Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 33, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 October 1984 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 11,1984

Seven years, S6O million

Democrats unveil education plan

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The state would spend at least S6O million more a year the next seven years for education under a plan unveiled by two Democratic legislators. Indiana ranks “near the bottom third in every statistical category in terms of the quality of education,” Rep. Stanley G. Jones of West Lafayette said Wednesday. “By any measure, Indiana must undertake a tremendous task to improve the funding and the quality of its public school system.” Joining Jones at a news conference was Rep. Marilyn F. Schultz of Bloomington. Jones noted Indiana trails the national

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average in per-pupil spending by S4OO per child. He estimated that it would take a minimum of S4OO million just to reach the U.S. standard. “To be honest with you, it will take several years in order for this program to have a substantial effect because we’re that far behind the rest of the country and the Midwest,” he said. “We believe that public education has been shortchanged, and the economic vitality in Indiana has been smothered by the lack of support for public schools in this state.” The Democratic program calls for a $67-per-pupil increase for seven years. At the end of the seventh year, funding will have

Townsend says license reform must have Legislature's help

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wayne Townsend has acknowledged that he could not eliminate political control of the state’s license branch system without the cooperation of the Republican-controlled General Assembly. But he said he could win that by ordering the license system’s financial records opened to the public. “I think there has been so much corruption of late that no Legislature will be able to resist making a change, regardless of party affiliation,” Townsend said at a news conference Wednesday. The state senator from Hartford City has pledged to do away with Indiana ’s unique system that lets auto license bureaus be

more than made up the S4OO gap between Indiana’s per-pupil spending and the national average, Ms. Schultz said. The planned increases should be in addition to the normal annual increases approved by the Legislature, she said. The Democrats also called for a bipartisan effort to equalize the school funding formula. Ms. Schultz said the present formula results in disparities among the state’s school districts, ranging from $1,272 per pupil in Eastern Green School Corp. to $3,745 per pupil in Whiting School Corp. Jones and Ms. Schultz pledged their commitment to Project Primetime, the

operated for profit by appointees of the reigning political party. The license branches produce at least $5 million in annual profit used to finance the Republican Party, Townsend said. If elected, Townsend said he would appoint a committee to evaluate the system and recommend changes he would propose to the 1985 General Assembly. Townsend said he would like to see a state agency administer the system and direct its proceeds to highway improvements, but said that would require legislative approval. In the meantime, he said, he would issue an executive order making public the license system’s financial records. Gov. Robert Orr has defended the licen-

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Asks hiring of 50 more troopers

Shettle proposes $2,600 state police raises

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State Police Superintendent John T. Shettle has asked the Legislature to authorize the hiring of 50 more troopers and a $2,600 across-the-board pay raise for police personnel. The trooper pay raise proposed for the coming two-year budget cycle is intended to head off raids by Uncle Sam and other states with more money to offer, Shettle said. “I don’t know what keeps them with us, except loyalty,” Shettle told the State Budget Committee Wednesday. The bipartisan legislative group screens budget requests from state agencies. With current salaries, the department is losing an average of a police employee a week, with 65 vacancies currently, Shettle said. A starting trooper in Indiana makes just

statewide program initiated by GOP Gov. Robert D. Orr to reduce class sizes in early grades, and the sl9 million needed next year to phase in second grade to that program. This year, it covers only first grade. The Democrats also called for boosting base pay for beginning teachers to $15,000 a year. Ms. Schultz said that in the 1983-84 school year, only five school corporations had a beginning salary of $15,000 or more, while 270 corporations paid their starting teachers less. Jones estimated that it would cost between $9 million and $lO million to raise teacher salaries to the $15,000 minimum.

se branch system as providing low overhead that holds down costs to consumers. If that is true, Townsend said, the governor should have no reason to keep the system’s accounts a secret. “With a single stroke of the pen, Gov. Orr could show the people of Indiana how much profit his political henchmen take out of the pockets of Hoosier motorists and put in their own pockets and kick back to the Republican Party. But he won’t,” Townsend said. He said a poll recently conducted by his campaign shows him leading Orr for the first time in two metropolitan areas, Indianapolis and Evansville.

over $17,000 a year. Shettle said that’s $7,600 under Michigan, $4,000 under the Indianapolis Police Department and S4OO lower than the Madison County Sheriff’s Department. The State Police Department is seeking $68.9 million for 1985-86 and $66.2 million for 1986-87, roughly a 30 percent increase over current spending of $52.1 million. The across-the-board salary increase of $2,600 would apply to troopers as well as colonels, Shettle said. ‘‘lt’s not going to play catch-up. It’s just going to move us closer to them,” he said. Federal agencies and private businesses with a law enforcement angle lure many officers, mostly those with five to 10 years experience, Shettle said. “It’s a morale problem,” he said of the low pay.

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So far, the department hasn’t had any difficulty attracting people who want to be troopers. In the last recruit class, there were 1,300 applications for 69 positions, Shettle said. “It never ceases to amaze me that we’re able to attract these people with the salaries we offer.” In addition to the pay raises and extra troopers, Shettle also asked the panel to authorize 53 more civilian employees, mostly in the telecommunications area. Another state police budget priority is a $2.3 million electronic fingerprint classification system, which Shettle described as a boon in crime fighting. There are billions of fingerprints recorded on cards in state police file cabinets, Shettle said. And if a latent fingerprint turned up at a crime scene, it would take a

111 students held as gun smugglers

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Police have arrested two Indiana University graduate students on charges they smuggled thousands of dollars worth of guns and ammunition from Indianapolis to South America. The female students, both Brazilian citizens living in Bloomington, were charged by a federal grand jury in an Oct. 2 indictment, which was unsealed Wednesday. Another Brazilian woman, belived to be a lawyer, also was charged with smuggling, but she was still at large. Arrested at their apartment were Salua Safady, 48, an education student, and Helena Freire, 43, a candidate for a doctorate in piano performance. The fugitive was identified as Cleyde Coelho, age unknown, of Brazil. The women are accused in the sevencount indictment with various federal firearms violations in connection with shipping large caliber handguns and

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specialist 350 years to go through all the files to try to match it, the superintendent said. “If you don’t have a suspect, a latent print doesn’t do you much good." When the system was used in Calilornia, a local police agency fed in its fingerprint cards one morning and by the afternoon had solved five homicides, Shettle said. “It just kind of boggles the mind to think what could happen in Indiana.” The department also asked for funds to upgrade its computer systems and office automation program. The budget request includes an $840,000 item to replace two 15-year-old helicopters, which Shettle said have become increasingly hard to maintain.

smaller concealable weapons from their home in the Kingston Manor Apartments to Brazil and Paraguay between 1978 and April 5 of this year. Assistant U.S Attorney Joseph Russell said he could not comment on whether the women belonged to a revolutionary group or how the weapons were being used when they arrived in South America. Ms. Safady, who is half-Lebanese and half-Syrian, has been studying at IU nine years, and Ms. Freire has been in Bloomington 15 years. According to an affadavit by Special Agent B.D. Gilbert of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Ms. Safady bought at least 42 handguns, one carbine rifle and three “riot-type” shotguns from Indianapolis gun dealers. Ms. Freire, according to the document, bought 27 handguns and three “riot-type” shotguns.