Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 357, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 October 1985 — Page 3
Think-tank president pleased with move to Indianapolis in 'B4
By HANK LOWENKRON Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The thinkers at the Hudson Institute are convinced they made a wise move a year ago by trading New York for the Midwest. “Indiana convinced us that we could move from New York and gain a lot while giving up very little,” said Thomas Bell, president of the institute which last year abandoned the 30acre, seven-building estate in Croton-on-the-Hudson it had called home since the 19605. The think-tank now occupies office space on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. It must decide by the end of the year where in the city it will have its permanent quarters. “Moving to Indiana has given us a better quality of life, more bang to the buck in relation to how far the dollars could go. We like to put our money into research and not overhead,” said Bell. After hearing from Indiana political and civic leaders, the institute selected this Midwestern city, known more for an auto race than as a hub for intellect. The work of the institute, consisting of research aimed at projecting the future, continues without any problem, Bell said. “The national and international research we did before is still being done. We’re doing as much, or more of it now. We also have developed a relationship with Indiana University and Purdue University which has worked out beautifully.” The two schools operate a joint Indianapolis campus. “It’s an informal and very effective partnership and it allows Hudson Institute to pursue things would have been more difficult in our old situation,” he said. “The kind of research that Hudson Institute does generally has a longer view than other research organizations. We decided it was beneficial to be out of the reactive political and economic environment of Washington, D.C. and New York in terms of headquarters,” he added. The institute still has representation in Washington and New York. “We’d never break our ties with those cities. We still maintain strong ties in New York with the financial world and the international world through the United Nations. And we have more workers in Washington than here,” Bell said. “The senior leadership, where the basic decisions are being made with regard to the direction of our research program, the things that we focus our time and attention on is being done here,” he said. “I think we’re getting a clearer view. I don’t think we’re all caught up with the conventional wisdom of the moment that is in New York or Washington.” Being isolated from that has made the institute work more smoothly, he said. “Things are changing now faster than they’ve ever changed before and in the future they’ll change faster
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Judge rescinds Kiritsis citation
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A special judge has rescinded a contempt of court citation which has kept Anthony G. Kiritsis in the State Reformatory since 1981 for refusing medical and mental examination. Special Judge Jeffrey V. Boles cleared the way Tuesday for Kiritsis to be tran sfered to a state mental health facility. That transfer is expected Friday morning. The order also authorizes state mental health officials to begin testing Kiritsis against his will if necessary to fashion a treatment plan if needed. Indianapolis attorney Gary P. Price, appointed by Boles last December to represent Kiritsis, said he was notified Tuesday of the court’s action. “I have filed a motion for a protective order to give us a chance to review the proposed examinations and any treatment plan,” he said. “If the motion is denied, we’ll try to get the matter back before the Indiana Supreme L Court.” Price said his motion, which would also regulate compliance with state law regarding a patient’s right to refuse treatment, would not prevent the transfer from taking place. If Price’s protection order is granted, it would prohibit doctors from conducting any testing or treatment until plans for administering tests are reviewed by Kiritsis
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because technology is driving change,” Bell said. “The only thing that slows that change or puts a brake on it is human resource factors and institutional rigidities. “By being here in the Midwest we’re able to deal with these human icsouic factors kind of a one-to-one, people-to-people, analyst-to-problem basis. I think we have a lot better idea what’s going on and what to do about it.” Bell says other staff members (about 20 to 25) who made the move from the quick-paced metropolitan New York area apparently share his view that life in Indiana’s capital city meets their needs. “It’s been a good experience for our staff,” he said. “The people that have moved here like it. Only one has moved back to New York and she went back because it was a matter of the heart and not that she didn’t like Indianapolis.” There are now about 65 people, both secretarial and administrative, working for the institute here and Bell anticipates adding about eight more before the end of the year. “It’s taken us a little longer than we anticipated to move some people to this office. Our goal was to have 80 people at our headquarters by June 1986 and I think we still have a reasonable shot at that.” Bell said. “There was a lot of resistance among the Hudson Institute staff to moving here. The senior-most people and the board of trustees really thought through the process of moving. They felt it was risky, but a good bet. We worked very, very hard to get people to move out here and now I don’t think you could get most of them to move back.”
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and his counsel, and until Boles holds hearings on the plans. Boles, who as special judge has overseen the Marion Superior Court Probate Divsion case since 1981, rescinded his contempt citation in response to a petition filed Friday by Harold W. Blake, appointed by Boles in December to act as Kiritsis’ guardian. Blake, in his petition, said the coercive effect of Boles’ contempt citation an attempt to force Kiritsis to submit to tests had not been successful and was not likely to succeed. Kiritsis, 53, was declared mentally ill and dangerous to others after more than
Lafayette area still in running KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. (AP) - Gov. Robert D. Orr and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz say the Lafayette area remains in the running for a joint auto plant planned by Chrysler Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., despite speculation that Bloomington, 111., has won the plant. The two officials, in interviews with The Associated Press, said Tuesday they had not been notified of any decision by the automakers. “I wish I did but I don’t,” Orr said when asked if he knew where the SSOO million plant was going. “It’s kind of like election night. It’s down to two candidates.” The joint venture plant would employ about 2,500 workers to produce 180,000 small cars a year. An estimated 8,000 other jobs would be created in related supplier industries. The Peoria Journal Star quoted an unidentified Mitsubishi official Tuesday as saying Illinois is “99 percent certain” to be chosen as the site of the plant. It also quoted Glen Gardner, Chrysler’s top official on the companies’ joint site-selection team, as saying the team had made a preliminary choice. Also, Michigan Commerce Director Doug Ross said Monday he believed Illinois likely would be chosen over Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, which are competing for the plant. Mutz, however, said he had spoken with Mitsubishi officials this week and that the site had not yet been selected. “They have assured us that no decision has been made,” Mutz said. “The company is keeping its options open. “All of those things that have been said (about Illinois) are totally rumor,” Mutz, the state’s commerce director, added. “That kind of speculation is from nonauthoritative sources.” Orr and Mutz made their comments during impromptu interviews following the opening ceremony of the 1985 Farm Progress Show on two farms west of Knightstown.
Coleman goes to court on Indiana murder charge
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) A Jan, 13 trial date in the death of a Gary child has been set for Alton Coleman, already condemned to die for an Ohio girl’s murder. Coleman appeared before Lake Superior Court Commissioner T. Edward Page Tuesday on charges of murder, felony murder, confinement and child molesting in the 1984 death of Tamika Turks, 7, of Gary. Page entered innocent pleas on Coleman’s behalf, appointed two public defenders and set a Dec. 26 pre-trial hearing before Lake Superior Judge Richard Maroc. The courtroom was locked until 15 minutes before Coleman’s appearance. It was locked during the hearing. People entering the courtroom were searched with metal detectors by bailiffs to assure that no one carried a weapon. Coleman wore navy blue jail coveralls, brown sandals and white socks. Henry Hillard, grandfather of Miss Turks, attending the hearing. Asked afterward what he thought of another trial for Coleman, Hillard, of Gary, said: “I don’t think it’s worth it.”
two years of civil commitment proceedings. Those proceedings followed his 1977 acquittal by reason of insanity for kidnapping and holding Indianapolis business executive Richard 0. Hall at the end of a shotgun for 63 hours. Boles said his order for testing will resolve the still-debated issue of whether or not Kiritsis is menially ill and dangerous to himself or others. “If he is mentally ill,” Boles said, “Kiritsis should be treated. If he is not, his commitment should be terminated.” Although he has not been examined by mental health experts since he arrived at the Reformatory in 1981, the state’s attorneys have continued to characterize Kiritsis as dangerous and mentally ill. In medical records submitted to the court Kiritsis has shown that mental health authorities proposed treatment with powerful, mind-altering drugs, some considered experimental. Such treatment, he says, would render him senseless and result in his confinment in a mental hospital until his death. Price said he wants to insure Kiritsis’ right, under Indiana law, to be informed of the nature of proposed tests and any subsequent treatment, the effects of receiving or not receiving treatment, and any alternative treatment available.
Back to school?
Not for Ryan White, school official says
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A school official chosen to study the status of AIDS victim Ryan White has recommended continued homebound instruction. The recommendation was issued in a two-page report to Western School Corp. (Howard County) Superintendent James O. Smith, who has 10 days to agree or disagree. White was barred from school as officials feared the spread of AIDS. In addition to his opinion the 13-year-old seventh grader continue monitoring his classes from home through a telephone connection, the hearing officer said White should have improved social contact with the classroom by videotape and personal visits with parents’ permission. “In the best interest of all concerned I feel Ryan should remain in the homebound pr< of instruction,” Ron Colby, a Western School Corp. official, wrote in his opinion to Smith. “If grades fall, we should offer home tutoring and continue to offer videotaping of classroom events that warrant visual
Coleman’s companion, Debra Brown, 22, faces identical charges in the death of Miss Turks, but officials aren't sure when she will be transferred to Indiana to face charges. The felony murder charges against Coleman and Brown carry possible death penalties upon conviction. Coleman and Ms. Brown were captured in July 1984 by authorities in Evanston, 111., after an alleged six-state crime spree of beatings, abductions and slayings. Coleman was transferred Monday to Lake County from the federal penitentiary in Marion, 111., where he is serving a 20year term for the kidnapping of Kentucky college professor Oline Carmichal Jr. The Waukegan, 111., couple, who claimed to be married under common law, face execution in Ohio. Both were sentenced to die for the 1984 suffocation murder of Tonnie Storey, 15, of Cincinnati. In the beating death of Marlene Walters, 44, of Norwood, Ohio, Coleman was sentenced to death and Ms. Brown to life in prison. The death sentences are under automatic appeal.
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contact. “The risk of spreading AIDS, however small, as far as we know today, is still a risk and the consequences are catastrophic. We need to know more about AIDS before Western requires students to come into even casual contact with a person known to suffer from this illness.” Smith has declined comment throughout the hearing process. ¥ A copy of the recommendation was sent to Charles Vaughan, White’s Lafayette lawyer, who said he expected to lose the decision and said he would continue to appeal.
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With members of the Senior Citizens Kitchen Band looking on, RSVP volunteer Fern Pitts (right) was honored last Thursday at Greencastle Nursing Home. Presented a cake and certificate by Dorothy Tharp, activities and social services director of the nursing home, Mrs. Pitts was cited by her weekly sewing visits to the facility. She is also a member of the Kitchen Band. (Banner-Graphic photo by Eric Bernsee).
White contracted acquired immunity deficiency syndrome from blood products he receives to treat his hemophilia. Vaughan said he expects Smith to agree with Colby’s recommendation because it supports his original decision. After a final decision from Smith, Vaughan said, he can appeal to the state school superintendent, who will appoint a hearing officer for a public hearing. “That’ll probably be in about 30 days,” he said. If he loses there, he will appeal to a federal court in Indianapolis.
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