Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 329, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 September 1985 — Page 3
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Saudi Arabia believed ready to discount official OPEC price
c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Saudi Arabia may be putting into effect a new policy that could result in its first discounts from the official OPEC price, analysts said Tuesday. While these analysts could not confirm various reports of the Saudi change, most said they thought it was probably true, adding that rumors of such a shift had been widespread for the last month. The form of the discount, they said, would be a Saudi agreement with several large oil companies to link the price of Saudi petroleum to the market price of refined products derived from it, such as gasoline and heating oil. Under present market conditions, such a link would probably result in a cut of about $3 from the benchmark price of S2B a barrel for Saudi Light crude, the analysts said. Saudi Arabia was reported to have agreed with some oil companies to enact the policy, but some analysts said it was unlikely that contracts had been signed, and there was no official confirmation of the report. Three of the companies said to be involved the Exxon Corp., the Mobil Corp. and Texaco Inc. declined to comment. The fourth, the Chevron Corp., said it had made no agreement with the Saudis and was holding no discussions with them. But Larry Shushan, a Chevron spokesman, said, “We understand that the Saudi government is interested in making some arrangements of that sort.’’ Mobil, Texaco, Exxon and Chevron are partners in the Arabian American Oil Co., or Aramco, which produces Saudi
Murder trial slated Sept. 9 for 14-year-old girl
CROWN POINT,Ind. (AP) A Lake County public defender, spurning courtroom delaying tactics, wants his adolescent client tried for murder before she has time to grow up. Attorney Richard C. Wolter Jr. asked for a speedy trial for Denise Thomas, 14, of Gary, in the stabbing death of a Gary Bible studies teacher last May. A judge granted a Sept. 9 trial date. “If we had waited, she would have been a completely different person by the time she went to trial,” Wolter said Tuesday. “Since she is going to be judged by adult standards, having been waived into the
Purdue enrollment increases
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) For the first time since 1981, enrollment has increased at Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus, according to university officials. The number of students at the West Lafayette campus is 31,987, up 530 from last fall, said Joseph Bennett, director of university relations. He said enrollment has been falling since 1981, when it peaked at 32,797.
Firefighters are disciplined
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Three city firefighters have been disciplined for joining in a prank that resulted in a small blaze at a firehouse. Fire Chief John Behme called the Aug. 23 fire a serious incident despite the fact that it did little damage. Behme said Capt. Jeff Austin was
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oil. Analysts said the Royal Dutch-Shell Group, which also is a partner in a production facility in Saudi Arabia, might also be involved. Such a shift would be a major policy change for Saudi Arabia, which has adhered to the pricing structure of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, although the Saudis have suffered from the world oil glut and from unauthorized price cutting and overproduction by other OPEC members. The Saudis have threatened in the past to increase production if OPEC does not take action to bolster its official prices, which are generally higher than those in the open market. Tuesday oil prices were generally higher, continuing a recent trend. “It is a basic change because Saudi Arabia has been a keeper of the seal for OPEC,” John H Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, said. “Now they are moving more toward what the other members are doing.” Analysts said the plan could lead to more price cutting and would probably add pressure on OPEC to heed Saudi Arabia’s requests for new pricing and production levels at the organization’s meeting next month “It’s a price cut, no doubt about it, and it adds an element of instability to the world oil price structure that wasn’t there before,” said William Randol, an analyst at the First Boston Corp.
adult court system, it’s important for me to give the jury an opportunity to see her as she was at the time of the incident,” he said. Prosecutors have charged three other teen-age girls in the May 14 slaying of Ruth E. Pelke, 77, and asked for the death penalty for each. Prosecutor Jack Crawford alleges Mrs. Pelke was stabbed and her car taken after the elderly woman let the children into her home when they expressed an interest in Bible studies. Crawford had filed a death penalty request against Ms. Thomas but dropped that request without comment,
On the average, the number of students at the university’s regional campuses remained steady, Bennett said. At the university’s Calumet campus in Hammond, Bennett said, enrollment dropped 105 to 7,337. At Westville’s North Central campus, the number was up 114 over last year, totaling 2,730. And at the Fort Wayne campus, Purdue enollment was down 29 students, making the total for the fall semester 5,218.
suspended for five days and placed on a year’s probation after admitting he dropped a smoke bomb into the lockers of two other firemen he suspected of shaving one of his eyebrows as he slept. Two other firefighters, Capts. Keith Jarboe and Mike Gilkey, were given reprimands for not reporting the incident.
spokeswoman Diane Donovan said. Also charged in the case are: Karen D Corder, 17, Paula R. Cooper, 16, and April J. Beverly, 15, all of Gary. At Ms. Thomas’ trial, jurors won’t hear outright pleas for sympathy, Wolter said. “I want the jury to understand that she was involved as sort of a tag-along with older people, but I’m not so sure sympathy is the way to bring that out,” he said. In documents filed with the court, Ms. Thomas admitted being at the scene but claimed she did not take part in the crime. No trial date has been set for the three older defendants.
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Kiwanis sues over female membership
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A woman whose membership in a Kiwanis Club chapter prompted a lawsuit by the international organization alleging violations of its menonly policies says she just wants “to be accepted as a person.” Kiwanis International filed suit Tuesday in U S. District Court, contending that the Ridgewood chapter violated its bylaws by inviting Julie Fletcher, 45, to become a member. The lawsuit asks a judge to bar the chapter from using the association’s name and trademark. “The male fellowship is the key to the whole thing,” said David Williams, public relations manager for Kiwanis International, which has 8,200 chapters in the United States and abroad. Kiwanis clubs have been exclusively
2,200-year-old tooth's filling still intact JERUSALEM (AP) - A green tooth containing the oldest known dental filling was discovered in the skull of a Nabatean warrior who was buried in a mass grave 2,200 years ago’ an Israeli archaeologist said. Joe Zias, curator of Israel’s Department of Antiquities, said a bronze wire was inserted into the tooth canal. The patient probably thought the treatment would stop “toothworms” from burrowing into the decaying tooth, and it probably caused great pain, he said. “This guy’s mouth was a mess. He had four abscesses, two impacted teeth, an extra tooth in front and an enlarged molar,” Zias said. Because the bronze oxidized, the tooth turned green, attracting the attention of scientists who discovered the filling. Zias told The Associated Press he had confirmed with medical historians in the United States that “this is the oldest tooth ever found with the filling intact.”
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male since their founding in 1915, said Williams. The all-male policy was reaffirmed July 4 by Kiwanis International members at its annual convention in Toronto. Just as there are service clubs open exclusively to women, Kiwanis members in 76 nations “like to get together with other men,” he said. But Mrs. Fletcher, an art consultant from Ridgewood who has been active in community projects, said she was invited by the men in the local chapter to join them in October 1984. The invitation was unanimous, she said. “I’m really disheartened,” she said. “I just want to be accepted as a person.” Members of the 51-year-old chapter intend to fight the suit, said chapter
satisfactory at Riley
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The 13-year-old Kokomo boy barred from school because he has AIDS was reported in satisfactory condition today in Riley Hospital for Children. The seventh-grader was brought to the Indianapolis hospital Monday, but hospital officials on duty said they did not know why he was admitted. “The only thing that I can tell you is that he is in satisfactory condition,” Phyllis K. Woodard, admitting clerk, said late Tuesday. Hospital spokeswoman Rena I. Brown said the boy was admitted at 8:50 p.m. Monday and had been listed in satisfactory and stable condition since his arrival. She said she did not know whether he was suffering any symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, an often fatal disease. AIDS robs the body of its defenses against infections and viruses. Ryan, a hemophiliac, contracted the disease last year through a blood transfusion, his mother has said. School officials said the boy would not be allowed to attend classes because of the possibility the disease could be tran-
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president Stephen Lear. “We’ve got women floating around in space,” Lear said. “We’ve got women aspiring for the White House. Mrs. Fletcher has been very active in the club, which has about 30 members, he said. “She’s as active, she attends as many meetings as any male.” “Kiwanis International does not ask the Ridgewood club to disband or to exclude anyone from its membership,” international secretary G.H. Zitzelsberger said in a statement. However, the organization wants to deny its name and trademark to anyone who disobeys its bylaws, Williams said. “Just like Xerox or Coca-Cola, we have the right to grant or withdraw the right to use our name.”
smitted to other students, and because he might contract other diseases from fellow students. “His condition today is being reported as satisfactory and stable,” said Ms. Brown. “And that’s all the information that I have at this time.” Jeanne White, the boy’s mother, was unavailable. Mrs. White and her son filed a federal lawsuit last month to force Western School Corp. officials to allow Ryan to attend classes this fall. U.S. District Judge James E. Noland ruled Aug. 16 that Mrs. White and her attorney had not followed the school’s appeals process and he could not intervene. Ryan has remained at home monitoring classes with a telephone link. Meanwhile in Lafayette, Charles Vaughan, Mrs. White’s attorney, said he expected school officials to contact him about the status the suit. Vaughan said Tuesday he expects to hear from school officials about what appeals process will be used to review the decision by Superintendent James O. Smith barring Ryan. Vaughan said White was in the hospital but he did not believe the illness was serious.
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