Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 211, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 May 1984 — Page 2

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Enthusiasm for giant Purdue mascot is petering out LAl< AYETTE, Ind. (AP) There’s little enthusiasm from school and civic leaders for a developer’s plan to erect a 50foot statue of university mascot Purdue Pete outside a hotel. Robert Calloway wants to erect in front of his hotel the barrel-chested mascot with the oversized head, a box hat and a sledgehammer he waves menacingly at opposing teams. People would come from all over to see this thing,” Calloway said. The six-ton fiberglass figure might become a tourist attraction to rival the statue of Paul Bunyan at Bemidji, Minn.; the 60-foot praying hands at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., or the 48-foot Jolly Green Giant at Blue Earth, Minn., said Calloway. He bought an unsuccessful Ramada Inn near 1-65 and plans to rename it Boilermaker Inn and give it a Purdue theme throughout. Purdue officials are against anyone using a school symbol to advertise a business. And the Area Plan Commission thinks the statue would be “garish” and create an unwanted “carnival atmosphere.” A commission report states , “Granted, tourists may come to gawk, but the staff feels this kind of garish display is unlikely to be found attractive to sophisticated, high-tech and multinational corporations this community is trying to attract.” Calloway argues that his sign would be just one more among the hundreds of neon enticements already in place in the area along the interstate. While the issue is unsettled, Calloway said he is thinking of taking his big brainchild elsewhere. “I’m sure I could go somewhere in Indiana and get this thing subsidized. You’d be surprised how many people would come here to see the world’s largest man.”

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The Nation Responds' New education report celebrates 'tidal wave of reform'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan and his education advisers, who warned a year ago about the “rising tide of mediocrity” in American schools, today celebrated the steps taken in virtually every state to reverse that tide. Reagan was meeting with members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education today and then speaking in the Rose Garden before 60 high school winners of his new “Presidential Academic Fitness Awards” honors for B-plus students akin to the kudos for physical fitness. Education Secretary T.H.

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Bell released a 229-page report, “The Nation Responds,” listing efforts by states, local schools, colleges and businesses over the past 12 months to raise school standards. Bell said two weeks ago, on the actual anniversary of the commission’s “A Nation At Risk” report, that the rising tide of mediocrity had turned into “a tidal wave of reform, unprecedented in its breadth and support, that promises to restore excellence as the hallmark of American education.” At a news conference called to release the new report, Bell

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predicted that there will be “a slight upward glitch” in College Board scores this year and that within five years the average score will back near the level that prevailed before a long decline started two decades ago. Bell said it was “enormously significant” that 34 states and the District of Columbia have moved recently to raise their high school graduation standards, and Wtither states are weighing tougher diploma requirements. An Education Department chart listed only Hawaii, lowa and Massachusetts as having taken no such

Reagan rules out abolition of mortgage interest deduction

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan has ruled out any move to abolish the tax deduction for mortgage interest payments and says the government will look elsewhere for ways to narrow the massive budget deficit. “In case there’s any doubt, I want you to know we will preserve that part of the American dream which the home mortgage interest deduction symbolizes,” Reagan said Thursday to 4,000 delegates to a convention of the National Association of Realtors. And White House spokesman Larry Speakes, asked if

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steps. He said that 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted or are considering curriculum reforms, while 21 states have moved or are considering steps to require more time spent in class and, in some cases, longer school years. Bell urged a renewed emphasis on teaching foreign languages, which he called the area with “the biggest gap between what is and what ought to be.” “The Nation Responds” is six times longer than the pithy, punchy report the commission issued last April.

Reagan’s statement left any room for elimination of the mortgage interest deduction, replied: “There’s no wiggle room in there, no weasel room.” The mortgage interest deduction is one of the nation’s most popular tax benefits, making it possible for millions of Americans to afford increasingly expensive housing. Its elimination, however, would mean an additional $23 billion for the federal government. In a panel discussion in Dallas on April 12, Reagan told housing industry leaders that he wanted officials examining the

Blame government for fallout damage

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In the first ruling to hold the U.S. government responsible for fallout damage from atomic testing, a judge condemned the failure to give simple advice like “wash everything” to people who later suffered cancer. The decision, arising from above-ground nuclear blasts at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1962, ordered the government to pay $2.1 million in nine cancer cases. Damages in a 10th are to be decided later. The ruling also is expected to set a precedent for settling hundreds of other claims of radiation-induced cancer. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins found the government negligent, rejecting arguments that monitoring was sufficient and that all precautions known by the early 1950 sto be necessary were taken. Instead, he said, government publications were “consistently heavy with confident reassurances” that the fallout dissipated as it moved downwind. One pamphlet showed a

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tax code to “study everything that can be done,” even the possibility “of taxation aimed at something different than income.” On Thursday, however, he said interpretations of his comments suggesting that he might try to drop the mortgage interest deduction were “just another example of someone trying to read things into my remarks that were not there.” John Wood, a former association president, said an association study estimated that revoking the deduction for interest on home mortgages, which often constitutes the bulk of a homeowner’s monthly payment, would force many would-be buyers out of the market and reduce home sales by 400,000 a year.

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cowboy on a horse, watching a blast in the distance. “There is nothing frightening about being told to wash one’s self with plenty of soap and water and one’s clothing in a hot-water wash with Tide (or whatever) a time or two in minimizing the chance of damaging exposure,” Jenkins wrote in the 489-page decision issued Thursday. Appeals, both by the government and on behalf of 14 cases dismissed as not being clearly tied to radiation, were considered likely. But downwind residents found vindication for their lengthy battle to have the government held responsible. “All I wanted was to draw attention to the pain this caused. I never expected any money,” said Lorna C. Bruhn of St. George, Utah, awarded $400,000 for the death of her husband to leukemia. “All I wanted was for no one else to ever have to go through this pain.” Among people who lived downwind of the Nevada Test Site during the open air tests

Whistler knew his mother was no work of art c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Whistler’s mother, the symbol of sentiment for Mother’s Day, was no softy. “She was one tough cookie,” said art expert David Park Curry, in Washington for an exhibit observing the 150th anniversary of the birth of artist James McNeill Whistler. “And she couldn’t cook.” “I have tried out the recipes in her cookbook and thedishes are all terribly heavy. You might not want to have din- • ner with her, but after she was left a young widow she held thefamily together through great determination, marrying her daughter off to a fatnous doctor in England and encouraging her cantankerous son to become a great artist. “I respect her. She had a strong influence on the artist.” Mrs. Whistler, born in Wilmington, N.C., in 1804, wanted her son to follow his father in a military career, but he flunked out of West Point because he couldn’t master chemistry. Then she backed her son fully in his artistic career. He developed a strong attachment to her, living with her in Paris and London for many years as an adult. About the painting known throughout the world as “Whistler’s Mother,” the artist once said, “One does like to make one’s mummy as nice as possible.” In truth, however, Whistler probably was more interested in color and composition than in portraiture. He named his work. “Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother.” It was the turning point of his career, marking his transition from painting traditional photographic images to painting abstract scenes rich in color and design. For 10 years, the classic painting was posted as security for loans after Whistler had gone bankrupt. The scene, however, was not Whistler’s first choice. At first, he tried to paint his mother in a standing position, but she tired rapidly because of a recent illness. So he put her in a chair where she could rest and pose at the same time. Mother’s Day greeting cards may lead buyers to believe that this was a sweet little old lady, but Whistler put a lot of angles into the scene, possibly reflecting the stiffness of her outlook on life. Some commentators have said she was a domineering power-grabber who used the Bible and threats of the hereafter to control people she met. When a British critic of the time snidely remarkedthat Whistler should have put in the scene “a few details of interest,” Whistler himself quipped that suitable details might have been “a glass of sherry and the Bible.” And he knew enough to keep his numerous young mistresses and models out of her sight.

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from 1951 and 1962, 1,192 plaintiffs brought suit involving 375 cancer cases. Jenkins deliberated for 17 months after hearing evidence on 24 cases he considered representative of different types of cancer. He expects the cases he considered to provide guidelines for settling the other claims. Federal spokesmen in Salt Lake City and Washington said they would not comment until the decision has been studied. Much of the mammoth ruling, which provided a primer in physics, dealt with the difficulty of assessing which cancers likely were due to radiation. But the condemnation of the government was unambiguous. “Many people were exposed to more radiation, and greater risk than ever needed to be,” Jenkins wrote. “At the most fundamental level, the government’s failure to educate, to inform and to warn deprived; those people of an opportunity; to protect themselves.”

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