Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 292, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 July 1985 — Page 3

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Negley name 'blot' on Education Dept, despite his absence

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Department of Education is unflagging in its effort to wipe out all telltale signs of Harold Negley’s discredited tenure as superintendent. And 2,600 newly certified teachers have a big, black blot on their state-issued licenses to prove it. Each teaching license bears the signature of the state school superintendent. And up until April 10, that was Negley, who resigned after being indicted on ghost employment charges for using department employees to work on his 1984 re-election campaign. Negley ultimately pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service work. Facing a flood of license applications after the end of the school year and without adequate time to get in an order of new licenses, the department decided to use the old ones with Negley’s signature. But having Negley’s signature on the form was a problem, because he no longer was superintendent. The solution? Blot it out. The black-ink rectangle over the signature is almost three and a half inches wide and an inch high and gives the license the appearance of a censored top-secret document. Even so, Negley’s name is still distinguishable. Associate Superintendent Jeff Zaring said these forms were used for about six weeks. Some went out with Acting Superintendent Jan Regnier’s signature before H. Dean Evans took over earlier this month. Zaring said there was a push on in the department to process license applications submitted before July 1, when new applicants would have to pass a competency test in order to be licensed. Zaring conceded that the department could have kept a record of people who applied for licenses before July 1 and then sent them clean licenses when the new forms were in. “But a practical concern is that people are eligible for a license and they want something in their hands. There was a need to present them with some document,” he said. “A letter isn’t really a license. In the interim, we could give them a license, albeit it’s not the kind of thing you want to hang on the wall.” Zaring said a letter accompanying the license told the teachers that if they want a certificate without a blacked-out box, they can trade theirs in for a new one. The new forms are in now, but so far no one has requested one, he said. Then there’s the matter of the fine print on the bottom of the license that says “any erasure, change or mutilation of this licen-

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se renders it null and void.” Zaring said teachers who received those licenses have nothing to worry about. “We kind of took the position that it (the warning) was directed at any alterations made after it was issued. If it was that way when it was issued, we didn’t consider that an alteration,” he said. If you’re longing to throw a big Statehouse wedding like the one Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz’s daughter Diana had, forget it. That’s the word from Orval Lundy, commissioner of the Department of Administration and overall overseer of state property. “I’ve had a couple of calls about using the Rotunda for a marriage. I rejected those because I don’t want to get that started,” Lundy said. He made an exception for Mutz’s daughter, who was married in an evening ceremony in the Statehouse’s north wing earlier this month. “If the governor tells me to do something, I’m going to do it because he’s my boss. The lieutenant governor is second in command and on things like this, he has almost the same authority as the governor, as far as I’m concerned,” Lundy said. “If it was another elected official wanting to use the Statehouse, I’d seriously consider it,” he added. “I just can’t let anyone who comes along, even if they are a state employee, use it. I can’t control it. I don’t think the general public wants it.” Lundy said no tax money was used to put on the wedding and that Mutz rented the chairs used to seat guests. Oak pews from the Rotunda were pressed into service for the first rows. “Some of our people did help set up some of the chairs, but there wasn’t any cost to the state,” he said. Lundy said there was no fee for using the Statehouse, even though Mutz offered to pay any expense associated with using the historic building. “He double-checked with me on that,” Lundy said. “I told him, ‘lf I let you pay a rent or a fixed fee, then I’m almost teiling anybody who wants to use it that if you want to pay the fee, you can use it.’” There is a little chapel on the fourth floor that can be used for weddings and Lundy said he routinely gives approval for its use. But, he added, “it only holds about 12-15 people.”

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Gary retains No. 1 status in homicide rate, stats show

GARY, Ind. (AP) Although Gary retained its ranking as the “murder capital of the world” when FBI figures were released recently, the city’s police detective supervisor says he doesn’t know if it’s deserved. Sgt. James B. Thompson said the “murder capital” title is nothing new for Gary, which had “100-plus murders about five years ago.” “Of course, we’ve had that title for a long time, but whether we deserve it, I can’t say,” Thompson said. The FBI figures, released over the weekend, showed Gary’s 1984 homicide rate of 54.8 murders per 100,000 residents as the highest of any city in the nation with a population over 100,000. Gary’s population is listed at about 152,000. Detroit was second in the rankings with a 45.3 rate, followed by Miami at 42.4 and New Orleans at 37.1, the FBI said in its

Dana to hold Pyle Festival INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Dana, Ind. will host an Ernie Pyle Festival next month to honor the famed Hoosier war correspondent on the 40th anniversary of the end of World War 11, the Indiana State Museum said. The two-day festival, to begin Aug. 2, will feature a display of military vehicles, tours of Dana, Pyle’s home town; and an Ernie Pyle lookalike contest. Pyle, who was born Aug. 3,1900, studied journalism at Indiana University and later worked for Scripps-Howard News Alliance. During World War II he reported from front lines throughout Europe and the South Pacific. He was killed April 18, 1945.

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Hoosiers in violation of 'age act' INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Complaints of age descrimination are on the rise in Indiana and now make up about a third of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s caseload, a lawyer for the commission says. “It’s the new frontier,” said Jeff Mallamad, a staff attorney with the EEOC office in Indianapolis. “The age act has been around for a while, but now there’s a much greater public awareness of it. ” The agency is challenging mandatory retirement ages set by the Indiana State Police (55) and the state Department of Natural Resources (60). It has also filed suits against six northern Indiana towns, challenging the maximum hiring age (36) established for police agencies by state law. “Indiana is right in the forefront with this,” Mallamad said. “A town can hire a 35-year-old with no experience, but you lake a member of the Secret Service or the FBI with 15 years of intense experience and if he’s 36 you can’t hire him. That’s how arbitrary it is.” Last year, after an EEOC suit based on the same issues, a federal judge ordered the state police to keep on Lt. Col. Robert Deßard, a former superindentent, past the retirement age of 55. The case is pending, but in issuing a temporary ban, federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin said, “Forcing a relatively young man to give up a job just because he has a birthday is not only traumatic; it’s silly.” Older workers have also won discrimination cases in the private sector. In a case just decided, Dillin ruled in favor of Warren H. Davis, a 60-year-old employee of Ingersoll Johnson Steel Co. who said he and 16 other longtime employees were forced to leave after a business slump. Dillin who is 71 years old said that Davis was well-regarded until he received low marks from a superior who was “only doing what he was told to do.” Dillin called Ingersoll’s proffered reasons for the dismissal “a mere pretext.” But employers say they have many legitimate defenses to discrimination suits. Police agencies, airlines and other employers argue that age is a factor affecting the performance of a job and one that exempts them from the law.

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