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Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at DePauw University had the top allhouse grade average, as well as the top pledge class average atDPU. University President Dr. Richard Rosser (left) was on hand at the annual scholarship dessert to congratualte Lambda Chi leaders (from second left) Greg Seketa of Greencastle, president; George Munich, scholarship chairman; Mike Muller; Jeff Bennett, president of the DPU Student Lobby Assn., and Bill Braman, treasurer. Dan Dunaway (right) is president of the dessert's co-sponsoring Interfraternity Council. Xi Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha has won this top scholastic honor for an unprecedented nine straight semesters.

Weeds not county responsibility

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A divided Indiana Supreme Court says counties aren’t legally required to cut roadside weeds to ensure a clear view for motorists. The justices, in a 3-2 decision Monday, set aside the Court of Appeals’ decision in a lawsuit brought by a Chicago man against the Pulaski County commissioners. Court records show that Edward Hurst’s car was struck after it entered an intersection of two Pulaski County roads on Oct. 1,1977. Hurst, who had stopped at the stop sign, said his view was obstructed by weeds and tall growth on the highway right-of-way. Hurst sued the county commissioners but Fulton Circuit Judge Douglas B. Morton ruled in the county’s favor without letting the case go to trial. The judge held that although there was a statutory duty, which had been met, to cut the weeds, there was no common law duty to cut the weeds. The appeals court reversed Morton, saying there is a common law duty to maintain the highway in a safe condition

GOP vows'war' over Indiana recount

WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry Republicans, vowing “war” with Democrats over a hotly disputed Indiana congressional election, kept the House open into the early morning hours today declaring that the contest winner never would be seated. Republicans launched an all-night session of speeches on the House floor about the dispute late Monday after a Democrat-controlled House task force voted along party lines to seat Democrat Frank McCloskey on the basis of a General Accounting Office recount that gave him 116,645 votes to 116,641 over Republican Richard Mclntyre. The House Administration Committee was scheduled to consider the task force recommendation today. But Republicans, claiming the vote had been stolen from them, said they would obstruct regular business if necessary to prevent McCloskey’s seating. “We do not intend for McCloskey to be seated, and we will take any actions necessary to stop that,” Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss., minority whip, told reporters Monday. “We will be obstructionist” and may try to bring Congress to a halt, Lott said, mentioning such tactics as speeches, roll calls and objections. “I think we ought to go to war,” said Rep. Richard Cheney, R-Wyo. “There is no pleasing both sides in this kind of determination,” said Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., chairman of the task force. “The reality is one side was going to be displeased. ... The General Accounting Office auditors conducted in every aspect a credible job.” The task force voted 2-1 to recommend McCloskey be seated after a session marked by heated shouting matches. The lone Republican, Rep. Bill Thomas of California, charged that recount procedures were inconsistent, and called for a special election. Debate in the task force centered on the treatment of about 50 absentee ballots that lacked required signatures of either voters

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for reasonable use. The appeals court said a jury should be allowed to decide whether that duty includes cutting weeds. In overruling the appeals court, the Supreme Court declared, “there is no common law duty on the part of county government to remove weeds and vegetation at intersections in order to facilitate improved visibility.” The high court noted that there is a statute which requires counties to remove weeds but added, “It would appear the intent of the Legislature in the passage of the

Redistricting suit delayed INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Arguments on the Indiana Legislature’s reapportionment suit won’t be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court before its summer recess. The high court Monday denied without comment a motion by Indiana Republicans to expedite the case and schedule oral arguments before the court ends its present term. The court usually recesses for the summer by July 4. William M. Evans, who represents Republican state officials sued by state Democrats, said it is rare for the Supreme Court to hurry oral arguments. “We were trying to let the court know that it would be helpful for a ruling from it in time for the Legislature to act,” Evans said. He said the court has indicated it would hear arguments in early October. Next week is the last week of scheduled oral arguments, which the court often sets before ruling on a case. By turning down the Indiana petition, the court has pushed arguments on the redistricting case back to October at the earliest. The court ends its summer break, the first Tuesday in October.

or witnesses. Panetta and Rep. William Clay of Missouri, the two Democrats on the threeman task force, said the uncounted ballots had been handled differently by state officials, and therefore should not be counted. “You got to the bottom line. Your man didn't win. When your man didn’t win, you look for some other votes,” Panetta told Thomas on Monday.

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statute was to protect adjacent property, especially farmland, from the spread of noxious growth emanating from highway rights-of-way. We hold the statute does not require the cutting of weeds at an intersection in order to provide visibility.” In his dissenting opinion, in which Justice Donald H. Hunter concurred, Justice Roger 0. Deßruler said, “if the counties have not had a duty of this nature as part of their duty to maintain reasonably safe roads, it is high time they did as a matter of the common law.”

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Interstate banking

bill wins approval

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - With the way clearly paved, the House has amended a Senate-passed bill to allow banks from 13 other states to operate in Tennessee as long as those states allow Tennessee banks within their boundaries. “Do you feel comfortable with this legislation or do you feel some more work should be done on it?” Rep. Lois Deßerry, D-Memphis, asked Rep. Jimmy Naif eh, the House majority leader, during debate wi Monday. “I won’t say that we couldn’t improve it, but we can still improve it during the next year whether we pass it or not,” Naifeh replied. The bill would allow regional reciprocal interstate banking among Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The House vote of 82-14 sent the bill back to the Senate, along with a companion bill affecting savings and loan associations,

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which was approved 94-3 after it also was amended. However, a third bill that restricts the operation of so-called “non-banks” in Tennessee was sent to Gov. Lamar Alexandei, 92-0. A bank accepts deposits, allows withdrawals and makes commercial loans under the definition in Tennessee law. Socalled “non-banks” can accept deposits and make loans but they cannot perform all three functions. Under the bill sent to Alexander, these would be forbidden. The interstate banking bill was fought to the end by Rep. Shelby Rhinehart, DSpencer, who accused sponsors of the bill of reversing their positions since 1983. Rhinehart recalled that the Legislature then turned down a bill to permit a North Carolina bank to purchase and save Nashville’s US Bank. The bill got only 38 of the needed 50 votes in the House. The bank was one of several Tennessee banks which collapsed Feb. 14, 1963,

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