Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 174, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1983 — Page 3

Infant Doe, mumps vaccine bills nearer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) are spending part of the day in session and part in conference committee today aj they moved closer to the end of the 1983 session. Today is the 58th day in the 61-day session. The Legislature was in recess Wednesday as lawmakers worked to resolve differences between House and Senate bills through fourm'ember conference committees. The Infant Doe bill and a measure that would require students to be immunized for mumps are among bills agreed on in conference committees so far. The Infant Doe bill was restored to the original Senate-passed version, which spells out that handicapped children cannot be denied food or medical care that would normally be given other children. Senate Bill 418 stipulates that a juvenile court can intervene when a handicapped child is being denied care that would be given a nonhandicapped child under similar circumstances. Indiana law already gives courts power to intervene when a child is deprived of the necessities of life.

Ex-mayor gets 5 years for bribery

BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - The attorney for former Seymour Mayor Christopher D. Moritz, who has been sentenced to five years in prison for bribery, says he will file an appeal bond soon to try to get Moritz released from prison during the appeal. Lawrence Circuit Court Judge Linda L. Chezem rejected pleas Wednesday for a twoyear suspended sentence and community service restitution for the 71-year-old, two-term Democratic mayor. “I can’t place this man in community service. He’s had a chance at community service. He’s blown that opportunity,” she said. She sentenced him to five years on each of four counts of bribery, with the sentences to run concurrently. wmoritz resigned as mayor Tuesday. He was seeking reelection this year until he was convicted March 5 on four of six counts of bribery for accepting $2;900 in kickbacks from chemical salesman Leo Trimpe in-December 1979 in exchange

McCarty campaign focuses on jobs

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The measure was prompted by the death of last year of a Bloomington infant born with Down’s syndrome and a deformed esophagus. The child died after a judge ruled the parents could follow doctors’ advice to withhold treatment. The conference committee deleted a Housepassed amendment sponsored by Rep. John Day, D-Indianapolis, to extend Medicaid coverage to include prenatal care for lowincome women pregnant with their first child. Day estimated the provision, which passed the House 62-31, would cost the state $385,000 to cover an estimated 2,000 eligible women. “This is the law in 36 states. We are the only state in the north without it,” he said. “We want every child to have a healthy start in life.” Currently, Medicaid reimburses pregnant women for delivery costs and care during the last three months of pregnancy, he said. Day said care at state hospitals for children born with birth defects costs $20,000 to $30,000 a year per child. Day said his amendment was “cost-effective

for purchases from an Indianapolis chemical company. He was acquitted of taking about $1,900 in kickbacks in May 1980. Moritz remained emotionless as the judge announced the sentence. Afterward, his wife, Marian, wept loudly and embraced her husband for several minutes. Moritz was escorted from the courtroom by three sheriff’s deputies for transfer to the Indiana Department of Correction’s reception and diagnostic center at Plainfield. The judge also barred Moritz

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - The 1984 Indiana race for governor will revolve around the candidates’ inventiveness in curing the state’s desperate unemployment problem, says former U.S. Attorney Virginia Dill McCarty, an undeclared candidate for governor. “Jobs, jobs and jobs,” will be the major issue in the race, Mrs. McCarty predicted. “There are workers with 15 years seniority now living in school buses because their homes have been foreclosed. “The race will focus on our inventiveness and imagination to get Indiana out of this desperate

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from holding public office for 10 years the maximum time allowed under law and fined him $5,800, double the amount of the bribe. During the day-long sentencing hearing here, Moritz’ attorney Kenneth Layton called to the witness stand several community leaders and city officials to testify that Moritz’ advice and help would be missed. They said Moritz was needed to help plan the community’s Octoberfest, war veterans’ parades and city recreational events. Moritz’ wife and daughter

situation.” Although Mrs. McCarty, now association with an Indianapolis law firm, has not formally entered the race, Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D-Ind., announced in January formation of the McCarty for Governor Committee. Mrs. McCarty recently has been visiting potential political supporters. “Indiana has the sixth highest unemployment rate in the nation,” she said in an appearance here Tuesday. “And in Fort Wayne, people are very much concerned about what will happen as International Harvester closes and 4,000

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many times over.” But the Department of Public Welfare estimates the bill would cost $19.4 million to cover an estimated 8,000 women. Sen. James R. Butcher, R-Kokomo, Senate sponsor of the Infant Doe bill, said Day’s amendment might “cut down on the potential Baby Doe situations” but questioned whether lawmakers would think the immediate cost of the amendment was worth the long-term good. Butcher said the bill was controversial enough without the amendment. Conference committee members Sen. Allie Craycraft, DSelma, and Reps. Gene Leeuw, R-Indianapolis, and Sheila Klinker, D-Lafayette, agreed. “My guess is this bill is a dead duck if this (Medicaid amendment) is in this,” Leeuw said. Day also tried unsuccessfully to add the Medicaid amendment to a bill requiring elementary school children to be vaccinated against mumps. The conference committee chairman, Sen. John Sinks, R-Fort Wayne, said he would prefer the amendment be left out of the vaccination bill, SB 543.

also said he was a stabilizing force in their family. Mrs. Moritz said, “I don’t know what I’d do without him. She said she doesn’t know how she can cope financially because her and Moritz’ Social Security would be about S6OO less than their monthly bills. She added she could not find a job to make up the difference, and they will have to sell their home even if he doesn’t go to prison. Their daughter, Nancy Hammond, said she was worried about her mother’s health. “It would be pretty rough on her.”

workers are thrown onto the unemployment rolls. “I do not personally think hitech is the answer to the state’s unemployment problems. There are too many states chasing hi-tech, which does not provide jobs for that long.” Mrs. McCarty, who lost her bid for attorney general by 34,000 votes out of two million cast, said she still is learning and getting a feel for issues while speaking to various civic and political groups. Although she did not outline any programs with solutions, she said the answer will likely involve a team approach

The committee deleted a House-added provision that would have required college students born after Dec. 31, 1956, to be immunized or to have had measles before being admitted. Representatives of Indiana and Purdue universities spoke against the measure, arguing it was too broad, would increase administrative burdens and require students taking correspondence courses away from campus to comply also. The committee added a provision suggested by Rep. James Jontz, D-Brookston, that would require students in fifth through ninth grades to be tested for posture defects. Another conference committee approved SB 575, which would give financial aid to retrain teachers to become math and science instructors. The committee deleted a provision which would make the bill apply to private school teachers. The committee version of the bill would apply only to public school teachers. Once signed by each member of the committee, the conference committee reports advance to the House and Senate

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