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PSI, rate opponents behind closed doors

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —Public Service Indiana officials are meeting privately with opponents of their requested rate increase to discuss an acceptable revenue increase. The Indianapolis Star reported today that although company officials would not admit it, negotiations between the parties began Dec. 31 at a meeting in the Hyatt Regency-Indianapolis. “They (PSI) made their pitch , and it’s being reviewed,” the Star quoted a representative of one of the intervenors (opponents). “That’s all I know.” While sources would not provide details of PSl’s proposal, they said additional meetings have been scheduled. The Plainfield-based utility is Indiana’s largest with 542,000 customers in 69 counties. Sources said the private discussions are focusing on an emergency request by PSI for a two-step rate increase of 7.6 percent the first year and 1.6 percent the second. That request was filed in May 1984 and amended to an emergency request in January 1985. It would allow PSI to collect an additional $76.6 million in annual revenues.

Bom a day apart in 1898, couple wed 64 years die within hours of each other

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - da and Clarence Figel, bom a day apart in 1898 and married more than 64 years, died the same day. “They were born within hours of each other, and they died within hours of each other,” their son, Bill, said Monday during memorial services at Trinity English Lutheran Church. Clarence Figel died of pneumonia about 4:22 p.m. Thursday in Lutheran Home, where he had been a resident several years. About seven hours later, Malinda Figel died in St. Joseph’s Hospital after apparently suffering a massive brain hemorrhage. They died “with dignity and very much in love with each other,” said their daughter, Clarlynn M. It was almost as if her mother waited for her life-long friend to die “and then quietly went to join him,” she said. Both were 87. Figel was bom on Aug. 23,1898, in Hillsdale, Mich. Mrs. Figel was born Aug. 24 in Fort Wayne. “They met when they were just teen-agers. I think it was at a basketball game,” said Mrs. Figel’s sister, Martha Deister, who was her maid of honor. Nobody seemed to remember precisely when the couple became engaged. “It had to be before World War I,” said Bill Figel. The family is sure of that much because a notebook Clarence Figel kept while a trumpeter in the Indiana Signal Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis and in France makes frequent references to his sweetheart, Malinda.

Indianapolis reservists part of weekend muster

WASHINGTON (AP) Last weekend, 145 years since the last such exercise, more than 800 normally inactive Army Reservists turned out for a special muster in Cincinnati and New Haven, Conn. ' This weekend, another 1,500 are expected in Oakland, Calif., Springfield, Mass., and Indianapolis. By the last weekend of the month, if all goes according to plan, more than 5,000 reservists in 13 cities will have answered a voluntary call to show up for one day of active duty. The musters this month are expected to .■help the Army and the other services 'gauge the size of the problem they have with the so-called Individual Ready Reserve before the start of mandatory call-ups next fall. • While Army officials are making no claims for the future basednon last weekend’s muster, they express satisfaction with the results. - In New Haven, the Army had projected

PSl’s financial health has been in jeopardy since the company halted construction of the half-completed Marble Hill nuclear plant in December 1983. The utility spent $2.7 billion on the project. PSl’s plans to recover its Marble Hill investment from customers have been hampered by a November Indiana Supreme Court ruling. In a case involving Northern Indiana Public Service Co., the court ruled that Indiana electric utilities may not recover costs of abandoned construction projects from customers. That ruling could affect how funds spent on Marble Hill are treated in PSl’s 1985 annual report, which is due to be published in the next two months. Michael M. Sample, federal affairs representative for PSI, said his company’s accountants have not forced the utility to write off the Marble Hill investment as a complete loss. “That’s not to say the situation will remain that way,” he added. “The uncertainty regarding treatment of Marble Hill can’t go on indefinitely.”

“That was one of the few times in their lives they were apart,” Bill Figel said. They were married on Armistice Day, 1921, shortly after he graduated from Tri-State College in Angola. The marriage produced two children, five grandchildren and a contracting company Clarence W. Figel Inc. He was president, and his wife was bookkeeper. Being together got more difficult about three years ago when her father had a stroke and became partially disabled, Mrs. Young said. “He was just too much for us to care for,” said Bill Figel. “So he went to the Lutheran Home where we knew he’d get the care he needed. Mom went to see him almost every day. When she couldn’t go in person, she would call.” Mrs. Figel, accompanied by her daughter, was summoned to the retirement home Thursday afternoon because her husband was not feeling well. When they arrived, they learned he had died. “We went home, and Mom fixed something to eat,” Bill Figel said. “She sat down but then slumped over in her chair. We rushed her to the hospital, but there was nothing anybody could do.” Words like “dignity,” “pride” and “family love” were used frequently during Monday’s services. “I believe it was Mark Twain who said the best thing we could do in life was to pick good parents,” Steven Young, one of the couple’s grandchildren, said during the services. “We (the grandchildren) did better yet.”

420 reservists would appear, whereas 353 actually showed up. In Cincinnati, however, 481 showed up compared to a projected 460, including 65 who never received notices but heard about the muster through the news media. The Individual Ready Reserve consists of men and women who have been trained and served in the military but who upon leaving active duty, did not move into a regular Reserve or National Guard unit About 457,000 men and women are in the IRR, compared to 2.1 million on active duty and 1.05 million in the Selected Reserve, which consists of the regular Reserve and National Guardnunits. In the event of a war, the Selected Reserve units would move out with their activeduty counterparts, leaving the Individual Ready Reserve as the country’s only source of trained manpower to replace combat casualties.

Lottery referendum proposal also filed Bill would replace township poor relief

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A local assistance program in the county welfare department would replace township poor relief programs under a measure introduced in the Indiana Senate. Bill filing was one of the few activities on the first day of the 1986 session. Activity in the House and the Senate was confined to formal reading of bills into the tec ord and other ceremonial proceedings. Each chamber was scheduled to reconvene today. Tuesday’s session counted as the second working day in the 104th General Assembly’s short session, which is limited to 30 session days. An organizational day in November counted against the 30-day limit. Sens. Michael Gery, D-West Lafayette, and Virginia Blankenbaker, RIndianapolis, introduced the bill to establish in each county welfare department a local assistance program that

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would replace the township poor relief program. The poor relief program is administered by the township trustee, who has the authority to dispense assistance for heating bills, food, book rental and other needs. The program has run into financial problems in some townships, where the demand for aid far outstrips the ability of local property taxes to pay for the program. Senate Bill 227 would also establish guidelines for qualifying for local assistance. Trustees currently have board disgression in determining who qualifies for poor relief assistance. Another bill introduced Wednesday calls for a statewide, non-binding referendum in November 1986 to ask Hoosier voters if they favor amending the Indiana constitution to allow a state lottery. Lotteries are currently outlawed by the constitution, and legislative attempts to

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win approval of a lottery amendment have failed in recent years. The referendum called for in S.B. 272, sponsored by Sen. Michael Rogers, R-New Castle, would be used “for the information and guidance of the members of the 105th General Assembly,” which meets in 1987, the bill says. Other bills introduced Tuesday would: —Require an adult supervisor, in addition to a bus driver, to be on a school bus. The supervisor would help the driver maintain discipline and help children get on and off the bus. —Change the name of the Public Service Commission to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. —Require each school corporation to adopt a rule that requires students to maintain at least a “C” average in certain core curriculum courses in order to remain eligible for extracurricular activities.

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