Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 113, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 January 1983 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 19.1983
Nine Chicago cops get prison terms
(c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO A federal judge has sentenced nine of the “Marquette 10” former police officers to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years, calling their protection of dope peddlers “unmitigated evil." U.S. District Court Judge John F. Grady delivered a 70-minute preamble to the sentences Tuesday, decrying the taking of payoffs by the defendants in return for overlooking the blatant sale of heroin by two curbside narcotics rings in the West Side Marquette police district. “Society has been injured here... in a way that is incalculable," Grady said. “It trusted these defendants and relied on them to do a job. The things they did instead are almost unspeakable... I believe society has a right to strike back.” The judge then turned to three of the 10 convicted officers, described them as “the least culpable of the group and called them forward, one-by-one, to impose sentence. The first was Curtis Lowery, 34, a highlydecorated 12-year veteran who Grady said “became ensnared in something that was not his making... a case that is the most tragic of all." The sentence was 10 years, with no parole. The next two officers, Robert Eatman. 42, who Grady said "put himself on the hood of a car and said he was not leaving until he got his," and John DeSimone, 40, who “came down and dealt himself in ... with both hands," received similar 10-year prison terms. The next six officers were quickly called up and given the same sentences prison: William Guide, 33, and his partner. William Haas, 35; Joseph Pena, 38. and his partner, Dennis Smentek, 35, and Frank Derango, 35. and his partner. Thomas Ambrose, 33. Sentencing for the 10th defendant, James Ballauer, 33, was postponed indefinitely due to the former officer’s back ailment. All 10 are free on signature bonds, including Haas, who had been jailed for the last four months for threatening a prosecutor during a drinking spree. On a motion from Haas' attorney Tuesday, Grady allowed Haas to go free. The jammed courtroom was hushed as each defendant and his lawyer strode to the podium. All nine heard their sentences without grimaces, tears or comment.
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The men were found guilty under a rarely used federal law that called for minimum sentences of 10 years in prison without parole and a maximum of life in prison, with more than SIOO,OOO in fines. Under the terms of Grady’s sentences, the three officers with 10-year sentences can expect to serve minimums of six years and eight months, with time off for good behavior. The officers with 20-year sentences can expect to serve 13 years and four months. The judge he noted that “the amounts of the bribe payoffs did not make them millionaires. These defendants were able to sell their honor very cheaply.” Grady responded to suggestions on Monday by defense lawyers during a sentencing hearing that the former officers —all highly decorated and with more than 10 years on the force were not evil men. “It is not for me to say whether they are evil or not,” the judge said. “It would be presumptuous to say what was in their hearts, but it is not presumptuous to say that w-hat they did was evil. These crimes committed come about as close to unmitigated evil as anything I have encountered in my lifetime." the judge declared Grady noted that during Monday's pleas for leniency by the officers’ attorneys, “the defense invited me to ignore” the fact that “under the law we dre dealing with a 10-year minimum sentence" for some of the crimes. “I decline that invitation,” the judge said. The 10 men w ere convicted last June 30 after an emotional and bitter 12-week trial. More than 50 government witnesses, many of them narcotics dealers and users, testified that from 1976 to 1981 they saw the defendants take bribes to release suspects or overlook heroin sales. The government’s case rested primarily on the testimony of Charles “C.W.” Wilson, Milton Kelly and Green Smith. Ail three had previously been convicted in federal court by prosecutor Schweitzer. Wilson had operated a curbside heroin and cocaine ring. Kelly and Smith were the bosses of a similar 24-hour-a-day operation at a different location. The three testified that they gave bribes of cash, guns, clothing and narcotics to the officers in return for protection of their street workers and continued uninterrupted operation.
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Double-digit jobless rate through 'B3 seen
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Congressional Budget Office is predicting double-digit unemployment will last through the year and budget deficits could swell to more than S3OO billion in 1987 without new taxes and spending cuts. In a separate paper, an internal memorandum distributed on Capitol Hill. CBO analysts say that without tax and spending changes, the deficit could reach $214 billion in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 and $322 billion in fiscal year 1987. CBO officials said Tuesday the reports that were available in Congress were preliminary and said the final report expected to be made available later this month or early next month could be significantly different. President Reagan is certain
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to propose spending cuts to reduce those deficit figures, and Congress will almost definitely accept some changes, perhaps after making major revisions in the president’s recommendations. The options Reagan is considering include cuts of up to S3O billion in domestic programs; a one-year freeze in federal pay; a six-month delay in cost-of-living increases on pensions to parallel a similar plan in a Social Security rescue package. In addition, Reagan is expected to recommend changes in Medicare and Medicaid, trim his defense buildup by $8 billion, and perhaps call for a one-year freeze in farm target price supports. His aides also say he is considering tax increases for the years 1986 and beyond if the spending cuts don’t succeed in
cutting the deficit below a certain level. Reagan will present his fiscal 1984 budget plan to Congress at the end of the month. * The CBO economic reviewmakes it clear that “cuts in defense and < benefit) programs as well as some increases in taxes appear to be necessary to get the deficit trending downward But it also cautions that it may not be desirable to attempt to balance the budget, even by 1988, because of the slackness of the economy. The economic assumptions that fuel the deficit forecast include a weak economic recovery beginning this year although the draft says that is not a certainty and unemployment averaging 10.7 percent for the entire 1983 calendar year.
Hometown folks ;• still back Reagan, with reservations DIXON, 111. (AP) His name is on the bridge that spans the Rock River at Peoria Street, and on the roadside billboard advertising “My Brother’s Ice Cream.” His picture is printed in restaurant menus, painted on souvenir ashtrays and hung on the walls at Jim’s Place downtown and Erma’s Olde Dixon Inn on Depot Street. In Dixon, there’s almost no way to forget that Ronald Reagan, the man who once lived in the white house at 814 S. Hennepin Ave., has lived in the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue for the past two years. The events of those two years haven’t shaken the deep, quiet pride most townspeople have in the man they knew as “Dutch.” But now that pride is tempered by a growing uneasiness, a feeling rooted in the knowledge that businesses are closing, neighbors are out of work and farmers are going bankrupt. “I thought he was going to do a better job than he’s done,’ said Vearl Benoy, a Dixon resident old enough to have known Reagan in his youth. “I voted for him and I’d still vote for him," he said. “But I don’t think he’s come close to living up to his campaign promises.” Dixon and its 15,701 residents have been spared the kind of economic agony that has wracked nearby industrial cities. Unemployment is hovering at 10.3 percent, a far cry from the one-in-five jobless rates that haunt Peoria, 80 miles to the south, and Rockford to the north. But the town’s biggest employer, a state home for the retarded, is being remodeled into a prison, leaving 450 people out of work for at least a year. The cement plant on the north edge of town has laid off three-quarters of its workers, and the steel wire mill in nearby Sterling is closing much of its operation, leaving hundreds without jobs. “People don’t want to talk about the economy,” said barber Ken Masters. "They say, ‘Let’s talk about sports, fishing, anything else.’” Beneath that pained reticence runs a current of bitterness. It comes to the surface now and again in the taverns and barber shops, and in the cases where folks gather for eon-‘ versation and a cup of coffee as the day begins. “I take a lot of badmouthing just for having those pic-' tures,” said Erma Lally, nodding at the framed Reagan portrait and snapshots that hang over the counter of Erma’sOlde Dixon Inn. One of the naysayers is her husband. Lawrence, a car-' penter who has not worked at his trade in two years. Now he washes dishes at the restaurant. “He’s no buddy of mine.” Lally said. “He hasn't done anything for anyone around here that I can tell. Seems like he spends more time in California on vacation than he does in the White House.” In the heady days after Reagan was elected, some Dixon residents were expecting a boom in business and tourism. It hasn’t happened. Aside from one souvenir shop and a trickle of visitors, the town is still a city of small factories and businesses that serve the surrounding farmland. “Nobody’s going to move an industrial plant to Dixon because Reagan lived here 50 years ago,” said Donald Lovett, president of the Dixon National Bank. < It seems nearly everyone in town has a Reagan connection. One woman’s mother attended a Sunday school class taught by Reagan’s mother, Nellie. Another woman says Reagan saved her from drowning when he worked as a lifeguard at Lowell Park. Still another says she did class assignments for him at Dixon North High School. “There is an enchantment with the fact that the 40th president of the United States is a fellow who grew up right here and shared a lot of the things we’ve known in our lives,” said Mayor George Lindquist. But it’s not simply a matter of pride in a hometown boy who made good. Reagan enjoyed a whopping margin of victory in Dixon-and surrounding Lee County during the last presidential election. The same went for Gerald Ford in 1976, Barry Goldwater in 1964. Richard Nixon in 1960 and virtually every Republican presidential candidate since the Civil War. “This a conservative area, low-key and slow-paced. People are cautious about change,” said Thomas D. Shaw, general manager of the Dixon Evening Telegraph and the fifth generation of his family to run the newspaper. And when local leaders are asked to translate that attitude into stands on national issues, their answers sound like the planks of Reagan’s 1980 campaign platform. “Strong defense, opposition to ERA, a balanced budget, less taxes which is another way of saying less government,” Shaw said.
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China puts embargoon U.S.imports PEKING (AP) - China] retaliated today for recent U.S>* import restrictions on Chinese textiles by ordering an embargo on new contracts for importing ’ American cotton, chemical fibers and soybeans. Chinese purchases from the United States in all three areas have been declining in recent months. Since contracts are negotiated in advance, it was not clear how quickly the Chinese action would have a tangible effect on trade. - * i In a two-paragraph announcement, the official Xinhua news agency said China also would reduce its planned im-' ports of other Americanagricultural products but not specify which ones. Wheat is the largest single agricultural trade item between the United States and China, which has agreed to buy at least 6 million tons of the grain annually. Last week, a fourth round of U.S.-Chinese talks failed to produce a new agreement on textile trade to replace one that expired on Dec. 31,1982.