone home for Christmas, leaving behind an exhausted Senate held hostage by a test of wills over a proposed nickel-a-gallon boost in the federal gasoline tax. The House completed its last major act of the year Tuesday night voting 180-87 to send the compromise jobs-creating gasoline tax hike to the Senate. Then it quit for the year. But in the Senate, which has been haunted by the tax legislation throughout the lameduck session, conservative Republicans immediately mounted their third filibister against the tax increase they oppose, forcing another postmidnight session. Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., vowed to bring the measure to a final vote, but Sen. Jesse Helms, RN.C., was just as steadfast in his determination to prevent that. It was nearly 1 a.m. today when Baker and Helms agreed to take a vote Thursday on choking off debate, which would clear the way for final congressional action on the measure. The Senate then recessed, until later today when a pro forma session will be held. Congressional aides said Baker was pressing senators anxious to go home for Christmas to stay in town to maintain
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HOWARD BAKER
Showdown vote scheduled for Thursday
a quorum when the vote to cut of debate is taken Thursday. “If we get cloture (cut off debate) we’re going to pass the bill,” predicted Tom Griscom, a Baker aide. Democrats, meanwhile, pleaded for an end to the Republican jousting and the “agonizing of this Congress.” “We’ve been here 125 hours since Monday a week ago.. . . We all are tired. ... There comes a time ... when we ought to show down on this measure or we ought to go home,” Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia said Tuesday night as the Senate trudged through
Contract agreement averts walkout by TWA machinists
WASHINGTON (AP) - TWA and the Machinists union reached agreement early Wednesday on a tentative contract that will avert a Christmasseason walkout by 10,000 union employees of the nation’s sixth largest airline. The chairman of the National Mediation Board, Robert O. Harris, said the agreement came at 12:05 a.m., four minutes after the union’s
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feet when someone ran to the front car and alerted the motorman. Andrews and Schnair, uncertain whether the train would move again, huddled in their cramped refuge for several minutes, with Andrews trying to stop the blind man’s bleeding with a handkerchief. Then, power on the line was shut off and both men were pulled up. Andrews suffered torn ligaments in his right knee during the rescue. He and Schnair were treated at a nearby hospital and released. “This was a truly heroic and selfless act,” said Chief James B. Meehan, the head of the transit police force. "How fitting that it happened this time of year.” Everyone at the Third Sun Spiritual Church on 145th Street echoed that sentiment. The Rev. Clyde Jefferson, the pastor of the storefront church, said that the Andrews family had often been without food in the house and that he and his wife did what they could to help out. “I do the best I can for them,” Jefferson said. Then he thought about the day’s events and added: “God has worked a miracle.”
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JESSE HELMS
another marathon session
Baker would not budge, telling the Senate: “I intend to go forward with this measure.” Helms would not budge. “I want all senators to know I love them dearly, but I want all senators to know I did not come to Washington to win a popularity contest among my fellow senators,” Helms said. Weary senators had hoped they could follow the lead of the House and adjourn after approving the tax increase, raising the gasoline tax from 4 cents to 9 cents to finance $5.5 billion worth of highway, bridge and mass transit repair jobs.
deadline. TWA president C.E. Meyer said in a statement issued in New York that all of TWA’s flight would continue without interruption. “There will be no details on the substance of the agreement until as such time as the union has notified its members,” Harris told reporters. Harris headed the mediation team that steered the two sides
“I'm still convinced the wise thing for the Senate to do is reject this measure one way or the other," said Helms, one of a small core of conservative Republicans who have filibustered the measure off and on for todays. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., labeled Helms’ action an “obdurate and obnoxious performance" that amounted to an attempt to garner favorable headlines in North Carolina an unusually sharp comment in a chamber where senatorial courtesy is a way of life. He predicted that the next time Helms tries to promote legislation of interest to his state. "There will be a phalanx of opposition.” When the lame-duck session began more than three weeks ago. it appeared the gasoline tax measure would clear easily. Baker and House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., both endorsed it. President Reagan also embraced it. But Helms called it “bad legislation at the wrong time presented in the wrong manner.” The compromise bill the House accepted was drafted earlier in the day by congressional negotiators who hammered out the differences between versions of the bill passed by the House and Senate.
to agreement. Bill Sherry, a union spokesman, called the settlement “a fair and equitable agreement” that the union will recommend its members accept. A union negotiator, Quinton Kerr, said the proposed pact would be submitted to TWA workers as soon as possible, “probably the first week in January.”