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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 21,1983

Teen-age taunts: 'Nice boy' shoots two, kills himself in classroom tragedy

MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) A “nice boy” who had won a good citizenship award was taunted about his family by his junior high classmates before he pulled out pistols and killed one student, wounded another and took his own life, officials said. David F. Lawler, 14, opened fire with an automatic .22-caliber pistol at Parkway South Junior High School on Thursday, killing Randall Roger, 15, and seriously wounding Greg Palmer, also 15, said St. Louis County police detective Richard Seymour. Witnesses told police that Roger and Palmer had made disparaging remarks earlier about Lawler's brother and stepfather. The boys, all eighth-graders, were not disciplinary problems at the suburban St Louis school, according to Principal Don Senti. He called Lawler “an above-average student" who received a good citizenship award last semester. “All three of these kids came to school every day what more can I say?” Senti said.

Open record law moves along, too Daylight savings time bill due for final Senate vote

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A bill that would put Indiana on daylight saving time with the rest of its neighbors was eligible for a final vote in the state Senate today. The time bill cleared the amendment stage Thursday along with another measure to overhaul the state’s open records law. The Senate also approved a bill to bring Indiana’s unemployment compensation law in line with the federal government’s. The measure will cost Hoosier employers an extra sl3 to $45 per employee, depending on their layoff history. The action came on the 13th day of the 61-day legislative session. Indiana is one of two states in the country which does not observe daylight saving time. The bill sponsored by GOP Sens. Elmer MacDonald of Fort Wayne and Virginia Blankenbaker of Indianapolis would repeal Indiana’s exemption from the Federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, the law creating daylight time. If the bill becomes law, it would take effect this year. Sens. Roger Jessup. R-Summitville, and Er-

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nest Niemeyer, R-Lowell, announced they would not offer three amendments they had prepared for the time bill, as a courtesy to the sponsors. One of Jessup’s amendments would have imposed daylight time only Tuesdays and Thursdays. His other suggested change would have allowed each county to decide whether it would follow the time change. Niemeyer’s amendment would have allowed Indiana’s 1,008 township trustees to decide whether their townships would follow daylight time. The Senate approved three amendments to the “open records” bill sponsored by Sens: Edward M. Pease, R-Brazil, and Frank L. O’Bannon, D-Corydon. The measure makes a policy statement that public records should be available for public inspection and copying. It also puts a burden on public agencies to show why a particular record shouldn’t be open, rather than forcing citizens who want access to a record to justify why they should be allowed to get it. Pease had' two amendments to clean up

Man seen at Tylenol victim's funeral sought DETROIT (AR) The FBI said Thursday it was seeking for questioning a New York man who allegedly was photographed outside a church at the funeral of one of the Chicago-area Tylenol poisoning victims. “We do not want to leave any stones unturned,” FBI special agent John Anthony said. “We only want to interview him to determine why he was there.” Anthony said a woman who lives in the Detroit area contacted officials late last week after watching a Jan. 7 ABC News report on the unsolved killings in Chicago that were caused by cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. She reviewed the news report Wednesday and gave officials a name and New York address for the man. He added he did not know how the woman knew the man, who was pictured in the ABC report as a white male, with black hair and wearing mirrored sunglasses. Anthony said he did not know which victim's funeral the man attended.

Neighbors of Lawler’s said they were shocked at the shootings. “I can’t believe he’d do that,” Gielea Lavacek said. “He was just a nice boy who played around here. It’s a total shock to me.” Gym teacher Sherry McWhorter, who was watching the 25 students in the study hall, told police Lawler fired one shot from a .22-caliber automatic into the ceiling at about 11:45 a m. and said, “Now, everybody shut up,” according to Seymour. Lawler then yelled at Roger, “You won’t call my brother a (expletive) anymore,” and fired two or three shots at him. Roger fell to the floor, fatally wounded in the back, Mrs. McWhorter said. Lawler then walked up to Palmer, who was lying on the floor, and said, “You can’t call my brother a (expletive) anymore,” and fired once, police said. The boy then walked to the front of the room, pulled another gun, a .22-caliber revolver, out of a bag which police said con-

language in the bill as it emerged from committee. Among other things, the Pease amendments would delay the effective date of the bill from Sept. 1, 1983 to Jan. 1, 1984. The change was made to allow public officials time to become familiar with it, assuming the measure becomes law. Sen. Thomas Hession, R-Shelbyville, offered the third amendment to the bill This change will delete the requirement that the annual reports of counties, schools, townships, cities and towns be published in newspapers’ legal advertising sections. Under Hession’s amendment, the reports will still be provided to the newspapers, which would make an editorial decision whether to publish them. However, local governmental units would no longer have to pay to have the entire report published. Pease urged defeat of Hession’s amendment, saying, “This bill deals with what records should be open and accessible, not which records should be published.” The amendment passed 36-11. The GOP-controlled Senate defeated an

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Teamster aide 'silenced'

CHICAGO (AP) Former Teamsters consultant Allen Dorfman was "silenced” in a gangland-style execution because criminal associates feared a looming prison term would make him reveal secrets learned in 30 years of mob dealings, officials believe. Dorfman was shot in the head five times at close range Thursday as he and a friend were going to a restaurant in Lincolnwood, a northern suburb. His companion was unharmed, and the gunmen escaped. Forty FBI agents were assigned to assist police from Chicago and Lincolnwood in the murder investigation. A nation-

Second hijack try fatal for retarded man

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A retarded man who hijacked a plane, then was shot and killed by an FBI agent who climbed through a cockpit window, had commandeered the same flight in 1980 and was free on probation, authorities said. None of the 41 passengers and crew aboard the Northwest Airlines jet were injured in the 2' 2-hour seizure Thursday. The hijacker, who was shot as he began releasing some passengers, had falsely claimed to have a bomb in a shoebox and said he wanted to go to Afghanistan, witnesses said. Authorities said 20-year-old

Indy Harvester healthy despite IH company woes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Even if International Harvester succumbs to bankruptcy, its Indianapolis engine plant is unlikely to close, a Harvester official says. Earlier this week, Harvester officials said the truck and farm implement firm was “rapidly exhausting” alternatives of raising cash and might be forced into bankruptcy. But Thursday, there was a celebration at the Indianapolis plant. Government officials, United Auto Workers representatives

tained “a sizable amount of ammunition” and said, “I can’t stand it anymore.” The boy put barrel of the revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger, Mrs. McWhorter told police. Both Lawler and Roger were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Palmer remained in serious but stable condition Thursday night at St. Joseph’s Hospital with a bullet wound in the back, according to authorities. He was scheduled to transfer to a St. Louis school this week, and Thursday was to have been his last day at the school. Police said they believed the guns belonged to the boy’s family. The students who witnessed the shootings were taken to a nearby gymnasium until their parents came to pick them up, Senti said. “There was a lot of crving going on,” Senti said. “They were

amendment offered by Sen. William D. McCarty, D-Anderson. that would have extended the open records law to the politically controlled auto license branches. “The issue here is quite simple.” said Sen. Michael Gery, D-West Lafayette, who supported McCarty’s proposal. “Do the people of Indiana have the right to know how their money is being spent when they walk into a license branch 9 ” Pease also urged defeat of this amendment, and his Republican colleagues agreed, turning back the proposal 31-17. The Senate voted 46-0 for a bill to bring Indiana’s unemployment compensation law into compliance with the federal government's. Currently, Indiana employers pay employment taxes on the first $6,000 of every employee’s pay. Under revised federal law, that taxable wage base would rise to $7,000. The change means that Hoosier businesses will have to pay taxes on another SI,OOO of employee wages, with the proceeds going into a fund to pay unemployment benefits.

wide alert was issued for two unnamed male suspects. Police were also seeking a third man. believed to be the driver of a getaway car. The millionaire insurance executive had longstanding ties to the Teamsters union and organized crime. He escaped unharmed from an attempt on his life 16 years ago. "There’s no doubt in my mind that Mr. Dorfman was killed to keep him quiet,” said Patrick Healy, the Chicago Crime Commission’s executive director. “A lot of people in the criminal world will sleep better tonight knowing that Dorfman is silenced.”

Glen Kurt Tripp took over Flight 608 as the white-and-gray Boeing 727-200 approached Portland International Airport from Seattle. Tripp, of Stanwood, Wash., had held another Northwest jet, also Flight 608, for 10 hours on July 11,1980, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, claiming he had a bomb in a suitcase and demanding SIOO,OOO. Just before being arrested in that hijacking in which no passengers were harmed and where the “bomb” turned out to be a jacket in a suitcase Tripp reduced his demands to a fast car, a head start and three

and Harvester officials held a joint news conference at the southside plant, praising a new era of cooperation between government, business and labor. The engine plant here has reinstated its laid off production workers and is one of the strongest assets of the finan-cially-struggling company, said David Shelby, Harvester vice president and general manager. Employment at Harvester’s Indianapolis engine plant now tops 1,800. About 390 foundry

Dorfman was convicted Dec. 15 with Teamsters President Roy L. Williams and three other men of conspiring to bribe thenSen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., with a lucrative Las Vegas land deal. Cannon was not charged but lost a bid for re-election. Dorfman, 60. faced up to 55 years in prison tantamount to a life sentence. For more than 30 years, Dorfman maintained a grip on the murky billion-dollar business of Teamsters loans, land deals and insurance, officials said. His stepfather was a friend of Jimmy Hoffa. the former Teamsters boss who disappeared in Julv 1975.

cheeseburgers. Experts described him as a mentally retarded 17-year-old, and said he had the intellect of a child between the ages of 9 and 12. During Thursday's hijacking, Tripp railed against the United States for failing to help Afghan guerrillas fighting Soviet troops, said a passenger, John Boyle of Falls City, Wash. Tripp made no demand except to be flown to Afghanistan, said Donald R. Jones, Port of Portland police chief. “He said he had been in prison and it wouldn’t hurt the folks on the plane to sit with him for awhile.” Airline officials said

workers from UAW Local 226 are still on layoff, but all hourly production workers from UAW Local 98 who had been laid off have been recalled effective Jan. 10. There are now 1,242 hourly production workers at the plant, Harvester officials said. “As you look around, you see an industry that is growing rather than decaying,” plant manager David Stegemoller told a news conference. The plant makes eight kinds of engines, including a new 6.9 liter engines for diesel trucks

shocked and were all talking about it. ” After about an hour of talking with two guidance counselors and a minister whose child attends the school, some boys began to play basketball, according to the principal. “They said it would relieve some of the tension,” he said. Parkway South has a reputation for strict discipline, Senti said. “You won’t even find them smoking cigarettes in the bathrooms here,” he said. Some of the 1,050 students wept openly when they learned of the shootings, Senti said. Hours later, Senti convened an emergency Parent-Teachers Association meeting to discuss counseling for the parents and students. “I never thought it would happen at this school,” said Jim Jacobsmeyer, 14, who said he had become worried after the 20,000-student district voted last year to participate in the desegregation of St. Louis schools.

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The arms of safety await a young New York City girl as she dangles from the arm of a firefighter during a blaze in a six-story apartment building in the Bronx. Three policemen were first on the scene of the fire, helping to save the lives of a little girl and another infant by defying 20-foot flames to reach them. No injuries were caused by the fire. (AP Wirephoto).

the jet was not capable of such a long flight. The plane landed in Portland about 1:45 p.m. As the hijacker spoke to the crew in an otherwise empty first-class section, two FBI agents climbed through a cockpit window and waited. Tripp agreed to release about half the 35 passengers, and as they slid down an emergency exit chute, the agents moved in, according to police and witnesses. “At that time, the suspect made a sudden motion with the box as if to throw it at the agent,” said William Baker,

and buses. Harvester is in the first year of a five-year renewable contract to provide the engines for Fort Motor Co.’s heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans. Shelby said the engines are the first to be designed totally on computer. “Things are looking up for Harvester,” Shelby said, adding that the company has higher cash balances, better cost structure, support from bankers, and more worker support than it had six months ago. Last September, Harvester

agent in charge of the Portland office. “The agent fired one shot.” Tripp was killed with a .38caliber revolver, he said The man claimed he had to get home to his wife and two children in Afghanistan, according to Boyle. Tripp was on 20 years’ probation for first-degree extortion and first-degree kidnapping in the 1980 hijacking, said Dick Paulson, spokesman for the Washington Department of Corrections. Tripp served no time in prison in that hijacking. He had reported regularly to a probation officer

announced it was closing its truck manufacturing facility in ' Fort Wayne, shifting -its operations to Springfield, Ohio. The move was part of a consolidation effort aimed at bolstering sagging finances. ; Harvester reported a loss of: $149.4 million by April 30, 1982. . and a third quarter loss of $129.8 ; million. Indiana had compiled a s3l ; million package designed to: keep the truck operations in : Fort Wayne, but Ohio compiled '• a similar package and had-a-' newer plant.