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SEN. RICHARD THOMPSON Co-sponsors school bill

900-pound Baby Henry too fat for his own good

CHELSEA, Ind. (AP) - Baby Henry, a house-broken pig, just got too big to live in the same house as Ron and Phyllis Battoe. The couple say they evicted the 900pounder about six months ago after deciding that the floor of their house just wouldn’t support him. They say the pig, who was almost 18 months when the decision was made, isn’t that happy with his new living conditions Baby Henry is spoiled and refuses to be treated like a pig, said Mrs. Phyllis Battoe recently as she reached in her pocket and found a piece of fudge. The pig then came by, rubbed his pink snout in her palm and fished around for the treat. “They call me the crazy lady on the hill because of that pig,” Battoe said. “But I’m just crazy about him. Of course, to me he’s beautiful." He was a splendid house pet, Mrs. Battoe said. “He was house broken in two days, which is something I can’t

Liberty teachers vote to approve two-year pact

LIBERTY, Ind. (AP) Striking Union County teachers voted to return to classes today after approving a two-year contract which would end a two-week strike. The teachers, who walked out Jan. 7, voted Monday night shortly after the tentative settlement was announced. Bargainers had met for 32 hours. The school board will meet later to consider the proposed pact. A teachers spokeswoman said the contract provides a 6.4 percent salary increase retroactive to the start of the school year. The second year salary will be the state average at the opening of school in September, adjusted after the first 150 settlements, said Jeanne Sipahigil, a member of the teachers’ bargaining unit. “I think we all feel pretty good about the contract,” she said,. “There are no losers.

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Earlier school start bill dies in committee

INDIANAPOLIS - An effort to keep schools fromo starting before Labor Day has failed in the Indiana Legislature. The Senate Education Committee voted 6-4 Monday to kill Senate Bill 27, sponsored by Sen. John B. Augsburger, R-Syracuse. The Senate passed a similar measure last year, but the bill died in the House. The committee passed 10-0 a bill specifying that only a local school corporation can determine the length of its school day. The start of school measure, which would have taken effect in 1986, said the first “pupil attendance day” of school couldn’t be earlier than the first Tuesday after Labor Day. Augsburger said only 33 of more than 300 school corporations in Indiana started classes after Labor Day last year. School starts as early as the middle of August in some districts, he said.

say for the five dogs. ” Mrs. Battoe has a photo collection of the number one animal on her southern Indiana farm. “He has his own baby album with pictures. The last picture I took, he was in front of the TV. He has his own piggy pillow where he’d lay his head and watch TV, usually cartoons.” Baby Henry pigged out this Christmas and suffered for it. “Christmas, he was in bad shape 'cause he ate so much fudge and chocolate cookies ” The vet wrote a quick prescription, but Baby Henry refused to take the medicine. “So we put it in his tacos. He loves tacos,” Mrs. Battoe said. Baby Henry’s diet is considerably different than most pigs, Mrs. Battoe admits. “He won’t eat garbage. Potato peels? No way. If they’re baked, fried or boiled, OK, but he won’t touch ’em otherwise,” she said. “He thinks sausage is neat, but that’s because he doesn’t know where it comes from. Momma hasn’t told him.”

We have to deal with one another after this is over. It is much easier to do if nobody has a grudge. “We feel we have gotten some language we needed. We didn’t get the 7.42 percent (salary increase) we wanted, but we felt we made movement from that. The board made some concessions. Both sides feel comfortable.” She said the full retroactive pay would be made in one lump sum within 21 days of ratification. The school district straddles the In-diana-Ohio line with three schools in Indiana and the fourth in Ohio. Schools remained open during much of the strike with substitutes filling in for strikers. However, about 60 percent of the corporation’s 1,671 students had stayed home.

Supporters of the bill argued the early start of school in most Indiana districts was costing the state as much as sl4 million in lost tourism revenue. Augsburger said the weather is too hot to allow students to concentrate fully in late August. He contended that schools, attempting to give their students an advantage in getting summer employment, continue to move up the start of school so students will be available to work earlier in the spring. The bill’s opponents including an coalition representing school boards, school superintendents, farmers and teachers argued that establishing a school calender should be a local decision. The bill drew support of the Indiana Retail Council, Indiana Restaurant Association, Indiana Food Processors Association and tourism division of the state Department of Commerce.

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Jan Diggins, executive director of tourism development for the state, said the peak tourist season extends from the middle of June through the end of August. “If it had to be a trade-off, the (tourism) industry would prefer, nine times out of 10, trading the days in June for the days at the end of August,” Ms. Diggins said. Opponents of the bill argued the state shouldn’t mandate when school can begin and that economic interests shouldn’t be the determining factor in fixing a date for classes to begin. “Philosophically, we believe it should be left to local school boards,” said Bill Hadley of the Indiana Farm Bureau. Jack Peterson, executive director of the Indiana School Boards Association, said local school boards need flexibility to weigh various local interests when drawing up school calendars. “This is not an educational issue. This is

uphold the 1982 Public Service Commission order granting the increase. Before NIPSCO can ask the Indiana Supreme Court to review the case, the utility must show that its request for rehearing has been denied by the appeals court. Supreme Court review isn’t automatic; the justices can refuse to hear the appeal. “The state of Indiana may not constitutionally require a utility to spend prudently large amounts of money for the convenience of the public and at the same time prohibit the utility from recovering those expenditures through rates,” the NIPSCO brief said. “Simply stated, it is unconstitutional for the state to demand someone’s services or take his property without just compensation.”

an issue from the economic sector that is trying to determine what is in the best interests of school children,” Peterson said. Charles Fields, executive secretary of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, said the bill “won’t contribute to educational welfare in any way.” Bob Thornberry of the Indiana Federation of Teachers said the measure went to “a deserved death” last year in the House. “Any time you see the school board association, the teachers union and the farm bureau opposed to a bill, you ought to stop and question the bill,” Thornberry said. The coalition opposing the school start bill Monday supported the length of day proposal, 5.8.406, sponsored by Sens. Richard A. Thompson, R-North Salem, and John R. Sinks, R-Fort Wayne.

At least 125 hurt in Gary train collision

GARY, Ind. (AP) Federal investigators today were probing the headon crash of two South Shore Line commuter trains that sent more than 129 people to area hospitals, authorities said. None was hurt critically. The trains, part of the last electric interurban railroad in the United States, were on the same track during evening rush hour Monday because sub-zero weather had damaged overhead electrical lines, said Richard Bunton, a spokesman for the commuter line. The eastbound train “full of passengers” from Chicago struck the westbound train between stops in Gary, said Bunton. Rescue crews had to use crowbars to free some of the people from the wreckage, said Gary Fire Chief Bobby Joiner. Mayor Richard Hatcher said he was pleased with the city’s response to the accident. “The first (rescue) units were on the scene within two minutes of the accident,” Hatcher said. Patricia Shadwick, 30, an insurance broker riding from Chicago to her

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Supporters argued a state rule prohibits local administrators from creating special programs for students and causes increases in transportation and instructional costs. The state hasn’t provided extra money to pay teachers for longer days in the classroom, supporters said. Because elementary students are required to be in class only five hours a day, another effect of the rule is that school corporations have had to create two-tiered bus service to transport elementary and secondary school students, supporters of the bill said. Also Monday, the committee voted 9-1 for a bill to require schools to teach students in grades 9,10,11 or 12 about harmful effects of mood-altering drugs and chemicals. The measure, S.B. 50, is sponsored by Sen. William Dunbar, R-Terre Haute.

hometown of Gary, said, ‘ I was fortunate that my injuries were not serious. There were four people on my car who were taken out on splinter stretchers. “Everyone on the train pitched in, in fact, I went around to help people before I thought, I better sit down.” The railroad planned to resume “late but full schedule” for commuters this morning, said Bunton. The eastbound train with four cars left Chicago at 5:58 p.m. and was scheduled to terminate in Michigan City, Bunton said. The westbound train, with two cars, from Gary was heading to Chicago, Bunton said. “One car derailed, and the leading cars of each train were severely damaged,” Bunton said, but he could not confirm a report that both trains were moving at the time of the crash. “These are electrically propelled trains with an overhead system. The extreme cold gets into wire or any metal contacts. I assume that happened with the weather we had Saturday,” said Bunton. Temperatures fell to as low as 27 degrees below zero in Chicago Sunday.

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