Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 110, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1985 — Page 3
llldy some piece I Colts do more for capital off field than on during 1984
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Colts ended their first season in Indianapolis with a dismal 4-12 record, but no one seemed to mind. Professional football brought another spotlight to a city that likes to shine among its Frost Belt neighbors. The National Football League team, the recent awarding of the 1987 Pan American Games and a booming convention trade that featured this year’s gathering of the National League of Cities have helped to bring big-league status to Indianapolis finally. Two less visible factors, however, have been the key to Indianapolis’ growth beyond its cornfield roots: the consolidation 15 years ago of city and county government into one political entity called Uni-Gov, and a public-private partnership that has been forged between political and business leaders. “I think the Uni-Gov style of government was absolutely essential to Indianapolis’ emergence as a great city,” said its chief architect, Richard Lugar, then the mayor of Indianapolis and now the senior U.S. senator from Indiana. “It became a time when people said, ‘This really is our chance.’” Problems that typify a big city also are found here. A street gang sued led to the recent fatal stabbing of a high school student at a downtown bus stop. At lunchtime, lines of indigents snake down the
House bills would make bingo legal, ban 'happy hours'
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Some legislators want to take the “happy” out of after-work “happy hours” by banning drink discounts as part of the war against drunken driving. Reps. Eric Turner, R-Gas City; Steve Johnson, R-Kokomo; and Mary J. Pettersen, D-Haminond. introduced a bill that would make it illegal for alcoholic beverage permit holders to offer such deals as two drinks for the price of one or cut rates for drinks served during a certain time of the day. That bill was among more than 100 filed Wednesday in the Indiana House and Senate. Also introduced were measures to legalize small-stakes bingo games, make lethal injection the means of capital punishment in Indiana and to require the Department of Education to establish a teacher evaluation system. Reps. Chester Dobis, D-Merrillville, and Edward Goble, D-Batesville, two longtime bingo backers, are sponsoring the bill to legalize bingo games run by non-profit charitable, religious, fraternal, educational, civic, political or patriotic groups. The bill says the games must be managed by a member of the sponsoring organization and proceeds must be used for lawful organization purposes. The maximum prize for any single game couldn’t exceed SSOO and total prizes for any one day couldn’t exceed $2,500 to be legal under their bill. Lethal injection would replace Indiana’s electric chair as the means of carrying out the death penalty under a bill sponsored by Dobis and Rep. John W. Donaldson, RLebanon. The Department of Correction would be allowed to adopt rules governing the new execution technique. Rep. Stephen J. Gabet, R-Grabill, has a bill that would require the Department of Education to come up with a teacher evaluation system by July 1, 1987. The system would include standardized evaluation forms, criteria on which teacher performance would be judged and an objective system of evaluation to critique teacher performance. Sen. Lindel O. Hume, D-Oakland City, is sponsoring a bill that could create a statefunded revenue sharing program for local governments. State income tax revenues would fund the program and distributions
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sidewalk in front of a downtown mission looking for a free meal. The president of the Indianapolis Urban League, Sam H. Jones Jr., calls Indianapolis a town where “blacks are simply tolerated, and not accepted.” Still, an infectious mood of confidence pervades the Hoosier capital, and it is not difficult to trace its roots. In 1969, Lugar and local business and civic leaders successfully lobbied the Legislature into passing a law that combined the city with surrounding Marion County. Overnight, the city’s population jumped by 40 percent and it’s ranking in size among other U.S. cities leaped from 26th to 11th. Today, Indianapolis is the nation’s 12th largest city with a population of 710,000. “History favors cities with momentum,” Lugar said. “This is a situation that still has momentum so it is attractive to people.” Three other cities and one town within the county remained intact, and their residents vote in elections for both local offices and city-county offices. A plethora of city and county agencies was streamlined into just six municipal departments and the city’s tax base grew dramatically. The move consolidated transportation services, sewage districts and zoning laws. Government suddenly had become efficient, and Indianapolis had become very
would be based on the population of the city, town or county. Sen. V. Richard Miller, R-Plymouth, introduced a bill that would cut in half the number of paid holidays for state employees and substitute six “commemoration” days when state employees would have to work but would get double pay. The remaining paid state holidays would be New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Current paid state holidays that would be eliminated are Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays, Good Friday, Columbus Day, Veterans’ Day and election day. Commemoration days would be Presidents’ Day, which would honor all former U.S. presidents on the third Monday in February; Good Friday; Distinguished Americans’ Day, which would honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Casimir Pulaski and George Rogers Clark on the first Monday in August; Discovery Day, the second Monday in October; Veterans’ Day, Nov. 11, and election day. Other proposals introduced Wednesday would: —Extend the deadline for filing workmen’s compensation claims for asbestosrelated diseases to 20 years from the last exposure, instead of two years now. The bill also would establish a fund to provide supplemental benefits to workers who become disabled but otherwise would be ineligible for benefits. —lncrease unemployment benefits by 15 percent for claims filed after July 6,1985. . —Allow people receiving unemployment compensation to earn up to SSO a week without having their benefits reduced. —Allow a mayor to be issued a beer retailer’s permit. Currently, municipal officials aren’t eligible for such permits. —Require each high school to offer home maintenance courses. —Make it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine, to entice a child under 14 years old into a car or a building without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian, except under certain specified conditions. —Allow a parent who objects on religious grounds to prevent the immunization of his school age child.
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Mayor William Hudnut presides over Hoosier Dome opening
attractive to federal bureaucrats and private developers, Lugar said. “We were the beneficiaries of more federal aid vis-a-vis other cities at the time,” said Lugar, the new chairman of the Senate Foriegn Relations Committee. Indianapolis was not unique Uni-Gov
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Teens charged in murders
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - The state has charged a 17-year-old boy in the ax murders of his mother and father St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Barnes said Dale Whipple of Lydick was formally charged Wednesday with two counts of murder. Whipple will be arraigned today in St. Joseph Superior Court, the prosecutor said. He added authorities would seek to have the couple’s daughter, Penny, 13, also charged as an adult in the case. Police found the bodies of Wayne A. Whipple and his wife, Sandra C. Whipple,
Principal to turn coach at Liberty LIBERTY, Ind. (AP) Principal Charles Roach has taken over coaching the Union High School basketball team during the teachers strike. Although the high school has not been reopened since the strike began Monday, school officials hope to resume classes there. Three other schools have been operating with substitutes. Dr. Ellen Bueschel, superintendent, said Wednesday the system will try to maintain a full athletic program. She said volunteers will serve as coaches. She said the district has been in contact with Gene Capo, an official of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, about the substitute coaching. No talks were scheduled as the strike moved into its fourth day today. The district is located in both Ohio and Indiana. The high school is located on the Indiana side. Administrators of the Union County Corp. School District have enlisted substitute teachers to operate three of the 1,600-student district’s four schools. The substitutes made it possible to reopen an elementary-junior high school Wednesday. It is the first teacher walkout to occur in the rural school district west of Dayton
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was based on similar systems of government in Nashville and Jacksonville, Fla. but it became the largest city to adopt such a city-county consolidation, Lugar said. No other major municipalities have copied the system, Lugar added, because predominately Democratic inner city
both 38, in their home at Lydick early Jan. 2 Both had been struck several times in the head with an ax-like object, investigators said. A double-bladed ax believed the murder weapon was discovered Tuesday morning in Bass Lake near the family’s home, Sheriff William J. Richardson said. Dale Whipple was lodged in the county jail. His sister was taken to Parkview Detention Center in South Bend. The girl was held on preliminary charges of aiding and inducing the felonies, Barnes said.
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residents fear absorption of heavily Republican suburbs will dilute their power, as has happened here, while suburbanites are unwilling to help bear the burden of inner city problems. No Democrat has occupied the office of mayor since Uni-Gov was implemented Lugar’s only successor, William Hudnut, is serving his third term. From his 25th-floor office in 'the CityCounty Building, Hudnut can look west to the Hoosier Dome and the refurbished Monument Circle, the hub of the downtown district. To the north, he can see the onetime suburbs, now pumping fresh money into the city with newly developed shopping centers, apartment complexes and housing developments. The refurbishing of the circle district was one of the earlier partnerships between government and business: merchants helped pay for installing brick sidewalks and a general sprucing up. The dome represents one of the largest private investments: it was partially financed through a S3O million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a local charitable foundation created by the family of late pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly. “We have been blessed by good corporate support and by good philantropic support,” Hudnut said. “We are not just a sports town. The key to a thriving economy is diversity.”
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Like its Frost Belt neighbors such as Cleveland, Detroit and the steel-producing Calumet region around Chicago, Indianapolis lost heavy manufacturing jobs during the recessionary early 1980 s. According to the Indiana Employment Security Division, the Indianapolis metropolitan area has lost 20,000 manufacturing jobs in the last five years alone. Tom King, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, said the city today is playing off assets and pursuing develop ment in several key areas: amateur spur ts, warehousing and distribution, medicine and agribusiness. It hosted the 1982 National Sports Festival and will have the Pan Am Games in 1987. "There’s more of an entreprenuerial at mosphere here now rather than traditional-type industry,” King said. Some of that entreprenuerial spirit is reflected in people like J.J. Cappell, manager of a downtown delicatessen: “I’ve lived here for seven years, and when I came here from Houston, I thought Indianapolis was a joke. But in the last year or 10 months, I’ve been getting com ments all the time what a great city this is. Someone from California told me that the other day. “Now I’m pretty impressed with it. I can say Indianapolis, instead of India-no-place,” Cappell said.
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