Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 123, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 January 1983 — Page 3

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ERNIE PYLE Revered journalist

General Assembly mood one of 'serious caution'

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The economic recession and the state’s recent tax increase already have influenced the 1983 Indiana General Assembly. Senate leaders say. “A feeling of seriousness and caution pervade the Legislature." said Senate Minority Leader Frank L. O Bannon, DCorydon. -* “There’s no question it’s a very serious, Somber mood,” said Senate President Pro Tern Robert D. Garton. R-Columbus. Senators have introduced 582 bills for consideration in this year’s 61-day session, compared with 506 bills in 1981 and 536 in 1979. During the 1982 General Assembly’s 30 session days, 450 bills were introduced. Garton and O’Bannon agree the primary issue this year is the budget a matter unlikely to be resolved until April, after lawmakers receive the latest economic forecast. Both say legislators are aware that money is tight, in spite of a $l.B billion package of tax increases and spending deferrals passed in a special session last month. “We know that we can’t do everything,” Garton said. O’Bannon said that even requests from special interest groups are down this year. “I think it’s the total attitude in society of hard times,” he said. He said lawmakers were well aware of what social and economic questions they must address in the next several years to get the state functioning again. “I think the severity of the economic recession has made this session more serious with more effort devoted to that problem than in a lot of other areas,” O’Bannon said. Gov. Robert D. Orr’s “State of the State” address urged lawmakers to work towards creating 800,000 jobs by the end of the decade. O’Bannon said the economic development bills would be “looked at very closely to make sure there’s some substance to them.” Democrats have proposed allocating SIOO million towards a six-month program to create 20,000 jobs by the end of 1983. O’Bannon expects utility reform to be the No. 2 issue of the session, with more than 45 pieces of utility related legislation introduced. O’Bannon says that other prominent issues include expansion of the banking system to allow cross-county banking; stiffening drunk driving laws;

Hoosier truckers will wait and see

By The Associated Press Truckers in Indiana say a strike by some independent haulers is not well organzined. while many of the state's motor carriers are being cautious and driving in convoys containing as many as eight rigs. The strike over highway tax increases began at 12:01 a.m. today. There have been no reports of violence or vandalism, or of truckers parking their rigs and leaving them. Reports from trucks stops varied. One worker in Taylorsville said business had slowed down, but another near Gary said it was business as usual. State Police Sergeant James L. Sears said police had increased their patrols and had drawn up special contingency plans to deal with emergencies. “We are not aware of anything happening yet," Sears said. “But we have more men out, especially in Lake County. You could do something there and be across the border in a few minutes” John H. Jarnecke, vice president of the 300-member In-

Ernie Pyle Home in Dana more than Hoosier landmark

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Further honors will be added to the memory of Hoosier journalist and columnist Ernie Pyle when a New York military installation is dedicated in his honor in late February, Evelyn Hobson told members of the Putnam County Historical Society which met Jan. 26 at the Double Decker. Mrs. Hobson is manager of the Ernie Pyle Museum, located in Dana in the restored home in which the Pulitzer Prize author was born Aug. 3,1910. BUILT IN THE 1850’S, Pyle’s birthplace is typical of many farm houses erected in the Midwest in the 19th century. In 1976, the home was moved from its Helt Township, Vermillion County, location to Dana through efforts of the Indiana Department of the American Legion, Mrs. Hobson said. After high school graduation, Pyle served a short term during World War I in the Naval Reserves. Enrolling in Indiana

and several versions of a proposed constitutional amendment to allow a state lottery. Garton dubbed the lottery “a painless way to extract taxes.” He said an outright tax increase is more honest, and more effective if you need money immediately. Even if the General Assembly approves the lottery' measure this year, it would have to be approved again by another Legislature and is unlikely to be implemented before 1987, Garton said. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here is the status of major legislation pending before the 1983 Indiana General Assembly: GAMBLING —SJR 7, would remove the constitutional ban on lotteries, approved by committee, pending in the Senate. —HB 1277, would legalize bingo, pending in House committee. UTILITIES —SB 455, would allow utilities to charge customers for the cost of building plants before they are completed and would require utilities to get permission from the Public Service Commission before building new plants or expanding old ones, pending in Senate committee. —HB 1231, would allow voters to elect members of the PSC, instead of having the governor appoint them, pending in House committee. —HB 1230, would limit utilities to no more than one rate increase per year with a maximum increase of 10 percent, pending in House committee. —HB 1387, would prohibit utilities from disconnecting service during the winter, pending in committee, pending in House committee. —HJR 21, would give the Legislature pow'er to confirm the governor’s appointees to the PSC, pending in House committee. DRUNKEN DRIVING —SB 171, provides stiffer penalties for drunken driving, including the immediate surrender of a driver’s license if a motorist fails or refuses to take a chemical test to determine blood alcohol level, approved by committee, pending in the Senate. —HB 1025, provides a mandatory fiveday jail term for first-time drunken drivers, pending in House committee. —HB 1189, provides for the impoundment of a car used by a drunken driver with two or more convictions, pending in House committee.

diana Chapter of the Independent Truckers Association, says 90 percent of the truckers will strike today. He adds truckers can pull their rigs from the road anytime today, allowing the drivers time to return home before parking their trucks. Most truckers said they would adopt a wait and see attitude today. “If 20 percent sit out and 80 drive, then I can’t sit at home. I’ve got a family to feed,” said independent operator Andy Paulasell at an Indianapolis truck stop. “It’s not well organized. Nobody knows what’s going down. We’ll run tonight and see what happens tomorrow.” Some drivers said they could be influenced. Bob Lutz of Indianapolis said he can’t afford to shutdown his rig and still feed his family. “If some guy came up to me and said: ‘lf you drive I’m going to put you in the hospital,’ then I would park the truck, get a few things out and take the bus home,” Lutz said. Heading home was an idea

University in 1919, he left school just six months short of graduation to embark on a journalistic career which brought him fame throughout the world. Beginning as a reporter on the LaPorte Herald, he moved on to Scripps-Howard newspapers to become managing editor of the Daily News, Washington, D.C. WITH THE COMING OF World War 11, he went to England to cover the Battle of

OPEN RECORDS —SB 40, would overhaul Indiana’s open records law, spelling out which records are confidential and that agencies have the burden of proving why a record shouldn’t be released. It also repeals the requirement that governmental units buy space in newspapers to publish their annual reports, passed the Senate, pending in House committee —HB 1082, nearly identical to SB 40, but doesn’t contain the legal advertising provision, eligible for final House vote. DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME —SB 110, would put Indiana on daylightsaving time, defeated in the Senate. DEATH PENALTY —HB 1316, would change the method of execution from electrocution to lethal injection, approved by committee, eligible for House vote. RIGHT TO DIE —SB 333, would enact a “right to die” bill which would allow doctors to disconnect life-support systems on request of a terminally ill patient or his family, pending in committee INFANT DOE —SB 418, would allow courts to intervene in cases where a handicapped child is being denied food and medical treatment, approved by committee, pending in the Senate. FISCAL —Three budget bills are in the works in the House Ways and Means Committee. They have not been assigned bill numbers. —HB 1022, would exempt utility bills and clothing from the state sales tax, pending in House committee. —HB 1383, would raise the personal exemption available for state income tax purposes, pending in House committee. —HB 1491, would permit local governments to impose a local-option sales tax of up to 1.5 percent, pending in House committee. BANKING —SB 134, would allow the creation of multi-bank holding companies, pending in Senate committee. EDUCATION —SB 404, would make teachers of math, science and other specialty subjects eligible to have up to SIO,OOO in college loans forgiven if they teach in public schools, pending in the Senate. —SB 579, would give the business community a seat on the state’s three major education commissions, pending in the Senate.

many drivers had in mind according to Teresa Gaskins, who was working the midnight shift at the Supra Fuel truck stop in Taylorville. “It seems like they’re all (the truckers) driving and not fueling,” said Miss Gaskins. “I think that’s because they want to get home. They’re driving in pairs. They’re afraid something might happen and they don’t want to get caught alone.” Miss Gaskins said business was slower than normal. “At least they haven’t blocked our pumps yet,” she said, referring to what happened the last time the truckers went out. In Gary, Frank McClure of Truck Stops of America said he saw no difference in the number of trucks on the road. “IPs business as usual,” McClure said. Independent truckers said the strike will last until Congress repeals the highway user fees. Jarnecke said the legislation, which includes the five-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax, will cost the

average independent more than $5,000 per year. Heavy -duty user fees will jump from $2lO to $1,600 during the first year of the tax. Many unionized truckers sympathized with the independent, but they are being urged not to join the shutdown. “We feel the shutdown is not really the proper vechicle to protest,” said John P. Schultz, a spokesman for the American Truckers Association. “The econom y doesn’t need any more damage. The 2,000-member Midwest Truckers Association is urging its members “to keep on trucking as long as the highways are safe,” said executive president Robert L. Jasmon. He explained that most of the taxes will not hit the big trucking firms until July, 1984 and the independents won’t feel the bite until July, 1985. That leaves plenty of time to lobby Congress for changes in the law, he said.

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Britain. Later with American involvement, he covered battle campaigns that took him from North Africa and Sicily to Anzio. He was at Normandy Beach on June 7, the day after D-Day, 1944. His last war assignment was in 1945 in the Pacific Theater of World War 11, where on April 18 of that year, he was killed by a Japanese sniper’s bullet.

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“At the time of his death.” said Mrs. Hobson, “Ernie Pyle’s readership was worldwide with his columns appearing in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers. Pyle wrote about the common man.” Pyle authored six books and was the subject of three biographies, and the motion picture, “The Story of G.I. Joe" was made from his writings. HONORARY DOCTOR OF Humane Let-

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ters Degrees were conferred on him by Indiana University and the University of New Mexico. I.U.’s School of Journalism was named on his honor. Other honors came from the army, navy and state departments, the American Legion and Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, which twice awarded him the Raymond Clapper Award for best war correspondent. Mrs. Hobson said that his books, which included in addition to his war experiences, “Home Country,” based on a five-year roving journey to all states, are now' out of print and she suggested that Historical Society members should be on the alert at yard and garage sales for these volumes. Her presentation here was accompanied by slides which covered the entire life of Pyle in pictures collected from many sources, including those from New Mexico, home for the author for some time.

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