Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 35, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 October 1984 — Page 3

Demonstrating how to make Pueblo Indian crafts, instructor Ruth Ralyn conducts a session at the recent crafts program at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. The Craft Jubilee was sponsored by the Cultural Arts Committee of the Putnam County Homemakers clubs. Taking part were (from left) Claire Winings, Marge Hopkins, Dorothy Bushong and Edith Fry. Some of the crafts made last weekend will be on display and on sale at this weekend's Russellers' Roundup at Russellville. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).

Corn aplenty Hoosier farmers can boast bumper crop of 648 million bushels

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Hoosier farmers will harvest 648 million bushels of corn this fall third largest corn yield in the state’s history, Purdue University says. Earl L. Park, an agricultural statistician at Purdue, says ideal harvest weather of recent days is expected to continue for at least a week. The average growing season in Indiana and across the Corn Belt has been a good one, he said. Already, 13 percent of the corn crop and 30 percent of the soybean acreage has been harvested.

Education Board to

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - When the General Assembly convenes in January, legislators will see a few new faces among lobbyists. Members of of the State Board of Education say they will break tradition and lobby for school spending legislation at the next session. Bettye Lou Jerrell, a board member from Evansville, says the board’s new charter provides an invitation for the education panel to speak to the Legislature. The charter, rewritten by the Legislature this year, changed the name of the former General Education Commission and recommended the new board develop goals and recommend legislation. “The general commission never did any lobbying, any budget preparation,” said Ms. Jerrell, chairman of the education board’s legislative committee. “I think it was just by tradition. ’ ’ Ms. Jerrell said the board hasn’t yet determined what it will recommend, but added public input from two days of hearings in South Bend will help form the board’s recommendations. One of the recurring topics in testimony by teachers, teachers’ group representatives, school board members and superintendents was equalization of funding. The equalization concept would attempt to remedy disparity among school cor-

Perry suicide

By THOMAS P. WYMAN Associated Press Writer A report released by the U.S. Department of Justice absolves Allen County authorities of any guilt in the death of Calvin D. Perry 111, charged in the slayings of a Fort Wayne newspaper editor, his wife and their son. The report released Friday after a federal civil rights investigation concluded said Perry, 18, committed suicide in his jail cell. Fort Wayne civil rights groups had disputed conclusions of local authorities who said Perry killed himself. But the federal investigation uncovered no eviden-

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Park said last year’s corn crop was held back by a record drought and reduced planting, for a total yield of only 340 million bushels. Reduced planting in 1983 was induced by the federal payment-in-kind program, which gave farmers gover-nment-owned surplus corn for reducing acreage devoted to the crop. Nationally, the corn harvest this year will total 7.5 billion bushels, down 1 percent from last month’s estimate but up 80 percent from 1983, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Thursday. It will be the fourth largest U.S. corn crop.

porations in expenditures on students. Some school corporations, buoyed by high assessed property valuations that generate more tax money, are able to far outspend other corporations, the board was told. But the dominant concern was at what level spending would be equalized, board members said. Board member Robert Klene of Indianapolis said the Legislature could set a high funding standard. The Legislature could also set one “low, God awful” standard or a “mediocre” one, Klene said. Funding for Project Primetime, designed to reduce class sizes in lower grades, also needs to be looked at, the board was told. Although the Legislature apportioned funds for the program, school boards have found that funding is inadequate and the boards are using their own money to make up the difference, the state board was told. The situation could become worse next year when the Primetime program expands to second grade classes, the board was told. Some schools will have to build new classrooms or reopen closed buildings to handle the additional classes, groups testifying before the board said. Ms. Jerrell, chairman of the education board’s legislative committee, said the panel will consider the suggestions when developing recommendations for the lawmakers, f

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ce of criminal wrongdoing on the part of jail deputies or violations of Perry’s civil rights. Perry was found hanged Jan. 17, hours after authorities charged him in the deaths of Daniel Osborne, 35; his wife, Jane, 34; and their 11-year-old son, Ben. They were found beaten to death in their home last September. Osborne was editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. The Osborne’s 2-year-old daughter, Caroline, also was attacked but survived. U.S. Attorney R. Lawrence Steele Jr. said the investigation into Perry’s death has concluded. The matter will not be presented to a grand jury, he said.

The average yield will be 105.5 bushels per acre, 8.5 bushels an acre below the Indiana expected yield of 114 bushels. The U.S. tobacco crop was expected to be 1.74 billion pounds, up 22 percent from 1983. Indiana’s tobacco crop should total 20,382,000 pounds, up 66 percent from last year, Park said. It is expected to yield 2,370 pounds per acre. The Agriculture Department’s Crop Reporting Board estimated the nation’s soybean crop at 1.97 billion bushels, down 3 percent from a September estimate and up 21 percent from the drought-devastated

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Health care costs may be prohibitive, Califano says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Unless health care costs decline, the federal government will have to ration medical aid for Americans, former Health, Education and Welfare secretary Joseph Califano says. “We face a frightening specter in our nation,” Califano told the Indiana Hospital Association. Califano, who was HEW secretary in the Carter administration, said if costs don’t come down, older Americans might be denied care because they have poor chances of recovery. “That may mean no kidney dialysis for patients over 65,” he said. “No hip replacement surgery for patients over 65. And expensive anti-cancer treatment would be delivered only to certain patients, according to statistical predictions of success. “That may sound like a really scary future. But in Great Britain that’s the way they do things today,” he said. “We have got to act if we’re going to change our system in order to prevent the same thing from happening here.” Califano, a Washington attorney, told the association Thursday federal efforts to control health expenditures through Medicare and Medicaid will not work by themselves.

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1983 crop. This year’s crop with a yield of 29.5 bushels per acre compared with 30.3 bushels estimated last month is the fourth largest in history. A record 2.26 billion bushels were harvested in 1979. Indiana’s soybean harvest should total 152,250,000 bushels, making it the fourth largest crop in history, Park said. The average acreage yield is expected to be 35 bushels. Last year’s national soybean harvest was 1.64 billion bushels. The Indiana harvest totaled 120 million bushels.

“A true reduction in costs will only come with fundamental change in the way we deliver heath care, and that change must involve all the players,” he said. Aside from government, “players” include employers, labor unions, insurers, drug companies, laboratories, hospitals and patients, Califano said. “As long as a cost-cutting action is just taken by one player, the savings is only illusory. The cost is just shifted to another player, and we all end up paying.” Califano said, “Sometime this April, we began spending $1 billion a day on health care in the United States.” He said health costs ballooned partly because Americans regard top-of-the-line health care as a right and because the third-party payment system has given health care consumers a blank check for obtaining services. “In America, access to quality health care has been likened to the sanctity of motherhood, as well it should be,” he said. “But for far too long, we assumed more was better without paying attention to the cost. “As a result, we now perform more tests, use more drugs, do more surgeries and spend more time in the hospital than any other country in the world.”

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Terre Haute case against PSI rates is rejected by PSC

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State utility regulators rejected Terre Haute’s bid to throw out Public Service Indiana’s latest rate case. In a related matter, the Public Service Commission concluded Friday it didn’t have the power to disqualify its chairman from the case because of alleged improper contacts with interested parties. Terre Haute had argued that PSl’s petition for an unspecified increase should be dismissed because it violated the state law which imposes a 15-month moratorium between rate increase requests. The western Indiana city pointed out that PSI asked for an emergency rate increase in January and filed for a permanent increase in May. But the PSC found that the statute said the 15-month rule could be waived in cases where a utility’s financial integrity was at stake. “PSl’s financial integrity was, is and continues to be threatened,” the commission said in dismissing Terre Haute’s petition. PSI has asked for a permanent rate increase to cover increased operating costs as well as to recoup its $2.8 billion investment in the abandoned Marble Hill nuclear power plant. In another order Friday, the PSC gave PSI permission to borrow $320 million to cover short-term loans that are coming due as well as for other utility-related purposes. At the same time, the commission disposed of an ethical challenge brought by the Citizens Action Coalition. The CAC had called for the commission to disqualify PSC chief William W. Montgomery from the PSI case for alleged im-

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Dailey against PSI hike, loan

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - J Roberts Dailey, speaker of the state House of Representatives, said he will oppose a rate hike to help Public Service Indiana pay for its Marble Hill nuclear plant. “Whatever is done, I don’t think ratepayers should be penalized for a management mistake,” Dailey said Thursday at a news conference. He acknowledged that consumers may end up paying for part of PSl’s $2.3 billion investment in the abandoned plant, but said the ratepayers’ share would likely be a small one. “There is no support for any plan that calls for the majority of the cost to be borne by ratepayers,” he said. The company has a request pending before the Public Service Commission to put Marble Hill into its rate base.

proper contacts with bankers interested in the matter. In the order, which Montgomery voted for, the commission found it wasn’t the proper forum to handle complaints for violations of the PSC’s Code of Ethics. The CAC should go to the State Ethics and Conflict of Interest Commission, the PSC said. “It is unlikely that any administrative body could, with any serious degree of impartiality, rule on the disqualification of one of its members,” the order said.

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