Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 January 1983 — Page 3

Don't blamePSC for gas prices, governor says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The federal government and not Indiana's Public Service Commission is to blame for rapidly rising costs of natural gas. Gov. Robert D. Orr says. Orr said Thursday the PSC is “incapable of controlling the upward escalation of natural gas rates." He said the blame, if any is warranted, lies with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which controls transmission of natural gas in interstate pipelines. “The states have no control over the interstate price of gas," he said. The rapidly rising prices, which prompted a group of Hposiers to demonstrate at the St.atehouse recently and demand lowered gas rates, cause “serious hardship" for ratepayers, the governor said. Adequate supplies of natural gas should have resulted in lower prices, he said. Interviewed Thursday during taping of the weekly television program “Report from the Statehouse," Orr rejected as impractical proposed legislation before the 1983 General Assembly calling for legislative approval of the governor's appointments to the

House defeats effort to abolish state death penalty

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Reminded that “dead killers don’t kill again," the Indiana House rejected a proposal to abolish the death penalty in the state. By a 76-20 vote Thursday, the House defeated Rep. Joseph Summers’ amendment to a bill that would change Indiana’s method of execution from electrocution to lethal injection. “My contention is that God has the only right to take a life and we ought to stop doing it in the courts,” the Indianapolis Democrat said. Summers related the case of Delbert E. Tibbs, a Chicago man who was arrested in Mississippi in 1974 and charged with a murder and rape that occurred in Fort Myers, Fla. Tibbs was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the crimes. His conviction was overturned in 1976 by the Florida Supreme Court, which ruled there wasn’t sufficient evidence to establish Tibbs’ guilt. The state then took steps to retry Tibbs. After a legal oddyssey that lasted six years, the Florida district attorney announced last year he was dropping the charges against Tibbs. Summers said the story pointed up the danger that an innocent man could be executed

Lobbyist denies payoff to steer state contracts to firm

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A former state senator accused of purjury denied an accusation he sought a $60,000 payoff in exchange for steering state contracts to an architectural firm. Thomas V. McComb, the Fort Wayne Republican who turned to lobbying after leaving the Legislature, .took the stand in hts own behalf Thursday. He also testified he never made payoffs to former House Speaker Kermit 0. Burrous or hss associates to obtain a favorable committee assignment for a bill. -McComb is charged with lying to a grand jury and obstruction of justice. The jury investigated charges of corruption involving the 1979 Legislature when McComb worked as a lobbyist for several organizations, including Construction Managers Association of Indiana. Architect Marion A. Williams had testified McComb once sought a $60,000 payoff from his

Ulrich workers were reporting spill

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Workers were in the process of reporting a sulfuric acid spill to the fire department when passing firefighters spotted a huge vapor cloud, officials of Ulrich Chemical Co. say. Stephen J. Hiatt, Ulrich vice president, said Thursday a company employee was telephoning the fire department at the same moment firemen in a passing truck saw the cloud and radioed for help. “We had the fire department there within minutes of when

three-member PSC. If enacted, the bill might discourage good candidates from accepting an appointment and could result in special sessions of the Legislature called to vote on nominees, or lengthy interim appointments. The governor, who returned Wednesday from Washington where he listened to President Reagan’s state of the union address from the House gallery, said he stands by Reagan's proposed deficit budget and opposes the jobs bills offered by congressional Democrats. Orr said he supports Reagan’s spending policies on defense and domestic programs. “I'm still strongly supportive of the Reagan budget,” he said. Orr, chairman of the National Republican Governor’s Conference, said he would oppose the public works legislation proposed by House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill. Government efforts to create jobs in the mid-1970s didn’t work, Orr said. In other comments, Orr: —Said the General Assemblymay have intended to send state universities a message by proposing to strip school

because of a mistake made in the investigation or trial. Rep. William D. Roach, D-West Terre Haute, echoed Summers’ concern “The problem with the death penalty is really very- simple, as far as I’m concerned: What happens if you make a mistake?" Roach asked. “I don't think I’m soft on crime. But the courts are human. They're run by humans and humans make mistakes. You can correct a mistake if a person is still alive. But you can’t if they're dead.” Rep Robert K. Aiderman. R-Fort Wayne, opposed Summers' amendment, saying, “we need to repeal the death penalty like we need to be here year round." Alderman, a lieutenant on the Allen County Sheriff’s Department, said he believed the death penalty is a valuable crime deterrant. “I have a problem with it going on behind closed doors. There was a lot less crime when people could see what happened to you when you killed someone,” he said. "It sure cuts down on recidivism,” Alderman added, “because dead killers don’t kill again.” Rep Vern Tincher, D-Terre Haute, a state policeman, recalled visiting the Martinsville

firm to steer contracts to it. McComb denied it. He said Williams, who was chairman of James Associates Architects and Engineers Inc., misunderstood the statement. McComb said he offered to become a consultant to the firm at a salary of $60,000 a year to “find" or "bird dog" state contracts. A 1979 Statehouse hallway meeting has played a major role in the trial, and McComb gave his description of it Thursday. Government witnesses have charged it was agreed at the meeting for the Construction Managers Association to pay off an adviser to Burrous in return for having a bill assigned to a favorable committee. Michael M. Carr, an architect and former Construction Managers Association president, testified a Burrous associate, H. Kent Howard, demanded during the meeting the group donate $5,000 to

the leak occurred,” Hiatt said. The leak Wednesday injured 11 people and forced evacuation of about 2,000 people in a square mile area around the northeast side plant. Warren Township Fire Chief Gerald Humphries had said no one from the chemical distribution company notified authorities when the leak occurred and that valuable time may have been lost in battling the emergency. Humphries said the cloud was reported by one of his crews

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trustees of the authority to set rates for tuition and fees. Many legislators were angered in 1981 when state institutions ignored the fee increase guidelines established by the General Assembly. —Supported reduction of the minimum wage and said he wouldn’t mind if the minimum wage was cut in Indiana on an experimental basis. —Said the effort to save the Corning glassworks television tube factory in Bluffton, and its 450 remaining jobs, is an “uphill fight.”

Burrous’ unsuccessful 1980 campaign for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor. In return, Burrous would assign Senate Bill 245, which the group opposed, to a committee that would kill it. The bill would have prevented architects and engineers from acting as construction managers on public projects they had designed. McComb testified he met with Carr and Wendell Ealy, treasurer of the construction group, outside the House chamber Feb. 14, 1979. He said he asked Howard to leave the House floor to join the meeting. “I told Howard about SB 245 and explained it had passed the Senate and was awaiting Burrous’ assigning it to a House committee. I told him how it would hurt the business of architects and engineers and what it would do to construction managers,” McComb said. Carr said similar legislation was offered in 1978 .

around 11:44 a.m. A company spokesman said Thursday the leak began around 11:35 a.m. Plant foreman Kim Davis was listed in serious condition with second-degree acid burns over 35-40 percent of his body, a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday. Davis, 30, of Martinsville, was repairing a leaking valve on a pipe that supplies sulfuric acid to a tank when the pipe ruptured, Hiatt said. Hiatt said company employees acted properly.

—Rejected a jobs program proposed by Indiana Democrats, saying it would not provide any permanent employment. —Said Hoosier voters ultimately should be the ones to decide whether the state Constitution will be amended to allow lotteries. —Said he anticipates that revenue from increased sales and income taxes will be sufficient to bail out the state treasury without taking further measures

funeral home where the bodies of Terry Lee Chasteen and her three young children were taken. The Indianapolis woman and her children were killed by Steven Judy, who was executed in 1981, the first man to die in Indiana’s electric chair in more than a decade “If you had had the opportunity to see those three children lying there on that slab, you would vote against this motion." Tincher said. With the defeat of Summers' motion, the lethal injection bill cleared the amendment stage and is now eligible for a final House vote. In other action, the House voted 93-2 for a bill that would penalize Indiana residenLs who register their cars with other states. By law, newcomers have 60 days to change their vehicle registration and buy Indiana license plates. Rep. Paul Hric, D-Hammond, introduced a bill which would double the auto excise tax which must be paid to get Indiana plates for people who fail to register their vehicles within the 60-day grace period. The extra excise tax money would go into a special fund and would be paid as bounties to police who catch Indiana residents who keep their cars registered in other states.

REPORT OF CONDITION Consolidating domestic subsidiaries of the ffgfCentinaf *"ffNationai “Rank Moving In The Right Direction of Greencastle in the state of Indiana, at the close of business on December 31,1982 published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under title 12, United States Code, Section 161 Charter 2896 National Bank Region Number Fgur Thousands of dollars ASSETS Cash and due from depository institutions 3,404 U S. Treasury securities 9,057 Obligations of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations 4,538 Obligations of States and political subdivisions in the United States. .. 4,912 All other securities 3,544 Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell 6,600 Loans, Total (excluding unearned income) 38,579 Less: Allowance for possible loan losses 387 Loans. Net 38,192 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises 626 Real estate owned other than bank premises 061 All other assets 1,053 TOTAL ASSETS 71,987 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 7,141 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 52,099 Deposits of United States Government 021 Deposits of States and political subdivisions in the United States 3,931 Certified and officers' checks 289 Total Deposits 63,481 Total demand deposits 9,316 Total time and savings deposits 54,165 Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase 887 All other liabilities 1,341 TOTAL LIABILITIES (excluding subordinated notes and debentures) 65,709 EQUITY CAPITAL Common stock No. shares authorized 10,000 No. shares outstanding 10,000 (par value) 1,000 Surplus 1.000 Undivided profits and reserve for contingencies and other capital reserves 4,278 TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL 6,278 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL 71,987 MEMORANDA Amounts outstanding as of report date Time certificates of deposit in denominations of’loo,ooo or more 3,547 Average for 30 calendar days ending with report date: Total deposits 63.634 I, Gary R. Schopmeyer, Cashier, of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Gary R. Schopmeyer January 20, 1983 We, the undersigned directors attest the correctness of this statement of resources and liabilities. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief is true and correct Directors: F.M. Aker, Stephen D. Teaford, Barbara H. Teaford Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Teacher loan programs hill sent to State Senate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two bills aimed at ending teacher shortages in math, science or other needed specialties have been forwarded to the Indiana Senate. The Senate Education Committee voted 8-0 Thursday for a bill to set up the Indiana Education Loan Repayment Assistance Fund to help math, science and other teachers repay their student loans. Qualified teachers could get up to SIO,OOO worth of college loans paid through the program. The bill sponsored by Sens. Gregory Server. R-Evansville, and Michael Gery, D-West Lafayette, applies to those who teach at least half of their courses in math, science or other subjects designated by the Commission on Teacher Training and Licensing as shortage areas. Laid-off teachers would get a break under a similar bill which would help retrain educators in subjects with teacher shortages. Under the bill sponsored by Sen. John R. Sinks, R-Fort Wayne, teachers could apply to the State Student Assistance Commission for grants or in-terest-free loans of up to SI,OOO.

Hric and other lawmakers who represent districts along Indiana's border with other states complain that many Hoosiers evade auto excise taxes by registering their cars in Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan where the cost of getting license plates is far less. Across the hall, the Senate voted 49-0 to extend the term of a chauffeur's license from tw o to four years, and raise the fee from S 4 to $6 The bill, sponsored by Sen. Thomas Hession, RShelbyville, now moves to the House. A bill amending Indiana's law that allows grandparents to seek visitation rights to see their grandchildren was forwarded to the House on a 48-1 vote. Currently, grandparents are allowed to petition for visitation rights Sens. Edward A. Pease, R-Brazil, and Virginia Blankenbaker. R Indianapolis, sponsored the bill to extend the law to cover cases where the parents were divorced outside of Indiana, but the child and parent are now living in Indiana. The bill would limit grandparents' visitation rights to cases in which the grandchildren are in the custody of the grandparents’ son-in-law or daughter-in-law.

Priority would be given to furloughed teachers. Loans from the Indiana Teacher Shortage Financial Assistance Fund would have to be repaid with interest if the applicant is not certified in the shortage field within three years after obtaining the loan or does not teach in an Indiana public school for at least three of the first five years after being certified. Three education commissions would be required to include one member from the business community under a bill forwarded to the Senate on a 7-1 vote The superintendent of public instruction serves as the chairman of the Commission on General Education, the Commission on Textbook Adoptions,

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and the Committee on Teacher Training and Licensing. The governor appoints the remaining six members of all three commissions. By law, four of those members must be employed in schools. There are no specific qualifications for the other tw ? o appointed positions. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Morris Mills, R-Indianapolis, originally would have required four educators and one member of the business community, with the remaining position open to the governor's discretion. The committee adopted a Mills amendment to change the composition of the commissions to three members from the educational community and one representative of business. The governor would still have

Newborn found near trash cans INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A whimpering baby boy found abandoned among some garbage cans in an alley on the city’s west side just hours after its birth is in stable condition at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, authorities say. A dog’s barking alerted its owner to the baby Thursday morning, whom officials said was born prematurely. Detectives were planning to go door-to-door in the neighborhood w here the baby was found for information. Cathy L. Gray, 15. heard her dog barking at 10 a m. and upon investigating, found the baby lying on the ground in the 35-degree weather near her backyard fence. Miss Gray said the naked infant had been placed near garbage cans and was covered with afterbirth when she discovered him. The baby weighed about 3' 2 pounds and was between a month and six weeks premature, authorities said. He may have been born elsewhere and then placed in the alley three to six hours before he was found, said Sharon K. Tomlin, an Indianapolis police juvenile detective.

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discretionary appointments. John Hammond, an executive assistant to Gov. Robert D. Orr, said the bill was meant to foster relations between industry and education and draw more pulbic support for the schools. “It’s time right now to make a statement,” he said. “I’m not sure requiring a specific designation (for business) is going to hurt the balancing at all.” The Roads and Transportation Comgiittee, meanwhile, voted 7-0 for a bill that would require the state sales tax to be included in the pump price of diesel fuel and other special fuels. Although that’s currently the law for gasoline, the sales tax is still figured separately on the advertised price of diesel and special fuels.

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