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With grandsons of the late Elbert G. Irwin holding the ribbon at each end, other family members, friends and county officials take part Saturday afternoon in the proclaiming of the new West Walnut Street Road bridge as the Elbert G. Irwin Memorial Bridge. Irwin's son, Donnie Irwin, did the cutting honors and then posed with other family members at the base of one of the green rectangular highway signs that mark the east and west approaches to the bridge. Commissioner John Carson and Ronald Johnson, minister of the Longbranch-Church of Christ, made official remarks during the half-hour ceremony on top of the bridge. (Banner-Graphic photos by Eric Bernsee).

Republicans expected to maintain control

B v The Associated Press Indiana Republicans seem likely to keep firm control of both the state House and Senate on election day, GOP and Democratic political observers agree. They disagree, however, along party lines, on the margins Republicans will command after the votes are counted. Democrats believe they’ll pick up seats in both houses, while Republicans predict gains in the House and at least a draw in the Senate. All 100 House seats and 25 of the 50 Senate seats will appear on ballots. The Republicans currently control the Senate 32-18, and the House 58-32. Once seated, the 1985 session of the 104th General Assembly will sort through spending priorities and write the multi-billion dollar budget that will guide state spending through mid-1987. The new Legislature may also face controversial measures dealing with a statewide lottery and changes in the politically controlled motor vehicle license branch system. John R. Hammond 111, chief legislative liaison for Gov. Robert D. Orr, says Republican leaders are confident about their continued legislative dominance. “We feel very good about returning

Sunny day for voters Clear and cold overnight, with low in the low to mid 30s. Mostly sunny and cool on Tuesday. High Tuesday in the mid 50s. Northwesterly winds at 5 mph throughout the period. Indiana Extended Forecast Wednesday through Friday: Fair and cool Wednesday with highs in the 50s and lows in the mid to upper 30s. A chance of showers Thursday and Friday with highs in the mid 50s and mid 60s, and lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Abby A 7 Calendar A 7 Classifieds A12.A13 Comics A 8 Crossword Al 2 Heloise A 6 Horoscope Al 3 House Call A 8 Obituaries Al 4 People A 8 Sports A9,A10,A11,A12 TV' A 8 TTieaters Al 4 Worry Clinic Al 2

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majorities to the Indiana House and Senate based on the strength of (President) Reagan here and the strength of the governor,” Hammond said. But Democrats say they’ll chip away at the GOP margins. In the House, Democrats can pick up at least two seats, or even more if Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wayne Townsend does well at the polls, House minority administrative assistant William Schreiber said. State Democrats have targeted a “limited number” of Republican-held districts and worked to reinforce the Democrats’ hold on a dozen other districts, Schreiber said. Seats in four northern Indiana districts all areas served by Northern Indiana Public Service Co. are vulnerable to Democratic challenges, he said. NIPSCO’s rate increases have angered northern Indiana voters, Democrats say, and Townsend has blamed Republicans for the rising rates. In the Senate, Republicans have more at risk Tuesday than do their colleagues across the aisle. The GOP holds 20 of the 25 seats that will appear on the ballots. Despite the risk, the Senate’s top Democrat holds no hoDe of overcoming the

Putnam Patter

Leaf control a challenge for science

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor The horticulture boys do a lot of horn tooting over their abilities to make trees and shrubs conform to their expertise and grow in fashions never intended by nature. At their bidding, the leafy specimens will be tall and slender, fat and squatty or in between in leaf structure and stature. But these learned gentlemen have never addressed the basic problem, the solution of which would earn them eternal gratitude. THERE IS A NEED, and it becomes critical at this time of year, for leaf control. Nature and the sweat of man will eventually get this job done but never in an orderly fashion. Happy would be the householder if his shade trees and those of his immediate neighbors would, on a given signal, lose all their leaves in a one-day continuous shower of color.

The immediate problem, of course, would be one of disposal of a carpet of leaves that would be well above ankle deep. But look at it from the happy side. Once done, always done -- at least until another autumn season rolls around.

Republicans’ stronghold on the chamber. Minority leader Frank O’Bannon of Corydon says Senate Democrats have a good chance to gain, if only because their slender slice of power could hardly shrink any further. The closest race may involve Democrat James Jontz of Brookston and Republican Michael D. Smith of Rensselaer for the 7th District seat left vacant by the retirement of Sen. John M. Guy, both sides agree. In Bloomington, Democrat Vi Simpson might overcome incumbent Farrell N. Duckworth, and Thomas R. Crowd’s bid to oust Ralph J. Potesta in northwest Indiana “looks pretty good,” O’Bannon said. Democrats have “longshot” chances to pick up seats in four other districts, he said. One Democrat seat, that of Dennis Neary in LaPorte County, may be taken by Republican challenger Richard F. Kelsey, O’Bannon said. Republican state strategist Wes Bucher predicts the GOP may gain as many as seven House seats. All 20 of the Republican Senate seats on the ballot are “winnable,” he said. A re-elected Orr would ask the Legislature to spend more on higher education and review funding levels for

As it is, the restless leaves twist and turn and come down by twos, threes, dozens and on wet windy days by the thousands and tens of thousands. This last figure is an estimate only and probably may be too low. FORTUNATELY FOR some and unfortunately for others, some showers of leaves swirl and turn on their downward journey, like a circling flock of birds, and come to earth some distance from their points of origin. That is, they may land on areas outside your surveyed property line. If this brings rejoicing, it will be shortlived. The same wind that bore them elsewhere will do an about-face and bring them home along with other leaves not in the original count. Once leaves are back where property rights can be honored, the householder who feels duty-bound to corral them may be outmaneuvered by the same wicked wind that’s out to get his goat in one way or another. BEFORE THE FIRST sweep of his rake, what had been gentle, intermittent breezes regroup in cyclonic patterns to scatter the leaves far and wide, making sure that most of them fall on areas raked clean just

mental health, among other budget requests, Hammond said. Democrats have criticized the GOP for supposedly not spending enough on either. Eleven Republicans and four Democrats are running unopposed for the House. In the Senate races, three Republicans are unopposed. Both parties will choose their legislative leaders during caucuses held a few days after the election. House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey, RMuncie, and Senate President Pro Tempore Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, are expected to seek those posts again. At least five members of the new General Assembly will be women. In two Senate races and three House races, incumbent women face women challengers. Sen. Virginia Blankenbaker, RIndianapolis, is opposed by Democrat Alice Schloss; Sen. Julia Carson, DIndianapolis, is opposed by Republican Beverly Mukes-Gaither. Rep. Sheila Klinker, D-Lafayette, is challenged by Republican Marian G. Miller; Rep. Janet Hibner, R-Richmond, faces Democrat Marcia Toschlog French; and Rep. Marilyn F. Schultz, DBloomington, faces Republican Joyce B. Polling.

minutes before. In leaf-falling season, a man can look out his bedroom window at the break of day and forecast with reasonable accuracy wind directions for the day. The secret is to spot the tree with the heaviest crop of yet unfallen leaves. The prevailing wind, then, will come from that direction, and if your place is in the line of fire, the leaves will sweep over it like ocean waves. LEAVES ARE ONE commodity over which property rights can not be accurately defined in law books. Beyond human control, they will dance and flutter across property lines, over boundary fences, across streets and even around corners, never staying in one place long enough to establish ownership. This turns out to be a sort of friendly exchange, a give-and-take proposition. You lose some leaves and you gain some, and even the computer, with its super-built “brain” couldn’t determine whether you came out ahead or behind. There’s something about a raked-up pile of leaves that seems to set evil winds in motion on what has otherwise been clear

NASA repairman Joe Allen gets lonely space job

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Maytag repairmen may think they’re the loneliest guys in town, but as repairmen go, Joe Allen will have wrenched that title away by week’s end. Allen, a 1959 DePauw University graduate and former Greencastle resident, will make his second trip into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery when it lifts off Wednesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center AND WHEN THINGS get down to business during the flight, astronaut Allen’s job will be to retrieve and repair the $35 million Indonesian and Western Union commercial communications satellites that were incorrectly deployed by another crew last February. Allen and fellow missions specialist Dale A. Gardner will also deploy two more com mercial satellites (for Hughes/Navy Leasat and Telesat Candad) during the eight-day shuttle flight. It was Allen, of course, who made space history aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1982 when he helped launch the first such satellite from the ship's payload area. In January of that year, Allen returned to Greencastle and the DPU campus a fullfledged hero. Then-Greencastle Mayor Jane Harlan presented him with the key to the city and he was toasted at a public luncheon in his honor at the DPU Union Building. Two separate convocations (afternoon and evening) played to near full houses at Kresge Auditorium as the Crawfordsville native showed films and slides taken during the flight. SINCE THAT TIME, however, space shuttle launchings have become far more mundane. NASA plans one a month for the next 18 months and live network TV converage now consists of only a few minutes at launch and landing. At present, there are no plans to fete Allen again at DPU upon his second return from space. If such an occasion is planned, however, it would be on “a much smaller scale,” DPU Public Relations Director

As Reagan goes, so goes...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The big question in the presidential contest in Indiana is not whether Ronald Reagan will carry the state, but by how large a margin. That in itself could be significant. Long Reagan coattails could help all Republican candidates, but especially congressional candidates Rick Mclntyre in the Bth District and Ken MacKenzie in the 2nd. But some political observers say a strong Reagan showing will not necessarily spell doom for Indiana Democrats in other races. So strong is Reagan’s Indiana that neither he nor his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, bothered to stop here. Mondale didn’t fare well in the Indiana primary, losing to Gary Hart by 6,000 votes out of more than 700,000 cast. The latest polls show an overwhelming

and calm days. Rounding up the strays from this uncalled for set of circumstances runs into overtime and causes an immediate rise in blood pressure. One way to make sure leaves won’t rise again is to stuff them into garbage bags, making sure the tops are immediately tightly tied. But even this could backfire. IF CARELESS-LIKE YOU have raked up some stray dog’s favorite bone or any other object which he would like to examine further, the night marauders may rip the bag open and a goodly portion of the leaves will return to haunt you. Moods of people and their likes and dislikes are hard to rationalize when leafraking is a way of life. They go into a sort of autumn ecstasy and drive miles to see color which could be seen in trees across the street or in most city blocks. But as this beauty fades and leaves begin to fall, so do the spirits of man. And, when the last leaf has gone to its final resting place, the bare tree branches add to the depressing days of bleak November, and man yearns for the time when the leaves will again appear to begin their season’s cycle.

JOE ALLEN Second launch Wednesday Pat Aikman told the Banner-Graphic. Aikman had hoped to make contact with Allen in time for the astronaut to tape a message that would have been aired on the cable TV broadcast of Saturday’s Monon Bell football game However, Allen was in quarantine for his Wednesday launch and did not have time to make arrangements. THE ASTRONAUT, however, did phone the PR office to say he would have room aboard the Discovery for a few DePauw-related trinkets. Allen will be accompanied by a small DPU pennant, a couple of DePauw decals and bumper stickers and a Beta Theta Pi franternity decal. Allen was a Beta at DePauw. The highlight of the space flight, however, will be the repair and retrieval of the two wrongly deployed satellites. Allen and Gardner will operate a maneuvering unit at an altitude of 200 nautical miles. The two mission specialists trained for the retrieval process of the flight during at August at Martin-Marietta’s testing facility in Littleton, Colo. The Discovery will be flown by pilot David M. Walker, with Frederick Hauck as commander. Another missions specialist, Anna L. Fisher, rounds out the five-person crew.

Reagan lead. State Sen. Louis J. Mahern, D-Indianapolis, calls it the “Crest mentality” more and more people are switching to Reagan “because they don’t want to be the only ones not voting for him.” The closest Hoosiers got to the 1984 White House race was when the two vice presidential candidates came calling. A Reagan victory Tuesday would continue a strong Indiana tradition. Democratic presidential candidates have carried the state only four times this century. The last time was in 1964 when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater. Franklin Delano Roosevelt carrried Indiana in 1932 and 1936, but lost in 1940 and 1944. Woodrow Wilson won in 1912. In 1980, Reagan carried Indiana by Col. 3, back page, this section

Local domestic violence session set Wednesday The annual meeting of Putnam County Family Support Services will be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7. A business meeting for PCFSS membership will precede the public meeting at 7 p.m. Featured speakers, Lt. Sheryl Turk, data processing branch commander, and Sgt. Steve Garner, vice branch of the Indianapolis Police Department, first made their presentation as part of a Family Support Services Seminar on domestic violence which was presented to local law enforcement personnel last spring. Both share their personal ex-periences-he of being an abuser and she as an abused spouse-as a way of making persons aware of how easily stressful conditions, immaturity or other factors can lead a person across the line into violence.