Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 155, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 March 1984 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, March 7,1984

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Strike keeps Gary schools closed

;GARY, Ind. (AP) Classes were called off in Gary schools a- third da’ : xlay as teachers continued then strike. ;Gary Community School Corp. Superintendent Ernest Jones said classes at all of the cjty’s 43 public schools were canceled. He noted only 11 percent of the city’s 1,900 teachers and para-professionals showed up for work Tuesday. ?‘We do not have sufficient staff to open the schools,” he said. Gary public schools serve

Boy, 3, will testify in molestation trial

'EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Adjudge has decided to admit testimony from a 3-year-old boy at the trial of a man accused of molesting the child. 'Vanderburgh Circuit Jvige William Miller certified the child as competent to tes lfy at the trial of Michael A. Crowe, n -Crowe, an Evansville man i"

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-29,000 students. Several hundred teachers and their supporters filled a steel workers’ union hall Tuesday for a two-hour rally, said Sandra Irons, president of the Gary teachers union. The strike began Monday after contract talks broke down between the union and the school board’s negotiating committee. Teachers union leaders say salaries and class size are the chief stumbling blocks. The union is seeking a 9 per-

stationed with the U.S. Navy in Maryland, is charged with molesting the youth last summer. He is free on SI,OOO bond. State law holds that children under 10 are presumed incompetent to serve as witnesses unless a judge rules otherwise, and Miller’s ruling surprised some prosecutors. ‘‘Three is kind of young,” said

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cent pay raise. Jones said the school board has offered a 4 percent pay raise and a 2 percent increase paid into employee insurance. Starting pay for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree is $13,600 with top scale for a teacher with a doctorate $25,000. Mrs. Irons said the union sent a telegram to the school board requesting a re-opening of contrcat talks. Jones said the five-

Steve Johnson of the Indiana Prosecuting Attorney’s Council. “But I know the appelate courts have upheld witnesses as young as 4.” Vanderburgh Deputy Prosecutor Mark Foster said the child was a good witness who remembered events clearly and understood his obligation to tell the truth.

Professor awaits trial

LONDON (AP) - A date will scheduled April 2 for the murder trial of Ball State University Professor Jerry L. Kasparek, London officials say. Kasparek, 44, formerly director of Ball State’s London Centre, was arrested Jan. 26 after his wife, Carol, 42, was found dead in their London apartment. Authorities said she was

member school board was considering the request. Mrs. Irons said teachers would continue to picket the schools. Police say there have been several scuffles on the picket lines but no injuries or serious incidents. One teacher was arrested by police Tuesday after a scuffle with a guard at Carver Elementary School, said Mrs. Irons, but no charges were filed.

“It all depends on the individual child,” he said. “There could be other cases where a 6or 7-year-old might not be certified.” Miller based his ruling on a Feb. 24 hearing at which he questioned the boy. Crowe is scheduled to stand trial April 4.

strangled. London officials said Kasparek is to appear in Marylebone magistrate’s court April 2 for the setting of a trial date. The trial will be in London’s criminal court, the Old Bailey. Kasparek was granted $90,000 bail Feb. 9 and was freed the next day from Brixton Prison.

Fugitive killed in Tennessee MARION, N.C. (AP) - One of two escaped Tennessee convicts who vowed not to be taken alive was shot and killed this morning after wounding a state trooper, officials said. Ronald Lee Freeman, 41, a convicted double murderer, was killed, according to Forest City Police Chief Tom McDevitt and Russ Edmenston, a spokesman for the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Earlier, Maj. D.R. Emory, director of administrative services for the state Highway Patrol in Raleigh, had incorrectly identified the slain inmate as the other of the two escapees, James Clegg. State Trooper Larry Carver was shot in the shoulder, Emory said. About 60 police officers were looking for Clegg in a threeblock residential area of Marion, a town in McDowell County, McDevitt said. McDevitt said Freeman was killed in an abandoned house about half-a-mile from a house where a break-in had been reported earlier.

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Battle now for future: Mondale

Hart wins in Vermont

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Gary Hart has completed an astonishing week with a better than three-to-one win over Walter Mondale in Vermont’s Democratic presidential primary. Hart, whose campaign snowballed through northern New England in the past week, captured 71 percent of the vote in Vermont’s non-binding primary Tuesday. He won the Maine caucuses on Sunday and

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Democrats await 'Super Tuesday'

By EVANS WITT AP Political Writer ATLANTA (AP) Walter Mondale likely will go into the crucial confrontations of next week’s “Super Tuesday” having lo6t four straight to Gary Hart, and what happens then will say more about who will be the Democratic presidential nominee than a Vermont beauty contest or Wyoming caucus The key question over the next week is whether Hart’s wins will translate into irresistible momentum for the Colorado senator or whether the 11 primaries and caucuses will give Mondale the victories his campaign desperately needs. Mondale admits upfront that he is in trouble, that losses in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont have hurt even though Vermont’s primary on Tuesday was an essentially meaningless beauty contest. And his staff expects Hart will win the Wyoming caucuses Saturday. But they argue the damage has been done already. “We’ve absorbed all the damage we expect to take, mainly from New Hampshire and Maine,” said Maxine Isaacs, Mondale’s press secretary. Unsurprisingly, the Hart staff takes the opposite view, saying the momentum will overcome Hart’s lack of organization and campaign time spent in the South Florida, Georgia and Alabama. They are even starting to talk about running against President Reagan in the November election. On the Vermont primary, the two campaigns have opposite views as well. At a news conference in Tampa, Fla., Mondale said he knew he was going to lose even before the votes were counted. “It was not a case where we were really involved. I understand the senator was very heavily involved there,” he said. Oliver Henkle, Hart’s campaign manager, said such a view “flies in the face of reality.” But it is Tuesday, March 13 that will really shape the race for the nomination. A total of 511 pledged delegates will be at stake in nine state primaries and caucuses more than five times all those in lowa, New Hasmphire, Maine, Vermont and Wyoming. And it is after all delegates who select a nominee.

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the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 28. Mondale, once the frontrunner, looked south for his comeback, campaigning today in Georgia, Alabama and Florida three of the nine states holding Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses on “Super Tuesday” next week. “This is not just a horserace,” Mondale said Tuesday night in Tampa, Fla. “This has

become a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party and the future of our country.” Although no delegates were at stake in Vermont and the outcome was mainly symbolic, the depth of Hart’s victory was dramatic. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had 5,677 for 8 percent. By failing to gain 10 percent of the vote for the second straight primary, Jackson now faces the prospect

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Mondale and Hart and their campaigns now are involved in a complicated match-up in trying to set expectations. Hart wants to look like a winner, keep the momentum going and roll on to San Francisco in July as the nominee. But he doesn’t want to be the “front-runner,” where losses are potentially devastating. Mondale’s aides seem to genuinely believe they are in deep trouble. But there is some evidence to the contrary: A new poll in Florida put Mondale substantially ahead of Hart. However, as one Mondale aide said, “We’ve seen 28 point margins evaporate overnight.” Winners can turn into losers overnight just ask Mondale. And losers into winners look at Hart. And March 13 is probably going to decide a great deal about who is a winner and who is a loser in the race for the Democratic nomination.

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of losing federal matching campaign money in 30 days. To regain eligiblity for federal money, he must win 20 percent in an upcoming state contest. Ohio Sen. John Glenn and former Sen. George McGovern weren’t on the ballot in Vermont. Glenn kept up a southern campaign schedule while McGovern remained in Massachusetts, where Democrats also hold their primary Tuesday.

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