Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 106, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 January 1983 — Page 3

Time to Ch3llCJ©?Hoosier switch would scare daylights out of some factions

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The sponsor of a bill that would make all of Indiana observe Daylight Saving Time says he expects a close vote when the Senate considers the measure. The first bills of 1983 to move to the full Senate are the time bill and another proposal to void actions of regional agencies of the federal government as they affect Indiana. Another bill would allow renewal of drivers licenses without a picture of out of state residents absent for military, missionary or other purposes and allow military police to verify vehicle identification titles. The measure would allow the commissioner of motor vehicles to waive the photograph for patients undergoing chemotherpy, burn victims, or similar requested cases. It passed the Senate Roads and Transportation Committee Monday 7-0. The Department of Highways would be allowed to let contracts for certain emergency repairs without undergoing the normal bidding process under another measure forwarded unanimously. Another bill approved 7-0 would allow information signs with business logos on interstate highways or freeways. The measure is part of the Orr administration’s 16-bill economic development package. The time zone bill was sent to the Senate Monday without a recommendation on a 6-1 vote by the Roads Committee, chaired by the bill’s sponsor. Sen. Elmer MacDonald, R-Fort Wayne. The anti-regional government bill passed the Senate Com-

Parents asking Legislature for more money for schools

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A parents group is urging the Legislature to spend more money on public schools, but they’ll let the lawmakers decide how much. “Inadequate state funding is crippling our schools,” said Dean Margaret Hauck, chairman of the Monroe County Parent-Teacher Council. The Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers presented petitions bearing more than 15,000 signatures to Gov. Robert D. Orr on Monday to press the case for more money for education. Mrs. Hauck said tight school

State unemploy merit tax alterations are proposed

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Businesses that lay off large numbers of workers could be hit with higher unemployment taxes if two Republican lawmakers have their way. Indianapolis Reps. Paul Mannweiler and Patricia Miller proposed a bill Monday that would impose higher taxes on employers with a long history of layoffs and lower taxes on businesses with few layoffs. The biggest tax bite is aimed at “deficit employers,” those who are paying more in jobless benefits than they are paying in unemployment taxes to the state. Mannweiler said Indiana’s construction industry

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financing is causing class sizes to grow to unmanageable sizes. “A high school English teacher who is supposed to require themes and essay exams has had to be assigned 162 students," she told reporters. “How many themes per week can she or he appropriately grade?” In Bloomington, she said, some advanced math, science and English courses have been dropped and foreign language course in middle schools have been lost. “I have been a parent in a school system in another state that lost too much of its support.

traditionally is the worst deficit employer, followed by the transportation industry. Only recently, he said, has General Motors crossed the line and paid out more in benefits than it contributed in taxes. Indiana employers currently pay unemployment taxes on the first $6,000 of each worker’s pay. Soon, the base pay on which taxes are paid will rise to $7,000 to comply with federal law. The unemployment tax rate currently ranges from 1.3 percent for employers with a record of few layoffs to 4.5 per-

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merce and Consumer Affairs Committee 5-4. Sen. Gene Snowden, R-Huntington, said his bill could be offered for amendment Thursday and voted on Friday by the full Senate. Gov. Robert D. Orr has vetoed similar anti-regional legislation. MacDonald doesn’t expect to call the time bill for amendment or a Senate vote this week. “I’m not going to be in any hurry until I’m sure people have had a chance to contact their individual legislators,” MacDonald said Monday afternoon. “I would assume it’s kind of a close vote,” he said, adding he hadn’t polled the Senate yet. “I realize it is a controversial bill, to say the least,” he said. Sen. Roger Jessup, R-Summitville, agreed to move the measure to the Senate because of the no recommendation clause. He said he was awaiting results of a constitutent survey on the matter. The time zone bill would repeal Indiana’s exemption from the Uniform Time Act of 1966 and require all Indiana counties to observe daylight time in the summer. Broadcasters, representatives of the Air Transportation Association of America and the Indiana Parks and Recreation Association spoke in favor of the bill. Two representatives of farm organizations and two from Theater Owners of Indiana spoke against the bill. Most Indiana counties currently observe Eastern Standard

It was a daily nightmare,” she said. “If we begin right now, we can save Indiana's public schools.” Asked how much more funding public education needed. Mrs. Hauck and Harold Gourley, president of the parent-teacher group, said that was up to the Legislature. However, they said the current proposals for increases ranging from 3.5 to 5 percent weren’t enough. When pressed, they said school funding would have to be increased by at least 10 percent to have enough money to move forward.

cent for businesses with a high layoff history. Under the bill proposed by the Indianapolis legislators, the rate at the low end of the scale would drop to 0.8 percent, while the highest tax rate would jump to 7.4 percent. The new rate schedule would produce about S4OO million a year in revenue, which would be used to fund unemployment benefits for Hoosiers. That compares with the 1982 schedule, which yielded around S3OO million for the unemployment trust fund, he said.

Bill would require PSC to certify power plant need

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Bills that would limit utility rate increases to no more than 10 percent a year and require state approval for power plant construction have been filed in the Indiana House. The rate increase ceiling was one of three utility-related bills introduced Monday by Rep. William D. Roach, D-West Terre Haute. The 10 percent restriction would apply not only to general rate increases but also to an electric utility’s application for an increase in its fuel adjustment charge. Another Roach bill would expand the PSC to five members, with the requirement that at least one must be an attorney, one must be an accountant and another must be the mayor of a first- or second-class city. The qualifications of the other two members are open His third bill calls for the nonpartisan election of a fivemember PSC beginning with the 1984 general election. The terms of the current PSC members would end Jan. 1,1985. GOP Reps. Ralph Ayres of Chesterton and Mary Kay Budak of Michigan City are sponsoring the bill requiring the PSC to approve any utility construction before it begins. If the utility’s construction plans aren’t approved, it can’t attempt to pass the costs along to its customers through rate increases.

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Time all year. That keeps clocks synchronized with Chicago in the summer and New York in the winter. Eleven Indiana counties are in the Central Time Zone and set clocks back one hour in October and forward one hour in April. They are Lake, Porter. LaPorte, Starke, Jasper and Newton in northern Indiana and Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick and Spencer counties in southern Indiana. Those counties currently are covered in a federal exemption. Any shift would have to be okayed by Congress, not the Indiana Legislature. Dearborn, Ohio, Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in southeast Indiana observe Eastern Standard Time in winter and Eastern Daylight Time in summer. “Farmers have learned to live with what we have now. They would prefer not to have the pot tinkered with,” said William Hadley of the Indiana Farm Bureau. He said farmers would prefer central time all year. Broadcasters complain that viewers are confused by watching programs such as the news at 10 p.m. in summer and 11 p.m. in winter. Supporters said the bill would help cut energy costs, boost traffic safety, might reduce crime, would help “night-blind” drivers, and improve lifestyle. Opponents took the opposite tack. Roy Cooper, vice president and general manager of Indianapolis radio station WIBC-AM and WNAP-FM, said the time

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WILLIAM ROACH Introduces utility bills

Hoosiers who register their cars in other states to avoid Indiana’s excise taxes would face a stiffer penalty, under a bill sponsored by Ayres and Rep. Richard B. Wathen, RJeffersonville. If caught, these motorists could face a fine of up to SIO,OOO, compared to a SSOO fine now. Reps Chester F. Dobis, DMerrillville, and Thames Mauzy, R-Warsaw, are behind a bill that would give sheriffs and their deputies the authority to fingerprint, photograph and take other information from people taken into custody on felony or misdemeanor charges. If a suspect refuses to cooperate or gives false information, he could be charged

with a Class C misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a SSOO fine. GOP Reps. James Davis of Frankfort and John Donaldson of Lebanon are behind a bill to broaden the attorney general’s power to obtain evidence by civil subpoena. The attorney general would have the power to issue investigative demands in connection with his duties with the state’s Medicaid fraud control unit and policing regulated occupations. Another bill would give parents of Indianapolis pupils bused to suburban Marion County snhool districts a voice in the operation of those districts. The measure, sponsored by Rep William Crawford, DIndianapolis, would require school districts in Marion County to permit parents of bused children to vote for and serve as members of the school board in that district. Other bills filed Monday would: —Raise the fee for blood tests for a marriage license to $lO, up from $2.50. —Permit liquor ads in the official Indianapolis 500 program. —Give a state income tax credit for contributions to public elementary, middle and high schools. —Prohibit state and local governments from investing in South African and Namibian securities.

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system led to an image of a “backward” state. “I’m not sure Indiana can afford being a maverick,” said Gordon R. Barrington of the Air Transport Association of America, which represents seven airlines serving Indiana. Barrington said the strange time system led to passenger inconvenience and missed flights. John Galvin, president of Theater Owners of Indiana, had a different view. “I say Indiana is independent. The rest of the country is out of step with Indiana,” he said. “I don’t think the people of the state want fast time. Every poll I have seen indicates no support for fast time. ” Sen. Virginia Blankenbaker said joggers and people who like to walk support the bill for safety reasons. Ann Craft, general manager of Theater Owners of Indiana, said the current time configuration is the “best possible compromise. It has worked successfully for the la 112 years." She said “double daylight time” would “have a negative effect on all nightime business” and could have a negative effect on human metabolism. “It could increase use of stimulants and sedatives,” she said. But Bill Stough, president of the Indiana Broadcasters Association, said viewers “blame television stations for that inconvenience” of watching the same programs at different times.

Pie in the eye to aid unemployed By HANK LOWENKRON Associated Press Writer A LaPorte businessman is offering a tasty way to help the unemployed. Randall A. Weiss hopes to raise a minimum of $33,500 through a pie-eating contest and plans to distribute the money to benefit people whose unemployment benefits have expired. Weiss, president of a video-stereo store, is proposing the “President’s Pie Eating Contest” for Feb. 21, George Washington’s birthday. He has formed a volunteer group called People Involved in Employment, or PIE. Funds would go to the jobless of LaPorte County, which recorded a record 16.5 percent unemployment rate in November. “We’re doing this to have fun and to help the unfortunate. I figure there are a lot of employees who will pay a dollar or more to see their employer look silly by eating a pie with his hands tied behind him.” Weiss says all the pies to be used have been donated by a local supermarket and that all money raised from the day will go to the unemployment fund. “We’re going to use mainly cream pies. They are the messiest,” Weiss said. “But we ll also have some fruit pies around for those who want a different taste, since it is Washington’s birthday, we’ll see that there’s a good supply of cherry pies.” Weiss is asking people to sponsor participants and to pledge a dollar or more for each pie the participant consumes. “The county is really pulling together to make this thing work,” he said “Printers, the media, officials all have donated time, services or supplies.” Weiss doesn’t plan to just hand out the money. He says it will be used to pay unemployed people to work with persons who need household jobs done but can’t afford to pay laborers. “If we reach our goal, it will pay for 10,000 hours of work. We began organizing this about 10 days ago. and frankly I'm absolutely overwhelmed with the response.” Weiss said several side bets have been made over whether one individual can eat more pies than another with the person losing the bet paying it into the fund produced by the contest.

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