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You might expect to find an elephant or two in Peru, Ind.- Hoosier home of circus performers and also the hometown of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kelly but not in West Lafayette. The Kellys own Kathy, an 8,000-pound Asian elephant with an arthritictype condition. Purdue veterinarian Dr. John Fessler examines the aching foot during a visit to the West Lafayette campus. (AP Wirephoto).

Legend lost? Whose ear?' or 'Who's there?' still debated as Hoosier source

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Probably no state has adopted its nickname as enthusiastically as Indiana, yet not even the most ardent Hoosier knows how he came to be called that. Any definitive origin of the word is lost in pioneer history, when Indiana’s settlers were variously referred to in the journals of the day as hoozers, hooshers, hooshiers, hushers and hoosiers. Today, there are as many different explanations of the monicker as there were early spellings. “We’ve never attempted to claim or sponsor any of them as official,” said state Chamber of Commerce spokesman Carl Henn. “The truth is no one knows.” But as the word has gained in obscurity, it has grown in popularity. Perhaps the best-known nickname of any state, it is among only a few to have been widely adopted by its people. It comes as a surprise to many newcomers that Indiana residents do not care to be described as Indianans, but much prefer to be called Hoosiers. Granted, residents of Nebraska will now and again proclaim themselves Cornhuskers, and Oklahomans will be proudly known as Sooners. But like most state nicknames, these are generally heard mainly in the fall and in the vicinity of college football stadiums. In Indiana, however, residents of West Lafayette, home of Purdue University, and South Bend, home of the University of Notre Dame, wear the name as readily as the Hoosiers of Indiana University at Bloomington. “I think it’s because it has a real down-home ring to it,” said the state’s junior U.S. Senator, Dan Quayle, who said he gets many queries in Washington about what Hoosier means. “It combines a feeling of hard work, diligence, family and common sense.” Most Hoosiers would certainly agree, yet according to one of the most credible histories of the nickname, it was originally nothing to be proud of. During the early 1800 s, scholars note, the word was a common Southern term for a rough, low-class person. It could have been derived from an old Saxon word, “hoo,” meaning a hill dweller. Another unflattering theme holds that the nickname resulted from the pioneer Indiana flatboatmen s notable rowdyness. One version of this account suggests these characters called themselves

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after the militant German Hussars employed in the Revolutionary War. Another variation is that Indianans were known as “hushers” men who could hush any opponent in a fight. A different school claims the word resulted from the settlers’ practice of loudly inquiring in their Midwest twang, “Who’s there?” when a stranger knocked on the door. So unsatisfying were these explanations to many people that Indiana’s poet laureate, James Whitcomb Riley, was making fun of them before the 19th Century was out. Riley suggested the term stemmed from the bloodyness of the barroom brawls of the frontier period, in which it was not unusual tor combatants to lose portions of their anatomy. “So it was only natural for latecomers to such places to touch their feet to such objects on the floors,” he wrote, “and then ask, ‘Whoseear?’ ” Riley said his theory was “quite as plausible, and almost as well substantiated by historical evidence, as any of the others.” A more plausible, but likewise unsubstantiated, account is that the name was spawned by one Samuel Hoosier, a contractor building the Ohio Falls Canal to the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky. Hoosier, the story goes, preferred to hire workmen from across the river in Indiana, who came to be known as Hoosier men. There are only two Hoosiers in the current Indianapolis telephone directory. One of them has changed to an unlisted number since the current directory was printed. The second, Frank T. Hoosier, says the name is common in his home state of Tennessee. “There’s quite a bit of us down there,” said Hoosier, who was told as a child that the family name came from a word for a tree root. “I get quite a few questions about it, oh yeah,” he said. “When I moved here everybody said, ‘Now you’re really a Hoosier.” The nickname, whatever its origin, was first seen in print to describe an Indiana resident in an 1826 edition of the Chicago Tribune. By 1833, the word had become innocent enough and sufficiently unique to Indiana that the poet John Finley could write in his “The Hoosier’s Nest and Other Poems” the following lines: “With feelings proud we contemplate the rising glory of our state, nor take offense by application of its good-natured appelation.”

Begins Sunday at South Bend

Cities, towns convention slated

SOUTH BEND. Ind. (AP) - Proposals that ask the state to channel more money for local police and fire pensions and rising utility bills will be among the top issues considered this weekend by officials of Indiana cities and towns. About 600 representatives including mayors, clerk-treasurers and council members will gather in South Bend beginning Sunday for the annual conference of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. Members attending the four-day conference are scheduled to discuss urban affairs and adoption of a platform for the 1985 General Assembly. Association lobbyist Thomas Bredeweg said the Resolutions Committee will present 20 legislative proposals for debate and possible adoption. For the first time, Bredeweg said, a resolution asking a state constitutional amendment to legalize lotteries will be put before association members. Other resolutions, if adopted, would call for the state to give local government

Atlantic City memories still fresh for Hoosier

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) A special tear may glisten for a Fort Wayne area woman today when Miss America is crowned in Atlantic City. It was in the same convention hall in 1951 that she almost won the crown - finishing first runner-up, the closest any Miss Indiana has ever come to being Miss America, according to pageant officials. Now, she is Carol Popp of Aboite Township. But in September 1951, she was Carol Mitchell, Miss Indiana from Rochester. Many area television viewers may remember her from the “Carol and Corkey” show, a popular children’s program on WKJG-TV in the middle 19505. Mrs. Popp and her husband went to Atlantic City Wednesday, just “to meet with some friends,” she said Friday during a phone conversation from her hotel room. “I’ve kept my contacts up, and we’re sort of family.” Besides reminiscing, she also is coaching two former Misses Fort Wayne vying for the 1985 crown. They are Cynthia Sue Yantis, Miss Fort Wayne and Miss Indiana 1983, and Nancy Lynne Ball, who won the city beauty crown in 1982 and is now Miss Delaware. Miss Ball and Mrs. Popp’s daughter, Cathy, were classmates at Homestead

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more clear-cut authority to bargain with city workers over contracts; to approve state money to compensate for any decrease in federal operating funds to cities; and ask Congress for exemption from federal anti-trust law to spare municipalities from costly lawsuits. The conference includes campaign season speeches from Gov. Robert D. Orr and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wayne Townsend, workshops on city issues and an ethnic festival dinner. Townsend is expected to tell the city of-

High School. Regardless of how they finish, Mrs. Popp admits there will be more than a slight tug of nostalgia when the new Miss America is crowned in Convention Hall. “They’ve remodeled it and put some escalators inn but it’s still the same as it was in 1951,” she said. “It’s a grand place.” Mrs. Popp was a 21-year-old junior at Indiana University when she and her mother went to Atlantic City the first time. “It was a great experience for both of us,” said Popp’s mother, Mildred Freeland of Fort Wayne. “The pageant and the people were first class. Nothing cheap or shoddy.” Mrs. Popp finished behind Colleen Kay Hutchins of Salt Lake City. “All the reporters kept telling us Carol would win,” Mrs. Freeland said. “She had the girl-next-door look.” Mrs. Freeland acknowledges disappointment her daughter didn’t win, but says first runner-up was still quite an honor. “I think Carol lost because she was too short something she got from me,” she said. Carol is 5 feet 4; her mother is two inches shorter. “She’s quite a beauty, too,” he said, gesturing toward his 82-year-old wife.

Hoosier GM plants remain status quo

By The Associated Press Members of the United Auto Workers in Indiana put away their freshly painted picket signs and continued working after the union chose not to strike any General Motors Corp. plants in the state. The UAW, after failing to reach agreement by 11 p.m. EST, struck 13 GM plants in nine other states including five plants in Michigan. Officials for the union said they would keep bargaining with GM on a national contract. “Indiana was not picked as a strike target,” David Nevin, a committee chairman with Local 663 at the Fisher-Guide Division in Anderson, said shortly after the deadline passed. GM, the nation’s No.l automaker, has 10 plants in six Indiana cities, mostly in the central part of the state. Those plants employ 38,430 UAW members and 11,380 salaried employees. Some officials at the Indiana locals expressed disappointment their locals were not chosen to strike, while others sounded relieved they could continue working. “We would much prefer to be on strike than have a selective strike and have some

ficials Tuesday they are the best judges of their needs, “that what’s appropriate for Gary may not be appropriate for Evansville," press secretary Gael Deppert said. Orr is scheduled to speak Wednesday and will emphasize his support for legislation sought by the association in past sessions, spokeswoman Nancy DiLaura said Friday. That includes his support for a revised local option income tax passed in 1984, she said. The tax has since been adopted in six large urban counties.

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locals still working,” said John Coale, president of Local 662 at the Anderson Delco-Remy Division plant. “Under this situation, management can make arbitrary divisions,” Coale said. That could lead to random layoffs if the strikes at the selected plants last for extended periods, he added “In the short run, there probably won t be any layoffs. If it was to go for some significant duration, layoffs are a definite possiblity,” Coale said. Bill McCurry, bargaining chairman at Local 663 in Anderson, said, “You’re always relieved when you don’t have a strike. Nobody wants to strike. “Naturally you like to have the pressure put on the company locally, but that pressure can still be applied . We’re going to start local procedures again Sunday morning,” McCurry said. McCurry and officials at other locals said they had received news the UAW and GM negotiators were close to a national agreement. “I know they were extremely close to a settlement. That’s the last word we got,” said Dave Fenwick, president of Local 993.

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