Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 284, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 20,1985

Stadium worth sll3 million yearly to Marion, Hendricks counties

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Mayor William H. Hudnut says he has assured a Major League Baseball official that Indianapolis will not pursue an existing franchise without approval from the top, but remains eager to obtain a team, expansion or otherwise, Hudnut, who returned Friday from New York, said he met Thursday with Ed Durso, executive vice president of Major League Baseball, to detail the city’s interest in a team. He reiterated his opposition to obtaining the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League because of the team’s long-term lease with that city. ‘‘l told him as far as I was concerned, we wanted to do things in a timely fashion and not do anything to destabilize an existing franchise,” Hudnut said. A group of local businessmen hoping to bring the city a franchise, which would be named the Indianapolis Arrows, had held talks with Pirates owner Daniel Galbreath before Hudnut expressed his opposition. Galbreath is eager to sell the team.

Moses back in office at Fort Wayne FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Former Mayor Winfield C. Moses Jr. was reelected Friday, 11 days after he resigned his office and pleaded guilty to violations of campaign finance laws. Moses, who won board popularity three years ago for leading the city through severe flooding, won 86 out of 97 votes cast in the first ballot of a special election caucus of city Democratic precinct leaders. His four opponents in the election gathered a total of ll votes. State law provides that precinct leaders from the former mayor’s party select a replacement in instances when a mayor resigns. “Winfield Moses has received a majority of the caucus votes and has been elected mayor of Fort Wayne,” Allen County Democratic Party Chairman James Kelley announced. Moses took the oath of office minutes after the election, swearing to uphold the Constitution and enforce the law. “I will work hard the next two years to justify the confidence shown here,” Moses said, adding he would resume his duties Monday morning. “We’ll immediately get back to the business of budgets and salaries,” he said. The mayor’s office was vacated July 8 when Moses resigned and pleaded guilty tc three misdemeanor counts of failing tc report campaign contributions. A campaign finance committee created by Moses, a Democrat, made the con tributions in 1982 to a Republican candidate for sheriff, Boris Jeremenko. The contributions were part of an effort to stop a potential opponent in Moses’ 1983 re-election bid, according to court documents. Jeremenko pleaded guilty Thursday tc two misdemeanor counts and said Moses directed the actions of the finance com mittee that led to the indictment. Moses denied any knowledge of the unreportec contributions.

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Hudnut said he believed his stance could help the city when an expansion franchise or some other existing team becomes available. “I told them we want to be a good partner,” Hudnut said. “Until they give the green light to go after an existing franchise, we would be loath to do it.” Hudnut said he explained the fan support already shown in Indianapolis and the quality of investors trying to get a team for the city. Durso offered no specific encouragement to Indianapolis, Hudnut said, but “played it straight down the line. He was positive. He didn’t say, ‘Buzz off.’ ” Meanwhile, a consultant from Hendricks County said Friday in Plainfield that a suburban location for a new baseball stadium would still leave Indianapolis as the chief beneficiary. A stadium feasiblity report compiled by John E. Thiel of Avon showed a projected annual economic impact of $85.6 million to Marion County, where Indianapolis is located, and an additional $27.7 million to Hendricks County, the next county west. The

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Vice admiral cleared in case of weapons brought from Grenada

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice Adm Joseph Metcalf 111 has been exonerated oi wrongdoing in an attempt to bring Soviei rifles back to the United States after th< U.S. invasion of Grenada, Navy Secretary John Lehman says. However, an internal Defense Depart ment repx>rt said Metcalf must bear overall responsibility for the attempt tc bring the AK-47 automatic rifles into the country, Pentagon sources said Friday. The Navy, asked to comment on the sources’ summary of the investigation’s findings, released portions of a memo Navy Secretary John F. Lehman addressed to Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft. “I have reviewed the inspector general’s report and am pleased to note that Vice Adm. Metcalf is exonerated of wrongdoing,” Lehman wrote. “It is evident that Vice Adm. Metcalf expected to be returning with only a limited

Reagan headed home

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan is coming home from the hospital one week after cancer surgery and a spokesman says he will gradually step up his schedule until he’s “good as new.” The president’s aides invited wellwishers to see him off from Bethesda Naval Hospital today and welcome him back to the White House after an eightmile trip by motorcade. The first lady’s office said the president’s wife, Nancy, who gave him the

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number of weapons to be used solely for command presentation purposes a usage consistent with law and regulation. “This intent was frustrated by the poor judgment of one staff officer who, in apparent ignorance of possible sanctions, acted on his own to procure additional weapxms. This officer will be issued an official letter of caution,” Lehman wrote. The Navy declined further comment. The internal Pentagon report places blame for the gun-smuggling incident on an aide to Metcalf, who was commander of the 1983 Grenada invasion force, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The investigation by the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that while Metcalf didn’t follow proper procedures for returning weapons for use in legal “command presentations” to dignitaries, he did not know that one of his aides acted on his own to requisition the rifles for use as

good news on Friday that he was cleared to come home, would go to the hospital and accompany him back. About 200 to 300 Navy personnel including the medical team and about 40 to 50 people who had direct contact with the president while he was hospitalized, were invited to see him off. “He wanted to give them a special tribute,” presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said. Vice President George Bush, meanwhile, planned to be at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush had promised his grandchildren he would take them there, and Mrs. Reagan urged him to make good on his promise.

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report was commissioned by the Hendricks County Stadium Committee. “It is the overall conclusion of this report that a stadium will be feasible in Hendricks County,” said Thiel, a self-employed business and management consultant who works out of his home in Avon. The study, based on a similar study compiled in Indianapolis before the Hoosier Dome was built, shows that a major league baseball stadium could result in a 25-year direct economic impact of $2 billion for Marion County and $655 million for Hendricks County. Furthermore, Thiel’s report said, a baseball stadium would create the equivalent of 100 full-time jobs for management, ground crews, parking attendants and other stadium positions, and as many as 1,200 additional jobs for construction, franchise and stadium operations. Thiel acknowledged his study does not address several per-

souvenirs. The sources said the investigation would not lead to further disciplinary actions against Metcalf, who has already been given a letter of reprimand. The National Firearms Act as well as military regulations prohibit the importation of automatic weapons into the United States. The sources said the inspector general’s report states Metcalf issued general orders to his staff to requisition a small number of captured rifles for later use in “command presentations” to dignitaries. It says that Cmdr. Woodrow John Roble, who pursued the order, decided to requisition 24 AK-47s instead of eight. Apparently without Metcalf’s knowledge, he then affixed tape labels with the name of each member of Metcalf’s staff and the admiral’s to 16 of the rifles.

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Before leaving the hospital, aides said Reagan would deliver his weekly radio address, the first words he has spoken publicly since he checked into the hospital on July 12. Reagan’s radio address last week was pre-recorded and aired while he was on the operating table. The first event on Reagan’s schedule is a state visit Tuesday by Li Xiannon, the president of China. Aides said Reagan will greet Li on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday as is customary and then walk back into the residential quarters for a meeting in the Blue Room, skipping the usual longer stroll to the Oval Office. At the state dinner that evening, the president is expected to pass up the receiving line, but join guests in the dining room for the traditional exchange of toasts. Speakes said Reagan’s doctors told him to “plan on an abbreviated schedule for a few days.”

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tinent questions associated with stadium construction, including the impact on sewer and water utilities, police protection, and means of financing. “I think the numbers in there are dynamite,” said William L. Cherry, a Plainfield insurance man and chairman of the stadium committee. “It’s a situation where no one loses. There are only winners. Few people in Marion County wondered if they should let a stadium go up out of the county, but this shows that 75 to 80 percent of the dollars are still going to accrue to Marion County.” “I have always thought it was a serious proposition,” Cherry said of the proposed Hendricks County site at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Indiana 267. “Once you get over the initial shock and look at this seriously, even with it in Hendricks County you’re still only two miles across the county line and three miles from the (Indianapolis International) Airport,” Cherry said.

Death toll 200 in collapse of Italian dam

STAVA, Italy (AP) Survivors gathered on a hillside today to watch soldiers pull the bodies of neighbors and vacationers from the mud and debris that engulfed this resort town after a dam collapsed, killing an estimated 200 people, Italian officials said. In Geneva, Switzerland, a Red Cross statement released today put the death toll at 250, and said 30 were injured in the disaster in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. Doctors in nearby Cavalese, where a morgue was set up in a church, said searchers had recovered about 115 bodies. Eleven injured also were pulled out of the tons of mud, including a seriously injured 30-year-old woman from Sardinia who was buried up to her head for 18 hours, officials said. Fifty of the dead came from the nearby village of Tesero and 200 were Italian tourists, said the statement from the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies headquarters. The Red Cross statement said the figures were based on a report from the disaster site by Claudio Meringhe, heading a 50-person Italian Red Cross team there. Elveno Pastorelli, a top relief official from the Civil Defense Ministry, had earlier told reporters the death toll was expected to reach about 200. Stava is nestled high in the mountains of northeastern Italy near the Austrian border. A retaining wall about a half-mile south of the town, which kept in jilace two artificial lakes used to filter industrial wastes, collapsed during the lunch hour on Friday erasing most of Stava in a matter of seconds. Officials said water apparently seeped into the 20-year-old earthen dam and cracked it after recent thunderstorms. Scores of grieving relatives gathered outside the Santa Maria in Assunta Church in Cavalese, where the bodies were taken. One tearful woman, who would not give her name, said she had lost her mother and brother, and could not find the right words to express her grief. “Fear, horror, nausea, what do you want me to feel?” she cried. Survivors in Stava sat on a hillside and watched as military and civil defense crews used pickaxes, shovels and ear-

Pittsburgh meter rates: s2an hour PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh’s downtown parking meters are among the most expensive in the country up to $2 an hour. “Our garages are charging $1.50, $2 an hour, but which would you park at?” asked George Charlton, executive director of the Pittsburgh Parking Authority. “The best space is the one right in front of the door.” Pittsburgh’s meters cost twice as much as a long list of runners-up, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Washington and Boston, the Pittsburgh PostGazette reported Friday. Of the 25 largest cities, Phoenix, Ariz., has the cheapest meters at 20 cents an hour, the newspaper said.

Hospital will lay off 40

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) About 40 Bloomington Hospital employees will be laid off beginning Aug. 5 because of continuing declines in admissions, the hospital’s president said. Roland E. Kohr said Thursday the staff reduction was brought about partly “by the new Medicare payment program, partly by major changes in private insurance reimbursement programs and partly the

thmovers to clear away the rubble. Rescue workers, following dogs trained to sniff out buried victims, searched for survivors. “This is tava, where you see nothing,” said 22-year-old Franco Ruggero, pointing to the flattened expanse of mud and debris. Ruggero, a resident of nearby Tesero, had come like others to see whether friends had survived the flood. “I saw the end of the world,” said one survivor who wept as he recounted the horror. Officials in Tesero said 15 of the dead had been identified. All were residents of Italy, mostly from either the Tesero area or Milan. Civil Defense officials said late Friday that 195 people were unaccounted for, and that identification of the bodies would be a long process, in part because many of the bodies had been dismembered by the force of the water and mud. Civil Defense Minister Giuseppe Zamberletti said at a newe conference on Friday evening that the death toll was 220. He did not say what he based his figure on. Civil defense officials estimated roughly that about 300 people residents, vacationers and hotel workers were in Stava when the mud raced through the town, flattening about 20 houses and three hotels and leaving a 3Vi- mile-long stretch of dirt and debris. A fourth hotel in the area was badly damaged. “It looked like a big ball of mud that swallowed everything,” a man who said he worked for the area’s public works department told The Associated Press. He said that just before the disaster, he had made a daily inspection of the dam, noticed nothing wrong and returned to the village. He refused to give his name. “I heard a big rumble and I looked back and saw a large, a very large wall of mud coming toward the town. I started running and got on my motor scooter and got to the road above the town and watched,” he said. The dike was built to filter wastewater from a local mine for fluorite, a mineral used in glassmaking. “The dike never had any problems of instability,” said Tesero Mayor Adriano lellici. “It was considered a solid structure.”

von Bulow sued for $56 million NEW YORK (AP) Claus von Bulow, acquitted in a retrial on charges of trying to kill his wife, schemed to defraud and murder her to obtain an estate worth millions of dollars, his stepchildren claim in a $56 million lawsuit. Alexander von Auersperg and Annie Laurie von Auersperg Kniessl, who bankrolled an investigation that led to the Danish socialite’s two trials on attempted murder charges, on Friday filed suit in U.S. District Court, renewing their claims he tried twice to murder his wife with insulin injections. Five weeks ago, a Rhode Island jury cleared von Bulow of causing the seizures that rendered Martha “Sunny” von Bulow comatose in 1979 and in 1980. She recovered from the first coma, but doc ors say the second is permanent. Von Bulow now could inherit sl4 million of his wife’s $75 million estate.

result of changes in medical practice by physicians.” About 1,250 persons work at Bkomington Hospital. The laid-off employees will have first chance at any job openings at the hospital during the next year, Kohr said, and will receive severance pay and insurance coverage until September.