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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 8,1983

Tax hikes anger drivers

Hoosier truckers threaten strike

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana’s independent truckers said Friday they’ll take part in a nationwide strike beginning Jan. 31 if the Reagan administration or Congress don’t take action to lessen the looming increases in gas and highway taxes. It was unclear how many of the country’s estimated 100,000 independent drivers would take part in the protest, announced a day after President Reagan signed into law a bill which raises fuel taxes a nickel per gallon and boosts other levies upon the trucking industry to finance road repairs. “There will be a nationwide truck shutdown ... It will last as long as the Congress wants it

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to,” Michael Parkhurst, president of the Independent Truckers Association, said Friday in Washington after declaring the strike. Dale Baker of Greenfield, Indiana president of the Independent Truckers

Association, said the strike “is nothing we’re anticipating or looking forward to.” “The fuel tax bill itself is just the tip of the iceberg,” said John Jarnecke of LaCrosse, vice president of the Indiana group. “It’s a high price for

should last five years. The X-ray shows the position of the pacemaker inside Honey, with a pair of scissors positioned next the film to demonstrate proportion. (AP Laserphoto)

anyone in the truck transportation industry. No one can afford it.” The truckers’ anger stems this time from the new fuel tax, to 9 cents per gallon effective April 1, and sharp boosts over the next five years in highway

fees for the drivers of the 18wheelers. Parkhurst aimed his criticsm most sharply at the new taxes, but said the strikers will demand a broad range of other actions ranging from repeal of the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit

Workers recalled ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) The Delco-Remy division of General Motors announced a recall of 264 hourly workers on Friday, effective Monday, Jan. 17. Company officials said the recall was due to an increase in production of automotive electrical parts. Delco-Remy’s work force will total about 8,100 after the recall, with about 4,400 still out of work.

Changes in state coroner system urged

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana’s political coroner system makes it easier to get away w ith murder in this state than almost anywhere else in the country, a veteran coroner says. “It is tragic that Indiana’s death investigation system has literally remained in the 19th Century,” said Allen County Coroner Ronald Ahlbrand. Ahlbrand, one of a handful of Indiana coroners who are physicians, wants the Legislature to finance the regional medical examiners program it created in 1981. That would make death in-

Falling satellite no danger: Soviets

MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government admitted Friday that the nuclear reactor from one of its satellites is falling back toward Earth, but claimed it poses no danger because it will burn up when it hit the atmosphere. In Washington, State Department spokesman John Hughes said Cosmos 1402 s 100 pounds of radioactive uranium will “probably” burn up during reentry. But he said some radioactive debris might reach Earth, as pieces from the Cosmos 954 contaminated an

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and banning police use of radars to urging Congress to curb states from enacting new truck taxes. Under the new tax legislation, signed by President Reagan on Thursday, the independent drivers will see their highway use fees increased from $240 a year to $1,600 in July, 1985. The fees go to $1,900 by Jan. 1,1989. The fee schedule kicks in a year earlier for fleet carriers who will have to pay the $1,600 in July 1984 and reach the $1,900 by 1988. The trucking industry says the overall cost to operate a large truck will increase from about $1,900 to $4,400 as a result of the new taxes and fees. Parkhurst put the figure for independents at more than 5,200.

vestigations more professional, he said. Ahlbrand joined with Protect the Innocent, the self-styled citizens anti-crime lobby, to call for changes in the coroner system. He noted that Indiana is the only state east of the Mississippi River without a professional medical examiner system in place to investigate deaths. “I feel it’s made Indiana one of the easiest states in the country to commit murder and get by with it,” Ahlbrand said. Having trained forensic

uninhabited area of northern Canada in 1978. The Soviet announcement was made by the official news agency Tass two days after U.S. officials told reporters in Washington a nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite was in trouble. “According to competent Soviet organizations,” the announcement said, “the satellite ceased active existence on Dec. 28, 1982, and, under the flight program, was divided into separate fragments by commands from Earth in order to

School bus driver finishes morning run, delivers own baby JOLIET, 111. (AP) A 41-year-old school bus driver gave birth in her family car just minutes after completing the morning bus run, and then drove herself and the baby to a nearby hospital. Both Eileen Newcomb, and the baby, Rebecca Lynn, were doing fine Friday. Mrs. Newcomb, who is also a grandmother, said the 4pound, 12-ounce girl arrived Thursday as she was driving home after completing her bus route. “On my way, I felt a slight cramp,” Mrs. Newcomb said. “I thought about stopping but changed my mind because the pain went away. After all, the baby was not due for at least another week. But as I drove over the railroad tracks, my water broke and when I looked down, the baby’s head was coming through.” Mrs. Newcomb pulled into a parking lot and leaned on the horn, hoping help would come. When no one responded, she delivered the baby herself, telling the infant on arrival: “You were supposed to be a boy.” Mrs. Newcomb wrapped the baby in her jacket and tucked her under her shirt. She then drove to a hospital emergency room, parked near the entrance and leaned on the horn. “A woman security guard came out and gave me a funny look because of w’here I was parked.” she said. “I rolled down my window and yelled for her to get a doctor because I had just delivered a baby. With that remark, her look changed and she cautioned me, ‘Don’t move, don’t move’ Later that day, Mrs. Newcomb teased her doctor, saying, “I sure saved a lot of money, didn’t I.”

pathologists available for death investigations means “a very small risk of having homicides overlooked and diagnosed as other things,” the coroner said. Ahlbrand said it’s difficult to estimate how many of Indiana’s 50,000-plus deaths each year are murders masquerading as natural deaths. “Are we missing 25 or 50 or 100 homicides a year? I don’t know,” he said. “It’s more than a gut reaction. It’s based on 12 years in the coroner’s office.” His comments echoed those made earlier this week by Dr.

isolate the active part of the reactor, which ensured its subsequent complete combustion in the dense atmospheric strata. The radioactivity level will remain within the natural background limits.” On Thursday, Vladimir Kotelnikov, first vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said: “We are making experiments, operations which have been envisaged. There is no danger. We have no alarm about the fate of this satellite ”. Pentagon officials said earlier that separation of the

Clark leaves room for wheelchair ride

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Barney Clark was taken by wheelchair to enjoy the view from a hospital sunroom, the artificial heart recipient’s second excursion from his intensive care room this week, a hospital spokesman said Friday. “He enjoyed the different surroundings and asked to stay a bit longer,” Clark’s wife, Una Loy, was quoted by hospital officials as saying after the Thursday afternoon visit. However, University of Utah Medical Center spokesman John Dwan has said Clark, 61, still has periods of mild kidney and lung insufficiency and bouts of mental confusion. Clark, who became the first person to receive a permanent

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James A. Benz, the chief pathologist at W’ishard Hospital in Indianapolis and one of only five forensic pathologists in Indiana. Benz said he is considering taking a job as a medical examiner in Florida because he is dissatisfied with what he called Indiana’s “antiquated death investigation system.” Under the Indiana Constitution, the only qualifications coroners must have is that they be registered to vote and live for at least a year in the county they wish to serve as coroner.

reactor was the normal procedure. But they said rocket boosters should have propelled it 350 miles farther out into space to orbit the Earth indefinitely at the 500-mile level. The State Department spokesman said there was a “70 percent chance” the debris would fall into the ocean. Cosmos 1402’s mission was believed to be the tracking of submarines, and its orbit is mostly over water. But the U.S. Defense Department said it also goes over most of northern North America.

artificial heart Dec. 2, remains in serious but stable condition. “We are a little concerned that the public perception of Dr. Clark’s condition is better than his condition actually is,” Dwan said Thursday. “I think this is because everyone is so anxious for Dr. Clark to do well that they pick up on the positive things that happen and play down the fact that he is a very sick man.” Clark is permanently tethered by 6-foot air hoses to an external compressor that powers his Jarvik-7 mechanical heart. Whenever he moves about, he is accompanied by a 375-pound cart that holds the compressor, monitoring equipment and backup systems. Bridge repair to take year HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - Work is expected to begin next week on one of the two bridges linking Henderson with Evansville, Ind. Repair work on the 51-year-old span could take up to a year. E.H. Hughes Co., a firm from Jeffersonville, Ind., was to close the bridge to begin work on the $4.4 million project Friday. Don Pfraehler, director of safety and quality control for the construction firm, said the bridge that carries traffic on U.S. 41 over the Ohio River will probably be closed after the morning rush hour on Wednesday.