Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 177, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 April 1984 — Page 3

The boys of spring, perhaps? What better place could there be for talking baseball on a mild spring afternoon than the roof of a baseball dugout? That's precisely where (from left) Jeff Witty, 13, and cousins Mike, 15, and Scott Witty, 11, are perched Sunday, making their restful home atop the Bainbridge Little League diamond dugout. Jeff is the son of Ron and Gerry Witty, Indianapolis, while Mike and Scott are the sons of Tom and Nancy Witty, Bainbridge. Monday, of course, is opening day for major league baseball. (BannerGraphic photo by Bob Frazier).

125 of 150 legislative seats up for nomination in primary

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - All 100 Indiana House seats and 25 of the 50 Senate seats will be up for election this fall, but 70 incumbents seeking renomination to the Legislature have no opposition in the state’s May 8 primary. The primary will determine the Democratic and Republican slates for the general election in NoV&mber. In the Senate, 17 incumbents are running uncontested races for renomination. In the House, the figure is 53. Among them are House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey, R-Muncie; House Majority Leader Richard M. Dellinger, R-Noblesville; and House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville. And in 15 Senate districts and 43 House districts, there will be no nomination contest in either

Kerr Glass to lay off 320 workers DUNKIRK, Ind. (AP) —Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp.’s plant here is operating with about 320 fewer workers this week. Friday was the first day of layoffs for the 580 workers at the glass container manufacturing plant in this Jay County town of 3,180. One glass furnace was scheduled to be drained today. One furnace will remain in operation. But the exact number of workers affected by the layoff Won’t be known until later this year. Dewey Neal, president of Jjocal 121 of the Glass, Plastics, Pottery and Allied Workers International Union, said a Worker would need about 17 years of seniority at the plant to keep his job. ;'“But it will be about July 31 Until we’ll really be able to get a pencil out and draw a line,” Neal said. I-Workers who have yet to decide on retirement and vacations will affect the number of workers left at the plant until then, Neal said. I Company officials, who anhouced the furnace shutdown in February blamed the move on depressed prices of ambercolored beer bottles, Kerr’s • major production item in recent years. They said the plant would continue to produce flint, or clear, glass containers. Layoffs and furnace closings at Kerr have reduced the plant’s production capacity from 19 machines and four furnaces in 1980 to the one furnace and four machines expected to be running after Monday “It will affect about 50 of us,” Neal said. It’s going to take a pretty good whack out of us

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party. The candidates listed on the primary ballot in those districts will automatically be the nominees for the general election. The Democrats don’t have candidates in 21 House and Senate districts, while there are no Republicans on the primary ballot in 8 legislative districts. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that those parties won’t have nominees on the ballot in the fall. Party leaders can fill in the gaps of their tickets later in the year Ten incumbents seven Republicans and three Democrats won’t be seeking re-electibn to their old seats. Six retired from the Indiana General Assembly: Sens. John M. Guy, R-Monticello, and Lillian M. Parent, R-Danville; and Reps. Norman L. Gerig, R-

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Auburn; Nelson J. Becker, RLogansport; Bruce Shuck, DKokomo; and Craig B. Campbell, D-Anderson. Three are seeking other offices. Rep. James Jontz, DBrookston, is running for Guy’s seat in the Senate. Rep. Richard Thompson, R-North Salem, is after the Senate seat vacated by Mrs. Parent. Rep. Richard Mclntyre, R-Bedford, is seeking the GOP congressional nomination in the Bth District. Rep. Doris Dorbecker, RIndianapolis, died in March after announcing she would not seek re-election because of ill health. The primary in House District 31, a two-member district in central Indiana, is drawing interest because of the party switch of Rep. P. Eric Turner.

Design flaw may actually aid Marble Hill changes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A design fault in two key buildings at the mothballed Marble Hill nuclear plant could fuel arguments of those wanting to convert the facility to a coalburning plant. Any resumption of nuclear construction would require that the steel problem be fully corrected before the plant could be approved for an operating license. A New York consulting firm hired by Marble Hill’s partial owner, the Wabash Valley Power Association, has concluded that converting the uncompleted nuclear plant to a coal-fired facility would be economically feasible. Despite Public Service Indiana’s abandonment of the plant, Wabash Valley is considering whether to complete a power plant at the Marble Hill site and whether that plant should be a coal or nuclear facility. Wabash Valley General Manager Edward P. Martin

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on the utility’s decision in January to bow out of the project. An NRC inspection found that steel beams and connections in two buildings at Marble Hill did not meet federal earthquake standards required of new nuclear plants. Correcting the fault would have been costly and set the construction schedule back significantly, NRC spokesman Jan Strasma said. “I understand that this was one of the factors why PSI elected to halt the project. It was both too much time and additional money,” Strasma said. Replacing or repairing those beams and connections in the auxiliary and containment buildings would have meant a large increase in the estimated cost of the project, Strasma said. But PSI spokeswoman Julie Van Utt said that strengthening, not retrofitting, was required to correct the flaw.

April 2,1984, The Putnam County Banner-Graphic

Motive behind fatal attack on

ex-sheriff eyed

SALEM, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say they don’t know what prompted the fatal shooting of a former Washington County sheriff, Clyde Nichols Jr. Nichols was killed in front of his family as they left church Sunday. His alleged assailant, Arthur C. Whitt, 51, of Salem, was taken into custody and held without bond in the Washington County jail on a murder charge, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Trent Thompson said. Thompson said he did not know what prompted the shooting. Prosecutor John W. Mead would not disclose any information about a possible motive. Nichols, 47, of Salem was shot once in the abdomen, neck and shoulder with a .25-caliber automatic pistol, Thompson said. Whitt was apprehended by state police Det. Charles W. Mead, an usher at the Salen United Methodist Church Nichols attended. Mead said he talked with Nichols after services. He said Nichols and his family walked about 30 yards from the church before Whitt stepped from his automobile and walked to within 10 feet of Nichols ‘‘As I was stepping off the curb, I heard ‘bang, bang, bang,”’ said the policeman. “I turned and looked and just as I looked, Clyde fell to the street. “I saw the suspect standing in

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the same area,” said Mead. “He was leaning over, and it looked like he was laying something over him (Nichols).” Mead said he then went to his car, called over his police radio for an ambulance and drove over to the scene. Mead said the suspect raised his hands and surrendered. “He kept saying, ‘l’ve got my rights. I’ve got my rights,’” said Mead. Prosecutor Mead said he interviewed the Nichols family about what occurred just before the shooting. “They said nothing was said,” the prosecutor said. “They were walking towards their car when the suspect pulled a gun out of his pants’ pocket and shot him.” Nichols was taken by ambulance to Washington County Memorial Hospital in Salem where he died soon after his arrival, said Washington County Coroner F. Dan Kelly. Whitt was expected to be arraigned today before Washington Circuit Court Judge Robert Bennett, Thompson said. Thompson said he didn't know any details of Whitt’s past, but Prosecutor Mead said he believes the alleged assailant has a criminal record. “I know he (Whitt) has some convictions,” the prosecutor said. “I’m not sure what they are. To my knowledge, he hasn’t been in any trouble the last couple of years.”

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