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By selling the most Reelsville Elementary School Fall Festival tickets, the fourth-grade class of David Flora (above) won a home computer for the classroom. Members of the class include (front, from left) Krista Hood, Tina Williams and Jimmy Torrence and (back from left) Kristi Williams, Alex Truax, Debra Scaggs, Angela Hutcheson, Julie Berry, Andrea Anderson, Amber Strough, Amy Strough, Melanie Query, Stacia McKinney, Chad Wilson and Flora. The Reelsville king and queen were also picked Friday with Steve Blaydes (left), 11-year-old son of Sharon and Steven Blaydes, and Krista Hood, 11-year-old daughter of Karen and John Hood, reigning. They are both students in Helen Martin's sixth-grade class. (Banner-Graphic photos by Barbara Carhart).
Only his sculptor knows for sure if face is Clark's VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) The face on the bronze statue is a strong one handsome, aristocratic, brash, fearless. At the age of 27, George Rogers Clark was all of that and more. He had just routed a British detachment at Fort Sackville near what is now Vincennes and claimed the old northwest territory for the fledgling nation that was the United States of America. It was the highlight of Clark’s life. He would fall from favor, retire from the Army and eventually move to Louisville to live with his sister. He died an alcoholic. During his youth, though, Clark was the embodiment of the young American spirit, and the statue at the Clark Memorial in Vincennes shows that. Or, at least it shows someone handsome, aristocratic, brash and fearless. Those same qualities could apply to one Paul V. McNutt, 34th governor of Indiana. In fact, that face on the statue could very well be McNutt’s. The only person who would know for sure is Hermon A. Mac Neil, the New York sculptor selected to form the eightfoot, 10-inch statue. His work was finished in the fall of 1934, and the statue was placed in the rotunda Dec. 7 of that year. Mac Neil, however, had one serious problem in sculpting the statue. There are only four known portraits of Clark, and all depicted him in later life. According to Gus Stevens, director of the Lewis Historical Collections Library at Vincennes University, Clark may have posed for only one of those portraits. “There are no pictures of Clark as a young man,” Stevens said. The statue shows a strong, handsome young man with an aquiline some would say large nose. Just like McNutt. Shirley McCord, with the Indiana Historical Bureau, has seen the Clark statue and portraits of McNutt, governor from 1933-37. “When I saw the statue at the Clark Memorial, I never thought of Gov. McNutt,” Ms. McCord said in a telephone interview. Just to refresh her memory, she glanced at pictures of the two side-by-side. “Now that you mention it, the facial lines are similar,” she admitted. Legend has it that Mac Neil, lacking a likeness of the young Clark, used McNutt as a model for the statue. Mac Neil and McNutt are both dead. “That is the tradition,” said Stevens. “But I couldn’t document it if I had to. It does kind of favor McNutt, though.” If the statue of Clark does not picture the young frontiersman, then there is also something else lacking at the memorial. When it was built, the marble structure included a crypt in the basement when; Clark’s remains were to be placed after their removal from his burial place near Louisville.
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'Couldn't sit idly by/U.N. ambassador says
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The United States worked within international law and also managed to uphold its security interests when it sent troops to Grenada, United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick said. Mrs. Kirkpatrick said Americans responded to “the absence of any minimally responsible government” and law and order in Grenada, a “clear and present danger to U.S. nationals” living there, and a formal request by “a legally constituted regional security group,” the
Tax-dollar bailout of Marble Hill project only a last resort: Orr aide
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosier taxpayers won’t be asked to bail out Public Service Indiana unless the utility, its investors and customers share the load, an aide to Gov. Robert D. Orr says. Press secretary Mark Lubbers said a state-aided rescue of PSI is “not a likelihood” although it is an option being considered by the task force studying financing of the Marble Hill nuclear power plant being built near Madison. “I need to emphasize I don’t know the extent to which that option (state financial assistance) is being considered because the task force is working with the cards held close to their vests, for good reasons,” he said in an interview. And he stressed that tax money would only be used as a last resort and after full participation by everyone else connected with the project. “The only time taxpayers of this state would become involved is if everybody was involved, the company, the management, the stockholders, the consumers, the bondholders, everybody,” Lubbers said. “It is an absolute impossibility that the state would bear the full responsibility of saving the utility or the plant. That will never happen.” Lubbers was responding to a statement by Rep. James Jontz, D-Brookston, that he had heard rumors about a bailout for PSl’s Marble Hill plant. Indiana’s largest eiec-
Organization of East Carribean States, by sending troops to the Caribbean country. She said “virtually a unique combination of circumstances” justified intervention, “wholly consistent with international law.” “I certainly will not call it an invasion,” she told the Economic Club of Indianapolis Friday. She said the reasons for intervention were “very real and very compelling” and “had absolutely nothing to do with gunboat diplomacy,” although “we were able to enhance our own
trie utility announced last week it was sharply curtailing construction to conserve its resources. It said that will delay construction two years and push the cost to $7 billion. “It is my fear that unless the public speaks out, ratepayers or perhaps even taxpayers on a statewide basis will soon be asked to pay for a massive bailout of the Marble Hill plant,” said Jontz. Lubbers cautioned that the solution to the Marble Hill dilemma will inevitably affect more than just customers of PSI. “There isn’t any queston at all that every electric utility customer and taxpayer, for that matter is affected by what happens at Marble Hill. On one front, with respect to power consumption, we are entering an era in which we need to think about generating capacity on a statewide basis,” he said. “It’s clear the No.l reason for rate increases is paying for plant and equipment, particularly new plant and equipment. If you don’t have Marble Hill 25 years from now assuming you want to build it they’re going to have to build other power plants in Indiana,” he said. Another consideration, Lubbers said, is what the state’s decision on Marble Hill says about Indiana’s ability to attract new industry and jobs.
Personalities, local issues to affect Tuesday turnout
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Turnout for Tuesday’s municipal elections in Indiana may hinge on candidate personalities and local concerns, according to some observers. “Party lines get very blurred at the local level,” said Michael J. Quinn, executive director of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. “You don’t have Democrat-Republican issues at the local level. You have many strong organizations going against each other. You don’t have philosophical debate at the local level. “If you’ve got good, articulate people and some vision and the ability to articulate that, and some good, hard issues, that gets interest up,” Quinn said, adding that “96.8 percent of all the mayors are conservative.” Wes Bucher, secretary of the Indiana Republican State Committee, agreed that when there is no overriding local issue unaddressed by the current administration, “the real tenor of the campaign forms around the personalities of the candidates. “The key in a local election is
6,000 Hoosiers back at work
State jobless rate now at 8.9 %
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than 6,000 Indiana workers returned to their jobs in September, helping to push the state’s unemployment rate down to 8.9 percent, the Employment Security Division reports. It was the eighth straight month of decline in the seasonally unadjusted jobless rate. The national unemployment rate in September was 8.8 percent. Still, 226,500 Hoosiers were without work in September, compared with 232,600 or 9.1 percent in August, the division said. The flip side is that 2.32 million Hoosiers were working. Kosciusko County in northern Indiana had the state’s lowest
security in the process.” Mrs. Kirkpatrick said that after the coup in Grenada, in which adversaries were murdered “in cold blood, it was wholly reasonable to conclude these madmen might decide to hold hostage the 1,000-some U.S. nationals. “There was some evidence that was being considered. The coup leaders, it was clear, had no arguable claim to being a responsible government. ’ ’ The ambassador noted that U.S. officials didn’t want a repeat of the 1981 Iranian hostage crisis.
“There are an awful lot of people, particularly in the business community, who say the possibility of torpedoing Public Service Indiana negatively affects that business climate in the state, not only in the PSI service area,” he said. “I don’t know where the governor is going to come down on that question, but it is a debatable point. I simply point these things out because utility consumers in other utility areas need to be thinking about that question.” In theory, the possible range of financial assistance could include a grant, a direct loan or a loan guarantee. “I think a grant would be out of the question,” Lubbers said. “A grant seems to me to be crazy because we’re talking about financing another $5 billion in investment. That’s one-third of the state budget. That’s not going to happen.” Lubbers downplayed the likelihood of a loan guarantee. “I think the concept of a guarantee may be stretching it.” As for a loan, he said there “would certainly have to be something conceptually like the state borrowing on behalf of the plant, putting the full faith and credit of the state on behalf of the construction.” He noted that such an arrangement probably is unconstitutional.
you want to feel the candidate is a competent person, can solve problems, listens and understands your concerns and has the same values you hold.” Municipal elections today “are based more on personality than on party lines,” Democratic State Chairman Jerry Miller said. “ I don’t think that’s a change.” Bucher predicted voter turnout Tuesday will be greater than in 1979. “I think you’ll see the numbers percentage-wise from lows of 45 to 50 percent and in some cases upwards to 90 percent.” Quinn added that his “very unscientific” opinion is that there appears to be more in-
unemployment rate: 4.5 percent. The highest rate was 18.4 percent in Ohio County in southern Indiana. The unemployment rate was lower than 10 percent in 69 of the state’s 92 counties in September, compared with 65 in August. Eight of the state’s 13 metropolitan areas had lower unemployment rates in September compared with August, with Anderson and Evansville reflecting the most significant decreases. The state said the 1.3 percent drop in Anderson resulted from gains in the durable goods sector. A rise in automobile sales and resulting low inventories encouraged recalls in tran-
“We could hardly be expected to sit idly by while the lives of our citizens were threatened.” Some critics have said the U.S. action was no better than the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, Communist suppression in Poland, or Vietnam. Mrs. Kirkpatrick said the difference would be seen when the United States follows through on its intentions to “restore the rule of law and democratic selfgovernment” and then steps out. “Half of the Americans will be gone by the end of today,”
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terest. “There’s far more focus on economic issues, jobs, plant closings and getting new industry and business in communities,” he said. “I think the standard meat and pototoes issues, roads and street repairs, trash pickup, public safety related issues, are still there and will be there. “What is there and what is new is economic, jobs, businessrelated expansion, which seems to be a far more prevalent issue than before.” Although there’s no way to estimate a state turnout for muncipal elections, Miller predicts overall normal turnout and high numbers in areas with
sportation equipment manufacturing, the division said. Another factor influencing Anderson employment gains was late-summer hiring in the canning industry and the return of workers to educational institutions at the beginning of the school year. In Evansville, which also experienced a 1.3 percent drop, the fabricated metals and refrigerator and airconditioning equipment industries accounted for the major portion of the employment gains. Here is how the metropolitan areas fared in September, with August’s unemployment rate listed next. —Anderson, 8.7 percent, 10.0
she said. About an hour before Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s speech 40 demonstrators picketed outside the Indiana Convention Center. Carrying signs reading “U.S. out of Grenada now,” “Money for jobs, not war,” and “Keep us in the U.N. but kick Kirkpatrick out,” the group dispersed before her speech began. The welcome was warmer inside as Mrs. Kirkpatrick was made a “Sagamore of the Wabash” by Gov. Robert D. Orr, who learned her husband, Evron, is a native of Raub in western Indiana.
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“spirited contests.” Mayoral races in Richmond, Muncie, Bloomington, Columbus, Martinsville, New Albany, Brazil, Logansport and Shelbyville could be close, Quinn said, adding that he also will be eyeing the Evansville and Fort Wayne races because both involve major cities and “both of the incumbent mayors have been mentioned as rising stars of their party.” Quinn said an interesting aspect of Tuesday’s election is the affect it could have on the current split of 62 Democratic and 53 Republican mayors. Between 1975 and 1979, there were 77 Democratic mayors and 38 Republicans.
percent. —Bloomington, 6.1 percent, 7.0 percent. —Elkhart, 6.4 percent, 6.0 percent. —Evansville, 8.6 percent, 9.9 percent. —Fort Wayne, 9.6 percent, 9.5 percent. —Gary-Hammond-East Chicago, 12.9 percent, 12.9 percent. —lndianapolis, 8.2 percent, 8.2 percent. —Kokomo, 8.0 percent. 9.0 percent. Lafayette, 5.8 percent, 6.4 percent. —Muncie, 9.4 percent, 9.7 percent. —Terre Haute, 10.1 percent, 10.6 percent.
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JEANE KIRKPATRICK Defends U.S. stance
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