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Saddle Club Road in Madison Township lived up to its name Saturday as 26 riders and horses participated in the first Upper Midwest Endurance Competitve Ride Assn, events sponsored by the Putnam County Saddle Club. Riders completed 30- and 12%-mile courses that included a stretch of Saddle Club Road that bridged the Conrail tracks. (Ban-ner-Graphic photo by Eric Bernsee).

Despite opposition. Planned Parenthood has mainstream support

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America says opposition to the agency is gaining momentum, but despite that opposition, the familyplanning agency still has the support of mainstream America. Faye Wattleton was in Evansville Wednesday to help Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Indiana celebrate its 50th anniversary. But about 100 members of Right to Life groups from Vanderburgh, Posey, Warrick and Gibson counties picketed outside the Sheraton Inn while Ms. Wattleton attended a luncheon inside. During a convocation at the University of Evansville, Ms. Wattleton said despite opposition by Right to Life and other organizations, Planned Parenthood is alive and well. “It’s good to know that those of us who believe in democracy, who believe in pluralism and tolerance, are still in the majority,” she said. Right to Life has criticized Planned Parenthood’s operation of abortion clinics in some areas of the country. Planned Parenthood of Southwest Indiana does not perform abortions, but does refer women to clinics in other cities. “We don’t think people are aware of

Dorm life at age 68? RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) -Sigrid Smith says the best thing about living in a dormitory is not having to cook. Mrs. Smith, a 68-year-old grandmother, is enrolled at St. Joseph College where she eats, sleeps and studies with young adults. “My husband died five years ago and we always shared ideas and talked,” she said. “After his death, I grew tired of talking to the walls. My brain had a tendency to become lazy, and I decided to do something about it.” In 1936, Mrs. Smith completed two years toward a degree in sociology at the University of Chicago. After a 48-year absence from higher education, she decided to enroll at St. Joseph after reading about the college in a national magazine. “I love the dormitory and the girls. I don’t mind the noise in the dormitory one bit,’’she said. “And you know what I like most about eating in our campus cafeteria? I don’t have to do the cooking.”

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this,” said Right to Life spokeswoman Jackie Fehrenbacher. “They don’t publicize it.” Although picketing in Evansville was orderly, that’s often not the case, Ms. Wattleton said. Some Planned Parenthood clinics have been fire-bombed in recent weeks, including the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “We have seen attacks on our federal funds; we have seen attacks on our local funds through the United Way,” she said. “I am seeing more organized opposition as I travel around the country giving speeches. “We are seeing that because the antiabortion movement has preached a doctrine of intolerance,” she added. “They are resorting to the means that they believe will get the results that they want.” Despite the opposition, however, Planned Parenthood has more donors and more funds than ever before, she said. “I can say today that Planned Parenthood is stronger than at any other time in its 70-year existence,” Ms. Wattleton said. “The vast majority of Americans support the philosophy that we are promoting. ’ ’ She criticized a Reagan administration proposal to withhold family-planning funds to organization that promote abortion.

Judge approves clause on affirmative action

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A six-year effort to end discriminatory hiring in South Bend schools has been preserved by a federal court decision in a reverse discrimination suit, a school attorney says. U.S. District Court Judge Allen Sharp approved a contract clause that exempted black teachers from layoffs in 1982 while white colleagues with more seniority were losing their jobs. Of the 146 white teachers laid off because of declining enrollment, 42 joined in a federal suit claiming the minority protection clause was unconstitutional. No black teachers lost their jobs. Nevertheless, Sharp said white teachers have not been “stigmatized” by the action. “The underlying purpose of the plan was to uplift blacks rather than to exclude whites,” he said in a ruling released late Tuesday. Franklin A. Morse 11, attorney for South Bend Community School Corp., said layoffs of black teachers would have reduced them from 13.3 percent to about 10 percent

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Unhealthy habits breed higher medical costs

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) financial responsibility for health care will increase dramatically in the next few years, according to the Society for Prospective Medicine. “I think there’s no question that there’s a move toward having to be individually responsible for the expense of health care,” said former Indiana health commissioner Ronald Blankenbaker, a member of the society’s board. “And this is fair,” he said. “The more isolated you are from the direct expense of your medical care, the more likely you are to utilize and over-utilize that care. So if you’re likely to get a bigger bill, you’re likely to be more careful about things like smoking, getting exercise and watching good nutrition.” Blankenbaker, a vice president at St. Vincent Hospital, made his comments Wednesday at the Maryland-based

of the teacher force

“All of the gains that have been made since 1978, since affirmative action was voluntarily adopted by the school board, would have been erased,” he said. Sharp agreed with the school corporation that black teachers had faced discrimination and that an affirmative action hiring policy was appropriate. “In a period of declining staff and student enrollment, layoff provisions are the only means of retaining any progress made in hiring prodcedures,” he wrote. Daniel H. Pfeifer, an attorney who represents the white teachers, was on vacation, a spokeswoman at his office said. A second attorney representing the suing teachers could not be reached for comment. Morse said Sharp’s ruling leaves the door open for the white teachers to file suit in state court. Sharp said this case differed from an earlier “reverse discrimination” suit brought by firefighters in Memphis, Tenn.

society’s four-day conference in Indianapolis. The group believes that people who take good care of themselves should benefit by having lower medical bills than people with unhealthy habits. “The reason for all this is that the diseases that are causing deaths today are much different from the diseases that were causing death several years ago,” Blankenbaker said. “It used to be pneumonia and smallpox and other infectious diseases. Now it’s heart disease, cancer and other problems related to lifestyle. “These are problems that are preventable but that the government public health programs really can’t set about to prevent. It’s up to the individual to decide that he or she will not do something that creates risk.”

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'America is back/ Bush tells Hoosiers

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Bush urged the crowd to work to elect a Republican majority in the U S. House of Representatives and to retire Rep Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, D-Mass„ as speaker. Bush said that while he loved his job, he envied Gov. Robert D. Orr and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz because they didn’t have to contend with O’Neill. A second Reagan term, Bush said, would continue the agenda of the first: support for low taxes, curbs on governmental regulation, efforts to cut the deficit, discipline in the classroom and merit pay for teachers. “All this adds up to something very simple. We stand for simple, basic values: family, faith, neighborhood and work,” he said. “And we stood for them long before the other side took them up as the latest fashion.” Bush had kind words for Orr and Mutz, whom he described as “Indiana’s ATeam.” He compared their accomplishments in Indiana to what Reagan has done for the country. Orr, who introduced Bush, had some economic news of his own. The latest unemployment statistics put Indiana’s jobless rate at a seasonally adjusted 7.5 percent -*■ the same as the national average. Orr said that was welcome news in a state that had endured 14 percent unemployment during the depths of the depression. Orr said the Indiana rate is lower than Illinois, with 8.7 percent, Ohio with 9.8 percent, and Michigan with 10.9 percent.

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